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Should I give up? | mpf62: I'd like to mention another problem in the B2B space: customers often feel uncomfortable buying from very small businesses. And in decision processes where Consultants are involved you can almost be sure that they usually do recommend bigger companies.I'm a one man show myself and I've experienced the problems d... |
Looking for in-browser programming tutorials like 'Try Ruby!' | coconutrandom: http://christophdietze.com/weblispLisp interpreter in the browser, even has a graphics library.
http://christophdietze.com/node/23 |
why is Google's StreetView is so awful in US, and so awesome in Europe? | jcsalterego: Perhaps Google deployed StreetView state-side first, and then they refined their technology for Europe. Just pure speculation, though. |
why is Google's StreetView is so awful in US, and so awesome in Europe? | apu: Maybe I'm being slow, but I don't see a difference in the two... |
why is Google's StreetView is so awful in US, and so awesome in Europe? | jmonegro: I don't see what you're talking about. The quality of both views looks the same to me. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | scooby: Peter Diamendes, founder of the XPrize. Just heard him a few weeks ago... he will blow anybody's mind. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | grinich: Feynman. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | edw519: Paul Graham, on how the industry has changed in the past 15 years ago and what to do about it.Or I could just read his essays, but a talk would be nice too. |
Does your CS/math education hurt your entrepreneurial endeavors? | lallysingh: Nope. There's definitely a hump to cross over, however: for a while you move away from "normal people" into a hypertechnologist, but eventually you understand both real life and technology well enough to mate them together effectively.Then all you have is a great ability to use advanced CS/math techniques... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | cake: I feel foolish but : Steve Jobs of course ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&fmt=18)He's a great storyteller, that's why I guess his keynotes are so successful. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | zitterbewegung: I am in college but the people I would want to hear in College probably would be
John McCarthy
Peter Norvig |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | caffeine: Mohammed Yunus, the Dalai Lama .. (& Barack?) |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | lleger: Steve Jobs, definitely. He has knowledge and skills that no college professor can teach. To get a glimpse of his business genius would be unfathomably valuable. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | Mutio: Definitely marvin minsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_minsky) . He is pretty much the father of artificial intelligence, and not a bad speaker either. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | naveensundar: Roger Penrose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose |
Does your CS/math education hurt your entrepreneurial endeavors? | 10ren: I see this as the technical/business disconnect.I've definitely had it at times, when I value perfection in itself. Working with (discrete maths/CS) proofs has exacerbated this. If one aspect isn't quite right, it's a horrible catastrophe, and destroys the whole. This non-pragmatic approach also causes problems ... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | aswanson: Any professor who had Founders at Work as the textbook for his class.A class in Nutrition would have been good for me too. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | Xichekolas: Peter Norvig... his talk at SS'08 made me wish he taught all my classes. |
How to build an app/service that makes all users feel equally smart? | 10ren: A bit tangential, but there's the idea of aiming at average - as in the "Family Feud" TV game-show, where you have to predict the most popular responses to a survey.Another approach is to reward the user at every possible moment: the casual game "Peggle" has been immensely popular (because of this, I think). The... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | vinutheraj: Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | MikeMacMan: I would have liked someone to tell me the following:1. Double-major in something marketable + something unusual. It's important to differentiate yourself early on, and an unusual skill, like say, Japanese fluency, can open a lot of doors.2. Get good grades. Even if you think grades don't mean much, you migh... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | thunk: Ben Franklin as motivational speaker. Title: Industry! Frugality! |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | joshz: Brian Cox, the physicist. I missed a chance to see Stephen Hawking. Out of some bigger names I saw Stallman, Mitnick and Desmond Tutu, all interesting people. |
How would you use the web to improve the college learning experience? | norimaki: Why do you believe Blackboard and Moodle are "behind what exists on the web today"? |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | chris11: I really would like to hear Douglas Hofstadter. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | tlrobinson: RMS spoke at my college about FSF. If you're already familiar with FSF, etc, then it won't be particularly interesting....until your econ major friend starts arguing with him, and he starts hurling personal insults. |
How would you use the web to improve the college learning experience? | vaksel: apparently blackboard holds the patents for what they are doing, and they are very quick to sue anyone encroaching on their patents. Unless you have a ton of cash for legal battles, its just not worth going after them |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | travisjeffery: Leonhard Euler or Carl Gauss. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | wheels: - David Deutsch, driving force behind the formalization of quantum computing, generally interesting in a wacky way, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch- Stallman was interesting to hear in college.- Lawrence Lessig would also be really interesting. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | pingswept: Wendell Berry, as an intelligent counterpoint to all the enthusiasm about technology |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | joe_bleau: I'd probably attend and listen to anything these people would talk about: Alan Kay, Don Knuth, Feynman, Oppenheimer, Teller, Von Braun, Henry Ford, Edison, Telsa, Edwin "Major" Armstrong (FM), Charlie Munger, Kary Mullis, Ray Kurzweil, Alfred Loomis, Turing, the transistor boys (Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain),... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | xenophanes: David Deutsch on epistemology. |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | sharpn: Alan Turing, Issac Newton or Jimi Hendrix |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | prawn: Robert Hooke. |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | firebug: Let's not assume that no one in your network can help you out. This is a worst case scenario that requires the help of those close to you - family, extended family and close friends if necessary. The approach you take is also going to be highly relative to your experience level. Obviously if you have a ton of ... |
