Hacker News: arihelgason

Scaling Through Chaos: The Founders Guide to Building Teams from 0 to 1000

arihelgason — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indexventures.com/index-press/scaling-through-chaos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39747038

Points: 7

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OptionPlan – app for founders to design stock options plans

arihelgason — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:28:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indexventures.com/optionplan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540357

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Now there is an app for startups to design their US expansion strategy

arihelgason — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:25:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indexventures.com/expansionplan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24566745

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

OptionPlan, an app for founders looking to design a stock option plan

arihelgason — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:38:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indexventures.com/optionplan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814986

Points: 51

# Comments: 2

New comment by arihelgason in "What Trump means for tech"

arihelgason — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:04:27 +0000

I'm surprised there's no mention of his first 100 days pledge to "announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership" - something that the EFF has been lobbying for.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

New comment by arihelgason in "Push API – W3C Working Draft"

arihelgason — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:56:28 +0000

Any word on when browsers other than Safari will be supporting push notifications?

New comment by arihelgason in "Keep Your Identity Small (2009)"

arihelgason — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:47:47 +0000

This also applies to professional growth. People often have a hard time receiving negative feedback because they experience it as an attack on their identity/ego rather than as an opportunity to learn.

The ability to take feedback constructively is probably one of the most important traits to hire for.

New comment by arihelgason in "NHS staff should code - Kelsey"

arihelgason — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:07:20 +0000

This rings true with my experience.

I met a senior NHS physician who built a very useful and simple mobile information service to improve access to certain services. My understanding was that he funded it himself with help from sponsors and had to do it entirely outside the NHS system.

It probably cost 1/10th of what it would have cost if it had been done through the NHS.

Not to mention that NHS computers are still running IE6 and heavily locked down, making it a poor development environment. Tim Kelsey can encourage NHS staff to code, but the infrastructure to do anything meaningful with that inside the system isn't there.

This is the service: http://sxt.org.uk

New comment by arihelgason in "Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses"

arihelgason — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:55:39 +0000

Good point. And if you sign up to Coinbase anonymously and acquire BTC reasonably anonymously any data that gets subpoenaed is worthless.

New comment by arihelgason in "Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses"

arihelgason — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:41:01 +0000

BTC transactions are all public in the blockchain so they're not as anonymous as many think.

But as for preventing your identity from being linked to your BTC wallet? There's probably no way to prevent that if the service provider is under US jurisdiction.

"I found that the company I work for is putting a backdoor into mobile phones"

arihelgason — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:48:28 +0000

Article URL: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15076/i-found-that-the-company-i-work-for-is-putting-a-backdoor-into-mobile-phones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996020

Points: 22

# Comments: 2

New comment by arihelgason in "Just say No to brainteaser questions at interviews"

arihelgason — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:41:02 +0000

Do you want people who bullshit with little or no relevant data or people who will admit when they don't know something and try to figure it out?

I'd say the latter.

It's frustrating to work with people who pretend they know more than they do rather than asking for help.

New comment by arihelgason in "Space Quest creators create kickstarter for a new Space Adventure"

arihelgason — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:29:57 +0000

A comparable project, the Leisure Suit Larry remake, also had a $500,000 cut-off. It ended up raising over $650,000 so it doesn't look far-fetched.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leisuresuitlarry/make-le...

New comment by arihelgason in "Colourlovers Buys Forrst"

arihelgason — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:10:45 +0000

You're forgetting software sales (ColorSchemer), t-shirt sales and fabric printing.

New comment by arihelgason in "All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source"

arihelgason — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:20:37 +0000

This point regarding education is interesting:

free and open-source software provides teaching opportunities that do not exist with proprietary software, since the background functions of free and open-source software, including its characteristics and programming, can be revealed to students. In these respects, free and open-source software is better suited to arousing interest in computer programming and information technology than proprietary software, where its use is all that can be taught.

The other points from the report:

1. When purchasing new software, free and open-source software and proprietary software are to be considered on an equal footing, with the object of always selecting the most favourable purchase.

2. Every endeavour shall be made to choose software based on open standards, regardless of whether the software in question is standard or bespoke (custom-designed). Generally, software which is free for anyone to use is also typified by open standards.

3. Public bodies shall endeavour to avoid any undue dependence on particular software manufacturers or service providers. The utilisation of free and open-source software is one means of this.

4. One goal for bespoke (custom-designed) software financed by public bodies, including software for research and development projects, should be its reusability. Keeping the software free and open-source is one way to achieve reusability. Strategies shall be devised at the outset of such projects for ensuring reuse of the software.

5. Students in Icelandic educational institutions shall be given the opportunity of learning about and using free and open-source software on a par with proprietary software

New comment by arihelgason in "Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011"

arihelgason — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:44:26 +0000

That judgement looks like it's based on a very brief conversation with one of the founders. Carr seems to dislike his attitude more than anything.

Hardly a convincing condemnation of what Likealittle are doing.

Why big businesses are bad for business

arihelgason — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:34:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/09417d98-f969-11e0-8e7e-00144feab49a.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3152231

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble

arihelgason — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:27:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/virtual-currencies?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/bitcoin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141523

Points: 51

# Comments: 36

New comment by arihelgason in "Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre."

arihelgason — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:44:07 +0000

People who have been working seriously on robotics in recent years probably have a strong sense of what's hard and what's easier.

New comment by arihelgason in "Getting Rich From Others Was Never Easier"

arihelgason — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:45:37 +0000

Because their advertising overpriced? Surely it's easy enough for advertisers to monitor results. Curious why there's this perception.