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What do you do on weekend? | potatolicious: Taking pictures. I hate exercise, and the only way I'd get out of the house is with the promise of good photo ops. This weekend I'm doing a 13mi bike ride to get pics from a lighthouse. |
What do you do on weekend? | astrec: If the weather obliges I might go paragliding, if not geocaching. Which ever way it pans out there shall be beer. |
Monthly vs Annual - Subscriptions. | charliepark: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-you-... is a good overview of what 37signals did. My experience mirrored theirs. Essentially, we wanted to offer annual billing, but when we went to our processor with that, they weren't willing to assume the risk associated with that. My understandin... |
How about security start ups? | ikitat: OWASP is the first thing that comes to mind. http://www.owasp.org
I'm not sure if I'd consider it a start up though. |
Any tutorials on forming a Delaware LLC? | sdp: I'd like to suggest it's cheaper overall to hire a competent lawyer. |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | cperciva: Network-accessible storage bricks.The world is moving more and more towards separating storage from logic, so you don't need a lot of CPU power attached to each disk; on the consumer side there are cheap NAS devices, but they (a) generally don't allow you to install your own code without major hackery, and (b... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | kierank: Anything where lower-cost software on commodity hardware could replace very expensive hardware that is commonplace:e.g. Routers |
Any tutorials on forming a Delaware LLC? | javery: First I would decide if you really need to form one in Delaware (unless you are based in Delaware of course). You can fill out the LLC paperwork in most states in 30 minutes and then you are just out the filing fee.If you have partners though make sure you hire a lawyer so you have all the correct agreements in... |
Resources/Books for kernel/driver programming on Windows and OSX | codeslinger: For Windows, there definitive source in book form is the Microsoft Windows Internals series. I worked with a guy that used to work at Microsoft and he prefered this book to looking things up in the source code ;-)http://www.amazon.com/Windows®-Internals-Including-Windows-P...If you're in school, Microsoft ... |
Any tutorials on forming a Delaware LLC? | ScottWhigham: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+form+delaware+llc |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | yannis: Building Management Systems, Security Management Systems. |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | conoryoung: The target demographic is not exactly rolling in cash but an interesting, socially conscious idea nevertheless. |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | mbrubeck: Build a projector for presentations that doesn't require you to plug in a computer. Instead, you just plug in a USB disk or SD card, and it will give you a list of PDF files and let you show one as a presentation. (No more fiddling with laptop video dongles, mirroring modes, resolutions. etc.) |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | anonjon: I got one, Lisp machines! Has that been done yet? |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | conoryoung: Electric car company |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | cmos: High end pet feeder.A microphone that's always streaming to the internets.A robot to clean my roomba.Turn a roomba into a cheap telepresence robot so I can roll into meeting rooms.A really small bluetooth phone ringer/vibrator that can be easily concealed cause I wear clothing with no pockets, or tight jeans, and... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: Build a device for use in bars with lots and lots of imported beer to keep track of how much each beer drinker likes their beer.When they go to throw away the bottle, have them scan a barcode, and swipe their license or other identifier and then vote on how much they enjoyed that particular beer.Associate d... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: How about a portable (as in removable) home media server, but for the car. Ideally this would be directed towards families with children on long car rides. It could sync w/ your home library, and allow each child to listen/view the specific media they desire of off their 802.11 device of choosing.Since it... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: Automate Algae-Based BioFuel Refinery |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: RJ-45 to USB converter. More specifically, it would be two separate connectors, each with a female RJ-45 port. Just add the proper length of cable you need, and bam, instant USB cable. Not sure of the signaling issues, but you are an EE, and if they can make it work with HDMI over CAT6, it should be viab... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: 802.11 or RJ-45 based infrared server. This device would connect to your home network, and could have extensions in each room of your room. It would have the ability to "learn" the remote control codes of your various device remotes. You could then use the included software (that you will write) to eithe... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: How about an affordable bidirectional version of X10 home automation devices with mechanical feedback.I would love to be able to buy a wall switch for $15 to $30, that I could remotely turn on and off, and it would physically move to the on or off position. Additionally, I would be able to query the state ... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | chopsueyar: Timeclocks (for employees).Current corporate offerings suck, both in terms of the device, and the proprietary formats.Make it export to CSV or Quickbooks OR XLS. Make it durable, and reasonably priced. |
