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What Tech Startup Law Book can you recommend? | grellas: This is an area in which I have been interested, both as a startup law practitioner and as someone who has thought about doing my own entry in this field (I have toyed with the beginnings of this on my firm's website with a "Startup Law 101 Series").Here are a few of the good resources in this area:1. The Mil... |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | Kliment: 32 Here. I treat them, with some exceptions, as a stack of stuff I've saved to read later. The exceptions are reference stuff I keep coming back to and HN. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | bdonlan: 83, across three windows in two browsers (chrome + firefox). I should probably cut them down a bit... |
What kind of subjects do you (a HN user) expect? | bpick: I think just like the rest of life, it is what you make of it.If something sounds interesting to you, great. If it doesn't, it doesn't mean that one article is a flaming pile of shit, it just means it's not your cup of tea.Vote up what you like, and show the community what you want to see more of. Seems pretty... |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | morphir: 3 - but usually around 10. |
What kind of subjects do you (a HN user) expect? | Raphael: All Erlang all the time. |
What kind of subjects do you (a HN user) expect? | peterhi: I like science and technology. Science and technology impacts society and therefore politics, politics impacts science and technology.Stem cell research in the US for example is a clear example of politics affecting science, for that matter most drugs policies in the world are an example where politics ignores... |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | patrickryan: 12, but normally around 20. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | abreu_alexandre: 30, and it's usually higher, |
What is the best free affiliate tracking system? | sysk: I've heard good comments on iDevAffiliate.com |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | joeycfan: seven. |
What kind of subjects do you (a HN user) expect? | RiderOfGiraffes: From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting ... anything that gratifies
one's intellectual curiosity.
That pretty much covers it. Stuff that you're complaining about either contains something that some hackers m... |
Using REST design for complex function calls? | blubb: There's nothing about REST that requires you do use GETs for everything, quite the opposite in fact (read up on how the Rails REST API is designed for some inspiration).Then again, unless you want to make a given function/input combination into a resource, you might be better of with a less RESTy approach. |
What is the best free affiliate tracking system? | dangrossman: There is no such thing as free affiliate tracking. Maybe you'll find some shoddy free software, but that's only one piece of the puzzle. To run the program yourself, you need to factor in the time it will take you to:- Recruit and sign up affiliates- Collect W9s and other tax forms from each new affiliate ... |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | kls: If you are going to incur expenses and your potential customers will not be available due to preoccupation, then you should wait until you have the full attention of your customer. |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | anigbrowl: What does it do? If it's family-oriented, it might be a great time. If it's business-y, not. Context matters. |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | mattwdelong: I recently came across the same question via OnStartups.com. Here: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/4794/is-launching-ju...I personally think the right answer would have to take into consideration the context of the launch and the product. However, I think that if there is no expense to launch, then... |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | bbsabelli: Launch. You'll hopefully be around in a year, so anything you learn now will be useful a year from now too. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | ganley: 13, including the 6 (such as this one) that I just opened from HN. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | roundsquare: 2, but its usually near 10. |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | csuper: I asked a few days ago - here is that thread.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975840 |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | mish: 39, typically anywhere from 25 - 75 if I'm working on something that requires me to do a lot of web research. |
Is it a good idea to launch a startup during holiday season? | DanielBMarkham: launching a startup, i.e. beginning to create something? Absolutely. No time like the present. "Launching" the startup, i.e., going public with something you've already created? Depends on what it is. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | greatfog: I have 5 tabs open, including this one. |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | hga: ~200 ^_^, all in Firefox: On my 32 bit XP system used for email (Eudora) and Flash/video, 17 in 2 windows.On my 64 bit Linux system, two instances: ~80 in 4 windows for system (e.g. BackupPC console) and technical stuff (e.g. HN, Clojure development) and ~100 in 8 windows for general news, politics, recreation, et... |
How many tabs do you currently have open? | corewarrior: I can have as many 142 tabs open. Performance on firefox is good, although they do eat memory :-) |
Useful bug reporting tips? | Travis: I don't use screenshots very often, but for that 20% case when I need them, they're invaluable. Still seems a little antiquated that I have to snap a pic, then go somewhere to upload it. Seems like something that could do that and submit it w/in the web app would be a plus. |
