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The big draw for me with the Kindle that doesn't seem to be available on its competitors is wireless document delivery - I used this with Instapaper, and now with Readability. Thanks to it, I never need to worry about plugging my Kindle into my PC to add articles I want to read. There's also some interesting content in the curated "Kindle Singles" section, cheap short stories, novellas, etc.
I said nothing about the intelligence of the user. I don't care about these functions most of the time, I'm not sure why most other people would. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong, but I just don't see everyday users of computers lamenting the inability to run explorer in a new process.
I didn't realize the Kindle could be hacked to do that. Good to know.
People eventually die. If they don't die of cancer, they die of heart disease, or liver failure, or some other part of their body wearing out. So those stats don't freak me out... the relevant ones are how many people under 75 or so get a disease.
Hah didn't even know that was in there! :-)
> I dunno why after a person's death everyone has to talk only of their good sides. It's a social convention but it's kinda dumb.

If you had ill to say of the person, it would be polite and honest to say it when they were alive to defend themselves. The time after a person dies is a little soon as they have relatives and friends who need to work out their grief and not deal with a bunch of detractors.

I am sure Steve Jobs will be debated by historians and evaluated my the ever changing morals of the years to come.
Look, I don't advocate that Jobs was a saint, far from it actually. But I don't think the world will be a better place without him either. So yeah, I believe people like RMS are despicable for being jubilant about another person's demise and that won't change - no matter how hostile or snarky you lot are about it.

Edit: obviously, I should not have used hyperbole to imply that whenever a lobbyist dies, the world is a better place. That was rather stupid of me. I do believe the world would gain something if lobbyism didn't exist though. So if Steve Jobs had done nothing else in his life but paying lobbyists...
The thing I never understand about these articles: why aren't C, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, Python and other mundane languages "worth checking out?"

I don't think you should assume people have used all of these, and they're all worth "checking out". Millions of people use these languages every day to create 99% of the software you're using right now. Maybe it's worth a shot if you don't know one of them to learn one and maybe even get a job with it. There's a lot more opportunity to learn Ruby and get a job in it than there is for Scala.
Last I checked a few months ago, if you want to use a distribution's version of Go, you must install all later libraries as root - there's no place for "my local libraries".
That isn't how culture works.
I don't know. reirob's and fab13n's code are more general as they do not require that some type of ordering is placeable on its set of inputs.

Your code requires that the elements are comparable. So your effectively is predicated on whether you think that limitation is not a big deal (technically it greatly restricts the type of elements, practically maybe not?)
The relative politeness is the entire point. The tone the article sets reflects what the media wants (conflict! drama!) instead of the reality (global scholarly investigation into a big WTF).
Make sure to bring it if you ever visit Washington DC, there are four of every numbered street =). (Quadrants centered on the capitol.)

On the plus side they're all marked NW/NE/SW/SE, but it's an occasional tourist mistake that can land a person way off course.
We geeks typically place too much importance on the fidelity of the experience: on the idea that the kindle itself feels cheap, or the music from the (standard) iPhone headphones is poor quality. Most people just don't care - they want to listen to the same music as their friends, or get on with reading lots and lots of books. The fidelity of the experience is totally unimportant in 90% of cases.
Agreed. No TV means no restaurant commercials, so I've been eating at home more often. On the other hand, I bought a reading light after seeing a Kindle ad for it. The Kindle has also saved $15 on Amazon purchases I would've made anyway, though.

I dunno, it really depends on your taste for consumption.
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I would add Falcon (http://falconpl.org/) to the list. It's a pretty capable language, but for some reason nobody's heard of it.
can you elaborate? I see people constantly bashing GIMP, and though it isn't without problems it's good enough for me for all web stuff, and good enough for a bit of print stuff.
Thanks thats helpfull, I'll add a licence tonight (probably BSD)
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Why px and not pt? I thought fonts are traditionally done in pts.
kvm is very high quality. When the SmartOS developers ported it to the OpenIndiana (or is it IllumOS? the naming is a joke) kernel, they found almost no bugs in kvm. Porting usually exposes bugs.
Not every C++ feature at all. It does aim to include support for modern paradigms, whether or not C++ supports them.
Straight up these mostly seem like power user features, which has no place in an interface for every day users. I feel like they might maybe be onto something with Metro, but the new explorer is two steps backwards.
It's more important that people believe it works than for it to actually work.

Security theatre works because people believe it works.
I think MIT and BSD licenses fall into that category in that the copyright must be left unaltered. But that still won't stop someone from doing what you say ;)
That's a good point about them owning their own businesses: I guess it didn't matter so much back when the majority were farmers and landholders.

