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That isn't true. For any particular search, yes, if one site goes down another site will necessarily go up. However, in aggregate, SEO creates value. Think of StackOverflow, for example: the primary mechanism for success isn't taking traffic from ExpertsExchange -- that is just a much-remarked side effect. The primary mechanism for success is successfully incentivizing the creation and distribution of answers for a broad universe of expert questions to which no responsive answers have ever appeared in the SERPS before.

Similarly, an algorithmic change in Google which cleans up the long tail can help businesses in a variety of fashions. I mean, I'm not actually seeing major changes yet, but if my rankings for five thousand variations of "how do I make X bingo cards" over the universe of ten Xs which content farms deem valuable to target, that gives me additional resources to develop value-producing things elsewhere (like, e.g., subsidizing the development of AR, or ramping up my publication efforts from my current speed of ~250 to year to a higher number on progressively more obscure topics which real teachers really do want to teach lessons on tomorrow).

Similarly, improving the value of the SERPs for any field of endeavor or user community results in an increase in the aggregate number of searches as user behavior changes. That is a change that lifts all boats.
He was an early Web 1.0 entrepreneur who founded Silicon Alley Reporter (which failed) and Weblogs, Inc (which got bought out by AOL). He's sort of a "startup celebrity" in the sense that he's (a) opinionated and (b) good at getting those opinions into people's faces. He's involved in a wide range of stuff in the startup-support ecosystem, and he's also the founder of Mahalo. He describes Mahalo as "people-powered search", as in you search for something on Mahalo and you get a professionally written page, but detractors think he's about one step removed from a content farm.
Sorta. There were actually three Skywriters: Bespin prototype (Thunderhead-based), Bespin Reboot (SproutCore/jQuery-based), and ACE. ACE postdates the rename from Bespin to Skywriter. They originated as three completely separate codebases, although there's been a fair amount of cross-pollination.

ACE didn't begin as a Mozilla project, although it was finally chosen as the basis on which to build Skywriter the product (which will be used for the Firefox Add-ons Builder, in particular).
If only there wasn't some sort of machine that indexed a vast electronic knowledge base...

And no I'm not trying to troll.

OK, you got me.
This post is off-topic as this joke. Corporate boss, tea party member and union member are given 12 cookies. The boss takes 11 and says, "Watch out that union thug is after your cookie."
Mahalo is equated with spam in the eyes of many HNers (including me), and JC is seen as the promoter of said spam.

EDIT: Why the hell is this getting so many upvotes? Because it's easier to read? Upvote, instead, some of the comments with actual fucking content.

EDIT2: Also, while I think (much of) Mahalo is spam, I respect Jason and his business, and wish him the best of luck.
> There is a practical limit -- and it's a low one -- on how many people can borrow and benefit from a single copy of a book.

That's what I mean by technology. Book technology is expensive to copy compared to a digital file.

Looking at the big picture of libraries, I can go get a book and read it for free, just the same as downloading a text file. The attitude of libraries is that books should be available to read for free. Libraries are not for profit.
That's true, and it is a specific complaint I've heard that I did overlook in my statement.

That said, I think it's common to specifically point out your discipline-specific GPA (especially) if it is substantially better than your general GPA, whenever given the opportunity (like on a resume).
I can't speak about 2005/6, but as a CL apologist in 2011:

My dad was doing TDD in common lisp in the 80s. Back then he just called it programming.

A. The major releases support things like unicode, networking, packaging, threading, cbindings. There are also 'standard' libraries for things like regexps, cross implementation threading, stuff like that. The Common lisp asni standard covers a areas that would be part of the libraries for most languages.

(Parsing a floating point number is easy once you have regexps by the way; confirm it is in the right format then do a read-from-string).

I don't know your point about character encoding or file system access? (with-open-file (stream #p"/path/to/directory"... ) ...) seems pretty easy to me. There is a lot of pathname stuff in the spec, that could be mastered, but as far as the basics, you can get by simply by having knowledge of a couple of key functions and the file-system that you are using.

b.) I don't know of any commercial PHP, Python, Perl, or Ruby implementations. I also don't recall professional C development environments having particularly cheap licenses either. (How much for a copy of visual studio? I think the cheap version is $800. How about the Intel C and Fortran compiler suites? They're at least as much as Lisp Works or Allegro).

In terms of free implementations, just pick one. I like SBCL myself, as it is fast, mature and has a lot of low level features (A+++++ great, would code with again).

No one is kept up late at night in a quandry over the choice between cython, jython and unladen swallow! Why should it be so for CL? And languages like python and ruby change in major ways every few years! Do i want ruby 1.8 or ruby 1.9.2 or python 2.6 or python 3.0? OH GOD!

