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Why will "people" pay that? I know it's cheaper than the kindle. Apart from the novelty factor though, why would anyone pay that much for a device to read books?

I have a 2003 version of an actual ebook reader with a passive screen. If all you are after is an ebook reader I am sure these things would sell for $20 at the most and you could make a happy profit. What a bargain eh?

The problem is that the market is not driven by people's desires, but rather by moneymakers' profits. If we can't make 25%+ on each sale, why bother?
I did investigate. The phrase seems to be associated with European white supremacy. Color me unimpressed.
> Gold is money, and has been considered money by all civilizations on earth for thousands of years.

That is the historical value i was talking about, or how it is seen as money today? In which civilization can you buy your groceries with it?

I never said fiat currency is there to invest, if you put your money in something that costs just to have it and you can't do anything with it then do it. For the unrealistic case that there comes a new gold based currency than you have no advantage over anyone else.

I call this stupid and misinformed.
Yet he tells those same people that the current government faults are cause by the previous governments. Funny since he has been in power for 13 years.

Current problems in Venezuela are the responsibility of this government.

I specially like when they says things like the fact that there are teenagers girls aged say 17, getting pregnant because of the lack of education in our school system. And yet nobody seems to realize that a 17 year old girl was 4 when Chavez got to power.

I tell you, the things us Venezuelans need to hear everyday... it makes you want to cry.

Incompetence at its finest.
Clojure's STM has several advantages going for it:

* Clojure's data structures are purely functional, and built with the STM in mind. Updates and rollbacks to structures are cheap.

* Clojure user-level code has always had access to the STM. Because that's the accepted paradigm, There are an order of magnitude fewer assignments in typical clojure code, greatly simplifying the problem. In typical clojure, one function that uses the STM will call 10 pure functions. In typical python, most of those 10 calls will all mutate local state.

* Clojure requires all STM activity to happen within the dosync block. In python, that would be like requiring the magic to happen within a "with transaction(): ...". Again, this limits the amount of work that needs to happen. The compiler doesn't need to decide whether or not a random function needs to be a transaction; the user will tell the compiler.

* Clojure's STM explicitly only works with functional code. This will likely cause fewer leaky abstractions going forward. PyPy will have to modify all existing data structure classes to work with the new STM, and they won't be able to fix all the library and user code out in the world.

Good luck to them, but I suspect bolting STM into an existing language is much harder than designing it from scratch, similar to building in GC.
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So you're using S3 to serve your assets, eh? You should rethink that.
W-w-what?!?? C'mon... yet one more username/password to remember, yet one more (different) set of navigation idioms (no two discussion / forum sites are layed out the same), little or no ability to view content offline, inconsistent or non-existent ability to tag / filter / route messages per my own needs... forums are a horrible mechanism for support, compared to email. With email, the messages are delivered to my email client using credentials that are already configured, are available for review anywhere (once downloaded), are threaded according to well understood mechanisms, and can be filtered, tagged, sorted, etc. any way I like.

As far as I'm concerned, the question should be "why would any project not use email for support?"
I think somebody at Twitter's gunning for the UI job at Square. (See the bottom task at https://squareup.com/jobs/omfOVfw4)
Dupe a dupe:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2913709
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914021

Although the others linked through Reddit and Digg redirects.
> - needs to understand markdown

No it does not.
Thanks, will take a look.

And didn't want to imply the rest of it is any less awesome. Really dig it.

I personally see myself using it purely on the web, as a way of getting across an idea or perhaps even a tutorial of some kind.

Big thumbs up.
WebOS is slow on TouchPad due to large amount of logging done in the background. There are patches available for WebOS which decrease / disable logging making the whole user experience quite snappy. The main culprit for slow performance are the logs not the hardware.

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However, being ok and having skills to deal with unemployment gives you an important skill: Being able to openly say "Fuck you" to your employer or a client.

The part about desperation is not exactly right. I think those who are employed, unhappy and scared of unemployment are in a worse position. Unemployed are actually free, they have very little to lose. They have gotten out of zoo cages and roam the world, which while scary is much more interesting than a job.

