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What's your favorite beer? | deniscales: Stella Artois |
What's your favorite beer? | antidaily: Bell's Two Hearted Ale |
What's your favorite beer? | cschep: I tend to like the wheat beers. Franziskaner has a hefeweizen and a dunkel that are both fantastic. Also Hoegaarden's belgian white is delicious.For a cheap everyday kind of beer, I love finding PBR on tap for $2 a pint in a ton of different places. |
What's your favorite beer? | intellectronica: I am really disapointed to find this featured on the front page. |
What's your favorite beer? | bdfh42: Draught Bass!
If you can't get that then Marston's Pedigree or Banks's Original.We are talking ale here of course - not that nasty yellow lagery stuff (to be fair Grolsch is not bad at all) |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | andrewljohnson: We started indexing trip reports from a few websites, and it's really filled out the map with information. I hope this helps someone find a hike! |
What's your favorite beer? | sc: I'm love-hate, lately, with these two "extreme" breweries: De Dolle Brouwers, and Dogfish HeadI've also been enjoying Three Floyds' Alpha King Ale. |
What's your favorite beer? | henriklied: Hansa Pilsner is the best Norwegian beer. Internationally, I'll go for a Carlsberg Jacobsen Dark Ale. |
What's your favorite beer? | guruz: Rothaus Tannenzäpfle(german).But right now I "have to" drink Tuborg, Carlsberg, Ringnes. |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | keltecp11: Check out: www.tripsharer.com |
Review my relaunched startup | dbul: Sweet! Looks like you put a lot of work into this. More content probably needs to be added before you can see exactly how it will be useful to your audience.I would get rid of the ads for now and spend a bit more time reconsidering the user experience. For example, the color scheme, bold headlines, brief blurb of... |
lighttpd or nginx for a low grade server? | mattmcknight: I use Apache Web Server on a four year old server. It hasn't gone down outside of two server moves. Coming from the Java application server and IIS worlds, it's seems pretty simple to me. It seemed to be a more widely supported choice amongst my customers, and thus worth my time to invest in learning it. |
How to cache for logged in users? | dmix: I keep track of logged in users via sessions that are stored in a DB.Every time the user goes to a new page it is updated. This happens so frequently that caching doesn't really make sense. Accuracy is also important. |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | sgrove: I suppose I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this. I looked at my area (orange county, california) and there were a few icons. clicking on them didn't give me any description - I suppose it's because you don't have any for those places (I do see the link to add info there).But you show me some info that ... |
Is AI a growing field? | HSO: as peter norvig said at a recent conference, it depends on how you define AI.to gauge the field, why not start with his textbook (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/). right next to this link, i just saw this one here for more resources on the web (http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ai.html).btw, i wouldn't really think too muc... |
Is AI a growing field? | ktharavaad: There are a LOT of publications on AI if you look at all the conference papers and journal papers floating around on the net. The field of AI itself is divided up into lots of sub fields such as logic theory, machine learning, language processing, search/optimization.Examples of "AI research at work" are th... |
Is AI a growing field? | jpirkola: Try searching AGI or "strong AI", which is a new movement trying to achieve general AI rather than application specific. I have got a good article on that: http://www.cybertechnews.org/?p=689 |
Is AI a growing field? | jey: Depends on what you mean by AI. It's not a single area of study. |
Is AI a growing field? | frisco: If by AI you mean machine learning, yes. If you mean "human-like-interactive-thing," yes but not in a way that means we're substantially closer than we were 15 years ago.AI in the ML sense is quickly becoming critical to business and is opening up lots of possibilities that we could only dream of 5 years ago. ... |
Is AI a growing field? | njoubert: I'm currently going around visiting potential Ph.D. programs as an admit for next year, and at all the top schools (CMU, Stanford, Berkeley) the amount of people studying AI and machine learning is staggering. The field is definitely academically very active. |
