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The Arc Effect | pg: You can see two spikes in unique visitors due to Arc here:http://ycombinator.com/images/news.yc.1year.pngThere was a spike in Jan when I said Arc was imminent, and then another when it came out. But if you squint your eyes and look at the whole curve, the underlying growth rate seems pretty constant.In other words... |
The Arc Effect | yters: Does having 3 main hacker sites (this, proggit, /.) imply the retreat from 14 year olds will reach a stable equilibrium, and end the eternal September problem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_SeptemberThere are only so many 14 year olds in the world, so at some point the rate of change in users will be 0, i... |
The Arc Effect | andreyf: Why not just scale the weight given to a vote based on the voter's karma? Or would this encourage group think? |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | davidw: You could probably dive into Rails and get something working. Diving in and doing something is a lot better than trying to pick a framework. You can get started with anything, really, including the languages you know. Smalltalk has 'seaside', Java has a million frameworks. You would probably not have much t... |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | wenbert: PHP! Zend Framework FTW! http://framework.zend.com
and add a little jQuery into it. http://jquery.com |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | mcxx: If you're good in Smalltalk, check out the Seaside framework http://www.seaside.st/ |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | edu: As you are good a Smalltalk, I think you should take a look to http://www.seaside.st a framework for developing webapps in Smalltalk.To get a good overview read the HTTP RFC. IMO, JavaScript and CSS should be the last thing to learn. |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | systems: ASP.NET: Soup to Nuts
http://www.benkotips.com/Default.aspx?tabid=798You won't regret it! |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | DarrenStuart: isn't web objects smalltalk based?Maybe your first port of call could be jsp |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | thingsilearned: If you want to first learn the fundamentals, PHP/MySQL is a good place to start.If you want to just jump in and make something frameworks such as Django and Rails make a nice level of abstraction above the database and even above the raw HTML.If you're looking for a recommendation, I love Django. |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | lsb: For Javascript: Ruby is kind of similar to Smalltalk, and Javascript can be pretty Ruby-like if you use the Prototype/Scriptaculous frameworks.For CSS: I've never used Blueprint.css, but it looks pretty awesome. |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | Tichy: For Java I would say Spring is the current standard, although I admit the web part of spring is a bit confusing at first (in reality it is quite simple, though). Don't use Struts, please.Maybe Seam would be interesting, too - created by the Hibernate guys, it is supposed to be inspired by Rails. |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | nreece: You may as well start with JSP at a free web host like http://www.myjavaserver.com/ or http://www.eatj.com/ to play around. |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | ratsbane: I don't think I'd want to starting out by learning to code relatively complicated things to a framework. If you learn a framework you won't be so much exposed to the real technologies - HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript. I think I'd start by reading the RFCs for those. Then write some web pages by hand with HTML... |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | jsjenkins168: If your Java experience is with GUI programming, you should be right at home with Google Web Toolkit. You don't need to worry about complicated web-related tasks such as handling asynchronous calls, that is all abstracted for you. You can layout your pages like you would a Swing or SWT desktop app and tha... |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | chaostheory: I posted this before, but I can't find the link in YC...If time is critical, then I figure you'll want screencasts for the language/framework you need to use.I don't know of any that exist for any other language/framework, but Ruby on Rails has really excellent ones at:http://peepcode.com - not free but no... |
I want to make a webapp. Where do I start? | flashgordon: Yeah its a slow transition. Dont waste too much time trying to "decide" between a language. I just plunged into python (sorry all RoR fans out there, nothing personal)...django is a great framework for beginners.. start with sqlite for a quick db to use with django then get to postgres as soon as you ca... |
Where do you stand on privacy? | pchristensen: I'm not sure how privacy works online, or who sees what. Having said that, as a hacker I probably understand it better than most regular people. When I decide to put anything (anything) online, I keep two things in mind:1) Anything I put up can be seen by anyone (not just the people I would prefer see i... |
Where do you stand on privacy? | spydez: I don't put anything online unless I'm comfortable with the idea of millions of strangers, and my mom and dad, looking at it.And I'm a pretty shy person, so not much of my life makes it onto the web. |
