skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1 - All those parenthesis. (Still a top objection)

If you actually count parens fairly you will find that Lisp has no more than any other language, it's just that other languages use a mix of parens, square brackets and curly braces whereas Lisp only uses parens. Also, if you really don't like parens, you can get rid of a lot of them using macros. See e.g.:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib

and in particular the binding-block (BB) construct.

> 2 - Lisp doesn't look like or work like what I'm used to.

Neither does anything else until you get used to it.

> 3 - Lisp doesn't have as many libraries as the most popular mainstream programming languages.

That used to be one of my objections, but it's simply not true any more. And with Quicklisp accessing the (very large) collection of available libraries is incredibly convenient. (Thanks Zach!)

> 4 - There aren't nearly as many Lisp programmers, so it'll be hard to find more to join your project/company if you use Lisp.

That becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it's no harder to create new Lisp programmers than it is to create new X programmers for any other value of X.

> 5 - There aren't nearly as many Lisp jobs, so why bother learning Lisp if you're going to have a hard time finding work using it?

Because knowing Lisp is a huge lever for learning other languages. Once you know Lisp everything else becomes a lot easier to learn (but a lot more frustrating too because now you will be aware of the shortcomings of other languages).

> 6 - Lisp is ancient, and anything that old is useless and primitive compared to new and shiny languages.

Chasing the shiny new thing is usually a mistake. Most old things suck simply because most things suck in general. But the things that don't suck continue to not suck even after they become old. In fact, standing the test of time is one of the defining characteristics of non-sucky things.
Regulatory capture seems to be much less of a problem at the FCC than it does at the state level, where ISP lobbyists have convinced various state governments to forbid the construction of things like municipal broadband networks. Get back to us after you've solved the smaller problem.
Hey, they both use the same image for their devices!
What does Pipelines as Code really mean?
Call me when it runs Ubuntu.
And in a way penicillin is too good to be true, now that bacteria are widely resistant to it and many other antibiotics.
Is it just me or are their "real" benefits pretty poor?

Health Care: no vision, I assume no dental. 25% copay on the PPO is on the higher end too, no?

401K: Not matching up to max. Certainly not all companies do, but still. I guess it's rare for startups.

Equity pool: (1) What happens on year 6? You don't vest any more equity? (2) This feels to me like it would not reward tenured employees as much. If you joined the company at 10 people and it IPOs at 300, you would be diluted significantly more than if you started with 1-2% of the company and diluted at investment rounds (I know they don't like to take on investor money, but just for comparison)

Seems like if you decide to work at Basecamp, you are trading some "real" benefits for the unique company culture.
Many of those countries also increasingly have a two-caste system of fully-fledged full-time employees and "temp" workers of various types. If you want Salaryman culture, like they have in Japan, you can set pretty arbitrarily high expectations about leave and job security.
Sure, but is this not the same as buying a hammer/fertilizer/metal press and using it for your own means? That's a quasi-instantaneous acquisition of the result of hundreds of thousands of years of innovation.
At schools, during exams internet connectivity is disabled on purpose.
How Chromebooks work then?

EDIT: Why the down votes? My wife is a teacher and disabling internet access during any kind of a test (not to mention exam).
Isn't the only way to mutate to avoid CRISPR to change your genes enough that CRISPR can't identify you? If so, doesn't that mean we just find the new genetic signature and generate a variation that targets it?

I see CRISPR as grepping through memory for running instruction code. Sure, the code can change, but if you see the behavior, then it's a matter of finding the new code signature manually and generating a new CRISPR variant target it. If that's accurate, the similarities to anti-malware are pretty cool. Just keep updating your virus DB.
Interesting article title, sad I can't read it. It requires a log in.
> a common problem with surface pro keyboards

Hmm, I thought the fabric was a nice touch. I've had my surface pro for a few years now and have never even come close to staining the keyboard. I wonder how common this issue really is.
It seems this would be the question when using CRISPR against any virus. Right now one would have to use gene drive to 'amplify' CRISPR and apply it in a living, adult organism (as I understand it). Perhaps some "similar" feedback machanism could be used against quickly mutating viral pathogens?
I don't exactly love the carpet thing, but the main problem is definitely Windows 10S.

Despite what Apple is trying to push, I would not like a laptop running iOS, and an iPad Pro is definitely not a "computer".
re: Yunsheng

> Place of origin: Singapore

Generally, when we say Chinese, we refer to mainland China and Taiwan, not the Chinese Diaspora. This would be like saying Indian people love chicken tikka masala.
Does that mean we should pull HIV drugs from the market and return to the situation where it's a death sentence?
I think there's still an option you are not considering. You can still use truecrypt (veracrypt now I guess) to encrypt all your information as a hidden volume (plausible deniability).

