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Title: Seriously, is there a hippie commune for hackers? There's gotta be one somewhere in the Bay Area.<p>If I could just plow the fields during the day and work/sleep in a little cottage and be left alone, that'd be alright with me.
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Title: I started reading Practical Common Lisp. It took me two whole days to setup a CL system: Emacs, SLIME, CLISP, Quicklisp. The syntax is riddled with intricacies: LET or LET* or FLET or LABLES? Is Scheme (esp. Racket) any better?<p>Also, is newLISP based on CL, Scheme, or something else? I've had zero difficulty installing and coding it.
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Title: On September 4th my father and lifetime business mentor was murdered. We spoke daily, often for more than an hour, about business, psychology, economics, or simply life. Since his death, I barely know what to do with myself. Even nearly three months later, I'm still emotionally in limbo.<p>I've come to the conclusion that I must move forward. I'm sure some of you (sadly) have similar experiences - how did you put your life together again?
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Title: Carlos Ble says: "Choosing GAE as the platform four our project is a mistake which cost I estimate in about 15,000€. Considering it's been my money, it is a "bit" painful."
Upvote: | 362 |
Title: SEO is your bread and butter and from my research the existing tools aren't stellar. You also already have a good following on Hacker News which is exactly the market that would need and use the tools? I guess my real question should be if you were to make tools what would they be?
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Title: Based on my observation, <i>most</i> of the web startups are using either PHP or RoR or some other platform, but not Java. I haven't come across a single startup which is using Java for web app development.<p>1) Is it because of the lack of hosting support for Java based web applications?<p>2) Or, are there any serious performance issues when Java is used to develop web2.0 apps?<p>3) Any startups that already successfully using Java?
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Title: It was inspiring to read the post from a couple of days ago 'Who is living off their startup fulltime?'
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909<p>I would like to learn the art of finding your FIRST customer, arranging meeting/phone call with them, getting them to talk to you and eventually signing them up as your beta customer.<p>How did you go about this?<p>Thanks
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Title: There is a lot of great stuff on Github but it's hard to know where to start looking. I'm wondering if HN had any recommendations for useful tool suites or other noteworthy projects.
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Title: Twitter is prompting bloggers to use increasingly wordy titles, with TechCrunch the biggest offender.
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Title: I find it interesting that people here talk about the interview process and working at companies such as Google and Microsoft, but I almost never hear about Apple.<p>Why is this? Is it the iPhone/Android debate? Or is it something else?
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Title: I've done some presentations/demos in front of smallish audiences (dozens of people) but now I need to give a talk in front of 2000 people (+ probably live streaming). I'm scared, clueless, don't know where to start & I'm reaching out to HN: any tips? The talk is in 2 weeks.<p>Edit: It's an Ignite! Talk (http://igniteshow.com/). 5 minutes. 20 slides. 15 seconds per slide. auto-forward is on. Not sure if I can disclose the topic yet, will update when I can.
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Title: Doug Engelbart in 1968, demonstrating the future of computing--including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.<p>Jeff Han's multitouch demo and the introduction of the Macintosh are the only two demos I can think of that have come close to having this much impact since. Can anyone think of any others?
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Title: If you have any interest in a book on the Racket programming language I'd greatly appreciate answers to this survey:<p>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKQL3YX<p>Comments, via the survey or here, are also great. Thanks!
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Title: This is probably a good daily exercise, but I thought it would be especially appropriate today.
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Title: Howdy Hackers,<p>I'm a co-founder at a high-tech incubator out of Beijing. I've been given the opportunity to put together a weekend hacker space in the 798 Art district.<p>The goal is to host a Hacker Lab on the weekends to BUILD STUFF, hack software + hardware, and just plain have fun exploring the boundaries of tech.<p>I know most of us have had great experiences with different hacker spaces, I have one at university that I often pull all-nighters in. What are some things that you love about your hacker space? What are some things that you wish were better about it?
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Title: Ever wanted to follow specific people on Hacker News? (without having to go to their individual Submitted and Threads pages every day!)<p>If so, try this: http://beta.fedang.com. andymorris and I spent the last 24 hours slapping it together and we're hoping to get a few users to put it through it's paces.<p>It's only 24 hours old and will probably fall over if more than 20 people start using it. If we can get it working solidly for HN and a few of us seem to like it, then we plan on making it work for other sites too in the future.<p>EDIT: Also interested in feature suggestions. We're thinking RSS for the feed, and tracking replies to your own comments, no matter who they're from.
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Title: This could be advice from anyone including your parents, teachers/professors, friends, etc.
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Title: I've been out of the business for last few years and I am wondering what's new. I'd like to know what should I read about to get up to date. I am not only interested in new technologies but also trends like eg. "web 2.0".
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Title: This question is something that I really like to know... did any one have /can tell me about
Programming book related that he/she just couldn’t stop reading from start to end.
My self I was reading a lot of programming books but never as “book” from start to end
Always like reference always half of the book I never opened.
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Title: What are the current challenges in high frequency trading?<p>Can anyone suggest me few tasks [like implement foo algorithm], so that I can directly jump into those tasks during my free time
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Title: Hey HN -<p>It's almost 2011, and my backup solution still calls for semi-regular huddles between my laptop and a few external drives, which I randomly scatter between home and school for redundancy. This is pretty low-tech, all things considered, and I'd like to enter the future. Right now at best I have a hodgepodge of things that I will try to upload to Google Docs or suchlike. Not so pretty!<p>Where to start? I could set up from cron scripts and buy Amazon S3 space, but that really doesn't seem to be the most elegant solution (perhaps for some software projects, but not for a personal basis).<p>Options I'm familiar with are, most prominently, Mozy (mozy.com) and Carbonite (carbonite.com). I guess using something like Dropbox could fulfill this need to some extent as well.<p>Would love to hear feedback about these services for automated backups and any other alternatives I should consider.<p>Thanks!
