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Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | mattlarge: I'd like some decent Augmented Reality apps/games, proper AR rather than the barcode based stuff. Something that could recognise an environment and overlay cool stuff. A decent camera, GPS, compass and good processing power are all required. Figure between G1 and iPhone 3 we might be getting there. |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | radu_floricica: I'd really like a complex and easy to use "personal assistant", with voice recording/voice recognition in addition to typing. Something where I can press at most two-three keys and record "milk" to the shopping list or "Mail X about the problem Y" to the TODO list. |
Your Hacker Workspace | dfox: Large self-designed and self-built U-shaped desk. workstation on one edge, permanently cluttered workbench on other, clean empty space in middle segment.Three displays + old character-cell terminal (useful for looking on logs and such things) for workstation (with one monitor going thru KVM switch to few other co... |
Your Hacker Workspace | pookleblinky: On the screen: Gentoo running Xmonad in simpleTabbed layout. Opera, emacs, terminal with Screen multiplexing 5 zsh terminals (emacs -nw, irssi, ghci, irb, guile at the moment), Xchat, Pidgin, Skype, and Quodlibet; all running mostly in separate full-screen tabbed workspaces.Meatspace: a battered wooden de... |
Your Hacker Workspace | gtani: 2 apple laptops, previous gen(late 2007 / early 08), same software everybody runs: leopard, WinXP, FreeBSD, openBSd, ubuntu 8.04, openSUSE 10.3, vim, textmate, komodo;- current-gen apple, matias keyboards- whiteboard (me too)- moleskine notebooks, postit notes, Bic 4-color pen- cheap Ibanez-clone guitar; Duncan ... |
Your Hacker Workspace | modoc: My MacBookPro is the heart of everything. Usually running are: Eclipse, Mail, Adium, Safari, iTunes, OmniFocus.When I'm at my desk, that's usually hooked up to a 30" display, wireless keyboard and mouse, and SoundSticks.I'm actually about to build a custom desk and shelving in my home office to make things perf... |
What apps are essential for mac? | appl3star: Developer: Coda, Cornerstone, TextWrangler or BBEdit, iTerm,
ForkLift, Querious, Changes, iChmWeb Designer: CSSEdit, Flux, Dreamweaver, xScope, Xyle Scope, PicturesqueResearcher: Evernote, DevonThink Pro, ConceptDraw MindMapUser: LaunchBar, Overflow, Little Snitch, Super DuperWeb Junkie: 1password, Firefox,... |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | tocomment: 1. Universal translator *
2. Scale
3. way to measure calories
4. Always listening so I can ask it questions and have it google them for me and read out the answers. All without taking it out of my pocket.* Honestly I'd be happy with a good enough approach here. Just recognize whatever words it can (even 10... |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | braindead_in: Analytics of Phone usage. Graphs showing time and money spent on the phone. |
Best working file format for writing open source books? | compay: Thanks everyone for the insightful answers, you've given me some good ideas to look into. |
Website to give to charity anonymously, useful to you? | GuideStarComDir: tom999 is correct: Network for Good (http://www.networkforgood.org) does permit anonymous gifts. So do JustGive (http://www.justgive.org) and GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org). (In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I'm GuideStar's director of communications, and Network for Good pr... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | tonia: I would love to post a hugely insightful reply but I'm really struggling with that.All I can say is that I know exactly how you feel and I completely understand your problem, which is why I find your description of your problem perfectly clear. Either someone KNOWS what you mean or they don't. Simple as that.Fro... |
Your Hacker Workspace | abyssknight: At work, I have a standard issue cubicle with L-shaped desk. We all have docking stations and one monitor, but I have acquired a second one from the cubicle's previous inhabitant. So, I run dual 19" 4:3 monitors from the docking station.At home, I've tried to match the environment as best as possible. I bo... |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | icey: It doesn't really require a huge amount of computing power, but I always thought that a dating / matching application that ran in the background on a phone would be pretty cool.It would probably work best in places with good public transportation, or other reasons for people to be in relatively close proximity to... |
What apps are essential for mac? | abyssknight: Quicksilver (App launcher)Onyx (Maintenance scripts)Apple Developer Tools (Terminal/GCC/XCode)SubEthaEdit (Collaborative Editing)Textmate (Defacto standard editor)Cyberduck (SFTP Client)Perian (Codecs) |
Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code? | 8-bit_Blaster: If you don't mind open sourcing your code I'd suggest using Google Code to host your project.Google Code was my first experience with code repositories and using it with the TortoiseSVN right-clicky GUI software made things that much easier to manage. (I used the Windows XP version of TortoiseSVN.)Google... |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | cmos: What about an audio 'twitter'.. I can leave short voice messages for people, or for a group.twaudio? tweaker? ugh.. I had naming things after popular web sites. |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | old-gregg: When Flash gets there, I want a flash blocker to be ready. |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | jokull: Free calls |
alternative for paypal | vaksel: Some offshore guys I know use worldpay |
alternative for paypal | create_account: Google Checkout pays internationally, but then there was this infamous episode: http://www.slash7.com/articles/2009/3/26/google-is-evil-wors... |
Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones | MakeUsersWant: I really want an interface designed with usability in mind. Things like:* No common task should require more than 3-4 keypresses you can easily remember. Arrow keys count. Corollary: navigate the menus with the number keys; shortcuts, ...* Incremental search to look up contacts with (like emacs C-s)* Ope... |
alternative for paypal | ieatpaste: You might want to also look at Escrow services - since it's pre-pay, some have lower fees. |
Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com | pg: Errorhelp.com is better. |
Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com | Don: Yeah I have to agree. bug.gd is cute but cute mainly sells teddy bears. |
Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com | vaksel: bug.gd is too web2.0, since you are selling things to corporations and IT groups, you need to stick to 1.0 names. Errorhelp is leaps and bounds better for your business |
Is email "modern" technology? | csbartus: email is obsolete: too slow for communication + too weak for storage + too insecure for id management |
Your Hacker Workspace | wheagy: Here are a few pics of my workspace. It's essentially an unfinished room in the basement. I keep my computers, power tools, collections...everything in this room. It's not fancy, but I can get things done. The main computer is an imac with VMWare and VirtualBox for Linux and Win XP. There are also a few PC... |
alternative for paypal | jusob: You could try eLance or oDesk. I believe they charge around 10%, but work in all countries. |
I've Got a Project, You Tell Me The Language | minalecs: what every language you can be most productive in to get it done. If it time frame doesn't matter, any language that interests you. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | imp: I think it's a great design and really well-laid out site. I understood immediately what it is you're doing. However, I don't have the problem that you're solving so I'm not that interested. I'm not a student though, so maybe that's more your target audience. For me, delicious is enough to organize info on the... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | RiderOfGiraffes: Direct links for convenience:http://www.webnotes.nethttp://www.webnotes.net/Press/CaseStudies.aspx |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | ujjwalg: I agree with imp regarding the site design and layout. I am a graduate student and have been looking for a software/service similar to papers for mac (http://mekentosj.com/papers/) for windows. This looks like a useful service, not entirely what I want but a decent start. I will definitely try the free version... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | raffi: It looks like your marketing/PR guy did good work. I'm impressed by the amount of press you've garnered. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | proee: Any plans to support tags? Would be nice to have folder plus tags for organizing info. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | coglethorpe: It's extremely simple to use. I could go right in and play with the demo document. I also don't have this need immediately, but your site will stick in my mind in case I need it later... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | timdorr: First off, that's a pretty k-rad design. Did you do it in-house or an outside firm?I have a few questions/thoughts:- What happens if the contents of a page change? Do the notes go away or do you try and follow the content as it moves around?- Have you thought about public sharing of these notes? I don't know i... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | mkyc: Your site is too crowded. Give me one thing to look at on your main page. Right now, you have 'webnotes pro', 'sign up now', the play button, and your 'faster/more effective' drawing my attention, in that order. Read this:http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/good-call-to-action-buttons/Remove the red from wnp. You want th... |
Goal Setting Software | JeffS: GoalEnforcer is great visual goal setting software (way easier to use than "lists"), but they don't have a web based version yet.
