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What's your homepage? | Zev: Safari 4's Top Sites. |
What's your homepage? | rms: about:blankbut I almost always start from the previous session |
What's your homepage? | mixmax: I use a small page I put together that displays the weather for my location and the links I use most. I've been meaning for a long time to add a bit of functionality (adding/deleting/changing links) to it but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's just a handcoded file, but it gets the job done.here it is: http:... |
E-Learning Startup | thehickmans: I would caution you against looking at e-learning as a single market - there's the K to 12 market and then the post-secondary market. You also need to look at geography and the educational direction of countries, regions, states, etc. For example, the UK market is very different than the US or AUS markets,... |
What's your homepage? | lazyant: my homepage is set to my bookmarks (an html page with the exported bookmarks). |
E-Learning Startup | nl: How would you compete with Moodle, which is Open source, free, and has a lot of momentum? It's also pretty crappy, but I'm not sure that matters in this case - don't forget it isn't the users of the software who are the buyers. |
What's your homepage? | wallflower: At work, my company's cafeteria menu on the Intranet. Think Maslow's hierarchy of needs. |
E-Learning Startup | ph0rque: I worked on an e-learning app for a while, and may return to it after some time. Here is what I've learned: if you really want to create a killer e-learning app, you have to approach it from the UI point of view: make it really really really easy to teach and to learn. That, imho, is the biggest roadblock to a... |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | russell: Try skyline (Rte 35) above Woodside (take Rte 84, Woodside Rd to get there). It's very family friendly., more like a small town than traditional suburbia. Going home seems like going to a national park. Schools are Portola Valley and Woodside, among the best in CA. Hundreds of miles of trails a step from yo... |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | makecheck: I develop Mac software for free and release the source under GPL. The two ideas aren't completely incompatible (though one is perhaps more likely to find shareware than freeware on the Mac, and shareware isn't typically open-sourced).It's more a question of how "pure" your environment is. Yes, technically,... |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | eande: I only have 10 years SV on my back, but here are some points I have observed. SF as mentioned is not a place you want to have your children to go public school. I was told that schooling is not necessarily assigned to your local area and you can end up sending your child to school by bus, which I think is not su... |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | parenthesis: A lot of the stuff in an OS X install is open source. |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | evdawg: Before switching to a Mac, I was a Linux user for years and years.I use a Mac simply because I feel OS X is the better operating system. Linux has made strides on the desktop but when push comes to shove, it's just not "there" yet. I'm sure I'm going to be downmodded for saying that, but I really feel it's the ... |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | SwellJoe: It's all about your priorities...but I'm surprised that you think switching to Linux will make you less productive (at least you've qualified it with, "for a while"). People who uses computers a lot, as I presume you are, can generally be more productive on a Linux system...it's just dramatically more flexib... |
E-Learning Startup | aklemm: I administer Moodle for a private college (~1500 clients) and find that it works very well; one free / open source package gives us web-enabled classes (of course I also spend a lot of time training and supporting the instructors to make this a success).What shortcomings have you found in Moodle and other FOSS ... |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | Zev: Apple contributes a decent amount back to open source. WebKit, launchd, mach, etc. See http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html and http://www.macosforge.org/ for a bunch their code. |
What's your homepage? | troyto: http://helpuu.com/, check it out. |
Is Open Source a Moral Imperative? | mechanical_fish: Just try Linux. You've got a Mac; run it in Boot Camp. Or buy VMWare or Parallels and run it right next to the Mac OS. There is no need to theorize about this.If your idea of software is emacs, the command line, the browser, and a bunch of servers and compilers Linux will be just fine for you. Perhaps ... |
Are we in trouble? | tocomment: This is an excellent question. I think the truth is that no one knows. However the fact that many people are asking this question (not just crazy reddit folk) implies to me something bad could be afoot. Thoughts, HN? |
Are we in trouble? | aristus: No one knows, and unless you have mountains of cash to invest, there's no reward for being right either way. The only thing you can do is think through the absolute worst that can happen (to 1% or whatever your level of paranoia) and plan to deal with that. ie, your income is X, can you live on 0.5X? Better to... |
Are we in trouble? | tokenadult: We might experience something like Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s. I expect that, actually. But we'd live through it. My all-time favorite pair of HN comments was the question and answer I saw I think before I signed up here, when I was lurking for interesting discussions.Q: Anyone here lived through th... |
