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Does karma affect what you write? | tokipin: what good is karma if you dont use it thats what i always say |
Does karma affect what you write? | trickjarrett: It's definitely curbed my "me too" posts as these seem to get dinged. But if I have a content related post I will write it and post it. |
How to programmatically observe program execution? | wmf: DTrace and SystemTap can insert probes in code if you're only interested in certain parts. If you want basic-block-level or instruction-level coverage, look at Pin, DynamoRIO, or Valgrind. |
What's a fair policy for employee-generated IP? | rdrimmie: My current agreement requires that I explicitly seek company exclusion for any ip I work on at home. The key to this sort of implementation is that it is ridiculously simple. I write up a sentence or a paragraph or so, I bring it to the CTO (it is a small company so he is a desk away) and he signs it.The easy... |
Is there room for another photo sharing service? | Kaizyn: Yes, but you need to find a way to do picture sharing better. What would differentiate your startup from flickr or photobucket? A tie in to all the networking sites where you upload your photo once and they show up in all of your networks might be a big win, I don't know.You can always find room in the market... |
Does karma affect what you write? | mhartl: I rarely think about karma except ex post, and then mostly after being downmodded. It's amazing and distressing how much even one downvote hurts. |
Does karma affect what you write? | bestes: Isn't the point of karma to make HN a community? Karma is an important way of demonstrating quickly if a link or comment fits within these norms. Community does not have to mean groupthink and I think HN has avoided this, as demonstrated by so many comments arguing both (or all) sides of an issue.
So, yes, I ta... |
Does karma affect what you write? | tlrobinson: Yes and no. On one hand, I think it prevents me from saying silly comments that I might not think twice about saying on Reddit.On the other hand, Reddit also has karma, but I get far more negative votes there than here, not because they're mean/nasty comments, but because I enjoy criticizing some of the stu... |
Is Content Management a solved problem? | TrevorJ: Broadly defined, NO I don't think it is solved by a long shot. In the narrow Hey-look-I-made-a-multi-user-blog sense, then sure. But beyond that think there is still a lot of room for innovation. For instance, I've been looking for a CMS that would let multiple authors submit articles directly to a digg-style... |
What's a Good Professional Font You Use? | kingnothing: I use Georgia on my resume with a minimalist layout and receive compliments on it often. |
Getting Eyeballs | amichail: Coming from someone who hasn't been involved in a startup (yet!), I've never really understood this inability among founders to develop clever marketing campaigns.Why don't you try it and see whether it's that easy? |
Does karma affect what you write? | andrewljohnson: Karma effects EVERYTHING I do. |
Does karma affect what you write? | fauigerzigerk: It doesn't affect my writing but it does affect what I think of people here. The more downvotes to negative values I see, the more I think this community is becoming less able or willing to communicate.Intelligent people should be able to use words to disagree. I see how it can be useful to use upvotes f... |
Best banks for startups/corps, by their web interfaces | vlad: Banknorth used to mention on their web site that they were rated the #1 bank web site. |
Getting Eyeballs | mixmax: I actually quite like your puppet idea. |
Is there room for another photo sharing service? | callmeed: I think it really depends on if you're talking about a completely consumer/snapshot sharing service that is free. If so, I would say "no". Facebook and Flickr dominate and (to my knowledge) neither make money solely on their photo services. (Facebook's only revenue is ads and I doubt Flickr's Pro account cove... |
How to programmatically observe program execution? | lacker: If you run your debugger via emacs, you should be able to use emacs macros to programmatically observe execution. |
Getting Eyeballs | jwesley: Please don't use the term "eyeballs". It makes you sound like an aging marketing exec.The thinking behind "getting eyeballs" is the same as "Techcrunch is our marketing plan". It's not about how many people see your product, its about the right people seeing your product at the right time.Pulling stunts might ... |
Does karma affect what you write? | giles_bowkett: fuck karma. fuck all of you. nothing personal. |
Does karma affect what you write? | DanielBMarkham: If karma didn't matter to most posters, the board would not work. The whole philosophy of voting is based on the idea that karma matters, both to the reader of the article and to the submitter/voter.Now whether or not the board is "working" -- whether or not a simple up or down vote means anything more ... |
Getting Eyeballs | jamesbritt: "Make a bogus/cute little app that might not relate to your site like that 'Is Hillary Swank Hot?' app that was here a week ago."Except that gave me a poor impression of the people behind it, since the notion of it being an "app" struck me as disingenuous.It's easy to get attention, less easy to get good a... |
