skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Project management software, wikis, and tech infrastructure for small startups
Summary: I'm using Redmine, git, and Google Sites. I compare some alternatives and explain why I chose Redmine and Google Sites.

Edit: Sorry! The correct link is http://natanyellin.com/2011/01/25/project-management-software-wikis-and-other-technical-infrastructure-for-small-startups/
I sent you an email. Also, if anyone else is interested, my portfolio is at www.madebyargon.com
Another user posted a similar question a few days ago asking if it would be alright if he crawled HN, and would Paul block him if he attempted to do so. I told him: "There's enough of a load on HN as it is without every Tom, Dick, and Harry testing out his proof of concept by crawling this site."

I think a year ago this wouldn't have been an issue if you spaced your requests out by several seconds, but during the daytime (United States daytime, that is) this site is hammered. Yesterday the site was brought to a crawl (no pun intended) by just from everyone commenting on that DDG/Google article.

If you spaced your requests out by 3 or 4 seconds and only crawled during the US night time then the servers shouldn't be affected too much. That doesn't account for the data transfer you use up though. Someone has to pay for that and there are already several sites (that I can think of off the top of my head) that crawl HN on a regular basis.
It amazes me how quickly AWS iterates and adds new features. Also, this is just what I needed for a site I am building (I was trying to figure out which third-party mail provider to use.)
You should move to the UK. Ocado (amongst others) offers grocery deliveries that you can order from your iPhone or iPad
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837/what-is-the-differe...
Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool
Hey, great site. I was planning on working on a similar product, and I was wondering if you would consider partnering up.

Please email me if you are interested. My email address is in my profile.
Chrome’s UI is great but it’s also always the little details that kill it for me. After enjoying Chrome’s instant search (search results and pages load while you are typing) tremendously on a Windows laptop I once again decided to make Chrome my default browser instead of Safari on OS X, at least for a time. That was a week ago and I’m already back to Safari.

The problem was Chrome’s behavior when tearing off tabs. On OS X I usually don’t surf fullscreen, most of the time I have two windows with several tabs and varying widths open, sometimes overlapping and sometimes not. Creating two windows and placing them about right is easy with Safari, I click a tab and drag all the way to the screen edge where I want the window to be. (I basically click and flick my finger to the left or to the right on the trackpad, it’s impossible to miss.) The window will be placed with all its content on the screen. Quickly creating overlapping windows by tearing off tabs is also easy. You just have to drag down. Again, nothing will leave the screen.

Chrome doesn’t allow you to be so careless. The tab will end up exactly where your mouse is pointing even if that means that most of the window is not visible on the screen. You cannot quickly flick with your finger to create a second window and place it in roughly the right spot.

It was a very frustrating experience for me. Chrome really is nearly perfect in all other respects but such a glaring shortcoming is not really tolerable for something I use as frequently as a browser. I prefer how Chrome handles closing tabs but I much more often tear of tabs than closing several of them. (I also tend to use the keyboard shortcut for closing tabs but that is not an excuse for Safari to get closing tabs wrong. The right answer when someone brings up problems or clever tricks when using some application with the mouse is definitely not to say “But there are keyboard shortcuts!” I don’t think you should ever use keyboard shortcuts as excuses for botching an app’s behavior when using the mouse.)
I don't think it will kill off the likes of SendGrid. It might actually help expose Email-as-a-Service to potential customers who weren't aware that those companies existed. In the end it could expand the market for everyone and end up benefiting the competition as well.

Pick an Amazon Web Service and for most (all?) there are several standalone companies competing on quality, customer service, and ease of use.

The problem for the competition is that Amazon's suite of services is getting more and more comprehensive and using ALL of their offerings really does lower development overhead (versus picking and choosing the best standalone Email/Queue/Storage/CPU offering).
If this were 1990 or you didn't know about Google, then a simple web directory connecting you to various sites would be very impressive.
I wonder how they will respond if an account gets over the allowed threshold of spam complaints. I could see them responding either by:

a) Cutting off the customer's use of Simple Email Service; or

b) (Much much worse) cutting off the customer's AWS account, including EC2 and so on.

I'm guessing a), but it would be nice to have assurances against b). Otherwise a false positive on the "they're using SES to spam" detection system could be catastrophic.

The SES docs just point to the standard customer agreement - http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ - which doesn't appear to make any specific mention of SES terms and conditions.
No. If the inductive step is that n lines of code is n! difficulty his base cases are still valid.

There is no induction with no inductive hypothesis.
So I was immediately looking at their REST API...

And true to form, Amazon adds yet another slightly incompatible request signing method.

