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For what it's worth, it was just posted to the University of Waterloo CS announcement list:

"I just received news that John McCarthy passed away in his sleep a few hours ago; he was at home."
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Going on their site it seems more like GoodSEO (ad-hoc holistic SaaS-software intelligent analyses stats performance).
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It appears this would be litigated overseas, but I'd like to speculate based on sound legal principles that should hopefully apply anywhere.

I fail to see what sort of claim GoodData would bring against Start2Cloud. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Start2Cloud did violate the GoodData terms of service by signing up for the purpose of writing a review. What remedies would be available?

According to the GoodData TOS (http://www.gooddata.com/terms-of-use), GoodData could terminate Start2Cloud's account. But I don't see anything about GoodData collecting damages for something like this. So suppose GoodData does sue for breach of contract. How can they calculate damages? How can they demonstrate quantifiable harm arising from Start2Cloud's use of the service?

Normally, I'd expect to see a libel suit threatened in a situation like this. But there was no mention of that in GoodData's message. Apparently, they're basing their threats entirely on the TOS, which don't seem to offer a viable cause of action.
I feel bad for Netflix. They're between a rock and a hard place. The content providers want more money and eventually want to cut out the middleman. The users balk when the price is raised, even though unlimited streaming and DVDs for a month still cost less than a decent meal. And every decision they make (like Qwikster, which was likely done so they didn't have to pay content providers a fee for users who weren't streaming) is bashed and mocked.
This is selfish... but Dr. Knuth, please oh please pick up the pace a notch and select a side kick to finish your work. Please!
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I just phrased it poorly. I understand the ramifications. The widgets are nifty (and just a way to demo the tech), but I take photos very intentionally. I just my aperture settings specifically based on a given situation. I shoot on M (with a manual focus lens for the most part) because I enjoy doing so.
Also, link to Netflix's Q3 Investor Letter, which is a good read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151463
Poor site redesign followed by a price hike followed by a pointless attempt at splitting up the company.

Not surprised.
I would like to get an RSS feed for the user's upvoted/submitted links (questions).
I can see how someone who has not spent significant time living outside of the US could be of this opinion, but every US resident I know who has lived outside of the country for any significant period of time is also of this opinion. You don't need to spend much time reading European or Asian newspapers, listening to or watching BBC, DW, then be insulted by FOX and Clearchannel to see exactly what the issue is.
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He claimed that sticking "I suspect" and "my hunch" in his comment meant that his comment wasn't an insult. I demonstrated how his claim was false.
That almost never happens in my country. Streets with bike lanes are very common. Sometimes a truck might stop where it shouldn't for 1-2 min, but they'll be fined if noticed.

Streets with bike lanes are way faster in my experience. But I'm also used to dedicated bike lanes.
Not that it will matter to the trolls, but it's worth noting:

The vast majority of championing for this cause is happening on behalf of Amit, not by Amit himself. He was actually quite reluctant to be public about his condition, and has only stepped forward at the encouragement of people close to him.

While Amit is at the center of this effort, the narrative has quickly widened to address the much larger issue of underrepresented populations in the bone marrow database. The impact of the efforts inspired by Amit's situation will be felt far beyond that of one person.

Even as he fights for his life undergoing intense chemotherapy and all kinds of difficulties most of us have no appreciation for, he continues to do the best he can to help people.

Anyone who does that deserves not just our respect and admiration, but our attention and participation.

If anyone feels like being self righteous, they might do well to channel that energy into doing something that helps the world instead of leaving insidious comments on a thread.
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My wording was bad but I meant that I don't drink stuff just for a caffeine boost. Espresso and Rocket Fuel and Red Bull/Relentless don't even register when it comes to needing a good drink.

If anything, I feel the come-down more than the pick-up.
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i meant it wasn't real world/practical enough for other classes, though a certain subset of students only really seemed to care about languages and concepts that they might use in industry.

mit and berkeley had/have the exact same "problem" with scheme (ie they don't/can't use it in any other class except the intro-to-into-cs class). This usually resulted in upped div classes spending a a class or two (basically a week of instruction, or a week of lab) on teaching the basics of the language the course is in. Though when i took the compilers course a few semesters later, the second slide of the entire course was "RTFM", and the professor dryly noted that we would be compiling a subset of python down to x86 assembler using c++, and despite the fact that he didn't expect any of us to know those languages at all, we didn't have the time to spend a lecture or discussion/lab on learning them, so we would have to learn them, on our own time.

