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When to turn on advertisements? | prakash: Turn on ads immediately, that will give you time to play around with the various knobs associated with online ads. Also, you get some idea on how much money you can make from the ads, since that's going to your primary source of revenue for this venture.Don't worry about ads and early adopters. Most of them ha... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | cstejerean: I like to use Google Reader to keep track of interesting blogs and news sources. Usually when an article is linked from HN I take a look at the site and see if it's interesting, then check if it has an RSS feed. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | browndog: Word of mouth (or email) works for me. I send things that I find interesting to some friends, and they return the favor. Saving those links to read during "free" hours, you can build up quite a reading list. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | ucdaz: A lot of time it happens haphazardly. Whenever I read my subscribed feeds, a lot of the posting will have links to other blog postings.
I also find great reads through my own community of forums, blogs, meetups, social networks, etc... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | yan: I actually try to actively fight the urge to seek out "interesting" things to read. The content on HN is of fairly high quality, and seeking out more stuff to consume outside of it leads to diminishing returns on time wasted.I find if something is important enough, it will get to me one way or another. Or I'll see... |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | pauljonas: For me, the question isn't so much what Ruby has that Python lacks, but the extra Python bits I find annoying and/or tedious:* having to declare "self" in every method argument — reading code, it just clutters up the screen/page* the big use of of double underscores for special methods (i.e., __init__, __str... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | ajdecon: If I run across a particularly interesting post--linked from a favorite blog, or HN or reddit--I'll often subscribe to the site's rss feed for a week or two on the strength of that experience.If the site's quality is consistently good, it stays in my feed reader. Otherwise it's booted fast. As a bonus, that ... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | voidfiles: I try and get friends who read blogs to use google reader and then constantly cajole them into sharing stuff. Some of my favorite stuff comes from things my friends have shared. Especially things that wouldn't show up on my radar normally. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | arthurk: I get my news from: HN + Proggit + RSS Feeds from a few smaller, but important blogs (mostly personal blogs and other very specialized stuff) in Google Reader.That's enough interesting news for me. |
When to turn on advertisements? | teuobk: Turn them on as soon as possible. I made the mistake once of waiting a long time (as in years) before turning on ads, and the users were NOT happy campers. They seemed to think that it was their right to have an ad-free site. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | thorax: Socialbrowse has been a cool way to find stuff "word-of-mouth" lately for me. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | peakok: Art & Letters Daily : http://www.aldaily.com/ |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | abdelazer: After leaving Ruby (non-Rails) for Python this year, I've mostly noticed the difference in the obsession about testing. The Ruby crew is very into TDD (and now BDD)–that isn't to say that Python folks don't test (or do TDD/BDD), but simply that the tools available in Python aren't quite as polished. Ruby's R... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | davidw: A subscription to The Economist is great for having some printed material to read in the head. |
When to turn on advertisements? | stcredzero: Turn ads on when they turn you on. |
When to turn on advertisements? | matthall28: Start with ads immediately. Just make sure you do them well. Ads can be made unobtrusive or obnoxious. |
What would you put on the wall behind your desk? | stevedekorte: If you want to show your appriecation for design, then nothing would show it better than a bare wall and a debris free workspace. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | gleb: A subscription to paper version of WSJ is the best $100/year you'll spend. The content is authoritative, exceptionally well researched and complete. The opinion side of things is pleasantly conservative. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | omfut: I usually checkout techmeme for hot news for the day. Othe than that, techcrunch,gigaom and some voip blogs. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | vaksel: I read a couple of forums(a few for my hobbies, a few general ones, a few for politics). Then I have HH and Techcrunch for tech etc. And finally I visit reddit/digg to see if there is anything interesting on the front page.This way I tend to find all of the interesting stuff as soon as it happens. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | rokhayakebe: Try FriendFeed. It is definitely a work in progress but it can really help if you subscribe to a limited number of people. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | UandIblog: I go to a major chain bookstore, the bigger the better. I look around for something really good, when I find something I like I then take the laptop out of my bag and I look up the book at Amazon. Quite often one of Amazons recommendations ends up being more interesting to me, so at that point I'll use my mo... |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | DougBTX: _why |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | thingsilearned: I'm incredibly biased but I recommend Socialbrowse! Send me an email if you would like an invitedave at socialbrowse |
