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How do you read RSS feeds? | mbleigh: I use Google Reader, currently subscribed to 68 feeds and get around 250-300 posts per day. I read everything in expanded mode, though most of the time I'll just skim a headline and move on.I have my feeds logically grouped into prioritized groups so that if I start to get a backlog of 500+ posts I will read m... |
How much traffic from a techcrunch story? | tstegart: http://redeye.firstround.com/2008/01/after-the-techc.html
Not exact numbers, but a start. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | pchristensen: I use Google Reader to read about 200 feeds. But I've ruthlessly pruned anyone thata) took too much absolute time (high volume, long posts - ie big news sites without targeted content)b) too low signal to noise ratio (typically from someone that writes one popular posts that's a little outside their main ... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | boredguy8: It probably will. I followed a similar path of another person on here: /. -> k5 -> reddit -> HN.At the end of the day, nothing can stop 50 users up-voting cat pictures except to shut the site down. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | mickt: Sage a Firefox plugin, and sometimes Google Reader. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | darose: Bloglines.129.Read the most important ones, then eventually catch up on the other ones.I'd go mad if I didn't read them selectively like this. |
what language should I learn next? | strlen: There's more to software besides the web. Start off by learning C. Learn enough so that you could understand this http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html - and see the implications of what's discussed there (low-level UNIX system calls, C code) on issues you deal with.Finish learning C, by writing your own C compiler. Y... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | pg: I don't think it's as hard to keep a site from sliding as one might think from the examples of previous sites where things went downhill as they got more popular. Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit were all companies. They wanted to grow. Whereas News.YC is a side project. We don't care about growth. It's much easier to... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | tc7: I use Opera's built-in feed reader. I like it. I have about 20 feeds subscribed, and I obsessively at least skim every article until it tells me there are zero unread.Quite a pain on Monday (I don't read feeds on weekends) to come into work and have 50 new articles on Business of Software and Hacker News :P. Just ... |
what language should I learn next? | rmanocha: If I had the time, I would pick up C. I've spent a number of years working with higher level languages like Java and Python, and while they're good and fun and all that, I feel knowing a low level language like C is important to be an effective (insert any computer related task/job).I personally am really int... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | silentbicycle: I use Planet ( http://www.planetplanet.org/ ), and only update it once a day, because Y HN is distracting enough! |
How do you read RSS feeds? | hbien: I use NewsFire, subscribed to about 50-60 feeds. I skim through them (hit space) and if anything catches my eye I read them. If I'm not in the mood to read it, I flag it for later reading.Every month or so I go through my feeds and only keep the ones that consistently have posts that catch my attention. |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | joeread: Extreme censorship. |
what language should I learn next? | CPops: Just to throw my two cents into the mix, some of the best computer fun I've had in recent weeks has involved playing with Processing.http://processing.org/As somebody who normally does a lot of Ruby, PHP, Javascript web consulting working dealing mostly with data and database stuff, it's been fun to stretch my m... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | antiform: I'm subscribed to only about 15 feeds through Google Reader, which I refine every season according to signal/noise ratio. I'm also a big fan of Google Alerts, which I've found is a good way to find great articles that you wouldn't find in the echo chamber of most blogs, particularly those about programming.Ot... |
what language should I learn next? | ardit33: I think your next step should be a couple of static languages.
