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how do i move 5 GB of photos? | Kilimanjaro: Get a .info domain really cheap for $1.99, get the cheapest unlimited hosting service, upload pics via ftp, get an open source photo manager.See? less than $5 a month splitted among 5 guys for your own personal photo sharing site, easier impossible. |
Professional Python IDEs? | Erwin: I've tried Wing personally, but it was just too much pretty but superfluous GUI stuff all over the place.As a primary editor I use xemacs21 in full-screen mode with everything extra disabled; I typically have 2-3 instances running (due to parallel development in multiple branches) with 200 open buffers.I'd love ... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | wafflesrevenge: Zacharye it sounds like you have a valuable skill and could get something out of this, go for it and grow your connections.I have similar skills and would want to build upon them in a similar fashion so if you find yourself with more then you can handle let me know @ mattyfo@gmail@yan ad-hoc sounds like... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | sweetweb: This post couldn't have come at a better time. I really need your help with my elevator pitch/sign up frame.
My name is Tommy Nguyen, I'm the co-founder of a site called www.ratemyideas.comIts a rating/voting where users submit made or market ready cool products/gadgets/inventions/ web sites etc.We are not of... |
Professional Python IDEs? | ivank: I use Eclipse 3.4 on Windows with Pydev/Pydev extensions. I really like the mark occurrences feature - even made something like it for Emacs, but it's not as seamless. |
Professional Python IDEs? | nloadholtes: Eclipse with the PyDev plugin is very nice also. I'm using that on both OS X and Windows. |
Professional Python IDEs? | froo: I'm enjoying e-texteditor, its basically textmate for windows (but its not free) |
Professional Python IDEs? | j2d2: I must admit, I have a hard time knowing what I'd need an ide for when I can use emacs and have a python interpreter running inside it. I haven't worked on any python projects large enough to make me need help navigating the code though. |
Professional Python IDEs? | pchivers: I've been using Wing 101 for the last couple of months (after reading the Python IDE reviews on Jonathan Ellis' blog), and I've been fairly happy with it.Links to the reviews:http://spyced.blogspot.com/2005/09/review-of-6-python-ides.h...http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/02/pycon-python-ide-review.h... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | brfox: Are there any companies where they will send you a 16gb flash drive, you fill it up and send it back, then they host the files (or upload them to flickr, smugmug, etc)?I'd pay $25 for that service. |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | bkovitz: I would love to hear an expert's (free!) suggestions on how we can improve our copy on decisionero. I believe very strongly that, especially on the web, short copy that gets the message across is crucial--and short copy is the hardest to write.Our current home page is the one I'm currently most eager for sugg... |
Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person) | PieSquared: How about Gmail? I haven't had a single problem with gmail spam filters, which used to surprise me. |
Professional Python IDEs? | oz: have you tried Eric? http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html |
Professional Python IDEs? | sb: I use emacs for all my coding work (multiple languages) and am very satisfied with it. I have tried Komodo and a couple of my colleagues at work swear by it--it's a bit bloated for my taste, but probably I am kind of old fashioned...
(btw: same holds true for Eclipse--imho at least). It would probably be nice to kn... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | zhyder: I'd love to have help with our copy. More generally, our team lacks Marketing/BizDev expertise; perhaps you'd be interested in more than just editing our copy. Contact me at zhyder AT dabbleboard DOT com.The startup is at http://www.dabbleboard.com . We launched on HN 1.5 months ago. |
Yahoo spam filter, is it possible to get through? | nfriedly: Here's what I've observed. It doesn't directly apply to your problem, but may shed a little light:My company sends out a lot of emails to our users. Yahoo will occasionally, for no known reason, put our first email into spam. From then on, unless the user explicitly marks that email as not spam, yahoo bounces... |
Professional Python IDEs? | zain: I've found it very hard to find an IDE that works properly with Django.In particular, there seems to be no way debug code while using the Django dev server with its autoreload feature. This means that either you don't debug code, or you have to restart the Django dev server every time you make a change. Very anno... |
Networking in the valley | mat3: I'm thinking of using zipcar -http://www.zipcar.com to get around. Has anyone here used it? What do you think? |
Seeking a personal spam filter (an actual person) | Spyckie: Get a virtual secretary - you can ask them to do much more than just spam filtering.A bit on the expensive side, though. :)http://www.b2kcorp.com/basic_services.html
http://www.taskseveryday.com/Pricing.htmlOther ideas, if you're willing to allow other people to see your emails, why not just mechanical turk it... |
