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Ask HN: Looking for cofounders, I'll pay the bills
Summary:
I am looking to create a team of three to live and work together in preparation for the next round of YC. Launching prior to YC or applying to other similar programs are also options but, think the benefits of YC are worth the extra work.

Details:
After researching the pros and cons of hiring, Angel investing, and finding cofounders have decided the last option is best. I will be looking for two cofounders over the next couple of months to begin work on a minimum viable product. This product will be used in our application to the next round of Y-Combinator. During this time I am offering to pay all standard expenses (rent, food, internet, development costs) as this is the most common objection to starting in my experience. I currently live in San Diego walking distance from UCSD. I would be willing to relocate to the Bay area to build the right team. I have a couple of ideas (and prototypes) for the project I will present but, I would also like to hear your ideas and decide as a team which is the best opportunity. Understand some time will need to be given to getting to know each other and expect to try working a couple small projects ahead of time. Suggestions are welcome... please contact me at omni158 (gmail)

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Who builds hospitals and housing with the highest success rate for the lowest cost?

I want my donations to get the maximum long term effect that builds strong and effective communities. Which organizations get the most benefit from my funding in achieving those goals?
A much structured and detailed argument against parking lots is done by Jane Jacobs in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." She shows data, not just a hand-picked (bad) example.
"If YOTD follows the same trend, as it almost certainly will, those two to three months when pirated versions were unavailable must have reduced the overall level and impact of piracy"

Don't they know for sure? What a wasted opportunity.
I know I prefer SearchYC because it also provides links to parent in the search returns. I often use it to find an article of comment I replied to, so that extra function saves me a click.
You're right. I play life because it's more fun to pretend that it's real than succumb to the inaction which would be the only logical response to the idea that it's not.

In other words, I seek the coin under the lamp rather than in the dark corner I lost it in, and I'm fine with that.
IMO, the best strategy is to develop a very rapid & robust "cluelessness filter". I don't get many requests to pick my brain via email but it does happen a lot face to face. At networking events, the first 30 seconds of my interaction with someone is essentially focused on testing for cluelessness.

If it's clearly worthless to have a conversation with them, I'll disengage and politely decline further requests to meet up. If there's even a spark of something interesting, I'll generally meet the again for coffee and the half hour of one-on-one time determines whether they're worth regularly touching base with.

I don't know how to do it via email, maybe ask them to set an agenda for the meeting before you agree to do it and use their reply to that as a filter.

I've gone to enough startup events that I really don't feel guilty anymore outright snubbing the clueless. There's a virtually 100% certainty that they won't amount to much of anything so why waste your mental energy on them.
Google has essentially made a religion out of this theory. I'm not sure how much I buy into it at this point but I have to admit the minimalist approach is a big part of why I find the Chrome browser so enjoyable to use.
Some major cities still lack adequate public transportation, like Seattle and Los Angeles. I live in the latter, about 10 miles from downtown due to cost (about $600-$700 cheaper on rent) and I have to drive in because public transportation would include taking light rail to subway to bus and tack on an extra hour to my commute and cost literally hundreds a month. Far cheaper and faster to drive, even with the abysmal LA traffic.
He said their goal was to slow them down, not stop them.
Also their piracy protection didn't really hurt paying customers, while it massively decreased value to pirates (2 month delay).

There will be times if you go out of your way to screw pirates and it will be worth it, and other times it won't.
> unless the lack of parking is compensated for by having an excellent public transit system.

That is the key. If public transit system was destroyed or never developed a city would have to either build parking facilities or build a public transit system. It all comes down to these questions:

- "How do we expect people to get downtown?"
- "How do we expect people to get around downtown?"

The approach a city takes will mostly answer these questions.

If nobody lives downtown and they have to commute from distant suburbs, it could make sense in the short term to start building parking spaces. The city is eventually transformed into an "office city". Everything closes down at 5. It is hard to even move around the city, so office workers would just go to lunch some place nearby their office, then quickly get in their cars and escape to the suburbs. That is not a city that I would like to live near or go to. But that is what a lot of American cities have become.

If many people live downtown or near downtown area, then it makes sense to invest in a public transit system. This also helps people move around the city. It opens an opportunity for evening, and weekend businesses, for entertainment and tourism.

