lukehasnoname

Step one: Ask HN, not NH!

I imagine this:

-DOWNLOAD HN pages locally OR to another site

This is to make a permanent copy of the site and its discussions locally, so you'll have the knowledge of the articles and discussion forever.

Either download the linked site itself, or just the link, folowed by comments. Automatically grab comment updates once a day for a week, or whenever discussion statistically tapers off.

In other words, here are the options:

-Submission titles, dates, and links to HN page

This is to provide a searchable database for HN links, and perhaps (if this were done on a separate website) you could implement a "favorites" system for people to login and bookmark those topics of discussion they liked most, ala Server Fault.

Downside: I don't know how long HN articles persist. If they disappear, this is largely useless.

-Linked sites themselves, URL to HN page, and comments

Much more permanent; a complete mirror of source sites and HN discussions, searchable. Similar login/favorites iface could be put in place.

Downside: More information is cached, more complicated scraping (source sites and HN).

It might be fun to scrape and index all HN stories; and perhaps create a way to download links/comments to a local machine automatically . There is a lot of really great information provided via this place.

Which Linux distros with more than 5 downloads DON'T have bash as the login shell?

I was quoting the essay when I referred to rich people. Also, my original post was relevant to the article posted.

Looks like a lot of karma-flaming on my posts. Awesome, guys.

Rich people and nerds. Makes sense. Well, hopefully somewhere in Texas will catch on: Cheap living, plenty of space, cheap housing, cheap power, has coastal area...

Then again, I think video conferencing, VoIP and presentations, etc., could substitute for this rich man mandating people move to work on the Internet. Why should programmers have to relocate?

Why is California such a big place for startups? Is it "just the way it is" since Silicon Valley started?

There are other places in the United States that are much cheaper to operate (live), and in a much less aggrivating political climate, than California.