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Sorta, they're not free, it's only for the beta period, and they still require a (valid) credit card number, and presumably they'll start charging you once the beta period ends (and they don't specify when that is on their homepage).
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Can you trust wikipedia on climate change?
Thanks, I was a little off on pricing - I didn't realize Linode started at $20.

Rackspace is $11 / month for the 256MB slice, no bandwidth, though there's no bandwidth included in EC2 so that's apples-to-apples. I doubt bandwidth costs would be that significant for the OP's purpose.

Looks like prgmr also has cheaper entry points, including some bandwidth.
There would still remain some cool parts. Like the syntax. And you could do something similar to typeclasses with duck typing.
This is only interesting if one doesn't realize that sign language is its own language, rather than simply signed English. Syntax and word order are entirely different, and much information is encoded in what one might call 'tone'—eg, the energy or rhythm with which any sign is performed—that in English would be communicated with full words or suffixes.

These facts are patent to anybody with a passing acquaintance of American (or any other sign language). The 'paradox' they're discussing here is tantamount to saying, 'Japanese words tend to be longer than English words. So how do the Japanese communicate as effectively as we do?'
Prgmr here too.
Upgraded to a 256mb pkg just 4 days back. Been with them with a 128mb pkg for 6 months. Cheap and value for money.
For something going beyond (but including) Haskell, see Curry [1]. Curry marries functional and logic programming, and compiles down to Haskell in recent versions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_(programming_language)
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Google Scholar.

In California at least, you can also get pdfs of papers at most UC and CSU libraries without being a student. Stanford too, last time I tried. Of course this means you do actually have to physically go to the library in most cases.
I use this, mixed with Google Scholar, even though I have access to Web of Science through my university. Google's doing a good job.
One obvious point that somehow isn't mentioned in the article:

The speed of human language isn't limited by the ability of "the language" to encode a stream of information. It is limited by the human ability to create and understand the bits of language information.

And that limit is much lower than the human ability to take in other streams of information. Vision lets you take in mega-bytes of information in seconds. Speech processing involves far less because language processing is such a hard problem for the brain.

Luria's the "The Working Brain" mentions that most brain damage degrades speech in some fashion and that's because such a large portion of your brain works on the speech recognition problem when you are speaking or listening.

And processing language is a hard problem for people (and computers!) because a language statement involves answering (at least implicitly) global questions about your store of information - "are all men are mortal", "do black swans exist" etc.
The whole thing is silly, because JSmin is ~200 lines of code. It would be trivial to rewrite from scratch and avoid the braindamaged license.
Where is the ad hominem?
I've also been with them for quite some time. I originally got it because I wanted something cheap with django hosting, but I've stayed because they offer plenty of different setups and have great customer service. My credit card thought they were fraud a couple of times and stopped payment, and the Webfaction guys were very understanding about it, and kept my sites up while I worked my way up the bank chain trying to convince them that I actually wanted to pay them.
I think he meant Lisp-like metaprogramming in Haskell.
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They get the graph that scientists agreed (after lengthy public discussion in the last few decades) is closest to reality.

Just because you wish something were dishonest doesn’t make it so.
What I find amazing is the amount of people who have no knowledge of Avatar. This movie is an event among events.

And even the author says he only started reading about it a week ago, which I find amazing. Not at all like the iPhone in this regard.

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Downvoters: So, what exactly did I say that merits downvotes?
I know those mails and don’t see the scandal. That’s why I believe you were and must be joking.
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There are lattice problems that we don't know how to solve efficiently in the quantum model yet. Under some plausible conjectures, certain learning with error problems would be hard in the quantum model. Quantum complexity is an open and ongoing area of research.

Chris Peikert has some recent results on the topic:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/cpeikert/pubs/svpcrypto.pdf

Oded Regev has also done quite a bit of relevant work.
This is always what I understood, you have words for letters but you only really use them when you need to spell something out otherwise you use other words. I have never learned any sign language but I assumed it worked in the same way, or else there would be no advantage to signing over writing what you want to say down.
5. Saw it in 3D on a non-IMAX screen. I know enough to know that I'm supposed to be impressed by the CGI in the skin/eyes of the Na'vi and other creatures. And given that I'm supposed to know that, they (generally) succeeded. The 3D wasn't really any different than any other Real 3D movie, and I really didn't see any difference in the quality of the CGI landscapes versus LoTR or even Jurassic Park (which were just arial shots). The story, of course, is Dances with Wolves in Space.

