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not directly lisp related, but the team working on Fortress has some interesting work on using "conc lists" (pairs, and trees as a combination of pairs) as a basic unit of work for parallel processing[1], the analysis quite naturally considers its relation with lisp ad cons lists in other languages.

[1] http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/Publications/ICFPAugust...
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> To be more specific, Skype had all the valid issues it had (such as proprietary format, advertising etc.) before it was acquired by Microsoft.

Since you responded to my comment, let me reply to this with 'Exactly. I didn't (intended to) imply anything else'. We're on the same page.

Sure, some people might look into alternatives because of other reasons (aquisition). My reply listed just issues I have with the product itself though (and for a long time already..).
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- You don't get basically just as wet anyhow on account of sweat being trapped inside the clothes. (Even "breathable" stuff traps sweat when its outside is slick with water.)
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It's pretty easy to deploy, but I haven't really benchmarked anything or hit it under stress.
He seems to have heard of Lua but that didn't stop him from raising the question.

Next article: "Should airplanes be fitted with big rotor on top to allow for vertical take off and hovering? .. like helicopters?"
The other party has to be willing to work with Google too.
Given that both tools have their ups and downs, my reasons for picking TortoiseHg for Windows development are listed on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2550091/best-support-now-...
"Branchs/trees are a superset of pairs/lists"

No, they aren't. A tree is acyclic by definition. Cons cells allow circular structures.
Who's to say it was Google who stopped? Skype actively prevents anyone else from making a client and I can easily see MS not wanting to play along with Google.
Since you are renting, it's not really "your car", it's the rental company's. And I think they have a vested interest in controlling how you use their car.
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Definitely agree with you. However, working with Google would allow for a (potentially) larger market share -- unless they seem them as a threat.
The fact that CouchDB is written in Erlang is only part of the equation.

You're not considering that CouchDB views are written in Javascript or that CouchDB uses HTTP as its connection protocol, which has more overhead than the typical binary protocol of traditional DBMSes.

Also, avg. response time in CouchDB is directly proportional to the number of view invalidations that occur. If your data is changing a lot your views will be invalidated frequently and for those requests avg response time will drop significantly. Throw in a reduce function and re-indexing can become an order of magnitude (or more) slower.
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Definitely. Who knows, that might urge Google to introduce Group Video conferencing...which I personally think would be a great idea for Google.
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Some companies are certainly less (or more) evil when common societal norms and mores are used as a yardstick. Look at Xe (Blackwater) for example:

http://www.google.com/search?q=blackwater+allegations

Microsoft (and most tech companies) are not very evil in comparison so I think it's very possible to make a quick heuristic determination about how evil two companies are.

Now, take away Xe and compare Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Apple for example. Certainly one is most evil and one is the least evil.

The problem I think you're pointing out is that they are probably very close to each other on the good-evil spectrum. Our moral irises have just opened all the way because we sit in comfortable padded chairs and wiggle our fingers over a plastic box all day to make a nice living.
How that is question to my answer?
Was it really necessary to downvote spoon16's request for a synopsis?
How do the mobile/web/desktop clients work that do support Skype?
I know for the desktop there is an API which needs to the official client running on the same computer.
Did you try altering web server heading settings? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686217/maximum-on-http-he...

Just curious, how many branches do you have in the repository?
Ok, makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
See, I can't keep up with the times.
Another vote for uwsgi+nginx. It's simple, flexible, and at least so far it has worked fine for me. I've never bothered to benchmark it against other solution though, since I've never been in a situation where I felt that it might be a bottleneck.
This presentation: http://goo.gl/hgkea [pdf], shows why skype is evil.

The protocol and client are both obfuscated at cost to performance and security. Exploits have been found repeatedly for everything from remote code execution to using skype clients like a botnet.

Non-NAT'd nodes are forced to carry traffic for NATed nodes.
Skype have the ability to intercept your calls, but you guessed that anyway.

Also, if everyone in the world used one phone company, or bank, and that company refused to allow other new companies to inter-operate, they would face antitrust. Skype, and arguably facebook, control their markets. They should be forced to allow inter-op.
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True, the Mac client is slightly better.
I agree. The HN rules say not to change the title at all; to leave it as on the article being linked to. So this articles title should be "Nanolaw with Daughter".
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To take a familiar example, the Web is not a tree. While you might argue that each page has unique children (outlinks), there is no unique parent -- a page can have an arbitrarily large number of incoming links, and the page can link back to those pages in turn, producing cyclic structures of immense complexity.

