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But languages like Clojure, Hy or Racket are not a Lisp. They are Lisp-derived/inspired/... languages. That's also why they don't have Lisp in their name.

OTOH Lisps like Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, ISLisp, and some others are still carrying the core of the first Lisp. Basically you can run Lisp 1.5 code in those without many changes.

Just like Java is not the new C. OTOH languages like C++ and Objective C still support much of C. You can port C to C++ easily.

Over the history many other languages have been trying to replace Lisp: ML (functional programming), Dylan (object-oriented programming), Logo, Scheme, ... all tried to modernize/improve Lisp. Now it is Clojure and some other languages.

Still there are core Lisp languages which carry on the genes.

But not Clojure:

Clojure 1.5.0-RC2
user=> (car '(1 2))
CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: car in \
this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:3:1)

What?

user=> (append '(1 2) '(3 4))
CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: append \
in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:4:1)

What?

user=> (assoc 'foo '((foo . 3)))
ArityException Wrong number of args (2) passed to: core$assoc clojure.lang.AFn\
.throwArity (AFn.java:437)

user=> (atom 'foo)
#<Atom@2285af04: foo>

???

Does not look like it supports Lisp processing as defined by McCarthy:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.91....

Additionally the Java error messages are especially irritating. I enter Clojure code and get Java error messages.

Compare that with a real Lisp:

bash-3.2$ java -jar abcl.jar
Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.1.1
Java 1.7.0_25 Oracle Corporation
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Low-level initialization completed in 0.628 seconds.
Startup completed in 1.968 seconds.
Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
CL-USER(1): (car '(1 2))
1
CL-USER(2): (append '(1 2) '(3 4))
(1 2 3 4)
CL-USER(3): (assoc 'foo '((foo . 3)))
(FOO . 3)
CL-USER(4): (bar 10)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {6EEE1E2}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTI\
ON
The function BAR is undefined.
Restarts:
0: CONTINUE Try again.
1: USE-VALUE Specify a function to call instead.
2: RETURN-VALUE Return one or more values from the call to BAR.
3: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
[1] CL-USER(5):

We even get Lisp error messages. The compiler is written in Lisp.
http://svn.common-lisp.net/armedbear/trunk/abcl/src/org/arme...

Clojure may be a cool language, but the core of Lisp has been replaced in parts with something else. List processing is different. It's now based on 'persistent' lazy sequences...
Regarding referring. There's indexicality[1], no? (Bit of a pretentious word but it's the right word I think.) We point. (We point with our index finger, even). And we say, 'this', and 'that'. and 'these', and 'those'[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexicality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstrative_adjective

In a way (when you think about it) "pass me the red apple" is too succinct. Maybe, "there is a red apple", "pass me it" would be expressible is Isla.

And honest to God. I swear I had an Isla-like mini-epiphany about 6 years ago where I wondered if a homoiconic computer language could be fashioned using white space instead of the () of the Lisps and use regular words instead mathematical symbols. It's interesting that you don't have numbers yet. Numbers (written arabic numerals) are very special words. Also it'd be nice considering Isla is using natural language that it speaks the kid's language - so at the start of a block the kid says, "hablo español" or "i speak english" and then all the do-ing words are in the correct language. And Isla needs to grök áccènts on variables for most European languages bar English, seems like it doesn't? (Sorry for nitpicks! Maybe I can help with the coding.)

I applaud your creativity.
Life Hack: 2 BigMacs for $3
its back for me

[edit] nvm, that was the marketing developer site.
> Surely we can say at this point that ruling is a dead letter?

It explicitly didn't consider foreign intelligence surveillance power, and FISA was adopted after it to limit domestic surveillance using the foreign intelligence excuse, which largely reduced the then-building pressure on the Court to resolve that issue. The loosening of FISA under the FISA Amendments Act and the subsequent mass surveillance means that the pressure is likely to return.

