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What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | thegoleffect: I like it but I would much rather have a wireless keyboard with multitouch surfaces on each key so you can use the keyboard as a trackpad. |
Would presenting less evidence for evolution convince more people? | DanielStraight: I don't think anti-creationism evangelists are fighting the right battle. blahedo basically nailed it in this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892757I would say it like this: creation is a non-scientific issue. It is not, absolutely NOT anti-scientific. Science is to creation as anthropology is... |
What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | yan: I have been using the multi-touch gestures on my macbook for years and believe that they are a usability improvement. I am excited to see them implemented on a mouse, but what I'm even more excited is a surface that's extremely easy to clean and has no moving parts. The Mighty Mouse's ball got gunky really quick a... |
Inspire me, Boston | hotshothenry: Boston is an amazing city. Have lived here for most of my life (after moving here from Armenia when I was 7) I can honestly say it's my favorite city in the US, and I've been to Miami, NYC, LA. It's very similar to a European city as you're going to get in the states, people are nice, the city feels hom... |
Inspire me, Boston | bemmu: When are you going? I'm from Finland and going to Boston for the first time next month. |
What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | dan_sim: I'm a ubuntu user and I feel like sometimes Windows and Linux are caught in a battle while Apple makes its own way. I used this multi-touch gesture a couple of times on someone else computer and it just feels right. How many years will it take before this kind of technology is available on Ubuntu or Win? |
What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | vlod: Looks cool and will try it at my local apple store.I'm glad it doesn't have a ball like the previous mighty mouse, which kept getting clogged up.
The only thing that would unclog that sucker was some 'decent' vodka on a cloth from my stores. no joke. :) |
What is your RSS reader? | noodle: google reader. when things pile up from me being gone for a bit, i tend to just take the huge content pushers and mark them all as read. makes things much easier. |
What do you think of the Magic Mouse? | cpr: The real question is whether it supports more than 2 finger touches at a time. If it secretly supports 3 or more, could be a submarine killer product... |
What is your RSS reader? | Gmo: I use gregarius, hosted on my own domain |
What industry needs technical innovation? | yan: All of them.Under that light, the world is full of opportunities. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | byoung2: Education |
What is your RSS reader? | hellotoby: Perhaps something like http://feedafever.com/ is what you are looking for. From the site:While It’s Hot Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditional aggregators, Fever works better the more feeds you follow. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | simon_: How about law? Obviously there are non-technical problems there as well, but it seems like there is still a lot that could be done technologically to improve transparency and (maybe more interestingly) reduce expense. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | SamAtt: As someone who works as an IT person in the Mental Health industry I'd nominate that industry. Mental Health has all the problems of regular health care times 10.To give the most basic example, there is no formalized charting system in the Mental Health Industry. You have standardized notes that are turned in... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | studiotentpole: Digital Advertising |
What is your RSS reader? | unalone: I taught myself to stop worrying about the news and gave up RSS entirely. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | mediaman: Agriculture. I'm studying an agricultural products distributor, and as much as automation has helped reduce the reliance on labor in the agricultural sector, there are still many areas hugely reliant on inefficient labor -- and many business owners are facing increasing financial difficulty because of a resis... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | detcader: Environmental improvement (not necessarily environmentally-friendly, just human environment)ie http://www.project10tothe100.com/ideas.html "Create real-world issue reporting system"Google's Project 10 to the 100 has a lot of good ideas related to technological innovation. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | pg: Presumably the fields that need innovation most are those that have some artificial constraint suppressing it. E.g. the music business, because anything good is ipso facto sued out of existence. Or the nuclear power industry, because the level of regulation becomes a barrier to entry to all but companies so burea... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | jacquesm: Software development. And no, that's not a joke. We really are roughly where we were in the 70's, we have not been able to make good use of the increase in machine power.It would be nice to see something really fresh. I'm holding out for 'fleet', or something like it. A radical departure from what we think is... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | baran: Healthcare, plan and simple. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | adityakothadiya: Immigration processing is one, atleast in US.I've still not understood why it takes 4-5 years to USCIS office to grant or deny residency of an applicant. How can that process be so slow? All papers and evidences are submitted on day one. Then why it takes 4-5 years to process back-log applications and ... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | skmurphy: Healthcare, construction, K12 education are three tidepools that a lot of IT innovation has left behind over the last 30 years. None of them need invention, they need to import and adapt working innovations from other fields. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | personacode: Automobile - currently we are under the model slow and steady wins the race and kills the environment. Traffic sucks, gas sucks, texting kills people. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | olefoo: Housing & Home ConstructionMost house construction in the industrialised world is still done by semi-skilled hand labour. There are few radical advances in materials or methods that have gained traction with the industry. Partly this is because the building industry is held back by antiquated construction codes... |
Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated. | patternexon: http://mcsquare.me/ |
What does a major in CS entail? | joeycfan: you dig deep into small areas of math. Take electrical engineering instead. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | zoba: Electricity, the power grid... Right now I'm pretty sure power companies can't tell you if the power is on at your house or not...The system is pretty old. |
Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated. | hyyypr: Hi,
I don't really get what your site is about. It just get news/content from other websites and displays them?
