skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just recently moved from the US, where my own company is based, to France, where my wife is from. I am still learning about the complications, but I can tell you of some of the challenges I've already dealt with:

Currency exchange: rates fluctuate on a regular basis and that makes budgeting a challenge. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose depending on how the currencies move.

Insurance: health insurance by a provider that is outside your country of residence is going to result in some hurdles. You'll have to pay close attention to what your providers rules are for coverage outside of your country.

Visas: as long as you only stay long enough to stay qualified as a visitor then visas are probably going to be a non-issue. Once you exceed the amount of time allowed as a visitor then you have to deal with that countries rules for visas and they differ from country to country.

Cash, check and credit: acceptance of credit cards and checks in foreign countries will very. Banks tend to charge fees for withdrawing money in other countries so be prepared to eat those fees. Often it is easiest to just use cash, so take enough to get started and have a plan on how to get more while you're there, i.e. figure out where the cash machines are, if they accept your cards and what the fees are.

Tax: IANAL nor am I an accountant or tax specialist and I am not sure how it works in the UK. Having said that, the US is a bit odd in that they tax their citizens worldwide, so no matter where I live I will have to pay US taxes. If I am a resident in another country then I'll likely have to pay taxes there as well and then try to get a credit in the US for taxes paid overseas. It's still early for me on this one so I'm not sure exactly how taxes will pay out.

I hope this helps. Basically my suggestion is retain your UK residence and take extended "vacations" in countries you want to visit - it'll be a lot less of a hassle then trying to immigrate.
Good point about GEB. I actually read this when I was about 17-18 and it had a very profound effect on me and my understanding of computers and the mind. That said, I'm not sure I could get through it now (>10 yrs later). I think a lot of books need to be read at the right time in ones' life to be properly appreciated.
Definitely a niche topics... The issue is with Googling will most likely to bring back USA/UK websites, and not the tons of Russian, Spanish and Chinese related websites on the same niche topic which still bring in loads of traffic. Missing out quite a bit of cheap traffic there.

Anyone got any idea how to solve this? Most of the time, I will use site:.eu or site:.co.jp to limit the search, but then again, it is not in its native language/context, the results are often not relevant. :(
in portugese?
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I don't even use gmail to communicate with friends and family anymore. Hell, usually I don't even call them. Facebook is the only way.
I primarily am doing Xcode development.

So vim is simply set as my editor, with CoccaVim plugin installed. Xcode manages the builds, etc, but otherwise I'm in vim.

There are plenty of plugins that give you "all a boy could ask for" as far as development resources.

Go through vim tutor for a bit to get the NEXT level of commands down. Once you get used to typing replace commands and moving about by words etc, you'll possibly think it "powerful enough".
I don't think it was meant so much as a zinger. It was more of an outsider's clueful view of what the Zuckerberg character has been doing wrong all those years. Judging by the portrayal in the movie, the Zuckerberg character actually has been trying really hard to be an asshole -- emulating the Sean Parker character when that role model stepped into view. Of course, he was initially told he was an asshole before meeting Parker; it seems he was aiming for that kind of sense of superiority before, though in a less focused manner, perhaps by trying to achieve a level of "cool" in general that was informed by the "coolness" of the assholes around him at Harvard. The Parker character just stepped neatly into the role of The Perfect Asshole for the Zuckerberg character.

Note that I refer to the characters, and particularly to the Zuckerberg character. I do not know enough about Parker to make any guesses about whether he is anything like the character in this movie. I also think that the real Zuckerberg either is not simply trying to be an asshole, but rather is an asshole, or has tried hard and long enough that he succeeded. Zuckerberg's now-famous quote about The Facebook's early users being dumbfucks for "trusting" him suggests he was an asshole from day one.
Funny I never thought about Google buying a media company. But I disagree with Cringly on one point. Buying Time Warner actually would, in some ways, be a better deal for Google then buying the media arm (AOL). The upside in buying Time Warner is that Google would get control of the cable pipes of the second largest cable company in the US (and the 3rd largest ISP). That's a lot of bandwidth to peoples homes the could get control of. It would give them a ton of leverage in the Net Neutrality argument. As well as tie nicely into their existing plans with YouTube and Google TV. I haven't looked into the AOL/Time Warner financials but if I had to guess TW is also the more profitable arm.
Fixed wiki with a simple redirect.

