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How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | colinplamondon: I think the mindset behind the comment is a good one- in general, joking one liners are discouraged on the site.Personally, I find most of the ones posted here hilarious- however, they're also usually downvoted into the basement. That discourages people from posting more, which encourages a more serious... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | colinprince: Respectfully, saying "I never should had said it" regarding the pussy comment, followed by "I still think he was a pussy" smacks of insincerity to me. |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | badger7: The trouble with humour on HN is that HN is full of other people. |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | swombat: I chat with kyro quite a bit on #startups... I'm pretty sure he would have said it in person :-) |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | rml: I find that it helps me to assume the following:- whatever the topic at hand is, I haven't thought about it enough yet.- my attempts at humor will not come across in text (without context).- the person I'm corresponding with is smarter than I am.- Despite my best efforts, I will be misunderstood.One of the best qu... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | adrianwaj: Kyro and I have had a run-in once before, he downmodded, from what I recall but cannot link-to (as it's almost a year old) was a perfectly reasonable and valuable comment. He did own up to downmodding it when I asked who did it (even though both of us were downmodded in the follow up). |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | DTrejo: I don't come to HN for jokes. Please refrain. |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | diminoten: You should care less about what people think of you, and more about what different people bring to the table.To give an example, if you met Kyro at a convention or event, and he was an informative, insightful guy who happens to not like talking about his work in prison terms, then that's his opinion.Making a... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | nop: I'm curious do a lot of people feel they need to restrain themselves from writing insults on the internet? My personality doesn't change between online or offline mode, I only adapt to the company I'm with with. If anything I'm more likely to get annoyed offline by the lack of Google and the inability to verify ot... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | tom_rath: Well, your comment:""landing a job as an accountant"
"I wish I had gone to prison"
What's the difference?"Didn't add anything to the discussion more than a brief joke which attacks those who have chosen a difficult, strongly certified profession different than your own 'hacker' lifestyle. It's typical of the... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | ilitirit: My opinion is that anything that doesn't add value to the discussion should be avoided. If you keep that in mind, most of the issues you raised become irrelevant.The high level of discourse is what attracted me to HN in the first place. Browsing HN is an intellectually stimulating experience. A great side-... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | adrianwaj: When you're mean to someone else successfully, you shift your pain to somebody else's on a psychic level.Downmodding is an easy way to be mean, especially when you overkill a bad comment or are over-zealous with it. But in doing so, it will never resolve one's own pain.He why I find HN a highly strung forum:... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | beta: I consider humor here to be mostly unwanted noise. Most of the time IMHO, commentators' attempts at witticism reduce to just groping around for self esteem boosts and/or goading one another into flamewars. Having been at /. for many years, I've really come to appreciate and miss the (+X, Funny) header, it saved ... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | tokenadult: if you have a smarta$$ remark, go for it, but make it clever.By contrast, I read the guidelineshttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlas saying "don't make smartass comments" when they say, "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." I don't enjoy conversation that large... |
Rate My App | trickjarrett: While normally I'm quick to give in depth reviews, one thing I don't review is Facebook apps.If your site had a public facing interface then maybe I would get more into it, but it seems rather silly to have a domain that's entire purpose is to direct users to install the app.It's not an app I'd ever use p... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | petercooper: My biggest problem is with people who haven't got the skills to communicate their point properly. In many debates here on HN (or even in single replies) people get personal and passive aggressive, labeling the people they disagree with "assholes" or worse.Debate is good and very healthy, and we should be h... |
Legality of using artwork from GPL-ed games | makecheck: Seems to be summed up by 2(b) in the GPL: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
That suggests yo... |
After SICP, what next? | Xichekolas: Did he enjoy sections 4 (Metalingustic Abstractions) and 5 (Register Machines)?If so, he'd probably be interested in both these books. They are quite hefty, but seem to be goldmines (so far, I'm only just getting started on them myself).http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...andhttp:... |
