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13,200 | comment | zkinion | 2007-04-16T04:33:14 | null | Is this a free-411 service for euroland/oceana? Is that why the name is strange/hard to pronounce-to-type? That might be a viable startup. <p>How do I reach your website through my cell phone? Maufait.com? | null | null | 13,059 | 13,059 | null | [
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13,201 | comment | nelsonj | 2007-04-16T04:34:52 | null | Re: your comment about Steve Jobs, I don't think Apple would be the company it is today unless Steve was pushed out. I think he learned a lot in the wilderness and came back a prodigal son with something to prove. As such he was a lot more motivated and had more backing than he would have had if he hadn't left.
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13,202 | comment | zkinion | 2007-04-16T04:35:48 | null | Is this the same group of people that I met at startup school, who were showing their stuff to Mitch Kapor, or a whole other group of people working on the same thing? | null | null | 13,176 | 13,176 | null | null | null | null |
13,203 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T04:38:28 | Unicode and Character Sets | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html | 12 | null | 13,203 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,204 | story | staunch | 2007-04-16T04:39:13 | Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl | null | http://billhails.net/Book/front.html | 8 | null | 13,204 | 2 | [
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13,205 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T04:39:56 | Movable walls | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/04/13.html | 9 | null | 13,205 | 6 | [
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13,206 | comment | abossy | 2007-04-16T04:40:18 | null | If their being lazy fuels your business, and there's enough of them to support your business, then, yes! :)<p>Aren't most successful businesses fueled by laziness? | null | null | 13,186 | 13,149 | null | null | null | null |
13,207 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T04:41:11 | null | this is why I like popping over to JOS every once in a while. Inane detail on things related to startups that you never think you need to read. Of course until you are faced with the problem. | null | null | 13,205 | 13,205 | null | null | null | null |
13,208 | story | staunch | 2007-04-16T04:43:51 | How to Avoid Table Scans in MySQL | null | http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/how-to-avoid-table-scan.html | 2 | null | 13,208 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,209 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T04:45:26 | null | Did anyone mention when someone's cell phone started to ring in the middle of Paul's talk? After 3 or 4 rings he realized that it was his own, in a bag, across the room. | null | null | 12,282 | 12,282 | null | null | null | null |
13,210 | story | brett | 2007-04-16T04:47:23 | How to Have a Business Conversation - Ben Stein | null | http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/29225 | 7 | null | 13,210 | 1 | [
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13,211 | comment | zaidf | 2007-04-16T04:54:33 | null | Sounds a lot like a cliffsnotes of Dale Carnegie's Win Friends & Influence People. | null | null | 13,210 | 13,210 | null | null | null | null |
13,212 | comment | Prrometheus | 2007-04-16T05:02:36 | null | Jacob dxt lyles a t gee male dxt cxn <p>
replace x with o, and n with m<p>Thanks! | null | null | 12,556 | 12,556 | null | null | null | null |
13,213 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-16T05:04:23 | null | Great reasoning. Here's a quote from the Joel discussion board.<p><a href="http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.470472.11">http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.470472.11</a>
"This is from a P.R. pro. Monday is the day that most announcements go out. You still want it to be early in the week but to avoid the crowd, it makes sense to do it on Tuesday."<p>The odd thing is everybody followed this advice it wouldn't work. So the sluggish Monday idea is pretty compelling :) | null | null | 13,164 | 13,134 | null | null | null | null |
13,214 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T05:04:43 | null | Very inspiring Leader. | null | null | 13,179 | 13,179 | null | null | null | null |
13,215 | comment | sylvaincarle | 2007-04-16T05:07:04 | null | yep. check out some coverage at <a href="http://www.afroginthevalley.com">http://www.afroginthevalley.com</a> and <a href="http://www.afroginthevalley.com/fr">http://www.afroginthevalley.com/fr</a> (in french). | null | null | 13,137 | 13,137 | null | null | null | null |
13,216 | comment | Prrometheus | 2007-04-16T05:08:00 | null | How is that different from a normal day? | null | null | 11,285 | 11,285 | null | null | null | null |
13,217 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T05:10:13 | null | I designed an office for Crabel Capital in Milwaukee - a whole floor mainly for the programmers. We started with prefabricated modular movable walls, but they ended up costing 4x + more than framed walls with gyp board. We ended up using framed walls. (The tax advantage couldn't come close to closing that big of a gap.) | null | null | 13,205 | 13,205 | null | [
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13,218 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T05:45:57 | You and Your (Great) Research | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html | 15 | null | 13,218 | 6 | [
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13,219 | story | natrius | 2007-04-16T05:47:10 | Getting acquired by Google isn't always that great | null | http://flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/460987802/ | 19 | null | 13,219 | 8 | [
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13,220 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T06:06:31 | null | <i>"The depleted cash position will likely put a large dent in Google's investment income in 2007."</i><p>I think this may be their big purchase for the year but it won't stop them from spending $5-$50m on a few startups.
