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How does Startup Chile facilitate the injection of capital necessary to continue product development past the seed stage? Are there networks of angels, super angels and VCs ready to invest in companies as per YC?

Also, is the $40K per founder or per company? I understand living costs are much cheaper in Chile, but how long can two founders live comfortably in Chile with $40K?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Reading this, it's tempting to think that if one wants to stop a piece of internet regulatory legislation, one need only play the "internet security" card:

"It will make the country vulnerable to 'cyber attacks'."

And suddenly the bill has insurmountable opposition.

Perhaps the DNSSEC snake oil salesmen will make an appearance.

It's the highly promoted use of constant DNS lookups (ICANN business model) that creates the insecurity in the first place. Promote a problem and then sell a solution for it. Brilliant.
That's an interesting idea, and I dig using a fully open stack; we'll consider adding it into our next howto!
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I don't know if it was a joke I didn't understand, but no my name isn't Buttle..
Interesting effort, I think the Redis API can be implemented with different trade offs, so it is resonable to test this idea in practice. Welcome Edis :)
I didn't say it wasn't. And given the malicious activity (most scripted attacks, especially today, prefer to make productive use of your system) that's a likely explanation.

But scripted or not, someone did you a favor.

For a reference point, a (very technical) friend at a large tech company had to fire up a fresh Windows VM in order to complete some Windows/IE-only internal web app form.

He was p0wned within 5 minutes. On the corporate LAN. Stats I've seen are that an unpatched WinXP box (pre-SP2) was getting p0wned within 15 seconds, on average by the mid/late oughts. Scripted attacks are that fast and easy.

Scanning an IP range for open telnet ports (n00b move #1) and attempting root logins on same (n00b move #2) with weak passwords (third strike) is pretty trivial. Could have been another AOL user, could have been someone's IRC bot / autoattack.

While not blaming the victim, you discovered (on a freshly installed, no-real-data-present-yet box, hence, very inexpensively) that You Don't Do That[tm].

So: stop crying over this and put on your Big Boy pants. That asshole did you a favor. Really.
Since when has Hacker News been a forum of formal speech?
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
A byetcode/VM approach would be an improvement on the web client. This has been used successfully for 10+ years on the server (JVM, CLR), so why not learn from things and advance the state of web development.

I don't understand why people defend JS so passionately. It was build in like 2 weeks, wasn't designed to build large complex applications, and hasn't really advanced at all since its inception. There are better options out there and the web development community should welcome any improvements to close the gap from Native to web.
Good point.

On a separate note, I'd like to also list the Congressmen that were the most vocal and eloquent supporters of SOPA during the hearing:
Smith (R-TX), Goodlatte (R-VA), Berman (D-CA).

Please make sure your friends and families associate these names with censorship and stifling of innovation.
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There was never a real market for it, Power Point and Google Presentation fills the need of most users i think.

To say that about Google is a little unfair, you can't argue they didn't try. Cappuccino is not that new any more and everyone is doing native apps right now.
JS has lots and lots of fundametal issues. Weird OO implementation (argue all you want but prototype inheritance is not what the prevailing wisdom is on how to do OO), no type system (at least give the option!), no packages/modules, no generics.

Don't people want dev tools to better help them building and refactoring web code? Web dev is like 15 years behind server development.
Maybe you want to try the lightweight Windows-GUI-IDE "BlackBox Component Builder" by Oberon microsystems AG, Zurich (Switzerland), based on "Component Pascal" (AFAIK an improved Oberon-2 descendant). Latest downloadable version is 1.6RC6 see http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html
The Chilean government has a sweet deal for VCs in Chile, effectively loaning them money to raise their funds, then financing it for them if successful and writing it off if not successful.

Startup Chile has some Silicon Valley presence with visits by Dave McClure (500 startups) and the CEO of Groupon recently.

But this program is not comparable to YC. YC is much more competitive, has been around a lot longer and has made a name for itself already.

The $40k is per company, and it is provided at a %90 reimbursement. In other words, you spend $44k in reimbursable expenses to get the $40k. The expenses include funds for the founders, coverage of living expenses, legal expenses, etc. Looking at the reports of past participants, it looks like you can live pretty well in a nice part of town.
The people who designed important pieces of its infrastructure (tcp/ip, dns, http, and so on) seem to be very concerned about what SOPA would allow politicians to do to the internet. Do you know something they don't?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-war...
Not sure I get your point. At a higher price, the net would higher, yes. But it is still not and will never be "70%" as advertised by Amazon. The total cost of printing the book or "digital delivery" is taken out of the author's cut. Traditional publishers offer much worse deals, in return for marketing muscle.

