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Extraordinary people who have inspired you | wheels: Gary Simmons: Local sys-op and owner of used car lot. Helped me set up my BBS when I was a teenager.Mr. Edwards: 6th grade science teacher, leader of the Sour Lake Elementary Model Rocket Club.Uncle Todd: Showed me my first computer (Apple II), fed me with electronics, bought me my first decent soldering ir... |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | bayareaguy: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Howard Zinn, Noam ChomskyJust to add a little to the ideas vs execution debate: stories of people whose ideas were not recognized in their time (e.g. Hermann Grassmann) generally interest me more, especially when the reasons for their failures provide lessons from which to learn. |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | jobeyonekenobi: Honestly? Ray Kurzweil. |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | jgrahamc: Three people:1. My daughter. She's not yet 5. She's inspirational because watching a small child come to grips with the world and discover it makes you look again at things you take for granted and see them as new again.For example, I showed her the pendulum of a clock and how it swings back and forth base... |
Extraordinary people who have inspired you | FleursDuMal: Ben Franklin,
Richard Feynman,
William Blake,
Dylan Thomas,
Marcus Aurelius |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | nostrademons: Start with Django unless you have a very good reason to use one of the other ones. Very good reasons include1.) Previous skills with Mako, SQLAlchemy, Paste, or any of the other libraries that Pylons or Turbogears is based upon.2.) Previous code in one of the above libraries3.) Functionality needs that D... |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | menloparkbum: I've used pylons and cherrypy, and did some massive rails things way back when rails was still cool (2007). I prefer the cherrypy way of doing things vs. pylons, but they are mostly aesthetic choices. Django is probably your best bet unless you want something lightweight. |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | inklesspen: I prefer Pylons for many reasons. One of them is that SQLAlchemy is the single most powerful SQL library I've ever used, and Pylons makes it easy to use SQLAlchemy, while Django doesn't. This is just one example of Django's reluctance to use superior outside solutions. |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | big-j: One thing you might try is to start by writing some small CGI webapps/scripts. Later on, it will give you an appreciation of what the frameworks are actually doing for you.Also, if you're not married to Python, and are looking for something really simple and easy to learn, you might try Perl's CGI::Application (... |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | gordianknot: Study the source of existing sites you like. Then start writing your own Python framework upward to recreate (and fast transcend) them. Extensively study the existing frameworks, especially when you hit a conceptual or implementational roadblock. Understand everything you have to work with at each step. Ke... |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | iamelgringo: If you're serious about learning web programming, here's a few thoughts before you pick up the Django book and start wading through it:Take a look at the HTTP protocol, and learn what it does before you start diving in to web frameworks. You'll understand what's going on inside the framework before you ge... |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | tebeka: For me CherryPy hits the spot between "too much magic" and "too low level".
I've used many templating systems with it, found Make and Cheetah to fit my mind the best. |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | jkush: web.py is a good one for learning more about Python. |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | gcheong: As you seem to be just starting out, I would suggest a ground up approach to learning how to build web apps, choice of language being rather secondary here. Have a look at:http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | pchivers: Some additional opinions...Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129121 |
Metrics for startups? | noodle: it kind of depends. in general, its best from a planning or PM perspective (and probably important to people funding you) to know the big four: timeline, size, cost, quality.exactly what you use to measure each one is flexible. they might not be important for a startup to track thoroughly, but its good to kn... |
Metrics for startups? | mattculbreth: Not sure I understand your question here. Who is the intended user or audience of the metrics? |
Choosing a Python framework for web development? | jjguy: django's templating language is great for small projects, but their object model is a disaster. I'd roll your own data access layer. |
being accused of running sockpuppets, what would you do? | Alex3917: I would discuss it with PG via email, not in public. |
it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site? | SamReidHughes: Should you bound your actions by what is acceptable, or should you bound your actions by what is practical and moral? The question I would ask, to phrase your worries more explicitly, is to ask whether that behavior will make things better or worse for you (because if you ask me, there's nothing morally... |
it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site? | aaroneous: Bloggers need things to write about, you need people to write about you - if your offering is compelling it can be a great match. I recommend you read this article: http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/08/22/how-to-pitch-bloggers |
it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site? | rms: Sure. Just make sure to make relevant pitches, and truly personalize each one. Bloggers can tell when they are being PR-spammed. |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | motoko: web 2.0, web 3.0 |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | aneesh: "the next facebook" |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | iamelgringo: It's the glassy eyed, far off, hungry look. When you're trying to geek out with someone about web stuff, and it seems like they're just looking through you and throwing out buzz words... it's time to exit stage left. |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | LPTS: I just read an article with the word "freemium" and my bullshit filter blew a fuse. |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | yan: - when something is touted as an anything"-killer";
- the standard issue 'web 2.0' look of a webapp that has a shallow reason to exist;
- Blog posts that have a list of N (1 <= N <= 10) things of interesting factoids that makes it easy for people to vote up on social news sites |
