skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ARM needs to make a design they can sell to a lot of different people. Apple has one customer Apple. Their chips are larger and they have more transistors to play with and they can optimize the number of cores to what they want. If you have more transistors you can add more features like decoders, alus, cache, or whatever which make your chips faster. So it isn't fair to say Apple beat ARM at their own game.
Craigslist is pretty close to a single person operation and it's been pretty successful.

I know it's an outlier.
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Fair enough, in the early days native apps had some big advantages. On iOS they still do to some extent, though that's mostly because Safari is such a limited browser and Apple won't let anyone else build something better on their platform. (<cynic>Gee, I wonder why.</cynic>)

As you say, though, the web just has to be good enough to rival native mobile apps, and for most purposes that's been the case for several years now.
Building Clojure Services at Scale
> Why a shop owner would store the price and currency symbol in an item's description is beyond me

If you've worked in the POS world you know exactly why: bad software. It either doesn't support the use case the owner has or isn't easy to use.
Not zero - but not the years dedicated to AIs. As always, there's a cost/benefit analysis: Is a smarter (and efficient - remember the quality of computers when it came out) AI, one which will only be noticeable to a small fraction of the audience, worth delaying the game for another handful of years?
that would be cool, you power the batteries and those batteries light up the gym and power the usb sockets the the user's phones.
Shop owners (almost) invariably just bash their price lists into a spreadsheet or a Word file. A lot of this can be reasonably blamed on their only tools being hammers, so to speak.
That agent is a hero for insisting on that insurance policy.
Same here. Really impressed how the author restrained themselves from jumping into the most intuitive conclusion, and instead quoted a few other plausible alternatives. We need more of that!
It's not the same at all. Calling it that is an insult to sublime multi-cursors.
This appears to be similar to "Brainspotting", a technique that emerged from Dr David Grand's work with EMDR therapy. They're trying now to get funding for fMRI studies during treatments to better understand and possibly validate the treatment. The mode of operation appears to be increasing metabolic activity in certain areas of the brain for the purpose of enhancing processing/garbage collection.
> Despite having a population of more than 310 million people, no one calls 47 percent of the USA "home".

It's a fairly meaningless number resulting in an arbitrary choice of binning. If I defined "home" as "home is where the heart is" and used bins about the size of a human heart then I could say that no one calls 99.999968 percent of the USA "home".
I hope not.
The pay of developers is horrible compared to silicon valley.
Citation needed. Oh, and: wrong. And you obviously didn't listen to the talk...
I'm a bit ignorant. What is PKI?
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I used to work at a very small company (3 people, including myself) that brought in about $4 million per year. The entire software and infrastructure, including a custom web scraping stack and data analysis pipeline, was written and maintained by one developer. The other person was sort of a business development type - no technical input.

It probably wasn't quite as advanced as BuiltWith (scale-wise), but it was similarly impressive how much output was crunched by one developer. I learned a lot from him.
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Business Leader?
>> There are some larger trends I believe that renders the idea of apps as products useless but that's for another topic.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this point. May as well expound on it right here.
Where are you getting this information from? Phil works for CircleCI, who have been very open about how much Clojure they use, and his GitHub profile indicates anything but: https://github.com/technomancy .
> It's true that many recent innovations have reduced costs. But they've often done so by using lower-quality products or untrained workers, or by extracting revenue from personal assets.

I read biography of Tomas Bata, in industrialist from 1930ties. Growth and innovation used to be about making things cheaper and affordable, while preserving quality. Today it is hard to imagine housing cost should go down, rather than up.
I've seen a website background that looked like the shifting gif. Something fancy in js that some developer made. Looked really neat. Ate 100% of my CPU to look at their main site or blog, but it did look neat. Nice to get an idea of what they were doing.
From the looks of things he recently joined CircleCI which is using Clojure, so maybe not all is lost ;-)
Yeah it's easy to start coding in python. Eventually one wants to distribute that code, and then the tears begin.
It's something along those lines. It looks like the music is all "cover songs" :( one of the heavier metadata types.
“Git”ing It. Basics of git
Not enough love for code page 437! If we had proper support for it I wouldn't have so much trouble displaying proper smiley faces in the console. Linux, I'm looking at you.
If the membranes are anything like those in watermakers on yachts, they're pricey and gunk up easily.
Is that scaled to cost of living?
> while they do everything that this pests have a easy run

Which is exactly why we can produce so much food / acre. Land use would need to go up significantly, and thus the price of food, in order to be able to use "natural" methods of pest control. This would affect developing countries the most.
perhaps I was being impatient observing a group of web developers and designers trying to jump into a large React project, practically with no prior experience in react (although familiar with Angularjs, html, css, js, dom) - however the fact is that after 3 months of dev, the react codebase turned into an absolute mess - albeit following best practices around branches, testing, pull request reviews, continuous delivery to staging environments etc...

