skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you guys so much for taking the time to give me some feedback! I really appreciate it. I'll make sure to address those issues--didn't realize the app itself was confusing to use, great point.
A dollar is "valuable"?
+1 on the STS list

FWIW - I did this exact thing in 2004 - I am one of the founders of PayScale (www.payscale.com). We (wife+3-month-old) moved from NYC to Seattle after we got funded. The 3 month old is now 6.5 and PayScale is doing pretty well :)

There is a pretty active startup community here. http://www.seattle20.com/ is a good place to start.

There are a lot of startup events going on in Seattle. You can view http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/ to see some of them.
You have it a bit backwards, the kindle is there to drive ebook sales, not the reverse. Apple only added the clause when they added the mandatory in app sales with the 30% tax - if amazon had any intention of doing something like that you'd presumably already have seen that behavior on the iphone or pc or osx or android.
I found this post on reddit uncomfortable, and I'm not sure why.

It's not because of death with dignity -- I'm a big fan. It's not because of not wanting to face my own mortality -- I know death awaits us all, and for me or some others it may come very soon indeed. Who knows when we will die?

But something about it just didn't ring true as something I would want to make happen over and over again. I think perhaps it is the forum and mechanics involved here. Would I want a site where people posted about their deaths and then others voted that post up or down? Then each comment was accordingly ranked? I don't think so.

Your life isn't the same as a news article or a blog entry, and it shouldn't be treated as such. Perhaps there is a site for broadcasting your last words to the world at large, and it sounds like something I would want to visit and participate in, but reddit ain't it.
I came to the US 20 years ago too and in my experience, the wait-times are nothing like what my employees from Indian and China face. I got a PhD in 6 years, then applied for a GC 2 years into my job and got my GC within 1 year. The total time was 9 years, which while long was nothing compared to the mess today. Fast forward to today. We have PhDs from Stanford and MIT whose application has been stuck since 2005, meaning even if you adjust for the 6+2 = 8 years to apply, the total time to GC will end up being more than 15-16 years at least.

I should point out that the system specifically disadvantages Indians and Chinese relative to say Mexicans, Canadians and everyone else. This coincides with an increasing level of opportunity in these countries relative to 1991 in India. To compare the two is making a fact-free argument, since even in a rational scenario, the relative attractiveness of the US has diminished over time.

I think asking that Vivek return to India is an unnecessary ad-hominem attack. There are many reasons that people choose to stay here including personal ones (wife, kids, etc. don't want to go back) not all of which are driven by relative opportunity.
>I waited 11 years, if it makes you feel better. And yes, I do know the difference between then and now. And you know why it's worse now? Because the demand is much higher! So, despite the INS's dickitude and the so-called "broken" immigration policies, MORE people are wanting to come here.

Are you saying that just because people faced hardship earlier, it shouldn't be made easier now? If anything, the numbers show that MORE people are getting affected by the policies and MORE potential startups are getting nipped in the bud.

>You need to comprehend before responding. The immigration system was as broken 20 years ago as it is today. During boom times it's broken; during bust times it is broken. During the dot-com boom, it was broken, and yet the dot-com boom still happened. It is a constant; you just route around it.

I don't see any reason given for not fixing the system except handwaving here. Let me quote the article here:

>Unlike a lot of problems facing our country, this one is easy to fix. We just need to increase the numbers of permanent-resident visas available for those trapped in “immigration limbo”. And we should create a Startup Visa that is more inclusive than the VC/Super Angel bill that is being proposed. This may give the economy a significant boost at no cost to taxpayers.

What are your arguments against that paragraph?

It is like someone in the 1920s arguing against women's suffrage. 'Hey, we never had the right to vote, but we always still influenced politics by working around it. There are some positive aspects to not having the right to vote. Lets not support it.'
The MapReduce folks have a paper in the same issue, giving their take on things (and objecting to a previously published benchmark paper): http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55744-mapreduce-a-flexi...

