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How do you think about programs? | frig: This is cocoa-specific, though some of it generalizes.I'm not a huge fan of the Hillegrass book for actual beginners, but sadly there's not a better book out, yet; it's almost easiest to learn some other, better-documented GUI application framework, then come back to Cocoa (assuming you have time).Assuming you do... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | wigglywonk: No.I would pretend that I was seriously considering it, and then would find something that was nearly as good and never come back.cf. Salon.com (despite the fact that it went free years ago) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | vivekamn: Yes. I would also pay to get more attention for my questions. Sort of like many game worlds, where you can earn points either by activity or by paying hard cash. |
Financial Sector Shrinkage Good? | noodle: its a multifaceted problem. while the financial services firms multiplied, yes, it is also a byproduct of the fact that the global pool of money also grew by a similar factor over that time period.the things that the institutions did to break the economy were definitely bad, with their poorly planned investmen... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | GeneralMaximus: Nope.I just turned 18. I have no bank account, no credit card, no PayPal account, nothing. Charging for HN would mean asking me - and others like me - to leave. HN is a valuable website, and I don't want to lose it.Here's an idea: make HN invite-only. Members get to invite others only when they reach a ... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | grouchyOldGuy: I flat-out refuse to use PayPal for anything. I am reluctant to use my credit card except for shopping sites that have a decent track record of security. A small site with a Comodo certificate won't get my business. If HN used Amazon for payment, then I would consider it since I already have CC info on f... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | gcheong: No, but I might be willing to go through some kind of hazing ritual. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | merrick33: $5 is not much of a barrier to entry for someone with an agenda, say troll or marketer. |
Favorite board games? | anthony_barker: List of nice games
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | yan: Idea and implementation look good.A similar site exists for all dot files (configuration files under unix,) which might be helpful: http://www.dotfiles.orgRegarding the actual site, there are a few design comments:* Yeah, we get that it's supposed to look like a terminal, but the novelty of harsh fonts/colors wear... |
Recommend science experiments and videos for unfortunate school students | TrevorJ: I don't know about India but in the states you can get model rockets or those pop-bottle water rocket kits. Maybe some creative rigging with a postage scale to measure forces and demonstrate the equal/opposite reaction of throwing matter (water) out the back of the rocket at high speed?Electromagnetic stuff: h... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | thorax: I would be happy to pay (much more even), but I don't think it's necessary to help the community. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | cturner: I think in time we'll see communities based on membership where you do pay a fee, and then if you behave badly you'll get nuked and kicked out of the community. And it needn't be limited to one site. You could have a site goodcitizen.com and then people would have accounts with it, and their membership there w... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | floozyspeak: A troll would totally pay to manipulate and pee in your sacred pond. |
Financial Sector Shrinkage Good? | gaius: IF all they did was skim money, then the economy would have simply routed around them (just as discount execution-only brokerages did to traditional stockbrokers, or Internet banking did to branches on the high street). That it didn't suggests that they did create value, and that the premise of your question is ... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | lecha: I would pay if you find a way to avoid excluding people who are assets to this community, but don't want to or can't pay.Maybe there could be a system of free trial that would extend to a free yearly subscription for people whose karma is high enough by the end of the trial period? |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | dreur: Yes without a thought |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | lgriffith: I find HN a mixed bag. Some things are very good, most things are so-so, somethings are really bad. Just like real life.The simple act of registration is enough to keep me away from most sites. At least this one is good enough that I thought it worth registration. Add a charge? I don't think it would b... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | jherdman: Isn't this the same thing that Metafilter does? How's it working out for them? I know I paid my $5 for them, but I haven't been back there in a long time. |
New Feature Request: Participation Acknowledgement | jacquesm: time-out...The number of meta posts on this subject is causing a serious overload, there is a 'request for features' feature and there is a thread dedicated to the subject on the front page, I'm sure this could have been blended in there.Enough meta discussion for me for today. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | TweedHeads: A thousand people will pay, a hundred thousand won't.HN will be an elitist forum of jerks in an echo chamber with fewer posts and two or three comments per post.There goes the fun down the toilet. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | tphyahoo: I had to think about this for a while, but finally: no.It worked for something awful but it pisses me off that if I have something valuable to contribute to a thread I have to cough up ten bucks. Just feels wrong. I'm doing the work right? Something awful still gets paid when someone reads my post and clicks ... |
Hacker-Friendly (and Cheap) Places to stay in Cambridge, MA? | diN0bot: send me an email. i live in a 9-person coop with a guest room. i'm back in town on feb 23rd and would be happy to host you. diN0bot bilumi org. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | randomtask: If it meant that this place doesn't go the way of reddit/digg/etc. then sure. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | pneill: I'd pay. I left Digg because the signal to noise ratio got so bad that just felt it wasn't worth my time anymore. |