Btw, those are the real prices of my book. It's not expensive, not cheap. Maybe I'm pricing the digital version too low, but figuring that out is part of the game.

http://www.amazon.com/Lauren-Ipsum-ebook/dp/B0069ZG8MY/
Maybe I'm wrong, my understanding is that betabeat is a NY tech advocacy site, their about page pretty much says that and admits they engage in boosterism. And it kind of follows that NY tech advocacy is pretty much all about the financing angle, hence my seeing their NY tech boosterism as fundamentally NY VC boosterism.

Anyway, I found the quote interesting and kind of highlights that there is something of an irreconcilable major cultural mismatch between the scenes on each coast, which may have been an issue with Stanford pulling out. I thing west coast entrepreneurs often don't realize the extent to which east coast people don't think the same at all about tech and business. As the author pointed out, he didn't see much value in Stanford seeding their point of view regarding technology and entrepreneurship to the east, he thought the greater value was in Stanford learning their perspectives about fashion and high finance instead. Those are things he sees as more valuable than using star wars metaphors for designing robots, not seeing that there is utility in research and research can sometimes be made fun. Star Wars is not the only influence on the west coast, there is also the very major influence of Star Trek devices on Apple's entire current business model since we've been seeing iPads on west coast produced TV programs since the 1980s and Siri since the 1960s. New Yorkers, as is evidenced by the comments, see that stuff as a bunch of stupid childish geek stupidity which they have contempt and disdain for. Getting bailouts, buying jet airplanes, and having servants are what proper adults should be interested in. Hah, I guess you can tell which coast I favor, I'm biased as well.
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This is a problem of faith/belief. You believe in the business and he doesn't. The most compelling way to convert from one faith to another (without resorting to coercion) is through a religious experience. So in the spirit of "Show, don't tell," provide him with an experience that will alter his beliefs.

In religion, this is usually via miracles. Luckily, you're just dealing with a product, so your job is a little easier. If the product is at a point where play-testing it with potential users is possible, then that would be my immediate course of action. Try to get several individuals or small groups from your target market to attend play-testing events (free food/booze = attendance incentive). For the first event, I'd ask the CTO to facilitate while I observed and alternate for each consecutive session.

The two of you need to examine the possible outcomes beforehand and agree on ways to identify whether it's the product or the facilitator that's producing the results. For instance, should each session he facilitate result in low interest, but each session you facilitate result in positive results, either you're a good salesman or his negativity is infecting others (or both).

It's important to discuss and agree upon how to interpret the results of the play-testing ahead of time so that you are both on the same page. On that same line, you'll want to confirm with him that this is a plan that could potentially change his mind about the product. If so, then ask him what he needs to see in order for that to happen. If not, then find out what, if anything, will alter his perspective.

If he's not open to having a change of heart, then you may want to find a new CTO or move on to the next project.
This guy's experience was almost entirely with front-end technology (pretty much just JSP's actually), and it showed in almost every engineering decision he made. The sad thing is that, there is an argument to be made for denormalizing data and not using foreign keys. That argument is not "they don't buy you anything."
That's true, but the partners at a DC law firm don't go around talking about how they're so <insert positive adjective of choice here> that anybody who want to can wear a suit to work.
Ask HN: Is this iPhone app too trivial/commonplace to promote?
Movie here:

http://basketeerapp.com/

It took about ten tear-downs and do-overs just to make it as simple as possible. I might have simplified it so much that nobody will take it seriously.

I wrote this app mostly for myself as a companion to go with my first iPhone.

My problem is - I don't have a good understanding of the iPhone market, or even the common needs of iPhone users. I have no idea if I should just keep this to myself and just let it disappear into the back hole the appstore apparently is.

Encouragingly, I've already had two anonymous people tell me its something they have been looking for. But how to evaluate a large percentage of a very small selection of users saying its something they have been trying to find in an app?

Should I drop some promo codes here? I have a bunch left but I'm not sure of promo code etiquette on HN.
The "next step" happened a long time ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOcacu2pJD0

http://newstrib.com/articles/news/local/default.asp?article=...

