skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely sure about this, but I think Scotland allows more generations ago than England. But yes, once you're in you can work anywhere in the UK.
How many employees does Berkshire Hathaway have again? Something like 12 at HQ, I think. That would be a lot of tax revenue to disappear.
at least the weather will be good.
It seems to pause every once in awhile. I enjoy the slight break in action but if it were a little smarter it would pause at the end of a thought or sentence.
I did a search for "Terror Island" and although the first link to the webcomic http://terrorisland.net had its title bar correct, the links to individual strips had unrelated pictures of boats.
42.zip: A single 42,374-byte zip file that uncompresses to one million 4.5GB files (4.5PB)
Hah, sometimes I do miss the downvote-article feature. I made it halfway into the article without spotting a single redeeming quality. Ad-hominem attacks on made-up opponents ... who's going to swallow that.
If it's useful, I wrote a guide to DVCS here:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-ver...

Pros: Everyone has a local sandbox, works offline, fast, great change tracking, easy branches/merges, less software setup

Cons: no "revision" by default (ugly change guids), no central "always-on" location by default
Stop the Presses...seriously
presses
Go for the weather and prices, not the politics. You can live as you want in the US. Plenty of hippy communes, survivalists, polygamists, vegetarians.

Work in the web, relax in good weather. The best weather in the US is either in Hawaii or on the coast north of San Diego.

Used to be people who wanted to get away went to the Soviet Union to help build the freedom of the Workers Paradise. I'd say be careful. It could be a one-way trip.

Tell us your politics, religion, sexual orientation and age and we can be of more help. I gather you're looking for a left-wing tech incubator. Don't know of any, but Israel and Ireland come close.
We hear so much about the technical advantages (speed, offline committing, instant branching, cherry picking, rebasing) that we often forget the real advantage of DVCS: the D. That this article starts with the technical advantages makes me think we've done a bad job selling tools like Git and hg.

Yes, Rails still uses a 'central' development model. But it's trivial for me to fork Rails then track development, add my own features, fix bugs, or go my own route with a personal or corporate version of the framework. Many people do this. Rails has almost 300 forks on GitHub alone. In fact, every time you `git clone` Rails you fork it.

If someone has stopped maintaining a small library, you can fork it and take over. It's now your library. Others can pull down your changes and watch your development.

If you don't like the direction someone is taking their library, you can fork it and head a new direction. And the two tracks can live in harmony. You can even take changes you do like from the original library and merge them into yours with ease.

These things happen all the time and are possible with a DVCS because of the opinions (or rather, lack of opinions) present in software like Git. Yes, you can add this stuff to Subversion - add offline committing, use shas instead of revision #s, enable inline branching - but as soon as you do Subversion becomes a DVCS.

For me, it's always been about the social aspect of DVCS. That is the interesting part. The technical awesomeness is icing on the cake.
Why trying to Out-Google Google is a search for FAIL (and how to actually do it)
1) Very clean design, though wordy. Some things like cred/discred could be better expressed as icons or illustrations.

2) I hope you have a very good maths background. Calculating cred is a much harder problem than it appears.

3) Best of luck!
There's another website which pretty much does the same thing:

http://zapreader.com/

I wish my kindle would support this, however, its e-ink display is too slow.
So sorry - but everywhere else is downhill on all aspects that bother you about the US.

Greed- just expresses itself through different channels
Police state - give me a break
Politics gone mad - freedom has its price

Unfortunately, as much as it sucks, it is better than every other alternative.
I say Berlin. Not the rest of Germany, though.
Title is incomplete... How about,

Insurance company investigator blows enough smoke to defer paying $50m payout.

I particularly like the part where the air search guy asserts that find 6 previously unfound planes means they are "pretty good at what we do."
Oh, so you have to recursively unzip for the full effect. I don't know of any tools that do that, although I wouldn't be surprised if virus scanners do it.
That's disgusting stuff.
I took a speed reading course long time ago and even though they had some interesting points about how to read, it was mostly filled with complete bullshit.

Comprehension always trumps speed. I'm always surprised by people who say "I've read that book in an hour" or something like that. When I read, I get hundreds of ideas and have hundreds of questions in my head and I usually either write them down or look up the references on the web. That takes time.

I read a lot and the only piece of advice that has worked is: stay focused and concentrate on what you're reading. Don't have an email client open, don't have a dozen tabs open... just eliminate all of the distractions and concentrate on what you're reading.
Are Criminals and Entrepreneurs Similar?
Have you personally experience the ill effects of the US or is this just from reading Reddit all day? I had the same feeling and took time to travel within the US and disconnect from the Internet.

