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Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | pclark: Obviously. What I submit reflects upon me, and as a founder of a startup I don't want to be known for submitting junk on one of the largest startup communities. |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | unalone: Yes. I rarely submit; when I do, I only submit things that might actually provoke interesting conversation. |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | mechanical_fish: HN guidelines strongly discourage editorializing in the titles of submissions, and these titles can be edited after the fact by site editors.Without the power to editorialize in the title, I don't think there's a good way to distinguish between submitting something that you agree with and submitting so... |
which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition? | safetytrick: I've had a lot of problems with 64 bit Linux and no problems with 64 bit Windows or OSX (to be honest i did come late to the 64 bit Windows game, after many problems had been resolved). OS X is good but not if you have to pay the Apple prices for ram, or for a Mac Pro that can support more than a piddly 4 ... |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | vaksel: I submit stuff that I think will be interesting to others.But I don't endorse it as being accurate or truthful since most times I just skim the stuff.And yes a lot of my stuff have "bait" titles, because I use the quick-submit that just uses the original post's title. You know:javascript:window.location=%22http... |
What tools do you use to monitor your servers? | pclark: GetExceptional for rails apps & pingdom for everything else. |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | pclark: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ |
which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition? | listic: I'm a Windows person, and I don't want to switch away from XP. When I recently built a new PC with 4 GB of RAM I had to switch to 64-bit and I had a bit of unpleasant experience with it. Windows XP 64-bit is built upon the codebase of Windows Server 2003 (Vista is Windows Server 2008) and it shows.1. Some hardw... |
What tools do you use to monitor your servers? | barredo: I made a tiny script on my server that get's all the numbers that I want (http connectios, mysql connections, cpu usage, etc) and put them on a txt file.The only thing I got to do is check the file online whenever I want.You could do this and also add email alerts easily. |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | mqatrombone: A smaller web server like lighttpd or cherokee may be a better choice if all you are serving is images. |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | kierank: MogileFS might be what you're looking for:http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/with an nginx or lighttpd frontend.The documentation is a little sparse though the mailing list and irc are useful for help.Also it would somewhat depend on your traffic profile. If you've got thousands of random reads (e.g. thumbnails wit... |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | justlearning: I don't submit(not yet!). I take fancy to the comments here. I read the comments in depth and skim over any articles submitted.I think, even a 'dumb' article gets decent conversations thread.Accurate or not, it's the crowd that discusses that makes a molehill of a mountain or otherwise.PS: I used to think... |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | swombat: Most of the time, I submit things that I believe are worth reading. Occasionally, however, I do submit things that I believe are worth discussing, rather than reading (i.e. I don't agree with the point being made, but I want to read the discussion of that point).Usually, in the latter case, I get involved in t... |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | tokenadult: For the record, I have submitted articles whenever I thought they raised a factual issuea) that would be of interest to hackers,b) that hasn't been discussed from that point of view recently (I tend to search for previous submissions to HN before posting),andc) that is subject to illumination by further dis... |
Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency | mooism2: It means you know where the variable's value came from.It also makes sharing common parts between different data structures easier. |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | blurry: Check out this Stanford presentationFacebook - Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photoshttp://www.flowgram.com/p/2qi3k8eicrfgkv/ |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | rksprst: To an extent. I think that the seriousness with which people take submissions are a result of "peer pressure"/"crowdthink" and that some might even be afraid to submit an article if they aren't sure its "on-topic" because of karma/comments of other users. I have no proof, but I think that this happens too much... |
Carnegie Mellon or Stanford | trickjarrett: Wow, that's a tough call. Congrats to you for having the choice of which to go to.I'd probably recommend Stanford overall. It's very highly ranked. Though if you're looking for CS academic work, you might go with Carnegie Mellon. |
Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? | raganwald: Does every link you submit come with your endorsement of truthfulness and accuracy?Absolutely not! Every link I submit comes with my endorsement that I have actually read it and found it interesting. I have very low standards for "interesting:" If there is one valuable thing in a post or article, that is eno... |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | soult: I recommend gatling: http://www.fefe.de/gatling/
It's the fastest httpd I know of.You might also want to try thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
I heard all the porn sites use it to host their images.With only the http server for the images running it should work quite well to rely on the filesystem cac... |
