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> know that it will recover, whether it's over 1 year, 2 years, or longer

Let's put this in perspective. The Nikkei is down 80% over the past 21 years. At an optimistic rate of increase of 6% from now, it will be another 25+ years before it hits 38957 again. All up, over 45 years.

Have a look at Shiller's house price graph. From 1890 to 1955 there was zero real increase - and large falls in the meantime. This is 65 years. Again long term is very long term. Same in Australia by the way. The USA and Australia of the most prosperous and successful economies in the C20. Others did far worse.

This "in the long run all will be well" argument just doesn't hold water. Not if you have a human life span.

See for more on this "The Big Investment Lie: What Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Want You to Know" by Michael Edesess. Everything a financial planner tells you may be a self-serving lie.
Same here. I'm far more concerned about figuring out how to get IRB to play ball than I am about growing extra limbs or discovering that I'm now a nightlight.
To add to your fourth point, it should also ideally handle all modern font types and all of their provided features in some relatively simple way. XeTeX/XeLaTeX is great, but that it can’t always do the right thing when any regular TeX document is dropped into it is unfortunate (cf. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=xetex_fa...), and it doesn’t support everything it would in a perfect world.
There are good alternatives, depending on the type of document being written. For instance, for technical documentation that does not contain to many equations[1], DocBook is often used. Since DocBook uses XML (or SGML previously), it is easy to transform with XSLT. The DocBook project provides excellent stylesheets for xhtml and xsl-fo output, making it easy to target the web and printed media. It is easy to customize output, by overriding templates in the default stylesheets.

Also, DocBook documents can be validated automatically using DTDs or RelaxNG schema. (Yes, XML is full of buzzword bingo :).)

[1] Equations can be typeset with MathML, but since most software only supports presentation MathML this is not ideal.
I teach Music Theory (and piano) for a living-- this is an excellent introduction to the most practical concepts.

I was somewhat disappointed that the OP showed us a C Major scale without really explaining what a "major scale" is-- a collection of whole and half steps-- especially since they used a keyboard as an example, which is laid out in exactly the right pattern for teaching the major scale. (Notice that the black and white notes are arranged so that you skip some keys-- whole steps-- but sometimes you can't: half steps). I always teach how to build scales based on this pattern- WWHWWWH. Using this pattern, you can build any major scale beginning on any arbitrary note-- including notes that are sharped or flatted, which is neat. From here, you can figure out all of the scales, and thus all of the keys.

The advantage of learning in this fashion is that you can tackle intervals first, which are the distances between notes. (Note that major and minor intervals are named as such because they fit into our major or minor scales). Since a chord is simply collection of intervals, you end up with a more powerful understanding of them by learning which intervals (and which scale degrees) build which chords.

All the same, I really think the more "practical" approach here is really interesting, because you can start writing music earlier, albeit mostly in C Major.

Cool link, it really gives me insight as a fellow music educator.
If anyone is stupid and terrible at risk analysis it's the people who still spew that party line. It was already stupid when there had been only one complete failure of nuclear plant safety, and it happened to the "bad guys" whom everyone could just assume must have been more stupid and careless than we "good guys" could ever possibly be. But fact is, people have acted stupid and careless handling nuclear plants everywhere, and a risk analysis that assumes all risks are foreseeable and perfect execution of safety measures is just incredibly idiotic.
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To the best of my knowledge no major authority believes the LNT, the threshold model or the radiation hormesis model to be proven.

That said the French Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Medicine did cite the exact same study of Taiwanese people as well as a large number of laboratory studies in its 2005 report that criticized the LNT model.

In any case I wouldn't be worried in the least if I were in Tokyo right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
To me, it looks like someone put art on the die so that the die can be copyrighted.
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I applied and got to final stage last year.

I think they got scared by what my product was about to do (self-healing computer networks, which would undermine their nascent IT industry). It's sitting on the backburner for now while I am working on something a bit less threatening to properly fund the main product.

Might try again this year. :)
interesting: the site moved, now the commentary section is turned off (wondering why). "The article is mostly correct ..." and "In theory we should be more worried about the ash radiation from our coal plants ..." are still the highest rated comments :(

Hoping for the best for my friends in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
a smiling hat-wearing hippo/dragon/whatever,

Aka grisu the firefighter.

and last but not least was some silicon art showing a baby duck

Aka Calimero.

Both popular series produced in the late 70s and shown in the 80s and 90s.

I wonder wheter I'm already too old or too young to know these..
I’m more interested in their roadmap. Is there one? What are the plans for IE10, when will it be released? Do they want to take another half-a-decade sabbatical?
The questions they ask you after that are quite YC'ish. :)

They also respond very quickly.
I have used LaTeX, TeX and ConTeX for years as my only programming language for writing beautiful docs and I think that nowadays there isn't a good alternative if you write technical documents that have math inside.

