skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been discussed here a bit.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240081

Basically, the program offers a $40k grant, which goes a long way in a lower cost country like Chile. Also, they model after the usual incubator stuff for helping entrepreneurs out.

Note that I said "best example I've ever seen of what a nation can do to try to attract entrepreneurs". That doesn't mean I think it's the best it could be, nor that I think it will work. I only think that it's the best I've ever seen.

If the US offered something on a similar scale (i.e. anyone accepted into ycombinator automatically gets a work visa, basically), I imagine that the US would have a huge edge in comparison. But the US isn't doing that right now, or definitely isn't advertising it worldwide like Startup Chile is trying to do.

edit: And maybe the US isn't doing that because it doesn't need to because the world still sees Silicon Valley as the peak. Time will tell. I'm only saying that if you compared policies apples to apples, and only policies, Chile's policies win out.
i would prefer to always use Linux, but my company gives all the engineers Macs, so that's what I now use. I miss Linux deeply, but maintaining two dev environments, not to mention context switching wrt key commands, drove me to the brink.

On the positive side, OSX is still unix. MacVim rules. OSX fixes some of the Linux issues that drove me mad (like power mgmt & plugging in an external monitor). And I've gotten around the screen resize issue mentioned here w/ a little 3rd party app called sizeup... Not ideal, but a workable solution that keeps me productive on the platform.
Info Workers: When something becomes abundant, it also becomes cheap
Infinity plus one.
Technically, if you compare the same job (teaching) public vs private schools, counting benefits, public teachers make around 25% - 50% more. The whole "compared to private sector" needs to compare the same job.
>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.

Okay... so...? Did you wait 10 years for a Green Card while in immigration limbo? Do you even know the difference between then and now?

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

So enough is enough? Will more hurt, esp with 10% unemployment? Maybe we should shutdown some VCs as well, since there are enough startups.

AFAIK the Chatroulette founder was on a temp visa and was exploring options for a longer term visa. Can you reference how he 'moved' here?

>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 worlds needs more entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley has more than enough.

Your argument doesn't make sense. According to you the US/Silicon Valley is the best place to breed startups.. but you want the potential founders to go elsewhere where they might not have the best chances. Does not compute.
Does Africa need Trademarks, not Fairtrade?
Bordering on incoherent, though it may just be the hangover keeping me from grokking it. I take it that his point is, Costolo promised we'd be impressed with Twitter advertising, and so far we aren't?

I remain at a loss for why we take Winer so seriously, but that too may be a bias, from Maciej writing about his cashew snorfling.
The ZX81 home computer
I imagine prostate cancer would be in that list, too.
Interview with the Book Surgeon
Has it worked? What have the outcomes been? Is it too early to tell conclusively, and, if so, what are the metrics we can look at in the interim? What's a fair basis for comparison? Other South American countries? Smaller cities in the US?
On Gruber and GarageBand for iPad
In 2010 I wanted an iPhone Twitter client with a nice UI and no ads, so I paid $2.99 for Tweetie 2. This was after I bought Tweetie 1 for $2.99. Tweetie 2 wasn't a free upgrade.

In 2011, after acquiring Tweetie 2 and making it free, Twitter adds paid advertisements and wrecks the UI.
What Apple understands and most of its competitors still need to learn
Apple users are really missing out on high-quality apps it seems...

(Altough I do find Jobs' prudery somewhat puzzling; I guess it's typically American: violent videogames are a-ok, but the human body is a disgusting abomination...)
They should be honored to be pioneers, bringing their country up to speed.
Vending Machines Make Gains As Retail Jobs Drop: Do We All Lose?
Apple's iPad 2.0 will face stiffer competition than its predecessor
He's saying two things:

First, that it's hard to take seriously the idea that inept immigration policies are creating a real threat to the US, because it's still so far ahead of the curve on entrepreneurship.

Secondly, that it's not a human tragedy that people are being forced by circumstances to leave the US, because those people are likely to start companies in their home countries. It would be a good thing for the world if there was more entrepeneurship everywhere, not just where there is the least friction to practicing it.
> Part of what makes YC so sight after is the guidance of PG & co.

I would venture to say close to all of the benefit of YC is its all-star cast.
The Pilcrow, pt. 2
Why Generic Machine Learning Fails
too short? too long?
i just wanted to cap it somewhere.
To avoid race conditions you would need a way to create a pre-detached directory.
More pics here:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-book-surgeon-1...
Too short. Why the need for a cap? Its hashed anyhow right?
> Okay... so...? Did you wait 10 years for a Green Card while in immigration limbo? Do you even know the difference between then and now?

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.

> So enough is enough? Will more hurt, esp with 10% unemployment? Maybe we should shutdown some VCs as well, since there are enough startups.

