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Title: Kickstart campaign for the most advanced open-source web editor for your browser.
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Title: Some background:
I'm 15 years old, attend high school, do well in terms of grades and extracurriculars (business clubs/competitions), and also am a pretty good front-end developer experienced with HTML/Jade,CSS/LESS, JS/jQuery/AngularJS, and Phonegap/Cordova. I've worked on several web projects in the past, such as http://teen2geek.com, and my portfolio is at http://krrishd.github.io, just to get an idea of what I can do in web development (not so good at the backend though).<p>I recently took part in a social entrepreneurship competition to prevent suicide, and I envisioned a specific app, and the idea won a grant. This app is somewhat similar to some social networks you've seen, and is a bit complex to develop for a front-end guy like me. The grant is a "micro-grant", so it isn't anything substantial, and I'm not sure if outsourcing can retain the quality necessary for such an app.<p>What do you think I should do?
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Title: From coinbase.com:<p>"Due to higher than normal buy volumes, we are unable to provide exact price quotes right now.<p>Instead of pausing buys entirely, we decided to give people the option to purchase bitcoin at the market price in a few days. Once your USD funds arrive, we will exchange them to bitcoin at the market price at approximately Friday Nov 22, 2013 at 07:56AM PST.<p>Note that you can cancel your order at any time up until your bitcoin arrive from the transfer history page.<p>The market price of bitcoin changes frequently. Below are some recent prices to give you an idea. These do not guarantee what the price will be in a few days."
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Title: Cancelled orders on CoinBase is going to kill their business. New customers are unhappy and the post does not make sense as the users are verified and money is withdrawn from their account.
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Title: Our startup was in an accelerator previous to applying to YC, and this was the reason why we were rejected after the interview. I understand the concern that we should already be "accelerated" by now but its hard to compare the previous program we were in to the caliber of YC.<p>Why does being in an accelerator pre-YC lessen your YC chances? Has anyone had similar experiences with this? Are there any YC alumni that had their company in an accelerator pre-YC?
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Title: Dude, pure awesomeness
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Title: On my new job I'm sitting in a room with eight others, including some guys that have a near constant flow of visitors. Behind me is a kitchen area where chatty experimentalists seem to be cooking and talking all day.
Ask HN: what are the best non in-ear headphones that isolate you from your surroundings even when you're not listening to music?
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Title: Or by topic here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLiioAbFTbKP9CxF9Fu4_NQteU_v9wkA3
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Title: I've been working in startups for the last few years, using a lot of the latest tech that startups often use (Rails, Node, Mongo, Angular etc.).<p>Now I'm back in my home town (failed and can't afford to be out in London doing this any more), and seeking any job for a developer. But all I see is PHP, .NET, VB, Java and everything that HN seems to hate.<p>I actually haven't touched this stuff since school, and everything I've learned and used over these last few years seems to be useless in the corporate world here.<p>I'm renting alone and therefore need a job quickly. My options are finding a quick job (e.g. waiter, shop assistant) while brushing up on PHP (or maybe something else has better career opportunities?) in the evenings, or just doing something completely different.<p>Truth is I want a stable career now and care little about whether we're coding in Erlang or Java.
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Title: https://github.com/dart-lang/spark
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Title: I've just published a book (called PHP Beyond the Web) at<p>http://www.leanpub.com/php<p>I work (flexible) full-time at a Uni, which allows me to spend decent time with my three young children and act more as a primary carer than a part-time dad. I don't want to give this up, but extra money is always useful. I'm currently trying to generate some extra income in a (fairly) passive way, at least without giving time commitments to people. I've written this book as a first step, as it was something I could do in my own time and on my own schedule, and I'm now wondering where to take it next. I've considered consulting (which I've done in the past) linked to the book but that doesn't fit my aim of "in my own time and on my own schedule". Does HN have any ideas of where I can go from here?
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Title: TripStamp allows users to create a digital scrapbook of their travels, past and present. Any feedback on the concept, design or functionality is welcome.<p>http://www.tripstamp.com
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Title: I've heard from store/marketplace owners that have implemented BTC that they get very few transactions through BTC. As the founder of an online marketplace, [Tindie](http://www.tindie.com), I'm very interested in learning if adding BTC checkout has a dramatic impact on sales.<p>My suspicion, which I think many BTC skeptics hold, is that most BTC transactions are more for currency conversions than purchasing goods.<p>HN, where are you spending your bitcoins? Maybe I've got my head in the sand, and bc I don't own any BTCs, just don't notice the places you can spend them?<p>(Any store/marketplace operators I'm also interested to hear your experiences post implementing BTC checkout).
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Title: It's called Aether: it's a distributed, anonymous and decentralized public space where you can discuss without revealing your identity or being eavesdropped. It has no servers, and it's unblockable.<p>I wanted to see what HN thought of it—sorry to take your time if out of topic.<p>Download it here: http://www.getaether.net<p>A speakerdeck slide introducing Aether:
https://speakerdeck.com/nehbit/aether-a-decentralised-online-public-space<p>Check out the bitcoin topic! I posted it on reddit earlier today, and there's been some discussion starting up there.<p>Source code is here: https://github.com/nehbit/aether-public/<p>What do you think?
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Title: Could be anything you stopped or started. How has it improved your (day to day) life.
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Title: The article about the successful female Japanese entrepreneur got me thinking. I've been working for the man my whole life. When I was younger, I had someone turn me down for a programming job because they said my GPA was too <i>high</i>. I thought that particular employer was an idiot but it is their call. I'm curious if there are similar biases that are faced by failed entrepreneurs. Someone can have a bias that if you did a startup once, you will likely not be a stable employee and quit after a little while to do your next startup. I'm not worried about the major markets (Silicon Valley and New York) but about the rest.
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Title: Who is the HN POY for you? Since the Times selection is pretty limited.
