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Where to find co-founding developers?
I'm a business & marketing person with a great idea for a start-up. It literally has HUGE potential in an area that is growing.

However, I'm not a hacker, programmer, developer or whatever else a tech person is called.

So, I'm reaching out to all of you in this community and hoping you can provide me with some direction.

Take away my circle of friends... where else would you advise I look for a skilled, reliable, co-founder? Or at the very least, someone who could assist in creating a basic prototype?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Same for table tips - the owner gets no additional money if I tip the waitress well for attentiveness and competence above and beyond the standard for that class of restaurant.

Look at it this way - the owner has X tables and Y seatings per evening. Let's say P is the number of people who want tables, R is people with reservations, and S is the number of people who show up looking for a spare table. So long as S > XY-R (which implies P > XY), the manner in which customers are selected from S doesn't really matter that much[1].

In fact, "willing and able to tip hostess" is not a bad customer differentiator - the subset of customers who are willing to pay for a seat are more likely to be willing to spend big bucks on the meal and are more likely to be in a hurry (possibly letting you turn that table an extra time if you're lucky). It's only really a problem for the owner if the hostess is ignoring more clear signals that the guy's a big spender.

[1] - Since Most Valuable Customers likely have reservations or would get preferential treatment without tipping the hostess.
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I have my students do this, from middle-schoolers who are just learning the language to high-schoolers in advanced placement English classes. Reading your own writing aloud works wonders, so long as you're willing to edit mercilessly while reading aloud.
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“I’m not the first person to do this,” said Davies.
“And I don’t think it’s just McDonald’s.”

She's right, but probably not in the way she meant it. I get my rolls from a bakery here in Germany, and if I can't eat them I just leave them in the bread box, they turn hard, then you crumble it and use it for dumplings.
I'm sure it'll fill out with time and probably be on par with things like last.fm but maybe in a more mainstream way.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to sign up as an artist... A 4+ week wait time registering for iTunes Connect as an independent artist seems to be the only thing I can find, which is really bad if that's the case.
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It scales inside YC (which I have no problem with). If Matt didn't have the connection, he'd still be screwed. I think it's a great move on YC's part, but it doesn't change the fact that Matt was just a normal guy who didn't have many options until the YC connection became available. Overall, the system is pretty scary if you're on the outside looking in.
Yours was probably just submitted at an unfortunate time with little user activity from the Americas.
and western union it to you? What is hacker new becoming? Craigslist?
Nothing works for everyone and every situation. If you were a brain surgeon, for example, you'd truly be in a situation where you couldn't drop everything to take a call, not matter how important. Your example of your wife is also a good one. But most of us don't have that kind of circumstance. Most people could prioritize thier families above everyone else, but choose not to.

For myself, I'm not a lawyer or a surgeon, just an IT guy, but I'm proud to say I have walked out of meetings to answer a call from my wife.
It's based on fully logically serializing all transactions, therefore it cannot tolerate partitions.
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Here's a couple of lines to let you use this with :make (on a single file) and the QuickFix window in Vim:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js set makeprg=gjslint\ %
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js set errorformat=%-P-----\ FILE\ \ :\ \ %f\ -----,Line\ %l\\,\ E:%n:\ %m,%-Q,%-GFound\ %s,%-GSome\ %s,%-Gfixjsstyle%s,%-Gscript\ can\ %s,%-G

If any experts in Vim's makeprg/errorformat want to clean this up, that would be awesome. I just hacked it together and it seems to work well enough.
Everyone knows Airwolf is faster.
The best editor is one who is insightful, constructive, and absolutely merciless toward your writing.

Your responsibility as a writer is to your reader; give them the clearest and most direct path to follow that you can (via the most accessible language you can wrangle) and then populate that path with compelling people, scenes, and ideas.

No one (except Faulkner) criticizes Hemingway on the basis of "his sentences are too short".
Fair point -- but you'd think Winer would have enough experience to allow his apps to fail gracefully.

Printing out ugly error messages complete with file system paths in html is definitely a pants-dropping kind of move.
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The creators of the Fedora repository software are playing the world's tiniest violin for these guys, I'm sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(software)#Trademark_dis...
I just signed up at your site. Initial impression: it looks good and works well, though I'm wondering if dododo's comment about competition with last.fm might be right. Can you write some more about the story behind the site? How big & who is the team, what did you build the infrastructure on, that sort of thing. Also, are you working on Android/iPhone clients?
In response, I simply lean over and gently light your strawman on fire.
Really? The 160 GB iPod Classic was introduced Sept 2007. It seems like the technology should exist to at least have 500 GB at that form factor (though maybe the demand doesn't exist).
They're fluctuations in the vacuum in a naive sense but in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) I recall we considered the vacuum to be basically a soup of particle-antip pairs; in Bekstein-Hawking radiation one considers either that the antip falls in from the area of the event horizon or that the particle tunnels out from inside the horizon - I can't really do the full evidence bit, that's just standard physics though.

