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Ask HN: Review my Homemade Gift Ideas site
Dear all,

My friend and his wife created a side-project web site to teach others how to make homemade gifts. It earns them a small amount of cash through Google Ads.

http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/

Any comments or suggestions would be gratefully received!
Clickable link: http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/
I go to a lot of shows, at least 4-6 per month. 1/2 of them have at least one band I've seen before, the other 1/2 I choose based on logistics and the club. I ask at each merch booth if they have anything available on itunes, if not then I'll buy a CD .. I found an incredible band this way last week, the InCiters.
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I think it's important to remember that Joel did it the other way around-- the blog preceded the business.

Joel built up an audience, and simultaneously built a product that would appeal to this audience. But even that makes it sound too calculated, as Fog Creek's first product wasn't really aimed at Joel's readership at all.

Joel wrote about something he was passionate about, and wrote well. He also made a product that resonated with decent chunk of his readership.

Here's a good test: would people who have no interest whatsoever in your product be interested in your blog?
If so, it's a personal blog. Cool. (Just remember that your readers are not necessarily your customers, and vice versa.)
If not, it's a marketing tool. Which may also be cool, if that's what you're after.
Is this on Windows? I don't think it has the same top border profile on the other OSs. You did click Save, right? Just checking.
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I don't mean to promote piracy or derail the discussion, but if you're a what.cd member you can usually find interesting new stuff by watching the daily and weekly top 10 lists. Also, searching by tag for your favourite genres and sorting by seeders often reveals stuff you may have missed in the past.
You click Save. Should be someplace lower down the page.
"It is a highly customized user experience, on par with something like Facebook (just not as many users)"

Really, Reddit?

While, I don't doubt that they have complexities to deal with, this sounds like skewed perspective of either overestimating their own complexity, or underestimating Facebook's.
Done, thanks. Who needs spell checking when you have HN :)
Irrelevant. That's not what voting is for. I've upvoted every one of Jason's posts, not because I agree with them, but because downvoting is for something else.
No-one is being crapped on here. I've updated the CFJ to hopefully make that a lot clearer.
"Successful" in what sense?

He says that it is taking away time that he'd rather be spending on his products, and that spending his time elsewhere would better maximize profits.

I think he's thought this through, and I salute his decision (although I'll miss reading JOS.)
I don't think he's contradicting it at all.

"Building content so that SEO can help your webapp be discovered" is a great first step. But it will indeed only take you so far.

Joel's interested in selling his products to people who have no interest in reading JOS. And, starting another blog with alternate content is not the best way to reach these people, either.
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We were only trying to be secret to not build hype when the product isn't ready. Backfire! We hope you aren't put off. We are going to be as open and transparent as we can be.

(I should point out in that case that I'm only using this name for consistency. I'm pbiggar on HN.)
I wonder if there's a smallish set of keywords that one could filter to get a less valley-drama-filled HN, with a higher percentage of that excellent tech content. Maybe filter out anything involving "calacanis" and "techcrunch" and see how it goes (though this particular post would be hard to catch, since the title only alludes to it).
Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples?
I'm tasked with showing a group of business folk what is possible on the web, prior to a day-long design/brainstorming session for a major app.

The idea is to assist them to break them out of the box, showing them all the possibilities of a Web UI, so that they can be more free in their brainstorming, and not just ask for the standard leftnav and forms.

So the question is -- does anyone have a collection of sites that could be used to demo different UI concepts?

If not a collection, even just recommendations on creative, but effective UIs would be of great assistance.

Edit: This could include all components of an app -- Navigation, Forms, Data Views, Reporting, Widgets/Controls, etc...
I've lived in a few different countries and cultures and one thing I've learned is that the reply "Maybe later" is a polite way of saying "I will definitely not do it but I want to avoid any confrontation." It's actually quite surprising how universal this is.
I was really surprised when I saw my mother using Safari on her iPhone (which we gave her for christmas just to have a "simple" phone and iPod, nothing more). It's not like she can't use a PC, but she rarely does so.

This made me think that an iPad, or a similar super simple tablet is the right product for her. Appliance is the way to go.

If my parents TV set took 5 minutes to boot up and frequently asked to download and install the latest security updates before letting them watch TV, maybe they would do it less often. :)
Holiday making in Palm Springs I would assume.
Its not strictly limited to journalists, but its focus will be news, and we're looking to restrict the authors to high quality writers.

