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Do you program in black or white? | pietro: I use Visual Studio with the Vibrant Ink color scheme from TextMate, and I've had the same experience. I find it surprisingly pleasant. |
insomnia? | hbien: Hack. Or read Hacker News. |
insomnia? | ErrantX: Read & exercise.It's the best thign for it (esp if your really not going ot get any sleep).Steven Fry is an insomniac and he knows a lot of crap simply from reading books when he couldn't sleep. I try to go the same way :D |
Email Marketing | pclark: where are you intending on getting your list of users to email from? |
Email Marketing | satyajit: I almost never give in to direct email marketing (and these emails almost always get marked as spam, so lot of prospective candidates also do not recv it) - but I do trust my friends tell me to join a site, and I do. May be it works differently for diff people, but I think spreading thru a social networking p... |
insomnia? | sam_in_nyc: Find out what's causing it... there's something wrong. Usually it is stress or anxiety. Is something worrying you?The easiest way to solve it: exercise and/or eat more. This reduces stress and anxiety. It's easier said than done... I find insomnia (and most things in life) to be a feedback loop. Less ... |
insomnia? | matthewking: Watch TV for half an hour, then try to sleep again. Usually its because something is on my mind, so I need to put my mind somewhere else (hence, the TV).However, I find that I sleep much better if I get off the computer early, say 9PM. That gives me plenty of time to wind down and get sleepy before a reaso... |
Email Marketing | matthewking: The sort of emails I clarify as spam are selling viagra, fake watches and all sorts of pills. They're sent in mass, multiple copies per day, every day to the same email and are in no way targeted.A targeted one off email, to a business that you honestly think will benefit from your product or services is O... |
Email Marketing | tomsaffell: When you say, "My question is - How many can I send before I am being labeled as a spammer :-)"Do you mean:a) How many can I send before I am being labeled as a spammer by the people who are receiving the emails?ORb) How many can I send before I am being labeled as a spammer by the anti-spam filters on mail... |
Email Marketing | whatusername: To me as a consumer - If I haven't given you my email address - then it's spam.
(Even if I've left a box ticked saying that "partners can email through special offers', then I still see it as spam).However - I'm likely not your target audience. |
Do you program in black or white? | Goladus: I don't like white or black backgrounds, though I prefer white to black in a typical windowed environment. If my editor has the full screen it doesn't matter, but I don't like menus and other windows being a lot brighter than the editor. It's either distracting, or it's a jarring readjustment every time I ha... |
how good my idea is? | snitko: I want to implement a sort of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) web-based application, that is targeted for small businesses (small clinics, fitness centers, motels, restaurants etc). The feature list is simple:1. Adding/Removing customers and info on them.
2. Creating events for customers and employees an... |
What's the state of the web in your (non-English) language? | rodrigo: Im mexican living in Mexico City;
Theres a lot of noise in the web in spanish, you find a lot of wannabes and a lot of people discovering the internet and thinking theyre going to magically get rich. I've read blogs about dev/hacker gettogethers here in Mexico, but havent found anything cool yet.
If theres som... |
What's the state of the web in your (non-English) language? | rodrigo: Also, I do almost all of my surfing in english, I buy online a lot, lots of people here in Mexico have credit cards (at least in Mexico City) so theres definitively a big opportunity here.
