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If only. In San Francisco, at least, the biggest anti-density lobby is the countless neighborhood associations that make it impossible to do anything that could conceivably alter any aspect of daily life.
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Show me a judge that can write Hello World in Java without Googling it.
That's what happens when you bring politics and/or religion into the discussion. It's only a short matter of time before this thread is godwinned.
Ah. Even if, say, the original Times was copyrighted, it would have long expired by now. That's why I don't see any harm in having (reasonable-length) copyright for all typefaces of the last century or so.
About Google, the only way four them to abide to their "don't be evil" motto is to step out of business. But then, why not? They have money, they have brains, they have tools, why should they need to fight with competition? A gradual move towards a university-like model could be the right thing to do.
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Clever.

The entry point is very difficult to find, though.
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Sivers has an awesome post on how him and his dad screwed up some paperwork when he started CD Baby, IIRC, CD Baby was officially part of his dad's company, it cost him $3.3 million to fix it.

http://sivers.org/mistake

Keep in mind that for sivers it would make sense to do something like pay someone $750/hour to make sure his paperwork gets done right.

Whenever someone talks to me about saving money on taxes I remind them of a man named Al Capone and what he actually went to jail for. It wasn't killing people, it wasn't running guns, booze, gambling or many of the things that people think of him as doing illegally...

It was filing his taxes incorrectly.
I am from out of state and live in the bay area. While I am pretty liberal I do think that the author has a point with respect to the cost of living, and abundance of inherited wealth. The only people I know who are buying homes are inherited millionaires or friends that got lucky picking the right startup. That said, I also feel like I understand local governments and Californians position on the issue of maintaining this artificial market. Lets face it This is a beautiful state, and the local population is trying very hard to maintains the 1960's charm of the area. At times I feel like I'm choking to death in overpopulation and an artificial market, but I do appreciate the open spaces and parks. I don't want to look at high rises, I like the California coast.

Maybe its a good thing people are leaving, I want this state all to myself.
The only potential downside I can see is visa issues. Countries such as India have layers of bureaucracy so it might to awhile to get a visa (even a tourist one) or especially, renew it.

Background - I'm an Indian citizen. I went to graduate school in USA and worked for a year. I moved back to India because I am bootstrapping my startup out of my savings and have a much longer runaway living in India.
Sorry to be late to the party-- xaa, could you explain a little more what you mean by

"Ultimately I believe the breakthroughs will come fastest if we can "close the feedback loop" by automating a lot of bench biology, and then have computers both generate and test hypotheses."

I don't know anything about bioinformatics, so I'm trying to see how this differs from vanilla automated model selection. I'm really interested, so please feel free to send me an email if you feel that's more appropriate.
What breaks my heart is that this kind of tragedy is avoidable. He was only 51; died of colon cancer. All we need is to design a wearable device which continuously monitors your body for changes that correlate with "might be developing cancer". (An undershirt, for example.)

This is a solvable problem. Cancer causes measurable (but typically unnoticed) changes to the rest of your body. If it can be measured, it can be monitored; and when that change is detected, a quick trip to the doctor's office would likely save the next 30 years of your life (if it was indeed the very early stages of cancer).

Cancer is beatable; we simply need to beat it before it has the chance to incubate.

This is a problem that I would like to personally work on, but unfortunately it would take at least a year to arrive at a feasible design. It'd need only a small investment (~$1M) but I doubt any investor would be interested in "zero profitability for at least 12 months".
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Google cleaning staff rotate shifts with Google engineers. They are in fact the same thing. All part of the Zen of Google.
Or the 1961 Great Rose Bowl Hoax that inspired it, which might not be as high-tech, but is to me even more satisfying because they tricked an entire crowd of UW fans into unwittingly cheering for their nerdy and ignored school.

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

They even made the first few compromised banners subtle enough that the crowd kept going with it until the finale where they wrote "CALTECH," an unmistakable prank.
Ask HN: IT startup
So, I'm at a point in my life I want to do a tech startup. I had coffee with two friends this morning and we talked about startups, currently issues, and explore ideas.

At the end of the coffee meeting, it was agreed upon that I had wanted to start a small IT service company doing data backup and recovery. Software for data transfer and recovery are affordable to get started on.

But, has IT become an inflated field where it's practically impossible to survive? I got only so much to work with. I see companies offering the same services (mainly online backup) for such low premiums.

Please let me know!