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13,221 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T06:10:20 | null | The transcript of the talk is not by pg, but <i>Richard Hamming</i>. [0], [1] I found this particular talk poking through the links on 'Good & Bad Procrastination'. [2] Does anyone have a definitive list of pg articles on the site? It never ceases to amaze how many I find going through the links.<p>Reference<p>[0] Richard Hamming Obit., 'Richard Wesley Hamming, mathematician, pioneer computer scientist, and professor'<p><a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/alumni/hamming/index.html">http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/alumni/hamming/index.html</a><p>[1] Wikipedia, Richard Hamming, 'Hamming code, the Hamming window , Hamming numbers, Sphere-packing, Hamming distance'<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming</a><p>[2] pg, ''Good & Bad Procrastination'<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html</a> | null | null | 13,218 | 13,218 | null | [
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13,222 | comment | vlad | 2007-04-16T06:15:53 | null | It is written using MS Voice Recognition; hence the sarcasm. ;). | null | null | 13,128 | 13,107 | null | null | null | null |
13,223 | comment | pg | 2007-04-16T06:17:29 | null | There's an index at <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ind.html">http://paulgraham.com/ind.html</a> | null | null | 13,221 | 13,218 | null | [
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13,224 | comment | npk | 2007-04-16T06:18:58 | null | This seems to be a follow on to <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13177.">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13177.</a><p>After reading this essay several years ago, I started asking all visiting professors, "What are the important problems in your field?" (I'm a PhD student in Astrophysics.)<p>I realized something. Contrary to the article, most great scientists don't really care what the answer to that question is. Most great scientists love a topic, and through the greatness of their research, make the topic important.<p>The universe is wonderful in that way. You can study something as lowly as a comet, and it can help you understand how the universe began. Scientists who can tie these subjects together are great scientists.<p>To tie this thread into startups. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's implementation that matters. | null | null | 13,218 | 13,218 | null | null | null | null |
13,225 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-16T06:20:01 | null | Actually, it's mostly just other people's content copied to the site without their permission. For instance, the #3 and #4 items on Scribd right now are taken straight from craigslist's best of section. A lot of the other items are from email forwards, but that's a use that I think Scribd is actually good for.<p>With that said, it seems like the whole point of scribd is to be digg fodder in the first place. It's difficult to build a community around text, because any user who gets that serious will probably outgrow Scribd and start their own blog. Youtube succeeded in creating a community because there's no way for most users to go off and create their own video sites. When YouTube first launched, if you wanted to post video online, using YouTube was pretty much your only option. People have plenty of options for text, most of which are more featureful for publishers than Scribd.<p>Without a real community, Scribd is basically just a glorified email forward hosting site for digg users. If you look at the issues all the Myspace-based companies are having, you'll probably agree that Scribd could have a difficult future. If digg decides to let users upload content directly using digg itself, Scribd is dead. | null | null | 13,186 | 13,149 | null | null | null | null |
13,226 | comment | rms | 2007-04-16T06:21:22 | null | So why do you think Google more or less abandoned Dodgeball, especially as competitors like Loopt took off? | null | null | 13,219 | 13,219 | null | [
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13,227 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T06:22:21 | null | Google can frustrate me with a few million dollars any time they want.
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13,228 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T06:23:15 | null | My guess is it just got lost in the noise of Googleplex and these guys weren't able to navigate the bureaucracy well enough to cope.
