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For me - a dating website. Having lived in two foreign countries, I can see that my story might be impossible otherwise. It's just that, from my experience, when you meet someone on a dating website and you tell them you're a foreigner and you're pretty bad at their language, it creates a sort of "expectation" or "context" that can be nice for the first meeting (which was a drink for us). It switches the date from an awkward, "try-to-impress-her" meeting to "hey, this is kind of fun and weird" date, and can work with the right person. I brought a translation dictionary to dates before I knew French really well. With this particular girl, I remember it taking an extraordinarily large amount of time for us to even go through details like family, etc. But, she was patient and intrigued I suppose, because we only communicated in my garbled French. On subsequent dates, I remember taking walks around the city. I can't remember too many exact details because it was 7 years ago -- just that she was very patient and quirky and I truly felt like a little kid absorbing up the French.
instead of this they should get the projector phones working where you can project a 50inch movie screen from your phone.
They usually come from Chinese IP addresses and leave Chinese comments in scripts, Chinese symbols in binaries, and so on.

In many cases, the systems used in the attack also correlate to actual individuals through other means, such as the attacker logging in to their personal email account and doing daily activities, not being aware that they have been "hacked back" so to speak.

There is probably some percentage of attacks falsely attributed to China, but it's usually obvious, and no one else has much incentive to go to great lengths to impersonate them.

Russians don't care enough to train their operatives to learn Chinese and impersonate them in an attack for example, they'll just hack the US in Russian.
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Not that I know of, other than grabbing each chapter with something like curl or wget (change the /1/ in the URL to /n/ to get chapter n), processing it to extract the text, and concatenating them, and then sending that to your Kindle over USB or by mailing it to your Amazon "send to my Kindle" address.

If you change the www in the URL to m, you get the mobile version, which has less complicated HTML, which might make extracting the text easier.

You could also try reading it online in the Kindle browser. I have not tried reading anything from fanfiction.net there, so I don't know how well that works.
Economics says people will pay what they think something is worth, and it's up to the consumer to balance the cost vs. the utility they get from it. In your examples the key is if the buyer was fully informed, or surprised and learned something new after buying that changed their mind. It only works as well as the consumer is informed about the product, the market, and the alternatives.

Paying $200 for a bunch of Steam games might be fine, as long as you know what you're getting... Or, you might feel scammed if you thought you were getting a complete game and later discovered you had to pay more via IAP to get what you thought you paid for in the first place.

This change (not calling IAP apps "free") is part of trying to inform the consumer. I'm not sure if it's the best solution as IAP seems like its own category, but that's the goal.
As someone searching for a job, it's hard to say. There are only a few big cities not on the coast that stand out: Twin Cities, Chicago, Austin, maybe Denver, maybe Ann Arbor. If you're not in one of those areas, you could be in any of a few dozen cities, so how am I going to find you? Plus there's just a trend where people rarely move from big town to a small town. Most people want to stay where they are or move 'up' to a better, often more crowded, area.

Compensation can be lower, no problem, as long as quality of life isn't dropping off.
You're stressed out.

Take two weeks. You'll be amazed how much better you feel week 2.
As a resident of flyover country I look at it the opposite way - why would I move to the coast for higher pay only to have it soaked up in living expenses? Even with that I'd probably be downgrading my housing, and there are other aspects of my lifestyle that I'd miss. And do you really think the pay disparity is that extreme?
Well... he seems to be the only one who actually drools so far (not counting the troll or any non human being).
Totally ^^
Like HD audio phone calls? The ones lucky to try it complain that the sound "is too clear" or that it "sounds weird" :-)
At FarmLogs (YC w12) we have been able to hire some really amazing people in the "flyover" country. We moved to Ann Arbor from Mountain View to be closer to our customers.

Ann Arbor is an attractive city. People realize that when they come and visit. Much like startup hubs, Ann Arbor has a high density of really smart people (partly because of UofM), and does have its own advantages over the Bay Area.

Ultimately, people don't join us (or not join us) because of location. We hire people that want to be a part of our mission to bring great technology to agriculture. When people get to see what we are working on, who we are, and how much progress we've made, they get really excited. At that point location doesn't matter as much. We are relocating people from all over including the Bay area.
These are so nice, I might make some sort of weather app just to use them aha!
I live and work in the Midwest, and this is the situation I see a lot. We actually saw a local company move to a nearby city (two hours away) in order to find more talent, though they bumped up the salary to get that talent. I believe if they would have offered that higher salary here, they would have been fine (we actually have a university in our town).

