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Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue | btilly: The last one that I wound up petering out on was an explanation of the Kelly Criterion on optimal gambling strategies.I did quite a bit, see http://elem.com/~btilly/kelly_criterion/ and http://elem.com/~btilly/kelly_criterion/betting-returns.html for what I did. However I petered out once I had completely figu... |
What source code is worth studying? | colbyolson: Could anyone recommend something for Python? If something is out there for ruby, there's got to be at least one thing for python. |
Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's? | aaroneous: C-Corps have the $800 minimum franchise fee waived for the first tax year. Otherwise, no - there's not a legal way to do it. |
Review my idea for a notes app | dryicerx: Interesting concept, I think I'd personally use it if it's implemented :)I am trying to see if it's possible to do in a completely webapp type method (you can't really expect web developers to integrate code on server side to support this). A definitely possible method is a browser plug-in some way, if so I s... |
Can't reply to comments? | andrewljohnson: Maybe not just you, but not me. |
The future of the editor's human touch | JCThoughtscream: Like hell it's dying. Or, rather, like hell I'd let it. The entire purpose of Thoughtscream Media was to find a niche for proper, yet profitable, journalism even amidst the collapse of the previous forms of the industry. The struggles in defining such terms with so little to work off of is one of the r... |
Can't reply to comments? | allenbrunson: there are any number of reasons you might not be able to respond to a comment. if a submission gets killed, further comments on it are usually not allowed. as a thread gets more deeply nested, there is a delay before the reply link appears, which is to give people time to cool down before saying things th... |
Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's? | dangrossman: You can register an LLC in almost any state; you don't have to live or work there. You just need a registered agent -- some address with a person available to take official mail for your business -- in the state. And there are companies that sell registered agent services for much less than the $800/year t... |
Can't reply to comments? | pg: You can't reply to comments that are over 45 days old (replying to old comments was popular with spammers), and there is a delay before the reply link appears on deeply nested comments, in order to create drag on flamewars. |
Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's? | monological: You should incorporate in Delaware due to their favorable taxation policies and their relatively low yearly franchise tax ($200). Check out http://www.bizfilings.com. They will even act as a registered agent for you. |
Guide/Tutorial for designing a WebUI from scratch? | Chirag: If you you want to write HTMl code from the scratch.
Go to http://projectdeploy.org/ and download complete Skeleton structure based on your requirements.Then head over to http://speckyboy.com/ this has the best set of Tutorials and Showcases. Programming for web is fairly very simple. |
Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's? | skullsplitter: Thats all really helpful actually. Its clear though that there is still one outstanding question, i.e. does CA have a specific requirement that even if youre incorporated out of state you are still responsible for the $800/yr ftb tax.I think Im going to register in Oregon b/c I would have access to indiv... |
I'm a Twitter squatter with many common words and company names. | pclark: doesn't twitter turn accounts over fairly easily? like if I emailed them with a rar.com email and said "we want rar twitter account" they turn it over? |
Any way of avoiding the $800/yr FTB tax on CA LLC's? | patio11: Next time you hear your politician complaining about corporate fat cats who don't pay their fair share, vote for the other guy. |
Interesting Ideas You're Too Lazy To Persue | ganley: A spelling checker for HN headlines. |
Python (turtle on a USB flash drive) | ErrantX: Yup absolutely!http://www.portablepython.com/ |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | brk: You are probably much better off for now with an outsourced shop instead of a full-time person on-board.You could also look at some of the companies like HubSpot that basically train you to do marketing and provide tools to measure effectiveness. |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | revorad: Since you are asking for marketing help, you should include a little bit in this post itself. Why lose a chance to brag about your great app on HN? Plus, you might get a bit more directed help from people who might know about your sector, but can't be bothered to google "Bouldr" (http://bouldr.net/), figure ou... |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | byrneseyeview: In theory, picking a marketing person is easy, since the person who's best at marketing is the one who convinces you.But as a marketing guy, I have to point out that the big mistake many people make in marketing their products is to go too big, too early -- if you have something great, being one genuine ... |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | edw519: Alternatively, you could get a friend or intern to help with the technical work and do the marketing yourself. This approach may make sense for several reasons. You have more passion for your product that any outsider. Also, it may be easier for you to learn what to do than for someone new to learn about the... |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | hajrice: Hi! Emil Hajric here, I'm a pretty good marketing person.mail me at hajrice@gmail.com if you're interested... |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | barnaby: My current startup has 2 developers and 2 marketing people... and honestly, I made a mistake. It should be 3 developers and 1 sales/marketing person.Marketing people will purport to find out what kind of product the market wants, but will overlook actually getting people to want to buy said product... sales pe... |
