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How do you build a self-serve ad network to compete with Google? | fleitz: Why don't you arbitrage Google's system? Do the buy for the client and charge them for the service.Your main problem is how to sign up advertisers, once you have the advertisers then worry about setting up your infrastructure. |
E Commerce transaction failure | patio11: No. Send mail to the seller, tell them that you bought their product and that an error has prevented their site from recognizing it. Ask them to fix this manually.If they don't fix it manually and don't refund you, speak to your bank and say "Internet merchant did not deliver as promised." You'll get a refu... |
Help a Highschooler with His Resume | acangiano: As someone who is currently reviewing many resumes for two internship positions at IBM, I can confirm that you've put too much emphasis on the classes you've taken (but you are in high school, so that's understandable). I took the liberty of highlighting the areas that I find interesting in your resume: http... |
E Commerce transaction failure | newobj: Dad? I didn't know you were reading HN now. |
I'm way too shy, please help | switch: 99% of people are worrying about what other people think of them.
People try to hide it in different ways - saying too little, saying too much, hiding from the world, overexposing themselves.just realize that most people are so busy caring about what other people think of them they don't really care much about... |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | siong1987: I don't think it is possible to let your own company to sponsor your H1B visa anymore.http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/messag... < a random google link. |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | dannyr: If I remember it right, investing a million will get you a Green Card. Not quite sure if investor money counts though.But basically, an H1B visa ties you to your employment so working on your own startup on that visa is not allowed.The Startup Visa could help you though but it's only a bill right now. |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | pbiggar: I recall reading recently (perhaps last week) that the rules had been clarified recently so that you could not get a H1B visa sponsored by a company of which were a major shareholder.If its an option, you could ask your company super nicely to keep you on board, and just stop paying you. I doubt this will work... |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | olalonde: You should ask your question over at http://answers.onstartups.com/. |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | einarvollset: What you and your cofounder is doing now (working part time on your web-app) is probably already illegal while on your H1B, even if you're not getting paid. If you have incorporated in some form or another it's definitely illegal. Be very, very careful.Your best (only?) option to have your own company spo... |
I want to write a book (fiction) | JacobAldridge: Two key lessons I learned:1) Have a structure from the beginning. Know where the story is going and the key milestones for each character on the way. Be open to changing this, but the key to a great fiction story is the ending not the beginning.2) Work out commitments. When I wrote http://www.scribd.com/... |
Speed up HTTP Post, desktop app | nreece: I would suggest you to ask the question at a programming forum/QnA site like Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | kareemm: I was in a similar situation. H1B with a big company, left to start a company with an American co-founder who applied for the H1 transfer (which isn't subject to a cap).Email me and I can hopefully give you some insight. Email address is on my site. |
How do you stay on top of legal work and/or taxes? | skmurphy: Pay an accountant familiar with Utah tax law. It's possible that you owe much less than the state is asking for. You want someone who has been in a business tax audit before, the learning curve can be steep. |
How do you keep track of your group/shared expenses ? | trin_: we have a shared bank account where everybody transfers his share of the combined flat and from this bank account the rent/utilities are paid. takes 10min to setup ONCE and never has to be touched again (until the amounts change but thats at most once a year) |
Finding growing startups? | keefe: I think you can find a lot of people on craigslist, linkedin, dice. There's also sd forum if you are in silicon valley. However, it all depends on what you're looking for - senior developer with token stock options or big founder equity? The latter requires more networking and individual effort. |
How do you keep track of your group/shared expenses ? | jarsj: Buxfer http://www.buxfer.com/ |
Help a Highschooler with His Resume | harrybr: Your CV is often the primary reference point in an interview. So, it makes sense to put a number of "conversational hooks" in it that you are prepared to tell a compelling (true) story about. If you have a series of mini stories prepared in your head, and you've written your CV in such a way that you're likely... |
