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Cartridges are dangerous in terms of intentions. For example during istanbul unrest, tens of people lost their eyes, suffered from traumas in the head because of the cartridges shot from short distance intentionally. You can find video of police celebrating upon shooting a protestor in the head with cartridge on youtube. You can find a picture of the janitor after being shot directly in the eye with cartridge, on the following site http://delilimvar.tumblr.com/page/7 . Nothing man made are dangerous at all, but intentions make them so.
Re:Pretty, fast client-side markdown is really easy on Sunday May 05, 2013 @05:39AM (#5657949)
Chrome not happy :(

Refused to execute script from 'https://github.com/chjj/marked/raw/master/lib/marked.js because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.

FF not happy either

ReferenceError: marked is not defined

Re:See your city the way you haven't seen it before on Sunday April 07, 2013 @10:55AM (#5507396)
If i understood correctly, the application provides real time information about places depending on the other users comments. Video starts good, but we can't see much about application. Some small boxes with unclear photos show up in the phone screen when phone is held towards some direction.

Not clear whether it shows the "friends hanging out currently at the place phone directed to" or "comments about the place". Somewhere in the video a box appeared on a car's driver that was passing by, which made me even think that "is that a face recognition app?" (yes i hope and expect too much)

Show more from the application.

It seems fine. Sadly i don't have much sense on visual design, so as long as the recommendations exist somewhere on page, it's fine for me :)
good job. adding recommendations would provide continuity. rating preview is a good feature; i've always wondered why youtube does not provide it by default.
Re:One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:01AM (#5002890)
I fail to see what exactly is different from the other emails filling up my junk mail folder? They are also few lines long, sent from a person unknown to me, refer to my site(s) and contain links to external sites that have suggestions for optimizations. Many of them refer to me with my name, either taken from whois info or from the site.
Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @03:15PM (#4944544)
Way simple, yet charming. Loved the show-categories-on-hover feature, but it's impossible to see the categories when scrolled down.
If it's possible to get banned from using adsense just by few persons questionable actions, and if google is too big to answer properly but not that big enough to skip watching even the tiniest "fraudilent" actions, then be it and become big enough to get google's attention by reaching out others in the same position.

How would one find the others? Well... http://memegenerator.net/instance/31212117 might work for creating one's own community.

Sometimes, the best way to show a structure's flaws is to bring down the structure by abusing those flaws.

Re:Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites on Monday October 29, 2012 @08:28PM (#4715359)
It is obvious that for some reason the officers in the patent office are not able to find out that the "technology" to be patented is really an ages old technique or device defined in a horribly bloated language to either hide what it really is or include anything and everything that may have any small piece in common with that art or device.

And i guess it's always seen or shown as the patent office is responsible for the problem, not the individual officers who really are the ones that mess up.

Isn't it possible to hold the individual officers or at least the patent office responsible for the damages caused from granting patents to these kind of bogus claims?

Re:Show HN: MailMist.com receive-only email accounts on Saturday September 08, 2012 @08:17PM (#4494494)
Thank you. System allows multiple aliases per email, you can separate your aliases and services as you want. Such as using [email protected] for ..uh.. receiving from mostly spamming services, and [email protected] for, well...

It will also ease the filtering and grouping in MUAs as a side effect.

fixed the example.

edit: typos

Re:Show HN: MailMist.com receive-only email accounts on Saturday September 08, 2012 @07:23PM (#4494366)
MailMist.com is a receive-only email service, which in fact is an email alias provider. To start using the service, just toss an email to [email protected] with the subject line

  Subject: alias alias_name_you_want
  
and that's all. Well, of course some verification process will be run, but no big deal.

MailMist is a similar approach to privacy problem as the throw away email services, or registering a valid email service provider for a throw away account with a few advantages:

- Your mailbox(alias name) is yours, you don't share it with anybody

- You can use it anytime with any service, for it's not a throw away mail, it will not be rejected by the services you use

- You can create your mailbox name in seconds, without struggling with forms and captchas. You don't have to setpasswords, or secret questions either.

- We don't allow any mail directly pass through. Spammers are filtered out using simple solutions such as SPF. You'll be receiving only(mostly) the mails you're supposed to receive.

- You can get rid of your aliases any time you want. Any email hitting those aliases will be dropped, without bothering you.

MailMist is way beta for now and any suggestions will be very welcomed.

Thanks

bumping for the sake of bumping

Ask HN: Anyone would like to team up? I have tons of unfinished projects.

