skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I'll repeat what I always say though: poor people aren't fat because they're poor, they're fat for the same reason they're poor -- they're not too bright, have poor impulse control, don't plan ahead, and so forth.

I would seriously not go that far to say poor people are not too bright or have poor impulse control. That's judgmental without any data to back it up. Poor people are likely poor because they aren't well educated, or have professional white collar jobs like you and I. Lack of education and access results in lack of awareness. You and I sit in our comfy sofas watching Jamie Oliver give a talk at TED and hence we hail our organic vegetables and our foo-foo healthy lifestyles. You cannot compare this vantage point with the predicament of someone who is struggling to make ends meet. Or someone who grew up in a poor neighborhood.

Lack of money has absolutely nothing to do with "brightness" or impulse control. I grew up in India and know all too well that poor people can be very sharp.

I have seen well-to-do fat people who lack even basic self-control. In fact, much of America is not poor and the obesity epidemic here has nothing to do with income levels. It is the result of a simple fact that fattening, processed stuff is widely available at every corner for dirt cheap prices. And that stuff that tastes good. When a healthy meal costs $12, it is but natural that someone who earns minimum wage goes for the $3 burger at McD.

To disprove your argument, I put forward one simple fact. Majority of the population in developing countries is not fat and they certainly aren't dancing around in money.

I would be interested in running an experiment. What if all organic, fresh, natural, unprocessed food was made dirt cheap and anything that isn't was taxed like hell? So a lb of fresh vegetables and fruits costs $0.50. Unprocessed food is subsidized at 50%. That order of fries, soda, and cheezburger? $15.

What effect would it have on society?
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SSDs come in form factors other than 2.5" laptop drives. Most of that space is just air. My eeepc had one in a mini-PCI-E form factor. If you can fit a 3G card in something, you can fit a pretty big SSD in, too.
It's okay; they were waiting for Battle.net to work in StarCraft 2 again anyway.
And if a wealthy person is fat is it because they're big-boned?

Naah, if a wealthy person is fat it's just because they have poor impulse control, but are fortunately sufficiently good at other things to overcome this problem.
Also see http://www.anythingresearch.com/Top-Industries/Best-Industri...

It's a mashup of fastest growing industries with highly fragmented ones
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Are you working somewhere? I've found many of the bigger employers have mentor programs within the organization ...
I wonder if this disclosure was a condition of the AdMob Department of Justice approval.
Well, Facebook chat is pretty popular. I'd suggest most people are moving on to using something like that - integrated with the rest of their social media experience - as opposed to standalone clients.

Certainly in the last year, from the perspective of computer forensics, our focus has switched from MSN firmly across to Facebook chat.
Even with perfect grammar, spelling, and logic checks, you're still going to lose sometimes:

I mistyped a single letter in an email and offended a coworker for life. He was on the road; I was in the office. I argued persuasively about a difference in design, ending with "When you get it, we can talk some more". I had intended to say "When you get in, we can talk some more".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375231
Of course, that's not including the time lost to support calls:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177261/Google_s_Pac_...
i don't like the throwing around of the term 'wasted'

even if you mean 'wasted potential work time', who's to say that entertainment in short bursts doesn't increase productivity by preventing burn out?
DuckDuckGo just needs a better logo and a better name and it'd be major league. They've got the difficult part down, but there's no way any real company or serious non-hacker will take them seriously the way they are now.

I want a search engine whose design, name, logo, and style inspire me with confidence and reassurance. I want to see power, I want to see professionalism. I don't want to play games with a duck that lucks like it was drawn by an amateur. I think spending a mere 1k on design and branding will have an incredible impact on DDD now that it's really beginning to get off the ground and catch the eye of people outside the HN/Reddit communities.
Although I'm anxious for 'social networking' as we know it to disintegrate, for many people it removes a lot of the overhead of managing personal relationships.

I think that's probably at the root of IM's perceived decline.

Having said that, XMPP has really opened up tons of possibilities for IM from a tools perspective and from a point-to-multipoint perspective that isn't really apparent to the casual Internet user.

