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How many links to Chrome OS comments are enough? | paulgb: I agree, but a more proactive solution is to find and submit some good non-Chrome content. ;) |
How many links to Chrome OS comments are enough? | rewind: You forgot Eight. That would have been my choice. |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | hapless: If you discover that smart people will not recommend your application, the problem doesn't lie in the marketing.You're barking up the wrong tree. |
Steve Job's Net Worth? | kqr2: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2009-riches...His net worth was estimated to be $3.4 billion by Forbes on 3/11/09. At that time, Apple shares were down 50% over the previous 6 months. |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | joshu: Don't plants and areas have "climate zones"? You should be able to search for that.http://www.garden.org/zipzone/ |
Hows MediaTemple for RoR? | davesailer: Check Rails Hosting Info: http://www.railshostinginfo.com/I found OCS Solutions through them, and am totally satisfied: http://www.ocssolutions.com/I am a customer of OCS and do not benefit from their business in any way.I had a really bad experience with another company whose name is like S*5. |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | lhorie: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ comes to mind. |
Hows MediaTemple for RoR? | jakewolf: I just upgraded to their $50/mth dv server from the grid and it's night and day different in terms of speed. Was hosting a drupal site and sat for over 20 seconds per page load now down to super speedy.Best solution is whatever works. As a former landscaper paying over $500 a month for a leased truck and insu... |
Steve Job's Net Worth? | pg: Random variation. |
Steve Job's Net Worth? | bkbleikamp: Depends on when he sold stock options, how many stock options he had, the details surrounding him leaving and coming back as CEO, and about a million other possible variables. |
Steve Job's Net Worth? | DarkShikari: Is the net worth of someone like that really a valid concept?--since if they announced that they were to sell all of their stock, the price would plummet (since it would imply to investors they no longer trust the stock as an investment).It's worse than illiquid; the mere act of trying to sell such a horde... |
SEO Question -- What's up with Google? | nostrademons: Google Webmaster Central: http://www.google.com/webmasters/I've heard of similar problems happening to other webmasters, but I don't really know what's going on, nor do I work in a position where I could find out easily. |
Hows MediaTemple for RoR? | fuelfive: Use heroku. It's the best for RoR sites. |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | iterationx: i don't think so.
i don't get that impression.
nope.
flattery. |
SEO Question -- What's up with Google? | inerte: I've seen Google promoting fresh pages to the first results and then the pages vanishing. Many, many times... so your situation is not uncommon! In fact, it happened to me, right here on HN, check this comment:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727Whoever replied that my comment was at the top was right, I ... |
SEO Question -- What's up with Google? | rms: >Is it possible that a competitor could have submitted my site to some kind of spam engine that would then make Google kill the site? If so, what the f*ck kind of recourse does a person have in that caseI've thought about this as an SEO technique but do not believe it has ever been used. It is an evil meme and its... |
Best listserv setup? | makecheck: GNU Mailman (for lists) and Mhonarc (for archives) work pretty well, it's just a question of whether you have any place to host them.http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.htmlhttp://www.mhonarc.org/ |
How to remember names? | satyajit: Many smartphones will allow you to attach an image to an addrbook entry, use it to consciously! Everytime you call and recv a call, you will see the name+img together - so you can associate name with a img and vice versa! |
How to remember names? | paulgb: I'm bad at this too, a few tricks I use:- Say the other person's name out loud as you are introduced.- Picture their name written out.- If it is a common name, picture a friend or famous person with the same name.- If it is a foreign or uncommon name, break it down by syllable and picture things with names that... |
How to remember names? | onreact-com: Use a funny memory aid that is a term you a very familiar with that sounds funny and similar to the actual name or find a short form of the name. My name is very much unpronounceable let alone memorable for most people in the world so I made up a new short version of it, Tad Chef. My actual name is Tadeusz... |
Distributed File System | speek: Ever thought about getting some super-duper SAN toys? |
Distributed File System | kierank: MogileFS is what you're looking for. Native http support with a MySQL tracker. |
Distributed File System | Tichy: Not sure if something like Cassandra would help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28database%29I think there must be open source clones of the FS Google uses, but I don't know the names. |
Distributed File System | simonw: Sounds like a job for the Hadoop HDFS. |
Distributed File System | ajb: Hmm, sounds like tahoe may do what you want: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe |
Distributed File System | cperciva: I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. You say that you've got approximately 40000 files; a database which keeps track of where those files are stored is a trivially small problem. |
Distributed File System | dizz: Ceph? http://ceph.newdream.net/about/ |
Distributed File System | gcv: I'm about to look into somewhat similar requirements for an app I'm consulting on, and I plan to research GlusterFS first. |
