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That may be true, but the article was about Indian families becoming reluctant to marry their daughters of to Indian expats living in the USA. I don't think there was any intention by the author ("Shefali Anand") to "hyuk hyuk" at Indians.
Yes, that's definitely one of the core reasons. It's a bit like reading a "futuristic" novel where everyone has laser weapons in their holster and still travels around on horses... it just makes it very hard to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story, imho.
If it wasn't 4:30 in the morning, I'd dig up some info about the relative success of arranged marriage vs love marriage. Plenty of Western marriages end up loveless, and divorce is rampant here. It's not clear to me which system would seem more efficient to a hypothetical man from Mars (but as a not-so-hypothetical white American, people I know would think I'm insane for even entertaining the idea that there could be redeeming qualities of arranged marriage).
I agree completely about the hardware pricing issue. I'd gladly buy the OS from them, but not pay such absurd amounts for pretty looking hardware. It's just not my style.

When Apple announced Intel support, I thought for sure this was a technical move so that they could eventually become an OS and software company, in additional to a computer/electronics company. I was expecting them, within a year, to have a standalone version of OSX compatible with most hardware configurations.

They stand to make a killing if they officially ship an OS which supports non-Apple hardware. Hell, if I were any hardware vendor, I'd gladly work with them to be one of the first official compatible hardware vendors. Even if there were only a handful of Apple-supported hardware components, they'd made a killing once people start building and selling Apple computers themselves.

By the way, whatever happened to that (non-Apple) business that was building computers with OSX on it?
Agreed! But that begs the question of how you plan on achieving that, which then makes the more short-term strategy look mighty attractive.
It's unfair because they are only enforcing the law as written, and it's written by representatives of the people of that country(1), and thus they are only doing the will of the people. If you don't like it, be angry at the people responsible for the law, not the agency.

It's like hating the policeman because they keep busting you for drugs. It's not his fault they're illegal. In fact, many policemen feel the drug laws are stupid. It's equally likely that many in the INS feel the law is unjust. What are they going to do, though? Break it?

Responsibility flows upwards in such matters, especially where governmental mandate is concerned. Blaming officers of the government for merely enforcing the will of the people is misguided.

(1) Doesn't count for non-democracies, obviously, but even in those cases they'd just be enforcing the law of the land, with little individual perogative.
As a designer, you usually have lots of sketches and early version lying around, as well as high resolution versions of the logo. That alone should work as proof that you are the creator.

Otherwise I guess you could e-mail a copy of your logo to your self. If it's a big provider (such as g-mail), the timestamps would be fairly reliable in a court room. Flickr is probably just as good.
This is access in the sense that visually impaired people are affected by Amazon's decision to allow publishers to disable text-to-speech on their books; rather than access in the sense that everyone should get a free Kindle.
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Also, the UMass faculty list is misleading since apparently almost every CS professor in the 5-college system is listed as an "adjunct professor". Scott Kaplan and both McGeochs are actually Amherst professors, and Sami Rollins was my algorithms prof at Mt. Holyoke.
heh! You are completely right. I was reacting to an article i read on the web a few days ago (damned if I can find it now) about how Indian men do poorly in the dating game in the United States. I saw the title of the submission and connected the two. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was coding all night and am a little zonked.
(It is the middle of the afternoon here and I've gone almost 38 hours without sleep.)

One of my (Indian) friends just got engaged to an American (Caucasian) woman and we had discussed some of this over the phone a few days ago. Must have been on my mind I guess.

In any case you are right. My comment doesn't have much to do with the article.
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I was just trying to explain how 'arranged marriages' work in my family and that the success rate of the system is pretty good in my experience.

Sex at college is a different aspect. Its true that the social setup doesn't encourage sex while you are at college. But i think the reason is not just an 'orthodox view' of Keralaites. Males mostly stay with parents until they finish college(&& get a job) and are fully dependent on parents financially.'Work while you study' is almost non-existant here. Perhaps girls just dont want to take the risk of hanging out with someone who doesn't have any proven earning potential(yet). At the end of the day, getting a girl depends on how you approach the girl !

