skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get pretty close.

I've got three machines that I use regularly.

1) Mid-2010 MacBook Pro, with RAM and SSD upgrades. This is my main machine at home. It has never had to be wiped and reinstalled, and it gets rebooted about once a month.

2) Late-2013 MacBook Pro. This is my work machine and the story is similar to my home machine. It's never needed a reinstall and gets rebooted about once a month as well.

3) Lenovo ThinkPad x131e (Intel). This is my travel computer, serving a similar purpose as the Chromebook mentioned in this article (minus presenting stuff). I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on this - frequent updates lead to frequent reboots. There's also all the associated weirdness that comes with running a rolling release Linux on a machine that requires proprietary WiFi drivers (they tend to lag by a couple of days). When I ran OpenSUSE Leap it was almost as solid as the Macs.

I'd call the Macs "pure solid" machines, or as close as I can reasonably get. The ThinkPad is decent and the weirdness with it is really my fault.

Like everything else, your experience may vary.
I got off twitter because it felt like they were constantly changing the app to make it worse / more covered in ads but mostly because I didn't like the way it was changing my thinking. It's the first app I've felt the pull to compulsively check and I really didn't like that.
While true, NIH can apply to a lot of things including hardware. But why especially software? A lot probably has to do with the fact that many/most people will recognize that rebooting a hardware design is going to be a lot of work and take a long time. Whereas with software, there's more of a temptation to think it's "just a matter of programming" and "how hard can it be?" even by people who should know better.
One where the developer does not have enough resources to develop for and support multiple platforms?
Same here. I like to dabble in other languages and frameworks, but nothing makes me as productive as rails
How much of this technology, particularly the impromptu self-flying aspect, is even doable at the sub-$1000 price range? There was the Hexo+, which raised $1.3M in 2014 [0] and delivered what sounds like a major disappointment [1].

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sqdr/hexo-your-autonomo...

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/g00/review/343846/hexo?i10c.referrer=h...
This article speaks to regional income convergence. However, national wages, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data (1) for Usual Weekly Earnings (parsed by education level in particular) show clear divergence - along with a clear dissappearance of the middle class.

Perhaps regional economies are simply settling down and catching up to the economy at large (I'm not implying that wage divergence is good or fair - it just seems to be what is happening based on BLS data).

1. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm
Express OR Laravel on backend and Angular 4 + Typescript on the front (ionic if mobile)
Under the Howey Test, a transaction is an investment contract if:

- It is an investment of money

- There is an expectation of profits from the investment

- The investment of money is in a common enterprise

- Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party

There is no expectation of profit from a Kickstarter contribution. You are buying a product, and have no stake in the company.
Not everyone values total net worth, what's your point?
> He seems actually content with Amazon eating the world, and I don't think it will be a net positive for humanity.

You mean Bezos? Well of course, he's CEO of Amazon and I don't think the board or shareholders would tolerate him saying "this is such a good idea that would make us tonnes of money, but we'd better give the opportunity to someone else"

I'm actually kind of amazed that Amazon has managed to plow so much money into their business without shareholders throwing a fit. The usual modus operandi of activist shareholders now is to get the company to pay out as much money as possible to shareholders while investing as little as possible into R&D. They've even managed to squeeze Apple into stock buy backs! Amazon seems to have avoided this and is thus able to invest lots of money into their business units, and look at how it's paid off for them (amazingly well).

Regarding Amazon eating the world, I'm not that concerned about it honestly. If Amazon starts acting like a monopoly, regulators will step in and force them to divest from certain business segments. If Amazon gets lazy and starts charging people higher prices or offering a more limited selection, then people will vote with their wallets and order from somewhere else.

So on the whole I still see Amazon as a net positive. They're pushing the rest of industry to innovate in ways we haven't seen before (logistics, online shopping, cloud services, assistants) and this is a win for consumers.

