jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps related? Bartek Bargiel (of iGTD fame) joined Cultured Code in August of 2009.

Also, see http://culturedcode.com/status/
(I work on Firefox)

Beta 9 is not available. You are linking to nightly builds that will eventually become Beta 9.

That SunSpider score vs Chrome is nigh impossible in the default configuration. Maybe you have Firebug turned on? I'd expect the Firefox SunSpider score vs. Chrome to be very close, with the winner varying depending on the machine, OS, and release channel.
It's not even remotely close to as complicated as C++.
I can never remember to "sync before you go" , glad I bought Omnifocus

Why can't they use the me.com sync, like omnifocus?
On the same line: "Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

I might not word it quite as nicely, but this is stuff that I would say face-to-face. I'm not really an abrasive person when it comes to most topics, but there are certain things which I have absolutely no patience for, and the LDS is one of them. Any group which sees gays, blacks, and women as fundamentally inferior loses its case for respect in my mind. Civility has its limits, and doesn't mean that we're never allowed to express negative opinions (sometimes using strong language) toward anything.
Strange - I've been using it for awhile on my iPad with no issues, perhaps its only certain iOS versions?
I very much agree, but saying it in such a way won't help others to understand that. That is persons that haven't understood the significant difference right now.
> He can slam Groklaw as much as he wants, but I've still never seen them offer anything other than rational and backed interpretations of the presented facts.

How hard have you looked? They republished a lot of IBM's anti-OOXML FUD, and if anyone tried to challenge that in comments (well-researched comments, with cites to the specs for OOXML and ODF proving IBM lied), those comments would quickly get IP restricted. (Instead of deleting comments, Groklaw flags them so that they are only shown to people from the same IP that the comment was left from).
I have three kids as well, and have some small hope to offer (assuming your kids are young): once the kids are at elementary school age, the financial situation gets a bit easier. After school activities typically cost less than preschool, and your wife may be able to get part-time work at that point.

Also note: with 3 kids, there is likely no place in the US where it is cheaper to send your kids to a mediocre private school than to just move to a better school district (unless you live in a rural area where your commute would severely be affected). That's one thing that I would most like to change at a policy level, but it's something that in the short-term will affect decisions you make.
Javascript was never intended for building large applications, but with the JIT-improvements of the last years, it works.

CSS is really botched and holding us back at this point. Fortunately it is slowly improving (eg. * { box-sizing: border-box } and the flex-box), but still...
Need to very careful over this data. For example it was compulsory from the Crimean war (1856) until 1916 for British soldiers not shave above their top lip[1]. In the PDF it is stated that he doesn't exclude military pictures so I suspect there may be quite a strong bias here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military#Uni...
Look at it from the perspective of the children. How can a single parent who is away for 10-22 days a month look after a child?
You got that around backwards. The entire point of certain GMOs is to enable roundup to be used to kill weeds in the crop without affecting the crop itself.
Ie Roundup-ready Cotton (and other Roundup-ready crops that are grown in the US - My family grows Roundup-ready cotton and it has been awesome in terms of improving productivity)

You can't use weedkiller at all in the growing cycle unless you modify the organism against it.
Sounds like your problem is drug users/dealers, not people with mobile homes. I hope you wouldn't also want to push out the good ones who aren't causing problems. You can just consider that you now live in a bad neighborhood. Some people have this from their permanent house neighbors too.
It's interesting that, in the years since, OpenBSD has surpassed NetBSD in mindshare and popularity. I vaguely remember the time of the split, and certainly wouldn't have expected such an outcome. It also seems that none of the original found NetBSD founders are involved with NetBSD any more.
The average mail shot wastes more in envelopes stamps, CO2 from delivery van etc etc.

Chill out.
Sometimes I wonder if all of this government doom-and-gloom stuff seems to be popping up more lately because it's really happening and all of this government incompetence is just now being uncovered or if I'm just paying more attention to it lately.

Kind of like the guy who trained himself to find golf balls everywhere.
+1 for Software Engineering Radio, I listen to it on a regular basis and like it a lot.

For other software-related podcasts, I recommend FLOSS Weekly (http://twit.tv/FLOSS). They cover interesting open source projects and interview their creators, as well as other influential people of the open source world.
People always say this, but in the United States, T-Mobile is the only carrier that even has any alternate options. Everyone else doesn't discount your rate; you pay the same whether you buy a phone outright or buy on subsidy. Buying outright simply prevents a two-year contract (where the early termination fee is usually cheaper than the sticker price for the phone). There's no reason not to buy without subsidy unless you use T-Mobile.

