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What can't you buy online? | DanielStraight: Printouts of PDFs I supply. |
Proof Based Book on Statistics | tokenadult: Statistics isn't built on proofs in quite that way. It is built on data. Yes, there are proofs for the mathematical tools of statistics, but they logically and pedagogically FOLLOW rather than precede becoming familiar with data.Here are more two favorite recommendations for free Web-based resources on what... |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | Mankhool: Asimov's, I Robot. |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | shrughes: At around that age I read The Tripods trilogy and liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods |
Can iPhone camera be used to give you a full size keyboard? | asimjalis: Here is another thought. Could you use the sound the fingers make as they tap on the table to figure out what key was pressed? This might be hard on a normal table. So a workaround could be a simple keyboard hardware device that emits a different inaudible frequency for each key. Now if two people are using ... |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | timwiseman: I second the suggestion for Asimov, everything by Asimov.Also, Piers Anthony has some excellent Sci-Fi books targetting that age group. I started reading his books when I was 11. |
Review our website | gstar: First thing I looked at was the iPod touch. It said the firmware (which I read to be the OS) wasn't based on open source software.It's not the prettiest site in the world, either.Were you planning on making affiliate commission? I can't imagine that anyone will make a purchase based on openness of the platform... |
What can't you buy online? | lhorie: AFAIK, real estate falls into that category. (To be fair, I was researching, not actually attempting to buy online)Certain categories of food would also fall into that category, especially if you're not in a major city (e.g. fresh seafood, delivery for some types of cuisines).If you're looking to find some blat... |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | stinkytaco: I'm a librarian, so I can speak somewhat to this. Ender's game is a good book, if violent. I've got some below. Talk to your local librarian, they might have some good suggestions too.Will he do fantasy? If so try:The HobbitNarniaArtimis FowlDiscworld (by Terry Pratchett)Sci-Fi:D.A.JumperA Wrinkle in TimeHe... |
Proof Based Book on Statistics | volodia: All Of Statistics by Larry Wasserman. The material is presented both very succinctly and rigorously, and overall it's the best statistics book I have come across. |
Testing your site for XSS exploits | lhorie: Tools like Paros http://www.parosproxy.org/index.shtml will spider/scan for some common attack patterns.It's also definitely nice to have a dedicated qa person (preferably someone familiar with the code) trying to break your site, both manually and with tools like Selenium http://seleniumhq.org/ |
Proof Based Book on Statistics | BrentRitterbeck: Larsen and Marx Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applicationshttp://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mathematical-Statistics-I... |
Should I register several TLDs for our domain name? | metastart: Go for the cheaper ones...don't go crazy or worry too much though. If you can get .cn for china, that's probably the key one after .net and .org. .info or .mobi are mostly irrelevant. |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | bd: Well, not sci-fi, but still somehow geeky - when I was a kid, I enjoyed "Three Investigators" series:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_InvestigatorsAlso, you can introduce him to some excellent Ostblock sci-fi authors:Stanislav Lem: "The Cyberiad" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad)Arkady and Boris Strugat... |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | dantheman: All of the enders game series including the shadow of ender books are great.I'd also recommend the lensemen series by e.e. doc smith.Lord of the RingsAlas Babylon |
What can't you buy online? | js3309: a startup |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | Gibbon: I set 52 national records, tied a world record and won a category at the nationals in model aircraft competitions when I was 15. Two of the records were set at a contest on a sat and I won the nationals at another contest on sunday.. the two contests were 1000 miles apart. |
NYC HN Meetup? | YuriNiyazov: http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc |
What do you think of my project? | jacquesm: That's a really nice idea. Immediately I was wondering how you'd deal with refeeral spam, then I noticed your 'from search engine only' bit.That does make me think there might be a fairly easy way to spam your service though: find a search page where page of spammer ranks high, do lots of visits from botnet t... |
Good Collection Agency for Freelancers? | jacquesm: That sucks. One strategy that I have with people that don't pay - and this used to happen in the past, it has not happened to me in a long time - is to simply call them every bloody day.Once at 9 am, once at 2 pm and once at 4:30. To ask if they've already paid the bill.Be very polite, make sure you get the r... |
Tips for coding at the beach (or in the sun) | ogdoad: Well, this is what God intended, of course. Beaches are for kicking back, don't fool yourself that you'll increase your productivity if you bring along a laptop: some times in life you just need to blow off some steam, kick back at the beach and maybe do absolutely nothing. Then, back at the (hopefully ergonomi... |
