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Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | jseifer: I can't recommend Domo highly enough: http://www.okdomo.com/. Great to work with, incredible design, fairly priced, and they can work with Rails/Django templates easy enough. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | undefinable: You can try http://www.taurusarts.com/ |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | andr: Yes, I did work on that. I used a neural network to trade FX. I wrote my own neutral network framework using code generators for x86 and CUDA.The neural network was a fairly normal feed-forward network with GA-inspired, but heavily modified learning process. It combined layers of neurons with memory and memory-le... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | indiaboy: She's very good and very easy to work with:
http://negarina.com/ |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | glen: I'd highly, highly, highly recommend: Kim Knight of http://www.kimknightstudios.com/. She does regular work for heavies like IBM, Chase, etc., but is affordable and incredibly professional. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | Chris_G: You sound like a programmer that is "difficult."It also sounds like you're the type of programmer that doesn't treat designers with any respect, so they likely reciprocate -- the type that doesn't like to collaborate, but just boss people around (it's more than apparent from your post that you sneeringly look ... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | kingkawn: more-than-us.com is great, primarily because of their devotion to detail and satisfying the demands of the development process. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | rishi: http://www.amzeddesigns.com/ |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | dmpayton: http://www.artificestudios.com/I've been friends with Antonio for years, and can attest to the quality and professionalism he puts into his work. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | thesethings: There is a cool site, "CollabFinder" just for this purpose. http://collabfinder.com. Like all social sites, it will get better the more of us that use it :D |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | Inkpixelspaper: Hi Nick, a programmer I work with fwd'd your post to me, so I guess I'm not a jerk to work with. I do know what you mean. Some people just suck. I tend to love programmers I work with. I think they're magicians, but I think I am sometimes, too. I really enjoy the collaboration with programmers.There are... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | Confusion: OpenBSD to store private data, and FreeBSD to scale; everything else is for failuresConsidering that attitude of closeminded zealotism, you are probably the problem.The title of this post screams 'most designers suck'. You seem like the kind of guy that gives others the feeling that he expect them to be mind... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | rimantas: Interesting that this was not mentioned yet: http://haystack.com/ |
The Primers on different subjects | sharpn: For architecture I found 'A History of Architecture' by Bannister Fletcher to be a good start, but my copy is very old (1943 edition) - so try elsewhere if you want to include modernism from the outset. I'm told it's a classic. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | catweasel: Since nobody has mention it yet, one could always submit a project as a design competition at 99designs.com. Though, at design school, we were advised never to enter competitions as it undermines the design process and devalues the designer ... a view I tend to agree with. |
Where does one start to learn how to code? | brianto2010: 1 Pick an Interesting Language
2 Learn the Syntax
3 Pick a Problem
4 Solve the Problem
5 Goto 3 if Done
6 Goto 1 after 1--2 Years
As for problems, http://rubyquiz.com/ and http://programmingpraxis.com/ are good starting resources.To learn the syntax of a language, just search for the language ... |
The Primers on different subjects | jasoncrawford: For philosophy, I recommend A History of Western Philosophy by W. T. Jones. It's a good overview, providing both extensive quotes from primary sources and good summary/analysis of the material.A little less sure for physics, but The Feynman Lectures are classics. |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | qhoxie: For well-polished basics, I don't think you can do any better than posterous. |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | trimski: Tumblr has post-by-email and customizable themes. http://www.tumblr.com/why-tumblrSoup.io is another tumblelog platform that makes it dead simple to reblog (literally one click).
