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It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Clojure is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Clojure community when Lambda Island confirmed that Clojure market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all new code. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Clojure has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Clojure is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive programming languages survey.

You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Clojure's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Clojure faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Clojure because Clojure is dying. Things are looking very bad for Clojure As many of us are already aware, Clojure continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Due to the troubles of Lisp, abysmal sales and so on, Lisp Machines went out of business and was taken over by GigaMos Systems, who sold another troubled Lisp. Now GigaMos is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Clojure has steadily declined in market share. Clojure is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Clojure is to survive at all it will be among programming language dilettante dabblers. Clojure continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Clojure is dead.
That is more desirable, but with more js rendering on the front end and anti-botting measures by retailers, it's not reliable anymore.
I did not know about gradcheck. Thanks for the pointer! I have some handwritten code that does some of this for me. But essentially, yes! I want better tooling to catch my mistakes.
World Bank's Star Economist Is Sidelined in War Over Words
I'm in the middle of the road between those, but I love a good CRUD app. If it helps other people be more productive and remove stress from their day it's amazing.
This is minor depression, related to your work. I would emphasize that your thoughts are not irrational or misplaced, no matter how much money is on the table or how the situation might look to an outsider. The fact that you are currently hiding it is also not abnormal. Your mind is unconsciously focusing energy on analysis of your problems and how you might solve them, and you may be on the edge of signaling for help, implied by the crying.

You’re tightly ensnared in an overly restrictive set of obligations. Perhaps it’s classic burnout from just plain working too much in a demanding role, or perhaps you have new ideas about how to make a living that would require new employment which is restricted by your LOI terms. Perhaps it's something else altogether or a combination of things. In any case, the symptoms are a direct response to these socially-imposed constraints hindering your pursuit of something more appealing, that in your view are beyond conventional means of renegotiation.

It would help immensely to talk with someone - therapist, your wife, etc - and help work through why you are feeling this way and what changes can be made to alleviate the mismatch. There are many good pieces of advice already in the comments here. Just remember that things cannot continue the way they are now without some kind of situational change (not drugs) or your symptoms will only get worse and more debilitating. Good luck.
It's funny how surgeon is listed as the farthest out application of in the abstract. I think surgery is in fact the easiest of all the listed jobs in an AI sense, but it might depend more on advances in robotics.
I'm more interested in immunology than respirology so I know very little about CF. Your idea sounds plausible (I'd give credence to the possibility that reducing stress is part of it, and maybe also the placebo effect), so some day you might be validated. Thanks for talking!
Has anyone seen the documentary Supermensch?

I wonder what the fine line is between being a mensch like Shep Gordon, with the kind of legend and grandeur that comes with such a title, and being an over-accommodating person to a pathetic degree, as described in the article.

It's tough to describe, but somehow a mensch has all the traits of an over-accommodating person without the sign on their back that says "use me."
I was in a similar situation a few years ago - not as badly burned out and wanting to quit, but having a strong desire to do something else after 17 years(!) on the same project, with me as sole founder and still major developer/"architect". We were also in acquisition talks back then and minor health issues (that turned out to be rather major ones later) didn't help.

What happened next:

* the acquisition - I discussed the possibility of leaving and insisted that the new owners obtain much more than just a slim majority, so I didn't have to worry as much about the future of the company if I left (it would have been annoying to have a major stake and no control, particularly as an opinionated ex-founder). It wasn't easy and my plans certainly didn't affect the price positively, but we found a good solution.

* I left rather quickly (a few months after closing the deal) and nominated a most suitable candidate for CEO who had been in the company for ~12 years. He's not a developer, but he's doing great and the company is thriving. They hardly ever need to ask me things about old code now. In hindsight, everyone is happy that a larger stake changed hands.

So, that's my recommendation based on personal experience. Stick around till the acquisition and make sure you can leave without causing major problems. Good luck! Remember that as a founder, you might misjudge/overrate how much the company actually depends on you.

PS. as for "other plans", life makes its own - I have been mostly dealing with my health issues lately, so it's safe to say I was better off beforehand. C'est la vie...
So. Take out tourism or otherwise western infusions of cash. What does Nepal look like? I suppose I shouldn't mention Tibet.
>> I suspect I'll be waiting a while though, since the FCC, like many of the commissions like it, were not created with the Russian coup like we're experiencing right now in mind.

I stopped reading after this sentence. If you want me to listen to what you have to say (and judging by the amount of paragraphs on your post, it looks like a lot) then using political rhetoric doesn't help you at all.

