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Carbon emissions from the Engine Yard contest? | synnik: This would be difficult to calculate, because many of the resources dedicated to EY would still be running without the contest - they just would be doing something else.Figuring out how much extra power is used solely for EY, that would otherwise be turned off?You'd need to poll all participants and find out wh... |
Carbon emissions from the Engine Yard contest? | rcoder: Here's my quick back-of-the-napkin estimate:Given that the winning teams seemed to be running clusters of around 20-30 systems full-bore for >24 hours, the power draw would be something like 500 watts * 20 systems * 24 hours, giving us something on the order of 240 kWHr consumed per team. (Some teams may have c... |
Is TMZ more "honorable" than TechCrunch? | jacquesm: One of the big arguments for TC releasing the documents (or parts thereof) was that it would happen anyway.Are there any documented instances of that ?Is it ok to do something because otherwise somebody else would do it instead ?Mentioning something exists is not the same as getting tons of mileage out of sto... |
Is TMZ more "honorable" than TechCrunch? | technomancy: Is $NOUN more $POSITIVE_ADJECTIVE than TechCrunch? Probably. |
Storing Credentials Securely | abyssknight: Use OAuth. http://oauth.net/That's what I'm using on FragTweet.com. To be clear, the service has to let you use it, but its still better than storing passwords. You get an authorization token from the target service that lets you authenticate as that user for certain actions which you can then store. At an... |
Strategies For Detecting Scams | TallGuyShort: Here're the reasons I thought it was a scam:- Crappy website- Inaccurate information- Very low quality phone system and operators- Rampant reports of being a scam- Asked for financial information to verify who I was (edit: which I didn't give them) |
Strategies For Detecting Scams | tokenadult: I usually check my caller I.D. display of an incoming phone number on Google. Most scam callers call lots of people, and there are reports about them on the Web. |
Strategies For Detecting Scams | anigbrowl: I've always found that asking people to put it in writing is a good filter. I refuse to conduct any financial business on the phone, even with my bank (whose customer service department regularly attempts to bullshit customers). |
Buying a startup? | lsb: This is something a competent lawyer should advise you with. Songkick used (uses?) Gunderson Dettmer, Wilson Sonsini is quite popular in the Valley, and it sounds like you'll need significant experience, especially because you haven't posted many specifics to go on. |
Buying a startup? | andreshb: 1. I would recommend getting a lawyer, though I know of some Angels that have grabbed existing term sheets from other investments done by other angels and modified a few things here and there. But that is very risky if you have not done a transaction like that before. So get a lawyer.2. When you buy an entire... |
Storing Credentials Securely | gojomo: Mint actually doesn't store your credentials. Rather, as I understand it [1], you essentially delegate to them certain read-only privileges for your accounts. Then, they use their own highly-authenticated channels to the financial providers to request only what they've been authorized to see.They don't retain y... |
Buying a startup? | falsestprophet: If you are buying the beer pong operation, what you are really buying is just a domain name.The easiest way to do this is to incorporate an S-corp in Delaware and write up a plain English contract to transfer the domain name and trademark.I would pay a good designer a few hundred dollars to rebuild the ... |
Best way to find breaking articles on a particular topic? | ScottWhigham: I use FeedDemon to aggregate about 600 or so blogs and forums - anytime I find an interesting site, I'll test-add it to my reader. I then set up "Watches" for the terms and just let it run. |
Good Code Review Software | yan: something like this?: http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/ |
Good Code Review Software | Saavedro: you might try Review Board: http://www.review-board.org/ which was developed by a couple of the coders at VMWare. It's now in use by several big and small companies, from Cisco and Motorola to Twitter and Meebo.EDIT: Also, supports subversion and git. |
Good Code Review Software | johnzabroski: Smart Bear Software's also used by Cisco |
Things to consider in an acquisition | grellas: For legal factors to consider in selling a small business, see http://www.grellas.com/faq_small_business_007.html (you may find some of this helpful even if yours is not a "small business" sale).For more sophisticated deals, some random thoughts (from a lawyer who has represented many hackers, not a hacker as ... |
Would improving US high school education discourage entrepreneurship? | jerf: You have a lot of hidden assumptions built into your statements, to the point that unpacking them would take longer than I care to spend on it. Your question is malformed. |
