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Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | trevelyan: Don't incorporate in the United States? Does the law still apply? |
New Years Resolution(s)? | Hexstream: Read HN only on Saturdays (or some other fixed day of the week). I can easily waste 2 or 3 hours a day to "keep up" with the news, this is ridiculous.Trying to learn something truly worthwhile by reading the news is a bit like trying to learn by watching TV or trying to get rich by buying lottery tickets: so... |
New Years Resolution(s)? | DanielBMarkham: I don't do New Year's resolutions, but I have made a decision recently.If I'm going to continue consulting instead of working on a startup next year, on the side I'm going to work on something technical and fun, like an automated .NET Ocaml-to-YUI Data Access Layer. Something where I can learn and creat... |
New Years Resolution(s)? | niels: I have decided to focus on personal growth. I made this list some days ago.Personal qualitiesGoals:- Non needy- Non pleasing- Give value- Accept other peoples valueMethod:- Be faithful to own values- Base in own self recognition, not others opinion.- Accept the importance of signal values- Don't do or say things... |
New Years Resolution(s)? | simplegeek: - Quit smoking
- Learn UI (CSS and Photoshop)
- Excercise daily
- Release my two side projects and turn them into profitable products.
- Learn a new programming language (not sure on this one)
- Publish some pending drafts to ACM
- Publish some articles , long due, to selected magazines
- Asking this girl o... |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | clintavo: Thanks for all the feedback. OK further clarification: I am incorporating as an S-Corp. Income taxes on S-corps flow through to the tax returns of the owners. No taxes are paid at the corporate level.The IRS doesn't care about the $1 salaries of public CEOs (yes I know apostrophe S isn't plural, it was a ... |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | sokoloff: As a matter of practicality, any number in the $80K+ range will be fine, though you may feel better about paying yourself $100K given that the spread in taxes is under $1K/year (from 80->100). You can go below "normal"; you just can't go below "reasonable". I'd also set the comparable position as "web develop... |
Sources to determine "reasonable compensation?" for web CEO's | delano: Shouldn't you be asking your CPA and your lawyer what "reasonable" means in this case? |
Slicehost vs. Linode | qhoxie: This has been discussed here a number of times.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374998http://searchyc.com/slicehost+linode |
Do YC Startups Lack Spine? | sokoloff: In what way(s) do you think YC isn't open to older entrepreneurs?If anything, I suspect older entrepreneurs aren't as open to YC than the other way around. In my own case, if I wanted $20K in expenses for a startup, I'd login to e*trade and transfer it, or I'd write a check for it. Doesn't seem worth giving u... |
New Years Resolution(s)? | burnout1540: 1. Get my on-the-side business up and running and decide whether or not it is worth investing more time in.
2. Add 20k+ to my savings.
3. Improve my BASH knowledge.
4. Travel more.
5. Waste less time (TV and web) |
rate/review my LAST startup | noodle: allow me to be the first to say that, if this is a serious post, don't do this. |
rate/review my LAST startup | ram1024: do it!that way when you start over it will truly be from scratch.and if you win the lotto i can be all "yea, i believed in his dream."legendaryand really. thirty is young. there are older people who haven't even started doing anything yet... |
rate/review my LAST startup | sokoloff: At least wait until one of those mega-lotteries gets to an EV of a unit wager is over 1.0. (Yes, I'm willing to let slip the NPV discounting, and buy tickets when the "advertised amount" makes it a +EV wager.) |
rate/review my LAST startup | undertoad: Well, if you've really made up your mind then it would be damn cool to see a post Wednesday night about your big win!Regardless of the outcome, I hope you'll be okay with yourself (actually I hope that for everybody). There are other things in life besides payoffs. |
I just found out someone signed up with a stolen credit card. What do I do now? | pedalpete: Contact the credit card company and ask to speak to the fraud department. they should be able to advise you on how to proceed. |
Year in Review | baguasquirrel: I was working on a CAD program in OCaml a year ago. It was an interesting exercise on what exactly is state, and what needs state and what state isn't (I'll post the program once I salvage my svn repo off the old HDD).In short, I found that the most useful definition of state is a set of data that is in... |
rate/review my LAST startup | matt1: karma: 2Maybe if you had posted more on HN you would have had a more successful business career ;) Also, if this is serious and you are going to give up and play the lottery, this irrational decision making may be why you never found your success.Regardless, success isn't measured in dollars. Once you see that, ... |
