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Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | davidw: pg is married! No kids yet, though, afaik. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | aerohacker: Thanks for posing the question. I'd been wondering the same, Have there been any YC startup people with teenagers??!!!I suppose having teenagers would be a great way to recruit your first coding employees! Except mine aren't techies at all. Yet. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | SwellJoe: My co-founder is married with two kids. We were in winter 2007. Neither of us is young and fresh out of college (I was 32, he was 33, at the time). When we were accepted, I had a house in Austin, a 350Z, a long-time girlfriend, and a dog. The house was sold in record time (to the first person who looked a... |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | aston: Tipjoy. The founders are married (to each other) and they have a (really cute) kid. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | iamelgringo: TipJoy's founders are married and working together.My wife and I are bootstrapping right now. |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | maxklein: Being married and having a child is not a liability. The liability comes if the partner requires a lot of attention, and does not allow you to pursue your dreams. I.e, if you're married to a needy person, then you'll not have the flexibility to push limits.I actually think being married is a good thing, becau... |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | sanj: I'm not a YC applicant. Part of this was because Paul Graham made it pretty clear that he believes that having a family is at odds with a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.htmlThe charitable part of me wants to believe the "I'm not willing to take responsibility..." angle, but it treads awfully close to... |
Ask HN:Where to turn for office designs? | bootload: "... Where do startups find good, cheap Interior Designers that might also work remotely ..."ARCHitect. ARCHitect ... Up there.... Up there.Joel Spolsky has thought extensively on this problem ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html Joel lets the Architects design and build offices that ar... |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | josefresco: I'm a founder who's married with two kids (27 years old). One of the reasons I'm not able to join YC on even the east coast (I live a couple hours from Boston) is my family. I can't move them or myself away from them for a 'boot camp', just not feasible.I think YC is missing out on some great opportunitie... |
Any VCs in Toronto, Canada? | lowkey: Check out JLA Ventures. They are based in Toronto and just recently raised a new $100 million fund. Rick Segal is their most visible partner and he seems to be a very stand-up guy. http://ricksegal.typepad.com/ |
DIY storage or not? | blogimus: We are moving to testing soon and can offer either a hosted version or let customers use their S3 account. Which offering would you advice we focus and why?Is there something that precludes you from offering the option to use either (or even both), like development time? |
Software for diagramming a system? | blogimus: It is OS X only, not open source, and I haven't used it myself, but I've heard a lot of recommendations for OmniGraffle.http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/I was in the market for just such a beast a couple of years back: open source, high quality, cross platform. I'm not sure it exists yet. |
List of websites categorized by visitors' gender and age-group? | apollo: Quantcast.com |
DIY storage or not? | groovyone: I'd offer a hosted version. Most people will not want to go about setting up S3, dealing with private keys etc. Where's your market? |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | soc: It could be an advantage. It's nice to have one person in the family with a stable income you can fall back on, while trying to get things off the ground. |
DIY storage or not? | perdurabo: Definitely go hosted. S3 is not fun or easy for most people to set up. |
DIY storage or not? | gaius: I trust you've read what Joel has to say on generic syncing apps: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.htmlSo I would say, 3. |
DIY storage or not? | vaksel: if you can only do one option do the hosted version, you are in an information bubble where most people you know use it, outside the valley most people never heard of it.+ chances are if a person has an S3 account, they most likely have the knowledge to do what you are doing themselves |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | electric: Time for a New Venture Animal: Ymwkcombinator |
DIY storage or not? | stcredzero: It is good to be the middleman! |
Are there any YC founders married w/kids? | geebee: I get the feeling that YC is based on a different set of values and insights than your typical VC firm is. Just my impression, of course, but I get the feeling that PG is trying out a social "hack".There's a magical section of life that a lot of people don't take advantage of - the first few years out of colle... |
ASK HN: what screencast software do you use on a mac? | qhoxie: Snapz Pro does a good job. |
ASK HN: what screencast software do you use on a mac? | bbgm: Look no further than ScreenFlow.http://www.varasoftware.com/For quick and dirty screenfast, the TechSmith folks have the Jing Projecthttp://www.jingproject.com/I have used both and quite happy with them.There is IShowU as well |
