skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Get a paid Meetup.com account and start a "FOO Area Startup Group" meetup, give it all the correct tags, and once a few people join, start doing meetups. They don't necessarily have to be anything fancy, just meeting at a Barnes & Noble or Starbucks for coffee is a good way to get started.

Go from there. Practice marketing the group the way you'd market a business. Mine LinkedIn for leads, cold-email people, ask for referrals, all the normal stuff.

Edit: Almost forgot... use the "Hackers & Founders" name, and be sure to join the national Hackers & Founders mailing list. When you have meetings, announce them here on HN, use Twitter, G+, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

If there isn't much of an entrepreneurial scene locally, you might not be so much finding one as helping create one. Good luck.
Most other industrialized countries have heavy government involvement and pay half what we do with the same outcomes. We just have a hybrid system with capitalism applied in the stupidest way..
I see the 3rd Ed for $5.99 at Amazon US and the 2nd ed. under item review (not for sale). I'm guessing Amazon wants 2nd Ed customers to buy the 3rd Ed., ie no free updates even though the author is gracious and owns the rights. Amazon kindle store rights trumps author and customer licensing. This is sad and I hope it works out. what kind of world are we living in?
Depends on the item. For example a car or a house also provides utility which is value extracted and not a loss. Most items should appreciate in line with inflation, all else being equal - after all inflation doesn't change real values, just the digits used to express that value.

And in this example if I sold it for $100 then no tax would be due at all under current schemes. In your case I still have paid $40 in taxes in addition to the losses from inflation.
> For sure, everywhere has culture if your definition of culture is sufficiently malleable.

That's not what I wrote. I wrote that different folks think that culture means different things, not that those folks have a changing definition of culture.

I get that you like NYC. However, I'll bet that you don't actually take advantage of the culture that you find essential all that often. You're paying for the ability to drop in on a broadway show every day even though you'll likely do it only once every 3-5 years.

I'm glad that you think that you're getting value for your money. How about being respectful of other people's choices wrt their money?
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That makes sense, I agree. The "even" was more given its reputation: most Europeans I know are not surprised that the US sends large bills for ER visits, but don't expect the same from Canada.

I could almost imagine a financially manageable system where Canada gave free ER care to anyone except Americans, but that would produce obvious political problems.
The great thing is that this expense grows at a rate of 9%/year while the economy is stagnant. If GDP miraculously and immediately begins to grow at 5%/year, health care spending will completely eclipse it in 50 years. If it does not, health care spending will completely eclipse it in 28 years.
It depends on the policy.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copayment
The safe spot works for me. The safe spot exploits the fact that ghosts are not allowed to turn upwards in the corridor immediately below the safe spot [1]. That behavior was accurately emulated in this version.

Make sure the red ghost passes below your safe spot from right to left. It wants to turn upwards, but it is not allowed to, so it has to keep going. It then circles around back in a T shape.

Make sure you are facing upwards, so that the blue ghost circles the center of the maze.

Finally, be mindful of the scatter phases [2]. A scatter phase will bring the red ghost out of his loop, so you need to lure him back into it. After the final scatter phase you can stay in the safe spot indefinitely.

[1] http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...

[2] http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...
No, sir, it's not inappropriate. The cost of health care is a major cost to most businesses. Startups are lucky that the investors bear the cost; but it shows up as a major line item, second only to salaries, in the typical startup's pro forma expense budget. You could probably stretch your first round 15% further timewise if you could get employees without buying them health insurance.
They are controlled for me by the females of my species.
Does this explain why many crappy infomercials are airing late night on TV. By that point people have depleted their willpower and will just buy any junk that is shown to them?
I'm pretty sure OHIP will cover your health expenses, but at the Ontario-based care rates.. You just have to submit receipts to OHIP. Everything extra would be out of pocket, and I see how that could be pricey.
The publisher gets a minimum royalty/commission per sale, regardless of how Amazon discounts promotion, except in the case where the publisher joins the Free X of the Day rotation.
I've used PHP a lot, work at a name-brand startup that uses a fair bit of PHP in the stack, and have an OSS PHP project I'm proud of (https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon). That is to say, I'm not a PHP hater. I see many flaws in the language, many many actually, but I'm not a hater.

But I wonder if maybe you're blind to the ways your PHP is different. Dozens of modules and hundreds of functions come directly with the language core. And very very esoteric stuff. Why does my programming language have a function to tell me specifically what day Easter is? Whaa? Why do I have to recompile my programming language to install new libraries? (PCNTL, for example).

If PHP is a salad bar, Python (for example) is prix fixe.
You're missing my point. I'm not really arguing about which billion dollar company did or didn't copy trivial/non-trivial patents from another billion dollar company.