They have both Windows and Mac versions and you can store your goals locally or on the web (using the built-in ftp)You mentioned "I like to break tasks down" and " Obviously seeing my... |
Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code? | cgbrown: I work at ProjectLocker (http://www.projectlocker.com), and we have free plans for Subversion or Git that would suit your team, and paid plans with more space and/or users for as low as $25 per year or $5 per month.Source control, even for just one person, is useful and doesn't have to be heavyweight. Even si... |
Must-attend events for a tech startup? | dannyr: Here in San Francisco, SFNewTech seems to be a good way to launch your product. The event happens at least once a month. |
alternative for paypal | il: WebMoney is a major payment system in Eastern Europe, it works worldwide though. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | cb33: very good design |
Your Hacker Workspace | chewbranca: My current desk. Macbook for dev work, server under the desk. Fairly simple setup but I've got a lot of space to work and room for my betta fish.http://www.deskography.org/people/TME1103EMJ/desks/789/photo...[Edit: running macvim, terminal and safari with either vlc or itunes for music][Edit 2: forgot to me... |
Thoughts on OpenID? | noodle: biggest issue i see is that initial effort hump required of new users. the more difficult it is to create a new account, the fewer people will tend to do it. i'd compare it to the standford marshmallow test. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | frossie: As it happens, I am "in the market" for such a product ever since the demise of Google Notebook. Having given it a quick spin, I may consider using your product. The only immediate irritation is that it isn't obvious how to move an annotation from one folder to another in the sidebar; it looks like drag and dr... |
Thoughts on OpenID? | RossM: I think that OpenID is too confusing, until presented well to the user. I'd include a short piece of text on yuor registration/login page about OpenID - and make it clear to the user that they probably already use an OpenID-enabled service (such as Google Accounts or Yahoo! which actually tell you now). Try to p... |
alternative for paypal | ljacobs: Plimus is another good option. The company sells worldwide and has many different payment options. The Plimus website is www.plimus.com |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | quizbiz: Quite a team you have assembled. Looks like a great product, looks like it will go far. Good luck. |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | TallGuyShort: It's a little hard to tell what you're really asking, so forgive me if this isn't what you're looking for. Worrying about algorithms in the "mathematical whiz kids" sense is extremely important when you have to be worried about speed and resources. Take databases, for instance. Their search and compressio... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | raffi: Understanding algorithms and how to analyze them will make you a better programmer. Should you memorize every algorithm and clever trick that others have come up with? I haven't. However knowing that there are different approaches with various space/time trade offs gives me options to consider when coding som... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | noodle: this suspiciously sounds like a final essay question for someone in college.seriously, though, this is a pretty broad, abstract concept. an algorithm is, more or less, a set of instructions to solve a problem. they didn't have some sort of magical genesis, and everyone uses them on a daily basis. |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | TriinT: "I'm a non-CS major and am much unlike many of you mathematical whiz kids who make up this board"Are there any math whiz kids on HN? (other than cperciva)There are many smart people on HN, but I don't think there are math whiz kids. This is a hacker forum, not a math forum like AoPS. Sometimes we discuss stuff ... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | dantheman: Very simply some problems are impossible to solve in a reasonable amount of time or at all; these problems may looks simple, but their complexity can explode.For instance chess is relatively easy to program where as go is quite a bit more difficult.
---------------------------------------Here's a very good q... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | pookleblinky: http://artemis.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs460/Spring98/contents.h... is a very good resource on the parent science of algorithmic information theory.AIT and computational complexity theory arguably underlay all other sciences. They allow us to define randomness (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/georgia.ht... |
Thoughts on OpenID? | Zarathu: Coming from a security background, I think there's something intrinsically wrong with that type of authentication system.I like to use 1Password: a different, complicated, virtually uncrackable password on every site I use. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | sachmanb: so far i like everything about it. key points (1) found all the info about the service i was looking for real fast, and my patience level is low for the review my site stuff (2) fast and simple registration (3) encouraged me to try it out since i didnt even have to pay (4) the privacy policy was easy to find... |
With DocStoc's Paid Upload Release, When Will Scribd Respond? | hackernews2k: uh when they launch an entire store to allow publishers to make REAL money selling their documents.adding adsense to a page is not rockscience. this can be done in an afternoonadding an self-publishing/payment system IS leaps and bounds greater than 'doccash' |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | Eugene3v: Koodos on the product. I am curious, what tool/utility did u use to create the demo clip?Best of Luck ! :) |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | anigbrowl: Webnotes Pro: PDF Annotation - Up to 500 MB (about 2,500 PDFs)The typical .pdf I encounter is a lot larger than 200k. What else...ah, the pins on sticky notes caused instant cognitive dissonance. As did the pins on highlighting...maybe just lose the damn pins.I like it. I don't see myself paying for it. But ... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | va_coder: I would guess 80% of software developers would be better off spending their time
