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What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | dan_sim: Actually, I'm particularly proud of stopping publishing content... |
early project and new direct competitor | vabmit: Is this just a project? Or, is it a start-up?If it's just a project, then it's probably just a hobby and you can make the decision based on how much you enjoy your hobby.If it's meant to be a start-up, then I think you need to focus on producing some hard data on market size and potential revenue before you ev... |
Review my app, twitthegame.com (sports on twitter) | boundlessdreamz: 1. I would like to know what I will be able to do after i login before i actually go through with the login2. Would like the automatic follow to be optional.3. How are you planning to popularize this ? |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | amichail: I'm still proud of my first (though not most important) conference publication: http://opsis.sf.net |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | mr_pants: I've started 2 business. The first was renting inflatables for kid's birthday parties. It was a small, part-time business that I started to get experience marketing, dealing with customers, etc. It was fun and quite a work-out (they weigh from 300 to 500 lbs). I sold to a competitor when I moved and essen... |
Review my app, twitthegame.com (sports on twitter) | protomyth: I hate to say this, but you are moving into an area with some mighty litigious organizations. They really don't care about fair use (..no account or description..) so watch out.I like the idea and wish you success. |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | hikari17: From a ways back, but still a pleasant memory:Richardson, Dean; Gibbs, H. M.; Koch, S. W., "Computer simulations of fully cascadable picosecond all-optical logic using nonlinear semiconductor etalons"IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (ISSN 0018-9197), vol. 27, March 1991, p. 804-808.http://adsabs.harvard.ed... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | jgrahamc: The Geek Atlas. I'm proud of it because every single review has been stellar, and I've heard from many happy readers. Although the peer review of editor, publisher and critics is welcome, there's nothing someone who's creative likes more than feedback from the end user or reader. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | HeyLaughingBoy: No. Sex, in and of itself, doesn't solve anything except horniness. And the horniness comes back real quick with a vengeance when you're college aged :-)Do everything possible to get out of your room and meet women while you are in college. Be neatly dressed: doesn't mean trendy or a fashionista, just w... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | Travis: I've actually got a manuscript at a journal right now. I'm a CS guy, but I work in public health, so my paper is going to be in an epi journal. It was some work (2 years worth) on analyzing open ended text responses (you know, at the end of a survey, "is there anything not covered here that you would like to ... |
What is the worst user interface in any webapp that you know of ? | Travis: Salesforce has never particularly impressed me.But by far the worst UI has to be the Authorize.net one. It is absolutely miserable. And they're HUGE, and super high profile. Why can't they have a decent site?Godaddy's upselling isn't really "UI", but I'm not a fan of them either. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | Travis: It's not going to help you solve any underlying problems, but it will at least lead you to one big conclusion: sex doesn't have to be a big deal. You'll do it, realize, "hey, that was fun... but not as big of a deal as I thought."That isn't to say that sex isn't important, emotional, or connecting -- just that... |
Making an application work offline | bensummers: Check out HTML5's offline features:http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/While it's not fully implemented anywhere, Safari and Firefox implement some useful bits.It also has the bonus that your offline code can work on the iPhone and Android. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | iterationx: Getting a viral std is 1-way function. You'll definitely get HPV and maybe herpes.If you are socially awkward that means you have terrible body language. Read a few books about body language. Why don't you work on your social circle, get more friends then you will get invited to more parties, then when g... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | JoeAltmaier: Many applicants; few chosen. Since almost all are passed anyway, the Sequoia factor is noise. |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | hegemonicon: This may get voted down as it hasn't gone through anything resembling a review but...My blog. It's the first thing I've ever done not on the school->college->job path that gets set for us when we're young that I've stuck with and done (I think) a GOOD job on. |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | wheels: I don't think there's that much mystique around getting rejected by VCs right after coming out of YC -- most of the YC companies don't raise VC immediately. |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | f00: Disagree. Chris's point regards direct seed-stage investment from a VC, where a "pass" on funding an A-round indicates that the VC lost interest over time (suggesting that they might be disappointed in execution, think the market is no longer there, etc.).My understanding is that Sequoia is simply providing more ... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | pg: Top tier firms like Sequoia already have a de facto right of first refusal on the entire startup market. They already see every deal. So if Sequoia passing on a deal deterred other funds from investing, they wouldn't be able to invest in anything.Which in turn is why Sequoia was willing to invest in us without im... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | akkartik: The investment means YC will now advise more companies in every batch, so it will have to spread itself thinner when it comes to advice and introductions. |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | robg: Weird Science. We all want to make something beautiful. The only differences are what goals we're after. |
