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Does this concern anyone else? | vaksel: didn't pg post a HN link, that just shows posts from only old users? |
A gaming idea | e1ven: I'd take a look at Plura- They're doing this now for webgames.
http://www.pluraprocessing.com/games/index.htmlIf I recall, they're using this to run their 80legs product, which is where they're hoping to make their real money. |
Idea about alarm and security | RobGR: I advise looking into setting up zoneminder. You can get it from http://www.zoneminder.com/ . It is a free linux program, it will integrate pictures from a variety of cameras and save them in a searchable way via a web interface. You can make it trigger on motion, and only save those shots, and it will make ... |
A gaming idea | weaksauce: Is this not like the approach of the protein folding game? Though they are directly for science and not for profit but the data that you generate is sent to them.http://fold.it/portal/I could see it working if you had some disclosure on how and what data you are automatically generating and sending back. |
Does this concern anyone else? | Periodic: I hate to to have to say this, but could we please have more descriptive titles? You can tell from some of the comments that a lot of people, myself included, are trying to figure out what would is so concerning on that page.Also, the post title seems to be deliberately trying to manipulate readers into clic... |
What kind of tools does Congress use to author 1,000+ page bills? | gaius: Interns. Lots and lots of interns. |
What kind of tools does Congress use to author 1,000+ page bills? | DanielStraight: /dev/randomMaybe with some Markov chains thrown in for good measure. |
What kind of tools does Congress use to author 1,000+ page bills? | jonknee: The PDF I have was generated by Acrobat Distiller and looks like the source was an XML file... Wondering how they create that XML file. |
How would you build a high performance, semi-real-time stats service? | simonw: OK, I'll start. I should emphasize I don't have a particular project in mind just yet, but I do think it's an interesting thought exercise.For my purposes, I'm not particularly interested in saving a full record for every single hit for all time - I've already got that in web server logs. I'd much rather accumu... |
Help with Hard Disk Recovery? | khafra: The gold standard is forensic software like EnCase, FTK, or--if you're broke--ProDiscover. It'll take some work, but if the bits are still on the drive, they'll get them. Each suite has varying levels of expertise at reconstructing folders and files. |
What kind of tools does Congress use to author 1,000+ page bills? | cpr: It probably doesn't matter how they're produced, since they're not designed to be read--no one can possibly read large bills like these in time for a vote.This is one of the major faults of our current legislative scheme: massive bills that no one reads, but into which everyone throws his favorite pork.It's a tota... |
Help with Hard Disk Recovery? | sho: Wow, the CD commences install without any confirmation whatsoever!? What terrible design! |
How would you build a high performance, semi-real-time stats service? | mbenjaminsmith: I look at it this way: you need your 'collection' side of things to be as lightweight as possible. I would 1) collect request data in memory 2) 'post-process' and move that data periodically into your db (once a minute, once a second, whatever) - allowing you to basket that data however you want and 3) ... |
Programming Curriculum for Non-Geeks? | sho: Hm, I've introduced Ruby programming to a couple of non-programmers and thought the book "Learn To Program" by Chris Pine was good. It doesn't assume much and starts from the beginning. It's very hands-on, ie, not much theory, but if there's someone available to answer the inevitable questions I thought it worked ... |
Programming Curriculum for Non-Geeks? | voltageek: Anyway you cut it, she's probably going to have to pick up some basics coding skills to become familiarized with the skillsets of a programmer. Might want to look at the following books:The Pragmatic Programmer
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software EngineeringAnd oh yeah,Dilbert & The Tao of Programming... |
review my app: Search engine: ruby/rails, javascript, CSS, browsers | gtani: This is a database I've compiled over the past couple years to help me with grammar, tool and implementation issues with Rails, activeRecord, mySql, and the Ferret, solr and sphinx fulltext engines. I think for certain areas like these 3 index/query engines, ruby syntax, and CSS/JS issues with firefox and IE, ... |
What's missing in Porn sites? | mbenjaminsmith: What bothers me? All male porn stars. Most female porn stars. |
Where did the "little girl with moon ambitions" article go? | noodle: odds are, it was flagged for being non-topical. |
Does this concern anyone else? | icey: The biggest thing that I've noticed is that it's becoming more and more rare that I'll recognize all the names in the comments.It used to be that you would go into the comments section and it was the same herd of people talking, which was really useful because you didn't have to judge every comment on its own. Yo... |
deferred compensation structures, pre-funded startup | alain94040: I apologize for the spam, but I just was finishing a blog post about how you can use our site (http://FairSoftware.net) and its Software Bill of Rights as a free insurance between founders before they incorporate.If you want true 0 cost, legally-enforceable system, you can register your project there, have ... |
