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re-review my website | raptrex: The Deals Stores My Search My Account Help Feedback links are too close to Your deals Selection Under $10 All Expired. Maybe move Deals Stores...ect to the top of the page? Also I think your about info could fit in the sidebar so it brings the main content higher up. Also maybe make the site a little wider, its pretty narrow. "Get all features" should be higher up as well |
Review my secret santa site | Scott_MacGregor: Nice idea, very timely. I like the simple artwork. You can collect a lot of work emails this way. If it were my site I would:1. Have some more cute simple Santa, snowman, gifts artwork in the header area so it sets the mood for the customer when it pops open in the browser.2. "Maybe" try for a more green and red holiday color theme vs the light blue which seems frosty but not so holiday like to me personally.3. Put something on the right sidebar above the ads like a flash movie that is holiday related and funny enough and cute enough to get this passed from user to user via work email with a hey look at this video title to the email. Something people will think unique enough to pass around at work to their email list. Then try to get people to email it as a link. Like a silly Rudolph the red nosed reindeer telling a joke or something that people will think is clever enough (and clean enough) to pass around to their email list.4. Put in a hook to use it, free giveaway to someone or some work group of something small to medium sized. 10 $50 gift cards, etc...5. Brand it at the top proudly with a logo, so people will remember the brand and come back to your site year after year.6. Maybe think about moving the Google ads horizontal below the packages for better flow on the page. |
Where can I get/buy stock market data? | Slashed: I want to thank everyone who helped me to get all the information I need on this. Though I found the solution which fits me most(xignite.com 59USD/month for real-time quotes), I wouldn't be able to do it without you. Thank you. |
I have an idea for a startup... now what? | rlpb: I would sort out the business plan. Will the startup be profitable? What are the risks? Surely this is the first thing that any potential partners are going to ask. |
What to do with something no one has, yet? | ax0n: If it's not a groundbreaking idea that can be monetized, particularly one that's both helpful yet easy for others to replicate as you say... I'd be tempted to open-source it if it were my baby, but the call is yours alone.You can always attempt to patent the idea and sell it, or if it really is groundbreaking, try to turn it into a product or a service. That's how many startups get off the ground. |
What to do with something no one has, yet? | mbrubeck: I think you'll rarely go wrong giving away small useful programs as free software. It's the easiest way to get users, and once you have users you'll learn even more about how to make the software better. If you're lucky you'll find other people who want to contribute, and you'll get a chance to work with them and meet them. And an original free software project is a great thing to be able to show off. If it's indeed a small amount of effort to duplicate, then there's probably not that much selling opportunity that you're giving up.If you do a good writeup and post it to Hacker News and Reddit, you can probably get some good feedback and a little notoriety. I got some really helpful comments that way on my last little useful project. |
What to do with something no one has, yet? | russell: Think of it as a reputation builder. Give it away. If it turns out to be a blockbuster, you can always come out with a premium version to sell. Think freemium. |
I have an idea for a startup... now what? | dzlobin: Where do you go to school? I'm a college student who's looking for a co-founder as well. Shoot me an email at dzlobinsky [at] gmail. |
Finding good interns? | spolsky: Interns are college students. College students can be kind of dumb about job searching... for the most part, they will tend to apply to the companies who come on campus, and ignore the companies that don't. Pick one or two campuses and go all out to recruit there and you'll find some. There are some colleges that have a particularly high concentration of good CS students: UIUC, Stanford, Rose Hulman, Waterloo, and MIT are all good bets.For a whole BOOK about recruiting on campus:http://www.amazon.com/Recruit-Die-Business-Young-Talent/dp/1... |
Why doesn't the "threads" link on HN include submitted stories too | brk: 'cuz it doesn't. |
Finding good interns? | nzmsv: I'm a student, graduating this spring. Here are my thoughts:For one, I might not have heard of your company. It's not a personal bias against small companies (and you haven't heard of me either :) But how do you make sure students are aware of your existence? A popular blog is one way. A job posting on a campus job board is another. You can also contact a secretary in the CS or EE department, and ask to have your job posting sent to the mailing list.Also, don't ignore the colleges that aren't the usual suspects for a source of good CS students. I'm sure students at MIT or Waterloo see more job postings than students at my school. This just makes you lost in the noise. (and makes me personally wonder if I made a huge mistake when turning down that Waterloo offer of admission :) |