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Title: From a Steve Jobs interview: There's an old Hindu saying that comes into my mind occasionally: "For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you." As I'm going to be 30 in February, the thought has crossed my mind.
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Title: All of thee guys don't have to work anymore.. Bill, Steve, Larry, Sergey and Mark.
They have the funds and contacts to do it..
So why has no-one tried to start a small country?
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Title: Use the code DDF2H. Today only, as far as I know.<p>Hopefully this is not too spammy, but I figured that others might like to know about the deal.
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Title: just listen
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Title: It's so sad to see a question to sit on 1 point of karma when it has sparked a good discussion with 4-5 replies, or just one reply that got 10+ points. Sure, karma doesn't matter, and yet it shapes what we do on a subconscious level. Upvote good questions, it will make HN a better site!
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Title: Similar to the "Who is Hiring" thread but, please remote positions only.
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Title: Please lead with the positions' locations.<p>And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility!
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Title: I'm a YC '08 Reject underwhelmed by my safe, boring corporate gig. Regular scans of HN remind me of the excellent things happening elsewhere. I was particularly struck by the theory that the best example you can set for your kids (0 so far) is to pursue your dreams, not an income.<p>I quit today, bought the supportive girlfriend a ring, and will start January 2011 as my own boss. I'm giving myself six months to bootstrap. Thought you should be the first to know.<p>Let the fun begin.
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Title: Though there are lot of companies hiring compared to year before, there are bunch of companies firing as well.
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Title: I know there were a lot of people working on launching an app by the end of November.<p>Well, it's December 2, so I figure it's time for some show and tell.<p>How did everyone do?
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Title: The China books are also of general interest to gain an idea of the nature of our new masters. For UK readers the books on US politics may be of interest. A good present gift list.
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Title: Just a short reminder that linking to the print version of multipage articles is way better to read, to keep as reference later but also to download over a poor quality GPRS connection. Thank you!
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Title: I'm disturbed to see the top post on Hacker News being a non-commentable, non-downvotable job posting for a YC company with a snobbish title by an anonymous account.<p>Not cool.<p>Perhaps it is the terse bluntness of title, or maybe the affront to my sensibilities - that perhaps, /perhaps/ those people who were rejected by YC were only in it to get accepted by YC - I'm not sure what it was that initially pissed me off.<p>What I do know is that I'm disappointed that the community is not being given its normal tools to discuss and filter it.<p>Why is that post different?
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Title: This is a toss-able account.<p>I think I'm having a nervous breakdown. I'm a start-up CTO in a small company acting as the free electron ( http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/03/20/free_electron.html ).<p>And, i just can't find the motivation or interest anymore to do anything.<p>I've been told that everyone is replaceable, yet I don't think I am. Nor do I feel this has been a good leadership point of view. I would rather feel irreplaceable and given a fairer shake of the deal rather than have to accept the money holders point of view. I'm very tempted to just say, "well, I am apparently replaceable, so I'll let you try".<p>I feel like I should work harder to change the culture, but I feel like it just isn't worth the battle any more.<p>I feel like if I leave, the company will become toxic to engineers and it will be one of those companies that good talent will try to avoid.<p>I have friends in the company, but I'm just feeling like life is just too fucking short to deal with certain types of people. I want to get my friends out.<p>I think I should apply to Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. If anything, to get a market valuation of my skill set. But, maybe just get a better job so I can build up a war-chest and be the guy with money.<p>I've been in the bathtub now for ten hours...
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Title: We've all been watching Wikileaks take a beating from the powers that be, and even though I <i>might</i> take issue with the way in which they handle some of their information I think their cause is important and I find it deplorable that the big guns (Amazon, Paypal, EveryDNS, etc.) would try to essentially kick someone off the internet rather than at least allowing free speech to take place.<p>I don't have a lot of money right now (bootstrapping a startup while my last one sits in the clutches of an evil marketing megalomaniac), so donating to Wikileaks is not really an option. I do have a fair amount of technical expertise (as compared to the general public, at least - maybe not compared to the community here or the staff at WL). What can I do to help them, and does anyone else want to get on board?
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Title: As we near the end of the year, one realises how busy 2010 has been. There is already a post to show off what has been done, but I am interested in what changes and trends you predict will happen in<p>-the general IT fields (mobile hardware, net neutrality and other broad topics)<p>-your domain specifically (ie, what disruption can we expect where?)<p>-your life (what are you working on?)
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Title: This is a throwaway account. My main is a fairly high karma HN account that's been here for years. I've met some of you in real life.<p>I recently took a lower paying (but much lower stress) job to allow me more time to bootstrap my own startup. This made our budget tighter, but between my income and my wife's, all the necessities were at least covered.<p>Fast forwarding to now, my wife just lost her job, making my leaner budget entirely unworkable. I have no idea how I'm going to cover the bills that we have, much less have any money left over for Christmas for my family.<p>I'm a competent Python web developer, and have familiarity with Django, Tornado, Mongo, MySQL, SQLite, Nginx, et al. I have decent design skills, though I am nowhere near a master, understand HTML, XHTML, CSS and am dabbling with HTML5. I can slice PSDs, develop web pages end-to-end. I build solid UI/UX interfaces that are cross-browser compatible down to IE6 if necessary, and am competent in JavaScript and jQuery.<p>I've done work for some of you for free (and for fun) in the past, but if anybody has need for any help, please feel free to contact me at the email address in my profile (Yes, it's in the 'about' section,) and I would appreciate consideration before you farm the work out to Elance or oDesk or what have you (though I am also bidding on work there.)<p>I'm not looking for charity, and won't accept any payment that isn't commensurate with the work performed, but I'm happy to do anything that anyone needs with the understanding that I will be performing tasks on nights and weekends.
