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It wasn't the engineers, it was the architects.

Communist architecture followed the principles of communist architecture. Diversion from what the state thought was a good idea was highly un-recommended. The principles of communist architecture started off from a lot of high-minded platitudes about equality and national purpose, but in practice always translated to a monstrous block of filthy grey concrete with tiny windows that looks awful from a distance and only gets worse as you get closer.

It wasn't confined to the eastern bloc either, you can find plenty of horrible examples of a similar style dreamed up by western architects infected by similar principles; pretty much anything ugly, grey, concrete, and mid-century. They continue to blight our cities and (especially) our university campuses. But reconstruct a whole city in the same milieu, and you'll have Warsaw.
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doesn't it sound familiar? apart from the gooey ending and the google twist, i could swear i had read that - a story, with a bookstore, with that meaning and process - before.

[maybe this sounds catty, but if you had to write a pastiche of borges you'd probably come up with this, so perhaps two people simply hit the same idea....]
Yes, yes it should. ;) thanks!
Accusation of a crime is identical to accusation of any other crime. Doesn't matter what the Respective crimes are.

ACCUSATION is not guilt.
At the risk of having the Linus Torvalds fan-boys fire all missiles in my general direction I'll stick my head out and say this:

I can only admire the guy for what he has created and accomplished. He is, without dispute, a key figure in the history of modern computing.

And, he can be a real asshole.

I have not watched a lot of his talks, just a few. The two that stick in my memory is one at Google and the one where he, well, makes friends with nVidia.

In the Google case he tells people who are in the room that they are stupid. In the nVidia case he tells the entire company "fuck you". How unbecoming.

While I found both talks to be very interesting, as a professional, I don't take kindly to this kind of behavior. It really diminishes the person in my mind to the level of an immature kid. Sophomoric behavior and jokes have their place and time.

He seems to admit that he is not polite and that he found a need to be direct. OK. Armed with that information one ought to temper childish impulses to engage in that sort of name-calling. One can be very direct and firm in making points and voicing opinion without resorting to diminishing and talking-down to those you are addressing.

Here one of Mark Twains sayings is very appropriate: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

He should stop and think for a fraction of a second before verbally defecating all over his audience like that. He is and should be smart enough to understand the value of not being a jerk.

Perhaps he should read Dale Carnegie's book or take a course. 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.
Well, I'd keep an open mind at first. Maybe he had an accident or emergency - it happens. But... if that turns out to not be the case, I'd walk. I certainly wouldn't want to work with someone who clearly wasn't going to be available for me post-deal.
Color!

oh. wait...

;-)
Yes. Opera has that functionality built in where you have your personal stylesheet that typically overrides all website stylesheets. I couldn't find any built-in functionality for that on Chrome and Firefox, however, Stylish[1] has been around for a while and offers the functionality in a browser extension.

[1] http://userstyles.org/
The ideal iteration length, part 2
A fundamental problem is that university boards have an increasing disconnect from anything to do with merit, and a close enough connect to donating money (in two ways) that it's pretty close to just buying a seat. They're mostly made up some mixture of: 1) large donors to the university, who're appointed to maintain good relations, encourage future donations, etc.; and 2) for public universities, large political donors, who're appointed by governors, sort of in the way that ambassadorships often go to big political donors.

It's admittedly long been common for particularly large donors to be flattered a bit with some role, but over the past 10-20 years this seems to have gone from being a few members of the board, to being almost all of them, with very few members appointed primarily because of non-donation-related merit, like someone thinking they're actually good candidates for overseeing an academic/research institution. Note the lack of accomplished scientists on the board, for example. In addition, the political appointees seem to have decreased in quality: it was once more common to appoint someone who, while they were from your own party, was a late-career "elder statesman" type figure, e.g. a former governor or Congressman.

It's sadly not a partisan issue, either: if you look at, say, the University of California Board of Regents, you have a nice bipartisan mixture of big Democratic donors (appointed by Democratic governors) and big Republican donors (appointed by Republican governors). Their expertise is... not too relevant seeming, including such credentials as "former CEO of Paramount Pictures" and "husband of Dianne Feinstein".
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While I defended the practice below, I consider teaching to be a special case of public speaking. I have "presentation mode" and "lecture mode." There is a lot of overlap, but they're not exactly the same. In presentation mode, I will not stop everything and wait for someone to answer a question. When I'm presenting, I don't expect people to understand everything that I'm saying to the point that they can apply this new knowledge. I would like that, sure, but I think it's presumptuous to assume they would like it as well. Presentations are also often made to peers, and I don't like quizzing my peers in such a way.

