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What do you do for bookmarking? | caffo: pinboard.in + instapaper |
What do you do for bookmarking? | gwern: I use the Evernote plugin for saving random snippets of interesting text I might want one day; and for pages I'll want to visit in the next 6 months, I use 'Read It Later' http://readitlaterlist.com/What's so nice about read it later is that it's quicker than regular bookmarks. I hit alt-w to add current page to... |
Any exceptions or antidotes to Parkinson's Law? | yannis: From Parkinson himself!Organizations can be cured of injelititis spontaneously, when an individual conditioned to hide his intelligence penetrates to the top post and "suddenly throws off the mask and appears like the demon king among a crowd of pantomime fairies."Well, this appears to me that the only way to g... |
Any room in the startup world for an ideas man? | sidmitra: >Try to market them to someone with the skills and resources to bring them into the world?It really isn't the idea, but the execution that's essential.There have been lots of ideas, which i thought were stupid and too simple to be profitable at that time. But i've seen them grow really popular and profitable.... |
Patents. Disclosure. Investors? | jacquesm: If a management consultant is approaching you he should work on no-cure-no-pay and non-exclusive basis.If you do not take that approach he will hold you over a barrel, all he has to do is to get you to sign a contract that will allow him to either wait until somebody else approaches you and he can claim his f... |
Any room in the startup world for an ideas man? | jacquesm: Sure there is a place for that ! Go to a bank, borrow the $ or mortgage your house, then hire a team to build one of your plans, make it big and use the proceeds to execute the rest of your plans.That's how everybody else does it. Other than that ideas are two a penny, plans are great but executing them is wh... |
Patents. Disclosure. Investors? | ErrantX: Rubbish.If your in the US a core part of achieving the patent often requires you actually selling the product for a period of time (or demonstrate selling it). Patents take an AGE to process so he's right you do need to be considering an application fairly soon; but if you stop pushing your sales forward and a... |
Any room in the startup world for an ideas man? | davidw: The problem is that ideas are "non-excludable goods":http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/04/26/ideas-are-worthless |
Copyright/IP Question | pbhjpbhj: I worked as a Patent Examiner for 5 years and have hobbied as a copyright troll (!) for quite a long time:AFAIK, and this is not IP legal advice, there's jack all you can do unless you have something uniquely novel and some sort of IP registration. Are they using your trademarks to describe the product; Are t... |
Any room in the startup world for an ideas man? | riffer: Another element to consider is that sometimes very detailed, thought-out plans are often actually less valuable than tentative, raw ideas. Elaborate plans are brittle because there are many dependencies interwoven into them. Another way of putting that is that there are a lot of implicit assumptions about how... |
Patents. Disclosure. Investors? | grellas: Patent issues are not vital for most startups but, when they are, need to be handled properly.Most startups that need patents will file provisional patent applications, which can be done pretty cheaply and which stake out the claims while kicking the can down the road on the real work (and expense).I've never ... |
Any exceptions or antidotes to Parkinson's Law? | pbhjpbhj: Get the company to agree a common uniform wage across all workers. Put managers on lower wages that front-liners : my then civil service boss was the first one that showed this idea to me, that you shouldn't necessarily pay managers higher wages than workers.In a coal mine, say, the guys downstairs at the [ac... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | foobar2k: Looks really slick, great idea too. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | pclark: blargh paypal.just kidding, thats a really good landing page. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | guruslan: cool, i like the design and the idea as well very much needed |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | paypaldevuk: great app using new Beta PayPalX API's and has allowed us to put together a hack weekend and site in a few days. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | noelevans: Great design and good, fast registration. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | ghostz00: I would need to see screenshots, demo, or video; before I would sign up. Other than that I like the design. |
Is it possible to do dead reckoning on the iPhone? | notaddicted: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=iphone+dead+reckoning&l=1decent answer in the second comment of the first google result.Basically: There are 6 degrees of freedom: 3 translational, 3 rotational. To do dead reckoning you don't have enough information.If you can get over that issue (fix the phone or something), then... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | jah: clickable link: http://www.webticketing.net |
Any room in the startup world for an ideas man? | voidmain: Publish at least some of them, so others can at least evaluate whether you have _good_ ideas.You are never going to find anyone who will "buy" business ideas. All the people saying that execution is what matters are right. But the _ability_ to generate good ideas and plans is not unrelated to ability to exe... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | rokhayakebe: I would definitely change the name. It sounds more like a job ticketing. EDIT: And you can also add a link to an event on the front or a stream of events being created. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | keeptrying: You guys are going up against the big daddys in this space:
http://www.eventbrite.com/I did some research into this space.
