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Stark Trek - How far are we? | vaksel: you never know, the thing with physics, is that a single discovery can turn everything upside down and lead to millions of inventions |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | marketer: What are the market forces driving deeper space exploration? There aren't any I can think of except recreation and science experiments.What's hot right now in aeronautics seems to be better communication and navigation satellites. Maybe these will push the boundaries of space technology? |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | kaffeinecoma: I'd say about 20-30 years away: http://markii.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/kurzweils-singularity... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | kineticac: we barely know enough about what's on this planet and how it works let alone go anywhere else. 500 years might not be enough. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | dkokelley: The biggest inhibitor I think would be the lack of economical justifications for it. We don't need the space (or rather, what we would like is the space to be close. Take a plane trip across the U.S. and you'll find a whole lot of empty), and our natural resources will last us for the foreseeable future.What... |
review Feedspike | jmonegro: Your algorithm seems like it's well made, though I have not taken a close look at it's capacities yet. My suggestion: get a better interface. You're competing with similar websites such as http://www.newspond.com |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | jemerick: http://aremysitesup.com/ |
Listing customer logo on "Who uses this site" page | lacker: You probably don't want to annoy your customers regardless of whether you are legally allowed to use their logo. Just ask them. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | mpk: > I couldn't help but genuinely feel depressed that I wasn't born 500 years from now.The thing is - we have no way of knowing what life in the future will be like. There might not be anything we recognize as human life there in the first place.I'm continuously amazed by the here and now. I've been all around the w... |
How do you design your web pages? | jayair: This might sound strange but here is my process:- A couple of days before I need to start work on a feature (or a section), I start visualizing what my ideal end result should look like. I tell myself "Imagine there were no constraints and I could build any type of an interface I can". I do this while I walk ar... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | lesbianmonad: Interesting question. In the developed world, the last three decades seem to have only entrenched class power and moved us further from a post-monetary society; however there are many encouraging developments in the periphery that could bear much fruit over the next quarter century. History, as always, wi... |
How do you do your health insurance in your startup? | comster: we dont =( |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | fossb: If you want anything more than just monitor if your site is alive, like knowing if it changes (or if your domain , host, whois, etc changes), try:
http://sucuri.net/?page=nbi(network-based integrity monitoring) |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | simanyay: There is a very interesting book Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Impossible-Scientific-Explorat...). It is exactly about those questions. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | gcv: We need to solve the problem of producing energy. I think that human progress, even in the short term, depends entirely upon "breaking" the first law of thermodynamics. Clearly, no one will successfully create energy out of nothing, but I hope that physics will one day invent a way to cheaply and cleanly tap into ... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | jodrellblank: I've always been pretty amazed at the thought of a space world.Great! 'cos you're living on one :)Very far. We can't travel faster than light and at the moment not even close to it. We have vague ideas that warp drives might be possible, but generating, containing and manipulating enough energy to work in... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | jodrellblank: > I couldn't help but genuinely feel depressed that I wasn't born 500 years from now.What does it mean to say you wish you were born 500 years from now?Explain: what would have to happen for that to be so? |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | pookleblinky: I also found Star Trek to be disappointing in its depiction of technological change. It is, at base, little different than all the other sci-fi depictions of housewives in space and Colossal-sized vacuum tube intelligences.It's a common bias to overestimate technological and societal change in the short t... |
Review our startup, Philtro | jjs: > We're a small bootstrapped teamAre you bootstrapped, or merely self-funded-so-far? |
Review our startup, Philtro | pufuwozu: Just a small bug; as soon as I load the site it says "Logout successful!" even though I haven't interacted with the site yet. |
Any good housing sites? | rms: http://www.housingmaps.com/ is a good mashup |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | Devilboy: Be happy you weren't born 500 ago instead! |
Review our startup, Philtro | ieatpaste: A couple bugs:
- The signup screen showed two forms, and showed the error form when I filled and submitted via the top form.
