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Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity? | lionhearted: My favorite book on conflict management, and dealing with bad situations as they're happening rapidly and getting to their root causes:http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-what-M...My favorite book on small business and why things usually go wrong:http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Sma... |
Rate my Russian Roulette iPhone App | spaghetti: Looks great. Seems snappy and responsive. Good sounds. Personally I like to see elements of humor in iPhone apps. So perhaps you could add some sounds for the pull trigger "nothing" and pull trigger "shoot" cases. For example when someone pulls the trigger and nothing happens you could randomly play a "... |
Best encryption solution for personal stuff (images, videos etc)? | zain: http://www.truecrypt.org/ |
computing in 2014 : your predictions? | thepanister: How many cores will a typical personal computer have?Well, maybe by 2014, there will be something else other than cores??? Almost some geeks will create something innovative!!! Who knows?EDIT: This world is changing in a crazy way... so fast pace more than you think... specially when it comes to the IT!!!E... |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | thorax: Just a fun shrinker we cooked-up. It will be a very long time before these urls get very long.For example, Hacker News is:http://➡.ws/퐐They won't work in IE6, but that's just the way it goes. Should work great on Twitter, hopefully. |
Best encryption solution for personal stuff (images, videos etc)? | mishmash: On the Mac it's hard to beat Automator and encrypted disk images:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1578 |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | ram1024: but...the whole point of a tiny URL is it being typable. what's with the symbols :| |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | thomasswift: This is just awesome. |
computing in 2014 : your predictions? | thomasswift: On a massive scale things won't change that much. It would be cool, but things will stay mainly the same and people will still use IE 6/7 then. |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | albertcardona: If only the http:// part was to disappear, that'd be a huge win.For example, emails and http:// addresses are already recognized as such in places like the gnome terminal (which is great then for irssi IRC) or even in this forum comments. But can't just domain.com/that/ be enough info to ne recognized as... |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | ScottWhigham: FF3: Address not fount - Firefox can't find the server at www.%e2%9e%a1.ws. |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | ivey: I love it! I snagged http://➡.ws/♥ ... much fun to be had, here. Great job! |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | chanux: Found it on hacker news & created a Firefox Ubiquity command for it. Here it is http://➡.ws/⇷
(tinyarrows don't show up as links on twitterfox though.) |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | vasudeva: Not working for me in Chrome or Firefox. It's like a Mac-only splinter of the Internet. |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | trjordan: Bookmarklet for it. It just displays the link (no copy to the clipboard like tinyurl, but I don't actually know javascript.), but it's better than nothing, I guess...javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyarro.ws/api-create.php?url='+encodeURIComponent(l...)Also, is there a better way to display this in th... |
Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity? | albertcardona: Try books by Jared Diamond about world history:"Guns, Germs and Steel""Collapse"They are not just informative: they change the way one looks at the world. And their prose is excellent. |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | dshah: Very creative idea.However, I'm not convinced that mainstream users will get comfortable with it (because it looks "different"). This, plus the fact that enough problems can exist from creation/sharing/clicking that it's likely just not worth the hassle.Maybe it's just me, but lack of compatibility is a high pr... |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | brfox: I really dislike these abbreviated URL services. I prefer a moderately sized and human readable one. I always type URLs into my address bar, also. |
Best encryption solution for personal stuff (images, videos etc)? | BjornW: It depends on what you want to do. Do you want full-disk encryption or just one encrypted partition/file? Personally I use full-disk encryption. From what I've read its recommended to encrypt the whole system and not just a partition if you don't want important data leaking into the non-encrypted parts of your ... |
How do you do your company's taxes? | vaksel: Use an accountant, doing it yourself is not worth it, since the accountant will pay for himself by catching a lot of deductions that you missed |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | psadauskas: Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 3.0.6 on Linux, strangely enough. I get: Firefox can't find the server at www.%e2%9e%a1.ws. |
