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Good (computer) networking books? | runjake: - Network Warrior from OReilly
- The TCP/IP books, especially Vol 1, from WR Stevens
- Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 from Cisco Press
- TCP/IP Network Administration from Oreilly still has a little relevance. |
How should I pursue my passion? | barmstrong: This is a classic dilema: what you love doesn't pay well.The solution is to try to AUTOMATE your income so you can spend time doing what you love, whether it pays or not.You can automate it by putting in the grunt work up front to build something passive or save enough money to live off your net worth (rent... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | apsurd: It's a nice and simple enough idea that has a chance at doing well. The girl in the video is talking way too fast. I know there's a lot of content but the idea is simple enough that she does not need to blow through everything. |
Do you have a good source code to HTML solution? | fendrak: My software engineering professor always used Code2HTML for the code samples he posted online:http://www.palfrader.org/code2html/While I never used it myself, it produced nicely formatted results. |
Authentication solution for REST? | notmyname: S3 uses a request signing mechanism. Each request is signed by the client and the signature is sent in the headers.Rackspace Cloud Files uses a token based authorization. Authentication provides a token that is then sent in the header of each request. When the token expires, re-authenticate to get a new toke... |
Feedback/Advice on my Website | Ernestas: You will get better feedback if you write in which area you want the feedback. Design, idea...I'm no guru but I think orange on orange is not easiest colors on eyes to read.Login button could say "login".Interesting idea btw. |
Authentication solution for REST? | lsc: I think http auth is pretty standard for REST stuff; users don't see it, so nobody cares that it is 'ugly'(personally, I still don't understand why http auth isn't in use in other areas; it brings user authentication outside of your app and into the http server, which makes it quite a bit easier to make other ap... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | fnid2: I've seen this trend popping up a lot lately. Pooling buying power among individuals to get discounts up the supply chain. It makes great sense.I think there is a lot of potential here because it is only at a certain scale that some ideas become profitable or even implementable. In the old days, some investor... |
Do you have a good source code to HTML solution? | brianto2010: I've never had to do that (ever), but...Vim: :TOhtml
Notepad++: Plugins > NppExport > Export to HTML |
Should I choose a managed or unmanaged VPS? | CyberFonic: You need to look at exactly what you are getting with the managed service packages. The service levels and security guarantees are critical. As always you pay for what you get, but you may not get what you pay for. |
Machine Vision Advice | noonespecial: Check out the zoneminder project.http://www.zoneminder.com/It doesn't do what you need, but its fully open source and its made of all of the stuff you will need to do what you want. |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | JayNeely: http://prezi.com/ 's front page has taken a turn for the worse, but they create some visually interesting presentations.If you have to use slides specifically, take a look at Garr Reynold's (PresentationZen.com guy) sample slides...http://www.garrreynolds.com/Presentation/sample1.html...and presentation tips:... |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | swolchok: I am a die-hard Linux fan. However, I recently discovered that the latest Powerpoint is head and shoulders above Beamer and OpenOffice (try SmartArt, for example), so I use the school's Windows machines just to work on my presentation. |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | bhousel: check out http://280slides.com/ |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | jonah: Group buys happen a lot of the (Audi) Quattro World forums for example.A member comes up with an idea, runs it past a vendor, and posts a notice - say, group buy for 10 sets of wheels. People respond by placing pre-orders with the vendor. Once the minimum is reached they turn into orders at the pre-arranged disc... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | satjot: I understand where it can become a bit cumbersome to explain to non techies. I would agree with the point above that the explanation does not to be as overblown as it is. Just get the key concept out:
1) Want to buy something, but pay less?
