skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Django. For the most part it does the heavy lifting and then gets out of my way and lets me code. Another large factor I really like is the peace of mind knowing that it actually works in production environments and isn't impossible to scale. Also, their documentation rocks.

The only other one I've really checked out is web.py. It has a much more raw feel to it. I'd probably switch to it if for some reason Django started getting in my way a lot.
Question: does the choice to use subdomains or subdirectories affect the stats that appear on traffic measuring sites like Alexa?
Anyone know of one of these in Cambridge/Somerville? Or want to start one?
stolen or not, thanks for link. very interesting.
WikkidApps - Totally Legendary Web Applications
You do need a license of some sort. BSD, MIT, and similar are about as minimal as is advisable. You need a disclaimer of warranty so that you're not liable if your software breaks someone's system, and the user's right to use your software needs to be conditional upon accepting the disclaimer.
Spam is a worse crime than murder. Big spammers like Ralsky send enough spam to waste many lifetimes' worth of people's time. Just because the damage is spread out over a large number of people doesn't make that fact any less heinous.
Will the company that kills Google be founded by Google employees?
This is much closer to the truth. AFAIK it uses some heavy-duty macrology and such-like to mechanically transform a subset of Lisp to continuation-passing style. It also has the obligatory HTML/Javascript generation stuff. It has been used for real-life client work but nothing high-traffic.
Big mouth in the front
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1622565,00.html
And there is only finite percentage of $$$ that Canon (for instance) is willing to share with you for each digital camera sold.

Yes but there's not a finite amount of products to sell, producers of products, and products.
Many famous empires were destroyed from inside.
Is Teenwag a TEEN Social network growing because of SPAM?
OK. So I should read deeper into the docs. But the first few pages of examples are straight out of CGI.pm.
http://tinyurl.com/2jsn7j
http://tinyurl.com/2jsn7j how tom make the idea bigger than ever
How is Myspace secretly innovating a TEEN Social network
I didn't see any continuations in the first couple of pages of the docs. They merely looked like lisp versions of the examples for CGI.pm. If those first few examples aren't representative of UCW, then I'll happily retract my assertion.
ok danw ; http://tinyurl.com/2jsn7j
http://tinyurl.com/2jsn7jhttp://tinyurl.com/2jsn7j
blake@firefox.com
Is this site just for Paul Graham PIMPS?
lemme see how long it gets deleted by FAGS
Reddit was cloned from tenwag what do you think?
Allison Stokke allison_stokke on Teenwag.com last signed in about 13 minutes ago
isnt this everyones favorite - allison_stokke's photo on Teenwag
The Sanjaya Installation Sanjaya is Bill Vendall Graduate Student Industrial Design - sanjaya_malakar's video on Teenwag
heh ... and millions of blogs are clones of kubrick theme
How is Myspace secretly creating a TEEN Social network that is getting friendlier by the day
Secret URL to try out pre-release Facebook F8 app (from Scribd)
Ever perez gets a twitter
I don't see any way of developing apps for Facebook... do you have to contact them directly? or?
you might have to hit 'reload' a couple times. Facebook f8 is having some issues as they roll out the apps.
i had to refresh twice to get it to work.
Killed due to sockpuppet upvotes. Don't do that again.
Unless you have significant equity; then it's marriage.
Facebook - how Zuckerberg is taking over the internet
I'm humbled by Mark Zuckerberg
This dude is far smarter than I expect. I am fairly certain Facebook will overtake Yahoo as the premier go-to site within 5 years. I'm deeply humbled.

