skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm gonna assume that you are not an immigrant that has worked in a family business. Because you don't inherit the family business.

I worked in the plywood plant where my dad worked when I turned 16 and I worked in all of his side businesses. My uncle that owns an electrical business put my cousins to work when they were 13. My uncle that owns a chain of retail stores put my cousins to work starting at that age, too.

You don't inherit a family business if you grew up in an immigrant family. And it's definitely not easy. It's hard work from the day you are born.
There are a whole lot of folks living in the US or Canada that are Indian citizens or one generation removed.

That said, the article is kind of lame. It assumes that a growing economy translates directly to a skilled labor shortage without making any decent case for that. Really, it's only even in passing that they make a case for moving there.
Ask HN: External hard drive enclosures... Recommendations?
I have 3 spare 3.5" SATA hard drives (2 x 160GB and 1x 120GB). I'm looking for recommendations either on an external enclosure that supports 3 or 4 drives, or a cheap enclosure that I can by 3 of. Preferably I'd go for the first option unless it is prohibitively expensive.

I have heard horror stories about some external enclosures conducting electricity and giving shocks to people if they touch them in the wrong place and other stories of them failing in other less spectacular but still annoying ways. I would like to avoid this by getting something that is good quality.
Duplicate submission.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612033
Perhaps, but we have women here.
Anyone interested in starting a HH in the Cambridge/ Boston area? If so, ping me!
i know someone who would really love that excerpt... if you like the horses... netflix "let it ride", 1989.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097731/
Ask HN: Best way to rearrange elements in an existing RSS feed?
I wrote exactly this 4 years ago :)

It was called AwayGrabber (www.awaygrabber.com).

I wrote a overly complex crawler in C to grab away messages from IM networks as fast as rate limiting would allow. Then created a web frontend for viewing all of the status messages from your friends.

It was cool since in most clients at the time you needed to click on a friend and select "get info" for each status you wanted to read. Feeds for status make much more sense. However, I got tired of trying to reverse engineer the changes in various closed protocols (oscar, etc). So I did more than ponder this when I was in college, I tried it.
Why are people so cynical about audio books?

Perhaps for the same reason my buddy who worked at the college radio station was so cynical about Kurt Cobain. Nirvana was popular; ergo, their music couldn't be very good. Those sellouts!

But, more charitably, it might be that certain book lovers really cherish reading, which is quite distinct from being read to. Someone once said that that the secret to books, as a medium, is that they give you the illusion that you and the author are sharing a private experience. You're alone in your own little space, concentrating and free from distraction, along with someone who has never met you, who might be hundreds or even thousands of years dead, but who is nevertheless speaking to you one to one. Even the person sitting across from you has no idea what you and the author are sharing as you read. And even if you read something as mind-blowingly popular as, say, Pratchett or Wodehouse or Gaiman or Rowling, there are still going to be moments where it will feel as if the author is sharing a private joke directly with you. The medium does that.

I suspect that audio books break that illusion for many people. Suddenly a reader, a bunch of Audible.com sound engineers, whoever happens to be within earshot of your car radio, and a potentially huge number of visual distractions (such as cars rolling by on the highway) are packed into that imaginary space along with you and the author. It's kind of like the difference between a quiet dinner for two and your junior prom. This explains why it's often a good selling point to have an audio book read by the author, despite the fact that most authors do not have years of experience as professional book readers. Hearing a book read by its author helps to preserve the illusion of intimate conversation.

Though I suspect that the rise of personal media devices -- for personal listening, home recording, and cheap distribution -- are changing the feel of the listening experience. Back in the early days of TV, watching TV probably felt like going to a show -- people did it in groups, with families or in bars, and even the shows on TV were based on vaudeville, theater, and big public events like wrestling matches and baseball games. But in the era of YouTube, you can have a video-watching experience that feels much more intimate, although perhaps never quite as intimate as silent reading.

I have to admit that I've liked the few audio books that I've listened to, but I don't seek them out. Given the option, I'd rather read.
having the cash. lack of time. not wanting to pull apart a toilet.
I can think of a few good reasons to call a plumber even if I kknew how to do it. (I can cook, but that doesn't stop me eating out - or even getting take-away sometimes)
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett
By the way it's GaryVee, not Gary V and it's not necessarily just inheriting the family business that counts, it's what you do with it after it is in your hands and GaryVee is Awesome, phenominal and brilliant!!! He's doing it his way.. YES!!!!! You are going all the way to the top and you deserve it!!!!
I would be very surprised if the rule, in some states, of being apart for a year to finalize a divorce, has anything to do with religion/church. Most likely, it is a relic of legislation attempting to define "litmus tests" on which the judiciary can make decisions.

