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What was the latest book you read? | HalcyonMuse: Cat's Cradle, by Vonnegut. |
What was the latest book you read? | TrevorJ: "The Screwtape Letters", by C.S. LewisIn the middle of "Roughing It" by Mark Twain now. |
What was the latest book you read? | johng: Just got done reading 'the fountainhead' by ayn rand. |
How to safely buy a domain? | johng: escrow.com -- that's what it's specifically made for. |
What was the latest book you read? | keefe: Last serious book : http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-P...Last fun book : http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/...I can't resist the body swapping stuff ever since reading Lord of Light as a kid |
What was the latest book you read? | domodomo: Last book: 1984
Current book: Master & Commander |
Would the Internet pass the Turing test? | TallGuyShort: The Turing Test is to to be indistinguishable from a human via a text interface.The only thing I can think of that even comes close on the Internet is a search engine that attempts to answer questions according to the way you asked them (for instance, Wolfram Alpha). But even then, anyone can tell the dif... |
What was the latest book you read? | kes: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by David Eggers. Ironic title, thoughtful and enjoyable book. Suggested. |
YC & other programs - is this data correct? | emmett: The most striking thing about this list is just how many more startups have been funded by YC than by any competitor. There are almost as many YC companies as the rest put together (especially considering all the unlaunched YC companies missing from the list). |
What was the latest book you read? | blazamos: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (excellent; recently saw Food, Inc. as well)The Next 100 Years by George Friedman (amusing; was given to me as a gag gift)Currently reading: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace |
What was the latest book you read? | stepherm: Last: What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages by Potter.Current: Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Csikszentmihalyi |
What was the latest book you read? | Evgeny: Last fiction - The Atrocity Archives by Charles StrossBefore that - The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (recommended to all fantasy fans)Last technical - AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis |
What was the latest book you read? | sharpn: 'Create Your Own Economy' by Tyler Cowen - a good read. |
What was the latest book you read? | ironsam: last: East of Eden (Steinbeck)current: Design Patterns of Enterprise Architecture (Fowler) |
What was the latest book you read? | sgoraya: Current:Ghandi and Churchill by Arthur HermanLast:The Odyssey by HomerA bull in China by Jim Rogers |
What was the latest book you read? | jake_morrison: Halting State, by Charles Stross, great for computer geeks |
What was the latest book you read? | oz: The Road To Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum |
What was the latest book you read? | burke: Current: Zen and the BrainPrevious: Gödel, Escher, Bach (still working on that one, actually) |
What was the latest book you read? | silvio: I read Multireal, which is the follow up to Infoquake. They deal with a startup producing software that runs inside people, executed by tiny nanobots. The books explore startup culture. |
What was the latest book you read? | lacker: Last: The C Programming Language - Kernighan & RitchieCurrent: The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker |
Which do we have more to fear from: 4Chan or AutoAdmit? | 4711: Autoadmit has a lot more talent and ingenuity, whereas 4chan has a lot more force. However, board invasions have gone out of style on AA.I'd be really scared if Autoadmit became the officers and 4chan the foot soldiers. ("General Whokebe, reporting for duty.") |
Which do we have more to fear from: 4Chan or AutoAdmit? | cartoon: 4chan is scarier. Autoadmit just trolls itself these days. They're all like 30. Even the Great One turned 26 recently. |
Which do we have more to fear from: 4Chan or AutoAdmit? | 1000th_visitor: Autoadmit is for old people these days. It mostly trolls itself. All the great XO posters are 26-30. |
Which do we have more to fear from: 4Chan or AutoAdmit? | fourzerofour: I wouldn't want either one. |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | lsc: asking is fine, but if the company is more than just one guy, don't expect them to answer. From what I understand, it's a liability matter; telling someone why they weren't hired can get the employer in a lot of hot water if the reason was a questionable one.But really, you should treat it a lot like dating; ev... |
Which do we have more to fear from: 4Chan or AutoAdmit? | rowkebe: This should be a poll. You know how to make polls, yes? |
What was the latest book you read? | christofd: Last: Create your own Economy, by Tyler CowenCurrent: Real World Haskell |
What was the latest book you read? | miditim: Musicophilia (too much psychiatry, not enuf music)b4 thatAnathem (will read again after a few years)b4 thatHalting State (cool) |
What was the latest book you read? | il: Robert Greene- 48 Laws of Power |
What was the latest book you read? | nopassrecover: Last: Crossing the Chasm
Current: Managing Humans |
What was the latest book you read? | nopassrecover: This is a great source of stuff for:function get_smarter(): 1. Am I smart enough yet? (default answer: of course not!)
