skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mac OS was created in Pascal originally,
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596007195.do

Skype was originally created in Delphi, before being ported to Qt.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8476410.htm

Pixel32 is done with FreePascal
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Studio_Pro

Atmel AVR-Microcontrollers programmed in Pascal
http://www.e-lab.de/index_en.html
http://www.mikroe.com/eng/categories/view/2/compilers/

Should I keep posting examples?

Or for you is Pascal only the very first release of the standard, which was only planned for education purposes?
Its always going on.

Computers were born of a cold war, and thus spawned a new one.

You could blame the machine or, the ones sitting behind the keyboards.
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I'm an avid redditor, and while there certainly are douchebags on reddit, I would surmise that the ratio is roughly similar to the number douchebags on the Internet as a whole, or in the real world.

I'm going to use a term here that I rarely use, but I think fits this sort of conversation: butthurt. You all probably know what I'm talking about when I say that, and if you don't you can probably figure it out.

Anyway, it seems like there's a certain population of reddit[1] that very easily gets butthurt about a great many things. There are entire reddits devoted to butthurt, and the reality is that the subreddit system doesn't really cater to contrary opinions - if you disagree, you get downvoted. If you disagree often enough and get downvoted often enough, you just unsubscribe from the subreddit because there is literally 0% chance that your argument will be recognized as anything but trolling.

This creates an incentive for communities to be relatively one dimensional, which leads to groupthink.

In this particular instance, we have biased parties on both sides of the equation saying that there is/isn't a problem, but the entirety of the evidence is anecdotal, and one side is being exceeding inflammatory (even for the Internet).

Are there misogynists on reddit? I'm certain of it. Are there feminazis on reddit? Certainly. Do either of these populations make up even nearly an appreciable percentage of the site's population? Almost definitely not.

[1] I don't want to be one of those 'I have a four digit UID' guys, but it seems as though, as time goes on, the general maturity, intelligence, and acceptiveness of reddit goes down. I believe this is simply a testament to its popularity, but certainly not a positive one.
That's a very low value. With JS off or blocked, my browsers convey between 16 and 21 bits (the latter meaning unicity in their dataset).

The amount of information conveyed by the HTTP_ACCEPT headers is especially preoccupying. There is nothing in there, apart from maybe the language, that should leak any info, on a modern browser. And certainly not 10 or 16 bits of info.
Looks like the HN community on the Pacific coast is going to miss the official release of Gmelius (http://gmelius.com).

Fair enough and thx to you all who checked it out!
> the very term “coding” evokes an image of tedium,

Wow, really? Is that what non-coders think coding is? Do people really think "coding" is non creative?
You're totally right. Developers should have no interest in the television that will bring apps to the forefront of the living room, succeeding where Google and others have failed. Why would hackers want to develop for another massively successful category of iOS products?

My mistake.
It might just be me, but when I see announcements so overly-styled, without the styling having much semantic relevance to the content, I stop trusting the site that made the announcement. I want to place my faith in no-nonsense services, and an announcement like this is all-nonsense.

Lore is an excellent name for a service, though.
I'm starting at Microsoft out of college in July and this worries me. Could I ask which product you were on?
This may be off-topic, but progress with CSS (flowable text, etc.) is not only glacially slow, but we're still stuck with the terribly-designed CSS standard.

I find myself wishing for some kind of "layout bytecode" -- basically, machine-readable instructions which would size every element in a browser's page using custom layout algorithms that would depend on the size of the page and the size of font glyphs.

CSS would be compiled into this bytecode, but we'd be open to inventing new and better style languages which could be compiled as well. So we could create layout languages based on columns instead of floats, for example.

If this were actually implemented in newer browsers, it could actually be emulated in older browsers using JS libraries (although it would be much slower).

Note that this really only has to do with the layout properties of CSS. Things like color, rounded corners, drop shadows -- all that would still be implemented traditionally, but these aren't generally what people have problems with. It's the terrible layout algorithms of CSS which generate endless headaches.
To anyone that's interested: I've updated the article, taking some recommendations into account and I invite you all to give me one more shot.

This version provides a more detailed solution and discusses other companies such as YouTube and Netflix and how these companies are trying to solve the problem.
> PayPal operate as a bank in some places

While this is technically true, at least in Europe (PayPal Europe has a Luxemburg bank license), I cannot imagine any regular bank freezing accounts at random, then requiring you to change your password and security question as a condition for unfreezing it. Yet exactly that is what PP did with my account, just today. If thats not the very definition of "treating your customers like shit", then I don't know what is.
Flex on iOS and Android kind of not making it a loss for Flash at the moment. Just check top rated games on those app stores.
Elon Musk first made his money in Paypal and then funded SpaceX. I think Krieger and Systrom will have exciting world-changing projects in the pipeline too.