how to start my own business? | noodle: you just need two things, really: a good idea, and the ability/will to execute your idea. everything else is bonus. |
New Feature Request: Participation Acknowledgement | tokenadult: There is already a list of leaders, which I see you are on. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | Alex3917: I'd pay ten dollars a year for HN if everyone else had to pay five dollars a year. :-)In all seriousness, K5 provides a pretty good example of what happens when you do this:http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/9/10/13920/3664 |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | alexandros: [Since I can't update the post itself anymore, I'll write an update with a reply]After the great discussion that has followed, a number of good modifications has been proposed that could significantly reduce grievances. The fee could be one-time, and proceeds donated to charity. Also, uers with a lot of kar... |
How much transparency for an online reputation system? | ErrantX: > so that everyone knows it's on the up and up and we're not secretly favoring people?Trust has to start somewhere. The people that think the above will in the most part either a) not be using your site or b) not convinced by your "open algorithms" anyway.On the other hand opening them up fully makes it easier... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | adamo: I would gladly pay $5/year |
How much transparency for an online reputation system? | subpixel: These Clay Shirky articles might interest you. In fact one of them might have been linked to from HN recently, I'm not totally certain:http://is.gd/iv84http://is.gd/NZu |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | weegee: no, there are too many other free sources for articles like this |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | pclark: Sort the UI out :Green and Black? argh :) Black on white will suffice, thanksEither make the widgets [maximize, minimize, close] do something, or remove them.The block on the right is too large, there is barely enough room to read the actual content -- consider moving all that sidebar into a nice JQuery slider ... |
How much transparency for an online reputation system? | diN0bot: reminds me how i prefer rating schemes over point accumulation ones. especially if the rating average is based on latest actions more than older ones. point accumulation with exponential experience levels (think rpg) is better than linear point accumulation.i vote for you to keep the exact algorithm secret. ma... |
how to start my own business? | asimjalis: You need another person to pair with. Everything else follows. This is a hypothesis that I am currently testing. I tried following ideas -- and executing alone is hard. I tried using techniques for staying focused and executing, but those fizz out after a while. Then I noticed that the only things I have com... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | hs: now hn has orange, why not extend it further? like belt-color levelssay a new user is of white belt and can't post after s/he of age one week (then automatically get yellow belt and can post 1 post / day max) ... higher levels can post more per dayand maybe a penalty function like temporarily giving 1 day noprocras... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | cellis: I would pay $5/month. |
how to start my own business? | diN0bot: just try it. i share your sense of doubt and confusion. until you actually build [a bike/massive user community/iphone app] it will seem like the most magical and mysterious thing in the world. you can't grok it until you've built it many times.just go for it. it's easier with a team of collaborators or motiva... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | sfk: Use w3m:http://w3m.sourceforge.net/For reading, I find it much more pleasant than Firefox. Posting is perhaps a bit awkward. |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | gregstoll: Very neat - I like the "Commands using <whatever>" feature.The "Popular functions" box on the right has some command names running together ("perl" and "ping", "uname" and "uniq") for me on Firefox 3.1b2 on Windows. |
how to start my own business? | hs: perseverance ... you will have failures (bugs, disks, networks, customer complaints, etc) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | ewakened: Yes for sure |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | thorax: Nice work!This goes very well with some of our company's long-term goals of making things easier for techies (e.g. http://bug.gd and http://featurelist.org )If you're interested in talking about partnership opportunities (at a minimum we can help with hosting), drop me a line at matthew at bug.gd.Nice work agai... |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | ratsbane: Nice idea and execution. I've bookmarked and twitter-followed. The autocomplete search is excellent. I'm not too keen on the black background. I'd like to read about the server-side design. |
How much transparency for an online reputation system? | CalmQuiet: I think there's a fine line to walk: tell enough about the principles that you use for contributors to earn reputations, but not with too precise a detail. Not necessarily to keep people from trying to "work the system" - but because you may need to tweak how things are weighted without always having to mak... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | alabut: I haven't seen a rationale for it yet but I'd guess that it's a subtle way of encouraging descriptions to be short (like the one you just wrote), it's probably intentional that it's hard to read long rambling posts like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468139I read a pg comment somewhere that makes me think ... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | Dilpil: How about a two tiered system, whereupon we maintain both and open and invite only board? |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | jderick: How about a karma floor for upmodding? |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | nickathens: The content is what makes this site interesting. So I understand the concept but submit doing anything to discourage content is a bad business model. I am primarily a reader or "lurker", but am also an ANGEL investor and CEO of my own self funded start up.So I would propose you develop a model that has a ... |