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Title: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26800/google-drive-share-with-my-apps-workgroup-without-having-to-add-them-manually<p>If you share a document with "everyone in your organization" it is not visible to them by default. This has apparently been broken for something like 5 years.
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Title: Ran out of money. Ran out of credit. Losing house in two months (already foreclosed). Wife pregnant. Three kids all under 6. Pretty sure I am the opposite of everyone here. I am no man. Just a statistic. Everything is gone. Selling spare parts to keep the lights on. It was a nice fantasy, HN. To the rest of you: fight hard and good luck.
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Title: I don't mean for the tone of this submission to be confrontational — I'm a big fan of the HN community and consume much of my news here — but I was recently troubled to learn that HN doesn't let users delete some of their content (most notably, user accounts).<p>Granted, this isn't a new issue. I see that, according to The Unofficial HN Blog, the solution is to keep your profile anonymous.<p>Still, HN's treatment of personal data is somewhat surprising, considering that this community is so progressive when it comes to discussing privacy issues. In fact, some of the privacy-related HN posts about Facebook inspired me to delete my personal data from that site.<p>Why does Facebook seem to be more accommodating than HN when it comes to giving me the freedom to access my own data?
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Title: I never used to have a problem watching the first 5 seconds of a sponsored commercial on some of the more <i>popular</i> YouTube videos, but I've noticed a <i>startling</i> increase in the amount of ads being served to me. It is at the point where I would say 3 in every 4 videos plays an ad now. It's disgustingly frustrating.<p>Has anyone else noticed this?<p>If so, has there been an announcement regarding this that I've missed? Perhaps even something to do with Google+ IDs being used for user accounts?
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Title: Are there any alternatives to commenting services like Disqus and IntenseDebate? I am looking for open source software that can be installed locally.
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Title: When I was young, maybe 14, the thrill of visiting forums and discussing things was the absolute best. I was always ON. Messaging randoms just because I can and talk, making friends online. Dying to come home to write that shitty script so I got 3 replies on a forum.<p>Now, I'm only "ON" about 10% of the time, and that's at work. I got my own apartment, state of the art hardware, I got everything I wanted that I thought would help me, but now I'm here, exactly where I want to be, and yet I still don't have the drive.<p>It seems like the more I think about what I want to attain in software, the more apathetic I become to the field in general and just want to escape. I have goals, but I rarely come home and work on something, I just go on Reddit and smoke weed until I go to bed then feel depressed for wasting yet another day.
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Title: throwaway and anonyous CTO and cofounder here - we have been around for 2 years, and for the last 2 months in serious talks with a major ($6bn t/o) company to sell our startup. the deal would clearly be great for the founders personally - but also provide fantastic strategic assistance to the startup, propelling our user adoption to insane levels and giving us the financial backing to scale.<p>We were told last week that the VC who backs this large co won't do the deal for internal politics reasons. Bigco (right up to VP level) still want to do it, but can't.<p>we've broken off talks, have lost months of traction and work - aside from the enormous emotional cost, and i'm personally totally despirited. the thought of leaving product alone again and getting into months of further VC courting to raise the money leaves me cold.<p>what's more, our current VCs & angel investors - previously delighted to be involved + finance cheaply with the smell of an exit around the corner - are now dropping us like a hot turd, putting us at serious risk of going under in the coming months.<p>we've built a startup that's so disruptive, we nearly had an exit within 2 years - but now we're about to crash and burn.<p>just wanted to share the story and hope there are some vague lessons to learn from it.
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Title: The Dutch intelligence service - AIVD - hacks internet web fora to collect the data of all users. The majority of these people are unknown to the intelligence services and are not specified as targets when the hacking and data-collection process starts.<p>Apparently what they do is get direct access to the mysql databases backing fora and then just download the entire thing.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545
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Title: There are many models of routers that support open source router software/firmware like OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. However, when you look around, it's very difficult to determine the recency of router models out there and post date isn't always useful since many use which ever router just happens to be available to them for free. If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features?<p>While it would be nice to know the best models as of today (December 1st 2013), I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.
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Title: A while back there was a kerfuffle on HN about link headlines being changed by the mods to the original headline on the article being linked to, on the grounds that link submissions are "community property" and so the headlines should not be editorialized. The problem with this is that more often than not, the original headline sucks. Such is the case for this article, which is really the content of this submission:<p>http://www.salon.com/2013/12/02/thanks_for_killing_the_planet_boomers/<p>The original headline is, "Thanks for killing the planet, boomers." But this is a flip headline that belies the serious and important subject matter, and also obscures the part of the article that IMO is (or at least should be) of major interest to most of the HN audience. That point is that climate change is a <i>generational</i> issue:<p>"If you’re already in your mid-50s or later, and you’re lucky enough not to reside in any areas that are traditionally prone to hurricanes or flooding, you’ll miss the worst of our imminent destruction. But for those of us who are younger..., who hope to live long, healthy, happy lives — well, tough shit. ... While the AARP spends over $100 million on D.C. lobbyists every year protecting... Social Security and Medicare, no comparable institution exists to lobby on behalf of Mmillennials and “Gen Z,” the demographic groups that will face global warming’s worst consequences. We’ve been consigned to the sidelines, turned into spectators of the greatest disaster movie ever made."<p>So I am no longer submitting direct links to HN because I believe they are too constraining. From now on I am only doing text submissions with embedded links and a brief summary of the content and why I think it's relevant to HN. I think that if more people did this, the quality of the content on the home page would be improved. At least it's an experiment worth conducting.