Why doesn't the "threads" link on HN include submitted stories too | tokenadult: A good question to put in the feature requests thread.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 |
I have an idea for a startup... now what? | Scott_MacGregor: If you can build a 1st version prototype do so now. If not figure out what you need to be able to complete a 1st version prototype and take steps towards achieving that. |
Why doesn't the "threads" link on HN include submitted stories too | yan: Use submitted for that. i.e. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rythie |
Is there a mobile/touch-optimized version of HN? | grinich: If you're on iPhone or iPod touch, this is better for reading. Voting & commenting is on the way very soon.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993949 |
Service for sending emails from your app? | ryanelkins: What kind of app is this? Web/desktop? Are you saying you basically need an smtp server to send emails through? How many emails are you trying to send in, say, a day or an hour? |
Service for sending emails from your app? | xinsight: It's really easy to setup exim for outbound mail. I blogged about this:http://www.xinsight.ca/blog/how-to-setup-a-trivial-forwardin... |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | mbrubeck: Switching to a vi editor is a one-way trip. Once you have the muscle memory for vi's "normal mode", you become incapable of using any other editor. I started using vim back in 1997 because it shipped with BeOS, and my ability to use regular editors has been crippled ever since. :)I don't think vim's ascendance is as recent as you think. Different communities might have been infected at different times. When I started working at Amazon almost five years ago, every engineer on my team was already a veteran vim user (as was I). And of course, vi has been a popular choice for Unix hackers for over 30 years. Maybe what's happening is that Unix tools in general are enjoying an uptick thanks to steadily growing use of Linux and Mac OS X. |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | CrystalBlood: Well, 4 years ago, there was not many users in the GNU/Linux escene like now, and all the people that was starting with tutorials and such, may find the recomendation of using the VIM editor, like always figure in this tutorials, i think this could be a valid hypothesis, to the new "wave/generation" of users. |
Service for sending emails from your app? | e1ven: I would take a look at SendGrid (By one of the Techstars groups), or AuthSMTP.
Both are about the same price, although the fact that AuthSMTP prices are yearly disguises this.Good Luck! |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | spooneybarger: i use emacs but this really strikes me as an odd question that seems to suppose that emacs is 'better' than vim. |
Looking For Work: Move First, or Wait For Offer | maxdemarzi: Unless you are very specialized and find a job posting that matches your skill and industry specialization, it is hard to get flown across the country for an interview.It has happened, and a unaccepted lowball offer is all that came out of it. Then I decided screw it, we're moving. I took 6 months to find a job, she took 2 months (more specialized than I am).Both happy we made the move, but we could have lived off savings for years so it was a low stress move for us.YMMV |
As an employer, what do you wish applicants did more often? | afed2: URL shorteners are bullshit, no one should ever use them. Progress on the URL front is to make them human readable and less obfuscated. It is easier to type five english words and a domain name than five meaningless letters and numbers, plus they tell the user where they're going.For example, I bet you don't appreciate clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/f4OF , whereas http://www.1man1jar.com/ tells you everything you need to know, and it's easier to transfer from a piece of paper to your short term memory to the URL bar in your web browser. |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | bhousel: I thought TextMate was the cool editor nowadays. |
Looking For Work: Move First, or Wait For Offer | NonEUCitizen: Another option: take a 1-2 week "vacation" in California and interview fulltime during that period. Set up the interviews before your vacation. After the interviews each day, in the evenings, go to meetups. |