1. Create a hidden volume, hide it somewhere in your filesystem. They will be lucky if they find it (they might find it tho).

2. If they find it, give them the password which will show a bunch of family videos and some p0rn so you have an excuse to hide it.

3. lulz at them when you leave.

4. Use the other password to decrypt your real family videos and p0rn.

Am I missing something?

P.S.: Obviously, for a 5GB volume, once decrypted with the mock password, do not just store two text files...
This is not remotely fair to say. To promise a year of leave for all employees, you have to be able to add headcount to cover the absence. It's not simply a year's cash salary we're talking about; it's a potentially uncapped obligation.
What Don’t You Want the NSA to Know About You?
A syphilis epidemic is a lot less deadly and curable than an HIV epidemic. I fail to see your point.
Anyone got a non-paywall link?
Well, academia or government organizations will probably come up with some kind of federated protocol for social media, just like they did with email in the old days. This protocol can then be run by everybody who owns a server (or cluster of servers, depending e.g. on whether the algorithm allows a peer-to-peer configuration).

In this scheme, a company like Facebook would not exist. There could be multiple providers (like hotmail/gmail for email), but it would be easy to switch to a different provider. Or you could start your own (or government agencies could do that if they feared abuse of their citizens' data).
Ready for there to be a whole bunch of comments about how it's easier to get hired as female engineer because of diversity quotas...
>but why do we suggest these archaic hazing rituals?

Well, life is an archaic hazing ritual.
Do you have evidence that people in the last ten years have been arrested for communism, treason, or being Japanese in relation to stepping on a flag?
> Compared to what?

The Surface uses 15W U-series, so they can only be compared with the 13" nTB, the other two use 28W and 45W with dGPU, they're in entirely different classes specs-wise.

> Surface i5, 8/256 $1299, MBP $1499 or $1799 depending on the i5 processor.

1799 is an i7, so no. And the MBP has a graphical edge (50~80% better graphical performances) as it gets an Iris 540 to the Surface's HD 620.

> Surface i7, 8/256 $1599, MBP $2099

1799 (nTB MBP with i7), Surface gets an Iris 640, the direct (and almost identical) successor to the 540.

> Surface i7, 16/512 $2199, MBP $2499.

2199 (nTB MBP with i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD).

So the Surface is slightly lower-priced, at least at the low end, but with the caveat of flexibility: you can get a 16GB RAM or 512GB SSD nTB MBP for 1699, for the Surface it's 2199 or bust, and you can cut the i7 from any nTB configuration at almost no loss[0] to save $300.

[0] https://ark.intel.com/compare/91156,91169 the only difference is 400MHz base frequency, 300MHz maximum turbo
Runnable on a Drobo?
I offered an anecdote, which I did not claim was an argument. Please don't be deliberately uncharitable.

Did you check the results of your yelp search? that's 2 restaurants that are actually in Chinatown and actually serve sushi. An unusually small number for a neighborhood with one of the highest density of restaurants in the city.

Did you read the wiki article you linked? this sentence is in the summary: "While versions of it are thought to have existed in China, the contemporary version was created and popularised[citation needed] in the 1960s amongst the ethnic Chinese community and its consumption has been associated with Chinese New Year festivities in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore." It's modern, and is a holiday feast meal served primarily by the Cantonese diaspora population. This isn't popular everyday eating, and is basically unknown on the mainland.
>please recognize the determination it takes to make it that far.

Why do you say this? Isn't it more likely that many women prefer to take on the role of a mother, and if they've been in a high paid engineering position they likely have a partner who can provide for both of them while they raise children.

Slaving away at an engineering career doesn't seem all that appealing after you've had the rewarding experience of raising your children.
thoughtful explaination
But what's the benefit to turning a readable url into an unreadable one that's only about 3/4 the size?
> If it were only about efficiency, you'd probably just eat beans and rice, day in and day out, with a bit of this and that thrown in.

Saving $1 > Saving $0
The thing about Docker is that the target audience has a technical background. Bob and Joe Accounting has no need for Docker, but Google does, HPC users do, Amazon does, etc. If the CEO doesn't even know how the product works or what it does, that's fine if you're selling iPads to school superintendents, but not so fine if even your customers are likely to know more than you.

Not to insinuate that Singh doesn't understand the product. I'm sure he does, to an appreciable extent. But this isn't just a technical product, it's a technical product that pretty much only other technical people are going to be interested in. You say that holding on to a technical CEO will lead to contempt for the nontechnical employees of the company, I say that even the nontechnical employees of the company (project managers, account execs, salespeople) will need to have technical backgrounds anyway
It is more complex that that: hot food might not be taxed if it is "to go" (Starbucks and their breakfast sandwiches ....), Whole Foods will always apply tax to its food bar items, the ice cream parlor down the street will apply sales tax if you say "for here" but not if they assume take out.