I like the design though :). |
What does a major in CS entail? | jhancock: You really should study the curriculum for a particular school. Last I looked, CS programs vary widely. Find a school you like and can afford and see if the program looks like it suits you. Also, there is whole lot more to college than just your degree program.If you post several potential schools here, yo... |
Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated. | bemmu: Instead of "last buzz" you probably want to say "latest buzz". Also the (no comments) on the right of everything bugs me, better to show nothing? Or show it if moused over only. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | alanthonyc: Business AccountingThe current quarterly system of reporting finances was (I believe) developed as a result of the Great Depression, to help inform the public of company status.The recent banking meltdown shows how inadequate this system is.Something more realtime is needed. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | danek: reminds me of an article my friend wrote:
http://kcomposite.blogspot.com/2009/06/uniquely-american.htm...(short answer = taxes and banking) |
What does a major in CS entail? | known: In the current economic scenario, I'd recommend CS + MBA |
What industry needs technical innovation? | michaelkeenan: Government. It has a high barrier to entry (win an election/revolution) and a high consumer switching cost (move far away, get a new job, learn a new language). If the governing industry were more competitive, I think its quality of service would be better.The Peter Thiel-funded Seasteading Institute is ... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | gry: It seems to me the largest industries -- the ones bound by regulation or the way it's always been done are the ones most ripe for change.News, real estate, health care, automotive and agriculture come to mind. We're seeing some of these change because of technology. Hopefully, the ones that survive will be stronge... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | s3graham: Real estate is one that really chaps my ass.I don't know what it's like in other countries, but in Canada there's this bizarre mafia of middlemen that take ~6-10% of the value of house when you sell. They self-promote and self-reinforce to maintain an information advantage, but they don't seem to offer a serv... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | dpcan: The Home.It should be "standard" to have a single web interface for control over everything in my house.1) Real-Time monitoring of water, electric and gas consumption.2) Entertainment. I should be able to login to a website and click "TV's". Then I can see if they are on, what channel is being watched, what is... |
What is your RSS reader? | nfnaaron: HN is my RSS reader.I don't have time to check all the feeds that have potentially interesting (for me) content, and then browse each feed for actually interesting articles.There is no way I can discover any significant portion of new interesting feeds, and following a large number of feeds in a reader would ... |
What does a major in CS entail? | sweis: The curriculum will vary by university. I remember taking these classes for an undergrad CS degree:- Structure and interpretation of computer programs- Data structures- Machine structures- Digital circuit design- Operating systems- Programming languages and compilers- Algorithms- Randomized algorithms- Parallel ... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | vgurgov: Energy. All kind of. More efficient using of existing sources and new sources.
Think of it this way: How much worth ALL IT industry- all bright stars- Google, apple, MS, ibm? Something around $1T, right? Now Petrochina alone(!) is around 800B and its just about producing and selling gas in China!So if you woul... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | cschep: For some reason Gmail came immediately to mind. I know it doesn't seem flashy or amazing these days, but I think it was the first one that really convinced me that web apps were here to stay. I have no idea what they used though, tons of javascript I assume. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | samlittlewood: http://280slides.com/ - CappucinoNot sure I would necessarily use Cappucino myself, but to me, it demonstrated that treating javascript+DOM as a target for a higher level interface can work, and can work well.I guess Outlook Web Access should get an honourable mention - I guess that was the first widely ... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | Derferman: http://www.getballpark.com |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | kierank: Kohive: https://www.kohive.com/ |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | hiroaki: http://dabbledb.com/demo/ wowed me when I first saw it (still does). It was developed using the Seaside framework which has clean support for continuations. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | quentinZ: Filespots: http://www.filespots.com/en/index.html - ExtJSBeatiful display of a pure JavaScript application, that not only looks great, but also works great. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | mping: Google Calendar. I tried to do a google calendar clone in GWT, and I came to admire many features of google calendar, like dynamically selecting a range on the mini calendar and gcal will update the main view.Its so simple and intuitive yet so sophisticated :) |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | eli_s: I've been using ExtJS for a couple of years now. It's a great gui framework and it looks really good too. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | alexsolo: Google Maps. The first time I saw the scrollable tiles, I was blown away. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | ivenkys: Google Maps, very very good.
