skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't built a reddit-like site myself, but I'll throw in my two-cents anyways:

1. Here's someone who has created an open-source reddit-like platform in PHP: http://101out.com/ http://101out.com/versions

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not quite released yet. If you want to write your own in Ruby on Rails, this plug-in might be useful: http://rateableplugin.rubyforge.org/

2. Not sure at all about cost. For reference, the 101out.com guy said he built his website in 20 days: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e3dk/comments

3. No. As someone else mentioned, reddit uses the python framework web.py. This site uses an unreleased version of LISP: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

4. Good luck.

5. You should check back on this site frequently because a lot of these issues get discussed here often. There seems to be a good mix of hackers and non-hackers.
FWIW, I know Chris Larsen -- I worked with him at his previous startup. Great guy.
Why does it look so much like Reddit?
It seems to me that Weebly has a long term strategy. They are trying to build a good user base. As they improve their service those non-technical users will learn how to build more complex websites and eventually some applications.
It is sort of like starting a Kinder_garden with the goals of adding a Grade each year so your students won't have to look for another school.
I wish there wasn't a race for users to submit the latest posting from the top 10 tech/startup blogs. I like discovering new sites not reading a rehash of what's already in my feed.
If they brought the power of apollo to mobile then they would stand a chance.
BusinessWeek European Young Entreprenuer Contest
so I managed to get out of my job, now what?
This post is amusing, but the real discovery for me was Wil Schroter. (Ok, stop snickering. In a lot of ways, I'm still catching up.)

Wil -- or at least, Wil's site and book ad -- kind of come off like maybe he's one of those slimy SEO "experts" who LIKE TO YELL IN TYPE AND HAVE THE SECRETS TO WEALTH NOW!!!!

But he's not that guy. I just ordered the book after perusing it @amazon. He's humble and seems wise, and I will probably learn some stuff from the book.
like most of you, I have been observing startup news for a while. Today, I managed to get out of my job, with a pretty good service package, and I am finding myself wondering: what now?

Should I move into the Valley where one of my cofounders is currently staying?
Intel CEO Summit: The Breakout Buzz-ometer
sabat - thanks for suggesting I'm not a total douchebag! the book is a free download on the homepage btw
The Call of The Entrepreneur: Movie Trailer
Its free 411 and more.
Driving Directions, Movie show time, stock quotes, Flight Tracker

url: www.maufait.com
to download the app to your phone, type
www.maufait.com/download on your mobile browser
Cooper Union Web Projects Startup Review - pretty creative projects!
No brainer, if one of your cofounders is there - go for it. You'll find a lot more people out there will understand what you're doing.

On the other hand, you also risk getting caught up in the hype if you spend all your time in the valley.
Is this like Infogami 2.0?
Then he should get outraged that I'm reading his article for free. ;-)
Microsoft did one where you had to prove you were human by looking at pussies....

http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/
What do you guys think about NLP? Wikipedia says that it is still scientifically unvalidated.

I'm not so sure what to think of all these self-help bestseller books/systems that hit the market every so often. They seem to have really high ratings on Amazon. But it feels like these guys are gaming the Amazon rating system.

Which reminds me, we saw a post about the 4-Hour Workweek just a few days back.

How does all this compare to classics like Dale Carnegie's books or for that matter Benjamin Franklin's books?
Being everywhere is a killer feature
Business model? What the hell...when did Web 2.0 get a business model is what I want to know?
we would not have been able to raise if it wasn't for yc, and several of the yc alums that helped us along
you'd be surprised. the lawyers consider it a series a, but journalists consider it angel
Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain
Somebody discovers the value in positive network externalities...

