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Ask HN: Should Amazon sell the kindle like the iphone?
I just thought of this: If Amazon would bundle the kindle with a contract that requires me to buy books for $20 (or similar) every month for 24 months and in return the device would be free, that would be awesome.

I think it would be a win for everybody: Amazon sells more kindles and more books, publishers sell more books and I get the device "for free" (Or at least I don't notice the price that much).

What do you think of this? Is it feasible?
You're never in a stronger negotiating position than after they've offered and before you've accepted.

And yeah, the wife's living in cloud cuckoo land.
Go-bang? (and in this case the question mark is silent)
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I suppose maybe the counter-argument to that is that the technological advancements that come about as a result of finance pushing for them, propagate out to the wider world and can help speed up the rate of discoveries as new technologies become available.

I also have the feeling that quite often discoveries and advances are not really to do with the discoverer but to do with the fact that an idea's 'time has come'. Take Google for example, they revolutionized search, but supposing the founders had headed off to Goldman Sachs rather than doing their PhDs, what would have filled the gap? I think that the stage was set for new things to happen in the search area and that other researchers would have come up with similar ideas.

I wouldn't want to say that the inventor is completely incidental to the discovery; I appreciate that there are brilliant people out there, and moments of inspiration, I just think that the world will steam-roller on with or without a particular person and we'll often end up at roughly the same place.
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Looks like an exciting project. I like the idea that I could donate money toward this.
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Well, it's more complicated than that. The thing people fear most is the destruction of their self-image: finding out they are not who they thought they were, or everyone finding out that they aren't. Most times when you see someone do something that's utterly inexplicable given the facts - like, having no income but continuing to spend frivolously - this is the mechanism in action. The "executive" has come to associate themselves with the physical trappings of success - the car, the suits, the watch, and so on. Letting go means admitting failure, means admitting that their life was just a facade.

It may sound shallow, but it's not an entirely negative thing. A fireman enters a burning building, he's afraid sure, but his self-identity is the hero, he's not going to back down, he's more afraid of the shame.
Have a look at some of the names behind it and see if you stick to your 'Not Invented Here'.
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Why would you hope that if the old language is doing just fine for the purpose ?
As soon as I got to the channels portion of the tutorial, I knew it was Rob Pike's baby. He did a tech talk a while ago about parallel languages, which was very interesting http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810232012617965344&#...

EDIT: after watching some of the tech talk, it's evident that while Rob Pike is involved, it's not entirely his baby... He is however involved, and there are definitely ideas from newsqueak in the language.
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Look at it this way: if I'm unemployed but I can get a $100K job, and I get an offer for a $75K job, I'm leaving $25K on the table--not just a one-time loss but a permanent reduction in income. If another month of job-searching, burning through another $7500 of savings, will get me a $100K or at least a $90K offer, then it is perfectly rational to turn down the $100K offer.
I would like to see Google "eat their own dogfood" before I invest in Go.
Or do they already use Go in production?
I never knew what duck typing referred to. Thanks.
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Among other things he says that there were no (or almost no) animals suitable for domestication and mass herding in the Americas. Therefore the native Americans had no contact with herds of animals that would have bred diseases of that kind. Most of those epidemic diseases that killed off lots of people apparently stem from chicken and pigs. (note: guess why it is called "swine flu").
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Patent wars and the Bilski case. Can you patent business methods?
Whenever I hear about mod chips for pirating games, I think of this story:

http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter24.php
Because the Americas were isolated while Europe had engaged in extensive trade with the middle east, asia, and africa for centuries. European resistance to disease did not come free, it came at the cost of having lived through several catastrophic pandemics. The black plague (among other endemic diseases such as smallpox, measles, cholera, and malaria) killed hundreds of millions of Europeans, the Europeans of the 15th century were the descendants of the survivors of past outbreaks.
And finally C 2.0 sponsored by Google.
Good move against Apple.

It (go + native client) might become a next major platform. Just think about low-level (and easier to code than C[++]) Javascript alternative.
First of all, quite surprised Google is using perforce (woah!), but as the comments suggest, people internally are using a git-p4 bridge.

Secondly the hooks to let them tie I/O requests back to specific applications sounds funky, is there something in the wild that does this today?
Although that's true, it's an unnecessary problem they've created for themselves through their now over-simplified trade matching and naive insistence on time-priority right down to time-frames so small that nobody could possibly care outside of the lame system.