Sorry to hear that you had bad experiences with 'ragging' at college. I never had any such issues. Infact, my seniors were very helpful throughout my college life.

I see that you created an account just to make that comment with personal insults against me. Try sticking on to the guidelines and keep HN a nice place: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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or could it be that windows is just easier to manage, therefore the barrier of entry is much lower?
If you get in do we get the karma back? I'm only joking.

Best of luck to you (and the many others).
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People need to remember that twitter started as a side-project at odeo. Odeo is a Rails app (right?). These guys just used what they knew to get twitter going: ruby.

No big deal and no surprise at all that ruby (for several reasons) is not the first choice for such a high volume messaging back-end. Who cares.

Ruby is a beautiful language. But your pet langugage can't serve all needs, get over it.

Scala is a fantastic language that is capable of handling the requirements of twitter's back-end problem domain. Its my understanding that twitter played with quite a few alternatives before settling on scala (erlang based solutions being one). They went with scala. Cool.
By the way, at the bottom of that, I discussed a few thoughts I had on how to tackle the issue of triggering concurrent cache refreshes in a clustered environment. Would appreciate feedback on (1) those ideas, if you've tried any or anything similar, and (2) additional possibilities I missed.
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It was held as a shining example, by many of the same people lauding the innovative financial products we now label as toxic. They were wrong.

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Pfft, karma whore!

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upvoted.
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Google did behave badly in the first case. Here they've merely been attacked by an idiot.

An ad hominem attack does not negate the points made in the article, nor does the fact that the article author probably has a bias and some of his claims may be overstated mean that his other claims are without merit.

Google do collect vast amounts of information, and they do generate increasing concern from everyday people over privacy. Note the village who obstructed the Google Street View car as reported in the news last week: the locals quoted in connection with that story were hardly geeks who have thought deeply about privacy issues in the on-line world, but clearly felt that the behaviour was a violation of their privacy nonetheless.

Google do mostly run their services on the back of information provided by others, without adding much or any original content themselves; ironically, Street View is a rare exception to this. On the other hand, Google Search, Google Mail, Google Groups, Google News and so on are all services based on nothing more than presenting an interface to work done by others. They create no original content, do no original research, and provide nothing that couldn't be found through other means.

It would be wrong to assume that such organisational services have no value, of course. If they didn't, no-one would use them.

But it would also be wrong not to consider the implications for the providers of the underlying source material of allowing such services to operate unrestricted. We already have a situation where some sorts of business live or die based on an arbitrary decision of a huge external company that wields awesome power because of its market dominance, yet makes mistakes (ducking the question of whether some of the dubious behaviour is actually a mistake at all).

When a service is fundamental to society and the field is dominated by a small group of organisations that are not directly accountable to the public, there is always a case for government regulation to protect society from abuses by those organisations. This is what we have things like anti-trust laws for, not to mention applicable general laws covering privacy, data protection and the like.

We shouldn't stand in the way of progress without cause, but neither should we assume that new approaches to things are always better, nor ignore the implications of modern technologies and the need to reevaluate old legal standards in the light of new practical capabilities. It is good that the media question the way that a business like Google operates, because for society to function effectively, someone must always question the behaviour of those who wield disproportionate power.
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Marriages in America frequently break up over money, i.e., one partner wants to spend more than the other. I wonder if the Indian system helps avoid this problem. (Of course, India is a massive and diverse country, and there is no singular "Indian system", but whatever...)

> people I know would think I'm insane for even entertaining the idea that there could be redeeming qualities of arranged marriage

It's a sad state of affairs when people condemn you just for being willing to look at the evidence.
It's unfortunately split up into two parts due to requirements on the blog that published it (literally "Founder Scene"), but this hits on some of the basics of collaborative filtering. The next part gets into item-based collaborative filtering and a little on graph-based stuff. I'll post the second part here when it comes around.

The article is definitely targeted at being a quick introduction to how recommendations work rather than being a how-to. Most Gründerszene's subscribers aren't developers so it's an attempt to present the stuff in a digestible format.
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Good luck guys.

