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Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | zandorg: How about a lottery where everyone pays, but where the winner gets loads of free karma? |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | ErrantX: Yes it was "dead" for me for a few minutes just now |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | gojomo: Yes. In fact, I noticed problems increasing around the time of PG's 2009-01-15 "Faster" news. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | TrevorJ: I tried to respond to you, but it 404'd you which was ironic.
Yes, it does seem a bit janky today. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | jacquesm: It crashes every couple of hours and then takes a few seconds to minutes to come back up.I've just been playing around with the source code to see if I could figure out why it would lose the port, but the only thing I can think of is if the whole mzscheme process dies, otherwise it would just hang while trying to connect and it doesn't do that. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | brk: Yes, that has been occurring frequently for me.Many times when it hangs for me, I seem to get the "static" parts of the page (title, upper bar) and as soon as the dynamic parts would be expected to load it hangs or times out or goes very slowly. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | pg: The computation for the orange usernames was destroying performance. Not directly, but because it caused a lot of stuff to get loaded from disk that would not otherwise have been. So I've temporarily turned the feature off till I can write a more efficient version. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | Shamiq: PG: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468585Maybe that'll help.Edit: Paul's post here made that link irrelevant. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | anc2020: Use your mouse to quickly highlight the text. Now you can read it as light grey on blue, which is much easier. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | shergill: We have been discovered!!! |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | raamdev: Yes, not responding at random times. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | jjudge: No, I wouldn't pay for it. Shouldn't the trolling issue naturally work it self out over time? If anonymous users are the issue perhaps add some additional validation of identities? |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | brianobush: yes, if it was moderated by a editorial staff - not crowd rated. otherwise, no. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | jwesley: Anyone else feel the site is getting too self referential? I noticed the lag as well, but is this worthy of a devoted thread taking up space on the first page?The recent surge in self referential threads has felt Reddit-esque. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | davidw: I've had trouble when I clicked on 'submissions' for a while, and now even 'threads' is getting pretty slow. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | jansson: Nope, it's working fine towards me. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | iuguy: No.Sorry, let me elaborate. I do comment on HN, I generally don't post as much as I should. I find HN valuable but no more valuable than other community sites I frequent. If HN went to $5/yr I'd lose some of the discussion but ultimately I'd move on to a different community that didn't charge $5/yr. Whilst there are many on this site that probably would pay the $5/yr for this community with this amount of users, the community would lose a lot of people and the quality of the community would drop with the quantity (as in you're not just losing deadwood and trolls here). |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | geuis: Yes, mainly when viewing my profile page. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | fauigerzigerk: The "threads" page is very slow for me but the front page is actually faster than it was a few weeks ago. |
What content do you pay for online? | pclark: I paid for Last.FM & Flickr.I don't pay for content it's just one source. Show me a very good news aggregator and I'd be tempted. |
What hardware would you like Mac OSX to support? | pclark: obligatory: Tablet. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | dattaway: Small $5 paypal button. Keep things simple. I'd click. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | donniefitz2: It's seems plenty fast to me. I'm on slow connection and I get snappy page loads. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | zandorg: Yes, sometimes it doesn't load, shows a blank page. I wonder if it's seeing malware from my machine, but clearly not given other eyewitness accounts. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | calvin: Yes, definitely. Hacker News is worth more than $5/year to me with the amount of time I spend on it and it'd be worth it if it keeps users more reasonable. |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | redorb: I like using a simple CTRL+A to highlight all text on page; (windows xp, ff3.05) |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | dmoo: If you browse with opera try view-style and select the option that suits your needs. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | natch: No. Building a critical mass of good users is hard enough without adding false friction.If you're looking for a place to improve, I'd look at the way karma is used.IMHO sites like HN should continue innovating with ways to better calculate and utilize karma. In most cases, it's done very badly, rewarding early commenters disproportionately, so that people with a lot of time on their hands get a bigger voice. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | corgan1003: yup, did not load for 20 minutes just now |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | Rabidmonkey1: I haven't had any trouble with it. |
