skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely a reality I am vouching for. Right now the AMA (American Medical Association) actively places roadblock in the way of foreign doctors who want to practice in the US by forcing them through additional testing and years of training. We commonly joke that the purpose of one of our medical exams, Step 2 CS, functions to weed out foreign non-English speaking doctors (there is a whole section of the exam devoted to english proficiency), and for AMA to profit from the exam admission fee.
Forgive my ignorance, but he talks about "necessary capital", and fails to explain why and what it is for. Is this something the regulators demand in order to protect his customers? Isn't that desirable?

Further, if he has put $1m in to the project, should he not have checked that laws and regulation first?

Perhaps the writer assumes a lot of knowledge on the part of the reader.
Think of car insurance, which is mandatory (agree some people still ignore it) yet is super competitive. And they don't compete on price. They just differentiate in the market around price and services.
> Correct. But as I started off, I'm self-employed.

Ok, that makes sense. I do pay SSI in China, but I'm sure I'll never see anything good from that. Would have been nice to at least get a 401K or something. Retirement funding is also another huge pain in the ass for expats.

> Now, a tax return can cover multiple people and some of the Americans living abroad are children. I'll be generous and say that some one million people aren't following the law, compared to a few hundred people who are doing what the law says in order to avoid the extra hassle.

Everyone who has an accountant doing their taxes is following the law, and that is much of the high end (sans those who are explicitly dodging taxes, of course). I do see my friends who have accountants paying more than me, but I think this is because the accountants are very conservative in how they deal with double taxation.

Most of us are mostly following the law.

> Has that reporting rate gone up or down? How much revenue has the US gotten from its ex-pats because of the heightened reporting requirements?

Many of us are just normal worker bees who already pay enough taxes in the country we are working in. It makes no sense for us to renounce our citizenship to not pay taxes we don't need to pay anyways.

> Before I moved here, I visited often for work. I would rent a business apartment for a month or two. Most work on P.O.s and the giro/SWIFT system, not by credit card or cash. I also had difficulty purchasing some things online because sites wanted a Nordic bank card.

I have the opposite problem: I don't have a US credit card and get lots of pain because of that. The Chinese system is quite limited.

> You could not file your income tax. It seems that over 1 million people don't do so. It would help if you never wanted to return to the US. (A friend of mine lives in Shanghai, and has for almost 10 years. I'm pretty sure she's not paid US taxes during that time.)

She probably doesn't have to pay US taxes if she's paying higher Chinese taxes. Anyways, she should file tax forms just to put $0 on that line.
What Map:Reduce can't do.
Well, name.com seems to be taking this in good humor on Twitter:

"@HackThePlanet Can you just send a postcard next time?" https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/332304801050271744

"@xDictate Yes. It's been a huge pain in the ass, yet it's hard not to appreciate great technical savvy." https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/332308994255384577

Regarding elephants: "@BobSnooks Even though it feels like we're getting trampled by them, we still won't shoot." https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/332232278078001153

Hopefully this is an indication they'll be willing to release full details of the incident. In contrast, Linode seems to take their image way too seriously and refuses to say anything that might make them look bad. (Of course, not saying anything makes them look worse, but they don't seem to realize that.)
You can start off with "cause of action" and "standing".
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The button should say "Agreed. And send the message to my Contacts."

No one would press that. Hence the fraud.
Aaron so far hasn't had any friends or allies in this. Nobody else (as far as I know) has committed to dealing with this law.
I made Cheqbook with my accountant co-founder after he got sick of only being able to recommend Quickbooks Desktop for his clients. Most people still use accounting on desktops and still have to move the company files around by thumb drive or email.

We tried the other online solutions first but found they were not proper accounting tools. They didn't have necessary reports and double-entry books. In most cases, we had to fight with the UI to get anything done. Ultimately, we built this so accountants and bookkeepers could handle more clients and business owners could concentrate on their business.

