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Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | arimat: Yes.Facebook has progressively and consistently been trying to "slip under the radar" with privacy time and time again. This is not a one time thing, it's a habit and a consistent assault on users. They've never suggested they've ever "gotten" privacy and their flawed assumption that just because i'm on a soc... |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | imurray: I added the following rule to Adblock plus: * facebook.com/plugins*
The iframes disappear seamlessly. |
server/computer naming schemes | iamdave: Interstates. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | jorgecastillo: I signed once, I checked the settings and had a quick glance but didn't add people. After that I canceled my account and whit recent developments I think I will never again make a FB account.If something like XMPP was made for social networking it would be awesome and if data portability was added it wou... |
ASK HN:Good web design? | msencenb: Previous comments are correct in that interaction design/ design is a very deep field. There are some general ideas (Fitts's Law is a very basic one), however I would like to point out that really the user dictates good design.Do A/B testing, as well as physical user tests. Two types of user tests I find most... |
Best way to accept online payment from Egypt? | dxjones: I received email from someone at MoneyBookers. Apparently they can do a Bank Transfer to a US or Canadian bank for a flat fee of 1.80 Euro (about $2.40).Just in case anyone else wants to accept online payments from locations where PayPal is not available.-- dxjones |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | arihant: Not deleted account, nor planning to. Just clicking logout button does it. Now, I just login once every 2 days to interact, also saves time. |
Why is HTML so complicated? | rradu: Personally I've used it for so long that it's just become second nature. Can't even imagine anything else.Still way excited about HTML5. I'd like to imagine how HTML6 will be like... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | endtime: Nope. I've been a member since 2004, when they opened it up to my school just before my freshman year. I just keep in mind that Facebook isn't private and I can't rely on anything I put on it to be private. But even under the stipulation that everything I put on Facebook is public, it's useful to me. |
ASK HN:Good web design? | bwh2: Many software engineers make the mistake of treating UI design like configuration - the more configurations options, the better. Do not fall into this trap. The mark of good design is not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to remove. Turn every configuration option into a sensible def... |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | mmphosis: I feel sad that I found this submission by doing a find for "lisp" on each Hacker News page. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | ihodes: Yes, I really am. The only use I will miss if being able to contact a targeted group of people when I make my own ads. Which is a sick reason to not want to leave.But I feel as though my rights as a user of their service have been violated not just this time, but many more (the frequent privacy policy changes, ... |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | metamemetics: Simple solution: Complainbook.com. The web is viewed through a frame that that adds Dislike buttons to every piece of content. It aggregates what people are disliking and recommends things to the user that they will be sure to hate. It will instantly gain a high market share amongst content degregators, a... |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | kasharoo: Smoke 3 packs a day. You'll be hacking in no time. |
How to find side project friendly companies? | corruption: If I thought your side project could interfere with your work, I wouldn't hire you. I've done that before, it did, and it was a problem. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | raintrees: I just went back into my profile and deleted all of my personal/bio info, and made sure my settings were as tight as I could make them.Two older acquaintances were still able to find me, so success.I should also point out that I use it mostly to keep up on family reunions, and classmates, etc. and frequent t... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | HowardRoark: I deleted my Facebook account yesterday. I quit Google search 2 years ago. With Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Github and Bing, I don't miss Google search much. |
I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please | davidmurphy: Personally, I feel the opposite. I wish there was a Hacker News for entrepreneurship stuff, and a separate Hacker News for coding.... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | there: Anybody else never join Facebook over privacy concerns? |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | jrockway: I stopped using Facebook because it's useless. If I want to talk to my friends, I just msg them on IRC. Why bother with ads and "identity verification"!? |
ASK HN:Good web design? | vitovito: Practice.If a designer asked you for good tips on how to program, you'd say it's not simple, recommend some books, and tell them to just start writing programs, and reading programs, and writing programs in other programs' style, etc.So it is with design.I favor traditional design (as in art) texts, because m... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | keefe: I was on facebook for a while. One day, I realized I was publicly linked to my boss, my colleague, all my x's and everyone I went to high school with. The next day, I deleted my account. I was never particularly interested in it in the first place. |
Features of a Facebook alternative | lenley: facebook in 2007 |
Does comment editing on HN cause bad habits on the web? | TotlolRon: Yes.
