yanokwa

So I can get counterfeit goods with fake reviews faster? Meh.

A combination of professional services and grants. The mix varies from year to year.

I run Nafundi (https://nafundi.com) and we work exclusively on open source software (https://opendatakit.org) that improves the lives on the underserved. We are bootstrapped, remote-only, and always hiring.

And it's been great to have you as a developer on ODK Collect. Your RTL contributions to the UI have been a huge win for users!

ODK founder here! This is exactly the use case we want to serve and I'm glad to hear it's enabling your work.

ODK founder here. The ODK community maintains a Java XForms engine at https://github.com/opendatakit/javarosa that powers a lot of the ODK tools. https://github.com/enketo/enketo-core is a compatible engine in JS.

If you have an idea on how we could make this foundational tech more visible to other devs, shoot me an message!

ODK founder here. Really glad to hear the tools have worked well for you, and yeah, Clint is awesome!

We moved the Open Data Kit community from Google Groups to a Discourse forum at https://forum.opendatakit.org and it's been awesome. Over the last year, we doubled in size (now up to 7,000 members and growing) and a lot of that growth has been enabled by Discourse.

We use the forum for exactly what you described, longer conversations that aren't necessarily tied to a closable issue. And we also use it for all our support requests. Handling support is great on Discourse because the new topic interface shows users (a lot of them non-technical) similar questions and it has great search and SEO.

I think for a small community, Google Groups would work, but my gut says Google Groups is not long for this world. Also, while mailing lists are workable for support, but I find them miserable (e.g., you can't move posts from one topic to another, you can't easily prevent duplication questions).

Anyway, I'd say try Discourse. And if you have any questions about started with Discourse or using it for open source projects, I'm glad to help! My handle is "yanokwa" on Gmail and HN and Twitter and GitHub and pretty much everywhere.

And I guess while I have HN's attention, I can give a quick blurb on Open Data Kit!

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a set of tools that replace paper forms. Our tools are mostly used by social good organizations to collect mission-critical data in difficult environments (e.g., collecting polio vaccination data on 1 million kids in Mogadishu [1], monitoring elections in emerging democracies [2], protecting forests in Indonesia [3]).

I love working on ODK because the project has a measurable positive impact on the world and we have a very kind and welcoming community. As one of the project founders, I'm a little biased, but if you are looking to get into open-source software, ODK is a great project to contribute to.

To get started, go to http://github.com/opendatakit, find a pinned repo, read the readme, and claim a "quick win" issue. Oh, and sign up on the forum http://forum.opendatakit.org and introduce yourself!

[1] http://www.emro.who.int/som/somalia-news/somalia-to-conduct-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CGzo3m4PA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rJCgwV3-g

Thanks for doing this George! In addition to donating at https://iterm2.com/donate.html, what can HN users do to help you with iTerm2?

This is a deeply unkind thing to say to someone who donates their free time to provide a public good. George apologized for his oversight and fixed the problem. Take him at his word and thank him.

http://up-for-grabs.net is pretty good for beginners.

I like aria2 from https://aria2.github.io. I use it on the command line, but there is a web interface at https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2.

I use and like https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website.

My wife and I are nomads and we've have lived all over the world. Medellin is one of our favorites. We lived in El Poblado last year for about a month and found it as safe as any big city and the people are lovely. It's true that El Poblado is the very nice part of Medellin, but we wandered all over the city and had no problems.

Here ya go! http://imgur.com/SoouwvS

This is US centric, but the approach I've had good success with is outlined at: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_....

This is essentially what Personal Capital, Wealthfront, Betterment, etc., do for you. I don't use those services because I enjoy learning about personal finance and I think the work required on my part is pretty easy. Your mileage may vary.

For a persistent connection to a server, I like mosh (https://mosh.mit.edu). It works really well for roaming across networks and for intermittent or laggy connectivity.

Evernote is notoriously bad at keeping notes. http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep...

Last meaningful commit on Induction was 2 years ago. It's probably a dead project.

Ha! I also sold all my stuff and I'm in Puerto Escondido too. Wanna grab a beer?

It's a phone. You can see the top of the device in their promo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erUZQ9GK0sE&t=41.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpVCE7aCMAA_DDJ.png:large has a tweaked screen capture.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abxtester/id427554135?mt=12 works great. Turns out I can barely tell the difference between 96k and 128k.

I've been using Feed Wrangler paired with Reeder 2 on my iPhone. Why? Feedly automatically expires articles after 30 days. Feed Wrangler doesn't.

I use Plain Clip (http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/plain-clip/) for this. It also gives you optional text processing steps (e.g., remove all trailing whitespace) which are super useful.

The problem I have with this download a copy approach is that it's not a great backup (not automatic, not easy to find individual things to restore, etc).

For that, I use CloudPull from http://goldenhillsoftware.com and it's by far the best Google backup tool I've found. I've tried gmvault, fetchmail, offlineimap, and pretty much every thing in between.

CloudPull supports Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Drive/Docs. The app backs up Google accounts in the background and all the data is available in standard file formats.

Anyway, I don't think enough people know about it. If you want a useful automatic backup of your Google life, give it a whirl. It's one of my favorite pieces of software.

I think for most people, CrashPlan to a local and remote drive gives you the most bang for back. Here is what I do...

# Principles

Back up everything. Preferably to the cloud and to a local disk. Automatically.

You should test restores, but you probably wont. Have two independent backup methods for every piece of data.

You should be able to be up and running to last day's backup within an hour or so.

# Personal

CrashPlan: I want to backup every version of every file on my local computer to a local disk and cloud storage.

SuperDuper: I also want to have bootable nightly images of my machine in case I need to restore immediately.

CloudPull: I want to have a local copy of any Google file I have (Docs, Gmail, Calendar)

IFTTT to DropBox: And whenever possible, I want to have a copy of any other cloud-based service (e.g., Instagram)

# Servers

Linode Backup: Turnkey and presumably the Linode folks are smarter than I am.

Duplicity to S3: In case Linode folks aren't that smart, I will have nightly backups of everything.

http://talkwalker.com bills itself as the best free and easy alternative to Google Alerts. Just started using it a few minutes ago and so far, so good.

Use CloudPull ($10) from http://goldenhillsoftware.com and it's by far the best Google backup tool I've found. It supports Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive/Docs, and Google Reader. The app backs up a max of 10 accounts in the background and all the data is available in standard file formats.

If you want true sync then use insync ($10/account) from https://www.insynchq.com. It gives you two-way sync of your Google Drive. You can edit your document in Office offline and it syncs to your Drive. It works very well.

I tried gmvault and found it lacking.

I switched to CloudPull ($10) from http://goldenhillsoftware.com and it's by far the best Google backup tool I've found.

It supports Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive/Docs, and Google Reader. The app backs up a max of 10 accounts in the background and all the data is available in standard file formats.

I use CloudPull from http://goldenhillsoftware.com and it's fantastic.

It supports Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive (formerly Docs), and Google Reader. By default, the app backs up your accounts every hour and maintains old point-in-time snapshots of your accounts for 90 days. All the data is available in standard file formats.