skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not suggesting Germans adopt an American-style work culture, but an American-style tolerance for risk and failure.

I'm increasingly convinced that having the one automatically brings in the other. The hallmark of the American attitude is that you, and only you are responsible for your own success. This means that if you're not succeeding, it's because you're not working hard enough. It leads to a "rat race" culture, where everyone works harder to be labeled as a "go-getter", but all it ends up actually doing is raising the baseline expectation for how much work you're supposed to do.
The Industrial Revolution was sometime from 1760 to 1820, I thought?
Please make the UI default to the card layout and not the floating circles.
Because Apple, unlike Facebook, doesn't have any product that would benefit from utilizing your data? As far as I know (could be wrong, never had iPhone), Apple doesn't tweak your iPhone experience based on your previous usage.
You can't pay an American worker 20 times as much to make the same product in the same number of hours. The only way to be competitive at 20 times the pay is for each worker to produce 20 times the output, i.e. automation. So what we have is a choice between fewer American manufacturing jobs (automation) or no American manufacturing jobs (outsourcing). People don't want to hear that, but those are the alternatives.

And given that, automation is clearly the right answer. Some manufacturing jobs is better than no manufacturing jobs, and more local manufacturing creates more local non-manufacturing jobs in sales, transportation, administration, etc.
Echoing abecedarious, I do visualize the letters. In fact, I've read in some books about different types of language learners that there's a category/subset of visualizers that can only visualize the letters. (Not everyone is a visualizer, either.) It noted that these people are often very good at spelling and spelling bees.

Interestingly enough this seems to play out in various ways for me -- I can't remember people's names unless I remember how they're spelled, and often cannot recall the correct pronunciation if it's somewhat uncommon. And because my knowledge of Chinese characters is middling at best, I'm unable to remember Chinese names since I can't visualize and know the characters used!

EDIT: I should note I'm practically aphantasic, and that my visualizations are closer to being kinesthetic spatializations.
I think about this all the time, haha. I think right now my ideal higher education solution would be somewhere where all of the resources you need are online and you can go at your own pace, so if you need to take time off it's no big deal. Then you have a central location where your fellow students and professors/TAs/experts/whatever are there to help you learn and answer questions, not to lecture to a huge room where 75% of the people are on their phones.
Hi, HN! I made this! Ask me any questions you like. I'll try to respond as the workday progresses and I wait for deploys to complete!

paul@nathan.house if you want to email me instead. (or @p_nathan on Twitter, if that's your thing).
> I assume it was licensed to Universities and source was included under an educational clause, though I'm not exactly sure.

I think that is exactly how BSDs got started, and later led to the famous AT&T vs BSDi lawsuit.
I think the abundance of view libraries is evidence that no one has really "solved" it.
Does that not apply to all major metropolitan areas?
Hi, you can uninstall Kite by following the instructions here: http://help.kite.com/article/6-how-do-i-uninstall-kite
Historically yes, but the fallout from Brexit may make London a vastly less attractive option, causing it to lose its spot in the years to come. I honestly can't imagine starting something new in London now -- it's very expensive and it has some big political and economic uncertainties hanging over its head at the moment.
Not having kids implies having a shrinking workforce which will have deleterious economic effects for everyone.

At least until the robots replace most of us.
Thanks for this. While I am on Java, I know Python seems to rule the deep learning space.
Eloquent JS is one of my all time favorite programming books. I recommend it often.
Generally VPN providers don't use residential ISPs, they buy transit from a transit provider. I can't remember ever hearing of a transit agreement that permits the transit provider to sell connection information.
I like pulling apart the different Chinese characters into the radicals.
Happy if you are saying that small operations like this one can be supported by a traditional model, but I don't share your optimism for the future of this form of media, unless they come up with a new business model that doesn't compete with digital ad dollars.

http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/newspapers-fact-sheet/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/how-did-newspapers...
messenger.com is written in ocaml? that's pretty neat!
> jobs in services are less dangerous

This depends on how you define dangerous. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States killing ~614,000 people per year whereas accidents account for ~136,000. Sedentary behavior has been shown to increase the odds of heart related disease. Moving from more active manufacturing jobs to more sedentary service jobs could arguably be more dangerous to the longevity of a person's life.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

"Physical inactivity has become a major public health concern because it is the second leading single cause of death in the United States, trailing only tobacco use (31)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2857522/
"Market efficiencies and/or better engineering" are often enabled by technological breakthroughs.