Software for diagramming a system? | epe: Another alternative is Dia:
http://live.gnome.org/DiaIt is (or was last I looked) less polished than OmniGraffle, but open source and cross-platform. |
DIY storage or not? | MicahWedemeyer: Definitely go with hosted. Every account you force people to sign up for will drop your user base by a ton. Would you be posting on Hacker News if you also had to sign up for S3 (or give your current S3 account) in order to provide storage for the comments?In addition, storing their S3 credentials has... |
DIY storage or not? | anamax: I suspect that folks who have an S3 account today are sophisticated enough that they'll undervalue your value-add. Moreover, folks who don't have an S3 account don't know your storage costs.FWIW, "control my own storage" is overhead for almost everyone; it is overhead that they'll pay to avoid. |
ASK HN: what screencast software do you use on a mac? | hbien: Sequence is super simple: http://macapper.com/2008/07/15/sequence-simplified-screen-re... |
Software for diagramming a system? | johnm: FWIW, OmniGraffle is the commercial solution on the Mac that pretty much everybody uses. If you're going to be doing diagrams more than every great once in awhile, it's worth investing in something good.I've been using it for years and it's what I do all of my hand created diagrams in. |
Best place(s) to find datasets to practice ML and DM? | ryanwaggoner: Would freebase work for what you need? |
Best place(s) to find datasets to practice ML and DM? | kobs: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sherstov/pdmc/ |
military reserve for startup owners? | blogimus: The keyword I read through this is that your brass ring is a $150K LOAN. For this loan, you obligate 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year, if I recall my reserve obligation right.
If you are doing it just for the money, I'd suggest don't. Find some other path. If you are interested in the reserves because of ... |
military reserve for startup owners? | nostrademons: Wait, are you thinking of joining the coast guard reserves and then starting a startup, or joining the reserves while starting a startup?The latter seems very much impractical. Startups are mentally all-consuming, and if I understand the reserves correctly, you still have to report for training regularly... |
military reserve for startup owners? | rms: Did you go to college? Why not be an officer?I have a friend who went to the Coast Guard academy. There are indeed some people from the Coast Guard that go to Iraq to guard offshore oil platforms, but comparatively few compared to the other armed forces. |
military reserve for startup owners? | pmorici: Government work and start-up work are diametrically opposed. My advice to anyone considering any kind of government employment... DON'T DO IT, it will suck the life out of you. |
military reserve for startup owners? | alaskamiller: I was a Marine combat engineer veteran and then a reservist and a recruiter for a bit of time.You're jumping the gun on a lot of things. Military benefits, especially for a reservist, isn't as cheery and rosey as you're picturing it.For example VA loans are only given to veterans, the same goes for the he... |
military reserve for startup owners? | gexla: I was in the Army Reserves and then the National Guard. The biggest problem for me was the 7 months of straight training before I could get started with my unit.What the experience will be like almost entirely depends on the job you get. Some units are very active and actually a lot of fun. With other units y... |
military reserve for startup owners? | jjguy: I was an active duty (fulltime) air force officer, and am now in the USAF reserves. I say do it. Some thoughts:1 -- Typical time commitment is 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks per year; no matter how fast your startup is moving, you can swing that. It's probably a healthy break.2 -- Diversity is good for compute... |
military reserve for startup owners? | nolanbrown23: I just got out of the Navy as an enlisted Deck Seaman and my brother is an officer and my business partner. My younger brother is also enlisted in the Coast Guard right now.Let me say that it's possible to run a small, single person business while in the military, I did consulting/programming jobs while I... |
military reserve for startup owners? | anonymousadvice: I'm not in the armed services - but many of my friends have been, I considered it before health problems ruled it out, and I come from an area of the country where service is extraordinarily common.the rules for joining any military service -1. find a friend who's served in that branch. They can be a g... |
military reserve for startup owners? | logjam: Don't join the military. I did. I was successful there, but I regret it. It was the worst mistake I ever made.People who are often incompetent, if not downright malevolent, will be making decisions that affect you in profound ways, often in direct contradiction to your own ethics, and despite your own competen... |
military reserve for startup owners? | akd: Jeez dude. You make PG's 6% sound like a downright bargain :) |
military reserve for startup owners? | vaksel: I wouldn't, not with the current situation with Russia, things can escalate very quickly, and as reserves you'll be one of the first to get sent to the front lines. And contrary to popular belief coat guard does not protect only U.S. coasts. Just this week we sent a Coast Guard boat to Georgia. |
