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Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | jacquesm: It would really help to know more about where you are located, without that information it is difficult to tell you what your options are.For the US and Canada the easiest thing is to let an insurance professional work out the details for you, get several quotes that give you the kind of coverage that you nee... |
Anyone know of a service like usertesting.com but for iPhone apps? | wallflower: iBetaTest.comhttp://ibetatest.com/iphone/controllers/welcome/New community to link beta testers with iPhone developers. I have not checked it out yet but bookmarked it."You can easily download an ADC import file of all of your approved testers - so you do not have to enter them one by one into the Provision... |
If you're an independent contractor, how do you charge clients? | turtle3: $X to make website match a given layout/image in FF and IE, where X is based on your approximation of difficulty after reviewing the provided material. $Y/hour for each modification after the initial layout is complete, where $Y is 2 or 3 times what seems a reasonable rate to you.This will do a few things:
1)... |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | nadim: How does this compare to snippetsEmu.vim? |
Good books on machine learning? | pmbouman: Try "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. Lots of math but an outstanding introduction. |
Good books on machine learning? | mstoehr: There really isn't very much available on the practical side. So if you are looking to implement algorithms I suggest that you make use of the machine learning at ocw.mit.eduAlternatively, if you want a good dose of a theoretical explanation of algorithms currently in use I highly recommend "Pattern Recogniti... |
Good books on machine learning? | martian: A very readable introduction to machine learning and recommendation systems is Programming Collective Intelligence, by Toby Seagram (O'Reilly). Worth looking at if you're just getting your feet wet. |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | mileszs: Unfortunately, it seems to clash loudly with one of the Ruby or Rails plugins I use (most likely rails.vim, and its RAbbrevs). Being admittedly fairly ignorant when it comes to vimscript, as well as being impatient, I removed snipMate for now. If you have a quick solution for such woes, I'd love to try it.I'... |
Full-text search of Unix files? | timf: See if Beagle fits for you (it can do stemming, for example).http://beagle-project.org/Searching_DataThere's a commandline interface to it. I'm not a beagle user myself, but it looks like something you should at least check out. |
Full-text search of Unix files? | gtani: edit(I'm assuming, since i'm always wallowing in python or rails, that google desktop, regain, don't have the control over stemming and tokenization that you want...)here's regainhttp://regain.sourceforge.net/to my knowledge, Aksyonoff's sphinx only hits mysql and postgres.The ferret lib for ruby lists this func... |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | aditya: I'm sorry, how is this different from just having an abbreviation using iab? |
Good books on machine learning? | earl: Here are a set of links:http://www.vetta.org/recommended-reading/I'd second the recommendation of Bishop if you can hack the math, and also Elements of Statistical Learning, though I wouldn't attempt to learn techniques from the latter so much as look at a very interesting mathematical take on them.gl |
How would you format a Linux skill sharing session? | stonemetal: The main problem is finding that useful subset that is A) useful to everyone and B) at a level that most find the distribution of information useful.Personally I find there are two ways to handle it. The first is to focus on work flows. As in how to do something a person on your team does regularly really ... |
Full-text search of Unix files? | lazyant: A few years ago I wrote a little script for what you're describing or similar (but very simple, no indexing) using a Perl module for fuzzy/approximate matching; I think it was this one: http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/String-Approx-3.26/Approx.pm |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | jonasb: I've given it a spin, and must say that I like it a lot. Thanks a lot meese_! |
Is there a RSS feed for new links? | nreece: shameless plugCreate one with Feedity - http://feedity.com |
How do you stay healthy? | cat56: hey im bored!i lifted weights dont listen too me you sack of losers |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | tdavis: Other than being unable to get the html snippets to work, I like it and will be trying it as a SnippetsEMU replacement (if I can get html files working). |
