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YouTube would not exist today without the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. It would have been sued out of existence years ago.

The DMCA did not create copyright law, it modified it, and pre-DMCA, YouTube would have had no protections.
Questioning a speaker’s motives is not only not a fallacy, it is a sign of healthy debate.

No. If someone is wrong, you should point out how he is wrong, not question his motives for presenting the statement.

His motives might be corrupt. Who cares? The only important thing is whether what he says is true or not.
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I'll bite: cdr gets expensive?
You could represent a list as a naked array of lisp pointers, but then cons gets expensive. And good luck garbage collecting the vectors.
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Not any more thanks to SCOTUS.
It would be nice to see an example in the post to show the distribution of shares and the actually equity that goes along with them.
The point of json, I think, is that you'd only use associative arrays when you need them.
This is actually pretty interesting. Federated Media recently bought Lijit[1] which has a pretty solid ad exchange. Federated also has an exclusive deal to rep WordPress sites[2]. Combining these two things will allow buyers to access a huge swath of long and mid tail inventory programmatically through the Lijit exchange.

Its nice to see small publishers getting more options in how to monetize their sites. A healthy ad ecosystem is required ensure we all continue to get access to quality, free content.

[1] http://www.federatedmedia.net/about-copy/press/federated-med...

[2] http://www.federatedmedia.net/about-copy/press/fmp-partners-...
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You just need to provide a doctype (the html5 one is fine), IE9 is currently rendering your site as Quirks Mode.
>I won't deny that many mathematicians have a hard time expressing themselves in natural-language speech and writing.

Yes, that's exactly what I've been getting at. As I said in other comments, I respect math as a field. What I'm pointing out is that there's a heavy communication problem between math and other fields, and this is something that needs to be solved.
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"Lost my vote forever" is, I'm sure, the kind of meaningless spiel they hear everyday. It would likely have the same effect on a congressman that saying "meat is murder" has on me - instant tune-out.

A response informing the congressman of why he's wrong, citing loss of jobs and liberty while threatening innovation, all in the name of an ever-growing government keen to erode our rights in the service of special interests, would likely hit enough republican talking points to at least merit a moment's consideration. Which, at the end of the day, is probably the best you could hope for.
> Could you allow (a b c) as a synonym for { 0 a 1 b 2 c }?

Yes, of course, but all you've done is re-invent vectors.

> you lose cdr (except by copying the rest of the vector)

Copying the rest of the vector is not semantically equivalent to CDR unless you are being purely functional. But you can actually implement CDR using displaced vectors.

> You must have something in mind other than this?

Could be :-)

Try writing EVAL for a vector-based Lisp and see what happens. In particular, when you're done, make a list of all the primitives you needed to employ in order to do it. There's a deep insight at the end of this process. (No, I'm not going to tell you what it is.)
These kinds of comments may scare away large numbers of level-headed people from standing up against SOPA. Do you honestly think that the emergence of a global super-entity to serve as a niche to all kinds of low-lives is a good thing? Because if you are, then a lot of people who are aware of your position will be against whatever you stand, which of course means that you will lose potentially valuable allies against SOPA.

Let's stand against SOPA, but let's not get too radical while doing it. The Internet is not a savior of "the people" or a second coming of anything. No one will save us but ourselves.
United Nations Hacked by TeampOisoN
TeampOisoN has released a 1000+ list of usernames/passwords from the UN. Is this helping anyone?
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The TI version has an accelerometer - and a higher price tag to accompany it.
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That's kind of an inappropriate response. Pointing out one has implemented Scheme with all the bells and whistles as a condition in which the implementor is still interested in Lisp implementations and similar stuff is not a pretension or a statement that it was some kind of tremendous feat.

I have a motorcycle, but I'm still interested in not only other motorcycles, but also bicycles. I don't think this makes me a pretentious douche.
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Nobody seems to have mentioned the advantage of table literals: free syntax for ruby-style keyword arts.
Suggestion: what about a lite version?

I don't particularly want or need a watch that can display email alerts or interface with my phone or even run a program I wrote (although that last one is really slick). I have a smartphone in my pocket which does all that.

And I definitely don't want a watch whose battery I have to charge every night. Last year I changed the battery in my current watch for the first time ever. I've had it since 2001.

What I would pay money for, though, is a slick watch with a brilliant and skinnable display. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the same watch for ten years is because it (Casio Databank Telememo 30) is one of the few watches I've found with a screen at a high enough resolution to display day, date, and time all at once at a size readable from 5 feet away without looking chunky or ugly.