The hard part is, instead of asking, "What is the value of my work?" you have to ask "What is the value of my work here?" It's a very odd question to ask if you work for a company that is in national or global markets.
I work in the sticks out in Texas.

I remain freelance because I haven't found a company that will pay me my freelance rates while remaining remote and still having the power to throttle down as I'd prefer to do. I can make as much as my buddy who is a plumber working a quarter of the hours and not having to own a truck full of tools or get under houses.

Just a guess, but I'd think most of the folks who like to live out in the sticks like to live in "their" sticks... I've lived in Texas my whole life. And it doesn't take a lot of remote work to make the nut, especially if you're being compensated at good market rates.

Between those two facts, I'd suspect that the issue is that most folks who live in "flyover country" aren't inclined to move and don't have to.

You might have better luck training locals or grabbing folks who want to live in your area. Or, like a lot of folks do, hiring remote.
Nice. How about filters of some kind? Like "banned words" or the like. Maybe something like http://skimhn.com/.
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Yes, but at least the apps are free to investigate. Far less risk / hassle than paying, downloading, installing, running, uninstalling, and requesting a refund.
at least they are descent enough to consider cost of living.

In a corner of Canada where I live, they refuse to adjust to the highest cost of living, highest cost of real estate, and still find a way to pay under the market rate because "remember, you are living in the most beautiful part of Canada, and warmest too, that's the cost"

such bullshit.
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You need to pay way more than the coasts.

There are career benefits to being in a location with other tech companies. Not just finding a new job, but simply going to meetups and coffee shops and meeting people who are in a similar line of work. When you say "people do stick around" I wonder if this is part of the reason. I'd need extra money to make up for the money I'm losing by being far away from the action. Sending me to conferences might make up for this.

There are cultural benefits to being in an actual city. Ballet, theater, live music, etc. I'm sure there are wonderful small town artists but a big city will have more cultural activities by virtue of having more people. Extra money and extra vacation time (like 6-7 weeks a year) for a trip to NYC occasionally could convince me. Of course there are cities in the middle of the country, Chicago and Minneapolis for example, in which case disregard this point.

There would still be quality of life issues. I like sushi and have never had good sushi in the midwest. I like being able to read a book on pubic transit instead of driving myself to work. I like walkable neighborhoods. I like sailing. I like living in a place where it hardly ever snows, yet I can drive for a bit to a huge mountain and go snowboarding. I'd need a lot of money to give up some of these things, not sure you can even a price on it.

I'd suggest trying to hire remote workers.
I've already had this debate with Tim in private (we're friends). Some of his analysis of transactional use is quite misleading. For instance:
http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/a-marginal-economy-vers...

Here he compares bitcoin to m-pesa which is a deeply misleading comparison. The former has a floating price, the latter is a money substitute and its price is fixed against the currency which is substitutes for. This is why I've suggested to Tim that it is total purchasing power transferred that should be measured, and I think I have convinced him of that.
Sorry, but I thought Dalton was already a partner? Did he join YC as another position and I'm mixing them up?

edit: looks like he was part time, is he full time now?
Yeah, I am convinced. Thanks for a great conversation.
How different is it from Storjcoin ?
Big companies do this all the time. They skirt regulation, harm people, pay the miniscule fine, and keep on operating as if nothing happened. In most cases, limited liability means nobody goes to jail.
Not sure I'm convinced the effort of switching streaming frameworks is worth it as opposed to switching to a jvm compiled language.
> For bitcoin to succeed, it needs to become safe. It's still incredibly easy to lose your money if it's stored in bitcoin.

It's not that "bitcoin has to become safe" - it's that the users have to become security-minded. If it's even possible for that to happen in a mainstream way, it's going to be a very slow process. Like decades or generations.
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This is what I was going to say, myself.

If you want top talent you have to pay for it. Period. Even if the job is unpleasant, money can solve the problem. "Reasonable rates considering local cost of living" doesn't sound at all enticing.

The problem is compounded by the fact that you can work remotely for a SV company and get a comparatively high rate. If someone were talented and "stuck" in a flyover state, why would they work for this company compared to working remotely for a SV company?
It really depends on where in "flyover country" you're talking about.

Are you considering Tulsa, or Akron, or Sioux City? That's a tough call, since the markets there are pretty thin. Taking a full-time job in a thin market for tech saps your negotiating leverage, because your employer knows they don't have much credible competition.