How do you keep track of your group/shared expenses ? | mailarchis: Thanks for your responses |
Finding growing startups? | david927: I'm unsure of what you're asking.If you want to find a job with a startup, there's http://startuply.comIf you want to find a co-founder, there's an HN spreadsheet here:
http://CofounderGoogleDocs.com
Other sites include: startuplinkup.com and builditwith.me |
How can you proof that your website content has been plagirized? | sosha: Will Copyscape show which content came first? |
Do you think the world is really overpopulated? | bryan1: If there's anything needs to be improve on the earth, it's the design and usability of the environment.Like we don't see the synthesis between structures and plants, we don't see systems that improve the life of the plants synthesized on human structures, thus we can't sustain them on the penthouses of our buil... |
Tags vs Keywords vs Categories vs Wordtag | mrphoebs: tags are some what different from categories. Tags indicate a flat structure while an organization based on categories can be both flat and hierarchical. Keywords are used to imply important, descriptive and distinguishing words among other words in content. Since the content is visual Keywords loose their me... |
Review our webapp: QFile: File sharing for our satellite network | apsurd: wth - This wall of text is most certainly the reason you've gotten no feedback =(Show don't tell. |
How can I go full-time on my startup with H1B visa? | sharan: It used to be easier but since the Neufeld memo that came out a few months ago it has gotten harder. More details here: http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.asp...Essentially, this requires that you prove Employer-Employee distinction. (Harder to do as a Founder). Something that you can supp... |
Do you think the world is really overpopulated? | bgnm2000: In my opinion, the world is not over populated - that in itself is just wrong. I say this because we're screwing up the planet in all sorts of ways, the population size itself, only increases the speed at which we accomplish that.That said, we don't have any real form of population control besides natural dis... |
Who's hiring? | jgrahamc: Me: http://www.causata.com/careers |
Who's hiring? | euroclydon: Chapel Hill, NC: These guys are hiring. Not a bad place to work. Their product has a lot of potential to be applied in markets which it is not currently.http://www.integrify.com/about/Careers.aspx |
Who's hiring? | fa: 1) Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
2) MIT Lincoln Lab
(If you have/will have an advanced degree in signal processing, or applied math in general) |
Who's hiring? | neilk: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings |
Who's hiring? | loumf: [Easthampton, MA] Atalasoft has an opening for a .NET developer. We're considering developers from 2-3 years experience or much more. The more senior, the more of a match we'd want with the following technologies:- Web Development generally (HTML/CSS/JavaScript + deep understanding of how the web works)- Ajax (... |
Who's hiring? | BrandonSmith: http://phonebooth.com is hiring in Raleigh/Durham, NC: * User Interface Designer/Developer
* Heavy jQuery. Some PHP/Kohana. A little Erlang.
* Lots of XMPP. Lots of REST.
* OpenID. OAuth.
* Other openings, too.
http://bandwidth.com/about/join/careers.html |
Who's hiring? | canadian: Anyone know of anything in Canada? |
What do you listen to when you code? | wlk: Mostly classical music, definitely with no lyrics - this helps me to stay concentrated. But sometimes I prefer much stronger music: metal, rock. |
Who's hiring? | kgosser: Milwaukee, WI: http://www.harqen.com is looking for a Java dev. Ping Kris@HarQen.com if interested.Must as good with Java as Indiana Jones (Raiders version) or Jason Bourne are at being awesome. |
Who's hiring? | tudorg: IPTEGO, in Berlin (Germany), is looking for python, javascript and C developers to work on a VoIP monitoring product. Experience in those languages is not strictly needed as long as you are willing to learn. We can support you with the relocation, and Berlin is a very nice city :-). http://www.iptego.com/jobs/ ... |
Who's hiring? | coffeemug: RethinkDB in Mountain View, CA: looking for system and performance engineers. Interns also welcome. More details here: http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobsHere's a quick blurb from our jobs page:Working at RethinkDB truly involves disruptive technology and solving interesting, challenging problems. Building caching... |
Who's hiring? | utefan001: WOTI in Washingon DC is hiring. No Remote.Over 20 open positions.Active Top Secret security clearance preferred.Qualified to obtain a security clearance required.BS in Computer Science or similar required.- 5 weeks vacation after one year.- relocation assistance.Submit resume to woti.com/jobs.cfmBenefits: w... |
Who's hiring? | mscantland: We're adding to our team at http://www.covermymeds.com. This product is about a year old and has significant revenue. Our major effort is building our API and a real-time processing system. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas. Mostly Python, working with a talented team.Parent company: htt... |
