skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've got generics (like templates) or macros, you make your int be different for different vector scales.

In fact, though, I would think that an 8051 vector would need to be profoundly simpler than a supercomputer vector; not just differently sized. When you're dealing with 1-16k of RAM and not much more ROM, a full "vector package" isn't what you need, but rather a really, really limited vector package that only does exactly what you need and no more.

In fact, you probably want a version with an 8-bit "length" value -- or even a 7-bit length with some other relevant flag stored in the final top bit, for space optimization reasons.

Source: I was the lead developer on an original Game Boy game, which ran on a CPU that, IIRC, was roughly an 8053 (it had instructions somewhat related to an 8080 or Z-80, lacking all the 16-bit instructions, but adding an 8-bit fast-memory operator reminiscent of the 6502). Back in those days you didn't have "packages." You had code snippets (in assembly language, of course) that you shaved bytes off of to make them fit. And then you shaved more bytes off.

[edit: clarity, and note that it's the Game Boy I was talking about; originally said Game Boy Advance, which was an ARM CPU. Also did a game on that device, but it was the Game Boy I meant to describe.]
Our math tells us that $1/month will result in surprisingly high margins, however, we're hoping to sell services around the hosting of static sites. Need an e-commerce back-end? Premium templates? etc.

Did you try the demo? Would you use this kind of thing? Do you find yourself building stupidly simple sites for everyone you know (like I do)?
The article claims that the problem with Flash is not so much Flash itself, but that it's written in C/C++. It "proves" the point by listing a bunch of high-profile exploits in various other systems, then repeats the claim that C/C++ is the problem, and advocates abandoning C/C++.

That's... not exactly proof. It's barely even evidence.

Yes, you can argue "all these programs have all these flaws, and all are written in C/C++". And that's true. They are written in C/C++, and they have these flaws.

Now let's look at the programs that do the same kinds of things, and are as widely used, and are not written in C/C++, and compare the number of exploits... oh, you don't have a handy list of equivalent programs to compare? Go work on that; I'll wait.

The fundamental problem is that these programs are trying to safely handle hostile input, with attackers having essentially infinite time to experiment and craft attacks, including attacks that the authors didn't know that they needed to defend against at the time the code and/or the spec were written.

Would the whole world be safer if everything were at least written in Java? Yes, it might be safer, but not safe. And it would take more resources, and often take longer to start up. And it would be vulnerable to bugs in the design and implementation of the JVM, which would become a single point of failure for a lot of software. That world would, perhaps, be somewhat safer, but it wouldn't be the security paradise that the article envisions.

Not everyone is a fool who doesn't use the tools you think are best...
Thanks; you are right landing page (and copy needs work). In particular, I'm having a hard time communicating the value of the automatic confirmation/cancellation feature... appreciate your feedback
Ask HN: Feedback for personal portfolio site?
Hi HN.

Been working on a new portfolio[0]. I'm trying to break into freelance web development. I've changed a lot of things recently, using techniques learned in Daniel Pink's "To sell is human"

I'd love to hear about anything & everything you have to say, good or bad. I want to make sure that my portfolio turns a "maybe" into a sale.

All source is on github[1], so feel free to critique the source code as well if that's more your thing.

Hoping you guys can give me a few general tips on where to go next in pursuing freelancing.

[0] http://dominic.io/
[1] https://github.com/SevereOverfl0w/Portfolio
I think I failed the interview =(
According to a wikipedia article, the force of the explosion can be estimated by the height of the mushroom cloud.
It also should be noted that "21 tons" is an estimate by China Earthquake Networks Centre [1], so it can be deliberately understated.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/china-explosion...
In Myrddin[1], the code is amenable to loop versioning -- All references are bounded, one way or the other. Either you have a raw pointer, which is bounded by the size of the type, or you have a slice, which carries with it a length. This allows you (or the compiler) to trivially write an 'aliases(a, b)' predicate, which allows the compiler to write something like:

if aliases(a, b)
slowpath
else
fastpath
;;

Considering that this language seems to also keep track of bounds on the pointers, you could probably do something similar.

[1]http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/
Since when was "anarchist" name-calling?

I have no real response because I have tried to have discussions with your ilk a million times and we will simply never see eye to eye.
All in the service of 10 worshipers. There is a tribe in the US (Yuki) who got it right and counts in octal because they count the spaces in between the fingers (you can hold 8 bottles).
My head has more auditory stuff going on than visual. I "say" things in my head as I read them. It makes me a slow-ish reader (compared to most smart people, who typically read faster than I do, though I read faster than average).

