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Cost of 1 Person LLC | teej: I filed for a Delaware LLC through Intuit's MyCorporation.com. It ran me a one time fee of ~$300 and a fair amount of time. One easy savings on a business filing is to get your own Federal EIN. It's online and takes 15 minutes, definitely not worth paying someone else to do. It costs $250 a year to run an LLC ... |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | omnivore: Used legalzoom.com and incorporated in Wyoming. It's the best price to do it and best LLC law anywhere. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | tannerhiland: As another reference...In Arizona it is $50 (LLC filing fee) + $35 (newspaper publication fee) and $0 annual recurring. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | ALee: I did this same thing when I was in college and when we developed our first web app. It shouldn't cost you a lot. Usually only the filing fee, if you operate from CA, it will cost you a franchise fee, but if you incorporate somewhere else you should be okay.Google nolo press |
What data source could I use for my stock market program? | chime: http://code.google.com/apis/finance/http://developer.yahoo.com/finance/ |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | dangrover: I've had a sole proprietorship in Vermont (where I grew up) for the past couple years and recently went LLC.I wasn't sure what state to incorporate it in -- I had friends who were knowledgeable about this stuff and basically said any state that I do an LLC in that I suggested was bad, so I just went with VT.... |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | jonursenbach: I don't really understand what the point of having to put an ad in the newspaper is. Same with H1B's. As if having an ad in a newspaper is somehow supposed to be validation. Don't get it at all. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | payne92: I use BizFilings for a single-member (me) LLC incorporated in DE. I think it costs $200-400/year, mostly in DE fees. It's all Schedule C expenses, of course, against your income -- make sure keep good records.If you're doing an LLC and not planning on any future investors, Delaware isn't really critical, IMH... |
How are GoDaddy SSL certificate's so cheap? | joeycfan: Because the certificate racket is a scam.My prime numbers are as good as Thawt's but they have the browser recognize their's and not give the scary 'request for security exception' warning that a lesser cert maker does.The fix is in. It's a scam. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | zaidf: I've had a Delaware LLC for my freelance design/programming work since high school. I think it costs $200-300(my partner/brother would know the exact amount).What I do know is that it is a piece of cake to get one. I think it took us less than 30mins to submit our form. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | jerryji: "What state should I incorporate in?" --http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2009/03/03/what-state-sh...by Yokum Taku (Startup Company) |
hiring coders from developing countries | makecheck: Be aware of a culture that seems to have rapid turnaround. With both China and India, I've seen 5-6 developers quit within 6 months to a year; whereas, in the U.S., there are several people still with me after 10 years.You can get work done, just make sure it's something relatively quick that can be done in... |
Could you limit all or most emails to five sentences? | ram1024: internally sure, people will get used to it.outward facing like customer care it'll never fly of course :Di'm all for people just getting to the damn point. i find it to actually make the person more likeable if he can tell me what the hell the deal is short and sweet without leaving out critical details. |
Sample Equity/partnership contract? | sama: Give him 49% of the equity. |
Taking the Long View | noodle: How do you identify an idea that has the potential to become a long term business?if you can answer that with accuracy, let me know :)i think the best way to make it happen, though, is to do exactly what you said you don't want to do -- build some widget thingeys. work on things that interest you in the short ... |
Taking the Long View | dmv: Consider "Built to Last"http://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Compan...by Jim Collinshttp://www.jimcollins.com/lib/books.htmland Jerry Porras, which is an analysis of companies that did that. Vision, of course, but not visionary products. Vision that leads a sustainable, cohesive culture. |
At Google, are you able to read every online scientific journal for free? | kierank: Chances are you won't have an IP address that's part of the "indexing range" |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | dot: You could just start with a "fictitious business name" under your name. That way you can conduct business under any name you choose. You can even use your personal bank account to receive payments. It's cheap and fast and leaves all the options on the table. |
Testing Out of College? | jaxn: My father had an incomplete BA and was able to Clep out of enough stuff to enroll in business school. I don't think he received an under grad degree though. That is the closest thing I know of. |