Thanks!
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If you are just looking for a cheap place to live, you're actually better off staying in the US. Medium size American cities (think Portland, Richmond, etc) are essentially free compared to SF, NYC, DC, etc. While they aren't as cheap as some other countries, you don't have to buy a plane ticket, and you have all the convenience(ish) of home.
I ran a company in the Philippines for two years. It was a good experience -- good, not great.

Pros:

* Cheap -- You can make it as cheap as you want. You can get down to $100-$200 per month if you're aggressive. But understand that you won't have the western lifestyle that you're used to. If you want a nice western kitchen, bathroom, consistent electricity, consistent bandwidth, then you're going to pay more and more. I found a sweetspot of about $1k/month total expenses.

* Quality of living -- this is related to cost. You can have a full time maid, driver, etc. It's totally normal, totally acceptable, and improves mental health significantly.

* Tropical weather, access to many travel destinations

Cons:

* Far from family and friends

* Lots of business travel -- If you have customers in the U.S. or Europe, inevitably you're going to end up traveling there frequently. This bothers some people more than others. It really wore me down.

* Difficult hiring environment -- It can be really hard to find top tier talent. Either be patient, or be willing to pay above market rates.

* Weak legal system -- As you achieve success, you will unfortunately become target of occasional shady behavior. For example, an accountant who skims petty cash, or a server admin who locks you out of your own servers. In the U.S., those risks are mitigated by a good legal system (and background checks, credit agencies, reliable postal system, etc). In developing countries, you are largely on your own. That can lead to a feeling of helplessness. Toughen up. Hire lawyers.

Non-cons:

* Taxes -- Yes, international taxes are complicated; however, you can easily afford local legal services to handle everything.

* Foreign bank accounts -- Not as scary as FACTA sounds. Hire a good U.S. accountant to do your taxes.

We had a U.S. LLC and local entity in the Philippines. Doing business as a U.S. entity is 1000x easier (think about payments, collections, legal services, etc). Have a local entinty for all local staff and your office.

The Philippines, like many developing countries, has many special government programs to encourage entrepreneurship. For example, we were in a program that granted a 5-year tax holiday and special visas for "job creators".
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Yes You might argue that.
But the vendors should do some kind preventive mechanism on doing this. I don't know what.
If they need to serve there customers well, they need to focus on that.
What we need is a preventive mechanism and if they don't do this.
This will be the next generation viruses. And extreamly dangerous.
Sad. I really admired him - MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer was a huge influence for me when I was starting out.
"Run it while traveling on a tourist visa?".
Maybe I misunderstand, but if you are going the illegal route, why to do it all the way? Just run a company without paperwork.
Japan is not alone with this. Just about all of (central) Europe has excellent public transportation, too.
Singapore is a very easy place to incorporate (24 hours + $350), but there are enough other downsides (credit card merchant account, banking, foreign reporting) - that it's probably worth doing what the other people advise here, and just set up your US LLC/corp and bank account in the U.S. first, then take off and go hang in Phnom Penh, Nha Trang, Luang Prabang, Chiang Mai, Bali, Kerala, etc. (I can introduce you to interesting techies in any of these places & more. Feel free to email me at derek@sivers.org)

Singapore often wins the “ease of doing business” awards, but those are grading things like imports/exports, foreign employees, and such.

When it comes to doing an internet-based business, U.S. wins hands-down. All those lovely online things like Stripe, easy online banking, online statements, PayPal integration and such are much harder to set up outside the U.S. So set it all up first. Online-only statements for your bank, etc.

Oh and yes, EarthClassMail is awesome. Set it up first before you incorporate, and make your EarthClassMail address the sole address for your LLC/corporation from the start. It's a little expensive but so worth it.

Get a CPA you trust in the U.S. first, and give them some pre-signed blank business checks before you go. There are some things that require paper checks, and it's a drag when you're across the world and need to send one. Usually they're tax-related so have your CPA send one of your pre-signed checks. And when needed, have EarthClassMail forward tax things to your CPA.

On that note, it helps if a family member can sign your name for you, so if some forms insist that they need the "signed original", you don't have to have a f'ing FedEx jet flying a piece of f'ing paper to Asia and back just to get your pen on it.

Hope that helps. I won't be monitoring this HN post for future comments, so anyone please feel free to email me with any questions.

- Derek
Don Quixote needs to be on this list. I started it a few years ago and every time I pick it up I feel like a kid inside. If my parents had read that to me chapter by chapter, from age four on I think I would've been in bedtime heaven.
If you don't fill up dozens of football fields worth of city space with parking lots but instead build buildings, cities tend to get a lot more manageable without a car.

