skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To compare national healthcare quality you need to look at health indicators for the entire country, rather than the best possible case.

Talking about it in this way is like saying that YC has made a profit on every company that successfully exited. It's technically true, but it tells you absolutely nothing about the performance of Y Combinator as a whole.

A while ago I read an interesting article about why the US and Canada are so different in culture. Unfortunately Googling failed to find it again, but the summary version was that the US was heavily influenced by immigration by Ulster Scots from Northern Ireland, where Canada was more influenced by immigration directly from Scotland.

The difference between a colonising culture (the Ulster Scots) versus a colonised culture (the Scots) apparently explains the huge culture rift.

It was a compelling narrative, but that just makes me suspicious about it. It's easy to convince people of your pet theory if you make it into a good story.
Does not appear to work at all in Chrome beta (v6) on this here MacBook Pro. That or I just don't understand how to start the animation. :-o
This immediately crashes Safari 5.0.1. :(

Works fine in Chrome though. Pretty awesome, I love it!
Maps are an interesting example because map data is actually hard to replicate. Google went ahead and built their own database anyway, after several years of licensing from NavTeq and then Tele Atlas.
http://blog.daveburrows.com/2009/10/08/google-drops-teleatla...

This allows Google to do whatever they like with the data, including offering turn by turn directions on Android.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

specifically:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income-curve-$10k.png

http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032005/hhinc/new06_000.htm

Keep in mind that in increase or decrease of the minimum wage will affect all wages higher than minimum wage, with a more pronounced effect on the lower end of the scale.

Minimum wage is 2% of the workforce for full-time employees, a much larger percentage when looking at part-time employees. Minimum wage is also usually found to be associated with either the young, the old or the uneducated, in other words, those that have a bad negotiation position.
Yes I have that, it's the partial solution I mentioned.

It unfortunately doesn't preserve the history during detach/reattach. And the history gets scrambled when you switch between windows.
I like Google calendar, and Google contacts meets my needs, so I'd like to work with them, and I see Thunderbird has several add-ins to work with both, but see my reply above, I just can't come to terms with the Gmail client.
You’re lucky.

During my academic hiatus, I found that fostering a personal liberal arts education was incredibly helpful. Reading literature, playing sport, and learning some elementary computer science have been incredibly (and unexpectedly) helpful in my academic areas (mathematics and economics). Therefore, I’d suspect your interest in language and sport might also be incredibly worthwhile (and conceivably) beneficial activities to pursue during your hiatus.
Actually, probably, yeah. Say you want a database application for 20 concurrent users. In the early 90s that was client-server, thick client on the desktop (installed how? even the tools for remote deployment sucked back then), a "big iron" database server, proprietary languages on both ends, networking with IPX or Token Ring or something, etc etc.

Nowadays you can take for granted everyone has TCP/IP and a web browser and you can knock up a RoR app in a day...
Wow this is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. This is like re-creating the hell that is Powerpoint presentations on the web. List points fading in?

Ars to the rescue: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/study-powerpoint...

Seriously I'd never send this to anyone, I'd be embarrassed.
I'm sorry to have written something that could be misconstrued as saying "there are no startups that get 10MM A rounds", but I was actually making a more subtle point.
Safari 5.0.1 (6533.17.8) here, no issues.
This is absolutely true, but the net benefit is huge. It's a typical case of an ethical dilemma, no minimum wage is shitty wages for everybody, minimum wage is a living wage for many and no wage for some.

Exceptions to minimum wage are a thing that's been tried in some places but on the whole it didn't work out well, I believe there are still some experiments running in Europe where long term unemployed can work for less than minimum wage in some jobs (but with a time limit) while keeping their welfare.
Imo, a good rule of thumb for when you're copy/pasting the same comment you've made before is to mark it somehow, e.g. "as I said the last time this same issue came up (perhaps link to comment here): [paste]".

A bigger question might be why you're saying the same thing over and over to begin with, paraphrasing or not. Is your one-paragraph comment filled with self-help-type platitudes really interesting enough to spam in every relevant discussion?
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It is important to consider Zuckerberg's history. Given his history of screwing over business partners and friends, it's almost a certainty it will happen. There is already a negative image of him in the startup community, so Facebook doesn't really lose much by stifling the growth of YC startups that he could argue would never have succeeded without Facebook.

The only question now is: what negative impact will this have on the startups? If you take a look at the recent squabble with Zynga and the introduction of credits, you'll see that Zuckerberg is bold enough demand 30% of revenue for a Paypal clone. Given Zuckerberg's history of changing policies like privacy for the worst, it wouldn't even be a surprise if he raised that to 50%. Would investing in YC startups be profitable if their valuations where cut by 50%? Would they even be worth that much knowing that Zuckerberg could clone it or demand even higher margins on a whim?

