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Show HN: Learn Clojure from your Browser
Noir/Cloud9 port of Clojure koans by Aaron Bedra of Relevance https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans
"pretty prison" is a nonsense term. For millions and millions of people, OS X and iOS and the relevant hardware are not prisons--they give them the freedom of the Internet, of usable software and of easy to use hardware to do what they want to do. Without commercial computing vendors, many people wouldn't be able to use a computer and would be a lot less free.

Freedom for 0.1% does not trump freedom for the masses and RMS is just engaging in shameless self-promotion.
Interestingly, they don't mention their latest incarnation of "DLL hell," the multiple versions of the same libraries which are used by different pieces of their own system.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-i...

If they use a DLL version x for a component A and a version y for a component B, they raised memory usage only for convenience of not updating one of the components to use the latest version of the DLL.
Twitter Search API Update, support for entities and users ID
The E-mail That Initiated Spotify's Integration Into Facebook
Epic Resume: this guy really wants to work at Etsy
"We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective."

Or perhaps the hope should be to make more "effective" free software instead of having ill wishes towards your competitors. I mean, Stallman can really preach about free software all he wants, but most people in the consumer world probably wont turn down a superior closed source product based on that merit alone. The biggest factor in deciding winners or losers here is the quality of the products being created by the two methodologies, and I am yet to be convinced that the free software approach consistently creates the better product.
Stallman has never left any room for doubt that his motives are genuine. It's not about followers. There's no shortage of people telling him how to moderate his message to attract more, yet he won't do it. I think this is another thing people are going to grudgingly acknowledge he was right about, after a decade or two—but that might have happened more quickly if not for the harsh delivery.
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Maybe. But they'll have to deal with the fact that a space elevator would effectively "ground" the ionosphere first.
I generally agree with his argument, but I don't appreciate the way some of the examples were framed. They were a bit misleading.

Specifically the paragraph where he inserts smaller fonts into the middle of his paragraph, hoping to shock you with the difference in size.

Here is a screenshot of that paragraph with the body text actually set to 16px: http://i.imgur.com/mcdNI.png

10px is still tiny, but 14px doesn't appear nearly so 'weaksauce' any more.

As I said, I DO like larger font sizes and think he has a good point. But misleading comparisons like this bug me and I felt I had to set it straight.
I do not think it is likely that the software that makes today's software obsolete will be able to do everything that today's software can do and more.

Adding more is only one way to innovate. You can also innovate by changing things or by taking things away, thus bringing what remains into sharper focus.

A car does not do everything a horse can do and more, but cars still made horses obsolete for transportation. Cars can't jump over obstacles or reproduce, but apparently these features weren't really that important.

An iPad can't even compile Hello World in C, but apparently that isn't that important to a lot of people.

Nick Cernis innovated in the "to-do" space not by doing everything other to-do systems could do but by replacing software with a pencil-and-paper system that serves some people better (see: http://todoodlist.com/).

A spreadsheet is a means to an ends. If you have a great idea for a spreadsheet, what you really have is a great idea for something people need a better way to do that you think could be implemented in a spreadsheet. Instead of reinventing Excel, you might come up with an alternate way to get to the same end.

The point is that innovation comes in many forms.
It's too bad that the Kindle is getting so much attention (even if some is negative, like this piece), when there are many other better options. I had a Kindle 3 until I bought a Nook Simple Touch, and the NST blows the K3 out of the water in every respect: build quality, software interface, reading experience and options. The only downside might be the in-store selection, but for geeks like us (and increasingly regular folks, thanks to Calibre) it's a simple matter to break Amazon's DRM and convert to Epub.

B&N has got to step up their game, because if sub-par products like the $79 Kindle keep stealing the limelight, they're never going to get anywhere.
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I am going to take an unpopular stance here... I think.

When patents are enforced by big legal entities, we all scream foul, "Patents are meant to protect the little guy, not make lawyers rich!"

Now we have a musician (a "little guy") suing a much loved successful startup... and we are still screaming, but instead of "Stop the lawyers!" we are yelling "Stop the hipster artists!" (at least lhnn was).

If this musician was suing Real Player or Rhapsody or some entity we didn't all love, I wonder how different the response (here in the comments) would have been?

if(!entity.isUnderdog())
complain();
else
support();

I may be missing a case in there... :)
The cloud is always on and online? I don't mean to be argumentative, but your cloud apparently couldn't handle the load. Downloading an email client shouldn't require a "hit by a bus" analysis of the app's creators.

