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> Some people are upset he's making a profit.

Is that really what "some people" are upset about? That's not the impression I get either from the article or from comments here. Some people are upset that he, and others like him, are making it harder or less pleasant for them to buy used books. Some people are (something rather less than) upset because what he's doing displeases them aesthetically -- books are meant to be treated with reverence, bought and sold by people who love them, etc. But I don't see anyone saying "He's making a profit, and that's bad".

As to whether what he's doing is, on balance, beneficial or harmful, I don't think we have enough information to know for sure.

Scenario 1. A small minority of particularly good used-book shops, which would otherwise have had real trouble selling their merchandise, are visited by people like this; the result is that lots of books from their shelves are made available to people who want them, and that the booksellers stay in business. Everyone wins.

Scenario 2. All the world's used-book shops are deluged with people like this. As soon as any new books arrive they pounce on them. The result is that all the books anyone wants are sold at higher prices, reducing their availability to people with less money; and that the used-book shops no longer get any "normal" customers because most of the interesting books disappear as soon as they hit the shelves, and that after a while the booksellers give up in disgust. Everyone loses.

Presumably the truth is somewhere in between. I'd guess it's much closer to Scenario 1. But fearing Scenario 2 isn't really all that crazy.
"Coveted your neighbors posessions? Death."

That's not true. You really shouldn't just make things up to support an argument.
I've used Mono to run some of my C# server applications on a linux box. I basically copied over the exe/dll files, ran it, and it worked. In a few cases I had to fix some platform-specific things (like hard-coding the directory separator), but all the core, standard APIs worked exactly like they did on windows. In most cases I was actually able to compile my applications from source using Mono's build tools without any modification, despite the fact that I authored them in Visual Studio so I didn't have a makefile (Mono provides a handy tool that reads VS project files). The biggest question mark is in terms of behavior and performance - it's possible that you could end up with a pure .NET application that happens to depend on a quirk in the Windows thread scheduler, or use a feature that happens to perform really badly on Linux due to API constraints (asynchronous IO in .NET is a good example of this; it's designed around Windows' IO Completion Port mechanism and there isn't a good analogue on Linux).

For desktop/mobile .NET applications, it's going to be more difficult to run them on Mono since they probably rely on APIs that aren't part of the core .NET standards, like Windows Forms. Mono has implementations of some of those APIs, but they aren't complete, so those apps are going to be less likely to work without modification. A lot of desktop .NET applications also call directly into Win32 for whatever reason, so that won't work on Linux. To help address this problem, the Mono guys provide a tool that can scan .NET applications for uses of APIs/techniques that don't work in Mono, and lists out the problems for you so that you can fix them.

Anyway, from my perspective, your best bet with Mono is server and mobile applications. Server, because you have two relatively solid server stacks to choose from (Microsoft .NET + ASP.net and Mono .NET + ASP.net) and you can develop in Visual Studio or MonoDevelop while running your deployed code on commodity hardware. However, it's worth pointing out that the Microsoft garbage collector is still a bit more mature than mono's so you might face challenges getting high performance out of your apps on Linux, since your ASP.net processes will be long-lived. Mobile, because Microsoft goes out of their way to make .NET development on their mobile platforms relatively accessible, and the Mono team has made great efforts to let people build native-feeling Android and iPhone apps in C#. In both cases you won't be able to write-once-run-anywhere, but you'll be able to write your core application logic once in C# and then do mobile platform specific UI development in C# as well.
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Think it needs to be a friend that adds you, and you can remove yourself and they can't re-add you.

The same friend could message you to death if they wanted to.
It's odd that it's not mentioned explicitly in either article, but I have certainly had it stressed before that when smelling wine, or whisk(e)y, or coffee that you should have your mouth open. Also, the "sniff" is not as if you had the sniffles, but a gentle inhalation. So, even if they are not saying so in the articles, I suspect the experts are doing something rather similar to what you describe.
Can't one treat faceook with caution and at the same time, enjoy their services, and sing their praises? I often praise entities while maintaining quite cautionate.
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This is all missing the point. And is a typical case of solving the problem with a "bigger hammer".