Where did comment karma go? | timf: Yup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | CraigBuchek: Sounds like a good idea. I know that there are several non-profit organizations out there that help people apply for free medications. Basically, each pharmaceutical company offers free medications for those in need (partly due to government incentives), but you have to go to each company to apply. So the ... |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | fauxfauxpas: Might try looking at medicare.gov and their formulary plan finder - it has a lot of that information. Also look at kff.org - lots of good Medicare/Medicaid info and they have done studies on the drug formularies, etc. |
Looking for co-founders | p01nd3xt3r: do you code? and if so what languages? |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | callmeed: Why not just setup a wiki for this and start spreading the word?Or are you wanting to do some screen-scraping of pharma websites? |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | known: Inexpensive Cell Phones. |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | bbg: I don't think I'll run with this; it looks to be a mess.But after a good 25 minutes of research, including a perusal of an AARP guide to the process, whose URL is at the bottom of this post (or Google "drug names medicare plans"), the relevant variables seem to be these:1. geographical location (zip code)2. each... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | dawie: PG. Not sure why :-) |
Which usernames do you recognise? | pg: patio11 and mechanical_fish tend to be consistently insightful, and rarely mean. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | joe_the_user: -- You mean experiment of not showing comment ratings?I remember a few name Gruesome, mechanical_fish ... but I'd recognize more if saw them in context.But I don't a moderate in the basis of names I know anyway...It seems like this experiment will make people in general less likely to moderate. I used to ... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | mixmax: I recognise quite a few. Off the top of my head is tpcatek, cperciva and dfranke because of their expertise, mechanical_fish, nostrademons, jacquesm, jasonlbaptiste, mattmaroon and tokenadult because they often have something intersting to say, markbao because he's a great entrepreneur at a young age, and danie... |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | alexmacgregor: Anything involving cells or batteries, electric vehicles and other machinery is going to be massive. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | davidw: I recognize quite a few. Especially the people who hang out on #startups - swombat, axod (well, hung out, no thanks to freenode...), wheels, daleharvey, etc... Indeed, it'd be interesting to meet more of you in person. I wonder who matches what I think of them and who doesn't. I know pg's accent didn't quit... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | Jem: For every username I recognise for previous insightful comments, I also recognise one for something 'bad'. Although I don't vote according to this, it does at least show me that positive bias is not the only potential 'worry' in a points-based rating system like HN. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | wheels: Mine are mostly topical, e.g. tptacek and cperciva for security, ice799 for systems stuff, etc.I subscribe to a few comment feeds via searchyc so that I can read most of the comments from my favorites around here. |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | oneplusone: It is one of the best. I know people that went there and they are all amazingly smart. A lot of tech companies (RIM, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, etc.) will compete to hide for co-op as well as upon graduation. It is a good school to go to. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | pplante: I am guessing that the only change made here was removal of the comment point value, no sorting changes?I ask only because if this experiment becomes permanent its good public knowledge.EDIT: I meant to include my thoughts on the change. If this change was made with the mindset that "friends" will automatica... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | akamaka: Almost none. I've been reading HN for about one year, and Something about the minimalism of the layout and lack of signatures makes me just read the comments and not think about who wrote them. |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | fauxfauxpas: Remote control to turn off (or blow out?) loud booming car stereos in the car next to you at the light ala tv-b-gone (or maybe car-b-boom!) |
Which usernames do you recognise? | grandalf: mechanical_fish |
Which usernames do you recognise? | nostrademons: The question is inaccurate, because you're really asking which usernames we can recall. ;-) That's often an order of magnitude smaller than the ones we can recognize. The only way to test who we recognize is to MRI us, show us a bunch of usernames, see if the recognition centers of our brain light up.Tha... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | danteembermage: This is top of the head so no promises on spelling. I remember cpercevia because he had a really great proof from a post your proofs challenge I did a while ago. edw519's comments seem to stick out for me about technical stuff. Byrneseyeview has delightfully provacative stuff, a little edgy but generall... |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | neilc: Waterloo has a very strong CS program, albeit it can be a lot of work, and the campus life isn't great. If you want an intense undergrad CS experience, I think U of T and Waterloo are the best two choices.That said, I think you should also consider the quality of campus life: I went to Queen's, and I learned muc... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | anigbrowl: Do you mean as individuals outside of HN, or as people particularly worth reading here? If the latter, there's maybe 20 or 30 people whose name will make me stop and read something I might otherwise skip. But I tend to see the comment first and afterwards note 'oh, xxxxx again, of course' My favorites are th... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | quizbiz: pg. I regularly visit his threads page. I wonder if he thinks that's weird. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | fsniper: I'm having some problems on giving attention to usernames. Most of the things written over the Internet is anonymous for me. Until I really want to give attention to what is written and if it's a credible resource and check sources. If something is anonymous than it's not credible default. So this leads me to ... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | leftnode: Pretty much just the other's people have mentioned. Maybe it would be alright to include a one or two line signature now to help differentiate everyone and to promote their work. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | adrianwaj: jacquesm has been pretty on the ball lately. rokhayakebe seems like a good guy. paul (Buchheit) offers a lot of karma per word. Initally, I liked PG's style of writing: really good style for business plans. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | unalone: PG, 'cos he's PG.tdavis, because he was memorable on IRC.patio11, because Jesus that guy posts like an inferno.jrockway, who I think I've argued with more than anybody save amichail, who I also recognize.edw519, because duh.Probably some other people. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | edw519: One thing that came up was giving a positive bias to usernames you recognize for their previous insightful commentsInteresting question.I have a great deal of respect for many people here (too many to mention), but oddly, I don't think that has much influence on how I feel about new posts. Every thread is fres... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | swolchok: I completely ignore names other than pg, a personal friend or two, and names on my confirmation-biased list of obnoxious karma whores. I don't make a mental note of "X must be a smart character" when I upvote X's comments. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | pclark: Someone came up to me at a London startup event and said they recognized my name from hacker news. Made my night. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | gojomo: Perhaps if/when the hidden-scores experiment concludes, PG can try a hidden-usernames experiment. Namely:For each submission's threads, a user would be assigned a new temporary (but stable) handle. Only later -- a few days, or when the article has dropped out of the top ~60 -- would these revert to the permanen... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | ScottWhigham: pg and nickb are the only ones that I can remember that I recognize without taking a look at other posts. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | buckler: From the viewpoint of a HN lurker:-pg - Because he's PG-edw517, mechanical_fish - Due to frequent sighting of their comments-tokenadult - You'll always find him in threads that contain discussions about human intelligence/alternative education-potatolicious - U.S. immigration discussions + Canada vs. USA issue... |
Have you ever done shrooms? What have been your experiences? | nooloop: Your first time, you might want to have someone experienced with you that you trust. It won't make you a better programmer, but like many life experiences, it is an opportunity to grow and learn more about yourself. You still have to do all the work yourself in order to realize that opportunity. I've been in ... |
group project for HN or if anyone wants to run with it | earl: so -- the idea is to take some big list of drugs that a person requires and compute the lowest cost supplemental insurer?I have a couple questions.1 While the social utility of this is obvious, how do you support the (very likely) large amount of hand tuned scraping required to do this? I'm really curious if any... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | joe_the_user: Another thought:The way that racist comments and other trolls generally get a minus -4 is useful. Having an indication that the community in general abhors a particular unfortunate comment is very useful in this case (though over -4's have seemed completely mean and unjustified).I hope such comments still... |
What do you do on weekend? | Travis: Weekends are when I'm able to work on my startup. Compressed work schedule for paying job, 4 days x 10 hrs / day. 3 day weekends mean I can relax and put some solid hours in on my startup. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | jeromec: From the viewpoint of someone pretty new:pg, of coursemechanical_fish, unalone, patio11, jacquesm, edw519, riderofgiraffes (too memorable), abyssknight. I haven't read enough to easily recognize consistently insightful commenters yet. The names I currently have in memory are there probably due to frequency, in... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | tokenadult: This list is far from exhaustive:People who joined much earlier than I whose comments I think about away from the computer (my heuristic for "recognize") include mechanical_fish, robg, pg (of course), and DanielBMarkham. I read a lot more of the "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" posts t... |
Is there an app that does the opposite of a dictionary? | jacquesm: http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtmledit: a google search for 'reverse dictionary' turns up a whole bunch of them:http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+dictionary |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | rmason: One of best programmers I know is a Waterloo grad. He says looking back they prepared him very well. |
Is there an app that does the opposite of a dictionary? | ScottWhigham: A thesaurus does a certain amount of this already, doesn't it? |
Critique my idea for the future of music | pedalpete: First off, you shouldn't be discouraged just because the large company you work for didn't move forward with your idea.
