skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor would be minimum wage or below. So food stamps, free school lunches, 3 pairs of pants.

So if he's poor enough that the college can brag about admitting him, he gets in, but if he's run-of-the-mill economic 15th-percentile, he has no shot unless he manages to finagle his way into a high school offering the "right" extracurriculars (e.g. crew)?

Incredible credentials would be 2400 SAT, 780-800 on 3 or more SAT IIs and straight A's.

Out of curiosity, is the difference between 2300 and 2400, or even 2200 and 2400, really that significant? I know that it matters a lot in admissions, but I don't think it has much predictive value over academic performance at the upper levels. IQ tests become less predictive at the upper end, and I wouldn't be surprised if SATs were the same way.
So i'm curious how one becomes a resident entrepreneur... aside from doing something astounding like Chris has. if anyone can speak to this from experience i'd appreciate it.
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I don't recall where I red the story of people implanting tiny magnets under the skin of a finger tip. But I did find it interesting that they quickly developed a sense for magnetic fields, like from live wires. And if I were an electrician I'd get one of those.

But a USB drive?
The big sea change that AMD caused is that 64-bit processors are now a commodity. Intel COULD have done that without AMD, but I doubt that they WOULD have if AMD hadn't essentially forced their hand.
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I found this blog post pretty insightful on this topic: http://mainroach.blogspot.com/2007/11/gpgpu-vs-multi-core-cp...
Sure. But I don't want to select text, I want to type/edit the way I want to.

I've disabled all the 'insert extra random characters' shenanigans now.
Actually, understanding statistics is something I might be good at teaching. Maybe we could focus it even more than that. Maybe it should be "how to pass college statistics," or "statistics for scorekeepers."
I don't mean to sound snide, but does this really matter? Has Silverlight really managed to get genuine traction in the wider tech community?

Genuine question - I've seen Silverlight around the traps on rare occasions, but it seems to be where Microsoft has made a "strategic partnership" rather than a true movement.
Master of Science in Entrepreneurship?

I wonder if I get a Ph.D in making it rich.
The difference is that we censor links that are offtopic for HN. But countries don't have topics.
Good point, the rate of descent might have made a difference. This sounds like a good experiment. Let's release 10 heavy balloons (just like the ones they used) in pairs of 2 at 5 different locations around the world and track where each of them land. I'm not sure what scientific purpose this would serve but it would at least satisfy my curiosity.
Photocracy.org is live now, hope to hear your thoughts
This time. I seem to think those black-scholes models, or whatever they are called, have been blamed for other "incidents" (ref Taleb and the Black Swan here).
I think you're right about this one. SPARC hasn't been competitive since the late 90's, so it's hard to see why IBM would care about keeping it alive in the face of POWER -- not to mention, IBM is also one of Intel's biggest server OEM's.
> Pre is even further behind given that their delay will probably be even longer since they're a smaller platform to develop for.

While the Pre is brand new, Palm itself isn't the way Apple was new to the mobile market. It could draw on their previous experiences with Palm OS and others, even if webOS is brand new itself. They could also learn from Apple's growing pains.

> What are you going off of? Vocal detractors? Heck, even going back to the 4Q 2006 (before the iPhone was even introduced), AT&T was having greater net additions than Verizon.

I probably should have dug up some numbers before I opened my mouth, heh. Or probably should have avoided the computer altogether with a st paddys day hangover :d

> I like Apple, but I'm starting to dislike them more as they become more powerful...

I agree, I miss the old days..especially with regards to support. However, the one thing I do like is tying things together...not to make more money, but just because I don't have to worry about why something is a real hassle to get working. Of course, that problem would disappear if everyone worked together (imagine buying music on amazon on your iPhone with the same user experience asthe iTunes store app)..
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I don't think those countries really count, North Korea doesn't have enough fuel to run trains, so I don't think there's like 30 million people just cruising the internet. IIRC Cuba has had restrictions on computer sales up until recently purposefully to allow themselves to establish the infrastructure.

You can't try to build a dam in the middle of a running river, it's just insane. Equally, you can't just begin to set up essentially an electronic dam in a torrent of packets.

It works successfully for certain countries because it's on a small scale, but when you get to the scale of China (whose internet system was built the same way as Cuba and NK) you can start getting problems again. So I hardly see any success happening in a rapid implementation of a complete web-filtering service from an already developed nation.
I agree with you. He's been doing this since 1994, so I'd hope he is able to pay himself a livable wage. But that 120k includes business expenses, and partial salaries for two other full time employees.

He says he has been unusually successful, and I believe him. I just thought that there was more money in indie games. So I was expecting his company to be making money on this game.

I would be interested in finding out how long his games continue to sell a decent number of copies. He did say that he expected this game to be quite profitable, so maybe he is expecting to make another 100k in the next few years.
The only sane outcome is for FAT to be declared so mind numbingly mundane and obvious that it can't be patented.

