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It's 'bug-free' in the same sense that qmail is bug free: you take a piece of software, design it very carefully to do only the minimum amount required to make it fulfill its purpose, spend a lot of time on making sure there are no 'bugs' under a very strict technocratic definition of 'bugs' (i.e., few features, slow running speed, idiosyncratic workings aren't 'bugs') and then make a career out of marketing yourself as being able to write 'bug free' code.

Of course to make the software useful in the real world, a lot of things have to be added to it - make sure to not include any of it in the 'core' otherwise the 'bug free' claim will go out the window really quickly.

So yeah, in that sense I guess it's technically (which I use as a euphemism for 'autistically') correct to call TeX bug free (the bounty program for bugs found in it is quite famous, and part of fore-mentioned marketing).
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Judges can draw on technical experts to help analyze the facts in a given case. It definitely helps be technically literate, but the judge doesn't need to be making open source commits by night to evaluate the situation fairly. On the other hand, it's not unreasonable to acquire some knowledge for the specific case, but again this can be on the level of a few hours of research (to be able to understand and communicate with the expert), rather than expecting the judge to take the time to become an expert him/herself.
Also required reading is "Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy" by Duncan Kennedy (Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School).

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You would fly someone in from Sweden and pay for their room & board + equity?

Doesn't sound so bad to me. I might know a few people interested in this. Contact me :)
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I agree at first glance, the site took me a few seconds to orient myself as the layout was confusing.

The "support twitter updates" looks like a tagline and the categories are confusing. A standard menu would be at the top right of the page with Updates/About/Contact/Support as options.

The "screenshot" of the product on the top right is confusing.. it looks like clickable UI elements at first.

The buy button does not have enough contrast and the desired action is not clear enough. Plus why is the sale price on the button? Was that tested?

The fact that this is on sale is not immediately obvious.

The screenshot of the product's menu should be next to the mouse, perhaps overlapping.

The manual portion is superfluous and should be on the support page or on a separate "How it works" link.

The background is nice but really distracting.

Finally the phalanx of share buttons at the top is highly distracting and might be better placed somewhere else. I would probably put a grey band at the top with the share links on the left and the support/about menu items on the top right.

I would also move the screenshot next to the mouse, put the sale price info above the buy button and move the buy button down onto the grey section to provide more contrast (plus I'd try the button in the orange/yellow). The text between sale price and the app store logo should go below the buy button to the right of the other grey text.

The copy could also be tightened up.. for example "Instantly achieve unrivaled precision with any mouse." is a much tigther value proposition.

The grey bullet points should be shortened and more clearly delineated.

Finally the FinalTouch logo has too much glow and makes my eyes bug out.

Note: I'm not trying to denigrate the owner's website. This is an unsolicited random opinion.
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I think the web is going to undergo a radical change in the next 5 or so years.

Hasn't it radically changed every year?
i.e. it can give one thread 4 ops/cycle sustained, given the right workload.

Dispatch can only do 2 loads per cycle, and 1 store per cycle. Any more, and it stops on that instruction and dispatches nothing more for that cycle. On plenty of workloads, especially typical compiler output for C code, this is not going to nearly reach the 4 ops/cycle maximum, even on a single thread.
Google Wave is probably the single worst introduction of a new technology that I've ever seen. To this day, I have no idea what it actually was or was for. All I know is that it did everything, but nothing, and it did it simultaneously in shared sessions.
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I have the solution for you there:

If your email is mylittlepony@gmail.com

Then your can use as many '.' and filter it out.

You will also receive emails sendt too my.little.pony@gmail.com

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They're a world leader in underground and criminal computing activities alright.
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I read an article, though I cant remember where that refers to memes as a new kind of hard-to-kill virus, even the wikipedia article has references to it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Where there's a problem, there's at least one solution. I have no idea how to building a bot that can run science experiments in 400+ °C sulfuric acid clouds, but I bet its possible.
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To play the other side of this, while I was interning in a big bank my friends in M&A were in work at 6AM and getting in at midnight, every day, even the weekends. They loved it.

Bashing on it because it isn't your cup of tea isn't particularly fair.

Edit: I'd be interested to hear why I'm being downvoted. Some people I've met love the work and want to put the hours in, this is true across all industries - and especially in start-ups.
It may indeed serve a useful purpose to have a wandering mind, but as the article points out "the hallmarks of many forms of mental illness is a preoccupation with one's own thoughts", i.e. perhaps the issue is the extent to which one's mind wanders. Not all minds wander equally.

Personally, my wandering mind has been my greatest strength and my greatest weakness (anxiety, worry, jumping to conclusions, all or nothing thinking, etc.). I spend too much time in my head and not enough time grounding myself in reality to the point where there is serious disconnect in my awareness and mindfulness of situations (which has caused all kinds of serious grief in my life). Meditation has been recommended to me numerous times, and based on this article it looks like it's something I want to explore.
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Oh boy. As a worker in a building that insisted on putting trees and large plants where they don't belong, like 9 stories above ground or wedged into tight covered courtyards, this is plan for disaster. The artificial light-catching equipment just might work on sunny days--I've never seen any in action, and I'm skeptical how well the above ground part can be integrated into a busy street without looking uglier than a cell phone tower--but think of all the energy you waste on artificial light for the other days. Green project, this is not; plants require a lot of light. That's why they grow in the sun, you know, and absolutely never in a subway tunnel. And some will still die, and then you are hauling trees, soil, and landscaping equipment in and out of a constricted space all the time.

