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> "someone making 300,000 probably doesn't have much more disposable income than someone making 80,000"

I don't think that's borne out by the stats. As I recall fixed costs essentially flat-line as a percentage of income somewhere south of 200k, up until you reach the "don't look at prices anymore" brackets. Also, I note that it really doesn't take much more disposable income to add flashy consumption. Five thousand dollars is easily two annual trips to Hawaii, which -- while not remotely a trivial amount of money -- really isn't that hard to sock away at 300k vs 80k. And two additional annual vacations at 300k is certainly going to look like 'whimsical' to the guy making 80k who takes one real vacation a year.

So I'm wondering if we aren't having a disagreement on definitions. And when you say 'hawaii on whim', you're thinking about trips approaching the opulence of the "don't look at prices anymore" brackets?
>Once they get into college, it's all about getting 'distinctions' - grades higher than 66%.

66% correct, or 66th percentile? At every school I went to, 66% correct would be a failing grade.
Neglect. Their parents work all the time so they hire nannies and the sort to take care of them so they can spend the day bringing in the money. Then they develop drug addictions to prescription meds and "rich" drugs like cocaine. I mean there was also that Lifetime story of some woman who lived in foster homes her whole life, was homeless at one point, and got into Harvard. Unfortunately people will read this and go "that's what's wrong with me/my kids!" and use it as a cop-out.
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"And, sure enough, she did."

What is this? A Mr Men story?
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In what is ostensibly an effort to prevent exploitation, the government has legally created a situation where an internship is almost completely worthless to the intern.

Whether or not the laws are actually followed in most large businesses, I don't know. However, in the United States there are laws preventing interns from displacing paid employees and doing substantive work.

http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL12-09acc.pd...

Because of this, I think all "interns" should get minimum wage to work around this nonsensical legal situation and actually be able to legally get in a position to work on something meaningful and to hopefully learn something useful.
There's definitely a middle ground though. Being poor sucks...bad. Not because you can't the things you want, but because you can't get the things you desperately need (and I mean things in the physical sense).

I remember reading various studies a few years ago (sorry, can't find them now) showing folks who make 40-50k/yr in the U.S. tend to be the most satisfied with life. With inflation that's probably more like 60-70k (and possibly more for the Bay Area and NYC), but the point stands. You can cover most life needs with that and have a little left over for indulgences. But not so much that you get caught up in material wants.

Also I noticed many people with money who are unhappy, tend to be unhappy because of the social isolation that brings. As it turns out, human interaction is something we need, and also happens to be very cheap/efficient in most cases.
I've had that problem before, it's not hard to fix if the provider helps (OTOH if the provider doesn't, I guess some hacks should do the trick as well).

I'm not at the office so I don't have the code at hand.
A nice example of taking your product ("a tool you can use to monitor the performance of your websites" [1]) and targeting an audience niche - tech-savvy readers interested in YC companies.

The information meant nothing to me (but then, the product isn't of use to me as I'm not currently running any websites) but it caught my eye.
"Mobile Internet Market Will Be Twice The Size of Desktop Internet"
"On February 3rd our existing customers will have an opportunity to pre-order... on February 10th, everyone will be able to order online, in stores, or in Apple stores."

For once, a telecommunications company gives perks to existing customers. For far too long have cell phone and broadband companies pampered new customers with deals rather than existing customers (and rightly so but still frustrating).
For some reason I feel this is only going to reduce the significance of anti-matter. I remember first hearing about it as some ominous "substance" that only exists in the emptiest depths of the universe. If it happens all of the time on earth, I'm sure we'll be able to conclude that anti-matter is as common here as it is elsewhere in the universe, and won't exhibit any super-interesting properties that we once thought it did.
No, it is insulting and misleading.

Looking at your submissions you have a bad habit of editing headlines. Please to not do that, especially not in such ways.

Please review: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Think about giving reddit.com a try, it might be a site more in your mindset.
Pretty much what everyone expected. The same phone on Verizon's CDMA network. The only a few things I noted were...

1. You can use it as a WiFi Hotspot

2. Redesigned antenna (obviously)

3. Verzion isn't getting the 3GS (which is probably why AT&T was so quick to drop it to $49)
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You're assuming storage, distribution, and administration is free. That's a little unlikely.
Can someone explain why Facebook moved this to Apache? When Wave died, it went to Apache. But Facebook moves Cassandra to Apache, and its still considered alive. Why do companies do this?
5. Become a high-level executive of a large or extremely profitable company.

