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Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | jeremyw: I'm impressed by the shifting voting trends when a new, dissenting (sub)opinion is attached to a comment. A string of upvotes now is halted/reversed. And the polarity change can happen several times. An articulated position unleashes the silent thinker or is this a characteristic of mob rule? (When it happ... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | amalcon: Turn it around: why upvote someone? A downvote is equal and opposite to an upvote; what makes the former "bad" and not the latter? |
What artists do you like? | nahumfarchi: francis bacon
WARNING: not for the faint of heart.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bacon/painting.jpg |
What artists do you like? | mbeihoffer: Klee, Kandinsky, Escher, Kahlo, Riviera, Ethan Heidelbaugh, Steve Hemingway, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keefe, and whatshisname that I'm totally spacing out on right now but I'll remember later probably.Also Margaret Atwood and Ani DiFranco. |
What artists do you like? | fnid: Magritte: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=magritte&FORM=IGRE |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | crux: I downvote because I have been personally offended by something that has been said. Most often I have been offended by the sin of bad taste. This is, granted, a pretty wide area, but when somebody writes something egregiously distasteful—whether it's a terrible sense of humor, or a misinformed righteousness, or c... |
What artists do you like? | EAMiller: I'm surprised there hasn't been any software based artists mentioned yet.How about (I'll add examples of specific work so you won't have to search it out):Cory Arcangel http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/SuperMarioMov...Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin http://www.earstudio.com/projects/listeningpost.html... |
What artists do you like? | modoc: Michael Parkes pieces in a few rooms of my house. |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | eli: Sure, but at some level you're going to have to limit on IP, which means that people behind proxies or NAT are going to (unfairly) not have their votes counted. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | eli_s: It's just quality control.For some reason people value karma. The possibility of a down vote makes you think twice about posting rubbish.From that perspective the system is working as intended :) |
What artists do you like? | coconutrandom: Jeff Soto is in my top 5http://images.google.com/images?q=jeff+soto |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | derefr: Because the informationally-equivalent action of upvoting every comment other than yours is not only tedious, but leaves you without the ability to upvote any other comment on its own merit. |
What artists do you like? | madh: Edward Hopper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks |
What artists do you like? | splat: I've always been a fan of the works of Joan Miro and El Greco.I also have a painting by J. Stancin that I like a lot. He's not a very well-known artist, though, so I haven't seen too many of his other paintings. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | Keyframe: Why not introduce a cost to both upvote and downvote of 1 karma point? |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | InclinedPlane: Downvoting has two aspects: reducing the visibility of a post and discouraging the poster from making similar posts in the future. This can be used maliciously (though to limited effect) against viewpoints you merely disagree with. But it does have a legitimate use as well, when harmful or unhelpfully di... |
What artists do you like? | Keyframe: I like too many to list them all (my username might indicate I view a lot of art). However, I can single out Carl Spitzweg as my endless source of inspiration, serenity and just pure awesome since his art correlates to my taste almost exactly. |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | jasonlbaptiste: check this out, which might help: http://www.getappsdone.com |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | Mathnerd314: It might be interesting to keep every vote for each comment and use something like the Netflix prize algorithm to calculate whether you'd like the comment. Hiding comments would then be based on personal preferences, rather than the community at large. If nobody at all likes the comment, (i.e., it's spam o... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | drewcrawford: I charge $40/hr, and I'm the cheapest guy I know. Anywhere from $40-$150 hourly for competent people.Nobody looks at apps that are below about $5k in size. So that's your starting point for something simple (tip calculator, etc.). Web services, datacenters, anything algorithmic is way, way more (~50k?)... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | Rothmic: I charge $125/hr, and I turn down people willing to pay that amount on an almost daily basis. Just another data point. |
