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It's been close to six months since the most recent thread about kratom on this site. That was the second thread I ever submitted about kratom, and I submitted it in response to a "coding while high" post. It turned into an obnoxious flame war, I would rather that doesn't happen here.

As long as the discourse can stay reasonable, I don't understand why this thread would be treated differently than any other threads about someone's business. That's why this site exists. We're allowed to promote ourselves and I suspect that some people on this site may have the type of connection that I am looking to make here.

If you are not personally interested in this thread, I am sorry that I wasted some of your time.
It could also be great exposure for the people who pitch, I suspect we can get at least the first pitch thread techcrunch'd.
This is a cool idea - but I think you definitely should have video.

If you could reach out to the stand up community and get them submitting videos it'd be cool - there are thousands of them as well, so filtering the good stuff is always tricky. Maybe you could tie your voting system into that.

If you are using wordpress I would recommend showinabox.tv - it lets you easily add video to your blog and let people subscribe to it. I'd consider offering footage in HD or Hi-Resolution on Miro (www.getmiro.com) it's by far the best video rss aggregator. I think youtube videos are such poor quality they really don't do most videos justice, when there is an opportunity for people to watch them full screen in DVD quality.
I don't understand why showing internet traffic would alleviate security fears.

Is the idea that since a lot of people are using a website it can't be that secure?
Somehow surprised, it seems a lot of us are solo founders. Nice bunch of good solutions, I see.

Max
I've thought about this before, and it's on my table-o-things-to-develop. The way to do it is with an inexpensive external piece of hardware that users will insert into their internet connection. It would have two ethernet interfaces, a clearly-labeled "in" and "out".

With OpenBSD and pf, you can set it up to act as a "bump in the wire", a bridging firewall that can't be hit from the outside but can still do traffic filtering.

Then, you set up a light http server that's only accessible from the local net, and patch in a variety of shell and python scripts to make the glue between pf and the http server.

The user can open a webpage and get a nice little graph of traffic with some simplified explanations, and can shape or filter traffic with a bit of clicking around.

I've built a couple of OpenBSD firewalls for a couple of local businesses (one of them is an ISP), as well as some of the sorts of shell scripts that would be needed. I've got a few other ideas for it that would make it an even more killer device, but don't wanna give away everything. :-)

The nice thing is, the hardware doesn't have to be very powerful at all. You could hit a pretty modest price point on the things and still be able to kick a fair bit of money back to the OpenBSD project. Everyone would be happy.
What music do you listen to while programming?
Who has a serious problem with being overloaded with Twitter traffic, Facebook invites and FriendFeed events? TC "journalists", other Valley denizens, and basically the existing Web 2.0 in-crowd. Is this a problem that real, ordinary people actually face when they try to use the Internet? I'm not convinced.

However, the broader point -- as the web matures, there will be a continual increase in the number of information sources, and therefore a need better tools to separate the signal from the noise -- is not novel; people have been remarking on this for years.

Sometimes I think a reasonable heuristic to reduce noise is to dismiss out of hand anything that begins with "Web 3.0 will be about ...".
No, the idea is that it's easy these days for a program to be resident on your computer, doing something behind your back that you don't know about.

It would be nice to have a foolproof way to see network traffic clearly.
I think they're going for something a little more definitive. Most of the answers you find online are adequate, but these answers are supposed to be authoritative. If all goes as planned, it would certainly be a benefit to the internet you keep searching on Google, and I think if you're completely honest, you'll remember a few times when you had a really specific problem and you just couldn't find a good enough answer searching Google.
Idiots and Java developers made me lol. I kid, I kid.
Was that a downvote saying that it won't be techcrunch'd or that we don't want any more links from techcrunch to here?
This is the best method right here, hands down.
I'm going to put it this way.

I have no problems with drugs legal or illegal.

However, Hacker News is NOT Craigslist. this is not a place for you to sell your product. If you were asking a question on what people thought of selling kratom or a site for selling kratom... or anything that didn't sound like 'drug dealing' legal or illegal.

Seriously, how different is this from those messages I get about buying a little blue pill? would I like free samples of that? no thanks.

I don't think any kind of DIRECT marketing is ok on hacker news. Because it's not news it's advertising.
I tend to avoid music with lyrics, while programming. Surprisingly, it distracts me. I also frequently listen the same track for few hours, so I stop "hearing" it and becomes the background.
I'm looking for a business connection to help move large volumes of kratom. I figured there is no harm in asking here, though I admit it is unlikely I could make such a connection.