But I was good at math in my youth. One of the reasons for that is I make all kinds of weird mental associations. For example, I relate to single digit numbers in a paired or complementary way, such that 3 and 7 are oppsite sides of the same coin and it helps me with addition or subtraction. To me, those mental categories are part of how I percieve numbers, though it doesn't correlate readily to perception in the vein of sight or sound.
It's almost like our definition of intelligence is biased to favor us. News at 11.
Here's a link to the TI sensor tag for $29.

http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2650stk

I wonder what the unique selling proposition of this new product is. Curriculum around environmental monitoring is definitely a win! If these folks do a good job with that then that might be a justification for educators to pay more if they can see it as a contribution to curriculum development.
Awesome, we'll be adding some beta customers next week.
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Exactly. See Chicago's photo red light debacle. And that's a case where otherwise I'd support the idea because running red lights kills and maims people with a much higher incidence than say speeding on the highway.

The two speeding tickets I've gotten: one was deserved, but I still fought it for a minimal (standard) plea bargain reduction. The other, the cop flat out lied twice. He said he used pace method, yet was never going the speed I was (he came upon me like a bullet and I wasn't speeding); but then the ticket had the radar box checked, and I said I wouldn't sign it until he corrected it. He said he wasn't going to change the ticket and if I didn't sign it he'd take me to jail. Small podunk town in Kansas just randomly pulling people over to make money. Modern day highwayman.
Is this anecdotal or do you have a link to some research?
Not establishing a precedent is probably the biggest issue, the reparations that could be legitimately charged to the Japanese for a half-century of very very bloody imperialism (the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was killing an estimated quarter million a month when we dropped the bombs) would make Versailles look small.

And Versailles should have taught us that declaring collective guilt on a people is unwise.
I'm not sure I really get what is going on, or how it's different than other ads that I'm shown before I get to the content I was looking for. Can you break it down for me into some simpler language?

UX/UI wise, the loading indicator at the top is good. The scrolling is a little laggy. I think it would be hard to read all the content and figure out what is going on in ~20 seconds.
> Whereas most employees (especially in high-tech jobs) expect their manager to be a mentor/guide, rather than a "boss".

Actually, I would argue that most employees don't know what they want their manager to be. If they did, they would remember that and be better managers later.
Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate it. I agree that I should add a bit more instruction for opening up the JS console in Chrome or FF. I'll also add a use case section to show some practical examples.

Glad to hear you're interested in RNeo4j; let me know what you think.
Hosting is cheap. Especially hosting static sites.

For e-commerce (coming soon?), contact forms, and content editing. They charge extra to use their barebones CMS. That's where the real profit will be coming from.

$11/yr for a contact form is another $1/month for a very basic service. Content-Editable is another $3~/mo that people would take advantage of (ie: tech user hosting the static site here and handing it off to a non-tech user, rather than having to edit the HTML for any future content edits).
I always liked FreeBSD, I haven't used it in a while, is the Linux support improving now? Looks to be so. It seems to not be gaining traction though these days.
> Our math tells us that $1/month will result in surprisingly high margins

What happens when a site uses too much bandwidth for this to hold? The first thing I looked for was information about storage and bandwidth limits, but I don't see that anywhere.
Personally, I enjoy the flavor of Swiss water decaf more than others (and by reasoning of the "Dorito effect," that flavor may have something nontrivial to do with the nutrients left in it; it also happens to not use additional solvents).

That said, a lot of the risky solvents used in the usual methods of making decaf are no longer commercially used these days, so I don't think there's a serious health risk in drinking any ol' decaf you want.
Like Mengele, there's interesting science that can be conducted when you have no morals.
On the matter of education, singular they is historically supported: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage_by_r...
That sounds like some fun Friday night reading. :) Glad you enjoy Neo4j!
Just to clarify: They're talking about going into an air-gapped network (i.e. cut off from the outside world as far as network transmission of data goes) and using a conveniently-placed (and hacked) cell phone to read signals, convert them into useful data, and transmit that to the attacker? So the cell phone works as a sort of spigot that pours that data into outside networks? Let me know if I'm not reading this right.
I agree that having to preface the term business is stupid, but since this is the current terminology it is hard to get people to change back to just using business. Even the term startup is redundant as a startup is just a new business.