Keep in mind that with things like divorce and child custody/support, couples change their minds (sometimes a lot). Our court systems can't handle this (certainly not the costs). Over the years, our societies have required legislatures to define rules and processes for lumping everyone into a process. I don't think the state really wants to be involved in divorce cases, but there are reasons they are (property, debts, retirement benefits, child custody/support, etc).

Like it or not, state courts have to be involved in divorces. For some couples that can handle it without the courts, well, like education, they get dragged down into the mean.
A long time ago I saw something like this on OpenClipArt. The cool thing, though, was that it provided a Java applet where you could draw what you wanted and it would try to match that. I find that more useful and awesome, though this is useful too. I know basically the same thing could happen by using Paint or something, but it's cooler in browser. Please take note of this and someone implement a feature like it.
Palm Pre on June 6th for $200: It's official
Darwin doesn't need any validation. There is no evolution vs creationism argument. The media purports this like the scientific community is evenly split down the middle on the issue. The reality is actually quite different. The scientific community is overwhelmingly behind evolution/Darwin. The number of 'scientists' that do not accept the huge body of evidence behind Darwinian evolution is a statistically insignificant number that can be safely ignored. It doesn't much matter what the non scientific community choose to believe...
The article is totally baseless for most of the part. Also, a Fastest growing economy does not translate that everyone should go there and look for a job.
And for that matter, India won't be the second fastest growing economy in 2009 according to the Economist. The fastest growing economies are Qatar, Malawi, Angola, Ethiopia, and China - from one to five respectively. (http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/displaystory.cfm...)
And compete with people who do your job at 1/50th of your salary? No thanks.
+1 - I've got a month old aluminum unibody MacBook here as well, and it's a really solid machine.
It's important to note the little tidbit about the author: "Aseem Prakash is the former CEO of I Media Corp Ltd. in India..." Biased reporting?
US-ians are typically referred to as Americans...
I found the first half of this talk to be a little crass and not very substantive. The second half contained a few interesting answers in the q & a. Gary brings so much energy though that this is a decent keynote if you're looking to be motivated.
I don't think this is unreasonable. It should be clear that a lot of the motivation for things like on-site cafeterias and such is that people won't go off-site for lunch. That's not necessarily evil, unless your company bans off-site lunches. The companies I've worked for who offered on-site, not-even-free lunches obviously did so because it increased productivity, but there was no issue if you wanted to go off-campus for lunch, and we did both with about the same frequency.

If people leave for lunch, they'll almost take longer lunch hours. I would appreciate an on-site cafeteria right now, primarily _because_ it would keep the length of my lunches down and make things more convenient. This role is often filled by the McDonald's a couple hundred feet in front of our office now, which is terrible and sad.
They already do. Quotas (with peak/offpeak) are already common in some places, such as Australia.
> I value deviation from the norm as much as the next free spirit, but deviation from this basic principle I will not allow myself ever.

I think it's bad to be a 'free spirit' in the sense of wanting to deviate from the norm. I do appreciate variety, but I'd prefer if there was less need to deviate. Radical and counter-intuitive ideas are harder to implement, and it's harder to find associates with those shared values. The point of deviating from the norm is that some normal ideas hurt people or cause problems. At least that's what I think. There is a genuine disagreement about the wisdom of some normal ideas, not just deviation for the sake of being a free spirit.

> If one partner decides that they're liable to "chat someone up and accidentally have sex" they should divorce/separate and carry on.

That's one option but there are lots of others. Richard Feynman made a game out of not cheating on Arline with tempting girls. He enjoyed the challenge. If you don't want to cheat, there are rational ways to accomplish that.

> I'm just appalled at an apparent justification of betrayal.

I think it's bad to betray people. I also think it's generally wise not to make promises that are hard to keep in the first place. One reason is this reduces the number of betrayals that take place. Another reason is that it's hard to predict the future and predict what you will want in the future.
Super Simple Rails Tabbed Navigation
Eclipse 3.5 RC1 released
See what happens when you leave?
http://twitter.com/garyvee/status/1854968425
Exploring The Quartz Scheduler Service from Clojure
Definitely! $5k can last a year in india. Just freelance for your existing clients and live like a king for a year... on 1-2 jobs.

Only 7-25% of Americans own a passport... so I doubt that many people would actually do it.
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/01/31/how_many_ameri...

Would be quite an adventure though... :)

My job was outsourced FROM India. So living there is just the next step I guess.
This is something that's interested me ever since I heard about the first Hacker Houses here on HN, and it's great to hear some details about how it worked out. I'd love to get a bunch of folks together in one place and let the ideas flow, especially if there was some hardware involved. Kind of a modern-day mad scientists' laboratory, if you will...

