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You seem to not even understand the game. "Counterproductive" contains normative, technocratic assumptions. It assumes that everybodies goals are to maximize work output, and that everything around that is 'overhead' or 'useless'.

For example, one may assume that when a client comes asking for certain work to be done, that the result of that work is the only thing that matters. Which may or may not be the case. It may be equally important that the impression the client makes executing this project is more important than what is actually produced; or the process of the project rather than the output; or other things still. Scoffing at what may naively be perceived as second-order effects being on equal footing with the 'real' output is imo one of the engineer's negative reflexes (I'm one myself, and I do this, although less than I used to when I didn't realize it even existed).
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A few things about this post.

firstly it is never good when you start out a discussion by saying now I know people will disagree but thats because their bigoted zelots. Its kind of disingenuous to attempt to post a technical dissent filled with personal opinion and preface it with that kind of clause inevitability allowing you to label any dissent as "See those scala zelots are at it again"

That being said this is an article that attempts to raise technical problems with scala but really just list a few of the authors own personal gripes with the language. In order here are his complaints

1. Scala doesn't have a rigid versioned module system
2. The functional way of doing concurrency isn't how I like to do concurrency
3. The scala community isn't helpful enough for me
4. The type system is too powerfull
5. The syntax is too flexable
6. There aren't enough tests in the compiler test suite

Its alot of the same thing I have seen when people try to list "The" problems with the language and not "Their" problems with the language. Technically there is only one argument that could even hold water thats about the module system . Which if he really needs a module system for his work then that is a technical limitation of the language and he might consider using a better tool for his job. The rest of it however is just nonsense and personal opinion pretending to be technical dissent.
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Here is the deal.

If this post hits the index page by tomorrow morning, I will make a reality show out of my half a million in funding international startup.

All these big media are trying to do something like this, but they have no idea what is really going on. If enough people would watch this, I will do everything I can to make it happen.

Here is my background: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/danil-kozyatnikov
I really like the 'do we need the speed limit' part.

Not surprisingly, maybe, since I come from a country where that approach works (although there seems to be a tendency to reduce the 'free' parts and a number of factions don't like the concept in the first place, for reasons that are either ecological - use more public transportation - or FUD - going fast kills faster/more).

On the other hand I cannot imagine reintroducing that concept of 'no limit' easily. I think it's easy to go down that street into one direction (limit the speed) but much harder to go back (go as fast as you feel safe to do). People that are used to drive w/o limit here DO have speed limits to respect (on anything that's not the Autobahn, and on more and more parts _on_ the Autobahn too). People that always had a maximum speed limit of X are not used to someone overtaking them with a relative speed difference of another times X again.

This is mostly a gut feeling and personal, non-scientific observation, but when I went fast on the Autobahn I tended to scan the lane to the right for cars with foreign license plates. These had an immensely increased probability to switch lanes at 120-130 km/h when I was approaching on an otherwise safe/clear/free lane with 220-230 km/h.
I write that off to experience alone: If most of the traffic flows at the same speed, maneuvers like this might be annoying but okay. Understanding the fact that, while you're going at the normal/maximum allowed speed at home, there might be legal scenarios where someone passes you with twice your current speed is one thing. Overcoming the ~subconscious~ patterns in ones driving is probably harder.

Short version: I'd be afraid to drive fast in a place where that is uncommon or new.
Is there some problem with the MacOS port of (Live) TeX?

A two page LaTeX test document on my old Dell Optiplex (Q6700 cpu) with Ubuntu 10.4 takes 0.033s, two orders of magnitudes less than he experiences.

The 539 page reference manual for the project I'm working on takes 3 seconds to format.
Okay, thanks for clearning that up. It doesn't change my point though.
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After 25+ years of driving I actually got my first speeding ticket last year (on the A9, from a camera in a van) - since then I've been very careful to stick to speed limits and have actually found that:

- Driving is less stressful

- I use a lot less petrol

- I don't actually seem to take that much longer to get anywhere
I had that problem myself. I have a deep respect for Buddhism but I wanted to practice something where I could completely appreciate the history and meaning of the movement without learning Sanskrit or Pali :) I became a Quaker quite a few years ago as a result.