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13,229 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-16T06:23:54 | null | In a startup, you can't afford to be choosy about which users you want. If you have a lot of users, you run with it. | null | null | 13,183 | 13,149 | null | null | null | null |
13,230 | comment | mattjaynes | 2007-04-16T06:29:09 | null | I briefly tried Dodgeball. Wow, what a buggy mess. I don't know if that is their fault or google's, but I quickly switched to something that would actually work and made sense. Anyone else have a good or bad experience with Dodgeball? | null | null | 13,219 | 13,219 | null | null | null | null |
13,231 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T06:37:48 | null | <i>'... I designed an office for Crabel Capital in Milwaukee - a whole floor mainly for the programmers ... We ended up using framed walls ...'</i><p>Glad someone takes these things into account. Not enough thought goes into developer workspaces apart from the fact that Demarco [0], Spolsky [1] and Graham [2] talk about relationship between superior workspaces and improved product. <p>The evidence is there but as soon as it comes to forking out the dollars there are excuses everywhere why it costs so much.<p>Reference<p>[0] Demarco, Lister, 'Peopleware, Part 2, The Office Environment, 0-932633-43-9'<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439">http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439</a><p>[1] Joel Spolsky, "google search on 'the office'"<p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=joel+spolsky+the+office">http://www.google.com/search?q=joel+spolsky+the+office</a><p>[2] Paul Graham, "Great Hackers, The Final Frontier"<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html">http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html</a> | null | null | 13,217 | 13,205 | null | [
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13,232 | comment | jey | 2007-04-16T06:43:47 | null | What if you were to run under inetd or djb's tcpserver? | null | null | 12,978 | 12,858 | null | null | null | null |
13,233 | comment | natrius | 2007-04-16T06:46:10 | null | I'm sure they got decent paychecks out of it, but I doubt it was "fuck you" money. They're still going to have to start another business or work for someone else in a scenario where making money will still be important. If I was really passionate about an idea and Google bought it just to let it stagnate, I'd be pissed. If someone is going to buy something that I've put my heart into, they're going to have to either pay me enough that I'll never have to worry about money again, or ensure that I'll get to see my vision through. The Dodgeball guys didn't get either of those.<p>For an example of a situation that I'd like to be in, look at Thawte. By selling it, Mark Shuttleworth got enough money that he could do things he was passionate about but might not be profitable in the near future, like paying people to write open source software. For me, it would be investing my time and money in the education of others to make sure more people could reach their full potential.<p>So if someone swindled me out of a business I wanted to see actually change the world in exchange for a couple of million dollars and the expectation that I'd be able to keep developing that business, I'd be pissed. It just puts you in a middle zone where you don't have to worry about money that much, but you still can't do whatever you want. That's lame. | null | null | 13,227 | 13,219 | null | [
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13,234 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T06:47:31 | null | doh, thx. In all the time I've been reading this has alluded me. Should have guessed a compressed title ... [some time later] ... double doh! it's in the menu. | null | null | 13,223 | 13,218 | null | null | null | null |
13,235 | comment | jaggederest | 2007-04-16T06:55:18 | null | Presumably one would be smart enough to pull the ripcord as soon as possible. Don't wait for that 50m valuation, get out at 5m and take home a modest house instead of a yacht and a summer home in the Hamptons. | null | null | 13,108 | 12,670 | null | null | null | null |
13,236 | comment | jey | 2007-04-16T07:02:39 | null | null | null | 13,204 | 13,204 | null | null | null | true |
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13,237 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T07:12:28 | null | Looks to me like they got FU money <i>from</i> Google and then said FU <i>to</i> Google.<p>If they really are so passionate about this grand vision why couldn't they push it through Google? Then they give up and start doing totally different things. Doesn't seem like the dogged determination of visionaries to me.<p>I suspect they realized how little incentive there is for them to bust their asses pushing the product through Google bureaucracy, and that no one was pulling for them, so they quit.
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13,238 | comment | acgourley | 2007-04-16T07:16:52 | null | Dodgeball had an early lead and a decent idea. If they had written an (optional) java interface and really pushed the "no gps, but free" angle, I really think they would have had a strong hand to play. <p>As they are now, they seem to have been stagnant for a long time. When I was trying to enter the space against them I always assumed it was because they had a big play coming down the pipes, but I see now they just failed. <p>I also don't have a lot of sympathy for those guys, those two alone should have been enough to engineer the product they needed. From the outside looking in, it seems like they had more than enough time, and they wasted it being complacent.