Oddly, I think the most influential path to curing cancer is making a lot of money, gaining lots of power, and having more control to allocate societal resources.
Artists Worldwide, Time To Show Support For Liberties And The Pirate Party
What you see as re-framing, I'm seeing as distorting, and they work better as separate examples of good management.

For example:

Ensuring correct procedure is followed doesn't mean you have to be patronising.

Keeping your team informed doesn't mean you don't have to listen, or you have to talk too much.

Being a leader, responsible, or not afraid to delegate doesn't mean you have to "show who's boss".

And I don't say this with any intention to cause offense, nor is it directed at you specifically, but I think if, for each point, you think the inverse is true, then you may have more in common with 'bad manager' than you think.
Efficiency isn't really about entering text, it's about quickly navigating around large amounts of text, editing parts, performing larger operations, integrating the rest of your workflow (maybe a REPL or a browser preview or tests...), testing code, exploratory programming, combining different languages, working with markup languages (HTML, XML, Markdown, LaTeX), writing documentation, reading documentation...etc. The beauty of Emacs is that it does all this (and more :)) well for a whole range of languages.

The goal is not just to be able to do anything you need quickly, but to do it in a way that doesn't break your concentration and doesn't take much thought. Moreover, this has to apply to pretty much every sort of thing you do with your source files, which is actually quite a lot. Today, almost any work you do on your software project as a developer involves text, not just programming, so efficiency really matters.

Additionally, it should be really easy to create complicated workflows for your specific project. For example, I am working on some code that operates on two trees and produces a third. It literally took me half and hour to create an Emacs command that took some (configurable) input, ran my function on it, rendered the result with LaTeX (using a tree-drawing package) and displayed it. This way, when I make an edit to the algorithm, I just run a single command and see the output immediately with a nice visualization. This makes playing around with modifications to the algorithm very simple.
A comments page but also a newsfeed to track the comments happening.

It's a bit catchword-y, but I like the phrase "ambient social" to describe the appeal of Facebook in one key sense: it's not about directed conversations, it's about creating opportunities for conversations which other people might take you up on. I post a status not because I want to talk about myself, but because I'm sending out a feeler for if anybody else wants to begin a conversation. (Which is why Twitter doesn't appeal to me the same way: it's nowhere near as easy to track conversations.)
Google's $300M Expansion of Iowa Center, satellite dishes for TV distribution?
In this case you cannot really look at current practices and predict the future. For many of us in the "new programmer" category now, we will see an exponentially increasing lifespan as well as several other improved aspects of health and intelligence. In the limit, this may lead to age having almost no meaning.

Besides, English Majors?! I dare say that english shouldn't even be a major. A great academic in any field should be articulate in expressing ideas, in at least one language.
The page communicated the process/reasoning really well.
Goodluck to the team
Interesting, but by that reasoning, couldn't I legally copy any font (and have it legally be my own work) simply be rasterizing it at a sufficiently large size and then vectorizing the result?
Letter to Larry Page about new G-Mail “Don't copy Apple, we love you as you are”
One of the problems I have with what are essentially glorified pedometers is that while tracking your steps / "activity level" throughout the day is a good first step, it is grossly insufficient for inciting the sorts of changes that are necessary for most folks to reach their particular goals.
Thank you. I have met people who say things about their "younger selves" when they were 20. Wanted to know if there was enough time difference between you now and you then to take your comment to heart.
Haven't watch Kay's lecture yet, but I'll mention that he and some colleagues are about five years into a project to write an entire computer system, including OS, gui, networking, and programming tools, in 20K lines of code, using some very innovative techniques. Compare to the millions of LOC in other systems and it's easily a two orders of magnitude improvement.

One example: a TCP stack is about 20K LOC in C. In their system it's 160 LOC: http://www.itsoftwarecommunity.com/author.asp?section_id=162...

Their language allows easy syntax modification within scopes, so they defined a syntax that matches the IETF ascii diagrams, and simply pasted in the diagrams from the standards.

You can read their papers here: http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php
Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management
http://www.readability.com/mobile/articles/yfhqwo0t cleans it right up.
Can you move the .com closer to the PicDazzler text? I'd suggest putting the email address into a link - but an online form might be neat also. I'd also add a note very close to the email address that you won't use the email for evil purposes.

