skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use opera for some things (reddit, news.yc, webcomics, games), elinks for others (mostly forums), and vary between the two for research and other things.

I like how easy it is to navigate with the keyboard in elinks (though the default setup is awful, IIRC). I've set up opera to have many of the same bindings, but navigation in particular just doesn't work as well. Partly that's because there's no grid, but I think it's also just not as well designed.

I also like how elinks knows what the 'page down' function means. It either scrolls a page down (if I'm not at/below the bottom) or it doesn't (if I am). All other browsers in my experience think the bottom of the page is more important than my knowing where to start reading from.

A plus for opera is that I've actually worked out how to script it.
I finished my UG last year from India, but participated in several OPC's( Online prog contests) winning a few. I also represented my Univ in IBM-ICPC(Inter collegiate prog contest).. all of these were wonderful experiences.Trying out such problems really helps ... and increases your understanding of algorithm complexity and related literature... Google Summer of code during the last year of Univ was also fun.. albeit a different kind of experience...nonetheless taught me a lot. Both me,and my teammate during these code contests who was also a high performer in TC and currently work at different startups. I genuinely believe these experiences definitely made us better hackers.
IE 6 gets my vote because of the three browsers (IE6, IE7, FF2) that are most popular on the site I work on and therefore have to have installed, it allows for the smallest amount of browser chrome.
EC2 is kinda cool, BUT

* No static IPs - wtf? So email meant for my email server might later end up at someone elses machine :/

* No reverse DNS - So my machines look horrible.

Once they fix those 2 things I'd try it again.
Newspeak is a new dynamic language, descended from Smalltalk and Self
thanks for the feedback.

yes,im aware of update_counter it works gr8 for incrementing my N. but what if i have a tuple/list/ as the id.

shoud i be using mnesia in the first place ? would you use {node(),now()} if you were'nt on a distributed system? how do i notify when i reach a ceiling ? what's the latency in searching only within a specific node ?

im sure you can't rule out situations where a one-type-fits-for-all. i just threw couple of different methods out there. thanks for letting me knwo about md5,sha .

moreover i wanted to highlight tuples as id's . let's take this very url .

->{ node() , 132377} and simply read 32377

->{ node() , erlang:md5(132377) } and decrypt while showing?

-> how would you store this very url ?
The future of communication?
Lame title, but the article isn't that bad, even if I think it could have gone much more in-depth and presented more than two companies.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/belinuxsys/
I think someone found the discussion unattractive, and I kind of have to agree. We should have left it at "agree to disagree".
cats are very efficient butchers.
Twining motion of vines
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)
EC2 wasn't really designed to be used for public-facing services that require static IP addresses or reverse DNS. Developers are shoehorning public-facing apps on to EC2 instances anyway, and it's great that EC2 provides the flexibility to allow that... but that never was its intended goal.

If you're worried about incoming mail, why not just use a service designed for it, like fastmail.fm?
Okay, I was going to deride this (60000+ feet for a 7 horsepower propeller aircraft seems ludicrous, a typical 200 horsepower light propeller aircraft can't climb above 16000 feet, and the thin air increases required propeller RPM as you climb). However, it seems that Boeing has already managed to send a solar-powered ROV to 67500 feet. Admittedly only for a few minutes, but it doesn't any longer seem like such a stretch.

Amazing what concepts a huge budget and no requirement to satisfy the public market can give you. I wish I could work on something like this...
Human Data as a Playfield: The Passively Multiplayer Online Game
but Hamming (www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html ) in "Your and your research" says exactly opposite thing:

"If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?"

Why both appoaches work?
Not sure what you mean, Nautilus seems to have file trees? Switch on the sidepane and select "tree"?
Thunar + Conky might work for you.
How They Hack Your Website
I've fed him :(
I wonder what the "the smallest companies in the world" would be... Ship in a Bottle Distributor? Traveling Flea Circus?
Dealing with comment spammers – there is a way
So, I've worked as a nurse on a number of clinical trials. There are a number of trials that I'd gladly subject myself to in exchange for cold cash.

