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SML.

I remember at CMU, the sophmore level programming language theory course (the name escapes me, it was 15-212) was wildly different than anything I had done before. All programming courses one took up to that point were the normal intro level courses that most passed out of and a data structures/algorithms course. Sitting down the first day and being introduced to SML along with language constructs with no analogue in the programming languages I knew was tough. I struggled for about a month, much like I imagine many do when learning about pointers: you may be able to do some of the work, but you don't have a proper conceptual model to be able to reason about it. All of a sudden, after re-reading the material from the beginning, everything just clicked. It was probably my favorite undergraduate CS course from then on.
Nice to read that somebody actually cares about the permissions they ask and provide a careful approach to asking the user the appropriate permissions when needed.
> reading PDF files, because my it's far superior to my e-reader

What app(s) do you use for reading PDF files? None of the solutions I've used so far seem particularly suited (remembering last position, easy search/scrolling etc).
Another definition[1] of prime in an arbitrary ring is

p is prime if and only if p|ab implies p|a or p|b

which is equivalent to the prime ideal concept. Interestingly, these definitions mean that 0 is actually a prime in Z!

As explanation: the only number 0 divides is 0, and Z is an integral domain[2], i.e. ab = 0 implies a = 0 or b = 0, thus 0 divides at least one of a and b if 0 divides ab.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_element
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_domain
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Animators have used motion control rigs for decades, they had the same range of motion but were optimized for extremely slow but the incredibly accurate registration required for repeated animation shots. The lightness of contemporary cameras also is a significant advantage.
Yes, but this evidence does not necessarily say very much about language and the relationship between language and thought. For example, if a culture does not teach their children to swim and therefore the culture at large does not know how to swim, those people could still swim, albeit slowly. Does this say anything about their bodies? No. If some sort of conditioning by one's culture is required to distinguish colours (which seems to be the case), this is very interesting, but it says very little about language.
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Android tablets don't have to be competitive with iPad to be a viable market.

I mean, a game company with $50 million in iPad revenues isn't going to turn their nose up at $5 million of Android revenue, especially if they figure the ROI for porting is fairly high.
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I do not like Android tablets for the simple reason that the web browsing experience on them is sub par. In my mind a tablet is a luxury item that sits on a coffee table and answers my questions of "what movie was that actor in?" or "who's leading the AL Central?" whenever I want, without any fuss. The iPad is very good at this, while every Android device I've ever used has not been.
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I dunno. My first response was "In other words four proposals to allow countries to do what they are already doing, and one to remove one country from administering large parts of the internet...."

I don't think it is all that bad. It's not like China needs the UN's permission to censor......
"Hollywood, meet Detroit." <-- I'm pretty sure that doesn't have the implication in my mind you wanted it to have. :)
Upgrade to a 13" MBP. I love my 13". I let my wife use it since I have a 15" quad core i7 and the 13" is only a core2duo.

It should be plenty compatible with Ubuntu. Put a solid state in there and 16gb of ram and you'll be a happy developer.
Javascript. I've learned the basics of SML and Ocaml, and a bit more than basics of Haskell, but I just can't bring myself to learn how to use JS effectively.

More generally, I find it hard to learn how to do GUIs and pretty web pages.
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Hi Brian,

I was looking forward to see your presentation in SpainJS next month, but I might not be able to make it.

Is there any of your roy talks online or any gentle introduction to roy besides roy.brianmckenna.org?
Just like Abu Ghraib is ust another side to the general corruption and outright gangsterism that often characterises the modern US, right?

I don't know how much you can read into things. In war, you usually have the bad guys and the worse guys. If you put a good person in a war zone he or she will do bad things.
That's true, but firing one person can also cause surprisingly large problems for morale, depending on the person and circumstances. The classic case is the underproductive but friendly and intelligent person who has a good rapport with everyone in the office, good answers/comments in discussions with coworkers, willingness to do miscellaneous odd jobs and help people out, etc. Axing that person can depress the mood around the office and cause others to view management as harsh, especially if they had a higher estimation of the person's productivity than management did.
For huge swathes of the population the iPad has become their main device.
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This reminds me of the book I just started reading that talks about randomness in our lives.