When to turn on advertisements? | jeremytliles: Funny, I asked a similar question on another forum recently, and the consensus was something like "don't turn on adsense, it looks spammy." I'm not sure if they were objecting to adsense or ads in general.I have to say, I was a bit taken aback by this advice. Given the penetration of adsense in this day a... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | gasull: http://del.icio.us/populardel.icio.us/popular and HN are my absolutely required readings every day.Try AideRSS for other blogs if you you want a better signal/noise ratio:http://www.aiderss.com/Besides this, websites I visit sometimes:* iTulip (http://www.itulip.com) - alternative economic news* Boing Boing (ht... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | ashleyw: A Google reader full of smaller blogs and the mindset that I DONT have to read everything. 3083 unread, as of right now, in fact.Smaller blogs are generally one-man shows, but that's what makes them special to me, they aren't out to make money, and their opinions (about generally geeky tech things, in my case)... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | kajecounterhack: Stumbleuponthough, I only actively seek things when I have time to kill which isn't often at all. Usually its just YC News. |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | mroman: I would love to read pg's thoughts on this question.Actually, I would love to read more of pg's thoughts on Ruby, what I have read of his thoughts on it has been brief yet highly positive. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | mroman: Well, you did specify "online" but what got me out of a very similar rut is . . . reading good books. I read on my machine 99% of the time, and I even use the browser to read said books quite often :) |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | rms: http://www.boingboing.net
http://www.kottke.org |
When to turn on advertisements? | ideamonk: Turn on ads when many people have become loyal to your product. And besides that... the most important part is that put up ads in a way that people don't get bugged by it. Do is slowly and subtly. I used to hate hi5 because they had too many ads and that made the website slow too(on my P3 800 Mhz 196mb ram). ... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | atestu: http://givemesomethingtoread.com features some of the most saved articles on Instapaper. They're usually pretty good. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | waitwhatwhoa: http://www.metafilter.com |
When to turn on advertisements? | 3KWA: Not sure I am in a position to give an ADVICE on the matter but the CHOICE I made for my free service is to roll in advertising and affiliation when I have something that add value to the user experience of the service. E.g. I love receiving Amazon's reading recommendations! |
How do you organize your code? | hs: OpenBSD + dwm + vnc herealt+1: my main coding using vim (no mouse, no arrow key)
alt+2: vncviewer to my mac mini for safari, ff3 (mouse)
alt+3 ... alt+9: almost never usedi 1-1-map ~/www/pages/webapp{1,...,n) to my OpenBSD colo
hg push/pull/updatei'm reconsidering attach/detach screen session between servers, but i... |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | madmotive: Twitter has replaced Google Reader for me. |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | ichverstehe: And the web can't fail? It sure can. Just as much as the other cases. |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | ordinaryman: Even Google does not seem to use/promote it extensively. Refer to a recent blog post in GAE, except for the one session, all others have their slides as PDF (no embedded or "View as slideshow" option) !!
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-io-sessio...Also try searching for filetype:ppt in G... |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | teuobk: Part of the problem is that, for better or for worse, Microsoft Office is the standard in corporations. Everybody in the company knows how to create, open, and display PowerPoint presentations. Replacing PowerPoint would require a massive retraining effort and expense. I'm not sure that the benefits of a bro... |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | vaksel: because almost everyone has powerpoint installed from when they installed office. + Most people have been using it from when they were in high school |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | richcollins: Also see http://slideshare.net/ |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | iamnirav: PowerPoint and Keynote also offer much higher fidelity and quality than Google Docs. Also, in many corporations it's against policy to upload confidential information to external servers, which rules out most web services.
