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Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | kloncks: It certainly makes Google acquiring you that much easier :) |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | oscardelben: Make sure that you are not violating their TOS tough. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | koenbok: If you build for appengine, you have options. Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/typhoonae/.PS. I'm sure you know what you're doing, but from my experience the gae stack is really bad to build anything search at this point. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | cloudkj: Amazon Associates is a pretty good program that you can integrate into any consumer-facing site. When the Facebook app platform first came out a few years ago, I whipped up an app that integrated with Amazon associates in about a week's worth of time. Almost no maintenance since then (save for changes to refle... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | LavaBrain: I would love everyone who has input on this to take a look at my topic ... which I created after reading all the great comments here.Thanks!http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172170 |
Can we help each other? | jolie: I'm not sure anyone should get money just for being themselves. "Selling out," a.k.a. having a job, is kinda how it's done. |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | jolie: How do you perceive the culture of the groups you'd be working in? |
Can we help each other? | LavaBrain: Clarification: My full-time, paying job is being said public figure. Just for fun, lets say I'm one of the top-rated personalities at one of the news stations in town. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | volomike: * Create Wordpress Plugins that do small tasks and sell them inexpensively.* Create small sitescripts that do only one small task and sell them for like $70. For instance, paid and free listing directory scripts, a twitpic.com clone, etc.* Create really nice XHTML/CSS and/or WordPress themes. I used to think ... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | dons: In 10 years I've had maybe 5 bugs in Haskell caused by foreign language code mutating objects under the hood, and that breaking referential transparency guarantees in the Haskell code.I would not consider this "dangerous". It's a side condition you'll need to check. The language can make this more or less easy to... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | Confusion: If I understand the problem correctly, then it's much like a problem that plagues most hashmap/associative array implementations: when an object that is used as a key is modified (without removing and re-adding it around the modification), you'll often not be able to find it again.It takes some debugging to ... |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | sz: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-origins-of-facebook-and-m...This is who you would be working for at Facebook. |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | jacquesm: It sounds like it should be relatively easy to write a function that checks in case of doubt if any of the objects have their contents changed compared to their hashes.You could enable something like that during the debugging phase of your development to get 'peace of mind' that such behaviour is not the sour... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | cemerick: After using clojure as my primary environment for ~ 18 months, and leaning heavily on existing Java libraries for a lot of foundational stuff, I'd say that this is a non-issue. Of course, you can get yourself into a lot of trouble in any environment, but (at least for me and other experienced Clojure program... |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | jacquesm: Google without a doubt.Facebook is just another chapter in the geocities/myspace/facebook sequel, true, they've done a better job than any of their predecessors but they'd almost have to by definition.One day there will be the 'next' facebook, I doubt we'll see a 'next google' any time soon.I'm no friend of e... |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | sayrer: Mike Shroepfer, VP of Engineering at Facebook, hired me at Mozilla. I'm quite happy where I am, but let me tell you, that is someone you want to work for.* http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-shroepfer |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | TY: Thanks all for the replies!I'm leaning towards using GAE at this point, with a contingency plan to switch to a third party (most likely AWS) if needed. I do hope that the wall that separates App Engine team is high enough and Google has internal controls to prevent anyone from peering into our data. We don't compet... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | callmeed: There are some good suggestions here, and I'll chime in on a few things that have worked for me. Keep in mind that I have no experience with adsense or affiliate links.1. I second what peter said about screencasts or ebooks. We've made a good amount of money selling a DVD on SEO for a niche industry. Ours is ... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | jrockway: I don't want to start a language war, here.Then it's probably not a good idea to use the word "horrendous". Your commentary is not what would start a language war; your tone is. |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | barrkel: Hash functions should generally hash based on a value's identity. Mutable objects passed around by reference have an identity independent of their value; mutable objects passed around by value, on the other hand, change their identity when they're modified.For example, one list isn't equal to another list, eve... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | mark_l_watson: I use a lot of my (sometimes ancient) Java code with both Clojure and Scala. So far I have always written wrappers that copy Java data into Clojure or Scala 'native' data types. If you do this then there is little chance of having problems like those you are concerned about. It might be more efficient to... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | alttab: Doing targeted advertising that is utility is the best way to make ads not suck.The main reason advertising is annoying is because we are looking for something else, we don't need it right now, or its the wrong audience.If you had a huge spare tire and wanted rock hard abs, and the advertisement could prove the... |
