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How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | joebottherobot: I made a similar plunge several years ago. My best advice is to look for a position in a research group that does both wet-lab experiments and computation. They may be very interested in your web background. |
Anyone suffering from ADD? | anonmonkey: I am.I had about 5-6 1 hour sessions with a psychiatrist and had about 2 sessions with a psychologist before that , and they diagnosed me with inattentive ADD.I am on twice-a-day dose of Ritalin 10mg as of the last 2 weeks. It really seems to work , I find that I am getting a lot of work done.
I am sufferin... |
Anyone suffering from ADD? | mayanks: what is ADD? any links to explain this syndrome?[edit] ok maybe this is what you are referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity... |
Anyone suffering from ADD? | ezf: Yes. I suspect that the incidence of ADD on this forum is much higher than average. The diagnostic criteria are not that high.As far as treatment -- stimulants help absolutely everyone focus better, regardless of whether or not they have ADD. I am not exception. My personal belief is that ADD is mostly just a catc... |
How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service? | iamelgringo: I started a social news site devoted to cute cat/dog pictures and videos earlier this year. I worked pretty hard on it for a couple of months, only to realize, that I couldn't stand looking at cute shit every day for months on end. So, I took the site down. I got 700 uniques in 3 months, and had 5000 pa... |
What's the best first business book for a programmer? | credo: One more book for the list .....The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and BadAuthor: Michael A. CusumanoISBN-10: 074321580X
ISBN-13: 978-0743215800 |
What's the best first business book for a programmer? | jlees: Guy Kawasaki's books are pretty ace for learning the 'silicon valley' style of business, big picture, etc. I think the first real book I picked up was something more down to earth though like the Beermat Entrepreneur (UK-specific) that outlined the whole process quite well from what to incorporate as to accounti... |
What's the best first business book for a programmer? | timothychung: If you are a philosophy person like me, this one is for you:Classic Drucker: Wisdom from Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review.It shows you what and how a pioneer in the field of business thinks of business itself. Learn from his thinking and learning pattern. They are just like common s... |
How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | socram2k: Do you need biology knowledge?
I have studied in school a little about genetics, Mendel's laws and things like that... |
What's the best first business book for a programmer? | known: http://www.netmba.com |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | patio11: You can do a bit better with a merchant account. Both merchant accounts and Paypal tend to be skeptical of pre-payment arrangements, since they don't make nearly enough off of you to absorb the risk of you taking the money and running.That said, 4% is cheap and it will go down as you process more orders. (Th... |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | scottjackson: If there was an answer to this question, I don't think PayPal would be in business.At this point, PayPal is like Microsoft Office -- it's the de facto standard, no matter how crappy the product is. Sorry.I know this is a really shitty answer to your question, but I think it's the truth.If anyone else has ... |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | Chirag: Can't think of already available service for this problem right now. However there is one solution I think you would have already though of this but here we go; Assimilate the cost till it reaches a bit bigger sum. That is if you have multiple purchase from the same customer. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | aw3c2: Check out Moneybookers. http://www.moneybookers.com/app/help.pl?s=fees |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | frankj: Orcaone.com offers a cheap platform for collecting money whether on mobile or desktop web. They also have open API's. www.orcaone.com. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | SingAlong: I'm trying to find a similar alternative service with an API and also keen to use something like TipJoy to collect smaller funds of $1 or less. But i just visited their homepage just to see the "Tipjoy is shutting down" message.Does anybody known any alternatives? |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | PanMan: I think 4% is fairly small: A lot of payment methods ask more, ranging from 30% from Apple for in-app purchases, to 50+% for SMS payments. Here in the Netherlands we have Ideal, which mostly has fixed costs, but that is only attractive for bigger payments. When you have small payments, a fixed fee of E1,- isn't... |
How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | ximeng: http://arcanius.silverfir.net/blog/clinical-research-experie...Maybe this guy can help. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | markpercival: People see the 2-4% that credit card processors take and view it in comparison to cash - something they see as having no cost per transaction. What people don't see is the cost of taking cash - it gets stolen, it gets you robbed, it needs special help(armed guards) getting to the bank.You're online and st... |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | mhp: 3% is as low as you can get with Amex. 2% is as low as you can get with Visa/MC. The only other thing consumers can pay you with is an ACH transfer (which is like a check) and even that costs money for both ends sometimes -- but the systems that let you write "electronic checks" are clunky and weird and 90% of y... |