I just found out someone signed up with a stolen credit card. What do I do now? | matt1: How did you find out? |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | potatolicious: I doubt this is possible with current technology - so many people share the same or similar writing style that, even with a skilled human analyzing, you probably can't do much better than attribute it to a large bucket of perhaps thousands or tens of thousands of individuals. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | qqq: I want my privacy :( |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | aristus: You can imitate someone's writing style with a travesty generator but that doesn't mean everyone has a "writing fingerprint". Very few people have a distinct enough writing style to weed out false positives, and since it's so easy to imitate you'll never really know your precision.I have a few writing ticks (p... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | vaksel: Doubtful, its not something you can automate to be reliable, and w/o reliability whats the point? |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | robg: All of the methods require a decent amount of text. So unless someone is writing hundreds of words in each sample, they're unlikely to be distinguishable from the crowd. That, to me, rules out typical comments on threads. Lots of little samples seem to be just too noisy with too much overlap among authors to allo... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | eyeraw: Search for "text fingerprinting" - there's a lot of info. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | michael_nielsen: Donald Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Foster_(professor) ) is sometimes known as a "forensic linguist" for his use of computers to analyse texts. Famously, he figured out the (formerly anonymous) author of the bestselling novel "Primary Colors" using computer analysis. If you're interest... |
review my app coded in one month | slashgeez: Wow, you totally ripped off Apple, it seems like ripping off apple's UI is becoming a trend in the web 2.0 business. |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | jbester: It is no doubt possible. I've done something similar to this on a single forum 3 or so years ago and had reasonably interesting results.Basically, I scraped the site, removed formatting/spacing/dead-words, stemmed (using a modified porter), constructed a matrix of word-frequencies per post. After which I di... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | patio11: I did really simple analysis in an AI class with several thousand posts of a forum I post frequently at, tagged "me" and "not me" (I figured that way it would be minimally invasive to people not participating -- plus, hey, easy naive Bayesian). Got fairly decent results with pretty trivial sample inputs. Num... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | randomwalker: I believe I can offer some help because this is in the rough area of my Ph.D thesis (see http://33bits.org/ for more on that.)Everyone does have a writing fingerprint, contrary to what another person claimed. However, it is an open question whether it can be efficiently extracted.The basic idea for constr... |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | yan: I'd be very interested to see the source |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | makecheck: I'm not quite sure I understand the question...If this is a coding question, look for the XML parser in the Core Foundation framework (I believe there are also examples for it):
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conc...If you are asking specifically about Xcode (the IDE), I know it pars... |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | siong1987: It doesn't work with my camera. I am using macbook pro. |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | aranganath: Do you control the web service? If so, throw XML out the window. The open source JSON Framework on Google Code kicks ass. My iPhone app, Graffitio (http://graffit.io), uses Rails on the server side spitting out JSON to the iPhone app. Its awesome. |
What editor do you use? | nreece: Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html) and Visual Studio .NET 2008 |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | tharavaad: Right click -> Settings -> in the camera tab -> select the correct camera from the dropdown, on my macbook pro, its the "USB Video Class Video". |
What editor do you use? | shutter: Currently, TextMate. Started learning Emacs, though, and hope to get proficient in that soon (via O'Reilly's "Learning GNU Emacs"). TextMate's showing its age, for me at least, and I'm hopeful that Emacs will be more powerful and faster. |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | jjburka: If its a restful web service you could try http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/tree/master . It's basically a port of Active Resource to Obj C. You can use it if its not a restful service you just have to override some functions. |
What editor do you use? | gaius: Komodo (www.activestate.com) |
What editor do you use? | qhoxie: vim and gedit. gedit has come a long way with its plugins, definitely worth checking out.scribes is another one worth looking, but lack of tab support keeps me with gedit. |
What editor do you use? | dhotson: I use Vim & jEdit.I use Vim for editing stuff from a shell.. mostly small to medium size editing tasks. It's really good once you've got it set up properly.
