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It was later revealed this was the result of a coup by a
bunch of Darden MBA's because they wanted "radical" change
to the future plans of the University, not incremental
change.

Which, as I recall, was revealed in some seriously mustache-twirling e-mails that the main orchestrator had used the Reply All feature for or something to that extent. I can't remember which article I read this in, but this has all the elements of the most interesting and scandalous affair in academia this year.
Sounds like an american version of the novel Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterhouse_Blue
The Empire State Building didn't reach profitability until about two decades after its completion. Nevertheless, it has remained impressive from the time of its completion through today.
If this were fark someone would reply with some kind of comment about the threat typically posed to skyscrapers by persons of middle-eastern origin.

But yeah, I wouldn't wanna be on a high floor of this thing.
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It looks to be the same model, just with a different name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_governing_boar...
And, not just a cranky emeritus:

"I was President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 11 years."
And some of us prefer humanity, with it's imperfections and emotional content over plastic perfectionism. Your point?
Not disagreeing with you, but I wonder how much the Burj expands and contracts every day.
Obviously, so different things will break in different countries.
Well, it's both, I guess. He uses the extreme body of work to explain that he's got the experience and then some to tell them that this is a managerial and academic failure of nearly unprecedented proportions.

He's not some tenured professor sequestered in the bubble of academia.
"Most conferences are a crap shoot when it comes to video. Half the time they won’t record your talk, and the other half of the time it may take months before your talk is published.

Something I’ve been doing recently is making a screen recording of my talks using QuickTime on my Mac."

This is really true, and really good advice. Organizers have a lot on their hands leading up to a conference, and, after, getting recordings posted languishes until they manage to recover enough of their personal lives to start ramping up for the next.

I've had several instances where I've given a talk, been very happy with the response, and then realized that I had no way to share it with a wider audience except trundling off to the next conference. Next time, I'm making my peace with a screen recording app.
> There is hardly anything as destructively polluting as nuclear waste.

Oh really? Fly ash is much worse, since it's also radioactive, and there is a LOT more of it. The pollution sent up smoke stacks is also much worse since it's actively spread to people, and there is a lot of it.

In contrast nuclear waste is very small, and stays far away from anyone.

> they drive it around on rails every couple of years.

A pollution source that can be shipped on rails? And you only need to do it every few years? Does it get more ideal?

> When do you think that will happen?

Not for a long long time. Doesn't matter, in the meantime we'll just stick the nuclear waste somewhere where there are no people.

> Yes. Really.[1]

Did you actually read that link yourself? I did - it sounds very low risk to me. Why would you link to something that supports my position?

> Ah great, relativism, always enjoy that coming up.

I'm glad you enjoy that since that's exactly what we are talking about: "Relatively speaking, since none are perfect, which energy source is best?"

> Yup, and I'd rather NOT pick the one were we put money into a dead-end technology that has the potential of devastating pollution at worst and hardly solvable storage problems at best and instead invest that money in technology that will actually be of use in the future and for the rest of mankind.

And I'd rather not spend money on technology that doesn't work, probably can not work, and definitely is terrible while we wait. Instead of the "potential of devastating pollution" you have devastating pollution right now - and you just want to ignore that? I'll take potential over actual any day.

Renewables will be of no use in the future since they can not ever produce enough energy. It doesn't matter how badly you want them to, they just can't do it. It's a dead-end technology. Nuclear power is not a dead end technology - it's the cleanest power we have, and more engineering can make it even cleaner.
Then using this logic, why only ban iPad purchase. Why not laptops, PDA etc. Point is that it is stupid to do what this particular apple store did. They assumed that just because the person spoke foreign, they are foreigners and not US citizens.
C's type system is a minefield. (and by extension, C++'s and Objective-C's) I've been bitten so many times by implicit signed/unsigned conversions and int-promotion that I'm now practically paranoid about the whole thing. Chars are promoted to int practically anywhere you use them for anything other than just copying, so if the compilers produce faulty code in those situations, there's no way you can win.

Oh, and speaking of chars: Objective-C's BOOL is really just a char. Yes, it's signed, and yes it gets int-promoted a lot. I dread to think how many bugs are lurking out there in Objective-C code because of that. I wonder if you could catch some of those by comparing the code generated by compiling with the usual BOOL = char typedef, and the same code but with BOOL typedef'd to _Bool (a real boolean type).
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"But my point is that I agree with Mark Zuckerberg that most of us will only have one really good business idea in our lives."

Not just ideas.

You need not only the idea but everything coming together at the right time including being able to team up with the right people, get money, and not to sound like a broken record, luck and the right timing.

At one point things get to the tipping point. With twitter it may have been the arab spring let's say. That might have been the point where non-techies and your aunt heard about it and it jumped some shark.
Anybody else completely lost on this?

