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The reason why parens (lists) in traditional lisps are not simple is that they complect several different purposes.

You've repeated what Hickey says in the talk, but I'm not sure I buy it. [Deleted boring stuff about boring parens here.]

The trouble with the general argument is that you can add constructs that are individually simpler but nevertheless make a system more complex. It's overall complexity that we should seek to minimize.
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If nothing else, the lack of a comments count is what I use to identify the job postings.
Ask HN: what cheat sheets do you use or recommend?
There are a lot of cheat sheets out there, what are the best ones?
I would use the business name that you want—so what if your URL is "the_____.com"? See also basecamphq.com, getdropbox.com, ______app.com, &c.
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I've always thought it strange to think that ARM (or any other CPU design) company could take out Intel.

Worst case in the ARM scenario, Intel buys a company with an ARM license and is still a step ahead on process and fab technology.

To boot, increased mobile device usage (even on ARM) is probably good overall for Intel as it helps drive demand for the servers powering the services those devices consume.
My browsers Homepage:

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So... This won't answer your question directly... Just as a datapoint: I use Charter, and rarely torrent. But when I do, my connection gets "throttled" in an interesting way. It happens like clockwork:

I reach maximum download speed (1.5MB/sec in my case), and after a few minutes of sustained speed, all internet traffic suddenly halts. It's as if the modem were unplugged. Between 1-5 min later, internet suddenly starts back up. Rinse and repeat.

As far as I can tell, this has never happened with any other program. Not once! Only uTorrent seems to trigger it. Sometimes I can torrent for about an hour before experiencing the throttling; but it always eventually happens.

I'm actually glad they throttle me, since I don't feel bad about hogging bandwidth anymore! But that's just a personal quirk... =)

There is one other interesting aspect to the throttling: during the download, my upload speed is capped to 0.5kb/sec. (that is not a typo.) And when the torrent finishes downloading, the upload speed immediately drops to zero.

In other words, Charter seems to be entirely blocking all Bittorrent seeding. My little conspiracy theory is that the 0.5kb/sec are "keepalive" packets, which trick the Bittorrent protocol into allowing me to download without seeding at all. If true, then that's very crafty of Charter... And no one complains, because no one tends to notice/care about upload speed. (and if they did notice, they probably say "yay, that's cool, torrenting without saturating my upload!". But I feel greedy.

There's probably a mundane explanation; maybe our Linksys router is misconfigured somehow? But then why does my download speed work correctly at 1.5MBs, with upload speed capped to 0.5kbs? And when a download completes, why does the 0.5kbs drop to zero?

To me, it seems like there's a mystery there. But I'm likely just stupid. =)
Glenn Fleishman wrote this article, according to his tweets. (His twitter account is great fun to follow.) There are also other writers who post under the Babbage name.
Suppose you are injured or are having chest pains and need medical attention urgently.
Then what is the link between having a cell phone and surviving?
I would wager that effect is several orders of magnitude greater than any cancer effect.
Yes, indeed. It is truly the smart person's news source. There's also an audio edition, where they read the entire issue word for work, which is the best way to spend a long commute. (It takes 8 hours or so.) It is free for subscribers of either the print or online editions.
ARM chips are priced an order of magnitude lower than Intel's chips. Their process advantage would only last one generation because the fat profit margins aren't there to pay for the next one.

If ARM kills Intel, its because cheap chips are finally "good enough" for nearly all purposes.
No, it is not strong evidence. It is only evidence of a correlation which is meaningless.

You shouldn't loath those thoughtless chants, you should embrace them. The first thing someone should say when presented with "linkage" is think, that is meaningless on its own.

The real problem is that there are so many scientists (people with the ability to conduct statistical analysis) and so much data, that every possible correlation is being discovered. Even correlations that have nothing to do with anything.

The best examples come from Finance, where the data has been more attainable, and where the rewards for finding real causality have been available longer and allowed for advanced computations on super computers before we all had excel (or put more useful statistical tool here).

One of the go to papers on Motley Fool's completely loosing stock selection strategy is here:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=158409

There are lots of papers and examples in finance where people tried to find causality, but really only found correlation. Doing so is the best way to loose a ton of money.

It is also the best way to get people to do stuff you do/don't want them to do and it is the best way to stop progress.

So, don't make assumptions about causality, you should provide real evidence of causality beyond correlation if you write the word linkage.
A plugin that changed the color of the cursor if a new window would open upon hovering over such links would be great.

here's one way: http://www.binaryturf.com/firefox-visually-identify-links-op...
They're not very low powered though. 3 watts in the low GHz band is very penetrative and can heat very deep inside an object, like a human brain. The sun doesn't penetrate that way.
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The Swiss Franc is, from a historical perspective, probably the safest currency in the world.

