skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a native in Hong Kong and have been doing my first startup (PandaForm) here, hope these information are helpful:

1. It is true that you can have only HKD 5k (~USD 650) to start a business up here. Something like HKD 5k (~ USD 650) to hire someone to help you do the company / business registration so you don't have to worry about. Every year you need to pay a small fee for the registration again and pay another HKD 5k for an certified accountant to do your audit report. That's all.

2. Frankly the government is not very "pro-technology" but there are still different programs from funding (such as SERAP) to cheap and nice office (Cyberport and Science Park). Plus you enjoy a nice but very cheap Internet and wireless network here in HK.

3. Lack of funding is probably the biggest problem for startups in Hong Kong, but since you've mentioned it is not that important… Otherwise a lot of local startup moved to ShenZhen or Guangzhou solely for better funding opportunities.

4. Startup Culture is becoming better here. Just take a look at Startups Saturday 2010 (a event for startups this Sat.) here: http://startupshk.com/sus2010/

There are about 4 - 5 different technology user-groups / web events every months..

5. Other factual information to share:
5.1. HKD have a linked exchange rate with USD for HKD7.75 - 7.85 : $1
5.2. Rent is about HKD 10k - 16k per month for a reasonable nice office for 5 man team.
5.3. Young programmer salary are about HKD15k - 20k per month
Why not just use mobile internet and banking? It is possible to contribute to any projects from almost every place in the world.

For example, this comment was written from Leh, Ladakh (3,500m, the two roads open only for 5 month per year. Both roads have parts that located above 5000m.) ^_^

There are good old saying - If you really want something you will find a solution, if you don't you will find an excuse. ^_^
Let's not fixate on the examples, folks. Perhaps they're arguable, but the original point is still valid: languages gain traction through prominent projects.
Eh, I think hiring someone else to run your company /without any supervision/ then expecting them to act in your (the shareholders) interest rather than their own is irrational.

Really, setting any employee in a zero accountability situation and expecting them to act in your interest is irrational... but when the worst an employee can do is hang out on facebook all day rather than working, it's not as big of a deal as the executives who can line their own pockets with much more of your money than most employees take home. Executives can and do take home all kinds of rebates, vacations, and other goodies from vendors.

so yeah, I think the behavior of your typical executive has very little to do with what he or she believes is the best interest of the company.
Nope, and the fact that you don't dispute it with anything but a smiley leads me to believe that you believe my belief.

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I'm interested in relocation & cooperation. I'm a contractor working for SF-based startup while bootstrapping my own company. My problem: time-zone shift (10hrs). I like to get somewhere non-us and time-aligned with SF. Panama, Chille and Canada sounds good in this respect. Vibrant startup community and low cost of living is a plus. I don't necessary need to hire locals, because I work mostly over the Skype anyway.
As far as I know the scene is becoming stronger, although the target for the majority of new business is the Argentinian market and the majority do not have plans of international expansion initialy, this is slowly changing.
I'm not sure about the language but I suspect that it falls in the same situation of São Paulo.

EDIT: This article introduces something more useful about Argentina than I'm able to provide: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/business/worldbusiness/26p...
Hmmm I read the analysis and I don't think it's all that meaningful: just like numerous other films Inception has some themes which it explores (regret, guilt, grieving/loss). If the exploration is insightful enough, then the audience can learn from it. Is Mighty Ducks a metaphor for filmmaking because emotions are just as real in a hockey match as they are in a movie, as they are in real life?

The film touches on some ideas like the intoxicating power of the imagination but I think saying the whole film's a metaphor for filmmaking goes a bit far and the evidence is stacked against his analysis.
That's the magic formula we use at work (200+ sites, many with 1 million+ unique visitors per month). I apply the same techniques to my own projects, even though it's unnecessary at this point.

Our sites run on a standard LAMP stack (load balanced across between 2 and 25 machines using an F5), memcached for object and query caching, caching at the application level, varnish and nginx for file caching, and limelight CDN for serving images, css, and javascript.
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Just drag and drop your favorite media sources, set their size and specify the source. And thats it. you can design your page exactly as you want, using numbers of components. What could be easier than this?
Hahaha, great Flowers for Algernon reference!
It's their blog page, not their money transfer page.
Great post! Few thoughts: I am having a similar experience. My co-founder and I have been working on our "this will change the world" venture for the past few months ... we built CollegeJobConnect, a platform designed to revolutionize the undergraduate recruiting system and enable undergraduates to connect with employers. It's a sexy product with a great story. However, due to the summer time period and the "you need to do something different"-ness of the idea, the revenue has been light thus far.

Along the way we heard a lot of pain points hiring managers and companies were having, so we built Recruitly (http://recruitly.com), a plug-n-play career portal and applicant tracking system allowing you to tap the talent that visits your website. This has been a dream to sell and much easier to monetize.