If you wanna have an absolute security that you'll have food and a roof, go to jail or something.
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If that caught on, the next logical step would be for more counterfeit gold coins to come into circulation. Do these businessmen have the energy to try to detect fraud in two kinds of currency? Especially as gold coin fraud doesn't have the same harsh legal penalties as counterfeiting paper money.
Some of the problems addressed in the papar can be solved with compiler enforceable constraints such as is done in Haskell's type system.

What comes to the performance, the benchmarks in the paper range from no speedup at all with 8 cores to having 1.5x perf increase with 2 cores to 4x increase with 8 cores. To me, that definately sounds like something worth researching.
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1. Scramjet's don't suffer all that much from having extra air move though the engine because they don't slow that air down.

2. Scramjet's have already been demonstrated at over Mach 9.5 and are still more efficient than rockets at those speeds. (aka more thrust per unit fuel.)

3. Scramjet's are actually fairly simple designs compared to a traditional get engines. (Modeling and testing them however is much harder.)

Granted, there are plenty of downsides which is why we have not built anything like that. But, the issues are far more in line with heat dissipation and drag vs. limits on the basic physics. Still the main limitation seems to be the far lower thrust-to-weight ratio.
I just found out that NIC.IO (a common domain registar for .io domains) stores my password in plain text. Whoopee. I wonder how many startups use it.
No it does not mean things are set in stone.

Personal jet pack is here albeit still in its infancy. I'm quite sure people are researching into ways to make car flies. I don't think you can have time-travel (hence no faster-than-light-travel either). Of course there are "impossible" Hollywood tricks and of course some of the things would take longer to be created.

Sometime people invent something for a specific goal but ended up as something else. Nobody plans to create post-apocalyptic world. But if the invention evolves or ended up as a base to create something else, who knows what it'll turn out to be?

Take plastic as an example of that.

Yes, I do aware of the other things to be afraid of.
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What is the cost, from the potential buyer's perspective, of the 'due-diligence' process?

Also, how are you paid? Is it a flat-fee upfront? A percentage of the possible 'acquisition' amount?
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First, it has happened within my grandparents' lifetime.(Weimar Germany, for example.)

Second, inevitability doesn't have a timeline. It could be in a thousand years or tomorrow; that's not the point. The point is: it is expected to happen at some point.
We can't let facts and reality come in the way of a good law suit now, can we?
There was another (more serious) comment that has been deleted.
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You misunderstand me. I'm not saying that a degree is unimportant; It is VERY important to getting a good job. Avoid a degree and you hobble yourself severely.

The lie is the belief that a degree pretty much guarantees you a job, which it doesn't. The degree is but one step along the way, but most people come out of school believing that it is the only step (followed by that magical "experience" that comes up with the rations), and so have a false sense of entitlement.

This is a lie that, though not always told directly, is nonetheless communicated to all students as they pass through the hallowed halls, as they complete difficult courses, as they don the robes and cap, as they "climb the corporate ladder". It's a false sense of security because they've only done part of what they need to do in order to be successful in life, and they don't even realize it!

So is it any wonder that uninformed and dispirited job seekers come at the world with plaintive cries of "I have a PHD in X and here I am flipping burgers!"?

In short, your CONTACTS get you the interview and a sympathetic ear, and your education, experience, references and personality do the rest. Without the contacts, you probably won't even get in the door to show off the rest.
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All these economic/demographic studies suffer from a fundamental flaw. They assume that trends will continue to hold for a long time. Nothing could be further from the truth, because any trend tends to correct itself, unless some disaster happens. For example, the trend of economic growth for several countries, including USA and China, is widely speculative because doesn't consider the changes in policy that can take place as soon as the next few months. Similarly for demographic concerns: a single change in policy or an external event can change the trends dramatically.
It looks beutiful and all. But does people actually do presentations like this for hand? (css and html).

If this could be done with an interface like PPT i would like it. But then it would be kind of redundant. I like PPT, although most people have no sense of design.
Go to "search and review" and then to "public procurements".

On that page you can either search the database or click on today's data on the right side of the screen.
I am pretty sure that is 2x slower than PyPy not CPython. So it would basically end up being over 2x faster than CPython.
So a paper dollar bill has "value"? Scarcity provides value.