The web here feels like The Web in the US circa 1994, so you pretty much know where are thing going. Thats a great advanta... |
Historical Market Data for use in webapp? | prakash: http://www.newmogul.com/item?id=2870 |
Historical Market Data for use in webapp? | lpgauth: Haven't used their service, but this seems to be what you need: http://www.opentick.com/. |
Estimating Ad Revenue | rrhyne: I have no idea whether my system will prove to be accurate, but it's a start:Number of users * avg page views a day = total page views/1000 = inventory. Then do a % of your inventory of sold as CPM * a CPM rate. Next do a % of your inventory sold as CPC * a CPM rate. Then can ad affiliate marketing % and so on.... |
Speaking of 2009, anyone remember Abuse (the game)? | eru: Sure, I remember it. You can also find it in the standard ubuntu repositories.The tricks, that the game plays on you to frighten you, get rather predictable after a few levels.Some year back I even hacked in the lisp parts of source. |
insomnia? | hapless: I follow my doctors' advice. Every doctor I've ever had has given me the same advice on insomnia. It's not rocket science.1. Go to bed at the same time every night.2. Get up at the same time every morning.3. Don't do anything in bed other than bed-related activities. No TV, no reading, no radio. (If you mu... |
How do you measure the success of your startup? | diN0bot: we measure the success of our startup by the amount of social and environmental good we are generating.the time to pull the plug is a good question. we are nearing our second year, though only in the past 4 months have we both been working full time. as the product and community matures we will either transiti... |
list of domains for university emails | fgimenez: Why don't you just check if the email ends with .edu? Edu domain names are restricted to accredited post-secondary institution, handled by educase. http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/ |
list of domains for university emails | pclark: type in the specific schools in google and grab the first result?you could automate this quite easily, too. |
list of domains for university emails | philjr: If you can't get a definitive list, try a whitelist approach with a moderated queue for any domains not matching the whitelist.Once you see a domain that's an educational institute it gets whitelisted and further registrations from that domain get ok'd.No matter what text you include there, you're gonna get the... |
How do you produce product demo videos? | Edinburger: Thanks everyone for the excellent replies. I'll evaluate software in the next few days. |
list of domains for university emails | run4yourlives: One would assume that you only want US institutions? Because nobody else really uses .edu to any great degree of consistency. |
playin' the stocks game | frisco: Avoid individual stocks. Without insider knowledge, an individual is basically gambling when they invest in individual companies. Try finding a fund that provides good returns, and let a professional who has hundreds of millions of dollars in leverage and much better insider knowledge make the specific decisi... |
playin' the stocks game | jwilliams: This is advice that people rarely take, and I'd probably ignore... but I'd recommend investing with a fake portfolio to start (there are "fantasy" investment sites that make this easy).Making money is important - but I'd also recommend that you invest in things you believe in. |
playin' the stocks game | jwb119: I would absolutely recommend reading "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel. Its a great introduction to the theory of efficient markets. |
playin' the stocks game | seregine: For me, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's investment advice resonates the most. You could start here:http://ycombinator.com/munger.htmlAlso, before buying mutual funds, read this:http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll... |
playin' the stocks game | tialys: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248469Some good stuff here. |
playin' the stocks game | mixmax: The market isn't irrational - people are. Learn about psychology, sociology ad behavioral economics and you'll have an edge.Here's a nobel prize lecture on behavioral economics to get you started: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2002/And another really important tip: Make sure you can aff... |
playin' the stocks game | ctkrohn: Expect to lose your $2000. I'm not trying to dissuade you -- investing is a skill, and if it only costs $2000 to learn it, you've done great. If you're not afraid to lose your capital, you'll be much better positioned to take calculated risks.Be aware of commissions. If you have only $2000, you will have to... |
playin' the stocks game | arebop: Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor is a classic you should probably read. Burton Malkiel's Random Walk Down Wall Street was also interesting. I hear that Hull's Options Futures and Other Derivatives is a good intro to the more mathematically sophisticated instruments, but I haven't read it myself. |
playin' the stocks game | ojbyrne: http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Self-defense-Manual-Intell...Summary - buy index funds, keep your costs low, invest for the long term. |
playin' the stocks game | fizx: The best advice I've heard about trading is poker advice."There's a sucker at every table. If you can't spot him, it's you."Cycles like the one we're going through really illustrate this. Look at all the suckers who bought 2nd homes in Stockton as an "investment." If you realized this, you bet against that tre... |