- The slider hid all tweets and wouldn't show them regardless of position of tweets and the category navigationA couple thoughts:
- This may work better as a client versus a stand-alon... |
Review our startup, Philtro | mrtron: Are you doing some strange caching?I get a 'Thank you, invitation sent.' when I first hit the page. |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | alnayyir: >Is a Hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism?Short answer: No.Long answer: No, because it involves working with a closed-system that depends on taking a number of premises for granted.A hacker by nature wouldn't constrain themselves to the limitations and premises that an outsider presents to them.... |
Review our startup, Philtro | dryicerx: Any current business model on how to make money? |
Best way to set up family webapp? | bayareaguy: Sounds like a neat project for Google App Engine. |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | SwellJoe: Possibly, but most of us grow out of it by the time we reach our mid-twenties. |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | ilkhd2: I am not sure what you mean by hacker, but, for example Stallman I am sure not an Objectivist.I myself have beliefs closer to ones of Chomsky than of Rand. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | eugenejen: I think physics is not the only answer to this. The following technologies and organization maybe more useful in certain case.1. The capability to have all my DNA sequences stored.2. The capability to create an organism that has exact DNA sequence as me.3. The capability to have all my memory inside my brain... |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | noodle: correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this at least a little bit of an oxymoron? doesn't rational selfishness and/or moral egoism preclude the notion of having a job that is to serve others, i.e., run for or hold governmental office? or at the very least ensure a government corrupt on some level? |
Any good housing sites? | jhancock: http://sfbay.cribq.com/ |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | noonespecial: Hackers tend to gravitate away from labels like objectivism. Once one subscribes to a label, it invites toeing the party line and switching off the brain. Hackers are even nervous, it seems, about accepting the label "hacker".Rand, like Marx presented a cartoonish, plastic version of reality that seems co... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | drahcir: web2py |
Hacking Learning Chinese | pookleblinky: http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html are the 3,000 most common Chinese characters.http://www.cozychinese.com/category/audio/frequently-used-wo... is an audio-focused list. |
Hacking Learning Chinese | rms: http://www.skritter.com/ |
How do you design your web pages? | csbartus: Either you have the sense of aesthetics or not ... if yes you'll learn & love designing as coding ... if not you'll have to find a very good designer because the user interface matters more and more |
Hacking Learning Chinese | tokenadult: The royal road to learning Chinese is to use the textbook series written by John DeFrancis (who died just this year).http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=John+DeFrancis&sou...His Chinese Reader serieshttp://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Chinese-Reader-Part-I/dp/030...has never been surpassed. See my HN profile ... |
help needed on VM placement algorithm | eru: I will look into your problem. Perhaps I can work out an integer linear formulation that you can feed into a standard solver for linear optimization problems.If you want to read papers on the subject, look for 'scheduling' or 'production planning'. 'Bin packing' and 'cutting stock' might also be related.Do you n... |
help needed on VM placement algorithm | rjprins: Is it first come first serve?Very interesting, I'll see what I can work out.. |
Hacking Learning Chinese | hs: extracted (a bit buggy) without permission from
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Review our startup, Browseology | epoweripi: Firstly - its a neat idea! I liked it.I gave it a spin and here are my comments:
A. Are the similar products really similar products?
(Eg. http://www.browseology.com/#v=iZ9o4v&g=/amazon/item/Sony...)
(this is a pouch but the similar products are more camera realted and not camera pouches)B. It will be nice t... |
What is the best way to revise an old language/technology? | evilneanderthal: Project Euler |
What is a "toy" language? | magicobject: PHP simply lacks the facilities that professional developers need. Inability to override class methods and lack of threads are two obvious but extremely important examples. There are many other reasons to call it a toy language, inconsistent interfaces, bolt-on object-orientation poor variable scope rule i... |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | aranganath: Pivotal Tracker (http://www.pivotaltracker.com/)Disclaimer: I work for them. |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | lancrey: I've been working with ClockingIT, the interface is good and easy to understand, you can use the hosted version or setup on your own server. http://www.clockingit.com
disclaimer : I don't work for them :) it's a full opensource , created with RoR |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | adnam: Redmine/Mediawiki etc + budget web host |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | stuff4ben: Give Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) a look. While it doesn't have a great website, after installing it on my Mac, it blew me away in terms of features and functionality. It's very similar to Unfuddle.com (or maybe I have it backwards). |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | jaydub: I'm currently using the free version of Zoho Projects. Works well for our purposes: http://projects.zoho.com/ |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | emilam: Rally Dev Community version http://www.rallydev.com is pretty good. We used it with a team of 6 and it worked out great. |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | jaddison: I'm not sure if it fits the bill, but check out the Trac Project at http://trac.edgewall.org/.It's free, opensource and web-based. |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | akshaye: 37 Signals' products: http://www.37signals.com/
