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AMD makes chips for Xbox and PlayStation. And they contributed Mantle to Vulkan. But I doubt it's only up to them to actually support it on the corresponding OSes.
It's been a long time since I heard the term, probably late 90's or somewhere in that timeframe. At the time I was in the banking business and there were various services that were launching with the idea of aggregating bank accounts, rolling up loan offers into portals, etc. The term "disintermediation" was used as a label for what happened to you if you let someone else capture your customer's attention and just treat you like a supplier. I'm sure there were other uses at the time, and later.
Affinity Designer – Professional graphic design software for the Mac
Hmm... I suppose the answer is yes. We got permission from our director to use CVS (at the time we were banned from using anything with a GPL license, so we had to cover our asses to a certain degree). There was a corporate mandate to store everything in VSS at some point, but I don't think anyone actually cared what you did before it was stored in VSS.

As you might imagine (the use of GPL software banned, the use of MS software enforced), the rules were politically rather than technically oriented. There were rumours that we had an agreement with MS to follow these rules and I wouldn't say it was out of the question. By and large as long as you followed the letter of rules nobody cared much after that. Using CVS was rather a major coup, though, given the GPL licence.

Possibly younger people will be amazed at the ridiculous conditions some people worked under back then. After I left that position I swore I would never agree to work with restrictions like that. In fact, the ability to work on free software is one of the first things I bring up as important to me in a job interview. Even a slight hesitation is enough to make me walk.
I agree. The local libraries around me have been undergoing a steady transformation into resource-rich study centers for school-aged kids to college kids. On-line degree programs also seem to attract loads of people looking for quiet places with reference sections to study.

My county system also has a robust e-book, book-on-tape on-line check-out system, community activities (kids Minecraft club, adult retrogaming Saturdays, book club guest speakers, puppet shows, etc.) The library system in my county is actually growing due to so many people using them. They've become true community centers and I personally find it a beautiful thing.
Ha, I feel the same way and started to make a little tool to help this, but most of the feedback I got was that it was pointless :( https://github.com/seiferteric/clamp
Ha. I variously did several hard labour jobs including summer time lawn mowing (not ride-on, the supervisor did all those jobs), working as a cleanup-boy at a butcher, returning supermarket trolleys, and working in a timber and hardware yard for twelve months after fluffing the final semester.

When I got my first desk job, nobody worked harder than me. Just being inside in air conditioning with clean hands was all the motivation I ever needed. While other new grads moaned about having to work 40 hours, I was in heaven at only doing 40 hours, all inside, and all on the weekdays!

It is a tough question, though, how to instil that same work ethic into your kids without taking it too far. I fear laziness in kids more than anything else, because laziness is pervasive and destructive.
Yeah it's a tough one I think to ask well -- maybe you've got the tone and wording down in a way that candidates won't misinterpret, but I've avoided that type of question because I'm not able to do so.
Thanks. I was initially confused about why archive.org's redesign announcement was named Re: Cease and Desist Notice – Infringement of Copyright, and then I was further confused when the HN comments appeared to be about something else entirely.
> Is the only reason our entire zero-reward open source system stays alive is because nerds are economically irrational and just want to have fun while turning a blind eye to being exploited?

1. Fun is it's own reward of course.

2. Producing open source code you get easy marketing and no risk. Try to sell the same thing requires a whole new skill-set, capital, and you will probably end up with the $0 you'd get from open-sourcing it anyway.

3. Not having a boss (or customer) makes it more fun and allows you to be super-opinionated about how you make the framework.

4. I agree though in principle nerds should be more mercenary. For non-fun stuff, get your employer to pay you to write open-source code, instead of doing it on Saturday at your own expense. For fun-stuff ... well it's fun! Try to make a $ out of it somehow.
The difficult here is to separate the 'problematic' from the 'symptomatic'. I'd say inequality is the problem.
What's your point? Just reading the WP entry on WAV seems to back him up; it wouldn't be too hard to beat it if you just want a simple PCM format.

As for the racial slurs, they obviously are not racial in this context.

Otherwise, perhaps he's a bit immodest or incorrect. OTOH, he's brighter than most so...
Cool seeing his name. I grew up about 3 blocks from him and his daughter Iva (he was gay and had Iva with a lesbian poet (actually think they were married, not sure if it was just an arrangement though)). Iva was my best friend when I was pre-school age, fwiw :).

