skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were printing on a fixed-pitch character-based printer (like most dot-matrix and daisy-wheel or golf-ball "letter-quality" printers of the time) then what you saw on the screen in WordStar was very much like what you would get on the printer, although WS did support bold and underline, which typical terminals didn't. Also the terminals were usually white (or green, or amber) on black, while the printers were invariably black on white.

Do you know how far back screen editing (WordStar-style "WYSIWYG") in TECO goes? I'm pretty sure DEC TECO didn't have screen editing even in the late 1970s, and CP/M ED certainly didn't, which I am guessing means MIT TECO didn't have it at the point that DEC forked it. But it wouldn't be very surprising to me if MIT TECO had screen editing before 1974.

http://multicians.org/mepap.html seems to suggest that MIT TECO had screen editing by 1971:

> An implementation of TECO (a version of which is the standard DEC editor) was built on Multics in 1971. This version was derived from the original TECO implementation, on the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10 [TECDOC]. Unlike the latter, Multics TECO has no display support, and does not have the complex control-structure constructs of the AI Lab editor.

You will note, though, that even with screen editing support, TECO remained shamelessly command-oriented and modeful until the adoption of "Control R mode" in the late 1970s, presumably inspired by Bravo's less-modal interface. (I hesitate to say "modeless," though it was close.)

I think "the Bravo editor was written by Charles Simonyi" is at best oversimplified. One version of the Bravo manual says, "Bravo was designed by Butler Lampson and Charles Simonyi, and implemented mainly by Tom Malloy, with substantial contributions from Carol Hankins, Greg Kusnick, Kate Rosenbloom, and Bob Shur." I don't think Simonyi wrote much of Word either, except in the sense that Reagan "wrote" Peggy Noonan's speeches; in Programmers at Work he talked about his process and about Tom Malloy: https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/programmers-at-work-...
Venezuelans have been leaving the country for the last decade or so. There are huge numbers of them here already.

It's not easy for them to leave because their currency is basically worthless and access to hard currency is restricted to the well-connected.

Also the Venezuelan government closed the border about one year ago. They also kicked out all Colombians from Venezuela. According to the Venezuelan government everything bad that happens there is consequence of the vast Colombian-American right wing conspiracy.

Colombians are generally cool about Venezuelans, as the two countries are very similar to each other and have a long history together (at one point they were part of the same country). Neither the people nor the government opposes Venezuelan immigration, as far as I can tell.

But Colombia ain't exactly the land of milk and honey and Venezuelans know it. If they are not rushing in greater numbers to the border is because they know that, while there may not be any shortages or blackouts here, jobs are also few and far between.
Boris Yeltsin's grocery store visit: http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-...
Do you see many colonizers in present? I don't.

I see rapid decolonization. Japanese leave rural areas and northern territories. Russians fled Central Asia, pushed off Caucasus, large swaths of land become anthropic deserts. French in no position to colonize Africa anymore, if anything they're getting colonized. Chinese flock to Southern coast and no longer push that hard demographically on Uighurs/Tibetans.

Germans don't even seem to flock to their Northern, Baltic shore. And it has better climate than absolute most of their supposed "sraum".

Arguable, Polish and Balts skip their countries for greener pastures. If anybody in EU will be lacking room they can move there any minute.
Have you checked out https://github.com/iron-io/lambda. Their is a tool for docker container creation, and also AWS Lambda compatibility.
It also heavily depends on where you were - in some countries, it was a loooong time of nothing and then MS Word. Nearly 30 years of MS Word to date and no signs of any competition, actually...
It doesn't work for their users' core use-cases because they never made it usable in their core web and mobile products. They don't spend engineering time on making it useful in their core web and mobile products because their users don't use it. See the problem here?

It's like they gauged interest on half-an-MVP of a feature and never bothered to truly complete it and make it actually useful.
Allow me to offer myself as a counterpoint ;) I've worked for well over 3 years (8ish now?) and there's a lot I've yet to learn about when to take one design approach vs. another, how to identify risks early, etc. etc.

And, for what it's worth, I agree: one should not be considered "senior" after 3, or 5 years. Actually, tenure matters less than perspective and problem-solving approach.
"they all have property rights enshrined into the core of their economies, they all allow for the vast accumulation of wealth without forced redistribution"

I disagree. These nations do not allow vast accumulations of wealth. They have significant taxes that actually prohibit vast accumulations of wealth, by design. It's also a form of forced redistribution, because you are required to pay excessive tax rates..and if you don't, you be sent to prison or be subjected to some form of punishment.

In fact, if you look at the average wages across all industries in a country like Sweden, they are relatively the same.

