skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, I wasn't aware someone in Slovakia actually knows about YC!

My 2 cents on cyclone:

Don't display the avatar/photo on the Recent post page - it is distracting. Also, display more than just 3 recent posts (on one page without scrolling) - in other words, get rid of the photo.

The "comments" and "edit" links are way to much on the right - I'm lazy, I don't want to move my mouse so far away :)

If you think of it, a user can submit an post with a URL and also additional links in the message body. This post would look confusing. Maybe you could scan the message body for URLs after submitting if the Link field is empty (to create anchors) or don't even bother at all.
Oh, and you're missing the "edit" link in slovak translation...

Do you plan to deploy it oneday? Or is it just an exercise?
The first problem is that existing restaurants have POS systems that are (1) expensive, and (2) essential for operations. If you want to build an order-at-the-table system that reduces workload, you have to integrate with the POS system or replace it. Replacement is hard because these systems are actually somewhat complicated, and restaurants are scared of replacing their proven system with your unproven one.

Integration isn't hard from a technology standpoint, but you have to get the cooperation of the POS vendor. 80%+ of casual dining restaurants use either MICROS or Aloha (now owned by Radiant Systems). Neither have open APIs or are friendly to potential competitors. Radiant Systems has a kiosk-based front end used by gas stations for sandwich services (Sheetz if you're in the Midwest).

Permission is hard to obtain unless you have a large restaurant chain putting pressure on their vendor. Integration without permission is problematic because the POS system becomes unsupported (the answer to all problems will be "remove the tablet system").

So, the apparent solution is "Find a large restaurant to partner with." More about why that's hard in a minute.
I feel like learning math (and to a lesser extent, other hard sciences) is the only certain way you can exercise your brain.
Based on the list of YC-funded startups at http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html, the hosts used by YC-funded startups are:

6 SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
4 Amazon.com, Inc.
3 ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
2 NoZone, Inc.
2 ServePath, LLC
1 BitPusher, LLC
1 Columbus Network Access Point, Inc.
1 Global Netoptex, Inc
1 Layered Technologies, Inc.
1 RackForce Hosting Inc.
1 Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
This comes up every few months. Use google to search for 'hosting' and the like.
"The End of an Era" - 6.001 class invented at MIT
The list changes every few months, too. In the past few months, it seems that SoftLayer and Amazon (EC2) have gained popularity at the expense of smaller hosts.
It is not only about median but also about possibilities.

While the average math job sucks, with good quantitative skills you can work as a quant, as a programmer and you can change your career more easily than a lawyer (who by average earns more).
Many people will not answer because, if you get a great deal, its a competitive advantage...
Then why do they show all those public service commecials on TV:

"Math... DON'T DO IT... be above the influence..."?
Doing Due Diligence On The VC
Managing a startup is a tremendous undertaking in itself. Managing a startup, while raising money, is typically a Herculean task. By the time that the due diligence is complete, an entrepreneur is usually pretty exhausted and eager to be done with the fundraising process. However, this is a key time for entrepreneurs to ensure that they are working with the right partner.

In my post, Your Company Is Who It Hires, I describe the importance of hiring the right people. This principle holds true for your...
A Small Orange - great customer service, reasonably-priced packages.
Trying to increase your productivity by changing your intrinsic work ethic seems difficult and also inefficient.

How hard people work also depends to a large extent on the systemic environment in which the work takes place. The Hawthorne studies showed this back in the 20s. The basic idea was these researchers went to to study the effect of lighting on worker productivity. They went to this factory with two rooms, and they dimmed the lights in one and walked around and asked people how they felt about the change. The worker's output was measured in pieces produced, so it was easy to measure productivity. What they found was that when the room was dimmer, worker productivity increased. This didn't seem right to them, so they made the lights even dimmer and productivity increased again. And then they made it so it was almost pitch black and the productivity was at an all time high. What they found was that worker productivity was increasing due to having the scientists walk around and take interest in the factory workers. (I would have linked to the Wikipedia article, but it isn't very good.)

There are a whole series of studies since then showing that the idea that some people are hard workers and some people are lazy is misleading at best, because someone's work ethic is more determined by the environment than any intrinsic quality (although different people need different environments).

This is the same basic idea behind the Milgram experiments, where he showed that the majority of people had the capability to carry out the deeds of the Nazi's under the right systemic environment, and that the evil deeds of the Germans weren't so much intrinsic to the people themselves rather than the larger social system.

Even today there is a lot of really really valuable research coming out in this area. Just as an example, this is a good article on using psychology to motivate contributions to online communities:

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/ling.html

Bob Kraut has a lot of really good papers in this area relating to the Internet that are around online.
Selection of links on the Merb Ruby Framework
Python Animation Rendering and Compositing
It would be helpful to know something about your requirements: as you move away from commodity hosting, the hosting world becomes more complex in what it provides.

