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What do you think of our site? | paraschopra: Name is hard to pronounce |
What Linux distro for a Rails app that needs to scale? | adatta02: More than the actual distro I'd say look into what kernel you are loading on there. Make sure you're running a nice tight kernel with any extra fluff turned off (or loading as modules).I can't find the papers off hand but there has been some research into how kernel level cache tweaks will dramatically effect... |
What Linux distro for a Rails app that needs to scale? | hs: what's wrong with openbsd? is your webapp currently running on it?i'm curious because i use openbsd+lighttpd (soon will be nginx) in my colo (because no slice/vps offers openbsd afaik) |
What Linux distro for a Rails app that needs to scale? | wiemersl: good q. if you can, use the same thing on the server as you use on your desktop. i use 32 bit ubuntu (8.04). if it performs fine on your 2GB RAM thinkpad, it will probably do fine on an ec2 box, no? if the config works on my desktop, it will work on the server, etc. tremendous advantage in terms of sysad... |
How to share equity and talk to a potential partner ? | pegobry: I think there are no hard and fast rules about equity sharing. What matters is not so much what each has done as what each will do.So the question is not so much what each side has done but the role you see your new partner taking in the future. If you two see each other as partners in the venture, the split s... |
What Linux distro for a Rails app that needs to scale? | GeneralMaximus: Time is probably your most important resource here. Shaving a few nanoseconds off a query because you compiled your kernel with one different option won't do you much good, whereas an easy to administer OS with readily available binaries will save you a lot of time and headache.I'd say 64-bit Debian. I ... |
CSS gradient hacks - are they worth it? | ZeroGravitas: No. This is a neat hack but is so narrowly applicable it's not worth bothering about for most folks.You ask designers for input but I think it's an engineering choice to use simple and straightforward technologies you (and colleagues) fully understand rather than meddling with neat hacks, particularly if ... |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | medianama: In my personal experience, if you want press to write about you/your startup, you'll have to give them interesting stories that their readers like to read.They don't have too much attention span. They don't care about how hard/easy it is do, or even if it is true or not. They just care about interesting stor... |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | rythie: I'm not a expert, but, I'll would suggest a few things:printgreener.com has a lot of information describing what they do and why. They play on green card a lot which is bound to generate interest from mainstream media where as you hardly tell the user why they would want to do this.Also a free account allows yo... |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | markessien: Human Interest. Look at what you put out from the perspective: Would this be part of the human interest category in a newspaper? If not, then you're unlikely to get covered unless you know someone.Furthermore, who are you? You have to be someone newspaperable, for example:"The guy who made a robot that sang... |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | mixmax: There are a few things:- You have to tell the press a story, and it has to be interesting. The best stories are about people, the worst about technologies. For startups the story of how you have struggled through countless insourmountable obstacles and are now making big money is perfect. It is personal, it fit... |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | geoffw8: Its not what you know, its who you know. Always. |
What do you think of our site? | asmosoinio: Where are the dates for the posts on your blog?http://txtms.blogspot.com/ |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | tdonia: Your approach, Purifyr, seems as though it should be a more consumer friendly alternative to printgreener. From a story perspective though it's not being presented as a consumer-oriented product which limits the market a prospective reporter/blogger sees when they think of writing a story. i suggest you start... |
What do you use when searching for houses or apartments online? | tzetzefly: I like redfin.com, estately.com, and realtor.com. Then use dwellicious.com to bookmark and track listings from different sites in one place. |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | vivekamn: Timing is another thing. When we tried to get press for a site targeted at moms, we had a lot of luck approaching news papers, tv shows and blogs around, surprise!, women's day and mother's day. |
Review my startup - TwitterGrep.com : NY Times of Twitter | pclark: lots of ads. |
What do you use when searching for houses or apartments online? | NoBSWebDesign: If you're looking for student rental housing by any chance, that's what our startup is for... http://www.ratemystudentrental.comFor non-student housing, I use http://www.mapskrieg.com |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | aliasaria: I wrote to their PR person to see if they can offer us any advice -- I will post any response I get... |
What do you think of our site? | hwijaya: I try to click around and read few times, but, it's very hard for me to get the idea on "why i should use it".
