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Yes. I find it a pretty practical format; for what I read it's cheap, light, and reliable. Not to mention that there's a lot of quality content available only in paper books.
Yes. I don't like the idea of someone being able to take[1] a book from me that I've bought, I don't like the idea of someone being able to track[2] what I'm reading, I don't like the idea of only being able to read it on one device or one subsection of devices through their service.

I have rather dark pictures of a world where inconvenient knowledge is deleted, and the agencies involved know who's had a copy and if they've read it.

Some of these are fixable by stripping the DRM out of the things. But I don't see why I'd give my money to support people doing things I don't like that much for the privilege of trying to undo what they've done.

If I bought an ebook and the file was delivered in a reasonable plain-text format, and was mine in the same sense that a book was... If I was ensured that the device wasn't a massive backdoor... yeah, I'd probably buy myself an ereader and consume most of my books that way. But, as things are at the moment? I wouldn't use the things even if I was paid to.

I view it as little different to inviting someone with a camera and an incinerator to sit beside me as a I read.

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1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...

2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/2010-e-book-buyers-gui...
No. Try solving the Friedmann equations for a simple case (e.g. spatially flat universe, no cosmological constant, dominated by non-relativistic matter) to see that that's not true.
FWIW, Manning follows that model: you can buy the physical book from anywhere and it contains a coupon that you can use to get the ebook from their site. That's the only tech editor I know of that does this. No Starch also offers free ebook with any print book bought from their site, but the shipping cost to where I live is too high.
I quite like the top comment. Perhaps we've too narrowly defined our concept of beginning and end?
Tulving has coined the term "episodic memory" based on his research with an amnesiac, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endel_Tulving:

"Tulving's research has emphasized the importance of episodic memory for our experience of consciousness and our understanding of time. For example, he conducted studies with the amnesic patient KC, who had relatively normal semantic memory but severely impaired episodic memory due to brain damage from a motorcycle accident. Tulving's work with KC highlighted the central importance of episodic memory for the subjective experience of one's self in time, an ability he dubbed "autonoetic consciousness." KC lacked this ability, failing to remember prior events and also failing to imagine or plan for the future."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory
>I've been arguing with people for about 15 years that there is no end or beginning to the universe, and inherently can't be.

maybe you should try publishing a paper then.
or maybe gain the necessary background to review current theories on the matter first, which from the general tone of your posts seems like it should be your first priority.

http://www.amazon.com/A-First-Course-General-Relativity/dp/0... by Schutz is a good place to start.
Yes, I still buy book physical books. Consider that physical books come in so many shapes and sizes, while e-readers mostly come in just one size. For this reason, I feel an e-reader is mostly only suitable for paperback-sized books. They can't accomodate the huge variety of book sizes or the variety of layouts (e.g. something as simple as a double-page spread).

Perhaps things might change if we get larger, colour e-readers. I don't find reading books on a tablet comfortable for long periods.
Side note: The Art of Electronics and Computer systems : a programmer's perspective either had no eBook edition or were eye wateringly expensive. I think my limit for eBook prices would be 50% of the physical copy, at most.
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I'm a total mongrel - pick a continent and I've ancestry there...

My point is big picture. Read up on the origin of the word "thugs", then try to understand Thugee history from a their viewpoint, rather than that of the British who exterminated them - and that alone hopefully illuminates where I'm coming from.

I agree that class is an element of this, but it is secondary to the broader issue of divergent cultural narrative, which is being driven by unending segregation and increasing isolation of social castes from each other. As America still has class divides along strongly racial lines, this conflates into a race issue which dates back to the triangle trade.

I suppose the basement issue here is dehumanisation. Power imbalances perpetuate it.

Just don't call them thugs. Rioters, sure. Pissed off, disillusioned people with no future to lose, sure. But don't call them thugs. You're buying into the destructive narrative by doing so.
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Yes, of course. Rule of thumb: What's been around a long time, will stay around for a long time.

The longer something is used, the longer it will take for it to be displaced.

Paper-books been round for thousands of years. ;)

Besides, as good as digital reader devices are, they have serious drawbacks. For example quick browsing, retarded DRM restrictions (why can't I give my book to someone else, ffs?!), and they still aren't as nice on the eyes as paper books.

Not to mention that they need electricity and each book I read is another data-point in my profile on some nebulous company's (or gov-agency's) server.

That said, they have advantages when it comes to search. But often we kind of memorise the "shape" of the text, so this advantage isn't as great. (Just like source-code editors sometimes show a miniature version of the text for quicker navigation.)

