skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oooh, I like the five most recent item idea. Thanks.

The beta site is loaded with sample data so it is a little easier to see what is going on.

http://beta.townflier.com:8000/
Thanks I saw the recovery.org under the categories but couldn't see anything as I was staring over a map of JHB.

Some more questions:)

- How would you handle spam?
- How long would an ad stay?
- Would users not be worry of revealing their location?
(for security reasons?)
- How would a 70yr old lady from Peoria use the service
to find a roommate?

Some other suggestions:

- If you notice in South Africa the farmers if they are
interested in an ad, they will tear a small piece of
paper from the bottom of the ad. Drag and drop?
- Give an alternative view to the textbox at left, if there
are too many ads. Let them read like classifieds ie some
additional styling.

Overall I think is a great idea
I believe it does however mean that your application code has to be GPLv2, and thus can't be linked to code using some popular licenses, for example Apache 2.0.
Somebody else said it above, but yes, I would like for the map to narrow down based on my approximate location now.

Also, if you could pre-fetch some content to auto-populate the map with pushpins, that would help me figure out what to do next a lot easier, I believe. Pre-population could be done with recently added items, or top rated items, perhaps?
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Both have too many invisible options, in my opinion. See Google's search page top bar for what I think is a good setup - most relevant options first, and a menu for more.

Also, is your nick an Alphaville reference?
Surely if you are based in Mayfair, you are not just a "startup"? :-p
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Maybe the non-geeks are wrong?
Because the result of malloc is not checked, it can take the whole web server down if it returns NULL. Which can happen.
The design is simple and fantastic.

My suggestions:

1) 150 characters is MUCH too short to sufficiently
describe what you are selling. I would dynamically
increase the size of the description box and/or add
scrolling inside the box to increase the character
limit.

2) The ability to add pics would be nice also.

3) More categories.

Awesome job so far!
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I also forgot, for fullscreen on Windows I use w32-fullscreen which comes as part of darkroom-mode: http://www.martyn.se/code/emacs/darkroom-mode.
yeah, those nine figures are the ones that have been scanned. It will be great if someone can create those diagrams from these pages and send it back to PG or Chip Coldwell so that they can cut a new PS/PDF of the book for download.
Are you sure we're complaining? I think most people here think this is a good thing...
The recovery.org data is all US based. Search on Kansas for example.

- Each posting has a spam link on it, if you click it the posting will disappear for you. Once enough different people click it the posting is deleted.

- Currently postings don't expire but are displayed time decayed. i.e. most recent first. Hopefully we can get enough traffic to where we have to address this :-)

- You don't have to enter your full address when you post. You can enter your town and the posting will be placed in the center of the town. You decide how much locational information to give out

- We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first

Thanks for all the feedback!
I think that the future for check points on roads is that the soldiers stay safe in the blockhouse remotely controlling androids that look in the trunk of the car. Urban warfare will undergo a similar transformation. The soldiers stay in the armoured car operating the remote controls. The android kicks in the door, goes into the house and is blown to pieces by the booby trap.

In this scenario America is no longer constrained by human casualties but is instead constrained by the manufacturing capacity to make up loses of robot warriors.
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Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to ride the twitter tersity trend :-) but agreed that we probably need to bump that limit and pictures would be cool.
Here in Uruguay too... it was the main selling point for 3D cinemas.
I think that creating a print head will be the biggest difficulty an open printer project would encounter. They might be able to look at expired inkjet patents to avoid duplicating the last 40 years of printing research, but then they still have to find a way to manufacture the jets.
Give me some truly convincing reasoning, bitte? Doesn't have to be long; succinctness, after all, is one of the forms in which power appears.

> as always

Or, of course, a link to another time you did.
A spouse that can context switch with you is even better!
Map and project aren't the same thing. Map can't be part of the algebra because it breaks the closure property. Project is a single, specific function.