The problem is if you don’t preface then someone else will do it for you. Letting the VC industry choose the preface is not ideal - I don’t run a lifestyle business, I run a serious and highly profitable technology business with the aim of maximising my returns as the founder. The fact that I don’t have outside investors is irrelevant to what my business does or the value it offers my customers.
Their products haven't been system hogs for a long time now. I used Norton AV on a fairly reedy dual core Celeron (1.8 GHz)with a platter drive and it only slowed that thing down when it was running a scheduled scan.
> What happens as more and more people decide to live on the dole? Are you going to force them to work?

Ceteris paribus, prices go up, and living exclusively on the unconditional basic income becomes less attractive. With a UBI, there's no reason not to work if you are unsatisfied with what you get from the UBI, since you don't lose subsidy for working. So, there's a natural negative feedback control system.

> What happens when the last wealthy people you could tax into paying for it flee your country with their money?

If people making profits in the country that could be taxed leave, then profit making opportunities open up that others could, and someone will, take advantage of.
this looks really neat and it must have been a lot of fun to build!

it's not a feature request because I don't have a use case for this quite yet, but how complex would it be to parse a string that contains a formula? for example, it seems useful to be able to load equations by just sending the string "2x - 3 = 4" to a function.

that sounds like a fun problem to solve as well. maybe useful to the library too. just a thought! great work on this library and thanks for publishing.
Yes, the original definition is arbitrary of course. I was talking about the random constant fraction of a second. Units are always arbitrary, by definition they're just a convention. They're a way of relating an abstract concept (a number) to some intuitively meaningful thing.
I like this idea a lot. The form submission and editing features sound very interesting and could potentially offer a nice middle ground for one-off landing pages and the like that don't need an app server but are too custom for page generators like unbounce or instapage. Blogging this way could also be great, but there's a lot more work to do on features before you can start to compete with DB-backed solutions. I eagerly await the day that I can confidently recommend a platform like this to a client over Wordpress.

I get that the drag and drop upload is good for non-technical folks, but as a coder, some sort of little command line interface ala Heroku would be nice so that I could use it alongside git in my workflow and automate deploys. The drag and drop process would be tedious when doing frequent deploys.

Have you looked at Middleman at all? That's been my static site generator of choice for awhile now and I've found it much smoother to work with than Jekyll.
Previous discussion (of an article about this) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955180
>I actually quite like the idea of control codes in commit messages for internal teams where you can implement rules.

>It could be useful for highlighting risky commits in red or other visual markers.

Yeah... that is really not a good idea. You are not supposed to take this blog post seriously.

Why not just agree on some terminology like CRITICAL/MINOR/SECURITY, which a visual interface can then highlight?

SECURITY: Fix XSS in spline reticulation

If it detects "SECURITY" it adds a red background, etc. Anyone viewing the raw text version of the commit messages will still get the message without having to see a bunch of gibberish.
In some countries the weekend isn't Saturday and Sunday though. So the start of the week is kind of arbitrary.
It's almost the definitive example of the tragedy of the commons. How do you propose charging market prices for privately pumped well water?
Nice idea, I would start using it today to make a couple of sites that people ask me to do for them.
We Lost
You mean there was an issue with Facebook login..? It should only try to open a file from your computer if you're submitting a story and try to attach an image.
Re mobile: It's too complex for a small screen, so there's a mobile page that just says there will be an app soon.
our idea of intelligence basically boils down to "can you communicate with it easily?"

That's just the main way we are able to recognize intelligence. At least thus far we have had a devil of a time figuring out how to identify intelligence in the absence of communication.

The eyes might be windows to the soul, but communication is the best window to the brain that I know of.
Whoa, this app is feature packed. It's all pretty straight forward except for this part in the beginning :

http://cl.ly/image/1d3q2Q3S0029

Why would I click on the hamburger menu icon to add a weight? Seems like I should hit the + button on the top right? In fact, it seems incorrect since it did what I expected, which was slide out the navigation. The + button, did ask me to add weight.

One thing I wanted (and maybe you have it?) was the ability to set a regular notification to remind me to weigh myself. Also, for the deluxe edition what are the other features besides removing the ads? I couldn't find what those would be. It showed up a nice list of them when I hit the button, but know that most people are going to be hesitant to do so. I'm not sure if Apple would allow it, but if you could integrate the question to upgrade into your onboard slideshow, I'd bet you'd get higher conversion. The way it is, it's pretty buried in there and this is the kind of app that people won't upgrade until they have several days worth of data to see if it's worth it. Chances are your app is going to tell them that they're bad at losing weight. They're going to be the most motivated and hopeful right when they downloaded it. Hope is a good place for conversion in my opinion.