playin' the stocks game | teuobk: Index funds. As a broad generalization, index funds are superior to managed funds due to higher long-term returns and far lower fees.As another broad generalization, you can have higher returns than index funds (aka the market) only at the cost of increased risk. |
playin' the stocks game | Rod: As someone who once worked for a hedge fund, please allow me to give you some words of advice:- what advantage do you think you will have over others? Unless you have friends in high places and plan to do insider trading (which is very illegal), you will be one more amateur playing against the professionals in the... |
playin' the stocks game | Prrometheus: Save your money and spend it on something useful instead.Or buy a newspaper stock section blown up to wall-size, a monkey, and some darts.But seriously, Google "survivorship bias".The ones selling advice are doing so because they were the ones lucky enough to survive and smart enough to realize that sellin... |
playin' the stocks game | vlad: Do not "play the stocks game" if you think it's a game. The point of investing is to make money. Don't invest in any company unless you have valid reasons to believe the company will go up in value in whatever time frame you're looking for results. And this should be true every week, or you should sell when yo... |
list of domains for university emails | bwh2: I suggest using the Department of Education college data. Most of the ~7,000 US schools listed have homepage URL listed, which you could grab the domain from with relative ease. Aside from that, you're probably looking at parsing Wikipedia pages or grabbing data from Petersons, which is not free. The DOE dataset ... |
playin' the stocks game | bokonist: My favorite posts and sites:Mark Cuban's post on stocks:
http://blogmaverick.com/2008/09/08/talking-stocks-and-money/A blog of a hedge fund trader in Japan:
http://nihoncassandra.blogspot.comA blog of a hedge fund trader in London:
http://macro-man.blogspot.com/Reminices of a stock operator - written in the 1... |
playin' the stocks game | apinstein: Today there are so many ways you can "practice" trading I'd recommend using a stock market game before jumping in. You will make many mistakes in trading; might as well make them on a simulator.http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspxThe people saying "be prepared to lose it all" are crazy. You only nee... |
playin' the stocks game | pj: First of all, ignore Jim Cramer!! Stay as far away from him as possible. The little bits of truth he speaks are not worth wading through the coin tosses, just stay away.Next, when you're trying to figure out which stocks to buy, forget about the stocks. Don't look to PE's, and all the other ratios to figure out wh... |
playin' the stocks game | brk: $2000 really isn't enough to "play the market". As the other comments have suggested there is too much stacked against you.If you really want to try your hand, I'd pick 1 moderately risky stock with a shot at long-term (5-7 years) surprise growth. There is a high probably your $2000 will become $200, but that pr... |
playin' the stocks game | apsurd: I've never invested a penny in stocks, but my friend has and has his ups and downs..but is currently down..about $13,000 (he is your age). I highly recommend you do as others have mentioned and INVEST IN YOURSELF, not someone elses business. But if you insist.. I recommend you NOT be like every other "average i... |
playin' the stocks game | xenophanes: Buy AAPL long. |
playin' the stocks game | jhp: Here are some things to keep in mind:- I think that it is best to invest directly in securities (only resorting to index funds if you really must outsource your thinking). You'll learn the most if you make the big decisions.- Learn how to analyze the public information available. Cash flows. Balance sheets. Income... |
playin' the stocks game | steveplace: I run a stock options website (investingwithoptions.com) and am known as one of the better options guys out there.2k won't get you far in terms of trading. You should probably look into passive investing. You will get much larger returns investing in yourself than trying to speculate on the market.If you do... |
playin' the stocks game | nas: Read "The Intelligent Investor". It was written many years ago and is still relevant today (it's actually scary how history seems to repeat itself). Regarding fees, note that commissions are not the only costs to transactions. Remember the bid/ask spread and that as a small investor you will be taken advantage ... |
playin' the stocks game | tocomment: I'm reading so many negative comments. If he's smart and interested in stocks, perhaps he can make money. What if Warren Buffet had posted an ask-HN before starting his career? |
playin' the stocks game | axiom: To all the naysayers: remember that holding cash is holding a depreciating asset. That 2k is not going to be worth 2k in a year's time. So really by not investing you're taking a guaranteed loss of 3%-15% a year (depending on how pessimistic you are about future inflation) instead of some other possible loss tha... |
playin' the stocks game | comatose_kid: Lots of good advice in this thread.In addition, understand risk management. You don't have enough cash to diversify across stocks (and time, buying in stages) to really be effective. An index fund is probably your best bet.That said, if you want to take a lot of risk, look into options trading. Deep in... |