2) Invite your friends and if a few of you buy it, everyone will save... |
Should I choose a managed or unmanaged VPS? | Travis: I manage my own, but I do that for my other jobs as well. So I guess you could say I'm a part time sysadmin.I say do it yourself. You don't have that much fine tuning to do. I just personally doubt that you're going to get very good "management" from your provider. It will be most useful in a situation of "... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | elpuri: Some people might remember letsbuyit.com from the late nineties and early noughties. If I remember correctly it had the exact same idea. The site seems to be still up with the same brand, but it seems to have become some sort of "shopping community" without the group buying feature. You might want to find out w... |
Feedback/Advice on my Website | Travis: A few thoughts off the top of my head (feel free to contact me out of band if you want more...)- text is nearly unreadable
- there's no separation for any of the posts. no rankings, you can't visually separate elements within the post. there are too many of them on there -- which do I read first? Should I re... |
Blog on Interview question re: side projects. | cj: The Google one from last week?If not, try this..http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:ycombinator.co... |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | amirkhella: Using graphics/images from iStockPhoto and similar sites helps convey the point.
An important rule to remember: your audience will either be reading your slides, or hearing what you say. So make sure they compliment each other.Guy Kawasaki has some helpful advice on how to use text in presentations: http://... |
Authentication solution for REST? | frankus: keep in mind you can send username/passwords like so for browser-based debugging:http://username:password@example.com/myresource/ |
Do you have a good source code to HTML solution? | awa: http://www.stanleyshilov.com/online-tools/convert-special-ch... in combination with Syntax highlighter http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ |
When did the Internet get so slimey? | loupgarou21: I distinctly remember the internet being quite shady starting around 1995, but before that I hadn't really been exposed to those parts of the internet.There are two things going on here. The first is that everyone is exposed to different parts of the internet at different times. The second is how rose ti... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | Beanblabber: Politics and The English Language by George Orwell.http://www.ourcivilisation.com/decline/orwell1.htm |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | Auzy: Powerpoint is simply a tool. If you have poor presentation skills, any software will create crappy slides.Yes using different tools may help make it easier, but similar to an artists work, the ultimate quality of the piece will lie with the artist. Yes using different tools may produce slightly better results, bu... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | andyjdavis: Seems odd to suggest Paul Graham's essays on Paul Graham's site but his essays are worth reading.http://paulgraham.com/articles.html |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | Kliment: Try Asimov's nonfiction works. He has a number of decent essay collections, if you can find them. |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | chris11: I really like Douglas Hofstadter.Metamagical Themas is a good collection of his essays.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | l0stman: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges is a must read. Especially ``The South'' at the end of the book.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficciones |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | nfnaaron: As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bushhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think"As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the applicati... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | ytinas: Most anything from Noam Chomsky should be good. |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | astrec: Francis Bacon - Of Studies. Then read Samuel Johnson essay of the same name.Edit: haha - wanted to flick you a link and discover about.com says more or less the same thing: http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/studiesessay.htm |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | megaduck: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", A.M. Turing, 1950. This is where the Turing Test comes from. Technically a journal paper, but reads more like an essay.If you're into computers at all, this is a must read. Alan Turing not only gave us modern computer science, he also kicked off the field of Artificia... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | dmfdmf: Clay Shirky "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"... the invention of the internet has destroyed the cultural standard bearer's authority (NYT, MSM, etc) just like the invention of the printing press destroyed the Catholic Church's authority. It is impossible to say how it will play out because no one know... |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | stevelosh: If you like Markdown you could give slidedown a try. You write your slides in Markdown and then render them to HTML: http://github.com/nakajima/slidedown |
What can I use to make presentations that don't suck? | nailer: There was a presentation tool used at PyCon during one of the lightening talks that used an interesting 'zoom and rotate' concept.Any HN folk know what this is? |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | dchest: We acquired this product a while ago from TwoDesk Software (http://www.twodesk.com/), improved it, and releasing the new version today.