Here are some stats: http://lostinstockholm.com/2012/01/10/average-salaries-in-sw...

Why are they the same? Because the government will tax the money away before you can ever get to those higher amounts.

"The nations you refer to, are actually welfare states, not Socialist - there is a very big difference."

I feel like this is the 'no true scotsman' argument all over again. At a certain tax rate, the government owns the means of production.

We can keep playing semantics and call it 'socialist' or 'welfare state', but the reality is that no matter what you call it, high taxes and excessive government regulations is not something that is conducive to a prospering nation.

Even look at California as a small example: The high tax rates and regulations have started squeezing out the middle class and in many parts of the state, you only have two classes of people: poor and rich.
Careful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
I am not particularly a fan of Hillary, but Secretary of State is definitely a high-stakes managerial position.
Seattle Transit Ridership: Link Light Rail Up 82%, Sounder Heavy Rail Up 17%
I thought one of the defining characteristics of a psychopath is that they don't question their own state. When a normal person does harm, they're like "Oh, shit, am I a psychopath?" When a psychopath does harm, they're like "They were a weak and useless person anyways. This is the way of things."
I'm trying to draw parallels here, that sometimes shit happens. Russia's mismanagement of agriculture notwithstanding, sometimes you're up against forces you can't control.
Keys: KMS handles rotation of the master key automatically (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/rotate-...). The ephemeral key used to encrypt values is changed any time a value is set.

Values: https://github.com/dcoker/biscuit#how-do-i-rotate-the-values
Carmichael Numbers on CNN – Is This a Real Life 'Good Will Hunting?'
That's not a problem. My son «pronounced» the word «bus» wrongly, and I could show him what exactly was wrong by standing up his toy yellow postbus vertically on the floor. The configuration space is enormous.
Did you really know your customers?
5 Views on Rethinking How You Save for Retirement
> You're comical to the point of absurdity.

Please don't do this here.
In the long term, do you think Go will be a good pick compared to any other language with better bindings or even C/C++?
Death by suicide was the most common, as we're seeing now in the more recent economic troubles. Starvation and job security is certainly a motivating factor in any crisis where that becomes a problem.
Yes, a place where I used to work once sent out a memo trying to encourage more regular work hours because management couldn't find people, and the office always looked half empty. The thing is, it was the operations staff for a astronomical observatory. The "missing" people were generally traveling and/or working at night!
I've heard this described similarly as "management views everything as a negotiation which for engineers it isn't".

"We need to cut the deadline in half!"

"We can't, if we want n features we need y time"

"Can we cut it by 25%?"
Actually, they might be referring to nationality rather than race. For example, it very common for landlords or their agents to ask about your nationality. They might be fine with a Singaporean Chinese, but PRC, maybe not.
"The fastest transaction is the one you don't execute."
I can't speak for the collective. As far as I'm concerned the current offers of BaaS are dead on arrival. Time will tell. I could see some value in the iPhone but I don't see much value in the current BaaS offers. Not enough to switch from the current alternatives. They are not transformative like the iPhone was. To complete your analogy we had smart phones before just like we have various BaaS services now.
> I'm reading a lot of comments exclusively blaming communism, but when I lived in Caracas during the first years of the Chavez presidency, I witnessed an overwhelming public support in his favor.

This isn't in tension, because communism and democracy aren't opposites. In fact, they are logically independent (even if anti-correlated in practice).
Oh, you're an engineer because you make websites? I'm a medical doctor because I repair machines.
Bizarre. A waste of living..
One big challenge is the expense that is otherwise avoided via usage of connection pooling. Without the hack to keep the backing containers alive, tearing down and restarting them is expensive and wipes out all hot path optimizations made by JIT compilers besides having to reestablish connections and pay the handshake prices. Apart from the simplest of use-cases at this time, imho this is not an efficient model if sustained performance and low latency are of interest.
Care to elaborate why that's so surprising? Nokia's been investing externally like this for a couple of decades. PayPal (Confinity at the time) would be a good example!
The problem is that "senior" is entirely relative to the engineers that surround the developer in question. A senior dev at Company X may not be a senior at Company Y, regardless of how many years in the industry or productive at Company X they were.

The problem also comes up for the 3-5 year mark when pay is involved. At my current company, it was impossible to make a certain salary without being promoted to Senior. The bigger problem was that the company has a slightly unrealistic view of the market, and to get any decent talent you'd have to be in the Senior pay bracket.