Dealing with spam from competition. | Travis: You definitely do not want to succumb and retaliate. There is no end game there, except that users leave both forums as they are spammy and unusable. There, all you've succeeded in doing is killing off two forums.First, contact the admins and establish communication. Explain what happened, and ask if they would mind changing their ToS or put a notice on their board, asking their members to stop. From this round you can figure out if the admins did it, or if their users did it.If it was the users, then you should probably look to technological solutions like CAPTCHA, user bans, IP bans, etc. Maybe require that someone be a member for X months, or have N minimum karma before they can PM someone else. Start filtering for certain content (URLs, names of other forums, etc.)If it was the admins, you should plan on doing the same stuff, but you're probably going to be up against some more savvy folks. Start watching your logs seriously, and step up the tech filters. You can do things like flag suspect accounts, and filter messages to / from those accounts (if you do it silently, the other site admin won't realize his spammy techniques are ineffective).Step 1: open lines of communication
Step 3: profit! |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | Travis: I'm not commenting on the relative quality of the two products (emacs v. vi), but I second the feeling that I should be using vi. Had a quick start on my desk for the whole year now! Wonder where I've picked up that attitude -- I've been a good little emacs user for years now. |
Service for sending emails from your app? | Travis: Why are you looking at a server rather than sending it yourself? If you follow best-practices, you're not going to see worse results than using one of these 3rd party groups. |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | wehriam: Never mind Github, this is one of the greatest rivalries of all time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | csmeder: My guess is that its due to VIM being easier to learn than emacs? But thats just a guess I've never tried emacs. |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | pjhyett: I don't think there's any particular switch one way or the other. At GitHub, some of use use Textmate, others use vim or emacs, and I think Scott's been using gedit recently. Use whatever the hell makes you happy. |
When did Vim become "the cool editor"? | growt: ... vim was cool before you were born my son ;) |
Who are the top UI designers on the web today? | dem0o8: Timothy Gray of http://www.shelfari.com/
Great UI and UX design. |
Which PHP chart solution do you use? | pierrefar: There are quite a few.BUT:When I looked into this a few months ago, I found that PHP generation of graphs is expensive. It was cheaper to send just the data to the browser and let a Flash control or jQuery do the graphing. This removes a big bottleneck.I settled on a for-pay mapping Flash control and an open source Flash graphs control. Both accept data in sensible XML and so it wasn't hard to talk to them. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | jhouck: Thanks in advance for your feedback. -Jason |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | davidw: San Francisco. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | sachinag: It works exactly as I thought it would. ZIP in addition to city/state works, which is nice. I trust you get referral fees for your revenue model.One note: the play on OMG is cute, but probably not a good brand fit for what you're selling here, though.All in all, very well done. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | larrykubin: Why so little data for Austin, TX?It'd be nice to add some more educational information that explains the benefits of solar in my home. How much do I save in X years? How much do I reduce emissions by?How about incorporating ratings and comments on each company? I'd rather just ask for a quote from the top company.I like the radius/shaded region that indicates the area of service.Also, this might not be very important, but the name ohmji isn't very obvious for some people. It does make for a cool resistor logo though :). I understand since I studied electrical engineering, but for someone who isn't familiar with units of resistance it might make sense to call it something plain and boring like "solar finder". |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | mseebach: How about combining the "Solar Cost Estimates" with a local estimate of sun-hours to give an estimate of how long it'll take to recoup the installation cost? That's the sort of feature that'll land your site on feel-good morning shows.And what's with the name? There's no association to sun in it, and there's no way I'll remember it. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | vaksel: 1. Horrible name, you have to have a name that's SEO friendly for something like this. You aren't in a type of business that spreads through word of mouth, you are in a type of business that gets found through google search.2. You should add a way to input the user's city/state automatically. And make that function a lot more prominent. A big, giant, search box would do wonders for you.3. Too much white, you should bring up that footer image higher. Because right now it's below the fold, so all a user sees is a boring search box on a white background.4. Add a solar power related header image.5. let users sort results by price and # of installs |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | marltod: How do you stop google maps or other databases from pulling all your data? |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | csmeder: search for "san francisco" and it looks like you don't have any thing in "san francisco".1) Have a helper message: "you forgot to include a state"2) or give a list of cities called "san francisco" in different statesThis may seem dumb, but I put my mouse in the search field- I saw "San Luis Obispo" (from past searches) and clicked enter. For a second I thought you guys just don't have my city covered. |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | japanesejay: Where (or what country?) are you coming from?And yes, there are a lot of good things to do in SF more so than the Silicon Valley. Let me know what your interests are, i can point you to a few good things. If you know people (maybe you can meet them here), visiting the google campus and/or yahoo campus is always a treat. Not sure if Facebook has anything exciting to offer, but i know their office space looks nice.If you want to visit something techie/educational, the exploatorium is fun, academy of science is great. There are more good eats in sf than sv (imho). |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | csmeder: SV aka Man Jose? My brother has lived in San Jose for the past 8 years. The only place I have ever heard him complement is http://www.jumpskyhigh.com/.The problem with SV its a bunch of Suburbs. San Jose is the biggest city their and its rather boring. I agree with Davidw check out SF it has 10 times as much stuff to do. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | dannyr: Jason,Congrats with the launch! |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | petervandijck: Well done, too narrow. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | jws: "St. Louis, MO" is not found
"Saint Louis, MO" is, though you have no data.No one from St. Louis would type it out. |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | wmf: The Computer History Museum. Unfortunately the Difference Engine is gone. |
Which PHP chart solution do you use? | japanesejay: ive used pCharts for strictly php.
http://pchart.sourceforge.net/
It doesnt do real time updating since it spits out an image. Im sure theres a slick way to do it but for what i was using it was quite minimalOpen Flash Charts is slick. i dig it.
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
I switched from pCharts to OFC for a project i was using. I like it much better.I tried google charts but i find it lacking. It is real hard to control and just not quite polished for what i was looking for. That and (i think) it requires an internet connection to dial out to google. Its potentially a problem if you're actually building thats not a webapp.Also someone announced a js based charting engine here on ycombinator about a few weeks back. I thought it was real slick... i wish i had it book marked. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | ars: Personally I think you are too early.Solar power has such a poor ROI that you would only do it if you don't do the math. It's not even good for the environment, since it takes so much energy to make a solar panel.Basically you have almost no market.If I could suggest something else, add ground source heat pumps. Those have a great ROI, but are not very common, and it's hard to find installers. |
memorization of syntax | wmf: How did you learn syntax? |
memorization of syntax | tdoggette: You've gotta know the syntax or you'll spend so much time looking things up that you'll never get anything done. |
Review my startup - Find the top solar installers near you | Vindexus: When you come to a city that isn't found it still tries to display all the metadata in the sidebar, but it's all blank.I searched for Kamloops.BC and the averages were there with no numbers.All in all it seems like a pretty cool service. You just need to work on the search and get more data. |
memorization of syntax | scott_s: I doubt he meant that you should memorize the syntax through, say, flashcards. Rather, he probably meant that you need to program enough in something so that you memorize the syntax as an incidental benefit. Once you've memorized - internalized - the syntax, there will be significantly less friction when you program. |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | cpr: (Warning: I left there in 1985, but have visited often.)There's really not all that much to see in SV proper--it's just a classic suburban sprawl, with tract homes intermingled with endless strip malls along El Camino, with occasional high-tech business parks thrown in for good measure, all intermingled around two major north/south highways (280 and 101).If you want to see the source of it all, be sure to visit Stanford. It's truly a lovely campus. And then stroll down University Blvd, where you can pick up a faint vibe of what's going on in the valley. (Facebook (which you don't care