Consistency is for wimps.
I only have experience with git, so I can't compare the two directly. That said, there are a few pseudo-features I love which aren't part of git itself:
1. GitHub (bitbucket doesn't seem comparable)
2. Aptana's built-in support for git
Did anybody notice the buying range for many cities was shown starting from 0 ( e.g. 0-100k )... I wonder what that means?
For developers planning out infrastructure, one of Patrick's articles is also indispensable (on staging servers and deployment workflows):

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/12/12/staging-servers-source-c...
Yep. You're thinking of kozmo. There was even a documentary made about the rise and spectacular fall of kozmo back in 2000. It was sort of a web-driven urban delivery service.

Amazon might be able to pull this off in some markets. It probably makes sense for folks with mobility issues.

I see it almost as an extension to mechanical turk.
No. They have much more advanced technology at their disposal.
You're missing the fact that Mailchimp offers an entire email marketing app whereas Amazon offers an email deliverability web service. They each have completely different features and are in a different market.
It might just help them. If Amazon just undercut their infrastructure costs, they can ditch their own servers and simply route mails through Amazon.

Regardless, MailChimp does a lot of stuff besides just sending mail. I suspect that most of its customers are there for the list management and campaign management pieces rather than just the .send() bit.
I dare you to look at the API for some of the "traditional" email service providers. I've had the displeasure of working with a few from some of the big names and they are real DailyWTF material.
>If this is illegal, then what about search engine caches, the wayback machine?

The difference between what search engines/the Wayback Machine do and what a service like his does is that the former caches more of less complete copies of the content without the intent to strip anything out (save for the view as text only feature in Google's cache), while his service is stripping out the monetization schemes of the content owners.

Although he links back to them (which he absolutely must do anyway), the content owners might become angry that they aren't getting the traffic and the chance to have their ads clicked. I think that is a reasonable viewpoint for the content owners to have, yet I also want to believe that a service like his should be able to exist. Perhaps some kind of middle ground can be achieved where he does show the ads but perhaps well organized at the bottom or middle of the article or something.

What would the content owners be able to do though? Maybe send DMCA notices. This would fall under copyright infringement laws I think. I'm no lawyer though. I also think there should be some kind of allowances for these kinds of content repurposes.
I hate to say it, and with all respect, but did you read my post at all? Because that's absolutely not what I said. My logic is:

1) The only thing we know about the guy is that he screwed the client over. The client may or may not have deserved it. Likely deserved it, if you prefer.

2) I don't want to work with him on the chance that the client didn't deserve it, and he'll screw me over when I don't deserve it.

Honestly, I don't see what's controversial about that. It's a massive red flag. Of course knowing more about the guy, or his situation, might change my mind. But that's true of any candidate.

(Note that I realise he's replied to the thread here now - I'm just trying to explain the thinking in my last post.)
I am a freelance web designer. Usually clients hire me because someone referred them to me, or they found my portfolio (madebyargon.com) somehow.

The client generally gives me a detailed specification of their app or website, which details the number of screens/pages I need to design. I quote a price range that they agree to by paying an upfront retainer.

Within the first 2-3days, I send them a design draft (of the homepage/main screen). If they do not like the draft at all, then I would refund their money (but this has never happened). Usually the client is either happy with the design or asks for some changes. A few back and forth with feedback and we can land on the perfect design.

The initial design draft shows the client my quality of work. If they find it to be sub-par then they get a refund. They lose nothing but time (the 2-3days I take to design the draft).

Some clients have a specific layout in mind, and they send over wire-frames to follow. Some clients leave it entirely up to me.

I usually ask clients for examples of existing website designs they like, so I understand the design sense/feel they would like to go for.

Hope this answers your question.

BTW, if you are looking for a freelance web designer, I am available. My portfolio is at http://www.madebyargon.com
Agreed. I use Silverpop for high-volume sends even though I pretty sure they're just a front-end for PowerMTA
No, just my bad...it was too late to delete the comment. You guys are doing great, keep up the good work :)
I was really hoping that that headline said Flickr when I first glanced at it.
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Ubuntu 10.10
This goes beyond just the digitalization of media. In the age of access you rent more or less everything. Your car and your home (either directly or via loans), your music collection, library - maybe even your furniture and clothes:
http://www.weartodaygonetomorrow.com

Huge opportunities for startups to be disruptive here.
Do Nothing For 24 Hours, because 2 minutes is too easy.
I like the idea behind "Do nothing for 2 minutes", it does a good job of identifying a problem that afflicts many of us who are permanently wired to a handful of different real-time news sources.

