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Has your work ever been plagiarized? | kbrower: Yes. I made http://www.filleritem.com about 6 years ago. Copied by many people including Slickdeals.net. Not sure if these people were inspired by my website or simply came up with the idea independently. If anything, it forces you to keep your project working properly. |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | Vindexus: I like to scan the newest page for Ask HN: Review my startup ______ posts. They don't seem to make it to the front as often and I find them immensely interesting.I also scan the newest page after I'd digested all the stuff I find interesting on the main page. I'm on the site a lot so I go to newest to get mor... |
Recommendation engine | Tichy: Check out http://directededge.com - an YC startup that provides recommendations as a web service. |
Review our startup: MovieListr | Frazzydee: Can't register because your email field is too short (30 characters max). |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | Vindexus: Like others have said it's a bit confusing to figure out what it does right away. I think a demo video might be in your best interest. I read this and it was kinda helpful: http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/why-screencast-if-a-pictu...You could use Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
I tried out ... |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | hackoder: Very nice, I like it. I agree with the others that you could improve the first impression- Have a nice big tagline that captures what you do in one sentence. I can see this as being very useful in lots of domains (think disaster recovery etc). You could pitch it to businesses even (thought the current look is... |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | listic: Why did you decide to use Facebook authentication? Do you have plans for symbiosis with Facebook? Why have the user create a Facebook account instead of account in your startup? |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | Tawheed: You need to rip out your front page and add the following:1) One tagline - "Easy simple way to create repeatable processes"2) A video going through a use case3) Example plans (the end product), featured on the page4) Giant sign up button |
Has your work ever been plagiarized? | nfnaaron: Not my work, but I posted something on a dial up ISP's forum years ago, and a reader there posted it to alt.humor.best-of-usenet. I did a search a few years later, and found it word for word posted on some advocacy site in Washington DC, attributed to a woman who was not me.I emailed the group, made my case w... |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | kyro: This might not a big issue, but I think the phonetics of the name are a bit off. I didn't quite know how to pronounce it, and realized when I clicked through that it's probably meant to be read as planner-gize. This could be a problem for word-of-mouth marketing as people would probably assume it's spelled with t... |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | GrandMasterBirt: I rarely read newest. I go to /classic usually. |
Has your work ever been plagiarized? | ww520: Yes, I once released a P2P product developed solely by me into GPL license. Shortly after that I noticed another guy started another project copying exactly all the source files, and he put a copyright with his name in every single file even when there's no change in the file. Now I was ok if he wanted to fork... |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | pg: Hmm, I'm surprised that the suspicious vote detector didn't catch this case. I'll have to tighten it up a bit. |
Has your work ever been plagiarized? | jabrams: haha no never |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | gibsonf1: I just tried connecting via FB and starting a plan - the system seems to hang after I create the plan and won't let me get out of the message to click on the timeline to start. Any thoughts? |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | tokenadult: Every time I visit HN (which is several times a day), I read the main page first, and then immediately go to the newest page. I upvote submissions that satisfy intellectual curiosity, come from sources I trust, and don't duplicate something recently posted here.I also go to the noobs viewshttp://news.ycombi... |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | stevenwei: I agree with the other comments saying that your home page doesn't describe your product clearly enough. I disagree that showing a video is the best solution. As a user, I don't want to waste my time watching a video until I'm convinced that I want to investigate further. Instead, I would put a Top 5 showcas... |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | petercooper: I look at it a few times a week and I consider myself a pretty active member. If there were a "better" (and I can't define what that is) way to monitor new entries without having to keep going back to the page, I probably would. |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | wglb: I check newest when waiting for a compile. Thanks to the speed of today's computers and languages, that check is not a very long one.Also, when I submit something, i check down the resulting page for interesting items.I occasionally have a browser open on another computer on the newest and refresh that if i am o... |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | jacquesm: I read the 'new' page (and new page #2) first, then after that maybe I'll read the main page. |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | hockeybias: Rarely, thanks for the reminder! |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | Locke1689: Download Real Player and turn off the buffer.Seriously, though, if