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> "I can't agree that e-ink is a dead end"

I would say that e-ink will stay around for reading, but there are critical differences between linear reading and textbook use. As far as textbooks are concerned, I would say that e-ink is a non-starter. The refresh rate is poor, navigation other than linear page-to-page progression through a single text is poor, annotation is poor, interactivity is non-existent, etc.

It's not a bad or doomed technology, it just isn't the right tool for this particular job.
I think FORTRAN had .EQ. for that...
New Ender novel released today... wait, ebook ETA in 2013?
Your mileage clearly varies, but I'm pretty jealous of the "tablet student". I was pretty organized when I went to college (graduated in 03', for reference), but having textbooks/calendar/binder/to-do lists/word-processor/calculator in one device seems like a huge boon over trudging around with a backpack and needing to organize return trips to my dorm to write papers, pick up books, or any of the aforementioned items if I forgot them. Every trip to campus or return trip home required a massive checklist. In short, I think they can spend a lot more time learning and a lot less time keeping stacks of paper organized.

Also, I would have loved to have multimedia/recorded lectures for certain subjects. I've become an audiobook addict and I definitely would have re-listened to critical lectures if I had the opportunity.
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Thanks for that. I thought that was one of the more thought provoking statements in the interview, that's why we made it a headline. Good idea to post it here as a comment as well.
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Thanks for your comments.

Overwhelmingly majority of my loans are either federal, or a type of loan (GradPLUS) which you can consolidate with federal and get debt forgiveness on.

So yeah I've factored IBR into my plans, and might do public interest for the debt forgiveness (and because I don't have a lot else going on at the moment anyways).

Even 10 years is a long haul though!
I've used them before. You could only connect to the VNC console once, and then you were locked out (which is a joke), and they don't do automatic provisioning. Pass.
Can anyone think of a good reason why Tor or Macmillan would hold onto the ebook version until 2013? I've read reports that the ebook versions will have enhanced content but why not release a regular version now?

This Amazon date isn't a type either. Google Books has the same release date and Barnes & Noble doesn't even have an ebook version listed.

Grrr.
Wikipedia joins web blackout in Sopa protest
> Makes you wonder in perspective how we are going to someday see people for supporting Gitmo or giving gays "some rights" but not all rights.

I think most of us know the answer to that question.

Sadly, history will also record that the ruling class of our age often acted to benefit their own self-serving interests, just like the ruling class of every age before us. We call them politicians and corporate executives rather than royalty and nobility, and we call ourselves middle class or working class rather than serfs or slaves, but the balance of power isn't so very different when you get right down to it.

The really insidious thing about our age, though, is that a significant fraction of the injustices are impersonal. People become victims of the The System, where no individual has ever personally chosen to harm them, yet harmed they are all the same. Even if the rich and powerful want to change The System for the better, it can be difficult for them to do so because of perceived consequences in terms of social norms or political fall-out. That in turn is partly because of the mistrust that has built up between the working classes and the ruling class, and the resulting apathy among (in a democratic set-up) the voters.

The remarkable thing about people like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks was that they stood up and followed their beliefs despite the risks. That is why they are remembered as heroes. It's a shame that The System today has evolved, probably inadvertently, so that it's almost impossible for such heroes ever to reach positions of real power now. Blame it on the political machine, the military-industrial complex, media empires, or whatever you like; they're just different sides of the same problem.

Perhaps one day, history will record that a real leader did make it to the top against the odds, and they made statements of substance and honesty, and they adopted policies of justice and fairness, and they fought for causes worth fighting for, and that was when the damage of the past few years started to be undone. We can but hope.
Yeah, MLK's family has been unusually greedy. They even used copyright to demand money during the building of the MLK Memorial!

