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> [...] and keep thinking the way you do.

I think sociologically it is wrong to just ignore 'them' as considering a change of your own thinking is important to resolve conflicts in general.

Nevertheless, without an explanation there is little he can do so ignoring them might be a reasonable self-defense in this situation.
>>This is why after 50 years it is still a niche language, and will remain so.

The bigger problem here is the number of programmers have increased disproportionately over the years. For that alone reason technologies had to be dumbed down to a point where anybody could use it.

If programming kept its original ethos, it would suffer the same problems one suffers taking a subject like Math mainstream.

But the real problem here is just starting now. You now have a whole generation full of masses of programmers who only do XML/JSON parsing, talking to HTTP interfaces and doing HTML and doing nothing more. This is like people doing basic algebra whole life. Eventually you won't get much out of this sort of practice.

At some point in time, to not max out the value generated by a system you have to up the level of the game, and that would come at a painful task of having to retrain entire generations of programmers which neither will be easy, and in many people's case it won't be possible.

Already languages like Java have shown their limits. To build anything meaningful you need large frameworks, with crazy dependency graphs, to manage which you need one another framework(DI). And with all that you barely get to do the ordinary stuff.

So eventually you would have only delayed the use of something like FP, not entirely eliminated it.

>>There is little demand for programming languages that are hard to maintain.

Java applications with 100 classes to post to REST interfaces will eventually suffer the same fate.

'Maintainability' is a very subjective term.

>>A working program lasts decades

Not true anymore. This was true pre dot com days. Thanks to all this agile processes and 'fail fast' culture. Code bases have very little life these days.

>>LISP is dead-end technology that will forever keep being brought up as its temptations are irresistible to some.

The success of Clojure means this is totally false.
IIRC DDG delegates the crawling to Bing, but does the actual searching itself.
Even putting your money in a checking account causes it to be spent into the economy (as the bank loans it out).

There's no rational reason to borrow money and make a pile out of it.

Even people who operate cash businesses (like casinos) rush to deposit the cash in a bank ASAP.

> If an investor chooses the strategy that gives themselves the best ROI that doesn't mean the investment is necessarily beneficial for anyone else.

Actually, it does mean just that. An investment is giving someone else money to do something productive with that money. That person will take their cut, and so benefit.
Lots of php mostly. A bit of node. We use python but we are small players.

The fun thing is more about the db. E.g some go full in memory redis while others stay on a good old mysql.

Although, don't let yourself fooled by the poor ui. It doesn't reflect the tech behind, and is now mostly ugly for marketting reasons.

Big sites makes millions and of course have full time dev team. They need to innovate constantly. E.g provide best moments on the player timeline, add face recognition to categorize actors, buff the infra for live cams, etc.

However, very few use the cloud. It's mostly home made. Video streaming is expensive, and you can divide your costs by 10 by avoiding aws and cie.
Alright, do you have an actual example to show?
This zoomable interface shows all items at once: https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/rokin/
Perhaps all his 30 speech proposals were completely inane and he's been viewed by organizers as that spammy fellow in late stages Dunning–Kruger syndrome? If that's the case, then muting communications is the least offensive option and it is entirely appropriate. However it does require the other side to be able to take a hint.
After reading the "code of conduct" on their homepage I would assume that you have unknowligly broken something like

> "Using gendered terms like “dude” or “guys” to address a mixed-gendered group of people contributes to furthering exclusion of underrepresented individuals."

The fact that they included an option to "make an anonymous" report furthers the assumption that you just got under the political wheels of the conference.
> Languages don't create unmaintainable code, people do

Have you ever seen so-called academic code? If your developers are PhDs without a programming background, you're bound to get programs that reflect the complexity of their own throught process plus the subject they are dealing with. I don't think encouraging that through something as unbound as Lisp is a good idea, as much as I love how unbound Lisp is.

Python probably hits a sweet spot in this regard.
> HFT companies managed to avoid using this exchange very successfully.

You mean they didn't accidentally trade on IEX? That's not surprising.

Also, I would believe that if you're doing pure latency arb, then trading on IEX isn't profitable, but there are other high-frequency strategies besides pure latency arb. Are you restricting your definition of HFT to pure latency arb strategies?
We used some of the research around Mechanical Turk to find best practices for limiting trolling (e.g. [1]). Our approach thus far has been the two-thirds rule: if two out of three people say the clip is good/bad, we trust that. Also note, that we have seen remarkable low trolling numbers, and that most of the invalid are pronunciation mistakes or saying the wrong word.