Testing Out of College? | cperciva: There are lots of companies which will give you a "degree" in exchange for passing some exams and a few thousand dollars. Most companies -- and governments -- realize that these degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.If you want a university degree, go to university. I don't care how smart you th... |
Testing Out of College? | rms: Just prove P!=NP and you can get your dissertation certified by the college of your choice.-That site really makes this seem like a great idea. If you're planning on going to grad school once you have your bachelor's degree, this seems like a good shortcut. |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | iamelgringo: LLC == Liability protectionIs there a reason that you're doing that as opposed to a sole proprietorship? I filed mine in Santa Clara county for less than $50, by walking down to the courthouse and filling out a form. That allows you to open up a business bank account as well. And, you save yourself the ... |
Cost of 1 Person LLC | jauderho: Also check that the county or city that you live in does not have a separate business license fee.I live in San Mateo which does have that requirement, so YMMV.If you are not concerned about unlimited liability, you can consider a sole proprietorship else LLC is probably the way to go.As always, I'm not a law... |
At Google, are you able to read every online scientific journal for free? | almost: An important part of Goolge Scholar is that it lets you find (almost) any article published. If they removed all the pay-protected only articles it would be a lot less useful.Note how they even show articles not available online at all, then at least you know they exist and can track them down at a library. |
Dividing up a company amongst startup team. | pmjordan: Try searching through the archives (either on google using site:news.ycombinator.com or on searchyc.com), the question of structuring equity between founders has been asked and discussed many, many times before. Main advice from people with experience seems to be to use a sensible vesting scheme. |
How successful have donations been with your site? | patio11: The only person I've ever heard of really hit the ball out of the park with donations is Rick Brewster (Paint.NET). He has some interesting blog articles about the subject which Google will bring up.http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/07/13/making-money-with-freewa...More typical is SyntaxHighlighter, which is the ... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | acro: Bay12 Games (Tarn Adams) has been somewhat successful with donations, I think he works now full-time on his own stuff. (http://www.bay12games.com/)From their forums:March Donations: $2997.46 and 50 billion dollars in expired bank notes from Zimbabwe
February Donations: $1428.62
January Donations: $2099.48
... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | wlievens: In its first few years, my webgame had donations flowing in at the rate of about 50 cent per active player-year. By that I mean, a population of 100 active players (active means using the website at least once per week) would result in some 50 dollars per year. It's a lot less now due to less activity on my p... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | vaksel: I think Wikipedia is the only site that makes some real money from donations |
How successful have donations been with your site? | flipbrad: anyone here using tipjoy? had any success with it? |
Short list of the best hacker/entrepreneur/startup-related meetups to attend in NYC? | kwame: New york linux user group(NYlug) . Good place to meet community hackers and listen to some interesting discussions. |
How successful have donations been with your site? | wensing: Stormpulse.com received a few $k in donations in September '08 (during Gustav, Ike, and co). We slapped up a "Donate Now" PayPal button in the top-right-hand corner and it worked. The benefit of PayPal over others is the fact that PayPal is an actual payment, not just a pledge to pay (which can be the case w... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | radu_floricica: Donations won't work until we have a workable micropayment system. And I don't understand why we don't have it yet. The software is something to write in a weekend: deposit at most $50 in your account, pay by clicking a link and confirm by email. 1 cent per transaction should cover operating costs. Tran... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | knightinblue: Steve Pavlina (www.stevepavlina.com) and Leo Babauta (www.zenhabits.net) are the 2 who come to mind when talking about making money from donations. Leo actually makes enough to have quit his day job (last I heard).According to them, you need 2 things to make this work -
1) steady regular audience
2) they ... |
Dividing up a company amongst startup team. | dryicerx: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%2...It's not the 'solve it all equation', but a pretty general guide, something to start with. Having numbers down is a bit more objective than simply talking about the division which can make it seem ambiguous. |
Best slider? (Javascript/AJAX, PHP) | noodle: http://jqueryui.com/demos/slider/ |
How successful have donations been with your site? | alain94040: Donations are no substitute for charging for products. If you have a commercial product and you make it free and ask for donations instead, your income will drop by 10X or 100X. Really!Where donations work is when there is an obvious good cause attached to the donation. People will donate when it feels righ... |
