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"...apart from a very tiny minority who steal or lie their way to it..."

Do you mean they are a "tiny minority" because

- they are already members of a tiny minority (those who are extremely rich), or

- those "who steal or lie their way" are a small part of those who are extremely rich?

If the latter, then I believe you are wrong. That is, I believe that a very large percentage of those who are extremely rich partook or do partake of significant "stealing and lying" to get there or stay there.

The dictum "follow the money" is a good one for prosecutors. Doing so almost inevitably uncovers corruption and firms working at the ethical edge of society. We merely don't have (or are unwilling to hire) enough financlal police to track them all down. We settle for the occasional big expose', hoping it will instill fear in others. It does not.

So each decade we uncover or are surprised by new financial scams that wipe the economic slate clean and clean out our savings accounts. Then we start all over, like Sisyphus.
Dropbox is free, and they're actually providing something that costs money (bandwidth and disk space in some data center holding copies of my data). Your service would use my own computers, my own bandwidth and my own disks. I wouldn't personally buy it, as I already have my own little scripts that make mirrored backups each night. If I were to find some feature of yours so compelling though, it'd be an "app store" type purchase -- $6.99 or less one-time fee.
http://sparkleshare.org go help them out ;) I'm quite content with dropbox, but looking at the landscape there is a lot of potential for competitors. So go for it!
For young people who have nothing in kitchen equipment, this "minimalist kitchen" would be interesting:

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-minimalist-kitchen.htm...
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> Perhaps we are hard-wired to enjoy certain types of work.

I would guess it has more to do with expectations.
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There's probably quite a bit of truth to that, but in recent years Intel has had two dramatic under-performers (Atom can't come close to ARM and the on-chip graphics for their mid-range processors have yet to fill the gap left when Intel forced NVidia to stop making integrated graphics chipsets) and a complete failure (Larrabee) that seem like they shouldn't have happened given Intel's dominance.

Why is Intel having trouble broadening their horizons? Is it an institutional thing, that the teams not working on the main (and most profitable) CPU product lines just can't get the resources needed to catch up with the competition? Intel always has the latest and greatest fabs, but it seems like the designs they're producing for these new product lines are completely squandering that advantage and then some.
Damn, I saw the original (now deadened) post about this, and quickly sent him a Facebook message to try to convince him to choose life. Looks like I failed. Such a shame for such a bright mind to end so sadly and suddenly. Rest in peace.
We're working on it (as always.) There is a big improvement inspired by the stackoverflow post on its way shortly.

If people want to help out, the best thing to do is to post examples of specific queries. Those become the "fixed points" around which we can tune until we get it right. The more example queries the better, and I'll make sure they get to the right people.

A good way to get example queries is to look through your search history, which if turned on can be found here: http://www.google.com/searchhistory
Ok, 30 mins, not one piece of feedback.
I did learn about links becoming active in comments and not posts, which is something at least.

Maybe I should ask the question on how do I get people to respond to my questions? Because my experience over the last week is showing I am failing fairly badly at it. :)
did i just get a "citation needed" response to "junkfood is bad for you"?

it boggles the mind.

as it turns out, happy meals are, in fact, a great replacement for breast milk.
At least. Some numbers. NOW the debate is going to be fun, with some numbers to play with...

So let's see...

Google is valued at $195B, and had a profit of $6.5B in 2009.
6.5/195 => 0.033

Apple is valued at $306B, and had a profit of $14B in 2009.
14.0/306 => 0.045

Same ballpark.

Now...

Facebook is valued at $50B, and had a profit of $200MM in 2009.
0.2/50 => 0.004

Facebook over-valued in the long term ? Sure.
In the short term ? It's the (speculative) market at work.
http://xkcd.com/810/

The ideal solution would be to make it so that the easiest path for someone trying to abuse Google is simply to be constructive. If your abuse is what people want anyway, then you've won. It's sort of like capitalism: assume that people are nasty sonuvabitches who will lie and cheat their way to fame, money, and power, and then make it so the easiest way to get those is simply to make things that other people want.

Obviously, we're not there yet, and a lot of these spam pages are fairly useless to visitors.
It really depends on what you're searching for. I purchased an handset that runs android in september and was hoping to find out when it would be upgraded to a newer version of android. The first 2 pages were almost completely filled with the same article.

to be fair though, I tried the same search on duckduckgo and bing and got mostly the same results.

