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I can't imagine the horror of battling lobby groups and corporate interests to fix this on a federal scale.
This is a bad idea at best and a red flag at worst. It costs very little to set the paperwork up properly. A sole proprietorship is just that - he owns everything and owes you nothing without some strange contract promising you equity in a business that doesn't exist yet. And if you're going to go through with the hassle and expense of setting up a contract with his sole proprietorship, you may as well just set up a proper entity.

This is such a bad idea that it's not worth talking to a lawyer about. If he won't do it right, don't do it at all.

(The right answer is probably an LLC. They're cheap to set up, flexible, and pretty easy to convert to a C corp should you go the institutional investor route.)
As a female I would say unequivocally YES. I am dying to have someone ask me if I want to play PongVaders with them...
> Adblock does not target a specific site, it hides all the ads.

I don't get this point at all. Why is it more ethical for a user to choose to hide ads indiscriminately than hiding ads on certain sites? Would it resolve your ethical concerns if our software blocked all ads everywhere, like Adblock does, but continued to only add value to Gmail? (The latter is functionally identical to installing both Rapportive and Adblock.)
No, more like "Hey, I've got this game that's sorta like Pong, want to play?" The game requires sitting within a foot or two of each other and using teamwork to steer through the 'physical' parts.

I really don't think this idea is so far fetched, but I'm not exactly Rico Suave, either.
Nowadays, the US repeals voting rights from those who have committed a felony, have a similar name to someone who's committed a felony, or live in the same neighborhood as people who conflict felonies. And who "just happen" to be black.

Civilization has advanced - this is no longer widely accepted - but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen in, say, Florida.
As a counterpoint, cryptographers (including Rivest of _R_SA fame) are quite interested in voting. Of course, they generally don't trust the machines at all...
It's the ultimate quality control.... If you aren't willing to learn objective-C then you were likely not working on a worthwhile app.

Same thing if you already know objective c but are unwilling to develop in it.

Of course this is a side benefit, the realvreason was to keep flash crap off of the platform, so that apple wouldn't be hostage to adobe again.
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I will. Steve Jobs had Wozniak partnership , without him he would be not what he is today, he wouldn't had the experience he has(he started very young), either the money and fame. He wouldn't had the opportunity to work with(and learn) from extraordinary people he has.

It was a symbiosis because odds are that Woz without Jobs will not be in a very good position. Jobs is an extraordinary seller(distortion field).

So yes, if I find a young Jobs without training and even more if it has no employees is at least -$200,000.
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Agreed. This protein DOES exist in the body, DOES destroy viruses, and now protects monkeys. That does sound significant.
Your motivation for this thread should be pointed out, for those that are taking this perhaps more seriously than it should be: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627749.

At any rate, you're a less productive amichail, which is saying something. Find something that will knock you down a few pegs, do it several more times, and try to acknowledge that your tongue does not rival Midas.

To reiterate: between the language barrier and your somewhat tumultuous thoughts, your message does not always come across as you intend it to. When your message is transmitted with full fidelity, you often still do not have any substance. You possess such an abysmal signal to noise ratio that it is laughable that you find yourself questioning the quality with HN.
Any city that's learned to grow vertically would disagree with you. If you thought real-estate was expensive in New York now....
So, I'm going to say that, yes, I really could retire and not work again with a $5-10M payout.

I calculated some time ago that ~$4M would be enough for me to never think about money again. I could do anything that I wanted to do for the rest of my life. A key point, of course, is that I could do anything that I wanted to do--I don't want a Maserati or my own private jet or any of the other customary extravagances of the idle rich.

I'd say that most people who couldn't retire on $4M would not be able to retire on ten times that amount--you could give them $1M a year and they'd find a way to squander it. It's amazingly easy to spend money if you have expensive tastes.
We had a mixed-gender development team and tested extensively at parties. People like to pass the game around and show it off, and it's not so intense that you can't talk while playing it. And even if you don't use PongVaders as an intro, it provides a shared context which makes meeting new people easier.
It comes down to trust, because legally, I don't think your bases would be covered. I'm in a similar situation, working as a consultant. But I've known the CEO for several years and trust him. We are in the final phases of adjusting the LLC and giving me shares. I've been willing to defer this for a while since there is a decent amount of costs involved setting this up correctly so I don't get taxed on the shares.

Come to think of that, this could be a serious issue for you. Lets say that everything goes smoothly and you do get funding. At this point you get shares, you will have a taxable event based on the value of those shares. This is true even if you are never able to sale the shares. You still owe taxes on them. If you get your shares now, the valuation of the company will be much less than later and therefore the tax you owe will be much less.

