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I use an IDE that allows code folding. With opening braces on their own line, I get:

function bob()
{
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On the same line as the function, I get:

function bob() {
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Much cleaner. Plus, I don't worry about being able to match braces against each other, I have an IDE that does that for me. (When my cursor is against one brace, it's partner is highlighted.)
This is one of the few big pluses Europe has over America for startups. Unfortunately it's not nearly enough.
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If all you mentioned was the fact that press doesn't check its facts, you might not have been down-voted. However, you almost encouraged others do that and boasted of yourself doing; that's what got you the down-votes.
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keep in mind, he probably doesn't believe a third of that. if he'd do what he seems to have done to amazon for attention, then you know he's willing to make up inflammatory lies for an interviewer.
If you use -any- sort of DRM, it will be extremely restrictive to the end user. Personally, I think really what is needed is for it to be convenient for the end user. This is what keeps me buying music from Amazon MP3. I don't even need any software other than a browser if I'm buying a single song. There's nothing to stop me from sharing my files with a few friends but Amazon MP3 probably makes up for whatever sales that would be lost this way because I like the service so much I recommend it to people all the time. Just give the user a raw, non-drm PDF file. If you really need to do -something-, dynamically insert a unique user ID on the last page of the book, just on the page, no steganography, write "Purchased by user #12345." PDF is pretty much a read-only format, so this wouldn't be easy to remove.

This probably won't keep people from casually sharing the book with their friends but will probably effectively put them off of sharing it publicly on the internet or p2p.
Laws exist to deter people from doing things that are possible, so the fact that their system allowed him to do it is irrelevant.

The quality of the troll is also irrelevant. The fact that you commit a crime really well doesn't make it any less illegal.

That said, I'm not certain what he did should have been illegal. But I can't think of a single reason he shouldn't be sued. There's no way he didn't forsee loss of revenue for Amazon. If you deliberately cause harm to another person, even if you work out how to do it without technically breaking the law, they should absolutely be able to get their loss back from you.
He used to proudly say that he only invests in businesses he understands.

He seemingly lost his mind with his investment in Concoco Phillips.

I hope electric cars do well too, but this is another lapse in judgment.
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that startups that haven't been able to get recent angel funding in CA haven't moved to MA just for this reason. (Again, all else being equal, no family restrictions, etc.)
Sad but (if?) true. Another IT department with the philosophy, “No one ever got fired for going with Microsoft.”
I'm not sure, but I can say that it will slow your tests down quite a bit. If you're going to test every page you might just consider making your markup XHTML strict and test to make sure the XML is well formed.
Well that's just it. The way they are dealing with it is "evil" to most people.
> What you claim is that there are opinions I have which I can't handle changing. I say "bullshit".

You know yourself. I know lots of other people who have made exactly the same claims. Maybe you're a unicorn.

> If you want credibility here, you need to give some examples

What kind of examples would satisfy you? The names of people who made those claims who I "exposed"?

> I've already discounted ideologies

I read "I assume you thought I follow some other stupid ideology when you wrote that post." as a claim that you didn't follow some "stupid ideology". Are you now now saying that you do follow some stupid ideology but that it's off limits or doubling-down on the original claim?
"Now we're running out [of oil]"

"In a time of climate change..."

You can't take an argument seriously if those two points are brought up right next to eachother. Either we're running out of oil, or our continued use of oil will cause climate change. They are self-solving problems if both are true.

Running out of oil would also solve the bottled water problem, because the price would increase. There is no action required by Representative Kucinich, because market price alone solves the problem.

I'm continually amazed that convenience isn't brought up more often in the context of bottled water. It's the only reason I buy it, and it's a really, really good reason. Sometimes, I just can't bring along a nalgene.

I can guarantee that I've lived in places where the "last mile", i.e. the piping in the house, contained more toxins than any plastic bottle. New York if often praised for having the best tap water. The taste alone in some apartments will let you know that claim is bullshit for its incompleteness.
He could also be seen as a free security consultant. What he did basically amounted to a victimless crime, but could have possibly been used for something worse. If Amazon has one CSRF vulnerability via an improper use of GET, there may well be more. This incident may help them tighten their systems against more malicious attacks.
I know the LHC has been getting the lions share of attention these days, but the National Ignition Facility, APS, NSLS2, ITER, and ILC all deserve some mention. I may just be a sucker for big toys, but there are days I think I should have been a high-energy particle physicist!
Essentially, the guidelines are pretty much related to how you post comments. They are stylistic suggestions.