I've heard that Google actually uses PowerPoint and Keynote internally. |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | streety: I've seen slideshare used for making presentations but certainly not routinely.Dave McClure used slideshare to give his presentation at BarcampScotland2008. If I remember correctly there was just one incident when he moved backwards in the slide stack rather than forwards due to some issue with the interface.... |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | terminator3000: nothing. rails is crap. python rules. |
Why does no one use google docs for presentations? | bitrhymes: you need to have google account to view slides. which world are they living in. google is so 2006. |
How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | ivrokv: It is forbidden to speak of the time before HN existed. |
What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? | petercooper: Consistency in class definitions (that is, not two "types" of class). Python's packaging is less consistent. Oh, and far better community sites. |
Systems programming laanguage of the future? | wmf: Legacy, of course. Beyond that I would look to the language semantics, not performance. |
Systems programming laanguage of the future? | warwick: Off the top of my head, I'd say that C is used for systems programming due to direct addressing of memory via pointers and it being as low level as you can get without getting into machine specific assembly. Speed is more of a byproduct of being extremely low level since you've got very low overhead.I'd be cu... |
What would you put on the wall behind your desk? | aupajo: The Web is Agreement: http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805709102/ |
Systems programming laanguage of the future? | silentbicycle: I've heard several times (citation needed, I know. Anybody?) that processors have gradually been tuned to perform better with machine language that has artifacts from C compilation in it, or something like that. I would love details. (Related: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?CeeAsAnIntermediateLanguage)Python... |
Systems programming laanguage of the future? | brianobush: There is the D programming language, but it hasn't caught on.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html |
Systems programming laanguage of the future? | rincewind: There are operating systems in other, higher-level languages: Singularity, JNODE, Genera, SqueakNOS, Movitz, but:C is not garbage collected. If you write an OS in a dynamic language you need either a GC in a low-level language or one that does not produce garbage itself. If you want a realtime-OS, garbage co... |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | noodle: 4 hour work week.its not exactly a book on being an entrepreneur, but its a book about setting goals, increasing efficiency and doing what you want to do. more of a motivational book than an informational book.it was more of a driving force for me to do entrepreneurial work than any book actually on the topic ... |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | blogimus: I'd suggest either Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_NationsOr Karl Marx's "The Communist Manifesto".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_ManifestoBoth books have ideas which helped to bootstrap economic revolutions whose effects are felt to this day.But in serio... |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | qhoxie: Founders at Work is great. It will be especially helpful in arena of rights and wrongs from the experience of others. |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | ScottWhigham: Art of the Start if you want to start your own business. |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | prakash: 1. PG's essays/ Hackers and Painters2. Founders at Work3. High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet WarsThe other way to look at it is, if you are not making mistakes, you are not pushing the boundary enough! |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | pg: Founders at Work, actually. None of the how-to books are good, so the best source of information is stories, and FaW has the best stories. |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | MaysonL: Peter Drucker's Entrepreneurship and Innovation. His memoir Adventures of a Bystander also has a lot of wisdom about business, besides lots of great stories (don't miss "The Man who Invented Kissinger", if you're a fan of history). |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | tstegart: Not a book, but I recommend getting a subscription to Inc. Magazine. At the very least, check out Norm Brodsky's column every week at the bookstore. |
CSS Framework? | noodle: i've made use of blueprint and grid.the concept is useful but don't use them as a crutch for learning CSS |
CSS Framework? | ejs: I am using blueprint css in my latest website ( http://overtrainer.com ) mainly just because I am too lazy to learn css correctly ;) |
CSS Framework? | oldgregg: I use boilerplate, a stripped down blueprint css:http://code.google.com/p/css-boilerplate/I'm not a semantics-nazi by any means, but I've used grids at different times and... meh, I'd usually rather just throw a few float:left's together and keep it clean. |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | known: World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemieshttp://isbn.nu/9780375503665 |