Have a lot of great memories of him and his daughter. Now that I have young kids of my own, every so often something reminds me of those days.
Swift will be a server side programming language!
There are plenty of people who are not "sane" who don't hold and espouse those opinions, and I doubt anyone would take such umbrage with those people, so it's unreasonable and disingenuous to suggest that people are "mean to him because he has a mental disorder".
What stops someone from creating files that exploit memory safety or other security issues, then sending them to a TempleOS user? Sure, they have to load the file into the system, but if they're using the OS it'd be safe to assume there's a way to do this.
Do you mean this: http://floodyberry.com/carmack/johnc_plan_1998.html#d1998020...
Looks cool. By when can I expect the release.
Why would you ever want your spaces laid out in any fashion other than left to right? What a massive improvement to OSX!
Maybe he moved his life online? I have slowly stopped buying books, CDs, DVDs, photo prints after the early 2000s. I don't think it's that uncommon...
> Which is still not "pulling it off"

Honestly if you're that nervous and scared of what might happen in the future there's probably nothing Apple (and most other companies) can possibly do to comfort you. Probably better for you to avoid the potential pain and skip this one.
IPython Notebook can export a report to PDF with syntax highlighted code - can this?
Can you automate it? i.e. is it useful for non-interactive work like automatic testing?
I was speaking to the more common 70-100 storefront mall in a typical 20 - 50,000 resident town across America.

I don't doubt you at all - but I do think MoA is certainly an anomaly, as it's almost an amusement park in terms of attractions and draw. The shift towards entertainment "destinations" is certainly interesting, but again speaks to the fall of walk-in retail centers. As you say, most of your enjoyment came from actions far removed from the traditional shopping experience most of us probably grew up with at the mall.
Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge
Again, you have yet to identify a single problem that lack of "rigor" caused. I'm aware all models are incomplete. On the other hand, swooping in, declaring a model flawed without actually identifying a single problem, and alluding to some unspecified alternate morality is a little silly.

I also have no idea where you get "millions of dead ugly" applied to utilitarianism. I also don't get why you think "squishy emotions" like tribalism, desire to affiliate with high status people, or envy of others will somehow save us.

Maybe if you actually wrote down a model I'd be able to understand what you are trying to claim.
PMake – A Tutorial
Very interesting article. But ...

>> If a crash in one users’ programs could take down all the others, then obviously that would be bad. But for a personal computer, with just one user, this makes no sense. Instead the OS should empower the single user and not get in their way.

My PC doesn't have 100 users, it has 100 processes serving one user. It's nice that they can't stomp all over each other.

But I hear you on the low level access. For me it was a Tandy Color Computer, and then a Columbia 8088 luggable, and finally a 80286. All those systems ran DOS or something similar to it in real mode, and I had fun poking bytes into RAM too :).
It's not ideal in Node but I haven't found it to be that bad - I've gotten into the habit of making a bootstrap.js file that just has:

require('babel/register')
require('./main.js')

and carrying on like nothing ever happened.
Hah, that sure is an interesting way of looking at it! Just as aerobic organisms saved life on Earth from the Great Oxygenation Event, and fungus & bacteria saved life on Earth by recycling, humans could save life on Earth from the Sun by developing space travel.

We are, you could say, one of Nature's many apparatus to long term success. Any biosphere that does not develop space travel is doomed to eventual extinction.
1. Move your Work Experience ahead of your education, it holds more value on the paper than simply where you're at today.

2. I'll apologize for being so blunt, but the bullet points for your work experience suck. They're dry and could use additional context. Your work experience needs to tell a story of what you were doing so you come off as intriguing. What sounds better, "Designed graphics, maintained WordPress for company website" or "Developed & implemented new version of company website using Twitter Bootstrap."

3. Your more recent job title: get rid of the "what the job really was" in parenthesis. Call it what it was, and elaborate that you took the lead role when you reach the point of having a conversation.

4. Clark Strategic Partners Job - Strip the job title down to "Web Developer". You're not freelance if you're specifically defining them as an employer under your work experience, and naming whom it was for is redundant. If it was truly a freelance job, then rework that section with the focus of you working for yourself as a freelance dev and talk about what you did for CSP in the bullet points.

5. The last job on your resume, the advisor one: Move that to the top if it's still you're still presently in the role. Work Experience always goes what you're currently doing first, followed by what you've done recently.

6. Simplify your technical skills section. For you, this section should be nothing more than a comma separated list of technology keywords. Don't separate by experience levels - only put the ones on there you're confident enough behind to take a job/internship doing.

7. Your resume is too long, either trim content or tweak page margins/fonts/etc to get the resume to fit perfectly on a single page. You don't have enough overflow to justify having a second page.
That's like saying only real geeks read comics from one publisher rather than another. These are operating systems that are getting updates and there is a presentation about that. What does a "real" geek do?
> The link between skill and gender is not CAUSAL.

I'm not sure it is relevant to the discussion. The question was asked in the context of your concern about the overhead of interviewing people. You are using a degree as a simple filter, and gender is equally applicable in that regard. Statistically, for our aforementioned example, a suitable candidate will be found in the male population of applicants due to the reasons we already discussed.

