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The solutions proposed here are to increase the number of startups by increasing government spending/taxation and increasing extension of credit/financing.

However, if the goal is to have more startups that are "the envy of the world", then increasing the number is not necessarily the way to do this.

We need to stop harassing those startups that do become successful. Startups by their nature are disruptive in the common sense of the term, and will violate the cozy arrangements made between established businesses and governments.

Two recent examples:

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/31/airbnb-takes-manhattan-wi...

http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/26/ubercab-ryan-graves-cease-...

Of course, on a larger scale the government is now harassing Google with antitrust, even though Google is being nipped at the heels by Facebook.

The government also denied the Blockbuster/Hollywood merger in the mid 2000s (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2310-2005Mar2...) on antitrust grounds. Of course, just a few years later these "trusts" were blown up by Netflix, which is itself being blown up by Amazon and iTunes.

To have more successes, we need to stop the dynamic in which government goes after successes and tries to destroy them. What we don't need are government policies that encourage more marginal entrepreneurs to jump into the pool.
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I ran into a problem not dissimilar to this when doing freelance programming on a hacked together VBA project for score tabulation. I would recommend a redesign in at least VB.net (as he wrote some custom VB libraries that he was hesitant to rewrite).

In the end, even after I showed a spreadsheet of my billable hours spent fixing ten year old bugs, he'd rather have me work a hundred hours on a familiar task then risk losing the interface, and userbase he accumulated over the years.

But hey, in the end, he was the one writing the checks, right?
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To play devil's advocate, there are different ways of looking at this. While in theory you're right, I'm not sure startup founders are thinking of their health insurance when they decide to quit their jobs. They are probably more concerned with immediate requirements, like raw shelter, food and utilities. But again, there's several ways to look at it.
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I would however caution about going overboard with embracing mobile applications. Customers view the mobile phone as a personal device.
What do you mean exactly? Most of the SciPy API maps pretty directly to MATLAB.
They also seem to be promoting an ereader from iRiver: http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/ereader.html

The specs are similar to the kindle keyboard, but costs less ($99 without ads) and has a better resolution 768x1024 vs kindle's 600x800. I hate that clunky turn-page button in the middle though.
That is an issue of extremely successful startups making their predecessors "irrelevant." Google eradicated the market and became a de facto monopoly for searching anything on the internet. Netflix entirely dissolved physical movie stores. On the flip side, Gamefly, a similar venture, has not done this - people still buy video games from stores instead of renting them or downloading them.

I agree that some of the problem is the government being a "trust buster" - however, some of it is simply the faultless way the market works. The government makes blanket anti-trust policies which are universal enough that, when one company revolutionizes an industry to the point that it's the only one of its kind, it's caught by policy without really having any bad intentions. Unfortunately this is happening to Google.
I think your observation that "social, search and cloud" as you point out, are extremely over-saturated is especially relevant.

One of my main draws to programming was the extremely law barrier to entry -- a weekend spent with a Python compsci text and Google was enough to get me started on Django.

But even though I have interest in biology, genetics and related fields, I don't see how someone in my position with more time and motivation than money could "break" into the startup world.
I don't get it. Is there anything wrong with SQLite being more popular than MongoDB (possibly except the fact that I don't expect to see MongoDB visible in the graph)?
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When iBooks was released, I almost gave up hope on ebooks, as Apple's platform dominance could squash competition.

But as Amazon has expanded their offering with their same price model, and Google and other "players" are moving in, competition will drive down prices a la physical books (or at least I hope).
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"Why has it become popular" implies that it's a recent thing. Darmouth BASIC did the same things in the early 1960s.
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actually, i was pretty shocked when i read kottke's post. the parrot thing was supremely reasonable - it wasn't even remotely prima donnaish, despite the parallels kottke tried to draw. all it said was "i like parrots; if there is someone around who has a parrot i can visit, that would be nice". he even emphasised the fact that people should not go out and buy parrots just to keep him happy, and explained (gently!) exactly why that would be a bad idea. whichever way i slice it, i can see nothing more in that post than kottke picking on stallman simply because he's an easy target.
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What I gleaned from the article is that the author wants push notifications from gmail. That doesn't appeal to me, email is not a phonecall. It shouldn't be disruptive. I want to get emails when I have time to check them.
Unfortunately, there is a simple yet sinister explanation for the government's interference with extremely successful startups. Startups can only become massively successful by stealing market share from established companies. As you've stated, this has the effect of angering the cozy quid pro quo relationship between established companies and governments.