China is building a national rail network running at 350km/h to with the goal of putting any city within an 8 hour travel radius of Beijing. http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/09/30/7114

Kind of makes domestic air travel somewhat obsolete and really quite unnecessary.
Not all technologies per se, but: human level AI, immortality, underwater portable breathing device.
somewhere I had heard that the firefighters had actually put out a fire at the same house previously, on another year where the same family hadn't 'gotten around to paying' for the service.
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I just went there. Seems pretty okay to me. If you mean those click-popups that drive everyone crazy, that's not the designer's fault.
No, the biggest reason was pre-installation and nasty tactics by Microsoft out of the starting gate.
I've felt the same way with my netbook. The older HP laptop I used to use was pokey, got about 1.5 hr. of battery life at best, heavy as lead, and hot enough to grill meat. Now I use a 10.1" netbook, weighs just under 1kg, only gets warm with heavy use, and lasts 8hr on battery (or more if you're just reading from Kindle for PC). It's definately changed how I think about mobile computing.
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I've used http://www.1and1.com/ a lot and have had no problems.
(hopefully on topic) if i understand correctly, this isn't exactly a jquery "thing", but jquery is certainly of assistance...

i wrote something for this quite a while ago (likely could be improved...), http://gist.github.com/614392
Faster-than-light travel: wasn't this proved to be impossible by Einstein? I believe the only way would be to get your body rebuilt somewhere else in space through teleportation.
Treating the symptom, rather than the cause. A valid approach in some circumstances.
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I love it - modern UI and a convincing tagline, I knew something like it had to be out there! (Thanks everyone for replying though.)
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It's actually not that rare they don't have rye. Often you ask for rye and just get a canadian whiskey.
Is anyone trying to solve the data control problem right now?
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'You may also not know that since June 2010 .ly domains less than 4 characters long may no longer be registered by anyone who isn’t in Libya which suggests there is tension around foreign owned, high-value, short .ly domains.'

What about bit.ly?

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That was excellent Kevin, I thank you much.

Also:

you have two relatively solid server stacks to choose from (Microsoft .NET + ASP.net and Mono .NET + ASP.net)

I know what you meant though :-)
Wow. That works really well - hilarious results for a few lines from 'The Wire' translated to Hindi.

Possible bug: The 'link' button shows a nice popup but did not generate either of the two promised permalinks in 15 seconds, at which point I left.
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At a certain point the numbers no longer matter in an app store. My phone is a guitar tuner, one of five available. If my devices store had twice the apps, I don't think I'd benefit much.
Ironically, the "Daily Posterous Subscriptions" email I receive every day suffers from exactly the same issue that their co-founder has observed in another service.

Because it always seems to be sent around 4:30am and is relatively low value, it's one of the first emails I delete during my morning inbox routine.
Here is the "official" compatibility chart:

http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility

The chart is based on 2.6, the stuff that was added today falls under the "Current Mono Trunk" section.

I'm not sure if the DLR (dynamic language runtime) is fully functional on Mono yet. The DLR is what's used to make IronPython and IronRuby run on the .Net stack. It's embedded into Silverlight, which allows developers to run Python and Ruby in the browser (assuming their users have the Silverlight plugin). Mono has Moonlight, but again, I'm not sure if the DLR is in there.

I personally see C# as an evolutionary next step from Java. That being said, languages like Scala, Clojure, JRuby (which I guess is technically a language implementation) let you get the benefits of Java without all the sucky language parts.

C# is a solid server-side language. I'm not terribly impressed with it for the web, although MVC makes it much better than it used to be (blah, webforms). There's an interesting project that was posted here recently called "Manos de Mono" that offers some variety in the web space [1]

It's also turned out to be a pretty decent mobile development language. You can develop iPhone and Android apps using Mono [2][3], as well as cross-platform games [4][5].

You can use Mono in client-side applications, but I'm not sure how well it works or everything that's involved with using it that way.

One of the nice things about Mono is that it lets you write C# on Unix and Unix-like platforms. For those of us that use C# during the day, it's liberating to be able to use the same language on our Macs at home, or deployed on Linux servers next to our other software.

[1] http://github.com/jacksonh/manos

[2] http://monotouch.net/

[3] http://monodroid.net/

[4] http://code.google.com/p/monoxna/

[5] http://unity3d.com/
The database is stored locally on his pda so there are limits to just how slow it will get.
Suggested future modification:

the "follow" page lists most followed users. How about adding a section to show who, outside of the top 10-15, has gained the most new followers over the last week or so? (Obviously this is more meaningful once the service has been running for longer than a week.)

This would give us a way to be introduced to up-and-coming users.

