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That sounds pretty cool - is there a url for it?

I'm sick of submissions about downvotes.

http://ask.searchyc.com/ http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

It seems that downvotes would definitely decrease - I would bet that a large portion of them would not have been made in public. If nothing else it might increase the number of replies to a post - It would be slightly embarrassing to see your name as one of the downvoters if you didn't also reply to the post.

Enabling downvotes on submissions could also be interesting - maybe to downvote a submission you have to comment about it or about why you downvoted it. Revealing voting could add an additional feature to the site - if we see that someone who likes the same stuff voted something up, then we'll probably read it.

This article [] was linked in the Reddit comments for this post - it goes into an explanation of bloom filters and then includes the code for a spell checker implemented with them.

[]: http://ipowerinfinity.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/bloom-filters...

What about it? It's more cluttered than Google, takes longer to load, and only lets me search e-commerce sites.

It seems like restricting my search options while making the user experience worse is not a recipe for success.

A9 has been around for a while, and I haven't heard any convincing reasons to use it.

You could say that about basically any politics story - the point is that when politics are involved, discussions like this one happen. Politics has made Reddit's frontpage basically unreadable to me, and I would hate to see that happen here.

How are we supposed to find out who voted it up and ban them? We're not mods (at least I'm not). The best we can do is express our distaste at the fact this that is on the front page.

But this isn't the outcome of a presidential election. And anyways, why should the outcome of the presidential election be on HN? Its not especially relevant to hackers, and I'm quite certain people will see the news elsewhere - it usually gets a lot of coverage.

How is this not dead? Politics should not be the top story - I thought there was a strict ban on politics?

I got fed up with crappy desks from office stores and decided to make my own desk instead - its basically just an 8 foot long piece of wood, about 2 1/2 feet deep. Its not only really cheap, but it has room for my two monitors plus my laptop plus lamps/papers/etc.

It doesn't have the frills that seem to come with desks from stores, but I never used those anyways (I never understood building CD racks into desks). Plus since you build it yourself you can customize it - I put lots of holes in the back to run cables, with hooks underneath to organize them. For drawers, Ikea sells plastic ones that attach with a couple of screws for like $2.

Just because its the 'internets' doesn't mean that good grammar/spelling/etc. are not appreciated. The more clearly you communicate the likelier you are to get some help.

As for your initial question, perhaps something like Dreamweaver - http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ - would be what you're looking for.

You can downvote someone if you have less karma, but you have to have at least 25 (I could be a little off on the exact number). Nobody can downvote submissions though.

There is a feature request page here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363.

I've never used Flash extensively so I'm not sure of the exact pros and cons of each, but as a user, I will go out of my way to avoid sites that use Flash. Javascript can display photos just fine, and doesn't slow down my entire computer.

Theres a great tutorial here - http://lethain.com/entry/2007/dec/04/two-faced-django-part-1... - that uses Django to build a facebook app.

I guess the comments are funny...

Edit: I guess someone didn't like my comment, but seriously, what comments are appropriate on a submission with no actual content?

There are some threads on this in the Ask YC Wiki - http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive.

As lbrandy says, if its a very technical idea you'll probably have to look for a technical cofounder. If it seems manageable, start learning how to hack and get coding. Its not as hard as it seems, most web apps don't require advanced CS knowledge or anything, especially for a rough alpha release.

There are lots of threads about where to start with that (languages, frameworks, etc) in the Ask YC wiki linked above.

Even if you do go the route of finding someone technical to help you, I'd learn to code anyways. It will only help you in this startup and any more you end up doing. Any knowledge of it will help you choose a competent cofounder as well.

Good luck.

It seems like it'd be a lot easier to use something like Adblock to block ads - if you block Javascript you can't use GMail, Google Reader, etc.

Also, that sucks you were downmodded so much without replies.

Edit: I guess you could use GMail, but without the fancy look.

Nice try at playing Mark Pilgrim - evidently you disagree with the article. You're right that Friendfeed probably doesn't use the Jabber API, but what else is wrong about it?

I don't use friendfeed, but whenever I see friendfeed widgets on people's blogs, they have nothing but Twitter messages and RSS entries - I can get those elsewhere, with no trouble at all. If Twitter blocks friendfeed, what else do they have going for them?

I've been using Ubuntu for a couple months on my server, and its been perfect (though its not too much traffic). I mainly used Ubuntu because thats what I have on my desktop, so I was comfortable with setup/installation/config/etc. If you use linux on your desktop, I'd stick with that, just because a production server isn't the best place to experiment. If you're new to Linux, Ubuntu is great to start with because theres lots more documentation for it than for other distros.

Seriously? Trolling for service invites on HN? How is this not dead?

http://www.pligg.com/ might be what you're looking for - sort of an open source Digg.

I find python a lot more enjoyable/productive than PHP, but unless you're having major problems with your current code, it seems like porting it would just be a lot of extra work.

I would guess it mostly depends on how much code you have written now (if most of your time has been design/planning, then it might be worth it), and whether or not the people you work with have experience with python/ruby.

Whichever way you go, learning python (or ruby, I suppose) will serve you well in the future.

Do you have any experience with any of the resellers listed on Adamsnames? It seems you can't buy .gd names through the form they offer, and I've never used any of the sites listed.

It is not down for me. A helpful site - http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - although ironically it doesn't seem to be working.

I believe if you include an url you can't add text to it.

I can't seem to find any way to actually install this - I'm guessing its just a concept instead of an actual desktop environment or wm. Pretty pointless if theres nothing beyond 'It would be cool if a computer behaved like this'.

I do if its an older article/submission - if its actual news I find it easier to just look for it manually.