skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather stereotypical that you've got a nice implementation of IEEE 754-1985 only 9 years before the standard was finalized. And this isn't the first "put a floating point number in 32 bits" implementation (this specific code was based on some HP2100 routines per the comments)

(edited to add, what I'm getting at is sometimes the standard is written a decade after the code is in use, like web standards, sometimes its the other way around like IPv6)

Note that Briel Computing sells at least two SBCs based on the 6502 and there may be other modern 6502 boards out there. The N8VEM project sells/sold bare PCBs for a "6502 on a S100 bus". I own all of the above. There is also a N8VEM 6502 board in redesign for the ECB bus which is kinda sorta one line summary a Kontron-like DIN41612 eurocard connector bus, probably exists because a genuine S100 connector is $15 and a DIN41612 because of the eurocard standard is like $3.
Moving from a request based business logic to data based business logic (processing incoming data, as opposed to processing incoming http requests) is an interesting shift. Does anyone know what this kind of system is called? I'd love to do more research.
You may also want to check out Blitz LeadManager, InsideSales, or Velocify Leadmanager.
trade secret, sorry :)
The Moon is tidally locked to us, be we are not locked to it. Because the Earth rotates faster than the Moon orbits, tidal interaction between the two trades Earth's rate for the Moon's orbital velocity. The Earth is slowing down (and if this process continued long enough, would become tidally locked to the Moon) while the Moon is getting further and further away.

If the Moon were in LEO this process would be reversed; the Moon would be spinning up the Earth while losing orbital velocity.
How is Firefox non-free now?
Chip-and-PIN as a very broad concept¹ is fine. It's EMV implementation has issues - requirement to trust POS terminal, MITM, legacy magnetic tracks and so on.

¹) When we mean just that there's a card with secured microprocessor holding the keys and some method that card's owner use to authenticate with that microprocessor.
Yup: https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-plugin-global-share
Check out "Most Favorited Posts in the Past 7 Days:"
http://www.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorite7

There are also links for 24 hours, 7 days, 12 months, and all time.

Here's the equivalent for Ask Metafilter:
http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorite7
That makes sense. (Apologies if my comment above came off as needlessly negative - This is a fun tool to play with)
That is empirically not true in my experience and in Patrick's: putting a dateline on a piece of content (surprise) dates the content, and creates the expectation that the material is effectively superseded by any piece on the same subject with a newer dateline.

It's also quite a stretch to point to any of Patrick's writing (or, I guess, mine) and call it "spam", or its promotion a "spamming technique". You probably didn't mean to say that, but that's the impression you created, by giving undue weight to spamming tactics. And your penultimate sentence is, of course, trivially refuted.
Thankfully Github doesn't do preemptive DMCA removals, so it looks like it's safe for the time being.
Axure [http://axure.com]
awesome. smooth!
Heya @reconbot, I don’t know if this specific system has a name, but it is something akin to a messaging bus, where clients and servers just exchange messages, if they have a network connection. Messages can carry raw data (a user record), or intents (send this email), and both sides agree on what to do with certain types of messages. Hope this helps! :)
IANAL, but it seems like it would break the "The above copyright notice ... shall be included in all ... substantial portions of the Software."
By the way, had any payment system ever experimented with putting a cheap LCD display and a keypad on the card itself? Such card won't be really usable (most ATMs I've seen just gulp the whole card, although most POS terminals require inserting 2-3cm deep, just enough to connect to the chip), but as an experiment - that would probably solve many issues related to necessity to trust to terminal.
See, right there, you've captured it. If I write a "Best Practices" article with a 2012 dateline on it, the first thing you the reader will do is try to track down the most recent piece that updates it.
When should I write a property?
As a temporary workaround for AdBlock (and for Firefox since it's not supported by HTTPSB), here's EasyList stripped out of all its CSS rules.
It obviously lets some banners slip through, but most of them are still blocked.

http://www.xamasoft.com/adblock/easylist-nocssrules.txt
Please... for all things holy.... do not let "Fog Computing" become a term... "The Cloud" is bad enough
You can always add meat to a vegetarian pizza.
Jessamyn is amazing at being empathetic when people have issues with the site, but being firm about the actual decision that have been made, without being patronizing (it's very hard to say "I totally understand your concern, but we're not doing what you want" in a way that doesn't annoy people). And she never ever yells at people unless they totally deserve it, in which case they then realize they deserve it. Unless you are a real malcontent (and of course there are a few), it is really hard not to believe that she is genuinely on your side.

By "issues" above I don't mean technical things like "I can't log in" but disagreements about how the site should be run. Metafilter has a official side site called Metatalk that is largely a forum for people to complain about Metafilter. It is a testament to the Metafilter mods that this actually works.
Hi njharman, I'm one of Torpedo's devs.

