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Ask YC: Does anyone have the full-text to "Anatomy of a Lisp Machine"?
I've been researching Lisp machines for a term paper, and have come across more citations than actual articles. Most full texts I find aren't very good at summarizing the ideas -- for instance, Tom Knight's masters thesis is interesting, but a bit too forest-for-the-trees. One citation of particular interest on account of the author:

Graham, Paul

Anatomy of a LISP machine

Artificial Intelligence Volume 37 , Issue 12 (December 1988)

Pages: 26 - 32

Year of Publication: 1988

ISSN:0004-3702

Does anyone happen to have the full-text of this? Any other reputable sources you think might be useful for someone reading up on Lisp machines -- particularly the Operating Systems they used, e.g., Genera? (Not in an attempt to offshore research to others; just thought I'd ask in case I missed the obvious classics or, as it would seem from my search thus far, if many sources exist merely as citations that I can't seem to get a hold of.)
I'd see it w/ Steve Buscemi.
I have an automated day trading program - does that count?
Why are they only rolling this out for IE7 and Firefox? Where's the other browser love? Safari anyone?
I see this as more of a 1990s-style Law & Order episode. Especially since there were alleged Russian Mob connections to his wife, and they cover that on the show from time to time. (Or did, I have only watched through season 5 ;)

I imagine Ben Stone and Reiser wouldn't really get along, which could be amusing.
Personally, I like the default visual effects better.
It seems like it. Before today I only had a vague idea how ASN.1 worked, and I never really delved into the wire format of PBs either. But yes, it seems to write a tag then a serialization of whatever the value is. Lengths are only required for strings because the format doesn't define any other type with variable length.
I work in a large corporate manufacturing environment that runs 24 x 7 with lots of money at stake, and we are actively moving to TDD/BDD.

I expected a much bigger fight from management, but TDD really aligns with the "Toyota Way"... not that I work for Toyota.
"Officer Roland Holmgren, Oakland police spokesman, said the body has not been identified."

Dude, like oh my god, he could have led them to another body that just happened to be there! We just don't know!
ubuntu-desktop stays true to its name ... an OS for average users only for desktoping

you know a unix OS is broken when you google "how do i compile / patch vim in ubuntu?"

or when you can't ssh to ubuntu-desktop machine

Ubuntu is an OS designed by committee ... it's secure by being weak

The only thing good about ubuntu is its supports for new hardwares; however, quality is questionable.
Having traveled there a few times it doesn't "feel" that way (or perhaps it is hard to detect the surveillance !).
Here is the thing. For anyone who's good enough at setting up chemistry equipment to be good enough for you, why wouldn't they rather make a few batches of MDMA or LSD instead. Shit, Shulgin has 3 whole books, which, in addition to being keys from an extraterrestrial into the ways our brain works and we experience ourselves, are also recipes for unique psychedelics.

I could imagine people could make a lot more money then doing your legal shit a lot faster by making those analogues and distributing them at high price to the real heads that hang out at places like Alex Grey art shows or consciousness or AI conferences. You'd make a lot of money by knowing a few interesting people and supplying their scientific and artistic circles with these analogues. You could write a very interesting thesis on the results. And, you'd be advancing science a great deal.

In theory of course. We would never expect authentic scientists and hackers to break the boundaries the authority system have prescribed for them. A good scientist will always obey the authorities, and only look in the allowed places for knowledge about how the world works. Any new lens with which we might perceive reality will be brushed under the rug. In fact, we will always bow down to power and aggressively attack anyone who conflicts with the normal way of looking at the world, just like the original scientists did (huh?). These laws and boundaries are essential to conventional power structures. It's scandalous and completely unhackerlike how close you come to violating these systems of control. My idea was completely hypothetical. You disgust me hippy. :)
Oh blue ?? Does that happen at a thousand - anyone want to mod me up so I can find out ;)

Is it a nice blue or a harsh blue?
Apparently Reiser became confused and thought it was 'f-stab' rather than 'fs-tab'.
How about.... A NEW CAR?!?!!?!?

<cue price is right music>
Not hacker news? Who cares if he's a programmer; this has nothing to do with that.
Hmmm, I would have thought you had enough karma already. Do you not see the topcolor listing in your user screen?
There's no suspicious pattern. People just seemed to like this one.
It seems like people are missing the point.

"But if you aim higher, you must work differently. Instead of stuffing your sentences with straw, you must try steadily to get rid of the padding, to make your sentences lean and tough. If you are really working at it, your first draft will greatly exceed the required total, and then you will work it down."

