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How do you keep meetings short? | waxman: Have standing meetings. It makes everyone pick up the pace, and it's almost impossible to doze off or doodle, and yet if you need to write something down you still can |
How do you keep meetings short? | slantyyz: If it's not a meeting you called, your options are a little more limited, but if it's one of your meetings, here are some tips:1 - Have a set time limit, don't be afraid to even carry an egg timer2 - Set an agenda, and make sure everyone has it in advance. Agenda is vague, but I'm talking about a list of item... |
Best incorporation type for a consulting company? | byoung2: If you are never going to take outside investment, an LLC would be simpler to set up and maintain. You would have a separate legal entity, limited personal liability for the members, and pass-through taxation. With an S or C corp, there are annual reporting requirements, and you need to elect a board and hol... |
Review my startup - Snapza.com | makeee: Clickable link: http://snapza.com?invite=6142 |
Review my startup - Snapza.com | wesley: So, what differentiates this (at this point in time) from dailybooth? (Apart from having fewer features) |
What's a PC (for Linux) laptop that doesn't suck right now? | sigil: Try a used T40, T41 or T42 -- maybe a bit on the bulky side for you, but they have really solid hardware support under Linux / BSD (eg suspend resume usually works with no fiddling, wireless works, etc). These were the last decent models in the original IBM Thinkpad line. For some reason the T43, the final T-ser... |
How should I get started with Scala? | DanielStraight: For what's it's worth, I've never made it more than 20% of the way through a Scala tutorial before it broke down on account of incompatibility. Eventually, I gave up. I would definitely take the warnings about broken tutorials to heart. |
How should I get started with Scala? | plinkplonk: In practice, it is very hard, if not impossible, to make any sustained progress in Scala (and Clojure) with zero background in Java. Both are "power tools" for people comfortable with the Java ecosystem. Both change fast neither is in a state where you can have zero knowledge of java(and the associated bits... |
Is Facebook Graph API ready for production use? | eugenejen: Currently Facebook broke all APIs, either Graph API, Old RESTful APIs and FQL.I don't know the frontend part. My company uses Facebook's javascript library and we are switching to the new Javascript SDK.One of the big bugs in Facebook backend is here http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9758 |
Will this site make $500 per month? | inerte: You're far from your stated goals but I like what you have there. You need more templates tough.And explicitly say somewhere how do I order custom designs. If I didn't like the 8 or so that you have there what options do I have?Otherwise what you have there is an e-commerce site sellings a few pre-defined image... |
Will Greece go bankrupt? | d2viant: If you have a great idea and think you can build a business around it, do it. Don't let macroeconomic issues that are out of your control influence your decision to go for it. |
Will this site make $500 per month? | Slumberthud: I would use something like this, but, as inerte says, you need a heck of a lot more selection. Maybe you could team up with designers and resell their work, giving them a cut? |
Will this site make $500 per month? | _pius: Very smart, nice idea. |
What merchant account and payment processor do you recommend? | ramit: I got my own merchant account because I needed to do some more sophisticated monetization work than Clickbank, Paypal, or Amazon allowed.Now I use Authorize.net + Powerpay.biz + 1shoppingcart. Works pretty well together. |
Will Greece go bankrupt? | hga: "If something can't go on forever, it won't" (some famous economist I'm too lazy to look up).Of course that says nothing about the timing....The fiscal policies of Greece are unsustainable. Ditto for some of the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain). A bailout without an austerity program will only del... |
How do you keep meetings short? | reduxredacted: It's a tricky problem as a participant and it depends on the individual who's dragging the topic on.I find this problem to be more the fault of the facilitator than the participant. There's always an opportunity to say "I understand your concerns, lets take this offline so we can continue with our discu... |
Will this site make $500 per month? | vijayr: clickable
http://33banners.com |
Would you take a job that might suck over an already bad one ? | dnsworks: All jobs will suck. The key is to find a way to be happy that doesn't involve basing the entirety of your personal identity on your day job. Or just take lots of drugs. |
Will this site make $500 per month? | augustflanagan: > 1) As already stated, increasing your range to appeal to a broad cross-section of customers and repeat customers. 2) A good marketing strategy. At this stage I'd say (1) should be your focus but you might want to start thinking about (2) quite soon.Any one have any good suggestions on number (2)??? I... |
Would you take a job that might suck over an already bad one ? | Tichy: What don't you like about the people at the new job? Maybe they are not as bad as you think? |