While I expect to widen the platform to all comers in the long term, we'll be very careful how we do it. It'll be our equivalent of reddit's search for how to do subreddits well, and Facebook figuring out how to let everyone in.
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Searches are likely done off slaves - I suspect that is not presented properly because of the oversimplification of the diagram.

You can just use a few bits from an MD5 hash to decide server as long as you know how many servers you're going to have up front. The problem is that if you later wanted to add or remove a server, you would need to come up with a new scheme and move every piece of data around so it's on the right server (which would take days/weeks).

The more scalable/flexible solution is to use a consistent hashing algorithm (check out some of the papers on Chord) so that adding or removing a server doesn't require you to move as much data around.
You mean people expect something money in return for work? That sounds like a salary.
Sorry I sounded so negative - now you've clarified things it looks a lot better. Your right the low profile thing probably worked against you, unfairly I guess.

I'll drop an email when I get chance.
Obviously, because every day is a day closer to when we will be in charge. When all of the world leaders are on facebook, it's a little hard to be a bigot asshole :)
Ask HN: Anyone interested in contributing to Domo web crawler project?
Hi Hn,

http://github.com/hinoglu/Domo/ is a python based remotely manageable web crawler based on Python, multiprocessing, pyro, lxml and pycurl.

It's main purpose is to be able provide a lightweight python based alternative to archive.org's heritrix. Main structure is similar to heritrix and Domo provides almost similar but somewhat lesser features.

Though Domo is a web crawler/archiver, it can be used for anything that requires remote multiinstance / multiprocess job management features, thanks to Pyro and multiprocessing libraries.

I'd be glad if anyone would like to contribute or join the project.
Interesting question. I'm guessing since you ask about the DCMA you're asking about copyright. Well, we'll vet all our writers, and it should be no problem at all. We'll also delay payment of new writers so that there is no way to do some kind of grab-and-dash.

Its also much much much easier to search for copyrighted material in text than in video or flash content. I can't imagine solving this will be a hard problem.
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I don't think that's true. Eve can change the licence on her work. That doesn't affect any copy that Bob obtained beforehand. You cannot change the licence in a way that affects things already released - otherwise you'd be able to release something under BSD and after a year say "I'm changing the terms, new licence requires everyone to pay me X, even if you obtained the software on BSD terms".

Referring to the WTFPL author (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/):

Can’t you change the wording? It’s inappropriate / childish /
not corporate-compliant.

What the fuck is not clear in “DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU
WANT TO”? If you do not like the license terms, just
relicense the work under another license.
Yep - good point.

I think in a roundabout way what I want to say is that I wonder if you should give your company blog (to market your product) a more personal feel would this generate more custom ?
This seems like an oddly backwards take on blogging. Do you really start a blog solely because it's a way to flog your product? Not because you have things you want to say and want an outlet to say them in, without having to deal with finding a way to get yourself published in a magazine column or something?

I can imagine sometimes it's a good choice even if your only goal is the sales/exposure your blog brings in, but it's not surprising to me that it would often not be. There are plenty of people, including quite a few smart ones, blogging just to say things that they want to say, so it's a fairly competitive market in which you're up against people who are willing to work for free, because they categorize blogging as something other than work.

In fact, I'm not sure I really believe even he originally did it for that reason. Did he really start Joel on Software solely to be "a blog that actually generates leads, sales, and business success"? Or was it because in 2000 blogging was still relatively new, it seemed interesting, and he had a lot of things to say about software? I can't believe it wasn't at least a mixture of those.
Yeah, similar alright. We have different outlook. The writers for our site aren't "contributors". Rather, they are the stars and we are providing a service to them.
Yes. Windows 7. I did click save.
With all the fuss about GPUs, FPGAs seem to be less fashionable. I vaguely remember when they were going to be "the future" - that now seems to what GPU/CPU fusion will give us instead.

But I know nothing about FPGAs. Why don't we currently have CPUs that are reprogrammable (ie in laptops and destops)? Why don't we have (popular) FPGA based accelerators like we have graphics cards? Why aren't FPGAs used in graphics cards so that they can be customized for each game?

Some of my work involves numerical computing, working with GPUs/OpenCL/CUDA - yet I've never really considered FPGAs. Can they be configured to do matrix maths? Is the problem that they have limited storage?
Yes, we'll be working on the ad revenues. They certainly aren't high enough to support a massive media organization. They should be high enough to support a low-overhead one-man journalism show.

