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I expect this to go the same way as the Green Dam web filtering software that was introduced/'mandated' a few years back: people make a fuss about it for a short while and then promptly forget about it; it's never mentioned again.
When you say "put rhetoric to the side", you mean, "put EFF's rhetoric to the side", right?
I would guess Peter Thiel, who was already heavily connected in the financial industry, was the one who made that part happen. Before co-founding PayPal in 1998, he had already founded a hedge fund in 1996, and before that worked at Credit Suisse.
Agreed. I got my first job running correctly with Rq in fifteen minutes, and was able to go on to other things. Recommended!
Ergo it being an app that now only displays:

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Actually that has shown not to be true over and over throughout the history of the derivatives trading market. Nominally and in a perfect world that would be true. But as we have seen that is not the functional reality. It keeps happening that derivatives are used to hide risk rather than actually predict or insulate against it. To quote a famous politician:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.'"

And to quote a head of a self-regulatory body in charge of such things:

In the context of a 2010 examination of the ICE Trust, an industry self-regulatory body, Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which regulates most derivatives, was quoted saying that the derivatives marketplace as it functions now "adds up to higher costs to all Americans."
That's not an all-natural banana.

Here's what natural bananas look like:

http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/dc/2e/artificial_select...

What you buy in the store is genetically modified (through selection mainly).
And the ability of the industry in question to crash an economy , requiring extensive public bailout... (at least so far!) :)

Edit: Also this article isn't about that sort of occupation. I was focusing on the topic at hand.
It so happens that recording dialog is my job in the film world. I'd record that stuff ahead of time and play it back on set. It would actually be a lot faster to shoot (but maybe not as much fun to watch).
> Based on Journal X’s practices, my photographs would be
> isolated from the paper, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons,
> and available for corporations who normally pay for my
> images to get them as freebies.

As noted in the article, the journal doesn't have the right to change the license on someone else's work. This is an ongoing problem with liberal copyright licenses in general; I often receive emails from people who ask me to release my software under MIT or BSD3 rather than GPL so they can "relicense" it, and sometimes even several back-and-forth emails are insufficient to convince them that copyright licenses aren't mutable by anyone but the owner.

For the author of this piece, I think the solution is relatively straightforward:

1. Point out to the journal that having a photo in one of their articles does not grant automatic permission to put that photo on Wikimedia. If the journal's software is unable to handle these cases separately, then the software should be corrected.

2. Ask Wikimedia kindly to remove the author's photos from their collection, or at least correct the license metadata. I'm sure the Wikimedia editors would be willing to do this, though they might become unhappy with the journal editor who uploaded photos without permission.

3. If someone uses the author's photos for commercial purposes, contact them and let them know that such use require a commercial license. They will likely be uncooperative (c.f. the various newspapers who like to source uncredited photos from Twitter), but some gentle reminders about copyright infringement's RIAA-engorged penalties should bring them around. If nothing else, they will likely become much stricter about validating ownership before using a photo.
>Installing an app not from the appstore is almost impossible for a non-savvy user.

I would post a video demonstrating step-by-step how to install non-approved apps in Chrome. Download the app. Open chrome://extensions. Tick Developer mode. Drag the app from your Download folder to the extensions page. Enjoy those nicely summarized ratings!

Actually, here are two existing videos on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf9mthhfzpY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVj_FJwI2Rw

Hopefully, if a user is savvy enough to get into Yale, those instructions would suffice.
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>And this is part of what makes email close to useless these days. Outside of your own organization you have no idea if your mail was delivered or black holed at a server somewhere never to be heard from again.

I work in the domain of email and I'm not really sure how you came to this conclusion. I work on an internal team at a fairly well known e-commerce site and because of a few simple metrics, we have very high confidence in our mail being delivered. Not only marketing newsletters but also transactional emails like receipts and shipping notifications.
possible context: from ggchappell's webpage regarding free speech while at a university:

