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Confused semi-newbie programmer needs some advice. | hristov: Do not worry about your education getting wasted. C/C++ are probably the most useful languages you can learn. This is the case because (a) most existing code is written in C/C++ and (b) C/C++ are probably as low level as one can get while being hardware agnostic, which means programming C/C++ will teach you th... |
Review My Library, Tempest | shaddi: Very cool looking! I am going to consider using this for an upcoming project.One of my most significant criteria for using a library is its API and documentation. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but I had trouble finding API.txt in your repo; consider including a link to that from your project page. ... |
Changing usernames | auston: Just create a new one - that's what I did:http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nextmoveone --> http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=auston |
A subscription/recurring billing service that just works. Any ideas? | Recurly: Another option to take a look at is http://recurly.com/
We offer a super simple RESTful api that lets add payment functionality to your sites. We also handle all the complexities of upgrades/downgrades and subscription management. We're here to help :) |
Overcoming coder's block? | bemmu: Sometimes the "block" just means you aren't actually all that into your project. |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | dfischer: Take a look at this unless you already did:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=927927 |
Review My Library, Tempest | vicaya: Is there a way to change the colormap? Rainbow colormap is considered 'harmful': http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM |
Review My Library, Tempest | tptacek: patio11 --- are you going to roll your own CrazyEgg now? |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | JshWright: Picked one up yesterday.Has a nice heft to it, it's very snappy, and the screen is _beautiful_.The turn-by-turn works well, and the voice recognition is _phenomenal_.Oh, and the camera sucks (in bright light it's not bad, but in low light, it's unusable). |
Review My Library, Tempest | BjornW: Interesting library. Thanks for sharing!One question though: where does the screenshot of the item which has been clicked on come from? As far as I understand your lib does not provide any means to create a screenshot? Is this correct? Would it be possible to add this? If not could you explain how you would mak... |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | ckinnan: I checked it out today, I was disappointed with the keypad, which is important to me as I have big hands. The Droid keys don't have much separation and aren't raised like Blackberry's.If you buy it online the $100 rebate is instant and you can score another $50 off if you are a new Verizon customer or if you'... |
Review My Library, Tempest | mnemonik: Very cool! This will be awesome for usability testing.I like the name too, in fact I liked it enough to create a jQuery templating plugin with the same name a few months ago ;)http://github.com/fitzgen/tempest/ |
Review My Library, Tempest | aw3c2: This comes 3 weeks to late for me but I will definitely rewrite something to use this instead of my half-assed workaround. Will message you with hopefully tasty screenshots once I am done. |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | BrianHV: I haven't used the iPhone much so I can't give a good comparison to that. I came from a Treo, and have been a Palm user for about 10 years.I knew when I bought the Droid that there would be things I'd be missing that I took for granted on Palm. I was right. There are configuration options that seem to be mi... |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | talleyrand: Yes, I was very pleasantly surprised after all the nit-picky and sometimes outright wrong reviews I read (there's nothing wrong with the camera!). I'm very pleased with the Droid. Keep in mind however, I've been dealing with the Fuze (Touch Diamond - WinMo) on AT&T for the last year, so I haven't really h... |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | ShabbyDoo: I looked at one today. My biggest concern is the 5GB transfer limit. Worse than that, it's not a limit! Each additional GB is $50. The sales guy at the Verizon store tried to tell me that the limit was for tethering only, but I don't think he was correct. Does any have a definitive answer? |
Review My Library, Tempest | dangrover: Awesome! I had an idea yesterday of making a Burrito Quality Heatmap of San Francisco. Maybe I'll actually do it and use your library. |
Does deleting a profile from Facebook ensures that all data is deleted? | known: I think it is not possible. Assume A & B were chatting. Facebook cannot unilaterally delete A or B's data unless both A & B decide to delete their profiles. |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | oomkiller: I have never used an iPhone, but used them extensively. I got my Droid today, and I love it. I came from a long line of Blackberries. The Droid is SOO much faster, and the voice search/navigation is really amazing. The Market has some pretty cool apps on it too, not as many as the iPhone, but plenty. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | SwellJoe: A blank page. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | baddox: I didn't even know! I had to check. On Chrome, it's google.com. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | ahlatimer: On Safari, it's TopSites. On Firefox, it's HN (used to be Digg). The only time I ever really hit the home page is when I reboot, which isn't all that often. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | matthall28: http://www.google.ca/ig |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | mx12: Just google.com, plan and simple. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | bigbang: My Yahoo! |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | zurcociremer: The Speed dial page on Opera browser. It has Google reader, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter on it. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | kennethreitz: hacker news! |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | conflux0: I rarely do a fresh start of firefox, so its immaterial to me what my homepage is. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | Paton: Google Chrome's start page.
