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Home Automation businesses? | brk: Been there, done that.The industry and market-base is still way too fractured.One of the biggest limiting factors is that in order to be very useful and functional, there has to be a moderate degree of programmability in the device that is acting as the server/controller for the home. This limits the effective ma... |
Home Automation businesses? | mooism2: I can see home automation for the masses possibly coming in on the back of smart meters. |
Banking for startups? | stanleydrew: I use Chase (Formerly WaMu) here in CA for a WY S-corp and an LLC and they've been great. |
Home Automation businesses? | DenisM: FWIW, my friends are working on home automation in this startup http://www.lagotek.com |
What's up with Red Bull's pricing strategy? | gmonk: The original Thai version of Red Bull can still be found for much cheaper at your local asian grocery store. They will typically carry several off-brand versions as well for even less. |
Home Automation businesses? | future09: What aspect of the industry are you thinking of getting in to? Security? Lighting? Media distribution? All of the above?Are you planning on installing a pre existing product line (eg cresteon, amx, control4) or creating a product like linux mce or misterhouse? |
Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music | jsonscripter: What's supposed to happen when I click on a listing after a search? Right now nothing happens. There's also a blank grey rectangle on the right. I'm using Chrome 1.0.154.65. Do I need flash installed for something to happen? |
Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music | zeedotme: I tried uploading a track, tweeted it to all my followers, then was told that the track wasn't ready to play yet...grrrrr.... |
Giving Equity to Early Employees/Late Cofounders | aditya: Ultimately, do what your team is most comfortable with. And how valuable they are to your startup's success.Read the equity equation: http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.htmlWhat about a vesting schedule after they get equity? That's a good way to figure out who is in it for the longer run, too.Best of luck! |
Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music | indexzero: What's your anti-RIAA (read copywritten material) story? Seems like a good idea (I'm about to try it out), but seems like a slipperly legal slope. |
I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise. | logic: I was, and still am, in a similar situation.I picked up the requisite non-tech hobby that I'm now quite passionate about: in my case, it was automotive modification and racing. I have a veritable performance shop in my garage now: I taught myself welding and metal fabrication, aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, engin... |
Giving Equity to Early Employees/Late Cofounders | tptacek: In a VC-backed company, 5% is a huge number. Much larger than it sounds like. A CEO might have 5%.In a situation like this, where you're talking about part-time dev and forum moderation, it's unlikely that anyone on your team is going to value equity as much as you do. Which means that any reasonable allocatio... |
Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music | zeedotme: Btw, I think playbacks of uploaded songs are shortened to only play a segment of the track. Can you verify that's definitely the case? |
How does Pandora's rating system work? | teej: Each song is classified according to the Music Genome Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project). The song's genes are rated according to how strongly they are expressed on a 1-5 scale. They break down your song ratings into ratings of certain genes and groups of genes (focus traits) and pick a... |
Signing an NDA online? | russell: It probably varies state by state, but various forms of digital signing are legal. If you are the signer, why do you care if they are enforceable? The weaker the legality, the better off you are. OTOH dont sign anything online that you wouldn't on paper. |
Do you use PHPMyAdmin as an alternative to your app admin? | skwiddor: Noalso consider http://www.google.com/search?q=phpmyadmin+exploit |
Econometrics, Bioinformatics, Game Theory. Python or R? | icey: I would recommend Python as a first language. There are tons of users (which is very nice when you run into problems), and it's useful for all sorts of problem domains.http://diveintopython.org/ is a good place to start.(Or, if you aren't going to start learning in the immediate future, this is looking pretty pro... |
Econometrics, Bioinformatics, Game Theory. Python or R? | paulgb: I'd recommend Sage. It is a math-oriented Python environment that includes many of the popular open source math packages. It also has a worksheet mode that lets you save an interactive session, which is something R can do but not python.In fact, Sage includes R so if you really want to you can use R functions f... |
Do you write comments, and then not submit them? | jonshea: I probably write and delete (or abandon) two posts for every one that I actually public. Blogs I post on are thick with unpublished drafts. Usually I abandon posts because I’m not pleased with the writing. I also abandon posts because I feel I can’t make my point clearly or rigorously enough to justify asking ... |
reliable domain registration | jhancock: Try http://searchyc.com for old threads on this topic.I've used godaddy for years. I do not like their cluttered site and constant upselling when all I want to do is a simple renweal. But I do trust them to not screw up or sell/squat-on my domain searches.A few months ago I had a gripe about some auto-renew... |
reliable domain registration | nreece: NameCheap.com all the way |
