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Well i didn't intend to gain attention to advertise my projects, but uhm.. :)

one i'm lately struggling with is visitrs.com, i've posted it a few times before, did not get much response, ones i get was helpful though.It has started as a pluggible chat system which allowed visitors of any website to chat with eachother. It would provide interaction between visitors, would create a community around the website, would help people discuss or suggest products, articles on the website boosting content awareness of the website. for example on ebay, one could have easily ask opinions of other visitors about a product to be bought.. anyway did not gain attention, so i changed it into a stumbleupon+delicious+live chat system. still truggling with it.

one was a real time sql multiplier proxy. problems with production servers back then 2006-2008 was - and most probably still is- backups, cloning on the fly, active-active clustering etc. one would have to stop the working system to backup or clone the datas in sql servers, and active-active clustering were painful or too expensive. I made a working demo based on postgresql + spread real time mesaging toolkit, which was acting like a proxy between sql servers and web applications. when a web application made a query, it was multiplied and sent to all servers in exact same order, which would allow real time cloning + backing up + active-active clustering in once. Though demo was sufficient for simple ops, it needed transaction system implemented, which was really not a big deal. Couldn't sell it. the companies that were paying zillons to big players, or spending thousands of man/day operations did not get what i was solving.

another one that is still on production line is a job listing system, which will get rid of "send cv - wait for response" and "read zillions of cvs, call hundreds of persons just to hire 1" problems. it's a social marketplace for job seekers and hirers simply. i'm not over it yet, but the feedbacks about it is not giving happines yet. addres is test.cbslab.com if anyone interested.

there are many more in the attic, maybe they'll help me when there'll be enough amount of abondoned ones to give up my carreer and become a farmer :)
Ask HN: Do you work at a standing desk 7+ hours a day?
Motivated by a recent thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834671), I thought I would reconsider my choice to "slowly kill myself" by sitting at a desk all day. I can't avoid being at a desk all day, but I can avoid sitting at one. Thinking about standing for 7 or 8 hours a day, however, makes me recall the long hours I spent as a teenager standing in a burger line at a fast food restaurant; and I cringe. Standing for long periods is tough, and I'm wondering how many software developers or other people who work at computers all day have tried or are currently using a standing desk and what your thoughts are?
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Anyone else sceptical about slapping a 3rd party upgrade into an expensive laptop which has only been out for a week?

It doesn't feel like it's likely to have been thoroughly tested which I'd be keen on given that it will almost certainly void the warranty.

Personally I'd pass.
For Google it might even hurt them at this point. Lots of users don't know their browser, but they know that Google=Internet. "Yahoo Search Engine" would be a lot more competitive with "Search Engine" from a branding perspective.
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37signals silently drops Basecamp basic plan.
Life's priorities certainly change. Before I had a baby, it was all about my intellectual pursuits. Now my focus is on how to be a better father. I used to be a big gamer. I sold my gaming system and try to no longer use the computer after I get home from work. Needless to say, this is a huge priority shift and is very fulfilling. I am less inspired to pursue risky dreams, but more inspired to plan for long term financial success. It is exhausting to come home after a long day and be Dad, get on their level and focus on them, but at the same time I have a new found energy that I never had before.

(Father of a 20 month old girl and expecting another this December.)
Great, but "problems of success" aside, here's another question which is probably more an international law question but, here goes...

Out of the gate, I am seeing folks from all over the world signup for my ad network (mainly, US, India, Singapore), and it has me scratching my head. I don't know how to deal with these customers should they ever convert on a sale.

Does this affect the way I will pay taxes on the revenue?

Are there countries I should absolutely NEVER try to send money to (for example, if the country is under embargo)? If for some reason, I can't pay folks from those places, what becomes of the tax burden? Is the tax liability for 100% of it on me, or can the money sit forever on hold without being taxed (presumably until the embargo is lifted)?
My projects are mostly based on features that are missing or misimplemented in the existing products.

Actually, that's not too far off from a suggestion Paul Graham made at the first Startup School a few years ago, in his "Ideas for Startups" speech (http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html):

One way to make something people want is to look at stuff people use now that's broken.

There's a big difference, though, between missing or misimplemented and broken.

If it's misimplemented, but basically does what I need it to do, then I'm not as open to an alternative.

If it's broken, then I'll seek out another product or a third-party plugin.
I think you're using circular logic here. I.e. your definition for "corruption" sounds like it probably has the word government in it [1]. What do you call a conspiracy among companies to stifle the market with no government intervention?

[1] In which case, of course there can be no corruption without government, apparently leading you to the bizarre conclusion that no government = no corruption.
112 CV's & counting.