Google were to provide a static IP I would start hosting small web projects from my house. |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | swombat: 1) High-res voice and video over IP.2) Streaming HD movie rentals3) All-services-in-the-cloud - store even my larger chunks of data (like music, movies, etc) on a cloud service.4) Taking this one step further, if the bandwidth really is that cheap and plentiful (and reliable), this may obsolete the concept of ... |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | tdmackey: As it stands, it seems the only real demand for ultra-highspeed (40Gb/s+) is in the data centers of the facebooks and googles of the world trying to shuffle around all the data between their own servers. I don't think the average home user really cares about moving around petabytes of metadata around a networ... |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | alain94040: 1) High-res voice and video over IP.Yes. And by high-res, I want fully immersive experience: the feeling of being there. I spend so much time on skype or on the phone talking to people remotely: it's BAD.2) Streaming HD movie rentalsThis only requires 20 Mbit/s tops. It's already available today in several ... |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | boyter: I would do what I have always wanted to do. Write a small scale search engine as a hobby. I have run crawlers before but always ran out of bandwidth long before I could get any sizeable portion of the web.Huge amounts of bandwidth would solve that issue for me. |
is foundrs.com a good domain name for my startup? | maxdemarzi: For what it's worth ($125 a year) founde.rs is available... on 101domains or any of the other international domain providers.Edited to say, having the full name with a foreign extension sounds better to me than eating a letter... YMMV |
is foundrs.com a good domain name for my startup? | vaksel: sounds too dot com bubblish.Just do the usual____founders.BlueFounders, WidgetFounders, FounderMix |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | johngalt: First I'd increase my TCP window size. Otherwise I'd be latency limited :)Being an IT Director I try to think of what I can't do without my local 1Gbps LAN. I'd say a big one is computer re-imaging. With that type of band you could build a good reference OS install and push it anywhere in the world that had a... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | revorad: I'm only a beginner but one idea which stuck with me was that of changing my domain of work ever so often. This is what Richard Hamming suggested to keep doing great work and this is what Eric Drexler recommends to get a good understanding of Science as a whole. If you think of programming as a tool for solvin... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | cmallen: I continue to get better, and I'm almost to the 4 year mark. I've improved more in the last year than I did in my second year. (First year programming professionally remains the largest leap, although perhaps the least significant.)As to how I become better, I am an obsessive generalist. I don't like not under... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | hga: For me it was the stroke of luck in my first programming experience being punched card FORTRAN IV (but more like a II, no logical IFs) on the IBM 1130 in the fall of 1977.I realized there had to be a better way and so I went straight to the library and read up on the software engineering of the time ("structured p... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | aristus: Lately I've been trying to get into performance profiling research. Also, statistics.I've been programming full-time for, uh 15 years now. Holy shit. If anything programming gets harder but more enjoyable as time goes on. If it doesn't you're stuck in a local maximum.Always try to work for people smarter and m... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | cousin_it: I feel I was a pretty good programmer to begin with, and everything I ever learned only added to my knowledge and professional sanity, not to my raw skill. Metaphorically, I don't seem to run faster every year, but I do get better at choosing the path. |
iPhone Push Notifications using Urban Airship? | idan: Hey there. I've used Urban Airship with client projects, and have been extremely satisfied. I don't work for UA, but I do know one of the founders, in the spirit of full disclosure.UA's API for push notifications is best described as the API Apple should have provided for APNS. At first blush, it doesn't seem to ... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | davidcuddeback: One thing that I find to be very valuable is to perform self assessments after significant milestones. I consider what I did well and what I could improve upon. Then I consider how to improve. Always exposing myself to new ideas and trying them on toy projects amplifies this technique, because it giv... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | csomar: Blogs and sites* Joel on Software
* Coding Horror
* Paul GrahamYou don't have to agree with them all, but knowing others' opinion help you make yours.I also hang on Hacker News and StackOverFlow a lot, HN gives varieties of news and StackOverFlow programming related. The interesting in those communities is the ... |