European founders in YC? | wheels: The two that come to mind of the top of my head are Songkick and Clickpass, both from the UK.Here was a previous discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158969searchyc.com is your friend. |
European founders in YC? | spif: Just to clarify you are asking about founders from outside the US moving to the US and getting work permits. Not the otherway round, right?If it's the other way (in Holland at least) it will be easiest if one of the founders/employees can be recognized as an knowledge migrant. |
European founders in YC? | hooande: YC has a lot of founders from outside of the US. There were four teams from outside of the US in our YC class, two from Canada, one from the UK and one team from Austria. I can think of at least four other teams from abroad from previous classes.In fact there is a kind of UK YC inside YC. The UK guys really st... |
European founders in YC? | babul: I am sure there are a few UK YC startups. Below is what I can recall off the top of my head.The blogs in particular may hold useful info for you regarding getting visas and working in the U.S. plus the journey in startup as a whole - I particularly like http://www.kulveer.co.uk and http://blog.harjtaggar.com who... |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | Anon84: Although not exactly my field... This seems to be a good review of some of the algorithms currently used.http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3382By following the references therein you can probably track down the canonical papers for the area. The OCW course should also give you a broad overview of the subject, but befo... |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | schtog: After doing some more research I have found:
Perl and Python are very popular languages in bioinformatics. I love Python so good for me and I don't know Perl so easy choice then, Python it is.The big wellknown library is BioPython:
http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_PageCourse, Bioinformatics and Python:
http://www... |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | tjr: http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Made-Simple-Third/dp......seems to be a good introduction to molecular biology in general, depending on how much background you have. |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | biohacker42: I suggest you start out with some basic chemistry. There you can find the data on how the amino acid chains line up and fold and twist. There was that game somebody released where you "fold" with the mouse. I think it was an experiment to find out if humans can do the folding faster then computers. That sh... |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | acesamped: I'm actually a bioinformatics major, bioinformatician by profession. We do work with computer scientists a lot, but one thing we find very frustrating is that 99% of them don't know biology, biochemistry, chemistry, or organic chemistry to the necessary degree. They also don't know how to read lab tests we r... |
Quick. . . What's the best book on entrepreneurship you've ever read? | rodrigo: I found Undercover Economist a great resource to get to know some economic basics, like scarcity and pricing, wich can help you model your product or revenue source scheme.
Also, second Founders at Work, good ol'storytelling, very information-dense.http://tinyurl.com/5buhql |
Who here is using IronRuby? | cschneid: I looked at it a while back, and it wasn't feature complete enough for me to really play with. It's probably worth another look.For a more complete impl, look at JRuby. You get the nice benefits of a larger virtual machine (the libraries!), but it's been tested heavily. |
HN like forum software? | noodle: http://code.reddit.com/ |
HN like forum software? | nostrademons: HN is open-source: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3426There's also Pligg (open-source PHP) and Slinkset (hosted). |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | tstegart: They're called corporate lawyers, but many small firms and individual lawyers do corporate law along with other areas of practice.There are tax issues on what you get to deduct before and after starting a company, but really I think your main concern should be the reason why you want to start a company. If yo... |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | weebob: Well, if you want to get a clue about how molecular biologists think you could do a lot worse then read "The eighth day of creation." It's a general history of molecular biology. If you find any of it confusing then a good introductory text book may help; Molecular Biology of the Cell or Stryer would get you s... |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | vaksel: Just fyi the copyright symbol has nothing to do with being a company or not. The copyright law in this country basically says that if you made it, its yours.As far as timeline, I would go with registering an LLC. Its cheap and will give you a form of legitimacy. |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | michael_dorfman: Is this webapp a hobby, or a business? Are you serious about it being a start-up? If so, I'd definitely talk to a lawyer before you launch, and get yourself organized.Do you have a business plan? A budget? |