Distributed File System | comice: GlusterFS is a FUSE based distributed filesystem. You can mirror the files on as many servers as you like, aggregate storage from different servers. It has no central metadata server either.It doesn't serve via HTTP directly, but it's easy to point a web server at the filesystem (it has an Apache module to prov... |
Distributed File System | gamache: I am surprised that no one has mentioned Amazon S3. You will definitely plunk down a few bucks to store 40TB there, but it's a ready-made solution to your problem.Edit: OK, now I see that S3 was suggested but vetoed. Unwise decision, in my opinion. If you need data security, encrypt your data. |
Nikola Tesla, greatest inventor of all times? | TweedHeads: One of the few men I admire, DaVinci, Newton and Tesla.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_TeslaIn memoriam. |
Never scroll up or down again | yannis: Simplicity is the art of maximizing the amount of work not done! |
Nikola Tesla, greatest inventor of all times? | profquail: This is a pretty good website with a lot of information about him, if you're interested:http://www.reformation.org/nikola-tesla.html(NOTE: I said 'pretty good' because some of the writing has a bit of a conspiracy-theory feel to it. Other than that though...) |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | terpua: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656237The article and discussions are helpful. |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | rodrigo: The "Learn French with Coffe Break French" podcast. I listen to it in my conmmutes. |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | mahmud: you can't learn a language without the associated culture. to become a francophone you will have to be a francophile.Or just move to Algeria, you will learn excellent French will still hating France :-PFailing that, move to Quebec! |
Nikola Tesla, greatest inventor of all times? | Gibbon: Tesla: A Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney, one of my favourite biographies.X-Rays, Radio, AC electricity, Solar Heating, Vacuum Tubes, R/C Vehicles, Torpedoes, Force Fields, Microwave Transmissions, High Voltage Conductors, Wireless Communications, World Wide Broadcasting, Phosphorescent Lighting, Robots, Liq... |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | TrevorJ: One thing I thought of doing was finding an MMORPG that is localized in the language you want to learn, as well as in English. Play it in English and then switch over to French and join a guild. A couple reasons why I though this could work:-Because the context is limited, you should be able to intuit more mea... |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | DanielStraight: Just one: The ultimate source of all knowledge on language learning.http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | fburnaby: http://www.livemocha.com/ |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | alexkearns: Ignore the spammy looking website and the quiff but Michel Thomas's audio language courses - http://www.michelthomas.com - are brilliant. He has a very unusual but extraordinarily effective teaching style and within an amazingly short period you find yourself saying things in a foreign language that you wou... |
I'd like to learn French without enrolling in classes | edw519: "Behind the Wheel French" is excellent:http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Wheel-French-CD-Course/dp/18935... |
Why do people (you) give feedback? | ZachS: I think you have to find the right type of people to write full reviews without incentive. Maybe people would be more apt to review sites if it wasn't so much work. Maybe you could use a system where people type a couple of words in review of the site, rather than a huge amazon.com style product review.You cou... |
Why do people (you) give feedback? | trickjarrett: I provide feedback because I think I have a unique perspective and can provide insights that the creators and others may not have thought of. |
Why do people (you) give feedback? | e1ven: I give feedback out of a sense of community. I like the people who come to HN, and I emphasize them.When someone asks for feedback on their site, I'll usually check their post history and how long they've been around. If they're contributing and being helpful, I'm happy to help them in return. |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | embeddedradical: Discrete Mathematics courses |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | nostrademons: The big three IMNSHO are OS Design, Compiler Design, and Computer Graphics, in that order of precedence.OS Design teaches you about trade-offs. In many academic CS courses, the answers are cut-and-dried: here's how you write a binary search, here's how you implement a hashtable, etc. In OS design, every... |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | scott_s: I endorse everything nostrademons said, but I'd like to add some comparative programming languages course - which often is complementary to a compilers course.My comparative course was my first exposure to functional and logic programming - it was, in fact, the first time that I was forced to consider the enti... |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | javanix: Thanks for the info guys. I should probably add that our school doesn't offer any sort of work-study credit in CS, so that's the reason I'm sticking around campus for the last semester (well, that and no desire to kill myself for my last "real semester" just to get out a semester early). |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | BrentRitterbeck: Do they offer some kind of numerical analysis class cross-listed with the mathematics department? This is a class I wish I would have picked up. I now have to teach myself numerical analysis, and there is so much material to choose from that I don't know what the correct sequence of learning things s... |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | dandelany: I really enjoyed taking AI and a Natural Language Processing class my senior year. |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | sarvesh: If you can find a course that teaches finite automata and formal languages you should definitely take that in addition to those already mentioned. |
