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How would you feel if you paid quarter of a million euros for your taxi licence (maybe by mortgaging your property or going heavily into debt) only to be undercut by illegal taxi drivers who didn't bother to get licensed and didn't follow regulations ?

Obviously it's not an excuse for violence, but it's important to remember there are always multiple sides to any argument.
I'm not sure if you don't know what you're talking about or if you're just exaggerating for the sake of argument.

1. Most YC founders are not college dropouts. Quite a few are in every batch of YC, but nowhere near 20%.

2. YC isn't in SF. And most YC companies don't stay in SF during YC. Lots of companies stay in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, etc where you can rent out a 4-6 bedroom with your co-founder(s). Housing is even cheaper in other areas like Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose, where you can potentially have a house to yourself.

3. If you expect to get paid for starting a startup, then obviously starting a startup is not for you. By definition there's nobody there to pay you except yourself. By definition you are exchanging equity for salary.

4. YC gives you $100k: $20k directly and $80k in convertible notes (well, SAFEs now) at the best possible terms (you'd never see elsewhere). The additional value of YC is that as long as you build a product with some users, you have an extremely high chance (not guaranteed) of raising 1M+ at a 5M+ valuation. Other companies that don't raise can go on to raise more convertible notes. In fact, going through YC is one way of guaranteeing that you don't end up being offered a sucker's deal.
Not in Paris. The independents still paying their medallion ("plaque de taxi", valued at about 240k €) are strangled by debt, and those that are employee are barely above minimum wage.

It's pretty obvious to everyone that dropping the medallion system is the way forwards, but is there any example anywhere of dropping the medallion system in a fair manner for those that actually bought their medallion recently?

Also, another thing I'm pretty concerned about is the qualification of non taxi drivers. The taxi license is actually very hard to get, I'm not so sure of what Uber requires of its drivers...
I liked the article. I think another point to bring up is that if you're interviewing a developer / technical co-founder and you yourself are not coming from that background, it might be a a good idea (at least from my own personal experience) to have a friend who's technical who's opinion you trust with you during some of those meetings to give you an objective and external view on things. I think there's a chance that might help you make a better, or at least a slightly more informed decision. Just my two cents..
I think it's interesting Yahoo are attempting to address this with their News Digest app, following their acquisition of Summly. Founder Nick D'Aloisio said in a recent interview (can't find the link right now) that development of News Digest was lead by the idea that a physical newspaper or magazine has a very clear beginning and end, and that by reaching the end the reader could feel satisfaction.
Your way of thinking about unions is incomplete.

For one, a "its employer" doesn't work. The employer does not employ the union, and employees of multiple companies may be part of the same union. ".. who bargain with their employers" is a better fit.

For another, a union can do more than just bargin with the employer. It can provide skills training, mentorship, insurance, petition government on behalf of the employees, and more, even outside of any employment relationship.

For a third, union abilities in the US are "artifically handicapped". Jurisdictional strikes, secondary boycotts, common situs picketing, closed shops, and other actions are prohibited by law. By your argument, you want unions in the US to have much more power than they already do.
What?! Could you please point to a logical system of views and values that would not assume indefinitely prolonging human life is a good thing?
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You might want to add "Founders at Work" to that list as well. It is by the same author.
First Polio Free district in India is in Kerala. We have not heard about any Harsh Vardhan here. Last Polio case in Kerala was reported in 2000 (For few decades before itself, cases in Kerala were extremely rare). World wide polio eradication was a project by WHO with a target to end the disease by 2000. Indian Government adopted this project with WHO help. Do not understand how Harsh Vardhan (do not know who he is!!) can start it. Though India is late, it is commendable that it finally achieved the goal.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=30123
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_eradication
You're not far off to assume it hijacks your thinking process and steers it to the unimportant.

The change to the code base would be easy. You can increase the expiration timeout or keep around more closures. It would come at the expense of using more computer hardware, which is an elegant technique of scaling: you free your human hardware to work on more important things.
This looks like the font file you're using lacks some rendering hints (all points that touch the median line should be annotated as such, it looks like they aren't).