(my top 8 visited websites) |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | mahmud: "Reopen last session".I used to have firefox open with tens of tabs, now I make it a point to keep it at 6. If I open anything I make sure to read it right then and there, or make a judgment call to pass; if it's something I will need later I look at the title and abstract out some googleable keywords. Lately, ... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | Zev: New windows go to Safari's Top Sites. New tabs go to about:blank. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | raintrees: It used to be google.com, no login. Now, it's Ubuntu's Google, start.ubuntu.com/version. I've been too busy to change it. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | benwr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomWhen I have time and it's not a stub, or if I just want something to do, I read some of the article. A few times it's been interesting. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | edw519: Hacker News.Why delay the inevitable? |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | vaksel: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.m... |
Review my app Interactive Programming Books | mx12: I tried to install your program and the installer worked fine, but I couldn't get the application to run under Snow Leopard. I can send you the log file if you would like. Also, you may want to consider packaging it as a DMG.I think its a cool concept and would be very useful for people who are learning how to ... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | jakarta: I have been using BackpackIt to set up a PMarca style productivity page with to do lists.So far it has been pretty successful. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | rudd: I use Google now, but I used to use a custom-made start page. It had: * an auto-focus search bar linked to Google
* a bunch of links to my most-visited sites
* the current snapshot from one of my university's webcams
(which will auto-refresh if you hovered your mouse on it)
* a little area for a note t... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | mdakin: http://watrcoolr.us/ -- one of epi0Bauqu's projects. I think the UI is very appealing to those of us who prefer to focus on exactly one thing at a time. And hate clutter. And like to use the keyboard. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | barnaby: Homepage????
Wait people shut down their browsers? like, ever?I haven't seen the homepage in months, I think it's still that default "welcome to Ubuntu" page but I really have no clue. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | walesmd: My Backpackit.com Inbox. I've been implementing a bit of GTD task management in my life and having this page pop-up first thing (and stay up all day) has been very helpful. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | rabidsnail: https://mail.google.com |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | scorxn: localhost + a HEADER.HTML that reads '<h1>Do work!</h1>' |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | ecq: cnn.com |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | clemesha: http://en.wikipedia.orgHas "Featured article", "In the news", "Did you know...", and "On this day...". It's very awesome. |
anybody bought droid? what has been your experience? | JangoSteve: I picked mine up Friday, and I have to say it is amazing. The physical keyboard takes a bit of getting used to (the trick is to use the flat part of the tip of your thumbs and to be confident). The navigation feature of Google maps is also very useful. When you get close to your destination, it automaticall... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | Ixiaus: Wolframalpha |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | daveambrose: Safari: NYT
Firefox: Techmeme |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | tokenadult: A personalized Google home page on my main browser.On other browsers I use, it is some page I frequently visit in that browser (often because of website-browser compatibility issues, or to experiment with the look of certain pages in different browsers). |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | bsgamble: The most recent page(s) that I visited. I almost never shut down the browser, so it usually has a half dozen tabs with my commonly-visited sites already up. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | mark_l_watson: blank - clean screen, clean mind :-) |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | teknopartz: A bookmarks page I made at http://toxicpixel.org/pod/jma ... years ago was just a flat html file, now is a rails project I infrequently attempt to update in various ways. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | 10ren: http://icewm.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1.2.30/bindkey_...It's the only accurate documentation I could find of the hotkeys for the ice window manager. I was studying it for a while, getting cool at magically rearranging windows at my whim. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | techiferous: The Firefox "Speed Dial" add-on.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810 |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | Zarathu: http://www.quakelive.com |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | scottjackson: http://start.ioTotally customisable, good-looking start pages based on a really well-designed CMS. You can make some of your links private and some public.I didn't make it, I just really like it. One of the guys that did make it works at Tumblr. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | gorbachev: About half a dozen tabs. Google Reader, google.com and a few community sites I frequent. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | ramidarigaz: A webpage that tells me the ip address of my router at home. Useful for when I'm out of the country. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | weaksauce: get the speedial plugin for firefox. Without hyperbole it will change your life. |
Review My Library, Tempest | paraschopra: By the way, for people looking for free, open source solution for clickmaps, have a look here - http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | fnid: I use opera and it has a quick dial with currently 16 sites, including hacker news and several projects I'm working on and forums I'm involved in. |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | zaidf: That is weird. Even more surprising is the missing "Google Ad" text. Instead we've a superlight "Sponsored" link which is almost certainly breaking the TOS. |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | Raphael: Quite a mystery. It's definitely Google ads. My guess is they have automated a web browser to extract ads. Although, that seems like a lot of work without any much benefit. (It does eschew the default Adblock+ filters.) |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | omarchowdhury: What ads are you guys talking about? The set of of link under "Web Search" just returns organic links using the Google Search API... all I see is a normal Adsense unit to the right of that. |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | dabent: Do they have enough traffic to merit a special deal with Google? Maybe they can negotiate a way to get a custom layout? Alexa (for what it's worth) shows them getting OK traffic, but not a ton. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | sysctl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | pdxgene: http://runwayapp.comI find it's quite helpful to have my to-do list be the first thing that pops up at me when I launch a browser. |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | theli0nheart: In the inline style tag right before the ads, there's a reference to http://2.afs.googleadservices.com/images/partners/COi4yqbh-p0CFQJciAodOTAbrQ/kosmix.png
which is the "Sponsored Links" image. This strongly suggests that Kosmix and Google are working together to provide these links. Given that, there'... |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | gyardley: That functionality's available, but not to everybody - you need to have a relationship with Google.When operational, Findory did this client-side - each page included a list of space-delimited keywords based on the content of the page and the user's past behavior.If you look at some of the Findory pages at ar... |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | vitriolic: "AFAIK Google adsense for search comes with its own everything (searchbox + searchresults + ads) and there is no API to simply fetch ads on the query terms."This is where you are wrong. Google does give out XML ad feeds. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | cagey: file:///c:/my/scripts/home.htmc:\my is under Subversion control, allowing me to sync and propagate changes made on any home or work PC which has my setup to all the others (next time I use them). Created this setup (first using CVS) about 10 years ago...I also have easily accessible Google/Wikipedia/Craigslist/... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | chrischen: A matrix of 12 most visited sites. |
How is Kosmix hacking up Google Ads? | ankjain: Kosmix is not hacking up Google Ads. It is getting ads in an XML Feed and this kind of program is available to publishers/websites which have traffic beyond certain threshold. Lots of large websites have this kind of relationship with Google. |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | andyjdavis: The results page of http://www.whatpeoplearesayingaboutus.comIt's just a bunch of frames in tabs that allow me to see any new references to products/projects I'm involved with. I find it helpful to have product comments in my face every time I start my browser. |
How to do a pre-beta invite promotion | jsean: It's very hard to get people interested without actually having something tangible.
Make sure you produce an alpha version to which you invite a couple of feedback generators.
Friends, family or perhaps a couple of hardcore believers.
Next step is to get a decent beta and make it open.