Ultimately I think the best solution is to screen appropriately and decouple salary from title. I think the best model would be to never hire anyone as a Senior, but let the Seniors emerge.
I don't understand where you believe I am making a fundamental attribution error. I am an extreme libertarian or an anarcho-capitalist (depending on where you draw the line), and from what I've read in your posts over the last years, you are nowhere near that side of the spectrum(s), unless you usually argue in favor of things you disagree with.
Do you understand that Lexra only existed because they were drafting off of work done by MIPS? Without MIPS, there would have been no Lexra to bring down. Both companies only existed because of venture funding and patents.

And MIPS of course wasn't "doomed from the start". The nature of investment is that there are no sure things. Many good bets don't pay off.

I don't particularly care about VC. I care a lot about investment in technological innovation. Your initial claim was that "we'd be much further along" without patents and greed. I'm saying that I don't think that's the case, because patents and greed are two parts of the mechanism by which we move further along.

If you have an alternative that will actually get us "further along", I'm all ears. Feel free to tell us how you'd achieve similar or greater levels of funding in a better world, preferably with some actual numbers. But without that, it sounds like you're just carping.
> Most engineers don't stay in the engineering track for long, and there are almost no lifelong engineers.

That is absolutely absurd. Plenty of tech titans and small startups have architects and senior devs in their 40's and up (I'm one, and at trade conferences I'm hardly even an outlier).

Not to mention that 90% of the industry is in the "enterprise" world (seemingly invisible to much of HN's readership), which is largely composed of devs in their 40's, 50's, and 60's. The high-octane older guys often go into consulting in their later years, where they're billing at $200-400+ an hour while giving technical direction to a team of warm bodies fresh out of school (or off the boat).

If you seriously believe that engineering is something that you do from age 25 to 35, before starting your "real career" in PowerPoint, then that's incredibly sad. Why not just go the MBA route to begin with?
Why was the German military so successful during early-WWII?
Some (me) would argue that tenure should not be considered when deciding a developer's skill.
> the number of Americans who are no longer in the labor force has hit an all time high of 94.7 million.

And the number of American's who are in the labor force also hit an all time high this year, and 158.9 million.

You offer no reason to believe that the absolute size of the population outside of the labor force is a more relevant measure than any of the official labor force underutilization measures for the claim about unemployment.

> According to CLSA economists, if the participation rate stayed at the levels before the financial crisis, the unemployment rate would be 9.6%, more than double what it is today

Well, first, its 4.9% today (well, June 2016, the most recent month for which numbers are available), and 9.6% is not more than double 4.9%.

Second, even if it were more appropriate to compare employment on a constant-participation-rate basis (for which you have presented no argument), 9.6% on 66% labor force participation rate (what is used as the pre-crisis rate in your source) would still be an improvement over Obama's term, since unemployment was at 9.8% the month Obama took office (considerably post-crisis), with a 65.7% LFPP (which would about 10.1% on a 66% participation rate.)
Performance Metrics for Recommender Systems
I wonder if this attitude will change once things like coq become more accessible.
I work at Stormpath (an Auth as a Service company) and see stuff like this all the time. It's actually really hard to do token revocation properly; People implement tokens and see revocation as a feature to be implemented "in the future".

I also noticed, for instance, that a LinkedIn app developer cannot rotate API Keys used to access LinkedIn's service. Again, the solution is to delete the app & restart. :/
This is just false. All business in the USSR was not tightly state owned. Yes, the "commanding heights" of the economy were. You're claiming Kiev had no privately owned stores? Like many people here you're talking about a subject you don't know much about.
I'm hating how complex Swift is and wondering what real benefit there is. I just read about how the compiler has difficulties with some expressions and how the constraint solver in the type checker can take 15s(?) to resolve some easy expressions. Oh no...
Well, I haven't. Just last week I had DigitalOcean refuse to even talk to me because my experience was "too government/enterprise". I imagine the dozens of black holes at similar companies I have communicated into over the past years are for similar reasons.
Firms will be happy to buy a product wholesale that they cannot in turn distribute to consumers? What are they, farm-aid charities? Let's try to remain focused on the plausible.
Oh, of course not! We weren't going to inflict that pain on ourselves...

The manager quit not long after, had a potentially good hardware startup that failed due to problems outside his control. Don't know what he's doing now, but I'm sure the startup life is better for him than enterprise.
I heard a nutritionist on NPR say a little more protein at breakfast will cure the 3-5pm brain fog. It's worked for me. I also stopped eating sugar I think that's helped too.
Probably, though I doubt they will until the get more data. That's the real goldmine here, nobody has ever been in the position to really study a first stage that's been to orbit and back before SpaceX started doing this. I imagine that they will be developing tons of data on how many flights all the parts are rated for before they require rebuilding or inspection, etc.