And they also weigh less. But they don't look as good on the shelves..
Just because it is (currently) the best model doesn't mean you shouldn't (be allowed to) question it. I don't think anybody who doesn't question models on a regular basis is a real scientist.
>The theory is disputed by the UK Department for Transport, which predicts that road traffic in the United Kingdom will grow by 50% over the coming 25 years

Any insight as to why they would predict this if road traffic empirically has been flat since the nineties?
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Besides unit testing, with regexes I always put a quick comment like "matches foo but not bar or baz" which might not be comprehensive but allows the next person to get a quick understanding of what the code does at a glance.
Because their budget is dependent on their own forecast of road traffic?
Engineers are not complaining as much as they should. And I am sure there are much more sales people and managers than engineers.
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Worth noting that this is the same Department for Transport that is surprisingly keen on high speed rail links like HS2.

[I'm in Scotland where good old low speed rail seems to having a resurgence the new (re-opened) line from Edinburgh down to the Borders looks fantastic - I'm kicking myself for not buying a house in Heriot a few years back].
This post is a good example of verbose that doesn't really say anything. ^
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Almost everyone gets a car when they have children, in the UK it is considered a necessity. However not so many people are starting families when compared to former times, they are starting later too. What this means is fewer purchases of family cars and all those journeys to shops and schools.

We are also creatures of habit so we stick to the transport we know. What happens when previous generations literally clog up all the roads with their cars so there is no room for the cars that a new generation would potentially own? I think that this has happened, owning a car would be impossible in many parts of most city or town centres. If not actually impossible, just very expensive or a lot of hassle when it comes to parking. Why go through all of that when you can just hop on buses and trains, to catch up with games/reading/emails on the phone/tablet?

Once you have a generation that have settled in to using public transport or cycling the barrier to entry for motoring is quite high and there is no peer pressure or real benefit to having a car - unless a family comes along.

Whilst pockets of 'peak car' may exist in cities realising that the car is totally impracticable, there will be growth in more pointless journeys between pointless places beyond the realms of suburbia. Outside the cities there is universal belief that you have to learn to drive as soon as possible, getting a job would be impossible without an ability to drive there. Hence inexorable growth, a long way to 'peak car'.
I'm not a designer, but this seems horribly misshapen and unbalanced.
I used to only buy physical books, until I moved to London, where space is scarce and I couldn't afford to keep hundreds of books around.

Although I still buy some physical books, I have switched to ebooks for all of my "disposable" reading. If I expect to read a book only once and won't use it for reference later, I'll get an ebook.

After a few months with a Kindle, I did notice an interesting change in my own behaviour. Because I always have the kindle with me, I can read any book anywhere and any time, without having to plan ahead. As a result, I have started reading books at times where I would otherwise have browsed HN or blogs.

Perhaps books are a bit like cameras that way: the best one is the one you have with you.
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Any feedback from mistake to improvement in design and coding are gladly welcome.
Thanks for that, the page needed plugins that my Chromebook does not have yet all I wanted to see was the actual break...
How do you solve the Friedmann equations starting from a singularity?
> The goal is for the student to get some experience with performing their own research wherever that may lead them.

You mean it has nothing to do with learning correct methodology or actually doing real research?
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Elon Musk talked about this, in his Tesla battery launch. He said just like mobile networks leapfrogged landline communication in Africa, similarly solar and batteries could leapfrog the electricity grid.
> So your argument is that since locks can occasionally be picked, doors shouldn't have locks?

A faulty lock on my house doesn't turn into Heartbleed.

The thing is, I don't need a lock on my server that serves up static, legal content. You might think it's a problem, that the NSA is going to spy on you, or China is going to inject attacks into your requests to my server, but that's your problem.

I'm not going to run a massively buggy TLS library with an API guide that would take a whole team of engineers weeks to decipher, just because you're intensely paranoid about accessing game-related data over HTTP.

Seriously, look at the GnuTLS documentation sometime. It's psychotic. As is MatrixSSL, PolarSSL, OpenSSL, and NSS. The closest to sanity I've ever seen was libtls, which is only on OpenBSD, still has lots of CVEs popping up, and can't do non-blocking mode.

> What exactly is the massive burden with HTTPS?

1. write your own HTTPS server. I'll wait a few months, or

2. find a library that's easy to use and won't expose my server to Heartbleed-like attacks, and

3. pay me $70/yr for the wildcard cert I would need.