I wouldn't say US v. US District Court is a dead letter now. I would say that we are reaching the point where how the Supreme Court decides the issue it deferred then will determine whether it becomes a dead letter.
4G didn’t pan out for Intel, so now it’s looking ahead to 5G
What makes the allegation interesting to me is that you get the same 15 beats, in the same order, occurring at roughly the same point in time. It's this specificity that makes it an interesting charge. The article's author points out that Jurassic Park hits almost all of these points, but doesn't have them in this specific order or on this same timeline. This kind of thing contributes greatly to that vague sense of sameness we get.
There is no difference between what the laws say and do, and what they should say and do. Should (ought)/is happens to be a huge philosophical delineation.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
It's not "bullshit", it's just doesn't come with the same kind of guarantees that religion does. Our knowledge is refined and expanded over time. This is perfectly natural.

The problem is when people are taught in an authoritarian manner, and then they run into places that method breaks down, and so throw the baby out with the bathwater. As you have done.
Indeed, one of the biggest studios is using a data-driven approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_Media

Great for making money and giving audiences what they want, pretty dreadful for creative output, well, obviously.
Yeah. I've had a developer kit for a few months and it's worked fine. However, they have not released the release SDK to developers yet.
Thanks, we where wondering whether the imagery and the tag line together worked. In a nutshell it's a chrome extension that adds a sidebar onto every page and let's you drag any useful content from web pages and organise them into visual stacks. Would love to hear if you have any thoughts on a better way to convey this.
We're definitely looking at adding more options for custom conflict resolution once we get out of beta.
As a matter of general principle, I strenuously object to any computer I own sending out information about my behavior without my intent or permission. The only egregious offence of the read receipt is that I don't control it.
Snowden be damned: Government renews US call record order
This is great - I wish that scrolling back wouldn't cause the menu to pop up though because I scroll sideways to go back a page and this causes an extra step.

It would also be great if all of your images were synced to the latis cloud, so you can straight D&D a url into a textbox by dragging an item from the stack.
How do you know that it's not a DDOS?
Ask HN | What kind of PR package did you send to announce your launch?
Just curious on what everyone is doing from a PR perspective when launching their startup.<p>I'd assume the PR package would include a launch article, logos and pictures. What have you done in the past that worked well?
If you are starting off writing, and you're not a freak of nature like David Foster Wallace or James Joyce, and you can get over any revulsions you have about Mr. King, and you'd like to be shown the tools of the craft by a friendly craftsman, for what it is worth I can recommend it. And I want to say thank you (not) to that girl who borrowed my copy and promised to call me and return it and didn't - you suck just a little bit.
Author here, I've had plenty of excuses to use my Pi in the past, this is just the latest one. I think you are incorrect in characterizing this as "fragile dogshit", this solution is in fact much more robust than my previous cloud solution.

BTSync also does built in versioning which solves the backup issue.
Dropbox costs money, and it uploads everything to Dropbox.

With BTSync, I can sync hundreds of gigabytes over a LAN with very little effort. I do hope a good open source option will be available soon, but for many use cases this is a big upgrade.
What's stopping anyone threatened like this from closing shop, and re-opening in another country under different ownership or some backhanded deal where the victim retains a chance of an income?
Yes, Docker implements client-side SSL and HTTP basic auth.
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Question: if we investigated these people, and found out that they had some 'bad' ritual practice like female circumcision or human sacrifice -- would we have a moral obligation to intervene and stop them? Or would we have a moral obligation to leave them the fuck alone?
Yes it is. Adding adjectives to your argument doesn't make it more persuasive.
Not only that, but "the requested injunction is irreconcilable with the public interest". Irreconcilable. I expected them to say the "public interest" bit, but... wow.
>I released the game at £1.49 / $1.99. My rationale behind the pricing was that it was a niche game, and therefore anyone who wanted to play it wouldn't mind paying the slightly higher (but let's be honest, still very low) cost, and I wanted to make back the money I spent on art (around £400/$600). Secondly I think even the modest increase from £0.69/$.99 rules out a lot of impulse purchases, which would have no doubt increased the number of "it's too hard!" and "I don't understand!" reviews no end - this was a game made for BMXers after all.

