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Just me, or are there more [dead] submissions on Hacker News lately? | noodle: the more popular the community gets, the more spam and non-related stuff gets submitted.turn off showdead in your profile. |
Just me, or are there more [dead] submissions on Hacker News lately? | SwellJoe: In addition to the big increase in spam and off-topic stuff lately, usually from accounts that just signed up to spam us, dupes have become a lot more common from old-timers. Not sure why that is. The volume of stuff making it to the front page is still low enough for it to be easy to check the past three d... |
Just me, or are there more [dead] submissions on Hacker News lately? | dkokelley: I've noticed this too, for what seems like the past 2 months or so. This is just a passive observation, though. Most [dead] links seem to be from users who are either brand new or who have 1 karma point - basically bots, it seems. |
Simple service to save my stuff? | bravura: Rent a webhosting account for $8/mo. Create a git or mercurial repository. Clone.For bonus points, install ikiwiki, which takes a repository of markdown files and publishes it as a wiki. It's a wiki compiler. And if you edit the wiki, it updates your repository.For extra bonus points, automatically infer links... |
Review my startup - findAlong.com | usaif: Thanks for all the feedback folks! Please install the extension and try it out with your team/co-workers. Will love to get feedback on the extension.Thanks,
-Umar |
Which versioning system to learn on? | dfranke: Subversion is the lowest common denominator and you'll end up using it sooner or later. You might as well learn it even if you expect to move to a DVCS later on. |
Which versioning system to learn on? | gexla: Github has emerged as such a great and widely used tool that I would learn Git just for that resource. Besides Git, the next versioning system you will most likely see is Subversion.After learning Git, Subversion will look and feel very familiar because they share many of the same commands. Subversion also has... |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | mvardany: check also http://www.monitis.com which is not free but has very cheap prices for the offered stuff |
Which versioning system to learn on? | pogos: Start with mercurial.http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/ |
legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? | mingyeow: Hey bro, i am singaporean, and I have a bay area startup. My co-founder has a green card. I started a company,and I am working here on a temp work visa. Not ideal, but works. let me know if you want more details |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | danohuiginn: http://uptime.openacs.org/uptime/[Can't remember where I discovered this, possibly through HN. I've been using it for a while and it works well, although my needs are pretty basic] |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | moomerman: I have a project I've been working on for a while, it's in public beta and should fit your requirements as is. http://pingy.moocode.com/ |
Which versioning system to learn on? | Ravir: RCS: http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/ |
How old were you when you got your first computer? | wlievens: 7 or something. An Atari ST. |
Which versioning system to learn on? | stonemetal: poke around the web say github or bitbucket and find a place that will give you a small free private repo and use what they offer to test the waters. |
Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? | jmcdonald: Try : http://www.websitehawk.com3 free monitors plus a pagerank check. |
Which versioning system to learn on? | randomtask: If you're looking for a really easy to follow guide to get everything installed quickly then try http://www.geocities.com/arhuaco/doc/subversion/apache-subve...Subversion also has a really nice Windows client in TortoiseSVN if that's any use to you. |
Review my app -- Slow Poke | kbrower: It would be nice if we could review this for free |
Review my app -- Slow Poke | brown9: Could you provide any details on like, what it does, that doesn't requiring opening iTunes? |
Review my app -- Slow Poke | pclark: I have no idea what it is even after reading your iTunes page.and don't ask us to review paid apps, jeez. |
Review my app -- Slow Poke | joshsharp: Right, so it appears to be an app where you're timed on how long it takes you to press a button twice (start and then stop). Once you've been given a time the screen displays a humorous story about how slow you are ("Once it took you so long to get out of bed that it was bedtime again").I know joke apps iFar... |
Best way to set up family webapp? | pclark: ning..? |
Best way to set up family webapp? | riklomas: Would something like Ning.com be the kind of thing you're looking for?Maybe, Posterous would be better, most people "get" email so it wouldn't be a problem for your family to post to and you can set up email subscriptions for the latest posts |