Then the 500 words becomes a constraint rather than a goal, and constraints make for great writing.

And that's how the limits were originally intended.
Oh, come on, it is something that many, many people here find very interesting. See the thread about his conviction.
I think he just used his superior intellect to deduce where the real killer hid the body.
Perhaps the guy really isn't an emotionless robot built entirely of ego -- and, now that his self-defense instinct has exhausted itself, his urge to stop lying, express some entirely authentic and long-suppressed remorse, and save his wife's family and his own children from a lifetime of uncertainty has finally won out.

(For further insight into this aspect of the human psyche I recommend Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.)

Or, perhaps he's an emotionless robot playing the role of a remorseful human being. If so, I think it's about time. It's not as if Plan A was working out well for anyone.

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Granted, there is no built-in replication, but there are certainly options...

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication%2C_Clustering%2C...
Seriously, did you two just spend all this time discussing a simile? Can a simile even be wrong if one thing is right? I'm with PG on this one, if he wants to think hackers are like painters then he can. If someone wants to write that they are not alike, then they can, which will presumably be refuted by another PG essay on why they are, in fact, alike. Either way, hackers and painters can be like lots of other people, because its a free world and everyone can make up their own damn simile if they please.

In PG's defense, the critic tried to actually disprove the simile. Unfortunately, as he himself pointed out, hackers can be like painters in that they are both makers. The critic then goes on to say they are nothing like each other, having just pointed out that PG came up with something where they are, in fact, like each other. When you're writing an article disproving something someone said, its not wise to disprove yourself as well. It just makes reading it a big waste of time.
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Best movie of '07 according to the Academy was No Country For Old Men, a story of a man who goes about flipping coins and killing people with an air gun.

Yes, morbid stories make for good movies. Even true ones.
That would have made such a great plot point for the third Dirk Gently novel.

But, alas, Douglas Adams is dead.

Damn, now I've made this story even more depressing. Time for bed.
ASN.1/BER (you really mean BER) is the example most protocol dorks bring up when they argue against IDLs and structured protocols. It's incredibly complicated (though not as hard to implement as CORBA/IIOP).
Very cool. I am taking a look right now.
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If it's really "just a simile", than Graham's original essay doesn't say much, does it?
I'll agree with this. If you're hiring or looking for a job - do attend user groups, found on Meetup.com or the site for your local networking site for your city, if there is one (I know for Boston there's MarksGuide.com and myeventguru.)
I disagree. Just some counter examples in my mind.

1. Mass production of automobiles. I don't think Henry Ford achieved this goal without making profit on his mind.

2. Birth of Personal computers. I don't see any government has interest to put a computer in every household.
Memory mapping is not faster than read(2) for typical access patterns.
I have not written about it yet, but the hacker-top program contains a python module called 'pyhackerstories.py' which you can import 'get_stories' function from.

Then you can do tricks like these:

>>> from pyhackerstories import get_stories
>>> stories = get_stories()
>>> for story in stories:
... print "%2d. %s (%d)" % (story.position, story.title, story.score)
...
1. Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife (23)
2. Follow Hacker News from the Console (18)
3. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08) (57)
4. Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced (19)
5. Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App (47)
...

Cheers :)
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I put it online for you at http://paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/lm.tex

I haven't re-read it, but I don't remember it being particularly good. This was not published in Artificial Intelligence, but in AI Expert, a popular magazine I wrote articles for to make a little extra money in grad school.
http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/002.html
Mr. X By Carl Sagan
This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.

http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/028.html

By "Russell Ambrose"
Russell Ambrose (a pseudonym) is a musician: aged 47, composer, jazzer, conductor, teacher. Time alteration, contact highs, and intensified sensual experiences are discussed, while cannabis is considered as a gateway for access to altered states in a non-drug context.

http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/076.html
Marijuana Stimulates Creativity and Enriches Experience
By Jon Byrne, MD
Dr. Byrne has, on and off, explored the role of cannabis in enhancing consciousness and enriching experience since his late teenage years. After attending a top five medical school, he came to San Francisco to undergo residency training at UCSF and currently lives and practices medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a successful part-time researcher, he has published in prominent journals and has frequently presented his work at national meetings. (Jon Byrne is a pseudonym).
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This was not published in Artificial Intelligence, but in AI Expert

Ah. So it was. Thanks, though!
That was a fictional movie.

