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Co-found with a division of ownership on a vesting schedule. That way, if either of you bails, the other isn't stuck with a non-productive co-founder making money off your work.

And make sure both sides are bringing plenty to the table. The business/tech co-founding team is a great model (beats the heck out of most tech-led startups), but it should be fair.

Look at it this way... if you're willing to work on these terms with this business founder, could you work on the same terms with a different partner for better financial terms or chance of success?
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The really interesting question, which for some reason almost no one asks, is why are college costs so low?

Most good schools, both private and public, have more qualified applicants than they have space for. Normally, when demand exceeds supply, we expect prices to go up to the point that demand falls to match supply. Yet college stays well below that point.
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Is it available in Växjö?
Why would this be a bad thing?

if loans are able to be discharged the federal government wouldn't be handing them out like free candy to anyone that wants it.

It's exactly that there is no downside for the government that the situation is the way it is.
It looks like there are two books with similar titles - which one are you reading?

Blind Man's Bluff is good, as another poster suggests.

Another fun one is "The theory that would not die," about the history of Bayes rule.
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> Firstly, as with Wikipedia, if Reddit were forced to close because of money issues, Reddit could simply post a 'donate now or reddit shuts down' post and they would likely be rolling in millions of dollars.

From what I remember, this is kind of why they started Reddit Gold.

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html
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I have three things to say about this:

1. Many people are horrified by the thought of not being a simple worker bee. They say they want change, but they don't. They want the security of someone else taking care of them. The reason wealth exists is because there are people that cannot live this way, and thus, make their own way. You cannot fault hard working business owners because their employees put themselves in a place to require said employment in order to sustain a life they consider normal.

2. There will always be wealth. If the US gave up capitalism in favor of socialism, the money would be placed in the hands of the whole, and in this case, the government. At that point, the government has the money and the power. We're screwed.

3. Life is suffering. There is no perfection on this realm. Solve this problem and another will follow. This is a symptom of life in samsara. Bukowski recognized this, which is why he talked of a simple life without possessions. If you truly want to break free of 'the man,' you'll have to life a life defined by something other than money, objects, and achievements. For most of us, this is nearly impossible. Middle ground is an illusion.
In America we believe that if we spend twice as much on health care it will be twice as good, same goes for education. The reality is is that the quality stays the same and the price doubles.
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I agree that college isn't perceived as a choice, but I do question why it's the fault of anyone but the student if they apply only to $50k/yr schools, ignoring whatever their state schools are. Is it the schools' fault for accepting students who can't afford it?

Is it the loan companies' fault for trying to provide loans for students who likely can't pay them back? If so, should loan companies be able to discriminate based on which major a student chooses? Or on their GPA? Or likelihood of landing a job that pays $X/yr?

Is it the government's fault for not stepping in to make sure that a student can't get a loan that they can never hope to repay?

Ultimately I think it falls on a student for making a bad choice. I agree that it sucks that a student can't discharge the loan (as someone mentioned above). I'm not really sure how to fix that: if it's dischargable, loans are going to be a lot harder to get, then the government needs to provide the loan. Then we get a mixture of the two scenarios I mentioned above.

But I guess as a person I am a big believer in personal responsibility. You make your choices, just like I've made mine.
I'll check into this later.
> I do not support your "right" to threaten the life of another to compel him to improve your situation.

Does that mean that you also don't support kicking renters to the curb during winter months if they don't pay?
Not really much of a secret anymore, for a plane that has had parts in Cuban museums for the last 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson#Wreckage
If they can't take responsibility in this manner then they are not young adults; they are still children. Rather than infantilizing high school grads, there needs to be social pressure for them to rise to the challenge.
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I completely understand the difference so I almost didn't post the link, but I think PRDs are awesome and I couldn't resist a minuscule opportunity to post about them.

Thanks for explaining the difference for anyone who may have been misinformed by my post.
You forgot great community! And you are part of it!
Thank you for posting this answer. Indeed, I think the short answer is: It is not impossible, but there are limitations.
> If they change their minds and ask us to leave, we'll leave.