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives : http://www.amazon.com/The-Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules/dp...
They actually appeal to the older generation - judging from some of my family members (the over 60s.) My Aunt uses her iPad oddly enough as a camera more than anything - she loves the way she can easily show off what she has taken. Before than she owned a Dell laptop - which was occasionally used for Email now it just gathers dust.

My uncle has both an Android tablet and an iPad and an iMac! He seems to be quite fond of the droid. I don't know his reasons why. He's not tech savvy in anyway - he can barely install an App on his Mac.

And I think the appeal as a desktop replacement is that they are easier to use. But both could be far better.

Neither care for smart phones.
Oh, not on the official site. I don't think that page is updated in real time, so the vote counts would be off by quite a bit for the hottest questions on each site. You might find an app on http://stackapps.com/ that uses the API though.
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The questioning relates to exposing a woman to bodily fluids against her will, creating in her the risk of disease or unwanted pregnancy.

She may have agreed to sex given certain conditions, he (allegedly) wilfully broke those conditions. There may or may not have been coercion involved but rape is a good shorthand description and there are serious questions to answer and serious charges to be laid if he cannot provide good answers.
It would be great if there were a link to a primer on control and how it differs from ownership and how it is calculated.
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Hmm. One funny thing is that VVD, one of the parties in question, is generally labeled as “conservative-liberal”. Your average American con would probably suffer a mental breakdown when trying to sort it out. (I'm conservative myself, by the way, whatever that might mean here in Russia.)
It's an interesting competitor for Mark Robert's Milo. Smaller slider/dolly and pan/tilt companies come out of the woodworks right now and are very popular accesories, there're even a couple of small open-source shops in the industry. Obviously none on that scale though. (Dynamic Perception, eMotimo, etc.)
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> It was only a small vocal group that complained about us asking for too many permissions, but they absolutely had a point.

Nice to see you acknowledge this. Too often the "small vocal group" of experts is put in the same category as a bunch of troublemakers.
I use the paid version of ezPDF reader. It's 5 bucks or something . I'm a pretty basic user when it comes to reading, but it definitely remembers your position, has a decent search functionality, and allows me to make easy annotations as well as far more features than I use.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re...

For reading comics (another awesome use case for the tablet) I'm using Perfect Viewer:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rookiestud...
He is complaining about wanting to ask off-topic questions, which is exactly what you denied was in the article.
Wow come on guys. Atrix wins. Geeks know atrix wins.
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I can see that checking your email would be fine on a tablet or phone, but composing an email must be something of a nightmare?
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COM/XPCOM. Go dig into the Mozilla codebase.

Also, another vote for CSS. Mostly because its so hard to debug and figure out what exactly is making your page look like shit. Add to that varying browser support. Its hell.
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If you want some explanation that probably fits with your biases, this might be responsible for some part :)

Warren Buffet, 2009 http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf

The second reason that manufactured housing is troubled is specific to the industry: the punitive differential in mortgage rates between factory-built homes and site-built homes. Before you read further, let me underscore the obvious: Berkshire has a dog in this fight, and you should therefore assess the commentary that follows with special care. That warning made, however, let me explain why the rate differential causes problems for both large numbers of lower-income Americans and Clayton.

The residential mortgage market is shaped by government rules that are expressed by FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Their lending standards are all-powerful because the mortgages they insure can typically be securitized and turned into what, in effect, is an obligation of the U.S. government. Currently buyers of conventional site-built homes who qualify for these guarantees can obtain a 30-year loan at about 5 1⁄4%. In addition, these are mortgages that have recently been purchased in massive amounts by the Federal Reserve, an action that also helped to keep rates at bargain-basement levels.

In contrast, very few factory-built homes qualify for agency-insured mortgages. Therefore, a meritorious buyer of a factory-built home must pay about 9% on his loan. For the all-cash buyer, Clayton’s homes offer terrific value. If the buyer needs mortgage financing, however – and, of course, most buyers do – the difference in financing costs too often negates the attractive price of a factory-built home.