Earlier HN discussion of their paper is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1019134. The paper linked in this post ("friends or foes?") was paywalled at the time, though, so wasn't included in the discussion.
You mentioned Amazon. Some other large companies are: Google (Fremont, Kirkland), Microsoft (Redmond, Bellevue), Facebook (near the Market).
TOO MUCH CAPS CANT HANDLE IT

After that, what the hack am I supposed to do?
I think you are either missing the point, or not taking in to the account the fact that the restrictive immigration laws here are preventing or delaying possible entrepreneurs (like me) from startups that could create markets, challenge today's tech titans and create jobs. I am not saying we all end up directly creating hundreds of jobs, but the impact a startup has, or its technology has, and its story reverberates far beyond the startup cease to exist.

I can speak for my own. Because it has taken me 7 years since my initial Green Card filing, I have had to put on hold several times the idea for a startup even though I see the tremendous talent around me who I can lasso together an idea, even if there are no earth shattering ideas at the moment. The right minds do not come together that often, ideas are actually quite cheap. And as I struggle myself with whether to create a startup on an EAD (the Temp Work permit before a GC), and potentially jeopardizing my GC, I see others around me going through the same pattern. And its frustrating to say the least.

Startup Visa should have been a reality long before Immigration became all mired down in the Illegal Immigration debate.

I have been lurking, reading on these forums till now, and I thought I should speak my mind on this topic.
Seattle 2.0 is pretty involved in the Seattle startup scene. You can check out their job board here at: http://www.seattle20.com/jobs/

Also, I know some TechStars Seattle companies are hiring. These jobs aren't listed on a particular website, but you can check out all the companies that launched in Seattle here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/techstars-launches-ten-new-... If there is a company you're interested in, I can connect you to the founders as I am friends with alot of those TechStars folks.

TechFlash(http://techflash.com) is a good source that blogs about Seattle tech startups. You can keep an eye on that blog to see which companies received funding. I know BigTip.com just raised $500,000 and they are looking for a "hardcore web dev person".

Founders Co-op is an early stage investment group/incubator. Andy Sack(@andysack), the managing director of Founders Co-op and TechStars Seattle, has a list of his portfolio companies here http://founderscoop.com/portfolio.php. Some of them are hiring as well. You want to follow Andy Sack if you want to get on the ball with the Seattle startup scene. his blog is http://asack.typepad.com.

Hope any of this helps. I'll get back to you if I think of some more.
Google demos self-driving car
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek reference to this thread. It's not a calculation performed by Mighty CV. In the résumé builder that text equates to a free form text input called Professional Title. You can write whatever you like in there. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for reminding me it's there it wasn't meant to be a permanent fixture.
This captures more of the story of my life than I'd care to admit. I'm lucky to earn good money doing something that I can't stop doing.

Once, I was deeply burnt out. I took up knitting in an effort to get away from programming for a while. And just like Feynman in yesterday's front-page story, I was once again writing toy programs within a month.

Sometimes I wonder what I would have done if I was born 20 years earlier.
Is $0.99 a month really "so valuable"? If you use Twitter at all, it's worth more than that.
The author of the published paper in question is the Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (http://spie.org/x17397.xml)

Why would he risk his career and put his reputation at stake?
But I want to believe :(
Single Command Haskell Platform / Snap Framework Setup
Geminoid DK: Most realistic android ever?
SEO Remains A Viable Marketing Strategy For Anyone
I wouldn't consider its use ironic. A curried function is generally implemented using closures (i.e., a function that remembers the lexical environment of its definition). It might be a slight abuse of terminology, but not one that should give much pause.
Living in Switzerland as a UK expat, I know the tech scene around Zürich fairly well. I haven't heard of these guys before but they're based in Basel so perhaps they haven't done the rounds yet.

