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That's actually pretty funny-- nice find.

@markbao, no one can deny that you are on the right path for success... but it's important to realize that transparency and modesty are more important than talent. save the TC post* for your first 7 figure sale =)

*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/branchr-advertising-acq...
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This makes intuitive sense. A car vs. bike accident is fer worse for the cyclist than for the motorist, so it makes sense that the cyclist would be paying more attention on the road.
Ask HN: Is anyone out there using Scheme for Web development?
I'm curious about what kind of both "real-world" and "toy" Web development is being done in Scheme, and what tools are available for it that aren't necessarily implementation specific (e.g., I'd prefer answers like "library foo" over "use Arc or MzScheme").

I'm teaching myself Scheme, and would like to start dabbling in Web development as part of the learning process without having to build all the tools from scratch. I was inspired in this regard, in part, by "Lisp for the Web" (http://web.telia.com/~u43518104/articles/lispweb.htm). Any tips, techniques, toolsets, and tutorials would be appreciated.
First instinct was to compare against websites of other programming languages, and (despite the poor choice of mascot) it occurs to me that I'm not really sure what a good programming language website would look like...

Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ (points for having sample code obviously placed!)

Python: http://www.python.org/

Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/

Erlang: http://erlang.org/

Perl5: http://www.perl.org/

PHP: http://www.php.net/
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I realize it's meaningless bullshit - I was just surprised that they're using the same excuse all the time.
I hate road bicyclists. Not the guy just trying to get somewhere on his bike, the guys wearing special suits and riding in packs blocking traffic. get a mountain bike or get a motorcycle you morons. I have to deal with these guys every day and I am sick of them engaging in ridiculously unsafe behavior that I will get fucking blamed for if I kill one of them.
If the "80" here is reasonably accurate, then here is what we have: in 80% of the cases, we only have to focus on 80% of stuff (that's about 64% of the total), and in the rest 20% we focus almost on 100% of stuff (that's almost 20% of the total), which means that we need to focus on almost 64+20=84% of the total, which is still pretty close to the original 80%. :-) OK, this is silly. (We can only get it equal when we go with 100% instead of 80%.)
Sounds nice having both just read the same article, but in the end, people rarely get gung-ho about "spreading law enforcement too thin". Example: war on drugs. It's just not an issue people care enough about to affect their vote.

A better way to sell it is "iron brand the dude that might rape and kill your daughter (but not the mom of the now-married couple)".
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The problem arises from the legal complexities of differing cross-border ownership rights

That doesn't sound right - Hulu's owners employ the best lawyers and lobbyists on the planet. These institutions don't get stopped by "oh, the copyright laws abroad are so haaard" - they're the ones who created WIPO. And anyway, what is the difference between selling rights for a TV show or a Hulu show? It certainly seems a lot less complex than the taxes McDonalds pays on exporting "know-how" when it opens franchises in France.
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While on topic of Polya, his book 'How to solve it' is considered a classic on the topic of problem solving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
And yet, Apple hasn't pulled the app from the app store or said anything negative about it at all. He's just making noise because he runs an AR startup and didn't think of sneaking AR into his app and Yelp did.
Facebook is not anonymous. That is enforced and by design, and fairly important in distinguishing it from other social networks. The rest of your points are still fair though.
they prefer the anonymity of Facebook.

They don't prefer anonymity -- that is Facebook's USP, that it is real people who you actually know.

My mom uses it to keep in touch with family. It is easier for her than email, since she gets locked out of her email account every few years and loses her addressbook (like most of the people in it). However, Uncle Steve will always be Uncle Steve on Facebook.

There's something new and exciting for her about people she cares about every day -- a new photo of someone's baby, another picture uploaded from that wedding she couldn't attend, news that a cousin's son got accepted to Yale.

(Noteworthy for the discussion: my family is strewn all over the globe, and my has medical reasons which prevent her from seeing everyone as much as she would like. From her perspective its not more artificial than the telephone or letters, but it is a heck of a lot more convenient.)
> Of course, the HTTPS pages

What HTTPS pages?
I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).

