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> I should note that John Chambers has disclosed his profit in some acquisitions, and stated that he would donate his proceeds. He did not state that he would also donate the sizable tax deduction that he incurs from such a donation.

Your last sentence suggests that he should have forgone the tax deduction associated with the donation. Why?

He had a gain that he gave up by making the donation. The value of the deduction for making the donation is significantly less than that gain.

Since making the donation means that he doesn't get the gain, why do you think that he should pay taxes associated with said gain? Taking the deduction leaves him at 0. Do you really think that he should lose money?
Apple invented none of that. My first smartphone, the Treo 300 (released in 2003) had no carrier garbage, was a much more open platform than iOS, and at least on Sprint came with an unlimited data plan.

Those features were unusual in the dumb-phone dominated industry at that time, but were omnipresent when it came to smartphones.
"if we are in a simulation, we could possibly hack our way out of it."

Interesting, software engineers know there are no programs without bugs. Some weirdest things in physics like quantum entanglement may just be bugs in the simulation :)
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I think the disconnect between you two lies in these areas:

1. Is the federal government empowered to make any law not expressly forbidden by the Constitution?

2. Are there any laws that the states are allowed to make for their own people and territory without being overridden by the federal government?

The crux of your comments seems to lie in a practical argument — it's useful to have the government doing this stuff. nirvana's argument is strictly Constitutional, and is not interested in any conveniences that might be offered by bending the law.

(For the record, I'm not 100% in agreement with either side here. I'm just trying to synthesize what I see as the difference in where you two are coming from.)
Two point:

1. He made no arguments, he just asserted a different conclusion. Which is the equivalent of saying "you're wrong, jackass!" Is that not ad hominem? "Your wrong" is not "substantial issues with the argument itself". (and why would you think you could just say that and expect anyone to believe it when the comment is right there for everyone to see?)

2. Do you want hacker news to be a place where "your wrong, jackass" type posts are acceptable? "Your wrong" is fine- even if it fails to make an argument, I don't mind.

But name calling makes debate difficult-- notice how he has managed to completely derail the topic of debate (which was not about the constitution, but about what can be done when the government is shutting down hip hop sites.)
A few years ago I was worried too many corporate CEO's don't read the brilliant Innovator's Dilemma book. Now I'm starting to worry they're reading it to find out how to fight against disruptions, rather than create them themselves.
That sounds positive. For team events, what contributions would coders want from non coders?

For example, a startup weekend planning, project management, testing, design, marketing, pitching? I assume you don't just sit around looking over peoples shoulders for two days?
He denormalized the data.
I think that would be the perfect domain for Hacker News :)
This would eliminate a lot of hobby blogs and websites that made the internet such a great place.

As someone who paid $8000 for his domain, I don't believe domains are currently overpriced. You can buy prime real estate on the internet for less than than the quarterly lease companies are paying for physical prime real estate in shopping areas.
The title attracted my click but the content was meh. I guess the author got want he wanted by writing the title that way.
> Functional programming for me has a feeling of a mathematically sound foundation: This means a statically typed language with a powerful type-system and type inference.

Mathematical soundness does not require type inference. It's unclear whether it requires static typing.

And, it can easily get by with almost no type-system.
It's more like: "That little thing about not needing to write financial plans for a lean startup might not be totally true."
Rethinking try/catch
Consider these changes to the try/catch model of C++ and Java:

* Every block is a try{} block. The "try" keyword is dropped. All exceptions will filter upwards until they reach a block that catches the exception.

* The new "recover" keyword returns from a "catch" block to the next line of the context that threw the exception. The exception has a ".scope" object that allows access to the variables that were in scope at the time that the exception was thrown. Whenever an exception happens, programmers could twiddle a few variables and set the program back to where it was before.

Has any language already done this or something similar? How would this affect program design, code quality, and readability? What would language developers need to do to implement these features, and how would it impact performance?
The blog doesn't give us a recipe to create the next big thing. It just explains the only way to make it.
For what its worth, I don't think we've seen actual conservatives in power for 30 years either. neo-conservatism isn't very conservative at all-- for instance, conservatives really wouldn't care about gay marriage. opposing it goes against conservative principles.

Both parties have become authoritarian versions of themselves.

One point though- In the election of 2000 I often heard people say "If W gets elected it will be the end of abortion rights!" ... yet he had 2 terms and never actually did anything about abortion.
It would have been a good explanation of normalization had the author picked some better examples for his data. The way it's written, the normalization ends up changing the semantics of the data, which is not what it's supposed to do.