I wish I went to Up in the Air instead.

As to the ZOMG: Glengarry Glen Ross could have been filmed in the 1930s, but it's one of the best films in my lifetime. To say that Avatar changes movies forever is insane.
"This is only interesting if one doesn't realize that sign language is its own language, rather than simply signed English."

Define interesting. Personally, I find the entropic analysis of spoken Engligh vs. sign language pretty interesting, especially so when they relate it to channel capacity and other information-theoretic stuff. Your comment sounds anti-intellectual.
I'm disappointed that Jar Jar Binks isn't in Avatar. That's the one thing that would make it worth seeing.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were amazing as Jeeves and Bertie, which is no small accomplishment since the historic attempts of others (e.g., David Niven) to capture the Woodhouse flair consistently failed.
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It's WinMac (as evidenced by the URL) - some hacks that let your windows machine look like various flavors of the classic MacOS
Not at all. Atheism is without God or gods. This is not the same as without religion.

As an example some Buddhist sects are both atheistic and cults.
I'm a bit perplexed at what exactly Paul's point was.

What do I have to do in order to win the challenge?

I think the source of your perplexity may be that you're misunderstanding who (or rather what) is being challenged. It's not a contest between people, but between languages. So you don't win it; a language does.

The way a language wins is if you can write the program shorter using it plus some standard libraries. The definition of "standard" doesn't have to be exacting; anything short of a library written specifically to win this contest would be ok; so e.g. any library that existed prior to the challenge obviously would be.
I love HN. Everyone here is an expert on anything.
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Control+F7 (or System Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access: All Controls). Then use Tab and Shift+Tab.

Also, for shutdown dialog (and other) navigation is not needed at all: Return = default button (Shut Down), Space = alternate (focused) button (Cancel).
Surely cliché is the bread and butter of journalists?
I did a quick Ruby version just to serve a basis for my point:

http://pastie.org/750268

The reason I posted that was precisely because of the point where Arc shines: no inline HTML. But in practice, I want to avoid putting my presentation logic inline with my programming logic anyway.

And I fear that's the problem with the challenge; it seems to be highlighting the wrong kind of simplicity. I could add a few utility functions to make Ruby able to generate that HTML with a tiny amount of code, but I wouldn't ever actually use those functions in a real program.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I just implemented a pseudo-concision-obsessive "library" so see how a Ruby version might look:

http://pastie.org/750269

I'll note that Rails does have things like those that are often used templates.

Another edit: Moved code samples to pastie for readability.
> Meanwhile, if there are "billions at stake" in the "green" industry, there are trillions at stake in those industries

Don't count on it. Enron, 1998: "If implemented this agreement will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the energy and natural-gas industries in Europe and the United States, the potential to add incremental gas sales, and additional demand for renewable technology is enormous."

The biggest contributor to the debate is governments, and their self-interest in climate change is eclipsing that of any business.

> Can we at least agree that arguing about monetary motivation is problematic at best, and probably stupid, and stick to the actual science here?

Apparently not. Obviously, your plea is sound, had it not followed an assertion of one side of the argument that it is claiming problematic and stupid.
I hope this does not escalate.
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> Get my module accepted into some standard library?

Yes, that is the gist of it. More specifically, the challenge is, "at this point in time, has anyone gotten the appropriate code into a standard library?"

As far as the challenge is concerned, we have to take it on faith that when the challenge was posed, it was no more than a coincidence that pg's language supported an example written in a style pg likes.
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I would risk saying that launching a phone that could actually function outside the US would be a smart move.

Seriously: unless they can't build enough of them to cover for the lower than expected sales, it makes no sense to neglect the rest of the planet as a potential market.

Pre and Pixi compare favorably to both iPhone and Android offerings. I see no reason to actively prevent sales on GSM markets. It looks downright dumb.
I actually laughed out loud when i first saw the trailer on television for what seemed like very cheap and unbelievable CGI.