So, why bother wasting your time and associated costs also interviewing women when you can be reasonably confident that the male candidates will provide someone suitable? It is very possible that a great employee lies in that group of women, and it is very possible that a great employee lies in those without degrees, but you have made it clear that you don't have time to evaluate them all.

> You're pretending like there's no causal link between education and capability. You are wrong. Period.

I'm getting a distinct impression that you haven't fully understood my comments. That may very well be my failing, but this becomes a completely pointless discussion if that persists.

> Hiring someone based upon degree is absolutely no different from hiring someone based upon whether they have prior work experience.

Absolutely not true. What you are essentially saying is that even among those who have prior experience, you will only hire those whose experience came from Google or Microsoft. There are a number of practical reasons why a perfectly suitable candidate is unable to work at either of those companies before working for you, even though they do come with relevant experience from somewhere else.

I understand from your point of view why hiring from only past Google and Microsoft employees is desirable, but what about the people who were unable to work at those places? You really don't see the problem with that?
Ask HN: Good podcasts for developers
I remember seeing a thread way back about good podcasts for developers to keep up to date and in the loop. Now I commute 4 hours a day 5 days a week and burn through all the podcasts I know about in a couple days. Are there any developer focused podcasts that you listen to?

Here are the ones I listen to already:

Tech Zing,TWiST, Bikeshed, Giant Robots, NodeUp, Developers Tea, Shop Talk, Coder Radio, Linux For The Rest of Us, JavaScript Jabber
It’s very easy to be negative, but you will never learn anything new by doing so.

Couldn't agree more, and something I'm going to try to keep in mind more often.
I have no idea why these kinds of misanthropic ideas, having little or nothing to do with programming or entrepreneurship, get this kind of attention on Hacker News.
Did you actually diagnose what was causing it to be slow? Something like NewRelic might help break down where the actual slowdown is versus saying it was the framework.
"the ultimate" client would be free. $29.99 for a HTTP browser that can't browse.
Meh, climate change might make it more or less comfortable for us and other creatures, but it won't "destroy" anything, and I seriously question whether human beings, marshaling every last bit of technology we have at our disposal right now, even have the power to "destroy" the earth. I'm almost certain we do not.

One thing we do have, though, is the power to amplify our own significance. We've only been writing about what happens to us for 5000 years or so. There are Bristlecone pine trees nearly that old, and even that is just the tiniest little flash, so brief it is undetectable, in the time that the planet has been here.
The website is a mess, but, I met a guy who works for this group a few weeks ago and it sounded pretty cool.

When I asked what the hell they did, he said that they did some Cloudflare like stuff for political speech in the middle east and spent a bunch of time on building and deploying infrastructure to link up a bunch of anti-human-trafficking agencies all across Asia.
I'm ashamed that I never knew about pinned tabs. Thanks for this. It's nice because I only get notifications on issues to my email, and I ignore my email until the end of the day. But I like to be notified of issues immediately.
The real self-indulgent egotist is the person writing the initial email to the mailing list. At the very least he/she could have spent the time to research facts. The majority of Theo's response is debunking things that could have been answered with a minimal amount of effort.
That's a good analysis. Here's an excerpt:

"""
Under the constant scenario, an American who forgoes having a child would save 9,441 tonnes of CO2 – almost six times, on average, the amount of CO2 they would emit in their own lifetime, or the equivalent of making around 2,550 return aero­plane trips between London and New York. If the same American drove a more fuel-efficient car, drastically reduced his or her driving, installed energy-efficient windows, used energy-efficient lightbulbs, replaced a household refrigerator, and recycled all household paper, glass and metal, he or she would save fewer than 500 tonnes.
"""
Best "Suicide Prevention" is to establish mechanisms for self-determined pain-free death. These mechanisms should allow one to trigger the dying process years before the actual event. One could decide for example I want to die 3 years from now, unless I do clearly indicate otherwise. The problem in Sweden is that health industry is currently heavily polluted with religious creeps, who have difficulties even medicating the pain of dying patients.
Someone should tell that crappy lawfirm that threatening to bring criminal charges to attempt to induce a financial settlement can itself lay the basis for a criminal extortion charge in the US.
How Companies Can Help Introverts Succeed
It's a cliche, but Emacs really is almost like a LISP operating system disguised as a text editor. It's easily possible to use a computer productively using nothing else, if you devote a bit of time to learning how.
Absolutely. I talked about this in the Babel chat room, though, and was told it was an antipattern, without being explained why. I still don't know why.

Apparently some people prefer to build a distribution of the entire project with Babel on deploy, which is fine, but it does cause an impedance mismatch with how projects are developed on the developer's machine; obviously both ways have to work.

A real problem with babel/register is the interface for including node modules, which I think needs improvement. You can't selectively include individual modules because the {only} option isn't additive, it replaces the default setting.
There are many better ways to do automatic testing. I've never used Paw for that, and I don't think it competes with e.g. postman on that front, if that's what you're asking.