- The normalized schema assumes that the location of a tournament will never change. If the 2014 Australian Open were to be held in Sydney, then looking up the location of the 2012 Australian Open would thereafter yield "Sydney".

- Population has the same problem. It's not likely that the population of a city will remain constant over time. The original database would give you the population at the time the tournament was held. The normalized version always gives you the current population of the city.
Anyone else getting an OAUTH error when they try to sign-up with http://degreed.com (in the article)?
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Stephenson really should have been called out in the article on the assertion that every megabyte downloaded has a marginal cost. There's no way to squint at that hard enough to make it true.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/why-we-shoul...
That was a good gamble. If he got T-Mobile, he could easily charge whatever he wanted for GSM service. Hell, he could have charged the first person the 6 billion dollars. What could go wrong?
I don't think you're correct. The executive administrates laws, the congress creates them, and the enumerated powers determine which laws they can create.

Would you mind providing a quote for what you're talking about, so I can see it in context and understand what its saying?
While unlimited data leaves something to be desired. I had to flash Galaxy SII with a more recent Android OS without all the AT&T crapware just 20 mins after buying, it was simply unusable.

What begs a question, how can cellular phone providers even think, that their team of 12 underpaid code monkeys capable of producing software that's on par with google? AT&T places, map searching apps, etc are utter crap and you can't even get rid of them unless you flash the OS.

Unfortunately this problem isn't tied only to cellular phone providers. Network card manufacturers for Windows (yes, I'm looking at you Intel) come with their own crapware utilities who think their monitoring app is better than default windows wifi manager. Similarly, consumer routers that race to offer more and more features DMZ, QoS, etc but have millions of bugs because they're not software shops and still refuse to use DD-WRT or Open-WRT which are clearly better and have been developed, used and supported by thousands of professional.
This universe is a simple computer program. Starting from the building blocks of life. Hydrogen has one proton and one electron, Helium 2, Lithium 3 and so on.. Adding one proton changes the whole element. Mixing these makes the whole universe. What we see as solid is 99% empty space. What we think we see is 1% of the visual spectrum. Soooo i wouldnt even bother thinking. We dont even exist.:)
Fiction should cost $0.99, because it's a genre millions of people buy. At $0.99 the price will represent no barrier for anyone even mildly interested in reading a fiction book.
Yeah, I was blown away by the opportunities available at Stanford (that he made the most of) to work and hobnob with internet luminaries. It really seemed to add jet fuel to his trajectory.
Those silly powers would be harder to "undo" than they are now.
I'd love to see this for salaries.
It's not a 'waste' when you can resell the domain, in fact it sounds like he could even turn a profit:

> Arzuage says he doesn’t want to sell the domain, even though he has already had offers in the high six figures should he change his mind.
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Look at it this way- if nobody ever tries to beat Facebook, it'd pretty sad. Anything is better than nothing.

First things first, name needs to change. It's not catchy and I can't see half the country saying "I'll add you on itimdi". That's very important. Otherwise, I can't say much because I haven't seen the site yet.
yea, I show the nosql way by repeating the data.
I don't think that this will affect original (western) company. Most people who will choose Indian drug over original, simply can't afford it, even in their dreams. On the other hand, those who can easily afford it, will go for it over "fake" Indian one.
so, the universe is a room.
Here's another question; what's the long-term effect of inspiring absolutely incandescent levels of loathing among "customers" who actually feel like severely exploited captives? Could that produce anything that might disrupt a business model? Maybe? Possibly?
The publisher surely has the original tex (or whatever format the author/editor used) file(s) that can easily be rendered to epub/mobi, right?!

Wrong.

Prior to 2000, the MS may never have been submitted electronically; or might be in an obsolete format (Word Perfect, anyone?).Then, until circa 2008, the book was almost certainly copy-edited on paper -- that is, the editor printed out a paper copy and the copy-editor corrected typos by hand, which where then manually transcribed on a DTP system to produce the final output. The author therefore doesn't have an as-published electronic copy.

To make matters worse, all the big publishers outsourced copy-editing, typesetting, and printing many years ago. The typesetting was probably executed using Quark Publishing System on MacOS by an external agency, who then burned any backups on floppy disk or CDROM. The publishers do not own these, and in fact cannot acquire them without paying the typesetting bureau a three (or four) digit copying fee. So neither the authors nor the publishers own an as-published copy.

These days stuff is typeset on Adobe InDesign, which is a whole lot more ePub-friendly, and which can import Quark files ... except that Quark's format is notoriously idiosyncratic and import ops commonly lose some formatting info. (Such as italics, font changes, etc.)

