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Feels like you should take the advice even further for a startup. A startup shouldn't be going vertical or horizontal - a startup should be picking one individual problem to solve and focusing on only that.

Horizontal is close to impossible for a startup. The budgets involved don't usually allow for focusing on more than one product market at a time.

Vertical is also very hard. The startup would need to be in at least two different businesses to go vertical. Lots of IT/web startups do try this by being in both the infrastructure business and the software product business, with half of their startup aimed at creating new methods of managing servers and data, and half on providing some user software on top of that. There are lots of success stories here, but you have to assume there are lots of failures also who went overboard on building up a vertical where they didn't need the whole vertical to solve their actual startup goal.

Basically, I'd say in the same way a mature corporation is one that pays out in dividends any money that they can't get good return on, a mature startup would be one that focuses only on a single core business goal of some kind, and fails quickly if that business goal doesn't work. Vericals/horizontals can come after the startup phase and the business goal is met.
No capitalism and go environment is definitely the overarching theme in this campaign. And I do believe that the prevailing capitalism is damaging to our earth. But they also make a point in advocating the support of local business to stimulate the local economy.
Yes, and how is that different than, say, chess AIs, which were a holy grail of AI research?
isn't the problem weightlessness, not zero gravity?

ie, centrifugal acceleration canceling out low gravity in LEO
Don't believe me? Find me cookbooks from before 2006 suggesting dry brining turkeys. (There are lots that recommend wet brining, which is much more work and results in meat that is about the same, and a much worse skin.)

Russ Parsons has been publishing in a nationally read newspaper on this subject for several years. He's had a lot of letters back with people suggesting various tricks to make it better. (One of those is where he got the idea of trying to add spices to that salt.) As far as I know he has not received one response to the tune of, "I've known about this for ages, see X." To the contrary I've seen a number of food experts comment positively on this as a new twist to the holiday turkey.

That is why I have come to the belief that this really is an innovation. But I'd be happy to be corrected.
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This is Nan, I'm an engineer @everlane. Stop by any time you are in town, and I would love to have coffee.
Agreed. I'd never heard of Everlane before, and now that they finally have my attention, I can't actually look at any of their products.

Leaving their product pages up and simply disabling purchasing would have been a better idea.
That is pessimistic to say the least. Time will tell how much traction it receives, and next steps for the project.
Would there be a way for these lightning rounds to disqualify someone if they put the app into a background process? You would have to be locked into the app in the foreground for the entire match.
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You're right, but I think the main point of the campaign is to show that the way the world economy is growing is harmful to our planet.
Or "it feels trivial". My uncle spent most of Thanksgiving dinner bitching about how trivial Facebook is. I'm sure he'd find a lot of people who agree with him, but Zuck and the first 100 employees at Faceboook can just laugh at them behind stacks of money and rock solid analytics.
I added a small link to the about page - it's easy to miss but anyone who is looking for it should have no trouble.
My pet theory is the reason they are so popular is "biofuels" has the word "bio" in it, which excites the sorts of greenies that don't examine things too closely.

Supporting evidence: aggressive marketing of "probiotic" supplements
I do not understand why not a lunar base first.

It's closer to us, will lead to much more complicated problems to solve that we can get on Mars>

- dealing with plants in greenhouses with the much reduced gravity of the Moon compared to Mars
- no atmosphere, although this means no weather, which makes things more predictable compared to Mars.

For me there's no way a space colony grow to be huge without addressing ways of dealing with food production and stand alone survival of the colony, if we have ways to study this without spending months travelling, reducing risk and cost, then it's better, it would sum us more knowledge.
What is 'subjective' about 38,702,000 people murdered?

There is something deeply, profoundly morally wrong with you that you have attempted to equivocate that number away for the sake of your ideology.

Polite debate fails here. This is unforgivable. You must become a different person to the one you are now, the one who can put these weasel words on a web forum to try to blur distinctions that must be made.
Sadly reporters and all the privacy people forget to mention this. They make it seems like they are tracking their EXACT location.
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Tangent- we have LPG, and from what I understand it's actually very successful in niche applications. Have we tried liquefied methane gas? We have many more sources of methane than propane.
>$1000 in safety equipment isn't a big deal in the US, but it could be more than a third world-worker makes in entire year.

We're not talking $1 a day subsistance farmer when we talk free trade agreements. We're talking about the standards billion dollar multinational companies must comply with to do business between countries. Indeed, $1000 in safety equipment means almost nothing to these companies, but they'll only do it if we force them to. Our efficient free market system favors those that can reduce their costs of operations to the minimum level possible. If we don't make the rules of the playing field encompass these standards, everyone will be beholden to the guy that meets only the bare minimums, because he can sell his stuff the cheapest.
A significant detail that is not in the article.

