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Fair opinion. But I found it refreshing; I was resigned to seeing a lot of preemptory 'separation of ethics and business' discussions.
Because they're not being sold by weight or by volume.
I am -so- glad you said it. I've been resisting the urge for weeks to point out the /r/politics-ization of hacker news for fear of being "that guy" (you know, the one complaining about the good ol' days).

Just to be clear about what that means, to me, is that not so much politics is involved, but completely uncritical and tribalist politics, where we just unthinkingly upvote anyone advocating any position in support of the "good guys" and downvote anyone that defends the "bad guys".
Discussion of business concerns per se is off course off topic. Reasoned discussion of their effects on PLs is not. It's a fine line, to be sure. Be that as it may, there are many issues that are neither type theory related, nor related to business concerns :-)
Anyway, I think this discussion would be more appropriate on LtU than here.
I didn't intend for the title to be trolling. When I first read this I couldn't believe it was a genuine press release. The idea of HP launching a "printing magazines at home" and then send you ink to do it on a subscription basis seems absurd to me.
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For reference to the uneducated, possibly the largest criticism section on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Criticism
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I like the Reddit and LessWrong options of sorting comments by age or votes. Sure, it adds more complexity to the site's UI but considering HN is mainly about its discussions, making them better at the cost of complexity may not be so bad.
Agreed on the cookies. That was my first thought as well.

Also, nitpicking here, but for (at least some) New Yorkers it is confusing for a site called Midtown Row to open with a giant image of a prominent SoHo intersection.

Edit - the page you linked to has that image. Didn't notice I wasn't on the index.
My favourite : Rajanikanth's email id = gmail@rajnikanth.com
Nirvana, I'm very impressed by your latest answer which shows a lot of maturity and knowledge about yourself. It is so very easy to write "well, I would have told them to fuck off", but in my experience very few people do that in reality, regardless of what they say when not in that specific situation.

I agree that it is quite like an abusive relationship which is of course why you should get the hell out of there. Nothing you say or do will change the other part in the relationship (amazon in this case) and you should just learn your lessons and move on.

Although your employment at Amazon is not something that you look back on with fond feelings perhaps you can agree that it is something that has taught you a lot and in that regard was a good thing for you?
Wholeheartedly agree. Monsanto's tactics in this situation are the greater evil, imho. The approach is the issue. I'm not under the assumption that every farmer is innocent, but Monsanto's actions against him/her lead my heart to plead on behalf of the farmer nonetheless.

The tactics of Monsanto show me where their heart is, $2mm a day or not in research expenditures.
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as doesn't auto correct to A's anymore. Yeah
It doesn't have to go anywhere soon in order to die a slow, painful death. Moreover, it's a question of one's social circles. In my case, it hardly matters what the worldwide share looks like since nearly everyone I currently text has an iPhone.
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+1 for this. I know people who have dealt with those asshats even at a corporate level and they are intent on becoming OCP from Robocop - I shit you not.

When you control the food, you control the people.
As with the other Wesleyan students in this thread, I find this article pretty bizarre. I'm one of 6 current CS seniors and our "department" (actually part of the Math department) consists of only five professors. Furthermore, there is almost no emphasis on programming in the major; all of the core classes (and most of the electives, which are few and far between) are focused strictly on computer science. While I personally appreciate this rigorous focus on theory as it complements my own practical experience, for most students it means never seeing a real, large programming project or the tools to manage it.

As a result of all this, many Wesleyan CS graduates go to grad school instead of start ups. This isn't helped by the single-minded focus of the career center on careers in finance and consulting, which leads to a complete absence of technical recruiting on campus. I and several other students including @samdk and @rubergly have tried to change this to some degree by offering more outlets for students on campus to program, but it's definitely an uphill battle.

That said, if NY/Boston startups feel like making the commute up to central Connecticut, they'll find many smart students with a strong grounding in computing theory and math. I just wish the school was more interested in making that happen.
I don't understand your argument at all. Monsanto is a business, not a research laboratory or a charity.
It seems absurd to you, but I know several people who will be very excited about this. They don't read on their computer; they print web pages and carry them around in a folder to read later. Strange to you and I, but exactly what some people want.
As someone who uses the Unity game engine extensively, using my iPad for even the most basic zooming, panning, and orbiting would be useful. I look forward to support for additional 3D environments. I have yet to use an input system where movement in 3D space doesn't feel clunky; any alternative to the current mouse/keyboard combo is welcome.
SSDs really are going to change the game. As a Ruby developer, I'm hoping to see a new language created that is inspired by Ruby but is optimized for speed. Java will remain insufficiently aesthetic, but a new language could be both fast and pleasant to use. I know there are options out there, but none have appealed to me enough yet to consider leaving Ruby.
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If I have to choose between "plant one seed, save some of the harvest, and replant the seeds for next year" and saving the lives of a billion(10^9) people from starvation, I'm picking the latter.

