skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, go on 8chan and other controversial sites. You don't have to like what they say, but you'll get interesting ideas and points of view that people won't say on mainstream sites like HN and Twitter. Seek out writers and sites you don't agree with and read stuff that makes you uncomfortable.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
https://raygun.io/
Apparently so. It uses DTLS, but I'm not sure where the certificates for that would come from or how their authenticity is verified. If it's all self-signed, then your best solution is TOFU (trust on first use). Otherwise your confidentiality and integrity are completely dependent on your network position.
Probably lots of people are like you. I think the world is changing, though, and I think it is instructive to note that the person complaining about the lack of Github content is 20 years old. I've read hundreds of CVs for web developers in the last 2 years and I could point to only a handful that didn't include some kind of reference to a portfolio (usually on Github).

Even though you say that you don't care about a Github account when hiring, you went out of your way to look at this person's website on HN. I suspect that it made a bigger impression on you than if the person had simply emailed you a Word file with their CV. The fact that the person cares enough to craft something and show it off says something about them.

Personally, I go and look at every single portfolio that gets sent to me. If there is anything half way interesting on there it gets an automatic telephone interview even if their CV is otherwise unappealing. I'm looking for people with decent technical chops -- I'm not bothered about how they got there.

I've gotten jobs through my portfolio before as well. I have one fairly large but poorly written Ruby app, a handful of well-intentioned but abandoned projects, and an egotistical semi-blog (which has some cringe-worthy content that I really should edit ASAP ;-) ). As bad as my portfolio is, it is miles better than 99% of what I've seen (generally cut and paste rails projects).

For anybody with real talent this can be a differentiator. It will get you to an interview and give the interviewer something to ask questions about. For me what the OP built would be much more than enough to interest me if we were hiring an intern, but the point of linking to whatever else they have done is a very good one. Especially for a permanent position, I would be following up on that.
ASP.Net is going nowhere, the abomination known as Web Controls is on the way out (and good riddance).

It will never go away, there's too much code and money involved, but it won't be used for new projects.
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Willing buyer, willing seller.
I really really really don't recommend outsourcing your security architecture to interested passers-by if that's going to be a core feature of your project.
Should the Secret founders return the $6M they took off the table?
Let's look at the non-conditional C11 major changes:

>additional floating-point characteristic macros (<float.h>)

VS2015 RC.

>querying and specifying alignment of objects (<stdalign.h>, <stdlib.h>)

Missing but the functionality is available as extensions.

>Unicode characters and strings (<uchar.h>) (originally specified in ISO/IEC TR 19769:2004)

VS2015 RC.

>type-generic expressions

Missing. (Use C++ instead. trollface.dds)

>static assertions

Missing but (incorrectly) static_assert can be used instead of _Static_assert.

>anonymous structures and unions

Partially or maybe even completely. I would have to check but for trivial usage I'd consider it to be complete.

>no-return functions

Missing but __declspec(noreturn) can be used instead.

>support for opening files for exclusive access

Missing but _fsopen() / _wfsopen() and _SH_DENYRW can be used instead.

>removed the gets function (<stdio.h>)

VS2015 RC.

>added the aligned_alloc, at_quick_exit, and quick_exit functions (<stdlib.h>)

Partially as aligned_alloc() is missing.
No need to wait - xplat F# is available right now via MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio. You can use it to develop iOS/Android/Desktop/Web applications.
> He directly referenced Linux which is famously under GPLv2.

Sure, he used it as an example, but he also explicitly made a generality about open source software, not the GPLv2. In any case, what he said was wrong about Linux, wrong about the GPL (including GPLv2), and wrong about open source software, so arguing over which of those he was talking about is a sideshow.

> You can argue with this wording if you like, but his observation is spot on

No, its absolutely, completely false. You can use -- or even distribute -- "open source software" (or GPL software, or Linux specifically) without "all your other software" being required to become open source.
Surviving on 1440 in many parts of California would not be nearly as easy as you make it sound. One wrong step (e.g., a high medical bill -- even with insurance) and you're into the endless cycle of credit card debt with no way out.

(edit: I agree that uncertainty certainly doesn't help the problem.)
TA-65 is indeed a bunch of herbal junk, sold by the usual suspects.

Mitteldorf on the other hand is a legitimate theorist with a programmed aging viewpoint, e.g. that the best approach to aging is to find differences in levels of gene products and push those levels back to being closer to what they were in youth - to revert the program. You can probably see why he's interested in anything that might provide a step towards studies that could add supporting evidence, even if not effective to a practical level.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Mitteldorf%20J%5BAu...