is foundrs.com a good domain name for my startup? | dylanz: I don't mind the missing 'e'. People still use Flickr. |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | patio11: Make stuff. Make new stuff. Make the old stuff better. Find people who are good at making stuff. Make stuff with them. Get them to tell you why your stuff sucks. Make your stuff suck less. Find stuff you like. Study how that stuff was made. Make stuff like it. Do not read stuff or listen to stuff tha... |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | mickt: Never.I use a RSS reader rarely browse the site. I also don't see a RSS feed for http://news.ycombinator.com/newest . |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | chipsy: 1. Good/difficult programming books, the more theoretical the better. Blogs are full of windbags and echo-chamberism; after a certain point, you'll just waste your time reading them. I've kind of exhausted what I can read from my local Borders just sitting in the cafe, unfortunately, and it gets fairly expensiv... |
iPhone Push Notifications using Urban Airship? | sil3ntmac: Rolling your own solution isn't too tough, provided you have a server somewhere that has the correct ports open. Just takes a bit of work: regenerating device profiles and setting up the PHP script (there's some code floating around out there that will do what you want), but once it's setup, it's not a probl... |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | evlapix: Browse Hacker News daily and remind yourself how little you actually know. |
iPhone Push Notifications using Urban Airship? | jasonlbaptiste: check out apppush.com My best friend is the cofounder and the tech behind it is beautiful. They're currently privately beta testing. if you want in, just email me and ill gladly make the intro: j@jasonlbaptiste.com |
On what sites shall I register to reserve the name of my business? | nreece: Do a http://namechk.com |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | dmoney: For me, it really helps to have external structure in which to learn. I had fooled around with computers, but I don't consider that I really learned how to program until CS 101. Getting a job and learning what a big disgusting mess software can sometimes be was another big step. Finishing projects I start on... |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | dnsworks: Synchronous or Asynchronous? Honestly I don't have use for more than 10mbps or 20mbps downstream. I'd kill for 100Mbps upstream, though, so I could either back up all of my media on a remote server, or just store all of my media on a remote server or (sigh) "the cloud".My camera currently generates raw photos... |
iPhone Push Notifications using Urban Airship? | jdg: I created Boxcar (http://boxcar.io), which has sent out 58 million push notifications. I've talked to every push notification provider out there, and the guys from UA are the best at what they do.Without a moment of hesitation, I would strongly recommend choosing them over rolling your own. They're great guys, k... |
Is Andrew Warner using fake accounts to falsely promote his content? | pg: There's nothing statistically fishy about them. I think his interviews are good enough that they could well draw lurkers into creating accounts to post such comments. I've been interviewed a lot, and I was surprised how thoughtful his questions were. |
ASK HN: How are you becoming a better programmer? | scorpioxy: Well, to make a muscle grow you have to subject it to increasing values of resistance(i.e. weight training).From what i understand, the brain works in a similar way. So you need to challenge it with new stuff, harder stuff.So, if you always work in C, try some higher level stuff. If you always work on web te... |
Free shell hosting with compiling? | rogermugs: i could have done with a free one though.
even 5$ a month I have to use 5$ worth... sometimes I want to use 5$ worth, but a lot of months i just want to forget its there...i'm an exceedingly light user. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | david927: It happens all the time and it's a great business model.There have been a lot of successes with this. I'm shocked it doesn't happen more often.There's no moral imperative saying it's "bad". In fact, quite the opposite. Just don't violate copyright. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | medianama: Go for it. Just make sure you are not violating the copyright. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | jkaljundi: Go for it, just do it! If it's an useful service, you'll make people in France happy. They are your customers. No reason to feel bad because the US services don't want to provide their services locally in European countries (and no, translation does not equal localization). |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | pkirk: I often think about that many times. But I believe the best solution is to get in touch for a collaboration. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | forcer: It can work but you need to evaluate the local market and see the differences. I had a few projects were this strategy failed because the market was different and I ignored it because was so convinced it must work. Also, I have one project which I still think will work but will take time (maybe years) before it... |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | 3KWA: watch Fabrice Grinda at TedXParis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJK3_vpfoQc (in French) - implementing ideas taken from one country into another is what he does for a living. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | revorad: Please clone mint.com :-) |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | antirez: I (and a friend of mine) cloned digg/reddit (it's something like a mix between the two) about 4 years ago, as there was nothing alike in the Italian market. It worked very well and the product (called Oknotizie, http://oknotizie.virgilio.it) did a successful deal with Telecom Italia. |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | sgdesign: I'm french too, and currently involved in "cloning" (although there will of course be some differences) a US concept, so I just hope it's not the same one! |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | fbailey: Go for it, some will view it as bad but just ignore them.Interestingly enough we thought about offering localization services for international startups, the complete set (marketing, strategy, translation, management, sales, partnerships)as a package to get started at least far enough to make the market entry ... |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | _delirium: It's probably fine as long as you stick to mainly cloning the idea or functionality, ideally perhaps modifying or extending it to fit your understanding of the local market.The main place people go wrong is also cloning the look-and-feel, or making the name be an obvious pun/derivative/translation of the ori... |
