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Ask YC: All known sources of seed-stage funding, incubation, etc. for web startups?
There's Y Combinator, obviously. LaunchBox, TechStars, Garage, Highland Capital Partners, SeedCamp, DreamIt Ventures, Bootup Labs, and BoostPhase.

What else is out there? Note that I'm not looking specifically for YC clones...any source of seed-stage funding (for web startups) is fine.
Gee, the people from Sevenhourstartup.com are going to be pissed when they hear about this.

Six? Seven's the number, man!

Sorry, been reading reddit too much. Seriously, it sounds cool, and if I was anywhere near Seattle I'd go.
>Most Christians take offense when people insinuate that they still believe in Geocentrism or something like that and this is very similar.

I beg to digress, if you care to discuss it. It is not similar. Geocentrism is a theory of the world and was abandoned in the view of newly discovered undisputable facts. The prohibition on usury is a moral judgement, an axiom of a moral system, not a theory or view of the world, and as such cannot be changed by facts. I thought that difference was obvious. It is furthermore closely related to generosity and the sin of greed. Modern sects have abandoned this prohibition simply for convenience, thus completely changing their moral framework, and they have nothing to do with the original Christians.
Honestly, it is not an indictment, just an observation. I actually like having many friends, getting invited to many things, but I also don't like when many people RSVP to things, and they just don't show up. I actually can directly quanitfy and compare this at soccer games. In boston about 80% of yes-es would actually show up at games. In SF about 60%.

I guess, you could also argue that in the east coast, people are less friendly, so you have fewer friends and people have to keep them closer and dearly, or that in SF there is a lot of stuff to do, and people can get easily ditracted.

BTW. I am european, so don't want to transform this in a west coast vs. east coast thing.

When it comes to twitter, I am not sure how much the general crowd would be interested in it. Taking example something like blogs: it has instant appeal in a lot of people, because basically it is an online diary.

A lot of people have diaries, and bringing them online was something natural.

But twitter? I am not sure it solves a need to the general masses, except for the hyperconnected ones.
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BarCamps are great for (1) meeting local people, (2) vetting ideas, (3) scoping out new technology. Not unlike Hacker News. :)
That was the point I was trying to raise. The Catholic Church was very liberal, when financial interests were at bay. All Western churches inherited its corrupted moral base.

Edit: and the downmods restart. I would like to see some arguments against my remark. Something with more substance, besides obvious re-statements and appeals to number such as 'but everybody does it'. I thought HN visitors would be familiar with proper refutation and rhetoric, and that pg's How to Disagree was by now widely known. BTW, it's here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
The case of Steve Yegge is different. He's not trying to sell you anything; he's just talking. If you want to listen, you'll probably learn something, so it's in your best interest to read. If you're not interested in learning anything, it's no skin off of Yegge's ass, so why should he care?

In other words, nice joke, but it doesn't apply here.
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There are prohibitions against usury in the literature of most of the major religions. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Obviously, the contemporary versions of these religions have loosened their positions. Protestants, for example, haven't been seriously opposed to usury for centuries. Islam, however, is still opposed to it. The Muslim world has its own banking system. Would you have made the same comment if the OP hinted that he was Muslim?
"I would have liked to know how the OP solves the cognitive dissonance between his beliefs and the accepted practices of today's world."

All you ever had to do was ask.

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I never meant to "hint" at anything. Sorry if that's what got all this started. I was just sharing antecdotes to encourage others to pound the pavement and find good gigs.

I'd be happy to fill in any missing pieces and point out some logical flaws in this thread. Offline please.
How I got ostracized on HN today.
Yeah I am a drama-whore right now. Hey, at least I'm still honest.
That's a very true observation mhartl and I try to touch on it in my last sentence although it is enigmatically worded as I was trying to sneak a "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" reference into it. Alas not all wordplay is destined for upmods!
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any good ones in Dallas? I've heard of StarTech, but they seem a little different than these type of seed funds.
I prefer discussion on a public forum such as HN, where other people can contribute.
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"Unfortunately, the only thing I learned is that HN threads are not to be taken off-topic."

