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I'll have to try this.

I have tried
http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/
before, with limited success. It would reattach a terminal running vim, but not Matlab, and was generally a bit flakey.

EDIT: I have now tried neercs. Like retty, vim can be stolen but attempting to steal zsh shell or Matlab sessions causes crashes.

I was once told VMS used to have decent native support for reattaching terminals? It's frustrating that we don't have this ability (at least not seemlessly) now.

There was a project to make screen easier to use, integrating it with gnome-terminal:
http://monia.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/integrating-gnome-term...
but the patches were never accepted.
Congrats Paras. You have worked hard on this and now you are reaping the rewards. Happy for you buddy. Keep up the good work.
"Linux is a kernel"

As a topic of questions? I think not. I believe that most people when thinking "site for questions about Linux" would include both kernel and Ubuntu questions within the scope.

And of course a lot more - gnu tools, "which distro?" questions, advocacy, apps-related questions, libs, configuring the X server...
Common Lisp implementations already come with heaps of libraries: just grab a commercial one. Do you think programming languages _must_ be free? You lack a business mindset, I think. Commercial programmers are willing to pay for languages which make their jobs easier. People have always be willing to pay for CL. Would have they be willing to pay for Ruby or Python when such languages came out? I don't think so.

EDIT: Free implementations thrive and grow because they are free (as in free beer) even when they start - or are - lesser. That does not mean not having a bells and whistles free implementation is a measure of a language's worthyness.
I agree with you on this. Requiring facebook credential to log in is a big turn off for the kind of crowd that will use this service so I think you should give people the option of using other credentials to log in like twitter and google accounts.
Rationally it doesn't make a difference, but if buried at sea, your body can be absorbed by earth and become part of the next cycle of life.
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I ordered the Apple TV right after Chris Martin finished singing off key.

Not because I'm utterly convinced of its utility but because for $99 I don't really care if it doesn't meet my expectations.
The statement was many of the open source libraries written in Common Lisp are half-baked, incomplete, unmaintained and tasteless.

Qt, Scipy/Numpy and others are amongst the best libs available for their target language, but many other are really bad. It's just that the natural selection has been occurring for a longer time and the total libs population is bigger. Also when developing a lib in eg. Python, it's easier to get feedback as there are potentially many more users.

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Use the 'Bicubic-sharper' option to reduce size. Here: http://i.imgur.com/xkHH9.png
Benchmarking beats random ideas, no doubt about that! Thanks for pointing out my mistake with integers. However, I would say Judy doesn't look so hot for string keys - slower at most things and similar memory requirements.

I'd be interested to see 10 million 64-bit integers in Judy and DenseHash though. Since ten million is 0.2% of 2^32, in some sense lots of the potential key space is actually in use, so I'd expect a lot of sharing to be possible and a sparse trie to perform well.

Is there a 64-bit integer key Judy array you could test on?
Very cool, there is even an interactive prompt. I wonder how hard is to make this interpreter "safe".
Do not do it. It means that anyone can logon to wifi and engage in lots of illegal activity and it will be traced back to you - eg kiddie porn.

Just imagine that happened - regardless of whether you could prove your innoncence, just imagine the amount of hassle you would have to go through.
define "safe". :)
I'm not comparing them directly I'm comparing increase in resolution for camera phones and monitors. Resolution for mainstream camera phone changed from 0.3MP to 5 MP (same Bayer-interpolated megapixels, technology is the same) but I still need to use same 2MP (true megapixels) monitor for years.
The anthropic principle is useful for rationally debunking "... but surely..." arguments, but it's definitely a last resort, because it doesn't tell you anything about how or why.

It's a form of proof by reductio ad absurdum. You assume the counterfactual ("what if the universe couldn't support human life?"), derive a contradiction ("the universe can't support human life, yet here we are discussing it"), and conclude the phenomenon you're trying to explain is obviously true ("therefore we shouldn't be surprised that the universe supports human life"). In mathematics, reductio is a valid proof technique, but one of the least interesting, because it doesn't teach you much about the domain, whereas a proof by construction (for example) may suggest related theorems or techniques to explore.