this is what the Green Revolution did.
He specifically wanted to make more money over developer fame. For people under 16 in Australia, they won't have much opportunities due to law. Especially if the media knows that he's underage, they may attack the company for using child labour.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but here's what I've found: If you install GH for Mac on any machine, the "Clone in Mac" button shows up afterwards on all machines, no matter where you login from. So in that sense, you can see the button, even if you don't locally have the app installed. (I actually just sent a support request to see if this could change.)
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Genetic monocultures have killed a lot of people in the past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

Now extrapolate that across the planet.
Great post. I didn't realize it until half way through, but you're in the same space that I'm looking at getting into.
I hadn't heard this and am now incredibly excited at the prospect of never having to type my email address again.
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checkout their index page, does a great job of conveying what the site does. No idea why OP linked to that page. Your designer cookies are on there:

http://www.midtownrow.com/product/teacake-bake-shop-signatur...
He makes an interesting point about disk latency; but network latency remains, and seems to be getting far worse due to assembling services to render a page.

Although his implicit point that users care about latency is correct, it may be that they care even more about other things - such as the information richness from combining those services; and indirectly, the entirely new webapps made possible by the flexibility of this modular approach. After all, they've put up with slowness for a long time. e..g historically, each time desktop became faster, users happily allowed it to be absorbed in to GUIs, layers and layers of modules, including C# and... Java.

Even if he's right, we might go back to Java the same way we went back to Perl...
It's an unfortunate sign for everyone that you (and/or Cloudant) wouldn't anticipate this reaction from going into business with Monsanto.

As to the "content-free" claim, sometimes a rant is an appropriate reaction. If some YC company partnered with Al Qaida, would we really need to spell out all the heinous things AQ has done before writing, "F- that!"?!?

EDIT: And to your "If the rule is, if x sells something to Monsanto, fuck x, then what you're saying is fuck the entire corporate world, because I'm sure Monsanto buys Apple computers and Chevrolets and Clorox too. It's sort of ridiculous to hold Cloudant to a standard that essentially zero other companies meet."

-- It's one thing if Monsanto buys iPhones and Macs from Apple; that would represent ~.0001% of Apple's overall business. It's another thing if Monsanto is responsible for a significant % of your revenue.

(Of course, Cloudant's deal with Monsanto could represent only 2% of Cloudant's total revenue; but since it's a startup, the initial reaction people will have is that it's significantly higher than that.)
Nothing wrong with your comment, but comments like this are so symptomatic of a Silicon Valley mindset. Most entrepreneurs outside the valley become successful well in their 30s and 40s... not at 21. There should be no surprise here.
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Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/
It's a native app for native animations and so on, but all the pages themselves are HTML.
It looks nice and is easy to read. Do you plan on adding some kind of Atom/RSS feed?
Not a Linux test, but Anandtech built Chromium with VS which should ballpark it. It performed worse than the Phenom II X6 at that.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-...
I hope they succeed and I fully support their efforts. Distance learning programs will never be a substitute for genuine classroom-based interaction, and under no circumstances should they ever be used to replace skilled teachers.

And even if that weren't the case, unions have every right to fight for the interests of workers, and should do so at every available opportunity.
i wish these were actually available to buy today like asus said they would be. i've been awaiting the release of the ux21 to see if it would be more compatible with other free operating systems since my 2011 macbook air is not (yes, it boots and runs, but not well).

http://zenbook.asus.com/where_to_buy/?cd=n-am lists a bunch of retailers but all of them except adorama's site come up with 404s or errors saying there are no products found. i called adorama to see if the stock listed was actually ready to ship and they're closed for the jewish holiday until the 24th.
I don't follow your logic, if there isn't a performance penalty I don't see why anyone would keep using the older OS.
They do until someone waves some bills in front of their faces.

That's the problem with "business" and "capitalism".

