skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might consider asking for a zip code rather than a city. I personally live in an unincorporated area of Saint Louis county, and I was quite tempted to name one of the three surrounding suburbs (all of which are politically considered a city). While the decision to just put down "Saint Louis" came easily, I'm wondering how much internal debate I would have had had I lived in an unincorporated area in the middle of nowhere.

And then, of course, there's also the reason that just typing in a zip code is easier.
Decouple the "look at a single user" action from the "look at all users in a region" action. Maybe add a link in the bubble that takes you to a page with all the users in the same state?
Innovator evening goes to the dogs
Explanation of Haskell Currying
Meet the Next Billionaires
How power consumption will shape the future of computing
And the rest of the world
Hack Week: an experiment in innovation
Ringtones in your home: a review of Ringboxx
Hakia: semantic search... set to music
Public education isn't for the children -- it's for the market.

A modest amount of public education protects against small scale market inefficiencies -- quacks selling poison, the illiterate being defrauded by their employers -- thus liberating a lot of spending power which is gobbled up by large scale, centralized market inefficiencies -- the myth of cancer treatment, the American college system, the legally sophisticated defrauding their employees.

There is no incentive for the really wealthy -- the people with the people's taxes, their work hours, their confidence -- to put money into education that would only make them harder to control.

Knowledge arises as a sort of after thought, and scholarship is a hobby; only in cases where the information asymmetry can be turned to advantage -- in religion, in technology, even in education itself -- does the scholar become a professional. Maybe the wise would be better off hiding their talent instead of making it available for institutional use?
That has much to do with connections as it has to do with ability.
For the rest of the world and/or the US, just let people type in a location that works on google maps (city, country/zip code/even street address). Then geocode it with Gmaps API, and use that lat/lon to display thereafter.
"... find other Y Combinator readers in your area ..."

Didn't work for me. Does anyone below the equator get listed? ~ Melb, Aus. Is there any other way to submit your location aside from form submit? What about a set of lat/lons, or selection by clicking on the map, or a drop down for instance?

There's gotta be more ways to enter than just by IP. I can understand the reasoning as it's verifiable but it should probably used to weight user entry of data.
What are you guys talking about? Can you list more than 10 sites in the past few months that were that informative. Yes, startup news is important, but we can't have submissions like "how to start your company" every day, because they tend to be the same thing. I enjoy this new take on things, starting the company is the easy part. Having the knowledge at the right time is the hard part. This is also a good way for people to get connected. I possibly need a partner for my startup (based on PG's advice) so maybe I'll find my partner here.
If you mean littered as in spread randomly and being worthless then sure. Plenty of massive assertions in that Dyson's piece with no facts, no figures and no cites.
Google Wins the Most Hearts on the Web
I like the three paragraph "Problem statement". I prefer my problem statements more to the point. Examples:

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Subject: Fire.

Problem statement: Burns

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Subject: Water.

Problem statement: Unbreatheable.

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Subject: Social Networks.

Problem statement: Flash in pan.
>She doesn't believe in evolution.

You don't have to believe in evolution, you just have to be able to understand that the facts have supported this theory enough to the point in where you "believe" in anything else you're probably wrong. You don't think it is wrong for an instructor to hold such beliefs? I guess we should have doctors who don't believe in bacteria or scientists who believe in gravity.

The good days of Reddit anyways were when it was comprised of just computer scientists who happen to be Atheists.
We're wasting a lot of time, time is money! We are trying to start our own companies, and come here for meeting people and learning. This doesn't fall in either category. We don't have a lot of time in starting our companies, but I guess this is good because while you guys are being distracted by all this, I'll have read the important links and maybe make some breakthrough in my "killer app".
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science 
this djikstra classic teaches us some very important lessons about the nature of our craft
I did my PhD in comp sci because I absolutely loved solving CS problems and I wanted the respect a PhD brings. Yep, that second reason is as stupid as it sounds, but I couldn't really consider doing anything else until I'd climbed that mountain education put in front of me. If you can't stop yourself doing a PhD, then go ahead and do it quick. Its exactly as frustrating as this article makes out, and CS academia is as about as crap that unqualified rant made it sound a few days ago.

For the record I did my PhD in graphics, and while its a maths heavy field, so are so many others, it really depends on what kind of maths you're into.
Also see:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=76381
there is no way to delete entries -- i created 3 by accident -- and also no way to delete entries when you don't want you location connected your username anymore.
Hi
Thanks for the critques.
I beleive reasons for hiring virtual team with GeniTeam will have following pluses
1. Allow enterprenuers to develop cost effective solutions, while bootstrapping
2. I guess, trust is generally built based on success stories. For Rich Internet Application, we do have good work with various startups.

