skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every mail server I've ever run has been qmail, including my current company's current mail server, which backs a relatively popular blog and a pretty healthy number of press hits with @matasano.com mail addresses, along with several decently active open mailing lists, and I simply don't have any of these problems you're talking about.

If you took a class with Bernstein, you might be familiar with the ISP whose entire mail operation, including customer POP and virtual hosting, I ran on qmail --- that'd be EnterAct. So yeah, I'm not buying your "qmail is too simple to matter" argument. If you want to chase it down, I'll be happy to show you where the last few Sendmail vulnerabilities were found. Clue: not in the crazy Sendmail features that qmail lacks.

But that's besides the point. You didn't answer my question.

Name a piece of code of comparable complexity to qmail that's never had an integer overflow. Here's another hint: Perl isn't one of them.
FogBugz also has nice SVN integration
I actually empathise with both arguments. I did my undergrad study "by the book", getting good grades but never investigating beyond what was required.

Then I decided to do postgrad at the very last minute, in a fairly different field, and a whole different world opened up: suddenly I was spending ages learning about whole new branches (usually unrelated to my topic) and loving it. That period basically shaped my current career (I usually say that I did a Phd, and I wrote a thesis, and the two weren't really related).

In the middle of postgrad I started lecturing, and I (somewhat hypocritically) started getting really frustrated with students who weren't interested in anything beyond the exam, particularly as I watched the curriculum get watered down to basic vocational training.

I don't really have a point out of this, except that I believe it's still possible to get a lot out of university, but only if you consider it a place of learning instead of a place of teaching. You probably won't be taught much (at least where I am), but there's still plenty of smart people there who would love to help you past the edges of the official curriculum.
Nothing about the project and no way to contact you. You're off to a great start.
Good call on the club thing. I'm a marketing/management student and I ended up as president of the human resources club on campus. It is a good thing I did, because now I get to go to all the alumni events and meet important people I wouldn't have otherwise.

To the OP - Just get involved. Start by going to every event and club meeting on campus and stay at it until something sticks.
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rememberthemilk.com for general to dos.

I second lighthouse and goplan.
Perhaps to somewhat protect the people who upload torrents to the site? I'm sure a lot of incriminating evidence could be gathered by observing all the uploading/commenting/posting that someone does on tpb.

Of course, everyone knows that the whole SSL setup is quite vulnerable to MIM.
Jason, a question to ask, of course, would be -- 'what about those who can't access that information?'

I believe this is why so many are saying that mobile is the future, because all that information flow moves to those without computers -- and even those with, wherever they are.
It's Smalltalk, learn that and then go join the Seaside-Dev list and dive it, it's fun and if you like Lisp you'll like Smalltalk, just for different reasons. Smalltalk is simple, elegant, consistent, and extremely powerful and has the same "mini language" culture the Lispers have. Smalltalk was heavily influenced by Lisp.
My launching of http://www.startupwarrior.com got pretty shadowed by this, but I think I have the better visualization.
Hey pstam!
make it everywhere. I think you make a BIG focus on helping bring access to those who wouldnt know about it. We were fortunate, we knew about the internet and what to do. in 1998, im pretty sure not many people were yahoo experts (google was in a garage still). What about those in poor areas of the country + world? They're kids + loved ones are afflicted with diseases just as much as anyone else. I would have a huge focus on making sure they knew this resource existed. Mobile is also key. i think we need to make information ubiquitous across all platforms. the faster you can make it flow, the better.
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World Refugee day started out as Africa Refugee Day. Africa has the highest numbers of refugees in the world perhaps resulting from a higher level or civic unrest, human displacement and tragedy. So what is the relevance of this day today? Well the fact is that there are some 40 million refugees world wide today;
Please checkout http://txtme.savitr.net. This is a service started by my startup Savitr Wireless (http://www.savitr.net)

We have built a SMS Engine / Framework which easily integrates with aggregators / carriers to send and receive SMS messages.

We license out the Framework directly as well as provide API to our hosted service.
They misspelled Poe's middle name to boot.
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I don't like the slider presentation widget.

1. It keeps moving automatically. That's irritating.

2. It always seems to be sliding too fast or too slow. I don't feel in control. Do you really want to place yourself in a situation where the best you can do is guess at the best compromise and hope your setting won't be too fast for the slower readers and not too slow for the faster ones?
Do people ever get the undirected urge to blog but don't know what to blog about? Usually people blog about the things they care about, and don't need suggestions.
i am surprised nobody mention todoist.com
in 2008, i have friends in the US who didn't know you could use Google to find recipes.

what Fred (citing Umair), seems to be searching for, though, is a way to hack some of those big, hairy goals Umair listed:

Organize the world's hunger.
Organize the world’s energy.
Organize the world’s thirst.
Organize the world's health.
Organize the world's freedom.
Organize the world's finance.
Organize the world's education.