Side note: My karma is 21, baby =)
http://developers.f8.facebook.com

I'm not sure if everyone has access to that yet, or if it's just people who were invited to the launch.
It affects some of the measuring sites, and web crawler speeds etc. Now Alexa implicitly says it doesn't affect their stats, but it would be nice to know something about their algorithm for distinguishing "recognized personal pages": http://www.alexa.com/site/help/?index=12 (edit: corrected the link to point to traffic rankings faq)
maybe the topics should be categorize into a few subtopics like web, gaming, OS, gadgets (the creators of PS, Nintendo, Xbox) and so forth...
I think an idea should be treated as nothing depends on execution, and execuition should be treated as nothing depends on idea.
There will obviously be companies that appeal to certain people and companies that don't. Why not have different themed editions of the book....one that is hardware focused, one infrastructure, one software platforms (OSes, languages, frameworks), etc.

As well, add some from notable companies that grew up large enough to be recognizable but failed. Perhaps we could learn something from the seeds of their destruction...
Earn by getting Ads in ur mobile
thanks, they've updated the site and I found my way :)
ProBlogger Readers Do it Better... than Digg Users!
College and the Steady Job are still the safest path for the vast majority of people. Risk-taking is not in everyone's blood. Most want a sense of security. Artificial or not.
What Worries The Rich?
Not so humbled that you would shy away from posting here, apparently :-(
Obama campaign uses Facebook F8 platform
Theres a lot of broekn links, missing bits of documentation, some bugs in there and currently the site isn't even loading for me! The whole release feels a bit rushed..
How Facebook was born
Don't get your hopes up about developing for facebook. The guy managing that devision, Dave Morin, isn't one to return emails. Even though he proclaims to be the guy in charge of the only stuff that matters at facebook (f8 & platform) he doesn't act like it.

We got an Mutual NDA from facebook a few months ago, and they never signed their end of it, and this Dave guy hasn't said a word since he failed to return it on any of the multiple dates we agreed upon. Good managers don't let stuff slide off the edge of the plate so unprofessionally on behalf of their company.

Hopefully we have a one time experience, but we are supposedly friends with Dave... or at least one of the 1000+ people he would have believe that.
information density
If you could only have one marketing tactic or tool, which would it be?
Nationalism in the startup world
This article is pure speculation.
Here is a simple way to provide evidence of the hypothesis that ideas have value: make money off them without performing execution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage
Jellyfish.com - Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire
FeedDemon - Nick Bradbury
Side side note: Posts like this are a good way to blow 21 karma.
Moonlighting and Ruff Riders
Researchers show off virtual human in 4D
Photos: Linux penguin to race in the Indy 500
You need these restrictions in order to protect your freedom. If GPL would allow combining code in proprietary code, someone could take your GPL-code, build a product out of it, release it under a proprietary license, then sue you for infringing his license.
Facebook down? Not a good start for the platform
For the founders getting acquired is a jackpot. For workaday drones getting acquired means update your resume because you'll be out in a year.
I've been getting few problems with facebook this morning with lots of bugs and broken links.

Now the whole site appears to be down. Is anyone else getting this? It fails to load pages (sends empty responses) or sometimes loads a "site unavailable" error message. Not a good start for the platform.
This has been occurring with my univ network for days now, sometimes down for half a day at a time.
TipIt: like reddit, but will rank with tips rather than votes
Well, a "social publishing network" is intriguing, but only on the second visit did I confirm that it had a gay theme. With your name and the layout I was suspicious, but I wasn't sure. This time I read the title at the top of my browser window.

I'm not in the target demographic, but here are my first thoughts:

- I think the idea will work and sells itself.
- I'm a little confused mystified by the navigation: are these feature stories? Columns? Other blogs? Is this an "issue style" publication or is it constantly published?

I won't comment on the content (I browsed an article) because I'm not the intended audience, and wouldn't want to add worthless information.

