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What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com | senthil_rajasek: Hmmm are people actually ok with giving out their twitter account password to a third party site? |
What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com | alex_c: Aw. Just based on the title, I thought it was an app that lets you guess possible future tweets, and alerts you when anyone actually tweets your guess.That could be fun too :) |
Best CSS resource | ryanb: Sorry, don't have the link to the HN submission, but this site is a good starting point:http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/ |
Best CSS resource | teej: Best flat-out general CSS reference - http://w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp |
Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com | RudeDude: this shit is about as cool as a steaming shit coming out of my ass(whilst shitting from a hovering helicopter) and landing inside an active volcano. If you think this is an actual business model, you sir, are fucking delusional. the jig is up, fraud |
What do you think of our new app? FutureTweets.com | avinashv: Typo on http://futuretweets.com/account/signup/:> No problem, changes are you already have an OpenID url....should probably have "chances".I dig the design. |
Review a little side-project of mine? | jfarmer: I've been working on this for a few hours each night over the last week. It uses the data from the FEC.Thoughts? |
Review a little side-project of mine? | yan: I think you should make the per capita displays be default. Otherwise, it's always the states with most population glow the brightest and, in my opinion, little information about the financing gets communicated. |
Review a little side-project of mine? | okeumeni: I'm not sure how you are answering your question: Who contributed?I didn’t expect to see names because you may not get them, but at least something to indicate who contributed: Small donors, deep pockets, age range, price range something I can't see on any major news web site.Give me a reason to look at proje... |
Really short domain name. What to do with it? | Anon84: get.off.gr a porn site? |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | mman93456: Started using them today for a few smaller jobs. So far performance is the same if not better than what we receive from the "bigger" guys we use, and their new S3+ service seems to be working out better than Amazon S3 for delivery. |
Best debugging war stories? | prakash: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debugging+site%3Afo... |
Workflow Issue: How to "deformat" text without losing links? | babyshake: Put a good rich text editor in your site. Here's a few good ones:http://bulletproofbox.com/web-based-rich-text-editors-compar... |
Best debugging war stories? | jlouis: Sysadmin debugging: Many years ago I had the responsibility of maintaing a qmail setup for SMTP. We had around 1500 accounts and a mail-feed of some 80-90k mails a day. We were happily chewing off a 400mhz P-II with some 256Mb of RAM. Suddenly, the performance of the system began dropping. We only served 2 mail... |
Workflow Issue: How to "deformat" text without losing links? | noodle: i like the javascript rich text editor idea.you could also go with a basic regex removal of everything that isn't 'useful'. just strip out all tags except a/i/b/u and strip out all 'style="*"'.since its drupal and all, its in php, so this is perhaps in order: http://us2.php.net/strip-tags |
Best debugging war stories? | kqr2: Not my bug, but my favorite story is the Mars Pathfinder bug caused by priority inversion:http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Mars_Path... |
Workflow Issue: How to "deformat" text without losing links? | ivank: It's a solved problem.http://www.google.com/search?q=word+cleaner+html |
Email handler | apgwoz: I would use procmail (http://www.procmail.org/). You might also check out the comments at this older post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186875 |
Email handler | jasonkester: You're looking for this:http://www.smtp2web.com/They listen for mail and hit your site with HTTP POSTs whenever they show up. |
Email handler | aaronsw: Do what ezmlm does with bounce messages: use a different envelope sender for each outgoing mail and encode the message ID in that address. If you get a mail to the envelope sender you can typically assume it's a non-delivery report of some kind.For finer-grained information, you can search the resulting messag... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | dcurtis: It's pretty amazing how utterly terrible Google's customer service can be. |
How can I get reviewed on TC/Gigaom/etc ? | SingAlong: As the TechCrunch news tip page says, they'll feature you only if you are news worthy and if you break the news thru them. Its the same with Mashable.But I suggest you get your first batch of users with just word-of-mouth marketing. These users would stay with you if they like the service. Those visitors who... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | vaksel: the reason is probably related to adsense, they probably think you spammed-clicked ads on your site. |
