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I'm glad that everyone seems to think the iPad isn't a very good eBook reader (though apparently a good eComic reader).

I was worried that it would be just good enough, and offer enough extra features, to kill the dedicated ebook reader market. And I'm still waiting for the cheap Kindle clones with OpenInkPot to drop in price and improve in quality enough to actually purchase.

This comment from the OpenInkPot site is encouraging:

"At the moment, the core OpenInkpot team is focused on writing firmware for future (yet to be announced) devices. As you can judge, our previous work has brought attention of E-ink manufacturers."
As "amazing" as this different type of error correction is, doesn't it point to the fact that C++ is hopeless in and of itself.

When I'm using a language, alarm bells ring when I find myself needing to type something like :

std::vector<char> v(std::istream_iterator<char>(ifs), std::istream_iterator<char>());
Yeah, I know what you mean.

What I am criticizing here, is that many contemporary journalists in mainstream media focus too much on giving simple answers and hot headlines instead of seeking evidence. From the few news services I have watched, I found AJ to be offering the most comprehensive analysis of reported subjects. That's why I found strange that you were surprised by their balanced reporting.
I think LyX is a good alternative here. Good converters to html, pdf, text... great outliner (much needed for a long piece such a book). Has track changes, and it's plain text so you could use a vcs with it.
I think, what patrick meant to say is that, his stats code was correct. It really was costing $30. He just didn't want to believe it at first.
It also helps to do the right test. The sampling distribution of the difference between percentages/proportions is a normal distribution, not a Student's t-distribution (that one is used for means, not percentages). The z-value for the difference is 91.86, which makes the p-value about 0. This means that, when there's 300,000 people in your sample, there is no need for statistical testing!
From that thread:

Both "RSA Security 1024 V3" and "RSA Security 2048 V3" are shown as
valid in Apple's System Roots.

Microsoft's list includes "RSA Security 2048 V3", but not "RSA Security
1024 V3".

I'm glad there's more transparency about what is added to the NSS certificate store nowadays.
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Nobody's suggesting that i and j be used for anything other than loop counters: integers. In fact they come from FORTRAN, where a variable starting with a letter [i-n] was an integer, whereas variables starting with other letters were floats.

Personally, I much prefer the certainty of the current situation to the relative uncertainty of a free-for-all. That and for (counter = 0; counter < N; counter++) seems very longwinded.
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Wow - impressive list of personal development books.

Your bookshelf looks a bit like my own, the numbers in yours certainly eclipses mine.

I'd be keen to hear, after digesting all that information, what’s changed? - are you "personally developed", more confused or exactly the same?

I usually find that these books feel very "samey" after a while and feel that there is certainly a limit to the number of things these books can tell you.
If you can't figure out what the "i" is for, the code has other problems.
typedefs might help...
Slightly unrelated: A site that has a "share" button really ought to try and see what their page looks like when posted to Facebook. All I get on FB is the URL, no text exerpt and no icon.
is he talking about sex here? Or is it just me...
As someone pointed out on Reddit, what this is, is superb attention to detail.

The merge conflict marker recognition at the end actually brought a smile to my face. I would be very happy if my products would produce such a reaction in my customers.
One minor quibble followed by more disucssion (please correct me if I'm wrong, poor eyesight kept me out of the military so I never had to learn this for real): legal combatants "put on uniforms", but the threshold for this is fairly low, a distinctive armband is sufficient.

As you note, the rules of the game drastically change when combatants decline to be "legal", although from what little I know the Geneva Conventions do apply, just not in a way an illegal combatant will find appealing.

They are deliberately set up to so that there are strong incentives to stay within them, to not be an illegal combatant ... e.g. as far as the Conventions are concerned (not talking about what our Uniform Code of Military Niceness (UCMJ) or your equivalent says), as I understand it they can be executed out of hand if captured on the battlefield (I assume some due process is required, but only to establish their status).

E.g. as I recall, when we captured around a dozen non-uniformed Nazi saboteurs who'd been landed by sub? in the NE of the US during WWII, they were tried on that basis and then executed.

Similarly, in the GWOT, we are not obligated to treat captured illegal combatants as POWs, and have the option to interrogate them (e.g. Gitmo), something you're not allowed to do to a POW.
Similarly, when dealing with a small finite number of data, an integer at the end makes sense too.

