skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.pg is already owned by Papua New Guinea. Besides, ICANN may reserve all two-letter TLDs for countries.
I don't think there is something in design that everyone would be happy about. We've tried several things on UI, before we came up with the tabbed layout. I'd be very thankful for your practical suggestions, though. Thanks.
ycfeeds.com uses server-side jquery and (although ycfeeds.com does not do it much) can manipulate dom styles and add class names to elements using CSS3 at "compile time".
I did too, right when he posted it.... It's a youtube video without even some commentary to justify the blogspam.
7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off
Yes, but I don't like your odds. There weren't any US founders in the last seedcamp round.
Is there a spam limit per user?
Owning an Apple hurts when it comes to hidden costs, that's for sure. I remember a laptop charger cost $200, and seeing that the cheapest item Apple sells is a $20 cable that is pretty generic.

But then, that's planet Apple for you. There's some vendor lock-in, but apart from that, it's ultimately a matter of Steve Jobs owning a monopoly on Steve Jobs.
CSS variables also here

http://moonfall.org
Yesterday I was riding my kick scooter home and the front wheel caught on a crack and I fell and got one stitch in my left knee and some minor cuts and bruises on the face and hand.

My lesson: one can't be overprepared for an accident. Also: having huge crowds of people come to your aid is awesome.
The "languages with professional experience" and "languages exposed to" rows are duplicates, is it a bug or a feature?

I'm apparently level 1, in 13 years (I'll be 35) I should be a decent programmer.
And without competent and effective executives you would have no company to work at. You both need each other. And how many stock options have engineers gotten? I bet Google has made more nerd millionaires than MBA millionaires.
Maybe he wanted to provide an example of a linked list? :)
Joel Spolsky on Bill Gates
Worse than the prison term, that's for sure!

Well, no, but I'll bet that software eats up half his CPU and bandwidth. I'd like to see him hold down a job with that kind of restriction.
Installing VMWare Server 2 Beta in Ubuntu Hardy 64bit
Here is a step-by-step that should save you a few hours.
I find myself to be mostly in the 3rd column, and sometimes in the fourth. This just gave me some specifics of what to focus on. What columns are you people at?
I think this is not pretending. But you just tell yourself "being the cool". It is the same thing like actors project characters into themselves by "being the characters". And the better the actor is, the difficult we can see pretension.

Or you can see this from existentialism like Martin Heidegger's idea about a carpenter himself can't distinguish himself from his tools. He just can perform carpentry effortlessly.
- Yes, we do have journal articles (not sure if it's a lot or not)

- Does it matter if one is a self-made or paid-by as long as you're a millionaires?

- Does money matter much for you? Once you get 10 millions, does 100 millions matter a lot?
They're in Sweden (I believe,) different laws. The RIAA and MPAA don't have as much clout over there because they don't represent any part of Sweden's GDP or cultural influence.
Agreed. You get paid what the market will bear. There are fewer CFOs with experience managing the finances of $Billion+ companies than there are engineers who have developed high performance apps. Given this scarcity, and that the CFO (and CEO) are ultimately responsible for the finances of the company, and that they report to the board and shareholders, it's not surprising that Google pays its CFO more than it pays its top engineers.
Umm... RCA -> 1/8th inch jack. Picked one up at Radioshack yesterday for 7 dollars. Not that tough.

What happened to a little spitshine and Google use?
wow, an email from jobs himself.

it's still early days in all of this. apple is in a tricky situation. they don't have free rein here like they do with the mac. they have to cooperate with the wireless carriers at least a little bit.

as they develop more and more clout in this space, i think the situation will get friendlier.
I disagree.

I read that poem by high school. I knew what it meant, and took the road less traveled by. Of course, it wasn't that this poem was guiding me all along, but the metaphor applied. And I'm proud of what I accomplished in high school.