There's really no explanation in the link.

I read the whole thing and have no idea why he's resigning, or even who he is or why I should care.

"Being President was a full time job in DC..." made me chuckle, though.
Not a lot of geniuses in Alpharetta, Georgia, it seems...
Any word on what the cost of this card will be?
At a school that large they need to defend why their leaving matters.
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The capitalization is important; in "UVa", the lower-case "a" refers to the last letter in the word of the preceding capital letter (i.e. the "a" in Virginia).

Trivia: Mozilla prefer that you abbreviate Firefox "FFx", not "FF".
I've always heard "prime number" defined to be greater than 1. WolframAlpha is probably just being crazy.

Wikipedia [1], and, more amusingly, Wolfram MathWorld [2] both agree with this definition.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number

[2]: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html
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"The VCs and media don’t care who wins and loses because they’ll still have jobs watching from the sidelines. "

Of course why not spread the bets over multiple companies and encourage risky ideas. We are all watching the football game but not suffering the concussions.
TLA namespace collision.
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Additional backstory for those not gleaning sufficient context from either the HN title or Bill Wulf's resignation letter (echoing another comment: more a resume than a list of wrongs).

From the Slate article below: On Thursday night, a hedge fund billionaire, self-styled intellectual, “radical moderate,” philanthropist, former Goldman Sachs partner, and general bon vivant named Peter Kiernan resigned abruptly from the foundation board of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He had embarrassed himself by writing an email claiming to have engineered the dismissal of the university president, Teresa Sullivan, ousted by a surprise vote a few days earlier.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_m...
Because nobody has RIM devices anymore. They aren't selling devices. Developers aren't jumping on the BB10 bandwagon. Several major executive shakeups, Plummetting stock prices, and again: no developer interest.
As someone who just retained legal help in this area, export control is not as simple as many of you make it out to be. An export happens when material ends up in the hands of a foreign national, whether it's inside the border or not. Businesses have an obligation to "know their customer" and look out for "red flags". I'm not an expert in this area. It's just as I have had to delve into it, it's nowhere near trivial or as easy to deal with as you might think. Oh and the fines for being wrong (even if you self report) can be very very hefty.
Repost& broken link.
WikiLeaks’ Assange Flees to Ecuadorian Embassy
>"We just don't know"

And when faced with insufficient evidence of extraordinary affairs we resort to the status quo: due process in light of a sexual assault charge. The conspiracy theory being invoked is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence that has yet to be forthcoming.
Warrantless wiretapping bill heads to full vote in Congress despite opposition
>"Concrete can take 4 weeks to get to 90% strength [1], so if you didn't do the prefab route you would have to spend more than 90 days just waiting for the lower levels to cure so that you could build the upper levels."

Concrete made with Type III portland cement achieves most of its strength within seven days (concrete made with normal (Type I) cement reaches its design strength in 28 days).

When one needs significant strength more quickly, the mix can be adjusted to provide a higher ultimate strength than is required for the intended loads during the normal life of the building and accelerants added . This results in adequate capacity for construction to continue in as little as a few hours.
Wow, Platige Image has really knocked it out of the park with this. Kinda reminds me of the awesome work they did on their short film "The Cathedral". I still remember being in awe of that when it was at siggraph years ago.

It would be incredible to see this done to Dresden as well, another city that was absolutely decimated by the war.
Did I miss something or did it exclude the cost of the table upon which the lack table is sitting on?
^ In the above, I meant CHAR_MAX instead of INT_MAX. Oops!
Greed is not the culprit of the euro crisis
> It's remarkably straight-talking for a press release

It was? They didn't even address the huge issue that it was Linus, the guy who created Linux, exacting the criticism.
"The answer from CodeSchool was that they just assume students have the knowledge going into a course to tie up any loose ends and that it was intended that they'd have to do some research on their own. Yeah, no thanks."

I actually find that doing some research on your own encourages an active learning model, which really pays off in the form of better retention/understanding of the material.

It seems that the younger generation's culture of passively consuming large amounts of content has really hampered the ability for meaningful learning.
The Federal Law says nothing about selling to a person who has no intention of bringing the item back to Iran, but simply has either a Farsi accent or was born in Iran. There was no mention of an Apple policy that requires its employees to ask "What is your citizenship?", but instead automatically assume nationality based on the comment "I'm from Iran." If the onus is on the consumer to clearly state his citizenship, then shouldn't there be a sign that lists the legal conditions of purchase?