Consider the efficiencies generated by Amazon's highly automated warehouses; their level of automation wouldn't have been feasible in, say, the 60's. Substantial technological progress on multiple fronts has been required.
> ease of use
> Yes, the same Europe. I don't know about the French, but the unions in Germany and Scandinavia are quite a bit more pro-business than their American counterparts.

Why wouldn't German unions be pro-business when labor is represented at board level with full voting rights? German corporations do not consider themselves "job creators" or see workers as resources to be exploited, unlike their American counterparts.
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The Linux version isn't available still.

Is it just on HN or are there very few people now who use Linux as their main dev machine? With some of the build quality of the new Dell Machines I would have assumed any dev tool would be Linux first, since almost everyone is using some form of 'nix on the servers.

I've never had much trouble installing the latest Ubuntu on any of XPS series(except the 'suspend' feature is weird).

EDIT: nvm i see from another comment that the Linux version is in testing. But still weird to see Mac devs outnumber Linux ones(or maybe they're just a vocal minority :-) )
"Why should a country specialize in making things, when it can instead specialize in designing, marketing and financing the making of things?"

"This is a legitimate question... Ricardo Hausmann believes that a country’s economic development depends crucially on where it lies in the so-called product space. If a country makes complex products that are linked to many other industries -- such as computers, cars and chemicals -- it will be rich. But if it makes simple products that don’t have much of a supply chain -- soybeans or oil -- it will stay poor. In the past, the U.S. was very successful at positioning itself at the top of the global value chain."

I would certainly call Google's search engines, Apple's iPhones and Intel's processors "complex products that are linked to many other industries". Comparing the fortunes of Apple vs Foxconn also shows that the top of the value-chain certainly lies in design/marketing, as opposed to manufacturing. The evidence the article presents is utterly baffling and unconvincing.
I don't plan on being one of those, so it's rather abstract.
Not sure what pain problems this solves. You can already programmatically access and manipulate Google Sheets.

And no, you are not going to run in to their upper bound limitations on rows and columns often.
If you are a mental outlier, the village can agree on torching the next time, somebody must be put on a stake- it might be a good survival strategy, to vent the anger towards a minorities group that is not you. In particular, if you are all ready paranoid anyway, meaning, you basically have a conspiracy theory for anyone you meet.
Chip on your shoulder?

If you con your investors then there's no chance of starting over. If you make your investors aware of the risks and it just doesn't work out (but you handled the situation well) then you've failed but are still well ahead of those who never tried.

Also, although investors may pay your rent for the year, as a founder you're expected to take <50% of your market wage in most cases and you'll be working longer hours, so this isn't a great argument.
My Newsfeed quality is pretty good I think, but I'm not doing anything that you aren't already. I did spend a lot of time hiding specific pages that friends would share (e.g. "Occupy Democrats", other partisan political things, anything ending in "Memes") - you click the little arrow, then Hide Post, then Hide All From $PAGE. I also added people I really care about to "Show First" in News feed preferences, which is different than the Close Friends list.

A large percentage of my feed is from pages for video games and tech companies/software. It's possible my interests align better with how they select stories for my feed than yours?
> it has twice the documentation coverage of any other tool.

Curious how they could possibly quantify that.
Was it an entertaining read?
I think that a surprising number of people buy stock based on how they feel about the company rather than how they feel about the company compared against the current price.
Yeah and there is even more peace of mind when everyone is off at the same time.

This happens a few days a year in north america, say at christmas or thanksgiving.

You can almost feel the whole country breathing a sigh of relief.
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> Why hasn't anyone made a more eye-frendly version of the Common Lisp Hyper Spec ? Having good, easily-browsable documentation is a core-problem.

A friend of mine is working on that as we speak. The CLUS, or Common Lisp UltraSpec:

https://phoe.tymoon.eu/clus/doku.php

That said, CLHS isn't bad - it's lightweight, available off-line, and on-line you can pretty much always find what you're looking for by searching for "clhs [term of interest]".

> some libraries had a compatibility matrix... with common lisp implementations. that seemed weird to me.

Common Lisp has a pretty good standard, but it's a bit old so it didn't predict some things we're currently using, and also left some other things to the implementers. So some features are only available via vendor-specific extensions, which makes it necessary for some projects - especially compatibility libraries - to be tested across plethora of CL implementations.