Today I use XeTeX together with the swiss-knife memoir class and a huge preamble that I have built over the years. XeTeX is modern and lets you write your docs in UTF8 with ease. I have stopped writing a lot of commands by hand cause there are a lot of modern editors out there (TeXShop on the Mac, TeXworks/TeXnicCenter on Windows, Kile and a bunch of others in Linux.)

When you enter the TeX world you cannot go back cause you start to see typographical errors everywhere: wrong kerning, missing ligatures, wrong align in formulas, wrong page dimensions and others. As Don Knuth says: "I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu."

The beauty of LaTeX (XeLaTeX in this case): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
I would disagree that the base is wonderful and it's the editors that are bad. At least in LaTeX there are a multitude of packages to do any given thing, all with varying levels of completeness, and most with incompatibilities between them. Leaky abstractions abound, and the way the macro language works probably makes this easier.

The features you mention would be needed to put it in front of less geeky users but are far from the core issues. I'd love to see a language with better flow control and abstraction features put on top of the Tex engine that indeed produces beautiful output. Maybe LuaTex will be that.
Once you're used to it it’s actually quite efficient (at least if you’re just writing mathematics; doing any kind of complex document layout gets a bit more annoying). I know people who can TeX math (including commutative diagrams even) substantially faster than I can write it down on paper full speed. Names for things are mostly pretty intuitive/memorable, quick reference cheatsheets abound, and if you find yourself doing the same thing repeatedly it’s trivial to make your own shorter names for things or encapsulate patterns.
you need to learn some math. You are an environmentalist dupe

You need to learn some reality. You are a nuclear lobby dupe.
- You don't. C99 treats structs like classes.

- Typedef them.

- If done right, it can be quite unobtrusive.

- That's not how it should be written. This is a 100 times clearer:

int *var1, var2;

- Not really. And don't use int, int32_t is where it's at.
Wow is that conspiracy theory talk, you have any facts to back that up?

We have endless reports from international agencies. Cover-up? I doubt it. Ukraine and Belarus want aid and help, have no interest in covering up, and it’s difficult to believe in an international nuclear industry driven cover-up taking in all those UN agencies.

What did these agencies say? Read for yourself,

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/en/

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/IAEA_Pub1239...

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_di...

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pd...

http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/annexj.pdf

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1239_web.pd...

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/2005/ebsp2005n008....

and so on, the list really is endless, you can click through for hours.

What is this "large body of evidence" you speak of? It would be nice to have some reports by reputable scientists but all you've done is spew conspiracy hystaria.
For my usage, I came to conclusion that HTML is the solution. When I need formulas, I may use TeX, for graphs I'll use Excel most of the time. For pictures Gimp etc. HTML is the glue I now use:

- You can reuse it everywhere, publish it on the web, print it

- It's easier to generate

- You can combine it with code much more easily

- Semantic tags in HTML5 (<article>, <section>) remove a big feature gap with LaTeX

- You can reuse your HTML skills for much more other topics.

I use LaTeX quite a bit, still use it for special goals (resumes, articles), but outside the scientific crowd, I don't think it is the best solution any more. I know the typography is better there than on most other software, but on that I rather wished browsers and HTML got better.
The water heats up, building pressure, and then they vent some steam to try and lower the pressure (and then, obviously, have to re-add water). The explosions happen because the steam separates into Hydrogen & Oxygen due to a reaction, and once outside that is an explosive mix.

The chamber is pretty large, several meters deep around the core.

The explosions are as a result of the release of the hydrogen/oxygen mix - which does not take much to catch - but they occurred outside the pressure vessel. Such a situations is technically planned for, the building structure "fails outward" allowing the blast out and away from the pressure containment. It is relatively unlikely to damage the integrity of the vessel in such a situation; they are very very strong pieces of kit (at three mile island the explosion took place inside the vessel and I believe it did not compromise its integrity).

At this stage is somewhat unclear but it appears that the third explosion has damaged one of the pressure vessels. However the technical explanations I am seeing are stating that it hasn't compromised the integrity of the containment; instead it appears to be saying that parts of the mechanism inside the containment are damaged (in this case the "torus" which is used as an emergency pressure relief system).

This is actually, though, a significant problem, if true, because it could affect what happens if it finally does meltdown (as I mention in another comment, my working knowledge of this form of reactor is incomplete, but IIRC the torus also forms part of the final emergency response to a meltdown).

