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> the irb shell is not a real REPL.

What is a true repl?

loop { puts eval(gets) }

is a REPL. Just because you don't like what irb has to offer doesn't mean you get to define what REPL is.

> You can also do stuff like retrieve a database entry as a CLOS object and inspect or manipulate it

That's great. Just like you can retrieve database entries as activerecord objects.

> While I was taking SaaS-class, I missed the parentheses and as always, I got curious: how would Common Lisp compare?

For a regular CRUD task, Common Lisp compares badly. You say Rails convention is a steep learning curve, but I don't see how your folder structure is any easier to grok than Rails' if I am not already familiar with it. As far as naming convnetion goes, that might bite you sometimes when you are just starting, but use generators and "do as what is already done" and you will be good.

Common Lisp has its niceties - generally produces fast code, some abstractions are better done with macros etc. But for now, when compared to Rails for a regular CRUD app, it isn't going to look good. Someone can alwasy write Rails for Common Lisp, and then implement all plugins which ease development(devise, kaminari, paperclip...) - but no one has yet.
>Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major.

You're just wrong about this. Introductory calc classes are some of the larger classes offered at a lot of universities.
Impressive. However, the first thing that comes to mind is "where do the data links exit the bunker, physically?" What good is logical redundancy if all the optical links are physically located next to each other? [Enter fiber-seeking backhoe]

Also, what good is a blast door if the links aren't blast-proof when on the outside? All that gets you in the case of a strike is a bunch of unreachable servers, although still possibly functional.
I agree that human metamorphosis is extremely interesting, but this line I really don't get:

> Consciousness is mortally bound to the physical body, and will die along with it regardless of how many mental copies are made.

I don't understand how you can put out a statement like that, like it's taken for granted or something. It's far from granted, and I've never heard of something remotely approaching a proof for this type of assertion. To my mind it's the same kind of reasoning which proved we would never fly, nor go to space.

It's an open problem. Please keep it that way until we know more.

We don't have the proper tools to understand consciousness in a scientific way yet (consider the extremely limitations of EEG and MRI) For those interested in this philosophical question, there's an area called Philosophy of Mind [0] which deals with this and related questions.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
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This talk[1] by sogrady (originally presented at FOSDEM 2012) has a lot of interesting statistics demonstrating the popularity of JVM-based languages, and how they have been growing. The numbers come from sources including HN, GitHub, Indeed.com and Ohloh. Definitely worth a glance through.

[1] http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem2012.pdf
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Ahhh, I see. Good thinking :) You've probably already considered it, but the other option is to put a SELECTED attribute in the element you want to be selected by default.
Am I doing the math right?

150,000,000 km (distance from sun to earth)

1,000 km/sec (speed this thing is traveling)

2,500 minutes (time it takes to get here)

41.67 hours

1.74 days

This is a lot faster than the post said it would take.
As anecdotal/non-scientific polling and researching, this is certainly interesting. Perhaps the big take away for me is the OP's note that the JVM rather than CLR has become a big target for emergent languages where a few years ago CLR was billed as the future of cross platform endeavors. (Note that at least one of the Big Three, Clojure, now also targets CLR in a branched project.)

Slightly disappointing is the fact that while Clojure scores highly among developers it doesn't seem to have made a proportionally large impact on the commercial space. However it's important to note that the OP only draws these conclusions from one source, Indeed.com, and I have to wonder how representative this is of the kinds of companies that might be hiring for Clojure related jobs: in other words, would they be on Indeed.com's radar at all?

Finally, can we really draw any significant conclusions from these non-scientific points? Probably not, but it is interesting to wonder: there seems to be a good deal of momentum behind the JVM at this point and it will be an interesting, exciting future if Groovy/Scala/Clojure become leading languages. (Even more interesting is the prospect that they might all end up being leading languages...)
I view self as an instance of an object.
Harder is an understatement =)

The bubbles don't solve Steiner Trees per se, they just give decent approximations. They are susceptible to local minimums. Scott Aaronson has given demonstrations against these claims.
> Great. Now there is a digital copy of your mind. So what? You still get to die.

