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Recommend any books about Medicine? | edu: I don't anything about medicine, but it seems that Gray's Anatomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%27s_Anatomy) is one of the classic books.The edition of 1918 is in public domain an available online: http://www.bartleby.com/107/ and the illustrations are simply gorgeous. |
Recommend any books about Medicine? | dcurtis: I'd suggest you first read Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran. He explores some pretty amazing quirks about the human brain.Then, if you're still interested, read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. It's a pretty good overview of biological principles and true evolution. |
How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still available? | zacharye: Be creative, be flexible, be willing to seek out help from people more creative than yourself. If all that fails, spend money...The past couple of years has made things a bit easier though. Drop a vowel or two, check out international domain registrations, etc. |
How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still available? | aniketh: why not try http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html and http://www.dotomator.com/ |
what is wrong with asp.net? | icey: MS Tools & Languages are made with corporations in mind. In other words, ASP.Net is structured so that programmers can be treated like replaceable cogs. There really isn't anything wrong with that, but if you aren't in a "replaceable cog" situation, you can get things done faster in other languages that require less boilerplate code. |
How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still available? | CompanyGardener: kickscorner.com slidetackling.com forthekicks.comThese are available. Not sure if they're good or relevant. |
Feedback on my startup www.dojolearning.com | lux: And here's a clickable link to the site:http://www.dojolearning.com/ |
What software has made you go "wow?" | bayareaguy: Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia |
How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? | metajack: The only downside to them, in my opinion, is that disk access is not super fast. This makes running databases on them much slower than a properly set up real machine.That said, I fully expect amazon to fix this, just as they have already added high memory and high cpu instances. They seem to take feedback seriously and have addressed most of the major complaints to date.Being able to provision new machines with a simple command is reason enough to use them over more traditional places. |
What software has made you go "wow?" | jsmcgd: I watched the E3 preview of Half Life 2 again and again and again. So probably Half Life 2. |
Feedback on my startup www.dojolearning.com | ScottWhigham: I wish you luck :)You are in a highly competitive market since there are so many sites like this; I would be afraid that you cheapen yourself to nothing more than a commodity. My first thought when I click through your site is, "Why would I use this over YouTube?" You have a lot of competitors in the "Anyone can create/share training videos" space so I guess I would need to see something unique before it piqued my interest.I guess what I don't see is, "What are you doing that makes you different?" Allowing anyone to upload/create training is not new. |
How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? | elsewhen: we just ran some extensive testing to move a highly trafficked website from a cluster of dedicated servers (at theplanet) to ec2. note that our application is to use ec2 as a real-time web server. the bottom line:dedicated servers allow for much faster ip takeover (critical for high-availability) and had lower latency. ec2 rocks for scalability.in the end we decided to hold off on ec2 until they address these 2 deficiencies. |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | wave: Cheapest way http://www.textmarks.comAlso been discussed in the following posts:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224324http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211853 |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | chrisbolt: You can use an SMS gateway like http://www.clickatell.com/ |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | markbao: If you're looking to receive data through SMS, like Twitter does (through sending a SMS to 40404 to post to your account) you'll need a SMS short code.For a selected shortcode they run about $1000 a month, while a random shortcode might run around $500 a month, in the US.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | schtog: Related/similar:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224324 |
Clans in news recommendation site? | pg: Voting rings certainly exist, both here and on Reddit. And while we both have ways of detecting and neutralizing them, describing these techniques in detail would tend to cause them not to work as well. |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | phpdev: I recommend http://zong.com/They have an API. |
Clans in news recommendation site? | Raphael: What is wrong with a clan? Do you oppose political parties as well? |
Adding SMS Integration to Web App | pjackson: Most carriers have integrated SMS-to-email. If you can bother your users to send their SMS messages to an email address instead of a shortcode or NPA-NXX style number, you'll be way better off in terms of integration and cost.This only works if you know the carrier that your user uses, because presumably you have to route a reply back to them through an email-to-SMS gateway.I don't personally know of any frameworks in PHP that will help you, but for Rails there are SMSFu and MMS2R, both of which are good at handling gateway SMS traffic.You might peek at their code to see how they did it. Both are MIT Licensed. |
Clans in news recommendation site? | froo: Voting rings definitely exist in on news recommendation sites.For example, take Digg (I'm expecting to get downmodded for even mentioning this name btw) - you get people shouting within their circle of friends to get stories voted up, so that functionality is essentially built into the system.