it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site? | fourlittlebees: As a blogger, sure, it's totally acceptable. My best advice would be not to blanket every single blog with a form letter. Take the good with the bad in any review and don't whine in comments if they don't like it, just accept it as suggestions for improvement from someone who sees a LOT of sites; probab... |
when does your bullshit filter turn on? | edw519: paradigm shiftbest of breedcore competencyready, fire, aim<x> is the new <y>any noun used as a verb, such as: to leverage or to architect |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | ubudesign: I use analog. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | uruzseven: Use Awk or Perl. They are available on every Linux system already so it's highly portable and very powerful. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | ivank: Stone Steps Webalizer: http://www.stonesteps.ca/projects/webalizer/along with cronolog and a bunch of custom Python scripts to autogenerate webalizer configs. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | hoyhoy: AWStats with GeoIPFree is pretty good, but a major hassle to configure. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | tom_rath: A Windows solution, but WebLog Expert works great for us: http://www.weblogexpert.com/ |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | pk: Started with Webalizer, switched to Google Analytics.Webalizer's ok, but it's missing a bunch of features like sane user agent string parsing (to give an overview of the browsers accessing your site). It also displays most of the stats by page hits (such as country and user agent) rather than "visits" or unique IPs... |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | sam: apachelog is a nice python module for parsing log lines from apache. it works as a great base for doing your own analysis.
http://code.google.com/p/apachelog/It's based on this perl module:
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/~peterhi/Apache-LogRegexTo manage log files, use cronologedit:
I use cronolog to break up the logfi... |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | PStamatiou: #!/bin/bashsudo awk '{print $11}' access_log | grep -v 'yourowndomain.com' | grep -v 'bloglines.com' | grep -v '"-"' | grep -v 'feedburner.com' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20 |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | dangrossman: I'm using W3Counter (http://www.w3counter.com). It's like Google Analytics minus the 1-24 hour delay, and all the goodness that comes from realtime reporting. But I keep GA installed as well for some of the more detailed back-reporting it doesn't have. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | SwellJoe: We use Google Analytics, Webalizer, and AWStats, plus some custom Perl bits. Clicky looks pretty swish, but I haven't taken the time to try it. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | davidw: I use 'visitors' ( http://www.hping.org/visitors/ ), which was written by my friend, YC.news visitor antirez.I tried Google Analytics too, but found it kind of annoying in that it's sort of a pain to get the information I want. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | mleonhard: http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/ |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | agentbleu: I like bbclone a lot, it's not like the usual stats but gives me very uniquely useful information and much better than many of the others as its so direct, |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | slurpme: I use http://polliwog.sourceforge.net open source, runs on Java. Not suitable for large websites since it provides a LOT of information about your site. |
what software do you use for analyzing apache logs? | dpapathanasiou: Webtrax (http://www.multicians.org/thvv/webtrax-help.html) is a good open-source tool. |
How long will it take, while Micro$oft starts to work on Unix based OS? | inklesspen: Impossible to say. Is there any evidence that Microsoft is working on a Unix-based OS? Why would they do that, when they still have a stranglehold on the market with Windows? |
How long will it take, while Micro$oft starts to work on Unix based OS? | noodle: 28:06:42:12/too obscure?but seriously, who knows? who knows how long they might have already been working on it? who knows when they'll start, or how many resources they'll throw into it? we'll only know when someone tells us. |
How long will it take, while Micro$oft starts to work on Unix based OS? | wallflower: For some reason, I'm reminded of a story that a Windows 95 product manager went to the local Electronics Boutique software store and said "we'll take everything". To test backward compatibility of DOS/Windows 3.x applications. How do you do that? Install, run, debug. Repeat.Windows' ball-and-chain is suppor... |
What was an idea or concept that made sense to you only after a small epiphany? | davidw: Comparative advantage makes more intuitive sense when someone gives you the example of the young strong guy and the old slow guy trapped on an island. |
What was an idea or concept that made sense to you only after a small epiphany? | craig-faber: This one's actually a discovery. I was psychology major in college and had been reading about research on gender differences in language. People seemd to intuit that there was something behind the stereotypes about women talking more, and a difference did show up in brain imaging - men process language in ... |
What was an idea or concept that made sense to you only after a small epiphany? | thorax: AP Calculus. The epiphany was "I have a very bad teacher and this is really easy stuff. The rest of the class will fail because they didn't realize this earlier. :( :( "Linear Algebra. The epiphany is difficult to explain and remember. It involved the elegance and coolness of eigenvectors.How damned important a... |
Good online link checker? | inovica: Sorry, this one isn't online but I use it as a Windows app (in parallels). Its free and very good:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html |
Lead generation? (consulting) | admoin: I can't imagine a better way to promote your services than through word of mouth. Might be worth it to offer discounts/rebates if your customers recommend new leads. |
Lead generation? (consulting) | melvinram: * Blog* Speak* Ask for referrals* Pay Per Click Ads on Google* Read "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferrazzi* Host a dinner party at your place, invite a few well connected friends and ask them to bring a friend or two.* Write thank you notes to people who make a difference in your life (such as refer to you.)* G... |
Lead generation? (consulting) | randomhack: aah for a second there i thought you were talking about consulting in lead generation in pharma. |
Lead generation? (consulting) | subwindow: By far the best source I've had is to build real-life applications.Two applications that I built in about a weekend each have netted me around 5 gigs around release time, plus about one per month.People are much more likely to want to hire you based on seeing your work in action than anything else. |