But by all accounts the film is groundbreaking in it's realism and depth. Interesting how the trailers for the film clearly do not do it justice. I look forward to seeing it in the cinema.
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Haha same deal. The gridserver is $20/mo and I have a dozen sites on it, nice control panel but the uptime is horrible and its slow as molasses

It blows yet I have to keep it unless I want to migrate 12 different sites...
> Avatar, like Titanic, is one of those movies you’ll want to see over and over.

Wait, what? Am I the only one that thought Titanic was 2 hours of my life that I regret wasting?

Of all the stories to be told about that fateful night, it was a travesty that the film was dedicated to the story of two horny teenagers hooking up. Bleh.
it's rather complicated to actually work out these deals. it's not as simple as just deciding that you want to do it or not. also, palm is in pretty dire financial situation, which makes things even harder.
Twilio is a great service. And as Dana mentions you can create an entirely customized voicemail and phone tree system for your company so that customers who call get an individualized experience.

I recently left Microsoft to go it alone, and my startup SocialKind has built a number of solutions on top of Twilio (TweetToCall.com, EscapeMyDate.com, enterprise solutions in healthcare and finance, etc.). I enjoy working with businesses to build interactive phone solutions connected to the web. If you're looking to do some of this for your business, or just want to chat about Twilio and hack a bit, drop me a note at kevin@socialkind.com or @mistermorrill on Twitter

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I've used MediaTemple which has become so awful as to be unusable and Slicehost which was great and reliable but now owned by Rackspace and starting to suffer from the problems with their datacenters...

Been hearing good things about Heroku and after reading this thread psyched to check out Linode
Why can't you just call when you're ready to talk?
The other matter of style is whether the order of the code matches the order in which the user interacts with it.

The three steps in user experience order:

first: a form to accept input,
second: a link to click
third: a printout of the input

Here are the orders used in code:

Ruby+sinatra: third, first, second
arc version 1: third, second, first (original)
arc version 2: second, third, first (May 2009)
Haskell+custom: first, second, third

Interesting results, I think Haskell wins here. Though technically it fails the challenge (the arc version 2 example fails too) since the supporting library was written after the challenge was considered by the author of the example.
Hah, this made me laugh and think for a moment. Personally, I'm not sure that right and wrong are subjective, but I'm also quite careful about saying there's an objective right and wrong. Objective right and wrong can certainly lead away from "live and let live", and who arbitrates this objective morality when people disagree?

So, funny phrasing and thought provoking way of putting it. After some reflection, I think I'd press you to define right and wrong before answering if you hit me up with that.
They're already assuming the favor before asking. It's literally borrowing someone's time before asking if it's ok.
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Text messaging.
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Is this related to `Fusion' of functional programming? There the compiler removes some of intermediate structures.

E.g. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/deforest/defores...
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Sometimes you can get books this way too but a lot of the time it is just a preview of a first chapter. Another way is to search for a non-prominent quotation from the book with filetype:pdf.
Really? GGG as best film of a lifetime? The acting is spectacular, but I don't really feel like there is much of a story. Just a showcase for good acting. Felt like broadway on film.
They wouldn't need the blessing of a carrier to sell an unlocked GSM version.
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You know what? You're correct: GPL suits have been copyright suits - but only because the terms of the LICENSE have been violated. Apparently the SFLC (main GPL litigator) hasn't done any of their suits under contract law. Perhaps the overly strict (a.k.a. "draconian") copyright regime we suffer under allows them to more easily win, or at least threaten for more damages.

However, GPL is a license, and it does waive some of the "rights" that usually get claimed, as long as you observe the terms of the license. In that respect, it's identical to EULA's.

But the GPL doesn't do the "it's mine, all mine, my precious" sort of hoarding that the usual licensing does, so I doubt that we'd ever see anyone busting copyright because the GPL is used to create artifical scarities, or jury-rig markets or the other stuff Big Media does with "all right reserved" copyright.
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I use dreamhost. Why? Because a while back they did that 777 deal, and I posted about it on a few forums, and ended up with like 250 primary referrals and 200 secondary referrals.

So basically I get paid money to host my stuff with them :) I made like 3 grand from them so far.