I do have the cheapest wholesale kratom in the USA and I know there must be some people interested; I'm just not sure the best way to reach them.

Anyone interested in the business behind this can have a free sample; I promise you that I am really not trying to get people hooked or hoping to make personal sales directly from this post. I have secured a particularly good source for kratom directly from Indonesia and I am looking to move into more of a wholesale business.
Post-rock, because I find it kind of boring and I get distracted by music that I like too much.
I know what you mean but despite the high potential return on the investment his articles gave him he still didn't throw money at it to try and make it happen quickly.

i.e. the quote suggests rather than $50,000 is all you need to start something like Fog Creek the lesson might be even starting from his position which was likely to be more privaledged than yours or mine he still kept costs as low as he could until he turned a profit.
I listen to a song on repeat for a day or two before moving on to a new song. It seems to distract part of my brain so the other part can code. And oddly after 2 days of listening to a song I only know the lyrics to the chorus. Its very strange but works great for me.
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I like a lot of the content on HN, but sometimes I see things like

Looking for Karate studio in SF area

Medical Marijuana in SF area

Party in SF area, etc.

I'm sorry? I thought this was a news site? I think many of us are not in the SF area and don't care. There are sites designed for organizing meetups.

Also don't post things trying to sell your product. If it's not news (site off beta, product stable, new features) and you are just saying look at what I have to sell... that's spam. Pure and simple.

what do people think?
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well this does make you sound more legit than your original post. which sounded like a meetup for drugs. You didn't ask if anyone was interested in getting into the kratom business.

But I'm skeptical. No offense, I don't much like legal drugs.
I'm weird, I have a tendency to sing along to the song I'm listening to while I'm working. It gets me through the non-thinking parts of my day.

I listen to a lot of different types of music. In order of popularity, probably reggae, folk rock, bluegrass, punk and then various other miscellaneous odds and ends. I tend to prefer songs with lyrics that are either clever or witty, or both. A particular favourite of mine at the moment is "The Battle" by Lady Sovereign et al. Lyrics like "Eating MCs like Ready Brek" and "I kill you little kids like morning after pill" never fail to make me smile.

Also, allow me to apologise in advance for the trauma caused by placing the image of a middle class white British guy singing reggae in your mind.
names can come later.

the original name of linux was 'freax'.

I remember your original post. Is this OS going to be a *nix?

astronaut isn't original enough (although it sounds like a good release name)

osname 1.0 astronaut :P

I've nothing off the top of my head though...
Categories. HN is getting a little out of hand on my rss and I'd like to be able to seperate content more.
As someone who (relatively) frequently says things aren't hacker news, I think the most important distinction is with things that are actively harmful, such as politics, and often economics. They get people into heated discussions about something that isn't really relevant. Off topic things like "SF meetup" are a bit noisy, sure, but if done in moderation don't really hurt anyone.

We've always encouraged people to post about what they're doing, if they're looking for feedback. You should be proud of the work you've done, and not afraid to share it in appropriate situations.
>I think many of us are not in the SF area and don't care. There are sites designed for organizing meetups.

Startup School is this weekend, so this is the highest density period for meetups of the year. It'll calm down next week.
http://www.thesixtyone.com/james (click on "listen to radio")

instrumental stuff usually works best, but i like variety.

i've recently become very fond of danger and m83.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/danger
http://www.thesixtyone.com/m83
In really stressful situations, old hardcore or punk (that I know really well so I won't actively listen to it) helps me get things done.

But usually it's just post rock or techno or something else that's kind of boring and instrumental.
Electronic music with minimal lyrics. It's the only time i listen to that genre - it puts my mind into work-mode.
I find a difference between what you are doing, and pushing a product. Asking for opinions is not 'would someone like to buy X'.
livesets.us

Armin Van Buren - A state of trance
Above and Beyond - trance around the world
Tiesto - club life
David Guetta
and plenty more.
I love electronic music.
I can see that. Maybe we should add a meetup area?
Do you have an example of what you feel is inappropriate? I don't think anyone here has much tolerance for outright spam.
>You didn't ask if anyone was interested in getting into the kratom business.

I wanted to know if anyone has a connection to or knows much about marijuana dispensaries, thinking that they are a likely wholesale buyer of kratom.
Dunny why, but the name "Cherry" pops into my head. Best of luck to you.
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I thought this would would be junk but they were valid points.

