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>software for example moves too quickly for this to be effective.

It's not just software. Progress as a whole is moving way too fast to justify ANY
temporal monopolies over inventions. The curve of technological advancement is
probably roughly exponential. The more we discover, the faster we can discover
more things. We're sacrificing the advancement of the entirety of mankind for
the profit of a few corporations.

>The only mechanism that is available to gov't to compensate an inventor is to grant a temporary monopoly.

Utterly wrong. A lot of research (including the worst example, the pharma industry)
is funded directly or indirectly by the government, full or in part. Quite a lot
of research is done by universities in cooperation with the industry. It's nonsense
to imply that patents are the only viable solutions. They aren't, and they are probably
the worst solution anybody could come up with. They are a crutch and an impediment to
mankind as a whole.

On your miracle drug: highly contrived example. Most pharma research is, at least in good part,
funded by the public through the government. In addition, a very large part of the cost of a drug
is marketing. Yes, that's right - the pharma industry spends billions on ads.

In addition, this model is fundamentally flawed. It's a lot more profitable to develop treatments
(for symptoms etc) than it is to develop cures. I'd wager that without this nonsensical system,
we could already have a solution to AIDS and severely reduced the lethality of cancer.

Also, I do not care how many billions went into the development of a drug. A human life is
infinitely worth more than that. I get sick when I see corporations whining about their
"intellectual property getting stolen" when developing countries decide to produce generic
clones to save human lives, like recently the case in India.

Again, I simply reject the notion that there needs to (and in fact, that there can)
be any sort of artificial monopolies
or other forms of ownership over inventions and technologies. By getting rid of this
paradoxical and, frankly, unethical system, we would gain a monumental speed-up in
technological progress. I postulate we could be colonizing the solar system by now if we'd
never allowed this system to emerge.

As a final note, it's funny how you accuse me of thinking in the short term - that couldn't
be any more wrong. If anything, I fight for the prolonged future of humanity, decades and
centuries from now. The patent system is utterly unsustainable in light of this.

People will eventually look back at this system and ask themselves how we could ever allow
ownership over abstract concepts. They will shake their heads at the notion of intellectual
property while freely accessing, using and improving upon the shared heritage of all mankind. I
hope this day isn't far away - it can't come fast enough.
Say something positive about them and move on.
So true. We (engineers) most of the time miss the point in design, and think of it as a technical field which is so not true. It takes practice, a keen eye and lots of theory in order to be able to craft serious designs.

It's almost like saying "Buy a bunch of books, learn Autocad and you'll be an architect in no time"
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Can you change the title to match the actual article? I belive that the Hacker News guidelines suggest to keep the submission title as close as possible to the new one. (esp. in cases like "exhaustively researched")
Fair enough and absolutely true in principle, but I don't think "here are its pros and cons" is the message being conveyed.

Rich Hickey might be very humble in person, and I don't think this blog post is necessarily arrogant (but you're also not going to convince me it's humble).

I'm not really complaining about a lack of humility or even about Rich Hickey. I just feel like Clojure is one of those languages caught up in a sort of Cult of Awesomeness, where people feel obligated to lionize the pros and downplay or omit the cons and the contributions of others.

I don't really want to use a language that's being driven by that. Maybe I'm mistaken about Clojure fitting that description, and maybe meeting Rich Hickey would set me straight, but I still think it's a reasonable perception to take away from this blog post.
I make no claims to novelty, and the blog post does link to http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Enumerator_and_iteratee, the most similar work and a clear influence. If more people knew about Iteratee, it would be worth spending more time talking about the connections and contrasts, but they don't, and knowledge of it is not prerequisite to understanding reducers. No one helped me write the code.
I think he's just asking for a flash fall-back if native playback through HTML5 isn't supported. Maybe that is what "fall-forwards" already meant, but I'm not too familiar with that term...
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>Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

To be formatted and have (pirated?) Windows installed.

We saw the same story unfold with those Walmart Linux PC et al...
Google would like you to believe that everyone stopped innovating when they did. There's actually a thriving market for site search but very little of it is for free. Check out SLI which has been doing cool stuff in this space for years. http://www.sli-systems.com/solutions/site-search
Despite Lincoln having four sons sadly he has no living descendants. His line ended 1985 with the death of his 81 year old great-grandson.

There is a disputed descendent, born 1968 and today living in Florida, but his DNA was never tested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Lincoln_Beckwith
Yeah, we're pre-beta launch, haha.

