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What's the YC company that lists electronic parts for sale? | bockris: octopart.com ? |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | brk: I remember, but it wasn't as significant.This is likely because I used (and at one point ran) BBS'. We had FIDONet, CyberCrime net, Usenet gateways, phreaking, and other ways to communicate internationally. The Internet just made it faster and more graphical and allowed you to multitask. |
Is there a name for the 'web shortcut' services? (tinyurl, tinypaste, cli.gs, etc) | AlexeyMK: (just found this) lifehacker is calling them "url shrinkers" - http://str8.to/best-url-shrinkers. |
What's the YC company that lists electronic parts for sale? | ksvs: http://www.google.com/search?q=y+combinator+electronic+partsGoogle would have found it for you on the first try. |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | jcapote: SEFLIN FreeNet baby. |
Most cost-effective method of achieving physical redundancy | lsc: 1. is the cheap way. as someone else said, you can use BGP instead of dns for failover to improve downtime, but then it's no longer cheap.Personally, this is my preferred solution. keep as much as possible in MySQL cluster and have the rest built on a central dev server and pushed out when there are changes.San... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | brlewis: I don't remember the first time. It was before the WWW existed. But I get that feeling more often now than I did then. These are good times. |
iPhone? Blackberry? Android? Prayer? - How do you remotely monitor your startup? | cbarning: iPhone |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | brm: I have to ask, what need are you addressing that already existing social networks don't provide? |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | pasbesoin: Coming back from Europe in 87, to a small town in the Midwest, to realize that I was now a few keystrokes away from Europe -- via BITNET.SLEEPY, where are you? I still remember your text files. |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | qhoxie: It seems like a well-designed application to me. While I am not intimately familiar with the need for such a social network, I will trust that you and others can make that assessment.A couple notes on the design:- Focus borders on the username and password fields are different.- I like the clean look overall, ... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | nuclear_eclipse: I certainly don't miss the days of Internet Exploder 3, or Geocities, or AOL domination, or ....I certainly do miss the days before commercialization and marketization of the internet, when sites were genuine repositories of information and not cash grabs or click-thru whores, and you didn't get 100 ti... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | raquo: It was in 1997 or 1998, don't remember. I was ~10 years old, in LA in some summer school (I live in Russia) where I also got acquainted with Word and some 3D dinosaur game (I've never seen a computer before back then). The internet was the "fun" part, allowed after we completed all the tasks at the lesson. I did... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | tyohn: The design is nice. Is this addressing a real need? I am very close to the "media outlet environment" and I'm not sure if we have a need for such a resource? What are the tool-based things you are talking about? Maybe I just need more convincing? |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | axod: I remember using the www at high school, you had to load up trumpet winsock, as windows didn't support tcp natively. This would be about '94 or '95 I believe. It was sort of cool, but at the time I was more into writing games in assembly so I don't think it grabbed me then.The thing that really blew my mind was i... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | sarvesh: Yes I do but didn't use WWW for a while. Before I used WWW I thought the Mouse was a useless invention and GUI applications were slow and tedious. To be honest I didn't think it would take of in this scale until the WWW. I understood after struggling with my mouse for a while that this thing is great invention... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | browser411: Would prefer to see some sort of demo that doesn't require signing up. Maybe a interactive demo, simple flash presentation or at least graphical use cases.Nitpick: big buttons at the bottom don't seem clickable. |
iPhone? Blackberry? Android? Prayer? - How do you remotely monitor your startup? | e1ven: I find that it takes a combination of tools, the key is a Blackberry and Nagios-Nagios is a tool to automatically check machines for problems- It's very convenient in that I can highly vary the configuration for each machine- Dev machines might only be checked every 15 minutes, where productions machines might b... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | okeumeni: I remember the cost, how expensive it was to use the internet; Stories of people living in shacks while putting all their money to pay for the connection. I do miss Netscape navigator. |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | simianstyle: Pokemon! |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | pedalpete: my two comments would be
1) make the "tools based" either link to a page describing what that means, or find a better way to describe it. I think I know what you are getting at, but I'm not sure most people (non-tech) would.2)the "Journalism" and "PR - Business" links at the bottom of the page that are some... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | brandnewlow: Can I join and mercilessly spam the heck out of media outlets?Also, what's the play here? Are the tools supposed to pull people in? Do you have any journo or PR cred behind the project? |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | ambulatorybird: I first started using the internet back in '96. I think I was actually most excited about being able to play Quake online. But getting e-mails was kind of exciting, too -- as an actor in an AOL commercial said, it was like "getting a present". |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | geuis: Ah, the days of the "local" freenet based out of Tallahassee. That was circa 1993-1994 for me. I was 14 in 94. We got our first actual computer with a modem, a Macintosh Performa 635CD. 2400 baud dialup modem.The first time I connected to an online service was fun. My cousin was over and we had pooled our money(... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | blender: I remember when it was conspicuous when a corporation included their website addy in a commercial or in print or on the radio... now it is commonplace.Cheers |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | rsheridan6: That would have been about 1991. The web did not exist, or at least I wasn't aware of it, and for me the internet = Usenet. I printed out copies of something called The Terrorist's Handbook ( http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/terror.html ) and sold it for $5 at school (and in 1991, this was perfectly a... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | hbien: I remember it was a lot of fun. My friends and I were geeks and we had these RPG clubs, where we pretend fight in AOL chat rooms.It was like D&D, we all had a certain amount of health and used dice rolls to attack.Someone even made a whole program out of it based on Final Fantasy, that kept track of health and ... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | brianm: Ah, gopher, newsgroups, and muds.... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | zacharye: Playing around with it now and so far:1. Love the design. Simple, clean, effective.2. The "tools" sections need to be much more apparent. This is in theory the main purpose of the site.3. 140 characters is hot as Hansel right now, but there's no way someone can pitch me effectively in 140. I think that needs ... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | thomasmallen: Irony is 68-point font telling you to "whisper, don't shout" |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | okeumeni: The design is nice, the opened page is very facebook like I don’t think it has to be, use your talent to stick to your originality.I don’t know much about journalism and PR work but I will suggest you find a way to source your content from other sources in other to attract users don’t count much on user-defin... |
iPhone Web App or iPhone App? | shergill: I used iUi to build a web app. It was surprisingly simple! |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | unalone: I can't use this and know if I'm really giving useful feedback, but: everything is pretty except for the Search bar up top. It takes up a lot of space and doesn't provide much, and I don't like the blue.Also, you have something like three different effects when I focus on three different fields. |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | unalone: * Making a web site when I was a wee tyke and being told not to mention my name, or my location, or my interests, because according to my father anything online would be used to stalk and kill you.* Going on Newgrounds and being utterly awed; submitting something to Newgrounds and realizing that the people I f... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | jaydub: I must have been 11 or so, and I remember having a brief instant message exchange with Hoon Im, one of the founders of Electric Gravity (they made "The Village", which Microsoft bought became the basis for what is now MSN Games). I don't remember exactly what was said, but after the conversation I started learn... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | pavel_lishin: I remember realizing that I could use JavaScript to fake include()s so I wouldn't have to update every page on my crappy middle school website. |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | zacharydanger: My first Internet connection was a 56k dial-up connection out of, and I kid you not, "Bryan's Auto Supply" in the next town over. A quick Google search found them again. http://www.ebryans.com/More though, I remember the fist fights between my older brother and I for who was going to get to use the conne... |
What if I don't have an idea? | akkartik: http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/2353544/all-you-see-is-t... |
How are your startups weathering the economic crisis? | nostrademons: Original startup is dead, but I think that's mostly because it was a marginal idea, my cofounder quit, and without my cofounder, I didn't have all that much passion for it.Thinking of doing a new startup, in a more clearly-defined pain point with more immediate profit potential. But I'm seeing how job ap... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | danielhodgins: You have picked an interesting niche within a large market of professionals. I assume you have done your homework re: competition, present options for solving customer problems, and therefore demand for your product.There are many market niches that are presently underserved by current businesses. Do you... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | milkmanjr: i remember when i ditched AOL in favor of free internet..altavista was my preferred search engine.*netzero, lycos, altavista were some of the people who offered free dial-up internet. |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | omarseyal: Interesting niche.One comment on the front page - I think it's great and clean, but I think it undersells what you're doing. The "highlights" that you have (linked form the pale buttons at the bottom) are very compelling arguments to try your startup ... but they're hidden one click in. |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | jedc: I remember how much better Mosaic was than Gopher! |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | sfphotoarts: To me it looks just like you implemented a few parts of FB, and copied their style guide. |
How are your startups weathering the economic crisis? | ScottWhigham: Awesome - up about 15% from last month and about 22% from August. |
How are your startups weathering the economic crisis? | Godino: In case of a starup that doesn' require so much money to run, like http://www.quotag.com it's not the recession that affects them most, but the moods of customers. I mean, in the pre-funding phase there is not much to screw up :) |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | timcederman: Further reflection -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268307 |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | jwilliams: This is a genuine nit-pick, but I don't like the light green ivy leaves on the blue background (top left)... Maybe I had "blue and green should never been seen" drummed into me too much... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | rgrieselhuber: I think it's a cool idea for a product. The Journalism / PR space can use some innovation. The struggle, perhaps, will be getting people to start using it. I'd recommend getting to know people / users at places like OJR.org, MediaBistro, etc. |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | daveambrose: Will certainly take a look at this in more detail when I'm on my laptop, as I'm on BlackBerry now, but I find the concept interesting.I work at a PR agency and a tool such as this to help "push" the advancement of new and relevant technology/services is really welcomed. This can cut into territory like Cis... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | cpr: Whew, that would be in 1972, as a frosh at Harvard, back when there were about 20-30 hosts on the ARPANet (the precursor to today's Internet) in the whole world.I remember fondly telnet'ing from machine to machine (back then, most were PDP-10's running TOPS-10 or TENEX, and all had open guest accounts), seeing how... |
ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet | shadytrees: 1998: Yahoo was the hottest search engine around, getting Hotmail was a rite of passage, Neopets was just about to become popular, and I was reading tech news from this gray-on-black website that let me tick off which websites I wanted to aggregate. (I miss that proto-RSS website.) |
iPhone friendly Hacker News? | xtimesninety: I use Google or Skweezer to "mobilize" any website :)http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=news.ycombinator.comhttp://skweezer.com/s.aspx?q=news.ycombinator.com |
If you have ever played WoW please critique my new site | truebosko: I don't know what your site actually does without signing up or clicking around. The first page gives me a vague explanation and some weird browser-in screenshot.I would recommend trying to make it easier to understand what you do in your opening page. I see after clicking through that it looks like a journa... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | trevelyan: The name makes me think of "Ivy Leagues", which makes me think it is something for students. Also... white text on a light-coloured background is quite hard to read. |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | drcode: The reason Clojure is successful right now IMHO is because: 1. It isn't afraid to revisit the basic design tenets of Common Lisp and Scheme
2. It has reasonably useful libraries (both through the JVM and written in native Clojure)
No other Lisp dialect has done this recently. My point is that its succes... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | twopoint718: There is a video (http://clojure.blip.tv/) by the creator of Clojure which argues (quite convincingly) that it is really Java, the language, that some people may have problems with and that Java, the runtime environment, (JVM) is a great platform in which to target your code.Lots of work is being done in ... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | gtani: arguing about clojure vs. scala is the next big religious warhttp://www.cio.com/article/print/454520http://almaer.com/blog/the-next-big-language-theory-practice... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | markessien: Lisp will never be popular. We are humans and our brains are wired for a certain type of thinking. Lisp breaks this model, and so it's difficult for people to pick it up.The trend has always been to easier and easier languages - I don't remember any case where a more complex language, no matter how useful, ... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | AlexeyMK: Interesting idea. How are you going to keep signal vs noise ratios worthwhile for Journalists?If I'm launching a start-up and want to have to send out a press release, I need to either hire a PR agency or find a list of people I should email, which means I am at least minimally competent. If I understand c... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | wheels: - Whisper. Don't Shout is cute, but it doesn't tell me anything. That's a lot of screen real estate for something that's just cute.- The term social network is somewhat tired. Everything is social now. Building a social network was sexy three years ago. Now it's just a category of sites that hearkens to th... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | ivanstojic: I find that after a year of Common Lisp, I don't really care about Clojure. On the other hand, through the JVM and the Java API, it offers for free some of the things which were never available as a CL standard feature.However, CL is a language specification, while Java is for better or worse much more than... |
Rate my startup: IvyLees | tdonia: interesting idea - clear target audiences. trick will be getting those audiences to use this. seems like a relatively good problem to have, especially for a communication network play, though by no means cake.two design tweaks:on my pretty good lcd, the 'sign up today', 'journalism' and 'business & pr' calls-t... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | Dilpil: Good luck teaching the unwashed masses lisp. |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | Dilpil: You could move back to India and run the buisness from there....yeah our immigration policies are pretty bad aren't they. |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | run4yourlives: I know nothing regarding US immigration law, but what do they define as "working"? In other words, could you contribute for "free" and just pay yourself via dividends?Otherwise, why don't you just incorporate in India, or wherever else is applicable? If you're going to sell via web payments, nobody reall... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | gexla: Incorporate in a country like Hong Kong which has no corporate taxes for income from outside of the country. |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | DaniFong: Hi Steve Smith,There is a little known visa known as an O1, for 'extraordinary persons'. This is the visa that many foreign founders obtain. One is allowed to found and work for a company in the US while one is on it. I think they last 3 years.Generally, PhD level people can obtain it, though it is a pain to ... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | gojomo: Previous threads:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115590http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=67268Maybe you can technically work for your US company from some overseas office, but be in-country for nearly 3-6 months a year on temporary visas?Or maybe a real expert can set up legal structures such that you're ... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | comatose_kid: I thought that an EAD holder could own a company. Is this not correct? I just received mine, and it supercedes my existing TN visa. |
