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What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | andrewf: Going the other way around - can anyone think of an open source project that could benefit from some assembly optimization, and isn't? I'd love an excuse to play with this stuff in a useful fashion.(I love what I do, but my twelve year old self would be disgusted that I'm not writing games.) |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | nailer: Facebook know more about their average customers than Google does (keeping in mind most Google users don't use gmail).Facebook use this to move into search. So when I search for 'cappucino book', FB knows I mean the web framework from the context of my discussions with FB/Twitter friends.FB encourages users to ... |
Best software for schematics/diagrams? | bjm: None of these earns the bonus for being free, but perhaps you could take a closer look:* Microsoft Visio - I've never actually used it, but it used to be the de facto standard back in the old days when nobody ever got fired for buying anything Microsoft :)* http://lovelycharts.com/ - this is an online diagramming ... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | Locke1689: I work in virtual machine development, so a portion of the interface code for hardware virtualization I wrote in straight ASM. This is not (exactly) for speed reasons, though; it's just impossible to touch the hardware at that level in C. :) |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | reedlaw: Microcontroller firmware. There are many examples of AVR code in assembly on the web. I learned assembly this way. It really makes sense when you're working on bare hardware with no abstraction layers in the way. Also, it's useful for time-critical applications such as creating video signals or audio processin... |
Raising a friends And family round? | BobbyH: An SBA loan must be personally guaranteed by the borrower, so I don't really see a difference between an SBA loan and running up credit cards, except for the interest rate.Personally, I would try to suffer through the Valley of Death. Here are some ideas I would try:* Can lloydarmbrust sell for an extra hour by... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | david927: But we can never imagine what's next. When they said, "What's the worst that could happen to IBM?" No one would have been taken seriously if they said, "A tiny little computer that sits on your desk."Google is king of search as it's done now. I've personally seen a startup that can do a very new type of se... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | rooshdi: VSS |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | zackattack: I know this is off-topic, but bemmu, you need to paypal me $20 as per our bet made in #startups on IRC. You haven't showed up in the chatroom lately. If you had won the bet, I certainly wouldn't have reneged. You can send payment to the email in my profile. |
Why do people use hibernate (or any ORM)? | profquail: I've been using NHibernate + Castle ActiveRecord for a few small/medium projects over the past year, and I find that it significantly speeds up my development process. My object model may be "contaminated" now, but if I'm getting my work done that much faster (plus the added benefit of database vendor indepe... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | rythie: It's used in bits of kernel programming - often because there is no other way to do the task. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | maryrosecook: Joshua Block, Chief Java Architect at Google, says in Coders at Work:"But for the absolute core of the system—the inner loops of the index servers, for instance—very small gains in performance are worth an awful lot. When you have that many machines running the same piece of code, if you can make it even ... |
How do you work? | ScottWhigham: I used John Wood's Priorganizer for my development. http://www.riaform.com/product,priorganizer,product.aspxHe doesn't actively develop it anymore which is a shame - I love it but I went back to a notepad approach after my last big project. |
How do you work? | DanielStraight: Todoodlist: http://todoodlist.com/ |
Renumeration working part time with a start up | ScottWhigham: Do you need the cash? If yes, then I'd ask to get paid a discount rate. If you don't need the cash and the project is short-term (1-2 months?), then equity only is fine. Just be aware that you probably will never get any money at all if you go this route - just consider it padding for your resume, a great... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | nirmal: Not a marketplace use, but the most recent use I've had for Assembly was in an Atari 2600 programming class.http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/atari.html |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | bh23ha: They could go public, discounting the benefits of staying a private founder run company like SAS, and instead going for the quick pay-off of an IPO.Then the usual pressures for quarterly results would slowly eat away at their "don't be evil" motto.Imagine what that would be like! |
How do you work? | edw519: Pen and paper.This is a hard and fast rule that I have always followed and is absolutely critical to my success. Just a few of the reasons:1. I firmly believe that analysis, design, and planning is much more effective if it is done away from the computer. These are totally different activities from programmin... |