Another version of the same font or the same font from another source may work. Webfont sites often try to tweak the hinting tables, they're trying to make the fonts look better but it breaks stuff all the time.
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Eventually, some of these hardworking taxi drivers will have an epiphany. They're fighting the wrong entity. Fighting against decentralized commerce and personal choice is generally a side of aggressors. When the dynamics of reality become inconvenient to monetary interests, the first call of aggressors and cultists alike is to forsake the freedom of others. We pay the piper. We eat gruel. You better fall in line too, or else... The sooner a person begins to actually care about other people, the sooner a person may acknowledge reality to adapt or improve.
It is a useful feature, not a bug.

People need to refresh the thread before they respond to ot, especially if it is a day old. This ensures they have an uptodate version of the thread and allows them ro see if anyone has already made their point.

People clicking next to read past the first page is good. Open any comment pages you want to read in new tabs, and refresh those tabs just before you comment.

I strongly agree that there are other problems with HN that need fixing.
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Yelp's legal counsel would be incompetent not to attempt a defense which results in the case being thrown out. They must have reason to believe that they have a >0% chance of successfully arguing it.

Additionally, the US justice system is not like a playground: your legal tactics on one case, no matter how distasteful, will have no bearing on the decision of another case. Judges don't think, "hmm, they did some tricky hot-shot lawyering on that other case, time to take 'em down a notch or two!".
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Oh yeah and the Mafia is just part of Italian culture right? Don't like it go somewhere else?
As a person with Amsterdam Taxi experience (including getting pulled out of a taxi and forced to ride another taxi at the train station at midnight) I welcome competition. The problem with no competition is the way some taxi-drivers can treat their 'clients': We've had drivers refusing to accept clients, because they were female, or because the ride wasn't profitable enough or even because they were BLIND. The driver didn't want the dog in the car. We've even had drivers trying to rape clients. It's a bloody mess. UBER in Amsterdam has been a big success. I welcome them with arms open wide.
I would argue exact opposite. If you have family and mortgage, you most definitely don't want to go seek funding unless you are willing to lower living standards for your family. Funding will almost always come with significant cut on your income.

So if you do have family and mortgage, the best route for you is a long slow crawl. This means, you do your regular job and then burn midnight oil to do a single person startup. With 2X more determination as well as 4X longer time than typical startup, you might find yourself in a year or two with a product that is compelling and convincing. By this time lots of risks had been absorbed by you and VC/Angels would be far more in favor for the terms that allows you to continue your income levels.

Larry Ellison started Oracle pretty much this way and so many other founders who started out later in life with lots of financial obligations hanging on their heads.
The reason would be that IF India eradicates itself of polio, we are a step closer (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigera etc.) to see ONLY the second disease (after smallpox) to be eradicated from the face of the earth.
What's the point of these scrolling sites? It's really hard to control the scrolling speed and stop just in the right place. Just let me press a button and then proceed to the next "slide" if you want fancy transitions.
Nah.

You're the asshole. I didn't think you were an asshole for falling for marketing gimmickry (because that's what it's for), but combined with the PC nonsense trying to persuade someone to self-censor for having a different opinion than yours..

plus you blamed The Bad Things on coffee.
No, I don't think so. Maybe from some. But my guess is that most of them would have no idea where to get you a prostitute. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds like a stereotype.
Who are your customers?
Why do you think that's the opposite? Nothing is stopping you from paying yourself a six-figure salary after taking investment.
It's nowhere near that bad, but it doesn't exactly look great on Chrome OS X.
This isn't "guerrilla warfare," it's an isolated case of assault.
Why do we always have to assume we're talking about small children? If that's a concern, wait until your children grow up to be teenagers before you leave for 3 months for YC.
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The massive infiltration of union by mafia is quite specific to the US, so I fail to see how it is relevant.
Or, turning it around somewhat: "Lisp Programmers Demand Expulsion of Users of Inferior Languages".

Dude, leave them alone. If that is what they want to do, let them be. Never mind what your opinion of "improvement" is.
It won't. If the compiler attempted to inline, it'd break runtime method replacement and all sorts of other stuff.

One problem with this approach is that using protocols to emulate C++/Java generic syntax will cause name collisions if a class already has the same name as a protocol. NSArray<NSObject> won't work for example, because NSObject is already a protocol.
Ask HN: Ok, so what do I do now?
I’m in a bit of a predicament, so I’m seeking advice from the more business minded side of HN.