Review my app - Notification Service | mcxx: Yes, thank you! I've wanted this for a long time, just didn't get to creating it myself. |
Review my app - Notification Service | kamme: Great idea, but as I suggested on your website, you should have a favicon. It's part of the identity of a website. If you don't have it, it feels like something is missing. |
Review my app - Notification Service | jporta: nice idea. I specially like the sugestions made by the chatbot based on keywords. |
Review my app - Notification Service | f_sav: Overall good idea, but I'd say: obviously I wouldn't use this for my regular feeds, only for some specific ones for which I want live notifications. So maybe some basic filtering options would be good (by keyword, by author...).(Or maybe it's implied people would use existing services for filtering?) |
Review my app - Notification Service | f_sav: Oh, and having tried it a bit with a twitter search feed, maybe you could have some options for formatting too (with replacements like %t for title, %u for url etc.).(But of course both these suggestions break the simplicity of it, which has its appeal.)EDIT: also, I'd add the basic instructions (STOP, START etc... |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | gizmo: Cloning a concept is fine, but cloning the (entire) interface is not.As with all things moral, the moment you have to ask if it is moral, guess what, it isn't! |
Review my app - Notification Service | olalonde: Very cool app.! I was going to build it myself but you beat me to it. Now, can someone build a feed for HN submission comments/comment replies? And why not a feed for StackExchange answers/comments ? |
Please review my start-up - planergize.com | zarski: I like the design of the landing page and the main graphic. I am getting tired of seeing the standard "browser screenshot" graphic on landing pages. As for the copy on the landing page I also couldn't discern quickly what the application was about. |
How many of you look at http://news.ycombinator.com/newest? | zarski: Didn't even know about /newest. I am going to checking it now. |
What would you do with 1Gbps to the home? | pasbesoin: Real time, FULL, non-PITA offsite backup from the home office.(Some of my artistic endeavors can generate a lot of data quickly. Upstream is slow, and I could exceed my bandwidth cap in the course of a month.) |
Review my app - Notification Service | daok: Some questions:
1) How to unsubscribe?
2) I can sent RSS feed to account that is not mine? (Spam?)Those 2 questions can block some new user to try the service I think. |
What happened to CO2Stats? | Shamiq: It's become that "Green Certified Site" logo instead. |
Does anything like this exists? | Scriptor: I think Google Products (http://www.google.com/products?hl=en) is pretty similar to what you're looking for. I'm not sure if you can purchase the products through it. |
Does anything like this exists? | mbrubeck: I think the Google Base Data API[1] can give you access to the price information from Google Product Search[2]. But I'm not clear why I would go to your site instead of just using Google Product Search directly...[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/base/[2]: http://www.google.com/products |
Software Development Opportunities on Craigslist | lukev: Even a great idea is worth nothing compared with the work of implementing it. And my guess would be that the ideas you'd find on craigslist are more along the lines of "build a twitter clone only MORE SO" than any genuine insights.Even if you do think the idea is amazing, only engage in such a deal if you get to... |
Cloning a US startup for a european country ? | klozetgeek: This has been in my mind too, in another european country not France. |
Software Development Opportunities on Craigslist | Mankhool: Like everything else in life - it's variable. I'm an idea person who found a highly qualified iPhone developer in the SF Bay Area, who was interested enough in doing dev work for me part-time (he's a FT iPhone dev for a large corp) that he only asked for $2500 plus 3% equity. I'm in Vancouver. I found him on ... |
Startup Data Security Survey | Travis: completed! |
Review my app - Notification Service | Concours: looks great and simple, is it just a for fun or do you plan to make money with it? if so, how? |
Review my app - Notification Service | gipsygipsy: Good to see you build this app. I actually created a similar app some time back just to get notified on few feeds I am actively following. It is on appengine http://enginebolt.appspot.com/ |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | patio11: If you're underchallenged, dropping out will make you underchallenged and unemployed with no prospects of securing gainful employment in the immediate future. People who are both better credentialed and better skilled then you are also looking for work right now. You do not want to compete against them on th... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | melling: Study math or physics. You should be able to get a programming job out of college, if you still want to write code. I knew a really good programmer who studied Latin in college. Getting an entry level programming job with another degree shouldn't be too difficult. |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | pedalpete: Expanding into non-CS fields I believe is a great idea, as CS is a science, lots of great cross-polination of knowledge could be amazingly helpful one day. Pick something you find interesting and go for it. Even if it is not science related, many fields are in need of good programmers to move them along to t... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | noodle: if i were in your shoes, this is what i would do:1) do the due diligence and research to determine if the CS classes got harder. see if i can test out of or just generally skip some of the classes, if it isn't too late. talk to your advisor.2) consider taking on a double major while you're wading through the ... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | boyter: You do realise that college/university isnt so much about being spoon fed information but learning how to figure it out for yourself.Keep up your grades (they will be worth more to you then you think later on) and start reading the papers your professors are writing. Ask them about them. Understand them. Doing ... |
When to stop obsessing over conversion | patio11: I've read that for web products, maximum conversion rates are around 1%.This statistic needs slaying. It. Is. False. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=930571 |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | jeffmould: First and most critical piece of advice. Don't drop out if you can financially afford to stay in. You will grow to regret it later.Second, talk to your professors, adviser, and the dean of the department about your situation. Let them know your skill set so that advanced answers do not come across as cheatin... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | kloncks: Transfer. Seriously. I'm in a similar situation and that's what I plan on doing.Go to a better place that you deserve to be at and that will challenge you. Apply for loans if you can't afford it. In ten years, you will be glad that you did. |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | roundsquare: 1) Find some research with a professor. Look at their websites, see what interests you and talk to the professor. Make sure you understand their papers and have intelligent questions for them. Make them feel that you'll be useful.2) Look into some of the theory. Its probably quite different from what y... |
When to stop obsessing over conversion | jacquesm: You should stop worrying about it when you've exhausted all the avenues that you can possibly think of in improving it.As for the 1%, Patrick already states it's a bogus statistic based on a small sample, here are some more reasons:- conversion rates tend to cluster by industry- the majority of public e-comme... |
Small A/B tests impractical? | patio11: Ooh, I think you gave me a good idea for a blog topic.1) You can run multiple A/B tests at the same time without compromising results, if you assume they are independent. Your stats teachers at college will be mad at me for this, but "That is a safe assumption 99% of the time." (Shh!)2) In terms of priorit... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | barkingcat: I was in your shoes years ago. I dropped out of computer engineering and ended up getting a degree in english literature - and I kept improving and learning programming and systems design. Now I am a literature nerd who can also code. That is a tremendous advantage for me since I meet and work with people f... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | yannis: Being more than twice your age I can assure you of one thing. You will get these feelings in College, in your job and in your business. Even with your partner wife etc. You need to find a method that works for you to cope.During College I got terribly bored of lectures and was quite ahead of my class mates - an... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | binspace: It depends on what you want to do. The college CS curriculum typically is good for teaching students to become professors. If that is what you want, stick to CS.If you want to go more toward the software engineer approach you have a few options. You can stick with CS, but try to work on actual projects. For e... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | keeptrying: Have you talked to the faculty about this? If you can show your professor that you know everything he is teaching, I'm sure he will help make it challenging for you. Ie either by giving harder assignments where you'll learn more or he wont take your attendance and let you sit in on some other advanced class... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | mos1: A large part of what a college degree demonstrates is that you're willing to complete 4 years of crap, only some of which was fun / challenging / etc. Not many people want to hire a "whiz kid" who has already demonstrated that he'll quit on you if he feels bored for a year.Also, someday you might find yourself ... |
I just don't care anymore. Any advice? | ajuc: For me the best thing you can get from university is the people you can talk with. Many smart people with good ideas. Ignore stupid/incompetent profesors, learn from the smart ones, talk with smart people and try to do sth great with them, later you won't have time to try new things.If there is some students' edu... |
Don't you have anything you want to discuss with Mozilla? | sushi: Yeah I want to know when are they going to make the design a little more compact sans the unnecessary statusbar in Firefox. Just provide more real estate and also try to make installing extensions as painless as possible just like Chrome.I don't think Mozilla is capable of making Firefox as fast as Chrome (for a... |
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