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Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | dhimes: I really like the site layout and colors. One thing: your css relies on Verdana; you should have a backup set of fonts, the last in the series being sans serif (something like font-family:Verdana,Arial,Luxi Sans,sans-serif;).Cambria is pretty and popular now (vista font), but it is broke on my fedora 10 box. ... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | HeyLaughingBoy: You should look into what happened with GovWorks.com and try to avoid their mistakes. Research should be easy: there was even a movie made about them. |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | keefe: There's nothing hugely interesting posted yet, but SDForum http://www.sdforum.com/ often has interesting events with lots of networking opportunities. One big advantage is that many conferences are here - for example Google I/O just one week before you arrive, which is something to keep in mind if you have not b... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | halo: This reminds me of a UK site called WriteToThem.com (http://www.writetothem.com), formerly FaxYourMP.com, which provides an interface to contact your local MP automatically, either via e-mail or fax.The people behind it later went on to form mySociety (http://www.mysociety.org/projects/) and sites such as TheyWor... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | beaker: I installed the plugin for wordpress, but it seems like the links it generates are redirecting incorrectly. Try
http://www.tellmypolitician.com/search/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.g... - for me it redirects to http://tellmypolitician.comsearch/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | jgrahamc: There's quite a bit of Silicon Valley in my book: The Geek Atlas. http://oreilly.twi.bz/a |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | sundarurfriend: (Mostly reviewing the site design here, because that concerned me the most.)* What resolution are you designing for? I'm at a measly 1024X768 and still there's a _lot_ of screen real estate wasted.* The logo at the top is quite dull - and the 'Be Heard' is near invisible. I think reading that tag line m... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | taylor: What do you think of www.govit.com/email_congressA little bit nicer flow. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | nate: Just something quick we (the guys at Inkling: inklingmarkets.com) whipped up. I absolutely love the 37better projects and explorations of making a design better. Here was a good one I saw today: http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/highrise.htmlWe thought we could use a site to help foster more of these redesigns and co... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | ajju: There are a lot of interesting places to visit in the valley but I am not sure you'll be able to get a snapshot of the valley advantage in a few days. The valley advantage is more about the connections you build in the course of living and working there.If you attend popular geek events though, you might get a go... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | kineticac: plan the trip around big events, such as Google I/O. I'm not entirely sure you'll be able to just come here and meet people on the streets and get the most out of it. I feel the advantage is being able to meet with people casually because you're all local, without needing to go through the formalities of a... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | aristus: SF has a good community of geeks. DoloresLabs and NoiseBridge are at 83 Weise, near 16th street and Mission. And I host an open hacker house every Wednesday from 8am to 6pm: archivd.com/open-hacker-houseBut I would not try to schedule in too much if you only have a few days. Hang loose and see what comes up. |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | herdrick: Time the trip to go to SHDH. |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | noodle: stop helping her. i can guarantee she won't develop that inquisitive trait or break the endless cycle of seeking your help if you continue to help her when she can't easily find an answer to a problem. |
User Satisfaction Services | ScottWhigham: I don't understand how those two sites = happy website customers. Oh I know what those sites are and do but I don't see how it makes for a better experience for users. No need to try to make me understand either; I just don't happen to believe that those sites make my site better. |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | ScottWhigham: What about pointing her in the direction on an online forum that she could post and get questions answered? ExpertS-exchange and StackOverflow come to mind. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | Zak: Potentially cool site, but I'd really like to see the voting handled on the site and the twitter integration optional. I dislike twitter and, for the moment refuse to use it on principle. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | twohey: I'm probably being unfair, but I want to "feel" the proposed interaction and the single picture + text does not do it for me. I know that people are proposing and not implementing a new interface but, to me, web interfaces hinge a lot on interactions.Maybe if there was some way to storyboard an interaction, I'm... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | lleger: She's not a real engineer if she doesn't fail by herself. Of course, by fail I really mean try and try and eventually get it right. What should you do? Tell her to quit engineering. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | sachinag: The Twitter message it throws off when you click "Tweet my vote" is completely non-human readable to someone not familiar with the site. It almost looks like spam. You have room to make it more verbose, which could help with virality.Also, since you're in Chicago, why the hell don't we ever see you guys out... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | Zarathu: Don't give her the answer, but it's okay to help her train of thought get to the right answer.Give her debugging skills. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | avinashv: Polluting my Twitter feed with the votes from this is a total dealbreaker for me. Of everyone that follows me, only a small group of people read HN and will have heard of this. The rest of them are going to see some convoluted hashtags.Is that your way of marketing this? It's not a bad idea in principle, b... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | synnik: I wouldn't be quite as harsh as people have recommended...For one thing, getting an education includes learning how to solve your own problems. Your explanations of your solutions may help her gain that knowledge. Assuming that because someone is not a problem solver in their 2nd semester, that they never will ... |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | systems: okay, I don't know if I am alone in this, but whenever I see someone mention 37signal I think "Wannabe Fanboy Ruby-extremist" which is not good!As for the design, its okay, but the site 'raison d'etre' is not obvious thought, you also could have used a better logo! or a logo! |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | Allocator2008: Just say, "Well, how would YOU approach this?" to gauge where she is at. So rather than solve it for her every time, have her give it a stab first. Let her be totally wrong, but at least have her try. Then correct her approach and set her on the right path. Then if she really is stuck after making an hon... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | stonemetal: Help with out doing it for her. Ask her to teach it to you. You would be surprised how well people do at teaching something they "don't understand", and usually it provides that ah ha moment they need to get it. Also it will help point you in the direction of the bit she is missing. She needs to underst... |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | wooster: The advantage the Valley has isn't so much a collection of discrete items, it's more of a gestalt.I'm a believer in geography influencing thought, so let's start there. The weather is fantastic and there are plenty of awesome things to do all year. Since it'll be summer, try driving up Page Mill and one way or... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | sachmanb: Number of times I have contacted my politician since becoming of voting age: 4Number of times I felt it did anything: 0Number of times that I received a response which gave me the impression that at most, i gave them additional marketing information - how many people disagree with what's going on: 4The last l... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | HeyLaughingBoy: Since she's your sister, I'm fairly sure you've known each other for a while!How did you handle it in the past? This is almost certainly not new behavior. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | trickjarrett: I think you also need to make it usable for people to ask for help redesigning a site. That's what I expected from the title 'User Interface Throwdowns' - I don't know how much use it would get. |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | swolchok: I TAed the second programming class (EECS 280) at UMich for 5 semesters. The canonical reply to "is this code right?" or "my code doesn't work" is "how have you tested it?" or "how do you know it doesn't work?", to be sure that the students are not using the TA as an oracle for correctness. (This causes bad r... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | adunsmoor: If I think about the pain points from the perspective of the person supporting whatever issue they are writing about a few ideas spring to mind.If you could take your app one step further and actually connect the reader to their representative that would be great! Getting people to follow through is the to... |
Hacking Learning Chinese | jdowdell: Yes, there are frequency lists. This is the most useful, easiest-to-carry one I've found so far:
http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-English-Frequency-Dictionary-M...Access to the official vocabulary classifications is through the HSK program:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/105441.htmBut there are words, ... |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | rms: Tell her to ask the professor or TA during office hours. |
Should I create an API for iTunes apps? | jdg: You've posted this, what, 3 times now?You may be asking the wrong crowd. Try e-mailing some of the app review sites etc. to see what they use currently and how it can be improved. |
Should I create an API for iTunes apps? | tptacek: You've worded this wrong. You meant to say, "Review my app: an API for iTunes". "Ask HN" only works when it's something HN people care about on its own merits. |
Anyone know what to do with a failed external hard drive? | noodle: if spinrite can't fix it, you'll probably have to spend a fortune to get the data off of it. |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | FictiveCameron: We did something that would probably go well with your site for Evernote. Probably could stand a once over from a talented visual designer, but overall we're happy with the UX choices.http://fictivekin.com/Evernote_Redesign_A_case_study_in_UX |
Anyone know what to do with a failed external hard drive? | SwellJoe: but, inexplicably, they charge upwards of a thousand dollars for a seemingly basic serviceIf it were actually inexplicable, someone would have started a business to do it for much less. The fact that no one has (or has, but failed to stay in business) indicates that it's probably an expensive and high risk b... |
Anyone know what to do with a failed external hard drive? | shubhamharnal: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/07/weekend_project_har... |
Free or cheap Flight Data? | evilneanderthal: I know for Philly =]
http://www.phl.org/cgi-bin/fidsarrival.pl |
Free or cheap Flight Data? | run4yourlives: Most airlines will do this for you. Check the website in question for details. |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | lleger: This is really cool. I just used it on my site. |
Should I create an API for iTunes apps? | georgemandis: Why not just release it as an open-source project? |
Free or cheap Flight Data? | joezydeco: How about just googling it?"ua 941" |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | rishi: pretty cool nate - is there anyway you can hook up mechanical turk to it and get some A|B testing out of it? or is that not the point? |
Free or cheap Flight Data? | tocomment: well the idea is that the tool would be checking the updated flight status every few minutes while you're on the plane. so I need a data feed, not just the ability to look it up once. |