When do I impose caps? | inerte: If you can't find where to draw the line now, you can put the cap later but don't charge the existing free users.Example: I have a very old cellphone plan. It's not available for new carrier costumers. But the carrier never asked me to change to one of their new plans. I'm just using the old one.So you can twea... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | marram: Sponty has been in closed beta since the fall. We were at the MIT TechFair last week. Here are some of the pitches we used at the Sponty table (we also had chocolates!):"Hi, we're Sponty and we want you to be hangoutable. You should see your friends more"."Unlike other social networks that want you to sit in fr... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | lionhearted: Toss a small (TM) on either Sponty, "be hangoutable", or both. TM means trademark - but anyone can use it whenever they're using new descriptive language that doesn't infringe on someone else's mark. You don't need to register anything - the (R) in a circle means Registered Trademark, and you need to regis... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | joshsharp: Very similar to http://www.mixin.com/. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | lionhearted: On the design: I love the clean aesthetic and color scheme. I would try to to make the page vertically a bit more compact, so the entire "Login using Google" is above the fold. I have a relatively large monitor, and yet only the top of "Login using Google" shows on my screen.Then I'd test some descriptive ... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | bemmu: Difficult to say if this will catch on, all I can offer is my own reasons why I would not use this. I wouldn't play Mob Wars either, but that hasn't stopped it from being a success.- I'm not in USA.- My friends are really reluctant to start using new services. It took ages for them to start using Facebook.- My f... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | staunch: 1) The front page has screenshots of HTML components. They look like you can interact with them, but you can't. This is almost always a bad design choice.2) I don't want to use my Google account. I always use a site-specific email address when registering for a new site. I'll never give one of my actual gmail ... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | inerte: As a non-english speaker, I actually Googled for "hangoutable" because I didn't know what it means and mentions of Sponty came on top :pOn the site itself:- I have no idea how you're eco-friendly (sorry, the leaf conjures this emotion)- Underlined blue words are links: I thought I could click on the main page "... |
Two-Dimensional Comments | inerte: Horizontal scrolling bars are a no-no. None expects them. Mouse wheels and page-down and space bar doesn't work. It breaks how users expect the page to behave. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | amr: When you click to add an item on the calendar, the set of icons appear without any indication to what they stand for until you click on one and see the description in the "what" field. I know some of them are obvious, but you should think about clearing the ambiguity by having the "what" field populated appropriat... |
Two-Dimensional Comments | timf: An alternative would be to collapse 2nd level comments and below. You choose which thread to get involved with by clicking in. There's probably a greasemonkey script that does this.That's how I read the site without any help from the UI, I don't find it to be that big of a deal. If there are more than ~5 commen... |
Two-Dimensional Comments | run4yourlives: Why wouldn't you just hide them and put a link up to expand the thread like Slashdot does? |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | tokenadult: Are you asking if anyone else gets feature requests? Sure. And I'm not a programmer, but I get them all the time. A client isn't a client until the client starts coming up with "By the way, could you . . . ?" |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | cubicle67: I'm still learning to say no. Here's the reply I just sent:> From my simple understanding of programming I thought it shouldn't be too difficult.It's not difficult, but it does take time. I think it's a good idea, but I would rather concentrate on getting the core of the programme done initially. I think on... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | tlrobinson: A few little things:- don't capitalize by username in my URL (i.e. http://www.thesponty.com/Tlrobinson_94). Also, do you really need the "_94", can't it just be the username?- clear the placeholder text from textfield when it's clicked |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | marketer: Very confusing. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | natch: This is cool. Sorry don't have time to do a detailed test drive now, but I see others have done that, and I just wanted to add that YES this is a great concept and something I have been wishing for. Dodgeball was close, Twitter is OK for this but too noisy and not always followed closely enough, but this gets ri... |
Browser specific CSS Or X-browser compliant design? | satyajit: Browser stats link:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp |
How do you manage new feature requests for your application? | jfornear: Be careful leaving the future of your app open to user feedback, especially when it comes to feature requests.A good talk on this topic (by 37signals' Jason Fried):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H8RB24ZfRo |
How do you manage new feature requests for your application? | cperciva: So i was wondering what would be a good way to collect users' reactions and requests?Check your email.No, I don't mean right now. Well, sure, actually. Check your email right now. And every 5 minutes while you're awake for the rest of the year.When you get an email from a user, reply to it. Get into a con... |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | kaens: Yes.I currently am working on a web-app using cherrypy for my client, who has some small knowledge of PHP.He's a great guy, and I love working with him; however, he likes to make suggestions, normally involving some way he could implement something in PHP to help out, and the suggestions invariably would add a l... |