EDIT: also, the "most followed" page currently has a user (osuburger) who has 1 karma, 0 posts, and 0 submissions. Already being gamed?
Almost done with my checkers :)

edit:
Link to checkers on github. Doing it fast. Will clean up and make jQuery plugin later.
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Do this on one of my teams and I'll fire you that day. I KNOW it's a hack. That's why I asked you to hack it in! Do you think I like it?
Yeah, Balmer made a grand sweeping idiotic statement, and here we all are, talking about Apple and iStuffs. That doesn't seem like a smart move...
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I was going to post the same thing as the poster above you as I heard about this last year, but I wasn't sure if it was the combo or not. I know it involved fungus for sure though.
I use enom.com

If you're going to do any quantity of domains above 5 or 6, it's worthwhile.

Stay away from godaddy.com (IME).
This is possibly the most inspiring post on the internet. Thanks.
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I was only able to see recent posts/comments. I'm not sure if the API supports it (haven't looked) but would be nice to see older posts/comments as well, and agree with others about an RSS feed being a good idea.

In addition, an aggregate RSS feed of higher ranked HN'ers would be neat.

And clicking on the following without specifying a user to follow first ("logging in") doesn't work: http://hackerfollow.com/?filter=devmonk
but as soon as a specify a user ("log in") it works. It should just work if it is essentially public, imo.
Every day the old technologies get a little more penetration and the world at large is a little more ready for the next one. There's no market for Twitter if the wrench hasn't yet been invented, but that doesn't mean there never will be. Technology wave N is here; why shouldn't anything in technology wave N+1 be worth a billion dollars?
Yes, it seems double-edged trouble: On on hand, this commodifies a situation that before lent itself to serendipity and erudition. On the other hand, this also sets up a feedback loop, where the scanners only find books that have already been pre-valued via Amazon-crowds. When I look at the author's Amazon shop, the content seems utterly banal, depressing compared to that of a good used bookstore.
Why didn't you use an Intel platform, just as Apple does?
Thanks a lot! I will keep this thread in my bookmark to let you know if I ever get there :)
nice effort, looks like Cool Iris

doesn't work on Chrome at all though, and some gaps in Safari (it scrolls in the page when you press arrow keys)
That's a great graphic. It incorporates a lot more information. I like George Kokkinidis' as well:

http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209
I've found that if you have a reliable third-party DNS service with a good interface, using godaddy just for registrations isn't that painful. You get to avoid the worst parts of the godaddy interface -- and just need to deal with their annoying upsell attempts each time you renew.

I use godaddy to register my domains, and I use the DNS management I get with my VPS provider (slicehost). I have no complaints.
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This made me remember how I miss writing. I haven't done much writing since I graduated. It feels so great and I like how my handwriting looks, but I can't find any reason to do that anymore.
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How do you handle just choosing the closest cities to you in Craigslist? Most of the web developer jobs can be done from anywhere so it doesn't seem like it would matter where the clients are located. Have you thought about searching all craigslists?
Here's to hoping they will implement that outside of groups too...great feature.
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http://joker.com or enom.com for domains

http://easydns.com for DNS (don't be cheap on DNS - most that registrars offer is slow/cheap/bad/down)
Which is why the derivative (or rate of change in OS market share) is more informative than current position (OS market share).
That depends on your perspective. If you're producing and serving one ready-made video at a time, say for a video tutorial, maybe converting to multiple formats isn't much of a burden. If you're rendering videos, say for raytracing demos, and they take a lot of processing power to render and you have many of them, it's a significant burden to recode all of them multiple ways. Given that there is one way that is already well established and works reliably almost everywhere -- Flash -- I don't have much sympathy for HTML5 advocates who can't offer a solution that isn't at least as easy and customisable as what we've had for years already, nor for a certain brand of hardware that makes a point of not playing by the same rules as everyone else in the game.
I agree with your statements about webforms(double blah), I've been working on a fairly signifigant MVC2 project at work and its far better then doing the same in webforms. Microsoft is truly trying to get back into the web game and make it 'cool' to be a web dev on the M$ stack.

That said the community is still lacking. Their are plenty of motivated passionate people but they very often feel like their are just doing it to get a book deal or speaking gigs and not because they care.

