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Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup | patio11: I've been doing it for ~2.5 years now. See blog in my profile.Comments: just do it. All the administrivia is trivia. Don't worry about the competition. Build something. Charge money for it. Get better at marketing it. Make it better. Continue repeating "get better at marketing it" and "make it better".... |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | hotpockets: I submitted an idea to the Cuban idea request. Be interesting to get feedback on it. Thanks for any. |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | jacquesm: that flash crashed my browser. Arguably that's a firefox or an Adobe problem, but just in case you have critical data in some other browser window save / submit it first. |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | gojomo: I suggest trying to talk to potential customers and possibly making your first sales for even less than the full $12K in proposed startup costs.For example: rent the camera for 1 day. Take the photos on foot, on a couple of residential blocks and a couple of commercial blocks. Approach occupants door-to-door, o... |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | hotpockets: Oh, I have some feedback for scribd. In case anyone there happens to read this. I loved the signup and upload interface.However, it took me close to an hour (at 4 in the morning) to figure out how to get a pdf file that was readable in scribd. My pdf looked great on my computer, but 90% illegible in scri... |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | cperciva: Given the marijuana-detection side of thermal imaging, I have trouble imagining that you could pull this off without spending a decade in court defending yourself against invasion-of-privacy lawsuits. |
Critique my Mark Cuban submission | astrec: Interesting idea.You really need to show Cuban his exit.Also, you can't account for expenses without knowing the cost of GPS-imaging technology - do some research and get a ball park figure. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | hellweaver666: Thanks for all the feedback guys - I think I'm going to operate the site on the .me primarily but make sure I have the .co.uk .com and .me.uk point to the same place just in case. |
Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup | HeyLaughingBoy: As others said: Just Do It.Get started and once you're moving you'll find that momentum takes over. To keep the momentum going, make plans: e.g., plan to work at least 1 hour/day on your startup whether it's coding, marketing, website, etc. Just work on it.I wouldn't take a vacation to do it unless I wa... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | gaius: A VNC or RDP session running on a stable host somewhere, running full screen on your laptop, so you only have one thing to reconnect to.What you want would be cool but it can't be done with TCP/IP. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | Harkins: You have to run your screen session from a stable host, not a laptop that gets disconnected all the time. Do you have a web host with ssh access? A buddy with a VPS somewhere? A spare $5 a month to spend on a shell account host to never have to deal with this again?You could try using ssh-agent to reduce the p... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | apage43: To fix constantly re-logging in to ssh:
- set up key authentication and run ssh user@host with your favorite parameters in a loop (shell script) so it reconnects when disconnected.
- in fact, have it run screen when connected, so you get right back to where you were effortlessy.As for port forwarding, you... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | briansmith: Chcek your SSH configuration. By default SSH using some kind of ping system where, if the client loses contact with the server, the server closes the session. However, you can turn this off, or you can adjust the timing parameters to handle unreliable connections. I did that when I had a horrible connection... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | Dobbs: Not quite what you are asking for but it would solve the problem:1. Get an Android.2. Hack it and install the debian subsystem.3. see: http://brad.livejournal.com/2400054.htmlSo now instead of running an ssh to a remote server you are running an ssh to your android which then hosts all of the outward ssh session... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | aolnerd: When you start a local shell, you can generate some session identifier (export DURABLE_SESSION=$RANDOM) and put it in your environment. Then have your ssh client send it to the server with "-o SendEnv DURABLE_SESSION".One question is when does sshd know when to ditch interrupted sessions. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | mblakele: For port forwarding, I use autossh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autossh) to keep my IMAP and SMTP tunnels alive. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | igorhvr: To solve your problem just use ssh -o TCPKeepAlive=no restOfYourCommandGoesHereFrom the ssh_config manpage:"TCPKeepAliveSpecifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of
the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed. Howeve... |