I was just expecting google to be better than that.
Or boxing! I prefer Muay Thai, but any competitive fighting sport is good, and almost any city will have some variety of boxing gym available.

It's a good skill to have in general, but it's difficult to beat in terms of a workout (especially if you go to a gym that doesn't coddle). When I run, sometimes I get lazy and go slowly for a bit. When working the bag, though, I slow down and the guy that runs the gym will notice and yell. Even better, when sparring, if you slow down and get lazy, you will get hit, so you squeeze every ounce of energy out. It's valuable for the mind, too, as it keeps your mind from wandering and forces you to pay attention to what you're doing because if you stop thinking about strategy or recognizing patterns the other fighter is showing, again, you get hit. And it begins to be the most relaxing thing you do, when you go into a room where there is no computer, no cell phone, no distraction, just what you're doing now. (It's also surprising how much strategy goes into hitting people; it broadens the mind.)

I've found that increasing the demands I make on my body causes me to naturally eat better. Your body makes demands; for example a lack of iron may cause you to crave beef. Training made me start drinking more water and less coffee, and fast food started to actually taste bad. It's like turning up the volume on your body's demands, so what is healthy and what tastes good to you start to align.

The first two weeks are the worst, but it's addictive after that.
Right on. It's interesting that people can have such radically different results.
Plug in a usb keyboard, this is not a platform limiting problem, it's just a problem for certain existing form factors.
Which stackoverflow post is this?
You're right! I'm so terribly sorry for getting my words all confused. It's a great thing that HN has such sharp and savvy editors like you to set shmucks like me straight.
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Money is empirically less effective at motivating me than magic purple pixels. Seriously, the subjective experience of being offered $X00,000 was a lot less fun than most WoW loot upgrades. Offering me $10 of my own money won't get me to go to the gym.
What's wrong with pizza? It's essentially bread + toppings. Bread can be a fine healthy food, and if you pick healthy toppings, you can have a healthy pizza.

I think this would be better advice. First, spend a weekend reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. The take away from that is the healthy eating is a systematic thing, not a matter of individual ingredients.

Second, watch a lot of episodes of "Good Eats" on the Food Network.
I'm still crying. I might be tomorrow.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-hous...
A cursory review of the numbers makes me think this is a scam.

> Hard sciences such as Physics and Biology pay rather less well than I would have expected.

Interestingly, when I used the calculator to search for a BS in Physics, it says "No Statistics for that Degree".

I also find it a bit hard to believe that optometrists and lawyers make out better than doctors, or that the lifetime value of a Physician's Assistant masters is $300,000 more than the lifetime value of an MD.

Finally, having perused the Occupational Outlook Handbook more than a few times, this reeks of blatant plagiarism. The text appears to be heavily rewritten, but all the facts come from the OOH and even the outline of each article is identical to the OOH.

This exercise casts a dim light on SEO as a profession. Scams on top of scams.
> However, I don't see any evidence here that AT&T is starting to use the term "4G" incorrectly.

I believe the point of the article was that the term "4G" is currently meaningless, not that it is being used incorrectly.

So we're being sold service that's allegedly next generation, even though nobody actually can agree on what 4G actually is.
I don't understand the Anti-Vaccine crowd.

Although I certainly don't condone the anti-vaccine crowd, I do at least understand them: most of the "crowd" has only vaguely heard the idea that vaccines may be linked to autism. A distant relative (who had a seven year old and was pregnant with baby #2) repeated her worries about vaccines to me over Thanksgiving, and when I told her there was no real link to autism she reacted somewhat skeptically, so I told her to read _Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure_, which discusses why people want to associate vaccines and autism.

The shortest, most obvious version is that most people have trouble disentangling correlation and causation: kids tend to develop obvious signs of autism around the same time they get vaccines. So people think one causes the other when they don't.

Furthermore, most people don't have the training or inclination to really study the data. Journalism, in the meantime, promotes the "two sides of the controversy" school of writing, which often works well for politics and other areas without clear right answers. This works appallingly poorly in matters of science, where right answers are often demonstrably right but non-scientists have trouble distinguishing between competing claims, especially when multiple credentialed sources make compelling-seeming arguments. For more on this, see James Fallows' recent discussion in another context: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/year-e... .