Should I create an API for iTunes apps? | nolanbrown23: My company has created a free App Store API that we'll be releasing to the general public when we launch our mobile analytics in early June. If anyone is interested, you can find my company's URL in my profile and add your email to be notified when we launch. |
Do you relate to the masses? | evilneanderthal: "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!"I guess there's ONE thing in there I can relate to. |
Do you relate to the masses? | philwelch: Even worse, this is a topseller list of people who still read books.Which is probably a minority of the US population nowadays. |
Do you relate to the masses? | silentbicycle: The list is an aggregate, and most people probably would only have an interest in a couple of those. It's probably skewed towards new books, too; the sales for things like fad diet books probably drop off quite quickly. Long-term sales might be more interesting, as well. (Speaking as somebody who worked ... |
Free or cheap Flight Data? | pmikal: Free and cheap, I don't know... but I would build it using Flightaware.http://flightaware.com/ |
Please review our web app - User Interface Throwdowns | nfriedly: > Who doesn't like ninjas AND robots? :)Cowboys. |
Anyone know what to do with a failed external hard drive? | olefoo: You could try taking it out of it's housing and using another housing. But that is only worth trying if it's a failure of the electronics, not of the drive itself.Since you mention downthreaed that's it's making click+grind noises... It sounds like it's dead.Freezing a drive of any vintage more recent than Y2k ... |
What do we do when our leaders are corrupt? | johnnybgoode: What do you do? You wonder if you really need them in the first place. |
The Essential Silicon Valley? | rg: The "classic SV" along the south-western corner of the bay (Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park) dates from the old days (the '60s to the late '80s). Back then, all the VCs lived up north in urban San Francisco, and all the startup employees lived in auto-oriented suburbs down there.Eventual... |
Please review our web app - TellMyPolitician.com | Tangurena: A recommendation: consider state legislators as well. Perhaps in your next revision?I only saw the 2 senators and 1 representative in DC. I didn't see any of my congresscritters in Denver (I live in Colorado). |
What do we do when our leaders are corrupt? | noonespecial: Accept that for any value of political power y, there will be some corruption x.Solve for the minimum of x. Don't get fooled by local minimums. |
Do you relate to the masses? | davidbnewquist: 5 out of the the top 25 are self-help books on the topic of eating less.4 of those 5 are targeted to women, 2 have the word 'girl' in the title.3 of those 5 occupy spots in the top 4. |
Do you relate to the masses? | davidbnewquist: 7 of the top 25 are about unhumans: zombies, vampires or demi-gods. |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | vaksel: they are probably doing simple stuff like checking the type of words they used. Like if twit has "xoxoxo" then its a female or they check the user's friends and look for references to the user in their twits. i.e. "vijayr posted that [he] created a new thread on hackernews" |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | MichaelApproved: My first step would be with first names. Michael = Boy and Amy = Girl. You'd be able to cover most of the users like this.Look for He/She in messages directed @User. |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | MichaelApproved: Why does "yet another twitter app" make you :( |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | patio11: I don't know about Twitter, but determining gender (on average) from English language text is pretty much a solved problem in natural language processing.http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.htmlSee this paper:http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final....Sidenote: this was an epic win fo... |
Why can't you "put" files through ssh? | brk: Why not use scp?Although, I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to accomplish. |
Why can't you "put" files through ssh? | tumult: You can do SCP. There are also various shell scripts that actually let you pipe data over. |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | tlrobinson: Ugh I logged in through OAuth and it automatically made me follow their Twitter account. There should have more fine-grained control over what applications can do without asking/telling me. |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | ashishk: want to know the secret? you're going to love it.when you login, you have to run a search. it asks whether you're a guy/girl looking for a guy/girl. i'm guessing they might just save that first parameter, no?that said, that natural language processing link is really sweet. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | zhyder: There're still many rough edges but it's definitely time for HN feedback! Please check out the 2min tour and try out the service.We realized that many folks who use Dabbleboard (whiteboard app, also launched on HN a yr ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798) use it in combination with Skype and -someti... |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | pyroman: It's good that you have a video showing the features, but it could use some more audio. The silent parts need a voiceover. It looks like there is enough stuff to talk about to fill up the whole time. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | bobbyi: How is this different from dimdim? |
Can you live w/o hackernews or w/o google? | rms: I would definitely lose Hacker News. |
Can you live w/o hackernews or w/o google? | buugs: Google is much more valuable especially if you take services into account, such as google code, gmail, google maps, etc etcHackernews you can get away with using rss to a good extent and the blog/articles official comments. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | tomsaffell: Looks nice, but then a screen-cast should - when do we get to play with it?What technology are you using in the front end? I'm guessing Flash/Flex. Are you using FP10's P2P technology (Stratus?). What are you using for desktop sharing? |
