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What's your problem with property ownership? You want to make it so that if people actually work hard then everything gets taken from them anyway?

You're not talking about evening the score, you're talking about inhibiting people from ever getting ahead again.

Indeed.

Oh I see, jealousy will solve all economic problems.

I did after the first two years.

I don't know how much you paid for your school -- but with math like that I'm sure you paid too much.

But anyway, how the heck can you blame the kid if the parents are tight with their money?

Didn't for several of my sisters, FYI.

Hah. That's an oddly specific match for our dilemma. Have you ever used it?

I am at the same juncture now.

I'm sorry if you don't understand how this relates to startups. It does.

I know of very few founders who didn't move to a new place for their startup. Understanding how the qualities of a region affect the prosperity of its companies will aide you greatly when weighing the costs and benefits of moving for your startup and where to move to.

Prior to what I have learned through HN, I may have moved back to Europe without giving it a second thought. Pull your head out of the compiler for a minute to see how location will affect your hacking career.

Reddit content is funny pictures, useless politics, inflammatory youtube, and misleading headlines. This is none of those.

1. If your parents make 100k+ but don't want to spend it on your education, you're screwed.

2. If you're not a spoiled only child and your parents have to divide that money up then you're screwed.

#1 angers me especially. Parents I know don't do that anymore, especially when colleges rape us with such obscene tuitions while doing relatively little to improve the education.

When an execution is as incredibly simple as hot or not -- that counts as part of the idea!!

You can't really call vastly different sites the same idea. This train wreck totally misses the "I would show this to my friends design" aspect of the idea:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010202080600/http://amihot.com/

And you've got to admit that the basic idea alone totally carried the hotornot site.

From what I can tell, those sites are totally different as far as first impressions. Plus, hotornot got the most brandable domain in the history of the internet.

edit: archive.org confirms it. You've got to be kidding me if you think those sites are remotely similar except for one tiny feature.

Damn, I was going to say hotornot, but you already did. There have been thousands of other startups though that have had first mover advantage work for them in a huge way.

More tough for some of us who are broke and have no car to do this all within one day.

Hell yeah the more the merrier. There's no way tiny yc can support the huge number of capable people out there who's talents are going to waste. That's becoming more obvious every cycle.

Edit: unless they really screw it up and scare away investors. Still, I am impatient to see angel funding to less well-connected people expand at a higher rate. Even risks considered, I welcome the yc clones.

Engineers needed to know more math where I went to school.

I'm sure the mathematicians among us may disagree with my definition of "math."

"halo effect."

....and still only half of it would be good advice.

> You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive.

What the heck?

I'm not saying that you should ignore this data or not release early. I have though, have seen customers be very wrong. I'd say they tend to see only short term goals, not long term. At worst, your product will become a design by committee disaster.

My view is that startups aren't easy because there are no natural forces to guide you. Not customers, not markets, nothing. All can mislead.

And I've become distrustful of one line advice.

Just what I was about to say.

> Get a travel visa and a sham marriage.

It's difficult for me to say that I support this but immigration regulations are so rediculous and I have seen this technique used very successfully several times so I must say that I agree.

This isn't unique to the US' immigration regulations either.

They say it's for creating the company. In most forms of incorporation you need to put down an address. I ran into the same problem.

The less you exercise, the less your body needs to recover. So you can balance your health and sleep time depending on your goals.

I'm actually trying to make lists of the best programming music now. First, I'm collecting databases of all the music I can find. The electronic genres are the most elusive... I have a database listing about 16MM tracks and mixes now. Once I get all that I'll finish making those lists.

I have found some decent web stations, but for the most part I just rip hundreds of tracks from dozens of stations at a time and pluck out the couple good songs and then repeat.

I'll get back to you on that.

The internet radio stations I listen to for programming music require each mix (song) to be between 45 and 90 minutes, not fade or do other distracting effects, and a couple other basic rules that make it quite good for programming.

Seconded.

Bet they'll still arrest you for using it...

TC commentors are a//holes. Well I think this is a decent product. This problem area has definitely been in need of a decent solution.