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.

> Your argument doesn't make sense. According to you the US/Silicon Valley is the best place to breed startups.. but you want the potential founders to go elsewhere where they might not have the best chances. Does not compute.

It "does not compute" because you're not reading, just responding. I'm not saying that the founders should "go somewhere else". I'm saying that if they do choose to "go somewhere else", then that is not a bad thing; in fact, it has a lot of positive aspects to it. SV will be just fine.
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Swagsy is about to rock the world of celebrity endorsement deals - putting the power of celebrity into our wallets.

Please share it and we'll give you early access :)
Reminds me of many Android apps: instead of selling the app on the Marketplace the developers opt to include advertisements which cheapen the overall experience.
I feel a step further; This game was appealing for about 3 minutes.
Sounds easy and useful.
More Guy Steele, more on topic. It's a much more in-depth investigation of the topic of this article:

http://vimeo.com/6624203
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Does anybody know how they implemented directory hardlinks in Mac OS (they use them for time maschine I think)?
I would email Dick and ask for a special ad-free version that goes out to all paid Tweetie customers.
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Fire your prospect
I meant inflation of currency exchange, I should have stated that above.
Cataphora
yeah. I'll cap it at 1024 then.
Why doesn't conventional medicine recognize your form of treatment?

What exactly is your form of treatment anyway? Just letting the body do its thing?
Because dying people have few ulterior motives.

It's ancient wisdom that dying people speak the truth.

"Living" people with "stuff to say" are more often than not full of bullshit.
Sharing Browsing Histories Feels Risky and Fun
A mrjob for processing bounced emails in a Postfix log
Precisely.

We follow who we follow because we aren't interested in the rest. It's really bad to force follow a source of information that we don't care about. These ads are way not relevant.
Seeing Like A State: The Psychopathy of Strategy Games
This is why psychologists say you shouldn't draw foregone conclusions. You are assuming that death means non-exsistence, you should suspend your judgement, there is no benefit to jumping to conclusions.
US Middle School Students Expelled Over Facebook Libel
Discussion in the other HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294378
Discussion in the other HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294188
The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition
A related graphic from NY times: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/03/05/us/05legal-grap...
Having been there, I can vouch that this is what happened (though perhaps a bit exaggerated). It was pretty entertaining. I was pretty shocked that the panelists voted against him -- I thought what he did was exactly in the spirit of the entire thing.

I also have to say Jane McGoningal's "rant" was incredibly lame "rah rah we're changing the world" stuff. I wish they had given this guy more time -- honestly the panelists have mostly been the same people saying the same things the last few years, it'd be nice to hear some new voices.
The traits that allow something to survive extended periods in space don't automatically grant it the traits that would allow it to thrive on Earth above all else.

Look at Earth's extremophiles, the bacteria that can survive near thermal vents on the ocean floor, extended trips in space/vacuum, intense radiation, sub-zero temps, etc, there's no evidence that they're taking over the non-extreme locations. Even if they do survive outside their "home" environment, that doesn't automatically make them the top dog that will edge out everything else.
You have to recompile both sides of the API if you change the types and redeploy together.
Ohad knows his stuff, but he didn't cover everything here. There are other reasons payments are hard for everyone. You can't really have this discussion without talking about point of sale systems. The existing retail point of sale infrastructure in the United States is unbelievably fragmented and old. Apple and Google are in a good position to make devices that replace registers, but adoption is still just as much an issue for them as for everyone else.

This is good for payment startups (such as mine), but you have to have a lot of tenacity to untangle such a giant knot.
Would that this were true. There just isn't anything on the web that compares. (or if there is, please please tell me!)

After writing my comment I did some research and found this: http://www.halfhill.com/bytefaq.html

It turns out that BYTE was shut down because it didn't focus on WinTel enough - which was the dominant platform at the time (late 90's). I had always suspected this.

It wasn't some overt conspiracy though. Byte had above average circulation for a computer magazine, and far higher resubscription rates. The problem was that because it didn't cater to a specific well defined segment of buyers, it was less appealing to advertisers.

Given that so much of the web is advertising driven, I don't see how it's immune from this. There can be a huge number of people who want a source of well written broad ranging tech material but it's the advertisers who fund the web and they don't want broad ranging. They want people neatly divided up into predictable segments of buyers.

What gets funded on the web isn't determined by what users want - it's what advertisers will pay for.
Please don't implement this sort of system---it's a headache, and can hurt users more often than not (important email from many important sources is unlikely to be authenticated, say a recruiter, or a contact for a new job, or a distant great-aunt who can't use computers), plus it's really annoying when, for example, mailing lists get this sort of annoying check back almost every time they email a new user.
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How will I protect myself as a international co-founder?
Lets assume, one of the co-founder of my company lives in US and he is going to register and represent the company in US.