an ad blocking compromise? | jacquesm: Wow, it seems to be ad-blocker day :)Yours seems to be a pretty well reasoned idea, I think it was Patrick that first suggested that ads in fact function as a micropayments service.I think the whole adblocker debate is overrated, after all it's not like everybody is using an adblocker, it's just a percentage ... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | dabent: A lot of the ads I see that "suck" are for scam. Most, if not all of those ads are driven by rebills. If we can get rid of rebills, we can get rid of a lot of the crap ads. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | 1010011010: You can. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | dpcan: We should be able to tag ourselves within our browsers.When I install FF, I should be asked what applies to me (tech, baseball, family) and then all advertising can look to this public info first and display what's relevant only.THIS should replace ad-blockers. Then we don't have to destroy our favorite sites' ... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | shareme: considering cheap Android apps, that is cheap as in 2 week dev time, are easy to do..that may be an option to consider.. or as someone else has suggested take a well known CMS and start developing themes to sell for it.. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | petercooper: Bring down the editorial/advertising wall. Seems to happen a lot online but I think it's going to explode even in the established media once the efficacy of advertising tumbles. More payola, more "product placement", more links within the actual content to advertisers..Industries tends to find a way to win... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | vijayr: 1. Get rid of scam/cheating ads (rebills etc) and also pop unders2. Don't autoplay audio/video on the ads. Heck, autoplay is bad for content, its super annoying for ads.3. Increase relevance4. There are sites where I need to search the content inbetween ads. Would we tolerate if just 30% of our TV screen was ... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | bugs: Some things to consider for me:- Don't put ads where content should be, I hate when I'm scrolling and there is an ad where I should be reading (unless it is displayed at the end of an article)- Put ads in a designated area, and stick to that single area- Only display relevant ads if your site is about web design ... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | tel: Imitate The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/). They produce beautiful, low impact, relevant ads which I frequently consider carefully and often click-through on. They do an amazing job and I've deliberately reduced the power of my adblock blacklists to see those ads.An example ad: http://hivelogic.com/They're clearly... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | sh1mmer: I normally write at least one article a month for ~$100 each, I could easily write more if I felt like it, but I'm not really in it for the money, since I have a well paying day-job.An article for an online programming 'zine normally takes me between 4 and 8 hours to write well (2000-4000 words). |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | lotharbot: 1) Advertise real products or services. Seems like 3/4 of the ads I see on facebook are scams or vapor. Carefully vet your advertisers to make sure they're legit.2) Make ads relevant. I'm a happily married stay-at-home dad. I'm not interested in dating ads, but ads for better bottles could get my attenti... |
What happened to Vidly? | snissn: apparently Something incredible is happening..
http://twitter.com/vidly/status/10098033744 |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | keefe: Google does more right and contributes much more to the world than facebook. |
Submitted startup looking for feedback | keefe: Two minutes into the video I lost interest and moved along. The entire first minute can just be cut. A lot of the video looks like a test script on your site vs a demo - do I really need to see you enter your CC#? I also don't need to be told what a picture or a description are. Why not just completely cut all t... |
How dangerous is Clojure's immutability assumption? | jganetsk: This is a problem in Java too. Any object can mutate, effectively breaking any ordered collections that hold it. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | chrischen: > Google does well because the ads shown on search bring forth some form of utility.As far as my personal experience goes, I can't remember a time I encountered a Google ad that was useful for me, unless I was searching for "Amazon.com" and Amazon.com shows up in the sponsored links.But to answer your questi... |
an ad blocking compromise? | swolchok: Your post is the weaker for its grammar and spelling errors. You would do well to fix them, because people notice. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | Rauchg: I think it comes down to specialized, targeted advertising outlets. A perfect example is what FusionAds is to the developer community. I enjoy clicking those ads (although I think they should allow more websites to display the ads). |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | apowell: A friend and I developed a proof-of-concept system in 2006 to address this opportunity. The central concept was that publishers would receive offers via our advertising marketplace, and then use their own selection algorithm to select ads to display (publishers could choose to use our hosted selection tools, ... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | mquander: It's impossible to make ads not suck. Fifty years ago, perhaps ads didn't always suck, before we had Metacritic and Amazon reviews and a million professional critics and reviewers writing online and social media telling you your friends' opinions about everything. All of those things are way more useful tha... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | MichaelGG: What about voting/rating ads? I've seen it in a few places, and it seems so simple -- someone has to have information on how it worked out in practice.I would expect that having an easy, obvious rating meter on each ad would work in two ways. First it could improve targeting by having the user reject ads on ... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | jasonlbaptiste: What other verticals can you apply "thedeck" model to? |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | apsurd: How? Don't serve ads.Frequently on HN we get a lot of people who are great at building stuff but fall when it comes to finding and growing a userbase.We then have people that are great at developing a community, have a popular niche blog or forum, and are itching to monetize their community.Serving ads to solve... |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | zackattack: I think one secret is community-based ads.
