skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand Americans who move to places like Brazil or India in search of opportunity, but it's surprising to see central Europe as a destination. (I'm not American nor European, but live in NYC and worked in the EU).

I doubt Germany, Austria and France are churning out more scientists & engineers than the US. They most definitely are not churning out more entrepreneurs. In fact they're barely producing a next generation - these are aging demographics, and their advanced social benefits (which in general I support) will be especially hard to sustain when there aren't enough working age tax payers around.

Pretty much every criticism of American government & big business easily applies to these nations, and in addition they are also now tethered to corrupt governments like Greece and malfunctioning economies like Spain and Ireland.

Visit NYC and Silicon Valley, and you'll find EU expats who come there to fulfill their entrepreneurial ambitions. TThat's part of the reason a "startup visa" is even an issue in the US.* You don't hear much talk of startup visas in Europe - not because it's easier to migrate there, simply because there aren't thousands of people who want to move there and start companies.

There isn't a single place in Europe that's even close to Silicon Valley or even Boston in terms of startup environment. America has a lot of problems, but the EU is at least in as bad a shape.
Elitism doesn't always lead to the elite, though. Sometimes (often times) it just leads to the entrenched.
Do any of them post videos up online? I've been looking for something like that.
I'd say that TED's weakness isn't that it's elite, but that it's become more and more overtly PC. In 2006, I absolutely loved TED. At that time, almost every talk was eye-opening. Now, some of them still are and others are random feminist/environmentalist/save Africa themes that don't really have anything to do with technology, entertainment or design.
actually, if you go to this video from a year ago, you can see that this year's Facebook redesign was rather reminiscent of the old Google profiles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYf5iSA6t6g&feature=playe...
To be fair it happened 4 days ago.
Where were you born? Do you have US citizenship?
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Conferences along these lines often don't, and that seems to be the biggest disconnect, and the one thing TED has done superbly over anything else. It really needs to become a trend that, no matter how narrow the subject, posting a video of a talk online should be standard operating procedure.

It's the worst in academia, but due to lack of resource or even due to a preconception that people outside of the conference aren't interested, it's something that gets overlooked way too often.
well, as long as they still have empathy
strangely, two of the flash applets on the test cases page start automatically, despite having flashblock installed on firefox.
Yeah - I didn't pay since I was a speaker but that's a good point. Since it goes to a non-profit it is tax deductible so in real dollars it is somewhat cheaper than the actual $7.5k it costs, Jessica Mah understands the finances a lot better (she's who explained this to me), I don't know how they would expect anyone else to know this sort of thing though...
the snapshot idea has been implemented in DragonflyBSD's HammerFS
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This is so similar to what I've done .... My first computer was a Casio PB100, with the 1548 bytes memory extension :) I still have the programs I've done on small cardboard sheets.

Then I had an MSX in 1986. I made dungeons games, drawing programs... all in BASIC of course. When I got bored with BASIC I plunged into Rodney Zack's "programming Z80" and wrote a crude assembler in BASIC.

From there I had a grandiose plan of a 3D 3rd person adventure game in an open world... I began some work on it and realised I'd need about 10000 times the 64KB RAM to get anything done, and a CPU 100 times as fast, and countless other stuff :) Happy days, everything was possible back then.
Easy to say when you're not the one dying painfully.
After reading through Hacker News for awhile, I'm inclined to agree with him.

Maybe you should just apply and see what happens? Why are you coming to an apparent foregone conclusion and then actively trying to make it reality?

Remember what Henry Ford said? "Whether you think you can or can't, you're right."

Also, if you look at the list of things YC actively say they are interested in, you'll find that it's far larger than just social media, mobile apps and HTML5. http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
Seems like a great opportunity for people with the means and connections to build a better biodome. Like how PAX ended up being a good alternative place to go once E3 got more exclusive.
The most interesting part was the comparison of how various languages implement keyword args.
"Laura Stein has set the TEDx licensee policy so that one cannot charge for attendance"

This is incorrect, when we organized TEDxCMU in 2010, Laura Stein told us that some other events had sold tickets to cover costs.

Here is an extract from the TED rules: " (TED will allow certain TEDx events to charge a small admission fee -- always under $100 -- to help cover the event's production costs. In order to charge an admission fee, you must obtain permission from TED first.)"

