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Why would Posterous sell to MySpace? They're hemorrhaging money, employees, and users, while Posterous is growing quite well. Selling to MySpace seems like it'd be a terrible idea..
JavaScript's scoping rules aren't the same as Scheme's -- variables are scoped at the function level rather than the block level.
There is already a discussion that you maybe interested to follow-you can find it in the front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3200062
No no no. You have it all wrong.

Verizon will degrade YOUR bandwidth if you are using services that interfere with their business plan (facebook, twitter, skype: SMS and VoIP).

Now pay extra to "fix" what we degraded for our business sense.
While it's true that Brendan Eich's development of JavaScript was influenced by Scheme, Netscape insisted that the language had to look like Java.

It's not just the syntax that's different, but the semantics as well. The hallmark of Lisp is code-as-data, data-as-code; JavaScript certainly can't claim that. I like JavaScript (for the most part), but it's wrong to call it "Lisp in C clothing".
Ask HN: What do you read - the article or HN thread?
I am usually more inclined to thoughts shared here in HN than in the article under discussion. Sometimes, i completely ignore articles and satisfy myself with HN discussion on that topic. How do you do it ?
Honestly, I try to vote up as many "SHOW HN" projects as possible but when I saw it was a Groupon for ___ I immediately lost interest.

That's not to say it isn't well executed or anything. I'm just trying to answer your question. I'd wager a guess that HN-folk like to see technically-well-executed projects, nerdy projects, and/or novel projects.

A Groupon clone fits none of these. Don't get me wrong though I know a lot of trash is upvoted. I just personally didn't upvote this because I don't care about another frickin deals site.
Doesn't this violate the open access rules that went into effect when Google bid this spectrum above a certain value?
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Too far. People think that by watching Jobs interviews their gonna learn the secrets of a master guru. Geez, for that matter better watch documentaries on the Dalai Lama.
Mr Ritchie had more luck. “It’s not the actual programming that’s interesting,” he once remarked. “It’s what you can accomplish with the end results.” Amen to that, Mr McCarthy would have said.

Uh, why would McCarthy have said that? That doesn't seem in character for him at all, not to mention of course the use of the word "Amen".
The mis-quote stuck out for me, too. "Skating to where the puck is", is actually exactly what Gretzky was saying not to do.

It threw me off the entire piece -- as soon as I see something fundamental so totally wrong, I find it hard to concentrate on the rest of the message.
I posted a question on stackoverflow trying to gather pros and cons of the methods outlined in this HN post.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8022715/standalone-rails-...
This would be a good idea if it wasn't app-specific. Giving users a way to pay more for better service is good; classifying traffic based on application is bad.
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Thoroughly seconded. Racket is a fantastic tool.

It's a little obtuse to learn unless you're following along a course text with it, but nowhere near emacs' learning curve.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into those bugs, and I'm glad you like the queue workflow!
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Fair point. Perhaps I picked a bad example.

At the same time, if you were writing a bunch of random awk-like one-offs as part of your normal lisp workflow, you wouldn't write 4 lines of code every time, right? You sit down and write some functions or macros that condensed it into something simple that allowed you to easily specify things like a split token, one or more filter-on fields and values (or better, a filter lambda), and one or more output fields, I bet. Because it's silly to write several lines for something you do a lot.

And while you might call it process-file-and-return-matching-results or something, the interface to the result might not be so different from the line of awk in the original post.
Too bad someone bought myspace anyway
I think your argument is valid, but that it will take some serious cultural change at Microsoft to accept.

When Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and Sharepoint run on on Linux we will know that has change happened.
A few of my friends and I got together one afternoon and did our best to decode the whole thing. It's really a fun puzzle if you don't spoil yourself by reading the papers that explain the message.
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What's "Casino city"? Why are there dice in the diagram, and why does the tourist silhouette look like a large gorilla?
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It forms a superconductor at low temp and the state depends on Pressure too. Above a certain pressure it would be solid. If I remember the phase diagram correctly.

EDIT: http://www.google.com/search?q=phase+diagram+helium
Yup.

However, he should realise that not every country's education system is messed up as in the US; take a look at places like Germany, Australia, etc., where you can get a good education (broad or narrow) for comparatively little.
For 10 pts, Lisp niche is AI?
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Because web companies are starting to use ML nowadays, and most of HN's users are associated with the web-company crowd.
Discussion of this sort comes up quite often on homeschooling lists (or did, back in the day). The short version is that this is the difference between "training" and "education". "Training" is what America generally wants to provide to, say, people on welfare so we can tell them "get off the dole and get a job" (while simultaneously making it outright illegal to aspire to a better life/follow your dreams -- last I heard, you can attend a two year degree program while on welfare but not a four year degree program). "Education" is broader preparation for life, not just preparation for a job per se. Lots of American universities are increasingly offering degrees that are essentially intended as "job training" of some sort.

