skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
manually entering calories consumed turned my interest into a definite no. there's no point amassing only half of the equation, and i really can't see myself entering the food i eat on a consistent basis. (this from someone who tracks every hour of the day.) at the very least, it would be neat if i could use it to take a picture of the food before i eat it to at least remind myself at the end of the day what to record.

alternatively or additionally, it would be neat if it could prick my finger and record my blood sugar level, as diabetics do every 2 hrs.

most lifetracking mechanisms seem very foolish to me, especially when "lifetracking" actually means recording my internet use and socializing behavior. however, fitbit is really on to something with collecting data that is only useful if consistently obtained, and then it is quite useful. if i knew exactly how many calories i was consuming and expending i feel like i could tweak my lifestyle in a significantly positive way. whereas now, i'm not sure which activities and foods are really having an effect.

edit: more precise sleep recording would also be cool. that tends to be the most hazy event blocks on my completely filled calendar.

also, i'd need something to record swimming, since salamander wrestling and underwater hockey consume much of my time.
Well ya, That's easy to say if you are working, but 25k is a pretty huge amount in India for youngsters.

Since we are talking about software startups here and making it possible to start easy and quick, it might be better to save money by doing it on your own (just take a ride in the morning to trouble the officers there everyother day, until they get fed up and get your work done). By this time, you can also prototype the product/service you are developing. Sometime(3-4yrs) back I did find a guy who advertised on paper that he would do it for 3k(around $75). I don't remember the company type though.

And he also did mention that a lot of it would actually go to officers under the table to speed up the process(=normal time) or else it would be dragged a lot. I heard it's called "paper weight" in India. If it's somewhere around 3k/$75 to get it done by a pro at this stuff, it's way cheap and time saving than doing it yourself.

P.S: I also did have this idea of incorporating a dummy corp in Delaware(US) or Nevada. Thought that would work out cheaper.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Elharris/Trading/Book/Book-extract.... (PDF)
In addition, they don't show variability within the groups. The differences they find among the averages may not mean much in the context of the variations about the averages.

Furthermore, any statistically significant differences may be due to correlation with other factors. Perhaps domain name varies weakly with geographic location-- which the same source claims also predicts average credit scores.

Finally, their chart accentuates the differences by dropping the zero.
It starts out saying that he wants to make a bank because it makes lots of money and then lists a bunch of idea that don't earn money.

"We would only give out credit cards to those who are qualified to receive one" The people who are not qualified are the ones you earn your margin on.

"Oh yeah, our vehicle loans would only be for hybrid vehicles. We would never give out an auto loan for an SUV like a Hummer because of our values." Not even for a 30% loan?

"Yes, we would have a 0% profit margin but the warm fuzzy feeling of doing good is priceless."

The only idea that does make sense is to have a good website, that is the only reason I still have an ING account.

I want to start a bank and be the trading house for all US to CA and Euro currency converting. Take 1cent from every trade and do it a billion times a day. Who wants to join me?
I'd say that while "kids signing up for AOL today" might not impact the score, "kids signing up for AOL five or ten years ago" would.
>These are questions that I ask to myself before starting a new craft, such as learning Erlang. I mean, it is an interesting language and it is fun to play with, but how much am I likely to utilize it in web applications, given that I currently focus on php? I would rather deepen my Zend Framework know-how to be able to tackle more large and rewarding php projects.

Author is spot on that chasing the latest technology might not have an appropriate ROI. The difficulty is to find the correct balance between learning new technologies and enhancing old skills. IMHO anyone currently programming in PHP will be left behind in a few years. This is the time to start moving to RoR or Python/Django etc.. Keep your bread and butter skills but add some new skills gradually.
I'm not sure I follow you there.

Lots of things are heritable, we have tons of proof for that. But everything ? You've just thrown out the possibility for anybody to overcome their genetic pre-disposition and to surpass their endowment.

Gattaca is a movie around that whole theme.

Sure you inherit a whole bunch of stuff from your parents, but your mental make-up is in large part due to how you are brought up and how much effort you put in to making something from that which you were given.

If 'success' were heritable then all the successful businesspeople would have successful children, they should, especially given that they have daddy/mommy as a jump off point.

The opposite is just as likely though.

Family fortunes are usually cyclic:

- one generation works very hard, creates a base

- the next one runs with it, makes a fortune

- the one after that has it easy, doesn't do much, but has lots of money

- the one after that squanders the remainder

It's very rare to see a family continue to be successful in an unbroken line given the freedom of choice to perform or to be lazy.
There's no reason you can't use a relational database for "huge batch-processing jobs." You might not be able to use MySQL for such a task, but there are a large collection of DBs that are designed for large-data analytics: Greenplum, Aster Data, Teradata, Vertica, etc. Of course, most of these have a non-zero price tag, but it is certainly possible to use a DB for that sort of workload.
we could may be look at this link as a first step towards achieving what you say... let us all chip in..
My father started a software company in 1990 and it just celebrated its 19th anniversary. Made it through some tough times, but he's doing very well. He's also not a programmer/technologist whatsoever, which I think really helped.

