skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was wondering if it would allow applications to create "detached" filesystems. I could see that being (sorta) useful: a filesystem which is automatically cleaned up when the application exits.

Of course you can already do that easily enough with /tmp, but /tmp has its own problems: if it is shared between all users then it is a well-known source of security problems, and if your OS has private /tmp then that has its own problems too (ie. it's not shared between users of the same application). The other problem with /tmp is that it isn't "garbage collected" very quickly -- on my Fedora server, unreferenced /tmp files stay around for up to 10 days.

With GCFS it looks like you could get rid of /tmp altogether. Applications could just create a directory anywhere (eg. some random name under $HOME) and then "detach" it by removing "..", and then keep it open for as long as they need it, after which time it gets GC'd quickly and automatically.
The 66% ratio is something of a meme in Reddit meta-discussion, and has been for a year or more. (As are complaints of 'why would anyone downvote this'.)
While the tax and jobs benefits are there, I'm not sure it's that big a deal. IT companies create less jobs per revenue dollar than traditional industries, do their manufacturing in asia and shift significant operations to overseas tax havens when they get big. It's not that I'm saying the US doesn't benefit from high tech startups, just that the effect is somewhat muted.

On the other hand, with such a majority of the world's service providers concentrated in just a few west coast cities I think there are some risks for the global Internet. What if someday we all found out that facebook, twitter and google were all collaborating with the government in a massive warrantless wiretap program ala AT&T et al. Wouldn't you be happier knowing there were some viable competitors out there based in .au .tw .ch .in etc? Is it possible that would have prevented it from happening to begin with? I'm not saying that's likely, but clearly there could be some benefits to a more politically and physically distributed infrastructure. What happens to the world if the US triggers their Internet kill switch? A lot more than when .ly did presumably. What if the world misses out on the next big thing because of the tight knit group think that exists in the bay area capital scene? Mother of all earthquakes? State government collapses? Dirty bomb?

I'm not saying I'd bet on any of those happening, or that SV isn't a good place to start a tech firm, or that anyone should pack up and leave. Just that I wouldn't shed many tears if I saw more of http://thenextsocialhotness.eu/

Monocultures can be pretty fragile when exposed to a brand new threat.
Do you mean this article?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.carava...
You can find his more data-focused writing here -- http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=7387...
It's so hard to think like this. I've read and watched this speech many times over the years, and I always thought it was awesome - but it never changed my behavior. I'm working on that more recently because I realize the power of understanding how many things "fall away in the face of death".
You meet someone, chat, learn about preferences and passions, and maybe you get along. You begin talking about your project and maybe they love it - if not, don't bother trying to convince them, quietly move on. Of course, you can always pay someone a fair market rate to provide the same service - sadly, its much harder finding a partner than a working programmer. It's a lot like any other relationship... without demonstrating your talents and abilities, many programmers will chuckle as they click along.

Tell us about your business or at least your skills, something. This sort of post comes by about every day, in some way or another...
There are two reasons that come to mind immediately.

First, legally you can't use one online service to aggregate from other services -- every walled garden has clear TOS that prevent this. You can, however do the gathering and processing locally. After all, you own your own computer equipment and are solely responsible for how data is collected and presented there.

Secondly, and more importantly because of the history, you're trying to solve the problem using the constraints and assumptions that created the problem to begin with. You can't fix seven walled gardens -- by creating yet another walled garden.

Stand-alone targeted web apps are great for finding needs and servicing markets, but the nature of the net is monopolistic. That's why many of these stand-alones end up getting flipped. We need to break the technical backbone that keeps creating monopolies if we really want to get rid of them.
4chan.org is quite powerful.

Edit: to the point that it makes google.com trivial. I wonder if there are sites that are difficult to fight with 4chan.org.
How does static typing increase coupling?
It is difficult for foreigners to start companies in the EU, even modulo the fact that it's somewhat difficult for residents to start companies in parts of the EU.

I don't know anything about Asian immigration, but I know a very little bit about EU policies, and I don't think they're a competitive threat to us here.
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Hi, I'm from the Wellesley area myself, and I really appreciate your initiative. Babson College is a really good school for you to look at because the students are known for their entrepreneur activities.

I would be very interested in joining the group if you ever get a chance to start it.

Please shoot me an Email @ milokgao@gmail.com and maybe I could provide some assistance.
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Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.
As a South American that doesn't want the return of military dictatorships era, I need to add this:

> Democracy isn't a panacea. See also: South Africa, the crumbling rape-capital.

