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Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | loganfrederick: A friend of mine from high school (we're both at different colleges now) and I have put on a few local theater plays. If you keep your costs low enough and can find actors for free, you can make some decent money (couple grand). |
Ideas for small apps | keefe: For the quiz builder, I think brainbench is commonly used for this - creating good exams is a difficult problem.I personally think contributions to existing open source is the best idea for small projects. imho most apps that are started from scratch require a while to get really useful. |
Are you getting the flu shot? | gcheong: Might be good to turn this into a voting poll? I plan to get both flu shots this year. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | sachinag: I do freelance tutoring on the side. Eventually, I'll put up a website and write some materials for sale. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | hop: Put my design engineering company on part time 6 months ago to start a new company selling a new type of eco-friendly lawn seed.http://www.earthturfco.comStays green and low growing without fertilizer or chemicals.Built and sold coat racks when I was a kid. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | keizo: I am part of a company that manufactures canoes for competitive racing. It's been two years and we are doing well enough to live off the business. The most positive aspect is that we have 7 months of backorders. Our biggest problem is trying to expand without funding or loans. Another major hurdle is increas... |
Can I rent your garage? | onewland: I know useless comments are frowned upon, but this title/post really gave me a strong chuckle. |
How will social media change TV? | unalone: We already have the first two, there won't ever be TV popup ads, and if by social media you mean Hulu then we already have that. I fail to see what you're saying. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | tedshroyer: I have a farm with my grandmother. We grow blueberries and figs. It's very interesting to make decisions that take years to see how they pan out. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | dkokelley: A friend and I are starting a retail sales consulting company. We're planning on developing training tools for managers to use with their sales staff. It's in its infancy still (started the 1st of the month), so no results yet. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | jseliger: I haven't _started_ a non-tech related business, but my parents started their own consulting company, which you can read more about through our blog: http://blog.seliger.com . The outcome was good, since we've been in business for 16 years.What in particular do you want to know, aside from the outcome? |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | chaosprophet: It wasn't exactly a business, but a couple of friends and I used to buy suburban railway tickets from the automatic vending machine. The machine required a smartcard whose minimum denomination was 10x the maximum ticket price, so people would rather wait in long ques to get the ticket from the clerk rathe... |
Are you getting the flu shot? | Avenger42: I plan to get both, assuming the H1N1 vaccine will be available here. |
Can I rent your garage? | bockris: If noise keeps you out of office space I would imagine that the neighbors near your proposed garage would be similarly affected. |
Has anyone started a non tech related business before? | eserorg: I started an Oil and Natural Gas E&P (exploration and production) company when I was 25.And no, I didn't have an "in" to the hydrocarbons business (a lot of people ask). My background is Stanford CS. |
Amazon S3 vs Rackspace Cloud? | joeythibault: Rackspace cloud has great customer service (they did as Mosso too). We pay about 150 a month for our hosting (4 servers, 2 paid by clients). We're small time, sure, but upgrading/resizing is super easy and we've never experienced any downtime (knock on wood) of any of our servers.Our dev server is runni... |
Amazon S3 vs Rackspace Cloud? | p01nd3xt3r: If you need the support I would go with rackspace. If you dont need help AWS is better IMHO. |
Amazon S3 vs Rackspace Cloud? | byoung2: Rackspace is tough to beat for customer service. Reliability is on par with Amazon in my experience. Are you just interested in cloud storage (S3 vs Cloud Files)? I went with Rackspace for Cloud Files because of the one-click Limelight CDN feature. Amazon S3 + CloudFront was more complicated to implement. |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | joez: My first thought was... boy, I hope their slogan is "Hidden App Crouching Tiger"I'm wondering what sets this site apart from the other app review sites?I think a lack in the market is a site that lists on sale applications. A lot of applications do one day or weekend sales. I hate it when my friends say, "Oh, did... |
Amazon S3 vs Rackspace Cloud? | vidli: Rackspace is great for customer service. However, feels like we've paid them way too much over the years...Amazon S3 rocks! We've moved everything over to them - except a billion emails still sitting with Rackspace... |
