skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a rural setting or tier-2 city in India I wouldn't be surprised - ppl get paid less than that. Even in an urban setting it is definitely feasible to lead a respectable life - no need to beg/ borrow.

$2 a day or $60 a month for a working individual is comfort life, for a family one needs more.

Rent: Urban - $20 + $5-8 (other expenses). In a rural setting $20 would be fairly comfortable housing.

Food: (rice/wheat bread(roti) + vegetables/dal) - this is considerably 'good' food, 1 person would need ~6 kilo of rice + 2-3 kilo of dal + misc items, cheaper options: $6-7 + cooking gas etc $2

Urban setting would mean travel and other expenses of $10-$15.

So effective a urban individual would hardly have $5 as saving. In a rural setting one can save upto $20.

People buy clothes or other items occasionally. Twice in a year is considered fairly lucky. And you can buy clothing for as less as $1-$2 these days.
When I see millions, perhaps billions of people around the world living on less than $2 a day -- impossible in the west -- I can't help but disagree with you.

How do you reconcile the poverty rate in the U.S. at $12,000 compared to $2 in india?

It would appear that the division of labor has actually increased the cost of living -- at any standard. If you only had $2 a day in the United States, you would probably die and that is not hyperbole.
From 25th May 2009 Google is reducing free AppEngine bandwidth to 1GB
Quick point: Having money, a depreciating asset, forces everyone into being a speculator. You have to make prophecies, because the alternative is an assured -2.0 percent return (roughly).

Here's why the long term outlook is bad: An aging population will necessarily convert assets of all classes into money in order to finance their retirement. Simple as that.

Short term, who the hell knows? Buy Citi on margin short term, if you feel like it.
I totally agree with you on the benefits, but you must admit that from a sheer ugliness perspective AA has by far the worst site out of the "old school" carriers. Delta (my usual airline of choice), United, USAirways, and even Continental have much nicer sites (roughly in my order of preference). The usability of all of the above seems to not be all that different, however, so to each his own.
The advantage that RNA expression arrays has over mass-spec is that the techniques used are just a highly scaled up version of the northern and/or southern (depending on the method) hybridization blots that have been in use forever. The corresponding protein technique (western blots) requires individual anti-bodies, and as such is just not scalable to the same degree.

So, instead we are left with mass-spec solutions that miss a ton of data. Not all peptides can be read on a mass-spec, and if you do get a peptide, it's up to the software to figure out what it was.

Also, the data analysis in proteomics has been a known issue for many years. There are little to no standards since it takes so long to run samples. At the same point in the microarray field, the statistical and data analysis techniques were largely worked out. But again, this is due to the 'simplicity' of the measurements. It is just plain easier to measure known RNA or DNA sequences.

That's not to say mass-spec isn't useful, because it is. But I highly doubt it will be able to ever give us a complete picture of the proteome.

It's kinda funny, because we are seeing a shift in the transcriptome world that is now moving toward rapid sequencing approaches that mirror mass-spec a great deal.
Note that AA has slightly different interfaces for countries other than the US:

this website is for India:
http://www.americanairlines.in/aa/intl/in/index.jsp

Here's the country selection page:
http://www.aa.com/aa/international/internationalSplashAccess...
Ask HN: Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD?
I am wondering how many people here have published articles in peer-reviewed, professional or academic journals without either holding or seeking a PhD. Also, how did you go about getting published? I am interested in general advice from PhDs as well.
A Hiccup on the Path to Superintelligent Financial Markets?
So first of all the article takes two degenerate cases and stereo types and generalizes them to the extreme.

Part of the problem is that if he was dealing with EngineYard, they definitely have some issues with their infrastructure. After having hosted with them, I don't recommend clients use them any more. They are more marketing than technical substance. One of the critiques that he makes is that their database infrastructure is on a shared architecture - which unfortunately is true. They separate all of their front end slices out, but all of their database are on a shared architecture. Unfortunately with most apps that have scaling issues, those issues are related to database access - which makes that the exact worse part of the system to be shared. Without going into too much more EY bashing, they sell you on the idea that you have a full time admin working on your site, but the reality is vastly different. Personally, I've had much better luck using SliceHost than EngineYard, but YMMV.
Yeah, okay, but this article should be titled "Virtualization and the importance of being stupid"

This has next to nothing to do with Ruby or Rails. He's right on the count that you should go with the options that work, but the key lesson here isn't that mongrels don't work, it's that shared hosting sucks for their purposes.

Also, ActiveRecord isn't a replacement for SQL. It is a convenience layer on top of SQL. I love my ORMs (and i've enthusiastically moved to DataMapper), but guess what i was doing today? Yep, that's right, i was writing SQL :P
The "savings club" mentioned is known in Mexico (and possibly elsewhere in Latin America and among Latin American immigrants in the states) as a "tanda". The one I participated in (against my better judgement -- my wife signed us up as a favor to someone we know who was organizing it) was run with eleven participants, and lasted one cycle. I paid MXN$200 every week and expected to get MXN$2000 towards the end of the cycle. I think this arrangement was fairly typical.