Slice of life: I happen to have an Associate of Arts in Humanities and a Certificate in GIS. The certificate in GIS was gotten as "job training" and I am still paying on the student loan that was needed. I have never worked in GIS and the job I do have started at about half the pay as the GIS-related jobs I was interviewing for. On the upside, attending GIS school helped me get boatloads of life-saving drugs from doctors who wouldn't prescribe me anything while I was mostly bedridden. So I consider that student loan kind of a "medical bill"/cost of survival, never mind my (relatively mild) bitterness at how utterly my well-laid career plans* fell through.

<shrug>

* FWIW: those career plans included a future Master's in Urban Planning. There are relatively few bachelor's programs in urban planning. For this reason, most planners have some other major at the bachelor's level. Liberal Arts majors (at the bachelor level) are not terribly uncommon in that profession, from what I gather.
I check the source of the article. I'm almost always interested in reading the article if it's from a professionally edited news media website. I'm often much less interested in reading the article if it's from some random blogger, especially a blogger I've never heard of before using a cheap blogging platform, or from a press release service. The best new news will be reported in multiple sources, and I prefer the most thorough and well informed sources.
Like this one http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all... ?

also interesting:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/which-programming-lang...
> You can also thank railroads for time zones—geographic swaths of the globe set to the same hour.

Or, more specifically, Sir Sandford Fleming.

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10182
Let's not forget that you could major in STEM and take plenty of liberal arts courses. For example, I was an engineering major and still took English I and English II, as well as Japan Before 1600, History of the Labor Movement, African History and some others. Let's not turn this discussion into comparing multiple false choices to each other.
I majored in English, and that led me to becoming a technical writer. I could've become a journalist/blog writer, novelist, advertising copywriter, movie or TV show writer, academic, etc. I had an aptitude and interest in technology that pushed me to technical writing. After 5 years writing professionally, I was making 80k; last year (my 11th in technical writing) I'm into 6 figures (and in the Southeast US, to boot) including bonuses. Not bad for an English major. And, not at all rare.[1]

I knew from the beginning that you can't pick just any major unless you wanted a deep, abiding knowledge of that concentration and/or had a natural inclination or aptitude for it. The "losers" making your coffee as you go to your programming job? They were always going to end up there, just like I read in forums how programmers in flyover states in the US Midwest have been out of work for over 99 weeks or what have you.

Ultimately, it matters less what you major in. If you're motivated and talented. you'll find a satisfying, relatively well-paying job; if you were amotivated and/or did poorly in college, wake up and make them lattes.

Sure, even the mediocre computer science major can get work, but you think they'd survive in Silicon Valley? Just like you can't write off every English major as a coffee whipper-upper, you can't automatically say a computer science degree is a path to a six-figure salary.

[1]http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Senior+Technical+Writer&...
Perhaps explained by the fact that engineering degrees are hard.

You wouldn't want to fail getting a degree if you're paying that much for it now would you?
I really don't think many newbies have even heard of usenet, these days, let alone are all that likely to turn to comp.lang.lisp for help.

A college kid looking for assistance with lisp these days is likely to hit up StackOverflow or /r/lisp or /r/scheme or one of the clojure communities depending on what they're using. Any of these are less 'hidden' than usenet, which happily has fallen into enough obscurity that c.l.l.'s toxicity will slowly die for lack of new blood.
I went there last year on a tourist trip - walking around the exclusion zone and through the abandoned buildings was an amazing experience and I'd recommend it to anyone.
Do browsers use the color profile for displaying the image? If so, wouldn't this affect the appearance of the image?
Nice, here are 3 great Seth Godin posts/influences on ideas:

Where they come from:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/11/where-do-ide...

Why spread?:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/10/ideas-spread...

999 ideas from his 'MBA' program:
http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html

Execution > Ideas - start spreading!
While I agree on the 100% js. To optimize the experience and app load time its best to provide the data on load inside the document. reducing http calls. backbone supports the idea here:

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Collection-reset
If a man has $1000 dollars and gives half away I'd think he's foolish but since he did something that hurts him he deserves respect.

If a man has a billion dollars and gives half away he's smart, he makes himself look good (buying it) and yet experiences no pain or personal downside in exchange. In effect it cost him nothing. While I'm glad he did it, I'm also not impressed. Also it seems to be rare that someone becomes a billionaire without being an asshole and screwing over other people along the way, whether employees, partners or competitors. So this makes me even less impressed. Also I know several people who have much less wealth, who didn't come from Gates silver spoon background, yet perform charity and never engaged in the shady pratices, or shoddy craftsmanship, that Microsoft and Gates have done. So again, color me not impressed, and everything needs to be evaluated in the context of the larger ecosystem, and what everybody else out there is doing.
You probably aren't sure about my argument as it is not aimed at you. DST is useless at the equator, and useless at high latitudes. However, it's useful at middle latitudes, and that point is often missed by many. I would agree with 35-45˚.