Or See some before and afters - you really need to change that text colour. It's almost black on black... sign up or sign in is out of alignment and bleeding over the rectangular box with curved corners. Seems to be an issue with the div with id=main and class=grid_12.

Just my 2c :-)
And you wonder why Iran wants a nuclear weapon?

It is because they need backup when they hit the US and or Israel back their own cyber attacks.

I have no love for the Iranians, but if you don't think they are doing what they feel is necessary to secure their own way of life, you are insane.
I'm a 25 year-old former Marine who thought he could take a shot at being a programmer when he exited the military. I never had any background in programming other than being interested in UNIX and Linux at a young age, so CS seemed like the logical choice for someone who had a GI bill to burn.

2 years and a lot of classes later, I'm realizing I'm too old to compete at this gig, and I should have started when I was 12, if I wanted to be taken seriously. The only thing I have any skill in is various computer related things, but not one thing in particular. I've developed a very basic knowledge of C++, but that's laughable really. So I'm stuck, unsure of what it is I should really be doing. I could get a dead-end part time job and continue my schooling, but it seems almost futile at this point. I was denied to the University of Florida, yes the school that recently killed-off their CS department in favor of Football funding. It was the top school in the state, but they wouldn't accept my transfer because I'm only now up to the Calculus 1 and Physics level (rightfully so I guess, that was my mistake). Being that I could only take those classes now, it would probably be another year at least, to get to where I could actually transfer to a real university. The only reason I've been able to do this is because of the GI bill that's been granted to me because of my time in the service, but that's running out and I don't have anything to show for it. Other than a General AA, which probably wasn't worth my time - despite planning ahead.

I keep reading stories and anecdotes about how this field is going, and I'm starting to become very unsure if it's something I need to stick with to prevail, or whether it's already too late. I can't find anyone that will tell me the truth - just those that placate with notions of "you can do anything you're just not trying hard enough," despite my 15 hour course-load. From my perspective it seems like CS is an unattainable feat unless you're fresh out of high school at the age of 17 with several dual-enrolled college courses under your belt. The competition is outrageous. Don't you think I want skills that are worth someone's money?

I read about how people with experience with Java, C++, C, C# and so fourth, at least having the ability to put multiple languages on their resume, can't find employment because they haven't done a formal project or haven't been a part of, and accepted, within the OSS community. This frightens me because my skill level is nowhere near where it needs to be to do this, and I highly doubt how much I can persevere with the time that I have left.

I used to open up my IDE with the prospect of learning new things and freshness being able to develop a more solid understanding of what I thought I could do for a living. While I finish out the courses I'm still in, it would appear now, as I reflect, that I'm only doing it to pass the course now, as my delusions of grandeur have faded.

Edit: Wow. Thanks for all your input. This will give me a better objective view to reassess my path. Again, thanks.
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Building something smaller to feed the family increases your longevity in the startup game. You can play longer with new ideas, let them develop as they mature, and lots more. Pay attention to whether people who look down on lifestyle businesses already have that lifestyle of not worrying about money.. easier said when that's the case.

Initially having something that pays the bills for you can be an important step learning the first business and marketing skills of ones life. Having these makes you more valuable and capable of not only fetching funding should it be something you want, but a lot more of it because you preemptively make business considerations as you go.
Which Way Next? With Peter Diamandis
In the large projects that I have seen, when I think about how much of the work being done is the core product vs frameworky stuff and/or integration, I think 100-1000x is more accurate.

The pure business logic constitutes a very small part in comparison, but the type of environment/company also matters. Startups tend to have less fluff than large enterprises.
I was ready to pay, and then it asked me to put my credit card information into a non-secure page. Looking at the page source, it looks like they use Stripe for payments. Will the credit card details be transmitted encrypted once I press the submit button, or are they transmitting the details in the clear?
Excuse me for being offtopic, but how did you go about replacing the optical drive with a hard drive?
Those quoted finance salaries won't include bonuses I suspect, so the potential upside is much higher than that.

The programmer at GS who was accused of taking their code (and later acquitted) was on at least $400k, although I can't remember the exact figure.
Keep your hands on JKL;
Ehhhhhh, am I the only one that hates both the name and the presentation?

The name is so highly associated with 'folklore' which is so highly associated with stories that are legendary and part of culture, but clearly factually incorrect (thinking Paul Bunyon etc.). Inspiring fiction.

This is not what Coursekit is.

The presentation is hardly readable: extremely light grey type on a white background with spinny animations going on in the background...nuff said.

Not only that, their old logo kicked ass, and the new one is...meh.
Doesnt work on the iPad...