What tools do you use to monitor your servers? | Tangurena: Current employer uses WhatsUp. Previous employer used SiteScope. |
Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency | catch23: depending on your language, modifying an immutable variable may throw a runtime/compiletime exception, giving you insight into your bug (potentially) |
Carnegie Mellon or Stanford | catch23: It might be too early to decide, but if you take the entrepreneurial route, stanford is the better choice given its affinity to the valley. cmu is possibly a better choice for academia if you enjoy paper & proposal writing. |
What tools do you use to monitor your servers? | iuguy: Munin and Monit, mostly.And it's a PITA to set up but Puppet is incredible, especially when combined with git. You can automatically redeploy your infrastructure pretty much at the drop of a hat. |
Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency | eru: Yes. It makes composing larger programs out of smaller programs easier. Especially if functions have to be real mathematical functions, and can't have any side-effects."Composability means that you can put two bits of code together and important correctness properties will be preserved automatically. This does n... |
which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition? | skwiddor: xp64 - works fine, some diver issues, some apps don't work
linux amd64 - works fine, some driver issues, some apps don't work
OSx64 - not used it |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | iuguy: How about Publicfile? - http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.htmlSuper duper secure and very, very quick, especially for smaller files.I'd try and run some tests against it, thttpd and your existing apache setup. |
Carnegie Mellon or Stanford | rms: Stanford wins because of the weather |
which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition? | urlwolf: @safetrick: good point about mac prices for a mac pro! The office one, work would pay, but then sooner or latter I'd have to convert at home too, which is no joke. Now, how is Mac OSX for VNC/remote desktop stuff? And how hard it is to do a hackintosh? |
Good online magazines, anyone? | unalone: New Yorker. The Atlantic. Harpers. Slate and Salon are a rung below that. Wired doesn't always totally suck. I'd mention Pitchfork but there's a lot of hate against them.Online-only I could only name the ones I read, namely Smashing Magazine and I Love Typography. |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: For Fun-Anti-rockstar thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=255587The ultimate secret to hiring:
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=hire.txt |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | keltecp11: TapInko is the online Market Place for Traditional Media, we were a DreamIt Ventures company last summer and have spent a considerable amount of time understanding the 'offline' advertising world. Though this is the first version of the product, we have many features in the works. I will be giving an onlin... |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: Puzzles:We've been told to give simple puzzles during the interview (intro CS) and to not make puzzles a requirement to apply. Nevertheless, here were some prominent ones we found- Justin.tv puzzles: http://jtvproblems.weebly.com/ (problems for
flash developers too...)
- FB Puzzles: http://www.facebook.com/career... |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: Interviews- two resources we found here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=89615Joel Spolsky's Guerilla Guide to Interviewing Developers:
- Version 3.0: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...We honestly don't know what were great interview questions or were terrible ones. For example, go... |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: Selling It-Joel Spolsky's Field Guide to Developers (or what a developer wants)
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Field... |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: Dealing with Resumes:Joel Spolsky's Sorting Resumes
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html |
How to Hire Hackers | ALee: Best places to post- Aside from the HN startups, so far, we've found the biggest pickup to be from Craigslist, Snaptalent, Startuply, Startupers, and JobScore. Others have said we're likely going to work off referrals (our personal networks). |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | nikron: It says I can't see go to the webpage because I'm not using a supported browser. I'm using Firefox 3 on linux. However, I can see the webpage if javascript is off, but not much is there. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | auston: Your UI needs a little work.The results to be specific, they don't tell me much without reading for more than 10 seconds, try showing ad rates, available slots, etc. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | spoiledtechie: Awesome Idea. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | samueladam: FireFox on Debian (IceWeasel) is not recognized as FF3 and I'm being asked to upgrade.Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122010 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1) |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | shizcakes: Being asked to upgrade from FF3 B4 Pre. Fail. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | brianlash: This is a really timely product given the recent discontinuation of Google Print Ads system. Nice effort.My only recommendation: I'd like to see what the My Inko control panel will look like before I decide to sign up for an account. |
Supplement for a CS degree? | jlees: If you're looking for what a CS degree would involve, why not check out a curriculum/lecture course list? (e.g. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0809/CST/ - the one I did, a fairly theoretical high-level approach).I'm not quite sure on your meaning though, it sounds like you're doing a BS in CS and want more..? |
