skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out http://YouNoodle.com - do a search on your city and then contact the founders of the startups in your city.

Run with the first one that raises capital, or has it already to hire you.

Research some VC portfolios and contact the companies where you'd fit in.

A uni degree isn't everything, but you need to know how to optimize your time, to be able to keep learning, and to be positioning yourself for success in the best possible way - through a startup.

If you can, a blog will help with your writing skills and something to show employers.

If you get to college, take freelance jobs over the web that can be performed remotely like from elance, getacoder, programmingbids and the like.

Most of all Good Luck and don't be like your dad to your kids.
Flagged as spam.

Dear t3livetrading, please do not create an account and then submit two (boring) links to your own blog within the next two minutes.
Ask HN: Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person)
I'm looking for a service where an actual person will filter my e-mail weeding out the spam. None of the current anti-spam solutions work perfectly, and I'd happily pay a small monthly fee.

Does anything like this exist? If not, consider it a free startup idea. ;-)
i agree. it would be fun to help out fellow hackers and work ad-hoc on small, discrete chunks of side-projects. additionally, if no one with the required skills is available for certain mini-projects, this could be a nice reason to learn something new for those willing. my skill set: writing, hacking (for now, in that order)...

anyone need a poem written?
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip
I looked hard for something like that (in Romanian, not English). What I found was either freelancers who offered to work for free (the job was small) but ultimately bailed, or big companies who didn't even want to talk to me. I ended up writing my own texts and feeling better for it. Anyways, I just want to tell the OP: if you're good AND professional, you should be rich soon :) Or at least too busy to care about money.
China is the next big empire and money is starting to flow more and more into China. In US, there is a credit crunch and in China, there is a dearth of companies to fund. Clearly, it's easier to fix the latter. I see China eclipsing US entrepreneurship scene in less than 10 years.
Article would be more helpful if it actually mentioned how much gasoline China was using per year. According to this article:

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/chinas_gasoline.html

the answer is about 20 billion gallons, and estimated to rise to about 25 billion by 2010. If California does indeed use more than China then it's both not by much and not for long.

Also, why is this on HN?
The way things are going, I seriously doubt that.
I am thoroughly convinced Microsoft will botch up this acquisition, but that's only because it's usually a safe bet that Microsoft will botch up anything internet related. They just don't get it.

This article is based largely on the assumption that priority number one will be to port everything to Windows and I think this is an absurd assumption to make.

Are we to believe that Microsoft is willing to risk throwing away $100M+ in order to migrate this thing to Windows?

Don't forget that Microsoft ran Hotmail on Unix for years. I imagine by the time they got around to porting it to Windows they were about ready for an upgrade anyway. (Plus, Windows was finally getting to the point where a project like that could even be considered.)

My guess is the meat of this deal was about bringing in some new IP and some bright engineers- not about running some search engine that almost no one has heard of. In that case, the platform it runs on is largely irrelevant.
The article is based on a small section in the linked PDF, which is based on a conclusion the researcher made by reading a newspaper article about the Dutch housing market. So, yeah - unconvincing. In the heavily McMansioned areas of the USA, people are commuting to a suburban office park, not a city center. Thus, the housing choice is going to be between different suburban developments, not between a gated community and an apartment downtown.
Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?
Hey folks,

What are good Python IDEs, other than Emacs? What do people here use? Does anyone have direct experience with Wingware?

I code on both OS X and WinXP. I've used vim, Emacs, Textpad, IDLE, and TextMate.
It's a really good question. I posted something I just wrote which basically asks the exact same question from the opposite perspective, coming from the entrepreneur's viewpoint:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249453
I think you don't really want to use length. Since it is a program evaluating last it might not be that bad as you have to goto the last element anyway.

Here is mine:

(defun our-last (list)
(if (rest list)
(our-last (rest list))
list))
Um... Since nobody has suggested it yet, open up an ssh port on a computer and use sftp.
well its pretty simple really, China is going in overdrive towards having the largest middle class population in the world. In the article I read I think it said something like 5 years before there are more of Chinese Middle Class, than there are in United States.

