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Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | yarapavan: "Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A count... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | yarapavan: “Be so good they can’t ignore you." - Steve Martin |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | yarapavan: "Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you...Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question..Does this path have a heart? If it d... |
Is a home server good enough ? | fsniper: Home server is only reliable if you have static ip and a stable line. Otherwise it's more of a pain than a cure.
I do have some mission critical businesses run through ADSL (4Mbit down/1Mbit up) in Turkey. Some of them have been running over a year now.But I had some googlebot problems. For a while googlebot... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | trevelyan: Whether we fall from ambition, blood or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.-- John Webster |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | growt: “The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”- Hugh Macleod |
A Better HN ? | yan: I would like to contribute my own snippets of code to news.yc that can be vetted for by other members and conditionally included, like Gmail Labs. Stuff like changing usernames 'hnuser (real name,employer@location)' or providing custom feeds (current usernames+karma, all posts, etc) |
A Better HN ? | redorb: perhaps the dead links on the new page should go completly away to leave more room for the news (currently over 5 of the spots are dead)... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | plinkplonk: Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seatThat we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloomFor that celestial light? Be it so, since heWho now is Sovran can dispose and bidWhat shall be right: fardest from him is bestWhom reason hath equald, force hath made supreamAbove his equals. Farewel happy FieldsW... |
A Better HN ? | cjg: User definable time based filter - e.g. show me just the stories posted yesterday. |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | gvwoods: " We cannont solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"
--Albert Einstein"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
--James Joyce"Where will you be when you get where you are going?"
--unknown"We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy... |
Is a home server good enough ? | ja27: I ran a couple servers at home using "business class" cable a few years ago. Real static IPs, my own DNS servers, etc. It absolutely sucked as far as the network. We never got close to the outbound bandwidth we were sold. I could have lived with it being 50% but it was often so slow and laggy that it was unusable... |
What do you drink? | anibal: Here in Uruguay many of us drink "MATE"
mate++ :) |
A Better HN ? | onreact-com: I wouldn't change it a bit. Especially feature creep is deadly for a community. Simplicity is key to the current success of HN.I've been on Mixx before and they really messed up the site in the course of a few months of perpetual changes and adding new stuff all over the place. In the end you have a myriad... |
A Better HN ? | 3pt14159: I would put my phone #, email, etc. into my profile, but conditional on the reader having, say, 100 karma. |
A Better HN ? | bgnm2000: I'd like to see a link to just see the Ask HN type posts |
A Better HN ? | DanielBMarkham: A Karma bartering system for virtual (and real) goods. |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | vineet7kumar: Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
-– Leonardo Da Vinci |
Finding sales people? | pmichaud: In my experience, you get sales people from your network. If you're starting a company you should have a network. If you don't, start building one. |
A Better HN ? | unalone: I would remove the leaderboard, I wouldn't let people see points on comments, I'd start to fade out comments after -1 points rather than 0. Essentially, I'd remove everything that encourages a bullshit competition in place of productivity.I'd also consider letting users with high karma define a block list for ... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | ph0rque: Fleeing cold whiteness, I would sit alone--Not in the sun--I feared his bronzing light,But in his radiance back around me thrownBy fulgent mirrors tempering his might;Thus bathing in a moon-bath not too bright,My skin I tinted slow to ivory tone. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | j2d2: I think most people are unsure how to make the transition from having a good idea to forming a company around it. Many people here build stuff all the time but often times don't seem to believe in the idea enough to put money into it, yet also are unsure how to get money from others. My guess is that people just ... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | vaksel: my guess is for most people its fear of lack of skills..."how can I compete against others with thousands of programmers" |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | balding_n_tired: Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
