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Was I missing something or was there actually nothing about Marc Andreessen in the article? The title says "and why he is not friends with Marc Andreessen" yet there's nothing at all about him. Who upvoted this?

edit: oh I found it now. They're not friends but more like "relatives". Click bait.

"“It’s a great relationship,” Ben says. The two disagree constantly and their honesty often causes tensions between them, when they argue about all kinds of topics. “I’m not friends with Marc, he’s much more like a relative. I don’t want to have lunch with him every day, in fact I prefer not to!” But this is what makes theirs a unique and strong bond: the disagreements create a robust exchange of ideas, which means they have much to learn from one another."
That's actually a watered-down version of what Kickstarter had before, with significantly less protection for backers. Previously the ToS said creators had to give either the rewards they'd promised or a refund. Kickstarter made a big deal about protecting backers a few years ago after ZionEyez took a quarter of a million in backer funds and then disappeared to a tropical beach never to be heard from again, then quietly removed those protections and more after the heat died down.
At what cost?
My company recently had an Oracle audit, and yeah, the big concern was that the audits basically tend to find some non-compliance "but you'll be totally covered if you buy N cloud-services from us".

Why anyone uses Oracle is a god damn mystery to me. Why we use Oracle even more so - we have no use nor need for it's featureset.
> I don't like all the advertisements.

Google's an advertising company. Of course they were going to add adverts. Even if the original founders still ran the site it'd probably eventually have gotten adverts. Bandwidth isn't free, especially at that scale. You expect Google to run it out of the love of their hearts after paying a huge sum to buy it?

If you don't like the adverts, just use Adblock Plus/uBlock Origin and call it a day.
Exactly my thoughts when I saw this. The problem with writer obstructing the view can be solved by place the camera behind the board and using a translucent white plastic sheet for the board. If the front of the board is illuminated well, then the camera shouldn't have any problems in capturing the stuff being written on the translucent board. Mirror the image in software and you are done!
Original title:

URGENT: get the hell off Apache OpenOffice, it’s insecure and not worked on any more. LibreOffice is better in literally every way.
The problem is that they have something like $25,000 in other backers who haven't been refunded, and those penalties and fees mean the creator almost certainly won't be able to refund them.
“It’s a great relationship,” Ben says. The two disagree constantly and their honesty often causes tensions between them, when they argue about all kinds of topics. “I’m not friends with Marc, he’s much more like a relative. I don’t want to have lunch with him every day, in fact I prefer not to!” But this is what makes theirs a unique and strong bond: the disagreements create a robust exchange of ideas, which means they have much to learn from one another.
The reason why some people say that Clojure isn't a lisp is that some of its design decisions such as those mentioned in the blog posting detract from the essence of lispiness. It goes too far to say that it's not a lisp but it's certainly less lispy than Common Lisp or Scheme.
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A very, very tiny minority of the backers got their money back: 31 out of 810 backers, receiving their $668 out of the $25,146 total pleged. The rest of the backers are unlikely to see a penny now, because all their money is going to the state in the form of legal fees and civil penalties. That's certainly not justice.
I can not agree more. The whole concept of services like these revolves around "private vans ride along the most dense and profitable streets to achieve 100% utilization of the vehicle".

Share taxis (jitneys, dollar vans, etc) is a world-wide phenomenon which is very common in the developing world, because the municipalities there can not afford to subsidize public transit which is rarely profitable[1].

The only thing that share taxis can do efficiently is to generate profits for the owners, while they are dramatically inefficient at:

- providing guaranteed time frame for the services which is convenient to many categories of passengers (e.g. from 07:00 to 23:30)
- providing coverage of all neighbourhoods of a city
- providing integrated payments (you can not transfer from one van to another for free when changing routes)
- synchronizing timetables between 2 different services, which is crucial to connections [2]

Essentially, those private transit services are the same old jitneys, but running only for commuters and having efficient ordering systems (smartphones). And private transit systems never evolve into efficient passenger transportation networks [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio#Farebox...
[2]: http://www.humantransit.org/2013/08/guest-post-on-lusaka-tra...
[3]: http://www.humantransit.org/2014/02/the-evolution-of-logic-i...
Any startup that uses HotSpot, so if it uses Java, Clojure or Scala there's a chance it is tied to Oracle.
Sony warns users not to take ‘waterproof’ phones under water
The tone you have taken to answer, together with the last comment, make no sense together. So you support the ad model, including the silly "out of the love of their hearts" rhetoric, but conclude with installing an ad blocker.
It's not that magic. It's the address of the (RF disc) IPL in the "UNIX ROM". It allows the operator to bootstrap Warm UNIX into single-user mode by just pressing LOAD then START without adjusting the front panel switches. Bootstrapping Warm UNIX into multi-user mode is achieved by just toggling one front panel switch (#15) in between LOAD and START. It's all described in the accompanying boot(7) manual page.
Kick the ads, analytics, visitor spy scripts out and you have a fast website...
The more I read stories like that, the more I wonder why companies use Oracle at all.