Lead generation? (consulting) | shimon: Get involved in organizing some geek events (dinners, hackathons, BarCamps, small conferences on specific technologies or industries) in your city. Figure out who you'd like to work with and make events that will interest them. Develop the ability to learn about someone's project and offer a constructive sugge... |
Lead generation? (consulting) | bayareaguy: My current employer has been on a pretty tight budget so I haven't done this in a bit but back in 2006 at my previous venture-funded company I made a point of going to local interest group meetings that had something to do with the technologies our company used. Whenever I found someone presenting somethin... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | ionfish: Do you mean the internet, or the web? |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | tomjen: Strong Crypto from the ground up. Binary standards instead of HTML, so if anything is broken even the least it cannot be displayed.JS goes out the window and is replaced by a scheme like language that can process HBML as if it was native list.But those are minor points when you compare it to the first. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | mark_ellul: reverse domain name resolution... eg. org.reprap |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | asenchi: I agree with mark_ellul, reverse domain name resolution.com.google.maps etc...I'd also like to see more crypto. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | bsaunder: I think IP and TCP/UDP work pretty well... seems like they messed up a bit on the size of the address space. That's what I would call the "internet" (along with some general services, e.g. DNS). Sounds like you are talking more about HTTP/HTML.True anonymity seems a bit hard (when you make a request, the re... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | beng: an extra level of indirection in all protocols for redundancy. the MX records in dns for mail are a good example. it's currently rather tricky to get good redundancy (fault tolerance) in software. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | brentr: (1) No ads(2) If your markup is not syntactically correct, the browser won't display your site. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | mattjung: Usage, technology, resources, bottlenecks - all have been changing all along the time and further will change. The ideal solution of today will not be a good solution for tomorrow. What you call mess, is the result of an evolutionary development that will be replaced by something appropriate when the time has... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | TunaFish: Kill, maim and murder the insanity of "be liberal on what you accept and conservative on what you emit.". Instead, have a standard dtd, and if any site deviates even a bit from it, render flashing red text on the site that says "The developer of this site is an incompetent moron. You really shouldn't trust hi... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | newtoncorp: How can you have innovation if you get a standard runtime environment ?If I would do something I wouldn't display the pages if the markup isn't correct. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | izak30: I would change almost nothing on the web side of things. Having no ads would seriously change the business of the internet today. Who would foot the bill for everything that we use now? End-users?HTML is a leveler for a lot of people, and it helps designers and developers actually work together, instead of bei... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | axod: Why do some people want anonymity? Bad idea IMHOPrivacy? Yes of course.
Anonymity? Definitely not - just means people can do what they want without any come back. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | kashif: No concept of bandwidth |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | ropiku: IPv6 instead of IPv4.
No NAT and enough IP's for all your network devices (pda, laptop, printer, etc.) |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | brlewis: S-expression syntax for markup, Scheme in place of JavaScript, and I'd like HTTP to have a header that sets modification times or other cache information for resources other than the one being sent in the current response. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | maw: 1) A better mail transfer protocol. I don't view spam as inherently inevitable, but with SMTP it seems to be.2) Internationalization from the ground up. Domain names are still effectively limited to 7 bit ASCII (even though "dots" are represented by '\0's in the DNS, which doesn't rule out UTF-8, in practice it ... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | attack: Kill NAT! |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | aneesh: Build in semantics from the ground up. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | volida: if you think something is wrong with the Internet, then build a startup around the problem. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | b3n: I would remove extensions from domains, e.g., "news.ycombinator.com" would just be "news.ycombinator", and "google.com" would just be "google". |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | yariv: Persistent connections to the server from Javascript. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | LogicHoleFlaw: Man, a lot of people here are violently opposed to allowing invalid markup. I think that the lenience web browsers afford site creators is a boon. It is one of the key factors in the democratization of the web. Low barriers to entry have been a critical factor in the success and organic growth of the web... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | sah: Standard runtime environment to target instead of the 'mess' of ((DOM + CSS + JS) x browsers) we have now?This is what I've always wanted. When the web first took off, I was constantly whining about how remote application UIs were going to get shoehorned into the model of document layout, of all things. It seeme... |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | vegai: Luckily, people smarter than any of us thought about this a lot already. Unfortunately, with that sort of brain power comes craziness.Check out the articles and books by Ted Nelson, Douglas Engelbart and Vannevar Bush. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | Kaizyn: If we were to rebuild the Internet today, we should remake it using a fully decentralized model instead of a distributed one. By turning it into a mesh network, it would make it a lot more robust. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | juansequeda: Would of created the Semantic Web initially.. would of solved data integration problems on the way too! |
American web working abroad | imasr: It'll depend on your expectations.