If you don't trust this guy a lot, I'd push to get it set up correctly. Or at the minimum have a lawyer draft up an agreement and talk with an accountant to figure out the tax implications of this.
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I have invested months confident that my app wouldn't be rejected for a stupid reason, and i was right.

Still not aware of any apps rejected for stupid reasons. However there ares a lot of stupid reasons spread as misinformation to make people think apple is urneqsosnable in their review process.

Apple is pretty reasonable, even in this situation here.
The reason for refunds in the hosting business is not to compensate the buyer for any loss of business they might suffer if their site goes down (this will probably be many times what the service provider would make from the account); it's to tie the failure of the buyer's systems to something the service provider would self-evidently prefer to avoid.

Service providers could also signal their reliability by offering "loss of business" insurance at low premiums. If a service provider will pay you $10,000/day in the event that your site is unavailable, and the premium on this insurance is $5/month, it's pretty likely that they're not expecting to have to pay this out very often.

(Royal Mail offers fairly cheap loss/damage insurance, which is a good sign their service is reliable. Not sure about DHL/Fedex.)
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> What stopped rapportive from simply inserting their box in the dom in a way that they did not have to remove a revenue driver from the thing they are building their base on?

Oh come on, does anyone miss that box? it was a total waste of space, no one [1] clicked those adverts.

> If google would do something like this to a YC company we'd be nailing them to the highest tree.

To be honest this is the ~3rd post on Hacker News about Rapportive, and lots of the comments have been pretty negative. I think this is more a case of supporting a startup being innovative (and loved), rather than due to their background being YC.

The main rebuttal to your argument is that Rapportive have offered an application in the GMail market place that inserts content where Google wants it to go. They don't replace adverts in the Marketplace version.

I think Rapportive simply looked at GMail, thought where redundant space was - which was obviously the adverts - and put value there. Then, Google offered their gadgets stuff and Rapportive offer that as a solution too.

We can debate if this was evil or not evil of Rapportive to execute upon till the cows come home, but at the end of the day they've got into YC, they've raised a ton of money, they've delighted users, so who cares whose feathers they ruffle. You're in business, you're at war, you are not a not-for-profit (semi ironic accidental double negative?) peace loving nerd.

[1]: Sample size = 1 = me. I never clicked them, they were a joke. Adverts in email is dumb.
At the risk of being down-voted, does anyone else see the irony in that comment?
So true! I've also discovered for myself that keeping a one-page document, serving as red thread makes everything so much easier.

However at some point I wasn't satisfied with the options a regular REAMDE offers. I wanted to write such a document in a declarative style and eliminate the limitation of having just HTML as an output format. Luckily a friend of mine is working on a parser that reads markup (using as much natural language as possibe, inspired by Markdown et. al) and turns it into a data representation (JSON) rather than pre-rendered HTML.

Straight talking: I'm using it for documenting Unveil.js (http://github.com/michael/unveil), a graphic library sitting on top of HTML5 Canvas. It just turns this (http://github.com/michael/unveil/blob/master/index.ndg) into this (http://docs.quasipartikel.at/documents/unveil). The goal is to use it for on-the-fly documentation generation (along with sourcecode, or for regular documents), without the need for statically rendered HTML files.

Here's the (on-the-fly) rendered version: http://docs.quasipartikel.at/#/unveil

It's all at an early stage, but I'd love to have some discussion about such data-driven documentation. :)

-- Michael
There was a ridiculous downgrade in credit quality to facilitate that build out of McMansions over the last 10 years . A better analysis of how much real income and how much purchasing power per sq foot of home would have to take in credit quality/debt into account over time to be anywhere near informative. Secondly, increasing energy prices are not purported, they are real: http://www.eia.doe.gov/EMEU/steo/realprices/index.cfm

Real income analysis would require more time than I'm willing to commit right now.
I'm not sure if what I've written so far didn't get the point across how I will be able to do so with more words, but I'll give it a try.

Targeting a large website to launch your product off is a fine strategy, you benefit from the existing userbase. That should be 'profit' enough for anybody, there is no need to kick them in the teeth by affecting their bottom line in a negative way, especially if you don't absolutely have to.

Those users that did not want to see those ads already had the option to install adblock, so by doing this you are not adding anything that wasn't on the table before, only now you and not the user has taken the decision to block those ads.

It's either rapportive, or ads, but never both and that should have been the default.

Clearer now?