You seem to think that anything legally allowed is ethical. That if Apple has an obligation to their shareholders to do X and X is legal, then it's totally ethical for Apple to do X.

That's not what ethical means.
Three beautiful words to a capitalist: "Sustainable competitive advantage."

> it's only fair in areas which are new and not saturated by established players.

What is your definition of "fairness," and why should we care whether it is a property of capitalism?

I think you're saying something like "capitalism encourages incumbents to build fences to keep newcomers out."

That's true. Antitrust law exists to discourage certain types of fences that we find undesirable.

But other types of fences are perfectly OK -- for example, AMD and Intel spend hundreds of millions, if not billions, every year on R&D to keep raising their technology head-start fence, to keep competing chip vendors out of their markets. The result from the consumer's point of view is a virtuous cycle of continually improving products at the same price point from these industry leaders, with a "long tail" starting with successively older generations of obsolete processors on the secondary market, down to much cheaper ARM's which have much lower performance but are perfectly adequate for many applications.

If incumbents can always build fences so strong that they are invulnerable:

How did Google win against Yahoo?

How did cable providers win against over-the-air TV networks?

How did Netflix kill Blockbuster?

How did Microsoft triumph over IBM?

When incumbents fence themselves in, times are good for them for a little while -- but usually the incumbents end up as slow, fat targets for fast-moving, lean startups.

This is especially true once the management team that established the incumbents has moved on or retired, and their replacements listen when the accountants tell them how much money they can make if they raise prices, cut costs, or reduce their investment in fences.
I agree with many of the comments: Get this in the app store quick!! Then, release alternative versions later.

I'd buy it just to show my friends and maybe jam a little like you did. So rad. Triple "like". I hope you make a million dollars.
I think this would be a good use case for CORS. You'd be able to have users upload lage images, accessible through the CMS, without locking up any of your (as an example)Nginx processe during the transfer. Very attractive.
Coinsurance/copays prevent moral hazard. If people paid nothing they would have an incentive to overuse insurance.
The US healthcare system combines everything that is bad about a state-run socialized system with everything that is bad about privately funded care.

To add insult to injury, we do not pay substantially less taxes than, say, Canadians. If we paid Costa Rican taxes I'd be fine with it, but we don't.
You're still stuck with a bill, if you're a foreigner. They will treat you, like they will in most of the world. But you're still stuck with a bill afterwards.

Also, unless my memory is totally off, each country has to pay up for EHIC, depending on who used what, and visa versa. So the cost should be evened out.

Edit, because I cannot reply to you later down: I think we have a different view on what emergency medical care is. In most of the world you will get fixed up so that you are no longer in life threatening condition, this is the case in USA, Denmark and Norway. But afterwards you will have to pay, even in Denmark, as long as you're not apart of EU and have the European Health Insurance Card or a citizen of any of the Nordic countries, which has a special agreement.
Turned out to be false.
This statement sounds totally odd to me on both ends.

First, the US pays more in a lot of markets. By and large, that's because we can.

Second, capitalism isn't applied. That sounds like it's some sort of regulatory tool that just isn't being used correctly. Capitalism is the absence of government force in an economic market with the notable exception of enforcing private property rights. You can say a lot about the US healthcare situation, but "applied capitalism" it is not.
Couldn't agree more. I booted up my launch-day Pre also and while the hardware wasn't performant by any means for the OS they did so many things right. I also found I actually really miss the physical vertical slide-out keyboard.
"It's not going to be okay" - Microsoft manager on getting a bad review/rank
Costa Rica has universal health care funded by their not having a military, IIRC
My company bootstrapped and we just initiated a group policy 13 months after our doors opened. This is, of course, anecdotal, but I think it's very well in the realm of possibility. Regardless, even in states like CA high-deductible plans (i.e. catastrophic care plans) are very much attainable both by small businesses and by individuals.

Contractors in the US get hit with a fairly sizable self-employment tax. This tax would no doubt go up to fund any sort of universal health insurance.

Regardless, I don't see the need to 'scratch your entrepreneurial itch' as a valid reason to stick you neighbor with your medical bills.
Germany isn't badly connected and any extra latency can be largely mitigated by using a CDN for your static assets.

As for desktop-grade hardware - I haven't seen this mentioned by anyone else. Any links to back it up?

If that's true (and I doubt it is), it's avoidable if you use their extremely well priced colo option (which is what I'm going for).
Hmmm The Honey Porter seems to lack honey.
The only issue with images is where you would want the image to be processed (resized for example), before being published, as S3 quite rightly doesn't carry out that sort of function. Using a 2000x2000 image as a thumbnail is not a great idea.
By relative risks you mean the possibility that an event occurs that requires medical care?

