skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really want to begrudge somebody getting a little bit of recognition now and again from the community for something they've worked on for such a long time?

And you'd like to go say what they've made is worthless?

I'm really saddened to see such a lack of empathy. In life we procreate and create, offspring and projects the only chance our fleeting sparks have to last into the long night of eternity. We should always be charitable to others who've made something, that we may one day be judged by the same measure.

Empathy aside: how many operating systems (kernel + userland) have you written, chummer?
Xcode is written Xcode, not xCode. Thank you and good night.
ps. if you have any friends who work in Apple retail, twice a year or so they have a big clear out of some of the internal use machines. You can pick up fairly good machines for very very cheap. They had 2009 white MacBooks for 170 bucks or so the last time.
LLVM has a GitHub mirror, too.

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm
The easiest thing to do is apply for a sole trader ABN. The application takes a few minutes and usually you'll get your ABN immediately.

$20k will easily put you under the GST threshold and the requirement to file business activity statements (BAS), but remember to still charge the client GST.
+1 for kall8, set up to route if no answer to phonetag.com aka simulscribe with its impeccable transcriptions.
They want you to be productive immediately, so they can assess you in the probation period, and get more bang for the buck from the outset.

For example.

If you are a C# programmer who has never done Java programming. It takes you 6-12 months to get reasonably up to speed with the JVM, standard libraries and idiomatic coding. Let alone any dependency injection, web framework etc. libraries.

Why would the Java shop pay you the same as a developer who has spent the last 5 years doing Java full time who can be productive in Java right away?

That said, I think reverting someone to junior status is too extreme. A slightly lower salary or requiring an 'ace up your sleeve' to compensate is probably fair.
Add VBA Modules to Workbook, IFNA Formula and Improved Chart Creation Using .NET
As I pointed out this project is in it's infancy.
I merely tweeted about progress and it ended up here ;)

See [status](https://github.com/thlorenz/visulator#status) -- indicating in experimental stage.

I'm planning to allow loading binaries and also editing assembly (assembling it in the browser so the CPU emulator can run the opcodes).
They have done two: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-...

They basically pay for one full time developer and it really has worked this last year.
That account was made 5 months ago. I remember this guy from at least 2 years ago when his project got attention on Reddit. Is it really him with that 5 month old account?

In any case, I don't know much about the guy. I just remember his posts being a little off... that might explain it but he is suffering from schizophrenia if I remember it correctly.
When I got to the part where the article dismisses memory protection, I just thought "wow someone never used any of the Windows 9x operating systems." Because in that space the lack of memory protection most certainly WAS user impacting, even single user...

The problem is that software is buggy, and without memory protections a buggy piece of code in one process can cause unpredictable things to happen in another. Essentially it turns a process which executes in a "knowable way" into one that executes in a arbitrary way.

Windows 9x suffered from this with drivers in particular, where a single buffer bug in one driver could cause other drivers to seemingly crash, and the root cause was incredibly difficult to track down.
The C shell does not come close. It's just a shell with a C-ish syntax. Fundamentally different than having a C compiler (or interpreter) as your shell
it is pretty crazy how computers are going backwards lately
s/nigger/idiot/g

There, I fixed it. Do try and use the brain God gave you.
The truth is these kids aren't really adults, and no one along the way is incentivized to stop them and say "hey, you may be making a really terrible decision here." Instead, everyone encourages them. English major? Great! No major? Even better! You have time to decide! $100k in debt? A degree is worth it!

Thankfully I had programming skills to fall back on, but when you're 18 years old and you're surrounded by people giving you awful advice that could ruin your life, you may not be able to recognize it.
The trend is your friend until the bend in the end.
Me neither, but I do wonder what life will be like for my kid after I'm dead.
Bingo. We need to keep the biosphere stable/habitable and preserve a good amount of biodiversity, but ultimately all species and all of their decendant species will go extinct in a short period of time (on a universal scale).

We have the duty to prevent that if possible. Using near future technology we should be able to at least ensure some life survives the death of our star. Easily imagined technology would let us spread life far enough to survive almost any catastrophe. It will be up to some future life forms to figure out how to escape the heat death of the universe... We can only do so much after all.
There are some benefits to being standalone but I'm not sure if any being a chrome app.
Interesting... I wonder if an emulator could exploit the double wide nametable to get wide screen support
Interesting content to write better PHP CLI scripts
I'd keep Education ahead of Work Experience. It's fairly standard for college resumes and since you go to Columbia it's the one thing that works most in your favor when just sending your resume out to random places. Most places spend like 10 seconds looking at your resume so make your "strongest" assets, namely the fact that you go to Columbia and you've had some intern experience, be the first things to leave an impression on them in that brief time.