How can I get reviewed on TC/Gigaom/etc ? | matt1: Few miscellaneous observations:- Seeing the ".biz" domain immediately made me suspicious of the site. Right or wrong, ".com" still rules. I'd strongly recommend finding a better domain.- Why does the registration ask for DOB, gender, profession, marital status, and children? Seems like a scam at first.- I signed... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | Hates_: The answer depends on your budget :) Personally, I would go for the 2.4Ghz MBP and buy my own extra memory for it. Saying that though the cheaper 2.4Ghz MB also looks like a good machine. Question is if you really need a laptop. I really wanted one, but ended up getting an iMac instead. Looking back I'm very ha... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | markbao: Developers are often seen with MacBook Pros. For example, RailsConf: http://flickr.com/photos/twylo/173895378/With the new MacBook/Pros, it's basically whether you want a bigger screen or not, and if you want more GHz of processing power. There are 2.0 and 2.4GHz MacBooks available, $1300 and $1600, respective... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | thras: Maybe Google should outsource their customer support. The Vatican has a billion customers and answers everyone who calls them up without the use of any machines (even the guy who calls in every day claiming to be _Saint_ John the Baptist): http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-phonenun... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | matt1: Unrelated, but I saw from your previous submissions that you built mibbit, which I use frequently and think is great. Hope all turns out well with your Google problems... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | jyothi: This happened to me once. I guess it was because of "'Account Lockdown: Unusual Activity Detected'".I was using a different account for my adwords and used to login on multiple accounts from the same box or simultaneously use gchat with one account, adwords editor with other and open mail in yet another one.Res... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | tectonic: I hope this works out for you. Please let us know what happens, this is one of my fears about being so reliant on Google. |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | illume: Wow, that sucks :(I'm going right now to back up all my google stuff!Oh wait a minute... there's no backup button. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | mattmaroon: You've got like 3 choices, it's not that complicated. |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | litewulf: hfwang@google.comSend me an email with whatever your username is (but not your password ;) I'm not a phisher). I can try to poke someone and see if I can learn anything, but no guarantees.PS: Also use http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1 if you haven't already. I've heard that sometimes... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | tptacek: Easy: buy whatever the cheapest laptop Apple sells, at any point in time. The 2ghz white Macbook is standard issue at our company; we use 'em like a chef uses a Global chef knife: software development, C code compilation, running Windows tools under VMWare, and running custom VM's for target software during an... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | bayareaguy: Wouldn't now be a good time to consider ways to lessen your dependence on Google? |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | gtani: Anything with an Intel core duo or up. G4 powerbooks are slow, always thrashing the hard drive. Also would avoid 1st gen MB pros, from early 2006, they were blazingly hot, and you'd get just a few months apple care right now. avoid Airs, i don't think they've solved core shutdown problem:http://paulstamatiou.c... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | charlesju: Buy the least expensive new Macbook. I am in love with this machine. It plays World of Warcraft at 40-60 FPS, I have 4 spaces at all times, it never lags on anything I do. With all my windows on full screen, 13 inches is enough space to do everything comfortably, including gaming. The aluminum casing is trul... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | bkbleikamp: solution to make this less painful if it happens to you: setup a script (i have a python script) that uses fetchmail to pull your gmail everyday after a certain time (i use 9pm since most of my emailing is finished after 9pm).worst case scenario you lose 24 hours of emails. |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | crabl: Happened to me twice this (read: last) month. I'm beginning to think that I shouldn't rely solely on GMail. |
Email handler | brianm: Not python, but simple and works great: http://subethasmtp.tigris.org/ |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | Whiteeagle: Cloud not looking that good on a rainy day |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | wenbert: Get a maxed out 13-inch macbook pro! it will run for years with no problems. And you won't get pissed off ;P |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | brm: Go for the refurb's from the apple store... cheaper and through more testing than your normal mac |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | louislouis: I would suggest signing up for multiple gmail accounts to spread the risk a little. (a bit like how u should be doing with banks accts atm).I have about 6-7 gmail accounts. I have FF, IE, Safari, Chrome and Opera installed to manage them all as one browser can only store one gmail cookie at a time. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | alecco: As a Macbook owner I had to admit the Toshiba Protege latest ultraportable leaves it biting the dust. The current Macbooks look a decade older. Compare it with the Macbook Air:
- Weight 1kg (vs 1.35kg)
- Slim (even more)
- 3G modem built in.