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/10/harrisbur...

http://detnews.com/article/20091112/METRO/911120388/Police-p...
I had a boss once who thought IPv6 had something to do with car engines. I kid you not.
bermanoid wrote: "You're invoking group selection here" ... "it's a classic prisoner's dilemma situation, and if you're going to take one lesson from Dawkins, it's that evolution always chooses to defect)"

It's kin selection, not group selection. Consider Dawkins' "Twelve Misunderstandings of Kin Selection" wherein he writes:

"To stick my neck out a little, it seems to me that, far from genes for altruistic behaviour being implausible, it may even be that a majority of behavioural mutations will turn out to be properly describable as either altruistic or selfish." ... "A gene for altruism, then, is any gene that, compared with its alleles, causes individuals to benefit other individuals at a cost to themselves." ... "But the kind of mutation that could lead to such altruistic restraint could be ludicrously simple. A genetic propensity to bad teeth might slow down the rate at which an individual could chew at the meat. The gene for bad teeth would be, in the full sense of the technical term, a gene for altruism, and it might indeed be favoured by kin selection."

The example I gave seems perfectly aligned with this definition of altruism and kin selection. Indeed, it's a weaker but analogous form of what leads to eusociality. You say "it can't apply evolutionary pressure because it depends on the prevalence of the gene in other members of the population", .... and I think I understand why we disagree. I wrote "population" but sometimes meant "species population" and at other times meant "gene population."

In an extreme hypothetical case, suppose that having a gay sibling help to raise a family meant a 5% improved chance that each child would live to adulthood and children in turn. Suppose also that having two gay siblings meant a -1% improved chance (perhaps because the person consumes more food, which could otherwise go to the children). Then there's strong kin selection here to have some, but not all, gay children. The descendants then become a larger part of the species population.

In this case, I don't see how homosexuality would be a "reproductively negative trait" for the gene, only for some of the individuals carrying the gene.
It's been interesting to read your tweets about Windows. It's encouraging to see a fast learner get up to speed despite plenty of misgivings about the subject matter.

I think it will be less confusing to some if you mention Windows Vista here:

> If you don't have Windows 7, you should seriously consider upgrading. If you still insist on not upgrading then you can try installing it from the download center. You are on you're own though since I don't have Windows XP, but hopefully the PowerShell experience is the same.
Your service actually looks very interesting. Would you be able to tell us about your backend? How are you guys making it real-time? And how are you handeling storage?
Holy wars are pointless... but there is value to a reasonable discussion of two competing editors.
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I'm no expert, but this really sucks that we've reached this point. Can we just come up with a better bill? Why does it have to be this one that every media corp wants to go through.
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Legal tax avoidance in the United States (I'm not American - qualifier) is a common trait throughout most large businesses. If anything, taking part in avoidance would put Megaupload into the same company as GE, Wells Fargo, DuPont, Boeing, Honeywell... All companies who had revenue in the hundred of millions and billions of dollars, yet still received Government rebates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073743/Revealed-The...

Furthermore, Google does +2 billion queries daily yet they still only pay between %2-3 in taxes.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/10/googles-...

I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that it doesn't make Megaupload "shady" for using these legal loopholes.

Furthermore, most people in the piracy "scene" know not to use Megaupload because of their quick compliance with DMCA takedown notices - something that's come over years of investment in their technology and takedown procedures. Anything but shady in my opinion.
Hi,

I love these helpful offers. :)

I'd like to add to the generosity and offer a few things.

- Detailed user feedback on your site/startup/app
- A resume re-write (I used to be a technical resume writer)
- Discuss your ideas/startup options on Skype, brainstorm some possibilities.

I'm happy to help in anyway I can!
I'm my user name on gmail.com

Thanks all - Happy Holidays!
Make sure you are at least getting 1x developers though. While I agree, a solid team is incredibly valuable, if your A-Team is made of folks with zero ability, your team will have zero ability.
2600 games are easy enough to build with a small team and simple enough to have the game mechanics and story completely specified on, say, a single piece of paper. There isn't much room to have a complex story, and there isn't much ability to drift away from the proper story line (since there isn't much of one). By the time of the NES that had definitely changed.
This whole dropped call seems to be an american thing, i am totally satisfied with my Nexus S.

I will always use a Google Nexus Phone, i had a carrier branded one before and what their logo was all over the place.

I hate carriers anyway, they should accept that they provide a commodity called datatransfer and nothing else.
If you are interested in an open source alternative there is Swinger which you can easily run your own copy of: http://swinger.quirkey.com/
Please restrain yourself from swipe generalizations about Indian or Russian programmers.
hey thanks... it's slower, for (obvious) starters. i'm hoping to give a talk at erlang factory in march on the tradeoffs we've made. currently it's using levelDB as the backend (taken from Basho's Erlang leveldb driver)
I need some help and advice with my product. My company (www.pyronyx.com) has recently launched our iPhone app, iQila (www.iqila.com). We envision this app to help people find and share interior design tips and ideas and post questions or get advice from professional interior designers. The app in the current version allows you to take images and post them along with your question. Other users can then comment on your post or share it on Facebook. We have another version coming up with more sharing options and better camera/image UI and layout.