More here:

http://www.dedasys.com/articles/programming_language_economics.html
Free tool to validate that emails from your webapp will pass authentication checks
There's a valleywag mole in here :)
I've been having a hellofa time getting Hotmail to not mark messages sent from my app as junk/spam. This tool will verify that the various authentication techniques used by the big email providers will pass, increasing your chances of getting through the spam filters.
Paint Shop Pro is very famous on http://dpreview.com

People already realized that "industry standard" is not the only and not necessarily the best value for money.
I tend to batch but have yet to write the code to do it, resize to 600x800, some rotation, rename. I could see the merit for an api I could program via controls or macro. Simply point, select, process, upload. But where is the real value for the user?

I'm thinking of predecessors to flickr who saw image storage sites as ways to make money off printing.
you also risk getting caught up in the hype if you spend all your time in the valley

Or on YC news, Sam Odio... doesn't anybots give you enough work to do? ;)
Jetpacked: The Advantages of a Custom Blogging Theme, With or Without a Blog
Weebly lets you use a custom URL and you can download your site as a zip archive.
'... What if the command line interpreter gets smarter and understands concepts within your query. ...'

Been taking precisely that approach for some time thinking through and trying to create a CLI with recognition. The novel approach consisted (I've since stopped working on this particular problem) of an interface that interacted with some known commands, applications and data.

The more you type into the machine, the more it recognises certain things related information names, associated projects, that appointment you have for next week, the document due next week. The crux was realising that meaning could be attained from small SMS like messages. A message could consist of peoples names, times, predefined commands. Then trying to weave some sort of context within related messages.

The big problem is the contextual awareness. NLP is one way to go, but recognition without having to annoy the user with confirmation is difficult. Recognising language is a big ball of string. One promising approach is to add a Adventure like shell interface onto the front, pre-describe (or dynamically build) the space you can navigate. This means your using a human brain to augment the system offsetting having to use the brute force approach. Then integrate with back-end applications.

Sounds good in theory but I agree it is HARD.
Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham
Low cost linux for emerging markets? wtf? Linux is free...
It depends on your service. If users can see each other, then you probably want to keep email addresses hidden.
Why Live Software is a better name than Web 2
we switched this particular document to HTML just now. check out our new pdf - html converter -- I think it's the best pdf to html conversion available online right now.
We provide better results. You get what you pay for. Quality costs more money. In any case, its risk free.
Presentations from Web 2.0 Expo 2007
I don't know why anyone other than the pre-acquisition investors would be aggravated by it. Is anyone posting here willing and able to quantify what he contributed and really judge whether he was "not worthy" of his share of the equity? If you haven't been paying attention to pg's essays, "time spent" is not equal to "value produced," so a vesting schedule does not fairness make.

It does sound as though he was not well-suited to corporate life. Where's the crime in that?
And outraged that readers are leaving thoughtful comments on his sight; their unpaid contributions are creating value, and such Websploitation should not go unpunished!

Here's a clue for the author: Many people do things for reasons other than money.

I know; sounds crazy! Go figure.
The Dream Job Myth - is passion for work a bad thing?
Use text instead of graphics on your website
We're working on the problem too. The key is to have the machine understand context in the same way humans do, which means building a model of human conceptualization in the computer. We're putting a simple version of our conceptual hierarchy system in our StreamFocus product.

Once we launch StreamFocus and have the system streamlined, we'll get back to that HARD problem. We're pretty close to a solution though, and it involves making a new conceptual language as a subset of lisp. Pattern matching never works, you have to have the actual conceptual hierarchical structure as well as the links between concepts, etc. (We've been working on the underlying epistemology and programming for this since 1998.) We plan to launch a product that creates a conceptual index on top of a standard database, creating effectively a database with conceptual retrieval. The system is multi-lingual as we model the concepts in the same way humans do, independent of the language used to express the concepts.
How can somebody set this up?
"I believe that a PHP application will initially get ten times the users of a Ruby On Rails application that does the same thing. I dont have numbers to back up this bold assertion, of course, but Im pretty sure thats the way it will play out, unless and until Ruby On Rails is as pervasively available as PHP (which is unlikely to ever happen)."