You also have the opposite true aswell, people banding together to downvote stories too and it happens often enough that theres a term for it "bury brigades"offtopic:
I think I might need to get glasses, I originally thought the title was "Clams in news recommendation site?" |
Clans in news recommendation site? | shafqat: Its bound to happen on any news site. At NewsCred, despite our still small-ish user base, we can see patterns emerging. Identifying patterns is the key. Once you have an algorithm to identify malicious activity, resolving is simple. |
Same dev tools/language/framework for everyone? | pmorici: I'd say it depends on what your company does. If every group does basically the same sort of thing then it might be a wise decision on the part of management. On the other hand, if one group is making websites and the other is writing Linux kernel drivers then it shows a complete lack of understanding on their part of what it is their company does. |
About time? | icey: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=... |
Setting up an open source project. | aditya: github is great for forking and the like, I'd go with that and lighthouse for tracking and google groups for a mailing list.Or, you could just run your own git repo, trac, and mailman.Just stay away from sourceforge. |
Same dev tools/language/framework for everyone? | gaius: It totally depends on what your company does. If all the development is a particular style (web apps, desktop apps, embedded systems, etc etc) then it makes a lot of sense provided the choice of tool is periodically revisted and also provided that it's chosen for the right reasons (i.e. not just someone senior's "favourite toy"). You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket and end up in a technological dead end with nowhere to go but a rewrite. I'd argue that that's what's happened to everyone who thought J2EE was a good way to build websites...If however you have a lot of different things going on (e.g. your company's main business is programming embedded systems and happens to have an unrelated group doing your website and another unrelated group doing internal desktop apps for business users) then a one-size-fits-all strategy is likely to be suboptimal. |
Setting up an open source project. | rahulgarg: Google code is a good place to host. Very fast to get started and you get a very clean website with all the basic tools. Bug reporting is simple so your users will be happy too. It uses SVN but google give you the option to host your repository somewhere else if you dont like SVN.
However Google allows only a restricted set of licenses so you need to check their list of supported licenses.launchpad is also an ok place to host code (and it allows any license) but it doesnt host wikis for example and some of the UI elements are rather radical and may not suit your taste. if you host on launchpad, you will need to host a proper website and/or wiki somewhere else.Dont go with sourceforge. The site has become slow and full of ads which cover half your screen. The interface is clunky too.edit : launchpad uses bazaar a distributed VCS. |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | hugh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries ?And then about eight hours' work to look up and type in the names of all the major cities in each country? |
Setting up an open source project. | st3fan: At Polar Rose we simply started to put projects on Google Code. Some are well documented, others are mostly code dumps and need more attention. We use subversion internally and Maven for working with well defined (Java) components/libraries. So there is not much difference between working on code hosted in the public or private repositories.The most difficult thing was actually not a technical thing but a mindset issue: To teach people in the teams how they can identify components that can be released as open source. And to actually do it. |
Setting up an open source project. | SwellJoe: We've got a couple of projects at SourceForge.net, and I have to agree with everyone else. It is slow, and it's interface has always been pretty clunky--dealing with tickets and the forums is pretty horrible. I wouldn't use it today.For our newer stuff, we handle it internally...but we have a slightly odd situation of having a commercial branch and a GPL branch, and the commercial branch is private. Open Source hosting places don't make that easy.If I were starting a new project today, I'd try both github and Google Code and see which one I liked better, and then I'd go with it. git is really cool for highly distributed projects, but unnecessary for most projects with only a few developers--there are still some benefits, but if the