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If you search for Carl Herold on Google the first result is a rip-off report, which he claims is fake. Whether or not it is (I believe it is fake) his services to the online community are not to be ignored, and many on reddit have tried improving his pagerank for highercomputingforeveryone.com

To anyone who appreciates Carl Herold's work: please spread word about http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/ and post the link when the opportunity arises, not only to help others learn C++ but for Carls sake, he really is a true altruist.
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It's quite possible for more than 50% of people to be above average drivers. If there are 100 people, and 80 of them cause no accidents, and the other 20 cause 10 accidents each, then there are 2 accidents per driver. 80% have less than average accident rate. By the same logic it's possible for most people to have a below average salary. Once extremes are possible, then averages start being less applicable.

However for things that have no extrmeme (e.g. height, IQs), the above average and below average rates are similar.,
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I don't know if you subscribe to Jason Calacanis' newsletter, Jason Nation, but I just wanted to let you guys know that his last e-mail had amazing value. It was long, detailed and really, really informative.

I would link to it, but there doesn't seem to be any link anywhere, not even on his blog. I would also paste it into a Google doc and share it, but I don't want to be stealing his content...

Anyways, if you're not subscribed to it by now, you should do so right away.
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That's the Dunning-Kruger effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
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Another way to put it is that people don't learn lisp because it is never the local maxiumum, the nearest, easiest hill to climb. That's probably true, but always settling for local maximums has bad consequences over the long term. Periodically you should invest in figuring out how to do things better overall.
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But then potatoes can not be used to prove that there was no real food shortage, hence the argument made in the article is refuted (not proving that there was indeed a shortage, but he would have to provide other data to support his theory). That was my point.
and the answer to that is ... :P
My apologies in advance, but my inner pedantic is getting the better of me: It was reportedly Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France just before the French Revolution that allegedly said "Let them eat cake!" - this claim is actually disputed, which is a bit of a shame actually, because it's just about the only thing anyone actually "knows" about Marie-Antoinette.

As for the quote itself, I've always disliked that translation - the French version of the quote is "qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" - and I really don't know why we don't use "brioche" in the English version of the quote - it's a recognised word in English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche

Maybe it's just that when the quote was first translated at the end of the 18th Century, "brioche" wasn't used in English, and as a result "cake"was used, and it hasn't been changed since due to inertia...

/pendantic
This is something Twitter should try.

When I was in India six months ago, I usually had a pretty bad connection and Twitter's web interface worked terribly.

- You had to wait for every single element on the page to load before you could click to use the login box - else you would jump to the login page itself and had to wait for that one as well.

- Clicking a list, clicking a saved search, basically everything with an ajax request doesn't have a really good indicator of that it's loading, so that experience was horrible.

- There were probably other issues as well.

Facebook on the other hand did amazing. Of all the websites I tried and used, Facebook was the most stable, was the quickest to load (in spite of all the JS, etc) and generally performed really well on a slow connection.
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The mention of Pivotal's support actually improved my outlook on this whole thing. It doesn't sound like they are outsourcing the code, it sounds like they are being mentored, and that Pivotal thinks this crazy thing could work.
How fast does battery technology progress? I've replaced a few batteries in iPods and Nintendo DS's and I'm fairly certain they were rated much higher than the stock ones, while being surprisingly cheap.

Does it go fast enough to make a material difference between choosing a phone with or without user accessible batteries and purchasing a newer battery 6 or 12 months later?
>The recent financial crisis was primarily caused by millions of homeowners defaulting on their loans.

Uh, that's a pretty simplistic view. The government-financed loans were an enabler, but people were using over-the-counter CDS' to short those loans (i.e. more than one "insurance policy" could exist per loan and it would be hard to even know who all had them unless the loan defaulted), rating agencies get paid by those they rate so they gave artificially good ratings, etc., etc. It was a perfect storm but to put the blame on those "darn irresponsible poor people" is so simplistic as to be absurd.

>shift regulation from capping what banks and mutual funds can do to making sure they aren't committing fraud.

There are many reason for the regulation on banks and mutual funds. It's not to make the country more socialist, it's to prevent short term focused bankers/fund managers from accidentally destroying the whole economy or pissing away thousands of people's retirement.

