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Ask HN:Does Higher Resolution screen helps in programming? | Raphael: 1920 is really convenient because you can have two windows side by side, or even try to squeeze in a third skinny one, such as an IM client.Just make sure you have the eyesight for it. The 1px dot on lowercase I's can be maddening. |
what apps could help with events like in Haiti? | Tichy: OK, I haven't really watched many news about Haiti. Seems they have severe problems keeping power supply and telephony up. So I suppose mobile apps in the field wouldn't help that much. Unless rescue teams can set up their own infrastructure.Maybe the best one can do from far away is to help collect donations? |
what apps could help with events like in Haiti? | protomyth: I think if it wasn't prepped and trained on before it won't go well now.That being said, I would think getting ahold of official identification photos and then having people take photos of people (alive and dead) and use a facial rec app for identification. |
Review my site erwaittimes.us | brk: This would probably be the last thing on my mind if I actually had to go to an ER.The "use your location" button doesn't do anything when I click it (other than generate a Firefox message that you want to use my location, which I allow).Seems like if there is a real app/use for this it should try to auto-locate based on IP, and maybe offer something for more granular location.Have some ability to rate ER's by trauma type (broken bone, concussion, whatever).When a user hits the page, show top 5 or 6 trauma types and closest ER with best rating for that type.User can click a trauma type to pull up (pre-cached?) more local ER's ranked by wait-time and rating for that type. One more click gives map and macro driving directions to ER with click-to-print button.Also has common patient handling instructions for various things (keep patient upright, sedated, whatever) based on trauma type.Sidebar has, based on location, local ambulance companies, ER #'s, Police/Fire deparment phone numbers.... quick top-of-my-head thoughts... |
How to move to the USA and find cofounders | davidw: Look for similar conversations here in the past. It's quite difficult to just "move to the US", so you're probably better off either finding a better place where you are... You risk spending so much energy with the immigration bullshit that you will get distracted from working.Of course you could come on a tourist visa, hang around a bit and just see what comes up, but being able to stay without a job is not easy, and if you get a job, you won't have much time for a startup. |
Subscription Payment Gateway? | jacquesm: authorize.netccbill.comepoch.comvxsbill.com |
Subscription Payment Gateway? | msbmsb: also skipjack.com |
Should I submit paywalled links? | AndrewWarner: If there's enough value in the pre-walled off content, I say post it and let the community decide. |
Should I submit paywalled links? | TrevorBurnham: I should note that someone did indeed post this article, 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045231None of the (few) commenters registered objections to the fact that the content was paywalled. |
Subscription Payment Gateway? | sync: It depends on your demographic. I use Amazon FPS:- because my customers will probably have an amazon account w/ CC info in it, and will probably not have a paypal account.- to avoid having to deal with storing CC info on my end.- to avoid having to buy a HTTPS cert entirely.That being said, I am not huge on the fact that they leave my site to go pay -- though, I'm hoping users are used to this by now (a la paypal). |
How do you do your Press Release? | cperciva: I write a blog post and submit it to HN and Reddit.... of course, I'm HN's resident champion at poor marketing, so you'll probably want to find some other options rather than following my example. :-) |
Review my twist on a voting app | bradbeattie: Hey folks, I've been working lately on a new app that takes recent developments in electoral systems and tries to expose that to the end user in a friendly way.It's similar to others in that you can create, share, vote and review your poll. It's different in that it isn't using Plurality, Approval or anything like that. It's working off of an implementation of Schulze STV that I open sourced a few weeks back.Anywho, I'm wondering where to take this. I see sites like polldaddy.com charging $200/year for their services and think that there's wiggling room to work with here. Any feedback would be sweet. Thanks! |
