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I'm going to go ahead and recommend Bangalore (Disclaimer - I live here right now). While popular belief and stereotypes might have you believe that the city only has Call Centers and Outsourcing companies - it has a pretty bright startup community, which I'm only beginning to discover.

While I was born and brought up in Bangalore, I moved away for five years to College. I decided to start up after and moved back here, only to discover a very vibrant culture around technical startups. Due to the very strong proliferation of the internet, a lot of people have been picking up some pretty good technology and development stacks, and are not afraid to network and interact.

Language:

Most of the population you run into have a basic working knowledge of English, and as far as communicating with potential employees goes, it's not going to be a problem. You're going to have to put up with the funny accent though :)

Government/External support:

While there aren't fast-track routes to quickly get started, and there'll be a bit of paperwork involved, for which you'll need to get a local's help (heck, even _I_ am finding it a little hard). But as for bootstrapping and for staying in stealth mode, there's no place like it.

Cost:

It's incredibly cheap here. Maybe not China-cheap, but cheap. I am staying with some friends in a very large luxury apartment in the center of this very large city, and the overall cost is near 480 USD a month(for 5 people). Programmers are cheap and widely available. The Experienced ones aren't as economic, but pack more bang for their buck. If you're willing to be a little flexible, it's surprisingly comfortable to bootstrap on <$400 a month.

Networking:

There are meetups and networking sessions almost every weekend [ for example - http://www.meetup.com/Mashable/16063/?a=bn5_l1 which is tomorrow). Within a month, I'm starting to meet familiar faces, and a lot of people are looking for co-founders or someone with a good idea.

I recently attended the Yahoo Open Hack Day, which attracted over 500 hackers - and was amazed at the number of people who worked nearly 40 hours nonstop to come up with some very impressive hacks.

Another great example is "Startup Saturday" - a monthly networking session held by Headstart - a company to help people startup. I went to the June 12th Meet:

http://startupsaturday.headstart.in/event.php?eid=43

And found nearly 180 people cramped into a little auditorium. Plenty of people from abroad, and lots of people moonlighting - trying to make connections.

Examples of startups:

Just off the top of my head. There are tons more but these are from people I know personally.

http://www.capillary.co.in/capillary/

http://c42.in/

http://www.notionink.in/
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I have lived in all three.

London, yes; not exactly a cheap place to live but there is a huge local market you can tap into, immediately.

Hong Kong; hard if you're not a native. The place is geared towards old business. The expats are mostly either in finance, import export, or doing teaching. Really hectic and you can't put your guards down (i.e. you can't just leave the house in shorts and sandals to sit at an outdoor cafe.)

Sydney. Great place. But, fuck, it's expensive. My weekly "man money", just for drinks, lunch meetings and coffee, was $500. Rent is cheaper in the Western Suburbs, and still cheaper in far dodgy places like Paramatta, but IME, if you go anywhere west of Central you're entering a technological wasteland (except maybe for Newtown.)
Singapore. The government seems hell bent on kick starting the startup scene.

http://www.e27.sg/2010/07/26/singapore-startup-government-fu...

http://www.spring.gov.sg/Entrepreneurship/FS/FS/Pages/young-...
"This scheme provides funding support of up to S$50,000 for youths to set up their innovative startup."

However, the startup culture and network is not as vibrant as it is in Silicon Valley/Bay Area. Also, I hear top quality developers are difficult to hire. That being said, no strings attached seed grants are bound to help to some extent.
that "sentence" could benefit from minor punctuation.
Berlin has a lot of unrented office space. Sometimes in bad shape, but a weekend of painting and you have a nice office. Berlin is cheaper than other german cities because of many reasons. One is the high unemployment rate compared to other german cities.
Prosecutors win over 99% (99.2% in 2007 [1]) cases in Russia.

[1]: http://www.forbesrussia.ru/forbes/issue/2008-11/7199-nevinov...
berlin is the exception because it has had one side of the city living in poverty until the fall of the berlin wall
I really like the idea of connecting commands using pipes to do "one-off" commands. But piping strings is dumb and limits what you can reasonably do. It's too hard extracting what you want from the strings.

At my last company, I needed a tool to interact with the nodes of a cluster, including the databases on each node.

Putting this all together, I wrote a tool named Object Shell (http://geophile.com/osh), which is available under the GPL. It takes the idea of piping, but exposes Python language constructs on the command line. Python objects, not strings, are piped between commands. For example, I can write a command line to: execute a database query on each node; bring back the results with each row as a python tuple; combine the stream of tuples from each node into one stream; and then operate on the stream. Or I can write a command line to: get a list of process objects once a second; extract and transform properties of each process; dump the stream of data into a database. The Python objects have Python types, so I can operate directly on files, processes, numbers, times, etc. instead of strings representing those types.
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At least they are short, mercifully.