You can explain gravity by the anthropic principle (without gravity, we wouldn't have stars or planets, so human life as we know it could never have evolved; yet here we are discussing it), but we much prefer an explanation like "matter curves spacetime so that nearby matter feels an acceleration toward it". It gives us tools to visualise and calculate the phenomenon. It also gives us a narrative, albeit a very limited one (we don't know why matter curves spacetime!), and human understanding is very dependent on narratives.
Running every kind of script will never corrupt the application memory :)
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Have a look at http://wiki.cacert.org/InclusionStatus and follow the links in comments. There's a lot of information about different audits done and planned, lists of rules, discussions about what happened in the past, etc.

Direct link to Mozilla rules is http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/
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I agree with your point, but this isn't really how you do commenting on HN.

I hope that remains true, even with the demise of digg (and therefore, by extension, reddit).
Notice, that making more bacteria is much easier than making more nanobots.
Voted down, since this is both wrong and flamebait-ish IMO.

Ruby / Python people willing to pay for a good environment? Have a look at http://www.activestate.com/activepython or other activestate software. It's not a separate language as such, but they do create enough of their own environment setup in just the right way, to consider them comparable.

Noone said that languages must be free. Then again - it makes the development so much easier, since it enables communities that know the technology rather than a specific product and are not lost when they don't have access to their one true compiler/ide/whatever. Times of paying for your compiler are long gone. Most of the really creative compiler improvements lately came from OSS anyways.

Actually - can you think of any closed-source general programming compilers that matter? Apple likes Clang, but it's still OS. ICC is not useful unless you only want to support intel chips.

I'm aware of specialised compilers - yeah - most of the VHDL and similar are proprietary and commercial. But as soon as you need special hardware, your random audience goes down to ~0 pretty quickly, so there's no point in having the language free.
Another benefit to your diet is taking a glass of whisky as an alternative to your "evening snack". For me, it is a good way to avoid the urge to eat something. Especially when paired with a good cigar or tobacco pipe. Last night that was a dram of Highland Park 18yo accompanied by a Trinidad Reyes cigar, which was a wonderful experience.

The only problem with giving in to vices like these is giving yourself an excuse to drink. Thankfully, I'm pretty relaxed with alcohol and often don't drink anything at all for weeks or even a few months on end, but you still have to be careful that it doesn't become a daily ritual.
I should qualify my comment about "modest successes" ... I have no idea what Quora or Outright look like from the inside. They could be wildly successful based on whatever metrics they have in place. I was just trying to differentiate that level of success from the Facebooks and Twitters.
Oh wow, this looks beautiful. Mind if I use it?
You can count on me that I will blog about that. Shall keep HN updated on traffic and conversion rates and other latent effects.
When "new and exciting" is all you got, what's the ROI ?
Well, if it's interpreted, the interpreter could sandbox the C code it's running, rather than passing it through directly to its own memory space.
Of course it is possible in an interpreter.

You simply need to verify each access before allowing it, much like Valgrind does.

Of course it's quite costly do to so, and since C gives the programmer a lot of freedom I guess it's hard to optimize the tests, i.e. to know which accesses are safe without explicitly keeping track.
The key problem with this line of reasoning is a lack of proportion. Evolution takes place over millions of years. Any intuitions you have are probably wrong on this timescale.

Nobody claims that a proto-bird one day woke up in a treetop, thought "oh heck, how am I going to get down?", and sprouted wings. Rather, over millions of generations of proto-birds, random variation and natural selection made winged birds more numerous and successful than wingless birds.

The point about evolutionary theory isn't that it explains everything, but that it gives us a framework to produce and evaluate explanations (for, potentially, everything). The general pattern is to imagine a series of incremental changes between generations from (say) no-wings to viable wings, where each change could occur by random genetic variation or mutation, and where in order to be selected for, each change must confer a net reproductive advantage on its generation over the previous.

From Wikipedia [1] it looks like we don't have a fully satisfactory evolutionary explanation of flight yet (any more than we have a fully satisfactory evolutionary explanation of True Blood), but there are several theories all of which are more plausible than waking up one day with wings.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_avian_flight
Okay, I think I see where you are coming from. Let me clarify what I said.

> you suggested that spending a larger fraction of gdp on healthcare was a bad thing.

I was probably in a rush when I wrote 'do more' and so apologise for any confusion. My meaning was not communicated well. If the data say anything, it is that the way the money is spent counts more than how much money is spent. That being said, getting the medical establishment and Big Pharma to take a pay cut is a Herculean task.

