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Don't know how much this helps you, but from the PDF of the book on the page above:

This book is about the functional programming language Pure. Pure’s distinguishing
features are that it is based on term rewriting (a computational model for algebraic ex-
pression manipulation), that it provides built-in support for MATLAB-like matrices in
addition to the usual list and algebraic data structures, that it uses LLVM (the “Low
Level Virtual Machine”, see http://llvm.org) to compile source programs to fast native code on the ﬂy, and that it makes interfacing to C very easy.

On the surface, Pure looks similar to functional languages of the Miranda and Haskell
variety, but under the hood it is a much more dynamic language, offering an interactive
interpreter environment and metaprogramming capabilities more akin to Lisp. Pure’s
algebraic programming style probably appeals most to mathematically inclined pro-
grammers who need an advanced tool for solving problems in domains which can be
described conveniently in terms of algebraic models. While languages like Haskell and
ML already occupy that niche, we think that Pure’s feature set is sufﬁciently different
to turn it into a worthwhile alternative. In particular, Pure’s interpreter environment
and easy extensibility also make it usable as a kind of (compiled) scripting language
in a variety of application areas, including system, database, graphics and multimedia
programming.
Can I ask what kind of document or method of encryption you use for your passwords?
Your letting the truth get in the way of a good story!
Um...you ever heard of Windows CE and Windows Mobile? Neither has hardly failed or been aborted. Windows Mobile has a huge market share for mobile phones, and CE has a decent share of the netbook market.
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"There is a down-side to IRC which should be kept in mind. Over time, the people who will be most active in IRC will tend to be people whose only contribution to your project is being active in IRC. This is not necessarily a good thing."
I'm also skeptical. As I recall the GPL only requires source code to be made available to someone who has been provided the binary; ie in effect MS would only have to make source available to their customers if asked, there would be no requirement to make it available to the community at large.

Last time I checked, e.g., Windriver was only making available their linux patches to customers who had purchased their embedded linux flavor, citing precisely this interpretation.
The deal with the Lightcycles is that over the past 20 years it's become the most recognizable aspect from Tron. It's one of the few things that can give you a large view of the Tron world in a short amount of time and without getting too indepth. That's why the director chose to showcase that in a VFX showcase to get the job; it charts very high on the "WOW"-meter
...and the fact that GCC's monolithic architecture was designed explicitly to make it difficult for separate processes to interact with it, access intermediary representations, or incrementally compile. Probably the best example of GPL wankery there is.
Actually, I believe his point is that the probability distribution is from the Cauchy Distribution, where the mean, the variance, and the kurtosis are all undefined. In fact, you're providing an example of exactly what he writes about in believing that the tools being taught in "freshman econometrics" apply to the sort of randomness you encounter in the real world. Certainly Mandelbrot has had some things to say about this topic as well.

When basic financial tools and theories are based on assumptions that are Just Plain Wrong, it makes you question the gigantic stack that has been built on top of them.

It's easy enough to dismiss this stuff as worrying about edge cases, but these edge cases occur more often than the theory dictates, and unfortunately, people underestimate their impact.
Really? Why would they do that?
so who's updating this? http://twitter.com/whitehouse
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I feel like you're being sarcastic, but regardless:

It comes down to scarcity. A physical paper is a good. You're not buying the news, you're buying a paper. People buy cable subscriptions because there aren't any good free alternatives.

But news on the Internet? There are _thousands_ of places to get that. And most of them are free. The Times and the Post don't have enough added value to justify the cost.
Since cable was mentioned, it got me thinking. Is there no service in the US that will provide you cable TV channels over the internet? ...Okay, after searching, there seems to be backspace.tv which is sketchy as anything. Anyone heard of this? Does this happen in other countries?

A custom-picked lineup for $20-$30 a month over Boxee or a Slingbox or a Roku/Netflix box, etc. would compare well to $50-$60 plus endless taxes for channels you never watch and a clunky set-top box. Maybe you could start with sports or foreign channels to avoid vertical collusion problems from channel providers.

Okay, but maybe we should wait until Verizon rolls out fiber optic to more of the USA before cutting them off at the knees like that. They are depending on everyone to buy overpriced TV service to pay for all that fiber, after all.
Regulating is one thing. Throwing someone in federal prison for two years (with a maximum possible sentence of 15) is a bit much though.