1.) https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2010/McGraw_LR...
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Possible answers:

1) Some political views correspond strongly with problematic behaviour that a conference would rather not deal with.

2) Virtue signaling for PR purposes.
We also keep the README in the repo:
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/blob/master/docs/corpus...
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I think it's because people in the CL community tend to create unmaintainable code. And many of them don't like unit tests.
You submitted 30 proposals? Maybe they are just annoyed by you spamming them?

Also, they just banned you on twitter, what's the big deal here? You can still attend the conference.
It's fascinating how you can see hints of the city's history through these items. E.g. from the "golden age" (16-1700s) there are tons of items from the bustling cloth and textile trade. It's also interesting to see how the apparent quality of items has gone down over the centuries - even though there's probably some survivorship bias, most recent items are just paper and plastic, and probably wouldn't have lasted very long.
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After reading the article I learned that Beenz had a bit more capitalist greed to it than I thought at the time. It was never quite there yet, always chicken and egg. I was notionally in favour of it but I was not an early adopter. Coverage in the press was generous but it did not seem they had fallen for the hype, there was something genuine about it. We also did not realise micropayments were not going to solve everything, eventually 'free' ads to stalk you everywhere became the 'solution'.

If it was brought back today I would endorse it a lot more than those silly ponzi-coins that people get so excited about.

I say ponzi-coins pejoratively for everything cryptocurrency related, and I do think that there does need to be some campaigning against them. A little bit of idle speculation here and there by people wanting to get rich with a bit of play money does encourage those people that skim off from the rest of society with their ponzi-coin scheming.

Trade makes the world happen and makes us human rather than Neanderthals, they died out because they did not trade. Beenz may have had get rich quick dreams but the ethos was there, to enable publishers to get money for articles and for people to buy/sell stuff.

The problem I am having with ponzi-coins is that there is none of that, not even a veneer of wanting to make the world a better place. An army of people now exist that just have nothing better to do than to make everyone else bag holders of their blockchain bamboozle voodoo and I think they need to have their oxygen supply cut off. Ponzi coins have done nothing for the public good. Does this make Visa/Mastercard and the banks 'better'? Nope, but just like Beenz was not the right solution neither are these ponzi coins.
Those are ideal rare conditions you are talking about.

Also they don't apply to online open source projects and tutorials.
Perhaps - then tell him.

The reason does not matter (especially since we are unlikely to hear it from anyone), what matters is that they refuse to say what it is. "Effort" is not an excuse either since they even replied to him - but with something unprofessional while still leaving out the reason for no good reason that I can think of. You can even mask it behind a more fuzzy reason if you think the specific reason is not good enough to be made public, but they did not even make the attempt.

> then muting communications is the least offensive option

Only after telling him. Something, anything - they could even make up a polite "official" reason and keep the truth for themselves as we humans often do, which can actually be perfectly okay. But stubbornly refusing to give any reason at all... no, that's not okay. It would be if it was between individuals, but not for a professional organization, especially one that the person may not be able to ignore even if they wanted to, since he seems to find them a valuable contribution for his professional life.
beautiful website, well beyond its functional requirements.

I wonder if any other cool stuff gets found when the canals are fished for bikes (another interesting thing about NL canals I heard about on HN[1]), or if that happens in mostly the same areas, making them more likely to be over-fished.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAIzp9MCkg
We do have a issue filed to allow users to tag recordings with certain metadata, like noisy or male/female voice.
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/814

It is something we are still working on.

> The other thing is that it's very cool to see the "you helped us reach out x% goal" thing but it locks up all the previous / next shortcuts which means I have to switch back to the mouse after 5 entries.

That's a bug! Would you mind filing one here:
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues
When these discussions come up, I always remember a comment from a guy (sorry, can't remember his name) in the scala google groups. People were arguing that the scala compiler was too complicated and someone wanted to write a new language. This guys says he can pop up a Hindley-Millner type-inference lang in a couple of weeks, and someone notes that the adoption wouldn't be as nearly as high as with scala.

The guys says he just wants a language where he and his team can be productive. This. 1000x this. Ranters gonna rant, haters gonna hate, but productive people will use whatever floats their boat. For me it's clojure lately. I don't need to convince anyone that 'X' is better than 'Y'. If a new paradigm comes along (actors) that proves valuable, I hope that my language can assimilate it (quasar/pulsar). Otherwise I'm happy.

Besides, in today's startup economy, we're lucky if a company lasts months, nevermind about decades.
> As a general statement, that's just as much an assumption as the GP's claim. Where are the studies to back it?