I'm pretty confident they are well on their way towards pretty quick turnarounds though - the engines are the biggest hurdle and they seem to be remarkably robust as demonstrated by the number of times they light them before sending them up already, and the relight tests they have done on recovered cores.
X Without Y
A family member of mine worked for a landlord who was wary of Indian tenants for this reason: the fragrance of their traditional cooking escaped to annoy other tenants and also lingered in the apartment even after families would leave requiring expensive professional service. According to a search engine lookup this is quite common.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/x3ct2/landlords_ho...

"The problem is oil that gets into the air then sticks to everything."
Microsoft Office shipped with a utility to do that back in the Office XP era. I don't recall it being very popular, and I'm not even sure they still ship it...
> I think we need to be more careful with our terminology than using the terms "communist" and "socialist" interchangeably.

I was born in the Socialist Republic of Romania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania) in the early 1980s, which was ruled by the Romanian Communist Party (which was the only allowed party). The situation was pretty much the same in all the former Eastern Block countries, with socialism being used interchangeably with communism, there were no debates in our local press about which one was which. I think "communism is different than socialism" is a Western-countries' thing, where Obama is called a socialist because he tried to make sense of the US health-care system (long story short: he's not).

And on a more general level of discussion, I'm not sure there really is a difference between the two. I've read some left-leaning literature (Marx's Capital I, his "German Ideology" and other younger writings of his, Lenin's "What Is to Be Done?", Kołakowski's 3-volume "Main Currents of Marxism", some Lukács, Jacques Rancière's "Nights of Labor: The Workers Dream in Nineteenth Century France") and no-where in those volumes there was a clear distinction made between "communism" and "socialism". The only nuance I can think of is Lenin's insistence that trade-unionist communism was a bad thing, because that involved making a pact with the "enemy" (the capitalists) and only settling for small gains, ignoring the bigger picture. He was of course right, from a workers' point of view perspective, you either control all means of productions or you risk still depending on the capitalists. 100+ or so years since his early writings the European working class is basically dead.
You may be missing a lot of just regular folks (including educated ones), who will be holding their vomit bags while voting for Trump, because they can't bring themselves to vote for the ethically challenged, "extremely careless" other candidate.
I've tried both, but between D3's odd imho data-binding and React animation limitations, I gave up and found using RactiveJS with SVG directly was much easier: http://examples.ractivejs.org

RactiveJS uses virtual dom as well, so was quite performant and very easy animations of properties.
How a Linux kernel developer built an open source USB adapter for ARM
This link will give you a good collection:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&site=&tbm=isch&sou...
what if I drive trains?
I'm sometimes shocked by the bad quality of browsing through code on GitHub. For example, you can't do a code search on forked repositories! The usability of the search bar is also quite lacking...
Show HN: Beagle, a static site generator in Python
On a visit to England, Gandhi was asked, "What do you think of Western civilization?"

He replied, "I think it would be a good idea."

I think you're confusing "modernity" with the steam engine and the Scientific Method. Little else distinguishes modern civilization from those of the past. The Renaissance was "re-birth" of something that had gone before, etc...

Everyone thought the Egyptians were the height of Civilization, except the Egyptians themselves. They thought it was the Nubians.
Some race cars used to have the mirror attached at the wheel!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/scardigest/wp-content/uploads/Aston-...

https://i2.wp.com/farm7.static.flickr.com/6190/6095678527_cc...

http://sportscarcraftsmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MGA...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116727
A high-tech mecca rises to rival Silicon Valley
I think you're misunderstanding. I read it as "they could just as well not be servers". It could be Diamond Age rod logic. It could be processing implemented on quantum foam. It could be gnomes. The point is that from the user's perspective, they no longer have to think about servers.
The question I want answered is how much money did he make
Ambitious in it's actual design certainly. It arguably never achieved much of that ambition though, at least in regards to reusability cost savings.
Yes, this seems to be the case. The whole concept of social judgment is alien to a mind that sees society as a collection of meals.
This is very incisive, and matches my experience.
I don't know if we will ever have tools that are that safe and as easy to use as the alternatives.
Are you going to put them on Github?
We write most of our Stack ourself in Go and integrate the Prometheus instrumentation right away.
I agree with you on capitalism, so it is another word I tend to avoid. I try to say things in a way that I will be understood.

I don't know about "free trade," though, what sorts of alternate definitions are people using for that?
/remindme in 50 years
there are several customers who've expressed interest in being the first to use a reused core. It's likely the first re launch will be a commercial customer.