I think I lost the ability to take this sort of arrangement seriously after having watched this little 'bit of Fry and Laurie' sketch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw
Shanghai is cheap and beautiful, but it can be a cultural wasteland and the expats a bunch of overpaid finance pricks. Beijing is a better place, more funky almost hippie city, and it's got culture up the wazoo.
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without RBLs we would have many, many ISPs willing to openly host spammers.

The benefit to the RBL system was that it creates economic pressure so that ISPs have an incentive to disconnect spammers.
though you never hear of a non-israeli startup based in Tel Aviv
A few BBC shows/podcasts I like:

Peter Day's World of Business:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/worldbiz
(international business news, interviews)

From Our Own Correspondent:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fooc
('letters' from far-flung places)

Excess Baggage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/excessbag
(travellers and travelling)

Kermode and Mayo film reviews
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/kermode
(witty round-up of new film releases with a cult following)

Material World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/material
(science show)
THE BEST PODCASTS http://channeldvorak.com/shows
Just when you think you have read all of the most relevant links on HN for the month, Hacker Monthly gets released. It's amazing how much quality content slips my radar. Kudos - this PDF also looks fantastic on the iPad.
Not just tel aviv but also hertzelia (a tech hub just north of ta).
Yeah, it is stupid. On one hand it is an interesting experiment and on the other, just dumb. If I get any takers it will a measure on just how weird social networks can be.
In the US the answer is NYC.

Outside the US the answer is London. Lots of startups in Soho. You also have Seedcamp and active a-list investors like Index (esp. Danny Rimer) and the Skype guys.
If I could change the C language...
Berlin population was 4,338,756 in May 1939 and now it's 3.4M.
Another reason is it's a subsidized new capital, lots of incentive for real estate investments in hope that the business/employments take off.
We have been using SoftSys for a few months - had no any major issues. Support replies very quickly.
I'm interested in Chinese, Malaysian and the Philippine cities, anyone familiar with a startup scene in these countries?
I think you'd be surprised at the number of people who don't own stocks and don't even have a 401k or any other type of retirement plan, and I bet they outnumber those who do.
I live in Shanghai right now and the successful startups that are BASED here are all chinese clones of popular US companies, like Youku.com(you tube), baidu.com (google), taobao.com(Ebay/amazon), QQ (social networking) etc. Some cool startups who work here but have offices in other countries are Indochino.com (Custom Made high quality mens wear), Chinese learning companies, etc.

There is also a pretty decent tech scene here with some good meetups (we just had a barcamp, ruby conf and Geeks on a Plane)

Living is inexpensive, you could live for about 250-500 USD fairly easily if you enjoy the local food and drink the $.5 Tsingtao beer.

The issue with Shanghai is it seems pretty tough to bring money in and out if you are focusing on Chinese Customers though and can be expensive to get work visas, offices (the gov makes foreigners get expensive offices), good workers. The labour can be cheap, but like everywhere you get what you pay for.

I am moving back to Vancouver, BC next month where there is also an epic startup culture growing, even with some past hiccups. But if it wasn't for the company I am with right now, I would be staying here and may still come back to start something in the next few months. I do recommend Shanghai for a good startup city for sure.
The overthinking it podcast is one of my favorites. A panel generally overthinks movies and other artifacts from pop culture and arrives at some interesting concepts by following Hollywood's 'movie logic'. http://www.overthinkingit.com/category/podcast/otip/

If you enjoy comedy Jordan Jesse Go! and Stop Podcasting yourself are two podcast from Maximumfun that regularly interview comedic stars from Los Angeles and Vancouver respectively.
http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/jordan-jesse-go
http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/stop-podcasting-yourself
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There is a lot of space, not so many people, and an efficient transport network means that people don't need to live all in the same area, which would drive up rents.
The Economist: Audio Edition. It's exactly what's in the magazine, but voiced by some excellent English readers. It comes free with a subscription, either digital or print.
And besides of the low cost the atmosphere in the city is great. A lot of art and music people from whole europe move to berlin now to feel the vibe of the city. Visit berlin for a week and you will love it :)

Nearly everyone is able to speak english.

Small disclaimer: I am living in cologne, germany
i dont know which 5 he means but i guess:

http://www.hetzner.de/
http://www.server4you.de/
http://www.strato.de/
http://www.hosteurope.de/
http://1und1.de/
Come to Shenzhen. It's beside Hong Kong but without the terrible rent prices. See my latest blog entry, link in profile.
Amsterdam has:

- The largest internet exchange in the world, which means very cheap and high quality colo

- Several large universities with CS departments in the vicinity should you need team members

- Excellent quality of life

- People speak several languages, including English

- A great startup scene

- Tax breaks on innovative (software) products

Downsides: not cheap and hard to get a working permit if you're from outside the EU. Don't go there if you get offended by a very liberal value system.
Of all the burgers in town (Winder, GA), their toppings are often some of the best. I think they actually use fresh lettuce and tomatoes.