military reserve for startup owners? | tdavis: I am an Army Reservist since 2003 and an Entrepreneur (YC Summer this year, too).Here are some random points, but PLEASE CONTACT ME if you are looking into the Army (I know jack about Coast Guard) because I simply can't write out all I could say about it.- Most people don't get a bonus, at all, when joining the... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | noodle: the fact of the matter is that there is inherent risk in working a startup. or starting one. it takes a certain type of person to be willing to do this. not everyone has the ability to do it. for example, a guy supporting a family with house and car payments is more likely to want a steady corporate job.to ... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | prakash: As Charlie Munger says “If you would persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.”Address what the worst case scenario could be, in most startups that would be going out of business. Highlight that it would be a better experience in the same period working for a startup rather than said current company.It could... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | cperciva: Assume that the programmer is good but isn't that brave enough to take the risksI don't think that "someone who isn't brave enough to take the risks" is really someone you should want joining your startup, personally. |
military reserve for startup owners? | walesmd: If you are in the Coast Guard you can go to Iraq/Afghanistan. I am in Kuwait right now and there are dozens of Coast Guard here, performing customs duty. Usually the Navy performs this but they've been tapped for years.I've seen many Coasties doing customs in Iraq as well.Plus, who do you think defends ports i... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | azharcs: If you really want him badly, I would say do whatever you can to convince him. Show the advantages of working on this start up and disadvantages of his day job. Sooner or later, he will have a bad day at work and he will surely think about quitting the day job. That is one when you will become an alternative. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | wheels: Honestly I don't try to persuade people. I want them to know what they're getting into and be willing to take that risk with us. I feel like if you lure someone away from a steady job with pie-in-the-sky logic, you're setting yourself up to lose a friend. When I got my co-founder in on things, we talked very... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | vaksel: Is gaining this person vital to completing the project? If not do it on your own, until you are far enough to be able to invite the person at the later stage.If yes, you are going to need to pony up the cash, have enough to be able to provide for both of you to survive on ramen noodles for 6 months. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | pjr: Try to get him to go part-time, even just a few hours a week, so that he can see why your start-up is so great. |
military reserve for startup owners? | hooande: It's not fun. Don't do it. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | DenisM: Here's an argument from an older, successful corporate guy, which I found very compelling:Throughout my life I have taken many opportunities, and not all of them went well. But the only ones I truly regret are the ones which I didn't take. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | randomwalker: DON'T!To be sucessful at a startup, the cofounders really have to believe in it. If you explain your project to someone, and they don't buy it, and you sell hard and convince them, sooner or later they are going to have second thoughts. And that's going to doom you. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | bootload: "... Assume that the programmer is good but isn't that brave enough to take the risks and has a good day job ..."Are you a born salesman? Do you have great persuasion skills and killer smile that can motivate others to do what you want? Are you capable of identifying the targets motivation and swaying them o... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | liangzan: Sometimes its what you're working on that matters. If its something worthwhile like kiva.com or world vision, I would go for it even if I got to take a pay cut. You got to persuade using the intangibles. |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | mattjung: I think it is worth the effort to convince him if you are convinced that he will bring the startup forward. Convincing someone is not something to be done in 5 minutes. Ask him the question: what would be the worst case scenario you could face taking the risk? Show him what he might win - I am not talking abo... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | iuguy: You have to turn on the charm, find out what the guys fears or objections are and remove/counter them. Emphasise the positives.DONT offer equity to someone who isn't brave enough to take the risks. I've told prospective hires (and current hires) that providing equity at this stage would cause them more problems ... |
How to convince a fellow programmer to join your startup | anamax: Is another programmer your startup's top need or your top need? |
geographical coordinate data sets for mashups? | pedalpete: Maybe you could clarify what you mean with an example.