Who's hiring? | thinkcomp: Think is hiring iPhone, Android, LAMP and JavaScript developers in Palo Alto.http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html |
Who's hiring? | mpobrien: I'd just like to post a friendly reminder before this thread fills up with a lot of posts. Please post your location, or if the job(s) in question can be done remotely, specify so - it makes things much easier. |
Who's hiring? | agotterer: CollegeHumor is hiring developers - http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs#job_18 |
Who's hiring? | crescendo: Academia.edu is hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobsWe're currently hacking a lot of cutting-edge technology like Node.js and Redis to scale the site up, and we're looking for some really talented engineers to help us out.Based in San Francisco. |
Who's hiring? | gyardley: Flurry's hiring Java developers in San Francisco or New York City. Mobile application development experience a plus (especially iPhone or Android), Hadoop experience a big plus. We could also use a great ops guy.http://flurry.com or just e-mail me - greg at the domain you'd expect it to be at. |
Who's hiring? | adw: We are. Based in Clerkenwell, London; no remote working, I'm afraid.We're Timetric, and we're looking for Unix hackers into Python and statistics - http://timetric.com/biz/jobs/ - and we closed our seed round today (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/timetric-closes-seed-fun...).Our officemates are hiring too. Pi... |
Who's hiring? | healsdata: We're looking for two entry-level developers who know their stuff but need to get some professional experience on their resume. While continuing to add features to our CRM, we're also going through a big push to refactor a lot of older code in to clean, readable code.We're located in King of Prussia, PA whic... |
Who's hiring? | johns: You can take over my current position in Minneapolis working on ASP.NET MVC for a startup project within the company: http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6506Or you can come work with me at my new job at Twilio in Downtown San Fran, which has some amazing things coming out soon: http://twilio.jobscore.com/... |
Who's hiring? | buro9: Yell Labs in London, UK are hiring.We're going to be based on Grays Inn Road just up from Chancery Lane (Central Line). Future-tense as we get the building on April 16th. No remote working initially, not closed to it permanently though.It's a R&D lab and we are looking for quite a few people. JVM is dominant and... |
Who's hiring? | Kilimanjaro: I'd like to see this kind of post every month, how about the first monday of every month?A lot of hackers are looking for jobs and a lot of entrepreneurs are also hiring.Perfect match! |
Who's hiring? | jnoller: Nasuni - Natick, MA (boston area) is hiring a business development person, as well as sales.http://www.nasuni.com/sub/jobs/ |
Who's hiring? | f00biebletch: Dolby in Santa Clara needs an erlanger/javascripter/mongodb type who's also not afraid of perl either:http://careers.dolby.com/detail.asp?jobid=dolby1610For fastest service, DM me @f00biebletch or email f00biebletch@gmail.com. |
Who's hiring? | woodhull: The Democratic National Committee / Organizing for America is looking for paid summer Innovation Lab Fellows to work on software for political organizing and realizing President Obama's vision for change.http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/devjobappSummer positions are in Washington, DC |
Who's hiring? | NickNYC242: If you have RoR experience and a head for design - drop me an email. (In NYC) |
Who's hiring? | christonog: mncaudill,If you're wanting someone to drop you a line, perhaps putting some contact information up would help? |
Who's hiring? | ekanes: Hey guys, we're looking for a PHP developer.Work from anywhere: Yes (Provided you're willing and able to connect with the rest of the team during daylight hours (we're sprinkled all over the place in Canada and the USA.To apply, send me an email at aaronwondermill.com (you put in the @, my name is Aaron) or so... |
Who's hiring? | iuguy: Mandalorian is looking for Penetration Testers and Reverse Engineers (http://www.mandalorian.com/) in the UK. The office is based in Reading, but remote working is an option for the right people. |
Who's hiring? | cool-RR: Is there a Ranorex developer here who takes freelance work? I'd be interested, contact me. |
Who's hiring? | Malk0lm: Nothing in Seattle or vicinity? |
Who's hiring? | rdoherty: Mozilla is hiring! Hard core C++, webdev, IT, QA, marketing, internships, you name it.http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9VfwaHQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, but we have offices in Toronto, New Zealand, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. Great benefits, extremely challenging projects (scaling web serv... |
Who's hiring? | cjoh: Need some hardcore data people at Sunlight Labs in DC. If you're a data scientist, we need you. If you want to free the world from Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann, drop me a line. |
Who's hiring? | Aegean: C/Assembler/Linux kernel expert on hardcore low-level concurrent stuff? I would be interested to talk. We work remotely. |
