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A New Decade. Any Predictions? | brfox: No biomedical predictions yet...1. Everyone will have their full genome sequenced if they need some sort of medical treatment.2. Healthcare will start to become cheaper due to personalized medicine and more data based decision-making.3. Traditional drug discovery will be begin to be replaced by something: compl... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | borism: - web will cease to be the delivery platform of choice for applications- internet will be heavily controlled by governments/corporations worldwide |
Early bird still gets the worm? | tyohn: The early worm gets eaten by the bird! First is great if you're first in the mind of the consumer but if you're not the first to gain traction (in the web world = users) in enough people's minds - there's no advantage to being first. It's quite possible your being first might pave the way for later arrivals to ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | zacharypinter: I predict that the various phone (land/cell) and television services will become commoditized into internet providers. There will be no need for service providers to setup a phone number or voicemail. You'll simply have devices that connect to wired or wireless internet service and use whatever applicati... |
Does the color scheme in a website affect signups? | nfnaaron: After you've asked this kind of question informally, you may be interested in resources like this:Color Harmony Compendium, A Complete Color Reference for Designers of All Typeshttp://www.amazon.com/Color-Harmony-Compendium-Reference-Ann... |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | mschy: I started running ssh on port 443 when public ssh is required, because it works more reliably when traveling. A nice side effect is that it also avoids the Rumplestiltskin attacks.That said, my preferred solution is openvpn. |
Early bird still gets the worm? | pg: I don't think it simply meant that you had to get up early; more that it was good to be the first to do something. That seems to apply in most types of work, including startups. |
Does the color scheme in a website affect signups? | mschy: Yes. Hugely. It needs to be easily legible, and you need a clear call to action color.I'd suggest looking at successful sites that serve your target market, and looking at what colors they use. I'm guessing you'll find lots of black/blue/grey/white sites, with orange and green calls to action. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | zitterbewegung: PMC's will become much more prevalent and popular. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | slvrspoon: i see:
- some significant progress against cancer in the tenties and that being a big thing.
- growth of a chinese middle class with a voice and some balls and independence
- continued problems with islam, terrorists, and the first terrorist small nuclear detonation.
- possible but not probably achievements ... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | JulianMorrison: Oh and another thing - quantum computing will start to surge around the third quarter of the decade. It won't be a general tool and it won't be used for cracking crypto - it will be doing things like data mining, bioinformatics, and solving variations on the travelling salesman problem. |
Early bird still gets the worm? | rnugent: There are no absolutes. Sometimes early is good. Sometimes not. Next Question? |
Early bird still gets the worm? | jrockway: My adage is: "it's morning somewhere." |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | jsz0: -I think this is finally going to be the post-PC decade. The evolution of SmartPhones, set tops, cloud computing and other mobile devices is going to make the PC redundant for most people. By the end of this decade I could see the PC being exclusively a business tool or power user tool.-We're going to have some m... |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | Dimebrain: I'm working on several web apps using ASP.NET MVC, either on Mono or W2K8. I have tried to launch startups in the past using ASP.NET WebForms, and I wouldn't recommend that approach to anyone, I can't get those years back. At this point, I believe ASP.NET MVC is a solid choice and I am extremely productive w... |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | Shamiq: So I played a couple rounds of the game just now to get a feel for it. Could you do a timed variant of the game? As in free play on level 1 for N amount of time?EDITHere's a link to the demo: http://dropzap.appspot.com/ |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | jeromec: > - Major changes will happen in Iran, one way or the other. The current trajectory they are on does not seem sustainable for a decade.I feel bad for the situation in Iran. I also predict tumult, but with no real change for any amount of violence and bloodshed. This is because the people still want a theocracy... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | timcederman: Ubiquitous computing will finally arrive, with smart cards/RFID on our bodies seamlessly interacting with computers in our environment. As you walk up to your refrigerator, for instance, you're logged in and presented with a customized display. Same goes for the car or the entertainment surface at the Dent... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | erikstarck: Facebook will be the Google of the decade.Google will be the Microsoft of the decade.Microsoft will be the IBM of the decade. |