I'll cover the extra CPU costs, since you say they're so small. (even though when people say "small", they're counting overhead as a percentage against a site running a bloated beast like Wordpress in PHP + MySQL.)

> there are free cert providers like StartSSL and more coming soon

That don't provide wildcart certs (and I have a wildcard CNAME entry; and I make use of that.)

> The number of websites where I wouldn't prefer encryption and identity authentication is around zero

And you're free to not visit my site, just like I wouldn't ever patronize a webstore that wasn't HTTPS. That's how markets are supposed to work. I don't see why your browser has to make the decision for the both of us.

> and the number of websites where I'm okay with someone injecting arbitrary JavaScript is exactly zero

Honestly ... I would be okay with blocking Javascript over HTTP. But I think that's more because I just hate Javascript :P

> would be much better spent actually trying to improve those circumstances

You seriously want me to write a TLS library?

My dream goal would actually be to have it built-into the sockets layer. If it could be enabled as easily as a setsockopt(SO_TLS_CERTIFICATE, (void*)certificatedata, ...); and OS updates could fix the security, I'd be a lot more inclined to get on board with the programming side.

I don't have a solution to the wildcard cert issue. I can't well start up my own CA to give them out for free. I guess it would at least be nice to see if they ever tone down self-signed certs from "WORSE THAN HITLER" to "at least equal to HTTP" in terms of warning messages. People keep talking about it, but it's been what? Over a decade now? I'll believe it when I see it.
Huh? What do you call someone who disrespects the law that the majority follows(any skin color)? Poor babies they've had it rough they know fighting a cop/resisting arrest/stealing, etc is wrong .. it's ok they are just hopelessly disillusioned?

There is right and wrong in life. It is your choice to follow the law or completely disrespect/ignore it. Unfortunately, some residents of the ghetto choose to spit on the laws everyone else (asian, black, white, mulatto, etc) respects. No such issues are happening outside the ghetto.
I wrote this as well in React once. Easy to add live-sorting and fulltext-filtering. Good job!
> Sometimes, people who can no longer find anything truly unique to capitalize on simply make shit up and throw it against the wall to see if it sticks.

99% of all crackpot theories are just that, 1% of the time they are instead paradigm shifts undergoing community backlash. Skepticism is a winning strategy, which is why it is so common, but you can never say for sure unless your crap filters are really precise.
Hope the HN experience hasn't felt too bruising. The use of go and rust makes it quite interesting for those of us interested in correct code, not just fast code. And most of the criticism is that you didn't write the paper the commenter would have wanted to see, or didn't write a graduate level paper. And good on you for publishing it on github.
So a death sentence by Judge Dredd is acceptable for being a "thug"? And how one becomes a "thug"? With all the work put into taking away opportunities from people it surprisingly easy.

>As won't in a capitalistic society there will always be a poor people?

But you know, maybe "capitalistic society" should stop working so hard to ensure there are poor people? Or if that can't be done, at least stop hunting them for sport or something?
I'm part of it, not because I don't own a car, but rather because I drive it very little.

I work from home and I'm a bit of a recluse--but even those places I do travel with any frequency are all within probably 3 miles.

I think I probably average about 20 miles per week.
You don't. You solve them starting from now and then trace the solution back in time to find a singularity.
Hands down MacBook pro for me. Was long time sceptic. Finally took the plunge. Now a happy user.
Lots of hams on HN. Several checked in over in the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9445123
Among other scenarios it is very useful as a way of moving some internal DSL validation to compile time. I would imagine people who will benefit the most are big third-party framework designers.

Of course internal DSLs are limited in their syntax so meta-programming would be welcome. I think it's not the top priority in C# 7 though.
You sound like an insurance company talking.
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A good test for compression algorithms.
However, this is about car use rather than car ownership - I agree that owning a car is still regarded as normal for parents but I see a lot of people, including my own family, behaving in ways that reduces the amount we drive. There are a lot of factors in this including improving public transport (e.g. I rather like the trams here in Edinburgh even though the project to install them was a fiasco), greater use of cycles - including people taking young kids on bikes, very strict new drink driving laws here in Scotland, reduction of parking spaces in city centers, park and ride schemes round cities etc.
I know many actors and I don't know what their union is doing, but they don't exactly have an easy lifestyle.

You're suggesting I should join a union to have a lobbyist working on my (group's) behalf?

This seems to me like playing multi-billionaire corporations at their own game by their own rules - and playing it badly.

