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Ummmmm, on the point of beautiful design, are we seeing the same thing?
This is what I see: http://imgur.com/0Jk8I.png

-Not high enough contrast for my liking,

-Bulks of text in low contrast = 'tl;dr',

-I keep clicking what looks like input field but it won't work. Oh, I have to click...

-...the 'I'm game' button below. That's practically invisible, due to being just outline, with the text hovering over another block of text.

Sure, it all goes away after you click the top layer off. But my initial reaction was 'What is this mess? What do they want from me? Why would I want to stay here?'.
Would be a cool way to get Redis asynchronously serving requests for Tornado.
In order to thrive a device is going to need a stylus for highlighting and ideally the ability to recognize handwriting, if not then at least it needs to be able to save handwritten notes. Things will get far more interesting with tech that enables student collaboration.
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Some big companies simply do not want to take the "pain" of upgrades. I'm working as a consultant now, we are developing a project for a big international company on Microsoft CRM, that specifically works only with IE.

IE6 causes a lot of problems even with Microsoft technology. Nonetheless this client do not want to upgrade their browsers. This is not the first time this happens.
ouch, I didn't know that one. Only plain restart.
Thanks for the pointer, that was interesting. Disturbingly, it makes me want to wedge it into one of Emacs' web browser modes.
The unladen swallow talk is up: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3261170/
Evan Miller's guide (already linked above) is great. But be prepared to dig into the Nginx code. Most things aren't documented, however, at least in my opinion, it has some of the cleanest large scale C code around. So, don't be scared to dig in.
To simplify things a bit, I would suggest the use of angle brackets instead of parentheses:

<tagname <@ attr "value" attr2 "value2">
<tagname2>
<tagname3 "data">>

Going a bit further, we could require the `@`, and place it after the attributes list. This format has fewer special cases:

<tagname attr "value" attr2 "value2" @
<tagname2 @>
<tagname3 @"data">>

Finally, we could remove the quotes around the raw strings ("data"), while inverting the brackets:

>tagname attr "value" attr2 "value2" @
>tagname2 @<
>tagname3 @data<<

This may look twisted, but we stay very close to true S-expressions, while using the same escape characters we have in plain XML.
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So... here come Twitter ads :-/
> "Falls flat" or "some people said they didn't like it a lot"?

It looks like the professors of the courses are included in the “some people”. Presumably they got feedback from their students.

> I remember carrying around 5 different textbooks all day,

In college, you carried all your textbooks around? Why? It’s not like they’re needed during lecture, and you can’t use more than a couple of them at once, etc.

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Anyway, the courses where the kindle was tried look like ones with 200-300 pages of reading a week of little articles (like most humanities/social science courses), where if they didn’t use the kindle, students would be doing the reading on printed pdfs (more than a few years ago, these would be Xeroxes, etc.). I really can’t imagine the current ebook readers being better than paper for this sort of reading, given how awful they are for underlining, taking marginal notes, etc.
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I'm a young guy and I find iPhone memory management is very easy. The built in reference counting system with objects makes it fairly nice to work with vs. some ad-hoc system dealing with malloc'ed memory here and there. You might get a memory error here and there, but usually it means your design was sloppy somewhere [usually involving arrays, the bad part of objective-c design] and would probably eat up memory in a garbage collected system anyway.
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Fix your site so that it works oN the iPhone
Get rid of flash. Your site is unreadable and unindexable by google.
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I'm currently developping a network service and would like to know what makes nginx so fast ?
Is there a document (whitepaper) describing its working principle ?
Second the textbook suggestion. Last year I actually used my physics book for a monitor stand before the quarter was even over. Shhh, don't tell my folks.
Err, I don't know what >=> means. Do you have a pointer?
Check http://gpl-violations.org

GPL cannot force somebody to release their source code, as long as they are not supposed to have the binary (for example, internal studio - you can use binary tools compiled ith GPL, and be happy knowing that that stuff does not go outside of the company).