Quakers are traditionally very reticent about talking about their beliefs so you don't hear too much about us (I am breaking that tradition now!) Quakerism may offer a middle way between traditional Christianity and those inclined to a more meditative spiritual life.

As for the "religious" angle, Quakers emphasise personal insight over belief. You don't convert to Quakerism, you become "convinced". You work (and it can be challenging) on transforming your relationship with "that of God" within you. I know Quakers who are evangelical Christians and those who are practically agnostic. We all try to get along.

You can get a feel for what I mean by checking out the Experiments With Light homepage:

http://www.experiment-with-light.org.uk/

It offers an insight into Quaker meditation.
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I watched the programme last night and it was excellent. I've always held Alan Turing as one of my all time hero's of Computer Science. If you can manage to get hold of it I highly recommend watching it.

On a side note I decided to read his paper this morning 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'. If you have some spare time today give the paper a read. Especially the 'Digital Computers' paragraph. As you're reading it think to yourself he is describing something that does not exist, nobody has ever heard of, and yet he is perfectly describing the computer I am using to type this comment. Phenomenal.

link to paper : http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
I don't think this is a problem with LaTeX & "messy codebase", I think this is a problem with restrictions on iOS from Apple.

The crux of the problems with porting it seem to be that everything has to be in 1 executable, that there can be no scripts, and it must be in an approved language. That's merely a problem from Apple.

A correct title would be "The price of restriction on apps: No LaTeX on iPad"

The author also thinks it's be easy to just switch licence to GPL. Unless LaTex & TeX required copyright assignment, you cannot switch to GPL without getting every contributor to agree. The author is also under the believe that you cannot have commerical software that's GPL. It's DRM software you cannot have with GPL, and that's why Apple doesn't allow it.
For what it's worth, that presentation was by William Kahan. “The Father of Floating Point” and the guy behind the IEEE 754 standard. He also has a Turing award.
OK, here is the dirty truth about applying and being hired: for the average "elite" company and pretty much all companies, if you are going through the hiring process as yet another manila folder in a pool of 200, you have probably lost already and will have to spend a lot of frustrating time writing applications and jumping through the ridiculous HR mind-frakks-to-read-you thrown at you. The way to ideally go about being hired is bypassing that process - you need to know people at the place you want to work at, ideally you have worked for them already and could show your skills and that you fit in. You need someone there cheering for you, someone who can make it happen and you need to get them to want you to be there.

Interning is a great way of getting to that point. Working as a consultant is just as great. The idea here is to get into a position where you can show your skills to the people who can ultimately request hiring you - then the whole dreaded HR process is just a formality. Get to know people and make a name for yourself, be the "go-to" guy whom people come to ask. Know a lot of stuff and do good work, then you will be surprised how often you can bypass all the ridiculous HR shenanigans and the rules will be bent for you, backwards if need be. Yes it is hard work but it is productive work instead time spent on polishing your CV to the latest fads, bells and whistles.

And this does NOT mean you have to be extremely out-going or need to have unreal social-skills; you just need to have a "value", you need to be good at stuff.

Call it borderline-nepotism if you want but I am sorry, this is not what they tell you about being hired and it is very real and far more important than all those bells and whistles and "tricks" for applying... and it is all about doing a good job, having a great image and having a high value so they WANT you. Win-win for both sides ultimately.
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> On the other hand I cannot imagine reintroducing that concept of 'no limit' easily.

Advisory signs suggesting speed for /typical/ car. Adjusted once in a while by local citizens as they know the local road conditions best. The driver can now make well-informed decisions. If you have super-duper tyres and suspension you mentally add 32% to suggested speed. If you are the next Ayrton Senna, you add 64%.

You can re-define legal sense of current speed limit signs overnight, with one congressional act.

I believe drivers would trust citizen-maintained signs much more & follow the advice, to the boot.
You're actually right. His citation has the correct statistic in the first paragraph (replace 2 with 3).
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The video is the asset.

Many ways to serve it. Many ways to retrieve it. And many ways to convert and play it.

The skills to do those things are perhaps assets.

But the software is all open source and free.
Whoa. Nevermind the stupid drink/drug thing [1], but being pulled over on a bike and searched would be the day I'd give up, I guess. At least in DE this is, in my experience and my social circles, totally unheard of and unbelievable.