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Title: This morning I saw two articles on the front page about how HN should change their algorithms. I would contend that an algo change is not the right solution.<p>Here is what we did to try and solve the problem on reddit.<p>First, there is the "organic" box at the top of the page. The first link in that box is always an ad, but after that, it shows pseudo random links from the new page (more on that in a second):<p>https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/89f6f1ad9c1babbf520b83c49fa27f509bb5d0ef/r2/r2/lib/organic.py<p>What this does is give exposure to up and coming links to a lot of people all at once, which helps overcome the luck factor of who is looking at the new page at any given time.<p>The second solution is the "rising" sort on the new page:<p>https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/89f6f1ad9c1babbf520b83c49fa27f509bb5d0ef/r2/r2/lib/rising.py<p>The rising sort accounts for how many times the link has been shown in its ranking algo, which helps better new links rise to the top.<p>The organic box on the front page uses this rising ranking to choose what is in the box, and also contributes to the view counts.<p>So I would humbly suggest that HN should do as it has done often in the past, and copy reddit's solution here by implementing the rising sort and the organic box.
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Title: link not behind paywall: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304854804579234450633315742-lMyQjAxMTAzMDAwMjEwNDIyWj
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Title: I collect records. I rarely buy anything blindly by name or label; I like to discover new stuff by listening to it first. I usually do this by spending hours in grimy bins with a record player but I also found that sometimes Ebay sellers post sound clips of their records. Specifically, what I noticed is that sellers are more inclined to make the effort of posting a sound clip if the record is rare -- i.e. you can't find a clip elsewhere -- and the record sounds really interesting. It helps them make a sale.<p>So I made an Ebay API spider that gets all the sound clips and record release data. It's been running like a dream since 2007 and I currently have 89,830 sound clips of rare records (probably some dupes in there). I used to watch the feed all the time but I kept finding really cool records and was spending a lot of money! I got busy. I had a good test suite so anytime there was a Unicode error or some bug I patched it pretty quick.<p>I steadily accumulated a pretty amazing collection of sound clips seeded by these search terms: soul, funk, reggae, ska, country, breaks, disco, psych, afrobeat, jazz, rocksteady, garage, indie, library (as in library music), new wave, electronic, brazilian, and boogie.<p>I made a frontend for listening to clips all Ajaxy-like and got it working on mobile phones and major browsers. I was sort of happy with it but ran into some database bottlenecks and got busy again so I never launched it. It was too slow to be usable.<p>What should I do? I don't really have time or money to finish it out but I'd like people to use it to discover music. Since the clips are short and will link to music for purchase, either MP3 (if it exists) or original vinyl on Ebay/Discogs, there shouldn't be any copyright problems. It's fair use to promote music for sale with a clip.<p>You can comment here or reach me by email: [email protected]
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Title: A very dense and readable summary of some of the key concepts in set theory. Warning!! -- May cause mind-blowing
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Title: Always worth to keep an eye on: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
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Title: Now Intel has no competition for high end CPUs, which means price increases for us.
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Title: New offer from KimaVentures: Kima15<p>Raise $150,000 for your startup in 15 days for 15% equity
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Title: Some of the most powerful drivers of success are our habits: what we repeatedly do every day. Even the most successful people are defined more by what they do rather than by who they are.<p>What are these habits? I would like to develop some good ones. And I'm willing to try several out and report back how they work.<p>Which daily habit has been the hardest for you to pick up (or change) and why?
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Title: Hi everyone - I've been working on this automatic journal for a long time. It takes your photos, makes them look nice, and also journals the places you go just by having your phone in your pocket. Would love your feedback!
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Title: An open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient sql-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
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Title: Little side project from the past few months indexing ascii guitar tab sections into pseudo-language "words" (notes, chords) and "sentences" (riffs) that can be queried and indexed with ElasticSearch (Apache Lucene).
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Title: I'm the author of the book ("Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid" http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com).<p>I'm a big HN fan and would be happy to answer any questions!
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Title: I have a decade plus experience in dev, traditional windows desktop, SQL server, .net, c#, asp, as well as open source mysql, php, python, bash on linux and aix. I am skilled in systems design, requirements gathering and have led a small team. I am a good communicator and able to interact with stakeholders at all levels.<p>I have a family and want to immigrate for their sake.<p>I do not have a degree and most likely will not get one at this point in time. Are there any countries where I can apply for jobs without a degree that will provide me and mine permanent residence?
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Title: http://ekisto.sq.ro/<p>Ekisto is an interactive network visualization of three online communities: StackOverflow, Github and Friendfeed. A graph layout algorithm arranges users in 2D space based on their similarity. Cosine similarity is computed based on the users' network (Friendfeed), collaborate, watch, fork and follow relationships (Github), or based on the tags of posts contributed by users (StackOverflow). The height of each user represents the normalized value of the user's Pagerank (Github, Friendfeed) or their reputation points (StackOverflow).<p>Sharing this because I thought it's really awesome - published Dec 1 by Alex Dragulescu.
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I'm thinking about building a HN style board for a specific industry that doesnt already have one. I see that recently a banking board just opened up in the same, simple style. Can anyone advise me how yo setup a board in the same style?
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Title: It's that time of year and some ideas would be appreciated.
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Title: I am almost 40. I have been programming as a hobby so far because I could never get a job as a programmer. I am ok with Java and now learning Go which I totally love now and some JS. Is it possible to start of as a professional programmer at almost 40 ?<p>Update: Thanks everyone for your honest and insightful feedback. It helped me truly to stay upbeat about starting as a programmer at 40.
