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Hiring Decisions | ph0rque: [Candidate B]... is very loyal.Apologies for going on a tangential rant, but why is it that employees are expected to be loyal to companies, but companies can lay off employees on less than a day’s notice? This is something that angers me.I told my current company that my loyalties to the company will be symme... |
What do you think of prepopulation to seed a service? | bhousel: You should absolutely prepopulate your site with data, IF:1. The seed data is already public anyway.. e.g. It is public information who teaches at which schools.2. The seed data adds value to your users.. e.g. Seeding with school and teacher data is useful, but adding school district demographics (even thoug... |
Rate My Startup - TweetMapr | Readmore: TweetMapr lets you easily share you location on Twitter. It's like the Twitpic model for location.A friend and I have built this site over the last couple weeks and we have a list of planned features a mile long. I feel like we've gotten the basic stuff right and I would love to get some feedback from all of ... |
Rate My Startup - TweetMapr | FreeRadical: When I signed in I got:"We're sorry, but something went wrong.
We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly." |
How to consolidate logs across server farm? | spooneybarger: Remote Logging with SSH and Syslog-NG:http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/SSH-SyslogNG.html |
Registration forms: ask more up front, or as a 2nd step? | oweng: Small ask, get them using your software/service, then start a dialogue with one of your pre-sales... "Hey, great to hear that you signed up for the trial, how's it going, what are you using it for, who is your CFO by the way?"It kind of depends on your service though, and who will be using it. Tech types are mo... |
Registration forms: ask more up front, or as a 2nd step? | nathanburke: Thanks, oweng.
The target user is a sysadmin or IT manager, and I think that they probably would be wary of a long initial form. |
Registration forms: ask more up front, or as a 2nd step? | jacquesm: I'm all for asking as little as possible to get people in the door, as soon as functionality requires it ask the missing bits. Like that you lower the barrier to entry, and you give people a clear reason why you need the extra info. |
Registration forms: ask more up front, or as a 2nd step? | brk: A different approach would be Option C...Get the basic/minimum info to start, skip the 2nd step.After some period of time/use, ask them to provide more detailed info. You would, IMO, gather some interesting stats from seeing how many people value the product enough to give you an extra 5 minutes of their time and... |
Please review my webapp - MovieTracker | hoffmabc: Clickablehttp://movies.blinkindustries.com |
Please review my webapp - MovieTracker | kumarsunny34: i love my india jai matadi |
What do you think of prepopulation to seed a service? | Travis: You also need to evaluate how good your data is. Do you have confidence that people "recommending" teachers will input their names correctly, and not put in "John McPeebrain Doe".If you scrape data, be careful of that as well. You can easily turn vistors off if your data isn't accurate (and you're only going ... |
Registration forms: ask more up front, or as a 2nd step? | showerst: Why not just A/B test it? Many tools (like google optimizer) allow you to randomly try both, and then evaluate 1) Your conversion (sign-up) rate with each approach, and 2) How many non-valuable users each approach lets through. (This may take some extra work, just make sure you're saving the entrance route in... |
Please review my webapp - MovieTracker | wesley: Username/pass doesn't seem to work. |
Please review my webapp - MovieTracker | ErrantX: On am individual movies page (eg http://movies.blinkindustries.com/movies/11751) "genes" should be "genres"And as the other commentor says the demo account does not login at the moment.Nice idea though - this is something I might use.How are you getting movie info? |
Eliminating FAQs | jacquesm: FAQ's are a poor version of 'context sensitive help', the context is usually a lot better known than the 'FAQ' link would have you believe. Over the years we've collected the questions our users have really asked and we really answered them, that's the basis of our FAQ, and it is being used (even by users fro... |
Eliminating FAQs | yannis: If a website needs a FAQ, it needs a revamp! If you know what your users are asking, simplify your navigation and copy so that users can find these answers easily.The answers to FAQ should be on the front page!If your users stopped looking at them pat yourself at the back and remove them :). |
