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Ask HN: What features would you like in an "pastebin" for images web app?
What features would you like in an "pastebin" for images web app? I'm working in a new one, limited to 1mb uploads

EDIT:

I'm using this app to (also) test django-nonrel on google app engine but i'd like to build something useful ofc.

The use case for the tool is quick uploading images (screenshots and etc), not permanent storage.
"The Python SMTP Server"
hackers & founders will be cool next tues with the wepay/mixpanel talk at hacker dojo
Murder Your Darlings
From a user experience perspective, an automatic redirect is the best approach, IMO.

As far as getting restaurants set up, that can be a service we provide...
300 actions a minute? Truly mastering StarCraft
His book, "Modern Operating Systems", is a fascinating read for any geek. He discusses MINIX a fair bit (unsurprisingly!)
Ask HN: Where is the discourse re: overseas manufacturing?
Sorry, this question is specific to the US, but I didn't want to bloat the title any more...

It's clear to me that the American economy is not going to recover until we have widespread job creation. I think that there are some real opportunities to kill two birds with one stone re: job creation and energy independence, but I don't want to talk about that.

I want to talk about some toys from my childhood. My parents recently pulled down several Fisher Price trucks from the attic for my 2 year old son to play with. I examined every single toy and they were entirely made in the US. (Interestingly, at the time, Fisher Price was a division of Quaker Oats, apparently...) They were dated 1978. How much things have changed in just 30 years...

If you're a parent you know you'd be hard pressed to find any plastic truck toys that are made in the US today. Even if you're not a parent, I'm sure you've seen that almost NOTHING is made in the US. There are the occasional exceptions, like some light bulbs I bought at home depot recently, but for the most part, it seems clear that we're not in the business of manufacturing anymore.

My question to HN is -- why? And why is this not talked about at a political level? Why don't any candidates appear to be running on a platform of bringing jobs back to the US? It's an issue that's dripping in perfectly bow-tied patriotic emotions. Why does no one seem to care?

People seem to make some kind of hand-wavey argument about increased costs, but those costs seemed acceptable in 1978, at a time when there was certainly a stronger union presence and more worker's rights! I don't really buy it.

It's not just an issue of creating manufacturing jobs, it's an issue of sustaining all the second order small businesses that support a manufacturing base - I can't even think of them all - from the small restaurants that service workers, up to construction and maintenance of facilities, transportation, training, B2B sales, etc etc.

Is this an issue where no company wants to be the first to have to mark up due to US manufacturing costs? (But if a few did, they might all start doing it?)

It might be time for a little culture jamming to get his ball rolling. Get Miley Cyrus to stop shopping at WalMart. Start trying to shame companies into bringing jobs back to the US.

I'd love to hear HN's thoughts on this because I expect that I'm being a bit naive.
I'm not a great programmer, but:

- I'm a pretty decent web developer

- I have a lot of web development experience and often times can solve web related problems with little direct knowledge of the particular code

- Generally scaling problems all follow the same patterns and really there are only a few things that go wrong on websites

- I am a decent communicator and can help communicate ideas (whether they are my own or others)

- I have a good sense of timing around the work flow of web development, and can help line things up (design meetings, QA resources, releases) around the work flow of developers

- I can be a sounding board for technical ideas

- I can record a brainstorming / design meeting and turn it into a spec (although I could probably be better at spec writing!)

- I can help people get excited about an idea

When I started Kiko with Emmett 5 years ago I could barely do any web development at all (don't tell PG!). Since then, I think I've become quite adept at building web apps (and some of those skills even apply to mobile apps). That's not to say I'm exceptional -- I think most people should be able to learn something in 5 years! However, I've noticed that there are a lot of people in the tech startup / HN community that don't necessarily have a ton of programming experience but want to launch tech startups. There are quite a few examples among my friends of people who have done that successfully -- building web apps isn't just about programming.
More interesting to me to see what the odds are of nobody in the world ever winning four lotteries.
not limited to 1mb uploads would be nice, you take care of the resizing, not me..
How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad
Thanks Mahmud!
I'm not really interested in re-implementing another language at the moment (though I probably will in the future), but it's really good to read the documentation/opcodes for other VMs. Others I've had a look at so far are YARV, Parrot and Lua. I definitely need to check out the docs for the JVM at some point too...
Capitalism is not about "milk(ing) you of as much of your money as possible." Yes, maximize revenue within the context of the law and ethics. His comment about milking people of all possible is the hallmark of charlatans and con men.
I made one of these but used a single cooler with ice cubes+water+frozen saltwater Jars. The system was closed as opposed to wasting water like this guy did.

