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Have you created alternate accounts to post questionable responses? | reduxredacted: No based on how the question was framed. If a response is "questionable" then I have to question whether or not I should make that questionable response.Most of the time I post under my real name (actually, I don't know why I'm using a pseudonym on HN, frankly, just reflex when I first joined).The excep... |
Have you created alternate accounts to post questionable responses? | makecheck: I have just one account.For me, it boils down to this: a goal of the site is to improve quality of discussion.There are two main parties to discussion: "you", and "everyone else".When "you" post: if you already suspect that your topic will earn down-votes, then why post it (from any account)? Apparently the... |
Have you created alternate accounts to post questionable responses? | Tangurena: No.Everything I post, I'd be OK seeing it on the 6 o'clock news. But then, I'd expect that as I ran for election last November. |
Please review our RSS feed filtering app | avinashv: I think you're going to get much better feedback if you let people actually use your service. How much trouble could it be to make a bunch of HN invitation codes? You're essentially asking us to critique your front page and screencast.That said, from the screencast itself, this seems like a tremendous amoun... |
What is your favorite charity? | maxharris: The Ayn Rand Institutehttp://www.aynrand.org/ |
Where to find great designers? | jmtame: You should browse CSS top sites and try and look up the designers behind the sites.Are you open to remote work arrangements? If you want to get in touch with me I'm happy to refer some guys I know who are really good. Rates may be a bit high, but you tend to get what you pay for. More than anything, I've fou... |
How does Twitter help your company? | selcouth: So I found this post on a new community site, and I'm honestly curious. I hear that companies HAVE to use it, that it is a GREAT way to talk with your clients and customers. But I've tried...and I don't get it.You guys are a pretty tech savvy bunch - how do you use Twitter? |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | coconutrandom: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=part+time+jobs+in+san+diego&l=1 |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | blizkreeg: I only know dice.com where PT jobs sometimes show up.What are job boards that cater towards part-time gigs? Also, if someone on HN knows of a startup or are looking to hire themselves, I'd be happy to send you my resume. |
How does Twitter help your company? | auston: My favorite of company twitter usage is from Kogi (http://twitter.com/kogibbq) - They use it to tell people where their Korean BBQ Taco trucks are around L.A. |
How does Twitter help your company? | jrockway: The real-time search makes it easy to find people to lay off. |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | melvinram: a) Talk to your friends.b) Great involved with an open source project, which will give others experience working with you so they can recommend you into a positionc) http://jobs.37signals.com/d) Call Ruby/Rails development companies w/ good code & tests ready to showe) I don't know if this is ethical or even... |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | keefe: They post a lot of jobs on craigslist, but be aware that employment posts in silicon valley is down 55% from last year |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | bigbang: Sorry to hijack the discussion. But I was wondering, why do you need a part-time job to stay legal? Doesn't EAD allow you to work just on your startup and still be in legal presence? |
How does Twitter help your company? | axod: The search makes it easy to see when users are having issues with my webapp.Of course that assumes Twitter is working itself at the time... which sometimes it's not. |
How does Twitter help your company? | njharman: I work for the Austin American-Statesman news company in central Texas.This is how our Internet Editor answered that question http://thequig.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/op-ed-how-the-states...Here are the many twitter accounts our reporters use to distribute and collect news and information http://www.statesman.... |
Have you created alternate accounts to post questionable responses? | buggy_code: Somewhat OT -- how do you have negative karma? I thought you can only vote up on hacker news. |
How does Twitter help your company? | darwinw: I started to twitter a few weeks ago, and I was occasionaly posting links to promote my content, but when I check my google analytics, i hardly see any referal from twitter. So at the moment, i'm still unsure about how effective twitter is to my business. |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | rdouble: Part time programming work in Silicon Valley is hard to come by even when the economy is good. I'm not sure why exactly, but people here treat employment as an all or nothing proposition. I found it much easier to do random short-term and part-time contracts in Boston.However, there are some niches where compa... |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | darwinw: how about being a freelancer, will that violate the visa requirement for part time job?if you're talking about bay area, i'd start with craigslist. |
How does Twitter help your company? | callmeed: We've started posting announcements, conversation starters and small contests on our company twitter account (I've been doing it on my personal account a little longer).It's still early, but I think it's a promising way to get the word out on stuff and start conversations. When we release new site designs or ... |
What software do you use for managing communications with media/blogs? | aaroneous: Marketwire for distribution of your press releases. They have a "tech hotspots" (or something like that) package that's startup affordable, and well targeted.If you're in an area with a decent tech scene go out and meet relevant people to your industry. Talk to them in person. In my experience this is expone... |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | haseman: I hate to suggest this, but I've had friends who've had a lot of luck with coughLinked Incough put you email address somewhere easy to read so potential leads do have to jump through any hoops when trying to contact you. |
Where to find great designers? | aaroneous: authenticjobs.com jobs.37signals.com/categories/1/jobs programmermeetdesigner.com krop.com |
advice for my startup | pedalpete: First of all, I love the way you posed the question.
