skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a code name for central Europe. Which he sadly forgot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
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Ah, I see what you mean. It is rather inelegant, but not that big of a deal, in my opinion...
Plaintext passwords at HN, Reddit, Digg, Slashdot?
I just noticed that Hacker News, Reddit, Digg, and Slashdot all submit login information via plain HTTP, not HTTPS. The login name and password are readily apparent to anyone with a packet sniffer.

This was surprising to me. Am I missing something?

When I checked the login pages of these sites using "Inspect Element" in Safari and saw that they all appeared to submit in plaintext, I assumed that there was some Javascript or something that would override that, but I just logged into all of these sites with a tcpdump capturing the login, and verified that my credentials were indeed in plain text.
If you aren't already, you should join the StartupDigest for shanghai: http://startupdigest.com/

I actually am just leaving back to Canada on Saturday but would have loved a good hacker meetup.

You should also get in contact with Stephen at http://www.dragonbn.com as he knows a LOT of the business/tech crowd in Shanghai.
From personal experience, talent is to be found outside of London. But it's difficult to get them to move to London, they just don't think it's worth a hassle.
There is a reason why so many successfull UK hardware companies are based in Hampshire, Oxford or Cambridge.
Oh I know, hence I called it "cheating"
I do get a fair amount of job offers from startups in London, but they are very inflexible about remote working (I'm in Scotland). Want me to move to London ? Sure, double whatever salary you're offering and I might consider it. Otherwise it would be a big drop in my standard of living - nice big apartment up here for cardboard box down there.

There is a lot of good talent in the UK, the problem is we have a massively over-centralized economy, which is bad for London (way too expensive to live for average workers, and infrastructure straining under excess population) and bad for the rest of the UK (no jobs). Contrast with Germany, which has a more distributed (and far healthier) economy - Berlin, Munich, Hamburg etc.

Remote working would help redress the imbalance but some startups for good and bad reasons are reluctant. And no, I could care less about twin monitors or aeron chairs.
I will take years until this ecosystem will arrive the middle east...meanwhile we continue to breath smoke and hope that Europe will bring the change.
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The standard where? See "where you are" poll currently in the front page before answering.

In Europe, social security (that includes healthcare) isn't even known by the employee. It's about 40% of the salary, so the cost could be 70 for the employer, the negotitated salary is 50 and the payroll is 37, because income tax is also reclaimed by the government in advance.

So following the "standard" the example above would be 50, but how would it compare to the USA? (I'm guessing that was what you meant)
In firebug, remove the first html > head > style element:

<style> body { display : none;} </style>
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For sure clojure's a nice language with a lot of great lib creators , and the community will continue to grow strongly

The (+), (+'), "=" and "==" thing has started to bother peeps

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a...

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506...

http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a
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If someone in your IT department is actually good, befriend them

With that attitude, you aren't likely to make many friends in IT.
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I read the article and it is not censoring. It's just not including these sites in the instant results. They do turn up in the search results though. It's like the library putting the Playboys behind the counter and you have to ask for them.
Day-job work at office; Part-time startup work at home without a distinct office. Since day-job has more hours/day, i voted "An office (not a home)"
I don't agree. A simple keyword match does not determine if a keyword result is suggesting that I break the law in any given region. "Ubuntu torrent" being a prime example of this.
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As soon as you've completed the word 'torrent' a whole slew of suggestions pops up.
Am I the only one thinking that the screen is on the wrong side and this is a very poor choice UX-wise?
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I consider this a valid challenge of making a profitable software business. You shouldn't need to rely on Google hiding results (or litigation) to sell more licenses. Your customers should want to buy it and if they don't - you have failed.
that's a case study to keep hold of.
The piece of paper that fooled Hitler
Instead of a functioning government you got traditional clan law, militia demanding protection money and offering nothing in return, and your route to the "free market" was greased by paying armed men collecting rents at checkpoints.
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Of course, judging freedom using the Mises Institute benchmark of government spending being 0% of GDP left Somalia a surefire winner, but I'll happily trade some of that essential liberty for the second best of Western liberal democracy.
That is correct but the original point still stands.
At Garage48.org, we look at the Baltic-Nordic region as one strongly tied together scene, as the countries and cities themselves are all tiny. During the last year, the change towards a more vibrant startup scene has been visible in all the region's capital cities, no need to single out any of them.
Freelancer. Working from Europe with web startups in the US. MS stack only.
Are you saying there is more lack of talent in UK than in Silicon Valley?
Another thing which is pretty stupid is the API charges, given that using the API in general would allow people to make more ad spend it just doesn't make sense to me, given the amount of free API's they have.
That was my comment. I'm not stating that there are other "hubs".
Europe still doesn't have a central hub, which btw I think would be a great thing, but I'm not sure London can take that role. UK is surely not the California of Europe, and I sincerely fail in finding another candidate.
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All of them AFAIK. Huawei is one of the most popular ones: http://www.3gmodem.com.hk/Huawei.html Just double check on the forums that your linux knows how to talk to them. Some models have integrated storage which includes windows drivers and need a special application to send them "start acting normally, I don't need that crap" message.
Here in Ireland we're constantly hearing about "the knowledge economy" but I think it has yet to materialise. Ever since Intel set up shop here we've managed to attract the biggest movers in technology to set up their European HQ.