Your work experience should be more descriptive and your resume should only take up one page. Also, your name doesn't need to take up so much space at the top and your GPA should be on there too, otherwise it looks like you're trying to hide it. Use something like this https://www.careereducation.columbia.edu/sites/cce/files/Sam... as the format style too. I'd also go to CCE when you get back to NY and have them work through your resume with you, I've heard they're decent with that kind of stuff.

In terms of getting an internship, I wouldn't be too disappointed by not getting something as a rising sophomore. The only people from Columbia that get decent internships right after freshman year either know someone at the company or are doing some kind of special program that you had to specifically apply to. Even the summer after sophomore year can be a crapshoot, especially for tech internships. My best advice is to just scroll through LionShare next recruiting cycle and apply to everything you find interesting and reach out to APAM alumni / profs and see if they know anyone who needs some help. The seniors who just finished their internships will come back to campus and be more than happy to brag about how they got their internship and probably be willing to put your resume in front of their boss if you make the effort to talk to them. With a bit of hard work and patience you can skew the odds of getting something in your favor.

Btw, welcome to SEAS.
Do you have a link to the patio11 anecdote?
Assume you have two doors, one guaranteed to only allow randomly selected women to walk through it, and one similar one for men. For weird reasons, you're unable to make any judgement about the person coming through the door except height. This is sufficient to figure out which door is which: on average, women are shorter then men. After that, it is a high school statistics exercise.

Suppose in addition to being unable to distinguish a man from a woman you are also not really good with your ruler and each person is recorded at 6 +/- 6 inches above their true height. Does this make it impossible do distinguish the women's door from the men's?

Not in the slightest: the averages are now wrong, but they're still different. It's still a high school stats exercise. It's a very important thing for science that a real world which easily permits measurement errors like this doesn't by itself make science impossible.

Most timing attacks on e.g. HMAC functions are the door problem in disguise: we know there is going to be a fast code path (e.g. early termination of a string comparison) and a less fast code path (e.g. a string comparison which had to examine every character). You're allowed to take an arbitrarily large number of measurements -- determine whether you're on the fast path or the less fast path. Great, you just solved N bits of the problem -- now, do that in a for loop and you win.
As someone who writes stock JS and avoids post-processors entirely, I want stock JS to be a decent language. Sugar like this is great, though promises in the DOM APIs are a different matter.
Probably. You can mark code blocks in .org files with the Emacs "mode" for them, and they will be highlighted appropriately (and you can use a shortcut to open a new buffer in said mode just to edit that block). I imagine that if PDF export exists (I assume it does), this would map to it.
"It's easy to make the CLI less bad, but the developers have never bothered to do so themselves" is reinforcement of my complaint, not dismissal of it.
Indeed. I've found xpdf is OK for quickly viewing most PDFs, but Evince is the only one I've found that has decent support for form-fill-in.
HackerNews - chock full of pseudointellectuals.
When using Rust for more than toy programs (which, assuming I am thinking of the same "less moderated" websites that you are, is unlikely to be the experience of the commenters), unwrap() isn't particularly common outside of main(). You generally want to handle the error cases. It's used a lot in examples because they have to function as one-offs.
I feel being a staunch Mac user from the beginning has been detrimental to me. My first computer was a commodore 64, which I typed the programs out of the book into the terminal and it made balls move around on the screen and such. But I was really young, and no one was there to catch me, so I never thought to fiddle with it, I thought it was like a set of instructions and you had to follow them. I did not yet understand creativity at that age.

I then later, many years later, was given a Mac Plus. I could use BBS software to chat, but remember thinking, it is very hard to even type a conversation back and forth to a user elsewhere with a modem. There really was no software for it, or if there was, it was hard to find or even know about.

How did you know to learn C and then get a compiler? And how did you afford the software to develop back then? Wasn't code warrior around several thousand?
The amount of time and effort you've put into something has no bearing on its quality, and thus whether it deserves recognition or not. It's absurd to think it does.

> And you'd like to go say what they've made is worthless?

It's patently obvious that it's worthless. What possible use does it serve? Morbid curiosity is the best you can say for it.

> We should always be charitable to others who've made something, that we may one day be judged by the same measure.

I judge my own work by an even less charitable measure than I'm using on TempleOS.

> Empathy aside: how many operating systems (kernel + userland) have you written, chummer?

This is the most ridiculous/tired response on the face of the earth to all criticism. "How many movies have you made?" "How many hit songs have you written?"

The fact that you even think that's a valid response says more about you than me.
Like Patrick mentions in his reply, you should try to hack your psychology to get more comfortable with directly but politely asking for things you want.

One trick that works for me is to tell myself "Let's try it and see what happens". Curiosity is a strong motivator.
> I fixed it

Really? You think that that change would make him likeable?

> Do try and use the brain God gave you.

