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Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | csomar: There are both advantages and drawbacks. As you said, in term of cost it's very expensive.In my opinion, I don't think it's a good place to START. It's good only for successful startup that want to grow bigger.I read an article few months ago on NY times, that the best country to make startup is Signapore, it h... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | nostrademons: E-ink. Sunlight-readable displays that consume no power could open up a whole bunch of new markets. The Kindle is just the beginning - could you imagine replacing road signs with E-ink? They could change to reflect traffic conditions, automatically routing traffic around jams without requiring that dri... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | spitfire: 1. Girls are just as horny as you are.
2. Those business guys are even dumber than you think they are. (doubly so for the current crop of dotcom guys)
3. What's new is not necessarily better. Do not ignore the lessons (and successes) of the past. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | plinkplonk: Robotics - There's a ton of work happening on robotics (e.g Anybots) and robots with greater and greater degree of autonomy are being deployed. Robots in warfare is a topic of particular interest to me. think warfare is going to get an order of magnitude more horrendous (hard as it may be to imagine that) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | DenisM: Stem-cell grown teeth.Imagine your future dentist visit: a really big dude punches you in the teeth the moment you walk into the dentist office, then you spit out your old teeth and they plant you a new set. In 6 month you have perfect teeth - good for next 10 years of abuse.I can hardly wait. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | rivo: E-Readers. Improved resolution, better usability, a sleek design, and an SDK could make it the iPod for text. Combine this with an iTunes-like model for newspaper articles, PDFs, feeds, and books of independent authors and you may even have a business model. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | danteembermage: Super Capacitors: instantly chargeable batteries would be really handy in about a million things, electric cars being most notableAugmented Reality: If we get it right, it will obsolete/improve a whole bunch of stuff (laptops, books, phones, movie theaters come to mind)Cloud computing: I don't mean avoi... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | sown: One thing I wish I could have more experience or training with is office politics, at the very least to defend myself with. There are a ton of dirty tricks that unscrupulous co-workers can and have tried, to pull on me and I wish I had more of an idea of what goes on. |
Sales book recommendation? | thehickmans: I'll second a few that have been mentioned already:* http://blog.startwithalead.com/weblog/ (Brian Carroll's blog)
* http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Real-Not-Play/dp/1883219507you can read more from Mahan Khalsa at:
http://www.ninetyfive5.com/default.aspxI found both of these very helpful in building my und... |
Sales book recommendation? | rivo: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...The Definitive Book of Body Language
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/05538...+1 to How to Win Friends & Influence People |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | sid: what you have said is true. I mean im from oz and when we were all at uni there wasnt really much talk of startups and starting our own businesses, not in my circle anyway.It was all about getting the best grades to kick butt at the interview. Because that was my circle thats all i knew at the time. Now after doin... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | mg1313: Try Tikiwiki. Quite powerful. Reviewed on MyTestBox.com. |
Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | mg1313: That's why the salaries are higher there and startup costs could higher. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | carterschonwald: More generally what they don't teach enough about in university is knowing when to make time for certain people and knowing when to stop making time for certain people. This is a skill that I think is really key, and no program of intense academic learning will naturally lead to you knowing such. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | kineticac: are you just putting a wiki page together? pbwiki is pretty cool =) |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | noaharc: Brain-computer interface. Once we get that, everything else (except power generation) is irrelevant.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interfacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | 10ren: The main thing is to be aware that there is a whole reality out there that you don't know and nobody else does either. If you can crack it, you can have great success.Cracking it takes alertness and endurance more than raw intelligence, because inspiration comes from new data - not from solving a pedagogically d... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | DenisM: I'm using wikidot for my help & suport site:http://help.memengo.com/Loving it - simple to use and has built-in forums. Two birds with one stone. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | haseman: Your QA guy (if you're lucky enough to have one) is you best friend in whole wide world. When he/she finds bugs in your code...hug them and buy them beer, because your users/clients could have found them instead. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | twism: clojure |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | davidw: I think if we ever get widespread, flat rate mobile data connections, that there will be lots of innovation in that space. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | lastkarrde: Moin Moin. Python powered. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | manvsmachine: GPGPU Processing - I find it amazing that you can essentially build yourself a personal supercomputer with cheap hardware that you can pick up at a Best Buy. This has the potential to do for research what the Web did for software startups.+1 for Robotics and Augmented Reality. Met a prof last month that r... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | alex_c: Affordable, reliable, universal wireless Internet access. The iPhone is a great start, but it's still far from truly universal Internet access being the status quo. Of course, this has a lot more to do with infrastructure and business interests than it does with pure technological advancement.And I still want... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | jamespitts: Simulating physics and chemistry to overcome limits of the Von Neumann architecture.Specifically, using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to simulate neurons and synapses."Performance measurements show good scaling behavior on the Blue Gene/L supercomputer up to 8,192 processors. Several key phenomena seen in t... |
