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Great offer !
Here is mine : http://cv.david.cx

Also, I'm a French citizen seeking employment in the US (Orlando, Florida to be precise), do you have some special advice for what I should change in my CV in regard to this ?
Hey, can you help me answer this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4021322/belongs-to-throug...

It's an AR question that has been bugging me.

Thanks!
GTW? LOL! Seeing Hunt the Wumpus referenced brings back memories of my TI-99/4A and makes this a must buy. This book reminds me of the magazines/compilations I have with programs and games in TI-BASIC/Assembly Language.

http://nostarch.com/download/Lisp08.pdf
Ask HN: What do you need help with?
There have been a lot of awesome Offer HN threads recently. Since I'm sure there are a lot of people on HN who wouldn't mind helping someone out, I want to try something a little backwards.

What one thing do you need help with? Please be as specific as possible.

Let's also try to keep it somewhat hacker related (please don't ask for relationship advice or things like that). I'll do my best to help out as many people as I can.
I have extra invites.

What's your email?
> I think the ideas which originate from the creator of neo-liberalism ought to be judged against the evidence of its actual implementation in real life before recommending its architect's theories on dealing with just about anything.

Fair enough. China, Cuba, the USSR....
i think that maybe a local problem for you, i tried chrome and firefox on windows and ubuntu.. no stuttering at all
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Justifying their massive sale price to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft. You can't pay $3 billion for a company that doesn't have at least a few hundred employeees.
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Probably getting 5 hours a night and a nap mid day so doing ok. It is hard getting up in the middle of the night though.
I love how he describes it as "a mass of granular material encased in a latex membrane". I bet that looks really nice when typeset with latex :)
Our experience was great. She slept with us for a month or so (breastfeeding). Then we felt we'd sleep a little better if we put her in her own bed right next to us, so we did that (in the same room) for a few months. Being in the same room makes it easier because you don't have to go check on her in another room. Then at 6 months or so we put her in her own room. It all went totally smooth.

Don't be afraid to sleep with the baby if you feel like it, and don't be afraid to put them in their own bed if you feel like it. It's ok. Also, putting them in their own bed in the same room for a little while gives you a lot of advantages (easy to check on them without getting out of bed etc.)

Basically, just do what you feel like and if it isn't working try something else.
Honestly, I cant remember off the top of my head the SPECIFIC details related to florida but i can almost guaranty you that you're business is providing a taxable service.

(1) Your business isnt provided a customized system so it isn't a professional service.

(2) A web portal or a web 2.o application is more a service than software, but state tax laws have dealt with it similarly to software.

(3) You could argue that your service is really a report generating service because your helping clients generate management reports on the status of their projects. Reporting services are almost always taxable sales.

Hope this helps, i'll probably post that matrix whenever i find it haha.
Our marketing channel is usually word of mouth; so "sign up" works quite well. It is essentially "email us but with tactile feedback". We are in the same sector - but the product/services are somewhat different (along the lines of "help help we have a serious problem save us yesterday") so the demographic is probably fairly different.

And traffic from the sites are relatively low compared to someone being given our phone #, so it might have skewed data.

Unfortunately I can't really share more than that publicly (employers choice, not mine). But feel free to email me if you want (address in profile).
> Fair enough. China, Cuba, the USSR....

Hardly wonderful examples of corruption-free parts of the world!!

Or ought there be a sarcasm indicator in that message? :)
I don't understand what is the big issue. Why not use a small battery to receive a ON/OFF signal from a remote control and cut off the power completely?
sure it is changing the life, and everything around. Sometimes it is hard, but isn't it why we live our lives?

You can be selfish as you want to be and you will die alone, without anything worth living.
This could be your browser/local machine or it could be because there are a lot of element on the canvas and when you try to move one around, it tries to snap to all the other ones.

I'm not sure what the best way around this is though, as snapping is a key feature. Any ideas?
I'll comment from witnessing how intense focus on a startup during it's earliest phases can affect a family with very young kids:

Founder of a software startup I used to work for was highly dedicated to his work and as the company began to see success, his family fell apart. He spent time traveling to meet with his customers and occasional travel turned into constant travel. When he wasn't traveling, he was working. Eventually his wife demanded a separation and eventually a divorce. I'd sometimes be on the road with him and can recall more than one occasion when he'd be calling home to wish his kids happy birthday. I found that to be a little sad. Now he sees his kids on weekends. Lives alone in a beautiful, but empty, house.