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Title: A friend of mine had Lasik eye surgery performed in June (5 months ago) and has a perfect experience so far. No complications and the doctor has been fantastic throughout the entire process.<p>I have been wanting to get Lasik eye surgery for a long time and, seeing my friend's successful experience, decided to get the surgery (also, I graduated from college in May and can actually afford the procedure now that I have a job). I did some research, visited the same eye doctor as my friend, and scheduled the surgery for January after it was determined that I was a prime candidate. I felt extremely comfortable with the doctor and he is a leader in his field in the Baltimore, MD area.<p>I made sure to tell the doctor that I am a programmer and stare at a computer screen for far too long everyday. They said it was not an issue and that I was still a prime candidate.<p>What are your experiences with or opinions of Lasik eye surgery?
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Title: I ask because there are not many startups that <i>I</i> know of (I'm probably looking in the wrong place?) that also take H-1B candidates into consideration.<p>I see all these awesome potential job opportunities on HN, but it's never clear whether a H-1B candidate would also be considered, as that is 99% never explicitly stated.<p>So - anyone hiring that'll sponsor or do H-1B visa transfers?
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Title: Asking $ for them seems contrary to their purpose doesn't it?<p>And post links if you know any freebies as in:<p>http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/<p>http://www.springer.com/computer/reading+room+welcome<p>http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
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Title: I'm looking for some ways to make some cash online. I'm thinking of writing some Wordpress themes and selling them online. What could be some good avenues to creating some passive income online?<p>My Dev skills are: jQuery, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL and Coldfusion.
I'm heavily experience in Photoshop and Design.<p>Any thoughts? I'm a college kid looking for a way to get some cash.
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Title: My choice: Delivering Happiness because Ton Shieh outlines a phase he went through after selling his first company. It really made you think about startups, goals and life.
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Title: As a security-conscious developer, I have started switching over my apps to be served over only SSL. Whilst this might end up being a costly exercise (e.g. having to proxy images in user generated content), the added privacy and security for my users is justification enough for me.<p>Unfortunately the biggest pain in migrating to SSL are the external API providers — very few of them support or even encourage the use of SSL. And, surprisingly, Google is one of the biggest culprits. I say surprisingly as Google have been very vocal on the use of SSL and have done the most significant real work in reducing the technical overheads of using SSL, e.g. see the awesome work by Adam Langley, an extra-ordinary Googler: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html<p>I've had to resort to various hacks in order to support various Google services, e.g.<p>* Using server-side API calls instead of cheaper client-side ones.<p>* Using a custom Flash video player and proxying YouTube videos.<p>* Proxying all custom domain requests to a Google App Engine app!!<p>* Using alternative domains, e.g. https://www.google.com instead of http://chart.apis.google.com<p>I am not happy with any of these hacks, but see no other way around the problem. The rare feature requests on the various Google Groups are often followed by either deadly silence or "not supported" responses from Google.<p>e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api/browse_thread/thread/95c463d88cf3cfe4<p>And if you ever want to use Google Maps over HTTPS, then Google would like you to get a Google Maps Premier account which <i>starts</i> at $10,000!! Since when did fundamental security become a premium feature? This seems to be a common trend being adopted by other service providers too, and I'd really like to ask them to rethink SSL as a premium offering. It should be a fundamental feature. Please.<p>In contrast to Google Maps, Bing Maps from Microsoft does offer an SSL variant:<p>* https://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=7.0&s=1<p>And, although their API is decent enough, I struggled with switching as the current Bing Map tiles are rather washed out and suffer from usability issues.<p>In the end, I ended up coming up with a hack for using Google Maps by loading it on a vanilla HTTP domain opened via `window.open` from an HTTPS domain and using `window.postMessage` to communicate between the two windows. This unfortunately won't work in older browsers like IE6, IE7 and Safari 3.x, but works in enough other browsers (IE8+, Firefox 3+, Safari 4+, Chrome) to just about be workable.<p>I really really really would rather not have to come up with all these workarounds and fragile hacks. And I can't imagine that I am the only developer having to experience this masochism.<p>In an ideal world, there would be a concerted effort to get <i>all</i> service providers to start offering HTTPS APIs, but Google seem like a good starting point. They've already got great technical support for SSL on their Front End (GFE). And, as can be seen by Google Maps Premier, they already have support for SSL in many apps, and it's clearly a business decision holding back uptake:<p>e.g. http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=591<p>And since a substantial number of Googlers read HN, I figured if we could get enough support here, then there might be some very real chance of change from Google. So, if you, like me, would like to see all Google APIs offered over SSL, then please upvote this article. And if you happen to know Googlers, then please ask them to try and do something about this issue if they can.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Running Lean = Customer Development + Lean Startups + Bootstrapping<p>Download link: http://www.runningleanhq.com/downloads/running_lean_rc.pdf
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Title: An intresting book review of 'Super Sad True Love Story'.
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Title: This site is driven with HTML5 canvas, CSS3, JavaScript, Web Fonts, SVG and NO image files. It's optimized to WebKit rendering engine and you can see it with Safari and Google Chrome.
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Title: I have an idea for a short series of books and I have found a few ghostwriters to write them. Do you have any experience with the rest of the self-publishing process? Is it better to go with on-demand printing or order a conventional run? How much should I expect to pay for editing, design and layout? Is a Kindle/iBooks-only release a good measure of interest?
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Title: Got Research level questions or answers about data mining, statistical inference, machine learning, neural networks, clustering, support vector machines, genetic algorithms, heuristics and so on?<p>We want you!
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Title: First, sorry for the anonymous account. NDA etc..<p>We're a small, boot-strapped (though fairly established) company. The major company that rules our industry is looking at acquiring or investing. We're really naive at these business aspects, we're engineers..<p>How much do you disclose on the early talks? We have a document prepared with vague but accurate graphs showing our growth, various comments about how awesome we are and our plans for product development.<p>I'm afraid of looking too keen for a sale, where I know we'd give up control but it would allow us other benefits of major growth. I feel completely lost here, I've read everything I can on HN but it's hard not knowing what to expect. Is it always this terrifying?<p>I'd love to hear any stories and advice, thanks for any input.
