skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, but not conclusive. Data from Compete isn't authoritative. Alexa graph here:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=mashable.com&site1=techcrunch.com&y=r&z=1&url=mashable.com

Alexa (of course), has pretty crappy data... But it's another opinion with very different results.

Of course, a minute of research (on their respective "adertise here" pages), shows what is likely closest to the truth.

Mashable says they have 3mm page views. TC has 4mm.

Mashable also focuses on social networks, while TC has a broader focus.
"Only run windows ... I'm probably the only one." -- nup, me too. :-) What I was wondering, though, is whether the Windows version will have any quirks of the Mac one? In other words, presumably it'll be a useful test of how pages will look in Safari/Mac.

Must say, that resizable textbox feature is sweetness! I've seen that done with JavaScript before, but built into the browser -- cool.

It seems to use its own font-smoothing algorithm rather than the Windows one. Everything (including tiny fonts) are aliased, which at least on my laptop is not as clear.
Hey, just "Copy What You Like" http://paulgraham.com/copy.html ;)

(But it's really not for me to say, of course)
According to Miguel Microsoft people have been quite helpful. For instance they are providing some help with improving Mono compiler performance and quality of code generation:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-17.html
Just googled Fortress, and it looks very exciting. Here is the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)
+1. Thank you for the link. Currently I use my rare visits to the Apple store to test our pages on Safari :-) Besides, it is truly a speedy browser, especially when connection is good.

Their page, however, along with their benchmarks is very misleading. It is widely known that IE starts almost instantly because of of the DLLs it uses have already been preloaded by Windows apps (regular file explorer in particular).

Also their JavaScript performance of IE7 is also a suspect. In my own use (not scientific in any way) IE7 outperformed FireFox by 30% but I was using alot of regular expressions so it was mostly regex performance rather than pure JS execution speed.
ENFP, too.
Oh yes, I know ;) but I wouldn't say it is much less verbose than the first example in terms of the number of words used, and besides, it's Microsoft's tutorial, i.e. it's how they teach novice programmers to program in C#.
Facebook Platform TOS - Section 3 - Fees: We can take any cut we choose.
I don't have access to the Windows version BUT you might be able to mitigate the small-font problem with some configuration. In the Mac version of Safari you can to to Preferences-Advanced and tell Safari to "Never use font sizes smaller than X." And in OSX's System Preferences you can go to "Appearance" and tell OSX to "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes X and smaller." Good luck!
yup...read it.
They just ran I-Bench from Ziff Davis. I ran it too and their numbers are correct. I-Bench is measuring a lot of components so IE7 might, indeed, be faster on regex but it is not overall.
WinSafari & iPhone widgets?  Is Apple making a platform play for rich Internet applications?
Guess what, Microsoft still owns your dumbass.
Sure, so long as you're not working for Techstars. They're already over the lifetime limit for copying our site.

I'm going to kill this submission though. You should have just sent us an email.
Google Reader updates and loses a bunch of data
Oh god, this is HORRIBLE news. I would have preferred something like "Apple finally gives up on Safari"
Stamen's Map for Trulia (real estate search engine - uses modest maps)
I use emacs, firefox, iterm and itunes.

I sometimes think about getting rid of iterm, but never seem to be able to find an emacs terminal mode that does full ansi support perfectly.
safari, firefox, textmate, transmit, photoshop cs3, adium, transmission, netnewswire, itunes, syncrosvn
The "sample" is there so readers won't get confused that it's just an example. I threw it together pretty quickly, I'm not afraid that somebody is going to steal it, I'm actually trying to share it with everybody.
The other Y Combinator
i was just waiting for someone to say this. thanks!
Where did it "loose" this data? Sorry, couldn't help myself. :-)
introPLAY launches public introLEAGUES
beats running IE (IE 7 still doesn't run on windows 2000, safari does!) and should make cross platform dev at least a little easier for windows web programmers (is there still such a thing?).
iPhone SDK: It's called Safari - (37signals)
Damn, that makes me feel retarded. I don't think I'd want you to help yourself on that one - it deserved to be pointed out.