Case in point: Just about all of Europe.
I find it hard google took away customizing the theme. The classic theme 'Tree' is the only one that I feel a little good about.
If you don't figure out how to create a differentiated service, product or software (!) then you will have a hard time no matter what you do.
Sorry, that should be '2x', not 'x2'. The img '2x-res' property could also be used to provide an asset-specific 2x-res filename key as such:

<img 2x-res="@2x" />

If we wanted this to affect the image asset requested by the CSS background-image and border-image values as well, then a new CSS property would be required for flagging 2x-res active or not and an asset-specific 2x filename key. But its use would be vastly superior to -webkit-image-set, as you could just do this:

.class {2x-res: "@2x"}

or:

.class {2x-res: "false"}

The only limitation is that these 2x assets must share the same filename with the 1x, except for the addition of a 2x key at the end of the filename. However, that seems to be what people are already doing simply to keep track of their assets, and it's much easier to sell me on this imposition than on having to redo all my CSS in the most redundant and painful way imaginable.
I'd rather have my kids grow up in a place where they learn that anything is possible than a place where I can "get more house".
FYI, unless you're willing to live like a bum Thailand isn't a cheap place to live. My rent is 75% of what I paid for a Nob Hill apartment and my car payment is 100% more expensive (import duties). If you're willing to live like a bum you've got tons of options, including moving out to Nowhere USA. My parents spend part of their year in Tucson, AZ. I've seen ok homes for sale there for under 100k. The used car market is incredible as is the case in most of the US. You'd have to deal with chain restaurants and strip malls but at the fraction of the cost of most urban centers.

I would recommend setting up your company offshore. It's not as complicated as people make it out to be (unless they're selling their services) and I know plenty of long-term expats who have done so without issue. Chances are if you're asking this question here you're not going to be on anyone's radar with your company.

The US does want you to: 1) File taxes regardless of residence. If you're declaring personal income you're exempt up to 95k or so but even if you make under that you're expected to file. Having said that I don't know anyone who does or anyone who has ever had an issue. I talked to the IRS once about it (I was young and wasn't making over the limit and hadn't filed taxes for years) and they suggested to get up to speed to just file back reports and ask for the exemption as normal. 2) I guess now you're supposed to declare any foreign bank account with more than 10k in it. I've never heard of this being enforced in any way.

As far as I know probably your easiest route it to move to HK. They seem to have the most lax immigration policies and it's easy to set up a company there. Rent is like central SF (same size/price ratio). If you're not selling products in HK you're not liable for taxes (standard tax haven stuff).

Or just setup your company there and live somewhere else. If you do that though you're going to have to deal with immigration somehow because you'll permanently be a tourist. If you're a tourist in most of these destinations you're looking at moving in and out of the country 3 - 4 times a year or more. Between my first and second company I was living here and fell into a sort of immigration limbo, having to live as a tourist for quite a while. I assure you that going in and out of the country to keep your paperwork current gets old really fast.

This was assuming you're a US citizen. If not ignore the US-specific info.
Has anyone ever actually bought one of these domain names?

I tried to once. I had a good idea one day and wanted the domain name for it. It was a somewhat out-of-the-blue idea, so I wasn't really expecting it to be taken, but it was and all the names somewhat close to it were taken as well. I went back to the original name I wanted and e-mailed the squatter asking how much he wanted, hoping it would only be in the low hundreds of dollars. He e-mailed me back asking for $6600. When I said that it was too high and I wasn't interested, I got a much less professional e-mail:

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Keep or find other domain name

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I said it was still too expensive, and got

"LOL ...

Bye"

I went to the website that the e-mail was sent from and it was all Lorem Ipsum. When I went back to the domain name I wanted when I was writing this, it had a startup-y logo, a promise of something cool being built, and an invitation to follow the developers (a tech blog I had never heard of) on facebook or twitter. It was all sounding legitimate, and I was upset that someone else apparently had an idea that was probably similar to mine, until I started clicking the really random assortment of "sponsor" links (to medical and legal sites, which pay a lot for ads but which had no obvious connection to any idea that would be associated with the domain name) and some of them took me to more lorem ipsum sites.

Very mysterious, and tremendously irritating.
Their hybrid offering still leaves a lot to be desired. They're more like two separate products, and even being on a sales call with them involved people from each team. It lacks a unified product experience.
Look at Europe or Asia: All them old cities were designed without cars. Actually, many European cities today opt for car-free downtown areas.
I'm a C++ programmer and I can't write Hello World in Java without googling it.
Abundance mentality is an excellent term, I'll happily rip it and use it from now on.

