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Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | archon810: I've been a fan of http://www.craigslistwatch.com/ for a long time, and they'd never gotten banned but unfortunately currently undergoing some sort of restructuring. |
Books on Computer History | deutronium: One of my favorite non-fiction computer related books is 'Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution' http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/other-books/hackersVery nice list, a lot I haven't heard of. |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | bayareaguy: Too bad y2combinator[1] is no longer around. I'm sure they could help you :-)1- http://web.archive.org/web/20070705045529/http://y2combinato... |
How big is your index page? | coderdude: jquerylist.com, 9.31MB uncompressed |
Review our new Kongregate feature - level sharing | scrame: Kongregate kicks an impressive amount of ass. I have had more than a few nights lost being sucked into getting badges where I never even manage to get my 360 turned on.If this helps remove barriers to sharing flash data so things like linerider levels could be passed around and shared, that would be a huge step... |
How big is your index page? | ScottWhigham: Whew - big... 300k, I think. |
Books on Computer History | ableal: This 1982 textbook by Siewiorek, Bell and Newell seems to be available in HTML from Gordon Bell's pages at MS: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer...If memory serves, the book illustrated concepts by examining implementations. It's interesting to see how many bones have been moved from ... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | gruseom: One difference that deserves more attention is that YC comes out of hacker culture while the clones don't; they've been started by people who have had business success but are not hackers, who tend to look at YC as a business model and not as the cultural experiment it also is. As I imagine it, the founding i... |
What do you think of the Defcon Convention? | ephermata: Worth it for meeting people. The talks are uneven. Sometimes wildly uneven. The main point of DEF CON is for people to get in touch face to face, maybe pick up some new interesting contacts. If you want "training" then this is not really the right place.So if you like meeting new people, if you have a few pe... |
How big is your index page? | sjs382: My start up (unannounced) is 68 KB (89 KB uncompressed)
My home page is 2 KB (3 KB uncompressed) |
What do you think of the Defcon Convention? | dantheman: It's a blast, a bunch of hackers getting together to have fun. It really depends on what you want to get out of it. |
What to do in SF 18-21? | NonEUCitizen: sunday, in mtn view, 1hr south of SF: http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/ |
What to do in SF 18-21? | metanoize: http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/farmers_market.phphttp://www.21st-amendment.com/ (if you're over 21 for the beer or just have a burger!)http://www.7x7.com/ (for an even calendar)http://sanfrancisco.going.com/ |
Books on Computer History | RobGR: "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" by Bruce Sterling, should really be on on the must-read list.Another on I highly recommend is "The New Hacker's Dictionary" by Eric S. Raymond.Finally, although it is a bit far afield, probably every hacker should read David Kahn's "The Codebrea... |
Books on Computer History | dlevine: One of my favorites is "In Search Of Stupidity", by Merrill Chapman. It talks about the marketing mistakes that ultimately killed a lot of top tech companies. |
What is a hacker | bgnm2000: an innovator |
What is a hacker | jsz0: I would say it's anyone who finds a creative way to use something in a new and interesting way. This may include producing an entirely new thing or simply reworking some other thing -- or combining lots of different things together to serve a new purpose. Traditionally it applies mostly to technology but I don't ... |
Books on Computer History | dantheman: Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer
http://www.amazon.com/Stan-Veits-History-Personal-Computer/d...Accidental Empires
http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Co...Go To
http://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Scientists-Iconoclasts-Progr... |
How big is your index page? | known: mine is 1.35 KB |
What is a hacker | frossie: A hacker is somebody for whom not all solutions are equal; the more elegant is to be preferred.Of course, definitions of elegance vary greatly :-) |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | ca98am79: - allow a '+' in the email address- make the data sticky, if you give me an error when I enter a '+' in the email address, I want the stuff I previously entered to be thereBut it looks nice, I'm hoping to get a free bike |
BitsyBox needs beta testers for web platform | barrybakst: sounds like an application i can use. let's give it a try. BB |
What is a hacker | quizbiz: a modifier/a tweakerOne that explorers and executes options which were not necessarily originally intended.When some call such figures hackers, they do not refer to any definition but rather the name as a role. When We think about what comes to mind when we think about a Hacker, what a hacker does, who a hacke... |
What to do in SF 18-21? | ALee: Subscribe to Gary's Guide and you'll find plenty of tech events you can go to.If you're in a tourist-like mood, DO NOT rent a car and drive around or walk forever. Get a bike, you can bike the golden gate bridge get a ferry from sausalito, go anywhere to your heart's content with the simple use of a bike. |