And unfortunately the languages that near CL's flexibility are invariably slow.

c.) How does the size of the community really effect what I'm going to make in the language? (Here's a link to a web client btw http://weitz.de/drakma/ Weitzware rocks). There's a plethora of libraries, and now with quicklisp, someone is actually curating them so you have a good idea of which libraries will work pretty well.

After the initial learning curve, making things in common lisp really is easier than making things in a lot of other languages.

The problem is that there is a fairly large initial learning curve. even in 2011 it is very different from a lot of languages that people are already comfortable with.

The standard covers a huge range of ways of thinking about writing computer programs. (You can feasibly combine ideas from functional, imperative, OO, and DSL based programming, all within a few lines of code.

You can even do C 'bit-bashing' types of programming, if you really want to (and it can be pretty darn fast).

I guess my basic thesis is that Common Lisp doesn't suck.

Learning it (completely) sucks, because it involves learning a large number of the disparate things are done with a computer, which is a daunting task.
Thanks. I'm glad you keep on top of this stuff for us. Interesting to see the name Iverson in the OP; is Eric Ken's son?
I think what you are suggesting here is already being done. I don't have much experience but from what I hear you are required to submit a "Camera Ready" copy of your submission after you have been excepted. That would mean a well formatted and edited work.
The guy is just controversial. He pretty much says what people think and do not say. Jason sounds rude lots of time, and I think people here have a problem with that and his Mahalo which they refer to as a content farm.

Now with all this being said, you have to respect the guy. He has built and sold businesses (so he actually knows something). He tells it to you like he sees it. That gets my vote all the time. I watch all his shows at TWIST and he does a neat job at giving constructive feedback to entrepreneurs. I frankly think that he likes to act tougher than he really is. This is just his defense mechanism.
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Um.

What he says is basically true. Node is never going to replace Erlang for the same reasons it will never replace C++. Erlang is simply different from Javascript and no amount of runtime improvement can change that.
Yes, though it is better than "theft."
Winforms? Yikes. Good luck.
Is there an argument to be made that the content providers only get 'paid' if the RSS reader is enticed to click through to the site? I'm all for neat services, but I think that this is a little bit unfair to the other party.
I agree. He just seems brutally honest, and that gets him in trouble. But hate him or love him, the guy does a great job with TWIST. I do not use Mahalo, so I cannot speak for it.
I can't believe I still can't purchase apps in the Android app store.. I only use ad-supported apps or free ones.

I would love to spend money on android apps.

But, I live in Iceland. Welcome to 2011.
It's interesting to me how many of the folks here on Hacker News disparage the developer and back the big corporation. Yay, solidarity!
First impressions count for a lot.
A lot of people may have seen the name of Jason Calacanis prior to his falling out with Michael Arrington but the name did not stick.

When there is malicious gossip people pay attention to the name. First impressions count.

Disclaimer: I couldn't care less about Arrington or Calacanis.
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you hit the ground... never stop building on your ideas, keep up the spirit.
Lots of good investment advice; my advice is to guard against losses:

1.) Keep the hookers and blow to a minimum.

2.) If you think you've met 'the one,' be sure to get a prenup.
I'd just be happy if the market numbers updated more frequently than every couple days. My ad impression stats update in realtime. Why can't my downloads and error stats do the same?
Somewhat but not totally, if the wrong sites win the SEO game there are going to be more users either driven to the wrong site or giving up on their search. The more users being sent to the highest quality place they can go for that query the bigger the potential pool is for profiting from search position.
News Flash: Warren Buffet pays more in percentage terms than you do: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/distribution_of_...

And he gives a lot more away to charity in percentage terms, too!
I would certainly like a confirmation of this. If I remove a whole paragraph (like of acknowledgements or related research (which is already covered in the reference section)) does that mean that the paper is not owned by the journal? What if I make my own formatting and change the conclusion paragraph?
At least in that case they were a year apart from each other (iPhone 3G 2008, 3GS 2009, iPhone 4 2010) on the normal release cycle.

I thought the furor over the 3GS was from people who bought the original 2007 iPhone at the non-subsidized price and then turned around and traded up to the 3G model at launch and paid the subsidized price. When the 3GS came out those folks were halfway into two-year contracts and didn't have any upgrade options with AT&T, so they couldn't do the same again, and felt slighted that a year later a better phone would come out and they couldn't get the subsidized price.

And that's not Apple's fault, that's just nerd rage over what happens when you buy a carrier-subsidized cell phone.
I think he's indicating that the value of the information has decayed over time - it seems that less and less people are employees now, as the robots have been steadily taking over.
Actually I learned to argue by going to college.