I'm Contractor 0, now being offered equity--in an LLC. Can this work? | tptacek: I don't understand your question. You can sell/assign membership interest in an LLC (although a member of an LLC can't take W2 wages from it). You can even call it stock.The problem with this arrangement isn't going to be legal formalities. The problem's going to be that your tiny minority investment in a priv... |
Critique this idea | hymanroth: This proposal is not too dissimilar to the ideas behind P-BOS (http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=pbos)P-BOS works best when the modules are small, and hence breaking down individual contributions within a given module does not get too messy.As to the 'morality' of charging for FOSS, the issue can easily be ... |
I'm Contractor 0, now being offered equity--in an LLC. Can this work? | russell: THEY ask a lawyer, because they are probably the ones violating securities law. IANAL. A possible framework is for them to grant you x,000 options that you accrue on some basis. You reduce your rate, because you are part of the team. I am not sure you can buy stock or options at your leisure because you prob... |
I'm Contractor 0, now being offered equity--in an LLC. Can this work? | grellas: You can simulate the grant of options in an LLC but, for this to be readily quantifiable, it requires that the membership interests be defined as "units" rather than just a percent of the company.Meaning that instead of saying: "Member x 33%, Member y 33%, Member z 33%," you say: Member x 333,333 units, Member... |
What is your opinion of the occult? | ZachS: I don't believe in anything supernatural. |
What is your opinion of the occult? | ScottWhigham: I don't get it - is that an attempt at spamming HN? I'm trying to figure this out - is this a bot that has auto-submitted something? I'm just totally lost here as to why that article and this post were placed here. |
I'm Contractor 0, now being offered equity--in an LLC. Can this work? | jbr: What's the motivation to remain an LLC? (My co-founder did all of the legal stuff and chose to go directly for a C-corp, so I don't know what the benefits of an LLC are) |
Steve Job's Net Worth? | gregking: the bulk of his networth are disney shares due to pixar sale. |
I'm Contractor 0, now being offered equity--in an LLC. Can this work? | anamax: > The partners want to give me the opportunity to buy options at the company's current valuation (based on angel investment) with a 1.5 multiplier. E.g., $100 buys $150 of stock.You really need to consult a tax specialist before doing anything because that looks like a transaction that will be taxable immediate... |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | throw_away: if you happen to be at cal, the single most functionally useful class I took there was hilfinger's programming for blood: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Courses/Data/701.htmlthe premise of this class was to build a better team for the ACM programming contest, but I learned a ton about the actual mechanics of ... |
How to get input on New product Ideas | buugs: Ask people who's opinion you trust.Ask the people who you are going to be selling.
Considering you got the cold shoulder doing this maybe you are talking to the wrong people... maybe you should be targeting the technical portion of said company.. If you are going for managers/owners I'd go full on pitch quick an... |
Why do people (you) give feedback? | CyberFonic: Had a look at the first four pages of launchly.com. I wasn't near enough tempted to look at any of the sites. I'm sure that the visitors to that site are very different to those who regularly visit HN. For me (and that's only a single data point) HN provides value that matters to me. Launchly, on the ot... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | terpua: With issues of this magnitude, talk to an immigration lawyer. |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | frossie: Absolutely yes - if you are a permanent resident and have held your green card for at least 5 years (the qualifying period) you should apply for citizenship. The reason is that a green card is not permanent; you lose it when you leave the country for a year or more. So if, for example, you got a consulting gig... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | mahmud: Yes, but apply from Canada, just in case ;-) |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | bwd: One thing that you must keep in mind is that if you get sick of high US taxes (and they only seem to be going higher) and you want to move someplace like Hong Kong, you will still need to pay US taxes, and you will even be forced to continue to pay them for 10 years if you decide to give up your citizenship. |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | ErrantX: Being an "immigrant" makes the passport issue a bit more important - but don't forget something like 60% of US citizens don't have one either (IIRC). |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | cptrfsn: My situation is very similar, I'm on green card here as well. The only difference is that I actually have valid Russian passport, so can go back there whenever I want.After careful consideration of my personal situation I have decided to pass on citizenship. At least for now. There are just too few benefits. I... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | IgorCarron: You first need to be naturalized and then you can apply for a U.S. passport, but I am sure you knew that.At the very least, you owe it to yourself to have a passport. In the meantime, you should to be asking one from the Russians as you ought to be or are still a citizen of that country. |
Where can I find tf–idf for English? | sharpn: I suggest you use a newspaper's archive if wikipedia doesn't suit you. |