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Title: I'm one of the co-founders of a startup called Bundio that enables artists and record labels to set up direct-to-fan subscriptions to their content. Prior to getting into startups I was a singer-songwriter but about two years ago I put music to the side for the most part. It’s a real problem because I strongly believe those that build the best platforms are actually users of those platforms. I came to the realization that I need to get back into music so I can be a user of the platform and build something remarkable. I also realized that money wasn’t going to be well-spent signing onto a new one year lease for $1k / month in Boston.<p>So I’m getting out of the office and hitting the road!<p>On January 13th I will embark from Guilford, CT (my hometown) on a cross-country tour playing/recording DIY concerts, making field recordings of artists (that I’ll add to a Bundio subscription), and meeting up with other startup founders as I pass through their towns.<p>55 days on the road,
25+ states (and Vancouver, BC),
30 shows (hopefully)<p>I’ll be documenting the entire journey daily on the site I created for the tour: http://housecallstour.com<p>How can you help? A number of ways: connect with me if you are on my route (http://housecallstour.com/route) or know someone that is. I’m particularly interested in meeting up with those working on digital media, social media, and music startups. As I said above, I’m trying to put on DIY shows in living rooms and houses (Edit: adding link to my music - http://housecallstour.com/about_drj). These will be house concerts (tame), not house parties (wild), so even if you haven’t hosted something like this before please do consider - it will be fun! Joining me for each show will be local performers. I could also use some help with couches to crash on along the way.<p>Anything I’m missing? Please let me know if you have any ideas for me or other ways you think the HN community can help!<p>Julian
[email protected] (email me for my cell #)
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Title: It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.
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https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=bandwidth&start=2008-06-12&end=2013-12-11#bandwidth
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Title: I run a small, but successful, web development shop. We have recently been approached by a potential client to build a web application for them. Its a reasonably sized project that will take a few months. There are no great technical challenges in this project.<p>The app will be entering into a very competitive marketplace, with a slightly different spin. However, the founder has almost no experience of web development and what it takes to get an app off the ground.<p>Given what I have seen so far, I don't think that he understands what it takes to make this thing successful. I don't know, maybe he gets lucky or something, but lets just say its unlikely. Its going to take a LOT more money in marketing than he believes and I get the impression that he thinks that people will just come to the website and use it. He is throwing out numbers that he thinks are attainable and, having started a few web apps myself, I know that he is being unrealistic.<p>I'm not sure that in all good conscience I can take on a project that is going to cost him a lot of money and not be successful.<p>I honestly don't have the time to get more involved, and start giving him advice on all the different aspects from a business point of view. Technically, though, I can get the job done to an awesome standard. But not on the business side.<p>Do I just lay the cards on the table, and let him make the decision?
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Title: This guy built his own micro power plant for his house.
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Title: About 12 months ago we founded a bed company called Tuft & Needle. The HN community has been a great source of inspiration/education and we're proud to share our progress. We recently reached the #1 "Top Rated" rank in Mattresses and #2 in Furniture on Amazon.com.<p>Website: https://www.tuftandneedle.com/
Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/top-rated/home-garden/3732961/<p>Problem: Painful shopping experience and extremely high margins in the mattress industry.<p>Solution: We make a good bed without any gimmicks. It is comfortable, safe and attractive without falsely advertised features or fraudulent discounts.<p>Business: We launched with a MVP and a simple landing page to test our ideas. Then about 4 months ago, we listed on Amazon and it's caught up to be a significant sales channel on its own. In the last quarter we've had 100% month-over-month growth. We don't spend on advertising, and more than half our sales are from word-of-mouth referrals and social media.<p>Technical: We take a pragmatic approach with everything including the storefront, sales tools, inventory tracking and fulfillment processes. We use 3rd-party services for payments (Stripe), bitcoin (Coinbase), shipping labels (EasyPost), CRM (Intercom), etc. Stack: Rails+AngularJS+Heroku.<p>Lesson Learned: Our primary success factor was starting with a rough draft. We didn't like our v1 much—an all cotton tufted mattress—but that didn't keep us from launching with it. This gave us a chance to experiment with problem/solution and to start collecting feedback right away. We had to do quite a few returns at first but we iterated constantly until our customer satisfaction was high enough for us to start getting referrals.<p>We would really value the community's opinion. We want to get as much feedback as possible to make sure we're going in the right direction.<p>JT & Daehee at T&N
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Title: Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc.<p>So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos.<p>It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people.<p>It's called SimpleNeat http://www.simpleneat.com<p>If people try it out feedback would be appreciated.
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Title: Hi, as remote working is becoming more and more common, I'm curious about tools/services startups are using. (Features management, bug tracker, video conferences, chat, tasks, knowledge center, etc.)
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Title: I remember my first days of HN and reddit very well. I was around 16 and I was eager to learn. Suddenly, I find out about these websites with hundreds of links filtered by popularity, all telling something interesting that I hadn't learned about before.<p>Instantly, I was hooked. Days I spent scrolling through /r/programming, picking out the most interesting topics and spending whole weekends reading up on blogposts and applying the knowledge I had just learned.<p>I had always been an autodidact as school bored the shit out of me. So my primary source of learning was the internet. And discovering these websites was like heaven.<p>Now it's 2 years later and I'm stuck. I want to be productive but I keep catching myself being stuck in endless pages of HN and proggit. I've got the feeling that every post that will ever be made as already been made and that I'm reading the same things over and over again. keep my hopes up that I will once again read something really interesting but I always get dissapointed. But the worst part is, I can't stop it. I can feel the productivity get drained away yet I'm blind to it.<p>I'm Arian and I have an addiction. I'm stuck in the vicious HN->Proggit->HN cycle and I don't know how to get out... Please help me
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I'm working for a startup called BugFree Software and would love to hear your feedback on a new product we are launching today.<p>Helium is a library that wraps around Selenium to simplify web automation. It does away with many of the technicalities involved with web scripting. For example: Here is a Selenium script. Can you guess what it does?<p><pre><code> >>> ff = Firefox()
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>>> text_area = ff.find_element_by_id("u_0_1q")
>>> text_area.send_keys("Hello World!")