Review my twist on a voting app | masomenos: Glad to see your app is using Schulze! |
Where do you host your startup web services? | j_lagof: I will recommend Linode, for me it has been working great, no downtimes, good support ,etc.I also having a good experience with GoDaddy, but it seems that I am an exception and not the rule, since everyone complains about it.Good luck! |
How do you respond when someone says a feature is confusing? | rmorrison: If only one user thinks it's confusing, then it may or may not be. If a lot of users think it's confusing, then it's something that you need to look into. |
How do you respond when someone says a feature is confusing? | PJNasty: Think as if you're a semi-proficient computer user. They often don't have the vocab to articulate what they mean(if they know what they mean).Look at the UI of an Iphone or Xbox360, or process for signing up for gmail for good examples of "not confusing." Both are dummy friendly.Don't lose perspective after having been immersed in the technical world. I've seen some very smart people completely lose grasp of how a non-technical person thinks. Words like driver and BIOS freak them out - forget Python and API. |
Where do you host your startup web services? | tlack: You'll probably still get periods when your service is slower than other times, because you're sharing the network either way.Anyway, I recommend Softlayer. A bit more expensive than Linode but at least you aren't sharing the server with other virtualized users. And besides, if your business isn't worth $200/mo in fixed costs for this important part of your infrastructure, why bother investing your valuable time anyway? |
Should I submit paywalled links? | credo: yes, please post them, but please add a "paywall" header to the subject line.That way, folks can decide whether to click on the link or not (instead of clicking on a link without realizing that the content is behind a paywall) |
How do you respond when someone says a feature is confusing? | JayNeely: - You can show conventions. Show that the icons / process / terminology are the same as other well-known and well-used features in other apps.- You can show statistics. # of people using it, or, if you really want to entertain alternatives, A/B testing results. It sounds like your service isn't live, so if this is important, hammer out a prototype and get some test users. If it's not that important, propose to do A/B testing when its released.- Figure out the end goal of the process, and ask a number of non-technical people (at least 20) to describe how they'd setup a process that would accomplish it. Do a significant number of them match your process? Do a significant number of them match each other?- Examine all the knowledge you assume a user has in order to go through the process, from the very basic (the button is clickable, "domain" means the URL / web address of a site.) to the more complex (you can undo any changes you make by viewing a list of revisions and rolling it back, clicking 'save' saves content but doesn't publish it, a 'dashboard' is an overview of account activity & a jumping-off point for site actions). Ask test user questions to determine how common the knowledge you assume actually is. |
Subscription Payment Gateway? | ljharb: Recurly.com |
Anybody Know Any Real-Time Web Stats? | chrisa: I don't know how accurate this is, but this site claims about 490 tweets per second: http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ |
Review my web app / filtering Digg by languages (french, german, ...) | DanielStraight: Some categorization would be really nice. |
Subscription Payment Gateway? | officemedium: authorize.net's ARB or CIM |
Anybody Know Any Real-Time Web Stats? | hockeybias: I am aware of http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ too, but curious as to what eklse is out there! |
Anybody Know Any Real-Time Web Stats? | JayNeely: Google:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-week-in-search-1...Facebook:
http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2009/09/usa-today-750...
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statisticsWikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:StatisticsYouTube:
http://ksudigg.wetpaint.com/page/YouTube+StatisticsBlogs:
http://www.alphablogs.net/article/over-14-million-new-blog-p...
