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Whether a human being or a machine is doing a task, value is being created; the overall economy isn't worse off.

The issue is value capture -- who derives the benefit of this value creation, and how?

If a human being does a job, they're compensated through wages. Machines have owners, which earn income in exchange for the productive output of their machines.

There are a lot of ways to earn income besides having a job. The sooner people realize this, the sooner we'll get beyond this absurd "job creation" mentality around which so much of modern politics revolves.
I never claimed to be driven by a disinterested search for truth. I said I am intellectually galled. I find lazy thinking to be extremely irritating.
I often find that I cannot bend my coworkers to step outside of tech

Understand this, and all becomes clear.
Well, you guys could use email or IM for this trite stuff and reserve HN for meaningful discussion.
"... cool to name the service an Indonesian word. Nilai is pronounced (as best as I can tell) Nee’-lie. It is an Indonesian word meaning mark."

Nilai means "a place" in Tamil, a language in South India. It has also many meanings. http://tamil.indiandictionaries.com/meaning.php?id=12587&...
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Windows port details? I start at golang.org, link to http://golang.org/doc/install.html. Says "A port to Microsoft Windows is in progress but incomplete." That in turn links to the world's least helpful wiki page: Page "WindowsPort" Not Found.

Where do I find out more about the Windows port?
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I'm extremely happy with nsf's gocode [1] adding auto-complete support to Sublime Text and Vim. It's quite nice. Go, itself (from `hg`), has syntax support for vim and (I think) an emacs plugin. There's also a Goclipse modified Eclipse install which I don't know much of anything about.

There are others, [2]

I mean, there certainly isn't a complete equivalence of Eclipse for Go (yet?).

[1]: https://github.com/nsf/gocode

[2]: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/dev-utils http://go-lang.cat-v.org/text-editors/ etc, etc
It's safe to say that most developers will take advantage of the screen resolution. Just not three days after it's released.
Depends what you mean by type safety. If by type safety you mean free from segfaults, Go is very much type-unsafe (send a map over a channel, access it concurrently, and it will segfault).
I think the author was referring to C and all the other popular languages that similarly enforce the brackets for expressions.
QR codes will be great for users of augmented reality glasses, by having the QR codes represent embeddable 3D graphics.

Like an iframe for the physical world.
I feel like there's a routine anti-QR code thread on HN once a month and it's always the same argument. They'll die naturally when nobody wants them. For now it seems like certain people want them.
Greater is a matter of opinion. Many of the fundamental discoveries (perhaps excluding medicine) came from people obsessed with their field as an end in itself rather than a means. Needing "this has a greater purpose in helping other people" outside validation to maintain interest is a bad sign that you have not found your calling, and it's a tendency I think our society indoctrinates women with to their detriment. The need to trade with others does influence what I build, but they aren't the reason I build.
reminds me a bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman
So far the best use I have found for QR codes is making up stickers than when scaned decode to "sorry i wasted your time this qr code does not contain anything interesting"
For Elon:

"Here's to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore
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Yay! I think this includes the iMac headphone fix, so I can finally listen to my headphones at the office.
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This is HN. We're regularly talking about startups, where most ideas fail.

I consider them resourceful in terms of producing new and interesting ideas and just about good enough in terms of execution. They're at least still around.

(yeah, it sounds impractical to me too)
The author is writing in the context of moving from c and c++ so I imagine he's talking about getting rid of c style parenthesis.
Typographic hierarchy
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Go 1 is about to be released. See the install docs for Go 1 at http://weekly.golang.org/doc/install - these include windows instructions.
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It's a woman complaining that her male co-workers are boring and do not entertain/stimulate her in the ways she wants to be. Bravo indeed.
It's an interesting question whether lectures are necessary. I've heard universities are moving away from them. It's obvious why you want a human teaching a small class; that's a conversation, not a talk. But is there a benefit to lectures too large to be conversational besides the two that I listed (meeting the speaker and motivating people)?

It was a while ago, but I can't remember a lot of lectures from college or grad school that I found more useful than books. When I try to remember lectures that I learned things from, what comes to mind is professors writing on chalkboards, explaining things like what happened in memory when some program was running or showing what happened when you did something to a matrix. So perhaps the big advantage of lectures is that they're not just words-- that they can include visual demonstrations.
Why is QR codes prevalent?

