skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a completely community-driven site like SO, that might work.

For anything else, you will never be a leader in the market with that attitude. The reason why it seems to work early on on a company is that you are resting on the laurels of the original vision of the software. That will get washed away in a sea of tweaks to existing features by the community.

Customer feedback is an important consideration, but should not be the only. Believe it or not, product management is a valuable skill.
Those are stationary perturbations they are talking about, the ones they use to map the region. Your parent refers to moving perturbations, such as vehicles or electric motors.

An underground mine is really really really different to a subway network if you are only looking at it magnetically.
We just tried this out for hiring and it worked amazingly, we could all see at a glance who the obvious candidates were and kept a nice collection of votes for us so we didn't have to send out an annoying email every day.
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I'm looking for precisely your admission: the evidence can't possibly exist. Ergo, it's not "objectively observable". It's a taste thing. So rickmb's sanctimony is just plain wrong. (And, IMHO, deeply hurtful to the community and the market. But that's a flame war I don't think anyone wants to get into.)
how about just use: http://www.codebeautifier.com/ ?
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The title is misleading. Signups are not really what matters. I wonder how many users actually log in at least once a week.

I have Trello account and tried to use it when it launched but eventually I reverted back to my good old pad and pen once again.
Aren't we all just trying to speak to customers?

In a YC interview? If you considered YC a customer then you definitely went about it the wrong way.

The sales pitch is fine for a certain style of customer. It's not in this context.

The point I am trying to make is that you should be speaking in pg's language; not the language of a corporate salesman.
> yield didn't count

Interestingly enough, I've been using yield in Python for what could be described as cooperative multitasking. Works very well with web workloads, btw.
I believe padmapper is kind of relying on 3taps to take the hit. 3taps apparently is DMCA compliant.

Long story short I'd expect 3taps to be craigslist legal target.

(though actually I guess 3taps doesn't actually use the data so I'm not sure if what they're doing is technically illegal until padmapper uses it - I'm going to stop armchair lawyering now)
This library requires an HTML5 compliant browser but does not use HTML5 features? When looking at form elements example [1], I see that new input types (e.g. date, color, range, datalist...) are totally reinvented. What's the point?

[1] https://oxjs.org/#examples/form_elements/live
You'll be happy to know that these issues are being addressed:

* I agree about type capitalization. I try to capitalize my types in new Rust code, and I'm advocating switching to it generally. It is currently on the roadmap. (It's not just a stylistic thing; we can fix several issues in the grammar that way, most notably the distinction between an enum like None and a variable like x.)

* The keywords are going to stay short (although some of them are being revised to read better; e.g. "cont" -> "again", "iface" -> "trait"), but identifiers are going to lengthen in new code.

* '::' may change to '.', to make it easier on the eyes. I personally prefer '.', and am advocating the change.

* You're right that Rust hasn't fully adopted dot-notation. This is an artifact of dot-notation being introduced later in the design, and we're in the process of transitioning code from vec::len(x) to x.len(). We definitely aren't moving away from the OO syntax; in fact we're moving toward traits [1] and maximally-minimal classes as a way to unify OO, Go-like interfaces, and Haskell-like typeclasses under one simple, coherent system.

I'd prefer it if semicolons stayed, however; I think automatic semicolon insertion is more trouble than it's worth, as it ruins people's house bracing styles and causes confusing errors. That said, the way a trailing semicolon changes a block's return value is very confusing, and I'm pretty sure we can fix that issue.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Proposal-for-unifying-t...
I agree, it doesn't matter, but I think the reasoning is probably wrong.

It would have been better for everyone if Craigslist gave away the data minus whatever is needed to finish the transaction, and include in the TOS that that you must send the user back to Craigslist to actually finish whatever they're trying to do.
I agree. When I post a resume to a job site, that doean't mean I want it posted in other places without my consent. It seems like a dick move to repost people's ads without their consent. If, technically te data belongs to the poster, than it's distinctly dickish to post that data in other venues without their permission. Perhaps someone only wants their add on the Scanton Craigslist and not on other sites. I posted a classified add on a site once selling some furniture (not CL but a hyper local site) and I started getting dozens I calls from buyers after I had removed the ad because some ass thought it was a 'service' to repost my ad, even though the stuff sold via the original site within a day. I don't doubt Padmapper can be useful, but if it is genuinely better, then one shouldn't have to steal CL data to make it work.

Build your own damned business.
> I even agree with that decision--Craigslist has brought it upon itself by creating what is (IMO) a mediocre and clearly substandard UI. But your choice is what it is. Embrace it.

