skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50.000 dollars (or any similar number) is an unimaginable amount of money outside US, EU and few other happy countries. No one can afford that, no matter how hard he would try, even a plane ticket is worth savings of whole family for just one person.

I guess only organized crime would profit -- provide the money and then blackmail everyone. The immigrant whose whole family is in giant debt, the family... For US it would mean communities of hopeless immigrants from poor countries, entrapped by a vision of better life, held as captives by a mafia. This already happens, and it could only worsen.
Only charge for things that actually cost you time or money

I can't agree with that. I charge money for software, which is free at the margin. My customers don't feel ripped off about it, because their time is not.

The worry with SSL is the security implication (particularly for people who had no option to say "Please treat my data as non-sensitive! I totally don't mind!"), not the fact that the code is making an arbitrary distinction between user classes despite the cost to the company being the same for all users (essentially nothing at the margin).
> Really though, it does embody "Symbian" pretty well; amateur, ugly, dated, and kind of a joke
Actually they sold it three times.

First to Excite@Home, then CNET, then American Greetings.
Interesting idea. I seem to not be able to access the site ( SeekingArrangement.com). Not that I have enough money in any case...
Is it truly a personal life if you treat it just like another business venture?
Excite@Home also paid $780 million for Blue Mountain.com then sold it to American Greetings for $35 million.
Ask HN: Review new MightyBrand project, micro-monitoring your brand via Twitter
MightyTweets is a new side project we're experimenting with at MightyBrand. We're collecting all this data and we're looking for useful things we can do with it, so now you can use Twitter to monitor blogs, Twitter, Digg, news, etc. You don't have to sign up for anything, just follow these instructions:

1. Follow @mightytweets on Twitter.

2. Wait for your welcome message from us (usually delivered in a couple of minutes)

3. Send us a direct message with the brand you want to track. (example: D mightytweets track yourbrand)

We'll send you a DM every time someone mentions your brand, or once per hour if you get a lot of mentions.

We'd love to know what HN thinks. Is this useful?
amazing portfolio site. Any suggestions on best way to learn your style of design/javascript?
Why wouldn't a country want to bias its immigration policy towards rich immigrants (for whatever unstated definition of "rich" you are using)? Isn't wealth a reasonable proxy for some characteristic for which you would want to select? Would an accreditation board do better?
Because it cheapens you and lowers your self-worth. You are sub-communicating to yourself that you are not attractive and nobody would want to spend their time with you unless you're forking off cold hard cash.

To someone with high self-esteem and some regard for the non-utilitarian value of human relationships, that escort/prostitute money can spent on a new cologne and a funny hat and much fun could be had for a whole night at the pub shaking hands and introducing yourself as an eligible bachelor .. with a big broad smile :-)

Someone will find you quirky enough to come chat with you, and you go from there.
On the signup page, what percentage of people do you think undferstand the symbol for "infinity"?

Would recommend using the word "unlimited" instead.

Pretty nitpicky, though-- outstanding work and is serving a need that all businesses have. I'm more bullish on this startup than 99% of the startups that are introduced here.
well, I don't feel too bad for designing my product logos myself now.
Sorry, I guess I didn't say that right.

I meant that you shouldn't charge for things that customers have the perception of being free to you. People don't seem to like that. A customer will think "Oh, more invoices if I pay X dollars more!" and that's tangible. Those are physical invoices stored somewhere.

