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Review our app, Boomtango | kogus: Excellent, I think I will use this nearly every day. Found a small bug - Tools->Boomtango->Open Settings->Categories->Click the Visit Boomtango for plugins linkGet a 404 trying to reach page:
http://www.boomtango.com/trackers/ |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | TrevorJ: I think this is a great idea. First impression, I would reconsider the colors. I think there's something to be said for being playful, however I'd like to see colors that are a bit more businesslike. The colors say toy, but this is a tool.Granted, web 2.0 has proven that a pastel color scheme can work, and I d... |
Review our app, Boomtango | aristus: Sweet work, and congrats! I wrote and maintain archivd.com and before that dowser.sf.net. Anyone who helps users archive and search is good people.I suggest working on the visualization design, ie find better ways to compactly represent the important information inside arbitrary webpages. Also think about infe... |
How do you keep track of progress? | dan_sim: We use our own product called Timmy at http://www.timmyontime.com . To keep tracks of things, we write notes and tag them with whatever we need to. We use the search box or simply browse through note pages to get what we want. Example, you can create a todo note for your teammate like this : "#todo @franky ple... |
How do you keep track of progress? | justlearning: I have used both of these and have liked the simplicity in ui and functionality:http://www.toggl.com/ (work/personal)http://www.todoist.com (for personal) |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | salvadors: > The squatter's main intent is to squat on domains to sell them for profit, right?Not necessarily. Much domaining is about monetising traffic with minimal effort. A .com costs around $6 a year. Two cents a day in ad revenue makes you a profit.Serious domainers do this on names that cost them much more than ... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | kynikos: You may want to explore filing a UDRP complaint with ICANN. You don't need a lawyer necessarily. However, it does cost ~$1300 to file a complaint for 1 domain for a 1 person dispute panel (you can get up to 5 people on a panel.) End-to-end timeline from when you submit the complaint to when you get a judgment ... |
could you please post any Hacker News associated sites and tools here? | adrianwaj: Hacker News Link To Commentshttp://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | zck: Domain squatters are quite frustrating. I wanted to buy the .com version of my hn handle, but (after contacting them several times), they responded, saying they don't even consider anything less than $50,000. Yeesh. The .net version is owned by Future Media Architects, who are famous for never selling domain names... |
Review our app, Boomtango | fuzzmeister: A side note: this product, like many others, hosts its video walkthrough on Vimeo. But, Vimeo clearly says on their upload page: "You may not upload commercials, infomercials, or demos that actively sell or promote a product or service."So, does Vimeo just not enforce this rule, or what? |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | mrkurt: I've had success buying domains from individuals, but rarely from squatters (or domain holding companies, or whatever they call themselves). I think you'll find that unless you're able to get ahold of someone and offer them what seems like an exorbitant amount of money, you'll never get anywhere.The cost of ke... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | JoachimSchipper: I'm somewhat surprised that no one has pointed out this angle yet:Domain squatting is an abuse of a public resource for personal gain. There are more evil things to do, but it's hardly moral.Do not give them money. (micks56 e.a. suggest other ways of getting your hands on the domain you want.) |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | mpk: Don't even try.Find a name that isn't taken and then register all the variations.That's a fraction of the price and none of the hassle. |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | petesalty: Just because you can't get a domain name you want doesn't make the owner a squatter. I bet everyone who's commented here, probably everyone who's read this, has more than one domain they own that they aren't using at the moment. Are they squatters?Maybe the reason you didn't get an answer is that they weren'... |
Review our app, Site Assistant | javery: Interesting idea, here is my feedback:1) Whois information is basically worthless to me so I wouldn't lead with it. Lead with the SEO information as that seems the most interesting.2) Emphasis the benefits of having the data, not just what the data is. How can I make more money or build a better site knowing th... |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | patio11: I realize most people here are in the Internet generation, but nothing says Serious Business Proposal like having FedEx put a letter in his hand that says "I paid $15 so that you could read this TODAY" on the outside of it. |
Ask HN:Need comments & 2 hackers 4 virtual assit./concierge w/LBS game concept | ddemchuk: This reads like it was written by a marketing major...you need to be able to tell someone what this does in one sentence. Not a sentence of list items chopped up with commas. |
Review our app, Site Assistant | jusob: You need to allow all TDLs. My websites mostly use .me and .mn, I cannot enter them. |
Review our app, Boomtango | taki: Looks cool - consider me a new user! Two suggestions for the FAQ:
1. How much space will this use up on my machine?
2. Will this slow my browsing experience? |
Review our app, Site Assistant | prpon: Is there a way for me to test drive the app without having to sign up? I do not want to give my email address then regret that this app is not something I am interested in. |
How do I find a hacker roommate in NYC? | spitfire: Why not find a normal one? You can expand your horizons and make new friends. |
How do I find a hacker roommate in NYC? | bhousel: You could try to contact meetup organizers or user groups in NYC for whatever it is that you do.. |
Ask HN:Need comments & 2 hackers 4 virtual assit./concierge w/LBS game concept | ismarc: So you want to create a virtual personal assistant that has instant access to real-time information to provide you with the best formulated advice given your request? You want it to additionally adapt to the decisions you make based on the information it provides so that it can increase the quality of suggesti... |
Review our app, Site Assistant | JangoSteve: Looks pretty cool. Lots of useful stats, though they are stats that are usually pretty easy to obtain elsewhere. I would have said I'm not sure I'd pay for it, but the plans are cheap enough. I just probably won't ever be actively managing more than 10 sites at once, so I don't think I'd ever need one of th... |
Are there sites where you can partner with others on ideas? | yan: I would also like a similar service.If anyone wants to bounce ideas off me, I'm game :) |
Review our app, Site Assistant | jbgh2: Looks nice but...
I signed up and I get a 404 on the sign-in page.
I tried to contact you but your email is an image. Why no contact form?
So now I'm feeling frustrated.I agree that 10 free websites is far too many. 1 for free then start paying after that.
The pricing looks weird by being per 6 months. Make it y... |
Are there sites where you can partner with others on ideas? | p01nd3xt3r: partnerup.com |
How do I find a hacker roommate in NYC? | dzlobin: http://groups.google.com/group/nyycThis is the group for our NYC HN meetups. Send a group email out and if you have a chance the meets are every last Thursday of the month. Good luck! |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | alphageek: THis is something I was hoping to find. It becomes really hard for me to remember which jobs I applied to and to save jobs that I would like to apply to later. This is ideal for me. Thank you !! |
How do I find a hacker roommate in NYC? | blackguardx: Craigslist. Create an ad or browse a bunch of them. I found a cool roommate with similar interests that way. |
Review our app, Site Assistant | brandnewlow: Just signed in. Feedback.When I join something called "site assistant," I'm doing it because I want to add my site and start getting info about it.But when I log in, the only call to action I see is "add group."Where's my "add your site" button? I don't want to add a group. I'm at sitemanager.com not gr... |
Review our app, Boomtango | matt1: Hey Will, this is very well done. It's clear you put a lot of hard work and thought into every aspect of Boomtango and it shows in the quality of your product. Kudos. |
Reccomend an interesting and fun book to learn electronics. | renkeyes: I just saw this today...it might fit the bill:"Make: Electronics -- Learning Through Discovery" By Charles Platt; Released: December 2009 (est.) ; http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153755
"With this practical introductory guide, you'll learn important concepts while you work on real projects." |
Motivating projects to learn functional programming languages? | MaysonL: Take a look at the FluidDB Weekend of Code[1] and pick a language that nobody's done yet, build a little library implementing their API in that language, and you'll end up with two new cutting-edge skills. (And a free book).[1] http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidDB/2009/09/17/fluiddb-weeken... |
What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done? | edw519: A spiral bound unruled notebook and black and red felt tipped markers. That's it.I take it everywhere and write down (almost) everything. I date and time stamp every page. I keep the notebooks, but I also detach some pages and put them into hanging file folders. |