Would improving US high school education discourage entrepreneurship? | dan_the_welder: Getting grade inflation under control would teach that life is not an all or nothing proposition and a business does not have to win the VC/IPO fame lottery to be viable.A better understanding of probability would create a better understanding of the difference between the mass market and niche markets.... |
Would improving US high school education discourage entrepreneurship? | lhorie: Why are those "factors"? Do you have examples demonstrating the these are indeed cause-effect relationships and not just your opinion? e.g. "getting grade inflation under control would reduce self-confidence" - For every student? According to who? What do school test marks have to do with starting a business? |
Would improving US high school education discourage entrepreneurship? | michaelfairley: Ultimately, improving high school education should to lead to smarter, more imaginative students, who focus less on grades and more on their aspirations. I don't see how this couldn't lead to even more entrepreneurship.* Getting grade inflation under control will help demonstrate to students that result... |
Is there a "YouTube" for free interactive webinars? | bkj123: Hello amichail. What do you mean by 'interactive webinars'? Can you give a few examples? Thanks. |
Review my startup Weegoh | BenRB27: Seems like a good service, but there is no one in my area using it. You need to get more people using the service to be useful. When I pressed enter in the message it didn't post. |
Review my startup Weegoh | andreshb: I have been using it for a while in alpha mode, and I agree with BenRB27 that it needs more people, but that is the catch 22 of any social app, right? It seems to me that its straight to the point, i like it. I would make the search bar a little more obvious. |
Review my startup Weegoh | abarmat: btw, http://weegoh.com is the link to the site |
Good tutorials on non-spammy PR/Marketing | EinhornIsFinkle: In my experience, it comes down to knowing your target, knowing what you want them to do, and being smart about how you allocate your marketing resources.For example, I've seen a lot of companies focus on getting people to the site without a plan. Once someone discovers your site, what are you doing t... |
Good tutorials on non-spammy PR/Marketing | aberman: I checked out your site--your non-spam post motivated me to find it :)I think you guys have a pretty cool product. Maybe you should concentrate on one specific vertical. Right now you are trying to market to everybody, which may be tough. But if you can pick one particular use case, it might be easier to devel... |
Would improving US high school education discourage entrepreneurship? | solson: High School is a early 20th century (industrial age) concept and should be scrapped. We need innovation, choice, and flexibility in education. The current system is a dinosaur on a trillion dollar+ life support system. |
Good tutorials on non-spammy PR/Marketing | mdolon: I would also consider using a professional designer to help with improving the overall look and feel of the site/product, or maybe even a service like 99designs.com. It looks like a solid product and something I'd use, but often I find myself having to consider a product twice if the site is not up to a certai... |
What website project are you working on? | thomaspaine: I just finished building this for a client: http://sftheaterbuzz.org/It's a little sad because there are no reviews yet...but I don't think he's had time to promote it yet. |
What website project are you working on? | nwjsmith: I'm working on an app to track work orders for a client. Not exactly riveting, but it's my first real gig and it feels really good to get paid to program. |
What website project are you working on? | maneesh: working on the beta version of Leftos (LEssons For The Opposite Sex) http://leftos.com -- an online dating/relationship advice social network. Building this for a client. |
What website project are you working on? | MatthiasW: http://woodgears.ca
http://chartgame.com |
What website project are you working on? | shaunxcode: fun little text editor called WHOAD (sort of like woah dude or word heuristic occurrence analysis diagram). Trying it in flex v.s. the jquery version I currently have. |
What website project are you working on? | hikari17: Still working nights and weekends on http://www.genlighten.com, our "Etsy for Genealogy Document Retrieval" app. |
What website project are you working on? | kyfhon: http://www.you-compete.com |
Tips for negotiating site sale | EinhornIsFinkle: Here is a simple one but sometimes overlooked by 1st timers:Don't negotiate from a cost-plus perspective. Forget about how much time, $, resources you put into the project.Think about the sale from a value-add perspective. How much additional value will this add to your potential buyer? try to under... |
What website project are you working on? | paulsingh: Building a noise filter for Twitter: http://www.philtro.com |