So you have a very large market that continues to grow(unlike USA), of people who are willing to spend the extra money for Apple like status symbols, who are VERY nationalistic, and who have no problem buying U.S. knock offs. And since chinese have no problem copy pasting ideas/products, it would make sense that the uPod, uPhone, uNextProductFromApple will be copied, which will then fly off the shelf, and will make the chinese version of Steve Jobs rich.
I think it doesn't exist because of the privacy implications. Imagine someone reading all your emails!
I've been a member of Techshop since April. Please don't spread the word, it is getting difficult to schedule time on the laser cutter. ;)
I have minimal experience with Wingware, but have found it impressive and am spending more time with it. Previously I've done all my Python in IDLE and Textpad.

I'm also going to give Fedora a shot. As bloated as it is, free is nice.
I'm in a similar position to the author of this thread. I can hack well enough to set up and customize sites with open source CMS, but my strongest skills are copywriting and marketing.

I would like to collaborate with people with complimentary skills. Email or ping me at johncwesley@gmail.com, I'd love to hear about what you're working on and offer marketing advice if I can.
As my old boss used to say:

"JavaScript is my favorite language with curly braces" (we were lispers)
20 Startup Lessons I learnt at Proto.in(Day 1)
"The way things are going" ... someone must be watching TV news. :)

While America is having problems in the housing and financial sectors, it still has the best environments for fostering innovation. Can you name any new industries created in China in the last 20 years?

China's main advantages are a huge (and increasingly skilled), labor force, excellent infrastructure, an eroding cost advantage, a great environment for foreign investment, and a government that can get things done. Which one of those things is critical to creating a revolutionary company? And which of them are unavailable to entrepreneurs in the US?

If I had to be on the next big industry to be created outside the US, I'd bet on India rather than China.
This is not particularly surprising. When the transaction cost to read an article is lower, there's less "need" to use the work you've uncovered. By analogy, Walter Murch says in his book, "In the Blink of an Eye" that film editors need to avoid "seeing around the edge of the frame" - when the editor knows the hard work that went into getting a particular shot to work, the 'sweat investment', it's harder to discard that shot because it feels like a waste -- even if that's not the best shot to use. Similarly, my investment into getting an article means I'm more likely to use it the harder it was to obtain. By decreasing that cost, writers can be more 'objective' about what's actually useful.

Second, because I can easily get a different article, if the one I have doesn't say quite what I need, I can find something else.
An analyst I respect says that China is the next bubble.
http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2007/01/we...

Actually he uses the phrase "Mother of All Bubbles" elsewhere.

Uncritical optimism is a sure indicator.
NYC Meetup: Sunday at 7:30PM at Radegast Hall
As we all collectively decided last week, there will be a HN meetup in NYC this Sunday at 7:30 PM.

The place: Radegast Hall. Take the L train, get off at Bedford Ave (first stop in Brooklyn).

http://www.radegasthall.com/

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=radegast+hall,+nyc&ie=UTF8&ll=40.717729,-73.959231&spn=0.008603,0.018797&z=16&iwloc=0x89c2595c2cac7f81:0x8d7987001867c2a3

You can easily identify me: I'm a generic looking white guy, and I'll be drinking beer.
Komodo is supposed to be pretty nice, although I haven't used it myself (happy with vim):

http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/feature_showc...
But if anyone can produce knockoffs, how will any one of them grow a giant company with global reach and influence? That's what I think of when I think of Jobs. It's like the difference between being Toyota and being the company that manufactures their dashboards. You can definitely get rich owning a dashboard company, but you're not going to gain Jobs' influence and wealth.
Sure, I know of a service. It's cheap too--only one dollar per month. But you have to have a large net worth to become a member. Preferably in liquid form in online banks.
Sure, number of companies may be easy to fix with population and money, but the number of good companies is a lot harder. Just ask all the VCs with fat funds and sleepy portfolios.
Smart High School Harvests 280,000 Gallons of Rainwater Each Year
With the kinds of tools now available I'm wondering if the next Steve Jobs will even need funding.
Earnings is the wrong thing to look at when you enter a recession. It's easy for companies to manipulate earnings for a little while, by shuffling money around and delaying expenses.

