Hacker News: jfirebaugh

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

jfirebaugh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:37:57 +0000

https://archive.is/iRBng

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685320

Points: 635

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Assessing Readiness of Self-Driving Vehicles

jfirebaugh — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:45:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373698259_Assessing_Readiness_of_Self-Driving_Vehicles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413371

Points: 1

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New comment by jfirebaugh in "ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving"

jfirebaugh — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:38:12 +0000

Sure. To be more precise, it's a "dangling modifier" [1]. The modifying clause "As a non-native English speaker" intends to refer to the narrator, who is using ChatGPT to improve their text. But the sentence as constructed, where this clause is followed by the subject "ChatGPT", might be read as implying that ChatGPT is a non-native English speaker. The original beginning "I am not a native English speaker..." was clearer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier

New comment by jfirebaugh in "ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving"

jfirebaugh — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:59:13 +0000

It fixed some things (“ChatGPT have”, “It’s has”) but changed the meaning of the first sentence and introduced a misplaced modifier (“As a non-native English speaker, ChatGPT…”).

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Better-sqlite3: A faster Sqlite library for Node.js"

jfirebaugh — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 05:33:31 +0000

https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Offline mobile maps from Mapbox"

jfirebaugh — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:53:16 +0000

Hi, Mapbox developer here. We've gotten a few requests for offline for mapbox-gl-js[0], but haven't put a priority on it yet. We need to do some investigation to see if this is something that's feasible to build with Web APIs such as IndexedDB.

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Android NDK r11 released"

jfirebaugh — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:10:43 +0000

ndk-gdb / ndk-gdb.py seem to be broken in this release:

https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/2 https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/3

New comment by jfirebaugh in "New-less JavaScript (2013)"

jfirebaugh — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:14:31 +0000

(author here)

Absolutely. My preference for new modules is to use both newless and "this"-less Javascript. Newless via the technique outlined in this post (or encapsulated in a module: https://github.com/Mr0grog/newless), and this-less via the module pattern (see link in post).

This is the pattern followed by D3. It's easy to follow internally, gives you true private data and methods, and (IMHO) is a nicer interface for API consumers -- no `new`, `delete`, or `bind`'s necessary.

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Mapbox GL for the Web"

jfirebaugh — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 01:07:06 +0000

This looks like a bug. I filed a ticket and we'll take a look. Thanks for the details!

https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/652

Pathfinder's Mars Landing: To Reboot or Not Reboot [pdf]

jfirebaugh — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:44:16 +0000

Article URL: http://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/NASA_APPEL_ASK_33s_reboot_or_not_reboot.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6737171

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)"

jfirebaugh — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:33:14 +0000

MapBox - San Francisco and Washington DC

MapBox is looking for developers and designers, an Operations Manager, and a Business Development Lead.

http://www.mapbox.com/jobs/

We're a team of 30 or so artists, developers, designers and strategists working on an open platform for maps. Our platform powers everything from apps like Foursquare, GitHub and Evernote to news stories on NPR and USAToday to simple maps on personal blogs and wedding websites. Much of our work is powered by open source and open data and we're often in touch with folks at OpenStreetMap, the US Census Bureau, USGS, and NASA.

Check out what we have been working on lately on our blog:

http://www.mapbox.com/blog/

New comment by jfirebaugh in "OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor"

jfirebaugh — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:53:16 +0000

A query like "one-way streets and stop-lights within my area" is perfect for the Overpass API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

The best UI for Overpass is http://overpass-turbo.eu/

New comment by jfirebaugh in "OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor"

jfirebaugh — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:04:44 +0000

iD developer here. I did a series of posts on the architecture of iD that folks here might find interesting:

http://www.mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/02/26/id-architecture-part... http://www.mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/02/27/id-architecture-part... http://www.mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/02/28/id-architecture-part...

New comment by jfirebaugh in "MIT Moves to Intervene in Release of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File"

jfirebaugh — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:14:05 +0000

As far as I've been able to find, Hal Abelson's last statement was on May 13, when he wrote that the report would be released "this summer".

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N26/swartz/2.html

This is indeed much delayed from his initial statement on January 22 that he hoped the report would be ready "in a few weeks."

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N63/abelson.html

It's disappointing that it's taken this long.

How D3 Selections Work

jfirebaugh — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:03:07 +0000

Article URL: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/selection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614421

Points: 162

# Comments: 8

New comment by jfirebaugh in "A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD"

jfirebaugh — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:29:35 +0000

It's fully functional, and you can switch over to the live OpenStreetMap database by clicking 'dev' in the lower right. Loading and saving data happens via an XHR request to the OpenStreetMap API hosted on http://www.openstreetmap.org. The API supports CORS, making direct cross-origin connections possible.

New comment by jfirebaugh in "Multiple Ruby gems vulnerable to XML/YAML parsing vulnerabilities"

jfirebaugh — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:41:09 +0000

Please comment on the gist with any additional libraries (public and patched vulnerabilities only please). I'll keep it updated.

Multiple Ruby gems vulnerable to XML/YAML parsing vulnerabilities

jfirebaugh — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/4532291

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5056179

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jfirebaugh in "MultiXml gem has same vulnerability as Rails' CVE-2013-0156 – patch now"

jfirebaugh — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:17:27 +0000

I'm keeping track of a list of vulnerable gems here: https://gist.github.com/4532291

Multiple vulnerabilities in parameter parsing in Action Pack

jfirebaugh — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/61bkgvnSGTQ/discussion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5028218

Points: 427

# Comments: 281