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Show HN: Review my startup - Webieu, a place to find and compare online services
URL: http://www.webieu.com

Webieu allows people to find, compare and review online services. The big idea is that the people who come to Webieu looking for an online service should be able to narrow down to three or less options. They should be able to compare the most important factors and not be hammered by noise.

There are a lot of review websites out there, but they mostly consider reviews from the editors and/or users. They don't have any meaningful way of comparing services when 10 of them have five star rating.

Webieu has only VPS hosting services at the moment. You can compare the prices, RAM, storage and bandwidth from many VPS providers. I plan to add dedicated servers and managed hosting, but these are a bit more complicated.

If you could tell me how you or your company shops for hosting services, that would be extremely helpful.

I want to eventually expand to online business applications, but it is a lot more subjective than the hard numbers of hosting services. I am trying to figure out the best model for narrowing down options for applications such as collaboration tools.
It seems very broken to me. I often can't find recent posts on HN even when using unique keywords.
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Full list of Flash 11 [beta] hardware-accelerated 3d demos
20 websites for UX
Umm, like, after I cum in it?
I just did a quick google and I'm not finding stats, but I've seen in a couple places features on the percent of population that legally owns firearms and on violent crime - if I remember correctly, they're reverse-correlated. The last time I saw it was in a feature by Al Jeezera which was linked to from a HN comment, I think.

The population point is interesting and I'm not sure about that. Maybe something to do some looking into at some point, I'd be curious to know more.

Edit: This seems almost comically biased and appeals to emotion a lot, but does cite some stats - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html
According to the data sheet http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX1908-MAX8765A.pdf "D2 protects the MAX1908/MAX8724/
MAX8765/MAX8765A when the DC power source input is reversed. A signal diode for D2 is adequate because DCIN only powers the internal circuitry."
Hey there - I said in my post that I think tethering is the big reason. I was just saying the polling is a big contributor too. I'll try to put some estimates together based on some real world examples.

Agree about C2D, but I don't think a lot of apps are using it. I actually don't think anything I have installed on my Evo use it... I'll check that out, too.
I've got proper sizing down: Trojan Magnum XL, if you know what I mean!
Is sulfuric acid illegal in Ireland? I would rather have a gun pointed at me than a large man threaten to burn my face off.
1. Person A has a laptop

2. Person A no longer has a laptop. Person A did not sell or give away this laptop. The laptop was stolen.

3. Person B now has the missing laptop.

Conclusion: Person B is in possession of a stolen laptop.
For a second, I thought you were just doing a really terrible, misspelled job of insulting me :P
>For instance, maybe he bought it from the thief off craigslist.

Could be but one could also speculate the other direction. What if the robbery occurred in a very short time span, and the photo of him driving away was taken (assuming it was time and location stamped) during that time and in the immediate vicinity of the crime?

This would make it unlikely that a third party transaction had occurred.
I got banned for saying Scala is the c++ of jvm. ;)
Is anybody else slightly disturbed by all of the 'attaboy!' comments here on a post exposing unscrupulous and probably illegal business tactics?

Think the response here would be the same if it was MicroSoft or the RIAA caught in something like this and not a YC alum?

Anyway, great investigation and great analysis here, I think.
Harley Nightster (motorcycle). Did a bunch of work to it myself over the last couple months, much like hacking on a project - doing small incremental changes until you get it how you want it. Plus, it gets 50+ mpg and nothing makes the commute to work more fun than taking the back roads and ripping around corners!
"Any lawyers want to chime in on whether the owner has a right to reclaim his property legally?"

Sure, it's just another repo. Get a court order, then hire the sheriff's office to enter the property and retrieve it. How do you think rent-to-own businesses work?
Where do you live that you see people doing that? Serious question.
I was blown away watching the local news the other night. A man in Oakland was in the water drowning while the Fire Department watched because they didn't have the "resources" for proper training and certification for land-based water rescues. A random woman eventually had to go out into the water to retrieve the body. This is unbelievable. http://sfist.com/2011/05/30/man_drowns_in_bay_off_alameda_be...
Ask HN: Will any smartphone platform come close to iOS or Android?
Does anyone think that any smartphone platform will approach the popularity of Android and iOS in the next five years? Or do they have an insurmountable lead in terms of widespread adoption and quality.
It's amazing how much harder it is to shoot something with a pistol from ten feet than it is from two. Unless the person practices regularly (which I suspect most street thugs do not), your chance of unharmed escape increases pretty much exponentially with distance.