Of course, the further back in the queue you are, the bigger the risk that others will drop out before it's your turn for your payout. From the outset, that seemed like a likely outcome to me, and it is indeed what happened.

As a reasonably well off expat, MXN$2000 wasn't a big deal to me (what is a big deal is the lack of trust experiences like mine breed). However, since it is a lot of money to many people, there's probably money to be made offering what tandas do, and even paying a small amount of interest, without such risk being borne by the participants.
Hilarious sarcasm. Full stop.
I think that just has to do with the javascript/DOM - DIV ids are supposed to be unique to a page so the upvote is just affecting the first one it finds.
The irony is that that 2-bedroom house will be worth $750,000 someday but only because $750,000 will be worth a lot less by then.
~/.bash_history (jeffs_shell) on Twitter
As the aging population uses the money to finance their retirement, where do you think it goes?
I'd love to be able to see a full size of that black and white screenshot of the original for comparison.
I dare someone to setup a script to run these commands on your own box.

It would be like twitter as a replication source.
The mistake you make is assuming that because I have an opinion that isn't yours I'm not. I am not a member of 4chan, nor do I go to the site...ever. Sad, sad dad.
Self Storage
StorageMart is a family-run business operated by the Burnam family.
Except right now nobody is entirely sure that money is a depreciating asset. Interest rates are close to zero, there may be inflation in a lot of places, but not if you're thinking of buying a house. The aging population is looking at postponing retirement, maybe even coming back out of retirement. Short term, most people are staying in cash.
A house (or anything else) is only worth what someone will pay for it. If houses are selling for $750k, by definition they are worth $750k. You can hate it and refuse to think that anyone should ever pay more than $100k for such a house, but as long as people are willing to pay the price, that's the value.
Imagine a 20-minute song that had to contain a riff from every musical fad from the end of the Carter era to the present. :)

I was going to post my thoughts on the impossibility of a (require 'sane-emacs) but then I found this document on "Emacs2010": http://code.google.com/p/emacs2010/wiki/DeveloperIntro
I really think it's more that people have one mind or the other about things.

Some people like to easily have their editor do a lot of stuff for them, some people would rather do a lot of stuff in their editor easily. There are vi modes for emacs and vim has a pretty good scripting language for add-ons (ain't no emacs though).

I've heard of at least one project that aims to do both, but that one's written in Haskell, so you'll probably not have all that many people using it anyhow.
Test suites are your friend.
I agree with you, but ironically the post reads like he's trying to land them as clients.
Good for Aaron!

I don't understand the more critical comments here. He's obviously doing what he feels he needs to do to stay sane. Why so many judgmental statements? I think some of this may come from folks feeling a little guilty about their own technology addiction. Or maybe they're just feeling a little superior now that they've 'outlasted' Aaron Swartz. I donno. It's just weird that people would suddenly become so concerned with someone else's techno-fast, as if he's mentally off because he wants a break from it all.

Not all of us can be moderate about everything all the time. Some of us need to take extreme and immediate action to break out of a downward spiral or perform some other life-affirming action. Sometimes we need friends to push us to do this. Seems perfectly healthy to me. And I don't understand the comparison people are making to crash diets here, as if living off the grid is somehow equivalent to cutting off the flow of essential nutrients. Come on.
CouchDB JSON Parser Timings
I can appreciate the desire to have simple, CSS based solutions for somewhat common requests -- though I would not consider gradient text a common request, just work with me here -- solving the issue by coming up with some elaborate solution that is generally reserved for crazy positioning problems to work with IE5+ and modern browsers simultaneously is hardly a good approach.

That was a long sentence.
This gave me a visceral pang of disgust.
Python-Daemon - Library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process.
As someone who works in the travel industry, it sometimes feels like basically everyone stopped working on their websites around 2001. The investment was so massive that there's a huge uphill battle to make any changes at all since then.
It chases goods and services.
It's all fun and games till someone accidentally the whole ~
But that's the point, no one was paying that much for it. It was inflated by a speculator's market. That's what a correction is. It's the market re-evaluating assets and reassessing their price based on what people are actually willing to pay and not what some real estate speculator or junk bond salesman said it was worth.
If you want more useful applications and services then go write them, don't complain that other people are spending their time writing open source software that you don't think they should be writing, it's really not your place.
Evaluating key-value and document stores for short read data
After listing useful advice he's received over the years, the author appropriately offers some critial meta-advice: write down (and analyze) advice that you find interesting in order to put it into practice.
It baffles me that they're taking this long. Quite honestly, if I had invested in Twitter, I'd be on them like white on rice to get /something/ out business-wise. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to bring something to the table and set the stage for future money-making.

