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What will you learn this year? | notaddicted: Technical:
1. Chalk up one more for SICP. I got started via the ebook. I'll probably shoot for 80% coverage of the exercises.
2. Also I'm hoping to get through the mathematical preliminaries section in TAOCP.
3. The "Great Algorithms" course that was posted here seems like particularly ripe fruit.Non-techn... |
What will you learn this year? | ericlavigne: I'm just starting to learn about web development with Clojure. Even though I'm barely beyond the "hello world" stage, I've put my app on Slicehost at http://ericlavigne.net and I'm documenting the learning process on my blog at http://ericlavigne.wordpress.com |
Predictions for 2009 | nreece: I predict that...1. Around 2009 Q3, the tech industry will be the first to recover from the downturn (before real-estate or auto).2. Twitter will show dramatic growth, and it will be acquired by Google3. Google Chrome will show growth, and scare the shit out of Firefox and IE4. A new product/service will be rel... |
What will you learn this year? | joubert: Violin. Started 3 weeks ago. |
What will you learn this year? | ktharavaad: 1, Get a solid foundation on statistical learning theory and machine learning. I'm currently working my way through the cs229 course online on the stanford site2, Learn how to network with people and start a company and apply to Ycombinator for the summer 09 cycle. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | cabalamat: A startup is a small business that has recently started up (duh), especially in a technology sector, that is capable of scaling into something big. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | noodle: the term startup tends to refer to growth-oriented new businesses. they can be small businesses, but they're small businesses actively trying to become not small. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | pg: The difference between a shrub and a redwood seedling. A startup is a company that is just passing through small. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | thesethings: I believe Paul Graham once defined the difference as: a startup wants to (but doesn't necessarily) have "a significant exit," it either goes public, or gets acquired for a large amount.
A new small business that aims to be sustainable, profitable, grow, etc, isn't a "startup," without the significant exit.... |
What will you learn this year? | zandorg: Back to On Lisp (printed out) this year. |
What will you learn this year? | joeyo: To read (at least phonetically) and write in Armenian. |
What will you learn this year? | brl: The main thing I want to learn more about is cryptology, and in particular cryptanalysis. I've been collecting papers that I want to read but I'm still missing a lot of the mathematical background that I need to understand them.I'm currently working through a new book called Applied Cryptanalysis - Breaking Ciphe... |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | tptacek: Startups grow for the sake of growing. |
Favorite Books or Articles about Economics? | vitaminj: I found out that I liked economics shortly after I graduated from engineering, before which I had a completely skewed and cynical view of economics and economists, informed mainly by writers of left-wing books (who generally aren't economists). Fancying myself as a bit of an auto-didact, I tried to self educa... |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | sachinag: A startup is legitimately an investable opportunity for a professional investor. (Just because 37signals doesn't want money, doesn't mean that they're not a good candidate for a VC investment.) |
What will you learn this year? | paraschopra: I'm definitely going to learn more math this year. And maybe I would want to do something non web based but interesting. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | yagibear: Some examples of small businesses that aren't startups might help clarify the issue. When I visited a local small business advisory centre (in the hope of learn something to help my startup, before I understood this difference) the other founders who I met were selling (purportedly) gourmet dog food and ther... |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | sutro: The difference often manifests itself like this: startups make something people want; small businesses make something people want to pay for. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | speby: I would argue startups are a specific subset of businesses that initially are "Small Businesses" with the defining quality being the capability to scale to something much larger, obviously when faced with a market opportunity that allows it do so (whether that market is existing or is completely new).Of course, ... |
What will you learn this year? | vidioradeo: Juggle and ride a unicycle at the same time, and be more creative when trying to sneak a tow up hills in traffic on my bike. |
Predictions for 2009 | rms: Steve Jobs steps down as CEO of Apple. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | medianama: There is no differenceIf you think your startup isn't a (big or small) business - you are missing the point. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | pchristensen: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/hacker-vs-engineer... |