After SICP, what next? | michael_dorfman: If your friend wants to a) get really strong on algorithms, b) put in some hours, and c) actually do the exercises, I'd recommend Knuth. It's worth the effort. |
After SICP, what next? | chollida1: It depends on what he wants to learn.I got more out of How to Design Programs than I did from SCIP. Though to be fair I read it before SCIP:)http://www.htdp.org/On the other hand if he wants to learn Lisp then I really enjoyed Lisp in Small Pieces though its not a quick read. It consumed almost all of 2005... |
After SICP, what next? | Notorious_PWN: I like CTM. http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Pr... |
After SICP, what next? | fernando: - Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming- Algorithms, a functonal approach- Real World Haskell- Paradigms of artificial intelligence programmingAny of these are excellent post-sicp reads. |
After SICP, what next? | tom_b: I'm personally going to work through Programming Language Pragmatics. I want to have a better foundation in language paradigms, plus fill a hole in my education (no, zero, nada, real exposure to compiler design).I'll also be learning more about Lisp concurrently.Sadly, none of this has much bearing to my day jo... |
After SICP, what next? | dschobel: This is the single best text I've seen on algorithms in the real-world: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...Can't recommend it enough. |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | lucumo: > smarta$$What's with the dollar signs? |
After SICP, what next? | prakash: Introduction to Information Retrieval: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521865719/Convex Optimization: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521833787/Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262133601/Read Peter Norvig's review for Foundations of ....http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GSYXSK... |
After SICP, what next? | softbuilder: He should write a lot of code for fun and try to incorporate what he's learned so far. I understand he codes at his day job, but that's not a place to take risks or to code things 5 different ways "just because". |
Do you have a robust GreaseMonkey script for submitting resumes? | wheels: This is a horrible way to search for jobs. Admittedly, when I was at roughly your point in life, I did the same, and it failed.Every job I've ever gotten has been through connections. Well, except for Fudruckers when I was 16. A lot of times jobs posted publicly are only a facade for hiring someone who is co... |
How Should We Treat Each Other Here? | zackattack: If you're still wondering what you'd say to some random internet person if you bumped into them 25 hours later, doesn't that make YOU the pussy? |
Legality of using artwork from GPL-ed games | demallien: Why go through all of the angst? Most people find it too hard to put pirated stuff on their iPhones, so why don't you just GPL and release your own source code? It's highly unlikely that you have some amazing new algorithms hiding in there that no-one else has thought of...I've been thinking quite a bit ab... |
do we need a pusher/seller/rainmaker? | russell: Yes. I infer that you are a little on the introverted side and need an extrovert. But you don't want someone perceived as pushy as in car salesman type. You said "guy", but I highly recommend thinking female. If you need CEO chest thumping, maybe a guy. For mid-level decision makers, I think women do bett... |
After SICP, what next? | pz: I recommend the Kleinberg/Tardos textbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321...It is a really enjoyable read and has a nice narrative that I think other algorithm books are lacking. CLR, for instance, just reads like a handbook to me. The goal Kleinberg/Tardos book, OTOH, is to teach you... |
do we need a pusher/seller/rainmaker? | jdileo: Google, Microsoft, GE, Salesforce.com, etc all have excellent sales and marketing executives who have driven their success and play a key part in relaying customer feedback to the organization. So, yes, you need the rainmaker if you feel you and your partner do not qualify.
In my mind the technologist & rainma... |
Legality of using artwork from GPL-ed games | asciilifeform: > * write my iPhone game (not releasing it's source)> * when run, my iPhone game contacts the debian (or source forge) servers; downloads the corresponding .tar.gz or .deb...> is this clearly legal or clearly against the GPLIt is clearly against the spirit of the GPL. Do you really want the negative publ... |
How to monetize a play for fun poker site? | edpokerhelp38: Use CPALead.com and get your users to complete a survey to enter a tournament or to restore their balance. You'll earn around $1 a survey and they convert extremely well. Best way to monetize USA poker visitors. |
After SICP, what next? | djcjr: CTM has my vote. |
After SICP, what next? | wheels: The CLR "Introduction to Algorithms" would be one of the canonical answers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_AlgorithmsIt's certainly one worth having and the only book from my computer science education that I still reference frequently.In fact, I'm tempted to say that it's the last computer science... |