Keep cookies from multiple sites seperate | jm4: Umm... Cookies from different sites are already separate. A cookie is set for a particular domain and your browser only allows servers in that domain to read it. You don't have to worry about some random site reading a cookie set by your bank's website.What may be of concern are the tracking and analytics cookies.... |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | known: You may try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action |
Keep cookies from multiple sites seperate | az: You can easily disable third-party cookies in the options of your browser. |
Should I go to Startup School? | mollylynn: Not worth it!Learn on the job and network for free (or very little money). Such 'orchestrated' startup events tend to be populated with consultants, accountants and lawyers who want your business.Good luck. |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | obie: Hook me up obie@hashrocket.com (thanks) |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | ErrantX: There is a HN Google Group set up for this if you dont get enough replies here:Dhttp://groups.google.com/group/hn-google-wave-invite-pool?ln...Spreadsheet of emails here:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ar8He-EcPg54dDVvRjZp... |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | KB: Invite. Yes Please.kyle.bolton @ gmail |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | tseng_mike: Hi, can you invite me also. mike.t.lee@gmail.com
Thanks |
Effective use of Twitter? | tjr: See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881307 |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | mattdennewitz: yes, please! [my username] at gmail |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | saurabh: oh please do! risqer [ @ ] gmail |
Should I go to Startup School? | unohoo: You could reduce the costs by probably getting some cheap acco via AirBnb.com or hooking up with other attendees.On the flip side, think of the potential of some awesome networking that you could do. ultimately, i think no one else can make that call for you, but I'd definitely spend way less on food / transpor... |
Should I go to Startup School? | iamelgringo: I can't tell you whether you should go or not, but I can say what I got out of the last startup school.I met a number of great people at the last startup school, several of whom I interact with regularly one and a half years later. One person I met almost became my cofounder this fall, and still might lat... |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | mcherm: If you've still got them, I'd welcome an invite. mcherm@mcherm.com. Thanks. |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | revorad: Yes please! fatclownintown@gmail.com |
Do you buy related domains early on (.net, .org, similar spellings)? | timcederman: I quite like seeing what showed up on cederman.net (I've had cederman.com for 10 years now) |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | p01nd3xt3r: i want an invite; arion.hardison [@] gmail.com |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | cb33: connor.baskauskas [@] gmail.com if you have any invites left.Thanks! |
Please review my new startup. [Free account for HN community] | NEPatriot: liranbaron at gmail dot com
thanks |
How do I find a marketing person for my startup? | JayNeely: Good marketing is about passion and the ability to communicate it. Someone on your own team is always going to have more passion for your product than an outsourced service.If I were in your position, my first tactic would be to search within my existing user community for people with the skills I need. Put a... |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | eposts: If you still have any left [username] @ gmail.com
Thanks! |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | dylanz: Please, dylans@gmail.com. Thanks! |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | AlleyRow: Invites have been sent accordingly |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | rmason: Please send an invite to rmason@acd.net |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | Psyonic: If you still have any I'd like one at [username] [@] gmail.com. Thanks! |
I want to build my own Android phone. Where do I start? | dystopia: I'd probably start with phone components from Bug Labs:
http://www.buglabs.net/productsMaybe start off with some of their modules for a base phone and hang out on their forums for a while. |
I want to build my own Android phone. Where do I start? | wmf: http://hbmobile.org/ |
I want to build my own Android phone. Where do I start? | cmos: This is where I would go when I build my own phone. Wrap it in metal with a hinge to mimic a standard flip phone.http://www.opencellphone.org |
I want to build my own Android phone. Where do I start? | eli: I believe the Neo FreeRunner can run Android: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_HardwareI'd suggest you start with some sort of kit unless you're a real whiz. It's not a small project. |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | catch404: I'll jump in the queue! maplambda [at] gmail _dot_ _com_ |
Python (turtle on a USB flash drive) | cool-RR: Check out my PythonTurtle:http://pythonturtle.org |
Wave Shortcuts & Hidden Features + Anyone Need An Invite? | japanesejay: hi! i added to the spreadsheet too. If someone from this thread can invite me, i'll share the invites too. |
I want to do a video tutorial for cheap on OSX. What tools should I use? | japanesejay: Ideally you'll want to do some full on video production. If you want to do it for cheap, you can use:- Free Screen cast tools to record your desktop or just the app window.
