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Besides its core philosophy and approach, I like Arch for its community. Its forum and IRC channel are among the rare places on the Internet where you can openly talk about flamewar-inducing topics (like foofs vs barfs or vim vs emacs) while avoiding ignition point and actually have a constructive discussion.

I witnessed rare similar cases of the random guy knocking on Arch's door and raving in about how he knows the world and everything and that we should all bow down before him but it never escalated to the point it has on that precise case.
The article is from 2007, the syntax extension you mention is from GSoC 2008. And I think it's legitimate to attack a language's out-of-the box features even if someone somewhere has written an optional parser extension to address the problems.
Of course. They (StatusNet) were actually the authors of it (I believe). I'm not against having multiple implementations by any means.

It just seems very knee jerk to start your own so quickly. "I hate Twitter. Hey, use my version of Twitter that's open, but allows you to sign in with Twitter."

Then again, he might have decided that StatusNet has too many dependencies and was looking for something super simple--I don't know.
How will 3D printing affect the chinese economy?
So with the inevitability of 3D printing. Any thoughts on how that might affect the chinese economy as so many simple toys and that come from china could now be printed at ones computer for even less?
"my lawyer advised me that it had never been tested in court, and the legal costs alone of being a test case would bankrupt me"

What's to stop two smaller companies making a "court case" where they sue each other for small bucks with the desired outcome (following robots.txt is a legal way to access a site with a crawler). This would then set a precedent that would benefit others as a whole.
The business plan that raised $41 million for pre-launch startup Color.
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gnosis: could you please break the usual `no editorializing the title' rule for once?

I believe it's interesting and informative and deserves more than a cursory pass, but without `Lisp' in the title, it's hard to spot.
I would take A without question. After just a year or two I'd have enough money to work on my own fun-as-can-be-but-will-never-make-money projects for a decade or two.
... and .xxx becomes irrelevant. Really, if any .xxx website also needs a non-.xxx domain name, what's the point? (India won't be the last to block .xxx, I imagine.)
Red over Green!! Aaaaargh! My eyes!!
"And lisp modules? Well, every part of the code can modify every other part. You can write a whole new grammar if you're so inclined. None of this helps with the goal of downloading a random package and easily calling whatever you want from it with minimal hassle."

This is bullshit. Python can also modify it's own code at runtime and yet it's one of the most package-complete languages. But it has a single defining implementation, so if you write your package, then every Python user will be able to use it.

Have a look at Clojure and the rate it's gaining new libraries. Lisp features don't seem to hinder that. A single implementation (and what follows - non-fragmented community) helps it greatly.
Are these normalised for the site's growth?
Hmmm... I had a look now at 3-4 entries in /r/linkbait, and it contains erotic images of underaged girls. Yes, technically it is non-nude, but if a girl has a barely-visible panties, it doesn't feel kosher to me. I must admit that I wasn't aware reddit went so close to underaged porn.
I don't care about the lies because what I need to know is that there is a major safety issue open since 2006 and the maintainer of the software have not fixed that yet.

I understand that people have their own schedules, I do maintain OSS myself: I am fine with developer taking months or even 1 year fixing stuff. 6-7 years is not justifiable though. If you didn't have time to code something important for an important piece of software you mantain in 6 years, you have no justification towards your user: don't pretend you do.
Come on, there are lots of self-deprecating Lisp jokes, my favourite being:

An elite hacker broke into a government system and found the code of a secret NASA project. He tried to download it, but the sysadmins noticed the intrusion and eventually cut the hacker off. He only managed to get the last 40 kB of the source file and unfortunately, because the project was written in Lisp, it contained nothing but closing parens.
I always find these browser extensions completely terrifying. You can have all the encryption in the world, but all it takes to extract your bank account or credit card information is one lousy browser extension.
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I considered adding Lisp in to the title, but wasn't quite sure how to phrase it.

"A Lisp cult I almost joined" ?
"A cult I almost joined [Lisp]" ?

Also, there's something to be said for keeping the title as is, as it's a bit more mysterious.. and may pique the reader's interest to find out what the cult is. Putting "Lisp" in the title kind of spoils the surprise.
In my experience, A-GPS works great. It’s hard to get a GPS signal in urban landscapes but there are tons of WiFi access points around which are very quick at determining your location and are reasonably accurate. I really don’t know what other sensors could bring to the table.
That game is awesome!