What artists do you like? | hackworth: self link, but i keep a tumblelog of new artists i find around the internets: http://lowart.unstoppable.org. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | human_v2: COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS!I sort of feel like the internet is as close as we get to it now, with Twitter and other microblogging services bringing us a step closer. But really, I want full-on instant telepathic communication with anyone. Cell phones don't cut it. Gone would be the days of humming a tune in you... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | lefstathiou: I am not a developer but I have hired a couple to develop apps on my behalf. I think $60/hour is a reasonable rate and I have no trouble (psychologically) paying that. When I see someone charging $40 my first thought is to assume he is either a college student or an indian (i dont mean that offensively). W... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | detcader: Pocket touch screen devices.I want cheap, low-functionality touch screen devices. Like, an iPhone, but with only a calculator, a dictionary/thesaurus, and some other useful but simple applications (text reader/editor, todo list, etc).Or how about an open-development touch screen device? Where programmers can ... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | matthodan: Here are a couple that came to mind:1) Constructive feedback -- I want more, now :)2) Web UI technologies -- progress, but at a snail's pace3) Web APIs -- bring down those "walls"4) Internet-driven TV apps -- why not? |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | BigCanOfTuna: Probably one of the most promising ideas that has lost much of its meaning....We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourse... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | onoj: I sort of agree with you, but I would only up vote to show that the topic / comment was interesting, even if I did not agree with it . Up/down voting because i agree or disagree is arrogant. If it makes people feel better, bully for them.
The danger is that a group of people will upvote a perspective and alienate... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | gte910h: I've done apps for less then 5k.Depending on art, etc, they are 3-40k for most apps, and more for more advanced stuff. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | Coax: Capitalism-driven legislation. Particularly the taxation of negative externalities. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | iamwil: Bandwidth as a constitutional right in addition to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | chrischen: Linus views open source, or at least the kernel, as guided evolution |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | jasonlbaptiste: there's not enough going on with 10 Foot Interface advancements. Boxee and XBMC rock, but a lot is happening and about to happen in this space. What's possible today was not possible 18 months ago whether it be hardware OR software. Boxee already has 600k users and that's with their alpha. I'd love ... |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | techiferous: The interface should provide two ways to vote: one for relevance (value) and the other for agreement/disagreement. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | jrockway: Functional programming.I really like it when my computer crashes because someone decided that checking whether or not "-5435" was a valid array index was "too time consuming". Wait, I hate that. I have 4 cores that are idle 99% of the time. Let the computer do some self-checks that will keep my data intact... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | rokhayakebe: Ending world hunger. Children Education. Peace. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | cmelbye: Platform as a Service.Federation of micro-blogging. |
What artists do you like? | gbookman: Frank Lloyd Wright.He had an unbelievable ability to create building designs that blended perfectly with their surroundings. I've never seen any architect achieve a better harmony between man and nature. Wright's most famous designs are Fallingwater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater and the Guggenh... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | patio11: I think all of the test & measure stuff we talk about so much in the web context -- A/B testing, analytics, etc -- would revolutionize the world if it were applied with one tenth the dedication by human institutions which are not teeny little web startups.This isn't to say that we have the patent on The Scient... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | bayareaguy: I'd like our government to do more to help rather than hinder folks like Carl Malamud and the others at http://public.resource.org |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | paraschopra: Regional conflicts. And the idea of countries, in the first place. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | rphlx: teledildonics |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | raintrees: One vote per registered person for elections, alleviating the need for the Electoral College. And maybe even representative government? |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | nazgulnarsil: marginal utility. hell i'd be satisfied if people would just accept supply and demand. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | x3m: open source hardware |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | kasunh: Individual Freedom! |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | khurrams: Hi
