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It is important to have strong opinionated technical arguments unsullied by consensus building distraction. Naggum's writing here is not an example of that. He is opinionated about irrelevant non-technical issues. This type of behavior sabotages the efforts of those who might strive to actually win the technical argument on the merits.
>I believe I've shown this to be black-and-white, read-the-document wrong.

No you haven't. You provided two quotes from the constitution, referring to the limited powers I was talking about, and thus your quotes completely support my position. I've pointed this out already.

This means either you know that you've failed and all your interested in is adhominem-- which means you're incapable of making an argument here. Or you're simply not bright enough to comprehend the point I'm making, which I've illuminated several times.

The problem is, you can't be bothered to read the constitution, and what the constitution says doesn't really matter to your ideology, so you're just going to throw out unsupported nonsense, along with your personal attacks, and act like you've smugly shown me to be wrong.

You have utterly failed. Every time you characterize me, its because you can't rebut my point.

And you can't rebut my point because my point is correct. Its correct because I've actually read the constitution.

You should try it sometime.

I'm unlikely to respond because you always post the same stuff, generally ad hominem, and you never defend your points. But your running around and engaging in ad hominem is apparently not embarrassing enough even when others point it out. You and the others doing the same thing destroyed HN, you've made rational discussion impossible.
Well, I am pretty confident that the vast majority of programmers do not know both a functional and a purely procedural language. In my book, "knowing" a language entails having used it in some significant piece of software at the very least. Most programmers absolutely have not done this in ANY procedural or functional language, and very few have done significant work in both.

I guess my issue with these all-too-common HN "things everyone should know" posts is that inevitably 99% of programmers don't know all the things everyone "should" know. If you took the posts at face value, you would feel very inadequate.

A more appropriate title would be "Things I know. Look at how awesome I am!"
Infosys actively encourages employees to flout U.S. immigration law
I went through their tutorial and it seems very enticing. hopefully it'll get some real traction and broader support.
Well that headline disappointed me. A lot. :-(
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One of the best sources, brought up here every now and then is from Peldi at Balsamiq: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/peldi/2008/08/05/startup-marketing...

This was essential reading for me on a couple of launches.

As to Mashable in particular, they have a startup coverage series 'Spark Of Genius.' Was a dead simple pitch (it is a form) and coverage for me there really got the ball rolling.

For other bloggers find someone how covers your niche and pitch them --- never pitch the general email address of the publication.

And one last thing - it might be worth it to pick one primary target of the big tech news sites. Once one covers you they usually all jump to follow (ie weeks old emails suddenly returned requesting interview ASAP)
I have a Verizon GNex (got it 9am on launch day) and I don't see lag either.
On the contrary, this kind of social incontinence inhibits the exchange of ideas. Most of the best people leave as the discourse degrades toward toxicity. Comp.lang.lisp was a dramatic example.

Diverting one's personal emotional issues into public technical debates is not courage.
Blogspam. Original is at https://sites.google.com/site/markussprunck/blog-1/top10thin... (and yes, the author appears not to be a native English speaker; his name is Markus Sprunck.)
Understanding is not disjoint from emotion.
Are you Dutch? Kap vs Cape seems to be a Dutch vs English thing.
This is just drivel. A company is providing a service that is extremely well executed and has a great reputation. Google uses it for the same reason most people use Google - it is the best around for what they want.

If there is a single shred of evidence other than "isn't it weiirdd...." then perhaps we can discuss this.
"If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape."

I think he could have just left it there.
Yeah, I know. Thankfully computing and the Internet was developed with private funds... no... wait, it wasn't.

I don't disagree with you that a profit motive is a powerful force, but there reaches a point where greed causes more damage than good. Pharma is the prime example.
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-...

That is a pretty great article for this topic from the cofounder of Buffer who is really good at gaming the tech media.

Here is the condensed version I emailed to a friend who had just raised a big funding round:

Target writers themselves, not the publications they work for. Reach out to them on Twitter, ask if you can contact them about your story (so your email gets opened). Don't go after famous bloggers/writers (they are super busy). Choose timing carefully (friday > monday).
> If technology has enabled a new version of a product that is superior for the customer in convenience or capabilities, the customer will be willing to pay more

This might be true if people were rational utility-maximisers. They're not, and people are quite capable of choosing not to buy something if they feel it's a rip off.
"Good" and "Works" being relative terms, of course. YMMV, especially amongst devices in the installed base where web views aren't GPU-backed (e.g, on one common platform, that being the vast majority).
Total pharmaceutical R&D costs by the big 20 in 2010 were $96bn. That doesn't seem too much to raise globally, given that the NHS alone spends £10bn on branded drugs each year.