I don't get it. A PHP library might get more developers using it, it might be faster, etc etc... by why would it get more users? that makes no sense. There's no user-level barrier to entry.
That doesn't have anything to do with them making money. I don't think their monetization path is very important because best-in-breed web applications don't have a problem getting acquired.

If Weebly was a Web 1.0 company, the founders would be billionaires already.
Also available in hardcover form at your local Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp/0596006624
I read somewhere that telling a reporter something is off-the-record is a very bad idea. That completely defies the entire reason they are interviewing you. It was suggested that if something is off-the-record, then switch conversation to get back on track.
Long URLS break the page.

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
Coding Horror: Giving Up on Microsoft
The article is about installable applications, rather than hosted ones. I'll update that sentence to re-iterate that fact.
Mark Fletcher: Top Ten Tips of the Keiretsu-Funded Entrepreneur
Funding Myths and Tips
Technology Ain't Cheap: Tech Fallout in Video to Come?
Is Jaxtr competing with Google (GPhone)?
With Google launching its 411 service ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-free-411-business/ ) along with the rumor about the GPhone, it does suggest that Google is entering the voice enabled communication/services domain. With Google's mass following, this only makes logical sense.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is MySpace along with other social networking platforms, where companies like Jaxtr ( http://www.jaxtr.com ) are trying to connect the offline medium with the online medium.

Should Google really be concerned at this stage?
It seemed as though pg was talking about the unions of the 1950's. Those unions weren't heroic. The heroism was in the union movement of the late 1800s/early 1900s. Companies/capitalists of that gilded age were often enough a law unto themselves, and workers organizing to have their legal rights respected were in very real danger.
Top 5 free SEO tools
I would really like ycombinator to be supported by the Sociable plugin - I don't think it takes too much to get it added, and the plugin is automatically updated every week on WordPress blogs.

I hear it is easy to do:

http://push.cx/sociable
Yes, yes! Me too!!
50 inch monitor.
A big LCD HDTV.
hook up computer box to it.
Hook up a wireless keyboard to it,
Next thing you know Reading YC news from the couch.
Are you tired of being google's guinea pig?
First it was the links for different search types bouncing all other the page. Then there was the automatic customized searches. What if I wanted to see what the general public sees? Now I'm getting news links 4 or 5 results down the search page.

I don't care how if their algorithms are better the anyone else's. Functionally, it's broken for me.

What's your favorite non google powered search engine?
I think Sam is still in Virginia. He's #2 in points because the robot sits on the computer and e-mails him stories all day.

The way I understand it, the robots like to browse open source hardware sites at night. They can afford to do this because YCombinator actually draws power from a transformer in the nearby subway system, that nobody has detected as of yet, because the only way to get to it is via a unicycle on a trapeze wire.

In the past, both robots were singularly responsible for two disparate California blackouts. Former television robot-turned Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, just turns his head. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer. (This is also why YCombinators Boston and Mountain View are located within 1 mile of the subway.)
State of the Computer Book Market
Excellent point about tech products for emerging markets. This is absolutely true. I just want to point out that people normally think that "emerging markets" are the same as "developing nations", when in reality it means "underserved markets" (aka "bottom of the pyramid"):

In developing countries, the middle-class or above has access to the (more or less) same life style as in developed countries, and thus products can be launched without much modification -- Localization is normally enough. In the other hand, undeserved markets do have its own set of challenges, which we technologists are normally unaware because most of us never experienced life in those conditions.

Also note that developed nations have underserved markets too: For example, if you are in Bay Area, just drive around East Palo Alto or East San Jose and note the diversity and number of products developed specifically for those communities.