This is not one of those trials. Malaria is not my idea of a good time.
That's swell. And although it's not the subject of the article, it seems to me that the distinction between "good enough" and "good" is lost on the always-on, no-land-line cell phone crowd. Most of the time, it's still miserable to talk to someone when they are on a cell phone.
psytrance or any kind of hypnotic techno music when programming
The key is to put start before it has a chance to get hot.
A more appropriate topic for his article would have been : There is No One True and Only Way. Less controversial but keeps the substance.
My dream co-founder doesn't have to be someone famous. It certainly doesn't have to be my friend. (Friends sometimes don't take friends serious. Trust me, I had some experience). My dream co-founder is someone I know; someone I can trust; someone I can share the vision with. Ironically, my co-founder is not too far away from that; he's a great guy.
I agree with his point. The development of software is not an engineering discipline because there is a literal and metaphorical art to it. Software creators need to take quantitative aspects of engineering, and incorporate qualitative aspects such as design and aesthetics into the final product. There are no real metrics for measuring some aspects of software creation. Software creation can be viewed as an art.
How to be Creative
Mankind's secrets kept in lunar ark
Whilst I think he makes a point that communication differs through the ages. My parents turn their phones off at night, one time when they had to pick me up from the airport they got the date wrong (+1 day on the flight time) and because of the time difference between Canada and the UK my dad was about half-way to the airport before he turned on his phone and got my text message telling him "I fly on the #, I arrive on #+1. I haven't even packed for the flight yet!"

To me cell phones are redundant. I grew up with the internet, and I love wireless networking. I really don't see the point in making a call, when I can just click a button on an IM client and I have video and voice for free.

However, I seriously doubt people will leave calls on perminantly even if they are free unless an automatic hold feature is implemented. I mean what if you talk to your kids before you go to bed, do you really want your conversation in the morning to be, "Wow dad, you -really- satisfied mom last night!"

I can say it right now, 24/7 calls like fuck they're going to happen in my house. We had calls that was I believe $0.05 per call no matter the duration and I was on for up to 5 hours sometimes, but I -always- hung up because it's just damn creepy not to.
Top fifteen great escapes
Mostly dubstep recently, since you can just sink into it and get into a nice groove: http://dubstep.fm

IDM or drum n bass for occasions where hardcore coding is needed.
If parent's assets combine with income is less than $60,000 for the year, students get to attend Harvard for free. If less than $90,000, students would pay 30% of the school tuition.
I thought I would post that for people to know.
Harvard easy up on low income families
If parent's assets combine with income is less than $60,000 for the year, students get to attend Harvard for free. If less than $90,000, students would pay 30% of the school tuition.
Geek love and electronic miracles
10 most useful Adobe AIR apps
How Bluetooth got its name
A brutal week for credit markets
Pure luck, users happen to like the site, and go to it. Now it has a big user base. Sometimes we have to do thing like that. Just do it. If you have the passion for it, just do it. When facebook came, I thought they copied all the previous social networking site, but they manage to be on top now. Sometimes, JUST DO IT.
I simply wouldn't worry about it.

If you have a problem like that you have the resources to solve it.

If you are starting a business and worry about problems like that you are not focusing on the right things.
Superstar cities defy downturn - The Rise of the Creative Class
When to Sell?
6 Ways to Increase Your Confidence As You Code
Don't waste time on problem that haven't occurred yet; focus on the best solution to the main problem
When working on a project, don't solve problem that haven't arrived yet. It doesn't mean we don't know them, but we need to focus on the main problem first. The youtube guys didn't think of copyright videos before they started youtube. They were set to solve the web video sharing problem, and that's what they did. Stay focus; that's the reason we're working on the project in the first place. We're not working on a prject to look for future problem; we're working on a project to get the best solution to a main problem.
Carlyle fund faces liquidation after missed margin calls
thanks, nice desktop! Avant window navigator is pretty cool.
The risk of long term side effects is what really puts me off.
A Return to Reading Blogs
When your company has hundreds of workers, you're right it isn't going to fail because of one bad hire, although one bad hire can lead to slow bozofication of your workforce, I know companies where you can quite accurately predict how many years ago a person was hired based on his competence (there are obviously exceptions but as a rule the better an employee is the earlier he was hired).

But when your team is 2-5 people you just can't afford to hire people who have a relatively small positive net value you need the superstars or at least rock solid developers, anything else will hurt your startup. Productivity is diminished in large teams, so don't add a body to your count if isn't going to make a difference. Building a startup is hard enough don't hurt your chances by settling on anything less.
My dream co-founder (a little correction from a reply)
My dream co-founder doesn't have to be someone famous. It certainly doesn't have to be my friend. (Friends sometimes don't take friends serious. Trust me, I had some experience). My dream co-founder is someone I know; someone I can trust; someone I can share the vision with; my dream co-founder is my soul mate. Ironically, my co-founder is not too far away from that; he's a great guy.
Email to Postal
I think that the best advice I ever heard from anyone regarding work/life balance was from an old marine who was going back to school when I was in college. He told me that you should work like an old hunting dog. You should lay around sleeping on the porch 99% of the time, but when the hunt is on your ears should perk up and you should amaze everyone by how much energy you have. I think the point is to work your ass off when it really matters and avoid doing the inane minutiae that takes up 99% of everyone's lives. I think startups are the future because they avoid a lot more of the busy work that large companies create (I think Paul Graham's best essay covers that point.)
They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know
There's art, design and aesthetics in many other types of engineering. Ever seen a beautiful bridge?