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13,239 | story | brett | 2007-04-16T07:19:12 | news.yc leaders' average points per submission | null | 8 | null | 13,239 | 20 | [
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13,240 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T07:19:37 | null | I was curious:<p>
danielha : 3.52<p>danw : 3.24<p>brett : 6.10<p>python_kiss : 4.24<p>mattculbreth : 5.34<p>sharpshoot : 7.06<p>jwecker : 3.88<p>staunch : 4.57<p>amichail : 2.30<p>Harj : 5.74<p>Alex3917 : 11.77<p>joshwa : 4.62<p>far33d : 4.84<p>nostrademons : 7.50<p>jamiequint : 7.26<p>Sam_Odio : 6.06<p>Elfan : 5.00<p>domp : 3.44<p>zaidf : 5.93<p>dfranke : 6.40<p>Readmore : 5.00<p>paul : 15.67<p>blader : 7.56<p>phil : 7.44<p>mattjaynes : 5.72<p>herdrick : 6.24<p>palish : 29.60<p>veritas : 4.08<p>bootload : 2.18<p>BioGeek : 10.06
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13,241 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T07:27:05 | null | the code:<p>require 'rubygems'<p>require 'active_support'<p>require 'net/http'<p>Net::HTTP.start('news.ycombinator.com', 80) do |http|<p> body = http.get('/leaders').body<p> users = body.scan(/user\?id=([^"]+)/)<p> users.each do |user|<p> body = http.get("/submitted?id=#{user}").body<p> points = body.scan(/(\d+) points?
by/).map(&:first).map(&:to_f)<p> puts "%-15s : %6.2f" % [user, points.sum / points.size]<p> end<p>end | null | null | 13,240 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,242 | comment | jey | 2007-04-16T07:31:19 | null | Bug report: deleting a comment from a thread does not decrement that thread's comment count by one. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
13,243 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T07:31:41 | null | I'm really wishing I could figure out how to get <br>s into comments instead of just <p>s. | null | null | 13,241 | 13,239 | null | null | null | null |
13,244 | comment | ecuzzillo | 2007-04-16T07:31:46 | null | He says you can't build a company to sell it, but several of the founders in Founders at Work seemed explicitly or implicitly to be (successfully) building companies to sell them. I'm highly suspicious, particularly since it's coming from a VC to begin with. | null | null | 13,094 | 13,094 | null | null | null | null |
13,245 | comment | jey | 2007-04-16T07:33:10 | null | Isn't this like trying to build a Space Shuttle by using the Hindenburg as the starting point? | null | null | 13,204 | 13,204 | null | [
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13,246 | comment | acgourley | 2007-04-16T07:33:19 | null | I have no problem starting up the editor and going - but then again most of my projects are self-inflicted. | null | null | 12,890 | 12,890 | null | null | null | null |
13,247 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T07:41:33 | null | a good way to put chunks of code in comments. ideally some wrapper notation around the code that does all or some of the following for its contents:<p>-uses a monospaced font<p>-newlines get turned into <br> so that lines show up next to eachother<p>- < and > get html escaped<p>- extra spaces and tabs get turned into &nbsp;s to preserve indentation | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
13,248 | story | staunch | 2007-04-16T08:04:30 | 3 YC Companies That Have Gained Some "Traction" | null | http://snapshot.compete.com/scribd.com+jamglue.com+justin.tv | 7 | null | 13,248 | 4 | [
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13,249 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T08:15:53 | null | Very nice. You can definitely do better than "top karma" in determining who's contributing the highest quantity of quality qontent (the 3 Q's).<p>You forgot PG though, I guess he took himself off there -- he's averaging 8.34 per submission.
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13,250 | comment | staunch | 2007-04-16T08:21:05 | null | It's more like trying to explore an interesting and challenging topic with an extremely powerful and flexible tool. Good guess though.