That's not to say that I hope to ever have one pointed at me.
Please, not this argument, not on HN.
"It is difficult to argue against the idea that there are too many ways to do things in Scala. There is more than one way to do a lot of things, and I personally find the right way for me to be fairly evident after writing a few thousand lines of code."

And that is the problem. Most people will never reach the state of having writing a few thousand lines of code, because they are to confused to begin with.

In my mind, consistency is a prerequisite to a short learning curve. How can it be short if what you have learned in the past is constantly questioned along the way?

When the experts provide multiple ways of achieving the same thing, they force the act of making the choice upon everyone, which is a huge barrier for beginners. Scala could attract a lot more beginners, if it didnt make them think about choices at every step of the way.
Hrm. This is why SEO seems like there's a high BS quotient. In some situations, it sounds more like a bunch of norsemen huddled around a fire trying to explain their harsh and unpredictable world via a series of angry and capricious gods, rather than rational, scientific people.

And in many ways, that's how it is - you do some experiments, and by the time you have something definitive (you think, at least), the rules change and your experiments are potentially no longer valid. Even Einstein would be no match for a world where C kept changing at random.
Also, "The Feeling of Power".

http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.h...
By hard I just mean it's extremely verbose. (i.e. implementing interfaces for each anonymous function is annoying at best)
Don't allow untrusted clients to place arbitrary files on your web server.
Depends if you actually ment what your wrote. I think his point is that if you did, you would have chosen a different wording from a psychological point of view.
Blog post with code examples is here - much better than press release:
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/5/31/celadon_cedar/
'Jobless Paddy' spends life savings on billboard ad
Ideas to improve IT services and staffing business
I have been working as IT consultant for years and I have worked in databases, system engineering, systems architecture etc. I want to increase my business with more clients, projects etc. How can i approach more clients, projects etc? I am in Northern VA area and there is lot of work for government but i do not know how to get that work. is there a place where government advertise what kind of help they are looking for and companies can place bids. I am also going to be minority certified because i am from india. I will also be 8(a) certified soon. What are the different ideas for marketing and what are the inexpensive but good job boards to find people if i get some business. how can i market? any websites, useful softwares, blogs etc.
>>Maybe less time on couches and more time with coaches would change your perspective?

:) funny... (fixed the typo, thanks.)

>>there is a guy, Dan...

Is this Daniel Coyle? I read his "Talent Code" book too. Similar to "Talent is Overrated" but doesn't neglect innate talent as much as the other.

>>I thought the goal was "expert level", not Nobel Prize level.

Expert level in the book is as good as one can get after 10,000 hours of "deliberate practice" with great coaching. The author doesn't make any distinction between expert level and super high achievers.
Lucene has supported near real-time search since 2.9 or so. By calling IndexWriter.getReader(), your index reader has access to both committed and non-committed changes.

In my experience, this near real-time search picks up changes within the last 500 milliseconds or so. I think it's basically a workaround for the latency related to disk I/O on commits.

What is Twitter doing to make that faster? I'd appreciate any links you could post which explain their changes.
Well, as you say OSX has the keychain (which is encrypted, and has command-line access tools). I think most Linux systems have something similar ('keyctl' on my system). I know nothing of Windows, but I would hope something analagous exists there too.

I mean, mail clients such as Thunderbird can be set up to safely remember passwords without storing them in cleartext, right? So clearly it's feasible...
Double check. Assuming it's true, etc., it goes to "let PR handle it" ;-).
The way pleasure factors into great software development is super interesting to me. I don't think you can be a great programmer (and I have to say I have no clue where I'll fit on the scales of developer skills) without loving what you do, but I have known programmers who love it and weren't necessarily all that great at it when I knew them, because of how early things were in their career. Who knows if they'll be amazing at 30 or 45 or 80, though?
On designing and deploying Internet scale services
The "redundant favicon" complaint is somewhat mitigated by the "Pin Tab" feature. Right-click any tab and select "Pin Tab". I no longer browse with my bookmarks bar displayed because of this feature!
I'm not seeing how you got to $125/hr... does he write somewhere that he'll only work 4 hours a day on the project?

I'm getting two weeks, 5 days a week, at an 8 hour workday = 80 hours. $5000/80hr = $62.50/hr, which from what I've heard is on the low side for contract programming (I haven't actually done any contract work, but this doesn't come out to much more than sr devs get with full benefits in a salaried job out here in the bay area).

