skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there were it would mean the end of codepad.org. Think of the security implications of allowing anyone to run PHP on their server.
Keeping a 20,000 Foot View One Day at a Time
Not a big surprise. 12 AWG cable would probably suffice.

I guess some of Monster Cable's success can be credited to information asymmetry. Read their marketing materials and be afraid that you won't get the most out of your $2000 home AV system without their cables.
Producing
Google Android SDK Security Holes
Next time you apply for a job you can try to negotiate yourself a 4 day work week. Ask if they're willing to give you a day off in exchange for a 20% pay cut.
I want to vote this up twice. Fortune has had some great articles lately, and this is definitely one of them.
Awesome. Future suggestion (for python), add in some external modules like scipy. Then it would be possible to send examples of some of the more obscure modules. Really nice app.
Forget Amarok, mocp beats them all hands down.
This happens a lot when you're a corporate schmuck.
I've been wanting to work 4 day weeks since I got my first desk job. I don't understand why a 4 day workweek is not more popular. I also don't understand why more professionals don't work a 4 day block during the weekend.

How much more business can you get when your clients have time off on the weekend to visit you for taxes, lawyering, medical checkups, dentistry, or banking or more important for the DMV or court? Why do they insist I take off a work day or speed through congested traffic to make it to their office by 5? Why does everyone love to wait 5 days just so they can cram together at the mall or in the same restaurant?

Why go through the congested highways because EVERYONE is working at the same time?

Why? Why why why why?

Join in on my revolution my brothers.
Maybe it's just me, but perhaps a better article would be "Optimize a fresh ubuntu user"....

Something along the lines of:
=Scenario! You don't know how to do X=
1. Don't panic
2. Google
3. Google
4. Google
5. Ask a friend
6. Panic
Got your voting rights back?
In other news, Fords and BMWs are both said to get from A to B on time.
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
Ask YC: Should I quit programming to pursue the arts?
I'm currently a student in Boston who is about to graduate from a business school, however i'm a self-taught programmer. I've taken a job as a developer for a start-up in Waltham after college, and it's a really good gig, but i don't think i'm going to be happy in the long run and here's why:

Last week i was at the Blue Man Group show, and a thought came to me that these guys on stage were probably making about as much as I will once I graduate, but (to me) they're having so much fun doing it (throwing paint around, making people laugh, and whatnot). Then it occurred to me that since i've been going to business school and programming, i've practically lost all touch with my artistic side (I used to paint, draw, act, etc..) and that I really regret it.

I've come to the conclusion that i don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a computer and what will make really happy will be to pursue my passion in arts and entertainment. However i don't want to give up my bread and butter (programming) because I consider myself to be decent at it and it will pay the rent.

Is there some way I can have my cake and eat it too? And if i do, how do i break the news to my parents? (they are super conservative and expected me to become a doctor, lawyer, or something along those veins).

PG how did you manage to fit it all in your life without losing grasp of either one?
Why are you looking for a reason? Something must be making you uncomfortable if you're actively looking for a reason to jump ship. Chances are you shouldn't switch. Ruby is a good enough Python, and Python is a good enough Ruby.

Unless there's something specific you dislike or have a strategic reason to switch you should stick to what you know best (either Ruby=>Python or Python=>Ruby).
Netflix UI director on anti-patterns in design.
Stealing from Arc: [+ _ 1] in Common Lisp
I'm new to Lisp, so naturally thought that readtable hacking would be fun. ;-) Here's the result of porting Arc's anonymous function syntax to CL.
Obama ['s campaign] is a 37signals user? I think he might be the coolest politician ever.
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out
Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing
The title makes it sound like a joke but this is pretty interesting stuff. I think I understand what they're doing but now well enough to explain it in simple words here.
Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit
Singularity: Microsoft's research OS available for download
The two problems with html table designs are loss of accessibility and semantics. CSS tables do indeed combat both of these by separating content from presentation.

The part that you're sore over is just the name. I agree, as it goes, but that doesn't mean CSS tables are obscuring intent.
Thermodynamic limitations to nuclear energy deployment as a greenhouse gas mitigation technology
Learning to Live Like an Early Bird
"Steve Jobs running the company from jail would be better for the stock price than Steve Jobs not being CEO,"

Couldn't have said it better myself.
this was at zero and I would up it to one
I like CSS Mastery:

http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Mastery-Advanced-Standards-Solutio...

It does a great job of calling out CSS bugs in specific browser versions and describes how to work around them.
While people raised in the US are being told they can have it all, if they work hard enough, reality isn't so. Social mobility in the US is lower than in most European countries. The correlation between your income and that of your parents is greater in the US than in Europe. Even the Economist, the free-market crusader, admits this. And that's of course a fairly predictable outcome of the US approach to education and health care.
I've bought several CSS books over the years but the only reference I use consistently is the actual CSS specification from the World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Also, it's free and you can keep a copy of the PDF on your computer and search it when you need something specific. It's more conversational and has more illustrations than most internet spec documents. However it doesn't tell you what parts of CSS aren't implemented correctly by specific browsers or give thorough examples.