I am most bothered by the fact that the Apple rep recognized Farsi and inquired further. So is it pure coincidence that the Apple rep knows Farsi or is every Apple retailer trained to recognize Farsi? And even if the Apple rep recognizes Farsi and inquires further, what if the consumer lies and says "no, I'm speaking Hindi", then what? Polygraph test? Bring in an interpreter? Call security to escort them out?

Apple is walking down a very slippery slope here.
Not that I'd be so aggressive, but why does that not belong here? Is it wrong to suggest that a criminal is a "scum-bag"?
If you use green text on a black background you are an idiot.
Hmmm. How to explain? OK. Here it goes:

I think you are a a stupid asshole. Fuck you! Your work is stupid. Your ideas are stupid and the choices your made are stupid.

Of course, I don't mean that at all. Not even for a microsecond. Now think about how you would have felt if my reply to your post contained that. And if I meant it.

Would you be inclined to have a conversation with me? Or work with me? Or attempt to find common ground? Or even have a discussion where we could continue to disagree yet still be able to explore each others' mental space?

Probably not. There is no excuse in my book for being a jerk in almost any context. No matter who the person might be or their prior and current accomplishments.
I can see both sides of this...but as somebody who might be looking to move between cities and verticals I honestly have no idea what kind of salary to ask for.
He is accused of sexual misconduct, some of which does carry possible jail times similar to, say, shoplifting. His continued refusal to stand trial is unlikely to play well to the court, but had he simply faced trial he would probably be out already even if he had been convicted.
I've been doing the "desk on a desk" setup for 4 years. I use double-sided tape to keep it in place at it works fine. And mine is a real cheap solution -- scrap wood from my basement.

http://i.imgur.com/yDagv.jpg
> The mere sale of export-controlled material to a foreign person is prohibited.

Let me get this straight.. you're saying if an Iranian, a Cuban, or a Libyan person walks into Walmart and buys a $300 Windows PC with Bitlocker on it, that Walmart has committed a Federal crime?

That's insane.
I'm confused by the embassy's statement.

Is an embassy really obliged to shelter any foreign national who might show up on the run from the law for a fairly prosaic [ahem alleged] crime? If I knock over a gas station can I show up at the Tanzanian embassy, say "Hi, I'm a political refugee" and hang around for long enough for them to process this claim?
Wow, this will be impressive if they can pull it off. The fact that BSB was able to construct a 15 story hotel in 15 days proves that it is indeed possible. Pre-fabricated construction is definitely the future, I love how the pieces seem to just snap securely onto the frame.

There will be sceptics, but China is probably the only real country innovating in the construction sector. That hotel is 9 magnitude earthquake resistant. It's a rare 100 year event that an earthquake ever gets past 5.6/6 on the Richter scale (the 2011 Japanese earthquake was a 9).

Seeing articles like this make me excited for the future.
No the article assumes you already have a desk at work, and the point is that you would only have to pay $22 to build a standing desk on top of what you already have - most companies will provide you a desk for free, after all.
If I had to fight an accusation of a rape I didn't commit, even if I was vindicated I'd end up destitute and homeless. Any reasonable person would evade these women's due process if they were in Assange's shoes, especially the innocent.
> Perhaps he should read Dale Carnegie's book or take a course.

The one about manipulation?

> Far more could be accomplished with nVidia or anyone else if the conversation was professional, civil and with a goal to understand both sides and attempt to find common ground.

Yeah, right. Should I point you to the online petitions made to convince nVidia to open source their drivers? Guess what was their result. Nothing.
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ah, didn't see that edit
Author here: I am also fascinated by this sense of certain numbers sounding prime (or more prime than others). For instance -- maybe this is just me -- I think 109 (the first winner) doesn't sound prime at all.

But 17! Yes! It can't shut up about how prime it is!
Which works if the confused new user knows enough about the problem to tag it accurately.

There are a lot of questions tagged openGL asking how to do file wildcards (to load images) or visual-studio about how to pass arrays to functions
The "fines for being wrong" can also include lawsuits when you inappropriately reject a customer because what your salesperson thought was Farsi turns out to be some Indian dialect because he's simply bad at recognizing languages and was recently reprimanded for his failure to recognize Farsi, so now he's more likely to commit a false positive due to paranoia. Good luck with that lawsuit.
Every time I hear this argument I don't know if to laugh or to cry.

Assange himself pointed out that it is much easier to be extradited to the US from the UK (which extradites to the US almost anyone for pretty much any reason) than from Sweden (that as far as i know very rarely if ever extradites to the US).

If he was really afraid of being extradited to the US, he would want to be in Sweden rather than in the UK.
I can assure you this setup is super stable. Even at this price, nothing wobbles. If you think about where the weight is in this setup vs. others. The only thing that shifts the balance from a 4 legged table is the keyboard shelf. If there wasn't a monitor on top of it, you might be able to push down hard on the shelf to tip the table, but I doubt it. With a monitor on a table, this thing doesn't move.