In lecture mode, that's the entire purpose of my presentation, so I do it. I have no problem quizzing students in such a way - because if they can't answer the question, then I should change the focus of the lecture to make sure that everyone can before I move on.

Note that I am differentiating between quizzing and polling. I'll poll in both lecture and presentation mode.
Re: #2. Note cards are fine; the issue isn't "does the speaker have notes?" which no one minds but "is the speaker just reading his notes?"

A lot of great speakers will casually glance down at their notes and go, "Uhh.... oh yeah!" It's perfectly okay, because the point of a speech is not to look perfect, but to say something worth hearing.
It's linguistic profiling, and it's the only reasonable way to enforce the export law.

Only if you are being a completely stupid and bigoted bastard. Otherwise the only sane way to enforce an export law if you are a company, is to not deliver items to that country.

Everything outside that is up to governmental customs and border control and no court would enforce not selling IPads to Americans who are born in Iran and speak Farsi. Otherwise it is nothing less than apartheid.

The policy quoted states:

the exportation, sale or supply from the U.S. to Iran of any Apple goods is strictly prohibited without authorization by the U.S. government.

It does not say you are not allowed to sell them to people who speak Farsi, even if they were born in Iran. It just says that Apple is not allowed to send them out of the country. You could possibly also claim that you are not allowed to sell directly to current Iranian citizens, as they could be said to represent Iran, although this would still be reasonably open to question, especially if they have a green card, which are available to current Iranian citizens.
Some good places to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Domest...
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in general, I'd agree, but if you're interested in the subject matter of the article here, the podcast does cover some good tid bits about public speaking.

I guess I should have mentioned that the real meat of this show doesn't usually kick in until about 30% of the way through (which I could understand might annoy some people)...
I think consumers and Microsoft are smarter than you give them credit. I have zero doubt that these devices will be sold for exactly what they are. "Surface" for one ecosystem and "Surface PRO" for full Windows 8 software compatibility. It really isn't that complicated.

Time will tell.
Actually, in Jewish tradition, children are taught that the day begins at sunset. The justification comes from Genesis... "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

The Moon is not mentioned.
I think some credit has to be given to the Chinese for innovating in this area as well; it's not just safety/quality corner-cutting, though there might be some of that. The article notes the much longer time it took Dubai to build its similarly sized building, and Dubai is not exactly known for worker-friendly labor laws or European/American levels of workplace-safety regulations.
The innovations are primarily logistical not technological and in the end, lights in the ceiling are lights in the ceiling, not windows with a view of the weather or the city lights.
What's untrue about that statement? She is from Iran! Now she is a U.S. citizen.
A guide to the distinguishing characteristics of the Spanish spoken in Cuba should also be de rigueur for sales staff as well, lest an iPad slip into the hands of the Castros. I suppose that might be problematic in parts of Miami, but I guess you have to be willing to throw these kinds of freedoms under the bus to ensure that Cuban agents have absolutely no way to get their hands on our precious technology.
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I'm interested to hear more about the personalised video for every customer...
It's not particularly abnormal during rapid real-estate development cycles. The scale is unusual, but then again, China is the first country with more than a billion people.
i will never understand why twitter feels the need to add unnecessary complexity to it's product (and especially to it's @reply system)

note: to work around it, just start any reply with .@, fixes their fixes
No, the European Arrest Warrant requires an intent to prosecute. The specifics of the prosecution process (including how and when the prosecuted person is charged and what that means exactly) differ in each member state. As programmers would say, it's an "implementation detail".
How do you access the Control Panel under the Metro interface?
The Oatmeal reaches over 200K USD in donations. 7 days left to go.
From the linked article:

> ...throw out the gazillion-sub-site silliness and broaden allowed topics for discussion.
Unsurprisingly, there's a big spike at 17 since its well known to be the most random number.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/01/30/...
For an individual to be unwilling to face the law in a country they are not a citizen sounds completely rational to me

Rational, maybe. Ethical? Not so much. I don't like the idea of a world where people are free to rape and sexually assault with impunity provided that they are not at home.
I would assume that the right strategy here varies depending on how many other people are going to enter the competition.

Actually, a "guess how many people will enter this competition" competition would be fun.