Need help filing US TAX return? This non-profit might be able to help. | Laurentvw: Is this for students only or professionals too? Can you elaborate in detail ? It looks like a nice idea unless somebody pulls your leg. Be careful and good luck with the project. |
If you got this assignment back, what would you do? | tjic: Were the instructions "do not use a computer solution" specified ahead of time?If this was either in the syllabus or otherwise discussed, then it's your bad, and you have to eat it.Otherwise, it's outrageous that rules are made up on the fly, and you should appeal to the professor.Appeal to the professor first; don't go over his head.Your argument should emphasize fairness: rules are being made up on the fly.Don't print out your homework in a font of your handwriting. You won't fool anyone, and you'll be rightfully nailed for quibbling. |
Is it always this meta? | noodle: no, not really. the site gets discussed a lot when changes happen, and changes have just happened. |
Is it always this meta? | amackera: HN is always on about how the community is degrading, though apparently there has been some recent evidence to suggest that it is. That's what all the ballyhoo is about.There are always lots of articles about "Rate my startup!" and "Ask HN", though. If you meant that you've been noticing a lot of those, then it's not a phase---it's regular. |
Is it always this meta? | mixmax: It's just a phase.Presumably a combination of a few new features that have just been added and the fact that there have been quite a few new users lately.There's alwasy a little bit of it, but hopefully most of it will go away in a few days. |
Is it always this meta? | revorad: It's just a phase.Have you got a demo of the discussion system you mention in your profile? I'd love to see it. |
Is it always this meta? | evdawg: At the risk of sounding stupid, can someone explain to me exactly what "meta" in this context means? |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | nazgulnarsil: we need a reputation economy. currently karma isn't good for anything but stroking people's ego. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | ilamont: Yes. This morning around 9 or 10 (eastern) it was slow -- took many tens of second for indivual links or the main page to come up.But it seems to be recent -- I can't recall it happening before this week. |
Need help filing US TAX return? This non-profit might be able to help. | newy: Prameya - does a volume license include a right to resell? I'd be careful and check. |
What content do you pay for online? | mikebo: Netflix, iTunes, amazon mp3, flickr |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | pclark: define extensibility -- what features are you missing?on Archive Utility - I really really recommend "The Unarchiver" opens more formats, quicker and nicer usability quirks. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | Andys: ARC doesn't scale! |
What hardware would you like Mac OSX to support? | wmf: In the glorious ZFS future we will want drivers for Fusion io and non-RAID SAS HBAs with expander support. |
Is it always this meta? | nx: This discussion doesn't really help, you know? |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | alnayyir: If you buy me a mac I'll work on the chromium project for you. |
Is it always this meta? | mechanical_fish: Yes and no. This is the community's immune response. A couple of weeks after an influx of new users, the community stages a massive navel-gazing festival designed to test the new folks' mettle.Once we shake off the people who don't really want to be here, we'll return to our usual diet of startup announcements, website reviews, complaints about techcrunch, artfully disguised attempts to reignite holy wars so that we can all spectate, and questions that have been asked every six months since the beginning of the site. Not to mention: news and information.---
NOTICE: This has been an attempt at humor. Do not refer to it as a "theory", lest ye be mocked. Please phrase replies in haiku form. |
Is it always this meta? | dandelany: Meta is a self-fulfilling prophecy.And you're not helping.Neither am I. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | walesmd: It's the orange names :)Yes, I've noticed a lot of slowdown as well, primarily when viewing comments. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | Barnabas: OP suggested using a fee to reduce trolling and somehow qualify users. It addresses the problem in a round-about way using economic incentives to filter "non-HN" users, or trolls. Inefficient.In order to qualify site membership, why not require a non-monetary merit test? For example, one can only sign-up or comment/submit for a month if they can solve a simple computer problem appropriate to the site content, in this case maybe deciphering a simply double-encoded string (say, HTML entities + rot13 or base64 or something). If you only want only "hackers" on HN, make them "hack" their way in, like some kind of text CAPTCHA for computer geeks. I guess a math forum could make people solve an equation to comment, or a zoological forum could ask some taxonomy question or something.If the real problem is that HN needs money for infrastructure in a depressed ad market, then call it what it is and do a voluntary fundraiser, ala Wikimedia or public radio. Those of us who value this site will pony up accordingly. |
Is it always this meta? | mnemonicsloth: I got yer non-meta right here:I'm working on a project that's similar/complementary to yours (cf. my profile) and think we ought to chat. Email me. |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | dasil003: The part I find so irritating is the it's just the tiniest things that screw up Firefox on the Mac. My pet peeve is that text fields don't recognize up and down arrow to go to the beginning and end of the field like every single other Mac application does. In general Safari just has a nicer UI (tabs, activity window, bookmarks, responsiveness, etc). |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | FredSource: I think reading the light gray is a problem.
