skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The website (relying on a modified version of XWiki[1]) is a bit difficult to use and read. I didn't try contribution or to register but compared to Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/) where navigation is easy and contributing is much more easy. This could be factor for the slow progress.

[1] Please note the use of Java...
You don't have the ability to back out after your quote is accepted.

But you have the ability to back out on a majority of your quotes, if you submit so many that they couldn't possibly be fulfilled in the time before you cancel them. Despite the fact that they are cancelled, they still have their effect. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-hft-quote-stuffing-caus...

Also, if you are a broker, the exchange imposes similar requirements on fill
rates

Then why aren't these algorithms being banned?
On the Media is my favorite for news. Frankly it's one of the only news programs where I feel like I've legitimately learned something about the situation after listening to it.
pdf: http://s3.amazonaws.com/ppt-download/atti-ps-graphs-10072510...
An old favorite ...

http://searchyc.com/submissions/as+we+may+think?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006264

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768498

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70998

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21095
Jason, the interview with Richard Dolan (UFO guy) was the best show in my memory and I listened to almost all of Techzing episodes.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, here are some of my favorites:

Entrepreneur:
1. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

2. Venture Voice (hasn't been updated in a while, but Greg Gallant is a very good interviewer, and some interesting ones are non-tech, e.g. Jon Boggle).

3. StackOverflow Podcast - not strinkly entrepreneur, but good general technical discussions. Great to listen to when you don't have your full attention to devote.

General Interest:

1. This American Life

2. The Moth

3. NPR Planet Money

4. WNYC Radio Lab - stories with science bend

Some other ones I listened to in the past that I'd recommend:

Hanselminutes (technology, focused on .NET, but other topics as well)

I also strongly recommend The Teaching Company - they put together courses tought by the best professors. Mostly nontechnial, but interesting stuff (and they do have some more business-focused courses).

http://www.teach12.com/teach12.aspx?ai=16281
What is everyone doing for data backup when using App Engine?
1	//Tutorial file HelloWorld.x10

2	class HelloWorld {

3	public static def main(argv:Rail[String]) {

4	x10.io.Console.OUT.println("Hello, World");

5	}

6	}

...ayfkm?

You've already failed.
Vancouver - great startup scene and one of the nicest places to live in the world. Plus it's a quick flight to SF, a 2 hour drive from Seattle (an amazing startup area) and you are in Canada.

No-one in this thread has even talked about macroeconomic conditions. A lot of the places mentioned (especially US) are going downhill in a hurry for most professions. Yes, high-tech exists in a bubble that is excellent for startups, but debt is debt. Just consider the future before you move to that place.
I've lived in Vancouver and SF, and worked for tech companies and startups in both places.

Is Vancouver really second best? Vancouver feels like it's got one twentieth the hacker/startup scene that the Bay Area has. If that's second best I'm not sure what third best would be. Or is that just a testament to how much of an outlier the Bay Area is?

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, while there are home-grown VCs, a lot of investors were from the West Coast of the USA. So in a sense Vancouver, for startups, is just a really distant suburb of the Bay Area that has more liberal immigration and visa policies. And snowboarding.
I Tweet, Therefore I Am
Solid advice. When we started http://thinkcode.tv we immediately asked the question, will people be willing to pay for screencasts? The existence of other companies selling screencasts, like PeepCode, PragProg, Lynda, VTC (and many other emerging ones) reassured us, rather than scare us away. I still get the impression that the market is more keen to ebooks than screencasts, but it would have been foolish to start without some form of market research.
overcombed
FYI: Vannevar Bush has no relation to George Bush I or II...
Heroku is horribly slow, I wouldn't recommend it. Go with Linode, slice host or Rackspace cloud
Mixergy interviews are excellent (and downloadable).
I started going through the sicp and was looking for a good ide for scheme. Any thoughts? Is racket the be all end all or is the something else to manage those parens?
Surprised to see no mentions of Barcelona. I was under the impression that it was one of Europe's startup/tech centers.
It's not much of an argument in favor of the status quo to say it could have been worse. The North Korean regime has a worse censorship record than China, but that doesn't make the situation in China any less troubling.
Each layer in your app is more users lost.
Vancouver might be cheaper

And Montreal is even cheaper (about 2/3 the cost of living).
You can use the bulk up/downloader: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploading...

