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Alternative to Authorize.net? | lee: I'm setting up PayPal for payment processing next month. Is it really as awful as everyone on HN make it out to be? |
Selling a Startup? | scumola: You come up with a price (value of your company). The buyer comes up with a value. If you can't decide on one or the other, get a third party, and the one that is closest to the third party wins. Works well, it's in the best interest of both parties to not under or over-value the company. Negotiators are a... |
Objecting to stories being killed | speaker: A bigger problem is the ongoing, secret, and unaccountable knocking-off of contributors who've done nothing wrong, often on a loose suspicion of them being other people. This is doing an incredible amount of damage to this site.I mean, really, what percent of HNers would've wanted time_management banned? Less ... |
Best way to redesign an existing webapp? | bjclark: I've posted a reply to you on my blog (cause it's too long for here): http://bjclark.me/2009/07/03/how-do-you-redesign-something/Excerpt:
The biggest thing to manage in a redesign is risk. Risk you alienate your user base or do something that negatively impacts revenue, or whatever you're most afraid of.The ea... |
How would you fix healthcare? | csomar: - Stop the INDUSTRY (or not stop it, turn it Green)- Good and healthy food- Practice sport?This should be enough |
How would you fix healthcare? | yummyfajitas: 4 is a great idea. It would probably make us healthier.Apart from that, we simply do not have enough data. What I'd like to do is repeat the RAND experiment. Take a large group of people at random, and give them different amounts/types of health care. Measure their health outcomes.This will at least give ... |
How would you fix healthcare? | rdouble: Your point 1, foreign doctors, already happens. It is called the J-1 visa. Doctors on this visa are required to serve time in an under-served area.. My father is a GP in a rural area, his colleagues are from Pakistan, Nigeria, Uruguay, Argentina and the Caribbean.Point 3, this is what insurance companies have ... |
How would you fix healthcare? | ckopec: I clicked in thinking this was going to be an interesting topic but your four bullets are idiotic. Why does everything have to be about sending things overseas or make the government deal with it?Why not start simple, teach better preventative care. What I mean is that the US as a whole is very unhealthy. Ra... |
How would you fix healthcare? | apsurd: Let's be clear on what problem it is you are talking about.
Healthcare being not-affordable, or in other words too-much for most citizens or in other words insurance being too much? Or maybe healthcare in the sense that we aren't healthy; needing less healthcare?The question is too vague for me. If we are talki... |
How would you fix healthcare? | mblakele: Tax employer-provided health benefits. This would increase my health care costs, and probably yours too. But it would eliminate the existing disconnect between costs and payers, which would reign in costs.See chart 1 at http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13899647&... (http://media.economist.co... |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | r7000: basketball, basketball..Deux fois le même sport? |
How would you fix healthcare? | DanielBMarkham: You need to define the problem more if you want to talk about a possible answer. Just what about it is "broken"? Is it the fact that people invent treatments that are too expensive for other people to buy? I'm not sure how you would stop that. Is it the fact that large numbers of people have no insuranc... |
How would you fix healthcare? | anamax: > How would you fix the growing healthcare problem?Which healthcare problem?A huge fraction of the folks in the US without healthcare aren't supposed to be in the US anyway. How much are you willing to pay (or give up) to give them healthcare? And, if you're willing to pay for their health care, why not simpl... |
How would you fix healthcare? | noss: Build cities so that they encourage walking and biking, and close out cars with the exception for lorries and other service traffic.Stop this century-long obsession with working industry hours. Make people stop slaving to the wakeup-work-lunch-work-tv-dinner-tv-sleep cycle that doesnt leave room for physical acti... |
Opinions on proper business structure for sale? | grellas: A business owned by a corporation can be sold via asset sale, stock sale, or merger.A C-corp runs into trouble in selling all or substantially of its assets because this can trigger a severe double tax if those assets carry with them a low basis (as IP usually does).The way to avoid the double-tax problem is t... |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | kaiuhl: Review: this sucks. It takes 3 clicks to find out there's one event in the entire website. |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | johnnybgoode: I would like to use such a service, but I don't think any of them are popular enough. There was at least one other site that already does this; does anyone remember the name?Edit: Never mind; it looks like there are quite a few others, but again none of them are popular. |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | jeroen: This will only be useful with a decent user base. Maybe if you generate publicity in Montreal, you can get enough users to make them stick around. Expanding from there might be somewhat easier. |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | elduderino: I would focus it all on Montreal before you expand to any other cities. Once it gets popular, expand it one at a time, ala facebook. And I would make it look a little nicer. |