Can I rent your garage? | seasoup: Checkout NIMBY in Oakland. Not sure if there are places in Menlo Park or nearby that are similar or not. |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | jasonlbaptiste: I think the lists feature is awesome. I have a certain fixation with using Lists to structure things by purpose. ie- Apps that help with gardening or in a different sense: Places to go in Miami for Steak, Where To Buy HDTVs Online. Lists define purpose and I think there's something to be had with tha... |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | benofsky: Looks good but I think you need to work on improving the design of the page body (the header looks very nice & very professional) it brings to mind those dodgy download sites you sometimes come across on Google, I think it's the small, close together sans-serif font.Also the twitter + contact details look a l... |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | prabodh: Nice Work...But as a end user i could find iPhone apps very easily in Apple AppStore...rather i find it very tough to search for mobile apps in other platforms..any plans to integrate that into your site..And from your mission stmt, i feel you do wanna do that |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | Mark_B: Could be just me, but some of the data looks a bit...wonky.For example: on the front page now is a listing for "Download Meter"51 minutes ago, the price dropped from $2.99 to $1.99.Then, 50 minutes ago, the price increased back to $2.99.Is this right? |
Are you getting the flu shot? | daphoenix: hell no. |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | joeld42: I'd sign up if there was a way to make a list of apps I want but think are too expensive, and then have it email me if there is a sale on any of those. Can it do this?I can't see myself checking the page everyday, i might as well check the app store. |
Where did you learn about security/attacks? | mbrubeck: Ross Anderson's Security Engineering is an excellent introductory book. Highly readable, and broad but not very deep. The first edition is free online (and is still a perfectly resource; the second edition has a few added chapters):http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html |
Where did you learn about security/attacks? | yan: Pentesting/security analysis has been my hobby in high school/early college and I ended up getting BS and MS degrees in CS, with concentration in security. It's also my day job.It's unclear what exactly you want to concentrate on. Do you want to learn about encryption algorithm details and want to understand the d... |
early project and new direct competitor | brk: IMO, if 2 or 3 options in a particular space/niche is "too crowded", then you're looking at the wrong business in the first place. |
User friendly book writing software | mbrubeck: Have you tried the free trial of Pages from Apple?http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/It's a combination word processor and page layout program. Not sure if it does everything you need, but it's probably worth a try. |
early project and new direct competitor | karthikm: I found go4it fb app to be the best facebook application with all features I was looking for (and some more) and it was a lot better than 43things. I'd recommend you to proceed and build your app till you are better than your competition (if this is what you are really passionate about building). The space is... |
Are you getting the flu shot? | Mz: I'm not getting any shots. I have a compromised immune system, so a lot of people think I "should". But I take other precautions which work very well for me. |
User friendly book writing software | makecheck: You might try LyX ("lick"): http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMacIt's basically a fancy front-end for LaTeX, and might do what you need. The printed output would certainly look nice. |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | jacquesm: Depends on the package, if it's a compiler or a big subsystem, not likely. If it is something that I plan on integrating then there is a much bigger chance.I always wonder how easy it would be for someone to slip a security hole in to one of those packages that I 'make install' blindly, one day I'll be bitten... |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | jwesley: You need a tagline explaining what the site is for. "For iPhones Apps" left me wondering, yea but the WTF for iPhone apps?You should help people browse apps more effectively. Lead them into different categories. Highlight the most popular apps. I don't see any reason why using this site would be better than vi... |
War stories on implementations of Eric Ries' MVP ? | jmathes: I worked at a software company where we should have run an experiment like this. There's an upgrade on user accounts that we charged a one-time $10 for, and people buy it all the time. We decided to try it as a subscription.We spent a month getting the subscription code ready, then deployed it to some % of u... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | gcv: Active: Cupboard (http://github.com/gcv/cupboard), an embedded database for Clojure. I wrote and open-sourced it, I guess that's about as active as it gets. :)Patcher: Samba. I work with it extensively, so I look at its code all the time. Found a bug once. :) All joking aside, Samba is a really nice piece of work ... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | mronge: My involvement:Patcher - Thrift
One-off/Guilty - Lucene
Curious - Django
One-off - Log4jDid not like what I saw in Log4j, was really a mess, far more complex than necessary.I really need to polish up some of my code and submit them as patches, however that takes time and I've got a product to ship (I'll have to... |