Information flow can certainly help facilitate some of those, and will most likely be an important player in all, but can information alone organize the world's hunger or thirst? Research, Entrepreneurs, Startups, Capital, Market and Reach. Very resource intensive and surely not relying solely on an increased information flow.

Information access won't change the fact you don't have water to drink. Even if you could search to see how to purify your water, if you don't have access to the materials needed to do so, what would you do?
I'm not a technical guy so I can't comment on the implementation. But it should say something that I'll absolutely use it when I get set up with my new blog. I like that Skribit's lean and won't clutter my sidebar or dramatically decrease my site's load time.

Are you distributing via any widget networks? I ran a search on Widgetbox (don't care for that one but there are others) but couldn't find you. It might be something to consider when you're through this period of laying low.

Also, I'd encourage you not to worry so much about scaring people away. I know that's a problem for new services, but there's nothing so off-putting about Skribit that would make users leave in some mass exodus. You may turn some folks off when you have those predictable hiccups, but the feedback should more than offset that loss.

As an aside, I saw you got a hat-tip from Problogger. Awesome.
Question: Is your team meeting necessary every week? If there isn't a set of issues that need to be brought up, then you should seriously consider skipping meetings.

At a minimum, the following things should be kept in mind for running meetings:
1) Send out an agenda for the meeting beforehand a minimum 4 hours (half a day) ahead of time to allow everyone enough time to read it. Have printed copies for everyone attending can be helpful as well.
2) Use the meetings as a forum only to disseminate information to your team or to make decisions. This one is crucial. If you aren't making decisions, the meeting is a waste of everyone's time.
3) Have a fixed time each week that team meetings are held so that everyone can plan ahead to be available to attend.
4) Keep the meetings as short as possible. Hopefully with a rather focused agenda and restraining your meetings from turning into a discussion forum, you can keep the team meeting to an hour or less.

No one likes meetings that feel like they're a waste of time. Also, by making the focus of the meeting on decision making, you stop it from degenerating into endless discussions. By keeping them short and focused, everyone will be more likely to think that the meeting was useful for them to attend.
Agreed.

And frankly, I would start by cleaning up your grammar and losing the smiley face. Though many "hackers" may not like to wear suits and may like to play beer pong, they are serious professionals that deserve respect. This solicitation feels disrespectful.

Secondly, I would articulate exactly how you would add value to your future partnership. Of course, like you hinted, having an idea hardly counts.

Good luck.
For some reason I'm not finding the front page of http://skribit.com to be informative enough of what your startup does. Could easily just be me though.

I was going to ask if there was a way to vote, but then I found this example and it answers my question:
http://paulstamatiou.com/

After looking at that example, why is there no way to vote yes or no? It looks like you can only vote yes for something . Based on the frontpage there are a lot of polls, why not add voting?
The problem with this is that too much cross-communication will result in a productivity drain.
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dhh (although apparently now dormant)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jzawodny (relatively new addition)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg (hehe)
Fred, with all due respect, there's almost no way to centralize the conversation anymore. Twitter, FriendFeed, Social Media, Digg, Hacker News...it has spread the conversation to many, many corners so people in many niches can discuss what's going on.

Yes, in an ideal world, the conversation would happen in one place (that's part of why I think Disqus was a great investment and FriendFeed is destined for greatness), but this is a fragmented world and fragmented conversations are going to always be a part of the world's dynamic.
Youre right, it's not an end all solution. There has to be more to it, but it's definitely an enabler. It would help bring people together to do something about it. It's then up to those people to fix the problem. Good quote:

"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Meade

Sounds like this is an area of interest to you wumi?
Everyone's definition of "notable" might vary a little, but:

Paul Buchheit: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=paul
i agree that lots of problem solving talent could go to the root and tell a more meaningful story.. i'm hoping web 3.0 is less about threadless t-shirts levering "architectures of participation" for private gain and more about the next billion of us, connecting, cooperating, identifying and solving real problems, like maybe the biodiversity crisis and finding smarter energy.