Best way to set up family webapp? | piers: Or you could use BuddyPress - http://buddypress.org/ |
Best way to set up family webapp? | Network_Punk: http://ramamia.com/ Was very good when I tried it, and I think it may provide most of what you are looking for. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | noodle: if you know php already, codeigniter, imo.its the lightest-weight (edit: popular) framework and least restrictive. very bare-bones by default. plus, the docs are great.if you feel like subsequently moving to another php framework from there, the principles are very similar and the transition would be easy. |
Best way to set up family webapp? | abyssknight: I had to do this once, and I can't agree more. Don't try to roll your own, and don't try to roll out community software like phpnuke, mambo or joomla. Most of the time, at least with my family, if it takes more than one depth into a menu its too complicated. Email is something everyone can do, and it looks... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | coglethorpe: "I know php/python pretty well."If you know Python, Django is rather well reviewed and you can leverage your current knowledge.I've started with Ruby on Rails in spite of almost no Ruby expernience. I've found that the learning curve for the language was low (I've used PHP/Python/Java before) and the fram... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | SteveC: Your problem was that you gave after a couple of days. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | scott_s: Don't give up after a few days. It'll make a world of difference.If you choose a framework in a language you're not familiar with, spend time learning the language first, then learn the framework. Yes, it'll take some time, but that's what it takes to really learn something. |
Review my startup - UsabilityTest.com | pclark: awesome, pity its windows only... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | ErrantX: KohanaPHP hands down.They took codeigniter and pared it down to the bare essentials then rebuilt it from scratch.It's easy to use, has a wealth of libraries (though not too many to confuse the issue) to build stuff with and is extremely fast.As an example of how well it is written I recently built an entire ho... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | hrabago: Frameworks can be difficult to learn if they are designed differently from the one you've worked with before. I've been in your position where I was in a team using our own homegrown framework and was switching to a more widely accepted one. What we ended up using would not be considered an easy to use framew... |
Which versioning system to learn on? | _pius: Git.http://github.com/guides/home |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | GiraffeNecktie: If the main criteria is only "easy", go with Drupal. Ok it's not a framework in the sense that Rails and CakePHP are frameworks, but the modular architecture allows you to snap together some pretty amazing functionality. Bonus for you in that it's written in PHP. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | theschnaz: I know php pretty well, I wrote an entire happy hour site with it. Which framework is better/easier to learn cakephp, KohanaPHP or RoR. I hear so many good things about RoR, but I've never used Ruby. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | csomar: I have no idea but most of the guys i talked with recommanded "Code Igniter" and said it's very good, you may give it a look |
Review my website | marcusbooster: The hot-or-not craze at least had the decency to allow you to opt-in for judgment. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | walesmd: CodeIgniter, but I'm biased. :D |
Review my website | si2: I like the concept just because it is built around twitter. I don't tweet myself, but I feel like it adds something to the twitter experience. There was an article talking about how twitter only has a 25% retention rate in their second month and sites like this might help that number get better. |
Review my website | markessien: This has a major flaw. Like a massive flaw. There are way too many twitter accounts for the votes to be more than 1-2 per account - meaning your site would not do what it does.The site is nicely designed, many people like playing the game, but without reducing the number of twitter accounts, it's going to b... |
Review my website | csomar: The profiles are choosen randomly, this is hard that I know one of them, won't it better that the user enter a profile name and then rate it.Or better idea, display popular profiles |
Best way to set up family webapp? | obxerve: Posterous is great for this because it handles photos and videos simply and effectively - a favorite for families. You cannot customise the look yet though. It's much simpler than Ning so non net savvy users have less chance to get lost. Good luck. |
