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Please review our startup - timzon.com | pedalpete: I'm not sure why this is, but when I first get to your site, i don't know what to look at.
My eyes are being dragged all over the place, and I had to concentrate to read a single heading/paragraph.You'd think with the big lettering you've used, and the layout (which is good), this wouldn't be an issue.The '... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | JabavuAdams: Take a cooling-off period of a few months to relax, and research. During this time, do not buy a home, or any other large purchase (> $4k ?) that you wouldn't have before your windfall. Stay out of the stock, market, except for GICs.Think about what you would need to be permanently semi-retired. I.e. you d... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | look_lookatme: Two chicks at once. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | JabavuAdams: Take the Canadian Securities Course, if you're at all interested in money. I did. It's easy if you prepare. I crammed it over a weekend, and just squeaked by. I've heard of a lot of people failing after cramming, though, so YMMV.After reading Fooled By Randomness, I don't trust anyone else to manage my mon... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | tlb: Don't over-think it. Put half in cash and half in 3-5 stocks you think don't suck. You would have to spend a huge amount of time on money management to get better results than that.When I cashed out, I gave away 10%. Mostly to family, and some to local charitable projects I personally cared about. It can feel good... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | lr: Buy lots of gold and silver! But yes, diversify (savings, CDs, stocks, bonds, etc.). |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | gcheong: Try having a look at the Motley Fool website.www.fool.com |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | jacquesm: Well, 49% really would be worth 49, but to hand over control that is quite a different kettle of fish. It very much depends on how much you trust the party you are dealing with, to me if you sell 51% you might as well sell it whole in most cases, so I figure 51% = 100 - (whatever risk you think is acceptable)... |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | mkuhn: I don't have a conclusive answer but a few inputs.I think it drastically depends on the state a company is in. An established business which is listed on the stock market probably has much less of a markup for the 51% than a very young company.Also, I don't know for sure about the US, but in Switzerland and a fe... |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | brk: I'm not sure what you mean.From an investment perspective you would ordinarily go through an exercise to determine what the business is valued at. There are various tools and methods to these calculation, but the outcome is that you get a mutually agreed upon number.One you've reached that stage, 51% of the compa... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | dag: 1. Get in great shape.
2. Help the poor. |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | aidenn0: If I want to give up control of the company but still keep part of the future profits of the company (which is basically what this question asks), it makes more sense to just sell to a public corporporation for a mixture of cash and stock. This is basically the same idea.You get Money, give up control of the ... |
Please review our startup - timzon.com | releasedatez: When I'm on the "About Us" page, I couldn't find my way back home. The logo image doesn't take me home. |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | app: 51% == 100% |
Your startup is worth 100. So what is 51% of it worth? | notaddicted: Good Question.It depends on whether someone is trying to buy the 51% or the 49%Selling the 49%: 49 by what I assume the definition of "worth" to be.Selling the 51%:If: You think the buyer can run the company better than you
Then: 51If: You think the buyer can run the company tolerably well
Then: 60
- Extra... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | seanc: There is a whole class of financial planners who only work for rich people. They typically want you to have 500k net worth before they'll talk to you. They provide better advice for much less money that the retail mutual fund pushers at banks.Google Baskin Financial and Doherty and Associates, and ask around f... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | tomsaffell: Any advice would really need to based on an understanding of what you want to get from the money, and more broadly from life.I slightly get the impression from the wording of your question that you don't quite know what you want to get from it, but you feel that you ought to do something (there are plenty o... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | anaphoric: No offense, but I don't believe you. I think you are spoofing HN.On the very small chance you are telling the truth, I would say diversify your investments and keep your mouth shut. And then start ramblin' |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | vaksel: email and offer to work for free |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | kurtosis: I prefer a ranked list, one tag per row. Also draw bar graph next to each item to visually show the difference in magnitude between the ranks. |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | jncraton: I would definitely recommend trying to get on the inside of the startup somehow. A huge part of business is networking. Do anyone of your friends know someone who works at or owns a startup? See if they can put in a word for you and maybe get a face to face interview set up.Make sure that you are clear that y... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | mrtron: Carleton or UofO? Are you in the co-op program or looking for a general summer position?Startups tend not to hire co-ops, because they cannot afford the risk of getting a dud. I worked for a term at a startup and it actually was very difficult to dive into, it was a very niche technology and nobody had time t... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | simonk: Check with your a university advisor. In Vancouver we have someone from the local university that helps places students at startups. |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | DanHulton: Join this meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/The-Ottawa-LAMP-Perl-and-PHP-Meetup-Gr... and try networking there. There's a lot of smart local folk, and many of them are hiring. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | kingkongrevenge: Many eggs, many baskets.Make sure some of your wealth is out of the reach of your government. Bullion stored in switzererland or the channel islands is good for this.Learn how to hedge with options. Puts were quite cheap before the crash. People who had insured their positions are doing fine. This ... |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | joshu: I've always kinda hated tag clouds.Can you give us a sample of what the data looks like? |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | lepacha: You should also consider putting a link here to your blog/portfolio or just a way to contact you. I am the founder of a Montreal-based startup and always love to talk to smart students who are eager to learn. |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | psyklic: Go to entrepreneurship or tech networking events. At least in LA, I'm always surprised that no students show up! |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | markup: I'm guessing "war games" wouldn't help :-) |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | vaksel: define "hacking", did he do anything complicated, or did he just guess a password? |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | paulgb: Networking at local tech events would be a good start. If you code outside of class (which it sounds like you do), you are already ahead of 90% of people in most CS programs in Canada. In my experience, if you meet someone in person or are referred by a friend you have MUCH better odds of getting a reply than j... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | r11t: The best reference I can recommend would be Eric Raymond's "How To Become A Hacker" : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html The key point the article points out is that "The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them." The teenage thrill of breaking into computer systems is cert... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | jacquesm: Why was it wrong ?He shouldn't have been able to do it anyway. Compare it to a kid kicking against a fence and finding out that it swings open.Simply explain that if you have no business in a system that you should not try to gain access, that should be plenty. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | nsrivast: Show him this:http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | xenophanes: he didn't do anything wrong. congratulate him, and offer him links to some things you think he may enjoy to learn more.if you fear he will make mistakes, the best way to combat that is with knowledge, not by taking the school's side against him and calling his great success immoral. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | grouchyOldGuy: Just because you CAN screw around with someone else's property doesn't mean you SHOULD. Although it can be exciting (especially at that age) to do something forbidden, he can suffer the consequences if caught. He might inadvertently harm the system and could wind up in serious legal trouble. It's like wa... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | sounddust: When I was in high school, I guessed the administrator password of our computer lab (it was the administrator's daughter's first name) and basically maintained the computer lab for the rest of the semester. I never did any harm in the process. The administrator, upon finding out what I had done, recognized... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | endtwist: Whatever you do, do not punish him for this. While what he did was not right (though your use of "hacking" here is very broad), instead of telling him how wrong it was, simply try to push him in a more positive direction. My suggestion would be to ask him to work on some sort of project for or with you, perha... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | noonespecial: I'd try the "with great power comes great responsibility" angle. They did the best their muddled minds could do to secure their system. It was trivially easy to break into it using your l33t haxor skillz, but might does not make right. Have a little compassion.Also, remember, embarrassing them in this way... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | dylanz: Just let him know what the potential consequences are, and your recommendation (which I'm assuming is to "not" continue).See if there is any way you can spin this toward the "good", by possibly having a meeting with the schools principal and systems admin. This is obviously a crap shoot, but could possibly be ... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | cabalamat: Don't get caught. |