But when you try to charge for something stupid like the ability to change colors or something, that seems to make people angry. I've done user testing with payment tiers, and whenever someone asks "Why does this cost more? That's stupid" they immediately have a bad taste in their mouth about the product. And that's a first impression before they have even started to use it.
class student extends DidntPayAttention
implements IForgot, Entitled, CantSpell, Unaccountable {
public void learnCS(InputStream education) {
int pagesInTextbook = education.available();
while (0 < pagesInTextbook) {
education.skip(pagesInTextbook);
AmericanIdol.open();
Twitter.send('@kidAcrossRoom','omg rofl did u see Amaricun Idal');
}
};
I find it somewhat pathetic that these are men looking for a prostitution service, then going to great lengths to psychologically justify to themselves that this is something other than prostitution.
How can someone not know XML when it's actually relevant to their job? It's just a tree with a fairly simple structure. Anybody who avoids learning XML because they already know UML is just not even trying. Seriously, learning it takes like half an hour at most.
"what happens when one of these girls ends up seriously hurt or even dead?"

A replacement of equal or higher quality is obtained from the toy-mill and the customer given a discount coupon for his next service.

[please HN, don't be another internet male chauvinist creep den]
I think this just happened to be the problem he was working on when he was learning Clojure. (Look at the "About Me" section.)
I'd prefer to see it as "failure"
With a nuke.
What exactly do you recommend about it? I spent the evening reading it and can only conclude that they were really lucky and nothing more. They had a product that wasn't half bad (though the author likes to point out time and time again about the bugs, issues and outright problems) combined with the fall of all of their competitors makes for a lot of being in the right place at the right time. They have near zero ability to create new products other then by luck. They waste money left and right. They live through their major competitor loosing because they fail to transition to a new platform and only shortly after do the exact same thing learning nothing. The guy goes on and on about how to best run a company only to discover that no one listened to him and that was not how the company actually ran. They didn't kill unprofitable projects, watch where money went, and the author gives the impression that they didn't seem to properly invest in real products or ideas. He briefly mentions highering bright students and a few minor things, but most of the book doesn't mention that much about the development practices good or bad. For having a single product be such a cash cow you would think year after year they would try to improved their development and learn from their mistakes, but there is no mention of it. Also very little is mentioned of who the leads of development were as time went on as though developers don't really matter as long as you have some. For the main product that you live and die on you would think more attention would be spent on it. You can have horrible customer support if your software is fantastic. The lesson I got out of it would be to always consider the worse case. Although they wanted OS/2 to win if Windows won the worst case is that they would loose their cash cow. They should have started as soon as possible even if it meant paying a dozen developers on a dead end project. Heck start two completing sub companies to make a windows word perfect and pick the winner after X months, they had the money. With the extra money they should have taken their time on making new products doing it right rather then rushing out dozens of toy applications. New applications didn't need twenty languages and fancy boxes and manuals. Push it out there and see what worked, kill what didn't. It was only the luck of all the money of WP that allowed all of the mistake after mistake to be tried. Once DOS was over it was no surprise that it went south. I would much rather recommend a book less on luck and more on doing the right things as you will get a lot more out of it.
The London 2012 Olympic logo is better
I actually am in the US on an E2 visa, and I founded and (still) run entp.com. In my mind, the investment requirement of the E2 merely is a way of your providing proof of your ability to achieve success.
If it were personal wealth it might be a reasonable proxy, though in much of the world weath and corruption often go hand in hand.

Do you really want to allow in every rich kid in the world that thinks it'd be cool to screw off in the US for a few years at the expense of someone who's distinguished themselves in their field?
That's a very good point...
There actually is something like auto-complete. If something is a common word or syllable, it is possible to zoom through a series in rapid succession. The whole thing is like a huge auto-complete.

This would be awesome with a really well engineered device like the IBM pointerstick. With a mouse it's so-so.
Even in that case, we'd be more likely to get an electrical engineer with a PhD than an illiterate farmer.

What would happen in a system like this is that the employers would pay for it. If GE, IBM, or Microsoft got the chance to bring in people like this, they would take it.
A risk might be that if even one Al Qaeda terrorist gets in under this program, then the whole program will be shut down, and the sponsoring member of Congress's name will be infamous forever after.
HD Radio vs all the radio and music on the Internet.

For me I choose the later, it's more personalized and what I want to listen to seems infinite!