Thanks for the heads up!

Update: I've made a note of it in our tracker, but we're making a conscious decision to support HTML 5 primarily, and it's HTML 5 history state that's breaking here. I'm going to investigate a polyfill/shim that should make this work in FF3.
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to the exclusion of the citizenry in general

If I'm sick, I want a doctor. If I want to know how to shoot pie-sized targets at 500 meters, I'll find a Marine.

Life in the 21st century is complicated, seeking opinions from people in a given field is required if one is to know one's [redacted] from a hole in the ground.

arguments are to be judged in themselves, not based on the expertise of who's making them.

Arguments are context-free? Okay.

Skimming the linked article I found the arguments themselves to be less than persuasive.
Read your article. That's not at all what it's supposed to mean. A functional programming language is one which uses the λ-calculus as its base model of computation. PHP has first-class functions. PHP is not a functional language.
I think Haskell's lazy evaluation may make more difficult to verify formally because execution time and memory usage are less predictable.
How is a union a regulation? A union is a contractual obligation between workers that they will only work under certain conditions.
that's fair enough. But let's be clear. Just because I always skip the first chapter of my stereo's documentation ("turning on your stereo") since it's so obvious how to connect things and turn it on, all the ports are very clearly labeled, etc, that does not mean that any stereo manual can be considered good if it does not include that chapter :)

I think I'm basically not winning any friends with this line of thinking, but I just see this as a long, recurring problem. It would be the same with a certain open source movement's long-standing alternative to a certain very well entranched operating system: they are horizontal substitutes for each other, and yet people who are expert on the entrenched system (power users, even) have given up on the open source alternative, because they "could not turn it on". (Get to the same place they get to after a fresh install of their entrenched operating system).

I'm not going to say more because these are (whatever those-things-that-are-landmines-floating-in-water are called)-filled waters.
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At my company, in addition to having a need to index our own content, we also have a need to index content of a few other partner organizations. Does Swiftype have functionality in place to help out in this scenario?

As an example: We are foo.org but are also partnered with bar.org and baz.org. A search for "code awareness" should return a result from either of the three websites.
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There is one thing that helps about C and C++. In a safety-critical system, the entire runtime has to be certified. This isn't a problem for C and C++ because their runtimes are very minimal. DO-178b Level A-certified implementations of the standard libraries exist for various real-time operating systems. As long as you use them, you're golden.

However, any system that runs on top of a virtual machine is problematic because of how extensive their runtimes are. Developing an efficient and competitive DO-178b-certified JVM, for example, would be a huge undertaking, but so would modifying an existing JVM.

Further, anything garbage collected is a problem because you can't have any situations where a timing constraint is violated because of your garbage collector. The best way to prevent this would be to schedule, say, 50 milliseconds every second for garbage collection. But there's still a limit there where the GC can no longer keep up with the rate of garbage production, which could lead to your application running out of memory and failing. Proving that your application will never reach said limit would be hard either by static or dynamic analysis.
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Or (re)invented capitalism?

Vouchers == Church Indulgences == Dollars
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Tools for measuring code "complexity" already exist. Cyclomatic Complexity is a popular metric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

checkstyle is a Java lint that, among other things, can check code complexity:

http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_metrics.html
In practical terms, little to no money is likely made from that float - it's more than likely that any money they could make, would be offset by the losses from chargebacks/fraud/mistakes and the operational risk costs of the transactions (for example the risk that while the float is being held one of the two banks declares bankruptcy). I would suspect as well that the float money would be limited in terms of what the bank can use it for in terms of short term investments as it might well fall into regulations regarding the bank's capital reserve requirements as the money doesn't technically belong to the bank at that point.

I'll say though that retail banking is not my area - I work with derivatives and risk.

For what it's worth, I've got no beef at all with someone trying to do ACH better. I just think that for Dwolla to claim that they'll be able to do so is either massive hubris or massive naivety, neither of which I want in my payment processor. They're a tiny company backed by a small company, and that does not bode well for their ability to deal with operational risk when they're talking about these sort of ventures.
Hey, I wasn't trying to oversell this with the headline, but it really seemed like this was the memory leak that had been patched. (I especially wasnt trying to undermine the rest of the awesome work that you guys at Memshrink is doing)
And I feel the pain of this system when I travel to the UK. I live in Belfast 1/3 of the year and there isn't a single American bank that will issue me a chip-n-pin card. I haven't investigated how hard it would be to set up a UK credit card. Large stores usually accept American cards but I've had many smaller shops tell me they can't do a swipe anymore.
I remember battlechess being a novelty, but once you had seen the animations that was pretty much it.