Browser specific CSS Or X-browser compliant design? | CalmQuiet: You might also want to consider whether today's "browser specific" will be tomorrow's browser-specific. For example: there was no Google Chrome a year ago. Nor Safari for Windows.But be ready to add style sheets for mobile devices. ...or whatever evolves next. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | Tichy: This may sound paranoid, but I don't want to enter my Google passwort on a site that I have been forwarded to from another site.I tried logging in to Google and then to login via your site, too, but Google still asked for my password. |
Please review my app - LoveLogger.com: World's First Pair-Blogging Platform | satyajit: Hey, I never got an activation email ... I checked my spam box too. Not there. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | sgentle: Interesting idea, but you're gambling on a huge network effect there. I'd need to get a whole group of my friends using this for it to be worth it, and I can't be bothered to do that. Even if I could, each one of them would need to remember to update it before they went anywhere... what a hassle.An idea: why n... |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | truebosko: Very cool. As someone who is about to move into a new city (Montreal) I really like things like this because it makes it easier to get to know people.I really have nothing to add that hasn't been said (damn!) but I figure a bit more kudos isn't going to hurt. |
Is there a way to know if someone has commented on any of your (old) posts? | jpd: They aren't notified about it, but they can see if anyone has replied by going to their past comments list (linked from their profile) and looking for any changes. |
Do You Twitter? | yan: me: http://twitter.com/yan_i |
Do You Twitter? | jwb119: http://www.twitter.com/jboehmig |
Do You Twitter? | vincentpants: me: twitter.com/vincentpants |
Do You Twitter? | ObieJazz: mtinkerhess |
Do You Twitter? | mattmcknight: mattmcknight how's that for branding? however, my twittering is not very interesting. |
Do You Twitter? | rickharrison: ive been addicted to twitter for a while
me: twitter.com/rickharrison |
Do You Twitter? | poppinphresh: http://twitter.com/poppinphresh |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | minalecs: well most my friends and i already use google calendar for this type of thing. If we really want to schedule a day out or something. But I can see how this might be popular with like college kids. Try making it a facebook app instead, might be much more useful |
Do You Twitter? | Zev: I'm more interested in knowing if anyone doesn't have a twitter (and if so, why not)also, http://twitter.com/zadr is mine if anyone's remotely interested. |
Do You Twitter? | joshuarr: Joshuarr - I'm still trying to decide if it's a sink hole or not though. |
Do You Twitter? | evanjacobs: http://twitter.com/evanjacobs |
Do You Twitter? | IsaacSchlueter: Can't we just put our twitter URLs in our profiles? |
Do You Twitter? | azharcs: http://twitter.com/azharcs
I mostly used to tweet content i liked from HN, maybe with more HN users following, i will have to stop doing that :) |
Do You Twitter? | abstractbill: I think I do. Honestly can't remember! I believe I set up an account and had something else push some kind of status update to it... perhaps even comments like these... through FriendFeed maybe?So, uh, who is working on an online service to keep track of all the online services I use? ;-)Edit: Found it... |
Do You Twitter? | mikecuesta: http://twitter.com/mikecuesta |
Do You Twitter? | okeumeni: I just started twitter as well, though I’m not very active I created one for one of our products http://twitter.com/errorkey. |
Do You Twitter? | wesley: http://twitter.com/improvingtheweb |
Do You Twitter? | sspencer: http://twitter.com/sm_spencerGenerally pretty profane and/or nonsensical, but I let the occasional nugget of wisdom slip out. |
Do You Twitter? | adityakothadiya: Of course I do - http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya |
Do You Twitter? | enra: Still trying, but with Twirssi, I found myself using twitter more frequently. me: http://twitter.com/karrisaarinen |
Do You Twitter? | AndrewHampton: http://twitter.com/andrewhampton |
Do You Twitter? | pskomoroch: http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch mostly tweets on python, machine learning, general data crunching topics. |
Do You Twitter? | davidw: At first twitter just seemed useless, but then I figured out what it's good for: "spamming" people. I signed up for rss feeds of various search terms I'm interested in, and when something goes by, zing, off goes an URL. I don't think this makes for very interesting reading, but in any case, I'm here:http://tw... |
Do You Twitter? | maximumwage: I'm not on Twitter, but I enjoy following the feeds of top entrepreneurs and investors. Here are a few good lists and rankings:
http://www.bigwinner.org/twitter-leaders/
http://buzzmarketingfortech.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-level-twe...