For some interesting discussion on the limits of tree structures with respect to urban planning see A City is Not a Tree by Christopher Alexander (who is also the inspiration for the Design Patterns movement in software engineering). http://www.rudi.net/node/317
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The article is very US-centric, it completely ignores the large number of hugely successful gambling startups that have come out of Europe as well as startups like Just-Eat (world's largest online takeaway aggregator, >$2m/daily turnover) and Wonga (they just closed a $117m series C round of funding).

It's as if unless you have customers in the US you don't count.
I don't see a rebuttal of the claim that they will no longer update the linux client (which beta is about 4 years old IIRC), or probably just drop it.

If one was really naive I guess one might imagine that "invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms" might cover linux rather than a limited set of possible platforms. I have no worries about the java based client on my phone for example.
A better reason to replace lists with trees might be for parallel execution. I enjoyed this talk by Guy Steele on replacing lists with trees in Fortress:
http://vimeo.com/6624203
I don't know if this is related, but the SRV record _xmpp-server._tcp.aol.com resolves to xmpp.gxmpp.oscar.aol.com.

Might it be possible that AIM will also federate with other XMPP servers?
Also, Guy Steele is one of the two inventor of Scheme. So it may not be directly lisp related, but it definitely is indirectly lisp related ;-).
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Minor point, but the 43 folders idea has been around decades longer than David Allen. That said, it wasn't until I read his book that I understood the accordion folder in my Grandpa's office:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
I think the first comment (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/16/which-startup-is-cleared... ) gets it right: Europe have produced plenty of huge startups, as you'd expect, but they've almost all sold to larger US companies rather than remain in Europe. Which is a shame.
I think the existing title is significantly better than the rather unenlightening "Nanolaw with Daughter," and I don't think it's better to discourage the "editorialization" of titles (when by editorialization you just mean changing them.) Many titles as linked to are poorly chosen for a linkblog format and would be better off changed for the front page. Few enough people change them as is.
There's an argument here struggling to get out. As an emacs user, I agree with some of the ideas he is attempting to express, but then it just sort of gets buried in "I don't like emacs or vim." and "too much customization bothers me."

Maybe a better discussion than: "why are all these developers still using vim and emacs" is: "why haven't we come up with development tools in the past 30 years that are compelling enough to draw people away from vim and emacs?"
How about "Short story about privacy has daughter sued in the womb (ftrain.com)." I've been reading HN for around 6 months and lots of people have been suggesting that content quality is falling recently and there've been a lot of meta discussions about it. I think that the comments haven't degraded as much as people are claiming. The posted articles and the post titles have however been taking a turn for the worse. I agree with the parent: we don't need tags to indicate the category of the post. That's just lazy. What we need is just more honesty and less sensationalism in the wording of the titles. Maybe pg could add a system wherein anyone can edit a title and others vote on it? or perhaps foster a community where misleading titles are down voted?
And that is what EWD was warning us of - decades ago: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....
Not sure about other areas, but judging from these papers, impact of Mapreduce in biomedical field is negligible (2-3 citations for a paper is nothing). No idea why that is -- there's a clear need for parallel computation -- perhaps more traditional techniques as OpenMP see more use.
And this is useful: you can represent the transitions of a state machine in this way, for instance.
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Has anyone gotten this to work? I managed to send a message from GTalk to AIM, but it (and the one after) never got there.
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I have no interest at all in reporting any bugs in Google products ever. Sorry.

Edit: Explanation, as that seemed a little snarky. Google don't seem to pay any attention to requests unless you make them through "special channels". I'm sure if I made enough stink, wrote it up, submitted to HN &c then it would get noticed and fixed, but that's not fair to the thousands of users submitting bug reports through the official channels and being completely ignored. Until Google actually start listening to their customers, I have no intention of talking to them.
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That's exactly how all news stories are written. Unless you were making a joke.
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I participated in the launch event and earned the maximum number of potatoes, for which I received Portal 2, giftable copies of all the other games they've made (too numerous to list from memory), and a little flag for my robot in Portal 2 co-op.
Nope (although I have that one too!), see my reply above.
When I look back when I started amateur programming, I am truly grateful of the community of awesome folks, which always responded in humble and encouraging manner. It was my first interaction to the brotherhood of programmers.. and it felt great to be a part of something, which is so big, unselfish and humbling.