Does karma affect what you write? | kwamenum86: Downvoting is a way to express oneself without or in addition to a written comment. More importantly, it is a way to control the culture of the site. If you end up with a negative score it means both: 1) people thought you should be downmodded, and 2) not enough people disagreed with the first set of peop... |
Setting up a small office server? | RobGR: I'm not sure what you mean by "visible on a Mac network" and why that is necessary . . . won't an IP address and maybe a domain name do ?If you were doing this with Linux, you should install a common linux distribution (to make sure it won't have security problems out of the box) and then go through and turn of... |
Does karma affect what you write? | iuguy: Karma does not affect what I write at all. I accept that sometimes I'm full of shit and move on. I'm counting on the HN community to kindly point it out to me if I miss it. |
Does karma affect what you write? | 1gor: There is a great tradition of elitism and disdain for banality among intellectuals. Think of impressionists circle in the early XXs century, most of these guys' paintings are fetching millions today, but during their lifetime they were poor bastards most of the time. Influential - yes, popular - not. At least not... |
How much of the web is just a race to the bottom? | arockwell: You more or less just described 4chan.org, which does in fact get an absurd amount of traffic. |
How much of the web is just a race to the bottom? | JayNeely: I think it balances it out. People have a need to express their 'dark side' because so much of what we would normally say or do is suppressed by fear of what others would think of us or other types of social mores. Often we learn where the lines are by crossing them and either feeling shitty about it or being... |
How much of the web is just a race to the bottom? | TomOfTTB: One of my favorite books is Robert Fulghum’s "All I need to know I learned in Kindergarten". One of the chapters tells the story of Steven Brill a man who, after hearing New York Cab Drivers were all dishonest, decided to look into it. He decided to get in a bunch of cabs, pretend to be an out-of-towner and... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | astrec: Specifically in the classroom? Or just cheating in higher education in general?I get emails from students asking me to complete their CS assignments with reasonable frequency. Because I'm a prick (and actually worked for my degrees), I'll more often than not determine the school and class and fire off an email ... |
How to programmatically observe program execution? | abecedarius: There's been research on this, e.g. http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/alamo/That's about 10 years old, though, and I don't know what's been done since. |
Does karma affect what you write? | windsurfer: Of course. I once posted something about free software, and got my karma completely destroyed. I won't mention it again. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | steveplace: I went to a very large public university. The engineering program was so-so, and they valued ABET over actual learning.Senior Design was known as the "gauntlet," not necessarily due to the actual building of something, but for the 100-page research paper that they required. They assumed that if each member ... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | sirsean: Because VCs don't invest anything less than a crapload of money? |
Has anybody observed cheating? | bbuffone: The funniest cheating I have seen in a "class room" was during a philosophy class. Tests for the class were multiple choice and given out on a computer. Every student for some reason good two guesses for each question and there were five answers. This meant that you needed to work with two other people and... |
How much of the web is just a race to the bottom? | zepolen: > Comments?That is the issue. Giving users a public voice on your site is what kills everything in the end. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | vaksel: Well for tests, let students have a formula sheet. I don't understand why in this day and age we need to learn everything by heart, when in the real world everything is 1 search query away.Or you can just forbid all TI calculators with memory, and just have them work with a $10 special(but thats just a way to s... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | matthias: The barrier to entry has toppled by an order of magnitude and the market is slow to adapt to such changes. |
What do these startups need so much money for? | FiReaNG3L: I suspect there's a heavy amount of marketing, as most startups that receive millions of VC money tend to have enormous 'growth' - in parenthesis because im sure there's an artificial part of it - I suspect that some of them increase their traffic by paying for fake traffic, so they can say 'look at how our ... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | justin: 1) Salaries. Many engineers, salesmen, etc who have been out of college for a year or two don't want to go back to making basically nothing. Yes, you can find talented people who will work for you for little, but it's going to take a long time to do so. It's lovely to think that every company should be able to ... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | fgimenez: My brother had an issue where he had finished a programming assignment early. Some other people found out and asked for help. Being the good-natured (totally naive) freshman he was, he sat down and started to explain his own code to them. Sure enough, they ended up asking the age old question, "I just need to... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | paulgb: Payroll and office space. Occasionally Aeron chairs. |