What will you be doing when the unix timestamp reaches 1234567890, next friday? | noodle: hoping the world doesn't explode since it'll also be friday the 13th. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | yan: I use Google Reader. I skim the headlines and read what I find interesting in full. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | pclark: I use google reader, I subscribe to around 200 feeds. I keep trying to cull them -- but I just miss those few blogs.I'd say about 5% of the feeds I get interest me. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | arnorhs: www.google.com/readerI subscribe to anything interesting and then unsubscribe from everything that has too many posts and/or proves to be too boring :) |
How do you read RSS feeds? | shergill: I use netnewswire on the iphone.. |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | MHollender: Also, Hollender's Tenth Rule (tongue-in-cheek): Any sufficiently user-friendly functional programming library contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of SQL. |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | arnorhs: is what a good idea in python? |
What will you be doing when the unix timestamp reaches 1234567890, next friday? | bdfh42: Erm, Friday is the 13th February |
How do you read RSS feeds? | sak84: Google Reader. I try to keep my feeds clean, skimming over headlines and marking content I do not want to read as read. Then, I actually read the rest of the posts. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | thorax: On Windows, I use Bitvise Tunnelier and the SSH tunnels/connections always keep retrying if there's a disconnect. For the terminals, I just use screen so I can get right back to what I was doing, but it is annoying to lose all those consoles if I had a bunch open. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | timf: My only thought is to think about limiting submission rights to a certain/higher karma threshold. |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | russell: Lambdas pretty much suck because there has not been a good brace-free syntax proposal, There was a pretty good proposal for a where clause a couple of years ago, but it doesn't seem to have gotten any traction, probably because it was not made into a PEP (see python.org about PEP's).http://groups.google.com/g... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | rms: This is becoming more of a problem now. It is impossible for new stories to get as much attention now as when the site first started, but historically there really haven't been many good stories missed.This Ted talk failed to really make the front page twice. It must have briefly been on the front page but it take... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | mitchm: call me old fashioned, but I still use my browser to view RSS. I skim the headlines as a live bookmark and go to the actual post if interested. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | randomtask: That depends. Can you mess around with the server? If so you could install HIP [1][2][3] on both client and server as a way of providing IP mobility. Basically the way it works is it inserts a layer between the routing and transport layers (called the shim layer), which handles mobility. The transport layer... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | teej: Better moderation of the blog spammers may help as well. For instance:http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ccraigIW has 11 submissions in the past 24 hours, none with a score > 2. That's a third of the "new" page filled up with blog posts from one source.Karma threshold, average submission score or signal-t... |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | marksutherland: autossh + key auth is probably what you want: http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/ . Added to screen it's a very nice combination. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | sidsavara: If I may briefly interject, one really nice resource for this is the greasemonkey hacker news toolkit scripthttp://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039It can add the 5 newest submissions to the bottom of the front page. This is not a perfect solution, I agree it is a band aid to the larger issue of reducing ju... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | cx01: An interesting idea would be to make a submission cost 1 Karma point. So people would only submit a story if they think it's reasonable that someone might upvote it. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | za: Rocks sounds ideal, but it's not maintained.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/rocks/ |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | d0mine: Your examples rewritten in a different style: table = ((8, 2, 9), (4, 5, 6), (2, 1, 9))
my_sum = sum(row[0] for row in table if row[2] == 9)
# assert my_sum == 10
my_lst = [row[0] for row in table if row[2] == 9]
