skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using countries submitted in this discussion:

Top penetration of broadband:
1. Netherlands
2. Norway
3. Germany
4. Hong Kong
5. Canada
6. Israel
7. UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

Best countries for small business based on regulatory climate
1. Singapore
2. Hong Kong
3. UK
4. Canada
5. Norway
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/smallbusiness/best_countries...

Lowest corporate tax rates
1. Hong Kong
2. Russia
3. Chile
4. Singapore
5. Poland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world

Countries with the least debt (asked by the OP below)
1. Singapore
2. Chile
3. Poland
4. India
5. China

Top quality programmers (oDesk)
1. Hong Kong
2. Israel
3. Finland
4. Poland
5. France
6. Chile
http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/outsourcing_countries...
PDAnet works wonderfully for me. It's free, and it's really simple to set up.

Install it, then create an ad hoc network on your computer.

When you launch PDAnet, it's going to scan for available ad hocs; select the one you just created.

At least on my apple machine, as soon as I connect, my box recognizes that the iPhone can be used as a gateway to the internet.

Very slick :)
i use http://omnis.com for many domains - they're starting to put a bit of upsell in the process too, but it's not half as overbearing as godaddy. they also seem to be holding prices steady - i didn't notice a big jump recently, and the renewals are the same price - there's not (yet?) a deep discount then hiked price on the next year.
For me, liquidity would be a concern. I don't think I would want to invest at FB at the currently quoted 25$ billion level if I had to leave my money there for a very long time; so much can change, and I share some concerns about the company's future, at least where valuation is concerned.

The question here though, is about an IPO. I think that the markets would eat up FB, but it's dicey to try to time such things -- have a look at Tesla, for example! -- and easy to be correspondingly burned. I presume that if we follow this question to its logical conclusion, assuming Facebook has an IPO sometime in 2011, I don't know I'd want to take a bite - I think it would get overvalued in the public markets, especially at first, and I am not sure about long-term growth. Huge potential, but can they execute? I would want more diversification, and I wouldn't want to buy a small enough chunk of FB to feel safe about that investment; wouldn't be much point. I would be happy to have it join a roster of other more broad tech investments of mine, though, all things considered.

Interesting to see the contortions FB has to make to stay under the 500 # to avoid publicly filing with the SEC ; )
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Presumably, the Apple Design Premium Surcharge.
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The best interpretation I've seen is that the entire movie is an allegory about movie-making. The "shared dream" is very analogous to a movie.

Stokes' interpretation doesn't look deep enough. He attempts to figure out what is really happening before, after, or even during the movie. I find more use in interpretations that try and figure out what something means and what the underlying message the writer/director is making (if any).

Stokes focuses too much on plot and not enough on meaning. Reminds me of people who think the Six Sense is awesome (pretty much everyone) because of its amazing plot twist. But that's all it really had--not too much meaning. A movie worth analyzing shouldn't just stand on plot alone. Thankfully Inception has both an awesome plot and some decently profound meaning.
I've spent time in New Zealand and quite like the country. Just looked at the immigration policies again and they seem pretty reasonable.

How have the politics of New Zealand at the national level changed over the last decade? More or less business friendly?

At the time of my visit it seemed taxes were high but government was less corrupt than in most countries.
Assholes and sociopaths succeed because they are very efficient at doing the things normal and nice people may find hard or wrong - but which nevertheless lead to business success. The overall issue I wonder about, is that if sociopaths wind up at the tops of corporate ladders, is the culture they set, while useful, in fact counterproductive.
Apple's PDF code is all its own; it's not provided by Adobe. (Which explains why Preview sometimes renders differently than Acrobat does.)
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Touche...
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Thanks for that. Seems Hong Kong is doing well on those lists, with Singapore close behind and Chile making a (possibly) surprise appearance.

I appreciate the research. I'm still working my way thru the response to the original question.
GPS tends not to work terribly well 1000m underground.

They use a combination of laser scanners following the contours of the wall and triangulating from fixed reflective prisms. Sometimes around crushers/trains you use buried electric cables or magnets for precise sensing.

Surface mining uses GPS and lasers, in the bottom of an open pit GPS requires a bunch of expensive repeater stations because of the poor sky view.
Are you associating good design with build quality?

I've had my MBP for three years. In that time, I had to replace the topcase (keyboard/touchpad) conveniently after one year warranty expired. I found a replacement on Ebay, however I lost most of my function keys and two-finger touch on touchpad. My battery is toast and doesn't last five minutes without adapter. I've had to replace my adapter. My screen died about 2.5 years in, this was covered by warranty. Also the bezel around the screen has cracked on both sides, so screen is supported by the back shell and wobbles slightly.