Mongodb vs Redis for Django? | knuckle_cake: While I don't have enough Django experience to give suggestions on that front, you can use BigTable if you want to move to Google App Engine, though the drawbacks may outweigh the benefits when dealing with an established app.That said, I did recently make this choice for a Ruby/Sinatra app I'm working on... |
Will this site make $500 per month? | newobj: So, have you sold any yet? |
How should I get started with Scala? | rit: Actually, my coworkers who are Java programmers complained of the opposite - they felt the Scala books didn't link in Java enough and assumed experience in things like Ruby and the like.I found Venkat's book to be a good solid, terse start which gives you the bulk of what you need to start poking around.After that... |
what tools do you use to find available/cheap domains? | sidmitra: http://domai.nrhttp://www.bustaname.com/http://www.nxdom.com/ |
Mongodb vs Redis for Django? | mark_l_watson: From a Ruby perspective, but this may still be useful: Redis is very nice for data that fits in memory (disk persistence is for recovery, not for realtime access) and support for counters, sets, etc. is cool.That said, I really like MongoDB for many reasons: interactive shell, great Ruby support (and Sca... |
Will this site make $500 per month? | apsurd: I'm curious if you did any google search term research? How many people are searching for things like "ad banner templates" etc. Once you find those you can more directly provide a solution for what people want.For example if there are lot of "ad banner builder" , "free banner themes", "how to run ads" etc, it ... |
Mongodb vs Redis for Django? | hcm: I'd say it really depends on what you're storing and how you're using it.Redis is great for situations where you need a very large volume of reads and writes, and have a fairly simple data model. See http://simonwillison.net/static/2010/redis-tutorial/ for more information and some use cases.MongoDB allows for dat... |
Will Greece go bankrupt? | ozres1: Greece will only be bankrupt if they don't get bailed out again either by the EU, the IMF or both.The measures demanded by the IMF & EU (which is necessary for political will & arguably 'right') will cause the economy of Greece to contract.There has been much squabbling within the EU about how to structure a lo... |
cheap way to control voltage wirelessly | mbenjaminsmith: Not the cheapest but probably the simplest way would be to use an inexpensive router. The dd-wrt capable variety give you linux and a serial port for under 100$. There are tons of ways you could glue a potentiometer to a serial port. |
cheap way to control voltage wirelessly | CyberFonic: Easy, get a PIC, Atmel, Aduino, etc microcontroller. Interface it to a WiFi USB key and write a bit of code. A lazy weekend's work for a Real Hacker. |
Design patterns resources for functional languages? (inc JavaScript) | twilightsentry: You might want to look at Garnet and Amulet, which used a number of neat techniques with prototype-style objects to build user interfaces. There's a good summary of their work at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/amuletappframe.pdf
On the FP side of things, I'd _very_ highly recommend "The Struc... |
Added value gateways for s3-like cloud storage providers? | eliot_sykes: Clickable link
http://www.smestorage.com/ |
How to stop a hacker from deleting your off-site backups? | wwortiz: Maybe look here: http://www.tarsnap.com/security.html it looks like you can create keys to only write and maybe keep decrypting keys offsite for just this situation. |
How to stop a hacker from deleting your off-site backups? | eru: Perhaps you can go from a push-system to a pull-system for the backups? |
cheap way to control voltage wirelessly | pcarmichael: It might help to be more specific - what kind of voltage are you looking to control? AC, DC, or both? High voltages or low voltages? High current or low current? Is the load reactive or resistive? |
How did Academia.edu get their .edu domain? | vash3g: Domain record activated: 10-May-1999from: http://whois.domaintools.com/academia.edu |
How did Academia.edu get their .edu domain? | npk: They answered this question many years ago.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938 |
Do you patent your software projects? | georgecmu: What class, what school, which country?Generally, it's very rare for a 'program' to be patented. What usually gets patented is algorithms and frameworks. |
Do you patent your software projects? | ilkhd2: And many, many coders are so averse to this idea, so they do not do this obnoxious stuff. |
Frameworks for real-time collaboration in a web application? | ssriram: I used APE and a heavily modified tiddlywiki to put together BlipWiki at http://www.baggr.com and used the python/javascript diff-match-patch libraries from http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ to keep the data in sync |
How to stop a hacker from deleting your off-site backups? | oomkiller: Setup pull backups. Rsync.net does this for me. How it works is they ssh into your box using an SSH key and pull down the backups. That way the password is never stored on the box that is being backed up. |
Which is highest up-voted submission on Hacker News? | adelevie: 700+ votes is ridiculous.But compare those 700 votes on a single post to all the votes for posts calling Steve Jobs a crazy loon for the iPhone SDK TOS fiasco. |
