skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) that's much better.

Good luck, these types of programs are important...
Oops, I accidentally messed up things by a factor of two. Reworking, this means that a YC clone would need to do half as well as YC.
I do not mind the inconvenience of typing in quotes. I just do not like that function are not treated as first class citizens in this respect. There may be ways around this in newer versions of PHP, though.

By the way - can someone please try something like the following:
$width = getimagesize($filename) [0];

The last time I checked, PHP threw a _Parser_Error_ for indexing an array that you just got from a function. Not even arrays feel like first class citizens.

(Pardon me, if this ward has been eliminated in the mean time. I just vividly remember losing some time hunting for a bug because of this 'feature'.)
That's a point.

(I could have figured it out on my own. It's just so far away from me that I did not think of it in the first place.)
Yeah but this post and their other just turn me off joyent. The offense they take to changes in the landscape just seems pathetic.
No Google App Engine Account on eBay, yet.
Wish I could get more than that fixed number of results.
The end of the critic?
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Seems unlikely, as it appears to be an iPhone app.
FFS, way to stifle competition, 37sig. I liked the look of HuddleChat way, way more than Campfire, and had started using it. So someone starts a brush-fire in teh blogosphere and we're all supposed to just give up and go away? I thought we'd gotten beyond all this "look and feel" BS years ago.
I think that's nonsense, and think the exact opposite - if someone else other than Google had come out with this no-one would have given a damn and it would have received little to no press. It's only because Google is a big company - in itself this isn't news at all.

A browser-based chat client is a hardly spectacularly original idea, and 37signal's Campfire itself owes much to IRC, a protocol invented some 20 years ago and pretty much every IRC client has an extremely similar "look and feel" to Campfire anyway. I'm also very surprised no-one has created a free alternative to Campfire before - it seems like a painfully obvious thing to create and quite a small project.

And if it came from MS, I doubt anyone would have cared either - certainly no more than Google. Did anyone bitch when Microsoft largely recreated Java with .NET? Did anyone really care when Microsoft brought out Live.com strongly inspired by Google? Did anyone care when they brought out MSN Messenger, inspired by AIM and ICQ? What about taking on Flash (a JavaScript-based in-browser environment) with Silverlight (a JavaScript-based in-browser environment)? All those things are much more shameless than a JavaScript chat client.
I don't know what terms you might use, but it's a continuum that goes from all value deriving from network effects, to no value coming from network effects. "product based" and "community based", maybe?
great comments. can disqus get these comments into the comment thread on my blog where I posted this question? i love that you are all discussing this and that there are 22 comments here. but i got 34 comments on this post on my blog. it seems that we'd all be better served if there was one thread with 56 comments.
you should report it to the support desk of whomever they are spoofing (assuming they are indeed faking another site).

if not report it to the web host they are on.
Just put a wildcard in DNS manager.

Not sure I see an issue here. It's something you can fix yourself in like 5 minutes.
Henry Ford comes to mind.
Seems like Joyent's stopped pretending to be a real company. Weak, unhinted at parody like this is something you'd expect from a blogger, maybe, but the fact that they don't care whether they confuse their customers or employees with this is odd.

But, I guess when your whole business is supposed to be storing people's data and instead you end up making it inaccessible for over a week (http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3), you stop caring.
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Do you mean this thread?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78322

I haven't read the book mentioned so I can't comment, perhaps someone else can.
"misleading headline"

Absolutely. Any fewl know it should be "pwned".
i guess that is how it is. a lot of people trade the joy of work for job security.
What happens to people having no aim?
Similar to Nokia Sensor (which used Bluetooth) and Mobule, an MIT Media spinoff. Third time's the charm, I guess.
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Ask YC: Am I right in thinking that the introduction of particular online markets...
...starting with a new kind of market for the ad spaces on blogs, will provide people with new and improved ways to develop, showcase and profit from expertise?

The details of my thinking are here:

http://www.loveatmadisonandwall.com/step-1/

(The site is "optimized" to appeal to single women, if you are wondering about the URL.)

Thanks kindly for any feedback.

Best,
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Yes, I've read this in a Bill Bryson book. I'm fairly certain it is from Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson on the basis this is the only Bill Bryson book that I've read.

