skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use vim and gvim.
Only works in the preview though, when you view the page normally all the script/style is stripped out looks like.
Saying the user registration is good speaks volumes :)
No real product or reason to use it, but at least it's easy to sign up!
Good luck. Zenter was pretty damned slick last time I saw it. With Googlebucks behind it, you've got an uphill battle ahead of you.
Yeah, and it's a little surprising that the Harvard Business professor in the article basically acknowledged that.
Actually, I only saw one comment that was neither stating or refuting some basic misunderstanding of the article (it helps that the title at reddit claims equality).

http://reddit.com/info/2pspb/comments/c2pw8a

It was modded -1 at the time I saw it. I wonder how can you downmod a purely mathematical argument in that context.

As for the smarts of either community, my opinion is that reddit being bigger you get a higher count of interesting comments but a lower signal to noise ratio overall. I don't think this example proves much either way.
If all you want is a preview functionality, how about

<textarea name=foo onkeyup="document.getElementById('preview').innerHTML=this.value;"></textarea>
<div id=preview></div>

Hardly rocketscience is it...
Me too. Yamamoto Jasmine Green from the asian grocery on Castro street here in Mountain View. Two or three cups per day (more and I get jittery rather than alert).
Maybe it's my old age (32), but large doses of stimulants end up reducing my productivity over the span of a few days. I'm much better off with a trickle of caffeine via green tea, and getting a good nights rest, rather than going on work binges and crashing afterward.
Jasmine tea is delicious. You should try brewing it from real jasmine tea pearls (a small ball of green tea with a jasmine flower hand-wrapped around it). Most (all?) of the bagged jasmine tea is basic green tea with jasmine flavoring added.
I'm also a big fan of oatmeal with some fresh fruit or raisins/craisins, some crushed walnuts or almonds (raw, not smoked or roasted, as any kind of cooking breaks down the healthy fats in tree nuts), and a little brown sugar usually makes for a nice solid day of pleasant work.
It's not even worse than any other carbonated soda. I would say it is marginally better, because it has fruit juice in it! I'm not joking, look at the label.
Have you seen this PG page?
I've tried all of the gunpowder/pearl teas at the two asian markets on Castro, and have been underwhelmed. The tea tends to be too bitter and the Jasmine overpowering. The price also offends my delicate sensibilities--between 9 and 18 bucks for one tin, which makes twenty to thirty cups of tea. My girlfriend drinks Mighty Leaf Earl Grey, so I can become accustomed to spending crazy prices for tea, but only if I enjoy it more than the cheaper alternative.
Yes. I wish it weren't dangerous to allow arbitrary Javascript in webpages.
My supply of Jasmine pearls came from a trip to Beijing a while ago... the department store had two varieties of Jasmine pearls; I got the better ones. I don't remember exactly how much it was, but it was definitely a lot less than a dollar an ounce.

Especially when cost is a concern, you can reuse the leaves at least two or three times. The only problem is figuring out how to store the wet leaves. I never figured that out, in fact.

Enjoy your tea, the convenience of bags is enough that it's really rare for me to actually make it from leaves.
currently I'm learning Emacs, and I'm loving it. For quick tasks (i.e.: config file, glue scripts) if emacs is not running (i.e.: connected on a server) then Vim.

For really stupid things, cat ;)
(g)Vim
Scite
In a business relationship, anything permitted by the law of the land is ethically sound.

The other question is what kind of effect ad based business models have on the economy and on startups. We all know that someone has to pay at some point. So ad based models are basically a way to shift that burden around to where it is most easily enforceable or acceptable for the consumer. Since startups are on average less able to enforce rules or gain consumer acceptance, they profit from ad based models more than others.