Remember, even if you don't get in, keep hustling. You don't need a permission slip to start up.
22p per play is a ridiculous figure to try and get. There's just no way YouTube could ever make that from advertising or subscription.

Much as it irritated me not being able to play music videos from youtube, seems like they did exactly the right thing taking them down.
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Ah, thanks for explaining that. I'm not a historian (as you might have guessed) and I was thinking of revisionism in the context of Holocaust denial etc.
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I'm just looking forward to conversations with sentient networks of Russian lobster brains.
The original article - while showing Windows itself as attracting a lower salary - shows that jobs involving Microsoft/proprietary technologies are paid significantly more than OS counterparts. It seems to me that the author (certainly of the cnet article) jumped to conclusions based on the first graph of the story, not the full picture.

Here in the UK, developers using Microsoft technologies are easily paid double what your average LAMP developer earns (in my experience).
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This old depiction by ars technica (2006 post) is doing rounds on many forums last couple of days.

Someone wrote: Sun's strategy for running the business -

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Zecco say it was a glitch not a joke:
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Read the article. It claims they have found a better estimate of word importance in a document than tf-idf, which would be very significant. Also it doesn't seem to need text segmentation, which means no need for language-specific tokenizers. The research paper is here (haven't read it yet):

http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/publi/PRE09.pdf
Good luck to everyone!

And if you don't get in (which lets face it, many wont), don't let it put you down; remember — VCs get stuff wrong all the time, not picking you could be included in that! So go make PG regret not picking you!! :)
Currently I'm getting this:

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handle the request.

I wonder if that's because a law firm has complained about the complaint, or if this is proving popular.
I tried a 28-hour day for about a week:
http://www.dbeat.com/28/

I'm glad I did solely because I know that if I hadn't I'd be wondering about both the 28-hour day and polyphasic sleep until I tried it, and I'd probably have more at stake if I tried it later.

It was not good. I tried it in the middle of working on my PhD. I could still write code, but the quality dipped a little. My theory work stopped - the whole abstract complex thought part of my brain shut off - and it took me a while to notice. There was some digestive confusion for a while as well - the body is a pretty complex thing, and it turns out that (at least mine) really likes it's cycles.

I made it through a week and a half - at least I think it was - it really throws your idea of what a day is. The abstract complex thought bit took a while to come back. It took about a month and a half to recover properly. Would not try again.
Oh, good luck! I had to look in here because I thought someone else was wishing people a Happy New British Tax Year - alas, no.
Ilya Grigorik wrote a great article on recommendation systems (with code in Ruby):

http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-i...
"All my uncles(including my Dad)"

I think the statement is mathematically incorrect.
I would too be very happy to hear a little about the indian dating game, particularly how it works in the bigger metropolises.

I've spent a bit of time in Kochi, Kerela, in the southwest, and while I spent most of my time working on our business, I couldn't help but notice how incredibly beautiful yet amazingly shy many girls were. We did hear a lot of rumors of decadent partying and dating going on, and had indian friends who seemed to hang out with different girls, but we failed miserably at locating these sweet spots.

Can't help but imagining that even indian youth needs to let of some steam sometimes and just party their asses off.
"the culuture of Kerala is one that I despise beyond all"

We can understand your 'Culture' from the language you use in public forums like this.

Being polite will not hurt you much.
"easily double" doesn't sound likely at all IMHO if you're comparing like for like.
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Regardless of this offer, Sun will stop existing as it is now anyway, its inevitable. I don't like it either.
It's .22p, not 22p, per play -- similar to the price charged to radio stations. If radio stations can make it work, so should YouTube. And if it can't, then I prefer for the content to be removed, because if advertising can't adequately finance creation of music then some other approach will need to be found. I would prefer the direct approach, i.e. iTunes, you pay for the album or song, or Spotify, but it appears that around here this is seen as hopelessly antiquated (apparently new and better ways exist, although oddly no person or company has stepped forward to take advantage of these el dorado revenue streams). Failing that we could go back to the 17th century and have government sponsored patronage system. Brave new world!