I don't see the real advantage to an avid chess player
> accidents in small plains

Quick development has its drawbacks as well, as you so beautifully demonstrated.
Entire article? He didn't even read the bold teaser, evidently. That was, indeed, the entire point of the article.

There are a few sites that tptacek will insta-contrarian on HN. Torrentfreak is one of them. You know the xkcd comic about someone is wrong on the internet? Substitute "being wrong" for "generating rageviews with libertarian nerds" and that is tptacek.

"Despite the widespread availability of pirated releases, The Avengers just scored a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend at the box office. While some are baffled to see that piracy failed to crush the movie’s profits, it’s really not that surprising. Claiming a camcorded copy of a movie seriously impacts box office attendance is the same as arguing that concert bootlegs stop people from seeing artists on stage."
>"improving consumer choice by making alternatives more viable"

And that's exactly what they're afraid of.
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Very true. A standard Barclays business account (or at least my one) come with a transfer limit of £250,000.
So I guess that makes Lincoln more of a Diaspora guy than a Zuckerberg.
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"Though some have dubbed Pair 'the perfect sexting app,' co-founder Oleg Kostour says the most-common activity on the app is actually doodling."

Anything to share about what people are doodling?
Hmmm, yeah, that is a potential reason I suppose. What better way to find out exactly how to disrupt your disruptor (likely via regulation) than working hand in hand with them? I'm not quite sure I buy it, but it certainly wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility for banks.
Projecting sinister and conspiratorial motives on banks has been a popular fad these last 3 years, but I don't really see why this is necessary to explain their actions here. There's nothing necessarily sinister about working with people introducing new ways to do your old business. Actually, that's what you want banks to do.
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That's exactly what I thought. A system similar to Facebook but in a decentralised way!
Your point is a complete non-sequitur in this thread. Lumping Ruby on Rails, Lisp and NoSQL together is non-sensical. One is a framework for building web applications, the other is a family of programming languages with over 50 years of history, and "NoSQL" is a bad name for highly scalable data storage methods which abandon the relational model.
Exactly. It always amazes me that so many engineers dismiss attempting to learn about design. It amazes me because, in so many ways, engineering IS design. You can't really untangle the two. A well engineered application is a well designed one. They both inform and guide each other.
MISRA C is a restricted subset of C designed by the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association for use in automotive and embedded systems.

http://www.misra-c.com/Activities/MISRAC/tabid/160/Default.a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
Then they will lose the advantage of an autonomous car.
Kevin Smith just mentioned this on reddit today as well.

"I like both, but it doesn't matter what I think, as the last 35mm film camera rolled off the assembly line months back and most studios are ceasing print distribution altogether: first overseas, then domestically."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tcxgh/i_am_thekevin_sm...
For those wondering about the Tax issue, I doubt that is the case because of: http://sivers.org/trust

He put the company into a charitable trust, which isn't ever taxed except for on what he receives from the trust, which is set to the lowest amount possible.
"Douchebag" is gendered, I guess. It's not clear to me that it's sexist. In common usage, it virtually always refers to a man. The actual relation to a "douche" is mostly vestigial.

I think you have to let this one go. Fighting against linguistic churn as a proxy for "sexism" seems to me like it hurts more than it helps, as it feeds the "PC feminazi" meme. There are better fights to pick than this one.
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If Lincoln was as honest and ethical as history tells us he was, I doubt he would support a guy like Zuckerberg, and certain other backers of FB with whom FB users are not so familiar.
> there are still plenty of cases -- students going to exams, book that depend on exact layout, etc -- where ebooks are no substitute.

Quite. Does anyone yet make an ereader that can safely and sanely be used in the bath?
They are authentication tokens -- put your debit card in and it generates a login code after you input your PIN instead of using a password --.

Info: https://www.abnamro.nl/en/prive/slimbankieren/edentifier2/ve...

Picture:
http://www.abnamro.nl/en/prive/slimbankieren/edentifier2/vis...
It turns out that Abe does hold a patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6469

But it's patent #6469 for "A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals" There are other Lincolns in the patent database, but none of them appear to have a patent for Facebook:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ininventor:%22ABRAHAM+LINCOL...

