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Could someone please explain how this hotspot feature usually works for smartphones? I'm having a discussion with a friend about this, but we're going nowhere since I don't own a smartphone and thus I'm not really sure what's the default here and how this iPhone does things differently.

[edit] what I expect is this: if I'm connected to a wifi hotspot to browse the Internet and I receive a telephone call, I should not drop the connection to the hotspot (am I wrong in understanding that this is NOT what this iPhone does?).
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. )

Do you mean $1 million/year as a software developer? Details, please!

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.

See the "superstar effect" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039498
At least Bush never presented himself as an expert on economics, what about this classic:

"we today in our country have economic stability not boom and bust"

- Gordon Brown
Because you haven't lived until you implement a distributed key-value store.
More cynically, to the extent that ex-press secretaries' private sector value derives from their access to those in power, they're worth more while their crew is still in office.
Im sorry, but this seems like a terrible, short-sighted bit of lunacy. Yes, you should be noting things all day, but taking the time to review your notes as a cohesive whole seems to be the point. It will let you see bigger patterns. It will help you deduce what you could be doing tomorrow for your "#1 task".

Think of it like an optimization problem, small tweaks based on limited feedback will get you caught in a local maximum -- seriously, what you described is basically a genetic algorithm. When you step back and notice general trends, things that turn into inefficient tweak loops and so on, there is a lot of good that can come from it.

GO! GO! GO! is not a sane mentality, and has never helped me do much but get work done. This is useful, excepting of course those situations where the work itself isn't useful but I can't see that because I don't look back and analyze. Looking back on today and this week is a nice way to keep perspective, get some peace and have big picture understanding of what is going well and isn't.
To me the major problem seems to be that anyone who is in a position to fix the problem has no incentive to do so.
A lot of people from india work in the west, send that money back home to have a mansion (servants and everything) and live like a billionaire for the rest of their life (well, presumably. I obviously don't know any that have done this and died of old age yet).
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People moved to AT&T to get the iPhone, but a lot of them think the experience is subpar, and will prefer not to renew their contracts as things stand.

I expect there's a decent chunk of holdouts who'll have a good appetite for the VZW iPhone immediately, and there'll also be a steady stream of people switching from AT&T to Verizon as their contracts expire.
Ah, wow, the "Microsoft Policy" and "Apple Policy" are awesome. Glad to see a free software project that says, on its front page, that it would "prefer" you compile and run the software on "a platform that is not controlled by a free-software-hostile corporation."
I guess what I mean is, what does it feel like to feel rich?
Yes, VWO is targeted at marketers and non-technical folks at companies where a change in site code can take weeks and months.
> I'm really hoping they'll be charging extra for the wifi hotspot feature like they do with Android, or if they're not, making it free for Android users as well.

Meh, root your phone like every other hacker and you can get free tethering on Android as well. I use it all the time with my Droid.
To really understand the situation start running the numbers of late life salary bumps.

It is difficult to balance lifestyle, income, and savings as you start to ramp up your salary AND your lifestyle. If your salary doubles between 20 and 30 and then again between 30 and 40 your savings does not change. So even if your saving 20% of your income every year you are not going to be able to safely retire at 80% of what you make at 40. Unless, you get a salary bump and don't increase your lifestyle.

Take it further; someone that sees a 3x gains from 30 is going to need to save ~40% a year to avoid a lifestyle drop. Meanwhile your friends are all raping up their spending and possible over extending.
I wonder which mushroom it is.
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From personal experience, if I didn't get enough sleep or haven't eaten well, the productivity of my work just go down the drain. I get cranky and I can't focus, but I have seen a lot of engineers who can work for days sleeping just few hours a day on just crackers. They don't mind not eating or sleeping well as long as they meet the deadline.
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Banks are in on that too. "Free checking" has always been about hoping you won't have a big enough cushion to avoid occasionally going under a $0 balance. The people getting hit by those fees would then pay for everyone else who can afford to have that cushion.

Nowadays they've had to switch away from such gotcha fees. Instead, you get charged if you aren't using online banking, keeping a minimum balance, and/or depositing over a certain amount every month. And who's more likely to have problems meeting those requirements?
"Locking" doesn't mean the same thing it does for GSM phones; CDMA phones have a builtin ID which is registered with the network, and there's no SIM card or equivalent to swap out to change that ID.