You're welcome :)
This for ww?
What does it mean that I discarded Combat Arms once I tried out Modern Warfare 2? If I were to take a stab at this analogy, I would suggest that better businessmen change the nature of the game in order to achieve greater success or break new ground.

But maybe there is something different going on here. CA is free to play while MW2 costs $60 for the game and $300 for a system; we learn from this that you will find less shady people in the system when the system comes with a price tag.
One Should Know How to Make a Cover Page for This Creates the First Impression
Students should never assume that the research paper cover page does not get graded. In the process of research paper writing, the cover page also plays an important part. Therefore, students should pay the same amount of attention to their cover pages.
Many people have thought this (John Hantz), but there's a reason it hasn't begun. The cost of cleaning up the land is too great to start cost-competitive large scale farms.
I'd be interested in paying $1 for each sign up an affiliate sends my way to http://anynewbooks.com. Would this system work for me?
I've done it for a couple of years (5 in all), from the Netherlands to Canada.

It cost an arm and a leg, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

As for taxes, the rule in my case was that as soon as I spent more than half a year per year in the one country that one became the one where I paid my taxes.

I did create a corporation in Canada in order to have a bigger footprint and to help with the immigration process. Eventually moved back to Europe because the immigration process seemed to take for ever (of course, two weeks after letting everybody go and moving back to Europe we received permission to become landed immigrants).

I wouldn't do it again with the same country, but really, it was a very nice time.

If an opportunity presents itself to move abroad again I'll probably take it (as long as it is not the USA or Canada).

Nothing broadens your horizons and teaches you stuff than moving to different places on the planet.

Asia in 2013? Who knows ;)

Earning money online made stuff considerably easier, it meant that no matter how rotten the local economy was there was always food on the table and transportation.

Health insurance is different per country so you'd better check in to that in serious detail before you make your move, there can be all kinds of limitations and liabilities if you mess that up.
This article is non sense. Techcrunch $7.5m ?? The only goal of Cringely here is to brag that Mark Cuban was interest to buy a part of his business...

Even Calacanis said that Techcrunch worth around $25m...
hmm, I'm not really sure he was inspired by Hemingway in any meaningful way. Perhaps purely by coincidence is that true, with Hemingway winning the nobel prize a few years before this letter was mailed, and thompson actively copied heminway's work, as well as several other novels, in order to learn more about writing style, though he never published any plagiarized work.

Hemingway was a traditional, fiction, novelist and focused on his characters. Thompson defied (edit: was defined, oops) 100s of years of traditional writing (both novel and newspaper) by inventing so called 'gonzo' journalism. The man openly included his own personal life directly into all of this work, including this letter. He also, never worked in canada.

While I hold both men in high regard, the only parallels between these two men are the facts they both were journalists and authors (and drunks), since that's true for almost every published journalist, it's a thin comparison at best.
The popularity is surprising; the success is still to be proven (how?). But you are right, its popularity can’t be ignored.
Leave the sunglasses off. It helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXw4qqQqTrY
Would be interested to hear how many funded entrepreneurs on HN were able to cash out some shares at any point in their company's history (similar to what the Foursquare guys did)...
San Francisco is possibly the easiest place to find available straight women on earth, is this necessary?
Even Calacanis said that Techcrunch worth around $25m...

Of course he did - that's what he sold Weblogs Inc to them for...
You have to view it as a thought experiment -

only individual freedom matters -> libertarianism

only equality matters -> communism

only arbitrary values and efficient pursuit of them matter -> fascism

behind every form of government lurks an oligarchy that has to make workable tradeoffs between those ideals, while of course pursuing their own interests
I found the receipt-entering and thing-tagging useful in and of itself. The auto-labeling was awesome for watching my accounts - you generally only had to label/tag a business once.

I vastly, vastly prefer Wesabe's auto-labeling system to Mint's POS labeling. On Mint, any transaction from Chili Ave (a major road) gets autolabeled as Chili's, the restaurant - and so on. It makes Mint worse than useless for me. I get better info logging onto my bank's 90s era site.
It's not clear to me that legalization of those drugs would have the same effect as doing something else with the intent to encourage use of them. However, in the case of money, it's a little clearer: the only difference between giving someone extra money when they have another child and replacing money they spend on an extra child is what you say about it.

