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Do you Rally want to "Change the World"? | BSousa: money here |
Do you Rally want to "Change the World"? | tokenadult: Do I really want to change the world? Yes, I would rather make some improvement in my community and ideally the whole world than make maximum personal income and leave the world just as it now is. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | ianbishop: Didn't everyone realize this six months ago? |
Do you Rally want to "Change the World"? | jacquesm: 'rally' ? :)That's a very tough question, to which I'm afraid there are no valid short answers, unless they're in the negative.Everybody that wants to change 'the world' has a different definition of 'world'. For some it means their personal environment, for some it means those below the poverty line. Almost ... |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | gertburger: M$ is not big on recursive acronyms so I doubt they really explored the possibilities.Or maybe they are just starting. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | pbhjpbhj: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bing+is+not+google&hl=e...Sounds like a working title that stuck.First hit of above search for me: Urban Dictionary: bing
10 Aug 2003 - BING. Best Information Not Google. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | DannoHung: If they did they didn't think very hard about it: Bing is not good. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | BigO: bing is not gnu? |
Why do you believe in climate change? | stonemetal: Historically the climate has always changed it hasn't shown any evidence of stopping. As far as it being a human driven event, we have made massive changes to the environment to say that we have caused zero impact would be incredibly foolish. On the other hand the current climate change models can't predi... |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | fogus: Bing Is Not Gaining. |
Anyone else from Philippines attending Startup School? | terpua: I'm available Oct 22 to Oct 29 and Nov 2 to meet up.EDIT: I'm available Oct 22 to Oct 29 and Nov 2 for meetups. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | redog: Bing is not good? |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | BillRossum: Hacker. News. Is. Sooo. Slow. It. Is. The. Slowest. Site. Ever. Yawn. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | eam: Bing is not kayak, eventhough it looks like it? |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | briansmith: They might enjoy the "Bing Is Not Google" backronym but obviously they were more interested in the sound effect in advertising (sounds better than that annoying "Ya-hooooooo" Yahoo! uses) and the possibility to use "bing" as a verb: "Bing it" vs. "Google it." (Xerox-ish trademark dilution isn't as big of an... |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | mark_l_watson: Bing is not so awful.Actually, I like Bing better than I thought I would; for one thing, the background pictures :-)Also Microsoft is very generous with providing free REST style search and spelling APIs (it took about 2 minutes to write a Ruby client, which I posted here http://markwatson.com/blog/2009/... |
Wrist Pain | quellhorst: Wrist pain is what caused me to switch to dvorak 5 years ago. It has been worth it. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | tomh: Bing is not [a] greedy algorithm? |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | c00p3r: a bingo! |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | systems: Bing Is Not Google |
Please review my app: Was it up? - dead simple monitoring | moomerman: Hey, we both seem to have the same values in simplicity as I've just launched an alpha of http://nimbu.net/ (dead simple website monitoring) - I like your easy signup process |
If C++ is so bad, what should game developers use? | mark_l_watson: I used C++ when I worked on game AI and a few Nintendo U64 games, also for some virtual reality stuff for Disney and SAIC. Right choice for the games, in retrospect probably not for VR.C++ is fine when you need high performance and can live with more expensive development. |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | zandorg: Bing is not gniB. |
Setting up an affiliate program? | ejs: You might want to checkout out services like commission junction (http://www.cj.com/) that focus on this sort of thing. Never used any of them from the seller side though. |
Setting up an affiliate program? | jacquesm: There are affiliate program code bases for sale, they're pretty dependent on your platform though so make sure you take a good look at what it takes to get them up and running before you order something.Third party is possible but not a requirement, though it does have the added benefit of having 'hands off' ... |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | barnaby: Ok, ha hah, everybody posts "Bing is Not Good", let's get some originality here:Bing is Not Gratifying.
Bing is Nothing Great.
Bing is Notoriously Godawful.
