skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The about page is very clear about the financial terms. It calls it "a $40,000 subsidy (no equity)"

Also, here is an excerpt from TechCrunch's article on Startup Chile 2010 (formatting is mine):

"Seems too good to be true, doesn’t it?

No obligation to stay; no equity ownership in return for the money; no onerous contracts that promise a pound of flesh—as VCs typically demand.

Why would Chile do this? Because they’re betting that if they get enough smart, talented people there, three things will happen: first, many of the entrepreneurs going there will fall in love with the country and decide to stay; second, they will enrich the local ecosystem by teaching local entrepreneurs about global markets; and third, their tech community will develop stronger links to the world. Who knows, a couple of startups may also hit home runs. After all, isn’t this how Silicon Valley left tech centers like Boston in the dust and became the world’s tech leader?"

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/21/chop-shop-workers-and-boots...

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Startup Chile in any way. Hopefully someone from the organization can answer your questions.
I'll believe the gloom and doom about 30% on subscriptions when publishers stop sending me postcards offering 90% off the subscription price if I renew for another year.
Google requires you to be logged into a Google account to access the OS.

Really? I thought it was like Android, where setting up a Google account was encouraged but not mandatory. If that's the case I'm revising my assessment of Chrome OS from "pointless" to "actively dangerous".
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One of "the benefits of Microsoft Press" and MSDN is the scale at which the documentation ecosystem operates. It's not a matter of finding a book, but rather of finding the right book.
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Loc-Aid among finalists for CTIA big idea contest
Why You Should Highlight Optional Form Fields Not Required Ones
That's a Fatwa if I've ever seen one...
I'm just trying to think of an open source tool where a comprehensive book (online or off) or some sort of documentation isn't available. Can you give an example of what kind of book you were looking for?
NoneSuch: The Greatest Ruby Gem EVAR
thanks, just hope they're not consulting investors that seem to tend to love simplified statements
Poor real estate location. This killed them in my area. They built two Borders near me, each so close to an existing Barnes and Noble that I swear you could stand at a spot across the street and see both competing stores. Meanwhile, new malls and complexes of big box stores were built with no booksellers in the area at all.

The broader selection than Barnes and Noble was one of the things I loved about Borders - in 1995.

But the K-Mart acquisition and subsequent management team deserves a lot of the credit for this disaster.
Couldn't agree more. If you think you're getting a crap deal as an employee, quit and start your own company. If you can't find 340 bucks (incorporation fees) to drastically change the rewards of your contributions then I don't have any problem with that person making 1/1000th of the returns.
No. It has always been against the rules.
Air Force ordered software to manage army of fake virtual people
Federal Contract for "Persona Management Software"
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d88e9d660336be91552fe8c1a51bacb2&tab=core&_cview=1
What you said there is just opinion. How can you know that's true? Are you part of the audience that succumbs to emotionally charged message?

And if you aren't, how can you say that others are? Isn't that presumptuous?
Starbucks is not the only coffee chain on the planet. Are people really that addicted to Starbucks coffee specifically?

Here in Germany a big chain, Hugendubel, partners with "World Coffee" (I think), and imo they are actually better than Starbucks. In any case they are sufficient to provide a cosy atmosphere for checking out some books.

Also, how difficult is it to get a Starbucks, don't they jump any opportunity for opening another Starbucks, even if there already is one across the street?
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Air Force Contract for Persona Management Software
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...
>"actively dangerous"

When was your evil-o-meter last calibrated?
I once explored the topic of "xml is just verbose s-exps" with someone who had no lisp experience. His first response was that it would be impossible to just use lisp in place of xml because you would then have to implement a minimal lisp parser into any language that wanted to make use of data stored in s-exps. I then pointed out that you have to do the same thing for xml or json, it's just that we've become used to standard tools existing to do this.

That's actually where I find that XML is the most dangerous. People just take it as a fact of the universe that XML exists and make so many assumptions about how it solves a particular problem that they don't even stop to think "could there be a better way?"
I've always found my productivity (especially in regards to debugging) dropping massively when I'm stuck with just a small laptop screen. So with coding efficiency dropping so much, it only makes more sense to seize the moment and do what you can't at your home/office: bounce ideas around with others.
End run around the apple subscription debacle:

Publishers already offer multiple rates for different subscription lengths. Often the cost of a year subscription to a magazine is 1/3 to 1/4 of the newsstand cover price. Newspapers are similar. As far as I know, there's no requirement to offer every pricing variation available via in-app purchase.