Where is the empirical evidence that you claim?
Time to apologise to the almighty G ;)
This is a great example of why mobile browsers suck. It is the job of the mobile browser to be able to fix these problems automatically, to resize and reflow text so that it displays properly on the device.
I don't really think that's a problem with Rust so much as inexperience with languages that have no garbage collection. If anything, the problems you had would probably be exacerbated by languages like C and C++, which in many ways are deceptively simple, yet there are tricks to be aware of in every turn. Doing memory management is hard because of the nature of the problem.
Yes, I still prefer paper book than e-books, though I own a kindle, but still I like to read a real book, old scool way.
I just bought the latest 'Becoming Steve Jobs' biography & I love it!
I would expect the formation of a "union" of down-wind voters. They pool their money, and one person votes with it all.
Do you feel as strongly about the people that can provide for themselves, do much better than yourself, yet still choose to live off of you?

What about large groups of people who pay lawyers more money than you'll ever see to figure out ways to take more to live off of you and never contribute back?

Does anyone who takes a tax break classify as a parasite as well? Are parents parasites until their kids are independent?

Why is it that someone who consumes no social services (no address/documents? have fun), besides an odd meal or night in a shelter provided from donations, produces such vitriol from you while an entire class of people exists that rake in trillions of dollars that are skimmed directly from your taxes?

Anyway, have fun dehumanizing a disadvantaged class of people on the internet.
Why can't I see at least some actual content without creating an account/logging in?
> I don't think it would make sense at all to run a "mutex service" on one server and asking clients to grab that mutex before accessing another "data service"

And yet such things exist:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_lock_manager

I first came across one in the context of a distributed cache which sat on top of a database. I'm not at all convinced it was a good design, but it was there!
Been annoyed by this for years. Still hoping for a fix some day.
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I didn't think that was ever in doubt, was it? HN has always been difficult to use on mobile devices due to all the fixed dimensions forcing the page to render at an unsuitable size.
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Why would it need to change your behaviour - if your paying for something surely you have a right to have the bill explained to you and for you to be able to challenge individual items?

[NB I'm from the UK so I have no idea how medical billing works. But I do have plenty experience with lawyers and I know that getting a details breakdown of work charged is a really good idea.]
Don't all the assumptions breakdown at a singularity?
I thought I read that the site pulled the info from the browser's local storage.

EDIT: which they obviously shouldn't be able to do. So they probably scraped it, right.
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There's great mobile choices like: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

Two bookmarks for different browsers, no big trouble. I actually like the old school table based layout of HN. One of the things that stay the same. And it works great with Vimium^_^
I don't always read book but when I do, I always prefer e-book.
Because It's low cost, eco-friendly, easy to take notes and search them, easy to carry etc.
Luckily the community has built some very neat apps :)
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I live in Europe and have never even considered getting a car. In cities the bike is the fastest mode of transport anyway, and for longer distances it's quite convenient to take the train.
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^this.

And: It pisses me off to no end that Google is in the position to decide how a site has to look like on $device.

They announce that you will get a worse SERP if your site doesn't do X and everyone scrambles to please mighty G.

If they decide that every site has to have a yellow background, starting next week, what will you do? Give in?
BEST MODEL but not perfect. May we remember please Dark Matter? Just a slight unfindable detail accounting for the negligible amount of the 84,5% of Universe mass.

Maybe we should be prepared to accept that current theories (or part of them) are in a way Epicyclism all over again, no matter how elegant and solid they seem now.
Which always surprised me. I know very little about web design (just use bootstrap for prototypes sometimes), but the HN seems to be very minimalistic in design and features (that's what I like about it, actually). So it would seem that making it fit the viewport would be an easy task.
You should discuss this with your brain.
>Huh? What do you call someone who disrespects the law that the majority follows(any skin colour)?

A banker? A politician? How many people were killed for repeatedly destroying economy? None? They destroyed much more property than Baltimore rioters but somehow no one calls them "thugs"? You are only thug when you are poor or/and black. How can it be?

> There is right and wrong in life. It is your choice to follow the law or completely disrespect/ignore it.

In capitalism you are right when you have money and wrong when have none. To the point, that you are allowed to "completely disrespect/ignore it(law)". Law is not enforced to the same extent/in the same way on all people.
This is a bridge that lets Android apps run directly on Windows Phone.

Apple is now the only mobile phone vendor that doesn't support Android apps -- pretty crazy! Here's a post I wrote that goes into more detail:
http://blog.neonto.com/2015/04/29/android-is-the-new-win32-t...
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