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Had an original idea for a start-up...but | woodsier: I'm similar to you. Australian (Sydney), 21, Uni student, tight budget. E-books are great, but as others have said, just start fiddling.I won't tell you what to do, because I'm still quite inexperienced and other advice in this thread will likely be far more valuable, but what I've done is purchased a cheap s... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | iterationx: install xampp or lampp and start coding, you might want to do jobeet from http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_2/Doctrine/en/ |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | pclark: clickable link: http://binarycake.com - simply register, and redeem the coupon "hackernews" |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | hwijaya: I am in Sydney. Feel free to drop me a line.Our startups actually work in some of the area that you described (haven't launched yet).But, i agree with other comments, research around ...most of the time, it won't be unique. But, you'll learn more and more as you do more iteration of releases. |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | jakewolf: Tried to review, but "This coupon is no longer valid" |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | pmichaud: Everyone in the thread so far has ignored a really important point: a business is not a piece of software. Do you want to write a piece of software, or do you want to start a business? They are two different skill sets. |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | djahng: I'd just search around for tutorials and stuff on what you're looking at (PHP, JavaScript, etc). You really only need a basic understanding to get started. And that's what you really need to do...just get started. Ultimately you don't become an expert by reading books, you become an expert by doing. You'd b... |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | matt1: Very well done.The navigation is easy to use (you can tell he focused on usability), the videos seem top notch (nice background music in the previews), and its useful to me as a developer.One thing, and its probably nitpicky, is the color. The green and white on black is standard hackerish theme, but I can't do ... |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | fixie: It would be nice to see how much 1 credit costs before having to sign up. For example, over at PeepCode (http://peepcode.com/) I can immediately see how much a screencast costs without having to click around. Good luck with your startup. |
What do you use to send emails to all your users? | jaddison: For our http://www.snapact.com/ startup, we currently use http://www.constantcontact.com/ for monthly newsletters. I'd also be interested in learning what other people use.User signup verification and the like we use an internal mail server (Postfix on Linux) - keep in mind that going your own route requires... |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | davidalln: Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't figure out precisely what you guys did within five seconds of looking at the page, and that is for me a turnoff. I think it's part the color scheme, part the in-your-face layout, and part the overwhelming feed on the left side. If I just took a quick glance, I would think t... |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | Oompa: Why credits instead of just money via credit card or Pay Pal? Seems like you want people to have some left over and then buy in more and keep going, similar to Microsoft Points. I'd rather just pay exactly what I need to for each screencast. |
What do you use to send emails to all your users? | dawie: Here's some more suggestions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713749 |
Review my startups interns startup - BinaryCake [free credits] | diiq: Rather than actual critique, here is a user story. It takes place... inside my brain!diiq's story:----------Will there be 250 credits worth of content soon? 5-10 credits a video (maybe), 2-3 videos per month (maybe), that's... nearly two years, if the videos are cheap?Trying buying credits. Why can I only by cred... |
Help plan the next HN One Day App event | HeyLaughingBoy: Excellent idea, but drop that comment about holding it on a weekday unless you're only interested in college students/high schoolers participating. Some of us have jobs we can't just ignore for an entire day :-) |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | lee: First, no code. Sketch. Sketch using a magic marker on printer paper where the other side has already been printed. Make these sketches quick and not-pretty. Do many. You want to be able to throw these out without hesitation. Using software to build pretty wireframes will invest you in how something looks. Don't d... |
Had an original idea for a start-up...but | BeSublime: I was in the same boat about 2 years ago, so I'd like to share my story with you FWIW... but it'll have to be after work! Just a heads up, my two cents are on their way! |
Who are you? | maxwin: I will begin here.Rising college senior, bioinformatics major. |
Who are you? | Cows: Ex-college kid. Working at Walmart ISD now for the time being. |
Who are you? | TallGuyShort: uni student, former employee in electronics manufacturing, current employee as a programmer, hacker hobbyist, immigrant to the States. |
Who are you? | seasoup: engineer in a late stage startup, formerly an engineer in a large company, next... a hacker with my own startup. |
Who are you? | keefe: Currently employed at a late state, nasa funded startup... soon to be writing my own software full time, at least for a while. |
