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Location Based Dating? | eraad: I don´t think it exists. Sound like a good idea as long as it doesn´t turn into a stalking device.IMHO location and social data should be used together when existing personal relationships between participants exist already. |
Location Based Dating? | whimsy: Very, very interesting...I think it would be a good idea to keep the actual location data inaccessible to the end user, but I can imagine it fitting in well with a site like OkCupid.com. OkC currently has a feature that parses profiles for relatively unique words and points out that you and the profile you're l... |
What Are Your FOSS Philanthropy Hypotheticals? | drats: Sorry for the formatting snafu.edit: mostly fixed. |
where those deal sites find those information? | dmn: Scripts to capture the information? |
Please suggest a Facebook Connect gem/plugin for RoR | tobyhede: I use facebooker - it's under active development and has generally kept pace with the changes to the FB platform.I started using rfacebook several years ago but made the switch to facebooker - the rfscebook author has announced his intention to discontinue in favour of facebooker. |
where those deal sites find those information? | talbina: For that site, it would be a combination of the community http://www.deals2buy.com/sdeal.htm, and also the editors of the site finding deals.Notice that most of the deals are affiliate links. Sometimes they and the vendor have partnership where if they the vendor offers a discount, deals2buy will post an affil... |
What Are Your FOSS Philanthropy Hypotheticals? | blintson: Emacs in Scheme. I really, really hate dynamic scoping. |
Best practices for server redundancy? | bozmac: DNS propagation doesn't have to be that long if you set the TTL for your records to be the lowest your nameserver will allow.Your problem is severely limited by your budget given that at your level, redundancy will at least double your hosting bill. If your site is that important, I think you should spend a bit... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | sfall: have you separated out your database?
How much traffic can it handle?Upgrade your hosting budget. |
Best practices for server redundancy? | dlsspy: This depends a lot on your software design. You have to shed a lot of assumptions before you can even begin to consider redundancy. If your software can only run on one computer, then nothing much matters.It would be a worthwhile experiment to see what it'd take to get your site running on GAE or perhaps hero... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | oomkiller: DNS rarely takes a day or more to do anything. The only place I have to wait on it is when I change my name servers at my registrar. If you set your TTLs low, the greatest amount of time you're looking at is probably an hour. Another option is dynamic DNS load balancing. |
Best practices for server redundancy? | thaumaturgy: There are a couple of options for making your front-end redundant: round-robin DNS, or a CDN.In either case, it still leaves you with a single point of failure in the backend. Your best bet there is probably to get a second VPS through a completely different provider -- and figure that you'll never lose bo... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | olefoo: 1. Monitoring; if you lost a significant number of sales, it was mostly because you didn't know your site was down.Solution: nagios running on a pc in your office. Or use one of the many external monitoring tools that will send you a page if your site is unavailable for more than 90 seconds.2. Separation of con... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | ArtemD: You could use something like Rackspace cloud sites: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/sitesThey claim to offer automatic scalability and server redundancy out of the box. I have no personal experience with this product thou. |
How can I start my own bank? (Let's redesign banks) | greyfade: Two words: Credit Union. |
Best practices for server redundancy? | stingraycharles: Our service needs to be highly available, so our infrastructure reflects this. Basically, we have a hosting provider that has 3 geographically separated datacenters within the same IP subnet. We have a clustered loadbalancer solution, with one loadbalancer in each datacenter, that monitor each other. W... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | oscardelben: I have the same problem but I'm based on Italy. Banks can be really expensive but paypal is too evil for me to even consider it. If you've been here for more than two weeks you've seen how many horror stories about paypal are published.I'm considering google checkout and I'm wondering if anyone has experie... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | awa: As a buyer mostly, I would recommend having paypal/google checkout along with an alternate method so your site is still usable if paypal blocks you or goes down... I don't feel safe while handing out my credit/bank details to a new website. |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | cperciva: For Tarsnap, I just use PayPal; I don't like it, but they're better than the alternatives.Since you're in the UK, I'd recommend looking into Google Checkout -- I understand it's available in the US and UK, albeit not the rest of the world. Then you can offer your customers a choice.EDIT: I'm also looking for... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | Mc_Big_G: Your budget does not allow for building a redundant system. The only way to mitigate risk is to set up monitoring and automated backups. |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | pierrefar: There are MANY consideration in addition to the technolgy:1. You'll get killed with currency conversions with PayPal. They're the equivalent of thieves in this regard. If you're expecting lots of non-GBP income, this could become a significant cost of running the business. But they're very convenient and eas... |
Best practices for server redundancy? | mdasen: First, if you aren't already, get a hosting company that offers IP-failover/shared IPs. Linode, Slicehost (among many) offer this. See: http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/10/28/ip-failover-high-av...Basically, you have two VPSs (or servers) and if the first goes down, the second jumps in to take its place on ... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | milestinsley: I use http://www.fastspring.com/. I too am UK based and this solution works nicely. They're US-based, but it means anyone with a credit card (US, UK or whatever) can pay for your software and FastSpring just wire the earnings to your UK account.I find this to be a far better experience than PayPal, Google... |