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Title: In my recent memory - Posterous dealt with it once, the 4Chan and Tumblr fiasco and in the last few days, the Visa, MasterCard and PayPal mess.<p>What's a good way to deal with DDoS? Bonus points if you can elaborate more than "buy a stinkin' Cisco firewall"<p>EDIT: Do tell us your war stories as well.
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Title: I submitted the application to test drive a Chrome Notebook a couple days ago.<p>The laptop came this morning. The packaging was very simple: One laptop, one battery, one cord, one large single piece of paper with instructions, and one business card from Intel letting me know that if I cracked the computer open that is what I would find.<p>I will make a large post tonight after work (5pm EST) detailing my experiences with it and taking lots of photos.<p>Did any other HNers get one?
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Title: Last I heard was that they were going to make an announcement this year. Well, time is running short and I can't even find a "We'll be announcing Q1, 2011". Anyone know what happened to it?
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Title: The original version in Dutch: http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2648033.ece/16-jarige_opgepakt_voor_cyberaanval_op_MasterCard
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Title: All of this talk about the new Chrome notebook has me thinking about moving coding to the cloud.<p>Almost all of the coding I do now is stuff that is hosted at github. I don't see any reason that couldn't be done in a browser. It looks like Mozilla has a project targeted at this (https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ formerly Bespin).<p>Are there any others? Are any HNers coding this way already? And yes, I know that vi/emacs + ssh is viable, but that is not the topic ;)
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Title: Who all do we have as living polymaths on our planet? Any ideas?
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Title: (Apologies in advance for the rantish nature of this.)<p>24, programmer at BigCo for several years, and I'm lost.<p>I've socked away enough coins to maintain my current lifestyle for the next 10 years, longer if I scale back a few things. (Believe me, it's pretty easy to do considering that I've never had car, house, or girlfriend -- and I plan to keep it that way for the forseeable future.) I've also freed myself of most of my other obligations that previously consumed my evenings and weekends.<p>I should be excited about this but I'm not, and I don't know why.<p>What I do know is that my current situation is unsustainable for long. I'm sick of corporate America and all its bureaucratic shenaningans, where I'm only learning the wrong way to get things done. I want out.<p>But I don't know what's next. I'm not in shape to start a company because I don't have any sort of overarching passion that will keep me motivated no matter what, nor do I have any monetizable hobbies or interests. I also have serious doubts about my programming skill, let alone ability to run a business. Everything I've been interested in making already exists in a form better than I can ever do myself. (That ought to be a wonderful thing in itself, but my selfish ego demands that I <i>personally</i> make a difference somewhere.)<p>Traveling around the world is frequently suggested here. I like to travel, and have done a fair amount of it. But I can't shake the feeling that I'm running away from my problems and not confronting them.<p>I realize that I'm blessed, maybe even spoiled. I've won the genetic lottery by having loving parents who encouraged me to work hard and do well. I've won the geographic lottery by having the opportunity to live in the USA, especially California. I've won the timing lottery by entering college when competition was less fierce and scholarships were more plentiful, and by graduating into a healthier job market just before the economy crashed. Life has dealt me a very good hand, yet I feel like I'm not making good use of it.<p>I think I have a variant of Early 21st Century Syndrome (cf. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93yaq/anyone_else_here_feel_like_theyre_never_fully/c0bcp8m?context=1). I wouldn't say I'm suffering from depression or burnout right now, but I strongly suspect that if I just quit without a plan, I will be heading there. (Either that, or I'll end up wasting my time on video games and internet.)<p>I probably just need an attitude change. But that in itself just seems so hard...
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Title: I recently launched a unique new dating website that matches people based on their tastes in music.
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Title: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1993993
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Title: Even in a CS class (in this part of the world anyway), not so many people might be as interested in coding as you are.
It's therefore you and your laptop mostly, with the effect that you lag behind in developing social skills (I sometimes feel like an 8 year old among teenagers). The loneliness even saps my programming energy.
Does anyone else experience the same, and how do you cope with it, including bringing yourself to interacting with members of the opposite sex?<p>EDIT: Not suicidal or anything like that. Just want to hear you opinions.
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Title: I'm a sophomore in high school at the moment, and have been thinking about the future quite a bit. I decided to take up Processing, because I find visual feedback is helpful in being motivated to learn programming. It can produce beautiful images and interactions with very little code, and it's a lot of fun to work with. In your experience, do you think there is any market for creative coders? What would art buyers think about art that is created with a computer? Is it a gimmick, or an evolving medium with lots of potential? I would love to hear your thoughts, and thanks in advance.
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Title: When you want to use external caching mechanism (outside the JVM), serializing/deserializaing of objects introduce a penalty. A good serialization library makes the external cache more viable.
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Title: I'd like to start digging into functional programming beyond what is available in C# and Javascript, and began by reading a little about Haskell. There are a lot of mentions about something called Monads, which are part of category theory.<p>Can someone provide an explanation that would make sense to an experienced developer in the OOP world?
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Title: I have spent the last hour reading articles from HN I've saved over the last few weeks. They are all the same. Lean startup this, A/B test that, Design is important, I failed, Build a community then revenues, etc.<p>After years of reading the same articles, I have learned very little. Everyone is repeating the same stories/advice, and, as a community, I don't see any progress.<p>Are we doomed to continuously repeat the same sad stories over and over again? Can we finally kick this habit? I don't know- but I am tired of reading the same articles written with slightly different adjectives.
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Title: There is an active Hacker News contributor currently making plans to phish Hacker News and reddit because "there is this 'smug' attitude on HN about HN'ers being 'better' than your average computer user in this respect".<p>Please be careful when filling out forms that contain any personal information or passwords. There are people out there who are looking to shame & ridicule you (and worse).<p>There's no need to mention any names, because it doesn't really matter who the threat comes from.<p>To the user hatching this plan: Consider this an antibody to your plan. If your theory is true, then this posting won't make a difference anyways and you'll have the chance to shame all the people you want.<p>[Edit: I had genuinely hoped to avoid turning this into yet another cult of personality thread on HN, and unfortunately that's failed. I don't think there was an intention to cause financial harm; but I do believe there was the possibility of harm to reputation given the information I had available.<p>There was an email that was evidently sent out to many HN users today discussing this plan; but I have not been privy to that email.]