Professional Python IDEs? | martinr: I tried Komodo and PyDev, now I'm back to my favorite editor SciTe. Sufficient for me as I don't work on large Python projects. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | aneesh: i can't seem to find a simple solution on-lineEven in this day and age, the off-line solutions are better. Get a DVD or flash drive and send it by mail or FedEx. Even on a moderately fast connection 5 GB is no joke to download. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | jimm: www.pando.com |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | zacharye: Awesome - so glad to see enthusiastic responses! Let's give it a go then...As I said in the OP, I will be more than happy to assist startups with one piece of marcom at no charge. No I'm not a dealer handing out free fixes, I just don't have the time or independent wealth right now to be able to offer more as... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | dhouston: http://getdropbox.com(granted, we don't let people buy additional space yet, but ping beta@getdropbox.com and we can hook you up :P) |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | tk999: try: http://share.memeo.com1. install the desktop client2. drop all the pictures there3. invite everybody you know.everybody will sync all the photos (no limit). And it is FREE. |
Professional Python IDEs? | bdr: I'm addicted to WingIDE (Professional). The killer features for me are vim mode, fast context-sensitive autocomplete, cross-file go-to-definition, automatic syntax and indent checking, and "Source Assistant" which shows you the prototype+docstring of whatever function you're in the middle of calling. Altogether it... |
Professional Python IDEs? | enlightenMe: Wing - I found this very useful with good debugger, auto-complete, project management and it is scriptable in python. Can be a bit slow at times though - you need a good machine to run it.emacs - I ended up getting frustrated with the number of different options for python (ECB vs rope vs python.el vs pyt... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | jgamman: thanks for all the tips everyone. i'm glad that the answer wasn't obvious but still it seems strange to me that we're all connected yet for non-ITers to move anything large a usb stick and a postage stamp is still one of the top contenders!! |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | hashtable: Um, isn't this the same problem as DRM? (which we all know cannot be solved.) The fact is, if my computer can execute the code and make the request, so can I. The only thing you can do is to try to mitigate the risk or make it more difficult. |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | verbal: you should try out syncplicity. they do backup and syncing like dropbox, but you can sync any folder(s). you can also share what you've synced with other people. |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | e1ven: Unfortunately, there really isn't a way to do this-One of the fundamental rules in security training is never trust the client.Anything you can write, they can open. For the most part, it won't even be that hard. Don't waste time obfuscating it..If it's at all possible, time would be better spent redesigning the... |
What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot? | xenoterracide: I don't think anything... the algorithm that decides what's on the front page is currently just so so, and no one wants to improve it. |
Any hackers looking for a roommate? | alnayyir: I'd offer my space if I were in your area :(.
I'm in friggin' Ohio. |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | wmf: Newer versions of Flash Player and FMS include remote attestation aka SWF verification; AFAIK it hasn't been cracked yet (but it hasn't been reverse-engineered by Red5 either).http://livedocs.adobe.com/flashmediaserver/3.0/docs/03_confi... |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | ars: You're authenticating the client? Not the person? That's impossible to do. |
Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup? | alnayyir: As someone who is trying desperately to get back into school, do as brianr said.Stay in school, throw ideas at the wall, see what sticks, go from there.By all means though, try to finish your degree though.Even the greatest of minds can fail due to circumstance, when it comes to things like a start-up. |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | fatjonny: If you can trust the client by having them enter in a password, can't you then set up a system that uses the same idea as public-key cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography)? Once the user has logged in and authenticated with their password they generate their public and private key... |
Flex/Flash, Authenticating your .swf + decompiling | jm4: Hmm... The fact that you're so concerned about requests not hitting your web app without going through your Flex front end raises a red flag...Anyway, you can obscure the key into the code all you want. If it's a string value there's only one place it will ever be when the .swf is decompiled and that's in the cons... |
Networking in the valley | ScottWhigham: If you're looking for a place to stay, I love, love, love Dinah's Garden Hotel (although I don't know how close it is to where you want to be). It's actually one of my favorite hotels inside the contiguous: http://www.dinahshotel.com/ |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | qwerasdfzxcv: 1. install eMule (from emule-project.net) or aMule (for mac users)2. put pics in your shared folder (do not share or download ANY other files)3. go to shared files screen, select all, right click and select 'copy ED2K links' iirc.4. send links by email5. tell all the others to not share or download ANY ot... |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | bootload: "... No, I’m not offering to write copy for entire websites free of charge. What I am considering is to take a look at your homepage, marketing sheet, mass email, elevator pitch, or whatever other single item you need the most help on, and refine / polish it ..."Hey Zac this is an interesting idea but looking... |