If so, there are many cases where a founder or their family member has a pre-existing condition that makes them uninsurable. If someone loses the genetic lottery and has a severe case of asthma it can greatly change their calculus. Would you advise someone to start a company if they knew that in 12 months they'd have to hit it big or give up due to the prospect of future medical bills?
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The act of you BEING ABLE to. Thats the point i was making in the first post.
There are many problems with patents but these sort of patents come about 10th on the list of problem areas if they are a problem area at all. I just can't get worked up at all about it. There are many better examples illustrating need for patent reform.

The scope is highly limited and no one needs to practice them at all. There are still issues of accidental infringement and the high costs of defending actions particularly in the US. However you could just wait until challenged on issues of this type and then workaround removing the incentive to prosecute an action against SME's.

To take your analagy it is more like the rough surface of a newly paved road than potholes.
No, that just happens to be the time when the networks don't have any programming, which they sell for a much more reasonable price than prime time commercials.
>Regardless, I don't see the need to 'scratch your entrepreneurial itch' as a valid reason to stick you neighbor with your medical bills.

Problem is that with two employees, you can get a group plan, and yeah,you've gotta pay your five hundred bucks per person a month or what have you, it's not cheap, but you can buy insurance.

My problem is that two employee minimum. I mean, am I that much lower of a risk because I work at a company with two employees, rather than just one? sounds unlikely.
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That isn't the case; Denmark simply does not charge for acute emergency visits, and does not send a bill. In addition, they pay for their own residents who incur such bills within the EU on trips under 30 days [1], which is part of the controversy: a French person who ends up in a Danish ER is not billed, but a Danish person who ends up in a French ER is billed, with the bill paid by the Danish government. Most Danes would prefer that each country provide free emergency care to all, like they do with fire and police.

[1] http://www.sos.dk/en/Corporate/OurNetwork/ForMedicalFaciliti...
Apple can't let just anyone post apps to the App Store, because the whole idea behind that store is to provide products that meet minimum quality requirements, so users don't have to search through all the crap to find the good stuff.

I just wanted to extract this out into its own post. I don't believe it requires any additional commentary.
I guess Apple must have patented "bigger size"
A large number of people happen to select the iPhone over alternatives. That does not mean Apple loses the right to design the iPhone.

Shopping malls get to reject tenants. Store owners get to reject products. Store owners also get to make loud religious and political statements (Forever 21 anyone?). Nobody owes you disinterested businesses or general purpose computing.

I agree that its erosion is dangerous, which is why my last smartphone was a Motorola Droid 3. It had superior specs and more freedom, but after a couple of months, revealed itself to be absolute crap. At the end of the day I took the tightly integrated and polished walled garden over what was at that point bloated, buggy abandonware, and it's one of the best electronics purchasing decisions I've ever made. I consider it wrong that people believe this option shouldn't even be available to consumers.

Same goes for software freedom. I would move from OSX to Ubuntu, from Creative Suite to GIMP, and from Office to Libre/Neo/OpenOffice in a heartbeat if either of those products served my needs effectively. I have tried them all, and they don't.

It's great that the anti-Apple crowd continues to make noise. Consumers should know what they're getting into, and I hope the Android ecosystem develops a high-quality, mature, stable, non-gimmicky product. But handset manufacturers are not last-mile infrastructure. Consumers have a choice. Popularity != absolute control.
What about when a file is fsynced?
It's almost impossible to get a permanent citizenship in any of the scandinavian countries (besides Svalbard, which is a part of Norway, but really strange case). You either have to be some sort of highly educated person or marry someone with a permanent citizenship, and even then there are some restrictions.

Inside of EU and Schengen you should be able to get a limited work permit. Then you are usually covered by local health care after a couple of months paying tax.
An ad-free site of videos for kids: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/netflix-just-for-kids-xbox-...
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Just like how they added someFunc()[0] syntax recently I guess they will make these work one by one where the demand is by people wanting to use them. Granted it would be great if the compiler wasn't so brittle.
If you object to the system of tipping waiters so strenuously that you're willing to stiff someone who earns a bottom-quartile income to serve you, just don't eat at sit-down restaurants.

Going to sit-down restaurants and refusing to tip is a great recipe for becoming a pariah.
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> are you referring to the latency

Yes, "high latency" was referring to the latency. A CDN for static assets doesn't mitigate the fact that the initial request, and everything dynamic is on the wrong side of the planet for most startups' users.

> Any links to back it up?

Hetzner.de. They list the hardware in the boxes. It's desktop processors, desktop motherboards, desktop hard drives and non-ECC RAM in all the cheap server lines.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

7200RPM hard drives, Core/Athlon processors and non-ECC RAM don't belong in servers.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2009/10/dram-study-turns-ass...