The movie was unpredictable with stunning visuals. I found the representation of death and violence in the movie fantastic. It was portrayed as sudden and uneventful, only lasting a split second.

/end rant - but to claim the movie was about flipping coins and killing people doesn't do it justice.
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Capra did OK at it.
All your examples only became possible because of a vibrant, unplanned economy. Wealthy, productive people can afford sanitation, public health works, war victories, education, and scientific advances.
Well... It can still be developed into a movie.
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Business is not only meant for making profit rather it must have some social and environmental obligations too.
I swear Law & Order: Criminal Intent had an episode where a computer programmer murders his wife, but I can't find it right now (and Wikipedia's listing makes it hard to browse by subject).
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Deconstructing Twitter
I was about to write my own version of Growl. But good thing this library managed to float up.
I just meant if they had their own box they would have more control over it.. they said they had to wait for a support guy with perms to do the db restores.
They are probably worried about what happens if they continue to not be able to scale. If they add search, perhaps they can charge money for people data-mining tweets, and get some cash to continue to focus on scaling.

Right now Twitter needs to keep current users excited, because we're all really tired of Twitter's downtime. The only thing keeping us on Twitter is the other Twitter users. If a critical mass of users leaves, Twitter becomes a distant memory. They are probably trying to avoid that by adding features that don't kill their current database.

Just speculation, of course. Sometimes it's a good idea to assume that they are making a good move instead of thinking that you're clearly smarter than them and they are "teh fail" for doing this.
indeed. i have used ASN.1 for a bunch of SNMP and GGSN accounting stuff, it is a pita. xdr on the other hand, is a breeze. also, xdr does support variable length fields.
Reiser reportedly leads police to wife's body
smith-n-wesson the 'original' point and click interface :o)
Oh, god, this is what I get for not going to bed quickly enough. Touché.
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uptime was much better, and reaction was much quicker and to the point. with recent switchover to Google infra they are almost non-stop -- only Google is not that stupid to pay for your messaging ;)
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You'd think these fluffy participles could be picked out (or just removed) by a program similar to a grammar checker. I might pay good money for such a "concise-izer."
Now he's fsck'd.
It's not too hard to find people who actually possess those skills, but it's very difficult to hire them: They don't generally apply to you, you apply to them.
He is getting a second-degree conviction instead of first-degree. From the article:

The maximum sentence Reiser could receive for second-degree murder is 15 years to life. Reiser had faced a term of 25 years to life under his first-degree murder conviction.

Considering his sentencing hearing is in a couple of days, I think it makes logical sense.
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This is absolutely brilliant. It's been done on the web before but rarely and usually not so well. Of course, it's the same thing you get on logging into a shell account and using "w" or "last" but doing it on the web is really a big deal. Every web site with access control should provide some sort of log like this. It seems like a simple enough idea but why isn't everyone doing it?
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Summize is a trivial feature given Twitter. But if you think about it, Twitter is also a trivial feature given Summize. Summize is WAY more reliable. Let's hope that the technical leadership goes in the opposite direction as the cash!
LPTS, do you have any sources that provide actual data to back up your claim?

I'm not trying to be snarky ~ I am legitimately interested in seeing data; too much of this debate is founded in anecdote, editorial, and propaganda on both sides.
i always knew he did it!!!
This seems like such a simple and fundamental idea, why isn't every web site with access control doing it? I'm sure it's been done on the web before but rarely and usually not so well. Of course, it's the same thing you get on logging into a shell account and using "w" or "last" but doing it on the web is really a big deal.

I particularly wish the bank/credit card web sites I use would give me an access log instead of doing things like asking you tell them who your fourth-grade teacher was or whatever when you switch computers or making you change passwords every ninety days.
I consider computers and autos much more interesting and useful than online advertising.
We are not entitled to 'free software'. Software makers are free to sell or give away software; giving it for free is nothing less than a marketing strategy (where the revenue stream can come from a premium subscription or ads).

The author does not make a difference between online software (service) and shrink-wrapped software (product).

And ads are not working so well in social networks, as she claims.

'Stealing music' is RIAA speak. Music is almost free nowadays (although label companies would tell you otherwise). Revenues are made mostly from concerts.

Very sarcastic article that confuses a few things.
Oh you are right. I never paid attention to it before.

Thanks !
"It just doesn't seem right to me that that can happen in America," Dunn said. "I thought the jury had the last say."