Where do you stand on privacy? | thinkcomp: Your experiences sound fairly similar to my own. When I incorporated, I was a freshman in high school, and the lawyer I used to file the papers hired me to build a web site for him. He never paid the bill in full. (I paid his, of course.) I've also had my share of negative experiences with business partners ... |
Where do you stand on privacy? | edw519: I value my privacy so much that I have no account on any social network and never will. A very few number of people have my cell phone #. Anyone can send me an email anytime they want.You say, "I deliberately marketed myself aggressively online because I figured that that was the best way to win the game".Wha... |
Where do you stand on privacy? | bayareaguy: I've purposely made a lot of my real life information easy to get by anyone who actually knows me. If you knew the right url, you could have my address and phone in a second, which is exactly what I want. However, I generally avoid leaving anything around online that text technology alone could use to con... |
Where do you stand on privacy? | paulhart: Privacy is a competitive advantage if implemented well. |
Could you implement News.YC in your favorite language? | run4yourlives: Ok: Classic ASP, and about a week... or Python/django in about a day.So, why are you asking this? |
Could you implement News.YC in your favorite language? | myoung8: I built a version of it in Rails in a day or two once just for fun. It wasn't quite production-ready, but all the functionality was there. |
Could you implement News.YC in your favorite language? | pg: Arc / about a year and a half. |
Does anyone here play golf? | davidw: Cycling, of course! It can be both an individual or a team sport, has lots of tech if you want to get geeky about it, and is a great way to see the world up close without moving at a snail's pace. |
Does anyone here play golf? | dbrush: For me, the strategy comes into play when I realize I can only determine where the ball will end up with a marginal amount of certainty (in front of me or behind me). That said.. I love playing golf. Especially scrambles for the strategy reason. |
Does anyone here play golf? | dfranke: If you're looking for exercise, I recommend swimming. For recreation, paintball. |
Does anyone here play golf? | bayareaguy: I think golf is a good social hack when it allows people to conduct legitimate business "work" and get some good exercise in a nice setting at the same time. |
Does anyone here play golf? | eaken: find some like-minded friends and get outside and you'll have fun. |
how to be a VC? | jgrahamc: It sounds like you don't want to be a VC, you want to be an angel. I'd suggest you look at an angel network in your location and go talk to them about what you are thinking of doing. |
how to be a VC? | myoung8: Assuming you want to be a VC:1. set up a limited partnership (LP)--you'll need a good lawyer for this
2. word of mouth is how the business operates for the most part, but you could gain some exposure by hosting/judging at business plan competitions (e.g. Stanford's BASES Social E-Challenge, which is coming up-... |
how to be a VC? | sharpshoot: You have to be an accredited investor - which means you must have greater than $1m in net assets. |
Consulting on the side | aagha: When I started consulting I was able to find small "gigs" here and there by tapping my personal network to find out if people I knew (or people they knew) had any projects aligned with my skill-set that needed working on.I was aslo willing to do a couple of projects in the beginning either for dirt cheap or free... |
Giving raises after a series A round | sanj: I believe the goal should be NOT to be an outlier.Get a good sense of how the market would value you, independent of being a founder, and get paid that.Getting paid too much is just asking to to be singled out to be removed as a "cost saving measure."Getting paid too little makes everyone value you less. And you... |
Consulting on the side | davidw: Why not work on your own stuff on the side, if you eventually want to do a startup, unless you just want the money? |
Giving raises after a series A round | RyanGWU82: I've been told that investors will generally veto any attempts by founders to give themselves "large pay raises." Series A investors will likely allow small raises so that you're not living off ramen anymore, but founders should still expect to be paid below market rate.My guess is that compensation would b... |
Giving raises after a series A round | amohr: I've never been through this before, but I feel like getting through series A is a milestone and should be treated as such. I think founders who have been busting their asses to get this product up-and-running deserve some sort of bonus, especially because they just presumably diluted their equity. Maybe this ... |
Consulting on the side | goofygrin: I've been doing consulting for a few years (4+) and quit a few 9-5 jobs during that time. Frankly, consulting full time offers great pay and a boatload of flexibility. For a long time I went through firms and they ate 20-30% of my "profits" although they dealt with the billing and finding work, which is wo... |
Giving raises after a series A round | Payton: In my opinion, getting a big injection of VC money doesn't make it alright to turn up your burn rate a significant amount.I have never been through a round of funding, but it would make sense to keep your costs down wherever possible. A founder who just got a round of funding should be thinking on ways to incr... |
