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What website project are you working on? | wushupork: I just created http://stonertweets.com for a client. This is to build buzz around a community and help promote a movie. |
What's Your 5 Runs? | edw519: If there ever was a solution looking for a problem, this is it.Exactly the opposite of, "Just Do It". |
What's Your 5 Runs? | mikecuesta: This was probably the best post I've read all week, IMO. |
What's Your 5 Runs? | bjplink: I find this particularly interesting because I run a golf handicap site with a free account that lets you enter up to 5 rounds worth of scores. At that point, the demo shuts down and you need to upgrade to lift the barrier.The limit of 5 was chosen because it's the bare minimum needed to build a handicap (an i... |
What's Your 5 Runs? | imp: My question is that if you were to collect that data, is it causation, or is it just correlation? Should you invest everything you can to get every user to 5 runs? Or is that just an effect of different levels of interest? |
online business that will thrive in great depression | icey: I've seen successful sales teams that emphasized how their product would help make money when the stock market was doing well; and when the stock market was doing poorly, they'd emphasize how their product would help save money.Since people worry about their finances when the economy is weak, perhaps online busin... |
online business that will thrive in great depression | keefe: I think it's nearly impossible to predict. We are in the middle of a societal revolution brought on by the availability of instantaneous communication across a distance and perfect memory and repeatability.... so, I think previous models of what happened no longer apply. Are pawn shops and flea markets going to ... |
Compressing sets of rectangles... help me find an algorithm? | keefe: The first question I have is : am I correct to infer that the set of rectangles must be a subset of the original rectangles? In other words, it is not sufficient to simply generate an arbitrary set of rectangles.Finding a minimum set of rectangles to cover a particular space can be a tricky problem, I worked on ... |
What website project are you working on? | Akram: I'm working on http://www.mosambe.com a place where people and companies network to find better opertunities.Feedback is highly appriciated.Thanks :) |
What's Your 5 Runs? | dgallagher: Been a distance runner for over eight years and tried out the Nike+ for about a month two years ago. Basically it's not accurate. Mine was off on pace and distance constantly. It's in the garbage now.The way I calibrated it was I ran on a treadmill at a constant pace for 1 mile. After I'd get pace resul... |
The founders' visa? | aristus: My business partner went through the same thing last year. The stated regulations are tough - you can't just start a company and sponsor yourself. The company needs to be already established and capitalized and has to demonstrate that no native people can do the job you want to do. Also, the "soft" regulations... |
Is this the worst terrorist act imaginable? | BrentRitterbeck: No, but it would probably contend for the title "Dumbest thing to do with a couple hundred billion dollars". |
What Non-Tech Product or Service Do You Want? | kolya3: I want premade food delivered to my house every day. I want it to cost around $7/meal. I want it to taste better than cardboard. Perhaps, I'm asking for too much and perhaps my price range is too low.I found MagicKitchen.com but they have bad reviews.Grocery shopping, cooking or even picking up food from a rest... |
What Non-Tech Product or Service Do You Want? | BrentRitterbeck: Ice cream in a can, just like Reddiwip. |
Is this the worst terrorist act imaginable? | kqr2: Although they go to great length to decontaminate probes which land on Mars, it may not be perfect. So we may be inadvertently bringing alien life to Mars already.http://www.spacewar.com/news/mars-life-03k.html |
Is this the worst terrorist act imaginable? | nostrademons: Like in Contact, if you buy the it-was-a-hoax interpretation? |
Is this the worst terrorist act imaginable? | rdouble: What if this bio-engineered martian life form gains the power to disrupt the internet with an endless stream of bizarre posts? |
What Non-Tech Product or Service Do You Want? | tocomment: All restaurant menus should have pictures of each dish. I notice I always end up ordering something on the menu that there happens to be a picture of, so why not show every item so I can compare and actually see what I'm getting. |
What Non-Tech Product or Service Do You Want? | tocomment: Self cleaning bathrooms. A whole premade bathroom made out of 1 gaint piece of plastic or fiberglass so no crevices. It is sort of designed like the inside of a dishwasher with a drain,etc to clean it. (I hope you don't mind I'm posting a couple different ideas.) |
Vancouver startup scene? | pasbesoin: Just saw this other thread about an HN Vancouver meetup.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=722724 |
What Non-Tech Product or Service Do You Want? | pasbesoin: A quiet home environment. A quiet work environment. I'm not anti-social; I just want to be able to escape others' noise and distraction when I am trying to concentrate or to rest. |