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13,251 | comment | michelson01 | 2007-04-16T08:37:01 | null | this might have been easier using hpricot, rubyful soup, scrapi, scrupyt, or something like that. | null | null | 13,241 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,252 | comment | brett | 2007-04-16T08:49:42 | null | Yeah. I started with a <i>require 'hpricot'</i> line and then took it out when I realized pg does not put any classes or other identifying attributes in his html. CSS selectors and XPaths with just html elements seem hard to read. "td td u a" does not look so hot to me. Regexs are pretty easy. | null | null | 13,251 | 13,239 | null | null | null | null |
13,253 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T08:49:44 | Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualization | null | http://news.com.com/Ubuntus+feisty+spin+on+virtualization/2100-7344_3-6176175.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | null | 13,253 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,254 | story | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T08:57:23 | Research In Motion use LEGO Machines to Test Blackberry | null | http://www.pcstats.com/newsviewrss.cfm?NewsID=57761 | 3 | null | 13,254 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,255 | comment | schoudha | 2007-04-16T08:59:17 | null | Great point, getting users is the tough part. | null | null | 13,081 | 12,971 | null | null | null | null |
13,256 | comment | gyro_robo | 2007-04-16T09:20:48 | null | Pirates of Silicon Valley - Google Video<p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7941901498664355924">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7941901498664355924</a>
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13,257 | story | danielha | 2007-04-16T09:22:46 | They're done working for Google. What now? | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/career-ladder/theyre-done-working-for-google-what-now-252317.php | 3 | null | 13,257 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,258 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T09:23:42 | null | <p> | null | null | 13,240 | 13,239 | null | null | null | null |
13,259 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-16T10:29:17 | null | You should add in comments as well I think. Remember there are karma points here for discussions, as opposed to Reddit's practice.
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13,260 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-16T10:40:26 | Should you burn the ships? (basically, go 100% startup or take baby steps?) | null | http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/04/16/should-you-burn-the-ships/ | 2 | null | 13,260 | 2 | [
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13,261 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T10:57:05 | null | It looks to me like the submitted page lists at most 50 posts. Here's my script which shows the problem. I've hex-encoded it to get it through the posting system unbuggered.<p>python -c 'print "77676574202d714f202d20687474 703a2f2f6e6577732e79636f6d6269 6e61746f722e636f6d2f6c656164657273 207c0a74722027223e2720275c6e5c6e27207 c0a736564202d6e2027732f 5e757365723f69643d2f2f7027207c0a7 8617267732 02d726920776765 74202d714f202d20276874747 03a2f2f6e6577732e79636f6d62696e6 1746f722e636f6d2f 7375626d6 9747465643f69643d7b7d27 207c0a747220273e2720275c6e27207c0a736 564202d6e2027732f5e5c285b302d395d5b302d 395d2a5c2920706f696e74732 a206279202e2a3d 5c282e2a5c 292e242f5c32205c312f7 027207c0a61776b20277b635b243 15d2b2b3b20735b24315d 202b3d20243 27d0a20202020454e4420 7b666f7220286e20 696e206329 207072696e74 662022252d32 307320253564202 535642025372e32665c6e22 2c206e2c20635b6e 5d2c20735 b6e5d2c20735b6e5d2 02f20635b6e5d7d27207c0 a736f7274202 b336e720a".replace(" ", "").decode("hex"),'<p>Cheers, Ralph. | null | null | 13,241 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,262 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T10:58:18 | null | And the same code as hex-encoded above but with various missing characters, etc., introduced by the posting system.<p>wget -qO - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders">http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders</a> |<p>tr '"' '\n\n' |<p>sed -n 's/^user?id=//p' |<p>xargs -ri wget -qO - '<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id={}'">http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id={}'</a> |<p>tr '' '\n' |<p>sed -n 's/^\([0-9][0-9]<i>\) points</i> by .<i>=\(.</i>\).$/\2 \1/p' |<p>awk '{c[$1]++; s[$1] += $2}
END {for (n in c) printf "%-20s %5d %5d %7.2f\n", n, c[n], s[n], s[n] / c[n]}' |<p>sort +3nr<p>Cheers, Ralph. | null | null | 13,261 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,263 | comment | yaacovtp | 2007-04-16T11:24:13 | null | And what happens to the rankings when you filter out the top 10 domains being submitted? | null | null | 13,239 | 13,239 | null | null | null | null |
13,264 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T11:43:10 | Relative value of open source to open services | null | http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/15/the-relative-value-of-open-source-to-open-services/ | 3 | null | 13,264 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,265 | comment | wayne01 | 2007-04-16T12:01:42 | null | I somehow don't think that Microsoft are simply going to go away. When 95% of the worlds people use a Microsoft OS including big business with great application support and the ability to buy cheap hardware (which Apple cannot replicate) Microsoft will be dominant. And now they have a fairly decent OS which is comparable to OSX, it just isn't compelling enough to switch any more. At least for the people I know.... | null | null | 9,770 | 9,770 | null | null | null | null |
13,266 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T12:04:31 | null | Hmm. It seems some <i>italic</i> text slipped in there. What other mark-up <i></i>works<i></i>? _Software Tools_ is an excellent book. The /leaning/ /tower/ of /Pisa/. Disappearing: lt= amp=& star=<i> (becomes italic)</i> question=? hash=#. Recognised: [email protected] <a href="http://google.com/">http://google.com/</a> Breaking lines: abc\
def\
ghi.
