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Microsoft does the same with Google!!

Steve Balmer when talking about search never mentions Google. He says the market leader.
An advertising man must have told them that its bad to indirectly promote other products.
What 'Lisp runtime'?

Save the Lisp image to a single executable. Done.
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It takes great skill to write an article with that many sentences that say nothing new.
I thought I better step in here to say that I've had $25k, $50k, $300k, $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 investments so far. The last exit was $24m, the products and services continue to be purchased.

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Our (Braintree's) pricing is actually very competitive. It probably looks higher because we disclose all our fees. Nearly every provider we know of obscures fees both during the sales process and in the monthly reporting statements so merchants never really understand what they're paying. Here's an example of pricing trickery http://bit.ly/9NSZCa . Prospective customers regularly do thorough pricing comparisons and we are consistently among the most competitively priced. Our objective has always been to provide the best value in the industry for a fair price.
You'd be wrong.
Sure, but I'm intimately familiar with the semantics of the programming languages I use. It takes the same effort to insure floating point versus integer computations in the Python REPL as it does when writing a Python program - which is not much.

I'd rather use my existing knowledge than learn how to interface with something that is probably not as robust or as well designed.
No no, in the legal markets we call them "speculators", not gamblers.

Seriously though, whether or not a movie does well isn't a completely random process, so it's entirely possible for people outside of Hollywood to have insight into it.
Sort of like GreaseMonkey, but in addition to pure JS adds a nice API for simple access to most common operations. Pretty neat.
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You could use Trailer Park;-)

http://73primenumbers.com/trailerpark.html

Joking aside, depending on what you're doing, you could probably get by with something as simple as a Google spreadsheet.
Is it me or does the graph on Port25 not stack up?

I assume platform agnostic means "both windows and linux [and everything else]"? so therefore how does Windows having 82% and Linux 94(ish)% coverage add up?

Or have I read it wrong?
Hardly bad, literal yes, almost. 'Chaves' (keys, braces, staches in the post's joke) really come from the mathematical term 'chaveta', a punctuation, symbol that serves as a opening and closure in mathematical terms, hence the term as a key and not as brace (what would be better translated as braçadeira).
I'd expect to see some quotas enforced to guarantee that, say, background Pandora really does only take x% CPU, probably within a static amount of memory.

I think it would be much smarter for Apple to just give the iPhone user some sort of notification when there isn't enough memory to run the app he's trying to open. Kinda like the classic Mac OS for those that remember.
Windows was build with a full POSIX.1 subsystem. It was part of the design specifications.

What you are referring to is running some sort of Posix system on top of Win32 (Cygwin), but NT is capable of running Posix natively.

Services for Unix doesn't install a Posix subsystem, it replaces it with another called Interix.

The POSIX subsystem has been removed from the installation since Windows XP.

n.b. : Subsystems are how programs interface with the "real" NT API. Win32 is a subsystem as well.
That's not CL behavior - that's something an implementation in development mode does. The Common Lisp standard does not specify the presence or absence of a debugger

You are free to handle all errors in your application and never drop into a debugger. Common Lisp comes with a 'condition system' that let's you handle errors, recover from errors, show users possible restarts and more.
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You're absolutely right Axod, it was never meant to be a pinpoint piece that you'd read in The Economist with everything sourced. It's just my opinion complete with sweeping generalisations.

I've failed many times but I've also been very successful too.
I assume you mean quod erat demonstrandum, which normally goes at the end of a proof.

The only thing you've helped prove, as requested, is that there are far better stories about physicists and economics to submit here than a political essay by Albert Einstein. :)
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The best part of leaving the UK was escaping the cycle of negativity. Sure this guy is warped by it and comes across really badly, but it's insanely helpful being able to say I'm working on a startup and have people be understanding and supportive. If you don't believe me about the attitude of some British people, check out this Guardian article and the comments:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/10/not-safe-fo...

I tried to make sense of it all myself here:

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/07/you-cant...
Since we're on the topic of calculators ...

Is there something like Soulver or Speedcrunch, but also handles unit conversions a la google calculator?

instacalc is OK, but doesn't handle units properly either.

edit: www.encalc.com seems to do units right, but allowing only one expression at a time is limiting.
(I thought you were plc on Twitter and hence British? I'll explain anyway for the benefit of the non-Brits!)

Del Boy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Boy - is the lead character in, perhaps, Britain's best ever sitcom that ran in the early 1980s, Only Fools and Horses. Del Boy was a slightly shady trader-cum-entrepreneur who always had an eye out for some dodgy merchandise to shift.