Best slider? (Javascript/AJAX, PHP) | Nycto: If Prototype and Scriptaculous are your flavour:http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/slider(though it doesn't look like their wiki has a working demo?) |
How are GoDaddy SSL certificate's so cheap? | zmonteca: Yeah, we're in the market and it almost seems to good to be true.Any experience with the EV certs?IMHO, this seems like it might be a good way to add user confidence if you're going the route of a lessor market brand. |
How do you manage mailing list subscriptions and mitigate spam? | pierrefar: Two parts to this:1. I have a domain name that I've set up a catch-all address on it. So anythign@domain.com gets accepted and forwarded to my...2. GMail account which has the best spam filter ever.The process is this: when I have to give out an email address for a website, I use the website's address in the... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | sleepingbot: A 100% clean source of energy cheaper than coal. Period. |
At Google, are you able to read every online scientific journal for free? | blinks: I work at Google (blinks AT). Our search results are no different, but we have a corporate membership with ACM's Digital Library which is insanely useful.I'm sure most other major tech companies have the same deal. |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | davidw: Here's the clickable link:http://www.bikechatter.comI'm looking for ideas of fun/cool things to do with it to make it more interesting. |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | icey: Erm I'm sorry but... What is it?Is it just a live search of twitter for some term? |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | noodle: i'm not sure what more you can do, but a good start would be to clean it up. the layout is broken for me. |
Where can I find test data? | noodle: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | tdedecko: Not sure this is the best way to unclog the twitter feed. Something like a group in Tweetdeck would work really well to solve that problem.Though, maybe you can do some neat things with this idea.First thing that is apparent to me is that there is too much noise. This needs to be reduced in order for me to re... |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | domnit: I wouldn't put all those messages up there with my own copyright notice. Besides that, I only see profile pics next to a few cyclists, so that could use a fix. Seems like this could be useful to someone in that community--maybe try pulling out trends, the way Twitter does across the whole service. |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | chuchurocka: good start, not displaying correctly in Safari on XP. I do follow cycling though so I do see some value in the site itself once things get worked out. |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | mr_justin: As has already been stated, your layout needs work. Looks like you've got a table (gasp!) that is not clearing the floated status bar content or something.The layout is extremely simple, I think you are overcomplicating it by using a "blueprint". It's just a bunch of content the flows linearly down the page,... |
Sample Equity/partnership contract? | johnation33: anyone else can help me with this? |
matrix multiplication within PHP? | notaddicted: If I were doing this, first I would profile the code. It is hard to know if it is significant or not. |
matrix multiplication within PHP? | frisco: From my experience, numerical algorithms at all complicated in PHP tend to lead to major suckage. We use Thrift (http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/) to send the task to a daemon written in something more reasonable, most often either Python or C depending on required intensity. Works beautifully, few problem... |
What are your experiences using AirBnB? | quellhorst: AirBnB is ok until the Craigslist Killer finds the site. |
Why no sense of humor? | quoderat: I've wondered about that as well -- and it is strange to me. Hackers are widely-known for their impish pranks. And even when humor is used in the service of a point, that comment is usually voted down.I know we don't want the place to turn into Reddit or, worse, Digg, but a little humor actually improves my t... |
Why no sense of humor? | rms: There's a much higher standard here for humor than other sites. Things that are really, truly funny, especially while also being sublimely clever are often modded higher than all surrounding comments. |
Why no sense of humor? | niyazpk: Take the case of Reddit. Programming reddit used to be the place where smart programmers used to hang around and have quality discussions about the subject they care about the most, but the simple fact that reddit supported other kinds of news/content in the form of subreddits made the site a place for a lot o... |
Why no sense of humor? | unalone: Humor is anathema to good discussion on sites that use voting models and karma.It would be a lot different if discussions were flat, or at least where comments weren't judged on a per-comment basis. The problem is that the most humor a voting site allows, the more the top answers get diluted. I was a hardcore ... |
