skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and the top 10 traded in were all American. that's pretty damned embarrassing.
The iPhone API uses Cocoa and Objective-C. It doesn't seem to be a limiting factor to developers thus far.
Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once
I can't say I agree with his platform of choice - Lisp In A Box on Windows has been excellent choice so far for me for learning Lisp. No problems at all.
I never feel comfortable clicking those shortened URLs.
"The goal is to solve the awkwardness of cold openings at a bar."

Isn't that what alcohol is for?
I've been thinking about software to create economic instruments from information (e.g., source code) that you could exchange for micropayments. Can you recommend open source packages that might be useful for issuance and trading?
A server chip is one of the most difficult kinds of chips to design.
Trust Economies: Investigation into the New ROI of the Web
MIT: Robofish and microchips
There's a bug on my user page, which says I connected a test instance "Connected 2 hours ago" when it was a couple of minutes.
This is interesting, and would be epsecially so if he could actually get to a making a dinosaur stage.

Larsson says chickens are direct descendents of dinosaurs. He is a paleontologist. My brother says they are dinosaurs. He is merely an aspiring paleontologist. Perhaps both are the case? Can anyone clear this up?
Your point being? At least specifying that you're actually excited about an activity narrows the field. And then you can perform further due diligence/deep thought etc at will.
FFS #7 isn't even a real word. "Envoke"
Maybe it's targeted at people who like to write unshippable software. But seriously, I think Apple only forbids shipping something called an interpreter or an interpreter that loads code over the Net.
I have no experience with SMS other than as an average user. I'd love to know from someone more knowledgable than me, how secure this would be? From my basic understanding
it seems that SMS would be hard to intercept on the phone network, but if a site is using an SMS gateway, it's not much safer than using email for two factor auth, right?
Also consider trying new version of newLisp (called newLisp-GS). A very nice version of Lisp with a built in GUI IDE. I just discovered it (again) the other day and was surprised by the vast documentation and ease of use. It's a great way to learn Lisp. Highly recommended.
Stress can stifle, but pressure gives purpose
Doesn't that make your life miserable?
I'm not sure what it means for you to "not have this argument" while you continue to argue. I get that you're exasperated, but take a deep breath: this is just a conversation.

For the record, 'virus' was first used by Fred Cohen in his 1988 PhD thesis. The word "worm" was used as early as the early 80s at Xerox PARC, when they were researching the possibility that they might be beneficial to networks. Those were the only two that I bothered to track down, but it's clear that the taxonomy of malware predates the modern anti-malware industry, so you can't rationalize dismissing the nomenclature that way.

I think throw_away's post adequately answers what it has to do with the security question, with an excellent example of stabbing yourself with a found needle versus the mere act of breathing.
home page is http://www.newlisp.org/

downloads are at http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Downloads

Lots of distributions.

P.S. I have no affiliation with the newLisp folks.

P.S.S. It GPL licensed.
That was cool, maybe if you try to add another kind of rhymes it would be cool also.
Webmin is a 12 year old Open Source project; it has never been a "company". Virtualmin, as a company, has only existed since mid-2006, and we did YC in winter of 2007.

Virtualmin, the Open Source project, existed for a few years before that, but was always a hobby for Jamie and I and a few other interested parties. Both projects have grown in popularity by a large amount since we started the company. I think the usability and capability has also been improving at a good clip, now that we can spend more time on them (and pay other people to spend time on them).
"...but if you’re not familiar with it then enjoy the research and storytelling of Barry Schwartz who discusses how too many options can not only lead to your customers making no choice, but (counter-intuitively) resenting the choices they do make."

That's very true. And I think the best compromise/solution is to hide advanced features/choices so that one click will still produce a great result, but if someone needs more options that ability is still there.
I prefer the idea of simplifying, or removing registration altogether. The only times registration will stop me from using a site is if I don't trust them with my email/password, and if that's the case, then the site probably sucks anyway.