The big issue was that the water temperature rose very fast and the ice melted way to quickly. You'd get maybe 10 minutes of really cool air and it would be done.

I thought about maybe using hay to keep the ice colder but it was getting to elaborate when the fan would work just fine.
For REPL, check out LINQPad. Its "Statement" and "Program" modes are great for that.

http://www.linqpad.net/CodeSnippetIDE.aspx
Since I've not seen it mentioned yet: I use CrashPlan to back up all of my personal systems, both to a home server and to an remote peer. It's a bit RAM heavy, but other than that nicely stays out of the way & does it's job. The killer feature is trivial peer-to-peer connectivity, making off site backups easy. I'm not affiliated with the company -- just a happy customer.
> Renegade viewpoint?

Yeah, in absence of better proof provided, I'll stick with the opinion of the majority of historians.

The rest of your points haven't had anything to do with government finances or the attitudes of both presidents towards countercyclical spending vs balanced budgets. They seem like some blindly-applied-backwards-80-years modern republican simplifications about the nature of "government programs". Some dude got screwed by Goodyear at some point in history? Huh?

There's been a lot of scholarship on this topic. You've got to do better than that if you're going to make an overarching claim like in your original point.

To start with, here's a google search for "herbert hoover balanced budget": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=herbert+hoover+bala...
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Almost completely. I don't know if Disney counts.
I would love to learn more.

But you haven't provided any concrete stories, references, or even descriptions in your response. Just a lot of what seems to be gossip.
Okay, how would you design icons for abstract concepts like struct and interface? About half those icons actually make a lot of sense to me (the other half are just arbitrary symbols, as far as I can tell).
One could make HN less of a time sink my making HN 'slower'. If only 5 articles appeared in a day, it would hopefully consume far less time and one way of reducing the number of articles would be to impose a 'karma' cost on each submission. If it costed 10 points to make each submission, folks might be a tad more prudent.
I don't think they're expecting it to be cracked, per se, just guessed. I don't have to have defeated the SHA-256 algorithm to find your hashed password in a rainbow table.
have you looked at http://picclick.com/ .. you have something, i think you're just missing the boat. Picclick has been getting a lot of traction as of late.
You can also say
b.select(a => a.x)
if you want the more traditional syntax.
In that case, you're better off either talking to people who work there, or filtering through their meeting notes. Mozilla is a very open company, so you shouldn't encounter too much resistance. Although in all honesty, it was probably just a marketing person who chose what to highlight. Good luck with your endeavors!
The attribute names are written first, but it's like nested function calls: projection(selection(R)). The joins are 'evaluated' first, then selection (where), and then projection.

I suspect that SQL was actually designed to match the notational order (but reversing the intent) they still got it wrong: to match the notation, it should be SELECT .. WHERE .. FROM.
yes, something like this would be very nice. An analogous version would be to have a "netflix-lite" of data where you mail in a portable hd, they slurp out your data into (by default ) your private store, and then write the data (whether private or public) at the top of your request queue back into the hd and mail it back to you.

Subject to pricing, reliability and privacy infrastructure being sane / good, I'd be very interested in that
MongoDB Gotchas
Interesting - I can't think of a website that has 500 ms page load times. The average is closer to 5 seconds, or 10x 500 ms. Latency may be down, but that's only part of the equation.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/23/googl...
Pretty much. Fashioning your own air conditioning system is a neat way to learn about heat exchangers and condensers and all that, but nothing you make at home is going to be anywhere near as efficient as a modern air conditioning unit.
That's a good idea. Certainly showing potential restaurants what their mobile website would look like is a lot more convincing than trying to explain the benefit to them.
also, take care of creating thumbnails and several different resolutions
Andrew Mwenda takes a new look at Africa (old but still great)
There is not that much time left with a job. There is something to be said for focussing on what you want. What I might hold against "those kids" is lack of imagination. They wait for opportunities instead of creating them.

I am not a java dev anymore, but I sure lost a lot of time.
Dilbert.com now lets you search all old strips by content keywords
Add logs, pour fuel (VC money), light match (beta release day)
Focus On Your Core Business Or You Will Fail
I'm sure you have no idea, but maybe someone else will read this: I grabbed the mp3 for that story, and would like to listen to it on my iPod as a podcast - meaning that when I pause, and listen to something else, resuming the podcast will resume from the point where I stopped.

Is there a way of doing this in iTunes? I tried creating an RSS feed, and iTunes added it to my podcast list, but it won't grab the damned file - and of course, doesn't tell me why.
Thanks for the feedback. Our thought with the sidebars was to help educate restaurants about the growth of the mobile internet, and potential problems they might not know about on their own website that might be frustrating their customers.