Think about it - even if you got the news the president was shot, or even if the unemployment numbers are significantly off, you'll only be able to take small bets initially due to the lack of confidence in the news until further confirmation.. And confirmation can only come from reading or hearing words, which even if a computer does that, somebody has to type or say them... which means seconds, not milliseconds, much less microseconds.
I think its time we stopped with that madness.
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That is weird, especially given that modding console is completely legal over here in The Netherlands: using it to play games you don't own is illegal. I would've guessed Microsoft would target the users playing pirated games instead of playing on modded X-Boxes. Now it seems like they're also targeting users that prefer to play using a backup DVD instead of the original, which to me seems like a pretty fair use case.
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Even if you dislike PHP, its undeniable what he's contributed to web development. Best of luck, Rasmus and thank you.
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It'd be better to do it now and leave this little dude alone than to continue the ambiguity. Google's Go is only a day old, not too much to lose if they change the name now.

Also, maybe math guy has some money, or will find some money, and litigate, as he's already expressed his displeasure at the collision.

I think it's best for everyone if Google just man up and make the change now. In the end it will only generate more publicity for both Gos, and everyone will be happy, and the threat of unpleasant ramifications (including bad PR and possible litigation) vanishes. Fingers crossed that Google will do it, though I doubt they will.
My guess is the second declaration overrides the first.
Original source on Miguel de Icaza's blog: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Nov-10.html
Should we expect dramatical drop of 'YHOO'? =)
I think Ruby and Python are reasonable examples of languages that make good compromises; they have some nice language features, but they are eminently usable for real world problems as well. Also, they are fairly approachable, even for people who are not CS majors.
Don't think the real worry is rogue leaders, but instead: what happens when someone has a blow out?
Seeing as how you already know Java, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially because it's also something that you can use server side.

http://commonjs.org/
http://nodejs.org/

-- MV
A banker ought to understand a "stop-loss" tho'.
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Just curious, can SciPy also automatically take advantage of cell processors or graphics processors? If it is all just matrix operations, it seems doable?
You probably know what happened to NeXT legacy.. =)
Not that I disagree, just saying that the creator of Go! doesn't seem to have a very promising case on his hands.
As soon as I see a paywall, either on a news site or an academic site, I just go elsewhere. Murdoch might enjoy a short term boost in profit if he forces readers to a paywall, but longer term he's just making his content irrelevant to most internet users (which is just about everybody these days) and so would lose media mindshare.
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Also reported here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=934645
Apple iPhone hacking tool spotted in the wild
Besides the commenting thing, something I haven't seen covered elsewhere is that I won't have any idea WHO retweeted the thing that shows up in my timeline. The authority (and, indeed, just the personality) of the person recommending the tweet has a lot to do with whether or not I care, or what my expectations for a link in that retweet might be.

EDIT: looks like the screenshot in ev's post was misleading-- it does show who retweeted:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/hate-it-or-love-it-twit...
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Even disregarding the fact that most "backups" aren't backups up something the player has actually bought, there's also the fairness in multiplayer aspect that in my opinion would be a reasonable reason for disconnecting - with a modded box you can run modified software that can give you unfair advantages (for example). But the "backups" are the main target, of course.
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When I worked in the field (not HFT, but automated trading nonetheless), I was the only one in my cluster of desks with a lowly MSc. Even the QA girl was a maths PhD. It was funny, all the alpha-PhD male programmers were always competing over who was the second-smartest... The smartest guy was light years ahead of anyone else (and the nicest bloke you could hope to meet). I always used to say, the rest of them should pick up his laundry and wash his car so he could concentrate more (they really liked that, HAHA).

I didn't do anything beyond the simplest algorithms, most of my work was on interfaces between our code and other stuff (like databases, data feeds, etc). Just grunt work really. Someone's got to do it tho'...
Title is pretty misleading. It's just a VS add-in to facilitate Mono development.
Can you remotely debug an application running on a Linux box, from within Visual Studio? Now that would be useful.
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Under Tutorials > Demonstrate how your project “feels.” bullet, the second sentence is:

This means you that it should be pretty cross-sectional; a good tutorial should show off most of the different areas of the project.