The flip side is that you have a few commercial and open source implementations to choose from, which is valuable if your project can exploit strengths of a particular one.
Or maybe, just maybe, the explosion threat is massively overblown and airport security is mostly just theater.
Privacy by Practice, Not by Policy: A Sysadmin Advocating for Student Privacy
there is always a barrier to leave... but there is also a barrier to return.
This is _the_ abstraction layer below an existing framework called Ember.js
Converted. From reactjs to reason-react https://github.com/reasonml/reason-react

Which imo is a bigger achievement! Being able to gradually convert a js codebase over is one of our main goals.
Does this have anything to do with Kythe, "a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code"?

https://kythe.io/
http://www.stroustrup.com/resource-model.pdf

discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907573
an essential difference is compiling templates into compact opcodes instead of vanilla JS and effective rerenders
Using the VIPER architecture on Android
messenger.com is 25% Reason
China's fabled “mastery” method is being used to teach more children in the West
> Solving this 'problem' would lose Kite money, so I don't fault them for not attempting it.

I think it really boils down to: what happens when their servers are compromised; how much liability will Kite assume for the lost IP? My guess is: None.

They don't even have a discoverable privacy policy, just a blog post! Going into the purchase pipeline, there's no service contract, just a "sign up for an account and give us your CC".
Slightly off topic but regarding Discord being "hard to touch" I feel like I must be missing something.

My friends and I just switched from Mumble to Discord and I find Discord to be inferior in almost all regards.

Discord's browser client is cool and convenient. The separate text/voice channels (as opposed to Mumble's 1 text channel per voice channel) fits our typical use case very well (people playing different games in different voice channels but sharing links/images/unrelated messages in text).

How has discord become so (apparently) big so fast? Is it just marketing money and slick UI design pushing it beyond its means?
This one seems to have the purpose of showing off google open source contributions (for marketing purposes?) rather than actually hosting. So the utility is much lower and the effort to maintain it is lower. I wouldn't expect many to miss it greatly if it disappeared one day since the actual contributions are elsewhere. I'm not sure how that translates into the expected lifetime for google keeping it around.
Hi inputcoffee, it sounds like you may have not been shown the install flow. Maybe try uninstalling Kite through the Control Panel, redownloading and installing again. (We had an Authenticode certificate issue that is now fixed.) If you don't see the Kite onboarding flow, email me at adam@kite.com and we'll figure out what's going on : )

Thanks for trying Kite. Would love you get you up and running!
Sometimes astronomical data sits around for years before academics and amateurs get the time to use their preferred techniques on it. Each pass over the data has another chance of finding something and sometimes people learn new things from 40 year old data.

Somehow I guess I thought waves the size of a planet on our home star would be faster finds than more distant things.
The front-end or back-end? The front-end isn't what I would call an endorsement of whatever framework/language is chosen.
It's a seamless dynamic programming language, which can, with care, be given excellent performance and a high level of abstraction. In my opinion, it's miles better than the other dynamic languages out there, by nearly every factor. It rewards investment and development very well; it's a tool for mastery, not for quick and easy starting.

If you're looking for statically typed languages, it's not going to win there. But my experience writing a lot of Perl and Python, with a certain amount of helping with Clojure and Ruby experience, strongly indicates that Common Lisp is very very competitive there outside of the 'library' front.
Tossing a coin repeatedly should result in a random distribution of events over time.
If it was powerful enough to warrant use, someone would hack it onto tools.reader. It's obvious where it would go. For some reason, nobody has bothered with this. Likely because the reader already has programmable data (via tagged literals) and anything beyond that results maintaining your own special reader.

I haven't yet encountered somewhere that I'd have used reader macros for that wasn't better solved by using data literals or tagged literals. There might be some random place where I need syntax beyond clojure's data literals, but I'm far more likely to use a combination of data literals + tags. If absolutely required (it hasn't been yet in 5 years of daily production usage), I could simulate custom grammar using clj-antlr and a macro. If, for some unknown reason, I needed a custom non-sexp grammar embedded in my lisp that I wanted to serialize exactly and then read back in the same syntax (probably because I hate myself and/or my team), I could hack it tools.reader.

tldr; you have reader macros if you want them. Nobody wants them who uses Clojure day to day. If they did want them, they could trivially extend tools.reader themselves.
Tesla Model X in semi-autonomous Autopilot mode rear-ended police motorcycle
Not watched the video, but hate to tell you, they are designed by visual thinkers. Linearization comes after the fact; one has to be able to visualize the operation of the logic networks etc during the design - and debug - processes. Things happen in parallel a lot inside a computer, no way is linear thinking going to create that. Validate, yes, but not create.