I suppose that switching to a language that can be used in many classes is nice, but i don't think the students should have that much trouble switching if the professors supply supplementary material and they (students) understand the intro courses well enough. Plus, I think it's a good idea to get exposed to as many languages as possible, so you learn to think in a way that you can code well in any language.
Yet another vacuous critique of Hazlitt.

If anyone here actually wants to hear more scholarly and substantive critiques against Hazlitt and Austrian economics, I would advise against wasting time reading through this Hacker News thread.

There are tons of better critiques to be found online. The one I came across that I found to be excellent was "Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist" by Bryan Caplan (http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm).
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There was, most definitely, a point to splitting up the company. It just wasn't communicated effectively or presented at all in a positive light.
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This is an understandable impulse, but completely ignores the nature of the work itself, which is essentially Knuthian. I don't think there's anyone else in the world, let alone an associate of his, who could continue this work.

It's been years since I was around him (I worked at a Stanford spin-off startup in the early 80's that commercialized some TeX printing technologies), but it's hard to overestimate what he's accomplished. What a wonderful man!
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Indeed, the way movie covers scroll is really frustrating.
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Pure reference counting doesn't handle cycles. I believe those languages (and I'm pretty certain Python does) implement a periodic mark-and-sweep GC for those cycles.

So you still periods of high latency collections (in .NET only Gen2 collections are actually noticeable, not sure about other platforms). You also have the overhead of managing reference counts, which can be non-trivial; especially if you're paging as a result.

Of course, comparing GC performance between C# and Python or Ruby is sort of silly. If we were trying to hit our ~40ms Question/Show render targets on them we'd probably have lower hanging fruit than GC.
Honestly curious, where did those users go? Back to $40 shitcable? Torrenting?
That is not my experience at all (double parked trucks + cars + opening of car doors). If you have more cyclists, then traffic will get used to it. Until that happens it might seem worse, but in my experience bike lanes on the road are fine.

Of course, separate is better. Just not mandatory.
i believe they still have to do a logo interpreter/evaluater for the final project of this new class.
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Business in one lesson:

Anyone who claims to have all the answers wrapped up in one neat lesson, probably doesn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legislat...
I have this sign on my office door. I'll be putting his timeline on it tomorrow.
Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
Very interesting. Off-topic thought, but...

"So she joined the group to climb Annapurna, and was part of the second team to attempt the summit. You go up in pairs, so you do pairwise summit attempts - these Himalayan style things where you do base camps. So she was working her way to the upper camp as the first summit team was coming down between the topmost and the second topmost. They passed, and then she was lost - she and her partner were lost. We're quite sure they fell. They were roped together; we think one fell and took the other with them."

As I was reading that I was thinking, 'why twos? that's not enough to anchor someone if they fall through an ice crevice or something, need at least three for that.' And then I get to the end, and that's exactly what happened. I wonder if people still attempt Himalayan mountains in twos like that.
I really doubt this would be enforceable in an American court. The question is, can a little guy with no lawyers actually win the case if a motion is admitted by a judge?
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It [edit: the Brazilian article] cites Steven Levy, senior writer of Wired, as the source. It does not say where the source is found, but I assume it's this tweet:

http://twitter.com/#!/stevenjayl/status/128568370055491584

He may be a writer for Wired, but he doesn't seem to have a solid source either.

EDIT: There seems to be someone that claims Stanford has confirmed it by phone, as you can see in the Discussion page of Wikipedia, though:

"I spoke to the Associate Director of Communications at Stanford School of Engineering, and Dan Stober of Stanford News Service. Both have confirmed that Professor McCarthy passed away this weekend. They both said there were not a lot of details available at this time. An obituary will be issued by Stanford soon. http://chime.in/user/toybuilder/chime/65979187159736320 -- I apologize for bad formatting. I'm not a regular Wiki editor. Joseph Chiu 24 October 2011, 2:11 PDT. I have not edited the article page."
So, Netflix increased prices by a pretty high percentage and managed to lose only four percent of subscribers? This is astoundingly impressive. Furthermore, many of these deflections might simply be the result of forcing subscribers to explicitly choose to continue service. How many people kept paying a few dollars per month for a service which they did not use and, when forced to choose a new plan, opted out?
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That lists its source as this post, which lists its source as Wikipedia. Still uncorroborated in my mind.
Oh no! Lisp has a huge impact on computing. It's hard to imagine how old it is.
It's never been directly about the top 1%. It's about politicians and legislation that don't favor the general public. Years of such legislation have led to a top 1% having a disproportionate amount of wealth and a general public that is getting dumber, sicker, and poorer.