Eliminating FAQs | bhousel: I dunno.. When I'm evaluating whether or not a new site is worth my time, I look at: 1. screenshots/examples, 2. FAQ, 3. About Us (in that order).These won't show up in any significant way in your logs, because after the users have digested the information there, they won't go back to those pages again. But... |
Programming with Visual FoxPro | run4yourlives: So here's my take from a python lover that works with old MS technology (ASP in my case).It all depends. There's nothing wrong with working with an older technology when you have to. Not everything is state of the art and it's good to understand that developing from a blank canvas is nothing like develop... |
Mapping Customer's Domain/Subdomain to my site | gsmaverick: You probably will have to deal with it in your scripting language of choice. You find the sub-domain and have that link to something in your database to link it to their account/data. |
Mapping Customer's Domain/Subdomain to my site | there: depends highly on your software stack that you're using to handle requests.for starters you'll need to define a wildcard in your domain so that *.mysite.com all resolves to the same ip.then you may have to configure your web server with the same wildcard, then once it trickles down to your application, you'll pr... |
Mapping Customer's Domain/Subdomain to my site | jacquesm: In your DNS configuration you have to put a line like this: *.DOMAIN.com. IN A YOURIP
Where DOMAIN and YOURIP have to be replaced by the relevant data. (the asterisk character goes into column '0', the separators between the fields are tabs).Then, when that works and whateveryoutyp... |
Mapping Customer's Domain/Subdomain to my site | brk: customer1.mysite.com is easier to do.First, you setup a DNS record:customers.mysite.com IN A 12.34.56.78Then, your customers setup CNAME records:sub.customer1.com IN CNAME customers.mysite.comNext, depending on your webserver (going to assume Apache), you setup virthosts:<VirtualHost :80>
ServerName cust... |
Please review my webapp - MovieTracker | dc2k08: I just get blank pages |
Programming with Visual FoxPro | percept: If it isn't a long-term commitment then I think it could be a helpful learning experience even if you never (hopefully?) use the technology again.In 2004 I had to build a data collection app using MS Access to help a law firm client prepare for a trial. It actually ended up being the best tool for the job beca... |
Programming with Visual FoxPro | whatusername: Depends on how long it is. If it will tie up substantial amounts of time (months, years) that you would rather put towards your future projects, then no.If it's shorter term - then yes. Learning something new is always valuable (it teaches you to think better) and working on interesting projects is what... |
How big is your IT staff? How big in YC companies? | swombat: Obviously there is a correlation between the size of IT and time to market (the bigger the better?)No, actually. It's certainly the case for start-ups that smaller is better. Smaller is more nimble, more creative, less politics-driven, and forced to focus on what matters (because you can't afford anything else... |
European Job Sites | jacquesm: for nl: http://monsterboard.nl/ |
European Job Sites | papaf: http://www.jobserve.com/ |
European Job Sites | shrikant: Joining Special Interest Groups on LinkedIn and subscribing to a daily digest of activities is a very nice way for 'focussed' job-searching. Quite a few analytics jobs posted in the Business Intelligence group (which I'm a part of) were EU-based, at least over the last week or so. Give it a whirl.http://www.t... |
European Job Sites | wellenreitr: Germany:
www.monster.de
http://www.jobscout24.de/
http://www.jobpilot.de/
http://www.stepstone.de/jobs/jobs.html |
European Job Sites | steerpike: http://www.exposurejobs.com/ is quite good at breaking down jobs by language and country |
European Job Sites | mpf62: The following site is focused on freelancers but there are also full-time jobs listed.http://www.gulp.de |
European Job Sites | Aegean: jobsite.co.uk used to be the best for graduates. |
European Job Sites | jpcosta: You can try the EU job mobility site.
http://ec.europa.eu/eures/home.jsp?lang=en |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | nonrecursive: Hi everyone,About a year ago I created a web site to help people stay organized when looking for a job. Since then I've refined it to the point where I feel like it's now a viable product. I'm lacking two important things, however: a) a business model and b) time to market it.My preference is to sell it,... |
European Job Sites | dejv: gumtree.com: kind of a european craiglist |
European Job Sites | mindaugas: I read somewhere that at least 30% of all jobs ads in UK is fake ... I don't know if it's true or not ...
