skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorites are the emacs-style shortcuts that work in all native textfields is OSX:

ctrl+f - move one character forward

ctrl+v - move one character backwards

ctrl+n - next line

ctrl+p - previous line

ctrl+k - delete to the end of the line

ctrl+d - delete the next character

ctrl+h - delete the previous character (backspace)

ctrl+o - insert a newline below the current

Using the ctrl key takes some getting used to if you've used a Mac for a long time (I mapped mine to caps lock in the system preferences) but once you learn these keys they are incredibly useful.
Help! My screen is inverted now, but he didn't include an undo command. What do I do!? I already tried cmd-z. Do I have to restart?
Writing my novel!

Okay, so I guess I'm not a real hacker.
http://leveragingideas.com
srsly? type it again.
thank you for that. i like grabup!
ctrl + opt + cmd + 8 … which is probably the combo that you hit in the first place to invert it.
We were using Google Alerts but have since changed to filtrbox
Brand-jacking: http://twitter.com/clearlytired

Exit strategy: get rid of crappy service without having to pay for the 'privilege' of doing so.
Working more and more on my PHP framework, it's starting to get some traction as I will release 0.2 before new years. Check it out, http://artisansystem.com
No, I don't think so, especially if it's something you've worked long an hard on, or if its a piece of open source software that you want to share.

Or, you never know, you may find something that you really need from an Ask HN submission.
We've been working to assemble lots of great talks and videos both from entrepreneurs and investors on StartupTweet. We're working on a prettier interface as well...

http://startuptweet.com
I'd say find a way to get in front of more mainstream publishers, not hackers, this is pretty obviously not your audience.
We've all heard of single serving sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=399941. Here the parent commenter is pioneering the latest incarnation of the trend: the single serving HN account.
http://tonik.com works for me. I pay $140/month for their best plan. Aside from the annoying over-friendly wannabe 20 something text on the website, it's been worth it for peace of mind.
Good advice, but remember HSA let you keep your money from last year FSA don't.
What kind of internet connection do you need to host at home?
Web Software und Web Entwicklung Blog
Your "most" is, I would say, just an application of Sturgeon's Law, which, like a sort of Thermodynamics of Information, gives a sort of comfortable minimum to the amount of value you can extract from any field of inquiry.
i don't use jango, but is SQL really needed? does hn use sql?

personally, not having to deal with SQL is actually a plus
Hard edges release flow, soft edges hold flow. Surfboard builders have known this for 30 years. Why are car designers so far behind?
The author mentions several ways that philosophy, and especially philosophy of the mind, have contributed to Computer Science and AI in particular. If that is the case, then why don't we see CS teams collaborating with philosophers?

He mentions that one particular philosopher of the mind generated some testable hypotheses about how the mind works. Why not, then, test them? Why don't we see many philosophers flitting back and forth between thought and action? In other words, where are the Hofstadters?
Wow... that's even faster than Skitch! I've been using Skitch (http://www.skitch.com) for over a year now and has saved me a ton of time. I'll give GrabUp a try!
It's 5349 words and the first half says "practice makes perfect and therefore one should practice a lot". I couldn't bring myself to read the second half. Maybe they should practice writing, so that this stuff is more readable.
For some reason I decided not to use question marks in the previous post.
This is so awesome that we get to reimplement the same graphics effects we did on first PCs from the mid 80s, but this time - fully loading CPUs on machines that would have been cosidered supercomputers back then!

It's called progress. And because of it, we programmers will never be out of work.
Yes please explain.

I have some projects on how to make college education cheaper.
I like CMD + CTRL + D while hover your cursor over any word in a Cocoa app. This brings up the dictionary entry for that word. You can also access the Thesaurus this way and click "More..." to get the full Dictionary app to load.

Very useful when reading long academic papers outside of my field.
Thanks!

If you're interested in beta testing, you can join here: http://www.wonderwarp.com/shovebox/beta
What browser are you using? If you try the latest Safari or Firefox nightly, you'll be amazed how fast that thing is. Javascript VMs are progressing at an amazing rate.
Exits with VC and Angel Investors -The Wiltbank Data
Also, we're hoping to open source it and release as a Django project for others to hack on. Should be cool.

Type in your address.

We figure out the coordinates.

We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times.

We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia page, twitter results, flickr results, youtube results etc

We show you a newsfeed of their appearances in mainstream press.

Should be cool.
You don't get it. The Celtics don't own it either, and they'd be stupid to think they did. Twitter does. However:

"We reserve the right to reclaim usernames on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold legal claim or trademark on those usernames." -- http://twitter.com/terms

That gives them a pretty good reason to think it's OK to ask Twitter for the name. Bear in mind that Twitter has this right whether it is in the TOS or not, and that they likewise have the right to not reclaim usernames on behalf of trademark holders. If the situation had not been one where the user was obviously using the name to reference the trademark, maybe they wouldn't have.