There's a difference between storing and shipping sodium improperly and dumping dioxin in a river, and the two should be treated differently.
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Ah, the old media will be dying sooner than I thought.
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They would not pay because by and large the content on the sites in question is available elsewhere in one form or another for free.

That doesn't indicate that the readership are "freeloaders" (which implies they're somehow taking advantage of the newspapers generosity) — that's people deciding they'd rather not give away their money.

It's a value proposition - the newspapers who do not make money on the web do not offer something unique to their readership and hence their advertisers.
This is not an interesting post. The OP on Leah Culver's site is one of the most ridiculously obvious things ever written on the web; a "definition" of AJAX? Really? She offers no insightful commentary (linking to Wikipedia).

Every post on her blog is a cleverly (but not that cleverly) disguised self-promotional stunt. I've never seen somebody on the web so obsessed with herself. Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers?

If somebody wanted to post about the "Comet" PL to YCN, they could have just posted the link to the Wikipedia article and started a discussion about that.
I've had enough of this real-time web silliness. Threading and networking on the client side is exactly what it seems. "Real time" is something entirely different than a client-server metaphor, which is all this browser thing has ever been.

The difference? Real time applications run discrete logic on bare metal and have sub-millisecond response time. Web applications that use multiple data sources with short update periodicity is what it says on the tin.

As many HN links hint, REST = CRUD, AJAX = TCP/IP and what was old is new again.

However, while the future may look like a cheaper IBM-style mainframe-to-the-world thing, it just looks like web services via vendor lock-in to me. Like a low-rent version of SUN's old slogan.
It's one thing to only be compatible with one device, but it's an entirely different matter to actively prevent other devices from working. I'm pretty sure no other camera companies are trying to get their cameras to work with Nikon Capture.
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If the front end and back end can be separated cleanly, then a company could put their proprietary compiler back end behind the GCC front end without violating the GPL. Stallman has always worried about things like this; his objections to virtual machines have a similar basis.
I'd love to be able to pick a couple channels (Discovery, History Channel, SciFi[1]) and pay for them as online streams. I have no use for 60+ channels; I only like a few.

[1] "SyFy", I guess now, which just seems strange.
You might start with wikipedia - it's surprisingly good for introductions to mathematical computer science ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_rewriting

The "see also" includes JIT compilation and lambda calculus, for some applications.
You're right about him preferring a Cauchy distribution vs. a leptokurtotic distribution, I was mistaken.

Taleb argues that these tools aren't being used in the real world, but all the evidence in places like the options market seems to indicate otherwise: options get way more expensive (from a lognormal perspective) the deeper in/out of the money they are, primarily because there are fat tails already being modeled into the price. And given that options market data, it's tough to see how going long on Black Swans will fetch a good Sharpe ratio--which wouldn't be the case if it were true that everyone were slaves to normal distributions.
When are we going to see Paul Graham on the Charlie Rose show?
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I strongly agree that all laws passed by congress, the states and smaller jurisdictions should sunset. I don't think that should include the constitution, in original or amended form.

I have a few nitpicks about your examples though:

Copyright and patent laws might be different if they had to be renewed. I suspect there's a good chance they'd be worse based on the sort of laws that have been passed on the subject recently.

There have been credible movements in several states to rethink the war on drugs. They usually don't get the results you might want though. As an example, after Alaska's supreme court struck down the state's ban on marijuana, the voters put a new one in place (which was also struck down).

Small arms are very useful in modern combat, especially in a rebellion where it isn't desirable for the government to level an entire city. Asymmetric warfare works, and small arms are helpful for capturing more powerful equipment.
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There are effectively no FOSS alternatives. A few groups have toyed with making their own C compiler; some in the BSDs were toying with I think lcc, and I've seen reference to tcc. The thing of it is GCC is very mature and quite good at what it does, and neither lcc nor tcc are much more than toys. They won't make this mistake, but that's because they do next to no optimization anyway. GCC makes the occasional error--all compilers do, and I don't expect this bug to survive the next point release.

This hasn't always been the case--GCC did have a crappy register allocator once upon a time, and it didn't do a variety of SSA-based optimizations once upon a time, and a lot of these complaints ultimately date back to those days. Pre-egcs there was a lot more talk about replacing GCC, but now that it has actually been actively maintained and developed that seems to have largely dissipated.