2. If yes, go make a grillion dollars, or go fishing, or something. (Note: this statement is unreachable).
3. Otherwise:
1. Do various important things, until I have ... |
What was the latest book you read? | firefoxman1: Getting Real by 37 signals. |
Potential Interest for New Hacker House in Redwood City | newhackerhouse: There wasn't much interest so we're not keeping the house. Sorry. |
What was the latest book you read? | safetytrick: In the middle of GEB, |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | keltecp11: So we were screwing around in Canada one day and well this video happened. First off, is it 'funny enough' to be viral? If you think so... what should I do? I just bought the domain name JeepDiving.com I want to build up the webpage over the next couple of days, maybe make it like Jorts.com, have it get ... |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | keltecp11: I should note, what are your thoughts on actually contacting JEEP if this gets big enough? |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | jibiki: I don't think it's obvious enough to really have viral appeal. Also, it makes you seem like a sociopath (jumping into a stranger's car, while they're driving, seems more like a crime than a prank.)On the other hand, it is funny. |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | alanthonyc: Okay, it's sorta funny.But at the same time, it's sorta creepy too. |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | eplawless: I really hope that's not you laughing like an idiot the entire time. It would have been far funnier without. |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | mahmud: You're no Rémi Gaillard or Joey Scaggs, or even Sacha Baron Cohen or Johnny Knoxville. However, if you wanna pull of something like Gaillard's stunts but for the American market, I can see that working.My gf is a musician and I know a few agents who we have declined to work with because they specialize in shock... |
Website Terms of Use - Best/First Practices? | rms: If you're just doing something standard, it is not worth spending your money on a boilerplate ToS.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910For the age 13 thing, I believe it is holdover from when this law was in effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_... |
Website Terms of Use - Best/First Practices? | alanthonyc: Thanks for the quick and helpful reply! |
What was the latest book you read? | dpnewman: 'The Double' by José Saramago |
I have a Viral Video (I Think) - just posted it - how can I make $? | attatae: this idea, as it is, cannot possibly become a viral video. there are many reasons why, here are a few -for starters - with the rules, this idea is already too complex for viral video greatness.
second, hardly anyone else can submit their own version, because barely anyone drives open jeeps, and even fewer peo... |
Is it inappropriate to ask why I was rejected from a job? | bavcyc: Ask but as another has mentioned, ask what you can do to make yourself a better candidate for that type of position.But realize that it is only one company and might not reflect reality in other companies. Better to ask many people what they are looking for in co-workers and employees. |
DEFCON? | araneae: I am not a "good hacker" but I know a few, and they say it's filled with wannabes. |
What was the latest book you read? | fiaz: King Warrior Magician Lover
by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillettehttp://www.amazon.com/King-Warrior-Magician-Lover-Rediscover... |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | physcab: I guess I'll answer my own question. Typically I listen to R&B, but my older graduate adviser has recently gotten me interested in classical. My favorite is the Brandenburg Concerto #5 by Bach. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | araneae: A 3.25 hour long .mp3 of techno music played at a rave held in my college dorm's subbasement.That, and random OP/EDs from anime. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | BrentRitterbeck: I go to Shoutcast and bring up All-Classical WGBH 89.7-HD2. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | ErrantX: Almost anything out of my fairly large collection (I hate silence).I had the misfortune (or good fortune) to grow up next to a gifted musician - with a massively diverse musical taste. An example playlist I clearly remember from my late-late teens (blaring out from the room next door) went along the lines of: ... |
Readability loves readers, but at what cost to authors? | HoneyAndSilicon: I've had some of the same reactions.Remember that Readability is only at version 0.4 - and i'm not sure that it even has a plan to montetize (sorry, haven't read their site details). Have you considered bringing this suggestion to their attention? |
Readability loves readers, but at what cost to authors? | Shakescode: Readability is a (somewhat experimental?) service offering from Arc90, which self-describes as:"Founded in 2004 in Brooklyn, arc90 was created with the goal of designing and building captivating and forward-thinking experiences on the Web. Our strategists partner with you to identify opportunities and help ... |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | justlearning: mostly groovesalad from somafm.com -
very rhythmic beats with no intrusion, almost becomes oblivious after a while.Sometimes Mozart or some random classical music - it boosts me up at unexpected times. I often tune into online musical stations, but the ads distract me. If I am reading, sometimes, a violin... |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | synnik: 90s Chick Rock. The Cure. Urban Folk. The soundtrack to Run Lola Run. And Meatloaf. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | RiderOfGiraffes: None - I can't code while music is on. Ditto conversation, and ditto doing math.There was something in PeopleWare (I think) about an experiment done with people listening to music. Those listening to their preferred music performed about as well as those who preferred silence and got it, and about as... |