Why no sense of humor? | knightinblue: Humor is great, except for when it gets upvoted more than actually constructive comments.For that, I go to reddit. When I feel even more impish, I hit digg.Basically, there's a place for humor and there's a place for constructive dialogue. You'd think the two would go hand in hand, but a voting system lik... |
Why no sense of humor? | ram1024: it has to be humor ON TOPIC. basically something technologically sweet or novel.like the crowdsourcing smiling robot thing, that was cute and funny and well received because it was also bringing to table a novel concept.certainly blonde jokes and toilet humor will not fare as well, and i don't think this shou... |
Why no sense of humor? | phil_collins: Because nobody here has one. |
Why no sense of humor? | patio11: I enjoy humor. I do not enjoy the 157th regurgitation of a joke, which is meant not to be funny but to remind me of the experience of that joke once being funny, particularly when that wastes space from my dedicated business/programming bandwidth. See: absolutely any reference to Monty Python, lolcats, the b... |
Is Google I/O worth $300 and two days off? | dannyr: I heard good things about it from the people who attended last year.I just registered. I think it's one of the cheapest conferences there is. |
Why no sense of humor? | kyro: Are you kidding? Many of the comments I've made have been marginally witty, and shot me up into karma stardom. |
Why no sense of humor? | christofd: I gotta say... the mindset of many on here seems to be: quickly find a flaw that I can knock down. People on here are usually confrontational in their approach, e.g. humor gets attacked. The tone on here seems to be rather grumpy (but I'm more used to the academic world).
I don't like fluff-talk, but I also... |
Why no sense of humor? | adrianwaj: You are spot on, there's little humour and Slashdot is way funnier.I always upvote something that is funny: maybe here funny isn't smart, which is wrong, or, funny is smart, which can easily be the case, but smart people who aren't funny don't want to acknowledge that others are funny.Maybe "humour" is upvot... |
Why no sense of humor? | njharman: Hacker News is for entrepreneurs making money. It is serious business, not a place for fun. |
Open Source projects consisting of Beautiful Code to improve hacker skills? | jamii: Have a look at the book 'Beautiful code'http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Pra... |
Why no sense of humor? | scott_s: People are rarely as funny as they think they are. |
Why no sense of humor? | njharman: It was at +5 before linking to it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=564827That is an example of humor that didn't get nuked to hell.It's also, I humbly put forth, an example of making an counter argument, making a separate point and not being mind-numbingly boring about it.HN, humor is not death. You ... |
Why no sense of humor? | gambling8nt: Humor is not automatically downvoted. One-liners that add nothing to a discussion are.Humor can be used to great effect in order to make a point--but, more often than not, it represents much less of an increase in signal and much more of an increase in noise. |
Herd effects on HN? | harpastum: I think this is simply a function of the perceived value of a story. If it doesn't have many upvotes, readers are unlikely to click on it, and therefore unlikely to upvote themselves.Likewise, if there has been no commentary on an article, a reader is much more likely to comment on the article's site or not ... |
Is Google I/O worth $300 and two days off? | thesethings: Last year they put all the videos and slides up for free: http://sites.google.com/site/io/ (Thanks Google! ).I'd imagine they'll do the same this year.They seem like good sessions. Both this year and last year, I've kind of pined for more Google Apps-related stuff, but I admit that's due to an "enterprise ... |
Why no sense of humor? | wooster: Oh yeah? Your mom. |
Why no sense of humor? | Aron: If you find something that can fly and it has feathers, while everything else that can't fly does not have feathers, then you should give feathers slightly more plausibility as the causal reason for flight. |
Why no sense of humor? | donaq: Personally, where humorous posts are concerned, I upvote those that also have content (regardless of whether it is actually funny), leave alone those that are funny without content, and downvote those that do not have content and aren't funny. Sometimes, though rarely, I also upvote posts not relevant to the top... |
matrix multiplication within PHP? | c00kie: If it turns out to really be slow and you want to/have to stick with PHP, you could speed it up with the Strassen algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm |
Why no sense of humor? | davidw: That's a tricky one isn't it? I think the same things that make for smart and creative give one a good sense of humor, but you have to actively self-censor yourself to make sure you're really limiting yourself to things you really find funny and not just 'hah hah'. Of course, tastes differ too. |
Why no sense of humor? | gilesgoatboy: why so serious? |
Why no sense of humor? | DanielBMarkham: The long answer involves a lot of talk about how it degrades the site.The short answer is that since people, last I checked, were animals who joked, and computers were made for people, not the other way around, the site should support joking and flag/hide jokes appropriately depending on user preference... |