Obviously there's a small number of people for whom this will happen but I'm pretty sure most corporate execs make >$200k
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Ya that's true. I'm not sure yet how to handle placeholder sites. I could separate them based on a page size threshold but that might be more confusing.
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Is it both CDMA and GSM or just CDMA?
What do you mean? How can Apple release the next one when they haven't even released the white one yet?
Why on earth would you choose a Java version of Ruby over a C version of Ruby? It seems to me people only use JRuby if they have a requirement for both Java and Ruby projects...J2EE developers?
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I like that angle. Four years as communications director of one of the most spectacular presidential campaigns of all times, two years as White House Press Secretary, that certainly opens a lot of doors (and should definitely land him a book deal).

It’s certainly understandable that when you then feel burnt out after six years of stress the thought of leaving must be very attractive. It’s still a bit strange that Obama makes a reference to his modest compensation.
To me this is all nice and straightforward except for the merge i.e. when does it happen? Magically in the background or only at restart.

In either case then the question is how does this affect the responsiveness of the system.

This paper http://downloads.basho.com/papers/bitcask-intro.pdf is a nice easy ready with another level of detail over the linked to article.

I suspect they could consider
- varint encoding of the key and value sizes on disk
- aligning some writes to disk block boundaries to avoid spanning 2 blocks

though both probably only have minor gains.

For more inspiration see Jeff Dean's comments on the SSTable data structure at Google: http://osdi2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/paper-bigtable-distribu...
This was shown in experiments Jonah Lehrer wrote about in "How We Decide"
It makes one wonder whether they'll stick with the existing once-a-year update schedule. Or, even if they do, maybe the next upgrade will be like the 3G->3GS jump or even less... maybe just double the storage across the line? I don't imagine they'll change the body style significantly for a while yet.
My wife lost her job several months ago (bad economy and all) and for a while we were scrambling to figure out what to do with a near 50% loss in income.

Turns out with her staying at home, working on a startup, and us eating a home-cooked dinner everyday...entertaining ourselves with trips to free museums we never went to before (mostly because we were too busy spending money on expensive bits of entertainment before) not only has made up for her salary, but we're actually saving more too.

Crazy.
I'm surprised that there's no LTE. Isn't Verizon's new network supposed to be up and running soon?
My dad is 70, likes to rant about broken/bad software and recently discovered GIMP for photo manipulation. He is very happy and has not said a single bad thing (which actually surprised me).
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The article doesn't mention one of the best features of Org: the "capture" interface [1]. This makes it possible to quickly file a new entry in the appropriate Org file, using a custom template, without interrupting your workflow.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-_002d-Refile-_002d-Archive...
I think it's important to point out that this kind of behaviour is rational under some perspectives, particularly evolutionary ones (dodgy though their explanatory power may be). It's more important, genetically speaking, to be somewhere near the apex of your social group and thereby get more valuable reproduction opportunities, than it is to be materially comfortable on some notional absolute scale.
I suspect that the average "rich" environment is lacking plenty of things that a perfectly nurturing environment would have.

If you look at this through the lens of Maslow's hierarchy, a kid growing up in a poor environment is going to lack the fundamentals needed for cognitive development. He may be undernourished, for example. His guardians are probably too busy trying to make ends meet to read to him. They may even actively ignore him. He's handicapped right out of the starting gate and will likely never have a chance to reach his genetic potential.

In contrast, a child growing up in a rich family will have access to plenty of material goods. He's not going to worry about having to move 4 times in a year because his parents keep getting evicted. He's going to get sent to the best preschool money can buy. However, money can't buy him the drive to succeed on his own - to self-actualize, if you will. He's grown up in an environment where everything has been provided and nothing intrinsic to that environment is going to push him. He'll get closer to his genetic potential than the poor kid, but unless someone actively encourages him to develop his own potential, he's not going to get all the way, and there's your gap.
It must be tough to have a smaller yacht than your friends.
If I had one year of $172,000 income, I could bank it and live off the interest for the rest of my life. People who make that much and don't feel "rich" feel so because somehow they incur $172,000 in expenses every year. I'm a tutor and often work with kids of rich families, and it astounds me what their parents spend money on (think private jets and race cars).

Actually, I work with kids of poor families as well, and I could say the same, although the indulgences are more mundane (expensive cell phone plans and TV packages).
I'm wouldn't be so sure of Apple's phone pipeline... The iPhone4 is still high spec and without much competition. Why not sell as many as possible then drop the next one at a better time?
Tim Cook's (non)response (via TechCrunch's live blog)...