Where's all the spam? | jacquesm: http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_spam_volume?displayed=... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | forkqueue: I'm based in the UK, and we use HSBC for payment processing on http://kutoken.com/The API documentation is a bit frustrating, but the service itself is good and gives you the option of recurring payments. We can also accept payments in multiple currencies, which a lot of customers appreciate - if you bill p... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | swombat: A couple of articles that might help you:http://danieltenner.com/posts/0006-how-to-get-a-merchant-acc...http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/05/20/taking-payments-online-m... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | jerguismi: File a complaint to Apple, it may work. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | tjic: Raw data isn't copyrightable, at least here in the US.It is perfectly legal to go through a phone book and copy it. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | bensummers: Check out "Database rights".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_rightIn the EU, while the data itself may not be copyrightable, the act of compiling it into a usable database makes the database defensible. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | sfall: it's not that the information that is being stored but rather that the method and some user choices and UI are the same |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | c00p3r: Because it is not a next big thing anymore and even teenagers can do it. And because google itself is just a mainstream. =) "The main navigation system" as some clever guy named it. |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | mattmanser: The first post submitted had a link to at least one of those other sites. Then I guess some HN people went through the linked sites and submitted stuff they found interesting.Happens all the time, a fairly unknown blog gets submitted, then all of a sudden two or three more posts from that blog pop up on HN ... |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | chaosmachine: If people see a particular topic being upvoted, they're more likely to submit articles on that topic. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | andywar: I guess one obvious question is do you have permission from the Dublin Bus company to use their data yourself? From their T&Cs (http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Legal/) ‘No part of this website may be copied, performed in public, broadcast or adapted without the prior written consent of Córas Iompair Éireann. All ri... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | bensummers: Check out merchant gateway products. You can start with something where they process payments on your behalf and then graduate to getting your own merchant account. (Join the FSB to get a good deal at Natwest Streamline.)We use http://www.paypoint.net/ |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | flashingpumpkin: Obviously the guy knew that he's onto something shady. Why else would someone name an sqlite database .png2?Can't give you any legal advice though. I reckon you should go after what others recommend here. |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | rms: Maybe because lots of people who like SEO read these forums? At a certain amount of users, sub-interests can gain a voting-block like effect. We'd need to see more data about increased SEO posts to know for sure though. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | buro9: You're in Europe, you are protected. The database is copyrighted whilst the data isn't itself copyrightable. It is when the act of compiling the data is non-trivial and you can show that the data has resulted from this process (which you appear to be able to given that you have used names and entered routes in a... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | haasted: Map makers often add a bit of erroneous information to their maps, which allows them to detect when competitors copy their data outright. A similar approach seems applicable to this kind of application. |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | ciex: Any experiences with Amazon Payments? They look like a viable PayPal alternative to me as most people already have an Amazon account. |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | patrickmclaren: Check out http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
They've been recommended by quite a few people around here. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | pclark: techcrunch europe would be all over this. You should reach out to Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) and chat to him. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | medianama: I have observed most such issues get resolved after sending a threatening mail |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | jacquesm: It's not just SEO, it is practically any subject on HN that gets a periodic wave of interest.I think it is simply tied in to the nature of the web. If you 'inject' a bunch of users via a link on HN in to a spot on the web then from there they will spread like sinking a mineshaft will exhaust the resources in ... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | JunkDNA: I think once you have sent him a forceful note or two asking him to back off, I would probably drop it. If you want to try and drum up some publicity over it on some other blogs, you might be able to make some headway. But I wouldn't expend lots of energy on him. This sort of thing is akin to people who have t... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | didroe: We use http://www.sagepay.co.ukYou get the choice of using their servers to handle card details and processing, or you can do it yourself and hand the numbers off to them using an API. They were recommended by RBS. |
Review my site -- socialreader.net | rama_vadakattu: I thought a lot on this application.Can you please guide me on1)Is this idea worth trying and to focus on?