At least, that's my experience, not just of myself but of a number of the early inventors of these things that I happen to bump into a few times a year. Those still surviving that is.
I have a question. Why would you use Swift for linux development? Is there a binding to any major UI framework (QT...)?
DMCA Doesn't Shield Cloudflare from Anti-Piracy Injunctions, Court Rules
Yes, send in PRs if things significantly change! It's a stable ecosystem, but things do improve over time. Things like examples would be quite useful.
The article presents clear evidence that the overall output has declined. This is far more consequential than just employment.

The example given with agreeculture is also spot on - during the industrial revolution, total farm employment plummeted, but total farm output soared, and continues to grow to this day.

Automation in the manufacturing sector would look similarly - job losses, but increased production. That's not happening. Instead we have a shift of production base out of US.

Swiss seem to be getting some of this right with their automated factories: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/robots-or...
It's worth noting that, at that scale, you actually get PAID for inbound calls. At MagicJack, the cost of our went into the negative because of access fees. Even though Amazon is not a carrier (yet), they will likely work a deal to get paid.

Vonage does the same thing. They receive a revenue share of the access charges from level 3.
Good to hear! The experience I described above was indeed a number of years ago, but also compare your comment to the one by m_fayer.
We recently thought about on how to do this as well and created our own Open Source page [1]. Not sure if we have done it right, but I quite like it. Happy to receive some feedback on it. It's nothing huge, nevertheless we're quite proud of what we've achieved.

[1]: https://mobilejazz.com/products/opensource
I agree. I think the germinal point here is that visualization is a form of 'recall' and that shouldn't be necessary if muscle memory suffices.
Construction work, plumbing and mining (for workers) are not well paying industry when compared to software.

Also, these industries are male dominated because they require hard labour and working conditions, which is often biologically unsuitable for women. Even then, in South Asian countries you can find even ratio females to males in construction work. They do the same hard labour as men, and as the use of machinery and automation is rarer (in these regions), it's even more manual hard labour.
I'm extremely surprised that Discord hasn't been acquired yet.
What about the forum on indiehackers.com ?
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> “would be absolutely unprecedented based on what we know about car markets today and how people spend their dollars,” said Salim Morsy, “It could happen. I’m pretty sure it won’t.”

That quote implies people won't choose to buy that many Model 3's. We know there are almost that many pre-orders, so it's not a question, and it's not something to be doubted. It's a fact people will spend their money that way.
> lists and other seq's as functions in the function position of an x-expression.

Makes code more difficult to read. I consider this a language design error. I had that on the Lisp Machine 30 years ago (example callable arrays, ... - maybe even Maclisp in the 70s had it), few people used it and it did not make it into Common Lisp.

Common Lisp was designed such that for the programmer and for the compiler the first element of a Lisp form is easily recognisable as a function: it has to be a symbol naming a function or an actual lambda expression.

Pays back it code maintenance over time...

> but generally reads cleaner in the same way one might say a font reads cleaner.

I think it reads cleaner in the way PERL code is read cleaner.
My Popularity as Measured in Happy Bday Posts: A Statistical Approach
Hmmm. I tried to convey the idea, without getting too bogged down in the details that don't per se matter on Day 1.

I would be interested in any PRs you have to clarify the matter adequately for people just starting out.
Unless they're a founder, the amount of equity you're giving them, no matter how much, is insufficient to ask someone to regularly work more than 40 hours a week.

Sorry man, it just doesn't work. People will do it, mostly young people. You can take advantage of that, but guess what, that makes you an asshole.

If my employees can't get their work done in 40 hours, then they aren't planning their work effectively. If, as a manager and a leader, I have a duty and a responsibility for the success of my team, then I must make them have a reasonable work/life balance.

I've known a ton of people happy to work until they were quickly burned out, but their output was usually a bunch of sound and fury representing nothing.
This is a little off topic but I want to take a moment and say thank you to Warren Toomey. He is responsible for TUHS and it is a wonder resource for people who enjoy UNIX.

Thank you sir!!
Twitch Desktop is a bloated Piece Of Software that I believe uses Adobe Air. As for competition with Steam - if that's their goal then they're going to fail miserably.
'87 - probably a System VR1 variant (though it might have been from System III)
20 times as much as who? As far as I can figure out, there is a minimum wage in China, for example, which is between $2 and $3 per hour.

So who works for 36 cents hour?

EDIT: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-hourly-rate-for-a-...

Welp, there's one answer. I guess either this is common knowledge, or no else cared enough to check. :p
Beam + Discord would be an interesting prop.