I guess it does say that this patent was rejected, but this does seem somewhat suspicious that there are no records of it to be found.
Thank you for posting this! I'm working on a project right now which faces similar issues -- in the US there are similar laws about selling items in games (COPPA) that are now being applied to mobile games in addition to the web: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/08/settlement-with-f...
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Use Haskell+Agda to generate a subset of C. You also don't seem to understand what formal verification means. It's a verification of correctness, not resources.
is it just me, or do the vast majority of the passwords appear to be the default randomly generated passwords? How many of these accounts are even active?
At the avengers screening I saw at midnight, it was like an oven in the theatre. That's not the best idea with a room full of comic book nerds. In theory, as long as the lamp is as bright as the movie it would make the movies really dim for anybody recording it.
Why 55k? Gotta wonder where those specific accounts came from
Well besides the implicit parallelism of fold, wouldn't this be generally useful to reduce intermediate list creation? Or do lazy-seqs already solve that problem?
We do support multiple domains and even diverse types of sources (crawl and API in a single engine). Unfortunately we don't have it exposed in the interface just yet! We will get that turned on in the next day or so.
If you were looking for harder problems, I would suggest buying one of the books recommended on the home page. Kleinberg & Tardos Algorithm Design for example was used in an algorithms class I took, and the questions after each chapter were used for both homework and exams. I found them very challenging.
Any info on how exactly this was accomplished?
A lot of ideas are just rehashing of old things applied to new circumstances. This is kinda surprising though!
Another male here.

I agree with the bad choice of the word "douchebag", which seems juvenile, but I disagree with it a) being sexist, and b) the general idea that swear words are somehow generically "childish" or "unprofessional". It's puritan approach to language, and largely an American issue. In fact, I would call that particular attitude "childish".

There's nothing inherently wrong with swearing in an opinion piece.
Yeah, I'm seeing alot of randomly generated numbers as passwords -- is that the twitter default?
Any idea where these came from? Was Twitter actually hacked somehow (and if so, why only 55k)? Or was 3rd-party software that collected Twitter credentials hacked? Can 3rd-party software even collect credentials at all or is OAuth the only authentication flow that works today?
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Wow. I do not recognize your description of factories, economics, or political systems. iPads are made in China, governed by the Communist Party of China. They have migrated from a planned economy to one of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Is this a communist factory?

I think you are confusing a "planned economy" with "communism." But even then, there is nothing in the definition of a planned economy to say that all people in a certain position have the same daily wage. The Soviet union had an incentive system. For example, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668134908409742 says "encourages the foremost collective farmers by means of adding extra labour-days."

You idealize the idea of the piece-rate system, without realizing that that's the system used in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. Read in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_reform_in_the_Soviet_Union... how the Khrushchev era reform movement pushed to move from a quota system to "standardising their wages and reducing their dependence on overtime or bonus payments."

From that page, "The piece-rate system led to an enormous level of bureaucracy and contributed to huge inefficiencies in Soviet industry. In addition, factory managers frequently manipulated the personal production quotas given to workers to prevent workers' wages from falling too low."

So it seem that your "capitalist factory" is using the same piece-system incentive system as used during the Soviet era, which is about as communist as you can get.

I also think you are confusing "capitalist" with "meritocracy." The US during the period of slavery was under laissez-faire capitalism, but quite obviously slaves did not enjoy the same benefits which you attribute to capitalism, and a slave working the same job, with the same abilities as a free man was unlikely to make the same rates.

You write "Obviously, the people who are happy with $100 per day are now pissed off, either because they don't want or simply can't work that hard." Or they might put their family life ahead of the company's bottom line and think that 40 hours of week is enough even if some people want to work 80 hour weeks.

Finally, you wrote "The only ones benefiting from communism are those who make the laws and control the factories/country." There's nothing unique to communism there. The same holds with capitalism. If only the richest 1% in a capitalist country make the laws and control the factories/country, then it's very likely that they are benefiting the most. The economic system and the form of government are not as strongly coupled as you suggest.
The passwords in the linked pages look far too random for humans to have chosen. My guess: either they're a spammer's account list, or this is a hoax.

Edit: There are twitter accounts to match the usernames - the few I checked were bots. I won't test the passwords.
> contractual obligation

In what country? In the US, most are mandated by law. All government jobs are union, regardless of the wishes of the worker.

Contracts are mutually consented to. If it's a union job, you have to be a part of the union. How is forcing workers to do something they do not want beneficial?

I'm all for unions where someone can join and leave freely without the threat of force or loss of work. Do we have that in the US? No.
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