Calling some a "Del Boy" communicates the attitude of seeing entrepreneurs as fly by nights, always looking out for an easy buck.
That's actually very accurate for certain segments of UK society
And willingness to spend years of their young adult life jumping through academia's hoops.
Actually, I don't think many will.

For the ipad, if you don't explicitly support the larger layout, you just get a smaller app in the middle of the screen that's still picture perfect.

And for IB, if you chose to target the iPad itself, you can just make a second XIB file that has your iPad layout for each screen, then load them up depending on hardware. It will be slightly more work, but it will still be backed by the GUI tool, and it will still be pretty easy. You aren't forced into layout manager.

As far as iPodTouch iPhone differences, those are really small for the perspective of most apps, or are total deal breakers. Either way, you're usually not doing much accommodation.
Ask HN: What are you YC S10 applicants doing now?
March 13th is just around the corner, what have you other YC S10 applicants been doing since you applied?

Refreshing HN looking for messages from pg? Searching your spam folder for anything from ycombinator.com? Continuing your search for a co-founder? Putting together a blooper reel from the outtakes of your video? cough Awesomizing your demo/MVP?

Past successful applicants: what did you do while you waited? Would you recommend it?
Why are we happy?
Nice! I like your post Colin and will try to attend the conf and shoot the video for those who can't make it, if the conf doesn't make the video for you (hope there isn't copyright infringement though)
Originally posted to HN when he wrote it shortly after the CA Prop 8 vote.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371987
Sigh. Let me put it this way: It's the only reasonable interpretation I can come up with of your original comment.
Amusingly, the interface Marco points out as not having any real-world equivalent is actually fairly close (barring lack of keypad) to what my Casio scientific calculator does - calculation history, variable references, editing and all. The inability of most bundled calculator applications to live up to a £15 pocket calculator has been a source of frustration for me for quite some time - it's not that the calculators fail by replicating a real-world object; it's that they fail by not replicating the right one :)
Interesting to see this rolled out at GDC instead of SIGGRAPH. Perhaps Khronos is trying to take on Direct3D more directly?
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Buildapp looks like a very nice solution to a long standing Common Lisp problem. When I was still reading comp.lang.lisp, seemed like every request for how to build an executable turned into a long diatribe about how "you really don't want to do that", "you're thinking in the UNIX way, not the Lisp way", yadda yadda yadda. Now, that question can be just be answered with the buildapp URL.

Agreed that thinking Common Lisp lacks adequate ways to manipulate sequency things is quite funny. The main problem is the lack of definitive libraries for things that were not included in the standard 20 some years ago.
He nailed it. It's written in an abrasive tone that's sure to attract negative reactions, but the array of positive comments left so far show an undercurrent of support (and I've had plenty of positive retweets and responses on Twitter after mentioning it). Nonetheless, it's the patriotic right of some to believe everything is fine and dandy here.

I've always played it by being based in the UK (because I haven't been able to move to the US, maybe in a few years) but having 90%+ of my customer base in the US (I even took angel investment from the US, like the article's author). That way I enjoy the UK's tax system and I can live here legally, but I enjoy a customer base with a clue (try selling Internet services or advertising in the UK - ha ha ha). Works for now-ish but the startup visa could be a big help.

(In retrospect, maybe I should edit my post to say this guy is totally wrong to stop getting downvoted by the handful of patriotic Brits who remain :-) By jove, humbug to the US, chaps, the UK is splendid!)
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The HTML5 vs. iPhone payment argument is nonsense
I think you misread what I was getting at. In this scenario Emacs doesn't call the package manager - if emacs manages packages it does it for itself in elisp. But it doesn't matter to emacs whether the package was installed from an elisp program or from a .deb file, because the end result (predefined format in predefined place) is the same regardless. So you're free to use, or not use, the package manager of your choice. Or mix them.
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I totally agree. Having been part of 4 in Chicago in the last 6 months, I am amazed at the stuff that comes out of these things. Currently I'm trying to sell the idea of having a hackathon at the company I work for. Anything not client related is usually an uphill battle here, but hackathon as drivers of new features, products and innovation is becoming increasing hard to ignore.
Editing the manifest file to make a jar file double-clickable is pretty straight forward. Is there a comparably simple method for Common Lisp?

Buildapp, mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, looks like a good solution. But, as with most things Common Lisp, it is tied to a specific distribution (in this case, SBCL).
While CPU power differences could make a big issues, especially for games, I still say apple's fixed layout system is stronger.