Maybe this high-concept pitch needs some reword. "Share your info with a single text message!". IMO, it's everything, and, it's nothing at the same time.It probably works much better if i can have som... |
Review my startup - TwitterGrep.com : NY Times of Twitter | notmyname: It would be nice to click on the links in the individual tweets. |
Active Common Lisp communities? | stefano: Have a look at http://lispforum.com There are also many open source projects you could help (with code and/or documentation) here: http://common-lisp.net/projects.shtml |
Review my startup - TwitterGrep.com : NY Times of Twitter | ObieJazz: I like how the pics page lets you see larger amount of data (pictures) at once than is possible just using Twitter, although you might want to check out the layout on that page in Chrome -- some of the text gets covered by ads.Other than that, I'm not sure what the site offers me. Are the News / Tech / Gossip... |
Is .org ok for a startup? | bgnm2000: try dotomator.com - my best friend when finding names |
Startup PR - How could they get so many coverages? | aquaphile: Public relations (p/r). A good p/r person or team can work wonders: provided that you have something useful or interesting. |
What do you use when searching for houses or apartments online? | shubhamharnal: Ubiquity + Craigslist
Check the video at: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ |
Review my startup - TwitterGrep.com : NY Times of Twitter | adityakothadiya: http://TwitterGrep.com |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | varun: A RSS feed reader, pre-filled with top 1000 feeds covering various topics, from news to technology to gossip! I'd get the alien to spend the first half of his time reading these feeds, and the latter half I'd show him Google.com and ask him to find out what he doesn't even know he could have found out about! A t... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | brk: The Bible (any version. Or Qu'ran, or similar epic religious tome).The 3rd party viewpoint would be very interesting. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | anthonyrubin: I would start with world history -- first a book that covers the last few millennia, then specific books on significant events. Next would be a few of Karen Armstrong's books on religion; books such as the New Testament might prove difficult to understand without proper background.The Princeton Companion ... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | icey: Wikipedia. |
Worst working conditions you have written code in? | hellweaver666: My current job - I sit next to the marketing manager who spends his day either talking loudly on the phone in German or asking me stupid marketing questions that have no relevance to my job because he can't be bothered to walk across the office and ask the right person.In addition, behind me is the CEO's... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | pavelludiq: How about philosophy. It would be hard for them to get the other stuff(excluding math and science). I don't know if they could get our philosophy either, since the way we think and see the world is very tightly coupled with our psychology, but we can assume that if they got our language(lets call it blubish... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | tjic: Is anyone else gritting their teeth and cringing, waiting for someone to say "Atlas Shrugged" ?:-) |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | tjic: The Oxford English Dictionary.It defines every English word they're going to ever come across outside of technical literature, it's got tons of historical examples, shows the connections between English and other languages, and more.If we extrapolate the speed with which Google is learning to harvest latent infor... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | clord: I'd probably start with ABCs and those "See Spot Run" books. Oh, and anything by the good Doctor (Seuss, that is.)After several years (if they are clever and good with languages), perhaps they'd be ready to work on Nancy Drew and Harry Potter.Why assume they can read? This way they can get the context. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | Allocator2008: The only book anyone, human or alien, really needs to read is -"On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"by Charles Darwin, 1859."The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, 1974 is a good appendum there as well but once mastering "Origin" one really has the basics one needs. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | vorador: The hitchiker's guide to galaxy. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | silentbicycle: Codex Seraphinianus. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | melito: "The Little Engine That Could" and "Everybody Poops" |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | nickfox: The Enquirer, because... inquiring minds want to know. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | TrevorJ: The first 5 pages of digg perhaps? I mean, they will find out about it eventually, might as well warn them up front right?But seriously, I think an encyclopedia would be a good bet but the very first message we send should probably be one the reiterates peaceful intentions. With our history of warfare anything... |
How to promote the truth? | known: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." --Oscar Wilde |
CSS gradient hacks - are they worth it? | symbiotic: This website: http://dostuffright.com/ does something similar with the drop shadow. Kinda neat. |