We are an offshore company and have developed various corporate applications and few ranging to top download both on iPhone & Android. We charge only $ 30 an hour ! I feel like , i am charging lowest but have developed some really interesting applications ! We also developed ODesk's iPhone App ( those are ... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | staunch: Everything. I wish I was born at least 500 years in the future. Science is just beginning and I was born at the wrong damn time. I could be flying my own space ship and visiting HN over The Subspacenet. No single advance could ever satisfy me or make up for my disappointment at being born too soon.(Not that I'... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | RevRal: Tesla's global wireless communication and energy. |
CSS/HTML generating wireframe/mockup tool?? | gtani: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pOa2Uqiakxlry5hNuZm89...http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2009/09/16/rapid-prototypin...found here:
http://konigi.com/notebook/tags/wireframes |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | teeja: Voice-command computing. As Scotty said, "A keyboard? How quaint!"(NOT for offices!) I want to tell my wearable to look up facts, do math, remember everything I tell it to remember, and comb through ALL the news keeping my personal preferences in mind. And quick instructions on what I can cook with the food I'v... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | wlievens: VR goggles, that stuff. But not with the huge 90's style visors, obviously. Displays integrated into sunglasses, etc. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | petercooper: Geoengineering and practical solutions to climate issues - as opposed to the rampant, ineffective cult of "environmentalism." Smart minds are working on geoengineering solutions - they just need cash and government support. |
What artists do you like? | petercooper: Damien Hirst and Hugh McLeod (a.k.a. gapingvoid). They both cut through a lot of the bullshit behind the "art world" and, specifically, the business of art.For most people, art's about looking at some "pretty pictures" but as an entrepreneur I find the business revelations to be as much an appreciation of ... |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | joecode: I generally don't accept work, but if I did, it would be $120 at least, and I'd do it mostly for fun. There's plenty left to be done independently. |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | human_v2: This is what I would do, but you'd need some prerequisite software and information:1. Get a genome for the simplest bacteria you can find.
2. You'd need molecular simulation software, specifically DNA and cellsAfter you've gotten this, I would strip out pieces of the genome using the genetic algorithm (oh the... |
CSS/HTML generating wireframe/mockup tool?? | Raphael: There's a successful business. PSD2XHTML or something.Personally, I just write the HTML and CSS code on a whim with no real design and see where it takes me. Not for everyone, but it can work well in some cases. |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | petercooper: 1. Set up a cloud hosting company. 2. ??? 3. Profit!Seriously, though, probably build a Web indexer/search engine. I seem to keep coming back to the idea every few years and EC2 makes it possible - a million free hours would get me 114 instances for a year, long enough to prove whether any of several new a... |
Are single-letter domain names valuable? | human_v2: wiki = friendhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...They're reserved by ICANN |
What is the going rate for developing an iPhone app? | hyung: I've found it's easy to find relatively small projects (1 good engineer, 1-2 months), but more difficult to find larger projects.I generally advise potential clients not to expect too much from the App Store (~$30K-$40K revenue for a "good" game that's featured by Apple for a short time), unless they get lucky.O... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | Isomer: * The network is the computer.I want processes that migrate with me. When I login at work, I should be able to grab my webbrowser from home and continue it executing on my work machine. Or perhaps on my cellphone (although the UI probably would be horrible). When I reboot my laptop, processes get migrated on... |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | tzury: I would donate it to the open source community. I mean asking this question here suggest that you got nothing better to do with it, right? |
Are single-letter domain names valuable? | df: a few (mostly obscure extensions) can be purchased in the aftermarket - for example L.fo is currently being auctioned http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?language=e... - also see http://www.namepros.com/domains-for-sale-fixed-price/616074-... |
Best software for schematics/diagrams? | zizou: omnigraffle comes to my mind, you can use pencil maybe, try balsamiq and the like....