I think this whole ad-replacement gig is a blemish on an otherwise very nicely conceived and executed product.
They have done this, I believe the official name is gadgets. They are available now.
just think back to why you played flipcup in college...
There's an API to make the twitter link fetching possible. Was curious how people might use it, think there are lots of posibilities. API is very very simple, just 1 RESTful controller. Hope there will be someone who can come up with a cool application that makes use of it.

http://prldr.com/pages/api.html
W Hotels sells their beds through their website, and frequently have "employee only" deals (40-60% off) that become publicly available so often you would think it must be intentional. I bought their "The W Bed" queen set (box spring + mattress) for $705 about 4 years ago that way, and love it. I seem to recall reading somewhere else that it may be a rebranded Simmons Beautyrest, if that helps. As you point out, getting a great mattress and chair is well worth the initial cost.
This is true! Instead I'm looking for a scenario where I wouldn't have to retire
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"old bloated system"

You mean the same one that google uses for, amongst other things, to measure authority?

I am fine with kicking the old system into oblivion. I am not fine with doing so before suggesting a new system however. I simply do not see how, in this chaotic internet where everyone has an opinion and is able to communicate it to the entire world, we can differentiate between objective solid stuff, and mere speculation.

If we are for freedom, then lets us have such freedom. Let us not frown at wikileaks if they publish deep and damaging secrets, let us not be defensive when our own content is concerned and copied, let us so too resist any attempts of the real law, say the law of defamation to apply to the internet, let us be cool with bittorrent and the way it distributes freely our content.

If that is the internet we wish, then fine, let us be the pioneers and disrupt all older notions.

If the above is extreme however, then let us be impartial and judge where the line ought to be not from a selfish perspective, not from an emotional or ideological perspective, but from a rational, detached, without favour or fear perspective.

That is the choice of our generation, but I submit, we can have only one of them. We can not be hypocrites when our own interests are concerned and guard them ferociously, yet fight to undermine the interests of others.
Sorry, one more note:

> Spending 10's of thousands a month is getting up there, but "blowing through" more than $4k per month isn't necessarily an extravagant lifestyle

I don't believe I ever said it was. In fact, I called $4K/mo a "restrained budget". Meaning I would need to pay attention to my spending and not indulge in all the discretionary activities I might like.
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In Finland (legislation and society modeled from Germany), you are not allowed to acquire personal information from third parties, like internet in general, without applicant's consent.

Only the information provided by the candidate and his/her criminal and credit records (if applicable - mostly not) can be searched without explicit permission.

Proving foul play is of course nearly impossible.

Examples:

* Internet search results as a basis of decision on recruiting is illegal if there is no permission from the candidate

* Facebook profile picture is "unnecessary personal information in relation to employment" no matter what the job might be

* You are not allowed to use unnecessary personal information like the Facebook profile picture even if the candidate gives a permission

This legislation is based on a belief that an employee should know what kind of personal information about him/her is being gathered.
Employer is required to notify employee/candidate about the intent on acquiring personal information from external source. Second notification is needed before using the sourced data as a basis of decision making on the candidate.

Personal Data Act (523/1999):
http://www.tietosuoja.fi/uploads/hopxtvf.HTM

The Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman:
http://www.tietosuoja.fi/27305.htm
A ton of people request this. We're working on it.
First of all, congratulations to Koduco, this looks great, and I mean absolutely no offense to them or YC by this post.

But... this is really getting old. It seems like EVERY SINGLE YC startup is being featured on Techcrunch. How many iPhone/iPad games companies are there? Thousands. Besides bringing some level of innovation in there, I don't see anything special about this one, besides being a YC company. Yes, the games look cool.. but in the end, it's just another company doing games.

I'm trying really hard to find another reason this got featured on Techrunch besides being a YC company, and I can't. Would they get featured on TC if they weren't funded by YC? I think that's a resounding "no". It's impossible to take TC seriously anymore.
I hear Costco has great deals on mattresses for around that price. I spent more than that because of the whole 1/3rd of your life argument.
I just spent three months researching mattresses - including trying out dozens of mattresses in stores - so this LazyWeb question is relevant to me because I know shopping for mattresses is a P.I.T.A. Mattresses are a very personal thing, though, so you may hate what I like...

I tried out everything from the cheapest mattress at Sam's Club to a $30,000 mattress. In box-spring mattresses, I liked the Vera Wang series from Serta...but that is way above your price range. (It isn't their highest-end line, but it is one their premium ones.) You definitely don't want a continuous spring mattress, which is what many of the box-spring ones are in your price range, unfortunately.