The main issues seemed to do with global state management favored by Redux (hello global variables, I thought we were over you years ago :) ) and tendency to jam html into react components designed as screens, rather than components.
Brands should make the most out of their social media photos
I think fuzzy logic controllers are very common in appliances. Samsung even has a neuro fuzzy logic washing machine that uses optical sensors to see how clean the water is. I think consumers need a fancy sounding technology on their appliances even if they don't know what it means exactly.
Good luck buddy, I'm rooting for you.
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Housing costs are going up because the good jobs are being concentrated to a handful of cities in the country that benefit from globalization. Cheap housing is abundant in rural America, but because the corporations that control our government benefit from a concentrated workforce, they have no reason to invest in rural America.
Google’s Secrets to Designing Perfect Conversations
The reports of Clojure's death have been greatly exaggerated.
The cost of living is also a fraction of the one in silicon valley. I stayed in Silicon Valley for a few months and compared to Munich, the quality of living is complete horse shit, to be honest.

And Munich is the most expensive city in Germany.
This is a dupe of a recent posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14432977
I have many problems with this analysis, but I'll name the biggest one: the author focuses on increases in value provided, but doesn't consider the cost (for consumers) to obtain that value.

If we receive the same value for lower cost, that's as good as an increase in productivity: I can earn the same money and afford a better living standard. Moreover, this kind of advance benefits the poor disproportionately (relative to the kind the author addresses).
No, not by a long shot.
I wonder: Would this argument still be true if you counted in the cost of living (which varies massively across Europe and also within countries and even cities). Europe is not only Paris and Berlin, in Germany actually the economic powerhorses often are based in the countryside (or close to larger cities) and cost of living is very okay.
I agree with this article.

By writing out the idea that you are considering in your head, you can organize the inside of your head and look down on.
I think that Value Stream Map is good as a method to use for look down on, but how do everyone's put out ideas?
What part of Silicon Valley? I am curious where the quality of living is horseshit.
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I stopped reading when the author admitted that every point he had made in the first two paragraphs about diet causing depression were based on observational studies for which it is not strictly possible to draw such conclusions.
But Sillicon Valley has higher vegan food for dogs density.
Except that's not solving the problem, that's temporarily addressing the symptom. Hypnotics should not be taken lightly or for extended periods of time. Drugs may help at first but they're not the solution for sleep issues. You need to address the underlying problem.
> FWIW I heard that FreeBSD 11.1 (already in 11-Stable) is going to removed IPSEC_NAT_T as a tunable, and it will be effectively enabled by default.

Sweet!! I guess I'll hold off on upgrading my boxes until 11.1 lands.

> I wanted to create an openbsd vm (on bhyve) too, but there is some weird issue with openbsd 6.1 and bhyve passing through some funky cpu flags it shouldn't be that causes openbsd to panic. Apparently passing -w to bhyve works, but I haven't tried it yet.

Good to know - thanks!
My memory is different, obviously. The IE team took great pains to implement Netscape additions even when they were not standards so that the IE rendering was as good. I never heard of any attempt to make Netscape look worse. That doesn't mean it never happened, but I followed the story very closely at the time.

Microsoft was much more co-operative than Netscape in the early days. It was one of Microsoft's advantages when Netscape was winning and running on pure arrogance. See How the Web Was Won, High Stakes No Prisoners and a few other books for details.

Microsoft did introduce ActiveX, which Mozilla considered supporting, and then decided not to.
Hiring people from abroad is also easier in Europe.
Abstract: "We analyze Airbnb's entry into the state of Texas, and quantify its impact on the Texas hotel industry over the subsequent decade. We estimate that in Austin, where Airbnb
supply is highest, the causal impact on hotel revenue is in the 8-10% range; moreover, the impact is non-uniform, with lower-priced hotels and those hotels not catering to business travelers being the most affected. The impact manifests itself primarily through less aggressive hotel room pricing, an impact that benefits all consumers, not just participants in the sharing economy. The price response is especially pronounced during periods of peak demand, such as SXSW, and is due to a differentiating feature of peer-to-peer platforms  enabling instantaneous supply to scale to meet demand"
>Each language needed its own code page. For example Greek uses 737 and Cyrillic uses 855.

Cyrillic is not a language, it's an alphabet/script. Codepage 855 was used for Cyrillic mostly in IBM documentation. In Russia codepage 866 was adopted on DOS machines, because in codepage 855 characters were not ordered alphabetically.