what do you think of my chat app? | th0ma5: sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page |
how to build a tech community | tokenadult: Screen out the troll posts and spam posts. So far Stack Overflow (and HN, for that matter) seems to be doing a good job of that. That's where to devote your management and technical expertise, methinks. It's easy to find lousy online communities but rather hard to find good ones. |
what do you think of my chat app? | jackowayed: It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now.Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text.It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up.Also, i... |
what do you think of my chat app? | fadmmatt: Done: http://www.yaplet.com/ |
how to build a tech community | tnt100: yes, we have dedicated one editor to delete spams right away. We try to keep the site clean like HN. I think that is the most important thing to attract tech users. |
what do you think of my chat app? | jackowayed: Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already.I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still. |
What's the difference between a Startup and a Small Business? | nickfox: A small business is making money... :o) |
what do you think of my chat app? | sanj: http://talkinator.com/ |
ASk HN: How to reset your HN password? | cperciva: Send pg an email. |
Selling online | 3KWA: ebay |
Selling online | matthewking: shopify.info seems pretty good, easy to get setup and lots of power for later on. |
Selling online | j0ncc: These two items sound like they fall into the http://www.etsy.com category. I've never used the service myself but it comes highly recommended from a few friends who have used it.Apart from that, there's always ebay. |
what do you think of my chat app? | tocomment: Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-(That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later. |
Selling online | rishi: I started www.FlyingCart.com its good if you want to create your own online store. It is not a market place like ebay or etsy. We also don't take a cut of their sales. |
Selling online | ecommercematt: Assumptions:
They have limited funds. They lack the ability make a presentable site based on one of the many open source commerce platforms. Their lack of skill (and presumably cash, too) prevents them from gaining traction with Google Adwords and/or equivalent(s).This leaves public marketplaces such as ... |
Selling online | jackowayed: ah yes, selling Christmas ornaments in January. Business will be so hot it doesn't matter what website she uses.But seriously, I don't know much on the topic, but ebay will almost certainly get them the most views. A lot of people use just the buyitnow feature, so they get all of the traffic of ebay but are... |
Best HN threads in '08? | iloveyouocean: Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138)Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573) |
what do you think of my chat app? | jonursenbach: Needs a lot of work, to say the least. |
Best HN threads in '08? | qhoxie: Who's Hiring? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286I'm out, baby http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300960Start a side... |
Best HN threads in '08? | mlLK: Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376238I don't want to work very hard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609 |
Selling online | aliasaria: Another option is Shopify (shopify.com) if they want to create more of their own store, but have their own brand. Etsy is pretty awesome, true. |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | tokenadult: Stan Wagon writes interesting books on experimentation with Mathematica.I'll look forward to hearing more comments about this. |
Selling online | AndrewWarner: Isn't it a bit late for Christmas ornaments? |
Best HN threads in '08? | jbenz: Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347381In the Basement of the Ivory Tower http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246606How to go down with style http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330689Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck http://news.ycombinat... |
Best HN threads in '08? | marvin: There are at least twice as many i could pick, but here are some of my favorites.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219804 - Poor people consume more conspicuously than rich people, wealth measured relative to peer grouphttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133282 - Story about SR-71 Blackbird crashhttp://news.... |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | gcheong: The Code Book by Simon Singh |
Selling online | mseebach: I've been playing with a business idea for a while, that I think would be appropriate for a situation like this:For ease, I'll call my product, "the processor" and my client "the seller". I define a microformat on top of HTML that defines a product. Name, price, maybe options/attributes, very simple. This can... |
Best HN threads in '08? | bootload: How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350332 |
