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> Smoother airflow around the windshield means fewer bugs smashing into it and more glancing hits that don't leave a mess.

Not necessarily, I've noticed the same thing as the OP driving the same car, a small hatchback I bought 4 and a half years ago. One or two years after I had bought it I could still see lots of dead bugs on my windshield whenever I was driving to my parents, who live in the countryside, but during the last year or so the windshield has started to be more and more clean after each such trip. The same thing has been independently confirmed/noticed by my dad, as he likes to wash my car whenever I get to them, he told me that there used to be more dead bugs on the car.

What's scary for me is the speed with which things have changed for the worse as I remember a comment I made on this website about 2 years ago saying that I could still see lots of dead insects on my car after a highway trip, in response to a couple of HN-ers who lived in Western Europe saying they didn't (I live in Eastern Europe).
You're not the only one to observe this. It was observed and explored by Manfred von Thun with Joy, a purely functional programming language based on Forth. Modern "concatenative" languages continue this tradition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang...
"business interactions are not the appropriate venue for expressing sexual interest."

That is bullshit feminist invented to support their victim narrative. It used to be 30% or more of couples met at work. It is normal to fall in love or get interested in people you are surrounded with.

This "professional environment" feminists love to talk about doesn't exist, because people are not robots. People have relations with each other. Even among men, there will be colleagues that bother you, or some that you like and become friends.

There are maybe some rare cases of companies aiming for that "professional appearance", but it is all fake. If that is your thing, go seek out such companies. But don't ask other people to change their work environment.
The key word her is "stackable" so the seller is focusing on volume selling which is very effective with amazon's one listing per item policy. If the item is very popular then having 600 of some item could be a weeks worth of inventory. Whereas on other sites, you would have to list on site and then everything is seller-by-seller....so if people don't see your listing or your price isn't good enough then you get no sales.

but yeah, that's just how it is. Selling products on ebay/amazon is not a guaranteed source of income so those types of businesses are inherently high-risk, especially if you are focusing on a specific product line or niche products.
The Next Thing - are the makers of CHIP and PocketCHIP. Such cool retro products. I still use my PocketCHIP daily. A tiny linux machine with a full keyboard. Products that are open to hacking and extension and give a feeling that anything is possible.
My doctor's office just switched to the latest MyChart system and the app on Android has a pretty modern UX, decent usability and shows all my upcoming appointments, lab results, bill statements, etc. No complaints on my end, having access to my records right after my physician enters it into their computer is nice compared to requesting packets of physical paper then having to securely store them from prying eyes...
If this is marketing mail receivers want to receive and anyone in the company has experience with setting up email systems: Use some fresh IPs and run your own.

As long as it isn't spam and bounces are handled appropriately deliverability shouldn't be a problem.
Making sexual overtures, in a bar, or on a Tinder date is one thing. In the workplace? From someone who can make or break your company?
Please keep generic religious flamewars off HN. Long experience shows that such threads never lead to anything new, and get nastier and nastier as they go along. Moreover, any topic so generic can't be discussed substantively—it would take a book to do so, or at least an essay, not an internet comment. Therefore, it's off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
GDP can be one marker for 'things are improving'. Of course it isn't the full picture - when you are living in increasingly restrictive state monitoring you against your own will, you feel the government is bunch of idiots, jobs have been shifting away and so on and on, people are not that happy. Rich are getting richer, poor poorer. If you are 2 joints away from serving prison sentence and having your life ruined for good (maybe less relevant these days).

Losing 'friends' around the world - 30 years ago, americans were heroes, WW2 saviors of the europe and the world, America was land of endless opportunities and most importantly - freedom. Now its the opposite - unlawful killing of somebody with tons of civilians with drones wherever they want, and in the same time being very friendly with horrible regimes like the one in Saudi Arabia because oil and money. Freedom and US ain't the same thing after 9/11.

Plus on top of that workaholic US mindset, that weird attitude that your job defines who you are and whats your position in society. None of this can make masses happy, in contrary.
They do, actually, goverent propaganda explicitly uses Taoist and Buddhist imagery.

It's a different sort of religion than Western religions, so westerners don't get it and spout off the leninist silliness you see in this thread.
Google Reader and the old Google Finance (the stock screener was awesome)
Even if 90% of men never do it, it's possible for 10% of the men to harass (say) 80% of women. So "not all men", but "yes, all women" is accurate. That's just how statistics work.
Do we have any other sources for this? The article seems quite inflammatory.
AMIGA!!!
Yes, it felt quite slow in certain situations (the last time I’ve tried). Because the WSL works by emulating syscalls from Linux, anything related to I/O can be quite slow...
More quack science.