Never in my life have I ever heard of anybody (other than criminals and a few mentally ill people) with a cash hoard. Nor have I ever known anyone to do this. I've never seen any newspaper article about anyone with a hoard. Never a magazine article profiling millionaires with cash hoards. No books about it.

And yet, it is apparently conventional wisdom that wealthy people hoard cash as a general rule.

Name one wealthy American with a cash hoard.
You can copy the story ID from the original URL. It's the "long" number just after the date — e.g. in the following URL:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/6217527...

it's 621752789. I would then click any random story on the default "plain text site" (https://text.npr.org/), to quickly get a base URL for a story, and then replace the sId in the URL with the copied number. Thus:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=621752789
I inferred the items were mostly dredged up from the Amstel riverbed, rather than a canal. Either way, as an Amsterdam resident this is a fascinating deep dive into the city's history (and its international visitors).
> Also... (too lazy to check right now) - if I create an account, can I see the 'yes/no' ratings of my own submissions?

Not yet, but this is something in the works. You can explore our new experience with the evergreen link:
http://bit.ly/cv-desktop-ux
I've also wondered about this, and the only conclusion I could come to is quite cynical. Think about the practical effects. It encourages people to create multiple accounts and also encourages warring of various sorts. These behaviors send Twitter's usage and user numbers up without bots while enabling complete plausible deniability about any complicity. It's a problem with ad-driven networks. Their goal is to increase user numbers which enables them to inflate their advertised reach and thus increase their overall revenue.

One might joke about Facebook bragging about its reach: "We have more than 2 billion users and only 25% are located in the USA!" Subtlety, math, and statistical references all in one one-liner joke - what could be better?
Would you mind filing an issue?
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues
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Not exactly reassuring. That's "huge" by pretty much any definition!
The reason we respect HN and its respective admins, is because they explain their decisions quite openly and transparently, and will even discuss issues over email. I was actually banned a few years ago because I was being a negative, hateful, POS due to some events in my life combined with clouded judgment. But I appealed, and began posting better comments that were more in line with what one would expect from a discussion forum for positivity (startups) and rationalism (tech.) I'm sure there are many others like me who the admins treated quite fairly and with respect. "Silent treatment" is a last resort, in all other cases it is just a weak and impotent thing to do.
you complain at this point? I feel like this is complaining about someone sneezing during a flood.
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There has been some discussion around this, but no real movement yet:
https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues/336
Lambda seems like a pretty easy thing to change. The interface is just a single stateless function call, you could probably write a shim to any other system if it came to that. In general my feeling on lockin is I'd rather get the app done a month sooner, focus on my business at the small cost of being locked in.

If the concern includes leaving aws in general, data is a bigger issue. It's incredibly expensive to move data out of AWS, both in time(you probably have to make something distributed) and money. Also, if you choose one of the really native datastores like dynamodb, that could require a lot of code rewrite. But actually leaving, especially for price, is not something Ive heard many people do - often engineering time is worth so much more than servers its gotta be significant to make sense.
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> Every metric I can check says it is going downhill.

I've seen a fair number of metrics that show it's losing market share on a proportional basis, but holding steady on an absolute basis. Have you seen anything to contradict this?
Your comment reminded me of this quote:

"The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far back into the abyss of time; and whilst we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much further reason may sometimes go than imagination may venture to follow"

This was Thomas Playfair commenting on the works of his friend James Hutton. Of course they were talking about deep geological time rather than human history, but the same sense of wonder is there.

NB I actually became interested in geology pretty much because it is history at an epic scale.
1) To ensure that known trolls/predators do not show up.

2) Probably because consent can be enforced this way much easier than it can be created in a real discourse. Especially in Germany it is frowned up by leftists to even talk with people from the right-wing spectrum.

I get (1), but (2) makes me wonder whether we learned anything from history at all.
Rome was still ~BC, Alexander the great was ~300 BC.
How early counts in your book?
Let's see if the current logging thread will result in anything. :-)
Two people either on the list already or working for Google have to endorse you.
2) would require the conference organizers to announce we've blocked this person.
48 is for the 75:25 probability.

I did have the wrong number of years for 50:50 though, it's not the 10 I stated. This problem is the reverse of binary doubling, and I knew 10 bits are a needed to get to 1024, and my brain just sealed out thousand and million. It takes 20 bits to get to over 1 million, so 20 halvings from exactly 1 million should get you to less than 1.
Does it really matter ? (I didn't downvote, but votes don't matter).
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I bet the reason for the ban wasn't even recorded.
I don't even need to go far, the last comment I had with a lisper on HN ended by :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17128977

I don't know what's the worst. That you can't help it or that you won't ever recognize you have a problem.

