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Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | icey: I've tried piracetam, and didn't really notice any difference greater than eating breakfast and/or getting a good night's sleep would give me. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | modoc: I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, and a cup of tea is about the limit of my caffeine intake.My brain is very precious to me, and if I do anything that might damage it, there's no way to fix it, or get a new one, so I try to stay away from anything that could kill brain cells, rewire things, etc...But, that's just ... |
What stocks are you invested in? | SwellJoe: Probably not really on topic here, but:INTC and GOOG. Bought INTC years ago, it's trended slowly downward ever since. Bought GOOG just a couple of months ago at close to its current trading price.Mostly, though I sold all my holdings and lived off of it while starting up my current company. That's proven a... |
Interested in buying shares in startup? | Shamiq: Seems like a potshot -- What would it take for you to flesh out your profile a bit so we can learn more about you?Also, most won't "invest" in a company without knowing every damn thing -- including current/projected financials, competitors, etc. Good luck and hopefully you'll get what you need :) |
Interested in buying shares in startup? | noodle: imo, yes, provided there's enough information on the startup available.having said that, i feel that there is a startup/business concept available here (if it doesn't already exist). something similar to prosper.com, except with equity for startups. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | spydez: You need a sample document, so people can test out the "using your mouse to sign" part without signing up.I don't want to bother with the whole sign up, check email, wait, check email again, click verify link, go back to site, find document to test with, upload, blah blah meh.I just want to see how the signy bi... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | usiegj00: @spydez. Hey hey--I think you can. You get a sample contract right after the invite page. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | rksprst: "For a better experience, please use a fully supported browser. For more information, click here." The "click here" link goes to localhost.Other than that, I'd like to have some security and assurance that these contracts are in fact legally binding. Maybe a quote from someone in the government...And instead o... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | dmix: One detail I think is important: When I create an account I'd like to add my password at the beginning. I knew it would email me after requesting that I enter a password, but the mainstream user definitely won't.Security is a very important factor with your application and it helps to create that image even if it... |
Interested in buying shares in startup? | dpifke: You really need to talk to a securities lawyer. If the above could be construed as advertising your share offering, you've just triggered one of the requirements for SEC registration. The legal fees involved would be in the tens of thousands of dollars, way more than what you're hoping to raise.There are ways... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | dablya: I've integrated with a similar service at work. Do you provide an API for uploading documents? |
Does the Justin.tv domain appear to be parked for you, too? | thepanister: No, it does not!But it was down today, at least for me. |
Does the Justin.tv domain appear to be parked for you, too? | jwilliams: Does for me too - weird.Edit: A quick whois shows it was updated very recently. http://www.enom.com/whois/Whois.aspx?DomainName=justin.tvThe "detailed" verisign whois doesn't appear to be working. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | cool-RR: I didn't understand how to sign. It said hold mouse button, try again, and nothing I did worked. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | mwerty: A typed out signature is legally valid. Why use the mouse? |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | kbrower: Why $11/month? Is there a reason behind the number or is it just random? |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | thepanister: This looks like a real business... not just an app! |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | cpierret: New CEO probably thinks that the engineering team is a mess and someone has to fix it.
Stop implementing Nagios yourself (and any non business critical issues), and ask the CEO for some freelance to do the job instead. If he argues that he has no money for that, run away fast (he has money to hire a VP Eng.... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | callmeed: Nice work–the app works as advertised and the site looks professional. As some others mentioned, an option to type the signature would be nice.Also, I'd love to see an API and here's why: as is, this is a very horizontal app ... by having an API, you could let developers of vertical apps integrate and instant... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | dchest: Gives "For a better experience, please use a fully supported browser. For more information, click here."Safari 4 beta. |