As for finding another place, there are problems with any other places you pick. Can you pick up a high-tech job in Japan without knowing Japanese? Not likely. Japan is also a nifty place to visit but rarely a good place to stay.

Maybe you can run to Canada.
Terrible terrible idea. I can't see this working for many people at all.
Venture payoffs falling — but hey, they’re still better than the stock market
Sure, but boring and correct isn't a whole lot more interesting, and academia seems to produce a seemingly endless stream of such in my field of expertise. Many of the breakthroughs would have seemed naïve prior to having become dominant. Incidentally, some of my most productive research while in college was sparked by reading a paper that was patently wrong, but off-kilter enough to get me to look into some previously unexplored corners for new models.
Indeed, page architecture is very important in helping readers parse and comprehend the information on a page -- especially on the Web.

As Jakob Neilsen's eye tracking studies have shown, most people don't read the text on a Web page linearly, they scan it in an F pattern (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html). Good info architects design pages to convey the most important information in these spaces and put supplementary information below and to the right in case the user needs more info. Likewise, they use hierarchical headings to show relationship between information, and bullets and ordered lists to show groups of information.

With spreeder, the benefit of all this architecture is gone. You may be able to read the words faster, but do you actually comprehend the concepts and do you have good recall later? I'm skeptical.

Now, if a future version of spreeder could parse a page and somehow show these hierarchies and groupings in a simplified way (isntead of just showing one sequential word at a time), that might be interesting.
Sure, there are obstacles, but my instincts tell me a clever person could find their way around them. Or at least, considering the size of the prize, the odds of finding a solution makes the problem worth taking a shot at.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but what you're looking for doesn't exist. The US still has more protections against police interference in personal life than Europe. Europeans do tend to be more liberal than Americans and Europeans are more likely to force governments to their will. That is both good and bad. On the good side, democracy is more fulfilled. On the bad side, democracy can look like mob rule (especially when it comes to immigration today). This isn't to defend bad things in the US or make Europe look bad - more to point out that they're not as far apart as the original premise.

Every place has its faults. For example, Canada tends to be a bastion of liberalism and multi-culturalism. However, in the province of Ontario, Catholic denominated schools are public funded while schools of other religions must be privately funded. That doesn't mean that Ontario is a bad place to live or that its governors are bad people; it means that every place has these huge annoying faults that just suck.

So, the question isn't "where is better than America". That's a silly question. "Where do the annoyances annoy me personally less" is a better question. Maybe you care about domestic spying, but don't mind the state funding Catholic schools. Maybe you hate republicans for crying terror all the time, but don't mind European leaders yelling at immigrants for looking different. Maybe you hate the greed, but don't mind massive consumerism and vending machines selling everything everywhere in Japan.

For what it's worth, I'd have to agree with the couple of people that have mentioned Ireland. It's wealthy, immigrant-friendly, high-tech, with a good and stable government. It's environmentalist and a tad socialist without being anti-business. OH, and it's English speaking. The downsides? Well, broadband is crappy and everything costs a boatload. Police can stop and search without suspicion (as is the case in most countries); that mostly applies to things like drunk driving which has a zero-tolerance policy (as in, no driving if you've had a beer).

You have to figure out what you value - and whether a certain place has it. The Economist's Quality of Life Index (http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/quality_of_life.pdf) is a good place to narrow your list and it's important to note that there are only a dozen countries scoring higher than the US. I'd say, based on who I am, I'd be happy in half to three-quarters of those. Hope this has provided help.
Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers
In the late 90s, there was a company called 'Cornix' pushing this technique.

More recently, a research project called 'BuddyBuzz' out of Stanford was pushing it for reading on cellphones.
"We found six other planes while we were looking for him"

Seriously? Maybe people should fake their deaths more often, apparently it really helps them out :)
I bet he's hiding out with Elvis in Mexico eating burgers and enjoying cheap tequila.

Insurance companies will try to find any reason not to pay out...
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Seriously, how can someone possibly review Children of Men in less than 160 chars???
"Steve has not accessed any of his assets since his disappearance."

Interesting choice of words.
Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto have reasonable startup scenes.
I drove by a neurosurgeon once called Dr. Hacker. ... google ...

http://www.oregonneurosurgery.com/dr_hacker.html
Wait, someone from the FCC is proposing that the FCC not regulate the Internet?

Also, Customer Fair Queuing.
"Room abuzz with activity" is highly over-rated, yet, like the count of lines of code, seems to have magic meaning for some people.
GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup
Install Logo.

And read this.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html

Then get DrScheme.
And read the little schemer.

Thank me later.
In spite of the measures he names, you'll still end up with big businesses made up of a whole lot of small business structured "cost centres" owned by themselves, their wives and their children. This will then have an impact on the tax take, with only a proportion of it being recovered in resulting growth.