Nope, how about abc\c
def\c
ghi.
abc \
def \
ghi? | null | null | 13,262 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,267 | comment | danw | 2007-04-16T12:04:52 | null | null | null | 13,239 | 13,239 | null | null | null | true |
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13,268 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T12:07:49 | null | bug. second last char "," should be removed for it to work | null | null | 13,261 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,269 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T12:09:55 | null | defiantly there needs to be some sort of markup. pasting code (especially python) ~ see guido there is an instance where python and whitespace fails. | null | null | 13,266 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,270 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T12:11:15 | null | If you mean the trailing comma to the print statement, that's intended and required to stop an extra ASCII LF in addition to the hex-encoded one being printed.<p>I did python -c '...' | cmp - orig to test it.<p>Cheers, Ralph. | null | null | 13,268 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,271 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T12:16:07 | null | Documentation on the mark-up allowed, e.g. <i>italic</i>, some way to post normal ASCII characters for code snippets, which in turn require line breaks.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13261">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13261</a> | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | [
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13,272 | comment | ntoshev | 2007-04-16T12:19:01 | null | They are copying Netflix with this approach. However it makes much more sense for Netflix: prize is $1m, they are an established company, and recommendation system is important but not the core of what they do.<p>I will go ahead and download the corpus though - the problem is interesting and you can't easily find datasets like this.<p>Edit: Anyone care to post it as a torrent? I think posting a link here and in Reddit will be enough to get a good download speed. I wish someone posted a torrent for the Google N-grams corpus as well... | null | null | 13,127 | 13,077 | null | null | null | null |
13,273 | comment | ralph | 2007-04-16T12:23:08 | null | The HTML header's title should have more page context in it so the browser's Back menu isn't a list of identical titles making selection difficult.<p>Cheers, Ralph. | null | null | 363 | 363 | null | null | null | null |
13,274 | comment | danw | 2007-04-16T12:24:44 | null | <i>spock is worthless without other users on spock</i><p>From what I understand it crawls the internet to find people rather than getting people to submit information. This way it's useful even without other users on spock. | null | null | 13,198 | 13,077 | null | null | null | null |
13,275 | comment | Harj | 2007-04-16T12:25:02 | null | essentially yes. | null | null | 13,168 | 13,125 | null | null | null | null |
13,276 | story | danw | 2007-04-16T12:36:55 | DodgeBall founder quits Google | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/04/15/dodgeball-founder-quits-google/ | 2 | null | 13,276 | 0 | null | null | null |
13,277 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T12:37:32 | null | Hey Ralph. I tried it in a console just pasting the thing in. I'll try it again. ... cut + paste <p>... <p>Oh sorry. My fault cutting & pasting into idle :( but I did get a warning on sort <i>sort: Warning: "+number" syntax is deprecated, please use "-k number"</i><p>... <p>Cool, worked. The titles are "user", "# of posts", "karma" & "karma/# of posts" ? | null | null | 13,270 | 13,239 | null | [
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13,278 | story | chwolfe | 2007-04-16T12:40:19 | Bill Hewlett & Dave Packard (HP) - Early Years | null | http://www.hp.com/retiree/history/founders/bdinterview.html | 1 | null | 13,278 | 1 | [
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13,279 | comment | chwolfe | 2007-04-16T12:41:47 | null | We all start somewhere: "The first products weren't very romantic, I'll tell you. There was a shocking machine to enable you to lose weight; a clock drive for a telescope and a magic eye to turn on a urinal at Stanford." | null | null | 13,278 | 13,278 | null | null | null | null |
13,280 | story | mattculbreth | 2007-04-16T12:44:49 | "Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp" | null | http://secretgeek.net/lisp_truth.asp | 16 | null | 13,280 | 12 | [
13345,
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13,281 | story | bootload | 2007-04-16T12:49:04 | Capital Into Code | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000074.html | 5 | null | 13,281 | 4 | [