This makes total sense, and I hadn't previously considered the effect of pricing on potential reviews. He was able to focus his audience (by raising the price), knowing that it would encourage more motivated gamers that were less likely to get frustrated by the mechanics. Thus avoiding the annoying 1-star reviews that can tank a rating.
> That would require you to have a PACER account, which costs money beyond $15.00 per quarter in fake-page access at $0.10 per fake-page

Patent law is federal law, and nearly all the relevant federal opinions are available for free online. I do think it is problematic, in principle, that very small corporations cannot represent themselves pro-se. That said, pro-se litigants are an enormous burden on courts because they have no idea what they're doing. A federal judge will have hundreds of cases on her plate at any given time. They need litigants to get in, make their case, and get out.

> But what does lawyering really involve? Copying and pasting from Microsoft Word templates, turning Word files into PDFs, attesting to obvious things ("I have caused this envelope to be placed in the mail as of this date") and occasionally reading a similar case to cite.

My mom thinks that programming just involves "typing things into the computer." What you're describing is paralegals' work if not secretarial work. Most of lawyer's work involves researching case law, writing memos and briefs, doing factual investigation, interviewing witnesses, taking depositions, etc. Clients are sophisticated. They're not paying $500/hour lawyers to turn Word documents into PDF's, not when you can get droves of bar-admitted lawyers to work for $20/hour on Craigslist.

> Because the courts won't let computers into the picture.

Invent a computer program that can apply the law to the specific facts of a case and generate a helpful brief and we'll talk. In reality, many college and law-school educated people of well above average intelligence can't write a helpful brief.

The legal industry has been adopting computer technology as it becomes available. A good example is document review. Computers excel at searching through large amounts of information looking for potentially-relevant documents, so law firms increasingly use computers to flag such documents (though many/most clients still prefer to have this outsourced to low-cost contract attorneys). Most work that used to be done by secretaries is automated. Document management systems produce blacklines, track changes is used to enter revisions, etc. Again, clients are sophisticated. They're not paying $500/hour for a lawyer to manually enter hand-markups.
I think saying that he broke the Top 25 list is a bit misleading. Here's what actually happened:

"I ended the first day at no. 27 in the UK charts, no. 21 in Australia and no. 20 in Latvia (the winners of the Olympic BMX racing)."

That's still quite an accomplishment, but not quite the same thing.
I'd like to hear that argument.
Here is an AGC I did years ago on a Cyclone FPGA,I used a touch LCD for the UI, and it has an IDE for the assembler,. it fits in around 1100 FPGA LE's!
https://github.com/donnaware/AGC
The interesting thing that I learned in doing this project is how similar present day MCU's are, most are loosely based on the old 8051, which I can see striking similarities.
Technically speaking, isn't Wired "corporate media"?
I was a pro screenwriter for 20 years and am intimately familiar with a great deal of 'prior art' in thinking about screenplays. There is nothing new in 'Save the Cat.'
No, it wouldn't. It's an administration, one temporary occupant of a government role. Federal judges serve for life so that they are not beholden to any other part of government once appointed, and even you will have to admit that federal judges frequently rule against the government.

I'm getting tired of your trite anarchism; according to your profile you're here for the 'grown up comments' and I wish you try making some instead of always going for the cheap shot.
Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship
> But languages like Clojure, Hy or Racket are not a Lisp.

How are they not. Okay, I see your argument with Clojure, but how does that apply to Racket?

Welcome to Racket v5.3.4.
> (car '(1 2))
1
> (append '(1 2) '(3 4))
'(1 2 3 4)
> (assoc 'foo '((foo . 3)))
'(foo . 3)
>
Game of War: Fire Age Translates Players’ Chat
The problem is that this is exactly the type of issue a court should decide. When the government violates clearly expressed tenants of the Constitution, Federal courts stand as the sole safeguard between the people and the unbridled power of the state.