Obviously there are other design considerations - personally I'd go a little darker!.. or to be really geeky, add a button to darken the color in the menu bar (simply change the .css with a little javascript!) |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | menloparkbum: Safari is customizable. It just doesn't have an "easy" framework for writing plugins like Mozilla's XUL + JS.http://developer.apple.com/documentation/InternetWeb/Concept... |
Is it always this meta? | almost: It would appear that meta was just the beginning, we now have meta-meta-posts :pSeriously though, the meta-phase, or the crawling-up-its-own-arse phase, seems to be something a lot of sites go through. Hopefully it will die down soon because it's getting a bit boring. |
I need a Google calendar type GUI..But how? (dont have the skills) | markup: Know of http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/ already?EDIT: well reading your question with more attention, you more likely need the entire YUI (grids, etc) |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | jmtame: the site feels like it's slowing down a lot, and this is even after the highlight name feature was removed. you guys read what happened when google made the tweaks to display more results right? |
how to learn principles of DB schema design? | duskwuff: Besides studying database normalization (know your 3NF and your BCNF and whatnot), another excellent starting point is taking a look at existing database schemas - in web applications, for instance - and consider what they've done right and wrong. ("Right" and "wrong" are debatable, but a generally good definition is that the "right" design makes writing queries simple and running them fast, whereas a "wrong" design makes queries complicated and/or slow.)The MediaWiki schema is an excellent example of good schema design. If you haven't seen it before, take a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki-database-sc... |
Light grey text is killing my eyes. | nazgulnarsil: The factory settings of most LCD's is WAY too bright. Try dimming your screen a little. I have no trouble reading it at all. |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | zain: The one and only reason why I use Safari is because of the smooth scrolling. I've found that Safari is the only browser that smoothly and responsively scrolls with the 2-finger trackpad scroll. Not even Firefox with smooth scrolling turned on can match it.So yes, I'd like to put in another vote for a perfect OSX browser. |
I need a Google calendar type GUI..But how? (dont have the skills) | euroclydon: Have you tried ExtJS? http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.htmlYou can actually contact me through the site listed on my HN profile, and I can build it for you. |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | enomar: If you only want to share this with a few people, try Google sites or docs.If you want many people to find and use your information, put it on Wikipedia.Both of these are free, easy and the information won't disappear when you get bored of the project. |
Is it always this meta? | kirubakaran: Check for yourself. Here are about 9 months of Hacker News front pages:http://www.kirubakaran.com/phr0zen/ |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | Shamiq: When you say "approved before going online" do you mean you will get permission from the professors? I believe some legal issues may arise when you publish the notes from a college class you paid for.Though most, if not all, of my professors don't mind if we put our notes out there, there may be eventualities you'll want to consider before doing this ostentatiously good deed.Edit: I was referring to this: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/prof-sues-note.html |
Is it always this meta? | DanielBMarkham: Ye Gods! It's a discussion about meta discussions!It's our first meta meta discussion!I feel so proud.I'm vehemently opposed to meta meta discussions. This is like staring at somebody else while they look at their belly button. Or looking at your own belly button while somebody else stares at you. Or staring at somebody else's belly button while they look at yours. Or something like that (I am assured that all of this has to do with naval gazing by other commenters)If you must reply, please make it rhyme (I never could figure out how to do that haiku format) |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | andrewljohnson: Also, here's an abbreviated roadmap of features we are working on that are in various stages of done-ness:* data downloads for your GPS device* a web crawler that aggregates trip reports and park rules/regulations to our map* a Flickr integration* better ways to look at our international data* faster searches and autocompletes* improvements to reporting and trip-planning* RSS feeds of changes to places on the map that you can subscribe to |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | psyklic: You're right there isn't much information. However, the homebrew computers/electronics scene unfortunately hasn't regained its earlier interest levels.Why? Tools that CEs use largely aren't available to the general public, and the learning curve for electronics (and expense required for materials) is higher than most are willing to undertake. |
Is it too much to expect a usable browser on OS X? | makecheck: I use OmniWeb (WebKit-based) on the Mac, and while it cost a little money, this is one of those cases where I thought it was well worth it.OmniWeb has extensions of sorts, though I've never needed any because I found the defaults to be really well thought out. YMMV, of course. |