ASK HN: DreamIt Founder Running For Congress - Needs Help Picking Out His Logo | keltecp11: I like #'s 15 and 37 |
ASK HN: DreamIt Founder Running For Congress - Needs Help Picking Out His Logo | ErrantX: His team seems lacklustre and uninvolved. No feedback, no interaction, no ratings. It doesnt take much to involve in your 99 designs contest (I've done a few and it's a great experience). I hope they show more interest in his campaign.(#43 seems the best to me) |
ASK HN: DreamIt Founder Running For Congress - Needs Help Picking Out His Logo | SwellJoe: I've run three designs at 99designs, and I've found the best thing you can do to get great work is to give a lot of feedback (well, feedback on every design, not necessarily a lot of words, except where it is warranted), and do it at least once per day.It keeps the contest in folks minds, it keeps designers c... |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | ExJournalist: Maybe it's just me, but I really need as close to complete silence as possible. The hum of HD drive is comforable enough for me. Anything more distracts. YMMV. |
Readability loves readers, but at what cost to authors? | ExJournalist: As a "recovering journalist" who constantly recommends Readability to friends, the lack of authorship attribution concerns me greatly.I don't write Javascript, so I can't provide myself with such a service, but as annoying (heavy bandwidth/printwidth) as many posts are, I think the average web-browsing ci... |
Readability loves readers, but at what cost to authors? | Rickasaurus: If authors don't want their content to be reformatted they should present it in either a locked down format (ex. PDF) or provide it in a way which is reasonably well formatted.One of the biggest problems with mobile web browsing is that there are so many fixed format sites which have content for which it i... |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | brk: I don't do much coding like others here ( I am more biz dev/ sales oriented now) but when I am hacking on something I will usually seed Pandora with Devin The Dude or maybe Trick Trick.I will tend to listen to the same general artists/tracks because I don't want the distraction of new data, but I do like using mus... |
What was the latest book you read? | phugoid: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, in one sitting. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | JournalistHack: I've got to go with the "none" crowd.I don't consider coding an easy or natural activity to me... until I really get into sort of a zone. Sometimes I have to close my eyes (as well as ears) and stop staring at the screen... so that complete lack of input lets my brain percolate a fresh way of looking a... |
What was the latest book you read? | fburnaby: Freedom Evolves - Dan Dennett |
what software you use to create UML's? | ajg1977: Visual Paradigm -* It's cross platform (I use it at work on PC and home on a Mac).* The pricing is very fair, particularly the single-user edition ($70).* The community and viewer editions are free.* It has nice support for automatically aligning/formatting/reorganizing diagrams.On the downside the toolbar isn... |
What was the latest book you read? | secret: Just finished: Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | RiderOfGiraffes: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=192924Especially:http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=193120Previous times this question has been asked:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212682http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418http://searchyc.com/music----If I'm not... |
what software you use to create UML's? | justlearning: staruml - http://staruml.sourceforge.net on windows.just in case, you are using eclipse/netbeans, they have decent modelling capabilities. |
What Music Do You Listen To While Coding? | bgnm2000: 90s and country, but I'm going to try white noise after reading this |
How often do you reply to emails/voicemail/text? | JournalistHack: I keep 1 high priority email account that beeps me with any new message. And several others with assigned purposes.This enables me to stay (best I can) focused on "code alone" ( plus HN for breaks ;). |
How often do you reply to emails/voicemail/text? | vaksel: I reply to pretty much all emails I get from real people, but then again I only get 3-4 per day that need a reply. If I had thousands of emails to reply to like some people, I'd probably be a lot more selective.As far as emailing someone...if I'm emailing out of the blue, I pretty much fire and forget. If I get... |
Why do we show comment scores next to posts? | quoderat: To me it's a convenient filter that lets me know the likelihood of some comment being good -- though it's not always reliable because unpopular opinions (like, often, my own) that threaten people's self-interests or self-image tend to get voted down pretty aggressively. |
Why do we show comment scores next to posts? | pg: To encourage people to post good comments. |
what software you use to create UML's? | stefano: I've found ArgoUML to be quite hard to work with. BoUML is much better. |
What was the latest book you read? | balding_n_tired: Finished: _Germany 1866-1945_ by Gordon Craig. Various others in parallel. |
How often do you reply to emails/voicemail/text? | DanielStraight: I reply immediately to emails that require a reply at work. Within a day at home. Texts I generally reply to within minutes whether they require a reply or not. Voice mails I never reply or listen to. If I get a voice mail, I look through the missed calls, guess who left it and then seek them out either... |
Best javascript framework for a new project | noodle: jquery. its just my personal preference, each library has its own individual strengths and weaknesses. |
Best javascript framework for a new project | Batsu: I've used Prototype and Jquery fairly extensively. I absolutely loved the DOM navigation features of Prototype, they were shamefully easy to use. Jquery can do it too, but it isn't as simple.Jquery works better with groups of elements rather than individual elements. In many cases, the code looks cleaner. There ... |
