Considering the age of this list, would it not be a terrible idea to create a new one using HN suggestions. Or maybe a much better idea, throw together a website where people can add books (using amazon metadata) and then up vote (or down vote) them so we can build a list of the most important books for hackers to read.

The problem with the upvote/downvote mechanism for things like books is that popular books tend to get voted higher than better, less popular books. If only 5 people have heard of a book, but they all think it's amazing, it should probably be around equal or higher than a book that a hundred people read and all thought was okay.

Come on we have an entire community of math and computer science wizards here, I think heuristics like that can be quite easily written. Especially using a tab for "Popular Books" and another "Highly Rated"

Of course. It's not a hard problem to solve, but it is one to consider.

You mean something like this: http://www.hackernewsers.com/books.html ? ;-)

I was just waiting for a link like that, I was sure someone had already done this

Edit: I do still think an up/down vote system to build a Top Hacker News suggested books, could be really cool to see

I agree. A first step is to search HN for "book review"[1] and see what the review says and how many upvote it has. I know it's not exactly what you ask for but it's a start.

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...

http://www.hn-books.com/ appears to be something of an attempt to capture the book fancies of the HN crowd.

This seems absolutely perfect for note taking during lectures Right now I either:

Use a pad of paper and lose all my notes over time or Use my laptop and cringe every time the professor uses a symbol I can't easily type

This seems perfect

I am using it on Ubuntu 10.10, looks amazing, is there any way to add syntax highlighting for other languages (Go in my case)

It's generally just a matter of getting your hands on a .tmLanguage file (the same format as TextMate), and putting it somewhere in your packages directory (~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/ on Linux).

The top Go.tmLanguage reported by Google appears to be a work in progress though, I'll see if I can get something sorted for the next version - I'd like to have Go support out of the box.

Not able to use one for Clojure (the one for Go works fine) - could you please check https://github.com/franks42/clojure.tmbundle/blob/d0b6baa893...

> ~/.Sublime Text 2/

It's a shame they've not heard about $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l...)

This one works great:

https://github.com/rsms/Go.tmbundle/tree/master/Syntaxes

Maybe it should be included by default

v1 supports custom syntax highlighting definitions (or you could use TextMate's since it uses the same format). I'm sure v2 has this feature also.