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Review my startup, reportminers.com | Angostura: Now, I'm sure you are a splendid, law-abiding 100% legit operation.However from a potential customer point of view and without additional information this could look like a brilliant scam designed to phish for various types of high-value, possibly company-confidential information.In your FAQ you have:Q: Are ... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | trapper: Doing > Reading if you are that way inclined. I learned by buying an arduino starter pack + a couple of shields from ladyada, putting them together. |
Review my startup, reportminers.com | Dilpil: Pretty cool business idea, your solving a real problem in a way that generates actual revenue.Also, since your already writing software to process pdf data, you might want to leverage that to start a side business providing spreadsheet info on SEC filings. Alot of traders and businesses pay good money for that... |
Review my startup, reportminers.com | puns: I've worked for a market consulting firm and so have experience working with many reports and large spreadsheets and I think this is definitely something that can be valuable to many firms.My two biggest barriers for using the service would be your price and time. I understand this isn't a fully automated service... |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | DenisM: I use python to write scripts of this nature (one script so far:)).Python has SGML SAX parser and since HTML is SGML it can be used. Better than regexps any day.Python's http client library also supports cookies so that you can pretend to have a "session" with your target website.EDIT: the libraries are urllib2... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | aaronsw: For the hardcore Feynman fans, there's the Feynman Lectures on Computation: http://books.theinfo.org/go/0738202967 |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | pkeane: The Boys' First Book of Radio and Electronics. Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner Date: [1954]
The Boys' Second Book of Radio and Electronics. Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner Date: [1957]
The Boy's Third Book of Radio and Electronics. Author: Morgan, Alfred... |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | tocomment: What are you trying to do exactly? It depends a lot on the type of data you're trying to gather. |
Downvoting? | ram1024: think you can only downvote comments |
Downvoting? | kwamenum86: I second that-I am pretty sure it is only for comments. It says that somewhere on the site as well. |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | astrec: Python & Beautiful Soup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) are your friends here. |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | jsyedidia: I would recommend considering being more ambitious and learning how to design and prototype digital circuits on an FPGA development board. Pong Chu's book "FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples--Xilinx Spartan-3 Version" is really excellent, with lots of well-explained projects.You can get really nice Xilinx sta... |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | thwarted: See if the sites in question are part of an affiliate network, like Commission Junction or Link Share. They often provide plain-text feeds to affiliates through these programs, and many of their terms of service enable you to set up these kinds of services (although some have restrictions on mixing their dat... |
what's a good resource or book to learn domain management | callmeed: Out of curiosity, who is your registrar?I would recommend checking out Slicehost's articles and ebook on DNS topics:
http://articles.slicehost.com/tags/dnsThey have helped me quite a bit. From my experience, I would say the following are the most useful concepts to grasp:* Knowing the difference between an A ... |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | aneesh: Perl's WWW::Mechanize module is a good choice for scraping & automating website interactions. |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | shabda: You might also want to