Still very unhealthy, but the ingredients are good.
Reminds me of the democratization other security technologies such as described in:

P. W. Singer's "Wired for War"

http://amzn.to/gSsI

Perhaps even Chris Anderson's DIY Drones:

http://DIYDrones.com
I agree with most of the posts here.

For me, while PHP isn't the most exciting technology right now...it works. I have wanted to master Ruby and Python for some time now. However, I am still pretty much a novice in them. I use them here and there for non critical scripts in hopes that I will be proficient enough in them to use as a go to language.

Until then I have to use PHP in which I can write really elegant code really fast.
Most shell scripts are heaping mounds of undeclared external dependencies.
Monocle Weekly - High quality reporting about current global issues done in a refreshing way. Awesome.

http://www.monocle.com/The-Monocle-Weekly/
I'd always heard it as "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged; a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.'
I'm using Google Application Engine with a hacked version of Django (Django Nonrel).

You get both App Engine Admin Console and Django Admin Module => Double Win!

Worked pretty well so far.
That's the first time I've ever heard somebody say that Schindler's List is hollow. I find it to be very moving and an excellent portrayal of the horrors of the Holocaust.

What don't you like about it?
Indeed, as the above mentioned, he founded the Post.

Followers of the story (largely, Canada and UK) have seen quite a drama over the last few years. It's helpful to understand he is, in fact, a British Lord - after renouncing Canadian citizenship under a Prime Minister blocking the appointment due to a personal vendetta - and was convicted of defrauding shareholders under a law recently deemed by SCOTUS as open-ended and unconstitutional.
I run ThatHigh.com on Google App Engine. I'm building a friend's author website on Dreamhost and I'm building a new twitter-related web app on linode using django.
Agreed. I recently had to move away from AppEngine for a project that involved outbound connections and I KNOW I'm going to really miss the dashboard. Do you know of any third-party tools I could install to get anything even remotely similar?
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I went with Linode since they let me set the size of the vm. I can then make my own copies/backups. Slicehost does have a nicer looking interface though, but I think their backup service is not free.

I've also been waiting for prgmr.com to have more available slots so I can give them a try.
Trier, Germany - because I live there.
"The Indian Mutiny". Here's a link, since I went through the trouble of searching for it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qprnj

But I agree, IOT has a lot of podcasts that I've liked (e.g. the one on The Great wall of China), while others are just academic catfights.
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Software Engineering Radio, http://www.se-radio.net/ (English, sometimes with a German accent).

Chaosradio Express, http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ (in German with a German accent). Two-hour interviews on mostly technological topics.
Same story: The government and the banks work together to make feel-good legislation that allows the status quo to continue on. Private groups like BankSimple and Move Your Money are the quickest route to meaningful financial reforms. We can see that we live in a very corporatist state that isn't going to fix itself soon.

http://moveyourmoney.info/
I have yet to find a shared host that (eventually) doesn't oversell their facilities. I've found a few gems, only to be let down a year or two down the road. You don't want to be in this position.

When I started using VPS hosting, I had zero sysadmin experience outside the Windows world. In choosing a VPS host, my biggest concern was accessibility to support that actually knew how to do the things I was doing. In other words, access to actual sysadmins.

I chose Rimuhosting as my provider almost 5 years ago, and I haven't been unhappy yet. I can't stress this enough. As a new sysadmin, you're going to need help. You have two choices:

* You can rely on community, which is great, but you'll have to wait on answers, and you'll likely be told to RTFM on many occasions.

* You can go with a host that offers support, and (very important) also offers sysadmin help at reasonable rates for tasks that are over your head.

This has been the greatest thing about Rimuhosting. Their support is awesome, and they go the extra mile, but they offer something a lot of other hosts simply will not do. They offer sysadmin services at a rate of $45/hr, which is very reasonable. In addition to completing tasks, they'll send you a quick run down of what they did. Teach a man to fish style! I've learned as much from them as I have any website.

I cannot say enough good things about Rimuhosting.
Radiolab is great. However, it presents topics much in the same way that I imagine people who visit this site do- they love to explore interesting surface-level explanations of everything from the multiverse to the nature of consciousness. Don't get me wrong: Radiolab is very good at this, and since it's in audio form, it's the perfect way to learn while commuting, for example. I'm just saying that I have already learned a lot of the stuff they explore on the show, and I suspect a lot of hackers will have, too.

I also find their presenting style annoying sometimes, as they cut in and out of the subject talking and the hosts telling the story, and occasionally the hosts' banter seems forced for interest.

On the whole though, highly recommended!