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/day-3-the-how-of-blog...Miscellaneous:
http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-me... |
iPhone xcode projects | tjoozeylabs: http://github.com/facebook/three20/tree/d7bbd117ea798f3dc134... |
Where do you host your startup web services? | ektimo: I have the same question, but what if the uptime requirement is only something like 97%? Backups is a requirement though. |
any good hosting providers offering SSDs? | pquerna: Only seen it done by ordering/colocating your own hardware so far.SSDs are still bloody expensive for one, and the people who really need them generally already have a decent HW footprint and are more likely to be renting whole racks, though I imagine companies like Rackspace/etc will be adding it to their dedicated offers fairly soon, I'd suggest dropping them an email, you might get lucky. |
Room for innovation in retail niches? | pierrefar: For your large people idea, don't forget tall people too. |
Room for innovation in retail niches? | JayNeely: I think one of the most fascinating and under-utilized trends in the retail world is pop-up stores: http://trendwatching.com/trends/POPUP_RETAIL.htmCombining this concept with serious statistical analysis of when people most often make purchases within different niches, and well-executed pre- ("coming soon...") and post- ("You missed us, but you can still buy online at...") store duration marketing campaigns, I think stores within many more niches could make a sizable profit.Now's a particularly good time to do this because of the increased availability of prime retail space. Nation-wide there are malls with a larger number of unfilled spaces for rent due to the recession. |
Room for innovation in retail niches? | gprisament: Here's a B&M retail idea I thought of recently: "Green Home" a sustainable/organic/green alternative to Home Depot & Lowes. I think the Whole Foods approach could be applied to the lumbar yard: give DIY homeowners a feel-good alternative at a premium. The shop would feature lots of bamboo, solar panels, and products from companies like Terracycle (http://www.terracycle.net/). |
Internet Marketing entry level salary? | vaksel: I think the going rate is like $1K a month. But I don't know for sure...I think that's what one of these guys mentioned on mixergy...but I honestly dont' really remember that 100% |
Any tips for hiring a freelance programmer? | gw666: I had an excellent experience with rentacoder.com. The best part is that the website holds your money in escrow and builds up to the programmer as she meets milestones. The website also arbitrates when there is a dispute. |
Anyone figured out the IE 0-day vulnerability ? | Zev: I don't know much (or anything, really, besides basic some basic concepts to avoid writing vulnerable code in my languages of choice) about vulns (0day or otherwise), however, this doesn't sound like a particularly exciting exploit. Its just a mistake with pointers, albeit one that had some serious consequences. |
How best to communicate iPhone to Blackberry | runjake: Google Talk. There's a native client on her end, it runs all the time, uses little battery, and works fine with EDGE and she won't miss calls, and its very robust. On your end, buy Beejive IM for the iPhone and enable long logins and push notifications. It works very well. |
Anyone figured out the IE 0-day vulnerability ? | tlack: I had heard earlier indications that it was the Javascript in PDF vulnerability that was partially at fault. That began getting publicized a bit before the Google newsbomb, so there may be some truth to that. |
Any tips for hiring a freelance programmer? | sidmitra: I think there are more freelancers on rentacoder, which is just my guess based on the average number of bids on projects. But you might have better luck on Elance in terms of quality. There is also ODesk. |
Ask HN:augmenting working memory ? | Rickasaurus: Caffeine, Flash Cards, Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic#Memory_enhancement |
Porn Company wants me to sign a release form for Pic. | ra: Well, I wouldn't sign it.You could ask them to add more specific wording about why they want the photo, and what they want use it for. |
Porn Company wants me to sign a release form for Pic. | sophacles: By all means get them to be moe specific! I had this float through my head:Fade in: Boom zoom over a bedroom set. Cameramen etc are doing their thing. Robed actors are chilling, laughing in the background. Entering stage left REP (modestly dressed middle aged woman, dark business suit, style to evoke sara palin) carrying folder of important looking papers.Cut to camera 1: REP looks up, smilesREP: Hi, I'm here to tell you about the hard working people of hte adult film industry. Sure you know about the actors.cut to camera 2 on the actors chilling, laughingREP (in voiceover): And all of thier hard workcut to close up face shots of actors during hardcore scenes.. montageREP (still in voiceover): These men and women are people, who deserve your respect. Perhaps even your envy, who wouldn't want to be intimately involved with such beautiful people!end montage, cut to camera 1REP: I know however, that lifestyle maynot be for everyone. It is a bit icky, gross even. I am instead talking about different people. The people in the back office. These are the men and women who keep the servers up, and manage sales. They are normal folks, just like you. They are the lifeblood of the internet.begin montage of faces of smiling regular employees. Include first name and vague job description/deptREP (in voiceover): When you try to look at porn at 2am, do you know who is making it stream at peak hours? Howabout when your credit card is discreetly billed to a non-descript entity? Yep thats Debby, she is our "Cheif fake company expert". And don't forget larry, who spends half the year away from his wife and kids, in the cold russian winter, just to wrangle russian cam girls.