What do you look for in a PR Agency? | tristmegistus: My goals would guide whether I spent a retainer or not on a publicist. If I needed a reactive, damage-control publicist, then a retainer would make sense to have them at the ready. But if I were planning a product roll-out and wanted media placements it might make more sense to hire someone for a finit... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | thomasswift: Tell him to stop before he gets caught. Even though he didn't do any damage, a school's administration will not take kindly to the potential threat that he is.here's one example, a quick google search - 69 felonies for stealing tests and changing grades http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38012/118/Also, e... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | spencerfry: It's as simple as emailing and asking. It's good to be specific about what you're good at and what you'd like to work on. It helps if you're in the area and can commute as well. We had a few people email us and have picked one Computer Science student at Michigan (who lives in NYC) to work with us this summ... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | carlosrr: When I was looking for internships I would just look for startup lists on cities I was interested in. I saw their open positions and sent a mail with my resume and a well crafted cover letter based on what I was interested on. Most companies were very accessible and would at least reply back. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | kirse: Tell your cousin he gets about 3 more years of goofing around like that where he should use the "stupid kid" or "I dunno" defense and get off scott-free or with a slap on the wrist. Once he's an adult though, the kiddy stuff has to stop.If he's messing with financial systems or other serious stuff, give him a t... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | gorillak: Give it to me. I will put it to good use. Promise. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | Allocator2008: Each man has a right to his own property, including his intellectual property. Therefore it is wrong to "hack" if this means breaking into somebody's system without their permission, because it is a violation of the right to property. A copy of 'Atlas Shrugged' could drive this point home I think. But th... |
Python and web services | anthonyrubin: I don't believe that SOAP is especially popular in the Python world. Note that an XML-RPC library is included with Python, but a SOAP library is not. Most "web services" are likely done using REST. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | jollyjerry: If your cousin is interested in doing that kind of work, why not suggest him to volunteer with the school? All the other responses seem to romanticize the rogue hacker. Instead, I think he should come clean, and do his work in the public. He could offer to audit the school's network. For a 13 year old, ... |
Python and web services | vidar: soaplib is decent |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | thinkcomp: I'd be interested in talking with you about an internship.jobs@thinkcomputer.com |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | judegomila: invest in heyzap.com (haha) |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | jaspertheghost: If you're not actively managing your portfolio, the biggest thing you can make sure to do is asset allocation a la David F. Swensen. I'd recommend Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | Flemlord: You need an investment advisor, not recommendations from your accountant or hacker news. ;-) Find somebody with a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation. A good CFP may charge you $1k-$3k up front for a comprehensive financial plan, then around 1% of your total portfolio annually if you want him to ac... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | newseller: Just wanted to chime in to thank everyone for the great and diverse advice. I definitely can't respond to all the overwhelming feedback, so I'll keep it at thanks. This is a great community, and I appreciate all of you. Seems nobody has any good financial software other than quicken for mac, but that's ok. M... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | pavel_lishin: My only advice is to go for B's. A will be too suspicious. |
An introduction to web platforms? | halo: Web server sends pages to client on request. Examples are Apache and IIS.Web server interacts with server-side scripting language. Examples are PHP and Ruby. Allows you to generate pages on the fly custom-designed for the user, and allows you to do useful things like templating via databases with ease.Web applica... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | andreyf: Do what my parents did when I got suspended for "hacking":1) Get him a new computer (but with a crappy video card, if he's into gaming)2) Find him programming internships and introduce him to programmers you knowI would also add:Tell him that he isn't a real programmer unless he understands Prolog, Haskell, C,... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | brianobush: actually insurance companies have many rules put in place by the states that will assign the accounts to a different servicing company. but that is US, I am sure Canada has similar rules.check out coffee house investment strategy, I have been doing this for years (10+) and have fared well in this recession.... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | wehriam: I was in a similar situation years ago and found some great internships with small organizations.Determine what type of company you'd like to work for and the region you'd like to work in. Put together your resume and a cover letter explaining your situation - student with skills seeks internship. Enthusiasm, ... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | whalesalad: Just don't let him blog about it... my dumb ass did that and got expelled. Best thing that ever happened to me, looking back, but it caused a whole lot of turmoil. |