Because it's cheap and can digitize analog goods easily.
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The concurrent stop-the-world garbage collector is a performance issue. Additionally, the Plan 9-based compiler is not an optimizing compiler.
Clever trick!
If you have an Android phone, you can create a QR code for a WiFi hotspot with a WEP/WPA2 encryption key.
https://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
Generate power from the sun in Saudi Arabia - doable.

How do you get the power from there to where it can be used?
We started using them on the print pages of homes for sale that we provide for our clients. The QR links to a google map of the property's address. Usually a buyer would print out the listing and take it with them to see the house. So far it seems to be a much easier way to get directions to the house without having to type in an entire address on your smartphone.

Sample: http://virtualstagingsolutions.com/a/view/1159/print
And those are precisely the problems that the proposed start-up would have to solve: how to reduce the fixed cost of an employee to as close to zero as possible!

I think the problems are solvable and what's more, I think that whoever cracks the problem will be able to deliver a sustainable competitive advantage, and that is worth money.
I just moved from the first generation to the third generation and I'm pretty happy with it. It's faster in every way, same great battery life and the screen is much nicer for reading. One unexpected benefit is that Siri's voice annotation works decently enough.

If $500 isn't hard for you to swallow I say you should get one.
Personally, I've found them to sometimes be useful.

I use an iPhone now, however they were fairly useful on Android -- a lot of Android forums would show a QR code when you hovered over links to .apk's, which made attachments easy to download.
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You have to build the standard libraries and cross compilers first. I've seen this pair of zsh functions around. It will build the necessary bits and will also build for win/mac/linux/freebsd in simple projects and zip up the results for distribution (You can link to the raw zips then on github). For others looking to do this with go: https://github.com/colemickens/scripts/blob/master/dotfiles/... (Minor editting is needed due to some assumed values $ARCH, $OS, etc)
Sure, QR codes are always a "good use case" when it comes to this. They ARE faster than typing in a link or searching. Doesn't do much good when no one uses the code, though.
What an awesome human being. (And a thoroughly sleep deprived one, in some of those segments, I am certain.)

Truly inspiring.
In chrome you can easily view the current source by opening the elements section of Developer Tools.
but samsung, HTC, etc. have to differentiate from each other to sell their phones to the carrier too.

I think Apple is changing the industry by not taking any more shit from the carriers. I'm not saying that any other company would be able to successfully do the same, but I think these custom UI skins are some sort of lame attempt to do that.
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I think what he's getting at is that your tone is needlesly hostile, and belies the claimed "intellectual" nature of your complaints.

I, for one, cannot take you seriously for this reason.
I'm still not seeing you report something that says "an operation that took X ms now takes Y ms." Note the absolute numbers whose units are in seconds. That's what I'd like to see for a baseline.

And I won't even comment on the "we did this 9 months ago and did not save the data" part. That kind of stuff would not fly in medicine or science or most traditional engineering fields. Why should you be exempt?
The bailouts simply prove that the banks have more negotiating power than either the government or We The People: the banks were willing to let the economy tank, we weren't, and so they won. It's why I think the right kind of social safety net would be a boon for the free market: We need things to be able to fail.

As progress marches forward, products need to be made obsolete, whole industries need to vanish, and government institutions need to be voted out of existence, to make room for new growth. And we have very poor means for doing so gracefully; no one wants to start over, go back to school, and learn a new career, all on their own dime. So we get bureaucrats, unions, corporations, and citizens themselves protecting obsolete institutions which are a drain on real economic activity.

If we don't have mechanisms for absorbing failure on a vast scale, to re-inject capital and redirect human talent to productive output, we're going to continue incentivizing people to put up with broken systems, whether it's BofA or TSA. I frankly don't care whether it comes from top-down or bottom-up: our society needs to feel comfortable with regularly firing organizations and finding other ways for its employees to feed their families.