How can you navigate among your tabs with any semblance of ease or speed?
Isn't 15% is about what you would expect if they were randomly convicted first of a nonviolent offense?
The script hangs and freezes in my browser, even on the tutorial page. I get the wait/stop script prompt every time I reload it. I'm using Firefox 3/Ubuntu.
It's the "ad populum" fallacy in numeric form.
I oppose voting down. It encourages a lynch mob mentality.

What helps instead is an ability to, Slashdot-like, tag posts with warnings: spam, stupid, irrelevant, "humor," etc.
hey, they managed to make a version of the site that is reasonably responsive. good for them!
I suspect foreign rights have already been sold under some long-term contracts and the studios are waiting for them to expire rather than renegotiate them in the middle.
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Do you decide who people can call on the phone too? Do you decide if they can read the newspaper??

What I mean by circumvent is that if you tell an employee they can't use Facebook during breaks, they'll whip out their phone and use Facebook. If you tell a developer they can't use an IDE they like, they'll buy their own.
What's interesting to me is not the fact that Sarowitz decides to scrap the junk and rewrite but rather that he took the time to improve on an already existing product. He uses the profits from his existing enterprise to improve his offering in the industry and grow his customer base by presumably adding value.

So many companies are just all too happy to kick back and ride the gravy train. They have no vision of what things could be like with a touch of innovation and sweat. It takes a boss like Sarowitz to see what things could be like and move the ball down the field.
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Don't worry, you won't be that 64k guy. 64 bit gives the possibility of 2^64 bytes of addressable memory. That's over 18 exabytes. The entire digital content of the web is only estimated at about 90 petabytes.

If we go to 2^128 or 2^256, we start moving into numbers really large numbers. I and I really large. The number of atoms in our galaxy in near 2^220.
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Good to know - it definitely works best in Safari and Chrome right now (since they have the best-optimized JS implementations). I'm surprised Firefox is hanging that badly but I'll look into it.
So, mostly I've done all right as a driver, because I have a simple rule: if I come to an intersection with a stop sign or a light, and there's a bicycle coming up which will cross the intersection perpendicular to me, I throw away everything I know about right of way and stop until the bike crosses. Doesn't matter if the light's red to the bike. Doesn't matter if it's a stop sign and I got there first. I stop and wait, because the cyclist is an unpredictable factor and the only thing to do is wait until the bike is gone.

That said, I've had two incidents.

One involved an actual collision; I was coming out of a parking lot, and stopped waiting for a break in traffic to pull out into the street, and suddenly heard a strange noise. A cyclist coming through the lot had simply ridden straight into the side of my (motionless) car. He brushed himself off, got back on his bike, waved at me and went on.

The second miraculously did not involve a collision. One morning I was heading home from running some errands, and was driving along a road that serves as a partial bypass for a highway that goes through town. There's one lane of traffic in each direction and the speed limit is 65 miles per hour. I came up over the crest of a small hill, and suddenly saw a cyclist, pedaling along in the lane in front of me, and slammed the brakes to slow down and keep from running him over. He took no notice of me, and kept on pedaling with me behind him (speedometer said he was doing about 15mph). To this day I believe that he and I were both incredibly lucky: he was lucky in that I was able to see him and react in time. I was lucky in that I didn't hit him, and that nobody else coming up behind slammed into me. Doing 45 under the limit on a road with blind spots is not a safe practice.

The massive irony of that one, by the way, is that a paved bike lane runs parallel to that bypass, and I live in a town which takes pride in maintaining a healthy network of quality bike paths. On the occasions when I've talked to cyclists about why they still use the roads, they've been unanimous in their opinion that they don't like the paths because they have to be shared with foot traffic which just gets in their way and slows them down.
Nice point that redundancy, despite its readability, doesn't scale; and I agreed that abstractions are the answer, and that this schism creates a market opportunity.

This market opportunity is traditionally exploited by creating abstractions for other developers to use: a database; a language; a library; an OS.

The abstraction is sold many times, with each sale enabling the recipient to create more ambitious applications. This SOTSOG leverages those few who are capable of working effectively with abstraction.
How does this compare to Intel Core i7?

