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Looking for a partner for future SaaS startup(s). | joez: Sorry to be a little negative but this is just a little vague: "Creating a super product and selling it."Maybe put down some of your ideas. I'm turned off just reading: SUPER product. The word super makes me think you guys have no direction.Good luck! |
What is augmented reality? | jacquesm: Augmented reality is a description of devices that overlay (or even replace completely) your view of reality with information from a device.Examples are cellphone applications that show data layers when pointing the cell phone at a scene and looking 'at' the scene through the lens of the phone, but similar (o... |
WHy is my computer typing by itself? | sireat: If the keyboard works fine after you boot from Ubuntu LiveCD(or any other LiveCD really), then the problem might be some deep problem with a really smart Windows rootkit. That said, I haven't heard of such a rootkit which was able to survive a clean reinstall(it is possible as a proof of concept though).The mos... |
What accelerated your understanding of how the world works? | dbs: Read Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin. |
Should I graduate early? | JacobAldridge: Well, I pretty much partied my way through my final year of university and had one of the better years of my life (note that 'partied' is a term relative-to-self, and that my version of partying is much, much tamer than many people's). I was making $300/week v my first full-time salary of $750/week, but ... |
Should I graduate early? | lsc: hm. I regret not leaving high school earlier (I passed one of the 'equivalancy' tests in my Jr. year.) But at the time I was living with my parents and, well, highschool is not fun. I would have been better off with another year working full time during the .com boom.If I were in your position, if my living ... |
What's your Startup Motto? (or just yours) | ganley: An ex-coworker used to (half-facetiously) say that his mantra was, "You're doing it wrong." |
What is augmented reality? | seshagiric: AR technology aims to augment a real world scene with additional data.From a real world scene, for example a camera image, you first work out the 3D coordinates. Then you can draw your own object (comic, text, 3d graphics....) in this 3D space.http://www.technotecture.com/content/mobile-augmented-realit...I... |
Good JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor? | ionfish: Tried WysiHat?http://github.com/37signals/wysihat/ |
Good JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor? | aarongough: Links to the editors I have already tried:http://ckeditor.com/demo
(a little slow in FF, seems a little hokey in general)http://www.fckeditor.net/demo
(crashes FF3 with it's slowness!)http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php
(really slow to load in all browsers)http://nicedit.com/demos.php
(I liked th... |
How to get acquired? | ScottWhigham: I don't know - haven't done it - but I can say that, generally when I see these questions, the first things people ask tend to be about both competitors who might be acquirers and/or huge conglomerates that might be developing/developed something similar and might wish to purchase you to save time or gain... |
Should I graduate early? | tom_b: What do you want to do next?Grad school? Stick in school, take some advanced math or CS, work on building your references/recommenders?Get a job? If you've think you can pick something up easily, leave early. You'll start earning and learning. In the real world learning is usually more fun than undergrad. I ... |
Good JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor? | aarongough: It seems that after all that I will be going back to they YUI rich text editor. It's better than any of the alternatives that I have tried, and far more customizable.If only I could get the disappearing image bug solved... |
How to get acquired? | p01nd3xt3r: http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/07/15/tips-for-getting-a... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | jakestorm: I would make this engine:
http://www.badabingle.com because what else do you need? |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | jdrock: Use us. http://www.80legs.com.:) |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | Tichy: I still like the idea of using p2p computing to get the computing power (Searchi at home?), though I am not sure how viable it is.Another thing I would be interested in experimenting with is browsing search results. Maybe a flat list of results is not the end of the story? For example maybe it could be interesti... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | kasunh: I would opt for a complete new type of a search engine. One with completely different features to present day search engines.1) A mashup type of a search engine which would combine results from different locations and combine them into one result2) An intelligent search engine which give one or few accurate ans... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | yannis: Search technology - perhaps because of the cost in setting up - has stayed behind. I would like to see:(01)User ability to adjust the 'algo' for ranking results. I may want all the newer websites and news in my ield rather than the websites with the highest page rank.