How would you fix healthcare? | noblethrasher: Use the existing K-12 system to teach people the basics of medicine and nutrition. The only thing that a person owns is this world is his or her body so we should do this even if we have to get rid of some other subject (though I don’t see why we’d have to).Not sure how feasible this is but my idea is th... |
How would you fix healthcare? | MaysonL: Expand Qliance: see http://www.qliance.com |
Best way to redesign an existing webapp? | CyberFonic: Really depends on what needs redesigning. You are basically talking about three interlinked projects. As far as possible it is best to chunk down into lots of small tasks, keeping them as separate as possible. That's one of the huge benefits of webapp world, you can maintain clean separation between func... |
I have yet to do the one thing I wish before I die | nickfox: Quit fidgeting and just do it. |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | aberman: I actually like it a lot. At first I thought it looked stupid because it was too simple -- but then I realized that was the whole point. It's really simple and really easy to use.The other comments are a bit harsh, but they are also accurate. The problem with all the other sites that do exactly the same thing ... |
Alternative to Authorize.net? | lsc: I use paypal, personally. |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | aupajo: I've recently seen someone run OpenWrt on one. I played around with it for a bit; seemed pretty nice. He had it running Python and had it hooked up to an Arduino with little effort. |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | crux: I have used both dd-wrt and Tomato, and found them both totally satisfactory. I guess I'd give the nod to Tomato, whose interface was a little slicker, but dd-wrt was still great too. I never had any problems installing or configuring either one of them.Having had an Airport for a little while, though, I don't kn... |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | ams6110: I used dd-wrt to run my Linksys WRT54G as a wireless bridge. It has been flawless. |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | jpierce420: I have a WRT-150N wireless N router, and it works great stock. All Linksys routers from the 54G up have Linux already, and I don't know about the 54G, but mine came stock with a web interface..you just go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser and login and there it is. Linksys recently released the source for th... |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | oakmac: Something like this already exists for ultimate frisbee: http://pickupultimate.com |
Review micro web-app for pick-up sports: eventchase.com | fauigerzigerk: As long as you have so little actual data put it all right on the front page! You have way too many steps to get to the real meat. I would use an application like this in general, but it's the network effect that you need to create, which is difficult as we all know all too well. |
Books on getting rich? | satyajit: Whatever you read, just don't read Robert Kiyasaki ("Rich Dad, Poor Dad") series - stay away from the Amway MLM overtones. |
Why Python over Ruby? | dolzenko: Google SketchUp is scripted in Ruby |
an intro to P=NP | michael_dorfman: "The New Turing Omnibus" has a chapter on P=NP, and is a "light hearted, not too maths-heavy" introduction to about 50 other basic problems in CS. |
Books on getting rich? | zen53: How to Make Wealth http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html |
Books on getting rich? | jsackmann: How to Get Rich, by Felix DennisA lot of the book is biographical, but that part is very entertaining. Dennis is very upfront about drive, sacrifice, and luck required. Definitely not warm and fuzzy. |
Books on getting rich? | apsurd: Think and Grow Rich |
an intro to P=NP | RiderOfGiraffes: > recently I got much more to grips with the idea ... Something that isn't too math's heavy ...You're asking for contradictory advice. If you're starting to get to grips with the idea then you want something that goes beyond the basic concepts. OTOH, you're asking not to get into the math.Tricky.Let'... |
Installing Linux on my router -- OpenWrt, X-Wrt, or Gargoyle? | mutew: I have a Buffalo WHR-G125 (couldn't find any old Linksys routers anywhere) and have been running Tomato on it since day one. The web interface is beautifully done with loads of AJAX and pretty graphs. So far I have had no issues or hiccups with either the wired or the wireless interface and configuration is a br... |
Ask HN:Do you tailor your content specifically for Hacker News? | cperciva: The content I post to my blog is certainly influenced by the interests of my readership; and HN readers (along with reddit readers and FreeBSD developers and tarsnap users) form part of that.I wouldn't say that I tailor articles for HN -- certainly that is not my intention -- but at the same time I can't deny... |
Books on getting rich? | jlees: Ramit Sethi's I Will Teach You To Be Rich was nicely written and has a lot of supplementary stuff, mostly centred around managing personal finance well. Probably not one of the "seminal" books - it's new - but a decent read. |
