skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- uuilly is right: Stop reading the news. It's just making you depressed.

- The USA has got its problems, but other countries also have their problems. Half the problems that plague the USA also plague the world. (Example: Our housing bubble is also, in part, a global housing bubble -- easy credit can cross national boundaries, and it has!) And many of the problems that are new to the USA are old news in the rest of the world. (Ask a Londoner about police-state surveillance. Ask (e.g.) a Brazilian from the slums of Rio about police violence. Ask a Chinese person about what it's like to live without a First Amendment... or ask an old Chinese person, or (god help us) a Cambodian, what "politics gone mad" really looks like.)

- You need to travel, no question. Just take some long trips. If you put all your stuff in storage you can spend your rent money in foreign countries for months at a time.

- The best place for you to start a company is almost certainly the USA. You know the language. You know the culture. You've got a lot of contacts. You have no legal issues.

- You're a web worker. Think about it: Just because your company is in the USA doesn't mean your office needs to be in the USA. You can have an office on a beach in Argentina for a month, then have an office in a cafe in Japan for a month, then have an office in a hostel in Australia for a month. Just learn the local words for "wifi" and remember: When a customs official asks if your trip is for pleasure you say yes.
I guess the developer market is similar to the market for fleshlight? :-)

(Still, if i may, ROFL!)
For anyone who doesn't have the time to break this down, basically it breaks down like this:

42.zip > lib {0-f}.zip > book {0-f}.zip -> chapter {0-f}.zip -> doc {0-f}.zip -> page {0-f}.zip -> 0.dll

where {0-f} should be expanded to 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f

and 0.dll is a 4GB file

$ head -c 1000 0.dll |od -c

0000000 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252

*

0001740 252 252 252 252 252 252 252 252

0001750

or loads of <AA>'s when viewed in less.
I moved the f*ck out of the US and set up a business in Mexico. I will not say what or exactly where, but my quality of life has shot straight up. Everything's cheaper, the girls are great, no Bush politics, I don't hear stories of police murde^H^H^H^H^Hacting in self-defense against normal people, and i'm a de facto super hero here for helping the economy pick up.

Like someone else said: Look at what bothers you, then look for places that don't have that shit, rather than looking for the perfect place. Every place has its downside.

NZ seems like good place, so does France (if you want to have a 35 hour work week). There are lots of options.
The thing about working in tech in Japan is that whereas Japanese engineers are good at making games and consumer electronics, they are not very good at typical desktop or web software. In my experience, most "software engineers" in Japan were actually Chinese... who could also speak English. Thus, it isn't that hard to get hired, even if you don't know much Japanese. It is hard to find the job in the first place, though.
I was sort of going by standard practice among other startups.. They all seem to be very up-front about their pricing and rate plans. Do you think that this is in general a bad idea, or do you think with my product in particular, it would be better to go with the "Sign up for your free account today" approach? If so, why?

Also, by the way, my conversion rate to free accounts is around 26% according to Analytics. (This is not for AdWords clicks.) I think a bigger concern for me is my conversion rate (or lack thereof) for free accounts to paid accounts.
He didn't say he respects vegetarians, he said it as part of a sentence.

Jon Stewart has a nice discussion about such sentences. In particular he analysed one form of statement which made things very clear. The form was "I think your <relationship> is a <expletive>, no disrespect". Just because you tag all your statements with "no disrespect" doesn't mean you are not actively hostile and disrespectful.
That's because Google lived in an era where there weren't a bunch of asshole flunkies writing about tech startups. They created a product that spread via word-of-mouth, not through press releases. People that used Google liked it, and it spread.

If you launch under the pretense of being a possible Google killer - and the people making this certainly did nothing to stifle that outrageous claim - then you need to expect a ton of flack when something goes wrong. And things went wrong.
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Inquisitor is the only add-on I use, for Safari. It's a beautiful add-on and it's the only thing that does something for my browser that makes me more productive.
From someone who has to deal with CVS on sourceforge, a HUGE THANK YOU to the GitHub crew!

Now I just have to convince the other developers to move the project to GitHub.
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I would make it clearer WHY I SHOULD USE LUMINOTES?

My first thoughts for a use case would be for a company to keep training docs. In which case, I would make the fact that it costs money more prominent.
Why not build something to do this and share the url when you've got a prototype?
You can include company name in the tweet, trading-off few characters from the job overview for more significant information.

For my Twitter job feed I use format: TITLE at COMPANY (LOCATION)

http://twitter.com/Joblighted
Okay, sounds like my unique selling proposition isn't obvious enough. I'll work on that.
So much for the "electric car", it's just a hybrid. A pretty ugly one at that.