I dislike however when people state "AJAX in Django is Hard". Its not hard, there are just no helper functions. So AJAX is AJAX in Django. He explains that in the article but catchy titles are what people read and remember. The title should instead be "Django has no helper functions for AJAX"

That I agree with and think should be changed. Is anyone working on this?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167032

initially that. although it is starting to look more legit (post submit explanations).

But it's got me a bit hot under the collar, about what should and should not be on hacker news.
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Hi mdemare,

I hate being so offtopic in replying to your comment here, but as YC doesn't have private messaging, I hope you'll see this. Could you put your email in your profile or email me at technoguyrob @ gmail?
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Hehe... oh that... Yeah, that's come up before. I just ignore rms when he gets going about Kratom, and let PG deal with it, as he alone has the power to nuke stories. rms seems like a bright guy and has contributed a lot to this site, but he does have that peculiarity that comes out now and again.
It is a networking site for hackers/entrepreneurs. Look at it this way and these posts make more sense.
There are ~30 secret editors, btw.
:) thanks
There are AJAX helper functions in Django, they just don't produce JavaScript. Instead they make it stupidly easy to get back data in JSON, and most importantly leave which framework and everything else up to you.
How did McDonald's make it onto that list?! Do they do something in special in Asia that's different from the decades-old business model they (successfully) apply in Europe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS
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I don't get distracted by music at all.

If I want to get focused quickly, I listen to some particularly horrible electronica (Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole by Venetian Snares is a good example). If it's three in the morning, I listen to some minimal electronica (Vladislav Delay, B. Fleischmann both good).

Otherwise, it's whatever I'm enjoying at the moment (recently: brutal hardcore like Circle Takes The Square, weird indie like Frog Eyes and Sunset Rubdown).

Finally, long albums are good because of the longer gaps between ends of songs and ends of records.
Quick and easy, I like it. I noticed however that link the whitespace around links gets destroyed when creating a site from RSS. See for instance: http://tinyurl.com/3wquw5 .
$50k is not pocket change for everyone, and besides, what exactly was the article's message anyway?
I don't like the implication that children with ADHD are unhealthy.

I think the problem is that people perceive them to be (because they are different).

Mis-diagnosis of ADD and ADHD is common at young ages too. I am most likely bi-polar more than ADD even though I was diagnosed with the latter not the former.
Actually, Zen is simply one path to Buddhism. You have to check out the sects so you don't get into one you consider strange, but, for instance, vipassana is another path that (as far as I know) doesn't make claims to worshipping deities. Steve Hagen writes well on this, as does Gunaratana.

Remember, the Buddha was agnostic. He simply gave advice. Follow it if it works for you. Buddhism doesn't address faith, but reality.
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195 vi
193 python
163 ls
100 cd
54 svn
37 ssh
36 ps
29 paster
29 kill
24 ./rollprod

Not surprised at all to see ls so high... most of the times I type it I'm not actually looking for its output, I'm just clearing my mind or trying to remember what I was doing. I think I should alias ls to print out a ToDo list.
Nice job.

I'm running the Firefox 3 nightlies and it came up as an unsupported browser, even though you have Firefox 3 checked as a browser you support.
Disclaimer: I don't want to offend you, I have nothing personal against you (I don't even know anything about you).

But.

I have seen this many times. People have their Great Idea. Like writing a whole new operating system. However, they do this by staring threads on the internets about how great their operating system will be. Without having actual goals (other than the vague ideas about what will make their system so great), doing their research on the topic or even having the necessary skills to start.

If you really intend to create a new operating system, then go for it. I'd be happy to see your next post in 3-6 months about the "New operating system I've been developing and published in <this> git repo. It has no name yet, and can boot only on <insert virtual machine>, and doesn't do too much even on that one. I also have plans to do <this> and <this> in the next months. Comments welcome."

See template: http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html
I like to listen to movies soundtrack, because most of the times it has no lyrics. I listen specially a lot "The Lord Of The Rings soundtrack. Also Pink Floyd which is a lot instrumental.
annnndd...

alias ls='cat ~/TODO'

Let's see what this does for productivity :)
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what exactly do kangaroos have to do with zeppelin pilots anyway

Hilarious. The strange thing to me is, while you are in this state, the connection makes perfect sense. It's only when you snap out does it become inconsistent. Maybe it has to do with certain portions of the brain relaxing before others.
I thought I was the only one who had a problem with lyrics. Parsing language must interfere with the same part of the brain that programming requires.
I agree about the stupidly easy JSON handler -- I went from nought to finished app in about 10 minutes, when I wasn't even too sure what JSON was or why I should use it. Wikipedia helped a bit with the understanding, and Django just dumped the objects into JSON without any problem.