Read this and let's talk some more:

http://johnlaw0.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/why-the-global-fina...
As someone who is only a couple years past my first encounter with car/vehicle, duck/bird examples I can say that they did nothing useful for me. I think the reason they were so useless is not because they were trivially simple, but because they emphasize the wrong type of focus when dealing with inheritance.

Presenting inheritance in terms of duck/bird emphasizes thinking in terms of similarities between nouns, which is misleading. I would have much rather seen some contrived example which does something other than print "quack".

This, however, is a criticism with most tutorials that I've read. Most would benefit from having more substantive examples and letting the syntax and concepts fall out of them.
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Read this: http://johnlaw0.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/why-the-global-fina...
Yes, I also find this the major thing holding me back from HTML presentations. I wrote a HTML presentation for a conference and didn't realise this was a problem until I came to present it, and found out there doesn't seem to be any way to cleanly enlarge / shrink HTML.

EDIT: After a very quick reply to a bug report, I decided to try zoom in/out in Chrome. For anyone else who hasn't tried this in a very long time, the zoom in/out actually does a very good job, allowing me to resize slides to the correct size. Some time after the introduction of CSS2 I found zoom in/out became useless. Turns out at some point it became useful again.
Unfortunately I don't have access to that particular configuration; if you or anyone else has any ideas as to why it crashes we'd love to hear them here or over at the Github page!
I'll go further. Drop the "kid" qualifier, or allow for the possibility that we're all kids:

If coding isn't fun, please stop doing it. The last thing you need is to sacrifice your career to something you don't like doing.
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How does Clojure enforce that there are no side-effects in the transactional code? Is there a macro that "compiles" the transaction somehow?

STM in Haskell is very natural, since Haskell already enforces pure code and side-effecting code. STM and STVar work pretty similarly to IO and IORef or ST and TVar.
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Gold is a fungible item but it is definitely not money. You can't walk into a supermarket and buy a weeks worth of groceries with it. You can exchange it with someone, possible the store manager, for what he thinks it's worth. This will be far less than the gold market because now he has to find a way to exchange or store it. And the cycle continues.
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Congratulations with your launch! It looks like you've got a nice hybrid between HN/Reddit-style voting and Stackoverflow-topics, - personally haven't seen such a site before. It'll be interesting to see whether you'll succeed building a community around it. Any plan-of-attacks on gaining traction?
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If you use the [LessFramework](http://lessframework.com/) (now v4) you'll find yourself doing these calculations and I'm pretty sure that if your using Less, Sass, or Stylus you've got width/col mixins too.
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I'm keen.
STM and locks have some interesting clean-up and (as is cited in the article) you really need for it not to crash and not to deadlock or go all priority-inverted on you.

Message-passing, on the other hand, doesn't need particular locking and crashes are (somewhat) simpler to deal with.

(And most any scheme I've encountered can deadlock, and will usually choose the most inopportune moment to demonstrate this capability.)

There's an older blog post here http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/thoughts-on-paralleli... that's worth a read.
If you're like me an interested in RFID but wouldnt quite be willing to implant a chip under your skin, this might be a nice alternative assuming it has RFID tech too. I'd love to have this tattoo and hack my front door to open via an RFID.
I think Roy Fielding and the other strict REST proponents need to do a better job of explaining why we laymen should follow the rules so closely. I have read a lot of Roy's work, and those of other proponents', and I still don't see a lot of value in staying so strictly to the 'word' of REST.

Much could be helped by 'the experts' just showing us rational laymen the cost-benefit analysis. Show me how things will fall apart over time, some data would be helpful. And let me see some case studies.

Currently, my non-REST "REST" interfaces seem to be working pretty well. And, when they don't work, I go and fix them. Seems easy enough, but obviously I'm naive.
Looks Nice and clean but I for one would not be touching JDK7 unless the issues mentioned here ( http://markmail.org/thread/kulrw4sm2nsshrta )are resolved .
Fair enough. With OAuth these days, you wouldn't need a separate username / password, but your point stands.

I do believe sites have much better mechanisms for sorting and searching compared to the web-interfaces of mailing lists.

Therefore, my next question could be, "why are mailing list web interfaces so horrendous compared to sites?"
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No, that is not enough. If you want to implement atomicity for operations that touch multiple objects, a simple mutex-per-object approach just won't cut it. If you start holding multiple mutexes at once, there will be deadlocking if they are not locked in a consistent order.