I think it should be:

This means, for your purposes, that it should be pretty cross-sectional; a good tutorial should show off most of the different areas of the project.

I'd also just strike out the "pretty" there and replace "should show" with "shows". Maybe replace "most of the different areas" with "the most important areas". Be forceful in your writing!
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Yaron Minsky talks a a bit about this: http://janestcapital.com/?q=node/61
This sounds like a good idea to me. If I was .NET developer who had no reason to make my application run on Linux but also no reason not to, I would definitely try out this add-in.
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Also, the more accurate adjective is "indigenous" or "aboriginal", not "native".
This is working on the same principle as the euphemism ratchet or Negro->Black->African-American. It has no information content.
They seem to do that too :)

http://go-mono.com/monovs/Debug.aspx
Disagree. The point is that it is a filter. A high percentage of people will not respond based on this criteria. But the people who believe that they are as good or better will respond anyway. These are the type of people you want to get - the ones that are willing to go around the system to get things done.
I would love to see some well designed benchmarks making apples to apples performance and memory usage comparisons between the two.
So it isn't really a requirement?
In this case the legality of modded consoles to play backup isn't an issue because it sounds like Microsoft have something specific in the Xbox Live TOS to cover all modded consoles.

Pretty smart move really, something has to be done to get on top of this before there is no longer a video game industry.
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This whole line of reasoning reminds me of the Java3D API. Java, of course, takes the approach that only the designers of the langauge were smart enough to know when to abuse operator overloading (e.g. with strings), so for the Java3D math API, they couldn't have nice syntax for vector arithmetic. Instead of having nice operators for addition (+) and accumulation (+=), they just have english, and they want it to be terse, so the accumulation method is .add, and there is no addition method for vectors. It's not terribly confusing, but seeing vec1.add(vec2) rather than vec1 += vec2 is ugly and you still have to read the documentation to know what the .add method does.

Avoiding operator overload doesn't avoid poorly named methods, nor does it avoid the need for documentation. All that it does is force programmers to do ugly things when dealing with math, and there is a lot of math-based programming out there.
Is that like "go forth and procreate", to use another euphemism.
Too bad Amazon didn't release it - it could have been called "awe-nuts".
Just commented on the comments page at the original link, but I'll post it here too.

I ran into a similar problem on an open source project I'm working on... we had a namespace collision on a twitter client, both with the name "Bluebird." Their team had a very talented designer, so I offered to change the name of my project in exchange for some artwork from them. I ended up changing the name of my project to "Buzzbird."

Surely there must be some way that Google could make a similar arrangement w/ fmccabe?
You could read Go! as "go not" :)
It cannot, at least not ATM and not out of the box.

I am by no mean knowledgeable in those areas, but my understanding is that using specialized hardware/aggressively optimized code in numpy (or similar tools) would be very hard, though. One of the problem is that CUDA or multi-core optimized numpy would have a significant overhead (obviously of a totally different nature), and would be justified only for very large problems. Multi-code numpy was tried a few years ago by E. Jones, and the overhead was almost never worths it IIRC.

The current solution is to use those through libraries which implement linear algebra, etc... , which can be implemented on top of those architectures. There is obviously quite a bit of excitement around those technologies, and this was one of the most talked area at las scipy conference. Video are available: http://blog.enthought.com/?p=184. Some of them are related to those
See also reports in:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935130

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=934645
In order for bullying to stop, the environment must be absolutely toxic to them. If they tease someone for how they dress, the only solution is to encourage that sort of dress in all of the students, as a show of solidarity against the bully. By banning it, you only validate the bully's world view, showing him or her that their "heart was in the right place," but that their methods were lacking. "Don't use violence, use regulation!"
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Well, if this guy is selling his book for a programming language by the same title, what happens when someone buys it and realizes that it's for the wrong language? If there's no legal case to be made here, maybe I'll come up with a programming language and a set of websites/books/community groups dedicated to the language "Go." See it's different because it has a period at the end of it. My point is that McCabe's business, no matter how small, is being bullied and marginalized by Google.
"Reinventing the wheel we invented earlier"?

(That's not a criticism—language design shouldn't always be in the revolutionary mode.)
"it seems to me" that "many" is a word used by people who have no evidence to back their claims.
Road trains will share the road with everyone else. Just one car cutting in front can lead to a horrific accident. It will be similar to real train accident but more frequent.