However, for manual testing / having it write curl commands for you / making JSON really easy to work with by hand, it's fantastic, and I've converted a few people at work to it. Developer is also very responsive and nice to work with on Twitter.

Edit: you can also write extensions in JS for it. Not quite as accessible as e.g. Atom, but still decently hackable: https://luckymarmot.com/paw/extensions/
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We don't care about what tech stack you know, we're willing to teach you ours. We just need you to be extremely motivated and ready to go!
this is really cool! Great work.
Very cool in concept - this seems to be a null result though, since the variability is extremely small (only a few bpm). I would be surprised if the noted events corresponded to statistically significant deviations, but obviously can't be sure by inspection.
Replacement-level total fertility rate is actually generally accepted to be a little bit above 2 (around 2.3), due to unnatural deaths and other causes. At least in Geography.

With only two kids per couple, even if every woman had 2 children (which is what a 2.0TFR would mean), the population would still decline.
Cloud6 – Large-scale image processing in the cloud
What I Did After Getting Rejected by My Dream Companies
Can I use it on my old mac mini 2011 with 2gb ram and Mavericks?

I really want to start using Swift. And no, can't upgrade.
PHP has a huge developer base, and Hack is wonderful. The OSS ecosystem for it hasn't really developed in a significant way. So I'm not nearly as optimistic as you are that Swift will do better.
The days when you could be sure of being sole user of your machine ended with the internet, alas. All that compartmentalization is there for a reason.
HTTPS-Everywhere for Government
So glad to see someone giving TempleOS a good investigation. Say what you will about his politics/mental health/whatever... What he has achieved is monumental.
Some estimates put this at 600 million years, assuming Earth is not gradually moved to a trans-Neptunian orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth#Solar_evolu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Paw is undoubtedly the best REST client, but that said I am slowly moving away from it as it's not cross platform .
I develop both on a Mac and Ubuntu system .

Slowly migrating to Postman
https://www.getpostman.com/
Question: Does open source expose vulnerabilities in the security of the language?
Had one computer upgraded from ubuntu feisty to trusty before switching it to Arch. Only the dist-upgrade to jaunty was hairy.
And then do what?

Exploiting a non-networked machine isn't very useful. There's no practical way to get any data back, to use it as a bot worker, or to send spam, so what's the point?
> I can understand liking the convenience. But what makes it so necessary?

I said it makes me significantly less likely to buy it - specifically because of two factors: the convenience, and the security of knowing who is charging my card.

I didn't say "I won't buy this if it isn't in the MAS" - so what part of what I said means the MAS is "necessary"?

> I personally find the move to the MAS a sad development -

I didn't say everyone should be forced to use the MAS. Neither did Apple. Nothing stops a developer from releasing their App on their own and via MAS.

> less $ per sale to the dev, 30% grift from Apple, as if they needed more money

70% of $40 is less than 100% of $0?

> and sandboxing that renders some of the best apps out there less-than-useful.

Not to mention that pesky security it provides for end users.

Seriously, if an app can't operate within the sandboxing of the MAS, its completely reasonable for it to be not sold that way.

This app can operate within a sandbox, so why do you have such a problem with someone else wanting/using a more convenient and secure option?
Yeah, JSON on the command line can be a big PITA, especially when it comes to escaping. The old `curl -vvv -X POST --data @foo.json http://example.com` trick mostly works, but isn't the most elegant thing in the world.

This just might be, and it'll write the curl command for you too :)
I am looking at it and can hardly find anything that it has that free POSTMAN doesn't have. I am wondering, anyone who leaving nice comment about Paw, have you used POSTMAN before, if yes, what is it what it miss that justify non cross platform piece of software that you have to pay for?
I've been using this for awhile, and I think it's quite pricey for what it does, as Postman is free and offers much of the same functionality. That said, this has a great UI and the grouping feature is awesome for managing multiple projects, and in general it works very well. One of my favorite features is the ability to "turn off" certain parameters but keep them in the request, so you can switch them on/off when you want to change maybe a field or two easily without making an entirely new request.

I really would like to see the ability to type JSON out in the request body manually instead of the somewhat-clunky input field deal.
Sorry Apple. You are many years of good behavior away from my trusting you with this big a piece of my infrastructure.
Ask HN: Do I need an ABN to do a one off consultancy gig? (Australia)
I'm trying to find out some information about my responsibilities with regard to a one off consultancy gig. I expect the income to be less than $20k, and I don't expect to be doing any work after this (at this stage).

Am I going to need an ABN? Will I need a business name as well? Do I need to pay tax, and if so, will it be company or personal income? Any Australian contractors or consultants around to offer advice?

Thanks
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Is it not possible to look at the accretion disk with a telescope and then make the calculations for the Event Horizon radius (Schwartzchild radius), etc of the black hole? Or do some black holes not have accretion disks?