skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a nutshell, nope. If your startup takes off, part of your traffic (the type-in kind) will go to the .com, where it'll be a parked page full of Google or Yahoo ads, and will make the domain owner money.

Move on and find something else.
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Yes, sorry but as another EU citizen, I have to say I'm not sure we should have accepted Romania into the EU before this problem is fixed.

Do you think it's helping against corruption or is any incentive now gone?
Do you think it's getting better with rising income?
(this was not meant against romanians it's just that EU institutions are pretty far away from EU projects and are usually terrible at detecting corruption)
What sort of keywords would one enter into a search engine to find such a library?
achtmal ärmer ... yes doesn't work in german, weird
The title is very misleading. It almost sounds like TSA paid some random blogger who was anonymously mocking people stopped by TSA. (which is not the case). The guy is an official TSA blogger. And I sense more exasperation in his entry, than mocking. Also "harassed" is a little harsh. The Airport security screening system is far from perfect. But the actual agents at the airport have no choice but to screen a person, when there is a match, or a near match on someone's name. They have been told to err on the side of caution (after the Underwear bomber security breach).

I request the person who posted this entry to edit the title and make it less sensational.
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Not so fast, developers interested in using this for store fronts should see their fee/pricing structure:
https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devpricing...

compare to PayPal:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-c....
Paypal tried making money on the float, but it didn't work. Amazon has a somewhat better chance of pulling that off since they don't have to ignite a fraud clusterfuck by giving out cash to get users like Paypal did. More importantly, their users have much less incentive to cashout since they know that the store of all stores will take it.

But the interest they could make on the float is nothing compared to the tithes they pay to the credit card companies, especially with the damn rewards cards. Just getting their prime customers to sign up for EFT, for normal Amazon purchases, has got to be worth a fuckton of money to them.
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I don't have four+ grand just sitting around to get started with satellite Internet. I spent nearly every penny to my name in order to buy the RV. I was unable to get a loan (banks hate startup founders with spotty income history; even with a mid-700s credit score and up to 40% down, no bank was interested in lending me money), so I had to pay cash and buy an older/smaller coach.

I have suspected for a little while now that most the US has good enough WiFi availability that I'll be able to get by without satellite. And, when I have 3G, my phone is an acceptable source of connectivity.
I don't think it's a patent issue. Too many other companies are using multi-touch in their products and it's a weak patent to start off with. I would guess that Eric Schmidt's involvement as a member of Apple's boar of directors and Google's involvement providing services for the iPhone starting in 2007, presumably as one of the first outside parties to see it, are the real problem here. Google must have realized how far ahead Apple was. They looked at the other companies in that space and figured Apple was a company they were ideologically compatible with. They were happy to offer search/maps on a product they could see was going to be a game changer. As a result they may have signed some non-competes to get on the iPhone early, or at least fear that Eric Schmidt's past involvement at Apple is a major legal risk and are playing it safe. It is a bit evil to be on the board of directors of one company, have a partnership with them, and turn around and use all the same technologies in your own product a year later. I imagine there are some sunsets on whatever arrangement Apple & Google have or Google, out of their own sense of fairness, is simply not pushing the issue yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the Google Voice/iPhone issue isn't related here somehow.

My guess is neither company is all that unhappy about the prospects of being the two dominant players in the SmartPhone industry in the future. They are very ideologically compatible companies. Apple poses no real threat to Google's core business, Google poses no real threat to Apple's core business. It's certainly a better arrangement than competing against Microsoft who is known to play dirty and is a more direct competitor to both companies in more ways.
I can't stand that argument. It ignores history and millions that died under colonial rule, or episodes like in China when the economy was ruined because the western powers wanted to pay for goods with drugs. Or india where british rule deindustrialized india and forced it to buy salt from a monopoly. Or southeast asia where rich kingdoms where plundered and basically forced to become agrarian exporters.
It also ignores the real growth that happended in the last 10 years in parts of africa.

The argument is basically racist, they don't know what's good for them, let's show them. It ignores that the western world has a 300 years development advantage concerning democratic institutions and the economy.
Maybe in So Cal, but in my short experience the Bay Area fell far short of my expectations. Especially compared to NYC, which imo has the most varied beautiful women in the country. I've been all over, but when I visited nyc for the first time I saw a hot chic of a different flavor, every ten steps. Not sure about Jersey, only been to EWR.