Best javascript framework for a new project | bdmac97: Another vote for jquery. It makes javascript not suck (or at least suck less). |
Best javascript framework for a new project | lhorie: Having used Prototype + Scriptaculous, jQuery and Ext, I'd say jQuery is a good generic library choice. Libraries these days are fairly interchangeable in terms of core features, but I find idiomatic jQuery tends to be shorter, more intuitive, and overall more popular (which is good if you plan on leveraging ex... |
Readability loves readers, but at what cost to authors? | bap: Readability is awesome and I would love to see some version of it for my iphone. I concur that if apps like this become ubiquitous then the 'industry' (whatever that is) will shift toward inline text inclusion of things like credentials as well as advertisement. |
Best javascript framework for a new project | ErrantX: I use Prototype and have never really looked into JQuery.I wouldn't recommend Prototype (shock horror). I use it for familiarity and because my JS needs are minimal at best - but it's got lots of niggly shortcomings. |
Help testing our email uploader | hopeless: I understand what you're trying to do, and testing this is important, but I think everyone would be a bit concerned about sending emails which will reveal their email addresses.Perhaps you could find a more focused user community to test you service? |
What are your favourite programming podcasts? | IonicWalrus: Mac developer Roundtable and Late Night Cocoa (http://www.mac-developer-network.com/) - thanks to Scotty. |
What are your favourite programming podcasts? | rmason: Here are several good ones:
IT conversations - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/
Churchill Club - http://www.churchillclub.org
CF Conversations - http://www.cfconversations.com |
Ask HN:Review our new service | systemtrigger: Steve, you might want to describe your site a little more for us and explain what it is you are hoping to do with thelifethings, what you want visitors to experience, what problem you're trying to solve etc. At this point the site looks kind of rough and so I'm not sure if what you were hoping to unveil ... |
Best javascript framework for a new project | jacquesm: Ok, jquery it is then! Thank you all for your responses, that was most helpful. |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | ErrantX: Just tell him no; very clearly, very simply. Tell him what you told us: that college is really busy for you and you want to spend time developing XYZ skills rather than contributing to a startup. Thaking him for the offer might help smoothy the path.It's easier for everyone in the long run.From what you've sai... |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | noonespecial: What you've got here is a charity case. No matter whats promised, you're almost certain to get nothing out of the deal.If you think that its worth doing a few extra hours of work to help out this 'old friend' then tell him exactly that and do it without expectation (or request) of any financial compensati... |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | stuff4ben: Point him to elance and if he still complains about your paltry $100 bucks then tell him to take a hike. |
Any great ideas about Open Source Mini Projects? | mgrouchy: Honestly if you want to start an open source project for the sake of starting an open source project, its probably not going to work. You're probably not going to want to work on it after awhile and you won't accomplish much.What I would suggest is examine the software you use and problems you are having with... |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | noodle: sounds like a typical idea man. the kind of guy who has an invention he wants to patent and sell for a billion dollars, or someone who has an idea for a startup but has no idea on how to execute.if you feel like this relationship has potential for a future, eat the $100 or so cost and try and create something ... |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | hymanroth: If he won't even invest $100 for a mock-up he's not serious about the project, end of. |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | brk: You should not avoid him, just tell him that you do not work for free.$100 plus some equity in the company (either now, or a signed contractual agreement for such after the company is formed/funded) is perfectly reasonable.I also somewhat doubt his ability to pull this off from what you have described. A basic 5 ... |
Any great ideas about Open Source Mini Projects? | tdoggette: Integrate Launchpad and Wave: the dates of the big code release for both of them are a lovely coincidence.Also, a cross-platform alarm clock that has a good UI.Learn Django or Grok (or Zope) or some other cool Python web technology. |
How to avoid a start-up guy? | uptown: If I were you, I'd just tell him it's not something I want to work on, and leave it at that. If you need an excuse, tell him you don't want to mix business ventures with personal friendships ... even though it's your brother's friend, and not yours. Based on your post, it appears that the relationship is alre... |
Storing Credentials Securely | mattmanser: I have no experience of mint, but I used to use egg.com which accesses other bank accounts. That does it by installing an application on your computer that stores the passwords locally. I wouldn't trust anything else and even then there's still a certain amount of trust there that they're not lying to you a... |
Storing Credentials Securely | dryicerx: I am not sure how mint does it, but several ways to store highly secure data is since you asked for it * Boxes have no direct internet connection
* Spread the Ciphertext, Decryption Keys, and Algorithm
across multiple yet different machines (each with unique
distributions/operation systems and data... |
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