How am I protected as a co-founder who is not living in US and owns majority of the shares? Is it based purely on trust or does a law exists which protects me ?
Heck, I always wonder if the USA immigration system is broken (past and now) how the hell is 50% of Silicon Valleys big companies are founded by immigrants. And if they are so, and it's a good thing, then why change it? It already proved that it works.
Ask HN: Jobs & Startups in Seattle (urgentish)
Urgency is relative - and this is a single serving account just for this question.

I live in NYC and my wife just got an offer for her dream job in Seattle. While I love my work here she put her carrier on-hold a long time so I could pursue mine. Long story short: me+her+kid are moving in 4 weeks or so to sunny tropical Seattle.

So I'm a developer (JS, CSS, PHP, 'HTML5', various CMSs, 3rd party API (Google, Twitter, FB, Bitly, Chartbeat, etc) browser plugins, PhoneGap and so on) with 7+ years experience who recently moved more into Product (ideas, prototyping, pitching, building, launching). All this on a web site with millions of pageviews a day. I know how to look for a 'developer' job but clueless as to product/developer roles.

We both need jobs for this move to be viable (she is in the culinary world) so I'd appreciate any tips on:

- large and small companies in Seattle that deal with the web that you'd recommend

- recommendations on job sites for (other than indeed.com - more like jobs.37signals.com)

- anything else you think could help!

I'll be at SXSW Interactive in a few days so if you know of any Seattle companies that will be there please respond too.

In many ways Amazon might be a good fit since I also come from a publishing/media company but I can't filter through their job listings enough to know what's a good fit or not... anyone from Amazon care to talk?

Thank you.
The coin game introduced chaos into the event. If the desire was to maintain order, providing an open ended game play mechanism where players have to game one another doesn't promote a system of order.

This guy did a great job of gaming the actual game and did what players in real games do all the time. Find the easiest way to competitive advantage through the available mechanics, even if it is through a loophole in the rules.

Maybe they would have been happier if he had traded his credit card for the bag of coins instead.
Isn't your reply there the only reply on that thread? And doesn't it just link here?

Are you a bot or something?
As telecom industry evolves, success of Netflix is its biggest threat
The author suggests that Amazon hasn't dealt with third parties at major scale. That seems counter to my experience, where almost 50% of my purchases on Amazon are fulfilled by a third party. For companies at the scale of Google, Amazon, and Apple - I'd suggest that hiring the talent and developing the risk management processes aren't as large a hurdle as he would suggest.

The major challenge is convincing people (vendors and sellers) as to why they should use your system.
Design Patterns in the JDK
I was just being silly. I was hoping for an infinite loop of clicks....
Most people try Apple products first, and THEN buy them.

They try them out at the store or they play with a friend's. This is the common pattern. Have you ever been to the Apple store? It's one big room full of people playing with iPads and iPhones

The user experience is unbeatable and everyone knows it, the non-techies just don't call it "user experience".

But they play with the iPad/iPhone/iPod and then they play with a few other competitors and the difference is beyond obvious. And this keeps them sticking with Apple.

Especially with phones -- everyone has tried blackberries, androids and iPhones because it's so easy to try out other people's phones. There are a few really nice android phones that are as beautiful as the iPhone but they are rare - it's rare to run into a person with one of them.

Most of the non-iPhone phones people own are ugly pieces of crap. This is negative advertising for the Android/Blackberry platform. Blackberries in particular are incredibly unintuitive on the first usage, while typical Android phones (admittedly cheap, but no one talks about the price at a party) suffer from blurry screens and clunky animation.
Does .biz domain extension hurt your business?
I have some product ideas and about to register a business domain. The .com extension of the name I have in mind is already taken. However, .biz is available. I read some speculation about how it may hurt the business. The extension .com is what every internet user is most used to. There's some blog about how Google puts .biz websites well below in their search results. Is .biz really a bad idea as part as search engines and ease of finding the business goes? Thanks.
Which is a sensible clause for Apple, so that Amazon can't go and say "all books bought on the Kindle device are 50% off what you pay when you buy the book on the Kindle for iPad app" to drive device sales.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scrappy/lib/Scrappy.pm#DESCRIPTI... says:

"Scrappy (pronounced Scrap+Pee) == 'Scraper Happy' or 'Happy Scraper'; If you like you may call it Scrapy (pronounced Scrape+Pee) although Python has a web scraping framework by that name and this module is not a port of that one."

Looking at the previous versions on CPAN, it looks like it's said something similar since version 0.51 last August (a day after version 0.50, which appears to have been the first release).
I don't know anything about the High Rise tower except the wikipedia summary, but it doesn't seem similar to the Tower of David at all, except for the two skyscrapers lacking working elevators.

