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It's amusing how you went from "you're misunderstanding me," admitting that there might have been a mistake, to "you failed to fact check". I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong, be educated by others, and learn from my mistakes because it does appear that I misunderstood you; when you're an abrasive shit, though, I'm not really inclined to give you the time of day. I gave you one pass to communicate like a reasonable human being, because you're obviously aware of interesting information that I'd like to know, but you are now a waste of my time.

I'm really tired of bending over backwards to be nice to people on HN. A few threads of arrogant snark like this in the last 24 hours, and I'm really stretching thin on patience. Now I see what the long-term users are on about.
Yes, but it's a very expensive way to do it -- and the article is about how to do it this way.

This way takes 10GB read and 10GB write of IO in subprocesses and then running a separate process for every HTTP upload of the individual files.

I'd be surprised if it took more (or even as much) code to do it with a single thread on the original file with as many connections as you wanted using txAWS.

It's the difference between "it works" and "this is a good solution you should use as a model for your own apps."
They should think themselves lucky to get $65 million for essentially nothing. They are really no different from people who post on Craigslist that they have a great new startup idea and just need someone to code it for them. The only difference is that because they are rich and well-connected they were able to unjustifiably extract money from Zuckerberg, who unlike them made something people want.
Anonymity of up- and downvotes, and the subsequent distrust.
Sure, but they're also not 100% efficiently utilized. Far from it. And the argument is that profit motive in health care may actually drive "efficiency of utilization" the opposite direction. When one person is staying at home with chest pain, afraid of the ER bill, while another person shows up with a soar throat and a headache because they have health insurance, well...that's pretty clearly misdirected utilization of the scarce resources.
edw519, I think your advice is in the right spirit but (as you admit) naïve.

nopassrecover, edw is 100% on target about looking outward. However actors, salons, and teachers are all good examples of people with little money to spend, who would not capture significant extra margins by adding software.

In my estimation, nopassrecover, you would do better to think deeper in the B2B value chain, particularly if you can flex relationships you've made in previous industries you've worked in. Imagine how many more people you could touch writing software that hooks into a shoe factory's shoe machines than making a web store -- and how much less of a customer's attention that would require.

Two consejos that I think are good (but not necessary) for entrepreneurs to follow:

1. Do a part-time job while you work on your own thing.

2. Use knowledge & relationships from businesses you have worked in directly.

And (3) for hackers specifically: spend some time thinking about and researching how the commercial world fits together. Who made the plastic fibres in the salon's brush? How does the aesthetic layout of the salon enable them to charge more? What other construction materials could they have used? What catalogs are thrust in the face of new salon owners and how does that affect the way they see their choices? What's the price history of the real estate they own vis-à-vis the other places they could have set up shop? And more generally: What companies in the world do the most revenue and why? What companies have the most profits?

The salon scheduling example is particularly naïve, because scheduling software would not add much value to either salon owners or customers.

But edw519, I very much agree with you about looking outward (both to meet business minded people and to meet people who don't have iPhones).
Actually, I would like to get into the YCReject as a PRE-YC -- where I can get to a much better position with my plan, then apply to YC with the same plan, next session.
I'm pretty sure the OP is taking about having the RECEIVER'S message mention texting/emailing, e.g.:

ring... ring... ring...

"Hi, this is Steve. I'm not here right now. If you could text or email me instead of leaving a voicemail that would be much appreciated."
Related is probably marketing, business, or something CS-y.
I don't hate voice mail - I hate people who use it without understanding how to.

Half my messages are .... crackling .... dut dut dut
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T-mobile throttles internet after 5GB. The writer of this article doesn't have "unlimited" everything.
"seemed to be winning"

What do you base that on, community support? Some initial faintly favourable legal maneuvers? A specific turn of phrase in a legal book would have decided this in the end. And then been appealed, multiple times.
But how come Scandinavian and many European countries manage do provide it?

The simple answer is we don't.

England has a body called NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence) who assess each and every treatment. They're a body of experts who look at all the evidence on a particular treatment and work out how much it will cost and how much of an improvement it will bring to a persons life. It it doesn't reach a certain threshold - measured in cost per QUALYs (quality adjusted life years) - the government won't pay.

It comes in for criticism every so often (usually when it won't fund a new, very expensive cancer drug) but in the physicians (and government's) eyes it does a very good job for something so hard.
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Doesn't litigation come to an end when justice has been served? I don't know the details of the case, nor do I have a stake in this, but it seems odd to limit damages if one party illegally withheld information.