T-Mobile offers a couple of different options, one of which is a $10-$20 discount on the monthly plan for non-contract phones, or a zero-interest amortized 24-month payment plan that allows you to still get the subsidy and the discounted plan. To me, not having to drop $500 to get a phone when I don't have $500 is worth $10-$20/mo (which, over two years, depending on the phone you get and the price you pay with contract, is usually pretty close to the sticker price for the phone anyway, maybe +$100-$200 than buying outright, a reasonable finance charge), and I didn't know about the payment plan when I signed up, though it's generally been agreed that that turns out to be the best option.
You've incorrectly used an apostrophe there, chum.
I definitely hope to when I financially can. Just one year into post-grad startup life :)

But in the meantime I am trying in my own little way, by advising current students, interviewing applicants and also coaching students back home in similar position as I was by helping them with their applications and SATs
"Standard" can be called Standard only when it's accepted as a Standard. Prior that, it's just Proposal.
This doesnt make any sense: the goal of this work factor is to make things slower for the opponent, not my own servers. My estimation of the computational power available to my opponent has nothing to do with how large the web servers I chose to use happen to be.
Only a handful do, the ones in top 10-20 academically and endowment wise. The university covered tuition, room and board, around $58k annually. I still worked 20 hours a week, to pay for other expenses, send back a little home and save a little.
Add in there to make sure the crimp bar falls on the outer cable jacket. If it falls on the individual wires, the strain relief will be terrible and the crimp will likely be loose.
The most interesting part for me was

> They appear to use code coverage to determine what tests
> to run. "We're not going to run a test unless your diff
> might actually have broken it."

This seems like such an obvious optimization in hindsight, I'm surprised it's not more common. Does anybody know of other CIs that can do this?
My favourite is still Jack Scott and Reg Varney (a British weather forecaster and the star of the sitcom "On the Buses") in one week in 2008 .

Just so unexpected as subjects for the Economist and beautifully done in capturing the spirit of a certain period in British life.

[1] https://www.economist.com/obituary/2008/12/04/jack-scott-and...
Yahoo answers is the reason I was insecure about not having an average 8 inch penis when I was 11 years old. It was probably the lowest quality forum that I’ve ever seen and I’m glad to hear it’s shutting down.
Usually novel ideas are not something we wished we had (like faster horses). Ground breaking ideas are technologies that are enabling new ecosystems, like the WWW, the iPhone, and probably in the future, VR. Even with mobile tech, we still have not exploited them to the max largely because they are overly dependent on the cloud, making simple things needlessly complicated (like transferring a file to a nearby computer).

> what are we missing? What should be developed?

We can only speculate, but despite all the tech thrown at it, our communication is still pretty mundane, serial dialogues. A technology like the internet could enable new modes of organizing information in which the output is more than the sum of the parts (like a spreadsheet for minds). Wikipedia did this, and open source software. Another is the ability to have direct payments without middlemen (what blockains do), that would enable a ton of new possibilities.
> I can't get through Baxter's writing either. Well, I did manage one book and his ideas are grand, such that one keeps thinking about it for a while after reading his stuff.

He also reuses his "grand" ideas. For instance, I skimmed Xeelee Redemption because it's apparently the first book where he actually depicted a Xeelee, and a lot of the chapters were rehashes of ideas he'd previously explored (e.g. humans evolving into hive organisms, species surviving environmental destruction by becoming symbiotic composite organisms).
Yes, 500+ Comments [1], you can quite literally put it out as HN hate Backblaze. Part of the Cancel Culture where they expect everyone is saint and can do no wrong.

I mean, worst of all, many of them are Web Developer means there is a very high probability they have make mistakes /bugs in the pass, big or small. Which put them in the category of hypocrite.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019
Doing things in a public place != Doing things publicly

You can do things with a sense of privacy in a public place. When I was young I bought and smoked a lot of weed privately in the middle of a public square.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26701045.
I grew up in the Netherlands... Most shows from my youth were pretty poor, I thought. Very strong overacting (especially the older actors), very poor decors etc.

All the old actors have this "toneelschoolstem" (acting school voice) which is horrible for realism.
Well, when the whole world found out how easy it was to cheat at Stanford this morning - they just said fuck it and made it free.

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_27799963/stanford-unive...
Heh - I used it to submit a bug! It looks like your body font is Open Sans, but that's not a default system font for me, and so it falls back to serif. You might want a webfont or to check the webfonts are loading correctly.

