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How to made a Windows-tied library cross-platform? | mTh: Hmmm... what about tooling in the IDE which will push for MVC-type of development? |
Would you be interested in an Etherpad-like version control system? | macmac: Wouldn't it be better to implement a git/subversion... plugin for Textmate/Emacs that does this instead of doing a vcs from scratch? or won't a traditional vcs work as a back-end for this? |
Hackers and Religion | ncarlson: From my anecdotal experience, hackers tend to have a distaste for organized religion. Atheism and Agnosticism seem to run strong among programmers. |
Hackers and Religion | saurabh: Curiousity about systems makes you a hacker, be it religion or a machine or behaviour. If you don't question your beliefs, you are not a hacker. |
Hackers and Religion | noodle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253682http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237517 |
Hackers and Religion | edw519: I'm probably an outlier here at hn, but I feel fortunate to have been born into the religion of my parents and grandparents, which is perfectly suited to my "hacker" mindset. It incorporates a system of thinking and lifelong learning along with an understanding that there is still that which is bigger than our... |
How to generate random terrain | stevejohnson: I did some work on random terrain once. You can see the results here:http://steveasleep.appspot.com/pyworldgenIf this is what you're looking for, I can try to explain it. |
Hackers and Religion | byoung2: I'm definitely not religious but I don't completely discount the possibility of a higher power. I believe the search for an answer to the question "is there a god?" is more interesting than any answer could be. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | NathanKP: I like it!The first time I tried a PHP snippet I didn't copy the <?php ?> tags and it didn't highlight anything. However, I quickly figured it out.You might want to add a message or notice about the <?php ?> requirement. |
Hackers and Religion | acg: There is not a relationship, just because people do or don't believe in a god, many gods or what have you has little to do with their creativity. If there is a relationship it might be that some religions have an emphasis on reading and books. Some people also confuse the want for secularism with the absence of be... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | oblommer: Looks good! I would suggest to auto-highlight everything in the HTML box when you click inside it. That would save the user an extra click. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | davidw: See also: Emacs' htmlize.http://dedasys.com/Interp.java.htmlthe results of running htmlize-buffer on Hecl's Interp.java. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | acangiano: For those of you using TextMate, consider my Pygments bundle: http://github.com/acangiano/pygments-textmate-bundle |
Hackers and Religion | thunk: I count a belief in "the singularity" as to some degree religious. Composed of equal parts millennialist eschatological zeal, denial of the lack of compelling evidence for the emergence of the requisite strong AI, and even its own Heaven (see "Rapture of the Nerds"), Singularitarianism is usually where your reli... |
Feeds for white papers? | JayNeely: The Web Ecology Project is publishing its own research online now, and getting a good bit of attention for it: http://www.webecologyproject.org/ |
Hackers and Religion | iterationx: I'm a traditionalist Catholic.
This should probably be a poll. |
Hackers and Religion | DanielBMarkham: I'm not much of anything, but if you had to pigeon-hole me, I'll take agnostic pantheistic deist. But that's a stretch. Agnostic probably covers me more than anything else. |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | bootload: "... Ask HN: review my tiny app ..."works well for me. I'd like to see JSON as a data format or better still an API to let you define your own code to convert. |
How to generate random terrain | elcron: The freeciv map generator is pretty good if your looking for sample code for a world scale map. |
Job Offer Stock Options - How Much Should be Disclosed? | tptacek: It's obviously completely meaningless to give prospective employees a count of options without the information needed to value them. It's fundamentally disrespectful, and it also communicates the idea that options don't have a hard value, but that they're instead an abstract point score system.On the other han... |
Hackers and Religion | Mz: I sometimes refer to "god". It's shorter than saying "whatever intelligence is behind the workings of the universe". I believe that belief systems attempt to squish the grandness of whatever intelligence is out there into this little box known as the human mind. I am not so arrogant as to think I can comprehend t... |
What do hackers want to get built? | human_v2: I want to create an open source hacker's lab. A place funded on the open-source philosophy (socialism, if you will). If the lab needs some equipment or parts, then someone buys a bunch and lets others use it, or people split the cost or something. Ideally, it would have a chemistry set and a bunch of sensors ... |
review my tiny app - code to html converter | weaksauce: It might be useful to add a button that copies the resultant code to your clipboard. I don't know how cross browser that is but it could be nice. I don't think that it should be the default action when you generate though because people will not know that it is happening and they might not want the clipboard... |
Job Offer Stock Options - How Much Should be Disclosed? | vibhavs: "The one number you should know about your equity grant," by Chris Dixon (http://www.cdixon.org/?p=467), addresses some of these issues. |
Job Offer Stock Options - How Much Should be Disclosed? | jhancock: I assume your funding has already set the params of what you can offer, so what is the value of hiding any of it?Standard attitude toward stock options is that you'll get screwed. So why even bother to provide them if employees don't value them? The only way to get beyond this attitude, IMO, is to show empl... |
