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What content do you pay for online? | robw: I paid $5 for a MetaFilter account - good intentions, then never used it. That was about 3 years ago.Other stuff - last.fm, flickr (although its not the content that they charge for), emusic.
I wonder if the BBC iPlayer counts? There's a TV license after all.In terms of news/informational content, I have a su... |
How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? | RiderOfGiraffes: I use this:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370399 |
How do I handle a million hits a minute? | majelelo: http://majelelo.com |
Where to find used office furniture? | brk: craigslist is usually a dearth of used office furniture. You can also often find used office furniture dealers in your area via a Google search for the same.For whiteboards you can also use a large piece of glass (mounted on a standing frame, or against a wall).FYI, I bought a roll of "whiteboard vinyl" a few yea... |
How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? | ScottWhigham: Best way I've done it is to use Firefox+Greasemonkey+"HN Splitview" (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/28372). When I click a link for HN now, it opens in a frame - half is the post and half is the comments. |
rules for storing banking info? | Tangurena: The case is mostly #3.PCI-DSS is the most commonly used standard, is aimed at retailers and payment processing systems. And while it is credit card based, much of what is in it covers other stuff that you should be thinking about if you're storing banking information.One book to look at is Cryptography in th... |
What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously? | Tangurena: One past employer was looking to do such a thing. They handled electronic prescriptions, lab results and insurance claim filings. The premise was that pharmaceutical companies would be interested in long term longitudinal studies of patients.I identified the highest risk to be the anonymizer system. I called... |
Where to find used office furniture? | pedalpete: I've been looking too, but haven't been able to source big whiteboards locally (and shipping costs on the big items limits any savings you'd get).I went to ikea, in the "as is" section and grabbed a huge panel of lamenated something ($6).
Now, i've just got to get some whiteboard paint
http://www.rockler.c... |
Think Obama would approve a wireless network cloud owned by the people? | shutter: That would be awesome. If only those with the dough felt the same way...Granted, there are hurdles -- concern for theft, infrastructure for loss/repair/upgrades, etc. But it would be incredibly exciting nonetheless. |
Review our app, Lizzer | hotshothenry: umm, i don't see anything on your homepage except a link to digitalscientists... |
Review our app, Lizzer | digisci: hmm, DNS might still be switching over. I can see it here. Sorry, might have jumped the gun posting before it had time to propagate. |
Review our app, Lizzer | arthurk: The first impression of the service and the site in general is good.But I'm not really happy with the registration. Why do I need to sign up? Didn't I just use the service on the website? I don't want to customize it, just give me the bookmarklet with some default services.Anyway, I signed up 10 minutes ago an... |
Review our app, Lizzer | ucdaz: You should have some bullet point summary or how to |
Finding a contractor to set up our server | davidw: I'd suggest that you also try and learn from this person - it might cost a bit more initially, but basic admin skills are something that everyone technical should have. Sure, know your limits too - you may never be the guy that runs the 100 system data center, but you should be able to manage a few computers c... |
Finding a contractor to set up our server | icey: Things that would be helpful for us to know: * The language / frameworks you're using
* The amount of traffic you need to handle
* One server or many
* Your budget
* The expected load your application will create on the server |
Please help me price my new app | tstegart: Paying by the month gives you extreme flexibility. You can always lower the price in the future, although raising it is a bit harder.One thing to do would be to compare what your app does with the one that costs 300/month, and what yours does compared to the one that costs 14/month. Where does your app fit in... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | lbrandy: Abject thievery.As I waste-time on the internet (err, do market research) I bookmark attractive sites. My only scruple is that I try to pick a site that is totally off-topic in a completely different industry. One of my projects recently "was inspired by" http://heroku.com/. I hope they take that as a complime... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | mixmax: I found these by by asking Google:http://colorschemedesigner.com/http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/topbut found them pretty wanting.. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | rdrimmie: I am absolutely not a graphic designer. Usually I start with a dominant colour that I like (for example the default orange header here) and I'll plug it into a colour-match system like http://colorblender.com/Another resource I've used to good success is http://kuler.adobe.com (requires flash) which lets peo... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | thehickmans: I'll second http://kuler.adobe.com as a great tool to find or piece together a color scheme. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | timcederman: I used http://www.gpeters.com/color/color-schemes.php |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | tptacek: A well-known designer trick I've used is to spend 20 minutes paging through a stock photo site (I like sxc.hu), find a picture you like with some good color contrasts, and pull it into an image editor to eyedrop colors out.Kuler has tools that support this workflow too.What I don't get is the "shopping for col... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | psyklic: I ask myself what I want a user to "feel" when they visit my site. Then, I choose basic colors which elicit that feeling. After that, I look at different color schemes to see which complementary colors I like (this part is mostly subjective). |
Any users of SimpleCDN? | davssali: Yes bro, they seem to be legit, but their downside is, you could only use the (live)service as an enduser, u cant practically resale it as with other providers, it sux. I have 50 customers that want me to provide live event streaming, but it costs $75 per account with simpleCDN, too much for me, and they dont... |
Hacker News Thread Dynamics | CalmQuiet: To me it looks almost like that. I would say that the first "catchy" post (or maybe first catchy reply) tends (TENDS) to set the tone. No, I doubt that the effect is intended, but it seems inevitable: a snowballing effect can occur only around a sufficiently potent idea that gets injected.Of course, this ph... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | omarish: I like to check out wordpress themes. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | jfornear: I mostly pull colors from images, but http://www.colourlovers.com and http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html are sometimes helpful. FireBug is real helpful for experimentation.The best advice I know regarding color schemes: spend time up front finding a good 6-8 colors to cover everything ... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | unalone: I just kind of go into it intuitively. I guess you could call it synesthesia, but that's a bit overwrought a description. I pick colors that feel right and jiggle until it comes together perfectly. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | tricky: I grab a camera and take pictures of things that were obviously put together by someone who knows color.There is a neighborhood full of very well-painted homes that has inspired a few of my designs. One time I pulled a color scheme from macro shots of my backyard. My client said, "Wow, I really like that brown... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | Hoff: Hire somebody that's good at this stuff; same as dealing with icons and images and such.Creating good color schemes and good icons is as much a specific skill as creating good code.If you're serious about a product, it's worth the investment. The first thing folks see with your project is the UI; the colors and ... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | misterbwong: Work with grayscale first. Design your UI with contrast in mind rather then color. Then when all the main elements are in place, pick a good color scheme. I've always found colourlovers.com to be an invaluable resource. |
Please help me price my new app | RobGR: Start high and drop it over time if you are not satisfied. Also, maintain a "permanent license" option that is not monthly, that is about 6 times the monthly cost, and don't drop that as fast as the monthly cost if you have to drop it. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | ionfish: I just make them up. They don't come "at the drop of a hat"; it takes time and a lot of hard work, usually. Often there are false starts and wrong turnings. One site design I did a while back went through four utterly different designs before I was happy with it. Sometimes that's just how it is; usually things... |
Review my startup, mobify.me | ktom: Wow spin.mobify.me actually loads faster than spin.com on my iphone.easier to read too |
Review our app, Lizzer | crux: It ssems a little mad to use the New Yorker font, or a font that is so strongly reminiscent of the New Yorker. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | showerst: There's a fantastic (physical) product design blog at http://www.thedieline.com/ that I often use as inspiration, especially since many of the product ranges use a palette of 3-7 colors. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | jmtame: on hndir.com, i basically got my inspiration from the textmate editor theme "Blackboard." many of them can be found here: http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemesi guess after a while, you like black as a background so much that it creeps into your projects ("black's da new white, yall!").our next... |
