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You left out an important bit of context. Lush is garbage collected.

Lush brings the best of both worlds by wrapping three
languages into one: (1) a weakly-typed, garbage-
collected, dynamically scoped, interpreted language with
a simple Lisp-like syntax, (2) a strongly-typed,
lexically-scoped compiled language that uses the same
Lisp-like syntax, and (3) the C language, which can be
freely mixed with Lush code within a single program, even
within a single function.

The thing is that Lush the interpreted lisp like language is quite different from CLush the compiled lisp (un)like language. This is indeed an unexpected quirk and gets people who are starting at it. The two, share the same syntax but are quite different languages. CLush can almost be described as C with lisp syntax. What you are referring to is CLush. Lush on the other hand is fully garbage collected. In fact it used to have a reference counting based garbage collector but the developers were looking at other garbage collection algorithms, mainly Boehms garbage collector. I have not used it in a while so I am not sure if it has been baked in. Something I was looking forward to in the new version was parallel loops. There is a stub for that, but it defaulted to the sequential loops in the version I played with. I think a reference counting garbage collector makes parallelism hard to implement, Cpython is perhaps an example of that, whereas Sisal is a counterexample.

Its a fun language to use, it is so much more easier to interface with C (compared to MATLAB, well even Python/Numpy/Scipy sans weave). But there are a few surprises if you expect Lisp.

EDIT: Replying to gaius here to save on deep nests.

Only if you want to distribute it as a compiled binary, (may be to protect your source). You can distribute the source code as is, and it will run just fine. As far as distributing something self contained, I agree that Lush is not tailor made for that. Because even the successfully compiled parts are typically loaded dynamically.
The web would be healthier if it had two competing APIs in SQLite and IndexedDB.

Mozilla must come to the party and provide access to an embedding of SQLite.

It would be hubris to suggest they can design something better and to remove the alternative before they have done so.
When you get down to it, common sense ... isn't. And because of this amazing lack of common sense, this band, or at least the name, is pretty much screwed, good music or not.
Letter B in [name redacted] logo looks very similar to vkontakte.ru logo, don't you think so?
I like the simplicity of the home page, but I would want to see what a user would see when supplied with a gumroad'd link before singing up.
Well, I'd never claim to be so rational as to have excluded emotionally-self-serving reason entirely.

I just thought the original post came across as having the same sort of stereotypes that it decried, so responded with a little snark. :)
As with many ideas I see floated and mvp'd on HN, I'm jealous. Great idea, good execution. I'd agree with others that the 30% is too high. 5-10% would be acceptable.
I took it from Colorlovers. Here's a link: http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/1473/Ocean_Five
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@ohashi: It's not a big problem anymore as you npointed out. However, the way domain name tasting was reduced (i.e. The financial penalty that was put in place) does not eliminate the practice entirely. It is not illegal as stated by ICANN. That was the point of my article, and how people should protect themselves.
I woke up thinking about The Information and how the African Drums demonstration of "redundancy overcoming ambiguity" might play out in writing and mnemonics.
Content and quality of that book is a large factor but so is the price tag of zero dollars.
It's a cool insight that I just learned, but if the two gears share a multiple, then the same teeth will engage with each other over and over leading to uneven wear pattern. If the gears are relatively prime (e.g. 6 and 17) then each tooth will touch each other tooth before repeating the cycle.

Try it out on a piece of paper and see for yourself (that's what I did).
Agreed. Added that to the to-do list.
That would probably end up like the "report" button on reddit. Instead of being used to report spam or inappropriate content, it's often just used as an additional downvote, thus devaluing it. Keep flags difficult to use makes sure that the user really wants to flag a comment.
I agree. American humor can be pretty tame by comparison
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2011/01/golden_globes...
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Do LOTS of tutorials on the adobe site of the type of things you're trying to do. Get a "learn by tutorial" book. You'll pick up the toolset that way pretty fast.

I do second the person in this thread though that points you at fireworks. While I can do things in photoshop, many items come super fast in fireworks.
Google is becoming more hypocritical by the day. First the Verizon deal. Next it was closing Android, now it is bidding on Nortel's patents as a protection power-play (and I'm sure there are countless others, but those are the first I'm reminded of). This is a "sorry we're not sorry" blog post...I never understand this. Stop pretending to be a small company in big company's clothes: own up to being a part of the system you swore not to be a part of, and move on. Search works for me, so I'm still happy.
I'm definitely seeing that. When I get that FAQ page up it'll definitely be much lower than 30%.
This makes more sense to me now and I see the potential. Perhaps you should put this example on your website to make it a little more clear.
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My recommendation is to establish the %age markup based on file sizes, since that would be the basis for infrastructure costs such as storage and bandwidth.