Then you learned something that I don't believe is true. HN threads are taken off-topic all the time.

You just took this thread somewhere that most people don't believe belongs on hacker news. That's all.

Politics, religion, sports, and popular culture are areas probably better served elsewhere.

I made the mistake of saying the word "Bible" to illustrate that oppotunities can come from the least expected places. Next time I'll say, "At a group meeting..." Sorry.
This is a really bad place to be irrationally religious.
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Well, the parent could be Jewish and studying the Hebrew Bible. And historically, Jews were able to do very well for themselves because of the Christian's irrational prohibition of loaning money with interest. I didn't know there were many people left that still had such primitive beliefs.

It makes me wonder if you actually believe what you are saying or if you're just saying it to elicit a response. Hopefully it's the second, the first one would be sad.
>most people in the US identify as Christians

Exactly. With a strong emphasis on identify, or make that auto-identify. Like Ghandi, I like Christ, but not Christians. Except, maybe, Eastern Orthodox, but that's another topic.
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I would suggest looking into NumPy/SciPy instead of Matlab. Matlab has a very good library for numerical computation but in my experience, Matlab is absolutely terrible as a language for anything except matrix stuff.

NumPy gives you a good matrix syntax while building on an excellent general purpose language. Personally I felt NumPy is a lot cleaner and Python a lot more fun than Matlab though Matlab has many many "toolboxes"/libraries not in NumPy.
Every now and then there are comments that elicit a "minus infinity" response. Enough people find his sentiment deeply offensive that it's going to minus infinity.
>Politics, religion, sports, and popular culture are areas probably better served elsewhere.

I know it perfectly well, and usually I love HN exactly because of it, but right now I'm in too much of a bad mood to appreciate it.
I've been going to the local ones (DemoCamp, StartupCamp, FacebookCamp) for the last little while and they're definitely worth it. You learn a few interesting things, see a cool demo or two, meet some people etc.

Depending on when the next democamptoronto is and how much work I put into my project, I was hoping to demo it and launch it then. Realistically, it'd probably have to be the other afterwards though.
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I don't know about the merits of the argument; I'll grant you the logic, as most people here would. It's just that people are rightfully fearful of what pro/con religious remarks can have on the quality of conversation here.
Yup. They're awesome. Minnebar (Minnesota) may 10th.

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I hope your bad mood is from the down votes and not anything anyone said here. I also get frustrated by downvoters who don't comment. I hope you will continue to love HN in spite of this.

Once again, I am willing to continue this discussion off-line. I think the community has made it clear that's where it belongs. This is my last post in this thread. Since I have no other way of contacting you, your move.
I'm not sure if people found his sentiment offensive or are just opposed to blatantly off-topic trolling.
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I went to last year's Boston BarCamp and it was a great event overall. Some workshops were a little "eh", but others were really good. I'm thinking about doing a session on "Graphic Design for Coders" - anybody here have any thoughts on whether that would be a good topic?

A neat thing I saw at last year's BarCamp was an early demo of Dropbox by Drew Huston who went on to be part of YC Summer '07. I think Reddit demoed at the Boston BarCamp the year before that too, before they went into YC Summer '06.
I just realized the crux of the issue from you comment. People perceived my comment as pro-religion! Full-disclosure: I am an atheist, raised Eastern Orthodox.

For f* sake, I was, kinda, bashing a (in my eyes) Christian :-) Not a fair sport, but imagine the kind of karma I would accrued on Reddit for such an act of self-righteousness.
Although I think your original post had little to do with the topic, I do think -57 is excessive. I'd like to think our community isn't quite so harsh. Massive vote-downs like this discourage dissenting opinions.
There are scenarios in which she could be the nominee, but they all pretty much involve Obama being dead or in jail. He won this thing a long time ago.
Yeah, but...I didn't go to Startup School for the speakers. I went to Startup School to meet the people who go to Startup School.

I'm not going to say anything bad about this group, but I'm not likely to pay for a one-day conference to learn how to incorporate and keep ledgers. Those topics aren't served well by the format.
I wish now... more than ever... that I could down mod submissions...

