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Concrete examples of honest people with anything to fear from the GPL | bjplink: I'm not sure if this is "obviously questionable" or not but every person who sells a WordPress theme or plugin apparently doesn't have a leg to stand on if anyone challenges them by releasing their works for free. |
MP3 Crawler | westside1506: Our service, 80legs, will let you easily do this. We let you specify seed links, how deep you want to crawl, and control many other aspects of the crawl. By default, we control the hard bits, like redirects and spider traps, but if you want to override our default functionality you can easily insert you... |
review my web app, a wiki for code snippets | abyssknight: My first thought was, "Damn that's pretty."My second thought was, "Nice AJAX, and it works..."Very polished job. Nice work! |
Concrete examples of honest people with anything to fear from the GPL | gojomo: At one level, your question contains the seeds of its own answer. Strong GPL partisans tend to assume anyone doing things where the GPL language/intent is fuzzy is "doing something obviously questionable".So one fear is, you could wind up on the right side of the license and the law, but still face resentful, a... |
Concrete examples of honest people with anything to fear from the GPL | profquail: Assuming that the GPL holds in court (in whatever country/state you're in), my biggest fear is that I wouldn't understand some part of it and get into legal trouble.With a BSD or MIT license (or even just public domain) on the code you're using, you know that it's free to use any way you want.Maybe a bit par... |
MP3 Crawler | deutronium: You may be interested in Nutch (http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/), an Open Source crawler, which handles indexing etc. for you. Its also based on Hadoop, so it should scale nicely just by throwing more machines at the job. |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | kqr2: I don't have a fixed time I need to get to work even though the official policy is 8:30am. I generally get in from 10-10:30am unless I have a meeting.Getting to work a little later helps me to avoid the morning commute and allows me to sleep later.However, I find that you generally have to "prove" yourself at a ... |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | ErrantX: I usually wander in any time from 8:30 to 9:30 - the majority of the rest of the office (non coders) come in at about 10-11. In our other office (all coders) it is stricter - pretty much everyone is there by 9:15.My boss usually comes in at 4am - it's kinda hard to come in really late (he wouldn't care if we t... |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | michael_dorfman: Most places I worked as a developer required people to be in at 8.When I had my start-up, I generally expected employees to be in by 8:30, but was always happy to offer shifted hours, if someone asked. |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | trickjarrett: My office is normally 9am but over the summer we were given the option of going in at 8am to leave an hour earlier. Surprisingly the majority of our dev team took them up on this, only one held out. I'm usually in around 7:30 though. |
Concrete examples of honest people with anything to fear from the GPL | gojomo: Is there a reason you used 'news.ycombinator.ORG' in the above link? |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | jacquesm: I don't have a boss, but I've been a boss. I let it run completely free except for the office manager. This worked quite well in practice, even though we had the occasional person for whom it would not work and that required the 'choices in life' talk. After that it either worked or that person left.I find th... |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | makecheck: This isn't an issue where I've worked; show up whenever, leave whenever, lunch whenever.All a manager needs to ensure is that you're doing your job, and that you aren't a burden on other people. Especially when half of your team may be around the world, it would seem that companies have already written off ... |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | stuff4ben: no one cares at my office and not at the previous job I had either. I usually get in at 8:30 out of habit, but there some that wander in anywhere from 9 to 10 and some that get in a 7 or 7:30. |
Just out of curiosity, when do have to be at work? | ScottWhigham: I had a guy once who I asked on day 1: what time do you want us to expect you in the morning? He said 8:00. He never made it in before 8:07. I asked him on the first day what time he wanted so that we could have an expectation. He didn't do what he said and, to be frank, it was a sore spot for me. 7 minut... |
One solution to the iPhone app pricing problem | ScottWhigham: I've had my iPhone for about six months and I've yet to find an app that I would pay even $0.99 for let alone $5-$20. Having an in-game upgrade option would not appeal to me. I'm likely different from most though - I want my phone for calls, browsing, music, email, and the occasional time-waster while sit... |
Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked? | drinian: Yes. It was an up-to-date install of Wordpress, about two months ago. Luckily, the domain was being scanned for vulnerabilities by Duke University OIT, and they let me know about it; it was non-obvious that the hack was there. There were certain URLs that had lists of keywords, mostly pharma scams.I don't use ... |