Econometrics, Bioinformatics, Game Theory. Python or R? | hs: my friend told me that econometrics is his hardest phd qual. iirc he mentioned statistics, time series, and stochastics (very heavy maths) ... to me those seem to be best handled with statistical package like Rmy bio friend told me about string matching, she used perl. i'm not sure if R can do pcre regex pattern ... |
reliable domain registration | tokenadult: I've liked PairNIC pretty well. |
reliable domain registration | eznet: I have had a handful of domains through 1and1 - so far, so good. No problems. Admin interface is friendly. Notices via email for all renewals. Don't know how that compares, but I have been happy. Heck, I tossed their referral link on my VERY low traffic sites and each domain has consistently paid for it's s... |
How to pull off an early acquisition for several million? | dutchkabuki: Number one... 2 bidders, bro. 2 bidders. remember that.Number two... they got to know you. got to know you. so w/ your top 5 targets... approach for some sort of partnership. NOT ACQuisition! make some stuff up about how their product could work w/ yours, etc. white label. anything.... then, most co's ... |
Which persistent in-memory database to use? | annoyed: what about kickfire: http://www.kickfire.com/ |
Econometrics, Bioinformatics, Game Theory. Python or R? | sidmitra: As a programming language Python would be more suitable, 'cos it's more generic.When it comes to Econometrics or any other statistical analysis, you would probably call built-in/library/module functions to calculate things like Gini, Theil.Most of these functions are available for python or even R. So you can... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | dryicerx: Three possibilities depending on what the voices in your head are saying- If they are random useless sayings: ignore them (see a doc)- If they are good ideas : write them down- If they tell you to do anything harmful: go see a doctor immediatelyIt's healthy to talk with your self in your head... like playing ... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | gojomo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Auditory_hallucin...If it's enough of a concern for you to ask about here, you should seek other expert (medical/psychological) counsel, or at least discuss with a trusted friend or family member, in person.Where people have previously mentioned similar experiences to ... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | burke: Apart from the obvious "seek help" answer, try meditating. Some practice clearing your mind might help. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | dfranke: See a doctor and do it soon, unless you're in your late teens or early 20's, in which case do it yesterday. That's the peak age range for the onset of schizophrenia. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | gruseom: I haven't experienced what you describe, but have had different involuntary auditory experiences for years. The key for me has been to learn not to be bothered by them. Everyone has involuntary thought processes; I don't see why some shouldn't be connected to the auditory parts of the brain.It helped me to see... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | rjurney: Are the voices you, or not? |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | teyc: Post a message for one of the meditators at Dharma Overground. They might have some insights on what's going on there. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | guicifuentes: drop drugs |
How to pull off an early acquisition for several million? | medianama: Good question. I wish more people responded to this. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | anigbrowl: You have not gone nuts; that's when you give the voices greater priority than your external sensorium. But such symptoms could (at worst) be a sign of schizophrenia or Tourette's syndrome (particularly the profanity and involuntary vocalization).There is much good advice above. Have a chat with a psychiatris... |
How to pull off an early acquisition for several million? | laconix: I have advice, but no experience. And I'm afraid I can't give you life changing advice based on something my mind jumped on. |
reliable domain registration | zouhair: I like gandi.net |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | justlearning: @jpeterson. Can you give more insight. I have similar situations- sometimes swear words just come out of my mouth(mostly alone..like when i am sitting on the throne or in shower). I would like to know if there is any similarity. I don't have any kill someone thoughts, but death of my close ones sometimes ... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | rms: Just to clarify with regards to everyone saying "doctor": you could see your doctor to get a referral to a psychiatrist but make sure you are getting your mental health care from a mental health care professional. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | jpeterson: Many thanks to all who have responded here. I will go with the prevailing opinion and talk to a doctor. |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | tagnu: Hey, check this book "Power of now", the author explains this issue in detail. |
Home Automation businesses? | CyberFonic: Integration is the big challenge. The proprietary solutions are either expensive or very limited. Open source solutions tend to be oriented towards DYIers with the right tools and attitude.As the 12:00 blinking VCR phenomena shows, the majority of people are just not into doing this sort of stuff for thems... |
