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I was lucky enough to see him speak a few years ago, and he said that each video took him about 8 hours. He would record a line, add it to the video (or rerecord as necessary), and then move on to the next line. So, if anything, it made the process take even longer.
Can you please proofread your writing, or at least run a spellchecker on it, before presenting it to the world? There are multiple spelling and grammatical errors in each paragraph, and it's pretty much completely distracting.
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In (path ChecksumIterator) Iter() you see something which is hard to explain verbally. Essentially, it provides a generator façade for what is underneath the surface a bucket being filled by four threads ("goroutines") concurrently. Unless things have changed markedly, it would be very difficult in Python to create a generator which produces its values with the help of some number of threads.

This is actually very easy in Python -- use a Queue[1], spawn some threads to populate it, and read from it in a generator.

Go seems interesting, but many/most of its praised features are already done better in other languages. For example, while it supports "thousands of goroutines" (green threads), Haskell supports millions of green threads[2]. Even Stackless, which is not known for performance, has faster gthreads[3].

Go also perpetuates several mistakes from C (ugly brace-delimited syntax) while dropping the true genuinely useful features (pointer arithmetic, manual memory management). Considering the wealth of high-quality, high-performance languages with mature library and compiler support (Haskell, Erlang, Factor, OCaml, even Ada), I'm mystified as to why Google would invest the time and energy into promoting yet another C clone.

I suppose in a year, Go will be another mostly-abandoned language with a few users poking around the mailing list asking "what happened?". Most News.YC readers can name at least one language released to great fanfare, but with little developer adoption.

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a4n7s/stackless...

[3] http://dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/11/15...
who said anything about innocent lives, I'm talking about those people who you'd hold responsible for driving you to suicide.

Sure it's psychotic, but we aren't talking about a normal mentally balanced person. We are talking about someone who has already been driven so far, that they are considering taking their own life to make the pain stop.
the "create your ultimate wish list" text distracts the viewer from the search
I consume HN through a feedmyinbox.com subscription, that takes the most popular articles of the day and emails them to me at 3pm each day. I then click the interesting ones into new tabs and go through them.
This is completely awesome. I'd like somekind of 'cache' too, so all the calculation only executes once.
This is awesome. I've always griped about how Sass needed a Rack middleware, but was too lazy to write it myself. This is a great addition.
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More than Handwriting I think they should teach shorthand for note taking.
Thank u so much! It's a real gem!
Why Paul's article doesn't have a date on it?
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This makes me think of what Paul Graham said in his "Apples Mistake". This is going to dig Microsoft deeper into the Evil hole. Just when people started to forget how much they hate Microsoft and how embarrassing it is to work there...

"Should Apple care what people like me think? What difference does it make if they alienate a small minority of their users?

There are a couple reasons they should care. One is that these users are the people they want as employees. If your company seems evil, the best programmers won't work for you. That hurt Microsoft a lot starting in the 90s. Programmers started to feel sheepish about working there. It seemed like selling out. When people from Microsoft were talking to other programmers and they mentioned where they worked, there were a lot of self-deprecating jokes about having gone over to the dark side. But the real problem for Microsoft wasn't the embarrassment of the people they hired. It was the people they never got. And you know who got them? Google and Apple."
-http://paulgraham.com/apple.html
Funny. I don't read to brag. Not because reading Ulysses wasn't an important part of my life — it was. But when I brag, I brag about things I've made, not other people's things I've consumed. Fortunately for both of us, I can confirm that my life's rich and full enough for me to brag about things without resorting to modernist literature.
For anybody outside of the situation, this article may seem to explain everything. After all, the explanation seems reasonable, the retail-store metaphor is one that most people intuitively grasp. What's the big deal?

Well, the real issue is that Apple still does not pro-actively and directly address the problems that developers have with the app store. Fluffy interviews with Schiller don't cut it in my opinon.

I did actually have thoughts of making iPhone apps at one point. Now; there is no chance I'd ever make anything if it means dealing with a tight-arse bueracracy like that.
It took me a couple re-readings of the first page or so, because I didn't understand that these were responses to some objections you got.

I spent several minutes trying to decide if French Literary profs might be able to publish physics journal articles in your scenario. I eventually decided they would be able to, since the physics journals would now be run by French Literary theorists.
Do less.

Start by working on it for only 15 minutes per day. Set a timer and when you reach 15 minutes you have to stop no matter how much you want to continue. It will help you look forward to it for the next day.