Anyhow, this pricing convention has many purposes. Firstly, customers expect change. Social convention bewtween staff and customers enforces some honesty from staff. Next, some business systems work in dollars, some work in cents. Your system may work in dollars because that is logical. Your system may work in cents to avoid rounding error. The non-zero digits act as placeholders and reduce the possibility of products being listed at 1/100th of their value. This also applies to data entry. It also allows products to be advertised as "less than $10" when it is only by five cents.

Now it appears that it serves a fourth purpose. Specifically, the extra digits make you think that the price is more reasonable and only makes you consider smaller variations in value.
Ha, the first comment is priceless "Is this for real!"
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I am in no way affiliated with this software, but thought that as there are a lot of people on here using OS X that you might find it useful.
Sorry, this one isn't online but I use it as a Windows app (in parallels). Its free and very good:
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A few questions -

1) Do you take a stake in the new formed company ?

2) Why are you offer a stipend ? It's not that expensive living in India, and a dot-com startup doesn't require any funds really.

3) The real strengths of YC, as others have observed, are mentors and a hacker culture. How would you offer that ?

4) Is an IIM the right place to incubate ?

5) A YC like incubator does best in a place which already has a thriving hacker / entrepreneurial culture. Gujarat, BTW, is perhaps the most entrepreneurial state in India.

6) You say that "IIM Ahmedabad students shall work closely with the teams to develop a sound business plan". Is that not a little insulting to suggest that hackers can only hack :) ? After all they are the only ones who understand their product, and can possibly form a business plan.
Even though it's easy to fix, having this as a default is the problem. I wonder what it would take to really make Network Solutions feel the pain for this kind of malpractice.
I'm tempted to try and create something now, over this.

Infact, I even have my own, very special Campfire-inspired design, which is over at http://www.basementcoder.com/ravings/12

But then, maybe people might say mean things about ME too. :(
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Sounds a lot like what I think Freebase [http://www.freebase.com/] are trying to do.
While THAT may be an example of a SIMPLE attack, probably for the sake of showing off, what if "the goog" had exposed web services retrievable by Ajax for logged in users as part of AppEngine and THAT was exploited via the SIMPLE XSS hack?

It makes no sense. Why do we just brush stuff under the rug when it's Google or some other major player that's generally well liked?
This is the kinda research that walmart bases their whole business on. If you even notice that every item in walmart is 12.37, 17.46 or something to that effect. That gives people that impression that the price is set as low as possible. when in fact it's just made to appear so.

fyi: i hate walmart, go target
Wow. Just... Wow.

I understand that this is talking about India and I guess they have a different work schedule than is standard here in the U.S., but this guy must really have no clue.

To say that the need for employees to have a proper work-life balance means that they have no aim or drive is not only wrong, it is toxic.

If this "training" is so useful, why not hold it on a non-holiday? Take it out of the company's time, and not the employee's time.
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Not only that... The other co-prankster (the one with the press release) had already done their own co-prank (a book on the framework that went on sale the same day)... It wouldn't be nice from our part to leave him alone, so we had to play along.

In the end, it sorta worked.
http://theinfo.org/get/data
http://www.ckan.net/package/list

And Freebase, as mentioned by dood
Free vector map data is growing: http://openstreetmap.org . They recently got donated the whole Netherlands.
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Exactly...

> Nobody wanted to be the best in whatever they are doing. They wanted to enjoy the holiday they get just like any other unambitious person.

Which presents a course of action: those who want to be the best will spend their own time to work towards that goal, and the rest can enjoy their holiday. Trying to force people to do something they don't want is a bad recipe.
This post and Joyent's last post (http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk) certainly make it seem as if they're scared of App Engine and what Google is doing.
They don't bother to use anything other than the default WordPress template.

Actually, this is a good example of a thought that someone has that shouldn't have been made public. It's especially clear when the author has to say in bold that he's not criticizing his team. If I was on his team I'd be upset as being seen as an aimless, zombie.

Note that it's quite common in India for offices to work on a Saturday morning.
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Isn't Metaweb's Freebase (http://www.freebase.com/) doing this?

