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More types of flagging? | richardw: How about letting those with big karma attach tags to their downvote? Others could agree by downvoting the tag. This allows a slightly more organic approach where the best tags emerge over time. Maybe anyone over (lower) karma can propose a tag but the tag only applies if a few agree on it. |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | DenisM: I like the one that leads to better conversions. Which one is that? I don't know. You shouldn't be asking us. |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | nailer: I love Larry and Sergei for being able to deliver on Netscape's dream of making the web the platform, and the OS irrelevant.I also like 280North for creating an open platform that allows control-centric, rather than document centric, layouts for web apps. |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | manbearpig: Most Admired:
Bill Gates - he's the only one I can think of who's truly top-notch from both a technical and a business standpointWho I wish I were:
Steve Chen and Chad Hurley - they went from idea to $1.65 billion in a year-and-a-half |
More types of flagging? | ErrantX: One bug I did notice (slightly off topic but this seems an appropriate place) is that people can work around the cool off delay for replying by clicking the "link" button on a comment. This has given me a textbox and let me reply to the comment way before the cool off. |
Any long-term wager sites? | DanielStraight: He should set up a cron job to read Flickr's home page from his machine and send emails with the reply. If you stop getting emails, he lost. If the emails show that Flickr is out, you lost. |
SQL query has me scratching my head... | ScottWhigham: Why is this Ask HN? |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | ahemphill: Frankly, both logos suffer because the concept is not particularly inspired (and has been overdone in the design world, IMHO). That said, the new version does very much one-up the other in execution, though the letterspacing toward the end has been compromised because of the attached letterforms. This throws... |
More types of flagging? | iamelgringo: I somehow get the sense that the quality of the discussion has correlates with how long an article lives on the front page. A year or two ago, articles could hang on the front page for a day or two. Now, the volume of new articles pushes interesting discussions like this one off the front page within ho... |
iPhone/mobile devs: Please help me by filling out this quick survey... | klizmic: I'm posting this under a new account, but I've been around HN for a couple years now...I just wanted to get a feel for how developers are approaching the choice between native iPhone apps and mobile web apps.If you could help out, the survey shouldn't take more than just a couple of minutes max.Thanks! |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | bhousel: Lower one fits your site better. Top one looks religious/Christian. (I don't mean it as a criticism, that was just my initial impression). |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | rlpb: I think the bottom one would look much better on a dead-tree letterhead, and this is what makes it look professional even if you aren't ever going to do this. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | w3matter: Redis -- with Ohm. Really great. Build a bunch of sites with it. A nice replacement for ActiveRecord in many use-cases.
Now ready to redo some BIG sites that we have using just Redis.It has transformed my thinking about data (i'm a postgres guy), and just made Rails more fun now. The sites I did are also bla... |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | jasonlbaptiste: talk to markbao founder of classleaf.com |
Which logo do you like better? Why? | qw: The new one is much better. Clear and crisp. The top one looks like someone played around with Photoshop. Reminds me of the beginning of the web when it was popular to render 3D logos. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | TallGuyShort: I used to use Ubuntu, and at the time it was because of the community - it creates the next best thing to commerical support, IMO, and it's completely free. I also found Ubuntu to be an all-around very easy to administer and robust system. I've since switched to a BSD, as it seems like Ubuntu might start ... |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | strooltz: I wouldn't say it's nice but moodle is an option... haven't used it in several years so I'm not sure as to the current state of the project... |
Do you have a "favorite" entrepreneur? Who? | dpatru: I like Sam Walton because he increased the spending power of a lot of Americans by making retail more efficient. I like that he aligned his business with his customers' interest. His business did well in proportion as it made his customers' better off. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | gengstrand: Well, I choose Ubuntu as a desktop environment because it runs all the software that I want for free and most of the software is easier to install than Windows which is not free. My perception is that Ubuntu is more stable and responsive than Vista and the GUI is just as slick. |
Why did you choose Ubuntu? | otto: I'm a Debian guy, but I gladly put Ubuntu on family/friends computers.The big plus on Debian/Ubuntu for me is the package manager. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | noonespecial: Who chooses the charity? Inheritance is just one subset of the what happens to my money when I die? question. Maybe I'd like to give it to a charity, maybe my children. Do I have that right or should some of it be confiscated and used for something I likely wouldn't approve of explicitly? If so, how much?... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | _pius: What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?What's unfair about it? |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | btilly: I was all set for an interesting discussion on inheritance vs composition in OO design, and instead I got this?Ah well, I'll answer the question posed. To me the only reason to reward different people differently is to create incentives to motivate people to produce more. Inheriting great wealth takes people ... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | ionfish: Given all the discussions here recently about the unintended side-effects of changing incentive structures, it's worth bearing in mind that providing for one's children (including after one's own death) is an important—perhaps the important—incentive to attain material wealth. Take it away and you may find you... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | russell: My SO has serious medical problems. Shouldnt I be able to leave her the house and some means of support. Most inheritances are fairly modest. Taking them away would only hurt the majority with little benefit to anyone. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | hga: Question 1: Is it your money, or the state's?Question 2: Do you like the ideas of the family farm and family small business?Question 3: What about life insurance for families? |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | jamesbritt: "in the interest of fairness."How exactly is "fairness" defined? I see that word used in discussions of social matters ("fair-trade coffee", "fair wages", "fair share of taxes") and it's assumed that everyone is just going to have the same idea of "fair" (or not bothering analyzing what the word is suppose... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | ddemchuk: If you don't like capitalism, move somewhere that doesn't use it as their economical system so life can be more "fair". You might not like that kids get their parent's wealth without technically earning it, but that's the nature of the game. Want the same wealth? Go earn it. That's the beauty of capitalism. T... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | tjr: It's not unfair to give an inheritance to your children; it's unfair not to. But I can't make everyone else do what I think is right. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | steveitis: 1. Why would you say it is 'unfair' of me to be able to decide who gets the benefit of my lifes work when I pass on?That's the rational. I earned it, so I decide who gets it. Usually my kids. YMMV from country to country, and state to state yadda.2. Why not mind your own business. I worked for it, and I'll ... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | grellas: In English history, the ages-ago method of bequeathing one's estate consisted of the "fee-tail" system - that is, property was passed (or "entailed") by lineal descent in a way that allowed the testator to control it for generations to come (for example, "I bequeath Blackacre to the eldest surviving male from ... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | jganetsk: I thought this was a question about programming.And yes, I think inheritance in programming should be illegal. |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | roundsquare: Here are a few reasons I disagree with you. Let me know what you think.1) The point of gathering wealth is to somehow make yourself happier. Without this, wealth is meaningless. One of the things that make many parents happy is the knowledge that their kids will be well off. If you take that away, you ... |
Do you think inheritance should be illegal? | rlpb: Should giving gifts be illegal?> What exactly is the rationale behind such an unfair concept?What's the difference (in real terms) between giving a gift before you die and giving a gift after you die?> ...limits how much money parents can give to their childrenWhy are you singling out parents giving money to thei... |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | alanthonyc: This sounds interesting. It's been a while, but the compiler I built for a project class I in college was the most satisfying thing I've ever built.What language are you thinking of implementing? |
How best to collaborate with designers? | mun411: There is great article by Neil Patel on how to hire a Good Designer.hope you might find this helpfulhttp://www.quicksprout.com/2009/12/02/how-to-hire-a-good-des... |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | julien: PubSubHubbub : Bringing an end to the stupid feed polling we're tried to fight for years (see SUP from Friendfeed, AtomStreams... etc). |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | MaysonL: Take a look at OMeta and Factor. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | smiler: Can I ask a non-technical question about analysing the real-time web...What's the business benefit? I don't think enough happens 'real time' for it to make much of a difference - reading a few blogs, news websites, digg / reddit & trending topics on twitter is enough to catch up on what happened in the world in... |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | fleitz: Hadoop is designed as a batch processing framework not a real-time analysis framework. If your analysis functions are idempotent with regard to future data in the time domain simply compute summaries for each "block" down to the resolution supported for that age of data such that your summaries fit in memory. S... |
Have any of you ever wanted to write a compiler or interpreter? | bdfh42: I have had a go at writing both a small interpreter and a small compiler. I found both exercises intellectually rewarding and will probably come back to this at some time in the future.I used the .NET platform and the IL assembler language as my output so I suppose I kept some distance from the "metal" but othe... |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | jey: What's the objective? We need to decide on what we want "analyze" to mean before we can evaluate/debate the merits of different techniques. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | physcab: Although I haven't really delved into it that much, HBase (and other "NoSQL" databases) supposedly address the latency and structured data points. I brought up HBase as opposed to Cassandra or Redis because HBase sits on top of HDFS and has a Hadoop/MapReduce API. |
Social Nets - Can I have my data back please? | aj: That is actually a cool idea. As an extension or a greasemonkey script, it might actually work quite well |
Social Nets - Can I have my data back please? | brk: What problem are you solving with this? It seems like you are adding a lot of overhead and needless data to a simple system. |
How to analyse the real-time Web? | ig1: Have a look at what the financial industry use, they've been tackling high volume low-latency realtime data feed analysis problems for the last couple of decades. Time series databases (such as kx/kdb) are popular as are propriety in-memory databases (often based on something like BerkleyDB). |
Where are the decent elearning platforms? | camwest: We are a small startup working on a video based learning platform http://woople.com/. It is currently in a private beta and we are hoping to have a more public marketing website/launch by June 2010. It is definitely not the traditional LMS though.LMS is a crutch a lot of organizations use to avoid having to tr... |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | dabent: Clickable: http://www.elograde.com/ |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | icey: Is there any way to try this out without registering?If not, do you have a demo account we could use? |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | icey: I'm looking at it now, but I'm not sure what some of these things mean. Your photo priority is 2 and you have 9 credits.