Advice or Resources on Revenue Sharing? | answerly: If you have an average cost of acquisition through other paid media channels then that may be a good starting point.One good exercise is to try and determine the current value of the partner's inventory (emails, placement in publications, etc) that will be used to promote the co-brand. Your goal should be to... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | icey: What differentiates this from a product like SuperMemo? I see your licensing cost is less ($9.99 vs $50), but I also know much more about what SuperMemo is and the quality of its results. |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | antidaily: Windows only. Looks useful, wish I could try it. |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | epi0Bauqu: Site does not display right on android browser using tmobile mytouch. Text is weirdly cut off on right with no way to get to it. |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | DanielStraight: I think having the user type answers is a huge problem. An SRS where you grade yourself (Mnemosyne, for example) allows for fuzzy answers and typos. Your system apparently does not. There are also SRSes which allow for audio and video in questions and answers. Clearly that is impossible to automatically... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | anigbrowl: I like the concept, but think it would be better and make more as an ad-supported webapp. It looks too simple to be worth the time to download, scan for viruses, install and run on my already-cluttered desktop.By the way, while I like the Einstein branding, be aware that his 'personality rights' (to use his ... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | og1: I'd be careful about using that banner imagehttp://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/05-einstein-inc/article... |
Pricing Help for Web Application | javery: If the widget is hosted on your server then you could bracket your plans based on the traffic. So you could say $19.99 for up to 50,000 page views a month, etc. How valuable your widget is would determine how much you can charge (be sure to factor in your bandwidth costs as well if the widget is a decent size).... |
Pricing Help for Web Application | olalonde: Here's a great article on the subject from Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot founder). http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/11097/How-To-Price-Soft... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | d0m: Idea: Make this a WepApp with a small application only for the popups. So, it could be used on phones and other systems. + The question would be saved in a secure place and I could add and access them from anywhere. Also, I find the main dialog page a bit clumpsy.. too much differents concepts.. a simple applicati... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | lanstein: Add an 'I know it, next!' button |
Why does broadband still suck in 2009? | anigbrowl: I am guessing economies of scale make it hard to compete with local cable monopolies. Next time I move I'm thinking of ditching cable and just getting faster ADSL for a bit less money, since I do not much care for TV. I entirely agree about the lack of choice for upload speeds.Would love to hear from those w... |
Why does broadband still suck in 2009? | lloydP: 1) Why did Verizon lobby broadband competition out of my area?2) Why do I have to pay Verizon (oligopoly with Comcast in my area) $100 to get a static IP address?3) Why does the fine print way down in my Verizon FIOS license agreement forbid me to hook any kind of server to their network?4) Isn't the Internet s... |
Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine) | rationalthug: Was just browsing through the game engine code and came across this: // Effect Game Engine
// Copyright (c) 2005 - 2009 Effect Games LLC and Joseph Huckaby.
// All rights reserved. Patent Pending.
Patent pending? Seriously? What aspects of your code you are attempting to patent?While I'm sure yo... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | Gatsky: Mnemosyne/Supermemo do not support crossword puzzles. Spicy Elephant is an online flashcard service.Mnemosyne in particular is geared towards learning vocabulary, and includes 'three sided' flashcards for learning the meaning, non-roman characters and pronounciation of a word.Something you should address in exp... |
A competitor is part of the angel group I want to pitch to | jacquesm: Why would they invest in a competitor and you both ?I remember another HN member here saying in very clear words that a startup he worked for got stuff from would-be competitors through VC pitches. Be careful. |
Finding hackers with the entrepreneurial virus | RiderOfGiraffes: If you just want to brainstorm, pick an idea and throw it out here on HN to see what you get. They often say: Ideas are worth little to nothing - it's execution that matters. |
Why does broadband still suck in 2009? | tedunangst: I suspect people with high-end digital DLRs uploading RAW files on a regular basis constitute a small portion of your ISP's customer base, so it probably is just you. |
Advice or Resources on Revenue Sharing? | Scott_MacGregor: Fairly large media company + phone call from their CEO will = legal contract from their legal department = their attorney will be involved in the deal.Since "deal making" is out of your element, you might want to talk to an attorney who can help you with the deal process from open to close. I would ima... |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | barmstrong: Agree with the others who say make it a web app.What is the business model? Ad supported? It's definitely a good effort. Thanks for sharing it! |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | Caligula: I run ubuntu. Got this message:ASSEMB'LIVE requires one the following operating systems: Windows or MacOS X. Please switch on one of these to go further. |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | blazzerbg: looks very cool, but animation can make it inappropriate for serious business events/meetings |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | hme: An interesting aspect of Assemblive for you, hackers, is that you can embedd a 3D+VOIP widget into any web site. You can add realtime interactions and self awareness of your visitors with only a few lines of code. Here is a screencast of it (sorry for the french accent ;) http://aworldforus.tumblr.com/post/2875346... |