maybe better connecting we'll have chance to bust out of our monkeyspheres and denials.. it's powerful potential. then again, in 1990's i remember a John Gage quote: "What stopped the vietnam war was we told the truth about what was happening. Now the truth telling mechanisms are a thousand times more powerful".. sounds great, but look what happened: the trwtf telling mechanisms of today have sold endless war with victims unknown and gross costs, all to control stupid and ugly oil.

yes i'm complaining.. no i can't solve biodiversity and energy.. the best i can do, in my dream, is work toward universal literacy.. so even the final billion can someday read wikipedia, get informed and solve real problems..
mike arrington/techcrunch:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=techcrunch
hey andrew!
Thanks for the feedback. I made that presentation slider thing with prototype carousel. I also feel the same way - how do I get users to have control but also realize that there are more slides? Make the arrow buttons larger? Have 1, 2, 3, 4 links?
Again, please do not downvote people for asking simple questions. In this case, dshah's questions are interesting and personally I'd like to know the answers also.
bloggers that like to blog regularly have this problem. I know that if I don't blog for a week I might get an email or two asking what's up as I usually blog more often.

I've run into this problem quite often when trying to keep up with my readers. Thanks for the feedback though - how can we make it more apparent that we are solving the "writer's block" problem?
You're absolutely correct. I have a friend who works for a company that does nothing but launch franchise changes, and they've had a few monster scores. They do it in a few ways. One is by, as you mentioned, taking a pre-existing successful restaurant and using the name and some of the menu.

Some times they will simply develop concepts (often 4 or 5 at a time) start one of each, and see what sticks.

I've studied the restaurant industry quite a bit and can only think of a few chains that stumbled into it.
By the way, sitting up straight is actually worse for your back than leaning back comfortably. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185187
Just to say that I'm a user of the skribit.com site for my podcast and that you guys have been great about watching for feedback and taking my suggestions. I think it's on the right track but you're a bit away from finding the real gold there.

Some of the things you lay out are going to be real good, the analytics and possible value of suggestions from similar blogs suggests directory building and that information can be very valuable depending on how you do it.

Keep it up!
The difference between Dvorak and Qwerty, in a nutshell, is that Dvorak was designed scientifically while Qwerty was designed in a mostly arbitrary way to avoid jamming in the early designs of typewriters.

Dvorak optimizes alternating hands (ever felt dumb typing "street" or "states" in Qwerty?), useful keys on the home row (aoeuidhtns VS asdfghjkl;), typing inwards (try tapping your fingers in rapid succession inwards on your desk. Now try outwards or in a random order...) and typing with the strong fingers (The farther from the pinky the better) and the right hand (usually the strongest one), among other things.

Those features reduce stress injury because they result in less finger movement and more natural dynamics.
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Why is it a surprise? With oil heading to $200 per barrel, buttloads of money are accumulating in the Middle East.
The following three things helped me tremendously.

(1) Stop using an external mouse. Right now. The sideways flick your wrist does when you reach for it is murderous. Most laptops' integrated pointing devices will help a lot. The Apple trackpad is great. IBM (Lenovo) trackpoints work well too. Switch up hands you use for the pointing device.

I lucked out on this one: the last desktop computer I ever owned died just as my RSI symptoms peaked. I then didn't regularly use a computer for around three months, which let the symptoms subside. I've owned a laptop as a primary machine ever since (eight years now), and have had very few recurring symptoms.

(2) Exercise. This is huge topic, obviously, but in particular, core strength development will help your body in surprising ways. Very specifically, use light (<20 lb or <10 kg) dumbbells and do regular and reverse wrist curls. Obviously go easy on these at first.

(3) Keep your wrists straight when you type. Easier said than done, of course, but good posture and a good chair will help out here.
Facebook is beating MySpace worldwide
Ask HN: Interview with the competition?
I'v been working on a web site in my spare time for the past year. The big player in the market has some open positions. Sick of the day job, and thinking about interviewing with them. Probably wouldn't move across the country for this, but could be an interesting experience to see into this other company.

Not sure if could successfully monetize my little site, but I know I'm converting a small percentage of their web traffic to my site.

So the general question is, has anyone interviewed with the competition? Any hidden downsides to consider?
Once an Internet Giant, InfoSpace Dismantles Itself
Owen Byrne - Digg co-founder: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ojbyrne

Marc Andreessen - Netcape/Opsware/Ning (appears dormant)
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca

Aaron Swartz
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aaronsw

And you never know who is lurking.
Is that really mike and/or techcrunch staff?
Try to meet everyone. Remember, keep track of, and develop real relationships with all of the people you click with.
If you're having the meetings for the sake of having a weekly meeting (or, what amounts to the same thing, for a managerial reason like "status updates") then I'm not surprised it's dull. People's spirits are weighed down by the artificiality of that. It's a drag to drop what you're doing, which presumably is interesting, and go sit around doing something boring. Surely that's the last thing you ought to be doing in a startup.