Indeed, the "safe" route could be called survivor mentality; to maximize the chances of not dying without offspring. What about a world where you are not really in danger? When you already have food, clothing and a house, and no one is preventing you from procreating at will?

Those who in that position still want a bigger house, more food, a yacht, expensive sports car and a harem; they're still in survival mode _after already having survived_ past any meaningful definition of survival.

They're over-survivers; and indeed, it's not a binary thing but a spectrum.

Hence, try to enjoy the abundance, and let others enjoy it; develop your attitude towards abundance mentality. We all have already survived.
That took me a second to figure out how to rotate pieces. After leaving it alone a couple of times I've decided that it creates some pretty interesting patterns. It's not nearly as creative, but it would be neat if eventually favicons could be a little more useful and perhaps display something unique to the page that you're on.
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That's true, and I think this applies too all innovators and startups who goes into the field.

Massess for the crowd no?
Sometimes HN really feels like a Tim Robbins seminar.
I thought people generally liked the Borderlands item system. They're keeping it for the sequel that's coming out later this year. There were some useless items, but that tends to be the case even when designers make the weapons if the game is the sort that boasts a huge number of them. Crap finds go hand-in-hand with big item catalogs, because the point of that kind of system is to create a sort of lottery.
I think this is a valid to an extent, like accepting a title of "expert" in a technology used by the company that you know well but are not actually a real "expert" in. You and I know that the real experts are the guys constantly replying to stuff on the mailing lists and making lots of significant patches to the core of the project, but sometimes it's OK to condescend to use the vocabulary of the plebes and just embrace "expert" within that context. You aren't deceiving anyone here because it's just a different definition of a word, and you are using the definition that the other people expect. In fact one could say it's deceptive to insist on your specific concept of an expert when you know that the people interviewing just need someone qualified.

But I think claiming experience with an explicit version that was stated is going a little bit too far. It's important to clarify. Maybe someone actually does need help with the new platform, and after all, if they're having inept recruiters do their pre-hire screening, you're probably not missing much anyway.

There is a bit of line to fudge there but it definitely doesn't extend into falsifying tasks or skillsets imo.
The link in the article to "The Man Who Owns the Internet" (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...) is far more interesting than the article itself.

It almost makes Mann look like a rank amateur by comparison...
I think the higher you go in the level of production (like the AAA games you mentioned) the harder it gets.

But how about Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress or DCSS?
If you put anything at the top of your to-do list that you don’t _have to_ read and pay attention to you’ll ignore it sooner or later.

Ever invited someone new to your home and been surprised at the things that caught their attention? The things we make permanent fixtures in our environment—unless we have to interact with them or they change—ultimately get accepted and forgotten. Many people really hate to accept this because it means that any positive changes that we create in our life will ultimately be eroded. A solution to this problem is one of my main preoccupations.

In the mean time, the question that should be being asked is how _exactly_ will you live your life differently in order to adhere to these standards? And apply that question to tomorrow, next week, next season, next year, and the next five years. You could try writing a plan but then plans fail because they speculate. Sorry I don’t have any real answers.
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Building the site with core features will take time. We want to validate our concept before building too much.

Is a website with screens and no working features sufficient?

Why shouldn't we talk to friends?

What recommendations do you have to getting the concept to core customers?
This article made me finally bite the bullet and convert. I've been using the new design for the last several hours. I happen to have a window open with the old design, so I know it's not merely my imagination that the new one is worse. Not enormously so, but definitely worse.

Read mails are more legible in the old version, because there is more contrast between black letters and the old light blue background than between black and the new gray.

It's also harder to parse the list of emails visually in the new design. In the old one, the 3D checkbox acted like a bullet point, and the name of the sender was closer to it. Now the heavy checkbox has been replaced by a faint square, and the sender's name is about 2x further away from it. So scanning my email is no longer like scanning a bulleted list. It's just rows of text.

That's a big deal functionally. There's a reason bulleted lists exist as a format, and removing the bullet points from the average bulleted list would make it significantly less legible.

It's a bummer to see Google making things work worse in order to make them look better (or worse still, more consistent). That's the sort of thing big companies do. Which I suppose Google now is. But they had at least been trying not to act like one before.
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Yes, it would be worth the comedy value to see a restaurant run this way. Somebody wants to make a lobster souffle with organic leeks and poison ivy, somebody else thinks they can make the perfect grilled cheese. The customer is left hungry, and wishing somebody in the kitchen would show some leadership.
In case anyone wants to read this on their e-reader, here is a single page version - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2177514/Valve_Handbook_LowRes_single...
Your message sounds feasible but lacks enough to details for me to figure out whether you're being serious or not..?