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Google gives more comprehensive results too. But there is a time lag with either. I was mining my bookmarks tonight to find links worth posting, and searched to see if one had been posted before. Search YC indicated it had not been, so I posted it, only to discover to my chagrin that someone else had just submitted it just before I did. (My submission is now deleted, to avoid duplication.) I try to search before I submit, so accurate and timely search is helpful.
Being from India, I couldn't agree more. Its sad that the culture and system does not change. They do not value individuality. Hopefully over time we'll start to see some positive change.
I'm currently unemployed and thinking about doing this for a while too. Living by yourself and working outside of your apartment can get you too isolated at times.
It if for hobbyists, I think. It cannot compete with ubuntu as desktop, because of money, and it is ridiculous as server compared to CentOS.
It's a good point, but you actually do a second shot at the Korean exam. It actually makes it harder, because you are competing against people that finished high school and didn't get the score they wanted on the exam, so have spent the entire last year studying for the exam.

To me, this points out a fatal flaw in the Korean test, it's not hard enough. It's hard enough from a comprehensiveness standpoint, but it's not from a level of knowledge standpoint. Put simply, an effective test should show what level you are at in a topic. A test should advance to higher levels of thinking, to places where knowledge is not merely facts. It should go beyond the furthest course offered to determine who is truly advanced, rather than see who learned the standard class the most completely.

Another flaw in the Korean system is that the actual university experience is lessened, because you have already proven yourself getting in and simply graduating is sufficient.
Ask HN: Wireless text-mode thin client?
There are a lot of devices floating around these days (iPod Touch, eeepc, everything in between) that make it a lot more convenient to get distracted by the internet. However, for years now I've wanted to see a more practical type of device, that takes advantage of the useful aspects of the internet while making distractions as inconvenient as possible.

The eeepc is light enough and cheap enough, but too small to type on comfortably. Normal-sized machines tend to have a lot of expensive and unnecessary hardware overhead. Both extremes have fairly pointless tradeoffs. What I'm looking for is a comfortable quality keyboard attached to a very basic display (say, 640x480, monochrome, low pixel density), and a CPU just powerful enough to support an SSH connection. In other words, I want a VT100 that you can fold up and put in your backpack. (By the way, the whole thing should be ruggedized, in case I drop it, and cheap, in case it gets lost or stolen.)

I haven't seen such a device on the market but I'm sure it's feasible to build, and it'd be so much nicer than lugging around a full-blown laptop. If some obscure company is selling it, could you point me towards their home page? If it would be easier to build it from scratch, could you give me some hints for that? (If one of you has a company that could manufacture these things, that'd be great too, but I won't hold my breath for miracles ;)
You parrot the practice tests.
Most MRI's are 3 teslas. Some are up to 7. The chance of seizure or permanent brain damage from this little machine is greatest from nearby paper clips.
I think the browser plugin would be a beautiful implementation. There is a YC startup that is currently doing a nice job at handling micropayments, and I think their model could be replicated for this startup.
As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes
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There's an additional lesson here too: Writing about your experiences is a great way to simultaneously educate others and promote your product. (The author didn't mention the app's name in his original write up, but its all but guaranteed to be the first question in the comments and if you're lucky, the editor will also add a more prominent note.)

This article will probably do more for their product than all the marketing they've done so far. Win win :)
The tone of the article is not whiny.

For a freelancer, or for a person doing a bootstap startup, a job that only requires one day a week is wonderful. It provides a baseline of income, hopefully a decent bit of social interaction, and one consideration for a serial entrepreneur or freelancer, is that it provides a way for you to accumulate social security disability benefits. One of the biggest downsides of being a freelancer is that a safety net is either non-existent or much more expensive.

Eight hours a week at retail clerk wages may not seem like much, but I think one of the things YC has shown is that it doesn't take much money to do some pretty awesome things.

I'd be interested to know if anyone here has experience or advice on "sustance" type jobs that provide ramen and rent while not taking up so much time that you can't work on your main project. I'm not looking for such a thing now, since freelancing is more than paying the bills at the moment, but things can change quickly.
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Ok, I caved and bought it. Its a well done app.
MapQuest: A Symbol Of Everything That's Gone Wrong
This is the reason why we need a decentralized p2p solution to share files which is:
0) easy to use
1) robust to file pollution
2) give incentive to people to upload instead of them being leechers
3) protects the anonymity of its users

Many protocols/networks ( ed2k, kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella, freenet ) satisfy some of these requirements but not all of them. I believe with all these BT sites getting shut down and banned, its a ripe time for another disruptive technology in the area of p2p file distribution to take hold.
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Very interesting! This reminded me of the book "The Starfish and the Spider" where it discusses the power of leaderless organizations and how they can be better in certain instances.