Rate my site - FirstDrafter community library of contract forms | kyro: It's a good idea, but how do you expect to compete with scribd/docstoc and perhaps even legalzoom?Some things to point out:You spend too much time on the home page explaining what your site is. To be honest, it could be done in one sentence. The buttons at the bottom right make me feel like I'm pressing 'next' or... |
Rate my site - FirstDrafter community library of contract forms | swolchok: Why is "about" on its own line below the "menu bar"? |
After SICP, what next? | rw: "Problems On Algorithms" (Parberry, Gasarch):
A slim volume containing ~700 exercises on proving various properties of algorithms. And it teaches you most of what is needed. Download it from: http://www.eng.unt.edu/ian/books/free/"Elements of the Theory of Computation" (Papadimitriou): Classic text. Sure you've hea... |
Are Sports Sites Outdated or Am I Not the Audience? | russell: I have to believe it's you (and me:-). Most people are attracted to images more than texts. espn.com is rich in images and the text is low density. Otherwise it is reasonably clean and not too garish. I suspect that a lot of money went into the design and testing. US Today took the same approach to image ... |
What is your opinion of Crypto-anarchism and anarcho-capitalism? | drobilla: Anarcho-capitalism is a contradiction in terms. You can't have an absence of power heirarchy when some people are filthy rich and others are starving to death. It's called "libertarianism" (and why libertarians try to co-opt the anarcho prefix is beyond me, it's not as if it wins you popularity points).Usua... |
After SICP, what next? | uninverted: Go be the smartest person at a Java shop! |
Rate My App (facebook connect) | systemtrigger: This is the second time today you've submitted that link and it's a beautiful splash page but I haven't tried your app because it evidently requires me to grant you access to my Facebook profile. Maybe if you had a demo or a screencast we could watch we'd understand how much fun it would be to play Cupid... |
Great design without designer on-board? | systemtrigger: I could use help with design too and it's not so much that I can't design but that I'm too close to my app and need outside opinions about how to lay stuff out and how to phrase things. I wonder if startups could moonlight a little and help one another out on design, doing mockups and copyrighting with t... |
Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? | jodrellblank: I know a 7 day old post is ancient by hb standards, but have you seen librivox? It's a website of community contributed readings of non-copyright texts/books. |
Google App Engine (GAE) Authentication | johnnybgoode: Although the docs give that impression, I don't think you actually have to use their account system. I'm pretty sure you can just roll your own. |
Are Sports Sites Outdated or Am I Not the Audience? | mahmud: Who visits sports websites? |
Startup House? | julianjw: You're quite right, if you're not interested in challenging yourself, developing skills you never knew you had, being or becoming flexible, and using a nimble mind, then a startup might not be the right choice.There's nothing easy about starting a company. It can be a rough experience, and is not for the risk... |
Google App Engine (GAE) Authentication | tlrobinson: I don't think there's anything stopping you from using another authentication system... all you really need is the ability to set/read cookies and a place to store credentials and session info, right? |
Great design without designer on-board? | SwellJoe: pg has frequently suggested "simple" as a substitute for "good", using Google as an example. I think this is the best you can do, in the short term, if you don't have a designer that shares your vision. Tweaking simple designs is much easier than tweaking complex ones, so if you do simple now, when you have... |
Great design without designer on-board? | dazzawazza: Here are some tips from what I have learned as a coder that has been forced to design:1 - find another product that you like the design for, look for something simple and with an appropriate colour scheme for your market. Use this as a starting design.2 - Read smashing magazine for typography and layout tip... |
Great design without designer on-board? | alexkearns: I would advise any aspiring software developer to get their hands dirty with design as early as possible in their career. Hardcore programmers might deny it but interface design is as important to most software as the database structure, code architecture and algorithms. You can hardly call yourself a softw... |
After SICP, what next? | abecedarius: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ -- has lots of broadly useful material and ought to be accessible to anyone who's completed SICP. One of the very best technical books I've read. |
Are Sports Sites Outdated or Am I Not the Audience? | joeycfan: They drop the coin on state-of-the-art sites - the SOTA is a bit dumb right now, thats all. |
Google App Engine (GAE) Authentication | babyshake: You can definitely use your own. Try Janrain's offering, or just use django auth. |
What Ad network do you use to buy traffic to your site? | zimbabwe: If you've got the money, The Deck and Fusion both boast very high conversion rates - provided your product is within their niches' interests. |
Great design without designer on-board? | phil_KartMe: 1) solve a problem burning enough for early adopters that they'll be willing to invest time to figure out how to use the poorly designed product2) try to offer users just 1 action per page3) watch logs and talk to customers to see what is/isn't being done as desired. adjust size/color to get results.4) inv... |