There are acutally tons of companies in this space which IMHO is a good thing for you. I would try to focus on one niche to get revenue coming in. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | _pius: I haven't done anything with it yet, but I do want to say it's a really great looking design. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | ErrantX: Simple, effective and well executed! nice one (I actually can think of uses for this!!)I especially like your time chooser method - that is really natural (though susceptable to shock/shake). The rest of the sign up form seemed a little oddly laid out (with the right column)When you create an event it doesnt t... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | joshuamarch: Great app - not a fan of paypal though! |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | johns: I started clicking on the giant green + to start creating an event and it wasn't clickable. You should link that to your sign up page. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | NEPatriot: I would recommend a simple video highlighting the simple sign up process. 1-2-3 really prove to people that it takes minutes focusing on the number of steps involved and that the screens are not very long (not much scrolling).Then I would focus on the ease of creating an event. Again hopefully 1-2-3.The same... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | redorb: why have a image like this? http://s.wtimg.com/site_media/images/payment_options.pngat 128k its heavier than some whole web pages. (any ideas?) |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | adityakothadiya: I'll start with my own background and requirements -I'm currently working on a social shopping startup - Shopialize. Shopialize is a Founder Institute (http://founderinstitute.com) incubated company. Currently I'm the only founder and developer at Shopialize. I'm actively developing the product and hop... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | quizbiz: Always looking for help, I've got too many ideas and not enough time. To the point I did http://www.collegecofounders.com/beta/. Feel free to add to that listing. :) |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | alain94040: A lot of my friends at the Founder Institute are actively looking for co-founders (http://founderinstitute.com). And they have very cool projects spanning very diverse industries. You can check a more detailed list at http://www.thefunded.com/job/listBottom line: if you are serious about joining a startup p... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | spoiledtechie: Im interested, but live no where near the Valley. Located in Melbourne, FL...My contact info is in my user info on HN. Find me and we can talk if you don't get any hits on this. |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | clistctrl: The convenient part of event brite for me is their extensive API, do you have anything like that planned? |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | maxstoller: Anyone looking for a co-founder in NYC? My email address is in my profile. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | thaumaturgy: I don't know that we're looking for a co-founder at this point -- we have a team of three that should pretty well cover our needs.But we'd really love to find a good graphic artist for icons, layout, etc. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | diN0bot: we (2 of us) are interested in a third. diN0bot@bilumi.orgmy partner just wrote up a neat survey that we're using to quickly understand prospectives. love to get feedback on that, too ;-)EDIT: cambridge, MA closeness is a strong requirement from now until the end of december. |
Have you seen cases of english words in youtube urls? | spooneybarger: what? why 'should' that happen? |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | mcxx: I'm looking for a graphic designer and/or sales guy and/or information architect, usability guy.I'm a python and javascript hacker. I have a couple of ideas, but the one I'd like to persuade is real-time web analytics with understandable, beautiful presentation of data and statistics to the user. However I'm not ... |
Have you seen cases of english words in youtube urls? | avalean: @spooneybarger You can read up on the Infinite monkey theorem. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | josefresco: I'm looking for a co-founder. I have an app in true beta stage that's going ... nowhere. I'm looking to sell what I have, or find someone with the spark to reanimate it.I'm in MA, and not willing to relocate (have a fam/business). Don't need someone local, just someone with passion and the geek cred to ma... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | rcmorin: Cambridge, MA mobile startup here. Our dev team is located abroad, graphic designer in Silicon Valley, and we could use the additional dev help (front-end/server-side) in Boston to work on the next iteration of our app. New platforms, new servers, new features, and plenty of challenges to keep us busy. Userbas... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | c00p3r: Is there any activity outside US? =) |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | inovica: I'm in the UK. North East to be precise. I'm not new to business, nor programming, but I'm looking for a co-founder for a Python related app related to brand monitoring. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | teuobk: Anybody looking for collaborators in the Minneapolis area? (Email in profile) |
Would you consider an online education? | tokenadult: Would you allow (or prefer) your children to educate themselves online before/after high school?My oldest son is about to be a senior (twelfth grader) in an online high school. We were just online for the school's orientation to this school year. He was a member of the founding class there, so we have a LOT... |