SQLAlchemy for Java? | marketer: The best you'll find is hibernate -- http://www.hibernate.org/ . It's not exactly like SQLAlchemy because Java is statically typed, but it's better than using the Java db layer directly. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | jmtulloss: You can use HTTP authentication for feeds, which will allow you to enforce some sort of payment scheme. However, not all readers support authenticated feeds. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | noodle: there are feeds and sites that work like this and provide the functionality. i've subscribed to several pay-based podcasts that have done authentication in several ways and/or through services. |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | JayNeely: Daring Fireball does this. See:http://daringfireball.net/members/info |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | bootload: "... I am wondering if it is possible to offer paid rss feeds, where a user has to pay to subscribe to the feed. Not being a hacker myself, I am wondering if this is technically possible to manage? ..."Bend the idea slightly & use the feed as (everyone else does) to disseminate (title, summary & word count r... |
Selling online | espadagroup: I wrote some of my experiences here:http://espadatalk.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/producing-marketi... |
what do you think of my chat app? | safetytrick: I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pag... |
Best HN threads in '08? | mad44: Thanks for sharing these links. I am commenting to visit this thread later. Is there another way to mark a thread to be visited later from my profile? |
Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? | YuriNiyazov: I implemented a little prototype of this. This is very doable. The beauty is that it didn't use HTTP-Auth, which meant that a user can be using Google Reader or another third-party browser, and still get access to the paid content only if they authenticated correctly, but this still happens from within the... |
Best HN threads in '08? | ynd: Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036 |
How/Where do you host your webapp? | noodle: slicehost is a wonderful place to stage your app and grow it until you need to break out, imo.i host around 10 apps and sites on a 256 slice. its plenty if you're not getting too much traffic and optimize correctly so that you don't see thrashing.if you don't like that, though, you can boot up a server on EC2. |
How/Where do you host your webapp? | jws: "Exactly how much is that?" Good question, no answer. I recommend you get some sort of a network byte counter, then go to a few sites that feel similar in size/scope to what you plan. Use their "bytes per visit" as a ballpark figure.For instance, I'm using Safari and turned on the "Show Network Timeline" then relo... |
Best HN threads in '08? | mlLK: Human Beautification Algorithm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328377 |
what do you think of my chat app? | poops: here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news |
Best HN threads in '08? | captainobvious: Unfortunately my favourite one missed the '08 deadline:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417782 |
How do big web sites roll out new versions? | test: tes |
How do big web sites roll out new versions? | test: asdfasdfasdfadsf |
SQLAlchemy for Java? | srnm: I can recommend carbonado, http://carbonado.sourceforge.net/ , if you don't want/need a full ORM, and prefer something similar to activerecord. It doesn't hide the relational model, and has just the right level of abstraction with a nice to use API.http://jdbi.org/ is an even lighter weight wrapper over JDBC.If y... |
Better Search For Wiki? | garyrichardson: For free or for pay?A Google Mini is about $3K (http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/index.html). That's about as close to a private google custom search that you'll find. I used to admin one, I believe you could integrate it's authentication into LDAP or Active Directory. |
Better Search For Wiki? | RobGR: I run a few mediawiki's, and so far the search that comes with it has been adaquate.For other sites I have experimented with CLucene, htdig, and maybe some others. A decent search can be put together in the course of a couple of days of careful attention.Do you think that your current problem could be the basis... |
Best HN threads in '08? | mpk: "Ask HN : How do big websites roll out new versions?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282Lots of interesting replies to that one. |
light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises? | patternexon: One Two Three... Infinity by George Gamow |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | noodle: your best route is productivity. you're an OSX pro and the few hundred more it might cost will come back to the company via your increased productivity across your time working.also, for testing purposes. |
Better Search For Wiki? | wmorein: Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) is a web search engine built on top of Lucene. It should get you most of the way there. |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | BannedfromHN: Show him the numbers. Build a spreadsheet the makes the case for Mac.You say, "I dislike working in Windows as I feel...."Feelings are not persuasive to good businessmen. Numbers are persuasive. |
Better Search For Wiki? | elviejo: if you are using MySQL or PostgresSphinx Search Engine
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/it searches the database where you stored your documents.