Also, for the My Weight Goals, I didn't understand why it defaulted to Track Using : Actual Weights. Isn't the point to have it track using Moving Avg Weights? I just wasn't sure why you defaulted to this.

Thanks for sharing!
Good point; it's responsive once past the landing page. Without a designer on board yet, I've focused on the backend... thanks for the comment - will fix (landing page in general needs work)
The reactions to the Islamist Revolution and the resulting disillusionment are complex. Two interesting/random points of entry could be: (1) Foucoult's widely derided (in France, not many translated to English) writings, with strong Orientalist tendencies, strongly supporting the Revolution, based on his many visits to Iran and interviews with key players (e.g. see http://newpol.org/content/revisiting-foucault-and-iranian-re... or http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3534884... for a book on the subject) and (2) Persepolis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(comics)).
> Actually, I would argue that most employees don't know what they want their manager to be. If they did, they would remember that and be better managers later.

I don't think that's true. I think most managers, however, when they become managers, learn what their managers expect them to be, which may not be what their employees want them to be.
I want one!! I've always wanted a spectrometer!
How exactly do you fight against this without a totalitarian police state?

With luck, and a bit of wisdom, by decriminalization and harm reduction: see Portugal's experience.
> Letting the VC industry choose the preface is not ideal

This actually touches on an important point. The whole reason that, "No no, that's not a real business," gets bandied around is because it benefits VCs. If founders think that they need to take VC money to assuage their insecurities about being a "real" business, that doesn't help the founders. It helps the VCs' deal flow.
Microsoft may have been bootstrapped (I will go with what you are saying without verifying) however it also had the backing and full faith and credit of a somewhat wealthy and connected family.
My favorite ambient music for working is by Lucette Bourdin: http://www.lbourdin.com/

Some free downloads here: http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/artist-detail.php?id...

CDs can be bought at: http://darkduck.net/

I think her work strikes a nice balance -- it sounds nice when I'm actually listening, but most of it is easy to tune out when I want to focus on something else.
In spite of the fact that countless surveys and specific women regularly report that they often still face difficulties being accepted as techies, both by male technical peers, and by nontechnical people, and that they are persuaded against going into technology by both explicit advice from family, teachers and role models, as well as cultural expectations and media images, you're saying you think that women don't get "strange looks" for picking software engineering as a career any more?

Why do you think women feel the need to create websites like this (https://mixpanel.com/i-am-tech/) in the first place if the idea of being a woman in tech is only "historically" eyebrow-raising?

The assumption that sexism is, like racism, one of those things that people used to do in the 1950s, is really not helpful.
It is so easy to forget how did the term Public Relations come into wide use.

> Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term "Public Relations".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Life_and_influe...

For more I recommend the BBC documentary "The Century of the Self".
The flip side is that (at least in Israel) Google Maps is not taking you through neighbourhoods and such where you really really do not want to be driving through. The IDF has (or had - not sure how current that is) an instruction not to use waze for soldiers in certain areas.

On a couple visits to Israel I used Waze because everyone did. Every single ride I was taken through "crazy" routes that wasted my time. Every 5 minutes i got an ad showing me a small discount for something I don't need if I detour 5 or 20 minutes off my route. I don't get that with Google maps.
Autosetup – a replacement for autoconf
Original source: asked doctor for modafinil to enable working harder for more hours. Doctor said, No, you might think it's a good idea now, but if you're back here a couple months later with depression, you'll realize it's not worth the risk.

Looking up some primary source just now: http://www.oncologypractice.com/fileadmin/content_pdf/cpn/ar...

(for some reason the UI doesn't let me reply to the reply, so here goes)

Now that I'm looking around at papers, it seems like there is evidence that it helps patients who are already depressed get some energy back.
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No i logged in without fb (just to see that experience first). so this is used more to kind of geo see what is going on around you? wouldn't an instagram be the best integration because then you can see events that are going on around you?
Looks great, but I'll never fork over cash for a service that doesn't even have an imprint. I don't care about ToC, but I want to see that somebody with a name is behind this thing.

Edit: Another thing: What about email? The beauty of cPanel and whatnot is that it comes with email to my domain and is usually easy to set up as well.
Funny thing about Emacs and OpenBSD...

...Emacs is the only package in the entire ports tree that can't use ASLR.
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