It's easy to focus on the rich assholes who pulled the strings and robbed the public treasury. But there will always be jerks who game the system; what really matters is identifying what they hold over us that allows them to get away with it.
Same way we use geothermal in or hydro in inconvenient locations today -- make aluminum there, or other energy intensive products. Also water desalination for local use. Maybe synthetic fuels, like hydrogen, or using waste to fuel conversion (which uses energy). Saudi has ok port infrastructure although it is at risk to Iran and Somalia.
PyPy is an optimizing JIT compiler; 6g/8g is not an optimizing compiler. I'm pretty sure one could construct examples in which PyPy beats Go for this reason (try something that relies on loop-invariant code motion, for example).

Additionally, PyPy has many garbage collection algorithms, while Go has a stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector.
Yup, I do, but conditionally. But, like I said, that doesn't matter. What's at issue is not what I believe, but what you fail to demonstrate, argue, or prove.

You asked for statements I believed to be false. I took this to mean statements I didn't believe. Because you didn't argue any of the effectively. I consider them false until well argued -- and the statements I called out hadn't been backed up even in a cursory way.

No amount of arguing with me over what I believe is going to change that fact.

You are very skilled at turning the tables in an argument, bravo. Your essays would be a million times better if you would do it to yourself instead of taking the lazy route.
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That isn't the only thing he said. I'm all for learning different paradigms, but he made a much different argument.

"i truly believe go contributes negative work to society"
Usually they just link to a companies website though and it would have been faster to type it in instead of scanning it.
Maybe I'm mistaking terminology but that doesn't seem like a type issue you're describing.
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If they actually do this it could revolutionize the internet. If everyone gets a internet drone we could build internet networks in the harshes place in the world.
It seems more like people want people to want them so they're sticking around. Sometimes they're useful, but that's pretty rare.
Same here, both my providers Xs4all and Ziggo were ordered by a Dutch judge to block thepiratebay.org, an initiative of MPAA sockpuppet 'BREIN foundation'. See http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/

I know that it can be easily circumvented, but this shouldn't be necessary. These censoring attempts should stop.
Thanks. If I was somehow supposed to know about the weekly site, I failed.
I used them for a QR code scavenger hunt once and, even in this tech backwards town, got a couple people involved. This was when they were still new.
It familiarized people with our website and our store layout. It also got them asking at the counter for help to find things.
All in all exactly what I was hoping for.
Children born and raised in prison camps. Military coups d'etat within the last 10-20 years. That sort of thing.
I too detected some sexual frustration in her writing. She feels "lonely" at work and "bored" by the men around her? All these smart young men and not a single one has brought excitement into her life?
A lot of designers put their works up on dribbble.com in full psd form so that you can pick them apart and see what they do to achieve certain visual effects. I've found it to be very helpful.
It's all about the context.

pg once explained essays are his exploration of an idea and I would hazard to guess in many cases the conclusions are still born out of the act of writing.
http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html

tl;dr Essaying is not about the writer's clarity of thought but the process of bringing their thought into clarity.

As for professional public speaking look at it in the context of their motivation and why they are up there: is it to promote an idea, sell more of their books or simply get invited to speak again? If their goals are being met then maybe they are an effective (good) speaker. Did it provide real value to every member of the audience? Only as far as it meets the speaker's goal.
The lack of government funding for a space exploration program makes me as sad and angry as anyone. However, I find Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan's argument against commercialized space-flight lame.

They say it would be less safe than a NASA program and that "To be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second- or even third-rate stature..." Note though that some of their argument was directed at the cancellation of NASA's planned moon missions.

With that in mind, let's consider the shuttle program. In 135 missions, it had an abysmal safety record that claimed the lives of 14 astronauts, making it the deadliest spaceflight program in history. It's budget cost $196 billion dollars over the craft's lifetime instead of the estimated $43 billion (adjusted for inflation), while making around half of the promised flights. The shuttle was an important (for both good and bad) craft that helped accomplish great things, like build the ISS and Hubble space telescope. But nationalist pride shouldn't make us blind to the fact that NASA's last program probably set progress in spaceflight backwards, or at least slowed it, and never attempted to leave low-Earth orbit. Those astronauts may not like it, but Elon Musk has a clearer vision and more ambition than NASA (or the politicians) have had for a very long time.
For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch.

Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
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In 4 Hour Work Week, he advocates several things, including ruthless fat-cutting, deliberately-short working hours, outsourcing, trying to automate email, false time constraints, etc.