The OS is far better than alternatives though so I suffer with it all.
There are lot of cases where the query will indeed be complicated. Reports, for example. I have seen SQL queries reports which are quite complex, making sure that such SQL is always qualified with WHERE customer_id=5 is a maintenance nightmare.

There is also the customer perception thing, as petethomas said in this thread.
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No problem. I am looking to establish a foreign beachhead myself. If you ever pick one, and go through with your decision, I hope you would post your experience here.

EDIT: I found a better link here for ease of business:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/

as well as tax rates:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/ExploreTopics/PayingTaxes/Detai...
Lord Black is not a Canadian patriot. A patriot would not have given his citizenship up for power and dubious honours. There are things that COULD have been done without forcing the loss of his citizenship, such as honourary knighthoods. Instead, he decided he wanted something explicitly prohibited by Canadian law.

I believe that Conrad Black committed fraud; I also believe he was railroaded by the American legal system. It's good that he can fight this because he has money and powerful friends, but America should do better. I find it interesting that Black decries the public defender system (and it IS broken) but offers no ideas for what could fix or replace it.
Has anyone noticed that most of these product shots are actually of MBPs? They didn't even bother to change the screenshot of Aperture or the box sitting next to it. The build quality looks much worse in the real shots:
http://www.qingting.biz/index.php?action=product_detail&...
Aaaaand it breaks both FaceTime and MMS...
"It certainly does jack up the maintenance overhead."

A bit of automation would solve this problem,as far as I can see it.

"I'm really curious if this is in fact a common practice out there in the wide world."

It is. I've worked for companies which do this, and have scaled with Oracle for several tens of thousands of customers (=databases).

Also, complex reports that require hand-coded SQL becomes that much simpler. (Compared to having all customers' data in a single database)
> I'm just waiting for the first fully autonomous weapon which combines signals intelligence and killing -- flies around listening for a specific IMSI, then drops down on the target and blows up.

The road to Skynet is paved with these kind of desires.
Patents = Industrial Revolution? Not so much...
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Anyone else get bored with it after the first season? I mean, it's an ad agency, there's only so many plot-lines before it just became a soap opera. I also didn't understand how the main character hardly said a word, yet people seemed to think he was interesting, the writing wasn't very sensical.
I love the response. See, I don't care about "keeping up appearances" or anyone thinking that I'm "a nobody"-- in hong kong. I'm not going to be trying to persuade anyone in hong kong of anything, other than technical points at meetups, maybe.

But $6k to have a business and bank account and be set up, and it sounds like you can do it in a day, that is valuable. That is damn good compared to many parts of the world, especially if speed is important.
I need to be a Singaporean or a permanent resident to be eligible for the grant. Anyone have an ideas how much hard is it to get permanent residency?
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Here's to hoping Ubuntu can catch up.
Can't wait for them to release the unlock... :-\
Interesting, but labeling them "storage" is about as far down the path of false advertising as you can get. They're just saying that by reducing a commercial freezer's temperature by a fraction of a degree can result in serious energy savings if the grid is feeling a squeeze.

Storage means you can get energy out of it, not simply make it use less. But yeah, a smart grid is effectively necessary for any possibility of improvement.
And you don't have to be the falafel salesman. You can be the supplier who supplies that salesman, AND all his competitors.
English is common among educated people of our generation, rarely spoken at all by elders. In malls, business locations, or downtown pubs/clubs you won't find any particular problems. In terms of public service there's a pressure in this field due to hosting Euro2012, municipal police takes courses for that, etc. There's lot for improvement but it's constantly getting better.

Depending of the available provider in the area 6-10Mbps is about 15-20Euro/month, if building is covered by a nice cable network for the same 20 you can as well have 20Mbps+. You sign 1-2yrs contracts. Public wireless coverage is poor.

Real estate - rent? take my prices only inicatively, I'm not into real estate, they're from a quick search ~~80m2 in the city centre goes from 700Euro/mth in an average building to 1000-1500E for a more fancy location. Places uptown with good transit (20-25min subway to centre) are a bit cheaper and there's more to choose in quality, f.ex. a modern building or an old one in a cosy quiet place. I'm talking about west riverside, eastside is much cheaper, but offers less in terms of neighborhood quality or transit.

Public transport is 20Euro/mnth, gas is currently 1.1-1.2E/liter.

If you consider moving here and got any questions, u got my email in my profile, feel free to drop a line.
Officially, certainly not - I don't know of any country where you're allowed to work on a tourist visa. But in reality, you're sitting in a cafe with a laptop. Who can tell if you're building a web app or checking Twitter? I mean, you go into most actual start ups' offices during business hours and you still can't tell ;)
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Certainly. And if that's part of the test, then by all means do that.