Does the Justin.tv domain appear to be parked for you, too? | AndrewWarner: Looks good for me. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | sam_in_nyc: Very nice looking pages, and I like the concept. Very well done so far, I think you're in the right direction. That being said, I'm better at finding things wrong with stuff than right, so here's my feedback.I thought the "Try it Now" meant I get to sign some sample document... or preview an account where... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | gaoshan: I don't use it. On the few occasions I have it has made me turned me into a completely unproductive zombie.Still think it should be legalized but not because I like it or want to use it... it just makes economic and legal sense. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | keltecp11: I know signature link has the patent for this technology, make sure your product differentiates itself or you might see some issues in the future:http://signaturelink.com/It looks great though! |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | ooorrr: I'm the guy on the other side of the table: I'm the VP of Engineering who gets brought in. The circumstances are always the same - the CEO/COO/BoD doesn't believe that the CTO is the person they can trust to build great software and great processes. (This may or may not be true, and the company may or may not b... |
What stocks are you invested in? | lacker: Thousands of them, via index funds. |
What's the gist of Penelope Trunk for the ill informed? | aneesh: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426786 |
What's the gist of Penelope Trunk for the ill informed? | gojomo: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=penelope+trunk |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | seshagiric: for all sample signatures on the page, use famous ones like Abraham Lincoln, Templeton etc.:) |
What's the gist of Penelope Trunk for the ill informed? | whatusername: She's female, talks dirty/sexual and has a book: http://www.amazon.com/Brazen-Careerist-New-Rules-Success/dp/... (That covers the famous part)That being said - i think large parts of her advice are worth considering at least.. not sure about them being iron-clad rules - but some of her work is worth a... |
What's the best way to break up charges for recurring billing? | smidwap: 1) Standard practice. Good for accounting purposes.2) Unnecessarily complicated for end-user. Also messes with accounting because you don't want to record revenue earned for the second month in the first month.3) Accounting nightmare! But nonetheless, common practice throughout the web industry.4) Should be an... |
Selling IP rights to an iPhone app | dkokelley: 1. Should I sell the IP rights to my software?If you don't do this then what would you do? Are you planning on selling the app yourself once it's developed? If you were then you need to evaluate both options and decide for yourself (or with more input from HN after more details are given) which is the best c... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | snitko: If even typed signature is legally valid, then what's the point in using the service? |
SVN updates summary | aneesh: Check out http://stackoverflow.com. Hacker News isn't a tech support site. |
What GUI SQL client do you use? | nshah: I use SQuirrelSQL[http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/] and it works great... it's free, open-source and cross-platform... what else could I ask for. |
SVN updates summary | makecheck: Since every commit (consisting of any number of files, anywhere in the tree) changes the global repository revision, you can examine the log while at the top level to see all changes that were made.Try verbose mode, e.g. "cd trunk" and "svn log -r HEAD -v". You should see additional output that lists all ch... |
What GUI SQL client do you use? | jawngee: Aqua Data Studio |
What GUI SQL client do you use? | ejs: I usually use MySQL Query Browser: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/query-browser/en/. I am on ubuntu, not sure what other platforms it handles. |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | thorax: Front page looks nice-- if I was looking for such a service, your front page would have pulled me in to find out more. Nice job on the first step. |
What GUI SQL client do you use? | pclark: Sequel Pro |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | ggruschow: You may want to target law and gov't offices. Fewer people will bitch at them about what's legal, and they have boatloads of signatures to collect.For me, fax-to-email and printer driver-to-internet fax are cheaper and more convenient. |
What good is a 'non-binding' letter of intent? | geuis: I did one of these with a potential client several years ago. Its absolutely non-binding and served nothing except to make her nervous. My business partner pushed for us to do it so we could have something for a press release. http://mannea.com/2007/05/21/church-crawford-signs-letter-of... |
Please review my app: RightSignature.com - Easy Online Document Signing | NoBSWebDesign: This looks very useful. We actually need something like this for our startup. Any plans for an API (or would you be interested in working to develop one)? Email me please if you could. |
Interesting code to read | cperciva: I'm a bit biassed here, but several people have told me that they think the tarsnap source code (all in C) is "beautiful", "well designed", "very UNIXy", "incredibly clean", etc. |
Interesting code to read | silentbicycle: For C, the Lua source is great, and there's a hyperlinked version here - http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ . It's written in strictly compliant ANSI C.For Lisp and Scheme, try Peter Norvig's _Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming_ and Christian Queinnec's _Lisp in Small Pieces_ (PAIP and LiSP). T... |
Interesting code to read | scott_s: For C, I think the Linux kernel is a good representative: http://miller.cs.wm.edu/lxr3.linux/http/source/?v=2.6.11.12 |
Interesting code to read | icey: Peter Norvig has written some very nice Python and Lisp. I think most of the code he has on his website (http://norvig.com/) is in Python, but PAIP is all Lisp. |