Review my startup, mobify.me | eli: Shucks, I had pretty much exactly the same idea a year or two ago, but it stalled when I couldn't find anyone to pay me to develop it.May I ask for details about the platform/architecture?Also, the usage caps seem low to me, across the board. If I ran a site that I expect to get major mobile traffic, it might make... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | jwesley: I usually pick a theme I want my site to have, like "education", then do a Google image search for the term to see how others have represented it with color. After getting a basic idea of what color I like I hand it off to the designer with very general suggestions. I have learned this is one area I am better ... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | Zev: I generally pick a main color i want to use and pick colors that are on either side of it in the color wheel (Also that are similar in brightness and so on) if I don't want a monochromatic site.Or if I'm at a loss, i have this widget: http://www.colorschemer.com/galleria_info.php |
Would you pay $5/yr for HN? | jnl: Yes, unquestionably. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | juliend2: Try to define the subject of your branding. It your logo is a monkey, for example, find some photos of monkeys and pick the colors. Make a palette of these colors and see what is matching well.Hint : it's good to mix some cold and warm colors. Try to keep some white space (or at least, light tones). |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | diN0bot: ask a designer (-: |
Review my startup, mobify.me | siong1987: I think you may need a better mobile version of your mobify.me website to convince others that your team are good on "mobify" websites. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | johns: Offer the icombinator.net guy a little something. |
Is this idea outdated? | RobGR: It seems like a good idea to me. Ads for travel related services usually pay a lot, so maybe it can pay for itself. However you should be doing it mainly because you want it to be done, I don't think it will make a lot of money.I will check back to see how the site evolves. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | jeremyw: Heh, you wound me sir. I had pulled down HN and tested the mods.Here are the URLs to test on the phone.http://lookerupper.com/hn/news.html
http://lookerupper.com/hn/comments.htmlObviously not an optimal iPhone interface, but enough for reading/login/voting. |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | daltonlp: Oh I would definitely hit up http://www.colr.org :)...unless my project IS www.colr.org.Then I stick with white and gray. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | TrevorJ: For what it is worth, I have browsed HN on my palm Treo, which has a tiny screen and is pretty far behind what I'd consider state-of-the-art mobile browsing and the user experience is functional when on the HN site. |
Review my startup, mobify.me | enej: Amazing work! |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | gojomo: Here's an addition to the prior suggestions that shows scaling up and spacing out the voting arrows in the mobile CSS:http://xavvy.com/news.yc/comments-arrows.htmlIn HTML, the up and down arrow A elements get classes; in the CSS, the IMGs are stretched and the down arrow bumped down a bit.(And the last comment ... |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | pg: When was any? I find these sorts of things crumble in your hands, because as soon as you pick a candidate you find yourself thinking "but that was just a variant of such-and-such earlier idea." |
Review my startup, mobify.me | TrevorJ: Great idea! Think there is a model for user-submitted "mobified" versions of 3rd-party websites in the future? |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | shailesh: The question reminds of the notion of processes and channels in Occam with constructs for parallelizing based on Tony Hoare's CSP theory. |
Review my startup, mobify.me | s3graham: First screencast was good.Seems sluggish loading the mobile versions (on desktop, not mobile). Especially images seemed painful, and they don't seem to cache.Is it common that somewhere like grousemountain.com keeps a web designer on staff? I feel like normally a lot of sites are designed one-off, and updated... |
Review my startup, mobify.me | awk: sleek and well done. like the fact you offer prospective users a chance to try out mobify via the site. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | iamelgringo: I have an Android G1 and the site actually functions rather well for me. The only problem that I have, is that I can't log in. I don't know why. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | icode: Why not just make HN work in any screen size? Then it will work on IPhone and any other device as well. You just have to get rid of things with absolute size and replace them with sizes relative to their container. Maybe the textarea im writing this into is the only thing that has to be changed.And then testing ... |