Bing is Nefarious Google.Or to be really rebellious one can find positive acronyms for Bing. :-p |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | bitwize: Bing is a Nockoff of Google. |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | icey: Did you make changes that you want people to review? That's probably OK.I personally dislike it when people resubmit without having changed anything, but that's just like... my opinion, man. |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | jacquesm: I figure as long as there are major changes and you respond to the things raised in the first one by fixing/changing them that actually is a really good thing to do, it shows that you take the feedback serious.If you do it could you maybe add a link to the original thread as well ? |
Finish the following sentence: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not | codef0rmer: GNU: GNU is not Unix. Bing: Bing is not Goddammit |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | petesalty: A situation I've run into occasionally is that I don't do it right the first time, either I don't ask the right questions first time (something you often don't know until you've asked them) or I ask the wrong audience. I did it here on HN a few weeks ago when I asked for criticism of our glunote app (shamele... |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | edw519: Absolutely, it's OK. 5 reasons why:1. Many people here how may have not seen it the first time. Get their feedback, too. (This is also why I've never minded re-posts in general.)2. Those who did see it the first time may want to see the latest version but need to be reminded. Refresh their memory. Also let... |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | pg: It's ok if it has changed a lot. |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | prabodh: If a site has undergone lot of changes based on the HN comments posted in the first time submission, it definitely makes sense to submit it second time...If the same old stuff is submitted for review again, we always have a choice not to upvote that |
is gmail slow for everyone or just me | jacquesm: Ups & downs, like that it's slow as molasses, like that it's lightning fast.I think it's very much to do with how many people are trying to access the site during peak hours. |
How did you find HN? | yan: Two(?) years ago I read about Y Combinator since I knew about pg from his essays. Browsing yc's site, I came across news. After a few months of lurking, I registered. |
is gmail slow for everyone or just me | kamme: Here (Belgium, Europe) it's also unbearable slow most of the time. It even made me use imap to fetch mail. That seems to be unaffected by the slowness, so I guess they are only having issues with the front-end. That or they are re-factoring/changing the way it works.I'm having the problem for a couple of weeks n... |
How did you find HN? | ErrantX: A friend linked me to their "rate my startup" submission. |
How did you find HN? | noodle: i stumbled across YC (2-3) years ago while looking at some of their companies (while casually looking at jobs), and stumbled across HN in the process. |
How did you find HN? | tjr: Had been reading pg's essays since around 2002, and saw the link to Hacker News (or Startup News at the time) not long after he added it to his website. |
How did you find HN? | jacquesm: I've been reading HN for quite long, mostly parallel to /., then one day I figured /. is no longer for me (I think it may have been one too many instances of browsing at -1 during breakfast or so), so I registered here, a little less than a year ago.I visit /. very rarely now, the best stuff from there makes ... |
How did you find HN? | Mankhool: From Techcrunch, which I found while searching for info on iPhone apps. |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | kirubakaran: Can you use our tool http://EventGel.com/ to coordinate this and tell us what you think? This is our new startup. Since we are aiming to be useful to exactly the thing that you are planning, it will be great if you can tell us how practical our tool is and how we can make it work better for you. [our earli... |
How did you find HN? | stefano: Googled lisp -> pg's essays -> arc forum -> HN. |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | blasdel: I'm making a vacation out of it: Wednesday through Monday, staying with friends in Berkley and Oakland. Planning on renting a bike, riding up into Marin, and tooling around on the old fire roads.There's already a pre-event party on Friday night. |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | jeffy: I'm in, though I'll be staying in palo alto. |
Wrist Pain | govandia: I had extremely bad arm and wrist pain back in the late 1990s. I started using a touchpad with my toe because a mouse was too painful. I even dabbled with voice recognition software for programming (pretty inefficient, as you might imagine).What finally cured me was a physical therapy book called "Pain Free: ... |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | BenSchaechter: I'm flying out Sunday, but if anyone wants to meet up Friday night I'd be down. I'm staying in Sunnyvale, but plan on being in San Francisco for most of the day Friday. |
Online privacy / "reverse SEO" | th0ma5: I have had success with getting some sites to remove key things that I didn't like. However, most successfully I have managed to make my own sites be the first results for my name, or at least higher than everything else. I have also had success with being more active with my full name in places that have highe... |
How did you find HN? | christiancoomer: My boss told me about it when we were having a conversation about favorite blogs/daily reading. |
Are you looking to join a saas startup? | ryduh: www.yammer.com |
Are you looking to join a saas startup? | chriss: Good ideas, although I think a number of them are already being executed by Present.ly and Yammer:http://presentlyapp.com/https://www.yammer.com/ |
Online privacy / "reverse SEO" | khafra: Perhaps this is a business opportunity--Reverse SEO. |
What is the right way to ask for feedback twice? | bdmac97: The right way is to use my site, http://www.launchly.com.I created launchly for this specific reason as a result of not being able to get good "additional rounds" of feedback here on HackerNews. |