review my app: Search engine: ruby/rails, javascript, CSS, browsers | andrewljohnson: Here's some feedback. Keep on truckin':* You should add a title, logo, and a tag line that summarizes what the site is for, because people who aren't coming from HN won't know. I like your link that says what you index, but how about summarizing that with one word, one image, and five more words for a t... |
Where did the "little girl with moon ambitions" article go? | icey: Enable the "showdead" option in your profile and all HN's secrets will be yours. |
What's missing in Porn sites? | joezydeco: Nobody else seems to be bothered by it.I don't believe porn site owners really aspire to have cutting-edge designs on their sites. |
deferred compensation structures, pre-funded startup | Mankhool: People working for equity - WHAT? I tried to find mobile phone developers / gui artists / server side programmers to do that and got laughed out of town! If there are people out there that want to be a part of a startup mobile/web app please reply. I'm in Vancouver BC. Thanks.Newman, maybe you could instigate... |
deferred compensation structures, pre-funded startup | ScottWhigham: IANAL so beware what I say.Question: how legal savvy are you? You can write or find generic no-frills stuff yourself that can do in a pinch for small shares. Your "brief statement of understanding" is helpful - you can simply formalize that more.I don't think you should/need to put a "monetary value on ho... |
deferred compensation structures, pre-funded startup | grellas: I have written an ominous-sounding article (entitled "Mistakes Founders Make - Ill-Documented Relationships") that describes some of the risks here. (http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_009.html)For the venture: the IP developed by the loosely-affiliated team will belong to its individual members and n... |
Programming Curriculum for Non-Geeks? | alanthonyc: Thanks, I think I'll give her the books you recommend as a starter. She'll probably dig the more conceptual stuff first. |
Anyone using Softlayer's Cloudlayer? | lsc: do they use the same API as ec2? |
How would you build a high performance, semi-real-time stats service? | lsc: hm... does anyone use MySQL NDB cluster, the in memory db? with ram prices what they are, that sort of thing sounds like the way to go. I mean, with 64GiB ram servers being under $4K in parts these days, it seems like it might also be affordable.Of course, I haven't used MySQL ndb cluster for several years. it... |
What is the probability of being human? | mbrubeck: On the other hand, the probability that you ask yourself "Am I human or insect" and answer "insect" is very low. Unless you are in a Kafka novel. |
What is the probability of being human? | frossie: Paging the Reverend Thomas Bayes...Seriously it doesn't work like that. The probability of me being an insect is 0 - in fact the probability of me being anybody else besides me is 0, unless you are in metaphysical territory (eg. reincarnation), in which case please stop using Gaussian probability theory as its... |
What's missing in Porn sites? | trafficlight: Because it's easy and it works.I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that people don't go to porn sites to marvel at the design. |
What is the probability of being human? | falsestprophet: On average sperm cell you was one of about 280 million sperm cells deposited in proximity to egg cell you in one mating attempt.Everything about us is unlikely.http://www2.oakland.edu/biology/lindemann/spermfacts.htm |
What is the probability of being human? | mdoar: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=567966 |
What is the probability of being human? | dmg_83: I think if the universe is deterministic the probability is 1 and if it is not the probability is definitely 0 (like a random real being rational). |
What is the probability of being human? | kd5bjo: Your question is ill-formed, and cannot be answered without further information. In particular, you haven't specified the domain of inquiry. If you're asking about the probability that a person reading your question is human, the answer is close to 1. If, on the other hand, you're asking about the probabilit... |
What is the probability of being human? | devijvers: Your first error is ontological: there is no known cause for being. Hence, since we don't know how being works, how can we extrapolate it mathematically?Your second error is metaphysical: you assume you exist. You assume your existence can be validated or confirmed. However, there is no such thing. There is ... |
What would you say are the most common website "categories"? | makecheck: 1. World News2. Social Network News3. Banking4. Acquiring Things5. Fixing Things6. Entertainment7. Learning8. Tools |
What Software Development Methodology do you use in pet projects? | bdmac97: I try to be agile even when working alone. It certainly makes pairing interesting! I use PivotalTracker to manage things. |
What Software Development Methodology do you use in pet projects? | paulgb: I use TDD, but rather than all-out unit tests I just write doctests. Here's an example of a project created that way: http://github.com/paulgb/tilelife/blob/7e797ac287a91d48276a2... |
A gaming idea | lacker: It's a good idea, but I would drop the distributed system and focus on the game. If you can get enough users to make it worthwhile, there's probably an easier way to monetize than the whole distributed-data-processing thing. |
