skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am out. I have been gone for many years and just keep watching it from a distance. I am not touching that country with a 10 foot pole. I don't want to go near it. I recently payed a higher price for a plane ticket just not to have to connect through Moscow.

Capitalist economy + corrupt judicial system + corrupt government officials at all level = hell for businesses.

You cannot do anything unless you bribe or do something illegal. Then if you become successful, both the mafia and the corrupt govt officials come after you. The police threaten to press charges, the mafia offer protection from the charges. You are fucked either way.
The P≠NP "Proof" Is One Week Old
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning
^^this.

Web Developer: Backend. Databases, app-logic, server

Web Designer: Frontend. HTML\CSS\JavaScript\PNG web graphics

Graphic Designer: Planning. Creates mockups.
They're enterobacteriaceae that are resistant to carbapenems. See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5924a5.htm?s_cid=... for more details.
Where have all the b2b projects gone?
Hi,

Maybe this is just me, but all I hear about these days are start-up stories like someone has received $2 million in funding to develop a new wrapper for Twitter, a geo-tagging application or some app to review how good/bad cup-cakes are at their local bakery type service....in short a lot of social apps.

I don't see many of these companies with solid revenue streams (which is the point, no?), they seem more focused on features & getting users than on generating cash income.

Just take a look on the homepage of techcrunch for an example of what I mean, its all android, iphone, twitter, facebook, google vs oracle articles and the occasional mention of a corporate boehmite - nothing about startup / young b2b companies.

What happened to all of the business 2 business / non-retail applications? Maybe these are not as sexy or as exciting to talk about, but they do tend to be more tangible, generate long term lasting revenue & jobs, personally I also tend to find the stories behind b2b development companies far more interesting.
It's a contest basically, not a state-wide support program:

>The pilot program will select 25 entrepreneurs and offer them a 1-yr resident visa, a USD 40k grant to cover expenses for six months and local network and support.
Cut the free atoms to 60. Charge $1 more for Calendar or Google apps integration. Charge $3 more for SMS notification/forwarding, allow them to post from their phones. Add atom sharing and give it away for free. Add a mechanism to allow people to make their atoms public, or invite others into edit/ownership roles.

Anything that adds convenience for 1 user you should charge for. Anything that invites others to use/consume the service, you should give away for free.

Don't forget the footer in atoms to say "Created with Atombox; make your own atoms aye href equals quote http://atombox.com quote AtomBox end-aye.
I'm guessing that there were few people living there? The idea is people walk out their door and find amenities like cafes and grocers within a few blocks. If people have to drive, park, then walk into a pedestrian zone, then many will choose to go elsewhere.
> out of here in 2011

Where to?
You probably already know that the US is pushing other country to develop active filtering of internet during the negotiation of the ACTA treaty.

http://www.laquadrature.net/acta
About the CAPTCHA: a point well-taken. We'll change that.

Thanks for taking a look!
That is not difficult to handle in bash. The expectation going in should be that individual computations and even computers might fail in ways that keep them from reporting failure, at which point the fact that it is written in a language running on a VM with a poor memory manager (as it really wasn't designed for this kind of stress, and rapidly dominates RAM and fragments its heap to hell) is not a problem. (This happens to be a sore point of mine, as I had a rather unenlightened professor in grad school who refused to believe I could effectively solve this one massive distributed problem that came up with a "simple shell script for doing the distribution", giving me a bad grade in his class and never forgiving me for having made the claim. This being despite the fact that I then sent him the finished result three days later, having narrowed the search space with some light intelligence enough to have gotten the same answer his system took a week to do on better hardware, and his beloved not-a-shell-script. sigh ;P)
>You spend so much time worrying about congestion, but we have so much open space here that it's simply not an issue.

Ever been to LA, Houston, Atlanta?
The term usually used is "harmful content" (in the sense it hinders the network to function properly).
Withdrew is incorrect. It appears that Ikea suspended further investments, but still continues to operate existing stores.

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_ikea/facts_and_figures/ik...
i guess you're marketing it to GTD fans, because you officially alienated me because i've never read GTD. have you posted it on GTD forums? how is your GTD adwords campaign doing, what's your CoCa? what kind of a dashboard do you have assembled for keeping track of your metrics?
Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but : are smartphones ( iPhone/Blackberry/Android...) popular in Chile ? It could be useful to know for entrepreneurs targeting mobile products.
And huge earthquakes.

Edit: for those downvoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
I think what's more relevant is the fact that the motorized way of living simply cannot continue forever because it's not based on any kind of sustainable economy and given that, the whole thing is going to come down crashing either now and slowly, or later but with a big bang.
Ad hominem, I'm not going to bother to answer that.
If a lot of people were abusing the system to get undue money from employers, knowing it would cost the employers far less to settle than to fight, then that's obviously bad. However, this type of regulation seems like it now swings the entire system in favor of the employers rather than neutralizing the problem.