Kickbacks etc. are going to be a problem no matter how they are 'officially' paid. This comes back to voters paying attention and caring, I guess, so...
Except if you tell people you're going to do something you're less likely to do it since your brain can trick itself into feeling the same happy feelings it would feel if you actually did it... I'm not convinced the equation holds.
Discussed in three other threads ... the first is at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
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Well the cloud is always on and online. Additionally we want to work with metadata which we want to store in the cloud and is not supported by for ex. the IMAP protocol. I can't go into to much details regarding our product roadmap but having a cloud backend really helps.

Another concrete case is new email notifications. When our ipad is not the active app we simply are not able to inform you when new mail arrives (due to apple background app restrictions). With a client/cloud hybrid we can do the heavy lifting on the client and use the cloud for example to send notifications when new mail arrives.
People actually look-forward to dystopian big brother futures like Minority Report now.

If you tell someone, "The world is looking like Minority Report" they go "Cool!"
Already under discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
I was actually worried it would not go away. Fortunately today is back-to-business minus a few posts.
Ask HN: how to start making "real world" objects?
Hi, I have some ideas for gizmos that I would like to make, but no idea where to start. For example, machining metal, or molding plastic... the properties of different types of plastics... all the problems that come along with working with those pesky atoms.

I'm sure some of the forum members are wicked garage tinkerers -- how did you get started?
>> 1) He says that you should not own a mobile phone;

He shouldn't use a mobile phone, there are reasons why he would get tracked.

>> 4) He doesn't use a browser; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox;

He needs privacy more than anyone else.

You see as a political activist/famous person he should be more careful with these things.
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I wouldn't know about kernel bugs, but from having tried many VMs I prefer VirtualBox by a long shot.
"Since its discovery in 2004 (by pulling a thin layer off a piece of pencil graphite using sticky tape)"

So can I just do that and get a layer of graphene ? I mean is it really that simple ?
I'll just leave this here...

s/&amp;/&/g

Sorry! :D
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As an instinctual contrarian, I had something of an allergic reaction to the hagiography, esp. by people who had very little actually to do with Jobs. Many times during the last two days I had the impulse to try to counter what I saw as knee-jerk, saccharine self-insertion in the guise of mourning.

But each time, I took a deep breath, and let people have their moment.

I agree with you that he wasn't perfect. But he was a remarkable human being, and I'm ok with a social convention that, at least for a short time after a person's death, focuses on the good parts of his life, and the lessons we can learn from them.

The rest of your comment is speculation on the motives of Samsung and Google. Anyone who says, "this one reason is not the reason, and this other reason is the real one" is wrong. Especially at the level of this kind of product launch that's a cooperation between two such huge companies, the decision is likely mind-bogglingly complex.

And, honestly, I think a product launch decision can actually have a real-world impact on sales, so it's potentially a lot more meaningful decision than tweeting #thankyoustevejobs.

Again, I'm sure the decision is a byzantine one. But the gggp comment appears to be advocating an antagonistic attitude toward the recently dead. That's simply and obviously disrespectful.
D=100 * T=0 = 0

D=100 * T=1 = 100

D=100 * T=3 = 300

T=100 * D=0 = 0

T=100 * D=1 = 100

T=100 * D=3 = 300

I am almost positive most people who will give you money (who are smart; people who do their research) will prefer you're at D=100.

If you have a prototype and need more money then sure, you can have a higher T, but you still should be able to be doing work while you wait; Likely why many smart investors want the founder(s) to be the engineering team so they're not reliant on money to get things done.
Probably because they don't see it necessary. Amazon seems to see any actions that aren't directly related to:

- Buy book

- Read book

as a waste of space and another thing that could go wrong.
I've noticed that this problem exists even beyond software documentation. It's often hard to figure out what a company does by looking at their web site, for instance. I wish every such document started with "Product Foo is ____. It does ____."
Not true.

Globalization works well for the media (books, music, movie) industry. They can stratify and adjust rates to the destination country. Doing so, they can maximise profits for each area.

Doing so also requires that users do not share amongst other areas, so 'zone controls' along with ill-suited laws are passed.

Who globalisation does not work well for when concerning media is the rest of us. With exception of piracy, we are prevented from easily using globalisation in our advantage.

Piracy is the great equaliser. It alone has scared media companies from releasing on a 2-3 year theater-to-public to as little as 1 month turnaround. And it is the ideal method to use to play your media format on any system (unlike restricted legit formats).
No sources on the 4yr plan?
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Given that the legal system's unlikely to change, as long as IP lobbyists pay off politicians, I'd like to see Anonymous take on the project of compiling the personal details of these parasites.
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Equating the iPhone to a "jail" is goofy political hyperbole. Normal people don't even view software in that context. It's just a piece of hardware and software they choose to use or not use.