Help with Hard Disk Recovery? | phantom784: I've had luck with the open-source PhotoRec before. It scans a storage device for bits that match known file types (and it knows a lot, not just photo types as the name implies), and saves them to a new location. I'd definitely give it a try before paying for expensive data-recovery. |
Anyone using Softlayer's Cloudlayer? | sanswork: We use amazon and gogrid pretty extensively but also have a few servers at softlayer so when I saw them release this I got pretty excited.I went to my account and went through the process of setting up a server. Once I clicked confirm on the confirmation it brought up a page saying someone would be calling t... |
What Software Development Methodology do you use in pet projects? | Tangurena: I use CABTAB (code a bit, test a bit). I've tried TDD to learn it, but I find I end up bogged down in tests and end up losing all interest in the project I was originally working on. |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | mattyb: There is no pulling on HN, only flagging, so you're not going to get an 'official reason'. Apparently enough people thought it was offtopic. |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | jbenz: It was probably flagged because it's a little ridiculous. Those companies are not Michael Arrington's bosses. They are advertisers trying to reach a certain market, the type of market that reads TechCrunch.I don't think it's fair to shame these people for conducting business and attempting to bring in customer... |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | gojomo: Even if it was initially on-topic, a critical mass of people might decide -- "this is sending attention and discussion in degrading directions" -- and flag. I have flagged things at times only after seeing the discussion.I am distressed by the (seemingly new) policy where no comments are allowed on [dead] topic... |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | Batsu: It would never happen -- selective journalism and all -- but if those documents leaked were from an advertiser, I wonder if TechCrunch would have posted them. |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | grandalf: It's strange, the ZSCL post from yesterday got flagged/removed too, after it had 100+ upvotes! |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | mattmaroon: The TechCrunch story is fascinating and relevant to this community on so many levels. It's made me actually check their blog, which I haven't read in awhile otherwise.It's fascinating from the standpoint of ethics and journalism. Internet journalism to boot. It's fascinating from an IP law perspective, some... |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | iamelgringo: Just deal with it.If you hang around long enough, you're going to get articles flagged and marked dead. If enough people in the community flag an article, because they think it's off topic, it disappears.I didn't flag it, but I think it was off topic, because it's advocacy and not necessarily hacker inter... |
Live Chat Support? | callmeed: We really don't anymore. When we started and had just 3 employees and < 250 customers, we had someone on an AIM account during business hours. Customers liked it but it just didn't scale well for us. We're now at 8 employees and 5000+ customers.Most support is now dome through our ticket system. Our support t... |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | jasonlbaptiste: Are we really debating this with 23 points?It wasn't exposing anything at all. You can go to techcrunch.com and find the advertisers. It amazes me how fast all of you criticize TechCrunch as being a piece of shit, yet it is the top domain here which everyone constantly upvotes: http://top.searchyc.com... |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | padmapper: I'd say that aggressive flagging and downvoting are the price of HN not becoming like Digg and Reddit. I'm really happy to pay that price, even when I get downvoted. |
Why did the TC wall of shame link get pulled? | pg: Because it was a linkbait response to a tempest in a teapot-- a waste of space second only a post asking why it was deleted.Oy. There are days when HN seems determined to jump the shark, and the only reason it doesn't is that the editors heave it back. |
Help with Hard Disk Recovery? | RobGR: First, go out and get a USB disk bigger than the laptop disk, and use a live CD to copy a disk image of the laptop to the USB. That way you can experiement and write the original back if it doesn't work.If you had a dual install, the Ubuntu partition may not have been touched yet. However the partition table i... |
Anyone running a free app want to try a in-ram MySQL NDB server on me? | RobGR: I am very interested in your project and I hope you publish your results. I don't have a suitable database project, unfortunately.I have been experimenting with master-slave replication in MySQL. I am interested in performance, but redundancy and high availability are more important to me.I have a question -- ... |