On the other hand, are you considering Chicago, or, MSP? Those are --- contrary to popular belief --- gigantic cities, larger than San Francisco. There are advantages to working in (say) Chicago over SF. You won't get your next startup funded there, but you'll have an easier time getting a bootstrapped company off the ground. There are tradeoffs, but we'd have to talk about what's important to you to hash them out.

Personally: I've enjoyed my last couple visits to San Francisco (surprisingly; I moved away from San Francisco hating them place). But I wouldn't want to live there.
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I'm mostly in agreement with this if you choose to live in said city, but I would argue that traffic will be better even in one of the "big" cities of the Midwest (I currently live the greater D.C./Baltimore metro area and am amazed at what people in the Twin Cities metro area consider to be bad traffic). As a result, it would be much less time-consuming to commute into the city from the countryside in the Midwest than it would be to make a commute of similar distance in SV/NY/DC/etc.
Who's using NOAA? Aren't they intended to be used primarily by weather services?
Out of curiosity, what are the texts/resources you're getting vocab from? Where do you get shows to watch? Did you pick up on the basics like the alphabet and pronunciation first and study that together?

My husband's just like you and beyond knowing words for his favorite foods and some of the lyrics to Gangnam Style, he doesn't know much more. I would like to change that. Plus it'd be nice to practice my rusting Korean with him - there's few Koreans in SF and most assume I'm Chinese despite my Standard Korean dialect. I really want him to learn for raising our future kids fluent in multiple languages but no real stress there - between me (fluent in 2, conversational in 1, formerly conversational in 2-3 I could pick up again), my bilingual mother, and my polyglot father (former military interpreter, near fluent to fluent in 4 and currently learning 3-4 others or however many he maxed out on with his best friends Duolingo and iTunes U...) I think they will be covered.

I dug up some of my old books, AppleTV has KORTV and Crunchyroll and Netflix/Amazon have an okay movie selection (can't figure out how to get it to show/hide subtitles in multiple languages and sometimes english is just burned into the video itself -_- )...I also talked to some Duolingo people at I/O about contributing to "Korean for English speakers", but eh. I grew up with the language and my limited formal study was with a super nerdy polyglot linguistics researcher at Yonsei (Korean Ivy-level-esque university) so I have no idea where to start for new mostly monolingual learners for a less popular language.
Found your problem.

Compensation and benefits are reasonable as well, considering the low cost of living.

I've had offers with that qualifier. They always come in 40% below market. Even if cost of living and salary is a 1:1 trade. I'll always trade up and not down.

Here is why:
The primary differences in cost of living is housing. Cars, computers and software cost the same regardless. Additionally housing costs more in places where people want to live and less where they don't want to live. Sure I can buy a mansion in Minot, but I can't buy a beach. There are more subtle issues with this too. The costs of conferences, training, and tools doesn't change. There are also network effects. Potential employees check up on a businesses reputation as well. In my area I know who to avoid and have contacts in dozens of other tech focused businesses. Odds are I don't know anyone who's been within 100miles of you. What happens if things don't work out? Are you the only tech employer in town?

Bluntly you're asking me to give up my existing network of people and employers for lower pay, less future growth opportunities, and all you can offer is a cheap house in a place where I may not want to live. It's not a good deal, so people don't take it.

What would attract me to a job in the midwest?

Paying market rates would be #1. Being upfront that training/conference travel opportunities will be funded. A few other tech companies within reasonable distance so I'm not in a bind if I need to move on.
It's a font, so single color. Multi-level (thus multi-color) fonts are possible, but are not heavily adopted.
What do you mean by "just disappear"? People lose it, but because they lose the keys or passwords. It's not like the protocol causes it to poof away out of nowhere. It's entirely user error, and not terribly hard errors to avoid at that.
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As a senior dev in the Midwest, there's a lot of jobs available to you for good pay, so having something else that differentiates you is a good idea, but it all starts with the pay. There's plenty of good talent already in the midwest.
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As a icon font, anything you want to do with it is via CSS. So they can be any color, have a shadow, etc, but unless someone wants to get clever, the icons have to be any single color.

I could make component pieces that have color CSS coded and stack, like a yellow sun on a white cloud that are positioned on top of one another, but that would be a massive undertaking I don't think I could commit to.
I live in rural Massachusetts, way too far for a Boston commute. I found that if I really got to know the local market, I could find great local developers -- I actually prefer that to NYC (where I started), where you can find devs, but it's hard to compete with the other companies there.