http://soup.io |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | karanbhangui: I love posterous. |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | AndrewDucker: I use Livejournal myself. Works fantastically well, best commenting system out there, support RSS, Atom and OpenID. Has a well-featured API, so you can use any number of clients to write posts. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | andrewhyde: http://anthonydimitre.com/ is my current fav. |
Where does one start to learn how to code? | paulbaumgart: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide |
The Primers on different subjects | ModelCitizen: There was a metafilter thread a while back that asked a similar question. Here's a summary of the books listed (with a link to the original thread):http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/ |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | fling: It sounds like the problem you are having is a pretty classic one. There are a lot of great designers out there, ones that we may respect and admire, but they don't know the first thing about the business of doing design work.When looking for a designer, pay close attention to not just their blog design, but to ... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | omarchowdhury: http://www.typepad.com |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | samstokes: I faced the same question a few days ago. I went for Tumblr in the end, mostly because of the polished feel both of the website and of individual Tumblr blogs, the low barrier to entry, and theme customisability. I've quite liked how little I've had to change to get a basic blog working how I want it (dece... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | flooha: Blogger, WordPress.com, Posterous, Tumblr, Weebly, TypePad, etc... are all good choices, each with their own pluses and minuses. If you get to the point where you want more flexibility, and customization with your choice of plugins, please give Flooha a try, it's free. http://flooha.com You can upgrade later ... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | vaksel: I went with tumbler for mine, the only thing I don't like is how it links to the actual post. Instead of linking the post title, like every single other blog on the planet, you have to scroll all the way down and click the "Posted 4 days ago" link |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | Eliezer: DON'T. All money that can be pumped out of the market by standard ML algorithms has been pumped out by standard ML algorithms. |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | Sanguinez: * you use logs so you can be aware of suspicious events at network, system and app level* you have scripts to analyze these logs and notify you if anything suspicious happens. This is faster, can be done more often and is less tedious for you* you have some reference files somewhere so you can compare checks... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | adamcrowe: All of them. Register for a posterous account and you can autopost to other blogs/twitter/facebook/flickr/etc.Why be limited? |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | sgdesign: I might as well plug my own site: http://www.sachagreif.com/I've done my share of back-end and front-end developement (php, coldfusion, and of course html, css, jquery, etc.) before focusing on design, so I generally work well with programmers.I consider myself fairly easy to work with, although to be fair I'... |
The Primers on different subjects | zackham: The Timeless Way of Building (and A Pattern Language) by Christopher Alexander is a great architecture book that was influential in computer science. Interdisciplinary books like this are a great way to connect the dots. |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | smanek: Don't bother.D.E. Shaw, Renaissance Tech, Goldman Sachs, etc. have already hired hundreds (if not thousands) of people smarter than you to do exactly this. They have more Math, Physics, Econ, CS PhDs than you can count/ |
Please review my web app, Docley | dawie: Clickable Link: http://docley.com/admin/create_customer |
Please review my web app, Docley | macmac: A link would have been clever. |
Please review my web app, Docley | macmac: What does it do that a shared drive does not? |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | abi: I'm writing a new blogging platform that is definitely much simpler than Blogger, Posterous or Tumblr. I'm hoping to get my first iteration out by the end of the week (yay for Thanksgiving break!) and will post it on Hacker News. But I couldn't find an email on your account so feel free to email me - abii @st anfo... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | ericd: I've heard great things about squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com), though I haven't used it myself.They seem to have import/export functionality to all the other big blog platforms, so it wouldn't be hard to jump out to another platform if you wanted to.It's not free, though (starting at $8/mo). |
