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Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by pmorong »

tfb wrote: post #96
pmorong wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvote for being a dickhead. Not that this stops pg, of course. He loves incompetent morons like yourself. Apply to YC today!

Pardon me for taking the bait, but what are you so mad at pg for? Clearly you've taken some kind of interaction with YC and/or pg personally.

No worries about taking the bait. My comments will be removed soon enough which will make yours either incomprehensible or invisible, depending on how the Stasi decides to remove them. Regardless, you should be blameless.

To answer your question: I have had multiple personal interactions with pg. I think that everyone who has spoken with him in the same context as I (essentially peers: similar social status, not looking for funding, etc.) will agree to the first two of my characterizations:

- egotist - passive-aggressive

They may or may not agree with my third, depending (in my opinion) on their empathy for other human beings (including and especially in this case) disaffected geeks:

- snake-oil salesman

I am offended as a human being that he exploits his goodwill to resell extant hopes and dreams for his own personal profit.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

#102

Post by 8bitpal »

a3_nm wrote: post #100
babarock wrote: post #95

Passwords... Again. I can't believe I still have to create an account. Even for a website like HN that I'm completely addicted to, I would've never signed up if it weren't for OpenID. You want me to use your service? Make it easy for me to authenticate, I don't need yet another password...

This isn't phrased very pleasantly, but it is a valid point. It would be very cool to have OpenID support like on HN.

I'm working on it. Coming soon. (I developed Hackful)

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by angersock »

kiloaper wrote: post #32
Jd wrote: post #25

Can I ask a simple question: Why? I live in Europe, but AFAIK none of the places where I've lived/am regular even have an HN meetup. I have no idea we would want a splintered HN.

The number one reason for me would be because lots of the things covered on HN tend to be US focused to the point that people forget anywhere else exists. I'm tired of articles praising some service provider or payment processor only to find they are US-only and may support the EU in 'the future'. I'm tired of rants about carrier practices that only affect the US as if it is universal. I'd like to see a site where th…

I'd like to see a site where there is an actual consciousness that not everyone is living in the United States of America.

Well, if our lobbyists do their jobs properly, mere accidents of geography will not keep you out of the fold. :)

Moreover, sorry dude, the tech war is over and we won. We've got better funding, better language, better regulations, and better spirit--and sadly, not a lot else.

EDIT: (and yes, not seeing stories about services that can be used outside of the US is unfortunate--agreed. Submit more and upvote!)

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by amac »

rayhano wrote: post #94
amac wrote: post #27

Interesting. I think there's definitely demand for services like this. We have been working on a community for entrepreneurs and startups in the UK (in addition to our information website), lion.co.uk/community, we're still in the phase of optimizing things. We've found that there's many entrepreneur and startup websites but gaining critical mass to make a useful community is another thing. We should probably work to…

We will definitely work together! :)

Sent you an email.

I posted a submission about this topic about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454412.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by LoneWolf »

ahy1 wrote: post #8

A Hacker News for Europe would be great. A lot of the stories on HN are very USA-centric. Currently it looks like Hackful focuses on the UK, especially London. Lets hope it expands to cover all of Europe.

Even though I am a fan of Hacker News I have the same feel that it is mostly USA centric. Sometimes after reading some articles I wonder how things are in Europe, similar or not, etc. Hopefully it can become not a replacement but a complement for the european hackers.

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by tahu »

philjackson wrote: post #49

Looks much like Antirez's lamernews.com. What's the stack behind it?

a look at the HTTP headers:

  tahu@laptop:~$ curl -I http://hackful.com/about
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  Connection: keep-alive
  Status: 200
  X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.11
  X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
  ETag: "6972d16343b1a4d0f2a49c9a3174e977"
  Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
  Set-Cookie: _hackful_session=BAh7B0kiD3Nlc3Npb25faWQGOgZFRkkiJWQ5NzYzMThlNDFkOWVhYTI1YzJiZGI0YzNjMjlkOWFhBjsAVEkiEF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuBjsARkkiMUVRU1gzZkhvcHRockpaWndWY2NRcGk3SElJczBmOEY3TW50YjJRZ0plSTg9BjsARg%3D%3D--572416e3b12cc85dda3675c22d117839535e636d; path=/; HttpOnly
  X-Runtime: 0.017811
  Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:26:04 GMT
  X-Rack-Cache: miss
  Server: nginx/1.0.10 + Phusion Passenger 3.0.11 (mod_rails/mod_rack)

Re: Hackful - A Hacker News for Europe

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Post by angersock »

Silhouette wrote: post #99
hessenwolf wrote: post #63

Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there? Hands up if you have an English-language website in which the US is not the largest segment of users?

> Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. With the greatest respect, that kind of silly assumption is exactly why a Euro-centric HN-style site is potentially interesting to those of us here in Europe. I can think of numerous ideas for businesses aimed at a particular kind of culture or niche interest where the US probably wouldn't be a particularly big market. In any cas…

So, if you already speak the language, why not use your larger demographic to promote more relevant articles here on HN?

We benefit from having another perspective represented here more than we do from having it shown in some other far-flung echochamber on the web.

Or is the idea of melting pot a bit much for you old country folks? :)

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