What do these startups need so much money for? | staunch: For a VC backed startup that's at 15-25 employees with a successful product I can make up some numbers that aren't totally unrealistic:Advertising: $30k/moPR firm: $10k/moRent: $12k/moSalaries: $100k/moServers/bandwidth: $20k/moThat's a $2 million/year run rate and I don't think this is even particularly on th... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | inerte: 10 people making 80k per year, that's a million dollars already. Now add taxes.If you think VCs are interested in companies that won't need 10 people to run their business, ever... you're thinking to small :) And not only there are your employees, but imagine hiring accountants, lawyers, cleaning staff... the l... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | ltbarcly: Making a really big website does cost money. You can't host yelp on your VPS account. On the other hand, startups that have raised money when they aren't basically failing due to inability to serve up content due to too high of demand are idiots (and the people who hand them money are double idiots). |
What do these startups need so much money for? | tptacek: Big ticket items:* Carrying inventory, if you sell hardware.* A 6-10 region direct sales force.* A full time customer service operation.* The reconstituted powdered startup marketing packets they sell you when you buy your CEO.* The pro-forma engineering staff-up you do almost subconsciously to end up with a 5... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | rms: Hey, your email isn't listed in your profile -- if you want people to be able to see it, you need to relist it in the about me section. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | paulgb: I think cheating is the tip of the iceberg, the root problem being that the system over-emphasizes marks. Students who genuinely care about learning the material have no incentive to cheat. Cheating is just the symptom; the cause is the prevailing attitude that high marks are the ultimate goal of school.If mark... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | iends: The most serious form of cheating I ever experienced was Junior year in high school. It was a Spanish 3 class taught by an eldarly women, who reportedly had a stroke over the summer (which I attribute the entire incident to as I can only hope no sane person would do what she did.)Anyway, she was not teaching the... |
Review my project, Factolex - the fact lexicon | gojomo: This is somewhat like an idea I've been considering. So I think it's a great concept... and have strong opinions on possible directions.If your primary model is a ranked listing of 'facts' by a major 'term' key, it will be hard to outperform Wikipedia (or even Mahalo). When those sites' single-topic articles/pa... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | donal: I'm currently in a Masters program for Information Systems and one of my peers had the joy of having the professor of the class ask him why his answers and another student's were so astoundingly similar. Having worked with this gentleman a lot on the homework, this particular assignment even, I knew that he wasn... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | johnrob: 7 man years per million, all costs considered. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | rscott: Last semester someone in my signals class started an exam before we were told to begin. The prof took the test and that student got an F.I loved it. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | proee: In my engineering classes, almost all the tests were open book and open notes. The hardest classes only had two problems per exam and the teacher wrote those questions the day of the exam - so cheating wasn't really an option, which would explain the 30% pass rate in some of the classes... We also had to walk ... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | jwilliams: Do you know what - I've often wondered about cheating in the Higher Education context.Is it really cheating? When you're spending $,000's a year to learn, does it really ever benefit anyone?Maybe that's the thing - Higher Education is increasingly under pressure as a business. It's getting hard to fail/expel... |
How much of the web is just a race to the bottom? | sho: IMO, the core problem is that our whole concept of humour revolves around negativity. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | gambling8nt: A roommate of mine from college graded papers for an introductory astronomy class (a class commonly taken to fulfill a distribution requirement for those majoring in the humanities); one of the students in the class (after, apparently, not going to class between the third week and the midterm), copied his ... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | hs: plentyoffish: top 10 site on 8 servers -- admined, designed, developed (in asp, no less) -- by one guy, and profitablecan yc/angel/vc backed startup be plentyoffish killer? i doubt money will help shrug |