An introduction to web platforms? | russell: Start with a static website on your own computer. You need to learn things in this order.HTMLCSS so you can style your pagesJavaScript so you can do dynamic thingsJQuery makes JavaScript much easierWith this you can actually publish a fully functional web site with a hosting company.The server side is needed ... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | tdeslaurier: Hello there. I am located in Edmonton, Alberta, and licensed in most provinces. I am in the Insurance industry and have dealt with Lottery winners, widows, business owners and many others in my 17 years as an advisor. The best strategy for you is not going to be found through a forum like this. I can say t... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | apalmblad: I've both been hired at startups through the coop program and have hired employees through the coop program for my startup.Give that a try.In Canada, if your marks are high enough (B average), you can also qualify for an NSERC undergrad student research award, which basically lets a startup recoup half of a ... |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | cvinson: We'll actually be posting an opening for an intern at Carleton; we can definitely use a generalist like yourself. Our company, bandzoogle.com is based in Montreal, but we have employees in the UK and US. We're not really a "startup" anymore, but we can give you some experience in scaling a web app (we use S3... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | teyc: Set aside some money in Kiva.com, it'll be the happiest investment you ever made. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | teyc: Firstly make sure he realizes if he gets caught, the government is going to ground him from coming near another computer for 20 years. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | klahnako: I am in Ontario. My advice is:1) Stay in real cash (not equivelents) until this market turmoil is done.
2) Figure out what you want your next "career" to be. You are in a position to take some risks, but 2million is not that much. You want to give yourself purpose and continue making some money.
3) Do not... |
Python and web services | erqwer: I've had good luck with Suds (https://fedorahosted.org/suds/) in the past. |
Can we get a quick undo vote like on reddit, it is easy to click the wrong arrow. | someperson: Requested many times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 |
URL-To-Comments? | nreece: The Hacker News OnePage Greasemonkey script ( http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 ) or the SplitView Greasemonkey script ( http://www.nirmalpatel.com/web.html#splitview ) for a split view of the story & comments may help you. |
Quick wins for your business? | aristus: When comparing technology vendors in a mature area I think it's good to pick a new, smart entrant who's somewhat proven but still hungry. They are the ones who get customers by competing on quality and features. Don't always go with the default or the sexy choice."somewhat proven" is key. Don't shoot yourself ... |
Quick wins for your business? | moe: Welcome to the world of automation. This is also how many underdogs manage to grab a slice from the "big players". You'd be surprised how many large companies that could easily afford to optimize their processes just don't do it.You find dedicated people (or even departments) doing nothing but strictly repetitive ... |
Quick wins for your business? | DenisM: In the same direction: -wrote a script to download daily sales data from iTunes and upload to google docs for charting
-use http://www.moopf.com/appstorereviews/ to keep track of my reviews on iTunes
-automated IIS6 deployment from empty machine
-wrote an admin panel for the web site users
-outsorced h... |
What sites do you go to mostly to read the comments? | jacquesm: digg -> just some of the articles, not the comments
/. -> articles in some sections, comments in some sections, there is overlap between the two but not everything, for instance, most articles on genetics are way over my head but the comments sometimes explain them
HN -> both articles and comments, but de... |
Has a human been cloned but not been released to the world? | jacquesm: There are enough unethical scientists out there that it is a distinct possibility, the problems that still need to be overcome according to literature are 'doable'.That said, I would also bank on the ego of those scientists to attract attention to the fact that they 'did it' as soon as such as human was carri... |
Quick wins for your business? | skmurphy: Patrick, you've also mentioned this dashboard on JBoS. I would be interested in licensing the script(s) from you. Contact info in my profile. |
How do I get through to startups for a summer position? | shafqat: We're always looking for good interns at NewsCred, although summer is a long ways away for us. Drop me a line and we'll keep in touch (shafqat at newscred dot com). We're launching a lot of new products in the next few months, so should be an exciting time. |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | mburns: Being smart is not an excuse to be lazy. Also, don't be stupid. |