I want solutions, and I'm plenty fucking tired of pointing fingers and talking about conspiracies.
Because the two product expressions compute different results for some values of a. Floating point values are not real numbers. Many apparently obvious equivalences are not. Welcome to the wonderful world of floating point computations.
Do we know the researchers haven't tested other vehicles? If VW were cheating to a greater degree than other manufacturers, that might explain why they were the first to be caught.
Drink some St. John's Wort.
Venezuela Secretly Plotted to Sell Banned Syrian Oil to the U.S
Interesting the OPs article says 5 bottles while the link above says take 12. I guess it depends upon the climber and their fitness.
The CPE problem is a bit of an elephant in the room. Just from my own experience, setting up IPv6 on my Comcast connection took quite a bit of fumbling around before I managed to hit on the right settings - and my router's GUI hardly even acknowledges the existence of IPv6 at all.

On the upside, I have a /60 to play with...
Woah I never noticed this but yea, when I am at my standing desk I shift from standing on one leg to standing on the other leg, shifting when my foot complains.

(to address your yoga pose, just sort of half wrap the ankle around the back, doesn't require much/any effort for the second leg if you let the toe drag all the way down towards the ground)
The Scopes monkey trial was quite a long time ago indeed. If a peaceful modus vivendi were the goal, one might reasonably imagine that enforcement efforts, whether legal, judicial, or cultural, would end when teaching the theory and evidence of human evolution ceased to be illegal.

The attempt to dictate that that, and nothing else, be permissible - utterly without regard, in this nation of better than a quarter billion people, for anything so completely irrelevant to the question as whatever local opinion on the matter may happen to be - seems, if nothing else, curiously at odds with the ubiquitous contention that those who persist in the attempt wish merely that "live and let live" be the whole of the law.

That said, before I conclude here, I feel it incumbent upon me to note my appreciation for your having chosen to engage with my prior comment, rather than merely downvote it and move on. I can hardly but acknowledge that the substance of that comment is not merely heterodox in the extreme, but very likely to get right up a lot of people's noses. Such commentary invites downvotes, and those who engage in it have no excuse to find this upsetting - but I do always find it preferable when someone instead takes the time to engage, and I thank you very kindly for so doing.
Quit immediately.
No transition.
Sleep.
When you're rested, decide what you want to do with the rest of your life
OpenDropper – Frogger 8bit Game on Digital Microfluidics Device
That was a solid, quick presentation of key ideas that could impact people a lot. Most psych links I see people post aren't like that. Great video! Thanks for sharing it.
If your technical decisions are black or white, you work on trivial problems - collaborate to tackle a bigger issue where you need to consider tradeoffs.
Max Ogden and Mafintosh are incredibly talented and productive. Awe-inspiring to see the things they make.
I just say "ooohhh, I'd love to, but I have an excuse :(".

Most people don't get it, but they're confused long enough for me to escape.
I cannot find anything on Google about the "Gaes-Marreau Law" or "gaes-marreau".

Could you please link me to something that explains it?
Most important thing is to make it impossible to create feedback loops.

Nobody should not be able to know how successful the ad campaign was for every single person.
JavaScript slow? Compared to what? ClojureScript is within 10-20% of JavaScript or less (virtually the same).
How big is the company?

You're right to identify this as a hard problem. I've been in your exact shoes before. 100+ person company, the weight is heavy.

The good news is that it's totally possible to get out without wrecking the company's outlook. But it does take a minor amount of time investment. Perhaps it's possible to view it as a new challenge: how to quickly hire or find someone within your org who is capable of taking over your day-to-day responsibilities? Who do people ask for decisions / advice when you're out sick?

Frame it as a promotion for them. Give them a (small) comp bump and a new set of responsibilities that include most (or all) of your existing responsibilities.

Coach them for a quarter, give them enough rope to hang themselves with, give them radically candid feedback, and then you can step away. (Or even go do something else interesting at the company!)

I can go into a lot more detail if you'd like -- please email me. The username in my profile (not my HN handle) at gmail.

Good luck, positive vibes!

P.S. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmdLcyES_Q as a jumpstart to getting your org ready for life without you
Clojure is a tool for people who know their doing by people who know their doing.

Just like a fine Stradivarius violin. For me the violin would be indistinguishable from an entry level violin but for the master it's a very powerful tool.
Licensed and board certified fortune tellers.
China's State Media Hits Out at Debt Downgrade with a Buffett Quote
Though sometimes this is half-jokingly in the context of "oh god it's -10F, why do people live here? I was tricked into coming here instead of Toronto".
I'm curious why not a minivan? What does the commercial commuter van offer in terms of functionality that the minivan doesn't?
After a period of a few hundred years it becomes a pretty ready to go repository of weapons grade plutonium. The problematic isotopes all have died away.
Lmao. Depending on the marriage, that could've changed the man's life for the better. ;)
My government just says I need to get a better paying job.
Yeah, IPFS + IPNS is effectively on par with Dat archive mutability, but mutability being built-in to Dat + its verifiable history log is particularly well-suited to building peer-to-peer websites
I learned from working with lawyers, salespeople, marketers, managers, that I tend to understand most the difficulty of those areas I know best, and discount other areas until I've done or studied them. If researchers are asked the difficulty of automating areas outside their expertise, this may be true of them too. Their common area of expertise is of course AI itself.
But can't we decline politely while still telling the truth. Lying seems unnecessary in this situation. I think white lies are more for things like when someone asks you what you think of their cooking and you tell them it's delicious no matter how it tastes.
Hi,