Sure, there's been some high profile bankruptcies/fire sales from competitors who haven't been able to adapt (e.g. Sears in 6 months), but I have to ask: do you really want to prop up companies that cannot compete in the market? That doesn't make sense from a consumer or economic perspective.
I have just deleted Twitter app from my mobile phone today. I am getting fed up with constant push notifications I don't care about.

It seems like push notifications from other social apps are more relevant, notifications from Twitter rarely are about something I care about.
I think divergence is more likely, simply because of tradeoffs required. For example, physical strength and mental capabilities compete with each other for energy.
This is awesome. It's going to save so many headaches building/porting C++ based code on OpenBSD. Hurrah.
OMG this is ridiculous. If you want to be a zealot, go ahead, but nobody will like you.

I like ZFS. I like Linux. I love the two together. I don't care about the niggling legal interpretations that they themselves agree have never even been tested by the courts.

If they really want to push this, bring it to the courts. Put up or shut up.
Amazon did not fool me. There was a brief period, nearly a decade ago, when the there was a recession and Amazon was expanding beyond books when Amazon was great for long tail items both due to availability and price. I used it to purchase a twenty-two foot pressure washer wand and a heater coil for the dryer and replacement GE water filter cartridges and ink cartridges for the Designjet 750C and a sun roof seal for the Montero Sport. I used Amazon as an alternative to buying retail or from an SEO optimized website. I always comparison shopped.

These days, the only time I don't comparison shop agianst Amazon is when I know that there isn't likely to be a better deal...and the sum total of that is pretty much going to Amazon for my a digital download of TurboTax every April. I don't have Prime but it still ships immediately. Generally, if I am making a long tail purchase, I start with eBay due to its better transparency, straight forward search, and less misalignment between its economic interests and mine. For electronics, I'll probably just buy from NewEgg because of how bad Amazon's search sucks and because it's free shipping is freer as in "beer" than Prime's $99...which of course applies to Prime items but not not-Prime items and to me, it's not worth the brain cells personally and the five minutes economically to figure out which is the best value SSD...and if I want it fast, there's a Best Buy up the road...and a Walmart.

In fairness, I find returning anything to be a hassle but since I have a brother in law who returns annuals to Home Depot at the end of spring, I know some people arrange their lives around it. Anyway, if something really sucks, I can chargeback.
Lots of billionaires (most?) become more philanthropic after retirement. I don't think we're at a risk of this changing as even the most self-centered billionaire would find more value in spending their money on their legacy rather than buying 10,000 Ferraris.
I don't think a native flight booking app would be "near instant" at all.

You'd hit "Next", the screen would push over instantly. But there'd be a loading indicator right in the middle of it until the server returned the necessary data. Asynchronous apps or web sites or web apps will always need to load data from somewhere. PWA doesn't magically make loading go away.

I'm okay with adding offline support, faster loading, and all of that for web apps and sites I use in my browser. None of those features sound bad to me. In the browser.
Rust. I just want to be a hipster and try it.
June Foray has died at 99
Elixir/Phoenix.
Because markets move in cycles? We've had multiple crashes in the past 40 years, most recently in 2008. Markets always crash, it's what they do.
Better yet, net total HN comment karma.
Atheros has been open and Broadcom closed for well on a decade now. That has not driven substantial adoption of Qualcomm's wifi platform.
Just a couple requests there. Insanity.
All of these strategies are incorrect, as they presume that logic, mathematics, and rationality will have any impact on one who clearly places no value on empirical evidence whatsoever.

What you do is put up $10000 of your money against $1000 of his (10 to 1! You can't lose!), on a bet where the geographical mathematics ensures that you are 100% guaranteed to win. Or something--anything--that can demonstrate with real tangible consequences how being intentionally stupid can hurt you and those around you.