(I'm probably a socialist hippy for reference)
That just hit the nail on the head. Great post.
from what i understand, seed cleaning is part of a process to extract seeds from a harvested crop.

monsanto did not sue that man for cleaning seeds, they sued that guy because he marketed his services to farmers using monsanto seeds, claiming that those farmers could extract seeds from their harvest to avoid buying more monsanto seeds.

however, when you buy seeds from monsanto, you sign an explicit agreement saying that you won't do exactly that. the result of the case was that the court barred the indiana man from cleaning monsanto seeds, not all seeds in general. from what i undestand, they didn't even collect any damages from him, conditioned on him not cleaning monsanto seeds in the future.
I hate Monsanto, although I don't know if I would blame Cloudant for attracting such a large business.

For those not in the know, part of Monsanto's business plan includes creating patented seeds that are genetically altered and "Roundup-ready" so they can be doused with their other business, pesticides.

They also aggressively enforce their seed patents by suing local farmers that have their land contaminated, by no fault of their own, by other farms that may use these "Round-Up ready" seeds. I believe Monsanto has also now developed crops that do not create seeds and/or create seeds DOA.
The lectures may be online, but he's not getting credit for learning from them.

Have you ever sat in a lecture with a couple hundred other students? It's not like the teaching is the least bit personal, so what does the medium matter at that point?
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I think there's a difference between buying a product and working closely with a company in an intimate business relationship/partnership.

Not to mention that I don't think Apple (nor it's employees) would be publicly joyous about partnering with an ethically questionable company.
Coffee that really is "the best part of waking up."

Any copy that alludes to Folgers is going to be a turn-off to coffee snobs :) </Seattle>
I'm not disputing that bulding it into the OS is a big deal, but pointing out that in its 2 years of public release on the app store, Siri didn't see the organic growth of apps like Instagram or Hipstamatic.

Apple has added new features to integrate it more deeply with things like the Calendar and Reminders apps, but at the same time, half of Scott Forstall's demo commands at the 4S keynote were exactly the same as the Siri demo at 2009's All Things D conference.
the difference is that right now, you or anyone else in the thread can convincingly list a bunch of bad things they have done.

so far, there is not a single convincing (and barely any substantive) comments about the bad things monsanto has done. if you disagree, please, let's discuss why monsanto is, as many here claim, "evil"
Yes, because Hacker News is for civilized, rational discussion. Not '+1 !'s, not analogies to the Nazi regime, not a litany of profanity to a hard-working young startup, and not more hivemind think from Reddit. The kind of hivemind that downvotes any contrary opinion and upvotes the tasteless, content-free posts you see at the top. We can discourse in more substantial words than "F- that!". Multiple '?!?' becoming more common aren't a good sign.
No disagreement here in general, unions are what they are. I just don't think you can portray this specific deal as a kick in the nuts for democratizing top-notch education. I can just as easily imagine university admins trying to make a quick buck out of badly organized and recorded lectures as I can imagine reactionary professors trying to save their asses. Both are just as scary.
Well, I doubt that my SMS messages are routed through an external third party outside my country if I send a local SMS. I rather have my local government control who can access my information, then a US company.
My best guess is that, as the bottleneck goes back into the application (and out of external dependencies like databases, disk, network), there will be an increasing pressure towards better multi-processor support (we are not going back to single cores anytime soon) and, of course, faster executable code. Unlike Cringely, my bet goes toward using more and more JIT'ed code (as in PyPy and v8) and better use of asynchronous APIs instead of lower-level languages. Of course, better integration with native code (as in "compiled from a reasonable language") will also be highly prized and a tool worth looking into.
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We could say that, but since LuaJIT isn't the default implementation, it's important to specify or people doing fact-checking might reasonably point out the claim as an error.

Edit: the deleted post said, essentially "Why not just say that Lua is as fast as Java?".
Technically, the CS program is still a major given by the Math department.

And all CS professors, IIRC, are math professors.
If you look at the list of companies doing on-campus recruiting this year, there was only one (WH Trading) that was even vaguely related to tech/programming. Why is that? Is it because our compsci department is less well known (and smaller) than at other schools? Is it because the CRC doesn't do outreach to tech companies?

I've found the CRC really unhelpful in finding tech internships, and I assume it's the same for finding tech jobs. However, I understand it's probably not a priority given that the Econ department, for example, is about 20 times our size.
If the lectures are online and the lecturers are re-deployed to do supervisions and one-one tuition that's great.