Do you write comments, and then not submit them? | CyberFonic: I tend to read Hacker News in bulk, that is, I ctrl-right click on links and then read them. By the time I get around to some entries and write a comment, it has expired and won't take.If I think what I wrote is good I might go back and find the entry again and resubmit. Other times I just shrug and skip ... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | xenophanes: A lot of people hear voices. Most of them are completely healthy. You should stay away from psychiatrists, who will not look out for your best interests but will instead tell you that your mind is broken and you should defer to the ideas in their minds.Have some self-confidence and self-esteem. Don't turn y... |
please review my technology. | bigbang: http://www.bitlet.org/video |
please review my technology. | markessien: Takes a very long time to download and there is no progress bar that tells me how far along it is. The lack of a progress bar makes it bad. I have no idea if this will take 2 days or it will be done in a minute. Pushing play also locked up my browser.And why use Theora? Most clips are MPEG-4, reencoding to ... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | an0nym0us: I mirror the sentiments of everyone who said to see a psychiatrist. If you do have schizophrenia, the good news is that it's not the end of the world. Start taking medication, establish routines for yourself, and you can (continue to) lead a meaningful life. One of the smartest and most productive people t... |
please review my technology. | barrybe: Some thoughts:1) Being forced to click "Trust" just to watch a video is pretty bad, and would turn away many of your users.2) Having an alert box "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" is also pretty bad, and unnecessary.Overall, I can see the value that this technology gives to you (less bandwidth). But ... |
please review my technology. | swombat: Out of curiosity, why did you use Java rather than Flash/Flex? Do you know that Flash 10 has some p2p distribution technology built in?More info at: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/05/flash-10-p2p-and-cd... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | pysch_skeptic: In contrast to what these others are suggesting, I think you should be somewhat reticent to approach a doctor about the situation.My take on what qualifies as a mental illness is this: If something is harming you to the extent that it is disrupting your ability to survive in society, it might be in your ... |
please review my technology. | stonemetal: Why use bit torrent? It shuts down and reopens connections after each chunk meaning there is a good bit of overhead that could be avoided. Second using bit torrent doesn't play well with some home routers for the same reason. |
please review my technology. | growt: Youtube still burns millions in traffic costs every day, so I think your technology really makes sense.
But I would rather try to perfect it and then sell it to one of the big video sites, than try to start a new video site on my own. |
please review my technology. | dbyrnehume: It might be worth considering why the BBC tried, and then abandoned this approach with their iPlayer application. More details from the link below, but the bottom line is that consumers didn't like having their bandwidth allowance used up and CPU loaded by having to act as servers...http://www.bbc.co.uk/blo... |
please review my technology. | thorax: I think this is an interesting technology. There are some naysayers here, but I think there are some cases that users will accept signing statements and the like for this.A public site like youtube or even Hulu wouldn't be able to make it a default client with those issues given how well Flash works, but I can ... |
please review my technology. | thorax: Have you looked at also making the Java applet support bittorrent for just file downloads itself? If no one is doing that already, a really slick looking web interface for file downloads might get more corporations interested in using BitTorrent for their own file distribution. |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | brk: Can you ask your friend to send his tinfoil hat folding instructions? I've lost mine, and I'm pretty sure his would be superior anyway.There is a reason you can find no conclusive evidence anywhere in the world that this is possible even in a lab environment... |
Review my POC to detect spam accounts on twitter | sucuri2: This is the direct link:http://sucuri.net/?page=docs&title=twitter |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | cjg: Sounds like bad science too me. The energy put into breaking a hydrogen to oxygen bond will be the same as the energy release when forming the bond - which is what happens when hydrogen and oxygen is burnt.Just think conservation of energy.Having said that - it might be possible to run a car on water if you had a ... |
Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? | bjw: I think it depends on how you phrase the question. If the question can be easily answer (or even have an answer) and is properly written, people will be more keen to answer back.But things that are too subjective or easily find on google, you will probably not get many answers.. |
Review my POC to detect spam accounts on twitter | iamdave: I think this is a fantastic idea, but the filter could stand to benefit from better requirements. For example number of direct messages sent to the user (since people don't DM spam bots very often), number of @replies sent to the user.It could stand to happen that a lot of users who use sites like Brightkite ... |
please review my technology. | aheilbut: see http://www.octoshape.com - CNN used it to stream the Obama inauguration. |
Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? | growt: If you comment on a product or website that is "hot" at that time, the authors may be overwhelmed by the feedback they get and keeping the servers stable at the same time.