HD Radio might become the standard, but Im thinking the Internet(iTunes, Internet Radio and Pandora's of the net) will kill it as it has done w/Satellite Radio!
These are trained professionals operating in New York City.

Don't try this in Boston, kids!
Why would a lot of corrupt, rich foreigners want to leave the place where they have a proven ability to profit in order to go to a place where the cost of living is higher and with which they are unfamiliar?

Also there would be some sort of screening for criminals.
None of the buttons or links worked on my iPhone.
Nice writing. "a fat, stoned-looking penguin and a drunken ox" made me laugh.
How do zero login sites deal with spam? Fancy javascript?
E-1 is restricted to nationals of a small set of countries. It needs to be more open.
For fun. That's the problem. Not all people with weath are goal-driven. I'm not so much picturing Pinochet as the Paris Hiltons of the world.
I particularly like this quote: "For example, if skilled individuals could earn $10 an hour in a country like India or China, and $40 an hour in the United States, by moving they would gain $60,000 a year (before taxes and assuming 2000 hours of work per year)." And also assuming that the cost of living for said young person is equivalent in both Silicon Valley and, say, India.

This guy is a loon.
It was sold three times. AG bought it from CNET -- the founders had nothing to do with that.

Founders buying back companies for pennies on the dollar is surprisingly common. There's a 300-ish person consultancy in Cleveland with such a history . The founder cashed out twice.
It was well received on a popular brand identity site: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/open_sou...

Aren't you guys sick of gradients and bubble-buttons yet?
Said rich kids have no need to change their citizenship; they can already spend as much time as they want in any country they want.
pets.com

ptse.com
That's because US citizens seeking VC who haven't moved to Boston or San Jose usually have no good excuse not to; for VCs, it's an easy way to filter out undedicated founders. Foreigners who want to move there but can't get a visa have a much better excuse.
Actually I think a couple of ounces of lead would suffice.
You should really consider free membership with less features.
Uh, 37signals use to be a design firm while they were building their startup. They design inhouse, only some sort of companion app for 37signals was designed by that graphic designer.
Can you expand on what you monitor? If it's just blogs, twitter, digg and news, why wouldn't I just subscribe to a few RSS feeds in my feed reader?
I agree - Infact this is THE biggest reason , stopping me to break free and launch my ideas.

If "I" were to start a firm , all that matters is talent, I would cherish to work with fellow American workers. Remember in the modern age , the more varied my fellow workers are , the richer is my experience. Each one of us has an amazing story to tell, along with the rich experiences from our varied backgrounds.

I do understand the worries about the American workers right. Its genuine, and I respect it.
We built a small wall too, we didn't have a lot of space but we made it work. Some problems start from the bottom of the staircase:

http://flaptor.com/pictures/wall1.jpg
Apple invites iPhone developers to test live push notifications
Agreed. Personally, I'm surprised that no electronics manufacturer has built wifi and Skype into a video camera yet.
Seriously, just have the US/UK/French navies make a joint agreement to immediately destroy any hijacked ship and the problem will solve itself immediately.
plus if you think about it, you have to do tokenization before you do 'stemming'. I was really excited about finding this because computational linguistics is supposed to be the sort of thing that lisps are really brilliant for.
Here is how the US can go about it,

1. All visa applications must have a "CERTIFIED" viable buisness plan.

2. Sensible cash amounts should be with the applicant along with the good credit standings - Its foolish to ask for 100K if you are starting a Web2.0 business.

3. Periodic progress reports to be submitted , certified by auditors.

4. Initially for 2 yr , and then renewable depending on numerous factors like success etc
Dude , some of those countries in the list is a joke !
"non-utilitarian value" - to some people's mind, all value is treated as having utility. the rest of this mentality stems from there. You're reading minds according to your values, and not those of your subjects.
So what's the default message? "Dear Digg, fuck off and die."
yup, processing. one day i'll give in to the people who complain that i'm not using flash, but until then it's processing all the way.
Metakall is currently running a user trial in Trinity College Dublin
How cute!
The only reform we need is a market shakedown and bankruptcy of failing corporations. Let the new guys pick up the debt and form new banks.