- http://www.ted.com/pages/tedx_general_rules
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Thank you- that sounds much more pleasant.
Chile perhaps? Check out this government sponsored initiative:

http://www.startupchile.org/

Seems like the Ministry of Economy is really serious about attracting founders from outside Chile. Each founder gets a $40,000 dollar grant for a six month stay which includes some great mentoring along with basic office space. I believe there is no requirement to stay in Chile after the six months is up. I guess the Chilean government is just hoping you'll like it there so much you'll want to stay and continue to base your business there. I was a chatting with a friend just last night who lives in Santiago in Chile. He told me they are expanding the scheme this year to an intake of over 100. I have to say he made the lifestyle out there sound very tempting. He said you can live comfortably on $20,000 per year - perfect for a lean startup.

Made me seriously consider the possibility of applying and taking my new startup there:

http://www.mightycv.com

Well that's if they'd have me of course.
You can of course do it that way.

I would prefer to have a script fed by the alias do some basic RFC3464 parsing and then feed the result to a central database or queue (perhaps via a local database or queue for availability). This would scale just fine. If the forking for the script becomes a problem, it could be refactored into an LMTP listener easily at that stage. This method would avoid some hacky logfile glue or batching or tailing log files.

(I haven't looked at what Mailman does; this would be my first port of call and may change my approach).
In any event, there are many services out there that you can user to check your SERPs. As mentioned above, Ginzametrics and SEOmoz are two services. They don't get banned.

You can also go the market samurai route if you want to, or use many other services out there that track your SERPs
That's because the plastic card interchange works in real time and ACH does not. Even your charge cards have a delay, though. There's a difference between authorizing a purchase and capturing the funds. Once funds are captured there's still a batch settlement process that happens each day. So it's not really that big of a conspiracy; the players aren't even the same.
Upvoted in the hopes that somebody will provide a summary...
This is true speaking from the content owner's standpoint. I was speaking from facebook's standpoint. However, I don't know if the best way is for companies to avoid this, because once other sites get on board, you'd automatically be at a disadvantage (in terms of marketing and readership) by not jumping on board. I think the strategy to go about it is to leverage facebook's network and create hooks to draw readers who initially read articles from facebook back to the site.
You're missing the point of the "elite" term in the context of politicians; part of the point is precisely that they are not elite. There is no such thing as a biological ruling class. They're just folk. We're all just folk. The reason why the system built on that premise has, broadly speaking, worked better than its competition over the course of centuries is not just that it's a gloriously wonderfully nice thing to say, it is because it actually reflects reality better, and systems that reflect reality tend to work better than those built on a fundamental denial of some part of it. (And to the extent it is having trouble it very arguably can be blamed at least partially on the attempt to create a ruling class today.)
It crashed after a while (Google Chrome).
Sure it is. And that's a good thing.

Anything that's worth participating to is elitist. It brings together interesting, fascinating and smart people. Most admirably, TED succeeded at keeping the audience eclectic. Nobody learns from homogeneity and confirming their thoughts with people who think the same.

As a TED attendee and TEDx organizer, I can definitely confirm on this. Whether for my event or for TED, I see the talks as just an excuse to get amazing people together. Everything — from the high cost to the application process — is about ensuring that every person in the audience genuinely wants to participate and contributes to the experience.

Case in point: the talks are posted for free online to weed out those who attend for the information in the talks. The Internet trivializes pure knowledge and makes human interaction so much more valuable.

When you bank your event on people (which is pretty much the only thing you can bank on in the age of the Internet), you have no choice but to make it elitist. In a good way.
"The huge growth that Google's Android platform has experienced during the past year creates a big opportunity for developers," wrote PayPal developer Naveed Anwar in a company blog. "We see it every day with the submissions using our platform. That's why we decided to put our money where our mouth is and make the theme to our next challenge Android mobile apps."

With prizes totalling $50,000, PayPal seeks Android mobile apps that leverage PayPal's technologies for mobile payments.

Do they not know what a good day on iOS is worth? It is certainly more than 50k.

This article isn't news, it's carefully placed PR, probably from Dice.com.
"Why I'm Dropping Posterous This Weekend"
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Only if you want everyone Googling your profile straight up. In an era when people worry about colleagues, employers and stalkers discovering their public profiles and photos too easily, I'm not sure if this will be useful for everyone rather than self-promoters, SEOers, etc.

I think your mention of LinkedIn is closer to the mark.
The problem (in academia or otherwise) is that the default is not to post online. Excited to see what happens when the pendulum swings the other side.
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I know what you mean, but doesn't there seem to be something vulgar and the amount of money ($6000) to attend?

You can read plenty of things in the press about the extremes of celebrity, and no doubt if someone opened a Nightclub which cost $6000 to enter many 'normal' people would be offended.

Just because someone might try to justify the TED fee in terms of 'for a good cause' doesn't help - it still gives me a feeling these people are living in a slightly different world.
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My Buzz tab was completely public by default. That's annoying.
Great job. Could you perhaps add a feature where people could vote for a particular idea?