No, you're not missing anything. We built Torpedo to be a step-up from the way most of our clients and other people we worked with sent us stuff: files via Cloud links that sit around forever, and passwords in emails.

There are certainly more secure ways to send both of those things than Torpedo, but we wanted to make something that was more secure to send those things, while keeping it just as (or more) convenient.

We've got a few ideas that we're considering that'll offer more security, just trying to sort out how to keep it simple enough for our parents to use it.
Hey hexagosun, I'm a developer for Torpedo.

We actually use 1Password internally, but once or twice a week we were getting passwords emailed or IMed to us from clients and other people we worked with, so we added the secrets feature to Torpedo for those folks, to at least greatly reduce the chance of those passwords from falling into the wrong hands if someone's smartphone is stolen or email is hacked.

Also, the contents of secrets are encrypted with a randomly generated key, using AES 256 bit encryption, before being stored in our database. The key is then embedded in the share URL for the secret. We don't store the key nor the URL in our DB, so the only way to decrypt it is with the URL.
He's not saying cars, in absolute terms, have smaller bad effect than bombs. He's saying that the positives vs negatives ratio for cars is more favorable than one for bombs. Considering the entire world economy will essentially stand still if all cars vanish tomorrow, I'd agree with him.
MIT license requires attribution ("The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.") so removing you copyright violates the license.

Realistically, there's not much you can do.

You could sue that person but it would be costly (lawyers fees) and the outcome is unknown (those things usually are not litigated so there's little case law to fall back on).

You could send them an e-mail to the effect of "I noticed you've removed my name from your fork of my project. It's not cool and violates the attribution clause of MIT license. I would appreciate it if you restored my copyright attribution.". The important thing would be to not be too forceful or else you might end up with the opposite result (i.e. they'll just dig in).

Or you can just let it go.
That's the whole point of every static site generator. It's pretty absurd that people see this as "web scale" versus other static site generators.

Theoretically and practically, this isn't the best scaling solution. One shouldn't even talk about scaling in that sense for mere blog posts and such.

Another issue is the fact that your SEO will be greatly impacted. They don't execute (last I heard) JavaScript. Links and such will go to waste.

While I'm a big proponent of client-side SPAs, only when they are appropriate -- can I emphasis this more? Blogs or static sites are not appropriate for this.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

-- Andrew Carnegie
God forbid someone should sketch out a prototype and share about it before running a multi-million dollar RCT, right?
mischanix was referring to Mozilla's decision to ship EME (Encrypted Media Extensions; DRM) in Firefox.
We know the DEA manufactures cases. Michele Leonhart is another Bush cancer Obama decided to keep around. She is off the reservation and needs to be thrown into jail. The PBS documentary also mentioned the FBI does it as well.
Sales training is already a pretty crowded, competitive space. What's your Secret Sauce?
http://www.sellingpower.com/2013/sales-training-companies/to...

It's unlikely I would hire program graduates, without a proven sales track record. But if the program content is solid, I might sponsor my people for additional/on-going training.
Very cool. I'll have to try this out
Unlike a disassembly of code that is written in a higher-level language like C, these old NES and Gameboy games were written in the assembly language you're seeing disassembled. Obviously there are no comments and labels, but the actual logic and the intent of the original developer is clearly communicated.

This allows for a really special type of awesome when you're working on fan translations and ROM hacks. You actually have the opportunity to analyze the work of the developers you idolized when you were younger, and celebrate a their clever hacks or curse them for their spaghetti code, 15 to 25 years later. Furthermore, you can contribute your own clever hacks to the code base.
It's not. They're probably making a veiled reference to the overblown EME discussion from last week.
Neat idea. Is the "Download Jr" part required, or could it just be included from GH pages of the original repo?

Could make for a very quick & simple way to put up some content online while keeping it looking decent, and users could contribute new themes etc.
Do you want to keep doing the job if they get the CTO so you're not overloaded? Or do you want to get out of management?

There's nothing wrong with deciding you don't want to climb the management ladder, but getting "un-promoted" is something where you'll probably want to find a new job. Fortunately, almost everyone is trying to hire competent senior developers, so you should be able to find a new gig before too long - and probably get yet another pay raise to go with it.
Remember that we're talking about markdown being shown to people with noscript, something I highly doubt non-geeks are using.
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Why do these things only seem to exist in the Bay Area?

It seems like if there were a network of hacker houses across the country, you could have a much better scenario with:
1. Dirt cheap rent
2. Easily travel without losing resources/connections. Know someone when you travel somewhere new within the network.

Just saying one of these in San Diego or Honolulu I think would do very well.
I don't think you've been promoted beyond your level of competence, I think you enjoy coding more than managerial troubleshooting. There are lots of articles on engineers who prefer engineering more than managing.