I edited the title.
Modest Maps (adobe flash7+/actionscript 2, bsd-licensed display/interaction lib for tile based maps)
firefox, opera, safari, emacs, sonata, mpd, ncmpc, openoffice, gimp, inkscape, mirage, frostwire, gftp
------ Work ------

Eclipse, Visual Studio, Photoshop, WordPad, FireFox

------ Fun -------

Picasa, Excel, Quicken, RAW Shooter Essentials, Bibble.

The only "online application" I use is gmail :) So much for "everything is moving to the Web" hype.
Paul Buchheit:  Can you see the wolves in your organization?
Be careful when implementing some of the suggestions from this presentation, especially if you are trying to be accessible to mobile phone browsers and/or people who use screen readers.

For example, some screen readers are really noisy when it comes to list items--when you wrap a label/input in a list item the screen reader will say a bunch of garbage that distracts the user.

If you use a bunch of floating and/or CSS positioning then be prepared to have your form look horrible to the point of being unusable on mobile browsers--by default, many mobile browsers will ignore your CSS and present the user with a bunch of unaligned, way-too-narrow fields.

Similarly, the BUTTON element is not part of the deployed versions of XHTML Mobile Profile, so you generally shouldn't use it if you can get away with INPUT TYPE='submit'.

Finally, you should be careful with your Javascript validation--some mobile browsers will let you disable submit buttons, but they don't support the Javascript events that you are depending to re-enable them. As a result, it is usually a good idea to leave the Submit button enabled all the time.
Brilliant. That's why Facebook is going to be one of the major web players soon. I can see them challanging Google in a few years. It'll be interesting to see Facebook's aggresive bully style head to head with Google's do no evil style.
I get a different result each time I take one of these...but it's always INTP or ENFP, so I must be one of those.
How We Did It (Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, co-founders, Flickr)
Also, be sure to put a "Reset" button just to the left of the Submit button. Users often get to the end of a form having entered hilarious joke data, then need to reset the form to submit real data. The importance of having a button that means "just kidding, erase everything I just entered" cannot be overstated.
You might consider SciPy. http://www.scipy.org

It's an Open Source Python-based platform for mathematical and science development. The IPython shell is developed coincident to the platform, and is a great shell in and of itself (useful even if you aren't using SciPy, NumPy, or matplotlib). I don't know much about Mathematica or MatLab, as I don't actually do much scientific work...but I know that when I was working with the SciPy folks, there were a lot of converts coming from those platforms and ecstatic about the benefits of Python for this kind of work.
Cabspotting, always in progress (visualize realtime GPS positions of San Francisco taxi cabs)
This has been pointed out to them (months ago), but they haven't fixed their posting.
loopt: "Social Mapping" (location information, an essential form of social context)
ENTP. have started 2 companies (so far). But...I am only slightly E. It says 'moderately'.

My T swings wildly between Very T and barely T.
A good site for checking this stuff out is personalitypage.com
What about when the ball bounces, or otherwise changes direction suddenly? It would be very hard to watch. But you wouldn't want to make the ball's POV the actual real-time feed anyway, you'd totally lose the context of the game. This technology would only be useful for replays.

Perhaps another approach would be to have a bunch of cameras around the stadium, motion-track the ball in 3d, then stitch the ball's POV together using a process sort of like Google street view, or that dumb 3d revolving-subject thing that was in all the commercials five years ago. Then you could calculate a 'line of best fit' for the ball's trajectory and render video 'just-in-time' for a quick, smooth replay.
Emperor Palpatine.
me too... but I was ENTP last time I did one.
'... This problem probably affects less than 0.1% of all users ...'

But think of the kick-on effect in education institutions and research labs an important MS stronghold. All the best institutions, scientists, researchers want to get published in Science & Nature so they are forced to find an alternative. Who knows what this alternative is. I imagine science students would be hard-core Tex, Latex aware. Institutions have the following formats to choose from ... "MS Word (preferred), PostScript (PS, EPS or PRN), PDF, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format (RTF) and plain text (TXT)" ~ http://tinyurl.com/36hh43

"... The file format needs to be general enough to express such material faithfully. Unfortunately, MathML 2.0 isn't able to handle embedded XML namespaces and as such simply isn't general enough to represent Word 2007 technical documents. Accordingly we had to develop an XML approach that is general enough and we created OMML (Office MathML) ..."