Now, I'm not saying this is that exact situation. But it's definitely something I'd want a court to examine in detail.
Yep, that's exactly what I'm trying to say. Thanks!
What I'm more interested in, but the author (unfortunately) didn't expound upon: tell me what movies don't follow the expected "beats". Those are the ones I want to see.
> A truly anonymous play would be if Rowling or King submitted their pseudonymous work to agents and publishers, unsolicited, without any trace whatsoever of their existing relationships.

Didn't Rowling do exactly that with this book?
Bloomberg: Apple said to buy HopStop
It's a genuinely good operating system. I use 7, 8 and OSX every day. I prefer OSX(largely because I have access to a great terminal, familiar shell commands and lots of great developer tools :)), but the rabid hate displayed for 8 is completely out of line with reality. It's faster, more efficient and gives you better management tools. A lot of the hate seems to derive from some weird belief that you need to use Metro if you use Windows 8, which is simply not the case.

The only thing you 'need' to use is the Start Screen, but that should be a rarity since you should have the majority of your familiar programs down on the bar. Moreover, even when you need to use it, you use it the same way you do in 7. Just hit the windows key and type away!

My one complaint would be that the settings are a bit of a mess. There was clearly a rush to make things accessible from both the Desktop and Metro side of things, and as a result the settings can be kind of odd to find/navigate.
I had heard of that case before, but didn't know why it was dismissed:

"The case was subsequently dismissed by the 9th Circuit on the grounds of sovereign immunity."

And sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity

"In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit."

So apparently the government cannot break the law, by definition. What the hell?!
I know about that idea of deferring decision from un-elected to elected authorities. But, the problem is nobody elects NSA hierarchies. Or FBI, CIA, etc. And they have such amount of power that THEY decide over elected officials, and not the other way around. No president can take a decision against what the powers inside the NSA want. The officials nominated by the president to head those agencies are either guys imposed to them from within that agency, or a nominal authority with no real saying in the power structure inside.
The more you think about it, the more you realize is a catch-22.
Not useful. You may be talking to your mail server using TLS, but it's highly unlikely that your mail server is talking to every other mail server (and vice versa) using TLS.
Well, here at Stanford they put Indians and Japanese in different categories, but that's hardly the point. These groupings represent political categorization based on racial categorization. I had thought the tongue-in-cheek nature of my reply would have been more obvious, but I'll make it more explicit: those who most strongly advocate the "no such thing as race" position tend to most strongly advocate race-based preferences when it suits their political agenda without, apparently, seeing a hint of irony. When someone who denies that races exist demands to see my list of races, I suggest he try using the list of races used by his own political allies.

There are different races in the sense that there are different colors on the visible electromagnetic spectrum. There is no "correct" categorization on the spectrum itself, but you can observe clearly different clusters in many situations. Take all the red, green, and blue elements from several video monitors and graph their frequencies and despite that fact that there is a lot of diversity, there won't be a uniform distribution. Three clusters will be easily visible, and you can call them clusters red, green, and blue. In the application, unlike the theoretical spectrum, these categories do exist.

History has clustered human beings, too. Nobody here really denies that humans have descended in a complex tree with lots of crossovers. There is no right way to categorize all leaves of the tree itself into sharp "races". Even so, historical accident has resulted in a lot of clustering of genetic affinity where members of a cluster share lots of relatively recent common ancestors but have mostly very distant common ancestors with members of other clusters. The fact that there are individuals of all sorts on the human tree doesn't mean that there is no clustering.

So Han Chinese, Central American Indians, Northern Europeans, and West Africans diverge long ago and don't intermix genetically for a thousand generations, then history brings them together recently in the Americas where they begin to interbreed.