Mine will be 1 year old soon, and i've got some of the issues you've got too.First off, you are in a very crowded space as far as I can tell. I've got a very tiny bit of experience with PlanetEye, so I know a bit about the space that I think you are going... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | brk: I keep some old emails. I clean up randomly when I have nothing better to do.Other than a few reg emails, most of it is valueless. Keep many more in my business account, "just in case".I have to admit that I use Mail/Entourage (personal/work) as a hack database in that I will often search for a person's name or ... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | pedalpete: Personal e-mails, I probably wouldn't miss anything.
Work e-mails, I could probably live without 90% of the old stuff.
It's easier to have it and search on it, than deleting it though. |
How does Twitter help your company? | Zev: Not really a company, but an open source project I contribute to (there's also an App Store app, so it might qualify as a company, I suppose) has a twitter account that we use. We mostly have a few twitter searches for anyone having problems with the app (Colloquy) or looking for an IRC client on a platform we sup... |
How/Where can I find a part-time gig so I can work more on my startup? | 10ren: Part-time programming work is reputedly rare, though no one could tell me why.Nonetheless, I fell into a part-time programming job once (they contacted me), and I found it tended to take over my thoughts - as programming tends to.Does it have to be a programming part-time job? It might work better for you to hav... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | mahmud: All the newsletters and business-mailings I subscribed to, but ignored for years, became handy as case studies to see what marketing format works and what doesn't. If you kept getting pricelists from manufacturers/vendors, you easily track the market growth of things and gain valuable insight into the direction... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | tokenadult: I attempt to keep everything I have ever sent, and all but the tiniest amount of everything ever sent to me. But sometimes my software deletes for me, or my operating system puts it "beyond use," or something. In general, anyone with a legal education, which was my most recent higher education, keeps copies... |
Please review our RSS feed filtering app | toddcw: Thanks for the feedback. We anticipated that one of the initial critiques would be that it requires some work up front, which is true. It's really not much of a bubble to get over, though; after that you'll likely just add filters once in a while. The idea is that, in the long run, it will save you time. If... |
What's the Reddit voting algorithm? | mcav: This isn't reddit. But both Reddit and HN are open-source, so you should be able to discover the algorithm. HN source is here at http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc2.tar and Reddit's can be found at http://reddit.com/code/ . |
What's the Reddit voting algorithm? | ekpyrotic: Do you mean the HN voting algorithm? |
Where to find great designers? | nreece: Checkout 99Designs - http://99designs.com |
What's the Reddit voting algorithm? | _pius: The Reddit ranking algorithm was/is this: http://redflavor.com/reddit.cf.algorithm.pngAnd Hacker News's was/is this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231209 |
Where to find public business information? | lv_: come on! |
advice for my startup | sgrove: Hey Darwin!Send me an email (sean at chuwe dot com). We're a free advice site for small business and startups, and we'd like to talk for a small project we have going! |
advice for my startup | il: There's a lot of room for improvement in your site's SEO. For example, the urls- instead of having URLs like http://www.tripntale.com/trip/4820, get some text in your URL, even something like http://www.tripntale.com/trip/mai-chau-vietnam/4820 would be better. Also, get some text on your pages! How can you rank in ... |
Day Zero Valuation | nostrademons: The question's basically meaningless - startup valuation is fuzzy enough when VCs invest after launch, revenue, sometimes profits. How could you come up with a number before you've even launched?I suspect that the prospective cofounder is trying to figure out how much of the startup he will end up owning... |
Day Zero Valuation | gojomo: As nostrademons suggests, 'valuation' is likely the wrong question, and you should just skip to what is probably the real motivation for the question, relative equity splits.But if valuation really is the question: be careful about setting it high before you formalize and restricted/time-vested stock shares. Fo... |
How do you do time estimates? | lbrandy: 1. Write a list of the things you need to do. Be detailed. The more detail, the better.2. Estimate how long you think each will take, knowing it always takes longer than you think.3. Realize it always takes longer than you think, and revise your list.4. Double everything.5. Round up.6. Add it all up, walk to t... |