An app can store metadata locally; no need to have that on your servers. No doubt you can do some interesting things by having a server-side infrastructure, but I'm concerned about the security implications. If your server gets hacked, an attacker would have access to all of my email. Not to mention that you would have access to all of my email and why should I trust you?
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Or you want to see something happen but you only want to donate if everyone else does. They hack the tragedy of the commons, and it's been enough for me to support a couple projects.
25, moderate myopia and astigmatism (thanks Mom and Dad, respectively), fully corrected with glasses, I zoom in constantly. Including on HN!
I didn't verify it. I can tell you anecdotally that when I was 39.9 I didn't notice any issues, the change started very soon after 40. Mainly just the typical "my arms are too short" syndrome, I can still see like an eagle further than 2 feet in front of me. However, lately I've noticed in low light I have a harder time than I used to.
I bought the $79 Kindle the first day it was available. It's my first Kindle.

I have an iPad, and I never felt like the Kindles were worth the money for the marginal additional benefit over an iPad. But for $79, who cares. I use it before bed and to carry around when I'd be worried about the iPad
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Reminds me of this visualization of a similar concept: http://joeyroth.com/poster/
What a weird list:

- Flash is slowly dying, so is Gnash really that high a priority? Also, Gnash seems to be far from being a good flash replacement; by the time it will be, flash will be irrelevant. I'd argue work spent on Gnash is mostly wasted.

- GNU Octave is far behind Python + Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib. Better abandon it and focus on the succesful platform.
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Whole thread in much more readable UI, w/o problems of terrible 90s ML web stuff.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/4376...
The way it should be!
Neat idea, but most of it doesn't work when you click run and the java interop fails with stacktrace. Also- where is the output?
Not to be a stickler, but it is "advice" not "advise".
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Is that the only thing they're looking for when they say they need a match? Just blood type? Or is that just one of the larger factors?
This is what Google did too. So, basically, Google and Amazon both linked to Apple.com from their respective homepages. I'm sure Apple's servers are beefy but they must have been getting slammed.
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why are you adding slashes to the password before converting it into md5? even if they have ' in the password the md5 would get rid of it when you use it in the query.
Also not getting mind share but should: Mozart/oz, fantom, gosu, nemerle. And what happened to the language that

stole the show at 2009 JVM Language Summit

http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3440
I have switched from the 3G+WiFi Kindle 3/Kindle Keyboard to the new $79 Kindle and am pretty happy with it. Gets rid of the stuff I didn't use (Audio playback, speakers, keyboard) to make a device even smaller. 3G is something I used so rarely I don't think I'll miss it.

I decided to order the ad-supported model because I knew I could just pay Amazon $30 to turn them off if they bothered me. But it turns out I'm fine with them. They're not egregious and I only see them for the couple seconds it takes me to wake the Kindle and select a book.

The ghosting is something I have noticed but it's something that is just as easy to ignore as the full-flash-every-turn issue on the prior models.
I used Posterous for my blogs because it has better support for multi-format (text+image) posts, but Tumblr for my webcomic both for it's click image posting and also it's community.
Westboro Baptist Church, Wikileaks Troll Steve Jobs' Death
I concur with his disappointment regarding the buttons. It's incredibly awkward to use with one hand, especially when lying down, which is a major design flaw IMO.
Personal details lead to personal relationships, which then can lead to innocents being hurt. Not cool.
98 compilation errors out of the box, this is going to be a long afternoon, but looks like it's worth it!
I think i3 does what you want.

http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor
I'm a google employee. Internally, there has been much mourning and tribute to Steve. Our internal corporate portal contains a memorial on the front page. At a company-wide meeting, Larry again reflected on Steve.

And I doubt Google is the only company doing this. Look, competitive as companies in the valley are, we are all still human beings, with a sense of respect for others in our industry, and when one so who has burned so brightly, dies so young, we take notice. The amount of cynicism displayed here is just sad.
There are also really odd things like streets that seemingly dead-end, but which actually continue in the same direction but offset by one or more blocks; in other words, a street that takes a dog-leg via a crossing street. The problem is that there are almost never signs to tell you which way to turn to stay with the street you're on, or even that the street does, in fact, continue.