Networking in the valley | skmurphy: You can meet other entrepreneurs at a Bootstrapper's Breakfasts http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/ there are three scheduled for August. We get a number of out of town visitors and you would be welcome. The other events you list all look very good, if I had to pick one from those you mentioned to make sur... |
how do i move 5 GB of photos? | symptic: It'll cost you a little bit of cash, but why not Amazon Web Services? |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | pyroman: I think this idea is great. This site has been pushing me towards quitting my comfortable job and going for some of the crazy ideas I've had. I just might be contacting you in the future. |
Professional Python IDEs? | sharjeel: I do my development on WinXP and most of my work is in Python/Django. I am using PyScripter and I am pretty satisfied with it.Previously I used Eclipse + PyDev but found it pretty slow and sometimes buggy. The debugger used to hang a lot even for simple python scripts. I switched to PyScripter and found it wa... |
Professional Python IDEs? | nailer: gedit, with the syntax highlighting, and the inbuilt terminal. The neat 'Oblivion' text highlighting theme is really readable. glipper for a stack based copy-paste buffer.Only for Linux alas. |
Would free copywriting assistance appeal to you? | Tichy: I must admit I would feel a bit weird about the foggy trade agreement. I get something for something unspecified in return, I would feel like I owe you "something". I prefer clarity - make a price, I pay, done. Otherwise the issue will remain lingering in the back of my mind, which is wasteful. |
Professional Python IDEs? | gtani: Wing and Komodo IDE are great if you get somebody to shell out the cash. I think everybody should have a main editor, that may or may not be vim or emacs, but also learn one of these, since they will always be available on whatever platform you're forced to use.http://praisecurseandrecurse.blogspot.com/2008/04/... |
Professional Python IDEs? | zackola: I'd check out the free version of WingWare first. It feels not so polished in terms of the GUI, but the features/integration with Python in general is pretty sweet. What are your complaints/missing features of some of the other things you've used? |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | brianlash: I can only answer one piece of your question, and it's just a suggestion: agree to allocate your shares over time. Set out a schedule (say, every quarter) that you'll use to decide who deserves what portion of the equity. Have guidelines around work expectations and performance goals, and include a 3rd par... |
ASK HN: Edit Audio Files using PHP | rrival: Probably want to pass that sort of request to a helper app on the command line. |
ASK HN: Edit Audio Files using PHP | tlrobinson: It's easy enough to execute any command line program from PHP:http://php.net/execSurely there's some command line tools to edit audio files. Maybe ffmpeg or mplayer? |
ASK HN: Edit Audio Files using PHP | jawngee: Look at mp3splt> sudo apt-get install mp3wrap mp3splt> man mp3splt |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | igurari: I am presently in a very similar situation. One possibile solution suggested to me by a lawyer friend would be to set up two companies: one jointly owned by you and your friend, and the other owned solely by yourself.Your company would own the code you produced to date and then license it out to the jointly ow... |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | ScottWhigham: What does he want? It's fine for you to come up with in your head all of this but does it match his expectations? He could be expecting 50/50 and want to walk when you show him something complicated.What have you done to protect yourself from him starting a competitor if the two of you can't come to terms... |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | webwright: Well, whatever split you take-- you'll have a vesting period (2-4 years). So, another way to look at it is this:After 4 years (or whatever the vesting period is), how much of a discrepancy will there be between the total value you've created and the total value he has created? How much discrepancy will the... |
Corporate structure for software development? | noodle: if you don't intend on selling your company, selling any part of your company, or getting funding from VCs, you sould form an LLC. its the easiest to deal with and its just a liability shield that will help protect personal assets form lawsuits, basically. it can be more if you treat it as more, but if all yo... |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | gunderson: If you don't plan to seek funding it doesn't matter what you do. If you do plan to seek funding, figure out a way to make it a 50/50 split if you are going to have a cofounder, any other arrangement will raise eyebrows and cost you time and legal fees when you try to get funding. |
Corporate structure for software development? | ScottWhigham: LLC works for me while talking to angels but, like noodle says, VC's will want the tried and true C corp.I incorporated in my home state of Texas after consulting with an atty. Don't just go for the hype or advice from these boards after this state or that state: spend the money now on an attorney to set... |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | Mystalic: FAR too complex - you already sound like you're demeaning someone who is going to have co-founder as part of his title. How's it going to be three to six months from now? Are you EVER going to see him as an equal? Because if you don't, the entire project will collapse.And by the way, you'd be shocked how m... |