Solution: Just offer the cover price, or some shorter, higher cost/issue via in-app purchase. Offer other deals, including physical/digital combos, externally via your own store.
From the descriptions, Clean is lazy and pure, whereas Disciple is neither.
Is Apple also taking a cut of the advertising? That's where the real money is with publishers.
I'm afraid the argument does work. The GPL adds many more restrictions to the recipient of code than does BSD. It's really that simple. The only restriction BSD places on the recipient is to retain the copyright and license notice.

But I don't think I'm going to get this point across. Not while "freedom" is taken to mean something other than the dictionary definition.
I've observed this sort of thing in a few coding contests recently - coding contests that were poorly designed. It is quite unfair to people who want to follow the intended spirit, you're right.
I'd really like to say that's a zinger, since I am mostly on Apple's side about all this. But the fact of course is that they're offering you X percent off the cover price, not X percent off the actual subscription price. The other fact is that whatever discounted rate happens to be the REAL price of a subscription will end up being the rate that the publisher in question has to offer in-app in iOS as well.

That said, I completely agree with you about the gloom and doom, because that normal subscription price includes the costs of actually printing a paper magazine and shipping it to the customer. I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of cases, the costs for providing an online edition will be much less. So there's still a profit margin here, and a sizable one.
The question before us is not are they doing it or are they allowed, it is should they be allowed. This is going to be a matter of opinion.

I say "they" should be allowed to ask anything at all. Marriage, religion, sexual preferences, political party, etc etc etc.

And when they do ask questions that are none of their business, people should have the good sense to refuse to answer, and if they pursue it at all, stand up and walk out and go to another job that respects them as humans.

The problem is not with the law or the companies, it is with the people who put up with abuse and condone and encourage it and refuse to push back to say "No, I am not going to answer that and frankly you are an ass for asking because it is none of your damn business." Because of the internet, everyone with a bad experience can blog about it and warn others which companies to avoid. The result here is that MORE people will have accurate information about which companies are staffed by assholes who can't mind their own business, and these companies can starve for want of talented responsible workers. And that's a good thing.

Right now we have ridiculous laws like restaurants are not allowed to discriminate by color of skin. I am not white myself. I would LOVE to know which restaurants are staffed by racists and bigots that don't want me to eat there, because then I would know not to give them my business, and I would know to preach word of that far and wide, and keep an eye on who does eat there and have nothing to do with those folks either. That would be great. As it is we have all these people with latent hidden racism. It's there, but it's not in the open, so I can't see it. Sometimes it sneaks up on me from behind. That's not good. Let it be in the open instead.
For somebody who want to make XML shorter and more human-readable:

1. Use more attributes, i.e.:

<employee first="Steve" last="Jobs/>

instead of

<employee>
<first>Steve</first>
<last>Jobs</last>
</employee>

2. Use Camel case instead of '_', i.e.:

<MyElementName>XXX</MyElementName>

instead of:

<my_element_name>XXX</my_element_name>

3. Use sane namespace prefixes.

4. Write XSD schema (or generate it from example XML document) - Tools like XMLSpy really helpfull in filling complex XMLs.
Exactly. XML is a format, nothing more; it's the culture and everything around it that makes it a problem.
Perhaps the test of notability for something like a hackerspace should be whether a successful (and thus de facto notable) company emerged from it?

I imagine that Y Combinator wouldn't be deserving of its own Wikipedia page if nothing had yet come of it. Why should other incubators be treated differently?
What risks? I said clearly that they should ask, people should refuse, and then walk away. Let them find anyone competent.

This is within the people's ability to control. Just say no. You can do this as a person. Say no. Explain why. Mock them too.
"You hardly have postdoctoral positions in math, physics and social sciences."

I don't know anything about the social sciences. In physics, I know that postdocs are absolutely necessary and expected, to the same degree that they are in the life sciences.

Mathematics is a little different. There are a very small minority of prodigy-types that go right from graduate school to the tenure track. However, post-doc's are still the norm, although they don't go by the name 'postdoc.' Usually they are pronounced 'visiting assistant professor' or 'instructor.'

Here's an example of a 'postdoc' in mathematics. All of the big universities have them:

http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/1815
I dunno.. anyone who's ever used the internet should know what a red asterisk means.. Its been 10 years now. Changing this behavior is going contrary to a commonly established web browsing convention. Though I accept that there are better usability practices that could be put into place, I disagree with the primary assumption here
1 is a good example of something I see people doing wrong with XML on a regular basis. If there can't be a list of items, it should be an attribute, not a node.
Current trends are supposedly looking better. I saw an article last year that claimed 1 million sold before Christmas and continuing to trend upward:

He is also forecasting that 2.4 million Nooks will be sold this year, and more than 3 million in 2012.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110215/FREE/110219913...