What industry needs technical innovation? | ippisl: The third world is craving for low cost technologies ,and there's a huge market potential there. only in the last few years companies have started to become interested ,so there might empty places for startups. |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | Zak: One-off: Ruby CGI, MZScheme, CRM114, SBCLCurious: more than I can remember, but recently: Clojure and Linux |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | bigwill: One-off: FMDB, Three20, MPOAuth |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | thirdusername: Guilty: I had an issue with Jaxer requiring a head element in HTML5 despite me not wanting the jaxer framework being pushed to the client side.Curious: I'm supposed to do a six month placement with an open source project next semester (I'm a bachelors student on my second year), so I've been trying to fi... |
Does anyone know of a good primer on (oo) software design? | chipsy: It is quite likely that you're hitting the boundaries of what straightforward class-based OO alone can do to help you structure the program. Design patterns help if you don't know about them, but even better is to look at a wider range of concepts(examples: functional programming, logic programming, message pas... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | jlees: One-off: Twitter Python API, Wordpress and some other PHP OSS cruft.Curious/Guilty: Most other things I've played with. Have occasionally emailed developer(s) or commented on threads/mailing lists without submitting a formal patch. Lucene is something I've looked at fairly recently. Have modified and extended bi... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | SwellJoe: Active: Webmin, Virtualmin GPL, UserminPatcher: Squid, various Drupal modules, Joomla and several modules, OpenACS and a few modules, Zope and a few modules, yum, SARG, a couple of CPAN modules, and at least as many more that I can't remember (a dozen years of Open Source involvement leads to a long list of p... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | daeken: Active: Really only my own projects, sadly.Patcher: Nemerle, Boo, MOSA.One-off: Linux, NT (lots of random patches), Pylons, Python, Mono.Guilty: DTrace, GCC, LLVM.Curious: Pretty much everything I use that's interesting. Not enough hours in the day. |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | ams6110: Why did you leave out a "User" category... use OSS but have never looked at the code or modified it in any way? |
Site/Search Engine Regularly Updated With Lectures? | hiroaki: http://www.youtube.com/education?lg=EN&b=1 might be a good start. |
Anybody Interested in Collaborating on a F# App? | mdemare: That sounds very interesting. I guess you'd need some kind of abstraction layer to bridge the app and the individual websites, with one implementation for each community.What would that API look like? getListOfTopics, getListOfCommentsForTopic, and submitCommentToTopic are the primary methods, I guess.But som... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | bnmrrs: Active - Only my own projectsPatcher - Doctrine ORM, symfony framework, GearmandOne-off - Drupal, Wordpress, TracCurios - Many different projects. Some recent examples: Apache, Git, PHP |
Site/Search Engine Regularly Updated With Lectures? | davidblair: You might like http://academicearth.org/ |
Site/Search Engine Regularly Updated With Lectures? | bhrgunatha: Try http://videolectures.net/Peteris Krumins collated a set of Science and Computer Science lectures - http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/He blogs from there too although the catalogue is not huge. |
Wrist Pain | sever: I used to have "chronic" wrist pain for 8 years, and have now been completely pain free for just over a year.Saw many doctors, many bouts of physical therapy, many batteries of tests - steroid injections, nerve conduction, MRIs, rheumatologists, chiropractors, acupuncture, etc, none of that was helpful.In the en... |
Does anyone know of a good primer on (oo) software design? | CyberFonic: Maybe the problem you've struck is that of the limitations of OO itself. Objects and methods only work up to a point. You often also need to implement behaviors/processes/algorithms. In a multi-paradigm language, such as Python, you'd implement the objects with their behaviors using OOP paradigm and then... |
Site/Search Engine Regularly Updated With Lectures? | adaptives: I am manually aggregating computer science course videos at http://www.adaptivelearningonline.netI am also planning to add tools to make learning fun and collaborative... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | jacquesm: There are chips that contain neural networks:http://www.particle.kth.se/~lindsey/HardwareNNWCourse/That's fairly dated, lots more to read:http://www.google.com/search?q=neural+networks+in+hardwareThe Japanese have done tons of research in this field and the producers of quite a few of the chips, there are lot... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | joshu: It's not model of a brain, it's a model of a bunch of connected neurons.I think it's probably easy to emulate a neural network in an embedded CPU. That seems somewhat boring.It might be more fun to build a bunch of discrete neurons out of analog parts. Building a forward-propagation-only (perceptron) system shou... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | jjguy: I spent some time studying Self-Organizing Maps, a neural network algorithm from Teuvo Kohonen, a Finnish professor.The internet has plenty of resources:http://www.google.com/search?q=self+organizing+mapsI implemented the two canonical 'hello world' projects in processing, but have yet to apply to a 'real' probl... |