Try C first (and object-c) and create a iPhone app, perhaps. Then try Java. I know, it is not popular around here, but it is good knowing one of the most used languages in the world.With Java you can do server side programming, or even better d... |
what language should I learn next? | Zak: It is not difficult to build a database-based webapp using Common Lisp. Hunchentoot, CLSQL and something to generate HTML (CL-WHO and HTML Template are both good).Clojure is really interesting, and may be my new favorite language. Parallelism is one of those things in programming that is rarely trivial in most lan... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | foulmouthboy: I read all the answers, and I'm now convinced that there's nothing keeping this site from eventually going down that same path.Death. Taxes. Gentrification. |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | azharcs: I think just not compromising is good enough to keep the quality of the site. I don't see HN doing any deals with NY Times or getting a ad deal with Google. They have kept it simple, just pure news and it is surrounded by smart bunch of people who want to keep it that way. |
What application would you create around "digital printing"? | mechanical_fish: See how many editors it really takes to turn bloggers' open content into a viable weekly magazine, nonprofit or otherwise.In other words, reinvent the NYT or Newsweek, but start with zero employees and move up rather than starting with hundreds and struggling to figure out who to cut.There are lots of ... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | GilbertErik: I think the key for me is subscribing to more posts than I could ever possibly read, and giving myself permission to not have to read all of them.Much like I used to read a newspaper, I've turned google reader into my information aggregator. It alerts me to daily podcasts, local/regional/national/global/f... |
what language should I learn next? | mdasen: This is going to be unpopular advice, but I would suggest algorithms in C. You already know how to make web applications. Any reason you want to know how to make web applications again? Will Lisp or C web applications make you happier or more productive?What will help you is probably a better understanding o... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | jon_dahl: The most important thing, besides the general desire to keep the community positive, is this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anythi... |
Anybody outsource their startup? | DanielBMarkham: Thanks for the advice guys. I've put the job up on both oDesk and RentACoder. Perhaps it will be useful to report back and tell everybody how it went? I'm really wary about trusting anybody else with "my" baby, but at some point I think it makes sense to offload non-value-added things. I really apprecia... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | acousticiris: I think there are a few things going on here that differentiate it from Digg/Reddit (I'll leave out Slashdot for the moment, because I think they have different concerns).On Digg and Reddit, there is no "focus". Digg started out as a tech news site and degraded slowly until they opened up the doors to in... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | DrStrngeluv: I just started using Google Reader about 3 weeks ago. I'm currently subscribed to approximately 30 feeds, and I tend to skim the headlines on the busier sites, and then read whatever might catch my eye. On the slower sites, or blogs from folks that I know, I tend to read the whole article, or give up aft... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | place: Reading 20 feeds with newsbeuter (http://synflood.at/newsbeuter.html)Fast, simple, console-friendly, familiar keybindings and gets the job done without any distractions.What more could you possibly wish for? |
How do you read RSS feeds? | pauljonas: NetNewsWireHave embarked upon a quest to break it — up to ~1000 feeds, and although it stalls out my MBP during huge updates, it's held up very well. Tried Google Reader but at about ~200 feeds, it crapped out and the whole AJAXy UI became totally unmanageable (plus, frequent bouts where the server never ret... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | reazalun: Limit the number of news submission per user in 24 hours. I suggest max 5 news/24 hours. That way, we can guard HN from spammers. |
How do you read RSS feeds? | soldarnal: I consume feeds (ten in total) in two different ways: my iGoogle Homepage and the Opera Feeds reader.For the iGoogle Homepage I have HN and /. feeds. These feeds are updated so frequently that I don't want to subscribe to them in my reader (and have the unread ones pile up). These I read selectively - only... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | EastSmith: Bloglines, about 150 feeds.I use about 10 categories: must read, local, off topic, certain topic, like say Python, Javascript, etc.It was a big problem before I started leaving unread categories for a couple of days. Now it is great. Read couple of categories on daily basis, then the other, when I have time,... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | jakewolf: For all you who love playing with math check out
Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg |
How do you read RSS feeds? | zitterbewegung: I use safari's built in RSS reader or Google Reader. I usually read the whole feed unless it is quite large and then I skim them or read the first 10. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | Prrometheus: After you've read a few books that were recommended here, but before putting down any real money, be sure to pick up a copy of Taleb's "Fooled By Randomness" to make sure you have a healthy amount of skepticism. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | ca98am79: my favorites: http://www.uglychart.com/?page_id=1534 |
