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Any Hackers in Middle America? | raheemm: Why did you move to Indy?On a separate note, I think hackers who make it big should try to go back to their small towns or non-silicon valley places, especially if it has a good university and try to sow the seeds so that that these other places become hacker friendly. I really admire that Italian guy behind B... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | omahajoe: I'm not a techy but www.thebrain.com is the coolest visualization tool i've found and its free...but may not apply for what you're looking fore |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | niels_olson: Ignoring the first 14 years of life, I've lived in1) Kansas City for high school2) Annapolis for college3) Rhode Island for six months4) San Diego for four years5) Annapolis for two and a half years6) New Orleans for 5 weeks to start medical school7a) Lived with my parents for one year in College Station, ... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | paul9290: There are hackers by the ton here and no worries about where you live. You could find someone here and do a quick project together to see how it goes and take it from there!It's cheaper to live out there then in San Fran, NYC or Boston.Don't let location and the old adage of having to be in the valley stop y... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | herdrick: I'm in Spokane, WA for a while and would like to meet up and talk startups. Anybody else here here? |
Anyone have experience with FLEX + HaXe development? | kqr2: Check out:http://www.amazon.com/Professional-haXe-Neko-Programmer/dp/0... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | centuren: I went to school at Rose Hulman in Terre Haute, IN, where an impressive concentration of hackers attend. They've even got Rose Ventures (http://www.rhventures.org/), a start up friendly organization (using appropriately educated students as cheap labor for small companies). |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | avcetim: Bought a company out of Purdue. Worked one year with it in West Lafayette. Moved to Palo Alto for 2.5 years. Moved back to Lafayette, IN. Opened office in Buenos Aires. Commuted there quarterly. Consulted for a venture firm in Ann Arbor. And in August I moved to Indianapolis. Why?Because it is not about starti... |
What Rails IDE do you use? | gtani: http://woss.name/2008/03/04/ruby-on-rails-ides/ |
What Rails IDE do you use? | jdg: TextMate user #719. |
What Rails IDE do you use? | Spyckie: RadRails works well for me. Its really about how familiar you get with the program, and how much you customize it to suit your coding habits (and how much you prefer the mouse).Customizations that I use/advocate:1) Get or make a good color scheme for syntax highlighting.2) bind arrow keys to ctrl+i|j|k|l.
I b... |
Best debugging war stories? | antigravity: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html |
Best place to learn about Mobile Development | petercooper: If possible, could you edit your post title to include "Windows" before "Mobile"? People might think to post iPhone related resources here (which is what I was going to do) and you seem to make it clear that's not what you want ;-) |
Best place to learn about Mobile Development | hwijaya: There are so many ways of doing development for Windows Mobile. My own experience was developing it in Compact Framework. It's basically is a .NET Framework in slim version. It would be helpful if you know at least C# or VB.NET and some ideas on how the framework works.
Have a look on this site below for some ... |
When should we bother incorporating? | run4yourlives: You should really get advice from a local lawyer or someone familiar with your own jurisdiction but I would almost guarantee that regardless of what you do (Incorporate, Partner, etc) you should do it prior to selling a single item. The reason for this, at best, is to stay on the good side of the tax law... |
When should we bother incorporating? | noodle: once your app/group/whatever is incurring potential liabilities, at least form an LLC. it might not be the best corporate entity for funding, but its cheap and easy, and will prevent you from getting your pants sued off.if you pursue funding further, you can convert. it isn't the ideal situation, but things r... |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | qhoxie: You should really consider EngineYard (http://www.engineyard.com/). They are run by a group of really bright and genuinely nice people.The founder, Ezra, is around HN as ezmobius. |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | ph0rque: Your concerns with heroku are non-issues. The banner is a semitransparent one that adds an edit button to take you to the online editor for your app. You can configure it to not show (http://groups.google.com/group/heroku/web/heroku-toolbar-set...). Also, they are very much active in their development: check t... |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | echair: 99.9% uptime is not that great, actually, if you do the math. That's a 44 minute outage every month. |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | drcode: My experiences with heroku has been very positive so far: The online IDE and tools are very robust and they've been responsive to me when I needed to ask questions.I don't think you'll be disappointed. |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | sc: I do as much browsing in WebKit as possible. Heroku does not support WebKit and till it does I cannot spend too much time with it. |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | matt1: Judging from the first few comments, it seems like I'll give Heroku a go. As always, thanks for the tips. |