How should I secure my ebooks? | kqr2: How about using Mobipocket Creator Publisher Edition to encrypt your ebooks? End users can then use the free mobipocket reader software.http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/article.asp?BaseFolder=prcgen&...BTW, this is pretty much the same format / drm the the Amazon Kindle uses. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | christofd: - The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1973 (Douglas North, Robert Thomas): Nobel Economic Historian North explains how institutions and property rights determine how human beings got along with each other through history; this is important, so they don't think we're mass murderers by desig... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | bmelton: "Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book" |
How should I secure my ebooks? | m03p: Imo it's just not worth it, if somebody can read it he can make a copy of it and redistribute it "illegally". Only thing you'll accomplish is pissing of the ones who retrieve it legally and the "harder" (harder for the average Joe) you make it the more annoying it'll be.Only reliable "secure" way of publishing an... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | icey: I don't know what part of the country you're in, but you should contact a broker. They can give you a bunch of options and tell you what all of the options mean.Personally, I'd prefer an independent broker than someone who worked for a big firm like State Farm or the like.As an additional note, you don't pay anyt... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | green: You always can find something cheaper than that! You may want something more expensive for the kids, but for healthy adults you can pretty easy get away with like $300-350 for both -- use sites like ehealthinsurance and others -- they can do comparison for you. Of course, if you have some medical conditions/etc.... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | run4yourlives: I'm in the employee benefits field up here in Canada. While we're different, I support small businesses and they have the same concerns regarding costs as you would, albeit at a much smaller scale.Take this knowledge with a grain of salt, given the systems, but one way you could control costs is by looki... |
Please, review my startup Strawlink (online job screening process) | icey: It looks very nice, and I could see it being useful.However, on the front page, I found myself really wanting to click on the words that you have randomly made bold in the text. I don't know why, and it may just be me.I specifically tried clicking on the word "screening", hoping to get your definition of the word... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | BigZaphod: I'd probably want to gauge the aliens' true intent first. If it seems to be good, then I'd carefully select their media exposure so that they'd feel guilty for not taking me and my family with them to their advanced corner of the galaxy when they decide our planet isn't worth the effort.... :) |
What do founders do for health insurance? | thinkcomp: There is no good solution. The American health care system is unfortunately presently designed to work against entrepreneurs and small business owners. In most states including California, you must have at least two full-time employees to qualify for group health benefits.http://www.aarongreenspan.com/essays... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | PStamatiou: Before I graduated college I got a year of health insurance under a student plan that keeps working after I graduated. I graduated in December and it runs out in ~August. So I'll be in the same boat soon enough.. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | jws: When I sold my company I had to break my family apart for health insurance. My children are in the state subsidized high risk pool and I was able to find one company that would take my wife and myself without the children. |
Please, review my startup Strawlink (online job screening process) | Raphael: Charge more so you don't have to make it up on volume. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | vaksel: Cross my fingers and hope I don't get sick. I do try to stay in shape(workout every day 1-1.5 hours) and eat healthy. But I just can't justify paying for health insurance at this point. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | mechanical_fish: Living in Massachusetts, where you can buy group health insurance through the state, really helps. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | redrobot5050: I can't help with the family situation, but have you considered "catastrophic" insurance through a professional group like the IEEE or ACM?They have plans as low as $90/quarter that have a $5k deductible. Not good if you come down with frequent colds, coughs, flu, etc. It is good if you're in a car accide... |
How should I secure my ebooks? | zackattack: I've thought of this before and here is what I came up with. Each ebook purchased should be unique. This does not have to be a manual process. You should take the transaction ID of the ebook purchase, use it to generate a steganographic image, and patch that somewhere into your PDF file. A good way to do th... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | tptacek: Been there.$1,500/mo is a typical quote for "normal"-deductable health insurance. If you're a young family, that's not what you want; you want high-deductable health insurance, which has a low monthly payment but effectively means you're paying for all your doctors visits and medications out of pocket.The real... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | mdakin: Wow, it's much cheaper if you're a single male (no maternity benefits included) in Calif. at least (and Wyoming and Mass. from experience). I have a Blue Cross PPO right now for $85/month. They are upping the rate to $140. I will be leaving on principle.I plan on getting a high-deductible/HSA plan. If the d... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | eventhough: I use Tonik. It may not be right for a family of four but for a young single guy it works well enough.https://www.tonikhealth.com/ |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | blender: I had a Prof once that said there were two ways to become a Psychiatrist.1. Go to medical school2. Read The Bible, Shakespeare and DostoyevskyI'd tell them to read The Bible, Shakespeare and DostoyevskyCheers |