And yes, he was making the assumption that he owned the names. How else can you complain that you've been deprived of something valuable that it was your right to have if you don't believe you own it?
I have posted a few scripts that I have created and found useful. These weren't to show off but just because I thought others might find them useful. I don't even care if they get voted up to the front page I just want other people to point out flaws.
Ask YC: best (multi-user) startup email support/helpdesk system?
Howdy all,

What's the best email support/helpdesk system to use for our startup that lets more than one person process incoming email?

Currently we have an email alias support@ which simply sends to two of us (web feedback form submissions come this way too). When one of us replies then we BCC the other so they know not to reply too, but this is obviously a pain. Additionally if we reply from our personal address then the other person no longer receives future messages in the thread.

As well as solving these two problems, it'd be useful to bring some more of the team into the process so they at least can read the incoming support requests to get an idea of user feedback - this would quickly get out of hand with our current simple setup.

Any recommendations?
Cheers!
Open Source Legislative Look-up
Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)
I'm working on a way to play the card game Mao online, except that, as Mao is a game that lets you make your own rules, in order to be capable of playing a substantial subset, it'll have to be capable of playing any card game.

(Yes, I've thought about turning this into a startup.)

And that reminds me, I really should be working on that right now, if I'm going to have time to do my college apps...
We (Mobile Commons) just open-sourced a Legislative Look-up tool as both an API, web-site, and open source code and database.

We had some issues making it work and thought we'd save other people some trouble. Namely: GIS files and location polygons work terribly in mySQL (what we use for our other apps, this is on PostGres) and that other services that offer this information (and are free) are slow.
Hoping to get a bit further with the robotic xylophone I'm building: http://prehacked.com/tag/xylophone
Agree, the absence of authentic problem solving training is severe. Rote learning and practice, even if it's how to solve standard mathematical problems, give you tools with which to proceed but do little to actually teach metacognitive problem solving skills.
If there was something useful for Digg to be spending that money on it's one thing, but using more people to do the same thing causes failure. IMO the goal should be to be profitable based on your income stream. With new capital you can setup some R&D or spend that money on new projects outside of your core company or advertising etc, but you need to avoid supporting the core of your company with new capital. That way you can cleanly dump everyone that's not part of making money and not kill the company.

PS: Every dollar you spend that's not supported by revenue should get the company more than one dollar in profit.
Oh please :)

I wrote a novel during nanowrimo and ignored it since then, I may use my free time to edit and maybe publish copies for friends/family.

but mostly, I'm going to knit, work on some iPhone and Mac app ideas, and generally just have fun.
If you hold Cmd+Ctl after that, you can mouse over other words and the panel will follow.

Also, for those that like the panel but can't always remember the shortcut, in the Dictionary app's preferences you can set the "Look Up in Dictionary" context menu item to open as a panel instead of opening the app.

Having a system-wide Dictionary is something I would not have thought anywhere as valuable as it has turned out to be.
Working on some super awesome blog software. Just like, uh, everyone else in the world.
This has been discussed before. I think the consensus was if your own writing is good, submit it, if other think it's good, they'll vote for it.

As long as people aren't gaming the system, who cares?
People think of 'health insurance' as a 'medical services subscription'. Why can't we just market it as such then? Alot less bullshit involved that way.
So you'd agree that "No." is the only counterargument I need to offer, right?
Writing a Java bytecode emitter for my company's language (currently called GScript, hopefully open-sourced under a different name some time in the not-too-distant future). It's currently executed off the parsed AST.
Wow -- it figured out where I was much better than most systems.

Are you doing geolocation with IP? Or something else?
If you are writing python in vim then the following settings (in your .vimrc) might help you not hate the whitespace rules, plus having ctrl-space auto-complete is nice:

autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete

inoremap <Nul> <C-x><C-o>

syntax on

set tabstop=4

set expandtab

set softtabstop=4

set shiftwidth=4

set autoindent

autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except,finally,def,class
Your posts are clearly spam.
Well as someone w/ about equal experience in both (but not enough). I find rails URL mapping implementation overcomplicated compared to django's KISS "regular expression table" implementation.

I do like rails DB layer a lot better than django's although. You can do a bit more with it schema evolution/definition is a lot easier/cleaner.
It's your site. I'd imagine _you_ are able to sign up successfully.
Although I haven't used it myself (though I'm planning to once I need to deal with such issues) I hear Fogbugz is pretty good at this kind of stuff.
His site is so simple that if every action takes you to a new page it almost feels seamless. Most other sites make sure the convenience of taking you where you want in one click is accounted for, but for a site running off of AdSense, more pageviews = more potential clicks, so you can argue he's stretching it for the sake of chart rankings; I argue it's to maximize potential revenues.
I use this all the time. Incidentally, if you open up the Dictionary app itself, you have access to complete Wikipedia as well. I really like the way Apple formats Wikipedia's pages... they're much cleaner than Wikipedia.org. And yes, the pages are current... it's just that Dictionary app uses a different CSS sheet.
you can make polls at around 200 or so(I think)
First a disclaimer; I work tangentially in health insurance right now, so take this with a grain of salt.