And instead of issuing snide remarks about categories of bad arguments, why not tell me why you don't think the label fits, and if it does why you don't feel compelled to address it?
Super ultra extra awesome.

There is already an open source K implementation called kona https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona , and now J is joining. There are old J source codes floating around, but the latest is from 1993 if I'm not mistaken.
That is actually quite cool, I do remember seeing all the crazy solutions to projecteuler when I was doing those and it even made me try to grok some of what J did and you don't even need an APL keyboard to write it.
I personally have never found any useful content at Mahalo, sure the site looks a bit better now but the previous version was trash. Imagine how many investing in high quality content lost traffic to the older spam filled, next to no content Mahalo.
He seems to be doing a lot of good stuff: http://thisweekin.com , the launch conference http://launch.is , http://openangelforum.com/
agreed and it's even easier to start with just you and your idea.
Maybe this was the excuse for Mahalo to fire the 10% of its workers that were the least productive. The bottom 10% may have even been hurting the company.
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I don't think it's possible to assess a 'general consensus' on almost anything here. There are themes, they recur disproportionately on certain threads, but do most commenters (much less readers) agree on a position, even if it is oft/loudly expressed? Hard to say anything more than 'many' or 'loud' people have an opinion.
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Yes! I've been experimenting a LOT with kona.* K seems more my style, but I'm really excited about J being opened too! The APL family is way too interesting to have it confined by extremely expensive licenses and niche industries.

* Also, from communicating with the author: it's a clean re-implementation based on experience with it, not an open-sourced version of "real" K. (I've never used K or Q.)

I got the '93 J to work, too (on OpenBSD), but it's evolved a lot since then, and having the official version open will draw a lot more attention.

Also, thanks for answering some of my questions about J, K, and valence/rank a while back.
One property my company holds, http://www.dentalcompare.com has been affected. It's a classic product comparison site (with a lot of problems) but there is not "farming" of content. Every company provides their products and every article is original or at most, a small abstract.
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It is a very good question that pg asked while just joking around something that I guess all entrepreneurs should have an immediate answer to, 'Why doesn't this already exist?'
If your're new to startups, the early Thisweekin Startups shows have really useful tips on pitching etc.
Same here. I don't even remember ending up on a Mahalo search results page, come to think of it.
As opposed to...?
Perhaps this is too obvious to state, but progressive enhancement obviates most of this. Any linkable state (that someone might plausibly want to link to), should be addressable via a regular old URL. Add a layer of JS to intercept clicks and serve ajax content, with the state expressed in the hash.

The hash should look suspiciously like the fragment that non-ajax agents would see.

I say this not as a dogmatic should, but because I find separating concerns makes it easier to develop, and preserves web-ness. Ajax is an enhancement, not an architecture.
Didn't they recently pivot and switch over from a lot of written articles to videos?

It would make sense to get rid of some writers and get some video folks quick. With their 40 employees, 4 being let go seems hardly a news-worthy event. It seems even more of a stretch positioning this as google algorithm driven.
"Since April 1998, development has been picked up by others, notably Tim Hickey at Brandeis [...]"

It seems Hickeys are cornering the Lisp-on-Java market.
The most impressive thing, imo, is that he got scrolls.com. :P
I cry that node.js and JavaScript aren't simple, easy to use, and so foolproof to deploy that it would displace PHP as the go-to language for shared hosting.
They say you'll be able to earn cards in single-player mode and sell them in in-game auctions; but how would this possibly be secured...?
If that was true, I wonder if discreetly publishing the code online first, then submitting the paper would work.
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Regarding item #4: Increased Payment Options

When the official Android market went live, you can now buy apps over the browser, then even download to your phone...so this is a bit out of date.
You need to increase the # of links you have from the homepage - I would suggest getting to the 100 internal link point by finding more ways to tag your jobs you have under "See All 1206 Entry Level Employers", which I imagine is driving most of your search traffic.

Divide that by category types and link from the sidebar - this will pass linkjuice more efficiently and improve your traffic.
It could be single-player but still played on the server.
Unless, of course, stumbling about in the dark and unable to see while bored out of your skull because you can't sleep posed some sort of risk.
Heh, I feel like an idiot for forgetting that one. :-)
The fact this has been announced so early on in the piece and has received such wide publication does not bode well. In all likelihood this game is a couple of years away from release. So it is going to be hard to live up to the expectations that are going to build up in that period (not impossible, see SC2). Then again this could be a calculated risk . .
I didn't know about Kona. Thank you thank you thank you! My transition from the sidelines into the pit of vector-oriented programming seems to be accelerating.
Computer-only CCGs also open up design space that can't be done for real-life card games. Picture "destroy a random permanent" -- that would be impossible to do if you're sitting with cards in front of you, but trivial if it's on a computer. There are other game mechanics that are possible to do in real-life, but are annoying enough that they're not worth it. Imagine a mechanic that requires you to reveal your hand and take an action based on the average cost of the cards in it -- annoying to do if you've got a five or six cards in hand, but trivial on the computer.