http://twittercounter.com/pages/100
http://twitterholic.com/ |
Do You Twitter? | dylanz: I refuse. It's one of those things that comes along that I know I don't need (time sink), and stick to my guns and ignore it.Didn't have a Facebook profile for the longest time... then started working with a client who wanted to build a Facebook application. Created a profile, and it snowballed from there :/ |
Do You Twitter? | newy: http://twitter.com/euwyngive me a shout (or an @, whatever the cool kids call it these days) if you're in nyc. |
Do You Twitter? | jeffbarr: I am http://twitter.com/jeffbarr - a combination of news about the Amazon Web Services (70%) and my own stuff (30%). |
Do You Twitter? | ucdaz: www.twitter.com/nickleung
www.twitter.com/feedbackjar |
Do You Twitter? | swombat: http://www.twitter.com/swombat (duh) |
Do You Twitter? | BinaryPie: http://twitter.com/binarypie |
Do You Twitter? | danw: http://twitter.com/iamdanw/ |
Do You Twitter? | flexterra: english / español / "spanglish": http://twitter.com/gcollazo |
Do You Twitter? | entelarust: http://twitter.com/entelarust |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | RiderOfGiraffes: As you've said, why pay, when you can use the free version on-line? You have to give them something for their money. You have to differentiate between the free version and the one they pay for.Graphing is one option, but you'll need to think of more. There's also the problem of people paying, downloa... |
Do You Twitter? | pyroman: http://twitter.com/greg_allard I mostly do @ replies, links to my blog posts, or what beer I'm drinking (microbrews, nothing boring) |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | vaksel: can try going for affiliate links for graphic calculators, but I don't think it'll monetize that well |
Do You Twitter? | immad: http://twitter.com/immad |
Do You Twitter? | geuis: I'm http://twitter.com/geuis |
does raising convertible debt preclude applying to YC? | frisco: You should have terms in your convertible note agreements describing a "qualified financing," which should be the condition on which investors can convert to equity. Usually this gives investments in series A range, much much more than YC would invest. |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | run4yourlives: Before understanding the best option, you should examine your user base a little more.10K a day sure, but what's the breakdown? Do you have 2K that visit the site 5 times a day, every day? That lends itself well to the subscription model. Are most of your visitors in and outs from google, with no recurri... |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | awt: There are already graphing sites out there, but they're more data oriented than calculation oriented (not sure if that makes sense). But basically if you could hook the calc up to a graph and make them really easy to create and share you would be able to get some virality. If you had a ton of graphs out on the w... |
does raising convertible debt preclude applying to YC? | pg: No; on several occasions we've invested in startups that had already raised money.Technically it depends on what size financing triggers conversion. In practice investors tend to be willing to waive converting regardless, because of the advantages to the startup of doing YC. |
Do You Twitter? | jfornear: Twittering makes me a better person, duh. http://twitter.com/smujesse |
What's your favorite HTML Web presentation tool? | yan: http://280slides.com |
Do You Twitter? | brandonkm: http://twitter.com/keithkay |
Do You Twitter? | brk: I've been using Twitter in bursts.http://twitter.com/NotoriousBRK |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | inerte: - Analyze what calculations your users are doing and serve related ads. Example, for someone doing compounding interest 12 times, you show books related to investments. Or someone using some mathematician work, a link to his biography book;- Contact a company and ask if they want to sponsor a contest. The first... |
Do You Twitter? | billroberts: The problem I find with it is that if you follow more than a handful of active tweeters, then there are too many tweets to read in a reasonable amount of time. That said, I find I get useful information from people with similar (work-related) interests to mine, and a way to 'get to know' people, which can ... |
Do You Twitter? | shergill: Yup.. i twitter; @shergill if you want to follow my exciting life. :) |
Do You Twitter? | ghostz00: http://twitter.com/greghos |
Do You Twitter? | dhess: I'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the first time, too, but so far I prefer Twitter, probably because more people use it, and it's easier for my friends to peruse.It's just links, mostly to tech... |
Do You Twitter? | tomh-: http://twitter.com/intellicode |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | rdrimmie: Maybe throttle the number of advanced functins or calculations unregistered users are allowed to do per day (or session, or other time period) and have a countdown/tracker displaying the number they have remaining along with a link to register.Buy the desktop version, get unlimited access to the web version.P... |
Do You Twitter? | darreld: http://www.twitter.com/darreld |
Do You Twitter? | jaxn: http://twitter.com/jaxn |
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