Obligatory beautiful bridge link: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/15.html
Umm, Google is not the biggest software company in the world. Microsoft and Cisco, to name two off the top of my head, are both bigger than Google by revenue and market cap.
Hot products make succesful startups
Here's a ML game that I think would be cool:
The idea is genetic programming with human interaction based around a Pokemon kind of game. There would be pre-made and player made pets, and a "wild" area where creatures could evolve.
Spoken like a true ignoramus. If I were the author, I'd start off by learning what engineering is before I pontificating about it.

Truly, one of the lamest things I've read all year.
interesting service that, i suspect, might actually find an audience. i, for instance, wouldn't mind using it to communicate with some friends abroad. speaking of which--i hope they print unicode okay?
Brain Enhancement Is Wrong, Right?
Space rock (God is an Astronaut)
http://www.last.fm/music/God+Is+an+Astronaut

and another in the same sort of genre 'Gold Four'
http://www.last.fm/music/Au4
Tcl/Tk got higher speed, modern theming engine, antialiased fonts and much more ...
easy: nanotech!
That went badly wrong for a fellow in London ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6217728.stm ).
Space War: "The global economic system would probably collapse..."
In general, I agree. But was there a huge demand for online video before YouTube launched? They were smart because they made it super simple, but they were a chicken chasing an egg in the beginning.
Arrogance is not about actions or statements but attitude.

Yes, but whose attitude? That of the "arrogant" person, or that of the person who interprets a certain set of actions and statements as "arrogance"?

The problem is that there's only one (e.g.) Linus Torvalds, but he has thirty thousand critics, of all shapes and sizes and cultures, with a widely varying range of personalities. Some of his critics are bound to have no sense of humor. Some of them are bound to have a tin ear for dialogue. Some of them are bound to be jealous as hell. Some of them are enemies. Some of them are trolls.
CMU professor with terminal cancer shares  about Dreams
Apologies if this has already been widely noted, originally he gave this talk at CMU in September.
I don't get it. When I need to mail a letter, why can't I just send it myself?

Hint: If there are some good usage scenarios, it would be good to explain them on the home page. Customers evaluate new products by their benefits, not their features.
he's not saying software engineering is a joke. he's saying the phrase "software engineering" is a joke in that programming is much more fluid than mechanics

that doesn't stop people from trying to engineerize software development, for worser or worse
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I am in agreement. This sounds like an idea that was not thought out.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't send mail abroad for just a dollar. And indeed they serve "US Domestic, APO, FPO" ie within US, plus US military mail.
SQL injection? Password cracking? That's not how they do it! They have a long straw that reaches across the Internets and start drinking your milkshake. THEY DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
A fair criticism. There are plenty of Microsoft employees that don't use Microsoft products. I doubt the corresponding percentage is as high at Apple.
laziness, i assume. here's the steps i need to take in order to mail a letter: (a) buy a printer/set it up (b) buy paper/envelopes (c) visit the posto office with my sealed letter, so that they can tell me how much it will take to ship it to some destination abroad (because how the hell would i know)

for something i do, maybe, once a year, that's a hell of a lot of work

and, no, i don't own a printer. it's not useful in the general case. ditto television. my toaster oven rocks the house, though.
yeah... i was simply voicing my opinion. i understand the premises for acceptance into YC. I wish the best for chatterous!
Nothing Between You and Your Machine
Should every computer chip have a cosmic ray detector?
From the company that emphasized, "Eating your own dog food", they bring to you, Microsoft Windows Vista (Super Duper it will order groceries for you edition) ;-)
I have to disagree. There is a main goal, there are implications. We need to solve both of them to deliver good/great product or at least have proper precaution. Every now and then I remind myself about vista problem and how they got class action lawsuit.
The same way I am, I mail so rarely that I usually dont have any stamps, and when I do they are usually the wrong amount (seems to change often). So I need to spend the time to find the correct price, maybe go buy more stamps then mail it. If I could just use a service like this I would probably do it.
Although when I do have to mail things I usually have to include things so its a manual process anyway.

Maybe this is tailored to use for complain letters or threats that people don't want coming from their geographically location...?
I completely disagree. It's shoddy and inefficient to wait for a problem to arrive. Imagine if the guys at Google just sat around waiting for their server to kick the bucket before they fixed it; they'd be out of business.