Please keep us posted. Never fall off the radar, make some noise. Break a leg.
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Not less. A machine designed to do everything can never beat a single-purpose factory line. Admittedly though, they may save on time and transportation costs.

My prediction is that in order for these machines to become mainstream some companies will need to allow reproduction of their product designs first, and create a digital channel specifically for delivering the designs to consumers and their 3d printers.
Just in case you commented to "save" the article: you can find all articles you upvoted at http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=justinpirie.
Hey Cemetric

I'm really interested to know who the big government companies are because I've been on the inside of a few deals that have gone nowhere because of data location...

Justin
China is slowing, but surely, going towards a service oriented economy. The stated goal of the PRC governement for their next 5-year plan was to move from 40% of the economy in services to 70%. This goal is, IMHO, attainable for China which not only has a vast higher education system, but is also following the example of Japan, Korea and Taiwan who went through the same transition.

As that will clearly decrease the need for manufacturing in China, the ability for us to print the goods they are now creating cheaply will hardly affect their economy.
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What about hashing? Even if hashing is not the best solution, a not-so-good solution is preferable over 7 years of a hole. This is the attitude that make users mad.

edit: I am talking sha256sum to compare with master repo. see: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23101#comment73640
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process
What are you unhappy about with Ubuntu?
I'd be surprised if there were actually going to be porn sites on xxx, since it can be blocked so easily. Probably it's going to more about underground culture.
It's all about critical mass. If techies who care about it being open switch over and then it becomes the most popular amongst HN readers, then it can grow out from there.
I'm looking forward to all the "Fired/Divorced for Facebook/Twitter comments" equivalents that result from photos taken by other people you were in the same bar as turning up in your friends, family, spouses and bosses photostreams.
Really?

My experience is Cloud Security is better than local in 99% of cases. And when it's been compromised it's been users / social engineering rather than the cloud service- think HBGary.

Jurisdiction might not be that uniform in Europe, but there the datacentres tend to be it's pretty good (UK, Ireland, Germany, Holland, etc).

Justin
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Google really doesn’t want Honeycomb on phones
Thanks- I hadn't- but I didn't know about that page :)
Very few products are not bought by anyone, ever!
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It doesn't have to be fully nude to be to some extent erotic. But we're arguing semantics here.

I didn't want to put "People are going to reddit looking for jailbait" in the title as that would imply that people are going to reddit to find actual jailbait girls in some kind of "to catch a predator" style scenario.
Although Spring and Rails do similar things I think they serve two different roles. A more accurate comparison would be something like the Play! Framework, which would barely register (unfortunately)
That makes no sense. Who downloads files from the end up?!
Alright. I like this phrasing. It is less mysterious.. but at least those interested in Lisp can find it.

You know, I was just thinking.. this is yet another reason for HN to allow tags. As with tags the title could remain untouched and we'd still be able to categorize it as a Lisp-themed article, and even that it came from 2005.
"A cult I almotht joined."
remember that many redditors themselves are underage. 16 year old boys wanting to look at 16 year old girls isn't morally reprehensible imho.
From the comments:

> If you want an easy-to-use dynamic programming language, there are plenty better choices than Lisp

Huh, is there some new dynamic language that has completely slipped under my radar?
Does that mean webmasters over-represent the people on reddit who are interested in underage porn (okay, borderline)?
I agree about digital security. I'm pretty sure a cloud provider can do a better overall job at monitoring the network. And with VPNs, you can make it almost like the machines are on your local network.

It's the physical/political part that cannot completely be discounted yet. It still a pretty new area of globalization and I guess time will well.
Yeah, being from Holland I never understand why the presentation of stuff from other countries is so over the top, even for simple things. But it seems to sell though, so probably a lot of people like it. I personally like a paragraph (or less) saying what it does + 1 or 2 good pics. No videos please.
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Sorry for the late reply. My main gripe is the draw next to my desk is now pretty much full of lemons, and 90% of them where within the warranty period but I done nothing as the drives contained sensitive customer data.

I'll have a word with the manufacturer, but really don't see them letting me smash the drive up before sending it to them :D Otherwise I'll take your advice and just eat the cost of another lemon.
I'm glad Weinreb brought up extensibility. Almost every good idea from Lisp has been recognized and widely adopted over the last fifty years, but its remaining claim to uniqueness and power is letting you make effortless changes to syntax and evaluation. You haven't constructively critiqued Lisp if you don't address that head on.