In other words, people who actually were wrongfully withheld their just pay will now greatly fear losing even if they know they were wronged, and so the employers have less to fear by wrongfully withholding pay. It seems to me there should be a separate judgement as to whether or not the claimants accusations were fraudulant or malicious, separate from whether or not they lost the claim itself, before imposing this harsh penalty.
I'm really beginning to hate that argument form more than Affirming the Consequent. What exactly do you think you've demonstrated? What valuable point have you established?
Ask HN: Please review my weekend project: signal
A couple of weeks ago I hacked together a small link blog to capture interesting pages and share them with friends. Revisiting it today I'm curious what thoughts folks have about what's useful and not useful in this first version. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

http://www.findsignal.com
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Theoretically, even the most egoistical government whose only purpose is to get more for themselves must realize that in order to preserve its welfare it must make sure the citizens are doing fine.

Sadly, this theory has eluded Russian and Soviet governments for many decades.

However we don't see any changes and I've been puzzled why.

I think, fundamentally, the transition to a society ruled by law is a very long and difficult one. It was long and difficult in the countries where the modern form of the notion originated. It's probably going to be longer and harder elsewhere.
> Tempts me to pull out of the market again [...]

Which is how crashes happen in an imaginary economy.
Although I should add that plane crossings with a return ticket seem to be much more effective at B2s than land crossings, in my experience. (B2 land crossings for me tend to include hour-long interviews in small rooms in the customs garage.)
this is RTFM material and i wish i could downvote it
To some extent, but I don't find it terribly usable in its current form. But at least they're trying.
Uh, lots of people. Visual Studio? That costs rather a lot of money.
Read some Hernando de Soto: http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Ev...

No time to go into depth, and probably won't do it justice, but a good summary would be "Institutions matter". Like it or not, the kind of negative entropy found in the west isn't easy to come by, and trying to build it from nothing most times will fail in strange ways.
That is great to hear. I've heard a few stories on how painful that stuff was to track down and write. Bring up always sucks. This sounds like an excellent way for people to dig into writing kernels without forcing people to write all the bootup code before they can do anything.

How do you do device handoff? Are people restricted to an exokernel model or can they handoff to a macrokernel kexec style?

(VMware used to use the Linux kernel to take care of init before they wrote it themselves, so there's definitely a need for this type of thing, even beyond hobbyist.)
Net Neutrality: A Better Way to Keep the Net Open and Accessible
My casual estimate as a Chilean: A lot of the more tech-savvy/well-off people have iphones. There's a handful of Blackberries out there and virtually no Androids. Most people have dumb-phones.
Don't you think it's something like the following: think of a country's economy as a technology stack. You need to have the base levels of the stack in place before you can make more abstract things.

In places like Africa and India, there's a lot of access via mobile phones. But there's also a lot of missing pieces: transporation goods and services, smartphones, etc.

It seems to me like there's a lot of opportunity for media startups in both places, but that actual monetization is difficult because there isn't much in the way of ecommerce (due to logistical issues) and there isn't much in the way of advertising (because there's a lack of a base level of businesses to support it).

As for going global from a place like Africa: totally possible. But most startups follow a plan of succeeding at something small first.

I also think that Africa is going to leapfrog certain stages of technology / development and not others. For example, mobile banking in Africa is more widespread than it is in the US. My guess is that the first huge ecommerce company in Africa will be some weird hybrid of mobile, local, and banking infrastructure that people already trust.
Security: The connection between you and Atombox is always secure (SSL).

Backups: All of your data is backed up every hour.

So the actual connection is encrypted, but then everything is backed up every hour. How secure are the backups. Are they encrypted as well? How are they stored? Who has access?

EDIT: Also I didn't realize that GTD and "Getting Things Done" were registered trademarks. That's crazy. You can't say your site helps with GTD without attributing the trademark? It seems like that would almost fall under the ubiquitous vocabulary clause that would invalidate trademark at this point.
For those not subscribed, google search does the trick: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=A+Better+Way+to+Kee...
With OAuth and login cookies, it's even easier now than it was when FriendFeed began, but still requires one click to add a service, and a clicking on "Allow" at the end site. Once that's done, a good product should be able to centralize the contacts and social data/activities.
Chilean here. Smartphones are very popular already. Blackberries used to be popular only among executives, and the first iPhones where very expensive, but they're way more common nowadays. I don't have numbers, but I'd say that in Chile the Blackberries and iPhones have the most of the market, in that order.
Thanks for the suggestions!

