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I figured this was posted as a related article to the Dash "Hello World" issue where people are pointing at 17,000 lines of Hello World code, because it includes the runtime when compiled to Javascript.

There was another comment about how this will be the next "Fibonacci debacle", related to how Ted Dzubia trolled the node.js crowd by pointing out it's weakness for CPU-intensive tasks, then had a ton of people wasting time on writing faster Fibonacci algorithms in node just to prove him wrong.

My point was that comparing languages by the size of their Hello World programs is a useless exercise.
Thanks for the feedback. We did this in 8-10 hours - we left a lot out :)

The difference I guess is that we tried to create a blogging service that isn't a blog you need to maintain to feel good about.
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There are probably some people who buy Android tablets and just don't use them much but don't end up returning them (e.g. they don't want to admit to themselves that they wasted their money, or they just buy a lot of gadgets and don't use them).
The company has already been split internally for a long time. It's called different business units, and lots of companies do it.
I hope they are able to get past the lovefest of the recent media coverage, and dig into some of the more interesting issues. Did he really think that taking LSD was one of the most important events in his life? What did he do with all his money? Will there be anything equivalent to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation? How did he reconcile the idea of creativity and "think different" and the iconic 1984 commerical for the mac with his insistence on locking down the platform, reducing options, and telling the consumer what was good for them?
As an Android dev, I have to say this is very true. Emulators either don't simulate or don't simulate well enough a lot of stuff that you really want to test, like picking up audio from a microphone, or getting your location from GPS. There are also a lot of device specific quirks that make code run differently on different devices, meaning if you really want to make sure your code runs everywhere you can't just get one phone, you need to get a few.
The startup community has a responsibility as the go-between for the corporate world and average man. We have the luxury of identifying with both groups in certain ways, and thus we can play a pivotal role as intermediaries. What are your thoughts?
Sorry, bad choice of words. I was just shooting from the hip here in response to the parent that suggests you can't both keep something in RAM for the majority of cases and still make it robust.

The fact that embedding state in the URL is tedious is neither here nor there, but in any case it's a pretty garbage excuse. You know what's more tedious than writing code to pass a few integers around in links? Thousands of people losing carefully written paragraphs of enlightened prose on a regular basis. In fact the more carefully considered, the more likely the text is to be lost. If it took 24 hours or even 12 hours for links to expire then maybe you could justify the approach, but it seems to be well under an hour on average before a given closure is purged. This site seems hardly so complex as to be gaining much from a pure continuation approach, and if you can't ease this problem in a lisp then are all of us building services for non-hackers doomed to life of bitter tedium?
I'm also pretty sure that the downloadable news.arc is not the exact code running on this site.
This is the real point the author is trying to make. Any information you would put in a status report should already be in another system already. You have your task and project management system, your bug tracker, your version-control system, and your code-review system. All of these should list essentially all the things you've done and it would be easy to look back over a historic list for your user.

Status reports are generally duplication, and if they aren't, then the tasks are not being tracked properly.
I think the site is about browsers running on Microsoft's OS. Microsoft doesn't need to worry or evaluate browsers on other operating systems. They only want people who are already running windows to evaluate if they are running a safe browser thats it.
People don't want a tablet, they want an iPad. It's that simple.

Does anybody seriously believe that the average consumer walks into Best Buy (or any other store) and say "Hello, I'm shopping for a tablet, what selection do you offer?".
And then proceed to compare side by side an iPad and a Xoom (or any non-iPad) to, ultimately, decide on the iPad?
As of today, this is the fantasy world those non-iPad tablet makers are living in, thinking they can compete on specs (but apparently not on looks or price).

OTOH, this will change with the Kindle Fire that will swoop the entry level tier.
> This is called "a runtime".
> I am not a web programmer

You see, it's not a spherical runtime in vacuum. In practical terms it's more like a whole lot of stuff to download, parse and execute each time your browser hits a new page.
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I still wonder if the Texas Killing Fields does not have some special tricks up his sleeves bloody.
They kinda were. I don't know all the in's and outs, but as it was explained to me, GPL v3 is not very attractive for them since they're shipping devices that are closed ecosystems. The specific issue has to do with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
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You always chain together `alloc` / `init` calls, and so you're hardwired never to have a situation where you don't initialize something you've allocated. I think the compiler even knows to warn you about it, now.
There are also drug addicts who would like to stop, if more money (that's currently spent on prevention) was being spent on treatment.