How open is up to you to d... |
A basket of goods | mahmud: Rent can be as low as $200/mo if you're willing to share a room with someone.Food is expensive if you don't have a kitchen, but generally America is cheaper than Australia for everything with a GST (not sure how similar is NZ to OZ)Jobs are trivial to come across and Americans will not ask you for visa/ID, etc. |
How to do a pre-beta invite promotion | learnalist: I too am in this process. (almost)My plan will be as follows:Build a simple system to offer an invite code.I add them to the system, and see if they take up the offer."The invite code" will be going in emails specifically written to them.Who is them?Family and friends, but not everyone. People who have a sp... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | deniscales: http://www.google.com/igI did the random wikipedia link once and ended up getting Ginger Lynn...Not good when at work. |
Review My Library, Tempest | aw3c2: It seems quite slow. I am using Python 2.6.4 on Linux, slow processor (~2GHz). I out-commented the testOpacityFrequency and _compare defs in the test/pil.py. Now I added about 10000 points and it is calculating for half an hour already. With 1000 points it tool 5 minutes.Is that normal performance or did I do so... |
A quick tutorial on Web Application Testing? | bgnm2000: Are you testing functionality or UX? |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | Portnull: about:mozilla on Firefox, because it makes me laugh. With every new release of Firefox, I enjoy hoping it has changed. |
Review My Library, Tempest | decadentcactus: I like it, although I'm having a hard time thinking of a serious case where I can use it other than for example making another CrazyEgg, which I don't think I have the time for.TINY request - add a reset button to the example. I guess it's saved per session or something, but I spammed a bunch of clicks ... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | tokenadult: Previous HN thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419795What I said then was that I read a lot of speed-reading books when I was in college. I was working my way through, living in my own rented place, so time was of the essence. But I eventually decided that a lot of speed-reading techniques are less ... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | patio11: Any stories/tips?I've always read very fast and don't know any convenient way to describe to you how I do it. Sorry about that.However, I had to be taught to read aloud fast, for competitive speaking purposes. I'm told by other people that did the same exercises that I did that their silent reading speed inc... |
Review my app Interactive Programming Books | jsean: Great app but personally I don't find it that useful.
I'd rather learn in an environemt which is actually representative for real life.
For instance download the sample code and actually experiment in my own environment with preferred IDE and all.I think that partly has to do with my reluctance of constantly swi... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | moe: javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-ebook';readSize='size-medium';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getE... |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | gstar: Depends on the business, and what you're doing - but it's more or less:- Support- Sales - any number of sales-related things like optimising the sales pipeline or even managing sales staff if you're B2B- Marketing and PR- Business - things like dealing with raising money, finance, accounting, trying to negotiate... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | barmstrong: I went through this book a few years back (Breakthrough Rapid reading by Peter Kump). I bought it for no other reason than it comes up first in Amazon when you search for "speed reading":
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump/...My conclusion is that yes, speed reading works and it's ... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | btilly: Speaking personally I find that my reading speed varies greatly depending on what kind of material I have been reading lately. If I've been reading light material that I don't have to pay attention to details on (sci-fi/fantasy is a good example), then my overall reading speed on other kinds of material increa... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | gaoshan: I am a voracious reader and always have been. As a kid I was the one in the summer reading program who was 3 or 4 times ahead of the next highest kid in number of books read. By 4th grade I was testing at the "post-collegiate" level in reading comprehension. I never speed read, have never tried to speed read a... |
What is your Home Page in your browser? | sjs382: Google Apps Gmail, Google Apps Calendar, Google Reader, Google Voice, Facebook
I rarely click the "home" button but I like having these three up when i start a new browser session. |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | swombat: Those cocktails on the beach don't drink themselves!After the launch is hell on earth, if you're lucky. A million things are happening at once, you find out all sorts of stuff you missed, you learn about all those bugs you didn't catch earlier, feature requests come piling in, angry or elated customers or user... |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | pg: Building what they should have made. |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | charlesju: Perhaps I am in a niche space, but I have found that there is an endless amount of features and upgrades that can be programmed after the initial launch. |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | kjell: I kind of like reading ‘slow,’ or at my natural reading pace. I've experimented a bit with reading faster and it kind of takes the leisure and enjoyment out of reading for me. Probably because I haven't practiced it enough, and as I do it'll come more naturally and leisurely.But what helps me most is to try and ... |
Speedreading - myth vs reality? your thoughts. | jdlegg: I've spent a lot of time thinking and learning about this. Speed reading doesn't seem to be a "myth" exactly, but you are making a big tradeoff between speed and comprehension. There isn't a magic technique that can enhance your ability to retain information, which is arguably the most important part of reading... |
Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service? | Femur: My girlfriend is a trained court reporter and does freelance transcription on the side. She charges by the audio-hour. Interested in getting in touch? |
Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service? | nmcfarl: So my company http://castingwords.com provides transcription services (based on Amazon's Mechanical Turk). We've been doing this for years and have gotten some excellent reviews for our transcription (not just our technology) including a nice one from the Wall Street Journal - we've got a quote from that on t... |
What music alters your state of consciousness? | tptacek: http://searchyc.com/submissions/ask+hn+music |
What do founders spend their time on, after their product launch? | simonw: Launch is the starting point, not the end. Until you've launched something you have no idea what people actually want. It's a very rare startup which launches with the right product. |
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