- Use some audio capturing tool to record your voice over. Best if you have a mic and can control the eq. I think quicktime Pro does h... |
What are some other uses for folding@home style computing? | jacquesm: stress analysismatter simulationweather predictionray tracingdata miningdistributed search engineEspecially the first three would give you something to put your teeth in because they are decidedly non-local and it would be pretty tricky to get that to work in a coarse grained parallel environment with a high ... |
I want to do a video tutorial for cheap on OSX. What tools should I use? | ApolloRising: Well if you can spend $100 try: http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm |
I want to do a video tutorial for cheap on OSX. What tools should I use? | mvidal01: Quicktime X to record the screen and Audacity. $0.VLC can also capture the screen I believe. |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | edw519: In case you want to maintain your privacy, do what I did... \/\/\/\/
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Java & SQL advice | icey: Hibernate is a fairly popular way of dealing with OR mapping in Java:https://www.hibernate.org/Unfortunately, you'll end up trading off code cleanliness with XML configuration files, but I believe there are tools out there that help with the generation and maintenance of those files.I feel that I may have missed ... |
Java & SQL advice | justinsb: Reflection (which you'll be using anyway) can access private fields. See Class.getDeclaredFields.Check out JPA or Hibernate & Hibernate Annotations for the 'standard' way to do this.I would just use JPA/Hibernate, rather than writing your own mini-ORM. But you could equally borrow the JPA Annotations and us... |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | hopeless: Nope, it's everything except my face. Cameras are great for hiding behind ;-)http://www.shutterscouts.com/about.html |
Java & SQL advice | mavelikara: Check out iBatis - it might be the solution you are looking for. |
Java & SQL advice | jacquesm: pivo, thanks, I did get to read it. |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | joeythibault: Nothing wrong with adding personality to your site. I don't think it will detract or add anything to it, unless you're either a supermodel or the fly. |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | fjabre: There are some people who won't like it. I guess it depends on the type of marketing you're doing.. but I'd have a hard time buying an iPhone is I saw Jobs' face on the back. |
I want to do a video tutorial for cheap on OSX. What tools should I use? | earl: start with screenr -- www.screenr.com. I saw them a while ago and bookmarked them. Basically, they do screen capture + video recording from your video camera. Not amazing quality but the (free) price is right. |
I want to build my own Android phone. Where do I start? | zokier: Qualcomm seems to have some nice 3G products that are supposedly compatible with Android. Some drivers are included with Android, but you may need to write some of your own.But seriously, you don't just walk into Mordor, nor do you just build a phone. Building a basic 2G phone that does only voice and nothing e... |
What source code is worth studying? | revorad: R internals - http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | Travis: There is some research to show that a "real world feel" is a critical component of a website (from the "What makes a website credible" study from a few years back. Having a picture of you will go some ways towards doing that. I put my pic on my website.If you do this, please make sure to put a good pic up -- ... |
Marketing to non-techie professionals | cgherb911: It seems you're focusing on tactics to reach these prospective customers. I suggest you focus on your product's positioning and your current marketing strategy. You'll have to shape these first before you can begin using the correct tactic. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | yrashk: it makes you feel entreprisey! |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | arebop: SharePoint is essentially an HTML + JScript + MSIE-DOM interface to a network file share full of MSOffice documents. It's a modular ASP.NET application with some modules that help you use the Web to emulate the shared folder setup your IT middle-managers know and love. There are some minor modules, such as a la... |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | unalone: This is why you teach yourself to have a distinct writing style. It gives you the personality and the privacy.When I launched a site in February with a friend, we got a lot of email feedback complimenting us directly for our About page, which had snippets like "Rory is pretty much certainly a douche" strewn ab... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | shaddi: Enterprise wiki, sharing, and collaboration. From Microsoft, which the buying of never got anyone fired for. |
How to find the right developer for the job? | jackfoxy: Have you tried Craig’s List? I used to get good applicants in the Bay Area from there, but it’s been awhile. The last time I hired the economy was better and it was darned hard to find anyone I even wanted to interview. My best results have always been to entice someone I know away from their current position... |
Java & SQL advice | mthomas: I've had success using Spring's JDBCTemplate http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr... and their various RowMappers http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr... |