Indeed, I'm rather out of the loop now, but I don't think there's experimental evidence to support Hawking radiation yet and that there's an alteration that is more predictive in some way.

In ex nihilo creation the vacuum itself (I know!) is being created, the space into which the stuff sits, the energy in fields pervading the space, the unseen dimensions (total dimensions is 10 in superstring theory, 11 in brane, IIRC) and, along with that vacuum, time is created too.

Indeed taking a standard physics approach it's hard to see how you can model change before time exists as something that doesn't exist can't change and if time isn't changing then within our physics nothing else is. Creation of the human-perceived time dimension seems to require another time like dimension if it's to be modelled in some type of meta-physics (by which I don't mean the philosophical discipline).
Same thing that makes you one, brother. 1000 reputation points and the equivalent of $10k in otherwise billable hours squandered on this site.
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I don't think that question can be answered. First you would have to define what you mean by "believe that God created the universe" and then "what you mean by believe in aliens".

In addition, I don't see how the two belies are orthogonal.
If anybody is interested in finding a coworking space nearby, here's a wiki that has a pretty comprehensive list of coworking spaces around the world:

http://coworking.pbworks.com/Directory
All in one page so you don't have to click "Next" 5 times to read this short article:

http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/09/06/Interview-George-Kurtz-Mc...
It is unfortunate that Apple is held as the inventor of the genre. What we're really talking about are networked PMPs, and Apple might have the biggest mindshare, but they certainly didn't invent the genre: Archos blazed a trail that Apple followed.

I have young children, and occasionally one or all of them insist that I stay with them until they fall asleep. I've used smartphones to consume media and web pages in such circumstances, yet the obvious thought is "Wouldn't it be great if this were bigger?" (especially when interacting with dense web pages where you don't want to lose context by zooming). That is the purpose of devices like this, for all of those people who always say "But it's too big for my pocket!"
"The popular iPod Touch media player has been revamped at three price points, $229, $299, and $399—all costing more than the iPhone, which does everything the Touch can plus make phone calls. What gives?"

What gives is that some people, parents with kids being the prime category, want to buy an iPhone for their kids without the phone calling and the $2400 2-year commitment. Was that really that hard to figure out?
Well, I didn't make a comparison study between the two articles but I just read the first ones on Pinochet that you said were "very negative" (Military coup of 1973 and U.S. Backing of the Coup) and they don't seem negative to me at all, pretty mild if you ask me. This overthrowing of a government would be the equivalent of Castro's revolution so I don't get your point sorry.
What I was always missing from recipe apps/sites/etc for amateurs is "what if something goes wrong" intructions. Maybe it's just me who's too unexperienced or simply incompetent but I reguralry make mistakes such as undercooking the potatoes, forget to salt something, things like that. Obviously, an experienced chef usually has a few ideas how to sort out such issues. I think if this chart app had such "failback measure hints", that would be great.
When daddy eventually goes back to work he probably won't feel so blissful about paying Swedish taxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden
When I see a building, I know there was a creator. When I see the complexity of life, I know there's a creator. But you are all smarter than me, so you will downvote this bigtime. I DON'T CARE!

EDIT: Ok, maybe I care a little, but the truth must be spoken.
Is there any way to show that aliens haven't played an active role in life on Earth though? We consider terra-forming (there was a story about Darwin doing something akin to it on Ascension Is. IIRC) as a natural way we could extend our reach to other planets. If there is intelligent alien life, or was, could it not have terraformed our planet.

> Interesting parallels to various theologies and running start theories go here <.
> A feature to add/edit your own recipes in the software would make this killer.

This was in my mind since the start, but we just wanted to get something out quickly to see how people like the idea. As reception seems pretty positive, I'll be working hard to develop the app further.
just got this few minutes ago. But I think my email management is pretty good so don't think I will gaining much if anything from it.
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There has been some talk recently about voting rings and how to combat them. As an experiment I think it would be interesting to hide the submitter of the article or waiting until after you have voted on it to display the name of the submitter.
I'll talk to you, email if you want, email is in my profile. (I am a programmer)
Do you mean more massive than a normal helicopter? Why? The article seems to state that the newly available technologies made their new helicopter lighter than before.
While the Sikorsky X2 might have some niche uses rescue missions probably aren't one of them. It's tiny. A tiltrotor[1] aircraft like the V-22 Osprey seems a much better fit if you need to get there fast and do something meaningful like rescue work.