Now I've started my own software company. Having a successful parent definitely helps.
Yes, MapReduce is very scalable -- that is well understood. There is more to building a system than pure scalability, though: for example, energy efficiency. If Hadoop was less inefficient, it would be significantly more green. As energy grows to become a greater portion of the total operating cost of a typical datacenter, this will become increasingly important.
I would have been impressed if you had created the software in one of those languages and it was demonstrably as fast and small as the equivalent C or C++ software.

Unfortunately your post looks more like "I can write a stackoverflow.com clone in a weekend".
"The tendency to be an entrepreneur and personality traits of extraversion..."

Extraversion is highly correlated to entrepreneurship?
From what I've seen, some of each. Some people start with an advantage that, whether or not it's inborn, is pretty well established by 18. But training and encouragement seem to be able to multiply whatever level of ability people start with.
Self-employed: mother, father, both sisters, two uncles, aunt

Employed: aunt

Wow. I never tallied it up before! None of these I would consider especially entrepreneurial, but rather they make a living doing things they're interested in: photographer, horse trainer, marriage counselor, graphic artist, automated machinery manufacturer owner (builds big robots). I like to design and build software and that's what I employ myself doing. In my family, self-reliance and keeping yourself happy/engaged in your work are the guiding principles.
It's all very well but the Lisp debuggers themselves are, well, buggers. I can't single-step and most of the time I can't even inspect local state. This is my biggest peeve about working in CL (CCL+Slime or SBCL+Slime on OS X). Breaking into sldb feels like breaking into the 1970s. When there's anything at all that a Lisp hacker envies about Visual F--king Studio, that's bad.

Am I doing something wrong? Other CL hackers (mahmud?), what do you do?
About the same to The Netherlands.

We just visited the Chamber of Commerce to start a partnership. The person taking our registration just asked us a bunch of questions. (Names, SSN, address, etc., limitations to executive powers of the directors, name of the company, type of work done by the company, etc.) We showed him our passport, we paid about 100 euros and we were outside in an hour.

Bonus was that our Chamber of Commerce was conducting an experiment with the tax service where registering at the CoC would also give our data to the tax service. We got our tax number and papers by mail, instead of having to visit the tax service and filling out forms etc. there.
I just tested it with views, functions and a foreign key. None of those things ended up in schema.rb.
My girlfriend is a tax specialist for one of the most respected Mutual Funds in the country that doesn't do any wishy-washy derivative trading, she works directly with the CFO and the Comptroller.

I read this entire article to her out loud and she was actually impressed with the accuracy of what is usually sensationalist writing from the Rolling Stone.

As programmers who like to make black and white or otherwise binary decisions about things, I'd say we'd be the least qualified to make bogus or unfounded statements.
The new president for whom we all had such high hopes went and hired Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive who accepted a $2.2 million bonus after he joined the White House, to serve on his economic transition team — at the same time the government was giving Citigroup a massive bailout. Then, after promising to curb the influence of lobbyists, Obama hired a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, Mark Patterson, as chief of staff at the Treasury. He hired another Goldmanite, Gary Gensler, to police the commodities markets. He handed control of the Treasury and Federal Reserve over to Geithner and Bernanke, a pair of stooges who spent their whole careers being bellhops for New York bankers. And on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, when he finally came to Wall Street to promote "serious financial reform," his plan proved to be so completely absent of balls that the share prices of the major banks soared at the news.
From what I understood, he said that insiders instigated the fall of Bear Stearns, and smart outsiders joined in to finish them off.
I know the Cliq will (T-mobile's Droid). So I'm guessing that the Droid will get it too.
Why snark works
Well, if the company were basically sound, it wouldn't go out of business... although it'd be mighty ripe for a hostile takeover.

But Bear, Lehman, and numerous small companies that are usually the victim of this tactic, were leveraged to the gills, and were full of nasty liabilities. The temporary crisis of confidence caused by a falling stock price led creditors to start fleeing as well, preventing Bear from rolling over it's daily debt. As they point out in the article, Bear was highly dependent on overnight lending at that point.

Also, making money via naked shorting doesn't require the company to die. It merely requires the share price to fall.
I've been using sexy_pg_constraints with good success for a while. Doesn't do functions like this though.

http://github.com/maxim/sexy_pg_constraints

You do have to switch to sql export for the schema which is kind of a bummer because it's not supported as well by Rails as the "db independent" (aka lowest common denominator) schema.rb file.
We can SSH in to it!?
Mitch Kapor: The Future of Venture Capital
Dice man iPhone app?
I think too they have not done clearly the research. Yes, some aspects of the behavior of a person are in the genetics, but it's more the environment that models it.