Not a view I agree with, as I see the balance of evidence supporting the more mainstream view of aging as a consequence of accumulated damage, with these changes in gene product levels being a response to that damage. Aging research is certainly a field with a lot of varied opinions on what exactly is going on under the hood. Still, programmed aging is a minority camp at this time, albeit a very vocal one.
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C99 has always been requested by people trying to write portable code, and you nice folks just haven't been listening.

It's not an individual library--it's hack on hack on typedef on #define on hack to ensure compatibility, scattered across many projects.

If Microsoft is going to want to start winning over 'Nix developers, they need to get their shit together before somebody pairs a Windows port of Clang with a half-decent IDE.

EDIT:

A few things better than just a "aaaargh implement the standard" rant:

The threading and atomics in C11 would be really nice to have.

The features listed here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar... ) especially the snprintf support.

Last I checked, vsnprintf returns -1 instead of a useful character count when given a buffer too small, thus requiring use of _vsnprintf_s in a loop to try to figure out how much space is needed.

I'm not sure, but I think the most recent MSVC still doesn't support the "restrict" qualifier.

I'm sure there's other things as well.

EDIT2:

Part of the reason we want proper C99 support is that certain behaviors for implicit casting and whatnot change when done in a C++ compiler.
Notes on Craft Conf 2015
Each element of your matrix doesn't really have its own type, each column and row has a type:

1
+---
V | V
Pa | Pa

V^-1 Pa^-1
+--------------- +-----
mA | mA/V mA/Pa | mA
kg/s | kg/V/s kg/Pa/s | kg/s

I can imagine a system that types this quite well.
> Employers increasingly use cutting-­edge scheduling tools like Kronos to calculate the profit-­maximizing head count for every hour and adjust schedules accordingly, week to week or even day to day, sometimes with scarcely any notice.

Reminds me of this short story: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Could http://ipfs.io/ help with this distributed archive effort?
> what we do is parenthesize all mentions of min/max

Oh! That explains some of the odd-looking code in <random>, since min and max are used as function names to determine the range of an RNG engine.
If it supports any form of semantic completion (i.e. Intellisense) , that would be a reason. I'm still not sure from reading the article if that's the case, though.
Yeah, it seems strikingly similar to payday-advance lines of credit, except with lower interest rates (I assume).
And this is why it's web stack: there are no better alternatives.

For decades of trying, this is the best we've managed to do for cross-platform UIs. It ain't great, but it soundly beats the alternatives.
Do you have any plan on making VC++ cross platform so that I can compile C++/CLI code? See the discussion on CoreCLR here: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/659

If not, what do you think would be the most likely-way forward for cross-platform C++/CLI:
- Forget it
- Make VC++ cross-platform
- clang/gcc to support C++/CLI and produce mixed-mode assembly
?
He did not say "math", he said "linear algebra", which is much more specific and specialized.

When was the last time your "CRUD stuff" involved solving a set of linear equations?
We've been doing it a long time in Java.

It is very practical for a program to write a Java class, compile it, then load the classfile, thus the metaprogrammed object runs as fast as anything in Java.
Thanks M$ :)

This is a good move if they're hoping to entice Eclipse users on *nix to migrate from the JVM ecosystem to CLR.

Deploying Windows programs on FreeBSD is one thing but if they want to grow their developer base, they need to target programmers who don't run VS on Windows.
I don't know anything about iOS/Android targeting, but I've asked people who do to comment. I do not believe that pthreads will be available for Win32 but I could be wrong.
Yes. Because we still have a situation where not every person becomes a parent, and those that do have wildly different numbers of offspring.
To clarify, the outcome of any company is unknowable, as is the future of everything. When you take a look at the guys from airbnb trying to make rent selling cereal and renting out an air mattress, that's the hustle. I am just suggesting that, hypothtically, if these guys were that hungry they would do anything to save the company. I saw Byttow's interview with Kevin Rose, he seemed passionate and intelligent, I don't want to discont their work. I just think that there are some people that won't (or financially can't) quit until the repo guys carry out their office. The people with that drive have a high correlation with success.
This isn't a submitted resume, it's a marketing site.

Would you have all marketing sites also strip out photo portraits? A ton of enterprise services have landing pages with the portrait of an attractive support officer talking into a headset, or some besuited office worker tapping into a keyboard.
Based on complete guess work - They seem to be moving up the chain by building and selling services on top of existing platforms. e.g. Azure on top of databases, Third party apps on outlook etc. Not sure what they intend to build on top of windows...
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Dooce is retiring
No, no, I think it's one of the most generally useful fields of applied math. You need it for best-fit functions, at the very least.
Bash is oudated. PowerShell is new.
I didn't say I don't use and need math: I apply category theory and type theory all the time, and I'm sure the time I've put into studying algebraic topology and abstract algebra has shaped how I think about problems. I actually really enjoy linear algebra as well, and always enjoy the opportunity to learn more of it.

