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What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | 3dFlatLander: Not really a book, but check out James Burkes Connections series. Other shows he's worked on have to do with the history of science/technology as well.The episode pertaining to the birth of the computer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORY-mXXgJg4&feature=PlayL...That's worth checking out first, to... |
alternatives to EtherPad? | chris123: I guess EtherPad-like features are coming to Google Docs. Now that will be sweet! |
Source for address data of event facilities? | az: You can have the guys at mturk.com do the work for you. Offer them a decent compensation and they will return worthwile results. Maybe split it into a few different tasks, one for colleges, stadiums, concerts, etc. so they will be more focused.For universities, you can get the list (although may not be complete) at... |
Does Windows Mobile have a future? | az: The newer Blackberrys have 'Documents to go' that allow you to read .doc when they are incoming and edit and send .doc from your phone.The same is true for .ppt and .xlsEmail is standard on all smart phones. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | elidourado: An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | pg: Medieval Technology and Social Change. The title sounds boring, but this one of those books that just cranks your brain open. There is so much new stuff in it. Or at least, stuff that was new when it was published in the 1960s.Carlo Cipolla's Guns, Sails, and Empires is a close second. His Clocks and Culture is... |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | profquail: "When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management" is a pretty good one, though the books main focus is the people involved in the situation, not the technology they were using.More info from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed:_The_Rise_an... |
Does Windows Mobile have a future? | profquail: I would say it's pretty good if you're really tied into Windows, and even better if you're a Windows developer.If not, I'd go with a Nokia N900, Blackberry, iPhone, then Android, in that order; the N900 just has a ridiculous number of features, Blackberry has built their business on enterprise support, the i... |
Domain hacking | roach: I always had a hard time remembering the del.icio.us domain. I knew it was a .us tld but couldn't remember if it was delicio.us or de.licio.us etc. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | orhtograph: James Beniger's "Control Revolution"
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Revolution-Technological-Econo... |
Does Windows Mobile have a future? | kloncks: Does windows mobile system has future? Didn't know jokes were allowed on HN :P |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | samg: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson.http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Money-Financial-History-World/d... |
Does Windows Mobile have a future? | seanx: I have an HD2, replacing an iPhone. The HD2 is the only winmobile phone I would recomend as it meets the windows 7 hardware requirements. It's vastly better at some things than the iPhone but doesn't have the App Store :(. You can still find most applications that you need but games are not as good. |
What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? | rah: 1. The Lever of Riches, by Joel Mokyr
2. Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
3. A Farewell to Alms, by Gregory Clark
4. Power and Prosperity, by Mancur Olsen
5. Carnage and Culture, Victor Davis Hanson
6. Capital Ideas, by Peter Bernstein
7. The Geodesic Network, by Peter Huber |
Is Google's Go ready for serious projects? | mahmud: A better option might be to use Twisted Matrix for Python, iolib for Lisp, or whatever high-performance networking library you can find for your dynamic HLL.Learning Go means learning a whole new language, learning the (still primitive) tool chain, and scrambling for examples, documentation and support.High pe... |
How to hold an online fundraiser? | patio11: A buddy of mine is giving out free copies of his software at the moment to anyone who gives money to Haiti. He is doing it on the honor system. I think that is likely to be sufficient, depending on who your customer is.Failing that, see the Paypal documentation about Return URLs. The one set up with the but... |
Is Google's Go ready for serious projects? | skybrian: There's no way to answer this question unless you say what the server is supposed to do. Why do you need "low-level control"? How do you plan to deploy the server when you're done? Who will maintain it? |
What are the best links that we've missed? | cperciva: I think my 'Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage' post deserved more attention than it received -- AFAIK it is the first (and perhaps only?) time someone published exactly what SimpleDB requests cost.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227327 |
What are the best links that we've missed? | PStamatiou: http://hnweekly.chibidesign.com/ |
What are the best links that we've missed? | paraschopra: I was actually thinking of making a predictive model which would rate the new stories automatically. There are a lot of features that can be used in learning the prediction model: text length, content, etc. I already have the infrastructure more or less ready: http://www.wingify.com/contextsense/In my opin... |
What are the best links that we've missed? | akkartik: Resubmitting the runt of my recent submissions: the myth of college football http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059489 |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | akkartik: The magic ink paper was on top of HN 2 years ago[1]. I remember bouncing off it the first half dozen times I ran across it on the blogosphere. Eventually I focused, and boy was it worth it:http://worrydream.com/MagicInkIt's still my #1 paper of all time, for both exposition and presentation (layout, typograph... |