After a few weeks you can increase the time you allot per day. But if you ever find yourself getting bored or not looking forward to it, then cut back. It will take some practice to find the right spot.
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It goes further than that - if you can cure MS (and it doesn't suggest that the surgery is that difficult) what do you need the MS society for?

Just goes to show that all societies are corrupt.
I was really commenting on the fact that GO is absolutely not unique in most regards.

For instance my main beef with it is that in a world where Ruby exists there's no excuse for that kind of crappy all over the place syntax.

The brackets seem to almost be there just because anything without C-like syntax gets ignored.

[edit] But +1 from me to you anyways.
What really annoys me is video-players that automatically start playing when the page loads, or that assume that if I pause, then drag the playhead back to the beginning of the timeline, that means 'start playing from the beginning'.

I've always assumed this was because sites with video are generally designed by people in the US with so much bandwidth available that videos reliably play stutter-free with no buffering required. Sometimes it's easier to break into the page with Firebug and extract the .flv URL and download it manually for later viewing, than to wrestle a Flash player into behaving sensibly.

If your "Start loading" button takes off, I shall be very grateful, but wide support for HTML5's <video/> element would be even better.
You people all suck.

This thread exemplifies what's wrong with hacker news and why your start-ups fail, and will continue to fail.

You're discussing this man's LIFE as he cries out for help and you do nothing.

You take no initiative, only perform cynical analysis.

You're happier talking than doing.

You miss the point and get caught up in details.

You know what? I did my best here, and called an English speaking suicide hotline in Japan, but they're unable to contact people, they only can take anonymous calls. I gave all their information and information on Japanese language lines to Tetsuya via email. If anyone can speak Japanese, please try to contact someone who can reach out to Tetsuya in person, and leave a message here to coordinate. Restore my faith that the hacker news community is more than a collection of professional bullshitters. Help Tetsuya.
Sorry, I wrote it in vim with no spell check. I have now fixed the spelling errors. Grammar is one of those basics that I have never learned. I will try to look it over again.
Similar relationships exist in sport. Gymnasts can take up nearly any sport and excel. Swimmers can barely walk :)

Gymnasts are the physicists of movement.
Archive.org goes back to 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040207184543/http://www.paulgra...
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The industry is also very, very good at milking a megahit but hasn't had a new one in about ten years. The usual pattern is that a successful manga series gets turned into an anime and after that it is off to the races: toys, movies, many different video games, spinoffs and all that jazz.

However, my casual judge-by-the-contents-of-the-rental-rack guess is that the newest megahits are over ten years old at this point. (Before Bleach and Naruto got big in America they were big in Japan. Big like "qualify as industries unto themselves" big.) Both of them are actually animated in Korea, incidentally. (And, oddly enough, both are quite "high tech" in terms of animation techniques. It is sort of the series' aesthetic.)

Incidentally, Youtube isn't the enemy of Japanese DVD sales. Rentals are. Japan does distribution really freaking well: there are about three or four companies with reach as good as Netflixes, plus plenty rental chains stocked with up-to-the-minute DVD releases. Here's the math: $200 for a 4 DVD boxed set or $8 to rent them all. Not hard to figure which one wins out. (Or you could go rent a big screen TV and a comfy chair at an Internet cafe for $2 to $4 an hour and get the DVDs loaned to you for free.)
That's a good point about publishing physics articles in physics journals ran by French Literature theorists
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Smart people might work on sexy projects like fighter planes and space rockets for ordinary wages, but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs.

I don't agree that this is the case. Many smart people don't see the need to be rewarded in a financially appropriate way. (Those that do make their way into finance or startups eventually). Look at institutes such as the CSIRO in Australia for science/technology in general or the BBC for broadcasting technology.
I don't think it is a bad idea if he has her informed consent.

As for it being a bad idea, who would you rather have to do surgery on you, a surgeon who cares enough about you to want to spend the rest of his life with you or some random dude who didn't fail med school?
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
Are you a member of any user groups? I find them invaluable for networking local peers with the same interests. And, by definition, members are going to be passionate about what they do.
I've also come across http://collabfinder.com/ recently, might have been on HN actually.
Maybe they could join up with the ALS charities?
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"Yes, I am saying colleges should teach study habits, time management and hand writing."

I agree these are good things, but shouldn't they be taught before college?
It's not worth worrying about. I know I have a tendency to violate HN guidelines about civility when I think the other side's not being civil; downvotes are part of it.