No flash FTW!
Philosophical question: Is time in meetings wasted?
There are no public preschools in New York for middle class. The private ones are very expensive and competitive to get into.

AFAIK, there are good public elementary schools. Middle and high schools are much worse if you don't get into a Gifted & Talented program.
If they do that, they might become a billion dollar company.
Hey Joe,

Great to hear from you. A coaching feature is most certainly planned on our roadmap.

It should be no surprise, but one of our key learnings has been that when a user signs up for Fitocracy and has little to no experience with exercise, they are incredibly likely to drop off. However, if they stick around long enough to start interacting with the community, the story completely changes. So our core belief is that minimizing the friction to get to that point is key, and that will most likely involve greasing the wheels by providing easy-to-follow starter plans for new users.
Dropbox uses S3… it is S3…
Here are some slightly more detailed benchmark results of Go vs. HiPE: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

Note: Go development is done mostly on 64bit, and the 32bit port is a bit of a second class citizen specially regarding performance.
Well the back-end payment processing will have to pass the seller some sort of identifier with the purchase, at the very least something like an email address, so that you can have an account for that person. Then the seller will want to assign a license and/or customer number for their own records. If she doesn't know her email address or license, then yes she is screwed. Just like when I try to return things without a receipt.

She can, of course, dispute payments with the credit card processor or whoever paid the seller. Even when a merchant provides clear paths to get refunds on their site, some people just prefer to do a chargeback which costs the seller a lot more than the purchase price.
The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
"I will learn it when I need it"! I've heard that phrase a lot over the years; it seems like a highly pragmatic attitude to foster when you're in an industry as fast-paced as software development. On some level it actually IS quite pragmatic, but on another level I am annoyed by the phrase. It has become a mantra for our whole industry which hasn't changed said industry for the better. The problem is this, in the guise of sounding like a wise and practical developer, people use it as an excuse to coast. There is too much stuff to know, it is necessary to be able to pick certain things up as you go along – part of the job. But, there is a difference between having to "pick up" some knowledge as you go along and doing absolutely everything just-in-time.
The next innovation could well come from an Indian town you've never heard of
FBI: Computers Infected with DNSChanger Trojan Will Lose Internet Access in July
Zuckerberg was at Startup Weekend? Did you mean Startup School?
University of Florida cutting entire CS department
Is any of their source published? I'm interested to see this.
Complex Event Processing - a beginner's view
Re: the 501 Developer Manifesto
Modified quotation:
"Where there’s a new fad in [anything], odds are high that it is being touted as a solution to some aggregate behavior which causes a reasonable local decision to become globally sub-optimal"
As someone who left full time about 2 years ago to do 1099 work only, I recommend you definitely work on pushing your rate up as you go. Not only do you have to account for the extra costs, it's also likely you won't always be billing 40 hours a week. I've finally gotten my rate to a point where I feel alright if I only bill 20 hours of work a week. I am working a full week, balancing programming time with managing existing clients, connecting with potential new ones, and taking time to stay involved in open source projects which have been my best marketing strategy. Also account for the fact that all time off is unpaid. My hourly rate is now about twice what I was paid as a full time employee. Good luck!
Ask HN: Thoughts on RSS Sponsorships as a marketing medium?
Hey HN,
I run a pseudo-ad network that provides developers the opportunity to run sponsored posts/RSS sponsorships across some relatively large tech writer's sites. There are 11 sites in total, and we charge $2,750 per week, to sit right in that middle ground between a lower cost display ad network like Fusion Ads or Jim Dalrymple's feed sponsorship and the "premium" mediums like The Deck and Gruber's sponsorship.

There are some weeks that we'll struggle to fill, and the other times we're sold out for 6 weeks at a time, although we've sold out every week for nearly 6 months since we launched.

As developers and marketers of apps, what are your thoughts in general about this medium? How can it become more appealing? Is the price point interesting?

Quick side note: I don't want this to come across as trying to promote my network, so I've purposely left the name out and any link to what we do.
Accelerating the human body to mach 20 has its own set of problems. Namely, the g-force involved. A mach number is dependent upon altitude, but they mention 13,000 MPH in the article. This is a little bit slower than the orbital velocity of the Space Shuttle (around 18,000 mph), but at these speeds, rocket launches are the neighborhood we're operating in.

Wikipedia says Shuttle astronauts experience around 3 Gs. This isn't intolerable, but g-force tolerance is heavily related to time spent at a specific level. Astronauts are screened for tolerance to g-forces as part of their selection criteria. It is unlikely that the general public would ever ride in aircraft that subject passengers to the forces commonly felt during the launch of an orbital vehicle.
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