(02) Ability to distinguish an 'authority we... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | jacquesm: I would aggregate all the knowledge in linkdumps / fora where voting is possible, possibly seed the database by creating a giant repository of links such as a social bookmarking site.It would get built up slowly but it would be of a higher quality than you could probably reach with crawling. Effectively you'd... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | byrneseyeview: There's room for a search engine that can take more advanced boolean queries and can handle custom ranking. For example, a while ago I was trying to find a section on a blog that mention someone whose last name is "White". The blog mentions politics a lot, so nearly every article also had the phrase "whi... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | byrneseyeview: Or you could do one that takes data like clicks on new stories, and uses it to promote old stuff. For example, take political news: if there's a news story about a politician's sex scandal, older content that mentions the politician and sex scandals could get a bump; if there's a story about a politician... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | moonchuck: Unless you are ready to get your hands dirty with the semantic side of search, I would focus on creating a more enjoyable and emotionally appealing experience for a particular demographic of consumers. Maybe teens, students, mothers, whatever...focus on building a loyal, targeted user base.Otherwise you run ... |
I can't do YC. What are alternatives? | jacquesm: For one, you should probably tell where you're located, conditions vary quite a bit depending on location.The reason why I think YC concentrates on younger people is twofold, for one they are not under enormous pressure to make money because they don't have a lot of responsibilities, thus reducing the burnrat... |
I can't do YC. What are alternatives? | noodle: 1) keep working on it at night until it becomes profitable enough that you can work on it in the daytime. bootstrapping is usually the best idea for people who have heavy responsibilities.2) if you truly believe in your idea, you could take out a loan and use that to fund your project. depending on how much $... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | delano: There is a lot of possibility to carve your niche, although this is true for most software products (a product can be considered a market leader in one vertical, yet almost unknown in another).Whether you choose to seek out a niche or not, you still need a novel approach. I know one search company that in 2000/... |
I can't do YC. What are alternatives? | Mankhool: There is a huge opportunity here for middle-aged founded startups who would benefit from a YC experience. There is a similar predicament in the arts (at least in Canada). There are lots of programs for new or emerging artists as long as your're not over 24. All of the other YC-esque "camps" are similar to YC ... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | shorbaji: I would focus on anticipating the user's search needs even before he/she formulates them and types out a search query.I would use as much context that a user is willing to provide me - location, recent email messages, voice call transcripts, unread messages, web browsing history, etc - to try to anticipate wh... |
Any hackers going to Burning Man? | robotron: I usually do but circumstances dictated otherwise this year. |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | jdrock: So most of the ideas mentioned here don't really consider the costs involved with making a search engine. New technologies/concepts/ideas are great and all, but unless you're building a very niche/vertical search engine, you're going to require several million dollars in servers to build a search engine.Any st... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | charlesju: Search is a function of 2 problems:1. Mainstream Search
- This is the search for information that a lot of people want to know. Britney Spears, How good is the new transformer's movie, 1 + 1 = ?, etc. I think I would just go through slowly and optimize each page to show results from the various information p... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | sh1mmer: I'd use one of the many search engine APIs available (BOSS, Bing, etc) to a build vertical search engine that enhances the basic results provided to me.Re-inventing crawling, relevance clustering, etc isn't worth the trouble or the cost. Finding ways to enhance a specific market segment however would be a diff... |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | oldgregg: Maybe not the best place to post this... but it depends on how long each request takes. If it's 100ms/avg then a single mongrel thread can do ~10req/sec. Mongrels are single-threaded which is why you usually see 5+ instances. If you are caching so it hits apache and not the mongrel than potentially much highe... |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | mahmud: FWIW 150 requests per second is peanuts. If your server doesn't reach the mid 2000s serving a typical index page (static or otherwise, at about 4kb) without caching or tweaking, I say ditch it. Life is too short for lousy web servers. Nginx gets 8k out of the box, lightty about 6k or so. |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | mbenjaminsmith: Not sure I have an answer, but after writing a niche search engine I have this observation:The more narrowly focused you get, the less keyword rich the data is likely to become. This creates obvious problems. I've been working on a search engine where last.fm is a major source of data, and their data is... |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | Shamiq: OFF TOPIC:To add blank lines in your text output here in HN, hit return twice (\n\n). |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | Zarathu: One.Use Passenger. |