What is a hacker | zimbabwe: I'll take the skeptical approach and say that "hacker" is a word used by certain people to define certain other people, and that we're as likely to figure out a good definition of "hacker" as we are of "love" or of "life".Personally, I see a hacker as somebody that changes things in an unexpected way. It's th... |
What to do in SF 18-21? | mschaecher: Thanks! Will check out your suggestions. Waiting for my flight to board as we speak. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | anc2020: At some point surely all computers will be quantum, so that would have an effect if that's the case.Edit: maybe its further away, but still worth thinking about. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | J_McQuade: Whatever we're using, there'll be plenty of tongue-in-cheek posts recalling the glory days of 'real programmers' implementing custom Hashtables in pure Java, no less, in order to avoid the synchronisation issues in their company's Enterprise Framework, or whatever.And they say the magic's gone out of program... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | andreyf: Easy, COLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7kTPbW6QQAny syntax you want, running on the same JIT compiler, but designed from scratch without marketing breathing down your neck. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | deutronium: Programs will write themselves using genetic algorithms and assorted machine learning techniques, and programmers will then become truly slaves of the machine. Then again, maybe I've been reading too much science-fiction... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | yannis: Ten years from now, will not be much more different. Essentially computing needs a breakthrough to move to the next level. What this breakthrough is nobody knows. A program written in the latest fashionable language of to-day is essentially not much more different from one written in Cobol or Fortran or Ada 30 ... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | mkyc: I think that Martin Fowler hits the nail on the head with Illustrative Programming: "When you look at a spreadsheet, the formulae of the spreadsheet are not immediately apparent, instead what you see is the calculated numbers - an illustration of what the program does. [...] Using examples as a first class elemen... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | mixmax: 20 years ago we wrote lisp on emacs, and we still do. The only thing that has changed is that the machines used for developing and running our programs have gotten faster. There haven't really been any gamechanging breakthroughs in software in that time. Chances are that there won't be in the next 20 years eith... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | TomOfTTB: I hate to say it but 10 years isn’t that long a time. Keep in mind the HTML 4 spec was approved about 12 years ago and we’re still using it. So I think a lot of the building blocks we’ll be using in 10 years are probably already taking shape (HTML5 for example)That said I think the improvements we will see ... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | GeneralMaximus: Well, I expect that most programming language research in the next 10 years would focus on exploiting multicore programming. If we're lucky, we'll all be using something like Haskell or Erlang, and all apps will be multithreaded. Languages that choose to ignore multicore will slowly suffocate. Writing m... |
What do you think of the Defcon Convention? | HalcyonMuse: Go. There's great talks during the day - usually at least one of the talks per time slot will look interesting - and there's pretty wild parties at night. The first time I went, I didn't meet anyone - I went with a few friends and we kept to ourselves - but despite that it was still a blast.You'll learn qu... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | edw519: I predict that the future of computing (in business anyway) will have much less to do with technology that with what applications we write, who we write them for, and how we write them.10 or 20 years from now, 100 million corporate drones will be sitting in cubicles looking at screens that look more like 37Sign... |
What is a hacker | iterationx: i like unix terrorist's definitions from phrack 65:
"hackers are people that gain unauthorized access/privileges to computerized systems...And what is up with the use of the term "cracker"? As far as I'm concerned, that term applies to people that bypass copyright protection mechanisms." |
How do you see the future of computing ? | david927: I have nothing to publicly back this up, but I think in 10 years we'll be in a whole new world when it comes to creating software -- really, a whole new world. It won't be recognizable to those around today. It's exciting, and it's waiting for us. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | nosse: I had to walk a bit to think this through. My mind works best when walking.I think touch screens will be cool toys for the toddlers, but adults will use something different. Think about it, your fingers are blocking your view just when you need it the most.I don't know what will happen, but I hope some technolog... |
How do you see the future of computing ? | cpr: I think 10 years from now we'll be dealing with the post-peak-oil world and will be worried more about how the garden is doing than what programming language we'll be using when the power is on. ;-) |