Are you looking for data that already is geocoded? if so, what type of data are you looking for?
Or are you looking for ways to geo code data that you already have?I think looking for data that may or may not exist is the wrong way to go about your mas... |
Please Review My Mobile Webapp (Drupal-powered) | DenisM: You started off on the wrong foot:1. There is no link to your site from your profile, so I have to copy-paste. That loses a great deal of hacker right there.2. The site (I copy-pasted the link) keeps talking about anything except about what it actually does. I don't know what streetread is. I'm confused and abo... |
Please Review My Mobile Webapp (Drupal-powered) | bootload: "... HN provided some great feedback and advice on the initial launch of Streetread over 2 months ago ... I'm looking forward to any feedback you might have. ...."5m test, here's what I found:- I tried to enter googles stock quote but couldn't find it. How do I find a stock quote of a company I don't know? Ma... |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | greyman: slashdot. (no, I am not joking ;-)) Almost every article I am interested in contains several very informative comments plus a few really funny ones. It has it's own unique culture I like.For non-hacker topics I don't have any I would visit regularly, so I am also looking forward for another comments. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | VarunGupta: Topcoder Forums [forums.topcoder.com]Though the discussion is chiefly about algorithms and programming, it attracts brilliant people from top universities and research organizations around the world. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | nick5768: I love the forums over at Ars Technica( http://episteme.arstechnica.com/ ). To me, HN and Ars are head and shoulders above the level of conversation on the other sites I visit. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | matt1: 2+2's Science, Math, Philosophy (SMP) forum is really good:http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=47A couple recent threads:
- Is my vote mathematically meaningless?
- Intelligence, intelligence tests, and psychology
- What is space made of?
- Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, who's smarter?Atheism di... |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | kajecounterhack: I usually go to a few IRC channels to get my intelligent discussion. Freenode is great =D |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | AlfaWolph: The Straight Dope Message Boards and plastic.com can be fun and worthwhile. Some finance and econ types like iTulip I hear. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | river_styx: redditducks |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | reborndead: Newsvine.com |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | GavinB: overcomingbias.com |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | rtra: usenet |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | vaksel: HN is enough intelligent discussion for me. The problem with intelligent discussion is that its very time consuming, since the people are both knowledgeable and passionate in what they are discussing.HN is just the right mix of it, because you have intelligent people giving their view points, but they are all b... |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | gills: www.tickerforum.org |
What's the best way to stop duplicates making it to the frontpage? | iamdave: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=263098 |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | adrianwaj: http://www.plastic.com : an old fave |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | systems: http://www.perlmonks.orghttp://use.perl.org |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | david: http://freedomainradio.com/board/ |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | sharp: willmott is the best place I've seen for quant/finance discussion:
http://www.wilmott.com/
Nb. has a (required) delayed login before you can post. Very little (if any) noise in the comments - makes freakonomics look like jerry springer. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | Prrometheus: reason.com/blog and distributedrepublic.net have intelligent commentators, though reason tends towards the smart-allecky side. You would probably enjoy both blogs if you like the Marginal Revolutions and Overcoming Biases of the world. Oh, and Cafe Hayek.For legal issues, there's the Volokh Conspiracy. I b... |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | gasull: iTulip forums, about economics:http://www.itulip.com |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | bokonist: I highly recommend Unqualified Reservations ( http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ ) and Unenumerated ( http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ )Both are incredibly smart blogs, with very smart commenters. Their main shtick is bringing historical perspective to contemporary problems of government and econ... |
