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Well, component.io (http://component.io) is such a system. You have a choice of routers (page.js is a very express-like option that works well), and you can pick and choose what other components to build into your application.

Components are self-contained packages of html/css/js based on CommonJS modules and compiled using node.

I use grunt-component-build along with grunt-contrib-watch to rebuild the css/js files on each change.

I've been using W3C standards (DOM) as much as possible to keep third-party dependencies at a minimum, with shimming where required for cross browser support.

An effects library that doesn't require jQuery would be a good addition to that environment. (Nothing against jQuery, but I want to leave out a selector engine on platforms that don't need it and just use the support in the browser.)
I wrote sonnets as part of the English curriculum in high school, and I graduated relatively recently (2007).
Still, most of Reddit's political frontpage posts are along the lines of "We can't have cute puppies on the frontpage anymore because Republicans just kill them and drink their blood".
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"A number of [larger] companies are getting paid for the information. If you go establish a tap on Google’s network, they will charge X amount per month. Usually the government pays it."

This is directly contrary to what every "larger" company has repeatedly stated in response to Prism. People actually think that the companies are not only forced to keep silent, but release public statements lying?
I don't see anything in that article about the domain being seized as a result of a patent lawsuit.

Let's assume that's happened before anyway..

What if you use a foreign domain name?

What are the non-US based methods of receiving payment online?

Are there any viable foreign servers that are fast enough to service the US but whose country does not have patent agreements with the US?
> Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day.

Be that as it may, Nate Silver is actually thoughtful, articulate, and well-reasoned - three words which do not describe /r/politics, etc.

It's not just a matter of which opinions one holds; it's a matter of how intelligently one expresses them and defends them with data and evidence.

(The irony with Reddit's love of FiveThirtyEight - and with the right-wing criticism of FiveThirtyEight being 'partisan' during the 2012 election cycle - is that Nate Silver is not himself an entirely left-wing person as much as people often thing. You'd have to dig pretty deep back into the archives of pre-NYT FiveThirtyEight to notice this, but he holds rather somewhat moderate or right-wing views on a number of issues).
I used to work for a webhosting company, and had similar experiences. We'd get requests for Men In Nice Suits to come in, rack up a nice non-descript 3u box -- this was a few years prior to this experience, so I'm certain that the tech's improved since then. As was described, the box just sat there, eating power, under orders Not To Touch Under Any Circumstances, until the federales came back in to take their box back.

Thinking back about it, again, this seems a lot of how the feds can keep things like this from getting out. The people that know are given the gag orders, the sysadmins racking and unracking know it's better for their careers, and their not staying out of jail, not to say that they have weird boxes on their network which have mirrored ports going to them. It's there, it's suspect, but the consequences for discussing a suspect box make it difficult to really discuss things.
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Movies have a lot of price discrimination not just theater vs blueray vs Netflix vs video on demand vs HBO vs CBS but also how soon after a movie comes out changes the cut that theaters get. More importantly while studios are hit driven they break even well before that 250 million sticker price gets hit. Think pricing out studio time at above market rates.

Which can come back and bite them as they need to keep making 250 million dollar films even if they don't have any worthwhile scripts this year. Losing 40 million on a film can be far better than not making one this year.
Yes, but OS/2 2.0 was not going to be released in 1990 either so it would be stupid to abandon Windows 3.x immediately anyway. And as I mentioned in the comments, nothing prevents the two from coexisting for a few years with OS/2 2.x being compatible with Win3.x.
That article from the other comment about Spielberg's views is well worth reading. Crowdsourcing is another thing that's likely to impact that field -I would way rather pitch the script to film buffs like yourself that are willing to throw a small sum n without an expectation of profit, such that it's OK not to make money as long as stays within budget and everyone who works on it gets paid a reasonable wage.

That said, this does put major constraints on the sort of film one can make. This isn't necessarily a bad thing artistically, but it excludes worthwhile films that can't be realized on a shoestring, or those films that could but that can't attract a sufficiently talented actor willing to work cheap - fortunately that's less problematic than the logistics of an action or epic sci-fi movie. With time, I imagine CG will break down some of those barriers too.
Well, France seems to be doing quite well, according to LeMonde

http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/04/revelations...
With the last two lines you won.) My point was that to make correct translation one must use (recur ...) which will mess everything up.

One more subtle thing: your solution produces (((a 1) (a 2)) ((b 1) (b 2)) ((c 1) (c 2))) while the contract was to produce "list of all possible pairs".
If everyone said go stuff yourself and published it on the internet, eventually they might get the message. But no one wants to be force-fed in Cuba.
About 2/3...3/4 the way through, the mood felt a bit forced, and it occurred to me that he was applying the formula to the piece itself.