I've been very satisfied with my Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com/) account, for excellent virtualized hardware, but depending on your scale, need for growth, geographic location, need for dedicated boxes, et cetera, someone else is likely appropriate.
"Business units and even individual employees will be able to control the processing of information directly, without the need for legions of technical people."

lulz! Typical employees can't even keep their Windows systems free of spyware. Suddenly they're interested in "controlling the processing of information directly"?

And how is this cloud utility computing going to work? Web applications? A monster JavaScript hack is going to replace Excel? Not anytime soon, especially for hardcore users.

As long as someone accidentally backing a truck into a power cable in San Francisco can immediately take down a third of these bratty little Web 2.0 outfits, little of what Carr says is going to transpire anytime soon. (It doesn't matter, even if your quarterly report is due in 8 hours - this is WEB 2.0!!!)

Oh, and good luck getting companies off Exchange Server.
Coding Horror: Don't Pollute User Space
Reason for Intel & OLPC Split
With Math (and Statistics), you can choose many different jobs.

Economics
Financial Analyst
Engineers
Statisticians (for govt)
Computer Science

Those young Wall Street-ers that score 6-7 figures income have strong Math background.

I remember one of the commenters either here or in reddit said that according to his experience as an MIT student majoring in CS/E, graduate either pursue career in hi-tech or work at Wall Street as financial analyst.

Goldman-Sachs came to my school looking for engineers, CS and math/statisticians. Morgan-Stanley hires engineer students from my school instead of Business/Commerce. And these jobs aren't IT related.
I've used 1&1 before too, and remember having problems.

I've been using a VPS from tektonic.net for over a year, and I'm very happy. They don't overload them, downtime is very rare and the price is good.
We use MediaTemple and DreamHost.
Processing is also the development environment for the Arduino ( http://www.arduino.cc/ ), a very cool open source hardware platform for small-scale electronics projects/prototypes.

I use both of these pretty heavily at work and at home and they've proved to be immensely useful for whenever I want to test out ideas that pop up in my head from time to time.
Otellini sees Internet search coming to users
Not entirely accurate; it says they failed to raise a $128m deposit. Plus they get a 25% discount.

No doubt the $1b required to bid (plus billions more in short order to build it) had something to do with not being able to find funding for the deposit, though.
Bertrand Russell and the 4-Hour Workweek
French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank
My Web App Triathalon: The launch of 5PM
Tu sa clovece najdu ludia ... :) BTW: congrats to new Skoda Superb.

First valuable feedback. Thank you very much mcxx. There will be some personalization, if you consider avatar photos distracting you will have an option to turn it off (and many other on/off options). There are 3 post just because I needed to create smaller screenshots :)

I still don't know where these links come finally. As you can see there is little gap at the bottom of the message for meta informations and maybe for comments/edit links, tags and so on ... its detail.

Link parsing feature has been created later, when link box in post form already existed ... I still don't know exactly how this will work at the end :)

I plan to run it on several sites with different topic/purpose ... I'm open to any suggestions. It's pitty some people can't understand it :)

pre-alpha or whatever you call it :) will run on the same URL.
The idea that constraints are a key to creativity is hardly new, but it is valid.

"... breakthroughs in simplicity and entirely new things", though? A tad inane.
An opportunistic leech already registered this domain, so seeing this domain doesn't really show much, except a bunch of ads.

The point is that after you search for a domain at netsol.com, you get a Network Solutions landing page: "This Domain is available - Get it Now!", they effectively squat every domain that's searched -- for presumably a 5-day refundable period -- and in the process lock-out every other registrar from selling it.

Here is another domain which is mentioned in the comment thread: http://networksolutionssucksballs.com/ , someone searched for the name and it already has a Network Solutions landing page, and though you can buy it, its 'taken' if you try to buy it from another(cheaper) registrar.

You can try it out yourself, it takes around 15 minutes after you searched a domain for them to register it and appear with a NetSol landing page, instead of timing out.

And BTW, the person that bought the youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com domain to squeeze some Adsense clicks while its making headlines is registered to:

Campbell, Susan susankcampbell@live.com
2085 Ryder Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
US
425.3177143
Yeah, but why would this help? Unless you can hurt their bottom line, you're unlikely to change their behavior.
Uh-huh. This guy Carr reminds me of the famous New Yorker cartoon showing two scientists standing at a blackboard. On the left and right are a bunch of equations, and in the middle, connecting the left-side with the right-side is a cloud labeled "then a miracle occurs"...

See it here: http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=40967

Or maybe he was the screenwriter of the movie "Independence Day" who thought that genius hacker Jeff Goldblum could easily connect his earthling laptop to the alien mother-computer and inject a virus that would destroy all their critical systems. Great cinema, lousy computer theory.

