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I think a major value proposition you could offer (eventually) is ratings of tax professionals. More than just rating though. For example, if someone owns several rental properties, certain Tax Preparers specialize in that, whereas most would be out of their element. So a Tagging system might come in handy. You could tag your return with "Real Estate", or "Home office", or "Moved several times", etc. Perhaps, if sanetax has access to the completed returns, this tagging could be automated. Even if not automated, you can easily restrict the tagging/voting to people who actually used the Tax Preparer, thereby mitigating the problem of fake reviews.

The end result is real, reliable information about which Tax Preparers specialize in what I need. That would be awesome.
I got to the badge below Eagle (Life) basically as fast as it was mechanically possible to. I'm not sure when exactly, but by 8th grade at the latest. Then all of my friends dropped out of scouts when we got to high school. I ended up being Senior Patrol Leader and running the troop for a couple of years, and I avoided working on an Eagle project for a while... I had time.

Then at some point I decided I'd rather do something that other kids my age were also doing, so after much hand-wringing I quit Boy Scouts and joined the theater. I ended up being the lead in the school musical senior year, and I sung in choirs all through college. I did light opera. I joined a gospel choir and performed in baptist churches all across the state.

I also developed a deep belief that I could try totally new things that were outside my comfort zone, and excel at them.

I sometimes wonder whether I should've stayed and gotten the Eagle. Finishing things is certainly a weakness of mine. Maybe if I had spent those last two two years of high school hanging around with 13 year olds and building a bridge in the woods I'd be a better finisher. But I'd be a worse artist. And I'd be a more cautious person.

This is the second time I got rejected from YCombinator. And quitting is the furthest thing from my mind. But I'm glad I quit back then.
I didn't really mean code though. I meant content as in it could be anything. That stuff could be code but it might just be a question, or the individual asking for advice on their startup. I'm not a frequent user of Github but it looks to be just for code.
It's just like spam: it's not the one who asks but he who pays...

It's not about the Chinese magically managing to screw everyone: it's about enough people buying these fakes and not coming back with an angry look on their face and a pickaxe in their hands. That's what keeps this scheme profitable.
That does bring up the question: how effective is incognito mode against forensics?
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"porn detection stick"? Most men already have one of those.
Well may be your friends or next year :)
I'm working on exactly this area at Sparkmuse. We're trying to build -the- startup community including all of the related disciplines (hackers, designers, marketers, etc). Although obvious, 4chan has an enormous community which is why they have so much activity. Successfully growing a community to that scale is immensely difficult.

Our community is based on a mission to help tech entrepreneurs succeed. That includes giving feedback on ideas, helping cofounders meet, providing discussion areas, and hooking founders up with good deals. If that is something you find interesting, I'm actively looking for people to join up with us and make it a reality.
Yea, please don't upload until tax agent is finalized and you feel good to go.

Coding point of view, we should have created a wizard kinda flow. Will fix it in next revision. Thanks.
I'm tempted to ask you what's wrong with white people and to call you a racist, but I'm not that sensitive.
I completely agree. I'm in the planning stages of a startup right now and we think we can get investment from family that will match or exceed what Y Combinator offers. To me what I really want isn't so much money as access to people, smart, well-connected, people that can help get things off the ground.

Of course I understand that typically those people want a piece of the pie in exchange for their advice.

In my case, I really need programming (read: technical co-founder) help to get the project started, that's my primary obstacle right now more than money.
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If you told me the idea, I'd say it was needlessly entering an already crowded market, but when you actually see it laid out -- it's fantastic. You have a great concept and a slick presentation. If I ever have multiple people working on one of my projects alongside me, I already know where I'll be looking for this service.

Congratulations on this. I have no doubt that it's going to be big!
Well, the first issue is that there are no large-scale commercial Thorium reactors, which means alot of actual design and running flaws aren't known yet - PWR and BWR designs are an old, tested technology with it's flaws widely known and compesated (even through accidents like TMI).

However the biggest problem with Thorium MSRs is the political issue - MSRs produce Plutionum as a side-effect, which means Thorium power-plants produce nuclear WMD materials while operating. You can't do that with PWR/BWR designs, which is one of the reasons for their popularity - companies can export those reactors without fear of countries using them for WMD production.
I think that good founders will make a good product. The question everyone always hears though is "Where can I find a co-founder?", I'm having that question myself and it sounds like you are too. If that question sounds like something that'd be interesting to answer feel free to give me a call (925)-200-8843, and I mean right now.
"will still be there in twenty years time"

I'm impatient with space exploration and research obviously because the scales involved make it likely that many great achievements won't occur during my lifetime.