You load up a new screen with a call that specifies the layout file (called a XIB) on iPhone. You can then feasibly have different layouts for iPad and for 320x480 phones.

I could easily support 5 of those. With a layout manager, you have to LOOK to see if it turned out well on the platforms (of which there are already 5-8 you care about, many times more than iphone).

What android needs, is a gui builder.
Linked to both of those in an update at the bottom of the post Pete. Nice one!
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It is another reason. The first reason is that it causes problems for database admins. The fact that it also causes problems for graph theorists is another reason.
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Yep. To put it another way, take the question "to whom should X be married?" If the answer is "it's 100% personal preference - no choice is better than another" - then the state shouldn't get involved. We don't pass laws encouraging you to wear blue instead of green, because it's just a matter of preference. So if your marriage choices don't matter to anyone, why should society bother recognizing and investing in them?
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We use voo2do for our small web firm.

http://voo2do.com/

It's nothing like Basecamp but fits our model well.
It's great, and I use it all the time because it handles units properly, but once things get complicated, it's a pain (you can't define variables or easily use results of previous calculations).
You've completely ignored my points. I don't care that the ads are served by a new technology. I care that I have complete control over who I am receiving communications from and when I view those communications.
You know that not all straight men prefer all other straight women?

That's why the stable marriage problem is non-trivial. If all men preferred all women equally, any set of marriages would be stable.
I can't think of anything more irrelevant or distracting than debating marriage policy based on database schema.
There are three hurdles for bootstrapping (http://www.tonywright.com/2008/bootstrappers-beware/ ):
covering operations (ie hosting)
ramen profitability
salary profitability

For a web startup, you should bootstrap or take very small investment (ie YC's $15K) to get to ramen profitability. At that point you can choose whether to grow slowly from revenues (like patio11) or seek growth capital (like DropBox did a few months ago).

With the fall in costs for build web companies, a beta is the new PowerPoint. Any credible angel or VC will want to see a product and traction before giving you money.
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Instacalc.com might be closer to what you want.
I work at a provider (PowerPay) and completely agree about obscured fees. The rates I was referring to are posted on your site and do seem a bit high to me. With that being said, there are a ton of variables involved in pricing an account, so it was a bit unfair of me to bash your prices. I suppose that is why most providers don't list rates on their sites.
Right now by defining it as "one man, one woman" the opposition is pissing off 10+% of the population. Claiming that gay marriage will lead to polygamy or bestiality is inflammatory. It's like saying that being religious is a dangerous choice because everyone knows it leads you to kill unbelievers.

Redefinition depends on how far you want to go to deconstruct the term "spouse". In addition to making decisions when you are ill, how about "adopting my children", "inheriting my property (and debts)", or "becoming my common-law spouse after 6 month's co-habitation", or "perhaps not in my church but ok in another one", etc?

After a certain point you either have to draw a line, ie "sorry, you can have this much dignity and no more", or you eventually accept the strong form of gay marriage. Anything else would be politically unstable. You can, politically, rule out polygamy and define marriage as "two people". It doesn't have to lead to chaos and anarchy.
oh, heh, I simply meant "this doesn't actually happen" :)

Lovely Jubbly!
I partially disagree. The point of the PhD process is not to create knowledgeable, creative, courageous scientists. As you point out, they can (and do) come to be that type of person on their own.

The value of the PhD is to teach the budding scientist the process that surrounds modern science. It's an opportunity to learn what the social structures in the field are (societies and conferences), to meet fellow scientists and form a network of people to draw on for ideas and criticism, and to learn the vagaries of funding and formally writing up research. Having a PhD says "I know how to do all these things... I know who the important people in my field are... I know which conferences are the most important... I know how to get funding". All of these things are important things to know if you want to do science professionally, because you need the connections and the funding to put food on the table.

This isn't to say the PhD is some magical permission to do science. Lots of great science is done by amateurs, and more power to them. So scientists don't need a PhD to do science, but it is more than just a credential. It's a valuable training program on how to navigate all the social and bureaucratic things that surround the actual science.
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The main thing I am trying to say is that, if you understand crypto enough to configure your TLS optimally, you can do the crypto without TLS. And, if you don't understand crypto and TLS this well, you shouldn't be trying to store the public's private data in a way that you claim to be secure. (This isn't about ZumoDrive; They may know quite a lot about these issues, and their choices might very well be optimal for the use cases they are trying to address.)

It would be very interesting to read why people would ban DHE. I know DHE key exchange is tricky in TLS because TLS doesn't allow proper negotiation of the parameters like it does with ECDHE and there are no commonly agreed-upon (named) DHE parameters like there are for ECDHE and IPSEC. Luckily, things are pretty straightforward if you use the Suite B profile of TLS (RFC5430), AFAICT.