- It has a DVD player.
- Removable battery.
Apple needs to catch up fa... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | davidmathers: I recommend the one I just bought, the previous generation 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro. Was $2500 a few weeks ago, now selling on Amazon for $1650:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013FLTNS/In many ways it's better than the new version. IMO it's the best laptop ever made. |
How can I get reviewed on TC/Gigaom/etc ? | pedalpete: After a few months of writing to TechCrunch personally, as well as sending them my press release I finally managed to get www.HearWhere.com covered by them this week.This happened after TechRadar (http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/20-websites-you-n...) covered HearWhere. I don't know if having anoth... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | sown: This is the sort of thing I worry about cloud services...it's not that I don't already do this at home on some level with an ISP but what kind of freedom (if you pardon the use of that term) in computing do we have if Google/Amazon/MS just decides to not care for me on that particular day? Or they get (easily) co... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | blasdel: This has happened to me about once a week for the last several months!All I have to do to unlock it is solve a few captchas, wait a few minutes, and try again. I'm guessing that after they put in the infrastructure to make it easy to unlock your account, they got a lot more trigger-happy about locking them in ... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | keven: I have my eyes on the 13" 2.0GHz Macbook w/ 4GB Ram and SSD. The price adds up to be a little more than entry-level MBP. What do you guys think? |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | MaysonL: Consider replacing the HD in one of the aluminum Macbooks with one of the new Intel SSDs (about $600 now for 64GB) which will speed up IO drastically. Or wait half a year and do it substantially more cheaply. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | markessien: I'll tell you one thing: a white macbook is not a good laptop for travelling a lot. Mine is busted along the seams, the hard drive failed after 5 months, and the plastic above the hard drive has now turned yellow, I assume because of the heat. Also, the keyboard is missing a lot of standard keys for my lang... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | matt: Ugh, just happened to me too. IMAP still works for what it's worth.. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | jhancock: It really depends on your price point. I do ruby dev work (merb, postgres, nginx) on Mac Air and absolutely _love_ it. Its by far the best laptop experience I've ever had.I have not run into any problem with performance for my dev work or for testing using VMWare Fusion running Windows XP and Ubuntu server. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | wehriam: I can't afford a Ferrari, but I can get the best laptop on the market. And that's the Macbook Pro. You may be able to find a better value, but you won't be able to find a better machine. If you have the money, get one. |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | ashleyw: I still have my first gen Macbook Pro (Core Duo 1.83Ghz) and its still running great for me.Although I play WoW on it so I wish it was a little faster, and Photoshop takes its time to open, its great for web development! :)Screen size is what you should be looking for, I wouldn't want the Macbooks screen — so ... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | davidw: I had a similar experience when attempting to transfer ownership of a domain I purchased through their 'apps' system. It doesn't seem possible, and the canned answers are horrible:http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/09/23/caveat-emptor-dominium |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | travisjeffery: MacBook |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | brahms: I have a second gmail account to which all my mail is forwarded. I've its password sealed in a safe, and never use it. I don't see the need to store the backups myself, google certainly has it covered. I mean, it's google... right? |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | jasonkester: Lame. This happened to me with my Yahoo mail account. Twice.The first time was way back when Yahoo first launched mail. They actually lost EVERYBODY's accounts at one point early on, and you had to sign up again. That was acceptable back in 1996!The second time was 3 years ago. Account gone. 1000s of... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | mcormier: You could do your modelling in xCode using a core data model. Just create a Core Data application in Xcode and play with the model file.http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coredata.html
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/images/CoreDataSimpleDataM... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | charlesju: I know this is not as advance as you would like, but I use Open Office Draw for my process flows and DB models and stuff. |
Good OS X data modeling software? | mmelin: SQLEditor works very well, although a single license costs $79. Try out the trial. One awesome thing about it that it can parse a SQL dump of your existing database and create a visual model of the structure.http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/ |
Good OS X data modeling software? | wenbert: I vote for pencil and paper ;-) you can erase!