The Primers on different subjects | kes: Perhaps Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond would be a good book to pick up.Although it doesn't directly apply to any of the subjects you listed, I think that knowing a bit about world history is a good way to make connections in the philosophies of different areas. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | rmdstudio: http://www.taliacohen.comShe is a member of our tribe and used to working with 2 uber open source computer scientist geeks that we are at (rmdstudio.com). She is actually dating a young oxford post doctorate mathematician.But she doesn't work for people, she only works with them. So instead of asking her to ... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | jim-greer: Jason Santa Maria did a great job for the inital design of Kongregate, and Happy Cog did very nice HTML/CSS. Jason was with Happy Cog then, is solo now. I'd recommend both of them.http://jasonsantamaria.com/http://www.happycog.com/design/kongregate/ |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | raffi: I'm a fan of http://www.monfx.com/ -- Monjurul did the design for http://www.feedbackarmy.com and later http://www.afterthedeadline.com |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | ams6110: A really skilled intruder won't leave any obvious clues behind if he gets in. You are likely to encounter this only if someone is deliberately targeting your server for some reason.That said, most intrusion attempts are unsophisticated, analogous to a person walking around a parking lot trying car doors to s... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | diN0bot: http://wordpress.comit just works. for everything.i've tried posterous and returned to wordpress.edit: i've used wordpress both as a tech-dumb, just-want-to-blog-fast user, as well as set up and customized on my own server. curious what problems others have found with wordpress. |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | DanielBMarkham: If you're looking for ease-of-use, posterous or Blogger. I'd probably go with Blogger, but there's nothing wrong with posterous either.If you're looking to eventually do "cooler" stuff with blogging, go with WordPress or MoveableType. I've been with MT for almost five years. If I had to do it over again... |
The Primers on different subjects | mechanical_fish: Ironically, I have a Ph.D. in Physics, so I will have trouble recommending a decent primer. ;)You can't go wrong with Feynman's stuff. But his Lectures really are notorious for being the books that physics grad student wish were the standard primers, rather than books that are known to be easy for begi... |
Please review my web app, Docley | gridspy: It seems that you are entering a crowded space with what is currently a weak offering.How do you plan to beathttp://basecamphq.com/or Google Docs?Do you have any paying clients yet?How do you plan to differentiate yourself?Why would I use your system rather than a shared folder with controlled FTP access?You n... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | danl: The best way to judge whether a designer is suited to your project is to have a look through their portfolio. Design work can be very much in the eye of the beholder, so you need to find someone who has a style you like.Unfortunately, this won't tell you what they're like to work with so maybe ask for a reference... |
Please review my web app, Docley | furtivefelon: The site design looks kind of depressing, and the logo looks weird. It definitely need some way of differentiating yourself from the competitions. I currently use dropbox for most of my file sharing/backup needs, and dropbox is a difficult player to beat. |
Please review my web app, Docley | ThinkWriteMute: Remove 'Username', make username == email.Remove 'Confirm password'. Instead email the password they entered when confirming via email.Remove 'timezone'. Figure it out based on their IP.Make this into 3 columns. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | ptn: --Front page stories are not in chronological order (I can't keep track of which stories I've already read)That's kind of the point. Instead of seeing a bunch of stories, you see them ordered by the opinion of users.
Visited links are painted in a different color, use that to keep track. |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | peterwwillis: Heh... Basically, we don't.Sad, really. It's mostly due to apathy and no mandate from higher-ups to pursue stronger security, but in general our farm is only strong enough to keep generic attacks at bay. 0-days, man-in-the-middle, hell even some SSL vulnerabilities are possible for us. We have a "security... |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | JoachimSchipper: Monitoring intrusion attempts is almost always a waste of time; secure the server instead.Set up the server in a secure way, with many layers of defense. Any applications that accept data from the internet should be very robust. After that, add mitigating stuff like SQL permissions, a chroot jail for t... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | benwr: I use Google Reader, but you're right. There isn't enough information in the RSS feed to make it really enjoyable to use. You have to judge what you want to read based solely on the title. One thing that helps, for firefox users at least, is the "Better GReader" extension. It lets you open the link in the ar... |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | maxklein: Posterous sucks because you cannot insert images where you want and you have to go through a separate interface to get your images in it. Posted one article on posterous, and don't want to post more. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | nfnaaron: I could be wrong, but I also could be pretty close to right.I think the RSS feed tracks http://news.ycombinator.com/newest , the new link in the top menu bar. The feed and new link appear to me to be in reverse chron order.If you don't visit often, your rss reader should keep track of everything until you che... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | ddemchuk: excessively |
How to exaggerate flaws to convince you that your product has problems? | anigbrowl: Put a screen capture on youtube with balloons popping up saying 'LOL fail' at random intervals. Alternatively, buy the company and then threaten to fire the programmers responsible for stealing precious moments from your life. |