1. Worry about the Copyright laws.
2. Make sure you do not hit the site so often that you show up in their logs as bandwdth hog and are blocked. |
what's a good resource or book to learn domain management | Kaizyn: O'Reilly's DNS and Bind is the book for you. O'Reilly has several books on Apache as well, for information about web server security. |
How to aggregate product info from other websites | petercooper: For Ruby, consider Scrubyt: http://scrubyt.org/If you're wondering why, well, consider this script that "learns" how to scrape Google results (from one supplied example of output data): google_data = Scrubyt::Extractor.define do
fetch 'http://www.google.com/ncr'
fill_textfield 'q', 'ruby'
subm... |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | Angostura: I think you should make explicit provision in your will, including instructions on how to access passwords.Thinking about it, I would be quite tempted to leave my wife a 'to be opened in the event of my death' envelope containing (among other things) the master password to my Mac's Keychain. |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | jwilliams: I can't find the exact case... But I recall reading that a family was able to get the courts to compel Yahoo to hand over their son's account (he'd died in Iraq) -- So there seems to be some precedent. I'm sure there is a lot of other case law around on this already.Edit: Found the reference: http://news.cne... |
Are email providers getting more strict with mail from your web app? | mmelin: One thing I have noticed is that more and more providers are requring valid reverse lookups for your mailserver's IP. About a month ago Sweden's largest ISP activated that feature late on a Friday night without any prior notice, causing mass panic and consulting opportunities. |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | babyboy808: This came up before regarding Adsense and death. In the event of a death, the next of kin has to send off a copy of the Death Certificate of the account holder to Google, and that account can be transferred. I assume this can be done for most online services. |
How to keep your milestones and co-founders in check. Incentive/Punishment? | owkaye: Why don't you just accept the fact that he's no good at estimating how long it will take him to accomplish something, then just add a number of extra days to his estimates so you're not disappointed any more? |
Why no 2-factor authentication for web apps? | cperciva: Some banks -- mostly in Europe -- have started using two-factor authentication. But so far the biggest problem with "something you know and something you have" is an unavoidable one: "something you have" costs money. |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | peakok: What is the adsense of life ? |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | hendler: Interesting question.There is opportunity for some one who can do data banking/insurance correctly for the masses. Since a good startup is solving a pain, and death is one of the biggest, this is a relatedly great problem to solve.The technology obviously exists, but it's another example where legal systems an... |
review my site, afterthepinkslip.com | pclark: this is a fantastic name. |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | josefresco: I sometimes think about my family going through my personal belongings after I die, and learning a lot about who I am that they probably never knew.I plan on leaving all my information to them (good and bad) so they can not only 'clean up' after I'm gone but also learn more about who I truly was./Maybe I sh... |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | trickjarrett: This is something I've thought about a lot.My mom had a disease that involved a great deal of treatment and it wasn't a very common disease so she had found a wonderful support group online. I helped her start a blog (http://www.jarrett.ws/dale) and after she lost the battle with the disease I was the one... |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | nebula: I thought about death and information in the cloud a few times earlier.
There were two problems with handing over the information to the next of kin:
1. How will the family members prove that the claimed account indeed belongs to the deceased?
2. Was the account holder OK with passing the information to his kin... |
What's a good book to learn electronics? | comatose_kid: One other piece of advice: Get access to an oscilloscope - they can be expensive, so you may want to enroll in a course at a community college. |
What should happen to your gmail account if you die? | scottw: If you do decide to give it to someone, you can use a dead man switch (http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ is a good example, or write your own) that would email all your account information to someone you trust completely. You could give them instructions (destroy the account, give certain information to next of ki... |
Why no 2-factor authentication for web apps? | wmf: Yep, with OpenID you can choose to use stronger auth. Somebody from Vidoop said they want to give away tokens; I wonder how that's going. |
Offline log analysis/analytics | aristus: visitors is well thought of. I'd give you a link to the hom epage, but it's fing impossible to find. http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/hardy/visitorsIf you want to sort-of roll your own, I maintain a command-line program called logrep that lets you "query" your webserver logs:http://code.google.com/p/wtop |