Is AI a growing field? | natmaster: Shameless plug for my University: http://z.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/publications_recent.php |
Review my relaunched startup | tdoggette: The promise that you, too can make a web page, and it's as easy as surfing the web(!) smells really 1997. Especially considering that the content is all about programming languages and the like, I doubt anyone in the target market is intimidated by making a web page.Also, just looking at it, what's it for? M... |
Shopping cart advice? | mahmud: ZenCart. |
Shopping cart advice? | asnyder: No money is necessary, check out Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com/). It's very flexible, fully open source, and has a very active community. |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | phillian: FYI- when I clicked on the link I received nothing but a blank screen. |
Is AI a growing field? | vaksel: I'd say no. My dad worked in AI 20-30 years ago(worked on some AI project for Russian military, something to do with nukes), and he looks for jobs in the field, now and then. And from what he say about, it seems like the AI field is pretty much frozen right now.There are almost no jobs available, and the few av... |
How to cache for logged in users? | blasdel: It's easy -- assemble the 'blocks' on the client-side. |
Is AI a growing field? | amichail: For me, AI's goals are very cool but most of its approaches not so much. In fact, I find most AI talks rather boring.The only parts I really like have to do with human computation (e.g., ESP Game) and stealing ideas from nature (e.g., genetic programming, ant colony optimization, etc.):http://video.google.co... |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | dawie: I really like your site!I live in Calgary Alberta, and I am always looking for hiking trails, but it takes time to find them. I will definately use your site in the summer. |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | rrival: Great coverage of Colorado - verynice! |
What Visa for a UK team to come to YC? | critic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460914 |
Is AI a growing field? | dfox: Main problem with AI is that nobody really knows what it means. When something starts to be remotely useful, it is not called AI anymore :) |
Is AI a growing field? | brianobush: I do AI for work, however, it is not my only task. Most of my work is development work, data wrangling and debugging. Pure AI jobs probably exist, but I like the diversity and hoping to do more research is a lost cause in most software applications since so much time is required doing development. |
Is AI a growing field? | queensnake: My total out-of-butt reasoning: with low-level AI-ish things becoming commonplace (computing power getting cheaper, and devices becoming more ubiquitous; ever cheaper, more sophisticated robots, O'Reilly books on Collective Intelligence) and more data around, there'll be more demand for harder, truer-AI stu... |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | jmorin007: First off, I really like the concept of being able to see potential outdoor activities within my area.Some feedback:- As some other people have mentioned, it's tough to tell exactly what is happening when you drop onto the page. You need at least some description as to what you are all about, even though it... |
Review Our Website - Online Resume Management (cvboss.com) | simonk: Opening the site automatically brings up a box to login or signup. Annoying as I didn't even know what the site did at all. Maybe just push everyone into a demo mode and put a sign-up link on there.Also try and contribute more to a community before you spam it. |
Shopping cart advice? | csbartus: Zencart was/is the leader, Magento is the newcomer but looks very strong.Wordpress has very good shopping cart plugins in case you want to add a publisihing & advertising platform to your shop. (highly recommended!)Also Shopify can be a solution. |
lighttpd or nginx for a low grade server? | csbartus: look on forums, let's say on slicehost: many people uses both of them, there are lots of comments there. |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | bprater: Andrew -- I was in and out in about 10 seconds.You've been staring at the webpage for weeks or months now -- and you get exactly what's going on. But nobody else does. (Or at least the slow-minded amongst us, including me.)You may have the most wonderful service in the world, but if you cannot quickly convey t... |
Review Our Website - Online Resume Management (cvboss.com) | 3pt14159: 1. Pop-up right away = bad/annoying.