When should we bother incorporating? | cjoh: The cost for registering your business isn't too significant and you can do it online at something like bizfilings.com. Setting up the business isn't particularly the difficult task. When you set up an LLC (which is probably what you want to do), you need to draft an operating agreement that goes alongside your f... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | mdolon: I played around with it for a bit, seems like an interesting mod to Drupal. I did find the interface a bit convoluted though, as the options presented in the menu may be a bit complex and overwhelming for a typical newspaper/magazine editor trying to add and place content on the site.I'd advise sticking closely... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | auston: Seems fine to me. Fairly clear.As far as monetization goes:1. Charge for it?2. Offer 3rd party services (like copywriting/editing services) and use affiliate links3. Split advertising with publishers ? |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | versesane: Ha you can def offer premium newspaper themes for which you can charge. |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | mattmaroon: Interesting. Can I assume that since you're targeting a small niche, you're planning on charging a decent price for it? You seem to be offering people their chance to run their own Huffington Post or something. |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | unalone: Huh! I'd always hoped Drupal would make something like this. Best of luck.I don't have many ideas regarding the newspaper world. NowPublic has that all nailed. Find whatever niche you can that they haven't taken.Oh, and welcome to Hacker News. Do we do welcomes here? I'm not sure. Welcome anyway. |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | petercooper: 1. I want to be seeing a screenshot(s) on the front page.2. I want you to make it clear why I shouldn't use Wordpress.3. The pages on the site are all samey. The general layout and theme are quite nice, but you need to make it flow better. Screenshots, etc.On the monetization front.. skip all the technical... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | abijlani: Your site administration is very confusing.What makes Wordpress so popular today is their intuitive admin interface. You can right away manage the content. I think they have it right, the people managing the content vs the people managing the design / layout are two entirely different sets of people.There are... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | lyime: Radiant CMS 0.6.9 + plugins. |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | streety: I would more loudly broadcast the fact that it is based on drupal. If a user has a lot of success they would want to know that there is a large group from which they could hire developers for customisation. Drupal offers that.The idea of editions seems like a quaint throwback to the world of print media. Do... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | asmosoinio: Typo: "If you find a theme you like, you don't even a web designer."Missing a "need" after "don't even"? |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | Russelldb: Hi Joel, Don't want to sound like a stalker or sound too fulsome so don't get the wrong idea but I follow you in twitter and read your posts on the erlang list and find you inspirational.My opinion on this is:-1. Forget the subs. Let people play for fun for free and if they want to bet take a cut of the ant... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | ashleyw: I think you've got it spot on — ads for free members; and no ads, the option to customize things, use extra features, and some extra virtual cash every month for the "Pro" members.Plus you could sell exta virtual currency, with Pro members getting a discount.Whats your URL? :) |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | apsurd: I don't like the idea.
There is god awfully too much competition. Nearly every single for-money poker site is actually masked/marketed as a play for free site. There is already poker apps on the major SNS like facebook (and probably myspace).You are outmarketed, outreached, and out muscled in almost every con... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | Tichy: There is a lot of competition, but I haven't found a place where I could just play poker for fun, no download or payment necessary. If you want to charge a monthly fee, unfortunately your site won't qualify, either. Otherwise, your position would not even be so bad, I think.Wouldn't ads be sufficient? I think th... |
Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org) | SingAlong: When I've got Drupal or Joomla why would I choose yours?