What does photo priority mean? What can I do with the credits?What is your target audience for this? The verbiage is very technical across all of the pages, and I couldn't see anyone who was... |
Review my webapp (objective ratings for photos) | jacquesm: http://likebetter.com/ |
Review my app - Wallet Garden | tdoggette: It won't load. |
Review my app - Wallet Garden | DanielStraight: How does this beat emailing the information to yourself? |
Make one prediction for 2010. | cperciva: Jupiter will start fusing Hydrogen, resulting in the warming of its moons and the melting of Europa's ice. |
Make one prediction for 2010. | Femur: -Personal income tax rates in the US will be increased.-Google will strike some sort of a deal with Hulu or Boxee.-The price of oil will hit $100+ again.-Chrome OS will be a huge hit. |
Please review my webapp for Twitter over IM | anigbrowl: I like it, it was easy to sign up and worked first time (and I'm not a big twitter fan). It's good that you solicit ideas in your forum...but take some time out to do some graphic design so it doesn't look like a student project. |
Anyone have experience with Fat Free CRM? | jmonegro: No, but you can always get it up and running for free on Heroku to try it out. |
Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships) | aidscholar: Clickable: http://aidscholar.com/ |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jason_g: Another vote for Linode. |
Productivity Is Lacking | nostrademons: You've just done a lot of work, and it's Christmas vacation. Give yourself a break.I really enjoy programming too, but that doesn't mean I want to spend every waking moment doing it (okay, I guess I do spend most waking moments doing it ;-)). When I don't feel like doing anything, I don't, and I try not... |
Review my FB App. | hajrice: Clickable link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=371323550620 |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | mattdennewitz: django, git, celeryd, mongodb, redis, tornado, appengine, superfeedr, phsb, and opencalais come to mind |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | chrisgoodrich: The consumer and business smart phone markets are converging.What is the difference between a "business smart phone" and a "consumer smart phone" anymore? Smart phone's used to be inherently business focused due to their higher cost and complexity, but the iPhone and Android have brought smart phones to... |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | cjoh: RIMM will see its market share eroded by Google, Apple, and Microsoft over the next 5 years. So will Microsoft. I think Microsoft, in the next 5 years, will need to buy RIMM to stay in the mobile sector. |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | mcotton: There is a great utility called "LittleSnitch" that is a must have for the mac. It alerts you of all outgoing TCP connections. It lets you know what programs are calling home. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | kierank: RIM still have the killer-app for business mobile phones, which is simple corporate email integration, sorted with relative ease. |
Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships) | paraschopra: Great design. One suggestion: make it very clear if it finds scholarships internationally or is it just restricted to US?Looks like it is limited to US only. Plus your database size looks small at the moment.But it is great start and a genuine problem you have solved. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | bbgm: When I joined my group pretty much everyone was either using a blackberry (the majority) or Windows Mobile phones. Today the majority are iPhones. Thats for a group that has grown a lot since then too, so one could easily argue that the other manufacturers (at least Apple) are making inroads into the business p... |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | Shamiq: Knox for encrypted volumes. That, and don't put anything on it you wouldn't be okay with losing... |
Productivity Is Lacking | teuobk: Would you be interested in an "accountabilibudy" (with apologies to South Park)? I'm finding myself in a bit of a productivity rut at the moment, too, and perhaps some sort of ongoing dialogue would be mutually beneficial. Interested? |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | makecheck: Use the Keychain Access utility (/Applications/Utilities) to store things that are really important, and use applications that are aware of the Keychain. This encrypts only a small amount of data, yet the system prompts you when an application tries to access it without permission.I haven't really given Fil... |
Applications or best practices to ensure data security on a Macintosh | colonelxc: Filevault is okay for protecting your data from being stolen when your laptop is. It only encrypts your home directory, so you have no assurance about the integrity of the rest of your system. If you're only worried about getting your laptop stolen, not a big deal. On the other hand, if you're super paran... |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | roundsquare: Because blackberry's integrate well with outlook. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | gtani: loose summary:- dynamic languages: ruby/rails/merb/sinatra,, python/django/twisted/tornado, groovy/grails (nobody mentioned scala very much)- FP, erlang, clojure, F#, haskell;- noSQL: KV store, doc-oriented db, ..- message queues and brokers: AMQP, rabbitMQ, XMPP,- javascript/ browser capabilities: jquery, node.... |
What programming font do you use and why? | j_baker: I use anonymous pro: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.htmlAdmittedly, I use it because it's pretty. Hence why I started a question to find out more about what makes a good programming font. |
