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A simple CMS for non-tech users? | tonystubblebine: Would anyone be interested in a hosted web service along these lines? I took a stab at extracting a similar set of features from CrowdVine, but I'm not sure if it's worth pursuing.The site is: http://big.lyMy idea was that websites get set up originally by people who want to get under the hood. So I ma... |
What do you do with your iPad? | cmelbye: I'm using it to take notes in class and it's awesome. It fits really nicely on our desks (much more so than my 15" MacBook Pro). I haven't found a very good notetaking app either though. Currently, I'm just using Pages with headings and bulleted lists. It would be nice if Apple brought over Pages for Mac's out... |
What do you do with your iPad? | Dellort: You mean the iWipe? I wipe my ass with it, just like Steve Jobs had intended. |
A simple CMS for non-tech users? | Rust: If you want, a plugin could be written to simplify WPs administration area. It would be easy enough to hide things that you don't want admins to see by default ("n00b" mode), useful stuff that won't break the site ("l33t" mode), and everything available ("hax0r" mode). A custom setting in the user profile would b... |
A simple CMS for non-tech users? | brianto2010: I've found a cool wiki-like software that is fairly simple to use and might fill your CMS needs. It resides within one HTML file meaning good portability, and has a large community attached. However, I forgot the name and spent the past half-hour looking for it.http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ |
Could you help me improve my site? | Scott_MacGregor: It's comming up fine now on IE 7.0.5730.11 + FireFox 3.5.1 + Chrome 4.1.249.1045 all on XP Pro SP2 behind Zone-alarm with mobile code control off.For development, you can see what browsers are in general use right now with this link:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.aspHere is Evolt's ... |
What do you do with your iPad? | tlholaday: Reader (iBooks, Kindle, Stanza, Marvel, ComixOlogy, IDW)Browser (Safari)News (Bloomberg, NPR, NYTimes Editors Choice, Paris Match, BBC News)Doodle (Adobe Ideas)Video podcasts (TED talks, GOLD, Lawrence Lessig, White House Music & the Arts)Education (MIT Open Courseware)Big frost so far: Numbers |
What do you do with your iPad? | akadien: I preordered mine. Despite the first couple of days of unadulterated enthusiasm, I'm thinking about sending mine back this week. No killer app. Not a meaningful proxy or replacement for my iPhone or laptop. And, I get bad eyestrain if I use it to read for longer than 20-30 minutes. It certainly hasn't lived up... |
Posterous and existing sites? | minus1: It's pretty painless to point your Posterous site to a domain you own, or yoursite.com/blog.Check under Settings->"I already have a custom domain name (e.g. yourdomain.com)"I'm not sure about ads. |
Who's hiring? | bkudria: Younoodle is hiring: http://younoodle.com/static/jobs . The company and people are awesome, we're doing some cool stuff (we're like an iceberg - our front page is only 10% of what we do) and the perks are awesome. |
What do you do with your iPad? | stuntgoat: Sight Glass Coffee is using it as a POS.*http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/4487454328/*I don't have one |
What was the chances the poland president die in a plane crash ? | CamperBob: That's a complex question. The answer depends on whether there were more Poles on the left side of the plane, or the right. |
A simple wiki which supports Markdown syntax? | erikpukinskis: http://gist.github.com/363190ruby lilwiki.rb |
What do you do with your iPad? | aeontech: Main uses so far... book reader, and watching video courses while being able to code/take notes on the laptop.I think we'll need to wait a few months for the real killer apps to show up. The really great ones take time to code, and it takes time for people to come up with brilliant new ideas. When the iPhone ... |
Moving balls to the wall on a fantastic idea? | Mankhool: I carried a web/mobile app idea around for a year, looking for seed funding before posting about it here on March 30th. The HN community were amazing in their support and motivated me to create a minimum viable product. But while I was out on oDesk trying to find a crew to do that, something amazing happened.... |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | aresant: Mint's uses standardized Apis that allow for balance inquries, transaction overviews, etc but NOT to transfer money. They encrypt login details so even if their db gets hacked your exposure is minimal.In other words I feel comfortable with recommending the platform. |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | cydork: I don't and won't trust anyone with my credentials. Also there is wesabe.com which allows user to upload the transaction data using a desktop application or Firefox extension. Thought it is still in beta. |