Suggestions for ads on videos | JacobAldridge: I checked out videomailz.com briefly - from what I can gather, you allow users to record their own video message via a webcam and send that (with a storage facility being planned). Now you want to include ads.I can see two issues - not annoying the user with the type of ad you include, and determining co... |
Suggestions for ads on videos | ars: Just don't put the ad on top of the video. I hate that. It makes the video skip, and is irritating.JacobAldridge's suggestion of putting something seamlessly under the ad sounds like the best plan to me. |
Fair share deal between me and my cofounder | carl_: You're talking 65:35 of... zero right now. I'd say he gets that share if he sticks with it (meaning you stay in business) for three years.Additionally if you make this such a large pain point, then are they the correct co-founder to begin with? |
Suggestions for ads on videos | iamelgringo: IMO, broadcast TV for soccer games has had the right idea for advertising that can be co-opted for online video.Soccer game broadcasts usually play two 45 minute halves with very few breaks for commercials. So, they do a lot of banner advertising along the bottom of the screen. Sometimes it's a text craw... |
Suggestions for ads on videos | agentbleu: look into adsense for video |
Suggestions for ads on videos | jm3: check out VideoEgg.com |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | noodle: rule of thumb: sanitize your inputs.if you do this correctly and thoroughly, you're better off than like 70% of the web apps out there. doesn't take much time, just requires that you set up everything and remember to do it for everything from GET/POST to cookies to manipulating the DOM.edit to clarify, based o... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | jm4: I think the best advice is to take a common sense approach. Do the things you would normally do to protect against things like this and don't sweat it too much. As a startup, you're a pretty small target. I doubt you'd even register on anyone's radar.It seems like the motives for a lot of these attacks involve ext... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | modoc: Raise the barrier to entry as high as you reasonably can.If you aren't securing your servers, running a good firewall, logging a solid audit trail remotely, sanitizing your inputs, parameterizing your sql, encrypting your credit cards, and hashing your passwords, you're failing your customers. If you're doing a... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | Erwin: http://www.modsecurity.org/ can provide an additional layer of defense for your web apps. |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | swombat: One thing I'd say is to never underestimate the ingenuity of crackers. We had a system that had an email unsubscribe page, and under some circumstances, on a sub-screen of that, if you gave incorrect details, because it was the second step I had assumed that the user had already identified by entering their ow... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | rdj: That's just my game.First, you have to be purpose driven in your start-up. Everything you do has to have a purpose, security included. So, ask yourself what needs securing and why. Will an attack cripple your finances, reputation or maybe something else? Once you know what you are protecting and why, you can then ... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | simonw: A decent server-side programming environment will provide protection against SQL injection by default - if you're using a database library that requires you to glue strings together and escape arguments manually, stop using that and use something that does safe parameter replacement (you can write a function to... |
How do start-ups deal with (black hat) hackers? | SwellJoe: The vast majority of security issues we see (and we see a lot of them--systems management has been how I make my living for about ten years, likewise for my co-founder) are not related to web apps at all. They come from basic misunderstandings of the underlying system and the software that runs their service... |
Good finance books? | nostrademons: Have you checked out Investopedia?http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dilutedeps.aspThey hyperlink to all the related terms too. Probably the easiest way to get around financial terminology. |
Good finance books? | sebg: Here's what I did in the past when I encountered the same situation:1. Looked up what reports a company has to file. The key one I liked is 10-Q.10-Q: (from investopedia) A comprehensive report of a company's performance that must be submitted quarterly by all public companies to the Securities and Exchange Comm... |
How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker? | bootload: "... How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker? ..."Maybe this article (Great Hackers: Recognition) might help ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html |
How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker? | pmorici: Beware the Dunning-Kruger effect |
Best way(s) to teach someone else to program, person to person. | ScottWhigham: I have tons of classroom training experience and tons of video training experience. On those rare days when 1-2 people would show up for training, I found myself in that situation and it's tough for the trainer. 1v1 - what I would suggest is that follow a timeline. What can happen is that the trainee can ... |
How do you know if you're becoming a better hacker? | ScottWhigham: This strikes me as just a weird question; one of those, "What kind of person asks that question?" type of questions (and I mean no offense by that lol).It's like asking, "Am I pretty/handsome?" Well, do people tell you that you are? Do you notice people that you think are pretty/handsome staring at you? I... |