Unfortunaly there is no Lisp Anonymous, so people leave the language. Shame since it's a fantastic tech.
You can also read Breyer's dissent, at PDF p25 (as the PDF counts it) of the decision, available at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1454diff_6579... .

It is not opaque bafflegab.
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"The government blocked the project just last week so we'll never know."

To be more accurate - the government decided not to subsidise the project.
It was emphatically the right decision - the economics of it were awful compared to wind, solar.
Yeah but it's way worst with syntax than functions.
Despite the gargantuan effort, you wouldn't actually gain substantial privacy from such a move. True, a single packet wouldn't identify both parties, but an exchange of packets in rapid succession, a TCP handshake or even an UDP stream would immediately leak the same information to any interested hop in the network.

Furthermore, eavesdropping for metadata on the line is one of the lesser privacy concerns for most people. What really matters are privacy violations by the providers higher up the stack, where the address of both endpoints must be known to enable communication.
Having just learned Clojure, I'm kinda sad to say that I agree... It kinda seems like there are a lot of unmaintained libraries and relatively few things being worked on (mostly in the web-tech space which I don't really know anything about)
I guess we're all going back to Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
stopped yes, deleted the project if the photo id of the credit card account holder cannot be reached in 3 days might be an over-reaction though.

I hope there is a possibility to put a backup contact person / credit card so organisations can deal with people going on vacation or being sick or whatever.

IMHO this should be nicely documented as any other technical material you get to learn about the cloud product when you create an account (e.g. important steps to ensure your account remains open even in case of important security breaches, yadda yadda it's possible we'll need a way to prove that you are you yadda yadda, this can happen when yadda yadda, be prepared, do yadda yadda)
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> an 8 CPU installation with 64gb memory will probably be hundred times faster then postgres.

"Probably" not.

The way this usually goes down is that there may be a few synthetic benchmarks show a large performance benefit over existing established databases (x2, not x100), with any non-synthetic benchmark showing very poor performance (1/10th, 1/100th, sometimes even worse), and also often very unstable performance.

The product is then also usually beta quality, as it is hard to compete with the 36 years Postgres has been in development since its inception in 1982 (and that's not counting the 9 years of Ingres development, which Postgres—"Post-Ingres"—spawned from). Important features are usually also quite lacking.

If someone claims x10 or x100 performance improvement over established databases, they better have published a few papers about all the computer science research they must necessarily have done to get there.
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It was an Oracle database.
The difference, IMO, is that you're generally leveraging the cloud providers platform in addition to using their hosting.

There are ways to make the hosting relatively agnostic, but choosing a pub/sub solution (for example), that operates at 'web scale' will have a distinct impact on your solutions and force you into their ecosystem to maximize value. Why bother with BigCorps UltraResistant services if you're only going to use some small percentage of the capabilities?

I've made systems that abstract away the difference entirely, but I think the 'goldilocks zone' is abstracted core domain logic that will run on anything, and then going whole-hog on each individual environment. Accept that "cloud" is vendor lockin, and mitigate that threat at the level of deployment (multi-cloud, multi-stack), rather than just the application.
Not necessarily illegal under criminal law (e.g. in CA), but it is generally a violation of their merchant agreement with the processor.
If 100 people have decided they can now commute 30 miles instead of 20 miles because of increased road space, you haven't really enabled a whole lot. Granted, those people can live further away from their work, possibly on less expensive land.

You have, though, made it harder for the economics to work in favour of apartment buildings and public transit, and as a result made life more difficult for people who choose not to, are unable to, or can't afford to drive. Because people in the suburbs will vote in favour of thigns that make their motoring experience more pleasant, they will demand new construction have off-street parking (even of the residents don't drive), making units tens of thousands of dollars more expensive and less pleasant to walk near, and free or dirt cheap parking in city centres. They will force transit stations to have places for cars to sleep, not people (aka park and ride). Meanwhile, those people who don't drive still bear the negative externalities of the extra vmt and their taxes pay to enable it for others.

In addition to the economics, you've made the public realm more hostile to walking and cycling; car-friendly places are human-hostile.

More vehicle-miles traveled corresponds more emphysema, more extreme weather events, more noise, more light pollution, more cancer, and just more dead people in general. It's impossible to say who or when or how (except in the case of crashes) but every substantial road expansion kills some of the people nearby.
One solution is to restrict lane changes.

All it takes to create a phantom traffic jam is someone to change lanes where the cars behind need to slow or brake to accommodate them.