1: There are tests for alcohol/drugs. For drugs they _might_ search your car if there's a reasonable doubt, but so far I only know about these controls near borders, especially to NL: It's just easy/legal to get weed there and the customs police (?) isn't stupid and watching for ~interesting~ cars crossing over. I've never heard of searches related to alcohol. If there's any indication that you had alcohol you might have to do the breath test. If you fail that or don't want to do that, then it's off to the police station for a blood test. No need to search you or your car, and damn certainly not your mobile?
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This article seems to advocate a huge amount of work to an existing, open, and highly stable software product - all to allow it to work on a proprietary device with heavy restrictions on software availability and installation.

Should we do all this work - mandated by business-driven 'app store guidelines' - simply to allow known good software to continue to work?
By casual observation, probably 90% or more of the driving population violates speed laws regularly; only the people who exceed the limit by 10-15mph or more, or who get caught in small town speed traps, get ticketed for it.

Why do you consider crime rates of more serious crimes, yet instead of counting the number of road speed law violators, you count only the number of citations for speeding? Like drug possession laws, road speed law enforcement is highly selective. You can't get a picture of overall criminality by measuring arrest and citation rates.

How fast would speed limits change if automated detection led to automatic fines for any speeding? We're already close; the only reason it hasn't been implemented is that everyone knows it would upend traffic speed laws through public outrage. (I realize there's the theoretical legal problem of identifying the driver, but that hasn't stopped many locales from using red light and speeding cameras and holding the registered owner responsible for fines.)
Something he didn't mention is how Apple is pretty much the only retail store in existence that has items people want to use, and has a policy of letting them use the products as much as they want. I think that's the single biggest difference(well, that and the fact that Apple employees aren't on commision) between Apple and every other electronics retailer. While everyone else is full of people looking to sell you, Apple stands back and let's the products sell themselves. It worked on me.
Arguably (and this is a pretty out there view in neuroscience) because in this case, the instrument we're using to understand the physical system is itself the object of study. Throws up some interesting self referential problems.
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I'm going put put my two cents in, and say that a platform capable of replacing Facebook for discussion and community on the web has already been created.

It's called Reddit.

Bear with me here, I realize this is probably an unpopular opinion.

On Reddit, all content is open -- I don't think I've ever seen a 'closed' sub-reddit available only to members. I'm not sure it's even possible.

Yet, in spite of all communities being effectively open, most sub-reddits have a strong sense of community, and are very active. Personally, I really enjoy proggit and r/math for this reason -- active discussion, community moderation, and a strong sense of community.
Trying to watch this outside of the UK... The irony with this link on HN does not escape me:

http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-Nov...

and

http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/i-live-in-the-uk-r...
The UI "we already know" is there because designers did not listen to your advice, and I thank them for that.
I am also glad, that I don't have to do everything via CLI (which I do like. For some tasks). I am also glad, that I don't have to scroll the content in the window by hunting some scrollbar with my mouse pointer. Hey, I also do like that I don't see scrollbars anymore on my OS.
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TOP500 machines probably have CPU features that could help with that.

But yeah, afaik arbitrary precision on GPUs isn't possible with reasonable performance.
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"Had to" because Liblime stopped sharing access to the site, something which they had promised to do when taking over maintenance of it (get it in writing next time). Koha.org now exclusively promotes Liblime's non-open fork of Koha.
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oh, I'm totally up voting this.
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Sounds interesting, but what is it that you're looking to build. I'd be interested if and only if I knew what I would be doing. People need to believe in what you're looking to build, and that would directly influence their choice. Visions need to be aligned to build a company.

Good luck though!
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I have asked the producers to see if they can change that. Don't hold your breath though as I suspect the rights issues are very complex.

It does appear to be on Channel 4's YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/show/britainsgreatestcodebreaker Is that viewable from outside the UK?
Google has been criticized about banning less websites than they should - their preference is clearly towards false negatives, whereas Facebook's is clearly towards false positives.
The iPad way is probably to run the messy LaTex codebase on a server that interacts with UI code on the ipad.
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Ahem, you may be too pessimistic. I actually like the fact that Google is challenged on social content. When you have so many great people and you are challenged on an issue, it can give interesting results.