> "military spending" is the typical reply

I suppose for some it is, and the US does spend plenty on war. But I would agree with what I understand as your underlying point: The money needs to be spent better before more money is spent on anything.
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I wonder how it compares to other small systems like Lua, or, say Antirez' Jim interpreter, in terms of speed and features.
20/20 is actually pretty bad eyesight. It's "normal vision", not perfect vision, and when my eyes are "corrected" to 20/20, they're about a quarter-diopter shy of maximal acuity. There is a huge difference to my eyes between pictures printed at a 200-line screen and one printed at a 150-line screen (all other things, like stock and varnish being equal) at a distance of more than one metre (from head-height on a couch to the magazine at the far end of a coffee table). If I were printing from a 12MP original at about four feet tall, I'd certainly run the source through something like Genuine Fractals Print Pro (even a good giclee pattern can't make up for squared-off curves). At four feet in the long dimension (giving a realistic viewing distance of about six feet) I'd notice raggedness at a glance at less than about 80ppi -- but then the dye clouds from a 4x5 negative printed at that size would drive me batty as well.
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Had it been me, I'd prefer to be shot into space. In a zillion years, there's a miniscule chance to be discovered by another species. In the at least, I'll eventually turn into stardust and become part of another cycle of magnificient mystery in the universe.

Isn't that thought more tantalizing than being buried on Earth?
Are you sure? Even Valgrind does not detect everything.
E.g. when you mess up variables within your stack.
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Not being a native speaker and thus maybe sounding harsh is not flamebaiting.

> Ruby / Python people willing to pay for a good environment?

I didn't say Ruby and Python aren't worthy languages _now_. I've said they were when they started. Yes, now that they have gained a big community, they enjoy lots of support from companies as well.

> Noone said that languages must be free.

This is implied whenever people say that CL has poor libraries because _free_ CL implementations have poor libraries, whenever developers weren't interested in some areas (web development, for instance). OTOH, how do Ruby and Python stack against CL when in comes to AI libraries?

I hope we agree that free CL implementations in themselves are very good quality, anyway; even more so if you consider how little their community is compared to mainstream languages.

> Actually - can you think of any closed-source general programming compilers that matter?

MS Visual C++ coming to mind? However, that's not the issue. I was arguing that CLers willing to pay for their environments when they could just grab another free language should tell us something.

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And who created the creator?

The problem with an infinite regress is that it's, um, infinite.

It sounds like Hawking is trying to refute the claim that everything that exists must have a creator. That's the claim which allows the snooty "who created gravity" response, and also leads to the self-defeating infinite regress. Whether you believe in a creator or not, you're better off without that argument.
They probably need a new name for touch typing on glass, since the flat uninterrupted surface means you aren't typing by touch, and the size of the screen means you're almost certainly looking at the keyboard to some degree and touch typing implies you aren't.
> any form of intelligent life that evolves anywhere will automatically find that it lives somewhere suitable for it.

This is circular reasoning.

I know it's unpopular to question evolution, and this might lose me all the points I gathered in the past three weeks, but,

But this kind of argument assumes that life can and will inevitably evolve spontaneously some where, some how.

It's a tautology.

Sure, there could be a completely different form of intelligent life, in a completely different kind of environment, but that just means that God can and will create any form of life in any kind of environment.

The core question is, can life really evolve spontaneously? I'm sure many will scream "of course yes, duh".

Natural selection doesn't explain anything about how something might evolve, it just says: if you can produce many many good options, the best will survive, and therefore you get optimal design.

Sure, if there are forces that produce new ideas and things, and you can choose the best every step of the way, you'll get something really good. Like if, say, people submit patches to Linux, and they get reviewed and tested, you'll get something that Linus himself couldn't have come up with on his own.

NS is useless if there's nothing that can produce these patches. If you have a really good team of tester and code reviewers, but no one submits any patch (or, no one makes any change), then the software will not evolve on its own. It will not get better just because there are a lot of people to test it. It needs other people to make changes/submit patches.

It's the "mutation" part that tries to explain how new things actually get produced, and I find it ridiculous. Not only does it not fly with me conceptually, I'd say - at the risk of being stoned - that there's no real evidence for it. It's usually just a lot of hand waving as if, "of course mutation can produce many useful things for NS to select from, how dare you object to that?".