For example: int add(int operand1, int operand2) { return operand1+operand2; }
I generally go with buf for a buffer containing unstructured data. It seems a bit more logical, although I'm not really sure why.
That's a very good question. For me the biggest thing has been motivation. I now work mostly from home (doing programming consulting) and I'm starting to create my firsts products (iphone and ipad apps).

Some of those books have helped me in different areas like sport, but also for my inner self. For example until some months ago I had a psychological problem where I would be very sick when I was facing uncomfortable situations. Now I solved it.

I have to say tough that books can only inspire, but if you do nothing, nothing changes.
Yeah I agree guys. I wasn't complaining, rather I was pointing to the fact that history repeats itself. Just didn't bother to say it clearly.

Good point with the UI option.
I'll agree with you on that point if we ship Tony Blair to the ICC.
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That's not the point.

Whether you find his comments sensible or reprehensible doesn't alter the fact that he's moving Wikileaks away from its traditional role. In doing so he risks destroying its most compelling feature and diminishing the impact of future leaks.
Stop, comments like these are pointless when discussing a C/C++ compiler. Yes, some people dislike C++, but some people also love it, and when a new compiler offers some really neat error reporting, complaining about C++ does no good.

To the Clang team, this is damn impressive. I've never thought about a compiler detecting merge conflicts, but thats pretty cool.
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Thanks for pointing that out RattaPack. We have actually recently released a blog post addressing some concerns we have noticed since our release here: http://www.padrinorb.com/blog/addressing-concerns-about-padr... . Hope that helps clarify certain things about our framework!
Glad to hear these have worked for you, certainly seems like you have put some of the lessons into practise and have come out the other side better for it.

Another question - which books are you not giving away? - which ones are staying firmly on your bookshelf?
No, the complaint is that you can't do anything on the iPad that Apple doesn't want you to do. I'm decently sure that you can get to a command line in Chrome OS (not sure if that'd be in the final version), and Google doesn't really go for the whole "only Google" mentality (the only Android device that explicitly disallows non-Market apps is the Motorola Backflip)
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Looks like a useful tool, but seems overpriced in comparison to the competition, so perhaps you could look at the pricing structures.

One obvious competitor is caphyon.com who do Advanced Link Manager and Advanced Web Ranking which have vastly more functionality for a similar price to your Bronze license, and no limits on sites and keywords. They run as desktop apps which can be seen either as a disadvantage but probably an advantage (in that a user doesn't have to trust someone with valuable commercial information on profitable keywords and so on ).
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Which makes it ok...?
I agree Vimeo version was unwatchable. We have uploaded a better version to blip.tv here: http://blip.tv/file/3432970/ and updated our blog tutorial to reflect this: http://www.padrinorb.com/guides/blog-tutorial . Also thanks for your feedback.
Well, the other weird thing that I see is that the reviews that have been filtered, are overwhelmingly highly positive. Which leads me to think that while their spam filter is agressive in filtering positive reviews, it is still vulnerable to businesses posting negative reviews about each other. Maybe that's just my limited sample size though.
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Maybe this is just a personal thing, but it always struck me as odd that the recommended variable names for loop counters are the two letters that look most similar to a semicolon. I tend to use x and y.
I'm ready to bet for the success of this type of devices and specially the iPad. Considering the iPad as a bigger iTouch/iPhone is too reductive. They have different constrains and thus different usage domains. I would prefer an open system, but read (again) Getting Real from 37Signals. The iPad limitations and choices make perfect sense and won't impediment it's adoption.
That's a bit more information, but the headline here at HN is still overblown; we're down to one unidentified root certificate that was probably issued by RSA, but for which no records can be found. Most probably attributable to incompetence and poor recordkeeping rather than a malicious compromise of the whole PKI.
HP should have gone for a higher resolution display, as 1024x600 is the current standard for netbooks, which is lacking at times.

At $549 and similar specs to a netbook(of course not counting touchscreen) HP may have a harder time positioning their slate than Apple.
A device with an ARM-based with a tablet-targeted OS and an x86-based Windows 7 device... Why would anyone think they compete?

How long does it take for Windows 7 to start up on that thing? 30 seconds? Yoy have to log-in every time you resume the device like a notebook?
How predictive you need to be to scroll over an ordered list?
only one of those mentions the state of hacker news

and the complaining is because the flagging does not handle things, there are always going to be popular articles that will be inevitably posted that have absolutely nothing to do with hacker news.

but yeh, the crowd has spoken.
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A couple of examples: if you rent a DVD from one of those DVD rental places, normally you can't play it in public places like bars and places like that. If you buy a CD you can't broadcast it on your radio station, you need a special licence for that.