I would love any feedback.
Stripe has been absolutely flawless in my experience over a couple projects. And it's always instant setup, unlike Braintree IIRC.
Avoiding "not even wrong" syndrome
I don't think the market for a hacker-friendly Nook is as big as you think it would be.
Its funny you had to mention 5 or 6 different cars to cover all the aspects of Tesla's 'inferiority'.
It's legal to download The Great Gatsby in most of the world
Notice that the Onion Tech Blog is an entirely new site with a single post. Presumably because if this was posted on theonion.com no one would've believed it.
Is Kaiser Permanent like an ACO?
I was on vacation for the last week and along the beach I counted at least 20 Kindle eInk devices. Maybe 2-3 iPads/generic tablets. E-Ink readers can't be beat outdoors and for long form reading.
We went through AngelPad (accelerator in SF) just before we raised, and through the program we received our initial $20k funding from AngelPad and $100k convertible debt funding from two VC firms associated with AngelPad (so a total of $120k as soon as we got into AngelPad). We then raised a further $50k from another firm (Inspiration) during the program before demo day and before we started pitching. So that is the 4 logos you see as previous investors. We also were lucky to get Guy and Hiten on board as advisors during our time at AngelPad. This social proof certainly helped us a lot, however it all happened very close to our pitching and so it is not too comparable to a true "previous financing". Hope that helps - let me know if you have any more Qs.
I think Aaron Greenspan is (as I am, to a lesser extent) a moral mysophobe. Most people know the world is run by scumbags and human garbage, but they adapt. It just becomes another landscape feature to them, like bad weather or dogshit on the sidewalk.

Then there are other people who see unethical behavior and, for whatever reason, can't "just get over it" like normal people. They end up taking some immensely energy-consuming moral stands that often aren't in their individual interests.

Such people are immensely beneficial to society, but it's not fun to be one.
We're on it - thanks berberous
I used a long dictionary word and it took them 5 months to crack ...
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> should he not have checked that laws and regulation first?

The regulations came into existence after his project did.

After the regulations went into effect, he was unable to get his project certified under the regulations.
Out of curiosity, what makes you say that Go would appeal to Carmack? Is it just because it is hyped as a "systems" language. For the way (some of) the Go authors define "systems", Java would do an equally (if not a better) job at that.

Carmack seems to be interested in correctness and safety, neither for which Go has any significant offerings. In fact, it seems to be a step back for a "modern" language -- it has null pointers, no way to explicitly enforce immutability, no generics, and a crude and verbose way of handling errors. A panic() call in the code brings down the entire program.
They will probably work out something to continuing selling Nook devices in B&M stores. It will be interesting from a content licensing standpoint however. Will Nook/MS still have the same content rights and publisher relationships that B&N has?
Poor girl.
I'm not sure what happened here:

>... which asked for Google Apps credentials before redirecting to the Gmail inbox.

followed by:

>Coming from a trusted address, many staff members clicked the link, but most refrained from entering their login credentials.

Does this mean "[asking] for Google Apps credentials" should be read as "put in their Google username and password", or should it be "gave the site OAuth access to their Google account"?

I'm a bit curious, because it sounds like they set up a Google Apps app that sent phishing emails from the first-round-phished accounts to others in the company, so it looked more legit, but this second-round email was not the same as the first. I haven't heard of that trick before, but it's clever, and probably hard to work around.

But if they actually entered their user/pass, there's an easy solution. USE A PASSWORD MANAGER. Kills phishing dead, since it won't auto-fill on the wrong domain.
You already make personal health care decisions based on price. Did you get a complete physical and blood test today? If yes, will you do the exact same thing tomorrow?
I agree, but will also add, access to guns is not the only issue. The US has a culture of gun fetishism you just don't see anywhere else in the first world. That's not something that will change with legislation.
healthcare is only a free market to an extent. unlike consumer products, people are willing to pay any price for life or a guarantee of good health. and given care is so hard to quantify and there is so much uncertainty in comparing care, people will always simply trust the physician to pick whatever he/she thinks is best, with total disregard to the 'free market'. just my take on it.
Rather than invest in a productive, useful and frankly unprecedented product such as FaceCash, venture capital and angel investors have focused their time and billions of dollars of their money in companies and entrepreneurs that have, in serial fashion, deceived co-founders, deceived employees, and deceived customers.

Rather than hiring a brilliant, hard working, and frankly outstanding engineer such as myself, technology companies have focused their time and billions of dollars of their money on engineers that have demonstrated, in a consistent fashion, lack of talent, skills, and integrity.
Doctors are like lawyers. They give clients options and rough probabilities of outcomes.
I think the bigger problem is that most people don't own cars in NY since they don't really need them and they're a pain to park unless you're paying for a parking spot. Even then that parking spot may not provide the ability to charge your car.