printed presentation on a 10 minutes 1-on-1 pitch session? | snitko: In reality you would never make an eye contact 100% of the conversation time. I've recently read in one non-verbal behavior book, that people tend too look somewhere else when talking to others and making a point. This does not indicate they're not interested, on the contrary - this shows they are trying to con... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | paraschopra: All neural networks do is to aggregate input values (which you can model with current) and multiply it by weights (which you can model by variable resistors) and finally output a squished sigmodial output (for which I am sure a circuit must exist). Make elementary units of such neurons and connect them tog... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | rick_2047: All this is quite good, and I was right in thinking it was just my not-so-good searching skills that did me in. But there are two big questions which I mean to ask1)Are these projects too big and complicated for a first year student?I can put in as much hardwork as is required but sometimes somethings are be... |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | transmit101: This is slightly more centred on evolutionary electronics, but nevertheless you might find some interesting papers here:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html |
Ask HN:Artificial Neural Networks for electronics engineers | JohnIdol: If you wanna implement logic operations using neural networks (you'll need 1 neuron for most of them - but XOR and NAND will require a few more and some tricks) and combine them to do some non-trivial computation - which is simple but good enough for a first year project - have a look at the first 3 chapters ... |
printed presentation on a 10 minutes 1-on-1 pitch session? | viktorsovietov: I'd rather have a 10 pages presentation for this meeting, without any descriptions of basic things in the problem area, of course, but with a skeleton of my speech. Just chatting is the good thing, especially when it takes place in a pub, but I would like to left alt least something tangible for an inv... |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | abi: Let's start one!On a related note, is anyone interesting in starting a HN for philosophy/politics/sociology? |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | pclark: http://doctype.com/ |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | fgblanch: I love ffffound . It's not really like HN but i think from a designers view it's as useful as HN is for coding an enterpreneurship. It shows you the trends and whta's going on in the designing universe. |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | hailpixel: I'm all for this. Let's see what we can setup. Reddit's /r/design and /r/webdesign aren't very compelling and usually completely packed up with "28 great lens flares" type spam.Somewhere where we can have a real chat about all aspects of design would be amazing. |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | htsh: http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/ is alright .. but its not specifically for startups.. |
Looking for a specific story about defeating hackers | brk: You're thinking of the DirecTV H/HU card hacking.Here is one random link I found in reference to this:
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/directtv-hands-out-smack-d... |
Looking for a specific story about defeating hackers | plinkplonk: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtmlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/25/directv_attacks_hack...(somewhat tangential but still interesting) http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/05/tarnovsk... |
Review My Site AppTiger.com | pkc: I think u need to have some factor which differentiates itself from app store. For ex., allowing users sort apps based on rating, date, price etc., One feature I usually miss ordering on multiple criteria like first on rating followed by price. |
Computerized Karaoke? | CyberFonic: Search for "CD+G software" in Google, you should find players for your existing Karaoke disks as well as programs that will help you make your own, etc. Lots of hits will need a bit of research. Good Luck ! |
printed presentation on a 10 minutes 1-on-1 pitch session? | vgurgov: Well if you are not expecting investor to take money out of his pocket (or hat) after that pitch you surely have to prepare (a) executive summary 1-2 pages (b) slides/screenshots 1 page(can be four colorful slides on it)
just because this guy might want to share something with other decision makers. Of course ... |
How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use? | dous: Patcher - Some package translations on Ubuntu (does that count?), Patcher - iUI, One-off - some jQuery libraries |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | josefresco: We should keep this discussion here, as I (being more of a designer than hacker) have found the resources of this community to be more valuable than other other web destination. I'd like to see more designers or junior-hackers speak up and start some threads based on the issues that face those of us who ca... |
Anybody Interested in Collaborating on a F# App? | rythie: We have been doing this for a while at http://friendbinder.comThere are also a number of others like PeopleBrowsr, SocialThing (bought by AOL now AOL lifestream), Threadsy, EventBox and Ping.fm (for posting) that are trying it. |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | arojahn: My brother and I started http://facesofdesign.com/ a while ago; not quite the same as HN, but we do try and cater especially to young designers starting out. The site is geared towards designers of all nationalities and disciplines... Integrating something like HN for designers would be something that could be... |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | access_denied: http://www.alistapart.com/ |