Our strategy was to make our place the absolute best place to work and pay appropriately -- perhaps not all the way to SF market, but at the high-end of our market. Word gets around. We were also aggressive with the local colleges.
[class*="wi-"] could save you from having to define `wi` on every icon.
Just a guess, but I'd think most of the folks who like to live out in the sticks like to live in "their" sticks

Agreed.
That's really cool, and a novel idea. Never thought about plotting weather across a long trip, really clever.
Same here ... I'm working full time with a distributed team, and it's beyond fantastic for me. I go a few times a week to a co-working place to get my fill of geeky watercooler talk and lunch with people. My collaboration is done primarily over chat (hipchat, but can easily be irc, slack, etc.), and we have a video conference once a week for the team to sync up ... not to mention git, etc.

I totally get that there's lots of enterprises that just aren't set up, culturally, to work with a distributed team ... but you know what, maybe that's how you (OP) can differentiate yourself from your competitors; by hiring the best talent, regardless of where they are physically located. It works, there's tons of companies that are moving to this model and getting great work done.
The concept of using different optimizations to transfer and store different data types is interesting, but I agree the total secrecy in this article is disappointing, and there are no references to the study claiming to transfer video 5x faster without interruption.
Bitcoins won't disappear unless you lose control of the private key, or if you do something foolish like use a 'brain wallet' with poor entropy or pretend that an unregulated exchange is a bank and give them all of your money.
Are you seriously scraping or using the official Hacker News API[1]?

[1] https://hn.algolia.io/api
If, at the end of the day, your discretionary income is the same, does it matter? You make more money, you pay more in expenses, and when all is said and done you still have $1000/mo to spend on whatever you want or put in savings. So your higher pay being soaked up in living expenses nets you exactly the same as the lower pay with less living expenses.

It doesn't matter if the pay disparity is as high as I mentioned. What matters is what you take home after your bills are paid. And it's exactly the same in my research. Which is why I moved to another part of the midwest when I moved, and not to SF or NY.
Yes. As well as HN itself, of course.

Edit: plus outward-facing tools like YC applications, Startup School registrations, and so on.
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I've had an icomoon fork open to merge mine in, just never got around to it, my metadata was lacking for their system. But it's 90% of the way there.
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In my mind, [a substantially larger settlement] would not have been just. It would have been a reverse form of theft, taking advantage of one person’s mistake for my personal gain. While it’s tempting to blame the “big corporation” for this kind of thing, ultimately these kinds of mistakes are made by people who are prone to the same kinds of errors that you and I make every day.
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FYI 'unlimited' vacation is not a perk, its an accounting trick that more often than not IS NOT in employee's interest.
It's easy to get stuck, and hard to get unstuck. It's often less about your skills and more about something like fear.

Get valuable feedback and incorporate it. That means build and use your network for helping shore up your weakness. Ask PMs and founders you currently or will soon know how they do the things you are having trouble with. Have them show you how to do it a little so you get the workflow. Look for meetups related to the issues your having (eg a growth hacking meetup or lean methodology meetup where people talk about what works and can help each other get further, stay on track, see things they missed). Also check out the War of Art, an interesting book about blocks and how to overcome them.

tl;dr

Do more, think less. Get help from real live people on ideas you're kicking around or actual prototypes and products. Don't let fear get the best of you- you can do it.
It's the "Compensation and benefits are reasonable as well, the low cost of living." part. When you pay someone reasonably relative to their immediate environment what you're really saying is: Hi new hire, we expect you to live here forever because you can't save money to leave to a more expensive city and we value less than your peers in larger markets.

What you fail to realize that in order to attract talent to "flyover country" you need to compensate them for being in "flyover country".
Storj doesn't make any technical innovations, their plan is essentially "make some nice looking web apps and let other people worry about inventing the things we need". Storjcoin is a standard blockchain, but actually isn't even neccessary at all.

Filecoin actually addresses the technical challenges in building something like this, and maybe Storj will end up using it in their stack.
Newsletters are a good way to find them. Also most top campaigns get coverage in news sources/PR. I know Indiegogo has several different newsletters a week.
Where is those people "programming isn't math" God now, eh?
I work for one of the big tech companies in the bay area, and I already plan on eventually moving to a much smaller metro eventually. Mainly it's because buying a house here is crazy expensive, and also because I'd like to be closer to nature (e.g. a 20 min bike ride to a river or forest or something like that). For me, just being in a desirable small city would be the big thing (good schools, good walkability/bikability, close to naturey stuff, not too far from a major metro (< 2 hours by car)).
http://jaxbot.me/articles/benchmarks_nodejs_vs_go_vs_php_3_1...

This bubble sort benchmark between PHP and Go supports your claims.