I believe to a large degree, the overuse of ad based business models is the result of not having an effective micro payment system. It doesn't make sense to buy a subscription to every single news site I'm consuming. It's just not practical. It's not even practical to explicitly agree to terms of service. Unfortunately micro payment systems suffer from a huge number of problems. Privacy being just one of them.
Advertising network for an adult site?
I have a site that features some soft-core nudity and the only advertiser I have found willing to work with me is Adbrite. Does anyone know of any other ones, particularly advertising networks catering to adult sites?
Somehow I can't trust Mossberg when he reviews anything non-Apple.
Sam is the coolest of the non-visual editors, but it's deceptive because it comes with a graphical mode. If you run with that off, though, it's ed on steroids.
Usually loads of water, some pizza, the occasional energy drink, and my Beatles catalog keep me awake.
I've started using e Text editor for Windows; as it supports the TextMate bundles.
I generally use vim and have the ViAllOver input manager to add vi commands to other text editors.

http://www.dabble.org/viallover/

Unfortunately, ViAllOver won't work in Komodo, TextMate, etc. since many editors don't use NSTextView.
Just makes you appreciate how simple life in high school really was.
Kate, mostly. Vim when I need to do a quick edit (I use xterms for a lot of stuff I do) or when logging in remotely.
This site is neat in that it works simply. However, since this site is largely geared to hackers AND startup founders, what is its target market and how can they make money off of it? Or is the object here to be purchased by Google or one of the other sites that have bad HTML editors as their default?
Hmm, I've always found it odd how many people say they use emacs, but not for "quick" tasks. It's not like it takes long to start it up -- on my machine, emacs -f kill-emacs takes 0.12 seconds.
you called out pg. the universe is now collapsing.
i'm a schizophrenic:

emacs - as a user, for lisp, xml, text, html templates, everything that takes time. Launched at morning.

vi/vim - as a root/admin, for editing config files, especially on remote machines

notepad.exe - on windows, very rarely
It's an americanism.
Wow. I can't remember ever seeing a negative nostrademons comment. Obviously that's not earth shattering but it is feeling like downvoting is more generally on the rise around here.
Developing for the web is easier than I thought.
I dont consider myself a hacker because I can't really program. But developing web apps has become increasingly easy due to open source, CMS, and the willingness of people to help one another via forums. What do you guys/gals think?
irb/ghci/drscheme, and then just copy-pasting into something stupid like pico.
If there is no response to this post in 48 hours, I declare you winner of this thread with an honorable mention for Paul Bucheit's South Park quote.
Mr. Mugabe nationalized all farms in Zimbabwe. There were many British Empire leftovers (white guys) running farms quite successfully. Zimbabwe was actually one of the rare African hopes pre Mugabe. Many said it would be the "bread basket" of Africa the way Ukraine is to Europe and Kansas is to the US. Mugabe siezed all "white owned" land and had native Zimbabweans run the farms. Predictably this all went to shit and their inflation rate now hovers between 6,000% and 10,000%. No exageration. When nobody could run the farms he actually buldozed tenemants and told the inhabitants to go work on the farms. Very little edible food has materialized.

The way this relates to Ayn Rand is that in all her stories the captains of industry are pervceived as evil profit mongers by the masses. The masses evantually rise up and take back what's "theirs" and the entire economy grinds to a halt. This is what Rand witnessed in the Russian Revolution and this is exactly what is happening in Zimbabwe today.
Also try this: www.holdthebutton.com
'professor' comes across as a total dick to me.
If he thought the valuation was too low, why didn't he say that instead of insulting people and pissing them off.
Google's Mobile Advertising Launch Disappointing
You're probably right. By definition we take ourselves too seriously. But I think what you're seeing has been a long time coming. The Rand Zealots in the tech world have been lurking in the corners of Slashdot, Digg and Reddit listening to a cacophony of post modern, no up or down, no left or right emotional bullshit. I for one am sick of armchair socialists, open source evangalists and peddlers of western guilt. We like our one's and zeros but there is a lot we have to put up with to hang. I think this thread has released the Ayn Rand hounds.