As for "whatever you're reading this with [...] was written in a variant of C", well, yeah, that's why it's crap that blows up randomly. This is a problem that the industry is very slowly nerving itself to solve.
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They will always be able to do things cheaper. Because their manpower is cheaper, they will buy and sell stuff in larger quantities and produce it with their own materials (which is at the moment the costly part).

For now, unless you have a Makerbot and want ABS lego, consumers simply can't afford 3D printing their toys with commercial 3D printers. It's just like with regular printers: the ink is more expensive than the printer itself!

However, that's not to say that it will always remain that way and I can't wait for that day to come!
Ask HN: Review our brand spanking new web designer mockup tool, Clickdummy.com
https://clickdummy.com

We'd love any and all feedback on our newly launched (not quite yet SaaS) application to help web design firms, freelancers, and UI designers alike speed up the process of prototyping with client feedback. There's a number of tools in the market, but we would like to thing we have a unique take on the problem at hand and some elegant and useful solutions. Here's the gist of the app:

"A 'clickdummy' is a mockup, evolved. Dummies let users navigate your mockups as if they were live websites or applications. Simply upload mockups you've created offline and draw clickable areas to let users navigate between them. The result is a very convincing simulation that does a much better job of communicating user experience than mockups alone."

Here's a blog post a fellow employee created regarding the difficulties of building the app in node.js:

http://skookum.com/blog/building-a-non-trivial-app-in-node-js/

There's been a ton of man hours spread across five buddies to get this thing out the door in 4 months. The whole project was bootstrapped and our team resides in Charlotte, NC.

We'd love any and all feedback you can give us. Feel free to either reply here or if you find a glaring issue, please please don't hesitate to add it to our Zendesk account at http://help.skookum.com/
Lisp(and specifically common lisp) is one of the top languages people who don't know it like to criticize. That wouldn't be a bad thing if the criticism was any good. Every time i see a blog post about some "problem" with lisp the chances that it has something valuable to say are low. And calling a language community a cult is beyond offensive.
But sometimes I like to be able to hide my identity when checking out / chatting with the competition ;)
There has been a recent democratization of web- and mobile-applications, has there not? It's super easy for me now to make an site with Rails to do x. Same goes for creating and publishing mobile applications. Anyone can now easily make and sell an iPhone app. When has this ever been possible? This is the current democratization, and I don't think it would be unrealistic to suggest it could lead to a bubble.
This makes me very uncomfortable. I'd never been to this sub-reddit, but take a look at a sample thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbait/comments/gav7p/by_the_pool/

The picture shows three young girls and the comments are veiled but pretty clear in their intention. It surprises me that Condé Nast allows this type of content to remain on the site.
But from this viewpoint it makes sense that most people with the alexa toolbar installed go to reddit for jailbait...
Elite hackers from jokes?
It's also almost longer =)
Suspension of disbelief ruined!
Now that you mention it, what's stopping two such companies from manipulating the result of this landmark case ?

What's stopping Facebook from setting up a puppet company to sue to obtain their desired precedent ?

This seems like a huge hole in the "let's let the courts decide the law system".
Ask HN: Any non-Google hardware search appliances? 
Hi.

Does a hardware box (or software package) exist that is basically a custom webcrawler with an idiot proof UI?

I would like to crawl certain topic specific websites and have our magic box spit out an XML doc (or some other doc) with an accommodating html/css piece of code that I can add to my website to call this information via a search field. Hence creating my own custom vertical search engine (without ads). Google has one for $3,000 that they will let you use for two years with a 50,000 page (not site) index limit but it seems like somebody would have made something cheaper that can be used indefinitely .

If this doesn't exist maybe it can be a ycombinator entrepreneurial adventure for someone.

Anyway, I'd be more than happy to slap down $500-$1000 for it.
I'm not a prude in the slightest degree but I agree with you. Those girls are very young and the pics are sexual, clothed or not.

Made me feel creepy. That kind of activity is just asking for trouble.
Yep this is the right way to go .. use the Money type when you can.

Just remember though, don't hard code 2 decimal places through your system. I have had to write financial software that's needed to be flexible enough to be accurate to 4 decimal places. Some clients can have strict requirements on financial software, make sure you ask all the right questions first:

- Do you have dollar discounts, or percentage discounts, or both?

