skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitX is just awesome, and getting better every day. You can currently stage and commit changes using the app, among other things (check out the 'committing' and 'advanced' screencasts on http://gitx.frim.nl/seeit.html).

Best of all: it's open source and makes great use of HTML & JavaScript. Even if you don't know ObjC, you can contribute.
http://gitabulous.com/ is supposed to be nice and sexy.

I've asked to be reminded but I've heard nothing so far.
Blogga please. It reads like a tabloid. Visual communication is non-existent. The reasons people read Drudge are: 1) they love gossip, and 2) they hate non-conservatives. It's not because of the (lack of) design.

I hereby openly dare anyone at 37 Signals to do a blog post that isn't contrarian.
De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls
Well, starting about 2019, it will mostly be the computers staring at us.
Wages tend to be sticky. That is, they adjust slower than many other prices. This works against workers in an inflationary environment and for them in a deflationary environment. Keynesian monetary stimulus is premised on the "sticky wage" theory, basically the idea that by printing money you can reduce workers' real wages in the short run and increase the output of firms.

Of course the flip side is that if workers' real wages increase too much in a deflationary environment, this could lead to high unemployment in the short term.
I like the idea of edit controls being extremely faint and low-contrast, to spring up on hover. That way, there's hints that there's functionality hiding there and does not interrupt the eye as it travels through the interface.

Otherwise, users who don't track their eye movement with their mouse might not find editing controls.
Ask HN: Pre-launch feedback on my site
Prompted in part by HN, I am in what I hope to be the final stages of launching v1 of a new site. Five sentences of background:

I am a blogger/freelance copywriter/marcom guy who is always monitoring the latest and greatest in tech. I have an immense interest in web services and a great admiration for the people/teams behind them, simply put, because they make my life easier. I do not however, have an appropriate outlet through which I can share the various services I come across and thank the teams behind them by giving them exposure. Most services I find do not fit well with the content I cover at the main blog I write for, so I needed another way. As such, I did my best to create one...

Services like Stumble Upon, Digg, etc are fantastic for people who have plenty of expendable time to devote. Even with the big-name blogs covering web apps and services, it can be hard for the average office worker to keep up with the waterfall. I wanted to try hitting the problem from a different angle - using the Woot.com principle as a basic model.

My site, worthyy, presents users with one new site to explore each day. The presentation is unique in that users experience each day's site without any outside influence from me or anyone else (beyond visible ratings). I want the developer's work to do the talking, so the homepage of worthyy is dynamic. It consists of two frames: The main frame being the actual site of the day and a secondary frame in front of it near the bottom of the screen (the 'worthyy bar'). Users can browse and experience the site of the day as if they had hit it directly. If they so desire, they can also use the worthyy bar to rate the site, bookmark the site or click through to interact with others and discuss the site on worthyy's supporting pages (wordpress).

http://worthyy.com

Thanks in advance for any feedback you guys might have. We do have a few issues left to be resolved - and when I say we I mean the developers I outsourced the project to. I know, I know - but without any coding experience or time to learn, I had no choice. For this reason of course, your feedback is invaluable. Barring catastrophe the site should be ready to launch next week. Thanks also to the few HN members who have been involved with preliminary testing and for their feedback. I already have some great additions lined up for v2 should I be lucky enough to get that far with the project.
thanks, some very good thoughts here for sure but if im to understand intellichat the idea is to hustle up a better offer for people that are leaving. this starts to feel like att or even a car dealership.

no doubt something like this increases numbers but it produces weaker customer relationships and less room for your company to act with integrity - which is what people adore. you dont need to upsell when your customers are begging for more; more fun and inspiring for you too.

engineering an immediate dollar machine has the same effects as most short term strategies so keep "t" in mind when performing an optimization.
Agreed - if I remember correctly, the first user-facing added features were things like POP3, later IMAP, then google apps/domain integration which points at some serious back-end heavy lifting.
It was credited.
19 Photoshop tutorials to design your own business card
You also have to look at unique events, if drudge hadn't been part of breaking the the Monica Lewinsky story, would the site have had the staying power it appears to have?

He milked that story for all it was worth, and it got him hooked into the right wing welfare club which led to some very lucrative alliances between him and various radio hosts, which allowed them to use each other to push dubiously sourced stories into the mainstream media...
Uh... at the risk of repeating myself... are you sure you're reading the right pricing chart?

According to SimpleCDN's website, their S3+ service is not a content deliver network. It has US and EU locations, just like S3. So sure, it's cheaper than S3, but the thing they offer that competes with CloudPoint is potentially bit more expensive than CloudPoint, depending on the disposition of your content.