I'm getting more mileage out of IM than ever.
Does anyone know what this means for affiliate links in tweets? Are they only going after big players like Ad.ly, or is this touching everyone?
Thanks waqf - I didn't know it was on youtube, otherwise I would have posted your link.
I liked the look of Clojure the language, but I got put off a bit by all the Java infrastructure that gets pulled in. For example, not knowing much about Java build tools, I have very little idea what leinigen is actually doing behind the scenes. There's not much documentation, and I didn't have much luck googling for error messages. I'm playing around a bit with Google App Engine, and things got a lot easier when I just gave up and switched over to Python. Having to use any kind of build system feels like a huge waste of time if execution speed is not a top priority. Python might not be quite as nice a language as Clojure, but I just write the code and it works -- no extra fiddling about required.
out-of-a-job people have time to tackle that idea they've had for so long
Blame the Instructions, Not the Machines
Is this similar to ReadyBoost in Windows? I haven't seen any benchmarks that demonstrate significant performance. Why would it work better if the flash is built into the hard drive?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_bias

How many people/companies start blogs and don't succeed like you guys did?
If it's a religious debate, why is it surprising that people are still having it in 2010? Aren't religious debates known for never getting resolved? Also, aside from the article's title, I don't see the religious debate in the article or the comments. I see people saying how they use vim and/or emacs, and providing tips.

I'd like to know how you're using both vi and emacs. I like both, and used both for a while. Please do tell.
Breaking News: If you lie, people will sometimes believe you. Details at 11.
Actually a B-52 might normally fly in heights where even a 10-second straight vertical fall should not be a problem
What about Word 2007? Is that as fast as Notepad?
Seems pointless; the flash only works as a read cache. I already have a 4G read cache that's much faster, it's called main memory.

SSDs are nice for lots of random reads/writes; I noticed the biggest improvements on things like "apt-get upgrade"; deleting files, reading tarballs, updating a database. This is where SSDs excel, but the SSD that's part of this disk won't help with any of that. When you download the tarball, it hits the magnetic disk. Then when you extract that, you read from the disk, and write to the disk. Then you read the package database... all from disk. You update the package database... yup, disk write. And so on; this drive will do nothing to help this use case. Anything that could be cached will be invalidated by a write. So you get no speedup on the only workload other than booting that helps a regular user.

If you're thinking of buying this, buy a regular disk instead, and save the $60 premium for a real SSD. Even Intel's "budget" 40G SSD will make your computer noticeably faster... but this thing won't.
Like Blippy but for browser history
OpenBSD certainly doesn't.
I'd love to see more samples here. This would be great if it took off (I'm especially interested to see it hit both Webkit + IE).

http://code.google.com/p/firebreath/wiki/FireBreathUsers seems empty still.
I object to my HP printer using color ink to print black text. Its a "load leveling" maneuver that conveniently uses up the expensive ink faster. It doesn't do it all the time, just when the printer thinks it can get away with it.
For completeness, a counter-point to what happened: http://www.miconian.com/2010/05/23/metafilter-and-the-russia...

(It was posted by someone who actually went to the club the young women were supposed to go to. I have no involvement in this at all, but thought HN would appreciate another voice.)
In the author's world, people who would otherwise get an organ now will not be able to. If we allowed organ purchases on the free market, they would be allocated by ability to pay rather than by need.

Similarly, a person undergoing financial difficulty may end up selling organs to stay afloat.

In my opinion, the most morally acceptable result is not necessarily the most economic efficient one. The author disagrees, which is fine, but he doesn't look at the downsides to a more efficient system. The dilemmas above are completely ignored by the author, and he only focusses on the end result: economic inefficiency (more home foreclosures and deaths).

I'm weary of any argument that only looks at one side of the coin.
Did Phoenix lose a wing?
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What? Sign a contract with a 3rd party to avoid any chance of discussion? Really?
I'm a non technical founder and its a huge challenge. I think the biggest issue was finding a programmer as dedicated as I was. The internet doesn't close on weekends, if issues come up, we need to respond asap!

For my latest startup, I teamed up with a programmer. It is super-tough to have a software app without a technical co-founder.
I don't know. Initially, Google was far more playful than any of the other search engines of the time. Also "professional" design & branding deteriorates into "boring" far too easily. And boring is unlikely to be noticed. People are likely to remember the duck. If you google for 'duck search', DDG is the first result.

Just providing a counterpoint BTW. You may well be right.
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But it is an unwarranted assumption that patents inherently inhibit the promiscuity of ideas.

Through theory and example people have also shown that virtually unregulated capitalism produces the "most prosperous" results. They have done this for Marxism as well.

Properly applied patents and intellectual property protection can aid the rate of innovation and progress.
"If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that's more open and connected is a better world."

-Mark Zuckerberg in today's WP article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05...
It seems like most statistics about internet usage are gathered by people who don't actually use the internet. I don't get it. How do you measure that 14% of "time online" is spent on IM? Usually when I use IM, I'm doing a couple other things.

For that matter, how do you measure "time online". That would make sense when people had dialup and would sit down and block off a chunk of time to be online. But with always-on broadband connections and 3G cards, it's much rarer to find a time when you're awake but not "online" in some capacity.
I learned a lot from the post.. Here's my little bookmarklet for this particular page: javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://weakorbit.com/js/hn3.js;})();
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I think I heard these same arguments against google... DuckDuckGo is in good company.
Yeah looking for a new URL as well.

nxdom is cool, playing on there now.