about) just left University, but there are lots of other VC offices & coffee shops/restaurants along there full of high-tech folk.)I'd get up on Skyline Drive, above the valley, and get some over-views from there. Beautiful drive as well.Then you might wander over the mountains (if you can stand the traffic) on 17 to Santa Cruz and surrounding areas, which have some great sights.Carmel, down past Monterrey, is a classic California coastal scene, if a rather expensive place to hang out. Worth a trip. Great restaurants, great little beach & cluster of houses around.Then there's SF itself, and the northern scene (Muir Woods, etc.) All worth a few days of poking around (or a lifetime), but there's so much to see and do up there that I couldn't do it justice.I've got a lot of fond memories of the valley, but they're mostly personal (where I used to hang out with my then-fiancée, where we lived (hmm, actually, not all that fond of either house & neighborhood), where I worked at various start-ups, what church I used to attend, etc.).Otherwise, what happens in SV is mostly happening inside somewhat bland office buildings strewn about the valley, and there's nothing really worth seeing in that sense, unless you just want to say you've "been there." |
6 Startup Founders, What To Do About Equity | pg: Err on the side of equality. More important than the split is to have vesting with a cliff, because given the circumstances, some are likely to leave in the first year. |
memorization of syntax | nathanb: Until you're comfortable enough with the syntax that you can hand-write code out on a blank sheet of paper, you don't really know the language. How you learn the syntax is up to you, but especially for your first language spending time that's specifically dedicated to learning the syntax is very helpful. |
memorization of syntax | ggchappell: It seems to me that a couple of different issues are being conflated here.FIRST ISSUE: What syntax is available.Memorization is the way to go here.For example, write this in C, and you look like a moron: foo();
while (bar()) {
foo();
}
... as well as violating DRY and thus producing less maintainable code, etc., etc., because you can do it this way: do {
foo();
} while (bar());
But if you don't already know that C has a loop construct with the test at the end, then you'll never write the second version.SECOND ISSUE: Exactly how the syntax is put together.Maybe this needs to be memorized, and maybe not.Consider the above example. I write a "do-while" loop maybe a couple of times a year (?). If I forget exactly how to type it in (semicolor at the end, or not?), then I can look it up. So I figure, as long as I know that "do-while" exists, I can look up the details when I need them.On the other hand, I write a "for" loop once a week, at least. If I hadn't memorized the pattern for (INIT; COND; INCR) { ... }
then I would waste huge amounts of time looking it up every time I needed it.However, I don't really need to predict in advance exactly what syntax I need to memorize the details of. If I find myself looking something up more than once in a week/month/whatever, then it's probably time to memorize that.Disclaimer: If you're taking a college class, and the instructor says to memorize something, then you'd better know it, at least until the final exam is over. |
6 Startup Founders, What To Do About Equity | yosho: what's wrong with dividing by 6 equally?any sort of unequal distribution will mess with moral and effort |
6 Startup Founders, What To Do About Equity | jasonlbaptiste: a) make sure there's a cliff
b) define roles and responsibilities. the cto should have final call on tech matters, business on biz dev,etc.
c) clearly designate someone to be a final call/leader type person. they should also have the board seat.Equal equity is fine. It's the voting/power/decision making that comes with it. You'll end up with a startup bureaucracy where every decision needs to go through a 6 person committee. You will lose one of the ultimate attributes of a startup: speedPersonally, I'd also be asking yourself how you ended up with 6 founders and if all of them are "founders". Yourself included. |
I'll be visiting the SV soon. What are some of its must-see sights? | NonEUCitizen: Fry's. HSC Electronic Supply (www.halted.com). 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. Stanford. Googleplex. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | notmyname: Generally when I hear the term "deniable" used with something security related, I think of something like the hidden volumes in True Crypt: something that I can't be proved to have.Does your product provide this level of deniability? I would venture a guess that the answer is no (after all, there is a box with a big "DV" on it). If not, what do you mean by the word deniable? |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | icey: What happens to my video if the DV unit is stolen or destroyed? |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | cool-RR: Reminds me of a cool idea I once thought of. It's more a nerd-fantasy than something practical. A surveillance system that not only encrypts the video, but also digitally signs it, so James Bond-style thieves can't switch cameras. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | csmeder: The layout is good, however, I have one suggestion:Left align your text. Follow the advice of this book by Robin Williams:"Find a strong alignment and stick to it.""Avoid using more than one text alignment on the page (that is, don't center some text and right-align other text).And please try very hard to break away from a centered alignment unless you are consciously trying to create a more formal, sedate presentation. Choose a centered alignment consciously, not by default."- The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice. http://books.google.com/books?id=n1AuwXafMO8C&lpg=PT42&#....Take a look at the chapter above she shows some good examples of how to integrate images into a layout. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | thaumaturgy: Ah, I see. They've separated the storage of software and the storage of video into two separate devices. The unit arrives with its video storage area filled with "random" data, and then the encryption process for the video writes into the video storage area.As long as the encryption methods used produce data which cannot be differentiated from pseudo-random data, then it's impossible to tell whether there's any video on there at all.Pretty neat. :-) |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | negativezero: Neat idea, but I think (certainly not) the only way you'll ever see a substantial return is if you were you marketing this to the obviously most vile demographic of pornographer(s) out there. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | pan69: $6000 is quite a fair amount of money and for that I only get one year of warranty on the hardware and one year of software updates?Not sure what the software updates include but for the hardware I would expect live-time warranty or at least something reasonable, like 5 to 10 years.Other than that. Nice product. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | run4yourlives: Sounds like it solves the "Oh noes they stole our sex tape" concern most celebrities seem to have these days... |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | goodside: My first impression: I love the idea, but I'd never give $6,000 to a site that looks like yours. I generally don't like criticizing without some constructive advice on what to fix, but in this case you don't need tips from random commenters, you need professional graphic design talent. A lot of startups could forego that at first, but not if they're selling $6,000 of equipment to an audience that's pre-selected to be paranoid. You'll need to look absurdly trustworthy just to get started, and that's going to be a tough hill to climb. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | mooism2: For most of the uses on your "Purposes" page, you don't need the deniability, only the encryption. So this is overkill.For the journalism uses, the product does not seem to be enough. When the authorities ask you to show them what video you've taken, you need to be able to use a secondary key that reveals your interview with the Ministry of Information's Official Spokesman, but conceals your interview of an opposition leader and your video of an anti-government protest. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | Vindexus: It seems absurdly expensive and the site could use some polish.I think a screencast would be good to explain what it does and how it works. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | tptacek: At most, this device seems trustworthy exactly to the extent that you trust that hardware hasn't been tampered with. Since there's very little information about how the tamper-proofing works, I tend towards skepticism.At worst, they've implemented a cryptosystem that, having never been peer reviewed, is vulnerable to basic attacks. Since I can't find out who the authors are, and they use both AES and Serpent with listed key sizes instead of talking about how the design works, I tend towards skepticism.Finally, I'm with everyone else wondering why deniability is something the market cares about. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | astine: It sounds like this is going to revolutionize the child-porn industry. :P |