30% is definitely high. I understand 30% has become a buzzword these days, but in reality it cuts a lot into merchants' margins. You may want to research on current digital goods market sites such as e-junkie, payloadz etc. Most seem to have a combination of monthly pricing and a "low" per transaction fee. Monthly fee certainly going to be a barrier for casual merchants.
Hmm, that's poor. https://bugreport.apple.com/? (Or can I only access this because I'm a registered developer?)
Not surprising when you consider that most people came here to get away from something, (poverty, repression, etc.) For no small number of Americans, the rest of the world is a proxy for "that place my ancestors left because it sucked ".
The US was isolationist before it got dragged into the world wars, and has become interventionist not because it's interested in conquest, but because the past century has taught it to fear what happens when it's not.
At 30%, unless my product is pure profit I'm going to look elsewhere. A Paypal (or WePay!) buy now button isn't that hard to create after all...
I get a broken lock icon, and "Connection partially encrypted" message. You need to make sure all externally linked resources on the page use SSL. Specifically: change http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:regular,bold to https://...
Good example. Makes more sense to me now. :)
Question - is a YC class currently in session, or did a selection round just end? I am an outsider and do not know the routine, but what if you are seeing a seasonal effect caused by increased activity by YC hopefuls and participants before and after these periodic selection events?
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Hopefully. Because at any level of abstraction below 'high orbit', the comparison completely fails.

The most important and glaring difference that your abstraction completely ignores, is that the RIAA's audience is governments and their goal is to see laws enacted that will have wide ranging impact on music and computing.

Designers' audience is would-be customers and other designers. Their goal is educating customers on the difference between a $100 logo and an identity package that costs orders of magnitude more, and educating other designers on the impact of trying to compete with the $100 logo on price.

Designers have no cartel. They have no legal/lobbying arm. They've never controlled distribution or access. They've never been multiply convicted of illegal vertical integration and horizontal collusion. They aren't trying to see your rights legislated away to protect the comfortable industry monopoly they have never had.
Is the redirect-link unique in any way? I mean.

If anyone buys the access to a a non-unique-link (ie: http://mybook.com/book.pdf), and then shares the redirected URL to a third person, this third person could load the link without paying, right?
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After you make something in Illustrator, you must must must look at the raster result it makes when you actually commit to a size and make actual png files.

Just slinging vectors at a problem fails in the last mile, often causing blurriness or jaggies.

You need illustrator + photoshop or illustrator + fireworks to really "do a job" as they say.
By voting patterns I meant

1) who votes on good comments
2) who votes on whose comments
3) who votes a lot / a little.

But mostly (1).

I take your point about ML being superficial. But if it's being used at all, shouldn't the users be informed about what the robo-brain thinks of them?

Your excellent example of a rewording might fool a lot of humans too (see pg's article another commenter linked to ... Ctrl+F "DH4").
What's hypocritical about building a defensive patent portfolio?
Oh, and one more item for those college students who become grad students and decide they need to do field study, if you come out to a reservation in the northern plains and decide to hold a noon meeting, then YOU are on the hook for catering lunch. If you don't, prepare for a seriously insulted crowd. This includes dinner time meetings also. Brown bagging is not acceptable.
I've been watching the self-publishing world lately since reading Jon Konrath's blog here: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ and I have to say, why can't I get all the programming books I want for approximately $1-$5 per book in electronic format? I'd probably buy at least 1 book/week at that price!

So here's an idea for what I'd pay for, as a more technical reader: technical ebook purchasing for $1-$5 per book with the option of accessing the book via a distributed source control system. The purchase then entitles me to push errata, additions, etc. back to the author as well as to pull contributions, fixes, etc. from the readers. With each ebook major version release, I'd pay the purchase amount again to gain access to the new version. That new version may merely be all of the changes I've already had access to via source control, but payment then unlocks access to the next major branch. Patch review could even be offloaded to readers via up/down votes.

My main goal here is to counteract the short half life of the majority of most technical books, benefit from the other readers as much as possible and encourage current/potential authors with appropriate payment.

Call it an "o'reilly killer", or "gitbooks" or whatever.

Cheers
Bill
What's being sold isn't the "link" but ability to access what it points to - an image, a blog post, etc. I think it's a great idea with oodles of potential - a link-based mini-paywall :).
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Email followed distantly by twitter and openid. The only reason twitter is there is that I have an account, but don't use it or care about it.