Ask HN:What happened to Download sites? | SwellJoe: They are useless vestiges of an age in which search didn't work, and maintaining a website for a project or product (and handling the bandwidth demands that entails) was harder than it is now.They are the wrong tool for the job on the modern web, and they were never very good at it even when they did provide ... |
Ask HN:What happened to Download sites? | aj: A lot of applications are also moving to the cloud as a service. Not all, but a lot. And a lot of them are distributed directly by the developer(s) increasingly as bandwidth and storage become cheaper by the day |
Event-driven web development | jokull: I hate the idea of tying front end to backend. Maybe it's prejudice. |
What do you think of the Defcon Convention? | rdl: Go, but don't use the wifi, or swim in the pools unless you've had ALL your shots. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | CraigBuchek: I think the biggest change coming to the computing world is iPhone-type devices. These will become our PCs. We'll have hand-held apps, but we'll also be able to plug them into real monitors and keyboards. So one of the biggest challenges will be making one device work in both kinds of environments. I think... |
Social Media Solution for Exhibitions | ScottWhigham: I don't think I understand what you are asking. |
How do you see the future of computing ? | csomar: 10 years from now.. too short to tell, but 20/30 years from now, I have strange thoughts.I do believe that in one day, Information Technology will invade each place, home, school, office, road... anything that exists in everyday life... I dream that everything in life will be connected and Internet will become ... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | jacquesm: Artificial scarcity is a hard businessmodel to make work for the die-hard freeloaders.You'll lose a bunch of them but they were not your best users anyway.I've always tried to really differentiate the offerings between the 'free' and the 'paid' parts of the site so that multiple free accounts would not give y... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | there: i would try to display a polite message through the site to those specific users that makes it clear you know they are using multiple accounts and that your "cheap paid plans can easily be purchased [here]" or something. guilt them into it, but don't cut them off. |
Allow multiple free accounts? | dbul: A few thousand out of 133,000 isn't a huge percentage. I would say that is bound to happen statistically, and you wouldn't want to divert resources to addressing it unless it was a significant percentage of your overall. Chances are those people who are willing to go to the effort to maintain multiple accounts wo... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | warwick: Is it possible that they're creating multiple accounts so that they can show different portfolios to different types of clients? I'm curious if this might be a workaround a missing feature instead of just trying to get by quotas.(Perhaps you already support this, I just quickly played with the demo and didn't... |
Twitter full access? | jacquesm: Getting at twitters full datastream is not like Brin & Page not being able to browse the web, it's like you not being able to access googles internal datastore.The other day there was a whole pile of internal twitter stuff being tossed around and one of the items there referred to the exact thing you are gett... |
Any Geeky/techy songs you keep listening? | jacquesm: Kraftwerk, Computer Love ;) |
Any Geeky/techy songs you keep listening? | chanux: Well.. I kept collecting geeky/nerdy songs on a grooveshark playlist.http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Geek_Songs_CX/82493... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | gojomo: Tread carefully; in some cases it might legitimately be two users behind the same NAT or on the same computer.Or, people whose main motivation isn't avoiding the payment but getting some other benefit -- two identities? -- from two accounts. In which case, making sure a single paid account has the same benefits... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | listic: An interesting tangential question would be:How do you disallow multiple accounts if you really don't want them at all? I.e. I have a multiplayer game and I really don't want users to have multiple accounts because it might spoil the game experience. How do I disallow multiple accounts? |
Books on Computer History | domodomo: On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
(http://bit.ly/11KMaT Amazon).Commodore has been kind of ignored in computing history, but they were the first company to sell 1 million units. This book has a lot of big characters in it, including the ruthless, cigar chomping, Jack Tramiel.I'm biased ... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | dpcan: The real question is, how do you know they are using multiple accounts unless you are invading their privacy and looking at their private data stored on your servers? |
Allow multiple free accounts? | cesare: 1 IP != 1 user.Even if it is always the same for the same user it could be that they're behind a NAT or just simply sharing a PC.Being behind a NAT myself I have a lot of problems with websites discriminating by IPs. |