I am not that much in to processors, but my understanding is that when it comes to GHz comparison the intel 1GHz is not the same as AMD 1GHz or IBM Power7 1GHZ.

(PS. Sorry didn't read the whole article. So not sure if it was mentioned)
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> It is probable that children with learning disabilities will always need more care (and hence money). I think the real issue is that we are falling short of stimulating our brightest children. That doesn't justify taking from children with specific needs for support.

Okay - so where are you going to get the money?

In the short term, the size of the pie is fixed. In the long term, it isn't.

It may be that spending a greater percentage of resources on "smart kids" will produce enough more wealth that there will be more resources to spend on "not so smart" kids. Or not.

This isn't a question that can be answered with platitudes.
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Include all your own CSS and Javascript in the same file as your HTML, so that only one page needs to be requested. During times of heavy load, 99.9% of your visitors only load a single page of your web site anyway, so it makes no sense to split things up into different files.

This is terrible advice. Your JS and CSS should be consolidated into single files for latency purposes, but including them in every HTML page is insane. The bandwidth costs for two extra connections are negligible. After that you are wasting bandwidth every single time someone would have have those files cached.

On the latency front, reducing the number of connections improves latency on the later connections (given the standard browser limit of two connections per domain). However cramming CSS and JS into the HTML file actually will increase latency as it has to process those before it can display the page. This is arguably a benefit in the case of CSS so your visitors don't see an unstyled page, but with JS it's definitely bad.
Predictable ad-hominem is predictable... I'm still waiting for a reasonable justification for the US military deploying twice the force currently in Iraq domestically.
And if someone is doing exactly that in a rush hour clogging up the street and holding up a couple of blocks worth of traffic (including buses), how does it make this cyclist look ?
I just type "Hacker news" into the awesomebar of Firefox and Google does the rest.
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I agree too that women are attracted among other things (celebrity,intelligence, etc) to resources. I would be more specific and mention financial resources nowadays.
You haven't shown any of the things you've claimed to show; all you've given are (reasonable) reasons why not every-single-abstraction-is-a-good-idea-no-matter-what, a position nobody intelligent would ever take and nobody actually did. So it's a little ironic that you blithely declare the arguments in the rest of the thread "strawmen".
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The hypothetical ones.
Thanks Damien. Pharo is definitely a much-needed project.
Sex laws are really crazy in this country. Even politicians get in trouble after having certain affairs. You can't even have a private life anymore... where are our liberties going?
Yeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all the tabs as a queue of stuff to read? That's a problem I run into, and I deal with it by keeping a vim buffer open with a list of URLs.
> the occasional aura of moral superiority. :)

The aura of entitlement rather, the one that typically takes up a lane and a half.

All in all, the hatred towards cyclists will not go anywhere until there is a proper cycling accommodations on the roads. Separate lanes, separate licenses and separate fines. With rights there should come the responsibilities, with responsibilities - the penalties and enforcement. Neither of that exists at the moment (at least here in Canada).

If one wants to cycle - at least pass the exam, show you know the rules. Perhaps you learn that one must walk your damn bicycle when using a pedestrian zebra crossing and such. Instead what I am seeing is a righteous middle finger waving and yelling, and that does indeed makes me want nothing else but to run over such lovely road companions.
Even more importantly, it ought to have been part of the required reading regimen for every single high school student.
Said Graham: “This fund could make a difference, because Chris is so different from most VCs. He isn’t driven primarily by fear.”

Is it just me or is PG starting to sound more and more like Yoda?
"Meaning new investors in the fund will start off with stock in Twitter." !.
And here's an example pointing to how this correlation can be broken: http://www.hcz.org/our-results
Stopped after first paragraph. The kind of people who have jobs at Bell Labs and the 6.7m unemployed are probably pretty disjoint. Also, the metaphor that jobs need to be created by large institutional spending is silly. Private institutions should spend money to make money. Public institutions should spend money to make the former possible - by investing in education and training, so our citizens are employable.
Yes, the centralized research centers of the past are dwindling - giving way to a new "open innovation" model. However, the article attributes too much to these silos the successful spawning of industries in the U.S.