What website project are you working on? | knobish: My 1st ever site! =)
http://www.ComoEstaEso.comCheck it out tomorrow during daylight! |
Good tutorials on non-spammy PR/Marketing | jbr: I just found http://www.squidoo.com/tribebuilding which seems related, but very generic. |
What website project are you working on? | ironblunt: http://benchcoach.com |
What website project are you working on? | larryfreeman: This week, at http://hubpages.com we rolled out a table capsule that fits in nicely with our hubtool, our user interface for designing wikipedia-like articles. |
What website project are you working on? | eserorg: Interactive map of United States midcontinent onshore oil and natural gas wells: http://hydrocarbon.search.eser.org/Used for identifying infill drilling locations.Updated daily with new well locations.Working on adding Canada, shale plays, and Gulf of Mexico offshore wells.Using Memcached on Amazon EC2 + openl... |
What website project are you working on? | riso: When I have time after work.
http://leaguesmart.com |
What website project are you working on? | rgiar: http://socialfact.com -- collaborative thinking and blogging |
What website project are you working on? | mmb: url sharing and personal archiving frameworkhttp://urls.matthewm.boedicker.org/ |
What website project are you working on? | nir: Playing with Google App Engine (& hence Python), very nice platform for quickly putting together small web apps:http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inboxhttp://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a JSON response with the unshortened version + page title |
What website project are you working on? | jacktasia: http://mancalatime.com where you can play your friends online over the internet.Good or Evil db - in "private" beta you can use this link if you're really interested.http://goodorevildb.com/do/register?key=chestermcgesterAnd then a bizarre jython app that I will probably open source. Yeah, I know I should co... |
What website project are you working on? | whalesalad: Just launched our latest version of SchoolRack a few days ago. It connects teachers with their students and parents. Lets them upload files, create discussion boards, create homework assignments, etc...http://schoolrack.com |
What website project are you working on? | jakewolf: A little gardening website - http://gardenobserver.comTrying to track late blight on tomatoes. http://gardenobserver.com/report/map. Anyone having pest problems in their gardens? Hook me up! |
What website project are you working on? | zkinion: some awesomeness that lets companies make money whenever people go to their competitor's websites. there is no site at all and no user interaction |
What website project are you working on? | dhpmx: http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting/sharing site.Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous |
What website project are you working on? | mannicken: http://taskulus.com. It's barely working right now and mainly for testing deployment and such |
What website project are you working on? | ryszard99: http://confess2.me/ a personal project i whipped up in a weekend as a learning exercise (and a blatant rip off of similar sites out there) |
What website project are you working on? | jaddison: I, with my partners, am working on http://www.snapact.com/ in the midst of creating a better API in order to create more clients for more platforms. Fun and exciting (to me) stuff. |
Tips for negotiating site sale | joez: It really determines what kind of relationship you wish to nurture. Are you going to continue to work under the sponsor after the sale?The classic rule of negotiating is never be the first one to write come out with a number. If you come out with a reasonable first number, you could severely limit your gains. If ... |
What website project are you working on? | rrival: http://tshirtthis.com/ - rss to headline tshirts on demand - not yet in beta |
What website project are you working on? | rdoherty: I'm working on http://www.getpersonas.com, trying to make it better for the community. Small release tomorrow!Also working on http://www.mozilla.com/mobile, got some updates for a future release. |
What website project are you working on? | eelinow: After years of writing Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Backend/Middleware, I'm working on the following exclusively (for better or worse).Maintaining Version 2.x & Building the All New Version (3.0) of http://www.inkedmag.comContinuing the build of Version 2.x of http://www.surfacemag.comand soon to be wor... |
What website project are you working on? | imack: http://www.whichishotter.comSimple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people are uploading some unexpected things though. |
What website project are you working on? | hypotize: Just in my spare time, but working on a subway/train route finder for the Tokyo trainshttp://trains.jp/There are others out there, but trying to make one that is super easy to use.