I think opposition to legislation that favor the rich is often confused with opposition to the rich directly.

This confusion is exactly what undermines our ability to focus on real problems and progress.
She TALKS to the people who she's doing the work for. So how exactly would this scale without losing quality?

I'm in no way saying she would want to do any of this, and I'm not talking about scaling to mass production or anything, but I imagine she could easily offload some of the more common tasks.

Particularly, you've completely nailed that her rare skill is in the translation and design. However, as long as she's capable of reliably communicating her vision and design to a decent seamstress she could easily offload the actual creation to others. She could focus on meeting with clients, translating their design and communicating to the people who will actually put it together.

If she wanted to go in a little further, she could work on apprenticing a few designers as well. She could still sit in on most or all meetings with clients, communicate broad ideas to the designer, check their design before it gets sent to production, etc.

Basically I think her company could scale just as well as any decent IT consulting firm (or really more appropriately any advertising agency) might.
My understanding is that you have a non-trivial software project, you can count on infringing many patents; it's best to assume that Microsoft (among many other wealthy companies with large patent portfolios) can indeed sue you and win. Your best bet is to be one of these big patent holders with lots of money, and then you can be protected by mutually assured destruction.
Wow, not bad! And I can imagine that being a great plushie..
Extra Life started not too long ago as an online fundraising event and raised 1 million this year alone. I'd say it's rather successful. The trick is to get other people raising money and spreading the word. It can't just be the internet, people will need to branch out for you. I think a good way to do that is ask people to do something that they do already, with a twist. Like play videogames, but for 24 hours - for the children. Running marathons appeal to runners. Copying either of these ideas is perfectly ok, or you can come up with something similar.
Everyone who gets swabbed is added to a national database and can be matched to anyone else who needs a donor.

The efforts happening on his behalf are, by and large, very consciously being done with this in mind. They are increasing awareness of underrepresented populations in the bone marrow database and making a much larger impact.

Also, these efforts are being coordinated and implemented by volunteers on Amit's behalf. Amit himself is not running this show. People who have better things to do than troll the internet are.
It is 53 years old. You don't have to "imagine" how old it is.
In my case, I simply went without.

Contrary to the way people seem to act, entertainment is neither a right, or a requirement. I get by just fine without movies or television shows.
Congratulations.

I've been looking for something similar for a while. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/ is ok but I doubt it's what your looking for. http://www.happynerds.net/ will be good at some point to teach the kids about programming but not for a few years at least.

Please post back if you find anything more fitting.
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What, no HN black ribbon for McCarthy?
Are there any other verifiable sources?
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OMeta: http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Lambda_Calculus

This one, you may be able to introduce to people (of course, OMeta by itself isn't enough: the DSLs you could write with it however…).
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This is a really tricky legal area. There have been a very limited number of real cases involving EULA terms like this (and I'm not sure any have been decided at a trial), and there will be wide variability between jurisdictions.

You can, in principle, contract away your right to speak on a well-defined subject, at least in the USA (I believe all common law jurisdictions permit this to one degree or another). Consider NDAs, for example.

What terms like these get into, however, is a question of fairness and equity. Terms that are almost certain to come up in common law jurisdictions are "contract of adhesion", "unconscionability", "fair dealing", and most importantly, "consideration".

Just skim the Wikipedia entries for those terms and you'll quickly see how complex and subjective this gets.
I'd argue that the real kicker is motion associated with mouse location to draw the user in... This trick has been around for ages, though you definitely did apparently find a crafty implementation.
still cost less than a decent meal

So many great things on the web cost less than a single cup of Starbucks. Yet, I myself am so hesitant to pay for them.

On my landing pages I design at work, I'm increasingly trying to communicate this via comparisons("less than a morning Starbucks trip"). Another one is showing a dollar bill to communicate that for less than a dollar a day, they will get _____.

For a service that we were charging $10, we had 3% conversion rate.

Then I showed an actual picture of a $10 bill to show how inexpensive this is and we doubled conversion to 6%.

I increased the price to $30 and showed a one dollar bill, an equal sign, and what they would get for a dollar a day. The conversion rate is 3%. Overall, we make $30 more per 100 uniques to that page than at $10 price(we make $60 at 10, $90 at 30).