Switzerland is an ideal banking country in geopolitical terms. It borders with three major economies, but is also an easily defendable mountain fortress. It has remained largely undisturbed because it would simply cost too much to invade.

That's why, for hundreds of years, it has been a banking mecca. Europe has been wracked by war for centuries, during which banking houses are periodically plundered by invading armies. But Switzerland with its defensive advantages and long history of neutrality rises above the noise. If you're a rich European, the safest place to park your money in the past 1000 years has been Switzerland.
Eh. I've ascended in NetHack four times. It is a good game. It might even be a great game. But to call it "the greatest game you will ever play" is hubris; the game has really serious problems once you figure out how to reliably get past the first ten dungeon levels or so. It picks back up again by the time you're going back up with the amulet, but almost all of Gehennom is just a grind. I've lost more characters to boredom than I have to deaths when in Gehennom. I think that a lot of people conflate an RNG with potentially nasty outcomes with depth or intricacy, which, coupled with the game's age, gives NetHack a bit more of a shine than it'd otherwise get.

This is, however, a really fantastically designed website.
Noooo! The DS link is busted! Seriously, stuff like this is why I got that flash cart...
Counter-examples abound. Can you name even one open source app that has displaced a mature, user-facing desktop app with a non-trivial UI, other than a web browser?

Open source only seems to win in domains in which it makes sense for companies to share work in order to compete at a higher tier of functionality.
Form my experience after 6 years of contracting (web applications, Ruby (before: Perl, PHP, Java) in Europe): no customer (small to int. enterprise customers) had something that would qualify as a spec. Nobody was interested in having specs upfront. Just start coding/talking and bill by the hour.

Of course the lack of spec ends in frustration, bugs and unachieved deadlines/features but it seems every customer wanted it that way and has budget reserves for that. This is brilliant for contractors that just do 9-5 coding and very, very bad for passionate folks that are usually lurking/participating here on HN :-(

that's why i lose faith in the IT industry: We have the tools for agile planning, prototyping, mockups to make it good.

But only a fraction of the companies is really doing it and most stick to their hold habbits and just want a contractor "to do his job"
We have Vidéotron as an alternative, and they don't throttle. They are, however, on the pricey side.
I could be wrong, but I have been under the impression Google set that as a standard of sorts years ago, starting with GMail, and continuing with their other products. Pivotal Tracker has done it for a while, too. I think there are others, but I cannot recall what they are.

I press '?' on any site that I think might/should have keyboard shortcuts!
Looks interesting, but that page renders only on the right half of my Android screen, and can't be zoomed or reflowed.
So, Snapier is like IF THIS THEN THAT but without the IF?

http://ifttt.com
Well, yes, but what is your point?

If you carry a cell phone, but use it ONLY for emergencies, then your exposure to radiation is tiny, and it would be a potentially valuable tool.

If you carry it and hold it against your head 5 hours a day, then your risk increases (or so some "studies" would claim).

You're not making any kind of a logical analogy here.
$43,000 is actually a bit higher than what Post-docs in other science fields (esp. biology) can expect to make. Unfortunately, Post-doc salary is often fixed by the institutions making the grants (typically NSF or NIH) so there is no competition in the Post-doc market. This wouldn't be so bad if Post-docs still served their original purpose of bridging a Ph.D. from mentored researcher to independent investigator. Unfortunately, with fewer and fewer tenured positions (and the increasing life-span of currently tenured faculty, especially in the US where there is no mandatory retirement like some other countries), this is no longer the case. Originally, Post-docs were expected to spend 2 years until they could establish their own lab. Today, Post-doc periods of 6 or 8 years are not unheard of.
Hasn't been updated in a while? Is it even still supported?
A paypal-style site can create a new bitcoin account on behalf of the new user.

Then the payer can transfer funds to it, using a transaction that requires signing with keys that only the payer knows and can pass to the payee directly. Bitcoin transactions can also have timeouts and have the inputs locked while the outputs are still floating.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts
I'm curious about what a world without Mr. Ritchie would look like. What were the popular alternatives to C and Unix in 1970?
Tara "Tiger" Brown's public resume shows her earliest professional employment was in 1997, with her first role at a technology "company" in 2000.

In 2001 I had a lunch meeting in downtown Los Gatos with John Frank, a sales guy from Spacedisk (now Accellion) - he'd just gotten off a plane from LA where a number of large tech/media tradeshows (Comdex? CES? idk) had just concluded. He spent a couple minutes raving about how awesome Midwest Airlines was, then pulled a business card out of his wallet and proceeded to spend the next hour telling me how he'd sat on the plane next to MC Hammer and had an absolutely fascinating conversation with him.