Make a site worth coming back to, and I don't think people mind having to login (if you have a good "remember me" feature).
my own tests showed google for all 6. Does this mean I am subconciously cognitively biased after repeated impressions of the same results format? Was this their plan all along..? Hmmm..
College Optional
No argument here. We've found that the folks we're interacting with do want to be able to overflow into AWS, as needed, and with data that is not sensitive.

I think Amazon is moving with astonishing efficiency in this space. If we ever find ourselves in competition with them, I'll probably sleep a little restlessly at night. They're certainly more sure-footed than almost anyone else in the space. They occasionally implement things in ways that are a little obtuse, but in general, they've executed extremely well, iterated rapidly (incredibly so for such a large company), and delivered good products before anyone else even realizes there's a need.
Cool. The other reason I was considering this was because the network throughput is better than the disk throughput this making my I/O faster..
Yeah, or maybe only choose lines that are in iambic pentameter.
Advice no. 1 is to switch OS if you're a windows user? That's bad advice. LispBox works great, and the hurdle of changing OS isn't going to help you learn Common Lisp.

Lisps have got to be the easiest family of languages to get started with. Learn the syntax of a function call, and you'll understand most of the code you're seeing. Understanding it in depth is a bigger undertaking, of course.
sigh I could instantly tell you were a Microsoftie. Your profile confirms. How? You said "G". Google is not a curse word.

It seems like Ballmer started this weird "I won't say their name" theme and it has spread throughout the ranks. We need to send a message to our leaders that competitors are to be studied and celebrated for what we can learn from them. Prepetuating this informal policy is suicidal.
Bugs are so tightly coupled to the actual code that I am surprised no mainstream bug trackers (that I know of) actually store their databases in the version control itself. Seems like it would be easy to just store and read from the git repository, in which case all the p2p functionality is free.
Huge GSM flaw allows hackers to listen in on voice calls
A new Architecture with XMPP and HTTP working hand in hand
Here is a Coral Cache in case it goes down again:

http://deepaksurti.com.nyud.net/lisp/learning.html
You're misreading the sentence.

""7. Threatening user security: Windows has a long history of security vulnerabilities, enabling the spread of viruses and allowing remote users to take over people's computers for use in spam-sending botnets."

It states that the "long history of security vulnerabilities" enables and allows exploits, which is true. The obvious inference is that Microsoft has allowed that long history to persist, thus enabling the exploits. This is an accusation of incompetence, not malice.
Are fantasy books mainstream or not?
Yeah, time zone issue:
http://github.com/jeresig/testswarm/issues#issue/1
I have gone through "Practical Common Lisp", went through pains of integrating CL into vim, did my share of googling for libraries and found CL to be impractical for production use (for my projects). Yet I keep seeing the argument in favor of CL because it's got more libraries and "built-in practical functionality".

Can you please elaborate? I haven't played with Scheme yet, but http://docs.plt-scheme.org looks more impressive than anything I've seen for CL so far: lots of stuff in one place and guaranteed to work.

Thanks!
This would make a good nature video on PBS.
Human Operating System
Odyssey Of A Fabled Mind
Patrick Rothfuss's students don't know who he is
Microsoft converts a black guy to a white guy
So very awesome...
Why not?

The substitution they do is <a href="%s">, and you can "game that" by inserting 'http://foo.com>; other stuff goes here <whatever foo="">' Fine. The literal HTML that the user sees becomes '<a href="http://foo.com>other stuff goes here <whatever foo="">'. That's bad.

Now if you escape that properly, you get: '<a href="http://foo.com&quot;&gt; other stuff goes here &lt;whatever foo=&quot;">' Garbage, but not a security problem.

(BTW, news.arc fucks up the escaping too, so this example is garbage. Sorry. See nopaste here: http://scsys.co.uk:8001/33063

Edit: sigh, that is also broken! Bottom line; none of these things will happen to you if you replace every & with &amp;, every " with &quot;, every ' with &apos;, every < with &lt; and every > with &gt;.)
This presentation is really well done and will save you time from having to read 5-10 other smaller posts on the subject.