1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tiltrotor
I guess you get what you pay for - higher taxes, great welfare state. Seems a fair trade to me.
While interesting, this is a puff piece written by the designers of the helicopter at Sikorsky.
I think the idea is fantastic and your design is lovely.

Just one bit of criticism : I think you really could use a better logo on the website. It's quite hard to read and seems a bit uninspired compared to the awesome app design.

I wish you success with this great idea and execution.
I worked with a guy that got into buying and selling Beanie Babies right as that "bubble" burst. At least he didn't take out a second mortgage just to buy them.
I've never heard any of my colleagues in Sweden complain about their tax levels. I've been to Sweden a number of times and it seems like a rather civilized place to me.
Well, most of that is solved by conceding equity rather than hiring an employee. Two people can realistically, if pushed really hard, produce something that can succeed. A part time lawyer...Are you doing something involving other peoples money? Designers are cheap on a contract basis, usually available for less than $5k, as long as you are fine with diving in and filling the actual gaps, starting all the CSS yourself, etc. Let the designer do just that, design, and if you are OK with an image of a good design rather than a fully implemented HTML/CSS layout, you can get by with MUCH less than $5k. Finally, our colocated machine is a mere $50 a month. Granted, it's on our own hardware ($2000 split between my other founder and myself), but it would have been less than $70 a month for dedicated leased hardware.

There are many options, depending on the type of business you are starting. I'd argue that some of the best heavily involve the founder(s), rather than farming out to other people, as it gets the founder(s) intimately familiar with the roles they will be hiring out later.
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Lisp's simplicity is one of its most interesting features. As far as I know, Lisp is the only language that can achieve such great power while managing to be so simple.

Lisp has staying power.
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>I have often times written stuff, which when I re-read was full of ambiguities.

I find that I try to remove all ambiguities and be extremely precise. This leads me to sub-sub-clauses and lots of parentheses. Usually I have to accept ambiguity in favour of a clear style. I guess it depends on what one is writing about.
"Massively robust" == "very robust"
The charges only applied to downloading the documents, not viewing them in their HTML5 or FlashPaper viewer.
>"The effect on society can be much, much worse than neutral. If it happens enough, all of sudden it's expected and then people will start intentionally delaying service/making it difficult unless you pay them. (for reference, see any country with petty corruption/bribery problems)"

A mitigating factor is that restaurant owners/managers will only tolerate this behavior from their employees when customer demand exceeds seating supply. If a hostess has an empty table and refuses to seat a party until they bribe her, she will be fired.

>"What's the difference between this and say slipping the building inspector a hundred dollars to "not have any problems"?"

The hostess's job depends on allocating scarce tables to customers with no good indicators of customer quality. The inspector's job is to only certify safe buildings, and he has loads of indicators to make that determination, and the certificates are not scarce.

That said, I don't see what's wrong with a system where you can pay to short-circuit some slowdowns. It would be worth $20 to me to go from a half-day's wait at the DMV to a 30-minute wait, and I'm sure there are parties willing to pay tens of thousands to put their building plans at the top of the pile (without circumventing any inspections or anything, just getting the next available inspection). The downside to this is that, while it raises revenue, it detracts from government's duty to serve all citizens equally.
Nice to see some apps coming from Finland. Is there an app developer scene here that I'm unaware of?
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Heh. I see I was down-modded, which wasn't very surprising. I was trying for exactly the kind of pun/humor that I know HN doesn't appreciate.

ObJokeExplanation: For me, the wording of the title was misleading in a funny way, since helicopters generally don't break speed records while literally on Earth.
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I feel like there's a lesson for the companies operating within the social web here somewhere. I don't know, something like "if your business model is based on making your users happy, don't make crassly commercial usability shifts that make them really unhappy." Can't quite put my finger on it, though.
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If it's so easy, why did you ask the question?
I think the design is clean and simple. As soon as I saw it it just clicked and made sense... leading to the thought 'why aren't all recipes presented like this?'

I would think about allowing users to "import" recipes that would turn them into one of your diagrams. Such that any cooking site out there could embed your diagrams into it.
This is asking for some fairly specific items - curious that no specific suits are named though, instead of the vague reference to the "occasional defense". Seems like they are having trouble in China. I wonder what the real story is.