>Even today, on modern windows machines, typing alt+163 will default to 437 and print ú.

It's only true for machines where so called "OEM codepage" is configured as codepage 437. But in Russia it's codepage 866 by default, so typing alt+163 prints г.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's definitely outdated information and we will fix that.
The reason I asked this question is because my parents have always been, and will continue to always be common law. They love each other and raised my brother and I together.

I was born out of wedlock, and still raised by two parents.
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This. I moved from SF to Berlin accepting a 40% paycut. My standard of living in Germany was probably 2.5x compared to California.

However, I decided to go back to San Francisco. There is definitely much more interesting work in Silicon Valley, at least in my field. This may change over time but I am not holding my breath.
> your brain really does want you to eat more veggies

Meat/fish is also important for the brain as it is a good source of vitamin B12. Even a slight deficiency of this vitamin can cause mental problems. This is something to be aware of when following a vegetarian diet.
"Specialist capital expenditure"? All development stacks require a learning curve and money.

Money to buy hardware is relatively cheap - $500. The last time I did mobile development where my company was billing by the hour was 2008. They were billing $125-$150/hour. You could buy a Mac with less than 4 hours worth of billable time.

If you're doing it for a personal project, you could recoup your investment easily with one side gig or by getting a better paying job.
The pay is like half of the SV, and then around half of it you pay in taxes for mediocre services. You have to buy private health insurance on to of that if you don't want to die in public health sector. Then you have infestation of all sorts of terrorists and other low lifes, censorship and political correctness. If you happen to be in the UK your internet is also monitored. Europe is a socialist police state. No thanks.
That's incredibly frustrating and also just ... dumb? I wouldn't have thought any less of the post if it had cited a different interesting post. I would've liked it more, even!
If Europe is better than Silicon Valley, where is the output? They have been silent compared to Silicon Valley in most markets.
Not only is a plant based diet healthy, and every study that tells otherwise is obviously paid by the livestock industry; it's also the only environmentally sustainable diet. I really don't get how so many highly intelligent people acknowledge those facts and still put their tastebuds over everything else. It's not like vegan food can't be absolutely delicious either.
I wonder what tasks the subjects were given in the studies.

slightly related - I seem to remember a study on the performance of hungover people. Hungover people self-reported that they performed worse, but objectively there was no negative change! (edits...or thinking about it some more, maybe the thing was that they had Common Colds)
The article is the usual PR piece on startup sectors in the EU.

Unfortunately, writing hype articles like that do not make things better. From my personal observation, there is a huge difference in funding/regulatory/technology adoption and available workforce.
Makes you reconsider what quality of living really means.
you exited right before he started talking about causual (non-correlative/observational) studies
Here's the thing with pay scaled to cost of living, it means things like pension contributions, ability to save, any property you purchase, are also scaled. There's a reason so many people flock to expensive cities early in their careers.

Very early stage startups might be able to move around Europe for a short period for cheap rents, you're going to be much less able to recruit staff (i.e. non-founders) to move from the West to Slovakia (as mentioned) to work for Slovakian wages.
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The receipt also has the time in 24 hour format, then a zero-padded AM/PM format a couple of lines below. Shoddy software, with no attention to detail.

In Britain, it would be easy not to notice the incorrect symbol when setting up the machine. Elsewhere in Europe, it ought to get noticed quickly — but I occasionally get receipts in Denmark where the shop's address (or even name!) is corrupted, like "SkrÉdderi, LÎvstrÉde" instead of "Skrædderi, Løvstræde".
A Brit hoping to encode the Queen's English in ASCII is, I'm afraid, somewhat naïve. An American could, of course, be perfectly happy with the ASCII approximation of "naive", but wouldn't that be a rather barbaric solution? ;)
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Author of the blog post here. AMA?
But comparing something to something else and it being easy, doesn't make it easy by itself.

Paraphrasing the joke about new standards: we had a problem, so we created a beatiful abstraction. Now we have more problems. One of the new problem being normalization.

It doesn't undermine the good that Unicode brought, but you can't say to have included some unilib.h and use its functions without understanding all the Unicode quirks and its encodings, because some of the parameters wouldn't even make sense to you, like the same normalization forms.
Android is pretend-open. Technically, you have to use Google Play to use the Android name. If you use AOSP then you lose the store and Google's proprietary apps, so you have to build an alternative store and plead for third-arty app support.

That works in China because Google is relatively weak there. It also works for Amazon, which has its own store for Fire products.
No, the Dutch research project is investigating reverse electrodialysis (RED), not pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO)
The problem here is not the printer.

