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USA is the country with a domestic market of 300+ million people, largely English-speaking, and has not seen a war on its soil in modern times, right? Hard to compare to anything else, then.

It's funny how people immediately just say because oil whenever it is brought up, and think that it magically explains everything. Yes, a ridiculous proportion of export is from that industry. But it's not like finding oil immediately makes people prosperous - you have to manage it. Do you want long-term prosperity? Or do you want boom towns with high local inflation, high crime etc.?

Going into how the Norwegian petroleum industry works would reveal a strategy that is very different from how countries like the US (or Canada in the prairie provinces) would have handled the same discovery. And it works.
I'm not saying that people should not discuss this. I'm saying that the debate is over unless substantial other facts are presented than we do now. Discussion value based on evidence and not conjecture. Claiming that this is the same as the dogma and falsehood of religions is plain insulting.

Besides, the last time anyone thought the world was flat was a lot longer ago than 500 years, and 'scientists' as such did not exist yet.
Very tempting. I'm basically a kickstarter angel investor at this point - I've backed about 30 things.
How does this stuff get so popular on YC?

Is there a founder anywhere that didn't put in months of 100+ hour weeks? Or, to clarify, a successful founder?
If you want to compare individual EU countries with something, compare them against individual US states, which also vary widely in terms of how well they do economically.
Probably requires the same amount of hand strength.
Getting a mentor will help, usually someone outside the company that you trust enough to question them honestly (too many people try to get mentored by people they think of as infallible and then fail to ask questions when their understanding is incomplete).

If you are looking for reading material, consider putting the books "Execution" and "Facing Reality" (by Larry Bossidy with Ram Charan) on your list. I found these to be a good concise description of some of the more 'meta' aspects of senior leadership.
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That would be my choice, but TOML is good enough for me :)
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"I wonder how many people in the US don't take their vacation days because they've read things like this and not because of their own experience."

It's been my experience that one's freedom to take vacation -- not just technical freedom, but emotional freedom -- really depends on the company's culture in general, and on one's boss in specific. Sure, a lot of it is psychological. But if you've never worked for a boss or company who explicitly discourage vacation, legitimate sick days, etc., then at least know that those people and those companies exist. I can't tell you if they're the exception or if they're the rule. I sincerely hope it's the former. But I do know that they're out there, in great number. For every few employees who've been media-conditioned to fear vacation, there's a manager who's been media-conditioned to disrespect vacation.
Tugboat is a great tool!

We're trying to collect clients using APIv2 over on the community site. Barge is already listed:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-librar...
Skip all that work, and just get a Moto E. At least it's an Android device that actually comes with access to Google's app store and services out of the box.
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I just wish there was a way of letting multiple people log into the same account without sharing credentials.
vim would be like dubstep. vwwwwwww (drop the beat!) d.
TOML is extremely simple. YAML on the other hand is incredibly hard to implement. JSON has no comments and is not really that nice for humans.
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over half of the 6mil firms in the US with payrolls in this country have between 1 and 9 employees. ('08 numbers[0]).

"employer" != 1%

"policies good for employers" != "policies only good for 1%"

[0]-https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
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Hi, creator of the package here. If you install the pycrypto package first, jrnl should work fine on Windows, too. It only needs a gcc compiler to build from source [1], but there are even pre-compiled binaries [2] (I don't have any experience with them though - please let me know if it works) :)

I think py2exe could work well, too! Otherwise you could create a virtual environment with virtualenv and install all the dependencies into one folder.

[1] https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/
[2] http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto
I like how you edited "Self Entitled" into the generational title, just to really drive home the disgust. ;)

I partially disagree, though. I do think Americans are exceptional, even if I haven't settled on exactly how, and I definitely don't think of it as a wholly positive trait. But this juxtaposition from your post is interesting:

Americans aren't exceptional in any way.

Americans love to believe that the individual is greater than his situation.
I agree with you but I am wondering how would that work on a country specific level. Each country in Europe has their own privacy laws when it comes to query these kind of databases. Not to mention the EU adding another layer in the process.

Take for instance the credit scoring system. There is no such thing as Expedia or privately maintained credit scoring system outside the UK. In France, the Bank of France maintains files which are only available to financial institutions holding a licence.

Another example, in the UK, the sex offenders register is only available through the police, in other countries, there have been citizen initiatives to create such database for specific areas.