Mac vs. PC? | yan: You should create a poll if you're polling.http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | grellas: Here is an informed discussion on this issue by a serial-entrepreneur-turned-VC fellow who specifically addresses the points raised in Chris Dixon's piece and generally comes out in favor of startups being able to take VC seed funding without serious risks: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/10/18/vc-seed... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | ryanjmo: What if the founders don't seek investment from Sequoia after the initial YC investment. In this case Sequoia would never have had the opportunity to pass.I imagine there is no 'you have to request funding from Sequoia' clause that comes with the YC money. In fact, from my understanding, you don't have to ta... |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | jacquesm: Primerhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | paulreiners: Maybe this article:"Cellular automata and music: Using the Java language for algorithmic music composition":
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-camusic/Or maybe one of my other developerWorks articles:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?s... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | nivi: When your existing investors don't maintain their pro rata in a new financing, prospective investors will wonder why. This assumes that the existing investors: (1) Have already invested in your company (duh), (2) Have some knowledge of the company (e.g. served on the board), (3) Make it a habit to invest in follo... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | drhowarddrfine: An article in Byte magazine back when that meant something. |
Extending C | yan: Wrap some preprocessor macros in a header file, if you must. Or use a macro language to preprocess your source, such as m4, although that's probably dirty. |
Mac vs. PC? | bgnm2000: I think it depends what you want it for clearly. I'm a fan of macs solely because you can still run windows if you need. However my main computer is still a PC (I use my mac for coding). |
Mac vs. PC? | pivo: I use both, but my PC runs Linux |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | nailer: Linux Network Administration 4The Linux Pocketbook Volume 3The Advanced Linux Pocketbook Volume 3Australian Linux JournalMy column in PC AuthorityVarious man pages in RHEL - resolv.conf, the default sudoers file, some bits in Virt Manager.Some pages in the RHCT/E/A courseware.My blog, which had 25,000 visitors ... |
Extending C | acg: Perhaps the way that C++ started (CFront): write a front-end to the language that maps your additional language constructs to C.Another lesson from C++ (there are probably many) is to be careful with C compatibility, it's not always as easy as it seems. |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | JangoSteve: I have a couple white papers I either authored or co-authored. Pretty much everything else I've published has been confidential and exist only in proprietary libraries.How to Remotely Access Ethernet I/O Over the InternetHow to Develop High Reliability Ethernet Control Systems |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | jrockway: It is interesting that you mention review. I have written a book and I write a blog. I think the blog is much higher-quality than the book, because I don't have to concede to the reviewers, and I don't have my work "edited" by non-native speakers of English.Also, writing a lot at once makes the stuff you wr... |
how to divide shares for unknown valuation | brk: You need to make an honest assessment of what value prop you each bring to the equation.He has an idea. You can implement it. How many other people in his reasonable circle of contacts (meaning that he might actually have to go and look for someone) could implement his idea on-par with you?It does not matter tha... |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | igrekel: It will not solve your problems.It will give you experience with the act itself but not with the process of "getting there" since the deal is already set and the outcome already known. What you would learn from the experience will be just about the act itself (which is really no big deal) but nothing about the... |
Extending C | russell: I second the notion of a front-end like CFront. It's a fun exercise. It took me about a week to do a Pascal to C translator a couple of decades ago. One problem is that the grammar for C is not context free. If you are using a top down parser, it's probably manageable, If you are using yacc, bison or the ... |
Extending C | jacquesm: 'overloading' the standard library is simply a matter of some #defines that make funcx call my_funcx, that's easy.If you want to mess around with language features such as control structures and such then you probably will have to write a pre-processor of your own that parses your language accurately and outp... |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | leff_f: Just do it. Don't overcomplicate it.