Stallman represents the strain of computer nerds who want to view their hobby as the bold movement of a freedom fighter. They are out-of-touch and don't understand what normal people think and feel. They want their nerd playground to remain in place because it's a world they have control in.

To paraphrase you, it's sad but true.
> why is putting ads on our reading devices worth $50 to advertisers? We can be proud and say that such ads have no effect on our behavior, but statistics say otherwise.

This does not actually have to be true. Think about Windows Home vs Professional; it actually takes Microsoft much more work to offer both rather than offer just Professional. The experience is strictly worse for the user, and Microsoft makes less per sale on Home.

So why do they even have a Home edition? It's because of market segmentation and pricing strategies. If it costs $70 marginal cost to manufacture a kindle, you will make some amount of money from each person that pays $79.

What if $9 * # of potential purchases at that price point is less than the flat R&D costs? Then you can't make money at that price point. Now imagine all the kindles cost $100; a lot less people might buy it at $100 than would at $79. It's actually often in the best interest of the company if they could get half the people to pay $100, and anyone who would refuse to pay that to still buy it at $79.

The only way to make that happen is to have to make some sort of differentiating factor that is minor enough so price sensitive people will still buy it, but that people who have the extra money will still pay the higher price. Windows professional is the same as basic for the vast majority of people, yet people still buy professional because to the people who are less price sensitive, it's worth it to not even hypothetically be missing features.

In that way, they could easily be making $0 from the ads, or even negative income by showing the ads and still have it be a good idea to make a version with ads that costs less than the version without ads. It sometimes makes sense for a company to spend more money making a deliberately inferior version.
You'll get a bunch of graphite and some microscopic bits of graphene. But yeah, it's the easiest way to get some for experimenting. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Graphene#Draw...
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Within a 15 minute walk of where I work, in Washington, DC, there are a number of churches, but some of them appear to follow the east-west layout, and some do not. It seems to depend much more on where the congregation could buy a lot.
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Just a note, even if you're not South Asian and able to help Amit, thousands of people are diagnosed with Leukemia and other diseases which may require a marrow transplant. Take the test he linked to, it may help save a life.

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Well, the title does say "in the city". There are other ways to orient outside of one...
There are entire forums and blogs dedicated to it: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128704
I was just kind of doing a shorthand version of what you were saying, but in a different way.

DOS was the power users shell, and Windows was the easy to use simple shell.

Now the classic desktop is the power users shell, and Metro is the easy to use simple shell.

Very similar transitions.
Excellent answer, and I love your thought process. Why have all your work go to waste not publishing it? This way, you don't have to worry about the inevitable "Why doesn't it do <random fringe feature>? I NEED that in my workflow!", you still get good recognition in the field, and all us users benefit from another good email client.
Sure it's not 21st St. (the NW/SE grid based on the Platte's course just there) and 21st Ave. (East-West)?
Ask HN: What's the best AMI for a 10k visits/day Wordpress Blog
I'm using my own AMI, and having lot of trouble. I'm on a small, ubuntu instance, and the blog crashes almost everyday.
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I haven't seen the ads but agree with Marco regarding the pictures of authors. They are beautiful.
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I am glad I wasn't the only one that thought that.
From the article:

The Kindle 1 was $400. This one’s $79 with ads.

Knowing that this new Kindle costs less than the cover for my Kindle 2 is freeing:
I can just carry it around uncased and unprotected in a (large) pocket, use it anywhere, and not worry about damaging an expensive electronic item, because it’s not.

---

Astonishing how far prices and production have come down since the first Kindle, which still seems relatively new.

Also, he paid $70+ for a Kindle case? I'm planning to buy a Kindle Touch and, being someone who carries his iPad and Macbook Air because, what the hell, they both fit easily in my DSLR camera bag, I'm going to really like carrying $400 less in electronics (I almost never use my ipad if I have a laptop with me, out of the home). But even if the Kindle Touch cost more, I wouldn't pay $70+ for a case...I don't think I've ever spent that much on a laptop or ipad case (I currently carry my Air in a padded Fedex envelope).
Great business advise from Steve Jobs: "Focusing is about saying no"
Those are my thoughts, but I also want to learn some more R as well. (I hear stories of people going from Python, to R, back to Python, but I don't see why one couldn't use both.) When you have two such powerful tools that can both be extended and embedded fairly easily, why would one need Matlab anymore?
Note that BSD does allow "some dude in china [to] slap another name on it and sell it".
I'm running into an issue where I get intermittent internet disconnection on the guest. I can't pinpoint what's causing but gmail will just start to time out. Wasn't there in Vbox 3.x though.
WHen I was in living in South Africa we had a garage full of kit. Welders, milling machines, all sorts. I started building go-carts and eventually upgraded to 250cc go-carts.