TL:DR is that any book published before 2007 or thereabouts may be impossible to republish without either OCR or re-typesetting from scratch.

(TeX is pretty much unheard of among authors outside the science fields, and thanks to M$ churning the MS Word file format repeatedly between 1990 and 2008 it may be difficult to do anything with the original manuscript.)

Going forward the picture is brighter: I have as-published ebook editions of all my books and know how to crack the DRM on them to pull that text out in a legible form, with formatting intact. (Yes, I appreciate the irony of this. Why, just last week I emailed three DRM-cracked novels I downloaded off BitTorrent to an editor. I wrote 'em, the editor has a license to publish them in the UK, so it's legal, but ... the irony! It burns!)
I recall some commentary to that effect. But I also recall rebuttal commentary, stating roughly that she was realigning somewhat within the org but as part and central to the Page initiative, i.e. not marginalized.

I no longer recall the details. But, FWIW, there were two sides (at least) to those circumstances / that story.

Separately, my immediate reaction to this news is, "eww". I realize there are multiple sides to Walmart, and they are very big and successful at what they do. However, on balance, I don't see the, um, "moral" standards as aligning.

Might be good for Mayers' career, personally. I don't think it reflects so well on Google, to the extent there is spill-over. (Although there is a counter-point to that perspective, and Google is increasingly growing into the image of an established, top-tier corporation (i.e. blue chip -- not just in value, but in duration/longevity/entrenched, dominant business model and execution).)
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normalization is just a special case of DRY

Uh, relational databases are a well established field. The different normal forms, among other useful things, provide a guide to way to prevent specific kinds of logical errors that can otherwise appear during inserts, updates and deletes. There's a lot here.

DRY - "don't repeat yourself" - is simply a slogan that doesn't provide specific procedures for making things compact, how you do it or when its appropriate. What you're saying is a lot like "abstract algebra is just a special case of thinking logically" - sort of true but mostly deceptive if it lets you dismiss a lot of accumulated knowledge with "just think logically".
I don't think this would work on the code or compiler end.
For the compiler, when an exception is thrown, the stack is unwound back to the most recent try so the exception handler can be run in the scope of the try. In order to implement this, the portion of the stack that is unwound would have to be saved somewhere and when the recover is executed, the stack would have to be unwound back to the try again, the saved portion of the stack would have to be "repushed" and execution would resume.

On the code end, how would the exception code know what failed and what to twiddle to fix things? The logic associated with the exception code would be extremely complex and tightly coupled to the "downstream" code. It would make much more sense to validate things before performing operations you know might fail to reduce the chances that an exception would occur. Remember that executing the throw portion of an exception is extremely expensive. Exceptions should only be used for exceptional cases, not as a flow control mechanism for a common execution path.
And HE is wrong?

You should tell everyone that pays for sms that.

I refused to pay 15/mo for unlimited sms on my contacts. I rather not have it.

Now, you go eat that or cancel you sms plan. If i were him, I'd charge even more from you suckers. You just keep paying.
I am curious if AT&T will some day regret offering iPhone, like did they really acquire long term customers from others?
Not bioluminescent:

"Cajella’s lamps consist of algae-filled water along with
a light and battery system. During the day the algae
produce energy from sunlight that is then stored in the
batteries. Then at night the energy is used to power the
light. However, as the algae can also produce energy from
carbon, sunlight isn’t required for the process to work."

Sunlight/carbon -> Energy -> Light if I'm reading this correctly. Also:

"However, the good news is algae can also act as a biofuel
once separated from the water, so even if the lights need
a water change out every so often, the waste algae just
forms another type of fuel where as the water can be
recycled."

So once it sequesters all that CO2, it can be released back into the atmosphere by burning it?
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Imagine the headline without the quotes. It would essentially say, "he committed suicide, just as he should have". The quotes indicate that it was the boy's opinion that his suicide was logical, not the article's.
This is what we did:

1) Gave the exclusive to the author we thought had the most influence in our target demo. (Sarah Lacy + Erin Griffith at Pandodaily).

2) Leveraged that story into a blog post, that got retweeted by Eric Ries. (http://blog.meeteor.com/18-days-from-sxsw-mvp-to-launch-our-...)

