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Merchant Accounts & Payment Processors in the US? | gertburger: I think this topic has been covered many times on HN, atleast for US.You can try searchyc.com to find them. |
Who changed your life? | niyazpk: There is no ONE individual who inspired me. There are a lot of them.The story of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs was my first fascination I guess. I read a lot on and off the web and I guess I have seen a lot of fantastic articles, lectures and advices that helped me a lot. |
Merchant Accounts & Payment Processors in the US? | flog: I think answering the question in regards to the US is by far the easiest.In other countries I've lived in and researched it in it's been a very difficult process, as most processors are US based. |
Review Our Product | alastair: My thoughts -1) I really like the landing page. It explains exactly what you guys do very quickly and it just looks great.2) I'm a big fan of no-signup demos. I wanted to play with it, but not so much that I'd go through the proccess of signing up. I have no need for your service, but hey if it was zero-effor... |
Merchant Accounts & Payment Processors in the US? | jacquesm: Jettis, Epoch & ccbill are reasonably ok.Stay away from Ibill.If you can get a merchant account of your own. |
Who changed your life? | chrischen: My dad. He showed me how to setup a home web server when I was 12 or 13. Then I realized the world was at my fingertips. |
Who changed your life? | lyime: Bill Gates and Dean Kamen. |
Who changed your life? | nigelfds: Randy Pausch |
Who changed your life? | Xixi: pg, through his writings (I never met him in real life).I was studying in college and my AI teacher was using LISP. He redirected us toward pg's essays... and I have to say that it was truly inspiring.It took 3 more years before I actually started to work on my startup, but without this teacher and pg's essays I'... |
Who changed your life? | oscardelben: Bruce Lee, although he was not a programmer. |
Who changed your life? | maheshs: PG indeed in last couple of years.
His changed my thoughts about startups. I am about to start my startup and most of the inspiration guidance come from PG's essays. Although some of his thoughts are apply for startup in India. |
Who changed your life? | pistoriusp: Laura, someone who I cared for deeply, who passed away 10 days after my 18th birthday. That made me realize that I need to do something with my life. |
Who changed your life? | Cama: Two Swedish guys called Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordström wrote a book called "Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance". They coined the term "Fucking and Shopping" for the first time in Academic text. For the creatives it is now money or sex. The learnings from the book still keep my on the edge.
Also Pe... |
Who changed your life? | edw519: Dick Pickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_systemHe was so far ahead of his time, you probably never heard of him. He was agile, hashed, and object-oriented in 1965!When I discovered this technology, an entire world opened up to me in an instant. I've been thinking outside the polygon and making thi... |
Who changed your life? | prabodh: Its not really a single person who influenced my thinking.. But every time i read about youngsters in early 20's doing what they love and making it big so that world can use ...It just keeps me going... |
Who changed your life? | RevRal: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Roger Ebert.I've never met either of them. I kind of grew up without a father, so both functioned as surrogates who lovingly fostered two things I've dedicated a lot of my time to -- writing and understanding intelligence.Thanks for being awesome, if either of you read this. |
Who changed your life? | buro9: Donna Matthews from a band called Elastica in the early/mid '90s.I was living on the streets as I turned 20, and a chance encounter led me to hang out with the band at one of their early gigs. Donna made me feel pretty welcome and off I went on tour with them.During the tour I started a fanzine to make money and... |
Who changed your life? | nazgulnarsil: Eliezer Yudkowski, Robin Hanson, Nick Szabo, Paul Graham, Adam Smith, Ludwig Von Mises, a few dozen sci-fi authors. I haven't met any of them.PG is probably the biggest since it was due to him saying "if you don't know how to code, learn to" that caused me to switch from mechanical engineering to CS. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | mahmud: Yep. I never used to use search operators unless I was looking for something really specific. Nowadays I get completely irrelevant results and I am forced to quote strings and explicitly specify term precedence, conditionals and other regexy stuff.Last night I was searching for the syntax of DEFTYPE when used w... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | Erf: Yes.One thing I noticed is that searches no longer require that all words in the query be present in the search results. Adding a + before a word is now required to ensure that it's present in results. That frequently results in me having to do 2-3 searches to find something that could previously be found with one... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | codyrobbins: See also the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=803201. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | tamas: I have always had the habit of quickly editing the query if the top 5 results aren't what I was looking for, up to the point where I don't even really think about it, just adding some more keywords or sprinking a couple pluses, minuses or quotes. So I can't really tell if it has deteriorated in the past years.Ho... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | NikkiA: It has certainly gone waaaay south since day 1, that much is undeniable. Of course, a large part of that is that the internet has gotten a lot more useless filler in those years, and this has of course made 'relevant search' an astronomically harder problem than it was in 1998.On the more important metric of 'h... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | est: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=...Let me guess:1. Google's Pagerank patent is about to expire, and they have to make something new?2. New ranking algorithm adjustment to compete with Bing but failed?And similar discussions on reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qro1/ht... |
