skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think you would be better to get the bare minimum product out the door, so you are not burning money while you are in product development. It takes dedication and a lot of nights and weekends, but it really is the best course of action to give yourself the best chances of success, with the funds that you have available.

This way you can dedicate the 18k to marketing once the product is completed. Contrary to the dream stories of everything going just right, not many products go grass roots or viral or whatever we are calling it these days. Many of them require good old fashion marketing to get the word out.

18k still does not give you a whole lot of runway especially if you have rent, electricity, food and the other life necessities. Postpone spending cash as long as possible and when you do make sure that that cash is going into something that will convert back into revenue.

If you don't understand marketing, start learning about it now. Buy some books read some blogs of industry leaders. You will have to become an effective marketer if you want your product to succeed. Contrary to popular belief even some great products don't sell themselves and require good marketing.
Even death is subject to redundant engineering

Death may be, but shareholder opinion isn't.

No matter how thoroughly Steve Jobs engineers his own departure, the stock will still tank the day he leaves.
Well, in a startup, you have, by definition, very little redundancy. I think it's a valid question.
Maybe you're comparing apples to oranges? It's pretty easy/cheap to set up a LLC in most US states on line.
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Monthly expenses - basic stuff like food, shelter and public transportation shouldn't exceed $1000 per person. But it's inflating twice the speed of EU.

Average monthly wage for a programmer was last reported to be $2600, but I don't know if it was before or after tax.
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"within 90 to 120 days"

Maybe this tactic has something to do with product life cycle though I can't think what. Surely a phone has a longer shelf life than 3 months . .
That is the key thing. I think perseverance is important, but perseverance through iteration. How long would you give a new web startup to reach 1,000 users? 10,000 users? before you considered it a failure or necessary to quit.
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Indeed. To further show the pointlessness of this kind of cheating, achievements are not available in single player mode, but only on battle.net (apart from the campaign-related ones).
Haha.

Or they could have just listened to the first WTC bombing trial where the prosecution made up the name "Al Queda" so they could charge Osama bin Laden In absentia under the RICO laws.
You mean that you shouldnt use your own money?
vomit. Either I am far, far ahead of the curve, or the NYTimes needs new technology reporters. The worst parts of Evercookie or Panopticlick have nothing to do with HTML5 technologies. Have you ever tried to clear the etag cache, Flash cookies, or have any non-standard fonts installed? Or ever updated anything web related on your computer? The golden age of web tracking is already upon us, and its name is not HTML5.
Lately, the window of time for which a new Android phone remains the new hotness is one or two weeks. Sometimes no time at all, as a better phone will be released before another has even made it to market.
2,000 words to say one sentence. Textbook journalism.
It feels like it actually was common in the 90s, though maybe that's just people I knew. But both techie and non-techie groups I knew in high school had chatrooms that groups of friends would frequently visit and 'hang out' in--- AOL or IRC chatrooms, depending on the circle of friends. It does seem like that sort of thing has gotten less common, though; not sure why.

I do still use IRC for that purpose (not just for large groups filled with people I don't know irl), but admittedly it's mostly with more-technical groups of friends these days. It doesn't seem that commonly using AOL-style chatrooms to chat with rl friends is as common among 'normal' people as it was in the AOL days.
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Contract rates (also converted to USD):

noob - $35-45/hr
intermediate - $55-65/hr
experienced - $75+/hr
>They fought communism because they thought communism was a threat to their regimes in specific

Yes. And if we ever have full Anarchy and if it turns out to be as good as some people think I believe people will fight just as aggressively to preserve it as they have to preserve previous systems that weren't even all that great (sometimes downright awful).

>And I think we have a system that can sustainably keep people out of hunger and desperation

Some, but there are a lot of people that are both hungry and desperate. Further "starting over" isn't strictly necessary. A smaller Anarchist system could be created within the confines of larger existing systems and this has been done to some extent with varying levels of success.
Here's a small estimate of my expenses when I was in college (an year back). I used to live in a small locality opposite a 5 star hotel in South Delhi.

Food = $100 (McDonald's and Domino's everyday)

Rent = $70 (shared with two other classmates)

Internet = $20 to $30

Transport = $20
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>"libertarians seem incapable of winning elections. . . . There are a lot of people you can't sell libertarian politics to."

As soon as I see a Libertarian candidate on the ballot who believes in climate change, they'll have my vote in a heartbeat.
Didn't expect a response from you! All is excellent, except for the fact that I'm east coast now and the mixed game and limit game selection around here is worse than terrible.