Gross revenue is your leading indicator: are they still selling as much, or more, than before?

Alain - fairsoftware.net
Get a .info domain really cheap for $1.99, get the cheapest unlimited hosting service, upload pics via ftp, get an open source photo manager.

See? less than $5 a month splitted among 5 guys for your own personal photo sharing site, easier impossible.
How is this not a dupe?

(I love TED, don't get me wrong, I'm just surprised this hasn't been submitted before)
Sounds like a good trade-off to me-- I'd gladly give up immediacy in favor of accuracy.
i think that is a bold faced lie
Open ObjectRexx
Steve Jobs is great at making "luxury" products and marketing them. Marketing high-end products is not what China is good at. China is good at other things, like actually building the products that Jobs markets.

But, the article isn't about who will be the next Steve Jobs - it is about who is going to fund the next Steve Jobs. Given China's economic growth, there is a good chance that the next Steve jobs could be funded by investors from/in China.
That's why I'm always scared to bet on the safe bet.
The difference between Hotmail and Powerset is Microsoft has said that they will have some sort of integration with Live search by the end of the year.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/02/interview-with-barney-p...

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about but having half of Live search running off Windows search and the remaining part being handled by Powerset's unix boxes sounds silly. Or at least I will think I am seeing pigs fly if it every happens.
simple and stupid, but have you tried talking to recruiters?
You do realize that China has 3x+ more population and that they have a bigger pool of people, companies to pick from, right?

You need to go there and see it with your own eyes... I was skeptical too but not anymore. China is rising and they will eclipse us all.
True. And a self-erasing audio file wouldn't prevent somebody from capturing it as it is played the one time, either. So, it's not really guaranteeing a disappearing message as much as just adding an obstacle to copying/retention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhId_WG7RA
I don't take orders from the Huffington Post people, so I write about whatever I want (which in the past has included such topics as autism, politics, and business--but nothing in particular supporting Obama). Also, the piece isn't predicting doom and gloom. It's saying that doom and gloom is already here, and we in Silicon Valley aren't doing much to help matters.
I've tried Wing personally, but it was just too much pretty but superfluous GUI stuff all over the place.

As a primary editor I use xemacs21 in full-screen mode with everything extra disabled; I typically have 2-3 instances running (due to parallel development in multiple branches) with 200 open buffers.

I'd love to pay $$$$ for a GUI that would make more efficient but I sppose I may be stuck with xemacs forever.

Ropemacs was the last impressive thing I saw, but it was a bit buggy. I don't seem to have need for refactoring, tag search is enough for me to navigate and dabbrev-expand based on other buffers contents is usually enough for me.
How is the next Steve Jobs going to produce millions of hardware units without funding?
You're stuck in a historical bias. Don't discount the future based on past!

India does not have as much middle class as China so I don't think you will have have a big rise in India as we'll see in China.
Definitely NOT hosting my own DNS. I've got my domains registered at invisiondomains.com and am hosting someplace else. Over at invisiondomains, I set up the nameservers and aimed my domains at the new nameservers. My initial post was an attempt to find out if the downtime I was experiencing was normal or just my host and registrar giving me a line. Not it seems that what I'm seeing is normal for someone who doesn't take some of these more intricate measures beforehand. All of this is really useful info. Like I said, I was looking for a primer - to know if I should call bullshit on my host and registrar or not.
I'm a generic looking white guy, and I'll be drinking beer.