So are you saying that if CL had a more elegant UI you would be against the OP continuing agasinst CL's wishes? Seems like very arbitrary ethics.
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I don't recall if this was mentioned in the other threads on this project, but I would highly recommend the section in Chapter 3 of the really fantastic "Clojure Programming" where the authors step through the processes of converting various programs from an imperative to a functional style. This was really my aha! moment with Clojure.
It's funny how many people are demanding that Craigslist sell out its user-generated content. I understand why people want this, but isn't CL being incredibly respectful of its users by allowing their data to be used only for the specific purpose for which it was posted and that's it?
this keeps coming home once a year :P
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This is incredibly useful for mobile web development. While most devices have a console you can view on there, it's incredibly difficult to use effectively- Weinre lets you pipe this data over to your dev box. Fantastic.
All you need is a Greasemonkey script to encrypt/decrypt everything as it goes in or out.

I'm only 90% kidding.
What about a service that lets you post to every barter site at the same time, not just craigslist. Has that been tried? If you could get people to use it (through better UI and more exposure for what they're selling) you could break craigslist's hold on the marketplace.
That's what the Trello team is trying to do on the public Trelo Development board. https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113...
My proforma http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4219105
One of my own ideas was to build a website for my consultancy. It would have three sections, one for Programming, one for SEO, and one for business analytics.

I would build the site using Django and Twitter bootstrap and deploy it on AWS. I'd host the blog on Tumblr and market the site with content marketing and social media.

Then I'd collect all of the email addresses that I've amassed from HR personnel and recruiters over the years and announce the grand opening of my consultancy's website.

I'd also like to build a time bidding app so potential clients can bid on my time, sort of like what others have done including this guy:
http://www.thisiscool.com/buytime.htm

I think this would be a great way to use my time, but I don't know if it maximizes my earnings potential. It certainly wouldn't add too much to my skillset, so I'm not sure if it's the best route.
You think HN is actually for entrepreneurs?

What I need help with: interesting distractions that let me defocus enough to stay awake for an 8-hour workday, but that are sufficiently within the technology industry that management won't object to me reading them at work.
>Some people make life better via charity, I try to do it via software.

...wow.

Are you seriously saying that building padmapper is a charitable act? Or am I totally misunderstanding what you said there, because...

...wow.
Yep, that's the zen moment right there with Vim. Once you understand this, you will be able to 'speak' to your editor and bend it at your will.

E.g. 't' is a motion command which takes you 'till' a particular character. The same command even works with 'Visual Block Selection'. Most of the other editors have a different work flow for 'Block selection' and they are not friendly at all.

And if you are starting out, I would HIGHLY recommend the book 'Practical Vim' http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim . The book teaches the 'The Vim Way' and to be a good Vim user, you have to understand the 'The Vim Way', there is no way around it. Good luck!
OpenHatch lists tasks from various open-source projects, usually aimed at new contributors - http://openhatch.org/search/ - any project listed there would be actively looking for help and welcoming to new people.

From my experience though, just about every open-source project out there would love to have more people helping out. Have a look at the project's bug tracker.
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This sounds interesting, but I think the difference in the two situations is a repeatable experimental environment. In baseball every at bat is the same...a batter, a pitcher and 8 defenders. This lends itself well to statistical analysis. In programming, every commit is different and under wildly varying circumstances.

I think the same logic might apply to the OP. Looking at a startup investment through the lens of a credit score makes some sense, but it seems more likely to avoid predictable losses than it is to identify the next facebook or google.

As an aside, there's something I've always wondered about companies who predict the success of other companies...what score did they get from their own algorithm?
Thanks for the reply.