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Title: I've been thinking of starting a small project that needs to charge money, and PayPal doesn't cut it (I need to be able to place a hold on $1-$2 at a time and then either release or keep it a few days later).<p>I've been looking at various processors and am slowly beginning to realise why PayPal is used by so many people: Every other processor requires my family medical history to sign up for (and most don't even support vendors outside the US)!<p>Sagepay, for example, requires me to apply for a merchant account at my bank, then apply for a sagepay account, then hook everything up in some obscure way I don't understand, and that's <i>before</i> I even get a quote on how much it will cost.<p>There are various startups that add subscription management on top of your payment processor, but I don't need subscriptions. I just need a simple way to hold $1 from a person's card and then release it (hopefully with no charge) or keep it.<p>Does anyone know of a payment processor that would fulfil my needs and not require my firstborn in exchange?
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Title: We were tired of the noise on Twitter (noisy apps, lame content, erratic but otherwise valuable tweeters), so we decided to fix it. Proxlet is a Twitter API Proxy that runs scripts to modify the Twitter experience. Works with Twitter for iPhone, TweetDeck, and any other client that supports custom API URLs, including a 1-click install Chrome Extension for Twitter.com<p>What do you think? Right approach?
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Title: A short post on using tc to simulate high latency connections on a local box.
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Title: (I'm a native Chinese. Being a spelling/grammar Nazi to me really helps me. Thanks.)<p>Hello HNers,<p>I'm a college student and a programmer. My dream is one day I will have my own kick-ass startup.<p>I know how to <i>write</i> clean code; but what I don't know is how to <i>draw</i> things with paper or CSS or Canvas or Photoshop or anything. I can implement Linux device drivers, purely functional data structures, lexers/parsers or socket servers; but I can't even design a simple logo or a good-looking webpage. Sometimes I do have ideas how the logo/webpage should looks, but I just don't have the ability to draw (implement?) them. To be clear, HTML or CSS is just another programming language for me, but I only know the syntax and grammar. I don't know how to do graphic design at all!<p>I want to learn graphic design, both for my current projects and for my future startup (same reason with the suggestion that "non-technical" person should learn to code). I want to have basic skill on how to use computer to draw icons, logos, buttons and webpages.<p>But I have no idea what to do and how to start. How can a programmer learn graphic design from the ground up? Should I learn drawing in pen and paper first? Or should I learn Photoshop? Or should I just learn how to draw by writing code in CSS/Canvas? What books/websites can you recommend? Is self-learning enough or a mentor/teacher is required?<p>I'll appreciate your advice, thanks!
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Title: Hello HN,<p>One of my side projects is a small gay discussion group online. It sells certain services (not pornographic in nature, it is the digital equivalent of a support group) and I had to use PayPal for payments for certain business reasons, unfortunately.<p>Today my entire PayPal account was frozen, 700 dollars was stolen from me, and I can't seem to get anybody at PayPal to deal with me rationally and overturn this decision.<p>I believe that some automated filter at PayPal saw the phrase "gay phone sex" on the site, but missed out the total description around that text that made it perfectly clear that it was NOT any kind of gay phone sex or any kind of pornographic service.<p>I'm not a rich man and I depend on this money to pay rent and I'm in a real jam here. If anybody at HN has any connections at PayPal and can help me out, I would really appreciate it.<p>Please email me at wd1993 AT gmail if you can please help me out. Thanks.
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Title: At the moment, the biggest VLE(Virtual Learning Environment), which is used by a large number of universities, is BlackBoard. And yet the product is poor by todays standards.<p>There are a lot of new startups that are concentrating on creating 'fashionable' companies, usually social networks of some kind, and yet the education sector is constantly being overlooked.<p>So perhaps a better question would be, are there any new startups addressing this problem?<p>Note: I also posted this question on Quora, but it got 1 reply which didn't really answer the question.
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Title: I've been running DupDetector for just under a week now. The results have been interesting. Many, many duplicates have been found, and many, many more items have been cross-referenced. So often the same story is reported again and again from different sources, and while this isn't a bad thing in itself, my personal belief is that the resulting divided discussions is a waste of time and effort. And wasted time is something I hate.<p>I come to HN for high-quality links, and even more high-quality discussion, and anything that dilutes that discussion is, to me, a bad thing.<p>I originally intended to run the DupDetector for a week, but after 5 1/2 days there's enough information to tell me what I want. The thing that has caught me by surprise is the way it has had such widely differeing reactions. Some people have accused me of "a novelty account", something I'd never heard of, but which appears to be associated with Reddit. I thought of it more as a robot assistant.<p>In particular, I thought more people would be interested in the technology and the hacking. More than anything it's the lack of a response on that level that's made me pause.<p>And the final factor is today, when DupDetector's karma has fallen from 27 to 12. I don't care about the karma, but it's an indication of people's feeling about the exercise.<p>I'll run it for just a few hours longer as I tidy things up, but basically I'm stopping, explaining, and I'll see what the response is. I thought it would be, and it would be thought to be, cool, interesting and useful.<p>Maybe I've misjudged my audience. I am reviewing the situation.
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Title: With the new year coming, I think it's the right time for every freelancer to consider raising their rates.<p>I know this is something that most people hate to do, but we're in business and everyone of us know how hard it is to keep going at certain time.<p>I've found these templates very useful in my situation: http://freelancember.com/email-templates/<p>Don't forget that raising your rates means that you'll be able to stay in business for a longer time.<p>Even if your clients rejects your proposal, it's still worth trying.<p>What to do with the new money? Start a saving account and use it as your personal insurance for tough times, or invest them in your business to provide even more higher quality.