This may be a taste of the problem... but I think it's more imperfect application than damning the formula itself.

Like grammar, it constrains but doesn't limit.
Though speed limits on most roads were set long ago, improvements in automotive suspension, steering, and brake technology in the intervening decades have raised the effective safe design speed of many highways. Eg. a 1970 highway with cuts, fills and curves spec'd for a design speed of 75mph is easily and safely navigable at far higher speeds today, even in comparatively low-end vehicles. This fact is very rarely noted in legal circles.
I believe it still counts toward your quota though mooting the subject.
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Good resource!
I think it's a rather pointless question because there are so many ways to define an island. If you say "land surrounded by water," then it's the EurAsiaAfrican landmass, if you look at geology (of which I am no expert), then you have a lot more nit-picky defintions such as continents, cratons, crusts, rifts, etc.

I just read a lot on Wikipedia, where island is defined as a "sub-continental land surrounded by water"[1]. But when you look at the definition of sub-continental, the continents are "generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria"[2].

So it's just convention that large islands like Greenland, Madagascar and New Zealand, which are "pieces" of continents, are not considered continents. Some pieces of continents such as New Caledonia[3] are much smaller than volcanic islands that rose out of the sea. For what it's worth, wikipedia follows the norm and calls Greenland the largest island[4].

And then there's the whole issue of sea level which varies, and as it does, it changes the size, shape, and connection of islands and continents.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_caledonia#Geography
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Greenland
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>Snowden used lavabit.com, which is located in the US (and probably being scrutinized a bit more than usual these days).

Any proof to this? And, no, twitter is not a source of record.
I think this argument is similar to the argument of general privacy. Read receipts are potentially information being transmitted without your consent, though its metadata that _should_ have not direct effect on you. The same could be said for the NSA tapping your phone. They are merely observing and therefore shouldn't be affecting anything. I.E. if you aren't doing anything wrong what do you have to worry. In the same vein, if someone sees that you read something and you don't respond, if you don't believe that to be wrong, what do you have to worry. I don't fully agree with the position, but there is something to be said about feeling comfortable with your actions regardless of how others perceive them.
I've always thought this was an interesting dynamic too. The Boston Globe recently had a front page article about who is buying the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/27/least-five-gr...
You might want to check into Aristotle's Poetics.
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My strong suspicion is that it's going to be closed-loop and business-oriented services that adopt autonomous vehicles first. Deliveries within a factory or campus complex, people-movers, and the like.

Delivery in rural areas where there are long stretches between deliveries (so that loiter times and waiting for someone to come and receive a package isn't a large overhead), and the vehicle could page recipients in advance, skipping those who don't respond, or where deliveries are headed for depots (e.g., local warehouse or distribution center, food/grocery deliveries, etc.).
Lost in this overview (and I couldn't really tell the point of the overview) are the probably 10 000 + people per year who go to this site by mistake. It's odd to me that Nissan didn't just offer him those 7 figures worth of legal fees and solve it (or maybe they did to no effect)
Show HN: A high-schoolish "Oh Right." moment comments on Facebook
So many of us are thrillfully justifying our existence by diving into the explanation as to why we use Facebook, or shouldn't. I'm noticing a bit of maturity to the arguments now. It seems a rather curious philosophical statement exists, and is namely the thing I wish to Show HN; namely:

"I use Facebook because everybody else uses Facebook."

What should we do with it? What can we do with it? For instance, one procedure to this statement might be that:

"I use Facebook to stay current with my closed family and friends. My grandmother is quite old."

Or:

"I use Facebook sparingly to keep minimal communications on a widely used platform."

Or:

"I use Facebook because my company has no minimal messaging portal."

Or:

"I use Facebook because my type of work is in the business of social networking, and Andressen tells us it's all about computers."

Or:

"I do not use Facebook."

Now this one is curious, since it does not immediately suggest that Facebook is even used in a sense of "mention" à la Korzybskian (Alfred Korzybski) sentences. You could call them Gödel statements, Repeatability statements, explosive statements perchance. But the statement does not merely contingently re-use Facebook in a dual sense, but necessarily so, in the following way:

"I might not have ever used Facebook."

Here we find that "Facebook" is used in only one sense, a material one which merely refers to it, namely "Facebook."

It's quite simple. You use Facebook because everybody else uses Facebook. Whence cometh autonomy ? It seems at the end of the historical use of terms like Facebook; it seems to matter what we call things.

