skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. For every dollar being pulled out there also a lot of lost value due to the declining prices. Many investors follow a "basket" strategy where if one market goes down they will allocate more money to buying there and pull it out of other areas such as private investments.

This _has_ been seen in prior US public market downturns - if a pension fund is allocating 90% to public market investments and 10% to private investments, and the public market drops 33%, their fund is now split 60/10 instead of 90/10. So to rebalance back to 90/10, they'll need to liquidate 33% of their private investment allocation and move it to public investments. (This is an oversimplification but you get the idea.)
And the countless crappy paid windows video converter apps that don't credit FFMpeg and all they do is do shell out to ffmpeg. I get a chuckle out of the the FFMpeg wall of shame (which is honestly smaller than it should be): http://www.ffmpeg.org/shame.html
and they just lost ~1 trillion ++ worth of infrastructure... I believe they have a 10 year rebuild in front of them.

This is assuming that we have hit bottom on the catastrophe over there now and that we can contain the Daiichi plant.

It would be very interesting though, if things turn south and some massive takeovers occur in the next 12 months.

Imagine companies like Fujitsu, Hitachi or others (my mind is blank) being bought up by the IBMs Apples or even Google or GASP facebooks (those who have a lot of cash to buy tech houses in Japan and picot into HW?)

Pure fantasy sure - but so was the SCIFI scenario we are now looking at today, just last week.
... A Real Madrid fan?
Mac OS 9.2 was released in June of 2001, several months after Mac OS X 10.0. And 9.2.2 arrived after 10.1 had been released.

Sometimes you don't just cut the cord, you evolve the old and the new.
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Exactly. People who make fortunes off these markets are selling. Either they're wrong or posters here are. Guess which option is more likely.

I think the LessWrong post Markets are Anti-Inductive explains it well: http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
Samsung Galaxy Fit Price India, Android Samsung Mobile S5670 Features
Samsung Smartphone in the Galaxy series that has just been launched - the Samsung GALAXY Fit (Galaxy S5670) comes with a 3.31"QVGA TFT display , Android 2.2 ; optimized user interface with Touchwiz 3.0, hybrid widgets and a 5MP camera. Equipped with a 600 Mhz processor with 3D accelerator, the phone delivers high performance, comes with a 5MP Camera, a 1350 mAh battery and an expandable memory upto 32GB. Users can access a range of Android and Samsung apps, enjoy uninterrupted connectivity with HSDPA 7.2, Wi-fi and enjoy features such as the Social Hub, Think Free Office, SWYPE text input. Galaxy Fit's Integrated email system allows users to view all the emails, calendars at once without having to log into each account separately. Samsung Galaxy Fit allows you to live a highly connected digital smart life, with an Android experience like never before.
Ask HN: Press Release is it worth it?
Is it worth it using services like Market Wire to get some news about some new features? Any other services you can suggest?
But putting a lot of resources into Windows phone 7 at this point is just folly

It feels like MS isn't putting enough skin in the game. They shipped the OS in September. Great. That gets you a toe in the door. They should have rev'ed that OS at least as many times as Apple has theirs. Apple has shipped 5 updates to iOS since September. MS -- one (the update to prepare for future updates, so really not even a real update). That's embarrassing that the market leader, with 300k apps in the appstore and 100M devices on the market is more agile. And as a developer, you have to ask yourself, "Is this a platform I want to get in bed with?" At this point, I wouldn't.
I wonder if his supporters would be so enthusiastic if they found out their family doctors had cheated to pass their medical exams.

Credentials matter. That's why we require people have them. So we can be certain (within reason) that they possess the capabilities their degrees imply. In the case of a politician, the degree could signify a level of critical thinking, diligence, and knowledge. The only thing plagiarism tells us is that he is a liar, and a cheater.