I have many projects laying around, waiting for their heros to get them up and complete. They might not be the next biggest things, but might be fun.Projects are based on python and django.Some of them are:1 - A social job listing board. Users can submit their ads for seeking jobs, for employees, or about their services etc. My aim is to eliminate the sending cv and waiting for a possible...

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Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @05:19PM (#1840495)
Ops sorry, "replica" is the important part here.

There's no replica in the system. There are clients (clients of messaging system are sql servers) that are not realated to any other sql server in no means, which receive the same commands from a web application in the very same order each time.

Replication is lightweight and done in the sql proxy by replicating the messages, not in the sql servers. Simply it's a 1-1 connection between a web-app and sql-server, but the messages are multiplied by the number of sql-servers which made it a 1-N real time cloning system.

Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:47PM (#1839380)
Thank you, I hope we all will be able to find our versions of the beloved "they" :)
Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:42PM (#1839360)
My projects have lifespan of 1-2 years, i do my best to get them going or to sell them duringthis period. if still the goal is not achieved, they take their places in the attic.
Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @11:41AM (#1839055)
I've heard the second sentence a millions times :)

maybe it won't make it, but the best part of it is i got many feedbacks including yours that'll help me in the future.

also i learnt much about erlang, ejabberd, mongodb, js frameworks, xapian etc. not that much of loss i guess :)

Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:56AM (#1838852)
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".

Re:Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come... on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:46AM (#1838805)
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: I built it, "they" didn't come...

I've been in the "build->launch->move to next project" loop for some time.My projects are mostly based on features that are missing or misimplemented in the existing products. Some of the finished projects gone live, tried to sell some, some are rotting in the attic.I lack visual design skills, but yet trying to do my best to provide a usable UI for the products. One of my motives in...

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Sorry about that; though there's a link, About page does not exist yet. i've removed the link.

Thanks

You're right. I'm not a native english speaker, that's why writing instructions is the hardest part of my all projects :) Already added it to "features being developed" list.

Thanks

Ask HN: Review my webapp (again)- Visitrs socialized bookmarking

Hi,I've asked your opinions/reviews on Visitrs (http://www.visitrs.com) before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=957163 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736929Since then i've made some changes to make it more a website based social application than a simple chat system. It is more like a socialized delicious, and an interactive stumbleupon. Yet it's being developed in the background,...

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Re:Ask HN: Does domain name affect success? on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:23AM (#1659452)
rentacoder has changed it's name to vworker, yet still keeping rentacoder name and domain and related links pointing to vworker. Of course i'll not be updating the name every two weeks, but may be in time it might be a necessity to rename the service.

Also i'm seeing this solution for "how to not postpone the project for not finding an awesomely awesome domain name" problem. So seo is not a main concern for now, before going public :)

thanks

Re:Ask HN: Does domain name affect success? on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:17AM (#1659429)
i think beginning with a simple name, then changing it if it still bothers me might be a possible solution. well indeed "somethinghub" was what i had in my mind, but i may be somewhat late for it :)

thanks for the blog link, time to read.

Re:Ask HN: Does domain name affect success? on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:00AM (#1659385)
Thanks Matthew,

my next big thing is..uhm.. basically a job listing site :)

I'm in the process of tidying up the environment, fixing obvious bugs and dressing up the site a little bit before going public. When done, will be back here requesting for critics :)

I believe that, as you've also mentioned, when product becomes well known, an upgrade to domain name will not be that problematic. what i fear is a way wrong name at the beginning might prevent it from gaining public liking.

I guess I'll stick to a simple general name, then will try to rename if it still bothers me.

Thanks

Ask HN: Does domain name affect success?

English is not my native language, and suffered from this issue when picking domain names in the past. One was almost meaning "a gay hookup central" instead of poker fans community site...Anyway. Finding a domain name for my latest "next big things" is the hardest part of the projects.Looking at monster.com, omegle.com, amazon.com i.e. names are not related to the content.So i wonder if i chose...

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Re:MongoEngine 0.3 Released on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @07:45PM (#1200004)
Thanks for this great piece of software. I've discovered mongoengine a few days ago, and found myself trying to add iexact and other methods. Now 0.3 leaves more time to focus on to the projects :)

Ask HN: Anyone interested in contributing to Domo web crawler project?

Hi Hn,http://github.com/hinoglu/Domo/ is a python based remotely manageable web crawler based on Python, multiprocessing, pyro, lxml and pycurl.It's main purpose is to be able provide a lightweight python based alternative to archive.org's heritrix. Main structure is similar to heritrix and Domo provides almost similar but somewhat lesser features.Though Domo is a web crawler/archiver, it can...

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