Now, it's true that what you say about it can have a real effect on choices and outcomes, but we don't really know enough to reliably predict what that effect is in the general case, so for practical purposes, I think we're better off assuming that the effects are negligible.
After just talking about it for a while, I'm finally starting an online campaign to get Khan on the TED stage. He has an idea very much worth spreading. Hell, they even let me speak at TED, so please take a minute or two to nominate Salman Khan here on TED's speaker nomination form: http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker

And if you've got another minute, nominate Paul Graham, too!

(edit: I'm an employee of Y Combinator, making PG my boss, but I'd nominate him regardless of that fact.)
I am a big fan of both Fooled by Randomness and Black swan. I especially love the fallacies he discusses w.r.t. human brain!

I also recommend Sudhir Venkatesh's "Gang Leader For a Day".
The people that I know that run serious businesses using referral systems rolled their own for tight integration and because of privacy issues.

Trusting third parties with the email addresses of all your customers and prospects is not always wise.
Ask HN: Please recommend an open-source SMTP server
We are looking at running an internal SMTP server capable of handling ~40,000 emails per day.

We need to be able to query the server for detailed reports on hard/soft bounces, blocks, spam reports, etc...

We are playing around with implementing our own solution in Perl.

However, I wanted to query for existing solutions before we plowed ahead.

We have been using one of the existing 3rd party mail-delivery solutions. However, our subscriber base is getting to the point where it may be worthwhile to setup our own dedicated server (and IP addres) in our own colo facility.

Thanks!
I think I'll start paying my employees with "relevance checks" instead of real money...if they argue with me I'll just tell them "forget money! just be more relevant!"
Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage
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One of the best books I have read recently is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Amazing story mixed with history and inspiration.
well yes we are discussing her, since you make multiple mentions of her (1st graph, block quote, summary), my comment is about her, and your defense is again, about her.

There have been many figures throughout history who have established similar ideas (the lower class write about people... the upper class write about ideas) but you didn't choose to quote from them, you choose to quote from Ms. Roosevelt.

Essentially, I'm suggesting that you could have pulled any quote about this idea, but you used mrs. roosevelt. I think you did this b/c you admire her and it supports your idea, but you used her as your vehicle.

My point is that it's a mix, and even when trying to advocate that we take the moral high ground and not chit-chat about people, we (wait for it) chit-chat about people. Hence the original statement... "dont you find it ironic"

Regardless, it was a good read. thanks.
IBM High School Will Churn Out IT Pros
It very much depends on the nature of the usage, storage and bandwidth are the big killers for some cloud applications.

For me (live video) the cloud doesn't even get close to being competitive with leased hardware.

1GBit flat rate with 20T of storage goes for about 1200 euros / months, including a quad (or even eight) core machine.
Commission Junction or ShareASale are the two standbys.
http://cj.com

A self-managed type is IDEV affiliate: http://www.idevdirect.com/
I wish :)

No, it's actually for a competitor, I helped put their CDN together.

WW is only about 100K uniques per day, that site is pushing very close to 2 million now.

For ww.com I still use a very old chunk of software called 'yawwws', it takes care of the stills in the index and the index pages themselves. Hopefully we'll be able to phase it out soon for a Yii/memcached/varnish driven combo.
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750728
What Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher get wrong about Harvard—and Facebook.
I'm quite in the same position like you (web business), I tried to go to the US for one year, but the visa progress is hell, too over one year to first tell us it is going to be ok, later revoking it. The US visa system is seriously broken.
Other than that issues, I think its a great idea.
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you can always turn all that off. I always disable spell check and validations since I really only use Eclipse as a glorified text editor.
There are bunches of blogs from those that do this as a lifestyle. Thailand is a pretty popular spot for digital expats.

http://thrillingheroics.com/about
Indeed, what google is doing (caching a page and showing it to the user) is copyright infrigment in some countries. (e.g Belgium, ...).

There hasn't been any case against them but theoriticaly someone could sue them. Who will win is a different story.
I've been to every SS to date and it is by far the best startup conference one can attend. I attend (too) many conferences each year and nothing comes close to the quality of SS. The first one in Boston definitely kicked my ass and made me think bigger.

If you want a taste of SS, I believe you can find recordings of previous years online.
Why not use tags for grouping photos? They're much more flexible.
I so wanna make a pun on his name in regards to this article. The whole conceit is silly. It's like he's crying over spilled milk in regards to perceived relevance vs. actual relevance.
Personally I use emacs, before that it was Kate (+shell). I only use a miniscule subset of emacs' features and I have no intention of learning too much.