Cheapest way to do 2,000 concurrent rtmp video streams? | forcer: I hope I will be facing the same problem soon with UsabilityTest.com :) ! I just started by using Wowzy , have been playing with Red5 2 years ago which was complicated to get it running - now I guess when they are reaching RC it should be good. As for hosting - I only know good UK hosting providers. |
Which versioning system to learn on? | tertius: So I'm told to start with the following:- Subversion
- RCS
- CVS
- Git
- Subversion
- Mercurial
- GitI'm seeing subversion as the most upvoted, I'll give that a go (starting Wednesday so there's still time to change). |
Review my website | wastedbrains: There have been to many things that try to just take hot or not and bring it to a new network. This might be a short lived fad, but I think people that really enjoyed this would end up using something like hotornot in the long run. I could be wrong but I am not sure of the staying power of the site.I also... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | kez: I was quite a keen CakePHP user until it dawned on me how slow and clunky it seemed to be.Have since switched to Ramaze (http://www.ramaze.net) - a light, modular Ruby framework. Bearing in mind I knew zero Ruby at the time, I have never looked back. Definitely worth a look. (irc.ramaze.net/ramaze offers good su... |
Review my website | exupery: Personally, this disgusts me.We should express admiration for people who earn it, by doing admirable things and being admirable people. Being "hot" is not a valid criterion for judging people.And, no, it's not "just fun." I don't see how anyone could enjoy participating in this kind of misjustice. |
Review my website | Dancrew32: Is there a reason you don't link to the profiles of the top 10? It is quite difficult to determine if someone is hot based on a ~24x24px icon. |
Review my website | sachinag: You know, I don't get the hate here. 1) These are public profile pictures. Anyone can see them anyway. 2) There's no list of "not" - that's the harsh part. Yeah, people might be a little disappointed that they're not hot, but no one is being called out for being unattractive.I love that I can start pickin... |
Review my website | colinplamondon: LOVE the idea, but apparently Twitterers are too damn ugly for this to work- Hot Or Not worked because every few people someone actually hot would come on. Went three pages before marking someone... pimply middle aged geeks kinda ruin the concept. |
Best way to set up family webapp? | KevinKaske: http://famspam.com/ |
Review my website | thorax: To be fair, I recommend taking the "doomed" comments here with a grain of salt-- HN readers aren't likely to be the sort to enjoy a service like this, so there could be a lot more pessimism than you'd see in wider audiences.In general (and I agree with them) HN users seem to look down on superficiality more tha... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | stcredzero: The one you manage to learn first because you really-really like it. Then, all others that come along are somehow worse. You will then feel compelled to engage in religious debates over this. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | charlesju: What I have found helpful, coming from someone that now uses RoR but failed to learn it the first time around, is that you need a project in place that you are going to build using the new framework. Then you need to tell all your friends and family that you're going to launch a new web app in X amount of da... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | asnyder: I would have to say NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com), but then again, I'm somewhat biased. Check it out for yourself, and see what you think. |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | abyssknight: There is no silver bullet. Blood, sweat and tears is what you need. I played with Django one night and then tried to repeat what I did the next day, but unguided. I failed, and gave up. I started playing with Rails and the same happened, but this time I snagged more training material and hit the books agai... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | vamsee: I'm surprised that nobody suggested Web.py (http://webpy.org/) by Aaron Swartz. Since you're comfortable with Python, that's the best starting point, I guess. If you're ready to give Ruby on more shot, try Sinatra or Ramaze. Both excellent light-weight frameworks. |
can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? | mitechka: You should have thought about this before buying an over-hyped DRM-riddled gadget. This is EXACTLY why DRM schemes are BAD. |
Review my website | jmarshall: The speed of grabbing the set of 'random' profile pictures needs to be faster. I think many users will get tired of waiting over and over and eventually leave. |