No, it isn't a panacea. But dictatorships are a disease and democracy is a cure for that particular disease.

Also, you can fight crime in big cities in a democracy (e.g.: NYC, Sao Paulo and in the last months Rio de Janeiro)
America has a lot of cute women. (hint)
It isn't about US vs. India immigration. It is about US immigration vs. the cost/effort of starting up a company in India (by an Indian citizen).

No one's competing at this point to make it easier for "young people from African countries... to emigrate to those other countries". The low-hanging fruit is people of Indian/Chinese/whatever origin returning to their homeland and starting up the next big thing there, instead of the US.

In general, I agree with the article in that the US immigration policy is rather arrogant. It may have made sense at some point in the past, but with the distribution of opportunities changing, the US needs to make a better sales pitch.
Mark Beeson (@m242), you, Sir, are #winning.
Encuestas Remuneradas en internet
Actualmente, los usuarios se han percatado que las Encuestas Remuneradas son un negocio rentable y que genera ganancias a corto plazo. Por esta razón, cada vez más aumenta en forma exponencial, el número de personas que participan de este sistema para ganar dinero en internet. Además de esto, los programas de encuestas por dinero han modificado sus diseños, adaptándolos en mejor manera a las necesidades actuales del mercado, ofreciendo encuestas aptas para personas de cualquier país manejando cuestionarios en prácticamente todos los idiomas existentes.

Las encuestas pagadas nos dan la posibilidad de ganar entre $500 y $5000 dólares al mes con solo completar 5 encuestas, 5 días a la semana, lo cual no está para nada mal.

Si aún no saben qué son las encuestas remuneradas por internet o cómo completarlas, es hora que aprovechen lo que las encuestas por dinero les ofrecen:

Listados completos de empresas que pagan por encuestas en espanol
Listados completos de empresas que pagan por encuestas en inglés
Un programa totalmente gratuito para completar los formularios rápidamente
Instrucciones para completar todo el proceso en forma efectiva
Dude, you weren't even born until two years after I made my first money programming.
> I believe that, finally, a movie is being created of this film by the guy who created Cube.

It seems that wikipedia also believes that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Natali
This was published in a crockpot journal and is likely fake:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294516
This is way too sad for Sunday morning. I wish you the best if you read HN.
I found good way to beat Google early was to grab time.com first, they use their Unscrupulous power to grab "Don't be Evil" attack from Google, then attack back with it.

(Also, I feel like a step closer to understanding Pokemon generation now)
People with marketable skills and talents will eventually move to destinations that will favor them best. In the past and up to now, it has been the US. Tomorrow it could be Brazil, India, China etc. One of the best things about working in hi-tech sector is borders do not necessarily limit your potential to implement your ideas. Governments have the option to decide how welcoming they want to be.
Startup Chile, for which he's an advisor, is probably the best example I've ever seen of what a nation can do to try to attract entrepreneurs.
"password must be 5 to 20 characters".

Why 20? Where did that number come from?
Investor demo means you are still talking about your startup. The poster meant you go to Hacker Dojo not to pitch your startup but to network and get hired.

From what I can tell, you first need to say to youself, "I am done with my startup, now to get a job." Then your talking should be focused on getting yourself a job. Only look for minimum wage job if you are financially desperate.

Otherwise, spend the time figuring out which start-up to apply for. I graduated last May and it took me 8 months to land my first "real" job. The key component I learned is that out-of-college will have a hard time landing contract or a job at big companies. Your best place to land a job at is a start-up because they are more willing to look over lack of work-experience for having actual skill set. As long as you are good at programming, you will be able to land a job.

I also took a different approach than you. Instead of going directly into start-up, I decided to first work at a start-up and learn how the start-up world works. I realized early on that I am more of the type who likes to learn from others experience, as to avoid making same mistakes and to do things that would actually make my startup successful. For me, learning on-the-job at a startup means figuring out your own way of doing things that work, but it also means you don't get benefit of taking into account how others dealt with the same issue.