Check it out if you have not seen this before, these guys are Rockstars!!
Fixed. All results are from YC.
Zed Shaw: "rails-core ripped off the idea for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo"
I love the engine nacelle configuration. I've read some reports of how it causes some weird issues with the horizontal stabilizer at some attitudes.

But if it don't look cool, it won't fly cool.
Take XML as a basis for this idea, and you will almost certainly kill it.
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Other than wikipedia, where would one find out more? Is there any definitive intro to the subject?
Nice to hear that visitors was useful :) and sure Graphviz is very cool, it was a great help in our startup (the main product we developed is a digg/reddit/...-alike system for the Italian market) in order to visualize voting patterns and try to improve the algorithm for fraudolent voting patterns detection.

LLOOGG is still pretty raw and we are developing the "filters" part of the UI, but still it seems pretty useful to check what's really happening in a web site. We have a lot of success stories of people using LLOOGG for some week and then modifying the site structure to optimize the user experience.

Thanks for the comment.
I was rather amused to find out that he loved history as a kid, and then went on to excel in Chem E. At the time, I had always thought that what you liked as a kid is what you should do as an adult, since those are the stories that you hear all the time, but as I got older, I see more instances where people grow and their interests change.
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This makes me wonder if unions exist in India. I know nothing of the politics in that country, however if the freedom exists for the people to form a union and larger organizations treat their employees like this manager-of-the-year, I wonder how long it will be before they form?
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=operators#WebService ?
Eh, looks just like IRC to me:

http://demo.nextapp.com/ChatClient/app
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thanks for the useful post

however, the article with the actual quote in it is
http://mattmaroon.com/?p=283
Mobilize your web
It's like freebase all right, but the article has something right about adoption. He points out some big company would have to donate a great starting dataset to drive adoption.

I think this is one problem with Freebase. Another problem I see is the structuring of the data, it is a hurdle to sharing.

Finally the last problem I see is Data is currently very much seen as a competitive advantage. When Google introduce functionalities to make corrections on Google Maps, I don’t think they do it to share with everyone else. They do it because they want Google Maps to be the destination with the best possible data.
A wiki of data is a great idea, but I’m not sure we have the solution yet.
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I took a look around, and despite you saying you're more of a designer than coder, it works pretty well for what you have to do.

Less words on front page might help. I was curious about how you were going to have a different style of conversation, but after looking around for a bit, it seems like, as you said, a tumblelog and friend feed.

As an aside, I liked the parens in the menus, as it gives it a different look.
Zed Shaw is going to spontaneously combust. Mark my words.
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I think that's the point. :)
(Note: I am an Indian and live in Bangalore)

"Note that it's quite common in India for offices to work on a Saturday morning."

Some offices (mostly very small companies) work on Saturdays. Most software companies have a 5 day work week Monday to Friday, same as everywhere else.
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Is there any GUI clients for GIT, or is it command line only? If there is no good visual client, then that would really suck. I use perforce at work, and its visual client is pretty decent, but I have a co-worker raving about git all the time, so I wanted to give it a try.
Rest source, if you want to modify, http://www.42topics.com/dumps/appengine/docs.txt
Joel had an article on "commoditizing your complements": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html . Of course we want to commoditize data, to raise the value of hackers (raise the expected return from hacking). On the other side, data companies want to commoditize hackers, to raise the value of data... a process we are sure to resent.
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I find his shtick to be almost unreadable. There may be a salient point in there, but I'm having trouble wading through the profanity & flaming naked girls.

To each his or her own, I suppose.
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"This makes me wonder if unions exist in India."

Most manufacturing industries are heavily unionized. Outside manufacturing, there is mixture of unionized and non unionized labor. India has been riding an economic boom for the last decade or so, and though there is a lot of misery among the uneducated/illiterate folks (and there are plenty of those), for people who've made it through college, it is raining jobs. Unions have lost some of their power under the relentless rise of opportunity.

All that said, the software industry is not unionized.

There were a few tentative moves in that direction, but these were driven by politicians trying to get a few more votes and didn't get too much traction with the developer folks.