See https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/06/17/the-mend-protocol... for a slightly less breathless account.
That's possible, because it's not a topic the majority of this community has detailed knowledge or personal experience of. Still, it would be better to provide substantive correction than to post a shallow dismissal, which the site guidelines ask you not to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://goo.gl/pbXjwN

^ "We (almost) have BASIC" Allen calls MITS
But it is already mixed up! Trying to disentangle society from religion will leave you with a poor understanding of either. Common beliefs prop up societies. And as I said before, preventing people from doing some of what they want is a prerequisite for any society.

In the end I think our main disagreement here is how broadly we define religion. To me, if you take take the narrow view of religion, you're leaving huge human catastrophies to be explained outside religion. What do you think of the Stalinists' belief system, for example? Their terror wasn't justified by a god but still by rules they demanded blind acceptance of. And they had ceremonies and rituals.

To me, it is easier to understand the Stars and Stripes behind every politician's head in the U.S. as a religious symbol than to invent a whole new category over it. But I see how people could be irritated by that.
Another bullshit feminist invention, and borderline Marxist. There is no unbalance of power. If you don't like your boss, change jobs. If you don't like some venture capitalist, don't take his money.

You are not entitled to a nice boss or a nice investor.

If you want at all to make the argument that bosses or people with money have power over you, you should be campaigning for better social security, so that people can afford to quit their jobs.

To see that is bullshit, just look at the bottom rate (which you should always do with feminist claims): do men always have friendly bosses? Do men get every job they want? Do men always get nice investors and everyone they meet wants to invest in their business? I don't think that is the csse.
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Please keep generic ideological flamewar off HN. It never goes anywhere new, and it always goes somewhere nasty. And this comment gets it off to a really bad start.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So we've been told for the past couple years now.

I expect that the problem won't be solved, and instead we'll get a formal proof that you can't build a fully decentralized, trustless system without Proof of Work, at which point I hope Bitcoin & others will get labeled for what they are: crimes against climate and sustainable energy economy.
Well, at some point we have to face reality. There have been hundreds if not thousands of successful projects with teams of hundreds if not thousands of developers working on them, at the same time or over time. These projects have been generally in Cobol (ok, we can chalk that up to brute forcing a tech from they didn't know any better), C, C++, Java, C#.

There seems to be a connection between scaling a project regarding developer numbers and programming language "power". Having a smaller, shared vocabulary seems to greatly outweigh programming language "power" as the number of programmers goes up greatly.

Lisp had 60 years to prove its human scaling capabilities. So far it hasn't convinced.
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Makes sense, I didn't consider that small but important distinction!
Except that Tech isn't a profession. Professions have bodies that establish and enforce professional standards and appropriate evaluations and credentials.

Programmers that call themselves "engineers" are fooling themselves. Unless they are doing the sort of programming that the NASA shuttle team used, none of us are "engineers".
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227674 and don't do this here.
This breaks the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly, so please don't do it again. Specifically: "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The comment was also lazy, since a glance at the history of the account refutes it. Not that they've been great comments, but someone who has been posting about Python, web apps, organic batteries, web assembly, and carbonated soda for over a year is obviously a regular Hacker News user.

Edit: it looks like you've been using primarily for ideological battle. That's also a bannable abuse of the site, stated in the guidelines as explained by https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... So please stop doing that.
"They also decided which books made it into the bible, and which ones were "apocryphal"

That's a bit far fetched claim. Apocryphal books are apocryphal for a reason, they didn't make into the canon as they couldn't have been written by witnesses of what happened at the beginning of our era - mentioned geographical places are wrong, mentioned historical events and people are messed up, language is wrong, etc.
> It's fascinating the relationship between Lisp and Forth.

Is there more to the relationship than "Lisp is written as a preorder tree, and Forth is written as a postorder tree"?
I was going to say Google Reader too but have just reconsidered. I do miss it, and the idea that this was a popular way to consume news / content etc.
However I can still use RSS on feedly, inoreader and a bunch of self-hosted alternatives. By moving away from Google I am also escaping their all-seeing eye, albeit to some minor extent.
In the time since Google retired Reader I have begun to see them as a negative presence in the world. I have moved from Gmail and Google Calendar to Fastmail, self-host my contacts and will move on from Android as soon as Ubuntu Touch or another alternative become fully featured enough.
You would be probably right in that bringing censored Google (actually it's not just Google but for the sake of discussion) to the mainland China will do much more good than harm. This, however, translates to that Google is willing to compromise that much for the profit and no one would be sure how much Google will compromise or even had compromised in other countries. In the other words, people fear that China gov't dilutes cooperate ethics (already compromised a lot, but still) to the point of no recovery.