Also since they bump your storage/bw every week, at this point I have 10TB Bandwith and 500GB hosting. Which isn't half bad.
Not really hosting per say, but I've started to use Google App Engine recently. No control over the software/hardware but it's nicely designed if all you want is a rest front end (web/api) to your application.
As funny as this is on the surface, I think the underlying causes are incredibly interesting.
Awesome to see a BSD-based hosting service. Are they fairly new? I was looking for one a couple of years ago and don't recall seeing their name.
The distinction between 'program' 'language' 'library' 'framework' is just arbitrary though.

Just another vote for 'I have no clue what the point of this is'.

The challenge seems to be:

* Write a library with helper functions. Like the Arc library.
* Now you can write a short program that uses that library to do things.

Obviously that's possible in any language, so I don't understand how this measures languages at all.

The example in Arc:

(defop said req
(aform [onlink "click here" (pr "you said: " (arg _ "foo"))]
(input "foo")
(submit)))

Well this is a concise way to sum up what you want to do, but that could just be rewritten in any language of your choice. Then the appropriate libraries written. For example, java:

createForm("click here", new Response("you said %foo"), new InputElement("foo"), new SubmitElement());

I think there's more important things to compare in languages. speed, error handling, stability, memory management etc
I think I'm getting this. Let me try another bit of questioning to make sure I got it.

So let's say I think CSV-file processing is important. If I show doing something useful and common with CSV files in 15-20 symbols with my language of choice would it be fair to challenge other languages to do the same?

If I understand you correctly, this all hinges around what libraries you think languages should have by default and how many symbols it takes to get something "common" done using these commonly-available pieces.

This is a little too subjective for me, although I'll easily grant that web programming is much more common than CSV-file processing.

Instead of relying on the arbitrariness of what components have been built or what various committees have approved, I would amend this to be something like "after an initial bit of programming not to exceed 3 days, how much symbology do I have to piece together to solve various problems in some sort of common domain like web question/response?" Or something like that. Because as a practical matter I'm always taking a bit to ramp up on new pieces of languages anyway and 3 days or so in this context is a nit.
> "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce

That quote is good for a laugh, but a lot of people actually believe that without thinking it through entirely. Corporations exist to limit legal liability to the corporation itself: So if a group of 10 people get together to do something, they can form a corporation, and the people won't lose their personal possessions if something goes wrong on the corporate level. Meanwhile, anyone who does business with the corporation is informed it's a corporation - in order to keep the legal protections of a corporation, the corporation must explicitly identify itself with markings of "Inc", "Co", "Corp", "Incorporated", or so on. When an officer of the corporation signs a document, he signs it as, "His Name, Pres." instead of just his name - indicating that he's signing in his officer role, not personally. People who do business with the corporation understand that if something goes wrong, they can sue the corporation, but not the individuals who invested in it and its employees, unless the people did something wrong as individuals as well.

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Actually, personally, I think the ideal is to make corporate limited liability weaker at the same time as generally having courts hold people liable less often. Currently, if you slip on ice in front of a business, you've got a decent chance of winning a lawsuit which is crazy. Spilling hot coffee. Etc. Reducing liability and generally admitting that "bad stuff happens and isn't always someone's fault" while simultaneously holding individuals more accountable when they actually do wrong would probably be the best legal mix. But, if you want lots of liability and broad judicial jurisdiction, you absolutely need to have limited liability in order to allow the most experienced people to get involved in dangerous and important fields without risking everything they already have.
And Haskell solves those two problems pretty nicely without OOP.
"tl;dr:" doesn't go down well around here. (Perhaps you should have just posted the first part of your comment. That part's good.)
>Your comment sounds anti-intellectual.

Not a thing wrong with that. Fwiw, I file Technology Review with Wired and SciAm. That is, fluff. Hardly intellectual material imho.

>I find the entropic analysis of spoken Engligh vs. sign language pretty interesting

That would be interesting if they weren't using so poor an approach. Constraining the analysis to handshapes goes too far. Like constraining English analysis to vowel sounds, or removing prepositions.

Maybe the paper gives the wrong impression but it sounds like the parameters of the study were determined by someone with very little understanding of how ASL actually works.

(edited: formatting)
The author's bias is obvious from the first paragraph.

Can you trust anyone on climate change?