skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt "kids" signing up for AOL are a large reason for the low score. The credit score is from people who wanted to check their score, and I would guess that the number of people <18 who tried to check it is almost negligible.

On the other hand, AOL, Yahoo, and MSN/hotmail all had low scores, which may have something to do with those emails being tied to an instant messaging account.
Am I the only one that finds occasional "cute" things on HN to be so great?
* They do allow for custom HTML to be added into parts of the site*

But I suppose adding your own ads will be supported when it's out of beta? Otherwise paying the price and having no way to generate revenue seems a little useless...
Ok, but if there is no hype, quality is not defined?
Thanks for the book tip. Now, assuming this article is clueless. It is well written, but ok, lest say its factually inaccurate. Where is the article that is accessible and has enough facts right?
I hope it turns out there's a market for Polaroid. Sometimes older, simpler product fade back in to popularity, much like how LPs are bigger now than they were 10 years ago. I'd like it if this were the case.
It will be a hipster fashion article more then anything else I think.
I have yet to see anything listed that fits the exact criteria listed, so I don't see why my thought on it should be downvoted. I'm also amused that my remark is the second remark and the one before it was the one indicating they would love to see something like this. In other words, suggestions for things that met part of the criteria didn't begin appearing until I remarked that I didn't expect to see any suggestions. I see that kind of thing a lot and I think it's not mere coincidence. In some sense, it appears to be a sort of "rebuttal" of my observation. But it doesn't change the fact that I still have not seen a website link listed that meets the full criteria listed. Listings include: print versions, radio versions, a tv show, once-weekly RSS feeds and a foreign publication, all of which are listed with provisos concerning what portion of the criteria they likely won't satisfy.
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should both go one sale by the middle of 2010

Is anyone else noticing a lot more typos in articles and blogs lately? Can these respected publications not afford copy editing anymore? The typo above is obvious and in the first sentence. How can no one have noticed and corrected it by now?
I don't like the word "hipster". It's meaningless. It really is.

I don't care who uses it. What I care about is that it exists. There's a special quality to Polaroid photos that I'd hate to see go, even if I'd understand if it did.
Competition is good. One small nit to pick -- The iPhone is capable of multitasking. It does it now. They just don't allow every app to do it. Battery life is bad enough as it is.

I wonder how Droid's battery drain will compare.

Also remember that most customers aren't geeks. They don't care if you can ssh and port forward from their phone.
I like http://www.democracynow.org/
if it is savage nonsense, i'd like to hear why.

maybe i could learn something from you
This for the most part assumes traditional disks and the problems with those. The problem with the RAMcloud is that it's expensive.

The problem is that memory is expensive, and when you can only put ~64GB in a 1U server it's a lot of rack space costs too.
For about the same money as 64GB of RAM you can buy 1TB of Intel SSD storage and that (6x160GB disks) will fit in a 1U server too. SSDs have very good random read performance and that is likely to get significantly better in the coming years. RAM is already fast enough for this type of job and the real problem is lack of capacity / high cost.

I suspect that the people like facebook who have relied on RAM mostly so far will start moving to SSDs to cut costs - they have already moved away from netapp for their storage to cut costs.
it is unlikely that any one phone will be an iPhone "killer" and i did not suggest that droid will be it

it is very likely that a high quality mobile OS that runs on many devices across many carriers will give iPhone a run for its money and i would bet that will be android
Steps to be taken to incorporate a new company in India
There are too many powerful people who would have had near real-time knowledge of the March 11 meeting, the insight to connect the dots, and the means to cover their tracks. I'm guessing it was a consortium that made the bet on Bear, thus spreading around the protection. We'll never know.
This looks really interesting. Anyone have any experience with this, or something similar? A couple of questions come to mind

1. How dependable is the data using this device?
2. Is the website a walled garden, or can I get the data out to consume in my own way?

Anyone?

[Update - The FAQ page on their site [http://www.fitbit.com/faq] answered the second question. It seems they will have APIs to fetch most of your data]
FWIW, I think this author is hitting around the nail, even if not on target, and his emotional style of writing can further bring his credibility into question. However, I wouldn't say the article is clueless or fictional, far from it. I found myself agreeing for the most part with another article from this author about economic bubbles and Goldman Sachs (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_grea...) and I'm someone that both predicted and warned of our impending economic trouble as early as Nov '07 (provable screenshots). I recommend watching Money as Debt (5 part series so click at each end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIAvdJvCes&NR=1
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> As the price caves further, and the rumors persist, existing owners start to worry, and decide to get out before it gets worse. Now the downward spiral is in full force. Everyone wants off the sinking ship.