Have you seen cases of english words in youtube urls? | Laurentvw: Well, try it out. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site:y... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | scottdw2: I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded.My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon.You can download a copy of my product here:http://www.transactor.comIf you are interested, please send mail to:cofounder@transactor.comI'm looking for an e... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | abdullahjaved: Looking to do a startup, doesn't matter where ping me with details. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | jcrocholl: I'm looking for a co-founder in Seattle. I have product ideas involving voice-to-text, automatic speech recognition, and mechanical turk, but would love to discuss other ideas as well. I'm an experienced Python/Django developer and Linux server admin, created Browsershots in 2005. Email is on my profile. |
Would you consider an online education? | fburnaby: I think it matters a great deal on the specifics. I'm not aware of anything out there so far that I would accept as a replacement. |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | rms: Any industrial designers out there? |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | AmericanOP: We're a team of 2 applying to YC and willing to bring in a third founder. E-mail in profile. |
Have you seen cases of english words in youtube urls? | andhapp: Can I ask what would this research prove? The beauty of randomness I guess.... |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | simonsarris: I live in Southern New Hampshire (Nashua, NH), on the border with MA.Anyone in the area looking for a hand, or at the very least someone to talk to about their project? |
Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles? | slig: It's the second time this is happening. Helps, hopefully, to keep away a torrent of new users that are here because of _why's thread. |
Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles? | noodle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775727 |
Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles? | hughprime: That's fine, but the joke's over now, and I see a bunch of other genuinely-interesting articles in the queue which could use some upvotes. |
Would you consider an online education? | simonsarris: I think that the hacker crowd believes that a large part of the spirit of the internet is itself an online education.And HN is a part of that.That being said, I wouldn't discount college education. I felt it was an excellent choice for myself, both academically and professionally, but I am one anecdote of ... |
Would you consider an online education? | yannis: I was the owner for a number of years of a private College. One thing that became obvious to me was that the student population could be divided into two general classes. Students that 'needed to be taught' and students that were self-learners. I personally fall into the latter part and although I attended Univ... |
Rate my Start-up webticketing.net | rawson: All very good so far...
Only a couple of things:
I found the UI when creating the event to be slightly muddled, my eye followed down the page and i completely forgot about the right hand side panels.
I feel the user feedback on errors could be more noticeable - maybe put it at the top of the page as well as abo... |
Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles? | MaysonL: Some of us are, but me, I'm flagging the damn things. |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | dbrush: I've found that a lot less people care what you develop something with than whether what you developed is something they want to use. |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | mgorsuch: The company that I work for and those that I have worked for in the past would never reject an application because it was written in .NET. We would only reject an application that did not fit our needs.I think you are right to stick with what you know. |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | profquail: I think that customers are going to focus on the "fit and finish" of your product, not what platform it's running on. If you write it in ASP.NET, most Microsoft-based businesses will be able to run it, as well as any non-Microsoft-based businesses that use Mono.Just make sure to test your app on both Windows... |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | SwellJoe: I don't think it will be dramatically more likely than losing customers because you've written it in a language other than .net and the shop is all-Windows (which is a pretty high percentage of small/medium businesses, as they haven't yet reached the point where the cost of Windows server solutions becomes a ... |
How do you collect valuable feedback? | profquail: I don't mean to be pedantic, but you need to be a bit more specific about what kind of valuable feedback you want. If you think along the lines of "if I had X information, I'd be able to do Y with my site."If you're looking for user comments, put in a clearly marked link to a feedback page. Make sure that yo... |
How do you collect valuable feedback? | isharan: Its actually pretty hard to get valuable feedback from a lot of users. Either users don't think too much about how the site could be improved or they're just too lazy to type it all out.But yeah, being a little more specific would help. Looking for UI feedback? (Try this http://www.clicktale.com/) General feed... |
How do you collect valuable feedback? | jbr: UserVoice [1] and GetSatisfaction [2] are the big guys in customer feedback.[1] http://www.uservoice.com/[2] http://www.getsatisfaction.com/ |
Is Hacker News being "flushed" again? | apotheon: It's a ridiculous overreaction to a handful of submissions about the disappearance of _why. That's all.Considering the original "flush" was initiated to try to get non-hackers to stop coming here, I have to wonder if some of the people participating in this "flush" are trying to get Ruby hackers to stop comi... |
Is Hacker News being "flushed" again? | petercooper: It's a side effect of not allowing submissions to be downvoted. Flagging is possible but it's hidden enough for people not to bother as much. |