This coupled with the recent Supreme Court ruling that prosecutors effectively can't be held accountable for hiding evidence that would exonerate a defendent -- seems to be saying that your best strategy in the legal system is to illegally withhold information, because the legal system will eventually not care, even if the actors in the case still do.
Ask HN: Where would an ambitious techie emigrate to?
Hey there HN.

Here is my predicament - I am very ambitious and that is why I quit job at previous employer - the company wasn't nearly hungry and ambitious enough for my tastes. It was amongst regional leaders, however it lacked any real motive for actual improvement and innovation (especially organization wise). As most it could talk the talk but failed at walking the walk.

So as to what I want - I want to run with the best ( I am well aware that getting into the right circle will be quite a humbling experience for me). Thats why I'm looking to move to one of the tech hotspots to work for somebody else for a year or two and then to start out on my own. Also very important to me is that there are mountains or hills somewhere close.

So these are the locations I am currently aware of, that might offer what I'm looking for but I would need opinions of the hive mind - especially from those who have been to multiple places mentioned:

1. Bay area: The spot, everybody is there - however I am from central Europe, thus it is pretty much impossible for me to move there, since I am unwilling to sell my soul to a company as a slave worker (thats what H1B appears to me), so this one sadly out of consideration unless I win a lottery.

2. Other US spots: Read point 1.

3. Vancouver: Supposedly has vibrant startup community that is second to only SF (?).

4. Santiago de Chile: Currently destination I am most excited about (after SF that is), since it is kinda exotic and I would expect that its rising star status might attract other pioneer type, wacky people that I am extremely delighted to be around. Also it seems that Chile has an outlook of significant economic stability ahead of it.

5. Brisbane, Melbourne,...:?

As for skills - I have 5 years of experience and have worked on business type applications for governments, banks, etc. Some of these systems were global, some had web capabilities others did not. I have experience in development, leading a technical team, lecturing,...
NC is North to me (Central Texas) and many of the guy's I've worked with in Georgia. So when he was saying southern town without just naming the darn city I'm expecting something without a greater metropolitan area.

The last guy that I worked with from Charlotte was an awesome developer so "howdy" from Austin.
The amount you can capture value in a 'big company' depends a lot on the industry you are in.

If you are in the right niche, say finance then A.N Other Big Bank will pay 1,000 to 1,200 USD per day for good programmers and more like 1,200 to 1,500 USD per day for excellent programmers.

Now if you are capturing 300K USD per year for your programming skills jumping into a start-up looks like a significantly higher risk proposition than at 80K USD per year.

This is a point that I kind of feel is missed a lot on HN. One of the reasons you see less start-ups in NYC, LDN, etc is simply because it's too easy to make good enough money that the hunger simply doesn't exist.
Yes. They were not actually lucky. Because "lucky" means magic, and magic doesn't exist.

So of course the test was of people with different psychology. That was exactly the point.
> Both France and Sweden need to scale back their systems
> because it's just not efficient or cost effective.

What? Both countries have amazingly cost effective health care systems!
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I don't like driving and I prefer to live in a city with good public transport.

I want to have lots of employment alternatives.

I'm an atheist and quite happy with it.

I'm allergic to anyone who says, "The war of northern aggression." The civil war was fought over slavery. And yes, I heard that phrase from the owner of the bed and breakfast we stayed at within the last three years.

I like good, well supported education institutions.

I like snowboarding.

Thus I am poorly suited for the south.
If you're reasonably strong in mathematics, you can learn to code basic concepts pretty quickly. Unfortunately, there's not shortcut to learning to code _well_. But that's okay - at a super early stage, being able to assemble a prototype that will never go live could still be very valuable.

That said, I'm not sure learning to code is the best use of your time. Given how murky health care is, an inside knowledge of the industry should be immensely valuable to a startup, especially when it comes to demonstrating formidability and landing early biz dev relationships. You might be better off working on on the ins and outs of daily business, inbound marketing and fundraising, so that you can support your team while they build whatever it is you set out to build.
Whatever the reason is, you need to realize that the current owner of the TMO, sold it because it was more lucrative to get the money ATT is offering rather than run the service. Which means the current price pressure was getting to them. Soon they would have escalated the prices anyways. With the ATT deal it might just happen soon.

I am not happy with this deal either but I am not disillusioned that TMO would have kept the lower prices around for long.
Idea: create a biotech startup that designs QR patterned zebras.
Speaking as a complete non-expert who has just listened to some economic podcasts about health care, there's not a reason they charge $6 for Tylenol. There's more like 100 intertwined reasons.