LLVM is no real answer. It currently uses a GCC frontend. Clang, which I think is what you were referring to, is not intended to replace GCC's optimization layer, which is what's causing this problem.
I haven't gotten an iPhone because it doesn't have a physical keyboard. And I never will.
I'm kinda wondering myself whether constitutional amendments should be included or not, and whether it should only be criminal laws or civil ones as well. On one hand - yeah, if amendments could sunset, the bill of rights would probably be toast the first time there's a crime wave. But then all the laws enacted by the crime wave would themselves sunset, and if it's become a problem, they could reenact the amendment.

OTOH, the purpose of the Constitution in general and the Bill of Rights in particular is so that one group of people cannot gain the power they need to prevent other people from gaining power. And if amendments themselves sunsetted, that would most likely occur, and the disenfranchised groups wouldn't even have a vote next time they came up for vote. So in that light, perhaps amendments should stay regardless.

I still think that the 2nd amendment should definitely be reinterpreted in terms of the laws it allows or doesn't allows. It was intended to prevent the government from gaining too much power by preserving the right of the people to overthrow it by force of arms. In a world of tanks, planes, and nukes, the people no longer have that right anyway. Instead, the 2nd amendment has been recast as a way of preserving the right to kill other people, which works for the government as citizens become so concerned with protecting themselves from home invasions and petty criminals that they forget about the international invasions and grand crooks in Washington. IMHO, it should either be repealed or it should be interpreted to apply to classified information as well, so that the citizenry has the right to build their own nuclear bombs.
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"Pure’s algebraic programming style probably appeals most to mathematically inclined pro-grammers"

False. It appeals to mathematical simpletons like muhself.
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Yes, I was thinking it was likely that people dropped out after not getting any benefit from it - like your experience, and there are many ways that it might not deliver a benefit for some people, including manufacturing defects, not being able to calibrate and/or connect it, not being comfortable with the shoe itself etc. They seem to be reading an explanation into the data, which sounds plausible, and is impossible to refute if that's all the data you have.

A little data is a dangerous thing.

BTW: I assume by "off by a minute", you mean the time component of the pace ratio (time/mile) representation was off by a minute, not that its measurement of time was off by a minute. I'm not down with the joggin jargon, so that was confusing for me.
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The problem facing the newspaper industry is a similar problem facing the airline industry. It is one reason why the airline industry has had terrible economics since Kitty Hawk.

At first, the newspaper business model was this: there were many competitors, and each competitor faced a mix of fixed costs (staff, printing facilities) and variable costs (paper, ink, delivery). All was fine, because nobody would give away product that had real cost associated with it.

But then the variable cost disappeared. No more paper, no more ink, no more delivery. Suddenly, the only thing left was fixed costs. And all the competitors realized they could start undercutting the next guy, while still making some infinitesimal incremental profit on each viewer. Of course, that incremental profit does not amount to enough to pay for all those fixed costs (staff) that still exist. And hence the problem we have today.

Airlines face the same problem. Fixed schedules and a low cost per incremental seat. So there are always price wars going on to "buy" seats from competitors. But then they can't make up for their fixed costs, and they go out of business.

Without the introduction of variable costs into web content, the newspaper industry will resemble the airline industry: it will rarely make money, and, on net, probably destroy most shareholder dollars invested in it. People will keep talking about erecting pay walls, or fixing the system, but there will always be the next guy who will be willing to provide the same thing for free to grab all those viewers.
"Term rewriting and all that". It's not easy going, however; make sure your category theory and universal algebra are top-notch before touching the burgundy book.
Honestly, I'm pretty damn sure 10 years from now my ISP subscription fee will include a bundling of access to websites. It will be AOL all over again.

The problem with subscriptions is the way they're implemented now, not that people find them fundamentally unappealing. It's just that, when I run up against a pay wall for a specific story as I try to click through to it, I don't see the value proposition in subscribing to the entire website. I just want my damn story, and I'm not getting it. That is just frustrating.