Iam relying on a) friendfeed API to fetch diverse content like delicious, facebook,Google Reader
b) twitter API for twitter
2) Its sole aim is to provide interesting content for a top... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | sharpn: I've had no problems with paypal, selling mostly in the UK; I charge £12.50 & get £11.87 from them. Overseas customers see whatever the paypal converted cost is in their currency.
But if you're taking recurring payments (say monthly) then definitely look into setting up direct debits - zero or tiny transaction ... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | anonjon: Do nothing? This isn't worth it.Spend your time/money making an application that isn't so easily duplicated. You said it yourself that you weren't planning to make a mint on this. No point in dealing with the hassle of lawyers, paying the lawyers etc.If you only had one competitor, it would be possible, but be... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | jacquesm: Ok, here is one:Lisp makes you think in terms of higher level memory structures than just other than bytes and pointers to structs.The 'lists' and all the operations that you can perform on them will initially feel terribly inefficient (filter??!), but this will literally free you from having to think about h... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | stevoo: Basicly you should have done this from the start.Since you know that you will not have a profit , why didnt you add the app free and add commercials to it.That way yours will be free and there will be no need for anyone to copy it and at the same time have some profit from ads. |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | jot: If your turnover exceeds or is expected to exceed £68,000 you'll need to be VAT registered. This means you'll need to charge VAT on all sales to customers in the EU and deal with loads more paperwork.This makes taking payments in the EU even more complicated. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | viae: Don't waste your time on legal action on this iphone app. Yes, notify Apple and publicize it. But, your energy is better spent innovating and hacking. While screen-scraping is hard work it doesn't bring success and other good programmers can re-implement your work without stealing it. Hell, this might be a go... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | gabrielroth: In future versions you might include made-up data for a nonexistent bus line, in the same way that cartography companies include nonexistent streets on maps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | pmarin: lisp doesn't make you a better C-programmer, It make you a better programmer becouse It make you think in a more high level abstractions (I am removing the "C"). learning Assembler may make you a better (efficient) C-programmer. |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | arto: You will at least be able to recognize the symptoms of Greenspun's Tenth (http://lispers.org/) in your C code and know when to cut your losses in those cases when C is not the best possible fit to the problem domain at hand. |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | jerf: Others have already taken your challenge on directly, and that is a part of the truth. However, I want to point out that if you want, you can sit and nitpick each one, pointing out how C is just fine on that front, and talk yourself into a position where it's not that big a deal, by focusing on one thing at a tim... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | anonjon: Perhaps part of it is that you will no longer feel the need for methodologies?When programming lisp, the syntax is so regular that the patterns in your code become very obvious. When I see patterns I pull them out into macros or high-order functions, and name them. (Then sometimes I see patterns in the macros/... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | thinkbohemian: Artistic works have a "natural" copyright. (in the united states anyway). You could potentially argue that the schema of your database was a geeky but artistic work. (Layout of data structure, naming of tables etc.) or maybe some other feature of your app.Anyone with some legal background agree, disagree... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | blantonl: I think a lot of folks are missing the point of this blog post, and that is the App Store ecosystem has turned into the wild-wild west of development. I've never seen anything like how bad it has gotten.In my case, I run a Web services platform that approximately 10 or so iPhone app developers have licensed ... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | Vivtek: Consider Moneybookers, too. They work pretty well within Europe. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | Luyt: Have you considered encrypting your database, so that only your app can make sense of it? That's what a friend of mine used to do, and it indeed stopped some superficial copying. |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | randombit: Learning new languages makes you a better programmer. It really has very little to do with C or Lisp specifically.The more different the language you are learning is from ones you have used in the past, the more new approaches you learn. For instance if you already know C++, you'll learn a lot less from lear... |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | patio11: Phase one: spend a year here, amassing 16k karma by being mostly helpful and well informed.Phase two: write a post on a favorite topic I havent covered in a while.Phase three: lure a cynical,disinterested, and not really wealthy audience to my blog.Phase four: while you are not on HN, wage a sudden takeover by... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | Nassrat: Cheers mate, you got ripped off, that's why I embrace open source.You should only blame yourself though, you could have had a simple crypt on the db, with a key stored inside the binary. At least it would take a bit more work to rip you off.I would suggest you go ahead and release your database to the public. ... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | malkia: I came to understand and appreciate exceptions better, once I learned how they were implemented in Common Lisp. The same goes for macros, multiple-values, dynamic binding, closures, multiple-dispatch, the REPL, and many other things.Not all of them are available in C/C++, but in one form or another they could b... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | geocar: I want a pony.Learning a new language- truly learning it- puts quux in your brain. Those quux are unique to that language. You can try to make do by translating the meaning of those quux into your favorite language, but the fact is that "gravitas" doesn't really mean "formality in bearing", so there's some diff... |
Why so many SEO posts all of a sudden? | CoryMathews: To me most SEO articles = Spam. Thus when I see a lot more articles I just assume o yey more spam. |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | acangiano: This Philip Kirwan is a real class act: http://www.philipkirwan.ie/site/android.html |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | lbj: Here's why: http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/11/mind-games-ascen... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | zandorg: Plimus are good. |
Mass SMS text message services? | brm: txtmob is at sourceforge now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/txtmob/here's its history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXTMob |
Please review my site favilous.com | DanielStraight: First impression. Note that the tour is a slideshow, not a video. I sat there for 2 minutes wondering why your video was broken.Second impression. It was a pain to get rid of "my links", which are not my links at all, but links you want me to have.Third impression. The "Create new categories" button is ... |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | es: Take a look on 2checkout.com. We are using it for more than a month already(moved from PayPal to accept customers who can't use PayPal). |
Any new hacker podcasts? | awaretek: There's Python411 at http://www.awaretek.com/python |
Please review my site favilous.com | icey: Clickable: http://favilous.com/ |
Mass SMS text message services? | eraad: If you are OK with a free, ad-funded service, take a look at zeepmobile.com, they offer a free API with which you can send and receive SMS to your subscribed users.The only con is that it's an API and you need to spend a small amount of time developing the app. |
Please review my site favilous.com | Eddiewills: Good job guys. I really like the style of the site and I definitely think there is a Market for a site like this. I would like to something for my media but otherwise good job |
Review my site -- socialreader.net | keefe: From a design point of view, I would put your two columns inside a fixed with div centered in the page. On my 1920x1080 monitor, there's a huge pile of whitespace between the two. I would replace all the detail with how it works with some actual content. Nobody cares how it works. I look at it for a second and g... |
Where's all the spam? | RiderOfGiraffes: In case you're interested, and in case it helps, here are my personal spam incoming figures: 2009 06 : 44832 @ 1494 /day
2009 07 : 74855 @ 2414 /day
2009 08 : 66190 @ 2135 /day
2009 09 : 62081 @ 2069 /day
2009 10 : 63961 @ 2063 /day
2009 11 : 57362 @ 1912 /day
2009 12 : 37663 @ 1214 /day
... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | jcl: Here is an example of a programmer who was able to produce a much more efficient and reliable C program by applying principles he learned in a Scheme course:http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jsobel/c455-c511.updated.txtNow, this may not be exactly what you're looking for, in that the C code he ended up with is not what y... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | durana: Does anyone know how iPhone apps are licensed? If this Philip guy bought the app and the database was included with it, are there any terms that say he can't do whatever he wants with the database (e.g., use it for his own app)? |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | Hexstream: Lisp dramatically lowers the bar to make a compiler. You don't have to mess with parser generators and do complicated parsing, the Lisp reader and s-expressions already provide a ridiculously simple and powerful framework to make your own syntax and semantics.You can easily invent your own language, basicall... |