-- W.B. Yeats, poem introducing _Responsibilities_ |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | adammarkey: I honestly think healthcare / health insurance is a major reason.It's hard to be "ramen AND medical bills profitable" if you or one of your founders has an urgent medical issue when you're trying to bootstrap yourselves with no insurance.The Obama administration should look at this issue and provide signifi... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | bgnm2000: Time, I need more time. (granted it doesn't stop me from starting startups, it stops me from starting MORE startups). I need closer to 60 hours in a day. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | yumraj: Here are some of my thoughts, obviously different things apply to different people:1) The Ramen-way works only for people who are fresh out of college or at least are still with no liabilities. This doesn't work for people who have families, mortgage etc. In this case the YC-type funding just doesn't cut it. I ... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | pclark: not everyone is an entrepreneur |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | khafra: I'm fairly confident that I not in the top 50%-30% that actually makes it work (for varying definitions of "work"). I've seen too many people who make me feel like a lackadaisical moron fail at start-upping. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | rudenoise: I have a mortgage and want a family, the insecurity is too high.When I was younger I didn't have the skills and/or energy as I was acquiring knowledge and experience.Now I'm in a position to do something with those attributes: it has to be a spare time effort - which doesn't seem to be enough. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | cjg: I want more time with my family not less.I prefer a steady income.I'm uncertain whether the expected value of a startup is more than my current income. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | elliottkember: I think I'm too critical of ideas. I'm just not convinced that any old idea can make it - and so many have already been done. I've got the time and the flexibility to be able to do it, but I just haven't settled on an idea. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | seasoup: Knowledge that such a thing is possible when I first got out of college. Everything about school directed me to look for a job afterwards. Then finding a job was very easy, decent pay, big company. It wasn't until all these web startups started making it big that it even became a thought that it was possibl... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | Edinburger: One frustrating reason: I haven't found an idea with a sufficient chance of success to justify my investment.It's frustrating because I have execution skills (I've launched 'startups' for larger companies), I could fund a small startup without external help and I have access to good design & technical talen... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | paul9290: Im a 31 yr old start-upper. I actually started my startup at 27/28ish; it was my first start-up. I was about to buy my first home with money I saved for such, but took the money and started up; stayed living with the parent I moved in with to save money for a house two years prior.So, it's a huge sacrifice ... |
Facilitating payments between users | noodle: well, that sounds basically like what the YC company tipjoy tackled, i do believe.http://tipjoy.com/ |
Google Search Omissions? | gtani: you could try international searchhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5977Also, google has always struggled with massive duplication of mailing lists/news groups (gmane, nabble, osdir). If there are mirrored/gateway'd lists, you could try the others. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | plinkplonk: I don't want to do marketing/sales. I hate people trying to sell to me. I don't want to do it to others. Hard to find a good, non slimy, trustworthy business oriented guy to round me out.I'd rather code full time, and talk to customers (as in support etc , not sales). This attitude + the lack of a "business... |
Facilitating payments between users | mahmud: Scenario. User Alice pays you $10k and poses a list of 10 questions. Many people come to respond, Alice reads the replies, but consistently approves the answer provided by Bob. As required, you would pay Bob $10k minus your commissions.Congratulations, you have just facilitated your first money laundering opera... |
Great Non-Hackers? | tokenadult: Is there a way to figure this out?Empirically, most forms of human greatness ("expertise") are defined as RELIABLY superior performance in the defined domain. Seehttp://mit.edu/6.969/www/readings/expertise.pdffor a discussion of this by scientists who literally wrote the book on the subject of expert perfor... |
Great Non-Hackers? | jacquesm: Tricky... what I've gotten weary of over the years is people that approach too aggressively, that's a big red flag for me.Another one is people that do their best to worm their way into your private live even though your relationship is purely business. That doesn't mean that it isn't possible to know people ... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | stuffthatmatter: we'll be in a great depression soon |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | jnovek: What's interesting is, I see a lot of people saying, "I don't have a very good idea."For the record, my first swing was an awful idea -- social networking mumbo-jumbo. Half-baked, totally impossible to monetize. Four of us worked on it for about four months before the whole thing melted down and everyone but ... |
Is a home server good enough ? | pclark: just use S3. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | rjurney: Being broke from the last one? Usually spend a year or more catching up financially. Its getting harder to do this.Regarding insurance - If I didn't have a cheap policy I kept since I was 18, a startup wouldn't even be an option - I'm uninsurable on an individual plan. |
