skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A personal anecdote. I know a pretty good PHP developer from Portugal who moved to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine recently. He started dating a girl from there some time before and visited the country several times. So, when they decided to move in together he preferred to move to Ukraine himself since he could find a much better pay here. For a record, Dnipropetrovsk is not a capital but still a fairy large IT center (one of the top 5 cities) with about 2000 software developers employed in total (growing by 500 each year).

Ukraine might seem a surprising choice to somebody but the tax burden is generally much lower and as a result one can get a pretty good deal salary-wise. For example, right now I'm making significantly more in Kiev than I used to do in Oslo, Norway, which is considered to be a pretty lucrative place to work and live in Europe. The development community is pretty large and thriving. Large part of positions is in outsourcing but there are a plenty of product companies or research centers, too.

The company where I work now started hiring people form US and Western Europe. We are working on NLP systems and there's a lack of local talent with ML and AI skills. For example, we recently hired a machine learning specialist from Spain and we are very happy to have him on board. We also work with linguists from the US.

The world is sure a very different place now!
My bad,didn't notice that the listing is also for people that are planning to support it.
«Manuel, a waiter played by Andrew Sachs, is a well-meaning but disorganised and confused Spaniard from Barcelona with a poor grasp of the English language and customs.»

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers#Manuel

Wikipedia dixit :)

In the Spainsh translation of Fawlty Towers Manuel was Italian (that way us, poor Spaniards, will not be embarrassed by watching one of us strugling xD) and I suspect that in other countries they changed his nationality too.
Is it missing fields for e-mail and logo? Or have you specified this actually somewhere (i.e. not just examples?)

I think this is great idea, however Google has something like this already (microformats based) http://maps.google.com/help/maps/richsnippetslocal/ maybe adopting this would be easier?
Why do business people try to push business standards as technical solutions? That's not what standards are for, they are for technical problems. It looks like DRM to me: a technical solution to a social problem or a broken business model.

TL;DR: there are existing solutions, micro-formats for example.
Get back to me when Vanilla.js has a way to handle document ready, and then I'll believe that it's cross-platform.
As a matter of fact it is catching up quite nicely. Haswell are looking at 2.5x of current HD4000 performance. And Broadwell will do another 2x of Haswell.

These performance would have been nice if not for Retina display manages to use 4x the pixel on screen. Things are just never fast enough.
# occurrences of the word "south" on your post[1]: 2

If you were referring to Malaga and Andalucia, it's a different game. Most people often forget Spain is about different cultures living together in the same country, and the southern culture in Spain is kind of special and unique.

For me it's similar as Naples in Italy. Most people that have spent time would say it's a chaos and terrible, but for me it is just too real and vivid to pick on them. I like them as it is.

I don't really know how to express myself better than Larra himself[2] "Vuelva usted mañana". I have tried to find a translation but they do not really work together..

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438154

[2]: http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Vuelva_usted_ma%C3%B1ana
What is your current stage on the road to a startup?
Hah hah. Run TeX natively on iOS. Good one. :)
> The core problem in my mind, is not whether one should insert or update on PUT/POST, but whether one should even be considering HTTP-based APIs to be gateways to what amounts to a database.

I think it's widely recognized that you shouldn't consider making your REST API a direct gateway to a database. For one, it's potentially very dangerous, but it is also limiting the design of your API, because typical databases basically have no way to insert anything besides rows of data with fixed columns (relational) or raw untyped data (NoSQL).

I think the 'purest' form of REST API's for creating and updating is that PUT should be idempotent and used for existing resources addressed by an existing URI, while POST can basically create resources any way it sees fit, and return the URI of the new resource. This allows doing a POST followed by a PUT to create and initialize a resource, without having to know how and where the resource will be created, and without requiring to set each and every attribute of the resource with the POST request.
Cool thanks for the reply.

My main issue with using GoDaddy was their support of SOPA. Obviously they switched their allegiance after the uproar but I still don't trust them based on their initial decision.

My domain name is xfactorresults.com - x factor being a pretty big show over here in Ireland and the UK (and its in the USA too but I'm not sure how big it is) so it will be interesting to see if I can sell it.
I'm not sure I follow your logic here, micro-formats are part of the HTML of the local businesses website, search engines and other crawlers can collect and parse this data . This is just like the local business owner telling the rest of the world which is the correct data.

If updating the HTML is too complicated for the website owner (fair enough!) then this should be taken care of in the respective CMS.

I don't mean to sound negative, I know It takes some thought and time to put out a proposal like this :-) Just in this case, this seems to be a problem that was solved a long time ago...