A simple CMS for non-tech users? | onceuponkauai: i think concrete5 is all right. It uses a mysql back-end but might be overkill. I know the click to edit stuff works pretty well.I have noticed that benchmarks are slower as they don't really have a full page cache mechanism, but overall it does a pretty nice job for that niche. |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | mbrubeck: I use Gnucash (http://gnucash.org/) for personal and business accounting. It's a "serious" double-entry accounting system with a nice UI and good documentation. |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | projectileboy: I love buxfer.com. One of the things I love about it is that you can choose to keep your credentials local if you choose to. |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | siegler: Yodlee is highly regarded and has been around longer than Mint. Their primary business is running back end services for banks and financial institutions (Bank of America, Scottrade, E*trade) while offering the personal service for free. They have forums to get more info http://forum.yodlee.com
https://moneycen... |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | eklitzke: I personally use mint, and love it. This is for a few reasons:* the product is really good; it's really easy to use, it connects to just about everything, and the alerts/trends system is great
* I really like the alerts system; they've given me tax tips and warned me about upcoming payments that I might have ... |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | pkrishnak: Hi,I am the CEO of Chaitu Systems. We focus on developing iPhone and iPad applications only, with a team in India that has already delivered some projects. Please connect with me at krishna.kumar@chaitusystems.com if you want to discuss your outsourcing requirements.Regards,Krishna Kumar |
How much does it cost to outsource iPhone app development? | pkrishnak: I am sorry, I forgot to mention I live in the Bay Area, and am contactable locally. Please send an email, and we can connect.Regards,
Krishna Kumar
CEO, Chaitu Systems |
A simple CMS for non-tech users? | stevederico: Check out http://www.cushycms.com/ free and simple CMS. |
mother of all todo managers in Lisp | nysv: Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/smartrevolution/how-a-clojure-pet-...And the todo manager itself: https://the-deadline.appspot.com/ |
What's the best way to setup an always on video conference? | ippisl: What's the upload/download speed of your parents connection? |
CA Taxes for a DE C corporation? | nudge: I don't know for sure, but I would guess that you pay corporate taxes where the company is incorporated, and the location of your employees (i.e. you) doesn't matter. That said, it may be that CA law prohibits residents from incorporating as sole-person companies in other states.Are you going to take HN response... |
CA Taxes for a DE C corporation? | _delirium: As always you should probably seek more authoritative advice, but my understanding is that you'd only pay CA corporate taxes, and not DE corporate taxes. Most states tax corporations on the business they do in the state, and it sounds like you do all your business in CA, so you have to pay CA taxes. But you ... |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | minalecs: I tried mint and cancelled, and have moved back to Quickbooks.1. People say mint is easy to use, the only easy part is importing all your information, after that I felt your information got lost in all the ads, yes those recommendations for new credit cards, savings accounts, checking accounts are all ads.2.... |
Could you help me improve my site? | mediarosh: I could help you out with the design of your website if you want. My portfolio is at www.mediarosh.comEmail me at mediarosh@gmail.com |
Posterous and existing sites? | revorad: You can autopost from posterous to a lot of different blogs, including wordpress, tumblr, blogger etc., all of which will allow you to have ads. |
Review my Startup: Pitch - stop re-writing the same emails | Tawheed: Link: http://pitchapp.com |
Review my copyright protection webapp datetimesign.com | mootothemax: Link: http://datetimesign.com |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | byoung2: The costs of Windows hosting has come down a lot over the years, so it's not the hosting costs that will kill you. More likely, it will be the expense of hiring additional .NET developers. The company I work for runs 200+ sites (most through acquisition), and when we inherit a new site that's not LAMP, it's ... |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | garbowza: Here's a clickable link: http://thebusride.com |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | GotToStartup: This seems like a great opportunity to learn a new language, framework and IDE. Visual Studio is an awesome IDE but it's always valuable to learn something different and be able to integrate that in your day job. To answer your question, a successful site that keeps popping up that uses asp .Net MVC and t... |