University business idea competitions? | czcar: Can't hurt to participate, have entered something similar last two years. Hint though, find out who the Judges are, in our case they were mid-level managers at PWC, IBM other sponsors etc, really need to target their tastes if all you want is the money. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | Conservationist: Gene expression blog:http://www.gnxp.com/And a heavy metal forum:http://www.anus.com/metal/hall |
What stories would you suggest a tech-editor write? | ScottWhigham: * Why Google Checkout has so much fraud/chargebacks yet no one says anything* Why is Firefox 3 getting so much press when it is so buggy? |
University business idea competitions? | ScottWhigham: I have a friend/associate who judges those and he's sharp as hell w/ lots of experience. He also likes to be an introducer... May you have the same luck.The only possible negative would be that you are working on a business plan instead of a product. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | slater: i'll go ahead and put the SA forums (forums.somethingawful.com) out there. A ton of IT pros, most of the subforums are not filled with the cliché'd "SA goon" crap, and it costs $5 per user account, keeping many many morons out.And yes, I have stairs in my house. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | nsrivast: Is there demand for a discussion site that has nothing to do with blog or news posts? Comments and threads could still be monitored and ranked by users. Discussions could be split into topics and subtopics (philosophy might be interesting, because some of the arguments would concern where to make the splits).... |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | litewulf: metafilter.com is full of esoteric posts and people from all sorts of different backgrounds post on it with surprising amounts of wit and candor. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | rosary: Believe it or not, sensibleerection.com has some of the best intelligent and witty discussion I've found on the web. Sure there's the occasional pornography post, but most all of the people there offer intelligent debate. |
Favorite websites for intelligent discussion? | lsemel: I enjoy http://ask.metafilter.com more than the main Metafilter site. |
What is a good Sms2Web solution? | RobGR: You mean receiving SMS messages and putting them on the web, or typing messages into a web page and sending them out by SMS, or both directions ?I advise purchasing a real cellular modem, such as from MultiTech, putting a SIM chip in it from a plan that offers unlimited text messaging.However, if you are trying ... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | soundsop: There's not enough information on the front page to entice me to sign up. I suggest you add a bit more description as to what users can do on the site.Also, I suggest the usual HN advice: let users do as much as possible before requiring them to sign up.Good luck! |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | wayne: I couldn't figure out what the goal of the site was. Now that I've clicked around more, it seems a little like 43 Places (http://www.43places.com/), but even now I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to build a collection of places (cause of the "I've been there!" links), learn more about interesting places through... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | froo: (Note #1: I hope I don't come across as too critical mate, I'm just trying to be helpful!)I just had a little play around with the site and I was a little confused to what it actually did for a few moments (even though I did read the tagline, it more or less blended into the toolbar up the top) Perhaps an "About ... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | bootload: "... Your opinion on we♥places? ..."Good but frustrating to add places. Maybe it's me but I'd rather either:- entry box like twitter to enter locationand how do you enter the street address of a mountain?- so a pin button locator where you can fine tune the placement on the map itselfA geeky way would be all... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | maxklein: It has no purpose. Once again, let me be the bad guy because nobody else will: it's not useful!The idea you have behind it is good, but you have done a shoddy work of communicating it.Think of it from the perspective of someone external to the page. I open it and see a bunch of pictures of beaches. I could go... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | astrec: I like the concept & the brightkite integration.I was going to comment on Di fara pizza, but when I clicked post comment nothing seemed to happened. Only something did happen - post comment button is below the fold, but the login/register layer appears above the fold. I found it after clicked 5 or 6 times, giv... |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | davidw: The map here is sort of useless:http://www.weheartplaces.com/places/108-jumbo-passIt needs the zoom controls, and you should probably use the terrain mode. |
Your opinion on we heart places? Our startup from New Zealand. | brm: You need to not copy the look of weheartit.com (visual bookmarking service) unless you produced that too. That'd be a good start |
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