You get to do both. The concept of "you" changes once there is a copy, see the Ship of Theseus [1]. Each post-you entity has a legitimate claim to being pre-you. The copy woke up that morning, ate your breakfeast, went to the uploading clinic, and went to sleep as a digital being. The copy has perfect continuity. The biological you on the other hand stayed biological and will die.

A gradual replacement doesn't change the fundamentals, the biological you has to die. The gradual replacement just makes for an unusual twilight, its mind commingled with an arising digital being.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Data visualization is a deep science and tightly related to business intelligence. It always start with data. You first list them as a simple table (raw data) and then you decide how best to show it to the world. So you start aggregating, clustering, ranking etc to refine the data and come to conclusions yourself.

Once you come to conclusion, you keep rethinking and validating that these are the right conclusions and once confirmed the next challenge is how to articulate your conclusions to the world.

You then go to your designer and give enough information to be translated to infographics/dashboard. You see it is a very involved process.

I always think my data can be easily converted to a bar chart, line or pie chart. Rest all are variations of the same. If you have a third dimension then you go to bubble or scatter charts. So visualization without data is just a wireframe
In terms of usability, how does this compare to leaving the ordering unchanged and instead setting 10 as the initially-selected choice?
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It isn't about degree of similarity.

If I don't have access to their mental state, they are not me. I think I am like an instance of an object, and my identity is related to my path through space and time. To be me, they'd have to be standing where I stand, and have stood where I stood.

A 100% copy of the mona lisa is still not the mona lisa--it lacks the history.
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With sufficient processing power, they could hamper this by tracking the region that each number is. If a plate pops up over the other side of town too quickly, or fails to pass through intermediate sectors, it could raise a flag.
Why do all löve articles get spammed about moai here?

Apart from lua, they have nothing in common, different target, different goal. Both can be successful in their own niche.

I use löve for teaching, there is no way I would have considered moai for a first application of my algorithmic course! And frankly, I do not care about "serious users".
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> eliminating coding will eventually be realized
> people will still need to know how to program

I think that by coding, you mean typing? In your example, we won't be eliminating coding, we'll just be entering code using a different language.
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So.. HFT then?
That is great for the copy, but not helpful for me. Death of my consciousness can't inflict a new identity on the copy. The copy is a copy--he's awesome, just like me, but not me because I am dead.
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Hmm...the host in question is a tiny VM, and the resource usage by dropboxd is negligible (<10 MB of memory, CPU usage ~0.00, in my case); if you don't believe in hearsay, try it out for yourself ;) The daemon runs completely user-side - there's no need to do anything as root, let alone store passwords (you do need to store the Dropbox auth token, so that the daemon can re-login into DB; this is more secure than storing passwords, and doesn't give you access from anywhere else). The daemon only requires shell access on install - after that, it's a completely hands-off solution.

Still not sure how you'd imagine the integration - the markdown pages would be processed into HTML on the server?
If you select courses for the easiest route to a degree, you won't be that employable.

I've never seen evidence that specific courses matter much for employment post college. Do you have data on this?
Interesting point, thank you!
Yes grubwithus is doing something similar, nobody really owns this space yet though. I would reconsider the name, the word "strangers" doesn't help with people's anxiety towards meeting new people or hosting dinners. One thing is for sure, most people like to eat and most people like good company, good stuff.
It will be interesting to see if they found a way to deal with the reported heat issues related to ivy-bridge. Supposedly it was related to cheap thermal paste. If that is the case this is going to be a really sweet machine.
Hue is one of my latest hobby projects that didn’t die after a week.

I guess that with yet another project Rasmus won't be working anytime soon on Kod[1]…

[1] https://github.com/rsms/kod
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Wow, and I thought this was going to be uplifting.

Pun intended? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction)
There might be a slight misspelling in the article ;-)
Overall I like it. I do agree that hosting it at your house is going to be a big barrier of entry. I WOULD do a dinner with random people but NOT in my house! Also after I signed up and added a party, there was really no clear indication of where to go next. I didn't get any confirmation or messaging or next steps. I had to go back to the dashboard and figure out that I might get an email by the 15th of the month. Is it fully functionally? Am I going to get an email tomorrow with up to five people? And what about couples ? How are you appealing to them? Couples might be more likely to do this (for example if a new couple moved to a new town), might get rid of the 'brave' factor.
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violence means very little in the context of corporations, since they're not people.
I cherish the VLC.app for iPad that was pulled from the AppStore! It's just great to copy a movie in the app folder and know it will play in VLC without any conversion, etc.