I'm Indian myself and came to America in 1999 on a H1B Visa. I feel your pain, that's why I slaved nights and weekend for almost a year and created http://visaok.in/

Still polishing up the search and few other details, then will do a Show HN soon. I Soft launched it in April. It's a site with curated job listings in Countries and Companies that sponsor * the Work Visa / Work Permit.

You can click "Browse" and filter by Visa, Country, Job Title, Skills etc. Outside of USA, Countries with the largest # of Jobs that are sponsoring work visas are Germany, Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Spain, Australia etc. The Australian work visa is also undergoing some radical changes like the H1B here, but it's still there to stay.

You are exactly the kind of person(s) I am trying to help. So help me help you. Any feedback on the site and content is much appreciated. Tell me what you'd like to see, and I'll build it for you.

You can contact me via email at theblogdoctor @ gmail

[ Other techies / hackers who are in a similar situation as OP, please feel free to provide me with feedback on the site, and what will help you the most. I know ya'll are tired of searching for jobs only to find "Sorry, cannot sponsor visa / H1B at this time." ]

=) Shiva

* = I contact the HR at Companies where I can and verify that they are able to Sponsor specific Visas for the Job.
This is in fact the crux of the argument that the FCC put forth.

They said that it isn't fair that some companies are restricted from using your private information, but huge companies like Google, Facebook and others have free access and free reign to with it what they want. Instead of making your data private from all the companies, they instead did THE EXACT OPPOSITE and made all the private information readily available to everyone and every company who wants it.
Ask HN: How many Google engineers are working on Google Spreadsheets
Bonus: How much did this tool cost Google to build/maintain?
We should use deep learning to find out when
Maybe if you're talking nation to nation. We have all kinds of huge corporations or midsized firms in the U.S. that keep or gain market share with unreasonable for them amounts of customer service. I have a few near me. They'll straight up loose money on a single customer in the corner cases of business if it aids them in the long run. It does so far.
That thinking will lead you to Roko's Basilisk
Sandi Metz seems to have the oop teaching thing down. I looked at her 3 day course, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/537c0374e4b0f52ed9294... to see what topics she covers there and it seems like it has mostly do with SOLID principles. Thanks for the suggestion, I've been looking at that book as well.
Thanks for letting us know Ricky, it's great to see new functionality being released so often on Twilio. Playing with functions for a bit today, it would be great to be able to add additional nodejs libraries, is that a feature coming up any time soon?
"when my fiance needs something from me that actually makes sense"

Be careful with that, friend :)
Swapping doesn't just work with XORs: http://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/25/xor-trick/
Oddly, as someone who was reasonably into Common Lisp, what really viscerally turned me off to Clojure was the use of square brackets.

This sounds petty but I actually have some rationalization for it. Once you learn to read Lisp (mostly looking at the indentation and ignoring the parens) it's really nice that there's only one kind of delimiter in the language. It allows a lot of easy structure editing with a decent editor. I had emacs set up to use the unshifted square bracket keys to create and exit balanced parenthesis pairs. Once you got used to this, this was really pleasant to write and mutate code.

As soon as I saw Clojure, I knew that my setup would unavoidably get twice as complicated because they added another delimiter that's used in random places in the code. (Why are function arguments a vector instead of a list? Just because the designer thinks it looks better? Why are let bindings a vector? Why are ordinary function calls and function bodies a list? It just feels arbitrary.) That in and of itself really turned me off. (The fact that it's the JVM really didn't help either, but that was actually secondary to the above.)

Other issues for me were the lack of two layers in the LET statement (i.e. it's (let [a 1 b 2] ...) rather than (let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...). To some that probably "looks better" but it kills the ability to use emacs's transpose-sexps to swap the order of your let bindings around.

All in all the syntax just didn't seem well thought out to me. OTOH to non-lispers it probably looked better, so maybe that was the goal.
Charter/Spectrum is actively rolling out IPv6 to customers now:
http://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/ipv6-faq/
I think they were serious. I was certainly joking.
ETH is a token just as Kik's Kin will be a token. You are correct that it is built into Ethereum, rather than on top of Ethereum. I tried to make that distinction by calling it "native".
A historian of science, business professor, or futurist, might provide perspective on when people automating previous trades estimated they'd be automated; how long until they were; how long previous innovations spent in various stages of translation; and how this compares to what is known so far about the AI pipeline.