Who's Hiring? | percept: Sorry guys, I don't think your posts got the attention they should have.Maybe somebody else should post the question again early this week. |
Startup school 2009 videos ? | azsromej: I really enjoyed the 2008 videos. I can't find the 2009 ones except at justin.tv, and the audio fades in and out and is grainy. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | petervandijck: I tried Bing the other day out of curiosity, and the results where incredibly dissapointing compared to Google's. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | utnick: its more the internet has gotten worse I thinkThey should drop yahoo answers, any site with an affiliate link, and any of the internet marketer sites ( like ezinearticles.com ) from their index |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | galactus: Yes. I blame SEO :-(. |
Any designers here in for a rushjob on a fun project ? | cousin_it: I'd really like to see what you're up to! |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | kvs: Yes. And the evidence is I find my self going to page 2 or 3 to find what I wanted and sometimes Bing! |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | chanux: Occured to me several times.And it's duckduckgo.com that helped me. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | indiejade: Did you try http://www.google.com/linux?Although I alternate search engines regularly, I do think the way Google indexes for specialized searches is pretty smart. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | jeroen: vldtr is now a couple of months old. Google has about 22 pages in their index, Bing 8.http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Avldt...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Avldtr.comAs long as the Google has the most up to date index there is no good alternative for me.You mention trying Yahoo. Did it give... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | joeyh: I've used google since it was google.stanford.edu, and it's clear to me the results have suffered. My feeling is that two of the problems are SEO and feedback effects of google's own popularity.SEO: When you cut through all the BS, the entire goal here is to make a less good match come first. And it works (sorta... |
Who changed your life? | coffeemug: Bhante Vimalaramsi. He showed me a different side of life, which is very unusual in the westernized world.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhante_Vimalaramsi |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | holdenc: Unfortunately yes. Most result sites are built solely to drive search traffic. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | VladimirGolovin: There was a comment on LessWrong where a poster suggested using Yahoo over Google for non-quoted search. I tried it myself (I need to find an article based on several words mentioned in it) -- and was pleasantly surprised. Yahoo seems to be doing much better job than Google for non-quoted search reques... |
Who changed your life? | swombat: The question specifically refers to people you've met.From an entrepreneurial point of view, I'm sure that the fact that my best friend (and cofounder on my first business) had been running businesses successfully for years was a major influence in convincing me that it makes sense to make that leap. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | maxklein: I wish there were a search engine that was not optimized for the mass-market, but weighs technical oriented stuff a bit higher. So if I search iPhone view, I do not get results like "View all iphone features" but something related to the iphone uiview.I think in future search engines should lean a particular ... |
Who changed your life? | jgrahamc: Sir Clive Sinclair. I wrote a letter to him with an idea that I had for a way to interface a joystick to the ZX-81 and he sent me a personal reply of encouragement. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | mattlanger: I've actually noticed the inverse problem with some non-tech-related searches. Politics is a fine example: try and find an article about a 2002 House vote on Social Security and there's no chance you'll find it; the results are all present day.Strange that with regard to current events the web seems to have... |
Who changed your life? | JoeAltmaier: My brother Richard Altmaier, who drove his Pacer to Silicon Valley straight out of college and never looked back. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | ksmarshall: I think it's hard with a generic search page to get good results. Like other people commented if it appears in Wikipedia, MySpace, or Facebook those results will be first almost everytime. I built a page in javascript (http://www.bygsearch.com/) to aggregate & combine the results from Yahoo, Bing and Google... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | scootklein: tech has always been hard for me, even with plusses and quotes. searches like "uboot arm cross-compile error xyz" always turned up miles of mailing lists that never amounted to anything.on a similar note - http://guillaume-nargeot.blogspot.com/2009/08/think-twice-be... (probably saw this on HN) |
Who changed your life? | dabent: Bob Parsons.I know I may catch flack for that, but the guy didn't attend an Ivy League or Stanford level school, didn't live in the valley, but also started two successful tech companies without VC money. His methods and marketing are different, but he's bound to break convention as he grew up so far from the ... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | niyazpk: Quote from Google employee:It does work as described! - which may very well not be as desired.