http://savannahnow.com/stories/102501/LOCmlkmemory.shtml
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You're right for now but eventually (similar to valve in the video game industry) someone will champion and perfect digital distribution, market it well enough, and get enough publishers behind the idea. It will catch on. Most likely in computer science first and then move on to other sciences. My senior year computer science capstone class we were all issued 1st edition kindles with our books preloaded onto them. It was awesome. Granted the books were not major textbooks (all <50$ range) but it was definitely a step forward. Also no one had to pay for a thing, just sign a waiver that said if we broke or lost the kindle we had to pay for it.
I would bet a lot of money that every single one of those photos and video clips was properly licensed by Apple. It's not even that complicated a commercial for that sort of thing--compare to the first iPhone ad, which probably had 2-3 times as many copyrighted clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nyYloJyq9M
The book and software are both a great resource. I usually "roll my own" NLP software, but I have used NLTK for small customer text mining tasks. Definitely "batteries included." I bought the book years ago, but now, the online edition may be more current.
I read the OP as the billing not being the impediment, but what would come after: A business that the OP had limited interest in running.
Thanks to the submitter. I have to admit to liking articles like this. I guess I must be a real geek, because I also enjoy reading about computer security, encryption, and looking through people's screenshots (sadly, there is no screenshot thread here on HN).
Aside from being admitted to YC, is there a formal process to request AWS credits for budding startups...?
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I found a possible security flaw in Google+ and reported it through Google Feedback. It's been over two weeks, I never got any reply and it's still working, so I was wondering if there is a faster way to report this kind of things.
Tried this out a while back. Very cool to watch linux booting up in a browser. Weird how abstractions loop from low to high to low again.

I imagine sysad types would find this a pretty neat way to explore disk image files without having to boot up a VM.
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Wow yeah, that actually looks like it would do the job. There's a part of me now that wants to implement a spam classifier on top of Nutch to see how good of a web crawler I can create… thanks for the link!
Submission from an account that submits only stories from The Atlantic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nbj914

I like the Atlantic --- a lot --- but look at the titles of those stories, and look at this story, and ask whether these submissions are in the spirit of the site guidelines.

I flagged the post. I wouldn't have if this was really a comprehensive critique of the FDA, but it's not; it's just a position piece about factory farming.
Has anybody wrapped a rendering library, do you know?
From the submitted article's last paragraph: "None of this makes the moon a wellspring, and it would have a long way to go before it became a remotely hospitable place." The remainder of that paragraph speculates away the logical consequences of that sentence. Overall, the key fact about permanently shaded areas of the Moon, the places with the most water (and not much at that), is that they are extraordinarily cold. Figuring out ways to mine and extract the frozen water in such dark and cold conditions might be a lot more expensive and technically difficult than simply bringing along water from home.
I have used LaTex to write a few books. I usually use TexShop for OS X which uses XeTex so you get the unicode support, etc. Again, for the Mac, the Aquamacs version of Emacs has goot LaTex support built in, and is a good alternative to TexShop.
Controversial Website Wikileaks Favourite to Join SOPA Protest
I think now days it has less to do with the complexity and more to do with the fact that if you are not writing a research OS, then there are few reasons to reinvent the wheel, as it gains you very little. the Linux kernel, given it linage of supporting older, slower hardware, needs little adaptation to target it for lower powered mobile devices and it is mature. Given that the kernel is under the hood, it makes sense to use an off the shelf one that workes and focus development efforts on UI, workflow and ease of development for the platform. These are the areas where competition is still fierce and distinctions can be made. Many users will not be affected by the fact that the kernel is Linux, BSD or custom built kernel. Given that fact, it makes sense to leverage the momentum that is behind existing efforts and differentiate your product where the decision making process is happening for consumers.
What really changed is you don't need to use 1998 approach to solve the same problem. A single SSD can beat 50 1998 HDD in terms of IOPS, storage, latency etc. Your PC probably has more RAM now than you had HDD in 1998 and CPU's have almost as much cache a 1998 computer.

PS: A traditional HDD is hard pressed to break 200 IOPS / second cheap SSD's easily 100x you can break 100,000 for well under a grand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
If you're going to host a tutorial on the web, use some hyperlinks to define your terms. If I hadn't gone to a Django talk last night I'd have no idea what uWSGI and nginx were.
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Have you ever had to support a CRUD application?
If you're talking about custora.com from my check (which only a registrar can do) you transferred registrar to namecheap at this time:

2012-01-03T05:16:42.0000Z

So yes the data was run before that date.
> I'm not sure that any book on the NLTK could avoid the concepts you're referring to.

Me too. I'm saying the book (like almost all technical documentation) should be task-based. Let people read the chapter with their problem - don't ask them to read a whole list of solutions to work out which one is applicable. Eg:

- Title: Preparing Text for Analysis

(explain what tokenizing is and why it's necessary)

- Title: 'gauging opinion of a topic'

(explain what sentiment analysis is)

- Title 'identifying relationships'

(explain logical inference)

Task-based documentation doesn't seek to avoid terminology. It seeks to explain why those concepts exist and how they are useful (which encourages people to learn, as they become aware of the practical application of their knowledge).
Probably up there amongst the most useful Python libraries IMO. Hasn't it been available for free online for a long time now though?