Has anybody observed cheating? | andr: The best case I've seen was at a certain SAT center. A group of 5 people went together with the idea to copy off each other. However, the proctor had each one draw a number from a hat to determine where he was going to sit. Since they ended up sitting in different parts of the room, the plan was thwarted.A few mi... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | tudorachim: The instructor for our discrete math class has a most hilarious way of catching cheaters: he sets up trap sites regarding the problems that he googlebombs to be on the front page of the results. Every student signed a document at the beginning stating that they acknowledged googling for solutions was cheati... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | tdavis: For many startups, the short answer is: they don't right now. Everyone involved is betting on them needing it later.But I understand your confusion. VCs are always knocking at our door and we still haven't answered the question, "What the hell would we do with 2 million dollars?" This is precisely why we haven'... |
What do these startups need so much money for? | known: I heard that Vista advertising budget was $2 billion. |
What's up with Rapleaf ads *everywhere*? | rockstar9: which sites do you see them on? i haven't really noticed myself |
Has anybody observed cheating? | RiderOfGiraffes: I can't be too specific about the circumstances ...A colleague of mine was teaching a class, and after a few weeks set a test. He also took a note of who sat where, and noted that three friends, A, B and C, were sitting together in the back. When he graded the test he found that on question 3, A and ... |
Has anybody observed cheating? | bayareaguy: In college when I graded introductory programming assignments, there was the time a student turned in a printout of their program and execution trace for an assignment.Unfortunately they forgot to remove the email headers from the other student who sent it to them. |
Goal Setting Software | kevTheDev: Just to further clarify what I want, I like to break tasks down so that I'm constantly working on the "Next possible logical step" no matter how small.Most of the time I just write them in a list in a text editor, but then i get to the point where i need to clear out my scratchpad - thus losing track of my p... |
Is there room for another photo sharing service? | Devilboy: I think there is definitely room - in niche markets like traditional advertising where photos and other artwork comes from multiple sources, and where automation can really save money for your clients. |
Goal Setting Software | Devilboy: I've been experimenting with gmail and tags but it's not much better than just using a spreadsheet at the moment. |
good books about military strategy? | smanek: I like the Defense News periodical, and have heard good things about Jane's Defence Weekly.There are a lot of Field manuals available (e.g., see http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/f...), but those are (in my experience) more about tactics than strategy. |
good books about military strategy? | fiaz: My favorite (copied from Wikipedia):The Unfettered Mind (Japanese: 不動智神妙録 Fudōchi Shinmyōroku) is a three-part treatise on Buddhist philosophy and martial arts written by Takuan Soho, a Japanese monk of the Rinzai sect. The title translates roughly to "The Mysterious Records of Immovable Wisdom". The treatise was... |
good books about military strategy? | vaksel: You can try downloading some of the army manuals that you can find on the net. I know there are some for the soldier level, so there is probably some for the general level too.Then you can go back and try finding books written by generals or about them. i.e. I figure something written about Patton would have ta... |
good books about military strategy? | utnick: Check out Tom Clancy's non fiction books.Very well written and I believe exactly what you are looking for. |
Goal Setting Software | nonrecursive: It's not a web app, but I highly recommend OmniFocus for mac and iphone. The desktop app and iphone app can sync with each other, which is nice. I use it all the time, and it's great for doing brain dumps, then organizing projects and todos. |
Goal Setting Software | JeffJenkins: If you're on a Mac, you could try OmniFocus. It's a pretty decent implementation of Getting Things Done (the core of which is what you're describing). I've been using it since it was in beta and I'm really happy with it.It lets you make folders, projects, and actions. Actions can have start/end dates, r... |
good books about military strategy? | lionhearted: A quick read is Wikipedia's summary of Miyamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Rings" - it's about Japanese swordsmanship in the early 1600's in a variety of situations: Full-on combat, a duel, outnumbered, with high/low ground, etc. It's strategic more than tactical, and if you like Sun Tzu you might dig it.http... |
Best Micro Payment provider? | skootch: have a look at www.onetouchpurchasing.com |
What do these startups need so much money for? | axod: Depends on your game plan I think.