Something interesting from the book is that these centralized groups become more and more centralized when they are attacked but the decentralized groups become more and more decentralized.

An example would be the RIAA vs Napster. Napster was replaced by more and more decentralized networks while the RIAA started asserting more and more control.
Just pack a usb (or bluetooth) keyboard along with your eeepc and change /etc/inittab to start in level 3 (text mode).
A definitive primer with no information about the actual laws they defendants are being accused of breaching? Doesn't seem all that definitive to me.

I know very little about Swedish copyright law so I was hoping for at least some idea of how likely it's going to be that they're going to be found guilty and what that would mean for the site itself.
I have generally found tradeshows and conferences to be only marginally worth it, or a waste of time. The most recent events I felt I got my money's worth out of were the Austin Game Developer's Conference several years ago, and Defcon last year.

The Game Developer's conference was only worth it because it was free for me, I would not have paid for the badge (somone I knew bought a badge but could only attend two of the three days, I went on the third). I went to Defcon at the last minute because a friend was going and could get me cheap tickets on his airline miles; Defcon exceeded my expectations, I will definitely attend again.
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Under the gold standard, there is a feedback loop allowing the market to control inflation

Why would one want to control inflation? Inflation does not have anything to do with economic health, does it? http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/jubi2000.htm

below 40% inflation per year, 'there is no evidence that inflation is costly'. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a 'slippery slope' there is no evidence that one increase in inflation causes further increases. Thus 'the focus on inflation ... has led to macroeconomic policies which may not be the most conducive for long-term economic growth.'
I think I must have been unclear. That was my point. Ambiguity is presented as an insurmountable barrier here with slippery slop type arguments: 'By that logic.'

Common sense gives is a pretty clear sense of legality here. Pirate Bay = Mostly illegal content. Google = All content (mostly legal). Youtube = ambiguous but has a clear substantial & non-trivial legal component.
And the pedals could power the transmitter. It could work on a dual RFID solution, one in the bike, one in your rental card. Riding the bike without a renters card could then trigger the giant sky magnet to aim at that bike and suck up the thief.

"The Bicycle Thief 2: Paris" coming to theaters next year?
[ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19... ]
I've thought about quitting my real job and doing this. I won't now, because it's more useful to me in terms of leveraging to open the door to other opportunities. But if you're already a hacker anyway and you have a team or things you're working on, it totally makes sense.

If you're just an "idea" person and don't really have it fleshed out, but want to devote more time to your idea, it's just not quite as good an idea I don't think.
I recommend RT:

http://bestpractical.com/rt/

If you have a linux host, you can download the open source package and install it yourself. There are directions in the wiki on how to do stuff like have it handle the support email even when you are using Google Apps.

Another option for installing it is to setup a linux on one of your home cable modems, and use dyndns to get to it. Since only you and your partner have to get to the web interface, shut off all ports but https and also throw an http auth password on the whole thing. This will cost you $0 out of pocket to run, probably half a day or longer to set up depending on your skills. If you don't already leave a computer on all the time, you will have to pay for the additional electricity.

You can email the address in my profile if you run into anything weird setting it up. The IRC channel on irc.perl.org is polite and helpful.
Since they have a good design, steal it.
if [...] you're inflating the money supply way too much and way too fast, that can be disastrous.

Why?
It is more socially acceptable to have a nice holiday in Europe than it is to seem rich (by having _lots_ of stuff), and I can't seem to find the place where they talk about that so I am pretty skeptical of their claim.
It is a great event to meet the crew at TechStars and see the tech scene in Boulder. You can generally get a direct from DC for ~$250 and the airport bus is ~$12 each way. You should be able to find a couch to crash on.
Is the audio on the 2007 videos very quiet for everyone else as well?
this really ought to be further up in the cue. Well above all the resubmit crap.
Bank ('debit') cards in France kinda work like US credit cards. The bank will happily let your account balance go negative and then charge you fees+high interest rate.

I've been in the US 7 years and I haven't quite yet understood why credit cards companies and banks are separate entities. (regulation?)
Tipjoy? Or is there another one?
"At this point, we had read a few App Store Cinderella stories, and decided to file them under 'unachievable'. In the 'possibly achievable' file were the accounts of a plethora of developers making a little pocket money from their efforts."

