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Using the close-tags proposed by the MSDN article would yield an invalid HTML document. Per the DTD and the SGML standard, the closing tag of IMG, an element with EMPTY content, MUST be omitted. The element is already closed before the parser gets to the closing tag - so, in essence, you would be trying to close it twice.
Go read the HTML specs. Very, very carefully, and without preconceived notions. This is not "monstrously invalid" for HTML. Many, many end tags are, in fact, entirely optional, as defined in the specifications, and many tags such as "body" are also surprisingly optional.

HTML is not XML.

It might be invalid, it is "monstrously invalid XHTML", but it is not "monstrously" invalid HTML.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-June/71577...
Possibly of interest: Here's a regularly-updated plot by Georg Brandl showing the number of Python 3 packages in the PyPI: http://dev.pocoo.org/~gbrandl/py3pkgs.png
The F-Spot photo manager also uses Mono. It's a default on Ubuntu, not sure about Debian.
From some quick searching, a couple people say it's 2.6.1, and at least one person says both 2.6 and 3.
Short summary: Enterprises don't like SaaS because they have so many spare cycles in their datacenters. Thus they prefer when stuff runs on their hardware so they don't look as stupid for all the excess capacity.

Well, I guess any enterprise operating like that deserves what it gets.
If you look at the HTML 4 recommendation from the W3C, you'll find that this is not invalid HTML. SGML and HTML, unlike XML and XHTML, allow implicit opening and closing tags. As far as I know, they even allow overlapped nesting, which even breaks the tree nature of the document structure, e.g. <b>foo<i>bar</b>baz</i>. Browsers have supported this stuff since HTML 1, I seriously doubt there is any significant penalty in parsing.

e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.3
The evolutionary origin of depression
I wonder what it would cost to license this patent. The "quotes Hayek to turn zombie" mechanic has lots of cross applications I think.
Ask HN: How do you determine your price point?
Trying to find a good price point for a license and for products. I'm not sure how to go about this. How do I charge one group x amount and another 2x an see which is more profitable?
It’s real. Here’s the article in Focus’s archive (German): http://www.focus.de/wissen/wissenschaft/forschung-und-techni... (quite easy to find, actually)

Interview and transcript are not exactly the same. The transcript sounds more like, well, a transcript, the published interview is a lot smoother. Since all printed interviews are highly artificial products this is certainly to be expected. The transcript really seems to be the raw transcript. Even if it isn’t – the content is the same, the printed interview only sounds nicer.
"Dear Sir, this Paul from Emergency Center. Your call be very important to us, glad you took the time to contact. Please how may I turn this into win-win situation for both?"

"I'm bleeding arrr horrible accident arrr"

"Dear Sir, thank you for detail. Looking for best local service, one moment please, sir (...music...) Thank you for your patience, sir. Your request is important to us and will forward to local (reading) veee-teeerinaaa-ry asap.
Sir, while you wait would you like to hear about other interesting products?"

"Aaarrh leg... armm... detached... arrrh"

"Dear Sir, glad you are taking the time. I will now forward call to Susan who will have many information about interesting product. Thank very much for calling 911-Advantage Sir."

"Uarghhh fire... children... uuuuah"

chrrrp "Good evening Sir, this is Susan from 911-Advantage. Glad you are interested in our products. Sir, may I ask if you have insurance?"

"Muuuh, cows... trampling... fire.. blaargh"

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Even if the interview is fake, it's an interesting juxtaposition of business and technical perspectives: "Gates" is saying "people won't pay for bugfixes; but the interviewer is hearing it as "people don't want bugfixes".

I think bugfixes clearly have value, but it's a little unclear where exactly they are monetized. Consider: under what circumstances would existing bugs stop you from buying the present version?

- a 100% compatible and 100% feature-comparable alternative product... which additionally has fewer bugs.

- if you know about the bug before buying it. Perhaps this is the crucial factor: you only discover the specific bugs that are a problem for you some time after purchasing it, so they are not well-placed to be purchase-factor.
Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/) is another large project.

Also, you can check out the 'Success Stories' page at the Mono Project's website:
http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono
One cool thing about C# (and the .NET platform in general) is the ability to translate your code into another programming language (aside from some possibly incompatible differences in programming languages). So there's really not much stopping anyone from writing a C# to Java converter that would handle a decent chunk of the porting (so you wouldn't lose any software), and then you could just fix up the minor stuff yourself.

For an example, check out the .NET reflector. By default, it lets you convert between C#, VB.NET, (Managed) C++, and CIL. You can also get plugins for IronPython and so forth.

http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/ (it's free)
He covers his mouth at that point, and it's hard to tell whether he said "mine" or "one." Anyway Kevin did hide his involvement with digg early on (he was a Comcast employee).
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This is just a patent application, and I hope it is denied, but the flow chart on page 1 is classic.