Review my startup - UsabilityTest.com | kierank: I tried it out but had problems with entering information in the form. Every time I pressed enter it created a new text box that was difficult to deal with. (IE8 Windows XP) |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | apinstein: Use my php framework, of course ;)http://phocoa.comIt is modeled after Cocoa development (Mac/iPhone apps).If you already know Cocoa, that makes it very easy to learn since the architecture and concepts are all the same.OTOH, if you don't know Cocoa, then there's a learning curve. In that respect, I suggest ... |
Cheapest way to do 2,000 concurrent rtmp video streams? | ieatpaste: you might want to give these guys a call:http://www.influxis.com/they do FMS hosting |
How do you design your web pages? | dualogy: Start ugly, refine until you love it. |
How do you design your web pages? | mixmax: I have a friend who is a designer. I help him with some basic code for clients (newsletters, wordpress installation, etc.) and he does design stuff for me. |
How do you design your web pages? | _pius: Here are two things have been useful for me:1. Looking at a bunch of nicely designed sites and inspecting the background images and source code so that I can see conceptually how effects are achieved.2. Using a CSS framework that abstracts many browser-specific idiosyncrasies away. |
How do you design your web pages? | noodle: whats wrong with emulation?even in building a slick, new, innovative startup, you're rarely striking out into purely uncharted, untouched territory. (for example, if you use a framework, a big chunk of your code will look exactly the same as a lot of others out there). odds are you're just taking solutions an... |
How do you design your web pages? | staunch: An important thing is to try multiple radically different ideas. Oftentimes I'll feel like a design is okay, then try a new one and realize how much I would have regretted staying with the old one. So now I always try to create at least 3-4 different layouts/designs before I settle on using one. |
How do you design your web pages? | noblethrasher: Keep emulating but start studying design principles as well (color theory, composition, typography, UI fundementals, etc.). That way you'll be able to identify the elements in the design and why they work. |
How do you design your web pages? | mahmud: I am budgeting to hire a designer, having accepted that I, for once, am not good at something. Graphic design traumatizes me: I have photoshop, gimp, paint.net and inkscape. It will take an act of God to help me figure any of it out. |
How do you design your web pages? | felideon: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." -- Picasso (attributed to) |
How do you design your web pages? | raquo: I routinely take screenshots of design elements that I like on the web and when brainstorming on some design work I have to do I first check out my small collection. |
Listing customer logo on "Who uses this site" page | ErrantX: Put it in your terms and conditions / terms of use. A lot of places will do that.Also, most companies have no problem with logo usage - that said sending them a quick email cant hurt... |
How do you design your web pages? | tokenadult: I'm amazed that all answers posted as I post this don't refer to one of pg's key ideas about making a successful start-up:"4. Understand your users."http://paulgraham.com/13sentences.htmlI would think that the very most important thing to do in designing a website is to build in usability and user-friendly ... |
Listing customer logo on "Who uses this site" page | mg1313: Once I used a logo of a auto company on my site. I had the surprise to be told to take it down...otherwise face a lawsuit. |
How do you design your web pages? | nailer: * Draw it on paper* Photoshop* Send it to the PSD2XHTML guys* Add DJango template tags |
Review my website | wushupork: I've just added the opt out feature as a quick fix to those who object to this superficial websitehttp://www.hottweeters.com/opt-out/ |
How do you design your web pages? | mynne: Firstly, read about design theory. Designers would love to convince you that what they do is magic, but if you read or even browse through books like "The Art of Color" by Johannes Itten or "The Elements of Typographic Style" you'll have a better understanding for the mechanics of establishing a visual style/rh... |
Review our startup, Browseology | kineticac: It's a preview launch right now, and we have a ton of features that we're going to release soon, but we're looking out for your feedback to validate our ideas and give us suggestions! |
How do you design your web pages? | JeremyChase: OP here.. Thank you to everyone for the feedback. |
How do you design your web pages? | si2: Although this is the more hands off approach, if you have a mac, get familiar with RapidWeaver. I actually started learning web design with RapidWeaver and it was great. Since then I moved onto writing my own code and I discovered that using custom code inline with RapidWeaver is a great approach. Rather than rip ... |
How do you design your web pages? | petercooper: I have a library of over 1000 Web page screenshots in iPhoto (am transitioning to LittleSnapper though) that I use as an inspiration/swipe file. That said, I've often found just "making it up as I go along" to have the best ultimate results. I tend to throw down something really bare and then iteratively s... |