It's also worth noting that there are ways of splitting up the research/production integration that exists at the moment while preserving the profit motive for research. I have seen prize funds touted as one way of doing this. There are some other interesting systems as well - see the proposal by Kremer in this article: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/24647/InTech-Innovative_propo...
Good to hear! I do also know that I'm not Dan Shipper, I was just offering my 2 cents :)
You probably know this but you can just specify something like "height: auto; max-width: 100%;" within a media query if you have an image that's supposed to at most fill the full column width. That would then override the inline height and width attributes.
> in part due to younger age and rigorous selection criteria

How could you distinguish between those two effects in order to be confident that younger age is a significant contributing factor?
I couldn't find enough information to figure that out. I started by looking for Calleja's articles on PubMed, but nothing popped up. Eventually I found his LinkedIn profile, but all it had was the link to his company:

http://www.fermentalg.com/

The parts of that website that aren't in french were useless for figuring out how it works. To speculate based on my incredibly limited information, it looks like he might have some GFP-transgenic algae that fluoresce when the light inside the apparatus hits them. This means his setup isn't necessarily carbon-neutral since you still need electricity to power the lamp. Assuming I'm right it may also be way more expensive than it looks. I remember the bulbs for fluorescent microscopes were one or two hundred dollars back when I was in graduate school, and the one they're using is way bigger.

The stuff about algae consuming carbon dioxide is true. They're photoautotrophs. But I'm not sure what the advantage of this is over just putting giants vats of algae everywhere, or letting them do their business in the ocean.
I wrote a blog article on this sometime back.

http://spoiledtechie.com/post/2008/05/07/The-Actual-Cost-of-...

I totally agree. This business model needs disruption badly.
>I think criminalization of marijuana is terrible policy. But is it unconstitutional? The Constitution provided a framework within which the citizens of the US were able to elect representatives who passed laws that outlawed marijuana.

You're not pointlessly mocking me, you're mocking me because mocking me IS THE POINT for you.

Otherwise you wouldn't be bringing up arguments that I rebutted in the very first comment.

>I re-re-read 'nirvana's point, and I think my interpretation is valid and that I haven't misrepresented him.

Then you need some remedial schooling.

Show me where these powers are enumerated? You can't so you pretend like the enumerated powers are irrelevant.

>That's not how the Constitution works.

This is a wish, at best an assertion, and certainly not an argument. But it is a statement of your fascist ideology. You want the government to have absolute power to regulate people's lives to the nth degree-- from their access to the internet to what health care they are allowed to have. The constitution explicitly doesn't allow this, so you pretend like it does.

You know this, so you attack me personally, when I point it out.

That's all this is. The facts of reality disagree with your ideology, so you engage in ad hominem. And you seem to always show up whenever I say anything mildly political to attack me for the same reasons. You can't tolerate someone who points out the truth.

Because, if I were wrong, you would have made an argument. You didn't. You attacked me, not the point.
This part felt particularly applicable to the intellectual (and emotional) environment of young companies and the products they bring forth:

Many an idea or concept not only looks, but /is/ good in its infancy, yet turns destructive later in life. Scaling and maturation are not the obvious processes they appear to be because they take so much time that the accumulated effort is easy to overlook. To be successful, they must also be very carefully guided by people who can envision the end result, but that makes it appear to many as if it merely "happens".

The idea and the people that carry it out are intertwined because neither are static or even have any "essential" material whatsoever.

Worth reading just to have that thought articulated so well (once again).
His github account is nothing really special though just saying
We're not talking about mistakes. We're talking about crimes.

Under federal law, enforcing any laws that are not constitutionally enacted by federal employees, while armed, is a felony. This makes every TSA agent who is armed a felon. The unarmed ones are effectively felons as well due to the cumulative sentences for their crimes.

It doesn't matter that the congress and the president signed a law creating the TSA, under Mabury vs. Madison unconstitutional laws are null and void the moment they are passed. (which makes your lie about my position on Mabury obviously dishonest, but then, what should I expect from you?)

I'm unlikely to respond because you always post the same stuff, generally ad hominem, and you never defend your points. But your running around and engaging in ad hominem is apparently not embarrassing enough even when others point it out. You and the others doing the same thing destroyed HN, you've made rational discussion impossible.
Be funded, or they generally don't give a damn. That seems to be their MO.
Why I'm Not Trying to Raise the Next Steve Jobs
The government is okay at funding initial research but has a poor track record at effective development, and development is where you find almost all of the cost in the process of creating new drugs. This is the elephant in the room. The initial research is sexy but it is also relatively inexpensive and (partly) immune to the political process.