The Tower of David inhabitants manage the lack of social structure and services through self-organization and integration with the outside economy. The High Rise tower seems to be Lord of the Flies except with overindulgence and social alienation as the triggering causes.

The Tower of David as shown in the article, despite everything terrible it reveals about Venezuela's government and economy, is a story about people creating a functioning society from nothing.
NASA employs many people. I worked there once myself. That there are crackpots and other less-than-credible folks working there is not only not surprising, but something I witnessed first hand. Despite popular culture's imagery, NASA is not some elite group of the world's finest intellects. It is really no more big a deal than working for a giant military contractor. In fact, most of the workers at NASA do work for a giant military contractor.

That said, I have nothing to offer on the actual subject at hand - the validity of the claims.
No, I think the model is still ads. But if you give people the ability to pay to avoid ads, then the most dedicated twitter users will do so and your ads will dramatically decline in value. Why would an advertiser want to reach only the least engaged segment of your audience?
Ahem... Starting another groupon clone in India is not necessarily a next big thing.
It seems ironic that in an article on a programming language named after Haskell Curry, it says:

...to take a function of two arguments, say f(.,.), and construct from it a function of a single variable defined by f_x(y) = f(x,y). Computer scientists call such a thing a closure...
I don't think even Apple fans think the iPhone's behavior when doing alerts is a good example.
His writing _is_ idiosyncratic and very stream-of-consciousness. I posted this particular thing because I was interested in the origin of the dickbar and I found the comparison of twitter advertising to google advertising intelligent. I certainly won't argue with anyone who prefers a different delivery.
>Secondly, that it's not a human tragedy that people are being forced by circumstances to leave the US, because those people are likely to start companies in their home countries.

Restrictions on a work visa holder:

1) Your spouse cannot work at all unless she qualifies and obtains a specialized H1 herself/himself
2) If you get fired on a Friday, you're technically out of status from a legal point from Saturday
and must leave immediately regardless of spouse,rent leases, homes, cars, pets, kids, kids' schools, personal property etc.
3) You and your spouse and kids cannot have any supplemental active income. This rules out selling photographs on stock photo sites,
phone apps, etc. You can basically do nothing productive that earns money outside your job.
4) If you move to a different job or even change roles, you have to reapply for the Green Card process from the scratch. Expect multiyear delays just to get back to where you were.
5) If you or your spouse wants to visit your home country or travel outside the country, expect to get stuck there for months for no good reasons. It has become so bad that immigration lawyers are advising not to travel internationally except for emergencies. You're basically stuck in the country.

See one example:

Consulate Location - MUMBAI
Interview Date - 26 AUGUST 2010
Docs asked? - None
Docs submitted? None
Docs submitted Date - N/A
Email Receipt Date - NOV 23, 2010
Passport Submission Date - same day as that of interview
Passport Stamped/Received Date - RECEIVED WITHOUT STAMPING AFTER 15 DAYS

RECEIVED 2ND EMAIL ON DEC 15, 2010 TO SUBMIT PASSPORT

AGAIN RECEIVED MY PASSPORT WITHOUT STAMPING

Waiting Since (in calendar days) - 170 DAYS

Petition Details:

Employer Type - AMERICAN , NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION
Employer Size - more than 5,000
Assignment Type - DIRECT
I-797 Approval Date - 01-JULY 2010

6) Processing of applications takes forever. You can be stuck without a driving license(no renewal) in some states while your extension is pending. Imagine having to go to work with no driving license. Paying an extra $1225 in no-delay fees can speed up the process in a few cases.

Edit:

7) Taxes: You get to pay all the taxes including Social Security and Medicare(employers also have to match this) and state unemployment taxes(one won't see a cent of this because one is supposed to leave as soon as they're unemployed).

There was a recent bill that increased the fee of some type of work visa applications by $2000 to fund... wait for it... the Mexican border security!
Unfortunately, the necessity to distinct between files (and lack of filesystem-level transactions) and directories led to inability to have a lot of fancy filesystems. There are tons of research papers and projects, which just cannot be implemented on GNU/Linux in non-kludgy way.

For example, there would be no need in archivers (like tar), when you could do `cp ./directory archive.tar` (OS X has something similar this with dmg HFS images). Or you could have `/etc/foo.config` as a text file, but also access separate options as `/etc/foo.config/section/option`. Or you could have versioning built-in into a filesystem. `./foo.txt` is a current version, `./foo.txt/history/` is a directory with a list of revisions, and `./foo.txt/history/2010-01-23T16:24:00Z.001` is an old version snapshot.
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