What Would You Do If You Had 3 Years to Live? | alabut: This is an interesting question, not because it's from a Mayan calendar (I'm a flying spaghetti follower myself) but because the standard line of "live like today's your last" is a bit tired.If I had 3 years to live, say from a slow cancer, I'd probably pull a version of a Randy Pausch - work up to a big presen... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | gr366: I'm reading this thread while drinking a latte that cost nearly $5. Yes, I would pay $5 for a year of HN... even if there were still trolls. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | known: I'd pay $5/yr for HN. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | ram1024: it's not so much the grey as it's ON GREY BACKGROUND as welllooks like the same color as the link text so maybe it was just something that fell through and never got addressed |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | kennyroo: Light gray text is a DTD (designer-transmitted disease) that's rapidly infecting sites across the Internet.(When it's really light, I use Firebug to modify the CSS.) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | jwr: I would pay and I think it might be a good idea. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | jorgem: If you use firefox, you might want to look into STYLISH or GREASEMONKEY.Both provide ways to change the look of any website. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | vaksel: why not let people pick their own color schemes? Like we do with the top bar. |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | sam_in_nyc: Isn't this type of site an ideal usage for a SlinkSet or a Sub-Reddit?Regardless, I like it... and it looks like you have a hit! I'd suggest a "flag as dangerous" link... and I think "example output" should be required upon submission.Great work! |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | flexterra: yes, I would pay $5/yr |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | fizx: Bookmarklet:javascript:var%20l=document.getElementsByTagName("TD");for(var%20i=0;i<l.length;i++)%20l[i].style.color='#000' |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | mk: The idea is great, and I actually don't mind the terminal look. I could see where some people might be annoyed by it though, so making it optional would probably be a good idea. What I do not like is the min/max/close icons in the top right of the terminal window that have no functionality.Another little thing is s... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | drsnyder: Yes. I would pay $5 per year. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | pg: I'm pretty sure this is not the answer. Metafilter does this, and I would not want the kind of culture they have there. What's prized there is sounding clever, and I wouldn't be surprised if the $5 fee was partly responsible-- if people were more willing to pay $5 to hear themselves talk than to e.g. answer a ques... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | skmurphy: I pay $20-30 a month for LinkedIn and find HN at least as valuable. I would be willing to pay the same for the knowledge that's available in these forums and the ability to take part. I find it extremely thought provoking. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | babo: So back to coding! :-) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | nostrademons: Probably yes, but think of all the budding college & high school entrepreneurs that that would discourage.$5/year is absolutely nothing now that I'm employed. But for a kid who doesn't hold the purse strings, it's much more than that. It's not really the money - most parents also have no trouble sparing... |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | spydez: Talk to the grader. Tell him your handwriting sucks and that's why you typed it. (Show him your handwriting sucks, if you want.) Tell him you've talked to classmates with similar work who got full credit. See what he says.If the grader gives you a reasonable answer, accept it. If not, go to the professor and re... |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | jhancock: nice. I am working on a website redesign for my startup, ShellShadow http://shellshadow.com. Its a collaborative terminal client...there is a linux client to be published in the next week.I decided a while back _not_ to provide a "Knowledge Base" section of the site and instead to partner with others that a... |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | TrevorJ: It seems that the prof finds some value in the type of thinking that going back to pen-and-paper can help engender.I would comply with his wishes even if you don't see value in it. I've forced myself to work on paper even though I am a computer nut and I absolutely beleive it is a good habit to have. It engage... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | indiejade: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156530P.S. Here are the screenshots of "before" and after:http://www.zentu.net/open-space/hackernewsbefore.pnghttp://www.zentu.net/open-space/hackernewsafter.png |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | fizx: As a potential user, I'd love to subscribe to a human-edited "fu of the day" RSS feed. Don't really want the firehose. |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | jkmcf: Green and black take me back to my standalone terminal days...Two comments on presentation in addition to the aforementioned wrapping of the columns in a div:1) More space between entries. The list looks very cramped.
2) Less items per page.Hardest part about Unix is learning the command line. I luckily had an... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | edw519: Ctrl-A |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | bsgamble: Yes I would. While I recognize that a pay for access methodology won't cure all of the ills of the virtual world, like a padlock on a door, it will serve as a deterrent to casual ne'er do wells. |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | thesethings: Good job. I like the idea, but I think what might be special is the execution, the design and karma system, making useful/common stuff a bit more high-profile than jokey aliases :D
The site's slow, but that's a good thing, congrats!