Someone call Mr. Fry.
So do these companies approach the government and say "Hey, give us $1000000 per month and we'll just give you full access."?
Are they active users? I have a site with 2000 users but only 3 active users :-(

I guess a lot of people signed up but didn't stick around. If all our your users are active then maybe you've really got something there.
That was my take, too. While it's certainly true that Apple can be inconsistent and even weirdly capricious, this wouldn't be the first time a company has preemptively "censored" themselves on the App Store.

While it's true that a Tumblr app is a bit different from, say, a web browser, it's not really true that Tumblr has a high level of control over the content on their own service -- no more than a service like Twitter or even Facebook does.
They didn't really record a 'drop', the tail was still connected, so the experiment is still on.
The article didn't go into details, but there was originally much contact between Ni'ihau and the other islands, though mostly the nearest, which is Kaua'i. During the period of initial contact with Westerners, many Hawaiians on all islands did die of Western diseases, but their population did survive. It's only in the past hundred years that Ni'ihau has been mostly cut off--though the owners and residents do come and go and mingle with the general population on Kaua'i. And nor have they been cut off from Western medicine, so I imagine they are all vaccinated like everyone.

Still, it is an interesting question whether this semi-isolated population has some lingering susceptibility to certain diseases.
The article mentions some resources in the Engine and Learning Materials sections.

He learned by following tutorials for Corona SDK[1] for a couple months, learning what he could of Lua[2] and making a very simple game.

Then, he switched to Cocos2D[3] and had to learn Objective-C and Xcode. He bought the books Programming in Objective-C[4] and Learning Cocos2D[5] and started reading and coding.

He also regularly visited the Cocos2D forums[6] and Ray Wenderlich's site[7] to solve problems as they came up.

[1]: http://www.coronalabs.com/

[2]: http://www.lua.org/

[3]: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/032188728X/

[5]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321735625/

[6]: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forums/

[7]: http://www.raywenderlich.com/
No, this is not new information. Companies do get paid, a lot, to facilitate this. This was known before the leaks, but leaks confirmed it. Now there are articles all over if you search. Example:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57593273/verizon-at-t-ge...

"In its letter to Markey, AT&T estimated that it collected $24 million in government reimbursements between 2007 and 2011. Verizon, which had the highest fees but says it doesn't charge in every case, reported a similar amount, collecting between $3 million and $5 million a year during the same period."

I'm not sure how I feel about that (making the companies pay for it doesn't seem fair either), but it certainly doesn't leave us with incentives in the right places.
If you have a theory that can equally explain Hollywood screenwriting, two dogs fucking, and a cat catching a mouse, you have a theory that tries to explain too much and will necessarily end up not actually saying anything. The meaning of a theory is in what possibilities it rules out.
We had to facilitate them to set up a duplicate port to tap in to monitor that customer’s traffic. It was a 2U (two-unit) PC that we ran a mirrored ethernet port to.

[What we ended up with was] a little box in our systems room that was capturing all the traffic to this customer. Everything they were sending and receiving.

And yet his lawyer could have written a truthful denial that they'd given the govt "direct access to the server". See how that works?
I heard a commentator on TV a little bit ago describe the US as the world's greatest democracy. I felt like crying.
It looks like a really cool site. Would it be useful if you could scan in the UPC of your games with a smart phone?
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I'd like to mention unison as an open source alternative.
Each news organization is different. Bloomberg News editorial policy is to not cover anything involving the company -- even if a story appears in every other source, positive or negative, it's still off limits.
ESPN has come a long way since 2012 Super Bowl production where they had Herm Edwards explaining the Patriots offense to 2 toddlers who couldn't stand in the same place for a second. It was probably the worst segment in ESPN history.

I really like this move though because lately a lot of ESPN women seemed to have moved to CBS or NBC ie Rachel Nichols, Erin Andrews, Michelle Beadle and I am sure more. Not that Nate Silver or Keith Olberman are women, but it definitely is aimed at the right audience and I look forward to this test run at 11 of what seems to be solid broadcasting.

On another note I think a Daily Show style program that brings in clips of announcers and ESPN and makes fun of them would be a great program. Just putting it out there.
Your numbers are inflated, but that's literally what AT&T and Verizon did. They approached the government.
Blocking business seems like an unusual step, or at least we rarely hear about it in the news. Is there any precedent for a patent case successfully blocking a business whose service is all on a website? If so, what happened? Did they simply take over the domain? What if a business used a foreign owned domain?

I feel like there are options here that may not have been tried. Presumably a patent troll could try to tell your payment service and US based servers not to do business with you, but I haven't heard of that either, aside from credit card companies blocking Wikileaks and the US govt seizing servers suspected of hosting illegal stuff. I forgot why the US govt seized servers in VA a few years back but the point is that is pretty unusual too and I wonder how far a patent troll would go or how difficult it would be for them to get through all that.