I agree with your sentiment though. It looks like Nick took names from SQL where available ("where") and from relational algebra otherwise ("project"). I would rather the names came from ruby first.
It's interesting to see how Cambridge is playing into this ecosystem. There quite a few very interesting startups here, but clearly we're still in London's growing shadow. For example, lots of Cambridge companies have London offices.
Probably Steve and friends think something like: why have I to complicate my life (and the user experience ov my customers) with some 3rd party technology?
Interesting details from interview:

The very most important one is that Snoracle will start selling to customers! (Yes, you laugh, but one of Sun's fatal flaws was an inability for people to buy their stuff when the price was between what you could charge to credit cards and the equivalent of a mainframe purchase; they outsourced this to "VARs" and the like without success or caring about that, losing all sorts of startups and therefore follow on sales).

Sounds like they're going to drop commodity hardware, maybe even all x86 hardware, and focus on the higher end stuff. He likes SPARCs.

He thinks the Sun acquisition can be quickly profitable; with sane sales and marketing after appropriate pruning of what they're selling I can see that.
Surprisingly interesting.
Comic Sans has built up such a reputation for both ugliness and misuse (just take a look at its Wikipedia page for a brief summary and links about the kind of passions it raises) that using it non-ironically and without it being a distraction is probably impossible.
I couldn't figure out a better way to select a geographic region and hope that over time online map usage becomes ubiquitous
We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first

Suggestion use the ebay API to populate (it can also bring some affiliate income).

Any thought for exposing your API. I think this can be a great application to foster micro-communities.
I have a variant on Hanlon's Razor that I find particularly appropriate when dealing with telephone companies, utility companies, government bureaucracies, etc.: Never attribute to benevolence what can be explained by incompetence.

Conveniently, this principle also gives the same answer to the question of why McGraw said what he did.
How about just entering a postal code ?
My wife carries the kindle around in her purse. It wouldn't be a mobile device for me, but it is for her. The tablets are just a bit too big to really be convenient to carry around...

I'm not really betting against Jobs, just wondering what the real use case is. I'm certainly not going to carry a tablet everywhere.
Or read the original source which they conveniently forget to mention.

http://twitter.com/jason
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postal code and radius is another approach but what I like is that the push pins on the map quickly show you where everything is. Very useful for say planning a trip to multiple yard sales.
Thanks. That is a good reference, but we do not have as many main categories as Google. I think it might confuse users to have all options on the same level.

The nick is just because its so incredibly cold here right now: Berlin -22 degrees, don't know in Fahrenheit but its "your face hurts when stepping outside" cold.
Really like the interface. Will be interesting to see once there's content ...
At first I assumed the spam link indicated that the entry had been identified as spam or had been posted by someone calling themselves "spam". Might want that to be clearer, e.g. "mark as spam". Or just change to hide and do some smart filtering.
I think it's brilliant, I hate using postal codes... besides half the time, the postal info is incorrect.

Google maps = refreshing take on a craiglist app.
Very nicely done. I take it this is running on Google App Engine ? (Just a guess, based on the Google Account signup).

No need to market it as just for rural locations. In the UK we have Gumtree for example, which is a serious competitor to Craigslist. While I agree to some extent with the idea of Craigslist's simplicity, I think it is becoming long in the tooth and unwilling to consider new ideas, and it's time for a decent, usable replacement.

Some IP-based geolocation would be nice. And some localization: "yard sale" and "apartment" for example are US terms. But that's nitpicking, which is a good sign :-)
Yeah, 'from a beta tester' who's @jason seems like a diservice to his readers. But then, that's cringely, the ever present crap stirrer.
That's because they have to reduce the price of any ticket sales beyond 1939. Note that the year has a carat next to it, indicating "documented multiple theatrical releases. Most of the pre-1980 movies listed on this chart had multiple undocumentented releases over the years. The year shown is the first year of release."
Thanks for the ebay pointer I will look at it. I know scraping craigslist is not the way to go :-)

Yes, we have discussed allowing private or subscription townfliers for micro-communities. That might be the next step.
How is it that it was able to ask me my location? Is there a GEO request header?
Noooo :(
If you are using a location enabled browser like the latest version of firefox it will ask and try to use that location. The javascript uses the navigator.geolocation object.
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I linked to Cringely and not the original source for a good reason. Cringely is a professional journalist with a good track record who always checks his sources, not a me-to blogger with a personal rumor. There is a difference.
It sounds very promising, but we'll have our own opinions soon enough.
I think it's rather obviously not real; sarcasm, a joke, or whatever.