Who are you? | sound2man: IT at a general contracting firm specializing in municipal water structures. |
What keeps you away from starting startups? | wicknicks: i need a team.... can't do it all on my own.. |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | jncraton: It really depends on what you want to do. I like to have Wine installed so that I can run some Windows apps, but if you don't use Windows, that will be less important. I've also used QEMU in the past to run a virtual Windows machine inside of Linux.I use Google Chrome for normal browsing and Firefox for devel... |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | berglundma: I suggest: Openoffice.org - stable (3.1.0?),kivio or dia - diagramming,opera and/or firefox,gnucash,abobe acrobat reader (acroread), qcad, hp device manager (hplip?) if you have an hp printer, vlc media player, glabels - business cards and the like (I just prefer this to OOo for this purpose)This software c... |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | _pi: HoN if you like games, currently in beta.I have a few invites left if you want one. |
Who are you? | rawr: I am a computer hacker. |
Who are you? | pclark: CEO of Broadersheet. Broadersheet is a personalised newspaper. |
Who are you? | jncraton: I am a student who is 1 year away from a BS in computer engineering. I'm also working on a startup. |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | mbrubeck: Here are the first things I install:aptitude install firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu 9.04 shipped with Firefox 3.0 by default).Nightly builds of Chromium: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppamiro (simple "internet TV" video podcast player)thunderbird, gnumeric, abiword (my preferred lighter-weight alternati... |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | rawr: If you "sudo apt-get grammar" you can get an app that will teach you how to properly use hyphens so you don't say things like "Ubuntu must have apps" which implies that Ubuntu doesn't have applications but you think it must. |
Who are you? | jawngee: CTO of massify.com.Lover.Fighter. |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | dawie: I just came across this: Scribes - Textmate for Ubuntu and it made we wonder if there was any other hidden Gems. |
Who are you? | bgnm2000: I'm a design UI/UX freelancer and entrepreneur - currently getting my feet wet w/ ruby and ROR |
Who are you? | Femur: I create adventure. I leave slain dragons in my wake. I build monuments, plant flags, discover wonders, and lead armies.I sing duets, dance tangos, and play concertos.I cook banquets. I wheel, make deals, and strike bargains. I purchase fruit in large quantities. I partake and imbibe. I articulate, expound, and ... |
Favorite inspiring quotes or verses? | aditya: "If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery |
Mismatch between older founder interests and first adopter interests? | Mankhool: Are you saying that older people cannot innovate on the bleeding edge of X industry / discipline? Or are you saying older people are not early adopters? I'm both. I'm older. I'm a founder. I'm an early adopter and I experience viral marketing from my age peers as well as older and younger people that I know. |
What do you use to read RSS feeds (other than Google Reader)? | mbrubeck: I use Google Reader for low-volume feeds that I care about (i.e., I want to read every post).I set up a Planet Venus[1] page for high-volume feeds where I don't care if I miss some posts. It shows only the 100 most recent items, so if I don't check it for a few days they don't pile up. A cron job updates it... |
Ubuntu Must-Have Apps | g_: if you don't have them already: build-essentials, python, svnChromium is also a must. |
Who are you? | Osmose: Web Development Intern at Electronic Arts. 2 years from a BS in Computer Science. |
What do you use to read RSS feeds (other than Google Reader)? | bigbee: I used to use RSSBandig (http://rssbandit.org/) before switching over completely to Google Reader.
Of course, it's desktop based, so doesn't fit your requirements. It does have a nice sync option with web-based readers - http://rssbandit.org/features/synchronizing-feeds-with-googl... |
Who are you? | burnout1540: I'm a developer at an internet startup based in San Francisco. |
Who are you? | BrentRitterbeck: BSBA Finance; 2 classes shy of BS in Mathematics; starting MSFE in a month; worked as an equity trader, trust analyst, and retail broker |
Who are you? | ihumanable: Web Developer working for a Consulting Firm that provides software for various government organization and private companies |
how do you learn Math? | sound2man: I go the rules route. I don't know that you can learn algebra any other way, can you? I mean, if you don't know the rules, how are you going to do the problem? I hated proofs, though that is more applicable to geometry. |
how do you learn Math? | BrentRitterbeck: Knowledge passes from the paper, to the pencil, to the hand, up the body, and to the brain. My point: do lots of problems. Schaum's has some good material. Mathematics is just like anything else. If you want to be good at it, you have to practice it. It doesn't matter what level you are at, whethe... |
how do you learn Math? | rawr: I think there is less math in undergraduate computer science programs than you might think.If they require you to take calculus or a discreet mathematics course then you might have to re-learn some things, but exponents and logs aren't that common in pure CS classes.I know this doesn't really answer your question... |
Who are you? | ucdaz: Co-Founder of www.FeedbackJar.com |
Does having the right corp lawyer help you find investors? | pg: That's true. A lot of intros to investors come through lawyers. |