Who's hiring? | lincolnq: [Cambridge, MA] Demiurge Studios is where I work. We're a 40-man game development shop working on some well-known titles as well as some new ones. We have some really good people, and lots of C++ work to be done. (We're also hiring designers and artists)No remote, I don't think, but commute by public transpor... |
Help For Clojure Addiction | tjgabbour: There is a company named WeatherBill which I personally know is interested in hiring Clojure users. (I think the only online advertising they did was a tweet which was maybe picked on disclojure.org.) One person there recently told me that they're very friendly to telecommuting -- but only within the US.(Thi... |
Who's hiring? | sjwalter: SSi Micro is hiring great hackers. Know C pretty well, be great at one high-level language (Python, PHP, whatever), be a quick learner (and we mean quick), and then come and be a propellerhead at our awesome, small company.www.ssimicro.com/jobsWe're a little company based in Yellowknife, the capital city of t... |
Who's hiring? | amanfredi: Gilt Groupe in New York City is hiring. Remote working is a possibility.We host daily sales of heavily discounted designer fashion and luxury goods, which presents a unique set of technical challenges: hundreds of thousands of customers competing for a very limited selection of inventory at the same time.We ... |
Who's hiring? | daveungerer: Need a RoR developer in South Africa, preferably Johannesburg. Remote work may be possible if you're elsewhere in the country. E-mail is in my profile.You'd be working on http://www.simplepay.co.za - South African online payroll system. Equity possibilities depend on salary. |
Who's hiring? | matthavener: My co is hiring soon. C/C++ in Richardson, TX |
Who's hiring? | aquaphile: If you're in Texas, we're hiring another software developer here at MileMeter. See http://milemeter.com/jobs |
How to make home users ditch IE6? | jackfoxy: At least you've offered up an idea for debate. I don't have an opinion as to its efficacy, but it addresses an annoying problem. Last I checked our user base has been hovering at about 10% IE6 for at least the last 4 months. It seems the decline in use has leveled off. |
Who's hiring? | jgeewax: Invite Media is hiring in Philadelphia and NYC (http://www.invitemedia.com/careers/open_positions.shtml) |
Who's hiring? | sanj: TripAdvisor is hiring in Newton (near Boston). We have interviews that make people either sad (because they're hard) or very, very happy (because it is fun to be challenged).My team is working on making money using social apps in a real, sustainable way. It's way, way cool. And you get to walk around saying thi... |
Who's hiring? | jakehow: NYC - OnsiteWe are a pre-launch mobile payments startup with a unique twist on how we think payments should work.iPhone/Android developers - looking for people with experience shipping products on these platforms. Familiarity with crypto/networking/sqlite would be awesome.Systems Architects/App Developers - bu... |
Who's hiring? | arosien: kaChing is hiring in Palo Alto, CA (on-site only). Looking for backend, frontend, and interns. We're extremely engineering-driven and have a 5-minute commit-to-production cycle. Our CEO says it well:"[We're disrupting] the mutual fund market, a $10-Trillion industry that has seen no innovation in the past 25 y... |
Who's hiring? | kluesing: Bluekai (http://www.bluekai.com) is hiring distributed systems, UI and general web dev - C++ and java, hadoop, cassandra. We're in the south bay next to apple, no remote. ping me - dk at bluekai |
Who's hiring? | timtrueman: Fluther (http://fluther.com/) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try ... |
Who's hiring? | xkenneth86: Looking for experience in any of the following:
Python, C, or LabVIEW
Analog and Digital Electronics Design
Control Theory and Systemsken@erdosmiller.com |
Who's hiring? | mildweed: Kansas City:River City Studio is looking for a LAMP developer. We were a design studio, are currently a web studio, are now evolving into a web app studio.http://www.rivercitystudio.com/who/jobs.php |
When is Startup School pencilled in for this year ? | pg: Some time in the fall, but beyond that it's hard to say. Depends when we can get a venue. We'll start working on this in April. |
Who's hiring? | trefn: Mixpanel (YCS09) is hiring developers and enterprise sales/biz dev. We're based in Mountain View, CA.Further info: http://mixpanel.com/jobs, jobs@mixpanel.com |
Who's hiring? | majke: LShift in London is always looking for talents! (and interns)http://www.lshift.net/recruitment.html http://www.lshift.net/blogWhat we value above everything else is the right combination of skill, enthusiasm and imagination. Generally speaking, programming is something you either enjoy or you don't. There are p... |
I want to write a book (fiction) | chaosprophet: I would say start of with the finishing chapter. This way you get a fairly good idea of how you want the story to end. You can then shape the previous chapters to work towards that end. Ofcourse, you will probably have to rewrite the finishing chapter at the end. |
Who's hiring? | brett: Posterous!