So that and your line remind me of:

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
There's offtopic and then there's offtopic.

I think this one is OK -- and personally if I see another article about how awesome or evil or dickish (or whatever) Facebook/Twitter/Microsoft/Google are, or about how shitty News Corp handled Myspace, or simply showbiz/yellow journalism junk (i.e. pictures of Jobs meeting with Schmidt) I think I'm going to puke.

But there's lots of offtopic articles (i.e. not related to startups or hacking) everyday -- complaining about it just adds more noise and is completely pointless.
I had obligations but now I am essentially debt-free outside of a mortgage (not underwater). I have been saving aggressively however I do spend some of it funding my side projects. I've got around 8 months of expenses saved up and hope to get to two years worth within the next 12 months. Without outside investment, that is when I'll hit my personal comfort zone for going after it.

Until then, I'm focused on building the resume and resources I will need in the future. In fact, that is part of the reason I'm working on Sparkmuse. Working a day job and at night can be brutal but I have no regrets.
I think that a good route to go if you get rejected is use this time between now and winter 12 yc batch to charge forwards - it demonstrates fabulous determination and tenacity in the face of rejection.
Ongoing? I can still use the website to delete the host whose host ID is on the flash drive.
Let's cut to the chase. OP is right. cUrl is a shitty way to install software. All these other arguments are peripheral to the central issue, which is simply that cUrl is a shitty way to install software. Reasons have already been given, arguments have already been made, and no difference has been made.

cUrl is a shitty way to install software.
I never understood that. Is there a good reason why everyone have to download 4gb for each XCode and iOS SDK release?
Building a nice looking app for android is really tough, as you say - there's no nice looking builtin widgets and even if they were you couldn't use them to get a consistent experience because of the theming support - your app might still look ugly green on some phones and not others. You have to build lots of stuff from scratch, but paring this with generally poor view drawing performance of the java platform and bugs that are still there - many simply do not bother enough.

I've spent way more time than I've expected to get the tabs working the way I want in my test app on android, effects framework is nice but performance on my 1ghz Desire HD was suboptimal when doing some transitions on top of custom backgrounds.
good poll. no noise about development, app stores, prices...

just select the cancer-giving you carry around most of the time.

even thought missing RIM, Nokia and MS seems bad even for the HN crowd. Not to mention "Other"
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Great suggestion. We will open up the directory once considerable number of agents are part of the network. We should add specialties part of the individual tax agent page/blurb. We could automate the whole rating system as well.
I prefer WebOS.
IMHO N800 owners can select "tablet" or "cellphone" depending on how they see it.
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"The apps that Google built for Android (Maps in particular) are very clean and elegant but I would hesitate to call them beautiful or extremely polished. Google's design aesthetic typically eschews gradients, sheen, highlights and shadows in favor of a flatter, cleaner look and feel. "

Your post is very confusing.

At first you seem to imply that good design is tied to the amount of shadows, gradients or highlights and that a "clean, elegant" design is somehow worse.
Yet later you say that Google's apps are well-designed...

Why not use accurate design concepts if you claim that you are a designer? Say exactly what's wrong with the design by pointing out which design rules were broken.
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Does anyone know of plans to build this into Firefox? Sounds like an interesting project.

Edit: already found it
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=spdy
I didn't complain. Simply took action to help fight noise and hoped to rally others to do the same. I consider a report of Yet Another Earthquake in Japan to be off-topic. We have mainstream news sources for that. And if it's truly important, that sort of news will find us. Through other channels.
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Thanks so much! It's honestly amazing to hear you say that, we're super excited to see where we can take Interstate :)
Is that much "new content... everytime you hit refresh" distraction a good idea?

If you need this much second-to-second stimulation, can't you just join dozens of chat channels and 'follow' thousands of Twitterers?
Straightforward simple no-sign-up-to-read group chat sounds useful to me.
>We had a lecturer for web programming classes who said "AJAX is a programming language"

I had a lecturer who said API was a programming language. It's only while studying for exams (during the study hols) I came to know what an API was. :|
from my experience, there are several VCs that actually can smell a good or bad idea "a mile away" and it usually works for them (at least by their returns).
But the main thing you need to consider is that most VCs that invest in an early stage do check your idea, but they care a lot more about you and your team (since your idea will probably change a few times during the process).