Please Re-Review My Webapp | boundlessdreamz: Clickable linkshttp://www.celebsutra.comhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803The image browser can become popular is my hunch.http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | nico: I'm coming from Chile and I'll be staying in the Bay Area (not sure where yet) until the 30th. I'd be happy to meet anybody who's up for coffee or beer (probably SF would be the best place to meet).I look forward to seeing you all at startup school. Cheers! |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | eventhough: I went to Cal. I recommend Jupiter which is a local brewery pizza restaurant in Berkeley that serves great hefs. It was one of my fave places to go.http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=jupiter%27s&ns=1... |
How did you find HN? | showerst: I found HN via a link on reddit, probably somewhere in the programming subreddit. |
Best place to buy domains? | mahmud: Namecheap doesn't suck as much as the others I have tried. I like it. |
Please Re-Review My Webapp | delano: Interesting.It would be more useful for me if it displayed only a subset of messages from any one account. Some accounts are very active (e.g. Martha Stewart: http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate ). I'd like to be able to get a sense of what's happening from a single page.What is your tar... |
How did you find HN? | japanesejay: Through a friend. and now im addicted!! |
Please Re-Review My Webapp | joez: Can you have a view that shows the last tweet of each celebrity you want to see? This might be a good alternative to getting spammed by one prolific celebrity (or one who is paying someone to twitter for them). This might go against the real time grain though... maybe use AJAX and sort the a celebrity who just tw... |
What do you think of my new iPhone/iPod touch game? | Readmore: It's an cool concept but I'm afraid I don't understand how it works. |
Virtual PBX for startup? | dawie: I use kall8(http://www.kall8.com/index.php), because they are cheap. $2 setup fee and $2 per month plus $0.06 per minute.37 Signals is using grashopper (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1973-announcing-ceo-office-ho...) |
What do you think of my new iPhone/iPod touch game? | joez: Really hard to understand.You need some kind of natural progression in the demo so people can understand it more. Maybe start with only a few shapes. This could go for the game as well.This game is not as easy to understand as like bejeweled or Tetris but I can see where you are coming from. The real thrill in th... |
Virtual PBX for startup? | Shooter: Toktumi.com is another service. I had much better luck with them than Grasshopper, FWIW. We eventually moved on to our own platform (based on Asterisk initially, then FreeSwitch) for more flexibility and control. RingCentral should be avoided.[We also frequently hire FreeSwitch and Asterisk consultants, if... |
Are you looking to join a saas startup? | neodude: Iridesco, the company behind Harvest (a time-tracking app), also made something similar, called Coop - http://coopapp.com |
How did you find HN? | Mz: My oldest son was talking about some interesting articles. I asked him to send me the links to a couple of things. They were articles written by PG. I read his stuff for many weeks, aware from comments he made that HN existed but I had no reason to think it was my cup of tea. Somewhere along the way I decided I ... |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | rms: I'm getting to SJC at 1PM on Friday and leaving at 6AM Sunday morning, but I'll see you guys Friday night and Saturday.Let me know if you want to get a late lunch Friday afternoon. |
Review my startup (vivapixel.com) part 2 | dhpmx: Here's a clickable link http://www.vivapixel.com |
Online privacy / "reverse SEO" | ApolloRising: If she has a middle name use that on the job applications if her last name is not as unique as her first.Go crazy and add yourself to every social networking profile you can get as one of the links above have said.Call the editors and request the article be removed, if it is old news and nothing really va... |
Virtual PBX for startup? | oomkiller: I setup my own PBX with Freeswitch, and we use Flowroute for Origination and Termination. Works great and I just host it on a small Rackspace cloud instance for $10 a month. |
Virtual PBX for startup? | vomjom: I've used Kall8 and RingCentral. While I'd generally recommend RingCentral (especially if you use a lot of minutes), it depends on your requirements.Kall8's advantages over RingCentral:- Recorded calls- Can get the name of the caller through caller ID (RingCentral only offers the phone number)RingCentral's adv... |
Startup School Meetup, SF, Sunday 25th 6pm | carpdiem: So, what are people thinking about this? I'd love to do it, though a little earlier in the day would be better for me. Maybe 2pm, and then it can stretch as long as people want to hang out for? |
Do you use project management software, which one? | az: I use 5pmweb.com - they give you 14 day free trial |
Setting up an affiliate program? | michael_c: Sounds like you want an affiliate network rather than setting it up inhouse. These networks handle all the tracking, invoicing, etc and just send you a bill (well usually they ask for a deposit up front).CJ mentioned above is the biggest but they tend to have restrictions like minimum traffic, sales, etc. De... |
Please Re-Review My Webapp | mailarchis: 1. I guess you might wanna test with putting fewer pics on home page but of higher resolution if possible. It can be two rows with a simple right/left arrows that pull in more pics without requiring the page to refresh.2. For login you can use Twitter's OAuth |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | chaosmachine: This is an idea I've been working on for the last month or so. I wanted to make a fun and addictive site with a low barrier to participation. After iterating through a few prototypes with friends, I opened the site to the public last week.Some data so far: The average visitor generates over 50 page views,... |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | oneplusone: This webpage has a redirect loop.The webpage at http://filmvsfilm.com/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | davidw: Nice, but to keep me interested for longer, I think it would have to have a bit more to it. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | matthias: Good name! We could never come up with a descriptive title for this at
http://www.greatmovieexperiment.com/
The name seems so obvious now. Our goal was to create a list of the top films by showing all the pairings of films randomly. I presume a "top fights" page on yours will be forthcoming? |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | NEPatriot: Got me hooked.