2. Having a bookmark/share box on the pop-up where the reflexive [x] should be (to close the damn pop-op = even worse.
3. After I finally figure out how to close the damn pop-up (by clicking 'try demo') what happens? ANOTHER DAMN POP-UP.Now for the good news:4. The actual... |
Is AI a growing field? | ivankirigin: I think robotics is in a lull, and will be for a few years. This of those out there (pleo, roomba, packbot, kiva, anybots), and you'll find they are all "dumb". Interesting physical intelligence like BigDog isn't really a product.It will be a few years before any intelligent robots come out. 6-10 years is ... |
Is AI a growing field? | sscheper: By AI, do you mean Asians and Indians?In the Silicon Valley, yes. |
Review Our Website - Online Resume Management (cvboss.com) | volida: the UX is broken |
Is AI a growing field? | zandorg: I took a degree in AI, and now I'm firmly convinced that AI == search. If you make something searchable in a simple, new way, that's AI. If it's grandiose but doesn't work, that's not useful. |
Do you teach the old generation to use internet? | ggchappell: Your question presumes that knowledge and understanding are the primary issues in getting "the old generation" on the net. They are important, of course, but I wonder if, in some cases, the critical issues are those related to filtering a large number of inputs.Consider: I'm 43 (and at least on the edge of ... |
Review My Website - Trip Reports All Over the World | eli_s: Really love the idea. I'm sure you will get loads of attention from the hiking community. It's a great niche to target too - I imagine its quite underserviced with lots of enthusiastic people who can help promote your site.Something to look out for: the site seems very processor intensive. Using IE7 on a Core 2 ... |
when will property prices go back up? | alnayyir: Hopefully never. Why should housing for humans grow more expensive? We aren't running out and materials continue to grow cheaper.It seems inhumane to me to hope that one can profit off of homelessness and a reduction in the overall quality of life of your fellow citizenry. |
Market research and HN community norms | frisco: That's ironic. A subtly disguised poll to ask if polls are ok. |
when will property prices go back up? | pg: There is no such thing as "back up." Prices go up and down. "Back up" presumes a certain price is the appropriate one, but in reality no price is more appropriate than another. |
when will property prices go back up? | patio11: You don't need "dynasty wealth" to manage property. It is one of the most common small businesses in the United States. (Fairly low capital requirements by the standards of physically-extant businesses, low expertise requirements, well within the capability of many middle class families.) It also has signif... |
when will property prices go back up? | davidmathers: You should look at the chart:http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27...We recently passed 150 on the way down. Still got a ways to fall.When will prices go back up? 10 years? 20 years? Never? Why should they go up? I've only heard one reasonable explanation for increasing prices. Appa... |
How should I approach publishing a book? | jgrahamc: I have gone down two of those routes:1. I self-published my book for really advanced GNU Make users via Lulu. The market for such a book is way too small for a traditional editor to get involved.2. When I had the idea for The Geek Atlas I approached O'Reilly directly without an agent via an acquaintance.If ... |
when will property prices go back up? | noonespecial: Prices were bid up to artificially high levels by the pretend money that banks were lending. (Pretend because there was no reasonable way it could be paid back and nearly anyone could get it).Prices probably won't "go back up" the way anyone hopes. The prices were fake. The crisis will end when the prices... |
How should I approach publishing a book? | vladocar: Here some useful link:6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book http://mashable.com/2009/03/01/publish-book/ |
Market research and HN community norms | medianama: Go ahead and post it. |
when will property prices go back up? | ars: Prices go up when babies are born, and down when homes are built.Except that in many cities there is no room to build any more houses, so prices go up based on how many people want to live in a city.People want to live in a city usually for economic reasons. (Close to jobs, cheap services etc).So basically, unless... |
how do you process payments? | stympy: I'll plug myself here... :) If you are using Rails, take a look at http://railskits.com/saas/ -- a great starting point for your Rails apps to not only do the recurring billing (with Auth.net, Braintree, etc.) but also do account management, upgrades/downgrades, etc.It has a lot of the work done for you, so yo... |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | vaksel: Just use both at the same time. Use S3 for active stuff, and Mosso as your secondary backup. The chances of S3 and Mosso crapping out at the same time are pretty much nill. And the cost of hosting something on S3/Mosso, as a one time backup is dirt cheap |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | spkthed: Sure? It's like anything else, don't trust a single solution. In addition to local backups S3 is good, in addition to S3, Mosso. There will always be accidents, data loss, corruption, etc. The only way to mitigate that risk is simply to cover your bases and avoid relying on a single thing. |