"We are starting to make money, almost enough to provide us with a basic salary each."

Another honest account of the real iPhone app bazaar. +1 win for 'possibly achievable'. Cheers to Noel Hartshorn and Dennis Harrison for sharing their excellent, still on-going story. My expectations for my first iPhone apps will be to sell in the double-digits to non-family, non-friends.
Yes, MapQuest has had an immense downturn in quality. It used to be my favorite, but Google Maps has won me over.

"I think there are a variety of things to pursue:

"1. Fix the consumer experience ASAP - make consumers love MapQuest again

"2. Find your voice in the market - maybe strive to be 'the most accurate directions on the web'."

MapQuest could still beat Google Maps in accuracy if it tried. (Google Maps doesn't know where my house is, for example.) This is a good space in which to have competition to build the best user experience.
I see.

The date for the TechStars program is set by the summer session for the local universities. The rental market revolves around this, and our program is set up to make it easy to find a sublet/ not conflict with the University scheduling etc (and not to block candidates from applying or attending any other program).

Also, we don't require an immediate decision. We encourage our teams to check in with their friends and families to make sure it is a great fit.
Do you vote before or after you read an article?
I'm curious. Because I find myself not voting perhaps as much as I should, instead just using HN as a great source of reading material. I mean to come back, but by then noprocrast has usually kicked in.
As a former freelance consultant, I can tell you that it gets very lonely and disorienting. It's like being unemployed. I often had no idea what day of the week it was.

I sympathize with the author. Her one day a week retail job allows her to get much more work done in her freelance gig. If I ever went back to freelancing, I would seriously consider getting a "normal" job one day a week to keep me grounded.
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If this were done in the US, the umbrella company could offer a 401k, which many freelancers would like. (I know you can do it even as a freelancer, but it's a hassle.)

Edit: There might be at least one place that does this: http://www.mbopartners.com/Individuals/groupbenefits.html
Not so much the title.. it's just that most people that Tweet a URL tweet it in this format: <title of URL> tinyurl.com/fdjsk ... or basically what I'll call a "junk tweet"

I like Twitturly for two reasons: the aggregation of tweets, and what the tweets themselves say. Reason #2 is getting less and less exciting, because more and more people are using automated means to tweet URLs, which results in the "junk tweet" as described above.

Thanks for digging up that stuff :)

Edit: On the front page, they do a good job of pruning out the junk tweets. But clicking on a URL and viewing the full tweet history shows mostly junk tweets. I'd very much like an option to hide that.
"The way Mr. Rodriguez’s positive steroid test result became public followed a path increasingly common in the computer age: third-party data collection. We are typically told that personal information is anonymously tracked for one reason -- usually something abstract like making search results more accurate, recommending book titles or speeding traffic through the toll booths on the thruways. But it is then quickly converted into something traceable to an individual, and potentially life-changing."

That's troubling even for someone who is not an A-list celebrity like A-Rod.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably just because that's how it always has been. Bank accounts where you put your money and loans have always been separate.

So when credit cards came around, it probably wasn't an existing bank saying "maybe we'll let people go negative and then charge them huge interest"; it was a separate entity offering people what essentially is a way to be conveniently loaned money.

They probably just never integrated into 1 entity.

There may be regulation as well, but none that I know.
What's so scary about the Neanderthals is not that they were bigger or stronger, but that their brain volume was bigger then ours and from the skull shape we can tell the brain was shaped just like our brains. [...] So they might have been smarter.

The larger an animal, the larger the vegetative parts of its brain needs to be. Controlling for body size (and possibly even neglecting body size * ), Neanderthals did not have larger brains than do modern humans. An even greater advantage for modern humans would be seen in terms of neocortex size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocortex#Evolution

The neocortex is the newest part of the cerebral cortex to evolve (hence the name "neo"); the other parts of the cerebral cortex are the paleocortex and archicortex, collectively known as the allocortex. The cellular organization of the allocortex is different from the six-layer structure mentioned above. In humans, 90% of the cerebral cortex is neocortex. [...]

The neocortex is part of the cerebral cortex (along with the archicortex and paleocortex, which are cortical parts of the limbic system). It is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought and, in humans, language.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#cite_note-5

a 1993 analysis of 118 hominid crania concluded that the cranial capacity of H.s. neandertal averaged 1412cc while that of fossil modern H.s. sapiens averaged 1487cc.
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> it is ridiculous as server compared to CentOS.