If you want a more mathmatical-logical use of operators then you need to go find another search engine.http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=...I am afraid that Google is now more of a 'social s... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | qeorge: Not overall, but I have found Google frustrating for things that are very recent. For instance I wanted to watch Obama's speech to the schoolkids on YouTube (the day after he'd given it), but the only videos Google would bring back were from his race speech in Philadelphia. I tried all the operators and keyword... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | elblanco: I think it's also a function of people trying to game how Google's engine operates. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | robk: Back to the Altavista days of +search +must +include +plus +signs +"and quotation marks"Seriously, the problem is advanced users get unexpected results with the query expansion and refinement layers they've added on. While dropping obscure words is helpful when grandpa has misformed queries, it's maddening for a... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | epi0Bauqu: Yes, and this is why I started Duck Duck Go: http://duckduckgo.com/. Thanks for posting specific cases--they help me immensely. Anyone else have more? |
What are your best resume tips? | mtholking: Instead of having a skills section at the end of your resume, try showing how you utilized those skills in the 'work' section. The keywords will still get hits, and it will give context to how you use those skills, and your proficiency with them. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | timcederman: Yes. It's changed a lot recently, to the point that I made a whingey blog post about it:http://www.cederman.com/2009/09/google-continues-to-disappoi... |
What are your best resume tips? | mapleoin: I've always liked the way this guy's CV is structured(it's on his front page): http://www.zeroflux.org/static/resume.pdfBtw: he's the guy who created ArchLinux, though he's no longer the lead developer. |
What are your best resume tips? | fogus: General rule of thumb:Even Steve Jobs' resume is one page, so what makes you think that yours should be 4?http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html(this is an incorrect quote, but I cannot seem to find the original) |
What are your best resume tips? | lpolovets: Instead of listing your responsibilities, talk about concrete numbers and achievements. If you list things like "interfaced with QA", "participated in planning with product management", or "used JSPs and Servlets to write web-based mail client", you will not stand out much from other applicants. You should f... |
What are your best resume tips? | mgrouchy: I think one of the things that I have found that have worked well on my resume is a summary of qualifications at the top. Helps you leave out a generic skills section(which can look cheezy) and lets you highlight whatever you want to highlight for a particular position.I make sure that I tailor that summary f... |
Who changed your life? | IsaacL: Three people, all of whom I met in my first year at university.The first was a guy I met on my first weekend, who lived in a house next door to mine on campus, and later became one of my best friends. He was/is working on a social networking site in PHP and MySQL, and taught me the basics of those two languages... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | webwright: Absolutely-- especially when you drift out of the world of technology. Google is based on the "linkerati" (hat tip to SEOmoz) - geeks and bloggers who link to stuff aggressively. That works great in the worlds where people link (social media) but poorly if you're searching for non-geeky stuff.I've been doi... |
What are your best resume tips? | eru: On a slightly unrelated note: I use LaTeX and the currvita package for my resume. It's easy and looks good. Plus the LaTeX source plays nice with git, and thus helps me keep track of how I customized my resume for different employers.The extra-selling point for me is, that the use of LaTeX itself may people in t... |
What are your best resume tips? | tsestrich: Side note: I have been told by the person in charge of recruiting at my company that explicitly stating references as "available on request" is really unnecessary, and just takes up space. Obviously your references should be available upon request if they aren't on there.Other tips:
- Avoid using italics, it... |
What are your best resume tips? | cwinters: 1) Languages and tools should be highlighted if they're exceptional -- e.g., I probably don't need to hear that you used SQL to interact with a database, but if you implemented a set of complex views in T-SQL that's useful.2) ...which means you need to list your skills somewhere. I tend to categorize mine for... |
What are your best resume tips? | mping: Hard, discrete data such as measurable accomplisments followed by numbers or equivalent (gave 14 presentations in 3 continents, architect of Apache2 http server, etc) instead of ambiguous information such as 'gave many presentations',' founder of many projects',etc. |