Now who's being a bit silly? :) If anyone could cite sources supporting such a strange position, presumably they would have by now.

Let's take another example: "The current government of Cuba regards the U.S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as illegal and insists the Cuban-American Treaty was obtained by threat of force in violation of international law." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo_Bay) Of course the US does what it wants, because it's the military superpower. We don't ask people nicely if we could invade them, nor would we respect their votes on the matter.

As for Japan, Okinawans want the US military off their land. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture#U.S._militar...) Does the US hold votes, asking them if they wish to be occupied? Do we ask which other prefecture would prefer us to occupy them?

In any case, that's all besides the point. Even if your claims were 100% correct (and there's areas I agree with), the point still stands: "It's doing reasonably ok because we let it". (When you consider social dynamics, people often choose subordination to gain protection.) You're arguing a point I haven't made.
Oh come on, surely this is just a play on all the wacky web apps people do. (I don't oppose those.)
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It is expected that a lot of HN members approving this Google's move believing that it is designed to keep our inbox's clear. But in reality Google is simply killing off other people's marketing methods to promote it's own. As I have said before, Google's inbox is Good for the internet consumers, it is good for Google but it is very bad for everyone else.
I don't know what brand of computer outerworld uses, but my MacBook doesn't start charging until below 95%. When plugged in for long durations, the battery is not running not.
From what I understand (somebody correct me), exFAT is prone to corruption if you unplug an exFAT drive without doing a soft eject first. On the other hand, it's probably the best FS that's natively supported by both OSX and Windows.
Agree regarding personal responsibility. But it goes both ways: lenders should be held responsible when they make loans to borrowers who do not have a reasonable ability to repay a debt.

For all other classes of debt, the mechanism that enforces this responsibility is bankruptcy (or forfeiture of the property, in the case of a home or auto loan), but bankruptcy is not an option for student loan debt.

Eliminate the exemption from bankruptcy that student debt currently enjoys and you eliminate the student debt problem.
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I just took fish for a quick spin, and... wow -- I am impressed. It really feels "interactive". I don't think I'll replace my battle tested zsh, but even as a "grumpy old man": you should at least try it. It feels really... fresh.
I wish it were that simple. I think if you remove the government backed loans, the private loan market will be happy to have no competition.
First, about half of people that go to college don't graduate in 6 years. That means the asset isn't upgraded but the costs and loans still live on. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/27/college_co...

Second, the very idea that college "upgrades" the asset is specious at best. http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-C...

Third, people with degrees do earn more, but remember that they actually take four years or more off. That's 4 years of taxes and raises that the government doesn't get. Given wages in a lot of non-degree jobs that don't require degrees (public employee unions and public safety work come to mind), this is not an insignificant amount.
People call this is a bubble. But it lacks one characteristic of a bubble: it can't burst in the usual way.

Usually, people bankrupt out or sell assets, creating a cascading effect (lots of bankruptcies or lots of selling). That ends a bubble. But student loan borrowers can't do that - they can't get out of the game via bankruptcy (student loan debts will even be extracted from your social security payments, should that be required), and they can't sell the (possibly overpriced) asset they bought, a university education. There's no exit possible.

So for current borrowers, they're totally trapped, forever. Leaving the country is their only escape, which itself is difficult. Many of them will spend their entire lives, from age 18 until they die of old age, on the edge of poverty with an unpayable loan balance looming over their heads. The bubble can't pop! The only way there can be a pop is if they all commit suicide at once.

What it can do is slowly deflate. What this looks like: an entire generation decides, possibly through seeing the suffering endured by their parents, that college is a bad deal. "Son, don't make the mistake I made." They stop going. No borrowing, no college attendance.