Can you explain how the company goes out of business as a result of this? Suppose the company is basically sound. Through stock manipulation its share price goes down to 1 cent. But the company continues doing whatever it does (and can purchase its own shares back at a bargain price to boot).
>> the ads, just like this Droid ad, aren't really dealing with real-life situations

So you think that being able to make calls on the phone is irrelevant to the typical user of the mobile phone?

Biased much?
> I must have missed the bread queue at the bakery this morning

It's a digital queue now: One in nine americans on food stamps: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55270Y200...

The depression created certain visuals that have no parallel today, but the experiences of ordinary people might not be so different. The depression was not bad at all if you still had your job, which over 3/4ths of people did. (Government favored wage supports over full employment.) Only a minority of people really suffered.

The depression was an era of luxury supercars and massive new estates. Large numbers of business elite made fortunes or still had great wealth from the 20s.

Today may look much more like 1930 than you realize.
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If the stock is borrowed it is a covered short.

The problem is with naked shorts where you sell without even locating. Or when you put 'three dots' (as the Goldman Sachs compliance officer remarked in a conference) in the text field to report where you have located or borrowed the shares.

In short (pun intended) selling without borrowing proves destructive for the price of shorted shares.
there are all kinds of customers. android's true strength is that it's not tied to one brand, one manufacturer, one feature-set, and one network.

iphone's multitasking is hobbled. with my G1 i can run mytracks and go jogging, taking calls, photos, and using the web browser along the way. when i get home i get a map of my route with time/elevation/speed data. and that's without any privileged api.
It would be better to move to something more secure, not less.

Barcode you could just photocopy/reproduce trivially.
i know it's an old letter. what i said was based on what i heard gates say last month. he "continues" it today, in addition to doing it back then.
I like to think that I'm capable enough to select which applications to run at the same time to do what I want without sacrificing too much battery life.

Customers do/will care when their friends show them what they can do with Google Voice that they'll never be able to do on their iPhone.
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Don't read this. You'll get sucked into the rest of his excellent posts on h.264 encoders and x264 development.
Could it be that the lack of support for "low level" stuff like uint is holding Java back on embedded systems?
Well, Versace shades made it back, thanks to celebrities and their groupies. If a famous person is spotted by TMZ with a Polaroid camera, then it's ON.
I just got mine a couple days ago. It's a fantastic piece of hardware. Haven't used it enough yet to really know how well it works.
The Droid ad don't mention making phone calls. Not once. Way to RTFA.

I'd argue, actually, that most users don't care much about their phone calls. Phones aren't used for talking nearly as much as they're used for other things. But either way, neither Apple nor Verizon is making ads that mention phone calls whatsoever.
Because one is a monopoly and the other one is not.
It's perfectly legal.

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-why-matt-taibbi-i...
That I can definitely agree with. I don't think Android's competing directly with the iPhone or its, though. The people using it are trying to.

I was reacting more to the TechCrunch article you linked to, neatly titled "Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal", which opens with "Make no mistake, this is Android’s flagship product, and the first phone that will pose a significant threat to Apple’s iPhone."
>>neither Apple nor Verizon is making ads that mention phone calls whatsoever

Have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NKnDRPFKU
which HTC Magic did you try out? I have the one with the larger RAM and I find the performance to be really good.
I think we have outed a hipster.
I don't know much about this area, what's notable about this?
Anyone know if it keeps db/schema.rb in sync?
I guess its a addendum to "Why so few sw product startups in India"
How does this procedure compare to similar procedures in other parts of the world? Better? Worse?
Hadoop is amazing for when you need to run huge batch-processing jobs that would otherwise be too taxing to use on a relational database.

I've been working a lot with Hive lately--Facebook's creation that lets you basically type SQL and the Map/Reduce jobs are automatically generated. Hive vastly speeds up development, as you don't need to write custom Map/Reduce jobs to do the tasks you had in mind when working with straight Hadoop.

If you're looking to learn more about Hadoop and Hive, Cloudera puts together an awesome starter kit available here:
http://www.cloudera.com/distribution
I don't know, but it's weird to single out India, you might as well have that article for every other country in the world with a couple of variations.