There are other revenue streams, too. It remains to be seen which is the best for us.
I could make tomorrow evening, or most other dates after work.
--I would prefer that people with great ability are encouraged by society and their peers

While in concept it is a great idea, the realities are usually much harder for the exceptional gifted. I have a really good friend with aspergers syndrome who has as slightly higher IQ (190's) than mine. He is very well liked but his perception of reality is quite distorted due to his hindrance, unfortunately high IQ is many times coupled with some other form of mental or physical impairment, there are a lot of theories as to why this is, but sufficient to say not all of them are a joy. My point being these impairments are usually the target of ridicule at formative points in an intelligent persons life and some times bitters them from the pursuit of their potential and in extreme cases like my friend bitters them from helping better mankind at all.
Actually does he not admit he doesn't give a straightforward refusal because the idea of the coverage actually makes him think its worth it? rather than the consequences of the confrontation.

The consequences feature in his thinking about if and when to report it to techcrunch a bit later on

Not meaning this as criticism of Daniel though who comes across fine - massive, massive difference between considering doing something unethical and actually doing it.
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You ask for "new music" but in the longer question you seem to be asking for music that is new to you, two very different things.

I'm more interested in finding good music, than new (produced in the last X years) music, in fact I probably have a distinct preference for older music so with that in mind here's some techniques I use.

Last.fm has "similar to artist X" radio but I think it's actually "people who listen to Artist X also listen to" radio which I find gives good results as long as you don't choose highly popular artists (or those that are listened to by boring people) as that seems to average things out to the point that I've already heard the music and nothing surprises me. For my tastes I found "music that is listened to by people who listen to Eels" was interesting. It also worked with "Sly and the Family Stone". What I peronally like about this is that it's a mix of stuff I know and like with new and interesting music so the new stuff gets a chance to creep up on me.

BBC Radio 6 Music is basically a bunch of musos playing good tunes. So good in fact that they're alledgedly going to kill it soon in some big reshuffle, enjoy it while it lasts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/

Since they log every track they play on last.fm you can also listen to BBC Radio 6 style music on Last.fm here:

http://www.last.fm/listen/user/bbc6music/personal

My own personal fave tactic is to research my favourite bands and listen to the music they liked (including who they cover, namecheck, sample, work with etc.). This rarely lets me down. It also helps to have a circle of friends doing likewise as it can be time intensive.
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No idea then, sorry. Works fine on the two desktops and a laptop in front of me.

Edit: Ah, but I am using this skin: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=9281
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=734397

Well said.
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Maybe I am a minority, but if I discover some new online company, I tend to check their blog to have a glimpse about what they are up to, how their thinking is in general and whether they are able to communicate in an intelligent way. To sum it up, I personally like it when company has a blog, and I see it as a bonus, even if they speak only about themselves.
I'd also capitalise "google". I know it can be a verb, but you're using it here as a noun.
Here are a couple of good sites on design patterns for various components, with nice examples:

http://www.welie.com/patterns/

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ (obviously)

http://ui-patterns.com/
What do you consider grounds for a down-vote then ? (this is sincere question)
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If I had to score the entire Michael Arrington, Chandra Rathakrishnan battle over the CrunchPad/JooJoo at this point it would go as follows: 1 point Michael, zero points Chandra.

I think it's still 0 points Michael.
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I'm afraid it works just fine on my IE7 test machine. If you have more information, please submit a bug on the project site and I'll look into it. :)

http://code.google.com/p/html5media/issues/list
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I missed the previous postings: I'm happy for March 3rd. Or any other evening Mon-Thu except Mar 11.
I will confess, the though of doing it without jQuery never actually occurred to me. It's pretty much become synonymous with Javascript in my head.

I'll give some thought to a jquery-less solution.
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That is yet to be seen. But generally, Google mainly used to screw up the social applications, so this one should be ok. ;-) And, as it was mentioned, this one is probably needed for Chrome OS.
Stupid question - but how does one go about becoming a what.cd member?
If this is the same issue as was occurring in Firefox 3.0, then it has now been fixed.
There are plenty of facebook groups that unfortunately prove you wrong (about bigoted arseholes).

Also - Didn't the hippies say the same kind of thing in the 60's? Or is that just the image of the times?
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"great first step" is not necessarily accurate. It normally takes a lot of time before content gets traction in Search Engines.