* Cut back to camera 1*REP: Yes folks, the Adult industry in america is more than just sticky booths and shady old men. We aren't just coked up beautiful people who couldnt make it as real actors. We are normal people just like you. Next time you talk to bob the accountant at the block party, try and remember if you know his company -- he may be working at an adult store.cut to bumper... brought to you by the national porn councilENDIm just saying: captaincrunch-- dont end up in that montage, particularly if there is a PTA at your kids school. |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable:http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.htmlhttp://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html |
Ask HN:augmenting working memory ? | pasbesoin: Sleep. Seriously. Also, "downtime". During both of which you integrate short term memory into long term memory. and also form associations that you can't consciously control.I find that when I'm rested, I can maintain several more items in my working memory. It also frees up your working memory to take on new items, with the previous material now ensconced in long term memory.Health. If you are feeling poorly, it's going to be distracting. Also, exercise is increasingly shown to have a large positive effect upon mental function.Eliminating negative distractions -- even those you may be unaware of. Anecdote: Back in college days, a friend pursuing a chemistry major used to study with music on. One time, he deliberately avoided the music -- perhaps I or someone convinced him to give it a try -- while studying for the next exam. He did significantly better in the exam, by his own evaluation, and was quite surprised by this.I'm not saying everyone reacts the same way to music; rather, you need to be aware of your own, personal reactions. And sometimes this is not obvious.I've reluctantly begun taking a low dose of Adderall, recently -- partly in response to some chronic health problems that I won't go into. It helps a bit in some ways, but also hinders me in others. It does NOT produce the deep, rapid, and highly insightful quasi-fugue / focus state that I could get into -- with some effort -- when I was younger and particularly in better health.Perhaps some of the newer nootropics are better -- they are quite expensive in the U.S. and I haven't given them a try. But my general impression is that there is not much in the way of real shortcuts. You build up and protect your foundation of physical health, and this provides the brain the resources that enable greater critical thinking, including working memory.I guess I should add in a specific reference to stress. Acute, limited duration stress can increase my focus in a certain domain. Chronic stress and particularly negative acute stress short circuit my working memory more than anything else. |
Porn Company wants me to sign a release form for Pic. | humbledrone: IANAL, but, this line does not seem very vague to me: "for [COMPANY NAME] internal use and for security and management purposes only." I guess you might question the definition of "internal" in this context, but I can't see any way for them to twist "internal" into "you're in a porno now."Still, I must admit that I don't know why they need to you sign a consent form just to take a picture of you... |
What do you think of my snail mail API? | frossie: That looks useful (well, not to personally to me, but I can see the attraction).I think you are working in a fertile area. In my last trip I used the iPhone app Postino to send snail-mail postcards using pictures from the iPhone - it worked really well. So I can't help thinking "you need an app for that" :-)I'd give your main site a try if only I could think of someone I want to snail mail! |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | wmf: I think the libertarian idea of deriving ethics/politics/economics from a small set of self-consistent principles appeals to many hackers. |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | Semiapies: "More generally, are many hackers libertarians?"Possibly slightly more than the general population. I used to see a lot of claims that libertarians were very common among hackers and geeks, but that's never seemed to pan out. Even the sort of left-wing and right-wing people who call themselves "libertarians" because they like some civil liberties issue or hate taxes don't seem any more common than normal.Mind, I don't hear those claims as much, anymore. |
Where can I find excellent graphic artists and designers? | tectonic: I've used elance and odesk in the past. |
Where can I find excellent graphic artists and designers? | rms: Give http://www.programmermeetdesigner.com/ a try |
What do you think of my snail mail API? | tectonic: Direct link: http://www.snailpad.com/api |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | johngalt: Most hackers I know are anti-authoritarian more than anything else. This board tends to attract the more capitalistic types because of it's subject matter. I'm sure there are slashdot'ers that would call many of us "sellouts".I think PG said it best in his "Keep your identity small" essay. Ultimately we all have different viewpoints. Being known for any particular -ism will generally hurt more than help.The trick is self-organizing around people/teams that can accomplish goals because of (or in spite of) their various viewpoints. |