It's actually the reason we stopped taking the laptop while away for the weekend. I just put a movie on the iPad for VLC and we are good to go.

Edit: But the new VLC on OSX is horrible. Had to revert to the older version, mostly due to the way on-screen-display changed.
I strongly disagree. The vast majority of Racket code I've looked at would be far easier to translate into, say, Common Lisp than Haskell (or Erlang, which is probably a more illustrative example since it has dynamic typing). Emacs Lisp is pretty different because it doesn't have lexical scoping and it's only really used in the Emacs runtime environment (although it resembles Common Lisp syntactically), but programs written in Racket, Common Lisp, and Clojure (and other LISP dialects that support lexical scoping and macros) tend to be way more similar to each other than are programs written in Racket and languages we traditionally think of as functional. If you're still not convinced, I'm sure a bit of digging online would reveal way more crossover between Racket and other LISP dialects by the same developers than you get with Haskell or ML developers crossing over to Racket.

As for your parenthetical add-on, I'm not bashing LISPs at all. I think Racket is a beautiful language, in part precisely because it has the power of a LISP dialect. As for your second point, using the capitalized form is the only unambiguous word that refers to the family because many developers in the Common Lisp community use Lisp to mean CL. The reddit style "do yourself a favor" and ill-formed judgments about people's "limited knowledge" are way less constructive than asking "why did you use that spelling." Please keep discussions on HN objective and civil.
The only heat issues were when the chips were overclocked. At standard voltages and clock rates, the chips were fine.
I volunteer at the Public Knowledge Foundation (an Israeli version of The Sunlight Foundation), we develop and maintain oknesset.org (like opencongress.org). For the past couple months we've been researching the possibility of representing Israeli law as a git repository, so that oknesset.org can visualize the diff to a law a bill proposal represents, and track it as a branch until it is merged into law. Since Israel is a relatively young and small country the number of laws and changes is orders of magnitude smaller than most western/democratic countries which publicize the legislative process. Israel's legislative branch is unicameral so the process itself is relatively straightforward; supposedly we'd be a good test case. We already have quite a lot of insight but in general it seems that git (and generally, any VCS) has significant impedance mismatch with the legislative process, specifically regarding the ability to compile/link all the different laws into one comprehensive database representing the law. One prominent example is the existence of multiple timelines of ratification. There are at least three dates relevant to the ratification of bills:

1. Date of third (and final) vote = the date the parliament has voted a bill as law

2. Date of publication (for technical reasons this might not coincide with the vote date)

3. Date of validity - a bill is usually passed with a date of validity, between the date of publication and validity the bill is not formally law yet. Sometimes there are separate dates of validity for separate parts of the bill. To make matters more complicated, dates of validity can be changed when the bill designates government ministers with the authority to change them (the dates).

Also, in Israel many laws never "make it" to their date of validity since the yearly Law of Arrangements (http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/hesderim_eng.htm) decides which laws passed in the previous year have proper funding, such that officially some laws get "punted" into the future, possibly indefinitely. It gets quite confusing because from a legal point of view, the dates that are relevant to the justice system (as in, when a bill is relevant or not to the court) are usually the date of voting, whereas when it comes to government the third date is the important one.

We are still moving forward with our initiative, but it seems that for now there are no version control systems which are a good solution to the law management problem.

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> I want to inject nanorobots into my body which will transform it gradually, cell by cell into an improved synthetic one. In this way, immortality and superhumanity can be achieved without loss of continuity.

Just last night I thought about this and went to sleep in despair :>

If someone scans my brain, builds an artificial copy, instantly cuts out my brain and inserts the new one, I clearly die (because I got my brain/me cut out) and my copy lives on. From the outside, I'm the same, but the first me died.

So instead, I get my neurons replaced with artificial ones, one at a time. If I drink a few beers, brain cells die but I'm still conscious. So gradually replacing my neurons one by one should be no problem; there clearly is no loss of continuity, I'm still me.