Which is highest up-voted submission on Hacker News? | conanite: Currently, A New Approach To China, 1125 points. See http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points |
Need some tax advice... | brianmckenzie: First of all, fire your CPA. Sounds like that will help you pay off the debt faster. If you can't find a better/cheaper CPA in NYC, Turbotax online has a special version for contractors, which is what I use.Next year, make estimated quarterly payments to the IRS, Just take 30-40% of what you make each qu... |
When do you use Chrome's Javascript console? | chintan: I find Firebug generally more useful for JS debugging.Try the Chrome PageSpeed plugin - I like the "sluggishness" chart. Its Very cool! |
Need some tax advice... | starkfist: Just do it the New York way and tell him he's fired.Then again, did you just not pay in and then hire an accountant in hopes of making reality go away? There's not that much an accountant can do if the real problem is you're not paying your bills... |
Maintaining useful business documentation | patio11: At my day job, we put everything permanent in a wiki and everything temporary in Trac (our issue tracking software). It turns out that engineers spent most of their time in trac rather than the Wiki, so that gradually is becoming the authoritative option.For my business, I have three things: I have a successi... |
When do you use Chrome's Javascript console? | apsurd: Javascript, like html, is all client side so its easy enough to code in with a simple text editor and refresh. Chrome is now my default browser so I use the js console for all my debugging. I just code changes, hit refresh and watch the console. No errors generally mean the app works as intended. Syntax errors ... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | waleedka: I like the simple UI. Here are a few ideas that came to mind while trying it:- Ask me to choose a few categories before I start so you can do better news targeting and get me more engaged right from the beginning.- Going through stories need to be faster. Either pre-load the next few stories or show me a list... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | akkartik: I'm trying to build an online reader that:a) Lets you read interesting content from all your usual sites in a single place.b) Is accessible to Normals without needing to grok rss, feedreaders or subscribing.c) Scales up to large number of sites even for power google-reader users without seeming like a chore. ... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | iamcalledrob: One big UI thing.The opposite of a thumbs down is a thumbs up.
I was confused by the star. Is that a "favourite" button? |
Bug: Number of comments doesn't show on all stories? | wglb: I saw this perhaps a month ago and emailed PG. His response was that if the comments are not in the cache (as they will be after a restart) then it doesn't show the number and always says "comments". |
What do you think of this project? | corruption: Where did 101 come from? |
What do you think of this project? | Ascendancy: Seems like a really nice system, actually. The idea has room for growth and could turn into something really neat |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | Osmose: A lot of the articles I got looked odd and messed up because of the content being chopped into your site. Webcomics especially suffered (Hark a Vagrant didn't even display until I opened it in a new window).Perhaps an iframe or something similar so we can see the site itself, with your site becoming a top or si... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | tokenadult: You are asking for user comments, I take it, so my comment will be about a first impression from visiting your site. You are gathering information about user preferences, but I didn't see a convenient link to your site's privacy policy. While I can certainly trust anyone who posts on HN not to do anything n... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | joeycfan: Not a bad idea, posting here.Next time just go to Reddit and post'Free jailbait porn, click here' |
What do you think of this project? | minouye: Great design and a cool idea, but I really think that 101 things is way too many. I had the patience to put in about 5. I doubt that very many people will be able to think up 101 things--of course maybe I just have fewer goals in life than the average person :-) |
What do you think of this project? | apsurd: I think this is pretty good. You should focus on simplicity. I'm thinking about signing up (haven't yet). It's a nice reminder and a cute way to motivate oneself.An API is vital imo. This whole concept rests on simplicity and friendly motivators. I'd want a nice widget display or a json output of my list so I c... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | jgg: How will this be different from StumbleUpon? |
Review My Startup Site - Not So Beautiful People (nsbp.me) | minalecs: funny.. but i don't think much of a differentiator from other dating sites... i mean what dating site is there where everyone is beautiful :) |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | jayliew: <oops> I posted this Ask HN wrong - this body of text is supposed to be up there, but I don't want to delete and repost this because I'll lose the comments here.