For one thing, why doesn't he turn the device over and see what its name is, rather than calling it "Apple Tablet"?

Solar pad charger, that doesn't really work? Very unlike Apple.
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Nope running at Linode. Postgres/postgis and mod_perl on the back end sending JSON to the UI rendered in javascript.

Thanks for the information on Gumtree. I will look at that.
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Yes but Cringely just lifted the content straight from Jason's tweets. The way the post is written makes it sound like Cringely was the tester, which is just untrue.
History has a term for guys like these. It's "useful idiots".
Maybe Name-calling (DH0) and Ad Hominem attack {DH1) is not the best way to respond to Cringely, a professional journalist? See PG's take on that at http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I think SlashGear's commentary is spot on:

"we wouldn’t put it past Jason to be stringing the Twitter world along, what with the amount of hype and speculation we’ve seen recently"

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-tablet-hype-continues-calcani...

This is a fib (and a fun one at that).
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I gotta tell you, that interstitial is pretty poorly implemented anyways (was?).

Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
HDTV, solar back, fingerprint reader aside, another not so believable feature is the 2-3 hrs battery when using wifi (should be always on) considering that netbooks already have 5+ hrs duration.
Btw, it's still not clear to me what kind of market ("living room" users, gaming, healthcare) this tablet, if it will really be released, is trying to target...
Duplicate, flagged.
Again with this apple table hype... http://www.pidjin.net/2010/01/25/iwish/
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It's not just about video on the web, it's about horribly inaccessible web sites which use Flash for no apparent reason. At least it's easy to block, which removes the worst of distracting online adverts.

So it's useful they made video work, but they haven't made rich media web sites work very well. Things like accessibility and text extraction for search engines have been recent afterthoughts.

But the fact that people put significant effort into blocking your product isn't a good sign, is it? http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
As a college instructor and a citizen concerned about the cost of financing higher education, I share the outrage over textbook costs.

But I don't expect to be outraged for long about the dinosaus textbooks are. The sale, bianuual revision of a text, and sale of its next edition is breeding revolts and moves to alternative models. If I get tired of waiting when I retire (soon) I will help launch the revolt: turning to models of publicly-held, easy-to-update, non-tree-cutting formats such as wikis.

I don't attempt to prophecy often, but: "Textbooks are the next... newspapers."
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Cringely just copied the original source, without mentioning it. Content wise, no difference.
5$ says this is a hoax. Any takers?
Interesting; this article says the rewrite rule is F -> F+F-F-F+F , but Wikipedia says F → F−F++F−F . I think Wikipedia's is right, as (for a beginning) there are only four line segments in step N+1 for each line segment in step N. Take out the F between the minus signs in this article's rule, and it would be correct ( F -> F+F--F+F ), allowing for mirroring of the Wikipedia formula.
I can't imagine a system like this for a TV that doesn't read false positives during normal living room activity.
Lots of startups around Silicon Roundabout.

http://siliconroundabout.ning.com/
Calacanis says he "can't show device or say actual name", presumably due to a legal agreement. (http://twitter.com/Jason/status/8270966356)
Small nitpick. When I entered Chicago, IL I got a bunch of entries, thats great (using beta site)! But then I tried to click on sporting events and got nothing. Something like "Sporting Events (0)" might be better.

Though, if you get enough data, this may not matter.
There's no way it's real. First, there's no reason Jason Calacanis would have this tablet. Second, even if he did have it, he wouldn't be leaking this nonsense. Third, HDTV tuner and PVR? On a tablet? Come on. Solar pad on the back? This is nonsense.
5$ a week seems very expensive. Surely they weren't making that much per print subscriber
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This is just humanity sorting itself out into a context-sensitive hierarchy as it always does. No biggy.
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professional journalist?

Is that what copy and pasting tweets and not citing sources is now?
Comments like this one criticize those who are big enough to realize their tone mistake, and reshape their next response. There may be a better way to handle it then saying "bullshit" as that will inevitably draw a line in the sand.
Uh, but he is allowed to say anything else about it?

Besides, he previously used "my NDA is basically over" as a pretext for spilling the beans about it (http://twitter.com/Jason/status/8269986584).