What I said was that I've never had to do linear algebra in my code. Most of my work has been building web apps. Most of the domains that I've built those web apps for don't involve mathematical computations more complicated than multiplication, and when they have, I've usually just passed the task off to pre-existing libraries.
No one is saying this doesn't happen on Apple devices, merely that issues like the one you describe happen tenfold (or more) on Android and seem to be escalating.
The reason su is a better runas analogy than sudo is that it has a similar scope and similar purpose.

While it does overlap su/runas functionality, sudo has a much larger superset of features and policy configuration that su and runas simply don't have.
More about resumable functions in C++
You mean, except for the $6M they kept for themselves.

I'm the sort of founder that thinks it's my duty to return value to shareholders. I should make money when my investors make money. I would argue that is the only perspective that survives the long term in business. Riding hype waves to enrich one's self without producing real product, that's not sustainable.

I know we're all founders here and would love to get the kind of deal the Secret guys negotiated (or Groupon, etc.). But it's not healthy for our industry. Basically the arguments in support of these guys is, well the investors knew what they were getting into. But that could be said for any scammy move by a founder. If they're trying to "do the right thing" they should return all the money to investors, minus a reasonable salary.
> No, I'm more surprised that the US is so bad at dealing with illegal immigration. Do they tacitly accept it?

Some industry players benefit from having low-skilled workers that are demotivated to complain to government of labor violations, etc., so there is some of that.

OTOH, a bigger issue is that, while most people would agree that illegal immigration, per se, is bad, there is no census on how to deal with the issue.

There are groups that oppose not only illegal immigration, but are strongly concerned with controlling the level of immigration (and often with managing its origin), so that they see the solution in enforcement measures (though even groups in this category often don't agree on which enforcement measures.)

Then there are groups that are less concerned with the level of immigration than with illegality itself, and so would favor new avenues of legal immigration, or increased quotas within existing avenues, etc.

And there are additional disagreements over approaches to dealing with the existing population that is present without proper immigration status beyond the different views on "going forward" policy.
there will be no plugging at all. The future is wireless.
Pretty good series, using Haskell (it has a pretty decent type system and the type syntax is easy to understand, OCaml's is a bit more confusing) for the examples. Great coverage as well on types and category theory.
Debug C++ Code on Linux from Visual Studio
The point of letting the founders take some off the table is that the investors want to swing for the home run rather than a safer acquisition that the founders would probably take.

In fact, the investors probably let the founders take some off the table precisely to prevent the cashout. I suspect that Secret had an offer in hand from someone, but the investors wanted a bigger return.

The problem is that the little people who also had stock/stock options never got the opportunity to cash out and they would have almost certainly made the same choice as the founders.
Completely agreed. Secret was basically a manifestation of Poe's Law[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
> Jacobs, in her habitual bright pink lipstick and matching headband, was explaining all this via Skype, from her “little box of a house” in Simi Valley, to Jane Leibrock, 33, who had the more muted look of the fortunate and was sitting in the Oakland headquarters of Even, the start-­up where she works. Leibrock — an alumna of Yale; a onetime Beijing resident and Mandarin speaker; a street-­fashion blogger; a tweeter of first-­world problems (“My personal hell would be having my earbuds pulled out over and over throughout eternity”) — used to study the user experience of privacy settings for Facebook. Now she is a researcher for Even, which proposes, for a fee, to help solve the problem of income volatility.

I'm off topic, but am I the only one to find NY times articles to be abusively long? is it a trend in this type of US publications?

While I find the topic interesting and I would like to know more, the article is just too long, repetitive and boring.
You can skip maybe half of this by installing the Service Pack manually right away. It still sucks, but not quite as much.