Another possible related issue is the question of derivative works (e.g. the index of a library). There's a Wikipedia article about derivative works, it's a bit too complex to summarize here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
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The hardware is a bit mediocre as you'd expect from a low end tablet but the big liability is software. Besides HP's launcher and a few of their bundled apps you'll mostly be using traditional Windows software designed for a keyboard & mouse. It's the uncanny valley of computing: Not quite a tablet, not quite a laptop. This is why Windows tablets have always failed in the market. I suppose it would be possible to put x86 Android on here but you'll be stuck mostly with software designed for a SmartPhone sized screen. As we see with the iPad running resolution doubled iPhone apps this is really not a very good experience. ChromeOS is an option but you give up the power and flexibility of a full blown OS -- even in comparison to the iPhone OS.
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First, my programming books, because they are generally very heavy and I like to read them very often. Then I have books like GEB which I still have to read and understand completely. Lastly I have a couple of books which are on other topics such as code breaking, math and similar.

Nowadays I read most books on the kindle tough, because it's very expensive to ship from amazon to italy.
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That's exactly what I thought. $data is okay if the context is very obvious but enumerating is confusing, unmaintainable.
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243667
I also imagine that there would be a huge market for selling fashionable accessories that conceal the happiness button.

Some (most) governments/religions/cultures would create and enforce laws to force you to conceal it.
So to sum it up: bad hardware design, rushed UI/UX design, no multitouch, practically useless Flash support, no apps platform, and the same price as an iPad?

The issues could be bearable for the originally rumored $200, but at $500, when there's obviously a superior product on the market? Not a chance.
You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright collections of facts.

It depends, re: the oft cited example of phone books being uncopyrightable,
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I did an ebook recently and it was an awful experience. I started with Adobe InDesign and tried to port to PDF - failed due to image support and integration with Kindle/ebook readers. I then switched to Word and tried to do PDF export and that failed for the same reason. In the end, I ended up having to go through multiple exports using multiple tools - one set for PDF, one set for HTML, one set for Kindle, one set for other ebook readers. I originally had planned on doing several ebooks but #$%^ that.
Wow that is incredible
It's the two founders, plus two additional employees, so I think it would be more correct to say that their number of staff total is four.
even the fact that he has it is a secret :-)
Not at all. This thing runs a slim Unix-based embedded OS. Why would it need more memory?

I use a netbook with 1.5 gigs and a non-slim Unix-like OS with X and Gnome on top of it and it rarely hits swap.
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What a thing to say with that username :)
If it just looked a little better I would marry it. I guess this will be replacing women sooner that we can imagine.
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Very cool. Its great that you are doing this.

One question about Triple Your Reading Speed: Did you find you can increase your speed and still retain the information? I've heard that a lot of speed reading techniques end up decreasing retention.
The merge conflict detection is a great idea, I wonder if there would be any value in also trying to compile the two versions and error reporting on the two versions. Depending on the nature of the conflict, I can imagine some cases where this would be useful.
Unfortunately, that exception kind of proves the rule. Apple left in a loophole - they kind of had to allow apps to link to arbitrary external content without registered authors - and, lo, through the loophole comes malware.

This, alas, is why I'll probably have to keep buying computers instead of just the iPad if I want to run emacs or other user-scriptable apps. To the extent that it is possible, Apple wants every line of code on the phone to be traceable to an author and revokable in case of trouble.

The exception is the web, of course. Apple's browser supports everything; if you want arbitrary power, write one of those web apps we've heard so much about for the last decade! We who aspire to use emacs on iPad now need an HTML5/JS version. It's like being boiled in our own Kool-Aid: people have been claiming for years that web apps can eventually replace all other apps, and now the rubber meets the road.
And if I like some of what they do, but dislike some other bits of what they do, I should somewhat stop using them?

Like only using Google search for products and services I wish to be notified of by their sponsors, and Baidu search for products and services I would rather not be associated to my name, such as "spotted dick"? Sorry, I won't fly that flag.

If a service is almost what I need, I should be encouraged to provide guidance, not told it's their way or the highway. Especially considering that the larger the service provider, the more likely it is that the highway is theirs, and competitors either aren't supported by the market, aren't allowed by market instruments the provider has helped establish, or have comparable shortcomings.