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Title: As a user of online services, I can't tell you how many times I get an email from one I haven't used in a while, asking me to come back or telling me about a new feature.<p>Problem is, if I've only used your site/service once or twice, I might not remember what it does -- especially if your name is abstract.<p>Even a simple line like "XYZ creates and manages RSS feeds from your Facebook streams" would be a memory jog, and gives you room for a quick marketing pitch.<p>Remember -- just because you automatically associate your name/URL with your product doesn't mean that we your prospects or customers do.<p>On the flip side, know that as users we appreciate the work you put into your site and service, even if we don't email you to say so. Thanks!
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Title: Or having a higher education. A general trend here is to discard PhD/higher education as a waste of time or money when one want to go the startup way. Effectively, you can become rich without such education, but very few of them get really rich and on the barrier to entry, if you consider a field where you can be disruptive without education is rather low.<p>The real good point of having a PhD is not in the title you get, it is in the network you can build and the problems you try to solve. By definition, most of the scientific PhD are to solve industrial problems. This means, you have a complex problem and customers, directly, right now, during your studies.<p>If you are smart, you can already have a portfolio of customers at the end of your PhD, you can have your product nearly ready and you will be able to charge your customers more in thousands of Dollars than in $9 per month.<p>Bonus point, the barrier to entry will be high for the competition and it is relatively easy to become an expert in your field.<p>So please, if you want to do a PhD, do it and do it wisely.<p>A short list to think about:<p>1. Get a supervisor known to give his students a lot of freedom.
2. Do your PhD in a country where you get a good pay (most of the EU countries pay well for a PhD).
3. Go in a university with a good budget for travel to conferences.
4. Find labs with intensive industrial collaboration.
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Title: tell us who and why
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Title: I'm a junior enrolled in an engineering college studying Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Science (CS). For anybody out there that's taking a full course-load but also involved in startups, how do you manage? What's your light at the end of the tunnel?
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Title: The one found here on this job posting http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020416
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Title: I see Job postings of 2 YC startups on front page (and I think I remember few similar) and no company names / urls / ... just wondering? :)
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Title: In the vein of "You don't need a million dollars..." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025122), I'm wondering what the fastest way to get the effective monthly return on investing a million in a safe, worry free, hands-off investment is. I think that roughly translates to a couple thousand dollars a month depending on where you insert inflation. I included "conscience clear" in the description because I personally would want to be entirely above-board (no "spam viagra ads" and the like).<p>Just to be clear, I'm not in dire straits or in need of a million dollars. I'm just curious.<p>Additional clarification:
For this purpose I'd like to assume someone doesn't have a million dollars or the prospect of receiving such in a lump sum. How would they go about building up to a cash flow that would be equivalent to having a million dollars in a safe, hands-off investment?<p>edit: Apparently I don't know the difference between conscious and conscience. Fixed.
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Title: Just about everyone I ask tells me that it's best practice to implement SSL/HTTPS for any login page (to protect user passwords), but then I notice that HN doesn't use SSL/HTTPS for login. Am I missing something? Is it risky to use the HN login on public networks?<p>Sorry in advance if this has been covered before-- I did a quick search and didn't see any recent posts...
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Title: I have been under constant pressure about a few things and that had me down from a few months, affecting my productivity, mood, appetite and lots more. Today, I just opened the notepad and started typing away what I felt. The idea to do so seemed a little funny at first as my thoughts were very clear in my mind and it was my helplessness to do anything that had got me down, but trust me, it helped tremendously. After so many days, I did some meaningful work, of course nothing compared to my peak days but it did break the "cant-do-anything" streak. I have also been feeling better overall after writing.
Just thought would share this with you all. Happy holidays.
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Title: UPDATE: Everything except Operating Systems 2e (Deitel) has been claimed. I'll try to get everything shipped out in the next few days. Happy Holidays everyone!<p>- Sean<p>It's been a little while since one of these was posted. I'm giving away a handful of technical books. If you see some you like, just email me (in profile) and I'll send it to you, no charge.<p>Net Words (Usborne) -- Gone!<p>Ruby for Rails (Black) -- Gone!<p>Pragmatic Version Control with CVS -- Gone!<p>Web Design on a Shoestring (Bickner) -- Gone!<p>Design Patterns (GoF) -- Gone!<p>Operating Systems 3e (Stallings) -- Gone!<p>Pragmatic Ajax -- Gone!<p>Restful Web Services (O'Reilly) -- Gone!<p>Nerds A Brief History of the Internet -- Gone!<p>Cascading Style Sheets The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) -- Gone!<p>Pragmatic Project Automation -- Gone!<p>Operating Systems 3e (Deitel) -- Gone!<p>Operating Systems 2e (Deitel)<p>Agile Web Development with Rails 1e -- Gone!<p>Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit -- Gone!<p>The Rails Way 1e (Fernandez) -- Gone!<p>Eric Meyer on CSS -- Gone!<p>Designing with Web Standards 1e (Zeldman) -- Gone!<p>Here are some pictures of what's available:<p>http://imgur.com/3FgKs.jpg<p>http://imgur.com/mrV6E.jpg<p>http://imgur.com/OFkw7.jpg<p>http://imgur.com/zBKQg.jpg
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Title: Has the JägerMonkey, hardware accelerated rendering, HSTS protocol support, better web font support, etc.