Build two identical UAVs, and run a race between two distant cities. One UAV follows a great circle. The other follows a rhumb line. Discounting adverse weather, the great circle route will win, every time.
The philantrophy thing with foundations is just a tax evasion scheme.
There are places in oregon where you can look North and see Mount Adams in washington, and look south and see Mount Shasta in california. So basically the entire heigth of oregon. I've personally done this on Paulina Peak on several occasions.
Do you have to declare your gold or silver in foreign banks? If not, then I don't see why you would for eCurrency/eAssets. Assets are just assets no matter the form.
Found it: https://github.com/aguaviva/Physics/
I think it's fantastic. So many logos have gone from an old-timey and colorful scheme to something simple and monochromatic. I'd be very happy to see such a revival.
Having been a rails engineer for 12+ years, I can say I haven't used rails for front end work in about 5 years. In 2011 I started migrating front ends from erb to ERB heavily enhanced with angular, my frontends relied more and more on an API and slowly, the "@" instance variable assigment started to disappear from my controllers.

I'd say many shops have had a similar experience, and full stack development no longer depends on rails for frontend. Which means that the only rails jobs out there, are likely backend/API/distributed systems.

There was a time when I thought rails was out the door and node.js was in, and I converted several large rails codebases over to node.js/express. Looking back, I don't think the node.js community was strong enough, and even today I still miss Ruby's debugging ecosystem.

I once sat down to write a medium post a few years back on why rails is still the best choice for backends. I would cite the number of packages for sidekiq, the diversity of email handling libraries, and the multitude of packages to handle just about everything. I compared it to rust, and go. The only problem was, any time I tried to say "rails has this, X doesn't" Go had X.

Rails will stick around, but I'd recommend smart engineers diversify. Study modern node.js codebases (things have gotten much more manageable with await/async). Study Go.
Also, check out actioncable, and start a new rails project with "rails new --webpack=react" and build something. Seems the rails team has embraced the modern world, which may make it one of the best cohesive ecosystems right now.
What is a M3U file
Crunchbase[0] lists the previous funding total at $539.95M over 9 rounds. This would bring the total to $789.95M.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity
Web2py with a "normal" front-end, possibly some VueJS sprinkled in. Still haven't found anything as easy as Web2py to define my models/tables, built-in user auth, and get CRUD up super fast.
I would give my children way more that 0.01% of my wealth if I was in his shoes. I would raise them to be respectable stewards of my wealth so they can grow the wealth and continue giving to charity long after I'm gone instead of ending everything within one generation.
Python, Django, Intercooler.js

Python because of the syntax, and community.

Django vs other python frameworks, because it has sane defaults, and has made everything pluggable or easy to ignore should I need to change.

Intercooler because I'm awful at js, and the few things im doing shouldnt need full js apps.
If it is, it has much more to do with the determined efforts of the world's oligarchs to hide their fortunes from public scrutiny than it does with Western "solipsism". An excellent example of this is the New York Times's investigation into the phenomenal wealth of the family of Chinese PM Wen Jiabao, which led the CCP to order the paper blocked in China.
One must first learn all the rules so that one may break them properly.
VueJS + Node/Express on AWS Lambda
> From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps.

To be sure, the guy who wrote that has never built a native app and knows nothing of native development. That is not actually a story of a native developer being converted by PWAs.
If you've got $30B in personal assets, it's hard to imagine any investment situation short of the complete collapse of the monetary system that wouldn't leave you as immensely wealthy until you die.
Although in this day and age it seems to be one of the very few ways one individual can make a difference. It saddens me, but probably easier for a man to take advantage of the system and become absurdly wealthy in order to do good for the world than it is for that man to change the system itself :/
Me too. For web development nothing comes close.
Vue (nuxtjs) for frontend and Haskell for backend.
I just want to note that as a developer you can run any code you want on your iPhone through XCode for free. You just can't distribute it in the App Store without a license ($100 a year). You can distribute the code though, and users can compile and install it. This is how Kodi distributes on Apple platforms.