mindmaps is another thats very generic in nature and has got gr8 utility. |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | tomjen2: A thousand hours is just above 10 days (assuming you run on a single CPU), so I guess most of us have a spare computer lying about which means that it should be able to handle this data.As for the 1,000,000 hours? A genetic algorithm that runs through all the publically available data on deals made by the gove... |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | cperciva: I don't know what I'd do with 10^3 hours, but with 10^6 hours I'd calculate 5 trillion digits of Pi -- until now this sort of computation has always been done on supercomputers, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be possible to do it on EC2. |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | Hexstream: Intelligence, truthfulness, purposeness and politeness in advertising.I'm continually amazed at the sheer stupidity of it all. |
Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. | Mz: Of course, I dislike being downvoted. If I think it was because I was misunderstood or misinterpreted, I will post in response to the downvote. Clarification sometimes gets the original post upvoted, as well as the clarification. If it's a case of "Yeah, I was trying to avoid getting into that because I just kne... |
Florida institute of technology computer science | cperciva: They're not exactly a top-tier institution, but they look legit. |
CSS/HTML generating wireframe/mockup tool?? | rmc00: There are a lot of tools that can create CSS/HTML. I've heard a lot about psd2html http://www.psd2html.com.There's also an article on alistapart.com on how to make photoshop create better html/css, if you're interested, at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/quickcssmockupswithphotos... |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | mark_ellul: I would work on my dream/future project of creating software that functions like the human brain! |
Best software for schematics/diagrams? | bavcyc: GIMP will work but might require more effort than you want to spend.Will anything in Open Office do this? |
What would you do with 1,000 free EC2 hours on AWS? 1,000,0000? | mark_l_watson: Amazon gave me the equivalent of 10,000 free hours on a small EC2 instance when I was working on my last book. I used a few hours of this to prepare a custom AMI with all of the examples in my book set up with Ubuntu and all required infrastructure. I'll be able to keep updated book example AMIs in S3 fo... |
KDE vs. GNOME, which is better? | jamesbritt: Better for what?I like kde3 over gnome for assorted config options (like different backgrounds on each desktop) but maybe that makes no difference to others. On the other hand kde4 copies the most annoying ui features of Vista so I avoid using it.These are also not the only windows and desktop managers, so... |
Automatic Translation, why not? | thras: I think that's what everyone tries to do. What your group needs to do is talk to some of the people who have already worked on this.Then again, there's no reason, a priori, that your group can't build the better mousetrap if they've got the requisite skills and resources. |
Automatic Translation, why not? | Caligula: What is their background? If they have none as you say, it is going to be unlikely.You mentioned reading the stanford course, there are also video lectures:http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=63480b48-8...If they decide to proceed, two good NLP books:1.Speech and Language Processing2.Foundations... |
Automatic Translation, why not? | SlyShy: Think about how often idiomatic phrases come up in English. Then try to translate those phrases into, say, Chinese. And vice versa. Good luck with that."Steel rice bowl" makes no sense in English, and "apple of your eye" makes no sense in Chinese. |
Automatic Translation, why not? | RiderOfGiraffes: Consider: "I'll set this here."How many different meanings can you find for that? What about the classic: "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."Sentence parsing is a huge field with a lot of very good work. If you only have "grammatically correct" (whatever that means) sentences, ... |
KDE vs. GNOME, which is better? | jcapote: WindowMaker |
Ask HN:where can I find audio courses? | dageroth: Apples iTunes University seems like a good adress. Quite a number of universities upload podcasts and lectures on all kinds of topics. I do not know whether mathematics and electronics are covered, but I'd guess so. They are free, so take a look there.If you are interested in other disciplines I enjoy audiob... |
Ask HN:where can I find audio courses? | roundsquare: I'd be surprised if you could get good courses on either of those topics in pure audio form... but if you do, let us know, I'm sure it'd be of fairly general interest around here. |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | bhseo: A related link from Aza's post's comments:http://www.privacychoice.org/Clickable links from my comment:http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/making-privacy-policies-not-...http://aza.etherpad.com/privacyRelated projects:http://www.w3.org/P3P/http://commondataproject.org/Privacy policy generators:http://www.dmaresponsi... |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | mishmax: A few years ago, I knew a Microsoft intern who's project was to do exactly that for all Silverlight-type software that got installed on a user's machine. He used the P3P standard to automatically present the user with a 'privacy evaluation' before the user ok'd the installation of the software.This was part of... |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | makecheck: I personally don't believe that privacy policies are useful at all. They are at best the web equivalent of a verbal agreement.People need to adopt the security-oriented attitude that says, if you post anything, anywhere, the entire Internet may very well see it. Period. You cannot trust every server, prot... |