Hammer was both representing his own projects and providing general insight on media and technology to large technology-focused audiences in 2001. As an entrepreneur. A tech entrepreneur. While Tara was just getting settled in at Microsoft.

Pot: You've no idea the things I've seen out there, Kettle.

Also John, if you're out there, sup! :)
I don't know too much about how the Canonical maintenance process works, but I imagine for all the server packages maintainers have to backport all new security and bug patches that come out to the package versions in the LTS releases.

It would follow that doing this for all the desktop packages would be extra work.
Luckily for us, we can prove it. Not many people will ever get a chance to say, "hey, let me show you that I can do it". There aren't many hobbyist surgeons (I hope).
Lion removed Front Row, so you'll just mess up their music.
The number of results reported is just a half-assed guess. The server which got the search term calculates it by looking at what fraction of documents matched, what is the total index size, etc.

Usually, the search phrase is hashed and the phrase sent to a backend server based on the hash. So 'oauth authorization' and 'oauth "authorization"' hash differently and get sent to different backend servers. These two calculate the 'number of results' figure differently, and hence you get the difference.

That is my guess at how you're seeing these numbers; I don't work for Google (but have some knowledge of another search engine).
I disagree with the Economist's lack of by-lines. Also, it has more of a dogmatic free market ideology than a bias [1]. Whether you agree with that ideology or not, I think it is bad journalism.

The Economist basically puts itself on the same level of China's People's Daily nationalist newspaper. Not matter how good the writing might be, it is just propaganda of a different sort.

[1] http://www.economist.com/help/about-us#About_The_Economist
"Salary offers ranged from $64,400 to $100,000. The average salary offer was $79,914. The median salary offer was $ 82,200."

Friends of mine got offers for 64k in Boise, ID. 64k seems low for the bay area. Or is 64k in a place like Boise, ID just a really good offer?
This is stupid on Google's part. People are used to mentioning others via "@" (unless, maybe, Twitter has copyrighted/patented this). Forcing people to use "+" will just make adoption of G+ harder. Google should remember that they're the underdog here, playing catchup to Twitter and FB. Raising the barrier to entry only hurts them.
Cross-browsers. If we only had Firefox, then ya, there could be some debate. Jquery handles cross-browser problems, while at the same time providing a more intuitive DOM manipulation layer. What more can you ask for? Use Jquery, build better things, move forward.
-1 redundant
I knew I should have looked that up. Fuck! Thanks.
>there's something very rotten, elitist, and ineffective going on at the googleplex and the initial frustration in Steve's rant hinted to me that deep down he knows this too.

He does.

He wrote the original to pander to them, while bashing Amazon.
I'd like to know where you are looking for job postings. Every posting I see is a Ruby on Rails shop. My own feeling around the bay area is that ruby/rails has overshadowed django/python...at least in the web arena.

General purpose stuff though I concur that python tends to beat out ruby. Except for maybe puppet.
In google if you are really good you could maybe get promoted every 1.5 years, but realistically this is probably more like every 2-3 years.

Your pay then gets bumped to the next grade (or whatever grade you move in to in cases where you transfer laterally) and from what I can tell the increase can be 20-30% increase.

You also will get regular stock option/unit refreshes each year based on performance, so those will start to add up over the years and can be a substantial part of your income assuming the stock is doing ok (and historically it has).
That's pretty sweet. The spread of the greenery in the summer, followed by its retreat in the winter, makes it look like the earth is breathing.

It would be great if the underlying color images are available for download.
When we make new hires we give them the option of trading cash for equity. I've found $60k (with the rest in equity) to be a pretty popular choice.

Many seem to consider it to be the lowest salary where one can live comfortably in the valley (allowing one to take risk without going into debt).
Intel already bought and then sold an ARM licensee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
> The candidates who were offered $120,000 was reporting directly to the VP of his research group

The candidates or the candidate? It seems like this candidate is easily identifiable... How many masters' grads from Stanford (145 responses) was offered 120,000 and reports to the VP of his research group?

This makes me wonder: How taboo is it to talk about your offers/comp details? When I get offers, I'm told to keep them confidential, but everyone knows that the numbers are openly discussed between friends.
> Salary offers ranged from $132,888 to $145,000. The average salary offer was $123,972. The median salary offer was $138,944.