What do you think of GitX? | bumbledraven: I love it, but it hangs quite often for me with "Refreshing index", whatever that means. |
Novice developer looking for weekly LAMP dev lessons | weaksauce: You are probably better off asking these "nuts and bolts" questions over at stackoverflow than trying to get a mentor.If you don't know enough php/programming/whatever to know how to ask the right questions at that site then I would start by learning the basics of php via a book or something similar until yo... |
Novice developer looking for weekly LAMP dev lessons | olliesaunders: Are you really interested in learning to program or do you just want to fix the bugs on your site? Also, would you be prepared to pay your tutor an hourly rate? I'm genuinely interested in your answers to these questions. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | memrise: We're hiring here at Memrise.We're an early-stage start up based in NYC seeking a talented Django developer to help us in our mission to give the world a better memory. If you delight and excel in Python, Django, SQL, HTML, CSS and Javascript, and like the idea of a deeply creative, technically demanding role ... |
Anybody here active on folding at home ? | habs: Whenever I go for a walk, I normally leave folding@home running. If you have a particularly powerful GPU you can run folding@home using your GPU, which yields better results. If you're interested in GPU folding, I would recommend checking out Bit-techs features on folding
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graph... |
Anybody here active on folding at home ? | sbhat7: I have been running http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ which has similar goals.Some of its stats are - http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewGlobal.do |
Anybody here active on folding at home ? | epall: The difference in power consumption between an idle CPU and a maxed-out CPU is appreciable. I stopped doing Folding@home, distributed.net, etc when I discovered my old AMD 2500+ sucked an extra 30 watts when pegged. That was a desktop chip! I suspect it's even worse with the new mobile=>desktop chips these days.... |
Would you be interested in an Etherpad-like version control system? | ScottWhigham: God no. I don't want to step away to grab coffee and come back to find someone has changed something. |
Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" | ScottWhigham: Why don't you start the conversation and maybe we'll feel compelled to join in? Sorry - it irks me when I see posts asking for personal information/thoughts yet the author provides none of his own. |
Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" | diiq: Treat them as a friend and a person. A label as broad and misunderstood as 'introvert' will only hinder you in enjoying their company when you have it.It's probably best not to 'care' for anyone but yourself and (perhaps) those physically unable. Just befriend the rest of us, please. |
Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" | chinmi: I consider myself very introverted, but I think that most of the items on the list you can learn to deal with whether you are extra- or introverted. Most essential though :-Respect their need for privacy (yeah)-Let them observe first in new situations (would make me more comfortable)-Teach them new skills priva... |
Job Offer Stock Options - How Much Should be Disclosed? | prakash: Congrats on the funding, Dani! |
Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" | badger7: In my experience (and it is just that), introverts tend to accept the differences as personality, whereas extraverts tend to see introversion as a problem that requires fixing."That guy just won't stop talking. I couldn't do that"
vs
"That guy never says anything. I wonder what's wrong?" |
Opinion on "How to Care for Introverts" | pasbesoin: As part of a corporate job, I was put through some training that emphasized understanding different personality and communication types, in order to better understand and interact with that variety in coworkers and clients.Unfortunately, the training did not transfer to the broad corporate policy, which kept... |
Ask HN:Can a CS guy survive in electronics work? | sophacles: Take the degree that provides you with material you wouldn't otherwise learn. In your case, this would be electronics, because I strongly suspect you will pick up on the CS stuff on your own. My experience is similar to yours. I was enrolled in the CS program at a pretty big engineering school. I became som... |
Ask HN:Can a CS guy survive in electronics work? | joshu: Take the intro CS courses, math, statistics. The GUI and Java and whatnot seem to be more about learning to program than about learning CS.I did ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering; there's no separate EE degree) and this stuff was actually required.Can you post links to curricula? |
Is it necessary to backup S3? | dnsworks: Remember that Amazon is not infallible. In fact, Amazon has had at least two S3 outages that resulted in permanent data-loss.Would you put all of your eggs in a bookstore who just recently decided to become an egg storage vendor? |
Alternative to Matlab for control system design? | Stasyan: I think this might be it:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ |
where to ask trivial programming questions | corey: http://www.stackoverflow.com |
where to ask trivial programming questions | joeld42: I find IRC is great for general questions like these. people don't mind helping newbies and since it's so ephemeral you don't feel bad asking lots of beginner questions. |
where to ask trivial programming questions | gtani: look for a mentoring or tutor list for your languagehttp://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.plhttp://railsbridge.org/http://www.railsmentors.org/and pythonhttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/ |