What are the best links that we've missed? | Alex3917: From my last twenty submissions...Pretending objects: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/16/pretending-and-games.ht...Superstitious beliefs cemented before birth: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/30/paranormal-supersti...Sacraficial virgins of the Mississippi: http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/... |
Is Google's Go ready for serious projects? | yannis: It is difficult to comment without knowing more as to why you need to write a server, perhaps you care to give a few of the reasons. However, the way you explained it, you need low level control. How about Lua, it has a beautiful syntax, small footprint is ultrafast and interfaces very well with C (in many ways... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | vonsydov: frames by minsky |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | Herring: http://www.ps.uci.edu/~markm/einstein/aharonov_einstein.pdfCurious quantum eraser article on Science a while ago. |
What are the best links that we've missed? | jamesbritt: Idle thought: A script running on HN that, on slow news days, looks back on submissions on high news days and finds those that (by some criteria) got pushed off the the radar too quickly.It then selects some number of these (again, by whatever criteria, TBA, etc.) and re-submits them.That way, slow news day... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | jhickner: "Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments."http://psycnet.apa.org/?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0...a.k.a. the dunning-kruger effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | las3rjock: A few of my favorites, chosen from computer science and from physics:D. E. Knuth, "An empirical study of FORTRAN programs," Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 105-133, 1971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380010203 A choice quote: "A first idea for obtaining 'typical' programs was to go t... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | tokenadult: "Massive IQ Gains in 14 Nations: What IQ Tests Really Measure" by James R. Flynn in Psychological Bulletin. Here is the correct APA citation form, modernized with the doi reference:Flynn, J. R. (1987). Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 171-191. doi: ... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | tel: Shannon's original paper introducing Information Theory is pretty great.Shannon 48 [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...] |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | BrentRitterbeck: "Estimating betas from nonsynchronous data" by Myron Scholes and Joseph Williams in Journal of Financial Economics, December 1977, pgs. 309-327.Abstract is below.Nonsynchronous trading of securities introduces into the market model a potentially serious econometric problem of errors in variables. In th... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | naveensundar: The paper which started it all :)
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/turing_oncomputablen... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | neilc: The System R retrospective paper is a pretty masterful example of a CS systems paper:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/SystemR.pdfIt helps that they are describing a pioneering software project and they had the benefit of hindsight, but nonetheless, a great read. |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | beza1e1: My current favorite paper of the month: "An efficient implementation of graph grammars based on the RETE matching algorithm" by H. Bunke, T. Glauser, T. Tran
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017389Abstract: This paper is concerned with the efficient determination of the set of productions of a graph grammar that... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | tectonic: Radia Perlman's pivotal 1985 paper "An algorithm for distributed computation of a spanningtree in an extended LAN"http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ji/F02/ir02/p44-perlman.pdfMore papers should have their algorithms in rhyme! Algorhyme
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree
A tree... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | shalmanese: Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. By John Lasseter of Pixar fame, breaking down the infamous Luxo Jr animation.http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps124/fall01/resources/p35-l...Dietary pesticides (99.99% all natural). By Bruce Ames, inventor of the Ames test on how virtually... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | whyenot: A little off the beaten track for HN, but a classic paper in ecology that introduced the idea of trophic cascades:Hairston, Smith and Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94: 421-425.see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade for more informati... |
What are the best links that we've missed? | yungchin: A couple of days ago I was really looking for everyone's insights on this patent application by Google:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042128
... but the original title I put on it didn't make clear what it was (I think it said "Google News related"). If it could get a second chance, I'm still quite cur... |
What are the best links that we've missed? | rms: This one didn't make it because of tweet down-weighting.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049016 Still no confirmation... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | mirrors: "Through a Glass Darkly" by Steven Krantzabstract: We consider the question of how mathematicians view themselves and how non-mathematicians view us. What is our role in society? Is it effective? Is it rewarding? How could it be improved? This paper will be part of a forthcoming volume on this circle of questi... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | thisrod: Cavendish's Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth is still worth reading. In the 18th century, it took some impressive hacking to isolate two balls sufficiently that their mutual gravity was the strongest force acting on them. |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | proemeth: I like Guy Steele's "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth".