Not what you're asking for, but you have a pretty strong hand to play right now. If you went to the CEO and listed the issues that you're dealing with that you would expect the CTO to deal with.

Then say, "These are basically executive-level functions. I'm happy to handle them, but if you aren't planning on hiring a CTO, I'd like the title of VP Engineering and another 20% raise."
I hope. Have to visit Batumi.
vtables for shit with inherited classes and interfaces \o/ sometimes I love reverse engineering. Keeps your mind active ;)
Very nice, this is the blog post that I wanted to follow up mine with: http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-... I guess I still could, for x86_64. Any interest?

I believe the term for these patterns is called "lowering."
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Show HN: An open-source game engine coded in D
Put in a pull request?
+1.

How about:

(comp foo second list)
And this sort of thing is why you keep the moral high ground. Too bad, it would have been an excellent case otherwise.
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What are the ways that we can support the project as individuals?
I'm confused about this statement: "you'll almost certainly need your own Google Apps domain" Perhaps because they automatically configure DKIM/SPF? But so do many other providers and it's not particularly hard to configure your own mail server to do the same.
Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air. That doesn't seem like good design.
Lots of people say that removing prominent datelines "reduces their confidence in the content", but can you marshal any evidence for your observed preferences matching this stated preference? Because I don't think it's true in practice at all. I think people form opinions about content based on the content unless you beg them to do it some other way, for instance by calling your content a "blog post".
Personally, I don't think so. I'm still young and probably still naive about a lot of things, but I think the best leaders, in my own experience, have been those who didn't want the position, who used to be engineers themselves. You may have an insight someone with an MBA might not, and unless you're performing poorly according to your companies guidelines, I wouldn't say you're incompetent.

while you may have been promoted beyond your skill set, you can always develop more skills, and as I said, you may have insights that someone else might not see, you'll have more rapport with those you manage because you once worked among them, and I think, since you're stressed, you might care more than someone who was hired off the street.

Maybe you're a great leader _because_ you're stressed by important decisions and responsibility?
> I noticed in the docs there is a local package dir like: "/Users/stefan/.julia/v0.3". If this is settable for individual Julia processes rather than being a system-wide global, then I will be very happy :)

It's controllable via the JULIA_PKGDIR environment variable, so yes, it can easily be per-process; you can also easily change it while a process is running, which allows you to do operations on multiple different package directories.

> I was a little skeptical about Julia at first (mainly the "one language for everything" philosophy), but I have seen lots of very impressive stuff so far.

There's a subtlety to this philosophy: it's intended to be a language in which you can do everything, not in which you must do everything. It's very easy to call C, Fortran and Python from Julia.
In this case, I think it is the news agency that is doing the redacting, not the government. The article says, "one other country, which The Intercept is not naming in response to specific, credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence".
Show HN: PyEQS – query Elasticsearch like a Django Queryset
> So you can peel for 5-10 meals worth of vegetables AND cook it all in under 15 minutes (slow cook it at that)?

I can peel enough veg in that time, yes. That's pretty much it for preparation (which is what I said took 15 minutes) as I'll just drop a joint of meat in.

Beyond that cooking it is sticking it in a slowcooker and turning it on. It takes a long time, but that just means a bit of planning (but hardly much).
I think the idea is pretty neat, but the flash of unstyled content before the js kicks in really ruins it for me.
The histogram work is awesome. I know of some people that would love this for crypto-puzzles.
> Gameboy games were written in the assembly language you're seeing disassembled. Obviously there are no comments and labels,

These look like labels and comments to me:

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/engine/ti...

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/battle/ai...

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/home/deco...

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal/blob/master/battle/hi...
Yes, confd was on my radar and looks promising. In my case, we've already got a wad of perl duct-tape out there and adding etcd was a baby step. Using confd would have been a later step.

Vulcand will likely allow me to replace the whole shebang in one step.
Hah!

Maybe we can change our tagline to be: "sales tool to know which of your customers are alive"
There was an experiment done in a small town in Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
I think you really need to look at what Citrix is doing with their Sharefile service. It's a secure cloud sharing service that has significant uptake in the professional services industries. It offers all of your features and more.
Jesus who?
Detect features instead of browsers?
Let's call this what it is: some government employees trying to get stationed in the Bahamas. It's an old ruse but effective :-)
They meant "obviously the comments and labels of the original programmers are not included."
Hey Fatbat, I'm a dev for Torpedo.

Files are not encrypted (but 'secrets' are). Files are actually uploaded directly to a private S3 bucket over HTTPS.