It is very very confusing, and I haven't really figured it out yet.
Has anything been said about PAE or are the rumors wrong? (I remember it mentioning 4GB of RAM but also a 32-bit version for only 32GB of storage.)
People will list it as an attribute that they get add-ons for free.

I'm sure Microsoft is confident in releasing hardware that is relevant to our digital lives under the Surface brand. It's pretty obvious if you go back and look at the pattern, there's either a sect of engineers or product people who really believe in the original Surface table vision, it's a very viable strategy until v1 of the HoloLens is complete
The bad news is they're targeting students. Who wants to see his children being locked into MS Windows software by school? Besides, we just found out Windows 10 has almost complete control over your system and calls home, now sending your kids private data as a bonus!

I would never accept my kids using a device like this on school. Schools are just ignorant and stupid if they make a deal for these laptops with MS. Schools should go for linux and open source, more educational as well.
There is local sync for Google Drive applications (Docs, Sheets, whatever the other ones are called). There is, albeit small, an internal SSD for Chromebooks. On the whole, it's up to the web app developers to handle that functionality.
> careless about other types of STIs.

Maybe true, though sounds awfully spun. I think a better read is that the early years of the AIDS outbreak were ones notable for particular caution in sexual behavior, not the baseline you want to look at.

> Given that our antibiotics are losing their ability to treat many common STIs

Kinda true, though you seem to be evoking the spectre of a multi-drug-resistant syphilis that AFAIK doesn't exist. It also sorta misses the point that the overwhelming majority of STDs are viral.

> an HIV cure without some advancement in antibiotics will be swapping one epidemic for a series of others

Wat? This doesn't follow. At all. Are you one of those people who opposes the HPV vaccine too because it will lead to more sex?
> So, Facebook’s argument is essentially that because there are not as many women in higher-ranked engineering roles, their code is subject to more scrutiny. But it’s problematic that women, which only make up 17 percent of Facebook’s technical department, are not in higher-ranking roles

Think it's time SV faced up to the fact it needs affirmative action for engineers who identify as women. This problem isn't going away, anonymised code reviews would be beneficial too to fight male managers in-built prejudices.
Much like Google's Pixel that was a crazy price for Chrome OS; it's the flagship device for Windows 10 S.
Open to non-EU citizens?
I am talking about "a client of my wife's business".
France is much the same, people there seem to spend a much bigger proportion if their disposable income on food than here in the UK.
Racket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)
Farmers' markets have a long history and were the main means by which consumers bought produce for a long time. http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collect... http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collect... http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collect...

But a lot of places like this were eventually abandoned or demolished, except where they could be maintained or redeveloped as a tourist attraction, like Cincinnati did a few years ago. http://www.findlaymarket.org/

Actually, compared to farmer's markets, the big difference is the network of small-scale independent warehouses. This isn't farm-to-consumer or farm-to-retailer, it's just nimbler distribution.
You could write Ruby, with JRuby and JRubyFX... https://github.com/jruby/jrubyfx
I'm not suggesting that fast, consistent internet service is cheap to provide. However, I'm also not convinced that comcast's prices aren't as high as they are, and their margins as low as they are, only because its a costly service to provide. It's also because they are really bad at providing it.

But that wasn't even my main point. My point is that Comcast is more interested in providing a return to their shareholders than they in providing effective and satisfying customer service.
You're right - government officials (not necessarily corrupt even) write legislation influenced by lobbyists who are hired by the big guys to protect their own interests. All legislation is influenced by lobbyists. It's just the name of the game. More legislation and regulation generally has the opposite effect of getting in the way of innovation and market efficiency.

Regarding sustainable energy - a lot of government funding is already going to that in the form of research grants awarded to people in academia looking at those things. We can increase funding, but that's already happening. The surest way to kill those chances would be, for example, create a carbon tax which has the effects of getting government dependent on revenue coming from fossil fuel emissions, and introduces incentives to ensure that revenue source continues.

Regarding your last question - I don't know. Haven't done the research. But I have read enough of classical economics to know that it's probably not a big deal - or if it is an issue that it will be short-lived. If the consumer is sufficiently fucked then it is the corporation who will have shot themselves in the foot. Law of supply and demand in action
Wow that's awful.
I mean Scheme is not Common Lisp, and Common Lisp is Lisp. Both are "a Lisp" (as is Clojure), or perhaps "a dialect of Lisp", but it's questionable if that really means anything beyond s-exps and macros.
Jan is the entrepreneur that I admire the most. Here are some of the reasons:

1. He was so focused on building the product that he just ignored all emails from carriers and investors. Sequoia partners had to hunt down Whatsapp's office just to get in touch with him. Most entrepreneurs would be easily distracted by investor attention.