More importantly I will never use facebook to signup somewhere else. I don't want random services anywhere near my facebook profile.
Can I equally suggest you try to get it /before/ your site becomes too popular - if you are seeing growth and anticipate it will do. Otherwise, the shelflove domain will get increasing type-in traffic as your site grows, and its value to the owner (hnce cost to acquire) will go up proportionally.
Yup. For now, there is no security built into the link once you get through that payment wall. I'm thinking about how to do that without hurting UX - though it's low on the priority list anyways.
Would you mind sharing that wallpaper?
And 2 minutes later the "secret" link is shared on Twitter.
I definitely will. Thanks for bearing with my crappy copy. It'll get better :)
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Nice - how about this as a feature: # of downloads allowed. This would allow people to sell just 1 copy or set up something like a groupon-esque clone. First 50 people get 50% off. Then after 50 people say you're too late. Just an idea.
Mndrix, who sells bitcoin for paypal had problem with fraudulent transactions just several days ago. He was forced to set a much lower limits for new users:
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2555.msg76390#msg...
Ask HN: How would we know if the tech bubble "popped"?
Since the money is tied up in private equity, we don't have the transparency that the public markets provide. So, how would someone outside of VC know if the bubble "popped"?
mcurving got most of this correct. Most large registrars will auto renew the domain on behalf of their customers as a "service." this gives you time to notice no email coming in and your domain/website not working. Most will allow you to renew for the regular renewal fee while others will up charge for the renewal. Then, if it doesn't get renewed, the registrar will auction the domain name if of high worth (links coming in, traffic, etc.). It then goes to the highest bidder. If no one bids, it gets deleted. Note: some registrars do not auction (very few).

I plan to update the article on DomainSherpa (http://doms.to/vra) soon with this information.
How does this work for art though? I mean you want to see the icon/graphic/design/whatever before you pay for it.

Also - once you've been redirected to the page, what's to stop you taking the link and sharing it yourself?

Also also: if I've got something to sell, can't I just bung it on ebay?
That Makes sense. How then do I make sure that they don't just go to the actual url once they know it instead of going through the paywall url?
Thought about it. How does this sound? "i think 30% below $10/month in sales, then 25% below $50, 20% below $100, 15% below $1000, 10% above $1000"
seven months of house arrest

Crime does pay apparently. Were all financial assets seized or not?
This may just be the simplest way to sell digital goods.

I think all content should be uploaded to your servers otherwise if someone gets to the final link they can just send others to it.
well were they comparing the 88% to regular combustion engines or existing electric/hybrid cars?
Needs more lemur
Looks interesting but I can't figure out why there's no hosted demo. Hard to be inspired to think of a use case or want to play with it when I can't see a demo without pulling the code.
Instead of him trying to strike it out in Silicon Valley, I wish he would adopt some good industry standards for his own money cow back home--mail.ru.

The site is plagued with unoptimized flash ads that slow my computer down to a crawl. mail.ru also likes to send spam that claims that people on your mail.ru contact list invite you to join some new social network of theirs--without those people even knowing about it. I suspect similar emails have been sent on my behalf to my contacts as well, all without my bidding.

I guess this is just too much to ask at the moment. The so called Runet has not grown out of its infancy, and mail.ru is its flagship company.
Interesting idea, but I see two main issues with this.

First, anyone who pays and gets to the resulting link can trivially share that link; of course, you can always ask them nicely not to do so, and in some contexts that will work, but in general the security model just doesn't work unless you authenticate each paid user at the destination. You need to come up with an answer to this.

Second, if you market this as a link shortener which requires payment, I think you'll get backlash from people who currently use link shorteners to share links on Twitter and similar; from that perspective it feels like the kind of thing you'd see used by Twitter spammers/scammers. Suggested fix: flip it around, and present it as an astonishingly simple payment system based on URLs, which happens to behave like a shortener.
I'm American but grew up in the Canal Zone. I've been in Germany a lot the past two years. My girlfriend is German and lives in Berlin. My impression is that Germans really do believe they are the best. They will never say so publicly but deep down they really believe it.

My girlfriend's dad joked about Americans and hamburgers. I offered to make him one since he'd never had one. He emphatically said no. I'm a picky eater and hate cabbage. I politely declined to try some of his dishes because of the cabbage thing. He asked if Americans were always unwilling to try new things. I pointed out that he wouldn't try a hamburger and he got upset. He didn't see it as hypocritical. (It didn't bother me that he didn't want to try one. I don't care what people are or aren't willing to eat.)

There were other things and then it dawned on me. He really thinks his was is the best and can't understand how someone would think differently. He was in the Wehrmacht and his attitudes gave me a creepy feeling.