This is a newish change though, within the last couple of years.
Details (if possible)? I'm an Emacs geek myself and would really appreciate knowing how you can use it in business.
I would love to, e.g. "software engineers", "authors", "investors" etc, but imo the feature is completely unusable as there is no batch editing. Definitely has a lot of potential, especially when combined with filters: "Give me Silicon Valley people minus politics and hyperlocal info"
> detailed description

Hardly at all; even the 1960 Lisp 1 manual ran for some 160 pages; this is just a few bullet points. It leaves a lot of room for family inclusion.

But not every Tom, Dick or Harry that walks in off the street is your family member, or even a friend.

> very particular implementation

Nope; just the original thing and many of its derivatives that can legitimately be called some kind of Lisp.

"Lisp" is in fact the name for a particular set of implementation features.

You may have a very nice implementation of some sort of list processing with all the equivalent expressivity and power, or whatever measure of pedigree we choose; it's just not Lisp: pick another word.

> which of these rules do you accept deviations from and by how much?

None. These are the things someone shouldn't mess with, if they want people to refer to their programming language as a Lisp dialect.

And, in fact, at least if we look at major works in the mainstream, most of those who do change those things understand this and don't use that term in naming their language. So, a fairly good approximation to the predicate "is not Lisp" is "does not have 'Lisp' in its name".
I'd guess it's the oldest data centre so more prone to failures, but that's pure speculation.
I know you can see Mount Rainier from Mary's Peak outside of Corvalais, which is 295km away. And I mentioned it in another comment here, but standing on paulina peak on a clear day, you can see both Mount Adams and Mount Shasta, more than the entire height of Oregon.
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>If a normal website can't do the job, and the developer isn't willing to develop a native app, then maybe the product simply isn't necessary.

That seems like circular logic. IMO, very few products are "necessary," and sure, right now developers have pretty much no choice but to support native walled gardens if they want to support the list of features PWA offers.

But what if users had a real choice? What if the web browser could offer an immersive user experience on par with native mobile apps? What if browser vendors actually put in effort to optimize for user preferences regarding PWA call-to-actions? What if PWAs were as widely promoted as native app stores?
C, shell and Octave

Some computations with sparse matrices are better expressed in the M-code, but the bulk of the image processing work is done by standalone programs written in C, piped together by a shell script.
Most native apps that rely on a web service backend are pretty unusable when the connection goes offline.
You are buying a product

You're not even doing that, since there is no guarantee of delivery.
Mobiledoc dev here. Mobiledoc is used at Bustle (who funded initial development) on two properties, at Upworthy, Daily Beast, and on several other sites. We're extremely proud this work has also been adopted by Ghost and hope to continue working with them for a long time :-)

One of the benefits of Mobiledoc is that we provide a documented and versioned file format for serialized documents. This allows developers to share renderers for Mobiledoc content. Bustle for example publishes Mobiledoc articles to it's own HTML, to Google AMP, and to Apple News.

Mobiledoc also supports runtime-customizable "cards" for rich content. For example a writer might add a video to an article- but for each rendering environment the runtime version of that card must be different. The cards API allows developers to offer custom editing and embedding interfaces without breaking the general text editing interface.

Try it out and let us know what you think. You can join our Slack: https://mobiledoc-slack.herokuapp.com/ or find me on Twitter as @mixonic.
Whoa. What "bad directions" are you referring to? If you are going to make accusatory claims, do be specific.