I think it depends what you are out to do: if you are out to make money, you can jump into an existing market and produce a competitive product ("mine is cheaper!", "mine does X better", etc., etc.) and do fine. If you are out to change the world, you have to understand the fight you are in for: you likely will have to change a lot of people's behavior or understanding of how to do something - no easy task. To your point, it pays to do your homework beforehand so you know the extent of the battle that faces you.
Very helpful comment. Indeed, schemas are the way to go. Too many benefits against creating a database per customer to ignore.
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Shell scripts are portable. Bash is specific to Linux, at best, and ... a bloated, hot mess.

Programs that hardcode bash but only require basic bourne-shell features are a pet peeve of mine. "My favorite Linux distro has it out of the box" isn't a real standard.</bsd-porter>
NameCheap is great. I have loads of domains with them. Btw, they post discount codes on their Twitter page - http://twitter.com/namecheap (coupon code for August 2010 is HARVEST).
We obviously aren't throwing out SpamAssassin just because a few problems pop up now and then.

I did. In 2002 or 2003, they made a change which caused my then-users to lose mail. I can't remember the details now (something to do with rewriting mails too aggressively, leading to empty messages, and some changed defaults) but I still remember the shame of it, seven or eight years ago.

It was in a sense my fault, because I didn't test a new version nearly thoroughly enough.

I kept SpamAssassin available for my users, but I haven't used it myself since then, and don't plan to ever turn it on by default ever again.

Trust is hard-gained and easily lost.

7+ years ago. And I still feel ashamed.
Except it's not "just another job" at all--it's an impossible job, they have to assemble the best team, they make an elaborate plan that goes all wrong and they have to clean it up--Cobb's personal issues are part of it, and motivate his desperation to take the job, but without that angle you still have the classic heist (or at least caper).
I would say your familiarity with the stack you're using is what matters, both Linux and Microsoft platforms have been shown to handle massive loads with enough massaging.

I would also say it's a massive and on-going trial and error process to see what actually works, the biggest sites are still learning and falling over.
There was a hullabaloo last week with the premiere of Season 4. Arial was suspected as a culprit, thankfully someone tracked down the new SCDP logo and sure enough it's accurate:

(If you aren't spoiler free on seasons 1 through 3, don't look)

http://burndownblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/mad-men-font-fa...
Am I the only one who thinks Lamo is sort of a jerk in this whole ordeal. I feel he was covering his own butt out of fear, and did nothing patriotic in any way at all.
From growing up in, and visiting London frequently, I don't really agree. London is as, or more expensive than, NYC. Programmers are expensive in London, and in dealing with the British tech culture, they don't seem to have the 'entrepreneurial spirit' I'm used to in the US, it seems less 'young, talented, take on the world attitude' and more about working at satellite offices for IBM etc.

If I was going to pick somewhere in the EU, I'd go for Berlin.
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If you're quite familiar with Ruby/Rails, but you left the ecosystem for a while (before 1.9 existed), would it be better to re-acquaint yourself with 1.8/Rails 2 first, or just dive into the new stuff?
Because there is already support for "records" as you say. Add the static type "interface" and you get a kind-of OO.
java (jee, spring, struts), hadoop, hbase, nginx, fedora, solr, activemq, ehcache/terracotta and a bunch of other OSS.
Ask HN: Why not a GEO dispersed startup?
This is some kind a follow up to this - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375

Why not to model a startup as a hybrid of an open source project (say, Cassandra) and some team-building and a payment model form a soccer team?

Isn't co-called 'sponsored' projects works exactly this way?

There are some kind of healthy competition and rotation among contributors. You can pay a premiums for a milestone achievement, or for closing a ticket and the like.

If there are thousands of a successful GEO dispersed OSS projects (linux kernel, freebsd, nginx, sqlite, git, to name a few) why not adapt this model as a basis for a startup?
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Why downmod him so? His implication that the term "junction table" is nonstandard terminology is correct.

Despite 45 years in IT and a good 25 years of relational databases, I don't recall having heard (or read) the term "junction table" in a technical discussion. A cursory Google search indicates it may be recent terminology from the Microsoft corner of the universe.
Also, if you noted the time on the show before and after the commercials, less time passed in the show than in real life.
I'd be willing to bet the Digg engineers were bored by this talk. Most of this isn't new and is already PHP best practice (minus the HipHop stuff, I suppose).
Betcha some smart-asses took out shorts on RIM and longs on Apple right before this bullshit.
Right, and C was an obscure reddit in-joke until Linux came along and gave it an air of legitimacy.
if all else fails, try this: http://code.google.com/p/iphone-socks-proxy/
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Because it has typeclasses, which solve the same problems without creating the new problems that conventional objects do.