I just kept clicking until I realized... hey what are you doing? Stop clicking!
So that part is done.But then what happens? |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | fara: yet another kitten war? http://kittenwar.com/ |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | paraschopra: Thanks for not calling it startup. No offence to anyone, but I genuinely like it when people call their projects as projects. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | haydenchambers: there were some films too close to call but I wanted to see the result.. eg "lost in translation" vs "adaptation"also would be good to have a filter eg "only show most controversial" or "only show scifi" |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | JoeAltmaier: More details from the movies - tag lines, famous scenes, remind me of the movie - the box isn't enough. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | alexandros: why don't you structure the whole thing like a league? films that 'win' a match, get paired to each other and so on until you find the 'greatest film', Granted, many will disagree, but it should make the project a bit more substantial and may make people come back. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | quizbiz: I found myself voting for movies I wasn't familiar with. The link to skip isn't strong enough. |
Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? | jacquesm: You're not going to convince anybody that evolution is real on the basis of evidence, no matter how much or little, if they've made up their mind they will just dig in further and see your attempt as a personal attack.And don't forget that for plenty of people DNA is just as much a mystery as god (or even ele... |
Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? | yan: No amount of evidence will convince people. The vast majority are married to what they believe is their origin and trying to convince them otherwise, in my opinion, is a fool's errand. Majority of these conversations aren't based on not having enough facts, or having too many facts.Also, you should frequent HN's I... |
Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? | tokenadult: That's an empirical question. The best book I have found on the DNA evidence for evolution written for a popular audience is Sean Carroll's The Making of the Fittesthttp://books.google.com/books?id=tyRWHQAACAAJ&dq=Sean+B+...Perhaps one could compare changes in opinion after reading Dawkins's book with chang... |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | ivenkys: Addictive, very low barrier to entry - but where's the stickiness ? Why would i go back and more importantly what is there to make me remember my fights of which film won or lost ? |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | alex_c: I've set up a similar voting site with moderate success (about 3.5 million page views in a bit over a year):http://www.bestsporecreature.com/creaturesA couple of points:- The biggest hurdle is that you need to have watched both movies to really decide between them - with a simple image voting site, the judgemen... |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | vorador: There's something I don't understand : why is everything based on opposition ? I mean, why not create a connection website ? What connects "breathless" ("à bout de souffle") to "la scala" ? |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | bemmu: I agree with others that there should be some kind of scoring. It's surprising how addicted people get to trying to improve their score, especially if there is some leaderboard present. Just give people points for the activities you hope they will do.You could give points for correct guesses (maybe with time lim... |
Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? | blahedo: Keep in mind that to someone totally untrained in science, "a scientist says" is not that different from "a priest says" in terms of asking them to take something on faith. As level of scientific training increases, this changes somewhat, as we begin to understand that "a scientist says" carries a certain imp... |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | petesalty: Sorry, this isn't really good feedback, but I think others have covered most of the points. I loved some of the match ups, like the one between The Professional and The Littlest Mermaid. I couldn't decide. |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | jeroen: Have you considered moving the "Pick one!" column to the middle? It might be more obvious there.Why is the about-page styled differently from the rest of the site? It also has a stray </a>.More (minor) html errors: http://vldtr.com/?key=filmvsfilm.com |
Please review my new project, Film vs Film | ANH: I can dig it. The functionality is right there as soon as you arrive. Fun to compare movies I'm familiar with, but also kinda cool to see juxtapositions of movies I have seen with ones I haven't.Suggestions? I dunno, maybe a big fat arrow to skip to the next pair instead of the text "skip it". For some reason it t... |
What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | imtotallygay: It's totally gay! |
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