Please review my web app, Docley | maxklein: The space is too filled up. You don't stand a chance. Let me give you a positioning that may work for you:It's a "Document Management System". Back up your companies documents, and query and cross-reference them online. Share with your co-workers. See and reference past versions. Access your documents with ou... |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | njl: sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit logcheck monitrkhunter and chkrootkit will both look for insecure configuration, permissions, and known root kits. rkhunter will also maintain a database of the signatures of your system binaries. I assume there are overlaps between the two. I don't really care, I run both.... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | riklomas: I made a Twitter-bot a while ago for HN, I find it useful and there's over 7000 people following it now. It's only new stories in the top 5 though, mainly to stop information overload.http://twitter.com/newsycombinator/ |
How do you consume Hacker News? | anatoly: I don't consume HN at all.I read HN through the website. The things you mention are a little annoying, but not something that worries me a lot. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | timf: I would like to respond by saying "instead of griping, show us your counter idea as a demo" but that currently seems like a steep hill to climb. I have been curious for some time when/if a read-only API (with access to all information past/present) might be introduced to let people easily create alternate 'views... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | anigbrowl: Website. Yeah, it's imperfect but I've gotten used to it. Your life won't suffer that much if you miss stuff, anything sufficiently significant will get reposted somewhere else. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | thorax: Big fan of his work: http://radnauseam.com/He put together the redesign of ErrorHelp for us (and the new Disqus and Etherpad, too, I believe).Also, we've been having decent luck at 99designs, where we're trying a contest right now for TinyArrows: http://ta.gd/99 |
How do you consume Hacker News? | DanielBMarkham: Shameless plug time: I've got a temp site up that pulls current articles from all the major tech sites and gives you 1) more stories, 2) movement in comment count, votes, and rankings across each site, and 3) emphasis on fast-moving stories at the top.http://project-management-methodologies.netI could a... |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | steveplace: The majority of people who have responded to you with various pieces of opinion/information forgot to answer this question:Does anyone have any experience in doing this?So take everything with a grain of salt-- there seems to be a lot of advice going around by people who don't have skin in the game-- especi... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | vaksel: 1. Visit site
2. Hit Threads
3. See if my words of wisdom got voted up(heheh) and if they need a response
4. Scan the front page for Ask/Tell HN type questions.
5. Scan the page for posts with a lot of comments and see if the topic is interesting enough to check out.I usually just check once an hour or, and it ... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | gills: I just use the web interface. Skim the front page first, then the new page. I check out articles with a high comments/points ratio first (or only) because the discussion of the intelligent folks here is what I value. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | RevRal: No matter what, you'll always miss good stuff.For example, most of HN missed the great article by unalone: http://journal.rinich.com/post/249408496/god . Both of the submissions on the article were flagged, killed.I've been reading here for a very long time, but only recently signed up. I've always tried to ign... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | scythe: >(I can't keep track of which stories I've already read)Most browsers will color a link you've clicked on differently. I know I've read a story because its link is gray.Of course, if I didn't remember them most of the time, I'd wonder if I wasn't wasting time in a more heinous way that I'd originally imagined. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | petercooper: I visit the site every day or so, scan the front page for interesting things, then read those. I definitely don't care for seeing every single article. It's a river, I take a dip.I don't care about "missing" anything because new stuff is always coming along. The "missing" attitude leads to information over... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | simonista: Two things that help to see what you've missed in the past several days are http://news.ycombinator.com/lists (specifically best and bestcomments, although all are useful), and http://ask.searchyc.com/ which unfortunately is only for Ask NH posts, but is chronological with points and comments. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | reidab: I use Nirmal Patel's neat republishing of the RSS feed that uses Readability to extract content from target links.http://www.nirmalpatel.com/hacks/hnrss.html |
Please review my web app, Docley | raquo: 1) Improve design in all aspects (change logo, colors, ajaxify (esp. simple things like renaming a file))2) Differentiate. Don't assume I don't know about dropbox and the like. |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | Sandman: Clickable link:http://wantsthis.comThe app seems nice, although there seem to be some minor rendering issues when viewed in FF 3.5.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (the text in the 'sign up free' box gets a bit out of the box). However, there were other bugs - when I searched for a 'linux t-shirt', the 'next' arrow dissapeare... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | caf: I just use the RSS feed and pick the stories based on the title. Seems to work OK. |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | ucdaz: Cool app! How do you guys plan to make $$? |