Will not comment on the roadmap." No promise of a new CDMA iPhone in summer. Tim Cook: We chose CDMA because the LTE chipsets forced some design concepts that we would not make.

When will be able to see an LTE-enabled iPhone? A. We're not commenting on unannounced product.
This has been around for 6 years and I'm just discovering this??
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Since Apple normally releases new iPhones in June, does this mean the Verizon iPhone 4 will be obsolete in less than 6 months?

It will be lame if Verizon has the iPhone 4 and then AT&T gets a new GSM-only iPhone 5 in June.
It's not nonsensical if interns in fact do take jobs from paid employees.

I do agree that at the very least, with the exception of monitored academic credit-related work with a company, interns should get minimum wage.
Also related... Morgan Stanley: "Mobile Internet Market Will Be Twice The Size of Desktop Internet"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2092317
I think it's very unlikely that there will ever be a white version of the iphone 4, anyway.
I wonder how AT&T will respond to the hotspot feature. Here's hoping they relax a bit on tethering plans.
> Isn't this a bit of an unfair comparison?

No, because it's not like Java was the first language to ponder about these, and it did not learn from previous languages (mistakes or successes). Pretty much all of Scala's improvements over Java predate Java itself by decades.

Java simply refused to learn from previous language's mistakes.

To some extent, C# did as well by starting out as a slightly improved Java instead of an actually good language, which means even with all the improvement they're doing since they're not deprecating and removing old crud the language is now chock-full of crap and far more complex than it could (and used to) be.
> Looking at your submissions you have a bad habit of editing headlines.

Bad habit? Example please?

From the guidelines:

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

Gratuitous editorial spin is subjective, but none of my subs have been rewritten by an editor, suggesting nothing is amiss here.

Anyway -- final comment on this thread from me. This is boring for everyone else.
It needs a different antenna configuration for CDMA, so I'm guessing that it doesn't support GSM.
Or rather, "I need to need less stuff".
From that WSJ article:

"What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it."

I always thought it was your unlikely to get good at anything that you don't find fun.
I think people are downvoting this because it appears you're fighting the wrong person. "sown" was the one who cursed at you, so this reply seems a bit out of place, since this reply is above "sown"'s post.
I wrote the blog post. I suppose you guys are right - poor choice of terminology. I read Kane's post - which was mostly about why he isn't going to release his software for free anymore. I started thinking about the business reasons why i release software for free (which i do sometimes, but not always) and it occurred to me that i use it as a tool to allow me to more quickly test out an idea. That was really the main point i was trying to make. I will try and update the post tonight to make the language more consistent with the point i was actually making (focusing on testing hypotheses to mitigate risks as a startup and using a freely available product to help test those).
Incoming calls will interrupt data activity. (Will interrupt hotspot)

ArsTechnica has an excellent live blog going of it.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/liveblog-of-veri...
VWO is awesome, really quick and easy to set up tests. And the support is incredible. The few times I've emailed the support address I've had a reply from Paras in less than an hour, I'm beginning to wonder if he ever sleeps :)

The only complaint I did have about VWO is that there was no way to make a variation that touched multiple parts of a page. But apparently you now can! (last item on the list in the article)
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It is, and you can.
Depends on what your definition of "obsolete" is. Even if they release a new one, it doesn't instantly cause all of the older ones to stop working.
I know of no such bank offering interest rates even close to that. You're talking 2.5% - 5%. That's unheard of these days. At my current bank, $1M in a money market account would generate about $2,500/year, which is nothing short of insulting. Who are these fabled banks offering 10x the interest rate?
Is Verizon's CDMA network technically compatible with anywhere else in the world? (e.g. so that you can us the same phone in U.S and elsewhere, provided it is not locked)

Specifically, which frequency band does U.S. CDMA use?
Just like the 3GS? :)
Ya I feel like this is catered more to the bizdev startups. Isn't it not that hard to code A/B tests? Also, don't these kind of programs break HTML/CSS validation and cause cross-browser issues?
I like your phrase 'noiseword', as it sums up a lot of the internet in the last few months. Sites like eHow and other content farms are destroying search IMO by constantly producing homogenized 'how to' articles with no real content.

Sort of like filling up on bread. It very well may be an SEO thing.
As far as I can see, the best ways to become this is are: (a) be an early employee of a company that grows large enough; (b) get your own company acquired (a subset of case 1); (c) meet the right people early on, especially at a young age; and (d) act entrepreneurially within an existing organization's management, which, depending on the health of the organization, may entail more political talent than productive talent.
Probably.
Though no less-so than an ATT iPhone 4 purchased in the next six months. And much less-so than an ATT 3GS purchased in that same window.
5. Become a top developer at a big software company.