Books on getting rich? | lawn: The Richest Man in Babylon - Old wisdom at is best. |
Books on getting rich? | teknician1: Agree with The Richest Man in Babylon and Think and Grow Rich.I recommend: 4 Hour Work Week, Mommy Millionaire, and The Millionaire Next Door, Gorilla Marketing, and Execution.LOL, if I had to choose two, they would be Think and Grow Rich and 4 Hour Work Week. |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | pavelludiq: I'd go with 2.x, simply because theres more code written in it, and more code one can read and learn from. Especially if its a first language, its good to learn from real code. In the beginning it was hard for me to read source code, but eventually i started "getting it". 2.x will eventually evolve in to 3.... |
Books on getting rich? | colinblake: I second both "Richest Man in Babylon" and "Think and Grow Rich." Both were recommended to me by a very successful VC that attributed much of his success to those books. Both are very good. "Babylon" covers many principles of wealth while "Think" is more about the psychology, so they complement each othe... |
Books on getting rich? | iterationx: The best selling book is Tony Robbins "Unlimited Power" with like 9 million copies sold, but its also about fitness, so its not as targeted as you might like, although I liked it, but I'm not rich.Another one which I liked was, "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Busin... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | rg123: Since it will take a while for the 3rd party libraries to be ported to 3.x, start with 2.6. The versions are not different enough for it to be a big problem either way you learn them - but there are more books out for 2.x - like the Python in a Nutshell book, which I find to be the best reference (though not th... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | GeneralMaximus: If all the libraries you need are already available for Python 3, then use Python 3. Otherwise, fall back to the 2.x series. Be practical. Evaluate your own needs before you listen to somebody else. The 2.x branch is here to stay for quite a long time (I'm guessing 2 to 5 years).<BEGIN RAMBLING>
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Books on getting rich? | edw519: Biographies of the very rich and successful who started with nothing are usually very good. I look for common themes and key points in their lives. A few of my favorites:Carnegie by Peter Krass, http://www.amazon.com/Carnegie-Peter-Krass/dp/0471468835/ref..."Titan, The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." by Ro... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | pmorici: You can use a lot Python 3 features in 2.6 and later. This document, http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html describes the difference between the two. So while I agree with the other posters that it it would be better to start with 2.6 I also think you could minimize your upgrade pain by knowing the dif... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | TweedHeads: Go with 3.Being a trailblazer can reap rewards in the long run. |
Books on getting rich? | maximumwage: I really enjoyed The Dream by Gurbaksh Chahal. He founded BlueLithium, which was acquired by Yahoo. The book goes into detail about the attitudes required to get rich and manage wealth. Here are a bunch of other books written by rich people as well: http://www.bigwinner.org/books |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | llimllib: I would start with 2.6. The changes are not all that drastic between the two, and there's almost no software available for python 3. |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | anamax: > do you skip the mental overhead of unlearning some things that'll get baked in by using 2.6You're thinking that this is a significant thing. It isn't, at least not if you become a somewhat competent programmer.Programming has very little to do with programming language details.In fact, there's a reasonable a... |
Books on getting rich? | petercooper: Others have already suggested the best overall books I'd recommend in terms of philosophy, but in terms of the nitty gritty details of actually doing it, I'd recommend Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat by Michael Masterson.Not everything will be applicable to your situation but it's a ... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | etal: The official guideline (http://python.org/download/) is fine:Note that both Python 2.6 and 3.1 are considered stable production releases, but if you don't know which version to use, start with Python 2.6 since more existing third party software is compatible with Python 2 than Python 3 right now.If you're just le... |
Books on getting rich? | icey: It's over a century old, but the "Art of Money Getting" by P.T. Barnum is still pretty good:http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/ |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | timwiseman: That depends on what you need. In general, I would recommend 3.0. It is more modern and has some nice enhancements and is the way to go in the long run.With that said, some libraries still haven't made it to Python 2.6 let alone 3.0. For instance, I make use of NumPy which was compatible with 2.54 but no... |