Are we in trouble? | Eliezer: Anyone who could predict whether the market would be up, down, or in the same place in six months time - or one month's time for that matter - could become very rich in a very short time. |
How to grow a service that is popular but never took off? | kristianp: > 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)?Increase its visitor number by posting a 'rate my website' style question on ycombinator. |
Are we in trouble? | tom_rath: Yeah, probably. But while you're slogging through it remember this: It will get better."The Greatest Generation" emerged from the Depression, the dot.com boom followed the Gen-X "McJob" years and the "something-something" will follow whatever we end up calling this mess.Ask any unlucky sod who finished scho... |
Are we in trouble? | mechanical_fish: Has anyone seen any economic case studies, predictions, or articles...?Calculated Risk: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/The sidebar should have all the analysis you could possibly want. Try not to overdose on it while drinking; alcohol is a depressant. |
Are we in trouble? | sgoraya: Has anyone seen any economic case studies, predictions, or articles, that can shed some light on what is REALLY going on here.I do not think that studies or predictions are what you/we really need.What are the odds that a prediction, based on past/future assumptions, modeled by some economist is really going t... |
Are we in trouble? | wwsculley: The economy lost an enormous chunk of itself. It will need to correct for this change - whether now or later. The world will have to call USA's debt some time.My big question: will the rest of the world continue to use USA's economy and currency as the global economic focal point and medium? -or will it aban... |
Are we in trouble? | 131072: The unusually huge volatility (large price movements) in many financial markets essentially means that nobody is certain of the future (providing you believe in 'the wisdom of markets', which despite Gladwellian overtones, is not necessarily a bad idea).To my knowledge, nobody out there has anything approaching... |
Are we in trouble? | Kaizyn: Peter Schiff has an interesting take on things. As does Ron Paul. Both seem to understand what is really going on.The problem isn't really all that complicated to explain. However, no simple solutions have been presented yet. Instead, the US government and others are opting to push for much more of the same... |
Are we in trouble? | chandan: i want to know abt total hacking on networking.if u can help me plz send mail to my account with some useful tips at chandan.hicet@gmail.com |
Are we in trouble? | chandan: ok dis hacking tool were nice.but i wnat to sure abt it 4 its safety requirements |
Are we in trouble? | melito: I'm not worried. I've been saving adequately for a while now and I have a good job. Even if the job goes away I'll be alright, because I'm not afraid to wait tables (or perform any other type of manual labor).I didn't buy a house I couldn't afford and I went without when I could (even went so far as to live i... |
Are we in trouble? | antpicnic: How can we help but go through a slow period while households and banks repair their balance sheets? Just increasing the savings rate from the current 5% in January to a more sustainable 10-14% means people will need to forgo a of consumption. I doubt the wheels will fall off completely.You younger folks on ... |
Are we in trouble? | cpr: One depressing take: Jim Kunstler's The Long Emergency (a book, summarized here: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7203633/the_long_emer...).I'm afraid I think he's right (even if he's indulging in a lot of schadenfreude)--it's just a matter of timing. Our society isn't going to survive the peak oil crash int... |
Are we in trouble? | nickfox: I think the better question is to look in the mirror and ask myself "Am I in trouble?" |
Hacker-friendly in Tokyo | kqr2: Be sure to check out Akihbara -- the otaku and computer geek mecca:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara |
Best places to live in Silicon Valley for families? | miked: Check out Milpitas if you need to save a little money. Great East Asian restaurants and not too far away from the main part of SV. |
Are we in trouble? | danbmil99: hmm... you've been listening to Donny Deutch and Bill Maher, and you still don't know what's going on? Obviously, the problem is you didn't pay enough attention to Suzy Orman. |
Are we in trouble? | bianco: What the future will bring us: nobody knows, there has never been anything really similar in history...The causes are very simple to describe: our (temporary) so successful economic system didn't follow many moral rules. And now we are all (the responsible and non) forced to pay for that (silly) mistake.You may... |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | laxman: I am developing a web application using php language.I want to integration sms in my website.what should i do?cost is no problem? |
Innovating under pressure | sam_in_nyc: Unless your class is to "invent a company," I wouldn't sweat the fact that there are patents on the ideas you've come up with. At any rate, I've been told that it's not too hard to differentiate your idea enough to file a new patent yourself. If you can significantly improve the existing patent, or implem... |
