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Re:Stripe Atlas on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:04PM (#11168252)
I read from the faq that there are tax and legal obligations, that there are some guides and a free call, and that there won't be any ongoing assistance unless Orrick and PwC are hired.

Do you have any experience with them? Do you suggest any other service that would help on this? A while ago I found tempcfo (used by stripe itself, slack, and others) and indinero, I wonder if they could help on the ongoing assistance and which is the best option

How's your experience with legalzoom? I'm in the process of incorporate my side project, and as a not US person I'm looking on the best way to do it. From opening the company, the bank account (without having to take a plane and go to the US just for that), and also all the work that needs to be done during the year (taxes, accounting, and I guess many more)
Re:Announcing Docker ToolBox on Thursday August 13, 2015 @05:10AM (#10052959)
Docker under OSX is a real pain to solve ASAP.

I've set Docker on my Linux machine and it's working like a charm. Then I had to do the same for my coworkers running OSX, the vbox shared folders are definitely unusable.

Now it's been few days that I'm trying to find the best way to have a two-way sync in order to sync back changes from docker to the OSX folder (eg. when you upload a file and it's saved in the /public folder, otherwise it'll be lost)

So far I've used docker-osx-dev[0] for 1 way sync (with rsync) and it's working nicely.. they also plan to add the support to unison for a 2way sync

I've also found docker-unison[1] but I haven't found a way to have it working correctly

I'd like to try with boot2docker-xhyve, but it only runs on Yosemite and later

[0] https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev

[1] https://github.com/leighmcculloch/docker-unison

Ask HN: Has anyone received the late interview invitation for YC S15?

We sent our late application for S15 few weeks ago and we haven't received any email yet, a part from the confirmation after the submission.I know that applications are read just before the next batch starts and since it starts in 2 weeks I wonder if anyone has already received an invitation for the interview.Anyone?

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Re:YC Interview Prep Tool on Sunday April 26, 2015 @05:05AM (#9441092)
It'd be very useful to have at the end of the questions a list of all of them showing the response time and sorted by it. That way you get an idea of which ones took too long or too short and improve them.

Here more questions (it's not mine, I just found it a while ago): https://www.aptible.com/blog/y_combinator.html

Good luck to everyone for the interview! We're still waiting a reply for our late application

Ask HN: When should we expect a reply for a late YC S15 application?

We sent a late application a couple of weeks ago, I read that YC cannot say when they'll check and reply to late applications but they do it before the beginning of the program.Is there any of you who applied with a late application in a previous batch that can share how long it took them to reply and when were the interviews?We are scheduling many appointments with customers for the end of May...

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Ask HN: Is it harder to get into YC with a late application?

We have just sent a late application, the deadline was 2 weeks ago.Is it harder to get an interview compared to an application sent before the deadline?What kind of growth should a startup have to get the interview?I read that late applications will be read after the interview cycle, this at the end of the month. When should I expect to receive the email for the interview and the day slot? At...

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Re:The JSON API rc2 spec has been published on Thursday February 19, 2015 @04:30PM (#9077202)
And here the pull/merge on github: https://github.com/json-api/json-api/pull/341#event-23794270...

It would be awesome if all the so smart people visiting HN could contribute with their opinions on github in order to make it better before the final release

Re:Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.” on Monday February 09, 2015 @02:53PM (#9023257)
Do you think is practical to build an internal invoice system that takes care of the whole VATMESS? How long do you think it'd take a single developer to do it?

I know that there are many different services like the ones in this thread, but as a single developer, on a bootstrapping project they'd still be out of budget

I've never understood why slack is so famous and got so much traction when other alternatives existed way before it, like hipchat
You should migrate to umatrix (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcm...), http switchboard is not maintained anymore
Together with umatrix (https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/) are the best chrome extensions

Since I went back to firefox those are the only extensions I really miss, there is policeman (https://github.com/futpib/policeman/) but it's not as good as them yet

To whoever develop extensions, please don't focus only on chrome, firefox during the last months has become must better that it was before, if developers only consider chrome, people will eventually migrate to it and firefox will die. Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem

Re:AWS Will Give You Credit for Completing These EdX Courses on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:43PM (#8789813)
Am I the only one not finding how much the verified certificate cost? It says that it has a minimum fee, but it doesn't say how much it is
Re:Introducing Libscore: A PageRank for JavaScript Libraries on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @03:14PM (#8759150)
This is awesome! Thank you for your work and Stripe and DigitalOcean for the sponsorship

I've just noticed that the search is not very good, a part the requirement of having to write exactly the correct name. Even writing "Angular" (which is the name showed in the global data) doesn't work.

A fuzzy, case insensitive and autocompleted search would be much more useful

Re:Slack for Linux – Help Hack on This on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:38PM (#8753515)
Nice, I'll check it out!

Given the premium price of Slack compared to alternatives I'd have expected that they were the one developing a Linux client

Ask HN: Is ruby/rails still a good bet? What else should I learn?

I've worked with ruby and rails (and other ruby frameworks) for many years now, mostly for backend works, and I love them. It's the only language I'm really fluent with and I'm thinking about looking to some more languages to deeply learn and experiment, to avoid that one day ruby won't be needed anymore and . I'd still like to be on the web developmentWhich languages and frameworks do think...

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Re:Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:31AM (#8735630)
I also browse with JS disabled and it sucks when people don't properly have a fallback in place, even if it's just one click for me. Even more when those things can be done by css and thus not breaking when JS is not enabled

But the question is: why? Why fade the text content from white to black when the content is below the fold and by the time I see the content it's already black? It seems quite a useless effect to me

Thank you for having a $1 plan, I always wanted to try out Baremetrics to have a better understanding of my [few] subscriptions but I couldn't afford their price - I know, $29 is not much, but bootstrapping the company and paying various other services I need it sums up.

You surely got me as a customer, and I'm looking forward to have more than 100 customers and upgrade to the bigger plan!

Re:Lecture 20: Later-Stage Advice on Friday December 05, 2014 @03:49AM (#8703491)
I haven't seen this lecture yet, but I also want to thank you Sam and all other people who had lectures.

These 2.5 months have been very interesting and being from the other part of the world I don't have access to these kind of people and information. The people I know and hang out who have created companies have revenues of a couple of millions when they have something "big", surely not billions.

I hope one day to be also part of the YC family

Re:Lecture 19: Sales and Marketing – How to Talk to Investors on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:47AM (#8692962)
Thank you Tyler for your talk (and also to Michael, Qasar and Dalton), your talk is probably the best one I've seen during these 19 lectures.

I've a question for you (and to any other company which has sales reps), how do you pay sales agents? I'm reading a lot on that subject, and I still cannot figure out what would be the average commission to pay to sales agents in a SaaS/tech company world, would it be 10%? 20%? 30%? Based on every payment (ie. recurring) the customer does, or just on the first one? With or without a base salary and caps?

I'd love to know how you figured it out and maybe some numbers

Thank you!

Do you know if there is a way to access that report? I'd be interested to read it, but $500 is way out of my personal budget