Where can I find tf–idf for English? | yannis: Your best bet is to download the Brown corpus. It is a bit dated but well documented. However, neither the Brown corpus nor the Wikipedia are a representative sample of the web. If you let us know a bit more as to what you are trying to do, we may be able to add better solutions. |
Where can I find tf–idf for English? | gtani: The reuters corpus was used for a lot of papers, and TREC.http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/05/18/open-source-sear...http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/lyrl2004_r... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | abstractbill: My wife and I joke that we collect passports and citizenships. So far we have UK, FR and US.I don't have US citizenship, as my wife has that one (I have a Green Card). But if I wasn't married to a citizen, and had no passport at all, I would probably become a citizen.It sounds like you must still be a R... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | zavulon: I was in a same boat as you are, and I think it comes down to being whether you feel grateful to this country or not.In my experience, living in former Soviet Union was hell. It was, still is, and always will be a shithole, with about 95% of population idiot racist alcoholics.So for me, when faced with an oppo... |
Should I get U.S. citizenship? | jacquesm: There is some ambiguity in your question:Are you scared of 'being deported for something that you've done' or are you scared of being deported for 'something unspecified at some point in the future' ? There is a huge difference between the two.If the former then in some cases being deported is better than hav... |
Distributed File System | fh973: I suggest you also check out XtreemFS (http://www.xtreemfs.org/). It supports striping/parallel IO and your throughput will scale with the number of storage servers you deploy (we ran at GB/s, not Gbits, on a single file). It gives you full file system semantics (you mount it via FUSE) and is quite easy to setup... |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | marketer: This is a good set of items to include:http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas/ |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | ankeshk: I include 7 things.1. The idea in a nutshell----2. Production - what you'll do to bring the idea to life3. Marketing - what you'll do to promote the venture4. Finance - how much money is needed. And what will be the breakeven point and the cashflow positive point.----5. Your target audience profile6. Your comp... |
Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses | mikebo: Databases! It's where theory and data structures meet in practice. |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | ivyirwin: 1. Mission/What is It?
2. Current Market (competition)
3. Need left by current market
4. Why this is the solution to current need
5. How it works
6. Pro forma
7. The team |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | webwright: A document to synch up vision and goals between partners doesn't look very much like the standard business plan (or what's been proposed so far here).With partners you should have a mutual understanding of:- Risk tolerance. How much of their own money will they spend? How long will they go without a payche... |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | profquail: Hack a Day: http://hackaday.com/ (for random electronics projects) |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | cmos: A business plan is predicting the future. Play around with scenarios of different success/failure points. If you have X amount of cash to work with that will get you y months of time to prove it. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | leif: make blog, don't remember url |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | reedlaw: http://ladyada.net/make/
especially the x0xb0x |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | sanj: http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/ |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | nodus: http://www.motherearthnews.com/ <-- diy farming/homesteadinghttp://www.drivendaily.info/ <-- carshttp://thereifixedit.com/ <-- ugly kludges |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | buckler: Technological:-Compilation of "Best How-To and DIY Sites" from PC Magazine (includes Instructables, WikiHow, Expert Village, WonderHowTo, etc.) - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347650,00.asp-DIY from Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/diy-"Type of Skills Everyone Should Know" (originally "100 Skill... |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | bowman: http://www.calnewport.com/blog/Very well written blog for "Zen" like study hacks. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | diN0bot: http://instructables.com |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | noahlt: Does anyone have any good resources for amateur/hobbyist hacking biotech? |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | kunqiana: Paul Graham's business plan for viaweb http://www.paulgraham.com/vwplan.html |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | zephyrfalcon: What do you mean... "other" things? :-) |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | lyime: http://createdigitalmusic.com/ |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | jasonkester: http://fantasticcontraption.com/ for hacking... uh... contraptions.Be warned though, it's crack. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | onreact-com: http://www.hackyourself.org/ :-)http://www.theyesmen.org/ reality hackers.http://www.rhizome.org/ technology + art |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | dan_the_welder: http://www.cnczone.com |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | samlittlewood: Making stuff: http://blog.makezine.com
Broad range of hardware & electronics hacks. |
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