bhavin | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: I made a cool OCR based desktop app. Possible to commercialize?
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bhavin | 13 years ago | on: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold
The prime difference is that the proposed feature would rate the stories according to HN algorithm (taking threshold into account) not chronological order as 'new' does. It'd give a filtered-out 'new' section. As in, a story that is upvoted by 2-3 people and has made to second/third page of HN but never makes it to front page. Few good stories deserve wider audiences IMO.
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold
Great feature!
I had a suggestion: This feature gives you stories 'above' a certain threshold. I think it would help a lot if there was an option for stories 'below' certain threshold.
Rationale behind it is that lots of folks here (like me) don't check the New Submissions section regularly and lots of good stuff never gets much love. If there was an option for generating a front page for stories below certain points, a user can review them and upvote worthy ones, which eventually can feature on normal front page. Any opinions?
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps
Every time I read something from aforementioned blog, I finished with a feeling of disappointment. No insights, no deep thought process, just plain apple-fanboyism.
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing
No they don't. In both cases, this patent is cited by the examiner, who probably had good sense of humor.
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing
I went through both Samsung and MSFT patents that 'refer' to this patents.
This patent, in both cases, is cited by the examiner. So, my idea behind that is the examiner either didn't like his job or had a good sense of humor about whole patent process!
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: 0th-world Problems
You're free to classify me as foolish for this, but before clicking the link I honestly expected this to be one of thought provoking articles (as there are often ones here on a sunday), with an intentionally absurd headline.
Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one.
bhavin | 13 years ago | on: Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh
It would help if fellow HNers read through the content a bit before upvoting something quickly. Here is a project which was last updated more than 2 years ago (no changes in source/tutorial/wiki in 2 years). There's no working implementation to support the claim. Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim. Why are we as a community are becoming more and more obsessed with sensational link-baits?
bhavin | 14 years ago | on: The real reason you can't hire developers....
You said you found the writing style immature, but have you considered the job ads of the companies OP might have applied to? "Xbox's PS3 Nerf guns Starcraft/Rock band competitions !!!".. How mature is that?
I am not talking about the 20% interviews where it didn't workout, but the other 80% where there was no reply, I am sure many of those job ads won't classify as "Mature" in your view. Some of the best programmers i know can't write even proper English sentences, since its not their first language. Do you think they are any less able to do the job? And does it disqualify from expecting even a reply to their application?
bhavin | 14 years ago | on: Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up
its 40k, not 20k.
bhavin | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why there are no non-profit Social Networks?
umm, what I meant when I said there have been attempts is - those seem to be not full hearted with no outside support. E.g. there's no open-source social network project I know of which plans to run through people's contribution (financial and technical).
bhavin | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why there are no non-profit Social Networks?
I completely agree, but on the other hand, facebook was at one point of time far behind myspace. one of the reasons it became a huge success is that the myspace had even bigger issues with privacy etc when facebook was considered nice and trustworthy. And its only after facebook became clear market leader, the user backlash started/became frequent.
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: BofA Programmer Heads to Prison After Coding ATMs to Spit Out Free Cash
One would wonder if there were any code reviews in place or not? Any code that has monetary effects has to go through a series of code reviews (saying from my experience working with a client in banking industry) and tests. I would be curious as to how the 'bug' went undetected until deployment!
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.
I do not think this kind of seedy behavior is appropriate for company of any age, young or old. If anything, a company should get more responsible as it gets older.
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff
Ironically, I was watching this video recently when Calacanis was talking about "How to kill Google".
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
Correct me if I am wrong. I think I have found a way to track sales of both the models on sale.
Depending on how many items you ask for in order screen, it lets you go ahead or displays "stock unavailable".
For the Mettalic Silver, It seems 57 items are available at the time of writing. and for Black Anodized, it is 108. I have to take a reasonable assumption now to get the sales numbers (may be 200 at beginning?).
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: C++ in Coders at Work
The following statement made by the Author doesn't sound like a programmer (leave C++ expert alone).
"I think I once managed to read all the way through Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language and have looked at at least parts of The Design and Evolution of C++. But I have never done any serious programming in it."
All I can say is, any programmer worth his mettle would make such a statement... Going through Stroustrups's book isn't possible if you're not interested in C++ programming (given that its not part of For Dummies series), IMHO. It is exactly like comparing it to a Novel. A programming guide is not about reading, its about learning.
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: Google 2000 vs. Google 2011
I guess the whole backlash against search results was Content Farms outsmarting Google (atleast temporarily) and distorting results.
Google's search results in 2000 were better than any competitor or Google itself 2 years before. But the same thing can't be said with certainty when comparing 2010's search results to 2008's.
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: Are the American people obsolete?
bhavin | 15 years ago | on: Remembering the Egyptian martyrs
<something that catches people's attention> + 1000memories.
Few other examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862700
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005187
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598485
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985340
I used to like the idea of 1000 memories back when I heard it for first time. But the aggressive PR posts on HN has ruined it for me. I never visited it again since I felt 1000memories' publicity rather relied on emotional exploitation (that is a strong word to use, but I can't think of a better one).
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> If you could parse out other applications I could see it being a hit.
Could you elaborate?