Yes, you can observe variations, and you can observe certain variations being selected. Like skin color, or hair type. This is, however, entirely different from observing useful patches being produced by mutations.

All cited instances of observed NS operate on variations that are already there. This is where hand waving about mutations come in.

Video games can be designed to use a high resolution or low resolution depending on the system specs. It's therefor not surprising when users on low end machines will "select" the low-resolution configuration. There are options to select from, but these options weren't produced by anything remotely resembling a mutation; it's a built-in option that's already available -- nothing new.

No one denies the design; no one, none at all. Neo-Darwinism just says that design can be automated by mutation and natural selection.

It is easy to describe how a complex system works once you discover it; but that doesn't make it any less impressive. I'm often impressed by some of my own programs, despite the fact that, not only do I know exactly how they work, but I even built them myself. Usually when you discover the internals of a system, it gets even more impressive.
I'm surprised as to how you can talk about Scotch and Johnnie Walker in the same breadth. Sure it's technically Scotch Whisky, but it's a disgustingly promoted chain brand that convinces people they're drinking real Whisky instead of overpriced mass-manufactured tat, like Ginsters Cornish Pasties (made on the Cornish border next to the main road leading into Devon).

I'm not attacking you, and I apologise if this has come across this way, but really, it's made in a factory in Glasgow, not the original Kilmarnock distillery and Blue Label is ridiculously overpriced for what it is. There are so many other beautiful Scotches out there, it's a sin to eschew them in favour of lining Diageo's pockets.
I have to say I much prefer Irish Whiskeys like Bushmills Malt and Jameson. Then again, I'm not a lover of peat, so Speyside's the place for me.
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I suppose a counter-argument to this would be... anything Apple makes? Their non-computer products generally have fewer buttons on them than comparable phones/mp3 players.

The MiFi that was just being raved about earlier today also only has an on/off button.

Perhaps those are exceptions, rather than the rule. What makes those exceptional, though?
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> What the hell is the user doing reporting it? Why aren't there dedicated staff?

Because that's how the site works. Period. It's a community-policed bulletin board. Is there something inherently wrong with that?

> They could pay a couple of students minimum wage to vet all their adult adverts.

There may be liability issues here. If they declare, "we are policing the site to get rid of all potentially illegal posts," and then they miss one, they could get sued by the victim.
My wife and I found the health care in Austria to be excellent too.

Here in Italy, it's good, but a bit 'drab' - the doctors know what they're doing, but sometimes the settings are not so nice, if that makes sense. Whereas in the US, you might get a room to yourself, or with one other person, you might have to share with more people here, and perhaps have fewer amenities.

However, like others have said, there's a huge peace of mind factor. I don't have to worry about insurance at all here. Job, no job, whatever, you get health care, end of story.

It's one thing that makes me quite nervous about going back to the US.
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That would kind of defy the whole premise of this thing wouldn't it? The biggest and most sought after "feature" of C is it's speed and direct memory access (and simplicity, I guess).

If you take that away, what's left?
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- interactively increasing the contrast of an image

- browsing the web (sorry, lynx users)

- play games (not that I'm a gamer)

- desk-top publishing

- routing a PCB

- CAD

and so on...

But then, each of those has moments when you think to yourself 'Man, I wished I could script this' (well, maybe not the games).
Would this be allowed in an iPhone application, since it's all C?
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I got a MiFi from 3 here in the UK to use with my iPad a couple of weeks back - it's awesome (can use it with kids laptops, iPods and my iPad).
If you assume causality, eventually you reach the problem of Primus Motivator. If the universe expands because of the Big Bang, what caused the Big Bang? What caused that thing to cause it; why did it do it?

Causality is such a fundamental concept that it is nearly impossible to consider a universe without a cause. Consequently, some funky research has been done on it in physics, but I haven't read any of it.
eh, it always seemed to me that consulting was really only a win if you were consulting to support another business... e.g. if I can earn $100/hr and turn around and plow that money into my hosting business the same year, that seems huge in terms of net-worth growth. Yeah, I still gotta pay the piper when the money comes out, but meanwhile I can use it to grow more money. (and really, once I'm rich, I like to think that losing a bunch to the tax man will hurt less.)

The problem with this approach is, of course, that if you screw up your accounting and get audited, you can come away with some silly high tax bills that can't be discharged by bankruptcy.
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