After that electronics and the rest is history. Even though I've grow up but I still want to build megatron...
Only thing I can say so far is that it looks nice ;-)
Appreciate the work, I'll try to contribute if I get the chance.
Does this work on Linux with Mono?
Denver is a mess. West of 25 streets run E-W, but they jog as they cross the river and run SE-NW downtown. They then straighten out once they hit Broadway (and change suffixes to become Avenues).

If you're interested in the reason why it's this way, Wikipedia has a great article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_system_of_Denver
Hm, I've seen some really weird unicode-related corruption hitting files shared between guest and host due to (I assume) different line ending convention. Figuring out what was going on was not fun at all.
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Question: What about risks to the donor? Does this stuff regenerate? Are the risks basically same as getting a bit of tissue harvested?
And with a single mouse click?

Also, closing an application with a single mouse click...
Steve Jobs with his Daughter
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All true, but only serving to obscure my question about why this is not considered functional by the OP. My first thought was to go with running down the list of indices, as fab13n does, but I thought I'd go for the less generic but cleaner code to try to get to the real point.

I guess I failed.
There already is an installer in the repo.
https://github.com/waseems/inbox2_desktop/tree/master/Code/C...
But can the people building projects on kickstarter even be called artists ? They got to be called engineers or entrepreneurs... An awesome site and resource for funding being roughed up for protection money.
VirtualBox runs XP and Win7 perfectly on my MBP2011; it has saved my skin a number of times and am not sure why it does not work for some people. I was considering getting Parallels but this seems to do the trick and works for 2 other people I know as well. Plus it's free....
I was already getting a bad feeling about LLVM recently, and this thread kind of cements that.

Everybody seems to have a different (sometimes radically different) idea of what LLVM is for. That can't be good for making progress, and it's definitely not good for guys like me wondering if LLVM is a sane choice for a project.
I'll reply here as well, there is an installer in the repo.
https://github.com/waseems/inbox2_desktop/tree/master/Code/C...
> IOS devices are appliances, not full power computers [2]. That means I don't have to fiddle with it to get it to work. It just works, or it's defective so I replace it. Most people aren't geeks and shouldn't be forced to be.

This is exactly why Apple is anti-hacker.

>Hollywood doesn't force us to take stage acting classes just to watch a movie. We shouldn't make using the Internet something one needs a class for.

Yet we spend years learning how to operate the human machine. Yet more years learning how to communicate with other humans. Learning how to use a pen. How to walk. How to read, write and do math. How to ride and repair a bike. If the internet is considered a basic essential utility by the UN then why should people not be educated on it as they are with math? Why should this class of tools require no learning when all other tools do?

To go off on a slight tangent, why is it so widely accepted that everything should be easy and require no thought? Since when do we celebrate ignorance? Did I miss a memo? There is a clear benefit to understanding your tools which is that they become more effective. Not to mention that one is also able to fix and tailor them to one's needs. We're getting extremely efficient and at the same time incredibly stupid. Should the house of cards fall down, not many will know what to do. Anyway, this goes back to the trade-off between efficiency and robustness. I feel that we are too far in the former direction.

>Do you know what this site is about? It's largely about entrepreneurship. Steve did what we all dream of: he followed his dream and managed to change the world. Did he solder every chip, carve out ever piece of plastic by hand? Of course not. No one man could do all those things. But it was his vision and he did what it took to make it happen.

Like I said, I respect his entrepreneurship but, personally, I think that it's foolish to idolize a businessman, or anyone who makes greed their life, for that matter. There are countless people more deserving of this level of attention.
Honest question: is a strcmp really the best way there is to test for specific kernel modules?
I'm one of the authors of Goclipse. A Go IDE plugin for Eclipse which can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/goclipse/

I am always interested in getting people's opinions... and help. Most of the people who use Go however, including me sometimes, seem to use more lightweight text editors like vi.
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Hate to play devil's advocate, but it sounds somewhat similar to what Israel does with their airports, but leveraging technology to identify all details (and more than a human could reasonably do), rather than training individuals to do the same.

Methods, deployment (in terms of location) and data retention are obviously the distinguishing factors here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024850 for an article on it, from around two years ago.