Emulation for a wide variety of cell phones? | ideamonk: I think this _can_ become an awesome product. not just for testing web apps, also for java applets and other cross-mobile-platform apps :) |
Buy Car | jacquesm: Isn't there a car forum somewhere with car specialists for exactly this sort of question ? |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | dunk010: Last.fm are hiring again (I work there). Looking for a range of roles - lead web developer, front end developer, flash developer and sysadmins. Check out http://www.last.fm/about/jobs |
What do you think of my project? | cschwarm: This is indeed a good idea! Congrats.You may like to improve the copy on your web page. The first thing that's not immediately obvious is what links are displayed. It might be better to write "it uses their individual search queries to display _additional matches from your site_."And you may like to change th... |
what about a mailing list for HN community? | mahmud: I want to be able to "pitch" an idea to a group of people and have some of them accept to implement it for equity, or choose to fund it for investment.I feel like I latched on the first successful idea, mainly because it was 'ramen profitable' from the first instant, but I have done the market research for plen... |
what's your favorite web regression test software? | gtani: The usual candidates: selenium, watir, HtmlUnit, HttpUnit;Watir and selenium: plenty of examples of usage:http://delicious.com/tag/watirYou can look at iMacros and testGen4web, here's a staggeringly large list;http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatweb1.html#FUNC |
What do you think of my project? | daremon: Nice idea and the implementation seems good. I am tempted to use this on some of my sites.Some questions:a) How does it work? Lets say I have a recipe site and a visitor arrives from Google having searched for "steak". How do you find related articles on my site?b) What if my site isn't indexed? (e.g. new, blo... |
Case studies of equity splits between cofounders | siong1987: The best equity split is: everyone in your startup is happy. And, I don't think that there is any formula out there you can use. |
Case studies of equity splits between cofounders | davidu: It's my understanding that they are considered co-founders in title only, not in equity or role or responsibility. |
what about a mailing list for HN community? | jacquesm: That would just fork a bunch of threads from HN onto the mailing list, without the benefits that the site offers.HN is currently 'pull', a mailing list would make it 'push'. I think one of the great things about the website is that you get to choose when you go there, a mailing list (especially a busy one) ge... |
what about a mailing list for HN community? | ErrantX: There is a chatterous group - which you can recieve/send updates from/to via email (or web, Gtalk etc).http://www.chatterous.com/hnyc/ |
Buy Car | Edinburger: What are your requirements? 2 seats or more? Need to move stuff? How much stuff? |
Buy Car | karanbhangui: Can't go wrong with japanese cars. Very reliable, low maintenance, and hold their value really well. Check out Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. |
What do you think of my project? | recurser: Great idea! This is just a random thought, but I wonder if there's some way you could incorporate the google sets API that was posted recently to get 'related' articles from the search terms if you don't get any results initially. |
Case studies of equity splits between cofounders | metachris: a really good idea i've read on HN was that:If you are 3 cofounders, take 10% each and divide the other 70% according to each participants activity over the next 3 or 5 years.The distribution system has to be defined before, but in general this sounds like a great way to split up and staying away from a lot ... |
what about a mailing list for HN community? | hassy: I would subscribe to a list with "Ask HN" type of discussions. |
What do you think of my project? | learnalist: Your demo, had me a little confused, but based on your oneliner and other peoples comments it makes more sense.That said...Great little concept.* If your majorly concerned about dodgy injections of referrers. Might be worth taking a leaf out of bit.ly and linking a system to filter out urls based on somethi... |
Review our website | jackflap: I would just like to thank you all for the time you took to look at the site and the comments you've all made.The feedback has been incredibly useful, and has really given us an idea of where we need to focus our efforts. |
Good Sci-Fi/Geek-Lit For School-Age Kids? | mrlyc: When I was that age, I really liked the "Mike Mars" series of books by Donald A. Wollheim. |
Bad habits | jacquesm: HN. No. Because there is just too much good stuff here and too little time in a day.The 'noprocrast' is great, and I use it occasionally but then you see that google has a new beta out or that friendfeed gets bought and it gets disabled again... |
If you play an instrument, which is it? | nuweborder: I dont play music, but I love to listen to it. HipHop, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Classical, Blues, Rock, everything. I too have noticed that playing music is a consistent trend for many. |