I haven't researched international trademark law, but here's the registration for the Fedora mark - filed in 2003, registered in August 2007:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4005:60...
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Things I do:

- Take half a day off and try not to think about your startup for the first few hours

- Go watch a movie

- Go sailing or any other outdoors sport

After a few hours I usually start seeing my problems in a different light. That helps a lot.
> A tablet is ... easier to seize in the heat of the moment

awkward
It is actually 40% bigger than Reddit. http://i.imgur.com/jiHka.png

This was posted yesterday by KeyserSosa ( http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_main... )
I heard my Swedish cousin complain plenty about her tax rates when she came to California (!) for a shopping spree.
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I would also say that the grandparent does little to convince anyone that this policy causes the high taxation in Sweden. It might be, but a snarky comment is not a good argument.
Your real tax rate: 40%
I don't know what you think about YC alumni, but you don't get in by having money or having gone to a good school (though the last never hurt). Our founders were not upper middle class and between the 3 of us had 2 degrees from Akron U. I didn't get the impression that pedigree was a big part of their selection process.
I can't believe people have to actually be told this stuff. I don't know why you'd want to show up and not look/act like a model up-standing citizen.
Thanks for the feedback. Would your feel "compelling" if the website provides you some kind of information for additional information? For example credit or voucher in an ecommerce website. And the additional info is totally optional, meaning you could still use every function of the website without filling in those information.
Learn how to develop. There's no excuse in this age not to empower yourself to participate in one of the greatest entrepreneurial opportunities in the history of business. A developer with good business sense can prototype a product and go to market with little to no cost in a very short amount of time, something that was basically impossible for most people before the internet became popular.

If you look at most of the success stories for internet startups, especially YC funded startups, the cofounders are usually both hackers. You'll have a much harder time finding a co-founder if they're doing all the work and you're handling all the marketing/business/ideas stuff.
I would not mind paying some 15-20 cents for the experience of reading a good article in a single plain page, ad-free - if this was given as an option to tip the writer (as opposed to paywall).

If a mechanism existed to part with those 20 cents without a bigger pain than that of a click.
I can think of a lot of occupation where complete availability during work hours wouldn't be appropriate: police, ambulance, armed forces, serving staff in shops or restaurants, industrial plant operators, pilots, train drivers....

Not that these folks are going to have some times when direct incoming personal calls will be OK - but all the time, no way!
Love how you've visualized cooking as a process. Very well done!
Some of us are heavy sleepers. I often manage to sleep through an alarm that I can hear through a brick wall when awake.
When I roll my family's healthcare and education costs into my tax burden, I'm not seeing anything for a Swedish father to be all that upset about.
There's also a minor personality-cult voting phenomenon at work here. It may just be because some HNers follow the comment threads of high-score or celebrated HNers, but I've noticed some people do get a lot more upvotes for mundane comments than I would expect.

On the other side, there is social aspect - I know a lot of HNers just by their usernames here; knowing a little of the writer's context makes a comment more relevant and interesting.

Perhaps it's worth a short experiment? What if there were a way of identifying within a thread which comments were by the same person?
oooooh, i'm so scared... but excuse me, I've got to make a few 1000 electric sheep so I can get some traffic to my blog...
The real effective tax rate in the U.S., while nowhere near Swedish taxes, is much higher than you might suspect.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/Advice/YourRealTa...
For everybody saying 'I already had this idea, but never did it', bravo. I never had this idea, and of course, never did it, but I highly approve.

Alton Brown would be proud.
I let them make the call (literally). I have a phone secretary (Twilio app). It parcels the day out into ...

and you just got bumped by Mom in the middle of this post...

times when I'm available, sleeping, and busy. If I'm available, it puts the caller through to my house or cell as appropriate. If I'm sleeping, it gently reminds them what time it is in Japan and asks if I should get woken up. If I am at work/etc, it tells them and asks if I should get taken out of whatever I'm doing.

v1.0 of this app was on my blog a long time ago. I've enhanced it a little bit over the last couple of months, but as a tech demo for the phenomenal life-enhancing power of Twilio it still works:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/15/deploying-sinatra-on-ubu...
I agree with you marknutter... to a point.

Although I don't know how long it takes to learn programming... I'd be willing to bet it's not a quick learn. So, would it be wiser for me to find someone to assist in developing a prototype and while that is happening I study and learn some basics.

Or, is it better to delay an idea for months or more while I learn and then struggle through doing it on my own.

Personally I think it makes more sense to find help and learn at the same time. But I completely agree - I do need to learn this stuff, somehow.
The X2 is not a production model, it is an experimental aircraft. According to the article, the technology used in the X2 will eventually be used in production models that will presumably "go fast and do something meaningful." Otherwise nobody would buy them ;)
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