How do I find out if I'm infringing copyrights? | cschneid: Lawyer?Also, if the music clips are newer than "ancient" you're probably infringing. |
playin' the stocks game | tom_rath: With $2,000, the best investment you can make is purchasing quality, non-perishable dry goods in bulk as you spot them on sale.That's not sarcasm. You'll be eating and wearing out your stuff one way or another and buying a year's worth of rice, grass seed, socks, underwear, cat litter, detergent, toothpaste,... |
playin' the stocks game | diN0bot: why all the pessimistic comments? invest that $2000 in a 401 or roth low-risk fund and you will likely get good returns in 50 years. |
playin' the stocks game | oakmac: step 1) please forget anything you read from Jim Cramerstep 2) read The Black Swan by Talebstep 3) make an account at caps.fool.comstep 4) get your score above 80step 5) never invest more than 2% of your capital in any investmentstep 6) figure out how to profit from your capital given rule #5step 7) if you've f... |
playin' the stocks game | drawkbox: It will be a great education for you into how markets work. I know it opened my eyes widely when I started playing around the same age. It will completely change you.Couple of quick things. Don't listen to a word Cramer has to say. It is all in volume, earnings per share, FUTURE earnings per share, and ra... |
playin' the stocks game | raamdev: You might want to try using the free Stock Market Game UpDown for a few weeks/months to practice investing:http://www.updown.com/?_refer=36311They give you $1 million in play money to invest, but you actually make real money based on your performance (no minimum transfer amount -- I've made a whooping $0.82 so... |
How do I find out if I'm infringing copyrights? | answerly: Here is the RIAA's position:"Online piracy is the unauthorized uploading of a copyrighted sound recording and making it available to the public, or downloading a sound recording from an Internet site, even if the recording isn't resold. Online piracy can now also include certain uses of "streaming" technologi... |
playin' the stocks game | charlesju: The only way to win in stocks is to invest in value and hold long. I would suggest just going in on a leveraged index ETF and just forget about for 5 years. I bet you'll get around a 20% return. |
How do I find out if I'm infringing copyrights? | quoderat: The way the system works now, is if some large business interest says you're infringing, you won't have the power or money to fight them.Great system we got going here. |
playin' the stocks game | dc2k08: Seems to be a lot of people here who have a sound and rational knowledge of this game as the OP imagined there would be. I have a question and would be very grateful if someone could answer.I have a good reason to believe that a relatively small Chinese company will be bought over by a massive US company this y... |
Best way to create and send snail mail via an API? | idophir: PostalMethods have great SOAP XML (and HTTP POST) Web Services which would make enable you to quickly complete the integration development and focus on your website.The development is free including professional support and code samples.Good luck.
PostalMethods (http://www.postalmethods.com/) |
playin' the stocks game | tlrobinson: I just started reading Andrew Tobias's book, "The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need", and so far it looks like it will be good.End of the first chapter:"There are, in fact, very few ways to get rich quick. Fewer sill that are legal. Here's one: Take $5000 (borrow it if you have to), place it on 22 at t... |
playin' the stocks game | lallysingh: Here, save yourself some money, use it as others have mentioned to invest in yourself.If you're doing it to learn, there's no reason to do it under fire.I'll +1 to the other advice here: go fantasy to learn. They're real numbers, so the educational value is the same. You can think rationally without getti... |
playin' the stocks game | sethg: The nickel version of A Random Walk Down Wall Street (which many folks here have recommended) is on Philip Greenspun's site:http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/moneyI'd like to call out one small part of that essay:"In every office there is at least one sorry loser checking the market every ten minutes, goin... |
How do I find out if I'm infringing copyrights? | anamax: Talk with a lawyer. Some things are under copyright, some aren't, and in some cases it isn't clear, for various definitions of "not clear".Gather your content appropriately.Also, find out what your obligations are if someone brings a complaint.Design your processes appropriately. |
playin' the stocks game | snorkel: Play on paper first. Pick a stock, pretend you bought N shares at X dollars today. Then see what happens. When you "sell" be sure to subtract transaction fees and short term capital gains tax from the profit. So play on paper for a month or two and see if you really are a market clairvoyant.Anyone can profit ... |
Demo tips | brk: For new products, there are two general approaches to developing a demo script.1: This is an entirely new app/concept that your audience didn't know they needed. Your job is to convince them that they can't live without this thing that they've managed to live without up until now.2: This is an enhancement or opti... |
playin' the stocks game | cturner: Being a complete beginner, what resources would you
recommend to help lay the basic foundation?