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/~chappell/misc/freesp.html

i'm a bit busy atm so i haven't had a chance to review the short post but it could provide some insight into his opinion.
I love your analogy! That is a pretty vivid way of illustrating it.
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This looks like a massive project that you can just throw people at. Putting 1000 people on this would get you a 1000x speedup over making it a one-man project. OTOH, you'd need a very good design from experienced people (OS experts, web browser experts, Java/JavaScript compiler people, etc).
Just a little tip for posting on HN: try not to use any emotion in your arguments unless you are looking for downvotes.
Those NSA 'reforms' in full: El Reg translates US Prez Obama's pledges
What are the cases where MI is better than mix-ins or component architectures?
The author even brings this up "This is not a problem with Creative Commons per se, but a structural issue with publishers that are inflexible in how they handle content." Then IMMEDIATELY continues with "I thought I’d share it here, though, as a counter-intuitive example of how Creative Commons can suppress the distribution of information."
EXCEPT this is NOT an example (counter intuitive, or otherwise) of how CC can suppress distribution. Rather this is an example of publishers STEALING images.
As the author pointed out, if the paper uses copyrighted photos with permission, or by fair use, the publisher of the paper CAN NOT just apply CC licensing to those photos. This is not a problem with CC this is a problem with the publisher.
[edit: While I was typing this the title was changed. It was previously Why Lisp isn't (and shouldn't be) widely used in industry, which colors my comment.]

This points out some very real potential dangers of large-scale collaboration with Clojure (and presumably some or many other Lisps/Lisp-likes).

However, I think the conclusion is overstated. Yes, based on what's provided, it may take more discipline and better, more explicit processes for a team to effectively collaborate in Clojure than in Python (using the author's running comparison). Yes, if we take this at face value, it does appear that people who depend on static analysis might find Lisp lacking.

But does this tell us why Lisp isn't widely used in industry? If we assume that "widely" means "as widely as Java or Python," which seems to be the statement made here, I don't think it's valid to cite the provided complaints as most or even a large portion of the explanation. The fact that there are no or almost no mainstream educational institutions teaching new students Lisp seems to me a far more likely candidate for front-runner on this issue.

That it shouldn't be widely used is a little easier for me to agree with, only because I'm on board with some of the points here about the discipline and extra work it would take for a large team to effectively cooperate given the malleability of Lisp. I've worked with enough other programmers to know that kind of care and attention to process are very rare (and this isn't "all of you suck;" I know I have and will again cut corners and ignore protocol in situations where time or resources make it hard to do things perfectly every time).

Also, I think the author's last point is important to mention, because it'd be easy to miss it: He's not arguing that Lisp sucks. He states explicitly that it's great in at least some ways. I just don't think the black and white claims being made about its practicality are quite supported.
Can we start calling him Alexis Ohanian yet?
"I recently got an email from a hedge-fund trader who said that though he was making millions every year, he felt trapped and empty, but couldn’t summon the courage to leave."

I don't find it surprising. Many people feel that way about their job. It must take a lot of courage to leave such a lucrative career.
Can't be more specific, sorry. There's a general sentiment that you can pick up by reading news and blogs written by business people - the sentiment that it's hard to impossible to take substantial money out of Russia. If you earn tens of millions dollars and up, you now need to find ways to spend them in Russia. State (read - Putin) has really tightened the valves.
I'm not even sure I know where to get a "real" mobile device or connection.
I'm pretty sure that's what the OP was saying. That in the UK money and 'class' are separate, wheras in the US they are all bundled into one.
They cant ship it for licensing reasons. Which means they cant support it either.
What do you like to see on Internet?
Well, I want to create a directory of sites, something like Wimp.com, without a pretty design, but with a lot of content and a good organization.

Any idea?
This post repeats two memes that float around the programming language space. One is: "it's so powerful that it's bad". The other is: "it's ok, but not for large projects". I don't think I've ever seen any evidence attached to either. (If the OP contains any, I missed it.) But they're the sort of things that sound plausible and have more gravitas than "Here are my current preferences", so they get repeated, and no doubt the more they get repeated, the more they get repeated.

When I say "evidence" I'm not asking for formal studies; that's too high a bar for our field. But one can at least ask to hear about specific real-world experience.

Of the two arguments, the "too-powerful" one has the disadvantage of being prima facie absurd, so I think the "large-project" one is more harmful. So, where are the large Clojure and Common Lisp projects that have been harmed by this alleged language weakness? Let's find some practitioners who actually ran into this.

For what it's worth, I haven't. Since the best thing for a large project is not to be so large in the first place, applying language constructs to make codebases smaller is a great strength when the language lets you do it—and Lisp lets you do it.

Edit: [deleted off-topic bit]
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> There is a problem with accessing prototypes of objects, as they are not exposed to the user

Actually, Object.getPrototypeOf was added in ECMAScript 5.1. It's even supported by IE9.