Site idea for project matching | aneesh: HN user fsav and I have created a site to connect hackers interesting in working on small projects together -- http://clusterify.com. Check out some of the projects posted, and let us know what you think of the site. |
How do you do your company's taxes? | sachinag: Nthing using an accountant for the company. I do my personal taxes myself, however. If I make a mistake for myself, it only affects me. If I mess up my company's taxes, I affect my company's investors, employees, partners, and a whole lot more people. |
Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud? | jacobscott: If it helps, I asked a more concrete version of this question focusing on PostgreSQL on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556325/postgresql-managem... |
Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud? | charlesju: Managed hosting works for us (Engine Yard), it is significantly cheaper than hiring your own DBA. |
Thoughts on TinyArro.ws? Tiniest urls in the world (or your money back) | tome: I made a cycle :-)http://➡.ws/♲♲ |
Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud? | xenoterracide: There is no easy out, if you really need to scale, regardless of infrastructure you are going to need someone who understands databases. If you're lucky you might be able to find someone who can do more than one job. e.g. dba+sys admin. Just make sure that they really do know both things. |
Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud? | DenisM: Try a commerical database, such as Microsoft SQL Server (FD: I work there as a developer). To bring up a recent example, it can build indexes without locking the whole table so you wouldn't need to jump throught the hoops like the FriendFeed guys just did with MySQL. Unless your time is free it will cost you le... |
Just replace my DBA: painless db admin and scale without the cloud? | iamelgringo: The state of the art _is_ hiring a DBA. They get paid to be up on all the database monitoring, scaling, managing and management tools. This is why DB consultants charge $200+ an hour. It's pretty arcane knowledge, and for a business of any size, the database quickly becomes the lifeblood of the organizat... |
anybody looking for a technical intern? | pg: http://www.justin.tv/p/jobs#se_intern |
anybody looking for a technical intern? | thinkcomp: http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs.html |
Content Serving Cluster | wheels: You could use a distributed file system like:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(file_system)A simpler option would be to do a little scripting magic to catch inotify signals and then trigger an rsync. |
Content Serving Cluster | patio11: Honestly, I think you're likely to find that Amazon S3 is the best option. It costs money, but assuming your business generates money (many businesses do) it will probably be more reliable and cost less expensive, expensive you-time than anything else.Otherwise: rsync is your friend. Run it in daemon mode. ... |
Content Serving Cluster | jbyers: MogileFS will get you close to this, but stores files with its own ID and directory scheme. If filenames don't matter, or if you have a gateway that's handling the mogile lookup and filename translation, it's a great solution.If you already have a reliable central filestore, varnish or squid might accomplish f... |
Content Serving Cluster | cperciva: You say "someone uploads xyz.tar.gz to Machine #1"; does this mean that all the bits are uploaded to the same machine, or will you have some files uploaded to machine #1, some files uploaded to machine #2, et cetera?If files are uploaded to multiple machines, is it possible that you'd get two different files ... |
front-end news? | mikeyur: I'm a fan of Net Tuts - http://net.tutsplus.com/ - also the ThemeForest blog - http://blog.themeforest.netThey do a lot of jQuery tutorials. |
Content Serving Cluster | jawngee: Panther express is cheap, cheaper than S3.Let someone else worry about that issue. The amount of time you'll spend setting it up, testing it, maintaining it, is time wasted on other important aspects of your business/application. You are not going to be able to do it any better or any cheaper. |
Content Serving Cluster | Steve0: rsync is built for this: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ |
Content Serving Cluster | bluelu: Why not write a custom 404 handler which when triggered tries to download the file from the original server, and when the file hasn't yet been downloaded, redirects to the master server as well?This worked pretty well for a friend's site and you don't to care about replication anymore. |
Content Serving Cluster | olefoo: Your options (if you are going to do it yourself and not use S3 or cachefly):1. rsync on the backend; it's easy, it's relatively fast, but it is asynchronous and files won't be immediately available on all servers.2. An inotify watcher that copies files to the slaves when a file is written or changed on the mas... |
Can Alexa ratings/rankings be trusted? | tokenadult: Alexa users are a convenience sample, not a simple random sample, and they may badly misrepresent your user base. Essentially, installing Alexa (which I did once, but haven't done on my current browser) is something like participating in a voluntary response poll. One professor of statistics, who is a co-au... |