Seen any interesting NLP links? | randliu: There's several companies working on sentiment analysis. The NYT had a roundup: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emot...Backtype is a YC company that probably does some NLP stuff on the backend. http://www.backtype.com/Also, Powerset and Wolfram Alpha.The most obvious killer app is senti... |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | rikbold: Try it now button awesome. |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | joubert: I like the name (although not sure how to pronounce)."Avatar" could also be a cool name. ;-) |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | jerome_etienne: nice job. instinctive and easy to use. a good tool to have virtual conference |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | etherealG: an interesting idea, but is the 3D really necessary? I would think a multi-stream voice / video chat in normal window type interfaces like we're used to online would be better.Even better would be to integrate with existing voice chat apps, like voice chat in googletalk, but with support for "conference call... |
A competitor is part of the angel group I want to pitch to | ScottWhigham: There is no way that I would pitch to them. I wouldn't even pitch to any of the members individually because your pitch will likely get back to the competitor. And I'd be especially wary of getting a lot of interest, then going down the path of due diligence, only to get rejected later (while all of your ... |
Advice or Resources on Revenue Sharing? | ScottWhigham: The bigger the gap between you and the partner (in terms of revenue/size), the less likely anything positive will come to you in my experience. I wouldn't waste a bunch of time on this if I were you unless you have the time to waste and you understand the risk. It's fine to devote 'x' hours to getting the... |
Please review my 3D+VOIP web project (Assemblive.com) | olivier75: When do you plan to leave beta stage? |
What can Search Engines Crawl? | oscardelben: if they don't understand javascript, they'll see the page as if you would disable javascript. |
Please review my latest project (memodrops.com) | JangoSteve: The home page made it very difficult to take seriously. A good spell-checker would be in order."From then on memodrops takes care about the word and you can be almost sure that you will learn the new word permanently without being a memory champion."Try this:"From there, Memodrops will take over and make su... |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | fpotter: Tweakio is about helping individuals and companies/brands
embed dynamic content into their Twitter background, viewable whenever someone hits the standard twitter.com/username page.Today I'm releasing a teaser theme called "Friend Tree" which lets you put a tree on the left hand side of your Twitter page and d... |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | tdoggette: You might benefit from buying tweak.io in addition. |
Which should I pay for: Dropbox or ZumoDrive? What do you think? | silas: I'm using Dropbox because it supports Linux and has worked extremely well thus far.I can't speak to ZumoDrive's performance or reliability (although I'm sure its fine), but it does look like they have more pricing options if you want a smaller or larger plan. |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | antidaily: A video or screenshots would be nice. |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | imp: Is the snow at the top of the page supposed to fall? By dynamic is it an animated gif, or just dynamic on reload? I kept waiting for the snow to fall. |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | dryicerx: Some cosmetics: Possibly move the "Get your friends at tweakio" only shows up correctly without being clipped in a exact resolution, a better option would be to move it to the left side. Another is on the home page, the background doesn't repeat so looks off on screens wider than 1600px. |
Doing due diligence on potential investors? | pg: A lot of investors know YC but not HN, so you shouldn't read anything into that.The best way to judge an investor (like people in many other fields) is simply to ask people who've worked with him. |
Review my Twitter App - Tweakio | apsurd: FWIW, I'm not a big twitter user, I don't use a single twitter "app", but hey this is pretty cool and its extremely digestable. I'd imagine a lot of people would want that cute tree on their page, just depends on how easy it is to get it running. The concept is good though imo, good job!Also the main text on th... |
Doing due diligence on potential investors? | Scott_MacGregor: This is the second time in approximately one week that I have seen someone describing getting a business proposition from someone who fits this description. The other was a potential investor describing a similar experience with someone looking for money. Perhaps it is the same person they are describi... |
what indie computer game to buy as gifts? | kqr2: For the gamer who liked Monkey Island, they might also like On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darknesshttp://www.rainslick.com/ |
what indie computer game to buy as gifts? | gprisament: I haven't actually played it, but "blueberry garden" looks pretty sweet from the trailer and won top prize at the independent games festival. http://eriksvedang.com/blueberrygarden/ |
report system, Excel or HTML? | yannis: For reports (people like to print them), I normally use(a) pdf
(b) HTMLIn that order!If anyone needs excel I give them comma delimited for import! |
report system, Excel or HTML? | wendroid: Like choosing which bullet to get shot by. |
alternatives to EtherPad? | myprasanna: I am an early user of etherpad & loved it.