Sorry, but I don't understand the purpose of that snarky comment. Do you disagree that the kind of post in the example I gave is why people are mean to him? It makes not a jot of difference that you "fixed" his post here (for whose benefit, I don't know), because he posts what he posts, and people read what he posts, and make their judgements based on that.
I didn't used to think so.

I'm less cynical now.

It all depends on where you want to work, and what you want to do.
Can we train a deep neural net to pick the hyperparameters of deep neural nets? Then we can train it on itself.
are you saying that music you bought on iTunes Store ( and could play in iTunes ) was DRM, but the very same music from the iTunes Store accessed via iTunes Match was not ? -- that seems unlikely to me ( although probably not impossible, just very unlikely )
But you can only image millimeters before it, right? It still wouldn't show what happens at the event horizon, would it? Or am I wrong? (Armchair physicist as best, so correct me where I'm wrong, please.)
Agreed. On a more positive note.. jq absolutely blows my mind for working in the other direction (reading)

jq: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
You seem to have basic presumptions that suffering is avoidably bad and that suffering is an important concern to be addressed.

These people are quitters? Maybe they are, but in other ways then you call them out. Suffering is a condition only to those able to perceive it. Suffering is a creation of perception. Imbuing some moral "high road," upon which, we should seek to travel seems a narrow concern of individuals within such a species. We are lucky enough to be born able to suffer, we suffer - maybe lucky enough to find joy and elation, then we die. We are one of the suffering. Do I sympathize with suffering and seek to help alleviate it? Sure, but I'm not haunted by it. It's the other side of me. Something which propels me.

What's interesting is that via this 1992 website, some tiny sect of people are focusing on something else they consider avoidably bad and an important concern to be addressed which, within a larger context, is even more devoid of contextual reasoning.

Their healthy biosphere will, at some point be lifeless and destroyed when the sun dies out or some other event with slightly greater than 0% chance occurs. For what purpose did they "save" it now?

We each have our own forever. It starts when we are born and it ends when we die. The same is true of the biosphere, the solar system, the galaxy, etc. In between, we experience each moment from a unique perspective... and then that moment is gone as is the person we were at that moment. Our suffering is gone. Our joy is gone. A new moment is hear and it is more lovely are intolerable than the last.

Work towards what you like, but building high roads on a spheroid planet or in emulated circuits still has you going round in circles. Without suffering we'd mostly just sit in a circle, staring around, not enjoying relief or, worse, finding suffering in moments devoid of ecstasy. The golden time is now as it's the only time we certainly have.
Do you know who Eric lippert is or the work he does? This knowledge is absolutely very important for the kind of work for which he'd be hiring.
Both my parents had cancer. Lung cancer for my father (he was a smoker for most of his adult life). He had a couple of surgeries and radiation and chemo and it bought him probably 10 years at the expense of a few intervals of discomfort. I think that's probably worth it, but it's hard to know ahead of time how things will turn out. The cancer eventually returned, and given his age and overall health at the time there was nothing more to be done.

Mother had breast cancer, caught early, and fully cured with lumpectomy and some radiation (no recurrence before her death due to unrelated causes).

Other forms of cancer are less treatable. It all depends on type and how early it's detected. I don't see much point in making any kind of hard-and-fast decisions ahead of time. When the time comes, look at the facts, get some good medical advice, and then decide what you want to do.
This new site keeps track of failed startups and why they flopped
Beautiful! Appears inspired by RStudio's Shiny http://shiny.rstudio.com/
Oh, I like this. May I have another?
he makes new accounts regularly to get around bans/killed status.
a) There is a GO group that 0 or 1 women attend each time, and a new group attending by 12 or so women and 0 men by the looks of things.

b) I have used "Brick in the wall" as a more general concept, interpreting the message of the PF songs of the same name. Little and big things that reinforce division in society. They can be independent, but essentially they are linked.

c) See stats in (a)

What you say about LGBT groups is spot on. LGBT groups are good. A LGBT JQuery group is questionable.
I thought something like the ROM/RAM mixing in cartridges must be the case. But then how on earth do people make files of those games that can then run on emulators?
Amazon wants to be your SSL certificate provider, applies to be a root CA
Here is ADP's response to this brouhaha.

http://www.adp.com/zenefits/downloads/The-Facts-About-ADP-an...

What I don't get is if the integration is one-way from Zenefits to ADP (and not vice versa) why all the data allegedly being pulled back from ADP?
Maybe it is an anti-pattern because it alters the default - I mean, I guess it means it's processing node modules through the transpiler unnecessarily as well? I can't say I've experienced a performance hit myself.
So, none then? I've written zero operating systems, and like two userland tools (mostly special-purpose file archiving and packing stuff because I didn't know about tar). Then again, I still have respect for people that have bashed together crappy toy OSs.

Most people are worthless (just look at the distribution of wealth on this planet), most art is worthless, etc. etc. If we judged all our actions based on some silly notion of how ultimately worthless they were, we never would've gotten out of the trees because why bother.