URL-To-Comments? | RiderOfGiraffes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370399It's not mine, I don't know how it works, sometimes it goes wrong, but I think it's worth investigating. It seem to be a problem several people have had a go at solving.No idea what terms to search for to find previous discussions on it, though. Perhaps bookm... |
Quick wins for your business? | brandnewlow: Every morning I wake up and read all the latest Chicago news, looking for stuff to submit to my social news site or pass along to other users to check out.This was taking a long time and wasn't very fun.So I created my own private alltop/tinyURLs for every mainstream media RSS feed, local blog and the sear... |
What sites do you go to mostly to read the comments? | pj: I notice comments are better on most sites late at night. |
Best email for elders? | davidw: My mom is happy with Gmail, and she really isn't a computer person. |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | garetjax: Don't count out vc events / pitch meetings. There are a lot of cool people ie hackers that attend them - I highly recommend going to the next Boston Web Innovators meetup - its March 10th http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/They usually have about 3 formal pitches and then before and after them people mingle a... |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | apgwoz: The page at: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Hacker_Groups# lists two "groups" in Boston. One of which is http://betahouse.org/ which seems to be a CoWorking space. Co-Working, I would think would be a great way to meet people. It seems to be at least in Philadelphia at http://www.indyhall.org.I'm s... |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | steveplace: hackrtrackr.com |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | mechanical_fish: You passed the first test: I asked myself "wait, how is this not a one-stop-shopping service for aspiring, technically incompetent DOS attackers"? And I found your FAQ and answered that question inside of 45 seconds:http://loadimpact.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7 |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | aikiai: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Startup-Poker/I'm pretty much in the same boat as you (aspiring founder), but the event is hosted by Ivan Kirigin of Tipjoy (YCW08 I believe) and there's been a number of other local startup founders at the games, YC and otherwise. Really fun time.Also, I've got good things to say ... |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | epi0Bauqu: On the free results page at the bottom there are some FAQ graphs, but they all link to the same place. |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | rshao: The email field in your profile is invisible to other users. Put it up in your about me. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | vaksel: I think your pricing is pretty much way off.Why would I want to pay you $40/mo, if I'm paying $3/mo for shared hosting that I know can handle 250 users?And its the same way through out. Even at the highest level, it'd be cheaper for me to lease a second dedicated server to spread the load, than it is to pay you... |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | caustic: What would happen if I tried load testing loadimpact.com? |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | wesley: So, what can I learn about these results:http://loadimpact.com/result/www.improvingtheweb.com-b75533d... |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | agotterer: You guys should offer a daily or limited time use rate. I would think many sites dont need to load test every month. But instead when they are first building an infrastructure or making upgrades.One of the sites I am working on now is moving to a new codebase. We wanted to load test for a few hours but found... |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | speek: You might have a good time meeting people at Northeastern University. Every wednesday we have a speaker come in and talk about something they're interested in. It'd be a great place to meet geeky students and faculty at NU. http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/?q=videos has some videos of past talks, but they haven't been upd... |
Hackers And Founders In Boston | shizcakes: As others have stated, the email in your profile is invisible. I am curious about your 'main' startup project (I work at one in Boston right now that could be construed as being in the music industry).My email should be available in my profile. |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | quickpost: Under the "Need help interpreting your graph?" section all the graphs lead to the same explanation! Need to have a different explanation for each one. |
Hackers House in Dallas, TX? | Radix: I would drop by. I havne't had much luck in meeting people like you describe, the only drawback would be that I might not know enough myself. :) |
please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com | chops: Maybe I'm just retarded, but I couldn't find the answer to my question on your site. Does your service just pound the exact page that's targeted, or does it follow links, submit forms, etc to try to simulate actual users? |
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