For instance, I am no fan of most of the changes in search (eg. Instant, Snippets) but I think that adjusting search result rankings to the "+1" of my circles is a big deal in long term. It makes "+1" an actually useful button. I now start using it as "intelligent bookmarking". Except if you believe in near future people will search Internet through Facebook or will not search at all, which I don't, then this little "+1" feature is a big leverage against Facebook.

Google are also challenged by Amazon with their platform, and I would be surprised if they did not prepare some thing on this side. It is just that, with Buzz and Wave, they learnt that one big company like them is not a start-up and therefore can't "release early, fail quickly, iterate" (as so often advocated here on HN). So we, observers, would better be patient.

Don't forget Chrome. It seems to me that this is an incredibly fast entrance in browser market, and really did shake things up, for the better. If Google, through its browser and mobile OS, find a way to make life much easier for open social network users, Facebook may have to comply. It would not be stupid for Facebook to be open, they would still have the biggest number of users, and their revenue should not drop just because they allow other social content provider to access their data openly (as long as they continue offering a good user experience).
but you still have to register for reddit... reddit's owned by conde nast, it's not an open platform. Conde nast could at a moment's notice shut the entire thing down, or put it behind a paywall, or sell your 'likes' to an advertiser. This is a problem common to all centralised solutions.
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Yes and yes.

Once they pull you over some people are bothered more by the inconvenience of being pulled over than they are by the rights they give up. One of my friends allowed the police to search his car because he didn't want to wait for the drug dog. He got out of the ticket by cooperating, but what if they said they found something?

By not cooperating I got a range of tickets: live in this city but don't have a city parking sticker, don't have a safety inspection sticker, have the wrong type of insurance coverage. This was after the original reason he pulled me over (not speeding) didn't pan out. All of this because I wouldn't allow him search my car without a warrant.

Also, different states have different interpretations on cellphone contents. California, (normally quite liberal) just has a shitty interpretation of the law.
While I'd like that approach in theory, I see two issues with this:

1) It doesn't answer my 'going from some limit to no (declared) limit' thought experiment. I still think that this is ~hard~.

2) Who are the local citizens to change the signs? Who's responsible for signs on highways/streets through parts of the country w/o a lot of people?

On a sidenote: Advisory speed limits are exactly what DE is doing: If there's no sign indicating something otherwise, the Autobahn has an advised maximum speed limit of 130km/h. If you go faster, you might lose parts of your insurance protection (depending on the results in case of an accident). It's legal, but in that case you're just ignoring the friendly suggestion to stay at 130.
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I linked to the comemnts by mistake, the link for the post is at
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> The 112,000 or so tickets given each day add up to over 41 million tickets per year – that’s 19.5% of the populous! Between 1 in 5 and 1 in 6 American citizens will be ticketed for speeding this year [...]

This struck me as a misleading use of statistics, because Pareto likes to say hi everytime we try to correlate a repeatable event and a global population. Most of those tickets will actually go to the same drivers, and Pareto's Law even gives us handy empirical proportions. 80% of the tickets will probably go to the same 20% subgroup.

This means that we have ~8 million tickets to distribute more or less randomly/statistically (over let's say ~8 million american citizens), and then ~2 additional millions get the rest of the tickets, for a total of 10 million ticketed people per year, or roughly 3-5% of the population.

Which is still huge and doesn't exactly change the author's point.
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As someone who left all of his friends and family and connections behind in the USA when it became a police state and moved to Germany, I can tell you with certainty that it really is that bad there.
"I don't think this is a problem with LaTeX & "messy codebase", I think this is a problem with restrictions on iOS from Apple."

No. It's a problem with LaTeX & messy codebase.

Take Apple out of the picture, for a minute: the messy codebase remains a problem with TeX/LaTeX.

It doesn't lead itself to easy extension, it doesn't lead itself to easy incorporation of features such as full Unicode support, Open Type font special capabilities, and much much more. There have been several attempts to fix this, namely LaTeX3e, Omega et al, but none has been that successful. We're stuck with a codebase that works, but is messy, too complicated (ever tried to set up a LaTex/Tex distro from scratch), and obsolete in many parts.