If you ever fail to spout American idealized political ideology the world falls into serfdom. Persisting in your proselytizing won't convince the NPC and save the world, but after you've done it enough you can shoot her and that saves the world.

You listening world? Take a lesson.
Am I the only one who isn't a fan of taking "performance-enhancing" drugs to stay more alert, get things done, etc?

Do we even know the long-term affects of taking such drugs?

(I know it was only a small reference in the article, but it's the only thing that bugged me about the entire piece)
True story:

I'm in Boston, near Copley Square. Go into the Citizen's Bank ATM which is inside a glass alcove with a security door that you need to swip your ATM card to get into. While I'm getting money, a crazy, twitching homeless guy starts banging on the door. His eyes have something wrong with them, he's shaking and twitching, looks out of his mind.

I look round for another way out, there isn't, I've got to go through the door. So I open it, and go to step out. He goes to block my way and grab my arm, and says loudly, "Gimmie a dollar! Gimmie a dollar!!!"

I shake him off me, and get away from there.

Now, I'm a pretty big, strong guy. Not exactly an easy mark - and this guy had no qualms about it. I figure he must've, absolutely must've been on some kind of stimulants.

So I call 911 on my cell phone. Explain what happened, detailed the look in his eyes and that I think he might on some kind of drugs, and that I'm worried if a smaller person or older person went into there and the guy did his crazy act. I was calm about it, and tried to impart the sense of urgency I was getting at the same time. The 911 lady transfers me to someone else, and I tell the story again. This person tells me I'm talking to the wrong department and gives me another number. I hang up and call that police precinct. A guy answers, I explain the story, and the call is disconnected - and not on my end, I always had perfect reception around Copley.

I call back and and they tell me, once again, I'm talking to the wrong place, say they'll transfer me, and the call drops again. And again, not on this end.

A bit annoyed and disheartened at this point, I called my Mom who I was going to have dinner with that night, and said, yes, I'll be at dinner, by the way, there was this crazy guy and the police don't seem to care, even though I'm pretty sure something bad could happen to someone. Best case, some people are getting scared/intimidated. Worst case? Who knows. The guy was out of his frigging mind. And again, I'm a pretty big, strong looking guy.

My Mom says forget it, you tried. That didn't sit well with me, but I let it go and hopped on the Green line to head to dinner. That still doesn't sit with me to this day - what if something had happened? What the hell else could I have done? Go look for an uniformed officer nearby and tell him personally? (I took a quick look, didn't see anyone). Go confront the guy myself? (Seems like a bad idea) That whole event just sat poorly with me - my intuition tells me, "this is a bad situation and needs to be dealt with", I try going through the authorities, and get a lot of run-around, transfers, and disconnected twice. I still don't feel good about that to this day - and I'm left wondering if I could have handled that differently and what the hell all the people I spoke to were thinking.
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I could not go on reading this article after he proclaimed himself a rock-star. It seemed an interesting read up to that point!
1. Survey your audience, ask specific questions like, would you pay a) $10-20 b) $30-$40 c) 1 million billion of this product

2. Check your competition to see what they're charging (counterpoint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy)

3. Pick a number (ref: http://network.businessofsoftware.org/video/dharmesh-shah-on... - worth watching in its entirety)

4. Play with specials - this week, we're offering a 30% discount to all new users (better than decreasing the price outright and incurring the wrath of existing users)

5. Model the numbers, at all times, how many licenses do you need at x price point to break even, etc.
Has anyone given appcelerator a look? It seems you can develop native iphone apps using js/html/css using their mobile sdk. This would be great for simple apps I would think.

http://www.appcelerator.com/
I did not say you claimed any benefits for the Western diet.

I did not say that I did not know where you came up with your number.

I know you didn't see a reference. For that, you'd have to read my post. 4th paragraph, 2nd sentence. You apparently read and responded to a completely different post.
This is absolutely absurd on its face. Far from facing patent problems, the only interaction Microsoft and Mono has had is for Microsoft to officially support Mono/Moonlight as the official Linux silverlight client.

Jo Shields wrote an excellent rant a few months ago that completely destroys the patent argument (among other things): http://www2.apebox.org/wordpress/rants/124/

If RMS was being ideologically sound, he would oppose the use of C/C++, on which patents are held by the convicted monopolist AT&T. Instead, he only opposes languages like C# and Java, the success of which poses a credible threat to the vast quantity of C/C++ code the FSF controls.

For those of you who don't know, C# is an EMCA and ISO standard, protected by numerous pledges not to sue, and the use in question is a Debian desktop app to expand and promote Debian Linux as a viable desktop platform; everything is 100% free software all the way down. By RMS's own purported ideological views, this is a great thing.