How are your startups weathering the economic crisis? | JustGuy: 8 out of our 13 IT ppl (developers, tester, BAs) are made redundadntwww.linkme.com.au |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | callmeed: If you're doing it in Rails, I'd recommend the ActiveMerchant plugin and a gateway/merchant account from Braintree.That's what we use on our main Rails app (as opposed to PayPal on our other main subscription-based offering). It works great. The only hangup has been accepting international currencies (we're h... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | white: Not a lawyer, so don't take my advises as is. Incorporate in India, then transfer it all to US when you're ready. Develop the code yourself, then have code acquired by your company, or prepare letter of intentions (that when you can do this legally, the code will be owned by the company for your stake increase... |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | jasonlbaptiste: check out zuora. if youd like an intro drop me an email: jason[at]publictivity.com |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | wave: Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198502 |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | jwilliams: For anyone interested, this infographic isn't a bad summary resource:
http://www.reason.com/images/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5a...It summaries the various processes to become a citizen... |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | schtog: It is possible to write very dense and abstract functional code that is hard to understand but some Lisp-code is so readable you wonder if it is actually code!That said I don't see Lisp becoming big. Scala probably has a better chance.Scalalooks great on paper and is better than JAVA in my opinion. However in p... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | unohoo: I think Loic (seesmic founder) had a post on a similar topic, a while back -- ie, when he moved from france to the bay area to start seesmic. |
Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing? | michaelneale: Anyone played much with compjure? I loved the ideas in it - last I tried however I wasn't able to make changes and refresh - I had to restart the app to see changes. Interestingly (and nicely) it "compiled" the changes up front, telling me of any errors. That part was nice but having a F5 refresh/change c... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | louislouis: 1.Incorporate the company in US.
2.Incorporate another company in India.
3.Outsource work from US company to Indian company.
4.Indian company hires contractor (you) in the US.Is something like that possible? I'm just guessing really. |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | jcapote: Try railskit or servicemerchant.org |
Awesome talks/video available online? | sidsavara: Love TED. Another great one was the New Yorker conference:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/conference/conference20...Also, if you want you can see all the ones I've bookmarked on my delicious account:http://delicious.com/sidsavara/videoSome may be off topic, but in general I think it's as good a place ... |
Awesome talks/video available online? | lacker: Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-UwAnother cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R... |
Awesome talks/video available online? | kalvin: Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.)Not all of them are great, but there's enough that you're bound to find a topic/speaker that you... |
Awesome talks/video available online? | michael_dorfman: The SICP videos are awesome.http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | jhancock: As to intellectual property, I would have an offshore entity (Cyamans, BVI) hold everything until an investor makes you restructure it into something else. Then a simple piece of paper signed by all people developing the IP assigns ownership to this offshore entity. For onshore operating, you simply license... |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | cbrinker: You can integrate your system with Quickbooks. They have an API. I don't know if you want to deal with their software, though. |
Awesome talks/video available online? | Glimjaur: I enjoy listening to the audio podcasts from SXSW and FOWA, they are both available in the iTunes store. |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | justinkelly: i use Simple Invoices - http://www.simpleinvoices.org to bill my clients for freelance workcheersjustin |
Awesome talks/video available online? | tlrobinson: It seems like there's a Google Tech Talk for just about everything.YUI Theater also has some good web stuff, not just YUI related: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ |
Awesome talks/video available online? | chrisbroadfoot: There are some nice ones on InfoQ. I just watched this one today:http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-k...Gosling talking about how the JVM came about. Great stuff. |
Awesome talks/video available online? | narag: I would very much appreciate talks with written transcription. They're very valuable for us struggling with spoken English. |
Awesome talks/video available online? | riklomas: The last Future of Web Apps conference in London now has most of the talks available online:http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content |
Awesome talks/video available online? | djm: Have a look at http://videolectures.net/ |
Awesome talks/video available online? | ntoshev: http://videolectures.net/Supposedly on every topic, but the machine learning selection is especially good. |
Awesome talks/video available online? | Alex3917: It's becoming pretty standard practice now for authors to put their book talks online. There are a few websites that host them, including CSPAN's book talk. When authors come to talk at Google their talks usually get posted on Google video as well. There are lists of the best free documentaries floating aroun... |
The curse of the green card: entrepreneurship for immigrants? | joubert: You could incorporate in another jurisdiction? |
Awesome talks/video available online? | alex_c: Also see:http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=181164 |
Awesome talks/video available online? | rami: http://sciencehack.com/ |
How do you bill your clients? (for your app) | nextmoveone: billingcircle.com ?
ariasystems.com ? |
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