I agree with the sentiment - I'm genuinely of the opinion that the only difference between the majority of the tax take and stealing is that the former is done in open. But with huge government industries and debts to maintain there's no room for tax cuts. And if you cut that, you could eventually just issue even tax cuts.
What I want from my next cell phone.
If only Toronto wasn't so cold...
Very naive. Do you know anything about immigration policy in different countries? Do you really think that foreign governments are waiting you with open arms? For them you're just useless foreigner if they can't get profit from you. You may be profitable if
1) Foreign country need high qualified specialists. If you one of them you could get work permit.
2) You have enough money to open your own business there. (actually some countries have "business-based" immigration policy(as Australia for example) and some have not).

And note, there are not so many "IT-countries" but most of IT companies in them depend on IT industry in US. So you could lose your money.
Try Costa Rica. Many big companies outsourcing there, English widely spoken and many talented and educated employees available.
General purpose business advice is easy to find though. Common sense about giving customers what they want etc...
I just prefer the more specific articles on Hacker News that you don't see elsewhere.
The link wasn't even about cookery. It was about a chef (hacker) talking about his business (startup). Quite interesting actually. There is much to be learned outside the valley.
Except chew gum.
I am appreciating the joke.

$ echo get it write | perl -pe"s/write/right/"
get it right

The semicolon is not required.
good idea I think. I'd say north Europe. Or maybe trying a country in Latin America, to get out of beaten paths.

While being abroard, people tends to loose interest in politics : they're not concerned by home politics, and they're not citizens of their hosting country. Maybe it's not true for americans since even their internal affairs are covered worldwide.
The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany have a lot of English-speaking workplaces. A lot of web jobs in London. New Zealand has an interesting albeit small startup scene.
So ... email it? Maybe through GMail ?

Edit: tried it, GMail refuses the attachement, as the file contains an "executable" file. They took the easy way. Can't blame them though.
Yeah, disappointing that it's a recursive unzip. Can't prank someone with this...yet.
"Although if you're worried that the US is a police state, you might not like it there." That is putting it mildly. It is illegal to possess chewing gum there. Vandalism is punishable by torture.
This is crap.

You read a TEXT. A text is not just an array of words but an array of words linked to each other in context. So you don't get information out of your text very well if you see one word after each other. It's useful to go back and re-think what you have read sometimes.
The other drawback is that information is unequally distributed in the text and some parts can be read in a quicker way than others.
Text is never linear for a human being.

So let's drop this application. You better read 1 text and get the whole context than read 3 texts in the same time without giving your brain what it wants ...
MS has a history of doing this sort of stuff. For example, they deliberately fed Opera browsers broken CSS files:
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2003/2/msn/

Therefore, MSN looks for "Opera" in the User-Agent string and purposely sends Opera7 a style sheet which distort pages.
I think since he is coming from a rich country he won't have too much immigration problem.
They need to come up with 1 government website

Scary.
If it has certain merits, and certain demerits, then as long as you carefully select which things to read normally, and which to read with it, it will help you.

If you want to skim or go back, don't use it. But there are sometimes things you read where you don't need that.
Today was the first day I heard of Cuil.

I don't think it is as much of a matter of writing software that never crashes, but rather a matter of protecting your site from crashing on the launch.

I'm interested in their reasoning for going with a "grand opening" and subjecting the site being hammered instead of inviting groups of early adopters/beta testers and incrementally stress testing the system.
Trying to be the best at something is a tournament, which is a zero sum game in some ways... only one person can ever be the best. Trying, instead, to create value and good things in the world is not a zero sum game - many people can do it.
Barack Obama's official document channel on Scribd
Official publications from Obama for America
the red spiders that work the gears of google got bored after 40 i guess
Got Flash? Got Silverlight? Make a FlashLight
Weird. I remember thinking of a AltaVista like a cell phone company - necessary evil but not particularly satisfying. I remember routinely looking through 40-50 results before I found what I was looking for and wondering why it couldn't find what I wanted.
Poll: Time to introduce multiple sections/channels to HN?
I see many stories that would come under the business technology & misc. section that are present on the front page, thereby diluting the more interesting submits on technology, startups, programming.

Would the community prefer to have a reddit style channels/sections for submits?
I have a different solution (add a comment)
Just to turn that around a bit, who's to say that the people voting things up are actually "good hackers"? You? Me? PG? Their karma score? (I'm quite dubious of the latter).
Well, C# only has those properties compared to Java, but you're right otherwise.
I assumed #1 was top left, but which is #2? To the right or down? My guess is that you read down in columns.

The pictures are misleading. For example, #2 for my name is a page about another guy with the same name, but with a picture of me that's not on that page. Very wrong.