This could help those fishing for ideas get a feel of which are the ones which have a higher potential
Being a Real Estate agent in Texas I'll be the first to say most "solutions" for agents suck. We've completely destroyed our reputation as agents (if there was much of one anyway) on Craigslist by flooding the different areas. Many agents lie or use old listings or data to do bait and switch type ads.

I haven't used this solution, but I hope it helps to thin out some of the crap that gets posted to craigslist. Something that'd be awesome is to have the software ping the IDX to make sure the property being posted is still available. If it's not then maybe have an extra dialog to be SURE the person wants to post the property.
To clarify: TEDx events can charge up to 100$ for their regular conference. TEDx can't charge admission to a livestream of TED/TEDGlobal/TEDIndia.
> To believe that you must think that everything from irrigation techniques that allowed agriculture and formation of cities to improved forms of transportation and communication that allowed cultures to meet did not have impact.

In my experience, for many people the word "technology" is synonymous with "new technology". Extant technology is just part of the way the world works for them. The author probably wouldn't consider a screwdriver to be technology, for example.
Greetings,

Oh, we applied to Y Combinator, I should have made that clear. I'm just trying to evaluate our chances, and seek out other opportunities in case YC doesn't pay off.
While I agree that credit cards could be a whole lot more secure (using the same token for identification and authentication is just plain stupid) fixing that still leaves you a long ways away from solving the fraud problem.

E-gold used username/password pairs and seemed to be making pretty good progress towards solving the 'using someone else's account' kind of fraud.

The kind of fraud that killed e-gold (and I think, the harder kind of fraud to solve) is "he sold me a defective whatsit" or "after I paid him, he never sent my thingamajig"

If you don't solve that harder problem, you quickly become known as the payment method of choice for criminals.
It varies, re: Ruby, moving from 1.8 to 1.9 (the latter of which is basically the difference between major versions, though for some reason they aren't calling it 2.0). I think things are worse in this regard for Rails than for Ruby.
That's the perception, and I presume that's why Rovio is taking this tactic. Is it true, though, for them? My impression is that they're testing the advertising method. If anyone could sell a ton of Android apps, they could.

Pretty much any Android phone owner interesting in downloading Angry Birds would be willing to pay .99c for it. It's a shame they won't treat Android like iOS in this respect - a must-have app is exactly what the Android Market needs. Get people into the Market with a serious intent to obtain a specific app, and they'll set up their account and payment method, paving the way for future purchases.

Rovio could be priming the marketplace in general and giving it a big boost. Instead, they're giving Android users a 2nd rate user experience, as well as contributing to the perception that you can't sell apps on Android.
The Xbox Media Center has supported transparent access to multiple archival formats with a variety of compressions (including transparently folding multi-file archives into one file) for years. It's an illusion implemented in user space and not a part of the operating system itself, but in practice there's no difference to the user.
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hmm I guess you can do too much damage with directory hardlinks. Like link the root into your home directory. A recursive delete on the home directory would then delete all files...
AHWM

It's unlikely you'll find it in the software management system of your Linux distribution of choice, and (being not very experienced with C) I haven't managed to get it to compile on Debian -- but it's in FreeBSD ports, and has no problems at all on that platform. Given that FreeBSD is my platform of choice, that means it works for me.

Your mileage may vary, I suppose.
Good idea + looks great. I found a slight glitch and couldn't find a better way to contact you so here goes:

When I clicked like it went from a nice looking FB Like button to http://imgur.com/f5AID
Well as you describe yourself as a noob I'll say this. Take a good look at Google App Engine before committing to it. Maybe read this too http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html . I'm sure it works for some people but I wouldn't want to find my product taking off and then having to port off GAE to deal with it.
For Microsoft, X-box comes to mind as something they started after they were already huge, which was, eventually, a success. It took them a while to get it right though. Perhaps it's easier for big companies to do well with new hardware because it's harder for new, little companies to do hardware at all.

(I've never used an X-box; by "get it right" I mean "get popular.")
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Start-ups in Salt Lake City/Park City? 
I just got back from a week of skiing in Park City. I'm thinking about moving out there. Anyone have a start-up in SLC or PC? How do you like it?
Even that doesn't always apply. The amount of documentation available for my favorite window manager on the (ancient) site for it is mind-boggling. The creator labels the documentation as "comprehensive" and, to quote Bill: "Baby, you ain't kidding."