What are you practicing? | alaskamiller: Never stop closing. |
What are you practicing? | noodle: well, i'll be the contrary one and just throw out there that i've been doing some form of martial arts for about 15 years now and don't consider myself particularly exceptional.i'm quite good, but having seen exceptional, i know i'm not there. |
What are you practicing? | redorb: I make it a point to pick up an incoming sales call and make sure I know the product as well as I think I do, of course I'm usually developing ways and methods of selling that product. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | redorb: 1 request per a minute I don't think yahoo would even notice. |
What are you practicing? | jaytee_clone: 1. Go out and talk to a stranger. Write down your interaction later. Take notes of your body language. You goal is to have them ask for your number or email before the conversation ends.2. Learn something you have never learned before and device a way to practice it every day. (You don't have to do it of ... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | qhoxie: I got blocked during RailsRumble for pulling too much from Y! Finance. We did not have the time to throttle it.You should at least try to email them and see if your restrictions can be loosened. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | xefyr: If you're really concerned about it you can go through an anonymizing proxy service. But, as has been said, if you have the time, spacing out your requests should work fine too. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | enomar: Hate to be obvious, but reading their API terms of service might be a good place to start... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | spc476: How far back? EOData (http://eoddata.com/) has 15 years of pricing information for $20 for a number of exchanges, which would certainly save time and isn't horribly expensive for what you get. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | kaens: If I had a site that was scrape-worthy, I wouldn't care about it if the people were respectful about it (wait a second or to in between requests, don't hammer my server).From the business side, I could see them getting a bit grumpy about it, but if it's publicly available information, and there's nothing in thei... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | hotpockets: I don't think you have anything to worry about. I've scraped Yahoo finance before at about a 1 second request rate, using perl's YahooFinance module. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | oakmac: I did this exact same thing a few years ago only stripping the data from nasdaq.com using Perl. I used to hit their site once every 2 seconds times roughly 2500 stocks every day for about 6 months. I would only grab as much data as I needed. They never contacted me or blocked my IP address. I also had a fri... |
Offline log analysis/analytics | known: You may try http://www.webalizer.org/ |
How Much Can I Scrape? | lacker: If you contact someone at Yahoo, the response will be, do not scrape us in any way.The problem with financial data is that Yahoo (like most other sites where you might find this data) doesn't generate this data themselves. They license it from other companies, and the licensing agreement typically prohibits or ... |
What are you practicing? | unalone: "Startup founder skills?" Are there such things? If you look at it one way, pretty much any skill can be a "founder skill" if you use it right.I've been working out, if that counts as practicing. I like being able to look at my body and feel a measure of pride in it. And absolutely, if you look good, it influe... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | yawl: Do not crawl too fast with yahoo, otherwise you will get 999 error -- which mean you will be banned temporarily.Search 'yahoo 999' for details. |
How Much Can I Scrape? | mikkom: I've downloaded all the data they have for s&p 500 many times (I did it with processes, spawned one donwload about every 0.1 seconds). They block your connections if you download too fast.If they give out csv exports as they do there is no reason why someone wouldn't download them and use them for personal use.... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | m0nty: Disguise your scrapes as a browser, so include an Explorer or Firefox browser ID string. Randomize the times between scrapes, so it looks more like a human being doing it. Make sure the scraper takes "coffee breaks" every now and then. Run the service from several servers at once, if you have them. I would guess... |
News website tips | SingAlong: 1.) CMS - Joomla is OKAround a week ago Bengtan posted his startup on the following thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352987http://www.prosepoint.orgHe describes it as "Online Newspaper Software". It's opensource too. This might help you. Also there are a lot of new site plugins for Joomla.But If y... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | dpmorel: We scraped Yahoo Mail for about 6 months quite heavily. We had to keep it at a >5 minute timer otherwise we got captchas during the auth process, or we got locked out for 24 hours with error 999.We now have a formal agreement with Yahoo, but during the process Yahoo indicated they had an informal open policy ... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | bgtony: biddersedge v. ebay is particularly interesting, as is verticalone.com, now yodlee.com.Trespass to chattels is an old roman law which dictates what should be done if you tresspass on my land and hurt one of my cattle, and it is used as the core of most cases involving scraping in unauthenticated environments (l... |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | jfno67: I think people will stop storing their data locally. This will not mean bigger transfer than video, but the number of transfer could be huge. It is doable with the bandwidth we already have, but it will become ubiquitous only when locally or remotely stored will almost feel the same. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | ObieJazz: I don't know if this is in the cards or not, but what I hope will be the next big thing in bandwidth is cheap mobile data plans, on par with cable/dsl plans, which (together with cheaper, more powerful phones) would help push mobile computing towards ubiquity. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | alaskamiller: Looks like it might not be wimax. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | azharcs: I would say Games would be huge, where we play without actually installing 8 or 10GB worth of data. Maybe just playing level by level, where it downloads files needed for that level.Also HD video would lot more bandwidth, so i am thinking that will be huge too. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | Pelagic: Symmetric internet links will be a big deal, if they ever happen - right now most places seem to be 8Mbit downstream and 1Mbit upstream - once symmetric high-bandwidth applications become popular p2p technologies can really start taking off. |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | unalone: I'll probably edit this post as I start using this more.The Facebook application looks VERY gaudy. It stands out. For me, that's a turn-off. The more native it looks, the more likely I am to keep using it. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | inerte: Stuff for 3D printers?Live streaming? Yeah, we have it now, but let's say a night club give its visitors glasses which broadcast what they're seeing through a website so people can check if it's worth going... live streaming on stereoids. Or on sports matches... televisions would love to have more cameras on st... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | alaskamiller: So in order for them to give you cash, you must help them churn out lots of pageviews? |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | stanley: I think you need to make a stronger pitch as to why this would be useful to people. Turn your index page into a sales page, it's worth putting more time and effort into it. |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | vaksel: why are "friends, family and associates" represented with calendars? |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | aston: Would you mind going into more details about this quid pro quo going on between you guys and Facebook? |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | ram1024: the next stage is mobile computing. your smartphone will become a seamless integration with your home desktop and cloud SaaS products (your desktop will be part of the cloud as well, hell maybe even your mobile will have shared storage and be serving data). Live video telecommunications will become the norm.... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | swivelmaster: I think it looks okay, but I do agree that it should be reformatted to look more like a facebook app.There were a lot of steps to sign up! Don't use ugly form buttons and do condense a lot of the instructions and steps together. Make those buttons big and bold and label the buttons more descriptively.Fo... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | peter123: if you're a fbfund recipient, don't you get advice and promotional help from fb? Is that right or am I mistaken? |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | jfarmer: Hey sanj,I have a lot of experience in this area. Drop me a line at jesse@20bits.com if you want to talk. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | DenisM: telecommute |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | iigs: Other than the obvious P2P file sharing that grows to fill the available space, better responsiveness (less buffering time) for high bit rate streaming video will probably dominate bandwidth needs for the near future.Remote computing applications will probably also get richer as latency drops and throughput incre... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | hooande: It took a lot of work to try that out. You should try to focus on value proposition to the user. SHOW them what luckycal can do, don't try to just tell them with text on the home page. You can probably make some assumptions and suggest calendar events to the users. Or just show local events. I'd like to unders... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | lowkey: First impressions:New User Experience: Requires me to give up a lot of personal info without providing me with a compelling reason to do so. Maybe this is typical of Facebook apps but it is still likely to be a significant resistance point for signing up. I wouldn't have if I hadn't heard about it on HNMarketin... |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | arjungmenon: Higher resolution streaming movies will be the most important thing in the next few years to come.Projecting further into the future, 3D image/hologram transmission could be a probable candidate. |
What's next big thing in bandwidth? | vzn: All your home usual staff on the mobile gadged.
