17:[[464151,{"by":"old-gregg","descendants":37,"id":464151,"kids":[464333,464372,464419,464350,464269,464280,464560,465277,464288,465391,464343,464359],"score":42,"text":"","time":1233678258,"title":"How 20 mbps Internet can be slower than 8 mbps","type":"story","url":"http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/verizon-fios-versus-comcast"}],[448767,{"by":"quellhorst","descendants":154,"id":448767,"kids":[449072,448981,448831,449039,448826,448795,448813,449080,449101,448834,449154,448798,448846,448868,449205,449034,448909,449022,448845,449003,448849,448848,449117,449629,449302,448931,449438,449686,450509,449175,449055,448802,449602],"score":46,"text":"What cities are good for hackers that don't require a car? Being a hacker I can be anywhere, but I'm tired of driving across country in a car.

It would be nice to fly somewhere that has good public transit. Good connectivity, inexpensive cost of living, and good people.","time":1232862901,"title":"Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities","type":"story"}],[426014,{"by":"bemmu","descendants":251,"id":426014,"kids":[426591,427144,426478,426474,426463,426281,426473,426845,426460,426397,426355,426102,426405,426336,427384,426305,427072,426563,427069,426529,426481,428026,426094,426127,426628,426439,426363,426428,426909,426137,426904,426539,426242,427729,426486,426052,426280,427518,426817,426235,427479,426694,426693,427239,427704,426186,426503,426457,426400,426279,426284,426199,427101,427496,426846,426603,427834,430256,426413,427475,426417,426286,427074,426351,427447,426587,428213,427457],"score":123,"text":"At school we often had to draw class diagrams, basically boxes containing some text, with arrows pointing to other boxes. The free tool we were using for this was made with Java, and would often be very buggy and was generally hated. I couldn't really find anything I liked and ended up making the diagrams in Gimp, not fun. I was really pining for a small perhaps Flash-based web tool that would let me make diagrams and download as PDF.","time":1231465278,"title":"Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.","type":"story"}],[420841,{"by":"defunkt","descendants":88,"id":420841,"kids":[420895,420953,420885,420860,420904,421073,420955,421013,420978,420990,420934,421134,420929,420958,420919,421312,420851,421418,421002,421051,420909,421592,421614,420888,421004,421271,421221,420983,421618,421720,421008,421321,421161,420874,421315,420966,421179,420932,420879,422680,421225,420933,420921],"score":41,"text":"We charge for private repositories at GitHub. As a result, we often\nget emails from students asking for free, private accounts (usually \nof the $7/mo or $12/mo variety).

\"I'm working on a website with some friends and we don't have any\nmoney. If we start making money, we'll gladly move to a paid account!\"

While we offer free private accounts to instructors for classes, we\nhaven't given students free accounts to work on commercial projects in\nthe past.

Should we? Would you?","time":1231180574,"title":"Ask HN: Free accounts for students?","type":"story"}],[404963,{"by":"apexauk","descendants":19,"id":404963,"kids":[405290,404983,405072,405433,405338,405000,404999,405001,405187,405469,405073,405198,405442,405277,405009],"score":31,"text":"Howdy all,

What's the best email support/helpdesk system to use for our startup that lets more than one person process incoming email?

Currently we have an email alias support@ which simply sends to two of us (web feedback form submissions come this way too). When one of us replies then we BCC the other so they know not to reply too, but this is obviously a pain. Additionally if we reply from our personal address then the other person no longer receives future messages in the thread.

As well as solving these two problems, it'd be useful to bring some more of the team into the process so they at least can read the incoming support requests to get an idea of user feedback - this would quickly get out of hand with our current simple setup.

Any recommendations?\nCheers!","time":1229816659,"title":"Ask YC: best (multi-user) startup email support/helpdesk system?","type":"story"}],[393569,{"by":"slackerIII","descendants":27,"id":393569,"kids":[393608,393615,393899,393800,393916,393816,393785,393681,393859,394098,394044,393718,393631,393637,393913,393864,393663,393612,393640,393633,393727],"score":12,"text":"I've got some Photoshop mockups of web pages that I need turned into HTML/CSS. I've seen psd2html.com and sites like elance.com seem to be full of people ready to take my money. Does anyone have any experience/advice after getting a contractor to do this sort of thing? Can you recommend someone in particular?

On a related note, I've been looking at how to separate the presentation of the site from the scripts that power it. My goal is to make sure that it is easy for contractors to update the HTML in the future after it is integrated with our scripts, even if they are using something like Dreamweaver. Something like tinybutstrong seems to be a great solution to this problem (basically, you create standard HTML with things like [var.message] when you want to insert the variable $message). Any thoughts on that?