I've given very brief responses to some of you but I am determined to get through all of them in detail.

Remember, all I am offering is my informed opinion and if you disagree with my advice, don't take it personally!
Here is one idea you can use for nice rails 3 app if you have like 100 hours.

LinkedIn suck. Its something from myspace age. There are multiple problems with it but its still #1 HR tool

Would be cool if you can make LinkedIn-like network or just start with directory that would be great for searching and hiring best experts.

Extra bonuses:
Import users data from LI, Fb, etc
Smart limiting contacting abilities to prevent spamming.
Smart ratings for ppl based on their social impact (like hn karma, stackoverflow rating, github, etc)

Mortality bonus:
"Pay to pitch" feature. Instead of spending $400 to post job ads on 37signals job board, recruiter can pitch his ad to top 400 Rails developers. Developers have to reply and can donate these money to some charity of their chose.

Let me know if you are interested or need more clarification with that idea
Dealing with the accounts of people who have died, handing them over to family members or shutting them down, etc.
I'm curious, is the title of the documentary a Nietzsche reference?
When comparing offers or negotiating a raise, how do people translate between a salary and a salary-plus-bonus? When my company got acquired, my base salary didn’t go up, but now I get a performance-based bonus; both my individual performance and the company’s overall hitting-its-numbers are used to compute the bonus figure. If my “normal” bonus (i.e., when everyone hits but does not exceed performance targets) is 10%, should I consider this equivalent to having received a 10% raise? 5%? 0% plus a fistful of lottery tickets?
Be professional, don't push your religion on other people.
>"I got the following feedback several times: 'it's too complicated, there's no order, no title in threads, other forums(phpbb style) are better' "

People come to "BBS's" for the content of the discussions. The software needs to extend that content or enhance the community. For many purposes, off the shelf packages are probably sufficient. If your users want phpbb features, then using phpbb is the way to go.
No kidding. Just paste into excel and take a screen shot. I guess they need the page views...
+1

I have been building custom office automation software for some little time, and the reality is that any new system is always trying to wean people off managing all their communication and process by email.

Even as we speak I am building something for a client and we are taking the view that writing things on "walls" and commenting on "stories" just like Facebook as some potential for diverting information from email into the app. We don't know if we're right, but that's how we're betting.

We could simply tell people to use our app for everything, but my experience is that if whatever you build is dictated by managers in the hopes of straightjacketing people into some new process, they will route around it using email as a back-channel.

To beat this, you have to be better than email in some way that the users themselves appreciate.
Ask HN: How would you improve Digg?
It seems as though things are going from bad to worse for the company since the latest relaunch.
That video just made my day - awesome! Can't wait to get the book. I also realised when browsing the Amazon page that the author is the same guy who wrote 'casting spels' (http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html) which was also great.

If your reading this Conrad do you mind me asking you about your art work? It's, hands down, some of the best cartoon drawing I've seen on the web. I'd love to know what tools you use to do the drawing and make the animations, and what process you go through when developing them.
I would think it only really makes sense to compare total compensation (salary + bonus + benefits) when comparing jobs.
Almost exactly half (150) are engineers, leaving the other half for the businessy roles.
Did the candy companies secretly own stock in the poison, razor blade & stick-pin companies? That could actually be a fun parallel universe conspiracy theory story for the Onion.
Wikipedia says this is because of zero-based numbering on computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition

But I vaguely remember something about there originally being three on the list and Freedom 0 being added later. Since I can't find a reference, I'll chalk that up as a rumor.
The best part was that their horrid changes caused a massive productivity drop. They had to wait several years before gaining a modest 5% growth rate (was 7% before they started meddling) at which point they wrote a book called "Miracle of Chile"!
In Rails 3, the javascript drivers are very hands-off (i.e. unobtrusive). The problem you're having is that your app is returning to the browser a string of javascript, but there is nothing in the page that is then executing that javascript in the context of the page.

In your original page, along with the form, you need to bind an event to the form's "ajax:success" event.

The rails.js ujs driver binds to forms and links with "data-remote=true", which is what the ":remote => true" is doing, to make them submit their requests remotely, but that is where the Rails magic stops.

The good news is that the remote requests fires off some events you can bind to, which give you access to the data returned by the server (which fire off in the following order):

ajax:before
ajax:loading
ajax:success
ajax:complete
ajax:failure
ajax:after

You need to bind an event to the ajax:success event of your form. So, if your form had the id "myform", you'd want something like this on your page:

$('#myform').bind('ajax:success', function(evt, data, status, xhr){
xhr.responseText;
});

xhr.responseText is what your server returns, so this simply executes it as javascript.