But i'm not sure if free versions support 6-7 people. |
Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? | maxharris: Yes, hackers are pre-disposed towards Objectivism.Those that are not are:
* unaware of Objectivism
* or are unwilling to learn about it because of something they heard about from leftist cynics
* or aren't really hackers in the first place |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | kirubakaran: If your team knows Emacs, you may want to try org-mode (sync-ed by, say, git). I am not kidding. The notes-centric approach, instead of the usual task-centric approach, will completely change the way you work and collaborate for the better.I can't stress this enough. |
Thoughts on my new local ad program? | noodle: its not a new concept. the thing i've always hated about the concept is that it tends to come with multimedia interaction, popups and the like. if you can do it without it being as intrusive/annoying, i wouldn't mind it as a user. |
Trusted Computing, iPhone, and unique identifiers | Travis: What kind of app are you building that this is a concern? |
Trusted Computing, iPhone, and unique identifiers | Zev: NSString *UUID = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier];
Will give you the current devices UUID. And, is it really important to know if the device is an iPod or an iPhone?However, this won't stop people from screwing around with your app still. If people want to act silly and stupid, they will. |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | yish: First, a really good site to find available domain names is http://domai.nr/They link to a bunch of registrars, but I do have the same question, which of those registrars are a reputable. |
Are there better options than PR Web out there? | fallentimes: I'm interested to hear the PR responses.But as far as SEO goes - do you have a blog or any original content? That's a good place to start. Also, here's a great cheat sheet:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-shee... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | jmonegro: Usually, though not always, domain.tld or register.tld lead to a registration agency. |
Are there better options than PR Web out there? | davidcann: I'd be interested to know if mass press releases work at all. I wonder if anyone really reads them when they come from no-name startups. |
Are there better options than PR Web out there? | teej: SEO via PR releases? That sounds like a terrible idea. Why don't you start a topical blog? Spend that money to hire a subject expert to write a few blog posts for you to get you started.SEO is comprised of two things: original, relevant, fresh content and strategies to make that content visible. Your content ... |
Are there better options than PR Web out there? | byrneseyeview: PRWeb is probably the best press release distributor, as far as PR for SEO goes. People do read them, they rank well, etc.I agree with the others, with reservations: the thing to remember about SEO is that the results compound; if you bring in 20% more visitors with your off-site marketing, and you get 2... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | jusob: 101domain has a lot of TLDs: http://www.101domain.com/ (I've never bought a domain from them) |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | jbr: Project management is a fairly broad domain and includes a bunch of different tool types. If you're using sites, you might be interested in pbworks (was pbwiki) or 37signals basecamp. Pivotal tracker provides a very focused (and thus intentionally restrictive) workflow that expresses their agile development phil... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | asb: If you're hoping for a great domain hack, I think you're out of luck. I don't think you can register at the second level, so you'd have to register a .com.er or similar. The Wikipedia article seems to indicate it's not a well-supported TLD at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.erHere's the official registry:
http:... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | adamhowell: Be careful w/ foreign domains. I bought rankin.gs (South Georgia) a couple years ago from Godaddy, developed and launched a small side project for it, and a couple of months in the .gs registry went down indefinitely. |
forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? | omnivore: You'd be better off getting an LLC and just using a registered agent in a different state, where it's cheaper to do so. Wyoming has no corporate taxes of any kind and its the first state in the nation to create the LLC. You could do it through Legalzoom for less than $200 |
forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? | noodle: i am also specifically interested in the vermont virtual corporation. anyone have any specific experiences? |
Trusted Computing, iPhone, and unique identifiers | credo: no, the iPhone doesn't provide a "non-forgable UUID"
The [UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier isn't going to work because it is trivial to spoof the deviceIdentifier.You could potentially design your own authentication mechanism and implement the appropriate client-code and server-code to verify (over ssl) ... |
Are there better options than PR Web out there? | auston: I know you didn't ask for feedback on your site - but for SEO purposes - I'd recommend putting the search box + a few recommended events on the front page.Additionally - I'd mess with the title tags to be more descriptive/targeted like for the home page "Buy & Sell Tickets Online - TicketTrunk" or for the event... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | auston: domai.nr |
Any web app suggestions for project management? | blurry: Since you already have your team on gmail I would suggest this:1. Add Tasks from Google Labs to everyone's gmail account2. Add same to Google Sites (you can insert gadgets into pages, just make sure you add Google Labs Tasks and not other task apps also from google)What I really like about this setup is the abi... |
What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? | shaderlab: Searches for .er are our most popular viewed results. Unfortunately, Eritrea’s TLD management is in about as solid a state as the state itself—which is to say, not very.We’ve no anecdotal evidence of anyone managing to register an Eritrean domain name.Funny thing though—the technical contact for the TLD is r... |
forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? | darklighter3: IANAL but the state that you choose to organize in won't have much bearing on how much income tax you owe. You will owe tax based upon the state(s) that are your legal residence. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | stevedekorte: Our society isn't nearly as hierarchical, militaristic, conformist and fascist as that depicted in Star Trek but I could see us there in a few hundred years. |
forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? | kitt: First suggestion, network to find a lawyer you like and trust. They'll help you far more than any HN advice will.Going against that suggestion, my next suggestion is don't register in California, as you'll pay the $900 LLC tax each year just to exist. The $900 varies based on how much the corporation earns each... |
forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? | fatdog789: Delaware. It's the friendliest state to "foreign" companies (companies registered in the state but headquartered/operated out-of-state).You have a nexus with any state in which (1) you are registered or (2) are physically located (employees, offices, facilities, leased real property etc, but not including co... |
What's a good job for someone who likes "making order out of chaos?" | tokenadult: I wish I could pay that someone to clean up my home office. There is a line of business for home organizers, but maybe this is not what the person has in mind. |
What's a good job for someone who likes "making order out of chaos?" | khandekars: Empirically prove or disprove String Theory, without building a particle accelerator the size of a galaxy, :) |
What's a good job for someone who likes "making order out of chaos?" | ram1024: efficiency expert. perk point: you get to fire people!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_efficiency_expert |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | pclark: define stuff. |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | Jem: Surely this is what the blog was invented for? (In it's original form: the web log.) |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | dsingleton: Careful tagging on Delicious, combined with a personal Wiki/notepad web app that pulls in links, photos, etc, based on the wiki page/tag. |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | arien: I got my first computer as Xmas gift when I was 7 years old. I read some sci-fi magazine and I soooo wanted a robot... But my mom told me they didn't have house-robots yet, so I asked for a computer instead. And I got it! A shiny Commodore 64, with the cassette and such. It took ages to load programs, and then m... |
Why isn't Markdown working? | jauco: Did HN ever support markdown? (Except for the asterisks (which still appear to work)) |
Why isn't Markdown working? | davidw: This site doesn't use markdown:http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | grunties: I don't use anything more complex than a bookmarking service (delicious) to tame my personal chaos, and I'm the most chaotic person I know by a couple of orders of magnitude, literally.Why do you want more complexity? |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | gtani: you can wedge everything into a db or file/directory tree so you can hit with Google desktop, or SOLR, or sphinxsearch if you need control doc granularity, tokenization, stemming |
help me to choose laptop for programming study | basscadet: Don't skimp on the screen. Hackers always need more pixels. (A friend of mine currently uses three displays.) |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | csomar: i didn't find a good tool that record my online stuff, delicious, su and digg are mostly commercial and don't help do that.I use emails by sending and featuring a note, but it depends in the situation, sometimes i save in delicious, sometimes in my browser and sometimes in a txt file |
Fictional books related to startups? | wallflower: This just occurred to me: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | profgubler: I work with mileszs on TellMyPolitician. We are trying to get feedback on how to better present this to publishers to entice them to place our button on their site. We eventually want to have our tool added to the likes of addthis and sharethis as well.We would also love to here your opinion on the tool and... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | srn: when?What you're looking for isn't exactly a tourist attraction. |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | dbul: I can see how this will result in politicians being flooded with a lot of emotionally-driven comments and rants and therefore be less productive than some coordinated effort which has a backbone of reasoning.So you may want to consider a way to create something like I just watched this video, I would like to hear... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | tdedecko: The search functionality needs to be on the homepage, so I can immediately see the benefits of your product.Also, I think you should be marketing the search functionality and not the button. Make it easy to find a politician's information and then make it easy to contact them and you will find more people wil... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | fredBuddemeyer: getting people to traverse pages and fill out forms is tough. however there are so many politically relevant comments generated on the web yet they arent directed to politicians. tapping into this existing content production would be a great goal and integration would be the mantra to get you there. a b... |
Keeping track of stuff on the net | pasbesoin: Firefox extension "Scrapbook". |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | qu1j0t3: Don't miss the Computer History Museum, near Moffett Field. |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | utefan001: TellMyPoliticianViaHandWrittenLetter.com would be more effective in my experience. Politicians might not feel guilty ignoring an email/e-communication, but a hand written letter, personally stamped is harder to ignore. A state of Maryland politician in a town hall meeting I went to made this point clear du... |
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