I've had some software developed, now the coder is holding me for ransom. | abyssknight: I'll agree with the others and say drop this guy without a second thought. That said, if you wrote the contract to include disclosure of source code you should be able to legally ask for it. That said, $2500 is a relatively small amount when we're talking about a complete system with source code rights. Yo... |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | charlesju: I trust S3 and Mosso Cloudfiles more-so than my own single-failure HDD. They have a lot of redundancy built into their system, and although every system has risks, its risk are far less than our person undistributed implementations of file storage. |
How many times do users mistype their password on a registration form? | noodle: in my experience, typically, the registrations that have you type in just one copy of your password tend to also send you your password back in the registration email to verify.if you're dealing with financial processes, though, i'd suggest sticking with the double password field and not emailing a password. |
How many times do users mistype their password on a registration form? | aristus: It's not just the % of people mess this up. It's the cost of correcting each error. If 99.44% of people type their password correctly and remember it later, but the remaining 0.36% waste your time with support calls, it's a bad idea. |
What Visa for a UK team to come to YC? | Major_Grooves: So have there been any UK companies on YC? |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | mikecuesta: I have a lot of faith in S3, more so than any local storage I may have. |
So, you have a million dollars. Now what? | elv: aim for 5% annual return, leave 2,5% for inflaction, and you'll be forever free with 25K/year
yea you should carefully pick up your bank or your freedom could vanish in the next credit crunch :) |
So, you have a million dollars. Now what? | Allocator2008: "Two girls at the same time." |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | jasonkester: S3 does this for a living. I don't.S3's entire business revolves around never losing anybody's stuff. They have hordes of smart people working on the problem, and they have an architecture that makes it really hard to lose anything by accident.My business, on the other hand, revolves around letting peopl... |
So, you have a million dollars. Now what? | vaksel: is that 1 mil before or after taxes? |
How many times do users mistype their password on a registration form? | lucumo: I can't tell you about the password, but we had a registration form which asked for the e-mail address. You could actually read the e-mail address (like normal) so people could easily see and correct their typos had they bothered.The thing is, they didn't. The e-mail address is used for activation and we had hu... |
So, you have a million dollars. Now what? | sho: What do you mean, now what? "Now what" is you go and make the rest of the money you'll need to buy a decent apartment in any world city. A million bucks ain't that much anymore and you certainly couldn't retire or anything, unless you plan on living in a lower-income country.On the bright side, you won't need an a... |
how do you process payments? | Bill_N_Payments: I actually work for a software firm that created a billing and payments application specifically for recurring and subscription services.
Feel free to send me an e-mail and I can answer any questions for you or provide some information for you.
My e-mail addy is pcain@ipapplications.con
or feel free t... |
How often do you swap between languages ? | noodle: i use about 5 languages at work, and 2 or 3 more at home. you get used to it, really. a good IDE helps in the case of forgetting something like how to find length. |
How often do you swap between languages ? | TJensen: I use Java and Flex throughout the day and switch to Python and Objective C in the evening. I agree that I've reached my limit on storing the massive standard libraries these languages have in my head, but I think use of IDEs in the past has made this worse for me (I got lazy).I'm back to using Emacs almost e... |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | bbuffone: S3, Mosso and other cloud providers are not an appropriate back up mechanism. These are good for sharing files and a temporary storage system. The only legitimate backup is a physically stored disk. S3 doesn't provide versioning nor deletion protection.The problem is I hear about these new "Cloud" storage co... |
Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? | iamelgringo: My site, cuuute.com is hosted on EC2. I use Elastic block for database storage, and I back both that and my EC2 instance to S3 on a regular basis.I've been using that as my hosting for 2-3 months, and I couldn't be happier. |
Dealing with multiple internship job offers | vorador: You may find this an interesting reading : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | hcho: The amount of time spent in front of a computer with an internet connection in a working day would be the key to success of such a site.It would probably have higher traction among, say, graphical designers than medical staff. |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | chanux: Get HN code & build your own doctorsnews, autonews etc. :) or may be add categories to HN system. |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | RossM: I think so. I have a concept I'm working on that's more a request forum than a Q&A board but I'm borrowing a few things StackOverflow has implemented well (nothing unique - mainly the simple wiki revisions).Something else to consider are the 'game' factors. StackOverflow implemented badges and they work well ini... |
How often do you swap between languages ? | sdp: I use Groovy and Java at school; PHP and Python at work; and finally Smalltalk and C at home.I have recently switched from all emacs, to TextMate at school and home, and emacs at work (although I'm trying to see if JEdit will work better). |