For most software, though, it's true that documentation can always use improvement.
His best quotes:

On life:

Nothing we have is worth hurting anyone else for. It's all fleeting, people. Stop seeing race, color, sex, religion, etc... They're all just people, and if you try to love them you won't lose anything.

On suicide (of an otherwise healthy person):

It's not living that's failed him, it's life. We can always change our life as long as were living.

On regret:

Yes, one. I bought my high school sweetheart an engagement ring and never gave it to her. Life happened, meaning I was dumb. I went in the military after a dumb fight and... yeah just one.

On fear:

What long term risk is there in saying hello? I can't find any. Worst case is you get some possessive asshole that thinks your hitting on his sister, and you get a black eye. Total pain and shame lasts maybe a month. Meeting the right girl though lasts forever. So you tell me, would you trade a month of shame for a life of happiness?
O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.
While your comment may indicate thinking outside the box, it may also indicate you are a condescending asshole. Only time will tell, I suppose.
Rackspace Cloud has a $10/month 256MB instance (though traffic is extra). Amazon EC2 micro instance is free for one year (traffic is extra). VPSLink is a little pricier but works well. Linode is pricier still but (2nd hand report) works extremely well.
Well, I was able quickly remember and find just this: "The Box: A Replacement for Files", Francisco J. Ballesteros et al. (http://lsub.org/ls/export/2kblocks/index.html)

While I was writting the comment above I was mostly thinking of Plan 9 and GNU Hurd. Couldn't quickly remember exact names, but you should look in direction of those two OSes. They were made to address the shortcomings in UNIX design, and had some fancy concepts.
And that's probably why they'll win. This generation of payment technology isn't going away in the next 12-18 months. I bet we won't see the next generation surpass this generation (in usage) for at least five years. During that time, someone like Square can build tremendous momentum and relationships that will allow it to much more easily transition to the next generation, because it has a strong brand, strong relationships with the marketplace, and corporate competency in the space.

For a fantastic example of what I'm talking about in another space, see Netflix.
Hunger has little to do with it. Actually, to understand why Google is unable to succeed, you have to understand Facebook's incremental approach to integrating real life social groups. Facebook started out by targeting the college demographic, then established organizations (companies and other organizations) and eventually opening to the public.

[ Another reason for Myspace's failures - after the initial inbound success, they didn't focus at all. On anything. ]

I can't see Google treading down the same road using the same old approach, i.e. building an app, releasing it as a beta to try out with the masses, etc. They would have more success trying social out with the organizations which use their Enterprise apps. Disclaimer: I don't use Google Enterprise offerings, so I have no idea if they already have one there.
I managed to read through the whole thing, and I'm upvoting it for the same reason.
The b2b product has a more defined route to revenue / profit but its market is capped. I wouldn't complain about >$1 million in profit but my personal goal is to make a bigger impact (doesn't have to be now, but if I wait will I squander my chance).
‘The Information’ by James Gleick (a book review)
It's heartbreaking.

I think there's an uncomfortable novelty in having access to such personal period in this person's life. Sometimes, technology can create distance and remove immediacy and impact - but I don't think that's true in this case. There's an obvious undeniable gravity at work - it's important.

This kind of story usually only touches us if we're unlucky enough to have friends or family who are experiencing the same.

But I find it so difficult to comprehend. Life is fleeting. I know every stage is finite - but it's easy to forget that everything really is temporary.

This brings that home for me.
haha, reminds me of the social network.
We have approached this as a possibility (and we have interest from multiple players) I just worry that we might alienate other potential customers if they knew their competition was financially involved. Does anyone have experience dealing with those concerns?
We've conquered sushi making with machines - http://sushi-master.com/usa/index4.html . I don't think sandwiches are all that more difficult. Someone patented one in '73 - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3762306.html
I don't see a healing action for it :(
I find it telling that for a big company, their major successes (as a big company) are typically software that do not need an installed base to add value. Mail and Maps are both applications that stand on their own and it is irrelevant what application your friends are using.

However, the cases where installed base is relevant is a serious failure. Wave and Buzz come to mind.
Would it be unethical to pre-sell the software, sort of like what Oracle did in the beginning.

We would be upfront about the estimated delivery date and current status.
Ask HN: What kinds of help are open source projects looking for?
What kind of person are you looking for? What tasks are needing to be accomplished within your open source project? Is there anything simple you would like people to help with?

(inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294072)
Comment was derived from the below.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/aliens-riding-mete...

http://daviddobbs.posterous.com/journal-of-cosmology-going-o...

Rosie Redfield has now voiced some valid concerns on processing.
Facebook already serves as a personal wiki for name searches. Will Google rank Google profiles higher than Facebook results for a given name?
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