I can't do YC. What are alternatives? | nuweborder: Bootstrapping is a great idea. Check out sites such as http://www.elance.com, http://www.guru.com, and http://www.odesk.com to find a reliable programmer. Word of advice. You will find your biggest savings with programmers located in Asia and India, as opposed to the U.S. and Europe based companies. I s... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | jamesgpearce: Very simple.Mobile search today is an absolute fright.(Google is about as good at mobile search as Alta Vista was at web search 10 years ago. Why not be this decade's Google and show them how it could be done?) |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | scumola: Write a crawler: Make it nice, so it doesn't hammer sites, convert relative urls to absolute, pull out relative data from html, cycle urls back through crawler for more crawling. Make sure your ISP doesn't have a cap on your monthly bandwidth (i.e. don't use a residential-scale ISP). Take into account pages ... |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | sunkencity: try benchmarking with apachebenchab -n 10000 -c 10 http://127.0.0.1/or install siege (or some other tool).Use passenger. If you really need speed use rails metal to write your response, rails metal can certainly handle 150 requests per second on a single instance. But should one client be laggy, it will tak... |
How many req per second can a single mongrel server handle of RoR app. | mark_l_watson: Use the Apache Benchmark "ab" program, and measure the number of requests per second for your application.It is number of requests per second that should interest you.If you do not have ab installed, try:sudo apt-get install apache2-utilsthen:man ab |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | Perceval: I would rethink things fundamentally. That requires a lot of abstract thinking about ontology, but that's how the past revolutions in search began.Yahoo treated the web like a phone book or directory. Altavista relied on self-categorization efforts in meta tags. Google treated links as votes.You need to co... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | mark_l_watson: I would try to build something like clusty.com, except I would try to identify themes in user search requests and track these for each user over time, using click throughs per user to keep search results on theme. |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | clistctrl: like you can compete with cuil |
13" laptop for gaming under $1k? | 0ffworlder: Depends on how much gaming[spore vs crysis]. Is a 9400 good enough? Then the $999 white macbook would work. Or a dell for a bit less. |
13" laptop for gaming under $1k? | profquail: It really depends on what level of gaming you expect to do. Most of the laptops I've seen that are under 13" (Apple included) either have integrated graphics or a low-end discrete GPU (like an nVidia GeForce 8400M or 9300M).If the laptop has a discrete GPU as an option, it usually adds $50-$100 to the price,... |
Should I graduate early? | iterationx: I don't think those two grades are going to matter, so I don't really think that's a downside. I vote you graduate and spend that brainpower thinking about what's next. |
13" laptop for gaming under $1k? | noodle: dell xps studio 13especially if you find a sale or good coupon that will allow you to toss on some extra stuff but stay under $1k. |
Ajax for HN 'reply' links? | shadytrees: Having implemented this once or twice, it's actually pretty difficult. You have to first make sure the POST goes through and validates. This means you need an error display system in place to catch errors (What if the comment you replied to is now deleted or edited? And so on--so you should keep a tally of ... |
What strategy would you take to build a search engine today? | thorax: We focused on a specific niche.http://www.errorhelp.com |
Is anyone out there using Scheme for Web development? | pavelludiq: http://docs.plt-scheme.org/continue/index.htmlThis is a web development tutorial from the PLT docs. |
Why 85% of Spam is about medications? | jacquesm: That's 'phase 1', 'phase 2' will be about great financial offers by people in warm countries, then you will be offered debt restructuring (phase 3) and finally when all this has failed you will send a random mixture of the above ad infinitum on the off chance that one day you will come to your senses and you ... |
Best links or comments of the day or week? | jacquesm: The easiest way to 'catch up' with stuff from a while ago is to go to the 'news' page, then follow the 'more' link several times.I know of no way to go beyond the end of that list though. |
Why 85% of Spam is about medications? | gills: It's about using the right bait for the fish. The promise of an effortless long/easy/healthy life is pretty solid bait for humans. |