Any designers here in for a rushjob on a fun project ? | eru: What happened? Is it `tomorrow' already in your time zone? |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | catzaa: We had the exact same discussion on reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9s6p2/google_is...It is starting to get incredibly difficult to do specific searches (such as for documentation). It also seems that SEO have become incredibly successful in gaming Google.It would actually be good if there w... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | cheriot: Can't your problem be solved by clicking the 'Web options' link on google's search results page and selecting 'past year'?http://www.google.com/search?q=linux%20asynchronous%20io&... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | fjabre: Hate to disagree with everyone here but I haven't noticed much of a change. For me, Google is still the best search out there by a long shot.My behavior has changed slightly though. Increasingly I'm using twitter, reddit, delicious, & hacker news to search and browse for content. Google site search for Hacker n... |
What are your best resume tips? | Uchikoma: As a technical recruiting manager I'd say:Yes, add skill section, it will get you through most HR filters. Skills should be plausible and based on experience in job section. Otherwise skills look fishy to me.The major tools for each project helps me cross check the skill section with the jobs. I'd say yes. Bu... |
What are your best resume tips? | jgrahamc: I like to receive well researched cover letters to go with resumes. |
What are your best resume tips? | Edinburger: I like to see a strong, concise introduction/objectives section which (a) isn't full of buzzwords or B.S. and (b) helps me get a feel for the candidate and what makes them tick. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | jrockway: I think you picked two bad terms. "Linux asynchronous IO" has meaning more than just "IO under Linux that's not blocking". That's what most pages using those terms are referring to, so it makes sense that that's what Google would give you."Hashmap", the term you searched for, is a term popularized by the Ja... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | 10ren: So, was Yahoo - or any other search engine - any better? You didn't say how good Yahoo was for your two examples.It's possible that Google doesn't give you perfect results, merely the best of a bad lot. If so, it suggests the problem is the web, not the search of it.And the web certainly has changed. |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | ryandvm: The best way to implement health care in the United States.http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200909/health-care |
Who changed your life? | thwarted: Every bad boss I've had who had no business starting or running a business. |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | abyssknight: I changed my mind on event models in stateless protocols. I used to think, "Oh, that sounds nifty. I bet it works really well, and simplifies the wiring."Now I think, "Wait, how can an event work in a stateless... Oh, that's just sneaky Microsoft."Not by choice, rather by circumstance, I have been writing ... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | mojonixon: The autocorrect is maddening. I've been researching Riak recently. It's new so there isn't a lot available. Paired with another search term I frequently get results only for "risk." Let me know if I might have made a typo, but don't assume I'm an idiot and do something different than what I told you to do.Dr... |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | boredguy8: My biggest mental shift recently is an appreciation for ambiguity in language. Three months ago, if someone would have asked me, "Can you gain important topical insights from the ambiguous use of language?" I'd have said, "No, of course not: if you aren't precise in what you discuss, that creates a barrier t... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | chaosprophet: This may be true when you are searching for blog posts or articles, but when searching for code examples, I find that usually Google gives the best results. Also I have noticed that over time, these results have been getting more accurate. this maybe either due to the fact that the number of "code blogs" ... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | FredSource: Simple question - simple answer: quality of results is degraded for me (both technical and educational - I am a work in progress home handyman).In my experience Google has not kept up with the assault of companies trying to beat its algorithms! |
Visiting NYC --- Meeting you? | dzlobin: I haven't gotten an invite yet, so I'm not sure if it's 100% on, but generally the fourth thursday of every month is the Hacker News meet in NYC. Are you coming after thursday? If not, check out the website http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | xayide: Seat belt laws.