Who are you? | Travis: Web developer for a nonprofit. VP Technology at a startup. Trying to write as much as I can.Doubled in CompSci and English at a strong U.S. uni. |
Does having the right corp lawyer help you find investors? | grellas: The VC introductions are an invaluable asset offered by the large law firms in the startup area - if your business model is capital-intensive, you will find no better way to open doors to this type of funding.The big-firm model is highly VC-focused, though, and can be somewhat inflexible for bootstrapping type... |
Who are you? | tjic: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!...or maybe I'm just a software engineer / small company owner ( SmartFlix.com / HeavyInk.com) outside of Boston... |
How do you split strings (to get keywords)? | TallGuyShort: It depends very heavily on the origin of the string, as that would determine the special cases that needed to be dealt with. Can you provide more details?edit: Based on what you said in your original post, I would say to have a list of possible delimiters (which would probably need to be added to for some... |
How do you split strings (to get keywords)? | alanthonyc: Not sure what your main goal is, but in my compilers project class, we used lexical analyzers to break out tokens from the input stream.Try looking up "Lex" or "Flex"...these were the tools we used. There may be better ones around now.Here's a quick google: http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/ |
how do you learn Math? | Shooter: Hi Chocobean,I can sympathize. Completely.I had a horrible math education in high school (more detail is provided elsewhere on YC.) I hate the plug-and-chug rules approach, and I'm fairly math-phobic. I completely avoided math during my first college experience, even taking a class in C++ once just to avoid ... |
Who are you? | jacquesm: founder of ww.com, small time investor, coder, tinkerer. |
Does having the right corp lawyer help you find investors? | alain94040: The best introductions to VCs come from entrepreneurs who made them millions. Lawyer intros are definitely lower on the list, but far better than cold calling.Deferred costs is a fair deal. Of course, the bill will be large once you have to pay it, but at least it's deferred. Just make sure that it's truly ... |
How do you split strings (to get keywords)? | mbrubeck: "Second trial, you use a alpha-numeric whitelist and split on anything else, but what about umlauts? What about hebrew or cyrillic?"A multi-lingual version of this could use the Unicode "General Category" character classes (Letter, Mark, Number, Punctuation, Symbol, Separator, Other). |
Who are you? | apsurd: I like to think I am working on being a scientist in the pure sense of the word.To put ideas to the test, and learn from those tests. |
Who are you? | Mz: Someone who runs a few websites and wants to learn to write a programming language so I can write a "game" (simulation) as a teaching tool for one of them. I also want to more effectively monetize the work I do on the web so I can quit my day job and spend more of my time working on the things I believe in. |
are big compnay IT restrictions really necessary? | woodsier: In large companies they are necessary to maintain some form of control, just so you don't have your IT department running around fixing computers all day, but not to this extent. What you're dealing with are technically-challenged control freaks. |
are big compnay IT restrictions really necessary? | makecheck: This is a world where you can E-mail sensitive documents anywhere, log in over SSH without a trace, visit cached web sites instead of using "blacklisted" domains, use virtual host names, and set up VPNs. An I.T. person is delusional if he or she honestly believes that it is possible to fully "control" compu... |
are big compnay IT restrictions really necessary? | run4yourlives: Is it BS? Yes. Is it necessary? Yes - but not to you.Big companies are run with other people's money. These people don't trust you and/or your boss(es) any further than they can throw you. I don't blame them frankly. There have been far too many examples of why they are correct not to.So these other peop... |
How do you split strings (to get keywords)? | dannyr: How about term extraction?http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.... |
are big compnay IT restrictions really necessary? | etravers: Those of us who know how to conduct ourselves see this as unfair, but like verything else in life you have to consider the lowest common denominatior. The data leaks happen in the places that really shouldn't have the problem(President, Safehouse, Limewire)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9136053... |
Does having the right corp lawyer help you find investors? | eagle: Lawyers and investors aren't particularly tightly linked in Silicon Valley, so I wouldn't consider their investor community in making a decision about using them. Besides, if the investor were tightly linked to the lawyer, you couldn't count on the lawyer to represent your best interests in a financing with tha... |
are big compnay IT restrictions really necessary? | pedalpete: A company I once worked for brought in a new IT manager who implemented all sorts of absolutely crazy rules like this. Including setting the screensaver and wallpaper for every computer and blocking users from changing it.Not long after he arrived it was discovered that a few of the guys in IT were using com... |
How do you split strings (to get keywords)? | pedalpete: I just found LingPipe on Monday, and haven't had a chance to try it yet. But it has 'entity extraction' in text mining. Not sure if that is what you're looking for.
It's a Java library.