I know, we're going to a kind of established market (think Balsamiq), but we just love native applications, and we think that
making mockups is a good fit for a native app, and... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | uggedal: The artifacts created with this tools looks exactly like those created with Balsamiq... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | csomar: 1. Encourage your visitors to download the product, put more screen shots that looks dynamic and interesting (may be a slide if you wish).2. Good size 1.3 MB3. product- I can only resize objects horizontally, the button should have a vertical resize.- Why drag and drop to add the object when I have already sele... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | pistoriusp: I'm on a Mac, so I can't review your application. Most of the developers that I know are on *nix/ OS X. We're in different circles; I'm sure you'll have clients.I don't really see why a person would want to use a desktop application instead of a web based application like Balsamiq. I honestly believe that t... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | rksprst: Balsamiq seems to have more features that are important + being a native app is not an advantage unless you are equal on all other fronts.Besides for that it looks like a nice "copy" of balsamiq. Because your products are so similar, I think the best way to drive customers is to make your product significantly... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | trevelyan: The Apology by Plato talks of the trial of Socrates and the Phaedo of his subsequent death:http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.htmlhttp://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedo.html |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | DanBlake: What advantages does it have over mockflow.com ( collaborative web based balsamiq competitor ) or even over balsamiq itself? |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | revorad: 1. Love the fast native desktop app feel.2. You cannot just say "any similarities with Balsamiq are probably not intentional". Your mockups look identical. If you want to keep it that way, then as rksprst suggested, compete directly and make it cheaper. Show the comparison on your buy now page.But you also say... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | maxklein: I like it. Nice website, native apps are fast. A suggestion: Allow different widgets to be importable, so that I can do windows styles apps, mac style apps, etc. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | markkanof: One little nitpick...is the screenshot on the main page supposed to be a joke. "Launch at mario's" as opposed to "Lunch at mario's". Sorry if I'm just being one of those guys that ruins the joke. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | Sukotto: Looks nice. However, it looks exactly like balsamiq. That being the case, why should I buy the challenger (you) over the incumbent (them... with a track record)?I think it would be a good idea to make your app look different in an interesting way.nitpick: You spell "lunch" as "launch" in your screenshot. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | cwilson: I've got a few issues:1. It's Windows only. I do not personally use Windows nor do I have a single peer developer, designer, or project manager (the ones who would primarily be using this for mockups) who uses Windows. It's all Mac in the web dev world these days. A web app or a native Mac app would have been ... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | elidourado: The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayekhttp://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html |
Review our iPhone App - quiQR | mtholking: link: http://bit.ly/quiQR |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | Sukotto: It's nice to see some competition in this space. Good luck guys. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | NEPatriot: I would try to market this at the "idea" guys in order for them to make their product more than a crazy idea.The angle I see is: make it something they can put in front of developers who they want to recruit as founders or design firms for estimate purposes. Plus you can save money because the designer doesn... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | petervandijck: Awesome. I am an information architect and I've used almost every tool out there. It's simple, and that's awesome. Needs some serious thought about what NOT to include (as you'll get 1000s of feature requests). Love that it's fast and installs fast. IF you can create an efficient way to share/discuss pag... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | petervandijck: Here's a thought: make the download free, add an online (simple!) sharing service (to share with teams and annotate/comment, behind a simple password), and charge a small subscription fee for that. Say 9$/month per team (unlimited users), or a graded pricing (9$/m for up to 6 users, 49$/m unlimited team/... |
Review my new e-commerce model: self-serve group discounts | csbartus: This idea is very useful for shop owners too.
We have realised not the customers are coming to your shop anymore but you'll have to go to their space (like Facebook)Future is about customer driven shops: they define what they want at what price they want.