I think 700Mhz Wimax connection across USA from "google" might be huge. |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | MikeW: I've been using Luckycal for about a month - it frequently reminds me it can't find any events for me.I remember seeing very complicated sentences to describe simple things within the app.It seems like for it to become useful, all my friends need to install the app. Is that correct? I'm still waiting for luckyca... |
How Much Can I Scrape? | toddcw: This might help: http://blog.screen-scraper.com/2007/03/01/how-to-surf-and-sc... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | njoubert: One piece of advice - your tagline "LuckyCal predicts where you'll be to help you decide what to do." seems slightly creepy - you guys are going to tell me where i'll be and what i'll do there? Once I read your description it became much clearer, but I would change the tagline. Just my 2 cents |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | JeffL: I offer both options for setting up monthly subscriptions and people go almost exactly 50/50 between the two. Some people prefer Pay Pal because they feel more secure while others refuse to use Pay Pal for whatever reasons.Setting up a payment system isn't really that difficult. It seems like if you get even 1... |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | nreece: We use PayPal for our service (Feedity.com). It works well. But once in a while we have users who simply do not want to pay through PayPal (due to security/privacy issues, or they don't have a credit card). In such cases we generally recommend them to pay with an eCheck. We have perfectly good potential custome... |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | subpixel: PayPal is a good alternative checkout method, but less desirable as a billing method. Recurring billing via PayPal, for example, requires your customer to enter a hairy "User Agreement" giving you permission to charge them up to several hundred dollars/mo. Try using PayPal at GoDaddy to see what I'm referring... |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | vaksel: I think for your audience using paypal will kinda label you amateurish. |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | daveambrose: Have you looked into PayPal Pro? https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-pro-overvie... and https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-cont...There are a few options you can take, ranging from creating a Google Checkout account, PayPal account or even going as far as a merchant accoun... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | rw: Could you explain how you spent your $25,000? |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | babul: Just a word of caution on PayPal, being as unbiased as I can.I have had first-hand experience, on behalf of numerous clients, with problems that can arise with PayPal and some of the crazy things PayPal do out of the blue and without reason (see sites like http://www.paypalsucks.com etc. for examples) and always... |
Downmodding protocol | qhoxie: My policy is different than yours. I upmod for intelligent discussion and downmod for your same reasons. I do not always agree with what I upmod.I think that publishing a protocol is an interesting idea, but the entropy afforded by the current system seems to work well for HN. If anything, I could potentiall... |
Review my startup -- LuckyCal | ahupp: On the first page after adding the app I was confused because there was a page that looks partly cut off, and I couldn't click on it. I finally realized that this was a screenshot and not an actual page I could interact with. It would be far better to just start me on the next page rather than showing the imag... |
Review our startup - BeatMyPrice.com | apsurd: I really like the idea. The interface is very nice and friendly. Your presentation is excellent, which motivated me to test out the functionality ...It doesn't work?
If I understand the idea correctly, I am supposed to use the site to find a product I want at a lower price. But when I click on the tags, I am l... |
Techmeme clone | noodle: you would not be the first.drupal has a memetracker plugin. http://drupal.org/project/memetrackerits a little wonky |
Review our startup - BeatMyPrice.com | vaksel: seems to me that you are just grabbing the amazon and ebay feeds. The whole "submit a link with price" thing doesn't seem to work...and if it did that'd be ripe for abuse. PS3 for $1.99 linking to lemonparty |
Impact on sales of using external site for payment processing? | m_eiman: You should look at PCI DSS, the new requirements for processing credit card purchases. I haven't looked into it very deeply, but according to the reporting about it you'll no longer be able to use a simple form on your own site to handle credit cards - you'll have to go through an external payment processing s... |
Review our startup - BeatMyPrice.com | mstefff: Awesome design - no doubt about it.But seems broken and useless in terms of functionality..Searched for the Dell Inspiron Mini...
The first result is for a wireless PCI card.
And the next 15 results are links to Dell's site with prices at or above what I asked.Searched for Logitech Z-5500 Speakers...
Results w... |
Downmodding protocol | alecco: It is quite a dilemma. It depends on the number already voted. For example, if a post I don't agree with is quite rational and has low votes I up-vote. But if it already has some votes I leave it there... Unless it has a double digit number and the other side is much lower, then sometimes I down-vote (and feel ... |
Review our startup - BeatMyPrice.com | aneesh: Interface is very nice. Well done.The main challenge when doing this is the quality of the data, and that's where you still seem to have some issues. It's a hard problem though. |
Review our startup - BeatMyPrice.com | alaskamiller: I like bugmenot and retailmenot. Not so much CushyCMS though. |
Hey hackers how many hours do you sleep? | astrec: About 6 - bed around 2am-ish, up at 8am-ish. I often have a 30 minute nap around 9pm.Any more and I have a sore back and a foggy head, any less and I have a foggy head! |
Any good publications that deal with the Internet? | tuukkah: ''First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.'' http://www.firstmonday.org/People such as ESR and Eben Moglen publish there. |
Hey hackers how many hours do you sleep? | brk: As many as I need to... |
Hey hackers how many hours do you sleep? | sherl0ck: 8 |
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