There is certainly a need for this. Tech funding can be difficult to find I understand or of the "we'll invest in you once you're a safe bet" kind. Investing in biotech is much more developed, giving Switzerland's pharma industry, and there are signs that biotech investors are starting to show interest in tech startups but it's not there yet.

Would say what makes Switzerland attractive is being able to find highly educated engineers. While the ETH Zurich is highly respected, there are other less high profile schools turning out great hackers.

And there is enough experience around to get your startup off the ground and reaching a healthy turnover. What's lacking for web startups is experience scaling up to international markets; most of the successful startups I've seen tend to succeed only in local markets.
In India it might be.
Http://www.pooki.fr/forum/installer-langue-arabe-id15705.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fy6yz/51_hours_left_to...
The complete Pac Man Dossier
Which are easy to bypass btw - just turn off data connection while you play it.
Am I the only who's not getting the purpose of this "Dickbar" ?
A dickbar is a site that does not load.
Jack and the magical, evergrowing taskqueue, an App Engine fairytale
All I can say is that I had one professor who got her Ph. D at Rice (Virginia Torczon), and no professors at all from GA Tech.
Are you talking about the dialog that appears for unsigned drivers, or something I missed?
>> On one hand we have a product idea that definitely solves a problem for a small industry. We have spoken with 10 or so players in this industry and they would all be willing to pay for our software (they are hungry for a solution). This would be a very stable income producing product / company that could go on for years innovating in this industry but its growth potential would be somewhat capped. I can see it getting to 5+ million a year in revenue with 60% profit margins but then it becomes much more difficult to grow. Getting to 10 million would be a short term ceiling (Pending some other added revenue sources).

I'd go with that one. Build the MVP(my rule of thumb is, if you cant get it out the door and into customers hands within 90days, move on) and charge them. You'll soon realize that your assumptions were right/wrong about that industry.

That being said, I'd always go for B2B rather than B2C.
A dickbar is pretty much any bar after a certain point in the evening.
Cached version via NYUD: http://scripting.com.nyud.net/stories/2011/03/06/whatIsADick...

Though it is funny that Dave Winer's site went down under the HN load. You'd think he'd have a slashdot-proof (or HN-proof) server by now?
A taxonomy of the Amazon Cloud
No - you can only redownload apps. This is because of the contracts with the content providers. Apple is apparently trying to renegotiate this at least for music, so that they can put your library in the cloud.
Online bizz Idea
I like this graphic but why is the "carrying capacity" meme relevant?
A change of types would almost always accompany a change in semantics.

Wouldn't you need to redeploy both anyway when you have a change of semantics? If you retain the old API with the old semantics, you could of course retain the old type, too.
Your first statement is a bit ambiguous, but I have to ask if you've gotten tcpflow to work on OSX. I can never get it to output anything when trying to monitor connections to localhost.
Yeah, Notifio + a client.

http://blog.notifo.com/hacker-news-and-notifo
http://notifo.com/hackernews
I'd never heard of him.
How does practical marketing work, then.

The non-answer: it depends.

In the early stages, few startups would hire a dedicated marketing person because the founders or entire teams does marketing depending on your marketing philosophy. For web startups, working your network in extending outward circles - tech friends, industry colleagues, specialized media - has been the established method to from stealth to viral. Working blogs, forums and other hangout in your industry is another approach by which you can build a good reputation and find potential customers. But dedicated, high quality community outreach is resource extensive and difficult to pull of if your industry is big.

If you are a very tech oriented guy, you might want to partner up with a passionate business person to get some needed perspective. This way you will have a co-founder and a more marketing oriented person in your startup.

Twitter exists. Use it. Write meaningful content about your startup, products, office, thoughts on your industry, etc. Befriend and interact with people in your business. Reply to their tweets, ask questions.

Facebook exists. Use it. Just remember that dedicated community outreach is resource expensive. Plan for it.