This is also a chicken and egg problem. A city could decide to encourage building residential areas downtown to attract different segments of populations there. But that is a long term solution. It takes many years to revitalize a downtown neighborhood, especially if it is a high crime area, has a lot of abandoned buildings, and most of all, a bad reputation.
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They probably aren't very inclined to buy games in the first place, though I do think they should be made aware they are using a crippled or demo version.
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And for good reason. This type of research routinely sets out to prove something that is already obvious. When was the last time you saw an evolutionary psychology paper that provided a surprising new insight?
You do realize the irony of "I'm anti-drugs (except for approved OTC/Rx drugs), personally. Keep it real, I say." right?
But everyone goes through puberty while only a few are driven to heavy drug use. Given that I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that heavy drug use is related to some existing mental health problem. Since mental health problems could also make someone prone to psychosis I think the theory of self medication is a valid one.
How can you be so sure that your understanding of science has not been corrupted by special interests? It seems to me that if one were to pick a population to corrupt, one would pick the intellectually lazy majority...
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malloc + memset takes about .24 seconds per gig on my machine. So be sure that your dataset is really, really sparse before you try this.
Also their piracy protection didn't really hurt paying customers

Except for the CPU and programmer resources that could be used for something else.
I created a similar app, but primarily for India (using India local number). But it should work internationally also if you are willing to pay international SMS charges (don't know at what premium). I've hosted at appengine first to see the response http://sms2ping.appspot.com Do let me know if someone tries it. BTW I get a response message free so am not paying to send out messages as response
I've been to Seattle and didn't see any problem with the public transportation. Those buses with trolley poles are cool!

(The reality is that not every city has the population and demand to have a Tokyo-like subway system. Sometimes, buses are enough.)
Yeah, I was thinking about a burn out, too. Unfortunately cutting one of the two isn't an option at the moment.

I guess I'll integrate some meditation techniques, too and try to cut the screen time whenever possible.
Thanks for your answer.

As I said I do have a healthy diet, but I'm supplementing because of the weight training and I don't plan to take them forever.
IF you can build underground. Here in South Florida, going down isn't a good idea, unless you like the idea of a personal sub for commuting purposes.

I am, however, seeing more parking garages being used down here.
This is absolutely correct - the average FB gamer is a middle-aged female. Farmville is a substitute for soaps and being superior to members of your peer group (just like tennis, car, golf score, the plays you see, etc...)
Having played violin 2 for most of college and violin 1 for most of high school, I'd like to believe that the difference between first and second violins is whether you enjoy playing in the high register, and not your level of ability. Certainly the principal second of an orchestra is usually a better player than all but the first few stands of first violins.

Though you're right, there is a pecking order by stand number, and another one for outside vs. inside players.

Curiously, when I was in MA All-States in 2000, the conductor did an experiment. He reversed the seating order, temporarily putting the worst players up front and the best ones behind. And the orchestra as a whole played a lot better. When they couldn't hide in the back, the weaker players played out and followed the conductor much better, yet the better players continued to do so regardless of where they were placed. Unfortunately, we couldn't do this for the concert (social conventions being what they were), but the hour or so devoted to the experiment certainly worked out.

Make of this what you will.
You could just view it as one more natural disaster for your backup and recovery system to take care of.
How is it "already obvious"? We're told that men are visually oriented, but women are not. There are websites like "hot chicks with douchebags", and there are drop-dead gorgeous women married to complete toads who happen to be wealthy or powerful. Both of your comments are nihilistic dismissals of useful and interesting science on the specious grounds that "we already knew that". No we didn't, and even if we did, it's useful to prove it. Just because we had a hunch something was true doesn't mean it's so, and looking into the seemingly obvious can surprise us when it turns out that what we thought we knew was wrong.
For me although it sounds better then previous years ... the text to speech offered by this cerpra company still sounds robotic. An area interest for my start-up as we chose to use real actors rather then a text to speech engine.
Google is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?q=tire+kicker
It doesn't necessarily have to be under ground.
When they have photographs of the assassins faces and footage showing how the operation was conducted you haven't got away with it.
It's difficult to look at the computer world, the rise of the internet, and onlive itself and not see that games are really no different than other aspects of computing, which have already migrated to the cloud...

How many "nevers" have been obliterated by advancements in technology?
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Why would they jeopardize the identities of so many of their agents? Would they have bothered with disguises at all if it was intentional to be "caught"?

I don't believe an intelligence agency like that would be dumb enough to be so brazenly open. They didn't want to get caught, but they did.

I think they simply doubted the diligence on the part of the investigators. If you watched the video, you'd know how hard it would have been to put all the pieces together.
When it comes to human sexual behaviour, pretty much everything is possible, and it seems like anything that you can imagine actually exists.