Helpful software for writing a novel? | robin_reala: Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html) has a good rep on OS X, though I guess by your Notepad++ choice you’re on Windows? If you scroll down on Scrivener’s links page there’s a bunch of Windows-based writing software that the author recommends, so it might be worth looking through tho... |
Why do you (or don't you) have contact info in your profile? | ErrantX: When I joined I never happened to fill out a profile. As I got involved in the community here a few people asked to contact me - as I was posting personal blog posts anyway (and so the link was trivial to most) I added an email adress to my profile.It's resulted in a surprising number of amazing links with peo... |
Helpful software for writing a novel? | perseo47: Hello, I recomend you Pagefour.http://www.softwareforwriting.com/pagefour.htmlIs a word processor design to help writers. |
Why do you (or don't you) have contact info in your profile? | mahmud: I must have met or corresponded with 50+ people off of HN. |
Independent Math Study | rms: I don't have a complete answer for you, but I linked to this book a few days ago. It's pretty good. http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.htmlElementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach for a mathematically rigorous course in infinitesimal calculus. I think it is much more intuitive than typical limit calculus... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | FiReaNG3L: It could be from 500 to 500 millions, really. Depends on so many factors; what ads, how many, CPM or CPC? Clickthrought rate? How high is your CPM? Are you selling stuff too? |
Independent Math Study | mlLK: Checkout this thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108723 |
Independent Math Study | mark-t: To be honest, calculus isn't that important for mathematicians, but if you want to study mathematics seriously, I'd suggest picking up a rigorous text like Rudin's or Apostol's. It will be difficult. You'll have to read most of it several times. That's perfectly fine; the point is that it will help you learn to... |
Independent Math Study | sdesol: It's been ages since my last university math class (I was a I math major), so I can't point you to any reference material, but I can say the following.If you really want to improve your problem solving skills, I would highly recommend studying real analysis. What you get out of this will go a long way to makin... |
Why do you (or don't you) have contact info in your profile? | sidmitra: I guess the reasons would differ from reaching out to fellow brethren to just showing off the stuff they do.I wish i could show off, until then it's just a way of letting people associate a person with an otherwise anonymous username. |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | redorb: my site would need 1.25mm page loads or 125k uniques per a month Im currently at 7% of that or (9k unq's). (assumes my cpm scales) .. my site is weather related.I would assume a web app would get more pageloads but have a much lower CPM. |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | staunch: The real answer is, of course, that it totally depends. Here's some reasonable generic ranges though: SCENARIO CPM AVG ADS/PAGE PAGE VIEWS
-------- ------- --------- ----------
Best $1.00 2 2.5 million
Okay $0.25 2 10 million
... |
Independent Math Study | wheels: I've learned a lot of math that's beyond the scope of what I had in college. I usually find that it works best when it's on the way to something that I'm trying to do or understand. I never really tried to learn math for the sake of math -- I wanted to understand quantum computing algorithms, recommender syst... |
Independent Math Study | streblo: You should take a look at a book called The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. While it's geared more towards physics, this book has proven to me to be the most enlightening mathematics text I've ever read. Admittedly I'm only about 10 chapters in - it's a very dense book, and you'd do well to go through it slo... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | ankeshk: Here is a point to remember: the less popular your website, the lower your CPM average will be.If you only attract 1,000 unique visitors - your CPM maybe well under $1. But if you cross 20,000 or 50,000 visitors - your CPM could go as high as $2 to $5. (I've seen websites earn $10 per CPM too - but that is v... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | idlewords: My adsense stats last month: 200K page views, $1300, CPM of around $6 for a very narrowly targeted website. As other posters have said, it's highly domain specific. |
Independent Math Study | Herring: Always use more than 1 text, always do the problems, & always keep up a steady pace. I haven't found anything else to be really important. |
Independent Math Study | jonsen: First make sure you have a solid operational foundation on the basics. Advanced topics will feel so much easier.For that I can recommend Discrete Mathematics and its Applications by Kenneth H. Rosen.Optionally supplemented by Student's Solutions Guide for more elaborate answers to exercises.Do as many exercises... |
Allow multiple free accounts? | modeless: You should budget for your free service under the assumption that people will create multiple accounts. Then you should allow merging multiple free accounts into one paid account to provide a tempting upgrade path for multiple-account people, who after all are among your most dedicated users. If you can det... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | adinobro: As others have said it depends on what your site is about. If your site already exists there isn't much you can do but if you are planning to create a site then you can find out what the CPM average is by using Google Adword tools to find out how much people are paying for the key words. That will give you a ... |