Marketing to non-techie professionals | JayNeely: Search for online communities for, or even web 1.0 news sites specifically targeted at, people within your target market. Doing a search for "insurance agent forum" instantly yields good results. Try similar searches with keywords like 'community', 'news', 'social network', 'blog'(s), etc. instead of 'forum'.... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | percept: It's basically groupware: document sharing, content management and messaging, ideal for those already working in a MS environment.I was just mentioning to someone that over the last couple of years a lot of the government sector jobs that used to read "ASP.NET/C#" now say "SharePoint." I'm assuming COTS is bei... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | jasonlbaptiste: why has no one just made a really easy alternative to this? sure there's things like huddle and google sites, but they're still way too difficult. I have shit to share with people in my company and i want to do it simply without tons of bloat or difficulty. In essence:posterous:blogging :: ???:sharepo... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | wglb: In addition to the good comments here, it seems that this is a way to do collaboration within an enterprise without having to deal with DBAs and other highly managed federations. It is an end-around to a lot of those.As to why they don't look to free alternatives, in MS enterprise shops, that question never come... |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | kyro: We opted for very stern and serious photos.http://looklookbuy.com/about |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | ashr: This sounds like market research :) |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | roqetman: It is something that managers love, and admins hate. It is an over-engineered mess that doesn't do what you'd expect it to do, but does a lot of what you don't need it to do. After supporting it for two years, I was happy to drop it for several other solutions that combined did what Sharepoint is supposed to ... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | qeorge: It allows companies to build knowledge portals for their organizations. It provides building blocks in the form of wikis, forums, and knowledgebases to achieve this goal. If you've ever used Community Server you'd find Sharepoint very similar.I believe it also includes document repositories, collaboration, and ... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | tptacek: It is the Microsoft Access of web applications. |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | tptacek: If you are one person, no. Don't promote the fact that you're a one-person shop.If you're multiple people, plenty of startups (Kayak and Meebo come to mind) put pictures up. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | michaelneale: It seems like there is growing interest in integrating products with it (non MS products) - might be a market growing for add ons, who knows. I only hear screams of pain. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | highplains: makes a born and bred Linux person have panic attacks trying to support it.Stay far away if you dont know MS products. I deal with it now, im not an MS person, its rough. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | DanielBMarkham: SharePoint does everything.Think of it as a document posting, storage, and workflow system, where documents can be plan text or html, or any kind of office doc.So, for instance, you can easily set up a web form for people to fill out to get a service, then set up the routing for that form to get approve... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | jacquesm: Netware: the sequel.And another nice opportunity for lock-in to ms-centric document formats. |
Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? | JangoSteve: It's hard to give a definite answer without knowing who your target market is or who you are. If you are a B2C, connecting personally is good, everyone loves the underdog startup. If you are a B2B, it may be difficult to land large contracts with that sort of persona. |
Things to know before Startup School | Timothee: BART will get you from San Francisco to Berkeley. (and other places of course) It might or might not be useful depending on where you're staying. It is recommended though because the parking situation will most likely be pretty bad. More info at http://bart.gov/ |
Things to know before Startup School | mechanical_fish: BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit. IMHO only three of those words are guaranteed to be true, but I guess they didn't want to call it BAT.From the south bay, I believe the place to catch the BART is Fremont. I like rapid transit and do not especially like parking in Berkeley even on a good day, so this is ... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | ironsam: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sharepoint |
I want to do a video tutorial for cheap on OSX. What tools should I use? | teeja: For sound I'd recommend the much-underrecognized built-in Garageband... better than Audacity. ('Name' artists have done whole CD's with it) ... It has many, many fine plug-ins & effects, if you'll be using music. |
Things to know before Startup School | dasht: "Cheap hotels" depends a bit on your standards. There are a number of motels - a little bit, mmm.... well, rudimentary especially along University Ave. that are the least expensive stays in town. I've stayed in them, multiple times, and found them satisfactory for the budget. If you want quality, there's seve... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | holdenc: Sharepoint is typical blasé Microsoft all-things-to-all-people collaborative communications software. Unfortunately most alternatives also lack inspiration. |
Things to know before Startup School | jlm382: It'd be smart of a Berkeley-based startup hosted an after-party... tell the world that Berkeley has its share of tech startups too.Or you can crash the frats :) |
Things to know before Startup School | lyime: Great place to eat."The Asian Ghetto" Its on Durant and Telegraph
a small area with tons of different types of food. |
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