Why is it that Tesla can put out a fully electric car, but GM can't?
There's two routes: traditional software development in big corporations where it's all Japanese university graduates or with smaller proto-startups with a bigger mix. They're not clustered in anywhere in particular. If you have contacts, give that a shot.
The signup page is pretty up front about the pricing and capabilities. The link already takes them to a straightforward and clear summary of the different options, so I don't see any reason not to make the link text into something that is more likely to bring them to that page in the first place.
Just goes to show you how important it is to have an international strategy from (almost) day 1. Assume that if your startup is successful, someone will try to clone your site and attempt to grab a foreign audience. When there are more internet users in China than in US, do you really want a huge potential market to be swayed by an imitator?
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1) You can emigrate almost anywhere to start a company, if you have half a million dollars or more, in cash. If you don't have any money, it is hard(er) to emigrate anywhere in the "first world."

2) Nowhere in particular is facing a shortage of high-tech web workers.

3) It is easy to get a job in Japan if you know someone who can get you a job in Japan. The hard part is finding the job in the first place. If you don't already have a connection, your best bet is to already be in Japan, and then apply somewhere that is known for hiring non-japanese people... like an investment bank or JENS or Dell. English is not typically spoken in the workplace in Japan, but in my experience, one out of 30 people spoke decent english. I wouldn't say Japan is a great place to go if you are simply sick of the USA. It is fun for 3-6 months. It is very expensive and a "closed society," so after a while you will get very homesick.
One important problem with spreeder is that when you read normally, your eye jumps much in the same way as it does when using spreeder, but it captures 2-3 words at a time, not 1 word at a time.

So with spreeder, your speed is actually divided by 2-3, you lose the context, the ability to pause and think, the images, the ability to skim, etc...
Banking on Silverlight is silly. Penetration is hideous.
Looks similar to this service.
http://www.springnote.com/en

It's a product of a korean company called OpenMaru.
8 things that enhance Google. 1 adblocker. 1 thing that's actually useful for productivity.

1) So instead of a left-click you're using a right-click. Not much more productive. Isn't Google Labs' right-click gestures a lot more productive, and built-in?

2) I hate ads as much as everybody (actually, I don't care about ads whatsoever), but blocking ads is not making you more productive. It's letting you brag to your coworkers about how sophisticated you are for using Firefox.

3) It's a lot more productive to use desktop software, because then you get little sounds to alert you when you have new messages, mail and feeds alike. Plus, it runs faster than AJAX applications would.

4) Not bad, not bad.

5) Again, something that desktop software can do already. And I was fairly certain that Gmail has this built in already.

6) So you're saving one click while searching for images. Unless your job is "online image plagiarist," you're not saving that much.

7) You can also bookmark your searches, since Gmail supports saving searches as URLs.

8) This helps essentially nobody. Who uses two separate Gmail accounts for anything legitimate? The argument the article makes is for a couple, which implies you're using a computer for personal issues rather than matters of productivity.

9) This is beating a dead horse, but this saves one click when you add feeds, which means that in your life you're saving perhaps 70 clicks, and that if you're an above average feed reader. And, you know, desktop software does it already.

10) That's nice, but again: it's such a small improvement, it's hardly worth mentioning.

Not to mention: "Top 10" is a BS phrase to use. Can't you just say 10? That way you can be a bit less smarmy and desperate-sounding?

As a former Lifehack.org writer, I have to say: I'm terribly disappointed with how standards have fallen. Just reading this article wasted more productivity than a person would save with this application.
From what I understand from reading the articles a few months back, they were able to find downed airplanes from a long time ago where technology weren't capable or where manpower weren't expandable. So, yes, the fact that their team was able to scour the vast areas of Nevada and recover multiple planes should be indicative at least in a bit of how they really did try to find Fosset.

Some other interesting details surrounding this: http://gawker.com/5029726/international-adventurer-may-have-...

PS: Being in CAP is equivalent of getting a political job where worthless skills are appreciated.
I do find it a little funny that among the few comments that have been posted so far, some people are suggesting I make the fact that the product costs money more obvious, while others are suggesting I instead entice people with the "sign up for free" aspect. :)
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Well you will still be upfront about your fees, I'm only talking about changing the actual link text, so that the users will be more likely to click it, since everyone likes free stuff.
Oh okay.. Understood.
Link to gzip quine:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.compression/browse_threa...
And if you're addicted to reddit and cant help it then following are your choices:

Americas: Canada (English speaking, diversified society, encouraging entrepreneurship etc.)

Asia: Singapore, India, Indonesia, Philippines (all countries are english speaking for business)

Europe: any eastern Europe that has good weather and encouraging environment for start-ups.

Far East: Australia/ NewZealand (they have immigration policy, and fantastic weather)

Middle East: Abu-dhabi and Dubai (most happening place, no tax, you just need to find good geeks or import it from India).