I tried this about four years ago. I started by playing the ASX simulated game to get a feel for it and confirmed that I was rubbish at picking day by day. Then I picked some long-term patterns I was confi... |
Demo tips | hboon: # Have a backup machine.# Have a video version for backup.# Run from localhost if you can.# Identify goal of demo.# Script the demo accordingly.# Follow the script.# Be ready to run an adhoc demo without the script (ie. be familiar enough with the product).# Go slow.# Don't move your mouse unless you need to.# C... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | abossy: I'm particularly fond of Steven Levitt after reading Freakonomics. I enjoyed his talk on the pointlessness of mandating car seats for children and what should really be done to improve their safety:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_levitt_on_child_ca...I also like the SeaDragon/Photosynth demo (along wi... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | yan: Ramachandaran's talk had a profound effect on me (neuroscience/brain). Mark Bittman's talk was great, but I like everything that man writes (food). Clinton's talk made me feel like I knew him better after watching it. It felt very personal. Dave Eggers' talk was beautiful (learning). Ze Frank's talk was good if yo... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | garyrichardson: I like Joshua Klein's talk about Crows: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intel...I, for one, welcome our new crow overlords. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | matthall28: There was a really good one by the guy from Archive.org |
What is your favorite TED talk? | catone: I think it's probably this one: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_buil..."When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book."Though the actual intervie... |
What Would you want in a government API? | Shamiq: I'm all for accountability, but I also think added bureaucracy is a waste of money. Someone has to pay for these new jobs, and I can't tell whether this will return more than it costs to set up. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | rsayers: Clifford Stoll, guy was all over the place, but I found his talk rather amusing and even a bit enlightening. |
What is your favorite TED talk? | damada2: Kurzweil ftw,
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_techn... |
What Would you want in a government API? | jonursenbach: I vote for the API equivalent of "svn blame". |
What is your favorite TED talk? | steveplace: The second Hans Rosling talk where he swallows a sword at the end. |
What Would you want in a government API? | jcarbaugh: This isn't quite getEveryDollarSpent, but check out http://usaspending.gov/. The site tracks all federal contracting dollars spent. It has an API and a fairly detailed set of data.Rather than one giant government API, we will probably see each agency slowly create more meaningful ways to get at their data. I... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | aikiai: Jill Bolte's talk about her stroke.Her talk illustrates the different processing styles of our right and left hemispheres. This is a fascinating subject, that often gets trivialized because of all the New Age BS revolving around it.Her experience is remarkable, and very powerfully delivered. Don't be fooled by ... |
What Would you want in a government API? | gaius: shutdown() |
What Would you want in a government API? | diN0bot: i'd be glad to have an API at all. right now, if you want to get donation reports on attempted congressional members you have to go to d.c. in person and individual print each report on their printer and pay for it. it is effectively impossible for any one to accomplish without thousands of dollars plus hundre... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | tweaqslug: I found Dave Eggers Ted Prize speech to be funny and inspiring. http://www.tedprize.org/video-talk-dave-eggers/ |
What is your favorite TED talk? | jbrun: Below is a list of Ted Talks, my top five which blew me away, followed by some other favorites. Enjoy!Top 5:Zander on music, Hans Rosling on World Development, Bolte on Strokes, Lessing on Creative Commons, and the DNA Folding oneSome other favourites (full list here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/favori... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | DaniFong: John Doerr seeks salvation and profit in greentech.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_doerr_sees_salvation... |
What Would you want in a government API? | jhancock: Full Text Search |
What is your favorite TED talk? | thesubjective: Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe. Seriously....Amazing. A must for everyone.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mu... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | ntoll: An oldie but a goldie: Sir Ken Robinson's talk on education and creativity delivered with such panache: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | SBev: Bill Strickland's talk inspired me to think about what can be done by one person. Also he has a great casual speaking style.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bill_strickland_makes_cha... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | xenophanes: the David Deutsch one. |
What Would you want in a government API? | altrux: voting records, and USGS information would be nice too |
What is your favorite TED talk? | briancooley: It's little off the beaten path, but I guess I really like food. Dan Barber's parable of foie gras was really interesting and moving to me.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_f... |
What Would you want in a government API? | lacker: How about letting me give the government my email, and then they could email me instead of snail mail, or let me see government correspondence with me online.A friend of mine got a traffic ticket that he paid incorrectly, and had a wrong address on file. A year later he got arrested during a random broken-taill... |
What is your favorite TED talk? | sidsavara: Malcom Gladwell on Spaghetti Saucehttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...Replace spaghetti sauce with software development and Facebook versus Twitter Versus Hacker News Versus Reddit etcIt's all about users =) |
What is your favorite TED talk? | naish: Another good one not yet mentioned is Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_... |
Need help finding a post | pclark: you're probably aware of this, but : searchyc.com |
What is your favorite TED talk? | nirmal: Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happinessWhat is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_ha... |
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