One solution to the iPhone app pricing problem | wmf: Interesting. This could provide price discrimination, solving the problem that an app is worth less to some people who don't use all the features -- those people just don't buy those features. OTOH it introduces mental transaction costs. |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | davi: Dreams of grandeur corrupt the best of men. Give him a link to this page, it states your concerns very clearly. If he doesn't get it, don't continue with him. |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | dannyr: I don't see the need for NDAs unless his idea is patentable. If this is in the consumer space, that NDA would likely not amount for anything.If you read enough startups, you'd know that the success of startups do not depend on the idea but on the founders.With the situation you are in right now, you and your fr... |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | SwellJoe: You're talking to the wrong people. We can't fix the fact that your friend is mad with power, and has a weak grasp on the value of an idea without someone to execute it.You need to talk to your friend, and tell him you would love to work with him on this, but the opportunity cost only makes sense if you are ... |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | Travis: Sounds like you've hit a rough patch, but that doesn't mean you should skip out on the idea if you believe in it.You need to establish expectations for your venture. Simplest is hours / week; if he's working on it full-time, he'll be putting in 50-60 hours / week. If you're putting in 10 hours / week, use tha... |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | eplanit: You can have a friend, or you can have a business partner. It's extraordinarily rare to achieve both (at least not in the sincere meaning of the words 'friend' and 'partner').Generally, when you become a business partner with a friend, one relationship or the other will prevail -- that's really okay, and you ... |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | anamax: > But my friend has other plans, it seems. Basically, he is about to be the sole founder and owner of the company.He's trying to grab the reward and shift the risk to you.Strict percentage deals often don't make sense, especially for minority partners. They're taking as much risk, if not more, and they're gett... |
Review my application : Tickmarkt.com | smallhadron: "see how your trades would of preformed in the real world"should be"see how your trades would have performed in the real world" |
Potential Interest for New Hacker House in Redwood City | blazamos: The current Palo Alto Hacker House — 3 YC, 2 Google, 1 Facebook, etc.. — will be looking for a couple of new housemates starting the first week in August. |
Potential Interest for New Hacker House in Redwood City | jasonlbaptiste: how long are you guys looking to sign a lease for? |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | there: for corduroy (http://corduroysite.com/) when an administrator clicks on the cancel link, they are asked why (but can leave it blank) and after submitting the page, their site is marked inactive.they are emailed a goodbye message and told that their site remains disabled but otherwise intact for 14 days. if an a... |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | danudey: First, don't make it such a hassle. That just makes people think even less of you. If they have to go out of their way to cancel, their last memory of your service is going to be that it was a pain in the ass. Same goes for long surveys (a short set of two or three questions is ok).Second, be wary of bribing t... |
Potential Interest for New Hacker House in Redwood City | profquail: I might be interested as well, especially if it's only going to be a 6 month lease.I'll send an email with my contact info so you guys can keep me in the loop. |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | aschobel: We tell them we are sorry to see them leave, and delete their accounts.We ask them if they have any last minute feedback, you'd be surprised how many people respond to this and are thankful that you asked.Exit survey seems a bit over the top and impersonal. |
Potential Interest for New Hacker House in Redwood City | krav: Does anyone know if there's a hacker house in San Francisco? |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | thorax: I apologize and thank them for trying it out.I tell them how to delete their account (or delete it for them if it's not easy).I tell them we just got started and ask: "Question: How can we improve the site such that you'd recommend it to your friends?"I thank them again for "giving us a shot".I sign the email a... |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | smithjchris: We keep their data and sign them into 4-8 year contracts. Very unethical and it will kill the company one day. Not that anyone gets listened to here unless they're a Harvard MBA. |
Review my idea - iwearyourtshirt.com | hellweaver666: For easy clicking: http://www.iwearyourtshirt.com |
Review my idea - iwearyourtshirt.com | bearwithclaws: What's the difference with http://iwearyourshirt.com/? |
Any advice on Joomla? | CalmQuiet: Can't help directly, but I'd love to see a discussion, as it's been on my back-burner radar for a while.Seems an active community: "Last stable release": 2009.06.30
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla)Also in wikiped: a fork from Mambo:"Joomla! is a free open source content management system for publishing ... |