With GPL 3 I think that's changed, but IANAL.
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I think the investors have already spoken, Yes Twitter can and will make money... lots of money.
needs to be smart enough so you can write:

print "hello world" or whatever

or

n = 3 'n shit
This pilot answered the question: “are kindles good devices for reading-intensive social science courses”. The answer is clearly “no, or at least, not yet”.
Anyone tell me if this allows you to choose different install directories for different games?
It's an "event based" server written in C, meaning that it uses select or poll or some other 'event based' mechanism to do its work.

Erlang might be an interesting choice for your network service, as it allows you to write this sort of code very naturally. It depends on what you're doing, though... Python has some frameworks that work this way, although none so smoothly as what Erlang gives you. Tcl has also had this capability in its core for years, although, like Python, you have to be careful about writing 'blocking' code, something that you don't have to worry about so much in Erlang.
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I agree, the fact that the german Autobahn is compared directly to US highways is laughable. It's comparing apples and pears: not relevant.
There’s no way each university is going to write the whole software stack for an ebook reader. Given current hardware and software, laptops are a poor substitute for hard copies of all the reading (at least in my experience). Making software that’s useful enough to replace printed pages is going to take decent-sized teams years of development effort.
1984 changed everything for me too.

Have you ever read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin? Talk about dystopia should come with a glass of prozac.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
Isn't this reason enough to stop using it?:

"Firefox 2.0 is no longer supported and the last update, Firefox 2.0.0.20, is affected by several vulnerabilities fixed in newer versions of the program. All users are urged to upgrade to the newest version of Firefox."

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefo...
How on earth did they get this far in development without thinking about how confusing their name is with the original KDE browser Konqueror? http://www.konqueror.org/
Now that IS interesting.

What if Microsoft buy Yahoo?
Personally I think speeding IS a reason. It's true that people can keep safe distances without speed limits, however it's undeniable that people who go much faster than the average speed are dangerous. Limiting the speed is one way to try to get everyone to drive the same speed. It's a system and as long as everyone sticks to it, there are less accidents. If you change the system, no problem, but don't give this as an example to declare a country a police-state. Your speed is completely in your control.
To save everyone some time, above is the conclusion of the linked post. Duh!
This is planned by NASA itself, so they probably take a much less cynical look at space travel. Out of things to be celebrating, Yuri Gargarin's trip to space is a pretty good one. It also makes as good an excuse as anything for having a music festival.
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I expected an article on the limits of python syntax, but this is the description of some lolcode-style language.
Is he removing the 'Like, Python' keywords from the source and then passing it to the Python interpreter?
You folks may have missed the boat in assuming this is a startup. I think it's more about the idea/message/whatever.

These people have other (good) jobs. Cindy Gallop (Founder/CEO) is a (quasi)retired ad exec. Her last web experiment: makelovenotporn.com. She talked about it at TED last year. No revenue model there. Oonie Chase is creative director at Blast Radius. The list goes on.

Plus, not less than 3 people on the about page have the word "Code" in their job title, so uhh... fuzzy math.
[meta] Can someone tell me which line did I cross? I thought my comment above was more than noise.
To be honest I am not that impressed with the kindle battery life. I wonder if the wireless connection uses battery even when it's not in use.
Can you easily filter raw text out of a Sexp stream? I don't think so. It would require a full Sexp machine to read and "understand" the tree, whereas with markup-style data streams it takes a trivial regexp to extract text. (Why would you need this? Search/indexing, for example.)
> There has also been a lot of talk about adding a speed limit to the Autobahn in order to prevent accidents. However, the very powerful automobile lobby doesn't let it get close to happening.

Yes, the evil lobby, always out to get the little man. Never mind that the Autobahns are safer and have higher capacity than in neighbouring countries with speed limits, and that a majority of the German people are very proud of this.
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Why not see for yourself if mme is right? (he/she is!)

e-conomic is very flexible, with a lot of smart and complexed functionality if you want to use it, but you also have the option to keep it simple :-) it its your decision!

You can take a free trial here: http://www.e-conomic.dk/regnskabsprogram/demo/ and your have the option too choose english language in the userface.

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I think the article is trying to hit at something more philosophical about driving and speed limits in general.

The article had a lot of conclusions made, without the needed studies documented. I wish I had the studies at hand to prove most of the conclusions.