Does your CS/math education hurt your entrepreneurial endeavors? | sdesol: My answer to your assertions is yes and no. Majoring in Math/Computer Science will definitely be an asset if you want to create the next Matlab or Mathematica. However, if your goal is write the ultimate "For Dummies" book, your technical background will probably work against you if you are unable to dumb your... |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | justlearning: Ramanujam(indian mathematician with no formal training) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan - for an insight into how his thought process may be. Without all that formal training, how did he treat maths?Kathy Sierra -In college, there is nothing motivating than talks about "being passionate" ... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | Chocobean: If you have no income and only 2 months of savings, you don't think about the first 10 resumes you send out -- you bloody send them everywhere, to everyone. |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | ddemchuk: On the lifestyle side, immediately cut out going out to dinner, new clothes, going to movies, bars, all of the extra stuff that can be done for much less money in different ways.I have made a good number of poor decisions financially in the last year since losing my last job and now have to work twice as hard... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | GrandMasterBirt: I highly recommend going to multiple recruiters. If for nothing else but to critique your resumes and see how they would go about selling you. Use that to either get the job or get a better idea.2 mo. of savings is cutting it rough. If you have family who you can trust with your life, consider transfer... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | tjpick: 1. Why wouldn't your "network" (or as I like to call them in the real world, "friends") help out? If you think no one in your "network" can help, you didn't think hard enough.2. Don't send 10 resumes. Narrow it down better, concentrate, and work hard and fast to get some offers on the table.3. Accept an offer, ... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | qohen: 1. Post your resume to http://monster.com, http://dice.com and the rest. Also, post it to the resume section of http://craigslist.org (assuming you live in a city served by Craigslist). This way, recruiters and companies will find you, rather than you having to go after them. (Yes, you'll get some inappropriate ... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | Tangurena: Step 1: file for unemployment immediately.Step 2: very carefully husband your money. If you have student loans, call them and ask for a deferrment until you start a job again. Likewise, ask your lenders for a deferrment as well.Step 3: if you have friends or family that you can move in with, consider doing s... |
You lose your job, with 2 months of savings. What do you do? | adelle: Trim half of your experience from your CV. No one wants to hire a know-it-all. If you don't have much experience, then go to several recruiters - they are all about finding bodies and they're not too fussy. If you're a chick, then change the name on your CV to one that can be interpreted as either male or fe... |
Any word What's happening @ Singularity University? | davidw: The density of information is so great that none can get out?:-) |
Who/What would you have liked to have heard in college? | CarolynM: I did hear Dijkstra speak while I was in undergrad, on some graph algorithms. That was a win. |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | trickjarrett: You should probably just stick with 'Pickup Lines.' I expect the majority of you app downloads will be found via search, I'd think you'd do better to be logical and obvious. |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | pclark: "Come Here Often?" |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | palsecam: EngageHer |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | fluffster: Lip Balm. |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | ErrantX: Some random ideas off the top of my head:Pulling Power (personally I think that has potential, tagline: power up your pulling prowess :D)Seduction (maybe a bit to risque sounding)Pickup Bible (too religious? but would track well on searches for "pickup lines")Mr. Magnetic (as in magnetic for the ladies :D, may... |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | palsecam: iWingman |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | icey: Clickable: http://www.classlet.com/Also, maybe you should include a description of what Classlet actually is (in addition to the history of it). |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | Maciek416: Simple and easy to understand. I like your website. I would agree with YC's expert opinion, in that your biggest problem is attacking a market where the dominant player is fairly entrenched. They do suck though, and maybe this is your greatest opportunity. Good luck! |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | js3309: can you tell us more about your startup idea? You explained a lot about how you got started but i'm not sure if you really pinpointed what your idea is. |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | rickharrison: One of the main problems behind getting the universities to switch is because of how heavily invested they are in a product. For example, I go to Penn State and they have a whole team around supporting our system (Angel). Penn State even modifies the code base to support our school specifically so they ... |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | mahmud: You're trivializing equity sharing. |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | profquail: iChatHerUpYHelloThereIceBreakerQuickRomance |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | ErrantX: A problem you'll face is that teachers probably wont be allowed to run email addresses of students through a third party site like that.I know for definite su8ch things would be frowned on in a lot of institutions here in the UK: probs in the US too.Another major problem I suspect your going to face is that th... |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | rokhayakebe: 2 words for you to ease user acquisition: Facebook API.Let students do the pitching for you. |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | bdmac97: Ouch, that is going to be a pretty tough sell IMO. As others have said the schools have so much invested in whatever software/process they use they will be unlikely to switch. |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | utsmokingaces: I love the design and the font. You should definitely save the list of students emails. Have a page where it has the class roster and be able to email students individually or groups of students.Be sure to submit it to http://AppUseful.com also! |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | ieatpaste: I asked my friend, who is a teacher, about using the service. She had replied that it is too difficult to discourage cheating on Math-related assignments (she still has students hand-write).A potential idea would be to have students do there assignment online, and have a "playback" button to show the student... |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | proee: Feature Request:Include a check option for "corrupt document uploads" when attaching assignments (just in case I need a few more days to finish my assignment). Otherwise, nice work! |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | richesh: Good job guys. This is very helpful to students and to teachers if they are willing to adopt it. Keep it up.I work with one of the biggest "supplemental education" companies in US on a regular basis to design / develop their software solutions.One thing I have learned is that teachers and students don't have c... |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | zackattack: well my university used blackboard chalk so I don't really see a need for this |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | petercooper: I think the question is akin to asking "When does your taste in music peak?" That is, I think it's an interesting question, but that the quality of what you're measuring is not absolute and changes in odd ways over time. I think that there's a significant difference in my self awareness (and taste in musi... |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | TallGuyShort: >> How do you measure consciousness at these ages?You certainly ask some weird questions. It's apparent that you and I define consciousness differently - and I'm sure the same could be said between most people. When you say consciousness, do you mean alertness and reaction times? self-awareness? awareness... |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | synnik: Consciousness is binary. It comes on, and stays on until death or mental incapacity.If you are talking about thought capacity, analytical thought, ability to form and evaluate philosophical positions, etc, etc... those continue to grow your whole life.Speed of thought peaks at right around 40. You will slow do... |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | villageidiot: What is it like to be 80 years old?When is the last time you talked to an 80 year old? Would you even consider asking this question to an 80 year old in real life? Why try to research this question on HN where the average age is close to 25? What do 25 year old hackers know about aging? Oh sure, I have no... |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | izak30: From What I know (from a teacher who I sent to your site):E-mail may be super effective, but you may have more luck selling to teachers if their students don't need an e-mail address; if they can put in their (pseudo)name or 'school number' and a passcode or some such to upload to an online interface. (w/o an e... |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | mindhacker: Perhaps it is difficult to define an attribute such as consciousness/self-awareness let alone measure it. How does one know he is self-aware? Perhaps one who says he is self-aware never is. |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | huherto: I do not know about consciousness.But Judgment seems to improve with age. (Sorry no references) |
Review our startup - Classlet.com | natrius: Suggestion: It's easy to see how creating an assignment works with the "try it now" link, but it'd be nice to have a demo of the grading interface as well without the user having to create an assignment. |
Initial thoughts on my new web app: TweetFreeCars.com | icey: A) It needs a serious hand from a real designerB) I can't escape the... scammy feeling of the whole endeavor. "Non-profit"? "Donors" that have to "donate" $27 bucks to bid for the possibility to win $20,000 towards a car that you have to go out and actually buy at a dealership yourself?It's nothing personal man, ... |
Initial thoughts on my new web app: TweetFreeCars.com | vaksel: so you'll need $7.3 million a year just to make this idea work...do you honestly think there is that much potential there? |
Why so many meat industry lobbyists on HN? | frossie: I haven't seen the comments you mention (nutrition threads bore me) but:As a hacker I'm interested in figuring out what is the optimial diet for maximum vitality and longevityAs a hacker, I'm interested in the optimal trade-off between effort and reward. My life expectancy is about 78 years of age. I am willin... |
Why so many meat industry lobbyists on HN? | aristus: Well I guess if I call vegans who eat fake steaks "crypto-carnivores", it's fair to call me a "meat industry lobbyist", so I'll bite.It's not really a burning issue for most people I think. If the XYZ Diet works for you, use it. Trying to persuade other people on a hacker forum doesn't really make sense. The c... |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | Poiesis: Instant Wit |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | Poiesis: Witipedia |
Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity | Poiesis: Perfect Pickup |
Shouldn't the algorithm discount popular sites(TC) for frontpage? | sharpn: Do you mean populist? I don't understand your argument otherwise. Popular stories are destined for the frontpage - and the problem is??