What makes you say that?
I read a little, vote, and sometimes open the article in a separate tab in my browser sometime during that process. On my Firefox, I can right-click on the title URL of the submission to choose to open the submitted article in a new tab.
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You say that you "take away very little" information as a result of reading HN.

I believe the information is in your brain, but only accessible at certain times. Your professor asked his question in a very difficult way. Suppose I asked you to tell me everything you know about programming and computer science? Would you be able to tell me everything you know?

When it comes to feeling unproductive on HN, I suppose it depends on your purpose here.

Hacker News makes me happy.

(I do agree with your other points)
NZ blacks out Internet to protest guilt upon accusation law
Ask HN: Can Google AdWords help local pizza?
Search pay per click has become a dominant ad platform for advertisers. Google. yahoo and MSN are trying to attract local advertisers by offering geo and demographic targeting. Still a look at their advertisers suggest that local barbers, plumbers and pizza parlors are still not advertising on search engines.

Yellowpages and local newspapers are still the preferred channel for these geographic businesses. The question is what role will internet play in local advertising and in what format?

I hope this hacker site can answer this question.

regards

Kundi
That was the first thing I thought of too, I think they pretty much laughed at him I don't recall Jim Treliving (Boston Pizza) saying he had something like it but then again I don't really remember much of that particular show.
I'll add my voice to the chorus. My dad's an MIT Ph.D. When I took the SATs in 7th grade (scoring at roughly the 90th percentile of graduating highschool seniors, i.e. my scores at age 12 were higher than 90% of 18 year olds), his first words were "Well, it's not perfect." He was very disappointed when I became a total slacker in high school. (Which was basically my sole act of adolescent rebellion.)

Thank goodness my mom has relatively sane, middle-class American values.
Treating your product as a hypothesis encourages you to challenge your assumptions and rapidly iterate with new experiments, I think it's critical to starting a business.
It can prevent the failure loop of "looking for smarter prospects" who will appreciate your invention.
This should be on the wall of fame or quotations!
You have to consider chance personal disasters and look at the expected value calculation. Measure net potential misery, not "happiness." Rich people can much better deal with setbacks that would destroy a normal person's life.

Consider getting the best possible medical care for cancer. Or dealing with a long forced unemployment. Or raising young children after the death of a spouse. Poor people can be ruined by these things, whereas a rich person can likely continue to enjoy life.
All parents would like to see their children 'well settled'. Unfortunately, in our (Indian) society as of now, ticket to a well settled life is still 'perceived' to be a degree from a top educational institute. It was true to an extent in the days before economic liberalization (1991), and this mindset would take some time to change.

Rather than calling most of the pushy parents incompetent or reasoning them to be idle housewives (err homemakers), i think it's mostly the fear of the kid not getting to be as successful (by their definition) in his/her life. This fear sometimes is a product of their own perceived failure or hardships in life, or what they have seen around them.

Economic growth plus good education and thinking can go a long way in curing any society of most of such ills.
Old (7 March 2007) and outdated. The "Palimpset" program has since been canceled: http://www.researchpipeline.com/wordpress/2008/12/28/googles...
Thanks!

For posterity's sake I should probably clarify that I haven't always believed it. It's just something I started saying to myself a year or so ago.
Thanks for the eye-opening insight!
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Not that I would condone illegal activity, but why not disconnect the Internet at the lawmakers' office buildings?

Or, even better, after the 28th, setup a server in the office building hidden somewhere that's sharing a ridiculous amount of copyrighted material.

And do it in such a way that the police will find out. Then the police have to choose between breaking a stupid law and disconnecting the people who passed it.
Headline has some accuracy issues unless you buy "Japan ate an English muffin this morning" because a) I did and b) I'm in Japan.

Maybe "Group in NZ urges black out of personal pages to protest Guilt Upon Accusation law". Or if you wanted to grind the axe the other way, "Group in NZ urges black out of personal pages to protest anti-piracy law".
Shamiq, we know how important it is to learn, but the only way anyone is going to look beyond your skin color is if your scores are so superior, if your skills are so superior, if everything is so much better than the number 2 that they'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they don't hire you.

If you don't mind my asking, where do you live?
I would hate to see what "condoning" looks like for you.
I came across "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" this afternoon at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5 and thought the whole set was worth posting. More on "syntactic sugar" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
This is not true at all. I know plenty of parents who are well educated and place a lot of importance on grade. For example, my parents are both first generation doctors from India, and they place a lot of importance on grade and I don't think they are wrong for doing so.
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