Ruby on Rails or PHP ? | slater: May I ask you to expand on your questions?1. PHP & RoR both offer "quick" development time (timed to what, though?)2. Define hassle-free development? As for deployment, surely that's in your hands as to where you want to deploy? PHP has wider deployment (usually available with Apache-based server hosting)3. The... |
Ruby on Rails or PHP ? | timmaah: Personally I've gone with RoR and haven't looked back.That said, its your project and there are no right or wrong answers. RoR and PHP would both fit your 4 priorities.Let me know if you want to bounce so more questions off me. tiwatson at gmail |
Bad habits | yan: Checking time-wasting web sites much more than I should.Before that, I had issues with keeping with the habit of exercising. I think I solved that a month ago by starting to use the Seinfeld method[1] to keep track of it. I will probably try to move everything I have trouble staying with to the calendar.[1] http:/... |
Ruby on Rails or PHP ? | spooneybarger: Vineet,ROR makes a certain class of application very easy. Others not so much. If you are building an application with a limited number of data models where having 'user' vs 'admin' distinctions isn't very important, then you can get up and running with ROR very quickly. If you are building a more tradit... |
Bad habits | ScottWhigham: Responding negatively to generic posts that ask questions yet reveal nothing about the poster's reasons for the question nor contain any elaboration on the poster's part as to their own <insert inane question topic of discussion> in the post. |
Bad habits | a2tech: 1) Social Media sites (reddit, hacker news, slashdot, facebook)
2) Nail chewing
3) ExcercisingAnd no-I've never been able to overcome bad habits. My short attention span when it comes to learning has helped me though-since I'm quick on the uptake when I go from subject to subject it lets me suck up a lot of inf... |
Bad habits | harry: Pack a day smoker.Quit cold turkey 3 years ago - through willpower. Not impossible & not easy. |
Bad habits | eswat: Keeping Colloquy/IRC up while I'm working. Just can't find the strength to close it like I could with email or Twitter.Disabling highlight notifications helps a lot though... |
Bad habits | bbuffone: Procrastination - I haven’t been able to overcome it yet, things that mitigate it is - keep track of tasks, make them small easily achievable. Also make a new list every morning. |
Ruby on Rails or PHP ? | ErrantX: My personal preference is the KohanaPHP (kohanaphp.com) framework. It's a PHP5 dependant MVC framewor with lots of libraries / helpers and reasonably good documentation.When V3 comes out later this year it should compete easily with RoR in terms of speed versatility and so forth (from what I have seen)Ultimate... |
Bad habits | kierank: Nail biting.Yes and no. Now it's not as bad as it used to be. |
Bad habits | cmos: Sleepwalking. It's been a couple years, but I still write my hotel room number on my hand when I travel. |
Bad habits | TrevorJ: Reading this site while I should be working. (Not being snarky, it's completely true.)I also do art direction for film and video productions which has led to an insane need for me to save anything I think may someday come in handy. Suffice it to say I have a huge pile of junk that I just cannot get rid of and ... |
Bad habits | DanielBMarkham: I have an addictive personality, which means I like doing everything too much: coding, writing, visiting interesting web sites, smoking, drinking, eating. Basically if it has any sort of positive feedback loop at all, I can make a bad habit out of it.Fortunately I began suspecting this early in life, so... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | ErrantX: listening is, I think, the most important.My reasoning is simple. I had a lot of ok teachers who never listened to what the students had to say: the ones that could sit and discuss a subject with us might have had less technical knowledge but we definitely learned a lot more, as a class, with them. I wouldnt b... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | zkz: - passionate about his/her subject
- caring about the people he/she teaches to |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | access_denied: Depends also on where you teach - in front of a class? In a video lecture? One to one? It is certainly a skill to get a mob of teenagers listen to you for +30 minutes without anyone involved dying (in one way or the other). |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | tetha: I think a good teacher has the goal to make a student better than the teacher, in whatever ways the student will reach this stage. |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | ghotli: While I sometimes hated the teachers that operated this way in retrospect I think the ones with the highest expectations were the best teachers. I say that with one exception, if you're going to have high expectations you best not be dry/boring/lazy about teaching the subject at hand. The best teachers know the... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | rabidsnail: A good teacher provides the circumstances for students to teach themselves, and guides them in the right direction when they need it. I know I learn much better when I figure something out for myself than when someone just tells it to me straight.The Socratic method was a good idea. |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | tamas: 1) The teacher needs a thorough understanding of the topic being taught. I regularly use the reverse of this as a litmus while mastering a topic: I did not understand it deeply enough if I can't explain it to a complete layman so they can understand it.2) Having a full duplex interaction. Talking AT people will ... |