He's asking a half million each to go there. But the return trip is free. Why? He's got to get the spacecraft back anyways, and the cost of that dwarfs the cost of adding passengers.

There may be a lot more people who are willing to go when they know that, if it does not work for them, they can come back to Earth for free.
Interesting article, and a terrible headline in the Times about it. It's not Neuroscience: Under Attack, it's Pop Neuroscience: Under Attack, and it's under attack by scientists.

It's also part of a fad of how science works or is absorbed in culture.

Here's the Times in 1973, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, in which the antagonist, Dwayne Hoover's actions are caused by the bad chemicals in his system.

Is Kurt Vonnegut Kidding Us?

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-bre...

In 1973 it was chemistry. In 2013 it's neuroscience.
How do you know that "a good number of people who browse the new page" ?

I would guess the 'new' page gets 1% of traffic compared to the Main page. So on a slow day like today, such a quick feedback looked organized... but that seems to be the way to go to get on HN I read.
The whole of Europe had potato crop failures at the same time, but only Ireland had famine. Imagine, in China's case that xighur had a famine while the rest didn't. Now does it make sense to include the whole country in the statistics?

You might as well include France in the stats too...
> I'm still confused about this whole thing. What did he do that he needed to resign for?

I'm not an American and I don't live in the States, but from what I can tell a bigger f*ck-up was that Mrs. Broadwell gained access to Petraeus's personal email account. God only knows (or in this case the FBI) what was in there, but I suspect it was not only about baseball newsletters and photos with Petraeus's nephews and kids. This coming from the man that heads the CIA is a major no-no, IMHO.
I'm not one to declare other people's motivation, but it strikes me as very odd that there isn't a "So, here's what's irreparably wrong with dpkg/apt and rpm/yum".
I don't think this is a marketing technique. I think Google + LG have genuinely screwed this one up through underestimation of demand, manufacturing/supply problems, or both. There's too much competition in phones right now for them to give up a customer to someone who is interested but needs to wait. Plus, with the holiday season in full swing, retailers are pushing discounts hard, and every day counts.

Constrained supply can be a good marketing technique for a short period time and can drive awareness and a sense of urgency, but the demand needs to be elastic. 12 months after the Wii launched, it was still highly sought and frequently sold out. I don't think we'll be saying the same for the Nexus 4 in November 2013.
(I'm an engineer @everlane) The general concept behind this is not maximizing metrics. We didn't put social sharing buttons there, and we were not in your face about email capture because that would have distracted from the core message. This was a high risk marketing play - we wanted to see how much buzz and earned press we could get by doing this. The sort of extremeness of the design is part of the message.
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He addressed that in a recent interview.

The Moon has far less water than Mars. No CO2. And it has a 28 day rotation cycle, which makes growing plants much more difficult. Mars has water, plentiful CO2, and a day that's only about 40 minutes longer than Earth's. This makes growing plants on Mars much, much easier.
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Which is why I argue for it. Humans do have the ability to override their natural way of thinking, until that day is no longer true I guess I'll keep arguing for the case of moderation.
What is your sales pitch to them?
But this multitude of narrow solutions creates a marketing and usability nightmare for users. What's the hip place to rent rooms now? And how do I use it, because it has no UI consistency with services for renting cars and objects.

So even if these services have success, it's hard to out-market a go to portal for trading/renting between individuals. Without a unifying interface they'll merely coexist with Craigslist.
Nice article, but the use of std::wstring threw me in a little loop. Perhaps the author is on Windows where its usage is more common?
The Anandtech article didn't test out 1800MHz, but I would guess that 1800MHz (band 3) would be the second most likely band to be supported on the Nexus 4. It is a band until now normally used for GSM.

The other bands he has tested for aren't really in use for LTE yet.
So it's safe to say this library might annoy users with accidental clicks.
Yes, you can choose not to trade, you can even agree within a group that there will be no trading in the group. But if you coerce other to refrain from any trading they wish to engage in without hurting you, they are not free.