>The government exists to protect private property, life, and to prosecute those who commit fraud.

What about dealing with monopolies? If you believe in free market capitalism then you must know about elasticity of markets. Monopolies artificially destroy elasticity in whatever space they're in.

In my opinion what the US government needs to do before anything else is start breaking down monopolies. "Too big to fail" is a big red flag that someone didn't do their job.
I think the percents are merely anecdotal and the main point is to keep an open mind. Don't assume you are always right.
Wow, there are more bits in this, after the third iteration (that is, of n = 2048; 2048 times: n = n * 2 ^ n), than there are atoms in the universe. By about 537 orders of magnitude, no less. Don't think we're getting the full value any time soon.

Edit: I determined this by trying a logarithmic approach, while not really thinking about what that meant.

n = 11 # 1 << 11 == 2048
for i in range(2048):
print i, n
n += 2 ** n

At any point, 1 << n is equivalent to the same thing calculated via n = 2 * n. This works because n is always a power of 2, but it's really only gets you one step closer to the answer. With how many bits are involved here, I can't see how you could possibly calculate this in our universe.
Also an important point about wheat derivatives is that they're deliverable. At the end of the day you're going have someone with bales of wheat in a warehouse they have to sell at profit to the derivative price. So a high derivative price can only be supported if people are paying the higher price for the underlying product in the end.
This is a great point - this is a really easy trap to fall into reading about programming on the internet, for example.
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I've replied to these arguments before on HN but it bears repeating: You really do not have to use Emacs and Slime to get going with Common Lisp. There are many options including using whatever you're already familiar with or just plain Notepad.

It's unfortunate that people advocating Lisp also advocate Emacs+Slime as the only option (although it is a good option).
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He's not making that argument!

From the article: "You can learn PHP in a day or two if you're familiar with any other language. You can write PHP code in any editor or environment you want. Emacs? Vim? Notepad? nano? Who cares? Whatever floats your boat. Being a stupid language also means that everyone knows it. "

The author didn't spend a lot of time talking about learning PHP because there's not much to learn. There's nothing surprising in the components in the PHP stack. If you know HTML, adding PHP has low overhead. DB reads and writes are simple. If you can program in another language, you know all of the logic statements you need to write an application. If you need an example, there are probably tens of thousands of bad PHP tutorials online with bad sample code that still manages to work.

I've learned PHP and Common Lisp from scratch at different points in my life, and PHP had a much lower barrier to entry. I installed and configured PHP on my local machine and made a stats-tracking webpage all on the same day. This was my first server-side web application ever, plus my first database program ever.

Fast forward 4 years, and I worked through "ANSI Common Lisp" for a month before I felt comfortable writing regular applications in Lisp. Then I installed Hunchentoot and stumbled around for a while, but was able to figure out how to generate static content. Most of the Hunchentoot tutorials online were for older versions, but I found one that proved invaluable. I then ended up patching S-XML, because it was only written to support 5 or 6 of the 250+ "&amp;" style HTML character codes. I sent that patch to the mailing list, but I bet nobody ever got it. I tried to hook up a database, and found Postmodern, which was nice. Thank God I already knew Emacs, but I wasted more than a day fighting with upgrading SLIME and SBCL at the same time.

The Common Lisp path doesn't sound so bad, but compare it to my PHP experience - I wrote an application on the same day I first looked at PHP. By the time I was integrating Database code, I was well over a month into learning Common Lisp.
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Firstly, I barely made it out of High-school so what do I know, but... the criteria seems deleterious to the point of the inquiry.

Is not the oft proffered benefits of a functional language smaller teams and fewer lines of code?

Should not we ask what monumental tasks, that would normally require a large team and many lines of code, are being done in a functional language?

Mind you, I am not saying the answer would be different but it seems less like a Complex Question[1]

.

[1]: http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/complex.html
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> Getting a website up and running in Clojure is as simple as it gets.

Well you first have to get clojure running. And that's not as simple as it gets
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Clojure has solutions for many of things your are talking about. If you don't want go looking for them, fine. All you're illustrating here is your ignorance of the "other side" and your unwillingness to find out.