Political disagreements stem from philosophical disagreements. If two mathematicians were arguing about geometry and one assumed that parallel lines never met and the other assumed they did they would not have a meaningful conversation. The problem with most conversations is they mostly deal with surface issues. Clinton or Obama. Bush or Kerry. Blah or Bleh.

Amen to Hacker news for getting to the heart of the matter. And to the the non-Rand-ers, apologies for our intensity and contrarian views. But this conversation will be good for everyone...
The problem is that David is not Linus nor PG, so that sounds awfully arrogant coming from him.

The other problem is that David's ideas are not really "his ideas". He simply recycled XP and Agile concepts from the 90s. I for one prefer to read the originals (Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, etc...)
The same way as GMail and other large email providers. From my experience with GMail, its accuracy is near 100% and their heuristics is mostly based on statistical data, e.g. they probably detect large volumes of mail coming from one IP and having similar links, etc.
Since Jottit doesn't link to its users' pages, their rank in the beginning is 0, and so is their attractiveness for spammers. Once Jottit builds a catalogue of user pages, it's dead.
Admittedly it wasn't a very good joke. I could have put it a lot better.
I took it as an irreverent answer to uuilly's ridiculous question.
If they build a list of links to users' pages somewhere on the main site, which presumably has a solid PageRank (I'm sure it will after some time), that would automatically boost users' PRs as well, no matter what's on the pages. And so the spam flood will begin.
As a paying customer of 37Signals, I'd hope they actually listen to us. Frankly, the only reason I still use it is because I've invested time into it, and simply don't have time to go back to working with something else that actually has features I need. I end up having to do so much by hand it's annoying.

And not everything I want is a feature. The system is bug-ridden and doesn't work. I mean, how is it possible that you enter information into a form, and the resulting error message doesn't even show. So I email support, and the result is "Oh, well, you need this information." Apparently, if you know just the first name of a contact and don't happen to have the last name, you have to enter something in.

1. Would be nice to actually know that without having to email support.
2. Why not? Seems completely retarded to require something that is unimportant to the grand scheme of things.

So yeah, adding in these simple features would go a long way.

As for some of the bigger features, again, it makes the application difficult to use. Seriously, if those products are the foundation, the poster children of good quality online programming, shit, I'm light years ahead of them.
> Seriously, if those products are the foundation, the poster children of good quality online programming, shit, I'm light years ahead of them.

They were for a while, but they seem to have gotten lazy about new features now that they are rolling around in piles of money. Good luck catching up with a pay product.
On one of my old machines, development server not my desktop:

edu@galileo:~$ time emacs -f kill-emacs

real 0m1.421s
user 0m0.092s
sys 0m0.052s

edu@galileo:~$ time vim --cmd :q

real 0m0.016s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.004s

I have to add that if I run again emacs it loads pretty fast, but the first time it's slooow.

edu@galileo:~$ time emacs -f kill-emacs

real 0m0.136s
user 0m0.068s
sys 0m0.044s
Notepad2 on Windows ( http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html ), the best replacement for Notepad.

vi on nix
Hm. Didn't know it struck anyone else the same way. What my father does is fills one of those giant AMPM Big Gulps (or what the fuck ever they're calling them) with a mix of all the different energy drinks they have. Guess what that giant plastic mug always smells like to me? Bad bubble gum.
Have you logged in to your YouTube class yet?
From one of the comments on that page:

Attention Site Owners:

Visitors are not responsible for supporting your business model whether it be ad-based or anything else. Business involves risk. If you decide to employ a poor model, such as requiring your visitors to view or click on your ads, and your visitors choose not to. Guess what. That's called a bad business model.

If your poor argument was applied to other businesses, say, grocery stores for instance, it would be an act of theft to go into a grocery store and not buy something or view the in-store ads. By your reckoning, you should then be banned from entering that store. Stupid? Of course it is, but that's your argument.

Here's a tip. If you want to make money, why not offer something of real value to your visitors like a product or service. Provide content that is so good that people will want to pay for it. That's called doing good business.