Here are a few excellent resources on the subject of underserved markets

http://www.amazon.com/Fortune-Bottom-Pyramid-Eradicating-Paperback/dp/0131877291/

http://www.nextbillion.net/

http://rdvp.org/

http://www.nokia.com/A4126014
One up. Quicksilver = command line + intelligent guessing + awesome iconic GUI. It gets the best of all worlds.
Good, but even full 1080p LCD TVs only have 1920x1080 so it's basically equivilant to a 23/24/26/27" LCD monitor. Not too special for actually working on. I'm running 1920x1200 + 1200x1920 and you would have to pry the second monitor out of my cold, dead hands.
Is it the Dell 2407?
http://teenwag.com
How Much Textual Information Do We Consume Daily?
SPF is pretty simple to set up, you just need to add an entry into your DNS that specifies which IPs are authorized senders for your domain. Go to http://www.openspf.org/ and start the setup wizard.

Sender ID is almost the same as SPF, but Microsoft found a way to fk it up. There's info about Sender ID on the site above, and also on http://microsoft.com/senderid

Domainkeys is a little more complex to install, requiring modules or plugins to your mail server. A search should give you enough info to get started.
I've got a 30" display at work. It's amazing how much better than two monitors it is.
1% of Internet usage = 1% of Internet, and facebook has that.

Let's say facebook introduced a store. Then all my friends who have never even logged into amazon or ebay would browse. Outside valuations don't take into account what facebook has up its sleeve.

For example, that Susan Kare gift thing they introduced on Valentine's day? It was just printing money brostar. And yeah, I used the term brostar.
My roomate is CTO for a company that builds giant kiosks. Every so often I go in and help him out. The workstation I was at last time had two 42" plasma's and a 50" LCD.

The things are 1080p, so not too shabby, but in general they're just big. My 21" LCD I use has a higher resolution. I'd rather see more data than see the same data bigger. My glasses aren't just to improve my nerd cred.
Naming your company - The Chicken or the Egg
How to Start Business
Requiring it is more convenient for the users. I know that I'm always trying to be safer by using different passwords for different sites. However, if I stop using a site and come back a year later, I probably won't remember my password and it's also possible that I won't remember my user name. Not being able to retrieve this information would discourage me from using the service.
Via a unicycle, obviously, not a tricycle. :)
Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris
Right now its yahoo for me. Switched 2 days ago (from google) after getting fed up with the way google handles privacy and how it seems also its new products just want more and more information about me. Pretty soon google would want to map my DNA as well.
Technology Review: The Secret of Apple Design
Joost Announces $45 million Funding
Mpire to offer bloggers free e-commerce 'widgets'
Yes, that's what I meant to say (Trevor's unicycle)! Although, a tricycle would be even harder to ride down a trapeze wire.
Lessons from Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and More
Yahoo Shutting Down Auctions - Second Service To DeadPool This Month
Death of the desktop
If you think finding a great domain is hard, try selling a great domain. heh.

/trying to sell eskimokissing.com.
GPL likely to regain Apache compatibility
On my site we require every user to pick a username, but users can log in with their username OR email address. This allows us to keep email addresses private, but also makes it easy for users who just can't or dont want to remember their username.

It's a simple regexp in your login controller to figure out if what they typed in should be checked against the email address or username field in your users table.
Yahoo CEO arrives on Microsoft's turf
Microsoft-Yahoo! tie-up rumours: The analysts' verdict
Cox to introduce "Anti Commercial-Skipping Technology"
I guess you're running OS X? Microsoft might be 'dead', but their crappy OS that was designed around 800x600 lives on :(
I frankly don't understand this at all. Whether they like it or not, whether it's moral or not, they're in direct competition with people just downloading the full def episodes from bit torrent. Just do more product placement and get it over with (apparently the last Pierce Brosnan Bond film was paid for entirely by product placement - the box office revenue was pure profit). It reminds me very much of Starforce, the ridiculous, OS destroying DRM solution for Windows games. It happily fucked up the machines running legit copies and the cracked versions of the game just totally disabled it.
Uncov - An Angry Techcrunch
actually, fedora.
Digg founder starts competitor to... instant messaging?
Web 2.0 from 1994
Once again, Founder's brand equity in action.
Andrew Chen: How to use automatic page refresh and poor navigation to pump up pageview numbers
The world is more interesting if you don't immediately classify everything as true or false. I found the book interesting, even if it lacks Wikipedia's imprimatur.
Havent heard of this one before.