Is it really just cover your ass, institutional inertial and people who don't know better?
This enters into highly philosophical territory. Can meaning exist only for one person? That is, can you decide for yourself the meaning of words and if yes, what sense does it make to tell your made-up meaning to others?

I can decide for myself that "road" is a metaphor for "apple" and treat the poem as advice to make brandy from the apples that have rolled the least distance from the tree when they fell. But does that really mean anything to other people? Can you in fact discuss this interpretation, or is it so absurd as to boggle the mind and defy rational discourse?

The other thing that bothers me is, with Death of the Author, you end up with an echo chamber. You don't try to understand somebody else's idea, you're trying to make his/her words say your ideas. Which sounds absolutely counter to the very purpose of writing things down. Why would you write if people won't read what you've written? If you won't put new ideas in their head, but only become a vessel for their current thoughts?

Socrates said he didn't see the point of writing for others, given that you won't be there to tell them what your words mean. Well, someone wrote that he said, since he himself didn't write. In any case, I find these words highly prophetic.
Off the top of my head I know that Netflix and LinkedIn have been running Oracle for quite a while until they moved away.
I assume this is the (counter) reaction to Facebook's instant articles. The lack of details doesn't help though.
I recently finished reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators books. One of the things that caught my attention was that for many of the people mentioned in the book there was a mention of extra-curricular interests.
Why we crave what’s cool
Well, it does. OP said it makes sense from youtube's point of view to put in ads, and was to be expected of them. He didn't support the ad model himself, just claimed it made sense.
A brief overview of cloud platforms for the IoT
Nice.
But better source it from some other file and start it on demand. It should rather go into data-dir/python/gdb/

http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2015/09/gdb-dashboard.htm...
Example usage: http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2015/09/gdb-dashboard.htm...
This is not just Oracle, but it is pretty common for software dinosaurs (Microsoft, SAP...). We migrated to Redhat since Microsoft was unable to tell us exact price. Managers would risk criminal offense, by using software with unclear licensing terms.
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I was an early and enthusiastic fan of Google Books. I often do research that relies heavily on 17th-19th century English academic works, which is right in the Google Books public domain sweet spot.

But something went awry—I'm not sure what—and the project was allowed to languish by Google. The interface has been in maintenance mode for ages, with no development going on. This leads to a lot of frustration: for instance, you cannot share all of your saved and tagged books with another user, and sharing a shelf or series of shelves is awkward and clunky. In terms of UX, it appears to be abandonware.

On top of that, there's no way to know what's going on or who to talk to, because users can't actually contact anyone at Google Books.
Can someone who works on web development for a major publisher please try and explain why such sites take so long to load?

Just by opening devtools in Chrome I can tell that a lot of sites aren't bothering to minify HTML, aren't bothering to asynchronously load JavaScript, include more frameworks and widgets than anyone could possibly use and don't bother to cache anything (or cache very little). And with all the pointless junk they include, they still can't use proper HTML tags and attributes nor include some basic accessibility features.

I really hate having to reload pages because something didn't load properly or having to turn off JavaScript and/or images just because a site is loading a huge file that is blocking the display of a paragraphs of text. I know some people like to use something like Lynx or only allow HTML to be loaded - but my web browsing shouldn't have to become sadistic.

Making Google, Twitter or Facebook load news articles is a terrible alternative. Given the wide array of compression tools, caching (including service workers on >40% of browsers, appcache on >90% and pretty much everyone having HTTP caching) and the sheer amount of information on improving website performance that's out there, making news websites load fast really should be a solved problem that doesn't need Google to solve it.
They are improving your life in exchange for information about you and the places you visit. Their product is closed, the proprietary data is not accessible outside their apps, or if they wish to license it.

OpenStreetMap is improving the world.
You don't need to look that far. Fahrenheit 451, which nearly everyone interprets as anti-government censorship, was written by Bradbury as anti-TV, i.e. "television is rotting people's minds". It's literally an old man grumbling about new technology. See: http://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-mis...
I would add Athlean-X as one of the best fitness channels - "Putting the science back in Strength" - https://www.youtube.com/user/JDCav24

The guy, Jeff Cavaliere, is amazing!
Would you consider Scheme a lisp? It is after all also not sharing any code with the above mentioned (by necessity, since it use define instead of defun for declaring functions).
> The only Lisp he learned was some imperative crappy style

Not to be trolling myself, but I believe that's part of the "practical" aspect.