The article was basically valid but I didn't find myself thinking "yes, I hate those damn things as well." More like "well, that can be mildly inconvenient, but wtf, nobody's dead yet." I use jQuery for AJAX and it's so easy I'm not sure I even want it built in to Django.
It's a good idea. I'll be interested to see how well it does.

To me it's missing a big piece: scalability. I would like to see, for $10,000, the result in Google AppEngine or Amazon's EC2/S3. Something on Ruby on Rails is almost cheating. It might be more accurate to say, "We'll build you a demo in one month."
While picking a name, make sure to pick a cute mascot, design a boot loader graphic, create an online community, ponder about destroying Microsoft before committing a single line of code to your repository.

I'm sorry, I really don't mean to be personal but if I had a nickel every time I read about people creating their new awesome operating system and having it never materialize, I'd have some snacks right now.

Like others said, write a first prototype, create a rough draft of most subsystems and then make this post. You'll earn a lot more respect.
Sounds like a pretty good deal, especially for US.

On the other hand, living in Europe generally gives you 8-hour workdays by default.
well, given your focus on virtualization, what about something that references clones / zombies / ants / Neos

replicant?

googlable helps
I'll tell you what I love about Django: the whole damn framework. It wasn't that long ago that you had to handle everything yourself, using home-brew functions and funny little hacks and plenty of local knowledge. Most of a project was spent writing utility code and trapping errors rather than coding the requirements themselves. It was mind-numbingly tedious, error-prone work, and after a few big projects in Perl I'd pretty much decided I didn't want to do it again. (Even CPAN can only do so much for you.)

Django and similar frameworks are game-changing technologies. Apps can literally be tackled in 1/10th of the time, they work better and (as the linked article mentions) you get that incredibly nifty admin interface with it. Django development could stop right now and I'd still be using it for years to come.

/evangelise ;)
"The Calm Technique" by Paul Wilson is an excellent beginner's guide to meditation.

Meditation, for programmers, is like circuit training for athletes. It's the time you put in to train and build strength in you mind itself - not knowledge of the game, not skills in the craft - but actually building and maintaining the structure of the mind itself. For whatever reason, it tends to help stabilize emotions too.
For some reason lyrics don't bother me that much. It's probably part of the same mechanism that makes it impossible for me to remember lyrics, whether they're in my native language or English. To my ears the human voice is just another instrument, I guess.
White noise--ocean waves, rainfall "sounds of nature" stuff. Another post today from science blogs may explain why it works (although I don't have adhd)
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ASK NEWS: What is it like to be featured on techchrunch?
In light of agentbleau's recent success, I wanted to poll the community to learn more about their experiences being featured on TC.

1. What steps did you take that think lead to you being featured on TC?

2. What was correspondence like with TC?

3. Did they feature you more than once? As in, once you are featured once, if you do not fail, do they keep featuring you?

4. How would you rate your increase in traffic in a percentage compared to what you were already getting?

5. When did TC feature you? Pre-launch, @launch or post launch? Were you in beta? Was it private or public?

Thanks in advance for any comments. It is one of our goals to be featured on TC, and I would love the opportunity to even post a blog article about the results of this poll.

Sincerely,
Christopher Mancini
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"I wrote about making a new operating system a few days ago:"

You also posted a "I am thinking of writing an operating system" link to ycombinator(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=162938) a few days ago. Now you post another asking for a name. Lines of code == zero!

How about you actually write an operating system and then submit a link?

I, for one, really don't want to see a series of " I am thinking of writing an operating system", "I want a name for an operating system" , " hey I wrote my first line of code for an operating system" "hey I did my first check in" .... series of posts.

Please, write the damn thing and THEN post here!
Thanks in advance,
I don't think that getting funding should rank you above other elements. I know that this particular board is probably more funding-oriented than others but a lot of us do not consider getting funded a necessity or even a sign of success. Also, having a 2nd company with the 1st company still running is not necessarily a good thing.
Front splash page is nice, although 'create your own' position is unusual. Also would be hesitant about registering so early without seeing it.
It is more of a general concept of the ladder rather than the specifics of how things should rank. And it is about perceptions not true success. Personally if you tell me you have a startup that has $2m in funding from Sequoia I would think you are doing pretty well on the entrepreneurial ladder. That may just be me.

I corrected the wording. I meant that you have moved on from the 1st but it was not a big success.
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