# all row[2] == 9 therefore OrderBy is a no-op in your example
# assert my_lst == [8,... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | icey: I've seen sites that solve some of the spam problem by requiring an account to have existed for at least 24 hours before submitting. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | icey: As a very meta aside, this is the sort of Ask HN posting that really deserves to be on the front page. If you're reading this whole thread and you think it's interesting; please be sure to upvote the story so we can all set a good example. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | swombat: Unless this is having an impact whereby the home page is filled with bad stuff, I'm afraid there's little you can do. There are only so many slots on the front page and bringing more "new good stuff" on it will only push old good stuff out faster.This "problem" is a reflection of the fact that there's higher c... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | josefresco: How many of you actually Police the new section of HN? I will flag maybe a couple stories per week, anyone with a much higher rate?Maybe the site should encourage those with higher karma to spend more time policing (the put up or shut up method). |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | biohacker42: This is usually when some blue eyed optimists calls on all the good upstanding old timers to vote up the good stories!Bitter realists like myself suggest it may be time for a new new new social news site. |
is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck? | jcl: As a side note, you don't need the line continuation characters if you wrap the expression in parentheses. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | aak: How about a karma marketplace?1. Upvoting costs an amount of karma points proportional to the number of points the article has at that time. Hence, it costs more to upvote an article on the home page than it costs to upvote an article in the New section.2. If I choose to spend karma by voting on an article and it ... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | jasonlbaptiste: Music IndustryThis may be one of the most obvious ones out there. Artists don't need the record labels anymore. The money is not purely in the music, but ticket sales, merchandise, extra content,etc.I like what topspin media is doing. Myspace has made great strides, but it's just a start. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | noodle: online auctions.ebay sucks, for both the buyers and sellers. and ebay doesn't even like auctions anymore, they're moving towards the amazon-style marketplace model. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | yan: You mentioned it, but I think the music industry is really ripe for disruption. Their business model is definitely shifting as we speak.ebay/auction sites/local commerce can be done better. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | pg: Stuff falling off the end of the New list before it has time to get voted onto the front page is a perennial problem. It doesn't seem any worse now than it was a year ago. Which is not surprising, because the factor driving the rate of new submissions, the number of users, is also the one driving the rate at which... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | mojombo: Classifieds.CraigsList is not the be-all end-all of buying/selling things locally online. It may be a tough nut to crack, but it won't be hard to radically improve upon their horrible user experience. I would love to see some competition in this space. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | mixmax: Look at a lot of big traditional B2B businesses. They haven't gotten much coverage because they aren't sexy and visible to the normal consumer.- ERP ssystems are impossible to understand for the people that work with them, and require an army of highly paid consultants just to get it up and running.- financial ... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | jakestein: Title Insurance. See this article from Forbes magazine: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/148.htmlSummary:
Fancy this: racetracks that keep 93% of your money and return only 5% in winning tickets. They wouldn't last long, not unless they could somehow rig the rules to both forbid price competition and ... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | shalmanese: Higher Education. Existing institutions are selling inefficient and grossly overpriced products in an environment in which objective evaluation is hard to obtain and the status quo fears innovation. If you could crack that nut, it would be massive. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | russell: Government, Governments are being run on antiquated software created by giants of the military industrial complex. There are huge hurdles on the procurement side, but the opportunities of making a 10x price performance improvement are all over the the place. One key is to make the product highly configurabl... |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | dood: I nice simple improvement might be to put the 5 newest stories at the bottom of the front page. A little more visibility could make a big difference. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | josefresco: Government. Now hear me out on this one. I think with new technology, and the push for open access to information (that's digestible) will disrupt the political system as we've known it. Doubt it will happen once things get 'back on track' financially in this country. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | geuis: Job search. There are a ton of competitors in this space, established and startup, but so far its all crap. I've been looking for a new job recently and I'm completely dissatisfied with everything that's out there. Craigslist is still probably the best resource for finding tech jobs, at least in San Francisco bu... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | josefresco: Health Care. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | sunkencity: I think it might be the change of ip adress that is killing your connectivity. I can close the lid of my macbook running os x or linux, let it fall to sleep, go down to the porch outside and let the machine wake up from sleep and still have the ssh connection active.A thing you can do to get more stable ssh... |