It doesn't crawl your website.The quality of the search results is superior. |
How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? | hoberion: show him quicksilver |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | espadagroup: I am starting a Hip Hop ad network. I did all the back end work and website development over the break.MapJak.net |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | ktharavaad: Interesting post, I wish you'd elaborate a little bit more about what your iphone app does. From your current description, it sounds like a glorified color-picker.And yes, I've been working on some interesting stuff which (coincidentally) also deals with image processing. I will show once I'm done with it. |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | pavelludiq: I wrote a blog in Django(not gonna use it, im a happy blogger.com user, just wanted to learn Django). Most of the time i was just reading documentation, because i don't know the API, the actual code is really short, like 2 classes and a handful of functions for the entire site.Also, today my mouse died(good... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ericb: Also, I have not played with compiz, and I'm wondering if people have found it to be straightforward and easy to live with? It looks fun, but if it makes my life harder. Thoughts? |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | jackowayed: Amarok--It's a KDE music player, and it's really good. It seems faster than rhythmbox, has good librarying, and even integrates with Last.fmI like konversation (another KDE program) as my IRC client, but I've only dabbled in the other ones briefly.(Note: your first few KDE programs take awhile to install be... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ejs: Some of the apps I use frequentlyXVidCap - if you want to make screencastsKdenLive - for video editing(and unstripped codecs, I re-compiled ffmpeg)MySQL Administrator and Query Browser - for pokin around MySQLVirtualBox - for running other OSes |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | cperciva: I'd install my depenguinator. :-) |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | olefoo: pidgin -- multiprotocol IM clientinkscape -- Vector Drawinggobby -- collective editorpgadminIII -- PostgreSQL GUIEasyTAG -- mp3 taggingdia -- diagram editorGIMP -- photo editing (already installed most likely)phatch -- batch photo manipulationmercurial -- Distributed Version Control brings Meld which is a GUI m... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | nx: Htop for monitoring system resources in real time, VirtualBox for running different OSes, Wine for some Windows games and apps, Deluge as a BitTorrent client. Conky is a great productivity booster and nice on the eyes too.
Then get the packages needed for playing all media files, and I think that's about it.
Oh, I ... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | thomasmallen: I wouldn't install Amarok (avoid loading Qt in Gnome and vice versa). RhythmBox does not handle an iPod well if that matters for you, but Banshee does. Banshee relies on Mono.Zim is a little-known note-taking tool that relies on text files and uses a Wiki format.AbiWord and Gnumeric are good programs to h... |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | kleneway: I'm working on the finishing touches for the next phase of my "A Startup A Day" project. The goal is to bring together experienced entrepreneurs, high-potential hackers/designers, and (eventually) investors in a step-by-step process to build new companies.First, users can collaborate to identify major market... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | paulgb: If you use vim, vim-full is better than vim-tiny which comes installed.A nice panel applet can be found in the repos under the package name "timer-applet", which I find comes in very handy at times. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | lbrandy: Well, here's exactly what I install on a fresh Ubuntu desktop machine (it's my script, copy/pasted).sudo apt-get install subversion git imagemagick oprofile ssh manpages-dev g++ gcc libtool autoconf automake emacs vim compizconfig-settings-manager valgrind inkscapeMight be something interesting in there for yo... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | drinian: * To install: These should be in the repository; use synaptic for keyword search.GNOME Do: http://do.davebsd.com/ It's like Quicksilver for OS X, only more so.Glipper: Clipboard history manager. A pale imitation of the old Klipper for KDE 3.5.Banshee: Arguably a better music player than the default. Honestly, ... |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ktharavaad: errr.. Wine? J/K =P |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | rms: Exaile is my media player of choice. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | jrp: Don't install things until you're ready to use them; otherwise, you'll find yourself spending too long browsing packages. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | CaptainMorgan: Unison - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/Tellico - my favorite book managerVLC Movie PlayerVMWare(take your pick)XChatHPLIP Fax UtilityAzureusIDEs(KDevelop, Netbeans, DrScheme, Quanta, IDLE) |
Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? | secos: I put http://myholidayapp.com up right before t-day to give people a place to let others know about their apps.This holiday break, I worked on a charitable giving site, hopefully will have an initial release out by the end of the month. |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | aneesh: There's a nice list from a previous thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132082 |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | ev0: Does anyone here use Guake? I have an addiction for Quake style dropdown console terminals. http://guake-terminal.org/ |
New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install? | hs: i prefer xubuntuinstalled:
vim-full
dwm
mercurial
lighttpd
mplayer
mpg123
xpdf
ImageMagick
qiv
vifm (there's a vim-like photo manager, but i forget its name)
wink
vnc (server and client)
ssh server
gftp (the ftp cli sucks big time, unlike one in openbsd ... and no axyftp)
opera
swiftweasel
java 6 jre (for ameritrad... |
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