do you design websites so that they work without JavaScript? | derby: Testing. I like to design/build my sites with graceful degradation so I can easily script testing (what can I say, I'm a barebones type of dev). |
do you design websites so that they work without JavaScript? | geuis: A lot of the decisions around this depend on what your app is doing. We are building a profiles section to our site with typical social networking features. We didn't provision at all for non-js because a) you need js to even get to the app and b) the director of engineering is an incompetent wanker and has no e... |
Can Alexa ratings/rankings be trusted? | geuis: No. Use Compete.com or Hitwise |
do you design websites so that they work without JavaScript? | scorpioxy: I don't; but that's because i mainly develop intranet websites.But even when i do develop public facing websites, deciding to put in the effort for graceful degradation depends on your target audience.These days i find more clients asking for UI features on websites that cannot degrade gracefully at all. Aga... |
Can Alexa ratings/rankings be trusted? | jacquesm: I think all 'free' online ranking sites give you data that you should take with a large grain of salt. You can use some of them for relative comparisons but not if the comparison is a close one.Another use is to extrapolate from 'known' numbers to an unknown site (say a competitor).It helps to separate truth ... |
Content Serving Cluster | vlisivka: I recommend to look at GlusterFS. It fast, modularized, layered clustering file system. It is not tied to Linux kernel because it built for (patched) Fuse. With Infiniband hardware, it is fastest clustered system available for free. See http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_1.3.pre2-VER... for exa... |
front-end news? | sbaronnet: my google reader JS subscription :http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15326952957925465... |
do you design websites so that they work without JavaScript? | zepolen: Yes, and it's actually easier.The trick is not to think in terms of 'supporting graceful degradation', but in terms of 'javascript enhancements'.Which means, do your entire app to work in html. Then add javascript wherever you can to enhance the app.Force all your javascript to run /after/ the page loads, it's... |
Can Alexa ratings/rankings be trusted? | bbuffone: I typically utilize Alexa and Compete or others as a good way to compare sites of a similar demographic. Having access to google analytics for two different sites; one being my blog and the other site is the company I work at.I know that my blog gets about half the traffic of my companies site but the corpora... |
Rate my Russian Roulette iPhone App | chris24: Looks good. If you want to increase sales by 500% (and the silliness by 1000%), add fart noises. |
PhD and First Year BSc Grades | pg: PhD programs care much more about recommendations than grades. The most important thing you can do is get a good recommendation from a professor at your school who's known to whoever you want to work with at the target school.As for grades specifically, you can probably just tell them the truth, which is that you ... |
PhD and First Year BSc Grades | Logic-Shop: If you are serious about getting into a PhD program then you should have a clear idea of your academic/research goals and some professors you have impressed with your work. Compile professor recommendations, the write up of your goals, and any supporting evidence you have of your abilities: i.e. particular... |
anybody looking for a technical intern? | Logic-Shop: Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but take a look:http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/vol/1053791733.htmlIt's unpaid, but also totally remote work so no relocating. It's a start-up company, but they've been around for three years so it's also an established team. If you're wanting to learn a lot abo... |
Hacker news on friendfeed - do you like it? | wallflower: I think it's a good idea, and FriendFeed has a decent search facility. It would be interesting to get a historical snapshot of the top news stories (e.g. scrape top page -> submit to scribd -> submit to friend feed)Also check out Atul's FriendFeed (Atul is the top Techmeme tipper):http://friendfeed.com/atul |
Any possibility of making a pay-to-use Firefox extension? | ajkirwin: Firefox.. is not a platform. |
Any possibility of making a pay-to-use Firefox extension? | ajkirwin: Okay, real answer. First of all, you'll never be able to avoid piracy. Nature of the medium.Second, the best way would be to embed individual user credentials into the extension. As in, they signup and pay or whatever, and you generate a unique extension that contains their authentication information, which t... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | smidwap: Just finished interviewing 5 programmers, all of them CS undergrads or grads, for my startup. (This might be a bit biased because CS majors were the ONLY ones we interviewed so far.) Two things occurred to me during the interview process: 1) CS majors have some formalized training in designing software, and 2)... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | triplefox: You are simply conflating CS with programming, which is very commonplace.Programming is the craft/art skill of manipulating digital code and data. Within programming you can learn about specific domains - for web apps that would mean databases, networking, a host of standard formats and protocols, and user i... |