- When you calculate tax, you should do it on a per-line basis (don't sum up the invoice and calculate tax on the end - some countries / states / whatever can have tax exempt items)

- When you calculate discount, calculate dollar value to N decimal places, then round to Y decimal places, then calculate tax on the rounded figure

All of this might seem like a nightmare for a few cents, but it really matters if you're dealing with many items (where small differences add up over many items) or you have to integrate with another third party system, and you might need to make sure your totals match theirs exactly (to the cent)

EDIT:
Citing my sources ... I have worked on financial software that spans New Zealand, Australia and Global stuff too. I have had to integrate with (and learn intimately) 40+ accounting packages. All of them behave slightly differently in terms of rounding, but your best best is to -

- Match the system you're integrating with

- If you must 'lose' a cent, favour the customer (as the above comment says)

Godspeed :)
My guess Facebook would still sure and obtain an injunction on the site being distributed in the US, probably shutting down access in the US.
It's no mystery, r/jailbait is the 7th result for "jailbait" on Google. The people who go to r/jailbait from a Google search are just hitting the first link that looks like it might be what they want.
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My first impression is that the name is bad. If I was working with a web designer and they asked me to use "clickdummy" to collaborate, I would wonder who the "dummy" is supposed to be. Although you go on to explain what dummies are in the FAQ, the damage would have already been done by then. The first time I read the phrase, I assumed it was an instruction - "click [on this], dummy!".

Perhaps I am being overly-sensitive on the naming issue, but it seems that using what can be a pejorative term as part of your company name could backfire.

The home page took 25+ seconds to load - hopefully this is because lots of other HNers are currently checking it out.

I do like the idea overall, and the site design is nice and understated.
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I used dvorak for a few years and greatly enjoyed it. Ended up back on qwerty because I was switching around to too many machines and couldn't necessarily install a driver on all of them.

I tried Colemak recently, but my grey cells are brittle and I couldn't make the leap. Not due to any problem with Colemak, but with me I think.
"As an example we created the Twitter peak ">" gesture cause is fast and symbolic."

That is a problem though. It is neither fast or symbolic if you do not know it already or you have forgotten it.

What if this app had been out a long time ago and f was the gesture for Friendster?

What about a single gesture that brings up a list of actions, a further click then allows the user to post to facebook, tweet, email, or, Google it, etc.
If you turn off the location service for Color app, the app itself will explicitly tell you that it can't work without the service.
Looks interesting. Is there a human-readable description of the protocol somewhere?
Sometimes it takes several weeks until the first respOnse to your patch and even longer to get it accepted (or rejected). But if you rely on that patch for your own stuff and you already know a few other things which need some work, your only real option is to fork.
What's amazing is how little money was involved. $30K / month, about $360K / year. In return, millions in extortion fees and a huge drag on the economy.
I'm more SaaS than IaaS, but yes that is also true.

To be honest though, we have a very strong heritage of protecting peoples data in the EU and have strong regulatory and legal controls around it too. We wouldn't let a government agency take data without the proper permission, as would be the case on site. I don't see any difference.

Justin
Using 'Flash' on banking site detecting change in access parameters
After 31 Mar 2011, One Time Password (OTP) are now mandatory for Indian Banks.<p>I was reading ICICI bank FAQ on OTP.
http://www.icicibank.com/online-services/otp-faq.html#11<p>I found following.<p>"Flash Player needs to be enabled to ensure that OTP authentication is asked only when the bank observes a change in your Internet Banking access parameters.<p>If Flash Player is not enabled, OTP will be asked before every login."<p>Is this a good idea to rely on Flash player ? What about the security vulnerabilities in Flash Player ? Will that impact security of internet banking sites ?
Requires sign in - any plans to offer a tour or more comprehensive description?
Blatant Quora clone much?
That line irked me too. I don't believe anyone would take offence about the underlying technology, if the product is of excellent quality.
The OP might want to add some more explanation to that point, as it seems more like the usual php bashing than being based on substantial data to validate that point.
It isn't just extensions on there own: extensions like greasemonkey allow external scripts to be added, and even without that there are bookmarklets that get complete access to the content in the browser's DOM too. Admittedly a bookmarklet requires user intervention to run once installed, but a script in GM or similar will run just as automatically as an extension on its own.
Maybe yes, this is first Question Answer Site from Indonesia
The Dost Test is the relevant American case law here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dost_test
But how can they do this if the dns server and server are not hosted in the US?

I've been wondering about this problem too recently when looking at some frivolous patent lawsuits... The problem is that for quite a few case even if the law is on the side of the startup, the cost of applying the law and winning the lawsuit are too high...