What hardware would you like Mac OSX to support? | jmackinn: Most external hard drives that support network attached storage do not work with Mac's. |
Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding? | rw: Dear everyone:Stop meta-referencing - go make something. |
What content do you pay for online? | apage43: amazon mp3, lastfm; that's about it here. |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | maxer: i never post here but have been reading isnce its inception and would gladly pay $20+ a year |
Going to College with NIL Family Support? | rms: The income of his parents makes a big difference. If they are professional class, their incomes will make it so he doesn't qualify for financial aid. If they won't cosign loans, it puts said young person in a very tough situation. In this case, the young person needs to talk to the financial aid office and establish that he is entirely supporting himself. This can be very difficult. Right now, he should make sure that his parents aren't declaring him as a dependent on their taxes.If his parents have lower incomes, then he should apply to a lot of colleges with hope of getting a good financial aid package. Generally, when you're paying for it yourself, it's not worth going to an expensive college, but computer science is special -- the education from CMU or MIT is worth the extra money. Owing 100k in student loans is a lot more manageable for a high end professional degree. If he was majoring in sociology, he would want to go to the school with the lowest sticker price.He should definitely go to college and almost no one should join the armed forces, certainly not as a launching pad for a career as a hacker.Also, this bill goes into effect this July and would allow for emancipated minors to file independently for financial aid. Assuming he is already 18, it is probably too late to take advantage of this. http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_5.html |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | amjith: * Adding the total length of a trail and the difficulty level will be useful.* More options in the Park Index will be useful. Eg: refine the list to state parks or national parks or refine it by state, then list the trails in a park.* The map is very slow and unresponsive, I don't think you can do much to improve the map loading speed, but I know that google recently updated their google maps to load faster. |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | showerst: What about six months down the road when you want to add a new section to the bottom of every single page, or when next year rolls around and you want to change the 'copyright 2009' to 'copyright 2010'?Realistically, you're going to need some kind of basic dynamic capability, and once your site grows beyond 20+ pages you'll save more time than the time it takes to learn it.Sounds like you don't need much, and PHP (or really any dynamic language I've seen) has an 'include' directive for adding headers and footers and would take you all of two seconds to learn (beware, there's a ton of bad code out there. The good resources have been discussed in many other HN posts.)For the super-basic stuff any dynamic language will do fine, so just mark it up in whatever stack you're comfortable with the tools for (I'd recommend PHP, Python, or Ruby in increasing orders of complexity for a basic site.)You might also consider a real CMS in case you want to bring more non-technical people on, or add authentication later. Wordpress is fairly full featured on the editor, has user privileges, and I believe it has plugins to support LaTeX and other Math markup easily. Again, any leaders in the space should be fine for what you want to do.On the actual code side, mark it up in strict html or xhtml, test it in at least FF/IE6/IE7/Safari, and try to seperate your CSS into classes in external file(s) as much as possible so you can change your design later with less headaches. If things are set up right, adding a css stylsheet for mobile would be trivial, which might be nice for times when you need a formula at the library.I hear good things about the book 'Head First HTML' from beginners, and if you're at any high level with computing you should breeze through it. Alternately, just get a CMS and file a style you like and be done with it.In your case, I'd argue that there's an explicit tradeoff between simplicity of the code and simplicity of the final implementation. If you want a basic site with slim, clean code, you're going to have to do some learning. If you want a quick deployment that 'just works', you could do it in a few hours, but have less control over the elegance of the solution.P.S.: Cool idea. I'd bet you could even charge for some of it, if you were so inclined. |
Going to College with NIL Family Support? | bokonist: Plenty of schools offer generous academic scholarships ( Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt). If you shoot for a school a half tier lower than where you'd otherwise go, you can probably get a good scholarship. That's probably your best option. |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | epall: I love it! I'm a computer engineering student, as well, and I would even pay for such a resource. |