It has less to do with title than systematized knowledge of models, but people with those titles are more likely to have invested in acquiring this knowledge and these models.
I think this is the key point. It's too hard to understand, and adds a lot of what I would consider extraneous and over-engineered guff. People will naturally resist it when what they have, works.

The only thing that needed fixing was the address space (imo, as far as I can see), but if I need to turn it on, I now have to worry about weird routing, special addresses (IPv4 has some, but IPv6 seems to have taken it to a new level), understanding hexadecimal addresses, translation layers etc. What a mess, just extend the address space.
Here's another example: https://vimeo.com/44887922

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~glauder/reprints_unzipped...
Most people I know who’ve taken large doses of psychedelics, including myself, are convinced of their incredible potential for treatment of mental issues. The problem is that they can be…unpredictable.

The last time I had a large dose of psilocybin mushrooms, it was a difficult experience, but afterward I began to take better care of myself—drinking less alcohol, spending more time with friends and family, enjoying the outdoors, being less generally anxious about work, life, and death. It really changes your personality. Those effects remained strong for several months and noticeable for about a year afterward.

Definitely not a thing to be trifled with—and I’ve seen firsthand the rare case of a psychotic episode brought on by careless use of psychedelics—but I can’t believe we’re not using this stuff medicinally or trying to develop more reliably therapeutic analogues. (I did once meet a woman who does ayahuasca-assisted addiction treatment therapy, but that’s far from common, and even less predictable.)

I’ve been asked for ID when buying cold medicine that happens to contain DXM. I don’t understand why people take that stuff recreationally, though, other than that it’s available. Even an ordinary cough-suppressant dose of 10mg is overwhelming to me.
Obligatory: This is where the second image in the article ("this is not a place of honor") comes from. It's also briefly summarized in the last few paragraphs. Worth a read on its own.

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%...
Are you pointing this out as a vulnerability of the public model?
Can confirm - right now I personally work as a "Party Associate" at Party City - not very stress free. Customers can be very specific with what they want. Running a startup sounds like a dream - I'd much rather have your job, even if I still had to keep my $9.75/hour. (Anyone looking for a college sophomore eagle scout in the MN area for the summer?) (gallerdude@gmail.com)
Why Should the Big Banks Get Free Money?
Our truck has a DEF tank that's smaller than the fuel tank, and requires refilling about a tenth as often as the fuel tank does. A nearby truck stop has a DEF dispenser, so it's no more difficult to fill than the fuel tank.

Of course this truck probably emits more NOx than an emissions-compliant diesel car would, but it also burns about twice as much fuel. The real problem with DEF in passenger cars is those "luxury" manufacturers that require a special tool to fill the DEF tank, as if DEF were some rare or dangerous substance.
Insomnia REST client – v5.1.0
Do you take deep dives, general overview, tinker by taking things out etc?
It's 'Maes–Garreau law'. Kelly made up a 'law' based on a few AI predictions falling into a certain range; but you can see from the linked paper (which uses like 20x more predictions) that it's not really that accurate a law and there's more that goes into AI forecasts than just +X years. (For example, China vs the West in OP, which is interesting and makes sense thinking about it, but hadn't occurred to me.)
Intro to Icons by MDS
Hey, I have started researching these topics as well, I am interested in reading your ebook, can you share it?
Show HN: Hello Microsoft Graph – Use Microsoft Graph in Angular Project
Some of those things do have epistemologically solid answers, but our culture of 'agreeableness' has forced people to say otherwise for centuries on end, regardless of what the truth may be.
So, my ashamedly limited historical understanding of this, brought to me by John Oliver, is that the FCC was assumed to have the powers of the whole Title II thing prior to losing a court case.. Is this the case?

If that's the case, Pai's rationalization is very hand-wavy.
Hello Microsoft Graph!

Use Microsoft Graph to read your contacts and write to Excel in Angular app!
I’ve Never Received a “Bad” Email, and You Shouldn’t Either
SLIME (for Emacs) is wonderful. I like Emacs, what i don't like is the key combinations, which are horrible.

Fortunately, you can redefine them. Emacs can be customized at will, and using Lisp :)
> There have been numerous Supreme x Nike collaborations, starting (I believe) with this Nike SB Dunk in 2002

I've been a skater most of my life. I was completely perplexed when a bunch of the guys I skate with regularly suddenly became sneakerheads almost overnight.

This explains a LOT.
The day Ford execs testified in favor of bailing out both GM and Chrysler, it was clear that they have little interest in beating their supposed competitors.
One can be secure in the belief that a battle is worth fighting, even if nobody has ever one one before. Our future is not determined only by our history.