I'm willing to bet the problem here is that the descriptions of the items are stored in the database as ascii and not unicode.
Not necessarily. Schaafsma is located in Ontario, which is a jurisdiction that had already effectively banned the use of neonics, even before the federal government finished conducting their research on the matter.

Legislation alone is enough to incentivize him creating this new planter design.
Wishful thinking, and hilarious that I had to clear a cookie notification just to read the first part of the article. It's that kind of forward thinking web bureaucracy that has allowed SV to flourish.
Yes, backing up the database is one thing. After the setup you can just concentrate on your applications. Btw we are introducing hosted version of the Kontena platform soon, which will make the setup even easier. If you are interested in that option, you can join waiting list already: https://www.kontena.io/invite
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Quote from the article, a bit further down: "Our recent trial was the first intervention study to examine the common question of whether diet will improve depression."
>Then once you're rolling, the amount of red tape involved in testing, releasing, updating etc really is shocking.

So shocking that only ~ 1 million devs managed to put a mere 1.5 million apps to the store...

Ever tried writing for consoles?
Thank you for that link. Well worth reading as it is both funny and informative:

The principal large mammals in Białowieża are
the bison, moose, wolf, boar, bobcat, and graduate
student. The last spends a lengthy juvenile period
studying forest theory in Western Europe before
migrating in to do field work and possibly mate.
Anyone down voting actually have $4m in an index fund? Or are you just keeping the dream alive?
This assumes the poor and middle class don't see a decrease in wages, which just doesn't happen. Wages are a function of supply and demand, and with a larger labor pool, wages go down. A good example is the effect globalization has had on the Midwest[1]. Wages are lower, inequality is higher, and the jobs are being concentrated to cities with a higher cost of living. Historically, a family could live comfortably with a single wage earner in the house. Nowadays that's very tough to do without having an advanced degree.

[1] http://www.epi.org/press/globalization-lowered-wages-america...
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This comment is unusually dumb and ignorant for HN.

I hope I missed some form of sarcasm here.
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How I Learned that 2 = 1 – A First Step into Non-Dualism
The context for this discussion is the decline of that trend.
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Thanks! Impressed how smart and well articulated these players are. Impressive interview from this Chris Borland.

I am used to follow soccer. Soccer players in Brazil don't usually finish school properly and come from very poor background where education is awful even if you finish school. It is a sad state of basic understanding of the world and autonomous thinking.
> I doubt, that there ever was such a man.

I've heard this question before. I think it's more useful to think of it as "When was the last era when it was possible for one person to know everything that's known?"

Doubtful that there ever was such a particular person, at least because of geography, as you point out, and different concerns in different parts of the world. But there must have been such an era; I don't know when that was.
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Single founder/employee, 6-digit revenue, no outside funding.
That's not a very nice or accurate comment. Sure, SV salaries are higher but it's bound to be like that. Even without taking into account the SV monoculture and exchange rate differences the cost of living in SV is far far far higher than a lot of Europe.

Plus, you know, culture. Lots of culture.
Do you have a source for this? Is all their revenue from ads?
I too almost quit and posted a comment complaining after the first few paragraphs, but fortunately I read a bit further first.

They go into "Teasing out the cause from the correlation" which actually talks about the design of a study to do so. Seems like a fairly good approach, wish they would have made it clear that this was the direction from earlier, but eh, probably my fault for being lazy and having no attention span anymore.
I'm very skeptical of that claim. Besides the fact that every week we read an article about X city is the new Silicon Valley, Europeans in general don't seem to have that same drive Americans do to create new products. Which could explain why we haven't seen many large innovative tech companies come out of there in a while.

(Though in countries like the Czech Republic, and to a lesser extent places like Romania and Poland seem to have more drive, and the work ethic to boot.)

Edit: I'm not saying that they haven't achieved say a better work/life balance, but that their culture doesn't seem to produce very many world changing entrepreneurs as evidenced by so few companies being created there and that stay there.

I'm not sure what's going on with the Hacker News culture lately, but it seems to be increasingly hostile to diversity of thought. I get that comparing cultures has come under fire from the extreme political left, but that's no reason we can't have a discussion about it. I would like it if members didn't just downvote me, but engage me instead. Anecdotally, I've been to several European countries, I've engaged with local populations, and the culture is different. And empirically, they're not innovating anywhere near the rate the US is. I'm willing to change my views, I would love to be wrong and that Europe will experience an entrepreneurial renaissance, but I just don't see it. Tell me where I'm wrong.
Yes in Munich it's hard to get good vegan food, but in Berlin it's as easy. I don't agree on dogs however. There are a ton of those in Germany.
I bet you don't mean at central locations, because 10-20 miles further to your workplace, as most of Londoners or Berliners can afford to live, you have affordable housing in SV as well.