Contrast this with SF. I was there a couple days staying at the CLIFT a few months ago.I was sitting in my room and I decided to go out and see what the SF women were like. I went down to the bar and was presently suprised to see that it was packed...with men. I mean there might have been 2 girls for 50 guys.
maybe one of you could show at least one example of a "competent" nation conquering disfunctional ones before building your complete world view on it.
Purchasing power parity per capita per year?

(by this measure, Cameroon is 24 times as poor as the US, perhaps not what the article was going for)
Yes: that you rewrite history. I find it not very useful outside private changes in topic branches.
I reckon it would only be 50 lines of APL - provided you learn the hieroglyphics.
Fair enough. I hear this complaint a lot from people who came from warmer climates. Myself, I was born and raised in the Midwest, where we had a very normal distribution of seasons. So I find SF's weather very agreeable.
> I'm not sure we should have accepted Romania into the EU before this problem is fixed.

If I lived anywhere else, I'd have the same opinion :)

> Do you think it's helping against corruption or is any incentive now gone?

Actually, it's helping, since we are monitored and we get warnings and sanctions now and then ... one of the main concerns being corruption. I don't think that the end-result can be predicted though, we'll see ... although since we entered the EU, I can see things improving.

Unfortunately with this economic crisis, we're back to square one.

> it's just that EU institutions are pretty far away from EU projects and are usually terrible at detecting corruption

My impression is that they are pretty good :-) ... I've heard of reports more accurate than what is published in our media.
It's not just Estonia. I've heard that in England the mother gets 1 year (fully) paid leave. Same with Sweden and Germany. In Sweden it might even be two years (but my memory is failing me).

I would be willing to bet that at least a full year of paid maternity leave is quite standard in northern Europe.

Some countries (the Netherlands, for instance) even pay their citizens to have children.
"One conclusion to be drawn is that many countries were better off under colonial rule"

Umm no. That depends on defining "better off" as "ruled by invaders from another country but with some economic or social benefits(probably)".

Just try offering colonial rule to former colonies, who have experience of being "better off". People might joke about that, but an independent country's citizens would fight to the death against any attempt at colonization. Which means they do think they are better off without colonial rule. Unless you think millions of people don't know what is "better off" for them, your notion is hard to sustain logically.

Unless you want to volunteer to be colonized by China (say)? They seem to be good at economic development, which seems to be your metric for "better off".
That's a nice story.
Hey Joe. This is exciting! I have another friend (@catalyst) who pretty much lives in an RV year round, with a wife and two home-schooled kids. They've been at it for a few years now. Michael travels the country, consulting and giving speeches. If you ever breeze through Kansas City (wait till spring) look me up and I'll buy ya a beer and talk shop. We've exchanged disqus/twitter comments before.
Message sent. Also, thanks for the note about the email address; I've added one now. Cheers.
"Programming is a left-brain endeavor, designing utilizes the right side of the brain."

Sorry, that's a myth. Both engage both sides of the brain. Most of what we do involves both sides of the brain. There are plenty of books around busting the myth that 'some people are left brain and some people are right brained'. Programming involves much of what is associated with 'right brain thinking': leaps of intuition, random thoughts, synthesis, looking at the bigger picture. While 'designing' (by which I take you to mean 'aesthetic design'?) involves much of what is associated with 'left brain thinking': analytical, objective, rational, logic.

What many folk do not realise is that 'design' is mostly something technical that can be learned. It's a set of rules, guidelines, processes and techniques that can be taught and practised. It's not some magical, right-brain, talent you're born with, it is something that is learned, practised and honed.

Sass is, in my experience, no harder to learn than HTML or CSS. Much easier, in fact if you already know CSS. It's nowhere near as complex as, say, Javascript or PHP, which most web designers seem to be able to handle to some degree. If a web designer (as in someone who specialises in HTML, CSS, graphic design, typography, IA) finds it too hard or complex, they either need to practice more, or find another career, because they're going to be redundant pretty soon as CSS and HTML get more complex with the transition to HTML5 and CSS3.
Then what is 'using'? Please define it and think about the implications for domain name registrations at all levels.
We have a mixed (and reasonably good) system. You can go to any private clinic you want. It will be expensive, but a much more pleasant experience.

Or you can stay with the public system, but in this case you will definitely encounter bribes. The cause is pretty simple: the salaries in public health are way lower then they should be. Most pacients understand that and view the bribes as a normal form of compensation.