Alternative careers for a developer | ilikekittens: Thank you everyone for your kind advice and suggestions |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | Freaky: I'd be less worried about the cut they take and more worried about their annoying capacity to take a disliking to you and shutting down your account without warning while taking your money, and never, ever telling you why.Make sure you have a backup. |
Anyone else do the Admissions Test for the W2009 Founder Institute? | bhousel: I took it Tuesday early AM, but didn't experience any lag. Good luck! |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | va_coder: Cash4Gold?Many of them seem to have focus. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | sramam: you should checkout http://noca.com/ |
How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | mitalia: There are definitely opportunities for someone with your skills to ease into bioinformatics. Having conducted a job search not long ago, they are unfortunately a bit hard to find at times, depending on where you're located. In general, I think you'd have good luck starting with some of the less science-heavy b... |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | sammyo: Check? Look at how NearlyFree does it: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/mailingCost of handling at some volumes may be more than 4% though. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | stevoo: amazon , paypal ( first in a niche market ) |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | dpapathanasiou: While the idea of buying commodities might fit your criteria (though I would disagree with that notion), Cash4Gold is not a great model: http://consumerist.com/5144296/10-confessions-of-a-cash4gold...Ebay, despite its problems with scammers, is a good example: a store that sells almost everything, with ... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | brm: PlentyofFish.com has to be in there somewhere |
Anyone suffering from ADD? | growt: I don't know if I have ADD, but I get easily dis |
How about this idea, a 'friends of HN server' ? | stevoo: I can help being the sysadmin and anything else related to this.It will be a great hands on experience for me.As for the idea, i believe that it is great. Many students cant really afford buying hosting as it doest come cheap for them ( i couldnt, wish i had ) . And there are other people that most probably wou... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | growt: http://www.swoopo.com/
But it depends on the meaning of "best" ;) |
What's the best first business book for a programmer? | fara: Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham ;) |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | martian: Apple takes top slot for me.Seems like the best businesses always do four things: 1) know what their market needs, 2) develop something novel that fulfills that need, 3) communicate to their market about their product or service, and 4) charge appropriately to make money. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | byrneseyeview: Coca-Cola:http://stableboyselections.com/2008/03/25/charlie-munger-tur...Warren Buffett allegedly described the tobacco business as the easiest in the world: "You make it for a nickel, and sell it for a dollar, to addicts with tremendous brand loyalty."Lots of software companies turn out to be great busi... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | there: netflix probably ranks pretty high in my book. completely outsourcing the shipping infrastructure to the usps and then adding on-demand viewing to one-up other traditional rental stores that finally caught up to them by shipping movies. |
How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | ben1040: Another possible angle is high performance computing as it relates to biological data.Today's DNA sequencing instruments can kick out tens of millions of data points. These can be mapped back to where they belong on a genome and then from that data, variations can be calculated. Want to find out what mutatio... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | patio11: I think Google probably has created more value for more people than any technology firm in the last decade.I also really admire Wal-Mart. An example: I pay $50 to ship money between Japan and the US, which is fairly competitive for international wire transfers from first world financial institutions. Wal-Mar... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | jackmoore: eBay - they take a cut to list, sell, and on payment (through paypal). It costs them almost nothing to host an auction. The community driven nature of the business means naturally leans toward a monopoly and makes it very difficult for new startups to compete. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | YuriNiyazov: Starbucks, which, though originally it was demonized for driving mom-and-pop coffeeshops out of business, seems to be the original impetus behind the 'coffeeshop renaissance' that a lot of American cities are going through.EXPANDED: not only that, but the new coffeeshops in order to compete have to offer m... |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | mooism2: Do parts of RSA keys count? |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | scottw: I have a short list of businesses that I absolutely adore because of how they treat me as a customer: L.L. Bean, Costco, Apple, and Pat Metheny (yes, yes, a musician, but he really delivers the goods). For me, all these follow one rule: make great things (and treat your customers well). |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | davidw: twitter id's is the first thing that comes to mind. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | Hoff: Any experiences with Google Checkout? |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | biznerd: De BeersConvincing people they need a carbon rock through a brilliant marketing campaign ("A Diamond is Forever" named best advertising slogan of 20th century by Advertising Age). This slogan convinces Americans and global consumers to change their courtship practices; that it is completely normal and expected... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | megamark16: Enterprise Rent-A-Car. A buddy of mine did a case study on them during his graduate coursework and let me tell you; they got it right, at the right time, in the right places.Here's a short article about the founder, Jack Taylor, and how he did it: http://magazine.wustl.edu/Summer03/mywashington.html |
