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But seriously, if even the politically correct & good natured commenters on HN are unanimous in their hatred for Monsanto, you can be pretty sure it's a pretty despicable company.

Do I really need to point out that this is a logical fallacy?
Sorry you feel that way...I'm part of the career advisory board and hosted about 15 students every year to speak with execs at Bloomberg (on the tech side). I can assure you that if you want to get a job at google, etc, the career center is just as happy to help you and can make inroads there.

Would love to talk to you more about this...pcortes at wes....
My condolences on losing your flagging privileges, which I hope are eventually restored, but I wouldn't flag an actual news submission of interest to hackers, even if I find the topic over-submitted. I try to save flagging for blatant spam, of which there is plenty on the new page, and articles that fit the guideline that stories on politics or crime are not to be submitted if they are already adequately covered on the TV news. Steve Jobs is already mostly off the HN front page.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I imagine that if the generated CSS is gzipped the vendor prefixes compress well, since they are quite repetitive.
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Yeah, screw ethics! I can't criticize anyone for anything unless I've been in there position!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AL4yml3bw
This is just a bunch of made-up bullshit. I don't see why Apple is to blame for this author's active imagination.
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It is one of those companies, that is pretty well documented. From what I've read, Monsanto makes Walmart (and some others) look like angels. Just google for farmers committing suicide in India (especially from Andhra Pradesh). I also read an article about them threatening American farmers, can't remember where. I don't have any experience with them, but from what I've read about them, they seem very very very scary.
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That was Microsoft and IBM AFAIK.
That's some high quality propaganda you are spewing out there.

Tell me, since you obviously know so much about the worlds current problem with food.

Why is it that food production has gone up, yet the number of starving and hungry individuals throughout the world hasn't changed significantly?

The answer is there isn't a food abundance problem, there is a food availability problem. People don't grow crops and just give them away to the poor; the fact that monsanto has created genetically engineered foods that do things such as resist pesticides, so that large quantities of pesticides can be dumped onto crops without killing them, thus creating, "more food" because less is lost to pests, doesn't get any more food into the belly of starving people around the world.

In fact, the abundance of things like cheap corn around the world is one of the very reasons continents like africa can't ever seem to get on their feet; why would someone buy local african corn that's more expensive than cheaply grown american corn? Undercutting local economies with cheap food has not "feed the world" and does more damage than good.

Monsanto hasn't done a damn thing to allow, "the human population to grow while malnourishment shrinks", that's total absolute garbage.

I'd recommend you ask for more money from your monsanto employers, and if you don't work for them, maybe do some actual research into the company you are defending instead of spewing bullshit that looks like it's been copy pasted from a monsanto PR brochure.

Patenting genetics is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of, and you call this ambiguous? You are a fool.
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This article is almost as bad as the site it's complaining about.

The author complains:
Based on these criteria, Your Browser Matters seems to rate your browser regardless of how your settings are configured, or what operating system you're using.

Then he goes to show Firefox 7.0.1 on two different OSs with two different scores. Then says again that they're the same.

Furthermore, he doesn't raise any complaints about the tests themselves, just about the resulting scores.
> I don't regret a single moment of being associated with it

This is a human nature. It's very hard to admit you just waisted your time.
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A real solution would be to get rid of these things: forsake the extra computers, the wireless contract, food produced and distributed by soulless corporations, the fancy cars; join or start a local food cooperative, live in a housing co-op, support credit unions, and aggressively buy local - even if it means severe inconvenience.

Sure, that's one solution. But it depends on how you define the problem. The article here is rubbish and of no insight into any rational view of the problem (nor any insight into OWS). Indeed, the basic problem is very easy to express and comprehend: corporate control of government that results in socialism for corporate interests. That is the fundamental problem that has resulted in OWS. This is not new or shocking information. There is no big mystery as to the why's or what-for's of OWS.

Forsaking convenience items is certainly not required to "solve" that problem nor is it likely to have any impact on that problem (canceling a cell phone plan, supporting credit unions or starting a local food co-op will have exactly zero impact on corporate control of government). Forsaking convenience items is only required if you conceive the problem to be a lack of "back to the land" mentality. That may or may not be a problem, but it is certainly not any rational view of OWS' perception of the problem.