So much so in fact that the bigger European countries constantly bitch about us, citing our 12.5% corporation tax rate to mask their own failure in attracting these investments. The real reason probably has to do with the fact our spoken English is the best in the world and years of "free" fees for college places have resulted in a hugely educated population.

Producing indigenous firms which don't serve niche markets is still beyond us. This is probably due to a conservative funding community with the "spend way more than you need, we'll refund it after" model, as well as university students majoring in "safe" subjects like arts, languages or business rather than mathematics and computer science.

Even for those students majoring in compsci, they gear you towards getting a job, not starting your own company.
I came here to say that: the article can be summarised as "Java guy discovers YAGNI, gives good funny factorial example".
I remember getting a £30 ZTE phone on 3 that did texts, calls, and had a fairly rubbish but workable browser. It wasn't complicated, it was small, light, and the battery lasted forever. It was a bit slow but for £30 it's a far better bargain than this John's Phone.

I even made a handy contacts parser for it: https://github.com/radiosilence/ZTEcontactsparse
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Then hire from remote locations all over Europe.

Give me your email if you want my LinkedIn profile; all I want is £30k :-)
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Are there any guides for using PostgreSQL in a scaling environement?

Things like: Configuration for optimum performance, distributing loads/clustering, replication etc.

I'm using it for a few projects that I hope could draw a lot of users and I want to get the most out of my tiny Linode VPS.
Does anyone know if all the intercepted German WW2 dispatches have been decrypted? If there's a pile of undecrypted dispatches sitting in a vault somewhere, it could be of great interest to historians if someone applied modern computers and code-breaking techniques to them.
Would you have taken the risk there is no compony behind this (like with Neo Freerunner). And open is not all about finding bugs is alsow about learning from what others did.
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That's why you buy a new pre-paid phone to use as the trigger.
$100k to $250k seems like a needlessly large bracket!
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Academia.
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I'm from Jozi. What business are you building?
Me too. What are you working on?
There are lots and lots and LOTS of female entrepreneurs who start all kinds of business. I know - I searched aggressively for women entrepreneurs to see if I could find any who met my criteria, so I could invite them to speak at my conference.

Many women innovate in fields they're interested in, including physical goods manufacture. Many women start social-oriented web sites (not nec. products). Incredible amounts of women are freelancers, consultants, coaches, trainers, writers, etc.

There are hundreds of thousands of western, middle-class women who work as much if not more than the mythical "startup founder" -- on other business endeavors.

This pretty much invalidates the "women don't want to start companies" and "women don't want to work much" theories.

The question is, why don't they do product businesses?

I have a "tech startup." This time a year ago, it was bringing in $3k a month. Now it's $15k. By the end of the next 12 mos, it'll be earning nearly half a million dollars a year. I'm not living off ramen and working 90 hour weeks - to the contrary, I spend maybe 20% time on the app and my husband & I have apartments in Vienna, Austria and Philadelphia, NYC, and a really nice car ;)

That's why I'm trying to bring the products gospel to people (including women) who would otherwise stay employed or start consulting businesses.

I think that women, on average, are more interested in different fields than men. But products cut across all fields.