Giving raises after a series A round | brezina: You should include your pay raises in your budget you provide VCs before closing your series A.I would suggest paying yourself somewhere around or a bit above what you would make at a big company if you were doing the 9-5 gig as an engineer or whatever other position you'd hold. |
Giving raises after a series A round | Flemlord: I ran into this situation about ten years ago. (With the exact same amount of seed funding and series A funding oddly.) I didn't want to do raises and my co-founder wanted to do a huge raise that would have doubled his salary. We compromised closer to my side and just did a slight raise.We also sold some pers... |
Giving raises after a series A round | white: Be adequate with what you are asking for. You have the right to get paid fair salary. What investors may worry more then a few grands of salary raise, is how to keep your attention on the startup as much as it's only possible. If you're underpaid and cutting your expenses, you can't be a good person to develo... |
Does anyone know of am open source flash mp3 player? | cowmoo: JW FLV Player at
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=jw_media_playerProminent websites that utilizes the JW FLV Player for streaming mp3's, HypeMachine (hypem.com). |
documentation format? | jakewolf: Something formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper for printing out as a pdf and easy to navigate/search html.How long are we really talking about? |
documentation format? | wallflower: The writers at my company use Framemaker - it's pretty industry standard and expensive. They have started writing the documents using DITA. It's pretty powerful.DITA is an emerging documentation standard. It uses XML to describe the content and structure of a document. If you write your documentation in DIT... |
documentation format? | bugmenot: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ is quite nice: A rich set of features, easily extensible by custom directives, Python, and a hell lot of export formats (LaTeX/PDF, HTML, S5 slideshows, ...). |
Is Apple becoming the next Sony? | ideas101: whenever company grows the chances of becoming arrogant also grows and this is what is happening with all big companies which includes apple and sony ... apple made a big mistake in trying to control the iphone market by locking the phone and having only one service provider --- on the top of that they pushed... |
documentation format? | dfranke: Docbook. |
documentation format? | crystalarchives: Depends on the type of documentation, but I'm a fan of LaTeX since there are so many tex2____ programs out there that'll convert LaTeX to whatever format you want.The learning curve is steeper but the flexibility is high. |
documentation format? | chaostheory: there's an open source format (not software) that is pretty comprehesive (though at times repetitive): http://readyset.tigris.org/ |
documentation format? | bayareaguy: I currently use Scrivener, MultiMarkdown, TexShop, MacTex and OmniGraffle if I have a diagram or two.http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html is a combination outliner/editor for OSX. Most of its features are focused on allowing you to manage a lot of different bits of a larger document. There's a... |
documentation format? | kingkongrevenge: POD. Learn it in 10 minutes. Generates all formats. Embeddable in code, if appropriate.http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html |
any1 has invite codes for Xoopit, Orgoo, other hot startup? | bkrausz: So instead of posting invite codes here or telling people you have them in comments, we're supposed to email them to some gmail account for some HN account made a few hours ago, under the assumption that they will get redistributed?Alternate idea: if you have invites, let us know in the comments. If you want ... |
any1 has invite codes for Xoopit, Orgoo, other hot startup? | johns: This is a joke, right? |
any1 has invite codes for Xoopit, Orgoo, other hot startup? | SwellJoe: Another fine example of why I wish I could vote stories down. Even if I only got one down-vote per week...that'd be great. I would use it right now, and it would feel real good.Worst place, "invitecodes". |
Any novel aproaches to being sick? | Xichekolas: I sleep.... for like 20 hours straight. Then I eat something, then I sleep again. Repeat until healthy. I think last time I was sick, it was with a stomach flu for about three days. I probably slept 18-20 hours a day, with the rest of the time spent puking and crapping my guts out. (Hey, you asked.) |
Any novel aproaches to being sick? | davidw: Going into the office is a great way to infect everyone else with whatever you have, thus multiplying productivity losses.I try and actually stay in bed and read something completely unrelated to work/business/anything requiring much thinking. My personal favorite is westerns... Usually I get sick because of ... |
Any novel aproaches to being sick? | JesseAldridge: Take a daily multivitamin. It really helps. You get sick much less often, and when you do it's much less debilitating. |