Read up on Portugal, they legalised all drugs, just over ten years ago, and the reports released a few months ago (after ten years of it) showed that there are less people using the drugs that previously were illegal (from weed up to heroine), and a higher percentage of those using drugs are in treatment to stop.
1. http://arclanguage.org/install
2. Extract arc3.tar
3. See news.arc

However, AFAIK pg forked from the latest public news.arc, so the current Hacker News platform is not open source.
Your argument implies that when you pay ~$50 for an internet connection, you also get access to all the streaming content ("aka cable TV") from the Cable company.

This is not the case. Getting access to the content will cost you an additional 70-100 per month, depending on the content package. That's significantly more than Netflix wants to charge, and the delta is a huge part of Netflix's appeal.

Your "toll booth on a road they don't own" comment sounds alot like Ed Whitacre's "my pipes" argument, and could be applied equally accurately to any non-free service that operates on the internet ("road they don't own.")
This doesn't prevent, but in fact encourages, the black market. Either pay the gov $1000 or the guy in the van $5 (whatever market price is). You already see this with cigarettes in the US, where the price difference between taxed and illegally sold (untaxed) cigarettes are much, much smaller.

Additionally, you'd likely create a black market for whatever piece of paper says the LSD is legal.
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What is it about Arc or the architecture of HN that makes callbacks so easy and stateless URLs so hard? I've written a forum in under 3 hours the "traditional" way in PHP. I find the stateless concept a lot simpler in general. None of these links should require any server state at all.
It is only painful because the inventing entrepreneur thinks the invention is the be all, end all. The best technology accepts that it will have flaws and take time to penetrate the market.
The only convincing reason I know of is that while from the middle ages onwards, Christians (and Muslims) were banned in the bible from issuing loans with payable interest, the book of Deuteronomy had a get-out clause for Jews: they were only barred from issuing such loans to their 'brothers. ie. eachother

This would have three logical consequences: Jewish people becoming masters of finance; Jewish people helping their own community over others; and Jewish people obtaining all the disrepute that comes with being a loan shark. You can see how all 3 things would breed resentment/jealousy from other ethnic groups.

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice cuts to the heart of the matter. Shylock offers the financing needed by the protagonists - but such financing by necessity comes with brutal collateral ('a pound of flesh'). People see the heartless lender exacting payment, but not the underlying laws of economics.
Won't we just end up with "I do not want X [*]" vs "I do want X [ ]"?

Having seen how the UK implemented data protection stuff I'm not keen on seeing the mess they'll make of this.

Current best practice is un-checked boxes asking if the user wants more information. Current common practice is to check all those boxes and let the user notice any that need un-checking. A bit frustrating.

Also, the distance selling regulations are already pretty fierce in the UK. I'm glad I don't sell a physical product. I'd be really interested to hear from anyone who does about any problems they've had.
I've always been interested in psychology, but I've been reading a little more recently. I think it's possible to use the concepts of 'control' and 'evolution' in relation to sociopaths; let me try to illustrate:

It's so-called human nature for individuals and groups to compete over resources - water, food, shelter, even sex, and latterly, money and power. I've been wondering whether this urge to control is in fact what is behind the behaviour of sociopaths. If we always had to have remorse whenever we obtained a resource, then would we survive as a species?

Of course sociopathy is a scale, not a division between 'good' and 'bad' people, but it's pretty clear from what's been going on at Wall Street (workplace of perhaps the most sociopathic group of people around) that there is a struggle going on - right now - between those in control and those who have lost power.

It's interesting that as history has progressed, communication tools have continued to bring people together -- but also extend the reach of influence and control. Wars have become larger and larger as communication has sped up and reached across broader distances. What we have now seems to me, perhaps extravagantly, to be a large scale confrontation between those in power and those outside.

We'll be witness to information wars - PR publications and spin, disinformation tactics, appeals to the heart - and perhaps some extreme exertion of control (note that the Occupy Boston protests have recently been suppressed by the police there -- and the Federal interpretation of the Patriot act is not standing up to scrutiny by legal questioners)

This might be a form of evolutionary conflict at a grand scale and fueled by social media (the thing that is really about to bring about a social singularity, well before any technological singularity) -- and because of this, we maybe have to question the people who are in control of the social media we use.

How does this relate to the original post? Note that the author is essentially arguing that psychopaths are part of humanity too and to be kept. I am not arguing that they should be controlled or destroyed; I think treatment is possible -- as does C.
It’s fascinating to juxtapose America’s reverence for Steve Jobs’ accomplishments and its draconian drug policy

The author confuses American government policy with American citizens.
Really like the insight you made about conversation starting. The problem is that most people won't believe they can actually attract the audience needed to create a fertile conversation on their blog.
What'd you go with, and how much of a pain was it to get working in Arc?