Nice system - it was a pleasure to submit a bug through it!
"switch from dropbox formatting to std formatting"

https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox/commit/5ed34e410e1c9fe8...
I'd avoid Hetzner. A competitor/malicious user can take down your site by DDoS'ing it for a short time.
Nokia 105 - $20

Nokia 130 - $25

Nokia 215 $29

Not sure why Nokia keeps coming out with new phones but I like it. Yeah it may be expensive in 2nd / 3rd world countries still but I personally like the no distractions of a dumb phone. If they called a cellphone a tether when they first came out, they are handcuffs now and I like the feeling of breaking free from it all and focusing on other things in life like the people in my life, or self improvement etc...
It may be unpopular to refer anyone to WordPress, but I made a 5-6 figure income as a freelance developer working with WordPress clients. WordPress is often a good fit for non-tech, small-medium size businesses that do not have an in-house tech department. Many of them will keep coming back as they see the potential that you offer them. If you know PHP, WordPress is easy to pick up. The backwards compatibility emphasis can be frustrating, but if you're working with a client and have server access/control, this becomes a non-factor compared to when you're trying to sell plugins and themes.
Looks good. I did some evaluation of javascript graphing packages at my last position (migrating away from flash). We ended up paying for one.

This looks great, contains a lot of useful graph types. I like the fact that the charts can be rendered and saved as png images. This is a feature often lacking in a lot of javascript graphing packages. Couldn't see if you can pass in the data via ajax (update after rendered), but I'll look some more.

They claim to have patented one of the features:
Our "Drag-Recalculate" feature (patented)
https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts/doc/feature-en.html
It seems that HN now automatically applies a -1 to my posts. Add this to the cowardly slowban and I'm done with this site: The users have gotten stupider, the administrators are halfwits (I'm talking about you, dang), and its utility is gone.
> It's true that you don't have this issue in Ruby as the "standard" is simply the original implementation (aka there is no standard at all, and not really any competing implementation).

Check out https://github.com/rubyspec/rubyspec.

And there are plenty of competing implementations: JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, etc.
Do you think colleges should prioritize being tasteful instead of being thought-provoking?
Keynote is still great, Pages is all right, and Number isn't fit for professional work. And none of them have been updated or received much work.
NASA could also contribute a lot towards habitat technology. SpaceX is purposely leaving that to others, and NASA has done a lot of work in the area already.

Plus they do some work on advanced propulsion for deep space, including fission and fusion rockets.
It ultimately doesn't matter.

Excel macros are code, and they are very often production-critical code. The people who wrote them don't see themselves as coders, sure, and management often doesn't give the code the respect it deserves (e.g. Excel is often exempt from basic things like version control and code reviews), but it's still code that the business still depends on.

When someone proposes replacing MS Office with LibreOffice, what they're really proposing is to replace the runtime that a significant amount of production code runs on with something that's only compatible with part of your codebase.

"If we switch, we are going to have to rewrite a decent chunk of our production-critical code" is a non-starter, especially when coupled with the fact that the developers have no experience with the new runtime and are going to have to learn it as they port the code. And because they don't see themselves as coders, they don't have the theoretical background that makes it easier for experienced software engineers to pick up new languages.
Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur.

You just need a free tier. No way out of that. I am not paying you even $0.01 if I need to upload 2 memes and share it with 5 people. I can afford it but not gonna happen. Here is ideas: make it a subscription. Allow free hosting with no registration but let the image expire (unhost) after N views and rate limit clients. Don't freaking ask me for my email. No, I do not care what your reason is kind sir. It is 2020 basically, don't ask me for my email. Just process the payment and give me a key I can use for futue uploads,ask me to optionally email but man i hate that so much. I don't see why I need any account other than an access token,but even if I do why do I need to give yet another imposing site my email? How about random 5 character subdomains for for payinf accounts and a premium fee for being able to choose the subdomain? All images uploaded with a token get the same subdomain?

Look, I haven't looked too deep into what you do and your business model but with imgur I can still upload pictures for free,which I can link to directly and I quite like being able to share it and have others up/down vote it as a post. You don't do that. Imgur was specifically started because the founder, much like you was frustrated with all the b.s. image hosting options available when uploading to reddit. Right now only people who care about not being the product will pay to use this. Even though I am very much one of those people I can never use it since I am not a frequent image uploader. From what I have seen it replaces imgur as much as a dirt cheap shared webhost does.

But I do applaud your api and acceptance of btc payments. And I subjectively am not impressed by your UI either. Just not attractive.

Fyi: I made these comments tk try and provide honest critique that might be useful to OP.
Adopting Office's style is understandable. The problem is that they are struggling to match a 25 year old style. Forget the ribbon, Office 2003 level polish would be great. Instead LO presents a quirky and amateurish.
In general I agree this is a good thing, but I do wonder if it leads to a modern day society where educated people are able to rationalize the indefensible, as long as it's good for whatever organization/bureaucracy they've aligned themselves with.
FWIW, Tinder has had less impact on me than any of the three things you mentioned. And I haven’t even used the flagship service for two.
For anyone wondering about the "back to 1" part: the Chinese very recently (this week?) took the spot with their 2.5 petaflop Tianhe-1A. It's made from Xeons, Fermis, and Feiteng-100s. Right now they're having trouble actually utilizing the machine; very little of their software takes advantage of more than a modest number of cores.
I met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career.