Why doesn't Java support pattern matching?
I haven't used them yet, but when I asked friends this question I got several recommendations for http://www.gandi.net/
Those job descriptions are a work of art.
Thank you for providing this, I love this stuff. What site do you read to keep up to date with these things?
Still reading but, first and foremost, I think the opposite of his conclusion on what the ending meant is more obvious. It was clearly about to fall over ... =)
Why not? Look at almost any construction site in an ex. Soviet block - bunch of assholes 'managing' a crowd of wage-workers from a ex Soviet republics. It is the most popular business in Russia nowadays. ^_^
I dunno. There are enough references to other films, blatant and subtle, that it makes me wonder.
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In economics, there's a distinction between the normative and the positive. The former describes what ought to be and the latter describes what is.

The concept seems relevant here. Operators ought not block mail solely due to some RBL data. Users ought not report legitimate mail as spam and those reported "spams" ought not be fed into blacklists. (I gave up on Vipul's Razor as a bad job once I noticed that this happens.) System administrators ought to focus on providing useful mail service—blocking spam ought to be an aftereffect. And so on.

Not enough of these are. They sometimes are, of course, but it just takes a few system administrators with fucked up priorities to ruin it for the rest of us. Vixie's proposal won't help anybody.
Last I checked, Google Apps domain registration is actually a front end for either the Namecheap or GoDaddy registrars.

Namecheap offers free whois protection too. I don't know about GoDaddy.

Namecheap + NearlyFreeSpeech.NET + Google Apps Standard for mail is a pretty sweet combo giving a lot of bang for small bucks.
Well, what I mean is they're developed on GitHub, then released to RubyGems.
because of this blackberry issue?
I saw him give the talk at the Confoo conference (formerly PHP Quebec that got renamed when Ruby + Python tracks were added) and I was bored as well.

You can pretty much boil his talk down to use a profiler and make sure you run as little lines of code as possible. (AKA: Extra indirection always adds extra cost which is why generic web dev frameworks are always slow)

The HipHop part of his talk isn't really useful because extremely few sites are resource constrained enough at the web server level for it to make sense to complicate your deployments that massively.
it's amazing how many locked doors/gates/entrances can be defeated by simple tools. who needs a key when a screwdriver or a wrench will do just fine? the most common culprit is hinges on the outside.
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Godaddy is the largest domain registrar by far and often times you can register domains for $8 or less with a coupon. The upselling is annoying to tech savvy people but absolutely confusing to non-techies. I'll admit that a lot of my business's domains are registered there because they are cheap though.

I also do some domain name investing on the side and use Moniker.com and Fabulous.com. Both of these, as well as Dynadot and Enom, offer APIs so you can write your own domain registration code. That's a sure-fire way to avoid upselling :)
Haskell's a statically compiled language. Wouldn't the "embeddable Haskell" the author proposes essentially be a library?
Possibly. Until now AT&T have ignored (or been unable to detect) people who had artificially enabled tethering. Now that they have an official tethering plan,if they do have a way to detect unofficial tetherers then they may automatically add tethering to your account. This is similar to what happens if they detect you using a smartphone without a data plan.
i second this sentiment (though the metaphor for film making interpretation is also quite nice.).

by this interpretation (the straightforward naive one), Inception is likely the best "hard"/logically consistent science fiction film to have characters that are very engaging and well realized of the past half decade.

If you've not seen Inception yet, fix that soon!
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You're mistaken.

I never unlocked my 3GS but had tethering enabled for most of the 3.x lifecycle.
From Fischer's perspective there is the loss of agency and helplessness, the series of emotionally charged impressions. But fundamentally the absurdity of dreams is not well shown, and the resemblance to lucid dreams is if anything fitting from the perspectives of those who are dreaming lucidly.
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Rails, distributed erlang with a BERTRPC endpoint, memcache, redis, thin/sinatra/eventmachine. The key is the less work you have to do in the request response cycle and the more you can offload to better suited environments/servers, the easier time you will have adapting to new challenges.
I agree. Unless he's hungry to learn, it's a big leap and will distract him from the development process.

If you're looking for a hosted solution that's a step up from a bargain-bin, Dreamhost-like arrangement, consider something like Heroku or Google App Engine.
I think most immigrants past a certain age do a shortened military service, measured in months rather than years. And there are perks like certain tax exemption and free graduate studies (though even paying the full amount for grad studies would seem nearly free if you're coming from the US - Ivy League equivalent education costs about $5k/year or so last time I checked)

Israeli immigration laws in general are a mess because they are based on basic assumptions that were true when the country was founded:

1. In 1948 there were about a million of Jewish refugees in Europe, soon joined by about a million Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern nations. This made automatically granting citizenship for Jews a necessity at the time.