when will property prices go back up? | anamax: > wait until prices go back up, and rent them out in the futureOr sell - rental housing is work and illiquid. After "back up", there's probably something better to own.> except that in this case, why aren't the rich and wealthy buying it up?What makes you so sure that they aren't? (I know folks who are.)Also,... |
How often do you swap between languages ? | iamwil: Ruby and Javascript at work.Otherwise, I'm playing around with Lua, Ruby, Erlang, and Python. |
How do I penetrate the hosting market? | noodle: if all you're doing is reselling hosting from some other host, you're unlikely to penetrate the market at large.find a niche and cater to it. |
How do I penetrate the hosting market? | rms: Start practicing your SEO voodoo |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | vaksel: I think it'll work for other fields but not as well as programming.Programming gets you a much higher volume of traffic. The same programmer, might come to your site 100 times during the week to find solutions to the different problems. Its also a field where you have a lot of amateurs and students looking for ... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | bbgm: Perhaps. The advantage with programming is that there is a lot of general knowledge that goes beyond languages, etc and even at the language level you have sufficient number of people with general interest. Where you can replicate that it should work. In the sciences I am not so sure. You tend to get too speci... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | timcederman: I had thought so. On closer inspection though, it's unlikely.Why? Have a look at reference sites online. There were plenty of sites like experts-exchange before StackOverflow, and if you trawl Google Groups, you'll see a similar thing. Plenty of people asking technical questions, not so much anything el... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | sachinag: http://www.sermo.com does this for docs - docs talk to other docs, and pharma companies and hedge funds pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to eavesdrop and seed specific questions they want answered. (The sign-in page restricts randoms to MDs and DOs to register.) It's a brilliant business model. |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | brandnewlow: Are you famous in your field? No? Then it won't work.HN works because PG is here. Reddit worked because PG was there to help it start.Digg works because Kevin Rose is there.StackOverflow works because Joel and Jeff are there.Unless you've got a large audience to toss at the project on day one, expect a l... |
Dealing with multiple internship job offers | aristus: In every interview you must be clear about when you will make your decision, and when they will. It's basic politeness not a negotiating tactic. When A calls you back, tell them thanks and that you will let them know by X. When dealing with B, tell them that you will make your decision by X as well.If A want a... |
How do I penetrate the hosting market? | ErrantX: I tried this in about 2005. Getting any kind of custom was HARD (mostly the only customers were clients from my freelance web design work).After 4 years (wow that seems so little really!) we have only a few regulars and are unable to bring in new custom because of being unable to compete price wise.You'll be b... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | sgrove: I think so.In fact, I believe it so much, that's my startup: http://www.chuwe.com - "Stackoverflow for startups and small businesses."As brandnewlow pointed out, starting it is a massive uphill battle - chicken and egg problem as it were. The software's only small part. We're attacking it in what we hope is a n... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | KevBurnsJr: as a site? sure.as a business? hard to tell.Yahoo Answers holds the potential to encompass every use case for StackOverflow and all your offshoots. However, I sincerely believe that the added context that a site like StackOverflow provides (being that it's curated specifically toward programmers) does prov... |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | rguzman: Something like SO could work in other fields. But, the devil is in the details of the moderation and incentive schemes. The features of the site matter, but not nearly as much as the community. So, it is more of an anthropology and sociology problem than a build-a-webapp one.For law and medicine, for instance,... |
Review my prototype (webnodes) | hotshothenry: you should def fix it so http://webnodes.org doesn't throw a fatal server not found error |
Do your users actually use those social bookmarking icons (ShareThis/AddThis)? | noodle: i use bookmarklets. however, the occasional social bookmarking icon will make me think to share the thing using my bookmarklets. |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | igorgue: Is computer-related but I read @codinghorror tweets about a SO for sysadmins.I just imagined a SO for the medicine field, I'll read it everyday!, imagine a doctor asking for help to another doctor?, and not only that, a doctor asking for feedback on a research... wow |
Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? | DnB: A large part of the problem and solution relies on the field we're talking about. There are law forums, but unfortunately, the law is incredibly specific and varies wildly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. There would have to be a LawOverflow for every county. Medicine is incredibly situational as well, and that ... |
How to promote an API contest? | noodle: a good place to start might be a link so that we could take a look, either to participate or give input based on what you're doing :) |
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