What would you do if you run out of ideas? | nostrademons: I did run out of ideas, and I ended up taking a job at Google as a result.If you're really out of ideas, I'd suggest you permute your life as heavily as possible. Take a different job. Move to a different city. Hang out with a different group of friends. Get interested in topics that you've overlooked... |
What artists do you like? | moorej: Marcel Duchamp for his consideration that "art" is something socially constructed i.e. not immanent within the thing itself.Raphael, seeing his paintings in person renewed my love of art.Many others.As far as composed music is concerned there are many as well but at this moment I'll say Webern for mystery and X... |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | bhseo: One thing that bugs me in privacy policies is the "we may change this policy at any time and without warning" clause.RSS could be one way to make sure users can receive warnings and notification of changes. However, subscribing to RSS feeds for each site would be too tedious.A browser plugin (or rather built-in ... |
What would you do if you run out of ideas? | davidw: Go for a bike ride! I find exercise is a great way of clearing your head. Long walks and bike rides and things like that do wonders for letting my mind wander. |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | jbgh2: You might want to check out http://lexpuli.ca
They are applying open source ideas to law. The plan is that will create high quality, readable legal documents (with supporting documentation, FAQs etc.) that people can use for free.
They are looking for suggestions on what to work on and I know they are intereste... |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | prakash: user voice seems to be a popular choice - http://uservoice.com/ |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | DenisM: I created my forums on wikidot http://www.geetasks.com/forum/c-91340/discussions and that's were Beta testers discuss stuff.I also plan to use Mailchimp to send out announcement about the next Beta being released, because many Beta testers are not reading the forums all the time. I have negative experience with... |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | cperciva: What's wrong with setting up a mailing list? |
How can we make better, more readable privacy policies? | catone: Cuil has one of the best privacy policies on the web, at least from a readability standpoint: http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/Using plain English (not legalese) and keeping things short and to the point seems to be an effective way of making privacy policies more user friendly. By making them so obscured by l... |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | catone: I haven't tested it out personally, but Prefinery might fit the bill: http://www.prefinery.com/I think their free plan accommodates 50 testers.You could also set up a private forum which would allow you to post new versions and allow beta testers to leave and discuss feedback. |
What cool numbers are there to graph online? | ptarjan: Some neat ones I've made:Stackoverflow questions (linear??) http://webnumbr.com/stackoverflow-questionsMy twitter followers http://webnumbr.com/ptarjan-twitter-followersWii price on amazon http://webnumbr.com/used-wiiHackernews top scroe http://webnumbr.com/ycombinator-top-scoreAnd any recommendations for the ... |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | timdorr: If you're ever going to grow your beta testing ops, then CenterCode is definitely a good option: http://www.centercode.com/ TiVo uses it for betas...actually, I'm not sure if I can tell you that under NDA :PFor smaller stuff, I'll also recommend Mailchimp for basic mailings. They're here in Atlanta and those g... |
What would you do if you run out of ideas? | davidedicillo: I came up with the best ideas just talking with friends. I think "evolution is a result of contamination", so the more your thoughts are "contaminated" by conversations with other people, the more are the chances that they sparks into real ideas. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | jacquesm: Nagios
and
MonitMonit after a tip here, great little program. |
KDE vs. GNOME, which is better? | r11t: Gnome-Do which in-spite of its name works with both Gnome and KDE is basically a Quicksilver inspired launcher : http://do.davebsd.com/ is the perfect power tool for Linux Desktop users. |
Tool for handling a beta tester group? | bmj: Are you sure about the no-attachments thing?http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...You could also use the group's "Files" section to upload files for group users. |
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