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What are you working on? | JangoSteve: Still working on http://www.RateMyStudentRental.com, trying to improve student rental housing one school at a time. |
What are you working on? | nick-dap: "Crowdsourcing" for grassroots activism: http://dreamact.info/ |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | jacquesm: This comes up with some regularity.I use 'moniker.com', I'm pretty happy with them but I only register my domains there, everything else is on my own servers, so if you go for hosted DNS and other goodies I can't tell you much.Moniker prides itself on never having lost a domain and their prices are pretty goo... |
What are you working on? | williamallthing: I'm working on Sup, the email client for nerds. http://sup.rubyforge.org. |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | slapshot: Are you doing API-based or automated registrations? If so, check Tucows. The pricing isn't the best, but the API integration is good. |
Recommendation for book related to ethics and hacking/computers? | mbrubeck: Larry Lessig's books are especially strong on public policy. |
What was that programming language based on creating new grammar rules? | jdp: I think you might be looking for the Pi programming language: http://www.pi-programming.org/What.html |
What was that programming language based on creating new grammar rules? | mbrubeck: I've seen a few of these recently...My favorite, OMeta is a pattern/grammar-oriented language (and one of the most interesting papers I read last year). This comes from Alessandro Warth at VPRI, where Alan Kay and others are doing some really great research: http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/there's the Bondi langu... |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | dasil003: I like Dreamhost. I can stick unlimited small PHP or even Rails sites there for just $10/month, and their control panel is excellent. You can mask your domain ownership for free as well. $9.99 per domain is not the cheapest, but it's competitive, and I trust them more than any other top-25 volume web hosts... |
What are you working on? | Kaizen: I'm working on my browser-based game (kind of like Kingdom of Loathing, but with cavemen) at http://www.shinyrockhunter.com and a more business-focused product that needs a bit more work before it's a minimally-viable product. |
Please write the year or 'old' in non recent submissions | wycats: I'd prefer (2007) to (old) |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | DanBlake: Ive spent alot of time in this field and can give you a perfect answer:Serious domainer (buying + selling domains for a living): Moniker or Fabulous.com - Both are designed to handle mass updating of domains easy and for optimal parking. Monikers support is 9-5 and fabulous is invite only. Both are still fant... |
What are you working on? | SAHChandler: I'm currently working on a build system. I'm effectively scratching an itch. It's my first serious project, where I actually plan to use it on a regular basis. You can find the repo at http://github.com/sahchandler/buildit :) |
What are you working on? | covercash: Last month my mom emailed me asking if I knew of any new/good places she could take her friend to eat in Philadelphia. I went on Yelp and found a few suggestions for her. Had my mom known about Yelp, she could have done that herself. I went over the next day and showed her Yelp and now she uses it every t... |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | niyazpk: From their website:Your data is encrypted on-the-fly before leaving your browser. Passpack uses the AES-256 encryption algorithm...only you can decrypt it with your secret Packing Key.If the technology works as they say, it is secure. Now the problem becomes how to verify whether it works as they say. It is al... |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | swolchok: They can grab all your passwords, because you're going to type them into their service, and because it's a web service, they can switch the implementation as they please. If it's implemented as they seem to imply (server just sends you an AES-crypted blob of passwords, JavaScript AES implementation decrypts t... |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | sebastian: I been using 1password for a couple months and I love it. |
What are you working on? | ErikDeBruijn: Assembing the parts for an open source 3D printer, which were 3D printed on an open source 3D printer.
See RepRap.org for general info and www.erikdebruijn.nl for my blog. |
What are you working on? | daveungerer: http://www.simplepay.co.zaOnline payroll system for South Africa. It's my startup. Just launched a while ago. How's it going? Got a few trail users. Busy climbing the search engine rankings. |
Clojure as a first progamming language? | lkuty: This is a good idea I think. I would consider learning Java, the basics, with Clojure. At the same time because you will have to regularly make use of the huge Java library. So it's a good idea to know about classes, objects, basic syntax and primitive types.