To get out of the trap, apply the converse. The same people who groan at the thought of enduring an arbitrary meeting will come to life when working together on something real. Therefore, figure out how to make your meetings real work on something that matters. Failing that, ask the team to figure out a way to provide the value of the meeting without needing to have a meeting.

Here's my criterion. I ask myself whether what's going on is making me (and others) feel more or less alive. If it's the latter, I try to understand why. If necessary, I'll speak up and say frankly that what we're doing feels like a drag and change the subject to what we can do about it.

Basically, if it doesn't feel fun, something's wrong. Fun is the canary in the coal mine: if it goes, everything else is going too, just more slowly. So it really pays to give attention to this. I'm surprised more people don't figure that out. (Incidentally, by "fun" I don't mean anything set up to be fun, like those asinine team-building outings... those things aren't fun, they're a crate of suckage with a label that says "fun" stuck on it. What I'm talking about is spontaneous enjoyment of creative work and meaningful interaction with others.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jasonfried
It's Mike.
Google and Microsoft want to extend their reach into traditional advertising.
Joel Spolsky: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=spolsky
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Hmm. You're getting some... strange advice in this thread.

First: A scheduled weekly meeting with you and three other people is most likely overkill. The only reason to have scheduled meetings with that frequency is if you are dealing with a large team with conflicting schedules. What do you do in these meetings? I hope it's not a status report meeting. I would certainly hope in that small a team you already know the status before even starting the meeting.

Always ask yourself "can this be solved with an email or a phone call" before calling a meeting. People resent having their time spent by their boss catching up.

Don't be afraid to grab two people and say "hey guys, we need to hash this out". If you feel that it's going to take more than 20 minutes or so, THEN schedule a meeting.

Try not to schedule meetings too far out in advance. Having a meeting scheduled 5 days out kills productivity. Nobody will want to make a decision because it will be talked about "in the meeting".

Something that I see a ton of in startups is the perceived need for formality. In a team of 4, I would assume you have other responsibilities than managing the rest of your team. If not, then I assume you're the money guy. Either way, be very careful of destroying your team's productivity because you're looking for a way to validate your position. You don't have to do that, I assume they already understand you're the CEO.

I can tell people have done a lot of reading about how other companies do their meetings; unfortunately none of it is good advice. You know your team and we don't. You know your product and we don't. If meetings seem boring, then you probably shouldn't have had one. If people can't keep in the loop with what's going on in the company, then you need more meetings.

Anyways, let's get to a TLDR version:

- Don't have a meeting without a clear reason for having one.

- That reason has to pass the "can this be solved by an email or phone call" litmus test.

- Don't waste people's time.
the original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=222486
RTM, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm

And though it'd be a stretch to call them notable, people I at least heard of before they came here:

Colin Perciva (FreeBSD security officer; Putnam winner): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva

John Graham-Cummings (active in the anti-spam community; caused a firestorm when he submitted Reddit to Digg and got censored): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc

Doug Renert (partner at Tandem E.): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DougR

and I think ESR might lurk here occasionally.
I'm jealous. I've applied there a couple of times but could never close the deal. Good going Jerem.
I think we need some clarification. Is the web site you're currently working on YOUR website? Or are you being paid to work on this site by a third party?

If its your site, and you're looking to move on; it could be worthwhile. But you should be aware that you will probably not be able to work on your site any more after hiring on with your competition.
ah... sorry dude.. accidental mod down trying to highlight goplan.info... I'm kinda in the same boat as you (perhaps) all todo list software I find really doesn't fit what I'm looking for.
If I worked at The Pirate Bay, I'd have a poison pill around my neck in case obedient assholes bust through the door and want to take me to a bunker for indefinite torture.

The parliament might as well put a swastika on the Swedish flag.
It seems like that there is a reason that names are tiny/gray: we should judge what is said on its merit, not based on who said it.

I've had the good fortune to know and work with some extremely smart people, and none of them is always right. How is it useful to be able to follow all of X's comments?

I've found that the moderation system here is fairly good at separating the wheat from the chaff. Far more so than identity is, at least.
I totally get what you meant (+ you are have one of the highest rating 4.3/5 on TheFunded), but it was just funny to me and I could not resist. I should I have added a smily at the end of the comment. :)