No idea why Windows insists on installing individual updates before the Service Pack that includes them all anyways...
Bingo. We have a test that includes windows.h followed by all STL headers, to verify that we always remember the parens.
Just as curiosity. Why constexpr has taken so long to be fully implemented? I can't wait to use Cap'n Proto on VS :)
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I wonder if marissa mayer wants to sell the company
If you are using C++ or Objective-C++ you can use C++11 threads (which are portable on all current operating systems) directly, no need to use pthreads.
Maybe? It looks like they're in contact; see Proposals at the bottom of http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK - it says a proposal is in progress.
There's also some complication from GCC being developed as part of GNU. You'd think this wouldn't be a problem in practice, but I remember (yet can't seem to find, unfortunately) a rather significant spat on the GCC mailing lists about the more hardcore GNUsiances refusing to implement a better AST (or at least one as good as clang's/LLVM's) solely because doing so would run the risk of the AST being used to reverse-engineer GCC beyond the terms of the GPL and a bunch of core GCC devs threatening to fork and ditch GNU because of it.
Here's another #golang http benchmarktool which is pretty cool. It's pretty much like ab / httperf with the benefit that prints an histogram of the requests in the end which is very useful.
Thread about the ticketing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853786
One visit to /pol/ will show you how incorrect you are about increased moderation and lack of free posting.
I left my last job after management sold a Cordova solution. We didn't have the tech in-house to dev/test, but had already sold it anyway, leading to a death spiral of developer hell as we needed to support Android 4.0.1, our Android test phone was a $30 LG which barely displayed the home screen. iOS worked great — or at least, predictably enough to repro + fix anything we caught.
This looks incredibly useful and I appreciate the focus on performance. I often avoid writing helpers for type checking edge cases due to performance concerns, but you've done the hard work for me. Thank you.
They were referring to iOS developers and others who avoid Windows.
Neither! I'd say "fuck that nonsense" and go do something else.
Some of us aren't using C++.

Hence, the desire to see MSVC support the C11 and C99 standards.
A new C standard does not triumph by convincing Microsoft and making them see the light, but rather because Microsoft eventually dies and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
Some of my friends remind me that they use emacs already and don't need this one by Microsoft. Others say they use Sublime Text instead.

I used Visual Studio in the late 1990's and got used to the GUI IDE. I did a lot of work in Classic Visual BASIC before the Dotnet era.

I see they are open sourcing the CoreCLR and now Visual Studio Core. I gave the Linux version a quick look over, extracted the zip file to a directory and ran the ./Core program. It loads quick enough, most likely because there isn't much there.

I have to remember that this is the Post-Microsoft era, and Microsoft has to reinvent itself in order to survive. Microsoft knows the Hacker and Startup community uses OSX and Linux, and many have migrated away from Windows. Microsoft knows they like open source projects, so Microsoft open sourced Visual Studio and CoreCLR to have them ported to Linux, *BSD Unix, and Mac OSX.

Why Microsoft never made a version of Visual Studio for Linux or OSX is beyond me. We got Mono for a while, but it was always behind the Windows version. There was DotGNU but I lost track of where they were at.

If anyone is wondering how Microsoft earns money from open source projects, they will always sell books on it and also certification for it. Like Xamarian they can always buy out the company that forks it and makes a better version of it that is cross platform.
> My understanding of this is you set up a monthly allowance with them and they save your surplus for the months where you don't make as much.

No, they calculate what they call an "average" of your income over a period of time (though it is expressly not any of the usual mathematical averages and they don't disclose how they calculate it) and they retain your surplus above that "average" in better months pay you the difference to reach back to your "average" in months that are below.

> This doesn't seem like solving a problem, rather they are creating an illusion of solving a problem.

Not always an unsuccessful business model.
Hey, do you have an announcement somewhere about it being included in 10? Congratulations, at any rate.
That's strange. Maybe they do that for the big providers, but I've run roughly 80% of my browsing activity through a SOCKS proxy on a VPS running in multiple different datacenters and never really had a problem that I noticed. I usually get my VPSs from little guys so maybe that's why they're not on a blacklist.
The loans are interest free, but given that they have an undisclosed mechanism of calculating your allowance ("Even Salary"), it should be fairly trivial for them to assure that they are almost never going to be using anything other than the customers own deferred income to pay it.
This seems an all too obvious entry into the enterprise environment for their mobile platform whilst strengthening the moat to their current desktop. Possibly for the education market too.

I'm surprised this hasn't come earlier and would be further surprised if this isn't a top priority. I'm 100% sold if it remains a snappy platform running a couple of screens and heavy-ish excel files in a native environment.
Honest question, not snark:

Who are some big C# developers that create major applications consumers (Not enterprises) use everyday?

You mentioned the paucity of major OSX/iOS developers, but I'm not sure the case isn't the same for C#/.NET.
VC's current lack of an AST makes constexpr and other major features (especially variadic templates) very difficult. As the compiler devs have explained to me, this was a clever way to save space and time decades ago when C++ was simpler to compile. Features like constexpr and variadic templates make C++ easier to use, but they demand much more from the compiler's data structures.
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I would add to that the majority of citizens in the US were illiterate up until the early 1900s. The country was pretty deep into the industrial revolution at that point.
But does evolution select for evolutionary ability? If there aren't significant selection pressures then there's no use in adapting for adaptability.