Everything I need from a code editor is the ability to open files in tabs, to syntax highlight any random language I use (on an average day I'll be using up to 5+ different languages) and to understand the indentation style for all the languages to ease indentation. Perhaps some bracket matching and that's pretty much it.

But what I seriously, seriously cannot live without is a HUGELY HUGE area for code. The biggest thing I hate in IDE's is that they tack on so many features and toolbars and crap that at the end I'm left with this tiny code editor that leaves me feeling horribly claustrophobic. Sure, I could close all those toolbars, but then why am I wasting resources on them in the first place?

Another thing I hate about IDE's is how egocentric they are. I don't like conforming to some IDE's idea of what my project structure should look like. And I certainly don't like it when they get horribly confused if I move a file through a normal interface instead of the IDE.

As for "keeping the project in my head" that some people mention as a problem when not using an IDE ... I've never found an IDE particularly helpful in that regard. I've actually never found any added value that an IDE would provide ...
While the US will tax you as long as you are a citizen, you can take a credit for any foreign taxes that you already paid on the same income, which should prevent double taxing unless you happen to be in a very low tax country. If you had some kind of business setup to collect the income in the foreign country you could probably keep a lot of profits in the business and not claim much income for yourself, but it is something you'd probably want to talk about with an accountant and is probably different in the UK (I love UK tax forms by the way, so simple compared to ours!)

As for actual experience, I had a great time in Buenos Aires. You get 90 days visitor visa with a US passport and there is a good size population of ex-pats that take a weekend trip to Uruguay when they get close to 90 days, turn around and get another 90. A bunch of them make some cash teaching English and keep it all under the table, which I don't really recommend (I mean they still get you on VAT, but you don't want to mess with any laws in a foreign country if you can help it), but it isn't a bad place to be.
Here's a book: http://www.amazon.com/Patternmaking-Comprehensive-Reference-...

And here's a website: http://vintagesewing.info/

And a good book on textiles: http://www.amazon.com/World-Textiles-Visual-Traditional-Tech...

There are some other books I've read over the years (a couple of them very rare), that I can't seem to find references to. But if you need beyond that, feel free to email me.
I remember hearing stories like this more than once!

Are companies notified before being placed in popular magazines such as O? This way they can strategize for the impending possible swarm of orders and don't regret their mistake of not 'being ready'.

If not, maybe they should be so the use of the 'snippet' is used to its full potential and readers can actually place an order with the company - its a win-win situation for small company and O. (Readers who fear that all these links are fails will not trust the magazine anymore)

Make sense?
http://zferral.com/ has an easy build-it-yourself referral system.
this is an absolutely wonderful read. I stumbled across it about a week ago. Every web developer should at least peruse it.
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I would totally agree with the "extended" vacations it's going to give you less grief then trying to understand tax law in every country. Plus proving to your home country your really living abroad.
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Let me just say from experience that Facebook ads haven't really generated the same type of return as Google ads. The thing about Google ads is that they are really good at capturing demand that is already out there, like for instance in a niche market where people are looking for a particular product or service (example, search "bike" and get advertisements for bikes of different types, etc.)

What I find is that money spent on Google is money spent on trying to get infront of people "who know what they're looking for." With FB, it's sort of the other way around, where you have all these people you can get infront of, but the demand is more opaque, and you're really searching for it instead of capturing established channels like with Google search terms.

All of this is really just chatter, only FB can know how to monetize FB, because they have the data, they have the information required to make a decision on what to do, and chances are, like with Google (remember in the early days they had no business model), they'll figure it out through just sheer luck or chance. What's amazing is that they have gotten this far already.
Interesting that there are so few responses.

Over at http://blogsetup.com , I set up Post Affiliate Pro with some custom PHP code to integrate it so the commission triggers upon fill out of a form, then goes into a "Pending" state until we manually verify it. Post Affiliate Pro is pretty flexible and has a good API for this kind of stuff.

I also looked at iDevAffiliate, but ultimately picked Post Affiliate Pro because it has better SEO on the links and, in general, it had better reviews. The general class of software you are looking for is "affiliate software".
I'm using emacs for GAE projects and I haven't noticed any issues. Django lets you deploy/test from the command line, same goes for Java.

Then again, I do always keep a shell open when I'm coding to run tests and stuff.