You can come to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
You're money will worth at least three or four times more than in the US.
We're specially friendly with foreigners.
Best food you'll ever get.
Plenty of night life.
And last but not least, incredibly gorgeous women.
Cons? There always ar... |
American web working abroad | tomjen: You want to double check the tax code. Otherwise you might get charged twice. |
If you had a chance to rebuild the internet, what would you change? | bayareaguy: DNS.I don't know exactly what I'd change, but I'd look for a way to make it impractical for the whole domain/certificate "industry" to get where it is today. ICANN, Verisign, Network Solutions and the like are all just scams. |
American web working abroad | astrec: Are you going to be paid in the US? Or the other country?If the other country, you'll need a visa with work entitlements, and you'll want to fill in a U.S. Form 1040 when you file your taxes. Generally you won't be taxed twice.On the other hand, if you go somewhere on a tourist visa - say for 3 months - and get... |
American web working abroad | mmcelhinney: I have been doing this for the past year and a half (Canadian Citizen, working in Finland). It has been great, but there are some things that you need to watch out for.- Ensure the countries have a double taxation treaty in place, so that income you claim abroad does not have to be claimed at home (or rath... |
American web working abroad | menloparkbum: I'm not sure this is the best advice, but a number of my good friends do this, and they set up companies in the US (LLC) and do their work abroad while on tourist visas. |
American web working abroad | sanswork: I'm doing this starting in September. I'm a Canadian and will be moving to Australia with my girlfriend. I'll be doing all my work through my Canadian corporation. Going to be traveling for the first 6 months or so on a tourist visa but then switching to a spousal visa once my girlfriend gets her migrant w... |
American web working abroad | JFred: People do this from all over. I have a friend here in Jerusalem who is a translator between Japanese and English. Having made many contacts when in Japan, all the work is now done over the web in an apartment in Jerusalem.I do web development, but I find that meeting people over the web to do this is not easy... |
Legality of RSS Feed Usage in Web Apps? | goofygrin: I've got a similar question.Whenever a client tells me that they want an RSS feed I make sure that they understand the ramifications. An RSS feed typically drives up bandwith and drives down traffic. An RSS that includes full content is even worse since it gives a nice easily scraped content source for con... |
Legality of RSS Feed Usage in Web Apps? | dpapathanasiou: I'm not a lawyer, but I had the same questions with my project and discovered that you can aggregate feeds under the Safe Harbor Provisions of the DMCA (http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html) as long as:(1) You stick to publicly-available feeds(2) You don't edit the feed content(3) You provide ... |
How to choose a name for a web app? | epi0Bauqu: First, some meta-advice: start the process early and let it go for a long time. Keep thinking about it and talking to people about it. I find that good name ideas come over time and come in spurts.There have been some good name posts on news.yc, so search for those. What I strive for:--As short as possibl... |
How to choose a name for a web app? | vlad: I just got a sweet idea. |
How to choose a name for a web app? | kyro: What I do is create a list of words that you can use to describe what your site is, does, promotes, enhances, etc. Start combining some of the words together, keeping it as simple as possible. Alter some words, like changing f to ph, and play on their meaning. Use a thesaurus and a dictionary.Don't get too stres... |
How to choose a name for a web app? | joshwa: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91005http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114920http://searchyc.com/ |
How to choose a name for a web app? | alex_c: Two sites that have been posted here before that might be useful:http://www.nameboy.com/http://www.makewords.com/ |
One page site/app + advertising revenue? | kyro: You'd get better and more straight forward answers if you gave a little info about your site. I think it'd vary on the type of page you were running. |
How to choose a name for a web app? | mstefff: Well its a finance / wall street focused site so if anyone wants to lend a creative hand, I'm more than open to suggestions. Thanks.. |
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