Getting hired in brand new field | gridspy: Have you considered contributing to the PHP interpreter? This could be a interesting task that builds on your experience and showcases your talent.Alternatively, you could work on the Javascript interpreter in Firefox or Webkit. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | keltecp11: $5000 is a lot of money for this... isn't it? |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | jasonlbaptiste: Glad to see more companies doing hardware. It's pretty intimidating stuff, but it's also really fun.Site Design: Needs lots of work. It seems like an infomercial product. I think branding is key here, especially if you're looking to charge 6k.Price: 6k is a nonstarter. If the equipment were expensive and margins were tight, I'd understand. Everyone wants hardware to be cheap and it's hard when you don't have economies of scale yet.Implementation: Lots of different devices and I'm sure there's a certain level of complexity to this. I think you're on to something with the security aspect. I would try to make it a lot easier and a lot simpler. The 100gb of space is also way too low. I haven't looked through the specs, but SATA 2.5s with 500 are readily available. If you can somehow cram a 3.5 inch, you can get up to 2 tb.Could this be done via the cloud? IP camera, sheeva plug, and encrypted recording to an overseas server? Require the private usb key to be used in conjunction with any software system its loaded on. You could charge a small up front fee for the camera+sheeva plug and recurring fee for recording. Kind of a TiVo for personal security.</end ramble> |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | PStamatiou: Forgive me for being a bit blunt - but is that picture not just a painted mac mini? The edge has the inset line where the case turns from metal to plastic and the port area is the white plastic. Is this a Mac Mini + software + camera? |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | kw_: No 'about us' page. I was confused for a moment when the 'contact us' page started with 'to view our company's website, click here'. I thought I was on the company website.Having multiple languages seems a bit odd if large swaths of content aren't translated. "Cette page est disponible seulement en anglais" being followed by an entire page of English text doesn't help credibility.Your logo seems like it'd fail pretty hard for individuals with red-weak color blindness.The 'deniable video operation' flowchart is more complex than what I want, for understanding how it works.If the thing is supposed to be deniable, I might prefer a plain black plastic, or aluminum enclosure to a giant DV logo'd one.The targeting seems very broad... and some of it seems a bit misinformed. As an example, there are substantial SEC rules when it comes to communications and the records thereof, but you have two trading-related examples in commercial.I'd like a clear example of how it is that:a) if my wife asks me for my password, she will get the pictures of her and I... not of the woman I met on ashleymadison. (purely hypothetical, honey.)b) if a government asks me for my password, they will get something plausible, but not everything...I guess it's just not clear to me what it's really good at, except that it's a camera, and a hard drive, and it uses ogg vorbis and chunks to... do something.edit: It also conflates what appear to be the two major features (encryption, and data hiding), and it's not obvious to me what quality the resulting video will be, nor what I'd have to do if I wanted to use it in broadcast.Also, I felt like I had to read a lot of the website to know what the product really did. I might've got the gist faster if the front page said something like: Deniable Video. * Records, Encrypts and Hides Your Video. I really didn't know what "personal video security that's loyal to you" meant. |
Average comment score for HN users? | phob: What does leaders do, if not that? |
Hacker News Source Code | sparky: The language is a Lisp dialect called Arc.
The language site is here: http://arclanguage.org/
The source file for HN itself can be read here: http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc |
Could we please have the author's comments highlighted in some way? | shrughes: Write a Greasemonkey script to do it. |
What/Who is whyslow.net and why are they copying HN? | pwmanagerdied: I don't know why it exists, but it's CNAMEd to point to news.ycombinator.com, so they couldn't be stealing passwords now, at least. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | chaostheory: I was pretty interested in the site and product, until I saw the price$6k is a lot for what on 1st impression 'looks' to be targeting the lower end of the security imaging market. You can buy three HD Axis IP cameras for that money. Speaking of cameras, you don't show or give any specs which is really strange when you're asking for 6kthe more I read your site the more I can somewhat understand the price, but if I was just a customer - you would have lost me in 30 seconds; your landing page doesn't convey your product's 6k of valueStill, kudos for not coming up with yet another web app |
What/Who is whyslow.net and why are they copying HN? | lt: Aparently their main page loads HN as an iframe and hides all techcrunch stories. Kinda funny.Probably someone that was sick of techcrunch on HN made it for himself and there's no major conspiracy of password stealing or SEO tricks. |
Review our startup: Deniable Video | iterationx: In the FAQ this question should be towards the topWhy would I need continuous audio/video recording? |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | bendtheblock: Here are a few of mine to start off:"If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless."