So to be a little tongue-in-cheek, and a little bit serious. I put this together quickly to get people thinking about Mindfulness, which has already helped me in the few short weeks I've practicing it.
Get your conference videos in one spot
Get educated via video content from a conference that you were at or even one you wished you were at.
Yeah but don't forget you are buying MailChimps' UI for that too. It may not be the best but it's definitely usable for a non-technical user.

However for your own custom interface this is going to be the obvious choice.
What have you done to get this business going other than contact me and write a pitch? How have you attempted to validate the assumptions of your business so far?
Scott Adams: Freedom of Data
Developer Economics Survey 2011
Facebook’s Developer Love initiative – 3 months later
considering the fact that 95% of all email is spam, the email service providers should implement a similar quota system to fight spam. actually it would be great if entire email ecosystem had something like this in its core.
I love what Amazon is doing with AWS, and I like this new service a lot. Plus I'm a happy customer.

But damn this is all getting very complicated. First they turn off email, so you have to find a provider, then they turn it back on, but you have to pay them. Looking at my AWS console, I've got 8 or 9 tabs on there -- each representing a little piece of what I might want in an app. Each has it's own help section with bunches of docs to read to get up to speed. Each has it's own forum category. Each has a usage policy.

Don't get me wrong -- it's all good stuff. But good luck trying to guestimate what kinds of prices you'll be paying. You're paying for data transfer in and out of the cloud, you're paying for disk storage, you're paying for a database, you're paying for basic email services, etc.

So I'm kind of stuck looking at the monthly bill and saying "Does this look about right?" instead of having some firm idea of what's going on without having to use a spreadsheet and 3 whiteboards. That's no good. It's probably completely acceptable for BigCorp, who has a guy dedicated to figuring all of this out and managing it, but I'm busy and pressed for time all I want is the big red button to push -- and a known price for pushing it.

I love what they're doing. Just wish they'd put a little more "simple" back into it, especially in terms of pricing and bundling.
No, I would say Wikipedia is very research and student friendly.

Most non-tech people I know would have probably looked at Wikipedia once or twice. I would say Wikipedia is barely scratching the surface of delivering knowledge to the general person on the street.

There is definitely scope for delivering wikipedia information in an alternative format. Particularly through mobile devices. It's like when Facebook was still limited to universities and was yet to bust out into general use.
The article talks about how the music industry is shrinking, but says nothing about musicians. Musicians who embrace the new reality are doing fine. What the Internet is really doing away with is a giant industry that used to be useful, but now is merely parasitic.

The same is happening to the book publishing industry. We don't really need them anymore. Instead of giving $15 to a publisher who then gives $1.50 to the author, we can just give $1.50 to the author directly and be done with it.

In the process, we'll see lots of articles like this bemoaning the 90% shrinkage of the publishing industry, while actual authors make more money than ever.
Is there even a decent Windows shell extension for git yet? When using Windows and teams not already familiar with git, Mercurial + TortoiseHG was an easy choice.
Labeling C and V with "copy" and "paste" may have made such accidents easier...
I remember this once being attempted 15 years ago or more in Norway, except with Nokia phones and the biggest (former state-owned) telco. Ignoring for the moment the obvious vendor lockin, it was a disaster anyway.

It suffered the same problem this one will: No added benefit over cash or credit-cards which people already have. Not to mention shops had to replace their payment-equipment and opt-in for this for little perceived extra value and there was really, really no market demand what so ever.

So as a consumer you had two choices:

1. Take up your bank-card, enter-security code and be done.

2. Or ask if you could pay with your "phone", and if you could then pick up your phone, see that it said the same as the display on the counter, enter a security code and then get your bank-card charged. If not, see step 1.

Can anyone see why this wasn't successful? Can anyone see why this would ever be successful? What does adding the phone into the mix add of value?

I'm not saying that this can't possibly work or will never happen, just that it's been tried before and the main reasons it didn't work back then haven't fundamentally changed in any significant way, except more people now have bank-cards and credit-cards further undermining whatever reason it should have to gain traction.

If this thing takes off just because it's an Apple-thing/iThing, I will be amazed by people's gullibility.
Reverseable Computing
Here's something worth reading...
The API does not seem to be bad, really. It's just not consistent with other AWS APIs, which would simplify writing language bindings for them.
Real-Life Massive Multi-Player Spy Game
Springloops V2 - Deployment and version control
+1 from me.

That's it for Obama. Great, inspiring speeches, but too many poor decisions, and quite the hand for choosing the wrong people for important positions. Maybe he wants to appease everyone? Either way this is not what I expect from a leader. The RIAA is the exact opposite of "by the people, for the people".