Shops will be the clients of these groups serving them... |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | hakan: Somewhat off-topic question: what are you guys using for your forums? Did you build it yourself or are you using a packaged solution? They're very nice. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | dpcan: I purchased this program way back when you did the promotion post to the Business of Software forum and I've been using it regularly ever since. It's so much more responsive than Balsamiq and I absolutely LOVE it.EDIT: I just read your blog post, and it looks like you took over this product from the original cr... |
Reccomend essays to a young, inquiring mind | danblick: Both inspiring:Doug Engelbart's 1962 "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework"http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/engelbart/62_paper_top.ht...Herbert Simon's "The Sciences of the Artificial"http://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Artificial-Herbert-Simon/dp/0... |
Best way to establish a US company for foreigners | hga: LLC and corporate law is state by state, so you almost certainly can find a suitable state where you can be a partner in an LLC (which is probably the best form to start with). Good luck! |
Best way to establish a US company for foreigners | hga: NOTE: you should probably prepend "Ask HN: " to your topic. |
Review our UI mockup tool, ScreenSketcher | guiseppecalzone: I'm a big fan of demo videos. I like to see something in action before I download anything. That in the works? |
Legal Hacks. | mbrubeck: The Mozilla Corporation (which employs many developers and has revenue deals with partners like Google) is a for-profit company, owned entirely by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.This lets Mozilla have a taxable, revenue-generating entity that is not subject to various restrictions on activity of non-profit... |
Review my eBay/Google maps mashup inspired by HN | geoffc: The idea for this site came from a comment from yannis on my prior HN submission for townflier.com. Sadly eBay sent me a form letter rejection for the affiliate network but I like the way the site turned out so I'm launching it anyway to see if anyone else finds it useful. |
How should I get started with Ruby & Rails? | vital101: I followed http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html with moderate success. I'm a PHP programmer by trade, and that guide was easy enough for me to understand. As far as 2.3 vs 3.0, I don't know enough about RoR to weigh in. |
How should I get started with Ruby & Rails? | mbrubeck: Enable Passenger (mod_rails) on your Dreamhost account, then you can just upload Rails applications (or other Rack apps like Sinatra) to a directory and they will run:http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PassengerI would skip CGI if your goal is to learn a framework like Rails. If you want to write a simple one-file we... |
How should I get started with Ruby & Rails? | billturner: You're starting at a tricky time. Rails 2.3 is still a great, stable platform and should be sticking around for quite some time.Rails 3 does have many improvements, but it's still a "beta" in every sense of the word as many of the plugins don't work yet, or require many modifications to work.I still think j... |
Transitioning to Linux | benedwards: I'd recommend Ubuntu. Good software, good community. |
Transitioning to Linux | revorad: Just go with Ubuntu, don't even think about it. Most things work right out of the box, there's a ton of help out there and the package management is ace. Installing anything pretty much only takes: sudo apt-get install anything.(Confession: As far as the desktop experience is concerned, I do miss XP. Ubuntu ha... |
Transitioning to Linux | motters: For a first timer, probably Ubuntu or Linux Mint. |
Is short-term value creation ever justifiable over long-term? | mkeblx: See Any Rand, plus criticisms of. |
What questions couldn't you answer when browing my new website? | JacobAldridge: Inspired by this post from earlier in the week about FAQs - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465521. Visit our site
2. Provide us with 2-4 questions you had and could not answer while browsing our siteThis is my website in the sense that I produced a lot of the planning and content. I figure any que... |
Review my WoW guild management app | scotje: If you want to play around without actually creating an account you can log in with: demo@srsguild.com / demo. |
Transitioning to Linux | pbhjpbhj: When I got my new computer I tried Gnome, the desktop environment (DE) that is default in UBunutu, for a few weeks. I had been using KDE3 prior and KDE4 had just surfaced and was practically unusable.I tried really hard to like Gnome but I just couldn't get anything done with it. I find it very easy to switch... |
What questions couldn't you answer when browing my new website? | pedalpete: I think you're coming at this from the wrong approach (though I could be wrong).