Does Gmail have an "email later" feature? | iamdave: sort ofhttp://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sendi...or maybe evenhttp://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/03/10/how-to-send-email-... |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | profgubler: I typed in my address to see what was close. It would be great once you search to be able to increase the distance from your address you are willing to go hiking. |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | sh1mmer: I found the search confusing.When I typed in my address it gave me a list of thing sort of close to where I live (in San Francisco).When I typed in Point Reyes (a lovely place to hike in Marin County) I got a bunch of trails that sounded really similar.I think it would be interesting to let people just take the map view directly to the place/zipcode of where they type to scan for trails and then filter them on the map according to their preferences.I love the idea though. |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | nadim: Here are a few points:The initial website has a "domain parker" feel to it. I think the colours/design are off. Just my opinion though.The loading times (especially for the map) seemed long for a production website. The longer I use your site (the more searches I do) the more annoying this feels.There is good data on here for near where I live. |
Liquid simulation resources | wallflower: EDIT: Coding from scratch will be hard. Go Blender!I briefly looked at writing an iPhone app to simulate the Wave Machine. As far as I can gather, fluid simulation is quite a massive (graduate school level) topic.http://developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch01.htmlThe references section (1.6) is a good starting point (including this one)
http://www.darwin3d.com/vsearch/FluidSim.txthttp://graphics.pixar.com/library/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FEA+%2B+droplet+%2B... |
Liquid simulation resources | TrevorJ: scientifically correct? If no, check with the blender foundation. Blender has had fluid sim for a while now. www.blender.org |
Please review my site... and find a great place to hike | profgubler: Is there a way that you can close the floating widget on the map. When you are looking for something in an area it would be nice to be able to remove it. |
Does Gmail have an "email later" feature? | babyshake: Second this request |
How much transparency for an online reputation system? | RobGR: Everyone should know the rating system. People tend to ignore rating systems that are hidden or not easy to understand. An example of a rating system that suffers from many hidden features is the "credit score" system; of course it is not designed to be useful to consumers, it is designed to be useful to the companies that know it's hidden factors. An example of a scoring system that is defined, but generally hated for being opaque and complecated, is the BCS college bowl system.You should make it so it is not easy to game; the way to go about this, is to make it so that the easiest way to "game" the system, is to do something that you want to encourage anyway. So instead of making a fake account and making fake transactions back and forth to up your score, give sellers a bonus for allowing new, unrated buyers to pay after receiving the item, for example.Think about how the standardized tests for private pilot licenses and etc work. They publish thousands of example questions with the correct answers, and then for your test they select a few at random. If you "game" the system by studying all the questions, you achieve their goal anyway, which is to learn the material as well as they can reasonably measure.Now, you could take out the reputation and knowing the seller part of it, but I think then you would have to step in and guarantee things for the buyer.I would do an ebay-like accumulative rating system, but have points be weighted with age, so that a good rating from a week ago is worth more than one from a year ago. You might fade them linearly to zero, but I think your formula should give people who have had an account for a long time some weight just for that.I am experimenting with a scoring / rating system now. it is for my site slackerfactor.com, which is mostly functional. The site allows you to keep track of who paid which costs among roommates or a similar group; if someone is a slacker, and doesn't pay his fair share for a while, his "slackerfactor" score shows it, and the people who are doing his share similarly have a better score.I decided to make the score fade with age, linearly to 3 years, after three years it doesn't matter any more. Since recent debts / credits matter more, someone who is up for re-evaluation as a housemate at the end of a lease or whatever, and has been slacking all year, has an incentive to clean up their act and pay a bunch of bills or buy groceries or whatever. The main site doesn't display the slackerfactor yet, only the beta site, because the formula probably still needs to be tweaked according to how people will use it.Another approach you might want to put in your bag of tricks is per-user modifications of the score. On Slashdot you can say you want to ignore "offtopic" moderations when deciding what comments to show, or to rank "troll" as a plus instead of a negative. Similarly, you might offer users the ability to have some checkboxes such as "ignore rankings more than a year old" or "negative rankings count as double if the person making the negative ranking has a score above 50" and so on. Giving people the ability to tweak knobs often quiets the most persistent complainers. |
Making an information site for Computer Engineers? | weaksauce: I like this idea! I am going through a computer science and engineering curriculum at university right now and this type of site with VHDL and other CE subjects would be very useful.