Happened to me once with goosh.org, I got approx. 500 emails in a few days after the launch. I tried to answer them all anyway.
But I think b... |
Review my POC to detect spam accounts on twitter | chanux: Good one.What about a user driven blacklist?. Maybe you can collect them the way @spam (http://twitter.com/spam) does. |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | noodle: long story short: no. the process isn't efficient enough for water to actually successfully fuel anything.the concept keeps getting rekindled with new breakthroughs, the latest one being the radio frequency generator that "burns" salt water. its still not efficient enough to make a car go. not yet, at least. |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | yan: Try to ask him if he really wants it to be true. Everyone has a certain amount of bias, but if you want something to be true, you'd end up lowering your threshold of proof to believe something. |
Link for the new Text Replacement Technology posted the other day? | yan: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630314 ? |
please review my technology. | anamax: > Thinking about the latest video streaming news, I thought about a feasible way to reduce the costs related to video distribution.(1) Do you think that this idea is new?(2) If it is not new (and it isn't), why did previous efforts seemingly fail? Is your effort going to have those problems?WRT Flash 10, it's ... |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | adamBA: far from possible - it actually takes more energy to pull apart an O-H bond than you get from burning H2. it has to do with the polarity of the bonds (oxygen holds on the hydrogen stronger than another hydrogen atom would). I just looked it up and the heat of combustion of H2 (energy released from burning) is a... |
Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? | skarlowicz: In at least two places where I worked, either the consensus or outright explicit policy was that you cannot expect reply to an email earlier than 24 hours after sending (that is, you are not expected to whine or escalate or send another email about the same issue.) On the other hand, there was an expectatio... |
Any startups hiring in the UK | csbartus: http://twitter.com/RailsJobs is specialized on UK Ruby and Rails jobs, pretty actibve every day. |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | baguasquirrel: It'd be a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? What sort of energy does he expect to extract from the water? Is he going to split it back into H2O and then burn the hydrogen? That just results in the same amount of H2O that you had to begin with (assuming 100% efficiency). The only way a car c... |
Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? | RiderOfGiraffes: My guidelines:If your email is short, very clear, acknowledges that the recipient is likely to be busy, and only requires a short answer, usually you will be answered with 30 minutes of it being read, or never.If it's long, unclear, rambling and makes no effort to demonstrate that you are in effect ask... |
Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? | RiderOfGiraffes: What does he mean by "Run"?If he takes electricity, puts it into some magical device containing water, and unplugs it, and then runs his car on the output, then it all depends on how much went in and how much came out.I'll bet more went in than came out.If he means he puts water into some magical devic... |
Any startups hiring in the UK | RiderOfGiraffes: For what it's worth (which I freely admit might be nothing):I'm not currently hiring, but I'm always on the lookout for someone coming from any of the fora I read regularly. I figure anyone that participates on one of them will be worth looking at, and possibly making an exception for.However, your id... |
How would you define Hyper Local Advertising? | ram1024: local would be like billboards and whatnot, right? and hyper-local would be advertising on a person's mobile device when they're near the location of the establishment?just a guess |
How would you define Hyper Local Advertising? | ScottWhigham: I'm apparently not up on the news b/c I've only seen it for the first time today. |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | kbrower: Submit to HN, reddit, digg, etc.Contact relevant and/or popular blogs/news outlets with non-form emails as to how and why they should write about your site. Getting on Lifehacker was a huge boost for one of my side projects.If you can afford it buy the keywords on google, yahoo, msn that are extremely relevant... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | tptacek: Pick a fight. |
I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? | schtono: From my experience, the best way to start planning is to give your lecture its structure first. For a start, I'd divide it into 2 parts:(1) Internal perspective [The bright idea, people, motivation, skills, legal aspects, gtd](2) External perspective [Market analysis, funding, communications]Additionally, I th... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | callmeed: Blog often and comment on other blogs as wellSponsor events or workshops relevant to your industryGive something away for free (we created a free WordPress theme and are releasing some open source projects)Give your product away for free to influential/VIP customers. This helps a lot if you get the right peop... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | j0ncc: Make something awesome. |