Supplement for a CS degree? | GeneralMaximus: Here's a very brief overview of a few fundamental CS topics. It's by no means complete, but this is what I'm going to focus my energy on in college:1. Programming (duh) - choose a dynamic language to begin with. I'd say Python or Ruby, whichever suits your aesthetics. Play with it for a while, and then ... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | bemmu: If I wanted to advertise in the US, I would probably use this to get ideas on what kind of ad spaces are available and what their ceiling prices are. Then I would call them and try to negotiate. In my limited magazine advertising experiences I've found that list prices can be a multiple of what you'll get after ... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | jimboyoungblood: Good idea, but the site is a bit busted. The registration lightbox wasn't dismissed after I signed up.It would be nice to be able to easily compare the rate cards of different publications. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | bbuffone: The UI is kindof cramped.When I see the screen there isn't any statement containing information about the site. I see the info in the browser's title but not on the page.The page doesn't fit in a 1024x786 monitor. Site gets an F(37) in yslow (too many files). Not a big fan of inner scrollbars when clicking ... |
Good online magazines, anyone? | dkarl: I find that the more magazines I have, the less I get out of them, because I'm able to pass over the "huh? meh" articles in favor of articles I know I'm interested in. It's hard to remind myself that I don't already know what's interesting and what isn't. Easy solution: I subscribe to The New Yorker and The A... |
Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency | jganetsk: Allows for laziness, in languages like Haskell.Also, some data structures are simply incorrect when the data is mutable. A hash table with mutable keys comes to mind. Why? Once you insert the key-value pair, and mutate the key, you may not be able to find that key anymore. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | keltecp11: If you have any interest in being part of a startup and like the concept, we would love to hear from you as well... definitely trying to build out the team and find some 'A' players.Thanks,-Pete |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | natch: Holy crap, that is an excellent idea.Poking around a bit, my only suggestion so far is to make the text font size bigger on some of the text-heavy pages (FAQ) and make the line lengths shorter. Lines of text should be around 65 characters long. |
How to Hire Hackers | swombat: My old article, still somewhat useful, imho:http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good... |
How to Hire Hackers | suhail: Most startups today (those you've actually heard of) generally do 2-4 phone screens which encompass a technical interview. You can utilize Google docs and watch them code.Take the feedback of everyone who interviewed (your team) into consideration and either offer the position because you feel they are motivate... |
How to Hire Hackers | Frocer: I feel the economic situation didn't make the hiring process easier, but actually much more difficult. We thought it would be easy since there are tons of talents being laid off from top-notch tech companies, and what happened was the exact opposite -- there are THAT many more resumes out on the market, and it ... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | pedalpete: You've done a good job with simple layout on the main page, but I had no idea what you were all about when I first hit the page.
Your titles say "advertising marketplace" and "advertising made easy". I suspect that most people visiting a website are accustomed to think online advertising. But you are focuse... |
Feedback Please - Lit | youngj: This is one of my first Rails apps with the user profiles powered completely by Facebook Connect. I used the Facebooker (http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/) plugin, which was relatively painless to integrate into my app. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | GavinB: I was a little confused when I first arrived on your site. All of the different words and taglines danced around what it is you really do. It says "Advertise Here," "Advertising Made Easy," "The Advertising Marketplace," etc. The big map could have been from any number of businesses.Since this is the interne... |
How to Hire Hackers | arupchak: If you are at the point where you are communicating with people (via phone screen or full interviews) make sure to ask about any side projects the candidate might have. I cannot stress enough how many strong candidates I have seen with this being their leading indicator. Do not directly ask "Are you working o... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | mattmaroon: Not sure what the name means. Kinda odd.I looked in my area (Ohio) and you seem to have multiple listings for the same person. The college newspapers and other local rags are a great idea. |
How to Hire Hackers | jdileo: I have hired hundreds of people during the course of my career. In my experience, the most effective way to make solid hires consistently is to a) conduct an analysis of the candidates history of accomplishment and b)evaluate brains.I understand you are currently seeking summer interns, no problem. Today, you... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | ckinnan: I've bought a lot of advertising over the years and would use a site like this.Homepage has too much nagging to register without a clear value proposition or explanation of the site's purpose. It isn't clear what the service is from the overly broad homepage taglines: "Advertising Made Easy" and "The Advertis... |
Feedback Please - Lit | swombat: At the moment, it seems like a vote-blog of short stories... nice, but what are you trying to do? What do you see it growing into? What's your aim with it?It's hard to provide feedback without knowing what you're trying to achieve... |