Review my copyright protection webapp datetimesign.com | bgnm2000: after reading through the site, the idea itself is cool - but I have 0 trust. 3 reasons, the first being the company is located in poland. The second being #4 of your FAQ,"4. Has your service ever been challenged in court?Trusted timestamps will never be challenged in court. Lawyers' organisations from around... |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | bgnm2000: This is a great idea, very cool/fun implementation |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | samratjp: A better question would be whether if .NET is the right tool set for the scope of your project not if a YC startup is using it?If you are looking to explore and are open to learning further, by all means, jump into Django. On the other hand, if .NET access is no problem to you and your collaborators and that ... |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | primemod3: http://www.ubernote.com uses ASP.NET, although it doesn't use MVC. |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | cjkundin: My first comment is "I get it" which is great. Simple and not overly engineered. Seems like a great method for tutorials and how tos created from content experts.I think the problem will be to engage people in creating the routes. What incentives are there to create routes? I see you get a "stamp" but is ... |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | RayVace: I like the idea of guided tours through the web. |
Best resources to give to someone who needs to learn HTML+CSS? | Rust: You don't need to hit quirks mode for cross-browser CSS. Stick to standards mode wherever possible. |
Does anyone here watch offline TV anymore? | byoung2: If cable weren't already included in my HOA payment, I wouldn't subscribe. I never watch live TV. I usually watch shows on Hulu or download a torrent of the episode with the commercials removed. Since I'm in California, I can usually watch the show at the same time it comes on live because someone on the ea... |
Does anyone here watch offline TV anymore? | patrickk: Yes for live sports. Streaming quality is too crap online generally for me.Apart from that, no. I have a big screen LCD TV in my room, and it acts as a media centre monitor for my XBMC setup. It isn't hooked up to anything other than my PC. |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | mailarchis: plentyoffish comes to mind..but am not sure if they use any MVC framework |
Does anyone here watch offline TV anymore? | ascuttlefish: I've never had cable. Well, honestly, I've never paid for it. I've had roomies who just had to have it, but I never wanted it or had a TV until a few years ago. In the past couple years I've been watching TV series like Battlestar Galactica on DVD, but otherwise my TV is for watching movies. |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | samuel: What means "personal"? Do you do it mainly for the fun or for the money? If it's the second, it's a no brainer. Use the tools you know and focus on you problem domain.If its an experiment or an exploratory project, well, use whatever appeals to you. |
WTF ever happened to FingerPrint Logins? | there: most thinkpads have integrated fingerprint readers and are able to log you in to windows using only your fingerprint.fprint (http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page) supports many readers on unix that can be integrated into the login process with pam/bsd auth. |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | vaidhy: FWIW, the reason I choose Django for my latest project is the admin. For a lot of internal facing stuff, I am running it off the admin framework and it has saved me a lot of time from writing html and JS template/code. I do not know much about .NET.. but if there is such a functionality, I would suggest got for... |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | Mc_Big_G: I like the idea and the design is great. Any plans to monetize it or is it just something fun? |
Any forums/blogs where advertisers hang out? | jacquesm: As a rule advertisers use agencies if they are slightly larger, the smaller ones you might find on the adwords forum.http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords?hl=en |
Tips for publishing an Ebook | pierrefar: Short version: never published but built two PhD PDFs directly and helped friends do so. Use LaTeX.Long answer: I've researched this for my own publishing dreams a while back. When you have a PDF you're happy with (again, LaTeX is your friend), you can use any one of several digital sales routes. If you're p... |
Should I move to the valley? | api: I don't live in The Valley (tm), but I do live in a tech center (Boston area).My impression:The positives: lots of people doing tech entrepreneurial things, lots of talent, other startups to work with and learn from, entrepreneurial culture.The negatives: I could fill an auditorium with phonies, con artists, and i... |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | newobj: Neat, easy to understand instantly, and I like that you've already added social/viral features (stamps).My question is, how do you plan on gaining traction for the site? Are you going to pay for content/routes, or... ? |
Review my Startup: Pitch - stop re-writing the same emails | jarsj: I fail to understand the need.GMail has a lab feature called "Canned response", it does exactly what you do and its integrated into Gmail.Also, search-and-forward would work just fine. |
What is the product that lets you u/l directly from camera to browser? | buster: What's u/l? What camera? i don't even understand that question.