Seriously though, I meant what I said about the debt of gratitude. Massive thanks.
Place: Reading, UK

Monthly Expenses:

Rent (two bed apartment) - £750 - £900 per month

Alternative Rent (Studio or shared a bit further out) - £500 - £700 per month.

Internet - £25 per month for 24 Mbit

Health Insurance - N/A (NHS)

Ramen Food and Drink - £5 per day

Eating out (typical place) - £20 per head

Eating out (somewhere nice) - £45 per head
There's no point, other than flag planting.
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Rule of thumb, if you are single, and still want to live a decent good life, you could easily save half of your after tax salary.

eg. if you make 110k a year, after taxes, 401k, health, etc... you are probably bringing about 60-k65k home.

You should be easily saving about 30k a year. If you are in expensive areas like SF, live with roomates, and adjust to it.

If you are an engineer making about 130k a year, you can upgrade to your own one bedroom and still be able to save about 35k -40k a year.

If you are frugal and really good with money, add 10k to those estimates.
Is voting enough, or should we all say "me too"?
For Christchurch, New Zealand, rent is about US$550 p/m for a cheap 1-bedroom house. Everything else is the same as in Auckland.
The "starting a business" rank is definitely not accurate. 34 days on average to start a business? WTF? In fact in israel you can start doing business BEFORE you register it. Just make sure you register it right away, but you can start selling stuff immediately.

When we started our company it only took 1 day. We did pay a lawyer to do the work but the amount was quite low (though I don't remember exactly how much).
I admire your commitment, although I think anyone who can't handle $1000/month shouldn't really consider moving to China. It's easy to have unexpected expenses, and $1.50 a meal is really slumming it. Most Xinjiang places charge at least 10 RMB for a plate of choamianpianr these days.

That said, congrats on starting an official business here. I'd be curious to hear what you're doing and whether you can legally bill in RMB? My contact info is on my profile page.
It's awkwardly or not supported by the IM clients people use, that's why.

On another note, group chat is kind a crappy experience. It only takes 3 people talking for it to become impossible to follow, and the IRC idlers culture is foreign and strange to people.
Call them, and demand that your complaint be escalated. Call back daily until this is fixed. Unlike emails which can be disregarded phone calls cost money to process. This means that the FOSS community can impose a financial cost on non-compliance without going through the courts.

I just got off the phone to HTC Australia, and apparently they'll be getting in touch. If everyone did that ...
> People aren't stupid.

>Everyone know what kind of food to eat, they just don't.

I think the world you're looking for here is "ignorant". They know. Stupid is knowing what to do and still doing the exact opposite. And I point this out as a stupid person (about some things).
I think he meant don't take 2 1/2 year to build up your revenues to the point where you can take a salary.
Does it not only concern natives? Doing business as a native in countries of the Gulf is far more different than doing it as a foreigner (see how to set up a business in Dubai, UAE).

UAE is also high in the ranks, still for me, as I researched, starting up there seemed more complicated and expensive than here in Poland (low in the ranks), except taxes (a PITA around here).
Just to also mention heroku is free too until you use 5MB of database size, which is great for getting it out there, and depending on your type of site 5MB might get you quite a way.
DARPA had two follow-on challenges, a second Grand Challenge in 2005 that five vehicles successfully completed and the 2007 Urban Challenge in which vehicles had to autonomously navigate closed-off urban area, obey traffic rules, merge into traffic and avoid obstacles.

So much of the groundwork for what Google is doing today was already in place three years ago thanks to DARPA. Google's contribution, as far as I can tell, has been to pour more funding into the project and contribute its extensive mapping data and its phenomenal capabilities in collecting and crunching huge datasets.

When fully autonomous road transport does finally become a reality, it'll owe as much for its inception to DARPA, with its innovative X-Prize-style Grand Challenges, as it does to Google. And naturally to all the competing teams who over the course of three DARPA challenges drastically advanced the state of the art and overturned previous assumptions about what was believed possible.

This is a fascinating example of academic research, innovative government funding and long-sighted private funding combining to create something really cool and useful. I hope this sort of thing will continue.
All the solutions posted here seem to involve generating all subsequences. Could you say more about your approach?
I agree with most everything you said, but money does have a time limit in effect. If you hold cash it will become worth less over time. If you invest it your investment may go down.