Also thanks to the other guys who commented.
FTA: "It aims to be a Google competitor, providing a host of additional features the search engine giant is missing, like [...] keeping your searches anonymous."
Betterment wants to be your new, higher-yield savings account (TC Disrupt)
Yeah, I am a big fan -- have found some great URLs on there
I jump from small firms to small firms from college, not tech companies, so I've been trying to find something external.
Do affiliate links actually increase the price of the item? I thought the kickback came out of Amazon's margins.
Lack of education and access results in lack of awareness. You and I sit in our comfy sofas watching Jamie Oliver give a talk at TED and hence we hail our organic vegetables and our foo-foo healthy lifestyles. You cannot compare this vantage point with the predicament of someone who is struggling to make ends meet.

You don't need to eat like Jamie Oliver to not be obese. How much "education" does it take to realize that cookies and sugary sodas and sitting on the couch all day will make you fat?

It is the result of a simple fact that fattening, processed stuff is widely available at every corner for dirt cheap prices here. Stuff that tastes good.

Absolutely. And I think there's something to Scott Adams's willpower theory. If you have a great job and a nice house and a gorgeous wife and/or mistress, it's not a huge sacrifice to pass on the Twinkie and go jogging. But if you're just barely making ends meet and have no apparent prospects for improvement, it's really hard to turn down short-term gratification.

Making healthy food taste better would do far more to combat obesity than plastering nutritional labels and PSAs everywhere.
Heights like...500 meters?
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Link doesn't work for me with the querystring parameter. Try this instead:

http://www.mercurynews.com/traffic/ci_15147417
You certainly can remove the rockets, it just takes a lot of time and effort so isn't done for routine maintenance. Also, removing the rockets would probably be at least as dangerous as working with them there.
Do Video Games Equal Less Crime?
Will a Rough Hurricane Season Worsen the BP Oil Spill?
Also see: http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
...by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was not part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.
Tell HN:  Stanford HNer meetup tomorrow night (5/24), open to all
The Stanford group on HNDir had a spate of new users recently and we decided to meet up for dinner tomorrow night. Any other HNers in the area are welcome to join. We're currently expecting 8-10 people.

Details:

8:00 PM, Tuesday May 24

Tandoori Oven

365 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California
My point is that religious debates, not unlike the Google Pac-Man logo, waste time. But at least Google's Pac-Man logo is fun, and nobody spills blood over Pac-Man :)

As for using both, I tend to use emacs for the heavy lifting, and vi for quick edits.
CIS?

Edit: thanks, handy to know.
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A Verizon reality check
Really? I think DuckDuckGo’s brand is incredibly strong, I loved it the first time I saw it. You better stick out and be memorable if you have the balls to enter the search market. I don’t think looking professional (whatever that means) would help.

(The companies with great products on the web – YouTube, Twitter, Google, flickr, Dropbox and so on – in general all don’t have the kinds of professional logos pre-web companies – Mercedes, IBM, Microsoft, Apple and so on – have. Maybe that’s why professional-looking logos don’t manage to inspire much confidence in me on the web.)
Right. Even if the physical damage isn't that bad, injuries such as a concussion can end your career. The military has pretty strict rules about this stuff.
May I ask how you are, "getting more mileage out of IM than ever"? Everyone on my buddy lists are always offline.
I guess it depends on what work you do. If I worked a 100% of the day, except for lunch break, my brain would be fried after a few days. 5 minutes an hour doing something else actually makes me more productive.

Sure, when I'm in the zone and are lucky enough not to get interrupted I can program for longer periods of time, but I still need a short break now and then.

I don't know where you worked, and since I'm from a different country, the standards may also be different. But where I live, I can't think of a physical job where you are required to work at 100% capacity for a whole day, except for a lunch break. Short rest periods are required.
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A law firm recommending that you do things that require a law firm's help, and scaring you away from cheaper competition in Legal Zoom. Color me surprised.
You could say the same thing about Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc. In fact every single search engine I can think of has got a blatant disregard for appearing professional.

As ssp pointed out (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226660) you could hardly find something less conspicuous than a duck face in a big red circle. In my view it's a great asset.
Thank you! :-) Yeah, more time is "wasted" getting coffee every day. We thought it was a lot more interesting how LITTLE actual time was spent on Google search and how the Pac-Man logo resulted in a 15% bump on average time logged.
If you have some money to spend towards this, I can recommend the Name Inspector, http://www.thenameinspector.com/. He can help with the whole project, or even just review a list of names that you've developed. He's written a lot about company names on his blog:

http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-name-types/

http://www.thenameinspector.com/10-tips-for-naming-your-comp...
I agree. I always here about how people "waste time" by enjoying themselves. Since when is enjoying yourself a waste of time?