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Title: Let's start with the first and most important rule of learning to code. Read everything and understand what you're reading.<p>Do not skip or skim words or communication of any kind. Don't read something assuming you know what it means; if you don't understand it, look around, ask someone, or google until you understand what you've just read. Then, you can move on.<p>The reason for this is that programming involves comprehension, not knowledge (more on that below).<p>Failure to follow this will make you a sucky programmer. You'll write buggy code. You'll piss yourself off when you think nobody wants to help you. Then, you'll end up really pissed because everything you thought you knew how to do falls apart, and you finally realize you're a bad programmer. This happened to me about 7yrs ago -- so, I'm trying to save you the trouble. After I realized this, and, after I learned how to program, not only did I quickly become very good but everything was 10 times easier and I enjoyed programming far more than I did before. Bad programming is exciting -- good programming is a party.<p>First, I want to tell you that learning a programming language and learning how to program aren't the same thing. A very simple metaphor to this is driving. You can learn how to drive, but, driving an automatic transmission sports car is completely different than driving a manual 18-wheeler. They both move on wheels and function the same, but, are very, very different. Also, if you were getting started, it would be easier to learn with a small automatic car than an 18-wheeler.<p>Programming and driving, however, are very different. Whereas driving is a mechanical task, which uses one part of your brain, programming is comprehension. When you're programming, you're not the driver, you are the mechanical engineer who invented fuel injectors, or the chemical engineer who invented run-flat tires. A programmer uses comprehension to write logic which instructs machines to create something material and useful.<p>The key when learning to program is that you create; bad programmers only know how to drive while good programmers know how spark plugs work.<p>So, I will share with you several things:
1) IMPORTANT: What NOT to do and why
2) How you should go about learning to program
3) About Java, Microsoft, and Enterprise
4) Failure and Practice
5) About Hacker News<p>1) IMPORTANT: What not to do and why
Often, when we read sites, books, etc., we're interpreting what we're reading and creating a story (perception) or associating it with something we already know. No matter what you already know from previous experiences with computers, learning to program is new -- it's like learning how to write -- you know the letters, you've seen it all, but getting your hand to draw such concise letters, words, and sentences, is a completely new experience. This is how you should take in programming; coding should be elegant, concise, and flow. Programming isn't glueing things to form a collage or mocking what you've seen. Just as you can't pretend to speak in a foreign language, you should never write code unless you fundamentally know what it does.<p>There's a lot of crap out there. Rails, most of PHP, a lot of Java, and most of what Microsoft developers come up with are pieces of crap cobbled together to make something which <i>somehow</i> works. The problem is all the people who are SOOOOO excited and exuberant about their crap. Some things, like Rails, started out awesome and are crap now. Unfortunately, people forget that Rails is just a tool; instead, they use it as a crutch -- even though it's now very worn and rusty. Don't trust or use something just because it's popular -- chances are it sucks. By sucks, I mean, it bites you in the ass a lot and/or forces you to do stupid things which waste your time.<p>Which brings me to my next subject of Tools. There's a saying "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". This is one of the many reasons you should learn a language FIRST and not do anything else first. Otherwise you will end up wondering why you're "hammer" isn't helping you with glue or screws. So, remember to use the right tool for the job.<p>Want to write iPhone apps? Learn Objective-C.
Want to write Android apps? Learn Java.
Want to use Rails? Learn Ruby.
Want to use Django? Learn Python.<p>But before you do all of this, learn one language first. The language I'm going to suggest you learn is Python, and there's a really good reason why.<p>The book I'll be referring you to is "how to program" and teaches with Python. As per the rule above, don't skip the introduction; read and do exactly what it tells you. I picked this book because it's excellent at teaching you how to program, and it's modern. The fact that it's free is just a perk. This is why I picked Python -- this book is awesome.<p>2) How you should go about learning to program
i) Start with Python. Learn Python by using this book: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index
ii) Learn how to write a basic Objective-C or Java program
iii) If you learned obj-c, install the iPhone SDK, If Java install the Android SDK
iv) Write a mobile application
v) now, you're prepared to explore other languages, platforms, etc. (java, jquery, rails, databases)<p>Unless it's required (for classroom or work), don't touch anything else to do with writing code until v).<p>Regarding steps ii) and iii)
This of course, is the hard way, but that's a good thing! You can't use Python with the Android or iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit), AND you'll never be able to create a web application with them. However, the Android and iPhone SDKs don't suck and are VERY pragmatic (pragmatic is a good thing!). These SDKs make it easy for developers to create mobile applications -- this is an amazing thing because mobile phones have limitations which servers and desktops don't have. They have limited battery life, a slow network connection, less memory, and a slower graphics processor.<p>By learning how to develop on one of these platforms, you'll learn how to do something with requirements and limitations, and, you'll learn how to apply you're knowledge of programming to a new language. Best of all, you'll write something you can use on your phone, anywhere -- way better than a web site.<p>Once you can work through writing an android or iphone app (which isn't that difficult, trust me!), then anything to do with web applications will magically become a no-brainer for you.<p>3) About Java, Microsoft, and Enterprise
The way you're going to learn how to program is completely different than the world of Java, Microsoft, and enterprise systems. It's different because these worlds are built on "information technology" and not on productivity. They're built to provide solutions, not solve problems. As a result, everything in these worlds are convoluted, complex, or expensive. Learning to program without these technologies will equip you if you ever need to work with them. In which case, you will better at understanding how the IT components in Enterprise are separate from the programming components. In short, you'll be able to see the forest from the trees whereas others do not. Most just get lost and try to find a corner they can hide in.<p>4) Failure and Practice
Programming is trial and error. You have to LEARN. Last, if you don't have good comprehension skills, it might not be for you. That doesn't mean you can't learn how to program well or be productive, but, you may have to work harder and might not enjoy it as much -- it could take some time for your comprehension to get up to par. This of course, is what practice is for (which is also covered in the book).<p>5) About Hacker News - http://news.ycombinator.com
If you want to program and develop software you should follow Hacker News. It's kind of addictive so be moderate. Hacker News has become a sort of "pay it forward" community where it's discouraged to put people down and you should always try to make positive contributions.
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Title: I wanted to wish everyone on HN a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years before many of us sign off the net for the next couple days. I've learned so much from many of you this year, and it's amazing how quickly you can get advice and tips here. I only regret I didn't start coming here sooner.<p>Here's to a great 2011 for us all!
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Title: There is only on last place let on this earth where you can have a labor arbitrage, and africa it is. Asia still has some room but africa will be the last big labor pool
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Title: The entire Connections series ('sesason' 1, 2 & 3), produced by the BBC, are available for viewing via Youtube (links at the linked page).<p>"True to the program’s subtitle, An Alternative View of Change, Burke debunks the myth of historical progress as a linear force and instead explores the interplay and interconnectedness of events and motives as the origin of modernity’s gestalt."<p>For more info visit this page also: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/<p>Though the series are old, people highly recommend them (I haven't watched them but will do now).
