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Whats the first page you log into every morning? | jsz0: Quick glance at BBC News, CNN and NYT headlines just to get a quick recap. If I see something interesting I usually plan to read it later. Then a quick glance at e-mail/IM to get ready for the day. Finally a quick glance at what.cd to see if there's something new to listen to on the way to work. I usually don't g... |
Ask HN:Benefits Of Storing Passwords In Plain Text? | swombat: First of all, just because they email you your password doesn't mean they store it in plain text. It could be reversibly encrypted.Conversely, just because they email you a password reset link, doesn't mean they encrypt your password. It could still be stored in plain text."Development" doesn't exist in isolat... |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | yannis: localhost/myCurrentProject! |
Income on the Side? | caffeine: Grad school. They pay your rent for a few years, and you just kind of do whatever you'd be doing anyway. It's great. |
Income on the Side? | jim_lawless: I sell a few command-line utilities for Windows ( MailSend, MailGrab, CMD2EXE, and ScreenKap ). |
Review Our Club's Site | cjg: Your warning about IE6 is undismissable. Why go to the extra effort of deliberately blocking IE6 users?An IE6 user is probably quite happy to view your site with a few layout problems. Please don't be a hater.For what it's worth the site layout looked roughly OK through the opacity. |
Collect payment info before 30 day trial? | kazeem: i need a realy hackers i want to deal with i have no upfront payment I wantto deal with Right person and I am rally Honest Only Wu Tf or Mtcn Details To all country ,,, I will be Glad if i can meet some One this is mY email kazeemlexy4u@yahoo.comjames |
Aftermath of startups? Or fail stories? | fsniper: So there is no failed startups in hacker news. This must be a world record or something. :) |
Income on the Side? | akamaka: Freelance sysadmin and web development work brings in a bit of money. I've never gone out and looked for this type of work, but I've gotten to know a handful of good clients over the years.I do the work more because I like them than for the money, and I'd still help them out if I was rich enough not to work, ... |
Collect payment info before 30 day trial? | kazeem: need a reall hacker on wu tf i want to workwith no upfront payment i want you to get back to me on Kazeemlexy4u@yahoo.com |
Income on the Side? | ilitirit: I just finished my first bit of private consultation work. Basically I told the guy I'd do a website prototype free of charge, and if he's happy I'd continue with the "real" work. He was so happy with the prototype has wanted to use it in his production environment. After that he needed a few changes and e... |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | mahmud: server logs / health / analytics.right after i kiss honey good morning and before i put on my slippers for a first cigarette. |
good business cases of AI? | jacquesm: The examples given in the article are very limited domain systems, nothing that I would classify as AI (adsense, adwords, search and email classification).That's nothing but procedural programming and scoring systems.A real example of AI to me would be the use of NN in medical diagnoses. |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | sree_nair: Google News , Gmail |
Income on the Side? | rodyancy: I write contacts for businesses, file trademarks and copyrights, and an occasional probate. Unfortunately, the law degree doesn't help the day to day start-up too much. |
Who are you? | smallhadron: CS professor, interested in helping students spin out companies. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | happyjoe: Clickable link: http://www.wiki-os.org/what_is_wiki_os.htm |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | slater: "We are currently working to support your operating system (please check back in a few weeks).In the meantime, to enter Wiki-OS, please navigate to this website using Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7."Seriously? Like, really seriously? You guys like irony, yes? |
What Kind of Biology Study Did You Have in Higher Education? | p_h: I opted to take 2 intro to bioengineering courses during my computer engineering degree. We basically covered "Molecular Cell Biology" by Lodish. I really liked the courses. It was a bit hard getting used to reading the published papers, but I learned a lot. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | ErrantX: Didnt this get submitted a few months back - and I do recall seeing the same red message then...EDIT: sorry wasn't trolling - I meant this identical message :) I had deja-vu. I only ask because I cant see a difference? |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | netweirdo: This "sounds cool" at first - but when you think about it (assuming it's possible) the overlap between developers and users would probably drive users crazy.I'm tempted to say that users don't want to "edit" the operating system....but that would be a bad assumption - who knows what users want.You would pro... |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | rawr: Since the Vista-esque frames around the windows are proprietary content you'll need to redo them before deployment unless you're fond of Microsoft lawsuits. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | lincolnq: I like the idea. I can't try it under Linux (even though it's .NET based? can it run on Mono?) So I'll just give you a few thoughts.Security? If changes to apps are "instantly propagated to other users", what's to stop me from editing an app so that it grabs another user's personal data when they next run it?... |
Income on the Side? | nibrahim: Freelance web development (not much) and corporate training (might sometimes make more than my day job). This is in India where service companies abound and they have high training budgets. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | rawr: You can tell it's still early in development, but even now it works better than Linux!(ducks) |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | Chickencha: This looks like a pretty cool project, but the lack of Linux support is a deal killer for me.How does it handle vandalism? It seems to me that vandalism could be a lot more devastating in this environment than in, say, Wikipedia. |
All about having/finding partner/cofounder | seasoup: Read:
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
