skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does seem like a direction to go that might work, but I'm not sure it's the only possible way to run a successful league. That's essentially the "socialist" way of running a league, from the perspective of the league itself as an ecosystem: central planning, redistribution of income, limits on competition between teams (mainly on salary competition). The goal is to make an egalitarian society of teams where everyone has an equal playing field, unsullied by capitalist considerations, and nobody can "buy" success due to being richer, because that's more interesting for fans.

Europe's soccer leagues have gone in the exact opposite, hypercapitalist direction, though, where teams bid huge amounts for players, compete vigorously for media contracts, any tycoon can pour as much of their own money as they want into a team (just like, in the US, they can pour money into election campaigns and whatnot), and so on. In some leagues, teams can actually even "fail" if they fail to compete well enough (in the sporting sense), being relegated to lower leagues if they don't win enough, and replaced by the top teams from the lower leagues, who get to move up. That model also seems massively successful as a sport.
I've worked with you for six years and known you for 18, and you're just as competitive as anyone and more competitive than most. I don't think it's necessarily just time spent, but definitely there is a massive attitude difference...
This goes a few steps past just reading keywords out of my emails to place ads. This requires Gmail to have intimate knowledge of my emailing habits. While from the software point of view this is not scary, the "profile" data has to be stored someplace other then my machine and it makes me wonder who can read it. Will Google have to surrender my psychological profile upon a subpoena? This is sarcastic, but a real concern. Even if I somehow am magicked into trusting Google, no amount of magic will allow me to trust the government, and anything Google knows, the government has right to.
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The same is probably true of 'soccer', especiall the English Premier League which is essentially a tower of debt at the upper end because only more borrowing (or billionaires buying clubs) can support the titles and growth that helps service the existing debt.

Of course, the EPL situation is made more complicated by the divisions and relegation possibility. There are probably plenty of fans - especially outside the big 4 - who would be happy to cycle through the top and bottom of the Premier League, but a cycle of relegation is not attractive. In fact, I wonder how a salary cap could be managed across different divisions, although it would probably still be better than the same clubs bouncing up and down most years.
I like the concept and the site looks good. The images change a bit to fast for me. I was trying to get a feel for the app, but it was hard with the images changing as fast as they are.

I'd like to see a few more screen shots before I would sign up. I've never been involved with game scheduling, but I can see where the pain does exist.

I'd pull more information into a benefits page. You have details in the blog, but I didn't feel like reading a lot to get a feel for what the app offers. You need a bit more details on the website to sell me.
I've been using Priority Inbox for the last few days. I don't know how I managed my email without it.
"the data has to be stored someplace other then my machine and it makes me wonder who can read it"

Data being stored someplace other than your machine is the reason why people use webmail.
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I'm thinking of moving to the bay area. Anyone know what it's like to live in the beach areas like Santa Cruz or Half Moon Bay? Is it close enough to the tech scene to make sense?
I see what you mean, but I would call that moderately unethical. The reality is there are probably less than 5 legitimate mesothelioma websites (FDA, Wikipedia, maybe some charities...) and the rest are all junk put up to get ad-sense dollars and leads for lawyers. Every single one of the hundreds of thousands of other sites is doing much less ethical link building.
That promotional video is exceptionally well-executed.
I might add that most coral reef tanks will set you back a couple thousand dollars.
Works as advertised. I use both Skype and GTalk. Skype seems to do a better job at noise cancellation. But the new call feature, since it is free, has replaced my skype out calls.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurship for Non-US Citizens
A bit of background. I'm an Indian citizen on a H-1, just finished my Masters and I'm working on my first fulltime job.

I've realized simply remaining as a programmer for the rest of my life is simply not going to cut it and I was looking at starting something on my own. But so far, everything I looked at is disheartening. Let me briefly state my concerns -

It's impossible to get into incubator programs like YC/TechStars.

As far as I understand, I don't think I even should build anything and raise money from investors when on H-1 working in a US company. (Including something as trivial as an iPhone app)

To top this off, you're not even supposed to be "developing" your own business part-time if someone with a green card _did_ start the business for you and you're a partner / investor in it.

And yet the apparent contradiction is there are a few indian entrepreneurs floating around in the valley, with H1s, so I'm not really sure what in the world is going on here.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,
Teja.