What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done? | pixelcort: OmniFocus. Its ability to specify subtasks as sequential or parallel is critical to how I use it. I haven't found a recursive outlining tool to have this sequential/parallel feature. |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | dryicerx: No you're totally fine, I think everyone who is getting in to web/tech startups is the same boat. And you major matters very little, almost everyone who is doing a web related startup has learned their skill set needed for the development of web/startup is learned by them selves... so you can too. Plus almost... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | mattiss: Unless you go to Stanford, MIT, etc. most people you will meet will not be interested in startups.My advise is first, stick it out. You are pretty far along, no sense in changing now. Second, go to your CS department and hang out, I'm sure there will be at least a couple top notch hackers regardless of where y... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | albertsun: The vast majority of people in general are not interested in running their own business. For most people, being a small part of a large corporation as we make it out to be here. You get security, structure and much more balance in life between work and other pursuits.That said, WashU is a top notch school, a... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | fuzzmeister: I'm a freshman here at Wash U. Have you heard of WUTE? It's a small but growing organization of tech entrepreneurs, check it out at wute.wustl.edu. I met with the head of the club yesterday (he's a computer science professor) and it seems like a great group of people. Also, did you attend the recent IdeaBo... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | sammcd: I feel very similar. I go to college at the University of Kentucky. It is very rare that my fellow CS majors are on the same page as me. So many of them just want to get a job after college and do not have the same passion I have for writing code and starting companies. So far I have only found one or two e... |
What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done? | jamesbritt: (Warning! Mentioning my own product!) I use JotBot to track time and prompt me to stay on task.I also have assorted CLI tools for stashing and retrieving notes, and some tools that interact with Todoist.com, creating and managing alerts to my G1.I'm also evolving a Time-boxing/Pomodoro desktop app, which h... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | ABrandt: First off, congratulations on you're enrollment at WUSTL--I grew up in Saint Louis and always admired the university. I've never had an intimate view of the student body there, but I do believe the school to be as progressive as any.I'm of the opinion that, aside from a few select areas in the world, you will... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | patio11: You missed me by a few years, but go to an engineering school pizza socializer. (They still do those weekly, right?)The vast majority of the students have no professional programming experience and most are incompetent at programming -- and, for that matter, the pre-meds really suck at surgery and the pre-law... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | chrischen: I attend a state college--the mission statement of which states that it's purpose is to Give the average
person an education. It's quite tough to find anyone truly passionate about their studies lest a startup.I'd recommend the CS department or Physics. Lots of physics student are creative, nontraditional, ... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | gexla: School is time consuming. Freelancing is time consuming. Building a new business is time consuming. Either of the above could be a full time gig or more. Of the three, the best you could probably do is one full time and another part time. For students whom have full time school schedules and part time (or m... |
What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done? | dstik: Tracking projects and time on projects I like to use Klok (http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm), it's an Adobe AIR app so it'll likely work on whatever you're running. |
Working Hours of Actual Startups? | thegoleffect: There are similarly many blogs/books about working a "normal" work week or day (and some about less than "normal").http://www.caterina.net/archive/001196.htmlhttp://37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experimentshttp://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/d...But, I think that having pass... |
Review our app, Site Assistant | listic: Can you please leave contact email, or better even, IM.Can I IM you in icq or, failing that, Skype format? |
Working Hours of Actual Startups? | nostrademons: Very variable, depending upon the startup. I've been at one startup where the engineering staff basically lived at the office and slept under their desk. I've also been at one where basically everyone worked fairly standard 8-9 hour days, no weekends. The second was more successful than the first, thou... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | perimosocordiae: Have you tried talking with WU's chapter of ACM? They should be connected with the CS students that are competent and interested in more than just schoolwork.