I know this is anecdotal but I've gotten this impression from many Germans of different ages. Germans think they are better. It cracks me up when I hear Germans talking about American arrogance.
The whole idea of LTS is to leave outdated versions of the repo and only port bugfixes and critical security stuff backwards while leaving a direct upgrade path to the next LTS open.
I hope they will license the patents freely to all open source projects, or something like that, to demonstrate the unevilness.
Seems good.

How long until exact clones appear? What makes GumRoad the micro-paywall of choice?

How long until shortened<-->lengthened websites appear which reduces how many people pay up?
To this I feel the need to reply with a big "duh!" Whenever I see a see a product launch with an two-letter country code, I look it up if I don't already know it and ask myself: Would I be willing to trust my business to _this_ country's domain registrar?

Joyent's Node SmartMachine services (no.de)? Germany: Yes!

Twitter's URL shortener (t.co)? Colombia? _Hugo Chavez?_ Umm, not really.

There are real countries behind these country codes and companies expose themselves to risks associated with those countries—and are arguably supporting the governments of those countries—by using a domain name with that country code.

HN readers learn that GoDaddy's run by a megalomaniacal big game hunter and they run for the exits. HN readers discover a punny domain name can be had by giving Qaddafi or Hugo Chavez money (however indirectly) and they place their orders. Hello?!
Thanks for the notice, I'll do that.
def bitcoin_address(public_key):
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x += sha256(sha256(x))[0:4]
return base58_encode(x)
How strange. Until last month, I was running gifexplode.com, a site where you could share 'exploded' gifs - i.e. it took an animated gif and stepped over it frame-by-frame. I took the service offline last month because people were using it to store porn. I had tried finding a client-side solution in vain. The long-term plan for gifexplode was to introduce a player just like this!

Soon as I get a chance, I think I'll relaunch gifexplode with your viewer.

Here's the blog post about how gifexplode was born, it's quite an interesting story: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/08/gifexplode-community-powe...

edit: Hmm, using XHR to fetch the gif will give me cross-domain issues unless I first mirror the image on my server. Anyone know of a way around that?
3D domain names are hot with domain investors so I would suspect this was not an example of domain name front running, especially if it was a week later.
I feel like that less than 1% of the people on there would be using this feature
Yeah - I'd rather try my luck at Kickstarter and pay their 5% fee and PayPal's 2.7%.

You'd have to write up some very specific usage scenarios that make that cut viable.

Apple's cut makes sense so far that you get some tangible advantages in terms of such things as exposure. You'll have to explain people what they get for the 30% cut.

Right now, I'm unconvinced that you get 30%'s worth. But, on another note, it's probably always better to start at a high price and dial it down than to launch a product and increase the prices over time. People will be crying bait and switch - justifiably.
Not that close. Anyway I have never heard of vkontakte.ru before and it is the logo I have used since last year.

How long has vkontakte.ru been running?
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I'd like to think that this has lower overhead than eBay. Nothing is there to stop you for now - I think this is more for casual use than building an entire business on top of. Yes, I'm thinking about adding in a preview option with cluttering up the experience.
Today I was deciding how I would store/access user settings for an app that I am working on. I need a way to write pseudo code in the shower.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you maybe don't know that many people from overseas.

My Iranian ex girlfriend often liked to point out how Americans are ignorant of other nations and their cultures. Her most common criticism is that Americans didn't know a lot about the occupation of Palestine.

Strangely, she seemed more or less unaware of Iran and Iraq's occupation of Kurdistan, and was only peripherally aware of Iran's occupation of Baluchistan [1].

I've similarly met South Americans, and even one Indian (!), who made serious comparisons between US poverty and true poverty. You can only make a comparison like that if you forget what true poverty really is.

[1] This was only by chance - her uncle got sent there as part of his term of forced labor in the army.
I try out a few new podcasts every quarter. The three that have stuck (in order of enjoyment): TechZing, Changelog, Founders Talk

http://techzinglive.com/
http://thechangelog.com/
http://5by5.tv/founderstalk
It's a pivotal thread, it's not a rant. It's likely that Mozilla may provide access to an embedding of SQLite, if enough developers pay attention to these discussions now. If you have already used IndexedDB to store more than 500,000 objects on an iPad and you were satisfied with it, and it didn't crash, then I would rest my case.
Find meetups or user groups near you, whereabouts in CO? Local IxDA chapter might be good.

I ended up at my current job by being found on Sortfolio, might be worth a look there as well.
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LUSH is still fairly active. It moves a little slowly, but this is good since it's stable and a lot more mature than Clojure. The authors are still using it for real projects, so it's likely to stay around.
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Those are all great suggestions. I do agree there is a lot of movement there. I need to simplify it a bit and bring the focus back on the call to action.