Sprint and Verizon both use the same CDMA frequencies in the US, and Sprint and Verizon phones roam on each other's networks. But there's no button on your Sprint phone to push to make it a Verizon phone, or vice versa. Sometimes you can get the carrier to do it for you -- the new carrier can choose to activate your existing phone on their network. At least I remember stories of people doing that; I never tried it so can't speak from personal experience.
In this article Jenny McCarthy defends the British scientist whose fraudulent anti-vaccine article killed or sickened countless children. The mind reels.
The obvious lesson here is if you spend your time feeling jealous of those who are doing better than you, you'll never be satisfied.
Caffeine can decrease anxiety? That's highly contradictory to a bulk of medical wisdom out there. People can experience spikes in their heart rate due to stimulants like caffeine.

Also, tea is more of a cultural phenomenon in that region of the world. It's not thought of as a tool for meditation. In fact, in yogic traditions, you're supposed to stay away from caffeine.
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On other CDMA smartphones, I've never seen data activity send callers to voicemail -- the call goes through, the data connection stalls until the call ends.

Not optimal, surely, but nowhere near as bad as sending calls to voicemail without ringing like the old iPhone on EDGE.
Speaking generally, companies aren't good at running community based open source projects -- their interests don't always align with what is best for an open source project.

When a project like Cassandra came to Apache, there were only a couple Facebook developers working on it -- and they had largely abandoned future work on it. After growing the community there are dozens of people today contributing patches from many independent companies -- this makes a much stronger product that will survive the whims of a single company, which is also what consumers of open source projects look for, a stable ecosystem that won't go away if X is bought by Oracle or another BigEvilCorporation.

It remains to be seen if Wave will build a big enough community to be successful inside the ASF, but Cassandra is certainly one of the success stories.
5% per year doesn't stack up very fast when you consider inflation (2.56% over the last decade was the average).
I think your mistake is in assuming that he meant a standard, FDIC-insured savings account by "in the bank." It's not terribly hard to find ~5% dividend yields in the stock market, particularly if you look outside the United States.

Further, in the US, once you have a net worth of a million dollars, you qualify as an accredited investor, opening up a plethora of new investment opportunities to you.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
You're a little unfair in regards to C#.

Since C# 1.1 they've only added features that are mostly orthogonal to the existing ones. Secondly, the features they've added aren't half-baked. Sure there's room for improvement, but they behave as you expect them to, and the designers specifically leave room for improvement all the time.

Sure, I hate that everything I want to do still has to be specified within a class / static method; that's Java-related legacy done probably because of marketing reasons, but C# has 2 things I wish for whenever I'm working with Scala ...

- the ability to get the expression tree of a closure. There was a plugin for Scala at some point, but it's dead.

- dynamic typing, which structural typing cannot really replace.

You say chock-full of crap, but IMHO language designers should learn from its evolution, because it was a good one.
a close friend just put away ~$2.5M for a year and is only getting 1.25%. They're more concerned with stability/low risk than growth.
Original article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/
>I remember first hearing about it as some ominous "substance" that only exists in the emptiest depths of the universe.

It doesn't exist in appreciable amounts anywhere, that anyone knows of. Maybe you're confusing it with dark matter, which has only observed in distant galaxies (because it's only detectable -- to date -- by its gravitational effects).

Antimatter exists on earth. You're generating antimatter right now. One isotope of natural potassium (K-40) emits an antielectron in one in every 10^5 decays [1]. A typical meatbag has enough K-40 for 4,400 decays per second [2] (i.e., 4.4 kBq), so you're spontaneously emitting, on average, about 3 antielectrons per minute from this path.

[1] http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/decaysearchdirect.jsp?nuc=40K&...

[2] http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
So basically, anyone hosting their site on EC2 will appear to have a fantastic response time, compared to anyone else. Which makes the test mostly useless for comparison between startups (though it could be interesting/valid data for a single startup over time, which is what pingdom sells)
> I think the real issue is that someone making 300,000 probably doesn't have much more disposable income than someone making 80,000.

I think the term disposable income gets misused a lot. People don't see the money they spend on the BMWs, or the part-time nanny, or the private school, or any number of everyday luxuries as a use of disposable income. But they are every bit as much as those trips to Hawaii.
* The create translucent beacon is broken on chrome(I haven't tried other browsers on it). When I first got the page it would tell me that I needed to give an image.