The only way China blocks Facebook, for example, is through a massive firewall, and their businesses generally don't accept any foreign credit cards. The US seems unlikely to put in a huge firewall or modify DNSs to go after small businesses for patent trolls..
Average app price: Android $0.06, iPhone $0.19, iPad $0.50. I'm picking this might be a part of it.
Its just one data point but I've never seen anyone say that there is more money to be made on Android.
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/99013/The-History-of-App-Pricing-...
Some Clojure sequences are lazy, but Clojure lists aren't. And you are right that there's a typing constraint that prevents you from making improper lists, and that's not the traditional behavior of Lisp conses.

As for the 1960 code in the manual, no, that wasn't the source code used by the first Lisp implementation.

In the Shen case, I assume you're talking about things like this, in primitives.lsp?

(DEFUN eval-kl (X)
(LET ((E (EVAL (shen.kl-to-lisp NIL X))))
(IF (AND (CONSP X) (EQ (CAR X) 'defun))
(COMPILE E)
E)))

What I see here:

- Indentation to show structure;
- DEFUN;
- ';
- IF;
- LET;
- some lowercase letters.

To me, that looks a lot like the modern Clojure code, and not much like the 1962 code.

Your taxonomy of immutability and persistence is interesting; thank you. I thought you might have meant that Clojure lists were automatically serialized to stable storage on, for example, program exit. Lisp lists have always been persistent, then, except when you mutate them? Because you can make your (f o o 1 b a r) from (f o o b a r) without copying the whole thing in any Lisp.

Lots of Lisps have been backwards-incompatible with previous Lisps. Scheme, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, and even MACLISP and LISP 1.5 were all significantly backwards-incompatible with their predecessors. That didn't make them non-Lisp. Common Lisp was not the end of Lisp development.
?? A stock buy back doesn't make any money. It's just an alternative to dividends. It distributes money that the company has made.
So which one should PC developers have targeted? Both? When one was selling at something like 20x the rate of the other?
Thanks for the link! I shall read it.

I wrote a reply that is perhaps a bit too long to put here, so I put it at http://pastebin.com/4nN04Hj3 instead.

The short answers are: (1) this event loop is different from the browser's event loop because it's app-specific. Having a single interception point where you translate the browser event stream (mousedown, keypress etc.) into higher-level app-specific terms, and then write the rest of the UI in the latter, is a strategy for reducing complexity—an application of bottom-up programming to web UIs, really; and (2) emphatically yes, making the "official" event loop trivial and running all the complex stuff off your own app-specific loop allows you to control how much processing to do and when, which can be a way out of some thorny performance problems (such as sluggish scrolling) as well as an easy path to simulated concurrency.

It's interesting that you should have said "drop/modify events superseded by subsequent ones" because that's precisely what led us to this design originally—we were desperate, in fact, for a way to do that. The bottom-up programming aspect and the concurrency aspect only became clear later.
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Win3.x (OS/2 2.x would be able to run Win3.x apps) or both, but this problem would only last a few years at most. Eventually 286s and <4MB of RAM would become obsolete. (And BTW OS/2 2.x not running well in 4MB of RAM had more to do with the Workplace Shell, MS had similar difficulties with the Explorer shell too)
Makes sense. As a political number cruncher, people are really only interested in your opinions once every four years. As a sports analyst, people care about what you write every day.
As a contractor, I avoid milestones like the plague. They're appealing to buyers because, on average, buyers use them to extort additional work out of the contractor or as an excuse to defer payment (because the contractor's only recourse is court). I used to make an exception and do milestone projects for clients I trusted, but I even got screwed by them. It's just too hard to estimate software projects for both sides to come out of a milestone project on top.

EDIT: Note that I'm not claiming that people who use milestones are evil. The problem is that milestone billing for software creates lots of incentives on the client side to underestimate and underspecify work, because the contractor eats most (if not all) of the cost of identifying those problems and negotiating to get the milestone revised to include them.
I prefer iMessage's "Delivered" notification and find it serves a nice balance between (a) confirming to me that the message was successfully received and (b) allowing the recipient privacy/flexibility.
I agree Silver is relatively moderate, but FiveThirtyEight did more or less grow out of DailyKos [1], so it's not a huge stretch to suggest he personally has a clear preference for one or the other side of the American political spectrum. It's not like he also had a blog on the right-wing equivalents of DailyKos, like FreeRepublic or RedState.

[1] For a year or so before he launched fivethirtyeight.com as an independent site, he posted data-driven election analysis, among other things, at http://www.dailykos.com/blog/poblano