How can the average be that much lower than the min?
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I think that, while nerds are used to mentioning others via @, regular people are used to putting @ in email addresses. Frankly, I find this change frustrating (for the reason that " is not the opposite of -) but I don't believe regular people are going to have any more difficulty with +Adam than they did with @Adam.
am I weird in finding the fade-in rather distracting? also the layout of the body is visually too complicated?
I would like to know more about the ragpicker who did help her.
yes, and the article mentions this twice
Based on the tone of the article I guess it was destined to be this weeks obituary, but Qaddafi died just before they went to press. So unfortunately it looks like dmr's obit is only online, unless they run it next week.
I assume NE in the above stands for North East (of the US), not Nebraska?
Switzerland is a "banking mecca" because of its privacy laws, which encourage the corrupt from around the world to park their money in Swiss banks. I would posit and say that the Swiss system actually _encourages_ (large-scale) corruption around the world.

And what happens to the money when the dictator dies? Do the Swiss banks return the money to the people on their own volition? Of course not.

I admire Swiss privacy laws, but they should be applicable only to the Swiss citizens. Switzerland has no reason to shield non-citizens and criminals from around the world.
You skipped the bit about differentiation: if, for example, photoshop didn't keep improving, do you think the gimp would never catch up? I think you could find lots of examples where today's open source version is better than an x-years-old proprietary product.

The only way it realistically can realistically happen if is the commercial product is not being improved (i.e. differentiated) any more. Your example is one of these - standardization is related to commodification.

I suspect also that user-facing apps are easier to keep improving, because the user is right there, and always has more needs that could be served (e.g. text editors will evolve til they can read mail; those that can't will be replaced by those that can). Non-user facing apps tend to be defined by their environment, rather than by users - although, any component that creates a benefit that the user wants more of will keep being improved (from Clayton Christensen). e.g. databases, CPUs.
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This is definitely a contributing factor, but apple are also known for aggressively culling apps which are too basic or too numerous. (E.g. flashlight apps) The quality of the apps available are infinitely more important than how many apps are available. The exclusivity of iApps on the mac was one of the most important factors in the resurrection of the mac platform.

That said it's in the consumers interest to discontinue apps which the vendor is no longer supporting, aka abandonware. The annual subscription fee is a nominal cost to professionals (and a tax deduction) and clearly not an apple revenue strategy.

Overall: The advice given is to developers who wish to get out of the app store/ publishing business is to sell or license the rights to their mobile app, creating a win/win situation for both the parting developer and the consumer.
Worth noting that you can define a slave as hidden:true (so it never gets promoted to master), and run it with slavedelay of X hours..it's a great way to keep a rolling backup
Girlfriend gets pregnant, you argue you had the phone in your pocket all day.
Ask HN: A credit card swiper for authorize.net?
I have a non-profit client who wants to be able to accept credit card donations at charity events. They have an authorize.net account and are looking at http://www.usbswiper.com/

I've also seen https://squareup.com/

Have you used any mobile credit card solutions and what did you think of them?
people have been using @ to mention others since pretty much the beginnings of online discussion, way before facebook and twitter (I'm agreeing with you - this is a stupid move by Google and goes against 15+ years of convention)
Probably worth noting about the author:

> Robert A. Muenchen is the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users and, with Joseph M. Hilbe, R for Stata Users. He is also the creator of r4stats.com, a popular web site devoted to helping people learn R. Bob is a consulting statistician with 30 years of experience

Disclaimer: I hate R's syntax, but my company's analytics group uses R for just about everything.
You are mistaken. Disneyland is a classic private entrepreneurial tale. Walt Disney sold his home to finance the park.

http://www.mackinac.org/7164

Homestead land grants cost taxpayers nothing and went to small family farmers. That's nothing like half-billion dollar taxpayer loans directed by politicians in Washington.
I have no degree. Base salary 160k roughly 50-60k in equity/year. 10 years experience. I'm not at the top of my game yet.

I started at 70k with no experience no degree.
I don't think it's obvious that open source displaces commercial for scientific computing. For every example like R which has in many places displaced S-Plus, there are counterexamples like matlab, for which the open source clone Octave is a bad joke, at least the last time I tried using it: missing functions, slowness, extreme difficulty installing; or Mathematica, or eviews, or gauss, or Maple.

One other potential factor: a lot of this software is driven by academic use, either because academics used it or that's where people were first exposed, and academics often receive large discounts.
Adding a newline doesn't flush anything. You'd want to call fflush() to do that.
That is a risk, Twitter has the same risk, and when they switched over to OAuth-only there was a debate about this. Twitter's stance was that it's the developer's responsibility to obfuscate your app secret. People promptly pulled apart the official twitter iPad app and found they had done a terrible job of obfuscating it themselves...
This is terrible news to me. Like a lot of people here, I believe the reason is that they will roll up some social feature that may involve using the plus sign the same way it is used on Google+, but still, it makes things less convenient to me.

I just wrote that thing[1] that I'm running on my localhost, so I can search google the "old" way. I made it as my default search engine in Chrome, so it's transparent. This will not suit everyone's needs, but I'd rather share it anyway.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/1305438