What programming font do you use and why? | sidmitra: Consolas at 10pt. |
What programming font do you use and why? | nailer: Any sans-serif monospaced font with good 'eye' and 'el' / 'zero' and 'oh' distinction.- Microsoft's Consolas is generally quite good on Windows- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on Linux- Whatever OS X comes with by default (yaay, no need to change anything)are all good. |
What programming font do you use and why? | seegate: I just read this article: http://nickgravgaard.com/cgi-bin/elastictabstopsnews/blosxom...He compares proportional fonts with monospaced fonts for programming, and after looking at his screenshots I think I'm going to have to try it for myself. |
What programming font do you use and why? | dthakur: I love CodingFontTobi (http://www.proggyfonts.com/). It's all over my system (Visual Studio, vim, cmd/cygwin etc). |
What programming font do you use and why? | grayrest: Monaco at 11pton windowsDroid Sans Mono at 11pt with a dotted 0:http://www.cosmix.org/software/ |
What programming font do you use and why? | nek4life: Here's a pretty nice list of programming fonts.http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/I like DejaVu sans and Monaco |
What programming font do you use and why? | andrewcooke: schumacher clean. fixed width. easy to read. and the "a" looks like an "a" should. |
Better duplicate identification | brk: Makes sense to me. It also seems that a good part of the dupes come from the fact that the full URL is used as the identifier. And often times that URL has a lot of referrer garbage and similar data in it. It would seem there could be some logic to try and pare URLs down somewhat in the comparator code. |
Productivity Is Lacking | mschy: Momentum is key. Find a way to get yourself starting doing something (e.g. sign up for those language or dance classes or what not), and continuing is comparatively easy. |
What programming font do you use and why? | keefe: eclipse default because I don't particularly care |
Better duplicate identification | riffer: It should also help supplement the spam filtering. Taking a quick look at /noobstories, a bunch of these would die solely from this. Which should in turn make the /newest page somewhat better, which can only be a good thing. |
What programming font do you use and why? | adamzochowski: For code and console I love pixel fonts, so:
Terminal 6px (included with all Windows)
Envy Code A 7px
http://damieng.com/creative/typography/envy-code-aI can't stand blurry fonts for code (especially since, at small sizes, text looks a blotch of blur). So, if I want small fonts (such as 6pixels by... |
Better duplicate identification | Tichy: Maybe a good way to identify duplicates could be a comparison of word frequencies (or frequencies of 3 word sentences or something like that)? Perhaps that way one could eliminate the "layout" and identify the core text.I would like to create a library for that, if I could find the time :-/ Maybe then sites like... |
Better duplicate identification | pierrefar: The NYT, Huff Post, and others do LOTS of experiments with title and click through rate measurements. It is very likely that a submitted page will have a different title later. |
What programming font do you use and why? | c_allison: I use Proggy Clean (Slashed Zero) 12pt from:
http://www.proggyfonts.com/ |
What programming font do you use and why? | artagnon0: Emacs23 XFT default. They're very pretty as it is imho. |
Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors? | pwim: android's integration with Google Apps makes it attractive to businesses already using Google Apps. |
What programming font do you use and why? | geeksam: TextMate is currently set to Inconsolata at 15pt. Comparing screenshots of that vs. Monaco 13, it looks like the anti-aliasing adds a lot of bulk to the characters in Monaco -- Inconsolata's characters seem a little clearer to me.But thanks for the link, seegate -- maybe I'll try a proportional font for a few... |
Better duplicate identification | andreyf: Are dups that big of a problem? |
Better duplicate identification | sp332: Maybe borrow a feature from Stack Overflow, which presents similar-sounding stories before posting? Some client-side JS which pulls the page, heuristically picks some "interesting" words, and runs them through search.yc? |
How do I regain my attention span? | lani: fitness : a daily session of deep-breathing-and-sweat-inducing muscle-paining excercise for 30 minutes is my recommendation |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | yan: My list is pretty small:* The Economist - great bathroom reading, good analysis of issues.* Scientific American's Mind - I love reading about neuroscience and psychology experiments* Rolling Stone - I bought tickets to a concert once and they started sending it to me for free. Eh sometimes interesting.* Rock and I... |
What programming font do you use and why? | parbo: DejaVu Sans Mono for me. It looks great and it's freely available for all platforms I use. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | mrduncan: Inc and Fast Company at the moment. They are usually a mixed bag of good and not so good. For the price though ($12/year) they're tough to beat for decent on-the-go reading. |
What magazines do you subscribe to? | epall: I really enjoy IEEE Spectrum, although it's not worth the price of professional membership to me now that I'm losing my student status. It's pretty deeply technical, but not way off into academic land, and it gives me a great read on where the EE industry is at. Things like crazy new semiconductor technologies o... |
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