http://paulgraham.com/mit.htmlTwo very good articles that cover some of the importance of having co-founders. |
Critique my startup - swagapalooza | byrneseyeview: Try linking to the blogs of attendees -- you have pretty spectacular pagerank right now, so they'd be into it. |
All about having/finding partner/cofounder | dannyr: I'm a single founder. A lot of times, I wish it's not just me.It's hard looking for a cofounder. Instead of waiting to find one, I went ahead with my startup.I continue to network and hopefully one day, I'll find one. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | jodrellblank: ---------------------------
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review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | crabl: Congratulations on successfully crashing my GMA driver; I think that's the first time I got a BSOD in Windows 7 :)Regardless, I think the real problems with the whole idea of a "web OS" are the fact that it doesn't actually do anything remotely OS-like (besides launching applications and interfacing with the bro... |
All about having/finding partner/cofounder | phatbyte: Here's an idea, a social networking site for startups founders and people that want to be involve with. |
How do you setup test clustering/RAID in single computer? | wmf: I just want to say one word to you: VMware. |
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Startup Idea - Outsource Travel planning ? | pedalpete: I had some thoughts on this during the early days of the web, recognizing that the travel agent business was in jeopardy, i thought they would 'refactor' themselves as the travel experts for their area. Apparently, not the case.There are lots of sites going after the market much like Travelmuse/tripwolf. Hav... |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | cnlwsu: listed as open source, I cannot find it anywhere. there a project/contributions page? |
All about having/finding partner/cofounder | limist: Some initial thoughts and answers:1) Why: You need and want someone who can at least give thoughtful comments and critiques of ideas, plans, work, strategy, and tactics. Very, very few people do their best work in the lone-genius style, even in highly cerebral realms like academia; even Einstein had a few clos... |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | mattculbreth: We use Bank of America--really easy. They handle everything for us except for the initial setup with the Federal and State governments--you still have to get your IDs and what not.NOTE: make sure you get some accounting guidance here. It matters how you do this if you want to minimize taxes. |
Startup Idea - Outsource Travel planning ? | jm4: Umm... Like a travel agent? Anyone under 30 might not have ever had to use one. I don't even know how people made travel plans at all without an agent before all these travel sites existed. I think you had to show up at the ticket counter at the airport or something to buy a ticket. The alternative was to go to an... |
Startup Idea - Outsource Travel planning ? | osipov: Have you looked into Rearden Commerce? It is popular with corporate clients.http://www.reardencommerce.com/products/overviews/travel.php |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | lrm242: We use Quickbooks. It's painless. Except for the Intuit part. But what are you gonna do? It's nice to have one tool for all accounting and payroll. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | aditya: We're using PayChex and paying about $50/paycheck. But they take care of all tax withholding, etc.We are also looking at ambrose (http://www.ambrosegroup.com/services/payroll_admin.html) to do both payroll and benefits administration for us soon. |
Where do I turn for help developing an invention? | khafra: I doubt you could sell anything like that without at least being able to build a prototype, so perhaps that'd make a better first step than a patent application: Learn how to work with thermoplastic, rent some time with a CNC machine, teach yourself to whittle--whatever it takes. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | dryicerx: I'd like to know people calculated how much each person should get from payroll month to month after money does start coming in. Or was it just all Bonuses from time to time? |
Startup Idea - Outsource Travel planning ? | ddemchuk: Another option for this idea, instead of outsourcing it, is to create essetially the "last.fm" of travel...collect information from people about their trips (where they stayed, how they got there, where they visited) and then when people want to plan new trips, you can intelligently recommend things using the... |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | pumper: We use ADP. Its expensive - $125 per cycle. Another option is paycycle, but i havent used them |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | j2d2: I'm not sure if this will do what you're looking for, but I really like Harvest.www.harvestapp.com. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | sachinag: PaySimple is a pretty good solution. Remember, in most states, you have to have payroll to qualify for group insurance (which is generally cheaper - and almost always safer from recission - than purchasing individual insurance). |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | spencerfry: You don't need payroll until you've actually got employees. You can just distribute the amount earned based on equity ownership across the members in the LLC. This is termed "disbursements". |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | ilener: We are a startup in Palo Alto and have developed accounting and payroll integrated into one web-based product called Exponent. It's much more functional than QuickBooks AND less expensive.Here's the online demo login:https://www.thinkexponent.com/
e-mail: demo@demo.com
