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Show HN: DataTau (HN clone for data science) has been down, so we cloned it
- inputcoffee 7y agoIt went down a few times before and I reached out asking if he wanted help too. He did respond fairly promptly (< 2 days) and told me he was fine and about to get it back up. This happens every so often so I am glad you’re doing this. Are the articles the same as he had? Did you get a snapshot before it went down?
- thegurus 7y agoYes, the main goal of this new edition is a 24/7 up site with the same content :) We have in mind posting some old content since it can be recovered.
- thegurus 7y agoHi guys, DataTau has been down for more than a month. We tried to contact Rohit on Twitter and offered him our help to maintain or host the site, but got no answer, so we understood the project is over and decided to make 'a clone of the clone' on a .net domain. We have been working on setting up a new version of the site with the same philosophy and Django based. We are not Web devs and although HN frontend looks simple, it has more features than we though. It is still missing some HN features (as original DataTau) but we are working hard to make the site better and bring the community back. Please give it a try and report any bug you encounter.
- pedro_munoz 7y agoWow guys! Really missed DT! Thanks a lot :D
- xyzzy_plugh 7y agoI got real confused for a second as the top bar color is the same as my HN logged-in color. Good choice!
- quickthrower2 7y agoMedium-well Cyan FTW. And they use a HTML table for that bar. How unsemantic.
- thegurus 7y agoYes, it is very unsemantic. The front is made of tables of tables of tables with lots of deprecated tags and most of the styling is made in the html file instead of a stylesheet :-D. We copied the original HN/DataTau frontend with little changes. In the future, we would like to improve it, keeping the HN simple / old fashioned front
- bitlax 7y agoAny chance you'll expose an API?
- thegurus 7y agoWe are working on it. Wanted to launch asap to give the community a sense of continuity since the original DataTau has been down for too much time (since May 15), so had to give up some features for this early version. We have to: - fix bugs - improve backend, algorithm to assign karma and sorting posts in frontpage - implement a newsletter with best posts - make an API - opensource the code when it is a bit more polished
- bitlax 7y agoThanks. Looking forward to it.
- NicoJuicy 7y agoCan I help out with handlr.sapico.me ? It has a RSS-feed to item ( which is a link/post/comment for automation
- joelgrus 7y agoI appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.
- joshenglish 7y agohonestly though looks like Rohit has been MIA for a little since there are a lack of tweets on his personal account since May, etc. Hope he is ok.
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- stephenr 7y agoI’m curious why you wouldn’t just setup a copy of the Lobste.rs system if you want threaded discussions about posted links.
- thegurus 7y agoDo you mean the frontend? In this case we choose to make a copy of HN because we really LOVE its retro frontend :)
- stephenr 7y agoNo. I mean, lobste.rs is a complete working open source system that provides link sharing and discussion of said links, and is objectively better than HN’s functionality. Why didn’t you just install a copy of it?
- thegurus 7y agoWow, to be honest we had no idea that it even existed. Thank you for the info, I imagine the idea was cloning: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters and setting up with DataTau domain and custom .css to make it feel like HN
- DoreenMichele 7y agoCould you explain why you believe Lobsters is objectively better than HN's functionality?
- stephenr 7y agoDownvotes require a reason; admin edits are logged for transparency; tagging; just to name a few off the top of my head.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm really not trying to derail the discussion. But this isn't a very compelling argument. Does anyone know of a good write up comparing the two?
- zamadatix 7y agoWhat is DS? Edit: based on one of the posts I assume data sciences
- dcanones 7y agoData Science (yeah we had to shorten the title and made it a bit confusing)
- lostgame 7y agoHonestly due to lack of knowledge of the field or term my mind immediately actually jumped to supporting HN on the ancient Opera-based Nintendo DS browser - which, due to HN's text-only base - I figured was realistic. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't. :P
- abatilo 7y agoWebsite is broken. I clicked register without putting anything into the fields, and I got a registered account with no user name and password. Now if you click login without anything put in, you get logged in to my account, and if I comment, the username is blank.
- thegurus 7y agoThank you for discovering this bug! We are (hot)fixing it. Had to delete your user though, please sign up again (with a normal username if possible :-D).
- underlines 7y agoDefine normal :) i now own the user " " with the password " " you might add trimming special characters and whitespace.
- thegurus 7y agohahaha you're right! we've just setup the ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+$ regex for both username and password. Thanks for the pen-testing
- tomsmeding 7y agoDo you really want that regex for passwords also? Am I not allowed to put interesting characters in my password?
- bonyt 7y agoNot sure this is ideal either, it rejected the first password my password manager generated. Password should probably just be anything other than all whitespace, no? Maybe a length requirement.
- thegurus 7y agoSorry guys, do you like ^[A-Za-z0-9@#$%^&+=]+$ for your passwords?
- nonbirithm 7y agoReminds me of [0], a forum for the Arc language (which HN is written in). [0] http://arclanguage.org/forum http://arclanguage.org/forum
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- krapp 7y agoAlso the public fork, Anarki[0], which I contribute to, and sometimes break. [0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- Uehreka 7y agoWhat is DS? Distributed systems? Data Science? That doesn’t feel like a commonly used acronym for either.
- thegurus 7y agoIt is Data Science! You are not the only one asking :-D
- xxdesmus 7y agoPlease open source the code? Would love to run my own site (for a different purpose).
- thegurus 7y agoAfter we resolve all bugs we want to opensource it. If you give us your email we'll let you know when it is available. Here is our GitHub page: https://github.com/TheGurus https://github.com/TheGurus
- xxdesmus 7y agojustin {at} cloudflaredotcom Thanks! p.s. I thought it was lobsters, but it doesn't appear to be ...hence I asked. :)
- somebodythere 7y agoConsider https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters?
- Jaepa 7y agoThis seems to be what is being used.
- quickthrower2 7y agohttps://github.com/laarc/laarc https://github.com/laarc/laarc
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- samsk 7y agoPlease add RSS on your todo list ;-)
- mashruravi 7y agoDone. https://datatau.net/feed/ https://datatau.net/feed/
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