I ask because I'd love to be able to make a claim like "even Hacker News, which is written in a Lisp, managed to implement a modern password hash".
It helps to be precise in this kind of discussion. Which drugs? I would bet that cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and LSD all have very different life destruction rates, so lumping them all together under the over-broad umbrella of "drugs" isn't helpful.
Your scores aren't necessarily representative for the browsers you mentioned, as the outcome of some of those tests depend on your browser/system settings.
It is a very cheap way (quality score is high for your own business name) to advertise the fact that "this is a business that is reputable/savy/spending enough to invest in ads and appear on Google." I really don't know how much that is worth, but it must count for something. Especially if you use Adwords for branding campaigns.
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His genius move was turning Apple’s engineering talent to making sub-$1000 products that were not personal computers and therefore had profit margins comparable to the Mac’s.

PC manufacturers went with the strategy of “we used to be able to sell a machine with these features for $1000, and now that components are cheaper, we can sell it for $800”... and then they got into a price war that destroyed one another’s margins.
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The reverse is true, as well. My favorite 'after work' pullover in cool weather is a Baja hoodie.

Found out a few days ago this is garb that is associated with stoners at the high school: it's nickname is 'drug rug'.

I now understand the stink eye the school cop used to give me. And why a guy at a truck stop assumed that I - a middle-aged white guy with three kids in tow - might have something illegal he needed to see him through his overnight run.
Slightly irrelevant to the overall topic, but what is the reason for not spelling out God's name? iirc someone once told me that it was wrong to ever erase or otherwise "dispose" of God's written name, so it'd be wrong to, for example, write "God" on a whiteboard and then have to erase it later. Is this the case? (if so, it seems like writing it on HN might be okay) Or are you just not supposed to write it out at all?
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Nothing wrong, just that you're going to have difficulty finding advertisers that will agree to this type of advertising. You're not in any way solving the problem of finding relevant audiences for their ads. You're just throwing an incentive for random people to do things for prizes, and hope they will buy whatever the ad is about. But users just want the free goods.

The problem is not how to make users interested in an ad. The core problem is connecting an ad to a relevant audience. You can't fake interest in an ad that's not relevant to what you want at the point. People have tried that with FB ads, but the CTR are horrible, and people get pissed when they see the ad had nothing to do with the actual product.
It could be as simple as 95% of people expected some sort of reward for blogging. This could be ads from traffic, comments saying how smart you are or just tons of hits to stroke your ego.

I have a half dozen blogs for different things, my favorite is this one where I post my crazy ideas so I stop myself from actually implementing them and can come back to them later if I still like the idea a week/month later http://ideasfrommydreams.blogspot.com/

In the six years I have had it there has been a total of 3301 page views and maybe five comments and I am ok with that because that isn't where it provides me with value. If comments or page views mattered I would have abandoned this blog years ago.
Definitely read the appendix "Tools & Implementation". He expresses frustration with the current state of the art in building visualizations.

My guess is that he is using his javascript library for "reactive documents" called Tangle http://worrydream.com/Tangle for all the demos in this article.

I'll just add that I really find this whole piece astounding and many levels above the majority of things I find on the internet.
I think this is accurate. Once the KF sweeps the low end, the tablet/iPad identity will start to break. I think there was a similar dynamic in mobile phones: there were phones and Blackberries, then iPhones along and finally most people started thinking about "smartphones" as a category.
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"Stop thinking about the big picture. Start thinking about creating value NOW."

Learned this one the hard way.
Cool list! You definitely get an up-vote.
I guess this means that phase one of the reinvigorate Dallas movement is off? :(
> "Surprise! I was really SmallTalk all along!"

Self, actually. Dart is closer to Smalltalk in Java's clothing.
Site doesn't even render in IE6 on XP. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

IE7 on XP scores 1. That's something, I suppose.
I like this idea, I've had a thing or two I wanted to write on, but didn't want to setup a blog. I've actually thought of building something similar myself.

So, excited about this website, I clicked on "Write a post". Oh, you want to tie to my twitter account. Nevermind.
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I m using the galaxy tab 10.1, together with 5 friend I know, widgets are cool, ipad is too heavy, lack widgets etc, the driver and the secretary of our company bought ipad, which makes me think they are in search of prestige rather than use. I see them show off everywhere, however the tech savvy and upper management use android.
95% of just about everything people try out gets abandoned - relationships, hobbies, jobs. We all have a limited capacity for what we can spend time on in our lives. The only difference with blogs is that (at least for the free ones like blogger/tumblr/posterous), there's no incentive to take them down and they don't decay / disappear on their own.