Oh well.
joker.com is pretty good.
I was dubious, but the last line really clicks. A verizon iPad would be perfect for Apple. The iPhone 4 was the last true iteration of the iPhone. I imagine the team has mostly moved into developing the next iPad.
He reminds me of a WWE character, I don't know why people take him so literally. I actually like his attitude, except he's playing for the wrong team...
The Lorem Ipsum book store in Cambridge, MA does just this. It was started by some MIT kids (afaik) with some basic algorithms set up to judge the "goodness" of a book when they go to sales or get turn-ins from customers for store credit. They don't solely include the Amazon sale price of a book though, somehow they definitely include unique-ness or coolness: their store is stuffed to the gills with amazingly interesting books on all topics (all of which are cross listed on Amazon also).

Seems to work for them. How many other independent bookstores have gone under lately? When I moved out of Cambridge last year, Lorem Ipsum was just upgrading to a new, larger facility.

http://www.loremipsumbooks.com/
How about a game to teach regex? That would be awesome. "Write a regex that will match xxx and yyy but not zzz", for example.
I think we're discussing different things. Clearly there are plenty of independent artists - punk rock has a long tradition of independent label publishing going back decades for example. Anyone who just wants to put their music out there now is well served by distribution providers like CDBaby.

I'm talking about successful disruption of the established music industry and the oft mentioned suggestion that simply offering artists a distribution alternative will do it. It won't. We've had a decade for grassroots indy web publishing to take over and it hasn't.

My point about the long tail isn't that it doesn't exist, but that it's largely irrelevant. Just as Youtube has barely scratched Hollywood, indy music publishing isn't moving the profitability needle of big music enough for them to care. They still have the back catalog, they continue to acquire the vast majority of popular artists and they're still driving the creation of the most popular music which is where the money is.
I doubt this guy visits used book shops. He mentions thrift shops. Used book shops generally are quite savvy to the real value of a book in the same way this guy is. They are profiting from the same arbitrage he is. Used book shops have the added advantage that the original sellers often come straight to the book shop, having never offered their books to any other market, so they can buy without competition.
As with anything, YMMV. I've taken Karate lessons (specifically shaolin kempo) since I was 4 years old, and I couldn't be happier. Just pick something that makes sense.
And neither are (good) roads, electricity, shelter, food, clean water, or good health.

If someone could put a number on how much each of us would have to pay to share the burden equally (as portion of family income) enable the world's poor, and I could afford it, I'd pay that tax/suggested donation, if a number of people I knew and trusted were entrusting that same amount of money/percentage of their income to that organization.

Until then, I give to my church (just because) and periodically to relief organizations that I think I can trust, and that I think have low overhead.

The amount of need is overwhelming though. So many organizations, and so many people need help.
I guess I must also not be going to the right sales, at the right time. I've been to many many where I live and have never seen a scanner. That said, I think what he's doing is awesome - most of the books he takes are probably pretty banal anyway, as someone else pointed out.
http://codeboff.in is done by me. It's a screening platform for hiring programmers.

I switched on billing just this morning so it hasn't actually made anything yet.
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I had a friend at school with anger problems. People would wind him up until he exploded and ran into them, fists flailing, shouting "Die! Die!". And then they would beat the crap out of him, because he was terrible at fighting. This was so entertaining that they would do it every time they saw him. So hitting the bullies was definitely counter-productive for him.
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Multipath due to the robot's body is certainly a design issue. Generally, you try to use highly directional antennas facing away from the robot so that the influence is minimized.

The particle filter implementations for localization use the motion of the robot or panning antennas to integrate the otherwise sparse signals into something more meaningful. This is analogous to using an antenna array. Still, with these implementations (under the best conditions), you're talking about an error of ~20-50cm on average with a pretty high variance -- meaning other sensors are generally required, though our near-field antennas allow you to hone in on the position even better using the same tag.

Meanwhile, local methods (eg. servoing from the difference between two antennas) works quite well. Publication(s) forthcoming. ;)
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But the ritual makes it more fun! Just like having the "right" glass for a nice beer can enhance the overall experience of a good drink, having a whiskey in a glass that works well for you can make a good glass of whiskey great.

Personally, I'd recommend (when buying it out at a bar, pub, or restaurant) to ask for it "neat", rather than "straight" - you often get a nicer glass that way.
I imagine if you approached PG with a great idea/demo, but no founder, he'd suggest you get a founder.

There was a similar situation with a past YC alum.
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The intro image alone was not worth it.

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