password: demoPayroll is located in the Ac... |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | brandon272: I would get in touch with a qualified accountant or bookkeeper who has experience in payroll. There are a lot of things to bear in mind and options to consider when you're doing payroll and having to calculate tax deductions. Miscalculating can lead to audits. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | akmiller: I currently use PayCycle and they provide a very nice solution and it's very affordable. Intuit recently acquired them, so I imagine they will become even more integrated into their tools. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | die_sekte: What's the point of this? Which need does it solve? Why should I use it? |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | misuba: Pretty decent work for what it is, but nobody wants to develop for a so-called web OS. Instead of building a big thing that only exists to be a framework for other things, you'd do better building something that has usefulness on its own, but can also take advantage of your wiki-coding stuff.I'd recommend takin... |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | mattmaroon: We use ADP. It's not very expensive and they do a good job of handling everything. I hear it can be quite costly if you're having people punch in and out, but for just a few guys programming on salary the cost is less than you'll probably spend on coffee.Anyone who has a small team of engineers and does it ... |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | vicaya: Call me old school, but I don't like having desktop environment in a browser (webtop sounds fine to me) to be called an OS. An OS is much more than that. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | jgilliam: I use SurePayroll and recommend it. It takes care of all the tax stuff, and you can include 1099 contractors as well as W2 employees. |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | snprbob86: I added word wrap to notepad! (well, less the horizontal scrollbar... a quick web search shows that is bugged in Silverlight) I'm not sure if simply saving it counts as publishing it, or what?That was surprisingly easy and fun. I think you've got something here, but it clearly has a long way to go. |
Payroll for bootstrapped startups? | abalashov: I use Paycycle.com. It's great! |
Startup Idea - Outsource Travel planning ? | smallhadron: The travel agent has existed since at least 1841http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_CookFor simple trips people are choosing not to pay the overhead for their personal travel now that you can shop around easily yourself. The agent is still pretty good for package holidays, though.Companies like American Ex... |
Whats the first page you log into every morning? | sherl0ck: gmail, hn |
Who are you? | sherl0ck: code monkey |
review my startup Wiki-OS, the first webOS developed the wiki way | weirdwes: Seem pretty cool to me. I've never really toyed around in the WebOS development space, so I'm not really sure what your competition looks like.I'm a bit rusty, but I spent a little bit writing a Font Dialog and modifying the default Notepad to use it. I think the entire premise of allowing users/devs to edit ... |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | rguzman: I've used a .ly domain for the past 6 months or so with no issue.The service is a bit sketchy: not very good instructions and less than user friendly control panel. You also have to provide your own dns servers. After you jump through those hurdles it seems to work fine. |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | vaksel: .ly isn't that bad now, since bit.ly more or less legitimatized it |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | davecardwell: If your site is focused on visitors from a particular country / locale you lose the ability to geo-target as you could in Google Webmaster Tools [1]. Other than that you shouldn’t see any issues — check http://nic.ly/ for officially accredited registrars.[1] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an... |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | omail: http://or.ly has been taken. sniff |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | aditya: This would work if you can find the people to make it work, consulting isn't really a "new" route to starting a startup and neither is using consulting income to support it instead of outside money.The real question is how do you find these "entrepreneurial" people and convince them to join together with you fo... |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | dschoon: I've owned a .ly domain for about two years now (with libyanspider has been the only registrar I know of for that time). While the prices are high, and the support staff speaks limited english, and the site is confusing, I haven't had any serious problems.The service is as advertised; support exists. When they... |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | brm: midVentures are a bunch of University of Chicago and Northwestern alums who have joined together to do almost exactly what you describe: http://midventures.com/ |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | lallysingh: We'll find out together.So many of us have names that end in .ly :-) |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | tptacek: Does buying a .ly name contribute money to Libya? |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | apsurd: This sounds like you've read the 4 hour work week and then went to an MLM recruitment meeting.=DThis not meant to be derogatory in any way, I do feel that you've put much thought into this. That is just my impression of the concept.I think in theory, this is great. However it seems to me like rather than one pe... |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | jey: I'm currently working independently as a consultant, but I think it could be neat to band together with other freelancers. Getting projects and establishing a "brand" would be easier with more people and more project volume, and we could match up projects to team-members according to their availability and skillse... |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | jasonlbaptiste: Sounds sorta like obvious corp, except they didn't need to consult due to being comfortable already. Get smart people together, build some cashflows, and work on cool side ideas. See what sticks and what doesn't.Also reminds me of Virgance. |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | edw519: I like your creative approach. My biggest concern is that any business you'd start would probably be service business. I suspect what you really want is a product business. You'd have to find a way to convert your service business into a product business to scale. Good luck. That part won't be easy. |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | naval: I originally started my angel fund as an incubator (The Hit Forge). I quickly moved away because of Adverse Selection - the best entrepreneurs are insanely committed to themselves and their ideas, and rationally or irrationally, don't want to diversify. Since then, I've invested in a lot of companies, including ... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | jacquesm: The Roman numerals also had the largest symbols on the left for instance MDCLIX (1659) reads as:M = 1000D = 500C = 100L = 50IX = 10 - 1So I doubt it is strictly an arabic holdover. |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | bshep: I think its just convention, in essence thats the way it started so it stayed that way.But as a counter argument to your statement that it would be more intuitive the other way given the way english is read, consider that you want the largest magnitude digit first since it contains more information about the num... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | pg: Left to right numbers are actually more natural in European languages than in Arabic, which is written right to left. It's very inconvenient writing numbers in Arabic, because if you write things in the order you say them (which most people do) you have to write them in the opposite direction to the way you write t... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | grandpa: From Knuth vol 2 section 4.1:Our decimal notation...was developed first in India within the Hindu culture...The earliest known Hindu manuscripts that show decimal notation have numbers written backwards (with the most significant digit at the right), but soon it became standard to put the most significant digi... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | jerf: I'm speculating, because everybody is about this point, but written the way we write it, the most important number is the first one your eyes encounter. In most human numbers, you can immediately tell the magnitude from the length without actually counting the digits (since there won't be more than about six), so... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | byrneseyeview: Since English is read and written left-to-right, it seems like it'd be more intuitive to do it the other way.How is it more intuitive to write 3-20 when you mean twenty-three? |
A date conundrum | ars: 4/5/2013 (Apr 5, 2013)Are the days supposed to be two digits? |
A date conundrum | jibiki: Pretty sure you're right. Maybe you just texted in the wrong format or something. |
A date conundrum | notaddicted: I am pretty sure you're right too, because I wrote a program to brute force the calculationhttp://codepad.org/G9RLrsku |
A date conundrum | ErrantX: Thanks everyone to reply - I guess the texter might have typed it wrong then damn :D We literally spent hrs going "wtf...? it must be that"Thanks for the sanity check |
A date conundrum | profquail: I bet they said it's wrong because they are counting "06" as "6".If you consider that each value (day/month/year) has to be at least 10, then the month must be 10 or 12 (not 11, because of the duplicate "1").Then, your day value must be somewhere in [23, 29] for October, or in [30] for December.After that, j... |
Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension | dan_the_welder: I like the rationale you are using. I would like to see the walled garden broken. |
Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension | bdmac97: socialbrowse. |
review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides] | dpnewman: it seems that it ends up being a lot about finding the right combination of consultants. i already do the 50/50 split between my consulting and work on my vision project. and have been actively looking out for the right kinds of collaborations. be nice if there was a web service that spoke directly to this ki... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | dkokelley: As others have pointed out, I believe that it probably has something to do with significant information appearing first (on a left to right interpretation). So, 4,732 tells us that the number is in the 4700 range first, followed by the less-significant 32.I don't know if this explains how it became this way,... |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | dkokelley: Well, officially once you write something, it is copyrighted. You don't have to pay $35 to put © on it. However, in order to have some legal recourse if someone takes your work, you will want to be able to prove prior art (basically that you wrote it first).If you want to use the site to host your unpublishe... |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | jakewolf: From copyright.gov FAQs"Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work." |
Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension | bigbang: Great idea, but I can see few practical problems:1) It has the same catch-22 problem like dating. Unless there are many users already chatting on the site Im visiting, theres no point for me to install this plugin.It maybe better if you target some small segment of people
with similar browsing interests, like ... |
Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? | defen: Check out the p-adic numbers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number :"Informally, most people are comfortable with non-terminating decimals because it is clear that a real number can be approximated to any required degree of closeness by a terminating decimal adequately expressed for its intended applicati... |
How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? | losethos: My advice is keeping secret anything you don't want copied. I have little sympathy for people who expect worship or something and insist you cannot use their ideas, forevermore. Detest those people. Keep it secret if you don't want it used. I have a book -- numerical recipies in C. Why would they publish... |
Risk of libyan .ly domain names? | jamesk2: Its probably safe but if you are a U.S. based company, why take chances with a country whose leadership is not very friendly to America?Would the people funding your company be understanding if Gaddifi decides your company is unacceptable for some reason and turns off DNS for your .ly domain? Would having the ... |
Best word to describe this process? | cperciva: The first few ideas which come to mind: Optimizing, Ranking, Adjudicating, Selecting.I don't know if any of those quite fit, but I thought I'd throw them out just in case. |
Best word to describe this process? | apsurd: I'll update my post as i continue to think about it, but first thing i thought was:Natural selection, evolution etc.edit: Screening, (thought filter was obvious!), Sifting, scrutinize |
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