However, I still had a shitty time. High school was a metric ass-ton of shit...being the only dude trying to get into a good college was a very unpleasant high-school experience, rationalizations notwithstanding. You can't escape those four years when you're going through them, and self-talk is not very helpful.

Your mileage may vary, and I hope it does.
My point is that your science professors are very likely to be real scientists, but your business professors are unlikely to be real businessmen. Ask yourself why that might be.
I agree that the microblogging was an convenient excuse for building an infrastructure. I think this is why Jeff Bezos is excited about Twitter.
the will of the mind.

no medicine will help an individual that does not want to quit.
If you have worked with C or Java, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to follow a book written with Pascal as its language. If you haven't, then Pascal is still an excellent teaching language that would serve as a pretty decent lead in to C or Java.
They've been promised 14 sluts after death by Bush.
I know hackers won't like to hear this, but in business, dealing with people is the biggest problem you will face.

"investigations reveal that even in such technical lines such as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering-- to personality and the ability to lead people." -- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Pirate bay will never be defeated.
I posted about this before on HN, but I've implemented CSS variables using PHP as an intermediary. This implementation is coded to the same spec that webkit is using, so the stylesheets will be usable once more browsers support it. You can peep it here:

http://interfacelab.com/variables-in-css-via-php/

Probably pretty easy to port to another runtime.
I think it's supposed to be a hiring aide as well as a potential ego boost. However, I work with a 2^n and they still manage to contribute to the team.
phil_KartMe makes an excellent point.

Much of OpenTable's revenue comes from POS systems that improve restaurant efficiency. Their installed systems and their knowledge of operations are both strategic advantages that are very difficult to beat from a standing start.
I think that anyone with even a little bit of real world experience would realize that the spec is rarely ever set in stone. You don't know what you want in a car until you've driven a few. The same is with software; Users don't know what they want until they've tried it out themselves.

This is part of what the big deal about 'agile' methodologies is: People remaining flexible about requirements because they don't really know what will be needed in the future. Specs change and grow and the more flexible your code base is, the easier it is to make changes and maintain.

Granted it can be overdone, (some of the worst WTFs come from overly flexible code,) Ideally, a program should be flexible enough to allow for any reasonable change or extension.
This high school business is all about ego. The popularity thing is just a layer on top of that. Being popular means joining in with the collective ego building. Being good at something that requires honesty (i.e. math, chess) will just get in the way of this.
Long overdue. But it's good to see it implemented!
This is nothing but fluff. Amazon and PayPal already do this and (not surprisingly) it's not too popular. I'd rather just buy you a damn beer at the bar than send you a few bucks.

I'd much prefer RFID inside mobile phones to catch on so that I can just do payments with it instead of cash/cards.
Um... Why did someone downmod every single comment on this page?
Yahoo Fights For Board Control; Analyst Suggests AOL Merger
I actually had something similiar planned for Android Competition, but instead of reservations, users could make takeout orders, based on current resturant sales, location to a particular store, and type of food the user wanted. Would make money by charging resturants to be included in the program, for updates/sales, and for analysis based on their customers habits. Works great for Asian and pizza places.

Only problem, Asian and pizza places are usually so cut-throat, I don't know if I'd have the salemanship needed to get them to buy into the idea.
I have a 8 month old girl too, and I loose a fair share of sleep at nigth on account of raising/education matters, feel free to email (see my profile) if you want to share ideas about it;
Ive posted here about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127711

Having such a resourceful/talented bunch of people with common concerns, one could expect to see us grow something to adress this concerns, at least a forum kinda place where we could replicate HN news to parenting related stuff, what do you think? (all concerned)
He makes $4 million/year. Google's net interest income was $167 million last quarter. So if he's able to increase their interest income by more than about .7%, he's worth the $4 million/year for that alone.