Can you live w/o hackernews or w/o google? | johnnybgoode: I could lose either one. There are HN alternatives too. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | zhyder: Btw, the service IS live. Click "Meet" to give it a spin. The logs seem to show everyone's just checking out the video, which is unusual for HNers. No wonder there aren't any "<feature> is broken" comments. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | davidalln: Maybe it's just me, but it took me a good while to figure out what you guys do when looking at your homepage. I'd make sure to emphasize that you are a group remote conferencing application, even if you are still in private beta.Your slogan "fully save time, money, and the earth" is great, but make sure that... |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | thorax: Yepyep, you did it. This is excellent.I can't find anything that I wouldn't pay for-- this would help out our team if it turns out we can avoid firewall problems with the video streaming.Seems like that part would be the most likely to cause issues, right?I'll try it again when others on my team are awake to gi... |
flirt140, how are they determining the gender? | ryanwaggoner: Perhaps they're using something like this method of guessing gender based on browsing history:http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-h... |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | quizbiz: I think it would be wise to proudly feature a nice privacy policy. |
Can you live w/o hackernews or w/o google? | nostrademons: Well, technically "no", since Google pays my salary. But assuming I found another source of revenue, sure. It's as easy as turning off the computer, which is nowhere near as tragic as many people make it out to be. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | paulbaumgart: Desktop sharing doesn't seem to work on my system (Thinkpad T60 w/ Ubuntu 8.10), and it makes my browser nearly unresponsive, even when it's the only Firefox tab. (It's a 1.83 GHz/core Centrino Duo w/ 3 GB RAM- what's your minimum system requirements?)Also, I wasn't able to get other people to join me usi... |
What have been your experiences using Piracetam? | icey: I took it for a few weeks last year. I didn't notice any more improvements than I'd notice just from being well hydrated. |
What have been your experiences using Piracetam? | rms: I didn't notice anything. |
Gift/book idea? | sidmitra: Weapons and Systems Engineering!! The art of war - Sun Tzu was the first thing that popped into my head for some reason. Not that it has anything to do with that subject. |
Feedback on webapp, online meetings for group collaboration | zhyder: P.S. we're looking for a salesperson or general 'business guy'. http://www.dabbleboard.com/join has a somewhat generic description. Willing to consider arrangements ranging from market-level salary to cofounder levels of equity; ideally something in the middle. |
Recommendation for FL/OSS software to bootstrap a project | rincewind: Drupal is a CMS written PHP that has plugins for the features you describe. |
Why can't you "put" files through ssh? | kngspook: In addition to all the scp comments here, if I'm doing a constant <edit files locally, update remote copy of directory, test on remote> cycle; I'll usually use rsync instead of scp. |
How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? | ZeroGravitas: It sounds like she might have fixed mindset rather than a growth mindset:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(book)"Those with a fixed mindset believe their talents and abilities cannot be improved through any means. They feel that they are born with a certain amount of talent and typically do not wish t... |
Recommendation for FL/OSS software to bootstrap a project | abyssknight: Drupal, Joomla and such will do all that for you but the question is what are you trying to achieve in the long run? If you're planning on customizing a large amount of the functionality, then basing it on a large, behemoth CMS might be a detriment when the next upgrade comes out. Just food for thought, bu... |
How does free compete with paid? | noodle: freemium.say "hey, our free version is just as good as those guys' paid version. plus, if you want even better stuff, you can pay $X/mo and get some even more super awesome features that those guys don't even have at all! here's a coupon." |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | noodle: its slow for me too. not just google.com, but google-related services. doubleclick ads, analytics, etc.edit: seems to be back up to full speed for me now. |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | tocomment: OMG it's happening all over the world: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=google&phra... |
What have been your experiences using Piracetam? | hs: my mom is using it (1200 mg / day, 400 mg each morning, afternoon and evening)her neurologist prescribed it because my mom got stroke and got clogged artery near neck. she got little oxygen to her brain. the mri shows black areas in her brain.my uncles (a lot from my mom's family are doctors) describe piracetam as ... |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | pugio: Same here:ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.67.100): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.67.100: icmp_seq=34 ttl=40 time=330.224 ms
....
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
247 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 94% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 294.648/313.224/331.038/13.395 ms |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | vito: Yep, and half of the sites I'm trying to visit are affected as well, probably from Google Analytics or any of the other dozens of Google things everywhere. |
Recommendation for FL/OSS software to bootstrap a project | mbrubeck: Pinax seems to have everything you need. It's a set of components for Django (Python): http://pinaxproject.com/Django already handles user registration; Pinax adds OpenID, email confirmation, and password management. It also does photo management, tagging, threaded discussions, site news, and a lot more. |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | TallGuyShort: They've also been denying service to requests that "look automated" more often lately. I assume that's an automatic response to a DDoS - must be a growing problem for them. |
Any one else having problems accessing Gmail and Google Search? | malte: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=608866 |
Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) | old-gregg: Google services has been steadily getting slower and slower for me. I can't recall the last time when google maps loaded the entire map successfully: 1-3 fragments are always missing.I also stopped using gmail and switched to Mail.app. Gmail completely deteriorated for me: too often I'd press "Send" and it w... |
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