On a side not, AppMakr is hiring! http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/web/2230975872.html If you feel you are up for the job, don't be shy to apply/
read bostinnovation.com and/or stop by our office whenever (110 Chauncy street). we know a decent amt about the young entrepreneurs in the area
Clojure: The Art of Abstraction
Agreed. Any service can fail regardless whether it's paid or not. So the best way to keep your emails safe is backups.
HSBC reveals plans to quit London for Hong Kong
eHarmony is a good one to get, because it can heal your other Favimons. It doesn't recognize SetForMarriage.com as a dating site yet :(
Whether or not you think privatisation was a good thing. Spending huge oil revenues domestically caused massive inflation.
Did you read the article cached, or with images? It makes more sense in context.
As a college student, I unfortunately see too many other students who don't "see it". There's something about visualizing code and algorithms that is very powerful but some people just don't see. I don't like math, but I can see counters, for loops and data structures working together to create simple yet powerful stuff.
I think ny matrix moment was somewhere when I figured out PHP's include function and how to use OO to put everything away nicely in a different file, abstracting it out.
More controversy, more clicks.
> The differences here are that a woman in the younger demographic is much more likely to be spending hours on facebook and only minutes on a google search.

Yes, but here is the key. It's all about attitude when presented with the ad. Those few minutes on Google are being spent actively seeking information about that particular topic. The hours on Facebook are about find out what friends are up to, with little thought about finding information.
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Still well behind the great peak that was the 1900s.

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=audacity&year...
The problem is how difficult it is to start a startup somewhere else. Only the US has the investor power and mentality about it. Try finding an investor here in Canada or even a VC or Angel that knows the potential of the web..... of course there are, but the USA, especially Silicon Valley, is THE place to be!
This is a wonderful article. I wonder how much of it is true?

I didn't know Sambil had been taken over by the government; that's where I used to go to get internet access when I was in Caracas.
Very understandable - the problem is that it's tough, based on a brief post, to judge whether someone is an "alternative medicine" nut, with all the negative baggage that can imply, or someone with genuinely unique insights and experiences (hell, it's tough to judge in general, when dealing with things that are both emotional and not well understood).
How is everyone promoting their iPhone Apps?
Just wondering!
Been doing most of my stuff via our predating web project, and I'm wondering what the future would be if we scaled the website back and focused on the Apps only.
I also noticed the similarities between the article and his character's introduction in The Social Network. In fact, the similarity is a bit suspect. Either Sean is actually a socialite robot who operates the exact same way every time he enters a restaurant or the author saw the movie first and has some unconscious drive to make the real Parker fit that mold.
Either way, he doesn't seem like an asshole, he seems calculated. He's branded himself; he makes you hate him then like him...he keeps people interested and as a result hes extraordinarily successful.
I have stopped reading what Vivek writes. It almost feels like he's writing inflammatory articles just to keep his name in print.

I came to this country (US) more than 20 years ago. The I.N.S. (Immigration and Naturalization Service) were as big dicks then as they are now. Nothing has changed. It's just plain old government bureaucracy; but in this instance, their clients can't vote either, so there's no fear of a backlash.

And yet, despite the INS's dickitude, the country churns out startups like crazy.

Why did the founder of Chatroulette move here, instead of China or India? I'll give you why: pound for pound, it is way easier to come to America, register your startup and get rolling than in any other country, bar none. (Aside: do read DeSoto's "The Mystery of Capital" if you get a chance).

Heck, why is Vivek Wadhwa in this country? Why isn't he in India, if things are so great there? I'll tell you why: because when all is said and done, there is NO country on earth as welcoming and safe for immigrants as the USA, bar none.

I have friends who've gone back to India. Most of them went for a variety of reasons; chiefly among them being family.

And I also know some who went back because their H1B visas expired; but you know what? It is good to see that. Just like seeds from a flower spread far and wide with the wind, I hope the seeds of entrepreneurship spread far and wide; the world needs more entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley has more than enough.
Twitter's new business model may well be subscriptions to turn off #dickbar.
I'm not sure that there is much correlation between the two - the really bad years for inflation were '73 to '83 and oil revenues didn't really take off until '82 or so:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4884.html

http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conve...

I'm obviously not an economist, so you could well be right!
Thanks - I forgot that CNN doesn't submit nicely from my iphone.
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The biggest impact that tech companies provide to the economy is increasing productivity and creating new industries.

IBM, Microsoft, and Apple's contributions to creating the first personal computers when they started up created an entirely new segment of the IT industry that hadn't even been conceptualized before. As time passed, there were millions of people getting jobs as technicians, programmers, system administrators, and service providers.

Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and Netscape enabled the Internet to be a viable platform and communication medium. You had even more jobs created: more programmers, web developers, web designers, and service providers.