>>> button = ff.find_element_by_class_name("_42g-")
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Here is the same script rewritten using Helium:<p><pre><code> >>> start_firefox()
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>>> click("Post")
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Can you now guess what it does? That's right; It updates your Facebook status.<p>In an extended comparison that we were invited to write for the December issue of Professional Tester (professionaltester.com), we found that an example script automating Gmail took 66% fewer lines of code and 75% less effort using Helium than with Selenium alone.<p>You can find more information and download Helium from http://heliumhq.com. Any feedback would be highly appreciated.<p>Hoping to hear your thoughts and comments,
Michael Herrmann
heliumhq.com
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Title: Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/<p>More mirrors here, but not all servers are synced with 20 yet:
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/20/<p>No announcement yet, link in title leads to release notes.
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Title: Thought you guys might find this useful. I whipped it up over the weekend as I couldn't find one that worked properly. I'm using it for a client project, and will make updates as I make progress.<p>-Ben
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Title: This story dates back to December 8th when I initiated an ACH transfer with CoinBase.com for a total sum of $35,104.11. On that very same day, the system informed me that I would be credited with the bitcoins come December 13th.<p>December 13th came by and it was this past Friday. No coins ever came in, the only thing CoinBase did was lock in a price for me @ $868.91. Again, they locked in a price and didn't give me coins on the day they told me they would deliver the coins.Ever since the 13th, my transaction page has been showing the following:<p>http://i.imgur.com/R2qEn8E.png<p>As you can tell, the funds cleared their end on the 11th. BUT... it still says pending for crediting the coins.<p>This is how the history page looks like:<p>http://i.imgur.com/BQ4fUwZ.png<p>Just take a look at that...it actually says that the transaction has been completed here.<p>Let us now look at the email conversation:<p>http://i.imgur.com/6SQht98.png<p>http://i.imgur.com/eNlIS0V.png<p>I gave their team eight hours to get back to me and settle the issue. They have now missed that deadline so I am taking this matter a bit public. Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations. I have the right contacts to easily put myself in the media.<p>Now the real dilemma for me here is the fact that while CoinBase.com has locked in a price for me, because they have failed to deliver I cannot sell my coins at any rate. Bitcoins could drop down to $200, and only then might they deliver the coins. The issue at that point is that I would be down a crazy percent already. If they had delivered the coins on the 13th as they had initially promised to, there would not be this issue.<p>Give me a break, the company just secured $25m in VC and this is how they are treating their clientele.<p>
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Title: Lots of posts on HN about sharing ideas, sharing unused domains, etc, so why not share our unused decks as well? The idea is one thing, the approach you took is entirely different.<p>I'll start...<p>https://speakerdeck.com/chadokruse/10speak-pitch-deck-the-mobile-calendar-public-domain<p>Idea: The mobile calendar isn't about what's on your calendar, it's about what's NOT on your calendar.<p>Reason for not continuing: I woke up one day and realized the app I was creating wasn't really making the world a better place. I'm now working on something I'm truly passionate about (fixing philanthropy). Also, ran out of money before validating the right go-to-market strategy.<p>Background: We never got enough traction to fundraise, but the VC's I talked to really loved the notion of breaking the old Microsoft Outlook time paradigm (which we still use, even in mobile form). I also had a few celebrity-level VCs as users, so there's definitely a pain point there.<p>Caveat: Since we never got to fundraising, we didn't finish the deck, so prepare for some glaring holes.<p><i>NOTE: Let's all assume anything posted here is open for public domain unless otherwise stated</i>
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Title: Telegram backer, Pavel Durov, will give $200,000 in BTC to the first person to break the Telegram encrypted protocol. Starting today, each day Paul (+79112317383) will be sending a message containing a secret email address to Nick (+79218944725). In order to prove that Telegram crypto was indeed deciphered and claim your prize, send an email to the secret email address from Paul’s message.<p>Your email must contain:
- The entire text of the message that contained the secret email.
- Your Bitcoin address to receive the $200,000 in BTC.
- A detailed explanation of the attack.<p>Encrypted Telegram traffic from and to Paul’s account is publicly available for download from this page. You can send Telegram messages to Paul and view his traffic in real time.<p>To prove that the competition was fair, we will publish the participating keys necessary to decrypt the traffic as soon as a winner is announced. In case there is no winner by March 1, 2014, encryption keys will be published at that date.
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Title: I'm 50.<p>I've been building hardware and programming since I was 18.<p>I live in the Santa Clarita, CA.<p>College was touch-and-go. It was always going too slow for me. By age 20 I was working as an engineer doing both hardware and software. At age 24 I had saved-up enough to buy my first house. I had a good career and was soon making over $100K per year doing the stuff I really enjoyed.<p>I eventually started a tech business in my garage. Within three years it grew out of the garage and into a good size industrial facility with a dozen employees or so, in-house SMT assembly, CNC machining, low volume manufacturing, etc.<p>As is the case with most businesses, there were ups and downs.<p>The economic implosion of 2008 caught me in a perfect storm that ultimately led to killing the business after a two year gut-wrenching attempt to save it any which way I could. At the end of 2010 I had to capitulate and let it die.<p>Three years later. No job. I've sent out hundreds of applications. Very few call-backs. I've even lied and implied I have a degree just to see what might happen. No difference whatsoever. I had a recruiter tell me I scare the shit out of people because of the experience I have and the number of roles I've played, from rank-and-file engineer to founder/entrepreneur, CEO, CTO, etc. And, he also said, reality is I cannot water-down my resume because my life is all over the Internet in one way or the other.<p>The good news is that my wife is more than able to support our family and we've been OK. No urgent financial needs at this point.<p>The last three years have come with a lot of soul searching on my part. You go from knowing you can tackle any project anyone could care to place in front of you to thinking you are absolutely worthless. You navigate this imaginary line back and forth over time. Back and forth.<p>[continued in part 2 due to 2000 character limit]
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Title: I placed an order for bitcoins early last week and was slated to receive them on Friday. Not only did I not recieve them, the transaction disappeared from my account, even though the ACH withdrawal had already clearly happened from my bank account.<p>Now, I'm still missing bitcoins in my account for transactions that have already been cleared and I've received a portion of the $10,701.03 in bitcoin at the price that I was was locked in at if I was to receive them on Friday, December 13th. I received them 5 days late and at the price locked in on December 8.<p>Coinbase is at fault and they've violated their own terms of service. I've asked for a similar resolution that the other gentleman on HN got from Brian, and this is the response I received from their customer support:<p>"I'm not sure how that guy got the CEO of the company to intercede on his behalf, but that's definitely not a normal handling of that case.<p>I simply do not have the ability to do that, I'm sorry. None of the admins do. That guy must have been one of our extremely high volume VIP users or something in order for something like that to have happened.<p>I...don't really know how to respond further. That does seem somewhat unfair. Very sorry, but I just don't have the ability to push through such a request. Nor is it possible to forward a ticket to our CEO. My apologies, but I'm just not able to be of further help here..."<p>What's wrong with Coinbase right now? I'm a huge fan of them, but this is terrible customer service. I can't get a fair resolution because your ticketing system doesn't allow you to send a ticket to Brian or any of your other superiors? What kind of customer service is this?<p>I would even love an acknowledgment that Coinbase violated its TOS and is in the wrong here. I'm just looking for a fair resolution.