This kind of service is more realistic in the US as their SSN is the main ID for background check.
If anything Google and Apple have contracted this disease too. If you're an Android dev you constantly have the Chrome group telling you to use web technologies instead of developing native apps, it's utterly incoherent.

Apple aren't quite so bad, but they only get away with things like the iOS 7 UI change because so many of the people in that ecosystem are (I'm not knocking this) obsessed with stylistic consistency and will jump when Apple say so.
I'd be very curious to know if it's possible for an automated tool to perfectly detect ABI breakage.
Not as instant as I would have hoped. I've been pending for a few minutes now
This is not true. I can prove that just by saying that myself, my co-workers, and my family (all Americans) are perfectly fine with taking time-off and we're not scared of losing our jobs. My manager encourages his team to take time-off.

There is a safety net, it's just not as protective as European welfare.

There are jobs that like salt mines, filled with workaholics and sadistic bosses, or so I'm given to understand, but I've never been in one. The worst company I've worked for that had very little regard for their employees gave good vacation time.

I think a mistake we make when thinking about American policy is thinking there's an American policy. Each state has their own laws and every company is allowed to be different. This has its good parts and its bad parts. Startups seem to thrive in America but I've heard other people complain about the restrictive laws in their countries that make startups harder. Likewise, the American worker seems to work harder and longer than their developed peers.
Ha, no issue with the red herring of accountant pay rates, just with the number of them there are. The ones I have real issues with pay for are the mucky mucks near the top [1], the increasing numbers of them there are [2], and the effect they have on tuition costs [3].

On reform, I'd say something similar to the IRS approach on taxes. Spend effort where there's a return on investment. IE, they're not going to audit people below the poverty line because they're sane, and the cost of the audit will be more than the return on back taxes. Similarly, don't audit $20 lunches, because five minutes of my time is worth more than the average we'll discover in errors.

In addition, an overall lower audit rate, but with randomized chance of audit that increases logarithmically as the charge goes up. Kind of similar to how the FAA checks pilot logs.

[1] http://www.post-gazette.com/image/2014/05/18/20140519college...

[2] http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...

[3] http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir...
Oooh, great! Just something I needed! Kudos for the author.
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I think its because Stephen Wolfram built it. If anyone else did it it would be super awesome. While I don't share the hate I see this every time with anything 'Wolfram' on HN.
I dunno, I think they actually believe it, and they do have some experience from the SO days.

Threading has its place, but creates sub-discussions, something that is understandable to want to avoid if your vision is for more inclusive conversation.

That said, in higher traffic forums I see this approach being a nightmare to keep up with, and will read like a schizophrenic journal.
But can you? Imagine if your goal was to find which coin is the biased one, but you could only flip once a week.

Though, I should be clear that I doubt the better team loses most of the time. More that I just think the static view where there is a clear "better" team is flawed anyway.
If you look at ANSI Common Lisp, there is no GC support. It is not even mentioned in the standard. But the whole languages is designed to use it by default. C++ is designed to not use GC by default.

Lambdas/closures in C++ are a total hack.

I'd say C++ is a mid-level language with lots of emulations of high-level features. The integration of closures into C++ is an example of that. Just by integrating a high-level feature poorly into C++ does not make C++ high-level.
It sounds like you've taken the most important step, which is appreciating that "what got you here won't get you there".

One of my favorite books when stepping into a new role is M. Watkins, "The First 90 Days", which is very helpful in formalizing an effective approach to succeeding quickly when in a new management role.

It is worth trying to get some education in people management. While much of it is common-sense, it's worthwhile covering the basics -- the applicable laws, managing conflicts, that sort of thing. I have yet to find a good, practical book on organizational engineering (if anyone has a suggestion, please post it), but this is an area that I feel someone in your role should seek to understand well, because it has a big impact on the success of a business.

One of the most important, fundamental skills for a senior level manager is understanding finance. I recommend B. Knight, "Financial Intelligence" as a primer.

My favorite book on business strategy is M. Porter "Competitive Strategy", however, this book and all other business strategy books should be taken with a large grain of salt. They often suffer from survivorship bias, being applicable only to certain industries and times, and in at least one famous case, allegedly faking the data used to draw their conclusions. I treat business strategy books as leisure reading that simply provides another perspective.
> So, you don't have evidence for it

If by "it" you mean "O > R always", then no, I don't have evidence for it nor do I believe it. What I do believe and have a whole book of evidence for is "not (R > O always)". That is what I am arguing for, and have been from my very first message.