I agree that framing the problem more in terms of 'you're losing customers' could work better.
Does anyone know if there is a way that Arrays can be passed by ref in c#?
I've been following this development but unfortunately, it's never materialized to the extent that is implied in the Gigaom article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_business

In 2008, Vermont amended its laws governing corporations to accept electronic forms of legally required meetings, operating agreements, documents, signatures, and record keeping. A Vermont corporation (S-corp or LLC), while required to maintain a registered agent with a physical address in the state, can be started, operated and terminated without any of the principals ever being in each others' physical presence.

Since you can register in any other state via a registered agent, it doesn't really add much to the registration process - the difference here is Board meetings. The requirements for in-person vs. teleconferenced Board meetings are governed by each state.

Below is a (1999) compilation of various states' requirement. As you can see, there are NO states that explicitly require Board meetings to be in person and lots of states that provide for at least some form of teleconferencing.

http://www.muridae.com/nporegulation/documents/teleconf_defi...

So personally, I don't see what is so crazy special about Vermont. Anyone cares to explain?

Edit: Also, I am pretty sure the article references the wrong bill. If you look at the actual bill in the state database, you will see that the relevant bill is H-458, not H-888.

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/bi...
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In the context of the article, it reinforces the idea that he's spoiled - that while his parents continue to pay all of his bills, he turns down what most of us would consider a more than reasonable starting salary given this economy, his major, and his lack of experience.

I would assume that in your case (since you could easily afford your own line), you're at least reimbursing your parents. This guy isn't.
the limit is 1mb due to app engine blobfield limitations and my budget :) 1mb is enough to be useful.
I was wondering about resizing images above 1mb to fit the 1mb automatically.
Yes thumbs are a must.
Relationships are worth more than your funding.
Shouldn't the person the warrant applies to be served and/or notified of the warrant and given a copy? I was under the impression that a warrant was a way to give police rights that they do not typically have according to civil rights. It's a civil contract that they will not exceed the rights they are given, so I'd assume he should be given a copy with an explanation of why his rights are being lessened temporarily.
I think my friend Dan (who is on HN incidentally) summed it up perfectly:

"American Dream Elusive for New Generation": get political science degree, apply to finance jobs, reject entry-level positions -> fail.
Agreed on the whole, but with the reservation that one should not consider having children as a means of building character.
Excellent idea, thanks for the tip!
It's only a waste of water if you assume the water is 'disappearing' afterward. In ontario water is mainly provided by lakes, then after treatment water is returned to the same lakes. The only waste is the power used to move/treat the water, but this is the equivalent of power used by the compressor/fan of a normal A/C anyway.

The situation is obviously different if the water supply is not a closed loop, like in Australia where water is supplied from dams and then waste water in dumped into the ocean...
I think the parents in this article need to grow up. If you have so little emotional maturity that your kid's tantrum makes you upset you have a problem. They are the children, you are the adult. Act like one.

I have two kids, 3 and 6. My 3 year old is at a stage where she throws epic tantrums, mostly when she is tired but this heat wave we are in on the east coast doesn't help. When she is in full flail I look at her and smile and say "you can do better than that if you try". I don't feel bad as a parent that she is having a tantrum, she doesn't have the emotional control yet. She will - my 6 year old went through the same thing and when the 3 year old starts up my 6 year old now rolls her eyes and smiles.
Hoover didn't balance the budget, he doubled the national debt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debt1929-50.jpg

It is true, however, that he raised taxes on the rich. Sound like anyone we know?
Let me add that language design != language implementation.

Try to prototype your language design in a very high-level language, preferably one with macros. So you can iron out the kinks rapidly without being bogged down by machine limitations. Also, try to use a homoiconic syntax for easy parsing, so you're not stressing over lexical analysis and other string manipulation crap.

Once you have the high-level semantics ironed out, you can choose a suitable intermediate representation, one that can handle several phases of optimization. Register or graph based IR, like SSA, will allow you to capture code and data flow, and it presents an underlying "machine" architecture with abundant resources (cheap infinite registers for starters.)

Stack-based IRs are compact and excellent for virtual interpretation, they also capture lexical scope and procedure call very well, but you will have to expend a bit more effort should you want to compile them for a native processor.

The easiest language to implement would probably be a block-structured Algol dialect (say, Oberon or Pascal) but without runtime heap allocation. That way you're not messing with garbage collection. You can allocate your application memory at startup or compile time and it will sit and stay in there. See Chapter 10 of this:

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/book/pascalimplementa...