Begging people to look at your ads for junk they neither want or need is nothing but ad welfare.

I hadn't heard that argument, and I must say that I find myself agreeing with it. On some level, the whole advertising system is a giant house of cards. I have never heard of anyone buying anything from an ad they clicked on, yet ads are so prevalent. At some point, businesses are going to stop throwing invested money at worthless ads and instead are going to find other means for promoting their products.
Or try the Web Developer Extension for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Question about YC application.
I just edited some parts of my application and resubmitted it. Are the YC people going to see the updated app, the old one, or both? Thanks for the answer in advance..
Only the updated one.
I don't think Aaron started it with the idea of how to make money from it.
Tom Brady's Tips on Leadership
You always need to pay the price in advance for SUCCESS.
Bitter End of a Partnership
It seems like they lacked a common vision or their vision faded eventually. I guess we have revisit the common vision often.

I also they lacked straight face to face (heart to heart) talk.
3rdRail - CodeGear (Borland) new Rails IDE (video tour)
As a recovered Mountain Dew head, I agree. The sugar in Mountain Dew is the worst of it. I used to require five or so Mountain Dews every day. When I slowly stopped drinking it (I switched completely to coffee to avoid caffeine withdraw) I stopped getting really hyper then crashing five times a day. My concentration is much better without Mountain Dew. It took me about five weeks to switch (one less can per week).

Not too long afterward I got my caffeine intake down to whatever is in two to four cups (or shots of espresso) of coffee a day, where it's been ever since.

Now, a few years later, I'm in the process of limiting myself to two cups (or shots of espresso) a day. I'm down to three, but it's fairly difficult to go lower -- which sucks.

Don't drink all this shit! Drink water and sleep when you're tired; maybe have a cup of coffee a day. Your concentration will be much better. There's natural variance in energy levels throughout the day. Stimulants just make the highs higher and the low lower -- but they also make the highs shorter and the lows longer. Check up and really pay attention to yourself through the day -- you'll likely want to reclaim your energy back from all these supposed "energy drinks" and other garbage.
It's not your "old" age. I'm 23 and I absolutely agree.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55250
Another vote for e. I love it, Snippets are the bomb, and the textmate bundle support is great as well.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

But anyway, a Railsite told me the other day that what he loves about Rails is that it's not especially new, conceptually. It's a series of mdthodologies that work great.
In a true merger, you can't have vesting for the people from just one of the incoming companies, as you might if you were hiring someone or doing an acquisition. The reddits would have had to make their own stock vest in order to make Aaron's.
He could have or he could waste his time. He chose the later and why is that impressive?
Emacs (http://www.io.com/~jimm/emacs_tips.html).
DMAE - it's a plant extract they sell at health food stores which is apparently metabolized into stuff that feeds your brain more oxygen. Commonly used with autistics because they often start to talk more fluently when they've been taking the stuff.

Best cure for programmer's burn out ever invented.
What a fantastic page! I also went to Gateway High School for 6, er I mean, 3 of the best years of my life. I had no idea Paul Graham also went there. What a small world. I was several years ahead of Paul. I discovered his essays a few years ago, and here I am now.

I also had Dr. Schultz for a class called "World Cultures". We watched films like "On the Waterfront" and "High Noon" and discussed them afterward. I remember him vividly. I still have my film project (The History of Art to the tune of Magic Carpet Ride) from that class. I suppose I should have it digitized and loaded onto Youtube. One of these days.

I self published a parody of Mad Magazine about Gateway. Still have the comics about principal O'Toole, and the teachers who influenced me: Laura Barrett Mikesell, Laura Sproull, Ann Bitter, and, of course, Ann Kapisak (geometry) and John Drumm (calculus). Because of that magazine, Mrs. Mikesell strongly encouraged me toward a career in journalism. Fortunately for me, the English department at Allegheny College sucked and the math department excelled, so I've been a hacker ever since.

Funny how a few kind words from a teacher make such a difference for so many years.