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13,282 | comment | whacked_new | 2007-04-16T12:53:53 | null | in a nutshell: cortez story of burning his ships is false; they were destroyed but not burned. sun tzu advises a "burn ship" strategy only in desperation. king leonidas and his army took on the great persian army to defend greek cities. bottom line, "burn ship" is for older, more experienced people, and youngsters should not be encouraged to do it.<p>very well. but when you are an experienced sage, you have probably built yourself a battleship. for one, it's fireproof. for two, it carries cannons and cruise missiles. for foot soldiers, it still makes sense. | null | null | 13,260 | 13,260 | null | null | null | null |
13,283 | comment | JohnN | 2007-04-16T12:58:02 | null | Good post, only makes me think that the UK (my homeland) has a long way to go :(
| null | null | 13,125 | 13,125 | null | null | null | null |
13,284 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T13:02:49 | null | I often think about the idea behind this article, "build a better mouse-trap", then compete with "37 others offering exactly the same service for free" OR use capital to hire smart hackers and build superior products.<p>This also relates to the Ben & Jerry OR Amazon model [0] because if you hire smart hackers you can grow organically [1] creating good products faster? Or so the article assumes.<p>This article was written in 2000. Does it still hold true? Can you make money using the Ben & Jerry model through hiring smart hackers? using the web based model? Not all companies are going to be bought out and selling desktop software is no longer as desirable as when this article was written.<p>Reference<p>[0] Joel Spolsky, 'Strategy Letter I, Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon, May 12, 2000'<p><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html</a><p>[1] That is don't sell out and create a company using profit from sales instead of looking for a flip. | null | null | 13,281 | 13,281 | null | null | null | null |
13,285 | story | stevendavis0830 | 2007-04-16T13:03:32 | April 2007 Traffic Stats for Web 2.0's 25 Hottest Sites | null | http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/top25-web2.html | 1 | null | 13,285 | -1 | null | null | true |
13,286 | story | sdavis0830 | 2007-04-16T13:22:01 | April 2007 Traffic Stats for Web 2.0's 25 Hottest Sites | null | http://www.ebusinessmba.com/articles/top25-web2.html | 7 | null | 13,286 | 1 | [
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] | null | true |
13,287 | comment | Tichy | 2007-04-16T13:40:38 | null | I don't get the REST thing, does anybody have a better introduction to it? I can see how in principle it would be nice to be stateless, but how does one manage to create a complex web application like that?
| null | null | 13,170 | 13,170 | null | null | null | null |
13,288 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T13:55:43 | null | (The office was finished early this year)<p>Here are some of the ideas I was working with specifically for making developer work spaces (This space is for a very fast growing but financially mature business - not a cash-strapped startup. My primary advice for a startup office space: buy DOORS for desks!. You can get doors at home depot for desks - hollow core nice wood without the door handles drilled out for just over $10 apiece. Put the doors on top of file cabinets, and voila, you have a nice looking desk at very low cost that can last for years if you like.):<p>From the hackers perspective:<p>+Each space had to have natural light and views, but be closable for privacy. The point here is to allow for staring into the distance when the subconscious is cranking on an idea, allow the space to be closed during moments of extreme focus, and to have the doors be a sign to others which mode the person is in at the time.<p>+Each space had to allow for a small conference of 2-3 people for easy and impromptu discussions.<p>+Each space had to have a lot of attention to detail and materials to make the spaces feel personal.<p>+There had to be a space for larger meeting outside of the formal business conference room. I turned the lunch-room into one of the key design spaces and put whiteboards all along one wall with data ports for easy discussions and to make having lunch more fun. (The company provides free lunch every day)<p>+The developer area had to be acoustically protected from the back office area, the customer relations area and the accounting area to avoid concentration disruptions.<p>+The space was in a classic old building with exposed wood beams and ceilings, so we used a raised floor system (with no sign to the user that it's raised) to have all the heating/cooling provided from the floor and allow for easy addition and movement of data and power ports.<p>+The server room was treated as a "jewel" with wall to wall glass for people (especially hackers) to appreciate the racks of technology at their fingertips. (Also, the servers had multiple power back up systems including generators, a fire suppression system that would not damage the equipment in case it was used, and its own cooling system to run at ideal temperatures with a lot of extra rack space to allow for easy growth.)<p>From Management's Perspective:<p>+The space had to be flexible to allow for reconfiguration and potentially moving out to another space in the future.<p> | null | null | 13,231 | 13,205 | null | [