Google Code tools work better for you, then the revision control choice probably doesn't matter enough to make a difference.For one company I worked for a few years ago, we ended up building out a code hosting platform based on trac, Subversion, Mailman, Virtualmin to manage it all on the backend and grant project owners their own web space, etc. (SciPy.org is the result, and several Open Source Python scientific computing projects are hosted there. It works pretty well, or did when I last dealt with it about three years ago.)Generally, it's more important to actually get the code out there than how you do it. Documentation is the hard part of the equation, and it's more important than you'd think. Your code will not be adopted without at least good documentation for installing it and getting it running. People will put up with a lot once it's installed and doing something productive for them...but if the install doesn't work, you've lost them, and they'll very likely complain about your software to others.Forking a major project like PHP is dangerous mojo. I don't blame you...whenever I work in PHP, I feel like someone is stabbing me in the eye every time I have to create an array by typing "array(1, 2, 3, 4)" or try to do anything even a little clever. Have you talked to the PHP folks about possible inclusion in PHP 6? I mean, I know their mental model for software development is deeply flawed, and maybe they won't be eager to incorporate such dramatic changes, but if you could avoid a fork and still get the code out there, it'd be a win. Worst case, you should remain on friendly terms with the parent project--do not fork in anger, as it's bad for everyone involved. Do what you can to insure your bugfixes go back into mainline and that you follow their code very closely so that compatibility is maintained except in the specific areas where you diverge. |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | nnrcschmdt: Did you look at GeoNames? http://www.geonames.org/It would require you to do some parsing to filter what you need but the info is there. |
What's up with this type of superannoying ads? | jakewolf: Neither. It's a snapshot of the website being linked to along with related keywords you may be interested it search for.The annoying ads you're thinking of are contextual based links that are created automatically by the ad networks such as kontera.com |
Setting up an open source project. | ezmobius: I'd recommend github for source hosting. I've got multiple open source projects that I run or use that use github for scm and use lighthouseapp.com for ticketing. These are fairly large OSS projects with many many contributors and it works great. http://github.com/wycats/merb-core/tree/master and http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius/tree/master as well as a bunch of other smaller oss projects.Both github and Lighthouse will give free accounts to open source projects. |
Setting up an open source project. | fugue88: I'm hosting some projects on my own box. It's a mix of svn and bzr repositories fronted by Trac.Trac is awesome, but it doesn't really understand bzr branches and such, so linking to code from inside Trac is a little weird. If you'll be using DVCS, shop around for something more congruent.Also, browsing a bzr repo from Trac is pretty slow. |
Setting up an open source project. | vulpes: I have a question that is along the same lines, if we have a project that we want to open source and basically make money on service contracts what is the best open source license to go with? |
Setting up an open source project. | babul: Trac is great, and I've used it a number of times, but if you are rolling your own platform then Redmine (www.redmine.org/) is worth considering as it is much nicer and easier to get started with. |
What's up with this type of superannoying ads? | gojomo: I keep using the 'snapshots' internal options to 'block' for 'all sites' -- but the preference never sticks.Next up: using AdBlock or NoScript to block JS from *.snap.com domains, which should do the trick. |
Setting up an open source project. | midnightmonster: It would be best to package your PHP additions as an extension if you could, but I imagine you'd have done that already if it would work.PHP on Ubuntu comes with the Suhosin patch installed, so there is at least one third-party PHP patch that has some significant distribution. |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | amarcus: Javascript code that displays a drop down of Coutry and State:
http://javascript.internet.com/forms/country-state-drop-down...I know you wanted cities, but maybe this could do |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | galleypage: You could use MONDIAL.