India is one of the bigger IT players though, so maybe that's the reason.
What's wrong with cute? Some of us occasionally need a break from pounding out code.
Much of this content is lifted from other sites and articles, without attribution, with little or no value added commentary or presentation. I'm not sure why I'm offended by this, but I am.
This explains the stupid bureaucracy in India. Doing a startup walking to the illiterate/barbarian government office is such a pain in the ass in India. To do complete all the formulates might take at least a month if you are foreigner then its endless.
I'm quite interested in how many of you (self-employed types) have parents that were self-employed. My great grandad owned a tabacco factory in Cuba and my grandfather was an entertainer and writer. My dad had a variety of businesses from schlepping Encyclopedia Brittanica to real estate broker and my mom owned/operated a bridal gown shop. None of my parent's ventures were particularly succesful but they definitely had the drive.
Actual steps I followed to incorporate.

1. Pay a Chartered Accountant INR 25K(~500USD). SIgn some papers.
2. Wait a week for papers to arrive
3. Receive papers of incorporation.
>Java: The JRE on my system is 98 megabytes, so a Java application to run on Win32 will be 98 megabytes plus the application code. Even if you compile your app with GCJ, libgcj is 33 megabytes.

> Now, you could argue that the size of this stuff isn't relevant because it isn't specific to your hypothetical Common Lisp implementation of BitTorrent, but could also be used by whatever other Common Lisp programs the user has installed. But you would be treating a very-low-probability event as if it were normal.

I am pretty sure the vast majority of users already have the JRE installed, and if they don't it's a download that's around 15mb.
All we know is that from a sample of 20k scores those with Yahoo email addresses (which could well be 10k or 2k, we don't know) had a lower average than the rest. It says nothing about the whole population of Yahoo/Hotmail/etc. because we don't know how the email addresses were obtained.

It would be very easy to bias this sample by showing ads about finding your credit score to different demographics within each mail provider.
Good thing credit scores can't be coorelated with my personal email domain...
I failed to find anything related to 'hive' there.

One thing completely puzzles me about how hadoop is positioned, on the one hand there is this accent on reliability and scalability, then on the other there is the single meta data node.

How does that work in practice, surely there must be some way to have multiple meta-data stores ?
Since this is on Verizon, the big question for me is "Will Droid have built-in wifi?"
Hah, well if that's illiterate/barbarian then I'm mightily impressed by the 'barbarians'. Digital signatures, web based corporate registration. A lot of 'civilized' countries could take an example or two from that.

A month is absolutely nothing.
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When I hear this sentiment, about this particular topic, or many others, I'm always reminded of Aikido http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido

"Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on"

Rather than lamenting Wall Street's unproductive money games and doing nothing about it, we could embrace the fact that these tools exist in the current economic climate and we could use these tools to generate the capital we need to further the goals of more productive pursuits.

Maybe VCs like Fred Wilson who have both financial leverage and disdain for shenanigans (technical term) could use capital generated by playing Wall Str's funds shuffling game to build meaningful companies who create things and create a more sustainable and entrepreneurial base on which to build an economy.

Use this tool against itself.

No? Naive?
For you ;)
> Last time I checked, the Constitution covered the government, not college campuses.

Many college campuses are arms of govt. The welfare department isn't allowed to tell you what you can and can't say to get aid, same for colleges and education.

> Also, campaign finance reform is not about suppressing ideas;

I was going to write "Never confuse intent with effect." but then I remembered that both the intent and effect of campaign finance laws is that I can't make political speech without obeying certain restrictions.

Note that those restrictions don't apply to some other entities, so it's discriminatory as well. Feel free to explain why my political speech should be disadvantaged.

> Not sure what you mean by "hate speech" laws. Other than slander/libel and inciting "imminent lawless action", you can say or write pretty much anything you want.

Not even close.

It's my understanding that http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_1201-1250/sb_12... passed.

There are others in other states and an effort to get comparable federal legislation.
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C++ is marketed by Stroustrup as a multi-paradigm programming language and this was its design goal from the beginning. Generic programming was a design goal, not a side effect.
Regular programming capabilities are abundant with the CRT and OOP.

In short, all your statements are incorrect.
Amazing hack, but not very ethical.
The UK Guardian used to be so noteworthy for its typos that it was nicknamed the Grauniad... this isn't new.
What the fuck does that even mean? My saying I don't think hipster is really a meaningful term, that makes me a hipster? Because hating hipsters makes you a hipster, too. Hipsters hate hipsters. But if I liked hipsters, then I'd have to be a hipster, because hipsters are so loathsome that only a hipster would love a hipster. It's a derivative and pathetic version of the Red Scare.
Insider trading is actually a form of fraud against the entity that owns the information.