PS - And before you ask - no, my husband is not a breadwinner. He and I both quit consulting to work on our apps & products. The money ideas are almost always mine.)

I do complain about working too much on Twitter, but that's because I've had a low-grade chronic illness for the past 1.5 yrs and it's got me down. I probably work about 30-40 hours a week average. Sometimes it's 50, and sometimes it's 10.
It was most likely an automated "Happy New Years" message from her carrier.
Not worth even the hour of my time it would take, or I would have done it four years ago. (Ironically, using minisites to get ten slots on a SERP is bad to Google's view of the world in a way that serialz are not.)

It is just the psychic nuisance factor: every time I see that box it's like "Come on guys, really?"
It actually took 6 days to complete (still impressive). The main structure was completed in 2 days though - http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/11/12/05758/544/hotel...
and yet not a single one for web search...
An addition to this obnoxious irony would be the fact that a luxury like a car (yes, in developing countries, it's a luxury) costs relatively less than it does in a rich country. [One can get a decent enough hatchback for 350K INR which is like 8K USD]

Heck; in my place, education loans come at 12% and car loans at 8%.
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Australasia is a region of Oceania.
There's a good graphic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oceanias_Regions.png
Latest Android phones overtake iPhone 4 in user reviews
How will they verify these qualifications are completely accurate? If they can prove that their tutors are of actual quality then maybe. I can see something like an Elance test happening to try and control the quality of listings.
Have you looked into Sass and Less CSS? I haven't used them in production. They seem to achieve reuse in a CSS-like way.
Sounds like the esteemed director of search quality at google has his work cut out for him.
The way I have found works is this; find a consultant who charges a lot of money to go and do X at a company (and who has a lot of business).

Figure out a way for a company to do most of X itself with some software whilst still leaving some "wrapping up" or auditing for consultants to do.

Convince consultant to come onboard with their expertise to help develop the software (revenue sharing deal). He/she becomes a ready made sales person once launched.

Price product at fraction of the cost of getting consultant to do the work (i.e. instead of 100K - price it at 10K).
Mine's < 15K USD; am a programmer in India, with one of the BigCos. Not an easy stretch though, sort of making ends meet.
I take it you haven't seen the PlayStation Phone, http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/sony-ericsson-xperia-play...
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> Producing indigenous firms which don't serve niche markets is still beyond us.

I'm not sure about that, I've been in Havok (http://www.havok.com/) for several years now, very successful Irish startup in the Games/Entertainment space (hardly a niche), acquired by Intel three years ago ($100m+). Granted there's room to improve in terms of the number of indigenous startups, but there are success stories out there.
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Pretty sure Firefox disables hardware acceleration if run inside a VM.

In general, benchmarks run inside VMs are worthless.
I dunno.. I think our corporate tax does have a lot, if not close to everything, to do with companies basing their European headquarters here (eg, see Double Irish/Dutch Sandwich [1]). Our spoken English isn't as amazing as you make it out to be (its certainly not bad, but best in the world?? besides, have you ever been to Cork ;-) or certain parts of Dublin for that matter...) and while the "free" fees certainly helped our education, I still feel our education is inferior to a lot of the rest of the world. For example, computer science-related courses are still not attracting as many students as it should, even though, here in Ireland, IT jobs are much more plentiful than others [2].

Of course, regardless of how great we think we are as a startup hub, I've seen very little focus on startups here. Besides the occasional startup weekend, nubie.ie and Enterprise Ireland (which, IMHO, isn't very useful to a lot of - if not most - Internet tech startups), I see absolutely nothing here that shows any kind of innovation or advancements in the way of startups. Which is a pity, because I think that would be a great start to improving the economic situation.

university students majoring in "safe" subjects like arts, languages or business rather than mathematics and computer science

Funnily (or sadly) enough, I think the "safe" subjects are the ones that are really feeling the full force of the economic problems, while jobs in sciences, from where I stand anyway, are reasonably plentiful (well, compsci anyway, I haven't paid much attention to others since they're not relevant to me personally).

Even for those students majoring in compsci, they gear you towards getting a job, not starting your own company.