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Title: We see everyday startups/projects pitches that explain what they do. There're often on hackernews lists the describe what the startups do.<p>But can you, in less than 140 characters, describe the <i>PROBLEM</i> your project/startup tries to resolve?
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Title: LinkedIn just suggested to add to my network a GMail email address I created 8 years ago, and never used for any purpose (there are 3 mails on that account, all from Google). The only link between that account and my real account is an email I got from Google 8 years ago notifying me that a person invited by me created a GMail account.<p>I never gave a password to my GMail to LinkedIn. I suspect the way they got that contact is by LinkedIn Android app I briefly had installed on my phone two years ago, which somehow grabbed all contacts I had in GMail (the act I never consented to). Is LinkedIn mobile app known to do that?<p>The lesson: if you don't want LinkedIn to have all your contacts, the only way is to avoid LinkedIn completely.
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Title: I sold 5 BTC on December 6th: http://d.pr/i/n9Zc<p>Couple of days later the BTC showed up again in my account saying they needed to "offset" my transaction which makes no sense because I originally purchased the BTC using Coinbase. I let it be. On December 13th I got a notice saying that the sale had finally completed and so I waited hoping any day my bank account would be credited with $4,118.94.<p>Instead of the money, they added a transaction to my account saying that I had "Purchased" 5 Bitcoins which I never did. So now instead of having sold 5 BTC at $832. I'm holding 5 BTC at a much lower price which I never wanted. How convenient Coinbase. You obviously benefited from my sale because you sold my coins to someone. And now you conveniently added it back into my account since the price is lower.<p>The worst part of all this is that I have opened support tickets, tweeted at them, wrote an email directly to the CEO Brian Armstrong. And there is nothing but silence. I even wrote a blog post: amit.roon.io/an-open-letter-to-coinbase<p>Things can go wrong in a fast growing startup but ignoring customers is the worst thing you can do.
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Title: Hi, I'm Zain, founder of Watchsend (YC S13). We make software that helps iOS developers learn how their users interact with their apps by recording user videos.<p>I'll meet with you (in person if you're in the Bay Area, online otherwise), get you set up with Watchsend, watch hours of user videos for you, and help you improve your app's usability based on what I find.<p>You just need to email me at [email protected] to get started.
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Title: I check my email to find a message from Coinbase saying "You just sent 0.136 BTC to 12aW81234567890abcdefg..". I never initiated such a transaction. Obviously, I started freaking out a little bit. I log into my Coinbase account (which I felt had a strong password btw), to find my balance near zero. Just great. Thank goodness I hadn't linked a bank account in Coinbase yet, and that the stolen balance was less than $100, who knows what else may have been stolen. I filed a support ticket with Coinbase just hours after this occurred last night, but no response yet.<p>I'm distraught over this. A hacker can simply break into your account, steal your bitcoin by sending it off to his own account, and no one has to hold any type of accountability? Is there no way to trace, cancel, or reverse a transaction? Is there anything at all I can do?
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Title: I've been coding for a living for about 15 years and, while there are plenty of days where I learn something new, overall, I'd say I'm actually pretty good at it, and generally quickly earn the respect of my peers wherever I work.<p>The problem is, I've lost my spark and enthusiasm for the job, BUT, I can't afford NOT to work, and with 3 young kids, I have some pretty significant overheads to meet each month.<p>I still read HN and other tech sources avidly, so I still have enthusiasm for the industry, in fact, I dream one day of running my own successful tech business. I'm just finding the physical and mental act of programming for a living draining, having done it for several years, I'm in need of a change, and, if I don't change something, I fear I'll burn out.<p>So, turning to HN for some inspiration. What should I do?
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Title: My 10 year old son Troy has made a card game. It has 27 characters, each with different powers. You can download it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrgphx4vn95va4z/LegimonChristmasSet2013.pdf<p>His goal is to have 100 kids play it, and he wants to give it away free as a Christmas present so that more kids can play it. I have created a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/legimon . He would be ecstatic if anyone has feedback for him.
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Title: Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.