Yeah, we weren't sure about how many atoms to allow for free, so we just picked 128. I have over 1200 atoms that I've accumulated over the years, and so I thought something like 10% of that would be a good "tipping point", so to speak. It's an experiment.

We're also not married to this approach for making revenue. We'll have to see...
Which is Better to Work for? Google or Facebook?
What do you mean by old school?
I think the contradiction is that what makes for a successful startup within Africa (scratch our own itches) doesn't necessarily translate well to the developed world. The examples you mentioned, such as monitoring elections and disaster response would do very well in developing countries, but they aren't necessary in countries like the US or UK. I think that's what PG was suggesting.
iPhone and Blackberry have some market penetration. I can't say whether it's too low or enough to run a mobile business like to sell applications.

General Data: http://www.subtel.cl/prontus_subtel/site/artic/20100608/asoc...
You may recognize the author from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A
http://www.a-pesni.golosa.info/dvor/sovtraktor.htm
1) On an average anything that usually pays better money would require more hardwork.

2) There are more engineering jobs than jobs for economists, inspite of the recent layoffs because of the recession. I would feel safe saying that would remain so far into the future. (The recessions and depressions are an inevitable part of the economic cycle - they will always be there)

3) I believe the median pay for an engineer would be more than the median pay for an economist of comparable experience and proficiency(as in skill).

4) I agree with what nostrademons says, and to further go in that direction, the average pay of the top 1 percentile of economists may probably be higher than that of the 1 percentile of engineers, but if that percentile to be considered were to be raised to even just the top 10%, then I would imagine the average pay of the engineers would be higher than that of the economists.

5) Guess who are hired more at companies like google, microsoft, qualcomm, apple, etc, engineers or economists?
The article doesn't make it very clear, but Shiller's number is based on the average inflation-adjusted earnings of the previous 10 years.

See the Excel file here:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm

The stock market is still very highly priced compared to historical standards (excluding the past 15 or so years).

See also the graphs on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shiller
I am actually very excited by opportunities in Africa, but I know nothing about marketing to Africans. For example, out of the 110 million connected online, what percentage of them are willing to pay for goods and services online? How do you accept payment from an African user? How do most people access the Internet? What sort of social media sharing is most popular - Twitter, Facebook, texting, Skype ...?
I watched an interview with President Medvedev in which problems like corruption were brought up. It seemed like he is taking a long term view of improving conditions in Russia, which makes sense to me, because it's not possible to transition to the kind of democracy with limited corruption we see in the U.S. overnight. What do you think of the actions or non-actions of the current Russian leadership? Are they at least on a path toward improving the situation?

Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZLhqDEnSo&feature=playe...
btw, in spite of the $2-3/hour engineers in China and India, there are a lot of engineers being hired in the US, good pay too.

And the well paid economists, get well paid only because they work hard enough to get into the best colleges and work hard enough to crack the toughest interviews.

:)

Cheers
I am just a bit curious is this made in rails?
Yes, we are focusing on fairly technically adept people that do GTD and tend to use web apps already. We think Atombox is useful even if you don't do GTD, but we're focusing on GTD users.

I'm on the http://www.davidco.com forums and we are running a limited AdWords campaign.

We don't track metrics closely yet because we're trying to talk to people directly rather than trying to spark a mass influx.
Python/Javascript - Deferred Processing trick/hack
Actually around equator is mostly sea. And land space is rather irregularly distributed over the earth.
I think it is possible to have a ws server listening on the same port (and even path) as an http server, hence it shouldn't really matter.

And if you really care, you could make a http forwarding proxy with node to forward normal http requests through to your app if it's written in something else, but deal with websockets itself.
To clarify, 'bike' refers to a motorcycle, and the iPhone would probably be useless in the backcountry where I'd be using it. Plus if I bin the bike in a river, the iPhone sure as heck won't survive.

Phone alarm clocks are not nearly as effective as my real alarm clock at waking me up; my alarm clock is LOUD and PIERCING and ANNOYING- but I do sleep like a log.

As for calculator, I see that the iPhone can be a scientific calculator, but from the looks of things, I'd still prefer to have my $10 calc in my hands when I'm designing something. That, and/or matlab.
Sometimes, what goes around...
So they shouldn't be interested in learning about it?
Ask HN: Please review our startup: historious
historious is basically a search engine for sites you have bookmarked. Think of it as a cross between delicious and google, you bookmark something and the entire content of the page becomes searchable.

It's at http://historio.us/

I have posted it here once before, and you guys were very helpful, giving a deluge of very good suggestions. Right now I'd like to ask for your opinion on the pricing model.