If you were 1% better than your predecessor at just one aspect of your job, would it be worth your entire annual compensation to your employer? I doubt it. With a company that huge, a tiny improvement in their financial policies can make a massive difference -- and the people who can effect such changes are worth a premium.
Facebook Feed/ Twitter:

"John made a reservation at 'The Sausage Saloon.'"

This may, or may-not, be a good idea. I suppose it depends on how an individual feels about it.
It isn't that simple. Excessive generality is one problem. Insufficient generality is another. Some things are easy to change later. Others aren't. It's part of being a good programmer to make good judgments about these things.

What people usually do (and this author, in my opinion, is doing) is observe one unhelpful behavior and conclude that the opposite behavior must be "correct". I think this is because building software is a complex activity, so we seek invariant principles to simplify it. Then we view the complex activity through the filter of our "correct" model (which we've identified with it) and get a feeling that we know what we're doing. In the end this causes a lot of problems.
Poll HN: Physical Keyboard or On-Screen Keyboard?
On a mobile device, do you prefer a physical hard keyboard, or an on-screen keyboard like that of the iPhone?
Physical Keyboard
On-Screen Keyboard
"Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"

Those lines always bugged me. They seem to run contrary to the rest of the poem.

I guess this explains it.
If Twitter could make it really easy to pay for something, then tweet about stuff you liked, this would be gold! Marketers would be drooling over this stuff. Also, this opens the path to micropayments.

Another drooly - enable the infrastructure as a series of browser plug-ins. This way, every site becomes a part of the system by default.
AllAdvantage VP: "When the IPO market froze and CPM rates collapsed the burn rate was astronomical"
I have to pay $0.15 for each SMS I send. I'd rather use my credit card.
Interesting story. If the cofounder couldn't contribute much on the technical end, it seems like he should've been more involved in finding new material for the site. But then you said that he didn't like indie music much. So why was he your cofounder again?
Mostly in the fourth, some in the third.

Guess I need to brush up on my data structures and learn some Erlang.
Google Launches Affiliate Advertising Network
Good stuff:

Niche Social Networks are not Businesses
Yahoo Presentation: Yes, We Blew Microsoft Deal, But Please Don't Fire Us
I found my self mostly in the second, surprised me as I'm a very noobish self taught programmer.

I do like the reading list included had some books I'll defiantly check out.
Actually, I think you're putting your finger on a certain tension here (I won't say contradiction) in the agile principles. On the one hand, develop incrementally and adapt to change; on the other hand, build the simplest thing that meets the requirements now (and resist the temptation to avoid generalizing up front). The trouble is that code that does X in a direct, concrete way can't always be easily changed to meet the new requirements when X changes to X'.

The typical agile answer is, "We'll just refactor to allow the necessary changes as we go along." This is an oversimplification, because the cost of such refactoring isn't always low. Sometimes it's no less than the cost of rewriting the system. Other times the refactoring leads to suboptimal solutions for X', compared with what you would have if you designed for X' originally. I've seen agile projects get into trouble this way.

There's no question that up-front generality is often misplaced (since you can't know for sure what you'll need in the future) and can cause a lot of complexity damage. But the answer doesn't lie in making a "process" out of a half-dozen or dozen principles and pretending you've solved the problem.
Great. These should help me get started.
Ticino 360°  Passo del San Gottardo, Ospizio 2114m
A serious case of JustOneMoreBug
Realizing I like the question - because the better the failure story, the closer to success you might have been. Failure is a desirable state when compared to stagnant, anonymity.

Don't have great failure story relating to startups - wishing I did.
I find it inspiring that you managed to get this up and running as well as you did while in college. Keep trying and I'm sure you'll go far.
I love the part about the phone call. That's the sort of thing you can look back on and laugh, but at the time it probably seemed like a huge deal. At least its something you can learn from next time, and thats a good thing.
Ask PG/YC: Browse your old comments?
I can't see any way to retrieve one's old comments from this site (for nostalgic, hindsight, or other purposes). Since I've been using it for a while, I presume this is intentional.