Review my Craigslist killer | andrewljohnson: Your name strikes me as somewhat anti-semitic, but I wouldn't swear to it. Did you have gibberish Hebrew in mind for the name? |
Review my Craigslist killer | andrewljohnson: Your site would be more useful to me if you listed any items in California. A search for California on the site shows nothing. |
Are patents worthwhile? | karim: I think that something like this already exists for firefox :
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/Patenting, is, imo, not a good idea. First, suppose that someone breaks your patent ? Are you going to engage a tedious lawsuit. Second, you should always be ahead of your concurrence. Third, you're... |
Are patents worthwhile? | noonespecial: Unless you happen to have a couple hundred thousand laying around to actually prosecute an offender, a patent will do you little good.You should spend your energy doing your thing. Simply having a good idea and doing it well is probably the best defense against those who would copy it. People who rip off ... |
Are patents worthwhile? | rms: It's not particularly useful once your company is going, but investors like to see that your IP is exclusive and protected. It's still probably not worth the money to pay a lawyer to write it, but you can file a patent or provisional patent yourself for next to nothing. Check out the Nolo Press books on the topic. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | markup: Beside the other URLs suggested may I point you to http://developer.apple.com/webapps/ ? |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | swombat: I often browse HN from my iPhone and it works great... not sure what else you need.Oh, actually, just one thing - links in the message body. Since iPhones can't copy/paste, those might as well not be there. Otherwise, it seems pretty functional to me... I've browsed articles and comments, posted comments, chec... |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | wheels: Two things that I'd probably call just features of OO languages, but seem significant:- Type-safe generic programming- Introspection |
Review my startup, mobify.me | mcantelon: Seems like it'll have great prospects. At a reasonable price many folks will likely go this route as it cuts through the pain of dealing with the current mobile state (which should become more management in the future as smartphones gain all the capabilities of the desktop). |
Review my Craigslist killer | asimjalis: One thing I wish Craigslist did but doesn't do is look good on the iPhone. I am not suggesting you do this. But that might be a strategy for you to beat CL: find a niche that CL ignores and target that. |
Review my Craigslist killer | barbie17: How about if you allow them to import their postings from Craigslist and other places? Craigslist wouldn't like it but when you are small they probably wouldn't even notice. Just do it from multiple IP addresses or something. |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | nostrademons: Most really fundamental ideas are only recognizable in hindsight, after people have built other ideas on top of them. If I remember the early/mid 80s correctly, the hot language was BASIC because it came with most microcomputers and would supposedly enable a new generation of hobbyist programmers. (Whic... |
Review my Craigslist killer | barbie17: I would change the look and feel of the site a little. It looks like those spammy domain squatters. I would tweak the font a little, at least. |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | jlouis: Operational semantics has transformed language theory quite a lot in my opinion. It has set a new precedent for precision in describing programming languages. I would hope that more new languages began to pick that idea up. And then to use formal machine verified methods for verifying its meta-theory. |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | dfranke: The ability to securely dynamically load and execute arbitrary untrusted code within the same address space as trusted code, ala the Java bytecode verifier. I'm not certain whether the creators of Java invented this idea, but they were certainly the first to popularize it. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | notauser: Output all the data as lists and wrap it in IUI:http://code.google.com/p/iui/ |
Review my Craigslist killer | rm999: It's tough to provide a good incentive. I think your idea of initially targeting zip codes not covered by craigslist is good, but then your problem is marketing to thousands of local, semi-rural areas. Very tough...Perhaps a way to break into the market would be to find an esoteric genre of items to trade with a... |
Review my startup, mobify.me | known: How do transcoders affect HTTPS?http://blog.masabi.com/2009/01/how-do-transcoders-affect-htt... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | known: I prefer Black and White as http://mobify.me/ does. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | bulanga: any chance you could get it working on the Wii?