Fun project:builing robot with camera and wifi | the_real_r2d2: You can use Arduino. These gadgets are quite good and not very expensive, I have seen pretty clever hack projects using them (GPS, Lego Mind Storms, webserver, etc.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduinoI think you can use an arduino board as the interface between the car and the netbook. Also, they are qu... |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | sunir: http://www.undrln.com is not too shabby. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | brk: Don't waste your time/money. It's not going to be all Hollywood-esque.You'll pay a couple of hundred dollars to a woman of unknown history who will be uninterested in you (though she may play the "girlfriend" part well enough) and at the end of it all you'll have no more insight into the female sex then when you ... |
Joomla vs Drupal (vs Magento)? | HenkPoley: Personally I like Silverstripe for its sane CMS backend, where the copyeditors will look at. Their ecommerce module needs some handholding though. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | putinherbutt: Do it! I am about to bang a hottie hooker today and it's going to be great. She lets me put it in her butt. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | mooism2: Your love life problems will solve themselves if you solve your broader social life issues first. A social life is a bit like most things in life in that you get better at it and find it easier the more practice you get at it.Paying for sex or a pretend relationship is not some magic pixie fairy dust that wil... |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | bhousel: Ask Reddit.. Also, no don't do it. Virginity is not your problem. Talk to a therapist. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | david927: Don't do it; you'll regret it. Listen, you're not the only one that's gone through this. Everyone who invested his/her early years obtaining hard skills (such as technical skills) at the expense of soft skills (such as being comfortable in a group and around the opposite sex) has this problem. You're not b... |
Joomla vs Drupal (vs Magento)? | bgnm2000: I would take drupal over joomla any day (for theming and custom development reasons). I don't have experience with Magento though. |
Where did you learn about security/attacks? | iterationx: Metasploit is an open-source penetration / auditing framework written in ruby. I also liked this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson/... |
What is the worst user interface in any webapp that you know of ? | jgrahamc: WebEx |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | wglb: Implementing Application Frameworks, Mohamed E. Fayed, Douglas C. Schmidt, Ralph Johnson, eds; Chapter 24, Dynamic Database Instance Frameworks David A. Janello, William G. Lederer, and N. Peter Schnettler describes a framework we built to speed implementation of adding new data feeds quickly. |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | Anon84: Multiscale mobility networks and the large scale spreading of infectious diseasesDuygu Balcan, Vittoria Colizza, Bruno Goncalves, Hao Hu, Jose J. Ramasco, Alessandro Vespignani ( http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3304 )Accepted to Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. earlier this week. |
I'm about to take a big step in my life. I would like your opinion. | percept: In addition to the risk of disease, arrest, and robbery, something like that could also jeopardize your chances if you later want to work in a job requiring a clearance, background investigation, or polygraph.Can you try to find some new activities or clubs there to participate in? Not being fake or untrue to ... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | timcederman: Cederman-Haysom, T. and M. Brereton "A participatory design agenda for ubiquitous computing and multimodal interaction: a case study of dental practice", In Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, Trento, Italy, August 2006. (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~tch/PDC06.pdf)...although I suspect I will... |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | icey: Years ago, I ran a website for a handful of amateur writers and some of the stuff was really great. The crowing achievement was when I started seeing repeat hits from literary agencies in the logs and subscription requests from a few well known screen writers in the mailing list.That's not really peer-review, but... |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | timcederman: Smashingmagazine.com has a forum. |
What is the worst user interface in any webapp that you know of ? | icey: Early BugZilla was pretty painful |
Is there a designer-equivalent to HN? | lzimm: http://www.qbn.com and http://www.yayhooray.com are by far the most legit ones, you'll also find a bunch of them at http://www.qonversation.com now, but you need to get an invite (for both qonversation and yayhooray) |
What have you published that you are particularly proud of? | gaius: A few chapters of a database book published by Wrox Press about 10 years ago, but they wouldn't put my headshot on the cover as I had a mohican... |
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