Bottom line is; at this stage we know there have been 3 hydrogen explosions at 3 of the units, and one fire at another of the reactors. But it is still unclear the level of damage and risk with each unit - TEPCO (and indeed Japanese companies in general) tend to play down or not discuss details and risk publicly. Take this fire; no one really picked it up until it was out - at which point TEPCO appear to have started mentioning it.

If I had to lay a claim I suspect that reactor 2 at this stage will probably meltdown; loss of the torus is significant enough that it raises the risk of what they are currently doing (i.e. trying to cool the core).
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Many people want to leave out Java, that's probably why Klose is currently a substitute.
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why is this upmodded? it seems to me that here at HN many people have a very cargo cult knowledge of physics and radioactivity in special. hey guys, here is the message: radioactivity damages cells and finally kill you. stop the wishful thinking! (btw i have a PhD in plasma physics)
There are also gas power stations, which are much much cleaner than coal. Just saying.
int *var1, var2;

is not clear at all. var1 has type "int pointer", and for each type T, its pointer type is represented as the type T*. It's just one of the many ways the C user interface is broken beyond reason.

The point is not that you can't do good things in C. The point is that it is very easy to do bad things in C. A good UI makes good things the natural way to do things, and actively discourages bad things. C's UI is the opposite.
actually, can be done more simply as:

mapM_ print [1..1000]

but yeah, ...haskell +1 for that :D
Agreed. Luatex makes the following division of labour practical: work with data structures and manipulate fonts and the backend in Lua, handle moving about text and setting parameters in the macro language.

One thing I would like to see is proper static analysis tools for Luatex. Lua has tools like https://github.com/fab13n/metalua/tree/master/src/samples/me... but there's nothing of comparable sophistication for Tex, let alone code combining the two, which makes debugging needlessly hard.
> Learn the lesson of what happened to BP after they bottomed out.

By buying the panic, in effect you are selling out "of the money put options" to the rest of the market. In effect you are selling insurance policies saying things are not worse than they look. The performance characteristic of selling OOTM options is that most of the time you make money. But...

Once in a while you lose your shirt. Ask Victor Niederhoffer. What is there is a catastrophic meltdown and Tokyo has to be evacuated? What will the Nikkei be worth then? What about all the people who bought dot.com stocks after they fell 50% because they were "cheap".

When considering the merits of investment, it is worth asking:

1. Am I selling insurance to someone without realizing it?

2. Does my strategy amount to nothing more than leverage? Leverage works well in rising markets and works very badly in falling markets.

3. Are there hidden risks I am not aware of but someone else is? Or as Buffett puts it, have you been playing poker for an hour and still haven't worked out who the patsy is? (It's probably you).

4. Are you taking uncompensated risks like putting 1/3 of your net worth into one company when you could be diversified for no cost?
Nearly all the most beautifully typeset documents I've ever seen have been typeset in TeX. Also, it's probably the only way I can type in a mathematical formula without going crazy.

That said, I never use TeX. It's too much work. Bean.app is more than I need.
:( Damn, I'm still on XP at work and XP on my laptop at home. At work my boss won't shell out for anything new. At home my laptop doesn't have drivers for Vista or Win7 :( I'm now one of those people everyone hates for holding the internet back!

(Not really - lol - I got Firefox installed up the wazoo!)
In an employment interview in most places, it would be an illegal question.

Assuming you think this is the intent behind it, "how much time can you commit to working on this?" or "you need to be immediately available at all times - can you do that?" would be a better way to phrase it. From the perspective of working, it doesn't matter what the thing is that is placing external demands on your time, only what those demands are.
I know plenty of people who use Tex-based markup to take notes in talks and say it saves them time.
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I fail to see in which way your analogy is relevant.

If anything, you are buying lottery tickets with other people's money and are not winning.
Texmacs often get recommended, but I haven't seen any arguments for it that are compelling. I guess there must be a case for it, else no one would work on it. What do you like about it?
I was hoping the text on my site was going to look proper in IE9. What the heck is this?

Anyone here from MS care to explain why they continue to hold back the web and make us front end engineers work harder? Uggghh...
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why is it still used?

