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Ask HN: Comment and Recommendation on my site
I am trying to push out my startup.

I just release a first iteration of the code yesterday and i am wondering if you have any ideas/comments/etc in order to make the site behave and look better ?

Unfortunately i dont have all the time in world so development is slow.

Thanx.

www.cygamerentals.com
Erm... how to do well in technical courses - understand it. Profundity squared. Not.

Author is missing the fact that yes, you need to understand it, but you also need to practice the exams. The further into your university years you get, the more your basis in understanding becomes valuable, but you still need to practice the exams.
Tor project dislikes even eff's SSL certificate for having a wild card domain (*.eff.org).

There's more information: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-autho...
If I worked for a US/UK/Russian/Chinese intel organisation I'd make damn sure we had a steady pool of logless proxies dotted about on boxes in Iran, Pakistan and whatever net-connected boxes North Korea has.
You've got a few competitors here. How would you differentiate?

Yammer - http://www.yammer.com/

Chatter (SalesForce.com) - http://www.chatter.com/

Jive - http://www.jivesoftware.com/

Also, may be worthy to grab one of the StackOverflow sources, pretty it up and use that!
Reputation is more valuable than Gold
This all looks like superb advice - again, thanks!

- I will order 'Selling to Big Companies' tonight.

- Will make sure we all have a clear idea of the sales pipeline, targets

- Yes I have looked at the legal and trading issues - am being advised by a 'Big 4' firm who know the pitfalls

- Point about time to sell to large organisations is well taken. In fact part of the appeal of the system is that it gets round many of these problems.

- Am currently in discussion with some much larger established companies re licencing and distribution (one in London, one in Boston). They both love the product but are moving very slowly. I want to have a separate distribution channel as it's not clear at present which is going to succeed. However, having a distributor would certainly be easier than flying Australia-US each time a sales prospect needs me there!

- I really like the idea of low retainer/high commission. The business model is to charge a recurring subscription, so paying a high commission based on the first year's revenue won't impact so much on future cash flow.

- No equity on the table until they have proved themselves! At present I own 100% of the company (bootstrapped), but would consider giving someone with complementary skills in sales a portion of this if they had proved they could boost the company's value.
Ok, we fix it)
How to have affairs with married women
Many believe that extramarital affairs can be emotional. The most basic definition of an affair is a relationship that is secret, and has aspects that would be considered a betrayal by the spouse.
We had that "news" several times already (i.e. it's a dupe of a dupe by now) and - as commented here again, it seems to be blatantly wrong/false.

The linked article differs with every submission, but always repeats the "that guys seems to have fled" thing.
Dicks, mostly.
Enjoying lolicon will turn you into child rapist like enjoying FPS turned me into ruthless murder.

You have to be biologically screwed in the head to rape children or kill people for pleasure. I don't know why people create an impression that average Joe could enjoy 8 year old kid if given a chance.
Clicktastic - http://epihu.com
Thanks for vimgrep. I didn't know about that.
Great Lawyers Are Worth More Than $5,000
I got a new phone number three weeks ago and I still haven't memorized my own phone number.
It seems there are already apps for that https://market.android.com/details?id=com.forgottenprojects....
A general problem with n-gram is the conundrum of data-sparseness vs reliability of estimation. To have reliable estimation, you need larger order n in n-gram, but it also increases the size of the model which requires larger amount of data and storage. Thanks to the Web as a corpus and cloud computing, we now have upto 5-gram models computable on Terabytes of data provided you are resourceful. One problem with this approach is the selection of the web data to be used for training. The better adaption to the target scenario, the better accuracy.

i see no services that make use of this.

Most services have proprietary implementations of spell correction that is an amalgamation of several techniques including n-grams, and they might not like to make it public.
I may be a little late to the party but from my understanding:

> a paywall where you can only view 20 articles

..they are probably using some sort of cookie to track how many articles you have read? Then you need no lines of code at all. Just don't accept the tracking cookies.
Since our tiny 4 person startup built a photo sharing app with very similar core ideas, I was scared shitless this morning on first reading about Color.

That passed. Wrote it all up on the blog, but here is what I think they have wrong and our Pixamid has right:

Privacy: I think most people want to more privacy on their photos, not less. If the camera can sense who you are with (like Pixamid and Color try), by default, share ONLY with those people. By default, Pixamid shares with only your friends at he same place as you - you can choose to share with everyone there too.

Network Effects: Color™ might be cool in a world where everyone uses Color™. But we don’t see such a world anytime soon. People will use lots of different apps: Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Picasa -hell, even Ofoto (thanks Mom). We want to pull in your friends’ photos from any of these services, automatically as much as possible. See our post below about the Instagram magic we do; we’re dong a lot more of this cool stuff now.