The admin interface has an export option too, if memory serves.
Fired off your question to Aschwin de Wolf and got back:

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/newtechnology.html (Figure 4 and 5 for the more recent technology, earlier photos are older technology)

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincryopreservation1.htm... (photos as of 1995 tech)

Aschwin also notes this paper is important: http://www.ijcep.com/707005A.html
Microsoft to Create a Windows Tablet PC (Failure). Again
Microsoft just can't learn from its own history. Tablets with Windows don't make sense. Read on to see why not and if there's hope for Microsoft in a tablet dominate world.
Ask HN: Book/site for biz-type to understand the website he's outsourcing?
I want to help out a business-type friend by giving him the information he needs to understand what he's buying when he outsources his website. He's going to be investing in a web presence for his startup company, and they don't have a CTO to coordinate (a) which web services (shared host/domain/SSL) he needs to buy, and (b) how the web technologies break down so he can begin to understand the work that freelancers (what tech front end entails, and what tech back end entails) will be doing for his site.<p>I picked this information up piecewise through experience, staying up to date with HN/subreddits, and Wikipedia. He wants a consolidated source. And I also can't sit down with him for hours to provide consulting.<p>Ultra mega bonus round: If the information source(s) includes tips about how he might to split up work between freelancers. I don't think it's a great idea, but I think it'll give him a better understanding of how to outsource.
London is indeed expensive, salaries for jobs are very high too, and unlike other parts of the UK - where jobs are posted and filled almost instantly, I've noticed London based start-ups seem to advertise the same dev jobs for months, even years.
I was interested in the book.

http://howtogetfocused.com/the-ultimate-focus-package-01/000...

Then I saw the long sale letter that people should realize actually screams "SCAM" and the $97 price.

But then googling the book title I found this:

http://howtogetfocused.com/get-the-ebook-today/

No sale letter (phew) and a $24.99 price.
Does anyone know if this is the same book we're talking about? Or is it different because there are no bonuses? Which sounds strange since they are labeled "free bonuses".
Wow, that was fast. Much better, thanks.
FYI: The TIP films still needs work before it's the same quality and condition as the production film. Initially the colors retain but after a day or two they all fade out.
Good design for the rest of us?
PHP functions in JavaScript
Yes much better, thanks. BTW, I like the implementation and good luck with it.
The extra income in the Valley isn't enough to make up for the increase in cost of living compared to many places, such as Austin, where you can also find good tech jobs.

http://swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_...
The problem with this reasoning is that, in simplifying everything, you may get more users but you may make your product less useful for some, because you've removed features. And what if they're the most valuable customers? What if Adobe made Photoshop much, much simpler, by removing lots of tools that aren't used by everyone?

There are many ways to make something successful. Simplifying for the masses is one way. It's not the only way.
There's actually more money flowing in Montreal (as mtw points out in an adjacent thread) and the cost of living is about 2/3 what you need to live on in Vancouver (and almost half that of Toronto).

That said, it's a lot easier to maintain an exercise routine in Vancouver.
I believe one of the more important differences between a GSM SIM and 3G USIM is that the network is required to prove its identity to the user.

You can use a standard GSM 2G SIM with a 3G WCDMA network and in that case only the network requires the phone to prove its identity. With a USIM, the network also has to prove its identity.

So you're not automatically protected when using 3G WCDMA network. You need to upgrade to a USIM.

Note: The above refers to 3GPP GSM/WCDMA technology. Not sure about IS-95 (Qualcomm's CDMA) and its multiple variants.
Well at least we can compare ist to other things, like c++:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=lisp%2C+c%2B%2B&ctab=0...
Sadly lisp is in a steady decline now, just like C++. Are the old languages dying?
A vote for Berlin. I'd definitely pick Berlin over London at the moment.