The article here and most other viewpoints (which are mostly critical of OWS) that I've seen appear to wish to narrow down everything to two absolute extremes: either everything stays exactly how it is, or everything is destroyed. There is a massive area between those extremes. It's that area that OWS is targeting.
This. The fb platform is fine for small start-ups who don't have any expectation of SLAs, or huge partners like Zynga who drive their profits or traffic. But I'm at a $600m ecommerce company and we've found their platform to be a disaster. APIs don't work, questions are answered months later by interns who know next to nothing. I know they spend a ton of money/time on it, but it's seems mostly internal facing at the moment.
What's worrisome is that we're probably at the end of a long stretch where the industrial design drove the sales. From here on in, at least for a while, the innovations are turning inwards. Siri. Better camera. Better power consumption.

It's not like we're launching new networks every year or two, or individual ARM cores are going to make huge leaps in performance.

Have we trained everyone to worship the new/shiny when we're probably hitting a short-term asymptote?
Is that a buyout offer? ;-)

How I market is another blog post I have planned. I think I've maxed our PPC and it doesn't bring in that many customers but is self-sustaining (in that the revenue off PPC customers is higher than what we're paying in PPC expenses).

Some things I've done very effectively in the past are full-page magazine ads (in artist magazines) and old-school direct mail. I wrote a direct-mail letter and purchased a mailing list of artists and over time sent the promo pieces out with a special discount code to sign up online. Some artists are very non-techy (especially going back to early 2000s), I even toyed with the idea of having a mail-in form to setup the website.

Probably our best marketing has been our free daily art marketing newsletter and blog (http://faso.com/fineartviews/). Our daily email list is over 15,000 and growing and we regularly promote to those artists. I think this is a strategy FAR too many startups ignore. We don't spend most of our time writing articles for other startups, we write articles that are of interest to our CUSTOMERS. That keeps them coming back to our site day after day.

Also - PARTNER with other companies. The gist of my marketing advice is this: Ask yourself, "Who else reaches the same customers I do?" Now partner with those people. For example, we host an online art contest for an art supply company. They promote our service to their customers and visa-versa.

Sorry if this is rough, will clean up and expand these ideas in future blog posts.
Food, Inc. is also valuable: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
A compelling theory, but it would be totally unlike Apple to pull something like this.

Why would Apple pollute the sublime, simple experience of using Siri with advertisements? It would be uncharacteristic - it's not like a company like Apple needs to do anything like this when they generate revenue through so many other streams.
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If your active-cooled drives are getting that hot, then something is very wrong with either your ambient room temperature (is it 40°C?) or with your active cooling.

Active cooling in a reasonable-temperature room keeps even 15K drives well under 40°C at full duty (closer to 30°C, really, according to our monitoring data I just looked at, the room is around 20°C). Keeping drives within 15°C of ambient shouldn't be a huge deal (though it can be noisy).
Thanks Clint... I love reading posts like these that emphasize that sustained commitment and hardwork pay off
and the fact that it also departs from the traditional build-a-redundant-cool-product group think movement. Too many niches are being ignored and unexplored by us tech-wanna-be or already made entrepreneurs because we keep looking at the cool guys in TechCrunch and other tech sites talking solely about tech industries and cool socially appealing products.

So many businesses/niches are in pain because they do not have software solutions or have to use substandard solutions to get the day to day going. Your advice to go work for another industry is solid and I would even go further and say volunteer on a part-time basis just to make the contacts and see where the problems are. If us tech guys did this more, we would uncover an abundant source of opportunity in need of addressing from people willing to pay to have the pain go away! I am currently looking to do this in the construction industry where some of my friends work.

Great post
Just took a quick look at the comments on Amazon and the book seems to be a disappointment for most, mostly due to the editing. So, why are you fine with this? If anything, this book seems to devalue your brand.
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Sounds like a problem to solve with a disruptive startup. Got any actionable ideas?
Awesome to hear that. I sort of stumbled into the digital wesleyan community when I started looking for advice on how to get into the internet space after graduation.

One of the big ideas behind digital wesleyan was to make students like you aware of the massive network that you have at your fingertips.

Wesleyan (and other schools) are only as good as students and alumni make it, so if you want to be active in the tech world, prove it by bringing the tech world to you. There is no shortage of entrepreneurs, vcs, and operators who would be happy to come back to wesleyan and preach the truth!
Upvotes/Downvotes need to go. I don't think it's too much to ask of adults to read entire thread in chronological order. It's fully sufficient to be able to flag spam or other comments that break policy and have favorites that are completely private.
I'm sympathetic to this critique, although I think you've overstated it -- the risk of a 1 billion plus die-off is unlikely, and the distribution of tasty and nutritional food is likely better today than ever before. I would add, as well, the myriad of problems relating to rampant antibiotic use in food production. The fact is, however, that engaging with technology has risks and benefits, and disengagement often carries very serious tolls. This is true of a number of aspects of modern life and food is perhaps the most visibly ugly. None of this should preclude specific criticisms of Monsanto and its behavior, but it is nonetheless overly simplistic to portray the company as being singularly evil.
I've heard the quote as "bad artists borrow, great artists steal", which always made more sense to me. A bad artist will take what someone else has done, but it remains essentially the original artists vision and concept. A great artist steals it, and claims total ownership, making it uniquely theirs, despite the original source.
Is it in Microsoft's culture to do stuff like this? I'm sure others do it too from time to time, but Microsoft seems to be trying to strongly manipulate perceptions (read: mislead) a lot more than others.
"I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job."