I'm happy to receive ads about products directly related to sites I frequent. For example, things produced by YC... I would be happy to peruse an "ads" tab (next to "jobs"/"submit") by my own volition. 2600 magazine does the same thing... ads by subscribers only...... |
an ad blocking compromise? | _delirium: Doesn't this have, as a huge issue in the critical path, someone solving the holy grail of the past 15 years: actually getting a micropayments service off the ground? It needs to work, to be not so much of a hassle for people to use that they won't bother, to have fees low enough that they don't swallow all ... |
Can we help each other? | jasonlbaptiste: Would be more than happy to shoot the shit: j@jasonlbaptiste.com |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | zackattack: For every youtube video, i should see ads on when the artist is next coming to town by me. Find out where i live by simple ip address geolocation. Get commissions on ticket sales. If the artist isnt coming soon use the panoply of recommendation systems to just find out when similar artists are comin instead |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | 3dFlatLander: I like the 125x125 image ad format. It's just big enough to get my attention, and small enough so the publisher can stack in a few of them without taking up too much space. I think it's been gaining a lot of popularity lately for those who sell adspace directly to businesses.A few examples that come to mi... |
an ad blocking compromise? | gfodor: I dunno, this whole "I'd pay for the site if only it were easier to do so" argument reeks of the "I'd pay for music and movies if it was easy as downloading MP3s" argument.Nothing is stopping you ad-blockers from sending them a check in the mail. This isn't a technology problem, it's a "why pay for what you can... |
Partners and Expenses | bkrausz: 1) Consider it company hardware such that if one of you leaves they must give up the hardware.2) Each of you has to sign off on the other's purchase, that way neither of you can spend too extravagantly. You should trust each other enough not to work to game the system, and this should put a good enough check ... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | Kaizyn: I was going to suggest Amazon's Mechanical Turk, but several others already did so. While this would take you some startup time and money, you could go the ebook sales route as suggested here:http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/I wish you the best of luck with trying to find a way to make a decent li... |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | khangtoh: I have a domain and an idea, I pay you $400 and you work on this project and launch it in a month. Revenue is advertising. I own the site/code, you get the revenue from ads up to $400, anything excess is mine to keep. How's that? |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | starkfist: facebook is still pre-liquidity event.google has more options for working outside of mountain view. if you're on the right team, you can go work in nyc, london, a farm in arkansas, etc.there are more Bs and Cs at google. they hired a lot of duds during the great hiring spree of 2007-2009.google is almost lik... |
Mario AI, Google AI like contests ? | skant: Links ..