But did you think about asking on superuser.com? |
Review my project, The Bus Ride | gwood: I like it, it is an easy way to organize a set of links for others. I think it could possibly be used in How To sites when multiple sites are needed (e.g. getting a webserver up and running) or replacement for other sites who have top sites of the day (wouldn't have to click back page(s) when you want to go to t... |
What is the product that lets you u/l directly from camera to browser? | chronomex: Do you mean the Eye-Fi? |
Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions? | asimjalis: Is the fixation on this topic a bug in the HN software or in the people reading HN? |
What is the product that lets you u/l directly from camera to browser? | jasonlbaptiste: no no, it's a YC company. You can upload from your camera directly using the web browser to the site. |
Review my service (track your computer, remotely wipe browsing data) | cfinke: Clickable links: https://www.firefound.com/ and https://www.firefound.com/premium/ |
Do you trust Mint.com, or have a preferred finance system? | scorchin: I've been using http://www.wesabe.com for a lot longer than I've known about mint.comThe main reason being that it supported UK banks, while mint.com was turning me away! |
Should I move to the valley? | philwelch: I don't want you to take this personally, so I'm just going to dispense the standard advice for people with great ideas but without someone capable of building them: great ideas are a dime a dozen, and anyone with the ability and inclination to be a "tech cofounder" probably has their own ideas. Building you... |
Find Partners or Learn more? | kylebragger: Nothing wrong with being able to take an idea to (at least) the prototype stage. It's very fulfilling. Once you have something living and breathing, then perhaps you'll be able to evaluate whether it's got legs, whether you need to bring in a developer co-founder, etc. |
How can I get this working? | Tichy: Not sure if I correctly understand your problem, but you might want to look into JSONP. |
Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions? | stse: This is how a news site like this works. If somethings get popular a lot of people will get interested in the topic and post stories about it. Then more people get interested in the topic and so on. It's also a reflection what other sites write about. I don't think somehow limiting how long a topic can be discuss... |
Is investment taxed? | simon_: Proceeds from investors (debt or equity) are not profits, and the company receiving the investment will not pay taxes on the amount.The investor will have to pay taxes on any capital gains / dividends / interest she receives. |
Is investment taxed? | dfranke: The profit you make on investment is taxed as capital gains. The law makes a distinction between short-term and long-term gains: if there's less than a year between when you invest and when you cash out, you pay the same tax rate as for ordinary income. If there's a year or longer, then you pay the more favo... |
Is investment taxed? | aristus: In California the assets of a corporation are taxed I believe, so the stuff you buy with the investment has a liability. |
Is investment taxed? | faramarz: I'm not sure what the rates are in US, but I suspect here in Canada we would pay more tax per capital gains.In Ontario All capital gains and Canadian dividends are taxed at lower rates than other income.Interest income and dividend income are received or accrued each year, and are taxable in the year you rec... |
How can I get this working? | byoung2: You can use JavaScript, PHP (or any other server side language), and JSON.Each website in the network gets a unique ID and includes a script tag in their HTML with the src set to http://www.example.com/code/?id=12345 where 12345 is the unique ID.You have your server side script look up that ID and pull the rel... |
Should I move to the valley? | samratjp: Well, valley or not, your idea needs to survive in the "real" world i.e. built and wanted by people. Do some homework on that and get crackin'. Be so good that they can't ignore you :-)As about tech cofounders, that's a tricky one - it helps to have an intelligent tech friend who can perhaps help you find a g... |
What's the best way to setup an always on video conference? | samratjp: Why not use www.Justin.tv (A YC company)?
It will cost you an always on internet connection, a web browser and a webcam (video subjects nor included :-) |
Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions? | slowpoison: Apple setting a bad precedent with this was my hope. I'm now 50% closer to my eventual wish - Apple exerting too much control and screwing up. The control part is done. The screw up... fingers crossed. That will discourage other companies (at least in this space) from doing it. Developers FTW... I'm hoping. |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | dotBen: To answer your original question, look at Microsoft BizSpark which is a program from MS to encourage startups to use the .NET stack. Plenty of companies that have been successful with it.But I wouldn't pick it unless there is a large pool of .net talent you can pick into - as startups I have worked with here in... |
Javascript / Ruby Refactoring Tools | bstar: JetBrains has refactoring tools for ruby:
http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/documentation/index.htmlThere's a video about half way down the page. |
Is investment taxed? | jacquesm: How it works 'elsewhere' depends greatly on where elsewhere is. In some countries you can write off your investments when they tank, but in those places you can expect to pay a healthy tax if they appreciate. In others both the losses and the gains are not part of your taxes.It also depends on what you qualif... |