Best way(s) to teach someone else to program, person to person. | raquo: I was tought PHP that way (I only used to program in Delphi before a bit). Initially, I read the basic parts of the PHP manual (about syntax, etc), then we and my friend (a PHP master) sat for about 5 hours and wrote code that did a lot of different stuff - cycles, regexps, reading files, basic XML parsing, etc.... |
What books can I use to help teach my girlfriend Lisp? | raju: There are some good beginner books on Lisp, and there have been several discussions before. Two books come to my mind, PCL and "Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation", both for the Lisp beginner. I have read most of PCL and really liked it. I have just begun to read Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computati... |
Best way(s) to teach someone else to program, person to person. | aasarava: I've done this a few times (C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, etc.) and it seems to work best when you treat it as if you're teaching someone to drive a car: Both of you are sitting side by side in front of the same computer, with the trainee driving.First, I like to show the person some feature in the program or Web site... |
What books can I use to help teach my girlfriend Lisp? | vikram: SICP is a good introduction book. It is fairly deep too. The goal of little lisper is to make you understand recursion. If she gets that then she can get into SICP. |
Propagating configuration changes to multiple servers | Tichy: Maybe puppet and capistrano are for that kind of thing? Haven't tried it myself yet. |
Propagating configuration changes to multiple servers | makecheck: I believe cfengine is used for this where I work (http://www.gnu.org/software/cfengine/). |
Anyone going to Facebook f8 today? | lyime: people who are not can watch the stream here http://www.visualwebcaster.com/Facebook/50038/reg.html |
Hackers on Poetry | brk: Do you like use warnings and strict?I do not like use warnings and strict.Do you like them here or there?I do not like them here or there?I do not like them anywhere.I do not like use warnings and strict.I will not obey your good coding practice edict.Could you, would you in your code?Would you, could you in your ... |
Hackers on Poetry | mellowgeek: http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/howl.txt |
Hackers on Poetry | bayareaguy: Aristotle, by Billy Collins
http://members.cox.net/mppowers1/aristotle.html |
Hackers on Poetry | unalone: Why would you memorize poetry? Just curious.One of my favorites: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/57.html |
Hackers on Poetry | sharp: True ease of writing comes from art, not chance;
As he moves best who learns the steps of dance;
'Tis not enough no harshness cause offence;
The sound must seem an echo of the sense.
Alexander Pope, early hacker & investor (in the south sea bubble) |
Are Frameworks the Way to Go? | parenthesis: If you like Python, you might want to consider web.py too:
http://webpy.org/ |
Are Frameworks the Way to Go? | mechanical_fish: It all depends on what you're trying to build.If your application fits well into (e.g.) Drupal or Wordpress it might not make sense to reinvent those wheels.If you're mostly trying to educate yourself Ruby or Python will be great. Building tiny sites or individual modules without a framework is educati... |
Are Frameworks the Way to Go? | edw519: You answered your own question when you said, "both languages are new to me".Then you should not be using a framework just yet.Sure, a framework may speed your app along, but at what cost? At this point, you should be more concerned with getting a solid grounding in your technology of choice. That means codin... |
Are Frameworks the Way to Go? | richcollins: In my opinion, you should only use a framework if you have a deep understanding of how it will benefit the specific problem you are trying to solve.Good frameworks have a sweet spot. If you are outside of the sweet spot, then you will probably be better served writing code specific to your application. W... |
Is credit necessary and how/where do you bank? | amberb617: Adolescents tend to make tons of mistakes when it comes to credit and taking out loans - I say that you should take it as it comes and only acquire one if it is of absolute need.For now, just spend the little money you have. It makes life simpler and you don't have to worry about drowning in debt. |
Is credit necessary and how/where do you bank? | ericwaller: Good credit is important for everyone, but especially so for entrepreneurs.I didn't realize this until my application for Web Payments Pro (on behalf of a newly formed corporation) was rejected by Paypal. Since the corporation had no credit yet, my credit had to be approved. As far as the credit reporting a... |
Is credit necessary and how/where do you bank? | noodle: credit is necessary if you have plans to ever get anything with a loan, such as a car or house or, as you say, entrepreneurial purposes. people won't give you money if you don't have a history of being responsible enough to pay it off. its also good to have a line of credit for emergencies.get a card, use it ... |
Is credit necessary and how/where do you bank? | brk: In your case being that you don't want to overspend, this is more about convenience than credit, with the side benefit that you will build up a good credit score just by acting naturally.I put almost all my charges on my credit card. From a $1.50 bottle of soda to a $100 tank of gas. The bill of course gets paid... |
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