I still have no idea what your product does.
Google pushing to sell at cost helps make the case for me to get a Nexus 7. The Transformer line was nice, but priced too closely to the iPad for it to catch on with the general public. This wasn't as much of a problem for Android phones because the iPhone wasn't available through many carriers early on whereas people that buy tablets with cellular data are in the minority.
The curious world of long-term bets
Reminded me a lot of uki.js: http://ukijs.org/
It's not public information. The listing data belongs to the original poster who entered into a contractual relationship with CL -- not with PadMapper. If anything the ads are covered by copyright, held by the person who wrote the specific ad. If the service is so great, then start calling the ad posters and offer them the chance to post on PadMapper. Otherwise, it's theft. We can moralize all we want but reproducing someone's ad without their permission is a violation of the poster's rights, even if some of us feel that it's in their best interest. The choice should belong to the person posting the ad.
If the retail is $200, then manufacturers will pay $50. If the retail is $50, no manufacturer will pay even $25. Same applies to volume discounts though Open and VLSC. The retail price is the anchor.
Good point; a physical key is just as good as a password and has the benefit that people will treat it properly.
If you do configuration right, it's better in XML. Configuration should be declarative rather than imperative; the example given is better in PHP than in XML, but that's because it's a terrible thing to put into a configuration file. If we're talking about release automation look at maven, which uses XML and does it a million times better than everything else I've seen.
reminds me a bit of the Ali G clip where he suggests a newspaper headline be "WAR BEGINS" on the front page, and "with a w" on the following page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6OULO5R4Y
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Unless Craigslist isn't subject to DMCA they do not own the content. And here is their DMCA page: http://www.craigslist.org/about/infringement.claims
Agreed. Also I think a big chunk of the regular desktop users out there are going to be nothing but annoyed at the interface, and will do what they can to avoid Metro. It's been what, 17 years of clicking on "start" (or equivalent) and picking from a list. A lot of office workers are going to be horrified when they realize that doesn't work now.
You seem to be looking for Fogbugz. http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
Ads migrated there because it was free, and a lot more agile than newspaper ads (wait a week for my ad to go live??). They stay because of network effects. And because it's good enough.
Really, really stupid. I mean pretending you want to help people find apartment to justify you're action is ridiculous. You're running a business, be honest about it. Now craigislist do what they want with their data, you are just trying to build a service that "adds value" on top of someone else infrastructure( I mean "add" because I am one of the few who actually like the way cragislist display posts no bloaty js, no ugly pics no maps ... fast and simple).
You're right, it does come off as arrogant to say that it's that much more efficient, and that that justifies making this decision. I think that the potential for doing good plays into any moral decision, though, so I don't think it's out of place in trying to explain my rationale. My intention definitely isn't to pat myself on the back here.
By your logic, they've "gotten around the objection".

Not so fast. The full objection that people have with spammers isn't that the spammers have their email address. It's exactly how the email is used which comprises what people object to.

I've been looking at Padmapper, and as far as I can tell, they are basically providing a better interface to Craigslist largely by aggregating data that Craigslist doesn't claim to own.

Specifically how is Padmapper competing with Craigslist? How would such a mechanism not also apply to Google News, reddit, HN and various news sites? Is a "search bar" extension in Firefox competing with Google?
This is actually a very interesting idea.

I work with Agile teams, and putting data on other people's servers is a BIG hang-up for a lot of companies. Even when we assure them that it's not requirements or specs, just symbolic work tokens, they still freak out.

If you encrypted it client-side, you could make the argument that nobody without the encryption plug-in could see any of it -- that you're just storing encrypted blobs somewhere.

It probably still wouldn't fly -- I have my suspicions that much of these conversations revolve around control, not security or policy, but it would be worth giving it a shot.
Do you know if the memory leak still exists on 64-bit? I wasn't able to determine that. I've read that the solution is to use 64-bit, but I don't know if that really just means that a 64-bit system will take the memory leak far longer to crash it.

I'm not too concerned about the attitude of some Golang devs (they are volunteers, after all), but I am very concerned about any memory leak or other serious bug that won't be fixed for a year+.
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Another idea I had was to spend the month honing my iPhone and Android app abilities, and then launch 2 apps for each device by the end of the month that would show off my skills as a developer.

I think it would take a good chunk of time to go solely into development for myself in order to start making money, so this would be used as a way to gain development talent that I could use in consulting.

The problem with this idea is that I would have to use all of my time developing (which I like) and almost none of my time marketing myself, which seems necessary. This idea may need more time to do in order to start landing contracts by August.
One place where Refine distinguishes itself compared to those tools are its quick visualizations of subsets of the data. In the article the author is able to tell that a column is always blank, and thus worth dropping, but Refine can do a lot more there.
Seems like people and companies are already starting to address the cost issues to make this a more accessible and scalable process. I'm thinking of things like DNAnexus to help with the computational stuff. Also surprising they didn't mention any of the companies doing this work (i.e. this isn't just an academic exercise anymore).
Well... The OS I'm using right now traces its roots to the late 60s and early 70s. I use the terminal a lot and that's an interface that was designed for teletypes. My favorite editor, Emacs, is similarly old. Yet, those metaphors are profoundly powerful and enable me to just forget I'm using a computer and focus on my work, which is, to borrow from Google, to teach computers do amazing things.

I find using a GUI ridiculous most of the time, but, like you said, to each its own ;-)
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We've been building a product for the past year. It's an idea that we've been passionate for a long time - getting the population moving and reducing chronic diseases caused by obesity and sedentary lifestyles. It's big problem and we think we ahve the solution. A social fitness platform that motivates and encourages activity. We are ready with a minimum viable product and we understand all the techniques around delivering a web-based consumer product and customer acquisition. But I'd be curious of what others have found are techniques that have been successful. Our goal is a modest 2000 users by the end of the year for our private beta. Any suggestions or real-life experience is appreciated. Thanks.
has anyone used rocketr vs asana?