How do you tell the difference between fake job ad and real thing? |
European Job Sites | krolley: Switzerland: jobs.chIf you can get a visa, the pay is great. |
European Job Sites | sree_nair: http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/ for UK. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | Femur: Hi. I used your site about 9 months ago as my main tool for organizing my job search. I was the guy who emailed you with the suggestion to have links open in a new tab versus navigating away from the site (which you implemented a few hours later!). I am happy to say I am now gainfully employed as an Oracle DB... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | mrfish: I'd like to say that I do this already myself but nope. I'm just too lazy. Good idea! Not sure how you can monetize it but good idea. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | francoisdevlin: Very cool site. One thing I would upgrade.You have your "interview reminders" section. Very cool. The data is entered in a * / * * / * * * style, very intuitive for entry. However, I would RENDER the information in a set of nested ul tags.Just my $.02 |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | natrius: You're getting some porn spam on the demo account. If you're not already, it'd probably be a good idea to reset it with known good data every couple of hours. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | nobody_nowhere: This is great! It mirrors the approach I've taken to job hunting in the past -- but on a webpage instead of a text editor.Business model options (non-exclusive):- Advertising: You have a wide range of options for sponsorship, display or performance advertising. I could write all day about them. Happy... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | timcederman: Yikes - what's up with the spam here? http://www.happyjobsearch.com/opportunities |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | ricardo: Awesome idea and clean execution. I organized my last job search in excel and retained a lot of the same information.One suggestion: It would be useful to cache the job listing the user links to. During my last job search I remember finding a lot of my bookmarks to be invalid because the original post had ex... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | timcederman: I worked in the job space for a while, and I would recommend shopping this around to sites like TheLadders, Indeed, SimplyHired, etc, who are all always looking for competitive features. If they could just buy something rather than build it in-house, I'm sure they would (speaking as someone who worked at ... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | heyitsnick: Google chrome 3.0.195.21
In the first page of the demo, the tables at the bottom stretch wider than the fixed width of the design |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | ulysses: I haven't dug into it yet, will try to tonight, but one thing struck me.When I run across any sort of site like this normally, one of the first things I look at is news items (in this case the blog) and the forum. If there aren't any posts in either in the last couple of months, I usually assume it's been aba... |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | mrfish: Yup. I'm doing it right now. |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | doobiesmoker: Drop the wife and kids, have a better life, get more work done.Breeding sucks! |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | Tichy: Get a better paid job. As a consultant, you could work a couple of months for clients and the rest of the year on your own stuff.Personally I think working on the job is a bad idea. usually it will give your employer the rights to your private project. |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | gdp: Keyloggers are unlikely to be particularly useful in this case, but if you imagine you are being keylogged, then you can take appropriate steps to mask your behaviour.Other than that, I would advise sshing somewhere remote and keeping all of your private project stuff there (i.e. work on it remote - don't keep loc... |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | jacquesm: > Should I take the risk?No.> does anyone take this risk?Quite probably yes, but that doesn't make it right, or smart.Is there any way you can work 1 day per week part-time and devote that to your private stuff or do it after hours ?If you get fired from your day job you'll have all the time in the world but ... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | BobN: The name feels odd -- like an unedited Chinese translation. Monster only works because they could afford a Superbowl ad. Maybe something that highlights the organizational aspect? MyJobSearchManager.com is open. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | numbchuckskills: not to be a negative-nancy, but is this that much better than tracking things in something like a Google docs spreadsheet with a few tabs?Seems like a solution to a non-existent problem. |
could you please post any Hacker News associated sites and tools here? | adrianwaj: http://hackernewsfeed.com/ |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | yannis: As an employer I would say bad idea. If your employer does not pay you your last salary you will claim that he stole money from you. By working on a private project at work you are actually stealing money from him.Late nights were made for private jobs! |