Anyone suffering from ADD? | rufius: I have ADD though not severely enough that I have to be medicated. Well I have to be medicated if I don't work out about an hour a day. Daily exercise seems to settle my mind.Bear in mind I'm nothing like some people who have to be on a regular Ritalin regiment. I was only on Ritalin for a short time before I d... |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | peterhi: I used to work for an egg wholesaler. We paid the farmers by the egg according to grade. We accounted in eggs.Do you know how many eggs are sold in the UK?We had to write a special class to handle eggs because we blew the unsigned integer on a VAX. |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | figured: Two previous threads:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432284both have good info |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | klon: If you want universal uniqueness you should be looking at 128-bits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier) |
Is there a cheap way to get money from customers (Not PayPal etc) | ryanpetrich: I've heard very good things about Amazon Payments. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | blender: Any business that disintermediates (cuts out the middleman).Amazon, DELL, eTRADE, etc. |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | pclark: 8374874823748327491 |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | pclark: Skype. |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | chrisa: EPC Gen2 RFID tags have a 96 bit unique id that we store |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | bhousel: Heh, I actually overran a signed integer 2 years ago in an app for a major financial company.Yes, that's > $2,147,483,647Thanks, subprime mortgage crisis! |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | cjg: You don't have much space left in 64 bits for some financial numbers. FX swap trades with a billion dollars on one side and some very devalued currency on the other (e.g. zimbabwe dollars 1:60,000,000 at one point).It gets worse when you start adding those numbers up. |
How can a Web Developer get into Bioinformatics? | jeldred: There are many current opportunities in bioinformatics.
The discussion in this thread seems to have some valid commentary.
One place to check out might behttp://genome.wustl.edu/careers/We are hiring. jeldred@genome.wustl.edu |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | ivenkys: I have worked on Financial Apps where we have ended up blowing away the 64-bit threshold. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | ivenkys: Best business by far, High-End Finance, of course depends on which angle you look at it from.But, when you get to a point where no-one really no-one can agree on what you are selling and if you are selling it at a good price or not. Well, you have got it made. |
Anyone else do the Admissions Test for the W2009 Founder Institute? | vdibart: Huh. Serves me right for being overly anxious.Thanks and good luck to you too bhousel. |
Is security by obfuscation sufficient? | rbrcurtis: if you are suggesting that you leave these secret urls open to the entire internet, and just rely on them being inaccessbile, you're looking for trouble. Depending on the type of documents, at the least your users may not be happy about them being unauthenticated, and I personally would worry about legal is... |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | mildweed: Huge. Longer than 2^30 digits. I was working on statistics. Doing probabilities requires doing some crazy factorials. These often require handling large freaking numbers. I'm a PHP guy, so BC Math and GMP Math are my saviors in this area.Thankfully, all the huge numbers are just in the computation of the... |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | ErrantX: I've had to build a system to theoretically handle indexes up to 1.2553643905927429e+30 but we haven't got that far yet (biggest # is a billion billion billion or so) |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | dabent: It is possible to earn money online. Create an "earn money online" product and spam it. Better yet, offer an affiliate reward for it and let others spam it. The "earn online" packages you're seeing are likely cousins or siblings of the rebill scams that (used to be) in Facebook apps and at the end of checkou... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | pkc: Google, Amazon, eBay |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | marcus: public/private keys for RSA - 1024 bit numbers. |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | Dav3xor: I built an aviation mapping engine that used fixed point math for lat/lon representation. It basically used an entire 32bit signed int and gave a guaranteed minimal resolution of 3 feet. It would quite often go to the ragged edge of what you can fit in a 32 bit quantity.The fun bit was that you had to use 2 ... |
What are the best places to publish/sell downloadable software? | kyro: Off the top of my head, YC company BaseShield has a Windows app store. I'm not sure if they're open to app submissions, or handle purchases, though. |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | ThinkWriteMute: The question is raised, not begged.But yes, my dad (Whom is 58) makes money online by putting up websites with Ebay/Clickbank/Adsense links. Makes about 125/month.It takes time and money and about 4-6 months worth of patience /after/ you've learned how to do it correctly.For start, google: Ban sites, an... |
How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service? | pkc: Found an interesting app - http://listorious.com/.