Is Silicon Valley really the best place for a startup? | david927: Where you are right now is the best place to start. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | csomar: In school or universities, generally they teach only the thoerical part. The real world scenario is another important part, that everyone discover it himself. It's later called "Experience" and "Career".If you want just to be an ordinary guy, just take a job. Most luckily, you won't need to know much about fina... |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | davidw: nolo.com has some books on that sort of subject. Since they have a lot of them, the best thing to do is go to your library, look through a bunch, and see which one is best for you, and then consider buying it. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | csomar: I also vote for Wikidot, it's simpler than other Wikis |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | andrewljohnson: All you need to know is get a lawyer. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | michaelkeenan: Robot cars.Car accidents cost over a million lives worldwide every year - 45,000 in the USA - and injure about 40 times that number. They are the leading cause of death for people aged 18-34. In the USA, the total cost of accidents is about $230 billion (1.7% of American GDP according to my calculations)... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | asjo: I really like the simplicity and chosen featureset of Hatta - it is version control based (Mercurial) and works really well. The author is very responsive.http://hatta.sheep.art.pl/"Snazzy" is quite subjective - I like the default design not to scream "I am a wiki with a gazillion fancy features you'll never use"... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | ippisl: technologies for construction , and technologies for energy.
while the cost of most other things is going down (at least in the long term), the cost(and technology of) housing and energy are basicly the same.
also housing and energy are probably the biggest expenses per family , so any technological improvemen... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | known: Original wiki http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/Download |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | rufius: I like DokuWiki and MoinMoin. |
Why would anyone POST anything in AJAX? | jim_lawless: GET parameters can ( and often do ) show up in web-server logs. Transmitting sensitive data via a GET ( even over SSL ) may ultimately cause security / privacy concerns. |
cloud computing options? | rarestnews: Are you sure you REQUIRE a cloud? Phrase "Amazon is too expensive" suggests that it might be not the solution you're looking for.Maybe you could be a little more clear on what you need, because it's hard to imagine what are your requirements that fall in-between of "Google App engine is too limited" and "Am... |
cloud computing options? | pierrefar: Broadly speaking, there are two sets of questions you want to answer:1. The "really?" set of questions: Is the cloud what you really need? If so, can you architect your system to exploit the advantages of the cloud?2. The "how?" set of questions: do you outsource the cloud to AWS et al or do you build your o... |
cloud computing options? | tzury: AWS is not expensive, not at all. However, you can combine GAE and AWS where serving all HTTP from GAE and doing the "rest" on Amazon - that will make it some cheaper |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | daniel71l: I've used TikiWiki for an internal Wiki here in my company.a small reason can be read here:http://design-to-last.com/Technical/intranet-wiki-searching-...Daniel |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | taylan: Try http://www.wikimatrix.org/ if you'd like to compare available wiki engines side by side. |
cloud computing options? | st3fan: Explain what you are doing. The cloud is very much over-hyped and can mean many different things. Are you looking for storage? For hosting? For dynamic hosting?Explain a bit what your app is and we can give your architecture advice. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | cruise02: Here's a list from a few months back. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258548/what-is-the-most-i... |
cloud computing options? | jensv: If you're just looking for storage and have access to extra machines then Tahoe allows you to store your files reliably for little to no cost.You can learn more here: http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
You can download it here: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoeEDIT: How do I create proper hyperlinks? |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | ScottWhigham: Two things that hasn't been mentioned here yet:#1 - is that you need to develop a filter for the advice you'll get. You need to learn when to ignore advice, how to make it so that you don't piss people off when you ignore their advice, and how to handle it when you do ignore their advice yet they were act... |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | drhowarddrfine: A C corporation, involving one person, probably doesn't make sense. You probably want a S corp or LLC. In any case, a lawyer is good but I've always gotten my advice from my accountant. The lawyer knows the rules. The accountant knows how the rules affect your money. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | cool-RR: Google Native Client. So many programmers are wasting their time trying to make web apps that will work on all browsers... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | garyrichardson: I've become a fan of Confluence. It looks decent has a wysiwyg editor.It loses points for being written in Java (requires a fat vm to run a small instance). |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | trapper: Write something that solves a pain. Then drown yourself in that pain and see if your solution really solves it. Few people take step 2. |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | njrc: Check out TiddlyWiki. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | jodrellblank: - LED and OLED lighting. When prices fall enough, classic bulbs, fluorescent bulbs, CFLs will be out the window. Lighting, and therefore atmosphere, will completely change. Can you imagine an office without strip lighting? With varying warm, friendly colours and intensities of low power OLED panels dotted... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | banned_man: How to read code, use version control, write code in a professional environment, find libraries that can help you, and keep abreast of current technology. I think that CS grads should be expected to be contributing to open source projects by senior year.The marketing, business, and work/life balance problem... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | tsally: How to program well. |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | jimfl: The more people in middle management (i.e. people who are not officers and people who are not leaf nodes) the more difficult it will be for the organization to make rational decisions, and the more compromises will be made to the quality of the product in lieu of other considerations (schedule, metrics based on ... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | mechanical_fish: The lifelog.Short explanation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6287126.stmLong explanation:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | slackerIII: Just use a hash table. |
cloud computing options? | bayareaguy: If all you want is VPS that is cheaper than AWS then Slicehost may be the thing for you - http://www.slicehost.comEDIT: I forgot about Linode since I haven't used them myself. Here's a comparison between the two from last November: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode |
Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts? | Anon84: There have been several releases of the dataset. This is the most recent one I've been able to find: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296919An updated version would be great, though. |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | obxerve: I will add my vote to OLED and e-ink.Additionally, transformation of everyday electronic devices into low-power consuming devices, and for this, I think nanotechnology will help us get there. |
What do you think of my Recipe Search Engine? | obxerve: I searched by "ingredients" and got a selection of recipes, but when I used the exact same search term on "keyword" search, I got nada.I understand the difference, but you know the gold standard. I suggest to "emulate" Google: one search box only please.As a cook myself, I like the idea, but honestly, I don't ... |
Open-source project as startup? | cool-RR: If anyone is wondering what the project is about, it is a framework for writing simulations in Python. It could take any kind of simulation: Physics, game theory, epidemic spread, electronics, whatever.(Yes, I know of SimPy, it's something different.) |
Open-source project as startup? | mahmud: In terms of profitability, a simulation software would be hard to monetize as "software as service"; anybody technically inclined to want to do simulations will probably have a lab unix flavors, parallel libraries and other goodies to just download your tarball and run it themselves.Simulation is not exactly sa... |
Things They Don't Teach You In Computer Science | elai: 1. Business school people are more entrepeureally minded and tend to have more of a personality (no duh...)2. You can take school courses that would help you later in your career, like several business courses. I would take the more concrete ones, like business law or introductory accounting, otherwise the valu... |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | gtani: disclaimer: dated materials, tax code changes every year, I don't know anything about you or your business, IANAL, yadda yaddahttp://www.mbbp.com/resources/business/entity.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/Corp-Entity-Table.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/incorporating.htmlhttp://www.themoneyalert.com/businessty... |
Open-source project as startup? | delano: I can't speak in regards to whether it makes sense to apply to YC, but from a general perspective, a company that produces open sources software is no different than any other business: you need to clearly understand how you will generate a profit.The answer may be consulting but that's a difficult route b/c an... |
cloud computing options? | delano: Paying for machines by the hour opens new opportunities (ad-hoc staging environments, for example). We can do things now that we could never do before.You may not be ready to move production to the cloud but there is an opportunity for you to improve your development process. |
Open-source project as startup? | huhtenberg: How are you planning to make money ? |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | csbartus: the next metasystem transformation.uploading & sharing myself on the internet, having my multiple identities living a complete life, chat with myselves and learn from them.cloning me in into the digital, no life expansion but more parallel lives |
Sales book recommendation? | csbartus: The Richest Man in Babylon:http://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/1... |
Open-source project as startup? | tptacek: Wasn't Webmin an open source project? |
Open-source project as startup? | mixmax: The major problem is that you don't really have a competitive advantage. What will stop your potential competitors from simply downloading the open-source software and start using it themselves?When you do a startup you want to find a good niche that makes good money, and where competition won't start pouring i... |
Open-source project as startup? | teej: The Phusion guys tried doing it and have had a really hard time making it work. And these are guys who have essentially turned the Rails world upside down with their OSS. |
Open-source project as startup? | russell: The crux of the matter is how are you going to make money? After all investors want a payback. The best advice I've seen here is to find a consulting niche in security. See if DARPA has something on their wish list or apply directly. I suggest you do some serious networking in your city/state. Maybe team ... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | tremendo: Whatever happened to last next big thing, the memristor? |