Also, remember that asking people to join your startup is a HUGE commitment. College is hard enough without having a full-time job (that offers... |
Which 2 way encryption method is this? | bdfh42: If it is encrypted then you will need to include the key - or do you think this is a hash? |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | jacoblyles: I think you'll find the situation is similar at most schools, outside of the top few known for their entrepreneurship. |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | psyklic: It's that way even at top universities. Finding a good business partner is like finding a wife! Students generally aren't passionate about their majors, PhDs usually only consider starting a company if they stumble across something big in their research, many people are just too busy or aren't risk-taking, etc... |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | jlees: To add to the 'it's the same here' comments - I found the same at my university, in the UK. I was 'weird' for doing freelance work on my own and wanting to start a business. Others have chimed in with more local advice, but see if you can join the entrepreneurship club - hang out in the business school - go to e... |
Working Hours of Actual Startups? | entelarust: Our startup has 6 people and an office. Office hours are pretty traditional (9am-6pm)A regular weekday:- Wake up at ~9am- Walk to work at ~930am (2 blocks)- 30 min lunch at ~2pm- Leave work at ~6pm- Dinner and relax with gf a bit till 8pm- Work from 8pm till around 2-230amMost my daytime is managing our dev... |
What productivity tools do you use to manage projects + get things done? | entelarust: To-do lists: One large .txt file or paper for small listsProjects: tracCoding: vim |
Do I have the wrong university or the wrong attitude? | rick2047: Maan... I thought such things were happening to me only. Though my focus was on getting a partner for my research/hacking escapades. I joined up university in great expectations that I will have to pick people from a fair sized pool of like minded people based on their compatible attitude. But I was so disapp... |
Review our app, Boomtango | akamaka: Opening the boomtango page takes a long time on my machine, mostly because it's trying to download an image from PayPal.I hope you guys can make all the images local, so it loads instantly. |
Review our app, Boomtango | Tichy: Wasn't there an YC company some time ago doing something similar? What was their name, and what happened to them? |
Which 2 way encryption method is this? | mbrubeck: Whatever it is, the encrypted version is Base64-encoded. Here's a hexdump without the Base64 encoding. 00000000 29 67 02 94 c3 c7 1a c1 d6 cb aa 3c 55 5d 7f d8 |)g.........<U]..|
00000010 8d f3 bf ca 44 36 a7 ee 8f 06 f7 3c 51 c6 f2 c5 |....D6.....<Q...|
The decoded ciphertext is 32 bytes (256 ... |
Stockholm Startups? | willmacdonald: I'd love to find to startup or developer communities here too. Do you speak Swedish ? I'd feel a bit awkward going to some meeting and being one of the few people who don't speak Swedish. I moved to Stockholm a couple of years ago but haven't had a chance to do any searching yet, busy with babies. |
Stockholm Startups? | unwind: Not a startup recommendation, but if you're not aware of http://www.thelocal.se/, you probably should be. :)It's a news site in English, and has what seems to be a quite lively forum section, which might be a good place to ask, too. |
Stockholm Startups? | Feeble: What are your skills? What type of business areas are you interested in? |
Stockholm Startups? | mmelin: One big thing that's happening soon is 24 hour business camp in late October. The event is already full (120 participants) but there will probably be an after-party the weekend after the event where you can build your network. edit: link for that is http://www.24hbc.com/Mattias Swenson of Bloglovin maintains a ... |
Stockholm Startups? | lukego: The Erlang community has historically spawned a lot of interesting startups in Stockholm (Bluetail, Synapse, Kreditor, tail-f, Mobile Arts, ...). There are pub nights. |
Stockholm Startups? | enra: Check out http://www.arcticstartup.com/ and our index of Swedish startups http://www.arcticindex.com/companies?search[country_id]=1 |
Stockholm Startups? | RyanMcGreal: I thought this was going to be about startups whose owners had grown to love the tyrannical VC funders who were ruining their lives. |
Stockholm Startups? | tuukkah: Spotify R&D is in Stockholm, they have users and are in the headlines, I hear they use Debian in their backend, and they let paying customers access their DRM service using third-party clients too. Draw your own conclusions. |