Just because they haven't done it yet, maybe they need a reminder, or maybe there is a reason it didn't go further.Often a big company needs a stake holder and champion. Maybe they were ex... |
Orange dot? | jacquesm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846123 |
Orange dot? | seiji: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846343 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846123 |
Orange dot? | colbyolson: I see, thanks guys for the timely replies. |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | greatfog: You ask me what I think of the University of Waterloo? WATFOR? |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | jeffcoat: I've never worked with a Canadian programmer here in Austin who graduated from anywhere but Waterloo. |
Which usernames do you recognise? | chanux: Right now, only PG.But there were times I remember some people by name when certain discussions were going on.I can remember some usernames when I see. and mixmax I can remember you :) for some reason.PS: And If we had avatars on HN, things will be far different. But anyway HN is better this way IMHO. |
Orange dot? | chanux: Orange? Apparently PG sees it red :)http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846123 |
What do you think of the University of Waterloo? | bbest86: I went to Waterloo - not for CS but for Systems Design Engineering. I very much enjoyed my time there in Engineering and now have a great job doing primarily web development in Django for a company involved in Green Buildings.I agree with other posters that you learn a lot, potentially more, outside of classes... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | jamesbritt: There a a few I know from blogs and irc (raganwald, knowtheory, for example). More, I suspect, but I have to see them to recognize them :)Oddly, though, I don't think I'd recall a name because that person had made good points in previous posts. Not sure why that is.I read stuff, think, Oh, that's a good p... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | antirez: I remember a few usernames of famous people, people that I know in some way, directly or indirectly, 99% of usernames are new to me every time I read one. This means that basically I (and IMHO most of the HN guys) tend to vote comments mainly by comment quality. Still I believe that it is very hard to avoid to... |
Orange dot? | erlanger: Silliness. A community far too self-aware.By the way, suppressing these metrics is pointless. We are intelligent people who notice the difference between two comments with very similar upvotes and one that far outpaces the other and find these proportions to be of interest. The new portrayal of comment rankin... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | joez: edw, dcurtis, patio, pg, dhouston, sama, dfranke, rms, nickb, ryanwaggoner, tptacek, cperciva, jacquesm, pclark, jgrahamc, jasonlbaptiste, wheels.all of these people have at one point posted a comment that made me go hmm... that was thoughtful and well written. who is this person? prolific posters had a higher c... |
Critique my idea for the future of music | Tangurena: I wish you luck in implementing it. |
I need some hardware based startup ideas | cheriot: I've always wanted a cheap GPS device with a really long battery life and adapters to plug into anything (car, usb, wall). I want to drop it in my bags (especially when I travel), keep it with me when I run, and attach it to expensive things (hidden in my car). Then have a companion website that lets user's ac... |
Which usernames do you recognise? | tptacek: mechanical_fish(edw, patio, cperciva, mattmaroon, 100 others, but if you asked me for one name that typified the whole place, to free associate, I'd say mechanical_fish). |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | sammcd: http://rememberthemilk.com uses this to find out where I am, so it can show me tasks due at my current location. |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | prakash: maxmind, quova |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | eli: Several job boards use GeoIP to show jobs near you first |
Orange dot? | pg: I'm experimenting with not displaying comment scores. The orange dot is an alternate way to help users find high-scoring comments. More details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979 |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | tesseract: Google (try a search for e.g. 'pizza delivery'). However if you have the appropriate cookies set, I believe it will use a remembered location rather than your IP-derived location. I don't know whether to consider this a feature or a bug. |
Which domain registrar do you use? | hova: -1 for 1and1.
I registered domains with them, and due to their confusing control panel/cancel/transfer process I lost control of a few of my domains. go with some good ones like gandi/moniker, or if you're cheap, name.com/godaddy(if you can wade through their ads)/namecheap.
but DONT EVER TOUCH 1and1. |
Orange dot? | wvenable: I'm surprised nobody suggested adding a mouse over to the orange dots. The first thing I did was mouse-over to look for a tooltip to explain the dot and got nothing. |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | m_eiman: I haven't seen anyone do anything I've found really useful. Most are like this one, that tells you how long the sun is over the horizon based on where you are: http://mersol.se/ |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | lucumo: AdultFriendFinder. All their ads guess my location and try to convince me that there are lustful women in my neighbourhood who are desperately looking for someone like me. |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | raytheon: Try: http://ipinfodb.com/
They offer a free geolocation API and even their SQL DB is free. |
What's your keyboard of choice? | jsz0: The last few MS wireless keyboards/mice I've used seem to have ridiculously bad range even on full battery. The worst part was it's not consistent. You can be typing a sentence and go back and notice every 5 or 6th letter just isn't there or duplicated. The only way I could get it to work reliability was to have ... |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | bearwithclaws: Try http://ip2location.com/ . They've been around for quite sometime and IMHO it's more accurate than maxmind. |
Great Interview Answers? | sharpn: Assuming their answers are all honest & display competence, I've found that the quality of questions a candidate asks are a better long-term indicators of likely success. |
Orange dot? | akamaka: Hey admins, have you considered toning down the shade of orange a bit? It's pretty distracting right now, compared to the neutral colors of the rest of the page.I'd suggest using something closer to #ff9955 |
Orange dot? | tumult: In case pg or anyone else is still reading this thread, I just thought I'd throw out my opinion on the experiment:Today was the best day on HN in recent memory, and by a large margin. I've followed almost all the links on the front, and the signal-to-noise ratio in the comments seems to have increased by a full... |
What's your keyboard of choice? | gtani: Have you tried the Dynaflex and powerweb exercisers? Also the wrist curl barhttp://www.fitter1.com/Catalog/Category/35/HandWrist.aspxhttp://www.amazon.com/GoFit-GF-WFB-Wrist-Forearm-Blaster/dp/...---------------
giant bookmark dumphttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/com... |
Any cool sites that do IP GeoLocation? | stakent: Google. Serving AdWords ads to you.Well, actually its service ofered to their adveritsers. |
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