How do you do time estimates? | swombat: Have a read through this article for a simplified take on Function Point Analysis, which is the industry standard for estimation in larger projects:http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/10/easy-estimates |
How do you do time estimates? | mannicken: Very carefully. Never ever plan a block over 8 hours, usually between 2 and 6. And practice. It's not something you can learn easily, you have to adapt for your own brain.People say they double their estimates, but I find it no longer necessary, I usually hit the time 1 hour +/-. |
How do you do time estimates? | iamwil: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#id28...http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.htmlhttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html |
How do you do time estimates? | blogimus: I've worked for startups and for aerospace and defense contractors. There are of course different ways to approach software project estimation.I've worked on projects where we needed to do details work breakdown structures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structureAnd I've been in environments whe... |
How do you do time estimates? | Eliezer: Ask how long roughly similar projects in the past have taken. Do not do any specific thinking about the detailed implementation. I'm serious!http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/planning-fallac.html |
How do you do time estimates? | cjg: On one project I worked on, we divided all feature requests into small, medium, large and huge (expected to be roughly 2, 5, 10, 20 days worth of effort respectively). This allowed us to come up with a quick overall costing of the project before starting - the estimates were gradually refined as we learned more ab... |
How do you do time estimates? | wallflower: In earlier performance reviews, I was always called to task for my reluctance to commit to a number of hours for a task. Nowadays, I give better numbers and hedge my numbers by asking for multiple tasks at once (so I can triage and switch among them as needed, simmer and return). I don't like it when develo... |
How do you do time estimates? | alexk: Go gethttp://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/2425.aspxI would even call this book a survival guide. |
How do you do time estimates? | utnick: 1) make an estimate2) triple it |
How do you do time estimates? | donal: You aren't alone. If I had access to the book for my Project Management class, then I could give you exact stats for how terrible most estimates prove to be. The numbers are astounding (the studies are dated, but still adequately horrifying).Even doubling your estimates is unlikely to have any real reflection on... |
How do you do time estimates? | DavidPP: Sorry, I don't have time to write a detailed answer but here are couple of interesting things to know about software estimation (from a book I have at home but forgot the name) :* For a known task, developer are usually too optmistic by about 30%* At the very beginning of a project, your estimation can be off ... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | lacker: I keep all my email, because I use gmail and keeping everything is easier than bothering to think about it. |
How do you do time estimates? | Tangurena: I keep trying to apply PSP, but I find I get distracted so much that I'm unable to keep track of my metrics and how close I come to estimates (mostly, my boss pulls a time estimate out of his butt).One of the key elements of PSP is to record what you do each day in a little diary. One of the biggest ways you... |
How do you do time estimates? | noss: Software engineering here:Divide the project into smaller pices. If your estimate for a piece is more than a day, it is still too big.To make sure you know what is involved in implementing a piece by always including how to perform a function-test of the piece. This is powerful for those pie-in-the sky estimates ... |
How do you do time estimates? | scumola: Make a realistic (some what conservative) estimate and triple it. Same rule goes for cost estimates. Doubling is never enough. Better to under-promise and over-deliver than the other way around. |
How do you do time estimates? | grinich: Nobody ever complains when you finish a project under the estimated time. In fact, it looks good even if it's only by a few hours. |
How do you do time estimates? | papaf: The most accurate method I've used is "1 week per page". This is for backend development and not web design.Surely such an overly simple estimate is going to be wrong? Well yes, but reality is complex and no calculation is going to capture it correctly.If you find 1 week per page is too inaccurate you can updat... |
How do you do time estimates? | Edinburger: Actual time taken to complete tasks is a good input to future estimates for similar work.Agile folks have the concept of 'velocity' which helps them to predict delivery dates based on accuracy of previous estimates. |