Healthcare economics is a nightmare of complexity. I'm not sure that it has to be, but it is.

My guess is that the complexity of the thing is itself one of the biggest problems. Kind of like how the US tax code has, in countless efforts to encourage this or discourage that, been made so complicated that an entire profession has arisen for trying to navigate it. Every dollar spent trying to determine how much tax you owe is pure waste.

The healthcare industry is similarly full of waste. A friend of mine works at a company whose whole reason for existence is to help doctors determine the correct industry codes to put on their bills so that insurance companies will pay them (the codes are different for each insurance carrier). The fact that this is necessary is outrageous.
>Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it).

What's right for the consumer about the compulsory 30% cut of iOS subscriptions for things like Readability, Kindle and Netflix? The uniform 43% increase for ALL customers while lining Apple's pockets for contributing basically nothing (unlike apps where they atleast provide hosting).

Edit: I am sure Android is bad for Apple's customers, no wonder they don't want it to be seen. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373502,00.asp
And given the sheer number of exploits that leverage the Flash plugin, I'm sure this security feature will be applied to it too any day now, right?
It doesn't use it in the browser but it does use it for tools relating to SPDY. See:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/tools/fl...

Regardless, neither OpenSSL or NSS have NPN in a release version. NSS doesn't seem to have merged the patch yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547312
It has to go through. T-Mobile is likely shedding business customers in record numbers. AT&T is offering businesses special deals to migrate all of devices from T-Mobile.
The original poster specifically said, "not particularly well known for having a strong tech culture". I read that to exclude at least the research triangle and Austin.
I guess it is more a test of how the money affects the startup vs. the mentorship/network.
I'm assuming it's because if they know your data is online they can simply ask you for a password. Also, it looks like probable cause since your computer isn't really usable with no data and without regular programs that the average person uses.
Good read, thanks for posting. Best post on this before was by Paul Buchheit "Serendipity finds you" - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/serendipity-finds-y...
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A strong relationship with someone who knows every bit of the regulatory system involved with health care would be a good idea too.
No - this is an appeal, no juries involved. Judges rule the appeal-land.

But I'm sure Kozinksi (sp?) saw the social Network. Heh.
Why wasn't the original xkcd post linked? This re-post does not add any value.
you're the fool for ever thinking that wasn't the situation to begin with...
I agree voicemail is pointless. Just send me a text message, email or Instant message.
> It's only better if you -- by reading up on convention beforehand -- know which way an edge points

Actually, if I'm reading the paper properly, no it's not. The authors appear to have found that both the light-to-dark and the dark-to-light styles performed significantly better than arrows, and that the tapering effect was better still.

This seems reasonable to me: even if you're unsure about the convention at first, you probably only have to find one obvious edge to establish which way things "point".
Great point. Right now, doctor's have to charge twice what they expect to be reimbursed by insurance companies. So, an individual who chooses to buy health care without a health insurance provider has to pay twice what doctor's even expect to get. I don't even think doctors get any reduction in transaction costs when dealing with large insurance companies over individual patients. In a lot of ways, it seems like doctors have to deal with the large insurance company and the individual patient.

Health insurance in the US is more like a payment plan to join a health-care purchasing group than health insurance. What's worse is that your purchasing group choice is chosen by your employer.

I think there's a serious reduction in job mobility because the US has chosen to provide tax incentives when health insurance is provided by the employer, but not when an individual purchases those.
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I think this might be a mirror:http://scriptingecho.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/to-the-young-b...
AirBnB solves a real economic problem with the www. Just like Craigslist, a good idea doesn't need to be complex or splendiferous.
In other countries it is very often done by doctors.

Denmark has recently had a big "scandal" because doctors used "codes" in the patients journal when the patient should not receive emergency care if they had e.g. a heart attack while at the hospital. They doctors added this code when such care would kill the patient anyway because the patient was too weak to survive such intensive treatment.

In the end, the "super secret code" was just the phone number of the intensive care unit, with a minus sign in front of it, meaning "don't call the unit if this patient has a heart attack".
"The South" is a big fucking place. Atlanta? I'd consider it. Dallas, Texas? It's not bad, I'd live there again. Orange, Louisiana? Absolutely not.
From his blog, he replies in the comments: "I will address the donations in a forthcoming post, and I think people will be happy."
That affects every page on my Firefox (just installed, latest Stylish). Even the Location Bar goes giant Georgia.
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What speed does it run at after throttling? It's still far superior to overage charges an order of magnitude over the base price.
I do not understand the demand for this service so I would have a hard time analyzing this too much.