> only available through internal property __prototype__ (IIRC)

It's an external property (the internal one is `[[Prototype]]`_, and is called `__proto__`. It's non-standard, although all modern browsers implement it (even IE11, but not IE10)
Is there some other way in which derivatives serve an ostensibly positive function in society?

I think the largest benefit is for organizations like pension funds which are required to minimize risk. Being able to hedge against specific types of risk (e.g., via a "longevity swap") allows pension funds to allocate their limited "risk budget" in ways which yield higher returns (thereby allowing them to pay out higher pension values).
The Dean’s response is such a typical academia response. It showcases the hypocrisy of these institutions and the fiefdom of a bureaucrat.

Too many academic institutions claim they are all about learning and growing and leadership, until you do something they disapprove of in the slightest way, usually because it rocks their boat in the slightest way. We’ve seen how Stalin-esque they act when they don’t get their way, time and time again with varying degrees of force. From the UC Davis pepper spray incident to the MIT Aaron Swartz incident. This might not be on the same level (yet), but it’s the principle. A series of reasonable actions being met with disproportionate bullshit responses.

Teach them a lesson about learning, growing, and leadership. Don’t surrender and don’t give in. Do absolutely everything within the bounds of the law to fuck up their desired outcome on the principle of their actions. That’s what they are trying to do to you and the YBB+ devs. So take away all of their power and continue. Circumvent all of their censorship. You or some scholarship are paying far too much to this institution to have it behave like this.

Quite frankly, I’m surprised someone at Yale noticed and decided to make this an incident. Most universities are usually too distracted by the disproportionate effort they invest in their football or basketball teams over academic programs, or are too busy ensuring book publisher monopolies and price gouging, but those are problems for another day.
One of the best articles i EVER read.
"the increased velocity of transactions would account for almost all of the difference."

Don't forget the reduced cost of CYA. One reason I have 2208 emails in my deleted folder right now is a server I don't care about in a state I don't work in which provides a service I don't care about is down, so hundreds, perhaps thousands are being spammed. But we can't limit that because "what if you needed that info" or "one time someone didn't get an important notice and ..."

I get around an email per minute and its my fault if I don't read an important one. Almost all, of course, are unimportant.
Anyone know who Tim Ferriss is talking about?
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If someone has less than $100 in their bank account and they aren't making small purchases in cash, I'm not sure there is any mechanism that is going to help them. They need to do some combination of increasing their income and doing without coffee.

(It is super easy to budget with cash...)

Edit: Just to clarify, in the parenthetical, I mean 'budget' in the sense of 'stick to spending what you have', not 'plan out what to purchase'.
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> How can a static analysis tool keep up with a language that’s being arbitrarily extended at runtime? The prospect is daunting.

I don't really understand that point. In Racket, for example, programs macro-expand down to a very small set of primitives, such as `let-values` and `lambda`. This makes it easier to do analysis, not harder. For example, this is how something like Typed Racket can support every idiom in untyped Racket programs -- because they all expand down to a fairly manageable core set of forms. (Or if you need to analyze something no-so-primtive, you can stop expansion on whatever that is.)

Racket is descended from Scheme. I don't know if CL or Clojure expand down to quite such a small primitive core, but I imagine the story is roughly similar?

Anyway, writing such tools is not what the average programmer would do on a putative large project.

Any large project needs technical and social norms, mentoring, and leadership -- regardless of language. I think the language is the smallest part of it. Perhaps like how in security it's social not technical engineering that usually turns out to be the weakest link.
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I must say that was a fairly well written article. The author really seemed to know his stuff. I never could fully wrap my head around protoshares from other writeups I had read, but this all made perfect sense. Even to my groggy morning mind.
I'm likely ignorant of some of the external content, but what about forcing https-only users through a view that avoids external content? I already have reddit setup to not show thumbnails and never expand video links inline. It would be a reasonable trade off to me if the only other option is http only.

It's nice to hear there were attempts at having an all https mode. I have long been bummed that reddit is http only, for a variety of reasons.
From what I read in the post I don't think the publisher is stealing the images so much as rejecting them if they don't meet the license requirements.