HN going reddit with all these Erlang threads? | haasted: It was so ordered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 ... and like lemmings, we followed. |
HN going reddit with all these Erlang threads? | seldo: It's our new scalability strategy of "scaring new users away". |
HN going reddit with all these Erlang threads? | noodle: we just really love erlang.p.s.: boy this place is boring and very similar to reddit, isn't it? |
list of applicable CSS properties for each html tag? | noodle: you "can" apply any css property to any element. some elements come with default behavior that might need to be overwritten.i think your best bet is to play around with it. |
Haskell or Erlang? | critic: Haskell for me. |
Why is Erlang so unpopular? | kirubakaran: Why is chocolate more popular than brown rice? |
Haskell or Erlang? | biohacker42: Obviously both. But if you're looking to make an exclusive commitment for professional reasons, then I suspect Erlang is more industry and Haskell more academia. |
Which DNS provider for a startup? | jws: I always use a dedicated DNS provider because if my hosting service implodes or goes rogue I need to be able to move the name.If you want a recommendation, I use gandi.net. They have a long track record of doing the job well and respecting the customer's IP rights. |
Any sources on Erlang? | ConradHex: Please see "the entire front page".:) |
Any sources on Erlang? | hsuresh: Check it out here -> http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz |
work from home or rent an office? | noodle: you pretty much nail it. office time is typically more productive. however, if you're paying $1k/mo for 3 people, i'd think you're overpaying. try and find a good coworking space. (i'm been giving thought to setting up a space myself). a good coworking space should theoretically have the benefits of a dedi... |
work from home or rent an office? | Xichekolas: Not sure where you are located, but surely you could find a small studio apartment that you could rent for cheaper than $1k a month.I know my market is cheap, but you can get a 400 sq ft studio here for $400/mo (with everything but electricity and internet included).At this stage it doesn't need to be 'comm... |
work from home or rent an office? | mdolon: Are you guys single or married? Would it be possible to share an apartment? Productivity will definitely increase if you're around each other for 8-10 hours a day but $1000/month seems like a lot if you're trying to keep costs low.Another possibility could be looking into office spaces and startup incubators ... |
Haskell or Erlang? | paulgb: Haskell is more elegant, but erlang feels a bit more practical. In particular because of erlang's dynamic type system and symbols. If you are writing distributed software, erlang wins easily. |
work from home or rent an office? | menloparkbum: Where do you live? In SF there is a new art space where you can rent an office space that would fit 3 people for $450/m.
It's pretty small, though. I'm talking 3 people at the same big dinner table.I like having somewhere else to work but I don't really like traditional office space. The best spaces I've ... |
work from home or rent an office? | russell: Rent a two bedroom apartment fro one of you. It will be cheaper than office space and save rent at the same time.Alternative: most cities, towns even, have parks of steel buildings with garage space and a small office, pretty cheap. Also executive suites, they are expensive by the square foot, but cheap over... |
work from home or rent an office? | omnivore: Coffee shops ftw. It's like having a ton of offices, all around town. |
Erlang -- Does it really prevent hair loss? | tvon: I'm relatively new here, is it common for HN to be flooded with a single topic for a day? It's rather annoying. |
Why is Erlang so unpopular? | jganetsk: People don't post more info on Erlang because people don't use Erlang as much..NET, Python, and RoR have much wider use.The better question is, why don't people use Erlang? |
Why is Erlang so unpopular? | bcneige: Doesn't seem too unpopular right now. |
Why is Erlang so unpopular? | evgen: Given how popular Erlang was three or four years ago I think that its current popularity is quite stunning. Back then the learning curve was quite a bit steeper since we lacked Joe's book, lots of interesting and informative blog posts, and the current variety of modules and systems to examine and play with.Inf... |
What should be the next Topic of the Day? | Beanblabber: Well, it wasn't exactly the topic of the day. It was the community being smart asses. It was a nice laugh though. |
Other angel investors besides YC? | minalecs: techstars, dreamit ventures, capital factory -- same idea techstars is in colorado, dreamit in philadelphia. |
Other angel investors besides YC? | vaksel: You need to clarify...do you mean angel investors or incubators like YC. Because it doesn't sound like an incubator would work for you. |
Other angel investors besides YC? | mrtron: Perhaps not the response you are looking for, but if you get into YC you are only required to be in the Valley for 3 months.Is that an issue for many people, especially married individuals?Every incubator I have heard of requires your physical presence. A short period of time like that seems to be an easy thin... |
Are there any decent crypto mailing lists left? | wmf: cryptography@metzdowd.com isn't bad, although not much of the traffic is about crypto. |
Are there any decent crypto mailing lists left? | tptacek: What are you looking for? The cipherpunks movement is kind of dead; it's a bit like being a compressionpunk. |
Haskell or Erlang? | andreyf: Root beer or apple juice? Baseball or candy? Kitten or voice mail?What? |
Hacker Tent City | Radix: Hackers are regular people. |