Back in the day that AOL was a walled garden with custom content, the value proposition for signing up was simple. They did all the work of making sure content was available just to you, and you handed over your subscription fee to one entity. Done and done. If AOL had been implemented as a hodge podge of pay-as-you-go islands of content, it wouldn't nearly have been as successful.
Not just buying them. I know of two different IT people (in two continents no less) who finally have the time to build their own little basement brewery :-)

There is something about programmers and DIY foods and beverages. A good friend of mine also became an "urban farmer".
"Incredibly, Congress has made it a federal crime to violate any fish or wildlife law or regulation of any nation on earth."

What? Does anyone know more about this? I can't find any info.
How about this for a reason to find this tactic objectionable: USB is a standard with a licensing body which mandates the acceptable USB protocol behavior of vendors that slap the approved USB logo on their product/box, part of the licensing agreement which Palm signed mandates that they supply their proper vendor id (in this case 0 × 0830 (Palm Inc.)) during negotiation. What Palm did was change the vendor id they were supplying to Apple's vendor id. Palm is in violation of a licensing agreement they willingly entered into. If they want to follow this tack they should at least be forced to remove the USB-compatible logo from their product and its marketing materials.
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I've heard this in quite a few places, RMS once quoted the reason we have an objective-c compiler is because people like apple to open source it to due to the architecture of gcc wouldn't let it be separate.
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Would you find some random guy using you SSN (or equivalent if you are not from US) obectionable?
Now that their party is out of office, they're going back to the woods as some sort of populist/anarchist pro-militia media outlet. Maybe they can grab a few of the mainstream anti-authoritarians in the process.
The European system is called Galileo:

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Many large corporations block those as well. Partially it's to prevent goofing off, but I suspect (especially in the White House) the main reason is documentation.

Pretty much all communications coming in and out of the WH have to be monitored and recorded - either at the summary level (sender/recipient/subject/date) or at the full-text level, owing to laws about public access and documentation in the National Archives. Interested parties can FOIA pretty much anything produced by an employee of the government; electronic communications are no exception. So until NARA can created a Twitter/Gmail/Facebook proxy - for which I wouldn't stay up waiting - I suspect they'll just keep blocking them.
Younger people(like me) are highly sensitive to prices, because they don't have a high paying jobs like adults do.
Who, exactly, does she think her audience is? A bunch of Diggers?

Bingo. I prefer a more pejorative nomenclature: Digg users are Duggalos
Digital projection systems are paid for by the theater owners, not the distributor. Then it becomes a chicken-and-egg problem.

Theaters won't install the expensive systems if there's no content to show on them, and the actual demand from filmgoers is still an unknown (i.e. does the improved quality and increase in available screens bring in more box office revenue?)

Filmmakers won't go through the trouble of digitizing and sending out the films digitally if there are no theaters to show it.
Yeah what you described is called the volatility smile.

I would say going long on Black Swans is more of an insurance policy unless you are a VC. As the Taleb advised Universa Investments L.P. sells itself as "an investment management firm that specializes in hedging tail risks for its clients. Universa has a focused investment approach employing positively-skewed payoffs, empirical and fundamental-based option valuation, and order flow trading."
When I was a teenager, and even when still in college, I had the same attitude, mainly because I had no money and I had lots of time (relatively speaking).

Now that I'm older I have a job, disposable income,
and responsibilities that take up my time. I also have an appreciation for the work it takes to create anything of quality. So I am happy to give these people money if they satisfy a need I have and they satisfy it well.

As a developer myself, I think it also has to do with the fact that I hope people have the same attitude towards my product and are willing to pay for my product if they find it useful to them.

A similar example is music - I used to pirate 100% of it, but now that I understand that there is a person and a struggle behind each track, I happily purchase songs from iTunes and Amazon just to support the artist and keep them motivated to do more.
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That sounds like the same strategies used by proprietary software companies who go through all sorts of loops to discourage uses that don't ideologically fit with them. Almost like Free's version of DRM.
I do too. I almost feel bad saying I agree with the Yamhead, but the more I read about HST and the wave of financial types claiming this is all perfectly legal just makes me angrier and angrier.

Without donning the tinfoil hat for too long, you gotta wonder if that source code Aleynikov tried to take away from Goldman was a smoking gun. I've never seen the FBI move so fast. When the hat comes off it's probably just one mechanic trying to take the toolbox to another garage.
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