You can get all the usual stuff you get in IDE's such as syntax highlighting, split windows and tabs, autocompletion, source control integration.. the mou... |
What editor do you use? | GrandMasterBirt: I tried the Netbeans Ruby editor... and wow the difference between that and anything for eclipse is major. Code completion is useful. It can figure out what class I am referring to pretty well. Ctrl+click works nicely to see the definition of a method (no matter where it is declared, and it finds them ... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | villageidiot: In conjunction with ISPs, the (US) government or a large private company like Google or Microsoft could aggregate posts based on IP address. In fact, according to a report by Frontline ("Spying On The Homefront"), Homeland Security started implementing such a system for monitoring all phone and Internet c... |
What editor do you use? | rickharrison: I live and die via Coda (www.panic.com) Best editor I could ask for. |
What editor do you use? | mdolon: Notepad++ on Windows, gedit on Linux |
What editor do you use? | tolmasky: subethaedit http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ |
What editor do you use? | hs: vim, for everythinged, when i really have to |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | Tichy: I always wanted to run that experiment on the Hacker News data... |
What editor do you use? | SwellJoe: vim or emacs: pick one and get back to work. Editing text is a solved problem. |
What editor do you use? | walesmd: I use Intype for all of them - used to use Notepad++. |
What editor do you use? | graemep: Kate and Geany, depending on whether I want the better editor, or need an IDE, and Quanta for HTML. Kate is very configurable and (like any KDE app) can open files over sftp which can be very handy. |
What editor do you use? | basil: You've listed scripting languages there which arguably means you don't necessarily need an IDE. By this I mean, there is no code-compile-test cycle and you don't need an IDE to take care of your builds.Possibly the most efficient way of coding would be in a shell with your choice of Vim or Emacs. You have quic... |
What editor do you use? | vorador: Which editor we use doesn't matter, pick an editor an know it _well_Btw, emacs has an excellent mode for editing python and I couldn't live without its auto-indent feature |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | thwarted: From your blog:"Users will have to download them, or use Flickr or Facebook to store these photos. This decision was made because I’m poor and don’t have the money for the massive bandwidth for server side photo hosting."Don't apologize for this, it's the right option.- Leverage the tools people already use a... |
What editor do you use? | merrick33: Coda now, used to use textmate but found textwrangler had better grep features and memory management when opening large files |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | pmorici: You mean like Google?Use the syntax "link:http://www.someurl.com/" |
What editor do you use? | andrewljohnson: Eclipse, and I mostly hack in Python and Javascript. Why, why you say?I guess just three main reasons:1) I am a very visual person, and like to see the project hierarchy. I like to click the file I want, instead of just using my keyboard. I know this flies in the face of the purist Emacs and Vim users, ... |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | tharavaad: Thanks for the feedback. You are right about many of these things. From the technical side, I also think that the decision to make it a completely self-contained application will make it easier when I decide to package it up into an AIR application. |
What editor do you use? | rantfoil: Textmate is absolutely essential for Ruby on Rails / Ruby development. What I realize now is that it's a scriptable text editor that integrates super well with everything you want to do with Rails. Basically anything you'd like to do with Rails, someone's written a bundle for it.This is particularly useful fo... |
What editor do you use? | dmpayton: On my machine I use Komodo Edit; when I'm editing a file server-side I usually use nano. ducks |
What editor do you use? | hbien: Vim, TextMate, and XCode.XCode for Objective-C/Cocoa, I've tried using TextMate but XCode is just so damn easy to use for Cocoa projects.Vim for lightweight stuff, like piping diffs into it for color or quick edits on servers.TextMate for web development with Python/HTML/CSS/JS.During college, I read PragProg an... |
What editor do you use? | epicurus: As I'm only half a hacker and hate learning arbitrary stuff, I use nano.I think the next leap forward with text-editors is when we get some sort of interface with our eyes, or more importantly, our brain and the computer. There was an link on HN a few weeks or so ago showing they could distinguish letters fro... |
What editor do you use? | macco: I use gedit with a lot of plugins for all of my programming. I mainly programm in Python. Only exception is when I play around with lisp, then I use Able. Other interesting editors for linux that I know are Scribes (very well planed and writen, with a unique concept, but only one developer, so development is slo... |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | dmaclay: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com |
Best way to see who's linking to a URL? | brandnewlow: Sorry. I think I totally botched this post.I'm looking for a way to automatically look up any sites linking to a given URL.I'm building a memetracker and while I've got the related stories and clumping of them in hand, tracking down the discussion links in the way that Techmeme does it is proving much har... |
What editor do you use? | kzar: Emacs here, just watch some of the screencasts that are floating about if you want to see what it can do. |
What editor do you use? | talleyrand: I use Geany which is very nice indeed. I use it for PHP and javascript. When I switched to Linux, I spent a long time looking for a replacement for my beloved PSPad and this was it. It has solid support for gvfs, good syntax highlighting, and a host of other features. |
What editor do you use? | iamelgringo: e text editor on XP. For a decent command line, I use Powershell inside of Console2 and iPython.If someone wanted to make a lot of money, they'd create a better wrapper for cmd.exe or Powershell. |
What editor do you use? | olifante: Currently using TextMate and enjoying it. Used many editors, but the ones I used the most were vi, vim, jEdit and emacs (ordered chronologically) |