I work for a high-priced technical consulting company and regularly work closely with a number corporate 1000 companies. Guess what? Their problems are complex, their systems and applications are complex and wildly divergent (even when comparing companies within the same industry), and their management and IT people exhibit vastly different levels of skill. It is far from being a cookie-cutter world out there, and Carr is a fool for implying otherwise.

Carr is making a living by being controversial and inflammatory. He should spend more time on the ground actually working closely with some IT organizations and get to know their problems... then let's see if he believes this nonsense then (assuming he's even capable of understanding the details of what his IT friends actually do from day to day).

Shame on any execs who actually swallow this bilge...
Skynet - Ruby Implementation of MapReduce
Please put me on the beta trial list when it's available.
Dreamhost slams Rails for not working well on shared hosting
I heard good things about this company too, so I signed up for an account. The customer service and prices were fine, but my site was down a lot, so I cancelled.
Waiters were obsolete before they were invented. They are quite inefficient, and always have been. People just like being waited on.
I have a dedicated server at iweb8.com (canadian company, extremely reliable so far, very transparent about any issues on the company blog--which is hosted elsewhere just in case). I like my dedicated server, but I recently bought a 512MB slice at slicehost so I could experiment with CouchDB (which is alpha software, so I wasn't comfortable running it on my live production server), and it makes me wonder if I'm not wasting my money on the bigger dedicated server.

I have my dedicated server running every service I need (Apache with PHP, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Dovecot, ASSP, Helma), like many people do. But I'm beginning to think it would be better to have the simplicity and peace of mind of separate virtual servers for a few of these functions. E.g., Mail on its own box, Apache-with-PHP on a box, lighter-weight Apache with Helma on another.
For what its worth, you certainly don't have to generate a Rails controller from the terminal. Its just a convenience method.

A question though: Several times throughout the article it talks about how Ramaze is not like Merb. However, based on the things they've said, it sounds a lot like Merb. (ORM agnosticim, for instance) Does anyone know how they actually differ?
Read the comments - the founder left a couple of very nice replies at the bottom of the page.

It seems like a lot of people (Arrington especially) don't bother to understand the idea or the market.

To me it looks like a fine business, and the success so far speaks for itself.
Xobni: The super plugin for Outlook
Xobni Launches Invites
Xobni launched Gmail-style invites today. Woo-hoo!
One (programming) language for the rest of your life. Which one?
If you had to pick one single computer language to use from now until the end of time, which one would you pick? What qualities are you looking for? What are your programming goals?

If you like, you can specify a platform or libraries if they colored your choice of language.
Of course, I am not talking about Flickr...What I've been faced with in the last forty-eight hours are their painful copies

...Flickr, of course, being a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. I can't speak for the other sites she mentions, but they are probably all highly derivative.
Blacklisted from Google Notebook
A Sign of Things to Come in RSS?
Google Processing 20,000 Terabytes A Day, And Growing
I just switched to SliceHost. It is very affordable and has excellent service. If you want a step-by-step guide to running Django + lighttpd + flup for fcgi + mysql, I just posted instructions on the wiki
http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install_django

Use my email in my profile as a referral :D
So, why won't a big restaurant chain try out order-at-table? 6% net margins. Small changes in restaurants can result in big changes to the bottom line, either good or bad. And, changing the customer experience is considered a big change. A huge pilot project for a 500 unit restaurant is to try out slight modifications to its menu. Trying an order-at-table concept is orders of magnitude greater in potential change. Several large chains told me they'd be very interested if they saw the concept working somewhere else first.

So, the obvious conclusion is to try it out at a smaller restaurant chain. The problem there is that a pilot is considered a huge distraction that takes away from management's resources. Also, it's a huge risk when you are piloting in one unit of a ten unit chain. And, the small chain has no pull with its POS vendor. So, you can't do an integration.
i was one of the many invited this morning. i installed outlook and imported my gmail account.

unfortunately, my usage of xobni is going to have to wait until they support a client that doesn't make my eyes bleed.

:)
C99. It can do everything I want, and while there are some tasks for which it's not the ideal language, I can write my own libraries to supplement the existing ones.

If I'm going to be stuck with only one language, I'd rather use a language where some things are harder than in other languages, rather than a language where other things are simply impossible.
revzilla.com is a rails-based application on several dedicated servers hosted by Rackspace

Pricey, but they are good.
They don't lose money on that. They just cancel each registration after 5 days and get full refund.
Ask 37signals: Why did you restart Highrise?
We're using Amazaon AWS with EC2 and S3 for streamfocus.com, and we are amazed at how well (and fast) it is running. Our Ubuntu server instance is running SBCL Lisp with Portable aserve with Apache providing ssl. So far, it is truly impressive (We launched on Ec2/S3 a week ago - it takes us 3 minutes to fire up another instance if we need to).