(No, I don't care about my watch's ability to store telephone numbers. It's a curious example of an evolutionary dead-end; the ability to store 30 telephone numbers in my watch was barely convenient, though gimmicky, when I was in high school. This is true no longer. But the fact that Casio had to design a screen capable of displaying a name and telephone number means that the screen is also capable of fulfilling my requirements above.)
The tools are there as is the platform (the Internet), its just a matter of smart people applying themselves IMO, Wikileaks was a good start, I suppose, but too radical and easy to shutdown, there are opportunities to more sustainably build on what they started. Maybe if people could turn their attention away from trying to use their engineering abilities to create crap like what Zynga does (facebook games, etc) and actually try to create some things that are worthwhile and can help society then we would be better off. Of course this doesn't happen as its not necessarily a path to becoming a millionaire and thats what most people seem to think it is important.
Awesome - added and deployed. Thanks!
Facebook just settled privacy complaint with FTC
I think the "any interesting feature" in this case is the fact it uses JSON rather than s-expressions. This may not be a feature you think it needs, but it's interesting nonetheless.
The headline's somewhat misleading. What the court seems to have ruled is that the functionality of a program or programming language can't be copyrighted. The language itself (implementation, specifically) is still copyrightable, but the concepts it implements aren't.
Lengthy post on privacy and all people want is a dislike button. Well, they are the product...
how does this compare with the stuff Terracotta is doing ?

Is this essentially Terracotta for clojure ?
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His example is really just silly. ActiveRecord is doing the right thing here, it lets you chain your methods until you do something that requires it to hit the database and actually fetch the data.
Seems to have been pulled from the UK app store. It was there this morning but no longer.

Hopefully a glitch rather than full exclusion, but my gut tells me I should have bought it this morning.
While my hiring manager experience predates GitHub, I would be more concerned in verifying that they actually did what they claimed than that I agreed with the specifics of their commits. If they got the the tasks completed, that's a Good Sign.

People lie horribly on resumes. I would not be surprised in the least to see people claiming GitHub accounts that are not their own. I have seen LinkedIn career logs from MSFT with people claiming to have done things that _I_ did back when I worked there. One of the most annoying things about phone screens was the huge number of them where it turned out the person was a complete, total liar. I spent much more time on verification than details.

After all, most decisions in the small only make sense in the context of the whole program, history, backwards compatibility needs, project plans, etc. and it would be pretty arrogant to second-guess somebody's patches to a large system without the greater context.
> Skip the book. Start a blog, add Google Ads. Done.

Spoiler: this is a very bad idea, and not an uncommon attitude among programmers. I make thousands of dollars from my technical blogs every month, and I certainly don't do so from Google Ads (it would require me to have a huge amount of traffic to pull it off).

Elsewhere you said "Custom domains are for hipsters and corporations".

At this point I'm not sure if you are serious or trolling.
He can't write code.

He publishes a blog to attempt to persuade an audience of those who can.

Before the blog, he worked with a company selling dropping domain names.

Again, he wrote no code.
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Ah. It sounded like you were mapping 2 4k pages for the allocation itself, aligning the allocation at the end of that 2-page span, and then mapping the following page and marking it as denied.
The use of the solarized colorscheme is wonderful.
The 800 pound gorilla that Google is, forcing everyone to go Social, isn't targeting tech-aware communities on the Internet. They know they wouldn't go anywhere if they were to just target the tech-aware public. So, the comment above is in general.
> cdr gets expensive

Yes, that's one thing. But do you really need CDR?

> You could represent a list as a naked array of lisp pointers, but then cons gets expensive.

Actually, it's much worse than that. CONS actually becomes impossible. (Think about it.) But maybe there's something else that you can use instead of CONS?

> And good luck garbage collecting the vectors

Why would that be a problem? Extant Lisps collect vectors just fine.
This boggles me as well, wordpress has a huge install base and them making a sanctioned plugin for these ads would give a much wider audience to advertisers. The only reason I can possibly see wordpress.com sites as the reason for the rollout is that they are doing a limited release in order to not get overwhelmed.
Yes, of course, but all you've done is re-invent vectors.

True, but only as a device to keep the playing field open for any new benefits that might spring from universal hashmaps. What are they? I don't know, that's the question. Maybe there aren't any, but that itself would be interesting as a negative result (the L in Lisp is there for a reason).

