skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thanks for the comments. I'm going to implement all of these changes shortly.

I've turned off e-mail verification as many people have asked. I've also turned off Countries (seems a bit pointless and shouldn't have had it in the first place).

A "sort by" UI element is in the works. It's almost ready but I need do add remembering the preference in the app (or you'll have to change it every time you refresh the page).

Twitter is not fully completed, hence why it wasn't talked about. I'm creating a dedicated page for Twitter so no one gets confused with using it :)

A hover state for the bin should be done today as well.

FINALLY, iPhone and Gmail apps are in the works.
The design is done by me. If you're interested just email me (sahil at slavingia dot com). I do not mean to spam my services, but many people have asked. :)
The spudworks synopsis was okay, but I like this one better: http://boston.conman.org/2001/10/23.1
I think a more interesting question is: can we work around this?

I really don't know what the state of P2P or decentralized systems are, so tell me if this sounds crazy or not. Maybe someone could develop a secure, trusted, reliable system for distributed execution of sandboxed code which relies on the BitTorrent sort of sharing is caring strategy. That'd be pretty sweet :-)
"What sets this apart?" Right now I do agree with this statement and it definitely needs to be addressed. Do you (or anyone) have any needs that aren't currently addressed by other to-do list applications?

I want what sets this apart to be something that is actually useful (instead of a neat looking but pointless gimmick).
yeah, on a second thought in the potential to limit the stress I suppose this could be used by putting the intervwee alone in a different room and watch them code remotely from another room.
Thanks, Neil. You're right. (My memory is rough.) I still would call the success of the PC an accident by IBM. Microsoft's position was to make as much money as possible by licensing it wherever it could, but I can see better now that they did play a very important role.
I believe the Wii uses an "OpenGL-like" rendering API. It's probably just a lightly customized version of OpenGL ES.

Really, cross-platform in games is only really hard when you have a significant amount of rendering complexity. 2D games, in particular, are pretty easy to port.

EDIT: Oh, and World of Goo is a freaking great game!
I went to your site and have no idea what it is. Some short "about" page would be really helpful. Why is there a "buy now" button (that btw does nothing at the moment - too much traffic?)

edit: I found how it works - link at the bottom. Would be very good idea to link it on the top of the page somewhere.

I don't understand the concept for the visitor, why would I want to visit a social news site that has easily manipulated voting system?
The technical infrastructure of the major open source projects would make a small startup cry. It's certainly not out of the reach of Open Source. Just knowing the infrastructure required to keep the KDE project ticking, it's far beyond what Xobni would have to deal with.

If we're thinking in terms of "Open Source applied to services", well, Wikipedia. That's a pretty big website thinger there. I'm not sure I'd want to stare down the sysadmins of WikiMedia an inform them, "No guys, no, see, you're not really hosting..."
I don't get this obsession with to do lists that is flooding the web lately. How many people really use them in the end?
Building the system would be easier than solving the problem of knowing who to put in jail when it gets infested with the usual junk that tends to end up in anonymous systems.

But it'd be useful, so please go ahead and solve it :)
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What's this? I can't figure out.
LiveJournal has been open source for as long as I can remember.
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I tend to think the following advice is not a good use of your time if you are a programmer, but hey: they're a small business. You're a small business. You're in business together. Just email them and ask for a discount.

People do this to me all the live-long day. I almost always give it to them -- it doesn't cost me anything and it builds advocates for life, what is not to like?
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I think he meant to say "Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market?" ... then host it and provide it as a service ...
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Quick Summary:
A-Agility;B-Brains;C-Communication;D-Drive;E-Empathy;F-Fit

Then measure interviewee's skill by asking questions that test the boundary of their knowledge - alternate questions they know answers with questions they have to think to figure out.
an object is something that has identity and responds to messages. this is not what java is.

http://www.appliedthought.com/peter/smalltalkvsjava.html

If anything, Java promotes class-oriented programming, not object-oriented programming.

edit: if you disagree, please explain so i can learn.
Agreed Slinkset is awesome. We use 3 of them already and the founders are very responsive to feedback & bugs.
Also, these guys have been making pretty amazing games for a while. (I mean, they're indie developers, so check out their demo videos and let your jaw drop.)
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I got a free one as swag a few years ago, and one of the buttons is starting to act up, so I need a replacement.
You might want to revise your choice of languages. Common Lisp is as expressive as Python or Ruby, but many times faster. Haskell and OCaml are even better.