Anybody here active on folding at home ? | mr_dbr: What exactly has Folding@home achieved in the time it's been running (about 8 years now)?It's a nice concept (using idle CPU time to help cure diseases!), but the papers on the F@H site doesn't exactly inspire me - http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers - quite a few seem to be about the F@H itself (like "N... |
Hacker News API or json data? | JacobAldridge: This lists the 'best' articles over a longer period than the front page does. It's not specific to 'last week' or 'questions asked in HN', but might be a start.http://news.ycombinator.com/best |
where to ask trivial programming questions | weaksauce: Stackoverflow is a great resource and I would definitely use that for tougher questions as opposed to basic syntax errors. IRC is better suited to this type of question.Before even using IRC I would google it. Google will get you on the right track most times if you just google the compiler error. They usual... |
where to ask trivial programming questions | rhr: Thanks for the help, everyone! |
Do You Think this Real-Time ISP Spying Software Exists? | thinkzig: OP here. This is a Reddit IAmA thread where a guy is claiming he writes covert software that allows ISPs and governments to snoop Internet traffic in real time. I found this discussion fascinating and horrifying at the same time.Assuming this guy isn't a troll, what do you think about the claims he's making... |
Do You Think this Real-Time ISP Spying Software Exists? | byoung2: I got a call from Time Warner Cable a few months back saying that they detected traffic on my modem at 6:14am that morning that matched a known worm/virus (forgot the name, but they mentioned it specifically). Sure enough, a friend was staying over, and his laptop was infected with that same virus. Who knows... |
Is there any vimlike image processor? | jacquesm: I can't find exactly what you described, but maybe these will help you along:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268382
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=322262Also, mathematica can do image processing. |
Framework for social community | steerpike: Django has pinax http://pinaxproject.com/ which I've had a quick look at in the past and seems quite cool and practical. |
Framework for social community | chaosprophet: Rather than build a new site up from scratch, why don't you just create a group on facebook or something??? Most of your users will probably be on facebook, and this would also save you a lot of time. |
Is there any vimlike image processor? | aadvaark: ImageMagick? http://www.imagemagick.org/ |
Framework for social community | ScottWhigham: You might wish to use these (not programming specific but a good resource perhaps?): http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputatio... |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | ErrantX: Pretty much everything personal (aroundf 10 sites) is thrown on a £70/year shared hosting package - which works just fine. |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | bgnm2000: I spend $80/Month I have 3 different accounts with different hosts which are good for different things. I'm going to be consolidating soon though..hopefully |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | gstar: For my toy stuff, about £30 for a smallish VPS in the UK, $20 a month for the smallest slicehost in the US, and I also have dreamhost (about $120/pa) that I use to host screencasts and things. I'd never put anything critical on there, though. |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | jnaut: working on a product POC, using Rackspace cloud (formerly mosso), paying around USD 11 - 15 per month for a very own instance of Jaunty but limited/shared machine resource with some minimum thresholds guaranteed. |
Financial data and rounding | ScottWhigham: Personally if all of my forecasting, AP and AR are in a hundredths-based system, I'd keep the data stored that way. There will never be a time in which they will cut a check or do forecasting in anything less than hundredths so why worry about storing to the ten-thousandths?I'm a T-SQL guy myself and many... |
where to ask trivial programming questions | CyberFonic: You will find a good introductory book on programming a great deal of help. Try to pick one that has examples of compile commands and makefiles.Another alternative is to take an OSS project and read, make changes. Typically all the makefiles, etc are correctly setup. There are some excellent videos on-li... |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | Readmore: I've tried to get people on here interested in the show before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761443I think it's a great show and I really like seeing all the different business ideas. Most of the founders seem to make mistakes in the negotiations but I think there have been some pretty good deals on th... |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | ashishk: i like the show, but there are things i do like and things i dont like. i dont like the silly pitches used for entertainment value. i feel like they belittle entrepreneurship/ startups.that said, once in a while there is an inspiring story. like the african immigrant who runs a profitable site (it is a marketp... |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | spydez: It's the American version of Dragon's Den.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Den#United_StatesI've seen a few episodes of the UK's Dragon's Den on BBC America and was unimpressed. Anyone have any comparisons between the two (better or worse)? |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | uptown: It's amusing to watch, but my speculation is that most of the "deals" they strike in front of the camera probably break down once the small businesses and the "sharks" actually begin to work out the details on paper.From the perspective of the small businesses, while they're getting some great exposure, they're... |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | kinetickid: amazing show! It is so entertaining I watch it every week and always am trying to identify the founder's main hurdle before all the sharks chime in.