* Simple image beacons have lots of problems in their use. (lots of proxies ignore cache timeouts)

* Your server is still adding a cache timeout. So this will drastically undercount users.

* This isn't tracking who is viewing, just a simple counter.

* Please have a reset zoom button on the view page; it's hard to reset the view when there are very few data points (eg 1).

* Images in email are a good way of tracking but there is a lot more that you can do to up the accuracy. Consider adding features there.
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The author introduces the topic of banks skimming money off the top during good times and receiving bailouts in bad times, but does not make the connection to the real economy.

Huge interventions in the economy do not happen in a vacuum. If capital chases high returns in the financial sector, it does so at the expense of investment in productive industries. If profits are generated by financial institutions leveraging the "privatize profits, socialize losses" system and then paid out to their employees, they are in essence feeding off the taxpayer to pay their bonuses.

Further, wages rise in a sector when the sector is growing: seeing increased profits and/or increased investment. It's natural to see wage stagnation if the financial sector continues to skim off the top of productive industry.

And finally- the prices of education and healthcare mentioned by the author are most definitely tied to loose monetary policy that benefits the financial sector. While some of these costs aren't measured in core inflation, inflation is still happening, the end result being that people make the same but have to pay more to send their kids to school, take care of their health problems, eat food, drive cars...
4.) Not having an AT&T carrier in the area.
Being from a state where AT&T is not an available phone service (South Dakota), this is a big deal. I'm not sure how many other states have this issue. We have been waiting for this since the iPhone was released. It will be great to finally have another smart phone option from a big player. Though I'll probably stick to my Android phone.
Correct. But it still does not address the issue why a credit card user bears the risk accruing from his/her behavior, whereas a investment bank can essentially muscle its way into offloading its risk.
Urgh, headline sucks! Does the study really find that being poor causes a limiting of mental ability? Or does being poor correlate with a limiting of mental ability?

My take is that bad nurturing causes the decline in mental ability, and wealth is merely a reasonable indicator for quality of nurturing. This distinction is important if attempts are made to mitigate the limitations.
Every statistic tells the same story: If you want to earn more, learn more. Between 1973 and 2007, real wages fell 15 percent for non high-school grads; stayed flat for high school grads and workers with "some college"; and rose 18 percent for both college grads and advanced degree grads. Upshot: Just as the cost of college has become prohibitive for many families, the benefits of college have only increased.

Perhaps OP spent too much time memorizing textbook details in college when he failed to learn what almost every Hacker News reader has long known:

Correlation != Causation

Just because there is a correlation between "years of education" and "income", it does not necessarily follow that "less education" causes "lower income". Just a few scenarios where correlation != causation:

- One without the ambition for education may similarly lack ambition for anything, including hard work.

- One with family responsibilities may lack the opportunity for both college and a better job.

- One with health issues will have equal difficulty pursuing higher education and a higher earning job.

- One able to afford long years of schooling may already be better positioned by family/friends for higher paying possibilities.

- One who cannot even imagine going to college (for any reason) may have equal difficulty imagining succeeding in anything.

In each of these cases, lack of education didn't cause lower earnings, but both were the results of some other cause. I imagine there are many other scenarios, as well.
He may be undernourished, for example.

This is an insignificant issue in the US.

http://www.who.int/entity/nutgrowthdb/database/countries/who...

His guardians are probably too busy trying to make ends meet to read to him.

They certainly have time to read to him. The average person earning < $500/week has 32 minutes/day more leisure than a person earning at least $1181/week. They just choose to spend it on other things.

The average person earning < $500/week spends only 8 minutes/weekday reading (10 minutes on the weekend). In contrast, they spend 2 hours 15 minutes/weekday watching TV (3 hours 15 minutes on the weekend). That's 45 min/day more than the richer person.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm

I suspect a big component of why the poor children don't develop as much is because they observe their parents spending 2-3 hours/day watching TV, 8-10 minutes reading, and emulate those habits. (It's probably closer to 4 hours/day for the 80% of the poor who are not employed.)

The rich people observe their parents spending 15-30 minutes/day reading, less TV, more sports, and emulate those habits as well.