Addressing a real problem: We are all taking more photos with our great phone cameras. But we hate to organize our photos. And if we add in Friend photos, it is even worse. Users of Pixamid get automagical photo organization as a byproduct of using the app. Each set of photos, with place, event, and who you were with. The things we will do with this in the future - can’t wait to show everyone! But we believe that our solution will revolutionize how people share photos online.

http://blog.pixamid.com/post/4060807527/the-color-tm-challen...
How I Helped Invent the Touchscreen in 1979 at Xerox PARC
Perhaps I was unclear. I had crappy grades in high school. High school homework was a pointless waste of time, so I didn't do it. I had good grades in 3 of 4 of my university math classes. Homework there was interesting and not a waste of my time, so I did it. When I hit MIT, my grades skyrocketed, because with a small number of exceptions, the classes were fun, and the problem sets were interesting and useful.

I did poorly in my first class -- I didn't realize this immediately -- I don't believe I sent a university transcript to MIT admissions, but if I did, they would have seen one bad and one good early, and one bad and two good normal admissions.
Clickety click: http://www.cygamerentals.com
How and why did Pabst Blue Ribbon come to be the hipster beer of choice?
update: I can't, its taken. But I've been offered colour.com for £350k, I'm considering it.
TripAdvisor issues warning after part of email database is stolen
> a white-coated staff has been experimenting with a future phase of the campaign: flavors.

And that's the point at which baby carrots really do become junk food.
Exactly... they are only creating more of a problem, in that everyone now uses different methods to take, store and share photos. And no one organizes photos, so it is a huge mess. If only someone could address that...
oh wait, we do. For less than half of what Color spent on a domain name, we build our Pixamid app...
we fix it)
This article references a HN comment[1] that suggests that all TripAdvisor developers have root access to all servers

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1620324
~username has generally meant "a folder belonging to username".

In non-threaded discussion boards, and I believe some older message boards @username was used to direct a particular portion of your message at a specific recipient while still keeping the message public.

I keep seeing lots of hate for the proliferation of "twitter's" @mention syntax, but its use predates twitter by a loooooong way.
Would love to chat, sounds like what we are doing with Pixamid.
Not a good use case. Long shot.
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Maybe they did. The general public has no way of knowing what Color's investors have seen.
Just like every other online subscription, including SaaS?
That's clever. Love the back stories created and little vignettes into these characters. Well done sir, well done.
Wow, first run of the app actually managed to make my phone reboot! Haven't seen anything like that before. Furthermore, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into when snapping a photo of myself and 'posting' it (after which the app crashed and my phone rebooted).

So this is the android-part of something that got 41 million in funding? Pretty interesting.
About one decade. I'm still an MIT affiliate. Admissions has not changed, in this regard, since. There have been a lot of other changes (the students now are better rounded and better looking than when I was a student), but this is not one of them.

MIT Admissions intentionally takes high risks. They admit a number of students at the extremes who may end up very bad or very good. The risks don't always pay off (we had a few real idiots), but the policy is actually quite sound. MIT's name comes from it's most famous graduates -- the Feynmans, Aldrins, Metcalfes, and Kurzweils -- the cost of having a number of bad or flaky graduates is rather low -- only the people who work with them ever hear about them.
you are right - the essence of freedom of speech is not that all speech should be allowed all the time and everywhere, but that "speech regulation" has to be decentralized via voluntary contracts between property owners
Give it 2 years.
I did on the C64, prob more than 1K mind you.

It allowed you to create a bordered window of any size and colour, write text directly to it and when it was closed, as if by magic, the text that was behind it was still there! I think you could have 8 such windows open at the same time.

I was rather pleased with it at the time.
Thank you all. Decided to make a start.
Not harder to type than @, I think.
"WARNING: DON'T LAUNCH COLOR ALONE."

I like the concept, but, if you require people to organize themselves in order to set up their first use experience, you are in big trouble.
Why I Love Money
Fab.com | Groupon clone for great design products
Hackers exploit chink in Web's armor
A long-known but little-discussed vulnerability in the modern Internet's design was highlighted yesterday by a report that hackers traced to Iran spoofed the encryption procedures used to secure connections to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other major Web sites.
Workday Architecture - Append only and in memory using InnoDB/MySQL
Brilliant writing :-)
“most of the goodness is actually in, or just below the skin” from http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/nutrition.html

Never seen Baby Carrots, but if they are “carved” from regular carrots, it sounds like they already lost some of their nutritional value.
> though I may be overestimating its difficulty.

The difficulty could be due to the brain damage C++ causes. Before I get incinerated, I have to remind you of Dijkstra quote about BASIC ("mutilates the mind beyond recovery").

Both BASIC and C++ (and Java, Smalltalk and so on) fixate several ideas about computing that make it harder to understand very different concepts. In a sense, that qualifies as mild brain damage.