Instant personalization will likely see similar fees once YC is hooked on it. Though past performance is not an indication of future results, I have to say the future looks very bad for anyone embracing the Facebook ecosystem.
I disagree, one of the highest risks currently is:

-Marriage
-Getting Married to raise a family

Most of those have failure rates higher than starting a small business...and some would argue its approaching the risk level of startups.

Women on the whole are no more or less risk averse than Men.
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- Blog about it and get the community to be supportive and all jazzed up on how evil Apple is (IMHO: you did that too late)

Before you do this, make sure that:

1) You've got a valid complaint. I've seen too many developers complain about something being rejected when everyone who looks at the rules will instantly see that they're in violation (if you think it's a dumb rule doesn't matter, Apple made it up and Apple decides both if you're in violation and the consequenses of the violation)

2) Be aware that you're most likely burning bridges at Apple and killing any goodwill you might have with them. Calling them an evil empire just isn't the kind of thing that's likely to bring them over to your side.

I think that the OP has carefully avoided calling Apple names and such, and instead focused on the basic facts: he's spent a lot of time and effort to make the app (which has been received well by people at Apple), but there's a limit to what resources a small company can spend while waiting for a response. You'll also note that he's making sure to point out that he'd like to get back to work on it as soon as possible.
Yes, but "Why do women choose not to be entrepreneurs?" is a valid question. And one of the possible answers (not necessarily the right one) is "our society biases women against becoming entrepreneurs". If that is the reason there are less female entrepreneurs, then the conclusion is "many women who could have been successful entrepreneurs don't do it because society biases them against it".

Assuming we believe that the more people who become entrepreneurs, the better, then our society should take corrective action to make sure the women who could be entrepreneurs actually do it.
My first experience with state owned liquor stores was in Norway. At first I was shocked at finding them - they look more like a pharmacy than a store - after thinking about it, I could probably accept those in my life.

After all - if you want to purchase liquor you still can. But why not monopolise the revenue from the stores to the state, while distributing what is a dangerous substance in a controlled way. If you start purchasing too much, then you can get flagged as needing help. I'm pretty sure that's why Norway does it - you don't want too much dangerous drinking during the long winters.

I'm normally against any type of state intervention like this, but I can see the benefits. Provided, of course, that the revenue is used to offset personal income taxes- which is probably naive on my part.
I love the idea, finding an apartment in this town is a harrowing experience. It's even worse for newbies who don't know the market and often get stuck with overpriced apartments like the ones Jakobson Properties rent out. What do you plan on doing with the data you're collecting?

//edit:
On your amenities list, you might want to add a field for duplex apartments.
And by the way, do you know what will happen when facebook/YC screws people over? The word will spread like wildfire.

Apparently the word doesn't spread to people like you, considering the long list of people Zuckerberg has screwed.
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>>>No one offers me a place in new startups.

Pretend this was not written by him, because I don't want this to come off as attacking anyone.

Reading just that alone, my reaction is, "Well, why SHOULD they?"

Isn't having coding skills the same as having made a living as a writer? I don't see novelists complaining that no one has "invited" them to write books. They do it without any money up front in the hopes someone will like it and publish it (some self-publish in e, these days).

I thought being able to code was like a ticket to mint money, if you had a great idea and the willingness to push at it. Isn't that how everything on the Net came about? Maybe I'm just missing something here. But the fact remains if you sit around waiting for an "invite" to anything, you're bound to be waiting a very, very long time.

I'd rather be doing something than waiting any day.
Amusing anecdote about the social dynamics in that situation:

When I was in high school, the options for phys ed class were Weight Lifting and Aerobics. While the entry wasn't restricted by gender, all of the guys took Weight Lifting and most of the girls took Aerobics.

Except for my friend. He took aerobics. I guess, initially, because I was in it. Ultimately, when his friends questioned him about it, he just said, "Meh. It's me and 25 girls. :)"

And nobody bothered him about it after that.
I'll take your word for it.

But it seems kind of weird to see you warn start-ups off from sharing their stuff with facebook through their YC hookup. After all, if the plan of this 'cooperation' would be such a negative for YC funded start-ups I would think that YC would pull out of such a cooperation in a heartbeat. It's not like they're stupid.

Give them the benefit of the doubt and see how it develops.