Any advice on Joomla? | trickjarrett: In my experience, I built a site a few years ago with Joomla and it worked well for a simple community site, but seemed difficult to modify or expand. I personally recommend Drupal as a base CMS, it has a sharp learning curve but it is infinitely extensible and powerful. |
Review my idea - iwearyourtshirt.com | onreact-com: Wearing the same t-shirt all year? Have you considered the smell? It might backfire for the company advertising on it ;-) |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | zackola: Make it as quick and painless as possible. They should be able to cancel via their account page/settings or contacting you. You should respond well within 24 hours with a generic, very positive note.We're sorry to lose you as a member! Your account has been canceled (effective immediately|will remain active un... |
Any advice on new Streamfile functionality? | kimovski: New Streamfile features just added! 1. As a downloader/receiver you can now see upload/sender progress bar in real-time 2. Optional PIN/password code + .zip/disk encryption if a password is set by uploader/sender. Any feedback on current functions or future functionality you would like to see? |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | DistortedRhymes: You seem to have left your thinking about a lot of important issues to too late. You seem to have assumed that you would be equal business partners when the two of you should have been smart enough to work all this out in advance.I don't see why you are concerned that you have signed an NDA. As you say... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | halaric: Sorry it's just for the UK, but maybe you'll find this interesting: http://bit.ly/cmGDY |
Any advice on Joomla? | dabenn: I'm running a Joomla! site on top of a Wordpress installation and, while I like Joomla!, I almost wish I'd stuck purely with Wordpress. At issue is whether you need a full-featured CMS with all the bells and whistles (and associated complexity). Some things to consider are how frequently you'll be updating th... |
Review my idea - iwearyourtshirt.com | BearOfNH: Unless I personally know the guy, most of the time my eyes are on the lady. But no mention of her wearing the logo... |
ASk HN: second thoughts about joining startup - what to do? | cmars232: If your friend cannot give you a fair equity stake, its not worth your time and effort to make it work. Before signing the NDA (which is perhaps just legal due diligence), you should have been equally formal to make equity a pre-condition of signing, that would have been a good lead into negotiations. Or, m... |
Editing SQL DB via Remote desktop? (minor emergency) | flooha: user: flooha on google talk. |
Editing SQL DB via Remote desktop? (minor emergency) | ErrantX: The server should have the standard cmdline MYSQL admin installed on it (one imagines).Try opening a command prompt and running: mysqladmin
[obviously with username and password]
If it is there us should let you run the SQL commands you want. (ref: http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/mysqladmin/)If you want an SQ... |
Editing SQL DB via Remote desktop? (minor emergency) | piers: My advice - leave the .FRM and .MYD files well alone. If you can remote desktop in (is it running on a windows server?) then bring up a command prompt and edit it using that. Have a look at this - http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20040609/806/My second piece of advice would be to get a better host and sysadmin... |
Editing SQL DB via Remote desktop? (minor emergency) | flooha: connect command: mysql -u<username> -p<password> <database_name>update command: update <table_name> set <column> = '<your_change>' where <some_column> = <some_condition>; |
Editing SQL DB via Remote desktop? (minor emergency) | tyohn: How quick this was answered/people helped is remarkable. Kudos to the HN community! Maybe there's a startup idea here - or maybe it already exists. Typically I spend hours searching for answers online to programming/tech questions or I end up chatting to a guru friend of mine - for the answers. |
SafeBoot | yan: Let him get the other consultant to do that work then. |
SafeBoot | cperciva: You will never perform a brute force attack against an AES256 key. You might be able to brute-force his password, depending on how strong it is and what key derivation function SafeBoot uses. |
SafeBoot | Travis: Sounds like he's the kind of guy who might use super simple passwords. Ask him what kind of pw it was -- if it was a single word, etc. He may have some fuzzy memories, which could help you out.You could brute force his password if it's simple. But you'd have better luck going to a hypnotist to enhance his me... |
What do you use to extract user feedback? | bdmac97: It depends on what you're trying to get out of it IMO.If you're looking for early-stage active feedback on your site I would have to suggest my own app, http://www.launchly.com.If you're looking for more passive/general/long-term feedback, idea, or problem reporting, then I would say the top contenders in that... |
SafeBoot | wmf: Here's an idea: Full-disk encryption software should disable itself as soon as it detects that your backups are not up to date. Of course, if you have no backups it should refuse to encrypt your disk in the first place. |
What do you use to extract user feedback? | vaksel: just have a send us feedback link displayed prominently on the website. |