Live Chat Support? | lsc: of course, I tend to target the, ah, 'technically adept' - but I use IRC. Personally, I think it's pretty awesome.I really like IRC because it's not 1:1 - sure, I'm in there, and so is nick and will, when we have a chance, but there are many customers (right now, north of 40) in the room, and often they help o... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | dejan: Good idea. It would be great to see a lot of incubators popping up, as it can have a significant impact on the overall economy.It is not the funding that is the main reason for applying. Although some small amount of money is great to cover living costs so that you can devote full time to your project, it can be... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | rms: In Pennsylvania, the "Y Combinator clones" AlphaLab and DreamIt Ventures are funded by the state of Pennsylvania (and a DreamIt partner is running for Congress!). AlphaLab is an overt incubator run by a larger early stage investment group and DreamIt is more of a direct YC Clone. The goal of the money they are giv... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | wheels: I've said it before, but I don't understand why firms trying something YC-like don't try to differentiate themselves more. The accelerator for mobile, the accelerator for B2B / SaaS, etc. It would seem easier to differentiate yourself from YC along industry rather than geographic lines (assuming you're not cr... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | lyime: I love incubation. YCombinator and others FTW. Although you need to understand that there really isn't a secret sauce. Just like there is opinionated software/frameworks (rails) there is opinionated venture capital.Ycombinator funds companies based on certain principles. Paul Graham and co. pick ideas based on w... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | Anon84: The right way is to not copy it. Learn from it, see what worked and what didn't and adapt it to your specific goals. |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | oldgregg: A bunch of these group have popped up but everyone I know will only apply to YC and TS... The other groups just don't have the credibility yet. I think techstars has done alright because it slid in as #2 and it has really gotten out front on the community side of things -- great job differentiating themselves... |
Whats your screensaver? | entelarust: i use Fliqlo http://lifehacker.com/331640/ |
Whats your screensaver? | danielionescu: I use JkDefrag screensaver http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ |
What Software Development Methodology do you use in pet projects? | abalashov: Pet projects are the one refuge I have from "methodologies," my one little corner of the world where I don't have to proactively leverage my synergies and deliver turn-key, best-of-breed cross-platform whiteboard convergence and scalable, clicks-and-mortar enterprise-strength XML deliverables for B2B/B2C WSD... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | iamelgringo: It's an interesting question, and I'd love to see your dissertation after it's done. Thanks for being willing to post drafts, etc...It seems that a lot of cities/regions want to start tech incubators as a means of boosting the local economy. A number of cities that I've lived in want to start a "Silicon ... |
Whats your screensaver? | nazgulnarsil: are you people still on CRT's or something? |
Whats your screensaver? | rms: I use Turn Screen Off |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | csomar: * What are the reasons you would apply and accept funding from YCombinator? *If I applied that's because of- Place: I live in north-africa, so US would be better for business.- Support: I can't handle tax/company issues and papers myself, if i hire a lawyer, it'll cost a lot.- Promotion: More odds that I'll get... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | lrgco: This question is probably as hard and as interesting as "what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial"Cant wait to see your results! |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | wmeredith: As a complete outsider I can tell you that, in my mind, the only thing separating Y-Combinator from the others you mentioned are Hackernews and PG's essays. Both of which are of such excellent quality that I would apply here before anywhere else. That's it, I don't know anything else about the people behind ... |
Whats your screensaver? | ScottWhigham: Interesting hackers have interesting screensavers.I must not be that interesting then |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | alanthonyc: I'm working on a project right now. The amount of money that YC would invest in my project would be helpful, but not game changing at all (since I have savings).The only reason I would consider applying is to have access to the resources and experience that PG would be able to share via his contacts and ot... |
Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? | pg: It depends what their goal is. Most of them seem initially to have the goal of improving the startup scene in a particular region. But, as they then discover, there's nothing regional about the seed funding business. Founders come from all over, and leave afterwards for wherever they get more funding.The way to ... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | kriskowal: Aeons ago, I wrote a language called SWL that served this exact purpose. It's an condensed HTML dialect, similar to later inventions like markdown and textile, but designed for programming and minimizing markup. It takes a template from the directory context and generates HTML from all the SWL files.http:/... |
is anybody using ShareThis? | ScottWhigham: We used to use the AddThis widget but, once they switched it over to being a Flash-based widget, we dropped them. I don't think anyone used it @ http://www.learnitfirst.com though. |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | snewe: Thanks for knocking something off my to-do list. However, what I really wanted (and I wrote an ugly version for myself) is an update for apartments. We were looking for 1-2 beds that allowed dogs/cats within a certain prices range, not in certain neighborhoods. Add that feature and you have an awesome product... |