http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/Mondial/The database is pretty extensive, but you should only need to query it once to get what you need. |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | dkasper: You could get the 2 largest cities in each country from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_and_seco...Or this has the capital and cities larger than the capital:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_largest_ci... |
How to design private messaging emoticons? | aupajo: First off, I heavily advise against emoticons. People are usually perfectly happy with plain-text ones, and some people are avidly against graphical ones. Plus, if you have many triggers for emoticons that aren't immediately obvious, people can become confused when an icon pops up where they weren't expecting one.That said, implementing said emoticons is a simple task. Assign a list of emoticon codes and image files (eg. ":)" => "smile.gif" and ":D" => "grin.gif") either hardcoded or in a database table depending on your needs, and use a simple search-and-replace function to replace the emoticon code with an image tag of the file. Make sure this is done when the message's body is parsed, and NOT before it gets inserted into the database. |
How to design private messaging emoticons? | shaunxcode: look into bbcode or the way msn, yahoo, aim, gmail chat etc. turn character combinations into "emoticons". Depending on your language of choice you will then do a string replace on the character combos for the image it relates to when you display that text. |
How to design private messaging emoticons? | shergill: Thanks guys. I ended up doing a 'string replace' when displaying the msg content. |
Setting up an open source project. | ivey: A big thumbs up for Github. I've got OSS and closed source projects in GH and I absolutely love it. Pull requests are the new patch ticket. |
How to design private messaging emoticons? | rslonik: http://www.christian-seiler.de/projekte/php/bbcode/index_en.... |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | vaksel: The thing is almost everyone is using their computer to augment their intellect as you put it. Even if they don't realize it.Everyone has used a spell-checker or Excel functions at least once. |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | rw: 1) The mind is an information processing device.2) Programming enables me to modify information flows.3) Therefore, I augment my intellect via hacking.P.S. If the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for programming languages is true, then my "actual" intellect is also changing. |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | vegai: No, vice versa. Like almost everyone else. |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | geuis: I don't yet think that most of
us are using information technologies to their full potential.That being said, I can clearly mark the differences between how I was taught to perform thought functions growing up and how I do them now. The calculator on this iPhone and the scientific ones I access via hotkeys on my mac and of spring to mind. It is second nature to whir my hands across a keyboard to get a precise answer to a numeric problem than to try to calculate in my mind a best guestimate.When I read something I want to access later, it goes into a bookmarking service. Or, I know easily the keywords to google it to find it later.The most remarkable thing has been having my iPhone. Though its a cliché by now, having the internet in my pocket has been remarkable. I have near instant access to all of the world's information anywhere I am.I definitely fall on the side of wannabe singulitarian, but even disregarding that, I see the increasingly powerful portable computation we carry with us as a positive sign we are increasingly incorporating computation into our sense of self and consciousness. |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | lakeeffect: The simplicity of the end result is why all programmers program.Should my computer read my brain waves and makes decisions equal to the decision i make in my head. Yes, the user interfaces of the future will be this.Have i taken the time to develop and implement the fundamentals. Of course not...the demand hasn't reached the point where it would be worth the overall effort involved.Visionary leadership would be stepping too far in front of the crowd and results in a much higher risk. |
Setting up an open source project. | tomh: We have something on SF which we don't update often because of all the reasons you've read in other posts. The up-to-date code snapshot is hosted in-house on Subversion. Issues are tracked in-house with Mantis, user/developer mailing lists are run in-house with Pipermail, the code is built on the server with the help of Maven (since it's all Java, YMMV), and wikis hosted in-house with the help of Dokuwiki.Why all the in-house stuff? Control, for one. We also ask for registration information before giving access to the source code. This comes around to lead generation when it's time to sell services (which is all the time).Check it out: http://www.openclinica.org/index.php |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | adrianwaj: I use Amazon.com's book reviews to avoid reading a lot of books and instead absorb the summaries and key points of the reviewers. Would you call that augmenting the intellect? |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | globalrev: Ok I found something:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_larger_cit... |
Setting up an open source project. | pakmee: i did work on an open source J2ME api(BIZU ME) and stopped when I started working full time. I can say that sourceforge is ok for hosting since that is what I used for hosting and had no problems what so ever. The UI is weird to deal with but its alright once u get used to it. I haven't tried any other such as google code etc so I cant give u any feedback on those.. You will probably need a bug tracking tool such as jira for tracking your issues. Jira is really good and offers a free licence if your project is open source. Apart from that , you will need weekly updates or else people lose interest pretty quickly! |