Which idea irritates you because it has not been taken far enough? | CulturalNgineer: Democracy's design...The scarce use of technology to encourage and access crowd wisdom. (Rather than the cleverness invested in things like gerrymandering and misleading advertising techniques.)This is a similar phenomenon to the pathological cleverness used in so much social network advertising... you... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | frig: A major change is that good search algorithms or giant server farms could become sufficiently useless that a remote search engine makes no economic sense.I don't see that happening in the near term but there are sci-fi scenarios in which it might happen; I'll sketch them so the pattern becomes clear.EG:- user's l... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | fauigerzigerk: They might find themselves on the wrong side of the growth divide. Advertising money follows consumers ready to spend. US consumers are badly indebted. Most of the growth is going to be in emerging markets.I get the feeling that people there may prefer their own national champions as they become more con... |
Want to start an HN Folding@Home team? | PStamatiou: I used to fold a lot with a computer overclocking club I was involved in, and had some 10 computers of mine running at one point.. but now that I live on my own and pay all the bills I'm more frugal with my energy usage. Even with only my core i7 desktop that would cost a noticeable $10/month with my basic ... |
Want to start an HN Folding@Home team? | garyrichardson: No. A few years ago when I moved out on my own, running these things killed my electric bill. Looking back, I feel bad for all the money I cost my parents.. |
please review my website | jusob: clickable link: http://bargain-notify.me/ |
please review my website | there: i didn't make an account or anything, but just looking at the front page - you should extract the price from each item and display it along the right side of the line.some items have the price/discount first, some at the end of the text. if they were broken out and displayed in a different/bigger font along the... |
please review my website | jbenz: I would provide an example scenario near the top of your home page. I know what a "Custom Search" means, but many internet users might not. A quick little story of someone creating a custom search, signing up for an email, and getting a good deal could go a long way.Also, I find it helpful when the website log... |
please review my website | slater: Make your site easier to scan/read, put the savings in their own column.eg, change this:"Save $243.66 on SomeProduct WithArcaneLongProductName XL22000!"into this:"SomeProduct XL22000 | $243.66", where the second column has a "You save:" header |
please review my website | jusob: I forgot to mention something: now I need active users to vote and comment on the deals for the website to be more useful. That is the biggest challenge for me right now. |
Starting programming salary expectations? | makecheck: On the west coast the salary will be higher, and it will cost a lot more to live. Central jobs will pay less, but it will cost a lot less to live. So don't just find out what people make, ask where they are. |
please review my website | gz: In all seriousness, I think you should pick something other than a pig for your logo. I realize you are going for "piggy bank" but most people will think "H1N1." Or, perhaps it's just me :) Good luck anyways. |
Making a simple Augmented Reality iPhone App - Any samples/tutorials? | mtholking: http://code.google.com/p/iphonearkit/ |
How do you work? | bgray: Another nice (simple) task application is Google Tasks. Not only is it simple, it's web based which means OS non-specific! :) |
Twitter's list feature a ploy to increase usage by risking reputations? | ashchristopher: "give you the option of approving each request to put you on a list" -- uh, I see a huge issue with this. Can you imagine being one of the more popular twitter users being inundated list requests all the time? Also, being on a spammers 'losers' list probably isn't going to do that much damage to your re... |
Starting up in India, suggestions for a hub? | jnaut: I am a bit surprised here, its been 4hours+ but no answers!! |
Check out my Canvas based multiplayer Maze | dougp: I see you guys running all over the place. Give me some feedback. Is drawing intuitive? Do you wish you could customize your character? |
Examples of sites with 'customer class' freemium? | rs: At http://xp-dev.com there's no SSL on the free accounts - those users who want tougher security of their code transmitting over the wire do have to upgrade. (disclaimer: I own and run xp-dev.com) |
please review my website | roundsquare: If you don't mind my asking...What is someone's motivation to vote on and/or discuss a deal? Maybe I'm missing something...On the website itself:1) It takes two clicks before I get to the deal. When I click on a deal, I go to a site on bargin-notify that lets me discuss/vote and I need to click on the sa... |
Raising a friends And family round? | Travis: My (bootstrapping) startup took a smallish f&f round. We took the money in the form of a convertible loan, which means that it can be converted to stock or repaid (as a normal loan would) at a certain date.This got us the money easily, and left it more flexible for us to maneuver in the future.Yes, it's a litt... |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | gte910h: Lots of time small embedded programs, especially on underpowered micro's, see this sort of attention.Additionally, low level hardware interfacing is often done with hand coded assembly, because it is easier to "get right" on some crappy compiler toolchains that you face, then C. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | dedalus: www.watchmouse.com |
Are parents essentially AI researchers? | yan: Are plants AI researchers? Reproduction and parenting isn't limited to humans. |
Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? | easp: In addition to the things people have already mentioned, I'd suggest combining all of them, and more, into a credibility score. If your application doesn't involve a strict tallying/reporting of votes, they you can use the score to do weighting, otherwise, you'd use it to discard votes below a certain threshold.F... |
Twitter's list feature a ploy to increase usage by risking reputations? | tialys: What does it matter if some anonymous internet person thinks you're a loser? I don't care what lists I'm on -- in fact I'd imagine people would love to increase they're 'list count' just like their follower count. |
What do you use to monitor your websites? | sucuri2: I will recommend http://sucuri.netNot only it monitors if your site is down, but also if it has been blacklisted, defaced, etc. |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | bkovitz: Thanks to all for the many informed and detailed replies!I am now assistant-teaching a college course in low-level computer programming. It's an excellent course: the students reprogram a children's toy robot that uses the ARM processor. http://www.amazon.com/Little-Tikes-Giggles-Remote-Control/dp... They'r... |
Prion Disease Fear? | wakeboarder3780: Well, I'm not really sure where to start. For one it's good that you're seeking counseling, hopefully this will help things. That being said, there are others like you. While I am not one of them, there are people in the world that are afraid of all types of things (even their own shadow - sciophobi... |
How do you work? | Travis: I use a hybrid, depending on where I'm working. Sometimes I use Gmail Tasks, for high level "don't want to forget about this thing.." tasks. At home I generally use paper / pen. At work I use notepad. |
Prion Disease Fear? | mechanical_fish: You need to speak about this some more with your therapist, or with a different therapist if you want a second opinion. You should do so right away. Pick up the phone! That is what these counselors are there for.The rest of us can't help very much. This is the Internet. It's really good for reciting fa... |
Are parents essentially AI researchers? | khafra: To paraphrase Eliezer(1), The design space of minds-in-general(2) is so freakin' huge that it's misleading to use human minds as analogies; in doing so you immediately fall victim to the detached lever fallacy(3).(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Eliezer(2)http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mi... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | phicou: The most important question you should ask yourself at the end of each interview is "Do I want this person on my team?" If you're not sure, the answer is no.Aside from that, be wary of anyone who spends too much time talking up their accomplishments - I've often found that candidates who talk a lot falter when... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | ErrantX: I wouldn't hang up too much on coding questions - just throw in plenty of technical questions and maybe get them to sketch out how they would solve one problem.Don't deliberately try to wrong foot or otherwise trick them; pitch questions at roughly the experience level / difficulty of the job.Write down plenty... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | tptacek: Some favorite systems programming interview questions:* Tell me about some routines you tend to take with you from project to project; what's in "libyou.so"? Crap devs won't have any.* Your code crashes inside the allocator. Walk me through debugging it.* Tell me about the most interesting problem you debugged... |
Prion Disease Fear? | gojomo: It sounds as if you've developed an irrational obsession and phobia about this disease.Make sure you talk to your psychotherapist and trusted friends/family about the level of distress this is causing you. They can help restore rational balance to your thought, and may help you recognize other contributing caus... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | johnrob: In 45 minutes there's not enough time to see how good the candidate is. Your goal should really be the opposite - to make sure the candidate is not obviously bad. I always come into the interview with a list of simple programming tasks, and have the person work through them until we're out of time. You can ... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | HeyLaughingBoy: Behavior-based interviewing takes the approach that what the candidate did in the past is a good predictor of what they will do in the future. The problem is that it's difficult to learn to do it on your own quickly: it really helps to take a class in interviewing.Briefly:
Ask questions like "have you e... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | cabacon: Ask yourself if you would be happy to mentor the new employee once they are hired. If you would not, don't recommend that they be hired, even if they are technically competent. Don't forget, saying "yes" to the hire means that you will be working with them. It's easy to over-abstract the challenge of findin... |
Prion Disease Fear? | Tangurena: It used to scare me, but only because my father's younger brother died from vCJD. He died from it before the Europeans had their "mad cow" outbreak. And at the time it was so rare in the US that no one really understood it (and he died before there were non-destructive tests for it). It is a disease related ... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | amdev: It's not comprehensive but I like FizzBuzz.---------------------
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".
