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I pledged $500. The only reason I'm being public about it is because I see people in here complaining about the cost of a license and wanting their dollars to translate into something more than this project simply becoming a reality.

I don't have a barrel full of money by any stretch of the imagination, but given all of the lispers and schemers on Hacker News, pg's essays, and so on, I find it surprising that there would be as much hesitation as there is about paying $50 for some of smalltalk's greatest hits coupled with an environment that lowers the barrier to entry for people to dig into the best modern lisp around.

I'm donating because I want to live in a better place, not because I want a license. The cost of not funding a project that could mainstream so many lost and forgotten great ideas while simultaneously promoting some of the best new ones, seems sort of like a crime against the craft of programming in general.

I mean no offense, just an observation.
Make them in orbit.

or

Send them up as freight.
in vim, you can also use ">>" command which indents a line. if you use python, your vim is probably already set up to indent four spaces, so the above can be done with "4>>" (=indent next four lines)
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Most people have no comprehension of how difficult it is to live as a transgender. I have several TG friends and I am constantly in awe of how they put up with not just prejudice, but persistent threat of violence (even here in SF!).

Anyone who accepts that burden in life has already proven the ability to go thru hell, and they usually carry those lessons of perseverance with them in other aspects of life also.
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Counter-point.

Public (gov't) spending "counts" in GDP, not because it's "expansionary", but because it's an expenditure on final goods and services. Even if government spending was contractionary, it would count towards GDP. That's just how GDP works.

Likewise, there are reasonable arguments that government spending is/can-be contractionary. (I won't try to show that such spending _is_ contractionary, just that it may be).

All that needs to happen for it to be contractionary is for each dollar of government spending to reduce (crowd out) private spending and/or investment by more than a dollar. Harvard economist Robert J. Barro has been arguing this is the case.
Think of it this way - with parachutes and a guidance system you can land the stuff wherever you want.

This might not be so important for tons of raw metal. Could be a good tech to have around when you want your orbital factories to compete with terrestrial concerns.
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"Generally speaking, industries get shipped off to China because people in China are poorer, and will work for less money. When there are as many industries in China as in the US, they won't be poorer any more, and the flow will stop."

Net result: global average wages settle somewhere near what a Pakistani brickmaker would call "prosperity". What you're describing isn't a win.
Just a note: Isn't the mindset that "thinking a few alpha males will Fix Everything" exactly what Ayn Rand was condemning?
You're trying to refute the importance of the design through assertive statements like number 2 above, and yes, you are making the point that design is not important by calling the typography a "trivial consideration."

The fact that you don't understand why it's important to do typography well, and think that it's okay to just use Arial, doesn't mean that it is a trivial matter.

That's the kind of thinking that led to the look of Windows 3.1, and I would argue that while Windows might have been the winner at the cash register, it was a lesser product.

I applaud the Prismatic team for focusing on quality. MVPs have their place, but eventually you have to stop counting beans and think about making something great. That's hardly trivial.
Forget the money and the commitment. Is it something that you'll be eager to wake up and do for the next four years running, come hell or high water? If not, leave it on the table.

On the other hand, if you're feeling so-so because your co-founder just left you and you're scared, don't be. Again, if you're motivated, you'll make it work.
It clearly did not reach critical mass at that time. There were a number of obstacles to adoption - devices were powerful enough to do things, but compatibility with office software was not well built-in (If I remember correctly you could not synchronize emails with Outlook right out of the box). But third party applications were often very good and feature-plenty. The media players were especially capable and well designed.

It was however, impossible to upgrade the software at that time (the OS), which rendered your device obsolete every time a major WindowsMobile version was released. This is happening again with Android and I can't say this is a very good idea.
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Passion/Love can turn to antipathy/hate; happens all the time with personal relationships that focus exclusively on themselves, and with dreams that become obsessions. In common terms it's called "burnout." You generally need to be wary of wrapping your life exclusively around one person or one pursuit.
Having a reasonable end of life on support never hurt apple.

Just because the iPhone is doing great, doesn't mean businesses and other slow movers avoid Apple because of this. My point is, we don't know if this hurts Apple or not.
He's spent and made far more than that from industries that spew out the very same kinds of toxic chemicals and radiation that causes people to get sick in the first place. And he fights against pollution controls, he fights against international efforts to manage climate change, he fights against government regulation intended to help preserve a healthy environment and planet for society as whole and for future generations, and he funds right-wing propaganda organizations.