I think the key difference between B&N and Borders is that BN actually had a digital strategy long before Borders ever did. According to this article they were already dabbling with ebook delivery in 2001:

http://pocketnow.com/software-1/the-bn-ereader-remembers-my-...

Right now though, I think one of the best things is they have the cheapest Honeycomb capable tablet in the Nook Color (with some hacking). The screen is IPS and the processor is a 800Mhz A8 ARM, capable of overclocking to 1100Mhz. It's effectively a scaled down IPad in terms of processing/screen. From a hacking perspective it's more interesting than anything Amazon has shown.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/28/nook-color-processor-reve...

I think the real problem is that Borders is trying to pivot on a dime. They saw the .com implosion and assumed the digital revolution was hot air leaving their position unassailable.
"fail0verflow repository is a tribute for the old fail0verflow repository with LEGAL TOOLS deleted cowardly by github.com because of threats from licks-ass guys called "attorneys of SCEA".

The original code was forked more than 1300 guys (the second most forked repository in github.com) who wanted to defend our rights as consumers, owners of our computer / console called PS3, and like non-profit independent programmers. But again, in a system where money is more important than justice, freedom and people (you are a number) the threat of one has much greater weight and repository was deleted unceremoniously and without one word to explain the exact reason.

Because it, i was create this tribute that shows we "evil" usage of the old fail0verflow tools."
There's an independent bookstore not two miles from my house. It's been in business at least twenty years (that's as long as I've been aware of it) but they might have some advantages that other bookstores don't.

1. It caters to the nearby university by selling text books.

2. It also sells used and rare books. It's not uncommon to see books from the late 1800s/early 1900s on the shelf.

3. It's large and well lit (no chairs though; nor is there a cafe; nor is there free Wifi---it's just shelves and shelves of books).

4. It's in a city known for its wealth (Boca Raton, Fl).

I don't see it going away any time soon, but I do fear what will happen once the original owners are no longer there.
Free software people continually miss the value of just letting people use their stuff to do whatever.

Letting people put back patches if they want to, but otherwise do what the hell they feel like is powerful, useful and practical for many more applications than the GPL et al licenses.

Some of us like sharing, but also like selling software and not giving away the source.
I think a better strategy is to simply de-emphasise the optional fields. This can be done by showing the label in grey rather than black text. Putting "optional" in the input box itself won't work, because frequently all your input boxes will have "hint" text in there already. That said, red asterisks are fairly common and I think users understand them - so there are good reasons for maintaining the status quo.
And there is a fantastic answer to such a question: "As a responsible worker, I take my contractual obligations seriously. The Facebook terms of service which I agreed to legally prohibit me from giving that information to anyone. I [have the terms here|can get them for you] if you would like to read them."
If they reply, "Well we want it anyway." then the next reply is "I don't understand why you are asking me to break a contract. That is unethical. Do you routinely ask employees here to perform unethical or illegal acts?"
How to post forms to clean, rewritten URLs without JavaScript (2008)
It would be nice to do that, but if Apple has shown us anything, it's that you either play entirely by their rules, or you don't play at all. ANY attempt to circumvent this will just mean your app gets bounced, then you're fucked. Once you're in the game, you'll have customers who depend on that app being available on the iPad. You can't risk pissing Apple off, so these types of workarounds aren't going to work. Anything that just involves physical goods is fair game, but if you're offering anything that's accessible through the app, you're digging your own grave by messing around.
No, they really aren't. They can extract 1000 or 1000000 times the money, sure.
As someone who usually works from home I find that coworking gives me enough extra concentration that outweighs the using a smaller screen than usual. Also having your team in the same room every now and then does wonders for tracking own bugs and planning new features.
Yes, they can be successful, if people are focused.

For example, see this account of a recent OpenBSD hackathon: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2010111509113...
I've always found that nothing ever happens unless I do it myself. That's generally how I treat problems, and it has left me in a better place because of it. On the rare occasion I meet someone else with the same drive I'm usually just thankful for their company. Thanks for doing what you do!
I wrote a college paper about ADHD and higher education, largely motivated by my own struggles and aspirations for grad school. The actual research I did for it ended up being pretty interesting, but the actual paper wasn't really that great (IMO, I did get an A for it however)

Anyways, there's a huge lack of ADHD research in adults, and how it affects students in higher education, and virtually no research on how it affects people in the workplace.

There is some interesting research regarding creativity and ADHD. Some of it ends up trying to strengthen/disprove the dopamine hypothesis.
Quad core this year. Saw it on Mashable the other week.
> Starbucks is not the only coffee chain on the planet. Are people really that addicted to Starbucks coffee specifically?