I don't go to a website to 'browse', or to get questions answered, and particularly, 'what questions couldn't get answered'.I think what you are looking for is what does the website do for the business. Does the website attract... |
Review my WoW guild management app | atourgates: The panda seems quite serious. |
What should I build to support my web app? | marcamillion: Btw, these are the types of links I am looking for:http://particletree.com/notebook/the-underbelly-of-a-web-app...http://particletree.com/notebook/the-underbelly-of-a-web-app... |
What should I build to support my web app? | patio11: What you need on day one:1) Something which solves problems for people. I assume you've got this covered.2) Some way to charge people money for solving their problems. I like Paypal with e-junkie -- total integration time under 2 hours. Your mileage may vary if you do subscriptions rather than one-time pa... |
What are you working on tonight? | pg: Improving HN's performance. Voting is horribly expensive. That wasn't a problem originally but it's starting to become one now that there are so many users. |
What are you working on tonight? | DanielBMarkham: Got an email from Microsoft -- I discovered a new bug in their F# compiler that breaks my startup app. I'm the first to find this fairly significant bug. I should be so proud.So now I'm deciding how best to hack up my code to get around the bug.Can't say I'm very happy about where I am, but I'll get it ... |
What are you working on tonight? | tdupree: Working on a new website for a client to help pay for the bootstrapping of my own startup. Getting to mess around with a custom mootools carousel with some nice UX stuff goin on. |
What are you working on tonight? | jsonscripter: I'm working on a Flash game using Flixel for a contest on Newgrounds. There haven't been many submissions so I'm basically just trying to get it done by the deadline :) |
We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? | jasonlbaptiste: you should probably go. you'll certainly meet some new smart people, get to talk to other entrepreneurs, and have some sort of experience. It's good to put yourself out there and experience new things. your product will still get done, don't worry. |
What are you working on tonight? | plinkplonk: Reviewing the more esoteric Category Theory bits of Haskell.A (commercial) Haskell + C project kicks off on March 4th.I am looking forward to my first major project in Haskell but it will be hectic once it starts and I won't have too much time for lazing around or reading :-(.Enjoying the last few days of... |
What are you working on tonight? | ohwaitnvm: I finished up a lexical analyzer I was writing in Ruby for a pascal variant we're using throughout the semester in my Compilers class.
Now it's done and submitted, so time to relax and have a cup of tea before I start considering writing the parser. |
What are you working on tonight? | chrisa: Creating marketing brochures with html, so that I can use css to create a consistent feel across all of them. There's probably a much better way to do this, but I need them for next week.To do it, I'm using webkit2png to make a png from the html page, and prawn to automatically put the png into a pdf. The who... |
What are you working on tonight? | mrfish: Trying to catch up on way too much Elance work while watching the Olympics... oh and watching Lost that I missed the other day. |
What are you working on tonight? | boyter: Right now... adding some features to an internal application at work in C# (im at work).Later tonight though, I should be preparing for my hiking trip tomorrow, and possibly working on some RSS indexing that someone I know wants for their website. |
What are you working on tonight? | shib71: A website for people to post latin texts, collaboratively annotate them with grammer information, and read both. |
What are you working on tonight? | MikeMacMan: Drinking... |
What are you working on tonight? | amackera: Studying for a Computer Architecture mid-term on Tuesday. I got to program a little bit of a RESTful API for a big school project earlier today though, so the day isn't a total loss. |
What are you working on tonight? | jdminhbg: Using CouchDB to set up various payment methods for a personal project. The schemaless stuff is great. |
What are you working on tonight? | hikari17: Trying to get the video done for our YC app. We're seriously bad at saying anything cool or interesting on camera... all we can do so far is laugh at each other. :) |
What are you working on tonight? | nfnaaron: I'm working on initialization scripts for my VPS: automatically taking it from newborn to installed infrastructure and security settings.And a glass of bourbon. |
What are you working on tonight? | njl: Putting the finishing touches on the app I wrote this week, a co-founder finder.I also got a Droid this afternoon, so I've been having a hard time avoiding the distracting shiny, shiny new toy. |
What are you working on tonight? | lotharbot: Playing Starcraft with my wife, exploring a new tactic, inspired by the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150669And taking care of my 2-month-old. |
What are you working on tonight? | alanthonyc: Deploying a tiny, tiny app onto a public server... |
What are you working on tonight? | kolosy: the same thing we do every night, pinky... plotting to take over the world... this time with a shivaplug. |
What are you working on tonight? | oomkiller: Trying to figure out how to query the UMLS metathesaurus's WebService (Soap 1.2) API using Ruby. Not having much luck :( |
What are you working on tonight? | thaumaturgy: Sleeping, I hope. I haven't slept a full night for a while.G'night. |
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