According to Google's study, you would expect about 2 memory errors per day per server running 24/7. You need ECC RAM.

> I doubt it is

It's rude to publicly call someone a liar without evidence.
I tip 20% because the math is easier.

I have found that if you're a regular at a restaurant or a bar, and you consistently tip 20%, you'll be remembered for it. It's a good thing.

Most of us wouldn't notice the difference between 15% and 20%, even at a Michelin-starred restaurant, by the time we're looking at our finances aggregated in Mint. My recommendation: just tip 20%. You'll be happier in the long run, and your servers will be too.
Which is a problem in and of itself...languages shouldn't have config files.
Without having investigated it, I would guess that the parser isn't abstract and modular enough so they end up with a mess of code trying to handle all the different possible combinations of syntax.
"...Apple has crafted a marketplace that offends nobody."

Apple could keep this curated marketplace and at the same time allow sideloading of applications, like many Android phones do. By taking that simple step, concerns about censorship would be ameliorated.
Sure - I'll put something together this weekend. Also, if it helps, ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch.
> Are they suing Microsoft over Windows Phone?

The don't need to, they got Microsoft to buy a license.

It's interesting that Microsoft chose to purchase a license outright rather than work out a cross-licensing deal. It seems like MS did this to lay the groundwork for Apple to purse their competition in the Android space, since Apple could then go to court and say, "Look, even Microsoft paid for a license!"
You can figure try to figure out the "why" for specific cases but it's tedious work and comes down to subjective opinions that can't be generalized to other cases. The theoretical worth of the shadowy middlemen (whether they gov't or insurance companies) and where the blame lies can be debated. All these arguments rely upon theoretical simplifications of very complex systems--meaning they are almost impossible to model.

What's more important is the "what" as in what are our alternatives. Luckily, we have tons of empirical data from other countries and they all tell the same story: America pays more money, with poorer results.

So why not just copy the models of other countries?
I don't think kidney stones are really going to get someone denied for insurance. There is no reason I should have to pay for your healthcare. I pay for my healthcare. You pay for your own damn healthcare. (note that I am self employed and had no problems getting a high deductible health plan).

Now if when you say you are short and stout (or however you worded it) you actually mean you are 500 pounds and obese, then get on treadmill. Absolutely no reason I should have to pay for your healthcare because of your poor life decisions.
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I got married. Now, for better or worse, my wife controls them for me.
For the record, Romney was instrumental in repealing the "blue laws" that forbid Sunday sales of alcohol in Massachusetts. He also tried to legalize wine shipment in the state but was foiled by the (Democrat dominated) legislature.
Tell me that. C++ is a widely used industrial language.
This country is still suffering from slavery and racism. We would have had socialized healthcare in 1948 were it not for the fucking asshole racists who didn't want to desegregate the hospitals.

Our basketcase of a healthcare system kills 45,000 people per year. That's a 9/11 every 24 days. It's inexcusable.
> You linked to a provincial health service for B.C. residents. That's not Canadian coverage and I don't see where it says that medication is covered.

Your profile says your in Toronto did you recently move from the states? The Canadian constitution divided healthcare into a the provincial area of responsibility.[1]

> Most citizens in Canada don't have free (or reduced cost) medication unless they are below the poverty line.
Might not appear so to you but most are a reduced price. Relevant quote "A Canadian law authorizes a review board to order a price reduction whenever the price of a drug exceeds the median of the prices in six European countries plus the United States."[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_healthcare
[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Re-frame your situation. Don't think of it as controlling or fighting your urges. Think of it as a sign that you should be doing something else. St. Augustine of Hippo said that we, being physical creatures, need some amount of pleasure in order to be healthy. If we don't get legitimate pleasure, then we'll go for the kind of pleasure that taxes us.

Are you getting enough exercise? Enough sleep? Eating right? We've had a bunch of threads on Hacker News on the importance of meditation. From your user-name, you probably know about the NoFap group on Reddit. They will have plenty of advice: http://www.reddit.com/r/nofap

James Altucher's posts aren't directly related to your question, but his Daily Practice will help you. http://www.jamesaltucher.com
TLDR: author lacks basic understanding of both macroeconomics and the reasoning underpinning the complexity of modern tax systems (here's a hint: tax codes always start off simple and get more complicated to minimize evasion and loopholes.)

The idea would not work anywhere unless adopted everywhere; a perpetual 4% tax on wealth in one nation would lead to the immediate or near immediate flight of capital to other nations.

On the flipside, a 3% tax on income is generally too low to be meaningful except in ridiculously small European countries. At 3%, you might as well just not bother with an income tax because the cost of calculating and collecting the tax (both on the government and on taxpayers) would in most countries exceed the revenue brought in.