Feedback on my learning startup | lux: I'm resubmitting since this didn't get any notice last time around. Hopefully timing is better this time :)We're about to launch our new startup, but wanted a bit of feedback from our fellow startup-starters in the HN community.Our idea can be described as the Basecamp model/philosophy applied to training. We want to make online training much easier, and affordable for any company. Beyond that, I'll let the site speak for itself.Thanks! |
Feedback on my learning startup | OCInnovationVlt: Sounds interesting... did you launch yet? |
Feedback on my learning startup | tstegart: It has a nice design. I would suggest two things. One, a way to pause the tour. I couldn't find it.Two, a case study, showing how somebody used your product. Testimonials are also great, and its another way to connect to a potential customer. Believe it or not, some still are given work computers without speakers, so the video tour is useless. And some people just like reading things instead. I do at least, its usually faster and I can tell quicker if I like the idea, without waiting for the tour to move along. A more in-depth how-it-works page would appeal to me more than a video tour. Plus it gives you a chance to sell your services in the way you explain how it works.EDIT: Here's someone else launching today: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups. They have a little more explanation, and a testimonial blurb on the front page. I think it works well. |
Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available? | talkaboutadate: Thanks, guys/girls. Looking at the forums on geonames it seems like it's over kill and that it may be slow reading such a large database, and mondial seems to be the same. I think I may spend a day or two typing in the countries and cities myself! |
Feedback on my learning startup | aggieben: I think the topics seem a little too contrived.For example - who is really going to go looking for training in the "Politics" category? There may be some things, but I don't know that many people would look for it there.My suggestion: let topics be determined more organically, and use a tagging mechanism like the one on del.icio.us where you can combine tags to refine the particular topic you want. To go back to the "Politics" topic, I might rather see all topics tagged "politics+communications" to learn more about making political speeches, or "politics+county+texas" to learn about how county governments in Texas work. Or, if I just had a general interest in mathematics, I could just look at the list of courses tagged "math". Etc, etc, etc. I don't think this means you have to show a tag cloud on the front page, but you might show a simple list of the 10 most popular tags instead of imposing a topic list.I realize this is a very common way to organize user-generated content, but I think it's very effective, and I think it's even now something that web-savvy users now come to expect (like me - I very quickly get frustrated with searching for untagged content). |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | cstejerean: It's an interesting idea. I don't remember ever thinking about previewing my text under a different style so I don't know if it would help me, but I would be willing to try it. |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | coglethorpe: > I can read my own post 100 times and I'll be damned if I'll spot the "teh" that should have been a "the".Firefox does come with a spell check plugin... |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | tlrobinson: This could be implemented a bookmarklet. |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | deathbyzen: This reminds me of the commenting system that I think all the Gawker blogs use. There is a live preview directly above the comment field that shows exactly how the post is going to display on the page. A lot of forums do the same type of thing, but not live.My brother has the same problem though, he can read and re-read right through his mistakes and never catch them unless they are pointed out to him. He's not dumb or illiterate, but I've always thought that he's mildly dyslexic. |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | DanHulton: You could throw together a greasemonkey script to do this in minutes.- On DOM ready, add a preview div under the textarea.
- Bind to the textarea's change event, and have it update the preview div with the contents of the textarea.
- Add a [Random!] button next to [add comment]
- Bind to the [Random!] button to randomize the font, size, and colour of the preview div.And with jQuery, that's probably 4 lines of code. |
A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. | tortilla: Non-software solution: Try proofreading backwards. |
ASK HN: Quad monitors - advice? tips? tricks? | icey: I tried it once, and decided I would rather have two larger monitors.I use dual 24" on my mac and I love it.(It seemed like I was forced to move my head a lot more with a quad monitor setup - either vertically (cube setup) or horizontally (4 in a row setup), and it wasn't very enjoyable to me.)[Edit: I was using all 20" monitors for my test, and I actually liked 3 monitors more than 4 - there was a logical "main" monitor that way.] |
ASK HN: Quad monitors - advice? tips? tricks? | alex_c: I've never used more than two monitors, but I know most people who run three monitors use two (usually mismatched) cards. I don't know of any four-display video cards - I've never needed one - but if they're a lot more expensive than two off-the-shelf video cards, I don't see any reason not to go for the cheaper option. |
ASK HN: Quad monitors - advice? tips? tricks? | quellhorst: I have 3 monitors hooked up to my mac pro(2x20" 1x30"). Could have up to 2x30" + 2x24" with my 2 video card setup.My new setup will be a macbook pro (replacing a macbook) and a single 30" monitor when I'm at my desk. I found its better to cut down on how much you run so you can focus.Look at changing the way you work... No email notifications, don't leave chat or IM running, use your pc when you are working and get away when you are not. |
