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Anyone interested in opensource BigTable clones may also want to check BigData and Hypertable :

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not created by the market. banks took these high risk loans knowing they could sell them to fannie-mae and freddie-mac, who in turn knew they would not be allowed to fail.
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Realize of course that most of America doesn't use Gmail. +1 to Eric for keeping it real.
Take a look at the html source and see if you think it's an abomination.
I suppose lack of raving reviews counts as a negative reception, and perhaps the control over reviewers makes people more likely to post tentative recipes...
Simply having a key does not give you the right to use it.
Interesting in parts. Seemed to me like it covered old ground, and it also seemed like Dawkins was being a little dim-witted. He asked the wonderful question about whether there were things we couldn't know, and then proceeded to use old models to illuminate those new concepts -- engaging in a bit of circular reasoning. This served to illustrate his point well to the easily impressed (hey! He's talking quantum physics! Cool!), but left the viewer wondering how Dawkins got so lost in the epistemological forest. In other words, he did the same thing he was describing happening, using old models of reality to speculate on what new ones might be like ("middle world") Throw in a little military-bashing for an audience-pleaser (would it have been as funny using another stereotype?) and I was underwhelmed. YMMV, of course.

Not jaw-dropping.
Actually, weren't lending institutions required to loan so much to high-risk borrowers as a way to make sure more people had homes? Seems like I heard this was a requirement if the institution wanted to open new offices.
Perhaps just the higher cost of joining, i.e. sending a postcard vs filling out an online form, makes people value the site more psychologically.
A little off-topic, but anyway:

I live in a non-hurricane part of the world, and as such have no particular interest in the phenomenon except for when it is covered in the news. I saw stormpulse here on YC news, and checked it out. Since the site is so well designed and a real pleasure to use I have often found myself going back to check up on hurricanes that appear halfway around the world from where I live.

You managed to get a regular visitor out of someone who has no particular interest in what you do, and that doesn't normally spend time just hanging out and doing nothing on the net. This is a big big accomplishment. And I think you deserve a big round of applause for having made such a well-designed site...
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If you asked a two year old if you can come in and did, you would/could be prosecuted. For trespassing amongst other crimes. Two year olds do not have legal capacity to consent. Technically you could be prosecuted if a 15 year old let you in - although you probably wouldn't be. It depends on the parents. And it depends on what you did - specifically did you commit an additional crime while there.

Reading someones private email is a crime, as is posting it, as is trying to mess with an election.

If you told the kid a lie in order to get in you could also be prosecuted for fraud.

Just because you can, does not mean you should.
And Banks in India say No to Stock Markets
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I didn't like stackoverflow.com UI.
What if we didn’t lump all “accessibility” requirements together?
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Are you game enough to put a demo date up?
Why could that be? IMHO, Gmail is superior to Yahoo email in almost every way.
Isn't this Oxymoron?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/money...

Because, Transparency Begets Trust.
Maybe its not him? I doubt the CEO of Google would have his email up there for all to see and contact him.
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Because Yahoo email / Hotmail is good enough for the average user?
Quick! Someone use Yahoo mail's broken password recovery system to break in!
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I spoke to these guys a couple months ago and was very impressed. We aren't ready to take funding yet but they gave us some very good advice, asked excellent questions, and were generally nice people. I'm not surprised they are getting some good pub.
But Yahoo sure has the early mover advantage over Gmail...
It takes more than good features to make people switch.. people who are methodox and orthodox for Yahoo!!!!
Wasn't the sell for Gears originally offline apps? And now it is supported on a mobile phone... which has always-on internet access...
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1. The email names aren't transferable

2. The email archives aren't transferable

3. Halo effect from using Yahoo or MSN

4. The other email services works fine for most users

etc.
I might have put it differently but, quite right this is not a forum for political campaigning.
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Doesnt make CEO of Google look good man...
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I think the postcard makes sense to check identities because in Japan each family has a seal (Not trivial to replicate) and they 'sign' correspondence that way.

Never been to Japan, I must have read it somewhere, so reader beware.
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Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
Last week was a black swan, and hence everyone wanted to know what was going on with the economy and Wall St., understandable.

Can we now get back to our regular programming and cease from submitting financial & political news? Thanks very much!

The fine folks at reddit, have 3 great sub-reddits if you are interested in reading more about:

Economics: http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/

Business: http://www.reddit.com/r/business/

Politics: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

Thank you.
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And perhaps you're like me who didn't give a damn about what the school teaches, because other things seem more important, like entrepreneurship, and yet extracurriculars and character only make about 25-33% of the decision.
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What was the point of Glass-Steagall? I've heard justifications about banks underwriting a bond and then having the commercial bank buy it, but these justifications never agree on who is defrauding whom. It is very easy for an investment bank and a commercial bank to make that kind of deal even if they don't share a corporate parent ("Oh, you want in on the next big IPO? Well, let me tell you how to get to the top of the list! I just need one little favor...").