I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.
On the other hand, as engineer #1, I didn't personally guarantee any debits of the founder, nor was I the one the IRS was after for years for not paying payroll tax when money was tight.
The FDA, mostly. They have a multi billion dollar industry to keep in business.
Cory Doctorow's writing influenced me in an important and personal way, so I can't agree with your assessment. Your tone is hostile and your examples are not specific enough to refute, so there's no point engaging on them. I hope this will serve as reasonable explanation for why I've downvoted your comment.
What is JFDI?
I've never really understood the link between "being cold" and catching the "cold". I assume it's because your immune system is somehow slower when you're cold, but the correlation seems pretty strong based on what I have observed. Other people and I very rarely catch a cold without being cold, and after being cold it's common to catch a cold. Are there *viruses floating (?) around constantly, and your body is severely less effective at fighting them off when cold? Is it just confirmation/survivorship bias?

From what I can find online, there's a correlation, but it's pretty light on details about how strong it is.
It's always surprising to see apps like this reach >= $1M ARR, and goes to show that markets are bigger than what you'd think. I mean this is email we're talking about, and there are about 800 clients and 1200 solutions, and yet Missive still carved out a niche.

Congrats!
> It's weird to write all that off as just shallow millenials being too vain to work out of a Regus (which is a company I had never even heard of before the documentary, despite having been in this position of needing a small short-term office space for my startup in the past).

Regus is huge (wikipedia says over 3000 spaces as of 2019), but it is no surprise that most people - outside of traditional, multinationals corporations- have heard of it. Regus started as a serviced-office, which serves a very different market than coworking spaces - though now the two have blurred.

If you're a small business or start-up, Regus isn't the place. It's incredibly expensive and very conservative looking. My company's Regus space (for 4 people, as it was a new country office) in Malaysia costed us as much our eventual +20 person office space.

I've worked from numerous Regus spaces via multinational consultancy I used to work with. They were always in prime, high-end locations and incredibly stuffy. Regus offices (felt like, pre-WeWork) a place to impress bankers and and Fortune500 clients. Regus has remade themselves because of WeWork, which is an improvement.
There’s no shortage of git training available, go send them on a day or two. I guarantee that they’ll be much better teachers than your senior engineers.
Are you suggesting that the reason socialism doesn't work is that the CIA regularly kills, well, who exactly? The proponents of socialism? Hardly, they'd be assassinating 24/7 without making a dent.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not claiming that the CIA didn't murder socialist leaders. My point is that you can't look at all the failed socialist experiments and conclude that socialism would have succeeded if only the CIA hadn't murdered any socialist leaders.
The fact remains, in the 1980s in Germany if you walked into any business office there was a choking blue haze like in 1960s America. It was inescapable.

It was starkly obvious if you traveled back and forth between the US and Germany in the 1980s. In the 80s US businesses had done a good job of pushing the smokers out on the porch.

I never thought that would work, but it did, and smoking became generally recognized as the filthy habit that it was.

My '72 Dodge hasn't seen a cigarette since the 1980s and still smells like smoke :-)
> St Louis was the highest land

That explains it. I kept thinking there must be better spots to put it. It does appear though that it’s surrounded by wide flood plains on several sides and certain spots would be harder to ford than the narrows that bracket the city on two sides.
It's been like this for a while, and the project owner's attitude is pretty negative overall. I do use signal daily, but I believe it's likely compromised ala lavabit.
cazim's point was that the url path should still work but rewrite back to the correct canonical URL.

Query strings and hashes are a little different, since those may contain information you might not want to scrub.

"Vanity" paths in particular can be rewritten because you often have a "correct" value for a given route.

e.g. https://community.nodebb.org/topic/180/who-is-using-nodebb

You can rewrite the tail end of this URL to whatever you'd like but it will always redirect you back to the correct canonical slug.
store it (something) like protobuf does - the smaller the number, the less bytes it takes?
Thanks.

You don't have to accept others' opinions -indeed, you must reject many such-, but if we are to live in a civilized society, we have to accept that others have differing opinions.

> On the other hand, if we don't call this stuff out, we're going to continue in in reverse gear.

Please do not get hyperbolic about how deadly covid-19 is. I'm sure you know quite well that that's very much a matter of debate, and that there is a lot of room for debating various trade-offs in public policy, etc.

It's trivially obvious that one can make covid policy absurd. For example, we could just exterminate all humans and stop worrying about covid cases and deaths!

One need not reach such an absurd hypothetical to reach actually-applied policies that many -most, even- find too absurd. There must be a limit to covid-zero-like policies, and we must be free to debate it in order to find that limit. We must even be free to employ facetious, sarcastic, or sardonic humor -- these all can be legitimate modes of argument, especially when the other side is not open to any debate. Disallowing debate is a recipe for disaster, and also for mockery.