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Is it just me or do both of the oldest instances of zero being mentioned seemed to do just that, mention it. There is no discussion on this crazy new number of 0, it is just included in whatever else they are talking about.

This doesn't seem like invention, but everyday use of something that has already been invented.
The gist of it is: if you have residency, it's a no brainer. Incredibly cheap and easy, the only issue (as anywhere not the Valley) is funding, which is still not at Valley levels or with Valley culture. This is changing as more entrepreneurs exit and become angels.

A lot of people have written long posts about it on Quora, so try a quick search there. The regulatory environment is changing somewhat this year, particularly regarding visas (apparently the EntrePass was abused by people buying themselves residency on the cheap and the government is cracking down).
Er... where are unions mandated by law in Australia? I've worked in a variety of industries, and have only been in a union for one of them, which I dropped out of. I have a friend who's worked as a union recruiter, and he was very certain that there was no legal obligation to join a union.

Please don't spread FUD.
Does this validate TLS/SSL connections? Roundcube has the option for TLS/SSL IMAP/SMTP but doesn't preform any validation :/
> All you need is rent, pizza

Not even that, you can go on the Dole [1] and get over $1k a month to spend however you want.

[1] Australia has benefits if you don't have a job. They never expire. http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink...

And you get paid to go to University too.
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As a founder of several Silicon Valley startups, now living in Tokyo and exploring the "startup scene" in Asia, allow me to comment.

TOP 5 REASONS STARTUPS IN COUNTRY ___ ARE SO DIFFICULT

1-4. Exits, exits, exits and exits. Exits are scarce in country ___ and valuation multiples are low [because strategic acquirers are far away].

5. VC money. VC money is scarce in country ___ and on shitty terms, because EXITS ARE SCARCE AND ON SHITTY TERMS, and for no other reason.

Beyond that, this article reflects mostly bad decisions and wishful thinking.

> The Government Does Not Support Online Businesses

Neither does the US Government.

> Nor Does it Support Venture Capital

Nor does the US government. Also, see "VC Money" above.

> Foreign Investors Want You to Have a Global Vision

No they want you to sell into a big market. Australia has billionaires, ergo there are large markets in Australia. Go find one. Or go to a place that has a market you like better.

> start-up employees are liable for the tax charge on shares when they vest (not when sold), even though the value can’t be realised properly yet.

The one interesting point in the article! Thank you! Now you have one specific point that you can address. Set aside your blanket criticism of Australia, and people will be able to hear your one good point.

> Very Few Tax Breaks or Grants

What Silicon Valley successes can be attributed to tax breaks or grants? Actually it's just the opposite. Government programs that support startups are most common in countries where there are structural reasons that startups are hard.

> Australia is Getting Really Expensive

Neutral point, it affects your pricing and costs equally.

> We’re both in our early 30′s, with a family & mortgages.

So you want to be a startup founder, AND own a house, AND have a family? How is this Australia's problem? Founding a startup requires tremendous focus. Seems like poor judgement with a touch of entitlement.

> Timezones Make Communication Hard

Locating yourself far away from your target market is foolish, not unfair (see "foreign investors" above).

> we’ve got more incubators than ever before, we got lots of amazing co-working spaces & everyone is really just trying to find their product market fit in the big bad world.

I recommend looking a little more intently at the /results/ side of the equation, and a little less on the /effort/ side of the equation.
Median might solve some of that issue, unfortunately it is computationally heavy to do median on a rolling basis, unlike average. Part of the reason the filters work so quickly is because when I add or remove items from the active set, I can just add/subtract from the total and the count for that one item. With median, I'd have to keep the active list sorted which even with a binary tree under the covers is still more expensive than two math operations. The filtering library under the cover is crossfilter.
Mint 17 is the perfect place for Linux-ers
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Hasn't amazon been the one to only slowly adopt warehouse automation because it is cheaper to hire humans at $10 an hour?

They did buy this company that makes little robots to move shelves around but it is nothing compared to a real system like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DeT-Hj2DXk
Isn't that for a 1000x ROI? 1000%=10x, so even selling 1% on Kickstarter at a 200M valuation would yield something like that.
It is rather interesting that most parts of Lotus has been posted on HN every months, and yet dont even get more then 10 comment and a few points, not to mention it was never on the HN frontpage.

Now all of a sudden it has 241 point. 134 comment.
If people actually obeyed this rule then I would never have been able to read "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" and the world would be a poorer place.
No, all is hand-made :)
Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.
I'd like the US to be the innovators on drone deliveries but it looks like we'll pass that opportunity up. Maybe we can outlaw any form of driverless car as well. Just as both are getting to be new markets that could increase economic growth.