So which is it? Does he care about the supposedly just-about expired NDA or doesn't he?
This seems quite spammy -> "Canadian online pharmacy". Someone should moderate this. ;)

[edit]
Wee. Just had a look at the forums. That doesn't really seem usefull.
Nope. I agree with your guess, especially given the latest tweet from the source : http://twitter.com/Jason/status/8271607924

... also, Farmville for Apple tablet is a huge game changer. I know for a FACT Mark Pincus is onstage tomorrow with Jobs.
It's just a mostly empty web site with a login form. Not even screenshots.
Commentary is in the podcast at the top of the text (it's not obvious) where he does mention the source
TOTALLY the next big thing. People have been trying to escape into their computers for years and it's almost here.
and the previous one:

Off to bed, but I assure you I'm not joking and the specs are real.... Most of all that this is best gadget ever made and NOT overhyped.
best way to respond to Cringely, a professional journalist

Yeah well DH1.5 appeal to authority and DH2. Responding to Tone isn't much better. Since Cringely is a Professional Journalist it is kind of sad to see him not accurately representing the source of the info he should know better.
Wait a minute, I thought it was obvious that this is a fake posting. Please tell me the rest of these HN posters didn't actually think that Bob Crignley (or jcalcanis, for that matter) ACTUALLY thought these were real specs?

I honestly thought each post in this HN thread and comment on the Cringley 'article' was just "going along with the joke".
Maybe there's never a "good" time to put up a pay wall, but it seems pretty dumb or naive to try to do it now, while so many people are still eliminating recurring expenses and generally trying to save money. If money is tight, switching to a free alternative when one of the sites you hit online puts up a pay wall seems like a no-brainer.

Reminds me of "the penny gap" (see http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/03/the_first_penny.html). This is especially true with discretionary items and items that have many competitors and substitutes, especially free ones. That's the situation with newspapers. Sure, some might say each newspaper and writer is unique, which is true, but...

...maybe people aren't looking for "the best" newspaper or writer or web app, maybe they're looking for "the best free" newspaper, writer, or web app. NOTE: "Free" in this case means "ad supported," or at least "no subscription required."
Checking this out on Wikipedia, I was surprised by how many sites I'd heard of weren't using H.264, but VP6 instead, I'm guessing for royalty reasons that don't apply to the big pockets of Google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services#St...
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cor, what a lot of nonsense

% aux/vga -l 1024x768x16
% exec acme # instead of rio

all done
this seems.... odd.

No features, nothing working - just a login screen

EDIT: Ah. I see... I missed the last line of instructions
I kept it simple to load quickly on mobiles
Good start. A couple things:

1) If its a password field, make it a password field. Typing in a password and seeing the text is a little weird.

2) When typing "@name likes blah," it becomes obvious when viewing the topics that you use @ as a delimiter and just take whatever is before it for the note, as the note was empty.

3) Try to make the input more robust - such as allowing name first, most of the time people will want to type in the topic (in this case, the person) first.

4) I'm sure you are working on it but a more informative interface about the notes you've kept would be nice. If a person is socially awkward they may not even remember names - much less who they've put in the system.

5) I'm not sure what your proficiency with HTML is or if you were just lazy because this is a throw-away app, but I'd look into doctypes and W3C validation. You use an xml style line break so I get the feeling you know a little about it, but for such a simple interface there shouldn't be any reason to have 25 errors on it.

I hope this criticizing wasn't too harsh - I aim for it to be constructive.

Neat idea too, I know a guy I work with that could totally use this.
Yeah just a stupid prank.

Techcrunch posted about it earlier and later updated the article saying that the info is false. http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/27/jason-calacanis-possibl...
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I realize you probably already know this, and perhaps even don't need this, but I often use http://google.com/ncr. The "/ncr" bit ensures that no localization redirection is done.

(At least with regards to the language for the UI and search results. I don't know if advertising is adjusted.)
there's a register page (only need email and password), takes 2 seconds to join. then the homepage where you login and make notes.
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Please stop sending traffic to these stupid stunts!
it's ok, maybe i went for too basic :)
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It had a bit more in the way of relevant, recent content when I last checked it (about a year ago). Just google "Silicon Roundabout" if the Ning group isn't helpful.
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