In the case of the comments you linked to, what the readership (and I personally) took offense at, is the fact that you proudly proclaim that you lied to the media, and then claim that it's just being "resourceful."

To summarize: you sound like someone with no moral values whatsoever.
You were downvoted because of the apparent unethical practice of making up data and the duping bloggers into using your story. HN is a pretty ethical group of people and pretty much dont appreciate this kind of thing. Excepting wiseass remarks, I'm rarely downvoted, and if it's done unfairly, someone else usually jumps to my defense. Maybe others view your unpopular comments as trolling.
Um, yes they are doing ODEs in high school. Not all of them, but a few.
Agreed. Furthermore, the shortened URLs typically point to the large, better named URLs anyway. For applications, like search engines, that index the web; they should take resources that respond with an HTTP 302 or 301 with a grain of salt and/or index the resource they redirect to.

Frankly, I'm getting tired of the debates around how shortened URLs are bad.
I didn't encourage anyone to do that. I just stated the fact to prove that journalists have a very short attention span
When I started my own company I bought health insurance. If you can't afford it, you can't afford to start your own company. No different really from other expenses like equipment and such.
It would be really fun to get some Nvidia personal supercomputers together and provide a CUDA supercomputer as a web service. Would it be a viable business? I don't know, but it would be fun.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html
How is it a victimless crime? The authors and publishers of all the books that lost sales rank were directly harmed by it. By not showing up in searches or bestseller lists, their sales were affected.
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They dropped EcmaScript Edition 4 because of internal fights between Adobe and Microsoft - and I doubt they have resolved their issues as it's a clash of mega corporations. Right now, most of the proposed changes in EcmsScript Edition 5 are minor and there will go a long time before they are used by the mainstream developer. I think most future web development will be focused on HTML 5, CSS3 and improved performance of JavaScript - - which is a shame, since EcmaScript Edition 4 implemented correctly would have made a real revolution.
I started a Twitter blog not that long ago. In contrast to something like Facebook (at present), I can have a public micro-blog and be anonymous if I want to be. I only tweet about technical stuff I'm working on, rather than what I ate for dinner or what's on TV, and follow friends on a different account or via RSS. Mostly my tweets and feedback help keep me motivated without spending the time I would on a full length blog post (or coming here for that matter :).

It's interesting to see people filtering for keywords and just automatically following you if you use those words (surely in an attempt to gain followers). After the first post where I mentioned Ubuntu, I suddenly had a spike in followers, but all of them were following thousands of people and have never tweeted back to me.
this is stupid alarmist crap. bottled water isn't a "trick". There is no great deception here waiting to have its "hinges blown off". People are being offered a product that there's obviously demand for. If you want to take issue with the fact that stupidity drives that demand, that's a COMPLETELY different thing.
Actually, we figured out that $1 is pretty right price for the value we provide. We have more features in mind, and we are thinking about something like premium membership charge to enable them, so we can make some profit from there also.

But we do not want to raise the price. At the end, it's the service to _help_ people when they are hiring. We are targeting every single, even 1-2 people, company. When they need, say, Ruby or Java developer for their own particular needs, they want to be able not to waste time (they have business to run!) but simply to figure out the most important moments about all candidates. It may be years of experience, how well they know the language, which frameworks and databases did they use and how long, etc. Crawling through cover letters, resumes, etc. definitely can do the job, but it is nor time effective, neither money wise.

Thanks for the review!
OK, call me an old fart then. I did AP Calculus in '92, and ODE was certainly NOT on the list.

I shouldn't be surprised I guess. After all, once upon a time Special Relativity was graduate level material.

One more sign that the singularity is near, I suppose...
ten years ago i studied this langrange thingy in graduate level engineering mechanics

now they teach it in high school ... wow! should i feel dumb or happy?
I haven't worked with anyone who doesn't inflate numbers while pitching to customers, VCs, and/or partners. Would you consider them with no moral values as well...

How do you draw a line?
Put means put the value at the key location.

Like in Smalltalk:

dictionary at: 'key' put: value.
Having said this - even if I have no moral values whatsoever, I don't think I should be down voted...
You should do some research on "guidelines" versus "rules".

Also: the internet is hard, if you're going to say something in public, you need a thicker skin.
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1) just answered it below (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560420)
2) that's our priority, and we really need somebody, but being busy with the development/support we still have this problem

anybody want to help? or suggest somebody?

and thank you, I appreciate your feedback!
but...if some things are decided by biology, that means I can't be anything I want.

This study is clearly unamerican and probably racist.
Yes it is, in fact the last time I bought an "individual" plan for my family maternity was explicitly NOT covered; adding it would have made the premium much higher. I paid about $400/month for spouse and kids; I had my own coverage at work but they did not provide family coverage.