This post is ridiculous. Please do us all a favor and remove it forthwith.
I would love to test this out. This is the first time hearing of this. I do need something to keep my over wired life in control.

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FWIW, I was downmodding you mainly because it is more fun to watch the karma number change when it is negative than when it is positive.
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mailman? I think that accepts the unsubscribe emails too...
Dude, it's a meta-topic. It will elicit a meta-discussion.
BarCamp is great. I have been to both BarCampOrlando's. While some of the talks where a little on the basic/general/boring side (I'm looking at you Agile proponents), there were also some that were great and totally outside my normal realm of what I am interested in.
I helped throw BarCampRochester3 - largest one in upstate NY! RITers represent! Gathering quality people who want to give something of interest to each other truly does cull the best and the brightest in an area.
Especially when it is not your karma, right? ;-P
Who's Ghandi? I am only aware of someone named Gandhi.
If you were trying to raise a point, you utterly failed. On two counts:

a. Your argument was vague and lacked proper distinctions. It was so to the point of being annoying and insulting the intelligence of people with even a vague understanding of history. If you want to make a point, at least be clear about it.

b. It was off topic and out of place. There was a very good discussion on how to make a living off of consulting going on and you had to distract from it with your personal pet peeves with Christians. If you want to start a debate, get your own thread.
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I tried to karma bomb myself once, but you beat my personal best.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133324
Yup, bunch of closed minded people who are jerks.
I remember seeing the Dropbox demo, and I've loved seeing it getting covered in the news ever since. Always nifty to see something in its early stages before it starts to go big.

Graphic Design for Coders could be cool, but I'm not sure what you mean by it. Graphic Design for non-graphic-designers, whom coders are one example of? (That I would love.) Or graphic design via code, like CSS and AJAX? (Which I could also dig.)
Actually, it had more to do with centuries of corruption in the banking system and the eventual realization that prohibitions against 'usury' were a. ill defined and b. unenforceable.

For a history on the subject, read "Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles", by Jesus Huerta de Soto.
Another good one is John Holt's How Children Learn, in which he says something along the lines of "It's just as well that we don't try to teach children to walk and talk" or else they would struggle to learn that as well.

My wife and I are homeschooling our children for sure...
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I think the comment in the testimony was regarding cost of "premium" bandwidth as something that would have crushed a search startup.
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Notably, "Barack Obama to be Democratic Presidential Nominee" is trading about 10pts higher than its last close right now...
I don't think the comment in question was voted down due to the opinion expressed so much as it was because of how he expressed it. Saying "pawn shops are evil" is an opinion (a somewhat odd one), while saying "you're a bad Christian because you're helping a pawn shop" is a very bad way of expressing that opinion.
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Seriously - ovi256 is now down to -15 in karma, and (as far as I remember in regard to the modding system) can't even comment anymore. Just because he thinks it's unethical to own a pawnshop. His other comments are fine. Would you PLEASE vote the poor guy up a bit.

I don't mind burning karma doing this, I've got plenty to spare. This is just wrong.
Both :-) -- graphic design for non-graphic designers who know HTML and CSS, but aren't quite sure what to do with it.

Here's a blurb I wrote up for the Sessions wiki page (http://2008.barcampboston.org/index.php?title=Sessions):

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Why are you littering the front page with this garbage?
If I lived in Seattle, I'd definitely go just to meet people. Probably not for out of towners, though.
that's a yc urban legend actually, an editor needs to kill your account for it to be killed. It just so happens that by the time someone reaches negative karma an editor has usually killed their account.
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Don't feel too bad about it. If ovi256 really can't comment, ovi257 can pick up the usury/pawnshop debate where he left off.
Don't work with anyone. If you do, don't let anyone listen to anyone except his/her direct boss and don't let anyone talk to anyone except who he or she directly manages. Seriously.

As soon as you have multiple people, you're going to make decisions that someone doesn't like. Politics is how decisions that aren't completely top-down get made and implemented (or not).
I agree, but I'm not at all surprised.
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This continues to be a troll, but I'll bite. Hopefully in such a way that no one else has to.