I'm not a fan of downvotes on web sites because they let one or two people make it look like there's been some kind of mandate. Downvotes are people, and they matter exactly as much as upvotes do, which is to say not at all.
Will someone please inform Mr. Cuban that Google's opt-out procedure is entirely voluntary on their part and there's nothing that says they have to continue to offer it or abide by it?

I'm really getting sick of reading about this harebrained idea on HN. There is nothing about it that is smart and I don't understand why anyone cares what this person who doesn't seem to understand any of the basic concepts involved thinks about it.
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Uhm. I didn't say the factory model was an argument for universal coverage.

The argument however, that we couldn't take advantage of things like this in this country in part because we didn't have universal coverage, was.

It appears you may have entirely misinterpreted my post.
Practice doing things that take long periods of concentration, like reading difficult novels or playing chess or doing math proofs or...
Really. I, too, am intrigued.
Well, some colleges do just what you say---teaching writing and study skills to the students who need it. But in my experience, a lot of the students have been taught study skills in the past, but it never stuck because they didn't really need them yet... and in those cases getting a bad or mediocre grade really is just the swift kick they need.

As for reinventing the wheel, are you suggesting that the professors should try to grab someone else's slides and lectures and teach from them? I promise that this does not work very well. Aside from being drier and less engaging to read someone else's stuff, it means that they aren't tailored to the prof and to the class. And a good chalkboard lecture beats slides any day, anyhow.
I think the Google angle has been overblown. Sure, all the designers are from Google, but Google employs a number of people who are prominent in one language or another - Guido, for one, and Bram Moolenaar is working on Zimbu. It got posted to reddit by one of the Google people as "from Google", and the first talk was done at Google, so I think everyone just made an assumption. Google is nowhere on the front page of golang.org, and the developers are using @golang.org addresses.

I bet the developers are surprised at the media storm and wouldn't have otherwise gotten it except for that initial Reddit post explicitly tying it to Google.
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There are largely two categories of "things you can't say", that by all "community standards" are obscene:

Prurience: http://www.asstr.org/files/Collections/Alt.Sex.Stories.Moder...

Politics: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/
I agree with that college is frustrating, although I disagree that the problem lies within lack of facilities or failure to teach proper study techniques or handwriting skills. Rather I think the pervasive problem with contemporary pedagogy is that it has turned, largely, into an enterprising, profiteering business. With that shift, educational institutions switched their focus from graduating good, prepared students to focusing on obtaining large grants for research projects—research projects that bring in far more than a student's tuition.

Also, I think it's worth mentioning that one basic that everyone should be taught is grammar. Not to be a jerk here, but you'd be more effective in communicating your point if it wasn't littered with grammatical errors.
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"I'll pay you not to use the competitor that possibly brings you more than half of your discoveries, new customers, and revenue."

Well to be fair, these morons were initially threatening to do remove themselves from Google for free!
If this is serious, it is truly sad (in the sense of "pathetic", not "tragic"). Taking your life because of political reasons, not because there is something truly irreconcilable like bad health? What a waste...

Many people have beaten health ills. I know many young adults who beat cancer. Twelve months on chemotherapy and simultaneous months on radiation therapy. Does this really mean nothing to you? It's so different from what you feel. Alienation is a far more common feeling than the disintegration of your personal embodiment because of health...
In my experience most of the time they are not. You either win the parent lottery or don't. Many college students are missing the basics. It's embarrassing, possibly confusing but true.
Intresting development. I would have never imagined this happening. In the long run this will impact the profitability of search engines.
What the hell are you talking about? These people are trying to get information in order to do something, jackass.
Ah, I see. That does sound like the logical conclusion (and is just as icky as the poster suggests). But I'd still like to hear what basis ACM is using to, ah, "request" that the links be taken down.
who wants the embarrassment?

Problem one: you consider depression and disappointment with life to be embarrasing. If you ever end up feeling like that yourself, you will immediately start spiralling downwards, because not only do you feel bad: you feel bad about feeling bad.

You talk about it, and you end up in a nuthouse.

Problem two: you don't know what the hell you are talking about. People that are considering suicide are not usually institutionalized. That only happens if they are also deemed mentally ill, like when they are psychotic.

Honestly I don't see why anyone would want to go through suicide. That's like admitting you lost,

Problem three: you think you can define what is 'winning' and 'losing' in life and that those are the same for everyone. News flash: some people feel you cannot win in life, for instance because there isn't, by definition, anything worth striving for.

If you think like killing yourself, at least put your death to good use. Go buy some guns, go grab some ammo, then go on a killing spree of all those people who screwed you over in life.