What I'd really like to know is what would complete this sequence: list:Lisp, array:APL, stack:Forth, hashmap:?. That would be really interesting, no? And no one seems to be working on it, which is surprising given the ubiquity of hashmaps in modern languages (especially JS, but also Python, Lua, etc).
Get thee to the arc forum, where the six of us will provide good entertainment: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=15422
I haven't use Lua, but that sounds exactly like JavaScript objects. JavaScript does get on very well with basically just these objects.
Is it just me that saw this and was struck by the essential wastefulness of paper? Using a smartphone to select items to print out and read on a smartphone-sized piece of paper seems like we're through the looking glass. We've been talking about the paperless office for decades, but somehow we just can't seem to get past smearing carbon on cellulose. Are Amazon going to have to give away Kindles in cereal boxes for us to finally move on?
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Ask HN: Please review my startup, skipscotch.com, our solution to online reviews
Landing page: http://skipscotch.com
Live demo: http://skipscotch.com/home/underdev

Feel free to play around with the demo, although I can't promise speed will be great. The site can be largely experienced w/o a user account, although feel free to create a temp account if you like (fake email or not). I'll delete any accounts/reviews/etc created and hide the URL again after everyone's had adequate time to play around with the site.

Some background info:
For the past 4 months, I've been developing SkipScotch, a starting point to increase credibility of online reviews. It's not the ultimate solution, but I'm thinking the structure is in place to get started down the right path. Some highlights:

- Reviews are given based on service experienced, and ratings are calculated per service offered. Currently, we are planning on the basic average of reviews to calculate ratings, but we have a more accurate weighted average designed that we'd love to implement (we'd need a decent amount of reviews for the weighted average to matter). Read about the weighted average at http://blog.skipscotch.com/2011/11/only-way-to-do-reviews-right-way-is-to.html (it's mentioned towards the end of the post)

- Reviews can be up-voted/down-voted by users. Points awarded for reviews contribute to a reviewer's 'wisdom' score

- Scoring reviews/reviewers based on quality should increase credibility of reviews in SkipScotch. We have plenty of future goals with these credibility scores, like utilizing them in a weighted average, review filter, reviewer ranks, and rewards for respected reviewers.

- Individual reviewers can be 'trusted', which provides a new trusted rating along with the public rating

- Events can exist per service and are searchable through the basic search. Examples currently implemented are trivia and karaoke nights

Reviews and ratings are randomly generated for demo purposes. Businesses and events are real and accurate. Reviews show up in each service's show page, simply so they can be experienced regardless of service visited. Our revenue model exists, but I won't get into it here. Just wanted to highlight that we haven't overlooked it.

There's 2 founders, but I'm the only developer. This has been entirely bootstrapped. I did not know RoR (what the site is built with) prior to developing SkipScotch, although I've been a full-time software engineer for 3 years. Design is also not my specialty, so I realize there may be issues with it.

I'd love any feedback you can offer, especially on strategy and product launch. I realize it'll be tough to solve the chicken and egg problem, but I have a few strategies in mind (if you have some, I'd love to hear them!).

Any signups we can get through the landing page will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact me directly at founders@skipscotch.com for any reason whatsoever. Cheers and many thanks!
Awesome!

However, when I type/paste i can see only the last line of text, it's somehow confusing. Why not to make textarea take whole height?
Is ANT+ popular in the US? I see companies like Nike promoting it, but I've never laid hands on a device supporting it (I'm in Europe).
The internet is merely an extension of our global community, with a particular focus on areas with high broadband penetration and large amounts of free time. It's not some sort of super entity.

We are still subject to the same petty and idiotic politicians as always, and will be for the foreseeable future. That's how the world works. The internet celebrates the cult of personality just as much if not more than real life.
Techcrunch "office" was the rest of his house

nice definition of "under the desk"
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Most of the time, that's true. But sometimes you'll get an unexpected or flagrant lowball, and it's important to demonstrate how out-of-place their offer is. That can mean walking out of the room, rolling your eyes, a long pause on the phone, asking "are you serious?" or any number of other negative responses. "No" doesn't have to mean "no" in negotiations.
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Clickable links:
Landing page: http://skipscotch.com

Live demo: http://skipscotch.com/home/underdev
What you describe does exist today.

I've had an Asus EP-121 for about a year now. And I absolutely love it for exactly those properties.

http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Slate_EP121/
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Who are you? Where are you based? And do you ship to the EU? :)
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No engine, it's just static HTML files generated by Jekyll. Source is here: https://github.com/robertseaton/os-blog
The goal should be to make a language less noisy, not more. We need less symbols, not more. =) Less is more. Less types of parenthesis, less commas, less semicolons.