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Title: I've been seeing all this stuff about functional programming, and I don't get it. Why should I care?<p>I'm not trying to be a troll. I'm trying to understand. And I don't.<p>I've been a professional programmer for 28 years. I don't care about "the one right way" or "ideological purity" or anything like that. I care about efficiently building programs that work. (Answers that say that functional programming is in fact the one right way will be dismissed as ideologues or trolls.)<p>I don't think that functional programming can be the one right way, because I have spent most of my career in embedded systems. Those programs tend to be full of states that changed many function calls ago, but are still relevant. If I understand correctly, that doesn't play well with functional programming.<p>But once you don't buy that functional programming is the one right way, then you have to ask, "When is it the right tool for the job? And when is it not?"<p>(And by the way, once you don't' think that functional programming is the one right way, then things like tail recursion and the Y combinator stop looking like elegant solutions to important problems. They start looking like crocks that you were forced into because you're using the wrong tool for the job.)<p>Look, I get that all of computer programming is mathematics. It's all Turing machines, too, but that doesn't mean that I want to write programs like I'm writing on a Turing machine. I don't want to write them like I'm writing an abstract algebra paper, either - unless there's a real benefit.<p>Again, I recognize that this sounds like a troll, but I'm really not. I can be convinced. Somebody say something convincing (hopefully in terms that a professional programmer with very little abstract algebra can understand).
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Title: I want to get a drone for two friends of mine that are unabashed hardware hackers, but I am not sure which to get. Could anyone in HN recommend one that is readily available? Preferably via Amazon.<p>Thanks all!
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Title: Thorium Core is a commercial distribution of ReactOS, the Open Source Windows compatible operating system, targeted for cloud computing.
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Title: I started my tech career working in Adwords Sales and Sales Operations at Google. One of the biggest complaints we received was our clients needed help getting ahold of someone regarding SEO problems. Of course, there was little we could do on the paid side - which was Google's policy.<p>The whole point of Google's ranking algorithm is to keep it as much of a black box as possible with even Jason Calacanis getting nowhere with his Mahalo battle with Matt Cutts and team.<p>I'm uncomfortable with what appears to be almost a direct line the RapGenius gents have with the Google team to come to what they've coined as a "resolution" between the two entities.<p>With thousands of other sites being unable to get ahold of a human being at Google to resolve SEO problems, do you think RapGenius should have the ability to negotiate with Google? Do they have enough traffic to justify the conversation? Should that matter?
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Title: Javascript virtual machine is one instruction set machine to parse and execute an assembly like code.
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Title: A science popularization site featuring researchers giving video talks about their respective areas of study.<p>(Russian readers of HN might happen to know the site postnauka.ru, of which this is an English-language spin-off.)
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Title: So I just read this HN posted article (The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965295) and thought a lot about my co-founder who is doing jack shit in the company. I already talked to him about lowering his share options (which he currently holds about 40%, (same as me, after seed round dilution)), but with no avail. He actually threatens the company's success if I ever try to "sneak a move" on him when in reality his contributions are near 0 for product development as well as S&M.<p>If I talk with my boards on his misbehaviour it will get them stressed and stop believing on the company. Is there really no way to fire him and the only way is to actually quit ?
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Title: I'm not the author of the app (nor i have any connection with them, just a random user). iA Writer and Writer Pro aren't well suited for me as a developer. They feel quite "strange" to me. Mou is a good option (free too) but still missing some features. So far this, this editor is the most complete user-friendly. Hope it helps!
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Title: I've been working for over 8 years in support/consulting roles. I've never found any of the jobs bearable. I really like web development but I can't get anyone to take a chance on me even at half of my current salary. I don't really have time to do side projects and build up a decent portfolio so I understand why people are skeptical. Any other type jobs I apply for I'm told that I'm not qualified or I need a bachelors degree to even be considered.<p>Since I've hated life for the last 8 years I've been thinking about making a drastic change like leaving tech to go work construction or something. Basically my life is already office space so why not? It made Peter Gibbons happy...<p>Do you know anyone who has been in this position that has left tech completely and was better off (at least happier) because of it?
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Title: Throw away account. I have a startup in San Francisco, and smoking weed actually is quite therapeutic. It is an outlet for stress and the never-ending wall of burden. Development and startups are evolving so fast, and it often feels like you are never adequate. You always need to be learning and using X new language or technology. My startup is the hardest thing I've done so far in my life.<p>The culture of San Francisco also is heavily accepting, even promoting of smoking marijuana. Often times it feels like some of the best hackers I know smoke on a regular basis.<p>However, there are noticeable side-effects. Some short term memory loss, sometimes I find it difficult to stay focused, on-task, and motivated. On the flip side, I do some of my best hacking high. I'm able to focus on a single problem; become tunnel vision. Problems just become simpler.<p>Thoughts? Can, and should a startup founder, as a leader, and public face of a company smoke? Can you be an amazing hacker smoking consistently?
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Title: It seems like all of the new operating systems coming out are really just different flavors built on the unix kernel. If a new operating system were to be built from the ground up today, would it be significantly different? I know the linux core is improved all the time as an open source and constantly evolving project, but I just wonder if given the chance to build something with no legacy to maintain, would an operating system have any greatly different architectures or components?
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Title: I've just had to talk my 80-year-old father through setting up Skype on his new computer. For some reason he had to create a Microsoft account, and it was encouraging him to store <i>all</i> his documents on some drive in the cloud, and it combined his existing Skype account into the new Microsoft account, and all the while I was thinking "it shouldn't be like this."<p>It shouldn't be the case that for what could be, should be, a single, stand-alone application such as IP-telephony, there is all this cross-linking, central registration, <i>etc., etc., etc., ...</i><p>It's probably a consequence of Microsoft buying out Skype and forcing integration with their own universe. So I ask, is there now an alternative to the centralized, you-will-do-everything-our-way system? I've searched, but had no success.<p>Suggestions?