You'll find much of the same in "Practical common lisp".
Its not the indie part, its the games themselves. They are mostly either BAD, or very niche. It blows my mind that some people think there is a vast market for 1990 style platformers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4F-zdpFb9I
And downmod you, apparently...
> I have a simpler suggestion, nicknamed the Big Bang license. Congress should allow anyone with a scanned library to pay some price—say, a hundred and twenty-five million dollars—to gain a license, subject to any opt-outs, allowing them to make those scanned prints available to institutional or individual subscribers.

Wouldn't this be great? Many of these materials are not indexed and chances to discover them are decreasing every day. Second, getting access to these materials is for many almost impossible (out of print, not available in the libraries, etc.)
You are right. Looks like my memory is not what it used to be.
It's frankly disgusting and terrifying in equal measure. When I say something, I want to tell you that thing. I don't want my words to be misunderstood as your feelings. It's already extremely hard to communicate with people. It gets exponentially harder when you have to predict how they'll interpret what you say.
> The result of that design is that Clojure shares literally zero lines of code with other Lisps: Autolisp, ISLisp, Emacs Lisp, Standard Lisp, Common Lisp. Many basic concepts are absent, renamed or redesigned ('Atom', 'Linked List', ...). Clojure is fully incompatible to any other language with Lisp in its name.

> Programs have to be re-architectured, because the concepts are different:

"Re-architectured" can be read in a multitude of ways. Changing a few datatypes because Clojure prefers vectors instead of lists, etc., feels like it falls well below the bar for "re-architectured".

> no TCO, but 'functional'

This would hold weight if CL mandated TCO, but it doesn't.

With this in mind, I'd like to examine a few of your points from a different angle:

Racket:

- Basic concepts are the same, (atom, linked lists, '...')

- Restructuring not really needed (up for debate, depends entirely on your prefered initial design choices in either language. Racket isn't that opinionated.)

- Tail call optimization required as per Scheme standard, so is present. Note that this is not actually something Lisp mandates.

- Doesn't 'care' about side effects, community is pragmatic and will generally advise you to do whatever is practical

- Has an object oriented sub-language with message passing and so on

There are a lot of points here that, according to you, makes Racket essentially a Lisp, even your non-point about TCO. I'm curious to know what you feel about people saying Scheme is a Lisp, considering the above.

The whole debate of "Is X (a) Lisp?" reminds me of nationality debates that essentially boil down to some people saying blood is more important than culture. You seem to be taking both sides, however; arguing culture and blood (source code). You cherry pick the cultural differences like most people standing on one side of the nationality debate would and argue that just those specific differences are the most important.

That's the thing, though; Swedish people could argue however much they want that they're very different from Norwegian people. To the rest of the world, though, they're essentially the same. Especially when you start comparing them to people from Peru, Venezuela, South Africa, and so on. When you're in the bubble the very small differences are much bigger to you, but if you zoom out to get some perspective these differences are much smaller than the commonalities.
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This appears to be the fire, and it is a rather large one:

http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?...

I wonder how much they can salvage, if anything...
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Some Schemes - most notably Racket, which I use the most - allow for nested defines. Your code actually is a valid Racket code after polishing the differences in naming and syntax a bit:

#lang racket

(define-syntax-rule (defun name (arg ...) . body)
(define (name arg ...) . body))
(define nil null)
(define t #t)

(defun ab (l)
;; "I'm too lazy to reverse the result back."
(defun _ (l a b f)
(if (null? l)
(if f (list a b) (list b a))
(_ (cdr l) b (cons (car l) a) (not f))))
(_ l nil nil t))

(ab '())
(ab '(1))
(ab '(1 2))
(ab '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10))
;; ((9 7 5 3 1) (10 8 6 4 2))
(ab '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11))
;; ((11 9 7 5 3 1) (10 8 6 4 2))

...and you don't need to worry about recursion limits thanks to mandatory TCO.
Most of the really accomplished men and women I know in medicine have a wide range of interests, often including artistic pursuits. In fact it's quite a tradition among medical practitioners to take it very seriously to play a musical instrument, show great passion for photography, do fine woodworking, write inspired poetry, among an endless range of creative endeavors.

The same applies to the top-flight programmers I know, though fewer seem to take up visual art forms vs. music or writing. Just a theory, but perhaps the talents that lead to programming excellence overlap more with non-visual expression.