Early bird still gets the worm? | kingkongreveng_: There's an inverse correlation to early rising and income, so I guess no. But that probably boils down to low wage people waking up to do shift work. Also, to my observation, less well off middle class people wake up early to commute in from the boonies.Lots of high income deal maker types do busines... |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | stanleydrew: For the love of god don't remove it! I played for like 4 hours straight the other day and I can't afford to waste more time. I wish you had an Android app though, cause I'd buy it right now. |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | windsurfer: It seems to me like you need to make the demo somehow not as good as the iphone version, but someone also giving you the same feeling. What about sprucing up the animation/graphics of the iphone version? Or create special features that are only available when you buy the game? That way, when you remove the ... |
Ask HN:Places to apply for machine learning? | nethergoat: The big guns like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are sure bets. Social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn also have large ML teams and probably have decent internship programs.Many startups also have similar interships - try http://ventureloop.com |
Ask HN:Places to apply for machine learning? | imurray: Obvious choices are big firms with machine learning research groups: Microsoft Research, Yahoo Research, (Google, but I've had a poorer personal experience getting people from there to tell me what they're doing)You could search for funds and consultancies using machine learning. They are out there.Check out t... |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | richardw: No, the demo gives you enough to understand why you need to play more. I think you definitely don't need more levels there.What problem are you trying to solve? |
Ask HN:Places to apply for machine learning? | lrm242: Flightcaster - http://www.flightcaster.comHunch - http://hunch.com |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | Mathnerd314: Some people (e.g. me) don't even have iPhones. Right now, you have no way for us to give you money. Perhaps a donate button could appear after playing a few levels, instead of the game ending? |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | tomusher: Yes - use the web version to get people hopelessly addicted and as an advertising platform for the mobile version - removing the level cap won't stop people from buying the iPhone version, it just means you potentially get more and longer impressions on those iPhone version ads.Rather than worrying about crip... |
Do you worry about ssh brute force attacks on your servers? | yourabi: Yes - three simple things to mitigate risk:
1)Run ssh on non-standard port
2)Disable root login PermitRootLogin No
3) Only allow specific users ssh acces via AllowUsers directive |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | chrischen: 1) Make the web version dependent on an internet connection. So maybe like you receive the next piece from the server side. This way if someone wants to play inside the stalls of a bathroom deeply fortified within a building, they'll need to purchase your iPhone version. I wouldn't advise using your iPhone o... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | aristus: use different colors for .com, .net, etc columns.if it is free, use the black text "free". if it is taken, grey out that cell, with no text.that will make it much easier to scan with the eye |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | mikexstudios: Wow, this is very cool and elegant. I really like how the UI is simplistic and functional. Thank you for making it open source too.One small idea might be to add slider bars to adjust the weights. That way, one can drag these sliders and see the rankings update on the fly. Maybe these bars (vertical?) can... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | cmelbye: Somewhat off the main topic: I really like the feedback form, very elegant and to the point. I think Dropbox does something similar for their feedback. I might try something like that in my app. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | DanBlake: Is there a way to sort out domains with numbers + hyphens in them? I imagine most people are most concerned with llll.com domains. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | secos: The scoring mechanism is weird, and not quite intuitive. However, I played around with it for a few min and it started to make /some/ sense.Overall, very useful for finding short names. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | lsternlicht: This is very interesting. Where are you sourcing the data from? |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | tewks: I really like it... it would be great, as I'm sure you know, to tie in registration.On that note, who is everyone using for registration these days? |
Should I remove the level limit in the DropZap web demo? | weaksauce: The demo is long enough to get a feel for the game. Instead of removing the web demo limit I would focus on making an android version and improve the app on the iPhone by improving the aesthetic appeal of it. Hire a designer to make the app look better if you lack the skills. It is a fun app for sure but I w... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | qeorge: This is fantastic. Otherwise I use freshdrop.net, but this is surfacing good domains more quickly. Well executed. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | bioweek: Why does it say magic.com is free? Or am I doing it wrong? |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | Scott_MacGregor: Here are my predictions (the lucky 7) for the next decade:1. Our vision for our company will be in place, our startup won’t be a startup anymore, it will be a full fledged powerhouse that will change the way certain things are done (that’s still under wraps) for a lot of people. Our company will be an ... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | jdietrich: Great tool. I have one minor criticism - the domain availability seems to be just inaccurate enough to be annoying. The first few domains that caught my eye appeared to be free but were actually taken. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | DaniFong: Both solar and wind power will be produced at a lower cost than power from coal and natural gas plants, and sold to customers when they want it, how they want it. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | nicpottier: Very cool, as someone who has been searching for domains recently I can really appreciate the functionality.As for feedback, I think having the text boxes at the top for weighting treated graphically might be better. Either some up/down or +/- icons to just tweak those might be cool. (maybe an ajaxy slider... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | dotBen: I like the idea but the source whois data seems quite inaccurate.It said that digit.com and 6af.com were both free (which I obviously jumped on) but turns out they are actually registered and not due to expire for some time. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | krav: Just played around with it. Nice work. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | Edinburger: Very nice. I would like to be able to see more results at once. |
Ask HN:Places to apply for machine learning? | johnmyleswhite: I have a friend who was an intern with Siemens in computer vision while preparing for Ph.D. programs in machine learning. I would guess that other companies that build medical imaging tools have similar divisions. |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | bioweek: What about the emergence of ubiquitous free internet? I'm thinking it will take of the form of everyones' mobile phones forming a global, giagantic mesh network? (Is that the right term?)How likely is that? It seems like the next step in the evolution of the internet, turning into something that no one can p... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | diiq: Seems to be missing some short names --- for instance, while diiq.com and diiq.org are owned, diiq.net is unclaimed --- but 'diiq' does not appear at all, despite being four characters long. What qualifies a domain name to appear in your list? |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | dschobel: Very cool. What is the backend written in? |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | GavinB: This is very cool. TheMargarine.com is available--startup millions, here I come!Edit: Seriously, great work. Have bookmarked and will be back for my next domain search. |
Early bird still gets the worm? | ssp: Early morning is the most productive part of the day for me. There are no interruptions, no noise, and my brain is still well rested. |
Great books you read in 2009? | andrewcooke: is fiction ok? i live in chile and stumbled across bolano's books (particularly the savage detectives and 2666) in spanish just as they became popular in english in the usa (2666 was released in translation).savage detectives is a funny account of adolescent "poets" in mexico; 2666 is a much darker, somew... |
Great books you read in 2009? | jakarta: Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin - a great blow by blow account of the financial crisis shortly after the fall of Bear Stearns. A really amazing look at how decisions are made under extraordinary pressure. It is fast paced and reads almost like a movie. |
Great books you read in 2009? | reg4c: Harmony Silk Factory - Tash AwSatanic Verses - Salman RushdiOld Man and the Sea - Hemingway |
Great books you read in 2009? | streblo: I just finished reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's really long and a little digressive (1079 pages, took me 3 months to finish), but was one of the most entertaining and brilliant books I've ever read. I highly recommend it. |
Great books you read in 2009? | nopassrecover: Some books that stood out this year (many not for their intended reasons)The 4 Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss)
- In parts entertaining, interesting, self-promoting, educational, inspirational, attractive and undesirable. Definitely worth the read and a great call to action. Will make you consider what you w... |
Great books you read in 2009? | tokenadult: My favorite read in early 2009 was What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovichhttp://www.amazon.com/What-Intelligence-Tests-Miss-Psycholog...which is full of helpful information on developing the kind of cognition missed by IQ tests that constitutes rationality, very ... |
Great books you read in 2009? | diego: Recently I've been reading books about different facets of human nature. Some of my favorites:- Spent, by Geoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychology, sex, consumerism)- Gang Leader for a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh- Predictably Irrational, by Dan ArielyHere's a short blog post about these books and a few others.http:... |
Great books you read in 2009? | adamhowell: The War of Art (again) - I reread this book at least once a year. IMHO one of the best books ever written on the creative process, no matter what you're creating.In Defense of Food - Best criticism of the problems with reductionist "nutrition-ism" I've read.They Made America - Good, quick history of some of... |
Ask HN:Places to apply for machine learning? | apurva: great replies guys... some very good pointers, especially ventureloop was a great find for me.
thanks for the inputs again.