I still think it's best to raise capital when they come to you. Most don't or won't have the luxury of that though.
A new law shall be coined: If it can be built in LEGO, it will be... eventually.
Stay and work in a farm for 300 dollars a day. (Cost not salary)
Startup revenue growth viz - "hockey sticks" of software top 100
It's cheap enough that anyone with a conceivable need for a chip fab can easily afford one.

Regardless of what the article says (it'll be just like youtube!), I can't imagine why random individuals would want to create their own chips, even if they could.
It's cool. Like an ode to banality.
> was to write the equivalent ruby code,

that should have stated "equivalent python code"
It's just a sign that this is still such new knowledge that a consensus hasn't been reached yet on the terminology. Some people think birds are distinct from dinosaurs. Others think they still are dinosaurs. It just depends where people draw the line. So yes, they're both right, depending on your definitions of "bird" and "dinosaur".
Good, cheap, reliable. You can use your own Amazon S3 account and key, and you need not give the key to JungleDisk; if you don't share your key, you can't use some features that involve JungleDisk's own servers, but backup and restore work just dandy with the encryption done once on your own computer. Very efficient and cost effective.
The big problem is that the the chip industry's market is shrinking in the long-term. As hardware has gotten faster ('fast enough'), the need for custom hardware solutions has reduced, since you can more easily and cheaply do things in software. Similarly the need for faster general-purpose hardware has also reduced, at least in the consumer space, hence the constantly dropping ASPs of desktops and laptops. Emerging markets like China help, but only while penetration there is still low.

And since we all pick the fastest path to riches, investors as well as engineers flock to Google/Facebook/etc. Combined with us reaching natural limits of Moore's law (using Si at least), we aren't likely to see nearly the same leaps in the next two decades as we've seen in the past two.

Disclaimer: I was in the chip industry and recently moved into webapps with my startup
That format will be a useful addition to the .PDF format already available for full-access Google Books. Many mobile book-reading devices are adopting the EPUB format.

http://www.web-books.com/Publishing/epub.htm

I use public-domain mathematics textbooks--including classics like Chrystal's book on algebra--to prepare lecture notes for the supplemental math classes I teach. The Google Books are a great resource.
Your insight is a reasonable one -- and it's where we started when we were designing SD. It quickly became apparent to us that there's a subtle but serious impedance mismatch.

It turns out that the way you want to handle merging of databases is different than how you want to handle merging of codebases.

On top of that, the obvious advantage of storing your bugs in your VCS is "branching bugs" -- unfortunately, that turns out to hurt really badly once you want to start asking questions about "what bugs are open?" and "has bug xyz been fixed."

Besides, we have a bunch of other p2p database apps we want to build that aren't sourcecode related ;)
That's one "lisp" with which no one need bother.
see, e.g. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/257#comment-1901

http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=2776

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_frm/t...
tl;dr version: because html5 is coming and MS can't ruin it for everyone this time.

I agree and have been getting acquainted with HTML5; I advise everyone else to.
I'm a PC - not
What's interesting is that not all "full view" books are available for download. I wish there were a filter for just downloadable books.
Who said Moore's law was dead?
Supposing you want to hire someone to work for your start-up, would you completely disregard an applicant's presence or absence of a college degree? What would be your hiring screen? (Does that vary depending on what kind of job you are hiring for?)
At least according to the article, I would suspect that a modern CPU is a good bit harder to design.
Another nice recent Squeak distribution is Cuis, which takes quite another approach, trying to slim down the system to its basics, going back to the SmallTalk roots. Looks quite interesting for those interested in learning stuff, and doesn't try to go the futile way of trying to emulate "normal" operating systems: http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html
Yep, I wrote 10k lines of lisp code on Windows and it builds on linux (a different implementation) unchanged. yesterday i built my app with Clozure Common Lisp, for the first time, and it ran from the first try. Two OSes, three implementations, tens of dependencies .. flawless.
I don't have a dog in this fight since I use Windows, OS X and Linux all with some regularity; but I have personally found that most documentation out there seemed to assume a *nix. Of course doing the mental mapping is trivial, but it is an additional factor to hold in your head.