How many of you are early risers? | adrianwaj: Some people like working between 10pm-3am because there's less disturbance and distractions. |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | byoung2: You could try some of the techniques in Tim Ferriss's 4 Hour Workweek. Basically it involves negotiating a deal to work from home 1 day a week to start, and eventually fulltime. Make sure you are more efficient on this day off than the other 4 days. He suggests hiring a virtual private assistant to handle t... |
How many of you are early risers? | zv: I am late riser. I tend to notice that there's no difference when you go to sleep unless its before 1am.Method 1. Annoying alarm clocks. Lots of them. I have 3 analog alarm clocks and 2 alarms on phone. iPhone on the contrast to other phones, has best alarms ever. It will annoy you and it's not easy to turn it off.... |
Review our app, Boomtango | willwagner: Hi,For a long time, I've griped that the browser history system is old and neglected, but given some love, could potentially be a powerful tool. A lot of my web searches are for content that I have seen in the past, and while browser history is great for the back button (and the awesome bar), the ability t... |
European Job Sites | kamme: There are also quite a number of jobsites in Belgium, but most of them are for one language, so dependent on witch part you live:In dutch:
http://www.vacature.com - http://www.vdab.be - http://monster.be - http://stepstone.beIn french:
http://www.references.be - http://www.leforem.beHope they are usefull! |
could you please post any Hacker News associated sites and tools here? | chaosprophet: Can somebody point me to the site which categorized hacker news links as tech and non-tech??? |
How many of you are early risers? | mbrubeck: I have always tended to go to sleep around 9pm and wake up around 5am or 6am. This is less of a productivity-booster now that my three-year-old also wakes up at 6am... |
Does anyone take the risk to work on private projects from workplace? | lhorie: Why not just get a laptop and go out to the nearest coffee shop / library / whatever? |
How many of you are early risers? | bgnm2000: I used to like working late, (going to bed 3 or 4 am, and waking at noon) at noon - but I work somewhere part time that forces me to be up at 7 am, and now I like waking up early to work. It feels good to use the whole day. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | JangoSteve: This looks very nice from what I saw in the demo account. Very clean interface.I actually have a project I had made initially for B2B sales leads, but there are certain features of automation that I've been thinking lately could really be used for job search. Perhaps we should talk? |
Review our app, Boomtango | GotToStartup: Friggin genius. |
Review our app, Boomtango | chaosprophet: I remember there was a similar add-on for firefox. It stored the entire content of pages you visited on your local hard drive and you could search through it. It's called breadcrumbs. How is boomtango different from breadcrumbs??? |
Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages? | daleharvey: writing a chat bot is a good hello world to erlang, they are also useful and quite fun. |
What do you use to track leads and prospects? | auston: http://leadlogsys.comhttp://fatfreecrm.comhttp://pipelinedeals.comhttp://highrisehq.comhttp://oprius.comhttp://salesforce.com |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | riordan: Brilliant! I've been using Highrise to similarly organize my job search, however your approach is fantastically elegant and will probably begin using the two in tandem.I've found that the networking aspects of jobseeking are not only critical in breaking past the resume firewall but are also among the hardest... |
Review our app, Boomtango | chanux: Sounds like what I was looking for. Looks good.The interface is too bright IMO (just checked the screenshots). |
Using R | gtani: GGplot2, by H Wickhamhttp://had.co.nz/ggplot2/and the bay Area user's grouphttp://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/10446894/ |
What do you use to track leads and prospects? | lazyant: We use SugarCRM: (PHP/MySQL or hosted) http://www.sugarcrm.com/ there's an open source version : http://www.sugarforge.org/ |
Using R | prat: There is a huge and growing R community. I am using randomForest (originally in Fortran) package as a classifier for my dataset. |
Review our app, Boomtango | Banzai10: You mentioned "Data is stored on your local computer so your history remains private" what about giving the possibility to upload to the web, then I can get my browser history whenever I am. Maybe a possibility to merge browser histories would be cool also ;)But even with this, it stills very COOL!.Congrats |
Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages? | yannis: I can relate partially to this. To learn a language fully you need to work on a fairly good size project and one morning you will have 'flow'. It is similar to learning a human language. You need to get to the point where you 'think' in the language and you stop flipping through a fat reference book or jumping ... |
Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages? | JoelMcCracken: I learned scheme through SICP, so I guess I can't relate. However, there is tremendous value in being able to do practical things with a language. While SICP is fun, it won't ever teach you how to use push JSON from one HTTP server to another.I disagree that these languages are impractical, though. |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | dpifke: Last year I was in a similar boat; after getting no response from the domain owner via email and postal mail (the phone number was either out-of-date or bogus), I enlisted the help of a domain brokerage service (Sedo).The way it works is you pay for an "appraisal" of the domain, then they work on commission (a ... |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | lazyant: Out of curiosity, what language/framework did you use for the site? |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | eli: Check what other domains that person has registered. Or possibly even what other domains point to the same IP (unless it's a generic GoDaddy page or something) |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | zandorg: A few weeks ago, I took about 4 hours to think up a domain not taken, and bought it for 5 years. Much cheaper (on an hourly rate) than paying a squatter, for example, $2000! |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | gamache: Unless you are willing to cut the squatter's brake lines and kidnap his wife and daughter, the odds are not in your favor. Even then, you can count on the squatter having a mere fraction of a soul.Squatters live in a 1999 dreamworld where a useless, pissant .com domain is worth five grand (if you can even rea... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | redorb: I've tried for PDR tools . com (hopefully the spaces will save from this in the search results) ...- the squatter wasNOKTA INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
2887 College Ave. 3
Berkeley
CAI have contacted them - but they want $30k , I think they are counting on PDR standing for physicians desk refer... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | mildweed: It all depends if its a professional squatter or not.A domain I wanted was once held by an amateur squatter. I made a decent offer, she counter-offered way too high, I declined. Thinking nobody would buy it if I wouldn't, she let it expire. I snatched it up for $10. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | donw: Several other people have commented on resume functionality, but what I'd like to see is a targeted resume builder -- one where you can list the sum total of all your skills and experience, tag each line item with specific job categories, and then use that to build targeted resumes aimed at specific markets.I've ... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | dpcan: From a "squatter-like" perspective:I have domains that I don't use. People have contacted me, made a decent offer, and I've sold the domain to them. So, if it looks like the domain is held by someone who just isn't using it (like me), then you may be able to make a reasonable offer. |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | edw519: I've grown frustrated with the process...Then stop wasting time on it. You must have way more important things to do.Here's a thought: Get a virgin domain name for $6 and market the shit out of it. You really didn't expect to skip the marketing step with a domain name that someone else thought was important, ... |
Using R | papaf: I've been using R for 4 years to analyse microarrays and to do nonlinear time series analysis on signals.I'm using nonstandard methods based on my own code, third party command line programs and extensions I wrote in 'C'. I chose R over Matlab or Octave because it has a more powerful programming language and a n... |
Ask HN:Need comments & 2 hackers 4 virtual assit./concierge w/LBS game concept | jasonlbaptiste: Interesting concept, but way too complex. Take three paragraphs and condense it into 3 sentences. You'll be more focused, leaner, and more targeted. |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | ivyirwin: I really don't get where squatter prices come from. It's one thing if a domain is in use, has a history of high traffic, and has high potential through name length and/or brand potential. But a regular old squatting site that barely gets hit except by crawlers and link farms?I think the problem stems from an ... |
How do you keep track of progress? | maxwin: -->Maybe using a good project management tool might help?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/13/15-useful-project...-->Another way is make sure you are away from distractions. Here is PG's essay on: Disconnecting Distraction http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.htmlHope this helps a bit. |
Review our app, Boomtango | idm: I installed this. I have two comments:The first time I launch Firefox after installing, the interfaces asks if I want to import my history or "cancel." I'd like to recommend changing the wording to "Do not import" or something. Did I just cancel out of a larger startup process? I assume not, but I don't think ... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | bhousel: If you want the name that badly, trademark it and have a lawyer start the ICANN dispute process to take the name from the squatter. This will cost you some $$$ in legal fees, but probably less than the squatter is willing to spend in defending the name.see:How To Trademark a Domain Name: http://www.allbusine... |
Ask HN:Need comments & 2 hackers 4 virtual assit./concierge w/LBS game concept | jacquesm: I can't help but feel sorry for the dog. |
Using R | maxwin: R is a great language. I have been using R for a while. However, I wonder if someone could make a free,nice,simple yet powerful user interface for R. For my fellow biologists who wants to do some data analysis,the learning curve of R is just too steep. |
How do you keep track of progress? | tjpick: org-mode |
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