While this paper illustrates an unfortunate side-effect, it's really no different to the Linux kernel rejecting code that isn't under a GPL2-compatible license.
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> The definition of "work" is "instrumentally useful activities that don't match our final desires"

Could you please give the source for the "quote"?
At most journals, the authors of the article must certify that they have the rights to the whole manuscript and agree to relicense it. And I imagine that many biomedical journals wouldn't see the benefit of making an exception for this unusual edge case, or in spending the money to write new software to do so.
The author went to some effort to explain how he had an organic grown banana and then called it "all natural" instead of organic.

Probably because organic has a totally different meaning WRT chemistry.

"natural" is very much like the discredited theory of vitalism. Impossible to define such that you exclude twinkies and premade jars of frosting while still including the produce department.
This is a good point and can be true. As long as the market isn't manipulated this sort of thing can happen. Or even if the manipulation is minimal and there isn't a crash caused by hidden information.
I actually think Bitcoin could help poorer people more than it can the rich.

It already is capable of doing that. If cryptocurrencies do nothing but put Western Union out of the foreign remittance business, they will save billions of dollars for people to whom that kind of money still means something.
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Like you point out, how long you intend to live at a particular place has a huge impact on whether you should buy or rent. Along with that SPECIFIC [local] market conditions will also dictate whether holding short, long, or in between makes sense. You CAN make large amounts of money flipping houses (in certain markets), you CAN come out ahead in the long term, but you CAN also come out "worse" depending on how you go about things.
Well, which is better: the illusion of privacy (which you can do nothing to further secure), or the known fact that you have no privacy in an environment where you can take steps to protect yourself?

Your bank offers the illusion of privacy. Sure, a random person can't just walk up and see your balance. But a teller can pull up your account and look around. Sysadmins can certainly see your money pop up in server logs. A particularly motivated individual might even be able to pull data from disk images or memory if they were so inclined, so how safe is that information really?

I'd argue that knowing everything is public is better. It motivates people to come up with solutions like Zerocoin and CoinJoin.
Does this have a WebRTC data channel client implementation, or does it solve more rudimentary aspects of WebRTC such as passing offers and answers (i.e. signalling)? This node module [1] is a client for data channels (but sadly no native Windows support yet which is a needed thing [2]). Once more widely adopted, WebRTC will be a great data communication method between users of all sorts of common-user desktop applications, not just browsers, mainly because of it's NAT traversal techniques and encrypted-by-default requirement. In some instances a TURN proxy may be required (and the popular one [3] isn't the easiest to setup, and doesn't have a native-Windows-not-Cygwin install). This is especially true for users behind large corporate/government networks that don't give you a single public IP per machine.

I have done a lot of work w/ WebRTC data channels recently and I am working on a POC for hosting one's own "page" (i.e. facebook-esque profile page) themselves. WebRTC I think is the best technology so far for the decentralization of internet data from hosted servers to users. It still requires some server side things such as signalling (the handshake), STUN servers (external IP discovery behind a network), and TURN servers (proxies for complicated networks). By packaging up those three things into a single server that can be easily deployed by someone you trust (i.e. some kind of regional "manager" of sorts) and having good software to display web content over WebRTC data channels, a neighborhood-level darknet of sorts will be very feasible for even non-technical users.

1 - https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc
2 - https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc/issues/42
3 - http://code.google.com/p/rfc5766-turn-server/
This seems to be the latest in a long line of Chinese versions of tech: Red Flag Linux, CBHD, CVD. Anyone know if these are actually used or if the Chinese government just announces them and then fade away?
The problem with this is that as you expand, most of your customers will not expand with you.

So they may start using contact@ to communicate directly with the founding team; two years later they will use contact@ and get the intern who is supposed to redirect email (and may not do a great job of it).

If you start out with the 4 or 5 standard options (at least splitting tech support from sales), they may initially all be mailing lists that go to all founders -- then you can direct them appropriately later as you specialize... and your clients/customers won't need to change anything.
I think that the claims that "JavaScript is like Self" or that "JavaScript is like Scheme" are attempts to legitimize what really isn't a very good language to being with. I think that this is also done out of ignorance, to a large extent. People hear about Scheme and Self being held in high regard, hear about some very vague similarities with JavaScript, and then assume that JavaScript is somehow like Scheme and Self, even if they've never used Scheme or Self. The supposed similarities only extend to JavaScript supporting anonymous functions and closures (just like numerous other languages) in the case of Scheme, or merely just sharing some terminology with Self. So there isn't any real basis to these claims.