I also live above 60˚ north - today I had 2 minutes less daylight than you :(

I think some of the negativity towards DST here is due to failure to consider the local needs of other people. I guess that's my argument. The day is important, and you know the importance of things more when they are gone.
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Indeed. That has been Microsoft's biggest weakness for several years now. Innovative initiatives are shut down because they threaten Windows, Office or both.

The Courier story is the most recent example but far from the only one.
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As a side note, you don't need to use secure.wikimedia.org any more. Changing the protocol on any of the Wikimedia sites to HTTPS works fine and doesn't have any mixed content errors.
cyanogenmod for Touchpad: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/3477-releasealpha2discussion-cyan...
Right, but predictions or descriptions of human behaviour based on guesses as to where humans fall on the line between perfectly rational and completely irrational are also guesses.

And when discussing movie theatre popcorn I think it's pretty clear that the irrational or arbitrary aspect of human rationality is in play here. The discussion on stackexchange is silly, you mentioned anchoring effects yourself.
In fairness, it was awkward, and there are quite a few comma splices and other grammatical errors in Jacques's post (e.g., the second paragraph). I actually found this a little distracting myself. That said, I agree that grammar policing is kind of a low blow.
Two things keep coming up in language discussions. The first is the cry of "Lisp did it first", whenever a non-lisp language touts a new feature. The second is this concept of "winning".

If you combine these two ideas, you come to the conclusion that if any other language is seen to be "winning", it should be simple to port that language's syntax and stdlib onto a lisp environment - after all, every facility the other language might need can be provided by the lisp runtime, and reader macros might be a suitable way to avoid an explicit compilation step, depending on the language being tackled.

I cannot think of a single case of this happening. Instead, we see precisely the reverse - clojure is implemented on the JVM, CLR and JS runtimes, and there are scheme implementations everywhere.

What does this mean? It means that it isn't languages which "win" or "lose". It's plaforms. "Lisp" isn't a platform, therefore it cannot "win". The question is moot.
in regard to ideas for better syntax there's an awk macro in scsh http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man-Z-H-9.html#node_sec_8.2
> but seriously, does nobody else see a problem with your monitoring configuration being hosted on the site being monitored?

So, if the file is unreachable, something is probably very very wrong.

Malicious changing of the file could be addressed by firing an alarm when the file changes.

> It is a bit like asking a hospital patient to keep an eye on his own charts and to let you know if anything goes wrong ..

No, it's a bit like leaving the chart with the patient, trusting that he won't destroy it.

> do people really switch monitoring companies often enough to justify having a standard configuration format?

Do people really switch monitoring companies rarely enough to justify keeping a myriad of incompatible configuration formats?

This also has the benefit of you owning all of your own data.

> ps. cucumber syntax is horrible because it perpetuates a 'everybody speaks english' view of the world

Cucumber syntax is great because a lot of people are already used to it. Oh, and it's completely language independent too. https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/tree/master/examples/i1...
the price of cars/computers/milk hasn't quadrupled

A quick google seems to show that the cost of milk has increased over time.

http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p1-06.... (page 31)

Data from 1890 - 1970.
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Reminded me of the video where a guy did a fresh install of Windows 1.0 and upgraded all the way to Windows 7. An amazing amount of programs still ran by the time he got to 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
Another approach could be to support HTTP Basic auth.
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HTTPS Everywhere is still redirecting to secure.wikimedia.org, so that's probably where any remaining links there are coming from.
You don't have to use Emacs. Use what ever editor you want. Personally, I use VIM because that's what I have been using last 20 years.
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What is to prevent Apple from taking Siri online and using it as a search engine to compete directly with Google?

That seems to be where they are heading with all this (that huge new data-center they just built starts to make sense too).
Having colour tables in image files is a bad idea for these reasons:

1) For small images, the table is bigger than the raw image itself, as this article amply demonstrated.

2) For poor quality images, colour quantisation does not save anything.

3) Good quality images with subtle colours are degraded by it.
maybe this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3200709
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Why buy this tablet for $150? Perhaps because it is the best hardware you can get in a tablet for that price, WebOS is actually pretty nice, and you can install something else on it if you don't like it (currently Android or GNU/Linux).
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Every time this discussion comes up eventually it's necessary to invoke the power of the signaling effect that a completed college degree has, particularly from a top tier university.

In an inefficient labor market with weak signals a degree is still relevant in demonstrating academic rigor, commitment, and follow-through. The drop-out sends a countersignal that would need to be balanced with a strong body of work outside of school.