I do a lot of “experiential retailing” type of work for some big brands in NYC. Basically, informational type iPad apps that get embedded in store displays. Because the apps are similar to each other, I decided to create an authoring environment to build them. I looked at Adobe DPS and MagPlus and designed/built the authoring environment to work similarly. You design the “app” in an Adobe Photoshop, press the publish button and voila you have an app. No need for doing anything in Xcode, etc.

So once I finished writing this authoring app, a light bulb popped inside my head and I thought, “Why not use this for tablet magazines?”

I’ve been going back and forth between NYC and Vietnam for the last two years. So after I finished the authoring environment, I thought I’d publish a magazine using my tool as a means to eat my own dog food. Sitting around a table with some local friends we iterated over a lot of ideas that we could produce cheaply/easily. We thought of a lot of ideas, but since most of my local friends work in the fashion industry, we settled on a fashion magazine. It would mostly be media, little to no text, etc.

So, we’ve produced the first edition of our magazine and are about to publish it. What started as an experiment, is now a very real thing here in Vietnam. Our Facebook page for the magazine hit 100K likes with an advertising spend of only a few hundred dollars. This reaction has caught everyone by surprise. We’re more popular on Facebook than the four leading Vietnam fashion magazines combined.

Here is my predicament: I don’t know what to do with this tool. I thought bootstrap it, but I think it’ll take a lot of cash to position it against Adobe DPS and MagPlus. If I seek funding, I’d probably have to return the US permanently and abandon this magazine, which might be a hard thing to do if it proves popular.

Any advice?
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1. OK, we can expand it to "recent college graduates". The point is, YC is predominantly young adult males, aged in their early 20s, unlikely to have major external responsibilities.

2. As someone who's not from SV, everything in that area gets lumped into "SF" for me. My apologies if this is considered obtuse.

3. Isn't this kind of part of the point of seeking investment? Aren't you saying, "I can't do this all on my own, I need some help with the finances, and will cut you in if you'll hook me up"? Somehow I don't see that as the same thing as "please pay me a pittance". As I stated in another reply, if the founder could live on a pittance, the chances are he'd save up a little bit at his cushy corporate job and enter conservation mode with that, rather than seeking external funding.

4. I haven't looked for a few years, but I was not aware that YC offered an additional $100k in financial instruments. This is somewhat better, but I'm not sure how those instruments work in this specific case so I can't make a complete evaluation. As far as follow-on investments go, these all have their own separate terms, yes? Unless YC is officially brokering all of these, how can being a YC company prevent you from getting suckered by YC copycats?
Very choppy and hard to go back.

On the plus side, I didn't know about these "Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera", is there someone here able to tell me if it is worth it? (I have a Galaxy Note and no other camera).
Here’s a video of the authoring tools:

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

Here’s a video of a sample built with the authoring tool (mildly NSFW):

https://vimeo.com/68565914
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And more information about the magazine I’m publishing:

http://emoi.me/
Thank you to share. For extensions, I do like the good old design of HN but I really prefer to have bigger letters. That's mainly why I use the other one.
The mafia is illegal in Italy as far as I know, so that is not a valid comparison. Yes there are problems with all taxi drivers, and I do not see how Uber drivers are immune from these.
Even without the context of my comment, this still makes a great read. Thank you. BTW, I have to admit that I have misinterpreted the comment, my apologies.
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Many investors will do whatever they can to stop you. I've personally interacted with a few of them, who've instructed me that if I took their money, I should not "take anything more out of the company than what's required to eat, sleep, drink". Of course, their ultimate ability to enforce that may be questionable, but the guys 'round these parts are certainly not shy about their expectation that founders live on practically nothing.
> These are very different conclusions.

They are not; in the real world, logarithmic growth and bounded growth are essentially the same because the possibilities for income growth are severely limited, and you reach a point where any realistic increase in income cannot yield a measurable increase in happiness.
The stuff you wrote above is pretty twisted. Forget for a moment about the gist of our argument, which I was looking forward to discussing, but no more because it devolved into ad-hominem attacks on me, of which you know next to nothing about.