We're able to update at anytime with a simple ssh link, a GIT push, and then emacs/slime directly in to the SBCL thread running (after testing on local machines first, of course). We can do complete updates with no interruption in service - a very nice feature)
Digg labs: Arc
reminds me of when pg said that you can estimate the worth of a education program by seeing how many people drop out to do something easier. I can't think of anyone who's ever complained of having hard classes switching to math/CS afterwards.
I use SoftLayer. Their control panel and functioning KVM over IP (IPMI) amazed me to no end, and they resolved two non-critical network issues fairly quickly.
Blub. Why choose a lesser evil?
Lisp - for the sheer power and enjoyment of using it
Joyent Accelerators - 3 Facebook Accelerators + 1 M accelerator (bought during the lifetime offers)
Using ASCII Art on Google Adwords - Brilliant!
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
Do you have to stick with a single implementation (once you choose MRI you couldn't switch to JRuby) or just the same language?

Probably Lisp or some other highly growable language.
I'm using Slicehost, and it's been a really great experience. I've been with them for about a year, and haven't had any downtime that I've noticed. Current uptime is 82 days, and that was when I changed over from Ubuntu to Debian.

I've also tried a Joyent accelerator, and wasn't very happy with it.
I was using Xobni for a few months and really liked it, but wound up having to uninstall it a while back. With it installed, Outlook would hang upon launch about half the time. Once in a while, the whole plug-in (menu and side bar) would just disappear, and I'd have no idea how to get it back, and sometimes the search functionality would stop working. Hopefully it is (or is getting) more stable, because I really miss the functionality, and the plug-in I'm now using instead (X1) is horrendous.
I like pcnames:

http://www.pcnames.com/

because it utilizes some nifty JavaScript, a kind of "search as you type" method regarding inquiries of domain names. It also (claims that it) doesn't log or record those queries.

That Network Solutions leeches queries and then charges $34.99 per year for registration is also insane. (Testing:) It really is quite unfortunate that they're @ number one of the list for a google search RE "domain name registration". . .

I guess there's always the BBB.
Our startup (Seekler: community-built lists to help you find new stuff) goes beta. Feedback please?
Rats. I was hoping someone found out some of the details about PG's pet language!
We released our alpha a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. Now we've added some new features, fixed bugs, and most importantly, anyone can create an account.

We'd love to hear any and all feedback. Thanks!
Oh, if you'd like to see an example of a list that's got a number of contributors (and some good information and tags), check out

http://seekler.com/lists/Anticipated+Movies+of+2008

Ideally we'd like to have a ton of lists that have this much info.
Top 100 words in News.YC titles
I was half tempted to pick Python, but I suppose my true answer would be C.
I am still learning many things about python but I think it would be the one language I would choose for the rest of my life.
Something about it looks sort of... spammy. That's my first impression, no real motivation behind it.

Maybe there's just too much text?

For me, it doesn't have any... "oomph" that would make me interested in coming back.
Actually I might be interested - please leave an email.
I had the same idea for a patent searching site...
zone.net
It looks well-implemented... Design is slick. In the "build something people want" vein -- why does anyone want this? If you can answer that question, you should add benefit statements to your home page... Or example use cases.

My gut response is that your most common use case is that a person wants to build a "best of" list that other people can contribute to... The end benefit being that you might discover stuff that you weren't aware of, right?

If I'm passionate enough about a subject area that I want to make a best-of list, is discovery a huge motivation? And if it was, wouldn't I head to a destination site centered around that subject area for that discovery? Or just google for "best sci fi books of 2007" or somesuch? It seems that you'd have a better chance finding great unseen movies on IMDB instead of creating a list on Seekler (given that movie buffs are likely to hang out on movie-centric sites).

This seems like a classic example of trying to appeal to all audiences. I'd suggest creating a 3rd level domain for the most list-centric audience you can find. If it's comics, create "comics.seekler.com" and see if you can make it fly.
We have heard that during our alpha as well. Do you mean the home page or when looking at one of the lists? Or both?

One of our challenges has been to present a lot of information without, well, looking too spammy. We'll continue to work on it.
The product is absolutely more stable and reliable now. I'd recommend giving it another go.
What an inane question. That's like asking Thomas Edison which brand of telegraph key he'd like to use for the rest of his life.
NameCheap is just an eNom reseller.
Agreed. Not to mention that you can just write your own flavor of any language you choose (most are already written in C). Plus, you've got til the end of time, so the fact that it'll take a few years to write the first one shouldn't be a problem.
We have 6 boxes with Softlayer and they've been night and day with our previous host, RailsMachine. RailsMachine is an excellent VPS host but it took a month to get our flapping DB server repaired. Softlayer built us a cluster in 2 hours, and we were migrated that same night. If you need to scale - I can't recommend SL highly enough.