Never underestimate the Silicon Valley effect. Working=living in the area and hanging out with the right people can be a tremendous marketing advantage. If I lived in the USA and was about to launch a serious startup, I would definitely consider moving to The Valley.
Tangentially, one gameplay problem with strategy games is that you don't act enough like a state - micromanagement. In http://erehweb.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/civilization-3-and-i... I relate this to Matthew 8, verses 5-10
YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
Google flips Android kill switch, destroys a batch of malicious apps
Omron HEM-790IT Health Management Software
What do you think of Square?
If you're willing to learn Rails, Whitepages.com is in Seattle and is hiring engineers. I used to work there and left only to pursue my own passions, but there's a great team there and it was a fun job.

https://whitepagesinc.tms.hrdepartment.com/jobs/208/Software...
Rather than selecting an outlier [1], lets compare two typical US states: Texas and Wisconsin.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-ba...

It seems the non-unionized teachers in Texas do considerably better than the unionized teachers in Wisconsin, particularly for minorities.

[1] At least, according to this graph: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-EMpadQx4hM/TRKVzaSdWnI/AAAAAAAAAY...
You could also compare the relatively non-unionized US to more highly unionized Europe.
The scientist surplus
http://staging.ycatalyst.com:8080/r/C7tFJajWkeFP
I am not sure how much farther you can go when it was a SVP executive.
> There are economic and social principles that I find to be positive for countries like Venezuela. If I say that I support those principles, many people (such as yourself) have a hard time not reading that as support for Chavez as a steward of those principles.

If the principles have been tried in dozen of countries over the last 90 years, and the results most of the time have been much worse than capitalistic countries like the U.S, then maybe the principles should not be used to organize a society or a government until there is fundamental progress on the art of governance.

Yes, I saw your reference to Rwanda. I doubt the accuracy of the stats on Rwanda. None of the dozens of expats and world travelers who post here and no one I have seen anywhere else on the internet has said anything positive about the prospect of living in Rwanda.
P.Z. Meyers is a biology Shock Jock. Thats all. He says whatever will get traffic.
Some companies aren’t prepared for telecommuting
5 Laws of Data Integration in the Cloud
Is this like my social broadcast?
I just tried to do a directory hard link and it failed.

$ ln ~ hardlinkdir
ln: /Users/travis: Is a directory
$ ln -s ~ hardlinkdir
$

My guess is that they have implemented something like soft links with cleaner shell support, so you can't tell they are something like soft links.
I Hate Pixar Movies
Expect it to be disabled if it catches on.

Facebook most probably will act with vengeance on any app which impacts its main advertising driven revenue stream. If your app catches on then people will log on less frequently and see less ads about how to whiten their teeth. Facebook will not tolerate this situation.

I mentioned this in another thread but everybody who is writing on the fb platform should try to make sure that the app increases fb logins and does not decrease them if they want to stand a chance with approval from fb.
Principles and Patterns of Organizing Systems
Pair Programming doesn't work without TDD?
What does it feel like when pairings going really well
The app is free for everyone, but previous Tweetie owners could have their ads disabled.
The spread of broadband Internet service led to the rise of online movie-watching. And this is where it gets messy.

Some much of the fight here is around how one "languages", how one frames, the fight.

One interpretation is "as competition appears, old monopolies panic and try to put toll booths on the super highway".

But that frame doesn't serve those old monopolies well.

To the Post's sort-of credit their language is sort-of neutral.

I suppose the only problem is I'm not neutral. I want to see the old, parasitic, rent-seeking monopolies go down in flames. The ideal way would be an alternative broadband supplier - maybe the new WiMax suppliers could use a chair and whip to push Comcast and company into the infrastructure supplier niche. Maybe some entirely information distribution technology will appear and really side-line these trolls under the bridge to the future.

Well, I can only hope at this point...
Short Term Rental Israel
The traditional way to do bounce processing is to have an email alias that runs a script. This is how mailing lists work. The really traditional Unix mechanism is a .forward file with a pipe to a command in it. MTAs (including Postfix) are configurable in this respect to have something a bit cleaner.