What's Your 5 Runs? | bkovitz: In Safari 3.2.1, all I see is a big blue empty rectangle. Works in Firefox, though (of course). |
Is this the worst terrorist act imaginable? | tokenadult: To answer the question posed in the title, no, not by far. |
What website project are you working on? | mschaecher: http://www.rockdex.com |
Learning PHP, reluctantly, for a lisp hacker | rits: docs.php.net is exhaustive, especially for a lisp hacker. |
Learning PHP, reluctantly, for a lisp hacker | yannis: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and if one considers that PHP started as a templating language and has evolved in what it is to-day the 'awfulness' goes away.For a person with C# background it offers the advantage of extending the language if you need to. For IDE I use Netbeans. For frameworks I use CodeIg... |
Learning PHP, reluctantly, for a lisp hacker | mechanical_fish: using HaXe and compiling to PHP - is it a mature technology and the cure-all it appears?There are three reasons to use PHP. One is that it's very simple to deploy because there aren't a lot of layers between you and Apache's C code, and those layers have been exhaustively tested.The second is that it i... |
Best e-commerce solution for an online record label? | pageman: are you going to hit the China market? email me at paul.pajo [at] asiapay [dot] com - we also have some turn-key solutions ... |
Best e-commerce solution for an online record label? | olefoo: Have you considered just putting together something that ties together the amazon shopping APIs and a blog. If your client is making cds and getting the UPC/EANs it should be trivial to sign up for amazon services and this has the added benefit that your product becomes available through amazon itself and throu... |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | anantshri: i am currently mostly visiting them once in a while except a few which i visit regularly.Besides that can any buddy suggest me any desktop application for such <- avoid suggesting flock coz i don't like it. |
Will you please screw me? VC style. | fatty: i'm interested in your business. how can i contact you? |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | jacquesm: I have my own little aggregator running, it's still very much under development though. I'm trying to get away from the 'there goes the neighbourhood' feeling that almost every social network seems to suffer from sooner or later.I think that there is much more 'value' in an upvote or a downvote of an article ... |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | access_denied: What I do: browser bookmarks + regular calendar reminders "should I visit network xyz?". (No email notifications or anything.)If I could design a service...
It would pick the _type_ of new stuff of each network of my choosing and aggregate like a Feedreader. With type I mean for example: new entries on... |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | rythie: I use friendbinder (http://friendbinder.com invite code HN) which is my start up |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | mvalente: http://friendfeed.com/-- MV |
What's your definition of "Hacker News"? | eshelt: As someone extremely new to Hacker News, the posts and threads have all been insightful and interesting. To me, Hacker News represents a close community of intellectual technical experts and entrepreneurs. I'm excited to be apart of it! |
What's your definition of "Hacker News"? | quellhorst: See my previous meta submission on this topic. |
What's your definition of "Hacker News"? | ygd_coder: A place of enlightenment. Where budding hackers (like me) can come and learn more about the internals of the hacker subculture. I feel HN has opened doors for me that I didn't even know existed before. I feel like the whole world is at my fingertips. |
Do you aggregate your social networks/what do you use? | ScottWhigham: I browse them individually. I don't really trust giving my credentials to aggregators. I only really use a few so it isn't worth it to have a separate app/site. |
Good resource for finding a iPhone developer? | cesare: I think you should provide a way for people to contact you. |
What's your definition of "Hacker News"? | pclark: startups. |
Good resource for finding a iPhone developer? | ajkirwin: Actually, I prefer to think of your name being Trev Zorgo Zuld, like some kind of arcane coder from days long past, skilled in the obscurities of Fortran and COBOL. |
Good resource for finding a iPhone developer? | ghotli: I know a few of these guys personally. They started making iphone games but lately their success has been garnering them contracts with local businesses to make internal iphone applications. You might want to get in contact with them.http://www.resolutegames.com/ |
Good resource for finding a iPhone developer? | nolanbrown23: Probably one of the more important things is to have a realistic budget. If you're thinking anything less then a few grand, I can tell you you're not going to find a good developer in the states.Try local meetup groups for iPhone devs, they're pretty common all over the country. If you can't find anyone, ... |
YC & other programs - is this data correct? | c3o: Programs:http://www.iventures10.com in Champaign, ILhttp://iaccelerator.org in Ahmenabad, IndiaYEurope did provide office space.Seedcamp:
Basekit (Eden Ventures, NESTA), Toksta (TAG) and UberVu (Eden Ventures) have received follow-on funding. |
Good resource for finding a iPhone developer? | drewcrawford: > should an app like this be fairly simple to develop for a moderately experienced iPhone developer?Yes. The only thing really difficult that you want to do is syncing, which can be done by a competent developer.Don't forget, though, that there needs to be some time spent designing a winning interface. ... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | mahmud: Those things existed since at least 1997. CyberArmy had their own contests like this and they promoted people into "ranks"; the whole place had a cheesy forum/bbs feel to it and it didn't take long before someone decided to put them out of their misery and rm -rf'ed them out of existence .. including the game s... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | inklesspen: There's always Uplink: http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/2/It's got UI and plot issues and could be improved upon. (For instance, it's sometimes quite hard to let the game know you did the mission.) |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | profquail: I've seen contests like this held before. As long as it's all your hardware, and the contest isn't causing the network to crash (like you said, rule out DoS attacks), I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it. |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | raffi: Check out:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=hacker+wargameshttp://www.nationalccdc.org/
http://isis.poly.edu/csaw/Or my own work on the subject:http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA481288&Locati... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | mpk: A really good wargames sites used to be pulltheplug.org, I had some fun playing around there 5 years or so ago.They seem to have moved to http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/ . |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | ygd_coder: I've seen other websites and organizations do this. I think it's a great idea and a great way to build skills. |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | jlees: Another context where you can take part in sandboxed, organised hacking contests -- sort of -- is some ARGs (alternate reality games). I've not seen anything recent that involved true hacking skills, but sometimes there can be some wonderfully fun puzzles (you know, beyond guessing that a fictional character's p... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | c3o: There are "Capture the flag" contests at DEFCON and other hacker conferences where teams each need to defend a machine and attack those of other players: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag#Computer_secur... |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | JeffL: It's not exactly what you're looking for, but a friend of mine made http://www.hacker.org/ which is a bunch of games that are related to hacking plus some games where you have to write programs to play them.(The "challenges" game is pretty close to actually having to hack, with various difficulties.) |
Would anyone be interested in "Hacking Games"? | spk: I would be interested if you count.
Perhaps I should post this in a new thread but here it goes..I have seen a few "hacking" (cracking) games back in 1999-2002 but most of them where too simple to be interesting. They always had one clear solution, to a beginner in cracking like me, and you never got that feeling... |
What are the best tools for doing reports on your data? | seanx: Excel if you have it. It can access most databases directly, and can be automated using OLE. About 1/2 our reports are made using excel. Once a day we run a batch process that opens the excel report, updates parameters as required, refreshes it and emails it out. |
Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain? | profquail: I actually don't have an answer for you, but perhaps you could ask around on the forum at OpenCores:http://www.opencores.org/(It's kind of like SourceForge, but for hardware designs.) |
justifying hosting costs for hobby sites | philc: Also consider Heroku if it's a ruby webapp you're building. It's free until you need more resources, and is zero-fuss to get something deployed and set up. |
Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain? | duskwuff: I do have an answer for you: basically, no. A huge part of the development work done in the FPGA field is in the software - the hardware is comparatively easy.If you're complaining about the quality of the official software (especially for Xilinx or Altera) - you're far from alone. Unfortunately, the open-sou... |
Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain? | CamperBob: I wish. FPGA tools, without exception, suck. No C programmer would put up with compilers and linkers that work the way FPGA synthesis tools do. Open-source efforts could only improve things.FPGA vendors don't document the details needed to configure their chips at the nuts-and-bolts level, so any FOSS too... |
Exists Open Source FPGA Tool Chain? | badri: icarus verilog can get you as far as synthesis.