Sex is
- Fun
- Does not worth thinking about it too much
- Does not solve any problems (Sex with a hooker solves hooker's financial problems only)p.s. Use a condom.... and avoid repeating it in future at all costs(addictive) |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | makecheck: I am.There is at least one site (Door64) dedicated specifically to Austin tech, that has regular networking events. It may be interesting to join them because of the focus on Austin. |
how to divide shares for unknown valuation | mbrubeck: Along with percentages, be sure to consider the vesting schedule. Make sure your shares vest over time (4 years with a one-year cliff is common in technology startups) so that you both earn your equity. For a two-person venture, a shotgun clause is probably a good idea too. |
Your Github profile | mattdennewitz: http://github.com/blackbrrr |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | terrellm: I'm about 90 miles away in College Station. Not too much goes on around here even though Texas A&M is here in town. |
Your Github profile | brl: http://github.com/brlSome security and privacy related tools that I've written. |
Your Github profile | mbrubeck: http://github.com/mbrubeckMy current side project is "compleat", which is a super-easy way to add smart tab completion for shell commands. It's not release-ready yet (not finished or fully documented) but feel free to try it out. |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | bjplink: It's a little old now and a documentary, which might not be what you were asking about, but you should check out Startup.comhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/ |
how to divide shares for unknown valuation | kapauldo: also, if you're working for no pay, then you need to consider the value of your hours as a cash equivalent investment. if you're bringing $50,000 of services to the table, and not getting paid for it, you're creeping toward a 50/50 split, maybe even a 60/40 split. what is he bringing to the table- the idea? ... |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | bockris: I am in Austin but mostly a lurker on HN.I have lots of ideas for start-ups but none compelling enough to make me quit my day job. |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | carlditzler: Austin here and I would be interested in a meet-up. |
Your Github profile | jcapote: http://github.com/jcapoteThis is one of my favorite features of github... |
how to divide shares for unknown valuation | pg: If it's going to be a startup and you have roughly equal abilities in your relative domains and you're going to work equally hard on it, you should tend to split the stock evenly.Don't forget vesting.If he then also finances it, pick a valuation and dilute accordingly. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | clistctrl: Trust me, just forget about the girlfriend thing and embrace your productivity. Seriously, i'll bet you're the productivity king right now. I used to be you, I did some amazing work, I had the work ethic of a new immigrated china man looking to bring his whole family over, I was working 16 hours a day... a... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | tjr: The GNU C Reference Manual. |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | Scott_MacGregor: I’m in the Austin area, but occasionally in the heat of the summer I start longing for the cooler temperatures of Seattle or Silicon Valley, lol.It sure gets hot in Texas. :-) |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | matterco: www.perqworks.com
I wrote it, jQuery to the nth-power. |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | jasonlbaptiste: Don't market it as a "database". That scares people. Don't market it as a spreadsheet either, because they'll think it's for financial number crunching stuff which Excel does well.Now, ask anyone: do you sometimes use Excel for lists and storing information? Try not to say the database word, but if y... |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | AlleyRow: I just watched "August." It was pretty decent. |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | caswabi: I am also in Atx, and would be interested. I got a ton of ideas, and working on one now... |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | bootload: "... What do people think about this potential downside? ..."The downside is more than balanced by the upside of having VC connections post YC funding. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | run4yourlives: My God listen to these people. Apparently screwing a hooker will begin a downward spiral into Dante's seventh level all the while your dick is burning and boils and legions burst from your forehead.Listen, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Sex is overrated. Now, of course it's a lot of fun. Of ... |
How Do You Find An Internship With A Startup? | molecularhack: 1) Try landing an internship with your college's technology transfer office. These guys are always connected and pitching various technologies to outside investors.2) Get involved with your town's Small Business Administration organization.3) Find a mentor from within one of the opportunities above i... |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | japherwocky: It won't help your social life, but it will get a mental monkey off your back so you can get on with more important things. Do it! |