Put it on a solid desk and it isn't going anywhere. I'd bet that it's even more stable than the fredrik which has two skinny legs.
OpenGL ES is not designed to be OpenGL.

It has a different set of constraints. The point is to prune back the API for small devices - NOT - to make make migration of legacy code simple.

For sure it would be nice if it came with a client side library to emulate OpenGL to assist in migration where people dont care about foot print size or perf.

JWZ is a very smart guy and I respect his opinion, but he is coming from a narrow viewpoint and not considering the wider implications.

In my experience, backwards compatible APIs and languages are what makes development a pain going forward. This is not to say backwards compatibility should not be provided in some form - but ejecting it from the core is a sane decision.

Otherwise APIs and languages expand at an unfathomable rate. Imagine if every API or language you ever used had features both added and removed over time to make it a better language. Javascript without the bad parts for example.

An incremental only approach to design is non-design in my view.

Evolution both promotes and retires ideas.
It depresses me that people are commenting on the issue without actually knowing what the investigation in Sweden is about.

I might be wrong but there is a slight difference between not wearing a condom and rape. I don't care if Sweden is calling consensual sex without condom rape. In Assange's case, he allegedly sabotaged his condom with one woman and allegedly refused to wear a condom with another one but he did not have sex with them against their will. Nobody can argue that because there are no signs of forceful sex.

IMO, this is crazy. There is no way of proving Assange right since only witnesses are two different women claiming similar accusations and the nature of the crime does not allow much evidence. It might sound like a crazy conspiracy theory (I take into account that even Canadian strategist called for Assange's assassination[1]), but somebody might be paying these two women (or threatening them) to lie in the court.

[2] http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=13391
Speaking of which, is OpenGL ES 3.0 supposed to launch this year?
Much respect to JWZ, but I don't agree here. I am not even sure what to say, except that he is wrong, so I will just leave it there. And no, I was not involved in anyway with GL ES specification.
My recollection was that Assange chose to be a figurehead to allow the other wikileaks members to remain anonymous. If that's true then it's been a superbly successful strategy.
There is a difference in doing things overtly and covertly. If they are doing it covertly they will probably think it through a lot more carefully, since the stakes are higher. And if some things that were previously done covertly but are now done overtly, it doesn't sound so far fetched that other things that were earlier not done at all are now done in secret.

EDIT:speling
Not that irrelevant... it is just another side to the general corruption and outright gangsterism that often characterises the modern UN. They also voted to legalise the execution of homosexuals only recently. http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/un-general-assembly-vot...

[edit] The US abstained - http://usun.state.gov/briefing/statements/2010/151133.htm
I can only tell you my experiences which might or might not be relevant since restaurant culture in the UK and the US is quite different to begin with.

In the UK there isn't so much the mid range large chain restaurants outside of a couple of chains which largely cater to the office lunch-time crowd (such as Itsu or Nandos type places), the possible exceptions being Pizza Express, Cafe Rouge, Strada and Carluccios which are well positioned in both middle class residential areas and office areas for both the sit-down lunch crowd and the evening casual dinner crowd.

I would say that the mainstay of midrange dinning is almost certainly the upmarket pub or gastropub which are often independent or semi-independently managed (they might be affiliated with a larger brewery chain, but the chain doesn't dictate things like the food they serve), and they're the sort of places which would most like to keep in touch with their customers. The bulk of their customer base is almost certainly pretty local, and has already expressed a willingness to spend money their, and being local they're also easier to entice back in with special offers.

A fairly good example would be my local which was launching a new menu back in November of last year. To trial their menu they sent an offer out on their mailing list offering a free dinner (starter and main, not including drinks) from their new menu to anyone on the list who made a reservation during that week. While it clearly cost a not insignificant amount of money to run a promotion like that (probably equivalent to $50 per head were they charging menu prices) it also gained them practice in preparing their new menu, high quality feedback on the new menu, and a certain degree of loyalty towards the establishment as a whole. The later in particular is no mean feat for the area in which I live which is both affluent and quite foodie.
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> The US would be happy to volunteer a few if it's a question of manpower

How many times? This is nothing to do with the US. This is a UK-Sweden extradition of an Australian citizen. If the US DoJ ever gets off its ass and decides to press charges against Julian Assange (they've been sitting on their hands for a couple of years now) it's not gonna do it via some subtle cloak-and-dagger six-country shuffle, it'll just show up with a letter that says "o hai extradition plz".
I am going to try to build one of these. Thanks for sharing this!
Alternately, you can sit down and take a break. The need for that will happen less as you get used to standing.
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