Innovative Conferences / Classes / Training | gasull: Maybe your question is a bit too generic.Because you're posting this in HN, I guess you're interested in startups. Then you should go to the Startup School next year. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | throw_away: my corp-job is actually pretty awesome. |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | ganley: Steve Jobs (allegedly): "Real artists ship." |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | tocomment: A. I just can't shake the idea that the market for mainstream web apps is saturated.B. I can't find any ideas for niche markets because I'm not involved in any niches except for programming and anything for programmers is definitely a saturated market.C. Cofounders I've come across have always flaked out. Gr... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | swolchok: I'm currently a graduate student. I could drop out after I get my master's degree, or finish my Ph.D. I realized that doing a startup sounds great, but if it failed, as is very likely, I would regret walking away from grad school. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | bkovitz: Some reasons:1. I have very little clue what gets people to spend money. I keep wanting at least a plausible theory of how this could make money before I dive in. I am particularly discouraged by the idea of making a web site that requires high traffic in order to be ramen-profitable.2. I am easily distracte... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | thunk: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | warp: I guess I'm a control freak. Having other people invest in my idea means I have certain obligations to them, I would feel less free to go about things the way I want to. Most of all it would create a sense of urgency which I don't have now.I also happen to have a decent job where I am the lead developer on a pr... |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | biohacker42: Family members are financially dependent on me and I am far too good at imagining all the ways in which my startup would NOT workout. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | thismat: 1.) I entered the developers and startup world late. It's only been about a year since I've discovered PG and only a few since I took up programming as more than just the occasional scripter.2.) The market for web applications feels saturated, what happens when it collapses?3.) As a single father I'm even more... |
Club Membership software - anyone here sell this? | Mankhool: Suggestion: If you're in the UK why not find out what The Harbour Club is using? http://www.harbourclub.com
Good Luck! |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | eswat: I was simply oblivious to the idea that I could start a startup. My university focused on getting their students primed and ready to work at Big Widget Corporation and talk about startups was usually limited to references to Apple or Microsoft in their heyday in the 80s.When I finally did hear about Y-Combinator... |
Is the market efficient or not? | yan: I don't believe it is in the short term efficient nor that its self-correcting, in the short term. In my opinion, the only way to reliably make money is to have insider information. People day-trading with no non-public information are trying to extract patterns from noise. |
Is the market efficient or not? | tokenadult: The old saying attributed to John Maynard Keynes is that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | ganley: My father (who did start a company) gave me the sage advice that you don't want to start a company unless that company will be the absolute top priority in your life. |
Review my startup Weegoh | jacquesm: If you don't already have this I'd very much like a feature which would alert me to friends/family being nearby while we are travelling. Like that you could meet up for lunch in places where you'd otherwise never meet.A proximity alert so to speak.I think this is what you are getting at with your 'meet friend... |
Review my startup Weegoh | numbchuckskills: needs a tour on the main page.
I wouldn't sign up without knowing what exactly I can do and how. |
Is a home server good enough ? | joeld42: I ran a home server with dyndns, just used it for family stuff. The issues I had weren't with bandwidth but with upload speed (important for your app) and mostly with uptime, between regular home pc outages, dyndns snafus, and occasional outages from the provider.in my experience, this would work for a "closed... |
Gambling & smoking limited but not entrepreneurship and stock trading? | bkovitz: There are dangers involved in eating at McDonald's, going to grad school, talking to strangers, thinking things through very carefully, dressing funny, starting religions, getting married, staying single, doing meaningless homework, getting a cubicle job, and heeding the advice of your high-school guidance cou... |
What to do when a company shuts out its shareholders? | tokenadult: Closely held corporations ought to have buy-sell agreements, which are legally enforceable contracts, at the beginning. But if in fact the company is tanking (= a share of ownership in the company isn't worth much), this may not be worth suing over. |
Is the market efficient or not? | thunk: A market's efficiency is inversely proportional to its complexity -- proportional, that is, to the average understanding of its participants. |
Is the market efficient or not? | rwolf: The EMH doesn't take in to account arbitrage risk (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1292533) among other things.Bonus questions:
Is it so inefficient that models based on EMH should be replaced?