The W3C HTML and HTTP documents are really good too:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
search for posts! give us search!
Take a look at this link:
http://www.vaporbase.com/var/uploads/File/rails-vs-django.pd...

Its a detailed comparison between the 2 frameworks.
I didn't realize they have a Student and Startup edition. I guess good things happen when you're nice to your customers (you get free advertising).
Oh the irony, it's pretty late at night (depending on which time zone arjunlall is in). But I'd presume most people on News.YC have a late-night schedule. Why should we "learn to live like an early bird" anyway?
i understand the problem, but shouldn't the incentive be a service users _want_ to use and share with their friends?
I just read some of your past blog posts and I'd be interested to read anything new you will write.
CSS Janus converts between right to left and left to right pages
Only if we end up so successful that we're one day able to build a tool to go back in time. Er, I mean... yes. :)

In all seriousness, though - the original RescueTime coming soon page was put up a little less than a year ago. It did land on TechCrunch, which is where you might have seen it so long ago.
What, in concrete terms, do you mean by "pursuing the arts"?
Bob,

I understand your conundrum. I was in the very same position. I would suggest doing your own startup. Also, on the same topic, I would like to discuss with you the potential for a possible partnership between you and I on a venture. brent.griffith AT gmail [.] com if you're interested. Let's see if our skills are complementary.
Too many choices everywhere. In my mind, flexibility increases complexity and decreases performance. (from an easy to program POV) Pylons is no exception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin

Reduced melatonin production has been proposed as a likely factor in the significantly higher cancer rates in night workers,[26] and the effect of modern lighting practice on endogenous melatonin has been proposed as a contributory factor to the larger overall incidence of some cancers in the developed world.[27] As inadequate as blood concentrations may be in brightly lit environments, some scientists now believe that a person's overnight output of melatonin can be further jeopardized each time he or she interrupts his or her sleep and turns on a bright light (suggesting that using a less-bright nightlight would be safer). Others suggest that such short exposures do no harm.[28]

And yes, this comment was posted at 1:46AM.
I used to hang around the Python community in the past, the chat rooms read the mailing list, always check the website for updates.

And here is what I think went wrong:

1. White Space, syntax does matter and so many people where turned off just by the syntax choice of white space, its just annoying

2. Zope, this framework always had a popularity of being too complex, Zope 3 was a rewrite to fix the problem with Zope 2, Guido worked for Zope for a while, I thnk he left, if start looking at Zope and see it was rewritten from scratch, you become warry, Zope till today have the reputation by being too complex and forcing you to learn new zope specific languages

3. Twisted Matrix, it also had a reputation of being too complex and it didnt serve a common need anyway, what the heck is event driven networking anyway! And their community, sooooooo exclusive

4. The community, a lot more interesting ppl use Perl and Ruby, do you know of any cool blog by a pythoneer? do you know any cool pythoneer? even Matz is cooler than Guido, and Matz isnt even cool! Open source project need people considered to be cool in their community, Dan Short was the only cool Python I remember, he disapeared I dont know what happened to him

Zed Shaw also occasionaly drop a good word for Python but trust me, if he digs deeper into Python, he will backlash.
Do what the committees and bloggers tell you to, you must obey!

Does restricting yourself to using tables just for tabular data make html coding easier, faster, or more readable? No, it doesn't.
Oracle Introduces PowerBrowser [1996]
Gary Gygax, 1938-2008
There is a good way to do accessibility - the same way you make a mobile version of your site. Make a second version optimized for the domain.

You think that not using tables will just automatically give you loads of accessibility? It won't.
When submitting a form (like editing a post), my reflex is to hit tab and then enter, since this exits the textarea and then immediately submits. However, where the help link is now, this causes me to be sent to the Help page each time. This is a minor thing, but I think Hacker News should model usability and move the help link to after the submit button (or set the tab index on the submit button).
Yeah, my bad. I mixed up comments. Or maybe I mixed up visas. Which is about the easiest thing in the world.
your comment was at zero, so i upvoted it to 1.

lol
It's just as easy to be passionate and challenged working 32 - 40 hours a week as it is working 80 hours a week. The difference being one schedule will be maintainable and balanced, while the other will lead to inevitable burnout. Burnout hurts. A lot.
What Are the Lessons of the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Battle?
Binary 'deathstar' has Earth in its sights
What i mean is to get back on the stage and pursue acting, or start painting seriously and try and get my work in a gallery. In the end, I enjoy entertaining people and creating things (which is why I got into programming in the first place).