Thanks for the memories, Paul. Any chance you're related to Mark Graham, who was our Student Government president? Feel free to contact me off-line edw519 at yahoo.com.

Ed Weissman, GHS '73
Anyone know what they've written it with?
Consider allowing imports of existing chains for other popular sites.
Here are my observations.

It's clean

A demonstration of what the site does happens in one click.

The editing view is responsive and fun to play with.
Step 1. Cheat!
Probably Python and web.py.
No.

Interestingly, PG has favored polo shirts right from high school, thereby taking the decision making out of what to wear for the next 20+ years;-)
I'm not doubting you, but how come I can see the full article? I have no subscription or account at all, yet the full thing shows up for me.
NetBeans, ;)
Having been a co-founder of two VC-backed startups, I can say that everything in this essay makes a lot of sense, sounds very plausible, and is entirely consistent with my experience. Great essay!
emacs for general purpose and languages.
Eclipse for Scala and Netbeans for Java.
DrScheme for MzScheme.
Iced tea. (My employer provides it for free...)
emacs

Visual Studio for C#, though I haven't used it in awhile. Also sometimes IDLE for Python and Dev-C++ for C. (Though for C I mostly use emacs now)
Umm.. I am not sure if I would discredit all the Brady's accomplishments for the spying scandal.
Jonathan Schaeffer (the guy behind this project) gave a speech at this year's SIGCSE (computer science education) conference. The article says that artificial intelligence techniques were used to solve checkers, but it was really just brute force. He had a database of all possible 10-piece setups solved, and then he began iterating over all other positions. Of course, once a position reduced to one of the 10-piece positions, that particular game was solved.

The guy actually seemed a bit nutty to me. The motivation for the whole endeavor was to demonstrate that his AI player (Chinook) was provably better than an amazing human checkers player by the name of Marion Tinsley. In a 45-year career, the man never lost a World Championship match, and he only ever lost 9 games (2 to Chinook). Do keep in mind that championship checkers matches are 39 games, meaning that he played thousands and thousands of games.

Anyways, a PDF of his talk is available here: http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/schaefferTalk.pdf . It was an interesting story, even if I thought the presenter was a bit strange.
Tens of thousands of Japanese housewives drawn into currency day-trading, lose billions
The party's over for American consumers
If advertisers and ad-sellers hadn't spent the last two decades squandering their credibility by abusing weaknesses in browser technology, hadn't been lazy about allowing large file sizes, and hadn't recklessly pursued intrusive, garish or distracting psychological ad designs, then people wouldn't have spent so much time fighting back.

Google showed users a little respect, and made billions.
Attacking multicore CPUs
What's the point of Jottit? I don't get it...
Eclipse. Plenty of good plugins available for many languages, excellent SVN/CVS integration.
They have at least two negative CAPTCHA already set up: an hidden submit button, and a ROT13 copy of the submitted data.
Because I fixed the url using this: http://nytimes.blogspace.com
Just use the NYT link generator http://nytimes.blogspace.com/ to get a url that doesn't require it.
Thanks for clarifying... I read the parent as claiming that the looters (who you refer to as the "masses") are "John Galt in action". It makes more sense to say that the productive farmers picking up and leaving ("striking") would be John Galt in action. However, I think they were generally forced out by the thugs rather than (more Galt-like) voluntarily abandoning their industries.
At least you guys got to see it.

Right now, this is what http://jottit.com/ says:

500 - Internal Server Error

What, no customized error page?
indeed. and there will be a massive influx of banker, private equity, and hedge fund b-school applications this year. i'm guessing the majority of that article was penned +2 months ago.
> Seems completely retarded to require something that is unimportant to the grand scheme of things.

They should have error messages I agree with you, I was just thinking along the lines of new features and I assumed that there existing products at least do what they are supposed to do. I have something similar that I work on (officezilla.com).
I agree this is a very good hypothesis. I would like to see it rigorously tested.