Are you using computers to augment your intellect? | ca98am79: I have an automated day trading program - does that count? |
A Hacker Videos site (a place for intellectually stimulating videos)? | agentbleu: some good stuff here
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ |
A Hacker Videos site (a place for intellectually stimulating videos)? | slater: Maybe try http://www.scivee.tv, which touts itself as "provid[ing] community tools for researchers of all levels to share their science, connect with their peers, and respond to scientific data. Researchers can see and hear scientists describe their scientific research, join specific interest communities, participate in scientific discussions, and create a comprehensive multimedia representation of their own research." |
A Hacker Videos site (a place for intellectually stimulating videos)? | rms: Not necessarily intellectual, but at least it's all non-fiction, mostly rips of History Channel and BBC programs and such.http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/ |
"stock market" mechanism for stuff? | bdfh42: There is a start-up that is trying a market making model for buying and selling "stuff" at http://www.wigix.com/
plus a fair bit of HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191774 |
what medical examinations would you get if money didn't matter? | hunterjrj: A sleep study. Obstructive sleep apnea can cause serious problems with the heart. |
what medical examinations would you get if money didn't matter? | sebg: 1. A test for dyslexia. I had a friend who didn't know he had it until well into his teens.2. Sleep Study. like hunterjrj3. Figure out your blood type.4. Full drug/food allergy testing. |
"stock market" mechanism for stuff? | noodle: i would argue that ebay's system does NOT force you to pay attention until the last minute.if you want an item, enter in the maximum amount you're willing to pay. it'll re-bid by proxy until you win the item or someone is willing to pay more than you. if you were willing to pay even more beyond what you entered, you should've put in a higher proxy bid. |
Help Get Each Others Startups on Digg? | brk: I think you'll generally find that Digg is a big waste of time in terms of promoting a site. It takes a reasonable amount of effort to get anywhere near the front page, and then when you do you get a crush of mostly unqualified traffic from users who are not likely to ever visit your site again.Self-submissions and "Digg groups" rarely ever work to elevate you above the bowels of the "Upcoming" pages. One of the things that Digg seems to be particularly good at is detecting this sort of activity.Your time is better spent improving your app and promoting it where it is relevant. Wait for someone else to take an interest in it and let them submit to Digg/Mixx/etc. |
Help Get Each Others Startups on Digg? | gabrielleydon: Start with Stumble Upon. Less work and more traffic. |
Help Get Each Others Startups on Digg? | gojomo: Do Unto Other Social News Sites As You Would Have Them Do Unto You?To try to vote-stuff Digg would be to condone vote-stuffing of News.YC, too.Alternate suggestion: just submit your site here for peer review. Include a Digg-this button on your entry page, as appropriate. Then those moved to Digg it will... without any unseemly quid-pro-quos or voting bloc behavior. |
Help Get Each Others Startups on Digg? | ruslan: Dugg! :) |
Good books on computational complexity? | gcv: The best book on the subject I know of is Introduction to the Theory of Computation, by Michael Sipser. Very readable and lucid. Great exercises. |
Good books on computational complexity? | Mapou: Not to discourage your perfectly valid interest in this subject but I am curious about the percentage of software engineers that use any knowledge of computational complexity in their everyday work. |
Good books on computational complexity? | rw: Blog of a quantum computing theorist:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/P vs NP Millenium Prize intro paper, which is fairly accessible:
http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/Official_Problem_...Complexity Theory: A Modern Approach (out of Princeton):
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/PRIMES is in P (famous paper):
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~annals/issues/2004/Sept2004/A... |
Good books on computational complexity? | rms: http://www.complexitytheory.com/Edit: The lectures don't seem to be up there anymore but he links to this book which is free online pre-publication: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/Rudich's lectures are up for his undergrad class though, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/academic/class/15251/di... |
Good books on computational complexity? | YuriNiyazov: The solution manual to Sipser's first edition is available through bootleg bittorrent trackers, which makes it good for self-study. |
Good books on computational complexity? | fbellomi: I would suggest
"Computational Complexity" by C.H. PapadimitriouGreat material, great exercises, very good bibliography |
Good books on computational complexity? | ulvund: As others said: Introduction to the Theory of Computation, by Michael SipserTogether with Shai Simonson's lectures:http://aduni.org/courses/theory/ |
Good books on computational complexity? | keefe: The definitive algorithms book is Cormen : http://projects.csail.mit.edu/clrs/
I think you should study this book and here is the MIT course to go along with it : http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...Learning about NP complete problems is interesting to avoid certain pitfalls and mapping one problem to another is always a valuable technique, but it seems you are fairly new to analysis of algorithms so imho (having been a phd student focused on algorithms) this book and course is a great place to start.http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Creative-Approach-Udi-Manbe...this is also very good |
Help Get Each Others Startups on Digg? | pedalpete: Dugg it, I think I saw you somewhere else a few weeks ago, metafilter?A stumble question for anybody who knows.