E-Learning Startup | ible: I think you'll find two major problems with a blackboard competitor.1. Low value of products to usersBlackboard, WebCT, and other similar 'Learning Management Systems' are products of a standard response to new technology in an established area. Essentially attempting to copy the existing way of doing things into... |
Are we in trouble? | mkuhn: It's funny that you ask for case studies, because many people argue that what is happening right now has never happened before.I'm studying business with a healthy dose of economics, and when we ask Professors, they even don't know what is going on, and everyone who says so is just guessing. IMHO no one knows wh... |
Hacker-friendly in Tokyo | patio11: You are going to have a very, very difficult time living in Tokyo for $600 a month. Is that $600 you have budgeted out for rent or $600 total?At $600 total it is, flatly, impossible for you unless you intend to sleep on a park bench. At $600 for rent you can probably find somewhere in the Greater Tokyo Metro... |
Innovating under pressure | jwilliams: Maybe it's easier to come up with an improvement to an existing invention? It's still an invention in either case... Just pick something you're familiar with and brainstorm the issues with it (and possible innovative solutions naturally). |
Innovating under pressure | trapper: What subject areas are you interested in the most? |
Submit via /submit, or via bookmarklet? | mooism2: The spammers would switch to submitting via the bookmarklet, surely? (If they don't already.) |
Are we in trouble? | mistermann: Many days of reading here:http://market-ticker.denninger.net
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.comMost of what you see in the msm (CNBC, Cramer, newspapers) is either uninformed opinion at best, or deliberate lies.By the way, Japan's lost decade is now two decades, note the current stock market level a... |
Innovating under pressure | Tangurena: I recommend you take a weekend and read up on TRIZ.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ |
Are we in trouble? | Tangurena: Has anyone seen any economic case studies, predictions, or articles, that can shed some light on what is REALLY going on here.Look, this is all wrapped up in politics. You're not going to get any light shed on this because it is against the interests of the parties involved for that to happen. And watching t... |
Which school do you attend? | ewiethoff: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Also Northwestern University and Bethel Theological Seminary. |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | gaius: If it is obviously factually incorrect. |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | pavelludiq: redditnessp.s. I would totally downvote my comment since it is stupid, on the other hand it is the most correct answer to your question. |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | spydez: I down-vote: * ad hominin attacks with no substance
* unoriginal snowclone jokes with no substance
* "+1" and "I agree", if that is the entirety of the post
* if a post is vastly, enormously over-rated
I try to reserve downvote for the last resort. Well, second to last, now that we have flag.Generally, ... |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | Bluem00: I'll consider a comment for a down-vote if it negatively affects the conversation. Usually this means it's off-topic for the conversation that it replies to (including insults and just plain meanness).However, when I determine whether to down-vote, I first figure out what I think the score should be, and only ... |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | pg: Meanness, especially when combined with mistakenness (which is not unusual). |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | ryanmahoski: If a comment is logically invalid, intellectually lazy or cruel I sometimes hit the down arrow. |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | Xichekolas: Things that are false, mean, or devoid of content (things like: "thanks!", "I agree", or "haha"). Only exception is things already at -1 or below.If a comment is none of those things and below one, I'll mod it up because I don't believe in burying someone you disagree with.As for things that are blatantly t... |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | michael_nielsen: I ask whether the comment detracts substantially from the HN community? If the answer is yes, I downvote.The nice thing about this question is that it implies many derived reasons for a downvote: being mean or insulting; egregious stupidity; being irrelevant; being "clever" without adding real value. ... |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | menloparkbum: I down-vote boring comments, pointless comments, comments by people I don't like, false comments, comments I disagree with, comments that are already down-voted, meta comments about what constitutes proper voting behavior, and accidentally hitting the down-vote arrow instead of the up-vote arrow.I think I... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | divia: I downloaded it, but it quits right after it opens. (Macbook running 10.5.6, if that helps.) |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | SwellJoe: I have to be pretty annoyed to downvote. I almost never vote up or down, actually, and downvotes are extremely rare.A personal pet peeve is when someone willfully misses the point of an article or comment in order to go off on some pretty much unrelated tangent. It happens on reddit more than around these p... |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | run4yourlives: I usually reserve my downvote for the most absurd of comments. Stupidity, trolling, immaturity.I DO NOT downvote things that are false, things I disagree with, or comments that make outlandish claims. All of these are discussion instigators, and not worthy of negative ratings.I upvote comments that make ... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | JeremyChase: Is it just me or was there no audio in the video?I think divia's problem is that there is no documentation in the program itself. I downloaded it and unzipped it, and ran it. After entering the registration code I had no clue what to do. The program seems to just "end".I had seen the video so I figured tha... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | sherb113: Just tried it. I like how fast this is! It's a good alternative to dropbox for a quick image upload or something. It would be nice if it auto copied just the url.I would also like it if the file stayed hosted longer than an hour. Say I want to email the link to a friend, but the friend doesn't check their ema... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | mikeyur: I like it. Tried it out, works quickly. I emailed you about a possible integration, let me know if you're interested. |
What does motivate you to down-vote a comment? | scott_s: I asked a similar question a few months ago, and included my policy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361390 |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | nickb: Pretty awesome! I have an almost daily need for something like this when sending files to people over chat/irc.Your link creation needs some work, however. I can't paste the link into a non-RTF box (this input box for HN, for example). You should reverse-engineer how Safari creates links when they're copied to c... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | jasonlbaptiste: not sure if im missing something here, but you realize that you could have just dragged and dropped that same file into the chat window, right? |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | yan: How does it compare to dockdrop? http://dockdropx.com/Is it just stored on your servers vs. my own? |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | epall: There's a Dropbox Droplet (http://wiki.getdropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Droplet) that does essentially this. For somebody who doesn't have Dropbox, this tool seems cool, but I wouldn't go to the effort of adding yet another tool when Dropbox is close enough. |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | edb: The important questions here are:1) What's my file limit?2) How long are files kept for? |
Would a product or pitch workshop be useful? | lacker: It would be interesting to watch these pitches online afterwards. Record it and post them!Also the quality of the pitches will be dependent on who you can attract, which will be dependent on how many people hear about this. So you should market it a little and make sure to title posts like this something like "... |
Would a product or pitch workshop be useful? | dustineichler: I was just investigating this exact thing in the last few weeks. I'm pretty much ready to start pitching, but i could definitely use a forum to try it on first.Please set this up! |
Would a product or pitch workshop be useful? | wheels: I think a lot of it wouldn't depend on your level of coaching as much as your level of honesty. Most of the time when you start pitching you just need people to tell you how much of a 'tard you sound like and why nothing you're saying makes sense or is relevant.One thing I could see being problematic is gettin... |
Would a product or pitch workshop be useful? | joshu: I'm also wondering if this should be a review instead of a workshop.I'll start looking for some space, I suppose. |
Impact of press coverage | brk: Hard to make a blanket statement, especially without knowing more about your specific niche (are your users newspaper readers? Would they read the paper you were mentioned in?).A lot of your PR activities are about building up mindshare. Hardly anybody remembers a site or company the first time (or two!) they re... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | cake: You should work on the website's design, there is a lack of unicity.The screencast is too short, you should describe to us what you're doing, why you're doing it and the result. |
Would a product or pitch workshop be useful? | markessien: Why don't you do a music + pitch combination. Get an unknown band to play, get a series of people to present their idea. It would be more interesting than just a bunch of unversed, poor presenters reading powerpoint slides. If people get used to the idea of a pitch being infotainment, they will start to do ... |
Review my startup, Droplink for OS X | nickdynamite: damn, that's fast |