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Advice for a first-time interviewer | tconfrey: First I'd say that at a company level there should be an overall plan for the interview that you fit in to. Interviews work better if the hiring manager assigns specific areas to specific interviewers, otherwise you can all end up focusing on the same area and not getting a rounded view of the candidate. (e.g... |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | mbrubeck: Have a range of questions prepared so you can fall back on easier questions (in case the candidate is drawing blanks or is having trouble getting past their nervousness/anxiety) or harder questions (in case they totally blow away your regular ones). |
Job Advice/Suggestions | Travis: Have you just been looking passively, or have companies told you that you're unqualified for postings? I went through a similar situation at work, and decided to interview for a few positions. The "senior" position listings were definitely willing to speak with me, interview me, most of the time. A few said ... |
Twitter's list feature a ploy to increase usage by risking reputations? | iterationx: The list feature seems to be about crowdsourcing the categorization of the users. Someone can put me in the list programmers. I suppose they have some quick filter options. |
Prion Disease Fear? | iterationx: You're going to die at some point, why fear this form of death over another form? |
What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? | vabmit: I've done it for cryptography code and cryptanalysis code. Specifically, optimizing code to take advantage of specific instructions available in certain processors or to make use of vector registers and instructions. I wrote my programs in C and then went back and wrote assembly for parts of the code that cou... |
What are "correct development & programming practices" for a web app? | ErrantX: Whatever works best for you (this applies, IMO, for any programming). |
What are "correct development & programming practices" for a web app? | DanielBMarkham: Concentrate on finding users and making them happy. Everything else has to work in support of that. |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | anamax: You should be familiar with the role for which the candidate is being considered.If you're not the hiring manager, find out what the hiring manager wants you to find out about the candidate during your interview with said candidate.If you don't know how to implement the answer or it doesn't seem to relate to th... |
What's the worst thing that could happen to Google? | iterationx: A superior Chinese language search engine coupled with a deep(er) recession in the US would hurt their profit machine. The web could also change with regards to categorization. For example if I want a book I go to Amazon, if I want to learn about boardgames, I go to boardgamegeek, if I want general knowled... |
Computer Generated Music Sites? | icey: Giles Bowkett made this: http://wiki.github.com/gilesbowkett/archaeopteryxIt might do what you're looking for. |
Computer Generated Music Sites? | chaosmachine: http://tones.wolfram.com/ |
What happened to Proper News | kierank: To cut a long story short I had to take that server down at short notice. This was meant to be a temporary outage but I haven't yet got a replacement server that is able to run the news.yc software in arc.Also the site was a bit dull and I was wondering if I could do something to make it more interesting. |
Are parents essentially AI researchers? | Mz: FWIW: My sons would like to rewrite AI. We've discussed AI in terms of how I raised them, which is rather different from how most parents seem to raise kids. For us, your question makes sense. But we are just one family. |
Advice for a first-time interviewer | bavcyc: FWIW: I started interviewing people in college for non-technical position although a very stressful job (favorite interview question: 'We think this job requires a sense of humor, tell us a joke'). Off and on over the years I've interviewed others for different positions. Regarding technical vs non-technica... |
Computer Generated Music Sites? | joeld42: "Bloom", "Trope" and "Air" will do this on iPhone.http://generativemusic.com/Edit: oh, wait, you wanted beats... "Mujik" has an "auto-mujik" mode which will do this.http://www.luckyframe.co.uk/mujik/ |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | izak30: I think that e-mailing a password for them to change adds another step, instead of taking one away. |
Startup School Videos | SwellJoe: http://www.justin.tv/startupschoolThe Paul Buchheit talk seems to be missing, unfortunately. |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | zaidf: I hate that. I almost never end up changing the password and it's a pain in the ass to look it up each time. Just ask me for it up front. |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | quant18: "possibly discouraging repeat visits." --- you nailed it on the head yourself, that seems to outweigh any minor benefit from having one less field to fill out at registration time.Even worse, if the password e-mail gets spam-filtered or even just delayed a bit, your user loses interest waiting around and just ... |