How to Hire Hackers | DarkShikari: Here's my advice as a two-time former intern at two different places.As a small startup looking to hire hackers, you obviously want the best. You want experienced hackers who already know how to code and perhaps have experience on a project before (e.g. open-source). Of course, you want the brightest.But... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | dexen: I wish I could access the site with Konqueror. But it redirects the browser forcibly to `please upgrade your browser to' page.You could at least give some way to ACK the message and go ahead anyway, without fiddling with user agent settings. |
Feedback Please - Lit | unalone: Whoo! Always fun to see a writing start-up.The styling is blandly nice - that's a compliment. Reading your words feels nice. It could be better, but then it could always be better. I love the feel of the site.What's the point? What do you offer that other sites don't offer? Right now it's nice but very, very g... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | ryanspahn: http://browsershots.org/ may prove helpful to see how others using all the various web browsers are viewing Tapinko. |
Feedback Please - Lit | arthurk: Nice design, but what is Lit? To me it looks like a blog. |
The best way store thousands of Images on a server | leej: dont forget nginx |
Feedback Please - Lit | huhtenberg: The overall appearance of the website is "confusingly similar" to that of typophile.com, which is a high profile and very active online community. If I would've just randomly came across it, I would've assumed it was a typophile spin-off. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | zavulon: I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.7, which I don't want to upgrade. So I'm just going to join the others in "Please add the 'Try anyway'" link |
Is buying market research worth it? | HeyLaughingBoy: I haven't paid for research data, but just this weekend I used the free summaries given by some of the online market research firms to evaluate my current idea. For me that was all the data I needed to see that my idea was worth progressing with at least to the next stage.Note: depending on the industry... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | huhtenberg: You may want to photoshop the foot of 4th dude out:http://www.tapinko.com/images/thedudes.jpg:) |
Feedback Please - Lit | daveambrose: I like the design but I didn't "get it" when I first landed on the page. After poking around for a few seconds, I saw what you're trying to do.Why not throw up an "about"? |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | cool-RR: Screencast not working for me (Firefox 3.0.8) |
Feedback Please - Lit | kolya3: The sidebar font uses the same blue as the facebook "Log in with Facebook" above.
(1) This makes me think that clicking these links will ask me to log into Facebook
(2) Overall feels like you're phishing for my Facebook username/password. You need to explain what your site is before anyone will feel comfortab... |
Feedback Please - Lit | unohoo: Convey to the users what the site is about. After a few minutes of trying to figure, I just didnt bother further. |
Can someone please explain the logic of Google vs Newspapers? | barry-cotter: Newspapers provide facts and opinion. The facts can't be copyrighted so anyone can repeat them. The opinion and the bias of any particular newspaper are noise not signal from the point of view of increasing the actual information you have. Its the internet killing the newspapers, by unbundling what most c... |
Can someone please explain the logic of Google vs Newspapers? | Tangurena: Newspapers print paper. They aren't in the business of making websites. Just like buggy whip manufacturers, they're a relic of the past.Associated Press, which is a collective of newspapers, is in the role of MPAA/RIAA, because they believe that they have ownership of facts. This isn't the first time they go... |
Can someone please explain the logic of Google vs Newspapers? | gry: It started because the newspaper industry is looking for new ways to mitigate declining revenue, IMHO. If the newspaper industry was doing well, we _probably_ would be hearing about how they're giving away news to drive eyeballs to sites -- much like how they operated as a newspaper, not a news organization who pu... |
Are there any good books on statistical quant analysis? | sebg: Some good ones that I would check out are 1.) The Econometrics of Financial Markets (Campbell, Lo, MacKinlay) and 2.) Time Series Analysis (Hamilton). Note that I would check these out from a library before buying them as they are pretty advanced.That said, it really depends on what types of assets you are looki... |
Is buying market research worth it? | raquo: We once purchased estimated telecom subscriber data for many regions, then when we started to analyze it (growth rates, variances, etc) it turned out that the data was not as granular as expected - for example, growth rates were clearly estimated for several regions at once (i. e. all regions in the same macrore... |
Is buying market research worth it? | bgnm2000: Over the past 6 months I was working on my startup with a private equity investor. One of my consistent responsibilities was gathering market and industry data. Even though we could afford it, it was something we never paid for. My mentor/boss was always of the opinion that it all existed for free, and it was... |
Good online magazines, anyone? | HalcyonMuse: http://www.economist.com/ and http://seedmagazine.com/ have great reputations... at least in my book. They have a very high ratio of signal to noise, in my opinion. I often enjoy http://www.physorg.com/, though it's frequently a little over my head... at the same time, I appreciate that they don't pull the... |
Carnegie Mellon or Stanford | krishna2: Both are GREAT schools and consider yourself lucky to have a choice. I did my masters at CMU (and have lived in Pittsburgh for 4 years) but for the past 8+ years have been in the bay area.The cost of living is very very cheap in Pitt, no doubt.