London is really expensive to live and financial sector is sucking in programming talent with their lucrative pay checks. I lived in London for a year and I feel that many smaller cities in Europe have as vibrant startup scene as London.

Berlin on the other hand is the cheapest capital in Western Europe, startup scene is becoming more and more lively and it's location is great for moving around Europe.

Nordics are also an option: Helsinki, Stockholm and Copenhagen all have quite lively startup scene. In Helsinki, where I live, early stage investing is improving with very fast pace. There are no VCs here, though, but almost anywhere in Europe, you have to take look for investors from abroad in any case. But granted, Nordics are pricier to live than Berlin, although not that bad as London.
Statistical methods do quite a good job of pushing that ambiguity back under the rug (see link to Berkeley parser further up, or the work on statistical disambiguation in Alpino).

As to the time consumption and complexity, that's a known problem of unification grammars (or just any grammar that does a little bit more) - but see this paper by Matsuzaki et al for efficient techniques to speed this up: http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~matuzaki/paper/ijcai20...
imo its not in very good taste to promote your product on this thread.
Auckland, NZ ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland,_NZ )
Are you trying to "study" auctions or make money? You need to be more explicit about the goals of your site and as other people suggested: hire a designer.

Another really bizarre aspect of your site is the use of Adsense. If this is supposed to be a real business why attempt to make some small pocket change off Adsense? It's really quite confusing.

These things all add up to make you seem untrustworthy. 3 things to do:

1. Clarify your purpose.
2. Clean up the design.
3. Get rid of Adsense.

Unless you're a content site that is living off ads it makes no sense to have Adsense. Given that you're running a gambling site, the inclusion of Adsense just makes it seem even more obvious that you have this naive get rich quick ambition.
"As in a typical multi-tenant architecture, one database per customer."

Maybe I've misunderstood what "multi-tenant" means for the last 5 years, but I always thought of it as "multiple customers on a single installation/instance and using a single database" ... as in, every customer has some sort of account model other models are scoped to the account.

I'm sure there are valid reasons for having a unique db per customer (we do it in one product) but it seems easier to maintain/backup a single one.
Check out Quirks & Quarks.
Over its lifetime, Q&Q has won more than 70 national and international awards for science journalism. It is consistently rated the most enjoyed program by CBC Radio listeners.

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/podcast.html
Nir,

the reason that many tech events in Israel are in English, is not because of it's serving as a "lingua-franca" of our diverse population, but because almost always we have foreign guests or foreign speakers. It's enough to have one high-profile foreigner in the audience, so the entire event will be in English. The small meetups with only Israeli attendants are held in Hebrew.
Even if the lectures or talk are in Hebrew, slides most likely will be in English.
Also I would not call Jewish immigrants from North America - "expats". Thought there is a big Anglo-Saxon Jewish immigrant community (US,Canada,UK,SA,Australia,NZ).

I'm from Israel (temporary relocated to Europe), but thinking about moving to SF Bay Area for number of reasons.
I contacted by our local VCs once in a while, but still it's not the same scale as in the Valley.
Also my product based on Erlang/OTP with virtually no experienced people in Israel in Erlang or functional languages at all.
The last reason, I work in Semiconductors industry and it's only logical to move to Silicon Valley ;)