For those who have invested the $$$ in Office it appears that MS wants to give them the tools, just not of the open source MathML compatible type. So there are numerous hacks authors have started ~ http://tinyurl.com/32j48e

"... Science and Nature will probably upgrade some time in the next few years. But I suspect that the rump of non-users of Office 2007 will remain large as the web becomes an increasingly important repository for our file ..."

This bit I think is the crux. You no longer need word or the MS platform as much as previously to create documents & distribute them. I don't think it's Science & Nature shunning MS as much, as the costs in accepting the MS Word format at this point in time. Instead the costs are being pushed back onto submitters who use this particular MS Word format.
Actually there isn't a secret area, at least not yet. I just turn on links to new stuff for them first, so they can find the bugs for me.
Firefox, TextMate, Terminal, OpenOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, iTunes, iChat, Pro Tools LE
That's really pathetic. Me thinks they're not going to get the best qualified people with that kind of attitude.
Mail.app [1], iCal, AddressBook, Safari, FF, Skype, iTunes, iChat, iPhoto, Preview, Excel, Word, PPT, Photoshop

[1] You probably just shat a brick, but I like mail on my desktop...
'... could they be tagged consistently as "jobs" => [location] job title (summary) ...'

the pattern is pretty easy to grep even for humans. It's a good idea to see the entire picture sometimes not just snapshots of it. But I agree with adding a tab. It's not the fastest way, wading through the main index for 'jobs'.
Is there anyway to turn off font smoothing? I like Windows standard (not Cleartype) font smoothing over everything else.
On Linux:
Firefox, mutt, emacs, xchat, gaim, amarok, skype, gimp, LaTeX, Mathematica, VMWare.

On 'doze:
Firefox, Visual Studio, Quicken, OpenOffice.

The only one of these that I'd like to replace with a web app is Quicken. Buxfer looks promising but it's not nearly there yet.
INTJ. The INT is strong and consistent, but I occasionally come out as an INTP.
Jesus... these guys (37 signals) are so pumped up on the fact that web apps (their area of expertise) is the only thing this phone will be able to do...

Safari? SDK? Wooo... If I want to roll out my own address book version for an iPhone, how the hell will I do that with Safari? Or at least some address book integration? Or how about making/receiving calls programmatically? How about using any of iPhone hardware to do anything?

For 37signals, and companies like them, the ones who build ta-da lists and write books on how to build ta-da lists, that is a very welcome announcement.

But for software engineers/entrepreneurs this is pretty sad news...
First Round Capital launches their version of News.YC
Throw enough money at it, and you too can have it.
man, talk about jumping the shark...
How about a web version of VMWare? Then I could run Firefox, inside of VMWare, inside of Firefox, inside of VMWare, inside of Firefox...

Edit: Oh shit... http://wubuntu.weejewel.net/
Or it could be that other people have moved to the web sooner than you have. ;-) Most of the planning and early design work was done over Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Groups, and Skype. (We mostly moved to AIM/phone/going to each others houses when we dropped from 5 founders to 2.) FictionAlley.org has a staff of close to 200, all managed through Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Messenger. Even at work, I often find myself communicating over AIM with my cubemates. And I talk to my boss over AIM a lot more than in person, since he's on the other end of the building.
According to Jobs' keynote, there will be hooks for the iPhone hardware, you will be able to make calls and all that. Exactly how extensive it is remains to be seen, but there will be something.
OMG Myspace api omg!!! (reasons why myspace api will not happen)
Is there some reason people use Safari instead of Firefox?