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Title: This question is inspired (i.e. stolen) from Alex Miller at http://twitter.com/puredanger/status/19451154832293888.<p>Whether you like Clojure or not, it's difficult to deny that it's generated a lot of buzz for Lisp in general. As a nice side-effect, there has been a rise in the number of organizations willing to take a chance on using Lisp for their products and services.<p>I see some parallels between Lisp and Prolog as families of programming languages. There are likely as many hobby implementations of Prolog as Lisp. Likewise, there is a gross misunderstanding of Prolog and Lisp among the general programmer population. Also, it's unclear how to get started with Prolog and Lisp concerning: implementations, IDEs, documentation, and gurus. To varying degrees, Clojure provides a solid answer to these common misunderstandings for Lisp, but what about Prolog?<p>Where is the logical successor to Prolog?<p>Some potential candidates are: Oz, Mercury, some sub-Prolog implementation embedded in another language, some other logic language altogether (e.g. Datalog).<p>Thoughts?
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Title: This may have been posted here before, but I only just noticed it in the annual roundup. I thought a few other people might be interested. I some of these characteristics could be useful on the pricing page of web software.
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Title: I'm a university student trying to pay off debt and save for a few specific goals.<p>My rent, groceries, and utilities are paid monthly out of my college fund, leaving me with roughly $500 to earn on my own each month to cover debt servicing, cell phone, car payment, and entertainment.<p>I do freelance work, but I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend on it as I'll be taking 18 units next semester and I don't want to jeopardize my GPA (currently a 3.9!)<p>I'm a proficient programmer. Based on what I've read, that should be enough to generate a small amount of passive income given a setup time of right now to January 26th, when the semester starts.<p>What would you suggest? What can be set up with that kind of lead time to generate just $500-$1000/month?<p>Once I get some ideas, I will keep HN apprised of my progress.
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Title: Inspired to jump into programming more after reading this.
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Title: I've seen a lot of great referral and invite programs, they're definitely a great way to bring in new users and reward existing customers.<p>There are also a ton of really poorly executed programs that result in spam and angry/displeased customers.<p>What are the Dos & Dont's of Referral/Invite Programs? I'm asking specifically about non-free products. Gmail had a great invite system but it was totally free.<p>Two good examples I can think of off the top of my head are Linode and Dropbox.<p># Linode
"You refer someone and they use your referral code during sign up.
They keep a Linode for 90 days.
You then receive a $20.00 credit applied to your account."<p># Dropbox
"Invite your friends to Dropbox!
For every friend who joins Dropbox, we'll give you both 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)!"
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Title: Hi Paul,<p>I know you wrote the HN guidelines specifying 'whatever hackers find interesting' is appropriate. However people take this two ways, either:<p>A. Whatever gets upvotes is OK, even if a large chunk of the articles on HN are about suicide bombers, the TSA, political leaks, etc and duplicate existing sites like Reddit.<p>B. Things that specifically Hackers find interesting - as opposed to the general population - belong on the front page.<p>IIRC you appealed for people to submit Scheme stories a while ago after an influx of new users came to visit, so I'm hoping for 2) to be your answer. If so, is there anything we as a community can do, asides from flagging articles (which we're already doing), to stop HN further becoming a general purpose news site?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>So I built http://threewords.me - literally an MVP that I posted on Facebook and my friends started using. Fast forward 3 days. The entire Twitter results page for "threewords.me" is of tweets that happened less than five minutes ago. The site grew 2x in pageviews over the past <i>hour</i>.<p>Two problems: 1) what do I do now? 2) how do I afford this?<p>Advertising? Hosting partner? ...daresay... <i>investment</i>?<p>Sorry to be brief. If you're curious, the stack is Rails + Ruby Enterprise Edition + Passenger + nginx, which isn't cheap like PHP to host. On the $40 Linode right now but maxing out CPU at 350%.<p>227K pageviews today. 50K uniques. 71% traffic referred. 8,285 users. 3,100 new users in the past 1 hour.<p>What happens now?<p>EDIT: Hello! This thread is not going unnoticed while I take my metaphorical fire extinguisher to the fires that are happening. Will reply soon.<p>EDIT: cranked the Linode up to 4096. $160 server, woo!<p>EDIT: David from Duostack (http://duostack.com) is helping with the load on his cloud Ruby platform. Many many thanks to him.
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Title: So HN, what are some cool, shiny new technologies that you worked with this past year? Care to tell us what those technologies are and why they are so cool?
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Title: <i>From my email just now.</i><p>Imporant Safety Notice<p>Hello WakeMate Customer,<p>We have just been alerted to a safety issue with our product. The black USB charger bricks that have been included with the product are defective. Do not use them.<p>The USB chargers were sourced through a Chinese vendor. We paid to have the proper certification and safety tests performed here in the U.S. for the chargers. However, tonight we were informed by a customer of a safety incident with the black USB chargers. Therefore, effective immediately we are recalling ALL USB charger bricks and informing our customers that it is not safe to use these USB chargers to charge your WakeMate.<p>We will continue to look into the situation but needed to email you immediately to ensure that you stop using and unplug the included Black USB Power Bricks.<p>We are extremely sorry that we sent a product containing defective components. However, we also want to stress that this issue is with the chargers only, and not with the WakeMate itself. It is still safe to use the included USB cable to charge the WakeMate, and it is safe to wear the WakeMate while sleeping.<p>I sincerely apologize for this mishap on our part. We are doing everything we can to prevent any further incidents with the USB charger bricks.
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Title: This includes being able to make pretty much any sort of computer or internet program or app, basic html not included. I ask because, though I do not code, I find HN great and wonder if others feel the same way.
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Title: As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.<p>Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.
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