As am I.

edited!
Hi sanj, that is still called a liquidation preference. The article is fine.
They never mentioned the issue of kids, either. For most of the folks I know who chose to live in the suburbs (including my parents), the decision factors were:

1.) They want their kids to be safe.

2.) They want their kids to go to a good school system, so they can get into a good college and make lots of money later in life.

3.) They want their kids to have a lawn to play in and grow up surrounded by greenery.

4.) They want their kids to make friends with other people like themselves.

I grew up in the suburbs, and am really glad I did. I wouldn't want to trade treehouses for sidewalks, touch football games on the lawn for skateboarding in the park, or my small exurban charter school with a graduating class of 32 for a large public high school with a graduating class of 2000. The good school system has paid off too - both my sister and I started at salaries that were roughly what my mom retired at.
I use Komodo Edit, and I love it. It has everything I need, is customizable, and was recently Open Sourced. I would be hard pressed to switch to something else.
Zacharye it sounds like you have a valuable skill and could get something out of this, go for it and grow your connections.

I have similar skills and would want to build upon them in a similar fashion so if you find yourself with more then you can handle let me know @ mattyfo@gmail

@yan ad-hoc sounds like an awesome way to get things off the ground and keep costs low...how to implement?
You're thinking of Steve Jobs circa 2008, who makes pretty white luxury boxes.

But the Steve Jobs that counts for is Steve Jobs circa 1978, the Steve Jobs that was making cheap ugly boxes that plugged into your TV. (And of course it was really Woz, but let's leave that aside for the moment.) The point is that Apple started and became big by being a low-end company, and only turned high-end once they were already huge.
Awesome data points. But remember, "good" is the enemy of "shipping".
This post couldn't have come at a better time. I really need your help with my elevator pitch/sign up frame.
My name is Tommy Nguyen, I'm the co-founder of a site called www.ratemyideas.com

Its a rating/voting where users submit made or market ready cool products/gadgets/inventions/ web sites etc.

We are not officially launching till next week but during testing people are confused at the purpose of the site. They think its "submitting ides that haven't been created yet" I wanna convey its a place to submit finished product that is new and undiscovered.

please advise
thanks!
Tommy
There's a reason they're avoiding the giants. They can knock out the little guys who can't mount much of a defense, and then use it as a precedent to go after bigger fish who can give them hard cold cash. Amazon would pony up the big guns lawyers and squash these bugs - tiny startup types will roll over and die because they can't weather it.

Of course, I can't imagine demonstrating prior art on a "Method and apparatus for creation and maintenance of database structure." is going to be very difficult if the patent as awarded in 2005.
I did see that Microsoft had said they will have some sort of integration by the end of the year, but that doesn't necessarily imply that they will need to port the Unix stuff to Windows. Maybe a mix of Live Search on Windows and Powerset on Unix sounds silly to some, but you could also make the argument that dumping a bunch of time and money into porting a working application after a $100M acquisition is silly.

The article you linked to mentions that only 5% of searches contain natural language elements. This integration they talk about could be as simple as identifying these searches and passing them off to the Powerset stuff in the background.

I don't doubt that Microsoft will eventually want to port everything to Windows, but I think it's a false assumption that this is going to be a top priority. They've made repeated statements about their desire to see this put to use quickly and speculation about a lengthy and complicated port seems to directly contradict that.
My Father is a literal sociopath, he isn't trying to teach anyone anything.
I use Eclipse 3.4 on Windows with Pydev/Pydev extensions. I really like the mark occurrences feature - even made something like it for Emacs, but it's not as seamless.
Eclipse with the PyDev plugin is very nice also. I'm using that on both OS X and Windows.
I'm enjoying e-texteditor, its basically textmate for windows (but its not free)
How is "middle class" defined in that classification?

In the US, for instance, you'd need to earn at least, say, (picking a random number without wanting to start arguments and well-it-depends-where-you-live threads) $35,000 a year to be 'middle class', whereas China's per capita income is still less than $2000.
They'll doubtless continue to do well - that's a good thing - but they have plenty of issues of their own to deal with, including ethnic minorities, and a big democracy deficit that will likely become more irritating to a rising middle class.
shrugs I found my solution: community college as a launchpad for getting high grades and going to Uni for free.