If you want first-class environments and closures you will need GC and a heap. You will also need a heap if you want first class objects or dynamic exception handling.

The language design stuff is boring, and you can be inspired by various designs out there. It's the runtime implementation that's funny, but very exciting.

Good luck.
I do love playing these, Kongregate is one of my bookmarks, but I don't think HN is the place.

Unless it's about a very interesting take on the Game of Life, I don't think Flash games belong here.
since you are clearly ripping off the stackoverflow idea and design, why not submit this to area 51? this would not only save you any kind of hosting/bandwidth costs, but would probably get the word out faster.
Or, just get his "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation", which is a great read, and contains the full MINIX3 source code (printed and on CD).
Is Amazon the Official Cloud Standard?
Mistakes of Massive CSS
Maybe, but I'm not surprised to see that they failed around the same time the notion of a large corporation took off. The goal of a large corporation is to reduce liabilities while increasing profits, not the other way round. Company towns probably just weighed these companies down while they tried to turn their attention to a national infrastructure.
Update:

I just want to thank everyone for their feedback.

I've read many 'Ask HN: Rate My Startup' posts and knew you guys gave great advice, but I didn't really expect to get this much feedback and encouragement.

Thanks a lot guys!
In what sense is Common Lisp "better" than C#? Do you consider it better for web apps?
Reader certainly does strip away most images, that's the point. Folks who like reader are using it precisely because it provides a cleaner view, highlights the content, and minimizes distractions.
Ironically, it is taking ages to load. Anyone else experiencing issues with the link?
Sure, but that comment reminds me of slide 7 here: http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lesson...
And, of course, it's still very common in newly-industrialising countries like China.
Yes, the debt went up. Tax revenues collapsed in this period, remember.

But Hoover was trying to balance the budget. He saw it as a goal, an end to itself that would reassure credit markets and do a bunch of good. FDR saw stimulating demand as more important in the short term. That's the difference between them. Hoover was raising taxes to try and balance the budget, and only increased government spending very slightly considering he had 25% unemployment. FDR threw it all to the wind for a few years and massively increased deficits as a deliberate policy.
I think that it is quite distasteful to blatantly clone StackOverflow's functionality and design, right down to the "New here?" banner. This sort of behavior is no way to start a community.
> That dream is as alive as ever

While I agree that the article chose the wrong focus, I think you're wrong. Look at the American Dream on a societal level: while there will continue to be outliers, the fact is that today's younger generations are doing worse than their parents by many measures.

How on earth is that "as alive as ever"?

(More abstractly: I think the whole American Dream thing is a destructive myth, due specifically to its fixation on "elbow grease" at the expense of the many, many, other factors that play into success.)
"the alarms that prevent you from overspending are so basic that they may even be in our DNA"

"avoiding pleasure is no longer enough to protect you. It probably was enough to protect hunter-gatherers, and perhaps all pre-industrial societies"

These feelings of wasting time and avoiding pleasure are probably more due to culture than genetics. They sound like a description of the Puritan Work Ethic.
I really don't like what stackoverflow is doing with the area 51 project. For example, the GIS version has 400+ people committed to it and I don't think it will see the light of day.

This only has seven questions, but it is living and breathing. Isn't that is what is important about a website?
It's possible that "Poder Cibernetico" is how they chose to translate Cyber Command.
Yeah, in absence of better proof provided, I'll stick with the opinion of the majority of historians.

What is your rationale for sticking with whatever the majority of historians said?

The rest of your points haven't had anything to do with government finances or the attitudes of both presidents towards countercyclical spending vs balanced budgets. They seem like some blindly-applied-backwards-80-years modern republican simplifications about the nature of "government programs". Some dude got screwed by Goodyear at some point in history? Huh?

Sorry about non-sequitur here. I was talking about the effects of FDR's New Deal programs and regulations, and Goodyear was just one data-points amongst many(presumably).

Even so, why you think mine is a Republican simplification of government programs?
MINIX is a fantastic kernel to practice kernel hacking on and see how operating systems function without the real world cruft of performance and portability hacks.
Are Facebook and Twitter Bad for your Information Diet?
I would probably recommend doing it the iPhone way - downloading one of the number of Netflix apps
It only came back to him if the company stores wildly overcharged his employees. If an employee spent $100 in a store with a 10% markup, Ford still lost a net of $90.

Do the math - paying your workers "enough to buy your product" is an utterly flawed business model. It might work incidentally (i.e., high wages might attract high productivity employees), but it doesn't work as stated.
Backtracking - Eight Queens Puzzle
Wouldn't that be sweet? : Automatic A/B Testing