Drones, if they are more efficient than truck deliveries from a cost and energy use perspective, for most things they will be the solution used. It is just does the US want that to happen here or elsewhere.

Drone energy use and possible accidents will be less than truck/delivery energy use and accidents in the future.
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It's sad to see that the guidelines about downvoting are clearly not respected.
The sole source.

It really comes down to that doesn't it?

You're the sole source of art you produce, but what you're saying is that you suddenly, by creating a character, gain the exclusive unlimited right to be the only person ever to create any possible creative work with that character.

You're basically patenting the 'idea' of a character, such that no one else can use any variation on that idea.

That's the problem, and it's the problem with patents too; they 'lock up' ideas so they can't be used without licensing / permission; but no just the original idea; all the closely related derivative ideas too.

In practice it's pretty easy (and common) for large holders of these creative patents (for lack of a better word) to do what the Doyle Estate was doing (read here if you're not familiar http://free-sherlock.com/) to troll and shake-down people using the IP; even for relatively unrelated creative works.

Personally, I feel it should be managed more like brands; if I sell shoes with a Nike logo, it's obviously infringement.

...but if I start telling shoes with a logo from some company that hasn't traded shoes in 15 years and their trademark has expired, tough luck to them. You're not a practicing entity anymore; let someone else use that IP instead of leaving it locked up forever.
Wat? I thought the whole point of patents is to make information public, because competitors are simply not allowed to use the information without payment anyway.
>I still never implied that my values are better.

Only if you seriously think you can use the psychopath diagnosis without judgment. I suppose that is possible? but it's pretty unlikely.

Even if you are using it in a value-neutral way (and I don't believe you are) you are making a huge jump. For example, some people try to de-prioritize friendships because they have been badly hurt by friends in the past; this is far more likely to happen to a deeply empathetic person.
It was acquired by Ebay, which means it was no longer a small firm.

Not that I'm surprised, however it's further evidence that such statements on acquisition have no credibility whatsoever. They are just to make current customers and employees feel good.
Verizon dumping it's 100mb/ month of free data deal for chromebook
AiYO app is India's answer to the ridiculousness that is YO
I could go to vegas and drop $40k in cash on the casinos, gambling it all away. There's nothing to stop me from dong that.

But even with 20 years experience in startups, I can't put $40k into a startup's round?

Slate would say I need to be "protected" from that?

Sorry, in this case, the regulations that only allow the well connected and wealthy to invest in startups also serve to keep those with domain expertise out of the market.

All too often regulations are used to exclude competition. This is one example.
I see a fair number of edtech startups really interested in teacher engagement and feedback, though they either:

1) Don't know how to get it

2) Only get it from only a handful of teachers that don't represent a wide range of teacher interests

To be fair, I've seen the same problem in other industries too. In edtech, this problem is particularly noticeable because there's a new wave of edtech startups right now, driven by advances in web technology, decreased startup costs, and increased investor interest. This new wave has catapulted dozens upon dozens of new offerings, so it's very easy to get lost in the sea of choices.

If it makes you feel any better, since markets tend to be cyclical, this expansion will eventually collapse and consolidate into fewer choices, I'd imagine.

But back to edtech startups and teachers. It's hard for many founders to know how to find and engage with teachers meaningfully. Those that don't do it are doomed, IMO. For those that want to find out how, a handful of resources are rising up to fill this need, such as:

+ http://edtechhandbook.com/ - A collection of informational articles.

+ https://www.edsurge.com/summits - A series of conferences to bring teachers & startups together.

+ http://tinkered.co - A new teacher-created service to help startups employ teachers.

If anyone else knows of others, please share!
I dunno. Sometimes I'd be happy to drop 5-10k to a good project. Just to kickstart some good new tech or product. But not getting equity kinda sucks.
“We find it very hard to believe that any attractive companies will use” non-accredited investor crowdfunding

On any given day, there are millions of English-speaking people on the internet. If you can capture the hope and imagination of those people, they will give you money, and the total amount you receive will be significant. Alternatively, if you can convince a small number of them to give you a large sum of money (à la Occulus), your result will be the same. This, obviously, requires the right sort of idea; one that resonates with large numbers of people, or resonates so strongly with a small number of people that they're willing to part with hundreds of dollars. But it's quite possible, and I see no reason why a serious company wouldn't explore this possibility.