Not to mention that if every object has a mutex associated, the performance will be horrible. Even if the mutexes are not contended, there will be so many atomic compare and swap operations that the interprocessor memory bus will simply die.

If your solution would work, every method in Java would be synchronized by default.
Would have been interesting if they'd discounted it to this level before canning the ecosystem. Might have given it the shot in the arm it needed?
It's depressing that this is so out in the open, and it seems like there's nothing America can do to defend itself.
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Page 6 of this .PDF document

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-389/of00-389.pdf

has a Figure 6 that shows a 20th Century trend line (with informative commentary) and a fluctuation graph for the price of gold in constant (inflation-adjusted) United States dollars. Other sources on "gold in constant dollars" that one can find on Google show how the price of gold has been bouncing up and down in relation to the United States dollar, usually with trend lines that only cover very recent years (when the trend has mostly been up for gold in relation to the dollar). I have a friend who invested all his personal savings in gold around 1980, when gold was last regarded as a reliable inflation hedge, and he lost a lot of money during the following decade as he had to sell off gold at declining value when he needed cash.

This comment on the market not quite a decade ago,

http://old.nationalreview.com/kudlow/kudlow200312150909.asp

also shows that gold can bounce up and down in price, relative to the dollar. Any investment could be a safe investment if you perfectly predict the future, and for the last few years gold has looked like a very good investment, but I wouldn't count on any investment being a sure thing over the long term. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is still the best advice.
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Looks quite nice. Please implement OpenID, or similar. I do not want yet another account. Cheers!
The problem people have with "Car extends Vehicle" is that they expect magic. It's the same impatience we sometimes feel with little kids because they're not grasping something we've been taking for granted for decades. If you're trying to teach someone new to OOP, there is no example that will take them from their current level of knowledge to yours, in one fell swoop. You can't expect them to grapple with decisions such as "inheritance vs. delegation" when they're only now learning what inheritance is all about.

So yeah, "Car extends Vehicle" and "Duck extends Bird" works pretty well at that point. You can try to cram "Penguin" and "Helicopter" and "Flyer" and "Vehicle" down your students' throats in the same lesson, but I doubt that will magically make them digest it properly. And if you can't do that with easy stuff like "Duck" and "Bird", how do you expect them to swallow "NumericHalo" and "ImageDisplay"?
The Incas had vaults and palaces full of gold. Just because the peasants of Inca times couldn't afford any, and bartered with textiles and animals, doesn't mean the gold wasn't valued by the ruling class.

Please take your intellectually dishonest opinion somewhere else. The fact is that gold can be converted into any currency in the world, in any country in the world. I can walk into a bank in Zimbabwe with a gold eagle and walk out with several $trillion Zimbabwe dollars in fiat currency.

As we speak, Gold just reached $1900 USD an ounce today. Which would you rather have stuck in a safe back in 2009? A gold eagle, or a $1000 in US currency?
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To add to dmd's goals, I'd like to also package up the code socket.io-style, so character-level updates can be utilized for other types of applications. The frontend uses Google's diff_match_patch library (http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/), which is serving pretty well so far.
Is it older than May 2004? http://esearch.oami.europa.eu/copla/design/data/000181607-00... is the relevant filing.
"But one thing I was very right on is the huge demand for a less expensive tablet computer"

Arrington should be a futurist/ecomonist, not a op/ed writer -- after all, he was "very right" with this prediction! :-)

But, IMHO, I think he was very wrong that Crunchpads would have flown off the shelves. Brand names matter to consumers when it comes to consumer electronics (do you hear anyone talk about the notionink Adam anymore?). You can find a $200 tablet out there if you want to, but I don't see a lot of people looking beyond the brands they already trust for a solution.
Very interesting and - as far as I'm concerned - unique concept, clean design. I really like it so far. Best of luck!
It's currently 4 points now. I don't expect most people on HN to understand modern monetary theory, but at least a few do.
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The problem is your editor helps you produce more code, readable or not. The goal is to produce a good program, not more code.
Thanks! Yea, building the community will be the tough part. I was planning on writing high quality articles on Listry and then hopefully some of the people that read the article would want to add their own input to the article and that's how they would get started contributing.

Any suggestions?