Do I get penalized by Google for porn search terms? | jreposa: It's nice to get traffic. It makes me feel like we're doing well. But how frustrating it is to see it's all related to porn. Will I get isolated to porn only searches by Google? |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | ciscoriordan: Text messaging. It's been discussed here before but it's worth repeating. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | CFS: The largest industry that is 'over ripe' is the energy industry. In particular, electricity distribution. Creating devices that perform 'demand management' are nearly trivial.In Australia, the normal price for large scale wholesale electricity from the national grid is Aust $48 per Mw/hr. But several times a year... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | jonmc12: Read the 'The 4-steps to the Epiphany' by Steven Blank (http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...)Things to look for in a disruptive market:1) The presence of the 'Earlyvangelist'. It does not matter if you can disrupt an industry if no one will realize the value of the innovation. Thi... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | hotshothenry: I think the enterprise sphere as a whole is ripe for disruption, which we've been witnessing with SaaS and other web 2.0 applications coming out as of late. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | r11t: I use Google Reader to keep track of approximately 300 feeds. These days I mostly only read everything during the weekends. This way I avoid procrastinating during weekdays. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | chris11: Real estate listings. Only limited information on a MLS is viewable without a broker. And getting your house information on one can cost 200 to 500, or up to 6% of the price. There are already free internet listings, but those can lack listings and information on houses. |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | rapind: A lot of the proposed solutions here seem pretty complicated. The one that makes the most sense to me, while definitely not perfect, is to start by limiting new posts to accounts that have existed for a certain interval (maybe even just 30 minutes). That should filter quite a bit of spam and even though it's st... |
Do I get penalized by Google for porn search terms? | inerte: No. One or two combinations here and there aren't enough to flag your site as adult.I don't have any proof of this, by the way. But I think it's common sense, or the way I would flag a site as adult. If it has images of nude people, if there are links from known porn websites, that kind of thing.name + playboy ... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | pudo: Most of the publishing industry, esp. books. This is somewhat contingent on the success of ePaper/eBook technologies like (but not) the Kindle. They still need to develop for a while (2yrs or so) so the displays will be fast, have good contrast and be able to display color.But even before that, we might see a lot... |
PRD/ERD online creator? | kqr2: How about gliffy?http://www.gliffy.com/ |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | robfitz: visas / immigration. you're looking at $400-900 an hour for lawyers to point you to the right webpage and tell you whether or not your particular situation fits through a loophole.corporate setup & startup paperwork of all sorts. also housing rental contracts, contractor... contracts. etc.patent applications. ... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | markessien: Television + Highly accurate profiles of the person watching the TV at any moment. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | nazgulnarsil: Blackboard and other proprietary software that colleges use. Blackboard sucks and could be easily replaced by hacking together open source solutions and presenting it in a slick package (like 37 signals) but tailored for college instead of business. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | blakeweb: Finance is another area ripe for innovation. There's a crisis going on, as we've all noticed, and one reason behind it is that businesses in the industry who were perceived to be creating tons of value turn out to have just been running intelligent people in circles.Here are a few thoughts:
- information and... |
ASK HN: Start-up internships | albertsun: Find startups you like and email them asking if they want an intern. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | andyjdavis: Banking.Let me store multiple currencies. dont convert currencies but actually let me hold whatever currencies I regularly deal with ie Euros, US dollars, Australian dollars and Thai baht but it would vary customer to customer.Let me make and receive payments over the net similar to PayPal (act as a paymen... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | run4yourlives: The insurance industry is a technological dinosaur. Many opportunities here. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | areitz: The completely unrealistic way to solve this problem would be with Mobile IP:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IPBut I don't know if that has ever really been used outside of a research context. |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | callmeed: Insurance industry: I have a close friend in the industry and he says there are tons of ways to improve the application, binder, and other processes.Online learning: Large edu and enterprise players like Blackboard and Saba are due for a disruption IMO (I think the ball is already rolling on this). Schools an... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | planck: Feed Sidebar in Firefox, subscribed to about 150 feeds.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4869 |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | DEinspanjer: Several people have mentioned running ssh in a loop. Here is an example of that:http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/357/ssh-tunnel-wi... |