What do you think, should be done to get use a better feel of service?
I realize that it is lacking in some features, but I wasn't sure it would be used, so I only spent a few hours making it. More to come.
"I think the more likely singularity is biological singularity, when individual human consciousnesses become immortal."

OK, why? Seems like we'd at least be able to get Strong AI by the crappy brute force way by reverse engineering a human brain before that. Your crappily reverse engineered human brain could then be used to design a proper Strong AI, and we're back to Strong AI being the key ingredient for a Singularity.

Why is it that you think developing a Strong AI is less likely than us being able to copy, accelerate, and immortalize a human brain?

"A single human thinking about a problem for 10 million years should be able so solve pretty much anything."

What's the justification for this claim? Last I checked, humans brains have finite capacity and cannot recursively self-improve (in the sense of modifying their architecture and structure).
And I'll go ahead and delete the first two users you created.
I'm an atheist too, but I'd rather read comments that are more interesting than potshots at Kansas.
When Contest Winners Can't Afford the Prize
You forgot about Poland.
This is like a firsthand account of a company I know.
I think its fine - anyone who things otherwise will find plenty of non editor places to hang out on the net.
I will try to answer the questions, to best of my knowledge.
I understand traditional outsourcing has been detrimental to product development, and probably worked well for business process outsourcing. At GeniTeam, with a focus on high-tech startup, the processes and models are totally different to traditional outsourcing firms. I believe a dozen success stories will definitely help people give the model a thought.
Hosting virtual team in Pakistan provided us with access to untapped skilled labor resources. With the recent surge in demand for skilled IT resources, startups won't be able to recruit resources within US; hence companies relying on innovative solutions to meet HR demands will get definitely get sustainable advantage.
Despite the fact of my upbringing in Pakistan, the experience has been very good. The good universities in Pakistan e.g. LUMS, FAST, GIKI etc, builds basic problem solving skills, that can be applied across various problems. To instantiate the argument, I will share with you that our resources are working on ahead of curve technologies, i.e. Flex 2.0, Open Laszlo, Google Gears etc, for which it's even hard to find resources in USA.
Alright, I can't defend what I wrote because I wrote it while somewhat inebriated and these things are never as coherent the next morning... maybe I should avoid trolling on news.yc in such states, it's gotten me into trouble before. :)

I have absolutely no justification for why Strong AI is less likely than immortality. I think it's wishful thinking on my part because I have a paranoid fear that a strong AI would freeze humanity at its current level of evolution. In other words, I think a far future society with infinitely intelligent humans is much more desirable than a far future society with dumb humans governed by a God-like AI.

The most likely path to immortality that I see is allowing consciousness uploads. I think reverse engineering a brain would give us the knowledge to accomplish such a task. Perhaps there will be some way to merge instead of upload so that we can maintain our ego/self, but either way, it's a kind of immortality. From a digitized human consciousness, Strong AI should come pretty quickly, as the digitized human or outsiders can start modifying the architecture and structure of copies of uploaded consciousnesses. In this scenario, the technological and biological singularities happen at the same time. Which I guess means that the technological and biological singularities happen together.
Minds, Brains, and Programs
short answer: no
A bootstrap begins with a lot of typing
"... My startup is a webapp, and we have a lot of problems designing the interface ... We think it should all fit in a 1024 x 768 px screen, of course is the screen is bigger than that, The interface will also look good, 800 x 600 screens is just a problem ..."

'we think'? Get a demo out and ask your users what size is best for them. Hint: grab someone for a quick 5min usage test (Joel test, 12 Steps to Better Code) ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
What services would the perfect government provide?
Lots of hackers are libertarians, because there is a lot of logic behind the free market. But I think it's a terrible idea to let the free market handle absolutely everything, as advocated by some libertarians. Free education is a great thing that society offers even if the system isn't perfect. The free market has completely failed with healthcare in the USA. We need police and fire protection. I'm glad that every road isn't a toll road.

Imagine an economically very free society with an average taxrate of 25%. What services should this government provide for free or subsidize?
Didn't work for me either, but this comment thread did. ~ Melb, Aus.
"Venerable analyst John Dvorak, who generally actually understands what he is writing about..."

cough sputter Are you kidding me? Dvorak?