Regarding moving to one of European countries: I would be careful, if you planning to hire people there. Most of the countries has strict labor codes, limiting number of hours employees can work and large vacations. So it might be not a good fit for startup.
One of the reasons, Intel Larabee project is failed, because large chunk of the project was assigned to Intel Germany ;)
VC frequently use word "hungry". Like: "I will fund him, if he is hungry enough".
I think for your startup you need to choose a place were people are hungry. Hungry for success, hungry for money, etc.
Unfortunately, Continental Europe is not such a place ;)
Btw if youre further interested the authors other papers are listed at http://markorodriguez.com/Lectures.html . Bonus you dont need a slideshare account to download the slides pointed to by this story.
Probably because it's position during the Cold War. It was not a good place for "Old Money" and big industries and financial institutions of West German were located in safer places.
Sometimes it takes one bold person to take a stand.
I think this article is on the right track, but I agree with you that you shouldn't necessarily minimize the number of features you have. I think, like the article said, your app should be known for doing one thing really really well (i.e. Google = search) but it could also have a lot of other features. These features should augment the one major feature that the app is known for and they should be simple to learn so you don't overwhelm your users.
Singapore is great for startups looking for little-strings-attached funding (the government there is very liberal with its money) but not so good if you're talking about startup culture.

Things to look out for: a very myopic startup community (people there tend to have an unnatural focus on the tiny Singaporean market, particularly with me-too product ideas) and prominent members of the community who are not themselves entrepreneurs, but who spend a lot of time talking about it to the masses.

Singapore can and will be better. Just give it one or two more years. But in the meantime - funding alone does not a startup hub make.
Regarding meetups I have been wanting to organize one for sometime, but I'm going on holiday for a couple of weeks, so I will think about it when I will come back.
How can a user trust your bot? So essentially, the only way to win at this game is for it to no longer be human-to-human interaction?

What exactly are you studying? Human willingness to gamble their money away based on the potential that the thing on the other end is really a stupid bot?
This Week in Venture Capital is amazing.

web:
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/

itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-venture-capi...
This article was hugely important.

A radar operator named Doug Engelbart read this on the trip home from WWII. He realized that the computer was the tool that would make this possible. He went on and created everything from the mouse to lots of modern interactive computing. Many of you may have seen his "mother of all demos". If not, watch http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097...

That demo, in turn, influenced a generation of young computer scientists to invent interactive computing. Notably Ted Nelson & Andries van Dam who created hypertext and Alan Kay who, while at PARC, invented the desktop GUI and the concepts for tablet computer.

I recommend reading "What the Dormouse Said" by Markoff for a history of that era.

(I consider this the "NLS thread" of computer history. The other major interactive thread is from PLATO to Ray Ozzie/NOTES to Mitch Kapor, et al.)
It's all banalities. Standard lefty talking points. And of course, it's a lie. "100 to 1"?

http://politics.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2007/10/01...

In 2006, crack cocaine sentences were 43.5 percent longer than powder cocaine sentences; the average length of imprisonment for powder cocaine offenders was 84.7 months, while crack cocaine-related imprisonments averaged 121.5 months.
مجموعة و حزمة الكوديك الشهيرة لوندوز سفن Win7codecs 2.5.9 باصدارها الجديد
+1 for On the Media

http://www.onthemedia.org/

in fact, I've been on a couple of times:

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/05/25/05
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/05/21/03

very intelligent hosts, covering very important issues in a deep way.
Is getting a Canadian visa to start a startup actually that easy?

When I looked into it, it seemed that I had to have arranged employment, or a net worth of CAD 800,000.

I'm a citizen of an EU country.
Collective, mass sourced?
++ on Reporters Roundtable and 37signals.

I had David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups and he is brilliant IMO: http://jc.is/9K4f0l
It's trivial to blackhole a domain if you run your own DNS, without adding any new features to bind. I do it all the time, by becoming authoritative at whatever level of the domain I need. But it takes special consideration and monitoring to avoid creating new problems.

The threat here is that someone will identify a "bad website" and blacklist the domain via some publicly available policy server, which suddenly makes all services, not just HTTP, unavailable. For example, this means you might not be able to notify the admins of a domain via email if they host a blog (possibly yours) that gets exploited. Due to the fundamental nature of the service DNS provides, this could be an easy way to DOS an entire domain and all of its services.
Making Git Behave
Exactly -- Pittsburgh also has a lot of tech jobs, with most of the big players having branches in the city, as well as a lot of startups in the area, most of them related in some way to CMU. And if you're at all interested in robotics, this is the place to be.
Singapore far and away. Low taxes, big time entrepreneurial community, cheap labor...

but high rent.
Who do you think is more likely to spend money in a way that not only transfers but creates more wealth. The government or a business owner?