What do you use to extract user feedback? | ErrantX: http://featurelist.org/ has a feedback widget to pop on your site which emails you feedback (and saves it on their site too so you can check it all in one go).Recommended. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | HeyLaughingBoy: sparkfun.com -- General electronicshomeshopmachinist.com -- Metalwork and machiningmakezine.com/blog -- just making stuff in generalcandlepowerforums.com -- LED lightingI describe myself as "just an engineer." I learn whatever tools I need to get a job done, so I don't distinguish much between software,... |
What are your (web) server setup conventions? | delano: 1. /usr/local is where you install custom compiled binaries (which answers #4). /usr should contain only standard binaries, libraries, headers, etc...2. Some people use /usr/local, others use generic home directories (/home/PROJECT), and still others use /PROJECT. This is somewhat of a personal choice.3. If use... |
What do you use to extract user feedback? | thesubjective: Thanks all. To clarify, am looking for a feedback widget I can include in specific content like survey's etc. |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | anamax: > perhaps with the benefit of a 3 month free premium account in the event they wish to return at any momentHow often can someone get this discount?You'll get the behavior that you reward. If it's cheaper for people to threaten to quit, they will. Is that your goal?I have a somewhat different approach. If I s... |
What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google? | hdx: I wish I had known the experts-exchange "hack" before... |
Good Basic Accounting Book for Entrepreneurs | jacquesm: get yourself an outside bookkeeper and another accountant.That's really a total waste of time and effort, also you will not be maximizing your use of tax breaks and such. I know this is not what you are asking for but some things you are better off outsourcing, this is one of those, same with legal stuff (tho... |
Best places to advertise online | profquail: I think the best places to start are places frequented by your target audience. That may be a place as big as Facebook or as small as a antique automotive forum.If you don't know what audience you're targeting, that is probably a bad business strategy...but if you want to do a little research, put some ads o... |
Media Temple | jcapote: Don't use wordpress. It's that simple. |
Hosted customer support (for cheap) | tptacek: We're using Basecamp for this, and I'm happy with it. Basecamp will work better if you have a small number of customers with intense engagement; it's not a good public support site. |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | bdmac97: Ouch, I'm not sure what to say other than that sucks! |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | DanHulton: Well, as I remember, Stack Overflow just kind of let it happen. Didn't hurt them none.But in your case? IANAL, but get a lawyer. |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | joshu: You need to talk to a lawyer. What you retain, how you enforce, etc all vary. |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | SwellJoe: As I understand it, we can only retain our copyright if we intend to enforce it.Copyright is not the same as Trademark. You must enforce trademarks, not copyrights. Copyright is much stronger than trademark.If they've directly copied from your application, you have very solid grounds for a lawsuit. I would... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | dryicerx: Seems like their done by http://net2apps.com/ and their description is "IT Outsourcing & Rapid Application Development"http://net2apps.com/Product.aspx wonder if the other two products are 1:1 from other services as well... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | there: your copyright covers your text, design (html and css), and code, so unless you're claiming that they actually stole your code (and then translated it to what looks like asp.net) or are using direct copies of your css or html, i don't think you really have a leg to stand on, legally.someone creating something fr... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | dkokelley: Wow, that's pretty blatant. Are you in contact with them? What have they said? Definitely talk to a lawyer about this. Any idea how they managed to copy your application?Edit. Also, do you have any proof that your work was written prior to theirs? WHOIS shows both domains registered within 6 days (which is c... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | pg: Hmm, big chunks of verbatim text. We regularly have this sort of thing happen to us: http://www.google.com/search?q="someone+who+is+not+one+of+your+founders"
It's annoying to be plagiarized, but possibly no more than annoying. I.e. the more slavishly someone copies you, the less dangerous they probably are.(In... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | cema: Sue them before they sue you. And get a good lawyer. |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | rmaccloy: Looking at http://net2apps.com/Product.aspx, they obviously were directly copying some of your graphics/design at one point. It looks like they've moved away somewhat.You probably have a case, but I'm skeptical you'd recoup the cost of prosecuting it (in legal fees and in distracting yourself from executing.)... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | gojomo: Did they take your source code? That'd be a clear copyright case.Mimicking your look and feel closely but not exactly is a much murkier case. Lifting a few graphics or paragraphs is technically a copyright violation but what are your damages?You do not have to enforce your copyrights to retain them; that's trad... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | gojomo: Another note: sometimes these carbon-copy sites are not to compete with you for customers, but to scam some potential investors. "Look, we're real!"(This may not be the case here, if as appears to be the case it's associated with a longer-lived development shop. But it's something to keep in mind.) |