Arguing from obviousness about religious beliefs? Come on, people have fought wars over the iota in homoiousious. Arguing from obviousness in interpreting a passage in the New Testament? Learn about hermeneutics. One text, many interpretations, and as many as there are people willing to approach the text authentically.

And let me give you something only a Christian would say, so you can be educated. Bible study is not an end in itself. It is a means to becoming more like Jesus, becoming closer to Jesus. So I take a dim view of arguments that purport to assume a Christian belief and the status quo, then derive a contradiction. These arguments are about the periphery of Christianity. If you want to create some cognitive dissonance, head for the center.

I read that (crappy) Wikipedia article on usury, including the strands of Christian thought that disagree with the non-interpretation of those New Testament passages in the Wikipedia. For instance, the section on the scholastics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury#Usury_in_scholastic_theol...

So instead of taking the reductionist appeal to obviousness and playing word games with quotations that you interpret privately, maybe you can go through the two millennia of source material on the question and offer the definitive breakdown. Send me a link to your dissertation when you're done.

More to the point, this and many other religious beliefs inhere in systems of thought, not random answers to random questions. You just asked, "When did you stop feeling cognitive dissonance about your beliefs?", and I might rightly be skeptical that you even cared about the answer.

You don't understand a religion until you understand it from the perspective of someone who lives it. You don't understand a religious belief unless you locate it in the network of beliefs, the worldview, that it belongs to. And you don't discredit a religion by raising questions about disputable matters.
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The observation you describe from 'The Addictive Organization' seems similar to Orwell's formulation of doublethink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
I would kill for a graphic design for coders workshop. If you do a workshop, I promise not to kill you. It would be someone else of your choosing. ;-)
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OK thanks for clearing it up. I just hope that ovi256 doesn't get his account killed because of this.
I sorry if you misunderstand; of course there is a difference. However, what is similar is what is important. Geocentrism and a strict understanding of usury are both beliefs that Christians once subscribed to, in a world largely devoid of secular people who disagreed, and have since been abandoned. Almost no Christians hold these views anymore. In spite of this, they are still commonly brought up as examples of backwardness by adherents to secularist philosophies that came to exist centuries after these beliefs had been abolished. Neither are any more relevant to a discussion of Christianity in general, than Communism is to secularism in general.

The fact is, Christian moral precepts are a lot more complicated and involved than you seem to believe. The Catholic Church (around which the usury debate is usually framed) has always held the doctrine and our understanding of morals a. develops and b. must be applied to the circumstances.

The fact is, 'usury' is still forbidden, but what in fact entails usury has been greatly refined. It was once assumed that the charging of interest granted the loaner a living that did not depend on him making contributions to society. The dynamics of banking and such have since reassessed and investment has since been shown to very valuable to the growth of an economy. IE., it has been demonstrated that those who loan money, do in fact, contribute through the act of loaning money. Witness the importance of VCs to startups, (arguably of far greater malice than pawn shops. ;))

The thing is, the concerns over which interest was considered wrong, have since been shown to be misplaced. Activities which allow one to profit of of others without contributing are still considered wrong, under similar language, but what constitutes 'usury' is no longer clear cut and is open to debate.
With single color regions, that's impossible. E.g. you can't show the geographical extent of both English and Irish if there are places people speak both.

I was serious when I asked if this map was from 1750. It looks about right for that, at least for the western European countries whose history I know well. (I can only guess about all the ethnic pockets in Russia).
This was from 2005. Great article, regardless.
Regardless of viewpoint, introducing religion into an online discussion usually results in pointless, voluminous arguments that enrage a few and bore the rest.
I second this sentiment. The difference in natural expressiveness is almost painful
So, umm, I think the real point is: where did you get the idea that Christianity is opposed to the charging of interest? I mean, I'm sure there are some weird minor branches out there where charging interest is still considered sinful, but the vast majority of modern-day Christian sects have no problem with it.

(Full disclosure: atheist, raised Catholic)