This is the guy who once wrote an article bitching about how the "Idle Process" was sucking up all his CPU cycles in XP. This is the guy who admitted on tape that he trolls for links from Apple fans by writing slanted anti-Apple articles.
Mixing friends and business
Besides a lot of the safety stuff you mentioned, health care for orphans and subsidized college education based off of merit and inability to pay (combined with a co-op, if the education is expensive), not disadvantagedness. I have always been surprised not only by libertarians not talking about this type of stuff, but how mainstream anti-libertarian arguments don't focus on these glaring issues.
An interesting point on healthcare: can you name the major turning point from the days of old when doctors made house calls to today? It is the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid, which permanently distorted the entire health care market. The government is very much involved with our health care system, and the result is growing trouble in health care. Adding more regulation will make it worse - history makes this point quite clearly.

I think government should provide our National Defense, the Justice System, and Police.
Fallacy of the Non-disclosure Agreement
I suspect evolution dealt with 'bad parents' long ago.

My parents certainly weren't bad. Not that they ever did much beyond enrolling and sending me off to public school, but still. If public school wasn't there, I'm sure they wouldn't have left me completely illiterate. In fact I'm sure, and my parents now agree, I would likely have been 'better' schooled if it wasn't for public schools' near complete monopoly on funding and mindshare when and where I grew up.

None of the parents of people I know were 'bad' either, including those of many who insist on using mythical 'bad parents' as excuses for public education. Furthermore, amongst those I have asked, none of them seem to have acquaintances with bad parents, and I have asked enough people, from enough different backgrounds, to be convinced this 'bad parents test' could be applied recursively through all six degrees of separation without turning up more than, at most, some exceedingly rare corner cases. Rare as in at least an order of magnitude below likely available private charity to deal with them.

This doesn't mean I think everyone's parents are equally ambitious on their children's behalf, or equally concerned with educating their child; just that in absence of public schools, almost no parent would completely neglect facilitating any kind of education for their children, whatsoever.
Sounds like interesting argument. But what about processes , that might get the company some advantage? Replication might become easy. But the authors perspective is really strong
I'm surprised Orson Scott Card wrote about that. I knew him only as a sci-fi writter, not a programmer. Maybe it's just his insightful mind that can wrap around many areas of life.
It is because, for each problem/annoyance you have, there are certanly many other people in the world who have it too.

In addition, many of them are exposed to a similar environment so it is probable that they come up with similar solutions.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how many are they, but how many have the will to make it happen. That is what makes all the difference.
I would guess it was due to the previous difficulty of transferring injured people when today it is easily done with ambulance/automobile/helicoptor. Also, back then I imagine people would be far more reluctant to see a doctor so the serious cases only that would possibly prevent people from going in.

Plus, a doctor can't do X-Rays at your house or use his fancy gear.
The past few years I've coded on a laptop, but I got tired of the small screen.

I recently built myself a desktop with 3 monitors: 2x 19" for Left and Right screens and 1x 21" wide screen as a center monitor. I have the center monitor on a Ergotron arm, so I can rotate it. In portait mode, I can have 19 vertical inches code in front of me. It's a joy.

I'll never go back to a laptop for my primary dev machine. I'm so much more productive with my monitors.
Google's latest effort highlights the difference between what it does and what newspapers do
erlang! erlang! erlang!

OK, it's no panacea, but it sure makes things a hell of a lot nicer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%...

http://erlang.org/doc.html

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Software-Concurrent...
That was cool, it actually looked like he slapped Bill Gates though.
Start offering free groups to everyone and anyone you know. Hopefully within a couple of months it'll get some natural traction. Good luck.
dottertrotter made hackrtrackr. That's poetic.

Doh! It couldn't find the location for my IP, and it only allows me to pick my state, but not my city (the textbox that should allow me to enter my city is oddly vanished).
A perfect government would only concern itself with monitoring currency and prisons.
Wasn't this submitted long ago on on ycnews ?
Police, courts and defense, with defense also including the 'most important' vaccinations for all who enter, whether through ports or by birth. Some reasonable upper bounds on the destructiveness of weaponry and toxins sold over the counter are likely also necessary, even for purchasers who haven't per se 'done anything wrong'.

There also need to be some regulation of how individuals use 'commons' like air, water, electromagnetic and sonic spectra etc., as well as land use rules, to avoid one person land locking others, parking their mile long yacht alongside Golden Gate Bridge, blocking bay entry, and such.