If you want to look all big and important so you'll hopefully get acquired, you need to spend tons of money on things that impress potential acquirers.If however you just want to make money, profit, things like that, you don't need to spend much money for a web based startup at ... |
Goal Setting Software | arien: How about Tracks? http://getontracks.org/It's also based on the GTD philosophy, it's very easy to use and has some nice features. You can find an online version here, try the demo first to see if you like it: https://tracks.tra.in |
good books about military strategy? | benzim: I can't think of any books, but you can find good descriptions of strategy used in famous battles on wikipedia. Some interesting battles.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ilipahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia |
good books about military strategy? | hedgehog: "The Art Of War" is great, I read this version when I was 13 but I would still recommend it as a good place to start before getting another translation or other books:"Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War"Tsai Chih Chunghttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0385472587Some online reading that you might find interesting:http://www.... |
good books about military strategy? | icey: "Warfighting", hands down:http://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-U-Marine-Corps-Staff/dp/96...It won't teach you how to drive tanks and lob grenades, but it is one of the best military strategy books I've read.If you just want the PDF, it's freely available here:http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/service_pubs/mcdp1.pdf |
good books about military strategy? | mechanical_fish: You sound like you're looking for something like Jones' The Art of War in the Western World:http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Western-World/dp/0252069668Or just go there and follow Amazon "related" links.Jones is of the "very broad" school of military history. It can be a little bit dry, but it certainly t... |
Which school do you attend? | ie_khing: Maranatha Christian University, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia |
good books about military strategy? | pskomoroch: I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005:http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38...1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey3. Small Unit Lea... |
good books about military strategy? | notaddicted: Have you read Clausewitz On War? That was one of my favorite books last year.This is more general than you are looking for and it stops a bit short of air war but it helped me to put historical events into a global context.The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind. Rev. and brought ... |
good books about military strategy? | byrneseyeview: http://www.amazon.com/War-Nerd-Soft-Skull-Press/dp/097966368...Certainly not dry. I can't vouch for his accuracy, but he knows a lot and could point you to some interesting battles/periods to study. |
good books about military strategy? | andr: Military strategy? I'd like to hear your startup pitch :) |
good books about military strategy? | Agathos: Martin van Creveld writes some serious analysis. Consider...Supplying War -- on logistics (as in "professionals study...")Command in War -- on communication, information, and the importance of local autonomy leading to quick actionThe Transformation of War -- has strategy's biggest buzzword right there in the ... |
good books about military strategy? | iamwil: There was a post recently on a class that examined Starcraft strategy. That might help. |
good books about military strategy? | parzival52: The best I have read is by B.H. Liddell Hart:http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Meridian-B-Liddell-Hart/dp/04...He also wrote respected volumes on the world wars and biographies of Rommel and Scipio Africanus, among others. |
good books about military strategy? | rodrigo: You can google the field manuals (FM) of the US Army and Marine, they range from operation of guns and marksmanship to strategy, to leadership. All great reads. |
What do these startups need so much money for? | anthonyrubin: To impress potential investors and acquirers. |
Has anybody observed cheating? | NoBSWebDesign: I dual-majored in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at a 95% engineering school. Cheating occured very often, and I would venture to guess that a majority of the students cheated at some point during their college career, usually in the form of finding a "crib", or previous test from that professor a... |
good books about military strategy? | bjelkeman-again: My absolute favourite in this class of books is:Infantry attacks, Erwin Rommel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_AttacksDon't let the word "Infantry" in the title fool you. It is an engrossing account on how to use armed forces to your advantage. He supposedly was working on "The Tank in Attack", ... |
Goal Setting Software | unalone: If you're on a Mac, get Things.http://culturedcode.com/things/Beautiful software, incredibly easy. I can't deal with get-things-done software, but if I had to use a program, this would be the one I used. |
Best approaches for Javascript game graphics? | shaunxcode: checkout Raphael js it provides cross platform svg type drawing, pretty sweet and that way you can target everyone. |
What do these startups need so much money for? | jazer: As so many others have said: yes, good people are expensive. And if you expect to grow to a non-trivial size, hosting/servers/bandwidth are going to cost you.There is also the issue of leverage. If you need $500k, you don't raise $500k, because when you run out and start looking for more money, your negotiating ... |
good books about military strategy? | geirfreysson: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swan" had some pretty good insights into the "unknown unknowns" of military combat.http://www.wajapi.com/books/80 |
Goal Setting Software | chanux: I use GTD tiddly wiki. And I wrote about it on my blog http://chanux.wordpress.com/category/computinglife/ |
Goal Setting Software | hboon: Saw this - http://www.joesgoals.com/. I have not used it before. Why not try it out and let us know? |
Review our startup - Taxi Mogul, a persistent browser game | pclark: looks cool, super slow though?How are you gonna make money? |
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