But that is the key: the best in any field very likely have more than one talent, so only natural to do a number of seemingly unrelated things well.

While I'm hardly in the league of the individuals mentioned in the article, I have contributed worthy if modest accomplishments. Like the subset of physician colleagues juggling "parallel" artistic careers, I'm also a professional artist (printmaking, photography), and not coincidentally pretty handy at manipulating computers as well.

It seems entirely natural for energetic, curious, motivated and gifted people to enjoy using their abilities in diverse ways. It follows that the most capable people will be show it in several domains.

A final thought is the experience of intense interest in seemingly diverse fields is probably not as discontinuous as others may think. People often say to me art must be a nice diversion from practicing medicine. Actually for me going from one to the other is seamless, there are common elements among my whole range of activities, the essential problem-solving core is not different. Yes the goals and technologies are unmistakeably distinct, yet putting some part of myself into every task is a constant.
A related complaint is that, even for public domain books, downloading them is painful: sometimes you need to fill a CAPTCHA, recently you often have to create a Google Account just to download a free book <http://uzy.me/qc>, and hunt for download options (the system tries to make you read the book within Google Play instead). At some point, also, the books' first page included boilerplate with requests for attribution and non-commercial use (which I think is bogus for public domain material, even if Google digitized it).

If Google Books really were about improving public access to books, downloading public domain books would be frictionless, and bulk downloading and mirroring would be encouraged.
Like a portable wall clock? A port-a-clock if you will? What a brilliant idea. We could affix it to a strap of leather so you can carry it around your waist. Given a few years we could probably make it so small you could wear it on your wrist!
So everything your phone does already with a swipe of a finger?

I might be underestimating how this might be important in your daily morning routine, but I can fairly well tell the weather by looking thru the window. My alarm is set on phone and I'll have pretty good estimate how much time I've spend in shower.

To-do looks somewhat useful if you actually update it. It's something your phone already does. Personally it is almost always empty as I do not put work items on it.

Stock price and xkcd looks just as gimmicky as first two functions. It always make me cringe a little when smartphone manufacturers advertise their lock screens with such widgets.
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So which party or candidate has made dismantling the DoJ their key issue? Because a president really only gets one or two Big Things plausibly accomplished.

The Democrats clearly won't do it, and we can rest assured the Republicans will busy themselves with abortion and warmongering with Iran.
Well ben, if you don't like comments criticising Google, just stop reading them and call it a day.

Google is not just showing ads, they're tracking their users and building profiles which include contacts, location, e-mail content, what you search for, which sites you visit, photos, videos and so on and so forth.

No one really expects them to give their stuff away for free, but many consider this data-for-product deal much worse than simply paying for a product, and they shouldn't be silenced with trite recommendations such as "use adblock".
I'm back from a month in Berlin and found lots of reasonably priced apartments available. Price was generally lower than other European destinations that I've used Airbnb with. I booked the accommodation a month in advance of the trip though.
You provide zero information about how this very sensitive information is stored, and how its protected.

So not only do I have to worry about who you are (because I'd essentially be giving you the ability to access any number of services that may not yet have 2FA options) I also have to worry about if that data can be access by someone else who attacks you.
Users will just click yes, or whichever default for "just make it work" you choose.

Advanced protection/admin features left to consumers simply don't work, I thought we understood that by now. You must have something that will intelligently handle them on its own (e.g. heuristic AVs, smart firewalls etc). Because there is no way for a system to say "well, this looks like a storage device, but it's telling me it's an input one, something is fishy", you're just going to have a whitelist nobody really uses, like IE's "trusted sites" zones.
Absolutely. Then Apple can sell them iCloud storage for this photos. I don't agree with this practice, there really shouldn't be an 16GB iPhone.
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I agree. I just felt that in Man of Steel it was so overdone it actually got in the way of the story, breaking the immersion.
Discomfort drives all powerful science.
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As usual the definition of success is blurry. If I can make a single dollar on my game I consider it a success but I'm not in it for the money.
Well..not really.

"But pilot wave theory could still be important, because it has a different conceptual formulation, so if you set out to modify the theory, you get different modifications. In that sense, it is a good new idea. I personally think that you can produce a truncation of pilot-wave which doesn't coincide with ordinary quantum mechanics, but which is mostly the same as quantum mechanics when you are dealing with only a few particles only slightly entangled. In this case, you need the wavefunction to be a complicated function of the hidden-variables (the particle positions) which only obeys the Schrodinger equation approximately. This type of thing is a true modification of quantum mechanics, but I was never 100% sure that it works. I described the idea roughly in my answer to one of 'tHoofts questions on physics stackexchange."

Source: http://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-p...