Also... Like Gates, the Koch brothers were born into wealth. He's made more wealth by running and owning businesses that make the rest of us less healthy, then he wants to be painted as a philanthropist -- which is something he can buy, anyone can buy, at that level of wealth. And there are tax reduction incentives to do it. And he's one of the biggest behind-the-scenes manipulators of political discourse in the US, which greatly distorts the public debate, and the actions of Congress, away from carrying out the express wishes of the vast majority, and away from doing what's in the best interest of society as a whole, toward things that favor him, and his kind, personally. He is a force for those who say, "Screw people who are less well off than me, with less talents or abilities or family resources than I had. Every man for himself!" So yes he's both parasitic, and part of an aristocracy, and a net lose for society, despite any "positive" thing he may have done. We don't judge Hitler on the whole based on the fact that he kissed some babies at political rallies, or that he funded national exercise programs for German youth. We judge him based on the full spectrum of things he did, including the very bad things he did, that he chose to do, intentionally, and that hurt others, that hurt large numbers of other people -- that dominates his legacy. That's how I evaluate Koch, and how I think you should as well.
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Low public debt, sure, but private debt was high and the housing crash left Spanish banks in a precarious position.

It turns out though that the private debt of large banks is a form of public debt in disguise, at least as far the "solutions" to the debt problem have been implemented by every country with the exception of Iceland (i.e. the public purse has been used to bail out the catastrophically over-indebted banks directly or indirectly).
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In case it needs repeating, I would subscribe. I want this to happen.

I'm guessing I don't understand the email service, but if I assume it's separate from the current SMTP world, then...

• gmail is currently "good enough" most people wouldn't see 100% spam blocking as a big improvement

• no address for inbound email; can't post "my address" online

• friction to get the service set up, because an email client is included already on my machine, my phone, etc.

• might cost extra to be able to read my email anywhere (i.e. "cloud email storage")

Ok, so if it's so hard to replace email, how can it be done? Instinct tells me that until gmail loses some of its shine, nothing is going to happen. But gmail is more vulnerable than people think, and having a workable alternative when the time comes would go a long way toward getting people to switch. And if gmail fails, it's not going to be Yahoo Mail that steps up to fill in - gmail is the peak of traditional email services. I don't see how, from a technical standpoint, you could do any better than gmail without abandoning SMTP email altogether. (And I mean gmail along with all the accessory programs to make it perfect, i.e. iPhone integration, google apps for your domain, etc.)
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Bingo.

And people have been talking for a long time about how eventually launch costs would drop. In theory. But with SpaceX's recent successes, with their stated intentions, with the nature of their leadership, I think the folks behind Planetary Resources thought, "You know. Now might be the time. SpaceX, in particular, looks about to really bring down cost to orbit. Let's get in on that. What's going to be enabled by that? That's right, asteroid mining. Let's fill out the paperwork and start assembling the cash, the team, to get the ball rolling."
What would outdated markup have to do with striping table rows?

This is why you're getting downvotes, you really don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.
As far as diamonds go, we already have more than enough here on Earth, and the price is being kept artificially high by a cartel. Industrial diamonds are only worth 1/1000th of what you pay for jewelry diamonds, so there's not much incentive for that.

But I see your argument.

Personally though I would want to keep the minerals up in space, figure out how to refine them there, and then use them up there. Since the cost of getting large quantities of materials up there is still rather expensive.
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Sure, as long as the internal price doesn't "drastically underestimate the effort required". Which it rarely fails to do.

Even worse, most internal measurements drastically underestimate the competence required.
I really don't think people understand how new ideas come about. It is simply a fact of life that the newest, most different, paradigm-breaking idea will almost always make people uncomfortable. People aren't going to like it, because likely most of them won't understand it. It is going to come out of an extremely unlikely location, perhaps even a cesspool like 4chan where you throw feces at the wall and see what sticks.

Relatedly, the idea that innovation and monetary success are in any way intertwined is laughable. I can make money off of anything. This is not a hard skill, this is not an admirable skill, and the thinking required to get people to spend money is the basest, most despicable form of thinking imaginable.

If we're going to Truly innovate, we need to break things. Break everything. Ironically, what I mean here is the exact opposite of the meaning typically assigned to the buzzword "disruptive". We need to make people uncomfortable so they can realize just how comfortable they can be. No one agrees with real change, no one actually wants to be disrupted, and Real Creativity is an inherently mischievous little devil who most people get angry with and want nothing to do with.

The vast majority of so-called entrepreneurs are lifeless copy machines with no original ideas who are too-concerned with the remnants of their highschool popularity contest to even get close to coming up with anything new.