If as we all suspect, the whole dept is reduced to an admin person to collect the names and fees and a sys-admin to install the multiple choice problem set software - then that's less good !
I love the idea that ethics should be a hobby one does after their day job. We get angry about things like that because if a small group of really smart people strike out on their own to change the world and do good and yet put out a press release saying how "excited" they are to be working with such an amoral company, it just vacates our idealistic world view.

We can't stop Apple selling MacBooks to Monstanto. Apple makes tools and doesn't ask how they get used (nor should it have to). But a small cloud startup, different picture. One is active and one is passive.
This is interesting but as a general rule I'd advise against giving a third-party, non-HTTPS, obfuscated Javascript the ability to rummage around inside your Facebook session.
Ugh, I think you are mistaking between open source and being a platform here. A platform need not to be open source.
The iOS 5 update errors are being reported as server failures on Apple. Although, I admit I'm not helping the problem. It took 20+ tries to finally get it to phone home correctly.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/12/apples-ios-5-upgrade-...
A long time ago the industry was all about playable demos. Then publishers slowly stopped making restricted demo versions. Seems we've now full circle when it comes to games.
The second coming of Java is already here. It's called Scala.
K handles the general case:

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Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Internship experience was quite good. But then it was just for 12 weeks. I enjoyed writing code. Since I have less time to decide now, I might just accept the offer and test the waters. I am inclined to choose one of the good AWS teams or the Kindle silk browser team (hoping they have plans to
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> advances due to Monsanto in recent years cannot be made up for by their completely unjust business practices as others have mentioned.

people deal with monsanto voluntarily. nobody is making you buy their seeds. the fact that so many do suggest that their advances in gmos are indeed worth the cost.
Such irony. Your comment seems much in the same style.

Tho oldstrangers vague logic was "by association" I don't think you should assume "if x sells to Monsanto." You can be much more specific in this case, as Cloudant clearly states, "We’ve been working with them for a few weeks now ..." Has Apple, Chevy, Clorox been "working with" Monsanto, or are their products just freely available for purchase?

I find it alarming that you think oldstrangers comment lacks sense. Food and water. That is the basis for human life. Monsanto threatens the freedom and right to access for those necessary things.
I've heard that the main problem is that they don't really have the expertise and manpower anymore to do a full custom design, but are using a more ASIC style process - influenced by the ATI folks. Also, this is an all-new architecture and so you'd expect that it would be unpolished and untuned. Intel hasn't done anything as drastic as what AMD has done here since the introduction of the Pentium Pro. Well, there was the Atom but Bobcat (also an all new design) is able to beat that the same way that Intel is beating AMD at the high end.

In theory, this will let AMD mix and match components easily, and quickly synthesize new designs with the right mix of Bulldozer cores, Bobcat cores, GPU cores, memeory controllers, etc to meet market demand. I haven't seen any evidence that this is actually happening, though, or that its worth the price. By contrast, Intel has huge design teams that can afford to hand tune a range of designs to changing circumstances.

Its also true that though GF has a more tolerant set of design rules in its 32nm process, it pays for it in lower overall performance compared to Intel's process at the same node.

I'm not sure the high frequency design was a kiss of death. In terms of pipelining it doesn't seem any more aggressive than the Power7, which has been very successful. The Power7 benefits from 4-way SMT, though, and that probably helps hide the cache latency that is hurting Bulldozer so much.

EDIT: See example here:
http://realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...
It is a huge negative publicity, to be associated with a company like Monsanto. Not sure if that would affect Cloudant's future business prospects though. We all know of the sweatshops run by companies like Walmart and Nike, lots of people even complain loudly, but those companies seem to be doing very well, year after year.

On the other hand, given the size of Monsanto, there is no doubt that Cloudant could effectively demonstrate their expertise, and use them as a case study for landing big customers in future. Plus, the money must be pretty good.

I guess it isn't our job to judge Cloudant, they are running a business - their business, their choice (moral or not). HN crowd (me included) just can't digest associating with an entity as Monsanto, hence the extreme reaction.
I did multiple internships at Amazon and now I work here full-time. I love it here. But, like other people have pointed out, your experience can be very dependent on which team you join. Personally, I wouldn't want to work full-time on the team that I did my first internship on. The work there just wasn't fun. But my internships put me in a good position to know which teams suck and which teams are great, and so I chose a great team to join. Hopefully you are in a similar place because of your internship. Did you enjoy your team? If not, did you see any teams that you would like to work on?