http://alias-i.com/lingpipe/anybody have any comments about it? |
Who are you? | mojaam: Uni student studying information systems (and computer science) working at the school as a web designer for various departments. Hanging out at HN for inspiration, motivation and knowledge. |
how do you learn Math? | sandGorgon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733369
Riemann for Anti-dummies: Introduction and Critique |
SuSE Studio and similar apps | chanux: I tried slax custom distro service. http://www.slax.orgI was never patient enough to finish the task anyway :). |
Review Our Club's Site | redorb: wow - mad respect; for taking a 'outside the box, crazy ' - 'never to old to grow up' idea - and not only make it happen; but in college, and then to build a website .. and spread it..- honestly; I feel old, and jealous - in the clubs I joined chicks weren't diggin it :/ |
Review Our Club's Site | phantom784: I did the backend for this site, it was a great experience. I hope you guys like it! |
Income on the Side? | redorb: design a few websites and help local business's get found on the web - more "best practices" that others are selling under the name SEO - which is starting to make me feel dirty. |
Income on the Side? | secos: I also do basic IT work, but try to keep more to development oriented work. So, small-medium projects are my ideal. |
Income on the Side? | pxlpshr: iPhone apps and consulting work.From a boot-strappers perspective, I had hoped for more sustainability from iphone sales, but we make far more building apps for other people (for cold-hard cash) than we do from our product sales. Nevertheless, it's a nice global gumball machine that we're participating in. Hop... |
Review Our Club's Site | qsilver: I am on the head of the team that developed this. Hope you guys enjoy checking it out. |
Income on the Side? | quellhorst: I do Ruby On Rails and internet marketing/seo on the side. |
Review Our Club's Site | wal9000: I'm in this club! This is a cool! |
Income on the Side? | timwiseman: I write articles about SQL Server. The pay is minimal but the practice writing and solidifying what I think I know is far more valuable to me than the income. |
Income on the Side? | cliffdickerson: This strikes me as slightly funny/ironic. As a sysadmin/IT person I do small programing jobs for side cash. :) When possible I try not to contribute spaghetti into the wild. |
Income on the Side? | PStamatiou: I write articles (about various tech) on my blog, albeit my startup has definitely decreased my rate. Used to post stuff everyday, now its more along the lines of every 3-6 days, but with much more substantial articles. Obviously, I have some ads on there. Pays the rent, utilities and most of my health insu... |
Income on the Side? | cperciva: I occasionally do FreeBSD / security / cryptography / algorithms consulting; it doesn't make much money, but I find that it's worthwhile just for the sake of helping keep me aware of what's going on in the world around me (if I'm interested in something and not too busy, I'll normally offer to spend an hour o... |
Income on the Side? | quizbiz: - adsense
- istockphoto & shutterstock
- freelance web design / consulting |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | anthonymc: gmail. |
Review Our Club's Site | Ennis: This is a fantastic site from what I can see right away. I hope you guys can open-source this effort or package it into a ready to use cms for other clubs/organizations to use. Even if you charge for it I would be your first customer. Bravo.SuggestionsThe drop down menu is not necessary. The main item on the hor... |
How many angels read HN? | joshu: I look for a team I like and a product that is what I think of as "market-shaped" - a meetingplace for transactions, either financial or otherwise.I also generally don't consider a company I wouldn't work at (are the founders someone I would work for?) or a product I wouldn't work on. |
Income on the Side? | csomar: 1- Write articles it's simple, but gives a great revenue2- google adsense from sites/blogs i built/build/will build3- Twitter; a new income, advertising/selling accounts/ and other tricksThat's it, i live with my family so i don't really need that much money |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | jlangenauer: Hacker News.(Really, it is. After that, Google Reader, then the Sydney Morning Herald....) |
Ask HN:Benefits Of Storing Passwords In Plain Text? | cperciva: Are there any major benefits to storing a password in plain text (from a development standpoint)?Not unless you want to use your users' passwords to impersonate them on other sites... or to allow anyone who breaks into your servers to do the same.Don't use MD5 either -- that's far too weak. Use a real key de... |
Income on the Side? | mburnett: Freelance web dev. Might be easier if I had a programmer to team up with, could get better sized projects and focus on what I do best. |
Ask HN:Benefits Of Storing Passwords In Plain Text? | bdmac97: From a development standpoint, no. But I used to work for a company that did this because they wanted to make it as easy as possible for their users to recover their passwords... by emailing it to them... |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | alanthonyc: hn or google reader, depending on the mood |
Income on the Side? | codeodor: Prior to the summer, I've been working part time at the local university bioinformatics lab. It's been incredibly fun and full of learning, and time consuming.I intend to continue in September.Other than that, I keep starting personal projects and failing to finish them. |
Ask HN:Benefits Of Storing Passwords In Plain Text? | SwellJoe: I've been surprised by how poorly users in general deal with password resets rather than sending the password in plain text. Our website does password resets, and while it works reliably, and is roughly the same as any other password reset form (give it your username or email address, check email, click link;... |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | csbartus: Google Reader than HN |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | chaosprophet: Mail, Reader and HN, in that order, but before them all I spend the better part of an hour with a newspaper (yeah the one thats printed on newsprint which you gotta pay a subscription for). |
How many angels read HN? | mixmax: I could imagine that a lot of angels wouldn't want to reveal themselves here in fear of being overrun by wannabe entrepreneurs. I'm sure there are quite a few though. If I was an angel this is a place I would definitely watch. |
Who are you? | chaosprophet: Graduated with a degree in electrical engineering three months ago. Now working on a startup in a totally unrelated field. |
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