..

We have tried to qualify more of our customers’ loans for treatment similar to those available on the
site-built product. So far we have had only token success
Hey Thibaut!

The way I see it, there's a time and space for both. "side products" require much more upfront time investment than "side projects" (market research, competition evaluation etc). It depends what one is looking for at the moment: is it a potential business? (->side product) or exposure to a new technology to help you grow as a developer? (->side project).
Control is obviously closely linked to share ownership, in the sense that where ownership is over a certain threshold you will be able to exercise a much greater degree of control than below that threshold. For example, the 51/49% split, but also, in the UK, where you have power of veto over major decisions requiring a special resolution with 25% or more.

However, I would be interested here to understand how two people with different shareholdings are able to exercise equivalent levels of control (again on the assumption that each share attracts one vote).

This assumes that control is being assessed on a pure basis without taking into consideration the psychology at play between different shareholders.
There is empirical evidence that what you suggest is true. Almost every single successful entrepreneur who goes on to start another company does it by raising money from others rather than investing their own.

If they were confident in their skill and outcome they would plow in their own $40M rather than raise it from XYZ Partners again.

I was told by an early mentor that entrepreneurs should never risk their own money. I don't know why, especially if you believe success in startups is a skill.
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I agree. The division is stronger. Well, the only reason why people build native apps is because it is faster to build native apps. Even when HTML5 is completely published, if you have to write a game on the browser, it can take forever to actually find out the bug you have. Browser bugs are not fun to learn!

Chrome will die, and replaced by Android. Google can't have both.

I don't give a damn about these electronics anymore. I use my iPad for video and books, and my computer for gaming and everything else. I say the new MS tablet will be more convenient to use...
I appreciate the portability part of the article. For me an iPad is too large. The Playbook looks like a better size. I'm hoping that the new Google tablet betters the existing offerings.
I have a Galaxy Tab that I use every day around the house. --For simple web browsing in front of the TV or in bed, playing music, simple games, reading PDFs away from my computer, and occasionally for pleasure reading (usually I prefer using the Kindle).

And if Safari Books Online would get off their asses and release their damn android app, I would use it even more often (their mobile site is crap on an android).
That's what I thought. However, I like the keyboard on my iPad. For 5 line emails, it is absolutely fine for me.
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I did not know this. Thanks for the reply.
I was expecting comments on the same stories from hn and reddit. Is this just a split view of hn and reddit front pages?
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But was that intentional design or just a happy accident and was that "feature" recoqnized as such and institutionalized?
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I disagree completely. I wrote this comment about a year ago and it's still true today. A few details have obviously changed, but I still love my iPad 2 and use it several hours per day. Here's the comment:

"The iPad is a tool and toy you might not need, but if used to the max it'll probably enhance your life in some noticable way.

Every single morning, while sipping coffee and waiting for my omelette to finish cooking, I catch up on the latest news through Reeder, the first RSS reader I've actually enjoyed using. I also check my mail to see if there's anything important I need to respond to right away.

When I'm finished eating and catching up to the latest news, I grab my iPad and go upstairs for my exercize. While doing strenght training I use my iPad to quickly make a note of how many reps and how much I lifted. After I'm done with my strength training, I take a run either outside or on my threadmill. If I take the run on the threadmill, I'll use the iPad for watching a video, maybe South Park or TED.

After I've showered, groomed, brushed my teeth and flossed, it's time to start working. When I work my iPad is always lying on the desk next to my laptop. I use it for:

* Displaying my ToDo-list (the Hit List)

* Displaying the email I'm working on.

* Displaying some relevant notes to the work I'm doing (Evernote).

* Displaying a PDF or website containing documentation to what I'm working on.

* As an extra screen (AirDisplay) for Photoshop tool pads and similar.

* VNC or SSH to another computer

* The occational check of HN, Twitter or Facebook.

* Calculator

* Calendar (Week Cal HD)

Yup, everything I've mentioned could be done on a normal laptop. However, it's incredibly useful to have an extra screen for displaying relevant information that'll never be obscured by application windows covering the information.