Coworking Owners, What are Your Membership Policies? | jyu: http://coworking.pbwiki.com/ email a couple of them, and I'm sure they'd be willing to help you out. |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | edw519: Too late. That would be unethical. You'd be branded as someone who does unethical things. Not worth it. |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | m0nty: No. That's one of the all-time big no-nos in recruitment. You're stuck with the recruiter, even if they hinder the process. Also, dumb as it may seem (most recruiters don't have a clue about technology) many companies have good reasons to use them, and probably don't want you subverting that process.Good luck wi... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | ambition: Build a positive relationship with the headhunter. If you leave the startup, they can help you find a new job. If you stay and the startup succeeds, they can help you recruit new teammates. |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | brk: So what is the issue if they are all over you?A good, effective recruiter can be of HUGE value when you're looking for a job. They can help you better gauge salary range (and likelihood of the company extended the pay scale if you're top-notch but otherwise "unaffordable").While many companies will post jobs on t... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | vasudeva: I once was going through a headhunter -- a rather pushy and 'slick' one -- for a gig at IBM. During the initial phone interview with the hiring manager, it became clear that the position was not as described, and I wasn't a good fit for that piece of the project.As she described the scenario, it turned out sh... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | jraines: As a headhunter (my day job), I can tell you that this would be a real shitty thing to do. Unless of course they've been unethical towards you -- for example, like one commenter said here, trumping up the job description.Also, as another commenter implied -- you are going to get stronger consideration for the... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | ten-seven: Stick with the headhunter. The company that engaged them expects to work with them. It seems odd that they'd also post the position on their own jobs page. It's possible they weren't getting any responses, so they added the head hunter. |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | jsdalton: It's hard hiring tech people, and most small companies aren't very skilled at hiring people.My company had this difficulty recently...we posted the job on craigslist and on our site but didnt' get what we were looking for.A headhunter finally contacted me and offered me a great developer. We loved him and hir... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | indiejade: My advice is contrary to what most people here are saying: avoid both the headhunter firm, and companies that utilize headhunter firms.To begin, there's a _reason_ they're "all over you." I know and have been there, too, sometimes getting several calls in one day from various agencies. Any phone call that... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | goofygrin: Early in my career I used headhunters to find a job simply because they either had a connection in the company and could circumvent some processing or because they were on "approved vendor" lists (bigger companies).10+ years later, whenever I need work, I never call a recruiter. My first calls/emails/IMs ar... |
ASK HN: Going around a tech recruiter | gruseom: Am I the only one who senses a bit of a red flag in a startup using a recruiter to find their 4th employee? I could be wrong; it's impossible to tell based on next to no information. But it does suggest that they might not be plugged in to the right communities, and/or that they're already afflicted with burea... |
Autoposting script? | aston: I was planning at some vague point in the future to make bots for Techcrunch, PG, PB and xkcd just to take away that way to game karma. I think it'd be a net positive for the community, personally. |
Autoposting script? | rms: Doesn't bother me, except sometimes xkcd isn't on topic. |
Autoposting script? | henning: It's clear now that many people have thought of or implemented autosubmitter bots. This could get ugly.Maybe there should be a News.YC spinoff exclusively devoted to karma-bot wars so that human users don't have to witness the carnage on the front page. |
Autoposting script? | tgdavies: What's the point of copying every article of anything which has its own RSS feed to news.yc?Anyone who wants to see every xkcd will already have the RSS feed in their reader. Posting it here is just noise. |
Autoposting script? | dcurtis: This is a terrible, horrible idea, and I think you should turn off your autosubmitting script.I think users should only submit things they personally think are awesome and would interest other people.Autoposting scripts remove the human element of "sharing links" which is what this site was built on. |
Autoposting script? | Tichy: Is really every XKCD cartoon appearing on HN? I don't subscribe to xkcd, and I was hoping only a few actually get posted here.The "problem" of bots and news sites is an interesting one, though. But why not experiment on Reddit, rather than HN? |
Autoposting script? | jgrahamc: Don't do that.If the community wants everything from a particular site submitted then let's ask PG to scrape their RSS feed.I'm sometimes tempted to post everything from my blog, but I look at things and decide whether I think the community here will be interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150865 |