Wait a second, he has the perfect credentials for politics...
You're going to want to look for a company with the least exposure to Japanese demand. You also want to see which company's plants were most disrupted by the crisis. I had the data before, I no longer look at the car industry in Japan but do some research and you'll know. Not sure if this is the time to buy any Japanese equity right now though, it's a flight away from risk and investors are indiscriminate with their funds.
The marketing for Windows Phone 7 was pretty extensive in the US. I don't watch much TV, but I definitely saw plenty of the "We need a phone to save us from our phones" ads. Was it really that much smaller in the UK?

And have there really been NO bugfixes or patches (other than the notorious one he mentioned)? That's insane. Microsoft has got to know how far behind the ball they are... why aren't they pulling out all the stops on this?

For Microsoft: This isn't Windows. You can't wait 3 years (or more) for every release.
Another aspect is that people actually need cash in these sort of situations and sell liquid assets to get it, while others that need cash on hand are putting less in. So, the market may benefit a long term holder of securities, but people that do or might need the money soon can't afford the short term volatility.
>You win, you get commission. You lose, it's not your money.

You get a wage either way. If the bank profits you get a bonus too even if you lost your customers money. If you screw the bank up the gov bails you out and you still get a bonus.
We have endless reports from international agencies not just WHO, in these reports they find NO evidence of any increase of congenital malformations, those reports claiming 50,000 people handicapped after the disaster are plain wrong. The reports also state that as a direct result of the accident 4000 children got thyroid cancer, of which the recovery rate was almost 99%.

Anti-nuclear groups have hyped up Chernobyl to such an extent that many people have an irrational fear of nuclear energy.

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/en/

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/IAEA_Pub1239...

http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_di...

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pd...

http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/annexj.pdf

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1239_web.pd...

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/statements/2005/ebsp2005n008....
Cool idea and you seem to have gotten some traction to it too. Looks pretty similar to http://www.wanelo.com/. Offhand difference I can see is that you allow your users to earn money on their recommendations, but I must say I personally prefer the Wanelo UI more. It seems, though, that Wanelo has been idle for some time.
Various algorithmic traders play on these dual listings. Put a computer in between (in network terms) and you can trade ahead of the people in either japan or new york.

and of course you can also do regular pairs trading (if they drift farther apart).
Another example of this was Colchicine as an HN'er mentioned here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263969
You know your soccer my friend ... but you left out Java.

I'd say that's like Miroslav Klose ... big, strong, not particularly fast or lovely to watch but damned good at putting away goals when it matters. surprisingly so.
Is it any better with Android? Here's a list of issues:

-- Android resets your phone to factory settings without asking you or even giving a warning if you port a number to it. This deserves a class-action lawsuit. See here: http://androidforums.com/droid-x-support-troubleshooting/131...

-- Using the built in email application, sent emails often stuck in the outbox. See here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=6d4...

-- Wifi on the phone does not work if SSID is hidden. See here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1041

-- Bluetooth on the device is unable to connect to a desktop to transfer files or sync. See here:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=android+bluetooth+paired+but+no...

-- Once you sign in into Google Account using any Google app (like Gmail), you cannot sign out, ever! Only way to "sign out" is to reset the phone to factory defaults, which means loosing all your data and needing phone activation again. See here:
http://www.sizzledcore.com/2009/12/27/how-to-remove-change-g...

-- They have artificially blocked use of Google Calendar app on the phone from functioning unless using a Google Account. Of course Google isn't interested in Outlook Sync, but even third-party developers suffer. Many have started providing their own calendar apps. See here: http://www.syncdroid.net/

If you follow the links, you may notice that many of the issues have been open for a few years, some since Android version 1.6, etc. Google just does not care.

To fix the issue with sent emails stuck in the outbox, people have started from the source code of the built-in email app and created K-9 mail, which is 10X more powerful, and works.
Currency? Do you have a source on revised infrastructure damage figures, because I've only seen $100-150 billion estimates by some insurance companies.
This fiduciary disconnect can create a lot of malevolent market behaviour if controls aren't in place. And more often than not, controls aren't in place.