http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | natch: The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin is pretty good, and is considered a classic.http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_...It's in the field of population biology, but the principles are broadly applicable to any system where self-interested actors can gain more than they lose by act... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | gphil: Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust."Actually, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html. |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | rawwell: 378 page attempt to proove 1+1=2
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/06/extreme_math_1_1_2....
"after 378 pages, <Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead> were able to talk about how you could prove that 1+1=2. But they couldn't actually do it yet, because they hadn't yet managed to define addition." |
How to hold an online fundraiser? | edwardmccaughan: coincidently, I've just hit a similar problem and looking for a solution (mine is a swear jar webapp which automagicly donates to charity when you press it)so far things I'm thinking:1-use the paypal api to directly donate from the user's paypal account into a charities paypal account. (easy, but requi... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | dneun: John Backus: Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programshttp://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_l... |
Where are the enterprise gurus? | bhousel: Mike Taber's recent writeup on enterprise software is pretty good:http://www.miketaber.net/2009/10/29/how-to-sell-enterprise-s... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | BioGeek: Ben Fry (of Processing fame)'s PhD thesis: "Computational Information Design".Abstract:The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but
our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain
better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization,
data mini... |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | figured: I am quite surprised that I don't see Roy Fielding's "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures" on this list (aka his REST PHD paper). I have not read many dissertation, in fact i think this is the only one, but I found it very approachable.http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/p... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | oomkiller: Keep making apps, use the money to hire people to work with you, and then soon, FOR you. That's the endgame here. If you don't want to do that, hire a financial advisor. They can tell you how to invest it that will suit your wishes. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | AndrewHampton: http://www.kiva.org/ |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | icey: First, congratulations; that's a pretty impressive feat on the app store.Have you thought about taking some of the income and using it to hire other developers to increase the number of apps that you've got being developed at once? It seems like you know what works and doesn't work on the app store, so it would p... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | ericb: I would focus on whatever you can do to keep your winning streak going in the app store. Why search for another get rich quick scheme while the one you have is still working? Most schemes don't work, so focus on optimizing your milking of the cash cow. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | iworkforthem: Invest in companies. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | kp212: Nice work. I hope I can have this problem some day! |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | gregcmartin: Seriously what ericb said, milk the app store and advertise your apps online if you can, keep it going but the investment climate is lame everywhere. I am now in the same situation where I had 30k cash for the first time with no debt and I essentially put it in a safety deposit box at the bank so I won't ... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | leelin: It sounds like you want to invest the money in yourself, which is understandable and entrepreneurial.As life continues, you'll find yourself with increasingly more disposable money (hopefully), and directly investing in yourself doesn't scale (either it's too risky or you can't use it to make yourself more prod... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | blhack: The biggest asset that you have and the one that can create the most money for you is yourself. Yeah, that sounds really cheesy, but you've already showed that it's true.Invest the money in yourself. Bank it and use it so that you can ensure that you aren't going to need to spend your time making somebody els... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jsankey: What I know how to do best is the app store, but I want other type of things that do not require much time investment, but give as good returns as that.What do I do with the money? How do I invest it in making more money quickly?Little effort, fast return? Then you need to take high risks. Is that really wha... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | ShabbyDoo: There's nothing wrong with continuing to ride a gravy train you know is going to end (or at least slow down) as long as you don't convince yourself it's going to keep going forever.>I want other type of things that do not require much time investment, but give as good returns as that.Why do you not have time... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | taylorbo: No one has a guaranteed way to make more money quickly...but here's some ideas.Invest in startups - You might see amazing returns in ~2-5 years, but the risk is very high.High risk hedgefunds - All equity/bond/commodity investment doesn't have to be slow. It can be risky and full of high returns/loses.My fav... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | vaksel: you can do what Jacques does, he also has a "passive" income from one of his sites, so he makes a few small time investments here and there.You really don't need a lot of money to invest. Just look at the HN model. As an angel all you need is 25K to get into most early rounds. |
Where are the enterprise gurus? | jayliew: Are you selling to the enterprise? If you have specific questions, I could probably answer some - based on my experience working for a public Fortune 500 that sells to entreprise |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | cellis: I once read "Never give financial advice for free:
if it is good advice, you won't get credit,
and if it is bad advice -- you'll get the blame".
You should consider why anyone here would give you advice on how to turn xx,xxx into millions quickly. HN is full of smart people who are fully capable of gett... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jonnycowboy: Just travel, with a small laptop (for support). You'll be able to live for over a year on that money in places like New Zealand, China, India, etc etc.
Or rent/buy a small RV and see rural America! |
Why do you hate your IT department? | backroomcoder: I wish that our corporate/internally based hosting service was as good as the best external hosting companies. Therefore, 3-4 days to deliver servers for a new application to be tested on; rather than 3-4 weeks. Not quite an answer to the question but I believe the it department could be alot more effect... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jasonlbaptiste: Find something that is undervalued significantly, dress it up with great tech/service/usability, and dominate that area. Odds are it won't be anything in the mainstream tech circles (ie- realtime web). |
Why do you hate your IT department? | backroomcoder: correction. 3-4 hours instead of 3-4 weeks |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jackowayed: Clickable graph link: http://imgur.com/T0z5p.png |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | petewailes: Build a business using it. Pithy version:1. Look for a niche that hang around online, but don't know much about web stuff. Mumsy things, crafts... anything that's a tightly knit niche2. Find their forums/blogs etc, and ask them what would make their lives easier? What would be the one thing that would be aw... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | patio11: Hire people to do the things you do which have the worst tradeoff of hours expended per unit of value added. Alternately, hire people to automate those things.And I'd SERIOUSLY consider at the very least a) setting yourself up a SEP-IRA and b) socking away the maximum in an index fund. It is essentially mono... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | bg4: My honest opinion is to bank the remaining after taxes - especially if you don't have six months living expenses set aside in a money market fund or something like that. If you do have that, then use it to buy other people's time to make your small apps. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | lrm242: Hrm, I think you're forgetting about the most important money making tool available: compound growth. Let's assume the following:You invest your current 24,000 and each month you add 20,000 to your investment. Let's further assume that you can achieve an annual return of 3.5% and that return is evenly distribut... |
What are the best links that we've missed? | jayliew: I use PostRank (what used to be AideRSS) to sift through my piles of hundreds of RSS feeds. Basically some feeds are so high volume that I can say, "give me the top 30% most popular" only and just look at those. There are buckets like "good", "great", etc.It does various things to determine the interesting-nes... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | swombat: I don't know what to do with the money, how to use this very large monthly income to actually make myself richWhat would you do if you had already made yourself rich? What would you spend your time on?Why not start doing that right now? Why do you need to "make yourself rich" before you can do it? |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | eraad: Give it all to me. I will make good use of it and give you back some extra bucks in a couple of years. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | DanielBMarkham: Find a co-founder (or not) and invest in an app in a more stable ecosystem with longer-term potential. |