EDIT: and if anyone else in Wellington NZ thinks the same way, take a look at my profile and get in touch. :)
Google seems to be predicting its next Seldon Crisis. :)
Born in NOLA but transplanted to SF long ago, listening to WWOZ online is one of my few remaining links to home. Good to see it mentioned here.
Moore’s Law states that technology doubles every 18 months, you should keep up.

This one makes me doubt the rest.
I think you hit close about many educators practices, however I think the problem is they assume concentration with hard work and lack of concentration with easy work. While this can generally be true, it doesn't mean you are learning just because something's hard or that you aren't learning just because something's easy.

If you have a problem with reading books for whatever reason, I believe listening to an audiobook will have at least the same effect on an educational level. It obviously won't help with your reading skills, but it might help you with listening skills (which incidentally a lot of people seem to frequently lack). However, listening to an audiobook won't mean jack if you can't concentrate on it, just like with reading a book.

I'd say, just like some people used to have reading rooms, why not have a listening room for audiobooks?
Wow, looks solid. I've only been viming for a year, so no doubt theres plenty of knowledge gems for me here.
Search Indian laws, court judgments, tribunal judgments and law journals
Not mine but I thought it is a cool project
"$199.99 after $100 mail-rebate and 2-year contract"

I really hope this Palm Pre does well. I would have higher hopes for it if it didn't have carrier lock-in. We'll see if this Sprint-only deal lasts long or if it goes carrier neutral soon.
My ISP has a "Your account" page where I can view my current total bandwidth used for the month and the amount I have used each day. I have a much clearer idea of how much bandwidth I use than how much electricity I use.

I don't get the opposition to metered billing. You want unlimited use of a resource, but you don't want the provider to put conditions on how it used? With metered billing I have a reasonable expectation of getting what I paid for - ie. net neutrality. If my ISP broke net neutrality, it would mean that some of my gigabytes were intentionally served more slowly despite my paying the same price for them as any other gigabyte.

If my ISP wants to give preferential treatment to a particular site, it can do so in the form of financial discounts on the cost of using that site (which happens with content hosted by the ISP's own servers), all without affecting the speed of packets that I paid full price for.
The Data Center as a Computer
Yeah, but I never saw the flippers running at the same time as the main treads, so it could be a possibility.
"I think the onus should be on the ISP to make sure that they can actually deliver the rates that they are advertising, which are clearly far too high."

You can get a 100Mbs connection in Sweden for $11 a month. Or I can rent a server with 1TB per month of transfer for $60 a month.

Should be a clue to you that the ISPs are lying. And before anyone brings up the old canard about "last mile, blah blah," the marginal cost of a new subsriber is about $25-$30 a month.

Amazing to me how some people love to justify their own getting ripped off.
America 2.0: New Teachers fail math test, only 27% pass test
There's a kernel mode HTTP listener in Windows, which has its own cache and logging .. IIS (more specifically w3wp.exe worker processes) get requests and respond through named pipes.
"The marginal cost per kilobyte of data transfered during off peak hours is approximately $0.00."

This can't be repeated enough when commenters -- as the above one did -- make such disingenuous arguments.
"Bell Canada" will be carrying this sweet phone here in Canada.
In fact that's the whole point of these bots in the first place!
Just saw this-- dunno if you'll see my response.

I think you're being ridiculous-- I don't say that too often to people.

First of all, painting employers as exploiters is ridiculous. Many of them aren't. The "balance of power" has nothing to do with RescueTime-- it has to do with how in-demand you and your skills are. If you are unexceptional, you have very little power.

If I, as an employer, say "Part of working here means that we keep track of how you spend your time on the computer", I don't see that as being ethically different than saying that you have to fill out a timesheet. It's just automated and accurate rather than painstaking and subjective. I also don't see it as morally different to measuring code check-ins, lines of code written, punching a timecard, or measuring the number of widgets you build on an assembly line per day. It's just data.

Bad managers can abuse software like this. Bad managers can also abuse employee review processes, boilerplate employment agreements, and lots of other things.

Good managers, on the other hand, can benefit from software like this. They can understand when employees don't have enough to do (the 2nd most common reason people quit just after being micromanaged), they can understand how a lousy new team-lead is hurting team engagement/productivity, and more.

Time is a resource, like money. Tracking how it's spent isn't evil.
I do too, mainly because I want to see more JS/HTML based mobile device development, possibly some standard APIs in the near future.

I've been spoiled by the web and I don't like having to deal with multiple languages, platforms and dev environments just to be able to reach a decent portion of my potential audience.
This was a funny comic. I'm curious if anyone here has had their work watered down by media coverage - any good stories?