Eg. in my family we have a strong tendency to identify new business opportunities, but this doesn't mean it's 100% because of the DNA.
It's more about about the environment (in my case family) type of culture and education.

Thanks for the name of the report. Can you send me a copy?
Superfreakonomics on climate, part 1
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here in lies the problem. Being good doesn't make money. Making no money means you have no power. Power gives the advantage to make more money and more power and the good get squashed.
> although strangely it was more expensive on FreeBSD

I think mutex ops in 5.3 depended on syscalls or so. I distinctly remember a commit reducing mutex overheads by moving more of it into userspace, somewhat like futex I guess.
Software Pirates in China Beat Microsoft to the Punch
Slackware on them all.
A person's everyday use of a broadband ISP e-mail address is only logical if they have a somewhat permanent consumer relationship with their broadband ISP.

Possible criteria for such security:

1) The user will remain at their current place of residence for an extended (multi-year) period of time. This excludes renters and other non-homeowners. It also excludes people without stable or established careers, as they could be required to relocate.

2) The user will pay their bill on time. (Otherwise, their e-mail address will go away.)

Additionally, having a broadband ISP excludes the rural American demographic.

People fitting in both 1) and 2) will be more likely to have positive credit scores for obvious reasons.
Yeah, I am aware of that fact. I also expected someone would say Azureus (now called Vuze). But if you check out the peers in your torrent client, you will see that the majority of users use utorrent.

Anyways it's not just about torrent client (which is not a too complicated piece of software) but other kinds of desktop and server applications, that are required to have low latency and small footprint. Rhetorical question: why all major browsers are written in C/C++?

Don't get me wrong, I like dynamic languages, currently I am working in python (besides C++), but the main advantage for me in those languages are rapid prototyping/development and lots of built in libraries, not the performance.
> What the fuck does that even mean?

As hilarious as I find this whole exchange to be, I think hipster generally means someone who rebels against the mainstream fads by adopting alternative fads, which is somewhat ironic to non-hipsters.

So the hipster looks at mainstream people wearing abercrombie and says, "Blech!", talks about how bourgeois and uncultured those people are, and then play into the same sort of thing with horn-rimmed glasses and 1920's vintage clothing, or whatever the counterculture-du-jour is that season.

People knock hipsters because of a general sense of irony and hypocrisy of people who put down trend-followers by following different trends, and then being elitist about it.

Me? I don't rightly care. Live and let live and what not. But I can see how the sense of elitism expressed by doing the same general thing would be offputting to some people.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-evolution11dec11,...

"In the last 5,000 to 10,000 years, as agriculture was able to support increasingly large societies, the rate of evolutionary change rose to more than 100 times historical levels, the study concluded."
I was looking up more about the current state of Chernobyl and this came up.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com
Exactly. This is android's strength. It does everything the iPhone does, but more. It gives devs and users more power, IF NEEDED. If you want, you can build the same user-friendly, no complex-options kinda apps. And if you want, you can build apps to please the geek crowd too. Its the perfect mixture of iPhone and windows mobile.
Banks traditionally borrow short and lend long (savings accounts fund mortgages for instance). That is the risk they assume and what we pay them for.

But in this case, they seem to be borrowing long and lending short (or at least borrowing short and lending short).

It's not like the government is going to go demand it's money back like someone with a savings account is free to do.

And really, would you take $200k to the bank and deposit it at 0.5% interest and then take out a $200k mortgage at 6%? You might if you were concerned about liquidity (unsteady income?) and could get at the $200k in savings when you needed to. But if you didn't have that flexibility, it wouldn't make sense.
I suspect the parents and the children are taller. I don't see how two separate populations of people evolving different physical traits over time is evidence that that height is not inherited. Your quote says, "Presently differ." Three or four generations of people have been born since 1948 when they split.

Furthermore, the ability for dna to selectively turn on or off particular genes in response to environmental conditions is itself inherited from the parents. I'm sure there were, in our past, some mutants who did not have the ability to turn on or off genes and perhaps they died.

It's easier to train monkeys to fear a stick than to fear a flower. It's because the genes allow it. Sticks look like snakes. If it's easier to learn to fear a snake, the monkey survives longer.
Bailout Helps Fuel a New Era of Wall Street Wealth
and also in some cases shows results based on your own browsing history
It's good to design for scalability first since it's harder, but if you don't do both eventually, someone else will.
well he paid a little bit on higher side. its normally less than 10k (i paid round 8k). Let me know in case you need contact who can do in India area.

in case you want a simple partnership then it can be done for 1k-2k but it has full liability
A good website, but hardly news. I am quite excited about PySide though.
I was wondering that too. I'm not extroverted, but highly entrepreneurial. Honestly, I'm not too big into new experiences, either. I just like solving problems and making money.
Well it is cheaper than Denmark. If you want the company to assume liability they have to have at least 160000kr - which is something like $32000. Not all of it has to be in cash, but there has to be enough to pay taxes of any income including the initial founds.

