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how would you help a person to choose an occupation? | stonemetal: >hates his job and wants to change his lifeLast time I checked there was a difference between your job and your life. If he hates his job then fine he can change that but if he hates his life(which I would assume since he wants to change it) then changing jobs is lip stick on a pig. Perhaps he just needs ... |
LA area entrepreneurs/meetups | AndrewWarner: I keep a list on my site: mixergy.com/eventsShoot me an email about yourself and who you want to meet. I'll make some intros to local events. |
how would you help a person to choose an occupation? | anigbrowl: What does he like to do with his spare money/time? What he enjoys most as a consumer is a good guide to what he'd like to be working on. Don't be intimidated, you might have to beat down reasons for why X isn't realistic. People were telling me what I wanted to do >10 years before I realized it myself and I ... |
what do you look for in a resume? | nathanb: For me, showing that you're familiar with general concepts is better than specific software. If you have extra space, write "version control", don't write "svn". If you don't have the space, don't bother. If your interview doesn't make me confident that you can and will learn the basics in an afternoon, no hir... |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | chops: Beach volleyball (doubles) was my obsession this summer. I spent 10-15 hours per week at the beach. It helped me to be more social (I made a lot of new friends), got in better shape, got a tan (that's something new to me), and everyone I know kept asking if I did something to my hair because sun gave me natural... |
how would you help a person to choose an occupation? | charliepark: This might work better for a tech- / web-oriented person, but it's certainly worth trying. I would encourage him to start a blog, with no set agenda about what he writes about, but with a goal to write for 30 minutes a day about whatever he's interested in, or to link to articles / videos / other blog post... |
what do you look for in a resume? | xal: I usually look for any signs of not being a left brained drone.E.g. nice typography, mention of creative hobbies, maybe a picture of you doing something fun, open source work etc. I generally don't care about anything you have done 6 months or more ago (degrees) and It's important to me that you are fun to spend t... |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | varjag: Documentary photography. It is in large part about social skills: getting access, asking questions, talking people in, negotiating through police fences etc. Something totally opposite to my dayjob. |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | twp: Paragliding and ultramarathon running. This year I took part in one of the hardest adventure races in the world, the Red Bull X-Alps. http://www.redbullxalps.com/ I'm GBR2. |
how would you help a person to choose an occupation? | pavel_lishin: Can he afford to go back to school? |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | tjpick: fishing, free diving, building bicycles, cycling, tramping (hiking, not standing on corners waiting for a 'ride'), music (keys/bass), reading, gardening, family, travel, cooking, eating.I'd like to do more drawing, but I can't say I actually do it very often. |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | yummyfajitas: It is almost certainly very viable, provided you don't plan to get bought out.Near as I can tell, a worker cooperative is nothing more than an LLP with a cool name. Many law offices, consultancies and family businesses are structured this way.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_partnership |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | garcara: If beer counts as a hobby (drinking it) then count me in there.. But more seriously I take cooking pretty seriously as well as fly fishing and running. |
what do you look for in a resume? | ramanujan: I actually am interested in seeing resumes that list more than just languages. E.g. if I see something like thisLinux (GNU textutils, LDAP, ...)
C/C++ (STL, Boost, gdb Archer, Cint)
Emacs/Elisp (Org-mode, ESS, IPython, Haskell-mode)
Python (Numpy, Scipy, rpy2, Matplotlib, Django)
R (ggplot2, rgl, etc.)