Honourable mention , Apps from 37Signals. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | kniwor: I am surprised no one's mentioned http://www.thesixtyone.com/ yet... |
Would you like to be able to search HN? | Concours: that'll be great. I'm using the google search "query" site:http://news.ycombinator.com/ method (very impresssive) for now, but a search option will be welcome. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | jmtame: grooveshark.com - beautiful ui, good experience minus the delays in screen transitions. but really smooth and clean ui |
Would you like to be able to search HN? | jacquesm: http://searchyc.com/http://www.webmynd.com/html/hackernews.htmlMaybe that should added to the FAQ ? |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | mhansen: Facebook. The whole experience is so tight.And the chat program/shortcut bar at the bottom is very impressive, and must have been so hard to get right cross-browser. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | cousin_it: I'll stick my neck out and say Facebook has an awesome UI. (No idea what was used to make it.) When I first joined Facebook some weeks ago, I was floored by how many features there are and how every single one is usability-optimized for me the newcomer, catching my eye exactly when I need it. The attention t... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | tcarnell: I really like the simplicity and 'cue card' approach of Femtoo.com, it also tackles tricky concepts for non-techy users in a non-assuming way.http://www.femtoo.com |
Would you like to be able to search HN? | RiderOfGiraffes: http://searchyc.com/coding+horror+solid?sort=by_dateThe only problem was that "SSD" was not in the same comment as "Coding Horror" anywhere.Alternatively, there is a fairly well-known search engine already out there:http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=coding+horror+ssd+site:news... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | danrfhughes: What do people think about www.drsusers.nhs.uk/clininppattern.aspx ? It's used to design compliant work patterns for uk doctors. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | recurser: I was really impressed with fluxiom.com (media management app, from the scriptaculous guy I seem to recall) when I first saw it, although I haven't looked at it for a year or two. Beautiful design and lots of attention to detail. The flickr organizer is pretty incredible too. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | koenbok: We think we did pretty well on EnStore (www.enstore.com). We built it using Cappuccino, you can check it out here: http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2009/10/06/cappuccino-in-check... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | poptarts: http://www.mint.com/ |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | allbutlost: Campaign Monitor has an excellent UI, giving short client training sessions as a result. Built in .NET with jQuery |
Would you like to be able to search HN? | percept: I wish there were some way to find new comments (is there?), because it takes a lot of re-reading to find them in the 100+ comment threads.Sorting would get us partway there (but not completely because the comments are nested). |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | anguslong: http://otherinbox.com -- she's nice. UI is Sproutcore, I believe. |
Would you like to be able to search HN? | chanux: I was thinking of a search box in HN itself. But I settled with the key word book mark for http://searchyc.com/%s in firefox. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | 3pt14159: My housemate made http://www.guestlistapp.com - fairly awesomesuace jquery ui. Snappy fast too. |
Any feedback for National University of Singapore's M.Comp. Programme? | shadow: I know some seniors who did this program. From their feedbacks, they seemed to find it enriching and practical. |
What industry needs technical innovation? | Chirag: Agriculture. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | alexkearns: I can't really say whether the ui is good, because I created it, but here you are anywayhttp://gambolio.com/#/library/The ui and animations were done entirely using Javascript (with help from jQuery), HTML and CSS. The actual games are flash but the ui is all done using standard web technology. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | fuelfive: http://almost.at is great |
Effective use of Twitter? | kakooljay: 8 great uses: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9118441/8_ways_Twitte... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | portis: Gmail. |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | dpcan: I don't think it matters what it was made in. You can use ANY language, tool, JS, whatever, as long as you are a talented UI designer. I think people tend to think that they can make these great UI's faster and easier by using certain tools, but I don't believe that is the case. YUI may make it faster to crea... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | rabidsnail: wikispaces (uses jquery) |
Review my weekend project GitTwitIt | jmathai: I wanted to familiarize myself with a nosql database. So I decided to use mongohq which is a hosted mongodb.This site lets you send Twitter updates when you push to GitHub. GitHub provides similar functionality but it's pretty lame since you have to hand over your creds. OAuth ftw! |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | sacha: I like FireRift:http://www.firerift.com/Great looking CMS with ajax (oooh! ajax!!) everywhere |