So far I've been kicking ass at it.It's on sunday nights for those of you who don't know, and it is worth watching for sure. |
What's the coolest computer simulation you can think of? | frig: Zombie invasion.Basic rules:-- VISION:- noninfected can see agents within radius R but can only determine if a seen agent is "zombie / not zombie" within radius r < R- infected can see agents within radius Z (r < Z < R) and can make "zombie / not zombie" determination instantly-- VISUAL PERCEPTION:- both agent ty... |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | hedgehog: $12/mo Xen slice from prgrmr for web & source$200ish a month from Amazon for hosting for some consulting work (although I don't pay for it)$0 for a few apps on App Engine |
Former Co-Workers Jumping Ship? | mbowcock: Not a lawyer but - most likely there is no legal recourse for your former employer - but it sounds like you'll be burning some bridges - although thats probably not a concern. I would think the biggest issue would be if the new venture were in a related field to your old job. If the work is related - there ... |
Former Co-Workers Jumping Ship? | Stasyan: Check your contract, and ask them to check theirs.
My contract, for example, says that I am not allowed to have any kind of work relationship with a person who was employed by the company at the time when I quit.
In situation like yours, I'd be screwed. |
Former Co-Workers Jumping Ship? | mrduncan: A lot depends on the details of the situation. Would this violate any non-compete agreements that they have signed? Also, what state are you located in (I'll assume your old company is in the same state also)? Non-compete enforceability varies widely from state to state.I'd definitely recommend discussing ... |
Former Co-Workers Jumping Ship? | brk: In most states in the US an (ex)employer is going to have a very difficult time preventing someone from seeking work, regardless of what contracts or agreements are in place.Of course, you can chew up a lot of legal dollars in the mean time proving your case.If you really want to pursue this... An employee is not ... |
CareCloud.com Website Review | replicatorblog: The site is extremely well designed from an aesthetic point of view, but it is hard to figure out what problems you are solving? I work in the medical world and have some familiarity with the issues surround software in the clinical setting, but could not figure out what you do. Does this have an EMR co... |
CareCloud.com Website Review | mikecuesta: I just wanted add that building this company from the ground up and developing the business model has been one of the best experiences of my life. I want to thank all of you here for all the great insight, resources, and most importantly for asking great questions. I owe HackerNews a lot. |
How much do you spend on Hosting? | cullenking: We have http://ridewithgps.com hosted on our own co-located server with http://colostore.com for $50 a month. It's a 2U server with dual 700w power supplies, setup on two separate breakers. Server was setup within 4 hours of UPS dropping it off last December, and we haven't experienced any downtime or net... |
CareCloud.com Website Review | mrduncan: The site looks really nice on the surface. As I dug deeper though it was really tough to determine exactly what you could provide me. I found one page with a small screenshot but that was as close as I got to seeing what your app even looked like. My suggestion would be to add some more screenshots or a wa... |
About all this Lisp fuzz | blue1: Which lisp are you talking about? For example, Common Lisp and Scheme are both languages of the lisp family, but they are rather different.The PG books are about Common Lisp. CL is defined in a very good ANSI standard. Where implementations of CL really diverge is in the areas which are not covered by the stand... |
About all this Lisp fuzz | wglb: Speaking of one who has four "distros" in the shop (ubuntu, freebsd, openbsd, osx) each of these has its strength and making our stuff work on them is not a big deal. I don't get confused at all, and there isn't all that much "noise".Similarly, for the very high performance stuff, i use SBCL which generates nati... |
Has anyone seen Shark Tank (VCs are sharks)? | bdmac97: I've been thoroughly enjoying the show personally. There are certain parts that are obviously overdone/dramaticized for TV but I'm sure it's necessary for non-entrepreneurs to be interested.A good sign that it's doing OK is its recent shift into a better time slot (Tuesday nights instead of Sunday nights). |
Selling a software start-up | ErrantX: Well one of your biggest audiences might well be here or even Proggit (not sure of their TOC's for things like that). |
CareCloud.com Website Review | GotToStartup: Beautiful design, really makes me want to use the app a little more. Would be nice to have some sort demo login or video walkthrough like mrduncan mentioned. May I ask who designed the site? |
CareCloud.com Website Review | Feynman: My only complaint... after wading through the site I have very little idea of what carecloud.com actually does, technically or functionally. Graphically and visually the site looks fine. But, there's no meat and potatoes -- what's the software actually do? How does it work? It's all just very vague. |
About all this Lisp fuzz | swannodette: You should also look into Clojure, especially if you're interested in getting into concurrency and functional programming. I recommend using Enclojure+Netbeans for a user friendly introduction to a very powerful new Lisp. |
Selling a software start-up | alain94040: You have two options you can follow:1) your company is profitable, it may interest pretty much any independent person to pick it up, grow it a little bit and see what they can do with it. Sales price would be 1X-2X annual profits2) your product has a strong synergy with a bigger company's products. You can ... |
Selling a software start-up | gtani: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164512http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=200531 |
About all this Lisp fuzz | ilyak: "If this is true and everything on the language are built atop of those, or atop of stuff built atop of those (in n-levels), how can different implementations possible be incompatible?"