Clojure is another option; theoretically you have all of Java's web frameworks, and Java is also faster than Python or Ruby. I can't recommend it, since I haven't used it yet, though. (I don't want to be a Clojure fanboi ;)
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> wasn't compelling until his example of two gmails at once (currently a pain)

Run firefox with an alternate profile (firefox -P other_profile --no-remote).

That'll start a separate firefox instance which has it's own cookies, etc.

That's what I use to have personal & public gmail accounts.
youtube style comment heh :) comments are another area where youtube is a pioneer.
sure, and you can get a very minor boost. the problem is that the computer can only safely do so much concurrently. if you think otherwise, then go ahead and make a compiler that supports concurrency "irrespective of your programming language" in a way that is sane and performs well.
What is the meaning of "Current" and "Previous" in the Statistics section? Previous to what? Today? I'm kind of confused.
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"... "Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market?" ... then host it and provide it as a service ..."

I'd agree with that one.

Free software allows you to take an individual copy then run it yourself or even run a company. It's not as if Free or Open source software has to serve the market any more than that.
The guys behind SciPy are doing this sort of thing (not R, specifically, but scientific computing...they were doing fluid dynamics and geological data analysis). It's a pretty specialized market, but one where huge sums of money are spent. They had revenues in the millions when I left, and they only had two big customers (and a few customers who were putting out feelers for other options besides their current providers). Anyway, they weren't actually making any money at hosted scientific apps yet, but they were building their data center out and getting the contracts in place, so I expect it's a reasonable portion of their business today.

But, if you or your co-founder isn't a PhD in the field you choose to tackle, you'll probably have a hard time getting a foothold.
Pownce we hardly knew ye
Ask YC: Thoughts on a new project - log analytics for web apps (and a Q. on ZODB)
Fed up with mediocre web analytics software that is aimed at marketing types, I have decided to write my own more technically oriented log analytics application.

I'm basically going to generate summary graphs and numbers which we will display on an attractive, simple dashboard the big LCD TV in our office. The data will come from periodic grabs of log files in /var/ and maybe from an HTTP polling thread.

I have two questions:

1. Pure Python persistence - does anyone have any good experiences with ZODB or anything else pure Python? (this is for fun)

2. What information would you like to see on a web app dashboard / analytics report, that you don't get at the moment?

Am not promising that I will make anything, but if I do and it turns out OK I will release as an open source project.

Many thanks
Switching to what?
Have you considered the wonders of forwarded email?

I have tons of my_name@random_domain emails, some serious, some not. They all forward to my gmail (and also to another IMAP server because storage is cheap) And gmail even lets you send email from different addresses! Yay!
"... Lack of scalability will nag at you and may prevent from making some choices ..."

To the point where you have trouble getting more users. MySpace is the classic study here. How do they scale all those windows servers? ~ http://www.baselinemag.com/index2.php?option=content&tas...
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This site is broken. You had an idea for a business model for Digg -- a better way to sell eyeballs, perhaps. But you don't have any eyeballs, and you don't seem to have any way of attracting them.

Side note: I think the title of this site is a reference to a joke I've enjoyed since I was 5: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?"
You can forward your mail from multiple gmail acccounts to a single account and use the "Send mail as" (under Settings/Accounts). Gmail is smart enough to usually pick the right "send as" address.
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How to delete an account?
hehe good old google :).
I wish HN adds [save] link so I can read submissions later.
a hosted version of Firefox would be pretty meta
I read some books about fundamental and technical analysis. What I need is a community, some place you can share, and compare the outputs whether I'm doing it wrong or I'm in the right track and debate about the best technique or discuss currents news etc. Thanks for all the links.
"Foo over DNS" was innovative and amusing a decade ago. While a clever hack, it has no advantages other than the fact that the latency drops from 200 ms to 20 ms or whatever. I don't know any applications consuming wikipedia blurbs for which that's an issue.