Perhaps we simply have ideological differences, but I can't help but think they just really don't see the importance of moving quickly on this.
If none of these plans pan out, I'd be surprised if they continue the non-ads approach.

I hope they figure it out though, they'd be a great case study on a question we'd all like answered.
He's been successful with other ventures and that how you build credibility with investors. Right now we're only seeing the beginning of what he is working on. Without knowing the entire story, its hard to make a judgement on his potential chances of success.
It's just a screenshot of http://aa.com
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Okay so if this is the model that their going with, and I've been hearing this one for while. It would seem that they are trying to go after the same market that yelp, uservoice, and getsatification are all gravitating around albeit from different starting points.
Which is fine, its a large profitable market.

But then what differentiates them?

>It will be “simple stuff” such as lightweight analytics

okay...so technology as the driver has just walked out the door.

It seems like their sales pitch towards businesses will be based on the size of their user base. Which if thats the case won't they inevitably lose to Facebook? Facebook has a user base several times larger and as we've all seen Facebook is ready, willing, and happy to copy whatever works from whomever.
What's the point of publishing all this?
Read the comments here first, went to check it out; typed in "www.webnotes.com" and ended up at some very strange site. Came back here, and couldn't believe that you were trying to do something with a "reasonable-sounding" domain name for which someone else has the .com. I predict this will be a big problem.
I had two papers published in Math.Comp. before getting my doctorate. (They were accepted before I even started my doctorate, but weren't published until my 1st or 2nd year at Oxford, due to the journal having a rather crazy backlog.)

If you can write well (i.e., understandably and in a style consistent with the journal) it's not a problem at all. Just write your paper and submit it.

Based on my experience reviewing papers (many of which are from non-PhDs) I'd say that the most frequent problem I see is papers which were obviously written without having any thought given to the journal to which it would be submitted. Go read a few dozen papers from the journal to which you're submitting, and get a sense of what topics are covered in the journal (this doesn't necessarily match the list of fields mentioned on the journal's website), how much knowledge is assumed of the readers, and how formal/informal the writing style is; then write accordingly. Bonus points for downloading the LaTeX style sheet and formatting your paper properly -- we can talk about how style shouldn't affect things all day long, but the simple fact is that having your paper look "different" will distract reviewers from what you're saying.
It's possible that you just have sharper eyes than I do; I have been getting older (a deadly habit I keep meaning to break, but the withdrawals seem prohibitive). However, just to clarify, my point is not that these glyphs are indistinguishable when directly compared, but that they can mislead you while reading code. I can certainly tell them apart when I compare them. But can I immediately see that "e1" is "e-one", or that "42l" is the long integer 42? If not, having wasted hours on such stupid things, I would disqualify the font.
Fran Allen: Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems
Call me skeptical but I suspect this is a stall technique, perhaps to implement some of their ideas.

Given their recent media attention and emphasis on new users, I will be surprised to see a business model any more innovative than advertising. However, I really hope to be surprised!
Well, there's VIPER...

But as a vim user, I like the way that vim works with minimal configuration. Yes, I could configure emacs to behave any way I'd like -- in fact, I generally like doing that sort of thing -- but as long as I'm really configuring my editor, I don't want to start with a horribly messy system like Emacs (and Elisp -- dynamic scoping?). Not to mention that I can't stand the default keybindings, and all sorts of extensions aren't quite as friendly to set up once you've deviated from the defaults significantly (such as in VIPER).

Vim may be a "temporary" solution for me in that it's not as configurable as I'd like (I don't like Vimscript either, but I don't use it!). However, as "temporary" solutions go, it's very good at what it does (editing text, and that's it). I wouldn't dream of running an IRC client inside it, though.
The airplane system intrigued me. Most aircraft these days (save light aircraft that really only get flown in day VFR) already have a digital notion of pitch and bank, which is trivially repeated around the cockpit to the indicators and flight management system, among others. It would be simple (compared to most avionics upgrades) to add a pitch and bank port that you could plug something like that into. Two signal channels plus a few watts of 28 VDC aircraft power in some kind of standard interface.

I think wearing that would make it much easier to trust your instruments, the first and hardest challenge of instrument flying. Once disoriented, it takes an awful lot of discipline to ignore what your inner ear is telling you and steer by the needles. Even on a bright clear day with a beautiful horizon, looking to the side when you roll out of a turn a little too fast, maybe with a slight sub-1G pushover, and straight-and-level flight feels like a weird turn. At night, you end up with unfortunate accidents (like John Kennedy Jr's) that claim an awful lot of lives just because the horizon isn't visible and you don't trust the instrument that is proven to be wrong much less often than you are.