Thanks,","time":1228947871,"title":"Ask YC: Hiring contractors to convert PSDs to HTML/CSS","type":"story","url":""}],[393885,{"by":"PStamatiou","descendants":2,"id":393885,"kids":[394095,394065],"score":3,"text":"","time":1228965112,"title":"WordPress 2.7 Released ","type":"story","url":"http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/coltrane/"}],[389913,{"by":"etal","descendants":7,"id":389913,"kids":[390005,390060,389995,389982,389926],"score":6,"text":"Here's the post that prompted me:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/12/is-micro-credit.html

In the context of PG's essay \"Be Good\" (http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html),\nthis makes a lot of sense. Not in terms of fleecing the world's poor, but as a\nsmart investment that happens to be nearly indistiguishable from charity.

At the moment I'm still a little averse to the stock market, but I do have some\nsavings and I'd like to put some portion of it to better use (no major financial commitments on\nthe horizon). These organizations piqued my interest:

Kiva -- http://www.kiva.org/

United Prosperity -- http://unitedprosperity.org/

Silicon Valley Microfinance Network -- http://svmn.net/

Anyone here have some experience with these groups, or other microfinance\nventures?","time":1228749852,"title":"Ask HN: Is microfinance a smart way to park your savings?","type":"story","url":""}],[387623,{"by":"thorax","descendants":8,"id":387623,"kids":[387631,387717,387729,388202,387636,387737,387642],"score":7,"text":"We're debating displaying twice as many ads to IE6 users as we do to everyone else. For our pay web services, we're debating including an IE6 surcharge.

While we'd love to drop IE6 completely, it feels crazy to do so while it's still 20% of visits. But there is definitely a lot of extra development time needed to keep things working for older browsers.

In both cases, we'd make it 100% clear why they saw more ads and paid more, with instructions on how to upgrade.

If everyone did such a thing, maybe we'd see the financial/annoyance incentive lead them in the right direction to browsers that don't cost as much to support.

It's been a long week, so this may be a bit crazy, but I thought I'd get some discussion going as Friday comes to a close.","time":1228517108,"title":"Ask HN: Shall we hasten the demise of IE6 by charging more?","type":"story","url":""}],[387142,{"by":"kirubakaran","descendants":47,"id":387142,"kids":[387329,387406,387388,387516,387181,387301,387403,387206,387170,387345,387783,387419,387566,387209],"score":32,"text":"","time":1228493472,"title":"InviteUp : Easiest Invite Ever","type":"story","url":"http://inviteup.com/"}],[386726,{"by":"jwilliams","descendants":1,"id":386726,"kids":[387381],"score":8,"time":1228457634,"title":"Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices","type":"story","url":"http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/04/designing-the-holy-search-box-examples-and-best-practices/"}],[387361,{"by":"theantidote","descendants":1,"id":387361,"kids":[387366],"score":2,"text":"","time":1228502043,"title":"Values of N acquired by Twitter","type":"story","url":"http://www.valuesofn.com/blog/2008/11/fork-in-road.html"}],[386600,{"by":"yeti","descendants":5,"id":386600,"kids":[386675,386671,387019,386678],"score":6,"text":"We'd like to translate our English language website into Spanish.

Anyone been through translation process for their site and can give some pointers where to start?