3) Leveraged that momentum into stories at other outlets.
That was the point. Markdown too has its weakness: it doesn't scale very well - how do I markup chemical symbols, or gene names, or complex tables? We soon run out of keyboard symbols to denote many concepts...
I don't understand. Isn't "Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional" what Brown v. Board of Education decided? The Constitution doesn't provide a black-letter guarantee of education for anyone, and yet the 14th Amendment allowed SCOTUS to hold:

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

I just don't see where you're going. I'm interested, but I'm not following.
Some people don't agree, but seriously: Hacker News these days is much more about startups than about hacking. Just look at the front page. This article itself is about a startup and has nothing to do with hacking.
moreoever, they could launch 5 startups at the domain cost of one.
Or Postbox for that matter.
Lee AND THE ARTISTS. Many of these characters were developed in close collaboration; the "Marvel Method" was usually "writer and artist jam on ideas for a few hours, artist goes off and draws pages with rough notes as to dialogue, writer does final text based on that". Marvel would not exist today without the titanic creativity of Kirby.

And then Marvel systematically screwed the artists out of credit, residuals, and just in general. They're still doing this, too. DC's not much better, either.

Pardon the slight rantiness here. I'm an artist so the creative credit going to the party who does the LEAST amount of the creative work bugs me.
Luck is cheap too. http://priceonomics.com/search/?q=luck&fs=1
As for (1), it seems like answering that question just gets us mired in what "expressly forbidden" means.

As for (2), the Constitution settles this directly; laws enacted by the legislative branch of the federal government are the "supreme law of the land".
You have a habit of reading personal attacks out of (pointed, perhaps rude) attacks on your arguments. You realize I have no idea who you even are, right?
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Exactly what I came to post. Where is the part where he wasted money on the domain? If he had bought startup-deals.com for $500k that would be a waste. What he has now is a prime piece of very valuable real estate that is currently occupied by a company that is going out of business. I'm sure lots of startups that get shut down wish they had an asset like this left over at the end instead of just a whole bunch of code and some email addresses.
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There are other alternatives for polyglot JVM goodness, for example this based on Restlet:

http://threecrickets.com/prudence/

Plus a whole framework based around MongoDB:

http://threecrickets.com/savory/
Publishing People Are Not Computer People.

(Well, most of them. I think Tim O'Reilly might argue the toss :)

Authors of novels are even worse. They are in a career that typically doesn't get started until they're in their mid-thirties. So unless they got their start in IT/CS, you're looking at J. Random Middle-Aged Non-Techie.

Some of us know what a revision control system is. Most haven't got a clue, and aren't interested.
How does the exact same logic not make air traffic controllers felons?
Try e.g. the calendar (swipe left/right). Or pretty much any 3rd party home-screen. Or pretty much any 3rd party dialer. Or, frankly, pretty much any 3rd party anything.
Though I'd like to have seen some stats on improvements in speed, etc. etc. I agree with most of the comments that optimizing for css selectors is probably overkill.

But being aware how browsers are interpreting your CSS and being a bit mindful during development can be helpful.
Opcodes!? Real programmers carefully etch silicon into a shape that exploits the various physical properties of flowing electrons to perform computations. Logic gates and opcodes are just an ultra-high-level lossy abstraction above this. Kids today...
Anyone noticed how the whole post has been lifted from TC?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/04/startups-com-is-shutting-do...
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I would argue that it was the existence of unlimited data by default that "pushed the phone industry into a data-driven model," which Stephenson acknowledges to be a good thing. Without unlimted data, especially in the early days, you would have had customers fretting over every MB rather than engaging with the full app ecosystem and freely exploring the capabilities of the new technology.
Sure, once the attacker gains a foothold, targeting servers from inside the network is certainly possible, especially if the infected user has significant permissions on the network.
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The article you link to really doesn't support your claim. Yes, bandwidth is plentiful off-hours and expensive during peak times, so pricing based off of total usage regardless of when the data is used is crude. (This is why voice plans have had things like "weekend minutes".) But a heavy user really does have a higher marginal cost than a light user. In the absence of more complicated pricing (which consumers often reject), data caps are reasonable.
besides fossil fuels and wind

And nuclear reactors and human rowers. Oh, and wood.

It would also demonstrate just what solar power is capable of

Yep, pushing a huge expensive yacht around the world at an insanely slow speed. Clap clap.
Is there something like this for Ruby or Javascript?
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Microsoft.com has better results IMO.
Isn't this GWT, essentially?
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It sounds like you're saying that the terms of a debate with you about the Constitution are that we not rely on many, perhaps most, of the holdings of the Supreme Court including and subsequent to Marbury v Madison. The only valid points to be made in this debate are thus based on words that occur directly in the Constitution.
How does this differ from a site like Kodingen (https://kodingen.com/#)? They're doing a renovation and a re-brand to 'Koding' at the moment though.
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