Still very much a work in progress, but any feedback would be appreciated! |
Good tutorials on non-spammy PR/Marketing | Adaptive: General comments. As a preface, I established several online marketing teams at a multinational ad agency, back when things were new enough that they didn't have anything in place. I am super skeptical of most claims about online marketing.Fundamentally, whatever you do, marketing has to be based on three thi... |
What website project are you working on? | mrshoe: Working on a new homepage for http://shoptalkapp.com, since you helpful HN reviewers pointed out last week that it is lacking. :) |
Compressing sets of rectangles... help me find an algorithm? | frossie: If I understood the question correctly... you want to Google for "minimum rectangular covering" eg.http://www.springerlink.com/content/d707j4x7107qq362/Disclaimer: IANAMathematician |
What website project are you working on? | wooster: http://tweeteorites.com/It tracks your friends' favorites on Twitter, and suggests interesting people for you to follow based on favorites and your social network structure. |
Compressing sets of rectangles... help me find an algorithm? | tlb: I think Cairo, the graphics rendering library keeps an internal data structure that's the set of overlapping filled regions and updates it with and/or/xor operators. |
What website project are you working on? | mikeytown2: Module called Boost for Drupal.
http://drupal.org/project/boost
In short it's a poormans-squid/poormans-varnish; it creates a html cache for dynamic pages. It's fairly sophisticated, going to have it support the caching of AJAX JSON in the near future; among other things. |
What website project are you working on? | holdenk: I'm working on two things right now ( http://web2.0collage.com & http://pcfspam.com )
I'm hoping to wrap up the first (a lot of it was an experiment into how to do basic PR) and get started on the second after exams. |
What website project are you working on? | mcastner: Working on the site for the club I'm in at school: http://urbangaming.orgNot much info on there but the new site will be up in exactly 1 week so stay tuned. You can check out our Facebook page for more info: http://facebook.com/urbangaming |
What website project are you working on? | NoBSWebDesign: Working on http://www.ratemystudentrental.com and a new tool that stemmed from our internal systems, http://www.leadnuke.com |
What website project are you working on? | rs: Still working hard on http://xp-dev.com/Just opened up sign-ups for a new platform release which is going to begin next week:http://www.xp-dev.com/blogs/view/704/xp-dev-com-version-40-b... |
What website project are you working on? | bernzilla: Just launched Merecal, a site for tracking upcoming and new releases in books, movies, music and video games. It uses your favorite artists, authors, actors, directors, publishers, etc. to notify you when the releases you're likely to care about become available for pre-order or actually release.http://mere... |
What website project are you working on? | joepestro: Just finished building an iPhone app that is awaiting Apple's approval now: http://www.pinglater.com/We're doing a 1 day web app event this weekend, so I'll be able to share more about everyone's apps soon! |
Review Merecal, a new release notification website | sidmitra: Looks great!
Haven't signed up yet, but will take a look later... so far it seems pretty useful to me. I was looking for something like this to keep track of music releases. |
What website project are you working on? | kineticac: probably going to do a One Day App on saturday, thinking of using our short url as the domain. http://post.ly/1WGW |
To "Cloud" or not to "Cloud"? (Webapp Hosting) | sidmitra: I think you should stick to dedicated servers for now.1. Don't do premature scaling (or optimization). You might be wasting time that could be spent working on the actual service or app. I feel that even with a dedicated solution, the scaling thing is a non issue until you reach a certain critical usage.2. Th... |
Compressing sets of rectangles... help me find an algorithm? | jdoliner: Well if you're willing to sacrifice a bit of speed I think I have a pretty good heuristic algorithm you can use:
Step 1: Find a maximal point, by this a mean a point `p' s.t. no point has x >= p.x and y >= p.y. (such a point clearly exists).
