Vote up if you want to see the Arc source so you (ostensibly) can fix it yourself...

We certainly think about it. One reason we keep doing the summers on the East Coast is that the universities are there. The Atlantic Corridor is to founders what the Bay Area is to investors. Another is that I think it's good for our brains. SV is more energetic than Cambridge, but Cambridge is smarter.

Here's a sort of proof of concept for an interesting URL usage; augment by snap-on, versus plugin.

This is a simple little utility that sends browser requests using PHP/cURL, and puts/fetches stuff from a mysql database, meant to provide a substitutional private messaging function for news.yc users who want PM functions.

"Login" with your news.yc account information. It will relay this information to news.yc and check the headers for pass/fail. Your password is discarded after the relay; if the test passes, it saves your username and uses that to post to mysql. The target user with the matching username will be able to check for "messages." You can reply, or delete messages. Messages older than a week are automatically deleted. The login source code is publicly viewable... for now, just in case you want to see when the password variable is discarded (lines 29 and 30). If there are huge problems, do tell.

Also, if you care to use this, the auto-refresh is done using a META refresh every 5 minutes. Type fast and short, I guess.

Again, this is just a rudimentary tool which I hope some people will find useful (and msg me if you want) until pg decides to add PM functions (or demands a takedown) :-)

Use Inkscape[1] and do it yourself. It's amazing what even a newbie can do with it in an hour or two. You can always pay someone to make a slicker version later, which will be much easier if you have something to use as a base.

1. http://www.inkscape.org/

It's still an extra 2 clicks each morning ;)