If you KNOW you don't need maternity coverage that saves you a lot of money, but don't have any "accidents" as childbirth will cost you many thousands, up to hundreds of thousands if there are complications.
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All he did was enable Amazon to be sent some data.

Amazon shouldn't just blindly accept data and trust it is legitimate.

Same with creating false accounts.

You can't really compare it with breaking and entering a house.
Yes, the comment mentioned feeding made-up "facts" to the press, and a lot of the downvotes doubtless were made to show disagreement with that practice. Right now, downvoting means either

a) I disagree with the fact (or policy) mentioned in the comment,

or

b) I think the comment undermines the HN community,

and in the case of a comment about lying to the press, both interpretations of the meaning of a downvote might lead to a downvote on such a comment.
Sometimes you have to get things done now and have to come back to understanding the problem in depth later.

This is a great way to create whole new problems.
"In my personal experience, if you want press to write about you/your startup, you'll have to give them interesting stories that their readers like to read." (emphasis mine)

Come on. Get over it, learn from it, and just move on.
If Microsoft is serious about being nice to the internet, they need to release a plugin for IE7 and 8 that makes it act exactly like IE6 for selected sites, and "regular" IE for everything else. Enter some whitelisting of sites, to avoid using the plugin as an attack vector for bad things, and there should be a chance we could all move on.
All else is not equal, they don't call it "Taxachussets" for nothing.
Now, Why was this comment down voted?
I see a lot of posts like yours on a lot of web development forums, especially on hacker news. "Gotta support ie6, it still has some market share" they always say. But who is running this legacy browser? What kind of person is it? Well it's probably either: A) the office worker stuck in a legacy-IT job, or B) someone who doesn't really know better, and just uses their computer to check their email, maybe.

If you consider this, for the majority of sites, we are already IE6 free. Yes, you could develop 2 versions of the same app, but wouldn't your time be better spent either improving your more functional version of your app, or maybe creating an entirely new app with your free time?
teh internet = serious business
i think the point is not about permanence per se but who gets to decide. shorteners add another party to the mix (clicker, transit, shortener, publisher) that gets to decide when to break links.
Does this really belong on HN? Isn't it better suited for Reddit or Digg?
When I paid for private health insurance, My premiums were around $450/month for a family of 3. This was (if I recall correctly) and 80/20 plan with a $1000 deductible. I then dumped $1000 into my HSA and I was set.
Yea, they're the first ones that we found when researching the idea. They're now quiet and own something like shoppingads.com and did a similar thing, but only with ebay items through their partner/affiliate system. We're doing our own system (no sniping in our system, btw), and the auctionads.com people seem to be very quiet nowadays. It's our guess that they were acquired and put to bed.
Great! Now all my comments would be down voted...

Just because you don't agree doesn't mean you should down vote me...

In fact, you guys are proving my point.
I gave an example of how little press cares to check authenticity of your comments and the fact they worry only about making interesting stories.

Let's link back to the original comment in question.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559651

In my personal experience, if you want press to write about you/your startup, you'll have to give them interesting stories that their readers like to read.

They don't have too much attention span. They don't care about how hard/easy it is do, or even if it is true or not. They just care about interesting stories...

For one of my stories I told them that we did some survey and just made up the findings. They loved it and published it next day without looking at my data or even asking me methodology of survey/research

In the context of the overall thread,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=559646

that looked a lot like giving advice, because that was a direct reply to an "Ask HN" thread-opening post.
I wish, because otherwise I would gladly take advantage of that, but I've never seen such an option available (then again, my plan is individual, not family...). Meanwhile, I'm getting sent brochures from Anthem (my health insurance provider) about pregnancy and prenatal care. You'd imagine that's a bit lacking in tact if the only health related things that have stayed constant in my life for the past several years are allergies and hormonal contraceptives.
The logic behind his motive is flawed. Just because there's an active homosexual/meth community on craigslist doesn't mean that members of the homosexual/meth community (or its superset, the homosexual community) are necessarily doing the flagging.
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People already select for desired traits in their children through mate selection (although it is generally a subconscious selection). If I wanted to have a child with dark skin, I would mate with a person with dark skin.

Would genetic modification be that different from the above example I gave?

Additionally, I have the right to reproduce. Who can tell me what I can or cannot do to produce my child?
As for the Product Tour -- we'll try to "light" it up a little bit, so it will stand out on the page. Thanks for the advice!