For example, Google is allowed to trade on the fact that it's doing biz with Intel. Google's employees are not.
I have. It's not a Droid ad.
Does this judgement apply to all forms of getting paid in advance? If not, what makes stocks different?
I develop in both languages and I don't find them similar at all. If you modify a python module, for example, how do you easily re-import that module in your REPL? Python caches modules once imported and doesn't let you easily re-import a module that's been changed, right? And how do you modify a function and hot-swap it in while the rest of your code is still running?
I think North Carolinians might disagree.
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Not only will it bring back an analogue version of the original Polaroid One, the most popular model of the instant camera, it will also manufacture a digital version.

Is the "Polaroid Two" instant digital camera made by Polaroid imaginary, or something?

http://www.polaroidtwo.org.uk/
"C++ is hard. Because it's made to solve very hard problems."

What the hell does that mean? If it's Turing complete, it'll solve your hard problems. I don't understand how making a language inconsistent and obtuse makes it a good tool.

So you spend a year figuring out all the gotchas that will make you leak and corrupt memory. Great, now it's time to start getting some work done!
everything is heritable, including that which controls our responses to nurture. Everything.
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> In this case, taxpayers handed over money to the government on the understanding that it would be used for the public good, to support common infrastructure and institutions.

Actually, our "representatives" did the handing, with the understanding that they'd be taken care of.

If you want to blame someone, blame the folks who did the handing. Unless you want to argue that they're blameless due to incompetence.

Of course, in the end, it comes back to us. We selected this clown college and gave them whiskey and car keys.
I was very excited about this, however they only ship within the US at this stage.

Startup founders, remember that there is a world full of customers outside of the US.
To put it another way, Spinning disks can do ~1MB/sec random writes, SSDs can do about ~40Mb/sec and with only 3 (pairs if RAID) of disks you can saturate a 1GBit network connection.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=2...
Mother attempted to start a business twice / failed.

Aunt attempted to start a magazine / failed.

Grandmother ran her own hair salon / sold it.

Grandfather started and sold 2 gas stations, owns an auto-repair shop currently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fed#Goals
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A form of "public option" bank does exist: a credit union.
As would some Virginians, Floridians, and Texans.
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I very much doubt it. Trading which is the nearest to being an entrepreneur is very recent possibly just around the time of the Phoenicians or a bit earlier. Highly unlikely that this was adequate time for selective pressures to have any real effect on the human genome. In addition most of the time most of the profits from such trading went to the Kings and Nobles.

However, certain traits that define entrepreneurs are probably hereditary (risk taking, opportunity seeking etc..)
As far as I understand (from watching krugman-talks on youtube) the tragedy of argentina was that its debt was in $, which skyrocketed (as expressed in national currency) due to inflation. In case of US, external debt is in national currency, thus inflation might not have the same effect.
He seems to argue both that the fall of Bear Stearns was inevitable, and that it's impossible that a smart outsider could simply have figured that out and bet against them, therefore the naked short must be due to insider trading. You can't have both.
=) Fortunately he's not learned that one yet.

He has learned that when I come near the terrarium, I'll open it, so when he wants to come out, he will come up to the screen and look for the opening. I did not expect a tiny reptilian brain to be capable of learned behavior, it was a nice surprise.
There's a lot of spin in this article.

The first part with all the stats? Something like only 27% of Indians with Visas wanted to return, yet the article cites this as an indication that "it's not a visa issue". In general, the first part is entirely self-selected, as the article admits.

We then move to Indian students, who presumably haven't been here for long and haven't had all those jobs from the first part of the article. So it's an entirely different demographic.

If you're going to hang out with a group that wants stats to show large numbers of citizens returning home that's fine, but don't do it to the point that the information you are sharing is tainted (or worse, slanted)

I'm happy we have immigrants here doing IT work, although I worry about taking the best and brightest from other societies. So I'm happy also if some of them want to return home. Any kind of cultural mixing -- whether by new immigrants coming here or old ones returning home -- is a good thing for everybody involved.

But this article is not such a good source of information
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This isn't really news... Qt has been around sense 1992
Grandfather was a pretty successful tailor.

The generation after that one son another tailor.
From a recently published research journal article announced on another thread on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838534

Johnson, 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.

"Moreover, even highly heritable traits can be strongly manipulated by the environment, so heritability has little if anything to do with controllability. For example, height is on the order of 90% heritable, yet North and South Koreans, who come from the same genetic background, presently differ in average height by a full 6 inches (Pak, 2004; Schwekendiek, 2008)."

(Alas, now the pay wall workaround for that article is no longer available. I have a complete copy of the article, obtained from one of the authors.) It is generally true that nearly all human behavioral characteristics show greater concordance among closely related individuals than among presumptively unrelated individuals (which is what "heritability," a pre-Mendelian concept, is about). This is not at all to say that young people couldn't be trained to be entrepreneurs, and thus made rather than born.