Sometimes it is easy to forget what it is to be a newbie. It is tough! and such nonconstructive replies are truly disheartening.

He could have said a helpful response (NOT the answer) in 10% of the time he spent in constructing the "joke" solution.
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Trying to make it as efficient as possible is different from the purpose of the language being efficiency.
It's easy to implement both lists and name-value associations in terms of pairs, so I'm not sure why they need to be built in.

In Fexl (http://fexl.com/code), the only built in concept is the function, and all data is structured out of functions. I won't go into all the details here, but concepts like pair, list, key-value assoc, branch, and everything else are readily expressed as pure functions. So-called "circular" structures are created with the Y combinator, so they really are not circular in memory, only in concept.
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google would start removing sites from the results -- like it already does: http://www.tsurupeta.info/content/google-removes-lolicon-sit...
Ask HN: Chrome OS vs Splashtop OS?
Curious as to what the pros and cons for this would be. Splashtop OS has matured a huge amount and supports everything that chrome OS can do and more. The main difference I see is that the platform to develop on top of doesn't exist in the same way chrome OS has given developers the Chrome web store to work with. What's your take on these two?
I'm in Florida, but across the state in overcast conditions so I'm having to stick to NASA TV. Ustream is carrying it in HD this morning:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
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Already posted here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2552082
that's exactly my point. you dont know what these things are because you use an ipad. there is a whole other world out there. if you don't know what widgets or usb hardware support is, google it.
> Bitcoin "can be really dangerous to social news ecosystem"
So you agree with the article, but you don't want people to talk too much about it on HN?

No, he doesn't (necessarily) agree with the article - what he's saying here is that bitcoin early-adopters have an incentive to spread the gospel of bitcoin by whatever means possible, which means that social news could get subjected to a tide of bitcoin-related spam. Different form of danger altogether.
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I'd rather get wet than look stupid wearing that.
This post is based on ES3. Both U+2028 and U+2029 are valid in ES5 string literals as part of a LineContinuation. See http://es5.github.com/#x7.3 (ES5) instead of http://bclary.com/2004/11/07/#a-7.3 (ES3).

So really, the title should be: “JSON: The ES3 subset that isn’t.”

Issue reported: https://github.com/judofyr/timeless/issues/57
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... and in the darkness bind them. ;-p
Believe it or not, West Africa exists.

Perhaps a better indicator would be regional, ie. Casablanca/Dakar (+0h).

edit: reply below (correctly) points out that Casablanca is on WET. go figure.
Hey, thanks for the tl;dr. That was useful.

> Plus sensationalistic title and pedantic introduction.

This, not so useful (and unkind)...

Had the author written merely the tl;dr line above do you think his important observation would have gotten the attention it deserves?

The author outlined his thought process to show that his observation was actually based on non-trivial research.

While I like tl;dr's, I appreciate intros that put things in context, and I'm more likely to trust observations whose underpinnings are spelled out.
It's true, Newfoundland is a good corner case for this app. 1) It has its own timezone which involves a half hour offset, (called NT) which is UTC−3:30 and 2) its capital is St. John's. This city name is common in the maritime provinces and the rest of Canada: there's also one in Winnipeg, PEI, Quebec, and New Brunswick.
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> Also, you're not going to sit down with your baby and read them a bedtime story from your laptop.

No, but from your iPad.
Agreed. I've been using emacs a lot lately and the thing I like most about it is that I feel like I'm a hacker in the 80s.

I think the flight to old text editors is caused because of the problems with modern ones. At some point you just think "SURELY this problem has been solved before". But it seems like it hasn't.
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Yeah, I've never been able to stand eclipse. I get a big monitor and a fast computer, and eclipse ends up showing me code in a 20 row by 40 column window and jeez, I could see more code and faster using emacs in the first crts.

But the article, titled "On The Flight to Old Text Editors" told me little about why people are moving back to vim or emacs. What is the value that longtime eclipse or textmate users are seeing in emacs or vim? Speed? Keyboards? What problems of modern text editors does emacs and vim solve?