If so: Could we possibly allow this functionality? I'd like to be able to browse through some of my older comments, and to use them to find old threads that have long since vanished... If you'd like this as well, please vote this up...
There are no Apple fanboys in the tech media.
I think the article inadvertantly points out another reason why CFOs get paid a lot - make a mistake and you can end up in prison for a decade.
Just for fun - World's most bizarre jobs!
For those who prefer the on-screen keyboard, I'd be very interested in usage habits. I will often type out a short missive on my BB while waiting for a flight, or will send a quick response while driving (yeah, I know...). When toying with iPhone demos in the Apple store, the lack of tactile feedback is just a deal killer for me...
Study: Why Gays Don't Go Extinct
I think you can have more kids for a fee. The leaders of China are mostly rich.
Brand New: Less Hyphen, More Burst for Walmart
There are other problems with schools, such as the model of teacher who already knows the answer, and student who must learn the material without changing any of it (no attempts to improve the ideas).

Traditional knowledge has its place, but so does criticism and reasoned judgment and new ideas, and schools are not designed to facilitate the rationalist, liberal approach.

If the role of a teacher was seen as helping the student in ways the student prefers, as if the student were a customer, it would drastically improve the classroom aspect of schools.

There are also a wide variety of smaller problems. For example, many lessons focus on solutions to old problems without enough explanation of what the problem was or why it was important to people. For someone who doesn't understand the problem situation a solution attempts to address, that solution is uninteresting.
Ticino 360° - Föisc 2208m
Sigh ... to be as brief as possible: I come from a Linux background where programs like mysqldump make it stupid easy to move a database from one place to another. Would that it were so easy with MS SQL Server 2000. I asked an MS-savvy colleague how to take a backup of the finance database in the company I was working at, so I could test some new tools on the backup copy.

He talked me through the whole thing, I just pressed the buttons. Then he got to the fateful words: "now you just press F6 and away we go." In the blizzard of words which whirled across the screen, I could just make out the line "Dropped database 'Finance'" I asked my colleague about this, and we both got that nasty, ice-cold ass-puckering feeling you get when you just f*cked up really badly. We went and bought cakes for the Finance Dept while the DB was restored from backup tape, although half a day's work was lost.

Technically not my fault, but I did press the button and I hate dropping other people in it, so I fell on my sword, so to speak, and took the blame.
I think that was the gist behind the "Niche Social Networks are not Businesses" section near the end. His friend was brought on as a cofounder because he believed that business knowledge would be important. He learned that, at least in his case, having a "business knowledge" person was not very helpful in getting the site off the ground.
"We were offering information on great albums and community voting. But other sites like Last.fm and Hype Machine were offering the actual music"

Hard to have a music site without actual music. My $.02. Good insight though, thanks for sharing.
Have you tried reading the EMacs tutorial (C-h t)? That's how I started. And as far as I remember, it was pretty good at getting me up to speed. I also found it useful to write out my own cheat sheet as I went along.

After that I kinda got lost until I discovered "The Info Directory" (C-h i). I just went through each item step by step and read most of it. Kinda painful but it gave me a really good feel for the entire system.

IMHO, though, there's not much point in switching from Vi to EMacs unless you do ELisp. Vi is a beautiful environment to work in but, with EMacs, you can make your environment behave practically in any way you want.
It is fairly likely that there was a real Trojan War.

It is reasonably likely that there was some man on whom Odysseus is largely based.

It is slightly likely that said man, upon returning from the Trojan War, did something along the lines of killing his wife's suitors.

It is somewhat unlikely that this event happened to coincide with a solar eclipse.

It is reasonably unlikely that Homer (if indeed that was one man), writing four or five centuries later, managed to get that particular detail right, rather than making it (like most of the rest of the story) up.

It is extremely unlikely that Homer, writing four or five centuries later, not only managed to get that particular detail off the (purely oral at the time) historical record, but also some accurate information about the positions of the planets at the time.