-- Robert H. Schuller"If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough"
-- Mario Andretti"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
-- Steve Jobs |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | kw_: The only thing you can control is your effort. |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | edw519: Attitude determines outcome. - Jim McGraw, COO of Marion LaboratoriesBe the first, be the best, or be different. - Jacyln EastonChance favors the prepared mind. - Louis PasteurElegance is for tailors. Don't always believe in the numbers. There is always room for human judgment. - Albert EinsteinGreat ideas come into the world as gently as doves. - Albert CamusHalf the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is, I don't know which half. - John WanamakerI do not love the money. What I love is the making of it. - Philip ArmourI guess we can make them, although we never have. - Benjamin Franklin GoodrichI never gamble. - J. P. MorganA man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles SchwabIf I could get $25,000, I would spend $24,000 on advertising, the remainder in making Coca-Cola. Then we would all be rich. - John PembertonIf I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham LincolnThe best way to really enter minds that hate complexity and confusion is to oversimplify your message. The lesson here is not to try to tell your entire story. Just focus on one powerful differentiating idea and drive it into the mind. That sudden hunch, that creative leap of the mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence. If there's any trick to finding that simple set of words, it's one of being ruthless about how you edit the story you want to tell. Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate. Anything that requires a complex analysis to prove, forget. Anything that doesn't fit with your customers' perceptions, avoid. - Jack TroutIf you're going to lose money, lose it. But don't let 'em nose you out. - Gustavus SwiftIf you love an idea, that is good. If you have ideas as to how to work it out, that is better. - Henry FordIt's a barrier to entry because you're shooting at a moving target. - Bill George, CEO, MedtronicsName the greatest inventors. Accident. - Mark TwainNothing, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come. - Victor HugoPerceived truth is more powerful than truth itself. - Michel FortinPurchasers are made, not born. - Henry FordSuccess depends on how you react to unexpected opportunities. - Ross PerotThe ancestor to every action is a thought. - Ralph Waldo EmersonThe march of improvement in any given field is always marked by periods of inactivity and then by sudden bursts of energy which revolutionize existing methods sometimes in a day. - George EastmanThere was never a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself. - Andrew CarnegieThink a lot. Say little. Write nothing. - J. P. MorganIf first an idea is not absurd, it has no hope for survival. - Albert EinsteinTo lead people, walk behind them. - Sun TzuWe study the methods of improving our business as we would a science. We imitate no one. - A. Montgomery WardWe took what was a luxury and made it into a necessity. Our only advantage was lack of precedent. - Henry FordWe want character to go with our goods. And 16 ounces is a Swift pound. - Louis SwiftWhat others could not or would not do we would attempt, and this was a rule of business which was strictly adhered to. - Andrew CarnegieWhat we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality. - Gary ZukavYou can't get wet from the word "water". - Alan WattsYou can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. - Albert Einstein |
recommendations for two challenging web app problems | jmonegro: I think you should ask this at StackOverflow instead. |
Review my idea (CCDB) | michael_dorfman: Are you viewing this as a hobby, or as a business idea?As a hobby (or learning project), I'd say: sure, go for it, have fun.If you're planning on monetizing it, well..... |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | Chirag: Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world actually do. |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | frisco: "Move fast and break things. It's not the end of your career if you bring the entire site down." - Zuckerberg |
Favourite Entrepreneur Quotes | rmason: Here are a few of my favoritesDon’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard AikenI can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John CageIf I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"
Henry FordGood judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgments
Mark SusterIf you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Tom Watson (IBM) |
What Tech Startup Law Book can you recommend? | daleharvey: smarter ventures was a good introduction into the company creation / funding process, from a legal perspective.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smarter-Ventures-Survivors-Venture-C... |
Can niche ad networks work? | javery: I run a number of niche networks (http://zerkmedia.com) and they provide a good source of income. The small ad size of The Deck and some of my networks works well in technology, but in the wedding space you would probably want more conventional sizes. You would also be dealing with larger advertisers which means more of a sales effort, do you have sales experience? (if not it's not very hard, it's just not very fun either)I have also written software to manage running these networks, if you are interested in using it drop me a line (javery at zerkmedia.com). |
Can niche ad networks work? | vaksel: isn't that what adroll does? |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | vaksel: For me:General + site related(email, actual site, admin panel, twitter, facebook etc.): 19Entertainment(online radio/HN): 2 (i usually try to do all the distracting stuff in a single tab)Business related resources: 50 |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | maxtilford: I have 42 tabs open. I use Firefox's tree tabs add-on.
After pruning, I now have 22 tabs open. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | anigbrowl: 11. I have ADD so I get upset when I have too many open, it's better for my concentration to close them down except for a select few, including HN. |
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