Some people are buying nothing but garbage (there are whole markets based on selling garbage), but I think right now there are also people trying to move the money they have right now into some other source they trust more. If you try to build a house in Switzerland right now be prepared to wait. A lot of people have emptied their pensions to build houses (they cost a lot in Switzerland) since the crisis hit.
"Schmuck" was changed to "shnook".
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Sorry to disappoint you but Marx doesn't enter in to it. I used to work for a bank and I've seen first hand what goes in to 'product development' there and how much effort is made to hide the cost of lending. To the point where legislators stepped in and outlawed certain products outright and made them disclose the real costs of lending in clear and unambiguous ways.
> Loans and mortgages don't come with hidden costs, either--it's all in the paperwork if you can be arsed to read it or hire a lawyer to read it for you.

Better bring a magnifying glass then. I wasn't exactly joking about the 1 point gray-on-gray text. You'd almost wonder if there is something there that they don't want you to read.
Ever since reading Cryptonomicon in the lat 90s I have wished that something like this would become widely adopted. Alas, as it was with eGold, once a digital alternative currency gets on the radar of the Feds, it will be wiped from the face of the earth. Of course, by that time it will already have been taken over by carders and scammers. Sigh...
I absolutely advocate spending money but spend it smart. Don't buy e.g. a BMW. They cost a lot, are expensive to fix and don't last any longer than a cheaper brand. They are incredibly beautiful (to me anyway) but the value just isn't there. Instead, I would spend it visit another country or buying something that is expensive but either saves money in the long run or lasts a very long time.
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Theoretically speaking, in a future where the world runs itself and all notions of "scarcity" are eliminated by energy, technological, and agricultural abundance, what need would there be for capitalism, let alone money?
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This is slimy beyond reproach. Financial trickery like this should be seen as criminal fraud. It is items like this that make me think that this country could do with some stronger protection laws against consumer targeted financial instruments, and I use financial instrument is the lightest sense because in this case it is not one it is a fraudulent fee sneaked into the title, knowing full well that a consumer that does not work in the industry would know what a private transfer fee is or that it is a residual fee that is required with every transfer.

The financial snake oil in this country has to stop. Denying people their food or defrauding them of their money are two of the quickest was to push a populous to the brink of a revolution. I think that cliff is closer than many of us want to believe. Blatant abuse of people like this adds fuel to the fire of the growing discontent. I fear for the abuse that we allow people to suffer at the hands of the financial institutions, as I see every day it is adding voices to the discourse.

People are becoming radicalized and if anyone is looking for an example of why, here is an example in all of its immoral and predatory glory. These people should be ashamed of themselves, this is thievery whether technically legal or not. So now not only do we have to content with phone crammers tacking charges onto our phone bills but we also have to content with title crammers tacking recurring payments onto out titles. This madness has to end, people need to work for their money.
That's one very cool thing to have been doing, half the world is watching this, really neat to see you have played a part in it.

Mining technology (and off-shore stuff) is very impressive. I lived near a very large open pit mine in Germany and the gear they had there was the most impressive machinery I've ever seen.
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Am I allowed to do? I want to php-curl the site: results for each post.

I wonder, If it is allowed why don't we have a wordpress related post plugin which uses this API?
That puts the term 'mother earth' in a completely new perspective.
What you write is totally different from what article says. That article states that Blizzard also bans people who plays offline/single player games, I'm sure everyone is fine with banning online cheaters.
One of the things that strikes me as odd is the personal obligation leaders feel to their companies as they prepare to die. In some ways it's understandable since they've invested a huge amount of personal energy into their work, but in a different way it shows that there is little separation between their personal and work life.

I couldn't believe it when my cousin (a CTO of a large company) was dying of multiple meyloma -- he actually was working from his hospital bed until a few weeks before he got an infection and died. That's probably exactly what he wanted, so godspeed. But, seeing that was enough to make me quit my job and try to keep things in perspective. Your customers and colleagues are can be extremely close and valuable, but your family and life you only get once.
Which is surprising how? Android's aim has always been to be open for manufacturers and providers. The user-wise openness is an implementation detail and may or may not be there.

And the more time passes, the better manufacturers and carriers get acquainted with the platform, the least common Android devices will be open as far as the user is concerned.
Clojure pretty much breaks all these old Lisp flame wars. Summing integers 1-10 is, incidentally, (sum (range 1 10)).
Never heard anyone sells offline cheat for money? Care for an example if such a thing ever happened?
> what qualifies as a "business"

One would hope that it would be a "real", limited liability company of some kind, that exists as a legal entity separate from that of its owners.

(Edit: I mean in terms of the survey, not that people without limited liability companies aren't "real" businesses)
What I don't understand is why phone manufactures are even worried about rooting. If it's about service and warranty, they can simply make it clear that replacing the OS voids the warranty and they won't provide service for the phone.

Besides warranty and service costs, what else are they so worried about that they feel it necessary to add these protection measures?