But what's the difference? Let's assume one neuron is replaced every second. No problem, nice and gradual. What if it's one every millisecond, every picosecond? Should make no difference, because it's still one by one. But, the faster you do it, the more it approaches "instant". And instantly replacing all my brain cells is the same as replacing my whole brain. Thus, I'm dead and my copy lives on...
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It's funny in a discussion of ethics to end with a sidenote about how the author wasn't making any money off paid referrals from his (inflated?) positive review of the system.
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That's not the only answer it accepts.

I'm stuck on "india". Edit: Got it. On to the next one.
Lulz I've been using Gimp for 10+ years. Where are the tools to make infographics like in the video?
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I think it's more common with larger companies and the corresponding 9-to-5 attitude.

I work for as architect for a small consultancy/software-development company and I'm paid the same salary no matter how many hours I actually work. Contract says 40 h/week, but there are weeks when I reach the 40 on wednesday. MIght be able to work less than 40 hours when times are not as stressful (haha), but the average has to be clearly above 40 h/week.
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pcworld.co.uk is a very reputable company here in the UK so I would not expect them to damage their reputation by harvesting email in this way for 'dodgy' reasons but it is not nice to simply ask you to hand over an email address without specifically saying 'it will not be used for purposes other then x y and z and will not be provided to 3rd party companies etc.'
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On the other hand, if you can't save money, spending it recklessly is much more likely. Politicians who choose not to spend money now cannot expect to choose to spend it later (due to the uncertainty of being reelected), which creates a strong incentive to just spend it. It would be a rare politician who could be elected repeatedly while running on a policy of saving money for the next generation's government to spend.
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True, but in that case, the motivation for having a copy in the first place gets a lot lower.

It isn't immortality. At most it's another version you create so your friends and family don't have to give you up. Which I can see being pretty motivating... but on the other hand, I can see the friends and family being totally unwilling to have a meaningful relationship with a second, slightly-diverged person after the first one died. And then the copy would be lonely. :-(
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Facts that reconcile this article with what we already know:

1. The Greek labour market is inefficient. That is why so many people work in small (inefficient) shops. Closed shop regulation for many professions lock people out of high wage occupations. Next to Portugal's 28% high school graduation rate [1] Greece's recent progress (<50% of 25-64 year olds completing high school in 1997 versus 61% today [2]) is valiant but the leaves an uneducated, unproductive generation untouched. It also doesn't account for Greeks' shorter working years.

2. Doing business is tough. Here is an anecdote from a financial commentator in Athens:

"My friend explained that the owner of the bookstore/café couldn’t get a license to provide coffee. She had tried to just buy a coffee machine and give the coffee away for free, thinking that lingering patrons would boost book sales. However, giving away coffee was illegal as well. Instead, the owner had to strike a deal with a bar across the street, whereby they make the coffee and the waitress spends all day shuttling between the bar and the bookstore/café. My friend also explained to me that books could not be purchased at the bookstore, as it was after 18h and it is illegal to sell books in Greece beyond that hour. I was in a bookstore/café that could neither sell books nor make coffee." [3]

3. The government used cheap loans not for infrastructure or reform, but to pay public servants and build a military.

4. The government lied about its finances and is depravedly corrupt.

[1] http://m.upi.com/m/story/UPI-16361301069117/

[2] http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/21/48657344.pdf

[3] http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/36085/
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Ligthen up. It's a project done in 6 hours. Judge it at that. Why do you need to be so hostile? Don't use it if you don't want to.

And no I have no affiliation with the guys and think it's totally fine to be critical, but give the guy a break you speak to them as if they are immature brats.
It may sound like spouting hyperbolae based on inaccuracies to you but to many it is a genuine concern. You avoided answering my questions about the delivery of your 'fucking huge splash page' being in any way a protected right, so it is less of a fact and more of an act of faith on your part. The very existence of the IWS lists already denies that right by precedent.

What I have been trying to say, perhaps clumsily, is that accepting the precedent of censorship on the basis of something offending someone seems like a very bad idea to me. Anyone can, and will, claim to be offended by almost anything, especially if it offers them an easy opportunity of hampering a competitor. The polititians too are only human, after all, and get easily offended by effective criticism.

I am glad you said somewhere that you think it is a bad idea because all I can see coming from you is that it is just fine because it can be turned off.