There are a few problems I know are there and I don't have concrete ways to solve:
1. Getting the message across. I find it difficult to explain the idea to people. It's not complicated at all but I think my choice of words is not correct and people don't understand the idea of the app if I email it to them, or through the app store. We've got about 300 downloads in the past week but only a handful of people have used the app.
What do you think after reading the website and app store descriptions? How can I improve it? How can I convert those downloads to users?

2. How do I get professionals to use the app? We plan on having professional profiles where people can search for designers in their areas. That is for a future release, and for that to work, I need to introduce the app to professionals in the field who would want to use the app in the first place to market themselves, answer questions, post ideas etc.. I look up professional interior designers online and personally them on twitter and through email but I'm not seeing ANY feedback. I think I'm lost and need help in targeting and finding the correct users, partners.

3. Any general advice on the product. We've built the app and the web backend such that we can change it for other domains and add and remove features. Initially, we thought of a framework we can provide other companies so that they can have their own similar apps. Although we aren't going that route yet, we ourselves can change directions easily, if need be.

About the company: We are just 2 developers with full time jobs and a shoestring budget.
One more nail in the coffin for recommending web-based services.
If this gets people into vim and helps them understand
some of its craziness, that's awesome. However, like previous commenters have pointed out, most of these examples are actually wrong (not by a mile, but it pays to be precise in vim). Also, even though I love browsing through dotfiles and plugins on code repository sites, I tend to think that beginners to vim should learn slowly, gradually, and build up their knowledge over time, like anything else. Diving into plugins and custom mappings right away is going to be a lot more painful and less productive. And that's the antithesis of vim.
map reduce can be used for garden variety stuff, for instance my blog index is the result of a map reduce index of recent posts (in this case those tagged html5) http://bit.ly/s7NHYM
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here applied the same refusal to work with/hire someone who was affiliated with building DRM? Or any other example of Big Content trying to cripple technology.
"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

You could also go Pareto and say the last 20% takes 80% of your time, so take the time you've spent already and multiply it by 4 to get your remaining time until completion.
I get the feeling Dan Hesse is one of the rare CEOs that has empathy for customers. Sprint used to have the worst customers service, and now it is actually pretty good. An action like this probably increases Sprint's legal liability for CIQ, but it is the best thing for customers. He probably made the executive decision against the advice of corporate council.
People, your domain ideas are excellent but instead of posting them here for all squatters to take, please just register the darn domains. It's only couple of bucks after all.
The good stuff is the original post by Rep. Lofgren, not the comments below it.

She's making a good point about how to approach your Congressmen, so please do.
not your personal army, nancy. get back to work, backboner wont code itself.
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I don't think you can dismiss someones dislike for a language as "they don't know how to use it". Common, many people have been building applications on client and server for 15+ years using JS and whatever exists on the backend. And 90% of the time, the backend language is better, and has way better tooling.

So you can understand and master JS (including prototypical programming) and still hate it.
It's from Brazil: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
Nobody was waiting for really bad things to happen. The current system was in place before the bad people got there.

As an example, nobody was worrying about an AIDS vaccine in the early 1700s...because AIDS wasn't a problem then.
Pornography is not difficult to come by in Islamic nations nowadays (if Pakistan is any indication). Its sold in the same places as other pirated western DVDs, often without the shopowner even realizing that it is a substantively different sort of thing compared to "normal" Western movies, which also tend to feature scantily clad women on the cover. There are also internet cafes with fairly unfiltered access to internet pornography and private rooms.
Install it manually: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-manually-update-your-gsm-n...
In my experience, people who agonize over the individual are usually not thinking about the team. Part of team-building is identifying people with potential and growing them.

When we engineer systems, we try to avoid or deal with single points of failure. The same concept applies to people, except that "failure" when applied to people is often not as easy to define or identify.
I like the checking-off of items as I go round the supermarket.

I doubt I'd use the Tagging (grouping?) feature.
I don't really understand why people want to see this as a "versus" relationship.

Machine learning is part of artificial intelligence.

I found both classes good, a different style, yes, but also a different focus.
And of course taught by different people, not better nor worse.

They all did a great job and because of the interactivity it is a way better experience than just posting the video lectures online.
The fact that the videos are short (instead of a full hour), it also helps people which don't have the time or energy to focus for a full hour.
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