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13,289 | story | dottertrotter | 2007-04-16T13:58:28 | Is there a list of the programming languages and environments YC acceptees have used on their applications? | null | 5 | null | 13,289 | 16 | [
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13,290 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T14:03:32 | null | Here are some discussions:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10748">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10748</a>
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10875">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10875</a>
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12619">http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=12619</a>
| null | null | 13,289 | 13,289 | null | [
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13,291 | comment | dottertrotter | 2007-04-16T14:04:47 | null | thanks | null | null | 13,290 | 13,289 | null | null | null | null |
13,292 | comment | Goladus | 2007-04-16T14:08:20 | null | I wonder if the author knows he didn't write reddit. | null | null | 13,280 | 13,280 | null | [
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13,293 | comment | bootload | 2007-04-16T14:14:03 | null | very cool ideas here ~ must take some time to think about them.<p>'<i>buy DOORS for desks</i>'<p>the old cheapscate amazon office ~ <a href="http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desks.html">http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/01/early-amazon-door-desks.html</a> | null | null | 13,288 | 13,205 | null | [
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13,294 | comment | mattculbreth | 2007-04-16T14:15:30 | null | He does, yes. The comments are good in this thing too, pretty funny.
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13,295 | comment | nobody | 2007-04-16T14:25:40 | null | Who needs monetization? In this day and age, eyeballs are everything. | null | null | 13,005 | 12,876 | null | [
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] | null | null |
13,296 | story | blader | 2007-04-16T14:26:51 | Polarize Me - If you want people to like you, first decide who needs to hate you | null | http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/114/column-made-to-stick.html | 15 | null | 13,296 | 10 | [
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13,297 | comment | blader | 2007-04-16T14:27:08 | null | "Why do these headlines suck so much? Fear. Fear of saying too much. Fear of saying something clever that someone might think is stupid. Fear of saying something revealing that might turn someone off. The headlines try desperately not to exclude anyone. In doing so, they succeed at boring everyone."<p>Reminds me of Kathy Sierra. | null | null | 13,296 | 13,296 | null | [
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13,298 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2007-04-16T14:27:15 | null | Nice link :) I guess my "door desk" is one step above Amazon as the filing cabinets look better (I use black ones that just happen to be exactly desk height) and don't cause injury on leg impact. They do cost more depending on how nice your file cabinets are. The alternative to filing cabinets are bolt on adjustable metal legs designed to hold doors - they cost about $15 apiece and look pretty good. <a href="http://www.closet-masters.com/Table_legs/Camar/slim_legs.asp">http://www.closet-masters.com/Table_legs/Camar/slim_legs.asp</a><p>Another great door holder (maybe the best) is a bookshelf from office depot: <a href="http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=718201&Nr=200000&N=201641&An=browse">http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=718201&Nr=200000&N=201641&An=browse</a><p>A good option: filing cabinet or shelves one side, legs the other.<p>I actually got the idea in 1989 when I was working for Paul Rudolph Architect in NYC. He was doing major high-rises all over SE Asia at the time and billing at $360+ per hour (staff of 7) but still worked on his door. He had designed a simple steel support structure that tilted the door for better drafting - analog drafting believe it or not. That was 1 year before I went from pencil drafting to Cad. | null | null | 13,293 | 13,205 | null | null | null | null |
13,299 | story | wensing | 2007-04-16T14:29:36 | (10 unread) Yahoo! Mail Beta, matthew.wensing | null | http://us.f398.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=5eeaddudoeu6t | 1 | null | 13,299 | 0 | null | null | null |
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