I bet the security folks ought to have some experience here...
Netflix CFO claims iTunes and Amazon PPV models broken
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/netflix/netflix-cfo-streaming-offers-greater-opportunity-dvd-mail-15785
INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET
When it comes to investing in the stock market a lot has been said and written. So much so that you would think everybody would know how to manage their money in this arena. In reality however, nothing could be further from the truth. Even though people can easily access a wide range of financial information these days, successful investing remains a mystifying topic for many people. The biggest problem is not the lack of information. There is plenty of information around for anyone who wants it. The real issue is the lack of security and predictability, that is inherent to the stock market, and people's ability to deal with it.
People love to be secure and in most cases they like to be able to foresee things at least to a minimum degree. At the same time however they want to make a profit; the more, the better. And unfortunately high profits are usually accompanied by high risk. Feel the dilemma here? Of course, one solution to this dilemma would be to simply put your money in a savings account, collect a little interest and just relax. If this sounds good to you, well, good for you, but don't bother reading the rest of this article.
WA needs the option of explicit operators, so you can specify your query precisely.

For example, for financial entities, you get a drop-down menu choice of Fundamentals, Ratios, Balance sheet and so on - but you can't specify these in a query. Eg: http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nike+Ratios gives you the fundamentals, not the ratios.

But you can pick one of the ratios, and get a comparison (couldn't get this to work before):
http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=return+on+equity++nke...
I hope this Palm comes to Canada soon, however I hope it isn't the biggest bitch-slap on the planet like the iPhone's data packages are.
Ask HN: How do you define "real-time"
How exactly do you define "real-time"?

Currently a lot of companies are coming out with a real-time label on some aspect of their service. The trend seems to be:

1. Content they serve is now automatically updated without needing viewers to manually reload.
2. Content is updated sooner and faster
3. Slap a chat on it, call it real time.
4. Put some twitter, facebook, openid, what have you and call it social real-time.

I see real-time as things happening at the exact moment, which is updated a bit faster than 10 seconds. But you are real-time with what? The server? Everyone you follow on Twitter? The key is to have someone on the other side to be real time with you. That's interesting.

This comes in many forms, here are some I think are particularly important:
1. Content you're interested in that people provide. (twitter.com updates, friendfeed, digg stories)
2. Action sharing, such as screen sharing or browse sharing. (webex solutions, browseology.com)
3. Information generated from a source that is time sensitive, not necessarily from the mass of people, but from a single entity. (big events like sporting events)

What's your definition?
So what? China is booming, India is growing, Russia showed 9% growth. The poorer the country, the higher the numbers.

ps/ you don't have to vote me down, that's from the economics textbook :)
For you entrepreneurs looking forward to move to India:

Famous and popular investor Jim Rogers details all the problems in India and how we can find oppurtunities to invest there:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j9.html

Indian people have voted for growth and prosperity. This represents end of communism/protectionism ideas.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aqQq...

For those who are not familiar with Indian Politics, Prime Minister of India's resume :
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8kww2/congress_wi...
If there is one area guaranteed to confuse many traders and lead to multiple opinions on the most appropriate approach, it is the subject of stop losses. The science and the art of placing stops is featured extensively in many trading books and guides, but the bottom line is that there is no right or wrong answer, simply the fact that stop losses must be used to limit potential downside exposure when trading. Traders should also be careful not to confuse stop losses with buy stops, which trigger an opening position rather than closing the trade.
It is very important not to package together the placing of stops with money management, as the two represent different strands of trading. Simply put, stops are there to protect profits and limit the potential downside at any time once a trade has been opened, and are part of an exit strategy for trades that are already open. Money management covers position sizing or amounts to be risked within each trade of a portfolio.
Within this potentially complex subject, there are many different types of stops, and it should be added that stops are never guaranteed unless that facility is offered by the broker for an additional charge. Nevertheless, their use is an essential part of any trading strategy. For the examples below share prices are used, but stop losses should also be used when trading CFDs in commodities, forex or indices.
You would not want an IT job in India - they're terrible. You're a lemming. Lots of programmers in India, very few hackers. At the high end, the very few interesting jobs, you're competing with the finest minds in India - and you'll probably lose.

But its a good place to do some serious hacking, if you've saved up money stateside, or have a consulting gig. I posted a bit about doing product development in India here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532825
ATT Trials Storage Service: Synaptic Storage
How many people are waiting for the new iPhone (assuming there is one) expected 2 days after the launch of the Pre before deciding what to get?
Specious reasoning here. Yes, India has a higher rate of growth than the US, but they are also poorer and will remain so for the near future.

It's not an entirely bad idea, as living in another country is probably a worthwhile experience, especially rapidly developing country like India. But it's not a great career move in and of itself, nor is it that much better an idea because of the recession (unless you have no real prospects for enough income to stay in your home country and want a cheaper country to live off your savings in until the storm passes, but most people in that situation go for someplace like Costa Rica.)