Edit: It's worth confirming the high quality. I listen on 2x speed and it is almost 100% natural to listen to. Amazing.
All quotes on an exchange have trade intent, since if the exchange fills you, a trade occurs. You don't have the ability to back out after your quote is accepted.

If the NBBO moves around on a thinly traded stock and no trade occurs, so what?The bid ask spread on some thinly traded stock fluctuated for a few minutes, and no one bought or sold stocks? Oh noes, the horror! If we don't put a stop to this, someone might offer to sell a coke bottle on ebay for $10000 and no one will buy it!

Also, if you are a broker, the exchange imposes similar requirements on fill rates. The matching engine gains nothing if you place lots of unfilled orders, and if they allow too much of it, customers who do make trades (i.e., the people who actually pay them) are likely to switch to other matching engines or dark pools.
lots chatter about MorphAdorner recently (relatively)

http://dhigger.blogspot.com/2009/08/research-project.html

http://workproduct.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/evaluating-pos-t...
Hey, this is Jason from TechZing. Thanks so much for the mention! I never really thought of myself as a character, but you're probably right. ;)

By the way, for anyone interested in checking out the TechZing podcast, we not only discuss tech, startups and other HN-like topics, we'll even on occasion take a risk and venture into the unknown. For example, we recently interviewed a historian of UFOs and the national security state which, to our surprise, turned out to be one of our most popular shows of all time.

This week we're interviewing David Fogel, who evolved a world-class checkers playing algorithm named Blondie24, and I anticipate that to be an especially interesting show.

Anyway, you should listen to us here: http://techzinglive.com because if you like HN then you'll probably like our show.
Why should the reader of a newspaper (or is it a magazine?) be expected to know who founded it?

I hadn't realized that this was a newspaper article, but if so that actually makes it worse. A journalist should know how to write in such a way that people don't require external context to process a story.
Dead at 41, makes me think about life.
Consider,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

Top developers are many there.
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London only if you have alot of capital behind you. Everything here is expensive so you better have a nice VC behind you. Finding a cheap place to stay in the city - Good luck mate.
That video is terrific.

My dad had an SX-70 that he used for work. I used to "play" with it all of the time when I was a kid, expanding it then folding it up again and again. I never did see the thing ever take an actual picture, though. I guess the film was kind of expensive.
It could be because until recently, few people outside Israel thought of it as a place for a startup. That's probably going to change over the next few decades.
How have they learned from the debacle of RBLs and censoring firewalls?

I finally stopped running my own mail servers after 20 years because of the block lists. The RBL's continued false, silent bans caused too many mail delivery failures. The RBL's don't care about me, so I had to outsource to a mail provider so large the RBL's have to care.[1]

On censoring firewalls. There are businesses which cause their competitors to be blocked by http censorship lists. It is unlawful, but the censorship engines accept anonymous input to make their decisions and it isn't hard to hide the tortious interference.

Will DNS blocking have a similar effect of squelching the small and the new? Will it be abusable by nefarious people?

[1] For many years I didn't see RBLs as a problem, until I no longer controlled a large block of IPs that I had had from the early days of the internet. Now I have servers in mixed blocks. and most useless of all for email and web servers, reused IPs. (Blockers sometimes remember the sins of years ago and reinstate blocks based on a previous owner.)
Try Waterloo Canada! It's a couple hours out of Toronto, and has a pretty strong technology and startup sector. RIM is based here, and many large tech and software companies have their Canadian offices (the non marketing offices) in the area.

It has the University of Waterloo sitting there, which disgorges tons of CS and engineering students every 4 months looking for coop jobs. I'm currently attending UW, so I might be a bit biased, but I really believe that taking on waterloo coops is generally a good experience for any company. There are plenty of students there who enjoy working at startups (many graduates go on to form their own startups actually), and the university goes out of its way to encourage students to attempt startups.

Definitely worth looking into. (and more companies offering coop jobs is always welcomed)
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Prisons are a dark corner of American politics where everyone's uninformed preferences produced a system that's bloated, expensive, inefficient and doesn't meet its stated goals.

California's prisons are a good example: law and order on the right; tax and spend on the left; public sector unions throughout; massive waste, individual and systemic injustice the result.
Can you elaborate on that great startup scene? I'm only aware of companies with relations to "thenextweb" and their founders, but don't hear a lot about other Amsterdam based startups that much. I'm not aware of any regular meetups or stuff like that.
Thanks for that. Your one sentence did a better job of summing up what was going on than the whole article. I wish he could have worked it into the story at some point, so that the rest of us could figure out what he was talking about.
Ditto for Rimuhosting.
Great idea. I will use it in the future.

The yellow background however is stressing. If you like yellow to be your signature color, use it on a single element like a header strip or so.

Also, go get a custom domain for it. When your app gets popular and you do that later, many people have to update their links.