I personally doubt the results laid out about Montana (in the article presented) Only on a matter of time frame, the educational practices, and the licensing protocol (that dominates american culture). People drive the way they are educated, and a LARGE part of that is from their parents. REGARDLESS of the tests and protocol new US drivers must go through.

HOWEVER, statistically speaking, There are things that the "engineers" and other nations have proven to be more effective then speed limits and warning signs. Mostly lack there of.

I think the problem goes beyond the laws, The designator would be the education, licensing, and philosophy of driving. Change those things in favor of the statistically correct method of driving, and well...

You want statistics, compare educational training across platforms and nations. Compare Money (education, licensing, upkeep, and running costs, (ie fuel)) Compare daily driving habits, (public transportation in Europe is... better, to say the least)...

It would be a complex algorithm to say the least...
But my personal conclusion would be FOR personal judgment. Speed limits be damned...
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Delaying your startup?
Re: "If the kindles were used for PDFs for math/engineering/cs classes, I think there'd be much better reception."

Absolutely not. I have a K1, K2, iPhone Kindle, and read about 200-300 pages/week on them. They are great for fiction, long reading, essay reading but are absolute fails when it comes to Mathematics, technical texts, diagrams, or anything with colored illustrations.

And, don't underestimate the amount of rapid random flipping you do in a mathematics text book - bouncing around pulling up forms for integration by parts, trying to track down lemma's for proofs, etc... The kindle is _useless_ for rapid random page flipping - sequential or footnote read-n-back only (The footnote navigation is actually pretty good).

Finally - PDFs on a kindle are converted into free form text (poorly, particularly with diagrams - a page which can normally handle about 5 diagrams on paper, can only handle 2 on a kindle) - you lose the page by page rendering, except in those rare cases where you pull them over as page-images, and trust me - fast way to bring your Kindle (K1/K2) to a screeching halt - also unreadable.

I have high hopes for the iPad in this space, but time will tell. I'll be waiting in line though when it comes out.
I must say, I have a taste for this sort of drama. I seek it out, enjoy reading it. I enjoy the fact that people, like this elptacek, willingly make fools of themselves online for the amusement of others. I watch with rapt attention the springs of a tightly wound life pop off when the tension gets too high. My interest in the subject is that of a scientist observing some remarkable natural phenomenon. It appears to follow a pattern which he can, perhaps, predict but not yet quite articulate.
Hi HN,

Every year a coallition of norwegian schools organize a program for first hand entrepreneurship experience combined with classes in the same area.

Personally I've been reading HN for a long time and hope to work for the typical YC startup.

Most, if not all expenses are paid for by grants and/or loans.

If this seems interesting I hope you will apply.
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I have read the paper before, and it's certainly right -- but Gabriel never claimed that the fib benchmark was anything other than a microbenchmark of certain aspects of a system.

For example, when discussing the TAK microbenchmark, he says:

> When called on the above arguments, TAK makes 63,609 function calls and performs 47,706 subtractions by 1. The result of the function is 7. The depth of recursion is never greater than 18. No garbage collection takes place in the MacLisp version of this function because small fixnums are used.

(See http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Timrep.pdf)

With such a precise description of what the benchmark tests, it's obvious (a) that it's a microbenchmark, but also (b) that it does indicate the speed of certain combinations of operations.

So I don't think that the title of this article is actually the takeaway message from that paper. Microbenchmarks like the Gabriel benchmarks are around for a reason.
Whoever downvoted you is retarded. Yours is a completely legitimate question to which I cannot give a certain answer, but I'd say it seems likely.
I feel like the other point here is that writing a webserver isn't rocket science. If a webserver is very important to you, and nothing freely available really fits your use case well, just write your own.
The performance can't be argued with, but I find the config file format quite limiting compared to lighttpd's.
If it's unsafe to drive at an allowed speed, then it obviously needs to be lowered.

What nonsense! As my driving instructor never tired of telling me: it's a speed limit, not a target.
First I read the title as Iran something.
Alternative link: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/events/2010/yuris_night/ind...