I'm not saying it's a bad deal for him. This sounds like it could be fun if he can make it work - he's very upfront about it - two weeks, fixed rate, clojure only. I'd probably take a lower rate if I could consistently get fun, no-hassle work in my favorite language.
Emphasis on "might". It's a hypothetical component of a mechanism, that's all. It proves that the tiny emissions from a phone do have a measurable effect, as opposed to none whatsoever. "the energies involved just don't seem to be sufficient to actually do anything bad." This statement cannot be confirmed - the energies are sufficient to do..."something". Whether it's bad or not, unknown.
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See "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
no, thunderbird and firefox store passwords in a sqlite database. unless you have its "master password" set (which encrypts the contents with that password) then everything is in cleartext.
Yeah, I had a very similar experience when a friend of mine got mugged in Chicago (next to wicker park). We were able to call the police within a couple of minutes, and within the next 5 minutes a special response unit got to us, took a description, and then drove around my friend to look for the mugger.

We didn't catch him (right then at least), but I was still impressed with the quick response.
I'm sorry, I took the word "excitement" to indicate a heightened emotional state of some sort. Yes, I agree there are lots of sites out there pumping this for page views. I don't find that out of the ordinary, though.
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I guess I was wrong. Thanks!
As usual:

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

and note that "ihashgpu" works against salted passwords; salts do not prevent brute-force attacks.
I left this comment (awaiting moderation).

While I agree that GPGPUs are ideally suited for this type of thing, I think a lot of the difference you're seeing comes down to the amount of skill and effort put into the NTLM cracking functionality by the authors for their respective products.

ighashgpu is a single-purpose tool, whereas C&A does many things. My impression is that C&A is mostly used with rainbow tables (supplied elsewhere), whereas the author of the GPU tool is set on being the best.

Last time I looked into it, my impression was that a modern CPU could probably be made to run no slower than 5-10x that of a modern GPU at this type of task. Faint praise, I know :-)

As OpenCL matures, I suspect we'll see code written which can be benchmarked on both. Exciting times!
Lucene doesn't have to commit document updates to make them searchable. You just need to grab the IndexReader via the IndexWriter.getReader() method instead of opening an IndexReader on the index directory.

We use this for NRT indexing currently on our site and it works fine - there's a small (500 millisecond or less) delay in changes appearing but it's close enough for us.

We don't use Solr, though - it's a custom search engine based on Lucene.
How is this different than the follow button used on @Anywhere? http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin

EDIT - It seems the flow is a little different. The user doesn't have to connect to the site first; it's just a one-click thing if you're already logged in. Pretty cool, except it seems a little buggy if you have SSL enabled on your Twitter account.
I'm not comfortable saying the person is the thief until they have been convicted of a crime. After that, certain pictures are probably fair game. Before that, I am not comfortable with it even if it later transpires that they were convicted.

There's a whole "presumption of innocence" thing going on in my head. I feel like people are telling me that it only applies when they haven't been shown what looks at first glance like compelling evidence.
Okay. These are all facts with respect to the find UI; yes, the things you say regarding hitting the escape key and the keyboard shortcut to make the find UI reappear—these are all true, factual things.

But this isn't a concession. You can say these things, but every one of them is immaterial to point that the find UI, when present, obscures parts of the page, where potentially those parts are functional UI for that page.
Ah, WordPress--You're great until you're not. :)

Great article, btw! Enjoyed the read. I do agree with others- A few pictures to go along with your examples would have been really helpful!!
Facebook API Can I Pull "Like" Data
I'm new to Facebook API and I am building am app and I was wondering if there was a way to pull all the "likes" from a user?
Whatever that error was, it seems to be long gone. (Not that the site was ever not working for me.)
Heroku's Cedar has an Ephemeral Filesystem (think EC2)
It appears he just says that this guy has his MacBook, not that he stole it. He says his MacBook was stolen and this guy has it. But doesn't say that this guy stole it.
Certainly most folks wouldn't shoot someone over a parking pass - that would be criminal. But its not about the parking pass. Its about the intimidation. Should you put up with an implied threat to your life or health?