Rather than re-inventing the wheel, take a look at how Mailman does it.
The point is that you can easily have a functional education system with strong teachers unions. Canada, Europe, most of the western world functions this way. To say that our education woes are due to teachers unions is short-sighted at best.

The issue with education in this country is in it's structure, funding, allocation, and methodology. Unions are a scapegoat for a larger philosophical failure in our approach to education. If people really cared about education in this country, they would look hard at how Finland moved away from the industrial model and towards one much more suited to an information economy.
We have done past work for some of the players in the industry so we have good connections / a solid network within the industry so I have no doubt we can get the product in the door. The questions is are we limiting ourselves by pursuing a product that has only a small market instead of aiming higher / bigger.

Once we have an MVP and can show traction, would we be able to find investors so that we can grow rapidly and capitalize or is this market to small.
Android sounds like a great experience.
Also, if you parse the Postfix log files, you will only catch bounces generated at SMTP delivery time and miss bounces generated further downstream.
Simply stupid, but yet so much fun
If you're looking to monitor traffic to localhost, bind the the `lo0` interface. For example, when I'm monitoring traffic to a local Rails app in development, I'll do something along the lines of:

sudo tcpflow -c -n lo0 src or dst post 3000

and it'll pick up the traffic.

(Thanks for the tips on alternative ways of monitoring TCP traffic flows, folks!)
Has the Prelude been rewritten since?

If not, are there plans to do this soon?
You seem to be arguing two orthogonal points here.

On the one hand, you're saying that America's future will suffer dire consequences if the immigration system is not fixed.

On the other hand, you're saying it is such a hardship that people have to go back when their visas expire, things are tough for immigrants, etc.

Just step back a little and think rationally a little. If things are so bad, then why _are_ people trying so hard to get in? Do you see long lines outside the Chinese embassy? The Indian embassy?

Once again: in the 20 years I've observed the system, it is as broken as ever. And during these 20 years, we've been through the Biotech boom, Internet boom, and are on the verge of another boom.
> Tech funding can be difficult to find

The money YC participants get is typically viewed as the least valuable part of participating in YC.

> Would say what makes Switzerland attractive is being able to find highly educated engineers

Having effective access to the engineering talent in the EU (now) is useful but also excludes Russia, Norway, Eastern Europe, North America, India, Asia and Australia.

> What's lacking for web startups is experience scaling up to international markets;

Part of this is the competitive advantage the US enjoys in the Internet for largely historic reasons: everyone pays to connect to the US. The US doesn't pay anybody. This (along with market size) is why hosting is cheaper in the US than anywhere else such that companies get more for their money in the US, helping companies both large and small.

Local hosting becomes far more important in content-driven businesses (Spotify, Youtube, etc) where you want to be as close to the customer as possible to not only save on long-haul bandwidth but also have lower latency.

That case aside, the economics really don't favour hosting a large-scale Internet startup anywhere other than the US (even if the company isn't in the US).

Actually there is another exception based on regulatory environment. Some companies (rightly) simply won't want to host in the US and be subject to US laws. The clearest example is online gambling, which is illegal in the US, but there are others (eg Swiss bank customer data can't leave Switzerland).
Startup Marketing 101: Why You Need to Feed Yourself
Left-Handedness Loses Its Stigma but Retains Its Mystery
Seems very interesting to inexperienced programmers such as myself.

Does anyone know of a similar collection of implementations of architectural patterns?
Which is so bad as to cancel out any positive effect of the spending why?
I don't think that it was Python had anything to do with it. It's sort of like me calling my new programming language made for sysadmin work and bioinformatics "Pearl". It's just a confusing name considering that there's another programming language that's used for the exact same things, and spelled and pronounced identically.

Now imagine if I said on my website, "By the way, feel free to call it Perl, just be aware that there's also another project that calls itself that". Now I'm giving permission for people to be even more confusing!