All I can say is, it feels like I'm trapped in a dreamworld where somehow RMS and MS have switched places; now MS is pushing open standards, and RMS is railing against them and spreading FUD. WTF?
This will change in the future: everyone will know early on in life what their capabilities are based on analysis of their DNA.
"How high the peak is is all that really counts".
You severely underestimate the bodies predictive capability. There are 21+ pathways feeding into the insulin response system, all of them trying to prepare the internal system to get rid of glucose. Thought, taste, smell etc all contribute to our predictive capability.

The point is that the body tries to predict the amount of glucose ingested to minimise peaks. A long term marker of the bodies success at this is hba1c.

I'd love to see a reference for your last claim. Surely the mechanism of fat storage in periods of high sugar availability would be a desirable trait?
It's certainly prudent to avoid things before long term effects are known, if that's what you mean by "isn't a fan".

That isn't the same as declaring others are wrong for doing it. Risk tolerance (and the reward for doping) vary wildly between people.

Do you drink coffee?
HTML 4 is not an XML language: it uses tags, but the concept of a document being structurally invalid is not the same as XHTML.

Every browser that handles HTML 4 supports a kind of "tag soup". You must take explicit action to shift them into a strict mode; consequently, it does not take longer to "parse a broken schema" -- handling an HTML document without the final closing tags should be no slower than a complete document, because no validation is taking place.
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Depression is not unique to humans. So I suspect it's a little more complex and fundamental than a failure to understand your limitations.
Poll: Forcing smartest people on earth to do medical research would...
What would happen if the smartest people on earth were forced to major in biology and subsequently pursue a career in medical research?

Specifically, one would expect cures to come about around how many years earlier on average under such a scenario?
In terms of the product(s), what would you pay for it?
I am fascinated by the underlying concept of this article, that society is evolving to support a shared awareness or a certain augmented intelligence of the individual. Just look at how much has shifted in society regarding specific knowledge vs. a more general intuition or analytical ability.

I'm somewhat annoyed by the depiction of stimulants as intelligence enhancing pharmaceuticals. These drugs certainly do affect behavior (and as such they obviously play into that old "99% perspiration" maxim). However, I would argue that stimulants (specifically powerful drugs like modafinil and ADD medications) usually cripple intuition and creativity.

To me, these aspects of mental agility are significant components of intelligence. Intensely focusing on an extended stretch of work seldom yields optimal results (aside from those truly inspired "in the zone" moments). Years of experience/experimentation would indicate that I need sleep, breaks, and a balanced mind to produce anything even resembling my best work.

Has anyone here actually felt MORE intelligent while taking modafinil or ADD medication (or to a lesser extent, even coffee)? I'm very curious to hear what you have to say.
Do you really think that people can set all of their personal goals just from knowing their genome?
News Blog about Recent Discoveries in Conway's Game of Life
Depression is not unique to humans.

What animal model of depression do you have in mind?
There was a case in Sydney, Australia recently which highlighted this. A school boy was lost in bushland and called 000 (Australian 911)and they asked that he give them a street address to which they could send an ambulance. As he was in the middle of the bush, there was no streets or signs etc. Local knowledge may not have saved him, but it would have made locating him significantly easier rather than just reading from a script and asking for a street name.
Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25373564-...
Awesome read (and I voted it up again), but this has been here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370874
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365094
So Bill's comments are a translation of a translation? (English -> German -> English)

Perhaps that's why they sound so unrealistic.
This is one of those concepts that I always simply assumed to be true. Ordinary feelings of depression (i.e. specifically not chronic or "clinical" depression) are quite normal responses to situations that are, in fact, depressing. These feelings can help shake us out of situations we might otherwise suffer through.
This is interesting. I wonder if it means anything more than "depressive people are those that are unable to let go of failure"? Seems like an apt description of many generally depressed people I know.

Side note: Anyone have thoughts on whether 'depression' is an umbrella term for distinct mental traits?
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This is a must see site for anyone interested in Conway's Game of Life or just interested in logic. If you have never seen Conway's Game of Life in action before, then I recommend that you download Golly:

http://golly.sourceforge.net/

It comes with sample mechanisms. There are some amazing Turing Machines, complex communication devices and other amazing constructions all made using the Game of Life.

Pentadecathlon does a great job listing all the latest discoveries and innovations in the Game of Life, and even has RLE downloads of complicated mechanisms.
Interesting hypothesis. However, isn't depression sometimes getting in the way of pursuing perfectly attainable goals? For example, finding more friends or losing a bit of weight are definitely not overly ambitious goals, but depressed people often despair that they will never be able to reach them.
Am I the only one who isn't a fan of taking "performance-enhancing" drugs to stay more alert, get things done, etc?