I can afford to pay for CC out of pocket. It's cheap.

Columbus has a severe labor surplus/job shortage. This rust belt area is dying hard. I was lucky to get my $9 an hour job. I live alone, I pay all my bills myself. Columbus doesn't give me much margin to work with, were it not for my frugality.
Yes, I agree. Ship early and ship often, but understand that it probably won't be "good" for some time. Back when Microsoft shipped, the joke was that it took 3 versions to get any good at all (Windows being the perfect example).
Good luck with that.

MLS data is not created/accessed equally between states/regions.

FYI - The transition is being made from MLS to RETS, www.rets.org.
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I just did this recently. I reduced the TTL a few days before the move and I also set up Apache on the old server to proxy all requests to the new server. Look up Reverse Proxy for Apache. I turned that on when I changed the IP addresses in the DNS records. So there was no downtime. I left this up for a week and then shut it down. Worked great. Note: This site doesn't use SSL. That would make it a little more complicated.
China has the cheap and ugly market sewn up, so by that definition of Steve Jobs, there are already dozens, if not hundreds of Chinese Steve Jobses.
JavaScript = subset(C) + subset(Lisp)
I must admit, I have a hard time knowing what I'd need an ide for when I can use emacs and have a python interpreter running inside it. I haven't worked on any python projects large enough to make me need help navigating the code though.
How I Got Started: Software Developer at 60 (almost)
Wouldn't a better question be, "How many users does it take to build a good product?"

The time equation comes from processing feedback loops, but the more users, the better the loops, the better the feedback, the better the product.

Given that, it seems to be that it takes 2-3 years to acquire enough users (and the resulting feedback) to make a good product.
Second Komodo Edit here. Although I used textmate/e (windows) and there where a few features there that I preferred over komodo
I've been using Wing 101 for the last couple of months (after reading the Python IDE reviews on Jonathan Ellis' blog), and I've been fairly happy with it.

Links to the reviews:

http://spyced.blogspot.com/2005/09/review-of-6-python-ides.h...

http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/02/pycon-python-ide-review.h...
This is an interesting counter-point to another submission from today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249346
Are there any companies where they will send you a 16gb flash drive, you fill it up and send it back, then they host the files (or upload them to flickr, smugmug, etc)?

I'd pay $25 for that service.
I am always amazed how much it feels like we are in a world of guilds who are concerned their "secrets" will escape.
So emancipate yourself, and get financial aid. It doesn't sound like there's much holding you back.
the good thing is that not many people understand that
I would love to hear an expert's (free!) suggestions on how we can improve our copy on decisionero. I believe very strongly that, especially on the web, short copy that gets the message across is crucial--and short copy is the hardest to write.

Our current home page is the one I'm currently most eager for suggestions about, particularly the two paras at the bottom:

http://decisionero.com

There are two other pages that present our message in a little more detail:

http://decisionero.com/decisionero/about

http://decisionero.com/decisionero/origin

If you'd like to post here to HN to demonstrate your style of analysis and feedback for others to see, please feel free. Or, if you prefer, email me at bkovitz "at" acm "dot" org.
I tend to agree with this. What matters to the "rising middle class" isn't so much democracy or not, but how much individual freedom and lifestyle they can have. Once the sustenance issue is solved, people want higher ends - more personal freedom, rights, information, opportunities, expression, etc. That being said, most Chinese are still poor and historically, it's been the peasant class that has caused the most problems for governments. It'll be interesting to see how the Chinese government balances the needs of the two groups.
It might be better if you linked to the first page, not the last. :)
Not necessarily. The iPhone, for example, probably had very few users prior to launching. (though the handful of users that it did have, such as Steve Jobs, probably provided a lot of critical feedback)