SEO is more like one of the arrows in the quiver, which is extremely efficient(profitable).
If you read, jason's comments in the original post, he has said that the email asked to be kept confidential. Jason said he didn't read the whole thing and forwarded it for fun and berated sam for not mentioning confidentiality in the subject !! Stay away from calcanis.
I like to listen to 22tracks. These are lists in different kinds of genres with selected songs by a number of DJs in Amsterdam. I discover new music this way everyday in genres I'd normally never listen to. http://www.22tracks.com
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I do the same. In fact, if it's a relatively young company and I find that the blog hasn't been updated for months, that will influence my decision on buying their product. The blog may or may not be a good indicator of company health, I don't know. But in the absence of other indicators, I'll treat it as a heartbeat signal.
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You can build content in other forms than a blog. Looks like he's been working on that: http://hginit.com/
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Good find thx :)

I think was remembering this comment too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922742
Obviously it's a more of a "big deal" to a lot of people on this site, considering it got 200 votes overnight.

Pretending it's not a big deal makes you sound ignorant. If and when mahalo fails, and you end up having to sell your tesla, no ones going to be around to support you.
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South by Southwest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_by_Southwest) is an Austin, Texas music festival which showcases bands that play a wide range of music. Artist bios and MP3s are put on the website (http://sxsw.com/music), and there are also unofficial torrents (http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/2010) for convenience. With gigabytes of publicly-available music, there is a lot to discover!
I think the best thing about this whole debacle is how the minister's office is now engaging in IP theft and is unwilling to comment on any criticism of their office.

I often wonder how these jokers get voted in.
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I can recommend SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/tracks)
This is what I believe also. I think the iPad will be useful as a mobile touch panel for a larger device behind it like a home, factory, machine or internet based thingy.
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You might want to make that a bit more public - I would assume Microsoft wouldn't care about a company unless it made millions a year.
Good read; rather than a hand-wavy "things we haven't imagined yet", he spells out, with details, something that the iPad would be good for.
Tryout http://kgnu.org if you want to expand your horizons. They have a live stream and a back catalog from the last two weeks of shows. It's a non-profit station in Boulder, Co, and they get hundreds of new CDs a month representing every kind of international music and out-there genre you could imagine. Jazz and beyond, musica mundi, jam sandwich, reggae blood-lines, old-grass/new-grass, and african roots are some of my favorites. The morning and afternoon sound alternatives vary a lot, but once you find DJs you like you can track them. You won't find any top 40 or pop, but you wouldn't have asked this question if that's what you wanted.
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Be invited by someone who is already a member.

waffles.fm allegedly also has similar features, and RSS feeds of the top 10 lists of items in the genres you're interested in allegedly make for a great intro into new music.
I think that it would probably be pretty transparent to the reader that's what you are trying to do.

If you're trying to do marketing, "a more personal feel" can quickly cross over into a faux-folksy style that comes across as really insincere.
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I'd suggest Twones (http://twones.com). But maybe that's because I work for them. ;-)
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> Basically I think Python really needs something like 'gem'

Huh? Does RubyGems manage versions?

In Ruby you have the same issues as with Python ... you still have a RUBYPATH and you still need to manually manage versions.

What 'gem' indeed does ... it can upgrade or delete installed gems ... and in Python the available utilities (easy_install and pip) don't.

But that's actually OK IMHO. In Python for pip-installed packages ... you just delete the package's directory or egg file. The conventions for Python's packages really help here.

And RubyGems is the nightmare of sys-admins. If you want a really good (maintainable / replicable) production setup, you need to use the standard package utilities of your OS ... e.g. aptitude and .deb packages for Debian/Ubuntu.

Otherwise you'll encounter conflicts between aptitude and /var/lib/gems all the f*ing time.

So no ... a good production setup is either using stuff like aptitude, which can manage external dependencies and can warn you against version conflicts ... or with a locally deployed site-packages (with stuff like virtualenv or sandbox for Ruby).

Rubygems is just a hack useful for the developer's localhost (the 'gem' utility, not the indexed repository of packages ... that's really useful, but Python has that with Pypi)
Too much XBOX, Facebook. No attention to rising social costs due to aging demographic. They don't vote. Terrible with money.

Ignorance is bliss?
I don't think there is a good lesson about C++ directly. As far as I know, the way the contest was designed success would be pretty much programming language independent. I.e. you could easily port the code from C++ to Python and the result would be the exact same (aside from the 1 second limit per move).

If I had to guess, I'd say that this is because AI experts use C++ a lot. AI can be very computationally intensive and having close control over memory can be useful. I remember a prof who did NLP saying this exact thing.
It could be good for both eBooks and control systems.
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