Problem four: you think executing revenge is a good use of your life. Most people, even when considering suicide, disagree. Not liking this life does not suddenly change your moral opinion on murder.

Problem five: you think people commit suicide because others 'screwed them over'.

suicides, they fade away from life, like they never existed. But go kill a few dozen people who screwed you over, and you might just get a round the clock news coverage.

Problem six: you think notoriety is important.

Problem seven: you think notoriety is important to someone considering suicide.

And yeah I know you guys will downvote the crap out of this, but I don't care, it's my philosophy on suicide.

Problem eight: poisoning the well.

Problem nine: thinking 'having a philosophy' entitles you taking a righteous attitude, completely failing to recognize you may be utterly wrong.

In summary: you don't know what you are talking about, you are repeating the culturally entrenched values that are the brethren of those that actually drive people to suicide and you are blissfully unaware of the fact that people considering suicide do not think rationally anymore.
So far, this article and all the comments here are missing the main point, which isn't identifying the problem; a gazillion people in the Chronicle of Higher Education have said virtually the same thing at various times.

The real problem is solving the problem, which requires changing the incentives that drive professors. At the moment, hiring and tenure decisions at virtually all universities (and all the big ones you've heard of) are made mostly on research and publication. Teaching simply doesn't count for much. Therefore, the people who succeed in getting hired and getting tenured optimize for what they're being judged on: research and publication. Teaching is secondary.

Once you've realized this incentive problem, the question becomes, "How do you change the incentives?" I have no good answers for that, but it's the real question you should be asking if you're genuinely interested.

(EDIT: And, by the way, I'm a grad student at a big public school. I get to hear about this kind of stuff all the time.)
Colleges shouldn't cater to the bottom of the barrel. People who haven't learned basic time management, how to study, etc., after 12 years of formal education shouldn't be enrolled.

ATM I'm incredibly frustrated with worthless gen-ed classes that take up way too much of my time from working on cool and challenging things.
I'm not sure what the solution is. I do know I would have preferred something similar to http://www.lynda.com for maybe 30% of my classes with access to tutors and study groups. At least 30% of my classes we taught very poorly and high quality videos would have been an improvement.
A) please don't post links to links to articles. The actual Consumerist article linked at AppleInsider is http://consumerist.com/5408885/smoking-near-apple-computers-... .

B) See also HN post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=953467 .
That begs the question of whether or not the studios attempting to do so are in a /position/ to do so.
Thinking you created the wave is similar to confusing your own efforts with... luck. I've been reviewing the early days of my business, and tremendous luck was involved. Sure, I was there, and did the work, but a big part of it was the wave. I'm not sure that I could do it again, without finding another such wave... so I guess I have to become a surfer, and study the waves... problem is, I'm not much interested in that...

And then he pokes fun at web 2.0 (e.g. copying names like flickr, del.icio.us and 37signals). I'm sure you already got all that - I mainly wrote this for the people complaining about it.

I think ze frank would be great at startup school.
There is no rational argument to counter here.

I was commenting on his sense that he was being downvoted because of a taboo around dismissing threats of suicide. He advocates violence with an argument of "Why not?", and your defense of it is that violent retribution is common. These are not rational arguments. And I have no idea where you got the impression that I thought downvoting would make the problem go away. For the record, I don't.
If Microsoft needs to pay user to delete them from google in order to gain new users, how can I think of any quality from them? This sounds more like manipulation to me.
I think you're being a bit dramatic here. Whats the difference between this and Playstation paying for Grand Theft Auto's exclusivity, or Bing and Google paying for access to Twitter's content while small engines like DuckDuckGo go without? Or the NFL network only allowing coverage of most football games on DirecTV/Dish?

I'm not judging the business model's merits, but selling exclusive access to content is nothing new.

I'm coming at this from a completely different angle, which is entirely unfair (:P), but the big difference is that moving a closed-source, inherently-system-dependent piece of software onto another system against the will of the original developers is notably non-trivial, while ignoring a robots.txt file is a fairly straightforward exercise.

If this would-be "exclusivity" comes to pass, it won't last for very long. Even if above-board companies like Microsoft and Google continue to play by the nominal rules, something vaguely similar to the Pirate Bay is bound to pop up eventually, especially when such a massive, glaring hole in the market is present. I mean, what good is a search engine that doesn't even search properly?
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/20091...

Sounds like he got into a tiff with some other contributors over mis-using the Apache name and brand and had his commit access taken away?
When do we get talking chimps? :X
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