The FAA would be suspicious of such instruments, and rightfully so, but I think in time it would be an invaluable addition to a pilot's awareness. There would of course have to be a constant low-level stimulation, to make it immediately obvious that the device is powered, and an instant indication that the device is not receiving reliable information from the aircraft's attitude system (such as maybe "blinking" the pilot's wrists) as well as visible indicators on the instrument panel. With normal aviation precautions, and an injunction not to rely solely on such "newfangled contraptions", I think this would be a very valuable system. There would be less cockpit voice recordings of pilots who couldn't quite figure out why their instruments were "all screwed up."
That's why it's so important to move quickly on this. They seem to think they'll keep growing the way they have, and that they're going to keep their user base by keeping things the same. In reality, their users are going to leave unless they get value-added services out the door /now/, not "by year's end".
Wait hold on, let me put the one success I had in my life in my profile before you reply.
They left out another big lier: themselves. The financial media are as much to blame as Citigroup, the government, and whoever else. Hell, perhaps even more so given the press's traditional role of watchdog and investigator.
You can survive comfortably but not entertain yourself. Movie tickets, for example, cost at least $1 in most cities. So does eating out at a decent restaurant (by local standards).
Useful Usability Cheat Sheets & Checklists
All About Moving
Moving or transporting household accessories to a new location, can be a headache. It can be a cumbersome process not just because of the emotional and sentimental pangs associated with relocating.
I cannot think of anything else to say but "simply beautiful".
You don't need a PhD (or in fact any degree or affiliation). This is particularly true for conferences and journals that are "double blind" e.g. reviewers don't know the affiliations or names of the writers.

Submission is trivial: most have a webpage (with a deadline and submission requirements - e.g. double spaced, single column, no more than 12 pages), that you just put your document and details into.

That being said, most research areas are such that it's really quite difficult to position your work in such a way that it will get accepted: you need to know prior art well enough (and show this), but you also need to know who's work is actually any good (not easy) and who on the PC you need to reference, etc.
I actually think they can make a lot of money.

Look at the prices Get Satisfaction charges: http://getsatisfaction.com/pricing

Think of the number of companies on Twitter.

I don't see a reason why they wouldnt pay $100/month to be able to engage with more users/ engage with users more easily.
Thanks for responding. Based on the lack of follow up press, I had suspected less than hoped for results. Jens and Cheri were courageous for volunteering, and hopefully their data can be used to someday improve the technology.
See, my biggest problem with Emacs is, why should adding all that functionality to the editor mean rewriting all of it? There are existing programs that do most of those things already, and many of them are written in languages better-suited to those specific tasks. Seriously.

I have a strong suspicion that there are various subtle factors in the design of Emacs that encourage people to re-implement things in elisp, rather than just use existing programs. Elisp has external process calls, but it still seems like this blob that turns half of what it touches into something that will eventually be rewritten in elisp. (Perhaps part of it is that Emacs all runs in one thread, so background processes make it freeze.) I know many people love working in Lisp, but I'm pretty sure it's the last Lisp most people would choose under any other circumstances. (I'd rather use Scheme.)

There's a lot of stuff that doesn't need to be running inside the editor. Its core could probably get by fine on undo/history management, file and buffer management, syntax highlighting, a keybinding system, a generic comint-like mode for shells and interpreters, other external process call functions, and ... what else? (Acme & Wily do all of the above except syntax highlighting. I'd use it, but I strongly dislike mouse-centric UIs.) I know that's a fair bit of work, but it's not like one would have to rewrite all of gnus and whatnot. Even something like query-regexp-replace or pabbrev could be an external process.

I've also been wondering if there's a good way to make the parser system used for syntax highlighting separate, but haven't settled on anything yet. (Parsing text that is changing as you parse it is a fundamentally different problem than parsing a static file or stream, and a relatively unexplored one, as this blog post notes (http://www.codekana.com/blog/2009/04/02/on-the-speed-of-ligh...).)

Finally, I think that Lua would be an excellent choice for the customization language. A lot of Emacs's warts are ultimately issues with elisp, itself. (And, while Lua is my favorite language, and I'm admittedly biased, such use as an extension language is one of its major strong points.)
Ask HN:  Is pseudocode copyrightable?
Can you for example implement an algorithm from pseudocode in a Wikipedia article without worrying about copyright issues?

What exactly is pseudocode in this context? Is English text combined with math formulas considered pseudocode? What if it is highly suggestive of how it would be implemented?

And what if the pseudocode looks a lot like a real implementation (e.g., say in python)?
While we are on emacs, check this out:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/key-chord.el

It lets you bind commands to "chords." For example, I bind pressing U and I at the same time to 'other-window (typically, C-x o).
Don't banks and credit institutions already do this?
I always thought it was amusing that the 3 is right above the 3, and the 0 above the o. I've made a few "leet-speak" errors in the past just due to finger-slips.