http://julian.togelius.com/mariocompetition2009/
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/ |
How many of you are working on an iPad-optimized web app? | jiggity: I think the issue with webapp fart apps is they'll be dependent entirely on ads. What fueled the novelty apps for iPhone was the fact that you got paid first through the app store. |
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Mario AI, Google AI like contests ? | _delirium: There's a Starcraft AI competition at a conference in Palo Alto this fall, which is probably the hardest in this category of competitions (playing a full Starcraft game well is pretty nontrivial), though there are also three categories for restricted versions of the game: http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompe... |
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Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | rms: If you happen to live in Southeast Asia or Oceania, email me, I sell a plant that grows in that part of the world but is mostly unknown by the inhabitants of those areas. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | PeterCaan: Are you skilled in RoR, Wordpress/PHP or Vbulletin? If so I have work for you. Please let me know your skype. |
Are there any tests I can run on a network to simulate 100 heavy users? | bobfunk: Tsung could be a good option: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/It is a very technical tool, and it sure could use a bit more documentation for getting started, but it does what you're asking for.You can set it up to run as a proxie and connect a browser. Then you record various sessions of typical browsing of ... |
Are there any tests I can run on a network to simulate 100 heavy users? | revorad: There were recently some threads about problems with wifi at conferences. They might be useful:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870554http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870489 |
Are there any tests I can run on a network to simulate 100 heavy users? | iamdave: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/toolsets/WANKiller.aspx WanKiller is a pretty capable tool. |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | rms: Google and Facebook have somewhat different corporate cultures. You may be more comfortable with one culture than the other.Otherwise, go with Facebook. Your Google stock options can't appreciate that much faster than the broader US stock market. With Facebook, you still might have the (not?) irrational exuberance... |
Writing for Americans | JacobAldridge: I think if you're writing for an international audience, stick with whatever comes natural to you. I know (I'm Australian) that I use BrE spelling here on HN and around the web.If I had to think about using AmE then two things would happen:
1) I would almost certainly miss some. If you use the word Defen... |
Writing for Americans | AnneTheAgile: I tried to google and find your post but could not see it. I would think the word scrumbut is a typo [or perhaps crass], but without seeing the byline or the article I would not know for sure.Please don't curse in your writing but any local color is very nice! Personally, just as I enjoy hearing foreign a... |
Writing for Americans | jamesbressi: Maybe I speak for myself, but just like accents, I like reading the English spelling of words--and dare I say prefer it?I think it is absolutely fine. Now, if your bigger worry is getting the SERP pages on Google, then I can tell you it is very rare that I do a search and come across an English or Austral... |
Writing for Americans | billswift: As long as they are the standard spellings, it shouldn't make much difference. It's the unexpected spellings, especially the ones that make your readers stop and wonder what you are trying to say that are problems. Anyone who reads much will be as comfortable reading the British spellings as the American. ... |
Writing for Americans | jcdreads: Write in your most natural voice; and with your canonical spellings. The only British-isms that I have trouble getting my head around quickly are the over-casual dropping of place names and neighborhoods in London. But we Americans grow up reading plenty of Dickens and Orwell and Shakespeare and whatnot, so... |
Writing for Americans | niels_olson: We have an Australian resident in our surgery training program. He's going bald, has bushy eyebrows, and wears glasses. People have been treating him like a professor since day one. Even the faculty revere him. |
Writing for Americans | j_baker: I wouldn't worry too much about spelling. That isn't a big deal. However, you might be careful about some words. For instance, I might have to pause for a second if I read lorrie instead of truck. |
Writing for Americans | byrneseyeview: It's better to be consistent. If you try to Americanize (Americanise?) your text, you'll probably miss something, and it will look like a typo.That said, in some professions, affecting British spelling will make people trust you more. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | SnaKeZ: Create a simple site and publicize it :) AdSense or Sell Links and you will earn more of $300 a month.