As for parsing Wikipedia and extracting summaries, that's already been done by Freebase. They also let you search, so you don't even need the exact article title. I'm a happy user of their wikipedia blurb feature and a lot of the other data that their API offers. Freebase can be useful for enhancing practically any web app; go check it out if you aren't familiar with it.
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Try this one - http://www.viddler.com/explore/shivi2004/videos/3
trade2win.com/ is a good forum for technical analysis
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Email: founders@snipd.com.

Thanks!
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This is only a problem if your business model is based around selling poorly performing lower-than-remnant-inventory CPM advertising to users who are largely a) poor and b) disdainful of spending money except on iPods, which famously do not need CPM advertising to reach your users.

Not to toot my own horn here, but my (very, very boring) website makes about ~$80 for 1,000 pageviews. It is built on Rails. Supposing I totally screwed the pooch and it was structurally incapable of doing more than 100k page views a day without a top-to-bottom rewrite.

Suppose I got to that $8,000 revenues a day and figured "You know what? This is too darn constraining. I WANT MORE, BWAHAHAHA". I'd be able to hire whomever I pleased to do the rewrite (pay $5k a day for my own ops team, who cares, I can afford it). And it would be vastly easier scaling my site than Myspace/Twitter can scale theirs, because I would not have to set world engineering records to do so.

The first response any engineer is going to make is "Erm, you should probably think of putting multiple web servers in front of a beefy database rather than running both web server and database out of a machine with 256 MB of RAM." This is a pretty easy engineering problem compared with "OK, innovate technologically to be able to handle data on a scale that 5 years ago would have required a major multi-national corporation or minor nation state to generate."

Then I'd be back to the boring-as-dust business of, you know, providing features to convince my customers to continue paying me money.
The counter-arguments are there in the page source as a comment near the end.
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I was under the impression government documents weren't copyrightable? What makes change.gov different?
Disqus is Django. Don't lose the faith.
How is supporting only SSH bad? SSH is (or really should be) allowed through all firewalls. git:// support would be much harder to get accepted.
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It is the round face, and the big head, that makes people think you are shorter (if they have seen you in pics only).
I get this all the time too and I am a little bit taller than 6'.
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I would be wary of jumping into that, but if you're a lone founder type like me, it's worth considering. I did my LLC myself.
The direct link to this software is here http://www.xbug.co.uk/ but the Ajaxian post explains all with less eyestrain.
Pownce had a better chance than many to make it work, what with the industry players backing it, such as Kevin and the press Leah garnered was amazing. I think the bigger story here is that despite all the advantages that they had, in this climate it failed.

Interestingly however DropBox has seemingly been a success which I believe offers a more targeted solution to the problem (file transfer), rather than trying to be all things to all people. If there is a lesson to be learned here I would have thought it was that. Like 37signals often says, try to do one thing really well. Don't try to offer too many features etc. and dilute your product into yet another (I got that feature too). That seems to be the mistake of Pownce.
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Absolutely - we're happy to be in their company!
I refer to my comment on the last todo list app that was presented here (err... all of 3 days ago?):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379293

Seriously, the drag'n'drop thing is neat but is that the only thing you could come up with to differentiate your app from the other billions of web-based todo apps? Hell, you could have differentiated yourself just by coming up with a business model but failed on that too. If you developed the site purely to scratch your own itch, then congratulations it's really quite stunning but don't pretend that it's more than just a personal project.
Thanks, I read it a while ago, I just found that they have forums too :)
nice!! :)
man, i love HN
I've no idea what the site does. I think it needs a big (1.5-2") banner with 2-3 sentences/graphics at the top explaining the purpose and process of the site. I just don't understand what it means to buy the xkcd:sleet story?

From reading the comments here it does sound interesting but such a new/different/unusual site that it needs a lot of explanation.
Just musing bit: I wonder about the power of narrative.

I do not mean the narrative style of TV shows like CSI and NCIS where they can "enhance" a single pixel into a recognisable face or number plate - rather the narrative of a sequence of transactions. Can a sequence tell a story that leads to comprehension - or at least to reduced false positives?

We know that Bayesian SPAM filters need to keep track of the new stories arriving in our email in-boxes as the SPAM and fraud "pitches" evolve over time - seems to me we should be able to do something similar with transactions - we just need to find a narrative (or some other less than perfect understanding) in any given sequence.
"We’d probably all be using an IM client built around Jabber."