Of course, it's proper to also bind to the failure event with some error handling as well.

I usually don't even use the action.js.erb method of returning javascript, I just have my controller render the HTML partial, and then I have a binding like this in the page:

$('#myform').bind('ajax:success', function(evt, data, status, xhr){
$('#target-div').html(xhr.responseText);
});
Well I've definitely gotten hit. For everyone that has sent a CV through I'm going to spend a few hours going through them in more detail tomorrow night(AU time, already 2am here) before I send replies though I have hit them all quickly and made first impression notes already.
Well, short of the rapture, stray quantum string (TNG reference +1), or the great luddite awakening, chances are "they" are still out "there" in the physical/individual sense. Sounds like you're not going "there".

Think about the products that "go viral". I think there is an increasing trend for these to have roots in the real world. Twitter didn't succeed until real people in the real world met in a real bar at a real conference and really talked about it. I didn't start using it until a real person I knew was talking to me at a real place after going to SXSW. Same story on Facebook. Real people in my real world had a real conversation with me about it.

My advice - make your product opaque. I know it's 2010, but your product needs to be "real" for "them". Find some target end users, get them using it, and enable them to broadcast their use/enjoyment/etc.
I have the exact opposite experience; everyone who didn't use attachment has screaming wrecks at ~2 years and we're getting sleeping through the night. Sample size roughly five children, utterly unrandomly chosen.

Hooray anecdotes!
From what I can remember, Google's SEO guides are more focused to on-site optimization; "design well and provide good content, the rest will come naturally".

While an SEO consultant might use this approach it is not quite the most proactive strategy. SEO comprises of so many things outsite on-site optimization.

I encourage you to read SEO Warrior, a book published by O'Reilly that covers different aspects on the topic.

We have also been using the #seo channel on irc.freenode.net in an attempt to build a collaborating SEO community. You are welcome to stop by and ask away.
Why don't you go start a company and show us how great you are at headcount?
So basically, Firesheeps existance has directly lead to Github becoming more secure. Excellent.

If you use a vulnerable service, just write a Firesheep handler for it, publish it, and then let the provider of that service know.
They waited a week, which was long enough to outlast Silicon Valley's attention span, and then nobody talked about it ever again. Except for one "whatever happened to...?" post on HackerNews, which spent a few hours on the front page and then was also never talked about ever again. And then the next time something like that happened, there wasn't much outrage, because it wasn't new any more, wasn't unusual, and people remembered that their outrage hadn't accomplished much last time.
Try this - Instead of calling it deadline, tell yourself that you'll give the task x mins. and you'll see how much you've work completed in that time. That makes the mind conscious of the ticking clock and focuses you on the job at hand.

Hope that helps Kaitnieks.
For the vast majority of parents, it doesn't matter. If you're worried about it, invest in a baby scale and weigh regularly (keep in mind that babies lose weight immediately after birth, though.) Doctors can give you a chart for normal weight gain.

For a minority of parents, the child will be "failure to thrive" and for that you will need to measure intake, but the child will also be on special high calorie formula anyway. So at this point the advantage is irrelevant.

"Measuring" is a really stupid reason to deny your kid the other benefits of breast feeding. However, there are many viable reasons not to breastfeed, such as it's just not working, or the mother needs to work/have a life, or it's painful, etc.
Show HN: 'BFT', a sharded, schemaless datastore using MySQL/Zend
Authentication currently fails if there are trailing spaces in the username.

You need to trim the username before validating it.
Is my posterous blog with a custom domain (troysimpson.co) suffering from SEO problems from the redirect?
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Offer HN: Reply to Will Work For Karma
I saw the will work for Karma post yesterday and thought it would be fun to offer some additional insight. I've posted my reviews of all the websites listed publicly: http://mrnoahc.com/2010/10/27/website-reviews-will-work-for-karma/
Yes. Actually the general rule is put whatever's going to sell you most first. If your education is more relevant than your current job then I agree that you should put that first.
Understand your point of view. Still. We trust companies doing Email, Storage, etc etc

I am not "scared" of people who are able to do "state-level interception".

People on the Airport or in Coffee Places with Firesheep annoy me.
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absolutely not! i can not use office programs, and i can not even manage to get a photo gallery going in facebook. 3 profiles i've created are still laying empty.

what i mean by wtf is, these people can do and interact with applications that i can not
keep up with, and still find my applications, or the applications that i find interesting
"to be complicated".
Considering that Somalia is ranked the most corrupt country in the world and hasn't had a functioning government in 20 years, the complete absence of government is obviously not a cure for corruption.
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Try searchyc.com. Duckduckgo, and Google also like hackernews. Duckduckgo has special support for searchyc.