Our model right now is a free option, which has a limit of 1000 bookmarks for a month, and then it becomes unlimited. This is to avoid people coming in, importing their 20,000 bookmarks and leaving, never to return.

There are also some extra features here: http://historio.us/pricing/

The main problem, and what we'd like your feedback on, is that every bookmark a user adds is expensive, as we have to store the entire page. Right now the service is profitable, but we'd like to improve it so we can scale it better.

What features would make you pay for it? What sort of things would turn you away from it as a free user with a mind to convert later on?

A good point we heard for not having a bookmark limit is that, even with 1,000 bookmarks, users would think twice before bookmarking something, and we don't want that.

Any feedback you could give is greatly appreciated!
Could you reduce the noise by having the accumulator (W in the below) support HTML generation methods?

@weby.template()
def index(W):
with W.html():
with W.head():
W.title('Hello, world')
with W.body():
W.h1('Hello, world')
W.p('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet')
with W.ul():
W.li('Lorem')
W.li('Ipsum')
W.li('Dolor')
with W.div(className='footer'):
W.p('foo bar baz bim')

A smaller win is to use keyword arguments (instead of passing a dict).
Once a brilliant resource, now mostly a waste of space and time. About 10% of the pages are semi-worth reading, but good luck trying to find them. they're swamped by special interests, the winners being who shouts the loudest and longest.
It's over two weeks, but FWIW here it goes:

I got fed up of searching for CPU instructions and compiler intrinsics in Google. You get mostly pointless forum discussions or MFA kind of results.

Same happens with many other technical searches. It looks like the secret pagerank is gamed from both inside and outside.

Note: DDG's search is Yahoo Boss/Bing.
It's one of the default themes from Roxen webserver (roxen.com).
All-round genius Nathan Myhrvold shows a classroom a preview on his new tome on the science of cooking, obtained with state of the art techniques. Great video thanks!
The point isn't to reduce prices, the point is to make sure that prices accurately reflect costs. In this case, prices do not reflect the cost of parking, which lets some people get away with not paying for land in the city, even though they use land in the city.

If this increases prices, that's good, because it lets people more accurately understand the cost of their habitation and transportation.

Alternately, if that's bad, I think the burden of proof is on you to show why inaccurate pricing results in more wealth overall.
All I have to say is... Duh. Everyone knows the liquidity dried up. Since when is it the traders fault to stop trading? No trader, unless they are incented with information or reduced prices (for example, NYSE Specialists), are required to trade.
More than doomsday, they play to fears. Back in 2005 it was about DOW 30k and how what a gem real estate was. The fear then was to being "priced out forever". Buy now or lose out, because your puny income won't compare with how much a 100 square foot shack costs in 10 years.

Now its about DOW 1k and losing everything you own.
Any laser will damage your eyes irregardless if the infra-red.
Part of the problem might be that solutions that work for US startups (and therefore are assumed to be defacto global solutions) might not work in Africa. The usual promotional tools for a website are to get a blog up, build your followers on Twitter, try to get covered by Techcrunch etc. None of this is going to be anywhere near as effective in Africa. It's probably not cool - but perhaps African (and all developing world) entrepreneurs should look back to see how Web 1.0 sites built audiences - ebay, paypal, god forbid... even Yahoo.

Edit: I think it's taken as a given that this extends to the technical too. While we're all bitching about IE6 and drinking our Ajax goodness from the cup of rails, it's easy to forget that there are guys who should be banging out sites in 800 x 600 optimized for dialup.
Updating the samsung 8500l wave phone, not likely for the US
Beware the blanket assumption of 'gridlock is good". Gridlock in DC is good when it meant the rate of damage done is scaled back. It's not good when it means hard choices (spending reductions) aren't made. I read 'gridlock' as more of the same: kicking the can down the road, more pork, etc.

But, I'm kidding myself to think that DC would make the hard choices.
We aren't talking ourselves into a crash, we're spending ourselves into a crash by allocating the funds for rebuilding the economy to those that destroyed it and hoping that they don't decide to make the same mistakes again.
Wishful thinking can't save an economy, but it can create a bubble.
We attribute the "GTD" and "Getting Things Done" trademark at the bottom of the page:

"'GTD' and 'Getting Things Done' are registered trademarks of the David Allen Corporation."
Dawkins Breaks Science Barrier
I think they're still around, but like you said, they're not as exciting to talk about...

So as you'd expect, less people are talking about them
As someone watching from outside, it seems to me there is a need for better solutions in the "monitoring elections" and "disaster response" spaces in the US, too..
The final destination for me is US, the path may vary.
Check out the end of this page: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/10/27/

It's a great example of "Nerd Sniping": http://xkcd.com/356/