There's a big difference between whether people would choose backup software based on the algorithms being used, and what algorithms should be implemented. Many people would choose backup software without any encryption if it was easy to use and cheap.
VS2010 let you have 2 files open. In VS2008 you cannot have 2 sources code file open in each of your screen. Only one (of course you can put other windows to other screen but not multiple code windows).
> Editing the manifest file to make a jar file double-clickable is pretty straight forward

In what platform?
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Looks interesting from the video... but is it really as compelling in person?
It's happened to me and my colleagues and their colleagues (repeat) many times. Good news for you though, if you've not experienced it!
Good for you!

So why not mention that in the article to balance things a bit?
I never stopped using bc. Why you'd want one of those things with GUI buttons I dunno.
While I waited for the article to load, I was on the edge of my seat. Is it going to be dated 2010, or 2000?
How can you possibly compare a consumer service ment to make it easy to access files across multiple devices with a backup solution ment only for the most technical people? Can you imaging if ZumoDrive had you (or your parents?!) generate your own crypto keys which you would then have to manually transfer to your iphone when you wanted to access your data on it? Think a web interface sounds nice? Great, just login with your username, password, and crypto keys (that hopefully you have memorized), so we can decrypt your files and render a web interface.

The article makes some decent point and if you're storing the nuclear launch codes, yeah, don't put them in ZumoDrive. Otherwise, the article would have been much more useful if it suggested alternatives that would still operate within ZumoDrive's existing user experience.
Yes, but it's also a way to avoid saying "Linux".
What you would like is a "download it here" link on http://lisp.org/

It's not as trivial as that.
Title is Bullllllllllllllllllllshit.

They could have an app up in a couple weeks that streamed select shows. They could have their entire library up as soon as they got their entire library up (which is basically a process of running 2 programs on each show, a possibly scriptable task, which likely should be quality checked by a human). The protocol and video player are extremely advertising friendly on the iPhone.

Apple might not approve them, but it's not exactly a huge expense to find out.

If they're changing business model and chose to not find out is one thing. But this is NOT a hard technical problem.

Disclosure: I do custom 3rd party iphone apps for a living, including streaming video.
Good links; but the moral opinion not so much.
Corporations are now legal people, with all the rights that come with that status.
Western social marriage patterns confuse the hell out of me. It appears to me that the vast majority of men are literally looking to marry a supermodel, beyond that very little beside if she'll laugh at his jokes and be nice appears to matter.

Women on the other hand appear to have all manner of weird neuroses about what constitutes "Mr Right.", so vast is the span of options it is not possible to really outline them all, they even conflict in many cases "Works hard, financially secure, can take the kids to soccer practice and let me focus on my career".

At any rate, I don't understand why from a man's perspective marrying a woman from abroad isn't the obvious option. They tend not to have the lifestyle that contributes to what is fundamentally the definition of "average human appearance" being skewed wildly with weight or the long term effects of cosmetics on skin quality etc etc etc.

For what it's worth for me personally, I think all you humans are crazy and I'm perfectly happy to not be codependent, but whatever blows your hair back.
They're cheering because the car is probably in the way.

In the UK, ~30-50 people do not get into a crowd and "cheer" a traffic warden doing their job unless the car belongs to someone they hate a lot more than traffic wardens.. and traffic wardens are vilified in the UK to ridiculous levels (there was a recent documentary about this - http://youtu.be/4TxxiXZHXD0).

If the US had universal healthcare I think it'd be more appealing.

Annual travel insurance is so cheap in the UK - even that covering the US - that using the US healthcare system isn't really an issue to most travellers.
> Ok, but most people want more than a 1/2N share of the economic "pie".

That depends on how much that share actually is. Remember - we have folks living on welfare now.

And, it might well cause people to retire earlier. Or to delay entering the work force.

Krugman's "Macroeconomics" says that it is well established that the higher the unemployment compensation, the more that people try to live on it or extend their stays. This is the same thing only moreso.
I forgot to respond to this in my other reply. Your post regarding RC4 was the first one that popped into my mind when I was trying to find a post regarding sub-optimal TLS settings commonly in use.

In particular, your post says we shouldn't be using RC4. But, RC4 is enabled by default in most/all TLS stacks, so if you want to follow that advice, you need to change the defaults in the TLS stack.
Same here. I was expecting a single mound of sand and a lone palm tree complete with coconuts and a monkey.