Agreed. This is definitely the case here. I think its holding back our potential, but I don't know what could be done about it really.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

[2] for example, http://irishdev.com/Home/News/1403-The-State-of-Play--IT-Gra... though from personal experience I know this to be true for all kinds of computer/programming related jobs
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> our spoken English is the best in the world

better than in England? :)
In my opinion, Havok is an outlier success story though. Sure, there are a few other Irish startups that achieved phenomenal global success, but they are relatively few and far between when compared to the more startup-focused places like SV.
We wouldn't need any codebreaking techniques; we know their encryption method. I suspect feeding the papers through OCR would be the most time consuming part. I doubt decrypting would take any longer than SSL.
Precisely. When I helped to run an AdWords campaign with £100,000/month spend, you can bet our adverts never spent more than an hour in review. If they did we called our account manager and he expedited them right away.
This reminds me, I'm still reading Cryptonomicon. I find Stephenson's work to be really hard to get into, then hard to put down once you do. Guess I'll keep at it.
True, I was mostly responding to the notion that:

> Producing indigenous firms which don't serve niche markets is still beyond us

It certainly isn't "beyond us", but as you say it's not happening as much as one would hope.
watching The Social Network, i saw some wordless hackers that were happy to work for early facebook when they only had $1000 in bank to pay for servers.

is it something different in American climate?.. :)
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A friend from a foreign country noted that we say "Thank you" so much in America it seems to lose its true value. Do we really need to say "Thank you" if a server refills our water glass? It seems to lessen the value of two words when someone does an unexpected favor.

I've never heard the idea that you should only thank someone for unexpected or surprising actions, until now, but I think the surprise component is carried by tone, when present.

What would you say instead when a server refills your glass, to avoid the otherwise implicit rudeness?
So I have a question: why is this a problem? Or, more specifically, how is this non-trivially different from the way that Facebook has worked to date? It seems almost identical to the way that your activity would otherwise have been broadcast, save the fact that it is in a more prominent, advertising-y context. It's not like the check-in didn't happen, or that it wouldn't have shown up anyway in the exact same activity feeds that are instead receiving the ad form of the check-in.

For some reason it seems like users have this pathology where they are upset whenever and however web companies try to monetize site usage, regardless of justification or intrusiveness. But, then again, I don't understand how people justify using AdBlock either, and lots of people (at least on Reddit) got really pissed about that when Ars Technica tried to block AdBlock users.

Also, how is this like Beacon at all? People are already checking in at these places on Facebook. The check-ins are just getting sponsored by the subjects of those check-ins. It's not like there's any surreptitious data sharing, apart from letting Starbucks know that I checked in there (which they would also know from the fact that I bought a Latte).
My personal guidelines:

* Partition into sections for fonts, colors+images, positions+spacing, text, and specials.

* Refactor for minimal property duplication, instead of selectors. For example text-weight:bold; will be mentioned only once, but the "#content a" selector multiple times.

* Use a CSS reset.

* Make an extra file per browser+version for hacks. Do not use hacks, which make sure they get triggered in IE7, but not 6 or 8, for example, but use ie6.css, ie7.css, and ie8.css. Duplicate code for this if necessary.

Example: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/style.css
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Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav...

But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growth rates of job postings. If you take the time to a look at the percentage of matching job positions, then Scala is pretty dominant (compared to Clojure and F#) :D
I'm an east coaster with lots of west coast friends, from whom I've picked up a lot of west coast slang and mannerisms (e.g. "the 95", "fuckin A"). But I've never heard grub as a verb.
I've got a felony conviction from over 22 years ago, and for contract hunting, I actually turn this into an advantage. For instance, I "advertise" as already having a clean background check going back 15-20 years. For your situation, just be up-front with your co-founders (which I read you have), and perhaps stay out of any function that involves finances.
I totally empathise with this. When I'm looking for work I see lots of firms in London hiring, but I have no interest in moving there, and although commuting is just about doable for the very short term, it totally ruins my out of work life. I would happily work remotely, but no one ever offers this.

I'm not sure I quite understand the obsession companies have with London. There are plenty of talented people around the rest of the country.
I've been planning to move from Spain to London for some months. You're scaring me. Is £40.000 not enough for a decent flat and once a month flight back home?
People won't follow the link if it sounds creepy.

And addressing real-live women as "Female" definitely sets off most women's creep-dars.