Secrets (text) are sent over HTTPS and encrypted with a randomly-generated key using AES 256 bit encryption before being stored in our DB. The key is embedded in the share URL for the secret. We don't store the key or the URL anywhere on our servers, so the only way to decrypt the secret's contents is if you have that URL.
Reddit partually folds comments based on score, but yeah some JavaScript to be more aggressive at first (and auto expand if you want to go deeper into a thread) mightnhelp
The problem is that while specific substances can be added to the approved list, the effects of the war and policies introduced by it still remain - be it militant police, trained to treat the population as an enemy to be subjugated, not served and protected, or financial controls, or expansion of surveillance, or the whole civil forfeiture scandal. True, some of these are getting press attention, but so far not much has changed there yet.
> embracing its flaws as a badge of pride

This is something you start seeing here and there when you try and observe advocacy as a neutral observer. I saw the same thing with Tcl a lot:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-...

You have to be willing to confront the ugly truth sometimes. Of course, sometimes that means "yeah, that sucks, but changing it is more pain than it's worth", which does not fix the problem, but is at least honest.

I agree with jerf about the "ant turd tokens": they're hard to see, and irritating when you rearrange code. But the rest of Erlang has lots of good stuff, so I just deal with it.
In my experience, matrix operations where performance matters are usually done on sparse matrices, where a transposition would be done differently. If a matrix package supports both column-major and row-major sparse matrices, it would be a matter of swapping to (!current-major) indexing.

This paper is useful for transpose-once use-many type scenarios, but for real-time transposes inside a main loop, it should be easier to write a fake-transpose wrapper that calculates flipped indices on access.
I didn't realize this was a legitimate site with real users. I always thought it was just a spam site scraping from somewhere based on the horrible design and excessive ads...
Supposedly Backblaze was at one point approached about their 45 drive chassis' by a federal agency.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/03/19/backblaze-storage-pod-4...

45 drives * 6TB drives = 270TB of storage in one chassis (more than a month's worth of recordings). How much does it cost to get a whole rack colo'd in the Bahamas?

As you mentioned, if you have the horsepower, you can do speech to text right on the box. Plenty of space for ElasticSearch as well.
A browser-based interaction design tool.
The position that an owner of a computer should be obligated to cede control of their computer to third-parties seems more ethically dubious to me than the position that they should not. I am certainly proud to make the argument that the owner of a computer should control its operation.

I would argue that terms-of-service "agreements" which assume I will cede control of my computer to a third-party are immoral. I find it offensive that anyone would argue that it's alright for others to tell me what I can do with my computer. I wish more people would take a stand against attempts to control how owners of computers use their devices. We might not have gotten ugly legislative constructs (like the DMCA in the US) if people had cared more about their rights.

The "essence" of my argument is this: Private owners get to control their computers (at least right now). It is a false reality to think things are different.

I don't think your analogies about unlawful detention of persons, theft of scarce physical goods, and some kind of victim-blaming rape accusation follow at all. I certainly can't formulate how to respond to these non sequiturs. Code executing inside a computer has very little to do with kidnapping, theft, or rape. I certainly don't see any of them as even remotely equivalent or analogous.

I might have made an argument about the "morality" of skipping commercials using digital video recorders (DVRs), which seems a lot closer to analogizing altering how a web site displays on my computer. Television producers are learning that owners of DVRs skip commercials and, rather than (for the most part) making arguments about taking away the rights of owners of DVRs, are moving to other business models (like product placement).

Rather than assuming my computer will display their Customers' ads (or doing odious things like trying to get laws passed to make private ownership of general purpose computers illegal) I'd rather see website operators move to new business models. If that means that some "free" services disappear then so be it. If a service can't finance itself by having its users be its Customers then I'd argue there's probably a pretty good chance we're better off without it.

(I do find it exceedingly amusing that you admit to using AdBlock yet make the argument you do. I haven't ever used any advertisement blocking software. I simply eschew services that I find inundate me with advertising, or just "look around" the ads when a service is compelling enough to use.)
U.S. Files Charges Chinese Over Cyberspying
A German CEO's open letter to Eric Schmidt
This article also states that the Austrian government collaborates with the US/NSA regarding of the surveillance of Austria.

So, if you can vote in the upcoming EU parliament elections, consider voting against those 2 main parties that have always been in power.
Taking common sense and judicial discretion out completely is not the best way to achieve equality. It is the socialist way, if I can make the analogy - fighting inequality by making everybody equally poor (or, in this case, equally oppressed by insane sentences for minor crimes). Making policy changes that prevent anybody from getting insane punishments for minor crimes seems much better alternative to me.
Is there a list of every NSA revelation?
Why does significant size matter? Reddit has thousands of subs where users can congregate on a per-interest basis, which adds up to a huge total yet feels relatively relatively more cozy