Actually, all of the justifications I've heard seem to imply that Glass-Steagall was necessary to criminalize things like fraud and undisclosed conflicts of interest, which I thought were already illegal.
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why do you think hacking is the same as programming?
This makes it even more useful. Bandwidth on a mobile phone isn't unlimited and it can be extremely slow loading.
I totally agree that posts have lately strayed far from the original idea(as I understand) of this site.

Last week I was actually tempted to remove it from my RSS reader due to the flood of political and other news stories totally unrelated to startups/programming/hacking/etc.

We don't need another reddit/digg/...
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Despite periodic bouts of hand-wringing like this, I doubt you'll see the SATs go away any time soon. Education is too decentralized in the US for universities to depend on high-school marks. The alternative to standardized testing is a rigorous, universal curriculum overseen by the state or federal government; otherwise, people will game the system by sending their children to whichever school marks the most generously.
Whether or not hacking and programming are synonyms is highly irrelevant to how off topic HN has gotten in the past two weeks.
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On a site where items are simply voted up or down, items are promoted that have the greatest positive emotional impact to the mob. During this political season, this is going to be politics and finance.

You can't flag it. This is stuff that hackers are interested in as you can tell by simply looking at the number of comments and votes. The site is supposed to self-regulate, but no amount of pointing out that the system is flawed seems to make a difference. Instead, you'll get dinged for complaining.

Love the crowd. Love startups and hacking. Think the up-down voting paradigm in long-dead and not crazy about continuously getting into political discussions with people I'd rather be learning from.
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Asking others to vote differently and submit different content is lame. It's like complaining about getting down modded.

If you want better content, submit it yourself and upmod it on the new page.
Netcan, if this exercise does anything it should prove to most that free markets do work and one of the reasons they work is that they always have lots of "silver bullets" to spare. What we are watching now is silver bullets riddling companies and company execs who probably need to be riddled with silver bullets.

Unfortunately some innocents will end up going down with the ship but this has always been the case. Events like we are watching right now are caused by human weakness and human failings not by free markets.
This technology is truly radical and could change the nature of warfare as we know it.

I can't wait to get my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator from Wal-Mart one day.
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Just as a point of reference. The weather channel and its website was valued around 3.5B at time of acquisition. This included a TV channel as well as some other resources, but it's a market.
What's sad is how much money many of these VCs want you to take even if you don't need it. They do this, in part, to secure their ~2% admin/management fee, which they only receive for deployed capital.
"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..."

What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?
And everything is so cheap. By the end of the summer, most of the YC companies still had seed money left. Bootstrapping is much more doable now than it was three or four years ago.

If I owned a VC firm that didn't do seed investments, I'd be worried.
It certainly looks like him, but who knows? I doubt a technology CEO would release such a terrible, unfinished-looking site voluntarily.
Would you buy a cool Twitter name?
Why well funded startups waste money?
Score-by-race table from the report .pdf (p40):

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/20080922...

Average SAT Composite Score by Race/Ethnic Group, 2007

African American/Black 17.0
American Indian/Alaska Native 18.9
Caucasian American/White 22.1
Hispanic 18.7
Asian American/Pacific Islander 22.6
Other/No Response 21.6

(ACT National Score Report, 2007. Retrieved from http://www.act.org/news/data07/charts/index.html)
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Your headline is wrong, it's "Ted Dziuba, that guy who swears a lot while making macho comments about technology, slams x, y, and z".

That's not to say his arguments don't have merit, just take it with a grain of salt because he's getting an article on The Register /because/ of of the highly-critical-invective-filled-pretty-funny-to-read style. See also: Zeropunctuation reviews of video games.
Have you never considered that, the reason you even see these things in the first place is because people upvote them?

I mean, sure they are off-topic, but people are obviously reading them and liking it. Perhaps it's not so much the 'areas of topic' but the people, that is liked?

After all, this is a vastly different community to reddit.
Was using tinyurl really necessary?

This is not Twitter; cut that shit out.
not very bright people could pull 4.0s and have good 'leadership' experience by gaming the system.

Many college admins view this as a feature, not a bug. I've met a few, they tend to be that type of person themselves. It's a natural human trait to try to raise the status of people like yourself.

Incidentally, I went from about 1250 to 1450 with a couple months of prep (no classes, just some books). I'd be curious if you know of good statistics out there.
While it may seem lame it's entirely within the system. Voicing your opinion with a comment/submission is as acceptable as up and down voting - as far as I am concerned.

Though I do not like to read complaints that much, either.
Exactly. And if there's say, an article that gets posted about say, the financial crisis, it's nice reading the takes on it from people such as myself, people who are running startups, and it's even greater when someone like pg weighs in on something.

I like to think Hacker News is just what it says, News for Hackers. We have this pseudo-democratic up/down voting systme for a reason. If people don't want things 'off-topic' getting in, then why not just go register a tumblr account and post things you think are 'relevant'.
This submission is approaching reddit [pics]-level posts. There's nothing to discuss here and it isn't even particularly funny.

Yahoo! Mail has been around since 1997; people had lives before Google.
It is indeed within the system. I wasn't saying he shouldn't be allowed to post it. I'm saying it's a lame post that I won't upmod.
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A continued focus on political articles will attract people who enjoy endless and mostly pointless arguments about politics. It is a path to HN becoming another reddit.