My main concern is my loss creativity over the past couple of years due to my career path - and somehow i'm looking for a way to regain that and make it my primary passion in life.
That is an interesting idea.

I will probably try this with my site and make it based on points earned today or this week.
I wrote a lot about it in a blog post this summer.

http://thingsilearned.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/zope3plone-to...

Its a great CMS with a lot of awesome features. Its just incredibly difficult to pick up and work with, especially in its current state.
If you are determined enough you shouldn't let other people's opinions stop you from doing what you enjoy. This includes your parent's opinions.

I recommend doing something you love even if you make just enough to keep you from starving instead of doing something you hate just because it pays well. But make sure you really love it first. Chances are you'll enjoy it less than you imagine (but maybe still enjoy it enough to justify leaving your job).

The guys on the stage look like they're having a lot of fun, but maybe they only do so because it's their job to look like they're having fun. After a while a job is a job and it can start to suck simply because you HAVE to do it.

Maybe you can try out your artistic side in your spare time for a while and see how you really feel about it.
Great writing skills, Electro, and of course you've got it exactly right.

As an American who has lived in Europe for well over a decade, it shocks me now to see how sacred the word Capitalism is to Americans. To say anything negative about it, or anything positive about Socialism, is blasphemy and apostasy. I know there's a rich history behind why this is, but it still surprises me -- no shocks me -- that otherwise intelligent individuals will lose their minds over such issues, much like religious fanatics. This article above is a good example, and reads like a fundamentalist tract. Unfortunately, I feel America has become a failed experiment of what happens when Capitalism is not tempered enough.
Interesting article. I went on a real animal intelligence kick a few years ago when I read Eugene Linden's The Octopus and the Orangutan. The books full of fascinating stories of animal emotion, intelligence, and tool use. (My personal favorite was the Orangutan who learned how to pick the lock on his cage and kept the improvised pick he used secreted behind his bottom lip, thus allowing him to escape several times before handlers got wise to what he was doing.)

On a separate note, Wikipedia may have its flaws, but it certainly excels at giving accessible, digested information on pretty much every conceivable topic. This is a perfect example of that: a complex topic adequately summed up in a few digital pages.
Not a total departure from how some people have used many other sites. Eg, the more friends you have on myspace, the better you can advertise your band; the more popular your youtube video, the better you can use it to promote something; same goes for blogs.

Of course, the way it's being used here works off of a skill that nearly all of his users are known to have, unlike the youtube example.
I've never worked more than four days a week for any employer other than myself (usually three, with four and five day weeks popping up occasionally during big projects). I've always made less money because of it, of course, but from my very first real job, I've always been officially a "part time" employee. All of them occasionally asked if I wanted to go full-time...and I always refused, though sometimes the offers were quite attractive.

I've missed a couple of jobs because of this insistence of mine of not working five day weeks, but I don't think any of them would have been a particularly good fit for me, anyway, so no big loss. If the employer isn't a really good one, other employees could be bothered by one person only working three days a week, though, so I can understand employers being hesitant to hire someone with that requirement. And, when I begin hiring, I suppose I'll have to think about these kinds of issues more seriously.
honestly- having to disclose cancer? WTF! - isn't that personal?
How To Name Your Company
"Burnout hurts. A lot."

I think this is worth repeating every few days until it is thoroughly internalized. I burn out every once in a while...and when it happens, my productivity is shot...sometimes for weeks. I have to be careful to keep exercising every day, spend a reasonable amount of time watching movies or playing music or games and interacting with other people, or a weird sort of do-nothing depression kicks in. I don't even realize it while I'm working, until it's too late. I can even be enjoying what I'm doing, and having some satisfaction about results, but if I overdo it, something clicks and the next time I run into anything slightly frustrating/boring/repetitive it's all over and the burnout kicks in.
I think the article about the young male elephants that went on a killing spree, brutally ripping apart entire hurds, their own family, siblings, infants, in an uncontrollable rage is relevant here. Link anyone? Of course this example further shows that they are indeed quite similar to us in basic psychology.
Software for Happiness (part 2)
Yesterday, I'd posted here a question (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128714) about what software makes you happy. The number and breadth of comments do seem to have a pattern in them. I want to explore this further, and so have created a form which you could fill out.

Your feedback will be appreciated (and conclusions shared at news.yc, of course). Thanks!
Codepad have syntax highligthing. At least for ruby http://codepad.org/i30lM3MM
From the article: The population of the United States is almost entirely car-dependent, and relies on markets that control oil import, refining, and distribution. They also rely on continuous public investment in road construction and repair. The cars themselves require a steady stream of imported parts, and are not designed to last very long. When these intricately interconnected systems stop functioning, much of the population will find itself stranded.