Basically, you can't count on politicians to properly and effectively fund hundreds of different billion-dollar long-term programs, many of which will be expected to produce nothing. Because the life cycle of development spans several elections, every program is at the whims and mercy of whoever happens to be in charge of the program at any point in time. One of the reasons military R&D is expensive is because of the constant stopping and starting, changing priorities, and legislatures from one term to the next trying to redirect money into their districts. For government R&D, funding tends to follow fashion, not what would be the best allocation over the long term.

I've been there and done that. Government funding research can work out reasonably well. Government funding development is a disaster that takes twice as long and costs (at least) three times as much because it is subject to the whims of Congress. The constant stopping and starting of R&D projects, sometimes with unfunded year-long gaps in the middle, make it difficult to keep a team together (the beltway government R&D companies exist in part to mitigate this employment risk for people that work on government R&D).
How To Waste $500,000 On A Domain Name - Startups.Com Story
He did not distance himself from MacRuby, though: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2012-Apr...
9 times out of 10 it's related to JS or some sort of external embedded resources. The other big culprit tends to be box-shadow which have pretty horrific performance in Chrome[1], but don't do that well in other browsers either.

I find that selector performance is not a problem unless you're dealing with large-scale one-page apps.

[1] http://nerds.airbnb.com/box-shadows-are-expensive-to-paint
>I think we are starting to get to that point with relational and nosql. Tools are starting to emerge on the relational DB side to allow more nosql-like structures within traditional DBMS systems. I think in the coming year or two we'll start seeing a lot more interesting tools to mix relational and non-relational datastores.

Yep. Postgres showed some pretty strong commitment to key-value datatypes in 2006 by including the hstore contrib module in the mainline tree, and native JSON support is coming in September with 9.2.
>However, as the algae can also produce energy from carbon, sunlight isn’t required for the process to work.

Can someone clarify on what is meant by carbon ? My science is at highschool level but if it converted CO2 to oxygen carbon and light without sunlight it would violate conservation of energy ? So what does it consume to break down CO2 ?
This is premature optimization, considering you could spend your time optimizing things that have higher impact.

Paul Irish said related to this:
"If aren't getting 90+ Page Speed scores, its way too early to be thinking about selector optimization"

http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/#comment...
I'm more worried about how difficult it is to keep them alive than them taking over the native environment.

I'd prefer glowing ponds to your ordinary algae ponds...
The way Apple introduced the iPhone was as revolutionary as the product itself. No carrier garbage on the phone, no carrier control of the end-user experience, "open" platform for apps (that came a little bit later), and unlimited data.
This sounds like a very naive view of biological systems. The complexity of the most complex thing computer science has created (I would argue that is the Internet) is still trivially simple compared to the brain.

What that means is the search space is huge, much larger than any space I've dealt with in computer science.

However, there may be something to what you are saying (I don't know enough about medical research to know whether they are already doing this or not). In public key cryptography, you have a huge key space to try if you want to brute force a key (2^64 for a 64 bit key, unsurprisingly). However, you can break a 64 bit key in about 2^40 operations if you use the right technique [1]. Are we spending enough time looking for those techniques? I certainly hope so. There are a lot of smart people in medicine.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-in-the-middle_attack
The upvotes could also mean that people appreciate a good presentation of introductory material, and they may see a use for it as something to send to the newbies on their team.

For this subject, I usually send people to Bill Kent's Guide to the Five Normal Forms:
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm
When the top executive at a huge technology conglomerate thinks this way, it just shows you how backward things still are.
German actually.
Read David Weekly's Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock-...
I used it correctly and quoted the definition from wikipedia to show I was using it correctly.
>This story, based upon information we’ve been seeing, holds some viability questions as to whether or not the lamps are powered by energy from photosynthesis, or simply C02 scrubbers. As such, we’ve positioned it more as a C02 scrubber, with thoughts on what it might take to evolve into an actual self-powered device.

Apparently it's mostly an algae tank on top of normal, battery-powered light. The algae isn't actually involved in producing light/electricity/anything useful. Or that's how I've understood reading about this around the web.
The infrastructure was done with public funds. People making something useful out of it was done in the private sector almost exclusively. In fact, the government is now one of the biggest threats to the internet.
Ah, that's where I remember this stuff from. Yes, this is a great series, and it's amazing how similar everyone's early-age start in technology was. Doom and Basic are common themes.
Wonder why such an article came up on HN startpage. There are no tests showing the effort of this performance tips, or how much this is true for different browsers. Is the CSS selector performance a real world problem in all browsers and all pages or only for large pages in mobile browsers? The article gives no answer.
At the end of the day, all the mentioned companies need to trust their domain name registrations to someone and just like normal people can use Namecheap or Gandi as their domain name registrar, big companies seem to use MarkMonitor because the services they provide are useful to them.