Edit: Maybe. |
Which feed count is more accurate - Feedburner or Wordpress? | niyazpk: The numbers fluctuate for larger blogs too, but they become less noticeable. For example if you have 10 readers, feedburner may show anything between 5-20. At the same time, if you have 100 readers it will show something between 90-110.Anyways don't fret over these numbers. For the most part, they don't mean a... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | aj: I am. I'm done. Tried suicidemachine.org but that service seems to be spotty. Did not work twice and now apparently I don't have slots.Will have to do it manually.. But I am going to do it. |
What are your thoughts on Facebook's Open Graph concept? | korch: I think open graph is going to be a bitter poison pill for Facebook, and once they see what users actually do with it they will have no choice but to cripple it. Though I'm glad to finally see Brad Fitzpatrick's open graph idea from years ago on Livejournal come to fruition.Tucked away in the announcements was a... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | bradgessler: I've always viewed Facebook as a self-updating address book. I never got into all the other crap it offered and I loathed at their app platform when it was released years ago. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | ElbertF: I canceled my account this morning. I never had any information on there that I wanted to be completely private but I don't like where Facebook is going. |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | rick_2047: have fun |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | ErrantX: Nah, I made a concious decision to open up my Facebook account "publicly" about 18 months ago. So in my mind it is just like my public facing blog (with a handy added address book).Once you have it in your mind like that it is easy to remember not to post private stuff in there. |
Language & web framework advice? | sqrt17: If you're a perl head, try one of the modern web frameworks for Perl, such as Catalyst
http://www.catalystframework.org/
As a long-time pythoneer, I first had a look at RoR, but not being able to reuse old code and programming prowess is a letdown, so I tried Django and I liked it.tl;dr: There's rails-like fram... |
How does Facebook prevent websites from clicking the "like" button? | gojomo: Looks like there's a bunch of arbitrary session/key info in the IFRAME that the parent window can't predict/access. |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | aw3c2: I have iframes globally disabled with only few websites allowed to use them. Try it. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | raquo: In the internet only Facebook can quit you. All your data are belong to Zuck. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | shadowsun7: I joined Facebook this year for a class in Facebook app development. I never really wanted to join the network - like some of the posters here, I saw something like this coming and told myself it wasn't worth the investment to join Facebook.After four months of using it, I've come to several conclusions.1) ... |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | andrewcooke: You can block them in Firefox by using the RequestPolicy plugin. At least, I assume that you can, because I am not actually seeing any ;o)https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727At first it seems like overkill, because it blocks sites from accessing data from other sites, but you can enable cer... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | piguy314: As long as facebook maintains some semblance of a concern about privacy and allows people to opt out of their invasive and intrusive new features I will stick around. It's a great way to keep in touch with old/current classmates and family members. I of course don't allow facebook applications to share any of... |
What does it mean to have a 4.0 GPA? | jaekwon: 4.0 means he got the best grade for each class that he took. You can fail a test and still get an A, depending. I believe you can retake a course to get a better grade in my school. 3.5 is fine. 3.0 I guess might be average or not stellar. |
What does it mean to have a 4.0 GPA? | th: The letter grades A and A+ are equivalent to 4 "grade points." A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.3, B is 3.0, B- is 2.7 and so on. If someone has a 4.0 this means they received an A/A+ in every class.Depending on the university and the professor, this can mean different things. If the class is curved, one third of the class wi... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | retube: I just spent 30 minutes going through all my privacy settings and switching everything to "Friends only". It was time consuming, and given the number of config pages, I'm sure I've missed stuff. And there's still stuff visible on my profile.I'm just so pleased I signed up with an alias. Only my actual friends k... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | ritonlajoie: Do you know what was the name of this project which lets you, with a firefox extension, post your facebook messages using PGP or something similar ? I can't find it again, still there was some buzz about that some months ago..edit : this software was aimed at creating short life messages. After some time t... |
Lisp development for Android? | Zak: I have no experience, but I believe Kawa Scheme was the first Lisp to demonstrate the ability to run on Android. |