The fundamental axiom is that you own your own body. It follows from there that you own the output of your body. Trade is fundamentally the voluntary exchange of this output for other people's output. Preventing this exchange amounts to denying you the right to dispose of the output of your body, thus denying you ownership of it, thus denying you ownership of your body.
At a market rate of ~$4USD per pound of bacon that puts an average weight developer at the $600-800. Assuming this developer is paid that amount per day it will be about 150k - 200k USD per year. I'd say that would be an accurate amount of money for someone that is worth their weight in bacon.
I commented on this in the Maker/Manager transition article from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816586

At weak engineering companies, senior developers are moved into managing roles because (I believe) the company culture doesn't believe engineers truly provide value. In the traditional model, value is built by supervising larger numbers of people and contributing to more projects. To justify your salary, you have to be "in charge" of more people. It's a traditional hierarchy.

At strong engineering companies, they understand that some engineers are multiple times more productive than other engineers and that those people provide real value. So, people who are good at organizing and directing work are moved (not necessarily promoted) to roles ensuring product delivery while people who are good at hacking keep hacking. The delivery guys aren't necessarily "above" the developer guys. In fact, sometimes it's the opposite.

That's a good way to organize things because it ensures that people do the work they're best at and that the whole system is a meritocracy.

But it's rarefied air at the top of the senior engineer ladder. If you want to get paid $200k/year to write code, you have to provide close to equal value to 4 (very smart) recent grads at $50k/year. Not everyone can do that, so for a lot of engineers shifting to a more supervisory role that more strongly leverages their experience is a more economically viable proposition.
The values are held weakly in ES6 weak maps.
Compared to solar, they're all silly. You live the glow a giant nuclear reactor, so large it is contained only by its own gravity. A .01% yield on the energy incident on earth would power everything we ever need.
But I didn't learn a lot of those things from public school either.

I was surrounded by middle class white people very similar to myself, with a few black people here and there. No Asians, no Hispanics, etc. And yet strangely I wasn't confused or inadvertently insensitive when I eventually did encounter people of other ethnicities. What is there really to learn there, other than don't be a dick?

A few of the items in your list apparently assume that being homeschooled also means never seeing any other humans outside your immediate family, which is preposterous. There are always extracurricular events, church events, family friends, neighborhood kids, etc.

The worst item on your list is "learning how to learn." I smiled when I read that, because of the implication that doing busy work every evening is preferable to self-motivated browsing of Wikipedia and the Internet. I contend that the opposite is true.

> And then there's the fact that self-schooling really is quite ineffective when compared to being tutored properly, and utterly dependent on the student being able to grasp difficult concepts without outside help...

Of course I agree with that, but it's essentially a tautological statement due to the inclusion of the word "properly." The fact is, of the dozens of teachers I had in public schools, there were maybe 3 that actively helped me understand a difficult concept. There are easily twenty times that number of people who have actively helped me understand difficult concepts in programming, mathematics, philosophy, and computer science via my self-initiated communication on the Internet (mostly via forums and IRC).
Word 2010 actually works, particularly with your example:

1. Type: "I want less apples."
2. Click Review > Spelling & Grammar
3. Grammar dialog appears:
Number Agreement: "I want *less* apples"
Suggestions: "fewer"
4. Click Explain
5. "Number Agreement

A noun and the words that modify that noun must agree in number. "Many"
and "few" modify plural nouns. "Much" and "less" modify nouns that cannot
be counted or divided such as "much oil," "less happiness." In addition,
the phrase "one of" must modify a plural noun."

Word 97 (and possibly earlier versions) also supported grammar checking for number agreement as evidenced in this review: http://www.ateg.org/monographs/haist.php
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Well, that's all this entire thread is about—the word "architect."
"I like eating varieties of foods... I would open a restaurant!" I'm getting hit by this thought regularly. What'll be your take on this Patrick?
I like that this brings out a bunch of people who don't understand Scheme or why it's important to be purely functional. Oh you, startup kids.
It's much harder to colonize when you don't have locals to oppress. I'm surprised Musk isn't targeting all the pretty rich universities that would pay tens of millions to put grad students down on the red planet scraping up research material.
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Maybe you should have a look to liquibase (http://www.liquibase.org/) then.
Although it uses sequence to label the migration changeset, it does not rely on them to ensure that the DB is in a correct state. It relies on a hash of the various changesets so that if a changeset is updated while already applied, the system will complain about it.
I guess that depends on how you use it. Probably unwise to use it on every link, but certain UI elements could benefit from it.
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That's the spirit! A lot of people seem to be interpreting this as a one day thing. The campaign is using this day to start a revolution in changing the way we consume in the current economy. At least that's the goal. Less mass over-consumption and more stimulation of the local economy.
> We're not talking $1 a day subsistance farmer when we talk free trade agreements.

Yes, you are.

He is part of the same local economy and by placing a cost on those higher up the chain, you will affect him just as much.