I suspect that if more people in NYC had garages in their owns we'd be seeing more Teslas.
Wow. Making this comment and then allowing hours of responses to it to build up without a followup could be a case study in mismanaged PR.
If you implement these food halls I would be really happy.

http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/2012/04/the-new-halls/

I imagine them somewhat different: food by subscription but paid by the government instead of financial aid to ensure people eat healthy.
What's ridiculous? That seems like a compelling argument to forego fundraising in favor of taxes.
As long as there can be great exits, the VC will fund it.
As a current student, I think what you are doing is quite wonderful, and having just read PG's 'What You'll Wish You'd Known' Speech, I think that such a talk like this could be incredibly powerful and might make a difference in some lives. What I would stress is the abundance of possibilities available, just the sheer amount of magical discoveries that they can go on to accomplish, or discover an hour after your talk (on that point, stressing action now, what they can do as a student is paramount to reaching them and getting them to really take you up on your offer). Too many times, speakers come in and give these lackluster maxim-filled speeches about life, and roads ahead of them. I would try to really imbue within your audience the fact that they can act now, and grasp at openings that could propel them to discoveries 10..15 years from now.

I do think it is quite admirable to try to plant the seeds of this career and of possibilities in these fifteen year olds, and think you could really make a difference somewhere.

If you need anyone to bounce ideas off from the perspective of a current student or give any critiques, feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile), and I would be happy to look it over. Good luck!
Teach me programming and I'll teach you music.
Looks like they had an issue, but it's fixed now:

https://twitter.com/bugherd/status/332323807601754112
Debugbrowser.com does what it says
Why did you choose not to use HNKit from chpwn's news:yc? https://github.com/Xuzz/HNKit The way you do it right now seems like it would be terribly slow.

The API calls made by this app are slightly tricky. For the front-page posts, a call is made to http://hnsearch.com/bigrss and then the resulting xml is parsed to grab the unique IDs from each post. Those are then sent as a request to the actual API to get the posts. The comments, unfortunately, return as basically a totally unordered set. I create a linked list out of those, and then I turn it into a flat array based on the nested nature of the comments - so UITableView will render correctly.
Is this a federal law or a state law? The content of the article seems to imply state law, but the "gloom and doom" tone implies that FaceCash can't just move out of CA.
This is an interesting point. What about a safe deposit box at a bank, can the government search it without a warrant?
A rigged, corrupt mess where one's personal level of power determines which laws one must actually follow and which ones can be ignored.

Do you have a shred of evidence to support any of these accusations? Not that I think the VC industry is devoid of problems, but in my experience it is neither rigged nor corrupt, and the people with the most power actually tend to be the most morally conscious people I've ever met.
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I don't think it'd be the folks living in a paradise. It'd be the folks fleeing persecution or economic horror. Why'd folks leave Europe for the New World, or any other migration? (And I mean the early ones-- not the gold rush-thinkin' ones.)
And it even shows up under the Developer pane in Settings on your iPhone! It's incredibly helpful.
Software will not be patentable in New Zealand
yeah it does come off a bit narcissistic
He did that on purpose. To break it down, he was pointing out how there are cars out there that "specialize," as a selling point for that car. And, for the areas of specialization of those cars, almost by definition, they are better than anything tesla makes for these things.

He's not saying that these cars are better than the tesla at all things, but only in the things they make it a point to be beter at. Which should be immediately obvious if the OP wasn't resulting to hyperbole and a rather thin attempt at covering his bias towards this company.
My only thought is that burnout is worthwhile avoiding at all costs.
I wonder, I remember talk that the Nook was the reason that barnes & noble survived when all the other rick and mortar bookshops went out of business due to Amazon.

Not sure if its true or not, wouldnt think the Nook was THAT popular.
i'm not going to go into specifics because i'm scared of retaliation/retribution. there, i said it. i'm scared like a little bitch. especially now that i've got plenty to lose (read on...)

imagine the following scenario.

CEO (not me) of self-funded startup hires prestigious silicon valley law firm to incorporate and represent his new company.

recruits 4 cofounders including big-name software company engineers and big-name b-school MBAs. however, nobody is 'connected' per se.

ostensibly law firm does its job, and helps coordinate meetings with the TOP valley and seattle VCs. like top 3 in each area. like 'holy shit' what am i doing in this board room right now. like 'wow i can't believe i actually delivered my pitch without tripping over my own tongue'.

during the fund raising process it's discovered the name of the company may be a copyright/trademark infringement on another company also represented by the law firm.

founders are assured by law firms and VCs it's no big deal. it happens all the time. this sort of thing is very common! law firm could stand to charge 10 thousand in fees for a name change, so it seems like an honest opinion.