Will Y Combinator taking Sequoia investment hurt the YC companies? | jasonmcalacanis: As a Sequoia company I can tell you that if you have the chance to take their money do it. Quickly.Being an SC company has given Mahalo a HUGE advantage... let me count the ways:1. We got a much higher valuation on our Series B.2. We get constant pings from VC firms that like to follow SC.3. We get a c... |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | jcapote: Have you "dabbled" with dabbledb.com? |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | sil3ntmac: I do. Going to UT at the moment. Was about to post this same thing after seeing the SF post, looked down the page and there it was :) |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | owinebarger: Everyone emails Excel spreadsheets around. The only problem is getting into email jail.I think your problem is Sharepoint solves this problem (emailing spreadsheets) and is pretty standard these days. |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | khangtoh: This was also an idea that I was playing around with in 2008. The basis of the idea is that millions of people have knowledge of using a speadsheet but not many of then can develop and launch a web app.So my idea was to provide the missing link, a web service that takes a spreadsheet and puts out a web app/si... |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | gilgamesh: Austin, UT, international student here. Started with HN pretty recently after getting tired of proggit. |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | callmeed: What I think you should also consider is the MS Access angle. What made Access so popular in enterprises was that they could basically build a Windows app with almost no programming skills. Define your tables, build some forms, install the runtime for people–BAM. You're done.In my opinion, that would be a nec... |
Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India? | nreece: The biggest startup event in India is Proto: http://www.proto.inBtw, a TED conference is scheduled this year in India as well: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | nreece: A sci-fi short film: http://www.vimeo.com/5445784And some of my blog posts: http://www.nilkanth.com/category/noteworthy/ |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | luu: Another UT student here. I've been reading HN for a ages and signed up just so I could reply to this; we should get a meet-up going some time. |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | fjabre: Actually a lot of high ups like CEOs and senior staff email excel spreadsheets around. You'd be surprised.. I can think of about 3 or 4 examples of these types that I've come across off the top of my head.Do you have anything we could look at? =) I think if you have the right approach and decent marketing you d... |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | bemmu: Micro Men from BBC had some startuppy themes when Acorn began, although it was more about the rivalry with Sinclair than the startup experience itself.In my head I associate all kinds of survival movies like Cast Away, Rescue Dawn etc. being startuppy as well in the sense that the characters are surviving on the... |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | marcamillion: Not to take away from HN, but HN seems to be programming + startup related.Maybe there would be significant value add if there were something along the lines of startup + design.Maybe someone should start one and post the link here.I am not a designer, but I am curious about those types of stuff. I wonder... |
Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India? | zizou: startup event conferences in india are a joke man! turn into networking and schmoozing sessions eventually.very difficult to meet people working on good product ideas and technologies. we're based out of mumbai and built a group around the IIT campus area. you might wanna try barcamp some rare gud showcases and ... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | jim_lawless: "Client/Server Programming and the World Wide Web" ( Dr. Dobbs Special - Internet & WWW Programming, Dec. 1995 )
http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184409740I wrote a simple CGI program for the above magazine that I believe to be one of the first CGI articles in print. Other CGI articles were present in tha... |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | pwim: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=304274 |
Best Startup-Themed Movies? | iterationx: There used to be a tv series about a startup from like ABC, I thought it was called hyper-something. I googled it but no luck |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | hernan7: Hi, OP here. Thanks for all the replies. Unfortunately I don't have anything to show at this stage. I always keep rewriting this thing in different languages, then leave it to do some other stuff.It would seem that the most efficient thing to do would be to develop a data entry + reporting solution for some ve... |
how to divide shares for unknown valuation | known: Hope this helps http://www.netmba.com/econ/micro/comparative-advantage/ |
who will buy PG's startup idea #22? | cousin_it: This stuff was one of my first personal projects. I wrote several versions and demoed them around to maybe tens of people. Typical response was mild interest but no one wanted to use it. Too generic. In fact, it's more generic than Excel: Excel is packed with features that solve specific customer needs.Dabbl... |
Where can I get good powerpoint/keynote templates? | maheshs: According to presentationzen this is first mistake people make during making a presentation.