please review my website | jusob: Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm going to make the small layout changes that were suggested today, and bigger changes in the coming weeks. |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | sant0sk1: Emailing them a password means you have their plaintext password. Please never do this. |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | pwim: How about using OpenID? |
Should I generate passwords for new users instead of asking for one? | eam: If you're trying to limit the sign up form to two fields, you can do it the hackernews way, just ask for an email and a password. Just a suggestion. |
Starting up in India, suggestions for a hub? | lazy_nerd: Your costs would be low in Pune but Bangalore has a lot of startup events that you can attend - OCC, Barcamp, TiE etc. |
Best way to go about pitching a VC that's coming to your school? | pg: A VC coming to a school is not looking for plans so much as people. Unless he has specifically asked for formal presentations, you're better off just talking informally and intelligently about possible startup ideas, rather than making the conversation be about stuff you're probably bad at, like business plans and... |
please review my website | pkc: Nice Idea... How are you getting bargain data? Is it a trade secret? :) |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | trafficlight: Have you given Freshbooks a try?http://freshbooks.com |
do you have a low-stress job? What kind of job is it? | bombs: Have you thought about getting a steady evening job instead?I've found working as a gas attendant in the suburbs during the evenings to be low stress and often giving me time to read. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | asnyder: Authorize.net has Automated Recurring Billing, and BrainTree has some pretty good offerings too. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | dnewcome: I was considering http://www.zuora.com in the past at the recommendation of a friend. I didn't end up springing for a recurring billing solution though, so I don't have any experience with them. Their product looked impressive though. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | proee: foxycart.com - has a nice api and works with subscription payments via authorize.netalso try cariboucms.com if you're looking for a full cms with member management subscription capabilities(great product) |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | pplante: Check out http://cheddargetter.comIncredibly simple API with libraries for most languages. But it does require an Authorize.net merchant account to tie into. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | matthall28: Paypal Web Payments Pro gets my vote, they do a great job with it |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | bazookaaa: I highly recommend http://spreedly.com. Has a great API and recurring billing is built-in so you don't need to pay extra for it on PayPal or Authorize. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | jbr: I recommend Braintree http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/, having build payment systems on top of paypal payflow pro, paypal express checkout, and Braintree. Their API is far more sane, and their vault system is convenient. Plus they'll let you get your data back out if you ever need to switch. Make sure ... |
Hosted forum with SSO? | sweis: Have you considered using OpenID, Facebook Connect, or both? Then you can support two-click account creation for anyone with a Yahoo, Google, MSN, or Facebook account. Check out Zoho and Plaxo's sign-up process for an example.Also, HN uses Clickpass, which is an OpenID identity provider. |
Best way to go about pitching a VC that's coming to your school? | mlLK: If I had the luxury of talking with a VC one-on-one I'd formulate very open-ended questions while trying to keep discussion domain as general and abstract as possible.In other words, steer clear from case studies and CS specific ideas, put yourself in the shoes of a VC, and figure-out what makes this guy tick (mi... |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | karthikm: Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS) is a good option as well. In addition to recurring payments, FPS also supports aggregated payments for micro-transactions.If you want the cheapest solution, you might want to try Noca (www.noca.com) which supports recurring transactions but everything happens through ACH ... |
What software ideas do you have ? | Mr_question: I want a program that allows the user to play a musical instrument by just thinking about it.Start small and assign thoughts of moving ones arms to a particular note or chord.This is completley possible but I haven't really heard of anyone developing it. |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | herrherr: Just for the sake of completeness:
http://chargify.com/Haven't tried it yet, but looks similar to spreedly. |
Is Linus creating AI Life? | allenwhitt: sounds like he's also been reading wolfram's nks. the whole book is about how complexity is created. and wolfram suggests that humans wouldn't be able to purposefully create something more complicated than ourselves (though leaving open the possibility of doing it by semi-accident). |
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