You can see the same kind of thinking in reporting on global climate change, which is almost certainly happening and being caused or accelerated by things we're doing. Yet you often see a climate scientist discussing this, on which there's widespread consensus (and consensus that more study is still needed) followed by a bogus climate skeptic. Same thing for vaccines. People hear this stuff in the air and repeat vague claims at family gatherings, but most of them (and us) don't really understand them.
$1-$2 per pizza are you kidding me? I'd like to see the breakdown of that since I make pizza often. Just the cheese costs at least $1-$2 for me.
Could the OP be referring more specifically to HN? HN is akin to a curated system, and of course there are plenty of duplicate submissions on HN.

I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other. Rather, that was my take on his comment, which amused me.
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Brutal! How can we help if we don't even know something's wrong?

He was so afraid to let the secret out... maybe that needs to be made easier...?

I have no idea--I can't even begin to empathize with how difficult that must have been to live with.
It was these that won me over: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html . Most of the time I know what general sort of thing I'm looking for, and I'm happy to give the search engine hints if it'll help. Even if I don't, it'll essentially flat-out ask me what sort of thing I want, and then give me more specific results: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruby

But, I mean, I'm doing all this by typing it into Chrome's address bar. And a lot of the time, DDG is just returning results from Google's API. I want to use DDG, but I want to make sure Google still exists because I need it even if I don't use it.
Sounds like an obscure search, and if you aren't going to list the search terms you tried, it's really hard to judge whether it's user error or Google error. Google is only psychic to a point.
I am sure you must be automatically tracking and analyzing queries where users go to page 2 and beyond. Or where they do not click on any result and instead change the query or abandon the page?
Good idea -- see AeroFS for a few clever people doing it already (http://www.aerofs.com). In answer to your question, I wouldn't pay for it, but don't let that discourage you as I'm almost certainly not your target user (and I would suspect many others on HN aren't either).
Impressive read; live and learn, but nothing can prepare you for this kind of drama.
Lesson learned: communicate with like-minded to get feedback.
Wait . . . there is science suggesting that using GPA as a component of hiring leads to bad outcomes? I wouldn't have thought this would be the type of thing that could be studied easily, but I'm always willing to learn.
Thanks for your comment. I decide to be not the reclusive entrepreneur.

I just had decided:

1. Make a lot of money and save them.(Freelancing for real)

2. Move closer to my college so I can walk and not use car.

3. Make cool stuff in my room, for fun.

Now...time for me to finish that damn game that I am getting paid to work on.
I like the recipe in the article; it's easy to cook, and it's what I often have for dinner: lightly fried meat and vegetables, although I usually have rice rather than beans. But for things that I plan on heating later, I prefer things that taste as good when heated up later, like borscht and other dense soups, beef stroganoff, curry (I'd sent my Japanese curry recipe to enough people that I put it on github: https://gist.github.com/57898 ).
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You're very welcome :-).
Example searches? That's the most constructive way to help us improve.
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I use Windows Live Mesh for this. By default it replicates across your PCs and Macs, but you can configure it to sync to cloud storage as well.
That's like saying that because Fry's and The Olive Garden both accept cash that they are in the same business.

Just because Facebook and Google both make money by selling advertisements doesn't mean they are in the same market.

For example, Google makes so much money from advertising because they can show users ads pertinent to their search query at the point they are often making a buying decision.

However, Facebook users are on the site because they bored or communicating and not even considering buying something. Not to mention that a large portion of Facebook users have very little discretionary spending money or ability to purchase online anyway.