Of course you will put the focus on Clojure. I also r... |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | covercash: Here are some relevant links:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708640http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186369http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=963838 |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | cjg: I use KeePass on a memory stick. When I need a password I can just plug it into whichever computer I happen to be using. |
Celestial Mechanics Book Recommendations | RiderOfGiraffes: I would suggest you start with WikiPedia.Main page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoonRelationship with Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-Moon.PNGDetails of the orbit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_MoonRelevant terms and parameters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orbit1.svgTh... |
What are you working on? | talkeinan: http://www.headup.com - connecting users with great content as they browse. |
Who's the Best Domain Registrar? | gasyoun: fatcow is ok for me for the last 5 years I use them for my blog |
What are you working on? | paulsingh: http://www.snailpad.com - snail mail for small business and freelancers. I'm hoping to find a way to meet someone from MailChimp, Aweber or other places to see if they'd be interested in integrating. |
Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? | cperciva: We have a Java application that trades in the financial markets. Latency is important to us; we are continually trying to improve latency, increase throughput and reduce jitter.Seriously? You want low latency but you're using Java?If you want low latency, you really want to avoid anything which does garbage ... |
Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? | jacquesm: Have you ever tried running your low-latency stuff on an environment more real-time oriented ?C on QnX would come to mind a long time before I would start to make anything with those requirements in Java on top of a JVM on a 'regular' (non-hard real time) unix.There are simply too many layers on top of each o... |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | Vandy_Travis: Ignoring the concerns about AES256 cyphers for this response...The site that I use for my passwords is called Clipperz. (www.clipperz.com/beta). They encrypt everything in JS like the others, but they've fully released their source code for inspection. I know JS, and it looks legit, although I can't sp... |
What CRM/PM/DM/TT application do you use? | blender: Since I didn't get many replies I would suggest that an opportunity exists for someone out there to build this and disrupt the market :-)The hard part will be differentiating yourself in a very noisy market - but products that deliver value always find a way.Cheers |
Review my startup - YakGroups | cadwag: Clickable link: http://www.yakgroups.com |
What do you do for health insurance? | mbrubeck: The ACM has some group insurance plans for members: http://www.acm.org/membership/insuranceI haven't used them myself, so I don't know how they compare to plans offered to employers, or to individual plans. |
Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? | wglb: It may be that they don't want to tell you that jvm is not adequate for the task. For something that is true low latency, you will be competing against outfits that hack the OS, tune their carefully hand-crafted C code, rewrite libraries for performance, possibly diving into assembler at some point, and measure ... |
What do you do for health insurance? | ca98am79: I use ehealthinsurance.com |
Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? | bensummers: Regarding Sun, join Sun Startup Essentials in your area and talk to them. Access to technical help, for free, is one of the "selling points" of the scheme.http://www.sun.com/startupessentials/Get in there before Oracle cancel it. :-) |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | mixmax: I would say absolutely not.Submissions should be voted up based on their own merits, not on how many friends you happen to have on HN to help you. This, as far as I know, is an ongoing problem at sites like Digg where it is reportedly almost impossible to get on the frontpage without being a member of some kind... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | icey: I've mentioned this a few times before, but I really wish votes here were public information. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | angelbob: Seems like a bad idea to encourage such things. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | adityakothadiya: Ideally it's not. But I've seen all YC alumni and founders upvote all other YC company related posts within very short amount of time. Just add (YC Year) in subject line, and it gets an upvote from other YC fellow.I guess everything is fair in love, war and marketing (your startup or you). :) |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | Perceval: This kind of behavior is exactly what made Digg the useless oligarchy of content promotion that it is.I think asking other people to vote your favored story to the front page is really an exercise in egotism, and it kinda misses the point. If other people are interested, your story will make it to the front ... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | sophacles: I've done some experiments, it seems to me that the first vote is critical, and that it should occur w/in 10 - 20 minutes of posting a story. Otherwise the story just won't get noticed. I've seen this with submissions many time, and in fact have intentionally voted up a "worse" version of a story to test t... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | alain94040: We all agree that merit should be the ultimate judge. And I have experienced it myself: great posts I submit will rise on their own, not so good ones will linger.However: without the initial boost of making it to the home page, great posts tend to die off and don't even get a chance to win on merit.Some dat... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | rms: If you're going to do it, there's a big difference between giving a story 1 or 2 extra points and 5 or 10. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | axod: I've seen it happen...The other 'quirk' which makes it a little worse, is that if someone submits something, and just asks a couple of friends to upvote it immediately, it pretty much goes to #1.Maybe the ranking algorithm should have some protection against that.I think really, articles should rise and fall on t... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | blhack: I'd say that for HN, absolutely not.One of the problems that I have with most moderation systems (reddit, digg, HN, etc.) is that everybody has got unlimited mod-power.I can only speak for myself, but when I get slashdot moderator points, I make sure that I use them correctly; it feels like a privilege to get t... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | jacquesm: This is all in response to this exchange:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035080 |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | kyro: Yes and no. Yes in that submissions do not rise solely based on their quality and merits. But no in that I have seen many many submissions, specifically Ask HNs, fall right through the 'new' page without an upvote. So I'll upvote them after reading the title, and not clicking through. If it's something I can help... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | mcantor: I'm surprised that there are no voting systems which simply detect cliques, and make your votes weaker when you're voting for someone in your clique.That is, the more you vote for someone's submissions, the less "power" your votes have when voting on them. As long as you balanced it correctly, you would maint... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | prodigal_erik: In an attention economy, this is shoplifting. An upvote should mean "I genuinely think this is interesting and worth reading". If I can manipulate you into upvoting for any other reason, that's scarcely better than cracking your account and pushing the button myself.I want "how marketing works" to remain... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | scott_s: Asking your friends to look at something you posted is fair and expected. They will do so because they're your friends. But then further leveraging your social standing with them and explicitly asking for a vote is, I think, detrimental to HN. |
Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? | ScottWhigham: Egads that is crazy to me. What happens when/if they go down for several hours/days? What happens when their web host gets knocked offline? What happens when they get DDOSed? What happens when/if they get acquired?Wow - I can't imagine using a web company of individuals I know nothing about to store somet... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | JoelMcCracken: How about a page that shows posts that are "about to die"?Or, even, the ability to resubmit/revise one of your own almost dead posts? |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | axod: Also, related question - is asking your friends to flag a 'flaggable' article ok. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | ankeshk: Ideally should not be done. But disclosure: I've done it before. And I've done it before because the first 10 minutes of submission seem to be very very important for the life of the submission.Ideally: it would be awesome if we could hide the entries we've already read from the front page. And these entrie... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | ivankirigin: Yes. But don't be annoying about it.A nice way to do it is to link to hacker news to comment. If they upvote, good. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | rjurney: Most of my high up-vote links were seeded with my friends, and on twitter. Its not necessary to ask for votes, they just happen. The first few friend votes got the thing to the main page, after that they took off.If its JUST friends, it doesn't stay on the main page. The algorithm works. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | petercooper: I've trawled /new a bit (though only once every couple of weeks or so) and seen some good stuff that deserves to make the front page but only gets a few votes - usually due to the time of submission or a crappy title. I wonder if there's a way to get "around" that problem without resorting to bloc voting. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | nishantmodak: I never care about who posed it. If I like it, I recommend fellow HNers by upvoting it (the content, not the author) |
What are you working on? | mschaecher: I moved back home and I am working 60 hours a week of manual, back breaking labor :( Saving money to move to the SF Bay Area this spring :) |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | jrockway: People will read whatever is on the front page, regardless of interest. If you want eyeballs, which almost everyone does, ensuring that you get on the front page is an effective way of getting them. Getting your friends to upvote your article is a good way to do this.Saying it's unethical is not going to ch... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | ErrantX: Define friends: do you mean HN users or just randoms? CLearly the last is unethical and the first should be discouraged.With that said I don't see anything wrong with either going to your HN friends and saying "hey check this out and see what you think". It might well amount to the same thing but I feel it is ... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | jedwhite: I suspect most users (seeking interesting content) infrequently look at "new", and mostly stick to the front page.Items already on the front page get voted up more because they are already on the front page.The only stories that get on to the front page with the current algorithm are those that get a handful ... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | alex_c: I have occasionally done this, for stories that are of personal importance to me. I won't argue that it's absolutely justified, but there are a few reasons I can still sleep at night after doing it:1) I love the HN community, and would never do it for a post that I don't think is of interest (for that matter, ... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | tokenadult: Many of the interesting problems mentioned here can be alleviated in large part if a large part of the veteran participants here browse the new submissionshttp://news.ycombinator.com/newsand upvote those that most contribute to the HN community's interests, as defined by the guidelines.http://ycombinator.co... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | gyardley: I'd love to see Hacker News release who upvoted what, when - 'anonymized' if necessary (although I'm skeptical whether anonymization with a unique ID would truly be anonymous). The quantitative among us could mine the data for interesting things and vote-rigging would be exposed.Any reason why this data coul... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | pg: There's a fuzzy line. I think it's ok (or at least undetectable) if the voters are genuine HN users. There are limits to what they'll upvote, unless they genuinely like it. Whereas it's not ok to email a bunch of people and tell them to create HN accounts for the purpose of upvoting your post; that's basically s... |
Y Combinator-esque program in Chicago | pg: The first YC clone of all was in Chicago, actually. I think it's called Illinois Ventures 10. I'm not sure if it's still running. The site is still up:http://www.iventures10.com/ |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | johnthedebs: For one of the (few) stories I've submitted, I asked friends to take a look and upvote the story if they found it interesting - not all of them did.I felt that approach was okay because I routinely recommend my friends to stuff I find interesting and, since I posted the story here, I obviously thought it w... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | koepked: I don't like the idea of doing this, but as others have pointed out, there are many many submissions that never make the front page, and in many cases I don't believe it's because they lack merit. I've seen times where the same information was posted several times before one of the submissions hit the front pa... |
Celestial Mechanics Book Recommendations | route66: To develop terminology and understanding of the physical/mathematical problems you could look into the books of Jean Meeus. "Astronomical Algorithms" contains, ...well, exactly that: small recipes to solve problems in positional astronomy or calculate ephemerides. Check Willman Bell publishers for the english ... |
Y Combinator-esque program in Chicago | asp742: I know some angels in Chicago that are interested in starting an incubator program focusing on translational medicine startups. They have contacts and experience on the regulatory/testing end. Not sure what market you are specifically interested in, but feel free to email me. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | aplusbi: Anytime a friend of mine has asked me to upvote something (usually on digg) I've read the article first and, if I liked it, I upvoted it. Most of the time I liked it and most of the time I would not have read it if they hadn't asked me to. |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | azharcs: I would say posting and getting upvoted on HN should be like a litmus test for the blog posts, write good blogposts, put your effort into it and post it on HN to see if people like it or upvote it. If they don't, get back to work and improve your writing or style enough to get upvoted by itself (not by rigging... |
What are you working on? | blownd: My first Mac app: http://www.windowflow.com - it gives you keyboard shortcuts for moving, resizing and tiling app windows. I'm getting ready for a big new release today so if you try and it and it's not quite right for you, give it another go later. |
What would you build with real-time data | mrduncan: A very similar question was posed a few days ago with some pretty interesting replies - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1015079 |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | anonjon: Why can't it be weighted so that if one person up votes the same person all of the time, the up votes start to count for less.Or if one person up votes more in general his up votes count for less.Could be the same with down votes as well.Would be a pretty easy system and would keep people from spamming up vote... |
Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? | j_baker: I think the deciding factor is this: are your friends voting you up because your post was good or because they're your friends? I think there's only a problem if it's the latter. |
What would YOU do with a massive amount of computing power? | icefox: Work on finding algorithms for the longest path (aka critical path) in cyclic directed graphs. The general case is NP, but what algorithms can you come up with for specific graphs? How much could you brute force with a massive computing power?Edit: been working on this on and off for the past few years. A ve... |
Good recruiter/job agency in NYC? | vaksel: best depends on you...do you want someone who can get you into Goldman Sachs? Or someone who has inside connections to a bunch of smaller banks? Or someone who can get you into some tech companies?All of those are different people, so you need to be more specific about what you are looking for. |
Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze | adityakothadiya: Clickable - http://www.socialblazeapp.com |
What would YOU do with a massive amount of computing power? | keefe: my neural networks, I train them....... depending on how much time I had with it, I'd work on additional networks maybe something on stock data |
Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze | pgbovine: minor nitpick - you probably want to change the HTML title to something other than "Home Page" |
Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze | hikari17: I've signed up for postling, which offers some similar features, but it hasn't really "wowed" me yet. Your service sounds a little more ambitious in some ways... and it hits a particular pain point of mine (managing Facebook pages). I filled out your form, but forgot to explicitly express interest in being a ... |
Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze | tcc619: less text on the landing page! |
Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? | bgurupra: I don't find rtteam@us.ibm.com on either IBM internal or external sites - what page did you get that id from?I can try to see if I can lookup somebody's relevant id |
Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze | rrikhy: Any reason why you guys haven't secured the socialblaze.com url? |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | shaunxcode: hell no you're not! And if you are a programmer/math inclined you will probably actually do really well once you get a few fundamentals down and start to see the patterns/logic in the tuning. (learn to play a power chord and then realize that the same finger pattern applies all the way down the fret board f... |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | dnsworks: My 62 year old father just took up Piano and is loving it. |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | surgesg: There's no replacement for good private lessons. |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | dasil003: No.That's the template response for questions of the form:/^Am I too old to learn .*\?$/i |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | plinkplonk: You aren't too old to learn.It is hard (though probably not impossible, given sufficient motivation and practice) to get good enough to play professionally with a late start), but if you plan to learn for the joy of music and playing songs at parties and so on it is very doable. If you practice (guitar) fo... |
Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? | celticjames: I worked with David on the Mozilla Education project. Here's my two cents.It's easy to put out the call for volunteers. It's hard to cope with the deluge of people who want to help.Code bases are complex and/or large in any meaningful project. Even skilled programmers may take time to get up to speed. Core... |
Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? | mainsequence: HFOSS might be interesting, they work almost exclusively with students: http://hfoss.org/ |
Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? | DarkShikari: This is done by hundreds of projects every year--often quite successfully--through Google Summer of Code. I've been a mentor for GSOC for two years.If I understand you correctly though, this is a case of a whole classroom forced into a single project as opposed to a few students in each one. This creates... |
Y Combinator-esque program in Chicago | harper: There are a bunch of people talking about this. The most promising stuff seems to be coming from Sandbox industries (i have spent a lot of time with them - so i may be biased).There are also a bundle of VCs that are talking about this as well. If you want email/jabber me at harper@nata2.org and i will introduce... |
Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? | m0th87: For undergraduate research, me and a friend made a recommendation engine web service (very similar to Directed Edge) using Python + Tornado. I've put it on the back burner because other priorities necessitate my attention for now. But I certainly wouldn't mind help.I've implemented a recommendation algorithm us... |
When data is code, what is the meaning of a config script? | Kliment: Well, as long as you are the only one editing them, it doesn't make a difference where you put the limit between code and data. This changes once you release though. Configuration files are meant to be user-edited as part of standard functionality, program code is not. Your users expect nothing major to break ... |
Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? | shaddi: I took a course like this a couple years back and actually started an open source project through it. My group found a local organization who was interested in using the software we had in mind after and they served as our "client". So, if you have any ideas you'd personally like to work on, perhaps you could t... |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | patrickryan: There is no age limit to learning. In fact, I bought a guitar at the age of 19 and began teaching myself chords, strumming, and scales with no previous experience. I am 23 now, wrote and recorded a full length music album 2 years ago, have played numerous live shows as a solo artist, and continue to learn ... |
am I too old to learn the guitar/music? | babycakes: Sounds just like our situation.I've been playing guitar for 15 years now. My 30 year-old wife just picked up the guitar. She's doing quite well. I spend about 15 minutes per day helping her with her technique and giving her a new exercise to try.When we picked out her guitar, they offered us a month of fr... |
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