That's why you see dismissive comments like the original one: many people who has been 'working in the field', so to speak, have already observed this, and see no value in his paper.
Question: Why isn't this linked from hacker news, in the header or footer?

Why do we keep waiting for questions on "how do I search hacker news", to pounce and share this link?
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It appears to me that the robot sound is exacerbated by the fact that we modify the way we pronounce words based on what other words bookend them. how are you escaping this with live actors?
> "That is not a city that I would like to live near or go to."

Then for your own sake don't come to Seattle. You just described this city's downtown to the letter.
I saw Steve Perlman give a pretty impressive demo at MIT this fall.

In the computer world, never say never.
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Sure, that describes downtown, but we have Capitol Hill and Fremont etc to make up for it.
Because WebMynd is a portfolio company, and ostensibly searches Hacker News.
META: Thanks for posting. Thanks for immediately warning us that this could degenerate into personal attacks. To anyone posting, please think if what you are saying has a personal attack in it. If it has a personal attack, don't make it.

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I certainly understand that you are not some kind of epitome of evil. And I respect that with $150 and a realistic business plan that you would take my application for funding seriously.

However, there are lots of people with unrealistic dreams about businesses. They have no idea what kinds of businesses actually get funded. They don't have referrals. These people are tough to filter; I'm sure money doesn't filter all of them.

It seems a little unfair to the peasants when you take $150 from some sincerely earnest entrepreneur with realistic dreams of success. While being a not-for-profit does make your motivations sincere from a legal standpoint and you do provide a valuable service to people, mostly for free, you're nearly the very definition of for-profit enterprise from a utilitarian standpoint. Most people don't understand your valuable service and they just see you keeping money.

Are you willing to consider alternatives to application fees? You could charge $25 like Jason suggested. You refund the money for people that get rejected. Or as pg proposed, you could donate the money to the charity of your choice.

Maybe you could take that $150,000 and let public high schools have a pitch competition. That will probably get you a positive return over time.

Another alternative: keep the existing application available, possibly with a fee reduction. However, you read all applications sent via Twitter for free. If you want, I will reject Twitter applications for you for only $75 an hour.

Another alternative: do it like other successful angel groups that don't charge for reading applications. Reject people that apply without reading the application criteria. It's not hard to reject people. Maybe you could get people on Mechanical Turk to do those rejections for you.
They definitely showed that this approach can be used in a real-life scenario last year, when they broke some voting machines using ROP.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/computer-scientists-take-over...
Tell HN: Giving away programming books to HN members
Due to a sudden decision to quite my day job and return to being a student (leaving IT), I have been sorting through all my books and deciding what I'm going to give to charity etc. The following books I felt would be better served within the HN community. They're all as-new condition, most have never been opened. I'm not asking for any money, I will even pay the shipping costs as I know a lot of us here are bootstrapping start-ups and or students themselves. I do live in the UK though, so if you're asking me to send a book to the other side of the world, it would be nice if you did paypal me at least some of the postage :P

The only rule I have is one book per HN user (it might be good to just say why you want the book / how it will be helpful)! I will update each listing below with a username of the receiver.

Books as follows:

[1] Principles of Biomedical Informatics (Hardcover) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Biomedical-Informatics-PhD/dp/0123694388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352239&sr=1-1

[2] Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Medicine-Bartlett-Biomedical-Informatics/dp/0763750905/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352284&sr=1-1

[3] Bioinformatics for Dummies - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bioinformatics-Dummies-Jean-Michel-Claverie/dp/0470089857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352308&sr=1-1

[4] Ferret - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferret-David-Balmain/dp/0596519400/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352339&sr=1-1

[5] The Ruby Programming Language - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanagan/dp/0596516177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352356&sr=1-1

[6] Java All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies (Paperback) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Java-All-one-Reference-Dummies/dp/0470124512/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352380&sr=1-3

[7] Building Bioinformatics Solutions: with Perl, R and MySQL (Paperback) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Bioinformatics-Solutions-Perl-MySQL/dp/0199230234/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352412&sr=1-1

[8] Beginning Ruby on Rails (Wrox Beginning Guides) (Paperback) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-Ruby-Rails-Wrox-Guides/dp/0470069155/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352434&sr=1-2

[9] Designing Virtual Worlds (Paperback) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Virtual-Worlds-Richard-Bartle/dp/0131018167/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352457&sr=1-1

[10 GONE klaut] Founders at Work - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Founders-Work-Startups-27-Startups-Problem-Solution/dp/1430210788/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267352477&sr=1-1

For those willing to contribute to shipping, my paypal is dk401@cam.ac.uk - don't worry if you can't afford postage, I'll still send the book to you.
Uh, they addressed that in the article, they didn't use much development time on this. One guy for three weeks to develop it, and extra testing time (unspecified) for making sure it worked, and some extra debugging time for everyone until they learned how to work with it.