Good luck to you, you may have a bit of a winner.
Freebies: Icons, Buttons and Templates
Start making apps for Facebook Platform - Link to Dev tools
Facebook has been fine for me, but I'm not using the api.
Here is a link to the Ruby Gem for facebook development.
http://www.livelearncode.com/archives/14
Must be just my university network then. Highly irritating when working on a facebook app
Was Sanjaya Malakar a hoax by a Startup guy named Bill Vendall?
Think you know how MySpace got started?  Think again.
10 Reasons Why PR Doesn't Work
"I want to stress the importance of being young and technical." - Mark Zuckerberg

See, if he'd said "you gotta have experienced business guys controlling your product," he'd be crazy, not arrogant.
It redirects me to my FaceBook home page now. Perhaps it was leaked unintentionally and has now been un-released.
Heidi Messer, LinkShare (sold to Rakuten for $425 Million in 2005)

It would be nice to see some women up there, the company took ten years to build, started in 1996 (the really early days and in NYC) was funded by ICG (remember the public internet fund that was worth more then GE in 2 years then almost bankrupt) they filed to go public, then the market went bust, then it was sold for a ton of money. She started the business with her brother.....sounds like an interesting read to me.
The Death of the Small Guy
What is the number one activity a 15 - 25 year old American male will buy a computer for today? Its gaming. And Microsoft is still the number one gaming platform.

By hanging out with a bunch of graduates from top schools that work at your startups you've basically stuck your head in the sand. These people are not your average Americans. Your Average American is using his computer for things that your circle of friends have no interest in.

Seriously, get out of the valley for a few months and go visit people, regular people, around America. Go see what kids are doing in PC "bhangs" in Asia.

"Everyone uses macs" ... this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

And do you think Snipshot and Jumpcut type programs are ever going to be fast enough and feature rich enough for people that care about their media? Snipshot might be ok for a quick brightness adjustment or a resize, but have you seen what kids are using photoshop for today? Go visit a popular online forum like Something Awful, Fark, or Genmay -- look at the Photoshop Phriday type activities the kids are having fun with. Tell me that you can do that stuff with Snipshot.

Honestly, you old school Valley guys are just as bad as anyone from Redmond. You've got your own blinders and have as little clue as anyone else about what people actually want to do with their technology. Everyone embraces trends like Google, Facebook etc. after the fact, as though those things were carefully thought out strategies when really there are a thousands of things being tried and some are bound to succeed because people want to do _something_ online.

The internet is evolving organically and though you smarty pants would like to think that a bunch of clever people are making clever choices to provide the market with what it wants, its more like putting capabilities out there seeing what will stick. People love to paint this fiction about succesful start ups, as though they were smarter than others in choosing the right "niche". Its all a load of horseshit -- nobody, least of all the founders, has any idea what the market is going to take to.

So you can all sit in a circle jerk dumping on Microsoft, as though their random-walk through feature scape is something different than what you guys do, but the fact of the matter is that you are all the same. They use their own money to fund a ton of crap, most of which is nonsense, and you use other people's money to fund a ton of crap, most of which is nonsense.
Success is 99% Failure
Working at Google vs working at Meetup
Downtime: Facebook crashes
Really weird article. Did anyone that voted this up actually read it? All it says is that the Fed is to blame for the current bubble, but it doesn't explain anything.

FTA:

"Unfortunately, the Fed and its printing press have a policy of cheating the people that do honest work by flooding the economy with money that can be had by people who do nothing to earn it."

and later:

"It is difficult to explain the harmful effects of deliberate inflation to the average person..."
Google Calendar goes mobile
Like this?

http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2005/12/

Doesn't sound like spam to me.
The headline is better than the article (an apologia for PR firms).

For a minute there, I thought Kawasaki had burst out of fluff bubble, but it's the same old crap.
hehe. I knew that.

By the way, how do you downmod?
Yet another side note: Why are folks so merciless here? Sure, mod the post down to 0 points. But -13? That's just silly. Why are such low numbers allowed in the first place?
I think it might take some time to hit. Or something? But it'll be a down arrow right underneath the up arrow.
I agree, and posted a reply to it here:

http://xichekolas.blogspot.com/2007/05/too-much-free-money.html

Just my take on it.
I didn't think it was that bad. I don't know anything about getting media placement, so a lot of that was new to me.
The Art of the Start: Guy Kawasaki Salesforce Developer Conference Slides
Without Guy talking, only moderately interesting.
"To help build Basecamp, Campfire and the company's other core applications, Hansson developed Ruby on Rails. It gives 37signals' software a consistent look: sleek, friendly and without the extraneous bells and whistles that plague much of the bloated software sold by larger companies."