My opinion of "not (R > O always)" would only be controversial if you believe that "R > O always". But "R > O always" has no evidence supporting it (at least none that anyone has presented or that I am aware of).
Interesting. I did something a little like this a while back. The way I worked it, it spanned two octaves, and chords in the lower octave determined a one-to-one mapping in the upper. It seemed about as usable as any unfamiliar keyboard, though I didn't play with it for more than about 20 minutes in total.
Blackberry tried this. Even on QNX, which is a POSIX OS, it took significant amounts of work and last I checked was still pretty buggy.

Sailfish has had much better luck, no doubt due to running on top of the Linux kernel however.
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It's not just my opinion. Do I have to resort to the nuclear option? http://www.yosefk.com/c++fqa/ Well, there you have it. C++11 and 14 made some things better, but they also have their problems.

My opinions have different strengths. This one has accumulated enough evidence that I no longer consider the possibility of its falsehood. C++ sucks, and that's the end of it. I know of the gazillion eminently reasonable reasons why C++ is what it is, but it still sucks. I know that if Stroustrup made cleaner choices for the language, it wouldn't be so popular, but it still sucks. I know that a better language that nobody use is… well… useless, but C++ still sucks. In my opinion, C++ is one of our greatest shame as a community.

> If you allow yourself to cherry-pick criteria then you can make any language be the optimal choice.

I don't cherry pick. I'm just comparing languages. Not external tools. Not backward compatibility. Not programmer availability. Just languages. The other criteria are short term considerations, and greatly increase status-quo bias. They're only interesting when I must do a small project now, with whoever happen to work with me at the moment.

For bigger projects however, the language is increasingly important. The bigger the project, the more reasonable it is to switch to use a better language, instead of a better known language.
But then, these other planets don't have life to regulate/change/modify/absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere. Clearly they can be used as a normal negative control, but at the same time, the data we have from these planets is minimal to say the least.
"normal people actually can use to make their lives easier"

Normal people don't like capital investment of any sort either monetary or time, and newer technology seems not to change the total investment at all, beyond a modest increase, but only adjust the ratio between the two categories.

There is also the stereotypical UI tradeoff that has existed for decades in computers of "make simple things easy" which is almost always in direct opposition to "make difficult things possible". The tradeoff in the new wave of HA products is dangerous because there is the risk of not gaining traction with the noobs because simple things do not help much, while losing all the experts by making the really productive yet difficult stuff impossible.

From a "do it right" perspective, X-10 done the right way is the decade or so old Insteon system, reliable, 2way, giant address space, fast (or, faster than X-10)... "Home Automation" done the right way seems an undefined problem, and that has to be done before the solution can begin.
This is an insightful point. Nix is the only package manager I'm aware of that seems like it could fit the bill: https://nixos.org/nix/
In addition to SQL injection, many "advanced search" engines will compile regular expression patterns from user input. Depending on the language, this can range from a simple Regex DoS to Code Execution (I'm looking at you PHP).
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And they were all shit.
Agreed, not all environment are so negative. But even if attitude is positive, average vacation time in US is still way less than in Europe.
It's a pretty specialized business. I only know about it because I know a couple of developers who built a successful track record in the business. Right before I met them, they split the business, one staying mostly focused in LIHTC and the other branching off into more speculative work.

The one who kept at LIHTC did better when things fell off the cliff, in part because LIHTC funding was boosted to fund 'shovel ready projects'.

Out of curiosity, did you write software for a developer or for a funder like Enterprise?
I've made an interesting observation in my team when I worked at companies with "no set vacation" policy: I've always had some people who never took vacation and I've also had other people who wanted more vacation time than one would expect. There was no middle ground.
Entity is part of the documented language -- we've standardized the representation of millions of real-world things. Looking up properties of Entities and parsing text into Entities depends on Wolfram|Alpha, just like the ServiceExecute function relies on Twitter and Facebook to work, and just like Graphics relies on a front-end executable to actually render.

These aren't libraries as you might call (say) core.logic in Clojure, because Entity and co integrate tightly across the rest of the language, and because they all share the same System namespace. They aren't quite DSLs either, because if they were the entire language would be a DSL -- rather the language is symbolic, which gives it some properties in common with DSLs.

