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Which Scheme book to read? | jobeirne: SICP isn't so much about Scheme, but language design principles, the beauty of abstraction, the dangers of mutable state, and the inability of a reactionary, functional approach to compensate for the lack of a mutable state.But I would still go with SICP. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | yannis: I work in intense spurts, when I do, I am so focused on the task that I really don't care what's happening around the keyboard:), my desk gets cluttered very quickly with coffee cups, the occasional book, keys, notebook, pieces of paper etc. After a couple of hours it resembles a battlefield. However, before I ... |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | arnorhs: I'd recommend tidying up and cleaning every now and then. You don't have to go all minimalist on us, though |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | iuguy: Cluttered desk. Clean desktop.Works for me. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | ankeshk: Actually Joe Sugarman (the marketer who made the usage of 1800 toll free numbers in ads popular) tested this out a couple of decades ago for his entire company.Doesn't matter if people have organized desks or chaotic desks. Doesn't matter if they have a minimalistic desk or a cluttered one. Just follow one r... |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | kgopal: I think there should be some order on the desk and allow for easy reach to the stuff you want. I keep a notebook and pen to the right of the keyboard to note out stuff I might have missed. For everything else, that I do, I use the keyboard and desktop. Like someone said. Clean Desktop. Ordered (could be messy b... |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | kgopal: Augmented Reality. Facebook in school. Teaching through Social networks. Elimination of old studies and introduction of new concepts. Nano technology more in your face. Mobile devices replacing computers. We getting a cure for cancer. We growing limbs again. The futures fine to look forward to.Unless we destroy... |
Which Scheme book to read? | michael_dorfman: SICP by a mile, for one reason: the SICP videos: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...That's the best 20-hour introduction you could ask for. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | ivenkys: Very clean and minimal desk and desktop, easy(right hand) access to Notebook+Pen, easy(left hand) access to Coffee and Water cups that are placed on top of unused mouse pads. Silent mobile on the monitor stand, unhooked telephone on left hand side.Reference books on top drawer. At the end of the day cups go to... |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | ahlatimer: I'm somewhere in between. My desk is mostly occupied by my desktop, external display, keyboard, and mouse, but I usually have an ash tray, a cup or two, and a few random things that I should probably put away. It never looks too bad, but it's never perfectly clean either. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | jacquesm: Cluttered desktop but a meticulously organized harddrive.And I think that is where the biggest productivity boost comes from, not having to hunt around from files but to have stuff in its place.If you messed up my desk it would take me 20 minutes to recover, if you messed up my directory structure I'd probabl... |
What will be the bigggest technology story of 2010? | hga: Foundational cloud computing becoming really big.By "foundational" I mean the raw level stuff like Amazon Web Services such as S3, EC2. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | Tichy: Data Mining |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | Veera: Semantic web |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | gtani: concurrency models: erlang, scala, clojure, HaskellParallel execution, map/reduce, hadoop, noSQL datastores; |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | skip: Coding for GPGPU or stream processors |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | adriand: This is an interesting question and one I've been pondering lately as well, not from an individual perspective, but from a management perspective for a small team of developers at a web app/design shop.I obviously have to be more conservative than you because I have to consider short-term profit as well as ris... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | coderdude: A couple things off the top of my head:
-Web apps geared towards the emerging thin-OS netbook market-I think Android apps will kick off in a much bigger way this year with more people getting their hands on phones supporting the OS. It's still early enough to get into IMO.-On this page Veera suggested the Se... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | sriramk: Data. R/Hadoop/Hive/Pig/Dryad, SQL Server streaming, Excel PowerPivot and the works. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | ScottWhigham: I use .NET to run my startup @ http://www.learnitfirst.com/. I was a VB 4-6 guy and moved to .NET in 2000 in betas and loved it. I probably prefer C# to VB but have projects in both. If I'm writing a new app today, it's almost assuredly C#. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | timwiseman: The new technology that interests you.Seriously, several of the technologies emerging now are likely to be big (or at least grow substantially) over the next few years. But if you focus on the one you find most interesting it will help keep you focused and motivated which can be an enormous help. It will ... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | yummyfajitas: AMQP/RabbitMQ. I explained in more detail why in this post:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006208 |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | khandelwal: A clean desk. I'd like to achieve a minimalist workplace, but often fall short. Often, I'll clean up my desk before starting work for the day. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | pasbesoin: Some people use what is apparently innate spacial orientation.to manage large volumes of material. E.g. the iconic cluttered professor's or researcher's office. But when they need something, they know exactly what pile it is in and about where within that pile (how deep). The surroundings provide a three ... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | tyohn: Mobile Devices - not just the iPhone but think "What would software/hardware be like if you could carry your desktop machine everywhere - inside your pocket" |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | ratsbane: +1 for Data mining, concurrency, FP.Another one: HTML 5 and related.This probably won't make as much of a splash as AJAX did a few years ago but some of the new things you will be able to do in a web browser present an opportunity to improve on older web apps: e.g. location and gravitation APIs, web sockets, ... |
Real time PubSub-type notification API service? | zh: http://developer.collecta.com/XmppApi/RealTime/ |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | vaksel: 0unless you are friends with the investor, and he just helps you out because he feels obligated since you are his friend.The 5-6 months you'd spend chasing funding are much better spent coding a prototype/final product |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | maxklein: I think that the other commenters here are on to something with Data Mining, but they are not seeing it right. What is really needed is more than Data Mining but more of Data Abstraction. I.e, there is a LOT of different data out there. People have very different needs for it. We cannot know all the possible ... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | mcantelon: Hardware hacking and DIY manufacturing/fabrication. Mainstream manufacturing has been offshored, but there are a lot of people working to build a DIY ecosystem that will eventually allow people to turn around low volume, niche products faster than offshore manufacturers. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | spiralhead: Scala! ... specifically using Actors for concurrency problems has been a bit of a revelation for me ... and the functional parts if you're not already familiar with FP... and for practical reasons ... Scala is one of the only academic-ish languages you can actually use in the real world |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | JangoSteve: How about the brain?How the Brain Encodes Memories at a Cellular Level
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223125125.ht...If you've ever read Mindkiller or Time Pressure by Spider Robinson, then you know where I'm going with this ;-) |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | staunch: How about iPhone development? Being early in a gold rush has its advantages, but there's also advantages to coming in later.Or Flash? I know it's not loved by very many, but expert Flash developers can demand a very good salary. They're also very well positioned to develop cool stuff on new web platforms. |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | brk: It would likely depend on the scope and scale of the idea, and how you go about proving that you can be successful at implementation.If your idea is geared around a web-app, your chances are probably pretty small. It's easy to put together the basics of a demo, and anyone who did not put in that minimal effort wo... |
How to search for submissions by keyword? | vaksel: just use http://searchyc.com/ |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | simonw: HTML 5. In two or three years time I'm willing to bet a large portion (if not a majority) of desktop applications on all platforms will be written using HTML 5 technologies - in particular offline storage and web workers. If you're an expert with CSS, JavaScript and the various HTML 5 APIs you'll be in a very g... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | zen53: statistics/data mining/web analytics. Maybe iTablet development |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | spudlyo: Configuration management ala Chef, Puppet. The old way of Sysadmins hand maintaining configuration files on individual UNIX machines simply won't cut it in the era of easily provisioned ephemeral cloud resources. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | antirez: a) Every kind of concurrency stuff. CUDA, threading, Go/Erlang/... light threads, and so forth.b) Alternative databases.c) Real-world scalability. |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | alain94040: You can spend the next 6 months of your life knocking on investors' doors with just your idea, and have nothing to show for it.Or you can spend the next 6 months to hack an ugly prototype. You'll be amazed how much further along you are.That's because in the second scenario, you actually did something. That... |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | HeyLaughingBoy: Sales. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | Murkin: I am surprised no one raised the issue of smart-devices. I mean the hundreds of planned smart, wireless, SOC devices that are prophesied to become deeply ingrained into our lives in the coming years.ZigBee/WBAN/RFID and the technology around them.This fields has myriads of required applications:
- Firmware upgr... |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | anamax: Suppose that you were being approached to invest your money, how would you react to a "great idea" vs a "it's not done, and it's ugly, but let me show you what it does"? |
Which Scheme book to read? | tebeka: My vote goes to SICP as well, however if you don't have much time http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html is helpful. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | aaronblohowiak: Omap3 and Omap4 |
Best site to buy business cards? | jmonegro: I'd say moo.com |
Best site to buy business cards? | PStamatiou: I have used overnightprints.com many, many times and have always been impressed with the quality. I wrote about my experience with them here: http://paulstamatiou.com/you-need-business-cardsIn a nutshell.. 1000 high quality cards (in my case double-sided glossy with their standard, great-thickness stock) fo... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | indexzero: I think that there is a lot of stigma around Microsoft based platforms. But imo C# 4.0 is one of the most innovative languages out there right now. With Mono supporting all of C# 4.0 features (ExpressionTrees and all) I would say, if you're not using it give it another look. My ideal .NET stack doesn't have ... |
Best site to buy business cards? | akalsey: Is your designer local to you? Ask them about local print shops. Most freelance designers know who can do quality work locally for a great price. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | nir: IMHO it's more about concepts than technologies - eg, MVC based Web frameworks were a good concept to pick up a few years ago, whether you chose Rails or Django or Zend Framework etc, OOP were a good idea to pick up somewhere in the 90s whether you ended up writing games in C++ or banking apps in Java.I think one ... |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | akalsey: Ideas are cheap. Everyone has them, and most have more than one. The ability to make something work is a whole different matter.As an investor, you're determining risk vs reward. How much risk is there that I'll give my money to this guy and not ever get anything back?If you have a prototype to play with, you ... |
Best site to buy business cards? | jamesbritt: I'm pretty happy with printplace.com. You can request a free sample package to see what kind of paper and printing they offer. |
working habits - minimalism or "organized" chaos? | Ixiaus: I don't have a spartan work area (or computer desktop) but it is minimal and logically organized. I follow one primary rule: always put away what I've been using. |
What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ? | mark_l_watson: I just blogged on my predictions for the hot tech for 2010: wireless, analytics, modeling, data/text mining, micro business development with small very focused charge for use web apps, Linked Data, etc.The thing is, choose something that is fascinating for you, otherwise you probably don't have as much c... |
How many HN readers are avid poker players? | mschy: I am one. I play mid/high stakes poker, and pretty much every form of it.I funded my first startup by playing nights and weekends. These days, it's solely an avocation, but one I rather enjoy. |
How many HN readers are avid poker players? | squidbot: I am. I was so in to it I actually worked for an online poker provider for a year up in Canada. In the "salad" days when it was gaining attention, I was actually making money, because, well, it was easy with a lot of inexperienced players coming in. In general, the quality of players has risen significantly s... |
Which Scheme book to read? | fadmmatt: SICP and HtDP are good for starting out.I often use Scheme when I teach compilers, and I've got a few Scheme-related blog posts designed for the curious student:* Church encodings: http://matt.might.net/articles/church-encodings-demo-in-sche...* Macro-generating macros: http://matt.might.net/articles/implemen... |
How do I change my bar colour? And what is 'noprocrast' mean? | brk: You don't have enough karma for changing the menu bar color yet. Have patience, and make quality contributions.Noprocrast is a utility to force you to stop procrastinating by reading HN and get back to work. |
How was 2009? | dryicerx: Good to hear your company is taking off, congrats.As for my self, 2009 is the first year out of college and I dived in head first in to world of startups. The first two ventures ended without a bang, but the third one I am focusing now is looking much brighter. Either way, the best leaning experience and year... |