What do founders do for health insurance? | philwelch: For some reason the health insurance industry has settled on a model of "pay your health insurance company scads of money and pay relatively little for the rationed routine care you get". Since health insurance is a heavily regulated market, I doubt this is the most market-efficient solution. Maybe if you sh... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | mrkurt: The best solution was (for me anyway) to treat insurance as insurance instead of a health care plan, and take advantage of all the tax breaks I could for doing so. I put my family on a $10k deductible plan, primarily to cover catastrophes. This gave me two things: negotiated rates for health services (typical... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | dustineichler: To follow up on this thread, what health insurance do contracts get? I'm looking for something for myself. Thanks. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | rksprst: The War of the Worlds, so that they know that they can't mess with humans. |
Please, review my startup Strawlink (online job screening process) | mmelin: From the product tour, this looks like a well-executed product which definitely can bring value to recruiters. Two things stand out to me:
1) charge more per contact or consider a different model, the value you are providing is definitely above $1 per qualified contact
2) please look into getting a copywriter t... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | smokey_the_bear: We got a Kaiser HSA. If you live near a Kaiser hospital they're a pretty good deal. I don't have any kids, but they seem like they're much more family friendly than some of the other low cost HSAs. They cover full maternity, and cover a few well checkups a year for kids, and one for adults without hitt... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | josh_nyc: In New York State, try the Freelancers Union. http://www.freelancersunion.org/insurance/index.htmlI used this a few years ago while working for a startup and I got a full plan (comparable to the average full-time job's plan) for half price (at that time, around $250 a month).Worth a look. They are always expa... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | biohacker42: This is one of the few big pluses Europe has over America for startups. Unfortunately it's not nearly enough. |
How should I secure my ebooks? | apage43: If you use -any- sort of DRM, it will be extremely restrictive to the end user. Personally, I think really what is needed is for it to be convenient for the end user. This is what keeps me buying music from Amazon MP3. I don't even need any software other than a browser if I'm buying a single song. There's not... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | SoftwareGuy: When I started my own company I bought health insurance. If you can't afford it, you can't afford to start your own company. No different really from other expenses like equipment and such. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | tirrellp: When I paid for private health insurance, My premiums were around $450/month for a family of 3. This was (if I recall correctly) and 80/20 plan with a $1000 deductible. I then dumped $1000 into my HSA and I was set. |
Please, review my startup Strawlink (online job screening process) | green: Thanks for this valuable feedback! Want also to mention that if any of you will be hiring, or will need some help with screening -- use us! Register now (http://www.strawlink.com/referrer/hackernews) and you'll get your accounts credited right away. We will be turning off the new registration credits soon, but I... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | marc092: It is worth finding out what your state's family services covers, especially if you are low income (about $45k/year). Depending on your income your kids and even you might qualify for medicaid. There are also dozens of other programs around. I live in Ohio and there are programs for pregnant women, disabled, b... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | wastedbrains: We both were health young guys with no families that needed to be covered and just ended up getting Tonik health insurance.During hiring we mentioned that we would cover up to X amount of personal health insurance. Since our hire had a family though we are now looking at getting a group plan even though t... |
What do founders do for health insurance? | mixmax: Move to a country that takes public healthcare seriously.I'm only half joking after reading the other comments here. The US. system is seriously broken. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | gills: My wife is an engineer at a large corporation, I'm covered as a spouse....but that won't cut it if/when I get to the point of needing to hire other people. |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | jerryji: My name card. |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | gsaines: We founded Skritter just about 9 months ago. We got two grants to fund development and as the front page attests, we're just three right out of undergrad living in an apartment and developing full time.When we were first getting started, App Engine was just becoming available, and we thought that would be a gr... |
What reading material would you provide to a visiting alien being? | slavox: Probably A history of computing and technology from flight upwards.