My prediction: emigration and noticeably lower college attendance in the future.
I recently attended a high school graduation - in America - where one of the top 5 students planned to become a certified underwater welder. Granted, this was not the most academically competitive high school in the area, but still a pretty decent one. You could hear the audience gasp. But then we all applauded. Afterward I told her I admired her guts, not only for her unusual vocational choice, but also for ultimately deciding in college. She applied to several, was accepted and received partial scholarships to all, but decided that she wasn't "crazy" for being #5 in her class and deciding to forego college.
They produced the driver under license, somehow someone got a hold of the code and "guerilla relicensed" it, which they did not have authority to do, and uploaded the result to Github.

Sometime later when this repository was noticed on Github, someone noticed the source was a derivation of one of the existing Linux FAT filesystem drivers. In other words, under the terms of the GPL it is derived code. The fact it was only previously distributed in binary form does not excuse this: Samsung were distributing GPL derived code in violation of the license.

So this clears things up a little bit. What I don't understand now is the usefulness of this code. For example, could it potentially be merged upstream? If not, then why not? If it can be distributed under the GPL independently, I don't understand why it couldn't get shipped with Linux.

The fact this driver exists "legitimately open source" now, yet is still covered by patents, confuses me a bit.
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>Whose fault is that? They didn't read what they're signing for? Isn't that their own damn fault? [...] No one forced them to go to college

Yes, but it was an offer they couldn't refuse. One of my favorite results from game theory is that sometimes more options lead to everyone being worse off. Let me explain.

Suppose in scenario A only the very wealthy or the very smart and dedicated (scholarships) have the option to go to college. Most of the workforce will not have a bachelor's. The employers will require such a degree only for those jobs where it's strictly needed, and make do with training programs etc.

In scenario B, everyone has the option to go to college on expensive loans. Some people take this option. It turns out before long that employers prefer to hire these people, even in fields completely different from their major, for reasons such as: 1) finishing college becomes a signal of reliability and competence instead of wealth 2) people who need to pay off college debt will quit less readily. Before long, the college graduates' obvious advantage in the labor market pushes everyone else to try and attend college, which further drives up costs and loans. This only accentuates factors 1) and 2) above, e.g. with strong pressure to attend college and possibility to do so, it means you're either lazy or not that bright if you don't.

And so we reach a situation in which only 27% of working college graduates have a job related their major [1], 35% work in a job that requires any college degree (which clearly indicates the degree is only used as a signal), and 38% are screwed up by paying their loans from jobs that only need high school or less.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/20/o...
"'Agile.' You keep using that word..."

An org that calls what it does "agile" or "scrum" and then proceeds to accumulate technical debt like the Titanic taking on water is lying to itself about what it's doing. Piling up technical debt is a textbook Agile(flavor) failure, full stop.

What sounds like happened in the case(s) you describe is that someone with dev management preconceptions wore "Agile" like a wolf in sheep's clothing and proceeded to dole out the same old ad-hoc nonsense. Nonsense as in being "efficient" (high KLOCs/metrics, butts in seats, long hours, etc.) and not caring about being "effective" (working on the right problem vs a problem, necessary understanding of the company and customer needs, working smarter vs. simply harder, etc.).

I've seen this attitude a number of times, e.g. in program managers with history in big, established s/w companies. They learned a certain way of working, but then talk "Agile" as the trendy hire-word. Unfortunately, some of these folks never gained understanding of the tools that Agile brings to the table, and when/how to apply (or not apply) them to a situation.
There's another alternative. You can change laws so that student loans will be dischargeable via bankruptcy. It's not popular yet, but more stories like this and that's a much more likely path. Libertarians on the right and Socialists on the left both agree on this one.
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Instead of arguing culpability vs gullibility, how about the government just not try and take advantage of people? How about the government actually work for people instead of trying to rip them off with terrible rates? I would like to live in an America where government actually understands the cheap long term investment that is an educated populace. And instead of offering them loans with terrible conditions offerred them loans with good conditions at good rates.

It's not about whether the students were stupid to sign onto loans with bad conditions. It's about why we don't have better loans for students and why school costs so goddamn much.
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"Government and colleges are driving up college costs," random people on Internet report.