probably another area for others interested in the field are domains on finance (like imurray suggested). i found
http://www.cerebellumcapital.com/ pretty cool.
but no internships, only ... |
Great books you read in 2009? | StrawberryFrog: introduce the tenants of ObjectivismHow much rent do they pay? And what kind of landlady is Ms Rand. |
Great books you read in 2009? | ardell: Atlas Shrugged - finally got around to reading it after dozens of recommendations from good friends. Shocking how relevant and prophetic it is, especially with respect to the events of 2009. |
Great books you read in 2009? | nailer: Anyone read 'Crush It'? Gary Vee seems like a scamster to me, but it seems really popular in the wider tech community right now. I'd trust HN better than my Twitter contacts... |
Great books you read in 2009? | bayareaguy: Although actually released in late 2008, my favorite book for 2009 was Neal Stephenson's Anathem. |
Great books you read in 2009? | rnicholson: Finally got around to reading 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Blew me away. So much better than the film adaptation. |
Great books you read in 2009? | zaidf: Game Theory At Work
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Theory-Work-Outmaneuver-Competiti...PayPal Wars
http://www.amazon.com/PayPal-Wars-Battles-Media-Planet/dp/09...Stealing MySpace
http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-MySpace-Control-Popular-Websi...Predictably Irrational
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-... |
Great books you read in 2009? | daeken: The Machinery of Freedom (David Friedman) -- Great book on a potential anarcho-capitalist society and how we could push the US government in that direction.The Game (Neil Strauss) -- See nopassrecover's response; he explained it well.Little Brother (Cory Doctorow) -- A fantastic novel about freedom and technolo... |
Great books you read in 2009? | coderholic: I finally finished "Godel, Escher, Bach" in 2009, after starting and giving up on it a few times previously. A great book, but it does require a lot of time and some serious thinking with a pencil and pad to do some working out (or at least it did for me).The best book I read in 2009 (and possibly ever!) wa... |
Great books you read in 2009? | jamiequint: Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Rising-Through-Wreckage/dp...In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/01431...When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein
http://www.amazon.com/When-... |
What to focus on when pitching, product or underlying platform? | dirtyaura: My take on this (we have a bit similar situation) is that you pitch one long-term vision that you believe in. In your case, it sounds it is the platform, and the first product is a step that takes you towards that vision.When you are unsure about your long term vision (which it sounds that you are) you can a... |
Great books you read in 2009? | dschobel: The Bet by Anton ChekhovYou can read it here: http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Bet.shtmlIt shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. It's so fantastically misanthropic, I cannot recommend it enough.The prisoner's polemic against society at the end is just legendary. |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | dbz: I like it a lot; however, it seems that if I type, my name, for example (my actual name) it doesn't check it. It seems like there is a very limited list of domains? Although I like it so far. |
Great books you read in 2009? | DanielBMarkham: Finally got around to reading some Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina.It was terrific. Great book! |
Great books you read in 2009? | xorphy: I basically discovered Vernor Vinge.A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor VingeA Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor VingeThe Peace War, by Vernor VingeMarooned in Realtime, by Vernor VingeHyperion, by Dan SimmonsMrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, a fun book about some math and physics problems |
What to focus on when pitching, product or underlying platform? | lrm242: I've built a platform company in the past, and it's probably one of the harder startup genres to master. One of the problems is its very hard to impress upon your listener how cool your platform really is. Even with fancy demos, we never felt pitching our platform was received as well as it should--the listener... |
Great books you read in 2009? | chasingsparks: Death of a Salesman. This is yet another book that you are forced to read prematurely in middle or high school. At the time, it was a frustrating exercise; upon rereading it at age 25, I thought it was fantastic.I also enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It was very creative.Sadly,... |
Great books you read in 2009? | pingswept: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. A sad story about a guy named Zeitoun in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places by Paul Collier. Someone smart thinks about how to move failed states toward democracy in such a way that it sticks.Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.... |
Great books you read in 2009? | rjett: I'm a fan of reading biographies and Open, Andre Agassi's biography, was a very intriguing, enjoyable, and surprisingly well-written book.The only other book I read this past year that stood out to me was GK Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday. I thought this was a very well written allegorical spy novel that ... |