Depending on your circle, some do. gChat is runs off the Jabber protocol. On the Mac, Adium is one of the best (I don't know about most popular) multi-system clients out there. I'm also partial to Pidgin Linux.
From the workflow I really like PipelineDeals. Unfortunately it's a bit buggy (especially the API). I just started the trial with them last week and if the stuff gets resolved by their customer service I'm pretty sure that's what we'll end up using. I'm planning a blog post which I'll submit here about the various CRM systems that we've tried out (notably SugarCRM, HighRise, Salesforce and PipelineDeals).
Two wrongs don't make a right... And I still maintain that this is even worse.

Paul Graham's article was certainly one of his weakest (though not quite as bad as http://paulgraham.com/prcmc.html imho), but at least he doesn't claim to be scientific while thumbing his nose at any sort of scientific rigour. Claiming to be scientific while being the opposite is worse than just being non-scientific.
"There’s no doubt we’d have better software today if open source projects could get servers and operational resources for free"

This is what heroku.com and seasidehosting.st offer. It does seem an opportunity for super low cost of entry apps. I don't know about how either scale if you get popular; presumably there comes a point where you have to rethink the infrastructure.
Hey I noticed you can get RSS feeds.
This is a huge security risk : If anyone knows my email then can just find out the list I made :(

Not cool. Allow it to be disabled.
Perhaps this site, mentioned in an post nearly adjacent to this one, might help:

The post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=382462

The site: http://tipd.com/
Or, just maybe, a system such as this would prove once and for all that it just isn't worth trying to control, censor, and otherwise police the internet. A hacker can dream, can't he?
I'd say both are bad. That makes comparing them pretty irrelevant.

MySQL: "We still have 20 known and tagged crashing and wrong result bugs"

pgSQL: "PostgreSQL does not have a bug-tracker."
I don't want to have to sign up either, although I did to check out the service. What would make this more useful for me is a simple URL that I can use to access my list anytime, ie:

http://www.wipeelist.com/list/MYUSERNAME

All you need from people is that username. Just make the lists public and writable by default and ask users for a password/email if they want to make their lists private.

Also, I didn't see the "Add an Item" right away. Perhaps I am blind. I'd suggest you add an onclick javascript event in the GIANT WHITESPACE that takes up most of the screen when you login. I clicked on the blank space expecting something to happen. It would have been nice if something did happen.

Third, it would be nice to be able to rearrange items by dragging them around. There are jquery plugins for that (Sortables) and is it not hard to implement them.
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Ah reality, always in need of adjustment to our theories...
Very true. They usually require some sort of annual cost-down from their suppliers, even if operating costs, material costs and labor costs are rising.

It's not uncommon for a big auto contract to be the thing that puts a small supplier out of business.
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Many use cases remain (and will remain for a long time) where having a network-based application is not practical.

This doesn't even necessarily depend much on technological advances, as it does on geographical and social factors.

Examples:

* I sit on a train that goes through valleys and tunnels - there is simply no reception (not even cell) of any kind in those areas in most cases.

* I keep all my data online in Google apps, but I get locked out of my account (as reported a few weeks ago on HN).

* I have huge amounts of data (HD video), my uplink sucks and will suck for a long time. It sucks even more when I travel.

* I'm in China and access a European site, which is routed through North America - I get at least half a second of latency on every request. Ouch.

If you ask me, I see the trend going more towards smaller devices and improved online-offline capabilities. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point you could "download" (or call it "permanently cache") google docs' actual software at and use it completely offline, with a convenient auto-update and remote data syncing option. (Evernote might be an example of "the future").

The ideal situation for most users is to have their data (and accessing software) available locally and remotely.
I'm still very concerned. When someone tells me they can design a better TCP, I'm worried. Having seen how tricky it can be to build a reliable protocol that provides congestion control and is fair to everyone, I wouldn't count on anyone getting it right without very serious effort.
It has saved submissions feature too.

Whenever you upvote a post, it's in your saved list. Just visit your profile and you'll find a saved link there.
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I know what I am doing for the next YC application round.