Ethernet 3G modem-router? | brk: Not sure I understand your question.I use a CTR-350 from http://www.cradlepoint.com frequently when I travel, and I think it is doing more or less exactly what you describe. |
Whom Do You Use for New Hire Background Checks? | bdfh42: Background checks sound pretty sleazy in any case - what business is it of yours if someone once had financial problems (such a record will never tell you the why only the what).Call the last employer but one for an honest assessment of the reasons your prospective employee left and how easy they are to get one... |
Stockholm Startups? | berntb: Other people have give good answers. Here are a couple of things you might want to do the first few years.Education is free in Sweden. Check for if your background allows you to get into university courses. (The evening/distance courses are generally for older people that already works. Good contacts.)You have ... |
Stockholm Startups? | gibrael: Its very interesting!!!!!!! |
Stockholm Startups? | erikstarck: My own little humble database of Swedish startups is at http://www.sweden100.com
Drop me an email if you feel like meeting up, my contact details are on the about-page on the blog. |
Whom Do You Use for New Hire Background Checks? | plinkplonk: Is it even legal to do checks on "can he manage his own finances"?Even in India (where you can have checks of criminality and so on at the point of hiring, especially in large companies, thanks to the focus on Outsourcing) people don't disclose their financial information to employers. Banks and financial i... |
Whom Do You Use for New Hire Background Checks? | RiderOfGiraffes: Wasn't this question asked just a few days ago? I've searched with SeachYC, but I haven't found it, so maybe I'm imagining things, but I could've sworn I've seen it here recently. |
advice for my site, happyjobsearch.com | Slzr: My 2c: Get some design, some logoIts a great site, you just need some digg/reddit front page or stumbleupon on it, good luck. |
how to buy a domain name from a squatter? | mightybyte: Buying a domain from a squatter is morally equivalent to settling out of court with the plaintiff on a frivolous lawsuit to avoid legal expenses. The difference is that in this case doing the right thing costs less money. |
Charting Libraries? | yannis: Try JavaScript JSXGRAPHhttp://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Hypotrochoid
has a bit of a learning curve though.Also the jQuery flot plugin http://code.google.com/p/flot/ |
Whom Do You Use for New Hire Background Checks? | coglethorpe: I have had employers in the finance sector pull my credit report to check me out. I'm pretty sure they use one of the big 3 US credit agencies. You might be best off to check with one of them to see how you can do this legally. If they don't do it directly, they can probably show you a third party that ... |
Where to Blog? | MrMatt: I'd post dev stuff about your app to your personal blog, and stuff relating to the features / marketing of your app to its own blog. This way, you'll keep building the audience to your personal blog, which might come in useful if you decide to launch something else at some point in the future.I don't think ther... |
Charting Libraries? | chrisa: We use http://amcharts.com/. The thing I like the best about it is that you can customize everything through a visual web based editor, and then just copy the xml that is generated. It has also been stable for us, but one downside of course is that the web browser needs flash installed. |
Whom Do You Use for New Hire Background Checks? | igrekel: Over the years, I had several requests for my approval to check if I have a criminal record, but I don't remember any about my credit report.Plus a potential employer could use the information from the credit report in salary negotiation. I don't really like this idea. Credit report are easy to obtain if you h... |
Charting Libraries? | gaius: I'm using Matplotlib with the Agg backend to generate PNGs, great quality, easy to use and fast.http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/http://www.antigrain.com/ |
Ask HN:Could you give me some advice on how to get started in San Francisco? | alain94040: Go to meetups, meet plenty of programmers like you, talk to them. You will uncover the hidden face of recruiting: the real jobs are not advertised.Worst case: join a pre-funding startup for a little while. I know a million projects who need coders (or visit my site: http://fairsoftware.net/publicProjects). ... |
Charting Libraries? | keefe: this is probably not new info but http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ in the flash world, flex comes with a charts package and there is prefuse flare which has some charting ability. It's worth noting that the new versions of flash run off AS3, which is a full fledge programming language so rather than passing in... |