I personally can't use any browser except Firefox, because I can't stand the web without adblocking.
Right, great solution until people start using it. Then it will be trivial to add this feature to spam bots. I bet some already figured it out. It's not that hard to integrate a Javascript VM.
News.YC unique visitors, first 4 months
The bump in the middle coincides with the application deadline for the summer cycle.
There already is one. It's called 9ne

http://robrohan.com/projects/9ne/
Remember When You Had No Money for Advertising: What Worked Then?
at least they gave YCNews the credit, and the first round group is another startup epicenter, so it makes sense I guess to do the social news thing.
Running your Ruby tests quickly and precisely
INTJ

Edit: One of my other entrepreneurial minded friends is an ENTJ.
Our current hosting company keeps failing. Do you guys have any dedicated hosting companies to recommend?
I have been happy with the service and support with Serverbeach for a few years now.
Unfailingly accurate, hoorah!
No kidding. :)

Is this thread about working or talking? Surely it's hard to collaborate with people using desktop applications without an internet connection.

The point I was trying to make is that "death of desktop" is a myth. A new buzzword, invented to get more PR for whoever is NOT developing "desktop software".

While harsh reality is that there are applications and there are web applications. And we all make our money using "desktop" software every day. Moreover, lately it become accepted (and even hot) not to pay for it (apache, mongrel, linux, eclipse, ruby interpreter, PHP, photoshop, firefox, internet explorer, even freakin BIOS). And proclaiming it "dead", while being 110% dependant on it, is at least superficial.

And if you ask people why they build web apps, the answer will not be "because desktop is dead", but probably (if they are being honest) because regular software takes a lot more skill, more learning time, more development time and frankly it's just not as "sexy" these days. Sexy or not, it surely is not dead.

We depend on "desktop" so much that people often pay for it, while "web software" is almost never considered valuable enough to get people to open their wallets for. To me that's pretty pathetic: not to be able to charge for what you've built, and becoming yet another semi-useful parasite sitting on AdSense wellfare.
So the wolves are those who play office politics?
I'm guessing from his note at the end that the story was originally told by one of his friends at MS?
There are lots of little reasons why I end up using it most of the time:

It, like all Cocoa apps, supports some of the emacs key-bindings out of the box. CTRL-a, CTRL-e, CTRL-k all work as expected when editing any text.

If I double click on a word to highlight it and then right click on the highlighted word I'm able to look the word up in the OED resident on my computer. I can do this amazingly fast. And I do it all the time.

I have a huge bookmark collection. And Spotlight can search it.

I can check my spelling. Have it highlight misspelled words if I want. Bring up a spell-check dialog box, etc.

There are probably ways to get all those features in Firefox but Safari is the path of least resistance.
Safari does block the annoying and often superfluous pop up ads. You can a third party plugin to block other ads at:

http://pimpmysafari.com/plugins/?c=Adblocking

However, don't you think ads are a necessity to keep the web free? I've always wondered what the users of adblocking software desire.
The ugliest hack I've ever pulled off
Just think about this. Sorry for the person who downmodded me, but I'm serious.
Interesting to see growth that is both slow and consistent. I always figure websites are either exploding or imploding. Do many sites grow this slowly, or is there something unique about YC news?
gkrellm, gnome-terminal, firefox, gvim, gaim, xchat, thunderbird, xine, mplayer, inkscape, gimp.

Linux with WindowMaker.
I have a few boxes with Serverbeach and I think they're great. If you end up going with them, find a friend who uses serverbeach to give you a referral code. It'll give you and your friend $100 (I think) off their bill -- which can definitely help during the early bootstrap startup days.

If you have the money and really need hardcore service Rackspace is absolutely incredible.
http://www.teenwag.com/profile?user=allison_stokke
Free startup idea: How to Find Old Friends
'... How can you find them? ...'

Google works ok if they are connected (blog, website, ework) not so well if they are not. But not as well as spock claims it will be ~ http://www.spock.com/about
I think these guys seem to be accumulating a lot of smart people with good track records though. It's an ambitious problem for sure but the potential reward justifies the risk. Actually I think the biggest risk is that Google probably has a team working on natural language search that could beat them to it (this is just me speculating I have no insider knowledge).
I don't see it on there, they must have taken it down. That said, Lisp isn't a really a pure functional language either if that is what you are implying (setf). I don't know enough about Erlang to say anything about that. It is odd that they specify "procedural" though. Anyone that knows a programming language probably knows a procedural programming language.
You can turn it down, but not off, as far as I can tell. Actually, even turning it down didn't make much difference. It looks a bit odd.
I predict it will be easy in 10 years (and sooner with a large enough budget). High-res cameras will be no larger than a tiny segment of football lacing, or basketball inflation pins/pumps -- as are built into retail balls today with little effect on playability. Advanced optics will allow extremely wide-angle views in multiple directions. Fast computers will compensate for any rotations.