during the fund raising process it's also discovered that the core business model of startup is in sort-of competition with another startup, already funded, represented by both the law firm, and a VC firm that lawfirm set startup up with to pitch. (of course no NDA's were signed). however, the business models are not identical, only similar. assurances all around, of course.

fast forward 2 months. startup is getting traction. 10,000 users, some high profile sites are using startup's technology.

fast forward another month. threats of lawsuit from represented company whose trademark claim is now becoming serious.

fast forward another month. sort-of competitor is now full-on competitor. exact same concept is now implemented and deployed.

no need to fast forward anymore. funding is never realized, company is under legal threat from multiple parties. other mistakes are made, but greatly exacerbated by a name change, which effectively kills the product. company implodes. kaput.

the conclusion of whether this was purely due to founder incompetence or naiveté (which there is certainly a component) or there was a large component of malicious VC/lawyer/funded collusion is left as an exercise for the reader.

however, i posit that the startup would have done FAR BETTER to not even get involved with the SV ecosystem IN THE FIRST PLACE. once you get involved, they will enforce their iron rule of SINK OR SWIM. and they WILL sink you.

my current startup is making $millions/year in revenue WITHOUT ANY OUTSIDE HELP. cofounders own 100% because we said FUCK IT over 2 glasses of scotch whisky and dumped $250k of our own money into it. we get multiple emails and calls per month from VC and PE firms inquiring. lollerskates. fuck off assholes. i would rather go bankrupt and steal loaves of stale bread from my local bagel shop than work for those people.

so that's just one data point for you. it's a jungle out there. keep your wits about you.
This is called regulatory risk. This story seems like a good example of why anyone starting a business in an industry that is already highly-regulated, such as finance, must assume that future regulations could increase the cost of doing business, or threaten the viability of the business outright.
I kinda think its sad that "just getting over it" is considered normal.
China launches "Operation Green Fence" to stop recycling American junk
I don't think its that surprising to find active communities on MUDs. AVATAR, Discworld, Aardwolf, and BatMUD regularly sport 50-100+ players. I've been playing MUDs for over a decade now and there is something to them I still can't quite explain. The abstraction provided by text allows for some unique gaming experiences -- I also believe there is something to be said for the smaller communities that build up around the games.

I am currently writing a WebSockets (nodejs, socket.io) engine (a present to my sixteen year old self), you can have a look here: https://github.com/MoreOutput/RockMUD. It aims to increase the 'functionality' of a MUD by taking advantage of the browser.

MUME is a great MUD!
Yes, i don't think its possible to crack a password that long within that time frame, am i wrong?
Much longer effective battery life is also a huge deal for me personally.
The United States has had this situation for a long time, despite healthcare being almost entirely private.
Predicting that the title will change to "News/YC for iPhone" in less than an hour. :)

For people reading this later, previous title: "Show HN: the sleekest iOS HN Reader is now open sourced! Let's make it the best."
Which is more important to you?

Speed of implementation, or absolute best price at volume.

If the former, Stripe is almost assuredly the easier implementation. If the latter, Braintree is almost assuredly cheaper (after a fee-dependent threshold.)
"You think if people really want to share your product they're going to develop a sudden writing difficulty?"

Checkmate. She can't worm her way out of that.
A cool Facebook app
I agree. Call me crazy, but it just seems intuitive that the title "I learned to code to launch my new startup" should be about, ummm, learning to code.

I also think that the blog post would have been much more pertinent to the OP's experiences and conducive to good feedback. Conceivably he chose the title because he wanted feedback on his experiences while learning to code, yet he got feedback about the product in general. If he was looking for advice about the site in general, a Show HN would have been more appropriate.
Let me be more clear. You mean, like employees or contractors under the direction of the FBI hacking sites, at least Linode, while 'investigating' HTP?
Care to tell which slide you thought that was?
It's state law, but virtually every state licenses money transmitters, and you need a license from each state you want to transmit money into (where your customers are). No matter where you start, you need the licenses, and CA is particularly important since that's where the early adopters and investors are. Here's the list of 50 state licenses PayPal needs to operate:

https://www.paypal-media.com/state_licenses.cfm
I had a major bike accident in 2006 and was taken to a hospital emergency room. The hospital told me they take my insurance. They really meant they'll bill my insurance.

My insurance company didn't have a negotiated rate with the hospital and the treatment was considered out of network. Instead of paying only the maximum out of pocket cost of $4,000 USD per year, insurance only offered 50% and I got hit with a bill for $50,000. It eventually got worked out months later after months of fighting the hospital, doctors, and insurance, but it sucked big time.