Plus the feeling of control is very important. Flying is safer then driving, but numbers be damned, in a plane you have no control so it feels a lot worse then driving.
That's even less iron than I thought. No point upgrading the existing ones with SSDs?
Is that like Go‽
Isn't it supposed to add "retweeted by x (and x others)" down at the bottom by "from web"?

I thought that's how I read that it was going to work... I don't have the feature yet, so I can't tell you.
I'm not sure "break in" is the right term for signing up as the group admin.
Unlink is 6 characters, so is rename, geteuid and getppid are 7...
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I have no relation to dropbox other than using it. My guess would be that it is a requirement if the person applying chooses to make it a requirement.

To me it's a question of reality. Within any interaction each person has a different version of reality. In order to interact, the participants have to agree on a common version of reality.

In this case - The applicant's reality should be that it is not a requirement. The company's reality is that it is a requirement. If the applicant can convince the company that the applicant's reality is the right one to use for the common ground, then the requirement is not a requirement.
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Re: "Feeling of control is very important...feels a lot worse than driving."

Citation? I'm not saying it's not true. I'm just curious if there are actually surveys of this. I've personally never felt a subway/tram/plane was any less safe because of lack of control so found the claim hard to empathize with.
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Just the normal human tendency, weak people taking stand against big guy, to prove their existance. There is no point arguing, nor do i believe google did something evil. They just did a silly mistake and are being bashed more than their share, a bit unfair, not to mention an unknown guy with his unknown language is getting free publicity.
'Go' is a ridiculously short and context-less name for either project. He really doesn't have much of a soapbox to stand on and proclaim that his name is unique and unusual.

I suggest they both switch their names to something less short, I'm recommending 'Chess' or 'Checkers'.
Except that both C# and C++ are related to C. If Go! and Go are related languages, then the similarity in names is helpful. When the languages are dissimilar, the similarity of names is confusing.

This, I think, is ultimately the point of trademarks. It entirely about "property," it's also about clarity.
That's what the trademark system is for. If you create a programming language and don't want someone else to use the same name then register the trademark - yes that costs money (quite a bit for an individual), but then it should to stop people just registering names and squatting them.

Of course "go" is probably too generic/descriptive to be a trademark ...
What is this UA: "Mozilla/3.0 WebTV/1.2 (compatible; MSIE 2.0)" ?
Does anybody have any idea why microsoft (which is the block the crawls came from) would identify itself as a very old browser ?

It's obviously a bot of sorts, but what on earth is going on here ?
Heartbreaking :-)
unlink() could have come a lot later, or been at a different level of abstraction, etc.

i'm really sure i read this, so i just made another attempt to find the original source. the closest i could get was this man page for tmpnam:

"Many applications prefer their temporary files to have certain favorite initial letter sequences in their names. Use the pfx argument for this. This argument may be NULL or point to a string of up to five characters to be used as the first few characters of the temporary-file name."

http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.sol?tmpnam+3S

... which is a bit dubious, i admit, but just might point to a five-character file limit at one point in the murky past.
Google definitely should've researched this more, and they should probably change the name, but don't forget that this isn't as simple as just typing a new name into a text box. There's a mailing list, a compiler, repository and website names, environment variables, internal references in the code, a keyword in the programming language (which wouldn't have to change, I suppose), supporting programs other than the compiler (pretty printer, documenter, etc.), and I'm sure plenty of stuff I'm forgetting. Something as simple as a name change probably means weeks or work and almost certainly lost momentum.
I did some SciPy work in computer vision applications, and it was both a blessing and a curse. About 80% of the code could be reduced into matrix operations, which provided the 'embarrassing' moments that the article mentions. However, I'd hit something like Hysteresis Thresholding in the Canny Edge Detector, which traces through the image looking for faint edges, and spend a day figuring out how to write a Python extension against the Numpy API. This was necessary, because any code that iterated over 1000 x 1000 matrices in Python that I wrote took well over 10 seconds, instead of the < 100 milliseconds it should take.

As a nublet, I probably didn't end up saving much time over C++, but I could see that in the right hands, this tool would be a lifesaver
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They could probably just write him a check?
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it would definitely need a "hammer_time" command.
No I think "walk in" is probably more descriptive of what happened here.