Review my website project ClickForTheWin.com | samh: Hi,I have put together a site that allows people to submit, check out and vote on match ups.There is a scenario presented and two options, users can vote on their preferred option and leave comments justifying why their choice is best.It can be used for pure fun / escapism eg. "You get a supercar for the weekend... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | arfrank: While in college I started and still run a summer storage company for college students. The problems associated with it were primarily customer service and logistic based for dealing with people stuff. I can't imagine it was much different from generally having to do customer service for a tech company, just ... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | nate: This dude seems cool http://doejo.com/. I saw his design work and was impressed. He has an address listed on this website and I looked it up and it turns out to be this coffee shop near me. I chalked it up that he must work out of that coffee shop a lot.A few months later, I just realized the guy OWNS that cof... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | annoyed: i've been toying around with the same idea for a while, but the things i've thought about seem to be capital and time intensive. i recently read an article that compares opening your own restaurant to throwing your money away. i guess it depends on location and product/service. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | JMiao: comic book studio in middle school. i had a high school friend who was an amazing penciler/inker, so we teamed up and pretty much blew our friends away. we stopped after he went to college in oregon and i repressed my creativity to make room for practical stuff like AP classes, standardized exams, etc. i alwa... |
Review my weekend project GitTwitIt | MrMatt: I think I'm missing something here - doesn't GitHub already support Twitter under their service hooks? |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | dtap: I started a company looking to do some small scale manufacturing. In a non-web space, it really depends on IP, either currently had or to be developed. Also, any product that is larger than a hand-held widget is going to cost into the hundred thousands to produce (molds, jigs, etc.). There is no open-source manuf... |
Review my weekend project GitTwitIt | diN0bot: i really just want our dev email list to receive a post whenever someone pushes... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | rishi: I tried to start this: http://www.HapTap.com in college an emoticon keyboard. What do you guys think? |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | drhowarddrfine: I own several well known franchised fast food restaurants for 25 years. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | radu_floricica: A local courier company in Bucharest. Mainly fast deliveries on scooters. After about one year it paid its bills, but I didn't get along with my partner and got out. Since then he turned it into a sub-contractor for a larger courier company, and swapped the scooters for vans - more profit, but a whole l... |
Review my weekend project GitTwitIt | joshfinnie: I didn't get past the first page (since I can't sign into Twitter @ work), but I have to agree that some explanation of what the service is first would be a huge help for conversion. Also, as a pet-peeve of mine, if you are going to link to CSS and XHTML validation, make sure your website validates (in thi... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | zefhous: I'm part of a company that my brother started. We oversee the production of fair trade products in Zambia and sell them (mostly) in the US. Right now we have an organic beeswax lip balm, and also soap. Other products are in the works as well. http://zambeezi.com/
http://zambiansoap.com/We're doing pretty well,... |
Ideas for small apps | joeld42: I posted an idea in this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848766quoting myself:
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Hey, this isn't my idea but I wish someone would do it. Only useful to programmers or web developers, but hey..A little tray-app (or something) that works like this: - You select text representing a color in a text e... |
Review my weekend project GitTwitIt | MicahWedemeyer: I'd never use it, but kudos for playing with a NoSQL database and making something neat. No better way to learn than by playing like this. |
Are you getting the flu shot? | tokenadult: I had the actual flu once, at an inopportune time in my higher education studies, and that convinced me that I want to get the vaccine from now on. I have a family member who has previously suffered severe pneumonia, and in recent years had another family member (now deceased) who was paralyzed, so I have t... |
Are you getting the flu shot? | Travis: There is no reason to not get the shot. I work in public health, with a lot of really smart folks who are both educated and well meaning. Don't trust me -- there is no science of a convincing magnitude that says flu shots are bad. The only ones out there say things like "there might be an association between... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | herval: I have a couple of faves:- MindMeister (brilliant and almost entirely JS+html - not sure which framework though)- SlideRocket (Flex - almost like using KeyNote on the web) |
Are you getting the flu shot? | Shooter: My wife works at a hospital and is required to get both the seasonal shot and the H1N1 shot in order to keep her job. She is also pregnant. Because of her pregnancy, they are giving her a different version of the shot that doesn't contain mercury. I'm not sure why the 'regular' shots have mercury in them. ... |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | matthodan: I started a cafe while I was in college, which is still in operation today (4 years later). I no longer own or manage the business, but it's exciting to grab a brew there when I visit my old campus.Looking back, that cafe gave me a huge insight into leading a creative team-- we had 7 very active employees--... |
What's the best webapp UI you've seen and what was used to make it? | Travis: Seems like most comments here talk about the "intuitive" aspects of the design. Which I agree with -- an app should ideally be intuitive.That said, being intuitive really only is an issue during the user's learning curve. As every vi/emacs user knows, sometimes you can be way more productive once you adapt to... |
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