PS: I know there's the Startup Visa movement, but I somehow feel it'll take a while before something materializes.
When it's possible to make it a business model like this, churned out on a routine basis, it makes me think it's more exploiting a sort of brain-hack than providing useful services. They've found a formula for baiting digg/reddit/etc. users into clicking on chartjunk, and are selling that formula to anyone who will pay: if your college-textbooks site needs some SEO, we'll whip up an infographic about bottled water that you can get linked everywhere. Because we want to inform people about bottled water, are doing serious research on the subject to present a well-thought-out position, because it's even relevant to your site at all, etc.? No, just because it gets clicks, and we'll decide what to put in the chart 100% based on what will get the most clicks, not based on what is actually true about bottled water or anything (I imagine they don't go out of their way to make up stuff, but clearly an interest in bottled water is not their motivator).

I agree that linkbait in general has many of those features, but I'd consider most linkbait to be at least a cousin of spam. This is somewhat notable just because it's so openly cynical about it.
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Probably. But they do say $5 unlimited, which is tempting.
How about, you know, a benchmark against yajl? :)

Also, it's easy to be fast and incorrect, as the page outlines under "cons".
yeah. but it seems upload speed is limited anyway. if a company has 100 PCs, would it not make sense to just pay for one or two clients and have them do all the uploading? Why would one pay 100 clients' monthly?
I don't have any statistics to back up my answer, but I suspect that requiring a CC at signup will decrease your revenue. I know personally, I do not sign up for things that require my credit card. I blame gyms for this. It is the classic stereo type where you sign up and then forget to cancel. Time is very important, so I don't want to deal with having to cancel.

My webapp as a free trial (very little information required, username/pw) and a free demo (no information at all required.) My support costs are virtually 0 for trials and demos. In fact, any customer asking a support question ends up being a paying customer. They actually want to use the product. I want to maximize the number of prospects at the top of my sells funnel, so I reduce the barrier to trial to as little as possible.

If anyone has done an A/B test on this, I would like to know the results.
Is this distinguishable from a startup creating OSS, which will cause people to "lie to Google" when citing the OSS, and if so how? (I happen to know two reasons how: they're much, much cheaper to crank out at scale than OSS is, and they're typically backed by an outsourced promotion team. These do not strike me as having ethical significance.)

Are we maybe leading with our geek brains here? The geek brain that maybe isn't quite 100% onboard with "it is ethical to attempt to market $FILL_IN_BLANK , even in ways which are effective"?

Edited to add: I do not often ask myself, after typing in A HREF, "Am I being true in my thoughts and deeds to my primary reason for all linking activity, which is to preserve the sanctity of Google's link graph?" Should I? Really?
Not sure if I'm following, but if that method is never called, then does it apply to the system?
thanks for sharing! undoubtedly a great part of history written there and great incentive to all of us entrepreneur.

one thing that strikes every time I read this success stories is how passion and love for the task on hand is always present. something that is getting more and more lost with some of today's riders of the bubble
I completely disagree, and I'm getting a big "Not Invented Here" vibe.

Disqus comments are excellent. They handle comment threading, email notifications, voting, login (with your choice of about 5 providers), moderation, spam control... the list goes on and on.

Disqus manages all this while making everything look good.

I use disqus on my blog, because I've got better things to do than reinvent the wheel, especially when there's some extremely polished commodity wheels. It would take me months to implement all the functionality disqus gives me for free.
Me too. Except (and correct me if I'm misinterpreting you) while you see this as an insult, I see it as a compliment. It is a site for people that are smart and love to learn. It is a site for people that know what the want, and are willing to take the risks to achieve that. It is a site for people that are creative, productive, and try to produce things that the people around them need or want. So yes it is a site for greedy nerds, and that is one of the reasons I enjoy coming.
I'm sorry it didn't spur your intellectual curiosity. I was having a real good Sunday of discovery and play with data crunching.

I felt the need to share it. I guess I found it fun...and thought some one else might too.

First I posted a blog on my need for Meaningful Key Phrases and Tag Sets to run against data I"m harvesting.

Then I posted an overview of how an API saved my ass from many hours of programming this intelligence in another blog post called. A Programmers Need for an Application Programming Interface (API)

Then I posted the one you found did nothing to engage your intellectual curiosity called, Transforming Text Into Knowledge API. This post summed up the API and what it did for me.

Maybe you do this kind of work all the time?

But I"m playing around with many different ways of harvesting, storing and distilling down data right now....and felt the work I did on Sunday was intellectually stimulating.

In the current online world...I think its relevant too.
"I don't see how this is spam, and I am surprised that people are offended that the authors of these info graphics are trying to make money."

They're doing so dishonestly. Dishonesty on the tubes is why so many of us are jaded and believe nothing.

Few of the examples said "Here's a professional infographic pandering to the current pop meme, surrounded by some monetizing ads", but instead it was "HERE IS MY FIRST INFOGRAPHIC!" (always ad free because that's a part of the bait-and-switch meme approach), and once it got boosted the URL turned to a 301 permanent PageRank forward to some spam factory, polluting search engines with garbage.