Ask for money before having a prototype? | mark_l_watson: Wow, please don't take this badly, but: if you don't have a few prototypes, how can you really know what works and what doesn't for your general ideas?Definitely, build a few experimental systems and get feedback from them. With frameworks like Rails and Django, the cost of prototyping is small. |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | noonespecial: On most of my servers that allow ssh, I use keys only and disable passwords. I don't worry that my passwords will be guessed anytime soon as they are all long and random, but I very much like that my logs don't fill with that crap. |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | javert: "On the back of a napkin, so to speak, and with a number of reasonable assumptions, I calculated that it would take 2.2098499729010715e+28 years to do so, with a 1,000,000-strong botnet constantly hammering away." (That's with a 20-char root pwd. Just make your root pwd strong.)[1] http://www.mollison.us/blog/2... |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | gcr: fail2ban solves all our problems. We only get about 5 hits a day total on each host now.http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | axod: You can use iptables to rate limit connections: -N SSH_RECENT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 22 -j SSH_RECENT
-A SSH_RECENT -m recent --set --name SSH
-A SSH_RECENT -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 3 --name SSH -j DROP |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | kunthar: ossec hids got active response and other cool helpers. |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | startupdude: LOL you want to build application on .NET, n00b. |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | telemachos: There are good ways to prevent getting rooted, as you say, but I know exactly what you mean. The first time I set up a virtual server, someone began a dedicated brute-force, dictionary attack against ssh within 30 minutes. The attack wasn't particularly aimed at me, of course, since I had an empty virtual m... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | jacquesm: Googles turnover exeeds Microsofts by 2015, if not earlier.As for the displays the 30" screens already do 2560x1600, they're still a good bit of money but they'll be affordable within 2 to 3 years (and some people already think they're affordable).The decade that parallel processing became commonplacethe end ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | wheels: Ah, such a nerd. Years aren't zero indexed. Technically next year is the start of a new decade. ;-) |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | Slashed: Death of traditional news industry. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | adw: Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp.That'll be a watershed moment: the politics of information are going to start being the kind of core liberal issue that environmental issues currently are. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | mojuba: I predict (and hope for) a major turn back to simplicity in technologies. Multimillion-line software will go extinct like dinosaurs. Existing programming languages and platforms will gradually be replaced with ones so simple and elegant that one software component will be written and maintained by one to three ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | jacquesm: This one is meta, but I think it will happen:HN will split. |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | bensummers: I use ssh on a non-standard port, not for security, but to avoid all the annoying attempts in the logs.I use ssh keys only. I've disabled the use of passwords for any account other than root on the console, and for that, I use a very long random password which is stored very carefully, encrypted with a long... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | andrewcooke: gpu/cpu unification has to happen some time in the next 10 years (in the 2010 thread i argue against it being next year, but it's inevitable at some point). the next amd architecture is a step in that direction.edit: also, please, please, ultralight laptops with e-ink screens.edit2: to clarify the above, ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | paraschopra: Ebook readers will become ubiquitous in developed countries by 2012-2013 and then developing countries by 2020(Of course all my predictions have +/- a couple of years of margin for error)[EDIT: changed 2010 to 2020, guess I am still in 2009 mode] |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | motters: Two main predictions:Telerobots become commonplace. These will be not much more than a wheeled or tracked base with a pole and holder for a mobile phone. It allows you to visit people in their homes, visit companies or customers, provide some kinds of medical service and carry out inspections of remote sites... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | varjag: America will pull out from Afghanistan, and the central government will fall before the decade ends. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | DannoHung: Things will actually be even more awesome than they are today, but because governments have no idea how to manage all the awesome, things will actually seem crappier.I mean, I'm thinking like, silver jumpsuit awesome here. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | tlrobinson: I predict lots of people will make predictions, but we'll never go back to check and see if they were right.Was there a 2009 prediction thread we can look at?Fun website idea: a site where you register your predictions and a date you expect it to happen by, then when that date occurs people can confirm/deny... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | rms: A habitable (to some life, not necessarily to human life) extra-solar Earth like planet is discovered by 2020. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | antirez: Internet will become for most people in developed countries as important as it used to be for "early adopters" in the past. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | DrJokepu: * Still no fusion power.* Microsoft sells large parts of itself in order to be able to focus on its core competencies (just like IBM did)* Someone will make an actually usable e-book reader.* During the second half of the decade, the Chinese bubble will burst. This will be a quite heavy shock. A lot of peopl... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | tommorris: Widespread adoption of GNU/Linux on the desktop. (Prompted by...)Widespread adoption of LISP by developers. (Both of which cause...)The Singularity! (But, sadly, Ray Kurzweil dies a few days before the Singularity happens.)Okay, okay, prediction is a mugs game.Democracy in Iran would be nice. I'm not sure wh... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | rms: In 2020, AMD's 3rd generation holodeck isn't quite like Star Trek, but the future video games and videoconferencing/telepresence systems make today's tech look like something out of the stone age.Reference: AMD's product roadmap is for the first generation, holodeck in 2016. http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.a... |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | semanticist: One of the first things I do when setting up a new VM is install DenyHosts:http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/The out of the box config options are pretty decent, giving a few attempts to most accounts but only one wrong password for root before blocking the IP address.I have it send email notifications to m... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | lallysingh: Really the best part I'm looking forward to is Doctor Who. I'm pretty apprehensive about the new Doctor, but there's a full season and frankly, the bits from "The End of Time" p1 are pretty exciting.Predictions: we'll see a good-sized shift in our political base representing the un/under-skilled and unempl... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | ericb: -Unauthenticated free wifi becomes nearly extinct after a major hacking incident is traced to Panera Bread (or similar) and a court rules that companies are liable for the actions of those on their free wifi networks. Realizing this, companies force authentication on everyone or turn off their wifi all together.... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | rms: Also see thread on Lesswrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1la/new_years_predictions_thread/ |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | artagnon: 1. The death of x86, as we know it- x86 emulation for historical reasons. One of CPU/ GPU will have to beat the other.2. The rise of mainstream functional programming.3. By 2020, Chrome and Firefox each have 35% market share. Internet Explorer becomes insignificant.4. PS4 gets something to thrash Project Nata... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | edw519: Hacker News 12/31/2019 new | comments | leaders | jobs | submit login
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Early bird still gets the worm? | Mz: When I was extremely ill, I suffered horrible insomnia and often went to sleep at 7am. During that time, I was not able to be genuinely productive. A lot of what I did amounted to churn and time-filling. When I began working, I took an evening shift job because I knew that although I was healthier, I still wasn'... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | JulianMorrison: Ubiquitous mobile/wireless internet integrated into even very trivial consumer goods, with close to 100% coverage across the civilized world. A significant fraction of ordinary consumer goods simply won't work in "dark" zones. The gap between 1st and 3rd world countries will widen as a result - take a m... |
Early bird still gets the worm? | yannis: Hmm... put it this way, it is productive to put in three hours of work in your business before your opposition wakes up! |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | motters: Also, this decade sees the beginning of the "pension bomb" - the demographic bulge of post-war baby boomers crossing the threshold into retirement. It's fairly easy to predict that there will be pensions scandals, with some pensions companies going bust or paying out far less to recipients than had been origi... |
Early bird still gets the worm? | moe: The early bird may get the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese. |
Does the color scheme in a website affect signups? | twidlit: more common examples would be white blocks on black background vs. light colored blocks on white background.Does anyone like to have lots of white (ala facebook)? |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | wallflower: At least one HN long-time contributor and non YC will launch a company that does stupendously well and he/she will reference HN as a vital resource/support in their formative days.Videogames continue to evolve into real-time collaborative tools.The 1st edition of The Primer (a magical in the Arthur C. Clark... |
Early bird still gets the worm? | mechanical_fish: Somewhere in the world there is a time zone where you are the early bird.Being an early bird in your own time zone is important when you have to physically stand in line for one thing or another. But now, for a software startup, most of those lines are virtual, and you can stand in an American line at ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | samuel: IPv4 address space will be exhausted(I know, I know, a cheap shot). |
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