What would be interesting now is to repeat the competition after publishing these results; in fact, make sure these results are given on the entry page for the new competition. What would happen this time? Well, a bunch of people would start picking numbers around 109 this time. Except everybody expects everybody to do that, so maybe they'll start picking lower. Meanwhile smartasses will still be picking "2", and smartasses who think they can outsmart those smartasses will be picking "3".
Drafting chairs work well - though it adds to the cost of the 'desk'.
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Previous discussion one and a half years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434057
* durations and points are commensurate

points in time are relative to some fixed point, and are (more or less) dimensionless. durations are not, and are (more or less) vectors. this has a couple consequences: durations are independent of epoch, while points aren't, and only certain types of math make sense with each.

basically, the only thing you can do with two points is subtract them (yielding a duration)--the rest of arithmetic (including addition) is meaningless. the only things you can do with a point and a duration is add or subtract them (yielding a point). you can't do anything at all with a point and a dimensionless scalar. the only things you can do with two durations is add or subtract them (yielding a duration) or divide them (yielding a scalar). the only things you can do with a duration and a scalar is multiply or divide them.

(personally i'd say that even the commutative operations shouldn't necessarily be commutative--i'd say point+duration->point, but duration+point->undefined--but that may be a bit too strict.)

as a quick rule of thumb, if your code would break if you changed epochs, it's already broken.
We can measure the distance to the moon accurately enough to determine it is getting 3.8 cm furhter from the earth each year, I'm pretty sure 10cm is well outside the margin of error for measurements of something as simple as a building.
It wouldn't have anything to do with him having admitted all matters of fact, would it? He's basically arguing, "yeah, I broke the law, but it's a stupid law." That always works out great.
Dubai (& Abu Dhabi) will not be happy about this. I guess they thought they would have the record for a while.
Thanks, shykes, it seems that my needs are just different for now, but I can definitely see how a larger company might go with DotCloud.
If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you are an idiot
Why do you think RIM is dead?
I've spent the last several months exclusively developing for the BlackBerry 10/PlayBook platform, and every time I read blog posts, or talk to people about it, I hear nothing but shouts about RIM being dead, and laughter about how I should develop for a real platform.

There was a BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour event in NYC, and a few blogs got some hands-on time with the Dev Alpha, running a very preliminary version of the BB10 OS.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/blackberry-10-hands-on-video/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter

If you look at the comments there, you'll see what I'm referring to. Admittedly, the video is quite dry and boring, but I don't understand how this translates to RIM being dead.

Open my eyes HN, let me know what you're thinking. Maybe I've drank too much of the Kool-Aid. Maybe you can rescue me.
The US would be happy to volunteer a few if it's a question of manpower. Britain would probably commit their own just to avoid that kind of situation.

It just doesn't sound like a good use of the officers' time.

They've had the guy detained without charge for 500-odd days. Facing some international criticism and generally looking like hypocrites whenever they want to criticize some other country for having political prisoners. The case has been through their Supreme Court and now there's yet another country involved in this international incident.

When I was in London last year there were helicopters circling continuously in some places. If Assange gives them the slip somehow, it's not going to be because the local police preferred to prioritize something else that day.
Thank you for the link. It makes a clear point: I'm not their demographic. They are going after businesses and not individuals. I still wonder how they compare proce wise vs heroku?
Here you go http://stackexchange.com/questions

Click the "Filtered Questions" link at the top to customize it.
Algoritmo para contar inversiones (Counting Inversions)
I believe China has significantly more union members than the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-China_Federation_of_Trade_U...
> I thought this was a business discussion - cost input vs. benefit output

It's not. It's a physics discussion: Energy produced vs pollution created.
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Here's the local Charlottesville paper, usually breaks stories sooner than the national press

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/
(a bit late with replying, sorry..)

The field is already well occupied by Samsung/HTC/Motorola. I suppose Android users care more about 'high-specs' than well done devices with more modest specs. Google would not have given specific help/subsidies to Nokia, but Microsoft does.

As I own a Lumia, maybe I'm too subjective: but I like the device/OS and expect WP to become more popular with time.
It's most likely this kind of code is encountered on embedded systems where you end up with smaller integers and things. This particular case I don't know if I've ever done it though.
"which was actually a spinoff of Evan Williams' second company."

I think (as I remember the story about this) he didn't believe in that idea enough to even want to keep the investors money. Assuming of course he was being truthful about his thoughts on the spinoff.
The Inuit snow thing is actually a common misconception and like you mention it comes from a difference in our understanding of what a 'word' is. The Inuit language typically uses suffixes to modify nouns. Also, the Inuit language can use one 'word' for what otherwise would be a phrase in English.