</oops>This is just an MVP; the back end does not scale well (this is so not intended for outside of just our small HN community here). I'm actually ... |
Review My Startup Site - Not So Beautiful People (nsbp.me) | koanarc: Clever idea, though I'd recommend allowing multiple choice searches, and perhaps including in this post a zip code known to have existing users, just for example purposes -- if we can't get any results for given search criteria, the effort to review is a little much to keep interest. How many users do you have... |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | patio11: 1) Web design is a lot like pants. Sure, it is annoying and you already have the important bits covered, but please put it on before going out of the door. It takes a few minutes to use a free HTML/CSS template: if you like the Web 2.0 aesthetic, styleshout.com has what you need.2) Curiosity: Is the backen... |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | sh1mmer: I really like this, it seems like a good way to help with some of the "customer service" type of stuff I get at work on Twitter.I'd be interested in seeing if you could answer non-directed messages against a search stream instead of a friends stream. |
What do you think of this project? | qeorge: Nice idea, and I like the design. Looks like you've got people using it.I was a bit confused as to where to begin though. Am I to create my own list of 101 things, or are there some suggested lists I can start with?Also: try preloading the images in your stylesheets (or using sprites). There's a noticeable flas... |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | qeorge: I like the idea. I know this is an MVP, so please take my comments with a grain of salt:1) I'm not sure I trust your system yet. Can I preview what it might have said to my followers (or strangers!) before activating a filter?2) Does it respond to strangers or not? Here[1] you say it does, here[2] you say it do... |
Need some tax advice... | qeorge: It sounds like you're making a pretty decent amount of money if you owe $27k. Have you double-checked those numbers? Do they add up using back of the envelope math? Is that all income tax, or did you forget to pay your SS/medicare/unemployment insurance as well?Either way, fire your accountant. If you're making... |
What do you think of this project? | rick_2047: I just love the design simple and accessible. I am giving you the facebook authorization because I just loved the way your design handles the things. Way to go bro |
Domain Registrar? | dave1619: I'm using godaddy but want to switch. Too cluttered and borders shady. |
Domain Registrar? | iamdave: NearlyFreeSpeech.netI recommend them for hosting and domain registration. Everything about them is easy, and suits both competent and novice webmasters.Plus you get an SSH account at no extra charge. |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | zemaj: I signed in expecting a demo. It looks like it activates the service straight away when using the sign in button. I couldn't see any information or way to deactivate it, so I revoked the oAuth access from twitter. |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | petercooper: Twitter power user here and.. I signed up. Nice and simple. I didn't set up any responses but if it works as described, excellent. Nothing confused me, even though it lacks the "gloss" of a finished product.All that out of the way though, I didn't set up any responses because I can't figure out any use for... |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | kylec: Um, I think I DOSed you. Sorry. I ran ab to stress-test your server, and I guess it didn't handle it all that well. I wonder how HN handles excessive traffic? |
What do you think of this project? | iamgabeaudick: Maybe decrease the number of goals. 101 is a lot - both to accomplish and even just to think about and write down. |
Please stress-test the arc server for my latest prototype | asimjalis: Looks like it's down. |
Hacker news source code? | JacobAldridge: http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arcI'm not sure if this is the latest version, but should point you in the right direction. My understanding is that pg keeps some aspects (eg, the hellbanning protocols) out of this code to prevent the system being hacked and overrun by spammers.There are also... |
Domain Registrar? | nreece: NameCheap.com is the best I've used. |
Domain Registrar? | pedalpete: i've used enom signed up via google apps a few times.One time google apps tried to make me sign up for the domain via godaddy, but I didn't complete the transaction because of godaddy.The UI for using enom is pretty good, you get google apps in one simple sign-up, i'd recommend it. |
Domain Registrar? | mattyb: Gandi.net is French, but they're awesome. Free SSL cert too. |
Is Ad-hijacking or Ad-injecting legal? Or just frowned upon? | patio11: You're almost certain to fall under a broadly written computer crime statute if the D.A. has a mind to charge you.For example, in my home state of Illinois:A person commits the offense of computer tampering when he knowingly and without the authorization of a computer's owner, as defined in Section 15‑2 of thi... |
Hacker news source code? | rick_2047: Instructions on setting up the news site.http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/how-to-run-newsQuestion: What kind of server does one need to setup arc on it? Do you need like a total control (as in virtual/dedicated servers)? |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | keshet: My $0.02
<disclaimer>
I don't use twitter (I have an account, but never tweet, almost never look at the people who I am following) - so maybe I am too old school to have anything interesting to say.