Why 85% of Spam is about medications? | onreact-com: Sad but true it's a real life business model that works.People really click on those links and buy the advertised mediations. Sometimes only a few per thousand but if you send a million of emails...Most of these life style drugs are not real medications like the stuff sick people need. Also most of them ar... |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | byoung2: Probably a perception thing. I haven't looked into Silverlight much, but my gut says it's probably geared toward .NET developers (I could be completely wrong here). It is hard to beat Flash integration with Adobe CS4, especially on Macs (can you develop Silverlight apps on Mac?). |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | slater: one thing is the kinda surreptitious way they try to get you to adopt silverlight: "hey, did you know [insert major sporting/cultural/political event] is available as a streaming download? BUT! You have to install silverlight first"plus, i think many ppl in the more tech-savvy crowd are left wondering why they ... |
Anyone know the story behind the default twitter avatar? | zeynel1: Not sure if this the official story??http://www.seoconsultants.com/twitter/avatars/ |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | david927: I spend literally hours trying to get ASP.NET, MS AJAX Toolkit, jQuery, IE6 and HTML/CSS/Javascript to all play along nicelyIf you switch, get ready to spend you hours instead banging your head on Silverlight. |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | zeynel1: Doesn't support Chrome. I was trying to view algorithms here but Chrome was not listed.http://algorithmatic.com/algorithm/6/version-10/naive-prime-... |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | sarvesh: There is no official support for Linux, you will need to use moonlight. Until 3.0 font rendering was a major issue, hence NYTimes switched Adobe Air. Creating a stand alone app is harder compared to Air wasn't even possible in Silverlight 2. It still doesn't have printing capabilities even in version 3.The bri... |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | jaddison: Reseller and/or affiliate networks come to mind - let them do the selling for you, for a commission.This would be easier to accomplish with traditional desktop-type software than a packaged web-app - but I would argue that it's not impossible.You might consider resellers that are willing to work with a pay-pe... |
Best code editor? | jaddison: UltraEdit and Komodo are good. Komodo has a free version, I think. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | sachinag: This is a consultative sale. Also, in academia, you're going to have very long sales cycles.If I were you, I'd try to find a half-time independent sales rep and I'd have one hell of a website. There's absolutely no way that cold-calling is going to work the way that you think it is; it will take up too much... |
Best code editor? | alx: nano |
Best code editor? | lewro: Coda on MAC is great. |
Best code editor? | MrSomeone: Crimson Editor. |
Best code editor? | nixme: Emacs.And yes, I'm very satisfied with it. Everytime I see a feature in another editor I like, EmacsWiki usually has an implementation or guide.Plus emacs has org-mode... |
Best code editor? | jacquesm: If you want to go commercial on windows check out ultraedit. |
Best code editor? | moai: Geany |
Best code editor? | alrex021: Aquamacs (Emacs for Mac)http://aquamacs.org/ |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | grandalf: I'd suggest just making a list of 10 potential clients... then research the organizations a bit and contact them and ask for a few minutes to present what you've done.The key is to realize what you are selling. In the first 30 seconds of a phone conversation you're selling them on the idea that you are profe... |
Best code editor? | vyrotek: Visual Studio 2008 - Love it. I don't notice any load-time issues, but maybe thats because I never close it. |
Best code editor? | travisjeffery: I switched multiple times for long periods, learnt each's scripting languages, customized the hell out of each, wrote extensions and in the end right now I'm happiest with being a speed demon with my vim keybindings-fu.But really the only editors worth learning and using are Emacs and Vim, decide between... |
Best code editor? | sfk: This thread would be incomplete without mentioning ed:http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/ed-standard |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | edw519: I believe in keeping things simple. This project sounds like your pride and joy; you've put a lot of yourself into something that solves someone else's problem quite well.Talk to them, understand their problem, and then show them how your software solves their problem. Remember, it's all about them, not you. ... |
Best code editor? | midnightmonster: scribes http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ |
Best code editor? | mdasen: I'm a fan of NetBeans. It isn't for everyone. Sometimes one wants something lightweight. However, NetBeans has a lot of nice things. Refactoring helpers are wonderful. They make it so much easier to change the name of something when its meaning changes so that the code stays clean. Like many visual editor... |