I've been using Asana for a 16 person team and enjoying the experience.
Ask HN: www.mostpopularpicture.com Smart idea or waste of time?
I work full time and there isn't enough time for me to work on my idea and I can't afford to quit job. Therefore, I decided to spend my weekend time to come up with a fun little idea where I can create a site to raise money for my start up idea.

It was one of those things were browsing internet makes you do a random domain name search. Well I searched for www.mostpopularpicture.com and it was available. I instantly knew I can spend a weekend and hack a quick little site. So, I did it. This is a fun little project, it does not solve any real life problems but gives you an opportunity to post yours or others picture and sharing it. Currently I don't have tagging, voting, likes or comments feature even though I have designed db to have it.

My question to the readers, is it a good idea to spend some time to work on a small project to replace salary or raise fund than work on the start up idea which may take a year before you see some kind of cash flow? Or, it's a waste of time and one would stick to the original idea and work towards it?

Some may say, pitch your ideas to VC. Well! First of all pitching idea does not guaranty money, second being from Houston TX, we don't have access to VCs like guys in Valley does, plus at this point I don't want VC to get involved. I would like to get some traction then raise money to expand. Also, the time I spend on this weekend project is way less than I would have to come up with a presentation, travel and convincing VCs. Neither do I want to work on my start up idea on weekends or by burning mid-night oil to avoid getting burned out.

I don't know if I will get success with this weekend project to raise some fund but it would be interesting to know how it will turn out.

ps. BTW if interested, domain and source code is available for sale. Give me your best offer.
Right now it is not possible (that I'm aware of) to do asynchronous PKI-like encryption without the contact-type SmartCards. Meaning that all of the contactless RFID/(passive) NFC systems are vulnerable to attack and cloning.

In 3 years, do this, but with a smartphone and an active NFC app that can perform async encryption challenges. Without stealing the phone and the PIN, you can't steal the car.
BS.

Get over your analysis - this service is farking amazing and Craig is an idiot for trying to thwart it.

Craig has consistently chosen to sit on his hands and do nothing because he is to afraid to mess with the CL money pot.

Things evolve. CL has not evolved hardly at all and after 10 years + it is hurting people for its lack of change.
Why don't you just go on craigslist and buy a used last generation air?
Our engineering team logs into it daily, and some of us stay logged in throughout the day, checking off lists and hashing out ideas in the cards before importing them into engineering docs. It's a great way to manage features and organize tasks, even if we don't fit into a classic "Agile" cycle.

Trello has been a big hit with my wife who is a writer. She uses it to organize scenes, chapters and various snippets before integrating them into her draft. I've tried introducing various storyboarding applications to her with very high resistance -- Trello was the only thing that really "took" with her.

If you just want to jot down notes and don't need to organize them, Trello's probably just a bit too rich an interface. Once you've got more balls in the air and jugglers in the mix, Trello becomes a lot more interesting.
I think the point is that it's hard to imagine anyone at Apple -- a salesman like Jobs, the designers or software engineers, or even a greeter at an Apple retail store -- saying the phrase "bottom-up approach to knowledge management". (I don't even know what that means.)

The iPod, at least, was "1000 songs in your pocket", i.e., none of the above.
Nice.
The cable that goes out from Argentina is 10 minutes from my home (In foot), in fact: My father helped the engineers who installed it.
After all, at the height of the Fourth Estate’s power, the population was better informed than today’s Facebook cherry-pickers.

I want to take issue with that statement. I see it repeated in many places, but usually it has either anecdotal evidence, or, in this case, no evidence to back it up. Was the population better informed when traditional newspapers were at their peak (let's say from 1900 to 1960)? How would you measure such an ambiguous term like "informed"? I think there's a lot of unanswered questions about the "informedness" of the average person, and it's not at all clear that the average person was more informed, in any sense, during the height of newspaper dominance than they are today.

Let's also not forget that newspapers were often just as "bad" (in terms of publishing trivial stories or publishing biased stories) as the Huffington Post is today. You just need to look at the history of "yellow journalism" to see it.
I'm not sure it matters what 3taps says or whether they are DMCA compliant. If I host pirated movies on my server and post in big bold letters, "I promise that you can redistribute them. It's totally legal and I'm responsible for any legal actions.", you're probably still getting sued by the MPAA if you redistribute the movies, and they'll probably win.

I'm not saying Craigslist has any legitimate claim over the data, merely that if they do, accessing it via an indirect means probably doesn't change anything legally.