Nothing wrong with that (at least IMO). Eventually this interbreeding may reduce the clustering to mere random clustering, but today there are still strong, clear clusters of genetic affinity. You can call the clusters races or call them foo, but they aren't just figments of the imagination. The admissions department at Stanford has no difficulty in most cases distinguishing an Indian from a Japanese by genetic affinity with other members of these groups. Whether they then make that two different racial preference categories or assign them to the same "Asian" group is just identity politics.
Hi, I'm a writer from GigaOM. I can't tell you what works well for other startups, but I can tell you what I look for when weighing whether to profile a startup.

1) A good or at least interesting idea that isn't just mimicking what a dozen other companies are doing.
2) A founder with an impressive resume
3) Backers that know what they're doing. Elon Musk doesn't need to be on your board, but if you're money man is your dentist, you'll have to impress some other way.

I can't tell you how many pitches I get for "the newest startup in mobile advertising". There has to be something different about your startup otherwise you wouldn't be bothering right? (At least i hope so) You really need to identify that point of difference and highlight it in the first sentence. Most of us won't get much further unless you're really impressive in category 2 and 3.

Finally, a good pic of your founder/founders. Not a year book photo. Not a Zuck photo of some kid making faces in hoodie. A decent human shot of person that doesn't look like a canned shot. If someone choses to interview your startup that will be the first thing they ask for. Might as well make the process easier.
I'm putting my vote in for vim.
I've been a Fastmail user for about seven years now, but my reasons for choosing Fastmail had nothing to do with security, it has to do with mobile accessibility.

From the first time I tried Fastmail I noticed that the site was compatible with my mobile devices, which, at the time (2006), was the exception rather than the rule.

When ASA/Opera took the site over, the site quality went down, IMHO, but I still use Fastmail today because it just works.
Mozilla’s Heartbeat & Quarterly Firefox OS Releases
Thanks for your feedback it's awesome that you tried it. Yes the swipe to open seemed like a nice feature, and I don't personally use swipe to navigate and wondered how many people did and would they find it annoying. In response to the dragging off. Everything is stored in Latis and we are going to enable dragging off stacks back on to page soon :) I would love to hear your thoughts after you have used it a bit more or anything about the landing page content ? Feel free to mail ash [ at ] getlatis.com if you want to give us more feedback in private or come across any issues in future.
Unfortunately I just got hit by 2 projects in a row that passed 3x overage. I quoted 2 weeks to finish, but they both ended up taking over 6. I'm probably not even making minimum wage for the last couple of months.

So if you are going to quote by the job, be sure to put in limits in case it goes over your time budget so you can renegotiate.

Also I would not recommend having a "friend rate". Your workload just goes up exponentially with a proportionate decrease in pay.

If anyone could play devil's advocate on the article, with solutions to warning signs, I would sure appreciate the insight! (Not that I disagree with the article, just, my track record is really tiring me out).
> Players could tweak their decks between rounds or games.

Or the computer could, evolving better decks.
Game designer here. Like the idea. I doubt it will catch on among ex-M:tG players due to uncanny valley effects. It could still be a great game and I really hope it succeeds, but I don't see the CCG model itself generating a hit.

If I were to do a CCG, I'd take serious inspiration from the German-style board game genre. #1. Use a Victory Point goal instead of "kill the other guy" so you have interesting 3+ player play. #2. Use market-type mechanics and lots of options to avoid mana screw type degeneracies.

That said, I've heard of CCGs failing for not having enough random luck... so take my advice with a huge grain of salt. If you optimize away all the luck, you take out of the fun and most players will say you've gone too far at that point.

The problem with most of these post-Magic CCGs is that they're too similar to Magic, which was groundbreaking in its time but couldn't benefit from the German-style aesthetic, largely because it hadn't developed yet.

Secondly, being online is a disadvantage. Cards are part of the experience. Also, physical cards make Magic's love/hate scarcity socially acceptable in a way that it won't be in an online game. The way to win is to make the online aspect an advantage instead by open sourcing it. However, that requires a lot in the way of community management. It'll be a lot of fun, but hard to scale.