TechCrunch:Average visit Per Day:846
Uncov:Average visit Per Day:893
[src. sitemeter ]
Yes, except TC has actual information in it. Uncov is just attention grabbing negativity.
Test your web site in 20 different browsers free
What happens when you cross maddox with techcrunch...

Actually, if you really did that, there would be at least five mentions per article of the word 'dipshit,' which there aren't.
Yet another list of startup tips.
Lunch with Matt Brezina (of YC's Xobni)
Extensive Article on the Impact of Widgets
Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks!
If this had the same title, but without the FREE at the end, I probably would have clicked on it. It kind of goes without saying that most things on the internet, particularly random technical services like this, are free.
What you say is true. However, my reference to Wikipedia's view on NLP by no means meant anything conclusive or dismissive. Given Wikipedia's social aspect, it was just another way of validating that others too shared my deep suspicion of and disillusionment with yet another self-help system.

Surely you have felt this frustration while having to deal with these books/systems yourself?
TechCrunch does not have anywhere near that number of average visitors per day, FYI.
Then why can't I stop laughing?
i just find it kinda funny that eskimo kissing came to mind while trying to register domain names. :)
Why not? I voted you up to 2 to cheer you up. That was the title of the blog post where I found the link, so I just instinctively wrote that.
(double post)
Uncov is funny and it makes you think.
No problem! I've seen some web sites that charged hundreds of dollars a month, or by the hour.
You can test your web site in all web browsers, operating systems, resolutions, flash, java activex, full screen or not.

A similar service is www.browsercam.com, which charges 19.95 per day up to $1,000 a year.
Yep. Written conversations lack the live, non-verbal feedback that one gets face to face, so it makes sense to spend more time thinking about it to make sure that you convey what you want. I also prefer meeting people in person. It makes stronger relationships.
"shameless exploitation of free labour"

Pu-lease. It's only exploitation if the person providing the labour is forced to do it, or tricked into it. If they freely left the comment/voted etc. knowing full well that they won't get paid (or not paid much) then it's not exploitation.

Some video uploading sites are starting to share profits with uploaders anyway. So expect a bidding war upwards.
Ergo, if you are a successful entrepreneur, you are probably an exceptionally intelligent, considerate artist with a proclivity for action.

Maybe it was not meant that way, but it sounds to me like over-the-top flattery.
Sequoia has financed YouTube, but they don't own any of it anymore, right?
I've noticed that and it's a really big deal. I would love to filter out all the sites that I already check. The remaining stuff is what I'm normally missing.

[x] "Don't display Submissions for .techcrunch.com, ..., ..."

Do I smell a Greasemonkey script?
Try going to, eg.: google.ca. You'll get the same results, AFAIK, but probably with the standard format.
Does anyone here spend time with SEO?
Funny you should say that...I almost took up a job @ 23andMe before finding out I got into SFP07. If you aren't familiar with them or their Google connection:

http://valleywag.com/tech/anne-wojcicki/a-startup-for-google-founders-fiancee-229063.php
I'm sure that it does. When we got a minor crunching (a feature on all of the YC companies from WFP07--so we were one link among a dozen), we saw about 750 visits from TC on the first day. This was smaller than the number of visits we get from Google or from our Open Source projects home page, but still...large enough to make me certain that TC gets more than 846 (because I'm certain that everyone doesn't click every link).
I don't _have_ to deal with any of it. Someone recommended the book, and so I bought a copy. It's interesting and entertaining to read.

Bandler clearly doesn't like psychotherapists, and so it's no surprise that they don't like him.
The people on Techcrunch are already angry enough for me...