What's a good Android phone for casual development? | dminor: I'd say it depends on your tastes and circumstances - do you care what carrier? Do you care about the price? Do you want a physical keyboard? |
Woot For Music? | csmeder: seems smart to me |
Woot For Music? | DanielStraight: One thing I would say to keep in mind is that in order to give a discount, you have to get a discount (or lower margins). How will you actually be able to offer music at a substantially lower price than others? Will just lower margins work? If not, how will you get a discount on the costs to you?Also, it sounds like you want to do a lot of stuff for the one thing a day model. A free track a day. A cheap album a day. A few items of merchandise a day. Will this still have the one thing a day feel? |
Woot For Music? | abscondment: Digital music pricing has such small profit margins that only offering a discounted item is infeasible. You'd need to already do huge volumes of sales and can demonstrate that this discount would bring more customers in.Amazon comes the closest to this right now with their daily mp3 deal, but I wouldn't be surprised if they eat the cost of that discount. |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | philwelch: You can find his--and for that matter, everyone's--political donations on this site: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.php |
Is Paul Graham a libertarian? | rms: Maybe a little, but having libertarian ideas doesn't mean one identifies as a libertarian or with the libertarian political party. |
What's a good Android phone for casual development? | mbrubeck: I've been working on Android software for the last 14 months. I'm currently using a jailbroken T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream / Android Dev Phone 1). I've tried out most of the available Android phones.If I were buying a phone today, I would get one of the Android Dev Phones (which come with root access and the development bootloader) or the Nexus One (which allows you to unlock the bootloader with a user command "fastboot oem unlock"). Then you have full access to the phone, including the ability to install new system images. The Nexus One has much better hardware than the dev phones and doesn't cost much more, so I'd go with that unless you really want a hardware keyboard.You don't need root access or bootloader access just to develop Android applications, but it's good to have. It means that you can install different versions of Android, including the latest open-source release. (Official updates often lag many months behind the open source releases or the various modded images.)These are all GSM phones that work with T-Mobile's 3G network; I think all of them will get EDGE-only service on AT&T.It's also possible to jailbreak most non-developer phones to get root access, but it's not supported and most of the carriers/manufacturers at least try to close jailbreaking vulnerabilities after they are discovered. |
How to minimize costs (ie rent) for a startup? | cperciva: I find that living in my parents' basement provides a dramatic reduction in monthly expenses. |
How to minimize costs (ie rent) for a startup? | docmach: Not living in NYC is a great way to save money. If you don't need to be there you can live on less than $800 a month in some places. |
Books or online sources to learn Javascript? | nfriedly: This is the site I wish I had know about when I started to learn JavaScript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/It's all online and free. There's also a nifty firebug-like console at the bottom of the page.[edit] You may also want to take a look at http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t... and http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t... |
Woot For Music? | kirpekar: Woot (Matt Rutledge's brilliance) has tapped into impulse shopping. You don't really go to Woot wanting to buy a "Sandisk Clip 2GB MP3 Player", but you go there out of curiosity and if it seems interesting enough, you buy it. Many others are trying it: Amazon, EBay and many smaller fish, with limited sucess.Why is Woot successful? They have painstakingly built a unique brand and successfully kept it alive with the irreverent style, the bag of crap, two for Tuesday, the occasional woot-off and now over 1.6 Million twitter followers. Social sharing had probably very little to do with the success of the model and that's why new upstarts and established players have not been able to replicate the model.Will this work for music? I don't know and, really, nobody does. Ask yourself: is music prone to impulse buying? When you say "heavily discount" how much room is there to play with? |
Woot For Music? | ibsulon: You might be able to pull a decent niche market for independent/small label music, but large labels are notoriously conservative. The value would come from the curated music - if they like your tastes and trust you, they'll be likely to buy. As such, I wouldn't worry about the value perspective as much as the quality.Then, the problem becomes the vast amount of music you have to filter through. It sounds like a low ROI and hard to scale, but a lifestyle business possibility. |
Is QuikPitch as shady as it looks? | angelbob: Well, their site is remarkably quiet about who they are. Absolutely no names of these seasoned investors and entrepreneurs are given.So even if they're a legitimate venture, they seem rather dubious and perhaps a bit sleazy from their web site.They're also very short on a lot of other interesting specifics, but they're presumably a small, new company, so those specifics are perhaps more excusable. |
Ask HN:augmenting working memory ? | subud: Blueberries can help:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080410115405.ht... |