To me, that sounds perfectly reasonable. They didn't cripple the game for legitimate customers, and they managed to slow down the cracking of the game by two months, and it only cost a tiny fraction of the total budget.

If they used the time (and skill) to make their game better, maybe more people would have bought it?

I doubt it. First off, the work used for their protection wouldn't have added much to the game, because it was so little work compared to the whole. Second, the type of people that sometimes pirate games and sometimes buy games wouldn't be swayed by the quality of the game. If you already pirated the game, well, you have it. Even if you thought it was excellent, going out and buying it after you completed it to reward the developers is too much trouble.

But, if everyone says the game is great, and it's not easily available in a pirated version, then those same people might go buy it instead.

And I think the group of people that would buy it if they couldn't pirate it is larger than the group of people who would buy it if it was good even though they pirated it.

But all of this is speculation anyway, it's so hard to actually know how well copy protection works, because there are a million factors that influence the sales of a particular game.
What a load of bollocks.

- If you don't like the person don't help, don't talk, walk away. Save your time.

- If you are not going to execute the idea give it to someone else so at least you'll help the world to be a better place (assuming you are not working on efficiency of drug smuggling)

- If you are going to do the idea yourself you don't say it to anyone, obviously!

- If you like the person and if you are not going to do the idea by yourself and still refuse the share ideas. "What's your problem?"
Can we be honest for a second, it's almost never true altruism when you meet with someone to talk. I've been on both sides and in either case you almost always have some sort of potential benefit from it. That person might lead you to something good just as much as you might lead them to something good. I don't know everyone they know or everything they've done (if I did, I probably wouldn't be talking to them).
"When any sincere individual or group of people asks for my assistance in pursuit of their business dream, I will strive to help them in any way that I can, be it small or large."
"It has also been established that women’s preference for attractiveness increases when
they seek brief, sexual relationships compared to longer forms of relationship."

It's kinda obvious, but women lie about it all the time.

I wish they would stop lying about it. I have yet to meet a lady who had been honest of her true desires.

If there any girls reading this or any of you who understand girls really well, let me ask straight out, why do girls lie about their true intentions/desires always?
Also for people new to C programming, don't forget about calloc!
Unfortunately gvim in X11 doesn't support fullscreen by itself. (At least I haven't found a way to do it.)
But fortunately there are external programs that allow doing it.

Right now I'm using devilspie ( http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie ) to set gvim as fullscreen when it is started.

Here's the script:

( if ( and ( is ( window_name ) "Vim" ) )
( begin ( fullscreen ))
)
It's very do-able today. The key is just having the server located close enough for latency to not be a problem. ISP partnering would be their best bet. Run the service and let ISPs resell it -- locate the servers in their headends/datacenters. If you traceroute something and look at your first few hops it's easy to see how it would work. <10-20MS should be fine.
The changes to the internationalized domain-name rules this document links to are particularly scary: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/#Security_Considerations

Some identical Unicode strings might resolve to different domains depending on what version of a browser you're using!
Well, i would love to have founders at work. i am in the uk as well. How do i send a "formal" request to you? :)
Indeed; but look carefully at the Wire Fraud Act:

"To commit wire fraud, one must (1) devise, or intend to devise, a scheme or artifice to defraud another person on the basis of a material representation, and (2) do it with the intent to defraud, and (3) do it through the use of interstate wire facilities (i.e. telecommunications of any kind)."

Every single piece of literature (including that case) will include the word "intentionally" somewhere :) It's the bread and butter for hacking laws.

(I cant find much on the case you cite specifically, but from what I did find it sounds like the point your discussing is the proof that it was him that did the dirty deed - when other people could have had his password and done it. Which is an important point, but separate from intent - which they would have still had to prove).
A gift or hard graft? [pdf]
LOVE kongregate and armor games
Another interesting and, at least somewhat, related article. This time it's from the Washington Post (14 Feb. 2010): "The case against banning the word 'retard'" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...
Thanks a lot! email sent :)
It's because they are legitimately better than most angel groups that charge. $150 is an incredibly reasonable fee in the scheme of angel groups.
Woulda been cheaper to raise the city!