What editor do you use? | rsayers: EmacsI do PHP professionally, mainly Ruby with my own projects, but I dabble with lots of languages.It's very powerful and any feature it doesn't have, I can add myself. Yesterday I was prototyping something for work, I had my main php file open along with the js and css files all in their own split window. ... |
Is there an easy way to work with web services for iPhone dev? | mhp: I stole your karma on stackoverflow :P
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400299/is-there-an-easy-w... |
What editor do you use? | randallsquared: Smultron (on OS X) for GUI editing, where I typically want a bunch of files open and their names visible at all times, and vim on the command line. On the Mac, one nice thing is that most editors and (S)FTP clients support the ODB Editor Suite, which means that such an editor and transfer agent can wor... |
What editor do you use? | kirubakaran: emacs http://github.com/ki/my-dot-emacs/tree/master/dot-emacs.txtvim when necessary |
review My 120k flex app done in one month | deathbob: It works for me, pretty cool. Suggest you find some way to let one person be the photographer and the other the subject. Let the person with the webcam just sit there and the other person click when to take the picture and add effects. Maybe add basic paint functionality so they can add horns / moustache. ... |
Can Google aggregate everything you've ever posted anonymously online based on writing style? | midnightmonster: When I was packing up my college dorm room at the end of senior year, I found a typed short story and started reading. It was the most peculiar sensation, because it read like I had written it, but I didn't remember writing it. Then I realized (i.e., noticed the heading and saw) that it was my brother'... |
What editor do you use? | quellhorst: I recently switched to emacs from textmate/vim. I still use vim for small configuration files.There is a recent peepcode on emacs and rails. http://peepcode.com |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | noodle: professional martial artist. it was my first job. |
What editor do you use? | jamesbritt: gvim |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | cperciva: I would be a university professor, either in mathematics or computer science. Odds are that I'm going to end up there eventually -- just a few years later than if I hadn't taken this detour into industry. |
What editor do you use? | drhowarddrfine: An IDE is not an editor. Don't be confused. |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | ram1024: astrophysicistor swashbuckler... |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | hs: ninja / pirate |
How do you find the local nerd community? | noodle: http://nyc.startupdrinks.com/http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC4http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingNewYorkCityi'm sure there are others, too, i'm just not from NY so i can't comment in depth |
Do I need T&C for side projects | Mystalic: For your protection, you should always have one - liability can be a bitch.As for a template? Scribd is always a good place to look. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | zacharydanger: WordPress released theirs under creative commons and encourages others to use it. I'd recommend borrowing theirs. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | ram1024: i doubt you need one for a non-business venture. just like you don't need one to run a website with forums or something.but if you decide to host any user generated content or something it might be a good idea to throw some kinda disclaimer up |
Do I need T&C for side projects | fendale: I have been thinking about this very problem myself recently.To add to this question, would it make sense to setup a limited liability company to release a side project under? If something really goes wrong, and some big company or rich individual decides to sue you (for whatever reason), you probably don't w... |
Do I need T&C for side projects | vaksel: I would do it, it'll take you like 5 extra minutes to copy paste something, and you'll avoid a lot of troubles.I would still release it under a LLC you own, just to protect yourself. But if not, at least spend a few bucks to hide your whois info. |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | Allocator2008: I have thought chemical engineering would be interesting. I know there is some cross-pollination between the chemical engineering and software industries (chemical engineers becoming programmers or testers and vice-versa). I love science for one thing, and also seems like the sort of "engineering mindset... |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | known: politician |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | mian2zi3: I quit programming and went back to school for a PhD in math. I plan to become a professor/research mathematician. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | dazzawazza: I've used this from the UK government:http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?r.l1=1073... |
What would you be doing if you weren't a hacker? | nailer: Architect. As in buildings.Or a creative for an Ad Agency. |
What editor do you use? | r11t: I am suprised no one mentioned IPython? (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/)
IPython + vim is a nice combo for Python programming. |
Where are you spending your New Years Eve? | arockwell: Good friends of mine are getting married downtown in a victorian/steampunk themed wedding. A lot of the guests will be dressed in costume and we'll doing a massive pub crawl afterward. |
How do you find the local nerd community? | bootload: "... I'd like to meet up with a group of people that are technology-oriented ... recent transplant to New York ..."Might be worth checking out http://www.nycresistor.com it provides a private workspace (something like $30/month) and project groups, accessing smart locals on Saturdays & Sundays. The events are... |
What editor do you use? | sm13: Eclipse for PHP projects.PSPad (a very nice and free editor) for Python PHP and general quick and dirty editing.FlashDevelop for ActionScript. This last one was truly a happy find, with all the VS look and feel and a very comprehensive toolset, again for free. |
Do I need T&C for side projects | voidfiles: any one know if there is legal a precedent. I mean isn't the internet just resoundingly unreliable. Why do we have to tell people things might not work like they thing they should? |
Where are you spending your New Years Eve? | cheez80: making prime rib. but if i weren't making prime rib, i'd be working. deadline for launch is coming up soooon! |
news.yc without refreshing? | scotth: why don't you do it? |
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