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Being from Málaga, and my wife from Ronda, I can confirm what you say xD.

Well, 'a few kilos' too heavy is not that bad compared with USA people :p. It's all about the change in the customs and the way we eat. Spanish gyms are full of very healthy people, yet running and going to work in bike is still strange in Spain (which is a culture-shock for someone from NL).

And about asking for the past and Franco... Ronda is not representative of Spain!!! ;) (and yes they are still proud of been in the right «band» if you ask in a bar)

The Ni-Nis (translated as "Not working Not studying") are all around Spain, but in Málaga is worse as the unemployment rate there is the nearly the bigger in whole Spain.
The core philosophy of worrying about your own life and not others lives seems to really chide a lot of people here in the communist Republic of HN. If you don't like the idea of Objectivism feel free to follow your own. But for pete's sake stop looking like such wankers when doing so. The wiki post didn't cause butthurt any more than it does when some random dipshit tells you that your programming is crap.
This is almost identical to the syntax used by OCamldoc, a tool for generating API documentation from OCaml sources:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.00/manual029.ht...
The idea of a text file at the root isn't a bad one, but the format of the document should be far more descriptive.

Have you looked at http://schema.org/docs/schemas.html and the examples there?

Everything in the example given is encapsulated by schema.org and that would describe it in a way that was unambiguous.

I know that schema.org has been dismissed because "The problem is that it's too complicated for a non-developer", but I would say that for a non-developer this file is also too complicated. Most non-developer small business owners can barely use FTP or use the Wordpress admin. These people don't have a robots.txt and won't create a business.txt

I would argue that making business.txt schema.org formatted and then to use a simple generator wizard to produce it would be more accessible to the small business owner than giving them a text file to edit.
Great idea. Added one for our company. It took just a couple of minutes.

http://pierlis.com/business.txt
fesja: add a list of businesses with the file to the README. This will show others how many adopt the format and motivate to do the same.
Ah, I see. I didn't notice they were appropriating the same original text.
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as far as I remember, it was all paint. they would go around at night with buckets of red paint and write, sometimes over other words, it could be a mess. only because Pompei was so frozen in time did the paint not wear away
>> -they are making their devices more locked down in what appears to be an attempt to emulate Apple

Providing you can build the walls high enough and the garden large enough, there is nothing as profitable as a walled garden.

All companies that could get away with it would do it.
Isn't the blogger the same guy who also started Emscripten as a project?
Because if the sellers would have found out about the HN thread it might have negatively impacted their ability to negotiate a good deal, they showed quite clearly how weak their negotiation position was.
No.

How does it replace markup?!
It's still writing html but (more or less) using {} instead of <>. That's just silly, imo.

Markup (and restructured text) are so much more concise because you don't need to know what's <i> or <h3> or whatever.

Also, the page itself uses markup in HTML (not CSS)... wow.. back in 1995 again, are we?
Does Microsoft even care anymore about MS-DOS to go after such IP infringement?
Why didn't he just use Bochs to boot the image?
I have noticed that. So it might be a part of the problem. But in NL we don't have class action suits either; you can sue but you'll never win much if anything and it'll just cost you money. I think the Dutch were just fed up when the whole UPC thing happened. I don't even think they know what they did for consumer support for big companies in NL. When I call someone from Nuon (electricity) or internet (XS4all, UPC, Ziggo) or something else, they ask me if i'm ok, if i need more, would I like discounts and such. If I do get a rude person, I ask for their complaints service and as their is always a 'superior' listening in, this escalates fast. Usually ends in a discount of some sort and an apologetic mail. I don't need that; i'm not made of sugar. But I would just like people treating me like I'm paying them for something.

For UPC it was the national press who did it; they kept publishing horror story after horror story and after a while it started hurting the bottom line.

There was no Twitter and such yet; now it goes much faster. I'm surprised how little effect it has in Spain though; I had companies closing their Twitter or Facebook page after complaints and just opening a new one. Not big companies (might work there or don't they do social even? Never checked...), but smaller ones like furniture delivery companies who actually just deleted everything from their facebook page and got another one with happy stories...
Why Newspapers Lie
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656435

Thanks. For some reason, I was unable to find this when I last looked (might have been before this came out).

> Uh, no. Obesity is a nutritional disorder, as distinct from other things like having cats, which are neither caused nor hampered by good nutrition. What the hell are you smoking?

> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/249289.php

Are antibiotics with no nutritional value considered nutrition these days? There are hundreds of substances that seem to cause obesity independent of nutrition (that is, when isolated as a variable compared to nutrition), most prominently psychiatric drugs, but -- as is shown by this study -- also antibiotics, which are supposed to be "nutritionally inert".