I learned programming with BASIC on an Apple II+, went through FORTH (GraFORTH), C, Pascal, APL (The write-only language) and FORTRAN (in college) and later learned OOP with Smalltalk (and worked a bit with Actor). Did a lot of VB too (I had bills to pay), Perl, Java and Python. For obvious reasons, I don't completely agree with Dijkstra on the BASIC thing. I never liked C++ much, possibly because I learned OOP with Smalltalk and C++'s OOP seemed to me a misappropriation of the acronym. All things considered (it took me 8 years and a job offer to decide to learn C++) Smalltalk damaged me beyond recovery.
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But after you learn C you have a ton of stuff to unlearn before you can use Scheme properly.
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From Sticks to Clouds
We are at the precipitous. This changes everything.

Feels epic. We're here.
A lot of this is relative. If you are used to a 30 person company, yes, there's more politics. Compared to where I came from (a 300,000 person company), Google is much, much better. (And if you think the politics are bad in companies, its nothing compared to the politics in a university's I/T department. Why? Perhaps because there's less at stake...)

I've worked for a university (MIT), a startup (VA Linux), a big company (IBM), and compared to my past employers, I've easily found Google to be the best for me. Others may find the environment at a 30 person, 300 person, or 300,000 person company more congenial. A lot of it is personal preference...
"We've received your invite request. Memberships are approved based on priority access." -- I hate this kind of crap, I don't have friends, so yeah fuck your site.
Yeah the down vote response was funny. It's as if cute girls in tech(replace with almost anything that is male dominated) aren't praised by males. Aside from her being an outlier, I think that the site is well designed and witty and makes a good case for her to be hired by instagram or anyone else.

Are websites with vanity urls the new cover letters?

www.f*&kCompanyAIloveCompanyZ.org
Rate My Startup: Formsly
Formsly is a web-app which offers individuals and businesses alike the ability to generate a feature-rich 'Contact Us' Page for their websites without without any coding knowledge. Users simply use the dashboard to configure their page, and then it generates the code for integration into their website.

Users can configure their Contact Pages to have Integration of Google Maps, GPS Co-ords, and Turn-by-Turn or Printable Navigation. It also allows them to list multiple offices or branches/stockists, and create Email Forms which can be routed to different departments. Users can integrate their Twitter feed and add links to their profiles on all major social networks. There's an analytics function as well as the ability to embed live support systems is required by the user.

The idea behind this product is to provide users with a feature-rich alternative to online form generators, and allow them to create a more engaging Contact Page without needing to hire web developers to add the functionality which we provide.

There are currently two plans - Free and Premium (99 cents monthly / 9.99 USD annually).

The product is currently live and functioning at www.Formsly.com. I'd really appreciate any discussion and feedback regarding Formsly. Thanks!
I like these rules. I can`t agree more with you about applying to people`s self-interests. I think that principle "I`ll scratch your back if you scratch mine" is very powerful. When friends receive your request for help they will often look for a reason to help you. So, it might be a good rule to give them in your request an answer to WIIFM.
BTW, I experienced the truth of #45 - Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once. We are creatures of habit and hate when someone threatens them.
Hmmmm ... from the founder (me).

We're getting 2k pre-launch signups per day, 26k total in just 13 days, so this "crap" works to build pre-launch buzz and subscribers for your startup.

You may want to take a look at the viral tools we built at http://fab.com that are generating these 2k signsup per-day. A lot of pre-launch startups can learn from them.

And, for our business model, it's very important that we control the number of people allowed in at the beginning, as it is a private-sales site.
Oh, and btw, we're not a Groupon clone. We're more of a Gilt for great design across a wide range of products. There's a big, big difference between the Groupon-style deal-of-the-day sites and the Gilt-style flash sale sites.
As an aussie I can't say I'm surprised. The police hardly have time for a stolen car anymore, let alone a laptop.
There are many different ways of thinking about mathematical concepts like derivatives. The more you know, the more deeply you know them, the better.

Here's a random example: Marsden and Weinstein define derivatives in their out-of-print textbook Calculus Unlimited without limits. The tangent to a graph at the point x is the boundary between two line pencils, one of lines entering the epigraph at x, the other of lines leaving. There's no limit-taking of chords. It's a simple and neat definition that connects with classical notions of tangency.

In his essay On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, Thurston lists a dozen other definitions or conceptions of derivatives in his personal arsenal, some very sophisticated. But even those among his definitions that are elementary and have roughly the same scope there is a difference in their psychological affordances, and that can make all the difference.
The pain that is Los Angeles traffic
A domain is an asset, why would it be worth notably less after a few years if the startup were to fail?
History of the [Western] world in 100 seconds [According to Wikipedia]
Scheme(or LISP dialects in general) is not just functional; it's multiparadigm. It sure is trippy, but gives a very solid foundation for later stages of academic and professional life.
4 of 6 user reviews give it 1 or 2 stars. Not an auspicious launch for a $41 million startup.
41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble
Brilliant. Definitely on this.