* learning business
* improving their communication skills
* talking with their customers |
Thoughts on OpenID? | chris24: I don't think it's reached the point where it should be the only authentication system offered by any service.I think it's still very confusing to the average joe, but if you stressed something like "login with your google account", with an easy button to use the Google OpenID provider to authenticate, it migh... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | TweedHeads: Great idea, superb execution. |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | Allocator2008: Really I'd say the earliest machine "algorithms" was the operation of the abacus (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_use_an_abacus), such that moving certain beads around gave you certain numbers - this can be viewed as a rough input/output calculating system. This originated in China I believe thousan... |
the best way to protect IP for a startup? | mpk: I personally think that IP protection paranoia with (for example) NDAs is overrated. Ideas are hard to protect because they're generally easy to come up with.(I'm talking about web products here, scenarios will differ if you're doing something else).Executing on an idea, however, gives you other things. Code (whic... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | tybris: When I first learned to program coming up with the algorithm was everything. I thought of how to move the data, compare it, and finally compute and represent the solution. As I grow more experienced the algorithms come naturally.I now think in terms of rules, context and complexity. I mostly think about distrib... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | dmlorenzetti: To understand why algorithms are important, and how they are used, it might help for you to give up your mental model, described in your original question, of the link between physics and algorithms. They are not both attempts to represent some set of quantities. Rather, think in terms of physics as sta... |
best time to submit a story? | chaosmachine: From what I've seen, it only takes 1 upvote to hit the front page, and stories (if they aren't killed) tend to stick around for at least 24 hours. My hypothesis is that there isn't a best time. |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | russell: It's part of the distinction between a master and a journeyman in the development trade. If you dont have a basic understanding of algorithms and the analysis of algorithms, you will never be a master. |
best time to submit a story? | pg: Readership peaks midweek, midday (US). But that doesn't mean it's the best time to submit a story, because there's also more competition. On a weekend, 2 points will keep you on the frontpage for a significant time. On a weekday it might not get you on at all. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | sfphotoarts: I didn't get what the site did, it looked like it was trying to sell me something. Then I saw the button 'Download' and that turned me off. I don't want to install any software. I cannot see how this is supposed to save me time or money as claimed.The sign up page took 15 seconds to load so I gave up at th... |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | mattyb: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503079My searchyc.com query was '.com/blog' |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | physcab: So right now I'm a PhD student and doing quite a bit of research for my proposal.Maybe I'm unique, but if I'm doing reading online, I don't exactly care about highlighting. If I come across something important, I just bookmark it. If it's a PDF, I download it.So I'm not really sure your solution is that import... |
Your Hacker Workspace | etherael: I used to have a pretty normal desktop setup, the one thing that was the constant catalyst which finally pushed me over the edge to "fix stuff" was my uncomfy series of chairs (read: all of them, any chair under 500$ I've ever tried, for extended periods of seating is absolutely not something I am capable of ... |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | treitnauer: It's better to use domain.com/blog for SEO reasons. You should also have a look at other hosted blog services. There are plenty of options around with TypePad, Blogger or even Tumblr. Squarespace is a good solution too because they let you import your data from Wordpress, Typepad etc.Check out http://iwantm... |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | drp: Short answer: it depends. /blog is better if you just want more pagerank for your main domain, subdomain is better if you want to build your blog into something important on its own.A subdomain blog with good pagerank also gives you the ability to add heavyweight links to content on your main domain when you'd li... |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | motherwell: The only reason to use blog.subdomain is if you plan to host it seperately, e.g. on another platform (PHP or windows or whatever), another server (Wordpress has security issues some might worry about) etc.Otherwise, subfolder is either better (SEO) or a no score draw (everything else). |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | quellhorst: Whichever is easiest for you. My site is just a collection of interlinking subdomains anyway, so blog.domain.com is best for me. Then I use a simple one click wordpress install on hostgator. |
best time to submit a story? | mlLK: This might not be the best barometer for submitting a story, but take a peak at http://www.hackrtrackr.com/, I was surprised (still am) how many people participate from within middle[skewed easterly] america. I've always operated under the assumption that HN activity scales according to eastern standard time. |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | andreshb: Why oh why did I not hear about you when I was working on my senior thesis. I have been using Zotero which is pretty good for bibliografies, but keeping track of my research across all my tabs and browsers, plus pdf's I download from JSTOR, Google Scholar, has always been a pain. I will use this when research... |