Do you think a bootstrapping entrepreneur would be better off applying his advice or not applying it?
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Vizio seems unlikely to me because they're a bargain brand. If Apple bought them it would only tarnish Apple's brand. Could you imagine buying an Apple television set that was of Vizio quality? Even if they completely started from scratch and only used their factories, their would be enough people saying "This is really a Vizio" that it would look bad.
There's no one definition of type safety. It ultimately depends on what your type system is trying to enforce. I strongly suspect, however, that most programmers expect "type-safe" languages to enforce memory safety, and that Go's lack of memory safety is surprising in this context.
Except all the countries with good education outcomes have the state heavily involved in schooling. There are tons of countries that don't have he state heavily involved, and they have far worse outcomes.

Like I said, it's faith based adherence to ideology versus measuring outcomes and trying to do what works.

Also, the problem with basing anything on morality is that we all have different moralities. Whose do we choose and why? Perhaps we measure outcomes and base it on that with a few, generally accepted, moral constraints?
I like the QR codes at Best Buy; I use them all the time when I'm just starting to research electronics and I make a visit to one of their stores. It's convenient, I can store it on my iphone for later, and I can read user reviews, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure if they help or hurt sales because when I do scan a QR code, I typically end up doing comparison shopping and typically Best Buy's prices don't compete well with online retailers.
Clever. Ctrl-Shift-I in Chrome.
Good point. Since the OP was talking about execution speed, I thought he was using the word thread to refer to OS threads.
Because the Go compiler and linker are so darn fast, the extra compilation step is just a blip. It's not like working with Java or C++.
I recently read an essay by an advisor to Mario Vargas-Llosa's failed campaign for the presidency of Peru. Brilliant writer, bad speaker. [0]

Being one of the greatest writers alive, Vargas-Llosa was good at giving voice to the people's dissatisfaction and ideas for how to solve them. But he failed at the other half of political communication: repetition. He was always racing ahead of the electorate, speaking on his latest ideas. He was bored with the thought of repeating himself. He never developed the habit of the stump speech, and left his constituents behind.

In the influence game, one is eventually faced with a tradeoff between being a thinker who raises the upper bound, and being a communicator/popularizer who raises the median. Thinkers are needed, but if their ideas race too far ahead they languish until a popularizer takes them up.

There is a middle way: continue your writing as before, but use the stump as a trailing indicator of your thought process. There is no dishonor in giving audiences an expanded version of your thoughts as of a few essays ago. Don't worry that the ideas aren't "new". Definition, then repetition.

Also, learning how to be an engaging speaker at the same time as trying out new ideas is hard. Keeping the ideas constant can help you become a better speaker more quickly than you might think. And repeating yourself can even lead to better thoughts in directions you don't expect.

[0] Mark Malloch Brown, "The Consultant", Granta #36
Australia is about to do this for bases in Antarctica (which all suffer from sporadic satellite coverage). The cheapest solution is two non-geosynchronous satellites in opposition to each other on highly elliptical orbits, providing pretty much constant coverage.

Total cost is about $40,000,000.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3453168.htm
That's just the point....Edison didn't invent the bulb on the first try. Apple went bankrupt (or close to it). Google hasn't found the next best thing, but they are not afraid to try. That's the point eh?

There is one thing people can't accuse TPB of, it is giving it all they have and being innovative. Look at all the things you listed. I haven't heard of half of them, which just proves my point even more.

Also, how is it that they are even still around? Didn't the supreme court of Sweden lock them down some time ago? I am CONSTANTLY surprised how these manage to keep going despite the opposition and keep coming up with new things.

It inspires me actually.
I'm on the wrong side of the planet to check, but I'm bet reasonable money that Best Buy are running privacy-dubious redirection/browser-fingerprinting/analytics on the urls those QR code send you too.

Or if they're not, does anyone have a contact in marketing at Best Buy?
bitc appears to be abandonned, but I cloned it from their hg repo and put it up on Github anyway. Here it is, for posterity:

https://github.com/bitc-repos/bitc

Projects like this make me wonder if they would have gotten further had they put it on a more social oss hub, be it Sourceforge in its day, or Github now.