I, for one, would like to see peer to peer banking.
Good talk. Interesting that Facebook uses MySQL mostly as a key-value store to represent directed graphs. There was a discussion recently about how FriendFeed does essentially the same thing. http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql. I'd like to see a bit more about how they implemented this.
Inefficiencies in health care standards are common, unfortunately. Look at DICOM, for example. Nearly every PACS on the planet uses their own method of abstracting data and transferring/storing medical imaging.

HL7-XML is already leaps and bounds ahead of the current spec, even with its obvious inadequacies.
Heh, too funny. I was thinking the same thing - nice design.
Being good and doing good in market doesn't mean everything. If you say so, Linux wouldn't have been developed, as MS, apple has already been in the market and doing great.
In the context of the other imagery they're going to roll out, it's actually pretty cool. It's a very humanizing illustration style that I think will go a long way towards making Symbian feel a lot less borg-like to mainstream folks.

Check out the accompanying illustrations at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/symbianfoundation/sets/72157616...
Erm, we do it's called the Ctrl key. Ctrl-Enter adds ".com" and submits an entry in the address bar. Works in FF, Op, IE (IIRC) but not Konq, not sure about Saf.

Ctrl-Shift-Enter does ".org".

Or was that a "whoosh" moment?
ah I see now :)
What about the opposite question. Do startups need to be in the US to be successful? And if so why? I'm sure there are non-US originated webapps that are popular in the US, but it seems the opposite tends to happen more often (Google, Facebook, etc etc...). Given that you can host your web app on EC2 from anywhere in the world with an internet connection as easily as from the US, what then are the barriers? My guess is that it is actually mostly cultural. If I write a webapp I am more comfortable knowing the target audience well. If it is a cultural barrier, then maybe the foreign founders don't really gain much from being in the US unless they are here to absorb the culture?
I had trouble following this. Anybody care to take a shot at explaining what it says, or what's good about it?
This is a nice idea, but I was hoping for a big text dump of names I could look at. Maybe you could turn this into a web app.
The funny things is polititions who try to take credit for truly inovative ideas get laughed at: "Creating the Internet." But, those who find creative ways to waste money in their district can gain long term support.

Stranger still is the ability for politicians to take credit for bad / poorly implemented ideas that sound good: "No child left behind."
Somehow it gives me the same impression as this: http://www.boltcity.com/copper/copper_021_happy.htm
Judea Pearl's 1996 Lecture on Causality
Your brackets are unbalanced. You forgot one after the while loop block. Also, Java uses double quotes to create a String object, not single quotes.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...
Tracking brands/keywords is something people need. But, is Twitter the right tool? How is this different than Google Alerts?
Watch Paul Graham write his latest essay
I wonder if you can do this legally outside the US. I'm sure there's plenty of tourists with bags of US change that they can't easily take to the bank. Seems like it might be a loophole worth exploiting.
This feels like a weird middle ground between voyeurism and watching a master at work.
I don't think it would look that different than what 12th grade CS already looks like. Maybe a project class that could follow the data structures course already taught in some schools?
Relentless Progress (Rakudo Version)
Or a different way to learn some writing skills? At least if you're a terrible writer like me.

But is that still a feature made available only to PG?
Very cool but the first thought that came to my mind when I saw the video was: 'it's amazing that a bomb squad wasn't called in.'

There is hope!
Its a fine plan. If I were your congressman, I would support the bill ;).

But if you think the U.S. is already tapped out of top entrepreneurs, your not looking hard enough.