Anyway, in case anyone reading this missed it, the Stanford NLP class taught by Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky starting next week (Jan 23rd) will allow programming assignments to be submitted using Python and NLTK, which is really good news.

So now's a good time to get familiar with the NLTK, or for a refresher for those of us already acquainted with it.
> And this shouldn't be an issue: http://imgur.com/FchrB

Why? Electronic textbooks with DRM will allow for even more nuanced price discrimination.
We've got more in store for this feature set, but we're really excited about this as a start - we use it ourselves at beanstalkapp.com and I know that a number of people HN were using the beta.

I'm happy to answer any questions, or field any ideas you might have.
It doesn't exist in copyright law, but may be it should? If enough people think it should be, we can write it down and make it law.
Wikipedia: Blackout plan brought the first NPR mention of SOPA/PIPA I've heard
I've had some downtime and have had public radio on a fair amount in the background. I've been frustrated with the complete lack of SOPA/PIPA coverage; I've even written to my local station about it.

This morning the top of the hour news summary was on as I was preparing to head out, and I was surprised to hear a brief segment mentioning the pending Wikipedia blackout and its connection to SOPA/PIPA. The segment was horribly written, describing the bills as "attempts to control piracy" while only momentarily, vaguely mentioning the concerns with them at the very end. But it broke the silence.

I was behind it before, but if possible I'm even more behind the Wikipedia blackout, now. It is the ONLY thing that I've observed that has broken the mainstream media silence on the topic.

(Well, there was one listener call-in on a state-level public radio call-in show. However, both the show's host and the show's guest knew nothing about SOPA/PIPA and mistakenly, misleadingly discounted both the concern and the likelihood of any legislative action -- speaking generally rather than with any knowledge on this specific topic.)

--

NPR == National Public Radio, a national-level public radio organization in the U.S.

Public radio in the U.S. is a combination of limited government funding, listener contributions (donations), and corporate contributions and sponsorship. It has a reputation for being relatively unbiased and more informative than much of private broadcast media, although that has been changing in recent years.
I have no idea, sorry. If you know anyone who works there, I'd try that route. Otherwise, you could try asking for a deal here: http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/aws-sales/
This is frustrating, and frankly, very odd. I want to buy it now. The publisher could have my $10 now. That's a good price point. I'm not going to buy it at the store, because I hardly every go to the bookstore and I don't have a car. Nor do I want to pay extra for the hard copy version.

However, there is a used bookstore just down the block. So most likely I will purchase it from them from someone who has sold it to them. So the publisher will get $0 from me.

I think this publisher is fundamentally misunderstanding how many people of my generation decide to purchase things, especially after going through the recent recession. I want it now, but I don't have to have it now. I can wait, especially if waiting three months will knock around 80% off the purchase price (such as buying from a used bookstore).
Another interesting case would be "Plan to kill the President.ppt".
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I wonder if they selected the 6th day of the 6th month for this because it's IPv6, or if it's just a coincidence.
Bing toolbar users, not IE users. Also, only the result that was clicked was tracked, not all results returned.
One of the things I'd like to know is how The Atlantic ended up with so much HN coverage. I like it from time to time, but not a day passes without an article from there on here, many times multiple articles, and that's kind of weird.
This is weird, but on a related note; the man himself, Orson Scott Card, believes the audio book version is the best way to ingest his work. After having listened to all of the Ender and Shadow series I can whole heatedly agree!
email: security@google.com

They usually reply within 24hrs.
I've followed uWSGI development on and off for a little while, but I never knew about Emperor. I've been looking for something similar for a while. Thanks a lot for your work!
And most libraries carry the audio book, so you don't have to spend a fortune on buying them all (and there's always audible.com too)
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Gandi http://www.gandi.net/ has a pretty good reputation, with free DNS hosting. No IPv6 reachable nameservers, however. If you want IPv6 reachable DNS servers, Hurricane Electric offers free DNS hosting https://dns.he.net/; they are a big supporter of IPv6 and so offer a variety of free services to help get it off the ground.
That (NIH's policy of requiring things to go into PubMed) is precisely what this bill is taking aim at.
I thought that R. Kurzweil's book, The Singularity is Near, really had a compelling argument against space travel in the short term. There's nothing more ridiculous than sending biological life into space. Let's shed some of our biological baggage, merge a little more with technology, and then work on sending a much more versatile and durable human v3.0 into space.
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Stories like the following were more common than they should have been:

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There was an opengl library at one point, I'm not sure of the state of it now though. I think it still works.
> Why should this work be protected? Protection is the default for copyrightable works.