Even with a GPS, DC can be hard to navigate because there are so many discrepancies between most map databases and the actual streets. For example, I have a relatively recent Garmin, and every time I'm in DC it tries at least once to turn me the wrong way down a one-way street, or tries to send me down a street that isn't there. The one-way streets aren't alternated logically like the ones in NW Portland, either; there may be some rhyme or reason to the one-ways, but I have yet to decipher it. Another experience I often have in DC: a street I'm on suddenly becomes one-way in the opposite direction.
I think this just proves how far gone Richard Stallman is. I always knew he didn't have his feet in the ground; but these comments just show how far from reality he actually is.
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My favorite block in NYC is a triangle, bounded on two sides by one street (Waverly Pl) and one side by two streets (Grove st and Stonewall Pl):
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=West+4th+Street,+New+York,+NY&...
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What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
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I'm from Chicago where the streets are gridded n/s/e/w and the addresses are numbered according to distance.

"Block numbers are consistent across the whole city. Standard blocks, of 100 addresses each, are roughly 1/8th of a mile long. (Hence, a mile is equivalent to a street number difference of 800.) Each street is assigned a number based on its distance from the zero point of the address system, the intersection of State Street and Madison Street. A street with a W (west) or E (east) number runs north-south, while a street with a N (north) or S (south) number runs east-west. A street's number is usually written on street signs at intersections, below the street name. Major thoroughfares are at each mile (multiples of 800) and secondary arteries at the half-mile marks. Thus, Western Ave at 2400 W is a north-south major thoroughfare, while Montrose Ave at 4400 N is an east-west secondary artery.

In general, "avenues" run north-south and "streets" run east-west."
- http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago

General
- http://www.chicagohomeestates.com/info/chicago_street_guide
Assange's type of humour makes me almost suspect that he is a resident scholar at the B section of channel four.
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I am not as old as 40, still. My wikipedia, forbes are all zoomed up. I settled on 16/Serif at-least for personal sites and blog.
The ones with back-light are really helpful if you want to read in low-light. Generally those are the ones that cost more. If you do such things than they become quite useful. I own one and I use it all the time. It's way better than turning on the light in the bedroom and bother my girlfriend. Now she doesn't realize that I don't fall asleep until 3-4 AM. :)
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Steve Jobs: Love What You Do
Xerox might have something to say about that. Considering they were widely regarded as having the first Graphical UI. And some of the first Mac team came from Xerox. Who knows what would have happened if Xerox moved forward with it.
Read to the end. This is a very positive review of the new Kindle.
Because people have feelings.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Words to live by. Here’s to a life well lived, Steve Jobs.
An opinion piece with no meaningful analysis, all based on a rumor. Flagged.
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There's a compiler that compiles c/c++ to xml. It's name esacpes me now, but a little bit of google-fu should do,

XML to lisp should be relatively straightforward.
I have found various front page traffic posts interesting such as top of hacker news, techcrunch, slashdot, etc...

It would be interesting to compare google vs. amazon and as you mention the total volume.
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgU9cjUtrD4
Windows 8 running on 128mb RAM.
When a "dude in china slaps another name on it and sells it" you'll still not be able to do anything about it regardless of the license you choose.

Just say its "public domain" or MIT or Apache in a file called license.txt in the project and forget about it.
> which AFAICS is almost universally ignored.

Safari on iPhone uses that definition (that's the whole "resolution doubling" thing, in a nutshell).

Gecko uses that definition, including on mobile devices.

In fact, that definition is almost universally _used_ in cases where it matters (i.e. high-dpi displays).

> Given that CSS also recognises length units such as pt

Which are nowadays defined in terms of CSS px, because otherwise sites break. So 1pt == 1.3333px in CSS in most modern browsers.
although i love VBox, i confess i've had serious issues with it on OSX running the Win8 Dev Preview.

(the amount of times i've now seen the apple lightbox of death is pretty ridic)
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To quote "The Awful Truth about sed" section of the Grymoire, "It is not your fault you don't understand sed."

I do, however, understand Perl, so that's what I use. E.g.:
`echo 'fubar' | perl -lpe 's/fu/foo/'`

It might be a few milliseconds slower-- for example, commenting every line of my 352-line .zshrc (via s/^/#/) takes 0.007s total with Perl (so does `s/^/#/ unless /^\s*#/`) and 0.005s with sed. Commenting out every line of /usr/share/dict/american-english (98569 lines) takes 1.124s with Perl and 0.813s with sed.

Since I already know how to do more complicated things with Perl (like conditionals, named backreferences, etc.) it doesn't seem worth it to take the time to learn how to use sed effectively. I can wait the extra second since I'm not on any kind of deadline or under any efficiency constraints.

I am not trying to say that Perl is better than sed or any other text processing tool. I also don't mean to imply that speed is sed's only advantage-- it's just one example. I think that for someone who already knows some Perl, learning another similar tool doesn't make sense. I'm sure there are exceptions. This is only my humble, personal opinion.