ASk HN: Handy domain blacklists to preload a new site with? | gtani: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044there might be a more current one in searchyc.com |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | rodyancy: I'm an attorney and I've done quite a bit of work relating to copyright law, so I'll chime in.Copyright to your work is established immediately when your work becomes fixed in its ultimate form. You don't have to worry about losing it.Assuming that your site existed before theirs, they MAY be found to be infr... |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | dpcan: Back when I was looking into outsourcing, friends told me that whomever I hire outside the country, make sure it is very clear that:A) They do NOT use any GPL'd code in the work they do.B) They do not COPY any competitor or other product in the process.Apparently people hire outside companies to develop software... |
Logging Remote vs Local | bayareaguy: It all depends on your network configuration and service model. What do you want to happen when your servers lose the connection to their loghost? |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | VladimirGolovin: IANAL, but here's my bit of non-legal advice -- DMCA them.We once nuked a Romanian cloner who copied our app -- our lawyer wrote a DMCA complaint to Google, ShareIt and his hosting company. As a result, the cloner was thrown out of Google, and ShareIt / Element5 blocked all his products (some of them w... |
Best places to advertise online | known: I will recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | tzury: http://www.roninapp.com/site/signup
vs.
http://www.net2invoice.com/Select-Plan.aspxshows better your claim |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | jasonkester: While it's certainly lame to find that somebody has cloned your application, I don't think you should spend any time worrying about these guys.Your Business is the important thing to think about, and there's nothing these guys can do to touch that. They can't duplicate the marketing you've put in, the goo... |
What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science? | wlievens: I studied at the VUB and liked it a lot. Lots of focus on programming languages and general principles.
(Brussels)http://www.vub.ac.be/english/ |
How do you handle users that cancel their accounts? | wlievens: I only deactivate accounts, never delete them. My users typically come back after a year or so (it's a webgame, so it has its own kind of audience). |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | enra: And their frontpage is a imiatiton of Co-Op http://coopapp.com/ vs http://www.net2invoice.com/ |
What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design) | 00bama: I review your site and theirs. Functionality is different. I was looking into their contract and project management feature. It looks pretty good. I dont see that as a feature for ur app. |
Does this concern anyone else? | ErrantX: which bit exactly? |
Does this concern anyone else? | pedalpete: Which part? Concern?Interestingly, the growth over the last 6 months has been fairly consistent.Check out the 'max' option, and from the start of the big jump in January, its been quite consistent.I think things on the site have remained pretty good through the growth, but then again, maybe it is the constan... |
Idea about alarm and security | bdmac97: Video/cameras is pretty easy these days since there are a variety of wireless, networked cameras that provide their own web access so you can view them anywhere in the world.It's been awhile since I was researching alarm integration but form what I remember it did not sound trivial. There are modules that you... |
Does this concern anyone else? | jacquesm: Well, first off, alexa.com is to be taken with about a pound of salt because of their way of sampling, even so, obviously something happened (maybe half the HN visitors decided to install the alexa toolbar).Also, other such institutions can show wildly varying data, for instance have a look at 'compete' for y... |
Does this concern anyone else? | aneesh: It's interesting to note the significant drop-off on weekends in Alexa's data. |
Does this concern anyone else? | lucifer: Does http://twitter.com/newsycombinator have anything to do with it? |
Does this concern anyone else? | jwecker: As they say in Samoa, fai fai le mu (: Relax. Sites evolve and change. Small towns get bigger. Eventually you become an old man who yells at neighborhood kids for walking on the lawn. Before you get to that stage, enjoy the fact that these systems evolve, and for every one that gets too big for your own p... |
Does this concern anyone else? | jeremymims: It's highly likely that many startup founders have installed these types of toolbars to boost their own startup's numbers. Because of sampling issues, one additional person coming to this site gets extrapolated out many times over.Rampant themes in most groups:
1. It was better before.
2. Quality has declin... |
A gaming idea | cjg: Sounds good. Don't forget that having the idea is the easy bit, the hard bit is the execution. |
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