A scary thought: most people spend more than 2 hours/day watching TV. Imagine what might happen if everyone in America turned the TV off for an hour and did something productive!
I feel like blogging and trolling are now synonymous.
I find support work very satisfying. Even though we are a small team now, I find it tempting to beat my other colleagues at answering a support question :)
You're reading the wrong ruling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v._Bollinger
I was going to say "with a computer" but you pretty much drove the point home.
Not a very informative article. There's nothing in it other than baseless speculation and weak inferences.
I wonder if they controlled for family size.

I imagine a big effect on a child's cognitive development comes from the amount of time they spend with their parent. If wealthier families have fewer children, and therefore have more parental attention per child, that could explain the disparity.
Include SS and Medicare and it's not hard to hit 40%.
The main point of this piece is not that you take time at the end of the day, or in the middle, or a few times throughout. The point is that, whenever you do it, you need to take time to think, time to reflect on what you've been doing. If you never take time to reflect and answer some of the nagging bigger questions, you severely short-change your long-term effectiveness.

I've been running an experiment recently to take at least 15 minutes each day to think about my research (I do neuroscience research for a university in DC). The results have been great, and I'm starting to add in more reflective time throughout the day, even when I'm not 'working'. If you're interested, I have been, and will continue to be, writing about it here: http://joshrule.com/blog. Look for posts about trial 2.
Kevin Drum responds to this argument here: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/01/matt-yglesias

Basically, here's arguing from deduction: increasing prosperity from productivity enhancements could have gone to workers, but their wages have remained flat while the top 0.1%'s have skyrocketed. The mechanism is unclear (he suggests the wealthy have manipulated government policy and smashed unions), but the action is not.
Hm. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it's pedestrian. Well understood by theoretical physicists, perhaps. Inherently, though, it's still pretty damn interesting.
The eighth business model is of course offering a reward to anyone coming up with a viable business model that is not on the list.
Heh, I have the same story. Messaged both of you on Github, we should team up.

https://github.com/mharris717/lsl
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People between the 70th and 90th percentiles feel squeezed by a lot of expenses that cost less for those lower on the scale, due to price discrimination, progressive taxation, subsidies, etc. College tuition is a good example. It's high enough to take a big chunk of the income of a 70-90th percentile earner, but it doesn't hurt as much to someone higher (spare change!) or lower (financial aid) on the income scale.
Some interesting comments there.. especially love this one: "HTML & CSS. Easy to learn. Difficult to master."
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I'm sure all the carriers will be able to implement this feature, but it's up to them, just like tethering.
I'm just one guy so I have to start somewhere :]

Sometime soon though, it will be possible to select the location.
You're right, but in this case I assumed not the users but the HN-readers were the target audience. And I think many are interested in performance benchmarks. I think it makes a difference wether a site with many requests is quick in comparison to a completely idle site.
I think this is a perk and a landslide mitigation strategy.
Pretty much any amino acid will help brain function, but with any study, they always give absurdly high amounts to their test subjects in comparison to what the average human consumes. Plus, these are scientific research papers. Even a 1% improvement is enough for them to be quoted as saying "improves brain function."

Drinking tea is good for you, we've known this for years. Keep drinking it.
> People should be taught self restraint and living within their means in schools.

People should be taught self restraint and living within their means at home.
Still holding out hope from star trek I imagine.
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Cloudant is a super cool company, but even for pet projects I still can't seem to justify using CouchDB...and I really tried too!
Although stuff that relies heavily on reflection and runtime code generation tends to be tricky. Class files generated by the scala compiler may look different from class files generated by javac and contain additional data (while of course still being valid java bytecode), and some tools rely on accidental details of the javac code generator. Someone mentioned JPA in this discussion. But most things just work.

Another issue is using scala code from java. As long as the code implements a plain java interface, everything is fine, but if you try to use something impemented with some of the features that java doesn't have, you will soon see some very stange mangled names. trö_%¿ is not a valid java fuction name, after all.
if I'm doing new counter tops I should probably

This is the mindset that makes high income people feel poor. You can get a vary nice gas stove installed wihtout looking out of place for ~10k or you can spend ~100k and get the same thing but shiny.
"You can use it as a WiFi Hotspot" means that you can use the phone to broadcast a WiFi signal for nearby computers/devices to use to access the Internet.

The phone acts as a WiFi access point, using the cellular network to relay the devices connected to it to the Internet.
This is what views are for. If it is easier to work with the data denormalized, create a view with a few joins. Some views can even have updates directly applied to them.