After all the risk to the YC reputation is considerable so you can take it as read that they've thought this through.
Nice idea, but I keep having that all over the tabs :
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"... the expectation that women don't get into tech is what keeps them out of it..."
Yeah well, how did this stereotype got built in the first place? and why isn't it the case with marketing? why this same expectation is not happening in sales? why tech?? The answer is clear: Women did it to themselfs. Men are not to blame. Women are not hackers by nature. It's usually a man who gets dirty. In my classroom, despite having the same teacher and the same lessons, it's always the boys who are trying to explain how things work to the "lot" of ladies who didn't get it.
I personally can't imagine a lady creating C, Python, or running facebook on her dormroom. Ladies usually have guys over there, not data servers. I just can't imagine a bunch of ladies locked in a garage working on something. Whenever I think of a group of women, The only thing that comes to my mind is that they are talking about how cool is desperate housewives, or how great was Sara's date. This is not my fault, they are responsible for what we the men think of them. And don't tell me there's a white male controlling their brains to do such things. They just do them. face it. SO WOMEN, STOP BLAMING THE MEN and BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU LOVE. be it cooking or dating magazines or what ever. why do you want to hate what you love and force yourself in men things? are you ashamed of what you do? Why do you consider what you do as the work of a second class citizen? Women tend to love different things and I don't understand why people are trying to force them into tech. PEOPLE, women DID NOT ask for your help. Too sad for the ladies who have this computer addictivness syndrome, your group did not follow you, you are just an exception.
Shoddy is building sites that HAVE to support IE(unless there is really a good reason to do so) - i've done this for years and the only outcome of this is that we contribute to the fact that users don't change their habits and use browsers with shoddy approach to web standards. How can that be better in 21st century?

If i'd really want i could support everything, but how long should we keep this up? 10 years? 20?

It's like you would say that games should be built to work on 286pc's. Yet no one complains about that (unless it's poor optimization). You were so kind to suggest that my work is shoddy, I would say that shoddy work are websites that use hacks, or use non-semantical markup to archieve the goal of being able to work everywhere. Overall quality of code is sacrifaced for bacwards compatibility with browser that uses 9 year old rendering engine? People switch cars more often than browser versions, I fail to understand why we allow that to happen. We have good solutions to handle legacy app compatibility like chrome frame. Everyone has right to it's own opinion, but is it wrong to want users to use proper browser? Even my phone is capable of rendering charts. How can supporting everyone at all cost be better than pushing for standards? We are forced to standards everywhere in real life, why not in IT?

This is a nice quote about what happens if you support broken by design browsers forever:

"Facebook explains its decision by saying that many users have complained about unstable chat sessions, or ones that stop completely. In order to improve the way connections are established and messages are sent, however, the social networking giant must make changes that aren't supported by older browsers."

I'm not saying that everything FB does is right, but I think that legacy support sacrificing experience of everyone else is not a solution to the problem, and this is a good example.
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There are other groups of would-be unions of states as well, such as the erstwhile "United States of Africa". The term united states is almost generic, while "of America" is the designator that sets this particular union of states apart.

To your point, American citizens have long emphasized the word America. Since the beginning, in fact: the original Declaration of Independence doesn't capitalize the term "united", calling itself the "unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America" adopted by the "Representatives of the united States of America" on July 4, 1776.
Make a sauce for the fish. Here's one that I absolutely love with fish:

Put chopped peppers, onion and garlic with butter in a pan and put it on the stove with a lid. Stir a few times until the peppers get soft. DON'T let anything become brown, turn down the heat. Next put it in a food processor or use a similar device until it's a nice smooth sauce. It can't hurt to process it too long. You don't want bits of pepper skin in it. Next put it back in the pan with a laurel leaf and some cream (optional, but like many sauces and soups, adding some cream makes it taste better) and let it cook for a minute or so. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Goes well with fish and pasta and some parmegiano. Cut the fish in relatively small pieces and mix with the sauce. This hides the fact that it has been reheated.
>>>because my android phone can run it ;-)

Sorry, but no. I've actually had to transfer some AVIs to my LifeDrive (400Mhz CPU) to play them because they'd be cloggy when using vlc on this PC! (Yes, I've scanned for malware; done plenty of officially recommended optimizing stuff -- which, btw, I should have also said I'm at XP SP2, because SP3 made this machine crawl too!)

It could also be I have the crappiest PC on earth, one of very few.
link to a more verbose opinion before and after the cut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWJAkjF9qnY#t=1h14m44s
If you're going to expect the person with the answers to take the mental effort to figure out what the questioner does and does not understand, then I think it's also reasonable to expect the questioner to be honest and say "I don't understand what you just said" when it's true.

You claim it's obvious what the questioner does not know. I claim it's not. This is why teaching is hard. Having the answers is not enough. The hard part is sussing out what the student's incomplete or incorrect understanding is, then guiding them to something more complete and correct. This takes time, patience, and a surprising amount of effort on the part of the teacher. If you don't believe me, then try teaching people with zero programming experience how to program.