Is there a better assumption we can base finance on? |
Fighting spam on Craigslist any alternative? | indierockerboy: Many sites suffer from this sort of spam. It's all a form of advance-fee fraud. I wonder if anyone has found an effective means to combat it -- logistical regression models, keyword filtering, etc. |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | there: uh, what are you going to use it for? do you have experience using either operating system? |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | icey: If you are comfortable with Linux I would recommend Ubuntu. They're both fine choices, but you'll get more bang for your buck with Linux than with OS X.(I do most of my development at home on a Mac. I don't like dicking around with my operating system though.) |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | jacquesm: I have both and in practice I find that I use the ubuntu pc for almost everything except mac compatibility testing.The main reason I guess is that most of my servers run linux and I don't need to mentally make the switch from one flavour of unix to another ten times per day. Stuff on my dev box lives in exact... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | alexitosrv: I also have both, and I rarely use the mac (a MBP) except for demos.The mac is really pretty, but almost all the hard work is done in a hp laptop connected to a 25.5" monitor, external mouse and keyboard and running windows xp and a couple of virtualbox machines.Use whatever tool make you more productive. D... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | TallGuyShort: I think Macs are targeted towards art/design professions, and casual home users. I think they're great for those audiences, but unless you fall into one of those categories, I think Ubuntu is the right choice. It's very stable, lightning fast, has a ton of great software, and it's free (comes on cheaper, ... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | spooneybarger: Ok, I'll bite.What do you do?I have a Mac right now. Why? I do tons of web dev and I need to test multiple environments- mac, windows etc. I can do all that with one machine via virtual machines. Not so easy to do mac os testing with a PC.I do most of my dev in a debian vm that is setup to exactly match ... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | dlevine: I use my mac for everything. Our application is hosted off of ubuntu servers, and it's pretty seamless to switch between the two. My business partner runs ubuntu on his laptop - he has to boot windows to do photoshop, but that's pretty much it.The Mac OS is prettier. I would suspect that it gives you a better ... |
What Kind of Biology Study Did You Have in Higher Education? | kyro: I just graduated with a BSc. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. The plan was to go on as a physician, and thus, to fulfill med school requirements, I took 3 years of biology courses. Dna to Organisms, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Cellular Neurobiology, Language and the Bra... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | dawie: I am using it for Rails Dev and Web development, but I want dual monitors. I see that the Mac Mini does not offer this.The problem that I am running into is that Rails behave differently on my Vista laptop than it does on my VPS and I and it's causing me quite a bit of grief.I just want to be up and running as s... |
Ubuntu PC or a MAC | garnet7: If you want a "just works" experience, but still want to stick with free software, maybe check out http://laclinux.com/gnu/GNU_Linux_Computers |
Great Non-Hackers? | iterationx: If you know psychological manipulation then you can detect if people are doing it to you, http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-NLP-Psychological-Understa...that should handle the smooth-talking part, but it seems like you'll still need some domain knowledge to figure out if someone is good at their job. |
Help plan the next HN One Day App event | kineticac: The next One Day App event is now being planned. We are inviting all of Hacker News to jump in and participate, plan, and just give input on the next event.For those who might not have the time or cycles to participate as an app developer, we have a few opportunities for people to be part of the Judge Panel... |
Review my app - MynaStuff | Corrado: A couple of months ago I asked if anyone wanted to help build a simple home inventory tracker. The response was...umm...disappointing. So I went ahead and built it anyway. :)Let me know what you think. |
What are the Ruby on Rails Plugins you can't live without? | mtpark: will paginate & authlogic definitely.HTTParty is a gem if you work with outside resources. |