This sort of talk is often directed at financially stable people, too. Sure, there may be "better" things to do with one's time, but we only have one life to live (that we can acknowledge, anyway) so I feel some leisure time is well deserved.
I would be interested to see exactly what is meant by "worse." One of the common lean startup themes seems to be that a simpler product can be an advantage over incumbents who have succumbed to feature bloat. I surmise that simpler might equate to worse according to the metrics used in the analysis.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution (TED Talk)
504,703,000

Are there really half a billion people online? (let online visiting google on a particular day)
Mexico shuts down during Mexican world cup games. People don't work, there are literally no cars on the street.
HP ink is expensive to pay for studies showing why HP ink is so expensive?
Competing networks stunted the potential of Internet IM. At one point a few years ago I was connecting to half a dozen IM networks often to talk to one or two people per service. When SMS started to become widely used I think the effort of tracking someone down on these little IM islands just wasn't worth it anymore and text messaging reached a much larger audience of people who aren't tied to their computer 24x7. There are something like 25 billion text messages sent per year these days. That offsets the 8% decline in Internet IM and then some. So as usual the predictions were mostly right but instant messaging developed in a different direction than people expected.
FWIW previously submited, about 9 hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374362

It didn't get any upmods or comments then, maybe the timing was bad, maybe no one liked it. That one, however, actually points directly to the article on the real website instead of pretending to be on Google.

Again, FWIW, I thought it was interesting, and mirrors what I say about resumes.
That's true, but the time-tracking approach encourages me to work hard for a while and then switch off and do something else.

Nothing sucks my motivation more than sitting around for 8 hours thinking I'm working and getting nothing done.
We would like to see this statistic.

Sincerely, People for the Ethical Treatment of the Super Natural.
Congrats Gabriel! Glad to see your efforts paying of (at least in mindshare) lately.

Keep adding good features (and taking away bad ones) and listening to your users and you should be golden.

I personally tend to agree with those that say that the name/logo is holding you back (I have a sense of humor and don't take it too seriously, but a lot of people are probably scared off), but it's your thing and you should take it into the direction that you feel will work best.
articles like this remind me that I'm just a web app kiddie, copying and pasting code from google, and that theres way more complex hackery going on in the world which I'll never really understand.
Andrew Wakefield and MMR: the 'impact factor'
The new category thing is annoying, if I search for 'django' I don't even get a list of links (the top one should be the python django framework) I get a list of things named django. I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of a bunch of junk to get the django web framework link. Maybe make that category thing less aggressive or something one can turn off in the settings.
Thank you for saying that at the beginning. You are totally right.
Ah. OK, thanks. An interesting insight into one of the design designs, and even more interesting that it almost exactly mathces one of mine in our commercial system.

Nice.
Their purchase page has no volume pricing but the SDK with three devices is $400. I'd be worried about getting into "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" territory.
Continuous Ink System such as:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cis.shtml
Design/branding seems hit or miss. As a counterpoint, check out this blog entry from today that someone just sent me: http://webworksandgraphics.com/blog/duck-duck-go/
They kept the SSD free for you to install Linux on? Nice!
totally agree with this. also DuckDuckGo means nothing to non-US users, sounds utterly bizzare.

Sure Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Bing all sound fairly weird - but they were also "new" words with no previous connotations to normal people. Even the name Bing got some hate initially but it has mostly gone away now, DDG remains a name that misses with people. Isn't Duck Duck Go a playground game?

Sorry man, I love your site and actually use it as my default search, but the branding blows. I'm actually going to doodle a better brand for you.
This was discussed previously, and I think that the biggest difference is that Bing and Google are "silly non-specific" while DuckDuckGo is "silly specific", which means that when you think of it, it sounds kind of silly, and you know why and you have a mental picture of a duck or whatever in your head.

Google is kind of a weird word, but it didn't feel quite as silly even way back when it came out. Same with Bing.
This view of intelligence fits well with the view of John Raven, publisher of the Raven Progressive Matrices test, that "intelligence is an emergent property of groups."

http://www.johnraven.co.uk/
Thx--I'm working on a setting to disable disambiguation, but I think you're missing the point. Those are the search results. The idea is you click on the one that is most relevant and then get "deep" results tailored to that particular meaning. The stuff at the bottom is meant only to serve you if none of the meanings are what you were looking for.
Can't you just tell him that it was a typo?
Found out far too late. By that time it would seem like a lame excuse. Live and learn.