Look, I think no matter what your degree was in, we're at a point where some amount self-directed study is expected of all job seekers. Most of my peers in CS at Michigan studied languages outside of the curriculum and regularly built side projects. That's expected with or without a degree.

An English degree at most top schools is no cakewalk. I would look seriously at hiring one, even for a product/technical position if they complemented it with self-taught skills that we needed.

Plus, you can build a team culture that isn't solely homogenous.
Not politics. Because it couldn't do email.
I havent tried Directory Opus since version 6 as I found it too slow with the extra bells and whistles, maybe time to try it I guess.

I can however vouch for xplorer^2, both feature and speed-wise which is my default file explorer in windows.
Awesome, thanks for that! I was up and running a sample within five minutes.
My understanding of Amazon's internal SOA usage is that it is geared toward timeout-enforced service response guarantees to mitigate concerns about performance penalty. Specifically, a page render event triggers initiation of asynchronous calls to N service endpoints( I have read as many as 300 per page render event ). The page renderer will wait for a specified time to receive responses from each service, but timeout on those services that do not meet their latency SLA. Page components with dependencies on either error result or timed-out service responses will simply be not rendered or replaced with dummy content.

Employees of Amazon, feel free to correct any holes or errors in my understanding of the web application architecture there.
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Because I had no idea it exists. I guess I have to add discoverability to my list of gripes. :-)
Ah, that sort of monitoring... I was hoping it'd be something like a sitemap with pages' timestamps, so that monitoring sites like http://www.followthatpage.com wouldn't need to poll actual pages and needlessly pollute my access.log (completely disrespecting robots.txt along the way).
People thought that Google would never succeed because search was cornered by Yahoo and AltaVista.

I'm pretty sure we have a Coca-Cola in the social space. It's called Facebook.

Aren't these arguments contradictory ?
Does not look impressive to a Pythonista. yawn
It wouldn't be competing directly with Google though, would it? Siri offers a limited range of functions (currently, though this will inevitably widen as Apple makes more modules (and possibly opens it up to third parties)) whereas Google indexes (almost) everything on the web and searches by text.

I agree though: due to its nature of remotely processing input, Siri could become a search engine accessed via a web browser assuming the computer has a mic (which most current Macs — especially the biggest-sellers, MacBooks — do). It would become a single interface for accessing dozens of services — like Wolfram Alpha and Yelp — and tapping petabytes of information.
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I'd much rather have something akin to an appcache.manifest file:

# monitors.txt - see http://monitorstxt.org for more info

GET:
http://monitors.txt
http://otherservice.monitors.txt

POST:
http://monitors.txt/service q:lalala user:trololol
http://monitors.txt/service2 id:250

RESOLVE:
monitorstxt.org 207.97.227.245

PERFORMANCE:
http://duckduckgo < 2s
http://duckduckgo/images < 3s

IMO feature testing should be part of your test suite pre-deploy, not the monitoring service.
Probably dart to dalvik and dart to js and united APIs, so you will be able to make single-source apps for web and for android.
Since when have programming languages ever been about winning? Lisp solves problems in a certain way the works well in certain cases for some people. Same case with awk or Perl or Python or whatever. Lisp may not be the language everyone uses for everything, but I find myself writing code in Clojure, Scheme, or Emacs Lisp because it makes sense to me. So what if that awk example is 2.5 lines longer than the actual version? It may be more work for my fingers but I still get to write it in Lisp.

I'm going to be one of the "stupid argumentative people" that he says are on comp.lang.lisp (which I had never actually heard of before) and say that Lisp users don't want Lisp to win. People who understand Lisp, as mentioned in another comment, that _they_ are going to be the ones winning in the end. Maybe this person wins with Perl. I don't. Ruby, Clojure, Prolog, and JavaScript meet my needs so I use them. Languages don't compete for adoption they solve problems.
Good grief, that's evil. I like it, but there's not a chance I'd ever actually use it...
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> Who'd expect an avatar image to DOS a site?

26.media.tumblr.com is an Akamai server, and I suspect it takes more than large files to bring them down.

Yes, you can wreak all sorts of havoc doing this, but I doubt you can actually take down Tumblr in any meaningful way, so it's not really a DOS attack.
Oh my mistake, I was thinking about the developer/community memberships here: https://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_register&...

You'll notice a Community Membership doesn't mention anything about application submissions. Developer Memberships allow you to...

* Enroll in the webOS Developer program ($99/year; covers up to xx application submissions)

* Submit you webOS application(s) for review and approval by Palm

* Upon approval, your application(s) will be signed to verify its status as Palm approved

* Your signed application(s) will be listed in the HP webOS Application Catalog