Also, this was not shown in Humans and might not apply, but http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... shows that obesity and type-2 like diabetes can result from gut flora. Are gut flora considered nutrition these days?

> I searched his website and all I could find was one particular crappy-looking graph with a bunch of discussion about his responses to vague questions, and an ad-hoc explanation (a competing omega-3 deficiency) when the data did not fit his expected pattern.

He did not yet bother summarizing these results (the way he did for his weight loss theories, in http://media.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pd... - but there's a lot more discussion of it through the years) , I suspect that it is because he does not believe he nailed anything yet. However, he asks people to "try at home", and several of his results (mostly regarding dietary fat, but also about mood and sleep) have been confirmed by other people as well.

He's under no "publish or perish" stress like most papers you see, so he isn't trying to get anything production quality. I've been following him for 7 years now, and while it isn't blinded or double blinded, it's otherwise as good as (and usually better) than observational studies I find in top rated journals.
GNU/Linux is dead?
Hopefully not, it is nice to see Tex on pad at last
Like all other html "improvements" this just trades one set of obscure conventions for another. A bit more consistent perhaps, and the macros are cool. How is this better than any other templating library though?

Is the source available?
Ok, point taken. In my mind I said it a lot more than I actually did :)

I love Andalucia and if I could I would live there forever. I will retire/die there. Like said; I'm not trying to insult people, I'm just saying how it is here. And it's rather crazy. If you are on a permanent vacation, it's the best, but I've tried doing serious things and it just doesn't work.

My point is that there are bunches of talented people rolling out the CS dep of Malaga uni who scream, every option they get, that there 'are no jobs'. When I provide jobs, they use another excuse not to take them. NiNi's is apparently the word (I heard it before, but it didn't stick, now it will); it's very prevalent and I do not understand it. I have discussions with these guys & girls and over a truckload of rum-cola they understand, but the next day, it's gone.
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Perhaps patents will be the last thing that saves human-driven cars.

You can get an injunction against self-driving cars that can do the newly patented three-point-turn (its not prior art because now it uses a COMPUTER system!), but you can't stop a driver from doing it!
That's so right. One classic "success" story of the Portuguese web is http://www.adegga.com/, a social network for wine... :(
Other classic success stories are the ubiquitous service-consultancy firms, always recruiting developers for Sharepoint, COBOL, SAP... Every year I hear about some 3 new of these successful firms.

You can also see so called "startups" whose "business" consists of organizing dinners of 20 people, once a week. And there's always the team wanting to open a spa and bringing their "idea" to all incubators.

My solution was to work in close relationship to the university and a university spun-off company. Some interesting computer-vision stuff is made here, from time to time.
On top of the stuff other people have posted, we can (apparently) peer at the cosmic microwave background and look for patterns in its anisotropy power spectrum from baryonic acoustic oscillations in the early universe's quark-gluon plasma. The results we see demand WIMPs.

I'm not going to explain what any of that means because A. I've only recently woken up, B. you're perfectly capable of googling for yourself, and C. I'd probably get it wrong anyway. Suffice to say it's all brain-meltingly interesting.

The excellent sean carroll has done a lecture on this: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/lens06/carroll/

He has also written several long-ass blogposts:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/02/26/...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/05/09/...

EDIT: you may also want to look up the Bullet Cluster. Or just read those blogs, it's all in there.
I completely agree with you that an interface on Wordpress would be much easier to a business owner than editing directly the text file

Having said that I also believe that a txt file is way more easier than schema for the rest of people who can edit a file. That txt file is done in minutes, the schema file is done in hours :P

What i feel necessary are 2 things:

- Having a separate file

- Doing something that the big websites support so we can "sell" to local businesses.

So if more people believe we should extend schema instead of going with txt, we can work on it.
The advice of waiting until the friend has some activity logged sounds good, and possibly might give better results.

The article though is completely subjective. These are things that can be A/B tested very easily, and should, before making grandiose predictions about effectiveness. The author is probably like most of us here a techie and has a different relationship in regard to email. Most of your visitors might not care that the mail they receive is about a person they hardly know. It might still be very effective in getting the user back to the site, because it's very personal.

It might be even more effective for acquaintances than for good friends, because the user probably already knows his best friend is also on pinterest. Maybe the user might see this as an opportunity to get to know that person better. This whole article is just conjecture.

In the end, it's the numbers that count. If 80% of the fb friends fall in the "acquaintances" group, then pinterest, if it would self-limit to good friends, would be unable to send 80% of the mails it's sending if it would not self-limit. Sure, more people might unsubscribe from these notifications because of that 80%, but most probably don't. Why prematurely lower the amount of call to actions you have? 5% conversion for 100% of your friends joining, vs 8% conversion for 20% of your friends: even with the higher conversion, you're still losing out.