I am officially out of the Obama camp. I suppose now it's off to see that the next Republican candidate is not an un-electable retard from the tea party camp. And BTW clearly anyone remotely associated with the tea party is an un-electable moron.
http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply? Disallow: /submitted? Disallow: /submitlink? Disallow: /threads? Crawl-delay: 30
Why would they save work on the in-tab UI and make the close-tab X button on the right? The window control buttons are on the left like any other Mac app, and the same goes for the closing X button on the Developer Tools frame. Both of those are on the right in Windows. As you saw with the Arabic screenshot, they've already done the work to allow the closing X buttons to be on the left; if they wanted the Mac tab closing buttons to be on the left, they'd be on the left. It's not just a holdout from Windows.
It's the buy/rent ratios of the top 50 largest cities, not the 50 cities with the best buy/rent ratio.

As for it not having US in the title. It is a .com. Technically that means it is in the US. If it was "Rent vs Buy, Top Cities" on Trulia.co.uk, I would not have clicked through becuase I would have known they were not talking about the US.

I don't see why every single time someone posts something they need to qualify it as "IN THE US!" when its on a .com already.
Is your MySQL monitoring tool cloud ready?
410 days ago? I had just noticed this behavior in Chrome myself a few weeks ago, and thought it might be new beta behavior that no one had really talked about. Guess not.
On Mac it's Cmd+click, on Windows maybe it's Ctrl+click?
Someone has to authorize the purchase. Spending $500 to download 7zip or a couple free utils sounds like a lot. Add software that Windows IT guys have all heard of, so your repository screenshot has a scroll bar.

Then try pricing it at $59 so the IT guy can put it on a corp card now and explain it later if someone asks.
For anyone interested, here is the Ask HN the founders posted about a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111663

Direct link: https://www.thesunnytrail.com/
either ebert missed it or I'm adding sophistry: I thought the third monolith, the one that comes down horizontally and neatly fills the screen as the warp sequence begins looking suspiciously like a big movie screen, represents the transmission of ideas as the next logical step from tool use. the fact that we are sitting in a darkened room having a shared experience of idea transmission is part of the message.

man the beast -> man the tool user -> man the thinker. HAL represents a failed attempt at this next step: trying to get our tools to do our thinking for us. dave enters the warp and observes first abstract images and then images of landscapes, but distorted from the look of a real landscape. we flash back to images of dave experiencing pain or horror. this process of having ideas transmitted to us, either as abstractions or distortions of real things is a traumatic one. It is, however, necessary on the path towards what we become next. Dave then dies as a human, and so too what we are now must die to pave way for the new.
This looks like fun. Sucks that you have to have a Paypal account. What about international players - do they get mail delivery also?
Law stops 'chasing illegal file-sharers'
I have experience with both, but don't have a clear preference...

Hg, overall, seems a bit more user friendly for doing the run-of-the-mill things such as branching, merging, fetching code, delivering patches, etc. I find it more pleasant to use without knowing much about the internals. This makes it also easier to explain to people that used SVN etc.

Git has a lot of 'magical command line switches', and (at least used to be) documented qutie sparsely. So you'll probably query google on how to get out of seemingly simple situations. On the other hand, Git allows a guru to do a lot of stuff such as re-ordering history to make nicer patches. Once you master how things work, these can be very useful.

IMO, it doesn't really matter that much, you'll get used to both, and Hg and GIT are more or less equivalent feature-wise.
Neurons lose information at ~1bit/second
Besides, does peer-review cost anything for them? The one time I was asked by an ACM journal to review a paper for them, there was no monetary exchange involved.
I think CSS3 is absolutely awesome, but I worry about using it because it's so new. I wonder how many people looking at my sites (here in Japan) will be using browsers that render it properly. Statistics for my own homepage seem to indicate that the vast majority don't...
Because someone always has to outdo the last guy. -sigh-
I really like Mailchimp, but it's just not geared for high-volume sending. If you were going to be sending into the millions, you would typically be looking at someone like Lyris or Silverpop.

Edit: Mailchimp does a really good job of holding your hand and providing support. Amazon SES does not even provide basic analytics like open rates and click tracking.
That's just one definition. Read up on Ousterhout's dichotomy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhouts_dichotomy
original paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4410
I made this because I liked the idea of donothingfor2minutes.com, it does a good job of illustrating a problem that people genuinely do have.

My original intention was to be a bit tongue-in-cheek. But I decided instead to push people towards mindfulness, which i've only been trying for a couple of weeks but has already started to help me with some of my problems.