But, like duskwuff mentioned, the open-source alternatives are nowhere near the official tools in terms of functionality. |
Parser for Java | robdimarco: Are you looking for JavaCC? https://javacc.dev.java.net/ |
Cash-flow muses | nico: I don't agree much with the idea, seems like trying to take a shortcut instead of focusing on real hard work to achieve what you want.I think that "cash-flow muses" are kind of a myth. If there's something easy to do, it's probably easy for a lot of people, hence you'll have a lot of competition, and market price... |
Cash-flow muses | quizbiz: The idea is to set yourself up in a way that allows you to generate passive income. I like this as in it seems particle and beneficial. I don't think you can agree with it or disagree with it. It's not morally wrong.For example, I am not a professional photographer but I have photos on iStockPhoto and ShutterS... |
Cash-flow muses | mishmax: I have one of these businesses. Took me 2 months to build the product (on the side, after my full-time job). A few more to market and see sales (it takes time to close sales and generate site traffic). It should generate 10-20k this year, hopefully more next.My advice is to focus on a niche market filled with ... |
Parser for Java | scotth: I believe that one of the ANTLR examples (as provided in the source download), is a Java parser. http://www.antlr.org/ |
Cash-flow muses | patio11: Has anyone actually done one of these?Yep, although I don't think I could comfortably describe it as a fun little sideline these days.See http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats and look at the historical sales data: back in early 2007 when it was selling high three figures a month I think it would have been a f... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | nico: Credit cards / payment management.I hate that I cannot lock/unlock my credit card (online wire transfers, checks or other payment methods) at will, with a simple click of my mouse.I'd really like being able to choose when my credit card can be used, maybe using rules like: "only on weekends, between 11am and 7pm.... |
Cash-flow muses | idlewords: I run the Bedbug Registry (http://bedbugregistry.com), which covers about half my living expenses. Every six months or so I put in a week's work on it; otherwise it's just a matter of site babysitting (irate landlords, requests to rescind a report), which takes no more than an hour a week.Getting the site t... |
Cash-flow muses | matthew-wegner: I created one of these. My company used to actively develop for a particular market. Today we no longer develop for this market, but it's a big market and the large players have affiliate programs. We utilize these affiliate programs--they provide XML feeds and the like, and our site's backend combin... |
Parser for Java | adatta02: Eclipse has the JDT package which gives you access to the parser that Eclipse uses internally. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | lionhearted: Is it cheating to pick an international policy? I'd like to see completely open borders for non-criminals across the world, with no restrictions on working, schooling, relationships, or associations. Go where you like, when you like, unrestricted, without needing permission from anyone. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | dkokelley: Probably the US tax code. Does it matter that it's not a consumer product? |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | udfalkso: The wheel, of course. |
Parser for Java | JimmyL: >> industrial parser that can parse Java source code (like anything that the jvm can run)Do you mean a parser for Java source code or bytecode? I would guess the former, but the reference to "anything that the jvm can run" suggests you may be looking for bytecode... |
Cash-flow muses | zackattack: I hesitate to dive into a startup for a number of reasons, one of which is that I have little knowledge of the markets. Where do people have problems? What are they?A more difficult question: What non-obvious "problems" become manifest once a solution is evident? (Perhaps, A key to victory in this consumer ... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | tolmasky: Addresses. They should work just like cell phone numbers, if I get a new cell phone the old number still works. I should similarly have an address "number" (which is mapped to a physical location by the post office). That way, when I move, I don't need to contact every magazine I subscribe to, every friend I ... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | rs: I would reinvent airplane travel - the long distance flights are way, way, way too long |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | JimmyL: Power adapters for electronics - no reason they shouldn't be a hell of a lot more standardized than they are (I don't mean just for mobile phones, which is underway - I mean for everything). |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | tokenadult: The usual typewriter keyboard, as it is much too hard on the human hand. No, wait, the typical computer mouse is even worse than that. I would reinvent both to let persons who age into osteoarthritis continue to use those tools more comfortably. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | mc: Human travel.You know those moving walkways (Trav O lators?) that they have in airports to speed up travelers?I'd place those everywhere.Want to go to the grocery store? Walk there in 5 minutes.