Ask HN:Could you give me some advice on how to get started in San Francisco? | idlewords: Pick a project, any project, and work on it. If you aren't inspired to do your own thing, find some open source tool or library that you really fancy, and do some scut work on it. Fix bugs, write tests, help with documentation.The Bay Area dev scene is a relatively small world, and once you get to know som... |
How much equity for first employee? | javery: The important question is if they will be paying a salary and what kind of salary will it be? (will you be taking a lower rate then you make now, etc).If you are being paid a good salary it would be harder to justify a larger piece of the pie. If you are working for peanuts, or even free, then the sky is the li... |
How much equity for first employee? | cgherb911: Do they have an evaluation? When negotiating equity before an evaluation is set, there is always funny money going on. What do you really bring to the table? What will be your position in the long run? Will you be more of a CTO position or a programer? If you're the only one actually creating the websit... |
Stockholm Startups? | aik: With the exception of Stockholm, where in Sweden would be a good place to find startups? |
How much equity for first employee? | brk: My question, is it out of the question for somebody in my position to ask for 10-15% equity?This is most likely WAY too high.Are they offering you equity or stock options? These are very different things.What is the value of the company (even if approximate)?What value does the website and this position in genera... |
How much equity for first employee? | sharpn: One approach you can use:If you're working 1.8x fair rate, work out what 0.8x your salary is & imagine you were an investor with this sum to put to work - how much equity would you require? That's a starting base for your negotiation. Good luck. |
How much equity for first employee? | credo: >>My question, is it out of the question for somebody in my position to ask for 10-15% equity?10-15% seems too high. As you mention, the 0.5% equity is more common
However, I think that it is hard to come up with a percentage without knowing how big the pie is.If you expect the company to be worth $200million in... |
Are there sites where you can partner with others on ideas? | vabmit: http://www.cofoundr.com/user/loginCofoundr was started a few years ago by a Google engineer.My personal experience is that I've met the people I've partnered with on start-ups/projects in three places: 1. Local Entrepreneurs' Club (MIT e-club)
2. IRC/Mailing list/Other online community (like lj/fb)
3. Thro... |
How much equity for first employee? | seasoup: Have a percent in mind when you come in, but try and make them offer before you say the amount you have in mind. It's good negotiation to get the other guy to say the first number. Then, if they come in way below what you want, tell them that this number represents significantly less then you were hoping for... |
Examples of sites which start free and later switch to paid? | cperciva: Tarsnap started out in free beta before moving to paid beta -- but this isn't quite what you mean, since at that point it was still a private beta (tarsnap became publicly available the month after it moved to paid beta).I think as long as you make it clear from the start that your site isn't going to be free... |
Examples of sites which start free and later switch to paid? | joez: Pandora? They are in a very competitive industry but they were sticky enough that most people didn't go to a competitor.Also Hot or Not. They started as a free dating experiment but when they were overrun by spammers they switched to a paid model. Membership was still free.I don't know if any of that's relevant t... |
Charting Libraries? | booster: We've had some success with http://www.simplechart.netIt's fairly easy to use and can generate charts in PNG and JPEG format. |
What do you do when emails are no longer a one to one relationship? | noodle: its kind of a pain for the users, but the best solution might be to have them re-verify their email addresses on maybe a 6 month term.its how my 401k account works, since your email address might change at any given time along with your job. |
How much equity for first employee? | jnaut: I will suggest make it a three phase deal.In phase I0. Keep in mind your expectations and the fact that they are not to be let loose in this phase.1. Put the (very) brief of what you have done for the company in the last one year, so that all in the room are in the same picture. Also that you like the company a... |
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