I wrote a fat driver a while back for a 'replacement firmware' project. There really wasn't anything at all to it :/ Lookup table, directory entries, ummm... yeah that's pretty much all.
I agree, the point was that seemingly impossible problems rarely come up in business. Most of the seemingly impossible problems that business have are a result of overcomplex solutions to simple problems.

The down side to hiring people who are good at solving complex problems, especially when they're young, is that they'll tend to solve them with complexity to make things more interesting than the simple solutions. It's good for them in the short term, bad for the company in the long term, and someone else's problem to maintain.
Ask HN: Are there any technology/geek radio stations online?
I listen to a lot of podcast, but lately i don't get time to listen or watch all episodes. I was wondering if there are any technology related, non music, radio stations. One could just tune in when free and get some tech news, anything interesting.
I tried looking sifting through shoutcast, but couldn't find anything similar.
When is Amazon's EC2 appropriate for your workload? A little helper app for Ubuntu
I'm still wrapping my head around this.

There's no official announcement online from Sun, other than a bits written about CommunityOne. Most of the information has come from this post by Tim Bray where he writes about his experience on the project. Everything I've read is about the API, but where's the service? They're already 3 years behind Amazon so there's no rush. Wait a few months and announce it all at once.
Looking forward to seeing you all, the tech and business talk, and the random beer sampler (without placemat index).
That would be cool, but I would be afraid of people trying to take my finger (maybe even the wrong one!). I'd rather just have someone take my keys like everyone else.
I'm slightly competent in statistics but I've always wanted a deep, intuitive understanding of it. So I can just hear a problem and say something like "oh, just do a t-test".

So I figured as long as I spent all that time gaining that level of knowledge I might as well write an ebook :-)

Passing college statistics might not be catchy enough. It has to be "sleazier" like how statistics can help you in every area of your life ... somehow.
Yup. The LTCM meltdown in 1998 was caused by options, if I remember right. Back then the Wall Street banks bailed out LTCM to avoid a global crisis of nightmare proportions.
Probably not. Most computer users today don't need anywhere near the capabilities of even a low-end PC, whether it runs Windows or OSX.
I don't think that being content with your skillset is desirable.

Being competent with your skillset is, being content with what you are able to accomplish with your skillset is, but not being content with it - at least not in the areas of software for the foreseeable future.
Uh, all the specs I've seen for those netbooks are basically "real PCs" from just a few years ago. Fuck the treadmill of hardware upgrades.
Yeah, that's the problem.

A mechanism like this get's implemented under false pretenses ("do this and it will end child porn forever") - then it becomes a future tool to abuse individual freedoms.
Title is misleading: it made me think Joswiak had specifically mentioned Wundrbar. A somewhat more accurate title would be: Wundrbar's experience with the iPhone app approval process.
Still doesn't offer any real extension functionality; it's more a glorified, built-in version of Greasemonkey. This precludes such popular and useful Firefox extensions such as Firebug, Foxmarks, AdBlock, or just about any other extension besides Greasemonkey itself...
Actually the traffic here may not be really high, but it's exceptionally high-quality for the right products. Of course, the right products probably wouldn't need to purchase upvotes in the first place.

I'd be really curious to see what the quality is like for mediocre products.
This just stinks of a moronic money making scheme. Many countries have a black-list of websites that ISPs don't host links to, most of which are child porn websites or sites used by known terrorists. So why is Australia planning on fining users for clicking on these links and not simply blocking the link?

This isn't about censorship, or protecting the greater good. It's about lining pockets and sheer greed.
Although provided you have fixed up a house or two and made the neighbourhood desirable, you could rent out one of the houses and use the income to pay the property taxes on all of them.
So, you say you need a format to transport a document, as one single file, from one device to another? (No talking about the beauty of hyperlinking but actually sending/storing)

And HTML doesn't offer that feature?

Ok, how about we all get together and propose the W3C to create a format BASED ON HTML, open source, free, not propietary, for everybody to use and improve upon?

How about that for an idea?

Like, instead of "Save complete page as HTML" which creates folders and hidden passages to hell, some option to save as HTMD (d for doc); where the browser serves as the document viewer with no other plugin or add on than the browser engine?

Where you can open an inspect that HTMD like we do now with "View Source"?

So when you visit a page you can "Save as HTML Doc" the whole page in one file, images included?

So we impulse a new breed of HTML doc creators, instead of PDF creators, scribd creators, nextpropietary creator, etc?

Where you can create your doc and just publish it to the web, because it is HTML and the web already knows it very well?

There, my brainfarts for the day...
Pandora for Blackberry is here
"Apple meanwhile is realizing the AIR is not a netbook and cursing every moment of it despite it being a slick machine."