Best code editor? | drhowarddrfine: Google the same question and join the thousands of other threads that have asked the same question just in the past week. Continue on to find the millions of threads that asked the same question over the past decade. |
Best code editor? | californiaguy: If you're a unix dev and want to be taken seriously, use Emacs or vim.Otherwise people will just laugh at you behind your back. Or to your face. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | wavesplash: 1) You price the product based on what the market will bear. If you say "it costs $50k" and they say, "great where do we sign?" you're probably selling too cheap. You need a few 'no's to tell where the top of the pricing range is.How to guess the initial price? Ask your existing clients how much they'd p... |
Best code editor? | mkeblx: Notepad. It's a simple, feature-rich, light-weight editor. The learning curve is long and steep though, but well worth it. I've been using if for 3 years now and still don't know all it's bells and whistles. Best of all it comes preinstalled on a lot of OSs so you don't have to go through a laborious install pr... |
Best code editor? | jdp: Lately I've been using Textadept - http://caladbolg.net/luadoc/textadept2/manual/1_Introduction... - and I like it a lot. It's a lot like vi in that most menu items have a key sequence, you can split buffers, but everything is in GTK. It's also 100% extensible through Lua, the only drawback is that there aren't ma... |
Best code editor? | matttah: I use Kate for GUI and nano at command line. |
Best code editor? | jakecarpenter: Emacs would be a great OS if only it had a good text editor...Seriously though, isn't this like asking what kind of car is the best to drive? I like vim, nano, n++, and textmate, but the "best" for me changes as often as my mood. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | ankeshk: 1. Pricing:If your clients pay for the software from grant money - find out about these grants before deciding on your pricing. People won't have a lot of hesitation on price if its not their money - but grant money - that they'll be spending.So find out what kind of grants your clients opt for. Whats the av... |
Best code editor? | cema: I use a variety of editors, and it all depends on what kind of editing I am doing. Emacs is good for a lot of things, so I usually keep an instance open, but I do not always keep up with the language-specific modes, so I also use language-specific or project-specific software such as Visual Studio or Blackberry J... |
Best code editor? | metachris: i use bluefish a lot and like it very much: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ |
Best code editor? | oneplusone: E. Stupid name, great editor. It is like TextMate for windows.http://www.e-texteditor.com/ |
Best code editor? | yters: I like writing things down with pen and paper, then running it through in my head. Once everything is perfect then i might touch a keyboard.Manipulating things in the head is much quicker than anything else I've used. |
Best code editor? | jawngee: I use floppy disks and magnets. You aren't worth the trash you produce if you can't code without a keyboard ... |
Best code editor? | boskone: In the last 2-3 years emacs has just improved and improved. Like most it originally took me 2-3 distinctive efforts to "go emacs", but it pays off. Emacs is just outstanding if you are a code slinger.If your an admin and edit a couple of config files now and again, maybe VIM, though IMHO emacs is superior fo... |
Best code editor? | parse_tree: i program in C the most , and for that, hands down emacs is the best (I think its arguably the best period as well).C + emacs + gdb > sex |
Why isn't Silverlight more popular? | ScottWhigham: I do all of those as well (ASP.NET, MS AJAX Toolkit, jQuery, IE6 and HTML/CSS/Javascript) yet mine is that I have no interest in learning Silverlight for the same reason that I have no desire to learn Flash. I think a huge failure of Silverlight is MSFT's thinking that, "Well if we can just get half of al... |
smallest sensible (micro-)payment? | jacquesm: Most micropayment systems are implemented as wallets for that exact reason. You pre-pay an amount that gives you credits, a single click + confirm alert box can then be used to spend the credits.If you intend to do a full transaction you have to keep in mind the costs of scrubbing and processing, probably les... |
Best code editor? | beta: Lets not forget good o'll gedit!No but seriously, gvim all the way. |
Best code editor? | rwolf: gedit didn't make the list yet? for shame!syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, line numbers, multi-line tab, multi-line comments (with a plugin), installed whether you want it or not with ubuntu. |
Best code editor? | talleyrand: I love Geany (for Linux and Windows)
http://www.geany.org/I spent a while looking for a replacement for my old favorite PSpad when I switched from windows, and this was it. |
How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background? | anamax: > I have never signed any paperwork, I have simply built what they wanted and been paid.You really need to talk with a competent attorney. And no, asking other folks what they did doesn't count because you don't know what differences between their situation and yours matter and how. Heck - you're not likely t... |
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