When it's someone's job to do that, well, that's their job. Students are often reluctant to say "I don't know what you just said." I had to read their faces to gauge understanding, or I'd have to ask them to repeat back to me, in their own words, what I just explained.

But we're talking about peers. And if peers are going to learn from each other, then there should be an understanding that teaching is hard, and that the person asking the questions has just as much (if not more) of a duty to be honest.
Men don't get taken seriously by default. Almost every man I know has to work pretty hard to be taken seriously, and in my experience reputation is the overwhelming factor anyway. If you've got a good reputation you'll tend to get a favorable bias, otherwise you won't.
This is a good idea, but maybe there's a way for you to display some data before signing up? Right now, there's nothing on the site at all except for the form requesting my information. After I submit it, there's a message there's not enough data for my address, and a request for email. At this point, it would be helpful to see what exactly I'm signing up for.

Maybe examples for different addresses, or average data per neighborhood? I recently was looking for a new apartment, and I found this very useful: http://www.tregny.com/manhattan_rental_market_report
I read once that in Heaven there are two golden thrones waiting for the first business partners who die liking each other.

Those thrones are empty.

So, to the fullest extent possible, don't worry about it.
You're right, I'll do that next time.

I didn't get the kind of discussion I was interested in last time, so I thought I'd try a second time. Not "over and over." A second time.
Where's the London version?
;-P
If I've never lived in NYC, or am planning to move there, there is no way for this to be useful to me. Let us see the data once you've gotten enough without putting anything in. Or do it glassdoor style where you only partially see data.
Yes I've noticed that in the "Women in IT" phenomenon. That doesn't really explain tech startups, though. All the Indian and Chinese engineers I know work for established, stable companies.
I didn't really like that SMBC comic. Boys play with dolls too, we just call them action figures. There are an infinite amount of stories you can make out of Barbies or GI Joes or whatever. Furthermore, what about crayons? Paints? Again there are infinite possibilities and I don't think these toys are particularly gendered.

However, it is true that "building" type toys are generally marketed to boys only, and that's got to be a factor.

One interesting data point; lately they've been marketing a Barbie with a tiny camera (concealed as a pendant necklace) and LCD screen on the back. Apparently many boys think this is "creepy", but many girls instantly see the possibilities of making movies from Barbie's point of view.

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/lights-camera...
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Couldn't you scrape craigslist at least for some basic information about each neighborhood?
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Perceived risk is the metric to look at here, but I think you probably know that.
It's "offensively wrong" because the author (a male) is striving for an image of being genuinely sympathetic to The Plight. "Look at me, I'm so understanding."
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Agreed. A simple one-image visualization example (can be part of design/background, even) of what you'll send me when you're done collecting data would go a long way to explaining what you're doing, exactly.
What makes you think I didn't notice that?

How could anyone miss that, given the steady influx of facebook stories esp. on HN?

So what did Jasons dramatic little speech add here?

Yea, fire is hot and facebook has probably no problem screwing you over when they get an opportunity. Say what, captain obvious!
Ask HN: What technologies one should learn?
What are the most recent technologies being used by startups and other companies (e.g: Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) ?

e.g: MongoDB, Cassandra, etc
Heck, if I go cycling in the morning and don't drink enough I can be 4kg heavier after dinner that day than right after cycling.
You described it in very negative terms, but I don't think it's necessarily that way. Humans are social creatures, and can't help it but judge someone they have no other information about based on the clothes.

If you're happy because you're dressed well, it doesn't have to mean you're "smug" - taking care of your looks shows that you care about other people's quality of interaction with you - everybody would rather interact with a person dressed nicely as opposed to if the same person dressed like a bum.

Also, there's something to be said about a confidence boost that you get knowing you're looking well kept. Most geeks will happily ignore all these points, but I think that's a mistake.
>Sorry I managed to offend you ..

I find it offensive because you're wrong and the people here are modding you up. I'm not crying into my soup or anything.

;0)

Thanks for your caring comment though.
From the translation I read, it seemed more like he was sorry that he wasn't well enough to say goodbye in person to all of his friends.
I don't like Jason much, and I think his argument is unconvincing.

But when I heard of the YC/Facebook stuff it struck me immediately as a bad idea. It feels like a shift towards lock in. It's encouraging startups to build on a specific platform rather than supporting more open standards.

It also feels a lot like the idea that YC is aiming for the social "Facebook app" space; which, I agree, is a great (and fast) money spinner, but it's hardly revolutionary :)

Just my 2p.