where do you share and discuss ideas (just for the heck of it)? | mahmud: I "pitch" ideas to everyone and anyone who will listen, specially if I know they're entrepreneurs, I will flood them with feedback and can spend the night visualizing ways they can improve their business, etc.It's good sometimes, but it mostly overwhelms people. I am also known to express dismay whenever a frie... |
Do you keep old e-mail? | chops: I use a separate email account for newsgroup subscriptions, but beyond that, I have every email I've ever sent or received for the past 7 years or so. Before gmail, I have my old thunderbird email files zipped up and archived incase I ever need them (doubtful), but it's there. And most of those would be busine... |
Feedback on Scribnia | kbrower: http://scribnia.com/ |
How are you monetizing your site? | noodle: sell a product. sell a service. sell ad space. referral programs. |
Where to find public business information? | PaulMorgan: Try one of these libraries:http://www.uspto.gov/go/ptdl/ptdlib_1.html |
ASk HN: How difficult to build a browser? | vonsydov: You can try using existing stuff - gecko, webkit etc. |
ASk HN: How difficult to build a browser? | vorador: It depends of the level of functionality you want to include in your browser.
Could you describe your needs ?And, by the way, qt now comes with webkit. |
where do you share and discuss ideas (just for the heck of it)? | vorador: What about creating a mailing list dedicated to discussing ideas ? |
How are you monetizing your site? | scumola: Sell stuff. Get people to sell their stuff on your site and take a small bite of the sale price. Don't rely on ads and seo - too competitive. Then, go out and pound the pavement and get people to sign up to sell stuff. Would be good if you get a sales guy in your startup team. |
How are you monetizing your site? | monkeybusiness: Making money is so last year. |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | monkeybusiness: I think it temporarily changes the way you feel emotionally - because our diet is tied into our mood. Some people who embark on the diet - including some people very close to me - read more into their altered mood than they ought to. |
Feedback on Scribnia | systemtrigger: I think the reason your post isn't getting traction is that you don't have anything to show us unless we leave our email addresses for you here in the open. Maybe you should leave your email address and let us privately contact you.I signed up for an alpha account a few minutes ago. If I hear back from y... |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | st3fan: From what I understand it is a dangerous diet. Some foods are not to be eaten raw. Simply because our bodies can not handle that. Some raw foods (specially meat) contain bacteria that you certainly don't want in your system.Personally, I think there are better diets. |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | tokenadult: It is not evolutionarily warranted. It is very clear that by the time the species Homo sapiens came around, hominids in the human ancestral line had already been eating cooked food for a long time, and many physiological and anatomic differences between humans and chimpanzees are adaptations to eating cooke... |
How are you monetizing your site? | skolor: The only way I've made money on any site is by selling something. Ads are great, but I can never get them to cover anything but basic operating costs, and even then they will barely cover the costs to keep a server running.Depending on how the site is set up, you can either sell a product or a service. The prob... |
How are you monetizing your site? | knightinblue: I wrote this last week for another 'Ask HN' thread regarding starting a successful blog. Thought it would also apply here -"Generating revenue - whole books can be written on this subject (and they have been). But it can broadly be broken down into five categories -1. Advertisements - the magic word here ... |
Where do you host your personal projects? | noodle: obligatory slicehost post. |
How are you monetizing your site? | udfalkso: I run this site:
http://isitnormal.comIt gets quite a bit of traffic, mostly from search, but it has proven very hard to monetize. Tried adsense, but my content was too risque for them. Was using an ad network called clicksor for a while, but their ads are very intrusive and didn't perform well enough to ju... |
How are you monetizing your site? | mahmud: My "website" is a digital brochure for my business. Ask me how I make money from brochures if you want. |
Where do you host your personal projects? | gonick_daysbury: Google Code. |