Open-source project as startup? | tdoggette: My advice: You've given up a lot of copyright protections on your code. Register trademarks, and defend them. Your code is freely distributable, but you can still protect yourself against people using your name for their own profit. Look at what Mozilla does, for example. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | barredo: There must be a pattern to filter (typical words in 'welcome to XYZ' and 'Sign in XYZ' emails) all those emails and delete them as they hit the inbox. |
Moving to Silicon Valley? | russell: You need to do your research in person. There are very expensive neighborhoods within a mile or two of places that aren't safe to walk the streets. It's best to have a friend help you scout out places. Also note SV is not transit friendly except for commuting into downtown SF or Oakland and to a lesser degr... |
Recommend a Wiki that isn't MediaWiki? | rms: Thanks for the recommendations everyone, we're going to go with Moin Moin. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | dchest: Why your 6-char account on a free email service is so important? Get another account and stop thinking (and asking) about this. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | mahmud: Gmail allows you to connect via IMAP and send via POP3; setup a postfix server and filter the crap out of it. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | sidmitra: I don't think you can do much except use filters + aggressive labelling as spam for a while. Hopefully after a while when you've got down the filters to an art form, unwanted things should stop hitting your inbox. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | kbhangui: Your best bet is to use Gmail's filtering feature for stuff you know is spam for sure. Make sure to make the filter mark it as spam. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | kqr2: Create a whitelist using gmail's filters. |
Best Info for Running own C Corporation | DenisM: I suggest this book as a background on different corp types and in general the corporate goverance: http://www.amazon.com/Corporations-Examples-Explanations/dp/...you don't have to read the whole book - a few first chapters will suffice. |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | geuis: Honestly, don't over think it. Just start marking every single email you know is spam as spam. Occasionally check the spam box and un-spam anything legit. The filters on gmail are really, really good and they learn quickly what to filter and what not. Don't do anything weird or complicated, just hit the spam but... |
Legitimate speed reading method? | boundlessdreamz: I read faster than almost anyone I know and the only difference I know is that I don't think aloud the words when I'm reading silently. I'm reading phrases rather than words. I hope you got the idea because I don't know how to convey it. This technique is natural to me and I was surprised initially tha... |
Moving to Silicon Valley? | ochiba: Have you tried:
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
and http://searchyc.com |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | BobbyH: Try activating the IMAP/POP settings on gmail, then suck in your gmail emails into a desktop client that supports bouncing to spam accounts, c.f. http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/23/bounce-email-... |
What do you think of the Kindle? | sundeep: I have a kindle2.I find it amazing for a linear reading experience. It's not quite as good for reading something that requires you to flip back and forth. |
Legitimate speed reading method? | Spyckie: I think its different for every person. You should find out what your tradeoff level is for comprehension/wpm, and how many phrases you can skip while still understanding the main points of the section.I think everyone can pick up reading by phrases to a certain extent. Scanning full pages or even paragraphs i... |
What upcoming technological development interests you the most? | Titanous: Health nanorobots.I can't wait until we can inject single-purpose nanorobots to heal and augment our bodies. Imagine a injection that would completely eradicate cancer from your body. Or improve your eyesight.It may be a long way off, but it will be amazing when science reaches that point |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | tumult: I have a 6-char Gmail account that's also an English dictionary word, which was made the day Gmail launched as invite-only. It gets a TON of spam, but I never notice it. The spam filter is well-trained. If you don't use any of the mailing lists you're on, one thing you can do is filter by the word "unsubscribe"... |
6-char Gmail account flooded by "legit" bot signup spam. Can I retake control? | fatbat: haha, I can relate, I got a 2-char hotmail address! The amount of spam on that is ridiculous but I still use it. Obviously not my primary anymore. |
Do I need a captcha on my web apps sign up form? | izak30: My forms typically go only a few days before they start getting form submission spam.There are lots of captchas to implement in a couple of hours, and people are used to filling them out. It seems like a no-brainer to me. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | mahmud: i dribble a soccer ball in the backyard every time i go out for a smoke, plus the occasional skateboard (yeah, i picked up skating when i was 27!) |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | bkudria: Uh, zero, none, and, uh, N/A.But I should do more! |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | lowe: with exercise i've found benefit as a function of time to be crazy non-linear. there's a much bigger difference between 0 minutes and 20 minutes spent exercising than between 20 and 40 or 40 and 60. so when i'm busy, i do what i can, keep it short, but never cut it out. i try to do something every other day at le... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | fairramone: I usually exercise 3 times a week -- about 45 minutes of running/jogging each time. |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | gaoshan: I walk from the sofa to the microwave and back to retrieve my hotpocket. Some days I go out to the mailbox to collect the pile of mail that has built up from the days I didn't quite make it out (but the sun hurts my eyes and burns my pasty skin so I quickly retreat indoors to bask in the glow of my monitor).On... |
How much do you exercise a day/week? | Brushfire: p90x. But I dont strictly follow their schedule, I usually do it 3-4 times a week. You can do half of their workouts anywhere, and the other half with a pullup bar and some free weights. |
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