I've seen this sentiment before, referenced indirectly from this forum:

Potholes may well be the singular measure of the calamity we are in or about to face. -- http://www.kunstler.com/Grunt_SouthAfrica.html
The number and breadth of comments here not just speak about how much software affects us emotionally; but also of the diversity of this community as a whole. Most interestingly, they do seem to have a pattern in them. I want to explore this further, and so have created a form which you could fill out.
Go here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pSljT7jP3pc-ef3p...

Your feedback will be appreciated (and conclusions shared at news.yc, of course). Thanks!
Great article!

One of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes: "You've baked a lovely cake, but you've used dog-shit for the icing."
A Hacker Manifesto (by McKenzie Wark)
I stumbled upon this fascinating little read in my school's library earlier this evening and I had to pass it along.It's like Wark jumped in my head and made sense of all the incomplete and cloudy ideas. More than a manifesto, this is gospel!

It feels like I'm reading something I will write a few years from now.

I'll end up finishing it up tomorrow and I'll share more of my thoughts.

I was going to wait until morning (EST) to submit this (so more people see it), but I couldn't wait.
A violinist I know once gave me the following advice: "If you love music, find yourself a job which doesn't involve playing music. If you become a professional musician, you'll find that you have to take every gig which comes along, just to make ends meet; you'll find yourself saying 'dear god, not Beethoven's fifth symphony AGAIN'; and ultimately you'll end up not loving music any more."

I figure that doing a startup is an ideal solution: It "solves the money problem" (as PG puts it), after which point you'll have the liberty to engage in the arts -- without ever being in the position where it becomes a job which you're forced into doing every day because otherwise you'll starve.
Anyway you should do things you like to do. And don't be afraid of making a mistake.
"... What is your role going to be now that you’ve hired a chief operating officer with wide-sweeping responsibilities? ..."

An employment anti-pattern. Does Sheryl code? Is she under 30? [0]

[0] http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ycombinator-StartupSchool Mark ~ 2007 ~ Zuckerberg talk.
From the article: Most people are surprised to learn that they're drinking glorified tap water, but bottlers aren't required to list the source on the label.

Coca-Cola trid launching Dasani in the UK but it failed mostly because newspapers likened it to an episode in a British comedy ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3809539.stm ).
You should definitely pursue what you love most, but by being practical you can avoid a lot of the obstacles that are bound to pop up when you take up this pursuit. I think you should stick with the programming, get a day job as a programmer, and try to pursue the arts (acting, painting, sculpting, whatever you like most) in your spare time. Maybe join a part time theater group or make paintings in your spare time and show them off on the Web or elsewhere.

By taking this route you make sure you have enough to pay the bills. Then maybe some day you'll make enough from your artistic pursuits to quit your day job and pursue the secondary career full time. At that point it'd probably be much easier to break it to your parents.

And I don't think you should make any impulsive moves, because what you love today, you might get bored with in a few years. Who knows, maybe in 5 years you'll love programming more, or you'll develop a taste for architecture, or you'll want to be a doctor. Or you may end up being a career artist. In any event you should follow your dreams... but minimize risk as much as possible by using a practical strategy.
I find it particularly interesting that they have death rituals.
I think its brilliant, and I wish them well. Much as I sometimes get tired of 37s dogma, if there were more of them, the world would be a better place (and I am free to unsubscribe from their feed if I wanted to).

If this works, they will talk about this endlessly, which is a great thing.
"my productivity is shot...sometimes for weeks"

- for me it has been months, sometimes years. I guess it could kind of turn you off for a whole career.
When the music costs nothing, why do freetards prefer to leech?
Or this fellow: http://www.bash.org/?203247
I love that they don't take the 5 day a week work schedule as a must do standard. Why is 5 days a week so standard across both borders and even job fields?
brilliant!!
thank-you. the best bio of jobs I have read.
Any possibility of a crossover career? Something where the medium of composition is the computer? Something along the lines of computer animation, computer-generated music, etc. Also, web design involves a lot of aesthetic design skill including background art, typography, etc.
I love you tim2. Or maybe I'm just fed up at people who never have to deal with cross-browser design getting uppity about someone using a table tag to ensure consistent display.

Either way, you're right. Lack of cross-browser consistency in CSS display support (vertical centering anyone?) is what makes implementing tables in CSS a living nightmare.
Internet is $60? Is Comcast your provider? If so and you only subscribe to Internet then that is the same price here on the east coast for subscribing only to Internet. Here with Comcast you can purchase limited cable TV (local channels and 3 to 4 cable TV chnnls) for about $10 and then the cost of Internet is $43. You might want to look into that if you have Comcast!
Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Deluxe Edition In Under Two Days ($750K on that option alone)