The root of this problem lies in the inevitable merger of the corporate and political classes. As the lines between these two entities blur, disruption through innovation will increasingly be hindered by new legislation. Corporations and governments are both interested in one thing: maintaining power. Corporations through monopoly, and governments through engineering votes.

Until this unholy alliance is broken, innovation will only become more cumbersome.
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I'd be interested to know the basis for that conclusion. Based on the analyses done here[1] and here[2] I would've thought that mid-morning (my time) would be better than evening. Perhaps I should delete this submission and re-submit it later. What do you think? It would be nice if you had your email in your profile so we could discuss it.

Perhaps I'll run my own analysis and see what I get. What analysis did you run? I'd be interested in seeing it.

Cheers!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022547

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2259761
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I think that if jacquesm was living in Japan like patio11 (I also live in Japan), he wouldn't call himself a programmer either. Because a programmer in Japan is someone that takes a spec or a task, written by an engineer, and "translate" it into code. A programmer doesn't solve any problem, he implements another person solution, and that's it.

But at the end of the day it's not strictly about semantics, I think it's also about how you understand you work. When I don't introduce myself as an entrepreneur, I always introduce myself as a software engineer. Not out of elitism or anything like that, but because I think it carries more the fact that I am here to solve problems, and that programming is just one possible mean to this end.
could you explain to me why you think stallman's parrot clause is crazy, or even overly specific? all he's saying is it would be nice if there were a friendly parrot he could see. the specific parts are telling people why they should not go out of their way to buy a parrot simply to make him happy.
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I don't see why simply being a startup should give you permission to flaunt the law for whatever reason you deem necessary to be profitable.

IMHO, the law usually exists for a reason. I care about antitrust violations, or data privacy violations. If New York requires hotels to be licensed - which I think is a fair requirement - then I don't see why Airbnb patrons should be exempt from that law. This view will probably be unpopular on HN.

I don't suggest that the US government stop "harassing" startups because ... they're startups, and economy economy economy.

I think you need to find a way to spur wealth creation while still having some rule of law in the country. Tax breaks, government-sponsored venture capital, and immigration incentives are a great way to do that.
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> First of all, countries with national health care have introduced it precisely because is citizens are less risk-tolerant on average.

Really? Those countries tend to be much more homogenous than the U.S. Sweden does not have a horde of Mexicans who dearly wish to become free riders.
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The OP is actually quite lucky. I still have to support 1.4 installs.

But what's the worst: If you tell these IT departments to maybe update, they tell you that updating would pose a security risk which is ridiculous when you consider what's out there and actively targeting all JVMs younger than 1.6u27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

Google does not have a monopoly on search. It's just the dominant player. That said, I do think there's reason for concern about how Google is marketing and integrating their products.
This is probably the fifth essay I've read on the subject, and they all really agree. Google was being highly eccentric in choosing their brand name when they started up, and it was comparatively rare back then. But look how fantastically successful it is now. It's even more relevant in the current market. The easiest and most permanent way to make an impression, and thus, a user base is with attention grabbing. Beyond that, the creativity will do hakf the work for brand recognition, and repeat patronage will be secured.
Actually much of the sectors that you have mentioned have been deregulated:

1. Private Universities: No. But there are tons of private institutes under universities.

2. Public Transport: Trains no. Buses - in most parts of the country (eg. Madhya Pradesh)

3. Power: Tata Power, Reliance etc. Coal mining is the part that has not been privatized, AFAIR.

4. Aeronautics: No, but airtravel yes. Secondly, the aeronautics industry and research in India is still at a very nascent stage - so I am not sure if it really hurts the economy/society.
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Wait, ClearTrip is actually pretty pathetic in terms of the UI. Try MakeMyTrip - it is way better.
Tried searching for a book, search field has auto-suggest, selected the title I want and got 300 completely irrelevant results.
Well, that's why I said de facto monopoly. Legally, no, it has no monopoly. But the point was that it's made other search engines largely irrelevant. With the exception of Bing, you generally can't think of many search engines these days. And Bing only rose to that level (still hasn't beaten Google) through massive ad campaigns and corporate partnership endorsements.
Jacques mentioned in the article that someone doing COBOL gets paid megabucks, i did a very quick search on UK job sites for contractors and they seem to make the same day rate as PHP developers. Is it different elsewhere? Is it just in permanent jobs that it commands more money? Anyone know where and why COBOL gets the big bucks?
sounds like you could hack around much of that with a firefox / chrome extension.
(I'm no C expert, I'm posting my take on this mainly because I'm interested in learning from counterarguments):

Greatgrandparent's error was lack of such inner declaration. -Wshadow wouldn't help with that.