One thing that sticks out at me, your masthead banner is a dorky guy making a dorky face holding a phone. It should be an attractive male or female (preferably one of each) making a genuinely nice smile. You want the person to look like something that average guy or girl would actually want to receive a telephone call. I would not ever want to receive a phone call from your current model for any reason.
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Doesn't litigation come to an end when justice has been served?

You mean once justice has taken its cut, right?
There is also: http://s3.scripting.com/stories/2011/04/11/toTheYoungBrillia...
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> On top of that, Apple is in no hurry to bring the speed improvements of their Nitro JS engine to apps pinned to the homescreen. After all, they prefer devs to make native apps so that there is a lockin.

I think minds smarter than I have put this particular notion to bed.

> Apple can't turn on the ability to do executable, dynamically written to memory pages just for their library: they'd have to turn it on for the entire process, at which point you could also do crazy things like download native code and execute it, bypassing the entire concept of their "codesign" mechanism.

Says saurik, of Cydia fame, in that and other comments. It's a security concern for Apple, not necessarily a strategic one.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338338

Apple controls the tablet market only because they invented it as it currently exists a year ago. That's not really a useful comparison to the 90's, as desktop computers as a category had existed for a couple of decades. Moreover, tablets aren't currently essential to doing work, so the true power Apple has over others is negligible.
RealPlayer was a program and browser plugin focused around one proprietary format. QuickTime is an A/V library supporting a wide array of codecs — it's the standard way to play video on the Mac. If it's obsolete, then what is the replacement?
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> Why would you need more than 5?

because humans are quite diverse

> Is it really plausible that a theoretical person born blind and sighted later in fact can distinguish between the two but we just happened to get unlucky to find the five dunces in the world who can't?

We don't know which percentage of blind people can distinguish objects by sight once they start to see. We don't know if it's all-or-nothing or not.

If half of blinds can, there's still a 3% chance to get the published results from five subjects. If it's 30%, the chances grow to 17%.
I've been to two and it was a positive enough experience for me to not only endorse it, but I'm helping to organize it. It's a great way to meet potential co-founders, kick the tires on an idea, and get the general feeling for whether or not startup life is for you.

To be fair, I will say that my first team imploded, fragmented, and I wound up dropping out from disappointment. But that in and of itself was a true to life startup experience that I learned a lot from in terms of people skills and well worth the ticket price.

That said...you can use TRIKRO as a discount code for 25% off.
All analogies are imperfect, but I chose Stanford for the specific reason that it's been at the forefront of perhaps the greatest semi-meritocratic* drive in modern American history: the high-tech industry. I very much meant the "proverbial" Stanford when I used Stanford in this example. I meant the Stanford of the movement Stanford has helped to shepherd -- the Stanford that exists in popular consciousness, regardless of how removed that perception may be from the reality of the school.

*I must use the "semi-" qualifier here because, as we all seem to agree, there's no such thing as a true meritocracy. The wealthy have advantages throughout life that maximize the chances of generating a meritorious CV.
Try this:

ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" perl -MCPAN -e 'install Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA'
I usually get around 5k/sec after throttling starts. Your speed will vary depending on the quality of the network. But obviously at speeds like this you can't do HD video streaming.
This isn't quite correct. Contractors and freelancers (of which I am one) charge substantially more than the clients' employees salary ($75-150/hr, typically, vs 70-100k/year). This is accepted due to the cost savings of not paying for insurance, 401k contributions, etc.

In my experience, I charge more (than I made when salaried), but only bill the 4-7 hours a day really, actually working. I'm much more productive, work less hours, and make more money doing it.

Specialties are certainly a lucrative way to go, but not necessarily essential. An all-rounder is more likely to have a long-term relationship with a client (depending on the industry of course).
And the five students you're sponsoring appreciate it!
Thanks for your reply.

I ultimately would like to create a product/service to serve a market; although, I can't say I don't have an itch to get into code.

One reason as to why I posted this is because I wanted to hear from hackers whether a physician with nothing more than domain-knowledge would be able enough to provide significant contribution to a growing startup. I've lurked about for some time and have noticed a stigma against non-hackers looking to start up.

But your post is reassuring and encouraging.
I'd heard it as "Audaces Fortuna iuvat".

Wikipedia once again impresses with an article on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_favours_the_bold