We need to realize that the way most people think change is going to happen is not the way it does happen, or ever has happened. In the minds of most people, when you get down to it, change sucks, we hate it, and would rather sit around circlejerking about how innovative we are than go out into the streets and actually light the world on fire.
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There was/is typically zero incentive to semantically encode data. As shown by things like IBMs Watson, you're better off extracting sentence semantics with NLP than by hoping someone has encoded the data for you.

But yet, adoption of SemWeb tech is growing. Google and Yahoo both rolling out their respective "rich snippets" type interfaces a couple of years ago helped a bit. Those acts raised awareness of the value of SemWeb tech and gave it a bit of a kick. I saw a post[1] earlier today that mentioned some research showing that 25% of the HTML pages out there have embedded structured data (microformats, RDFa).

[1]: http://ivan-herman.name/2012/04/18/structured-data-in-html-i...

Edit: better link to specific part of the discussion that mentions the "25% of pages contain RDFa" claim:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2012Apr/00...
My general characterisation of Hacker News is that it's peopled by programming language snobs. I believe that this flows from PG - I mean, characterising people who don't share your view's as "Blub programmers". Sheesh!

So, it's no surprise to me seeing that most of the responses here oppose someone pointing out that language snobs are snobs.

I'm in the unenviable position - for a HN reader - of liking Java a lot. And amazingly, I knew Lisp (and loved it), C, C++, Ada, Python etc... BEFORE I learned Java. I've learned Haskell, C#, Ruby since and I STILL like Java. I'm pretty sure that the standard HN groupthink would have to conclude that I'm some kind of moron or I have no experience with software engineering or I'm wrong in some weird undefinable way. While I can't comment on the weird bit, I certainly DO have a lot of software engineering experience.

People use the tools that work for them, and this varies for different people and different tasks. The article is corrrect: there ARE a lot of FP snobs and HN is full of them. Look, if it works for you, all power to you - just stop treating people who like other solutions as misguided morons. You too PG!
No license file? It's difficult to use software like this in many organizations if the licensing situation isn't clear...
My broader point is that if they are really upset with you, there are things they can do to dilute or remove your share of the company. To avoid all that potential legal nastiness, I would do my best to find a way to come to a signed agreement.

Obviously I don't know much about your situation, but I would immediately return the laptop, and offer to give back half (or some %) of the shares as a sign of goodwill.

By the way, I'm assuming you did take some sort of salary or other compensation. If not, I wouldn't be as giving in terms of shares.
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True. I usually write in an app first (either nvALT or Byword) and then copy and paste online.
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I'm as ignorant as can be about transgender-ism and even homosexuality, but I wanted to reach out to say it makes me sad that someone would want to physically hurt you because of your gender reorientation.

But more on point with the post, I perceive you have three problems:

1) You don't have a simple, punchy business idea that can make a lot of money

2) The writing comes off as a bit outlandish and loquacious in this business setting. Sorry. Cut your prose down and stick with the cold facts.[1]

3) I said I had three? I lied. Yes, that's my third point: never lie.

Seriously though, I hope you address the first two issues and arrive at something you can be successful with.

[1] Then again, what do I know.
As a developer, I would rather have my code break than continue to use a terrible API.
Thanks johns!

tl;dr:

1) Eat your own dogfood. Use your API to build your app. If you can't do that, your API (and app) is borken.

2) API's are a conversation.* If you don't build them, the conversation will continue without you. Somewhere else.

EDIT: be sure that building an API is incidental to your application. It's NOT your app, right? Just use it as a tool to build your app. Like test-driven development (if you're into that)
>But why?

For the same reason that people grow taller until they're in their late teens and get stronger until they're in their early 20's.

>Most people seem to think that this rapid development is, for the most part, genetically driven.

It is. Depending on which studies you cherry-pick, the heritability of intelligence is somewhere between 0.5 and 0.8. The best way to be smart is to choose your parents.

>Doesn't it seem strange to reach this conclusion when we don't even have a solid idea about what "intelligence" really means (other than "performs above X level on some cognitive test")?

People can argue about the definition of strength just as easily. Who is the strongest person in the world? Is it whoever can bench-press the most weight? What about leg press? Clean-and-jerk? Maybe some average of these measures? Maybe we want to factor the person's weight in as well. While "strength" doesn't always have a precise definition, it's usually pretty easy for us to tell weak people from strong ones. It's the same when people talk about intelligence. The precise definition varies, but there are lots of correlating ways to measure it.
I found a previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3556796

I used HN Search, looked for "SSL Certificates", and sorted by Points.