Clojure doesn't suffer for capability or libraries. It has that in spades and then some. The main thing missing is a site that documents how to use these pieces in concert to accomplish common web programming tasks.
You can really tell how much he loves the subject matter. Get the feeling he could just keep talking about it all day if you let him.

I'd let him.
I would not say it is a "perversion" and I wouldn't try to use "natural" in the animal kingdom way. I would say that the male body is not made/constructed/evolved (however you want to say that) for that kind of sexual contact. In that sense it is not a "natural" act.
This article begs for a link to the old rasterization experiment (http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html) that was and is very promising but isn't apparently widely adopted anywhere yet.
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The interesting question here is what's getting people to try Python but not a Lisp. Perhaps Clojure will help answer that question.
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I loved how he explained the strange attracting/repelling nature of carbon and oxygen as a ball rolling uphill to get to a hole. So simple yet so brilliant.
In India actually most people buy their phones separately -no 2-year lock-in contracts with the carrier. Even the iPhone was launched this way.
There are a lot of reasons why enterprise software sucks.

The largest reason is because companies see it as an IT issue. When it comes time to select software to purchase most departments will not invest the time of their best people. The people who can most easily be spared for the amount of time involved are put on selection committees. Users don't see selection as an investment in the future but as work that doesn't help them today. So in answer to Jason's basic point: users don't select enterprise software because they don't see selection as an important use of their time.

The next largest reason enterprise software sucks is because people don't want to change. They want new software to work the same as old software so they don't have to learn anything new. It is the main reasons why there is so much customization work. Its a combination of people being lazy and managers not wanting short term efficiency ratings effected.
Without detracting from Feynman's genius, it is striking how simple physics is in comparison to biology.
Learning bad PHP may be easy. But from my exposure to PHP I find learning to write good PHP code to be fairly hard. Because you have to work around all the limitations of the language.

Common Lisp may not be a paragon of elegance, but it's not nearly as awful as PHP. And Common Lisp is a fairly conventional, mostly imperative language. Nothing as scary as Haskell or Prolog, or even Scheme.
I quite like this system, though not as a "brain" thing as it seems to be presented here, but as a social system for working together better.

Just as "brainstorming"[1] is just a way of saying don't jump down my throat with questions and problems when I'm trying to think, the six hats system lets people say in a meeting "I have a bad feeling about this" and acknowledge their feelings rather than try to shoot it down technically because vague misgivings aren't as valued as they should be.

[1] Apparently brainstorming doesn't work, though I think the research compared people coming up with ideas alone, whereas brainstorming is supposed to make communal idea generation better. Maybe it still does that, but still can't beat independant idea generation.
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Not dumb...some animals are rather smart. I am willing to bet that humans have the most emotionally complex system though.
Yeah, he's essentially saying PHP is familiar and popular because it's familiar and popular.
Mahmud is one of the few HNers that actually has practicle experience deploying Lisp in the real world. You might be interested in what he has to say on the issue of practicality:

"Today, Lisp is nothing like what it was 8,7,6, even 2 years ago. It's not just "good" in the well-explored text book fashion; no, it's _good shit_. Get work done good. Think, hack, ship, bill for it good. 2-3 products per month good. You still have to know where things are, who is working on what, what's maintained and what's obsoleted by what. Sure. But there is absolutely no lack of libraries." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972423).

I'm curious if the author of the article has similar experience deploying CL or if this article is just theorycrafting. I notice some experience with Clojure, but this article was written in 2008.
Yes, I was actually developing industrial crane simulators of various types for the company's product line, so a significant portion of original development was necessary.
Surely someone must have studied the comparision of countries with and without this system and came to some conclusion about how it affects tariffs, the amount spent on phones, upgrade cycles etc.
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I was surprised by the way the bloke in the video pronounced it actually, was thinking more dey-ah-spore-ah.

I think there is an argument for a simpler name, but at this stage it's hardly the most important factor.
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That's because he's so passionate about the subject matter.

I gave up studying physics in secondary school because my teacher was a disaster. Instead of trying to impart a deeper understanding of the subject matter in question, he would focus on getting student to learn off scientific definitions word for word (i.e. having all the "ands", "ats", "is'", "the's" in the correct place). So you would have a textbook answer memorized for the test (perhaps), but sweet fuck all actual knowledge of physics.