You cannot build i/o atop of axioms.
It would always be a foreign thing that you have to deal with, incompatibly of using a lon... |
About all this Lisp fuzz | rikthevik: When you write C, you can be reasonably sure it will compile with a decent C compiler. There is no way to write 'Lisp'. Each Lisp dialect has different goals. A person might as well think of them as completely different languages belonging to the Lisp family. It might be analogous to think of Perl, Pytho... |
Startups founded by MBAs? | jacquesm: The more interesting question is not if any successful startups have been founded by MBAs but what their success ratio was vs startups funded by other groups of people.I know at least one very well funded one that was sunk by an MBA CEO, but that's just one datapoint, I'm sure there must be plenty to the cont... |
Can You Tweet From Australia? | jacquesm: Long distance sms is a bit more expensive than 'local', but it works ok (I use it for pages from the US to alert me of server troubles).It gets really expensive when you send or receive using your regular phone abroad (roaming). |
Can You Tweet From Australia? | hussong: I think they have Internet there, too. SCNR. |
About all this Lisp fuzz | sidmitra: Read the bipolar lisp programmer, it's quite an interesting insight.
http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm |
About all this Lisp fuzz | grosales: I think you have a valid analogy of Lisp to Linux, but you you should finish the PG book before you make any final judgment. The power of Lisp comes from its "simplicity", its extensions, and the magical Aha moment you get while coding in Lisp (it's like obtaining zen only to realize new and bigger doors have... |
Startups founded by MBAs? | ig1: Lots. Of the "old school" ones Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Extreme Networks, Macromedia, 3Com, Genentech, Fast Company, Handspring.From the web generation Akami, Geocities, Salesforce.com, Keyhole, E-Trade, MySpace, aSmallWorld, Doostang. |
Does storing CC data in the session violate PCI compliance? | jacquesm: Storing CC data anywhere is a huge nono. You use it at the moment you pass it on to your IPSP. No temp files, no database records, no session keys none of that.Read the terms and conditions of your merchant account.Edit: I'm very serious about this, CC companies periodically check the active merchant accounts... |
Does storing CC data in the session violate PCI compliance? | jawspeak: I've heard of companies having an internal policy: if in memory (in their data center's control) PCI sensitive data was allowed.In some cases (memory mapped files) it could persist to disk, so either encryption, or a Compensating Control Document was created (limiting access to the filesystem). |
About all this Lisp fuzz | paracelsus: Why, when one tries, the answer must always be another implementation with 'more' features instead of creating the cleanest possible implementation with 'the least' features allowing maximum compatibility?This was said in 'The Next Lisp'http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/nextlisp(1).htm |
Does storing CC data in the session violate PCI compliance? | edw519: The order confirmation screen only needs to display the last 4 digits. They know the rest. If any of the other digits were entered incorrectly, you'll both find out soon enough. |
Startups founded by MBAs? | yangtheman: I was actually more interested in high-tech startups. And, yeah, I think the ratio of successful startups founded by MBAs and those by engineers would be quite interesting. My guess is that it'd heavily lean towards engineers. "Success" could also be somewhat subjective.I think only Scott held MBA degree wh... |
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