Low cost pls, bootstrapped startup here..thanks!","time":1228451466,"title":"Ask HN: Translating your website?","type":"story","url":""}],[363,{"by":"pg","descendants":1590,"id":363,"kids":[2430542,996374,241760,1970283,1475637,151663,2455729,450073,4238956,367,2546131,1613956,49413,107060,1683728,250242,3203513,1231494,2880161,99846,4209304,1918772,381,1017933,2217291,576066,3595819,7083934,7794761,1878800,180945,280852,223238,4103202,433004,3142747,7448496,499851,2869196,1359137,437,7849587,218141,3902,199150,1358087,2106954,1936543,10706,93611,3228596,465801,46100,1031034,806327,7683798,3750548,439050,43754,376,438,620,87306,1075,7145729,1866406,151926,1334082,1148154,10691,129537,7542700,2021600,5495264,2314717,3963824,7143426,427366,372,5689212,114102,229095,145026,3273,10889,235470,20915,32033,1570184,4278513,29812,2529468,7516965,523784,864944,1068114,43760,2287298,456,75548,5891374,155857,5596192,2254383,4597506,127587,12156,214392,399,4642859,701,1290258,3995417,408,407,1396975,4558319,434,25813,7838398,2626515,6600039,40184,1004025,7469452,4493233,39145,1457349,974,13271,727458,151592,474,930044,3427712,79731,5669734,18085,7851,363600,2760787,9337,5990015,5775085,2814565,7744144,3420914,7766833,3371814,511365,137247,12108,390,1173760,7642693,5860317,1756621,663213,374,517280,1122,468,133878,7594328,503,5825591,1381732,3711926,4667359,5490800,468256,112918,1630931,3163465,7072,173352,4605739,5149002,6159718,3428610,4306338,2084101,553,382406,169692,7851009,2909284,43808,1149,1204459,547,7756631,4907685,845173,594588,4124429,6429603,16193185,661,1019,5005905,144730,5984421,271217,3523950,2058093,190202,4565576,7617126,1220767,3025577,3769743,4619804,5367846,47252,7469260,164008,3551116,92734,387,610846,11980,6867584,2162420,2218770,2767135,7657800,729758,426,792507,506213,5007553,2596218,1851603,7612737,6494965,910,20048615,4307125,3291254,32387,1372626,4886136,340978,4942851,2675113,7858432,254223,1802892,7657780,875,6561068,956441,4773820,1493744,90944,526677,27783,3262948,7460061,3778978,856337,7564289,17654426,1416635,97566,1316759,2132674,7902901,6197151,4493278,2142335,47377,2926414,4957743,32341,2980463,5587016,3305210,2961761,2058,7013239,6832413,1020014,1316,931,102463,3671,3124028,7025857,7691382,20487,872767,1256064,2210347,138989,263429,914868,6016304,37504,22470,486431,4709872,10712,7274395,3525304,410,2109858,1316685,6608804,7902882,3513149,1019309,5291686,9079,2155366,3368396,971,3761053,3462724,2918382,4671800,156895,1034730,1815766,779,5281618,4320864,1060,4742745,402,5468041,4550596,523873,4673734,13372,7642674,904273,908894,679462,445119,7563483,1284290,4190650,4194490,1787590,277400,889408,1177809,7653575,5606157,958,32820,2806502,1184960,28136243,370071,3473324,5692540,4128939,1529,1445722,1463050,78346,1851150,4551259,507710,6486843,554465,1912671,88617,7691365,315807,5833669,54340,5840197,1239752,382,4258900,2452282,1139943,2793705,7718737,2414094,1536037,7793260,104029,5438963,12413,5284856,2235868,7903958,1040817,4403922,5906591,455022,4618379,520547,3636605,2919177,769227,2691953,7274891,1791,151426,4711430,2511824,6144809,5807651,1603868,1671050,8016,3829281,248441,4163368,439,1006990,132615,4300417,1366325,118276,385,2485142,806630,387490,4256118,919874,1866934,386,188726,4428016,702,3559120,5731242,49502,101858,4331015,1104,962663,7166723,7625745,3394505,5421815,3465,4668429,6221349,1615871,1891372,1206893,34573,6056727,43807,5485711,594722,1015594,4490721,2746,660212,6973766,1666207,1378,1936578,1411853,7060,6651881,4550273,109162,5482644,7686660,2656325,1361,7274379,48163,6069934,174819,7683871,283119,5018470,657877,4291797,15946,6789525,4404257,1001032,585636,4654152,929754,1023243,65689,5867123,6820194,6824825,3143650,2645242,2226668,474283,6015895,7756642,1403526,3121614,3323220,1008864,1545226,3415006,4077285,1833,7955104,1283739,2081602,2370747,4827851,3729726,1200428,585607,223084,43851,830118,680642,26118,777630,777627,136242,1666546,4112327,4167050,625385,6465819,2382139,22446,519796,2615619,1254334,151500,1308033,599326,2611840,136424,531888,1806806,276301,1351180,1878941,2036989,47917,5330635,723461,3481,10803116,1633049,3032702,2231760,841988,159873,994690,3089714,42400,1783139,545675,5857783,19010,4465682,5728520,7274387,2375124,101278,7139,833446,1359032,678700,129558,129556,869473,7496017,2568687,2771498,3934647,64490,4751758,4061299,3157703,161707,831436,4863527,479696,6789511,1862366,4127336,1004,1071333,120052,3736013,3378530,13320,46977,433079,1480352,7638962,970,7808291,3867844,936112,1765,1883740,5028436,105912,6459428,937,7800604,822633,666834,29824,1094520,1767367,2281,2639435,499723,2844538,1183369,1331590,6646270,49731,2127202,4580886,118135,160990,6668103,2155863,19839,5261620,1238,1811954,107200,2985192,2663088,575782,7089607,6730870,1364998,6793558,1129572,2432350,772175,3942936,3102758,1633,607453,5991532,5583274,119564,3893062,374267,5711549,783648,2313935,594824,5944682,6731173,6307173,4456052,6862513,5085325,322216,6620662,5158302,5667425,1627707,3202285,2477554,488333,2523836,47846,7391797,606007,1042889,4942744,3176328,7872944,461553,58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