HN itself doesn't provide search.
With all the celebrity attention Jason Fried and co get, they can't do anything "quiety".
Nice reply, also gives a good idea on the complexities/challenges involved in scaling up a startup to global markets.
> Seriously consider having the baby sleep in your bed with you, especially if you/your spouse are breastfeeding.

No. Everybody gets less sleep and for small babies there's a serious risk of death.
I have a 2.5 year old daughter, and I've found that once we got past the sleepless nights phase, I became more productive on my side projects than I was before she was born.

I have dramatically less free time to work on them, but out of necessity I've become much more focused and disciplined about how I use it (no more tv, aimless web surfing, etc.). The net effect is that I'm getting a lot more done. Meanwhile, my single friends are complaining that they don't have any free time for side projects. Hah.
Cool site! Here are a few little things that I noticed:

- I think the auto-complete is tough to read due to a combination of the opacity (too opaque) and the center alignment. My suggestion (I'm not a designer so use your own judgement obviously): make the text on the auto-complete a little bigger, left align it, and make the background less opaque.

- The search options seem a little confusing to me. When searching by title, do I still enter ingredients? Why not just have a single search box with no options, just like Google?

- The default image (the refrigerator) looks ugly to me, when I first saw it I assumed that was an uploaded image for the dish. Sorry I don't really have any suggestions for this though other than a different default image.
> features do not sell software

I've always thought that, but Joel Spolsky did an excellent talk where he made the exact opposite point. Skip to 25:00:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/19.html
What are the detractors saying? This looks totally awesome.
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> Last thing you want is trying to change a kid on the floor who's starting to twist and turn and has a really poopy diaper.

...or if there was a catastrophic containment failure.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/21/new-11-6-inch-macbook-air...

" On the plus side, the Toshiba solid state drive seems to be modular, so there's some modest upgrade potential there if you can find a supplier of the mini-SATA boards. Still, kids -- don't try this at home."
The #1 issue in SEO is acquiring links from sites other than your own, primarily links with the anchor text of the terms you desire to rank for. Google only alludes to this in their guidelines, and gives the topic about 60 words on two pages, with helpful advice such as "Know what social networks are." and "Reach out to people in your community."

Here's some actual helpful advice, for software companies: you should provide as many reasons as possible why linking to your website helps out the linker. There are as many ways to do this as there are ways to motivate people. One obvious one which non-programmers find difficult to duplicate is to provide some functionality for other people's websites via copy/paste code (called a widget), then promoting the widget. The widget contains a link back to the originating site, with anchor text that you pick.

For example, I have a client that produces something spiritually similar to help desk software. They should have a widget which lets you ask a question of BIG_CORP on BIG_CORP's website, with "[Help Desk] powered by $CLIENT." under it. The actual functionality is simple: submit a new issue straight into their help desk system. That's a triple win: BIG_CORP reduces support costs and gets higher customer loyalty, BIG_CORP's customers get a streamlined experience versus the traditional "email in a problem, get a ticket, pray a human sees it", and $CLIENT ranks higher for any help desk related keyword they care to target based entirely legitimately on their ability to convince BIG_CORP that they are the best help desk solution on the market.
Sorry to troll but to me this sounds like "If all companies who didn't care about security enough in first place start caring about security"

I would like to take control that's the reason i am so bullish on this.
Thank you. I get the zero-based numbering concept and appreciate the wikipedia link, I am coming at it from the angle of the first rule of communication is to be understood and it seems that numbering a list from zero is an affectation that probably ultimately only distracts from the message. I mean, why not number the list in binary if one is so intrinsically leet?
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"Microsoft's attempts to build a social network through Windows Live have failed to gain traction. It has no real answer to Facebook. "

I take issue with this. Pretty much no one has a 'real' answer to Facebook. In fact, Microsoft didn't even really try. And whatever they did try, they actually gave up on. As I remember, when explaining the Facebook integration into the newest Windows Live "nobody wants another facebook".

It would simply be absurd to expect MS to "fight" FB. Waste of time and money like the rest of the activities that the article seems to be criticizing.
I have 3 kids 12 (boy), 9 (girl), 6 (boy).

My 12 year old is very into Apple and his idle is Bertrand Serlet although he doesn't mind Steve Jobs either.

He turned out this way because he was always wanting to do what I was doing which was IT and writing code. He has designed his first iphone app and wants to release it.

I must admit that having them was definitely a change in life. It was positive though. Yeah 3am feedings and all night visits to the emergency room are not fun but watching them apply a skill you taught them in the funniest way makes it all worth it.