I think you should go somewhere else away from your father, whatever happens. You tried something and it didn't work. There's no reverse gear on life. Your dad reveals himself as someone who does not support you.
The iPhone has 4-5% market share of worldwide mobile phones. Even if you could get every smart phone manufacturer to convert that still would only get you to a ~20% market share.

SMS isn't going anywhere soon.
You sir, are an inspiration.
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Essentially, what this says is that doing more stuff online shouldn't be an excuse to fire teachers. That seems very sensible: online education scales better than classroom ed, but that doesn't mean that it's a self-evident thing to do, and we still haven't figured out the best practices, so until we do, we need as much professionals as we can to make sure those online classes are up to scratch.
From Stanford's online, open to all database course announcement page (login required) from yesterday:

http://www.db-class.org/course/class/index

"As of this morning we have 68,000 students enrolled in Introduction to Databases, and the number is growing daily. Wow!! The reception has been way beyond expectations -- we're pedaling like mad to keep up, and having a great time. Please visit the Q&A Forum if you have questions, or if you have answers! With a class this size we're certainly relying on students-helping-students. Welcome aboard."

It seems there's demand.
Why leave the company, giving up your health insurance and guaranteed paycheck, if you can work on the same project internally? You get all the satisfaction of building something awesome with far less risk: sounds like a win.

Some people are motivated more by technical challenge than business success.
Totally agree, but the blame doesn't fully lie with the CRC. The fact is that these banks/consulting firms have a much stronger presence on all campuses, and the CRC is only reacting to that + the student demand that that outreach generates.
Meh, the whole point of going to an elite school is to have some proof of how great you are before you actually accomplish something. If you didn't go to an elite school, you have to talk about your accomplishments.
This looks like it was compiled with `-O0 -g`. It'll be a lot slimmer with `-O1` or even `-Os`.

Edit: In fact, GCC 4.6.1 compiles it down to two function calls and some stack operations - about 15 instructions in all.
It's a weird feeling when a company that's coming from an environment you admire (YC) makes a move like this. Makes you wonder would you do the same, and where would your priorities lie.

That's why you need a cofounder; when you start wondering about things like this, you need someone to slap some sense back into you.
It's kinda sad to see AMD slipping behind even with their best effort. I was a huge fan for years and this i3 I am using now is my first Intel cpu since the 80386.

I was thinking maybe it's just that the OS and software is not parallel enough yet but the benchmarks show that's not the only issue.
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nice, that's my page (ios.e-lite.org).
I don't think this article is as damning as many of the commenters seem to think.

- The section addressing the lawsuits includes a lot of "farmers say this" type statements. It's not very long on facts. It even admits that some farmers simply aren't aware of their obligations in many cases. The only case that was actually litigated that I'm aware of is Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser -- a case in which the farmer almost certainly was saving seeds in violation of his contract with Monsanto.

- The section on past environmental violations can be mostly ignored in the context of this deal. It might be an interesting historical conversation, but Monsanto is no longer a chemical company. Cloudant has not struck a deal with the company described in that section.

- I'm sympathetic to the opposition on the labeling debate, but it's a labeling debate! It should take more than a labeling debate to generate comparisons to Nazi Germany (as more than one commenter has done below).
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Looks awesome! Does the "open in mac" button show up even if you don't have gh for mac installed?
well that would really depend on who your customers are Demo is great for enterprise customers, Disrupt is great for consumers
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Are there any unofficial mirrors yet? I have a 100mbit connection but the download is just awfully slow.
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> Why is it that food production has gone up, yet the number of starving and hungry individuals throughout the world hasn't changed significantly?

Care to back that up with evidence?

The Global hunger index (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Hunger_Index), indicates that hunger has decreased over the past 20 years. Out of the 30 countries with the most hunger, only 3 have more hunger now than 20 years ago. Every country on that list has had hunger decrease of stay still, with the majority of them seeing less hunger.
You nailed it. As an example, recently I got back into music, started playing with a band, and then it hit me - there is an opportunity to make some iPad apps to help when on stage and in the practice studio.