Living in LA and need to visit SF for the weekend? Get off your ass and walk there.The thing that bugs me most about cars... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | SwellJoe: The music industry.Some of the practices and licensing processes date back to before recorded music existed. Publishing, mechanical, and performance rights, as well as royalty organizations like ASCAP/BMI/etc., are all more than a little strange in a world with the Internet. And, I don't think I even need t... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | jrockway: UNIX. Not everything is a stream of bytes. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | lucumo: Some guys here in Delft reinvented the umbrella, making it wind-proof. It's actually pretty cool:
http://www.senzumbrellas.com/ |
How to make the area "around" a site clickable? | jacquesm: I've made you a little demo, I think this is the most universal way to do it:http://ww.com/mousedown.htmlgood luck!Btw, such 'garbage clicks' are an excellent way to get rid of your advertisers. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | neuromanta: I'd reinvent money, by making it vanish completely. It causes so much damage to people and the planet. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | noblethrasher: The U.S. Constitution. I'd explicitly list the underlying first principles for everything.For example:1. The law of noncontradiction - something can't be A and not A2. Treat like things the same and different things differentlyThose principles inform the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments. |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | pegobry: Wireless. Have a technology that combines mesh networking & resilient hardware a la Meraki and WiMax but without the standards wars and the proprietary-ness so that everyone can have cheap, abundant, reliable, free-as-in-speech wireless internet everywhere.ESPECIALLY in the developing world, so that people in ... |
Javascript for desktop apps? | bdfh42: On the windows desktop platform you can use JScript and the .NET Framework to write just about any desktop application you can imagine.This language (which is a good implementation of up-to-date ECMAScript) is somewhat light on texts however. There is a SAMS book by Justin Rogers which does cover the basics.You... |
Javascript for desktop apps? | jacquesm: why not simply embed a web server and connect to the localhost ? That makes your application internet ready as well when the time is right as well as giving the user to connect to your application from other pcs on the same lan.I've built a music management system along these lines and it works quite well. Th... |
If you could 'reinvent' anything what would it be? | stevedekorte: Government - a minimal direct democracy on state and federal levels and replace all social programs with a negative income tax. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | dantheman: Actionscript 3 is very close to javascript. The Adobe Air framework allows you to deploy desktop apps.Depending on what you're trying to do you might want to try XUL Runner https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner . It will allow you build an html/js app that can run as a desktop app. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | davidw: Performance wise, consider that people have been using scripting languages since the 90'ies (Tcl/Tk) with perfectly acceptable results, so that's not really your problem. The issue is going to be finding how to do a GUI. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | scscsc: You could try Rhino:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_documentationSteve Yegge suggests it's the next big language. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | wingo: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShellWritten mostly in javascript, with dynamically-generated bindings to GTK+ et al. |
Javascript for desktop apps? | makmanalp: The KDE desktop shell, Plasma, has js bindings so you can develop plasmoids (applets) with javascript.http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScr... |
Javascript for desktop apps? | geuis: Check out the Titanium Developer platform. It's exactly what you want. http://www.appcelerator.com |
Javascript for desktop apps? | anc2020: Adobe Air is a possibility |
Javascript for desktop apps? | limmeau: You could use XUL for the GUI. The German car rental company Sixt did that in 2005 for their corporate apps. I don't know what became of it, though. |
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