Clearly this won't be the case for everyone but unless you are able to strike a balance you might find success comes at a very high price.
Thanks a lot for doing this. Here is mine

http://snikolov.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/0/4/3904101/snikolov-...

if you or anyone else has time to take a look. My goal with the colors was to make it scan-able by highlighting where I worked as well as approximate position titles and letting gray-colored description stay in the background. But it might also be too harsh on the eyes.

Another concern is having too many things and not saying very much about any one of them. I am a student, and many companies seem to want to hire people who get things done for internships, rather than people with very specific skills. So I want my message to be "I've done things", rather than "I've done these very specific things that your job description lists." Is this misguided? Should I take certain parts of it out depending on where I am applying?

Thanks again.
In this case, google has a catchy two syllable name and a twelve year-old product that outpaces the competition in accuracy and design.

I fail to see how Facebook is anything but a brilliant name. It is easy to remember and describes the physical implementation of the site.
They have, for example, one person working full-time with relatives of deceased people.
I think a dual tax agreement is a bit different than a low-tax IBC generally is a situation where you dont have local taxes and you pay small fees for doing business (franchise tax). The tax havens in the bermudas and carribeans do this a lot.

A dual tax agreement is usually an agreement between the two governments saying that, they will give a tax credit for taxes paid to the other guy so that the same amount of income isn't taxed twice.

low tax IBCs generally just dont pay tax at all.
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Just remember raising kids is what you are basically designed to do.

It's not a project to outsource, or to delegate, or to bend to the latest fads. There's an entire industry designed to take advantage of your cluelessness as a new parent and make you purchase things out of guilt or stress. Just remember millions of kids are raised in mud huts next to wood fires.

Do what feels natural and appreciate you're going to make mistakes. Do some reading but don't obsess with a particular author or movement. Cherry pick what works for you.

To answer a question directly, having kids does inspire you to do more but gives you less resources to do it. You will make new friends and drift away from old ones.

But above all, remember that this is what you're designed to do.
You won't crush your baby, don't worry about it. (Unless you go to sleep drunk or something, I mean, really!)

You can put that big pregnancy pillow around them for extra comfort.
USSR? isn't it fall apart in 1991 with rest of soviet union?
This has been done many times before, even on HN.

And while on the surface it sounds good, there are lots of things that don't actually apply to startups.

Still, a great song from a great artist.
If you are a foreign company (Canadian, federally-incorporated), what kind of actions can you take to make it as easy as possible for a US company to acquire you (from their accounting perspective) ?
Okay, thanks for the recommendations.
It would be interesting to find out what the energy costs of the pasteurization and inoculation phase of the process are.

Five day turn-around for production seems like a reasonable period of time, I'm sure the Styrofoam equivalent is assembled at a faster rate, but this looks like it could be scaled horizontally quite easily.
> What kind of pages? My personal site/consultant site?

I don't know what yaggo was thinking, but I'd like to see simply some sites that you optimized for search engines - no matter whether those are your own sites or sites of your customers.
"Not knowing is not a sin. Not learning is."
I know that migrating a todo system is a nightmare and technology is not the only answer but I have tried Omnifocus and found Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com) much better.

One of the main reasons is that you say: "I don’t use the system consistently enough to trust it". I found that with remember the milk I have it on my iPhone so it is accessible everywhere and then syncs to a web accesible site - so it doesn't matter if you are in front of a MAC with the software installed or not. For me at least this significantly increased my use of it, and also because I have my phone in meetings I can add actions directly in, saving the time transposing from notpad to system.
I've only had a quick look but like everyone else, I will have a detailed look over the next few days.

Firstly, my market is London & the South East of England so advice on modifying your CV to suit the American market is probably best fielded by someone with more experience in that area.

Secondly, you have been working on your own company for over a year and you have surmised that experience in 45 words whereas you spent 6 months with INA and your description for your time there is almost 90 words. Simple things like that raise a concern in my mind about your current position and how relevant it may be to your career.
Conrad, I also met you at the DC meetup. Congrats!
General advice first :)

If you can't get stuff working with the rails helpers you can always hand write the html yourself. I need to do this once in awhile. I prefer using formtastic for my current project and I've had to hand write some html to add custom logic to a formtastic form. (I prefer not to abstract one off hacks until I need to do it twice)

Rails does a lot of stuff but it doesn't do everything. If the built in tools don't do it, build your own.

> 1. I'd like several submit buttons on a form that do different things.

The only way to target these is javascript hackery, use the text on the submit button or find an alternative method that doesn't rely on multiple forms.

> 2. If you have two forms on a page, can you set it up so changes on both forms are saved when any submit button is clicked?