Best service for collecting a small monthly payment? | pj: I use paypal. It's quick to setup and has Paypal IPN which is essentially a call back to your system to let it know that the funds have been received or an order has been made. You can also set up free trial periods and things like that. It's quite easy to use. |
Why is all the news about Erlang today? | tdoggette: Maybe if you read some of the articles about Erlang you'd understand why we're so excited about it. |
Please stop. | movix: I'm a geek, but I don't know a line of code to save my life. Does this make me a non-hacker? The wrong kind of poster? I lurk here because the threads, especially anything YC/VC/Start-up, are really informative and genuinely useful. The Erlang thing is a yawn, even though I have no idea what it's about. I'm with... |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | nickhac: "I've found that a lot less people care what you develop something with than whether what you developed is something they want to use."Agreed!!! |
Advice on creating a POS system? | drobilla: The dual meaning of this acronym is always hilarious :) |
Who is looking for a co-founder? | astartupaday: Earlier this week I kicked off Italian Graffiti Factory, which is an overly-pretentious name for a site that is focused on bringing together co-founders and helping them to get and stay motivated. For the alpha stage, the site is going to be very specifically focused on helping co-founders to come togeth... |
Why is all the news about Erlang today? | larryrubin: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776484 |
Why is all the news about Erlang today? | erlanger: Because Erlang/OTP/Mnesia is a very cool platform. Mochiweb and Yaws are awesome. String handling blows, but what are you doing handling strings in Erlang? |
Will my target audience reject a .net solution? | CyberFonic: You can't please all the people all the time. Regardless of what platform you choose there always will be those who as "Why didn't you write it for Blub?" Delivering a top notch application to large market segment has a far greater potential to succeed than a lesser app to a different, possibly smaller, se... |
Advice on creating a POS system? | there: slightly different scope, but i had a customer that owned a couple restaurants and had a custom POS written in vb.net that they were trying to turn into a product to market to other restaurants. it was very poorly written and their developer eventually bailed on the project, but it had everything from food orde... |
Why is all the news about Erlang today? | Sandman: Because it's the international Erlang day :) |
What if HN was biased against submissions on very popular topics? | edw519: I was thinking the same thing. I have a feeling pg might be before too long as well. |
Etherpad like whiteboard? | JacobAldridge: I haven't used Vyew in a while, but found it useful. Seems to fit your criteria for free, web-based, and real-time.http://vyew.com |
Etherpad like whiteboard? | jasonlbaptiste: Check out dabbleboard.com Zohair, the founder, is a regular here and is making an awesome product. |
Use Facebook to land interviews? | ApolloRising: Stick to linked in rather than FaceBook. Some people prefer their facebook to be friends and family and find it intrusive if you poke your head into their life.You will get better results and won't run into this problem on linked in since that is what it was designed to do and everyone is in a biz mindset... |
Best service for collecting a small monthly payment? | larryrubin: Erlang may be the death of this question.Thanks for your response pj. Paypal seems to get a lot of negative press- is it unjustified? |
Etherpad like whiteboard? | rektide: Ah! One of my favorite topics!Inkboard was a fork of inkscape that was an experimental collaborative whiteboard. It uses XMPP, and some pieces of it were merged into Inkscape proper well after the fact.Coccinella is a perl/tk IM client that uses XMPP to do whiteboarding. |
Etherpad like whiteboard? | codedivine: Thanks for all the responses! |
SXSW - Worth it? Going? Which Badge? | aaroneous: SXSW Music, Interactive or Film? |
SXSW - Worth it? Going? Which Badge? | aditya: Interactive isn't worth it unless you're looking to get the word out or schmooze and network, which are all important things but not if it takes time out of getting an alpha product out.My 2c. :) |
Who is currently working on Google Wave sandbox? | clb22: My wavesandbox username is: cleiva |
SafeBoot | logicalmind: I have no comment on the tool you're talking about, but some obvious facts come to mind...I am not familiar with this product and may be wrong...but it seems as though this password is entered before the OS is booted. The only code that runs before that point is in the MBR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas... |
Who is currently working on Google Wave sandbox? | dpnewman: sandbox name: spherop |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | natemartin: Anyone looking for hardware engineers? |
Would you consider an online education? | plinkplonk: "Would you consider an online education?No. I am an autodidact and learn mostly by working through books and papers and so on. So in that sense I "educate" myself "online", partly. That said, if I ever decide to go back to college for that PhD I've been planning to do for a while now, I'd do so to work wit... |
Who is currently working on Google Wave sandbox? | scorpion032: sandbox name: becomingGuru |
Best service for collecting a small monthly payment? | known: http://www.ccavenue.com/content/allcredit.jsp |
3D in Flash 10 | jrbedard: Alternativa Platform has a cool 3D engine, Flash 10 powered:
http://alternativaplatform.com/en/But without GPU acceleration, Flash is rather limited for 3D transforms/rendering. Unity 3D and O3D are better choices for complex in-browser 3D experience, but require their respective plug-in installation. |
3D in Flash 10 | buymorechuck: hi5 Networks has more advanced tech along the lines of what you're seeking, though still in private beta, but should be arriving "really soon now". It does a good job of pushing the limits of Flash 10.If you know Flash 9 already, there is very little documentation that fully explains Flash 10's features o... |
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