Any possibility of making a pay-to-use Firefox extension? | earl: Does the license even permit this? I'm not going to do the legwork for you, but I'd examine this very carefully with the help of a lawyer who has worked on these sorts of issues before. This may mirror the driver issue in the linux kernel -- even plugins may be contaminated by open source licenses. (Contaminat... |
Any possibility of making a pay-to-use Firefox extension? | safetytrick: I think its possible, I would pay for firebug now that I've used it so there is a market. |
Any possibility of making a pay-to-use Firefox extension? | SwellJoe: I (actually mostly a contractor, though I ended up maintaining it) built a toolbar back in the neolithic era (Firefox pre-1.0) for managing a URL black/white list for a product I was developing at the time. We gave users a username and password (the same one they used on the website version of the tool), and... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | nailer: Have been working with Linux for over a decade. Had 9 interviews for a site reliability engineer role at Facebook here (which I gather is considered a startup until it becomes profitable or gets bought), before I got a 'no'. Interview that lost it for me was a guy (who'd just graduated college) presenting a pag... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | rms: http://code.google.com/soc/ maybe? |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | Zev: If startups hire CS majors, they code. CS at your college probably isn't pure theory, but rather closer to Software Engineering. And you can't expect college to teach you everything that you'll need to know on your own.Take this summer and spend it hacking on a project you find interesting. Learn a particular lang... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | strlen: Having interviewed people fresh out of college for both web-startups and established companies, from my view the most important thing you'd need to know if you want to work in a web start-up are:1. how to get around a UNIX system (be comfortable with emacs and/or vi, know your shell, be able to install Apache/y... |
Do web startups hire CS majors? | ninjaa: A good way to get a leg up:1. Do some jQuery tutorials and really bone up on flashy javascript.2. Learn to use any popular web 'stack' - LAMP is easiest on *Nix servers, RoR and Django are not rocket science. Nor is ASP for that matter.3. Go out and find a web designer, or yourself bone up on design and CSS4. F... |
How to grow a service that is popular but never took off? | eru: > Question is: what can I do to get the service out of its current letargy and maybe make it a viable side-business (not planning on making a living out of it, really)?How about establishing a small but steady stream of improvements to keep the interest, and charge for the password protected maps in a freemium mod... |
How to grow a service that is popular but never took off? | patio11: And gives me a feeling that I'm leaving money on the table here.That is a virtual certainty, considering you are not charging money.My advice is to consider splitting the service into two levels (does the Maps API let you make money with it? I guess that is moot since you're already doing it) and selling some... |
What's the name of the site? | slater: the freehackers union?http://freehackersunion.org/joining.html |
automate submission from popular sources? | RossM: True, TechCrunch is another of the always-submitted sites here. It wouldn't be too hard to setup a script to automatically post to HN whenever the RSS feed is updated, so this could be done for a special user.Personally, I'm not as bothered about karma on here as I am on other communities - I'm much more of a re... |
automate submission from popular sources? | nanijoe: How will your 'automator' determine what stories are interesting? |
automate submission from popular sources? | wheels: Karma can't be traded in for anything in the real world. Contrary to urban legend, Paul Graham does not make you a sandwich (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129). So it seems a little silly to get bent out of shape over who's getting lots of karma by submitting things.More problematic seems that people... |
Please, review my startup - Mobiquus | silentvoid: A clickable link - http://www.mobiquus.com/ |
How to grow a service that is popular but never took off? | juliend2: Maybe a little design realignment (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign) would help (not that it's ugly, but that would help). For example, clarify the font in the logo, play a bit with the general colors. The header background could be re-arranged. It would be refreshing for your audience to se... |
Please, review my startup - Mobiquus | trapper: That's pretty impressive. The demo needs a better loading screen (applets can do that you know, http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/08/a_better_...).What is Mobiquus?
Mobiquus is a push-mail application for your mobile phone.