Your favorite guide/learn-to | nir: obviously: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/ |
Do darker pixels use less power? | tdedecko: This idea has come up a while ago and has been shot down. Research suggests that it would not reduce energy consumption. Here is Google's take on it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.ht...If you feel strongly about it you can always use: http://www.blackle.com/ |
Education Reform Movies? | jonbischke: I don't know if these are exactly what you are looking for but try the following:-A Touch of Greatness
-The Class
-The War on Kids
-Declining by Degrees: Higher Ed At RiskI'm incredibly passionate about this topic so will be interested to see if any one else adds anything here. |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | walkon: If reading is what you want do the most of, I'd go with the Kindle because its display is going to be much easier on your eyes because of the e-ink and size. |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | alnayyir: I can't speak for the Kindle, but I've been doing okay reading on the Touch with Goodreader.I might try an ereader soon, but the pocket-portability of the touch has been nice. |
How to minimize costs (ie rent) for a startup? | bcx: In Mountain View (in the Heart of Silicon Valley) we were able to rent a townhouse for roughly $500 a month. (with 5 people)If you want to reduce your expenses, get a room-mate. (Then it will be $400 a month) |
Do darker pixels use less power? | machrider: On an LCD, black uses the most energy. Granted, it's a miniscule difference. The backlight is always on, and energy has to be passed through the crystals to twist them and block the light at the individual pixels, in order to produce anything other than pure white.On a CRT, black is probably the greenest color. But in both cases, I suspect the difference is so small that you wouldn't be able to measure it in pennies on your electric bill. |
Education Reform Movies? | cervus: First I'd like recommend these interviews as an interlude, for your robotics club especially the one with Larry Rosenstock from High Tech High: http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/This has an angry little trailer, but seems to more about Amerian campus politics than educational reform: http://indoctrinate-u.com/intro/"We are the people we've been waiting for" has a focus on education reform in Great Britain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8
and http://youtube.com/WeAreThePeopleMoviePlus there's a two or three kickstarter projects on documentaries in education. Hope this helps!I will dig around and try to find a few more. The one's Jon Bischke posted sound good as well. Take care! |
Your favorite guide/learn-to | hga: Maybe A FORTRAN Coloring Book http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/Colori... (I can't be sure since I got my copy long after I'd learned FORTRAN and wasn't using it anymore, but it looked OK or better). |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | rsaarelm: The Kindle is almost the size of a small netbook, pretty big to carry around when all you can do with it is read books. I tried a Kindle, and am going to stick with using a smartphone as it's easy to carry everywhere without additional hassle. A dedicated reader would be useful for pdf documents which you can't read easily on mobile devices, but the screen of the standard Kindle is too small for reading many types of pdf comfortably.Pluses for the Kindle are massive battery life and good readability in bright sunshine. |
Your favorite guide/learn-to | mbrubeck: I really enjoyed Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (a Haskell tutorial): http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi... |
Interesting software jobs in Chicago? | manbearpig: What is your graduate degree in? |
Interesting software jobs in Chicago? | spanktheuser: >> I'd also like to find a company where the mission is something other than "Make money".You're going to have a real problem with this particular criteria. I don't think this is problem limited to Chicago, however.I'd recommend getting to know Chicago's start-up and consulting scene, as these are probably the places with varied work and that treat people like more than cogs in a machine. Chicago has a very strong Ruby on Rails community, so it will probably help if you work in that language/platform. Places I'd recommend checking out: Among local startups, Groupon has a really talented staff and is absolutely taking off. Obtiva and Pathfinder are webapp development companies focusing on agile, rails, and RIA. Threadless is in Chicago and has a pretty large national reputation. I know people at all of the above and think any would fit your criteria. That said, Groupon seems to be in a rough stretch where developers work long hours as a result of their rapid growth; Pathfinder and Obtiva might not be hiring due to the economy and Threadless recently lost one of its founders (Jeffrey Kalmikiff) to Digg, which makes me wonder what's going on that would cause him to leave. |
Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? | wmf: It was a scam, but now you can get free certs from StartCom. |
Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? | storborg: SSL is completely and utterly useless without CAs. If there's no way to verify and trust that a given certificate belongs to the website it is being used on, any would-be-man-in-the-middle can just grab a random certificate and use it to completely eliminate all of the security that SSL provides. |
Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? | nickf: I don't think it's a scam, no.