Nice work. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | fred: Validating the colors contrast/luminosity/readability should be done using this:http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/accessibility/webaccessibil...orhttp://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.htm... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | mattmcknight: It does work well for MetaFilter, but voting seems to work okay here. What exactly would you describe as "a lot of problems"? What problems need to be solved?What if you could buy 5 whuffies (or whatever points on here are called) for $5, but could only post comments if your score remained above zero? Or... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | giles_bowkett: google "clay shirky micropayments", kids. |
Hacker-Friendly (and Cheap) Places to stay in Cambridge, MA? | nathanblec: I'm co-founder of www.airbnb.com, a website that let's you find locals with whom you can stay while spending less money and having more fun. Our coverage in Boston right now is relatively sparse, but there are some places you might like.Here's one:
http://www.airbnb.com/airbeds/show/1130?nights=2&lng=-71...... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | jeroen: For firefox, put this in your user stylesheet@-moz-document url-prefix(http://news.ycombinator.com/){
td { color: #000000 !important; }
td.subtext { color: #828282 !important; }
}see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467680 for more info. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | miql: Yes! HN is my main source of aggregated news. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | omouse: Easily. I'd pay more depending on what kind of content is shown. If there was a way to block 37signals, joel's blog, and some others then I'd be up to $10/month ;) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | joanou: No. I'm too cheap. |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | RiderOfGiraffes: The fact that you have things like "In[5]" and "Out[8]" makes it look like you've used the computer to perform your calculations. Whether you did or not is moot - you are giving the wrong impression. (Unless you did use the computer, in which case you are giving the right impression and the grader is... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | killingmichael: 100%. It is my main source of news :) |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | FredSource: Surprising to me to see how many would pay $5 per annum.
Personally I believe in open communication!"Stopping" anonymous users can be done with a little bit of design in the sign-up process.If money is required adding some ads down the RHS of the screen would easily make that much ...just my 2 cents... |
Financial Sector Shrinkage Good? | RobGR: I agree with this hypothesis. Furthermore, advances in computers and communication and electronic record keeping should have allowed fewer people to be employed in the industry, shuffling much larger amounts of money.I think much of the current economic "crisis" is actually a necessary shift or adjustment from ... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | andrewconotes: I would not pay because the content on HN isn't so specialized that I cannot find the community elsewhere. Furthermore, trolls are easily identified and ignored, like SPAM.However if there were a subscription, I think you need to think about the value of this community. Charging just posters would unleas... |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | timf: Cool, added to RSS.I wanted to say: the uservoice feedback thing on the left makes it slow to scroll and maybe even more annoyingly gives unsmooth/unpredictable scroll time which means I can't ignore it.I've noticed this in many sites recently that have persistent buttons/sidebars off to the sides. Don't know if... |
What content do you pay for online? | floozyspeak: I think netflix, audible and itunes are different in that they provide tangible "taste-able" content in that you get real something out of it.The bigger question here is does anyone pay for news, informational content?My answer would be no. I only pay to have my content managed- backpackit, flickr, animot... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | silvajoao: Finally this gets to the front page. My very first post was exactly the same: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439399 |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | kuniklo: I'd do it. |
What content do you pay for online? | moxy: I do not regularly pay for any online service. Why? Because there are an enormity of free and open source alternatives. Granted, some "free alternatives" aren't entirely legal, however they're alternatives nonetheless, just with an associated risk.For movies and music, I use torrents. For applications, I go open ... |
What content do you pay for online? | robfitz: casual games mostly.. peggle, world of goo, etc.if hacker news is content, then basecamp & fixx probably also count (team & product news, respectively).apart from that, i would pay for some TED talks, for high quality game reviews (http://tinyurl.com/cn5guu), and for most of Andrew Chen's blog (http://andrewch... |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | rscott: Take your time and do your homework written on paper. Say what you want about it being the "same thing." It isn't, and you should get prepared for the tests using the methods you will have available then - and that isn't MATLAB (or Python, or whatever you used). |
Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com | yan: I just realized what'd make a great feature, in my opinion: Add a "recommend alternate" option. For instance, if I see a command I know is suboptimal or there exist other tools that do the job better, I can submit an alternate way to perform the same action.For instance, I see something like: find $PWD -type f -e... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | c1sc0: Sure I will. Where do I send the money? California or Boston? |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | cschneid: Tip: learn to write well. Don't do it for this class, do it for yourself.My handwriting use to be atrociously bad. I worked on it a little and it got to the point where what I write is legible (though, not neat).It's a useful skill to have, writing on paper.In the short term, just talk to the professor.... ... |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | twopoint718: Yes. I'd probably pay double that.I think that there is a huge difference between $0 and $ANY, in that it forces the the user to place a value on it. I think that the model to look to is MeFi, which has very high-quality comments, high-quality posts, and as others have stated, it seems to have more memory ... |
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