How do you consume Hacker News? | jlees: With reluctance, of late.I tend to click through to showcased items via the twitter @newsycombinator feed or on IRC. Other than that, the website, but I don't visit as much as I used to. I just find less of interest lately. |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | nfnaaron: 1. I really like that you can start using it without registering. I assume that the assigned name is usable beyond "now?"2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms).3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one of the suggested wants, and I typed in a want. Then I registered. But in ... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | tptacek: Via SearchYC RSS subscription to patio11's comments. |
Getting started with geospatial data? | gruseom: If you want an overview, the bible right now is Samet's Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures:http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Multidimensional-Structure... |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | devi00: Zarathu I just want to let you know I agree with your post 100%. I am the owner of a web development and internet marketing company, and I have had the exact same experiences.I believe it is because the great designers don't approach their work as a job, but as art. Once that is their mindset, it is nearly impo... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | DrewHintz: Looks nice. The account auto-creation is neat. I didn't see an option to change the auto-generated account name (such as a35) to something of my choice.The Preference checkboxes at the bottom of /settings.php don't appear correctly on Chrome. |
Please review my web app, Docley | ctb9: the screenshot could use some work. its too small to read or even convey any info about the app at all, it has an evil twin lurking behind it, the perspective is way too tilted, and about 75% of the image is an ugly brown gradient.also, regarding the general color scheme, i'd start by using the sign-up button blu... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | k0n2ad: With smoked Gouda and a side of caviar. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | josephkern: Twitter. |
what hosted blogging solution would you recomend? | jhancock: I wanted an easy to admin wordpress site and picked dreamhost.com as its just about as turn-key as I needed. Backups, upgrades all work seamlessly. This gave me the added benefit that for a fixed price per year, I can host other people's wordpress sites on the same plan. Turns out I have several friends th... |
How do you consume Hacker News? | Xichekolas: Like this:http://andrewfarmer.name/screenshot.pngUsing this:http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039Not sure it really addresses any of your issues though. Just know that it wouldn't be hard to implement some of your ideas with a GM script. |
How do you consume Hacker News? | jarsj: I would rather love to see it go more complicated and geeky. Hackers would figure it out and non-hackers would get filtered away. |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | jarsj: An auto-complete would do good to this app. A rich auto-complete with images, better. |
Can someone refer me to a designer that doesn't suck? | ahlatimer: I work with two designers currently, both are great guys and do quality work. The first is Brandon Silverstein, who is also a developer and owner of Impulse Development (the company I work for). Most of the designs at http://impulsedevelopment.com are his work. The other is Armando Alvarez with Viva Creative... |
Please review my web app: WantsThis | ctb9: i really like it, the search works well, the design is nice...well done!the auto-generated name thing is a great idea, but I wonder if you could increase the conversion rate by replacing the copy "Create an account now, so you can choose a better name for your wish list!" with the form itself. That copy makes it ... |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | jhancock: 1 - use a minimal server base install. start with a linux/bsd install that has as little running as possible for your needs. I've found both ubuntu-server and FreeBSD work for me.2 - Install things that you understand. I don't install large meta-packages. I also install most things from source: nginx, rub... |
Has anyone used machine learning to trade? | johnwatson11218: I just want to add that I read some of the Turtle Trader books and one more on Trend Following. The last book finally got across to me the point that the trend followers used computers and math not to try and predict where the markets were headed but rather to try and classify markets as rising, falli... |
How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring? | aschobel: FreeBSD handbook goes over some practices, treat security like layers of an onion peel.http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/security-intro....Some things we found useful* don't have ssh bind to a public interface on. You need to VPN in first and then ssh to the private IP. we only have 80 and 443 open... |
How do I regain my attention span? | bgray: See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869034 |
How do you consume Hacker News? | thaumaturgy: I consume HN as a light snack between projects throughout the day.I'm not too bothered by it if I miss something. |
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