I didn't know that Rails came with a built in "look".
With a few metaphor-explicating labels, that'd make the perfect official Truemors shirt.
Um, I published this exact story at Valleywag last year; they just rewrote a bit of the intro (like, changed "I" to "he") and linked to the original article. I don't think that's even legal under the CC license. Here's the original:
http://valleywag.com/tech/myspace/what-news-corp-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-myspace-condensed-edition-199668.php#more
Am I naive, or doesn't this happen to nearly everyone's launches?
You need to have a karma higher than 20 or 30 or something.
Sorry for the lack of explanation, but I didn't intend to give an economics class, merely get something quickly off my chest and get back to work :)
well here teenwag is doing the same thing again ;) http://teenwag.com and growing faster than myspace
That's pretty damn funny. Now I miss NY again. :(

NYC trivia: Once upon a time, and it may still be true, you could go to the Astor Place barber shop on special days and get your hair cut for free. Downside: it would be cut be a trainee, and results might be unpredictable.
Five Reasons Why Starting a Startup Could Improve Your Marriage
That's fine. I was just disappointed because it caught my attention as a new and interesting viewpoint, but didn't go in to much detail. I hope that you'll get a chance to elaborate later.
Wait, he doesn't say why.
This is why I hope that all of facebook's new apps fail. They have a large enough userbase already to crush anything new.
Bob seems to be right (as usual). The moral of his story: don't try to buy up 50,000 painters and keep them under one roof, that's just disastrous.
agreed...very funny, and creative, smart marketing tactic for a fast growing company.
It's surprising because facebooks performance has always been flawless. It's inconvenient because here in the UK it happened during late friday afternoon, one of the busiest facebook periods when people are organising friday nights out. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off down the pub whilst facebook gets fixed up..
It's hard to want Facebook to fail, since the creators are so great, the brand is classy, and the whole thing just WORKS. (If MySpace did this sort of thing, THAT I could hate.) Zuckerberg seems to actually care about making good stuff happen; if it all has to fall under Facebook, well, I welcome our new alien overlords.
who's to say the user will not enter an incorrect word or mis-type? To get reasonably accurate results, you would have to take a handful of samples for each word and take the one with the highest frequency. And even then, users will figure out that they really only need to enter one word and random crap for the other one (it will always look different). Not a bad notion but too much room for error and randomness to be reliable.
How do you know it will always look different? Maybe the look could be faked reasonably well so that both words would look similar.
Limitations and potential of new Facebook applications
Maybe is the key word there. It would be challenging since you would have to apply some sort of noise filter to each of the fakes to simulate a scanned image. You would also have to consider fonts
Couldn't Sequoia find a better real estate startup than Trulia?
Thanks for the update. I wish I had noticed it was linkjacked.
While browsing the slides, you can listen to snippets of some talks on youtube.

The 10-20-30 rule: http://youtube.com/watch?v=liQLdRk0Ziw

The right motivation: http://youtube.com/watch?v=L3xaeVXTSBg
Try pg's article:
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

It seems the media coverage YC gets is not perfect: pg complained a couple of times about being misquoted and generally getting a different message through.
Is it just me, or has News.YC slowed down in terms of new stories / comments?
its friday? people are working on facebook platform apps? it is you ;)
I don't have any numbers to back this up since it's just a feeling I've been having. But it seems like the rate of new frontpage-worthy stories has slowed down. This might be because those who visited for YC's winter cycle left, since posting on News.YC was an incentive to get accepted.

If it has slowed down then that's very odd. This is a great community. I'd be interested to see the daily page view counts / submission counts over the last month or two.

Shawn
Anyone want to fix the link jack?
Some mods care to fix the main link please?
I dont understand.