After SICP, what next? | jsmanger: The best book to follow up SICP is Essentials of Programming Languages, by Friedman, Wand, and Haynes. It uses Scheme to show how the fundamentals of programming languages are built, and both in its form and its content, it seems a direct continuation from SICP. After you've done with it, you'll have a much b... |
What Ad network do you use to buy traffic to your site? | quellhorst: I have used adwords and its good if you only show ads for google searches and take out syndication. I tried facebook ads and textlinkads but wouldn't recommend either. |
After SICP, what next? | MartinMond: I'm currently working through Practical Foundations of Mathematics: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pt/Practical_Foundations/index.htmlThe full text is available online, but I recommend you buy a hard copy. Oh and I can vouch that the back cover blurb is totally true. |
Graphical Languages / IDE | silentbicycle: While I haven't used it, Processing (http://processing.org/) sounds like it may be worth a look. |
Using personal code at work | pedalpete: As far as the 'court' thing goes, I'm not sure why you would be concerned, as long as you can prove that you wrote the code before joining the company.Seeing as you are open with sharing your code, you can do it in such a way that it builds your cred as a coder, and it could even be a bit of PR for your boss... |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | JimmyL: SQL and a JOIN?Not what you asked for (and certainly not what the cool kids use), but why not? |
Using personal code at work | russell: I have done it before. I put my personal copyright in the code. Then I ask permission in a letter to to include it. I have never had a problem. This was in the days when every line of code was part of the crown jewels. It is a legitimate concern, but easily handled, very unlikely to appear in court.You do... |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | silentbicycle: Framework for what? You'll probably need to give us more details. For starters, will it be a mostly read-only or write-heavy database? What relative priorities are you placing on speed, data consistency, ease of ad-hoc queries, etc.?Based on the few details you've given, I'd consider SQLite (http://sqlit... |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | dantheman: I don't know if this will fit your needs, but couchdb is pretty fast. It's under active development and still alpha, so things do change. As for multi-key, it's a yes and no sort of situation.If you want to do an intersection you can, unfortunately it's in a sorted order.
for example: [key1, key2, key3] wo... |
Using personal code at work | bbuffone: I would publicly open source the code, placing it in either Google Code or Github with a BSD or Apache 2.0 license. Doing this will protect both you and the university from using random (though your) unlicensed code in the project.Placing the code in Guthub or Google Code will make it much easier to validate ... |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | joshu: what does "multi-key-value" mean?This problem description is nearly incoherent. |
Using personal code at work | owinebarger: How much money will you be saving them by using your pre-existing work? I realize you're a college student with a summer job, but it seems that you've got the situation backward. |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | Maro: I'm not sure what your problem is. Do you mean multiple keys pointing to the same value, like key1=>value key2=>value?You could use indirection:key1=>valueID
key2=>valueID
valueID=>value |
Rate my startup, Nrds | catch23: http://nrds.co.uk/DemoEngineInput.html doesn't do anything... |
What is your opinion of Crypto-anarchism and anarcho-capitalism? | cmars232: My opinion? The more decentralized and self-sufficient we become, outside of a central authority, the better off we all are. I think the way to make this happen, however, is not open hostility to the current central powers and authorities, but through disruptive social and technological change that renders ... |
Rate my startup, Nrds | ekpyrotic: I find this all v. dubious:"What’s important about a NRDS Datacube is that it is given so much written material stated in enormously varied ways, covering enormously varied subjects and such exhaustive explanatory information, that when it is asked to do something — analyze text, lookup a reference, or anyth... |
Rate my startup, Nrds | zimbabwe: Looking at your front page for 30 seconds, I have no idea what you're offering, and so I close the page.Also, is that top-right page-peel really necessary? It makes it look like you're trying to pile gimmicks onto your page to impress newbies, and by default it blocks some of the text on your page. Not cool. |
Using personal code at work | dctoedt: It wasn't clear whether the university is your employer, or whether you're a student. Some general thoughts:A) Double-check your employment agreement for clauses that might give ownership of the code to your employer, even though you thought you were developing the code on your own time. (In some U.S. jurisdic... |
Using personal code at work | JimmyL: Talk to you boss, and look at your contract (assuming you have one that covers this). Most will have some clause in there saying that if you use code that you created before your employment, by using it at work you're giving the University an unlimited and irrevocable license to use that code.In terms of saving... |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | richcollins: http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/tagdb/ |