Where do you print brochures? | Flemlord: Wow. Not a big brochure-printing crowd. I ended up going with PSPrint.com, mainly because they have an option for overnighting a proof. |
PRD/ERD online creator? | nreece: Checkout WWW SQL Designer: http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/Demo: http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/?keyword=defaultSource: http://code.google.com/p/wwwsqldesigner/ |
How do you read RSS feeds? | aj: bloglines beta. I quite like the navigation and the feed handling behavior.However, I wish they would give more customization and the feed aggregator break less often.However, of late, it is become more and more sucky and I plan to move away from it sometime soon |
New links queue almost at 24 hours, what now? | kwamenum86: It isn't that hard to get karma...thresholds could go far in preserving the culture if set to something really high (I am thinking 1000+). I reached 500+ fairly effortlessly though and I was not always a good citizen- I have 5-10+ submissions that were killed and several of my comments have been downmodde... |
Industries Ripe For Disruption? | anthony_barker: Almost any industry can be rattled if the power goes to the consumer instead of the vendor. This has happened with consumer products but could go to services etc.-automobile disrupted by cars from asia - oh shit happened!-book industry disrupted by self published electronic books-shipping industry disru... |
What do you do for analytics? | lionheart: http://getclicky.com/ is my favorite. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | vaksel: congrats on getting covered on Techcrunch |
S-Corp in Delaware, located in California | jwb119: My _very_general understanding of this is that you have to register the S-corp in Delaware and then "foreign register" the Delaware S-corp as a California entity.. |
What do you do for analytics? | suhail: Hi jfarmer, I love your blog and I am an avid reader though I wish you posted more.I would recommend you take a look at http://mixpanel.com and I think you'll see it's exactly what you've been itching for.Feel free to contact me and I can set you up with an account:
suhail[at]mixpanel[dot]com |
What do you do for analytics? | jcruz: Google's Website Optimizer offers A/B and multivariate testing at https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/splash
I haven't used it personally, but it may be worth checking out. |
moving beyond screen to persist SSH sessions? | schammy: I have this exact same problem. I don't forward traffic through SSH but I run a service that has almost 30 servers. Sometimes I have connections open to 10+ of them, sometimes (shudder) all of them. When my connection dies I want to throw my computer out the window.I haven't read the comments here yet but hope... |
What do you do for analytics? | aj: I use statcounter and Reinvigorate. I only need analytics for my blog so these two suffice.I tried woopra for a while but it was crap. Never updated any of the stats and many of the charts always showed as loading |
What do you do for analytics? | rs: I'm still old school in that way. I use awstats:http://awstats.sourceforge.net/I really should be using something more sophisticated. But to keep things simple, awstats is just fine. |
What do you do for analytics? | charlesju: newrelic.com
pinchmedia.com
docs.google.com — EXCEL
custom rake tasks |
What do you do for analytics? | silencio: for iPhone: pinch analytics (http://www.pinchmedia.com/). friend formerly worked there (full disclosure, really. :P) which was the main reason for going with this choice, and I tried to be fair when taking a peek at Medialets' Medialytics (http://www.medialytics.com/), but I kept returning to pinch media - bo... |
What do you do for analytics? | dcurtis: I'm curious if anyone is using Woopra? It's really cool realtime analytics. The application is written in Java, but it's like crack. I leave it open, starring at it for hours as people visit my site.It could use a lot of work though. I see a lot of opportunities for startups in this space. |
What do you do for analytics? | pclark: I find Google Analytics good enough. Decent integration with Google Adwords if that is required in the future, too |
What do you do for analytics? | Jem: I prefer Mint (haveamint.com). It's not necessarily the script itself that makes it worthwhile, but the huge amount of plugins ("peppers") you can get to extend it. |
What do you do for analytics? | brianr: Google analytics, plus lots of product-specific stuff.Scale is hundreds of millions of events per day, so there's a lot of work that goes in to making it all happen and be useful... lots of summary tables, log files, and the like. |
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