Please review my website, job4dev.com | rglullis: Clicky: http://job4dev.com |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | jacquesm: The GIF patent is the first one that comes to mind.A more recent one is Acacias patent on video transmission via networks and this gem: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/04/acacia-claim...Are there cases where software patents can be proven to have fostered innovation? |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | jff: Don't fall into the trap of listening to Eric Raymond too much. He likes to romanticize the whole thing too much, as this quote kind of demonstrates.That said, let me echo some of the other posters: Learning any new languages will improve your skill in all languages. Even if the only benefit you get out of learnin... |
Location Based Dating? | noodle: i don't think it is an idea that will, by itself, sustain a dating site. it is a good single facet, as things like this do help when pairing people, but it misses other facets that combine to make a good match.i think that an interesting idea might be to combine hyper-personal data like this into a site that i... |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | bioweek: Were there patents on compression algorithms? Are there any weird things Linux has to do to work around patents? |
I've built a product - how do I take payments in the UK? | neiljohnson: Depending on your product, have you considered taking payment from the purchaser's mobile phone (even if it's just an alternative payment route), that way people without Paypal can still make a payment without having to leave your site while they sign up.http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/payforit#about
http://ww... |
A competitor stole my iPhone app content — what should I do? | orblivion: Maybe avoid getting law involved and see if Apple has a way to arbitrate this sort of thing? |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | dpcan: This question is circular.The potential "technological progress" doesn't exist because it was thwarted by software patents, so there really is no way of knowing what doesn't exist because it couldn't be created to begin with.So, are you asking us what things don't exist? |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | dlsspy: Learning something new makes you better at things you already do (if it doesn't, it's not worth learning). |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | jfarmer: Blackboard's patents come to mind. |
Please review my website, job4dev.com | petercooper: Consider the most important thing for visitors who come to this site.. finding jobs that are in the place they want and related to the technologies they know. You can currently go down by tags (though it took me 10 seconds to notice this) but I don't see a location search.I think you need some sort of sear... |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | petercooper: Apple's patents on sub-pixel text anti-aliasing. The text in both Windows and Linux looks hideous by comparison. You can enable these features in certain situations on Linux with extra packages, though.Correctional update: Microsoft holds patents in this area but Apple has a cross-licensing agreement on th... |
Why does learning lisp make you a better C-programmer? | wingo: There are counterexamples too. I feel like my C has gotten worse in some ways (and not for lack of practice) because of Lisp -- I tend to make more expressions and assign fewer temporary values. C code often benefits in clarity from named temporary variables, but my Lisp style tends to eliminate them. |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | yuvi: Elliptic curve cryptography and LDPC codes are two that come to mind.Though afaik the latter hasn't really been improved since ~1960 and were only patented after rediscovering them in 1993, and I have no clue whether progress in elliptic curve cryptography stalled due to patents or because they don't offer any pr... |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | mrshoe: I would point to the current HTML5 video element debacle:http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...Patents are playing a large role in ensuring that what could be a wonderful thing for the web will almost certainly not be. |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | BearOfNH: There certainly have been cases where alleged software patent violations result in lawsuits. There the lawyers get rich while very senior engineers cool their heels in court or give depositions in places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant.I don't know how measurable this is but it is patently obvious it is p... |
Cases where software patents have prevented progress? | pmichaud: One thing that's difficult to measure but probably not trivial is the overall cooling effect. What I mean is that the tangible cases in which patents really ran into conflict don't indicate the number of cases in which technologies were never researched to begin with because of the risk of infringing a patent... |
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