Also, I imagine enforcing old-style declaration restrictions helps you to avoid introducing those errors in first place, but it's just as hard to debug them once they're in.

My choice would be to get in the habit of declaring a variable in the narrowest scope that makes sense. I can't see much of a problem with this (esp. in the context of C!) barring old habit. I don't think Scheme programmers, for example, have this stuff any easier and I don't think scoping is perceived as a problem there.
I'm from Denmark, maybe the country with the best social safety net in the world. The state pays your medical bills, your school and education (you even get a state allowance to live on while you study), if you lose your job the state will give you money, and so on. You can actually live a whole life with nothing but statemoney.

The startup culture here is terrible, exactly because of this. People become cosy and risk averse because they don't really need to fight, and because there's no need to.

So i think the parent hits the nail pretty much on the head.
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Actually, my last sentence is incorrect: my role is not to "solve problems" but to "create value", the latter being a superset of the former.
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I guess this is just a way of confirming your choice with so many out there. This is similar to the Google+ and Facebook buzz that was there a some time ago.

Also, people want their favorite companies to be pitted against their closest competitor and when they emerge victorious, they have a sense of pride about it.

To end, this is very similar to the emacs vs vim or windows vs linux vs mac or the browser competition where people just want to establish their some kind of superiority over the others.
Forgoing your blatant racism,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo...

Sort by "immigrants as a percentage of national population."

In fact, Sweden and the US have almost identical immigrant percentages. Switzerland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Austria all have higher immigrant percentages than the US, and all these countries have public health care systems.
yes.. I didn't mean to say location information is time-static.. I want there to be better tools / web UI to supply current location information. So the person in the street can flag something, and other people can make use of that.

By 'read-only' I mean its not easy for people to supply location information thats current. I put into Lokenote app an expiry date tumbler - eg. Street party for a few hours, blocked drain for a few days, building site for a few weeks.

Because of overhead at the moment, youd probably only enter location information that is going to be there for a long time.. but if it were easier to share that, wed see a more dynamic and relevant picture over smaller time scales.

Wikipedia, etc, have made an effort to standardise so that wiki articles can be tagged to a location, but I think theres a whole mass of less formal information thats really useful thats not being captured or used - ants would leave pheremones to signal other ants, we currently leave paper notes on lampposts, there should be a better way.
why are blaming "Politicians" for bad UI ...
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> ... IPOs under $50 million have plummeted since the 1990s.

IIRC it costs around $10M to run an IPO, thanks to a mountain of financial regulations. Regulations that have had little apparent effect on large scale fraud.

Some states charge high fees to start a corporation. If you just want a place to park the IP for a bright idea, California charges an $800 per year franchise tax.
Indeed. High capital fields such as medicine are the great entrepreneurial challenges of our time.

Everyone on HN knows of the decaying behemoth that is academic research. It is an unsustainable system built upon a terrible incentive architecture. Graduate students and postdocs are used as cheap labor in a Ponzi scheme, while Principal Investigators have no incentive to engage in difficult, high risk research due to salary caps and tenure. The market failure of academic research is the primary reason for the grinding pace of progress in fields such as medicine.

Again, there are individuals such as Craig Venter who are changing this paradigm, but the sheer magnitude of funding being dumped into the academic research black hole is unfathomable.

Our collective tax money is in the government's hands, and as such, only they have the power to dismantle such terribly broken schemes. I'm not holding my breath.
Google has made other search engines largely irrelevant because it's so good. That is of no concern to me or the US antitrust investigators.

What would be concerning if Google started making it harder for other search engines to come along and challenge its position by offering a better service. Google has done no such thing. It's as easy to challenge Google as it ever was.

What's of concern to me and the US policy makers is how Google is using its position as the dominant search engine to market its other products. Do you see the difference?
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I am a programmer, but I am not a programmer.

The problem is, 'programming' as such is the end of a process. That process begins with talking to a customer about his or her idea/business problem, and asking questions and (basically) doing consulting to help the customer understand what his or her problem really is. Once that's clear, I write a proposal that outlines how I would address that problem, all in strictly high-level layman-understandable language - no mockups, no screenshots, no technical language, nothing. Then, once we agree on that, I contact a designer to help out with the design of the app, and to think about new and novels ways to make the interface as simple as possible. We show it to the customer, refine it, and get an agreement on all that stuff. And then, finally, three months since that first meeting, I can start with the programming.

So yes, I'm a programmer - but only if an academic is a writer, if an architect is someone who draws, and if a manager is someone who talks to people.
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At a guess I would say that publishers will not like this one bit.
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