Political articles are like junk food. Tempting while they're right in front of you. A little bit of indulgence is OK. Not good as a steady diet.

PG has said that he thinks he can prevent deterioration of content on HN. I think this problem is actually very difficult. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months.
Oh cool, the Hacker News community has gotten so big that people are coming out of the woodwork and saying that they're "hardcore" and don't like some of these new people that are diluting the content. They are telling the new kids on the block to take a hike; this is our turf. A classic milestone in any community.

My advice: Your post is getting comments about how Hacker News is adaptive and how you should just do your best to influence that. So, either weather the storm and wait for the community to create sub-communities, or move on and find something else. It's nigh impossible to force people to adhere to the behavior of the "hardcore" group.
Wrong approach! Appeal to people to start UPVOTING hacker news instead of appealing to people to stop SUBMITTING political news.

You see the subtle difference? One dedicated bad apple can submit a lot of political news, but it will go nowhere if the average opinion of the CROWD is that political news should not be voted up.
> he used the system the way it was built to be used and the system did what it was supposed to do.

So, if I go to the mailbox outside your home (assuming the classic unlocked US design) after the mailman leave, pick up your mail, open the envelopes and post what I find on /b/, you're just gonna shrug and blame yourself for using such a badly designed security mechanism?

You know, when I open your letters, the envelope does exactly what it's supposed to do, so I'm not committing a crime, right?
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When everyone's votes are weighted equally, it becomes inevitable that the core users can't keep out the "barbarians at the gate", so to speak. Reddit became so weighed down in politics that a subreddit was created for it, back then. (I think. I wasn't into reddit much at the time.) Now the same thing is happening to Hacker News, as far as being overrun with politics.

Basically, I think Giles Bowkett is right: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope... -- I'd incorporate his ideas into a smarter site, if I wanted to waste my life on running it.
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How do you know what alien places look like as a point of reference for the claim that it's "most alien-looking".

To me this is one of the most evolutionary pretty places on Earth.
I agree. The signal to noise ratio isn't helped by adding more noise.
Score-by-family-income/parental-education table (abridged) from the report .pdf (p40):

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/20080922...

SAT Reasoning Test Critical Math Writing
Reading
Family Income

Less than $10,000 427 451 423
$10,000 - $20,000 453 472 446
$20,000 - $30,000 454 465 444
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Highest Level of Critical Math Writing
Parental Education Reading

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HS Diploma 466 476 457
Associate Degree 484 492 473
Bachelor’s Degree 522 533 513
Graduate Degree 560 569 552

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report.pdf)
Business and economics are extremely relative to this user base. A core understanding of how the economy is doing, where it's headed, etc. is very important. If Web 2.0 is moving to the enterprise, then understanding what's happening in business is VERY important.

Since this is an entrepreneurial community, this information is significantly more relevant than the 20,000th person asking what to do to start learning LISP.
+1

All this political crap is putting me off...
Its impressive how they manage to juggle between nurturing entrepreneurs while still meeting their responsibilities to investors. Its a tough balancing act and a model worth studying more.
how about tgb;dr (too green & black)? :)

Just kidding, I'll go read it (after I copy and paste it somewhere)

Oh, I couldn't resist: "My eyes, the goggles they do nothing!"
I think you forgot one major sub category... ...submissions about submissions being off topic.

I don't think business is off topic seeing as this site is half about starting a business

Economics effect those businesses so in a particularly bad week esp. one in which events that haven't happened to the great depression transpire you are going to see some stories about it.

What political news are you talking about? The only posts even remotely politically related was the Palin e-mail story and that was about a vulnerability in Yahoo's password recovery system. Something people writing their own might want to keep in mind. If it had been a sports star who's e-mail had been compromised would that be a "Sports story"
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I also second this. I mean recent news about economy is important but I'm not interested in it. Likewise, for politics I can turn to so many other sources. So if there are more people like me then we should see a reduction in frequency of economics/politics related submissions. Lastly, Prakash, I don't think it was a true Black Swan.
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This guy (I mean whoever did it, not necessarily who the article purports did it) is ultimately pretty dumb; it's one thing to point out "it is easy to break into a public figure's Yahoo email because the security questions rely entirely on security-through-obscurity" but it's another thing to actually do it.

Like others have said, the defense provided sounds pretty feasible; I'm no legal expert, so it's very plausible he has done nothing really wrong, and it might be the case where prosecution will lead to a dangerous interpretation of laws that would make "truly" innocent people guilty. As usual, the end result will probably be less about law and more about the candidate involved making sure the situation turns out how she wants it to, the justice system is eager to put people in jail so I figure punishment will be likely. Everyone hates college students, lazy hippies!

Also, he should have probably just used TOR. I'm not really that good of a cracker, preferring to instead program useful things and then getting paid for it, so would this have covered his tracks pretty well?

Either way, it's pretty amazingly funny to see a /b/tard easily get access to a public figure's email and let 4chan get a hold of it, and then see the news media act like it's some sinister hacker network that did it. Well played.