2. The concept of non-Jews (or basically anyone that had a choice) wanting to live in Israel, which was extremely poor and under real existential threat was almost laughable, and never seriously considered.

These aren't true anymore, and I believe will mean the immigration policy will need to change at some point. Unfortunately Israel is saddled with a barely-functioning parliamentary system which means no coalition government survived its full 4 year term in the past 20 years, making this level of changes extremely hard to push.
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As an Android fan I have to agree. (Although the $150 tablets make me ponder grabbing one and turning them into a fancy alarm clock...)

Keep in mind Google doesn't yet license market access or the "Google Experience" to these tablets either. The only way a tablet gets access to the Google goodies right now is if they are technically cellphones.

Google isn't pushing Android for tablet use at all yet. Maybe with Android 3.0 but probably not. Google TV looks like a completely different environment that happens to also run Android apps.
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is superb video to listen to which is on this lines

http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...
They will respond by fixing the bug that allows it to happen. It will not be interesting.
That is correct, there is a subset of ~15,000 records that are being withheld, which will be released when they no longer have a probability of being harmful to those they mention.

Source: http://boingboing.net/2010/07/26/wikileaks-qa-with-ja.html

Boing Boing: We're told that there are more documents from this archive yet to be released by Wikileaks, some 15,000 of them as reported. Some have speculated that these could relate to Iraq. Can you comment more?

Jacob Appelbaum: The 15,000 documents are part of the set of Afghanistan documents. They are being redacted for harm-minimizing purposes as requested by our source, and will be made available as is applicable with respect to the relevant security concerns.

I would like to know much more about the process by which Wikileaks determines what is or is not safe/relevant to be released. While I support their efforts, they are walking a thin line in becoming the very thing they are working against.

I only hope that the decision was done by experienced committee, but even that raises questions as to how do you vet that committee for the ability to gauge what is and is not releasable. How does one determine those people are even of adequate credentials/authority to read the information ahead of time?

If I were our the US govt., I certainly would be playing up that issue as much as possible. On the surface it would not be hard to push general sentiment in the direction of Wikileaks playing information Gods with the data they have.
That's correct. My company will have already executed an NDA most likely when signing the Professional Services contract; it's just awkward when I show up on site and they expect us to sign another one for ourselves. It usually works itself out (although sometimes the delay is suboptimal, as I know you guys do consulting engagements, managing the schedule can be a giant pain)
Discussion of the original NYT article, posted on YC just a few hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566369
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$ tr a-z l-za-m

$ tr -cd a-z

Absent the comments, who the hell knows what either of these do? Certainly not the new guy on your team who has spent most of his life in the more popular environments.
He felt threatened by 2 MIT students? Surely Lamo must have knew that bradass87 and his alleged "accomplices" were not mafia heavy hitters.

In all seriousness, this is piss poor reporting.

Like others have pointed out, this is second hand information that makes no substantive link between Manning and the 2 unnamed MIT students. Surely the reporter could have deduced from Lamo's clues who the two MIT students were and followed up for comments or quotes from them.

Even taking this story at face value there are lots of unanswered critical questions.

Was Manning taught to use the "encryption software" with the purpose of enabling him to hide stolen information?

What encryption software was sent?

The meaning of encryption software is left intentionally vague. Was the software something like truecrypt or perhaps the MIT masterminds just sent Manning a link to a firefox installer...

It's a shame that this passes for journalism.
Perth, Australia if your startup involves digging stuff out of the ground and selling it to China. Otherwise not. We do have nice beaches though.
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Makes me hang my head in shame over the tragically corporate-sounding job descriptions that I post when I need to recruit someone new.
There are a lot of people who come across as assholes in the blogosphere, but could be quite the opposite in person. I think just having a reputation of being an asshole is enough to hurt your chances of working with some companies or people to some degree. Hopefully that is countered by a degree of tenacity and ambition "assholes" tend to have.

A good example would be Jason Calcanis. I've never met him in person (though I did come within 5 feet of his office when I interviewed at Mahalo). He comes across as someone I would never want to have dealings with, business or otherwise. Good thing for him I'm just a small fish. But I would probably feel the same way if I were the CEO of a big company looking to buy Mahalo. But I bet Mr. Calcanis wouldn't want to be bought out anyway.
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Mal had to come back and see the top. Inception is about showing things to people in such a manner that they cannot link it back to you, that they feel it is their own.

Cob claims that you don't affect the mind by murdering projections, so why should you be able to affect the mind by changing the physical projections?

The dreamworld, even limbo, is not the subconscious, its a representation of the subconscious, and a one way camera. If it were not, inception would be much easier. You could just initiate a deep dream and change the environment: there'd be no need for the team to go through the danger of the third level, where two of them died (And didn't expect to be able to resurect)
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