And I think you missed the part where you don't get charged for moving things around between S3 and CloudPoint. And the part where you can set your caching however you like, just like you would for any file you serve from a traditional webserver.
Wages are sticky but jobs aren't.

Hyperinflation kills banks, because the loans devalue so fast they are worth nothing when they are repaid.

Deflation in small amounts can be good for savers, but high and sustained deflation kills all borrowers.

That includes short term financing businesses need to pay salaries while sales are still being made and profits are still coming in.

Overall it leads to everyone hoarding cash and not spending and that just murders the economy.
Have iPod sales peaked?
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
I should have looked at your site before writing :)

The travel guides look like they fill the niche of the blog wiki idea I suggested, and they'd be perfect spots for a little advertising & affiliate stuff.
Rails TakeFive - Five Questions with Jay Fields
I only saw iamelgringo comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366487 ) after I posted this. I'd still take anything MS offers with a big bucket of salt.
Digg's challenge: The front page isn’t where the advertising revenue is (or was)
Sharp deflation, like during the Great Depression, is bad as you say. Slow deflation, like the period after resumption, is not bad.

In reality, the economy is quite capable of coping with any mild change in prices, and quite bad at dealing with sharp changes in price. It doesn't particularly matter whether those changes are up or down.
Absolutely, and it's with the Google Apps/domain integration in mind I say it needs to be pushed out of beta and have Google commit to continuous development of it.

Now that the infrastructure is solid they need to continue to really drive and improve the user interface. It's still clunky with some searches and the interface can lag a little bit with the javascript.

Also, as I think about this, the themeing is also probably a step towards allowing Apps accounts to customize how the email looks for their domain and users. I hadn't considered that when I initially posted, and if that is correct that's a feature that will DEFINITELY help them push corporate accounts.
There is no way to to look at America over the last hundred years without the patent system, or better yet, with a more functional system. So those innovations, while great, are not proof of anything.

I would contend the system did not start going off the rails until more recently, anyhow.
Funny, there's another topic on the front page about the taste of McDonalds food. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369249
First of all - I like the concept - if it develops enough community weight behind it, it could be quite an influential tool.

What's not clear to me is what that community is exactly - are you targeting a particular segment?

I like the look and feel generally. Although - I find the actual site being reviewed today a bit bland, so that might give a poorer first impression.

I personally think the bottom worthyy bar is a bit too big vertically, especially given it's only giving a few discrete bits of information and some links - I work on a laptop a lot though, so I'm a bit precious about screen realestate.

If you are going to take up that realestate - then I'd put some more information there. For example a "worm" graph of what people thing - or have a sort-of twitter feed of top comments... Hmmm... On the other hand, that might be just annoying.

It also doesn't seem to play nice with resizing - (Firefox3 on Mac).
Peter,
what's the name of the forum software you use, if I may ask?
Worst of all the only way to share the document with someone is to send him the link to sribd, indirectly promoting them. It's not that I want to, but it's too painful to source the "original" source of that file once it's inside of scribd. The fact that they force you to sign up to download the document sure helps to build up the wall too.

Seems like the platform is viral as such. Not viral as in alpha geek, but viral as in HIV.
Man I can never believe single developers can churn out such well-designed apps of this magnitude.

edit: Gorgeous logo too!
Pencil and paper.

No elaborate scheme needed. Write a word or two. Arrows. This is just a temporary hand-rail for support, not a documented history. If you try to make this more elaborate / formal, you lose the flow. Have a simple system.

Use Google bookmarks from the g-toolbar to make sure you don't lose links.
This is going to sound trite - but I use a notebook.

I have the things I'm working on, and a parking lot of things I think of/see/etc along the way.

Periodically - e.g. when I'm having a coffee, I go through the parking lot and (optionally) make them into tasks in the future.

If it's a webpage, I bookmark it and don't bother exploring - otherwise it's a recipe for going on some weird tangents. My bookmarks are a mess, but it's actually pretty easy to just search than come up with a filing system.
I think everyone's susceptible to this sort of frenetic behavior when it comes to knowledge work. We all have our own coping mechanisms, but mine may help you:

Start each day's work the night before by considering the big-level picture of what you're working on (learning LISP, starting a new marketing campaign...). Then make a to-do list of smaller pieces that sum to that component of your overarching goal. Keep what's within reason -- stretch yourself a little -- but save the rest for another day.

Then the next day work around that list. And when you inevitably encounter interesting bits that aren't among your executable (clever quotes, concepts that surprise you) put them in some storage bin. This part is tremendously important for me... the "brain dump" lets me put the distraction out of mind because I know I'll return to it.

Then rinse, repeat.