I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? | pclark: 1) find a problem
2) solve a problem
3) optimize the solution |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | kineticac: I see a lot of suggestions and ideas, also looking for real stories of how you did it, and what came out of it. Just out of curiosity ;) |
I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? | pg: The mistake most people lecturing about entrepreneurship make is to talk about the mechanics of starting a company. And in fact a big mistake inexperienced founders make is to focus too much on the mechanics of it.In practice the most important questions are things like how to maintain morale, how to find and get ... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | jlees: Find a flavour of the month or trend and surf it. Develop a Wave gadget, develop a Twitter app, use $BUZZWORD, whatever.It's not obvious from an immediate glance at your site exactly what it is and why it's special. I have to read lots of text. Journos love pictures. |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | ramit: Here's an interview I did about how I got into the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc:
http://blog.mixergy.com/wsj-press/I also wrote more about getting press for blogs/companies here:
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/getting-traffic-fo...Btw, I now write for Lifehacker occasionally, so if you eve... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | tjdziuba: I started a blog called uncov.com. Talked a lot of shit on a lot of people, built a personal brand.Product ended up failing, but I made enough connections along the way that I landed on my feet.By the by. If you're counting on PR as your primary distribution strategy, you've already failed. |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | raffi: With Feedback Army, I subscribed to "usability testing" blog keywords via Google alerts, and then occasionally taking some time to ping bloggers about my service. Ditto to giving away something to the bloggers. Make it as frictionless as possible for them to try your stuff.By as frictionless as possible--make ... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | martinkallstrom: For great ideas about how to do PR, look at what Pingdom does. They are extremely good at getting their name thrown around by releasing reports about interesting stuff noone else cares to measure. |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | anigbrowl: I'll tell you two things that are wrong with your site for free. You allow people to shop together. In general, men compete to display their technical knowledge about things in which they are interested, but don't shop socially. I like sharing my knowledge with friends, but not with strangers or I'd pursue a... |
I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? | ieatpaste: please post video of the lectures online. thanks. |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | dbul: "Build something people want." |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | alain94040: I have been on both sides: having a startup to pitch, but also being a journalist who needs new news to talk about.Mass e-mailing journalists and issuing formal press releases is obsolete, that's for sure.You need to build a relationship with a few key influencers. The problem is that they tend to behave li... |
What to do about distracting mental chatter? | mooneater: This might sound crazy. I used to hear voices as well, and I thought I was losing my mind.In my experience, the voices were not random chatter. They tell you where your mind is at. Listen to them and get to know yourself. Maybe try talking to them. You may not be "broken", your mind may just work in a s... |
I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? | jpwagner: You say you want 6 topics...1. The Problem Statement(who needs a solution, why do they need a solution, what do they do now: breakdown the value by time-cost and money-cost, what is the TAM, what subset of that TAM do you focus on first (does a subset of that TAM pay more or at all?))2. The Solution(what op... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | systemtrigger: > For our site http://browseology.com, it's unclear if the idea is just not clear and understandable enough for PR to write about...Before you solicit more PR for Browseology I would tighten the story focusing on the homepage. You have a pleasant, simple aesthetic but IMHO the homepage contains too many ... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | webwright: So, we are in YC, but we'd gotten onto TechCrunch etc multiple times before we were, so I'll respond anyways. You don't have to be "somebody" to get PR coverage.YC espouses building something people want. To get coverage, you need to build something people want to talk about. You can substitute connection... |
No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage | thorax: We've actually had a lot of luck, but it's still really hard. We've been working on a site to help small startups to track/manage their interactions/promotions with the media (or at least help us do it, but we like to externalize our own tools).For our successes, sometimes you luck out:* We created bug.gd and ... |
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