Surely the percent of customers that root/mod a phone is so small that it's not worth the man-power and engineering to try to "fix" the problem. It seems there must be some other concern they are trying to resolve that escapes me.
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To be fair he gets plenty of that here, so for that he doesn't need a co-founder.
BTW, I think the verb you're after is "own up (to)". I agree with your post though.
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Very Interesting Stuff.

I can see the evaporative cooling happening in HN itself over the last year or so.

Also, puts in perspective the correlation between the success of Yahoo Answers and their reputation system.
Most advocates of saving that I’ve seen in mainstream media are interested foremost in personal finance, not anti-consumerism. To them, the problem isn't that people enjoy spending money. On the contrary, they want to help people spend their money in a way that maximizes the amount of enjoyment derived. Writers like Stanley know that spending a lot of money early in your working life is rarely a way to maximize enjoyment.

What a lot of people don’t realise is that “short-term pleasures” cost a lot more when you’re older. In your 20s and 30s, you don’t need much more than a computer and a bicycle to be perfectly content. You have lots of energy to work, study, take cheap outdoorsy vacations, and cut your own lawn. But at some point, you start to find those things significantly more wearisome. That’s when it’s really nice to have the financial freedom to quit your job, eat in good restaurants, and outsource all of your home maintenance. By far the majority of people won’t achieve that level of financial freedom unless they defer a large proportion of their income from the first half of their career to the second half and to retirement.

Evidently, many people must overcome significant psychological obstacles to save their money. That’s why there are so many personal finance books trying to explain the same idea in different ways. Some emphasize the time value of money. Others, how expenses tend to increase over one’s lifetime. Stanley tries to reduce the urge to spend by showing that many big spenders are not actually rich or financially secure. The success of “The Millionaire Next Door” seems to be evidence that a lot of people find this approach helpful.
Prague

Rent: Centre of town is expensive by any standard because much of the property is for tourist use of owned by expats. It drops quickly as you move away from pretty bits (check out Zizkov or Andel) €500-2500 for two bed.

Bills: €30 internet.

Travel: €200 annual travel card, singles about €1.

Going out: Carnivorous? You're in luck. €4 will purchase an enormous hearty meal and 0.5l beer in a local pub. If you want to hand out with the beautiful people, you'll pay for the privilege.

Other:

Flat-rate tax! 19% corp and 15% income.

The government is working hard to make Czech a business-friendly place but expect to spend hours in queues unless you pay lawyer to take care of it for you.

Strong engineering and hacker culture. Great python and ruby communities.

HTH
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Having the first round post-YC funding, trigger the conversion. That way, the sweetner is that if I am accepted, and it so happens that the w11 rounds are anything like S10 (i.e. largely convertible notes), then it works out better for them then because they would be converting to equity while the later stage investors are just getting their notes.

I was trying to avoid running up large legal bills, for the amount considered.

The investor can be considered 'friends and family'. I was thinking that maybe we do up a general agreement on some terms - i.e. everything that a 'standard convertible note' would have with a few tweaks. Then if I am accepted into YC, I then formalize it then - with the documentation that you guys have.

Would that suffice, or would you still want me to do everything with an attorney first?

As an aside, I am not in the US - so doing the official legal documentation and incorporating up there might be more tricky, if I were to do everything on my own (which is why I was thinking of a general agreement with acceptable terms on both sides - with specifics to be hashed out later upon incorporation).
Mining equipment is very fun and generally huge. What I am sure most people don't realise is the amount of safety is built into any design constructed (especially here in Australia). There are safety factors upon safety factors upon safety factors included before anything is built.

I am currently managing the design and construction of new infrastructure at a massive open pit mine in Australia. The shear magnitude of earth moving is unbelievable.

Hear is an interesting fact I am sure will surprise most:
Most gold mines have ore grades of about 5-7g/Tonne.

That is 5g of gold for every 1 tonne of rock pulled out of the ground. Doesnt sound like much, but when a CAT 793C dumptruck is loaded with about 250T and the current gold price is as high as it is, you will see why even at 5g/Tonnes it is VERY profitable.

Mining is all about efficiency, and optimising how much ore comes out of the ground. If you can get just 1 more dump truck per day, at today's gold price that equates to about $18million in revenue per year.

If any entrepreneurs are looking for a market full of money, check out the gold miners. ;)

edit: formatting.
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The next question: Why?

(To clarify: I mean, "why do you care what the bits are set to".)
I would probably give you a weird look for [1], though.
After I read this, I submitted a new enhancement request to Apple citing my reasons for needing this feature and pointing them to Marco's blog post for specific examples. Please do the same if you need this feature!