Honestly, I feel like the bigger hurdle is emacs, which isn't necessary, but almost every article about lisp makes it sound like it is.
What's interesting is that not all "full view" books are available for download.

Are most of the examples you have seen been books published recently enough to still be copyrighted? That has been my experience, in the subjects I have searched. A sufficiently old book (one definitely in the public domain) seems to have had a .PDF available for full-text download for a while, and now the new .EPUB format too.
newLisp is to Lisp what herpes is to a fun trip to Ibiza.
Chickens are dinosaurs in the same way that you are a prehistoric Lemur.

You, and all other primates are descendent from the first proto-primates that appeared millions of years ago. A lot changes in 65 million years, so to say they are exactly the same is not any more accurate than calling you a lemur.

That said, it is likely that you do have a hell of a lot in common with ancient lemurs, at least DNA wise.
there is one disadventage: you can not compare the memory usage/runtime of your code to others. Try SPOJ (Sphere Online Judge) it supports also C# if you like.
Yeah, exactly. I started coding HTML in 1999 and soon moved to JavaScript and DHTML which quickly got forgotten until lately the AJAX wave started. My love affair with Flash was only a very short one. My hope in SVG never materialized.
Before that HTML was dull and outdated. We still use only 5 fonts for web copy etc. and it's already ten years later.

The Microsoft monopoly has killed progress.

Seeing Apple blocking Opera from the iPhone and another behemoth, Google being the main contender I don't see a much better "mobile" future. The market will soon "consolidate" and another monopoly will make HTML dull again.

We need a really free web with really free software. I don't think the "mobile" one will be it. Maybe the "Internet of things" will be the one that frees us from the shackles of stifling monopolist corporate rule.
An Arc REPL online
Well, like every other time you'd like to opt out of social contact, I'd just assume there was an "off" button.
I would ignore it. Link me to your github account.
Audi A3 will have a 2.0 TDI model for 2010. The Mark VI (2010) Golf will have come with the same engine, which will launch in NA a month from now.
Scientists get first close look at stimulated brain
No - I'm saying that this trick works, because the exit for air/alcohol is blocked. If you don't exhale alcohol to begin with, then this trick should not make any difference.

So if you're completely sober, then you may get "twice" the normal result - but it's still ~0.0
item 6: no more cutting edge process custom chips. e.g. 45nm

item 7: everyone can create custom chips with relatively gigantic feature size which won't be competitive with the 45nm guys, but may be just spiffy for other functions.
I'm a PC - not.
These guys should stop focusing on the movies they watched as kids. Creating "traits of dinosaurs" in chicken is as useful as waking the dead or speaking with ghosts. The more I read about "modern science" the more I wonder why they don't employ psychiatrists at scientific facilities to prevent the most bizarre fallacies.
That's a very relevant question, since all the people on that list would also be on the list of "People who didn't have to get hired to make money."
If you want a nice epub reader I use http://bookworm.oreilly.com/.
You see the list of angels, angel groups, and seed firms? They're all in the Valley. You can do your startup elsewhere and succeed, but hey, if it's possible, probably worth moving.
Right now I'd recommend anybody to just go with Clojure. Other then that, it's a pretty common-sense article. The Unix choice is controversial but truth is, most powerful lisps are not windows-compatible and definitely not windows friendly. Between emacs and vi I'd suggest the one more familiar, or a third one if that's the case. Lisp has a steep enough learning curve not to need a new environment to learn alongside.
I'm sure this will get down-voted mightily, but I believe there is a lot more to life than than rationality.

For example, human thought has a strong emotional component. At least mine does, and I believe it's true for everyone else (except maybe for psychotics). For a long time I believed this emotional part shouldn't affect my decisions and behavior, but as I've gotten older I think this is not correct. I think logic and rationality are great tools, but they certainly shouldn't be the only tools in the kit, so to speak.