Great books you read in 2009? | quizbiz: Started and finished Super Freakonomics on a flight just recently. I enjoyed it a lot. |
Great books you read in 2009? | teeja: Charles Stross, 'Accelerando'Stephenson, 'Anathem' (first 150 pages slow) |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | teeja: Citizens of the US will begin to publicly insist on being told what to think. |
Great books you read in 2009? | sivers: (The links here bring you to my notes from each book, and the ISBN number for each so you can find it easily at your favorite library/store/whatever.)How We Decide - by Jonah Lehrer:
Brilliant book with one clear message: our emotional brain is faster and usually smarter than our logical brain. Our emotions are... |
Does the color scheme in a website affect signups? | twidlit: thanks guys! I was wondering if someone already made an a/b tests purely on color schemes. that would be very interesting. |
Great books you read in 2009? | jsz0: Maybe not as high brow as some of the other suggestions here but I really enjoyed Stephen King's Under The Dome. It's basically a story of small town political corruption and the human tendency to be easily exploited by dictatorial types in a crisis. |
Great books you read in 2009? | ErrantX: Risk, the science of politics and fear by Dan Gardner (absolutely fantastic book, I already mentioned it on here earlier in the year).The Game (again). I read this regularly to remind me of a few things - it's the book that originally got me fascinated in human interaction.Nemesis (Richard Mullers theory) afte... |
Great books you read in 2009? | paulgb: The best book I read in 2009 was The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. It's surprisingly accessible (I've never taken a biology class), and talks a lot about evolutionary game theory which I found fascinating.Some other books I read last year:How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. It was a great book, Pinker's wri... |
Great books you read in 2009? | sidsavara: I just finished a ton of great books, some that immediately come to mind:The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris - Really made me think about life and the work I doTribes by Seth Godin - Love this book.The Dip by Seth Godin - read it before, reread it again this yearPersonal Development for Smart People by Ste... |
Great books you read in 2009? | herdrick: Judea Pearl's Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. I'm not finished with it yet, though. (It might be superceded by his Causality which I'd also like to read.) It's provided some "aha", scales falling from eyes moments. I'd guess it's the most important book - f... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | icefox: A new OS for the desktop is introduced and gains a significant following. And I am not talking about the next Microsoft/OS X/KDE incremental release. Probably based on a Linux kernel it would have a different security system, different application deployment and upgrade system. Pretty much taking all we have... |
Great books you read in 2009? | jdlegg: "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy
"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
"What to Listen For in Music" by Aaron Copland |
Great books you read in 2009? | RevRal: A bunch of books by Kahlil Gibran. Read The Prophet twice.One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezLove In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe Problem Of Pain by C S LewisDisgrace by J M CoetzeeThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyThe Piano Teacher by Elfriede J... |
A New Decade. Any Predictions? | 10ren: - Spherical displays ("you inside")- Multi-core, with identical cores, is abandoned in favour of highly
specialized cores (like organs in the body, or firms in the economy,
due to the same pressures: "transaction costs" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase#The_Nature_of_the_...)- The first real AI is crea... |
Great books you read in 2009? | alttab: How to win friends and influence people. |
Great books you read in 2009? | Asa-Nisse: Recommendations:- Collapse by Jared Diamond, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_%28book%29 about how we over-exploit our planet.- The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom, psychological and cultural explanations of how humans react to "memes" amongst other gems of knowledge.- The Eschaton series by Charles S... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | ardit33: awesome! just bought beltoo.com from it. thanks :) |
Great books you read in 2009? | jseliger: I like that you ask for "Great books you read in 2009," as opposed to great books published in 2009, as so many newspapers do. The question as you formulate it will probably lead to more of the same books popping up over and over again, but that's probably okay.I actually wrote about the topic here: http://js... |
Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names | NathanKP: You need better moderation of the suggestion feature along the right. I doubt you want it saying random garble and things like "gay hot lesbians." |
Great books you read in 2009? | NathanKP: My favorite book of 2009 was The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki:http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/12/critical-analys...The book shows how groups can work together to do great things. It also shows why some groups fail miserably. Overall I found it very helpful and enlightening in that it helpe... |
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