</disclaimer>This strikes me as severely reducing the S/N of the social networking space - if this gets popular, ... |
Pls review my product: Rapid Social Response | dchs: Perhaps FAQbot might be a better name as it might help people grok it faster? It would also give people a hint about what content to populate it with.Also, could you scan Twitter for the questions most frequently asked of a given account? |
Are there any solid stats on Flash crashing Safari? | ZeroGravitas: Quote from Mozilla's blog of Metrics on work to correct Firefox crashes:"For example, with a significant percentage of crashes in Flash, a lot of work around stability improvement for Firefox users is currently going into Flash Player 10.1."http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/08/dramatic-stabilit...It... |
Review my side project - UniversityReport | ig1: Clickable: http://www.universityreport.co.uk |
Review my side project - UniversityReport | rossj: It took me longer than it should have to find the course I am interested in within the cloud of courses, maybe there's an easier way of doing this?Another problem is that if I pick a course and then have to pick a University it is going to be a long time before I find one with the UCAS score I want, or a certain... |
Review my side project - UniversityReport | binarymax: I'll be honest I'm not really into the colour scheme (too much grey), and the list of courses is a bit too messy for my taste. On the other hand, the information provided is excellent! |
Which is highest up-voted submission on Hacker News? | rlpb: As HN is (presumably) growing, you'd need to normalise this figure using the number of unique visitors at the time the submission was made or something. |
Web apps source code? | seven: Check out http://sourceforge.net/ |
Is Ad-hijacking or Ad-injecting legal? Or just frowned upon? | pbhjpbhj: In most cases I'd guess that it's unauthorised modification of a copyright work. The presentation of a blog for example is formed by design with the adverts - they constitute a part of the work as a whole, removal of the adverts without license would be copyright infringement as it's formation of a "derivativ... |
Web apps source code? | bgnm2000: or http://www.github.com |
Self improvement programs | waxman: Do something based on science, not on some kooky self-help guru.The scientific literature supports only a few interventions that can measurably improve happiness:- keeping a daily gratitude journal (in which you write down what your thankful for at the end of every day; there's a great iPhone App for this actua... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | kimfuh: It wasn't a privacy concern for me. It was boredom. FB slowly became boring. I joined around the time when the poke was invented and FB was something new. Every time i logged in, i'd find something interesting to do. Doesn't feel like that anymore. It feels stale. There's no app for that. |
Maintaining useful business documentation | imp: When I'm doing work on my own projects, I prefer to work with a sharpie marker and blank paper. It's the easiest way to get my ideas out as quickly as possible. The downside is that it's not digitized or searchable. Usually when I'm done writing and sketching out a lot of ideas, I'll just put those papers into ... |
What code have you read recently? | tamberg: Yaler, a high performance relay server implementing HTTPS with Java non-blocking sockets, hierarchical state machines and design by contract. Written by Marc Frei (Oberon microsystems).http://hg.yaler.org/yaler/src |
Self improvement programs | imp: I would be wary of self improvement programs that charge money. I'm not sure what exactly you've looked into, but there's a lot of information out there for free or cheap.I've spent a decent amount of time reading self-improvement books/blogs, and for me the stuff that made the most impact were things that were t... |
Any way to invalidate cookies? | pierrefar: In GMail, you can log out other sessions if you're logged in. At the very bottom, it says something like "Last account activity: xx minutes ago ..." followed by a Details link. Click it and you'll see the button to log out everyone else but your session.Otherwise, I don't think so and am watching this thread... |
Any way to invalidate cookies? | pella: change your password ... ( all of them )
And next time use: http://www.truecrypt.org/ |
A good and cheap secure certificate provider? | csbartus: Now I see there are certificates even over $500/year for a single domain ...And I see Dreamhost was offering certificates in the past but now it has canceled ...This business is looking very shady I think for a very good reason I would like to know |
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