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/11/13/the-hedge-fund-disconnect...
I wonder what this experience is like compared to early Android adopters? Was there similar issues, with bugs and then updates not coming for them?
Well, it's recovered about 400 points since this was posted, so the professionals seem to have decided they were deeply into buy territory, too.
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Interesting... what links are you seeing with "#" as the href?

I agree about the "Join today and earn money" call-to-action. Any suggestions for better copy?
omg...Dubberly gives me inappropriate feelings. Lol!!!1111

http://www.dubberly.com/articles/becoming-a-digital-designer...

I seriously thought about that Digital Designer article for months after reading it - his take on the skills an interdisciplinary/digital designer should posesses. A -lot- of insight there, especially the fact that he mentions Tools for Making Tools, Systems that Evolve, and Histories....but most of all....-mooost- of all...Modeling with Fractals, Genetic Algorithms, and Cellular Automata (ftw!)
The occurrence of radiation related deaths in this one instance isn't strong evidence that it is more dangerous than alternatives:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...
Almost all of the apps in the video category on the Mac app store are the same.
"Any guess as to who understands the science better?"

Ah, the glorious ad hominem. Here's one of your recent comments.

"In terms of real disasters, when measured in human deaths, [chernobyl] are tiny footnotes in history, statistically irrelevant."

Ironic isn't it, given my previous comment?

Or this,

"just as several decades of extensive use of nuclear power generation with practically no deaths"

What is the scientific definition of "several", or better yet, "practically no deaths"?
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I was about to write the same as above. I totally agree.
Or this is just the optimists and opportunists buying in before it crashes again. :D
Who’s knifing what?
The big question is how the operations of each of those companies is affected. If operations are hugely impacted and would require time to rebuild, their stocks will not rebound so easily.
C++, especially template heavy code, is orders of magnitude slower in compiling.

Clang and LLVM is faster but not that much faster.
"Not the best comparison; California is fairly sparsely populated, with concentrations in the SF and LA/SD areas. Being an island nation (well, a several-island nation), you'd expect Japan to be a bit more dense.

Consider that the population density of Japan is less than a third that of a somewhat average-density city like Austin, TX, and is even less dense than that of the state of New Jersey."

If Austin or New Jersey had either the area or population close to that of Japan, maybe these would be relevant comparisons.

If you want to compare cities, try comparing New York to Tokyo, which at least are somewhat comparable. Though even there, Tokyo is far more populous, while NYC is far more densely populated.

"There is no evidence to suggest that Dai-ichi is actually a "disaster""

I guess you've been reading different news than than I have. What I've been reading says three of the reactors have exploded and a fourth has caught fire. There have already been reports of radiation leaks and at least 160 people have been exposed to radiation (so far). Sounds like a "disaster" to me.

Now, whether it escalates to the scale of Chernobyl (or larger) remains to be seen.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just changed it.
A smart man no doubt, but taken out of context for the current discussion.

He is talking about long term deleveraging in many different countries. His outlook for the US is just as grim.
If you are already invested in Japanese equities the "safe" play is to try to take some cash off the table to defend against what could be a bleak revenue picture in the near future. If you are not yet in that market then there might be a long term play investing when these stocks are weak. Id assume most here who advocate buying are in this boat.

Both buying and selling may be the correct play depending on your current position.
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Considering that this is going to set back nuclear energy for decades....

not a good decision
Is the 'hard sell' salesperson dying out?
is it really necessary to collect all applicants' passports even if only a fraction will be accepted?
Yeah, but... not even text-shadow and gradients? Come on, IE :(
There is no incentive for users to switch