Wiki has more on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
To make the entrants feel smarter. The whole thing is, of course, completely isomorphic to a guess-an-integer competition, but the rather minimal effort you need to go to to figure out the Nth prime makes it all worthwhile.

Perhaps it also indicates something about which primes sound primest, though. 29 is an outlying underachiever, suggesting that "29" doesn't spring to mind when you ask someone to name a prime... certainly I had to think for a moment to make sure it really was a prime. 23, 17, 37 are overachievers -- these are really prime-sounding primes, no doubt about it.
Forget offense, it didn't make sense - it was a non-sequitur. I have not heard race or gender to be a factor in the current problem at UVA. (Yes, the fired president is a woman, but I have not heard anyone mention her gender as part of the firing.)
Obligatory Wikipedia article with everything you ever wanted to know about blue and green: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_...

For the remark about word genders, all I could find today was http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html... which doesn't include sources.

I'm sure I've seen a different article about it, though, because I've heard of a variation on the experiment where the subjects were people who had learned a non-English language as children, but then moved to America and had spoken English for 10+ years. Even though the entire questionnaire was given in English, people associated a physical object with attributes of its gender in the first language they learned as children.
Now to figure out how to fit a treadmill to it. I haven't seen a treadmill without a pedestal.
Soviet architects were Brutalism's predecessors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
What about negative primes? According to Wolfram Alpha:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-2+prime
I think the fact that we don't hear more about the serial successes and we can name them on one hand says something. These founders have everything going for them the second time around with being able to attract money and talent as two very important things to have. And even with that it seems at least from what I've read the the second time big successes are few and far between.
she is not brown but she is not white either. she is more like Olive.
This is not an 'experiment'. But please go on telling us that it is impossible, we'll get it done it even quicker. For an engineer, there is no better motivation.
To be clear, this isn't some random professor:

My wife (Anita Jones) and I are in Computer Science and we both hold the title University Professor — the highest rank at UVa. Of the 3300 faculty at UVa, roughly 13 hold that title.
Desks on top of desks never felt safe to me.

My recommendation (as it always is anytime these standing desk articles appear) is the Frederik from IKEA ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60111123/ ) Ok it's not $22 but I've picked up two now on special for less than $80.
That definitely gets the information across, the point of this deck however was to get more attention and standout rather than push information across. This approach seems standard and something we were going to do, but decided to go with a different experience.

Thanks for the feedback!
That was one of the questions I was wondering about. I recently looked at a new factory in the bay area of prefab houses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmpRRoNqsDI)and one of their claims is they can put up a house in 7 days. But of course it isn't that they start with dirt and 7 days later there is a house, there is a time to build the foundation, and the house is built in a factory, but once the foundation is ready and the house manufactured, it only takes 7 days to install and unfold it. Which is still pretty cool.

So one way this headline could be strictly true is if all of the floors of the building were fabricated off site, once they were ready the company might be able to assemble the final building, in a prepared foundation, in 90 days. That is the only interpretation I can think of that works.

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.

I am interested in what they are trying to do though, it sounds like an interesting challenge.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete#Curing
Is there any application built with Trigger.io? I must use a few applications built with a framework before giving it a try. I should see which UI components are out there and how they make feel.
This is a legitimate issue. We'd prefer to just have one canonical resource for each question asked. We do try to help Google out by merging duplicate questions together when we can, but with 3.5 million questions to review some topics can get out of control.
I'm willing to bet that despite what they said in the announcement, that the Surface models are based off of reference designs from Acer or Samsung. I think that'll come out at some point.

If Microsoft was really designing their own hardware and engineering prototypes, we would've already heard about it through the rumor mills.
Apparently he is inspired by the blind Chinese lawyer seeking asylum in US embassy.
Really? You back his politics one hundred percent?

"Julian was very reluctant to delete those names, to redact them." David Leigh of the Guardian newspaper tells FRONTLINE of meetings he attended with Assange in the run-up to publication of the war logs. "And we said: 'Julian, we've got to do something about these redactions. We really have got to.' And he said: 'These people were collaborators, informants. They deserve to die.' And a silence fell around the table."

This is David Leigh, an fairly reputable guy who runs investigative reporting for _The Guardian_, not exactly an institution known for cowtowing to the military industrial complex of the US. Do you think he made this up? I don't.