The directory of awesome lists on Twitter. |
What are the best places to publish/sell downloadable software? | Adrenalist: I don't have a lot of experience in selling software online, but as a consumer, these are the places that I'd be looking to find niche software.1. Your own website (with Google AdWords campaign)2. CNET Downloads (if you have a free trial version)3. snapfiles.com (if you have a free trial version)4. eBay sto... |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | byrneseyeview: If there's a way to make money online simply, it's probably being done by high school students and people in the Third World -- i.e., anyone whose time is nearly worthless. |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | jcapote: Religion. |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | aplusbi: I implemented Tupper's Self-referential formula which depends on an extremely large number (although I suppose that's cheating a bit, the number is actually an encoding of a bitmap). |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | anaid: Definitely possible, although it is work, like anything else. Depends on what your likes and dislikes are- if you are going to do it, you probably need to enjoy and believe in what you are representing/selling- whether it is a product or information. Then, it requires some research and testing. Then, lots of pat... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | run4yourlives: Insurance.You're sold relief from disaster priced solely on the probability of your likelihood of enduring said disaster.This basic concept is the foundation of every insurance business in the world, and it's highly profitable and stable.Traditional Banking.Here's some money that we borrowed from other p... |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | rabidsnail: Yes, on Mechanical Turk (http://mturk.com). |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | ja27: Many of those are "arbitrage" schemes. For example, buying a Google ad for "steering wheel desk" and with an Amazon affiliate link. If the Google ad is cheap enough and Amazon converts and pays enough, you can make money. The difficulty is that there are tons of people doing this for every search term they can th... |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | nzmsv: Just do a quick calculation, and see how much you'll actually make. Then realize that your local McDonalds pays more.Also, ask yourself this: how do you know you'll get paid? You are helping someone run a scam. Which means they aren't exactly a model of integrity. So, if they just don't pay you, who are you goin... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | thejo: Any business we consider to be a commodity today and can't live without. It wasn't always so, and somebody worked hard to make it one. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | pgbovine: first impression - how flexible is the input syntax? as a user, i'd be mad if i thought i typed in something syntactically correct (e.g., "venmo $5 to bob for lunch") but there was actually a syntax error and my transaction didn't go through |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | tseabrooks: I like it - it's software the encourages you, maybe even forces you, to share the experience with someone else turning every user into evangelist. It also seems like it would make financial transactions very simple.My only concern would be that phone numbers still haven't become non-transferable identificat... |
what's the best business you've ever seen? | jmorr: Interesting types of examples so far - not many are focused on "best" defined by investment merits, which was my first inclination. I tend to think of businesses as being great in those terms - requiring little incremental financial capital to support significant growth opportunities at high incremental margins... |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | mgrouchy: The fact that the site is "godaddy secured" fills me with confidence. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | vorador: I don't see the point here. I mean, I could pay Jenny back next time I see her. Am I missing something ? |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | idleworx: what happens if someone picks up your phone and writes
venmo $100 to 555-123-4567 for hack. 555-123-4567 being their number? how can you issue a refund or deal with issues like this? |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | johnrob: There are no transaction fees? |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | chaosmachine: It's a great idea, but in reality, it's going to be a very tough job to make it secure and legal. If you haven't read the PayPal chapter in "Founders at Work" yet, you should. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | keltecp11: Think about use for Political/Charity Fundraiser events... I think the product is very beneficial. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | aditya: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/textpayme anyone? |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | kirpekar: Very cool & good luck! I hope you can bring down PayPal to their knees. |
Alternative careers for a developer | jsteele: As a veteran developer, I too was hit by RSI, and strongly urge you to first start using speech recognition for dictating all of your e-mail messages, code comments, documentation, etc. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | marltod: Have you thought about giving the option to link to paypal accounts?Early adopters will not have venmo accounts but will have paypal accounts. You may get more new users if you give the option to use funds in the paypal account. The service could at minimum send the user an e-mail with a link to the paypal d... |
Ask HN:Is it actually possible to earn money online? | indrax: http://www.problogger.net/Even if you fail at this, you'll have more experience, learned more, networked more, and have something to show for it. And it's legitimate. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | CytokineStorm: I think buying your own SMS short code is key to making this service look legitimate to new users. No one wants to text information about money transfers to a phone number that could be anyone.Also, the phone graphics on your homepage are copied directly from the TextMarks site! |
largest number you've had to store in an application? | jamwt: factorial(30..50) -- for factoradics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoradic). Representing the reproducable state of a list of randomly ordered items. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | simon_: Just curious: Do you eat the transaction fee if people fund their accounts with credit cards? If so... it seems like people might pay themselves thousands of dollars to rack up rewards at your expense. |
Rate this Start Up - Venmo.com | ankeshk: You need some kind of a security code / pin system to prevent against fraud. Venmo has to match the pin in the message sent along with the phone number the message is sent from. And proceed with the payment only if the pin matches.Venmo $10 to Jenny 1990Where the last 4 digits of the message - 1990 in this c... |
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