Sometimes I like to sit back in my sofa and browse HN from the Wii. It renders ok but could do with a few tweaks. I usually use the Column mode for browsing where the width of the page in made to match that of the screeen i.e no horizontal scrolling needed. I don... |
Review my Craigslist killer | ComputerGuru: You can't kill Craigslist with that UI.What makes Craigslist "just work" is the simple, bloat-free interface. It makes it easy to view large quantities of data on a single page, and doesn't make it a "chore" to browse through the site for stuff.Your UI is really way too bloated. Cut down on all the "web 2... |
How do you find a colorscheme for your project? | andhapp: Has anyone ever tried Adobe Kuler. It has a lot of themes put together by I guess designers. I admit some of them are awful but it gives one an opportunity to see how different colours complement each other... |
Are patents worthwhile? | jacquesm: The sooner patents are abolished the better.That said, as long as they exist there are situations where patents make sense. If developing your product takes a couple of millions of dollars and it is truly innovative then it makes sense to take out a patent because the overhead is relatively low compared to th... |
Review my Craigslist killer | rantfoil: If you're going to AJAX, what about just going all the way and never showing a 'loading' page? Just cache all the pages and all the item listings in memory so that its zero cost to browse around fast? |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | euroclydon: This has got to be some kind of test: Who's up at 2:00 AM on Saturday morning and willing to donate modified HTML/CSS to HN?Is the winner going to be a new moderator? Get a HN T-Shirt? Get a 7x7 pixel image of their face hidden on the site somewhere? |
Review my Craigslist killer | katz: It looks nice. Just my 2 cents (I am not a USA citizen so I don't know the exact conditions):Marketing in small towns is going to be difficult. A lot of small towns lags behind more urban places in internet adoption. Their population are also generally older and less tech savvy than cities - so you should plan fo... |
Review my Craigslist killer | ieatpaste: Instead of zip codes, why not do closed, individual communities? I know there are a lot of forums that have a closed buy/sell market that could use this application. Some guys recently were trying to buy/sell on HN and this would be a good opportunity to expand. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | ig0rskee: Paul,What you actually want is a mobile projection of the HN site! iPhone is the dominant device in the US but I am sure you want to open up to Asia's Nokia, Google's Android and the BlackBerry as well.We launched Mobify.Me in a post earlier today and here's a mobile version of HN done in around 5 minutes (as... |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | davo11: type inferencing as used in haskell et al, that's a fairly recent development - early 90's/late 80's?Category theory is another perhaps - it's from the 40's but it's application to programming is new - 80's perhaps? |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | waleedka: The implementation that Ashwin from Buxfer built for the iPhone was great. Simple, fast, and already tested. Maybe you can use it, or borrow parts of it. |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | tome: Monadic models of computation, in Haskell etc? |
Review my Craigslist killer | eli_s: What is the point of all the AJAX? All your content is virtually invisible to google, and given that you're looking for ways to get traffic i would have thought natural search would have been very important.I think you need to think a lot more about your urls - make them friendly for people and search engines, s... |
Review my Craigslist killer | sonink: I think before you want to make something like a CL killer, you first need to understand what is CL, why is that so popular as it is - essentially what is the primary driver of business for CL.As other would have already commented, it seems that the simple interface is one of hte biggest drivers for CL. You wo... |
Review my Craigslist killer | tlrobinson: Isn't the "[insert huge company or product] killer" phrase incredibly cliche at this point? |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | davo11: What about javascript's dynamic object model, where the objects can be changed at run time? I don't think this was possible earlier on, can't remember if this was possible in smalltalk or self?The idea of the DOM?Both mid 90's |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | gaerfield: Somewhere/Sometimes comes the point where fundamental ideas just evolve or merge's. Democracy is one of these examples, just from a other domain.
Future improvements would be massive parallelism and languages would evolve on this. |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | Alex3917: The biggest problem with HN on the iPhone is just that typing the comments takes too long. What we really need is to modify the spelling autocomplete to take account of our most commonly used phrases. So if the user starts typing s-i-r the thing knows they are actually trying to type "sir ken robinson" and ju... |
Review my Craigslist killer | merklefeedback: What would you change on our site to make it better?Here's a start: don't use javascript for link navigation. Try browsing Craigslist with javascript disabled and you'll see that the site is fully functional. Then try browsing your site the same way and see how far you get.Craigslist quickly presents ... |
Help me make HN work well on the iPhone | palish: Please keep HN as it is (or expose a way to turn off the new CSS). I browse HN daily from my iPhone, and it works fine. Also, pages load extremely quickly because of the minimalist site design, which I love.Basically, you've already met your goal, which is to "make HN work well on the iPhone" -- it currently ... |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | njharman: I'm not a language connoisseur so don't know if this meets your paradigmatic quality test and it's kind of old, early 80's, but significant indentation as popularized but not invented by Python. http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-de...I believe it is a large factor of why Python has/is ... |
Are patents worthwhile? | pclark: you can't patent ideas. Even if you could, you couldn't afford to actually prosecute an offender. |
When was the last really transformational idea in programming languages? | david927: I've been working on something for a while that I think could represent a fundamental shift in constructing software. It's essentially an environment that takes collections of nodes and assembles them into self-defined constructs. Since there's nothing more than these simple key-value nodes, anything that i... |
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