Over a few weeks you start moving closer to your goals, and you even have a record of interesting things to keep your attention on a rainy day.

I know your question was about tools specifically, but the tools question becomes less important (a spiral-bound notebook works) when you separate strategy from hour-to-hour productivity.
I was a beta user of this and when Zach first launched his site I left him a voice mail saying how awesome it was.

The problem: I left my congratulations for the site featured on Worthyy instead of the Worthyy site itself. Oops.

I love Woot (there's a Woot off today btw) and I really like this site. I think it appeals to the masses much better than a delicious or stumbleupon. One site. One day.
Cool idea. Please make it sensible for the user (me) to understand that I have to turn JS on to use the site.
delicious links work great. I add "toread" tags and other relevant categories. Every couple days I go through the toread pile, and un-tag the page (but keep it in my bookmarks).
> But alas the company I currently work for, is penny wise and pound foolish. They are "saving" money on desktops by giving the devs multi-boot machines, that require rebooting to switch platforms. And the developers are by no means cheap.

At one of my previous employers, developers didn't even have their own machine, they had to share from a pool. And the company periodically sent spies round to our department to make sure all the machines were being used; if they weren't, we were obviously over-equipped and they could take one of the Sparcstations away...
The Doctor Will See You Now — Online
Awesome idea - I love it.

I'd just recommend making the design of the discussion page/layout a little nicer.
I am trying to figure what would be another method to absorb data.
Number 9:

...you have a moral obligation to provide services like job counseling, résumé-writing assistance, and job-search help. There are firms that specialize in helping employees during transitions, so use them

should be Number 1. In bold and italics.

The day we forget that business is about people first is the day we should stop doing business and find something else to do.
A Sea of Unwanted Imports
I believe in one of his interviews (the New Yorker?) Gladwell kind of sheepishly admitted that people think he's a genius while really he's just packaging up other people's work with a more engaging presentation.
"burnt me many times" - sounds like a bug to me
Microbets?
My father got laid off on Monday. I can see your point.
I tried this out, but just wasn't thrilled. I don't really like that it integrates with my browsers. The password dropdown gets annoying in Safari and I ended up with TONS of duplicates added to my password database.
I like Keychain, but it's missing some key features for me, unless I'm totally missing them. No quick copy feature, no sharing across computers. When I have to find a password I open keychain, search for the password, click it, enter my password to unlock the keychain, copy it, etc. Looking for something a bit more lightweight/agile I suppose.
I'll take a look at this. Thanks!
Didn't notice that it was written by Mitt Romney. Interesting twist.
Thanks for the suggestion. I use Evernote similarly but that mostly works for things that are okay for me to read later. I am wondering more for something to keep track of things that I need to read or do now - if I am exploring something new and want to learn as much as in necessary to get up and running. With my Weblocks example - I am just diving in and there is a lot that might be in the tutorial that I don't understand but need to understand to keep going. This is fine when the depth of the stack of things I am doing to learn is shallow (for example, the one that comes up most when doing a tutorial - reading the tutorial , opening up Emacs to code it yourself, then going back to the tutorial). But when doing something where I know very little and am trying to learn a lot, the stack gets fairly big at times and that is when a program would be useful to keep track of it.

I think of tracking this stack as my memory's RAM and I feel like I am doing a lot of disk writes (to some notebook or text document). I feel like my computer has a lot more RAM, so maybe it can help me =).
Excellent podcast on innovation with Judy Estrin (ex-CTO Cisco)
Just a rehashed (hopefully) press release. Disgusting.
"five" and "nine" are tough to distinguish; that's why in radio comm we say, "niner."
Mobile apps do not have to be driven by impulse. I was dating a med student when ePocrates was all the rage for doctors and med students on Palm devices. She had hers on a Sony Clie. ePocrates was great because you had searchable pharmaceutical information that was also updated every time you synced. The fact that it replaced a few big honking volumes was great. There was no App Store back then. My impression was that advertising was largely word of mouth.

I intend to develop applications for specific niches, so I won't be depending on being in the "What's Hot" lists. Instead, I will be providing something that spreads by word of mouth because it has real value. (I'll also be hitting up blogs and other media.)
Ask YC: I'm looking for Rural High-Speed Internet Service
The phone company won't provide DSL, I'm eight miles from the central office. There's no cable available, and no cell signal (I'm in a valley). Any suggestion?
I'd rather bailout GM and Ford, who are not just hurting because of bad business decisions but also because of the credit crunch and high gas prices then, say, Bear Stearns.
well, one partial solution would bee tree style tabs plugin for firefox. It nests the tabs you are opening so you have an easy way to backtrack and find what other tab you got to this one from, etc.
Nice tips. I definitely did not know about the data() method previously.