As an aside, what do you think top owners/earners do with their money? Hint, they are not stuffing it in their mattresses.
"I have learned more of the fallibility of American justice, which does convict many people, who, like me, would never dream of committing a crime in a thousand years."

It is amazing the number of people who commit white collar crime [1] make the claim that they would not dream of committing crime. White collar crime is as inexcusable as any other.

[1] obstruction of justice and honest services fraud in this instance. As I understand it, the US supreme court ordered a review of the applicability of honest services fraud. From wikipedia Quote "The jailed former media baron's obstruction of justice conviction, for which he is serving a concurrent 6 ½ year sentence, remains in place."

Tho, the rest of the article is well written, I wonder if he considers himself to be small fry, since he states "A trillion dollars have been spent, a million easily replaceable small fry are in prison", tho not in the context of white collar crime.

Need less to say, he is big fry getting away with crime. Context is everything.
Here's a general rule of thumb: If you're paying for Akamai, you're paying too much. :)
I use Webfaction for my small stuff (and have no big stuff). You get a SSH account on a Linux server and can run any web server program behind their reverse proxy, as long as it fits into your plan's memory limit.

http://www.webfaction.com/

I've experienced their customer service as friendly and competent.
4. Move it out of the jurisdiction of Costa Rica... no?
linode.com for shouldget.com and big4work.com
I don't understand why you "removed all hundreds of megabytes of it".

At any rate, this is a simple python script to list all mp3 files in those posts (I like to use wget do do the actual downloading):

http://pastebin.com/cbhEgt6E

It uses the cool lxml library: http://codespeak.net/lxml/

(I use something similar to download all posts of a blog I want to read offline on my kindle).
Sentiment plays a huge part of any economy. Whether or not it's true, the overall sentiment is that Obama is bad for business. This leads businesses to hoard cash, not hire, and in general prepare for the worst. The only thing businesses, the market and the economy in general hate more than bad news is unknowns.
I second Vancouver (not only because my wife and I who are both in the US are _desperately_ trying to get there ASAP).

* The tax breaks for software/web/tech-type startups is huge, not only the federal SR&ED tax for tech & biotech research startups, but KPMG also rated Vancouver #1 for "tax competitiveness" because of all the breaks the city (and province) provides to businesses, particularly startups.

* The mix of Hollywood, Video Games, and little tech businesses gives the tech atmosphere a really eclectic mix to draw strengths and pluck skilled people. The energy is "west coast" paced (meaning fairly swift but casual).

* Along with the "young" startuppy atmosphere and skillset is the commensurate payscale. It's cheaper than other cities and provinces to hire people, especially programmers. From everything I've read so far about the city, I think starting out is around 45k, then sr. positions is 60, and tops right out at around 70k for level IV guru coders. So, it's definitely not the Valley in terms of developer salaries.

* The climate is 7 months of never seeing the sun ever + 5 months of the most gorgeous weather you'll ever see. That gives you a space of 7 months to hunker down and _seriously_ work on your startup and hacking and 5 months to play as if you're a kid outside in the forest, mountains, AND ocean. It's a one-of-a-kind place for outdoor recreation, unmatchable really.

* The cultural mix is one I've never experienced before. The racial breakdown is ~50% Caucasian, 30% Chinese, then a 20% mix of mostly South Asian (Indian, Indonesian, Pakistani, etc.), Filipino, SE Asian (Vietnamese mostly), African, and Caribbean.

* You will _never_ blank on exotic cuisine restaurants, and most of them are inexpensive (well, aside from 12% "harmonized" sales tax that was recently implemented). In fact, Vancouver was named by Conde Nast Traveler magazine as having the greatest Chinese food in the world (yes, better than China and Hong Kong). And, it seems every immigrant to the city has opened up a restaurant to hawk their native cuisine.
Insight, "Scoble: Action Aggregate"