Rate my startup, Nrds | gojomo: The 'Try It Out' and 'Demo NRDS' links don't lead to any demo. |
Rate my startup, Nrds | jasoncartwright: You need to seriously rethink your copy. I read a few pages of the site, but still have little idea what benefit your product is to me. It reads like it was written by someone's who has english as their second language. Harsh, but true.* "Unlocking the mathematics of LANGUAGE" means nothing
* Demo does... |
Rate my startup, Nrds | mahmud: You have the image nailed down. Perfect. You come off as both casually hip (the logo) and very well established. The little tear-down sheet at the upper right corner is a nice surprising touch, but might quickly get old ;-)My best wishes! |
Rate my startup, Nrds | estromberg: The "invest in us" page reads more as a gimmick than a real business opportunity. Private companies rarely, if ever, list valuation amounts or concrete prices at which a share can be bought- this makes your company look amateur.Also, the line "This is an opportunity that could be big enough to IPO, and will... |
Using personal code at work | edw519: I have run into this before and I have never put someone else's code, including my own, onto a customer's or employer's computer.What I have often done, however, is write another version of basically the same thing, but only what I need for the job at hand. I never use the same program or variable names. I wa... |
Contextual ads for web-apps like todo-lists or mail? | mahmud: We do that, and June 1st is our release date :-) you really should leave an email address in your profile. |
Rate my startup, Nrds | chaosmachine: Is this an elaborate joke, or part of some "alternate reality game"? |
Rate my startup, Nrds | jparicka: Thank you to everyone who has given comments and criticism. We do appreciate everything you have to say, and we will be making changes based on your thoughts.
Unfortunately, due to a problem with the engine, the demo will not work. We are working on getting it back online as soon as possible. This is unfortun... |
Using personal code at work | radu_floricica: The law usually says work done while you're employed belongs to the employer. Off topic: at least in my country this is a special exception to the general "author" legislation, which says for example a painting you make for a buyer will forever be "by you", and even after selling it you still retain som... |
Rate my startup, Nrds | twohey: As others have mentioned: it is not clear in 10 seconds what you do. That and your demo is pages of text, nothing I can interact with.I need to be able experience your product in some way. Reading about your promises of a revolution in looking at data is not enough. It comes across as vaporware. |
A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? | catch23: Couldn't you just emulate multi-key with tokyo cabinet? You'd just have to write the code to union sets of data... it's what databases do anyway. |
Graphical Languages / IDE | ktharavaad: I think you might want to take a look at this:http://ffnnkk.org/Fact is that graphical programming languages are only good for certain kinds of programs which is why they have only gained traction in the data acquisition world ( labview, lego mindstorm..etc ) where the metaphor of "data-flow" fits in very w... |
Someone is trying to clone my site - what do I do? | f1lt3r: You bid on the job. Eh? ;) |
Rate my startup, Nrds | huhtenberg: Whoever made the logo copied it from this one -http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/42366 |
Product images for e-commerce startup | gojomo: If your model is compatible with sending traffic to Amazon for final purchase, you might be able to use their commerce APIs. |
Someone is trying to clone my site - what do I do? | zaidf: Be flattered!If your site can be cloned, launched AND cause a serious dent in your business, you need to think of better ideas. |
Rate my startup, Nrds | dmix: I would hire a copywriter; the copy seems to be the weakest part of the site from looking at it briefly. |
Rate my startup, Nrds | raffi: It looks like you're competing with these guys. http://www.textwise.com/I get the feeling your site may over promise on this a little, I get a lot of "the sky is the limit" but not much on what one would do with this.I tried using semantic fingerprints (from Textwise) to create features I could feed to a classi... |
Rate my startup, Nrds | jlm382: The main issue with the homepage is that it doesn't immediately capture my interest to learn more. Your buttons on the bottom "invest in us" are large -- bigger than the actual body text!Instead, why not make two or three super important points that describe your product, and have that take up the majority of ... |
Please review my new social learning site | pubb: Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X.Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page. |
Please review my new social learning site | pibefision: I personally don't like generic icons. |
Great design without designer on-board? | hs: true, ui != photoshop. one can have pixel-perfect but unusable sitei like ui.jquery; adapt the API & bundled example source-code to simple projects, then after practicing, apply to larger projects.for ornaments, i like inkscape (pkg_add inkscape or apt-get install inkscape). it's parametric, svg->png. the bundle... |
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