I'm not saying that decisions should be entirely based on emotion, or anything else. I'm not saying that people should be stupid in how they approach life's problems, either. I am saying that knowing when to use logic and rationality sometimes takes a lot of skill and finesse. I also think it should be the "default option" for most problems, but not all of them.

I think the article puts in well with this: "In other words, you can be intelligent without being rational. And you can be a rational thinker without being especially intelligent."
The things taught in colleges as a part of course are mostly bullshit. If you want to judge a person potential as a coder you should rather ignore his CGP (Cumulative Grade Point) and look for the projects he had done. If he had done some Open-source project, you can always look his code and can judge him. If he's into topcoder ( www.topcoder.com/tc ), then too you can look his code submitted during programming contests and can judge his coding style. What matters is you want a developer and not a crammer .. right ? Don't judge coders on the basis of their performance in class or college degree because most of the good ones don't have time to sleep in the class, they would rather prefer working in lab.
Can you provide the patch to arc that you're using? I want to see if I can break out of the sandbox.
This article uses the word "myth" while rebuking some best practices of the trade. While it's a good read it mostly relies on stirring controversy. That makes it less valuable and trustworthy.
For instance "Design to Avoid Clicks" is not a myth but common sense. In case you "overly optimized" (like having no clicks at all?) your interface you end up less user friendly than with a 10 clicks before reaching your goal app or site? I doubt that.
Microsoft Knowledge Base 967752
Well, the internals of SQLite are far from beautiful or clean. I do agree that the external interface is very nice to use, and the docs are actually useful.
What does tl;dr mean? I've seen it a few times here and wondered about it.
Farmsphere.com, the first open platform oriented to Food & Agribusiness
Easiest thing: close the phone and the mess when working. Two hours at a time, or how long you work at once, then check mails/messages/calls.
I've never like the idea of OpenID. I recognize the problems it attempts to solve, but by allowing OpenID, I'm outsourcing my security to other people. What if the password to the OpenID account is compromised? That in turn could compromise all of their accounts. And how much do you trust a 3rd party OpenID provider?

I think a better solution is to just enforce a good password policy.
I, too, am basing the libraries claim on others' opinions. I quit CL because I found the system too complex to fully grok, and what 21st-century technologies I needed were not standardized (see: concurrency). I would've been stuck either a) only able to use one implementation, like SBCL, or b) trying to roll my own half-assed implementation of a notoriously-huge language.

There is a very nice chunk of CL that is good at what it does, is fast as hell, and nice to code in. But there is so much cruft attached!
Why is he so adamant about not communicating a valuation? Is it because if you don't give one, there's a chance the VC will value you higher than the valuation you would have communicated?
too long; didn't read
Bill Gates, Founder and Chairman, Microsoft
Paul Allen, Founder and Chairman, Vulcan Group

Truly awful examples. First, if these two are examples then the title should not be "College optional" it should be "Degree optional." Gates and Allen both dropped out of Harvard without degrees, but that doesn't mean that they didn't gain the benefit of Harvard while they were there. Gates, for one, published a paper[1].

[1] http://66.102.1.104/scholar?q=cache:YiLhtZUyuZ4J:scholar.goo...
I love Clojure, but SBCL is seriously ass-kickingly good software as well. It's a matter of taste, I suppose.

Go with Clojure if you:

Want / need to interop with Java
Want to use Clojure's cool STM
Want to be specifically functional
Be one of the cool kids.

Go with SBCL / Common Lisp if you:

Want to use cool stuff like Cells & Hunchentoot
Want to make your way through PAIP, PCL, On Lisp
(In other words, lots of documentation for CL!)
Want a multi-paradigm language (CLOS is awesome)
Be one of the cool kids.
Check your mailbox.

For the others: tell me if you're also interested for the patch, but I'll maybe let dfranke test it a bit before to release it (the guy is good; see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976).
Ok that does make sense. But surely the best path is to have a more nuanced evaluation of the options than a binary 'Yay!' or 'no'.
Anyhoo - if someone finds the OP useful then all is well, and maybe someone will.