I put off starting my coffee habit until I was almost forty years old, but now I wonder why I waited so long. The only time my coffee habit (rigidly just one cup of coffee each morning, every morning) was inconvenient to me was once when I had a business trip to Salt Lake City. I didn't have a coffee-maker in my room in my hotel (operated by the Mormon church). I couldn't get my local host (a high official in the Mormon church) to take me somewhere where coffee was served. As my sick headache from caffeine withdrawal developed, I was handed off to another local host, also a Mormon, but also a medical doctor, and he told me that sometimes the Mormon health code allows physicians to administer caffeine "medicinally"--that's really how he said it. He took me to a convenience store that sold caffeinated Coca Cola, and that is how I got my fix. Other than that, I think I have gained somewhat in concentration and productivity in my caffeinated years compared to my noncaffeinated years, although I am hardly an objective observer of myself.
Your genome will give you critical information about the sorts of things you would be good at.

For example, an analysis of your genome might tell you that you should pursue a startup that makes use of sophisticated mathematics.

The specifics of that startup are up to you.
That's not always the best metric, particularly when your product is being sold to an entity which is dissimilar to you (see: rich people, medium to large companies). In those cases, they are often willing to pay much, much more than you would.

Many people make the mistake of underpricing because of this.
an analysis of your genome might tell you that you should pursue a startup that makes use of sophisticated mathematics.

Are there any participants here who can point to some genetic research on how likely it is that genome analysis will ever be that specific on the individual level?
I would guess what he means is "It's good to be able to use the existing open source C# software, but please don't write any more of it"
I think it would be much more effective to evaluate whether you're actually good at sophisticated mathematics.
I'm the author-- I feel it's common enough to say "close tags" when you mean closing or ending a markup element.

I'm surprised to see such a literal nitpick upvoted so much, but I can't disagree that you're correct technically. I'm just trying to share an odd/interesing position of Google's and not trying to write a deep analysis or anything.
Amusingly, even after reading the whole paper I was unable to determine if it was just a clever collection of puns or if actual experiments had been conducted (and then written up humorously.) "Imperative detection" certainly seems like a plausible method, for one thing.

What I'd really like to see, as a future direction of research, is a filter that can automatically differentiate between free galleries and ad splashes for gateways. ;)
I don’t think so. The linked transcript seems to be the real deal, the raw transcript of (a part of) the interview that was later translated for the magazine.

The transcript sounds pretty natural (then again, I’m not a native English speaker) even if it might not fit the usual style of Gates. The German interview sounds a little strange (you immediately notice that it was translated). I don’t think it was translated by a very skilled translator. I guess the English version would sound quite a bit more strange if you translated the German interview again.
Unless medical research is someone's passion, the creativity and intuition needed to break through to new cures likely will not be present. This proposed system will introduce many new worker drones to the field, but likely few additions who actually love the subject.

So if funding stays the same, I bet a lot of the people with actual passion for the subject will be pushed out in favor of people with perfect resumes but little passion. Hence, perhaps cures will come around even more slowly.
Interest in the subject matters a lot for successful scientific research. I would propose rather that people take steps to identify highly intelligent young people

http://www.davidsongifted.org/youngscholars/

http://cty.jhu.edu/set/index.html

and then expose those young people to very excellent teachers of a variety of important subjects, including but not limited to biology. Some of those young people will become excited about biology, and some will not, but all of them will make their best and most creative contributions if they enjoy the freedom to pursue their interests.

Somewhat related to this topic, if a young person is very interested in mathematics and computer programming at age sixteen, the summer before he applies to college (I know a few cases like this), what advice would you have for that young person about how to prepare well to make a positive difference with that interest in math and computer science?
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isn't depression sometimes getting in the way of pursuing perfectly attainable goals?

It certainly plays out that way in actual medical cases, and cognitive therapy for depression is all about showing patients that they can still succeed in goal-directed behavior.
Just a bit of feedback on it. I submitted it for review a few months ago when it was on early alpha and didn't get much feedback. Now we improve the app/site a lot and would love to hear what you think.

There is a demo account available too, with user demo@sucuri.net and pass demo.

*I am from a security/engineering background, so my design skills are still lacking..
IANAL, but you're in dangerous legal territory if you charge two groups of people different amounts for the same product. Either make it a different license offering, or make sure you're not discriminating against either group. :)

You really can't figure out a price point in a scientific way (sample and control)... you just have to adjust it organically and see.
Anyone have thoughts on whether 'depression' is an umbrella term for distinct mental traits?

My sense of the evidence, as I read the masterwork on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195135792/

just now for research I am doing, is that depression has multiple distinct causes, and a variety of particular manifestations.