http://posterous.theresumator.com/apply/ |
Who's hiring? | skip: [Boston, MA] Delsys, Inc is hiring Win32 desktop application developers. http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?6580 |
Who's hiring? | gibsonf1: StreamFocus is hiring: Part-time Sr. Front end Javascript guru at exciting start-up (San Francisco) - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/1656317518.html |
How do you stay on top of legal work and/or taxes? | ScottWhigham: Wow - that sounds like a mistake on the state's part to me so I second the suggestion to get an accountant there.And to answer your question: I just do. Barely. Enough. I think. However, I've done it for 15 years and I learn a bit more and become a bit more efficient each year. |
Who's hiring? | wesaugur: Knowmore in New York City is hiring! http://knowmore.com/We are a 20 person startup with full funding in the social news space.We have several positions open. In particular, I'm looking for awesome R&D hackers to work on fun problems.Ping me for details: wes@knowmore.comhttp://knowmore.com/static/jobs(on-site... |
Who's hiring? | speek: Boston, MA: Zazu (http://getzazu.com) -- in the middle of rebranding. We're looking for a few full time developers and dev interns.We do mobile stuff (we're working on an android app now, but we've got iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, etc in the pipes), really cool NLP stuff with RSS feeds, and fantastically awesome... |
How to make home users ditch IE6? | mooism2: I'd guess that most people using IE6 at home don't know what a web browser is. A chain e-mail to enable Windows Update would be more likely to work, I'd guess, and would have benefits beyond killing off IE6.I thought the main reason IE6 was still in use so much was intranet sites requiring it? So I'm not actu... |
Who's hiring? | lsemel: In NYC (or anywhere, remotely) - looking for with experience in PHP/CodeIgniter, jQuery, Compass/SASS, MongoDB - and have a good UI sense - flexible/freelance OK - email me - lee at http://sawhorsemedia.com/ |
Who's hiring? | ConceptDog: Fuel Industries, we're a game dev / advergaming shop focused mostly on social games at the moment.We're looking for web developers that like big jobs and small ones. My team handles everything from portal sites through full real time MMO server development, and we're always looking for talent.http://fuelind... |
Who's hiring? | dunk010: At Last.fm we're looking for an experienced web developer in London:http://www.last.fm/about/jobs#job_PHP+Web+DeveloperThere are also a few other jobs on the page there, all based in London. |
How do you stay on top of legal work and/or taxes? | hga: I'm sad to say that after the 1986 tax "reform" bill I just gave up on this sort of thing and became a wage slave.I know from my father that it's a lot of work to keep up on this sort of thing; having an ongoing relationship with a lawyer, retaining an accounting firm, and paying a lot of attention to the issues (... |
Who's hiring? | cmalpeli: We're looking for a few great .NET developers in NYC - we're the US division of a large (but privately owned) international media company (http://www.haymarket.com). Located right in Chelsea, lots of exciting projects and technologies. Email web@haymarketmedia.com if interested! Thanks, Christian. |
Who's hiring? | DougWebb: Wolters Kluwer Health in NYC is embarking on several new projects on the SharePoint 2010 platform. This is a new platform for most of us and we'll be spending a lot of time getting training, so we'd like to fill an open Sr Software Developer position with someone who's already got relevant experience.http://w... |
How to make home users ditch IE6? | pbhjpbhj: Where are you based?I'm finding most technically naive computer owners have at least IE7 now - their IE6 bearing computers having got a glitch and been replaced. Isn't this remaining percentage supposedly business users or those using corporate owned computers? |
Who's hiring? | raminnaimi: TinyPrints is hiring in Mountain View (onsite). We're looking for LAMP experts (P stands for PHP). We have exciting projects in the social network areas, distributed system development and platform areas (MongoDB/Cassandra), CMS and many others.
Apply at BeAStar@tinyprints.com |
Who's hiring? | nethergoat: Bizo (http://bizo.com) is hiring a Web/UI/UX Designer in downtown San Francisco. Essentially, we need someone to own design and usability for everything we do. Full description here: http://bit.ly/adbvhQBizo is a year and a half old and already profitable. In December, we closed a $6 million round from B... |
I suck at marketing, can you give feedback on my startup's homepage? | vorador: Clickable : http://braintrust.ioI've got a couple of remarks about the video :- I'm not sure that drum'n'bass is the right kind of music- You should stare at the camera instead of talking to your interviewer- You don't seem to be convinced by what you're saying. You have to sound more active.Finally, concernin... |
Who's hiring? | eugeneiiim: Palantir Technologies (http://www.palantir.com) is hiring for various technical positions in Palo Alto and for business development positions in NYC. On-site only. Contact me if you're interested: http://bit.ly/aJiAWP |
Who's hiring? | luckyland: We have an opening for a junior or intermediate Ops engineer at CBS Interactive in San Francisco (on-site).You'd be supporting the Gamespot, Gamefaqs, and Metacritic production, dev, staging, and load testing environments (as well as some Business Intelligence sites related to the video gaming industry).Lin... |
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