Other angel investors besides YC? | tptacek: Can you code? You might be surprised what your consulting bill rate is. F' funding. |
Erlang -- Does it really prevent hair loss? | mixmax: And I had to upvote it. |
Any sources on Erlang? | joebasirico: I must admit, I've been coming here (I suppose lurking) for quite some time and was a bit surprise to see all the Erlang submissions. Then I read this and it totally cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh, guys. |
How do you decide if another person would be a good co-founder? | mixmax: I talked to an old guy that ran a large trucking company some years back, and based on his own experience he gave me the following advice: Never start a business with people that have the same qualifications and interests as yourself. He had once started an unsuccessful trucking company with three other truckin... |
Y Erlang | comster: come on, where is the erl love? jk... please stop |
Why is Erlang so unpopular? | zdmc23: I think that more people don't commit to Erlang because they're afraid that it's just "the cool thing" - for now. It seems like more and more people are becoming aware of the importance of learning at least one functional programming language, but perhaps aren't sure which to commit to. I personally was a bit... |
Can't we have the Erlang stuff just for new and non-users? | gojomo: This policy is already in effect. When your karma hits 6000, you'll see the real site. |
Can't we have the Erlang stuff just for new and non-users? | kyro: Or we can just exercise a bit of patience, wait no more than a day for the Erlang craze to subside, and stop putting so much worry into gauging whether HN is on the brink of destruction. Also consider that in these waves of 'new users,' many might actually be looking for intelligent discussion. The idiots will ge... |
The Winner's Curse. Your startup stories/experiences from failed startups. | mcav: You might find this useful for more stories also, though it doesn't hurt to ask again: http://searchyc.com/post+mortem |
Can't we have the Erlang stuff just for new and non-users? | Maascamp: This is a very poor idea. Unless you want to keep the community frozen as is, you can't NOT show visitors the real site. If that were the case I'd probably stop coming myself. |
work from home or rent an office? | srn: Right now I WFH for health reasons. I have my work laptop in the front room and my personal computer in a different room. Only problem is the wii is in the front room ;) but I am not working full time right now so it's ok.
My team for many years had 3 people, all working thousands of miles from each other. If you... |
HN Meetup at SXSW? | wmf: There are so many parties going on in parallel you need Erlang to keep up with them. Since every official party will have a line around the block, we might as well give up on them and just try to schedule the HN meetup so that it doesn't overlap with any other good unofficial events.Union Park worked well for the ... |
HN Meetup at SXSW? | quellhorst: I'll be at sxsw... twitter @quellhorst |
The Winner's Curse. Your startup stories/experiences from failed startups. | nostrademons: http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/ |
How do you decide if another person would be a good co-founder? | lionhearted: Track record. What have they produced in the past? Do they tend to complete things they've worked, or die 90% of the way to the finish line (a really bad thing)?Have they had any fallouts/meltdowns? There will always be a "good reason" it happened. No one will say "Yeah, I was a prick, and a drag, and a pe... |
HN Meetup at SXSW? | rlwimi: Do you (and y'all) know about dorkbot, Plutopia, and Datapop party?http://www.dorkbotaustin.org/http://plutopia.org/http://www.datapopparty.com/ |
HN Meetup at SXSW? | melito: I was planning on stopping into dorkbot while in town.Other than that I'm just gonna play everything by ear.Having lived in Austin I always really liked "Maggie Mae's" on 6th and "Club Deville" on Red River. "Mohawk" was also a pretty cool spot, but I had only been there a few times before I moved.That said if... |
Any advice for single founders applying for YC Summer '09 round? | suhail: I imagine this is going to be a tough sell, prove you can ship early, fast, and iteratively and that there is no way you'll stop trying (even if you're living on other people's couches).With that, that's a difficult story to tell if you're starting today--you may have to wait for the next round.My personal opin... |
What do you think of my group chat app? | chavarria: how do i hack a myspace account |
Any advice for single founders applying for YC Summer '09 round? | medianama: Prove to them that you can (and will) pull it off on your own - without co-founders and/or YC.... and they'll come to you. |
Any advice for single founders applying for YC Summer '09 round? | dbrush: I was a single founder in the summer '07 YC batch. I don't know why they selected me precisely, but having the ability to say, 'It's friggin Photoshop online' certainly didn't seem to hurt. I was also willing to bring on a co-founder (which I eventually did) after I'd built and launched (a process that took abo... |
Any advice for single founders applying for YC Summer '09 round? | rms: Going back to school in the fall is another flag against you. It won't hurt to apply this summer, but you're very unlikely to get in. Consider this the practice for the Winter '10 practice round. |
What's your twitter account? | hardik: Hi,
Great idea to bring together HN users!
You can follow me at twitter.com/hardikt |
What's your twitter account? | hardik: And yes, in case you did not know, there is a YC bot too.. https://twitter.com/newsycombinator |
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