On a related issue, does anyone have a nice way for passing "arguments" to a jquery function from the html, while still using jquery selectors (i.e. not calling the function from an inline event handler)?

I whipped up a truncate function not too long ago that truncates a block of text to a certain word count and adds a "more" link to reveal the whole thing. I wanted to add a feature where I could specify from the HTML what word count the block should be truncated through. I ended up using the class...e.g. <div class="truncate 30">...</div> would truncate the text in the block to 30 words.

Just curious, in the spirit of this article, if anyone had any alternative approaches or better suggestions.
A notepad txt on the desktop
Stanford Entrepreneurship Lecture Series Podcasts
Yes, there is. It's an interesting read. But McDonald's justifies their claims for "best fries" by volume, Burger King justifies their claims via blind taste tests. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which is more persuasive (independent of the biases any particular consumer has).
Listening to users is bad.
Either satellite http://www.wildblue.com/
with awful latency or get creative http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020207_0007...

no good solution though-- other than moving.
This is pretty cool, but mostly because I'd never heard of IKVM.Net before (http://www.ikvm.net/).
That and (10) Intellichat are shady practices, regardless of how they affect your subscription rate.
"We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week."
i gotta go with local. I just don't have a good experience with people working remotely. Both cases suffered huuuge delays. There are way too many distractions for them, and the work suffers. At least if they are doing it full time at your office, you are pretty much guaranteed that they'll be working on your project all of that time.
I'm glad someone beat me to this post. :)
This concept comes up pretty often and smacking it down usually turns into an annoying argument.
Search is much of a complex business for one guy to be a lone shark; Yahoo problem is mostly a karma problem. People have stopped the love relationship with Yahoo, it’s like trying to persuade a girlfriend who have decided to leave you for the new guy to stay. You may try hard to reinvent yourself, shower her with gifts, make new promises … she will leave you anyway. What do you do? Stays put and go into grievance, keep your mind and body together and prepare for the new chance at romance.

What should Yahoo do? Stop shifting back and forth from strategies to strategies; they should cut back the cost of running the business, cut off projects that do not work and stay focused on the main thing: search. Yahoo should make provision to survive their grievance period and hope it does not last, remain preemptive in new innovations to remain in the race. There are still number two; it is not like they were Hakia, Chacha or some Powerset like company.
You can assign a custom attribute to your element, then select on that. So if you have an input where you want to store 200 characters but truncate at thirty, you could do input type="text" show="30" size="200"

in jquery, it might be $('input[show]').attr(show)) to select that value. The input[show] would only select elements with the show attribute. If you only want to select inputs with certain show values, you could do input[show="30"] or input[show="10"] if your show values were 30 or 10.
No reason for snark. 37signals never says something without backing themselves up. They gave good logic. And I agree with it, hence my citing it.

Hacker News users seem to be getting very determined to be biting and sarcastic with every post. It's getting to be a nuisance. What happened to argument by actually making compelling points, by sitting down and typing out a good argument? I mean, I love angry, sarcastic rants as much as anybody. But HN is a good place because it's got people who're smarter than all that, and where you can argue with people and actually assume that the other person is intelligent. That's falling apart. Can we please stop it?
Piracy Spurs Threats to Shipping Costs
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
Nice idea. Small bug with Safari, when I scroll, the worthyy banner scrolls up the page and I'm unable to click any of the links. I'm using Safari v3.1.2 on Leopard 10.5.5.
may I suggest you use an alternative product - a packet of potato chips. They are tasty, salty, delicious, cooked in oil and bad for your heart - all the properties of fries but without the objectionable burning sensation that is an intrinsic property of hot foods.
Sony Ericsson Z555 Unlocked
Sony Ericsson has come up with the most fascinating mobile handset of Sony Ericsson Z555, which is especially designed to meet the requirements and trends of the today’s generation.
The entire time I read this article I found myself nodding in an agreement. I found myself doing the exact opposite during Romney's campaign.

As a Detroit native - and this is hard to write - the car bailout should not happen. GM, Chrysler & Ford are currently nothing more than welfare vehicles. Lots of people will go bankrupt and lose their jobs (my Dad already has), firms will die and Detroit will be in absolutely awful shape. But right now they're just prolonging the inevitable and wasting taxpayer money.
Twitpay is focusing on micropayments in order to alleviate some of the risk in using a medium like Twitter. A user can only put or take a maximum of $50 in or out of the system on one given day. So while that attack is theoretically possible, it would not be very lucrative. You would also have to ensure that the accounts that you have brute forced are funded.