Independent Math Study | kqr2: Book recommendation: Princeton Companion to MathematicsIt's a good way to skim a lot of different mathematical topics for further exploration.http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timoth... |
Independent Math Study | cool-RR: I self-studied math for 2 years. I just attended lectures without officially enrolling to the university. I also did about half of the homework problems given in these courses (My math-student friend was envious of me: I could choose the interesting questions out of the homework paper, and ditch the boring one... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | larryfreeman: There are sites that estimate ad revenue:
http://www.webtrafficagents.com/WebSitevalue/WebSiteWorth.as...Then, you can use Quantcast or Alexa to determine page views:
http://quantcast.com
http://alexa.com |
Independent Math Study | gtani: You could do a purely applied approach, look at some Data Mining books, like Witten/Franke and the Weka java framwork (there's quite a few good books, check amazon reviews, ) and the assortment of methods that are applied from basic logit/probits, through clustering, SVM, neural, evolutionary programming, . |
Independent Math Study | yannis: You could try MIT's free courses! |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | petercooper: From my own experience? I no longer get anywhere near this but last year I made between 4-9k per month on only a few thousand pageviews a day to my personal blog - I was getting > $10 CPM from Adsense no trouble. No scams, etc.Sadly my blog went down the rankings a bit and with the general advertising slum... |
Independent Math Study | BrentRitterbeck: If you wish to move beyond the level of learning methods to solve a very specific class of problems (like Calculus I/II/III teaches, no offence/looking down one's nose is intended), you'll need to eventually learn to write proofs. A good book to get you over the initial hurdles is Daniel Velleman's Ho... |
how many page views i need to earn $5000 per month from ads? | rrhyne: I just requested a media kit from a blog that covers data centers: 45$ CPM.CPMs at big internet marketing sites are worth much more than that. |
Defining Moments in History? | david927: Nov. 9, 1989: Berlin Wall fellApril, 1989: Tiananmen SquareDec. 31, 2007: European Union drops all borders
(EU countries have essentially become like U.S. states)Jan. 20, 2009: Barack Obama sworn in as US President |
Defining Moments in History? | whatusername: 2003: Human Genome Sequence |
Defining Moments in History? | ErrantX: 6 June 1944 (D-Day)(potentially Dunkirk would count more) |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | shabda: I am obviously biased, as I run a django development company. That said, Ill start with answering the drawbacks of Django,1. Learning curve.Not more than any other framework. Plus the Documentation is top notch. (The documentation was what sold me when I was evaluating.)2. Smaller communityDefinately true. But ... |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | ericb: Can someone who knows Ruby and Python contrast their metaprogramming capabilities along with how much mileage Django and Rails get from it under the hood? |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | tptacek: No offense, but how amazing can your idea be if it allows you to procrastinate on web frameworks? |
Paying for a "premium" domain name? | ScottWhigham: I think that, depending on price vs. revenue potential, that it can totally be worth it - otherwise people wouldn't still be paying premiums for .com domains. Your questions are so generic - "how much of your limited budget do you think you should spend on the name?" I don' know - am I funded? What's my p... |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | idlewords: Without learning a bit more about the nature of your project, I don't think it's possible to give you meaningful advice. Dish! |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | jm4: If you've borrowed money from family and friends to hire some developers in order to get something working as quickly as possible you should use whatever tools are going to help you make that happen. You probably don't want to be tinkering around with a new language and framework on top of having to work with deve... |
Updated recommendation on Rails versus Django? | keyist: You're thinking of putting aside 3 years of experience in Rails and Ruby in order to learn a new language + framework. On a project that you're taking friends and family funding for.While it's easy to pick up a language or framework, you only pick up best practices by constant usage and community involvement. ... |
Paying for a "premium" domain name? | vaksel: you have 2 options:a) web2.0 the domain name(flickr, kayak)b) make up a new wordb) use 2 words, i.e domainpigeon |
Paying for a "premium" domain name? | Mz: I bought a domain name for a non-profit and the only version available was the .us version of their name. They were happy to get it for the $8 or so that they paid. I've found that a lot of the domain names I think up aren't already taken, though initially some of the ones I thought up were. Karen Ellis, who does... |
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