I do this and then directly create the sql in phpmyadmin or something similar -- for most of projects which are small. |
How can I get reviewed on TC/Gigaom/etc ? | wavesplash: Why do you care about TC/GigaOm? Neither of those sites will drive significant traffic. Concentrate on SEO, real/traditional press, and smaller blogs. If your site handles free calls internationally, hit the blogs that target large groups of overseas callers. If you're trying to compete with Jajah, you ... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | jonhohle: as mcormier said, you can use Xcode's data modeling. There is also Umbrello, which either requires X11 or finding a recent native OS X build.i don't have any experience with it, but also found ArgoUML (http://argouml.tigris.org/) |
Good OS X data modeling software? | tortilla: I usually just use pen and paper (my workflow works best this way), I also like OmniGraffle, but here are some others to check out:http://www.aquafold.com/http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architecthttp://www.dbvis.com/products/dbvis/http://www.thekompany.com/products/dataarchitectERD Stencil (Rails) for Omnigraffl... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | mwbrooks: You may want to glance at 'R' which is an open source alternative to 'S'. http://www.r-project.org/'R' is used to manipulate data and graphically display the results. I've never used it myself, but I know it's used in my University's Computer Science department. |
Good OS X data modeling software? | shaunxcode: DIA: http://live.gnome.org/Dia/I think the darwinports page for it is currently down (actually the entire server may be down), but regardless dia rules! Saves as svg so it's really easy to write reverse engineering tools for your code base/database. When I say really easy I mean possible. |
Email handler | drm237: Hey, sorry we didn't respond earlier, just saw this post and the Anyvite reference.Our system is very basic right now and needs to be expanded on in the future. We start by setting a return path on all emails we send. This directs any bounce messages to a single mailbox that we can then process.Parsing the bo... |
Suggestions for Mac Laptop | unalone: I'd say the new MacBook, if you've never got one before and don't need graphics. It means you have the advantage of the newest design - I disliked the older MacBooks a lot, personally - and you're not paying for the MBP, which is double the price and offers a lot of things you don't exactly need. Then you can ... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | tptacek: I recommend Graphviz, which is free:http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/ |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | aswanson: Robg, are you out there? |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | ljlolel: I worked at a neuroscience lab for a bit. I was focusing on EEG, the signals, oscillations, and emergent patterns in the brain. For this, they highly recommended I read Buzsaki's Rhythms of the Brain: http://www.amazon.com/Rhythms-Brain-Gyorgy-Buzsaki/dp/019530... . |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | nonrecursive: Mapping the Mind is a fun book. It probably doesn't serve as an introduction to neuroscience, but it has a lot interesting, useful information. |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | robg: Could you be more specific? Are you looking for a populist read, a textbook, or an anthology of review articles? Straight up neuroscience is usually lower-level or a more cognitive/psychology high-level slant too? Research oriented or general principles or abstract ideas?Your purposes might also help. There's bee... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | endlessvoid94: I'm a student at U of I in Champaign, IL. Because of the school, there are a lot of good hackers here. But they all move far away when they graduate. |
Good OS X data modeling software? | 1gor: Java UML tool like ArgoUML? |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | ljlolel: Django (currently the best Python web framework) originated in an innovative local newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. A number of other Django hackers reside there: http://djangopeople.net/us/ks/ |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | Brushfire: Welcome to Indy. It is pretty bad here. So much so that I'm moving away.There are lots of companies that call themselves startups around here, perhaps 10% truly are. The most notable one in all the media is ChaCha, and its a fucking joke if you ask me.There are good developers/hackers around here, but its no... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | river_styx: Visualization is for sissies. Directly editing SQL scrips in TextMate is the only way to go. :) |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | toddml: My undergrad neuroscience textbook was the classic "Principles Of Neural Science" by Kandell, Schwartz, and Jessell.http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Eric-Kandel/...If you're looking for something a bit more digestable, you could try "Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive... |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | psyklic: I'm a computational PhD student in the field -- I think you'd most enjoy "On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, an inspiring book written by a hacker himself!If you'd like a very excellent, fascinating title on mathematics and art and mind, try "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter. Another fun, classical book with ... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | oldgregg: Middle America: Even people who "support" you kind of pat you on the head "oh that's nice" because they don't really get it.Get Lucky: You might find a friend or two, and that's all you need to stay motivated, but don't anything beyond that.The Wasteland: I lived in Nashville for far too long. People just don... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | BigZaphod: I was born, raised, and still live in Iowa and I've worked for several startups for many years now - they are just all based elsewhere. One was European, one from the valley, one in Florida, etc. I haven't found a need to move just for the sake of working in this industry. The Internet is a wonderful thin... |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | pxlpshr: There are two hot beds in the "middle" where you can find strong activity. Austin, TX and Boulder, CO... I live in Austin for it's low cost of living, Univ of Texas resources, Texas' strong economy, and no state income tax. The only thing that bothers is me is that we're in the bible belt... :) |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | mwtalbert: I'm from Dayton OH and I work as a freelance programmer. The worst part is that it is very hard to find any kind of freelance work that doesn't involve using Microsoft products. I would love to do some Django projects, but everyone is hooked on asp.net or php. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | tptacek: I've got a company in Chicago; we're in the process of outgrowing our third office in 2 years. I can (have, in fact) given a litany of reasons why Chicago can be a better choice than the bay area, where my last company ran out of.(Half my company is in Manhattan, but our revenue isn't 50/50).I have friends in ... |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | markessien: If you want to develop new ideas, do so before you read many books, otherwise your ideas will never break out of the orthodoxy. |
What is a good introduction to neuroscience? | wynand: Thank you all for your excellent answers.I just bought Principles of Neural Science (it's pretty damn expensive in South Africa), but I'll look at almost everything else mentioned here.HN is awesome. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | Dilpil: I live in Pittsburgh, which is dangerously close. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | thorax: I think the primary benefit, if you have a solid team, is the much-reduced cost of living possible in those areas. This is going to be a competitive advantage for small startups who increasingly are going to have to get profitable on their own. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | tectonic: http://www.startupwarrior.com can map some of the Middle America startups. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | chops: From Wisconsin. I colo my servers out of Chicago. Wisconsin (And indeed most of middle America) has a pretty cheap cost of living which allowed me to bootstrap my own startup. Living an hour from my servers for that once-every-few-months trip for hardware maintenance isn't really a problem.Overall, it's quite... |
Good OS X data modeling software? | drewcrawford: This is probably outside of your pricerange, but have you looked at Wolfram's Mathematica? I find it invaluable for all sorts of statistical data modeling. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | rw: Southwestern Ohio. HN is a remarkable service for me. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | silentbicycle: I'm from the Grand Rapids, MI area, and develop for a small-ish company involved with the furniture industry (which is big, locally). There are a couple tech startups that have come out of here (but I don't particularly care about startups at the moment, so I can't name them offhand). The area seems to b... |
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? | budu3: Wow this is scary considering how much I rely on gmail. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | palish: St Louis, MOWell, sort of. I'm really in O'Fallon, MO, but STL isn't very far away. |
Any Hackers in Middle America? | adammichaelc: I'm a student at BYU in Provo, UT. There are a lot of good hackers out here, about half of the students stay after they graduate. There are lots of startups in the area, with top-rated universities around the state; and more VC's (http://vSpring.com, for 1 example) are being formed as the tech startup env... |
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