It seems promising though not totally conclusive in terms of increasing conversion rates. The point is, spending a dollar on the web to me seems much more difficult than spending a buck on a Crunch bar. The efforts of my landing page experiments are to align online spend perception with retail.

(numbers rounded to nearest % for purpose of this post)
You're right, delete is an instance method. You call it like so: [myObject delete];

So the object referred to by the variable myObject gets deleted from our servers. It was created whenever it was instantiated using a query. What global is it using?

saveAll is a static (class) method. It takes in a collection of instantiated objects and saves them to our servers. What global is it using? As for interjecting custom behavior, perhaps you're missing that all of these methods take in a variety of callbacks that can modify behavior.
So, they lost 3 to 4% of their customers - that is not good.

That said, my wife and I each have our own streaming accounts and I also have blu-ray delivery on my account, and Netflix is not losing our business: we really like the service.

Also, with their price increases, I don't understand why the stock took such a big hit.
If they are like me, they didn't use Netflix much and it just became an unnecessary expense. For those who use Netflix on a daily basis, I think the new price is still fair.
I'm curious about what education system doesn't allow you to eventually move on to harder studies.

I mean, I've been screwed by schools again and again by their promises of transfer credit and then not giving it to me after I've dropped out of my old school and have applied to their school (while going to a lower down college to fill out some course requirements), but despite that there is still the opportunity for me to fill out requirements and move onto a harder school.
Potential customers would be wary of overly restrictive EULA and lawsuit-happy companies.
Scold them down?!? I said speak up, not start an argument. E.g. something like "please cycle a bit slower, your speed is dangerous / pedestrian area".
Though don't be stupid about it. I was told not to cycle on a pedestrian path while I was going slower than a pedestrian.

And if you cannot speak up, then why complain about it? Think society only works if there is some level of checks in place if you're behaving nicely. And that should be done by people, not police.
If you'd like more detail, http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-...
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No, they just fiat "cycles" in as a possible memory leak against which the app developer has to guard. That's not so bad, really: it's far, far easier than manually freeing memory. And in any case there are all sorts of resource leaks that GC can't find anyway; this is minor in comparison.

Your last point seems flat wrong, btw. If you're in a GC environment with worst-case latency requirements (real requirements, not just nice-to-haves or 99.9th percentiles, or whatnot) of 40ms, then you're in a whole world of hurt. GC won't do that -- brush up on your C.
I think he raises a good point, inadvertently. Sometimes you put more on slides not because you want your audience to read them, but because your slides are going to be an artifact of the talk for reference later. I think this is a tough tradeoff sometimes. Of course, if you think your slides are really going to undermine your talk by having too much information, then cut it down. But it's not a free lunch: you're removing information from those who may download them as a reference later.

I realize slides are not really meant to be referenced, and that that type of thing belongs in supplementary documentation, but you know that's not how it works. People download the slides and fill in the gaps in their own minds (often to the detriment of the author, since they are misinterpreted,) so you might as well try to help them fill them in with as much information as possible without sacrificing your ability to give a good talk.
Lack of topicality is not the only good reason to downvote a question, even if you don't believe in downvoting things you disagree with. For example, "M$ SUX" is clearly on-topic and even echoes sentiments found in many other comments here, but it is unproductive and essentially just trolling. Worthless comments are probably a bigger danger than off-topic ones. (Not commenting on the grandparent — just arguing against what I see as a common misconception.)
Unfortunately your experience isn't the case for all colleges, which is why some people leave the system really bitter about the entire thing.
While it may not have much substance he is showing that the user experience plays an important role in subscriptions to RSS
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It's great preso btw, did it get recorded?
> There is money in nearly any societal state.

It'd be better to say that there is potential value (as opposed to 'money', which is a term with overloaded definitions), but yes - as long as there is scarcity, opportunities for trade will exist.
The price hike didn't bother me. The company split would be annoying, but not the end of the world. It's the terrible UI design of the new site that has me looking for alternatives.

It's so bad. Do they actually think that this UI is functional, or is there some kind of internal fear to question it?
We had the 1 dvd at a time (+ blu ray option). So, for us the price jump was close to double. Our last DVD sat on the shelf for 3 months before we got to it. But we watch streaming a lot. So we canceled the DVD option and figure that $8-9/mo we'll use at the redbox near us if there's something recent we want to watch. That's more movies than we can watch anyway (or that we can get via netflix with the mail delay)... I'm sure a lot of the 800,000 were like us.
Oracle does the same. You can't publish benchmark results without their permission.
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