But if it's not, you might be artificially deflating some fantastic people because a) they guessed wrong, and b) you're not aware of your implicit expectations. Be aware, it's in your best interest in many many ways.
The best interpretation I've thought of after watching it (and talking with my wife for hours after) was that Saito is the architect and he wanted to get back at Cobol Industries twofold:

1) By getting Cobb to convince Fisher Jr. to feel like his daddy loved him and wanted him to be his own man and dissolve the business to start his own empire and

2) Get back at Cobb for trying to steal his secrets for Cobol by _incepting_ the little seed of "you want to go back home to your kids" in his head and making that his obsessive ends to justify all means. Saito, meanwhile, was willing to wait the dream equivalent of _eighty years_ to exact this revenge. Then, as DiCaprio fulfills his promise and gets Saito in his 80-year Limbo, Saito fulfills his promise, architects a layer where Cobb does reunite with his still-young-as-Cobb-remembers-them children, and the spinning totem wobbles but doesn't actually fall, then the "I N C E P T I O N" credits roll, because Saito ran the inception on Cobb.

Ta-da!
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No no no... "inception" happens when they plant an idea inside a safe/vault inside someone's dream (inside someone's dream, inside someone's dream), rather than extracting one. Cobb doesn't undergo inception, he just works out his problems as the plot develops with some help from Ariadne. Why? Because it would be a dull and empty plot if all these characters were brought together simply to perform a job. Furthermore the film makes clear that Cobb learns to reject he projection of his wife, so it makes no sense for him to then embrace projected children instead at the end. The children represent reality not just in physicality but in the emotional truth that underscores the film. That's why he spins the top then ignores it soon as his children appear - they're a more certain anchor for reality.
If the commercial freezer is well-insulated, doesn't making it slightly colder now allow you to draw less power for a while afterwards as the room slowly rises back towards its acceptable peak temperature? Nothing harmed by taking already frozen things and making them a bit colder for a while. Certainly it is less efficient than just maintaining the desired temperature, but probably more efficient than just throwing away all that wind energy.
Obligatory code that runs the plot.
http://github.com/karthick18/inception
One weakness I saw with MagCloud's pricing model is they do not seem to allow the publisher to set a price that is lower than the sum of the per-page costs. So you can't directly subsidize the price for the consumer, say with your advertising revenue. They currently require you to pass the full page-based cost on to the person who buys a printed issue. So large page counts make the issue price pretty high, possibly pricing you out of many markets because of it.

This inflexibility may be the cost of getting the overall convenience of the service, but it's the biggest disadvantage I've seen so far when considering it for my own business ideas.
> Also, Doner Kebab (Turkish/German fusion street food) is a reason to stay all in itself.

If this is a major concern, it can also be found in Vienna :)
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Did anybody hear about jailbreakme before this announcement?? I mean, we hear all about geohot when he says the word "jailbreak" and nobody (meaning the tech press) saw this super easy, extremely accessible, fast, computer-free (not even a phone restart!!) hack come? Call me skeptic but there are good reasons to be.
Every language has a catalyst that pushes it from obscurity into mainstream use. Whether it be a project (Ruby on Rails), a programmer (Linus Torvalds -> C), a company (Google -> Python), or a library (Boost -> C++), there is always a force behind adoption.

Most languages undergo a "fad period", where it's hip and cool to write in it and people just do it because other people do it. Clojure is going through this right now, as are Scala and (arguably) Haskell.

We'll just have to see. I honestly hope Haskell becomes popular. Judging by http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/haskell.php, performance really isn't an issue. It's more of just an issue of programmer adoption and a willingness to throw yourself out there to spend some time to learn how to think outside of the imperative programming box.
True, hadn't really thought of that approach.

Still, though, it's all about reducing demand, not modifying supply. Flywheel storage can literally pump juice into the grid, temporarily raising the net energy level (yes, by reducing it earlier, similar to the freezer). And because of that quality there's a huge potential market, because those high-stress times are when electricity costs the most.

I guess my point is that, with flywheels, you can make money through nothing but the power grid. With a freezer, you can only reduce how much you lose.
Could it be that the mean number of reports in a week is in the 2.5-3.5x10^x range?

Why would he look at the leading number instead of the trailing number?

He really ought to provide the exact dataset that he's using to generate the graphs.
The safe doesn't have any special significance. What is significant is that Cobb takes the totem which is at rest and puts it in motion. Presumably when Mal goes back to retrieve her totem she finds it to be spinning, thus causing her to question which reality is real. She could have stored it in a cardboard box, it would have made little difference.
I'm Brazilian, and I was born and live in São Paulo, I have visited Brazil (where I live), Argentina and Chile, so I think I can give an opinion.