Don't forget to bring your costumes and art installations.
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I would also recommend looking at node.js (http://nodejs.org/). Its an event based javascript framework that lends itself to the creation of scalable servers very easily. Its still early days, so might not be mature enough for your project, but worth a look.
If that is the case, then they should pull over everyone who is speeding and give them all tickets. They don't do this. Everyone behaving normally is always in violation so the police pick and choose who they give tickets to.

The extreme version of that is called a police state.
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I wish something like webmin/virtualmin worked with nginx, I bet it would do wonders for it's uptake..
Excellent reference. State Threads looks very attractive.
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Can you imagine the burden of opening a site a la facebook in a place like that?
This is not a new approach, and that's the reason why you will never see a site like myspace/facebook/netlog/whatever... based in a privacy (with a distorted view of privacy) obsessed place like italy.
Just sad.
> especially since we didn't really ever use the whole textbook.

I saw some people at my university chopping the big textbooks up in sections and putting each in a binder. Worked wonders for the weight, but I'm not sure what it did to resale value.
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I was surprised by their common complaint that the Kindle doesn't have page numbers! What were they thinking to leave out that feature?! It cripples the usefulness of the device for heavy reading over longer time spans.
The network service I'm developing is CORBA/ICE/RMI/... like. The difficulty is the request processing, not the I/O. I assume nginx may benefit from the fact that the different requests it has to process are predefined and limited in number.
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Also check out Cherokee - http://www.cherokee-project.com/ - has a lot of similar features as nginx (small and fast), but also has a saner development model, public SCM, a bug tracker (!!!) and a friendlier dev team.

Among the most famous sites using Cherokee are the (recently hyped) chatroulette.com and Lawrence Lessig's web properties.
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Yeah, being fast is really easy if all you do is spit out files. When you actually have to do processing, things get a bit more difficult, and a system like Erlang becomes more compelling.

It all depends on what sort of compromises you want to make in terms of speed, ease of programming, and the expected amount of traffic, though.
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Yes, it just does that.
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I don't suppose it actually influenced the ruling, but there's been a big hullabaloo in Italy recently about a facebook group called something along the lines of "Let's use Retards for Target Practice".

Also, Google has responded:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web...
I don't think it's an obsession with privacy - on the contrary, I wished Italy took privacy more seriously.

Italy is just a very old and backward country, with many people that simply don't have a clue about what is going on...
Apparently our software was disappointing by design.
Exactly: There are people who have repeated the same year of experience thirty times in a row ...
ok, obviously you read the part about greed and corruption and stopped right there. I did actually attempt to address some sort of solution in the same post.
I don't know why this was downvoted. I don't agree with the post completely but I don't find it snarky or anything.

To the post itself: It's a bit more complex than that. If the kids mean a lot to you then splitting up means seeing them less, making the "trade" times stressful for everyone, etc. It's a trade off like many things in life.

But I do agree that there are times that staying can be more damaging than leaving.
This is a informative article about the case

http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/02/three_googl...
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I'm not sure about Erlang. I don't know this language and the protocol I designed uses binary encoding. Support of JS and python is planned, especially on the client side, but come with a performance overhead which is not very attractive when it comes to service performance.
They don't have page numbers per se, but they do have page ranges. Because you can change the text size, actual page numbers themselves completely change. The numbering system that the Kindle uses is based, from what I can tell, on words/sentences/paragraphs. It took me ages to figure out that "1237-48" meant "From 1237 to 1248" and not something like "1237.48". It's horribly communicated, but it makes sense when you figure it out.
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If you don't see the irony in saying "GPL may not be the best thing for Open Source software" then you may not be fully grasping the issues.
Anyone using proxy_cache?
I used to have a K2, but upgraded to a DX (or rather was gifted one). It's just barely big enough to read Academic two-column papers without making your eyes bleed, and the native PDF support works great, which is fantastic.

But regardless, the thing is still useless in a live classroom discussion environment where you need to page faster than 0.2 pages per second.
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Using a language you know is probably a good idea: better to get something up and running and worry about making it blazingly fast when you know you need to. Erlang handles binary data quite well, but if you don't know it, you don't know it.
very nice idea and good looking page. but I don't like to register somewhere for that feature. Make it a facebook app and I will use it!
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