Good Luck.

P.S: Find out everything about Australia and Canada - they both have immigration policy and temporary work visa policy ...
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They caused quite a stir when they broke kerberos too.
I think this might be a useful application for mobile devices. Maybe a sort of newsreader that would pre-load the day's headlines and let you read them this way on the subway...
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I think an open plan is ok when everybody is doing the same kind of work (creation vs. communication). But I sit in a cube farm with half and half. I need silence to write code, but the guy next to me has to be on the phone most of the day to coordinate his world. Both of us can try to do our jobs, but we will interfere with each other.
You will always be a U.S. citizen and having to file taxes (whether you owe or not) so you will not be able to fully sever your thread to the U.S.

My suggestion is to become a freelance web worker. You can simply move from one country to another or you can sit down at one country with an easy to work with visa and do visa runs.

One country to look at is the Philippines. Relatively inexpensive to live there, huge English speaking population and best of all you can stay up to 16 months in the country on a tourist visa before you have to do a visa run. You simply leave the country, get a flight back and the process starts all over again.

Take a look at sites such as locationindependent.com
Well, it is a different hybrid and more like a locomotive in that the engine does not power the wheels, but instead only serves as a generator. The other hybrids on the market (toyota et al) are parallel hybrids which only use the electric motor after sufficient charge has been generated from the engine/regenerative braking.

With regard to Tesla making a car and GM can't: The tesla is much higher in price (base price is $109,000), limited in room (2 person) and storage (http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/faqs.php), and completely experimental. I wish them luck in their venture, though it will be some time for the technology to come down in price.
Just thought I'd weigh in since I'm the author of the app. I was pleasantly surprised to see my little pet project from a couple years ago make it onto hacker news, since this is the first site I go to to read my daily news.

Anyway, the intended purpose for spreeder is not to supplement your reading (I personally don't use it for that purpose), but rather as a training tool. The one (and probably only) thing I got out of any speed reading training course was that there's a lot of redundancy when reading texts.

People "read" text in their head (subvocalize), which slows down reading (vs just seeing + understanding it). Also, most people tend to reread a lot as well since they're not focusing.

Spreeder is meant to be a trainer of sorts. When words are flashing at a high speed in front of you, you're forced to focus more on what's going on, and you don't get a chance to reread things you missed. So you're naturally inclined to pay more attention. When I want to train, I read at a speed where I can barely keep up - it helps eliminate me naturally trying to subvocalize the words in my mind.

In the end state, I've found it's helped me in my normal reading. I don't actually use spreeder to read my daily dose of internet stuff, but I spend less time in the unfocused state so I get more out of it.

Just my two cents.
I knocked something up along those iines a few months ago: http://tweviews.com
Interesting link, although the words 'News of the World' are a bit of a red flag. Also, the 'evidence' they mention could just as well be taken as support for suicide rather than a faked death.
Not really feedback, but a matter of attention-to-detail:

Do you have one too many '%' in your document.write(...google analytics) code? It throws a visible '%' at the very bottom of your page.
Banking is strong - this is just one of the ways to upload.

Obviously, if we could do what we want with ubiquitous Flash, we would. But since we can't ...

Silverlight's first time install is actually quite reasonable - it doesn't even require a browser restart. And we've had more people try it than I would have believed.

The landscape is always changing. At some point Flash 10 will be a reality. Since it's just the two of us, we're paying a lot of attention to the shifting landscape (for example, Yahoo's recent stuff). If and when a better alternative is available, we will definitely switch to it.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I think I got a little over-zealous in escaping my %s.

Interestingly, in Python, "%%%s" % "foo" != "%%foo"
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Lua tables have two parts - the ordered part with indices 1 ... n and the other part is everything else. You can iterate over a table in various ways. pairs() is an iterator over the entire table in an undefined order. ipairs() gives the ordered integer keys from 1 to #t (#t gives the max integer key of a table t).

My favorite aspect of Lua tables is that attribute-style access is exactly equivalent to dict-style access.

At the repl:

> tab = {} -- allocate a new table "tab"
> tab.string = "hello!"
> =tab.string == tab['string']
true

Also, you can index a Lua table by any other value. Functions, strings, tables, and booleans are all valid keys. nil is the only invalid key.

This has been your daily dose of Lua!
A lot of countries have tax treaties with the US. So you can deduct the taxes you pay in that country from your US tax. You don't get double taxed. Of course, if you go to a place with very little taxes, you don't get to enjoy that.
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Dunno man. I won't bother using it because I feel like you may change the price in the future. There are no guarantees, particularly since I know it's just a guy with a mac running this thing. I don't want to store stuff in there and then one day it's gone...
I don't feel quite so bad now about not being able to solve the large input set on that problem.
I've heard that skype uses more trickery than just busting through the firewall - Like routing multiple outbound connections through one computer to keep firewall holes to a minimum.
I like it a lot, nice job. Definitely reminds me of TiddlyWiki.