(A variation on 3. You probably won't earn $100 million, but you could definitely earn $1 million. )

6. Become a top performer in entertainment (music, sports, movies).

A fun fact ignored by most people: it isn't just CEO pay that has skyrocketed over the years. Alex Rodrieguez gets $33 million/year, at his peak Babe Ruth got (inflation adjusted) $1.1 million.
"So I'm wondering if we aren't having a disagreement on definitions."

I think it mostly depends on whether or not you have kids. Kids can basically eat up an unlimited amount of money.
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It's faster than MRI. It allows you to write Java instead of C extensions. For developers without a C background, but with a Java or c# background that's pretty huge IMO.

Plus instead of running 16 Unicorn workers for an app, eating up over 4GB of memory, I can run one JRuby thread-pooled app, handling many more connections gracefully, with lower memory requirements, fewer database connections and better performance.
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Also, they may not release an update for CDMA version so soon, so it won't be obsolete in the sense "you can't get anything better wor CDMA anyway"
Okay, here's the full lowdown on how deaf people communicate.

Currently, deaf people log somewhere close to 2 million VRS minutes a month. These are services where they talk to a VI (video interpreter) to translate sign language as they call somebody else. This is their native language, and I assure you they prefer it more than any other mode of communication. Many of them absolutely abhor TTY and often relate text messages with that. However there are other services which piggy back off of AIM called IPRelay. This are the only way to communicate on the go, so they are somewhat popular, but nowhere near as popular as VRS.

Currently, the only real VRS solutions are point to point from their homes. Some companies have tried to piggy back off of Facetime with little success, largely due to constraints with the wifi and FCC regulations of logging minutes (that's how they get paid)

In the coming months, Sorenson (previously the Sorenson in the Sorenson codec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorenson_codec), the largest provider by far of VRS services (more than a factor of 10) will start to unveil their full onslaught of VRS communications to the deaf community. Deaf people will be able to use VRS services on Android, iPhone, PCs and Macs. And not just on wifi, the goal is deployment on 3G and 4G networks, the holy grail, especially because wifi can get really tricky when users are behind firewalls.

What does it take for this deployment? Sorenson has a quality requirement of a minimum of 12 fps and sub 1 second latency over 3G and 4G networks, but a goal closer to 15fps. They've been able to meet their goals, and their video puts Qik to shame.

Sprint is likely going to license Sorenson's technology because they also provide some of their own branded VRS services.

So, will the hearing take to video chat? Maybe, maybe not. But the deaf will. For the first time in their life they'll be able to call anyone from anywhere you and I can, and talk to them in their native language, ASL.

I probably wouldn't have said any of this a month ago, but Sorenson started pushing a video teaser for their nTouch brand, which is the brand name for their entire solution (Mobile, PC, and TV based VRS systems)
If you are concerned flag it. If you don't like Engadget ignore it.

And no: There is no new trend regarding Engadget; it's in the top 25 of most submitted domains [1] here at HN.

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[1]: http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_number_of_submissions
So having a harmless backlink invalidates the good content?

This is not spam at all, this is just great SEO/business. Yoast gets traffic to their site without having to create the content, CreditLoans gets a good quality backlink in return for creating the content. Everyone are happy.
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At least not with a glass case from what I read. Apparently it was difficult to make the white case opaque.

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/white-iphone-4s-biggest-...
Having too many choices interferes with decision making.

I think humans are optimized for pair-wise decision making. We do "okay" with 3 or 4 things but beyond that, I've noticed a distinct inability for most people to make wise decisions.

I'd also add #11: Most people don't make rational decisions.
I've noticed that quite often, even in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary (all signs point to "this is a bad decision!") people will continue to make poor decisions. They usually survive that by also having an amazing ability to justify poor decision making.

and #12: Most people make their way in the world more less/fine with IQs of around 100. If you believe you are smart, you should be able to do anything that any normal person can do if you set your mind to it. And normal people can get an impressive amount of mileage out of 100 IQ points. I've noticed that many very smart people tend to use their intelligence as a crutch or excuse for why they can't do something. Usually it's w/r to socialization, but can also affect other areas -- simple things like paying their bills on time or showing up to meetings on time. The stereotype of the absent minded professor comes to mind.
This is a brilliant way to get the attention of HN users.

Niggle: some of those are redirect times. BlameStella gets it right if you click through, but the summary data has some bad numbers.

For example - www.justspotted redirects to spotlight.justspotted, which redirects to their posterous blog.