What would the costs be to enable those already in America? Things like school loan deferment and establishing incubation investment vehicles in at least 10 other cities could enable at least 10,000 Americans. Sure that costs something. But if you think it would be cheap to oversee a special program for 10,000 "entrepreneur visas" a year, then you haven't spent much time at immigration offices ;).
Should we let our peers who are delivering food aid die instead?
Seriously.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare)

And check out the brilliantly Dada-ist press conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XTuiyJNJOI&feature=relat...
Canada did/does this sometimes.

It is part of the reason that Vancouver is nicknamed "Hongcouver" - lots of rich Hong Kong residents got worried over the handover from the British to China, and bought themselves a guarantee of being able to live in Canada, should something bad happen.
It would've been twice as cool if it could take voice instructions.
Oh my god. I thought you were joking.

http://www.amazon.com/50th-Law-50-Cent/dp/006177460X
Ask HN: Where would you rather start a company Boulder or Boston?
Hi guys, let's think of a hypothetical situation. If you were given some money, and could choose between Boulder or Boston as the initial location for the company, which would you choose and why?
I saw a lot of thoughts getting deleted and never re-appearing again, but I was too slow to grok the significance of his choice to remove them. It occurs to me a person could do some sort of git style display. Anything that's over 5 seconds old is revision 1, and if you edit that later, you see the old crossed out, and the new highlighted. (this would be a mode that could be turned on/off as desired, as it could be distracting) Such a mode would allow a window into the thought processes of the writer, both for the voyeurs, and for the writer himself.
I wouldn't mind seeing ehterpad work in real time...just to see how much time it takes him to come up with the stuff/changes
Sincerely, I think it deserves the right to be included in this: http://www.grupthink.com/topic/7964/Worst_logos_ever
A math/love song
Never used it. Does it really kick you to a Google search page, with paid ads and everything?
[web 2.0 derivative mindset]

We could have a new site just dedicated to PG etherpad submissions!

[/web 2.0 derivative mindset]
There would probably have to be some monitoring that visa recipients are actually engaging in start-up activities; in which case there shouldn't be time for any terrorism...
I liked the evolution of persuasion: it would be easy, just use Erdos numbers ... detailed explanation ... to finally, just hiding the details entirely.

The accelerated replay is a good default. My attention span would require some kind of commentary track if it was less than 200% sped up.
Exactly my thoughts. I followed the link from the article to their blog, where the logo has more context than their main site: http://blog.symbian.org/

It really doesn't look too bad or out of place there.
Actually, $50,000 seems like a good number. Remember that coyotes charge $5000 per head, just to cross the border from Mexico. If you're coming further, it can be $80,000
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1642271...

I think $50K to be legal, and not even needing to come up with the money up front, but instead being given a loan, would be considered a bargain.
Fascinating. However, don't think you are seeing the complete creation of an essay from its spark to completion. The first sentence appears (to me at least) considered and calculated. I'm sure much more thought has gone into the essay than the animation would suggest.
New Laptop Hunters ad proves Macs are just for children
The "under 10k" price tag is misleading because it does not include the opportunity cost of the web designers time. In other words, one has to calculate (the hours spent by Metalab web designers * their normal hourly rate) and add this to 10k to arrive at a more accurate cost for building this site.
Boston has the better startup/investment community but there is something more appealing to me about the aesthetic and the skiing in Boulder.
this argument isn't that bad. he makes a bad assumption that living expenses are the same in both countries, but this can easily be remedied.

say skilled individuals make $1 an hour in India or China, after expenses. say those skilled individuals make $10 an hour in the United States, after expenses. In one year, they'd gain about $18,000. If you set the fee lower, that's not too bad for a skilled worker.

problem is, the bigger issue with immigration is unskilled labor. these people wouldn't be able to pay back loans for entrance fees, and its there that most of the issues with enforcement arise.

maybe this would work, but it seems like its solving only a small part of the problem
Many technical PhD's tend to want to "win the argument" instead of closing the sale. If you want to start a company do it now and skip the PhD.