I was excited for a second to see that it thought I had an Erdos number of 2, but it was for someone else with the same last name.
How do you calculate credibility? Right now it seems to be a simple average...
Reminiscent of the 'Billion Laughs' XML file.
this needs an easy way to speed up and slow down, like a hovering (no click) control on part of page.. or maybe control speed from the keyboard: right forward left backward up faster down slower arrows.. said control can slow text to stop, then speeds backwards.. bidirectional speed control on the fly is what this needs
A frustrating, unprofitable one...
how are the articles added? RSS? or by editors?
One's disappointment is another's relief.
GitHub is the first app that actually makes me want to start new projects, open-source old projects, and get involved in other people's projects just as an excuse to use the site.

Big ups to defunkt, mojombo, and pjhyett for their work in this space.
=) I thought they were going to send it using live snails...
clever, thanks.
This is exactly what Microsoft is doing. Microsoft is trying to tackle search in different verticals: healthvault for health, Farecast (acquired) for travel, Cashback for commerce, etc.

The challenge is that users don't always think "hmm, I'm doing a movie query, let me go to imdb". They go to Google and type everything into one box, and expect to get a link to imdb or wherever.
Free online speed reading application
This is a case for an entirely different protocol XMPP and how to scale APIs with frequent updates, which some services get around by polling.

If scaling API calls is the problem you are trying to solve I would still use HTTP with persistence, session "liveness" and push updates.

Using jabber may be a quick solution but it may not be right tool...
Hacker news is the category. If you want all that other stuff, go to one of the other sites.
This reads in my head the same way it would sound if I pasted the text into a text-to-speech tool. That is, robotic, stilted, and lacking context.

When the rate at which you ingest words is fixed, it doesn't allow you to actually process them. What's important is concepts expressed and learned in a given amount of time, not the words scanned.
Payouts are considered losses by insurance companies and $50M is a lot of money. It's a legitimate question and probably standard policy to ask if a claim is a scam.
Toyota to Boost Prius Hybrid Production by 70% Next Year (480,000 units)
You may not have read this article before: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...

Here's a relevant quote from the article:

In Windows, this [centralised] model breaks down simply
because there are far too many developers to access one
central repository. So Windows has a tree of
repositories: developers check in to the nodes, and
periodically the changes in the nodes are integrated up
one level in the hierarchy. At a different periodicity,
changes are integrated down the tree from the root to the
nodes. In Windows, the node I was working on was 4 levels
removed from the root. The periodicity of integration
decayed exponentially and unpredictably as you approached
the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3
months for my code to get to the root node, and some
multiple of that for it to reach the other nodes. It should
be noted too that the only common ancestor that my team,
the shell team, and the kernel team shared was the root.

With a distributed system, it would be possible to send changes directly between the two groups. You might have a problem keeping the whole Windows source code repository stored locally on your development machine though.
Apple says economy is “depressed”…
so what? fill in a 20gb file with zeros or f.i. in this case, the actual content of this 40kb file over and over, zip it, and you will get the same result on unzip.

DEFLATE is a way improved run-length encoding. Nothing productive though here... :)
It's a Virus ...
That's precisely the point, I don't want most of the other stuff, and hence the creation of channels.
hmmm...make it so that when one of the two ships hit the detonator, both explode?
You still didn't actually deny it :)
'Punishable by torture' is ridiculous. Caning is rarely used, and I would probably prefer it to a prison sentence.

But again, this is a matter of preference. If you love being an antisocial asshole, Singapore will be hell for you until they kick you out (if they let you in). If you're a responsible adult, you won't notice the laws because they won't apply to you -- the penalty for vandalism or heroin use or spitting on the sidewalk is inconsequential to me.
Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request
I've been working on this product (with some unrelated consulting on the side) for nearly a year. Just to head off some obvious comments, here are a few things to keep in mind:

Web browser support for the web-based product itself is fairly restricted. So no Safari, and no Opera. Yet.

I realize the product is a little general-purpose, and that makes a unique selling proposition more difficult to craft. I also realize that you kind folks on HN are not the target market.

I'm trying to build a sustainable business, so I'm not interested in tips for attracting investors/buyers.

If you must say a comment along the lines of, "I don't see how this is any different than all the other wiki / notebook / word processor software out there," then please at least read some of the tour or try the demo first. If it's still not clear, then obviously I need to improve my explanation of the product.

So, what do you think? My main goal at this point is to improve traffic and build a larger customer base. I have a handful of paying customers now, but not nearly "enough". Part of the problem might be that convincing consumers (rather than businesses) to pay a recurring fee is a tough sell.

Anyway, thanks in advance.