To see this kind of passion is refreshing, and the way things should be. (If you've ever seen 'The Wire', seasons 4 & 5 have 'Mr. Prezbo' teaching maths. He struggles to connect with his student until he teaches them how to apply probability theory to dice games, allowing them to gamble more effectively. Unfortunately for him, he also has to 'teach to the test' so that the school can say standardised test scores are going up).
A flashlight doesn't care which way current flows through the lightbulb. As long as you insert all batteries the same way (or, at least, not insert them in equal groups each way) it will work.

It depends on the design of the AA or AAA cell. I am not sure how reliable this will be.
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I can't wait. The more people that can focus on making things that we want instead of things that we need, the better.
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I have to wonder - with how many different types of AA or AAA cells did they test it?

I have seen a huge variety of different ones and I am not sure none of them will short the terminals and ruin the other battery in the process.
Not much, imo. This is like science on TV in general: entertaining, shallow, and so long that you lose track of the subject. It could have been explained in one minute with 5 lines of text and two figures.
> using whatever you're already familiar with or just plain Notepad.

This is disastrously bad advice.
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Wish these videos were captioned.
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I look at it as a pay now or pay later sort of situation. The charge for my iPhone was low enough that I was willing to get it for $200. I wasn't willing to get it for $800. I love my iPhone but not $800 worth of love.

I might pay that back over two years but I'd rather do that than put down $800 for a phone. I'm not even sure that I will pay it back because I am getting service in exchange for staying with AT&T for two years. I feel like I end up breaking even on this deal and if I lose a little then I'll live with it. I just can't put down $800 for an iPhone when I could get an iPad 3G for that.
Buyer beware: PHP documentation is not always as extensive as is boasted and the user comments often times are very dangerously wrong. For an example of this see the comments to json_encode where many wrong PHP implementations are suggested (they don't take care of escaping non-ASCII data), or the read/write/socket functions where bizarre timeout behavior is suggested, or the microtime and usleep functions where even more bizarre things are suggested.
As Seth Godin once said, the layout of batteries is broken and the obvious solution is to very simply rearrange the wires so that both batteries face the same way. Have a gigantic + and - to indicate the correct direction. There's no need to add all the extra parts so the batteries can fit both ways and label the solution InstaLoad.

See: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4101280286098310645...
Don't forget that bandwidth is only half (and most of time not the important half) of the story. Latency and packet losses usually have much stronger effect on website performance (see this classic paper http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Latency.html or any of velocity 2010 videos).

There are a couple of free and commercial products that enable you to emulate latency, packet loss and bandwidth at the same time, just google that.
Yes, Picasa's implementation is quite good.

Face detection isn't that hard (even 200$ cameras do it on the fly), and face recognition isn't that hard either, once you realize you're only trying to recognize faces against this particular users' friends & family, ie. a pretty small set of a few dozen faces.
So instead of smuggling a nuke into the country, now your would-be terrorist needs to deal with the logistics of detonating a nuke in outer space yet still close enough to the target to inflict the wanted damage. Beautiful in theory, but in practise?
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Gambling. Amounts of this magnitude can be easily obtained in widely available gambling houses, and it is 100% legal.

Of course, the downside is that the method is note completely reliable. To maximize your odds of success avoid games of skill or games with numerous independent probabilities. For instance, stopping by a Las Vegas casino and putting down all $1000 on 3 numbers on a roulette wheel would pay out 11:1 (thus achieving your objective with $1000 left over) and has a 8.82% chance of success.

Of course, it has a 91.2% chance of FAILURE... but I am guessing nearly all other options would be worse.
You piqued my curiosity, never having tried Clojure.

My time from 0 to getting (the correct!) result of (+2 2) from Clojure's REPL was approximately 60 seconds.

Pretty simple.
He doesn't go into Intel's part in the whole thing. He mentions asking investors for money to build a fab, that's about it.

Regarding his scheme, if his economic stimulus plan means to build a bunch of Intels, people will choose to party on and watch the economy go down in flames.

Others in this thread keep talking about "the elephant in the room" but the real elephant in the room is that given other options, almost nobody chooses to work in a factory.
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