In conclusion, this was in PNAS why?
They aren't?

http://howardforums.com/
http://www.gaiaonline.com/
http://www.ytmnd.com/

From: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/meganiche_pr.html
Right. Because every internet user spends time installing browser plugins.
you know people always talk about "our site was not ready for TC", but has anyone ever posted what kind of infrastructure you actually need to be ready for all that traffic?
I credit the greater genetic diversity (when compared to West Europeans) of East Europeans for out good looks.
A very powerful group of Chinese leaders has come from their preeminent engineering university. Hu Jintao's degree is in Hydraulic Engineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique
I prefer a physical keyboard that literally disappears when I'm not using it.

Seriously, your question is bad because it ignores the inherent trade-offs in the decision. An on-screen keyboard isn't easier or faster to type on, but it allows for a larger screen and probably cheaper manufacturing costs.

You have to mention the trade-offs if you want useful information from your question. More like: Would you rather have a powerful engine that gets mediocre gas milage, or a mediocre engine that gets great gas milage?

Otherwise you'll just get everyone saying they want the powerful engine.
I don't think that's the right assumption. Squatter sites look the way they do because they need to be templates for a wide variety of data. They need to be able to plug in advertisements and have it physically work for every conceivable thing.

That's why they look generic; they are the most generic pages you can create while still giving the content structure.
Also keep in mind that the President has multiple titles and roles that he slowly gains control of. I think Hu Jintao now has control of everything that he gets control of? Until he retires and picks the new president, of course.

China will reform eventually, as soon as a president decides that his successor will be democratically elected.
I hope he doesn't get raped.

On that note, how high is the risk of getting raped in prison? I've seen the data on http://www.spr.org/.

Are there findings that refute or confirm that data?
You can have more kids and no one is arrested or killed but the extra children are cut off from government services.
Wow, someone who actually wants to succeed with a startup, eh?

The startup = sweatshop mentality really needs to end if we're to see a higher success rate among startups.

In every case that I've seen people working insanely long hours trying to get some piece of code working, it's turned out to be bad code.

Sweatshops provide the illusion of increasing the development pace, but the reality is the opposite. What you're doing in those situations isn't rushing to market, it's repeating the mistakes that lead to the term Microserf.

Most projects fail miserably. Microsoft's software succeed in spite of it's quality (that is, the lack thereof), not because of it.

Personally, if I were running company, I'd end up firing the people working the insane hours; I wouldn't want to be paying their technical debt down the road.

And incidentally, Joel Spolsky has mentioned this as well. People working insane hours do bad work. They rack up technical debt that the company will end up paying, usually indefinitely.
I was the front-end lead on:
http://pirates.yahoo.com
http://harrypotter.yahoo.com
http://gta.yahoo.com
http://starwars.yahoo.com

While I don't think that I personally failed these sites, there were a lot of very deep problems which I feel I should have raised much earlier in the process.

I came very close to quitting over how those sites were managed. My manager (who was a great asset to the company by any estimation) left to go work at Google. Another talented engineer I knew came close to leaving the company.

In the end, Yahoo gave me a huge raise to keep me here, so that's why I consider it my "best" failure story, since it had a happy ending for me :)
Take this with a grain of salt; if you read a few more articles it's pretty apparent that the guy is a crank.

There's some hilarious stuff there, though.
Anagram of .com, i guess.
Btw, I find myself so many times struggling to decipher abbreviations mentioned in hacker news, can't you people put a short explanation in parentheses whenever you use a not so well known abbr? (that was on purpose)
Facebook confirms Andreessen as its newest board member
OK, I call shenanigans here. In what was is adding a feature to a non-programmable, designed-by-commitee data format instead of using a tight, well-defined and very powerful feature of the pre-existing development environment ... elegant?

My original question was, after all, an aesthetic one. I guess I just simply don't understand your thinking here.