Maybe have some kind of forum as well so that some kind of discussion could take place? After you find a post that is worthy of a sticky you could then put it up as part of the main site. |
How much are you paying for your karma? | paulgb: I got thinking about this after reading a comment on another post about time = money, and wondered how much time karma leaders have spent on news.yc. Effectually, how much have they paid for their karma.You're assuming that the only thing people get out of HN is karma, which is certainly not the case. Karma is a side-effect. |
What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously? | jderick: It would be an amazing resource. However, you cannot really anonymize that kind of data because if someone knows only a few facts about your medical history they could discover your identity. Still, the benefits probably outweigh the risks. |
Is this idea outdated? | noodle: i've not seen something specifically like this in the past, and i don't think the idea is outdated. i think its a good idea and i would consider using it, myself, if it were to work out well for you.i would've definitely used something like this when i went to japan for a few weeks on vaccation last year, if something had existed. |
rules for storing banking info? | aristus: If you are thinking about doing this yourself, I would hire some programmer who used to work for a bank (lots of those around nowadays).I don't recall if there are any Federal or industry guidelines for banking encryption, but there is FIPS for general security. There is also explicit law about audit trails, chains of custody, access controls, reporting breaches, etc. In general you are legally obligated to know you were pwned and how.Access to a system must not allow access to data. Access to one account must not allow access to another (ie, use a different encryption key for each account). Physical access to a system must be secured and audited, etc. |
rules for storing banking info? | gaius: The phrase you want is "PCI Compliance"http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/ |
What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously? | rms: The Personal Genome Project takes this idea one step further. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Genome_Project |
How much are you paying for your karma? | cmars232: Let's make it tangible. I'll upvote comments for $0.005, and posts for $0.01. |
How much are you paying for your karma? | rms: I use this site a whole lot if you measure it by page view, but when I was running Rescue Time, it showed I spent about an hour a day actually on the site. Residual browsing takes up more time than that but it beats watching tv. |
How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? | saundby: I open in new tabs, read the articles closing each tab as I go. When I get back to the HN page I go top to bottom and vote up the articles I wish to. Then I go to next page or reload for newer stuff for as long as I'm reading.Works better than going article by article for me, I find. |
Going to College with NIL Family Support? | saundby: Scholarships, loans, and work is how I did it. The scholarships covered tuition, loans and earned income covered living, lab fees, and books. I lived in a small apartment complex and acted as an assistant manager in lieu of rent part of the time. I sold calligraphy (certificates, your name in calligraphy, mailboxes and street signs) and art (illuminated love poems/poison pen poems, decorated letterhead designs, wedding invitation designs) and did some studio portraiture photography. I also graded a billion papers, did odd jobs on and off campus--I.D. photos, repairs, hauling, cleanup, drafting home additions/remodels, writing short pieces for newspapers on events, selling cartoons to newsletter editors, stereo repairs, typewriter repairs.I also got fed by friends in clubs (historical recreation group, astronomy club, computer club) when all I could afford for myself was a sack of potatoes (no margarine, just salt.) I checked out textbooks from multiple libraries to get through the quarter without buying (interlibrary loans make this work, along with reading ahead and study groups where you can get exercises from others during gaps.)The loans were hard to swallow at the time, but I used the money carefully and it worked out. |
How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? | alabut: I open both the links and the comments for each link at the same time in background tabs, so if I like an article, it's one tab away for an upvote after reading. Otherwise I'm in the habit of closing two tabs at once. |
Where to find used office furniture? | alnayyir: Don't post at 0300 EST if you want answers. I know you're not asking for answers on the eastern seaboard, but there clearly aren't many more people online.I'm only here because I'm a night-time Linux admin. |
How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? | IsaacSchlueter: I use the "post to news.YC" bookmarklet for this. http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.htmlIf you try to submit something that's already been submitted, it just records your submission as an up-vote.I habitually open interesting-looking links as background tabs while I'm working (from Twitter, IM, emails, etc.) and then check them when I take a longer break. Often I'm not sure if it was from HN or some other source, but by using the bookmarklet, I'm either sharing or voting up, so it works out. |
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