On the other hand, after reading some history about the concept of the stock market, I think legal protections aren't a bad thing. The goal is to protect uninformed consumers from predatory behavior. It's an important goal, because no one likes admitting they're uninformed (least of all to themselves) so you end up in a situation where people are throwing around their nest eggs at emotional appeals (companies who convince you that they can make your fantasy happen). It's easy for people to convince themselves they've stumbled onto a big opportunity, and it's rather easy for them to believe in it so strongly that they're willing to invest large sums of money; sums they sometimes can't afford. If their investment disappears, so does their ability to participate in the economy. The history of the idea of stocks is filled with this sort of behavior, and sometimes the consequences can be disastrous. Due to information asymmetry, those tempted to invest in a new phenomenon are usually the ones least qualified to judge whether the phenomenon will yield returns. Hence, predatory behavior, and the original motive for protective legislation.

There's a balance to be struck between taking advantage of small sums of money from millions of people, and protecting those people from dumping money they can't afford into a new phenomenon. Some tasteful regulation isn't necessarily a bad thing.
But one of the most effective tactics of The Fly was a traditional SWATting based on a false phone call that Kreb's wife had been murdered in the house. 13 police officers showed up, heavily armed, because of the War on What? Murder? Domestic Violence?

All of this long predates any War on ____. Your examples could just as easily be "send tips that so and so plans to rob a bank." There's no "War on Bank Robbers" but it'd be no less effective.
4 ways to convince anyone to spend
No, it takes at least two flushes.
Wrong. In fact, I posted about this just an hour ago over on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/290n9b/is_the_nbn...

Furthermore, you're calling it a saving of money in one sentence and then imply that it's in investment right in the next. So what is it, a pure expenditure or an investment?

And in fact, with the NBN plan I'd likely switch to were it available in my area I would pay $10 less than my current connection, have 4 times the download speed, 40 times the upload speed and unlimited data. Or I'd stay with the same provider and pay $5 more and the same as above but not unlimited data. Either of the two are with a phone line included.

So I guess if that's what you meant by paying more than with ADSL, then that's one way of looking at it. Another way is this (mind you, with 40 Mbps upload vs. a maximum 2 with ADSL): http://i.imgur.com/VKovuSO.png

Which blows this:

> The Labor governments $30bn costing was predicated on NBN users paying more than they currently pay for ADSL services, and for those charges to increase annually.

Pretty much right of the water, doesn't it? In fact, I'm curious. Where did you hear it and believe it to such an extent you were willing to parrot it without any further fact checking?
It's interesting to watch corporations expose one another's vulnerabilities in a public way. It seems like this was done pretty fairly, giving PayPal ample time to address the bug-- so I guess that's neat.
> The point is not to get anyone to be your "part time DBA" that was just some example question I came up with, hopefully to spark some kind of debate or just usage of the site. I am basically just giving someone $3 for their 2 cents on a scaling question. I think asking for someones opinion on scaling is a little different then asking them to be your part-time DBA.

I have ~13 years of experience. I would rather answer someone's question for free on Stackoverflow or on a Reddit subreddit than get paid.

Networking/Repuation > Beer Money.

Please don't let this take the wind out of your sales, it may work, but I'd rather give my knowledge away for free in the right forum vs a couple of bucks.
> From an investor’s perspective, crowdfunding operates most similarly to angel investment. But most crowdfunding investors won’t be able to act like successful angel investors. “Successful angel investors invest in industries they know well, do a lot of due diligence, spend time mentoring the companies they invest in, and diversify their investments,” said Dorff.

A single non-accredited investor may not invest as well as an experienced angel investor. But the idea is to invest with "the crowd". The funding sites will help with some of the due diligence, and people will gravitate to the most promising startups. Instead of providing advice individually, the crowdfunders will provide group feedback, marketing, etc. And they'll be able to diversify just like angels, since they'll invest smaller amounts in each startup.
The difference between a casino and a startup is that you're legally guaranteed to know all the rules of the casino. "Here is the game; here's how it's played; here are your odds."

With a startup, information asymmetry virtually guarantees that crowds are least qualified to judge whether it will succeed. It's easy to trick people, and that's what the legislation is protecting against.
In my experience the talent pool is quite small in Singapore compared to Australia. That being said there isn't a lot of good opportunities available to the top talent so you can probably employ a significant chunk of it.

Definitely not going to be a tech hub anytime soon though.
>Either men are masochists and choose jobs that are "not fun"

Another possible explanation is that perhaps there is cultural pressure on middle-class men to make a lot of money, regardless of how much pain is involved in getting said money. If you are only getting an undergrad degree, a STEM degree is probably the most remunerative course of action you have open to you.

Now, my perception is that society puts a lot less pressure on middle-class women when it comes to making money... but I'm not a woman; it is quite possible that my perception here is in error.
"But you wouldn't have gotten money there anyway, if they had never produced the art." I argued.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but I think you're overlooking the possibility that they might have been commissioned to produce an original rather than a derivative work.

Is art, similarly to science, not an iterative process based on the input of dozens, hundreds, thousands of people that came before us?