The system is mixed in more ways than one. Many good doctors work both ways. They spend time in the public hospitals to gather pacients, which they then bring to their private clinic.

Also the numbers mentioned by the grandparent seem a bit large. I'd say the average daily income is below $15. AFAIK, a good birth in a private hospital is around $1500, so he probably should have gone this way from the beginning.
The point of real-time is also not to watch a video.
The real thing is almost always better.
If you want to watch it real-time it can be a good idea to ask the author for more compatibility.

Also check this 64k, my favourite this year:
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=53643
What does Jesus Freak do? I have the developer G1, so it's already unlocked and root-accessible, though PdaNet runs as a user application and only needs USB debugging enabled to operate. I haven't had any compelling urge to hack my phone, since Android works very well out of the box (though seeing the Nexus One in action has me cursing the crappy GPS and navigation features of my G1; next paycheck, I'm upgrading).
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The bandwidth question has already been asked, but my next question is, what do you put as your permanent address for mail? Since you run a company, I assume your are sending everything to your lawyer or other service. Any suggestions or tips on that front?
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One thing, I think the name is misleading. Money advisor sounds like you give advice about money.
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Ha, I can't add my checking account because I don't have State-issued ID, just a US Passport.

Cashiers just love hunting for a birthdate on a passport when I buy beer, but I haven't been needing to do that lately since I've started getting my beer delivered to my door, ironically enough by Amazon Fresh, and they don't check ID (though they won't leave it on your doorstep).
"$120k per year is in the top 10th percentile or thereabouts -- it's at the very edge of what most people would consider "middle class"."

If 90% of the people are making less, I don't see how it can be considered "middle class".
"Now consider this: the $120K position is much more likely to be a management position, which, if done well, could create several $60K positions, lets say 3."

This does not follow. The task of the higher paid position might be to fire people, not hire them (especially in this economy).
Wow... I have the exact same thoughts about Seattle. Maybe the west coast just sucks that way.
Yes, I'm unclear as to why this story is considered "relevant". There are many startups that have skeletons in the cupboard like Yelp allegedly does
>>No really, we have a mostly working democracy and capitalism ... not helping much ;)

In a few decades this will probably be formalized and down to a science, with advice etc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_governance

But by that time, technical development will have created totally new sets of problems. :-)
It's something to keep in mind though when/if you do get the money. The thought of parking an RV in the middle of Yellowstone miles away from any people or cell towers and hacking away is, I must say, very appealing. One of these days...
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I'm pretty sure you could patent that!
What works very well for me is that I really want to go to my sports training in the evening. To be able to make the training, I have to get up at 0600, start work at 0700, finish at 1530 and drive back home. I can then relax a bit, eat at 1800 and start training at 2000. Any deviation from this schedule means there is a large chance I will hit heavy traffic and can't eat sufficiently long before the training. To prevent myself from feeling like a wreck when getting up at 0600, I'll have to got to bed at 2200. I have trainings on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, which also enforces the schedule.

Short version: have specific activities at specific times that you will miss (in two senses) if you fail to keep your schedule.
"except they don't use the word "intimidated", they say that they don't need html/css to get any more complicated, it's fine as it is."

I don't know who you've been observing, but in my experience as a web designer, with a bit over 15 years in the industry, is that web designers are constantly moaning about the limitations of HTML and CSS and hate the slow pace of change (or, to be more accurate, the slow pace of the demise of the IE browsers). They're also hungry to learn more and push the boundaries of current knowledge and practise. You only have to look at the coding section of Smashing Magazine, the most popular web design site online, to see that web designers are in no way the sort who are going to be intimidated or uninterested in Sass.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/coding/

In fact, the debate regarding the evolution of CSS on, and my impression is that there is serious pressure on CSS to change and evolve, judging by the comments here:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/10/css-wishlist-new-...
I've been doing this for two years, most recently in San Francisco. Might be some useful information in these links:

http://tynan.net/living-in-a-small-rv-introduction (Intro)
http://tynan.net/video-tour-of-my-rv (Video tour)
http://tynan.net/deluxerv (Remodel with wood / marble floors)

Tynan
This is both simpler, and more complicated than you'd think.