It's like wondering why 95% of dates don't lead to marriage.
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Ha! That blog is an awesome idea. So may ideas left to die (or...live on?) - I can completely relate...believe me. If you ever wanted guest contributors to THAT, I think there are probably a few others who can relate who read HN.
I'm no where affiliated with the site, I like, like yourself, how clean their service is compared to slideshare.
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http://www.digitalweddingforum.com is my favorite forum for professional wedding & portrait photographers. I'm a member and an advertiser. It's a pretty great resource if you want no-nonsense business/technical photography info.

Membership is in the thousands and it's a paid forum, so it's profitable.

I don't know the actual numbers, but portrait and wedding photography has become very popular with women in the past few years. There are a lot of women that participate (possibly a majority).

There is also a women/mom photography forum called http://www.clickinmoms.com that is fairly popular, but I have no first-hand knowledge of it.
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My response from my galaxy tab, you are wrong, or lying.
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Because it's a new service that focus on slides designed by tech people, so it would be nice to have another tech presentation to live there.
> maybe they will figure out a way to exclude parts of it which are not needed

This is called "tree-shaking", is fairly standard, and is on the to-do list. I believe it does some now, but I think more is coming.
Here's a Google Tech Talk on "Mainstreaming Psychedelics," from the director of MAPS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAGkGpv6Ss
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Dart will not actually optimize based on type annotations; it will optimize based on watching what the actual internal types of objects are, and generating specialized code for the common cases. From an interview with Lars Bak:

http://gototoday.dk/2011/10/10/lars-bak-on-dart/
> I think his point is that it's easy to ignore serious usability problems when you're using better hardware than your customers.

Only if you don't test on real devices.
With the recommended configuration, the Honeycomb browser on my Android tablet (Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet) identifies itself as Chrome running on Windows XP. I don't know if this is the case for other Android tablets but, if so, that would certainly skew these traffic stats.
I think that's a fair critique, and I agree with your assessment over the long run. The iPad, like the iPhone, can't stay uniquely compelling forever. Sooner or later, the market moves toward saturation, and from there, commoditization. Even the most diehard fanboy, of which I fully confess to being, would be negligent in dismissing the Mac vs. Wintel Clones battles of the 80s and 90s.
From many android tablets I see around since septembers, no you are ignoring that other tablets just arrived.
I think a lot of blog abandonment is a consequence of shifting priorities.

I started my most recent blog back in 2008 to keep track of the projects I was working on and to build a body of work that I could present along with a resume.

A lot of the content I tried to capture was original work I had done; some of it was writing about something I had learned and tried to apply to a proof of concept.

I went with a monthly format and for awhile this worked out well, but as soon as summer would come around- priorities would change and content wouldn't resume until November.

I've gone through that cycle the past four years and this past year I simply haven't had the motivation to stick with it due to projects at work draining me of my enthusiasm and deciding that there are better ways to spend my time than constantly parked in front of a computer.
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Yep, you don't need to be a citizen or resident to do that. I have a Brazilian friend (Diego Gomes, founder at EverWrite) who went through the whole foreigner-incorporating-in-the-US-without-living-here thing and is posting details about it on their blog (the next post is exactly about ITIN and merchant accounts): http://myeverwrite.com/blog/.
How about 31 bytes?

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal-helloworld.html

Why use ELF or Linux? Flat binaries (and a custom OS) to the rescue! :)
Hey - I'm a director of product at Facebook.

The "main reason...the app is being launched more than 18 months after the iPad was first launched" is because we have a lot of things to do and few engineers to do them.

We've got about one engineer per million Facebook users, and as Hacker News demonstrates time and again, those users have a lot of items on their wishlist. For instance, the bugginess and instability of our iPhone app has been a top user complaint for a long time. Turns out the set of skills required to improve an iPhone app is the same as required to build an iPad app. Something's gotta give.

As for the "main reason why Facebook wanted users to use the browser instead of a native app," I've never heard that preference expressed at Facebook. Like the rest of you, we use iPads. And like the rest of you, we'd prefer a fast, sexy, native, custom-made experience to a website designed for your desktop monitor.

Occam's razor, pure and simple. For a community that prides itself on rational debate, I'm consistently surprised at the level of discourse on certain issues here.