No. It's certainly influenced by prior art, and techniques like sampling, collage, and cut-ups certainly allow for art that is comprised of prior art but rearrange in a novel way. But a lot of art is original, and speaking of someone's originality is usually one of the highest artistic compliments one can pay. I think this discounting of original work is one of the flaws of postmodernist culture, in which the referential frame is accorded equal or greater semantic weight than the content within. I may be projecting here, though.
Following your logic: "You'd have to be crazy to give away stock as part of an investment round. Even it were possible I can't imagine many project creators making that choice. The numbers just don't make sense. Especially given how successful kickstarter has been without it."
How does crowdfunding successfully work in the UK, but not in the US? Having done startups in both environments, structurally, I don't see much of a difference.

UK crowdfunding websites for reference:

https://www.seedrs.com/

http://www.crowdcube.com/
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Why not?

"0.000001% ownership per $10000 you invest"

"Sure, LOL, why not"

Now that we've established it could make sense, tweak the numbers to an equilibrium. Unless you've calculated that equilibrium, found it unworkable and skipped that step in the conversation and would like to enlighten us!
Well, that's about to change with the new budget it seems.
A. I never said the government was "behind botnets." Nor did I refer to any singular government. Yet, Stuxnet did create, in effect, a botnet.

B. A government interested in network security would inform managers of reflection- and amplification-vulnerable systems (such as misconfigured DNS resolvers), as well as design and release open, verifiable, trustable specifications for filtering hardware and packet matching algorithms to block DDoS attacks at the same points they currently tap network traffic.

C. Rented machines can be shut down far more easily than a botnet.
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It should be gumroad.com
I'm interested in how many of those investors achieved >1x ROI. Are there any publicly available stats?
>The SEC estimates that it would cost $39,000 in fees to accountants, lawyers, and the funding portal to raise just $100,000, and more than $150,000 to raise $1 million. Those are insanely high capital costs—companies would be better off financing their operations with credit cards.

15% on money that never has to be paid back? If we're comparing to Kickstarter, fees are at least 8% and you are contractually obligated to supply a product.

>For comparison, underwriting fees for a large public offering are usually under 4 percent.

Why are we comparing this to a large public offering?
Most of the swatting incidents I've heard about have not involved drugs at all. The spoofed script I've always heard is: "I just shot my family and am planning to shoot any cops who try to get me." I'm no supporter of the "War on People Who Use Drugs," but I don't think swatting has much to do with it--even if you believe, as I do, that the WOD has led to a lot of the police militarization we've seen, such incidents would still be very dangerous with pretty much any police force.
Can't wait to try it out, hopefully they have one at Zhongguancun already somewhere.
That is just your opinion -- legally, it has not been clarified whether mashups constitute fair use or not. There are arguments on both sides. See for example http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2012/03...
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Transformative is not a binary thing. Most mashups are not that transformative, and indeed many depend upon ease of recognition for their appeal.
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The difference between a casino and a startup is that you're legally guaranteed to know all the rules of the casino. "Here is the game; here's how it's played; here are your odds."

Not quite. That's certainly true for roulette, and maybe craps, but only marginally true for poker, blackjack, pai gow, etc (although those odds are researchable). For machine gambling, the odds are dynamic, and the casino is allowed to non-transparently manipulate them.
If Abbott isn't kicked out soon, Australia is going to become a much, much worse place. (for many reasons, not just the above) I had tears in my eyes when my parents told me of his plans to charge University and healthcare fees.

I used to be proud to be Australian, I hope I can be in the future.
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http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/11/17/obscurity/
You're right, but now I'm wondering where the article got a 200M valuation from...
Ask HN: How to scale 1 server : 1 customer model?
Hi guys I need some help figuring out this pattern.
I have a web application currently running on flask at site.com
for each of my customer, I want to have a droplet from digitalocean running the copy of the flask app.

I want to consolidate them under a subdomain like customername.site.com

so when they go to customername.site.com, the ip points to their own server.

Now the problem I have is handling cases like:
user logs in at site.com, needs to be logged in at customername.site.com
user logs out at customername.site.com, needs to be logged out at site.com
how do you configure an encrypted password for a new droplet instance?
how do you update all droplets with updated code?

The reason I have one user per one droplet is because they run cpu and network intensive background jobs in parallel. I don't want them to interfere with each other.

I guess I'm trying to achieve horizontal scalability, by just cloning an instance of my original web application, instead of trying to force everyone on the same instance.
Any suggestions or feedback would be very useful.
I guess because kickstarter is a bit of both. Even when you are "purchasing" or pre-ordering a product, you don't have anywhere near a 100% chance of getting it delivered... you really are taking the risk of investing. Not sure what the solution really is though.