Peace.
It's been changed to http://developers.facebook.com
I thought it's been quite active. People get busy, too.
Sigh. Maybe I just don't get it [tm]. Everything on the Google side sounded way more appealing than everything on the Meetup side. Maybe it's just the way I'm drawn.

Oh, and especially that thing about how having a view of three (ugly) bridges from some skyscraper is way cooler than playing hackeysack in the googleplex. Uh, ok, dude has apparently never actually been to California. For me, I'll take beautiful year-round weather with fun-loving googlers over crappy weather with hard-nosed, fast-talking meetup stress cases who get to look out over some ... um ... bridges.
Apple Bans MySpace in Stores
Sorry, just to clarify, I didn't mean for today specifically. I meant over the last month or so.

Also, I'm not complaining :( Just making an observation that may or may not be true.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm already tired of all the "this is just too good, this must be a bubble and it just has to burst because we deserve it to burst" articles. Basta cosi'.
It was not to make Meetup look more attractive than Google. It was just a comparison with a humorous angle. Different people will like different things.
Au contraire. Its intention is definitely to make google look less desirable.

Apparently this meetup ceo guy has a reputation for attacking others; most of the entries are unprovoked attacks on other companies (for instance, he rails on SixApart because they're offering a non-blog page-creation tool on TypePad).
Razor-thin TV screen you can wear as a T-shirt
It's an unnecessary detail (the continuation I mean) there is no need to bother the user of the framework with that detail. It's hidden in code like this...

(call 'componentname :param1 value1 :param2 value2)

and

(defaction are-you-sure ((q question) answer)

(if (string= answer "y")

(call 'excellent)

(call 'tobad)))

Question excellent tobad represent pages/widgets. Here question probably has a form which has a field called answer and the submit binds to the action are-you-sure.

Thing to note: The workflow is defined easily and is very clear.

[sorry I couldn't get this to indent]
What IRC channels can I join to meet startuppers?
After writing for Valleywag for over a year, I want to start a company, so I want to talk to other startuppers. I've noticed a good vibe on YC, and I also enjoy using IRC (most often on #joiito on freenode). Is there a good IRC channel where a lot of startuppers go?
An introduction to user journeys
This is a fascinating post... I have to wonder if the web is going to get more boring, with large companies solidifying their market share.
I kind of agree. Sure, he may or may not have done things that nerds like us look down upon, but like Bill Gates, anyone who's worth that much on paper must have done something right.
This is probably the neatest web framework of any language I've used. The only downside I can see is that it stores the app states in sessions in the form of closures, and since you can't easily serialize closures, each session is stuck on one machine. So if you want to scale to multiple machines, each user will have to use a single machine for the entirety of the session, which could result in load imbalance with traffic-heavy sites. This is only in theory, it would be nice to hear some stories where sticky-session has not been a problem in scaling.
I'm not sure that it's possible to have a userbase so big, or a product so compelling, that you can crush anything. People were probably saying the same thing about Yahoo in 1999.
Also, there're too much long texts on the front page. news.yc only has short titles that are much easier to digest.
Continuation-style webapps are supposed to make programming easier, but doesn't that contradict REST principles for webapps? I think it would be preferable to have a good framework (for lisp!) that supported REST-style. I would expect the continuations-style holding session state would lead to problems once you get past prototyping. Also, can you make cool urls for bookmarking?
If this was true wouldn't people releasing code under other licenses such as the LGPL be getting sued now?
Life in the Googleplex
There is a google office in NYC isn't there. I wonder what that's like?
Was thinking of doing something very similar a while ago. Good luck.
AFAIK the continuation-passing style is designed to write desktop-like web apps with interactions too complex to model on plain HTTP. But if you have to use static URLs, you can still explicitly specify them.
You think news.yc is merciless? You haven't been on reddit enough. :)
Cool! Only start a transaction when you reach a threshold - makes perfect sense! Essentially, they solve the micropayments problem by using lazy evaluation.