What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? | hga: A truly great hacker will have enough facility with abstraction and clarity that his code will be understandable by others, including himself 6 months later.He'll program in such a way that he can debug the hard bugs. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | weixiyen: I tried to quit last year and then my wife started an argument with me, rationalizing that people would think she's single if I quit. I'm still on Facebook, it's still completely useless, and and I still want to quit. However I need some ammo if I'm going to approach this subject with her again. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | loup-vaillant: Not sure this counts, but I quit Gmail over privacy concerns. My mail and my web site are currently hosted on a remote virtual machine on which I am root. But this is not enough. I eventually plan to use a real personal server, one that will be locked behind my walls.Of course, I won't ever use Facebook. |
Lisp development for Android? | hga: Here's an HN discussion from a month ago on the general topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1217845A Scheme running on top of Dalvik or on the "bare metal" (if that's allowed) strikes me as probably the best bet for now. |
Where the hell is all this recent hate on Gen Y'ers coming from? | julius_geezer: The other year an in-law remarked that "kids today" were unwilling to do the group house thing. I asked whether n years ago he ever imagined himself using the expression, and got laughs from his sister and wife, and a rueful one from him.How does JC get off? Well, what are going to do? Boycott him? Chall... |
How do Startups Look for Employment Candidates? | hga: In my experience:Their network. So you're doing well there.When that's exhausted, if they can't afford recruiter fees, classified ads. I would assume Craigslist nowadays.Only if and when they can afford recruiters fees and there is one good one in their area do they turn to them. My last experience there, in 19... |
GeoAPI or SimpleGeo? | haxplorer: I haven't used both these apis. But from what I see, GeoAPI seems to provide writable layers if you would want to augment their data with your own data which would be available just to you, while simplegeo doesn't provide it yet. On the other hand, Sinplegeo seems to give an API that enables you to query for... |
How to find side project friendly companies? | hga: One thing, echoing HN user corruption, is that you need to look for companies that can afford your not devoting 99% of your technical time, effort and attention to their needs.I doubt Google had its 20% policy when it was moving from its Stanford lab foundation to establishing the company, I would think that had t... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | Kilimanjaro: It is not what you post, it is what they post about you.A friend of mine decided to give facebook a try and he was received with a warm welcome of "Bring the cocaine, snuffy is here finally!"Closer to home, a cousin went to a bachelorette party and posted pictures of her and everybody doing their stuff, yo... |
A tool to analyse the orders of growth | sqrt17: You may be starting from wrong assumptions. Asymptotic analysis of algorithms is useful when you want to extrapolate to larger datasets, since it helps you figure out what, if the data grew enough, would become the bottleneck in your source code. A profiling tool is useful for getting at the actual time consump... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | Ascendancy: jQuery, hands down. It allows for so much functionality with such small amounts of code. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | CulturalNgineer: The individual in a tribe of hunter-gatherers has a very different concept of privacy. In his/her world everyone pretty much knows everyone else's 'business'.The whole concept of privacy is relatively new to humanity. This doesn't mean its not important. Its actually an emergent property of a scaled ci... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | jamesbond: You might want to take a look at qooxdoo: http://qooxdoo.org/demo |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | plinkplonk: "How do you get started in enterprise Java development? What is the best way to gain experience without giving up on the current day job that pays the bills?"Find a small business that needs a web app and build it for them using your favorite technology stack. That's how I started. Show your interviewers th... |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | hapless: Job postings are built something like children's wish lists for Santa. Your kid doesn't actually expect a pony AND a nintendo AND a dog AND a trip to disneyland. Entry-level job postings don't actually expect 3-5 years of experience.It's normal to be ignored over and over and over when you submit resumes. It... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | samd: Maybe you mean something different, but I'm pretty sure both SproutCore and Cappuccino don't demand your back-end be written in JavaScript, or any particular language.Also, your framework choice is going to depend on what you want to do. SC/Capp are meant for building webapps, not websites. |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | flavoie: You can also take a look at qooxdoo. http://qooxdoo.org/It's feature rich (more than cappuccino at this time), it has good documentation, it provides a nice unit test framework and it's easy to use.One thing that worth noting, is that framework like capp/sproutcore/qooxdoo are design with all the widget in min... |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | arihant: Shutting down FB account might be a solution to privacy issues, which can be easily solved by starting to use FB from something like TweetDeck. That's not big of a deal.But, the mere fact that people are feeling "friction" from shutting accounts leads to a more profound problem here - portability of personal d... |
Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? | elblanco: I wish there was a "Like" button on this post. |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | wycats: ExtJS has repeatedly claimed that their Open Source license does not apply to an application in which any part (including the backend) is proprietary. I don't personally agree that that's how the GPL works wrt JS, but if you can't afford the commercial license, be aware that the owners of the project don't thin... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | plq: Depends on your requirements. JQuery is great if your goal is also to maintain a progressive experience that somewhat works without javascript.If you're after a feel closer to desktop apps, or a high level of interactivity, and also don't care much about users who don't sport a modern browser, I think the best lib... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | davisml: Cappuccino is my favourite, although the included AppKit framework is large and slow at times. If you rebuild AppKit without Aristo and all the default images it loads quickly. |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | bad_user: > How do you get started in enterprise Java development? What is the best way to gain experience without giving up on the current day job that pays the bills?Those jobs postings are usually written by HR people that have no idea what they are talking about.My advice ... apply for that job anyway, even if you ... |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | zackola: Build something slightly enterprisey but really simple. Make sure it uses lots of enterprise buzzwords like XML, LDAP, SOAP, and UML. You could make something pretty simple that an enterprise client might find useful, like some sort of process management tool, otherwise known as flowcharts. Generally the only ... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | pwpwp: gwt |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | evo_9: Jquery by a mile, for all the reasons others have mentioned + I'm also using jqueryUI which supports the newish Theming framework and is a great way to bring a consistant Ui feel to your app. the online theme generator is very slick and is designer friendly too. |
Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? | stcredzero: Thinking about it.I think Facebook has peaked. It's bloated, ripe, and everything that can be extracted from it is being extracted.(I may be wrong, and this is only a local maxima. That's also a disturbing thought.) |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | slantyyz: UkiJS (http://ukijs.org/) is pretty nice too.I took a serious look at SproutCore and Cappuccino for a web app (not site) that I'm building, but jQuery is so damned easy to use, that it was not easy to justify spending a few days learning yet another framework.The thing that made me totally drop any further in... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | eli_s: ExtJS is my personal favourite - amazing collection of ready-to-go components, very good doco, a strong community, loads of extensions etc. The performance is also very good.There have been some issues regarding licensing with some OS purists feeling that Ext 'tricked' its early adopters. Personally I couldn't c... |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | raju: I work using the Enterprise Java stack. This may be obvious, but let me start here - Java Enterprise involves understanding the spec (essentially the API) and then understanding how a vendor implements the same (e.g. JAX-RS vs. RestEasy).Furthermore - the Java ecosystem is huge. There are multiple vendors for eac... |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | patio11: Learn a model/view/controller framework like CakePHP or Rails. It will make enterprise Java development much easier, since you'll know the core concepts in a language that you don't have to fight every step of the way to do things in. (I say that as a former Big Freaking Enterprise Java developer.)Learn core... |
What do you think of our demo website? | pedalpete: I like the look of the site, and I found it to be quite speedy as well.I use memcache on one of my sites, and never found the need for anything else.Clearly, you felt there was an opportunity in that space, and maybe there is. But to me it wasn't obvious.That may be a bit of a stepping stone. you're like mem... |
What do you think of our demo website? | akirk: It sounds like you keep the URLs in memory. What do you do if the power goes out? |
What do you think of our demo website? | vyrotek: Does it only work on a single machine? Or can it be used distributed across multiple servers? |
How to find side project friendly companies? | donw: On one hand, time not spent on product is time not improving the bottom line. Period. For a small company, that can easily mean instant death.On the other hand, I've regularly taken a day or two off at times when I needed a break from working on our primary product, and ended up writing stuff that either massiv... |
What do you think of our demo website? | taykh: clickable link: http://wrp.me/ |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | scorpioxy: Depends on how complex the application is.-JQuery UI for simple widgets to make the UI a bit more functional with JS- ExtJS for when the whole web app is a JS application with rich, desktop-like interactivity. Use mostly JSON for communication with the ASP.Net MVC backend.- YUI for anything in between those ... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | asnyder: If you don't limit yourself to a strictly JS UI library, you can try NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com). NOLOH stands for Not One Line of HTML and allows you to work on a single language on the server-side without ever having to deal with the client. Unlike SproutCore, or Cappuccino, which are fat-clients, NOLOH is ... |