Meme herding itself is really the root cause, though: Once Digg showed a propensity for top N lists, the web became awash with vapid top N lists for everything, humorlessly produced by SEO drones.

Not all content follows this shallow, deceptive practice.

There is a dating site -- I honestly can't remember which one right now, and am not suppressing their name on purpose -- that keeps releasing compelling analysis data, predictably boosting them to the tops of all of the social news sites. In return for producing interesting content, they get lots of incoming hits and page rank goodness. Their motives are clear as day for everyone, and there is no surreptitious BS.

Sidenote: 99% of infographics are terrible.
If it helps, I can sell you the source code for my iPhone game.(non exclusive)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/missile-o-mine-defender/id338...

contact me at jimmy@inodesoft.com
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Ask PG: Applying to YC
Hey PG,

I've heard that it's reasonably important to apply early, but I'm at least 1 month away from a functional prototype of my site.

Is it worth submitting now with what I've got at the moment? Or should I wait? Or should I give both a go?

Cheers
His response is horrendous. I've enjoyed a couple of his entries (although they get a little formulaic), but that response had him dropping several notches.
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that just sounds like bullshit to me:

He did this, and rather than making software for
clients, he created his own software products, which he
put on the internet. He said that 3 days after he copied
a simple idea from the rentacoder list on his website,
he was making 2 sales a day. $20 per day, which "

you don't just release something and then magically start making 2 sales a day...you still have to market. And I doubt many people would buy from someone who wrote in broken english.

isn't it odd, how somehow you ALWAYS manage to find all these interesting people...in all these odd places.

Why don't you go outside and snap a few pictures of China for us. That would at least prove that you are actually in China and not just pulling everyone's chain.
and that, my friend, is why I love this community.
I think he meant the "psychological profile" data, not his email text.
Who creates OSS and uses it to market "scholarships" for online colleges by scrambling Google's notion of what the best site for online colleges is?

SEO schemes that get people to cite your OSS to improve your OSS's position: just peachy.

SEO schemes that get people to cite your OSS to improve someone's IRS settlement site: not OK.
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Commenting is a ridiculously underserved market. It's so pathetic that I still enounter old barely usable bbs systems that are still thriving. How is there not a decent, usable threaded comment system, outside of forums? I've said it before: there needs to be a ubiquitous commenting system and it should work like a forum. Disqus only scratches the surface of this and still has seen remarkable success; somebody needs to take it to the next level. If disqus is the best we've got, there's certainly opportunity here.

Add up/downvotes. Even YouTube comments have been made bearable by this. Show/hide children. Easy registration. Multiple threads. Notifications when someone replies. It's 2010 and commenting systems have barely advanced beyond guestbooks.
I don't think Google will do that. I think one of two things will happen:

-A lot of smaller vertical search sites will pop up. MedicalInfoSearch.com will not show entertainment or economics info, and its ranking will not be based on backlinks from entertainment or economics sites. I think we are seeing the beginnings of this with Blekko.

-Or, and I say this at the risk of sounding like one of those social media people, the link graph will start to give more and more weight to Facebook Likes and link sharing and twitter sharing and any future social network sharing. If you think about it, this was the reason Google went with the backlink strategy to begin with. Back then they had no social networks, so they only way someone could vote for a site was by putting a link to it on their website. If you did not have a website you did not get a vote. Now almost everyone has the capacity to vote on a websites quality, but for some reason only website owners are allowed to.
Social networks love info graphics, in this future you are going to see a lot of them.
I've been doing this sort of thing ever since they introduced the Multiple Inboxes lab feature. It wasn't Gmail's logic, it was my own in a series of complex filters. Here's a screen grab from February 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndbritton/3257013239/sizes/o...
I think that a "submit this to HN" link is less spammish, because if someone clicks it, the implication is that your blog post was actually genuinely interesting to someone. The issue I have with doing it yourself is that you're not competent to judge whether your own post is any good or not. Someone else is.
This was the part I meant was plausible but hard to verify:

That causes athletes' genetic gifts to
overshadow their hard work.

Obviously successful swimmers have to be tall, but merely being 6' 4" isn't the sort of genetic gift that's so rare it outweighs effort.
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Wait till your application is 90% as good as it will ultimately be.
Torches and pitchforks: no.

Flag with extreme prejudice: yes.
I've seen talks given by the IndexTank guys and their technology is pretty cool. ust to get an idea, they told me that Reddit's entire article submissions DB takes up around 4GB, and the comments DB, if it were indexed, would not be much larger.