Google did their thing and revolutionized how people could monetize things on the Internet, and how people could get their websites, products, and services discovered. It`s pretty much because of them that many websites became viable businesses, to say nothing of how SEO also became an industry in its own right.

Now see Facebook, Twitter, Android (acquired by Google in 2005; if you want, you can throw Apple's iPhone group in there too, though by this time, they can no longer be counted as a startup). They've created social media ad agencies, app developer economic microcosms, and so on.

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. The benefit that tech companies create is not from direct employment. It`s from overall worldwide productivity gains and creation of new industries. And if it happens in your home nation first, you get a head start to ride the wave before the wave really takes hold in other nations.
somethingawful.com and fark.com are also pretty powerful, it seems like any site where memes come from is strong.
The "analysis" presented there is heavily laden with emotion, which reduces its own credibility in short order.

I know nothing about the Journal Of Cosmology, but the tone of this blog entry prevents me from accepting it as useful information, it comes across more as axe-grinding.

But let's assume JoC is a crackpot journal. Why is a NASA scientist publishing there?

Did he decide that NASA's credibility on alien life discoveries has not been damaged enough and he wanted to make it worse?
Super-Angels Steal A March On VC
Like Wordpress picking "Django" as the name for a release? (Aside from the fact that Django is trademarked)
Ask HN: Small market product vs Big market product, Which should we attack?
We have a dilemma.

We have come up with two product ideas in the last few months. We have done research on both markets and we have had great response to both ideas. Here is where things get tricky.

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).

On the other we have an idea for a consumer product that has a huge market but a lot less predictability. Obviously the market is much bigger; but there are other players, the price points are much smaller, and there will be continuous competition because of potential for growth and future payouts.

What project do you think we should pursue?

Is it possible to get funding for a smaller market product?
Zynga: The $500m Alpha Dog of Social Gaming
Garage Innovation and Recreational Drugs
I don't get it. Can I have it explained?
Also, I wish the web would stop doing continually loading image walls that tax the cpu and don't scroll smoothly.
I don't even like google's implementation and theirs works better.
I suggested that to @stop on Twitter but didn't get a response.

In all seriousness though, I want to give Twitter money. It has contributed to my career in ways I'll never be able to fully measure and I feel like I owe Twitter something. Ads and intrusive trend bars are annoying, so I'd much rather give money. Monthly plans, yearly plans, "pro" plans... I don't care. They just need to get something in place.
What is a dickbar?

http://dickbar.org
4chan.org was quite trivial. Got it with yahoo.com, powered up to max damage. I stole 'Too Much Information' from facebook.com in order to have level 2 attack on yahoo.com though.

4chan.org vs ycombinator.com - that was a long fight. 4chan.org ended up being on top :)
Because of the web. Writers no longer need printing presses to reach interested readers. Readers no longer need managing editors to select good writers and articles. (Writers can still benefit a lot from good editing. Witness the long list of thank-yous on every Paul Graham article.)
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Google to Remotely Remove Malware-Laden Apps From Android Devices
Compare us to the UK, but compare like for like. Most of our prison population is comprised of high crime groups who do not exist to any significant degree (35% of the US, 2.6% of the UK) in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_St...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdo...

That said, our prison population is still large even after accounting for this, just not as large as the naive statistics make out.
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that expander thing is weird.
CBS Buys Clicker and Names New Digital Media Chief
Why Payments Are Hard, Even For Apple And Google
You could think of a hierarchy of programming approaches:

1. Waterfall
2. UML/OOA&D/RUP/Iterative
3. Agile
4. JSC

These are listed in decreasing order of ceremony. You can find "real" developers, somewhere, using all four of these.

A better question might be, at least in this community "will UML be useful for my startup". My answer to that question is "check out state diagrams and sequence diagrams and leave the rest behind" and use some form of Data Flow Diagrams.

In a very young project, it is likely that you will need to throw out the code you have written and start over. The less ceremony (translating to time) you put into the stuff that you throw out, the better off you are. If you are working in a category 5 CMM outfit, then that is a whole other story entirely.

By the way, methodology #4 (JSC) is Just Start Coding.
It doesn't help that I frequently sound like Elle Woods (a la the scene in Legally Blonde that goes something like this: "He's gay. -- what kind of shoes do I have on?" ..."Uh, black?"..."See, he's gay.") But I don't have a good solution for that because I find that if I try to preemptively explain at length, that gets even worse reactions. :-/