WYSIWYW >> WYSIWYG

modern alternatives?

nothing i can think of.
Note that you can't use Xetex with the current incarnation of Context, mk4.
It sounds more like your continuous deployment resulted in deploying a change without considering the ramifications of it. Can you really consider that a 'win'?
I very much agree with the sentiment. LaTeX works well and it produces the best technical documents of anything I've seen, but the world could really use a modernized replacement. The syntax is a pain in the ass, the error messages are horrible, and it takes documentation to figure out how to do anything new. If it could be made more user friendly I think something like Tex would be used much more widely as well. (It works with version control, unlike word docs which are hell to manage in group collaboration.)
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Job application? Does anyone willingly sign up for a death march or to preside over the funeral of a dead-end project if they can avoid it?
I have no way of knowing if their report is accurate, but this is what the NYT says on #1 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html):

That fourth reactor had been turned off and was under refurbishment for months before the earthquake and tsunami hit the plant on Friday. But the plant contains spent fuel rods that were removed from the reactor, and experts guessed that the pool containing those rods had run dry, allowing the rods to overheat and catch fire.
I can recommend LyX as well, it makes authoring LaTeX documents much easier. The formula editor is nice, and it makes editing tables a lot more convenient.
Yeah, we've seen that. That's what I was thinking of when I said Amazon said it was possible.

However, when it comes to actually doing that things seem a bit less clear. For instance, outbound filtering is a requirement, but Amazon just added that, so how did one satisfy that requirement before today?
it's a decent middle ground between the clunkiness of wysiwyg word processors and the typing-to-reward ratio of pure markup. personally i prefer just writing markup in ascii, but if you want some of the control of tex, but dislike doing that much typing, texmacs or lyx might be just what you are looking for.
Well, 15 lines is a bit optimistic. mandoc is ~25 000 lines of C, and not yet complete.
If you're creating a lot of lists and (especially) nested lists, Emacs' Org Mode (now part of the standard GNU Emacs package) is worth learning. You can export it to LaTeX and HTML directly.
The problem is that you can change TeX's syntax during the run time. I am not sure if it is theoretically possible to create such a tool for TeX input. That is one of the reason why I use (except for approx 10 lines of TeX code) only Lua code in my software. These 10 lines will disappear once there is a tex.initialize() in LuaTeX.
Wow. Very nice example. Works well in Chrome 10 on Mac (about 30fps).
I was expecting to see an API too, with the name being colorapi and all.
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seamlessly hide the compilation process

There are several editors for Tex&co that do on-the-fly compilation. Have you seen Kile's two panelled interface, for example?

feature a modern debugging environment

Well, this is a problem with the language: macro expansion is notoriously tricky to debug. I'd like to see work done on a static analyser for Tex.

robustly handle all modern image types

This is not a problem I have ever had. What are you thinking of? The only file types needing special handling in Luatex are Postscript and SVG; both convert painlessly to PDF, and the converter can be run automatically by Luatex.
The good thing about the statcounter site is you can narrow by geopgraphic area for free. If you do that you'll see that a big bunch of IE use is in China, where it doesn't matter if you can't buy XP any more because most of them didn't buy it even when you could. Here's their OS breakdown for China:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-CN-monthly-201003-201102

Though interestingly, since the last time I looked, IE8 has been on a tear in China, nearly catching IE6. I wonder what caused that:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-201003...

Overall I think it's more realistic to expect Chrome, Firefox and IE (all versions) to be basically sharing the global market 3 ways by the end of the year, which is somewhat different from your prediction of IE9 equalling Firefox and Chrome. I guess we'll see soon enough.
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Mine. I am working on something particularly clever. We'll start with HackerDojo and SemanticSeed. :)

I'll announce it here when the "unpretty" version starts to work.
> How can you be so obtuse?

Yeah, that always gets to me, too. And it is also funny how lots of these people try to downplay the effects of the Chernobyl disaster, if that's even possible. When it comes to the number of casualties they hurry up in bringing up the 4,000 mentioned in the IAEA report, which is like asking Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld of writing up about the effects of the Iraq mess.

Just today I was reading about how in one of counties of Romania (of which I am a citizen) the number of deaths caused by cancer is double the number of deaths caused by TBC (which used to be the number one killer before 1986) or diabetes. One might argue that this may be caused by a sudden change in the the conditions of living or anything related, but I can assure you that's not the case (if anything, heart-related deaths should have been on the number one spot). Of course, you won't see these cancer-related deaths taken into account in any of IAEA's reports.

I also have some sort of personal emotional involvement in all this, as one of my childhood playmates and best-friends died of leukemia in 1990. He was 5 when Chernobyl happened, but of course no-one can link his death to that disaster, can it? It doesn't matter that I can't even remember one case of my parents telling me about kids dying of cancer in the '50s or the '60s, because that just didn't happen (although child mortality was way higher back then). It all miraculously started to happen after Chernobyl.
They have huge balls for demanding damages that exceed what anyone has ever earned in any industry in the entire history of commerce.
UI feedback is very important to a well rounded user experience. CSS3 transitions will be a big part of UI design in the future. Just how far off that future is... I'm guessing around IE11, maybe IE12.