How do you read RSS feeds? | Kilimanjaro: Google Reader for all feeds except slashdot, digg, reddit and HN which I visit directly in my browser. |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | adambard: As a fellow Digg->Reddit->here refugee, I think we're the problem. Judging by the fact that you didn't defect from Reddit sooner, it can be reasoned that you enjoy a dash of offbeat humor, politics, and funny pictures with your programming (and in this case entrepreneurial) articles and news. In other words... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | patrocles: rss2email -- rocks for blogs where you don't want to miss a single post (friends and other high S/N feeds)In general thought, most news actually isn't news. It's just data and we need to model what we actually care about, and then monitor for that.E.g. I don't really care that there's a war in Darfur, I care... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | jlouis: The main difference is very simple, yet effective: HN has a specific goal. It is not a place which will just flow with whatever is posted. Some things are allowed, and some things are not.Hopefully, the choice of content will keep people interested in that kind of content, and remove those that don't. They alre... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | alnayyir: aw come on. Someone has to have an answer to this, I'm quite curious. |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | yan: I have a MacBook and a MacBook Air (both fine laptops for coding) and I use mostly vim running inside iTerm (far superior to OS X's Terminal imho) for my IDE and C and Python are my languages of choice.When I write Objective-C w/ Cocoa, its X-Code all the way. It has a lot of excellent features.Socket programming ... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | shutter: I'm not really a "Mac" developer, since I don't (yet) code for the Mac APIs, but I'll respond anyway:I primarily code in Python and Javascript, but also some C/C++ non-GUI stuff. I tried a few different cross-platform Python IDEs, but nowadays I just use TextMate. I use iTerm for the terminal.TextMate's a grea... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | nazgulnarsil: Don't make your posts too entertaining. Don't make your posts too short. A community of people who post large chunks of dense text about esoteric subjects will keep the horde out. |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | s3graham: My oft-repeated slightly OT 2cents: don't code on any notebook (including an Air) for extended periods of time: they're very unergonomic. |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | evgen: If you need to do Linux-specific coding and I do mean _specific_, like using libraries or kernel apis that are Linux and not "unix" (e.g. epoll() or inoitify()) then you will probably want to compare VMWare and Parallels and pick one for your virtualization engine. This will also give you access to windows, whi... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | ljlolel: I was very excited to buy a Mac Mini the other day. I was very disappointed to learn over several weeks that, despite what Paul Graham and DHH and others say, OS X sucks for hacking.I experiment with a number of languages, I pull in many different libraries, I use various different tools and scripts and prog... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | bprater: Aside from software others have mentioned, I find myself using Coda frequently.When I'm working on a variety of different websites via SFTP, and it allows me to quickly log into a website, make a few changes, hit save and be done. No fiddling with another client or syncing.You can create a preview pane to the ... |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | SkyMarshal: Start here:http://www.bogleheads.org/ (long-term investing)http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=5033 (day & macro trading)http://wilmott.com/categories.cfm?catid=11 (quant finance & algorithmic trading)The single most important rule in investing or trading: don't lose money:http://infraredpr... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | geuis: My toolset is Firebug for Firefox and Smultron for my text editor. Photoshop for visual aspects of design. For software dev, a LAMP dev environment running on an EC2 instance connected to my local SVN repository. |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | falsestprophet: emacs via ssh |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | tonystubblebine: Totally agree about the work. My theory on CS work was that as long as I was learning something on a computer it didn't matter if it was for class or not. That ended up being a good theory that's served me well.When I was at Odeo we did a survey of the office to see who had degrees. I'm pretty sure it ... |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | gaius: As someone else on this site said once, getting into college in the first place is actually more influential on the rest of your life than graduating. You can always go back.Then again, college is to a certain extent what you make of it. You have opportunities there that you're unlikely to get again. Another opt... |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | antiform: Having done what you're thinking about doing, I could probably write pages on the pros and cons, but I'll boil it down to probably the most important reason:It's hard to go at it alone.I say that if you don't have a solid cofounder who has your back, an idea and implementation that you're willing to bet your ... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | gunderson: I can't believe nobody has mentioned collaborative filtering.Simple collective voting and new/hot/controversial are very unsophisticated measures of how much any particular user will like something.For an example of how powerful collaborative filtering is, check out movielens.orgThe key is to take each user'... |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | cmos: Ok. Your in college. In theory, you have more time now than later, when you might need a real job, to start a business.Don't drop out until you have an income from your new business. If you are truly passionate about starting something, and it's obsessing you, you shouldn't need to 'drop out' to get it going.A... |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | dnaquin: textmate. vim.gcc. python. django. it's all good. |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | jsvaughan: So - I code on stuff for my startup (http://www.bionicbooks.com) across all 3 of a g5 mac, an xp pc and ubuntu on a thinkpad. I use java and the major downside of OSX is that you cant use the sun jdk, you have to wait for apple's version which is inevitably at least 1 major release behind (and generally for... |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | brianr: What's the argument(s) against just dropping out now and starting something up?As someone currently on indefinite leave from college to work on my startup... I think you have the order backwards. Get something going first, and when it is going so well that it would be foolish not to work on it full-time, then t... |
How do you read RSS feeds? | toxik: /Applications/Mail.appI highly recommend it to anyone on OS X Leopard. Mail doesn't count unread RSS entries as unread mail, so RSS feeds become more of a "you could potentially look at this when you have nothing to do, and these are the entries you didn't read". It's good. |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | captain-m: If growth isn't a concern why not force people to wait a certain amount of time after signing up before they're allowed to post?That way new users can get a feel for the community before they start posting and you only get users with a real interest in the stories posted here. |
Best books/source to learn about investing? | jkent: No one mentioned Dilbert's 9-point formula?http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7Bbe5...Won't paste it here, but it's worth a look. The first bit of advice is make a will (yes, even if you aren't married - give it to the old hackers home). |
Books on meta-learning | MaysonL: "Learning How to Learn": Idries Shah |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | wallflower: Sometimes a decision you make isn't black and white. Remember, you can use logic to rationalize decisions that other parties may see as illogical (e.g. your well-meaning parents). They say if you want to buy something really badly - wait 30 days and then see if you want to buy it. I'd like to suggest the sa... |
what language should I learn next? | giardini: Python because it is1. easy to learn,2. has lots of libraries,3. is anointed by Google,4. is anointed by Peter Norvig (http://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html) .Or go to Erlang. It's concurrency model is untouched. You'll be programming in Erlang someday. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | jm4: Hmm... Good question... Bit torrent might be worth looking into. It will probably take forever, but once it gets going you can just leave it for a couple days and it's easy to resume a transfer if anyone gets disconnected.It might even be easier and faster to go low tech. A few DVD-Rs or Flash drives and stamps wo... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | brlewis: I have excess capacity on ourdoings.com and no limits yet. I've made a lot of UI improvements lately. Let me know if you encounter anything difficult for non-IT people. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | technoguyrob: http://streamfile.com lets you "stream" a file like a movie, so you don't have to wait for an upload to finish. Just zip up the 5GB into 3 packs (browsers won't let you upload more than 2GB), and stream it. Then let it stream until the other party receives it.P.S. Streamfile is written in Erlang, which is... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | brk: Why not swap photos before you leave and you're all local to each other?Otherwise, I'd say find a $5/mo web server account. Everyone zips up their images, ftp's them to the server, and you download each persons image bundle as a simple link.You'd probably have no more than 100GB of aggregate monthly transfers, lo... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | noelchurchill: Why non burn to DVD and drop in the mail box? |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | zepolen: Here's an idea, make a gmail account that you all have access to and use the gmail hard drive (http://en.seguridadpc.net/gmail_hard_disk.htm) to share between yourselves. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | lampy: Microsoft Mesh (in P2P mode, without storing data on server)? |
What & how do you code on your Mac? | rmanocha: Most of my work is in Python as of now - I use MacVim [1] along with a bunch of plugins (see [2]). I was using Eclipse with PyDev for the longest time, but I just got tired of the bloated memory usage, especially when I wasn't using many of the things Eclipse is famous for (I still swear by it when I do Java ... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | ycseattle: jgamman can you email me at ycseattle (-at-) gmail.com? I am working on this exact idea. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | prakash: fedex? |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | nickb: 1) Use an embedded bittorrent tracker inside Azureus/uTorrent2) Sneakernet! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | hollywoodcole: One byte at a time! lolI would sign up a gmail account and upload the photos to it. Then give access to all your friends so that they can download and archive what you all want. It won't be pretty but you will be able to send the account. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | joshwa: Do you all need all 5GB of photos? Probably not. I'd venture that:-- the total number of shots can be edited down to the 'keepers'-- web-resolution is sufficient for 95% of the photos being tradedHave everyone edit out the losers, batch process down to 800px jpegs, upload to a flickr group, and then transmit th... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | volida: rapidshare |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | bprater: Curious why you head out before you share pictures? If you did it right there, you could burn x numbers of DVDs. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | dominik: Flickr and Smugmug both have unlimited uploading for their photos. Both services are user friendly, even to non-technical users. Flickr's pro service is $25/yr and Smugmug's entry level service is $40/year. I personally host over 50 GB of photos at Smugmug.My only other piece of advice: upload from somewher... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | raghus: Flickr etc won't work since.. - actually, Flickr is a great solution. Just get an Pro account for $25/yr which comes with unlimited uploads and unlimited sets. You can even set up Flickr uploading to upload lower res files right from your DSLR biggies and get the whole upload done much much faster. You can tag ... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | Frocer: This would be extremely appealing to us. We actually hired a marketing copywriter but had to let her go due to price. How could we reach you? :) |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | grimoire: I'm with the whole DVD thing. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a box of discs in a postal van. The ping time on the other hand... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | nickb: I'd love to hear what you'd say about what we're working on. |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | davidw: I'd love it if you wanted to have a go at one or more summaries on Squeezed Books ( http://www.squeezedbooks.com ). I'm currently running a contest where the winner gets a free book, which isn't much of a prize, but might be some free publicity, and isn't a lot of work either. |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | Alex3917: This is a really good idea. I keep sending the product description for my YC app to people and asking them to help wordsmith the value proposition, and I keep getting emails back with marketing ideas and questions about logistics. This has happened three times in the last week. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | albertcardona: Don't understimate the bandwidth of of a truckload of hard drives. I.e. fedexing hard drives is the easiest and fastest.[There is a file sharing society in Japan, by invitation only, whose members ship encrypted hard drives to each other. Not just for bandwidth reasons.] |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | callmeed: Get an Amazon S3 account and use an S3-compatible client to upload/download the files.You can also set permissions on the files so that people can download them directly. |
Yahoo spam filter, is it possible to get through? | ssanders82: Can I ask which changes were necessary to get through Hotmail? Gmail isn't a problem, but Hotmail occasionally is for us. (Same situation - registration confirmation, etc.) |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | yan: Great idea and thank you for offering your services.I've always wondered if we can just pool the talent available here, with people advertising what they're good at. For those that aren't deeply involved in their own start ups, this can almost be fun. If someone has a good idea of something they want to hack up, j... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | boucher: Seems to me like you should just pick a company you'd like to work for who you think is in need of your skills, and then prove it to them by doing exactly what you suggest. Why wait for them to come to you? |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | ulvund: Wuala, a distributed filesystem, make a group. |
Yahoo spam filter, is it possible to get through? | alex_c: Call Yahoo and scream your heads off (politely).I'm serious. Hotmail was willing to work with us to help us get things working. If you've already jumped through all the silly technical hoops, have a legitimate case for sending the emails, and comply with their terms, try to get through to someone at Yahoo. Th... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | radu_floricica: I looked hard for something like that (in Romanian, not English). What I found was either freelancers who offered to work for free (the job was small) but ultimately bailed, or big companies who didn't even want to talk to me. I ended up writing my own texts and feeling better for it. Anyways, I just wa... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | newt0311: Um... Since nobody has suggested it yet, open up an ssh port on a computer and use sftp. |
Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person) | eisokant: I think it doesn't exist because of the privacy implications. Imagine someone reading all your emails! |
Professional Python IDEs? | breck: I have minimal experience with Wingware, but have found it impressive and am spending more time with it. Previously I've done all my Python in IDLE and Textpad.I'm also going to give Fedora a shot. As bloated as it is, free is nice. |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | jwesley: I'm in a similar position to the author of this thread. I can hack well enough to set up and customize sites with open source CMS, but my strongest skills are copywriting and marketing.I would like to collaborate with people with complimentary skills. Email or ping me at johncwesley@gmail.com, I'd love to hear... |
Professional Python IDEs? | jcl: Komodo is supposed to be pretty nice, although I haven't used it myself (happy with vim):http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/feature_showc... |
Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person) | breck: Sure, I know of a service. It's cheap too--only one dollar per month. But you have to have a large net worth to become a member. Preferably in liquid form in online banks. |
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