I'm not being snarky - I just don't understand your logic. Are you suggesting that HN should only (or mostly) contain posts that we can't already get from more 'mainstream' sit... |
Shouldn't the algorithm discount popular sites(TC) for frontpage? | socratees: I think HN should maintain a list of sites which should be given a different weightage. Also, recently I've been seeing more standard news on HN than startup news or discussions. PG should consider this while he works on the future iterations of HN. |
Shouldn't the algorithm discount popular sites(TC) for frontpage? | jmonegro: No, because it's not a democracy, then. |
What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age? | davi: Unfortunately this question, at this time in our understanding of neuroscience, is so ill-posed that the only response [1] this neuroscientist-in-training can give (in the 2 minutes I have allotted to the task) is to agree with Joshu [2] and shout, "MU!"---------[1] Well, okay, the only response that I find both ... |
Shouldn't the algorithm discount popular sites(TC) for frontpage? | tjr: I rarely read TC stories, and even more rarely upvote them here, simply because past experience tells me I probably won't get much out of their articles. But here, even an awful article can produce fascinating discussion, so frequent TC stories on the front page doesn't really bother me. |
Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials? | dpnewman: Railcasts by Ryan Bates are phenomenal.
http://railscasts.com/I went through this book when I was learning Rails. I liked the fact that by the end, I had accomplished a bunch of things that I knew I would use again and again.
http://www.amazon.com/RailsSpace-Building-Networking-Addison...For a have on hand re... |
Examples of beautifully designed php applications | noodle: out of curiosity, if you learned coding through MVC-based frameworks and its all you know, why do you feel qualified to make judgment calls on wordpress, joomla, etc.? how can you truly say that you're intelligently choosing MVC because it is the best option when you've not done any development under other des... |
Examples of beautifully designed php applications | SwellJoe: Your definition of beautiful code and mine differ. I don't care which buzzwords the code is compliant with. I care that it is easy to modify, easy to read, well-documented, and well-maintained. Drupal is most of these things, Joomla is none of them. Wordpress is a mixed bag. OSCommerce has had too many m... |
Do you "Pricing" for your startup? | noodle: i have a project that is free and a project that is freemium.freemium project is freemium because it is more time and labor intensive, as well as resource-intensive. if i didn't charge, i would be in debt.the free one is free because it is simple, easy, many times less resource intensive, and i can devote as ... |
Do you "Pricing" for your startup? | dmillar: We based our pricing on a hybrid of cost vs competitors. We want to be an affordable solution, and we know approximately what our competitors unit price is.Since we are monthly subscription based we figured out a good price point that would make us profitable, yet undercut our competition by a wide margin. |
Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials? | JeremyChase: Since you ask where to start with RoR you should start with the Ruby part of it. Learning Rails with a spotty knowledge of Ruby is much more difficult; Simultaneously figuring out Ruby and Rails makes it all too annoying.I don't mean you need a high level of Ruby, but you need some. Start here:
http://en.... |
Do you "Pricing" for your startup? | patio11: Most startups end up quitting, period, regardless of whether they charge money or not.That said, you'll find no argument from me that startups should sell money. Ignore the "you're giving your work away for free" angle -- the world at large and your customers in particular don't give mouse droppings about you... |
What was your first job? | noodle: 16, martial arts instructor. |
What was your first job? | wglb: My first job was picking rocks out of the wheat field when I was 11 on our wheat farm. At 12, I was pretty much doing all the work for the dryland part of the farm. But being the family farm, that didn't directly pay.After senior year of high school I worked on a wheat farm owned by a friend of my Dad and was p... |
What was your first job? | dmillar: Paperboy. |
What was your first job? | apsurd: 17, I worked for a local family owned ice cream shop of course! $6.75/hr. |
Learning RoR, Books & Tutorials? | aidscholar: I found the Ruby on Rails guides (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/) combined with the Rails API (http://api.rubyonrails.org/) to be really helpful.I started with the Agile Web Development Book with Rails (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-...), but eventually just switched to the gui... |
What was your first job? | aristus: Unsoldering resistors, capacitors, etc from old VCR mainboards. 1 cent per part; 1.5 cents if I sorted them by spec. My family had an electronics repair shop. I think I was eight or nine. (Back then components were about the size of a large ant, not stuffed in by the billion)I've been thinking about this latel... |
What was your first job? | Dilpil: 18, selling knives for CUTCO, commission only. And I freakin loved it. |
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