Frankly most developers in the local software industry are waiting for their H1 visas (and eventually green cards). Who wants to rock the boat? Everyone is rolling in money (Bangalore is more expensive than some American cities). Hardly a conducive atmosphere for unions!
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Let me suggest we might call them "tool" or "service" businesses.

I think this is a useful distinction, but it's also one that breaks down at a point. Reddit, for example, was a useful way to kill time even before it had a big user community, just because it had a few good posts each day. If kn0thing and spez sent you that list by email rather than maintaining it on the web, it wouldn't feel like a community but like a service. Finding a service that can be delivered usefully without a big community, but can also become an identifying activity for a growing community, seems to be the secret sauce of many successful community sites.
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It's a log of recent chat, with an input bar at the bottom.

This is fast becoming a farce.
I was expecting to read about real showstoppers. I'm sure there are some, right?
Have you heard of freebase? From what I've read online, I think they are doing something like this.
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Bret is spot on. Open data would unlock a vast amount of wealth. Other suggestions:
A collection of various kinds of texts, translated into 20-30 different languages. 100 million words (per language) would be fine.
20 minutes of text, spoken in thousands of different voices/accents.
"No one really wants factual data accuracy and completeness to be their competitive advantage"

Some people actually do build their business on this. It's not the most sustainable business model, but in today's world, good data can be - and is - a competitive advantage. In an ideal world, should it be that way? Maybe not. I think that's what this post is getting at.
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Max Levchin's thoughts on building a web startup: Appeal to what is common in all of us: human frailties...

"As a final word of product development advice, Levchin encouraged founders to think about the Bible’s seven deadly sins - especially greed, sloth, envy, pride and gluttony. These characteristics, he said, describe many of the primal motivations for users."

http://venturebeat.com/tag/max-levchin/
hmmmm... i have been looking for a similar "sponsor" host for me and my hacker friends... we will be contributing for a dev house. the Joyent idea is great but not for everyone, we don't have 25K visitors/month :P

anyone interested in hosting some of our apps and our apps-to-be? PHP5, MySQL, RoR, etc... yes, this is a shameless plug because funding is out of the equation here, no Y Combinator or Launchbox since i am from cebu, philippines...
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This is the exciting bit-- there are five major players who are going to be competing in this space because it's very juicy. Google, MS, AWS, Sun, and Yahoo.

I feel like we've hit some sort of 'event horizon' now in "Web 2.0", or are quickly approaching it. It feels a bit like the end of Web 2.0 or the beginning of something else...

MS in this space will surely be a bit more ambitious regarding languages, as they have an entire .NET library that can go to IL and run as securely as it needs to run on their infrastructure. The database aspects would be more familiar to developers, but probably somewhat less scalable.

Sun for their part were already talking a bit about MySQL services via SAAS, and Java also would be suited pretty well for secure running on infrastructure servers. They've always talked a lot about cloud computing and making the network open and employed.

I'm really liking (and am somewhat scared) to see where things are going all of a sudden. Unfortunately, the web startup space is about to get incredibly crowded and revenue models are going to get harder and harder as free web services become more common than they already are.
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I would add IBM to the utility computing list, and I'm not entirely sure I would include Yahoo.

Very exciting indeed.
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Not so much about multitasking, but rather the importance of proper sustenance (i.e., blood sugar levels) in making rational decisions. Those low on energy tend to be fooled by clearly inferior choices.
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Plus India. (It's not up yet.)
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"The BBC's catch-up TV service can now be accessed ..."

I think they've decided that "catch-up service" is a cool-sounding way to say you can catch up with all the programmes you missed. But to me, it sounds like they're playing catch-up with YouTube and other online content providers.

Unfortunately, I fear their motivation is less to do with entertainment than it is to do with extending the UK's television tax to computer users.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/pc_tax/
i was able to use HuddleChat for a few minutes -- a very cool application. so sad that Google took it down :(
It's like freebase all right, but the article has something right about adoption. He points out some big company would have to donate a great starting dataset to drive adoption.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157966
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The modular Django apps, of which Admin is the most prominent, are tightly connected to the Django ORM, and usually need joins. Even the session manager is database backed.
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This is IRC-like chat in a web browser. Campfire is much, much more than that.