I would argue that it was the open ecosystems around these research labs (e.g. silicon valley, cambridge area, etc) that are the true catalyst. These clusters continue to these day and the spirit continues. The reach is now more global.
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Cisco does build things. Lots of switches and routers, they are all built in China by Foxconn. I think what you mean to say is that Microsoft is a software company while Cisco is a hardware company. Two different ways of doing business.
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"Stopped after first paragraph."

Too bad.

"The kind of people who have jobs at Bell Labs and the 6.7m unemployed are probably pretty disjoint."

The point of the article was that small subset of people who have jobs at research labs create a disproportionate amount of jobs and wealth. The author was not implying that basic research jobs could generate millions of jobs on their own. However, the results of the basic research eventually result in the creation of millions of jobs (e.g. invention of transistor leading to an explosion of jobs in the computer industry. etc.). The article's point is that the only way we are going to be able to generate enough high paying jobs to sustain our standard of living and position in the world is through the investment into basic research.
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I think the inspiration was at least partially in Smalltalk, which also has a recurring child-friendly theme. For example:

http://www.squeak.org/
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The WSJ op-eds seems to be full of articles like this lately. Writers like this forget that these patterns repeat themselves.

Grammophones, swing, big band music, rock and roll, TV, rap music, and now iPhones.

Who's next in line to suck up all the potential of our youth?
Who needs apple and their energy stingy laptops anyway?
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seems more like a Chuck Norris fact
I can tell you guys, the developers working on the government software at Palantir, have the best job of any of us.
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Wanting respect by cars is one thing, but pedestrian hostile cyclists deserve to get clotheslined.
Even though I'm an avid biker I have the same question as you and, I'm assuming, share the same sentiment about the stories that have been appearing here lately. Still, I have to question your reasoning behind creating an account called "WhyIsThisOnHN". That's just trollish. Earn enough karma and flag posts that seem irrelevant.
apparently apple thinks grep is is for sissies.
Maybe you should read a little more. The point is that any kind of research that doesn't have immediate applicability is being drastically reduced in the private sector, and yet that basic research has some of the highest ROI over the long term. The booming tech industries of today are build on the R&D spending of decades past.

I don't think anyone can conclusively predict what effect this will have on the job market, or America's position in the global marketplace in decades to come, but it stands to reason that Wall Street's increasing focus on short-term profits is going to have some long-term effects. Do you disagree?
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I don't know too much about web whatnots but couldn't this be done through virtualhosts? like say ip/other domains go to nothing or another place, domain.tld/subd.domain.tld goes to the main website?

Or am I mistaken and this circumvents that?
I write professionally, and I often have close to a dozen tabs open for research toward the completion of a single article.
But they're not making the patented invention; they're making a description (the source code) of the patented invention. They're distributing the source code. Hence the moniker: "Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder" (it's a description of one).

On the other hand, distributors of binaries do have to take into account patent laws.
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I think the Internet has hurt our economy and allowed a small part of the population with the know how to make gains from it. Though overall it's a small portion of the total population - how many Googles/Yahoos are there and how plentiful are their jobs - comparing to the industrial age? Also, many industries have been hurt by the Internet as what we once paid we now pay nothing for.

I obviously love the Internet and it's disruptive nature, but do feel it is a small part of the pie that has hurt our economy.
A nontrivial percentage of the "consumer" grade drives (basically, the stuff you can get at Best Buy) were actually manufactured as higher-capacity drives for the premium line (I forget the model line term WD uses at the moment) but had bad sectors coming off the line. They marked off those sectors, rounded down, low-level formatted so it only reported the "new" size, and sold them as lower capacity drives for retail consumer sales. Is that a more helpfully precise explanation?
We definitely need more funds like these. It's been our experience that raising this amount of money is inordinately time-consuming.

I wonder what kind of proposal/plan/due diligence an entrepreneur needs to present to get $150,000.
You have a point - visualization data here http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
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Yes. But that's irrelevant. You need to think carefully about how a UTM runs other TM's programs, about interpreters/compilers, and what one is doing when one writes out by hand design patterns instead of your language handling them.
Isn't this a good thing, if it doesn't get pulled AR apps will have to have different reasoning for being rejected.