Problems aren't mutually exclusive, I can fix more than one at once. If my server is bust, it doesn't matter if my ISP is cutting me off in a week, but if all it takes is a call to another ISP to get another connection before the deadline then I'm not going to turn 1 week of having a downed server into two weeks with no useable service.

Only solving problems as they arrive is the work of the mediocre, the good fix things before they arrive. By your own example, the YouTube guys -didn't- think of copyrighted videos and they got a $1 billion lawsuit! That isn't a smart thing to allow to happen, if precident gets set against YouTube in one single case, they're broke and gone because they didn't think ahead.
Its almost a parody of itself. Part of me wants to believe its in jest.
That article is a bit too beginner-grade for my (our?) taste.
Thanks for the tip bud.
Hey, it's sort of like Gmail Paper but it's not April 1st yet.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
A New Paradigm For Web Browsing: Nothing Between You and Your Machine
Hi there, I'm the author of that article :). It always seems to provoke a lot of discussion, and most people that react on it always seem to disagree with my point of view ;).

Unfortunately my main thought always seems to get lost. Maybe I should try to make it more clear in the article. In my opinion the core focus of software development, and therefore also the most difficult part, is to create an image of the real world (both in source code and the program). An engineer's main focus is completely different.
I can kinda see where they are going with this. Although I would probably never use it (I very rarely send a letter by regular mail), I can think of some use cases where I could use it. My great grandma doesn't use email. I don't think she even has a computer. Every time her or my great grandpa would send me something it would come with at least a page of a letter just telling me about how they were doing. I also never seem to have any stamps. So in lieu of going out getting stamps and writing something on paper, and buying getting envelopes, I could just send an email. I mean if it is rare occasion why not? It's going to cost me like $20 for the stamps, maybe $10 for the envelopes. Thats just to send one letter. Now if I sent letters all the time the investment of stamps and letters would be worth it, but because the next time I am going to send one again will be months, years, whatever, I will probably lose the envelopes, the postage will be raised and I will need more stamps, and my grandma will never get a letter.
Ask YC: Content Delivery Networks
Anyone had a good experience of a CDN provider? We're just looking for somewhere to offload our static files (images, style sheets. JavaScript) to help the site run faster, no requirement for streaming media or anything like that.

We don't need much storage, nothing fancy - just well-distributed servers.. And 'affordable' (cheap).
Fedora Core, Perlbal, ...
Last resort strategy to make Vista better than XP:

"Mistakenly" push a Windows "Update" to XP that makes it excruciatingly buggy and borderline useless.
How to find hackers for only stock options?
All creative ideas are welcomed to find a hacker who is interested in joining a start-up. The person that we'll hire will get generous stock options (no salary for at least 6 months), and the chance to be part of the founding team.

Please let me know all the creative ways that you might know of for finding this kind of people, I know it could be very difficult but not impossible.
Have a really good idea and start pitching it to hackers. If it's interesting enough there will be takers.
Nice for you, congrats, sounds like the perfect situation :)
the more things change...
... Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
Can you give an example of something specific he says that you disagree with?
Startups That Fail to Invest in Trust Will All Die
well thats the real challenge - i want to know the creative ways to pitch to the hackers? where and how to find them?
You need to impress the hacker with your understanding of the market, quality of ideas, commitment, background/experience and above all intelligence.

Convince him that the work will be challenging and interesting.

The generous stock options need to be a very significant percentage of the company think more along the lines of cofounder than early employee.
They have greeting cards, too. I think this service could do well if it emphasized that.

Advice/Request:
Can you add user-generated greeting cards like threadless does for T-shirts?

If you do, I think your service will win. Thanks! Bye!

(not sure if the founder is reading this, of course)
Celebrities, and especially Hollywood celebrities, have always engaged in public philanthropy. In “An Empire of Their Own,” Neal Gabler describes charity dinners of the 1930s where movie-industry moguls would gather at the Hillcrest Country Club and outbid one another with gifts to the United Jewish Welfare Fund and other Jewish causes.

Wow. The nytimes overtly claims that organizations devoted to advancing a particular race counts as "public philanthropy". That's no surprise to those of us who pay attention, but they usually don't make it so obvious.

As for charity, it is destructive of the human impulse for self-improvement which, understood properly, is anybody's only hope. The same celebrities who want to steal money from taxpayers in order to throw it away on Africa are the ones who want to shut down third world shoe factories because the workers don't get enough bathroom breaks.

Microfinance seems like a potential exception to that, but only to the extent that it stops being modeled on charitable grounds.
thanks - i'm looking for platform to find these hackers ... dont want to spend on recruiters .... give me ideas the way i can at least contact few hackers - such as posting on bulletin boards at all major IT schools? etc.?