See patio11's advice on mails and how different it works than most of us here think.
If Aliens visit us, they will likely classify us as "Non thinking creatures", just as we classify plants as non thinking. Everything rests on a spectrum and trying to classify everything into bins as "thinking" or "non thinking" is a childish way to go about explaining how the world works.

If you generate a 200 hz signal around the root systems of cabbage, the roots will grow toward the source. The plants can generate that signal as well, so yes, certain plants communicate with a very rudimentary audio communication system.

Do plants think? It depends on your definition, but yes, Plants think, computers think, humans think. A better word might be "plants calculate the best course of action to achieve a goal just like humans do.".
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Look beyond your personal gains and to the remaking of a whole country. If all brains leave, your country will be dead soon.

So what? Why should you care about the health of "your country"? That's just an attempt at emotional manipulation.

You can help Portugal with your IT skills, or you can help a similar number of people in the US/UK. If you get treated better doing the latter, there is no reason to stick to Portugal. The people of the US/UK are no less deserving of your skillset than the people of Portugal.
I want to learn something about jQuery,because recently I need to develop an application which use webkit. It has a feature that need to highlight some special words. After search in the internet, I found the jQuery can 'easily' do that. But the syntax of jQuery make me headache, then I happened to see this article.
Thank you very much , I am very appreciate for your advice:)
I use a priority list for each project. A working implementation would be a high priority. Security bugs too. Optimizing code a bit lower and so on and so forth.
Show HN: Full-Page Endless Background Scrolling via Javascript (too intensive?)
My CPU usage increases by about 10% when the background scrolling is on. I'm just wondering if I should stick with it or just have a static background.
What led you to think that JFK was a genius?
I've never heard him described that way.
go to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438320
Hard work is the only thing you can control, that's why it makes sense to focus on it. You can't do anything about your luck. Working hard offers you more opportunities to be in a situation where you can then become lucky.
NiNi is a pejorative word used to refer to people that "Ni estudia Ni trabaja" (do not study, do not work).

I hope this word just stops being used. As a young person from Spain that have studied and is working (and have been since I was 18), that term used in spanish people is terribly insulting.
added to the README file of companies supporting it!
It's not that bad compared to some parts of the US no, but it pains me. One of the best vacations I ever had was to Madeira (which is Portugese) many years ago. It was the time when Brasil (and some parts of PT) had metal music in the top-40 a lot and this is what they were playing in disco's. While in NL we had utter crap (depending on taste, i'm telling my story here :) going from 1-40 (or 100 for that matter), on Madeira I stood in a real discotheque with extremely pretty girls (who I only saw in these big discotheques in Amsterdam normally dancing to crap) headbanging to Slayer and Sepultura. I never saw something like that again. In one of the town squares (of Funchal) they had a deadmetal band playing and all these young and old people where standing there watching, not calling it shit, but just looking at it like it was the marching band.

Almost all girls looked amazing (I have pics, I wasn't dreaming ;). Now I went back the odd 20 years later and mostly everyone is overweight. And not 'just a bit'. It's such a contrast. Same for Spain (Andalucia) and I also saw it in Guatamala as well. I'm not condemning this, but I'm referring to the amazing difference here in 'only' 20 years.
Well, on the other side I saw lots of ads for the iPad on tv and I don't remember even one about other tablets (I don't know, it may be different in other countries), but because of that, every tablet will an iPad to normal people's eyes
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My browser is failing to render the address properly, it reads as "PoissonniÃ¨re" so the diaresis is breaking. Probably need to double-check how you serve the file, and make sure the charset and encoding match.
1200 euros for which time period? That's critically important!
If you look at the old Scribe, it used a markup like in this example:

@hemlock runs in the editor process and interacts with other Lisp processes
called @i[eval servers]. A user's Lisp program normally runs in an eval
server process. The separation between editor and eval server has several
advantages:
@begin[itemize]
The editor is protected from any bad things which may happen while debugging a
Lisp program.

Editing may occur while running a Lisp program.

The eval server may be on a different machine, removing the load from the
editing machine.

Multiple eval servers allow the use of several distinct Lisp environments.
@end[itemize]

To make things italic, you would write @i[some text here]. Longer commands would be like in the itemize example. Each paragraph would be an item in this simple version.
about the fields, check out the docs https://github.com/fesja/businesstxt/blob/master/structure.m...

about rich snippets, go to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438320
What about business.json instead?