Their business model seems to revolve around the fact that Lucene, Solr, SQL Server Full-Text search and other full-text indexing solutions just suck without serious customization, which can take months and cost thousands of dollars in consulting services, not to mention hardware costs. I believe they're handling all of Reddit's queries with one quarter of the hardware previously required (and unlike the previous version, it works).
So if there's anyone from Disqus monitoring this thread. I was wondering what this meant and how it compared to the features that wordpress/akismet offers and couldn't find a spot on the disqus site where it's really clearly defined.

So that being said, can you explain why this would be better then the tools something like wordpress offers?
This is true. I went to a state school and had never heard of management consulting until everyone I met from MIT went into it. I remember a dinner in Boston where I kept asking them, why would a company pay a 24 yr old with no experience for advice on anything? I still haven't heard a good explanation.
There are a few people I know living in Santa Cruz and commuting into Mountain View or Palo Alto. The traffic is pretty rough, especially coming over the hill from SC, and generally on the order of an hour during normal commute times. For me, an hour each way is a lot of pain to endure 5 times a week. It seems like the SOMA and Mission areas of San Francisco are becoming quite popular for software startups as well which would be an impossible drive from SC, maybe doable from HMB but painful.

If you are hoping to start a company or join a startup, I would try and live as close to the other founders as possible. If you are hoping for a 9-5 type job and don't mind sitting in the car listening to music or talking on the phone, then the longer drives might be worth it.
Gruesome.
It's never a good idea to get all of your news from just one source.
"Treating commenting systems like a commodity scream "I'm an average website", or "I'm not a technology site"."

Load up TechCrunch's homepage with Firebug open and behold the horrors it holds. It is, by far, the most cringe-inducing contemporary site, and it's the single worst example to demonstrate Firefox being brought to a crawl (Chrome deals with its freak show more elegantly).

They may cover technology, but their site shows little technical competence.

To be fair, a good percentage of the issue is the viral spread of page contaminating twitter and facebook junk.
Ooo, I've been looking forward to when I can use this for my personal account too. It takes some training but it's highly effective after a while.
Interesting. I didn't realise that Reddit had been moved over to this. I thought they were doing their own thing.

I quickly found this http://pivotallabs.com/talks/105-indextank-full-text-search-... but haven't watched it yet. Is this the talk you are referring to?
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or subscribe to the magazine like I do and read it a month ago. :)
Thoroughly mixed feelings here. As computer-geeky as I am, I have literally made use of my dead-tree encyclopaedia exactly once in the last seven years[1], so I would have a very hard time justifying to anyone why they should spend money on buying anything like that.

On the other hand, I do actually still have the encyclopaedia on my bookshelves, and I would never want to give that up. I'm fairly young (32) but old enough to have been raised believing that any household with even the pretensions of education simply must have an encyclopaedia on its bookshelf (and visible, at that). Having it in physical form has an almost talismanic value.

So yeah. I'd kind of love to have a dead-tree OED on my shelves. But I'd rarely use it and it's pretty hard to justify the cost in any remotely rational terms.

[1]It was during an internet outage and I wanted to know the latitude of southern Scotland, so that I could calculate roughly when sunrise would be in mid-December, because this turned out to be plot-relevant in a suspense novel I was reading at the time. The whole enterprise was outrageously geeky.
It was at San Diego State University. The course was CS106 which was introduction to programming, a requirement for CS students and some EE majors and some math majors I believe. Technically I was a guest lecturer. I got my first job as a programmer through one of my professors. He was pretty well connected with several companies in San Diego.

SDSU was switching most of its courses to be taught in Java. They also had MSCE certification courses and were starting Java certification courses. I had just landed a new job at a local java shop. My old professor was looking for professionals to teach the new java courses. I was a pretty good developer and my name came up to teach the course (which paid pretty well.) But he decided that I need some teaching experience and got me to teach the intro to programming course to give me the experience. I know he had to pull a few strings to make it happen since I was not a grad student and not exactly a seasoned professional.

It turned out to be a great experience. I really enjoyed it. The pay was horrible. After preping for the lecture, grading, office hours and the lecture, I think it worked out to ~$12/hour. Quite a bit less than I was making as a regular developer. So I only taught the one semester.

I know of another guy I used to work with who was a horrible developer. I mean really bad. I believed he had a masters degree. But he taught extension courses at UCSD. I think the extension courses have a lot less restrictions on the requirements. From there he ended up teaching full time at another college, can't remember where. It was another small one in San Diego. This might be an option to allow you to teach if they offer extension classes.
#28 of YC's Ideas They'd Like to Fund

"Fixing email overload. A lot of people, including me, feel they get too much email. A solution would find a ready market. But the best solution may not be anything as obvious as a new mail reader.

Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it."