As for the screening -- we've been talking to many recruiters, and usually they used the term "screening" as a process before the initial and face-to-face interviews. This is the step when it's only required to separate unqualified candidates from others. People just tend to submit resume even if they clearly are not a fit (by different research papers it states that more than 80% meet less than half of job requirements).

You may be referring to "criminal/drug screening" or "pre-employment screening" processes, which are more like verifying the information provided by the candidate.

But it's good you brought it to our attention -- we'll figure out how to put some "hint" about what we are actually mean by "screening" on Strawlink.
Depends if you're a believer in the "genetic lottery" (to use John Rawls's term) or not. If you believe that things like catastrophic accidents or health conditions have a large amount of "luck" involved in them, then morally speaking it's more fair to spread the cost of them out over the whole population rather than concentrating it in whoever happens to get unlucky enough to develop leukemia or get hit by a bus.

Of course, health is something that people have some amount of control over, but exactly how much is obviously a big open question. Unsurprisingly, people who are on the "winning" side of the lottery (be it health, talent, or success in things like sports and business) tend to under-estimate how much luck has to do with it, over-estimate their own contribution, and thus also over-estimate how much someone else's actions have to do with their "loss" in that lottery.
Trollers are sadists, period. Just because you are capable of the problem solving and coding required to pull stunts like this off doesn't justify deceiving others and causing them anguish. I have no idea if they believe the ideologies they spin to justify what they do as a perverse form of heroism. All of the worst assholes in history had ideology aplenty to justify their destructive behavior.
I think people wouldn't down vote you if you made a genuine effort to defend your position. Lame excuses like "everyone else is doing it" and "it's not actually wrong" don't count.
If you're interested in feedback, send me a note - we don't have auctions on Dawdle, but I'd be happy to share a lot of the auction research we have.
A lot of people only surf the web when at work. If you want to sell to those people then your website has to work on their work computer.
I still don't understand why it should be down voted...

Your value system may be different from mine. If the advice doesn't make sense to you, move on, try something else..
I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of moans about IE6. IE6 is old and sucks. We get it. Yes, around a fifth of web users use IE6. No, nothing can be done to force users and IT departments to move across. No, it's not Microsoft's fault. If you want to pull support, do it. Good luck to you. But having moan in the comments of tangentially related articles isn't going to help anybody.

It's got little to do with this (admittedly crappy) article. Standards take years to get implemented, if they ever do, but it doesn't mean that standards shouldn't be written for a time when they are supported, because that would mean no progress instead of slow progress, and that would be even worse.
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We've been collecting data on visitors for one of the sites I work on, and it's about 20% IE6 still. We haven't yet collated data for what our actual signed-in users typically use, though.

Of course my time would be better spent on not dealing with IE6 irregularities. 80% of our time is spent on making sure 20% of our users can use the site ;)
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Thanks for this valuable feedback! Want also to mention that if any of you will be hiring, or will need some help with screening -- use us! Register now (http://www.strawlink.com/referrer/hackernews) and you'll get your accounts credited right away. We will be turning off the new registration credits soon, but I want to say that if any of you will need Strawlink and will not have money to spend -- let me know -- alex@strawlink.com
I will do my best to help. As I mentioned before - Strawlink's goal is to help facilitate the screening process, and if we will learn how to do it better -- all of us will benefit. Everybody who create new jobs opportunities, and everybody who is looking for a job.

Thanks!
Actually, it compares very well. Your typical consumer door lock might as well just not be there to a skilled lock picker.
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i like it because there is no physical limitation and raw materials involved for creating something

network programming nullifies the distribution constraint

to me basically programming is freedom (no constraint, insane leverage)
I see your point, but also that of the parent post. Is losing salesrank of a novel over the weekend (a holiday weekend no less), really a boom-or-bust kind of thing? If he'd been more malicious with this then this would be a crime with actual victims, but in this case I just can't reason through it enough to believe that.
Where enabled, yes. Although then you have to send that info back to the server anyway.
Sure you can. Don't let lack of health insurance stop you from starting your own company.

At least if you are single. If you have kids, well, that's different. If you don't have insurance, don't have kids.
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He makes mistakes, Conoco Phillips certainly was not the first and wont be the last. One could say his first mistake was investing in Berkshire itself.
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I don't know... maybe this could fall into the category of 'spam' - using up resources of a remote computer without permission etc, but the fact is he wasn't the one using the resources. It was the users visiting the websites containing the iframe.

At the end of the day, IMHO this shouldn't be illegal, and no action should be taken. Amazon was extremely silly to accept user flagging from a GET request in an iframe.