Bill Gates is a luminary who created the largest software development company known to man. I will give him the respect to hear him out about any subject he feels he can contribute in.
I uninstalled the FB app from my phone for other reasons and though it's become trite to say so - my life has improved. I also stopped keeping an FB tab open in my browser. I login a couple of times a week to catch up with friends. How has this improved my life? I'm more fully engaged in the here and now. I realized I was constantly checking my phone for FB updates. It's only been a couple of months but it's been really nice. The security issues make it all the better to remove from your phone.
As a user, I think crappy or unethical web developers would ruin it for everybody. At least with native apps, there's a somewhat consistent way for me to manage notifications (and I have 95% of them turned off).
It depends what the project is.
Pure Haskell? Any libraries or frameworks?
Python and flask. It appeals to me how the philosophy of both is to be direct, simple, and powerful.
I'd pit them against the i5. Look at the gaming benchmarks, the 1300X is better in some and worse in some other games, but in general on par. While being cheaper and overclockable. I would also be surprised if one could not overclock the 1200 close to the level of the 1500X, and then that $100 cpu will beat the 7400 and be on par with the 7500.

And in non-gaming performance looks even better.

Edit: Or maybe not. In http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3001-amd-r3-1300x-revie... there is still a comfortable lead of the i5s over the overclocked 1300X, in that different game selection. I will have to wait to see what my meta-benchmark says.
It could be copied from an advance copy, which lacks the final editing.
Theoretical Algorithms in C++ [pdf]
In human history?
Grails + Vue.js
That were captured and escaped? In which pay actually was docked? In which they can remember and document this? That are still alive today?

That can't be more than a handful.
This kind of thing is a reminder that money, wealth, ownership and related concepts, aren't really real. They're cultural constructs, abstractions, rules....

Anyway..... abstractions sometimes fray at the extreme ends. The concept of property doesn't quite apply to Putin.

Years ago, I had a conversation urban planner mate about some building that couldn't be changed (preservation) or used (building codes & safety). I argued that this makes it public property Him -'You can't just take property off someone'. Me - 'We already have, haven't we?' He couldn't get his head around my meaning.

Around here (Ireland) landowners often "own" roads that border their land. This ownership amounts to a responsibility for cutting hedges and paying taxes on it. They don't (I think) have any rights to it that others don't.

Ownership is a set of rules about what an owner can do with something. If you own an apple, but aren't allowed to eat it, gift it, etc. do you really own it?

Does the King of Saudi Arabia (another candidate for wealthiest man) "own" everything in the country? I think he has the legal right to do anything with any thing. Does he own all "public" assets controlled by the crown, like Saudi Aramco (valued somewhere between $1trn and $10trn)? If not where's this distinction?
Why is "giving away" in quotes? Do you think he's actually keeping it and committing massive fraud?
From other comments: Vanguard's 500 index manages ~500 billion (dmoy), Gates is worth ~100 billion (kevindqc). Even so, Vanguard can't just increase their fund by 20% like that.
Isn't it the cheapest region to use? Probably sees more use because of it.
I thought about that a while back and I'm sure he'll setup some fund somewhere for them in case something happens to as a secret safety net. With their names and education alone they should be pretty well off, though.
Clearing laundered money through a US bank is more than sufficient for US jurisdiction to apply. You can choose not to like it but this is well established case law.
Reason, Reason-React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis.
These are good arguments. But they apply verbatim to Java, HTML, and JavaScript in the times of Windows and IE3/4, if Bill Gates had been asked publicly.
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Arq now supports backups to Backblaze B2
Same here, doing frontend stuff in Elm. After a couple of sideprojects or smaller parts of production env with this stack I want to make a full project
It's a web app, so I just use the web app.
Yes I am having a good time. But I am not American, don't live in the US and the few Americans I do follow mostly keep out of the long rambling kind of politics.
Amazon keeps commingled items in separate bins. They know where problematic inventory comes from.

As of now there's no extra charge to not commingle. There was a bonus offered last year to commingle, but not currently.
What do you mean is Firefox and Chrome forcing Java on you?
Did Java getting open sourced affected you in a negative way? how?
Java with Spring
> I like ZFS. I like Linux. I love the two together. I don't care about the niggling legal interpretations that they themselves agree have never even been tested by the courts.

You may not, but a corporation may and probably will.
Jai, if it gets released in the next year or so. Fingers crossed!