Please review my new website www.favilous.com | mikewhyley: Looks nice - need to experiment with a delicious alternative - this could be just what i'm looking for. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | w3matter: Make sure you pay your taxes dude |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | mydigitalself: Property can be a short-term investment too. Buy something that needs work, do it up, sell it on. It's fun, creative and rewarding too, although not without risk either. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | petervandijck: The internet thing to do would be to make a member-only site where you teach people everything you know about making money on the appstore, and charge 97$/m subscription. Run that for a year or two, then sell it. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jackowayed: I know it's risky, but I wouldn't count out the stock market.With the whole financial meltdown, the stock market tanked, and there was no doubt they'd go back up. A year ago, even though I was 15, only had a grand or so, and needed the money a year and a half from then for college, I considered the stock ma... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | sreitshamer: Invest in yourself! Working for yourself can make you a lot happier. Since your living costs are low you're in a great position to build a business using that cash.EDIT: Plus by starting a company you'll immediately promote yourself to CEO. If you ever get a job again in the future, it'll be at a higher le... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | rsheridan6: What you're looking for is a get rich quick scheme, but you're not going to find one here (not a legit one, anyway).Here's an idea: have your cousin in the Illinois state legislature throw you some lucrative contracts. That's the kind of get rich quick scheme that works. Don't have a cousin in the Illinoi... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | johnconroy: Well done! play it safe though: a nice property and an equity tracker fund.Jesus I wish I was in your shoes. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | Nassrat: I think what you are looking for is to incubate startups |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jeromec: I think the answer heavily depends on how confident you are in yourself. Do you feel your success was a fluke, or could you mimic it with something else? Having 24K in capital is great, but if you know anything about the tech startup space you'll know it's no sure ticket to riches. You need to board a train th... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jorkos: I would think about monetizing your experience of making money through apps; take a small amount of your money and create a resource for building and deploying cheap apps - this could be in the form of a PDF, etc. Add a dynamic element like 2 hours of personal consultation. Sell at a few price points and packag... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | sethg: I do NOT want to invest in the stock market, or invest in anything long term like bonds or property. I want to somehow use the money to make more money quickly (within a 2 year time span).If you’re looking for investment tips, I recommend the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street.If you’re looking at the broader q... |
Please review my new website www.favilous.com | Jim_Neath: I'm being shown the line:"Favilous is supported on all major browsers excluding Internet Explorer 6. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer."I don't think I need to see this as I'm on Safari. |
How do you juggle time spent on learning vs. time building things? | benedwards: I learn by building stuff.Being able to show off something you've built is better than showing a certificate for something you studied for. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | andrewcooke: i think that it's pretty clear that getting rich is largely luck. you were in the right place at the right time with the right skills. if it was more than that, then you'd be able to repeat it without advice, right?given that, two approaches make sense to me:1 - treat it as a lucky break and consider how... |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | Apreche: Do what I would do. Just take a trip around the world, and forget about it. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | jpcx01: Pay your taxes. After that, it wont seem like all that much money. |
What's your favorite scientific paper? | billswift: It isn't quite a scientific paper, but Feynman's "Personal Observations on the Reliability of the Shuttle", http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/challenger-appendix.html, published as an appendix to the commission's report is an excellent piece of work. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | shareme: invest in building products |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | gte910h: 1. Make More Apps
2. Diversify into Android
3. Stick it in the bank until something great comes along.Cash is very useful. Do not downplay that. |
I made $24k over the last month. Now what? | prakash: I saw this book when Paul Buchheit shared his amazon history, haven't read it. How to Be Rich by J Paul Getty.Also, read this, http://blogmaverick.com/2006/01/02/my-investment-advice-for-... & this http://blogmaverick.com/2008/10/04/how-to-get-rich/ |
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