Disclaimer: 'it' pays my wages.As another poster mentioned, encryption is worthless without having some kind of validation of the other end-point you're communicating with. Granted, the CA industry has made some mis-steps in this regard (domain-only validation certificates as an example), but we're doing things to rectify this situation albeit slowly (the CAB forum and EV 'green bar' certificates).Not only that, while the cost for certificates I believe can be justified, it's dropped significantly over the years to the point where even the labour-intensive EV certificates can be had for more reasonable costs. Site owners really should be factoring the cost of certificate(s) into the operational costs of owning and running a site nowadays - just as they must with the domain, hosting, dns, email etc.That said people like Eddy Nigg and his company StartCom are driving down the costs of certificates (something I know isn't cheap or easy).
As another poster mentioned, you can get some basic certificates for free, or for not much more than the cost of a domain elsewhere. And with Eddy's efforts, yes - they work in 'most' modern browsers. More power to him. |
Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? | billpg: Remember, if you can see a DNS request, you can be a man-in-the-middle. Until that's fixed, CAs are still needed. |
Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? | billpg: Hang on, this has been up for two hours and no-ones complained about the way Firefox treats self signed certs yet. Normally we get six in the first hour. |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | needthebook: http://www.needthebook.com/ clickable |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | graphene: I would say you have a harder chicken and egg problem than most social networking sites:Normally, the value of the site to a new user increases with the number of their friends use the site, because those are the people they interact with.On this site, the value to a new user is determined more by the number of higher-year students of the same school that use it, and those people are less likely to be in that user's social network. This makes your site inherently less viral (although I hate to use the term) than, say, facebook.Off the top of my head, I can't think of a solution to this problem, but maybe some relentless resourcefulness on your part can do the trick :-) |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | ddemchuk: Your best bet for survival with this is to connect it to facebook and give your users some sort of points/leveling system to use. That way, there's at least something to earn (even if it doesn't go to anything) and you can rely on the already existing network of facebook to grow the app. |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | az: very good idea although I believe I've seen a copy of it on HN before. (i tried looking for it, can't find it)I agree, you need to be hooked up with some social media or maybe even on college bulletin boards and e-boards online.i tried adding my school, but i need to add the class prefix and number also? what are you going to go course by course (as everyone adds them)? I would suggest getting the list from http://www.ratemyprofessors.com and crawl the site for all the courses.good work though, keep it up! |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | dzlobin: /facepalmThis was my first idea that I was working on when I started reading HN about a year and change ago. Decided to drop it |
please review my website (textbook reviews) | teeja: I added a current course and instructor from a college website; when the system didn't know about either (it knew the school), I typed in the 'verify text' captcha number and it went to a new page asking for all the info again.The design is fine; the concept might help many students, if you can get the traffic. |
what is the difference between IPSP and ISO? | jacquesm: https://www.merchantconnect.com/CWRWeb/glossary.do?glossaryL...Visa and Mastercard are the usual parties when it comes to giving out merchant accounts. An ISO is an institution created by a bank or a consortium of banks to allow merchants to accept various cards, but without having a merchant account with either Visa or Mastercard, instead they have their merchant account with the ISO or 'MSP' as it is also called.http://www.mastercard.com/au/merchant/en/acquirers/communica...It is unlikely that you will find yourself in the position of a MSP or that you will be dealing with one, banks normally use these only for groups of merchants for which it makes no sense to have a direct merchant account with the large card companies.They are an instrument for 'vertical' markets. An example of a member service provider is for instance PaySquare, positioned to accept point-of-sale transactions.https://www.paysquare-services.eu/form.aspx?id=71&ver=4&... |