Review our new Kongregate feature - level sharing | vaksel: I think its a bad idea. Part of the fun is the joy you get when you achieve that next level. If a user can just go level = x and skip all the hard levels, it'll get boring after a while. |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | vaksel: won't this spam the crap out of people?or are you doing the smart thing and just sending people a single email "We've found a new match" with a link to the craigslist search results, sorted for their search preferences? |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | sev: Not bad at all. I had the same idea and was about to implement it, but you beat me to it. The only suggestion (small one) that I have, is that once you register for the first time, and it suggests you register again for another keyword, the city drop-down menu changes back to default. Generally speaking (althou... |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | rokhayakebe: I was just speaking with someone this morning about setting up CG updates to look for freelance gigs. Great start. Web workers will need to track several, if not all, cities though. |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | matthavener: this is great, very simple and straightforward! |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | hyoogle: Great! I'd like it if it remembered my city so I can add a few search terms in a row. |
Whats your screensaver? | allanj37: Electric Sheep
http://community.sheepserver.net |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | mangoleaf: Cool.Might get spammy.I don't see a revenue model anywhere. Nor a marketing model. Pull out the checkbook for adsense? |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | brighton36: This site will likely either get down down for TOS violations - or its spidering IP will get blocked by craigslist.If anyone on hackernews wants a (more powerful) ruby program/lib to do this exact thing (with multi-city amd regex search support!), I recommend you check out craigwatch/libcraigscrape : http:... |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | synnik: I've noted, over the years, many sites that scrape craigslist data for one purpose or another. They run for a few months, get popular, get noticed by craigslist, get shut down.Do you have ongoing communications with them to avoid this fate? |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | harry4000: i couldn't find San Francisco or Bay Area or SFBay in the list! |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | pbburns: Hi I've done the same thing, http://www.craigdiddy.com and I also have a list of all the other sites that do this and why mine is the best. Besides email you can currently get free sms to find out even faster (via Twitter) and I plan on releasing the non-interface code on github. |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | jack7890: It's cool and useful--the thing is there are a ton of cool/useful apps that COULD be built on top of craigslist, but craigslist does everything in its power to prevent that from happening. Is there a reason you won't get shut down? |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | aw3c2: No about, no contact, not even a privacy statement where you assure not to do bad things with all the mail address you collect. |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | vaksel: A craig's site I used before, has changed their name, one of the reasons for change was: This is the big one. Craigslist doesn't like related
sites that use their 'Craig' name. And that's only fair.
As always, I try to do everything possible not to
irritate the big guy. The site hasn't drawn his w... |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | reduxredacted: Thank you for not using JavaScript unnecessarily.In fact, thank you for not requiring me to create an account or register or asking if I wanted to receive valuable offers via e-mail.I'll comment back if it finds anything, but as far as the paint on the outside goes, it looks nice and is something I would... |
Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com | Davertron: I think the site is OK, but I get this same general functionality from doing a search on craigslist and then adding that search as an RSS feed. While I don't get INSTANT updates, I'm in my RSS reader often enough during the day that I usually see things quickly enough. Still, not a bad idea, and if you're ... |
Review our new Kongregate feature - level sharing | kailoa: Reminds me of the fun people have passing FreeCell RNG seed numbers around. Anybody who finds a particularly tough one will write it down and pass it around to the other FreeCell addicts. Then there's a small local mini competition to see who can get it done first. |
How big is your index page? | ErrantX: errant.me.uk 4.38 kB |
How big is your index page? | mbenjaminsmith: 39k, compressed - including a jquery and ga.js (jquery from google and ga locally, ironically). On a reload it's 2k. |
Books on Computer History | michael_dorfman: You missed the absolute best of the genre: The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder. It's a single case study, but told in such loving detail as to be Pulitzer-worthy.Also, there's a lot of good primary source material
in "Programmers At Work", by Susan Lammers. |
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