After I'm satisfied with my work for the day, I might hang out with my friends, perhaps take a picnic in the park. My iPad is always accessible in my manpurse. If a customer has an emergency problem, I can quickly and easily log into their server and fix the problem (Textastic/Prompt). If I get a brilliant idea, I'll note it down in Evernote and analyse it with the Business Model app. Maybe I want to think deeply about my business - I'll just open Dropbox and read through some business documents about future plans or surf on some of my competitor's sites through Mercury Browser.

When I'm back home I might do some more work or chill out with some games. Perhaps I'll open Rage HD and have one of the most immersive and physically exhausting gaming experiences possible through the Virtual Window control mode.

Right before I go to bed, I write in my diary (Day One) and finish my TODO-list for tomorrow."
It sounds like you're talking about Ignite talks, which are a little different. An Ignite talk is five minutes long, but as you indicated the slides are on a fixed timer (20 seconds per slide). I absolutely agree that this is not a good format for beginners - Ignite talks are tricky even for very experienced speakers.

I was talking about regular lightning talks where you have five minutes but the format is otherwise completely free form - you don't even need slides, you can just talk. Sure, you still have to edit your talk down to fit the available time but that's a great thing for beginners to have to do, and preparing for five minutes is still easier than preparing for an hour (where it's easy to prepare too much or too little material).
When I read this headline, I interpreted it to mean Jack owns 28.3% of the shares, but that his class of shares has greater voting rights, and so he has 75% of the votes (a majority - similar to Zuckerberg).

However, that's not what the author means by "control". He means the chance that a shareholder vote goes Jack's way, under the very large assumption that every other shareholder votes independently at random.

That doesn't seem a very meaningful statistic, especially if there are other groups of shareholders with shared interests (for example VCs may be more likely to have goals in common, and would be likely to vote their shares on a big issue together.)
1. Madoff had a good reputation. He wasn't a random email from a person in another country.

2. Madoff's 'customers' mostly believed that he must be doing something not quite kosher, but they thought they could still make money off of it.
Academics is only part of university budgets. Other principal costs include housing, tuition assistance, administration, buildings, grounds, support services, and athletics. Not exactly sure how UVA divvies things up.
I think there is no long term solution to this if you already have a family (with children to care about): Day job, side project, family: it is too much, at least one of them will suffer. I don't see this as something that can be balanced, I see it as a temporary state. For me the long-term goal is to eliminate the day job by making enough money from the side-product.
Generally, it's simply a sliding scale of voting vs non voting stock. AKA each share of class A get's 10 votes, Class B get's 1 vote, and Class C get's 0 votes. Which is equivalent to A is 10 voting shares, B is 1 voting share 9 non voting share, and C is 10 non voting shares.

Note, none voting shares get the same percentage of the profits. And often there are conditions that transform A shares into B shares upon sale etc.
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The Surface has a kickstand. I'm sorry, but that's not what I'd call a design advance over either the iPad or any Android tablet.
Wow. Clicked a few and got; a guy selling wooden carvings of ships, a lodge resort in Oklahoma, and "Cafe Cokin is an Unofficial Cokin Filter System web site".

They don't make the internet like that anymore.
>"They actually appeal to the older generation - judging from some of my family members (the over 60s.)"

Absolutely. Look, I think tablets - and the iPad specifically - are technological feats. But outside of that wonder, for most people, it's a completely superfluous device. I mean, look at the author's example:

>"Apple knew it had a large group of customers out there yearning for a device that let them watch their iTunes content on a larger display without having to lug around a laptop."

Are there really a bunch of people sitting around saying: Well, I'm idle for the next 2 hours, with cell reception. I'll watch a movie. But a 4" high def screen won't cut it, and an 11" or 13" screen is too much. The 9" screen of my iPad is just right.?

It's sort of ridiculous.
I don't like the letter. He spent too much time talking about his "experience". Oh come on. It's like "dude I am a Nobel prize winner, and none of you have that title so I am right." I hate people giving that kind of resignation, regardless of their intentions.
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