...I'... |
Where are the Chicago tech geeks? | yan: There's ChiSec for security people. Also, IIRC, tptacek is organizing a 'security for pentesters class' |
Best practices for community-edited site | jacquesm: We do this on daz.com, and use a single check on edits, users with more karma check up on users with less, people can not verify edits from within the same class 'A' address as the original edit.So far so good, in quite a few years of operation not a single deliberate act of vandalism. It's slowly getting lar... |
what do you look for in a resume? | ErrantX: Honesty.I think I have read one utterly honest CV (out of about 100 in the past year) - it was one of the less thrilling ones too.He's a great employee.(I know that's not what you were asking - but it strikes me as a useful tip. And yes, I know it does depend on the employer :) sometimes honesty holds you back... |
what do you look for in a resume? | EGF: A link to someones web presence |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | netsp: I am not sure. How can I be? There aren't many examples of this existing and something like this would have to be answered empirically. If it is roughly as good as more common structures, then you might have an uphill battle because those other structures have the benefit of other people's experience. To succeed... |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | petesalty: In San Francisco there's a very successful grocery store called Rainbow Grocery that's a worker co-operative. I think this kind of thing can work well on this scale but I doubt it scales very well. |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | jacoblyles: A worker cooperative has the incentive to maximize wage expenditures, which isn't exactly ideal for thriving in the marketplace. The traditional corporation's incentive to maximize profits is healthier from a competitive standpoint. |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | rg: There is one very interesting example at a fairly large scale, the John Lewis Partnership which runs very successful major department store and food store chains in the UK. This is a real partnership, owned by the permanent staff (no public shareholders), with a written constitution which sets out how the manageme... |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | netsp: Incidentally, Does anyone have a good resource for understanding leveraged buyouts and how they work? I understand that this broadly means funding the acquisition of a company by placing the debt on the target company's balance sheet but every explanation I have read just leaves too many obvious holes: The goal... |
what do you look for in a resume? | nobody_nowhere: Relevant experience. Successful projects. Evidence of meaningful contributions. Indications of clear thought and expression. Any of those things might get you to a phone screen and/or programming test.The details depend on your experience level and the job. Are you applying for an entry-level posit... |
Contract for freelance work | ScottWhigham: Yes, I use a contract. Depending on the work, yes, I will consult a lawyer. I had a client that, for $1000 advice-based contract, had a never-ending clause that said something to the effect of, "You are liable for all of our attorney costs and damages in the event something goes wrong." You need to watch ... |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | aaronblohowiak: I like consumer cooperatives like REI and credit unions. The incentive should be to serve people! The profit motive is just one way of trying to achieve that... |
How do you stay (somewhat) healthy? | IsaacSchlueter: Taekwondo. |
What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? | chaosprophet: Aircraft modelling. Particularly the executive jets. Time passes by in a whirl. Either that or Microsoft Flight Simulator. |
Apartment search site that doesn't suck | pg: Are you in the NYC area? http://renthop.com |
what do you look for in a resume? | bayareaguy: The resumes I like the most explicitly list the languages, platforms, environments and tools the candidate has been working with for the past 8-12 months separately from the larger list of things properly characterizing their full experience. |
Apartment search site that doesn't suck | mildweed: http://populet.com is in beta right now. Soon it will be an amazing apartment search site (not to mention great tool for landlords). |
ASK HN: Is a worker-cooperative a model for sustainable and successful business? | iterationx: maybe look at the amish or the hutterites |
Entrepreneur or Hacker? Or Both | mahmud: Life long academic. I spend 4 hours a day writing business communication, and about 6 or so programming. When I am speaking to people I am always teaching them something or learning something from them; a very strange take on sales, sure, but I approach sales as instruction, introducing the other to the possibi... |
Startup related Mistakes you've done | mahmud: Not working harder on my business when I had a job. I wish I had done most of what I am doing now when I had plenty of income and plenty of time. |
Ask HN:Is anyone working on crime related sites? | yan: Always found it interesting, but haven't worked on it. Only thing that comes to mind are EveryBlock's(.com) crime sections. |
Ask HN:Is anyone working on crime related sites? | ErrantX: The question is what do you do with the data?And where do you get cash?If your working closely with the Police forces etc. I suppose they might show an interest. But we work with police forces and I can tell you they are a pain to convince on "new technology" :) |
Ask HN:Is anyone working on crime related sites? | ilamont: This mashup involves official crime data from the Chicago PD:http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/Maps, charts, etc. ... but I don't see how it's monetized. They've expanded to other cities recently (see list at bottom) |
Really great Python code | yan: django is a very tidy and pythonic code base. Ditto for twisted, but twisted might be more complicated than what you're trying to do (edit: or not). The recent Tornado server is of a an approachable size and from the look of it, very well engineered. |
Why this submission has been killed/disappeared? | yan: I believe the original poster simply deleted his submission. |
Where do you find talent to work on one-off tech problems? | noodle: jobs.freelanceswitch.comthe site itself is a reasonable community of freelancers, and they pay attention to the job board. |
Really great Python code | kakooljay: There's tons of Python examples on Toby Segaran's blog:
http://blog.kiwitobes.comI know you've read some Python books, but you might want to check out Segaran's books too. The examples in Programming Collective Intelligence [http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321] are all Python too I think.. |
Really great Python code | d0mine: * How to Write a Spelling Corrector http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html* Case Study: Metaclass Hacking in fetchmailconf http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch09s01.html |
Really great Python code | mace: The Python standard has some pure Python modules may be worth looking at. Doug Hellmann's Python Module of the Week, http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/contents.html, is good place to start.I'd recommend looking at code that interests you. It will make reading the code more interesting and perhaps more useful. ... |
Review my friends website: plushcuffs.com | pedalpete: Looks like a cool product.