Ruby on Rails or PHP ? | dpnewman: if it's just a one off and you have some experience already in php, then sticking with that might be a good plan.if you see this as an ongoing evolution and want to explore a framework and language that has some incredibly elegant approaches to the distinct problems and challenges faced in most web applicatio... |
Bad habits | access_denied: I have many bad habits. My absolute top-success in overcoming them was getting rid of smoking cigs. And I really mean, getting rid of it, even in my thinking. You see, the nicotine addiction is just the minor part in smoking, it is not that hard, other drugs are harder to get rid of in my experience. ... |
Bad habits | profquail: Workoholism.I enjoy getting away from the computer and having fun just as much as anyone else, but with my mostly-full-time freelancing work + writing most of the codebase for a startup on my own, I have the bad habit of telling myself that if I do some extra work one night I can stop a little early the next... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | ScottWhigham: As an IT educator and professional for 10+ years, this is actually right up my alley. I've developed both courses for students of IT and music as well as several "Train the Trainer" courses.One thing I will do is to address the term "good teacher". A good teacher is very different from a "great teacher." ... |
HN not accepting YouTube links any more? | pg: Nothing has changed. What happens when you submit one? |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | mmj: Being able to relate with the student.For instance after I learn a language and am trying to teach someone else the language I just can't see why the person is having trouble learning a certain concept of the language. It all seems so simple to me since I've already learned this language and it's hard for me to be... |
Bad habits | niyazpk: Avoiding direct questions about bad habits by answering something like "I would have told some of my really bad habits if HN allowed anonymous comments". |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | GeneralMaximus: I'm a student, and most of the teachers I deal with at college are horrible. I won't go into things like passion and knowledge, just plain hard facts about what I want in most teachers.1. Don't tell. Anyone can stand in front of a class and tell students stuff they don't know. A good teacher will always... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | brianto2010: I believe that a good teacher, first and foremost, should be very disciplined. In other words, authoritative and able, but not strict and overbearing. The teacher must disciplined enough to be able to keep students under control/on task and not let a class degenerate into a mob of individuals dallying on i... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | mrtron: I like a teacher that understands a huge amount about the subject and has enough control of the subject matter that they can tie in other material.The teachers I learned the most from knew so much about the subject that they could explain things very simply. An example being in high school calculus - the teach... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | tokenadult: I like what mathematician Israel M. Gelfand says about the role of a teacher: "Students have no shortcomings, they have only peculiarities. The job of a teacher is to turn these peculiarities into advantages." |
Bad habits | zackham: All sorts of bad habits crop up left and right. Instead of going with the "willpower" method I've adopted what my friends and I call the "moneymouth" method (short for put your money where your mouth is). Exploit your honesty and financial sensibility by making bets to architect your habits.Real examples: I'... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | sebg: I've always found that you can draw a box with four squares. On the top are "can explain material to moms" "can't explain material to moms". On the side are "clear communicator" and "unclear communicator".The intersection of "can explain to moms" and "clear communicator" is what makes a good teacher for me.In s... |
Bad habits | babyboy808: Super Procrastinator, I mean I'm here and I should be working. |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | sethg: A good teacher is one who can perceive where the student already is (what skills or interests he or she is bringing into the classroom) and can then lay out paths from that point to whatever the goal of the class is.A mediocre teacher knows what he or she wants to teach but doesn't make that connection with the ... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | run4yourlives: A good teacher betters the student's ability to learn by themselves.This involves a great many things, and sadly is contrary to the way 90% of teachers - not just the pros - are taught to imply knowledge.That's it, and it's applicable to every situation, from Kindergarten to a personal mentor. Almost all... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | zeckalpha: I believe a good teacher is one who adapts their teaching styles to both meet individual student's learning styles as well as expose them to other learning styles in order to broaden their learning abilities. A good teacher tells their students what they are doing and why, so that the student is more involve... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | patcoll: The best teachers teach humility toward the subject matter.For technology in particular, there is always so much more to learn that by not having humility there is no incentive to want to learn, which is arguably the strongest point to make. Teaching is not one-way. Students have to want to learn just as much ... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | jmatt: This is an interesting question. Great teachers seems to be universally great across almost all students. So finding what makes them great and spotting it early (and eventually teaching it) would be great for the society.I really enjoyed the bill gates Ted talk where he talks about this topic and (remember?) mal... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | TallGuyShort: I had a science teacher that would always find news articles related to what we were talking about in class. It was really great to see how this weird crap we talked about in class was actually being used in the real world, and how people were still studying things we didn't even know about it. |
Buy Car | rabble: The TDI diesel's get great mileage and last forever. You can hack on it to make it run straight veggie oil at some point if you want. |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | David: From what I've seen, good teachers are those who A) earn the respect of their students, and B) understand that different people learn differently.Respect is important because no student will be engaged in a class with a teacher of whom he has a low opinion. At best the student will ignore the teacher and turn to... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | learnalist: * Try to be engaging.
* Share with the class, not speak down.
* Know how to steer the entire class / period / lecture
* Confidence
* Not re-reading what is in the book / on slides.
* Most of the time should be welcoming of questions.
* Should be respected by his class. If they are not, I think it makes it h... |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | onedognight: Good students. ;) |
Would this idea to simulate live chat on YouTube work well? | yannis: Interesting, but probably nobody knows until you try it out! Agile it! |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | esila: The ability to bring out the very best in their student(s) through whatever means. This goes for any mentor, coach, sifu, guru, etc.The OP sparked a story that Teddy Atlas (boxing trainer for Mike Tyson, Michael Moore, Golden Gloves champ) once told at a book signing.While training Michael Moore, he had to gain... |
What do you think of my project? | Flipparachi: That's a pretty sweet idea. I like it. Hire a good web designer to give it a Web 2.0 look, and look for a $ 2 million in VC money :) |
What do you think makes a good teacher? | anshul: The objective measure of a teacher's success must be what the class ended up learning regardless of what was or wasn't taught and all other random factors involved.With that definition in mind, as a former pure math student, the best teaches I had were those who were- oddly enough, good story tellers! By which... |
REST and Authentication | mbrubeck: The Amazon Web Services (AWS) authentication system is a good example. It uses an HMAC sent in the request headers, so that each request is effectively signed by the sender:http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2006...This allows authentication without any sort of server-side session state,... |
REST and Authentication | ErrantX: I would suggest simple using the HTTP basic auth.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authenticationSimple but effective. One example of such a usage is mercurial: which uses HTTP basic auth for remote pushes to your web-based repository :) As that is a similar sort of thing it sounds ideal. |
Case studies of equity splits between cofounders | zipstudio: I prefer equal splits whenever possible. This allows discussions to be meritocratic and not power based. |
Please review my concept | erikwiffin: I have to say, I love this. I'm a typography enthusiast with horrible, horrible handwriting, and an even worse signature.What I'm worried about though, is dropping $30 on a signature and possibly not liking your 3 options, or even worse, falling in love with one of them and not being able to reproduce it. |
what about a mailing list for HN community? | woid: let's wait for google wave ... |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | idlewords: Just use your name and explain in human language what you do. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | delano: VP Sales. |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | ErrantX: It depends entirely on what your selling and what your client is like.For example when I am prospecting work for my day job I always use "VP <company>" or "Senior Analyst"On the other hand for my own company I usually choose something light heartened related to the rest of the mail: "the man" or "the tech guy"... |
Founders, what title do you use in email? | Frocer: Depends on how you want to be perceived. One of the most interesting article I read talked about how this founder carries 2 business cards. When he meets prospective clients, his title on the card says "VP of Sales" so his organization seems much bigger than a 1 man shop. But if he is meeting investors, he u... |
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