It is today. And copyright durations are long and based on the author's lifetime today.

But Martin Luther King made this speech in 1963, and in 1963 copyright worked differently. It had a much shorter initial period and could then be renewed once for a second term. "I Have A Dream" would have entered the public domain later this decade, even if MLK had survived to renew it.

So, to address the specific points:

> 1. Speech writing is considered a useful art. Creative works of authorship generally are.

Indeed, and they are rightly protected. But retrospectively extending that protection for the benefit of unrelated third parties long after MLK's death hardly promotes such arts. Clearly he did give the speech without the need of today's rewards, and clearly he isn't going to be motivated to speak again because of them.

And please notice that this argument is entirely general and does not rely in any way on the fame or cultural significance of this particular work.

> 2. Sony is of course not the author.

Indeed. And nothing in the Constitution says anything about protecting the rights of anyone but the Authors and Inventors.

You appeal to the rights of the estate and the ability to sell or licence copyrights, but these are modern legal inventions, just like effectively unlimited protection terms. They most certainly are controversial and unexpected, relative to both the Constitution's basis for copyright and the law that was in effect in 1963. To accept the premise that these legal games are necessarily in the interests of promoting arts and sciences and encouraging authors and inventors is to miss the entire point of this debate.
In this Lifehacker interview, Woz says he's not a Linux user:
http://lifehacker.com/5222989/how-apple-co+founder-steve-woz...

> I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

In another article, I read that he was dismissive of the whole specs race...this is not necessarily at odds with people who build their own computers, but a recognizance that simplicity has its own advantages for a hacker who wants to operate on a different level.
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First, I think foreign-TLD sites are still what they mean by "foreign sites". This is significant when you consider that domestic-TLD sites are already in US jurisdiction even though the server may be foreign.

Secondly, saying "no American company will be affected" is exactly the kind of generalization required when talking in soundbites (what is required when talking on TV). You can call it a lie, but only if you acknowledge that nearly everyone on TV lies.
It seems that Verizon's 4G LTE service already has IPv6 in production - I was issued an IPv6 address without having to do anything in particular. I wouldn't be surprised if other ISPs followed suit by just flipping the switch to enable it for everyone.
What about Clojure?
That's only if they are using the free wildcard ssl addon. If they have their own cert and domain name (most do) then they won't show up like that.
The problem with bootstrap is only a small portion of it's design aspects can be changed. This is a problem with the way they've (not) used LESS. The only variables are colors and the font. Options for sizes, spacing, some layout options how you want to the topbar to work are all much more limited and harder to do. So for the most part aside from color, if you are using bootstrap it's going to look like a bootstrap site.

This is fairly different from say Blueprint/Compass where almost anything can be tweaked just with SASS varaibles.
From what i was told, it's often considered to be more stable, more secure and faster as Linux as server OS.

Slightly on topic: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2011/09/one-million/

1 Mio established TCP connections on a single machine is pretty good.
If your job is "doing" technology, there's something to be said for things that let you just "use" it without having to "do" it.

The iPhone or iPad let you just be a user with very little cognitive load.

If you want to tinker with your handset even while you're spending your day or maybe even weekend tinkering with servers, that's a different story. Android's definitely the tinker's tartare.
I came in here to post this. after reading Woz's biography and now Jobs', its clearer than ever that this type of article is totally pointless.
My ISP (Free) is participating, and the timeline went: opt-in IPv6 in 2007, IPv6-enabled Google in 2009, enabled by default for new subscribers in 2011. The 1% requirement is pretty weak, I'm more excited by the web companies flipping the switch.
More like the last 1%. Implementing the billing system would have been trivial. It was a mental block. I just didn't want to completely commit to the business I created.
In a sense, they did. And they did famously fail to meet expectations.

But considering that nowadays other stacks which rely on jitting regularly achieve real-world performance that is competitive with much native-compiled software, it seems safe to presume that Transmeta's performance problems stemmed from reasons beyond the basic idea behind CMS.
As much as I like the simplicity of Postmark, their pricing makes it very hard for me to justify using their service. Sendgrid and Amazon SES are charging $0.10 per thousand. Postgrid is 15 times more expensive.