This will be a ton more expensive than the High Line, and probably a horticultural nightmare.

Plus, people go to parks to get fresh air and enjoy a view, right? Not to inhale canned fumes in the dark...
Perhaps LaTeX creation system should move to the cloud, think of a google-docs like service which will offer a rich, reliable and simple set of tools to create, publish and collaboratively work on documents.
Yeah there's lots of great UI libraries but it doesn't really solve the problem since they aren't universally applied.

Users still have to learn the UI controls of each library or whatever else the designers come up with.
Do mid-career researchers make 125k? Or isn't that the starting salary range any more? (I stopped following the industry in early/mid 2008, so I may remember the status quo at the peak...)
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> Both these technologies will not gain much recognition outside google and some cool side projects

...Which is probably why there was little mention of "EEE" when they were announced—how can Google extinguish when nobody uses their alternative?
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The Russians indeed lost more people and material than anyone else.

The weird fact is that they lost 26 million due to military, but they lost 10 million to their own internal political oppression.

In either case, USSR had 200 million population in June 1941. At the end of 1945 the population was 170 million[1]. So they still had "plenty" of manpower left.

Also material losses were indeed huge, but mostly because complete disregard for safety of personnel and equipment. They could always replenish their losses at faster rate than their enemies (USSR had vast industry and material base), very inefficient but still huge.

For example. Germans built 6500 JU-87 Stuka assault planes[2] during whole war. Soviets have build 43.000 IL-2 Sturmovik assault planes from 1942-1945[3]. Since Germans had air superiority on eastern front, Soviets would just send in Sturmovik's without air cover.

There's an expression here in eastern Europe for overwhelming numbers, in literal translation it would go something as: "There is as many of them as Russians".

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87#Production
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2#Production
I don't see why you consider this on topic, and I think it detracts from HN being a welcoming environment.
There's an excellent introductory talk that was delivered by Jon Kabat-Zinn for Google. It's available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
What you mean actually adhere to good business practices?

Another option is more of a co-op model where multiple bands get together and share resources between them. Many bands in Canada operate this way. They tour together, give each other recording time in their own studios, work as studio musicians on each others albums and work with the same suppliers etc.
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As someone who doesn't typically have reason to use either -- is using floats rather than doubles actually common? I was under the impression this was pretty rare.
> Having a fully functioning computer in your pocket opens up entirely new experiences—and markets. […] Social media, combined with mobile technologies, are powering protests and revolutions around the world and changing the way people consume information.

While I somewhat agree with this, I can't help but feel that much more is possible[1]. With current technology. If people actually owned their pocket computers, both in theory[2] and in practice[3], the changes would be much more profound.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/2c/a_sense_that_more_is_possible

[2] http://freedomboxfoundation.org/

[3] http://vpri.org/ http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
There are some simulations that squeeze everything they can out of a GPU or a cluster or a TOP500 machine. And I don't think arbitrary precision can be done easily on a GPU; if someone knows more, I'd love to be corrected on this one.
That's not really true. There are time constraints and filtering out the good music can be a difficult proposition in 1 in 100 kind of scenario at best.. it's fatiguing.

Many djs, for example, rely heavily on labels to curate their offerings and once they find a label they like, they pay more attention to whatever they release than random discoveries.
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&... This seems to bear on the implied point here: that mental focus on a problem -- perhaps unconsciously -- can be reflected in our neurobiology. (Or vice versa? Not sure whether this should be a response to P or GP)
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When I think of usability as an exact science, the name that comes to mind is Jakob Nielsen. He's been writing his Alertbox bi-weekly articles since 1995. http://useit.com/
I think that page could benefit from some examples created by speedataPublisher; now I only see a list of features and requirements, not what I'm able to create with it.
What is your goal? And do you know your suggestions will fix that?
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Firstly, you don't have to shuffle the envelopes, and you don't have to specify that I must use a fair coin to choose one. The problem as stated is unnecessarily over-specified.

Secondly, you say:

> Can you come up with a strategy that guarantees
> you a better-than-even chance of winning?

It should be pointed out that this should be a fixed strategy that will be used on every occasion we play this game. The challenge is to find a strategy which will, independently and on every occasion we play, have, on that occasion, a chance of winning that is strictly greater than 50%.

Finally, this is well-known (in some circles) and controversial. I remember getting into a protracted discussion (probably around 100 emails) with someone claiming that the stated strategy that achieves better than 50% was wrong, and that it was in fact still exactly 50%. It took a very, very long time to convince them that they were calcualting the wrong thing.

So for your sake, I hope you get the explanation crystal clear, and avoid all the pitfalls. Otherwise you will be hounded.

Very brave.