If you see some photos of amused british people in their living room representing themselves as having been taken deep in the most self-regarding of san francisco's fashionable hangouts, that was us.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ also have some good tips
very samuel beckett-y ...
Indeed, I've long ago adopted the convention to do any remotely advanced scripting in a "real" scripting/programming language (myself, I use Python for this).

Bash scripting is good for running a few commands in a sequence, but in my experience gets unmaintainable and unreadable very quickly, especially if you try to do sane error handling/logging, or operations on non-text data.
Japan's Earthquake and the Hazards of an Aging Population
Does RedHat have a product similar to Microsoft's Visio?
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Well, I am not in a bubble. If anything my software is vastly undervalued. I wouldn't know what to do with 40M. I could use 100k though..
I think jschuur's suggestion is that they should have made a video targeted at the general public. The use case of many of these mobile services and apps is not inherently obvious, not the the general public anyway. Compare the information you get from Color's website to the information you get from the lonelysandwich video promo for a similar app - Everyday, on its website: http://everyday-app.com/
kill-or-be-killed ?
@Harjeet "@pkedrosky that's false. the median will definitely not be $10m" http://twitter.com/#!/Harjeet/statuses/50831305084112896
This article is very helpful, but in all honesty, I think the formula is slightly more valuable than the picture. They're both essential, of course, but the formula is really the key to understanding the concept.

This is said, of course, from the vantage point of someone who has studied calc with 3 variables and so on, so may not have the fresh perspective.
Agreed. Although I should add that it's still great to call out to the standard Unix toolset when it's the easiest way to get something done. The accepted answer here illustrates that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714043/what-is-the-best-...
Steve Jobs To Tawkon: “No Interest” In Your Phone Radiation Measurement App
Google owns Googli.ng, Bing owns Bi.ng
Tech Bubble Video
IMO Java's worst design choice was to allow any object-typed value to be null. By making different design choices, it would have been perfectly feasible to not allow null objects in the language at all, but rather make some sort of nullable/maybe/optional type there is in many other languages. After all, a program that crashes with a null pointer exception is not much better than one that crashes with a segfault.
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"A $41M investment at this stage in the life cycle of a business is normally associated with either something that is technologically complex and thus capital intensive or that requires new processes to be designed from scratch."

This is what struck me when I heard about the deal. Color is cobbling together existing technologies and not creating anything new. This deal pushed me into the "There is a Bubble" group. They had better have an ace up their sleeve.
Margit Wennmachers,Andreessen Horowitz, Advantages of Being Technical
My school taught Haskell as the intro language to math majors, and my basic observation was that people who had never programmed before and people who where really good at programming already got it pretty quickly. On the other hand people in the middle that had programmed a bit before and where competent, but not great, where really confused and never really got it.

In the second half of the course, where you learnt Java and OO, was totally confusing to most those who'd just learnt Haskell as their first language and many people who got great grades on the Haskell part failed the Java part.

So it would seem that whatever you learn first is easy and normal and whatever you learn after that is confusing and difficult.
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I would say that's Powerset's technology merged into Bing, not direct Freebase.

If you want a more practical application for Trinity look at http://research.microsoft.com/probase/ (linked at the bottom of the page). Also to quote the page:

Microsoft Bing’s AEther project now uses Trinity for managing AEther’s experimental data,
which consists of large number of workflows, and the evolutions among the workflows.
Trinity is the backend graph storage engine of AEther's workflow management system.
We are adding more functionalities, in particular,
subgraph matching and frequent subgraph mining, to support the project.
Context: http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/02/08/google-and-microso...
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Exploiting HTML injection woes and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities to get some backlinks is bad advice, really bad advice.

If you discover HTML injection bugs or XSS vulnerabilities you can contact the owners of the site and tell them about the problem, doing responsible disclosure - the DMOZ people are running a forum, bugs can be reported there. After the problem is fixed you can write a blog article if you think that it is really that interesting. Or you remain silent about the vulnerability you have discovered. Publishing the vulnerability without telling the owners is questionable. Writing some tutorial about how to get links out of this existing vulnerability is bad style.
One of the arguments I've heard that state that things are different this time around goes like this: it is far less capital intensive to do a startup now rather than in the late 90s because of open source software stacks and cloud computing providers. I agree with this statement but it means that the average software startup doesn't need a lot of cash to develop their product. Apart from ads and perhaps domain names (haha), why does anyone need so much cash?

EDIT: I guess it could be patent licensing. I don't buy the technological complexity bit, personally.

Also, if you know that everyone's headed towards a bubble, what is the correct response if you are a rational entrepreneur? Riding the bubble to the top and bailing before the crash does not jive with me.