As others note, though, placing cameras in balls may not be as interesting to fans as other options, like player cams. (Beyond Justin.tv, what about LeBron.tv or Peyton.tv?)
Layered Tech has been alright for me.
It's funny how Facebook says this and at the same time they say that apps will be able to keep all of their revenue.
PG said hiring is obsolete, so what is the need for a jobs page on ycombinator :D
I didn't understand the story. So essentially, if too many Marshmallows start showing up, something bad is going to happen? Seems to me I have read more profound things on news.YC before.
""friend" generators would become a lot more advanced"

There are friend generators? That's amazing...
I think the graph is a little misleading, because of the short timeframe. It looks like news.yc grew by a factor of 1.5 in the last 4mo - that's actually pretty fast, 340% per year.
The real questions, that don't seem to have answers yet, are:

- What sort of access do you get to the phone?

- What possibilities do you have to store applications on the phone and use them when you aren't connected?
One more vote for ServerBeach. They're a rare combination of competence and low cost. Haven't had any problems whatsoever. Definitely find a referral code before you signup. Otherwise use mine! 7XYHDMBU8A It's $100 discount for the new user and $250 for the referrer.

http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/index.php?REF=7XYHDMBU8A
You can already create links in web pages that will dial a phone number when activated with mobile phone browsers. Similarly, I assume that the email integration is going to be basically "mailto:" links. Maybe they will have support for HTML 5 features like like INPUT TYPE="email" as well.

a href="wtai://wp/mc;16504808000"
a href="tel:+358-555-1234567"
Doesn't this defeat the main purpose, though? At least on that page, the fall-back was just in the mail[aht]whatever format, which I suspect spammers have learned to decipher long ago.
Guy Kawasaki Moderating Panel with HotorNot's James Hong and PlentyOfFish's Markus Frind
I'll concur on ServerBeach and RackSpace (and not just because they include Webmin on all of their boxes). Great company with great service and reasonable (not cheap) prices.

For the slightly lower end, Joyent's Accelerators are a cool and cheap way to get a "dedicated" system (they run in Solaris Zones, which are, frankly quite a bit more reliable than Virtuozzo and vservers based systems), and the company is run by a bunch of really smart guys. And I swear I'm not just saying that because they include Virtualmin GPL on all of those virtual servers, or because they are upgrading to Virtualmin Professional on their TextDrive shared hosting systems as we speak. Or because I like them personally.

And just so you don't think I'm only recommending companies that use our software, The Planet is good and cheap, too. Very solid network and hardware. We've got a big Dell box with them that includes a remote terminal thingy that allows me to see the BIOS and all via a remote Java applet console. Very cool. They do not, however, offer any Virtualmin products on their boxes...that's a problem, of course. But I'm sure we'll remedy it soon enough.
Q & A with RockYou -- Three Hit Apps on Facebook, and Counting
Evan Williams Reenacts The Creation of Twitter
Tell us what you really think, tx! Don't hold back on our account.
Oh, yeah, you're also wrong. The desktop is dead. It, and apparently you, just don't know it yet.

Sure, it'll be years before everything we do happens on the network...but not many years. It's just too damned convenient to have it floating in the cloud, accessible wherever you happen to be and with whatever devices you have handy.
Seth Godin: The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck.
Camino supports emacs bindings, so near as I can tell. It doesn't do the dictionary thing, but the dictionary isn't really OED anyway, it's OAD, which is different. In any event, you can use the services menu if you need it, or just do what I do and use Google. Camino 1.5 checks spelling with the OS X spell checker. It has built-in flash block and ad block if you want it. You can search you bookmarks in the app, but I don't know they're exposed to Spotlight. Probably not. You could use a Quicksilver plug-in, maybe.