You can spend your life as an engineer always looking for other people's problems to solve, and always running out of motivation. When you have your own problem to solve, out of necessity or convenience, the motivation is there by default.
certainly won't get my $1,000+, which still sits by my desk waiting for the iPad3 and iPhone 5

Not sure how smart it is keeping cash lying around to either depreciate or get stolen, but if you're going to wait for the iPad 3 and iPhone 5, you're only going to regret it, because the iPad 4 and iPhone 6 are going to be even better.
I don't know anything for sure, but it appears that cloudant themselves posted the link to the press release on Hacker News, which seems like a pretty good indication that they are the ones trying to publicize this, which then points to the latter of your two choices being likely.

Whether this is due to lack of realizing how poorly Monsanto is viewed by most, or whether they thought the somewhat Rand-ian slant of HN' would offset that, I don't know.
I guess you're talking about node.js .
That, of course is a hot topic today, but I'm confident that this problem is solvable.
That's why I called it 'node.js-ish', meaning a backend that can do similar things as well as or better than node.js.

CoffeeScript and Backbone.js have nothing to do with scale, as they are used on the front end.

The author talked about how horrible it was to have the UI written in Java (having to wait 3 minutes for a recompile after a CSS change).
These two tools (plus SASS and alternatives) on the front end makes Java->Javascript totally redundant, imho.
Siri paves the way for the display-less phone† - smaller, lower energy use

Context switching could be done like short-cuts: when you open an app it captures (most) shortcuts; and you can reallocate short-cut bindings. These are easy improvements. Just think of both voice and touch interfaces as having grammars.

Wolfram|Alpha's natural language interface is endlessly annoying for me - I think Siri would also get into trouble with more complex requests (but there's plenty of value in it before that limitation comes into play)

†this neologism could well go the way of the horse-less carriage
Or it's an installed app that uses siri's API (in the future)

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Looking at your description of your previous job, it didn't exactly seem like a good place to work... OK, that's an understatement. You're not an idiot for leaving an abusive employer; you would have been an idiot to stay there. I bet that in a few years, you will remember it as one of the best things you've ever done. It just doesn't feel that way right now, because quitting is only the first step you have to take to make things better.

It's not that easy to find a decent job, especially in this economy... so if all else fails, you will have to "bootstrap" yourself, get any old job (as others already pointed out), and buy yourself some time to figure out what you really want.

Parents can be notoriously annoying when it comes to things like this, but (in my experience) it's usually because they're worried. They only see part of the story; you had a (well-paying) job, then you quit, now you're broke, doesn't sound like a good decision, from their POV. When I lost my job long ago, my mom acted like it was the end of the world. (It's better than having a parent who doesn't care though.) But after a few months I found a job that was what I wanted to do (i.e., programming, in my case) and things got better from there.

A final thought: it's better to make this decision when you're 20, than when you're (say) 40 and have a mortgage, a family to support, etc.

Good luck.
I sat in a lecture from a Harvard professor who claimed the average American consumed less than 50% of the fiber they should be. Don't have a link/paper for you, though. He cited it as a major contributor to colon cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
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A prospective hire who is an A (in whatever field) wants to work with their kind, and so is less likely to sign up at a company full of B-level people.

Also, as mentioned above, it is harder for many B-level people to recognize and value an A level person in the hiring process. An A may come across as arrogant by describing things as good or bad to a B when they're simply knowledgeable and confident because of that.
Supporting Monsanto is supporting the end of our organic food supply. It saddens me to see any YC company supporting such an evil organization. Money just isn't worth it.
No, I’m completely with you. I’m hoping for greater consistency soon, e.g., no more blue-on-hover buttons.
Interesting. What happened next?
Yeah, of course.

I actually didn't even do comp sci at Wes—I was an anthropology major. So, there's that.

And (also re: philco below) it's not so much that the CRC won't help you with getting a tech (or CRM/anthro/museum/etc.) job; it's just that the visibility of any public events related to those things is mighty low.

Ugh, employment.
The app is actually written in Python, but mine wasn't really a technical question.
I may have worded the question incorrectly and I'm sorry about that, I'm not a native English speaker.

I'm actually looking for some suggestions on how to market and launch the app.
For example, I'd like to get some people testing it and I'm also wondering about how to get some buzz around it. Finally, at the moment I'm a full time employee and I don't have unlimited money/time to fund the project.
The benchmarks are pretty disappointing.