Be careful with Google penalty ;)This is my experiment: http://www.readthislink.com |
Writing for Americans | neiljohnson: Guys, thanks for the feedback, based on the discussion I've decided to stick with the British approach even with titles, and have submitted the article here.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173473ThanksNeil |
Writing for Americans | anamax: It's not the different spellings of common words (gray/grey), it's the different words (scrumbut?) and different meanings (we call it the hood, not the bonnet) that will interfere with communication. |
Are there any tests I can run on a network to simulate 100 heavy users? | wendroid: Can do you 1 millionhttp://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/sandia-co...They use that to model Botnets etc. |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | pg: Anyone getting stock from a startup should know what percentage of the (fully diluted) company it is. |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | tptacek: This question comes up all the time here. There's a very simple answer: Yes. If equity is a significant part of your compensation, you need to be informed of how to value it.Here are all the caveats and wrinkles I can think of:* Ownership percentages are deceptive. If you're an employee (meaning: you start wit... |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | tyrelb: You should know at minimum the current value of the shares (i.e. last funding round price) and the number of shares + options outstanding.Options are also horrible - unless you have some agreement which allows you to exercise them upon a liquidity event (i.e. buy-out, IPO). Get shares vs. options when given a c... |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | krav: If they won't give you this information, ask yourself if these are the type of founders you want to work with? |
Functional Programming Differences | dget: I think numbers 2 and 4 are going to be the most valuable in introducing functional programming. I've been using Scala to learn functional programming, and the hardest conceptual pieces for me have been been staying immutable and using recursion.Another point I'd consider is "avoid side-effects". |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | johnrob: Equally important is the reverse question: if a prospective employee doesn't demand this information, should I hire him? |
Writing for Americans | wrs: Don't worry about the spelling. What strikes me as odd about British writing is the scarcity of commas. I feel rather breathless reading British writing, and often it's difficult to parse. (I'm pretty sure most Americans would have put more than one comma in your >100-word question.) Not to worry, though, it just ... |
Functional Programming Differences | lnp: Programming with expressions (functional) vs programming with statements (imperative). |
Functional Programming Differences | scott_s: "Our programming model does not have to match how our computer works."I think one of the biggest intellectual hurdles with functional programming is that we know, deep down, that modern computers don't work like that. They do have side-effects and changing, carried state. It's a revelation to realize that the ... |
Functional Programming Differences | unignorant: You might include something more explicit about function composition (e.g. the power of currying).Closures might be another thing to mention. For instance, you could show how they can be used to implement objects (which should be familiar to C# people). |
Functional Programming Differences | eru: I tend to avoid naked recursion whenever possible. It is not much better than loops. Combinators like foldr, filter and map reduce the cognitive overhead. |
Functional Programming Differences | eru: How about using an application to illustrate the power of FP. Combinatorial parsers are a neat non-trivial, but (hopefully) understandable, choice. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | naner: > How can we make ads not suck?If there was some kind of nonprofit "respectful advertising alliance" that enforced consumer-friendly practices and provided a whitelist to import into adblock plus, I might use it. It would be hard to define what is consumer friendly and enforce the rules, though.The only site I'v... |
Functional Programming Differences | lambdom: Functional programming make testing easier.
Functional programming make threading easier.
Functional programming make understanding things easier. (i.e. easier to understand something that will never change vs understanding all the possible permutations of something)(Sorry for my bad english) |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | qjz: Try a classifieds model where content providers don't place any advertising on their pages at all. They then put a "Classifieds" link on desired pages, that takes you to another page filled with targeted advertising relevant to the article or site as a whole. As a bonus, let the content providers have an opportuni... |
Functional Programming Differences | caffeine: My version would be slightly bigger-picture (some are the same as yours, though):- Functional design is about breaking a problem up into a series of transformations (functions) on data, rather than modelling object states and behaviors.- Compose the transformations by treating functions as first-class citizen... |
Writing for Americans | Qz: I think people who read tech blogs are educated enough to know that defence is not a typo (despite firefox trying to spell correct me as I type that). |
Functional Programming Differences | icco: I'd focus really heavily on "stay immutable", "use recursion", and lambda functions. I think these things take a little effort to get used to, especially if you are stuck heavily in a certain programming paradigm as many Microsoft focused guys often are. |
How Can Ads Not Suck? | jokull: I've taken numerous conscious and subconscious decisions to eliminate ads from my life. I don't watch broadcast television and I don't listen to broadcast radio. I don't regularly visit sites that whore out their pixel space (and even the content pixels with floating ads). It's easy for me because I know where ... |
Functional Programming Differences | baguasquirrel: "stay little, grow big" is probably one of the less-appreciated points there and I'm exuberant that you noted it. It's also something that they likely won't encounter until they've actually tried writing something more open-ended in a functional language, like a full-blown program of any sort. It's lik... |
Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options? | bfung: Repost of a link that was on HN before that answers this question. I liked it so much that I bookmarked the submission. http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees |
Functional Programming Differences | alan-crowe: I think that there is a stepping stone, half-way between "talk" and "code". I remember a question on comp.lang.lisp. A student had the task of writing a "sublist" function, for example, (sublist (a b c d e f g) 3 2) => (d e). He task was to do it functionally and he was stuck.But would supplying code unstic... |
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