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Title: Ok this question is a shameless attempt to find out what the HN community has been reading in 2013 but the caveat is that the book must have had a meaningful impact in the way you live your life. That's fairly open ended and can include anything such as new programming languages learned, health and fitness, investment philosophy, relationships and so on. Choosing one book is an artificial constraint but it does help with focusing on that one big change. Also the book doesn't have to be from 2013 only that you read it during the year and it in some way changed your life.<p>The most significant book for me was in the area of health and fitness as I finally read The 4-Hour Body (2010) by Tim Ferris. I'd read about many of the topics he covers before but they just didn't stick until The 4-Hour Body. What I like about Tim's approach is that one should experiment to see what works rather than following a rigid plan. I tried many of his suggestions and some worked for me while others didn't. The binge day was particularly bad so now I just follow the same plan every day; as well I had to increase the amount of carbs before my last meal of the day to get a better sleep. But experimentation and tracking my results has made all the difference from other diet and exercise changes I've attempted in the past. It's definitely worth the read even if experimentation and tracking are the only things you get from the book.<p>Thanks for a great community and I look forward to your suggestions.
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Title: TL;DR: Any tips on staying disciplined while being self-employed?<p>I recently got an offer to work remotely for a friend on couple of his projects that is interesting, pays better and is at least going to keep me busy for another six months. And there is a also good possibility that as I finish these, I will be getting more work and I am likely to build a small business of my own here through this. So last week I quit my job and started working on this full-time. So far, my friend is happy and so am I.<p>But there is something odd going on here. Unlike my previous job where I had to work 9-6, 5 days a week, I don't really have a pretty good schedule here for myself. Now while working from home, sometime I work for a continuous 16 hours and then sometime I find myself I haven't looked at that project in the last two days as I spent it by browsing random projects on the internet, working on other things, watching multiple seasons of sitcoms or just brainstorming about product ideas that I can build in future!<p>I know that to make it as a self-employed person, one needs to have a good self-control. But, do any of you guys have been through this? How have you managed yourself? Does this gets better after a while? What should I do to make this better and be efficient?
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Title: In the 'Are Software Patents Evil' essay, the line "one of my main hobbies is the history of technology" prompted me to ask: what is some recommended reading on the history of technology? I'm looking for something that takes about as broad a view as one of pg's essays - googling seems to give histories of very specific subsets of technology.
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Title: Today at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself...
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Title: I have been a member on HN for a while and I really enjoy the can-do spirit here and the energy to create something of value. I have been trying to build products on nights/weekends for the past 3 years. Being a software guy technology has always been the easy part for me. For the projects that didn't get traction I kept thinking that the ideas were just not "good enough". Now that I look back, I feel that I got the launches wrong.<p>Here is my question to you:<p>Is there any suggested reading you can point me to that will help launch my next product more effectively? If some things have worked for you, can you share your experiences? If you have used a company to help run the launch campaign, can you share your story?
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Title: It seems a good source of extra revenue for many here is with books/ebooks. I am interested to know who has published what (links please!) AND how you went about publishing.<p>- Did you go with a traditional book (paper/hardback)? If traditional, did you sell online or within an actual store.<p>- Did you create an ebook? If so, which platform for distributing has worked out the best for you (3rd party, on your own, or a mix)<p>- Did you go with all text or do you have images or graphics? If you have done both, what can be noticed between the two?<p>It would also be helpful to know the income you generate, on average, from books (not necessary but I am curious to know). I have always talked about writing a book of sorts but have never fully carried through. I have started off and on and have written many tutorials for coworkers, I would like to take enhance those as well and maybe make some extra income from them.
//Insert New Years Resolution Here//
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Title: In the midst of distractions-how do you focus if you need to get something done? Is there anything you do particularly?
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Title: Our little startup you've never heard of, called Vidpresso, is powering CNN's New Year's Eve social media ticker! It's a huge accomplishment for us. We're originally Utah based (our other employees are in NM and Karachi though)<p>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bc3GdRrCUAAqLaN.jpg:large<p>I'm posting this more out of sheer excitement than anything. I wanted to share that any startup anywhere can have exciting wins like this... regardless of whether you're in SV, went to MIT, or whatever. Just make something people want, and it'll work out.<p>In 2014, start the thing you've been putting off. Maybe you'll have a fun new years like us next year! :)<p>As a company, our goal is pretty ambitious: We want to change the way video is produced, so we're starting with the big guys and working our way down to the little guys.<p>We're not hiring (yet) but if things like this appeal to you, we should definitely be friends. We have a writeup of our dreams here:<p>http://www.vidpresso.com/blog/secret-vidpresso-master-plan
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Title: What are your predictions for the world in general for 2014?
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995014
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Title: Tired of all the gender banter lately? Me too. Especially when every press outlet says we (female tech founders) are as rare as a mythical creature. So how about getting them answers straight from the source (female tech founders). If you belong to this group do a quick intro about yourself before answering questions. If you don't and want to learn more about the HN female tech entrepreneurs, feel free to ask as a reply.<p>My turn:<p>Name: Diana<p>Startup: http://DoerHub.com (dogfooding: http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub )<p>Role: Founder, wrote every non-open-source line of code (Rails, JS, D3, Neo4j, Node.js, MongoDB) on the site in a grad school dorm room.<p>In tech since: 1998 (Age 13). Haven't stopped since.<p>How did you start?: Started in rural Bulgaria and parents couldn't afford a computer so I volunteered at internet cafes to learn HTML and JS online after hours, then did graphics in flash, then Action Script, evolved to writing data mashups, custom JS libraries, rich visualizations for CNN during elections, CMS front-end architecture, full-stack web products from there.<p>Why did I start: had a pen-pal girl from Sweden who was a year older than me and had built her own website. Once I realized I can learn for free and the world could see my work I was addicted (lived in a censored country for a while so that mattered).<p>Proof of cred: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianazink and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/SearchProcessor.js and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/customSrchProcessor.js used by CNN, NBA, and some other sites.<p>Has your gender made any of this hard?: I'm not muscular, so building online stuff is actually easier on me than the "reputable" jobs my grandfather said I should do instead.<p>Ask away.
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