What makes your stuff different from Drupal(+ a custom plugin and theme) or Joomla(+ a custom plugin or theme)?Mention those on the front page. That should serve as an ad :)
And make your site colorful. Pure black-grey-white shades are boring IMO. |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | dazzawazza: Before I comment let me qualify this with the fact that I worked on one of the big poker websites as lead engineer.There is a big difference between free and raked poker. The betting patterns in free poker are erratic and make the game MUCH less fun. Because no one buys in to the hand (literally and figurat... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | bhandras: Joel I think you should think about your idea a lot first. I follow you on your blog and you happen to jump from project to project and your mind just can't settle with one on the long run. How about planning the business first with all the legal things (which everybody hates and leaves the last). After that ... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | charlesju: Did you really write your whole server code in Erlang? Your intelligence scares me a little bit.First off, can you elaborate on what these "social network" features are? There is a really popular poker FB application already, that seems to me to have "social network" features.I think that there are a number ... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | icey: This might be a good fit for the guys at Plura: http://www.pluraprocessing.com/Poker apps would be a perfect situation since it takes much more time than most games. |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | icey: Can I recommend labeling the bots? I think you'll have trust issues if people think that there is some super-genius robot playing next to them. Poker players know that it's not that huge a deal, but I think amateur players may be turned off by that.Either that, or have bot-friendly tables and human-only tables. |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | socksandsandals: Joel, this will be an attempt to prove out your OpenPoker infrastructure to either a) sell licences to OpenPoker, or b) sell the rights to it outright, correct? Given that, the site does not need to be super-popular in and of itself. You will probably only need about 100,000 active players to prove how... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | mpc: How about digital goods/gifts? Similar to what facebook and other gaming sites have done...virtual trophies, awards, etc. that users can display in a 'giftbox' within their profiles.If your site has enough traffic and is socially 'interactive' you could monetize the interactions with virtual gift micropayments ins... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | trevelyan: wagerlabs - you should look at dominategame.comA subscription based Risk-style game with free play options. I've subscribed in the past and considered it worth it.A serious and well-designed points system can provide social standing and other sorts of incentives to help compensate for the lack of betting. |
PHP Tricks and Best Practices? | grotesk: If PHP is your choice and not the result of prior mismanagement, then I would immediately schedule a two-week vacation. Rent a suite at a hotel with no internet service. Bring your laptop. Pick a language: Scheme, Groovy, Python, Ruby, Clojure, scala, Haskell... and implement something fun for twelve days. Do ... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | jasonwatkinspdx: I'm unaware of the legality, but there might be an opportunity to combine a web of trust with online poker. Track play money bankrolls but provide some feedback mechanisms players could use to settle outside the site. Pay for the site via ads. Being purely ad supported would be a nice feather for your ... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | cjenkins: Hi Joel,One thought I had might be to use some of your ad revenue as a prize pool each week/month/etc. That way people could play with the potential to earn some real money. Hopefully it snowballs so that you can offer bigger prize pools attracting more traffic in a happy money making circle.I think this co... |
What's the status of Heroku? (and other Rails hosting questions) | sunkencity: It's not that hard to host a rails app yourself with apache + mysql + mod_rails.Just rent linux server and install apache, mysql and ruby, then "gem install passenger" and follow the instructions. |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | mcormier: Blogs generally are on a niche subject. Digg and reddit are aggregators not blogs. If something is a niche then it is a niche. Why are you expecting lots of traffic? |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | trickjarrett: SEO, blog carnivals, finding other blogs on similar topics and doing comments. Most of the standard advice for building traffic. |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | lethain: The most effective way to drive traffic to a new blog is to write consistent, targeted and high quality content (keep your posts on-topic, especially early on), and to get to know the other people in the niche (they're not competition, but fellow members of a community). I really don't believe there are any ot... |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | kleneway: Start slow, and take advantage of your time without readers to find your voice and figure out what works and what doesn't. Once you get that figured out, just do all the standard stuff. Here's a good list: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2008/10/how-to-launc... |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | rrhyne: Have great content, comment on other blogs, and link to other blogs, so they will link to you. |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | thenetprophet: add porn, good porn at that. Everybody loves sex, if you've got a good blog about lets say Knitting, throw some good porn in there because lets face it, who doesn't love browsing their favorite knitting blog with a little porn on the side! Exactly! |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | igexome: Shameless plug, but why not go the widget route? Widgetbox.com has channels that are used to link different blogs together, but that may not fit your niche requirement. People love to see relevant content, so extending your reach by creating a widget and allowing those that are interested in it to grab and spr... |