I was getting a bunch of traffic from Stumble Upon and decided to throw up a digg button. Of course, it was late and I didn't test it properly, so it essentially broke my site and nobody stumbled it anymore.Once a site has been stumbled once, and not thumbed up, is there any way to get it going again?My site is www.hearwhere.com |
Good books on computational complexity? | dangoldin: If you are in the mood for something advanced, take a look at Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman.It has a good amount of proofs and a pretty strong focus on automata thought so that may not be your cup of tea.Hopcroft won the Turing award in 1986 so he knows what he's talking about. |
Is it worth switching to a Dvorak keyboard? | wrinklz: Web development is best practiced in the Python framework Django, on an Apple MacBook Pro with the Dvorak keyboard using the TextMate editor. Left-handed, of course. (Just kidding about Django, Rails will do as well.) |
Is it worth switching to a Dvorak keyboard? | johnm: Naw, it's way wacko different and relatively hard to switch back to a QWERTY when you need to.Check out the Kinesis Ergo Contoured keyboard instead, http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/. While it looks daunting, it's easy to pick up and it's surprisingly easy to switch back and forth to a normal QWERTY keyboard. |
Is it worth switching to a Dvorak keyboard? | ScottWhigham: I made the switch about 6 wks ago due to oncoming CTS. It's tough to do, for sure - I type slower today, no doubt - but my wrists hurt less.If productivity is your main goal, I just don't think switching would help. Let's say that someone tells you that a Dvorak keyboard can helkp you type 5% faster. Fine - but it will take 4-6 months to get to that point and, during that adjustment period, you will have have been 5% less productive. |
API Design? | JimEngland: Here is a useful set of links:http://neuroning.com/articles/2006/11/19/on-api-design-guide...http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdfIt might be hard for us to try and help you out without knowing the project in detail, but follow the guidelines of that Google Keynote and you should be just fine. |
What's wrong with all those dating sites? | smalter: simple: girl to guy ratio |
What's wrong with all those dating sites? | drewcrawford: I think the fundamental problem is that the reason people are on most of these dating sites is because they can't find a date elsewhere. Building a good dating site means solving that problem: making dating online more intuitive than flirting in real life. This is hard, because you've got however many billion/million years of evolution working against you.On the other hand, there are some groups for whom physical flirting is already cumbersome. Busy professionals/entrepreneurs (arguably above-average dating material) don't necessarily have time to chat up people at coffee shops. People of a particular faith or with a particular medical condition may be genuinely afraid of simply meeting random people. There has been some success with this sort of 'longtail/niche' dating site. |
What's wrong with all those dating sites? | bprater: A new niche play might be to figure out how to adapt the dating genre to the iPhone. Maybe a GPS-based play.But I think the key continues to be -- find a good niche. But not so nichey that only 8 people are interested. |
Avg studio apartment rental in the bay area | aaroneous: If you're really ok with that 1-1.5 hour commute, then you should be able to find a studio in a suburban neighborhood for around $700-$800 in cities like Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Novato (North Bay) or Vacaville, Fairfield ("Far East" Bay).Anything in the inner Bay Area closer to SF//SJ//etc is going to run you $1000+ for a studio in a good neighborhood. If you're less picky about the neighborhood, then there are more options for less. |
What's in a name? Serious or fun? | run4yourlives: This is a little off the wall, but why don't you register them both, and then as your first users what they think? Have a vote. Get's them involved in the site, and makes them feel special, like all early adopters want.A little off the wall, but it solves your problem with little effort. |