Best resources to learn about protein folding and algorithms for it? | etal: For an overview, read the DoE's primer:http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/...The U.S. Department of Energy does a surprising amount of research on genetics and bioinformatics. The reason: while the Manhattan project was running, DoE scientists were aware that radioactive weapons would cau... |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | jon_dahl: 1. You can probably file LLC papers with your state (or another state) for ~$200. I did that for my first company and didn't hire a lawyer until 3 years later. I highly recommend doing this before you launch your startup. You really should talk to a lawyer before launch, but this is better than nothing.2. Not... |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | tptacek: I'm not a lawyer, but I have helped launch a couple companies:* Form an LLC now, so that your business operates under limited liability, as its own entity that can invoice and be invoiced, instead of out of your bank account. Cost: $200-300. You don't need a lawyer to do this in a one-person shop; just fill ou... |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | MicahWedemeyer: Forming an LLC is cheap and easy, but be sure to keep up with paperwork. I showed our "books" to an accountant and he told me that if we ever went to court with that, our LLC status would be stripped away immediately and we'd be personally liable on everything. |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | tonystubblebine: I'd be interested to know more about what people actually did versus what they should have done. And how did it work out?There's more legal work than just incorporation. Do you need business insurance? Do you need to register somewhere for DMCA protection? |
is the number of interesting (mathematical) concepts infinite? | gukjoon: Which infinity? |
Legal timeline for a successful web startup? | mattmaroon: Mistake number 1 is asking hackers for legal advice. This is far worse than asking lawyers for programming advice, because at least lawyers will tell you they don't know. You're going to get 100 opinions here ranging from uninformed to semi-informed, and all answers will be based on their own experiences an... |
Any payment processing advice? | noodle: 1) a safe policy would be to accept checks by mail, but hold shipping until the check clears the bank and you have funds in your account.2) http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...3) depends. some of the things in the link above touch on that. for the most part, though, keep as much of ... |
The Economics of Twitter? | byrneseyeview: Google's chief economist, Hal Varian, says that the way to get rich is to own an expensive good that's complimentary to a free good (if you have a monopoly on right shoes, and left shoes cost nothing you're going to do pretty well). My guess is that Twitter is engineering the supply by making tiny messag... |
The Economics of Twitter? | nostrademons: They're betting that with 10 million users, Twitter will find some way to monetize them. Historically, this is a pretty good bet: it worked for Netscape, Google, HotOrNot, MySpace, and FaceBook.In interviews, Ev's said that the plan is basically to charge for commercial usage of Twitter, probably based o... |
The Economics of Twitter? | alaskamiller: 1. They have some amount of advertising revenue with Twitter Japan2. Then don't. There's plenty of Twitter-clones out there, in itself it not necessarily a complex software to make -- the engineering challenges would be scaling it.3. Why VCs investing into it? Because of the team (Evan Williams primarily)... |
Any VCs in Toronto, Canada? | prakash: http://www.punctuative.com/vcdb/ |
Any VCs in Toronto, Canada? | prakash: I remember reading about VC's/angels near U of Waterloo, might want to check that out. |
Any VCs in Toronto, Canada? | bkbleikamp: i would suggest contacting the guys at b5media.com and talk to them - they are based in toronto and have received funding. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | comatose_kid: I'm not a YC founder, but I do have a wife and children.As to your original question: don't worry about it. Just focus on your application, and try to get some sort of basic demo of your idea together. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | staunch: Wayne Crosby of Zenter"JR: What was the downside of your experience YC?Y Combinator requires you to move to either Cambridge, MA (Summer session) or Mountain View, CA (Winter session). The night we submitted our application to Y Combinator, we found out my wife was pregnant with our first child. The hardest de... |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | hooande: I just completed a YC session and my co-founder was married, but no children. I must say, an entire summer seems like it might put a bit of stress on your relationship.Let me be very clear! You can definitely do a startup if you have a family. YCombinator and startups are a great opportunity for anyone, regard... |
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