In some ways it's a shame Magic: The Gathering Online has the same cards they print: I would love to see what the developers could come up with for computer-based mechanics.
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To add on to the language problem - all Finns have to learn Swedish as well as English. I came from a strictly Swedish speaking part of Finland, and had to learn Finnish and English from the very start.

And the primary thing that the Finnish society does well:
- Everyone respects the teaching profession.
- Teachers, who most often are at the top of their class and have a Masters, are given much autonomy and trust.
I was thinking the same thing but knew how bad the karma police would punish me for saying it.
I think the last argument is misframed. If you want to sell software on a tablet device, you can do it through Android, iOS, or probably a couple other ways. Apple's claim, presumably, is that the quality of iOS, the App Store, and of the hardware that runs iOS, adds at least that much value over Android. And, given how much more money people make on iOS apps compared to Android apps, they're probably right.

The argument about subscription issues is related but more complicated.
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This is pretty off topic but it interested me so I thought I would share:

This video more than anything got me interested in socialcam (of which I had never heard of before), so I did a little reading and decided to sign up for updates to the product. After I signed up the page refreshed and informed me I was ranked last (4000 and something) on their list because I hadn't gotten anyone else to sign up yet. Instantly my competitive juices started flowing and I wanted to get higher up on the list.

It just struck me as a really original interesting way to encourage sign ups (presumably for eventual beta testers).

(also you can help my ranking if you click here: http://socialcam.com/?referred_by=BEA3CDhw )
I don't know Jason Calacanis, but I get a couple of things out of this. (and yea, I know my two main points are contradictive)

1. Mahalo is blowing in the wind. I have no idea what Mahalo is or what Calacanis wants it to be. SEOing the hell out of near-worthless content is not a long-term strategy. If you want to win - solve a problem!

2. Jason Calacanis is an excellent executive. This Google algo change took place on Fri/Sat. By Tuesday this guy made the huge, painful, most difficult call in the world and laid off 10% of his company. If you have ever had to lay people off - you know what I mean. It is hard, it is painful, it is life changing. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I understand that the employee takes the blunt of the blow - but believe me, being on the other side of the table is not a desirable place to be.

I know this is not a popular stance on HN, but I have a lot of respect for Calacanis. The guy has done so much for the start up community. TWiST is some of the most valuable content I have found on the web and The Launch Conference - if it hasn't already - will change the startup conference scene forever. Not to mention his home brewed angel network that tilts the table in favor of entrepreneurs.

Calacanis is a hell of a self-promoter - but even if he rubs you the wrong way - you should respect what he has been able to do. If you have been (or were) on 60 minutes talking about internet startups...in your 20's...feel free to rip him apart. If not, show a little respect for what he has done and little empathy for what the guy just had to do.
This looks promising, it'll be interesting to see how they make it rely less on chance.

Is there a reason why this game needs to look like it's a cardgame when in reality it's not? That seems like a slightly clumsy metaphor for an epic war/battle in a fantasy universe. If you're making a card-game, then you're stuck with that. But if you're making a video game, why limit yourself like that?
One of the geniuses behind Apple's products. I read its rumored he may be leaving Apple for his native England.
And the cycle continues.
Fire the teachers!
The students aren't learning - they're the problem!
Fire the administrators!
Fire the teachers!
The students aren't trying!
Fire the administrators!...

Perhaps the system itself is the problem. Change the system.
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Avoiding a presence, or nexus in every state would be one motivation.
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Definitely. And it will make you think about possible barriers to entry if you were to create the idea.
Like you, I know Mahalo mostly from knowing about it and skipping past their entries in Google results, but I wouldn't doubt that these kinds of sites enjoy a lot of clicks from people who just don't know English or the Internet very well. Understandable words are understandable words.

The problems people have with Mahalo and their ilk are unimportant to 90% of the people on the Internet. Many are perfectly comfortable typing "how to cross street?" into google or their isp homepage and clicking the top link. Boom: business model.
Yeah, I guess it's not perceived as adding anything to the conversation by pointing out that people are acting against their own self interest.
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I've know Jason since the web 1.0 era in silicon alley — he's always give to his larger community (and still does with his podcast) and the one thing that Jason really taught me: If you fail, dust yourself off and startup again. Mark my words that Jason will come back. I think this is a lesson that everyone in business should learn...