...unless you're on Linux.
As far as I can tell (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/08/17/ie9-opacity-an... for example), IE9 in IE9 standards mode supports neither filters nor VML. I hope I’m not too optimistic in thinking that its SVG support should be good enough to use that as a workaround.
Being in Shanghai, I got this SMS from several sources. It's going to be interesting to see what people choose to do when it starts raining.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326075
It's easier to post a buy comment here than it is to post a buy order with your broker. I doubt many of these posters have actually put in a buy order of any substantial amount.
Thanks for posting this. I like to buy into crashes (with some safety margin if I'm wrong). +$4k on the SGXNK so far because of your great timing! :)
I'm wondering the same thing. One estimate puts the number of houses destroyed at around 100k (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42025882/ns/world_news-asia-paci...). Car ownership is around 1 car for every two people in Japan, no doubt more in rural areas. So 100,000 destroyed houses might mean 80k to 140k flooded cars. I'd guess that more than 50k extra cars are going to need to be produced in Japan to replace those that have been lost (which, though a relatively small proportion of the probably 1,000,000 cars made in Japan yearly, is nonetheless significant).

Another sad fact of this disaster is that it disproportionately affected the retired -- this too may well have consequences economically.

Economics is in part about people having productive stuff to do. If there was a work shortage in Japan before, I doubt there is now.
$100K is not enough money to do anything in any field that matters. I rather not have my tax dollars given to more inane web startups.
Use whichever you're most productive with. Worry about making a great product.
Android has some pretty wacky longstanding bugs, even now. My friend and I both have HTC Incredibles, and whenever I text him I come up as his friend Frank, with Frank's picture.

I got a bunch of very confused texts from him before we figured that one out. Now whenever I text him, I have to append (This is Erik).
No not in this case - but the visa is intended to start growth business, not just for people to hire a maid, pool boy and gardener and get a resident visa.
I couldn't help but wonder while reading this comment--have you ever experienced any sort of discrimination or are you a member of any minority group (person of color, gay, non-christian, etc.)?

"Life isn't fair and people with treat you unfairly. No this doesn't entitle you to special treatment."
Who is asking for special treatment? Women just don't want to be discriminated against because of their gender--how do you get special treatment from that?

Additionally your logic is flawed--just because you have never heard anybody complain about the lack of women in blue collar jobs (the only jobs you mentioned) doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

And please explain how men being four times more likely to be murdered and ten times as many are in jail ( I'd love you to site where you came up with those statistics and their methodology in obtaining them btw) makes men "inherently inferior?"
The article refers to children under the age of 5. Not toddlers. Pre-school is probably a more accurate description.
Actually you are wrong on a few of those points, for one, I use bluetooth to transfer files to my phone(2.1 device) all the time, but I have seen some android phones where that does work, it seems to be dependent on whether or not the manufacturer has lock that feature down or not.

Also you can remove or unlink you google account in the "Accounts & Sync" area of the settings menu.
Aren't those sunk costs though? Isn't the real question whether the market's information is overly optimistic or overly pessimistic? Given perfect information in the market wouldn't we expect it to be 50/50 based on true uncertainty about the future?

These aren't rhetorical questions, this is just my line of thought based on my relative ignorance of investing.
A large drop in a market usually triggers sell orders that were put in place dropping the market further which trigger more sell orders and so on.

Many people who are levered don't have the capital to withstand this type of drop and get washed out causing further selling.

It's a chain reaction that eventually cools off. Let's hope their fuel rods do the same!
Exactly. I don't see how many people can be excited about IE9. No CSS3 Transitions? Come on thats my FAVORITE part of CSS3!
What notable startups have come out of silicon valley in the last 10years?
It's been a long time since HP, Apple, Sun appeared - a few people with a high traffic no income social web site doesn't make an industry however many $M/Bn it's notionally valued.
One of the more, genuinely great ideas i have seen on this site. I recently bought a domain name that would actually be perfect for this idea. Gitpush.com(i was building a git php deplyment platform).

Why don't you try the idea out?
I am not in any position to give advice to Microsoft, but it seems to me that they are trying to apply the winning strategies they used in one game to all the others.

Example: WP7.