So, how did the recent PR advice work for you? | petercooper: There's no way that advice given within the last week can be delivering big wins already. I would be very keen, however, to hear people who have been using the ideas outlined in the long-term. There are no quick wins in promotion, because you have thousands of other people against you, and getting people's... |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | pkaler: Tag, label, and categories your posts well. Check Google Analytics to see which keywords drive traffic to your site. Use these keywords as topics for future posts. |
How do you drive traffic to a new niche blog? | petercooper: In terms of general Web strategies:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=351709But here are some tips specific to niche blogs. I run a niche blog that has 17,000 subscribers and am in the process of building up others, so I have a few tips (but I am by no means an au... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | ericwaller: There are two major things I want from online shopping:Real time stock data. I don't care so much about quantities, just whether or not my size/color is in stock -- though a "low quantity" warning would be nice.Ship my order within 24 hours, and with "free" overnight shipping. If I order a pair of pants ton... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | petercooper: My biggest problem is with stores that try too hard to be innovative and end up making the process harder. But then, they don't frustrate me too much as I just won't use them.Other frustrations:- Gauging availability- Having easy access to shipping cost info- Offers or product names that aren't links. If s... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | petercooper: Something else I realized I always do..If I see a "promo code" box when buying, I always Google for a promo code for that store, or try retailmenot.com to see if they have one.Sometime I get one, sometimes I not, and I feel a teeny-weeny pissed off when I don't find one that works as I feel someone else is... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | ieatpaste: (Slightly off topic) I know there are a lot of startups doing a physical-internet crossover similar to QRCode, but they read bar codes instead. The only issue I see with this is that not every item has a bar code (i.e. clothes) and it requires the cooperation of both online and brick-and-mortar stores.Augmen... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | oldgregg: I get this feeling that clothing is THE consumer product but nobody buys clothes online because:1) sizing is screwy2) it's impossibly kludgy to browse clothing, textures, etc.3) a painful return processSO, I'm waiting for a department store with:1) ONE pair of each item2) ZERO inventory,3) With all that addit... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | listic: They don't ship worldwide. Sometimes they do, but not for every item. And they don't make it clear from the start.This is the biggest single limitation that I encounter constantly. |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | pmjordan: If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov?For personal income, your country will typically have a reciprocal agreement with the US so that you don't get double-taxed. Check with your local tax body for the exact details.(Sorry, I know nothing about ... |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | boris: If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov?If I get paid from US-based company personally (not through company), do I have to pay taxes to US gov on these incomes?You don't pay taxes to US gov unless any of the following two things are true: (1) you are... |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | ovi256: Glad to see the tax income questions have been answered. I would like to know more about the others though. Especially :>Is it hard to run a US-based LLC from abroad in general? Paperwork etc.Anyone? |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | mindaugas: I wonder why do you need US based LLC?If your business is web based you can run it from anywhere... :)Just curious... |
Problems/Limitations With Online Shopping? | mstefff: thanks for the comments everyone |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | blurry: You've touched upon a large and complicated subject but here are couple things to get you started.First off, you need to be very clear in your own mind about your venture vs. your consulting work.Consulting is simple. There are three main reasons to form an LLC as a consultant: you can isolate yourself from lia... |
work samples to show in interview? | nostrademons: Any sort of code is useful. You can tell a lot just from reading a code sample: you get a sense of the candidate's attention to detail, coding habits, desire for simplicity, preferred coding standard, technology background, API design skills, knowledge of standard library functions, and knowledge of desi... |
Obama likes tech. What ideas can we generate for him? | bprater: So blessed this guy is in favor of net neutrality. |
work samples to show in interview? | cperciva: The best way to answer this question is "go look at my website; I've published a bunch of open source code there". |
Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC? | 22ndcombinator: Which country are you based in?