How do you design your web pages? | falldowngoboom: You might like the more rational grid approach to web design. Once you familiarize yourself with it, you'll start seeing it everywhere... A good place to start is: http://960.gs/ |
How do you design your web pages? | huhtenberg: What works for me is this:(a) Routinely keep an eye open for nice website designs. If I see something I like, I take a screenshot and put a little note on it as not to forget what exactly I liked. So far I have about 70 shots, and this covers a lot of ground.(b) When sitting down to design the page/site, I'... |
What's the most easy-to-learn framework? | ucdaz: You should also check out http://qcu.be/
It has a very cool auto-gen function |
Review our startup, Browseology | swombat: Interesting idea, but... if I'm a new user arriving there, why should I start using it instead of, say, amazon? You need to make sure there's a good reason for me to use it even if I don't have any friends on the system, or else it will be very hard to get those first users. |
Is this the end of geek? | buugs: Out goes the geek and in comes the hacker. |
Review our startup, Browseology | davidbnewquist: I like your "big elephant leads little elephant" logo: it's inviting and representative of your biz. |
Review our startup, Browseology | davidbnewquist: If I want to buy a specific new camcorder, can I sign up as an expert and take my own recommendation?:) |
Review our startup, Browseology | Angostura: OK, I've given it my usual one minute test...1. Love the concept, the idea of someone hand holding me through (say) buying an LCD TV is interesting.2. The 1 2 3 Workflow failed the first time I tried it, since apparently there were no registered experts for the particular item I searched for. However instead... |
review Feedspike | babyshake: The next logical step would be to show a timeline of how sources pick up a stories, so you could determine who is getting the best scoops. |
Best way to set up family webapp? | hariis: This web app sounds relevant
http://www.famundo.com/I haven't used it. |
Is this the end of geek? | systemtrigger: I have never been comfortable advertising myself as a geek because to me there's no way to distinguish oneself using that word without coming across as a wannabe or fanboy. You don't crown yourself smart. When somebody today tells me they're a geek my private reaction is "what specifically are you a geek... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | evgen: You need to take Star Trek and the reality it posits within the context of its time. Star Trek was initially pitched as "Wagon Train to the stars"; think back to the westerns of the 50s/60s and you will see a lot of similarities in narrative structure as well as the idea of roving "law enforcement" wandering ar... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | MichaelApproved: We're still trying to get back to the moon, haven't built a nuclear power plant in decades (US) and our bodies fall apart in zero G.I doubt we'll be touring other planets in even the next 100 years. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | byrneseyeview: The future is weird. Asking how many discoveries away from reaching Star Trek is like asking how many Ivy League degrees you need before you turn into Obama.The whole space opera thing is fairly unlikely. It's more likely that the world we'll be able to simulate in our own solar system will be much more ... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | troystribling: Space exploration as portrayed in "Accelerando" by Charles Stross, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_(novel), seems far more practical than portrayed in Star Trek. In Accelerando interstellar spaceships are the size of beer cans and full of electronics. |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | stcredzero: We already have all of the technology we need for a spacefaring society, and probably have had it for some decades. Our economy is stuck in a local maximum, where there is no short-term economic benefit to going there.Read Zubrin's _Entering Space_ for details.http://www.amazon.com/Entering-Space-Creating-... |
Stark Trek - How far are we? | kqr2: I think the main problem with the Star Trek scenario is "faster than light travel". Of course, traveling faster than light really isn't possible however most of the alternate mechanisms proposed, e.g. worm holes, etc. don't seem that feasible either.I think more realistic is that man gets a toehold on space by b... |
Review my website | levtodd: To the guy who created, kind of lame that it looks deceptively like Twitter. Otherwise, whatever. Are you really looking for a "review", it seems like you know what you want to do. It works nicely, though.To all the picture complainers, complain to Twitter. |
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