Thanks for the tip.
While developing I prefer not to use internet resources as it degrades load time (important when you are constantly refreshing the page to see your changes).

Instead I use an SVG placeholder that adapts to any size you throw at it: http://jsfiddle.net/yL7Cz/
Doesn't ITAR stop you from making it public information?
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What's interesting in this set of guidelines is basically all the front-end development goodies (stylings, grids, js) not the backend. It looks very decent to me, and it was probably made by a completely different department than ASP's, So thats why the comment comes a little irrelevant in this case.
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Also worth checking out http://www.iawriter.com/

It isn't free, but its design is phenomenal.

Edit: Just noticed Mou won't be free after beta. Will be interesting to see how the prices compare.
I too use Mou and it's a great editor. I've contacted the developer a few times (http://chenluois.com/ - bugs and feature requests) and s/he's been very responsive and usually emailed back in a few hours.

Markdown Pro (www.markdownpro.com - 6 dollars) is another great markdown editor for mac that has more features.
I understand your skepticism. Here's how I would address that.

1) They may not necessarily think they're going to be able to deploy a cost effective business service overnight. They may realize it's going to take a while, and more pieces have to be put in place. But there are things they can start working on now that push in that direction.

2) SpaceX. And to a lesser extent, the other space teams and competitions that have had successes in last few years. Surely one of them, or a combination of a few of them, are going to bring that cost/risk to orbit down significantly. Opening up new business possibilities as potentially profitable.

3) All the recent apparent advances in robotics capabilities, embedded computing and submersibles (where the mission demands are so extreme they are not too unlike spacecraft in many ways). Drones. Pack mules. Exo-wear. Quadcopters. Powerful computers that also happen to be small, lower power draining and super cheap -- cost of risk goes down, variety of potential applications goes up.

4) Increasing sense of impending resource wars on Earth, due to the rise of the BRIC countries, all the key minerals needed by modern electronics/computing/batteries/PV only present in China or Africa or country-that-is-not-the-US. The predicted water shortages. The increasing sense that the way that modern large-scale agriculture is done (high yields via chemicals that are toxic to humans in the long run) and so might need to switch back to lower-yield-per-acre methods. And so on. The strategic takeaway is that if population grows, Earth resources grow more scarce, and especially US-controlled resources grow more scarce, then there may be an increased demand for resources from somewhere off-Earth, or kept entirely out of control of some particular Earth-based nations or companies. Is this an immediate need requiring an overnight solution? No. But if you have billions, you can afford to think about the longer term, and you have the money to risk starting those investments today. Just in case. Also, to kick it up a notch, consider the alternative: do you really think that, say, the US Congress or Presidency is going to take any bold decisive action that's going to positively address these long term concerns? Do you think they're even allowed to, by the rules they have to follow, or by their political patrons? Or do you think they'll stick to addressing more ephemeral, near-term concerns, to quick wins, political point scoring, propaganda, etc.? I know how I'd bet. :)
This is clever, but likely an easy way to get perma-banned from PayPal, as they run checks for unusual behavior to detect fraud.

And even if they didn't notice, they will if your account is ever under review.
Could be effect rather than cause.
About that centralized bootstrap node:

i2p, tor, and dht all rely on some sort of centralized node for bootstrapping. e.g. a fresh install, or when the client has been disconnected from the internet for years.

Would it work to use multiple orthogonal bootstrap methods? i.e. try in a random order any of the following until the client can join the swarm:

• DNS records, http pages, etc. (a straightforward approach like i2p, tor, and dht do)

• "user content," i.e. comments on news sites, blogs, image sharing sites, pastebin, github, etc. that contain the information, hidden using steganography or encryption. A simple google search should not find this user content - the bootstrap method would need to crawl a large number of pages looking for the "signal in the noise," which would make it difficult to find and eliminate all the places the data was hidden.

• "data broadcast," i.e. the bootstrap client listens on random TCP or UDP ports within a certain range. Active swarm peers do "port knocking" in this port range, subdividing the IPv4 space among them so that they visit every IP address within about 24 hours. The range is chosen so as not to incriminate the peers doing the knocking. The waiting bootstrap node will eventually be reached, and the active peer can then transmit the needed data. (IPv4 address blacklists are a must, i.e. do not "port knock" in government address ranges or other sensitive targets.)

By attempting all the methods at random, any that get shut down can be detected and the status updates pushed out to all clients.
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