Well, São Paulo (the Brazilian state) is a good place to start a company, it does have a large talent pool if you're willing to pay for the best (there are a lot of mediocre people working here), the majority of the best universities in the country are in the state, and it does have a decent infrastructure, though the government regulations are a mess for new business and not much people understands English as they should, São Paulo (the city) is expensive to live compared to other tech centres in the State (São Carlos and Campinas).

There are also other Brazilian states with a vibrant tech sector, the three Southern states, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, but São Paulo alone probably have much more tech companies than they all combined.

Buenos Aires is a better city than São Paulo for me, the infrastructure is relatively better, but I think that the Argentinian State is even worse to business than the Brazilian, some of the same problems that you find in Brazil you'll also face in Argentina.

Santiago is like Buenos Aires and São Paulo, although a bit smaller, the Chilean State is much more business friendly than other South American governments and the living is cheaper than São Paulo or Buenos Aires, but I do not know much about the working conditions for tech companies there. But I do know that it's easier to get foreigners to work in Chile than in other South American countries, and their taxes are much smaller compared to Brazil or Argentina.

EDIT: In addition, there's a growing start up scene in São Paulo and Buenos Aires, once again I'm not sure about Santiago, it does not have a tech sector so developed like São Paulo or Buenos Aires, but I think the government there is probably trying to change that.
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Actually a decent post and discussion.
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And lose massive amounts of power in each direction. With a better grid in the first place, and controls to prevent this, the loss is far smaller (down to "nothing", ideally).
I hope this was meant to be funny :)
"And then he woke up" is the ending to every 5th graders first ambitious story. I don't buy it.

I did think the little dream machine in the movie looked like game console. You and several of your friends slide in the IV to play a round of, what exactly?

I thought the movie portrayed a pretty decent game already, just getting from one level to the next. More:
http://www.kmeme.com/2010/07/inception-game.html
I must be parsing this incorrectly because it looks like you're arguing that C was obscure before Linus used it.
Why wouldn't it be legal? It would treat schizophrenia and parkinson's as well and I've never heard of the FDA banning any current popular nootropics.

The article isn't well written but basically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynurenic_acid is bad and DECREASING it improves cognition by increasing activity at the alpha 7 nicotinic receptor. Alpha 7 nicotonic agonists are under HEAVY research at the moment as nootropics and treatment for schizophrenia\parkinson's. I'd say theres a good possibility there already is a safe\legal research chemical with alpha7 nicotinic stimulation out there or one already under trials.
I hope this leads to more transparency by the US government to it's citizens.
I ran into the flipped camera issue with skype on my asus laptop. Skype doesn't use that library, so an easy way to solve it is to LD_PRELOAD, like explained here: http://aeminium.org/slug/software/tips/skype-asus-flipped.ht...

A quick googling will show you several pages with the same workaround.
this is a statistical blog post written by someone who has no idea how to do statistics. and even when told how to do it properly by a commenter, fails to accept the simple and overwhelming conclusion. why is this on the front page?
I believe you are mistaken. The film never shows Mal returning to the safe to find the top (why would she?). The safe is part of her mind which, if you will, contains the IsReality boolean variable. Cobb changes the IsReality variable by finding its location. Then it's possible for him to convince her that they should kill themselves and wake up. But inadvertently he destroyed her mind because subconsciously this switch had been flipped.

Of course the safe had special significance! Safes were of crucial importance throughout the film. (you might ask yourself why it wasn't in just a cardboard box)
Of a much different sort usually. With marking requirements, often without non-competes when you show that's untenable. AKA a reasonable agreement rather than insane amorphous clauses which are vague and overreaching.
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In what real-world instance/s would you prefer a doctor id column in Employee and Hospital tables to junction tables?

You'd either end up with the same employee or hospital records listed multiple times with different doctor ids (lots of repeated data), or with a field in each employee or hostpital record containing a list of doctor ids (searching by or joining on doctor id requires less simple SQL).

I would think the obvious answer to someone familiar with relational databases would be the OP's expected answer - normalize all three tables, then use junction tables to enable many-many relationships.

What am I missing?
> Also, as suggested in the comments, I used a chi-square goodness-of-fit test to see if the deviation is statistically significant, but it was not; with a p-value of 0.2303. Meaning we would fail to reject the null hypothesis: the observed data were a good fit for a Benford process. That said, the p-value is not so large as to suggest total adherence.

Welcome to stats 101. If you get p > 0.05, it means your test failed to tell you anything. Which means your test failed to tell you about the likelihood of tampering.
Some other funny quotes from the article:

"It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4 kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines, delivering performance at least ten times that of other network browsers."

"Native support for the JPEG image format."

"Multiple, simultaneous network accesses, allowing several documents or images to be downloaded simultaneously."
Rails, node.js, redis, resque, mysql, nginx, unicorn, monit, solr, ubuntu.

I don't think that the technology stack matters that much, though.