Without javascript, not happening. For a rails solution to combine two forms, look at fields_for.

All that said,

Without specific details (screenshots, etc.) I can't really figure out what you are trying to do. I assume you have a valid reason for asking the question. Sorry if I wasn't able to help.
really? damn and I thought it made me look sporty! I really do swim a lot though, 1/3 of a mile last night. Hoping to swim my mile within a year (only learned to swim properly 2 years ago).
One other question:
As a foreign company with a bank account in the United States (but no operations, although our websites are hosted by an external company there), is there anything we should be cognizant of? (special US tax forms or similar we should be filling out, etc...)
When you sell the equity in an LLC, then you're selling an investment and if you hold that investment for longer than a year or 366 days or more, then yes it would be long term capital gains.

Generally, its better for you and the buyer to sell equity in a legal entity that to move the assets around. Its easier, less annoying and you dont need to worry about transferring a bunch of titles.
"Never sell no crack where you rest at": I think you misunderstand this one. What he means is that you should do the risky stuff somewhere else, where you can step away from.

Your home is where your family is, where you are vulnerable as you sleep, you don't want to do something like having crack-heads around there or cops busting down the door.

In technology terms, if you have something bringing in steady money, don't go do crazy experiments on it. If you have a project that needs to be delivered on a certain date, don't go using a brand new untested language on it.

In essence, do the risky stuff at a spot where you can walk away with little consequence.
Agreed - you sacrifice who you are/were but become a better person for it.

(I've got 2 girls - 6 and 16).
Among other things, it doesn't yet define what codecs would be used in the audio capture. There's also a lot of comments in the draft that amount to "we'll figure out how this part would work later."

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/ is probably a better link if you're interested in this stuff.

Phono is intended to be a unified jQuery API for real time communications (audio, video, chat, screen sharing). The Flash movie is an implementation detail -- the API is intended to be implementable with other media capture methods when they're available, including HTML5.
"to show my son that it is possible to have a fulfilling life" -> (Throwing my hands in the air): AMEN to that!

I think teaching values is partly explaining things to your kids, but mostly being an example. You do NOT have to become a boring 9-5 man when you get kids. Rather, become a scrappy entrepreneur who can afford to spend heaps of time with his kids because they have that flexibility.
how do you get fonts to look like that. I'm starting to see them all over the place. Fonts that look like they are indented into the page.
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I dont think so, you should be fine since you're earning the income from a foreign country such as canada. You should be fine since you dont really have a connection to this country besides your customers.

But, some states might be aggressive and say that your bank account is "property" that is being held in the state and try taxing you lol. Its funny because states will try this on occasion.
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Woz' for reference:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/steve-jobs-business-card-1979
Any implementation right now would be pretty early. The live media capture parts of HTML5 aren't fully-speced out yet.

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/camera/

With any luck, some browsers will form a defacto standard that solves the outstanding questions long before the HTML5 group finishes.
Instant opinion: The colours are drastic. I appreciate your intention but the same affect can be achieved by using slightly larger fonts.

On a side note, I see you worked @ Numenta Inc. A colleague & I have been experimenting with various potential applications for NuPIC. When I have a more detailed look at the CV I'll throw in a few side questions that you might be able to assist with.
My projects are mostly based on features that are missing or misimplemented in the existing products.

This is your first problem. First, features do not sell software. If there were a Ten Commandments of customer acquisition in the Internet age that would be #2 right after "Google is your god, you shall have no others." People use software and use websites because of the benefit that you credibly propose to bring to their lives through use of the software. Ironically, your users are even telling you this, which is fantastic because most of the time they don't have accurate insight into why your site doesn't do it for them. (Incidentally, "I don't know what problem you're solving" really means "I don't know what problem THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE will get better instantly if I sign up for this.")

StackOverflow is incredibly more complicated than Facebook is. You need an accurate mental model of how the game works in order to play it. (Seeing answers is easier, of course.) There is a reason Joel and company try to seed new Stack Overflow sites with people who have used one of the pre-existing ones. (That also helps solve the chicken and egg problem, which I suspect your sites are likely suffering from in a severe fashion.)

Early adopters are a quirky bunch. One of their problems is that other people are cooler than they are because those people have technology that they haven't used yet. Another of their problems is that the software they previously liked is now lame because even their mother uses it. Most people do not have these problems.