Where do you host your personal projects? | brianto2010: My friend uses googlecode. Its free and uses svn.http://code.google.comhttp://code.google.com/hosting |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | systemtrigger: I'm bound to make mistakes when talking about this stuff but my wife got her masters in nutrition, is published in journals and for what it's worth she's a big fan of the raw food diet. We both followed it closely for about 6 months but eventually we decided it just wasn't convenient enough. There were c... |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | mahmud: What do I think of sun-bathing as an alternative to the wasteful water-based shower?What do I think of roofless habitat, living in nature as God/FSM intended and having sunflowers for a pillow?What do I think of human-fur as an alternative to soul constraining fabrics that bind me in slavery to my own comforts.... |
Current hosted document editing/sharing systems and their direction? | Tangurena: Have you been forgetting Sharepoint? It is my belief that Microsoft-centric businesses will eventually move towards Sharepoint for document storage.My suspicion is that Sharepoint and Infopath will become more popular with business users. Like the way that many companies have home-grown apps that started as ... |
Where do you host your personal projects? | smwhreyebelong: Thanks for the fast replies.Google code / github definitely make sense for open source projects. But what if the project I'm working on is not open-source ?Any recommendations for personal hosting ? |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | mindviews: Something to keep an eye on in general - a raw food diet is used and promoted in anorexia circles and can be cover for an underlying eating disorder. It can be hard on this diet to eat enough calories to be healthy. The "legitimacy" of the diet can be a way to hide an eating disorder from family and friend... |
How are you monetizing your site? | EvilTrout: There are also intangiable (non-physical) products you can sell.For example, my product is a web based RPG. We use a points system, where users can purchase Brownie Points in various increments. Then they can redeem those points for various products (all of which web-site only features.)It's an alternative t... |
What do you think about the raw food diet? | bgutierrez: I did the diet for about a month while I was poor. This was a bad time to try it, since finding raw nuts and other things is difficult on a budget, even in San Francisco.I lost weight, I was often hungry, and I couldn't stop craving meats and cheeses. When I looked at pictures of people that were also on th... |
ASk HN: How difficult to build a browser? | Someone: You should make a distinction between:- developing a browser engine
- developing the GUI around a browser engineThe first is not rocket science, but lots and lots and lots of work, and will require some hacks, as there are many areas where specs aren't clear (what to do with invalid html, http headers that pro... |
Where do you host your personal projects? | zokiboy: Beanstalk -- http://www.beanstalkapp.com/ SVN hosting. Good customer support, solid service. For me beanstalk is github for svn :) |
YouTube's storage system | gojomo: The most details I've seen are summarized here:http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture |
Where do you host your personal projects? | JeremyChase: linode 360 |
How are you monetizing your site? | lucumo: We're running a freemium model. Users get to view ads or they can pay to remove them and get some other features. The free part gets a lot of people into the game (as a figure of speech, but also literally) and some buy a VIP account. |
Where do you host your personal projects? | smwhreyebelong: Thanks for the input, everyone. I have decided to go with unfuddle for now since they host both svn and git repositories and their free plan has more than what I need for now. |
would you (founders) use this service? | jimgoldman: I use http://www.tomedes.com for all localization needs |
what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems? | Tangurena: Simplex algorithm, for resource optimization solver.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm |
what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems? | Raplh: I'm not in software, but rather algorithm development for determining radio positions (like GPS but including other methods for cell phones). I have used eigenanalysis a number of times, a lot of orthogonal basis shifting of various kinds, implicilty a lot of matrix inversions and pseudoinversions to solve thin... |
what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems? | thomaspaine: Non-negative matrix factorization for text clustering: http://www.procoders.net/?p=128 |
what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems? | kurtosis: I apologize for threadjacking but you guys might be able to help.I have a different problem - I would like to compute an approximate SVD of a very large sparse matrix, (for spectral clustering) but I can't find a good implementation which works for datasets too large to fit in core. This is a hadoop scale pr... |
what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems? | biohacker42: SVD, PCA, all kinds of matrix transformations, all for bioinformatics. |
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