- Create story
- Be story teller
- Use slides to support you story |
Any meetups, hacker-spaces in India? | chaosprophet: I'm working on a startup in Chennai, and I can't really say I've met many people who want to go the startup route, not even from IIT-M. Most seem to be content with working for others either as engineers or as MBAs. As such I'd say the startup scene is barely existent in India. |
Where can I get good powerpoint/keynote templates? | nailer: > Also, what are some tips for other sites where you get good photos/font ideas/any other ideas that go into making a presentation good...not bland and lame.I spoke to a team of lawyers about how software was made recently - explaining source code, libraries, binaries, etc.Since my story was linear, I use the s... |
review my Twitter app game, Twabble | djb_hackernews: clickable link: http://www.playtwabble.com |
review my Twitter app game, Twabble | spokey: I don't get it.The description on the home page doesn't make the game clear to me, and isn't compelling enough to make me want to hand over my twitter credentials.After poking around a bit I found the "Most Active Games" box, but the pages those links take me to don't really have any more information, just a ta... |
Any HN readers in Austin, Texas? | alttab: Hey everyone. Didn't seem like a lot of people saw my previous message.skottie at connersc dot com
Please email me with some info - I'd really like to get a social/hacker network going in Austin. I know there is Door64/Cocoa Coders/etc, but I'm thinking something for ourselves.I'm planning on going disc golfing... |
Looking for a startup to join in San Francisco | icey: Justin.tv is hiring, but they may be further along than you want:http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs |
Review my Code - My_Favorite_HN_Submitters | markerdmann: Clickable link:http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1395097/MyFavoriteSubmitters.py |
review my Twitter app game, Twabble | rphlx: Cool idea. What are you using to access twitter? I've been using tweepy, it's been good to me so far.P.S. There's an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in firefox. Just sayin. |
Determining DB in use from HTTP? | jacquesm: Not directly, anyway. But some languages will leave a signature in the headers of the web server.If you see the server is IIS then you can take an educated guess that the DB is microsoft SQL server.Another way of doing it is searching for the name of the website and the name of various popular database engine... |
Review my Code - My_Favorite_HN_Submitters | jacquesm: > If a new link isn't given one or two upvotes within a few minutes of being submitted (so that it appears on the front page), it has forever lost any hope of getting the votes it deserves.This has been a real problem, and the last two weeks it has gotten very bad indeed.The 'new' page doesn't scale.A good in... |
Does society benefit from age-related brain decline? | eru: There are some people who are in management for itself. |
Where do you look for code examples? | jmonegro: Github Gists, and snipt.net |
Who's Hiring? | SwellJoe: We're quietly searching for a frontend engineer (a JavaScript hacker with great design sense) to join Virtualmin (YC07). I'll post the listing on the jobs section here as soon as I have time to write up a jobs page for our website to fully describe the position. |
Review my Code - My_Favorite_HN_Submitters | jacquesm: Ok, a review of the code:I increased the sleep to 10 seconds, 1 second is pushing it.Double return of the same value in the tail of GetFavoriteSubmitters so you can drop two lines there.Maybe add a linefeed at the end of every row of users so you can still make sense of it in a text editor ?Missing 'close' at... |
Where do you look for code examples? | purui: I encountered this problem when searching for a sample to bring a window top most in wxpython. It was surprisingly hard. |
Rate my webapp, TrackMyCV.com | furyg3: Saw this over at proggit, I'll cross-post my thoughts here too (edited because you answered some Q's over there):* There's a delay, which may make someone think it's broken when first testing it (edit: you mentioned it's temporary, for load reasons)* How's this jive with PDFs?* Debugging was on and spitting php... |
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