If we can only incorporate the list-comprehension into a Lisp/Scheme language without creating a terrible mess, this is good enough, and one should stop here.

Python3 is the best thing that could happen to *comprehension syntax. Everything else, especially Clojure, is much worse, because it breaks a great pair of clarity and beauty. ^_^
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Most people I know who work all day on a farm do it because they absolutely love it and would imagine living no other life.
Disappointed! I thought this was about the craziest JavaScript runtimes (and potentially compilers), but it's a couple of JS _programs_.
Working all day with convicted criminals is both unpleasant and dangerous. Type "probation officer attacked" into google news.
You can usually get a 10% annual return by investing in regular stocks. The kind of investors who put their money in VC firms are looking for higher returns.

Let’s say I invest a million bucks in my local VC fund, and its investments earn back an annualized 15%/year over ten years. My million bucks has turned in to a little over four million. After paying the fees, I would still be about a million dollars ahead of someone who got a 10% return from a regular mutual fund.
The whining is reaching a crescendo
Is it that Siri is invaluable, or that basic voice controls are invaluable? I use my Android and its unlauded, no-big-hype voice controls to-

-navigate
-map
-send messages
-set alarms
-search

It has a very finite understanding, but it accomplishes literally everything I've ever needed to speak to my device (anything more complex would be inefficient to speak to it).

My original question should be reworded to question whether people are using the specific purported advantages of Siri. Most replies seen in here are bog standard basic voice functionality having nothing to do with the advanced natural language understanding of Siri.
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I think you a few words.
I have only 1 son who was born on a Tuesday.
Basing this on ambiguity of phrasing is not novel, or interesting.
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Interesting take on ibm article on node.js here -http://wkp.me/wkk6g . Note - this is a different article than the one posted above.
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I wish it was a startup related to scotch. Anyway...

Wisdom isn't a metric I trust if it's just users voting each other up. Seems like something a few spammers could easily game, right? Also, what does skipping to something do?
Here is what I have to think about unity:

Global Menu : 4/5 Some glitches here & there but overall I like them
Indicators : 4/5 Nice but they need to be a bit more stable
Launcher : 3/5 Needs to b configurable, more stable
Dash : 1/5 Needs to be fast/configurable and should be only
a program finder/launcher, lenses are idiotic and
a step back in UX
ALT-TAB Switcher : -5/5 ABOMINATION

I am still using Ubuntu(and will keep using it for foreseeable future), but switched to OpenBox.
"Extant Lisps collect vectors just fine."

But they don't permit pointers inside the vectors, do they? I think if you permit internal pointers so you can have copyless cdr, computing reachability would get really expensive.
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Yes and no. Watching the video, the biggest part of the pitch is the emotional appeal: small snippets of your digital life that you can take with you anywhere (or pack with your loved one's lunch) and enjoy away from the screens that we stare at all day. It stands out because it's an anachronism, and that would be much less powerful a decade ago.
They're similar, but the Lua form is much cleaner. In particular, JS objects only permit string keys, which makes Arrays sort of preposterous; they also have other baggage related to the prototype system. Lua tables can have any type except nil (which is not truly first-class in Lua) as keys, and can also have "metatables", which are of similar or greater power to the latter baggage but semantically somewhat simpler. To me this makes a world of difference.
CarrierIQ released a response to TrevE's initial post at:

http://www.carrieriq.com/Media_Alert_User_Experience_Matters...

However, at the same time, they had carrier-oriented screenshots of their products detailing a scary level of information about devices and users.

It appears that they done some "tidying" up of their site in the past few days. Their Device Manager product page had high resolution images of the scary data their product collects. They've since been replaced, and I can't find the same great screenshots chock full of information that is directly contrary to their statement.
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Freedom was not nor ever will be won with words. Freedom is won from the barrell of a gun. words only have power when they are from someone ready to use action if they have no effect.
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I've always felt that blogs that have Amazon affiliate links should be held to a higher standard.

I've seen way too many poorly thrown together blog posts about the top 10 CS books to read, that I have my finger on the back button when looking at those types of links because past experience has taught me that 90% of them are just put together so they can put Amazon affiliate links on the books.

The rule of thumb I use is that if each blog post I see on the site has an Amazon affiliate link then the blog is probably trying to spam me and they'll have a harder time of keeping me there.

Some blogs do succeed via their tremendous writing.

Is it just me or do others feel this way? Does anyone else care at all if affiliate links are all over a blog page?