If you disagree, don't reply. Write your own damn comments from scratch.
I wonder what the chances are of getting a response from emailing those folks directly?
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What was your solution, pull out immediately? Did we really want another Afghanistan. You can't go into a country that unstable, knock out most of the infrastructure and kill the majority of the high command, then just leave. The country would have just descended into civil war. Things aren't that simple, thinking otherwise is short sighted.

It'll be much better if the strategy continues to play out as it has been. The country is largely stabilized. More people were murdered in Baltimore last year, than US troops were killed in Iraq. In Iraq in 2009 there were 150 total military fatalities, 149 of which were US troops. In Baltimore, there were 238 homicides. Of those military fatalities, I count 75 combat deaths.

Further, Iraq has become richer and more free. Their bonds are on par with California's. If in the end, we come in get rid of the assholes that were running the place, rebuild and modernize their infrastructure, stabilize their country, make them rich, and withdraw, the Great Satan probably won't seem too bad. If this can be done in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the people in the surrounding scum-hole countries should start to wonder if they wouldn't be better off a little more like the guy next door.
The whole review is a collection of small oversights and bad decisions. This is what makes the difference between bad, good and great products.

When people wonder what makes an Apple product great, it's the attention to detail. They didn't choose an LPS display just to add another item to the feature list. They thought about where to put the light sensor, the headphone jack, which ports to add, and all those details add up to a good experience.

Like Jony Ive said, he hopes that most users don't even notice the amount of work he's put into the design. Most people won't notice the lack of a USB port, just like they don't complain that their Nexus One or N900 is lacking a USB port. Apple is happy to give the market share for the USB port lovers to HP or some other company in order to stay focused, just like they gave the market share for MP3 players with FM radios to others for a long time.
Yes, it almost isn't a thought experiment. The only difference is that friendship is not as easy as pressing a button. The button would only work if people you like would press it, and it would have to stay pressed for a while before having any effect. This is enough for many people to be lonely, regardless of any irrational social rules about pressing buttons.

This morning my wife flew back to her country for a 3 week holiday. I suppose I'm going to recover soon but right now I'm still having depressive thoughts.
> "One is that IBM is either a friend of open source, or it's simply an opportunist, supporting some projects when it suits, and attacking others when it doesn't."

Business exists to sieze opportunities. IBM is a friend to Open Source (eg, employing Linux kernel and Samba developers) when it helps sell mainframes and Power chips, but doesn't like emulators of it's proprietary mainframe firmwares. This sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Data is not that bad. When you're reading a device it may have a data and status register and data becomes perfectly distinct in this context.
Academic papers especially are a PITA, at least those formatted in columns, so it depends on the journal I guess. Plus you need detection of paragraphs to get line breaks at the proper locations. If it's not in columns and if you are willing to tweak the algorithm parameters to each conversion (paper), then it won't be that hard (just detect increased line spacing, or indented first line), but a commercial application would have to work almost automatically. or otherwise have a very quick feedback cycle (preview/edit settings/redo conversion). That's another one of my gripes with Calibre, the epub/fb2 preview application is so so slow that it's almost unusable. Yeah let me know if you find a working solution, although I do have dozens of hours worth of scripts laying about to do custom conversions, so real one-off hackjobs I have so many of that I don't need any more :)
Personally not. You can speed read some of those books but forget it on scientific topics. But maybe it's just me, I don't have a good memory.

Still, my ex girlfriend could read a page in 3-5 seconds by focusing only on paragraphs, with very good retention (she would remember pretty much everything). She has always read this way so it's definitely possible for some people.
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Despite what both the interviewer and Assange say, it's simply not true that Wikileaks has uncovered any meaningful information about this story. They have not broken a US coverup. Virtually every detail in the video has already been disclosed. An article recounting most of the details of the video --- from the killing of the prone reporter to the firing on the apparently unarmed men in the van --- appeared in the Washington Post last year. It even quoted the audio track from the video.

It is also simply not true that Reuters was unable to see this video after filing a FOIA request. Reuters saw the video in 2007. What they were not allowed to do was to retain a copy.

The more I watch of this the clearer it becomes to me that this Wikileaks video release has a lot more to do with Wikileaks than it does with war crimes.
I think that names that are wrong are worse, like something called $xmldata which doesn't contain data in xml format, or $price_in_cents which actually contains $price_in_dollars but nobody has bothered to change it.
No, he's just using it as a real-world example of how people would react to such behavior (sluttiness).