Please critique vldtr | wlievens: This is awesome. This scratches an itch I always felt I had but never consciously realized. The combination of saving your list, with the discover feature. Good job.Edit: also plus points for being dutch (I'm flemish). |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | wlievens: Lack of a good idea. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | pclark: http://binarycake.com/ |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | jhweuygdj: Sitepoint.com is aimed pretty squarely at the group you're in, and covers pretty much everything you'll need. It's even an Australian site :) |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | reg4c: Your university library might have a lot of books on these. Get a couple for PHP and JS and read them through simultaneously. That way, even if one book misses something you get it from the other one and the best part is, it does not cost anything. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | jacquesm: PHP is pretty easy to get in to, I asked about js frameworks here a while ago and pretty much unanimously got jquery back so that's what I'm using myself now and so far it has been very easy to use and does what I want it to.Build a small website or two using PHP and js before you go for your major idea, that... |
Joining an Incubator. Concerned About 2 Items in The Contract. Advice? | jalammar: Thanks all, your input is very much appreciated. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | hymanroth: I was in the exactly the same situation as you. Learn PHP first because it will give you the logical framework for understanding how the web server interacts with the browser. I recommend Rasmus' book: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-PHP-Rasmus-Lerdorf/dp/1565... - it's the best text book I've ever read: h... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | thomanil: Javascript: Start with Douglas Crockfords "Javascript: The Good Parts". Excellent, terse primer on safe Javascript development.Startups: Read content by people like Peter Graham, Joel Spolsky, Rob Walling, Guy Kawasaki, Bob Walsh, Andy Brice - just to mention a few of my personal faves. Skim around, there's l... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | ErrantX: learn some low level php to get you familiar with it - then switch straight into a framework.I use KohanaPHP - kohanaphp.com (dont go with Code Igniter, not any more)I've heard CakePHP is pretty good too but never actually tried it (have a play and see).A really good "dip into" resource once your familiar with... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | rickharrison: I think the best way to learn this is to get into a framework and start hacking with it. Go through the tutorials and re-develop what was done in them. Then develop a small appliaction just for you. Maybe it could catalogue movies if your a collector, or document your exercises etc. Just something tha... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | jnovek: "Usually I spend it reading all sorts of ebooks and papers and trying to learn new skills."I suggest you switch gears and spend your free-time coding :-).Pick some technology you think you want (you can change your mind later) and start doing side projects in it. Do up your personal home page. Make a google m... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | edw519: "I want to code the site using PHP and a bit of Java-script, but my skills with these are not exactly up to the job yet."You must understand that you need to learn 2 separate things and you need to learn them well.For javascript on the client you need nothing other than the browser you already have and the Rhin... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | mahmud: The best resource is a PARTNER.Get a buddy, don't do it alone, mate. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | gorbachev: If you want to do it right, I think you should learn a couple of things.Learn PHP first. You don't have to become a guru at it, yet. Go through tutorials, buy a book or two, experiment. Try doing something small that you think you'd need to do for your project.Once you're at least somewhat comfortable about ... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | netconnect: Wow guys, this is why I love this community. I'm taking note of all of this, going to print it out and put it on my wall when the comment activity stops so I can always just look at it for that little bit of inspiration to keep going. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | nailer: I'd try Python. There's less syntax to type, and examples are more consistent due to the general flexibility of th language. Django and the Python Facebook module would be a good start. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | nedwin: My advice is to meet as many like minded people as possible. Face-to-face bandwidth is amazing :)I'm based in Melbourne, feel free to drop me a line. |
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