What do you think of our demo website? | carbocation: From your FAQ:"Will wrpme be open source?No, users will need to purchase a license to use the software except for evaluation and educational purposes."Sounds like you guys must have done something pretty impressive to warrant such a statement! Can you tell us a bit about what differentiates your offering e... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | mattberg: No mention of YUI yet? I have been using it for years and can't imagine using any other framework.YUI can be somewhat low level, but YUI 2 has grown to provide many impressive components like layout manager, menus, data tables, rich text editors, tree views, tab views, and more. Not to mention one of my fav... |
What do you think of our demo website? | motvbi: It would be hard to pay for something that I know very little about. There isn't much information about the cache engine itself on your website. How does this compare with memcached? Numbers on the performance would give us more insight. |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | richcollins: You don't have to write any of your backend in Javascript w/ SproutCore or Cappuccino.My favorite by far is Cappuccino. It designed almost exactly like Cocoa, which is a fantastic framework for writing apps with UIs. It comes with a ton of components that are already designed for you. You can completely... |
What do you think of our demo website? | olegkikin: Boring. There are hundreds of sites like that already.I also tried submitting the same URL over and over again, and I get new shortened URLs. Seems like a waste.http://wrp.me/99Jaahttp://wrp.me/99Maahttp://wrp.me/99Oaa |
What do you think of our demo website? | moe: would you be interested (read: ready to pay for) a high performance cache or this need is just the fruit of our imagination?You mean instead of just using memcached, redis, varnish or squid? All of which are peer reviewed, battle tested, free, and optimized to perform about as close to the metal as it gets?Sorry, ... |
What do you think of our demo website? | kylebragger: I'm curious how this will stack up against free, open-source libraries such as memcache and redis. |
What do you think of our demo website? | javery: How is this better than redis? I can't imagine needing something higher performance than redis, especially if I had to pay for it and it was closed source. |
What does it mean to have a 4.0 GPA? | lsemel: 4.0 means you got an A in every course, and in each course the grade is usually based on a weighted average of tests and papers. You usually don't have the opportunity to redo work or retake tests.I spent 2 years at a good state university and 2 years at a top private university, getting 4.0 and 3.97 respective... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | chengas123: I love Google Closure. It's a huge library with tons of different modules. Much different than jQuery which is smaller and lighter but great for DOM selection. You could probably use the two of them together. |
Any good email reminder startups? | medianama: Mailchimp |
Any good email reminder startups? | aj: Why not use Google Calendar? Or perhaps http://rememberthemilk.com? |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | umjames: Here's what I did back in 2001. I already knew my way around the Unix command line, so if you don't, that's obviously a first step. I learned the following technologies in order:1. HTML (basics, you won't need to know every tag)
2. CSS (basics again, you can fill in the holes as you come across them on proje... |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | arijo: javascriptmvc - (http://www.javascriptmvc.com) is built on top of jquery and is most effective in a project when jquery doesn't cut it anymore. |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | brunoc: jQuery UI:If you're building a "web 2.0" type web application, jQuery UI is a good fit in my experience. It is lightweight for a UI library and if you're already familiar with jQuery you'll feel right at home. I'm working on such an application right now.I have to say that the documentation explaining how to cr... |
Any good email reminder startups? | Serene: - http://www.youbookin.com/ (online appointment scheduling)
- https://etacts.com/ (mass messaging to multiple contacts)
- http://snoozester.com/ (scheduled telephone reminders)
- http://www.fyiremindme.com/ (automated reminders)
- http://www.logicalware.com (Mailmanager by Logicalware) ... |
How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? | jbooth: Read Effective Java by Josh Bloch -- take those lessons to heart and prepare to be dismayed at how poorly designed 7 figure "entreprise" software really is. Then struggle against it for a few years until you say "screw it, my next job will only involve the Collections API, util.concurrent and nio libraries". |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | Smuggler: The YUI3 based Alloy UI looks awesome: http://alloy.liferay.com/demos.php |
What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? | johnyzee: If you use Java it is a no-brainer: GWT. You can check out our app for an example: http://demo.teampostgresql.com. It is a fairly complex AJAX app written 99% in plain Java. GWT automatically compiles the source to JavaScript targeting different browsers. Awesome. |
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