any white-label/SaaS virtual-currency/"MyPoints" services out there? | bdpatrick: BigDoor Media offers exactly this type of solution. www.bigdoor.com. |
Tips for publishing an Ebook | pmiller2: I'm going to echo the "use LaTeX" advice, but add to it the following: use memoir (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/). Not only is the manual for that package a great (but basic) tutorial on layout and page design for the total beginner, there are lots of example layouts included t... |
Is there a "dead" links page for HN? | jacquesm: Yes, it's http://news.ycombinator.com/killed but it is only visible to editors. |
How do you find a side job? | binarymax: I've never tried it but is this similar to what you are looking for? http://www.peopleperhour.com/ |
How do you find a side job? | cperciva: My current strategy for finding side jobs is to wait for them to come to me. I have it easy -- I have widely recognized expertise in several narrow fields.The biggest hurdle I've faced is US tax paperwork -- companies like to ask for W-8 forms. Fortunately I recently had a client with a tax lawyer on staff,... |
Books on how to "influence" people? | jacquesm: If you get knowledge like this from books beware of coming across as a fake. If your knowledge is good and you're a genuine (as opposed to fake) person then over time you will gain influence, based on your track record and your personality.Fast tracking it by reading a book is not really a solution here.The c... |
Books on how to "influence" people? | Mz: Work on yourself. Influence has to come from something genuine: real competence, real respect for other people, etc. All that other stuff is merely manipulation and manipulation tends to come back to bite you at some point.You might start with a book like "The 7 habits of highly effective people", which isn't at... |
Books on how to "influence" people? | F_J_H: Robert Cialdini's "Influence: Science and Practice." is great. I heard him speak in person once and it was amazing material, and he presented it very well. Unfortunately, some find his book to be a bit dry and a bit of a tough slog, but again, the material is great.I can't emphasize enough how much his work ha... |
Any Successful Startups using Microsoft Dotnet Stack? | nreece: We use ASP.NET at Feedity - http://feedity.comDrop me a message if you would like to know more about ASP.NET in the production environment, automated build/deployment, affordable hosting options etc. |
Where to focus my mind and concentration | Raphael: Program something you want to use. |
Books on how to "influence" people? | proexploit: Enthusiasm and honesty go a long way. The most important trait to exhibit would be confidence. Luckily, creating confidence is easy, you just fake it until it catches on. Sure, you can read more in-depth articles about "finding things you like about yourself" and "positive mantras", but if you just go out i... |
What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? | pkc: I have used fusioncharts and found it to be pretty awesome. http://www.fusioncharts.com/ |
How do you find a side job? | zach: I would recommend networking within a local programming user group (Python, Ruby, Cocoa, etc). Introduce yourself at a meeting or on the mailing list letting people know just a little about your background and that you're looking for a side project and would be interested in getting in touch with anyone who know... |
Where to find reputable legal advice for web startup? | urlwolf: I'd love to see this answered. Unfortunately, it'd need a different answer for every country (I'm in Germany). |
Books on how to "influence" people? | pramit: Some useful book summaries here:
The Persuader's Bible: 101 Ways to Get anyone to do what you want
http://bighow.com/news/the-persuaders-bible-101-ways-to-get-... |
Can we finish with the Apple 3.3.1 Policy submissions? | c1sc0: It's one of the hottest stories we've ever seen on HN and I tend to see 'quantity of stories on X' as one indicator of where X will be going in the near future. Simply scanning through the HN headlines without reading every individual post has value for me. |
Who is innovating business models for media content? | _delirium: This is sort of a meta-comment, but one thing I'd love to see is a good survey of how the current crop of innovation differs from previous ones, both in themselves and in relation to context. For example, micropayments were the big new thing in 1990s journalism, and micropayments are the big new thing today.... |
good desktop for developing? | petervandijck: ps: I won't build it, just want to order it. |
How do you find a side job? | jefurii: I've had a number of recruiters contact me through LinkedIn. There are also language/framework/technology-specific sites like http://djangopeople.net/. I've gotten a number of calls through that site, including the one that led to my current side job. |
How did you come up with your startup idea? | nudge: Reading widely (i.e. not just technology blogs/forums), being genuinely interested in what other people do and the problems they experience in doing such things, dissecting a problem to see whether it can be avoided or ameliorated, exploring existing attempts to do so, analysing their benefits and failings, deve... |
How did you come up with your startup idea? | jeandenis: I’ll start. Basic process: Applying solution from one domain to another + luck.When I was working as a corporate lawyer, I noticed that both our clients and we could be a lot better at capturing institutional memory. The problem wasn’t that we didn’t have systems in place (we had email search, a wiki, an up... |
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