There's a saying: the threat of capital punishment is absolutely effective. Its just that the criminals are the ones using it.
This will be nice for those of us who use twitter as simply a news stream rather than a social tool. If I like a blog, I'd rather click the follow button on the blog itself rather than looking up the username and doing it through the twitter profile page.
This is fine line or argument, but don't you think it belongs in a courtroom, being made to a jury that has been shown all of the evidence and who will also hear the accused make his own arguments for his innocence?
pardon this non-native, but shouldn't "We are looking for two students that are studying language pedagogy." be "We are looking for two students _who_ are studying language pedagogy." or possibly _which_ ? Or are they equivalent?
Palliative: AllowOverride None

As jerf (+1, great answer), stepping back a little... it has been ~fifteen years since we started noticing problems with htaccess. It filled a niche when webserver configuration was hard and when CRUD admin interfaces were significant work. Htaccess (and friends) should go now. I don't just mean "use the palliative above": I mean any time a remote client can potentially download or overwrite the ACL then the design is probably broken. (Apache is not alone here).

With the myriad of possible use cases and massive deployed base apache is probably stuck with htaccess until extinction. Forever more, we will see this comment in httpd.conf:

# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd
# files from being viewed by Web clients.

Security is seldom well served by agile's "simplest thing that could possibly work".

Worse, there is certainly other "best of breed" security stuff that we are doing right now that will be incontestably bad from a future viewpoint. What is that stuff?
For Windows you can use the DPAPI, take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx. Of course if the intruder has your credentials then he can create a process to steal the encrypted passwords, but at least he can't just read the file by mounting the FS somewhere else
'unadulterated hustle' and 'unscrupulous behavior' are surely not synonymous.
Not having to learn it all is the best part of using MongoHQ - you can focus on using the platform instead of learning how to administrate it which on top of the million other things we all have to do is a PITA, especially if your startup goes down with every mistake you make.
How long until douches stop calling themselves "ninja" devs, or "hackers"? Because I really can't wait for that day. It'll be a good day.
How can we falsify your claims? That is, what is a test we can perform that if it went a certain way, would show that your claims are false?
I would be cool with this as long as the people that decide to use these newly legalized drugs either don't get any sort of government medical care or have to pay a stiff fee.

I shouldn't have to pay for your mistakes.
I bought a stolen laptop on ebay, and got in contact with the true owner. The Chicago police wouldn't do anything given an address, a po box, a name, paypal and ebay account details, and photos of the laptop inside their apartment. So it varies.
What's wrong with Posterous for this?
VMware acquires Socialcast
To be safe, shouldn't all photos posted on the Web use sRGB? Using any other profile seems like asking for trouble and loss of dynamic range.
Thanks!

We plan on releasing some proper video demonstrations of it in action and to write a few blog posts about how we did it and our experiences when we find some time.
In case anyone wants to make their own trends (less sophisticated, but maybe more transparent), I have an app at http://hn-trends.heroku.com that plots word percentages on HN over time.

For example, some emotive words that appear to have increased since the beginning:

* sad: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=sad

* fuck: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=fuck

* shit: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=shit

Some words that appear to have decreased:

* great: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=great

* cool: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=cool

* lol: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=lol

* reddit: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=reddit

* digg: http://hn-trends.heroku.com/trends?q=digg

I haven't looked at any of this closely, so make of it what you will.

(I was meaning to wait until I had time to dig deeper and add extra features like time series smoothers and trend/slope metrics before "releasing" this, but figured this might be useful now given the post. I still plan on adding those later.)
2.5 Thief logs onto ebay and sells laptop to Person B

Conclusion?
In general the rule is Caveat Emptor - or buyer beware. It is up to the buyer of the goods to ensure that the seller is the legitimate owner of the property being sold. A thief cannot convey good title.

Your hypothetical Craig's lister would be in possession of stolen goods.

In fact, having photos of the person improperly in possession of your property and not making any effort to identify that person could be perceived as being complicit in the arrangement.

(However IANAL...)
-5 points for frame-breaking.
How does this Hidden app work? Any ideas?
Most lots have either parking meters or gates and attendants.

I don't know where you are from. In Dallas, the downtown lots closest to the center (expensive) had gates and attendants.

Further out (cheaper) were lots where you slid cash into a slot matching one's stall number: a guy came around on a regular basis to collect the cash, but he wasn't stationed in the lot.

YMMV.
Interesting. VMware with private clouds and Socialcast to make obsolete and replace Cisco with their IP telephony?
Grumby by Andy Kessler

"its a very funny novel set in Silicon Valley (and Wall Street), about a hacker that creates the next great consumer electronics device (believe me, you’ll want one) and then the rollercoaster ride of getting screwed by VCs, hacked, the deluge of orders, Chinese manufacturing, privacy issues and going public amongst the chaos of competition and rivalries. the technology is its own character, eyes, ears, voice and face recognition, GPS, spy software and a wise-ass personality.﻿"