Books on getting rich? | tom_rath: Probably not what you have in mind, but The Wealthy Barber ( http://www.wealthybarber.com/ ) provides common-sense advice for accumulating and managing modest wealth without needing corporate success. |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | jcsalterego: Practically speaking, if you want to leverage a lot of those libraries/frameworks you mentioned, 2.x is the way to go. However, the major syntactical and core differences that break backwards compatibility in Python 3000 (http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html, http://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1... |
Books on getting rich? | eli_s: maybe if you want to get rich your best bet is to write a book about getting rich? Seems to work for schmuks like Timothy Ferriss. |
Books on getting rich? | agotterer: Check out "The Millionaire Mind" and "The Millionaire Next Door". The book isn't really about how to become rich. More about the mind set a millionaire has to get rich and stay rich.http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Mind-Thomas-J-Stanley/dp/0...http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/d... |
Ask HN:Do you tailor your content specifically for Hacker News? | emontero1: I've had blog posts that are a direct result of my interactions with several HN members. HN is a great catalyst for debates. Thus, sometimes I write what I write because of an idea picked up from a discussion that originated here. However, I wouldn't say I'm tailoring my content for HN either, since, general... |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | babo: There is no point to lament, take whatever you want, it's not a problem to switch either way. |
start with python 2.6 or 3? | krishgy: You start with 2.6. When you start working with python, you are not just going to use the libraries which comes with language. you need to use plenty of projects or modules developed by other users.Start with 2.6 but consider 3.0 changes in mind like exception base, print statement. Start practice 3.0 conventi... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | Zarathu: Even though people are saying to stay away from the stock market, I think now is one of the best times to invest (if not 3 months ago). |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | andrewljohnson: I invite you to invest your money in my start-up :) |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | grandalf: You seem to be good with money, so I'd suggest putting the 100K away in the stock market in case you need it later. Having a bit of extra security will be great b/c you'll feel comfortable taking bigger risks than you otherwise might. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | johndevor: I also attend UVA and am entering my fourth year... who are you? And do I know you? |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | lionheart: Think of it this way, since you're used to living like a college student, you can probably live on $20,000 a year easily. This is already taxed money so thats even more than it sounds.So that means you currently have 5 years of complete freedom to discover what it is that you want to do.Move to Silicon Valle... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | fuzzmeister: I'd love to hear what direction you end up taking your life in - I'm in roughly the same position, having established various web businesses and looking to study a variety of subjects in college, just 3 years earlier (going into college this fall) and with a bit less money. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | chaostheory: why not work on a new startup new while you're still young?as for programming, the new languages (python, ruby) are much easier to learn and use than C++, and just as powerful language wise. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | pinneycolton: Network - and don't get too caught up spending a lot of time doing something you're not happy with. I've seen lots of successful people get bogged down attempting to be successful with the current task at hand that they lose sight of the big picture.Living in Silicon Valley is good advice - it's the righ... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | zaveri: I am currently a student at UVA as well. Are u in Cville over the summer by any chance? |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | CatDancer: One option: use your entrepreneurship and management training to figure out the answer to this question: what could someone with your skillset, who didn't need to otherwise work to support themselves, and was willing to devote 100% of their time, do that would have the maximal positive impact on the world?Th... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | oldgregg: If you care about lifestyle, move up to Boulder. Killer startup community, more friendly than the valley. City with highest per capita advanced degrees. Only 100k population with the intellectual capital that you would only find in Boston/Bay/Austin. Google, Microsoft, crispin porter, tons of great companies ... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | crux_: Random thoughts:- Kiva (& similar microlending orgs) seems like a nice way to put some portion of that to work for good causes, without it disappearing nearly as fast as simple charitable giving would make it go.- If you own a place to live outright (no mortgage), even if it is a tiny apartment, you have an incr... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | yankeeracer73: Moving to Silicon Valley would be good times but unless you get a job you'll quickly eat through your 100k on living expenses OR you'll be living 40 miles away from your job and enduring a hellish commute on a regular basis. My suggestion would be to try and work with a small start-up who wants to quickl... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | ctkrohn: You said you're thinking about a career in Wall Street. I work as a trader at one of the big banks, so shoot me an email (address in profile) and I'll give you some thoughts about what it's like. I'd rather not air everything in a public forum... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | aberman: Move to Silicon Valley. Take a job that pays decently. Live frugally. Network your ass off. Look into a variety of different opportunities and startups -- maybe even start a few small projects, or help others start their's -- and the minute you find something that really excites you, quit your job and work on ... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | bint: Buy 50k worth of gold & silver bullion as a future proof investment.Give 10k as a gift to your parents and close family.40k left. From that, mark 20k for one year living expenses. The remaining 20k, use to launch a business. So you have 1 year where you can work on building your own business without any other wor... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | locopati: You could easily travel for a year for $10k (depending on where you travel and how comfortable you are with low-end, backpacker-style travel). Maybe it's worth taking some time away from everything familiar to see what inspirations come to you. |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | DanielBMarkham: First, hello from down the road in Lynchburg. C-ville isn't that far out in the boonies. Heck, you're just an hour or so from the beltway.For all of your explaining, you never got around to saying what you liked doing. Do you like working for yourself or in a team, do you want to pursue education at any... |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | brixon: Ignore the money and find your niche/domain. Then figure out how to invest in the niche to better position yourself for the future. My guess is that you will start a business to fill that niche. Most great companies started when someone had a real bad experience at work or with a product or service. Find your p... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | jacquesm: after being a coder for 3 decades I finally got around to lisp, two things prompted me to do it, first the source code to HN, secondly a discussion with 'dtor' of the glusterfs project, a young indian coder that seems to be pretty gifted. I audited some code there and came upon a macro that took me a long lon... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | saurabh: Factor |
What programming language are you currently learning? | locopati: Erlang - why? after diving into threading in Java for a recent project, I wanted to see other ways of approaching the same problem - recommendations for other languages with powerful threading solutions? |
What programming language are you currently learning? | johngunderman: Haskell. I'm working through http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... which is quite a good tutorial. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | avner: Processing |
What programming language are you currently learning? | jcapote: Erlang - nitrogenproject.com got the best of me one evening... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | jacktasia: Jython |
What programming language are you currently learning? | bazookaaa: Objective-C. Quite a big jump from Ruby. :) |
What to do after graduation with 100k? | phn1x: If I were you, I'd travel.I am 26, I now have 1 child and another on the way. If there was anything I wished I had done right after graduation it is travel around the world. Since you don't have an immediate need to jump straight into the work force that is my suggestion. You can utilize the time to figure out w... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | ianbishop: I am (very slowly) diving deeper and deeper into Ruby. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | ambulatorybird: (1) Haskell, because I like functional programming, and this language seems very promising (I first looked at it 10 years ago, but I gave up because the implementations seemed immature. I took another look recently, and I'm amazed by how much it's progressed since then). I especially like the way that... |
What programming language are you currently learning? | zetaloid: C++, after learning Python as a firstl anguage, going through accelerated C++ then thinking in C++ |
What programming language are you currently learning? | dkarl: Scala |
What programming language are you currently learning? | Salvatore: PHP and Action Script through Adobe Flex |
What programming language are you currently learning? | Zak: Haskell. I've already written non-trivial applications in it, but there's still so much to understand. |
What programming language are you currently learning? | arghnoname: I'm not learning any language right now, but have learned a fair share over the course of the past few years.My general criteria is not to learn a language that is conceptually similar to something you already know unless there are professional advances to be had there. If all you know is Python, C might be... |
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