> Indeed, $1000 in safety equipment means almost nothing to these companies, but they'll only do it if we force them to.

If that was the case, they wouldn't have out-sourced the manufacturing to begin with. They wouldn't be buying expensive robots to replace that minimal-cost labor as we speak. Every penny counts.

> Our efficient free market system favors those that can reduce their costs of operations to the minimum level possible.

This is true, but to a point.

> If we don't make the rules of the playing field encompass these standards, everyone will be beholden to the guy that meets only the bare minimums, because he can sell his stuff the cheapest.

Frequently, consumers take many other factors into a purchase decision. Not just the price. If I know that a product was manufactured in a responsible manner, I'm willing to pay more for it.

If this wasn't the case, the organic movement wouldn't exist. Neither would the local-food movement.

People are willing to pay for higher quality goods and even identical goods that were manufactured in a more responsible manner.
There are pros and cons and also implementation. If the pros outweigh the cons and the implementation is good it'll work.

Personally, I use AirBnB. I've never rented holiday accommodation through a classifieds site.
That last sentence was hilarious. Weed seeds are in almost all soil. They arrive there on the wind. What constitutes a "weed" is that it's a plant that's not desired in a specific location. What is, and is not, a weed, is entirely contextual.

The reason for walling a garden is to create a microclimate that protects the garden from the wind. It's like a greenhouse. It's protection for species that would otherwise not survive in the area.

The way to get non-walled technology is government intervention. That's how the internet was invented. Then, as it was deployed and commercialized, it "won out" because it was open, while services like AOL, Delphi, GEnie, Prodigy, Apple's eWorld, CompuServe, and MSN were closed, walled garden online services.
The problem with the radioactive waste is not its radiation. Its usually in check unless it is pulled out of reactor core. The problem for the people in contact with it more often is that it is extremely poisonous.
Rather than a base moon or mars or any planet, why not a space colony with pluggable units using a standard plug-in architecture to exchange energy, supplies etc. (Similar to an API). There is no main unit, similar to a P2P structure, and units can be stacked together to make huge colonies. Each cluster of units may move in an upfront known trajectory in the habitable zone of the Sun. The whole idea is that space startups may create newer units based on new ideas; and that way we may explore the space quicker.
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I doubt many people know or care about Woz other than engineers and perhaps some studious Apple fans and analysts. Remember that he hasn't been involved in the company for twenty-five years. Bill Gates saying things like these agout Microsoft would understandly have a much larger effect.
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Thank you for your response ghubbard.

My sales pitch is that

1. I have projects available that can make them get money (and skills on their resume), since they (and I) really need it.

2. Im ready to train them (as I'll be paying for their time as well), because although they are CS & IT Students, they've not been taught how to program good.

3. Im willing to work on their schedule (since many of them are students)

4. They can tell me what programming language or projects they'll like to learn (or interested in) and I'm willing to get what they want.

But still, it's almost as if everything I've done is a waste of time.

Is there something I don't know? Am I doing something wrong?

Am I crazy? They need money and I have a way of getting it for them, but yet no one wants to work. Like please, why is that?
Being forced to carry one probably falls under the "unreasonable search" clause of the 4th Amendment.
Think we're likely to see a similar pattern with Facebook—seems clear that the instagram acquisition happened because they were scared of someone capturing the photo-sharing "vertical" better than they do.
The gravitational field you're in doesn't matter if you're in free-fall.
> No way to grow food there unless you export a whole lot of greenhouses

No, you can build the greenhouses in-situ. We have already worked out how to produce metals and polymers from martian resources.

> This is already hard to do in deserts or in the Polar regions, where we have plenty of oxygen and free moisture flowing in the atmosphere.

Sure, there will be considerable challenges. I don't see anything that will be insurmountable.
NASA has a deathly fear of tethers for some reason, but I suppose that wouldn't stop Musk.
I like how everyone comes into this debate with a different concept of what bio-fuels "do."

If you think about supplying the worlds energy needs using bio-fuel it is a non-starter, and that is basically what the editorial says. Converting incident sunlight into useful energy through existing photo synthesis processes is inefficient and does a great harm in terms of food production.

If you think of it as a way of converting sunlight into something that pre-existing infrastructure can use (fuels) that can be justified on the expense of swapping out the existing infrastructure.

Big picture -> move everything to electricity and gas, since those two forms of energy are pretty readily convertible into the other forms we need.

Intermediate points -> you need a petroleum fuel cycle while you're converting everything else.
Doesn't pg commenting on this thread validate it's relevance? I posted this because I wanted to see a hacker discussion of this topic.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821675
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