I'm hosting and maintaining it here: www.ietherpad.comCheers. |
report system, Excel or HTML? | jwallz: You need to do both. dump the report to a page in html with pagination and have an export to excel button. For file export do it as tab delimited with a .xls extension. |
report system, Excel or HTML? | nailer: What specifically is the problem? Are you likely to have more than 65K rows?If not, Python's xlwt and xlrd modules handle support for native Excel in a very simple, OO, pythonic way, without any scary Windows or COM shit. I regularly generate and parse pretty big Excel files most days so I'd be happy to answer ... |
report system, Excel or HTML? | clscott: If you render the report as an HTML document and serve it with a mime-type of application/vnd.ms-excel
the users system will prompt them open it in excel.Excel will parse it with all of the nice formatting and everything! |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | cperciva: Google scholar can usually find PDFs which authors' posted to their personal websites. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | eggoa: http://arxiv.org/ |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | keefe: I use http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ and ACM digital library and sometimes google scholar |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | ottbot: I'm interested in what turns up here, outside of arxiv - I have no clue, short of the odd self distributed paper.I'm very much dependent on university journal subscriptions to get full text articles - mostly from sciencedirect. It's a shame, as it puts so much stuff out of reach if you're not in the same positi... |
Image search API that allows automated querying? | aarongough: For the record:After I posted this I changed tack with my researching and started looking specifically for movie poster DBs instead of general image services...Pretty much straight away I found this:http://www.movieposterdb.com/embeddingAnyone else that finds this, enjoy! |
what indie computer game to buy as gifts? | diN0bot: thx for the recs! blueberry garden looks interesting. i also liked Braid for the platform genre.haha. i read penny arcade (not for the gamer jokes, tho ?!) and didn't realize they had a game. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | zitterbewegung: ArXiv usually has most of the scientific papers that I read. Google Scholar gets the rest. But probably the best place is looking up the author an finding his personal website and downloading papers.
EDIT: Also check with your university if they have an agreement for papers. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | chasingsparks: filetype:pdf title |
Any of you summarize lectures with a laptop? | bugs: I say you should choose which classes best support laptop notes (if you really want to use your laptop) and for those classes with a large amount of math/graphics just write in a normal notebook, it is faster and easier. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | brooksbp: Author's personal websites... |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | russell: I thought I would try a couple of the suggestions here. What I was looking for was criticisms or alternatives to (Java) exception handling, an interest of mine. ArXiv may have the the paper but their search interface is pretty primitive. Google Scholar gave much more useful results after tinkering with searc... |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | pbiggar: I wrote a firefox plugin to help solve this problem. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/45524/.So far it only replaces the link on portal.acm.org with a google scholar search. Contributions beyond this are welcome. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jaddison: For VPS: I'm using Slicehost currently, but have seen some good reviews of Linode. I think I'll likely give them a spin in the new year instead of Slicehost - you get a bit more for your money, and can customize more from what I understand.I believe they both have quite good support from both community and c... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | dryicerx: Linode for general stuff.Amazon EC2 when I need a sudden burst of computational power. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | ivan_ah: Usually universities have electronic subscriptions for most journals based on the IP range of the university network.I ssh one of the computers on campus. cd to my public_html directory and use elinks to download the pdf.I think many people do this trick because I keep finding good papers in various ~username/... |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | teuobk: A few different places, depending on the situation:1. Google scholar2. Authors' personal websites3. EBSCO Academic Alumni Edition via my alma matter's alumni association4. Email requests to friends who are currently enrolled at major universities5. Visits to the local university (Minnesota) library, which offer... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | fendale: prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up) |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | chunkyslink: I've used Rimuhosting VPS http://rimuhosting.com/ for a while now and they have been nothing short of excellent. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | idlewords: Linode and slicehost are quite expensive if you price out the RAM and disk you get per dollar, but they do let you rent quite small instances. I've found the main difference in favor of Linode to be nice monitoring tools and graphs.Serverbeach occasionally runs specials on rented dedicated that offer very g... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jazzychad: I use my home computer for this purpose. There is a simple WAMP setup on the main OS (winxp) for quick and dirty stuff, and then I have VMWare running a 512 MB RAM image of Ubuntu Server to let me play around with more interesting stuff. So the cost is effectively free.If something then turns into more than ... |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | bmaland: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/ |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | cperciva: I've been very satisfied with RootBSD so far. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | EGF: I want to caveat my choice by saying that I have been through the following options before settling on my latest and honestly greatest choice by far:I used and cancelled; lunarpages, dreamhost, mediatemple, globatI switched to HostGator Alluminum reseller program (but do not actually resell the space)I house each ... |
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