For years, my inner Libertarian would cringe at the idea that the government could force someone to do something they didn't want to when it was their own life at risk. But then my inner Republican realized that if I were to be at fault in an accident, I would be financially and possibly crim... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | vital101: I feel that your Google search results are only as good as your query. Sure my results are polluted with some sites that have invested heavily in SEO, but I usually can filter those out by tweaking the query a bit more. |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | mapleoin: I now believe that C++ is a language worth learning (I haven't yet figured out if it's also worth using for anything dependable). |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | novum: I've been thinking a lot about happiness, learning, and experiences.When you get right down to it, we only have a few short years in the sun. 80 years is less than nothing when compared to the age of the earth - let alone the solar system or universe - so it would appear rational to maximize your experiences, kn... |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | chasingsparks: PHP. It is neither useless nor used only by the contemporary version of AOL proggie coders. For many things, it really makes life easier (e.g. deployment via SCP). |
Visiting NYC --- Meeting you? | bravura: I say ask for extra nights. If they are flying you from the UK, and they are a finance firm, they can afford it. And you deserve the opportunity to look around the city a bit, if you are perhaps relocating here. |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | mixmax: I don't really want to be rich, I'd rather make interesting and fun stuff. |
What are your best resume tips? | tocomment: Side question. I'm also considering doing consulting or contract work so I figure I should have a separate resume for that.Does anyone have good examples of a resume geared towards consulting?(Are they even much different from regular resumes, do consultants need resumes?) |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | phugoid: Something I read in Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell shocked me into reconsidering my role as a father. I'm not a big fan of that book in general, but I found a pearl in there.I used to think that I needed to set and enforce hard rules, as if this will teach my kids order. I don't want them to take the easy way ... |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | a-priori: I've been reading Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate lately. It has changed my view of the role of consciousness in everyday life. It's also clarified my understanding on various social issues, the relationship with the individual and society, and the evolutionary origins of the emotions.I'm about 2/3 of the way... |
Visiting NYC --- Meeting you? | byrneseyeview: Jane Street? (Or can you not answer that?) |
What are your best resume tips? | agotterer: In the last week I have read way too many resumes. Here are some of the things that I would look to tell all future candidates...- Your resume should be no more then 1, if you must 2 pages (1 page per 10 yrs experience). I can't tell you how many 5-7 page resumes I receive that get a quick skim and thrown as... |
What are your best resume tips? | elbac: The resume is important, but what grabs me every single time is a insightful and thoughtful cover letter. Honestly 75% of resumes look the same. If you can get me with the cover letter 9 times out of 10 you'll at least get a phone screen. |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | jsz0: I think the overall signal-to-noise ratio of the Internet has simply taken a big dive since the advent of blogging. I'm sick of seeing the mindless duplication of content in search results from a re-blogger who copy & pastes a summary and link. It's frustrating because there's no easy way to spot it until you've ... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | deyan: In my experience, Yahoo really excels in image search and whenever there are structural changes made to websites (for some reason, Google doesn't really handle moved websites / pages well - there was even an article about that a few months back). But overall, there is around 90% overlap between the major search ... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | rg: It's eye-opening to try "Blind Search", which submits your query to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing simultaneously, and displays to you the three sets of results without (at first) identifying which is which:http://blindsearch.fejus.com/I was amazed to discover that I was consistently choosing the blind results from Yahoo... |
What are your best resume tips? | wdewind: I'm going through the hiring process now so from my perspective:Keep your resume short, and tailor it for the specific job. If the job doesn't say anything about a specific skill, take it off your resume (unless its a general skill like UNIX) - include no more than 6-10 skills. I definitely include skills an... |
What are your best resume tips? | dhyasama: Always remember the goal of a resume is to land an interview not land the job. Your resume should make the employer want to meet you and learn more about you. |
What have you changed your mind about recently? | booksnarf: Religion. I was born & raised a devout Baptist Christian (and creationist). But in the past 5 months, I've read about 50 books and hundreds of web pages and decided that agnostic atheism [1] and evolution make more sense.Hopefully I didn't just devolve this into a religion argument...[1] "Agnostic atheist" =... |
do you feel Google search result quality has gone down? | c00p3r: Yes, I feel. And the so-called black SEO is the cause. All those sites with keywords in hostnames spoils the result. |
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