Autoposting script? | ericb: Blind submission removes the implicit "I thought this was valuable" filter and decreases the signal-to-noise ratio. |
Autoposting script? | bkrausz: Ok, by overwhelming majority the script is down.Just don't flame me if I (as a human) post an xkcd that I actually find relevant :) |
Why should I use OpenID? | ivankirigin: Alternative question: why shouldn't I use OpenID?What are the common concerns, and which are valid/invalid? |
Why should I use OpenID? | sjs382: It's good business to be friendly to your users. Also, for people who already use OpenID, having OpenID on your site lowers the barrier for entry. |
Why should I use OpenID? | marrone: Well it is not too difficult to implement and it can speed up the registration flow for new users, which should always be a good thing.OpenID is still getting better though. Yahoo! just became an OpenID provider which should help it catch on. And the ClickPass guys have built a great tool on top of it as well.... |
Why should I use OpenID? | simonw: OpenID is not a replacement for your users table. The first time someone logs in with an OpenID you haven't seen before, there's nothing to stop you from asking them for their e-mail address (you can even send them a challenge e-mail if you want to be sure). All OpenID really does is provides your users with an... |
Why should I use OpenID? | CPops: What percentage of non-techies has even heard of OpenID?What is important to the computer world is different from what most of the rest of the world values.For me, the ultimate answer would depend on how computer-savvy my intended audience is and how much extra effort is necessary to support it. |
Why should I use OpenID? | lizherring: It would've been nice if OpenID provided a way for Web sites to contact users without knowing their email address. This way, the Web site owner will not to put up an annoying page asking for an email address, and the user has control over who's allowed to contact them through their settings with their OpenI... |
Why should I use OpenID? | alex_c: For those who have already added OpenID support, or something like Clickpass - what is the adoption rate like? How many people use it versus the traditional login?I would be surprised if it's as high as 10% even for a tech-savvy site like News.YC, but I'm not basing that on any facts. Am I way off? |
Why should I use OpenID? | rshao: You would just have to assess your target audience and decide whether the cost of developing support for OpenID are outweighed by the benefits of allowing a portion of your users the convenience.I see little reason to implement it if your most of your users will be unaware of it. On the other hand though, having... |
Why should I use OpenID? | brlewis: As a web site owner, I've always seen openid as a nice thing to have. It was #40 on my list. Then clickpass showed up and it moved to #3. Last week I implemented it. I integrate with disqus. Log in to either disqus or ourdoings via clickpass and logging into the other site is just 1 click. It's very slick... |
Why should I use OpenID? | art_wells: To re-emphasize/clarify previous statements, OpenID doesn't require visitors to know about OpenID. A website can offer a registration/login process that requires nothing more than the visitor's AIM screen name, or livejournal account. (See example http://nshrine.com/u/registerhere.html )This not only eases... |
Why should I use OpenID? | jlam: As a website owner, OpenID nets your site security. Most people reuse the same small set of usernames and passwords. A not-so-small number of sites store cleartext passwords; they can even mail it back to you. Regardless how well you execute security, a breach at any of these sites compromises security across man... |
Why should I use OpenID? | jlam: The reliably thoughtful Chris Messina just posted on the benefits and costs of OpenID, partly in response to a decision by linkmarking site http://Ma.gnolia.com to stop accepting traditional address and password registrations in favor of OpenID only. http://FactoryJoe.com/blog/2008/03/30/magnolia-moves-to-open...... |
Why should I use OpenID? | brlewis: Given all the well-thought-out objections on this thread, I've decided to back out of the OpenID support I recently implemented. Details here:http://ourdoings.com/2008-04-01 |
Why should I use OpenID? | sabat: Good question! I mean that in the sense that I also have wondered about what I should do.From what I've read and researched (based on the answers here), Clickpass is the best way to go.It's also got PG's support, so it can't be all bad. :-) |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | rw: In order:Gandhi, Einstein, Alinsky. |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | airhadoken: Ben Franklin, for me. It seems like it will take the rest of my life to get a full picture of how his mind worked. |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | euccastro: Agrelo (grade school teacher and cultural agitator)Friggi (ex coworker)NietzscheG. J. SussmanWill WrightDanielle BuntenTim PetersPGNorvig |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | dcurtis: Warren Buffet, of course.And many, many others. |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | tjr: Noah Webster. Guy Steele. Bill Cosby. |
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