SEO is VERY effective, if done right. Completely ineffective if done wrong.
As far as AB testing goes. I believe you have to have enough traffic to make it worth while.I would probably suggest starting with a design template which has a good call to action, or get a designer who ... |
How do you go about buying books? | yan: I add them to my Amazon wishlist to keep track of what I am intending to buy, then usually check half.com or ebay. If you frequent used book stores, they sometimes have good deals. I also sometimes order books for my Kindle, but that's suboptimal since I like physical books. |
How do you go about buying books? | arfrank: My process as of late has to use a site called bigwords.com. It is a comparison engine for a bunch of the online book sellers, but it doesn't allow you to keep any data stored with them so its not really useful except for the final buying process. |
How do you go about buying books? | pg: http://abebooks.com |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | adamhowell: I think HN has one of the web’s most successful communities, but my interests skew more towards the front-end and I’ve wanted to create an HN for webdesign for awhile now. At the moment I’m the only one posting links and designs but I’m hoping the site could eventually gain enough traction to truly thrive o... |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | icey: What is the difference between the boxes that have text and the ones that have images?I got a little overloaded looking at it; but I'm also not a designer.I think the site looks nice... just a little overwhelming. |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | bgnm2000: as a front end guy myself, I like it a lotwhats it built on? |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | apsurd: On first open, I immediately thought "whoa, I'm lost."
Then I thought... "way too much effort to parse this information."Of course its almost surely because I am so used to the HN simplicity and directness. But it is indeed hard to parse for me. Lists are very very friendly. I find myself being able to parse HN... |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | rmp: When creating a username I was slightly thrown off by the inconsistency of calling it a 'username' versus a 'display name'. At first (w/o reading helptext) I thought clicking 'Create display name' was going to take me to another page to create a new name. Maybe think about going with one or the other, I would pref... |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | tptacek: Onebox. Happy with it. Flailed for awhile with Asterix. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | hapless: Asterisk. Most of the SMB-targeted VOIP systems are hellishly awful. Asterisk won't be any easier, or less stupid, but at least you can work around the brain damage. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | sgoraya: We have been using Ringcentral with a total head count of 6 people. It was a breeze to setup (web interface) and you can route calls and extensions to different numbers, etc. I've suggested their service to my friends.Pros: Easy setup: allocate extensions, routing, voice mail boxes, etc. Cost effective, in... |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | muckster: I've just been through this.1) Skype for business isn't. They have less-than-zero customer service. One example: http://bit.ly/4fYnwz. They don't have any support option apart from their forums. And Google Voice is limited to windows PCs. No OS X, Linux, mobile or hardware options.2) Expensive3) Damned expens... |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | pingswept: Talkswitch.Terrible. Big mistake. Low quality. Bad enough that explaining why would be traumatic enough that I won't do it. I'd still be grinding my teeth hours later. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | jseliger: "Avaya Partner ACS?"This is what we like at Seliger + Associates (see www.seliger.com ). It's a) not overly expensive and b) incredibly reliable. I went through the phone process this summer and came out with Avaya because a) we'd already used it and b) it's really, really reliable.At some point I'm going to ... |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | mattdawson: One usability detail you might consider:I like how you follow HN's lead and make read content headlines a lighter gray. But there's no corresponding effect for the screenshot slides. That definitely reduces the usefulness of the read state. |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | petesalty: I didn't mind the layout as much as some people here, but I think that having a list version wouldn't be bad. Would it be possible to allow the user to choose?As for the idea - great! I already found a few points of interest and that's just from scanning the front page. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | datums: Take a look at trixbox (asterisk) http://www.trixbox.org/downloads , it's easy to install has all the basic functionality you need. You can also setup the IVR to route calls to specific people. I replaced a windows t1 voice system with this for 25 people, 8 were remotely connecting to it over SIP. If you don't ... |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | jdp: It would be nice if it saved all the things I upvoted. Other than that, this site has been added to my daily (hourly?) routine. |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | Travis: My plate is so full these days that I won't use a new site / service unless I can consume via RSS. Didn't seem to find a feed on the page, which makes it effectively inaccessible for me. |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | saturdayplace: The design is confusing. Not because there's too much information (there's not) but because there's no hierarchy. You haven't told me where to look. There's not an element on the page that has any more visual importance than any other. Comparing the site to HN makes me think these are going to be ran... |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | pclark: Communigate |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | incomethax: My first impression was that it is very difficult to quickly scan which articles I want to look at, but as I look at it, it seems that it's more usable because I can see what's behind the link. Maybe a combination of the two strategies might help? |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | CyberFonic: I used to maintain PABXs for small businesses. Pre-VoIP PABXs are expensive, inflexible and expansion often traumatic. Enterprisey VoIP systems from major vendors are over-priced and they get you on the extras. I recommend hosted VoIP for those who don't want to administer their own phone system and in-h... |
Selling Business Idea/Source Code | cperciva: Just move on.Regardless of how fantastic your idea is, the fact remains that there are millions of people out there with what they believe are fantastic ideas -- most of which aren't. For someone to distinguish between fantastic and non-fantastic ideas takes a significant investment in time, and no sane pers... |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | cpr: What about for a mostly Mac-based small business?RingCentral looks good, but seems heavily Windows-centric. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | blender: Freepbx.org |
Selling Business Idea/Source Code | joubee: Interesting :) Would you like to share any details on the concept? You can email me at: joubee{dot}com or I'll keep checking back here. It really depends on how 'big' the idea is. Is it scalable? Is there a business model? Are there other less obvious benefits to working on the project. Love to know about it t... |
Graph theory books? | fmendez: You should try 'Algorithms in C++ Part 5: Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)' i had lots of fun with that one :).note: fun == countless nights solving problems :Pnote2: link to the book http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Part-Graph-3rd-Pt-5/dp/0201... |
Selling Business Idea/Source Code | joubee: Also - how committed are you to this idea and why? Will you just forget about it when it doesn't magically make you a billion overnight. Will you see this through? |
Monitization via Job Boards? | noodle: not a big deal to just create your own. there are good things available out there. ex:http://www.jobberbase.com/ |
Monitization via Job Boards? | JacobAldridge: My understanding (note: limited) is that some of the more profitable job boards have been DIY - 37 Signals and Fog Creek [1] come to mind.It seems that they offer a small number of job ads at any one time - the boutique nature of the offering increases their value. So if you only want to sell, say, 5 - 8... |
Favorites on HN? | makecheck: You can go to your profile and click the link next to "saved:". It shows whatever you've upvoted or submitted, I believe. |
What phone systems do you use for your business? | chrismoos: I use Asterisk, managed via FreePBX. It works pretty well if you don't have that many users. I use a SIP trunking service with a DID. Siphon (SIP client) for my iPhone, Telephone on OS X, and also forwarding to my normal cell.I've heard really good things about Shoretel, but I know its very expensive. |
Graph theory books? | srsamarthyam: boost graph library (books are available for this topic) |
Feedback on side-project Webdesignerd (an HN for webdesign) | chrisrhee: Maybe it's just me, but I thought the [+] icon in the comments was a toggle to show/hide extra content, not upvote the comment. |
Need a Terms of Service template for online marketplace | callmeed: ours is very basic, in fact it might be too basic:http://www.nextproof.com/terms/
our transaction fee is actually spelled out on our pricing page only
http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/
(I've been experimenting with different fees so I didn't want to forget and not update it in both places) |
Graph theory books? | jdoliner: These are good books for graph based algorithms, which may well be what you're looking for. But for a more proof based approach you could take a look at this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=HuDFMwZOwcsC&printsec=f... |
Need a Terms of Service template for online marketplace | alexmacgregor: Can we see a beta version?Whilst I don't think they have a business model worth following, listia overall is a good execution. |
Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) | ankeshk: Not sure if its cool making an offer here... but if you run a startup, send me your twitter id after logging into ReTweetize.com (My twitter id = @ankeshk or email me ankeshk AT ankeshkothari.com) - and I'll add 20,000 points to your account. Not a lot but should get a few hundred visitors to your startup sit... |
Please Review my New Site | yannis: I like the looks of it. I just couldn't find anything else than restaurants? Did I miss something? How about a tourist coming to Bangkok any places of interest? |
Please Review my New Site | teeja: It's neatly designed and inviting/friendly-looking.I like what you've done with the Google maps section, I've not seen anyone do that with neighborhoods before. (Google can be a powerful ally for such maps.)Since I've never been to Thailand (people who visit might want your page very useful) it'd be good to incl... |
Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) | warwick: It feels like a spamming service to me, just with a twist to make it less detectable. |
Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) | danw: So you are encouraging people to spam their friends? |
Review my Twitter App (ReTweetize.com) | Jim_Neath: Unless you've got a way to monetise this, I'd give up right now. |
Need a Terms of Service template for online marketplace | ScottWhigham: No clue but I know that I'd try http://www.docstoc.com/ if I was looking. |
Selling Business Idea/Source Code | ScottWhigham: I'm initially with cperciva ("Just move on") but the thought did occur to me that this might just a good student project or pet project to help put you through school. If it's such a great idea, then once you have it developed you'll be able to shop it around and get some help. Plus it might be a great re... |
Really great Python code | CyberFonic: I have gleaned many good ideas from the python libraries that are shipped with the standard CPython distribution. I found the implementation of the various TCP, HTTP, etc server classes very interesting. Learnt quite a bit by reading the Tkinter support stuff. |
I think my startup is going to fail, what should I do? | nittin123: Might be something very GREAT BREAK THROUGH is waiting for you. These all incidences are creating the path for that BREAK THROUGH, because if you did get success in any of your attempt (you mentioned) then might be you would not have attempted the other one. But you did and even if that one failed then you a... |
Graph theory books? | infinity: There is a book "Graph Theory" by Reinhard Diestel. There used to be an online version as a pdf, but it seems to be gone now. The Archive has it:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/...
(the pdf is almost 3 Mb). |
Why duckduckgo API only search for Techcrunch? | noodle: "hackernews" doesn't work. "hacker news" returns stuff. most searches i tried return things.http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker%20news&o=x |
Comet in Python--suggestions? | ash: Check out Spawning [1], which uses eventlet [2], which uses greenlet [3].You will likely have problems with Windows though...[1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Spawning/
[2]: http://eventlet.net
[3]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet |
Good ways to become a professional data miner? | gtani: I would learn thoroughly lib/frameworks like "R" (and ggplot2, very cool), weka and the python suite numpy / scipy, matplotlib-----------------------------look at all the books out now. I think Witten/Franke (authors of weka) was the first one titled "Data Mining" but there's a slew of htem, read Amazon reviews... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | ErrantX: That's a really intriguing idea (I too noticed how pg gets people to read drafts - I started doing the same here and there with varying results).The issue would be it would have to be fairly private, right. In some way at least. Because if the idea is to preview and make suggestions for improvements / revision... |
Trusted JSON Parser, why doesnt browsers themselves provide one? | yannis: You can check if native JSON is available by: if (typeof(JSON) === 'object') {
alert('native JSON may be available.');
}
Three major browsers already include support for native JSON parsing: IE8, Firefox 3.5, and Chrome 3.Safari 4 does not currently support the standard, but its underly... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | petercooper: FWIW, the community at the newish ProBlogger.com does stuff like this. (I have no connection with it other than being one of the first to sign up and a prolific poster over there :))But, actually, I'd see value in something like you're suggesting where the "reviewers" aren't professional bloggers or even "... |
Anyone interested in forming a community of blog post reviewers? | m_eiman: For a blend of the two you could do something like:* A draft can only be viewed by reviewers approved by the writer
* When a post is published, it also turns world-readable on the reviewer site, including the reviewers' comments
* Let the writers add any reviewer they want to their list of approved reviewersTh... |
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