It is a unfortunate situation, stalemated between two big superpowers. Probably the only reasonable (but probably not viable) solution is to ditch Google. shrug
Photoshop in its first versions had fewer features than MSPaint in 2018 :)
This is a pretty reductive analysis compared to the massive amounts of activity in RISC-V

- SiFive is a costume silicon company, and they have development platforms for the nodes their working with. It makes little sense for them to push this far beyond in terms of dev boards. Overall SiFive is doing much for Software and RISC-V Standard.

- BOOM was never a large open source project, but rather the work of a single grad student and he is a student no more. However there are certain changes coming from Esperanto and there was also more tapeouts. See Hot Chips 30 talk BROOM.

* The LowRisc effort has been slow. One of the main people who worked on it is working on the LLVM compiler and the LowRisc project gets some amount of money for that work.

There are way to many project to list here and there I don't know what you are interested in doing.
I can understand the challenges of Sikhs, or other turban-wearing religions, and standard motorcycle/cycling helmets.

However I think the legislation should be on the helmet and other safety industries to ensure production of some safety device for people to wear that fairly accommodates their needs. This isn't just a bigger helmet, and likely needs investment in safety organisations to research what works.

The law requirement for helmets is one meant to protect people, same with safety with seatbelts or even more specific ones in other industries.

As a motorcyclist, cyclist and driver, I'd like to see more inclusion in law, rather than these sorts of exceptions. We have a responsibility to properly accommodate someone else's specific needs, but also ensure their safety.
If you buy a house, things are going to be complicated.
If you have a workplace pension from your job, you're probably screwed. State pensions have screwed people too.
If you invest in stocks, or mutual funds, you'll pay more in tax preparation than you'll make.
If you set up your own company and are not paid as an employee but as the owner, you will be screwed.
Rent out a property, screwed.
Fail to declare every account that you're a signatory on? Prepare to pay up to 125% of the contents.
If you're children are beneficiaries of a trust set up by their non-american grand-parents? Totally screwed.

Almost every American expat I've spoken to has had a shock when they find they totally didn't understand their commitments. The only ones who didn't were employees of big banks/hedge funds whose employers paid a big 4 accountant to take care of everything.
The old crispy bubbly apple pies at McDonalds. I think they are still like that in Europe. I had one in London a couple years ago and almost got a dozen to smuggle home.
I do. Censorship resistance and removing the ability to rewrite history would be good. even if current media practice is different doesn’t mean it can’t change in the future.
What if I told you Google search results are partially based on behaviour data, meaning the results you get for a search potentially differ from mine

It doesn't happen to me so it doesn't exist does not apply in this case
I view the online education/MOOC type stuff being for teaching the basics. For example, have the undergrad curriculum be online and basically free. If people want to go to grad school at MIT or wherever, then have them take an extremely hard exam in the subject. I think overall, you would get higher caliber candidates this way just because of how big online education can scale.

The current education system is highly exclusionary based on characteristics that are obtained in high school and most of the characteristics are directly linked to income. The problem is many people can still go on to get these skills later in life but can't really get into MIT once they're adults. You can, in theory, but we all know in practice it is not realistic.
The Print Shop : that tools allowed to print lots of stuff like cards, banners, etc. But what set it apart IMHO, is that it was soooo easy, so rewarding. Kids could use it. And it had a style of its own (that's so much cooler than printing stock internet photos).

All 4th gen languages efforts such as powerbuilder, dBase, etc. I still feel like they were on the right track.
An alternative that is less verbose and uses a derivative of the cURL format is https://github.com/for-GET/katt/blob/master/README.md

An example of a KATT spec: https://github.com/for-GET/katt/blob/master/doc/example-http...
Piggy-backing off of this to add the things I find useful:

- Mindfulness medidation, same as you. It is hard and when you first try it feels like you are failing. But Yoda is wrong: trying is very valuable and builds the mindfulness muscle.

- Website blocking software like SelfControl.app and Freedom.io —- some might ridicule these as being a crutch, but that is a silly reason not to use them. If you are trying to change your diet, don’t keep cookies on your desk.

- working with a therapist to improve my self-confidence — one reason I was distracted so much is that I didn’t have a strong belief in my right to decide how I spend my time. Combined with mindfulness meditation, I now have a much stronger internal voice that says “I had decided I wanted to relax and read this long history article so that is what I’m going to do.” Or “this bit of life-administrivia is really frustrating and scary, but I do need to do it and have set out this time for it.”