The market and motivation involved between the two companies is completely different and not comparable.
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Does having a startup, or being in YC feel like your cramming for exams, not enough time, too much to do, and no time for a good amount of sleep and proper food?
Send his note to your friends and friends of friends. Disseminate it widely. It will send the message that people care. Somebody you know may be dealing with something similar.
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Where's the best place to post sample queries?
Interesting that this resonates so strongly with so many, especially considering the comment by his ex at the bottom of the page.
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You could also buy 20 pounds of sugar - the point is that ramen is actively bad for you and you shouldn't be eating it except in the most dire of circumstances.
Right here. :)
Needs more information...
While the book doesn't touch on vaccines, I found Oreskes & Conway's "Merchants of Doubt" a fascinating read on the subject of how easy it is to spread FUD (or at least UD) about science.
obviously you don't want this thread polluted with failed google queries, and them working properly on duck duck go, maybe you should offer a contact info, or even generate some sort of form, or even better have a 'this query didn't work right' button on search
i'd assumed you were trolling, hence the flippant response. i dont think all statements need to be supported with citations. there's a certain amount of knowledge that at some point has to be considered common sense. wiping your ass is one. not fueling your body with trash is another. i can understand your position of frustration at mis-information and pseudo-science, and appreciate a fellow critical thinker, but i do think it's important to choose your battles, and i do not think that this issue is one that's worth discussing much further, considering the overwhelming amount of data out there. vis a vis. et al. lorem ipsum.
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How much of your speed in completing a task based on prior experience with similar or identical problems with your experience with the programming environment being similar to your peers?
It wouldn't be the first prescient thing Neal Stephenson has put in a book. Whenever I see Google Earth, I think of Snow Crash.
Hi Adam,

I just went through your site. A few things from the 5 mts I spent there

1. I find the name hard to pronounce. It would be tough for me to remember the name let alone spread it
2. As a business owner you didnt convince me about how exactly I benefit by collaborating with other businesses. Any case studies? Personal experience? I haven't felt the need to collaborate with other businesses to improve mine. But if you can convince me about it I wouldn't mind trying it.
3. Monetization. What are your plans?
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rmoulton at google if you prefer to email, but posting here is fine too. There is a "give feedback" link a the bottom of the search results which produces a lot of good data, but very little of it is "problems HN folks have with search."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you're using (rumored) 2009 income numbers with the Jan. 2011 valuation in your calculation. Income surely would have changed since then.
ARM wouldn't be my first choice either.
Your feedback on navigation is appreciated. We will definitely include it in our next website redesign.

Not sure what you mean by map but there is a section called Corruption Commons which does give a map wrt bribes: http://ipaidabribe.com/sforms/corruption_commons
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He says consumers generally won't notice the difference in speed between AT&T's HSPA-plus and upcoming LTE networks, so it makes sense to call both 4G ...the carrier will speed up the LTE network build out in 2012 and 2013.

basically, they got the ceo of ATT wireless to say on-record that there would be no speed improvements on their network for a very long time... They probably won't have good (geographic) coverage on the new network for at least 2-3 years...

Can anyone comment on why they are just starting to build a network with tech that isn't higher speed than their current network? I'm sure that's a lot of money spent, and you'd think that if they went to the trouble they'd deploy something that was faster.
I have a PHP book, talks about creating scalable websites, and Flickr is a big part of the book, and I've learned heaps of cool practices from it. It makes me wonder, did Yahoo! screw up Flickr when they bought it? Or was it going out? Because the stuff described in this book made Flickr seem very innovative and informative... (e.g. they knew what they were doing)
I don't think this is surprising - the top management seems more interested in building OSs and social networks. Search doesn't seem like their highest priority anymore.
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a) Coaches can pick and choose their players.
b) They get paid for the risk. Many schools pay more for a football coach than they do for the school principle.

Imagine if each class had to have academic try outs? Now imagine that teachers got massive wages and bonuses for winning academic competitions? Now reflect on the number of deadshits in your classes that never, ever, would have passed an academic try out for anything.

That's right, it's a stupid comparison.

The only good thing is that most people would know they have a second or third rate education. Because they never met the cut to get into schools who used such a stupid system.
I agree it was a success. The target was eliminated, the operatives all survived, and it struck fear into the hearts of the enemy.
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My 2 cents... I don't want to sign up to see how the system works, I'd rather be looking at other businesses with goals similar to mine, and if I want to get in touch... BOOM! Sign up time.
There is a "this query didn't work right" button on search - it's the "Give us feedback" link at the bottom of a result page, which links to:

http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=foo

The problem is that it gets polluted by lots of people who have no clue that Google is not the Internet, or (for that matter) their neighborhood handyman that they found through Google and who did an awesome job repairing their windows. A lot of people don't make a distinction between "I found what I was looking for" and "What I was looking for worked out for me", which makes a lot of the feedback a little less than useful.

This thread is as good a place as any - I'm guessing that the URL will get passed around, the appropriate teams will read it and adjust their algorithms, and if DuckDuckGo gets to improve their algorithms too, great - it's one more good search engine that people can use.