While it is acceptable to "shop around" when you are looking for funding, it usually doesn't look good if you start "shopping around" after starting a serious process (aka getting a term sheet) with a VC, unless you see a major gap between what they offered and what you think you need.
Most people tend to forget that this is a small world (and an even smaller industry) and if you try to "trick" someone, it might come back to hunt you in the future when you need another round of funding or even contacts.
Wouldn't SCTP need to be installed on both the client and the server?
Articles like this is exactly why I come to HN.

I was planning to move my server from Apache to Nginx soon. I suppose it's as a good time as ever to learn any gotchas.
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From what they've taken down in the past I don't have a doubt that one or more 'anonymous' have access to a botnet. This is probably what the FBI is after and is why no action has been taken.
By citing the parent comment and modifying the emphasized part I can correct it:

"I think the main reason many people end up using Windows over OSX, or any other OS, has always been the knowledge of software."

Like how to do X in software Y, or what software can one obtain to do task Z.

Probably the Mac App Store changes that, and certainly the perception of it. Also even timid users are much more inclined to go and ask stuff on the Internet, and not solely rely on their inner circle.

Canonical knew that even before the App Store singularity and tried to design a simple user-centric application finder in Ubuntu, alongside the very technical Synaptics package manager. Also they tried to push users to ask questions on forums on the very first page Firefox displays.
Where is that? I've been looking at this:

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/screens.htm...
Ask HN: Business mind looking for strong developers/co-founders
I'm a Business major that applied, as a solo founder, to YC Summer 2011 (and got rejected). I lined up a couple developers to help me launch a prototype but I don't know if they are the right people to found my company with.

I guess, then, I'm looking for entrepreneurial-driven individuals to really vamp up the production level. I am looking for co-founders.

My project falls under the realm of social media and explores the concept of interaction within communities. It is an immensely challenging project in a fairly saturated market.

My preference goes to those out of school (or will be graduating soon like me) and hopefully located around Atlanta, GA (my hometown). Of course, I welcome anybody with a passion for social media to contact me for more information!

Feel free to drop me a line at: yadavh -at- umich -dot- edu
I've had iPhone for 2 years, now I have HTC Desire HD. iPhone (though slow) was the best phone I've ever had - insane amounts of polish, consistent UI/UX across, booming app store and all the media attention even after all these years, because Apple keeps updating their phones long after release and you don't really feel left out too much.

I'm not happy with my HTC, battere life is poor, UI/UX is terrible. It's obvious google copied as much from Apple as they could get away with but there's just too many "good enough" in Android, there's no consistency, lack of good looking applications and your vendor doesn't care about you as soon as they have your money. Yes, some Android devices have better specs, but from my anecdotal development experience on both platforms these extra specs are there just to keep up with the iPhone, animations, transitions and other taxing operations are noticeably slower in Android.
oh forgot to ask, are your stats (i.e. earnings, impressions etc.) the same or it is a fresh account.
Nope, the first edition gives the nice approach and if you want anything with more depth than the reference manual, you might as well go a get a copy of e.g. the C99 standard itself.
oops, you're right, that one hasn't been updated in a while.
People want immediate results. Investing in something that won't necessarily bring results for years or decades (or centuries in the case of space exploration) is rarely going to be popular.

At least here in Australia, a common comment on something like this is that we shouldn't spend money on this sort of thing when there are people starving and dying in the third world. Then the typical comments on, say an article about, the plight of the poor in the third world are critical of throwing money abroad when we have problems of our own at home. Then the typical comments on those problems (say, gap in life expectancy between that of the Aboriginal population and the average) find another excuse.

It frustrates me too. I'd love to see military budgets (as one example) plowed into aggressive space research and exploration (as well as third world problems) and uniting the planet.