Then give them a low down on wars and show them how ruthless we are..
Then before they go to bed i'd read them the bible as a short fictional story. |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | jpwagner: so easy to try it now: i love it! |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | bdr: Bad: the logo, the blue "next" arrow", the buttons on the front page, overall UI is busy and confusing.Good: Everything that happens inside that beautiful white square. Stroke recognition, hinting, etc. The demo video is also good. |
What do founders do for health insurance? | utefan001: I have a two year old that has 2 heart abnormalities. We thought she would need heart surgery, but the cardiologists don't feel this is necessary. The "leaks" in her heart are getting smaller each month. She looks like any healthy 2 year old. I have family members that are health insurance experts and th... |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | gyeh: Very nice job! One potential customer/institution to cater to: western-based Chinese schools:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_schools,
http://www.ncacls.org/ncacls_frm_intro.htmThese community based organizations often rely on eastern teaching methods (often rote) to instruct large numbers of young children.... |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | jbrun: That is amazing, I spent a year in China and the characters were so hard. I would have to try this over a long time to see if it is better than hand drawings, but it seems pretty good.How do you deal with radicals and learning related characters? |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | rms: The relevant Wired article: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia... |
Resources for image pattern recognition algorithms | dryicerx: I am quite interested to learn more about object recognition as well, unfortunately I don't have any direct answers to your question.May I suggest your search for "Content Based Image Retrieval" for research papers in that field. |
Resources for image pattern recognition algorithms | aswanson: I could consult our very own pixcavator:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pixcavatorhttp://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=User%27s_introduction |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | pradocchia: The stroke recognition is both really cool and somewhat disorienting. Really cool because it works, and somewhat disorienting because if you're off a bit, it repositions the stroke.In a fluent writer, each stroke follow from muscle memory, relative to the size and position of the previous stroke. Reposition... |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | Tacomanator: I'm glad you're planning on expanding the site to include Japanese, I'm very very excited about this. I was not able to login using the demo account given, did you already expire it? |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | rgrieselhuber: Very nice. If you could incorporate a Japanese version, it would be great. |
Resources for image pattern recognition algorithms | mahmud: You are right you're wasting time. Image processing is not the sort of a thing you can pick up on your own "to get work done"; it's extremely demanding and actually fun. Just hire someone.If you're prone to falling into "hack mode", learning this stuff will not help you one bit. The problems are far too interes... |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | smoody: Nicely done! Google should use it as a showcase app -- It's definitely the most 'grown-up' App-Engine-based site I've seen.As an aside, how did you accomplish those great perspective transformations in your front-page screencast? |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | jwt: Wow, very impressive stuff. A job well executed and done. Keep it up! |
Feedback on Skritter, Learning Chinese with Spaced Repetition on App Engine | swombat: Looks absolutely awesome. I gave up on chinese a month ago (my chinese girlfriend just broke up with me and I've decided to learn spanish instead), but the tool looks immensely useful, and I was looking for a tool like this previously (and didn't find all that much). Learning to write the characters is integra... |
Resources for image pattern recognition algorithms | bravura: I am not a vision specialist, but I work around a lot of them.Look into the OpenCV image processing library. I haven't used it, but it seems to implement a lot of basic functionality to get you off the ground.If you can't find anything good from the last ten years, then look at Yann LeCun's recent papers. (Goo... |
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