I'm aware of what it is. That's why I didn't tell you to read the blog post. I told you to go to the sources.
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> Calling 20% time 120% time is fair

Every place I've worked has allowed employees to come in and work weekends on projects that would help the company. I guess those places just weren't innovative (read: arrogant) enough to rebrand it as an employee benefit.
I'm reading the one by Steve Davies. Its not really written as a page turner but the content makes it so!
18 is where we as a nation have "decided" that a person is mature enough to make these kinds of decisions (except for alcohol, thank you very much Federal Aid Highway Act). At 18 you're your own person, for better or worse. I don't think coddling people any longer makes things better--eventually you need to grow up and be your own person and be responsible for yourself. At that point your parents have fulfilled their legal responsibilities to you, and you are responsible from there forward.

There are a lot of benefits that come along with being an adult, but you can't have it both ways: the benefits of being a child and no responsibilities but the ability to make decisions for yourself.
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More subversively, ads purchased by companies may influence the route taken.

When two routes are equal, ad buys are the tie breaker.
Yes - H.Bloom.
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As of last year, that online test is still required.
My (American) cousin has a degree in German from a fancy school. She's now 30, a Zumba instructor, and still living with roommates in an apartment to keep costs down while paying for student loans.

She loves her job, but the debt of college is a complete waste for her.
"drilled into their heads "

To add to this people also will have children they can't afford. Sometimes by "accident" and sometimes planned with the same thinking that "everything will just work out".

You also hear about someone who didn't want to have the nth child but now boy are they glad they did (not factoring in the impact on the rest of the family or other kids) or taking money into the picture. Simply because the nth child is alive and you can't imagine (once they are born) that you could have considered not having them.
Hilarious that I thought to post this on HN, and there it was, at the top...
Well they have to create these positions. The people who took out all that student debt in diversity studies have to pay off their loans somehow...
It's actually a 13" monitor... I guess it helps you focus.
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The only problems is that when they first implemented this feature I was missing a lot of important emails from my bank and Amazon. I dont like having to browse to a new tab too see emails that are coming into the same inbox.

I want to decide what emails go into the tabs not an algorithm.
As one extremely indebted person I feel insulted by this.

Mostly, because here in Brazil at least, when you decide what college you will go, you are 17, and here you cannot drive at 17, or smoke, or join the army.

I went to the cheapest college I could find on my field, and I STILL did not had enough money to pay it, so I had to either drop out, or take loan.

Here in Brazil everyone taught us you NEED college (now that I do have a degree, that I noticed how this is utter bullshit, and I certainly won't tell that lie to my children), and my parents told me that if I refused to go to college, they would only allow me to stay at home if I got a job, any job, even a cashier job or something like that.

So, I took the loan.

Now, I DO wish I went with the cashier option. I would have more money now (despite getting 300 USD/mo in wages, that is the cashier wage here).

Even better would be if I had decided to get into construction (blue collar construction work here averages 2500 USD for entry level, while 2500 USD in programming is only for seniors and onward).

Of all people that went to high-school with me, the richest one is the only guy that went with blue collar route and not even tried college (he is a machine operator in a factory, and owns his own motorbike).

The reason why he was the only one that did that? Well, he was the only one that the parents let do that. All others (including me) got the threat of be kicked out of home if we attempted that.
I think you're misreading my point, as I don't disagree at all. This problem is a government-created one, and it's bound to end badly, but it's important to be clear about who is doing the lending (it's not random "people") and what the "victims" of this system will complain about next.

We're in a lose-lose situation here. If student loans are plentiful, tuition costs rise and the debt must be secured by laws preventing discharge in bankruptcy, which leads to complaints about the cost of an education and debt levels. If student loans become less plentiful, the complaints will shift to focus on lack of access to education. Even if costs decrease substantially from today's levels, there is sadly a sizable market of would-be students who simply don't have the funds to go to college. Telling them they can't go to college and major in [insert wacky subject here] is political suicide for politicians.