In most of America, sadly, the answer is yes.
Actually it's abuse of attributes, since attributes must be metadata only, while data itself should be in element content. But it makes large XML files much more readable ...
I am not a lawyer and cannot answer your question. However, I think you need to add more information like:

* Does the lawyer need to be based in a certain country?

* What type of legal advice are you seeking?
What evidence do you have that demand has recovered?
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There seems to be a JavaScript target available too: https://github.com/dominicmarks/ragel-js
Only because you don't tend to find XML tidiers that display like this:

<node_name
attr="value"
attr2="value2">

always this:

<node_name attr="value" attr2="value2" etc="etc" ad="infinitum" until="you have to scroll">

edit:

On a <person>, how do you define what's data and what's metadata? Is a name data or metadata? What's the difference between data and metadata in the first place, in a concrete, testable definition? Google define:metadata says:

data about data; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications"

So a library catalog should be like this?

<library name="of congress"
978_3_16_148410_0="<data title=\"\">contents</data>"
978_3_16_148410_1="<data title=\"\">contents</data>"
etc >

(intentionally reducto-ad-absurdum)
Well, it's more whether there are decent sources to document it, but yeah, that's probably most likely if some well-known company emerged from it.

Once upon a time there was something like a philosophical "notability" test, but since that led to interminable arguments, it's these days a lot closer to a descriptive "has been noted" test, which boils down to, "if someone says [citation needed], do you have one?". Where to draw the line is still controversial, but it's somewhere between, on the one hand, "is in every history book", and on the other, "has never been mentioned anywhere except on its founder's blog".

A decent number of the hackerspace articles do seem uncomfortably close to the 2nd case, with the articles actually being created by the people who run the hackerspace or are closely associated with it, and not citing any third-party sources for the information (i.e. something other than the hackerspace's own website or blog).

I must say I do find this rally-people-into-a-mob-to-defend-my-page aspect pretty distasteful, though. If you want to be part of Wikipedia, anyone can and should go and start helping out. If you don't, also fine. But a bunch of people who have no real interest in improving Wikipedia only showing up to promote things they're a fan of is a bit lame, especially when it reeks of people being mainly interested in the SEO. (Also happens on the other side, when occasionally there's mobs that show up demanding that Wikipedia delete something; those mobs also have no real interest in improving the encyclopedia more generally, or even familiarizing themselves with how and why things work as they do.)
Technologies has its pros and cons so yeah, XML when used properly, doesn't kill babies.
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Accidental Innovation, Part 1
Can a startup be successful outside of "tech hub" cities? (SF, NYC, BOS)
Considering a move out of one of these cities and wondering if that spells doom for my dreams of starting a company. Any suggestions/feedback would be appreciated.
How would you enforce that only work done doing the hackathon is presented as the entry? Not trolling, genuinely curious and looking for suggestions.
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The U.S. may no longer dominate but with 300 million people and tremendous resources we're not heading to the bottom of the heap either. Our standard of living is going to move back closer in line with the rest of the world, which is fine.
>and XPath == CSS-like selectors with a different set of characters.

I also have a feeling, that jQuery reinvents XPath.
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The catch is that if you are successful, maybe you stay in Chile and hire local workers and pay taxes.

Smart plan if you ask me.

State governments in the US do this all the time but focus on attracting big industry and factories to bring jobs, with tens of millions spent just to bring in one company, free land sometimes, and giant tax breaks like no taxes paid for 10 years.

Chile is applying this thinking to the micro side of things, small companies with high potential that don't require a lot of money to keep afloat long enough to get traction. Software companies as one example seldom have to build factories or require specialized toxic chemicals. They can be run out of an apartment, and can end up bringing in tons of money from other countries through sales of product and services.

This is like y-combinator, but you don't sell equity, you get more than $17,000 (this year's special case excepted), you are living in a LOW cost area instead of a HIGH cost area. On the downside it will be more difficult to get venture capital and you pay more for computers and stuff because there is an import tariff.

This plan has huge potential and will probably make Santiago into the next silicon valley. There are tons of states that have talked about creating a new silicon valley, and it is always nonsensical pipe dreams run by fools. This is the first time I have seen a plan laid out that has a very good chance of succeeding.

Why on earth wouldn't ANY sane country want to import as many go-getting highly skilled young entrepreneurs full of energy as possible? It's always amazed me that other countries haven't figured this out, but they are often stuck fighting the last war in that 19th century factory mindset. Most countries have entrepreneur visas that require investments of millions of dollars, etc. That means they miss out on the giant growth that occurs when these tiny tech companies take off.