What is expected: They ship fast and they update fast and agile, they don't have giant compatibility legacy to maintain.

What actually happens: WP7 took forever to ship and never got updated.

My speculation why it happened: they've got some lengthy and fairly bureaucratic process of approving new features, new versions, etc. They apply the same methodic they used with windows to their WP7, like, always maintain backward compatibility, be very reliable (well, you all know what happened) and predictable. They're, like, four years late and they keep wasting time.

Not to mention that WinMo wasn't too great either. I had an iPaq, which was sort of okay, but it didn't rock. It wasn't "cool" in any sense. And they probably vastly underestimate the coolness factor.

My $0.02.
The threat of developer and user drain is real. Forks can be good if a project is 'dead' or devs want to push it in a significantly different direction. But two forks that are similar and competing create subtle incompatibilities that force a developer to waste time doing something twice or, worse, add a feature/patch to only one branch and not the other. I would find it difficult to claim that code could flow "fluidily" between two forks -- forks are by definition different codebases and will always require extra work to cross-develop for.
If you can't afford to fully fund your 401k without thinking twice, you have bigger problems in your financial setup. $16,500 out of a $100k yearly salary is just stupid cheap.

If you are not making $100k+, you are not going to have fuck-you money by 40. All the Facebook stock in the world still requires a liquidity event, which is unrealistic at the current valuation.
I've always questioned wether inline CSS is the best way to go, given Tumblr's downtime issues.
Happens so, so often. A great example (very YC suited!) is Apple's stock prices in January.

When Steve Jobs announced his medical leave just under two months ago, the Apple (AAPL) price opened the next day (Tuesday) down 5.44% on Friday's close price. The low point on Tuesday was 6.45% lower than Friday's close price.

While the price did go back up a bit that same day (the Tuesday close was only 2.25% lower than Friday's close price), it kept dropping for a few days. By the time the markets closed on Friday, AAPL's price was 326.72, down 6.24% in a week (compare that Friday close price to AAPL's lowest price on Tuesday, which was 326.00).

For some reason, investors were selling Apple stock because of fears over Jobs. This seemed ridiculous to me, and sure enough, in the (nearly) two months since then, the market has shown that I'm not alone in that view.

If you bought AAPL stock at that Friday closing price and sold right now, you'd be selling 8.21% higher than you bought. Even if you didn't time the buying quite as well, so didn't get it at such a low price, if you bought it at the opening price on Tuesday (the day after the Jobs announcement) you'd have made 7.30% profit, or if you bought it at the closing price on that same day and sold now, you would have made 3.79% profit.

So even with pretty shit timing on when to buy, just by having faith that Apple stock would bounce back, that's a very healthy rise in value over just two months.

The cause (I think) of the problem is two-fold. For starters, people are afraid that, if they buy back in too early, they will be too far ahead of the market and prices will continue to drop - obviously, they're hoping to be just a tiny bit quicker than the market, buying just before prices start going back up again quickly.

The second reason is basically the same, but with a different approach. Rather than wanting to avoid having your shares devalue immediately after buying them, it's a case of not wanting to buy back in too soon because, the lower the price you pay, the bigger the return once they have bounced back.
Not to mention the fact that Apple actually needed the rabid fanbase. Every single person could instantly hate Microsoft and they wouldn't be going anywhere for a long long long time.
From what I understood from my teacher, mostly southern region of South America (Argentina, Chile) is heavily prejudiced against blacks and indigenous peoples.
But tech is more male-dominated than a lot of other industries.

Isn't it?
Ask HN: Startups looking for new hires? 
Rewards.to was at TechStar for a Day (Boulder) last week. Currently we need to find Startups looking for new employees in order to answer this 1-2 minute survey http://bit.ly/startup_survey
Regardless, it's still amazing.
This guys are horrible with names. Come on, libav, REALLY?
It's a good question to ask, but if you have to ask it, you should probably spend more time learning about global financial markets before you take action.