Added in edit: I've just gone and looked at the comment thread there, and now I'm depressed. I should know better than to look at people trying to talk about math and probability, even a sub-group such as comment on XKCD blag posts.
Virtual machines are generally prohibited by the guidelines as well. (Exceptions exist for things like script interpreters, which need to be present for some games to run, e.g. Lua.)
I know I personally would consider that, but it really depends on the project and it relies on the fact that I do not have a family to support. Definitely feel free to email me.
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Well, you can always find examples which are hard to cast. I was thinking more of serially producing coffee cups rather than ceramic art forms.
Not arguin against you, but I think your example was a pretty poor one: The Philippines was basically owned and ran by the US for a hundred years. So when discussing English skills, it is not a good example of a "regular other country".
Latin Modern, which is in the larger part an extension of Computer Modern to provide better multilingual support, is supported as OTF.

I can think of no reason to prefer CM to LM for typesetting purposes.
has anyone thought of just having a bunch of cloud servers with LaTeX built there, and then writing a front-end which uploads your docs, compiles them and downloads the resulting PDF? with fast enough servers and good enough data speeds, this might even rival the estimated 10 seconds for a fully ported LaTeX app.

I'm assuming it's been ruled out for other reasons though.

EDIT: this would also make it trivial to use it on android/blackberry, without any extra effort. apparently, also, http://www.scribtex.com/
In my opinion, such a platform, or several, using an entirely different paradigm, already exist. To overtake Facebook, it is simply a matter of making it as easy to use as Facebook, and Facebook annoyances having reached a breaking point. Whether there is yet sufficient impetus to do the UI work and whether Facebook users are ready to move on to the next thing is another question.
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Acceptance of all that exists in the current moment, for me, doesn't mean apathy but stopping to avoid uncomfortable aspects of reality. The difference is between accepting what is so and thinking that's the way it's always going to be. Facing reality can be a strong motivator for change.
Having ported a TeX distribution to MacOS classic some 15 years ago, I feel that the author overstates some of the difficulties. In particular, it's not all that hard to get kpathsea to work without callouts to bash scripts (it's not like Mac OS classic supported system() or anything like it). Basically, kpathsea is an API, and the implementation can be switched out (e.g. I implemented a dbm based file name cache).

Admittedly, getting everything linked into a single binary might be fairly hard.
The problem isn't that the original codebase is messy (it's aged, but there are still comparatively new projects working on it e.g. LuaTeX) or that it's non-portable, as demonstrated by the multitude of platforms it's available for.

The problem is roughly equivalent to producing a non-upgradable perl. It's not very useful on its own, but it's completely impractical to include a copy of the entire CPAN with it. And Apple's policies prevent you from downloading additional packages. It's just not worth the effort.
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that was my thought too

I wouldn't sasume it has been ruled out - people (myself included) sometimes get mentally stuck on one solution and fail to spot another obvious avenue.
I wouldn't mind (if I were looking for a work). It's a startup - it's supposed to merge with your private life anyway :)
Well call me incorrect by my team would laugh if I presented them a webapp with sooo pink buttons.
"The App Store guidelines insist that any iPad app be a single executable. Jailbreaking would ease this restriction, but in this case Apple’s gatekeepers are right. A 4GB TeX distribution dependant on over 100 binaries is not acceptable on the iPad."

From that quote ("A 4GB TeX distribution dependant on over 100 binaries is not acceptable on the iPad."), it is clear that he is musing about a scenario where he ships all 4GB. As stated many times (and also in that same quote), on the iPhone you are forced to ship something as one executable. Thus, the theoretical distribution he is referring to would in fact be a single executable of about 4GB. In fact I think that's the whole point of those two sentences. So it appears that I was indeed quite careful.
Indeed, Norman Ramsey essentially reimplemented Bibtex in Lua: look at bibtex.lua.in in his Nbibtex; tarball avilable from http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/nbibtex/
In the grant scheme of thing, do people really think it is a big deal if a page shows you a 404 error, even if the content you are looking for actually exists? I think it's very tempting to get lost in tiny details like that.
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I don't see any reason why it should _not_ shell out to bash. TeX/LaTeX was developed in a UNIX environment, which has the explicit philosophy of "the tool box with lots of little tools which do whatever little they do extremely good".
The iOS Philosophy of "It has to be one binary app" resembles the philosophy of Windows Programs. Big single programs with lots of functionality unter one big GUI.

How can anyone really be suprised that one of the oldest and mightiest gods of one religion can not be coerced into the shrine of a completely different religion?
I second this, make sure you DO understand the underlying business and its needs; also if you want to be friends with the devs, make sure you provide the most helpful info about failing tests, not just "it is failing".
Fully agree; computer is something on which you can write, compile and run a native program without using external machines. And TeX is a computer typesetting system.
Though it may or may not be intentional, it would probably help a lot if you updated you HN profile to include your email address (the email address used to sign up is never shown). I'm not sure I can really help, but if you want, contact me through email (address in my profile).
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Yep, it always surprises me how few people change off the default Computer Modern -- which I find really spindly and ugly -- given that a single \usepackage{...} will give you a beautiful Palatino, for example. I sometimes suspect they're just wanting to hit me in the face with the fact that they're LaTeX users...