As my mom used to say, a doodle has a right to be a doodle. Lighten up.
I have believed for a long time that the moral imperative of humanity as a species is to propagate the Earth ecosystem to other planets and in artificial space habitats.

Except for the dolphins. We don't need to encourage other species to just dick around all day. That's our niche.
Oops, the site is down. I guess the verdict is in: Voluntary human extinction doesn't scale.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of rebase, I will fear no evil: for reflog are with me (sorry, couldn't resist)
OSX renders UI with OpenGL - and now in El Capitan it will render using Metal. The performance overhead affects more than just games.
Yes, with the "gotcha" that you must set org-src-fontify-natively (a customizable setting) to non-nil.
I think the accurate statement of your opinion is not "the web is centralized" but rather, "Zipf's law sucks."

In decentralized networks there end up being accumulation points, and Zipf's law (which shows up in piles of different contexts, originally noticed in rank of words used in languages) gives a pretty good idea of how that accumulation plays out in basically an L-shaped curve. Point being that it might have a lot more to do with the structure of human networks and attention than with choice of wire protocols...
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I will not read too much into this. It is a programming language used only to make iOS apps. I dont think this gives benefit to anyone.
The best Web development framework of all time was WebObjects, which started at NeXT. It was basically Cocoa for the web. It was wonderful. When Apple bought NeXT they continued it for awhile and ported it to Java to try and make it more cross platform. That didn't really take, as it was a commercial product and despite lowering the price dramatically many times and loosening the licensing restrictions this was the point at which open source solutions like Ruby on Rails, despite being terrible in comparison really started to take off because they were free.

There was a great community around WebObjects and it's a shame that Apple didn't open source it in a timely fashion-- they could have changed things quite a bit.

It is still used in heavy production- for instance the iTunes store is a WebObjects Application as is, I believe, the App Store.
frontpage right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679890
How to Disrupt Yourself with Moonshot Thinking and Unholy Alliances
I have to ask, because I feel XCode is the worst IDE I've ever used. What about it is pretty awesome?

Instruments is pretty cool, though.
I'm actually surprised by how positive the responses are for this app.

First, I'm a bit turned off by it's use of the term REST. It's just an HTTP client. Gah, I give up.

I occasionally use postman, but more likely I'm writing a script that I'm going to integrate into my automated testing anyway. Or a simple one-off script with wget. I find that faster to use than a GUI but maybe I'm just getting too settled in my ways.

What was the use case that made you switch to something like this?
People are mean to him because people are rude jerks, and probably unlike Terry, have opted to be purposefully mean to somebody.

It's really annoying to me to see people get so caught up in the phrasing of an otherwise intelligible statement (due to trigger words or blatant racism or whatever) that they can't respond to it on its own merits.

Also, at this point, anybody who believes Terry is genuinely racist is obviously too incompetent to do research--it's pretty easy to find if you do any searching on the topic.
What I said is the truth. Google has been known to sensor pages based on political view points and not sensor in the same situation when it is in their favor.

I forgot. Too many google employees here on HN.
You can try couchbase lite as well
Babel doesn't touch node_modules only you explicitly include it. Browserify lets you add this to an NPM package's package.json:

"browserify": {
"transform": [
"babelify"
]
}

...which is great, but Babel doesn't have anything like it for server-side stuff.
I'm currently working a lot with Matlab and seeing a beauty like Escher for Julia is all I could wish for. Great work!!

It reminds me a little about Elm, I'm not sure what's missing in Escher over Elm's features, but that's another story.
You used to have to get a $99 developer membership to put apps on your iPhone.
I think some people who read hacker news may be interested in discussions of the increasingly serious challenges facing us as individuals, communities, and as a species.

Compared to many people in the world, I suspect that those people reading hacker news may have a relatively large opportunity to influence others, for better or worse.

If we discuss these kinds of issues there is a small chance that some people will decide to act in a way that is more beneficial to others, society, & the environment.
> Most people are worthless (just look at the distribution of wealth on this planet),

What? People only have worth if they have money? Are you a sociopath?

> As my mom used to say, a doodle has a right to be a doodle. Lighten up.

Again your response is a non-sequitur. I'm talking about how we shouldn't give Terry/TempleOS serious attention and you're responding like I'm telling him he doesn't have a right to exist. Those aren't the same things. He can keep writing TempleOS as much as he wants. But I think we as a community are doing a disservice by treating it as if it's anything but what it is. If he was a kid it would be one thing, but he's an adult. He should be told honestly that his creation is terrible. Just like everybody tells Uwe Boll his movies are bad.
Swift on Stiffies
I think that doesn't support your hypothesis--- 31k in one year compared to 70k in 6 years implies a lot more momentum for swift than go.