I don't think so. They're pretty short-sighted, but although I didn't get the impression that the Air sold all that well, the technology that made it possible (like the SSD) are making their way into other products, and coming down in price.

You're probably right about netbooks... but I have a feeling that Apple's response to the netbook will be a souped-up iPhone rather than a trimmed laptop. Take the iPhone, throw in a bit of extra horsepower like an Atom processor and/or a few ARM processors, and make it a bit bigger, and you have an iPhoneNetBook.

Yes, I'm oversimplifying, but you get the point :)
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They don't look that great.... I did like the CL idea tho... Needs to happen. Someone needs to compete with Craigslist.
But if the USB drive is plugged-in, he can't use it for typing. I'd be curious to know if he types with or without the prosthetic.
I think, from today Tor ( http://tor.eff.org) usage will increase in Australia.
This is silly. Auto-complete doesn't do any thinking, it's just presenting you options of what to do. You make the decision. You do the thinking.
Because if Whirlpool had refused they'd have been fined $11,000 a day, probably from the day the notice was sent out... probably in the slowest mail service imaginable so that by the time Whirlpool got the notice the government would consider them owing like $77,000 and an extra $11,000 for every day that passes between them refusing to take down the link and them getting taken to court.

It's a money making scam. There's no sense in a fine being levied per day for hosting a link other than to extract money.

Edit: It's like getting a speeding ticket, but instead of being charged for how fast over the legal limit you were going, they charge you for every meter you cover whilst speeding. Or being charged for drunk driving, but they charge you per 0.01% over, so for the same crime you get charged a ridiculous amount if you're so drunk you only managed to turn the key before passing out (which in most places being behind the wheel of a running vehicle and drunk, even if the vehicle isn't in motion, counts as drunk driving) but someone who's only 0.03% over the legal limit and is capable enough to drive, but drunk enough to be a danger is given a slap on the wrist.

This kind of system is just whole heartedly moronic. It's like a dentist charging, not for pulling a single tooth out but how many milligrams the tooth weighed. It's complete quackery.
He mentioned in the comments that the reason why he has not made a multiplayer game is because he is only a so-so programmer and lacks the skills to do so.
Damn, I'm stuck at another party that night, keep me posted on future meetups.
It's worthwhile noting that murder and rape significantly degrade quality of life, especially at a 0.1% per year.

As a 25 year old guy, you might think it's a cheap place, but try convincing a gf or a parent to visit you.
Is it unreasonable for me to think that 98% of them should be approved in 1 business day?
But the real thing I noticed was that all these folks talked to their professors differently than I did. I was intimidated and afraid of them. I told myself that most of them were jerks, when in reality I was just really insecure about my ability to say something intelligent. My perception of authority was completely different than theirs.

It's very interesting that you bring this up. I noticed this, in the workplace, when I worked at a hedge fund. People who came from wealthy backgrounds had no fear of the boss and seemed, from the outset, to be half a level above same-rank co-workers. They had a refined knack for putting authority in its place, which doesn't mean being a jerk; on the contrary, it means doing what the boss wants while "training" the relationship as one among equals. They treated work as an extended education, and their relationship with their boss as mentor/protege. This is an attitude that's not restricted to the well-heeled, but somehow, those from privileged backgrounds were able to do it in a way that didn't piss anyone off. (In this case, you have to worry more about pissing off co-workers than the boss.)
I'd recommend trying Netbeans with the Ruby Plugin or Ruby Mine.

I've been using Ruby Mine some lately and am pretty impressed. Has a debugger that works well, auto-completion, rake integration, click thru to declaration, etc.

It's not going to be free ($79), but given JetBrains track record with IDEs I think it's a good investment.

I tried NetBeans last year and it seems promising, but haven't used it in 6 months.
This had better not be a homework problem.

The lines "Line number 2 before execl" and "Line number 1 before execl" will not be printed on most systems because most systems default to line-buffering (when writing to a terminal) or fully buffering (otherwise) output.

The lines "... after execl" will not be printed if execl succeeds, because execl does not return if it succeeds.

Other bugs: You're not checking the return status of execl; you've declared main incorrectly; you need to #include <unistd.h> and <stdlib.h> if you're going to use execl and exit; you should pass a terminating NULL to execl, not 0 (the C compiler will coerce 0 to a pointer, but NULL is not guaranteed to be (void *)0).
Which wouldn't be that difficult after all, even a firefox plugin could do that.

- Move all the JS and CSS inside the main doc.

- Convert all images to src=data:

- Some other minor tweaks

There you have it, one single file in all its HTML beauty
The story is from Wired.com:

"People who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers...a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch."

"Appliance cords in the United States give off a 60-Hz field, a sensation with which Huffman has become intimately familiar. "It is a light, rapid buzz," he says."

Sounds really interesting, although the obvious health risks keep me from considering it myself.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087
Repeating for the third time: No online map has aerial imagery of Russia.