Last.fm also uses MarkMonitor and they explained why here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3687600
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Afaik neither. The algae mostly just sits there blocking the little light the lamp produces.
I just gotta say, I think 40% success rate is PRETTY GOOD.
I feel the same way, except it has been quite a while since I've read a good usenet-style rant, so I indulged.

The correctness of an idea vs the expression of the idea are not related. You can be "right" and horrible at explaining or "wrong" and very persuasive and eloquent.

The comparisons with comments from Linus are good examples. He can be very abrasive and condescending, but is usually right!
In related news, the FBI has banned sales of regular paper, and requires that any paper be embedded with microtransmitters that the FBI can easily activate and read the contents of the paper, effectively closing the analog gap that prevents papertapping.
What is this, arguing for the sake of arguing? He answered your question perfectly. Adding color for "emotions" makes absolutely no sense in this context.
Well, I make arguments. Here, in fact, I was really asking people for ideas! I wasn't even disagreeing with anyone. Its just that, because I like Apple (and that's against the HN consensual ideology) and I'm a libertarian (again frowned upon) SOME people simply can't tolerate me making articulate posts.

I generally get several responses from people who make counter arguments and we have a nice debate (if we both stick around.) But its the people who engage in personal attacks who are VOTED UP on HN and who have there pile in with them to engage in personal attacks, or nonsense arguments, like the ones at the top of this thread (where there are a lot of assertions but very little argument from the opposition).

I'd love for there to be a salon type place where intelligent people can talk about startup topics. (really, and not politics.)

Security of your domain name is a startup topic. The liberal ideology that the constitution places no restraints on government action is something I thought would be kept at bay since this is a conversation about exactly and abuse of that unlimited power... but alas, I was too optimistic.

Surely liberals see power being abused-- they howled when bush was in office, that's for sure, and these same things have been continued under obama, so why can't we talk about that? Why must the topic be about how evil I am for daring to think differently?

A shame your comment was voted down.
What is wrong with HN?
Hm, my immediate thought was that it would be written like TeX, e.g.:

\p{Hello, \a[http://example.com]{world}}

This doesn't quite match what he's saying but I think it's a little more readable than your version.
Article II, which I quoted, gives the president power to enforce laws. Article I, which I quoted, twice, gives Congress power to legislate this into existence. Article I gives Congress power to legislate any necessary and proper laws for any branch of government. As I have already said. There times, counting now. I even italicized the relevant parts for you when I repeated myself the other time.

Also, stop downvoting anyone who contradicts you. To downvote everyone not on your side is against the spirit of this site.
Not being argumentative, but I'm curious: why do you think that Adelle doesn't work well for body text? I'm trying to learn more about fonts and their selection.
Unlimited data is the only reason I'm still on AT&T at all
His comments about the variable cost are misleading. Firing extra packets on their network doesn't cost them more.

Here's my post on + about it: https://plus.google.com/117025825144195468236/posts/KEj5e3nk...
Reverse engineering drugs is straightforward and relatively trivial. There is no correlation between ease of reverse engineering and R&D cost.

The very high cost comes from development of a drug candidate, not the initial discovery of a candidate. If you skip the part where they demonstrate that the chemical is effective, efficient, and safe for its intended purpose in large human populations then you are correct. At that point it is just a moderately low-cost chemical manufacturing problem.

However, I only see them copying drugs where someone else spent billions of dollars demonstrating safety and effectiveness. There are myriad drug candidates that no one has proven safe and effective that they are not copying because that would require real investment on their part.
I agree. OP does not need tech crunch, although it would certainly be a nice ego boost to be featured there.

I think there are two sides to the startup world. The glam side: featured in TC, gets lots of early funding, and is visible in general. Sold right away, for a large amount of money. Think instagram. The other side of the coin is the army of startups that no one really talks about. These startups bootstrap, they have customers, they make money, and they create jobs. They are the unsung heroes of the startup world. They are often focused on professional verticals that are otherwise not super interesting to the general audiences of tech crunch et al. They are the companies that employ many of us.

At the end of the day this is not a beauty contest. It is about providing a valuable service to your customers.