Talk to people. Find out what their pains, fears, frustrations are. This is not hard -- most people love to talk about what they hate about their life, jobs, etc. Identify problems which are tractable with software. Develop the smallest possible thing that shows the vision of a solution. See if it 'clicks' with people. If it clicks, you know you have a viable idea for a product. If not, development is generally expensive guessing.

P.S. Translation from user into English: "It's too complicated" => "I am insufficiently invested in this to do the work that it looks like it is going to take to extract the unknown amount of value I may get out." There are a number of solutions: simplification, hiding the complexity, easing the users into the complexity, and demonstrating higher value. Your user can play effing bridge, she is clearly capable of understanding complex systems when the spirit moves her.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth I say. You can always choose not to take the advice given. And with SEO advice you can usually tell whether it will do harm if not whether it'll help.
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Wow. Agree with not waiting to be "ready" to have kids.
99.7%? Ridiculously bad?

I just did the calculation. That's about a day of downtime. I'd say it's bad if:

- The downtime is scattered all over the year. 1 hour downtime here, 30 min downtime there.

But not if:

- This 1 day of downtime is scheduled, e.g. during the holidays. Scheduled and planned is the keyword. If the client is informed and aware of it, the client will also remain happy.

You'd be surprised how much downtime clients are willing to put up with, as long as they are informed well ahead of time.
First off, your user is not you. ;) Something that's instantaneously understandable, and clearly better to you (tagging) isn't necessarily so for others (apart from "multiple categories per item", I still don't get why everyone loves tags).

Obviously you can get quality feedback. Iterate on that. If it's not clear what problem you are solving, you just tell them. There's no shame in writing "This is a listings page, add a listing HERE" in 80px black bold Arial on top of the page, if it makes people use it ;)

As long as people can find you on search engines, they will come. But from there on, you have to guide them to use your service instead of expecting them to do all the work.
I have this project that I've been delaying because I don't have enough time. I know a bit of Rails, but it's been almost two years since I touched it. I need someone one to help me with architectural choices (should I use Formtastic, hobo, haml, authlogic, ...) and the first model/screen. After that, I would be good to go on my own. I would even be willing to pay for a few hours.

Most of the screens are CRUD (it's a business management thing) but I want to start this project correctly.

Thanks!
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Darn. I was thinking along the same lines as your response, but hoping there was an easy answer. I'll definitely do more research into FL's tax laws, but I appreciate your willingness to lend your opinion. [Startup idea: state and federal laws translated into understandable language...a Wikipedia of laws. Probably not the best idea since I'm sure that would result in quite a few law suits do to someone following incorrect or incomplete information]
Why is it a "critical advantage" to measure how much the baby eats? Babies need to eat when they're hungry and they stop when their stomach is full.
OK, so I don't have any experience with Rails myself but after having a quick glance wouldn't it be current_user.choices (plural) since user :has_many choices instead of singular, no? (haven't actually checked relationships between your models and whether they make sense).
"And admit that the waters around you have grown, and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin', then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'."
I don't know why you have that impression of Mexico. There has been corruption here since before the recent wave of crackdowns started, and, sadly, there will still be corruption when the crackdowns let up. When most Mexicans think about corruption, they think about nepotism, bribery, and embezzlement. Some of that's related to the narcos, of course, but it goes on even in areas where the narcos have little presence.
First off, it's not your fault that there are other people who are worse off than you, so there's really no logical reason for you to feel guilty.

Secondly, instead of feeling negative, why don't you help in some way. It doesn't matter if your contribution is small. Try it, and see what happens.
Perhaps holding a modifier key while dragging could disable snapping?
maybe you're discounting the importance of luck...

somehow society just decides your thing is cool. like when there's 5 equal products and one is successful for no particular reason.

i always think about how weird bars are. you can 2 equal bars but 1 is packed every night... even with zero distinguishing differences. society just says 'oh that bar usually has people, let's go there'.

the problem may not be the product but figuring out how to convince people it's the cool _______ to use.
For now, Phono works with a Voxeo backend (either the enterprise stuff or Tropo, the cloud telephony API). The intent is to allow a developer to create their own backend platform that works with Phono. We'll release the spec for that once the API has settled in and we're sure there's no significant changes needed.

Tropo's pricing is at http://tropo.com/pricing/ and start at 3 cents per minute. Voxeo's other products are based on amount and type of usage and you'd want to contact our sales guys to get a quote. sales@voxeo.com should work for that.
The point I was trying to make is that big projects can evolve and be managed in a very simple manner, which is the case for many pieces of Unix software. The details regarding changelog nomenclature vary, and of course there may be additional plain text files which are still simply kept in the HEAD.