It is simpler, because there are a number of really good services that will accept mail on your behalf. I chose St. Brendan's Isle, and I pay less than $20 per month for all of my names (I get mail to both Joe and Ronald) and my business name. They scan the covers of all non-junk mail, and I can then request scans of the contents of the mail or physical forwarding (for a small per-piece fee). The fact that they'll simply recycle any junk mail I get, automatically, makes me wish I'd always used a service like this. I hate junk mail and I hate paper, so having everything shredded or digitized and never having paper except for what I explicitly ask for, is miraculous.

And it's more complicated than you'd think because the postal service requires a notarized form, along with multiple forms of ID (and those forms of ID beyond drivers license are strange, and I only had one of them, so it was a close call) in order to permit someone to open your mail. So you have to file a form for every name and business name that receives mail at the forwarding service.

My primary line of defense is to simply not get mail. I've switched to paperless statements from my bank and credit cards, I already had all of my other services setup with automatic withdrawal and such (and have canceled a lot of them). Even so, California still sends me crap all the time about payroll taxes and such.

There will be other issues. I need to read up on operating in California now that our address is in Florida. Jamie is still in California, and will remain a CA resident (while I'll be claiming Florida as my home this year, for no state income tax and lower vehicle registration fees). I don't know what we'll do about our various taxes for the business. We're a Delaware corporation, so that stays the same...but how we interact with California might change. I'll figure it out soon.

Another complication is that my new address is in a town I've never visited and in a state I haven't been to since I was a kid. I'll have to visit Florida at some point to register my RV and get my FL drivers license and voter registration. I should go visit the Wufoos, anyway, so this isn't a major hardship. But, it feels a little weird telling people my address and using it for billing address and such.
The return to peasantry is well under way.

Western civilization has every prospect of becoming an historical blip.
Looks like Apple has big plans for maps http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/30/apple-taking-their-maps-app-t...

Google probably wants to keep their role as the mapping service for iphone maps. This may be part of a way to keep a temporary balance between the mapping ambitions of the 2 companies.
You only hear the loudmouths because they're loudmouths. There's just as much gravitation towards the quiet gurus and mentors by those that seek them out.
I've read them all (I've been following your posts off-and-on since the Ghetto Indoor Pool). Your posts were a contributing factor in my decision to do this. I owe you a beer or three; hopefully we'll cross paths at some point in the not too distant future.
Where to after Morro Bay? I grew up just south of there in Pismo Beach and Oceano. There's an rv park in Oceano I always liked ... I think it's called Pacific Dunes. It's very secluded and right next to a large stretch of sand dunes.

Good post.
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I just saw something related in the news, apparently corruption in Afghanistan is on the scale of 23% of GDP. I can imagine that changing an economic system with that much corruption to something better is hard, since everyone depends on how things are now. Imagine what would happen if everyone's salary was suddenly cut to three quarters...

Actually, that's more or less what's happening in the Baltic countries now. The economic crisis has hit hard there, and the government is taking rather drastic measures to handle it.

Sources: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/20/Corruption-biggest... and http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4320882,00.html
> the salaries in public health are way lower then they should be

I understand that, but the way I view it ... it's not my fault they got into this. And while it's mostly a functional system (AFAIK, the US health system is horrible), it kind of bothers me that I pay lots of taxes without getting a return.

> AFAIK, a good birth in a private hospital is around $1500, so he probably should have gone this way from the beginning.

Well, my wife is having complications ... we first went to a private clinic, and the doctor consulting us just shook his head with no advice for us, other than "wait and see what happens" ... and in a private clinic, it's more like $2000 for a normal birth ... and I've heard of a case when the doctor demanded a bribe anyway.

So to get proper treatment in this case ... we've had to go to the hospital in Giulesti, which has some of the best doctors available.

Now, of course, the doctor we ended up with (Puia Sorin in case you are interested :)), which is renowned for "delivering babies" :) ... treats his patients equally, the only problem being that he's too busy to take on new patients (fortunately, there are still some decent people left).
Roman Empire? Pretty much all empires through history? Of course "competent" can be interpreted a lot of different ways.
How do you feel about progressive taxation?
They are very aware of how they are speaking, and in person, they are the most precise people you will ever meet. I recently had occasion to speak with a patent attorney, and not only did he explain the patent in plain English, but I was floored at how unambiguous he was. We spoke over the phone and he was able to guide several people through the details of the patent quickly and clearly.

I do agree though, the way these are written is almost completely unreadable. Almost like how we use English words in programming languages, but without the domain knowledge, it is meaningless.