This is incorrect. The jury determines guilt, not sentencing.
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This article is essentially contentless:

>As for the pool, Pegoraro says that while a few drops won't hurt the device, you probably won't want to bring Kindle on the raft with you.

>"This is not water resistant, so far as I know. I haven't put it to the test yet," he says.
More to the point: if the data is really on the disk, an API change isn't going to make the hardware run faster.

But a mapped region certainly can be faster for random access reads from a file. Doing a seek() followed by a read() takes two system calls (and thus four context switches) in addition to any I/O overhead. Faulting the page in from an existing mapping instead takes only one interrupt handler at worst, and potentially completes without kernel intervention at all if the page is already mapped.
Best part of the whole article:

> The issue was "whether Hans would summon up the intestinal fortitude to do this - he did," Du Bois said.

Seems to me that if you have the 'intestinal fortitude' to kill someone, you probably don't blink at the thought of showing off the dead body when you have so much to gain by doing so... but bonus points to the lawyer for almost making us think it was a tough decision by his poor client.
Either I skipped right over those 2 paragraphs, or it wasn't there when I read the article. It says "Updated at 20:11 PDT" Either way my point has been invalidated.
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I'd guess he means they are buying the people, not necessarily the tech.
That thread is mostly off-topic (ie, stuff that could just as well be on digg).

What is the purpose of saying, "oh come on"?
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>What is the purpose of saying, "oh come on"?

It's an interjection of little meaning, I was surprised to hear you call not hacker news on this. It's news. About a rather good hacker. Who killed his wife.

Off-topic discussion in a thread doesn't make the submission itself not hacker news. Also, you should check out the digg comments, off-topic comments here don't come close. Sites like Digg start getting the Youtube effect where people post comments for the sake of posting, rather than for the purposes of dicussion.
I liked There Will Be Blood a lot more -- my favorite movie of the last few years, plus it had a soundtrack by the great Johnny Greenwood.

Was I the only one that identified with the main character? I think that's why most people found it a difficult movie.
That said, he is a pretty serious hacker.
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I think by making web and internet echo system economically sustainable helps globalization. It already benefits 2 billions of human beings.

It usually irks me when I see anti-globalization sentiments. It reminds me "qu'ils mangent de la brioche."
Off-topic discussion makes that thread bad evidence to cite to prove it is hacker-related news.
I too have known people like you describe here and can say that it is more likely that they began habitually smoking marijuana because of some latent psychological conditions - and not that they formed these conditions as a result.

Sure, marijuana may exaggerate seemingly innate personality characteristics, but create them? Highly unlikely. Its all about the individual's personality and mindset - same reason some individuals develop PTSD, while others walk away from the exact same traumatic experience with no lasting psychological scars.

I feel confidant in saying that there are far more chronic users of marijuana who are otherwise mentally healthy than there are users who are teetering on a "major psychotic episode" - a sign that people such as your colleague are the minority, unstable demographic of the population. Also, it is far easier for individuals who 'freak out' and have embarrassing 'psychotic snaps' to point to an inanimate, socially demonized substance to blame rather than to find and accept blame with 'self'.
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Wil Shipley's blog is recommended reading, all the archives, all of it... great stuff. Well written, relevant and insightful.
Does one click really mean a $60 some dollar return? Somehow, I doubt that.
That's not my evidence though, the submission itself is the evidence.
Aside from the fact that my wife would kill me... I would neglect my daughter which is perhaps the most unappealing aspect of this whole business... I guess a compressed 30 years of 9-5 does not sound good to me.
Bummer. You made me realize that I'll never get to search Plurk, identi.ca, etc. with Summize.
Just for the record, I felt like I effortlessly did very well on most of my tests in high school. All I did was go to class, stay awake as much as possible, and do my homework. I never had to study in high school, where I was valedictorian, and I actually feel like my high school was pretty good. I did well on standardized tests (35 ACT, 1500 SAT), and felt at least as prepared as other freshman honors students at the Ohio State University.

Honestly, I'm not trying to brag here, but I do want to provide a counterpoint to your "consensus". I agree that many talents (musical, visual art, sports, etc.) require a lot of effort. Perhaps in the sense of general mental exercise, there is effort involved in being intelligent: I read a lot in high school, and I always find myself playing weird numbers games in my head (like adding up the digits of long numbers to see if it's divisible by 3 or 9). But as far as putting in a lot of effort to "ace all exams", I never really felt like I had to do that, and I highly doubt that I'm the only person like this.
> Not hacker news?

Depends on whether you prefer vi, emacs, or a rusty axe.