My main criticism is that there should be an explicit "save" button or link for notes. Perhaps it could be similar to the gmail "save draft" button, in that autosaves would disable or "gray out" the save button (nothing more to save). I think not having a specific Save button will confuse "average" users who have been trained to "Save Often!"

Other than that, I think it would also be good to be able to hide or "minimize" the vertical menu on the left (+,link,<paperclip>...) because I actually find it quite distracting. I feel like it breaks the flow from menu item to note- maybe moving it to the right might be good as another option.

Overall, quick to set up and easy to use- so those are winners! Nice work :)
I'm not sure your strategy is sound. Nonetheless, if you're determined to work in another country (assuming you're not a citizen), you will quickly run into legal trouble: in most countries, you need to have some sort of work permit, which can be difficult or impossible to get.

If any of your ancestors are from Europe, you may be able to claim citizenship in their country of origin. This is the legal principle of jus sanguinis. The Wikipedia article on jus sanguinis has a list of countries that have that style of citizenship law (not all are European).

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

This is cool, because -- as I understand it -- if you're a citizen of a European Union member country, you can legally work anywhere else in the EU. For example, if you can claim Spanish citizenship through your grandfather, you can go work at a startup in London. (Starting your own company might be a different matter, though.)

If you're descended from Jews, you may be able to claim Israeli citizenship. I don't know much about this, but Israel does have a startup scene.
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I've been avoiding a "save" button because saves are implicit, but I think for the reasons you point out, I really should add one anyway.

You can hide all the crap on the left (except the toolbar) by clicking the "nothing but notes" link on the right side of the page. Maybe I should make that clearer. And maybe I should have it hide the toolbar as well. Is there anything I could do to the toolbar to make it less distracting?
agreed. This is a massive misuse of decorators.
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I'm in Christchurch, NZ. I just biked to work and "fantastic weather" is not the way I'd describe it. But then we are also not the "Far East". Other material in OP may or may not be true.
I don't know where you got the idea about "a guy with a Mac'. I'm on a ThinkPad running Debian, and the servers are Debian as well. :)

I should point out that while your concern may be legitimate, you can download your entire wiki as HTML whenever you want. So if for whatever reason you don't like the service at some point, there's no lock-in.

If there's another download format that would make you feel more comfortable, please do let me know.
Wow. That's one expensive lesson for Yahoo. Maybe this business-impacting aspect of DRM will help convince other corporations that it's not worth pursuing further.
You are, unfortunately, wrong, though. In many places it's not easy, no matter where you're from.
(Non-dead) link to the file: http://www.maximumcompression.com/selfgz.gz
Yes - Skype does attempt to use the technique in the article, but it's far more sophisticated than that...

Skype was written by a bunch of the programmers from Kazaa, and the Skype network is essentially P2P; people who connect to the Skype network with especially good connections may become supernodes and will act as data relays for nodes having problems with other connection methods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Protocol has a fairly detailed description, for those who might be interested.
Yeah, once you're in the EU, you can go anywhere. I'm married to an Italian woman (a strategy I can't recommend highly enough:-), and we can move anywhere within the EU - for instance we're in Austria right now. We're thinking of going back to the US though, as there are more and better opportunities there, especially for her.
Good thing GM bought Saab so they can at least copy some original designs. Compare with:

http://www.automoblog.net/2007/05/02/saab-aero-x-concept-pho...
I wasn't saying "show me the numbers" as in "I don't believe you", it was just out of interest. Sorry if it came out in a rude way but it is quite common for people to make unsupported claims on the internets.
I am thankful for the enlightening answer.
I guessed from the headline that this post would be crap. And as it turns out, I was right.
GitHub is not only a stellar product, it is also changing the world.

SourceForge, RubyForge, and others should take note. This is a great model of how social code should be done.
If you feel like improving it:

I have trouble reading long words with spreeder (for example when reading German texts). Maybe you could make the tool pause a bit longer for words above a certain threshold.
Blizz. Much better.
Right, that's what I meant, 'adding checksums to the process'.
Try New Zealand, starting a business takes 5 minutes and $160, and it has to be done online. We also have a growing population of startups in Auckland and Wellington.

www.nzte.govt.nz
www.med.govt.nz
I laughed. My name came up with some of my online profiles, but with a photo of some British boy band singer....
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"Roughly."

As in, not exactly. Clearly, atoms moving at a speed of negative infinity don't make any sense at all and violate special relativity.

Way to make my point for me.