Maybe the Great Filter of the Fermi Paradox is just the tendency of the masses towards selfish, lazy, basic instinct-driven behaviour.
Ask HN:  When did Facebook truly beat Myspace?
In your opinion, when was clear that Facebook was the winner? I'm sure most everyone here would agree that facebook was better than myspace all the way back to 2004, but myspace was "winning" then.
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That is like saying a racecar tuned for closed tracks is more impressive than a general purpose modern car because its faster. Both leverage the same principles and similar components but with different focuses and optimize for different results. Watson is not futuristic when compared to what Google does, its mainly its packaging that makes it so readily impressive.

Google are focused on different goals. Watson is optimized to list a set of confidence weighted answers/hypotheses. Google is optimized to surface a list of relevance and authority weighted documents. A Watson like google is orthogonal and could essentially be another UX on top of regular google that would completely transform the product to a different set of use cases.

Your example is easy when run through an engine that's tuned for it. But it does look like google is experimenting.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+6+dollars+less+than+...

http://www.google.com/search?q=who+produced+all+of+the+light...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who+produced+all+of+the...
A friend of mine bought a HTC Desire Z (of which the G2 is a variant) but while it is supposed to be in the powerhouse department (at the opposite end of the spectrum of a Galaxy Spica) its UI feels jerky, laggy and generally unwilling to respond to some user actions. My friend, despite being on the geeky side, seems not to notice it and because he seems to enjoy the phone I'm reluctant to make him notice and ruin its experience. Certainly this has to come from the fact he comes from a feature phone, so that phone is definitely an improvement.
I prefer the iPhone, but rooting for Android -- don't know exactly what that says about me :-)
http://www.cfreer.org/papers/PhysRevE_82-056104.pdf

http://www.alexwg.org/
waaaaaait a second. Can you show me how HFT adds value? Because as far as I can tell, it's just a faster middle man playing a zero sum financial game.
This Milton Friedman..just wow. He is still bringen the world so much good.
Design is not only about aesthetics. It's as much about how it works.

You can have a well designed app that isn't necessarily beautiful.

All Google stuff is by definition not beautiful, that doesn't mean it's not well designed.
Templates again... Have you used them? In my current project we've used data structure and algorithm templates from the QTL (similar to STL) instead of inventing our own buggy versions.

Then we've used templates to stream arbitrary data-types into an IPC socket.

Finally, we've also used templates to create a generic repository class and to create a specialized compare function for multiple types of containers.

All of these resulted in lesser lines of code without complicating the code base. This kind of template code is nothing fancy and brings real benefits.
Now it's your turn to tell me how templates have complicated your projects. Please use real-world examples.

By the way, we're not all true C++ experts in the team and yes, some of us prefer different coding styles. You know what we did? At the beginning we created a coding guidelines/standards document that outlines what is acceptable to use in the project. Problem solved. What you describe - "can't all necessarily read and understand each others' code" - is a dysfunctional team and a management failure.

"it should'be be between C and C++ only"

Ok, we can compare Python + C++ with Python + C, but C++ wins there too. e.g: PyQt/PySide.
Relatively... The browsers themselves won't write anything to disk but this doesn't stop things like plugins (EG: Flash, Java, media players, etc) from writing to disk, or lower level operating system functions (IE: Swap) writing to disk. How likely is it that these will write to disk? I don't know exactly, but it would vary between browser plugins and operating systems.

For example: I use Linux, with no swap, and with few browser plugins and would consider myself fairly safe when in incognito mode.
Competition is healthy. It leads to better products and happier consumers. I prefer the iPhone as well, but I wouldn't want Apple to be the only player in the game.
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I prefer the iPhone, but am working with an Android application right now and therefore use an Android device.
Radio and/or satellite from the middle of the ocean to land is much higher latency than all the way across the darn ocean. I too call bullshit.
I have an Android. But voted iPhone. Very much looking forward to my upgrade!
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An extreme example doesn't prove much and there are many languages that successfully balance readability with LOC. e.g: Python, JS.
Games engines have these problems too. But instead of solving it mathematically which is hard (and still result in a pretty inefficient algorithm, as game worlds usually consist of complex geometry, not simple shapes), it is usually hacked around in some pragmatic way that still looks good.
Could Facebooks openness be its own undoing?
As soon as MySpace let users autoplay music in the background and have flashing background images.

Sort of the internet version of the broken window theory, if you will - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
Why no love for other platforms?
I thought this was going to be about memory usage.
Do you think there would be a niche for creating good looking high quality UI controls for Android? Or will it still be a too big hassle to implement them?