If there is nomenclature that is different or new, it is mostly because the language is different. The only thing I can't defend is the pure in our "pure functions". They're not pure functions, they are lambdas.
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The Rust folk are adamant about supporting versioned libraries out of the box, so support for this will definitely land before 1.0.
That's a fair point. All I'm getting at though, is that there's a lot to be said for taking a swing or two when you're younger and have more time for "second chances" if you fail. At my age, if I fail, I don't see starting all over again as being in the cards.
> Premature optimization is the root of all evil -- Knuth

HN should have a bot that posts the full quote whenever this line is cited since it's so often abused.

"There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified."

Plus who said it was / should be used prematurely anyway?
Foundations of Business Strategy started last week on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/strategy101

Probably not too late to catch up.
I don't believe in American exceptionalism. I do however, believe in exceptional Americans.
No HTTP PATCH support? Makes me a sad panda. PATCH > PUT.
That's a fairly weak argument. If it's not going to change, then maybe some outreach should be done to get him to tag it 1.0. Otherwise you're opening yourself up to the exact same issue you outline as an issue for Bundler -- people assumping a pre-1.0 project is stable. As long as there's the option for someone to say "this is pre 1.0 so I can change it whenever" it's going to cause concern because most of us have been burned by that several times over. A de facto 1.0 release vs an actual 1.0 release.

As for the FUDdiness, there was another extensive comment thread here on HN when Cargo was announced. I didn't feel it necessary to re-enumerate all those concerns. And to the best of my recollection, the problems listed were all technical in nature, not personal. For my part, my list was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421629

But, I'm hardly alone in being concerned. This is something that will drastically influence the ecosystem. So, it should be met with some level of scrutiny. If it comes out passing muster, great. But that's not going to happen by being glib about things.
You can generate personal OAuth tokens and let them use the API.
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I've been tracking various git actions (commits and branch creates and checkouts) in a file via git hooks for the past year or so and it's been super valuable to go back and look at, especially to remind myself what I was doing yesterday for standup meetings.

This is far and away a better solution, since I can have `jrnl` auto-tag those things and filter them in/out when I want to look at regular journal entries.
I commented yesterday on a thread about how most fitness trackers easily lose their appeal to me. I'm not interested in wearing a device dedicated entirely to tracking my activity levels.

This approach, however, is one that really appeals to me. A watch that just so happens to also log my activity? Sold.

For $400 though?
People making money out of someone else's property is what this app and airbnb do. That's not a clever hack or capitalism finding a way - that's stealing and hoping no one notices.

Regulation at its core is a vital part of a free market (and by the way the only free part we really care about is freedom to set a price)

We regulate murder, kidnap, extortion and parking bye-laws. We do that so we can all move forward in a society packed full of other selfish Great Apes with weapons.

It works - we are living proof. It can always be improved, but almost always a market failure in the western world is down to some greedy bastard somewhere breaking the rules to obtain an advantage and not getting shutdown fast enough.
I just ran the tests in FF 30, latest stable release, and by-and-large Fast.js is faster than both lodash and native in FF 30.

Are you testing a nightly build?
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Seems this story is relevant:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/atos-quietly-d...

The part about Atos wanting to pull out because of death threats against its staff is particularly nasty.
It originally had PATCH in the design. I think it was a limitation of our tooling that made us reconsider. And that PUT was slightly more familiar for novice users. At the end of the day ... it doesn't matter. Either way is a huge improvement from all GET.
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This looks pretty neat.

Just a small thing - the little terminal goes a bit crazy if you click the carousel arrows forward a few times.
>The US has lower generic prices that most of the EU due to fierce competition for the US market

This is not the case.

From direct person experience I can attest that:

Betaserc is 1/25 the price in Spain as the generic in the US

Nebivolol is 1/10

Lovastatin is 1/5

Enalapril is 1/2
I don't think so. In established fields of engineering, optimization takes up as much, if not more time, than design.

Computing is a new enough field that so far that hasn't been the case, but I think with the increase of media processing and large scale data processing, a 10000 machine computer will be the new norm. And just like most other fields of engineering, optimization will be a major concern, if not the primary concern.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/db-papers/WarehouseScaleCom...