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hinoglu··on Turkish drone shooting heralds a new age of civillian counter-surveillance
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.
hinoglu··on Pretty, fast client-side markdown is really easy
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

hinoglu··on See your city the way you haven't seen it before
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.

hinoglu··on Show HN: A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation
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 :)
hinoglu··on Show HN: A faster, minimal YouTube interface built on Angular.js and Foundation
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.
hinoglu··on One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email
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.
hinoglu··on Show HN: 5000 best movies
Way simple, yet charming. Loved the show-categories-on-hover feature, but it's impossible to see the categories when scrolled down.
hinoglu··on Banned From Making Money, These YouTubers Share Their Stories
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.

hinoglu··on Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites
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?

hinoglu··on Show HN: MailMist.com receive-only email accounts
Thank you. System allows multiple aliases per email, you can separate your aliases and services as you want. Such as using my_mostly_spamming_services@mailmist.com for ..uh.. receiving from mostly spamming services, and job_related_watch_list@mailmist.com for, well...

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

fixed the example.

edit: typos

hinoglu··on Show HN: MailMist.com receive-only email accounts
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 manage@mailmist.com 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

hinoglu··on Ask HN: Anyone would like to team up? I have tons of unfinished projects.
bumping for the sake of bumping
hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
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.

hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
Thank you, I hope we all will be able to find our versions of the beloved "they" :)
hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
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.
hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
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 :)

hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
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".

hinoglu··on Ask HN: I built it, "they" didn't come...
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 :)

hinoglu··on Ask HN: Review my webapp (again)- Visitrs socialized bookmarking
Sorry about that; though there's a link, About page does not exist yet. i've removed the link.

Thanks

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

hinoglu··on Ask HN: Does domain name affect success?
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

hinoglu··on Ask HN: Does domain name affect success?
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.

hinoglu··on Ask HN: Does domain name affect success?
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

hinoglu··on MongoEngine 0.3 Released
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 :)
hinoglu··on Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr
+1. though not fully committed mytime to move my services and stuff to prgmr servers yet, still it is/was much more fun and trust building when communicating with a real person while trying to solve issues.
hinoglu··on Visitrs is an easily pluggible web based multiuser chat application.
I've added anonymous login option. Visitors can just login by entering user name, if chosen username is not registered.

Thanks for feedback.

hinoglu··on Visitrs is an easily pluggible web based multiuser chat application.
By default blocking the unwanted popups is set in browsers.

Visitrs enables chatting in the same window regardless of whichever different domain the user is coming from, which serves the purpose "not interrupting the surfing process while chatting or vice versa" well (i guess :). In other implementations like using floating page elements or iframes for chatting, when user moves away from the domain,or opens another link in the same window, chat is interrupted.

I've updated the popup window contents where if popup is blocked, visitor can continue by simple clicking the inner link of the popup. I hope this will help usability.

Thanks for feedback.

hinoglu··on Visitrs is an easily pluggible web based multiuser chat application.
i guess popup frenzy will be problematic, but it's the only way i could come up with to enable using the same chat window in multiple sites.

thanks for comments about registration. I have the idea of allowing users to discriminate by nicknames. By Openid and Oauth users are already using the same id's on many websites, so i believe it would be ideal to use same ids on visitrs, for it's aim is to connect the websites community online in almost realtime. But maybe i'm wrong :)

thanks

hinoglu··on Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension
gah! timezone problems(gmt+2)! thanks for the visitors interested in my application, unfortunately i manage to be sleeping when anyone pings via the chatrooms :(

by the way, for it's initial release, i'm still fixing the bugs. so any kind of feedback, bug reports or enhancement requests are more than welcome..

thanks

hinoglu··on Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension
thanks you for the feedback, sorry i was to be your guide,but fell asleep after hours of continuous coding :'(

1 - if user's main interest in it is chatting, then you're right, more people will grab interest of more people. somewhat similar to chicken-egg problem. spreading the word will mostly work with people from the closed communities, where users will need to pay for messaging and stuff.

2 - i was to finish the about page but nature didn't let me stay awake that much, will do it asap

3 - again this is related to number of people that will see some gain in using this application. i'll try to promote it and will see how much insterest it'll grab.

thanks for feedback :)

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