Personally, I like having four different seasons - so weather was... |
How to Hire Hackers | eyao: Here's my personal advice. While there are plenty of companies hiring strategies to look at to get ideas on how to accomplish getting the "best person" I would first take a step back and evaluate on what's important to you and your team and then filter based off that - be creative if you have to in order to get w... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | latortuga: "Select a state or search below to advertise:"
Where do I select a state? Typing NE in the giant search box didn't yield Nebraska search results, however I then spotted the state drop down (not on the home page!)"Search returned 1 results:" takes up a TON of screen real estate relative to the total area allo... |
What tools do you use to monitor your servers? | hedgehog: Munin + some shell scripts that make sure the web server is rendering pages that look reasonable. |
How much documentation is enough? | pmjordan: I've found that when I write documentation as I go along, I tend to document the wrong things. It's a bit like premature optimisation: you're in the thick of it, hyper-focused on whatever seems the hardest part of the problem at that stage. You document what's on your mind. As with optimisation at that stage,... |
How much documentation is enough? | russell: What you are doing sounds like the right level of detail. When I take over a project, I like to have an architectural overview so that I have a context to work from. Detailed but wrong is worthless. One important piece that I often find missing is a short narrative about each table in the database.I write sh... |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | kbrower: post a username and password so we don't have to sign up? |
Review My WebApp - Recipe Puppy - Search recipes by ingredients and/or keyword | kbrower: to try out the account features
username:what
password:what |
Carnegie Mellon or Stanford | joshu: I went to CMU (BS ECE 96) and now live in the Bay Area. The weather in Palo Alto cannot be beat.I get the sense that CMU will work you a bit harder. |
Review My WebApp - Recipe Puppy - Search recipes by ingredients and/or keyword | vaksel: you should probably pick a cuter dog(golden retriever or something) + one that at least looks happy/excited. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | ecommercematt: Good concept, and an impressive, if glitchy implementation. When I switched tabs in my browser and came back later, it reloaded the home page, rather than displaying where I left off.Also, you misspelled "Worcester" in the description of "The Towers" at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. |
Feedback Please - TapInko.com | halo: Nice idea. Reasonable implementation. Ugly design.Poor colour choices, inconsistent fonts and poor and inconsistent layout decisions preclude it from looking professional. It all feels a bit 90s and clunky, frankly, and would put me off using your site.Grey buttons in the top-right look incredibly tacky and don't... |
Good online magazines, anyone? | chris11: I really like the New Yorker, especially the comics, but that has already been mentioned. Harvard Business Review (hbr.com) has some well written free articles. Makezine.com has interesting projects to work on. |
How worried do you get over bugs in your code? Is this a mental health issue? | jmtame: Might want to stick "Ask HN: " in front of the title. I thought this was an article at first, hesitated to click.http://paulgraham.com/start.htmlWhat it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leavin... |
Review My WebApp - Recipe Puppy - Search recipes by ingredients and/or keyword | systemtrigger: I like how it prompted me to add more items to the filter which updated the search results which seem to come from all over the culinary web. I can see how this is already a useful service. Forgive my ignorance, Are you the first mover in this space or are others already doing recipe search by ingredient... |
How worried do you get over bugs in your code? Is this a mental health issue? | redleader: Isn't worrying about bugs just a more narrow version of worrying about making mistakes? |
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