>what is that? - I know but most people won'tIt works with any mobile ph... |
Please, review my startup - Mobiquus | catch23: How about a video? I tried the demo and I don't get it... |
Please, review my startup - Mobiquus | markessien: This is an email client for phones? But most phones that support java already come with an email client - and in most cases, you can set this client to auto request emails every once in a while. How is your service different? |
automate submission from popular sources? | DanielBMarkham: Perhaps instead of automatically submitting them (which would just increase the firehose nature of the "new" page) whoever submits them the first time simply makes the articles active. This will encourage people to find more rare articles.For me, I like articles from joe the blogger, since I'm that guy.... |
How Important is Professionalism When People Apply to Your Startup? | ivey: You already know my opinion, but yes I've done hiring, I like A much better, and I got interviewed at my very first tech job (at least partially) because of a funny cover letter. |
How to grow a service that is popular but never took off? | lacker: Keep making it better. If you're out of ideas, ask some of your users what they use it for, what if anything annoys them about it, what more they would want. Take everything with a grain of salt but maybe it'll be helpful.It might be handy on your homepage if you linked to some popular examples of people using ... |
How Important is Professionalism When People Apply to Your Startup? | bentoner: A is better. The kind of person who prefers B doesn't hire 16-year-olds to work remotely. |
automate submission from popular sources? | swombat: I'd vote against this. I don't think the fact that some people gain karma by being the first to post popular articles is so terrible a thing that it should be offset by auto-submiting all that stuff. Most of what 37signals post is trash, anyway... one-liners and quotes that really don't belong here.If you real... |
How Important is Professionalism When People Apply to Your Startup? | alabut: I actually like B a lot more, and not for the reasons you cite. It's not that it's more "professional", whatever that means, but that it's shorter and more to the point. The A version is riddled with apologies and "but this" and "but that", lots of preconditions on what kind of work and conditions you'd be qual... |
E-learning startup and blackboard failure | zxcvb: I guess no-one here hates blackboard then :) |
Tell us your problems | Logic-Shop: I would be happy to brain storm with you on your startup, but I'm not sure what kind of problems you are having. I've posted a bunch of personal insight into basic entrepreneurship on my blog, but I'd be happy to get more specific if you could share your situation.http://logic-shop.blogspot.com |
How Important is Professionalism When People Apply to Your Startup? | mkyc: Proofreading is useful, so have some of my time. Or skip to last paragraph.Now for the downside: I'm not looking for the position in your job posting. I'm much more inexperienced (I believe the business term is "cheap to hire[no period here]") than you want for that position[, and - period here. runon] I'm a juni... |
Tell us your problems | BigCanOfTuna: I'd like a screen that resize correctly on a Mac, a car that gets 100MPG, and I want women to love me NOT for my great looks.Not interesting problems to solve? Probably because they don't directly affect you. Find something that MATTERS TO YOU and solve that....oh, and don't give up after only a week of b... |
Why are patent holders allowed to sue years after their patent was infringed upon? | cperciva: Why is this allowed to happen?IANAL, but in general if you can show that a patent holder deliberately delayed enforcing their patent, any award of damages will be reduced under the clean hands doctrine.That said, there are many cases where patent enforcement takes a long time for no fault of the patent holder... |
Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? | rchiniquy: Totally wondering about this myself. Not convinced Freebase is perfect for me. |
Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? | babyshake: Using WEX for a web application will require a ton of work that you want to avoid if possible.Freebase does have a summary of each topic, typically pulled from wikipedia. |
E-Learning Startup | goodgoblin: One thing to keep in mind - educational markets are like enterprise markets - very difficult to sell to. Products don't generally catch on and spread virally there - you'll need a salesforce. The decision makers aren't the users of the product, but its administrators. |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | thepanister: Check out this blog: http://www.svmoms.comI think it could contain helpful info for you, specially for your wife and kids. |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | iamelgringo: Silicon Valley is really pretty family friendly. A trip to Ikea any night of the week, and you'll notice tons of parents and families towing younger children along.We don't have kids, but my wife didn't really think that she'd enjoy life here. She likes it probably more than I do at this point in time. |
What's your homepage? | markup: My homepage is set to http://keyboardr.com/, but I rarely hit the button to go there; my browser starts with a blank page |
E-Learning Startup | babyshake: Now is a very ripe time for disruptive innovation in the e-learning space. This is especially true as the raw stuff of learning - think video lectures, wikis, forums - is increasingly accessible for free, while college tuition rates keep rising.However, the key phrase there is "disruptive innovation". Perhap... |
E-Learning Startup | snewe: As a TA forced to use such systems for course management, I agree that they are ugly and inefficient.Unfortunately, I believe the leader in this market has sued a bunch of competitors for "patent-infringement." |
What's your homepage? | cperciva: My home page is set to http://www.sfu.ca/ -- my undergraduate university's website. It sounds crazy, but this actually turns out to be quite useful: I very rarely go to that website deliberately, but having it as my home page means that any interesting news is likely to catch my eye in the fraction of a seco... |
What's your homepage? | andhapp: My homepage is Netvibes.com straight to my feeds and hours of procastination... |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | evgen: Most of SV (except for San Francisco itself) is family friendly. This is suburbia with a large tech population. The big issue you are going to face, depending on the ages of your children, is school selection and you can expect to pay a premium ranging from "a lot" to "you must be joking" for housing in areas wi... |
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