Herd effects on HN? | HalcyonMuse: I, for one, do not notice the number of votes next to a story. As long as it's in the top 150, if it looks interesting, I'll read it, if not, I'll skip it. |
Herd effects on HN? | bendtheblock: I think this is probably exacerbated by the comments with most votes being at the top of the page (but that's also the value of the system). For stories with lots of comments, I'm sure many people only read the top few and are hence more likely to further vote up an already highly voted comment.I guess th... |
Why no sense of humor? | jodrellblank: "The most important thing is that the comments are kept useful by constant vigilance on the part of the community. Did anyone see the reddit t-shirt thread yesterday? That sort of thing needs to remain unthinkable here. Not just the sophomoric sexualization and laughter-excuses-any-misconduct, but the par... |
How successful have donations been with your site? | ivankirigin: Tipjoy has been mentioned a few times. Let me just say that we're most excited about our API, because it can give a site a really custom donation form integration. Broadcasting over twitter is really hot too.http://tipjoy.com/apiWe're holding an API contest too, and I'd love to see plugins into web framewo... |
Why no sense of humor? | edw519: You asked for it...A salesman, a project manager, and a programmer are kidnapped by terrorists on the way to a customer demo. The company refuses to pay ransom so they are to be executed. The kidnappers grant each a last request.The salesman said, "I have been working very hard on a Power Point presentation o... |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | ivanstojic: All the time :-(I used to think that ESR's constant reminders that hacking is not the same as cracking were silly. Now I simply wonder at just how mystical and omnious the world seems to some people.P.S. I never explain that's it's "not that kind of hacking," it's the only kind of hacking that I know of. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | pierrefar: I was once answering a question at a packed lecture and suggested to someone that they should read a site called Hacker News. There were lots of giggles and mumblings immediately as I said that.Their loss really. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | rsayers: Surprisingly no. In fact it's been a while since I've had to explain the real meaning of the word hacker. In the past 10 years it seems that a lot of people finally "get it". |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | strider24: All the time. Me using terminals make it worse. They think I'm hacking which maybe true, but, not in the way they think of it. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | brokenrhino: The name does throw people off. They think I am doing something wrong. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | chanux: Mmm... Not many human beings really noticed me doing that. The few who did just frowned as I can remember. Some bookmarked it. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | vaksel: I only read this site from home, partially to avoid this kind of situation. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | vyrotek: Yes, just yesterday I was in a meeting and someone noticed my HN rss feed on my google homepage. Sadly, all they noticed and talked about was the fact that a post had profanity in its title. |
Why no sense of humor? | jimfl: I have noticed this as well, and not just the time I got downmodded for responding "XSLT" on a thread asking what folks thought were the most "tranformational" programming languages. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | wlievens: Yep, including the hacking thing. To a colleague programmer, to shame. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | edw519: No. I have perfected a lightning-like alt-tab.For longer threads, I cut and paste into my text editor. The keyword highlighting looks kind of funky but no one who walks by can tell it's not code. |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | swombat: The only time this site's name was really a problem for me was when I made the mistake of mentioning my business in a google-meaningful way on here (e.g. "business-name is targeted at the construction industry"), and google picked up my comment here as being higher rated than our website itself!This was back i... |
bikechatter.com - review & suggestions | orlick: OK... As a huge cycling fan I love the idea of this site. I could follow these guys on Twitter but I like the idea of taking a 2 minute break and just skimming this site instead.Some suggestions:1 - Spend time on making a more cycling oriented design
2 - Add thumbnails of the cyclists pictures next to their co... |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | Evgeny: Every time I go to HN from work I think to myself "is it blocked already ... is it blocked already ... phew!".The company has a reasonably strict policy on internet usage, stuff like webmail is blocked, for example, but all development-related sites are not. However, they blocked the blogger.com 'dashboard' rec... |
Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"? | niqolas: The admins at work blocked HN simply because it had the word "hacker" in its name. |
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