Now if you are prepared to assume the liability yourself it gets a lot cheaper, but at that point why start a company.
Well you can be good and make money, just not insane money.

Gives out loans to the local community and not sell the loans so you would be forced to take solid loans. Require anyone who is getting a housing mortgage to take a free finance class. Work with city hall to help with zoning laws, construction projects, and projects such as solar panel incentives. In other words be a force of good in the community.
People choose their behavior. You can be born with gifts and choose not to use them.

I do not deny that practice makes perfect, but the amount practice benefits the individual is largely due to the genes that power them. All things being equal, the one with successful entrepreneurial parents will be more successful than one without entrepreneurial parents.

That does not mean that someone without entrepreneurial parents cannot be a successful entrepreneur. The behavior is a choice. Someone with the inherited traits that may make them a successful entrepreneur may choose to be basketball player or doctor or computer scientist or mow lawns or clean houses.
Neither of my parents was self-employed but my grandmother ran a successful business in London for many years. My grandfather on the other side ran a pub his entire life.
I don't see how two separate populations of people evolving different physical traits over time is evidence that that height is not inherited.

The quotation is about expression of a trait (phenotype) and not about genotype, and thus not about "evolving different physical traits." There is no evidence that gene frequencies have changed at all in either place.
Why not?

US bonds are redeemed for US dollars. If the dollar becomes increasingly worthless, why would you want to hold the bond?

Granted, I think saying the dollar is "becoming increasingly worthless" is being hyperbolic.
Is this yahoo's answer to twitter?
For the business in this crowd:

Does this approach yield similar results for you? I could imagine iPhone applications spreading this way (much like those damn Facebook quizzes), but what about for more specialized markets?
My smart alec response was going to be "C++ - Object oriented C!" but I think that one's better.
Real mobile instant messaging with full presence notification would do it.
This is extremely old.

We use them to solve problems on ProjectEuler.net
He doesn't seem to have any understanding of how large banks actually make money. The customer/individual client facing side of it is just the tip of the iceberg of how the finance industry works.
In his teens, my grandfather moved to the city and started as a delivery guy for a bakery. He was soon leading a team of delivery guys--kinda like a union leader. When the owner of a bakery was doing a poor job managing his bakery, he asked my grandfather to become the manager. Later my grandfather would end up buying that bakery along with buncha others.

There is a widespread feeling in our larger family that you can never make enough to feed your family by holding a regular job.
Ask HN: How's business?
It occurs to me that the group here collectively knows more about the state of our industry than any trade publication, so: how's business? Have you noticed things improving? Planning a startup?

I don't see much startup news here and on other sites anymore, just lots of stories about the economy (duh).

Here hiring still seems to be trending down; I thought we'd be on the upswing by now. I monitor the job ads for a few different technologies and there are jobs but not a whole lot, and especially not the direct company listings that to me indicate a healthy market. Instead there are many cross-posted recruiter listings--lots of sharks all fighting over the same fish.

I also got pretty much the same story from a developer/blogger who knows many freelancers having a tough time right now.

What's everybody else seeing?
I think too they have not done clearly the research.

Who is "they"? Are you referring to the authors of the article I cited above,

ohnson, W., Turkheimer, E., Gottesman, I., and Bouchard, T. (2009). Beyond Heritability: Twin Studies in Behavioral Research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 4. 217-220.

published in quite a respectable peer-reviewed journal? Anyone who follows this research should be familiar with the name of Thomas Bouchard,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Bouchard,_Jr.

who is one of the most eminent researchers on human behavioral genetics. Eric Turkheimer,

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/

another of the co-authors, should also be well known to anyone who has done research in this field at all. But, yes, this latest paper makes clear than even highly heritable traits are very subject to environmental influences, as the quoted paragraph above says.

P.S. I might be able to find another work-around for obtaining the full paper for persons who post full contact information in their HN profiles.
A short-stacking bot should be an achievable goal. Playing short-stacked really simplifies the decisions: fold, or push all-in. Once you hit an all-in win, leave the table. Perfect strategy for a bot to use.

The problem is that it is also one of the most detectable patterns for pokerstars staff to catch onto.

(damn it... reading this post has made me want to play a sit-and-go instead of returning to my django project...)
Welcome for a huge opportunity, at Hyderabad, or Pune (as the article says).

Or is it going to be Bangalore?
This is a great story, but I think it might not be totally true.