And before people start posting replies along the lines of "it's not google's business to subsidize music execs" -- it is if a significant driver for google's traffic is interest in music content. And last I checked, it's not the music execs flying around in their own 747s, it's Larry and Sergei.

Don't be evil? Please.
How do you explain the very high divorce rate in societies with non-arranged marriages then? Should such societies not have a very high success rate, since the individuals make their own choices?
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Why was this voted up five times? This comment is breathtakingly idiotic.

I mean, what exactly are you saying here? That royalty paychecks are wrong or immoral? If so, then, in your considered opinion, how exactly should musicians be remunerated?

> No wonder everyone wants to be a musician

No, in fact, people want to be musicians because music is beautiful and people like doing beautiful things. If they wanted money, they would go into banking or IT -- you'll note that Pat Metheney doesn't have his own 747, but Larry and Sergei do.

And, finally, for insinuating that music nowadays isn't vibrant, and heaping scorn on the totally reasonable desire by musicians to earn a decent living: fuck you, you pompous twit.
Is there a part two out there yet?
Succinct, beautiful, and true. Upvoted.
No, it's written, but not published yet. It was written as one article, but since it was over their word limit, they split it into two parts. I think they usually space them out by about a week.
I am starting to wonder how long people will care what wall street thinks. Surely that day is coming (it will be somewhere else that we care about, not wall street).
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This is my experience only so is likely to differ based on location (for example, salaries are so widely different in London compared to where I'm based, that I couldn't even begin to hazard a guess) and industry (I have only applied for jobs in education and small businesses - never a large corporation).

However, back when I was looking for a job a couple of years ago, I interviewed for ASP positions - same hours, same benefits, same location, etc - that paid twice what was being offered to PHP developers. If I hadn't been so much more experienced in PHP I definitely would have gone the Microsoft route.

I keep an eye on the local job market (every few months) and this doesn't seem to have changed. Be interested to hear if it's the same by you? (Are you UK based? I can't think why I've got that in my head...)
> If radio stations can make it work, so should YouTube.

Nobody really knows, but the suspicion is that it's more expensive to do online distribution. Here's Mark Cuban on a similar subject:

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/01/27/the-great-internet-video-...

"If you want an interesting excercise, call up a CDN and ask them how much it would cost to support an audience that is never smaller than 10k simultaneous viewers for a 1mbs stream, 24 hours a day, for 365 consecutive days. Then call up one of the satellite providers and ask how much they would charge you to deliver to 100pct of their customers, and then call up a cable company and ask the same question. Total up the cable and satellite numbers and compare them to the internet costs. You may be surprised to see which is cheaper."

He's talking about mass distribution, but distribution on a small scale is going to be even more expensive per stream served. Of course, it's still possible to generate cash from serving content online because Hulu does it. Whether .22p/song is a possibility, I have no idea.

> And if it can't, then I prefer for the content to be removed

That's what they did, unless I totally misread the article.
They could just have a list of off-the-shelf components which are fully compatible, pretty much like the OSX86 project has; a good hackintosh with tested components can be as good as the real thing.

It wouldn't be perfect, personally I'd still prefer a real Mac (I like the hardware), but I don't think it'd be a 'wrong' move by Apple to try to open things up a bit.
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This is really weird - how can anyone actually force a company to continue a service ? That's as good as saying that Sony should start making old school Walkmans again.

If a product or service is not profitable for a company, it is correct for the company to discontinue that product/service. All other parties should just live with it and work around it.
With the Fast & The Furious posting record (and surprising) numbers this weekend, I think Hollywood is about to flip the bit from fear to greed. Whether (or how) that will affect this particular movie, I don't know. It looks good though.
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Not necessarily. If his parents were brother and sister, his dad would also be his uncle.

But the OP most likely meant "All my uncles AND my dad"
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You're joking, right? The logical flaw in that question isn't poking you in the eyeball as you type?

Whenever a society is permissive of divorce, the divorce rate rises.

When a society strongly disapproves of divorce (or makes it legally tough), well, that's another matter.

There's a high correlation between societies with arranged marriage traditions and a disapproval of divorce. (A->B not necessarily B->A.)
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