Its very important to know because local goverment might creat problem for you. |
What other business's revenue model do you resemble | ram1024: I'd stick with Freemium as the category of your revenue model, it sounds better than cripplewarefor us, business 1 is ad-driven (ad-sense will be fine until we grow beyond it). business 2 will be monthly subscription with maybe some branded schwag revenue. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | noodle: you're just not located in a high tech area (few local candidates), or one that is particularly appealing to hackers (few want to relocate there), in my opinion.i mean, just as an example, i, myself, am looking to relocate and your opening is something i would be interested in applying for. but moving to boca ... |
Please Help Us Find Someone | adriannyc777: Supporting the fam any way I can... |
Please Help Us Find Someone | babyshake: I'd strongly consider going with some working remotely. If you can find someone who is a self-starter, it shouldn't be much of a problem.If you manage to survive (get revenue??) for the next few months, then you can figure out the next step. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | mcdowall: Why not advertise the post on Elance / Guru, if anything at least if you put the project on there you will get a host of companies (mainly India based) that can work remotely. Might be worthwhile outsourcing some so at least you are gathering some momentum for someone to take over. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | Brushfire: Let me preface this by saying I've had similar problems in other parts of the country when hiring developers. Below is just a loose collection of thoughts/ideas on the topic.Your job post is probably only halfway there in attracting totally awesome people. You dont make the job sound AWESOME.1 - There are no... |
Please Help Us Find Someone | vaksel: at your stage you gotta hit up local colleges. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | Dilpil: You may actually already have all of the talented hackers in Florida working for you.More likely, you have all the talented hackers who are willing to sacrifice job security for excitement and potential upside. |
Correctly pronouncing equations in CS papers | sundeep: well , you might want to watch an video(online) about Bigtable or Chubby. |
ASK HN: Git client for windows? | nostrademons: There's a MinGW port:http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/Never used it myself, but heard fairly good things about it. It's officially beta quality, which means that some of the corner cases don't work right, but I've heard that common usage is fairly stable. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | lacker: I would try to attract someone who thought the job itself sounded interesting. But I can't figure out what you want your new employee to do. What exactly is "lead management software"? Why is it cool, and why is your company likely to succeed? |
Please Help Us Find Someone | thorax: South Florida has a few companies with really good hackers, but they're pretty much not working on any web applications outside of major IT groups down there.It's an absolutely amazing place to live, so if you offered relocation, you might have more takers. |
What other business's revenue model do you resemble | wmeredith: We're an e-commerce solution and we charge a transaction fee. |
Please Help Us Find Someone | wensing: This is ominous, since The Palm Beach Post (my employer) just put out a job listing for a Python coder to join our group. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | run4yourlives: I try to look at my rescue time dashboard everyday before I log off.The thought of seeing "fun" being in my top 2 or 3 has so far given me enough of a guilt trip that I keep working. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | boris: Work on something more interesting than reading the net. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | teej: I've been looking for something as well. I didn't know about LeechBlock previously, thanks for the recommendation. |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | gertburger: A simple plugin is not gonna stop me. I tend to just live with the fact that I'm going to get distracted. I have a tendency to get lost in work once I get going, but that doesn't happen often ;-> |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | bootload: "... How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? ..."Hard problem this one.Some times you need to search the web for information. Other times you really need to turn access off to get work done. One suggestion would be to pre-search all you need to search for. But this is clumsy and sometimes ... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | ars: Try http://8aweek.com/ it's designed for doing that (keeping track of wasted time while browsing and blocking after a while) - but I have to admit I disabled it.I was also a little concerned about the privacy implications of sending them everything I do, and if you disable that (which you can), many things don't f... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | arien: It's really hard at times (I suffer the same thing), but the only thing you have to save yourself is your own will, so you have to learn to strengthen it somehow.Divide your day in small periods of time and set working goals for each of these. Let's say take 45 minutes to focus on work and finish some task. And ... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | robhu: There's a way to stop? |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | ErrantX: Argh! This question is distracting me from my work.. see what you have done :DI agree with the others: find ways to enjoy what you do hr by hr.Part of my day job involves analysing up to 1,000,000 images at a time and categorising them (that many images takes around 3hrs with our software). That gets VERY bori... |
How do you stop reading the internet when you need to work? | csl: I have a simple rule for myself that works quite well:Every day, I have to do at least one productive thing before I can leave work.Usually I read email, programming stuff and news in the morning, then catch myself wasting time and then get to work. When I first get started, time usually passes by extremely fast ... |
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