Some minimum levels of diplomacy, aimed at providing Americans, both individuals and organizations, 'fair and reasonable' treatment abroad would be nice, as well, especially if backed by military muscle.

I'm sure there is more, but those are the ones I can think of right now.
I thought Hackers News was not supposed to turn into Reddit.
First of all, there isn't much of a free market in health care. There is much regulation, and the current model of requiring corporations give their employees health insurance is flawed. Contrarywise, prices have fallen in cosmetic surgery, the only medical field mostly left to the free market.

(And where did you get the entire that free education means government education? There have been free schools in America since before there was a country called "America.")

Second of all, an economically free society would likely have taxes nowhere near 25%. That's higher than Hong Kong's income tax today, and much higher than America's income tax when income tax was legalized.

I've decided that the bare minimum of government that must be had are the courts (and the power to enforce their rulings). A libertarian society will be highly dependent on contracts; society could not function if you knew a powerful client could refuse to pay and ignore court rulings. I have trouble visualizing a fair, for-profit court system. If competing court systems exist, then how is the court system for a case chosen? Presumably, it would be spelled out in the contract, which gives a perpetual advantage to the vendor. Of course, the buyer could ignore the summons, but said court could force him to arrive and would then rule that it was justified doing so (as it was).

Everything that is not a court can belong to the free market, but that does not mean should. For example, you could purchase the privilege to drive on one company's network of roads, but, barring some major advances in scanning technology and some means of stopping trespassers, the need to enforce that only paid cars use the road would be extraordinarily cumbersome. The best private road system I could see would be to have a monopoly on roads in every region; road companies could then make deals with neighbors for interregional traffic and coerce developments into requiring residents to pay the road company, at the risk of having the road company block access to the development. However, I'm not sure I can trust a private monopoly more than a government monopoly.

Law enforcement is also a good candidate for government control; however, private police forces are not out of the question. There would probably be less overhead to hire police to protect an area rather than individuals, so police might not necessarily turn a blind eye to a homeless man getting mugged (not to mention that said criminal should be caught for the same reason Animal Control kills animals becoming accustomed to attacking humans). However, a system where every five feet is patrolled by a police force with different opinions of what an arrestable offense is is hardly ideal.

Fire protection, another commonly cited candidate for government control, could actually work pretty well privately. A computer can easily check whether a certain building is protected, and the benefits of competition will result. However, one problem is that a fire on an unprotected building endangers adjacent buildings.
It hasn't, yet. How do you propose we make it work?
Yen carry trade, hedge fund scams and why the recession is coming (loss of the entrepreneur)
Where can I find a good designer?
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Why are you glad that every road isn't a toll road? You are imagining that would cost you more, I think. But if you pay X dollars of taxes towards the roads every year, and otherwise would pay Y dollars in tolls, why assume X<Y? In general the free market does things more cheaply/efficiently -- why wouldn't that be true of roads too?

Also, isn't is a bit ridiculous to call government schooling a success? It's failing in a wide variety of practical ways quite apart from any philosophical objection to the government deciding which ideas our kids are supposed to learn.
A death penalty for off-topic open threads?

Intellectual property rights preventing reuse of famous three-letter logins by people without those initials?
I wish your link was accessible without ACM credentials as well but luckily had someone who is a member and could get it for me.

Another one neatly summarizing the salient points is here
http://www.gaon.net/vashti/ps/Gal92a.pdf
Hey, relax, I wasn't being hostile, just pointing out that the feature wasn't useful. The only thing the feature would accomplish is adding bias to a submission. If someone sees that the community disagrees with a submission, they're more likely to think of the submission as "bad" before they read it and not upvote it (and probably they're more likely to downvote it). That will be directly reflected in the comments, causing someone who had nice things to say about the submission to not comment lest his karma take a nosedive.

Unless you're talking about a whole "category" of submissions, in which case I have no idea how to divide submissions into different types.
I love this article. Not because I'm convinced Dyson is right, but more because it helps point out the importance of being an impartial observer if one is to be taken seriously as a scientist. Postmodern academia's focus on activism as a proper, and even encouraged, activity for scientists, have done the field of science great disservice, to the point where many lay people no longer believe even half the stuff being touted by so called scientists. Even the ridiculous evolution debate might not have gotten off the ground were most 'scientists' not so obviously politically partial and vested.

Other than that, if Kurzweil is right about exponential growth and technology, approaching problems possibly solvable by biotech in a lazy fashion may in fact be the wisest of all approaches. Makes me think of the Albert Bartlett quote, "the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
I made two can you delete my second?