Mostly what I get from the article is that the flight to old school editors is a hipster thing. Oh yeah, gotta use the old school editors because we're hipsters. Eclipse is a sellout man. Textmate is for Lady Gaga. I edit it old school vim and emacs.
Will Thimbleby (http://will.thimbleby.net/misc-an-experimental-language/) also explored similar ideas.
For what it's worth, I consider everything exported and documented in the QL-DIST package to be fair game for direct use. No need to do print-object scraping on the results of ql:system-list, you could use e.g. (mapcar #'ql-dist:name (ql-dist:provided-systems "quicklisp")) instead.
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Well, if there was a free alternative that would provide all that, at least we would be bound to RMS. (Royal Majesty Sauron?)

I would much prefer that to the secretive doings of Microskype, but you have to sell your alternatives and not underestimate network effects, especially in the network market.
Now, imagine what a job interview with this guy would be like.
I think it's a bit of an indictment of the industry, actually. We're not that good at making tools to think with for people less skilled than ourselves, and that's the most important thing we can be doing.

Here's an example. I'm not the most technical guy round here – I mean, I write code but it's not magic – but even taking all weekend, I couldn't get either emacs or vim to do reasonable Python code completion. This shouldn't be hard.
The only reliable indicator of offset is political geographical features. This would also keep you from making the exact error that the parent pointed out, as Casablanca is observing summertime and is thus currently in GMT+1.

As far as I can tell, the only territory currently at GMT+0 is Cape Verde, which I would think it's fair to classify as "almost no-one".
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Which is funny, because I remember a few years ago (circa 2007) when Rails was just starting to get big and Textmate was the hipster editor.

All of which is idiotic, because anyone who chooses an editor based on image is most likely a terrible developer. That said, I think Textmate is a very good editor and one of the few capable contenders in the editor "wars". The biggest downside is that it is Mac-only.
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i wonder if this will work with mobile numbers also. on AIM you can msg +1AreacodeNumber so i wonder if +1AreacodeNumber@aol.com would work also!
Slightly off topic, but jEdit is an excellent editor on OSX. I'd highly recommend it.

I wrote a little guide about my jEdit setup a while back: http://dhotson.tumblr.com/post/443485667/making-jedit-awesom...
check out: http://abhishek-tiwari.com/2010/08/mapreduce-and-hadoop-algo... - for more papers about mapreduce in biomedical field.
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Almost every fast food place in the town I live in is also on Just-Eat. It seems to have become massive over the past ~6 months or so.
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I recently bought Xoom and I can tell you, that UI is much better and convenient than iOS. Widgets, convenient app switching, awesome browser controls (you slide your finger from the side of the screen and the menu appears), awesome tab switching in browser, voice input, sync with google account, great Gmail app and, last, but not least, I don't have to worry Kindle may be removed from my device.
Which, as an emacs user, I completely agree with. Certain things in emacs are much more difficult to get working than they should be. Emacs sucks, but other editors just suck more (I'm not talking about you vim). To be fair, though, emacs was designed in a completely different development world, and yet it can still compete against modern development tools. That is more of an indictment of modern tools than it is of emacs.
I use Emacs for almost everything. I used to use IDEs but became tired of waiting for all of the extra features to load. When I first began using Emacs I struggled for probably 6 months. Now I really can't do without it. I don't use it for email. I don't use it for the web. But I do use it for Twitter, I've written papers in it using org-mode and LateX and I'm currently writing my third book on it.
Once your fingers get used to all of the bizarre key-presses the editor just seems to fade into the background and you can just get on with your work.
I visited the link http://www.jqueryeditor.com and read the page and have no idea what it is about.

Use case? Example? Then someone might take a look - me I've spent more than enough time on it already.
The writer speaks of the Valley as a religion, for which he is a missionary. The story is a tale of those saved and those lost; as if Boakye is a miserable, lawless wretch who could be saved if only he would join the cult. Save the children! Their genius would surely be rewarded if only they came to the Valley! Then they could quit their life of illegal, mental prostitution and create scientifically addictive web games for us to distract the masses, sell their personal details and make our fortunes! Look how much better we are!

Please. The only thing chilling is that I can't read about a smart kid in Lagos without feeling like I'm being sold a religion. Seems to me that Boakye is doing what all smart people do and finding his own path in life. If he has done anything actually harmful, the writer has only alluded to it.
Is that sort of like the: "If you invented Facebook you would have invented Facebook?" argument?
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