2. He didn't care about the press (despite a ton of inbound interest). I don't know how or why he could resist the temptation, but he did for a long time. In fact at one point he tried to consciously stay out of press because he wanted to "manage" growth and didn't want competitors to get wind.

3. Very balanced outlook towards global users - even though SV (or even US) didn't recognize their traction, he always understood that there is a big world out there where not everyone has an iPhone.

4. Focus on infrastructure and reliability.

5. Focus on being "lean". For a long time the team was quite small - but the thing I find most telling is the fact that he didn't have "business people" for a long time - anyone who didn't build the product. At acquisiton I think they had a GC and a business operations guy. It it amazing to be able to resist the temptation to build an empire.

Whichever way you look at it, he comes across as someone who is able to resist common temptations and had a great balanced head on his shoulder.

There is Lot to learn from Jan
What was the Google Play store alternative you tried?
Please do share.
I always search the Play store via browser, because it sucks on the phone.
But there are measures - debugging times, mirrored projects, skunk work small teams that smack down much larger official teams, etc.
" up to four more hours of battery power than a 13” MacBook Pro."

isn't this sign of defeat? mentioning another competitor in your marketing
Study: DDoS Attacks Continue to Be a Significant Security and Business Concern
You talk as if Chromebooks with Google Apps for Education don't send everything, including browser history, to the mothership.
When we approach a customer with our database, SQL compliance is super important to them.

Some of our competitors used to be 'SQL-like', and even they swapped to using full SQL.

I think the fact that SQL is based on solid mathematical principles really helps it stay relevant.
> "no changing search to google" is going to make many people hate Windows S, I bet.

I highly doubt it. The majority of customers won't care at all. Edge and Bing are both really, really good. Most customers that I've worked with when during technical support don't really notice and usually just keep the defaults. Chrome's touchscreen support is absolutely awful so Edge is usually the best go-to option for a touch screen PC anyway.
Lets imagine you can simulate a sperm a cell over it's cell cycle. What do you want to learn about the sperm after you've got your simulation? After you've simulated the sperm you have not yet gained any insight towards how the sperm.

Analogously, you don't need to do molecular dynamics simulations of rocket ships in order to understand how it works. In fact that would be the wrong abstraction. Similarly an atom by atom simulation of the human body would be the wrong abstraction to understand physiology.

Computational models need to be useful. I am not convinced this approach to simulate the cell would be useful.
How to build it fast and cheap
So? The point is everyone can filter according to their preferences, not according to some point system which in the end signifies nothing at all.
Under political pressure, Infosys will hire 10,000 American workers
At a previous job, we talked a lot about managing the expectations of clients. If you promise someone an operating system delivered in two weeks, with a budget of $10k, they will be very upset when you don't deliver. It doesnt matter that it was an unrealistic promise. This is why engineers should double their estimates, and be proactive about communicating delays. People do not like to be disappointed when their expectations are not met.

I think that's what is happening here. People are expecting wildlife photos to be shot in the wild. A studio, or feeding the animals feels like a 'cheaper' or fake product. So they are upset. It doesn't matter if the footage is representative, or if the photos were of a better quality than what could be obtained in nature. It doesn't matter if baiting the animals reduces the cost of making the documentary, potentially increasing the amount of footage we can view. Their expectations were not met.

I've said it before, and probably will have to say it again. We are not logical creatures. We can expect people to behave logically, but we will be disappointed. Then we get upset ;)

EDIT: not saying you were upset

EDIT 2: this is why people don't want to pay for things on the internet. Their expectations have been set.
This is by far the best post about Docker I've ever seen.

We're a small company and so far we've never found a role for Docker. We just deploy stuff to VMs and bare metal servers with Chef. Docker is occasionally useful for testing and builds but that's about it.

But... the thought of coordinating the way we do things with 100+ developers working under layers of middle management is terrifying. Stuff would be breaking left and right. It would be a disaster.

For that we'd want a true zero-interdependency micro service type way of doing things where everyone's part is a different product and is deployed as a completely separate monolith.

For that Docker with all its warts and inefficiencies is an acceptable, standard solution. As you say it's not ideal or elegant but it works and people know it.
Economies of scale, no doubt. While there's only a few nationwide grocers (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Walmart), there's many more regional grocery supply chains all over the country, that largely offer the same products in every single one. Given any population center, odds are you're within an hour of at least one of these. Insanely impressive given the size of the US.