We tried several natural latex mattresses and hated them, so I was leery of trying a completely memory-foam one, but my online research said that memory-foam mattresses had the highest customer satisfaction ratings.

I ended up buying a memory-foam mattress from BedInABox that is actually better than the $4000 Tempur-Pedics I tried. I paid $7XX or so, but that was for a California King. I think you could find a smaller one for $500. They shipped the 11" thick mattress to my door, shrink-wrapped in a box. My wife also loves it...it is the first mattress we both actually like in our 12 years of marriage. I think it has all the upsides of the Tempur-Pedics, but none of the downsides (it's cheaper, the foam rebounds faster, and it doesn't get hot, etc.)
>Furthermore, we might have to delay the request for mic/camera access as it could scare people away (other have pointed this out as well).

Please do this. I am quite positive that I denied access the first time, but it still displayed the video feed for some reason. That's not important, but you feel monitored when that happens, and if people are having a "bad hair day", the change in mood is associated with the site.
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He mentioned in passing that writing a typical README requires just the right amount of planning upfront. It was tangential to his main point, about documentation, but I think it's a good observation.

It avoids both planning extremes: writing an incredibly detailed spec upfront without any feedback from prototyping (waterfall), and diving in without any planning and expecting tests to magically do your design for you (naive TDD).

It's good to having an articulate summary of your project, but for planning, the README is just a prop. It could just as well be "whiteboard-driven design" or whatever.
My Google-fu is failing me at the moment. It was from an absolutely fascinating article that suggested that the middle-class arose because of downward social mobility in post-Plague Europe. With the serfs mostly killed off by Black Death, the 3rds and 4th sons of the nobility typically couldn't support a feudal household, and so they had to take jobs as merchants or artisans in the emerging market economies. Along the way, they brought with them some of the values of the nobility (most notably, not having kids until they could support the lifestyle they were accustomed to as children), which allowed Europe to escape the Malthusian trap of the Dark Ages.

IIRC, the genealogical records (of most present-day Europeans and Americans being descended from the nobility) was presented as fact, but the causal link with the rise of the middle class was more tenuous.

I'll look again after I've gotten some actual work for $realjob done.
> Why should there be grant money set aside to cover peer review? Just ask yourself honestly and try to be unbiased, is that not a very selfish proposition?

Why should there be grant money set aside to cover research?

I don't think I'm alone in finding that it's frustrating to have tax payer funded research be hidden behind paywalls that other tax payer funded institutions can access but the general public cannot. We're paying for both sides and not getting the goods.
Is he going to write a blog post about his co-founder's obsessive attention to titles?

On a more serious note he needs to do a bit of tweaking with the contrast - the thin pale grey text doesn't stand out well against a white background on my monitor and the tagline below the logo is virtually unreadable.

FWIW I also think slide 8 is a cleaner design than the current iteration - the logo in the finished version looks a bit squashed and I think the left hand menu is more distracting than it needs to be.
The collaborative, physical style of gameplay seemed unique to me. I think it's an innovation in this space that is definitely worth a writeup on TC, YC-funded or not.
The comments there have reaffirmed my liking of Hacker News.
Yes, it does say tax cuts are part of the problem but that's very different from a blanket statement that "tax cuts for the rich don't help the poor". More importantly, the article is mostly about how charitable giving is different for rich and poor. Hence the original title was perfect and the HN title was poor at best.
15x speedup. What is the bottleneck that it's taking > 15x longer for it to do this task than a human?
Do you then mean that affiliate ads are not quite suitable for an informative website and do not quite compare or supplement adsense. I suppose I mean to ask, do you mean affiliate ads are fundamentally different from adsense, in the way that say walking and driving a car are different.
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Right. So affiliate marketing is on a completely different level to adsense.

What I have been doing is use affiliate links no different than adsense, that is find 250 by 250 image links and put them on some location on my website.

I gather that I have been doing it all wrong and affiliate advertising is fundamentally different from say adsense.
Exponential curves indeed can't continue indefinitely.

At the same, most of the reasoning about the future by even intelligent people still tends to involve linear extrapolation rather than exponential extrapolation - that's what makes sense to us. Thus it's more likely for a standard prediction is go wrong in the direction of the exponential trends continuing rather than in the direction of the trends stopping.

Moreover, one or another exponential trends might stop but the overall mine that Moore's Law comes out of, miniaturization, is not going to be exhausted at least until human construction reaches the nano scale.
Hm, yeah in music there aren't any rules, putting a 'real' musician to give her opinion should be considered a just for fun thing.
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