Website advice on Drilling Down fast... | JayNeely: Check out http://tiddlywiki.com - They do dynamic display of content very quickly, very well. You should be able to learn from their approach. |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | tokenadult: Some proffesors gave me an F even I knew so much more than they didHow can you be sure that you knew much more than your professors knew? What kind of communication did you have with those professors before you received a grade of F? |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | ejs: Why would you possibly think a PhD is a good idea if you find your current situation full of unnecessary work? Do you think a PhD program is going to be some huge difference (hint: it's not)And depending on where you live (US?) just having an engineering degree doesn't let you call yourself "an engineer"... you ne... |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | JabavuAdams: Stick it out, if it's only 2 years.Don't take refuge in the "I'm smarter than all of them, they just don't understand me" excuse. Take what is offered, and learn what you can, where you can.It may not seem like it now, but 2 years is a really, really, short time in your life.If you're bored, spend more tim... |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | SwellJoe: How important are the grades in getting those "doors" open, or getting into a Ph.D program?I don't know what doors you refer to. I've never had a problem getting a job, and I never attended a university (I went to a handful of community colleges for various fun topics, but never got a degree...but having a d... |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | radu_floricica: I know very well how you feel. I cannot give concrete advice, since I'm in a different part of the world and the context doesn't apply, but it sounds all too familiar.What I can say is that a job and a PhD are completely different paths. Both have advantages and satisfactions, but they require different... |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | icey: Life is tough, you're going to have to do things that are boring when you get a job as well. Might as well learn how to deal with it now.That being said, I'm not entirely convinced this isn't a troll. If you're not trolling, I'd recommend spell checking your post; especially the parts where you talk about knowing... |
I'm sick of college, any recommendation? | artlogic: My suggestion to you is simple: if you want to do artificial intelligence research then do it. Make a website. Self-publish. Promote yourself. If you are truly brilliant (as you seem to think you are) then you will be noticed. There are always positions for hard working brilliant people.It's also worth s... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | JeremyChase: It depends on your current relationship, but you should be as straightforward as possible. You should tell him that you think others work is being compromised because of the way he is doing things. The best solution is for him to realize what he is doing wrong and to improve.The situation will not get bett... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | wastedbrains: I ended up giving a nickname to a coworker like that "destroyer of worlds" Then I got him bumped to a another team for awhile. Then he ended up back on my team and I eventually quit. In my exit interview I mentioned him.I am sorry but keeping an employee around that is pushed from project to project becau... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | JayNeely: It sounds like he's not incompetent so much as he isn't efficient. If he were better at prioritizing, would he be contributing value?I'd first try to get the group to condense the 10,000-feet view into a single document, including priorities, and get the group to agree on it (presenting it as a 'helpful refer... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | Brushfire: That depends entirely on your role in the team, which isnt clear.If you are the leader, its your job to get him working correctly or get him out. If you are not the leader -- ie you are his equal, its a little harder to go about, and it depends on his, the team, and the leaders personalities and operating st... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | jm4: You might also try understanding his thought process and give him tasks that he will excel at. Not everyone gets the 10000 ft view and it's probably not necessary that everyone in the group think that way. Try to figure out what his strengths and try to use them to the group's advantage. It might be that this guy ... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | Kirby: You're doing nobody any favors by being passive-aggressive. The employee needs to know, management needs to know.Talk to his manager behind closed doors. Be reasonable. Provide data. Metrics can be misleading, but if you have them, now is the time. (I recall one coworker at a job, when we looked, had done 1... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | dgallagher: What perspectives do your other teammates have of him? Do they share your same views, or different views?They might shed some more light on the situation. Hypothetically: "Oh, yeah, Joe's a great guy, but you're right. He doesn't really get the 10,0000ft view of things. He mentioned to me the other wee... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | moe: Just do what everyone does: Apply the dilbert principle and move on. </cyn> |
So I've finished College. Now what? | tocomment: What are your ideas for a biotech startup? I've always wanted to do one of those but I don't know any biotechnology. The community here will tell you to do the startup. |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | critic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424699 |
So I've finished College. Now what? | menloparkbum: If you want to stay in biotech you should go to graduate school. The entry level bioinformatics jobs available to someone with an undergraduate degree are really lame. I know this because I have done them.A startup with your friends would be the most fun. However I think a lot of money in biotech still co... |
How do you cope with incompetent team members? | critic: Do what Elaine did: promote him! |
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