Note I said online map, not Google Earth which is a desktop application. (Although it's still true for Google Earth.) Also note I said aerial rather than satellite, and Russia rather than e.g. San Francisco. It amazes me that such a simple sentence has been misunderstood on all three points. A sign of the changing times?
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I would really, really, really love to be able to see who upvotes a story (just in general).
Ask HN: Why if visitors return, site does not grow
I have a blog in blogger that has a very attractive subject, and it shows in the returning visits, but for some reason as the days go by the total number of visitors does not grow that much, has anyone have an idea why? How come is this even mathematically possible?
At least two average individuals who have seen my Aspire One went out and bought one. I bet a couple more do the same soon.
I've often wondered if websites that censor posts or allow users to bury comments that are 'off topic' shouldn't have a page where all can be seen. It would make interesting reading, and would partly counter accusations of censorship.
IMO VirtualBox is the worst virtualization tech available today (that's not to say that it's bad, just that the others are better); they just added 64-bit support recently and I don't know if they even have SMP guests yet. You probably shouldn't even ask about SR-IOV. IBM already has KVM.
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Greasemonkey-esque functionality is the main thing I've been missing in Chrome, so this looks appealing.
Wow, Princeton's admissions process seems to be more thorough than I could have imagined. However, you seem to be referring to those expensive international schools where most Indian applicants come from. Typical Indian schools like the one I used to attend are quite different: only 5 (out of 120) of us from this year's graduating class have applied to American universities (though I know that at least 2 students in the past 4 years were accepted by Princeton).

Nevertheless, it's quite insightful.
I've gotten to the first page with that number of upvotes, so it's definitely doable, you just need to have the link voted on shortly after submission.
http://www.division1movers.com/

Looks like he might want to promote this site on Digg and Reddit.
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Micropayments could easily become a standard, expected part of iPhone use.

Given how everything else you've said hinges on this assumption, you'd have done well to explain why you think it is true. Like I said before, you're conflating two markets.

As it depends on all players in a highly competitive market suddenly colluding to degrade the user experience upon which they all depend without anyone realizing that they might stand to make more money by not doing so, I find it hard to believe.
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mathematically possible? Easy you have reached the X people interested in the subject and no one new comes to read the blog. Probably you don't have enough juice to get good ranking for search terms so not much search traffic is going your way.
Using REST seems silly. Or rather, not necessarily silly, but not very significant, either. Bray himself admits that using REST + JSON was basically arbitrary:

Simply because we wanted a bits-on-the-wire interface. APIs, in the general case, suck; and are really hard to make portable. Bits-on-the-wire are ultimately flexible and interoperable. If you’re going to do bits-on-the-wire, Why not use HTTP? And if you’re going to use HTTP, use it right. That’s all.
Is this a common occurrence here? I've heard of power users on digg doing this, but I'm slightly surprised its happening here.
It's interesting to see a comparison of apples to oranges (IDE to text editor) when you can very easily compare apples to apples - E text editor very closely resembles TextMate, works on Windows, and supports all (or almost all) of the bundles available for TextMate. It's even cheaper than TextMate.
The really exciting news here is the bit at the end:

"I am 100% convinced that if there were a general-purpose platform for running behind the firewall to automate scaling and deployment and take IT out of many loops, there are a whole lot of enterprises who’d love that kind of elasticity in their infrastructure.

Machine virtualization is a big deal, obviously. Lightweight lockin-free data-center virtualization might be bigger, I think."

He's right! At Loopt there are many, many things we can't use conventional, public, cloud offerings for because of privacy and/or security concerns. I would jump immediately at the opportunity to install 3-5 racks of Sun hardware and/or software, and get my own mini-cloud to expose to Loopt developers.

Right now the closest I can get is VMWare, but even it is still much to close to the metal. Something like this could truly revolutionize how private data centers are managed.

Imagine:
* Need a QA environment for a while? Provision it. Drop it when done.
* Need to shift the allocation of processing resources between various internal tasks and services as load and usage varies? Script it. Done.

I'm sure there are tons of use cases I'm missing. Those are just my top two.
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That same case can be made against any city though Detroit's numbers are worse than most. However you would never have urban renewal at all if people let that stop them.

I have friends doing urban homesteading. Your first purchase should be an alarm service followed by web cameras watching the property. The goal is to intelligently cut your potential risk, they haven't had any problems - so far.
I'm not sure that's entirely true.

I can imagine AdBlock, as well as other plugins that deal mainly with the DOM, as entirely possible. I mean, how much does AdBlock really do? Grabs a list of blacklisted URLs (with wildcards), matches applicable elements in the DOM, and removes them.

AdBlock may prevent these requests from being issued at all, but that isn't to say you can't implement something similar in a Greasemonkey-like environment.