what is the difference between IPSP and ISO? | losethos: International Standards Organization |
Domain hacking | Mz: I haven't done what you are talking about. I did have the domain califmichele.com at one time. I was going by "Michele in California" online at the time and my email was califmichele (@ something). I wanted the domain name "michelesworld" but it wasn't available. It was a personal site of just stuff I was interested in, with no particular focus.Trying to tell people the domain name verbally was a huge problem. My name is spelled with one L and many people automatically spell it with two. They also tended to think I meant Kalif or Caliph rather than short-hand for California. (As an aside: This was making me increasingly concerned that the site would attract the wrong kind of attention for the wrong reasons.)I eventually left California and broke the site up into several sites, each with a specific topic focus. When I did so, I worked hard to find natural language domains that are easily conveyed verbally without having to spell them or add verbal explanations/provisos. |
Domain hacking | terrellm: I think it's a novelty, however, I would not use a domain hack for a business unless I knew I could plug the leaks in traffic. For example, del.icio.us was a domain hack but they ended up buying delicious.com.The average Hacker News reader knows domain hacks (I think?) but their parents probably do not and will just add .com at the end. |
Domain hacking | megamark16: I actually just released http://sit4.us as a tool for coordinating your existing network of babysitters. I kind of figure that having to deal with lost traffic is like having to deal with scaling, it's a problem I wouldn't mind having because it means that people are at least trying to find my site. On the other hand, this is really just a little tool I built because I wanted to use something like it and I couldn't find any existing tools out there. If I was really banking on it becoming a business than maybe I would have covered my bases a little better with the domain name. |
Domain hacking | goodside: The answer depends entirely on what kind of startup you're trying to make and who your audience is. If you want businesspeople and grandparents, having a snappy dot-com is crucial. If they're more tech-savvy, what they remember to punch into Google is a lot more important than the URL. From memory, I believe the domain for Scriptaculous is scripta.culo.us, but I would never type that into an address bar blindly. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | ryanelkins: I really like "The Worldly Philosophers" by Robert L. Heilbroner. I don't know if it's as focused on technology as you're looking for but it does a good job of showing how economics and economic theory evolved over time and the circumstances the people driving it were in that would have helped shape their thoughts.It has a short chapter covering the time before "modern" economics and then covers many of the major economists from Adam Smith to Joseph Schumpeter. |
Does Windows Mobile have a future? | davidw: I'd avoid Windows Mobile. It's stagnating and is not as beautiful as iPhone or as open, hackable and nice as Android. BlackBerry might be worth checking out too. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | riffer: Wired - A Romance by Gary WolfVery inspiring story of the rise and fall of the coolest magazine on the planet. Worships upon the altar of the driven, scrappy, and relentless. Nothing else like it. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | samt: Guns, Germs and Steel is worth reading. |
Domain hacking | swolchok: If it's not too late, adding "(like del.icio.us)" to the title would make it obvious that this is not a post about DNS security. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | rick_2047: Well there is Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy[1]. The first part is mainly about how hackers from MIT influenced the world of technology but the second and third part touches upon how they effected the economy with there companies and all.This may not be the best book for your research but this definitely will help you understand the players.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer... |
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