- A belief in “setting myself up for success” in tasks — when I feel like I don’t know how to do something, it is much better to trust that intuition, dig into it, and flesh it out into an explicit list of resources to acquire rather. If instead I say “I should believe in myself* and buckle down and do the work.” Then my sense of not doing the right thing will stick with me. For instance, I am someone who is much more effective at building things when I know how my tools work.

* (This is perhaps very idiosyncratic to me, but I absorbed from a young age that I could do anything I set my mind to. When you don’t know how to set your mind to things, This turns out to be a less-than-useful belief, especially in response to a not-well-articulated need for resources. Example: I once tried to write code against an api whose docs were in Chinese —as a non-Chinese speaker. )

- Sleep, Food, Exercise — I am a sack of meat. The thinking bits of me are also made of meat. Thinking meat, if you’ll believe it. In order to think well, I need to give my meat what it needs on a habitual basis.

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One interesting thing about being more mindful and less distracted is that it reveals some underlying discomforts that I was distracting myself from. For instance, I didn’t have any friends as a child and I just don’t know how to lead engaging conversations or how to keep conversations going when they fizzle out. But now that I’ve repeatedly noticed that, I can make it a goal to find ways to learn it (suggestions very welcome) and confidently pursue that goal.
I'd be surprised if dang or others took offense to saying "Ohio is a cultural wasteland".

Removing all color from speech makes the world a very boring place.

Criticising bay area culture is not a 'slur' and saying that is more inflammatory than the original statement.
You need to read up on the price-fixing by amazon. google "1200 dollar book".

then look up some of the academic research on it.
> Lisp had 60 years to prove its human scaling capabilities. So far it hasn't convinced.

It can take more than you might expect to "convince".

> In 1601, an English sea captain did a controlled experiment to test whether lemon juice could prevent scurvy. He had four ships, three control and one experimental. The experimental group got three teaspoons of lemon juice a day while the control group received none. No one in the experimental group developed scurvy while 110 out of 278 in the control group died of scurvy. Nevertheless, citrus juice was not fully adopted to prevent scurvy until 1865.

( https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/25/innovation-ii/ )
> In chapter 4, you write your own Lisp interpreter. If they had chosen C++, would you be writing a C++ compiler? Or a Lisp interpreter in C++? Either way, it would be ugly.

It's an interpreter for a small subset of Scheme, but Scheme is of course itself small and simple†, which means that it's not hard to mentally extrapolate from the small subset to the rest of the language. C++ is a large language, and so it would be less compelling to implement a small subset of it. And you could of course use C++ to implement Lisp, as you say; chapter 4 actually covers several programming paradigms quite alien to Scheme itself, so implementing a functional programming language in C++ would be quite reasonable. As I read it, the main point of chapter 4 is that it's not true that "Most languages give you some abstractions, and others simply can't be built." Metacircularity makes chapter 4 very effective at convincing you that what you've written is actually a real programming language, but it has confused you into missing (what I read as) the main point of the chapter. Perhaps it was counterproductive.

If not, though, it would be quite reasonable to achieve the same pedagogical metacircularity in Lua, Prolog, Forth, ML, Smalltalk, GHC Core, my own Bicicleta, or any number of other small, simple languages. I don't know about you, but those languages feel very different (from Lisp and from one another) to me.

† "Simple" here refers, for better or for worse, to the observed behavior of the language, not the difficulty of its implementation. Much of this is easy to gloss over in a metacircular interpreter, where you can inherit garbage collection, procedure call semantics, dynamic typing, threading, call/cc, and even parsing, lazy evaluation, and deterministic evaluation order, from the host language. (The book points out many of these points.) If you were going to design a language at Scheme's programming level with an eye to making the implementation as simple as possible, Scheme would not be that language.
That's a far cry from a full Linux install with X, though. Not to mention the hardware keyboard. I've not seen a phone in 6 years that had one.
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The change and what was previously there is left for anyone to see in the blockchain.
Shallow article, shallow dismissal.

The forum you moderate has been teetering towards nationalist "othering" of China ever since the Google thing was floated. 90% of the people hurling invective clearly know nothing about the country.

It's not "boo China" vs "yay China", it's "boo China" vs "try to understand China".
Simply reading the wonderful comments you guys makes me a bit teary. This is what marks a great human being, someone who is remembered by the work they have done.
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I never understood how they found out if a passenger was skipping one leg of a flight. If it's the same plane, just get off, and if it's not the same plane, just check in to the next flight and don't board. Is someone counting heads or something while I'm not looking?
I would not trust a single word coming out of these politicians. they are basically spreading fud.