For people who do need/want to learn sed, the article did a pretty good job of showing you how to get a lot done without a whole lot of reading.
True, you can download a deb or rpm from somewhere and it might install into /opt. However, /bin, /etc, /lib, /sbin, /usr, /var are all places where "package-manager installed files" go.
Now that was a helpful answer. But what do you make of the 14 up-votes though?
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The Ultimate Micromanager (not a Steve Jobs story)
What everyone is too polite to say about Steve Jobs
Luck is an attribute that comes into picture in various forms. See the meaning of karma.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm
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Maybe:
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I'd lean toward 32-bit Ubuntu if you want to avoid issues, but 64-bit if you are thinking long-term maintenance. Even though 64-bit should work, in my experience dealing with 64-bit for simple stuff ends up being more of a pain than it is worth. Of course, I'll probably get downmodded for saying this.

See also:
http://aws.amazon.com/amis
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Offer HN: I'll translate your mobile or web app to Spanish
Hey guys,

Long time HN user here. Using a throwaway for several reasons. Please forgive me is this is not appropriate.

I've been a professional copywriter (in spanish) for 10 years that 6 years ago became a tech entrepreneur. Today I focus mostly on developing mobile apps.

I'm currently in Spain and is painful to see the sales text of some of the apps. I'm not sure who is responsible for those texts but let me tell you, it's hurting your sales and ratings.

Most users (in Spain and in many Latin-american countries) tend to give negative reviews if an app is not translated or if the translation is poorly done.

Currently I'm going trough a rough patch with my current venture and as a way to get some funding I'm offering to create your sales text (in case of mobile apps) and translate your web app or mobile app (dictionary files) for a very, very low price.

And to get things going, I will create and translate two apps for free in exchange for some testimonials for the non-believers out there ;)

If you are interested please send me an email to startupcopywriter@gmail.com

Thanks!
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These "precautionary" measures and profiling databases are being developed in most parts of the world. Governments are becoming more and more intrusive in personal lives in the name of security. I really wish someone would buy some land or islands and create a modern country based on libertarian principles, it will be an interesting experiment/startup, although I am not sure if you can start a country just by buying land.
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I think a big missing factor is the field of endeavor, let's call it B for background, which is the amount of money/interest/activity floating around in the area you're doing things in. The more there is, the more likely you'll profit from doing even fairly random, even mediocre, things in the area. Plenty of people have gotten rich from mediocre-to-bad tech stuff (and plenty more earn an OK living doing an outright terrible job of coding); your chances of getting rich from not-great tech stuff are probably actually higher than your chances of getting rich from even really good music, say.

Or as they say in business school, picking your market is more important than what you do in the market. I don't particularly like that way of looking at it (I prefer people who picked an area because they're passionate about it, not because they saw the most money in it), but I think the 'B' factor can't really be overlooked; your odds are much better if the pie is big and money is falling from skies, than if you're fighting to get pieces of a small pie.

In fact, from a pure monetary-success angle, it may be better to pick a big-pie field that you're mediocre at, than a small-pie field where you'd be in the 90th percentile, depending on how much bigger the pie is. Do stuff in the vicinity of money, and you have a decent chance of some of it rubbing off on you...
Against Nostalgia - Mike Daisey on Steve Jobs
karma http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm
Or this http://lkml.org.nyud.net/lkml/2011/10/6/317
Well we're not in court. I simply meant to say that it takes longer to write a compiler for a larger language, and that today the D compiler is of good quality.
Pure speculation but it kind of sounds like they want to be able to mine some of that data.
This discussion was regarding whether or not the iPod counted as a dominant product line under Jobs. What particular year an iRiver anecdotally sucked, or whether the initial batch of iPods were as good as those brick sized Nomads is completely irrelevant to the fact that the iPod product line decimated every competitor in the market over its lifespan.
I agree. But the fact is Mr. Stallman is more prone to choose to make really bad remarks. Silence is something he needs to practice more.

I used to admire him a lot, but he is really not here anymore, he lives in a place far far away from reality.
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I think you may have misunderstood the average complaint.

The complaint isn't about little guy vs big companies, it's about bullshit patents. A big company using a bullshit patent to squeeze out a little guy is just the most egregious example of bullshit.

In this case, it's less so that it's a "hipster artist", but it's more that he's a "douchebag artist" with a bullshit patent. Bullshit patents cost all of us money by distracting people from doing awesome stuff.