best time to submit a story? | pohl: This feels like the beginning of the end. |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | sneakums: I'd use a subdomain, because I like flexibility and because I don't give a shit about the SEO tricks du jour. |
How much time do you spend on the work vs. the rest of your life? | truebosko: This is currently the hardest thing I'm battling in my life (As sad as that may sound)On one hand I want to work hard after my fulltime job and read more programming books, write more open source software and write more to my programming blogOn the flip side I want to spend more time on my other passion (Coo... |
What is the big idea with algorithms? | mtpark: For me, the study of algorithms is cs. Hacking is just a means of implementation. Also, I think it's a huge misconception that algorithms is all about math -- it's about problem solving in general.As Dijkstra said "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." |
the best way to protect IP for a startup? | mahmud: You can communicate allot to people before you bring them on board without disclosing while establishing sufficient mutual understanding to make the right decisions.If you are a programmer, use the same mental models you use to explain your work to less experienced peers. Metaphors left and right.What you don't... |
Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog | maw: This is easily the single most important question a nascent organization faces. Get it wrong and every bad thing ever mentioned in a chain letter will happen to you and each of your collaborators, many times over.(Honestly, I doubt it matters much, but blog. is my [slight] preference. In any event, it isn't diff... |
Review our startup - www.webnotes.net | rg: Read the comments here first, went to check it out; typed in "www.webnotes.com" and ended up at some very strange site. Came back here, and couldn't believe that you were trying to do something with a "reasonable-sounding" domain name for which someone else has the .com. I predict this will be a big problem. |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | cperciva: I had two papers published in Math.Comp. before getting my doctorate. (They were accepted before I even started my doctorate, but weren't published until my 1st or 2nd year at Oxford, due to the journal having a rather crazy backlog.)If you can write well (i.e., understandably and in a style consistent with ... |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | einarvollset: You don't need a PhD (or in fact any degree or affiliation). This is particularly true for conferences and journals that are "double blind" e.g. reviewers don't know the affiliations or names of the writers.Submission is trivial: most have a webpage (with a deadline and submission requirements - e.g. doub... |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | jballanc: What field?That can be a very important consideration for a few reasons. First, if you're interested in publishing in the math field, forget peer reviewed journals entirely. From what I've heard, the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/) has essentially replaced most math journals. Similarly, while peer reviewed journals... |
Is pseudocode copyrightable? | russell: IANAL, but nearly any recorded/written down is copyrightable. However ideas are not. If you implement from pseuso-code, it is another expression of the same idea. Different forms of expression have different rules on how different the new work must be to be unique. If you copied a function and just changed... |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | ajdecon: Possible but difficult: good work will speak for itself, but there are a lot of network effects which make it easier to publish from within academia. A trivial example might be that it's much easier and cheaper to find and read existing publications while at a university, and being familiar with the literatur... |
Is pseudocode copyrightable? | erlanger: Scribbles are copyrightable. |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | paraschopra: I published three papers in peer reviewed journals during my undergraduate days as first author. See http://www.paraschopra.com/publications/I don't think PhD is a pre-requisite or even makes much difference in peer review process. Of course, with a PhD you would have better experience and possibly better ... |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | wheels: Usually it helps to have a co-author that is established in the field. I didn't do graduate work (and undergrad was in CS) and have one publication in physics and another coming up in biology, but in both cases there is a university professor on there as a co-author.In blind peer review this isn't a strict req... |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | sown: I think an interesting corollary question to this might be how to look for open problems that might be worth while to do research or papers on. Any hints? |
Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? | kmavm: I have published in ASPLOS and HotOS with a bachelor's in computer science, though some of my co-authors either had or were pursuing PhDs. Publishing and PhDs are correlated, but not necessarily causally related. I.e., the same impulse that causes people to publish causes them to pursue research careers.There's ... |
"Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? | unconed: I've felt similarly, but I found that part of the problem was that I was seeking acceptance and participation from my friends, even though I was occupying myself with increasingly specific and esoteric things. Part of the solution was just caring less what other people think, and mentioning to them only the pr... |
best time to submit a story? | jgamman: it could go either way but in general x seconds after reading it (YMMV) and judging it HN worthy. i have found submitting stories prior to reading them, or even knowing that they exist, to be an inferior method. |
Is pseudocode copyrightable? | micks56: Copyrights protect original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression. Copyright protection also extends to derivative works. If a new work is transformative when compared to a parent work, the child work is not considered derivative. In that case copyright doesn't extend to the child work... |
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