Step 2:
Now it shouldn't be too hard to see that for a rectangle to... |
Vancouver startup scene? | pasbesoin: Not a start up, but Tim Bray's in Vancouver. He mentions local start ups very occasionally on his blog, and I seem to recall he's been at least peripherally involved with or has dialoged with one or two, at times.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ |
What website project are you working on? | dipankarsarkar: working on
http://mosambe.com :)It will hopefully get some traction soon. |
What website project are you working on? | callmeed: Just wrapping up new home and pricing page for our photo sales app: http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/ |
What website project are you working on? | costan: Got energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.comDoes this count?I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-sidehttp://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side |
Compressing sets of rectangles... help me find an algorithm? | mikhailfranco: Search for R-Tree and the many variants used for spatial indexing. You will find the papers very pragmatic about the tradeoffs between optimal coverage and speed of creation, update and traversal. Parallelizing with transactional guarantees is still a bit of a research topic. It would be interesting to d... |
What website project are you working on? | davecardwell: Completing a redesign of http://www.localphone.com/ — a VoIP start-up I work for. |
What website project are you working on? | enra: http://www.flowdock.com/, real-time communication & collaboration app for teams. Still work to do before open beta. |
What website project are you working on? | jasonkester: http://www.twiddla.com/Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".After that, there are a couple new... |
What website project are you working on? | mh77: http://webgeek.io/ - Shipped one day ago.. |
Review Merecal, a new release notification website | astrec: Nice one :)A wishlist api/widget might be a good way to promote the site, and you should install the FF SenSEO plug-in as there are a few things you can improve on that front. |
What website project are you working on? | dvv: http://send2twitter.com - a very simple but efficient email-to-twitter gateway using oauth. |
Anyone working on a game? | Quasimofo: As a hobby only at the moment, ultimately to give it away free/cheap, but it consumes my head so much I do ponder about other potential for it. One of those is its K-12 educational potential (in an alternate non-game mode) but I currently know next-to-nothing about the educational software market.It's cross... |
Anyone working on a game? | ErrantX: I've been toying around with a browser game based on Uplink: Hacker Elite (but as a multiplayer: think Uplink + ForumWarz + EVE as influence). But it's a pain :P |
What website project are you working on? | hopeless: http://shutterscouts.com -- an idea management and weather forecasting service for (landscape) photographers. |
What website project are you working on? | flooha: We just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.comIt's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developer... |
What website project are you working on? | danielh: http://analytics4i.appspot.com Google Analytics web interface for the iPhone.Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE. |
What website project are you working on? | gvasilei: Working on http://www.beachionary.com/ a social guide for beaches and organizing summer holidays. It's the middle of the summer and still on private alpha though :| |
What website project are you working on? | smmcbride: I'm a cubicle-dweller by day, but in my nights and weekends I'm building:http://www.familymatic.com |
Review Merecal, a new release notification website | ScottWhigham: Nice. I tried to look through the Jazz music new releases and bailed after the first page. Why? When I clicked "Jazz", it showed me 8 or 10 albums but at the bottom it said, "Page 1 of 52". Sorry - I'm not interesting in 52 page views to see what's up and coming.Neat idea though. |
Does this app exist ? | trickjarrett: Not that I've seen but it carries with it a built in money making function in that the links it shares when sites finally carry pre-orders could be affiliate links. |
Vancouver startup scene? | hunterjrj: If you are considering Canada, you may want to check out Waterloo's startup scene. |
What website project are you working on? | idleworx: I've been working on http://totdo.com a very simple todo manager. Pronounced TooTeeDoo :). It's in beta of course. |
What website project are you working on? | v2interactive: http://www.mybroadwaydreams.com
small joomla project i'm working on for a broadway foundationhttp://www.v2interactive.net
working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards |
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