I sense that what you wrote above represents a dominant line of thinking, where you look down upon others & their abilities, while putting violent destruction on the pedestal above and beyond what it actually merits. This leads me to think that you were abused physically and mentally at one point in your life, and it still affects your mindset today.

If so, I hope you can find a way to heal yourself. Perhaps adopt a pet if you don't have one. You'll be amazed what a dog can teach you.
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This functionality needs to be preserved so certain applications can follow efficient workflows.

An example of this can be found in a django admin site where a new modal is launched to enter a foreign key relationship, this would be unwieldy & distracting if it were to open in a new tab, taking the user away from information that may help them in making a choice and disrupting their flow.
Yeah, there's no startup without friends ... I have the same issue with designers.
I've never understood why USA PhD students appear to be paid so badly. My stipend was 36k USD (tax free, so compared favourably with the salaries of my friends who went into industry). I worked pretty much 9-5 with the occasional late nights, and got paid an additional $23/hr for work not related to my PhD (teaching, work on other research projects).

Interestingly if I'd gone into industry I'd have been earning much less than my equivalent in the USA.
To be honest, I use to think YC would be a poor route to go, but having just dipped my feet into the marketing water, I would have to say it may be your best bet. Advertising and networking is a beast onto its own and there really is no bigger juggernaut for startup momentum than YC.

Like my professor use to say, owning 100% of nothing is nothing.
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Those are relevant factors too, surely. But you have to relate to the reality that you are in. If you have a high burn rate and no way of lowering it considerably, you have to take that into consideration.
How the hell can you end up paying the wrong price. There is a leaflet in the taxi itself explaining pricing, and there is a taximeter. And no expectation of tipping. Also prominently displayed is the number to call if something is wrong. For all its faults, it's a heavily regulated activity...
Ask HN: Using Python+OpenCV (therefore NumPy) in Java - what's the way to go?
Hello, I am involved in a project that contains Python+OpenCV (therefore NumPy) and Java. While Python+OpenCV(+SciPy maybe) is used for the actual image processing and analysis, Java is aimed to be the "wrapping system", e.g. GUI, image acquisition (from camera) and delivering (to Python), result processing (results coming from Python), and final hardware control.
I've done some search on this topic and there seem to be multiple options for Java <-> Python (i.e. Jython or Jepp for using Python in Java and Jpype or JCC for using Java in Python. We're only interested in the former though) but not so many Java <-> Python+OpenCV options.

Since there are some roads to go I wanted to ask for personal experience involving the mix of Java and ready-made Python+OpenCV scripts, with the hope to find a suitable option asap. We currently tend to use interprocess communication (SOAP/ORB) between Java and Python, since we were not able to find a viable option for direct interaction between Java and Python(+OpenCV) yet.
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Bare in mind, when using DNSCrypt with OpenDNS you're actually reducing your overall level of privacy. Now two companies can see what sites you're visiting: your ISP and OpenDNS.

Your ISP doesn't need to see your DNS queries in order to know what sites you're visiting. They can see the IP's that you're sending packets to. They can see the HTTP "Host" header for HTTP. They can even see the hostname for HTTPS because of SNI.
You're still taking significant risk if you get paid market or near-market rates when you start your company. You've put your name on the line, you've committed yourself to providing a product and running a company, with all the difficulties it entails.

I understand the impulse to have founders prove their commitment by living as paupers, but I just don't think it's a good way to judge the competence of an investment. I think there are other meters for passion that are more accurate than "Yes, I'm willing to take a 50-70% pay cut".
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Or using a package manager which allows to specify exact versions of the artifacts, like npm or maven.
> some elaborations on things they should / shouldn't do when writing code

Hm-m-m... Not sure whether I get you right, but your hint give me the following idea:

after submitting an answer, if it is correct, the user should be able to view some editorial remarks at the results page - discussing good and bad approaches to the problem.

For example some people here used each-by-each comparison (with O(N^2) performance) to filter out non-unique words in a string instead of hashmap...

Thanks, this looks like important feature I should add!
My friends travel quite a bit in Russia and from what I hear it would probably be difficult to find a taxi driver who couldn't get you to a hooker. I strongly believe the same is in all other countries.