That being said, health insurance can vary greatly from state to state. There are different carriers offering different plans. Sometimes the same carrier will offer different things based on the zip code you live in.

My recommendation to anyone looking for health insurance is to find a broker. It doesn't cost you anything extra, and they can look specifically at what your situation is and make recommendations based on that.

If you went to someone for your business insurance, then the chances are high that the same people can either talk to you about health insurance options or can point you the direction of someone who can.

Insurance offerings can be very complicated things; a broker who makes their money from dealing with insurance tends to have a pretty good awareness of what works and what doesn't.

Before people pipe in saying that broker will only offer you things that make them the most money; the difference between what a broker makes on the worst carrier (for them) and the best is maybe 2%. It's worth far more to them to keep you as a happy customer for as long as possible, because as long as you pay your insurance bill, that broker will continue to make commissions on it. (Even so, the carriers will give you the same rate directly as they would through a broker).
Hey, what's the best place for tacos in SF?

I'm moving there from Cambridge, and I'll miss Ana's.
Because in a larger team (anywhere that is hiring, as opposed to two people in a garage) comparative advantage starts to kick in.

Even if there are only two of us, and I am slight better at A while you are slightly better at B, the most efficient distribution of labour is that I do A and you do B, despite the fact that we can both do either.

This gets more true the larger the team, because as the team (and the work) grows it is more likely that you have enough work to keep a specialist busy.

A startup needs perhaps 1.5 coders and 0.5 business people, so two hybrids is more efficient than the specialist minimum of 2 coders and a business guy. But a larger business might need 5 coders and 2 business guys, so you are better off with 5 pure coders and 2 pure business guys because they will be more experienced in their specialty (and therefore probably better) than 7 hybrid types.
You can find some here:
http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
After 20,000 you gain skills to host your own copy of HN. So far that's only two people - pg himself and nickb. nickb's site is here: http://www.newmogul.com/

Sometimes I wonder how did pg get his 20,000 points before there even was HN. It's kind of recursive, right? I think some sort of leveraged borrowing was involved.
I assume it's less. AdSense was roaring more so back in 06' but has settled and matured now. A lot of publishers who minted earlier on are now looking for better alternatives once more.
That is sweet, also Boxee would be a great app for it.
As Sheridan wrote,

You write with ease, to show your breeding;
But easy writing's vile hard reading.

This, by the way, is why I still prefer to read The Economist and Skeptic and other magazines to reading blogs on the same subjects. More learning for less of my reading time, because the writing has been subjected to editing.
And don't forget that spacebar after ⌘⇧4 toggles between grabbing window and area.
Research into web crawlers for a startup idea, some consulting work, and bartending classes.

Also writing up an article about the soda machine card reader I built, as well as some other blog posts.
Don't Believe Everything You Read With Footnotes
I haven't used any but check out these recommendations: http://ask.metafilter.com/44577/FreewareOpen-Source-Help-Des...

There's also a whole list here: http://www.opensourcehelpdesklist.com/

Are you hosting this yourself or do you want someone else to host it?
Pretty sweet and easy to get this working in a Rails app http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWi...
Then users in the rails app can claim feedback, and reply through the system, so everything gets nice and logged. I'm not sure what your development platform looks like but you should be able to wire this type of thing up somehow.
Zendesk: http://www.zendesk.com

Not sure if it's the right fit for you, but it's run by some friends of mine.
Just geolocation with ip.
Maybe the problem is that programming is taught without a foundation on how computers work. Before I really learned how to program, I spent some time studying basic computer architecture, so I knew what was behind the programming language. Without this knowledge, I find it is really hard to understand what programming is.
Economics of Data Preservation
^T - change letters: colo| -> cool|

^L - center selected line (edit: center current line in window)

^E - move cursor to line end

^A - move cursor to the beginning of the line

^Y - yank (paste previously deleted text with ^K)

Corrections:

^B - move one character backwards

(^V is page down)
It will be interesting to see what China's economy looks like if importing countries are not buying from it. As bad as the lack of transparency on Wall Street is, the lack of transparency anywhere in China is worse.
We'll be releasing a new project to hacker news on Tuesday. It's perfectly timed for the holidays.
My goal over the holidays is to become much better with my editor (emacs). I am also trying to contribute a bit to open source and release some Merb and DataMapper code onto github.
Cerberus. It kicks ass. I used it at two of my internships...quality software.

http://www.cerberusweb.com/

It's super-easy to use, too.
I've been playing through the games I haven't had time to, and also learning how to write apps for my Mac and by extension for the iPhone. I've had a bunch of ideas for things I thought would be great for the iPhone, so I made a class next semester with a friend of mine and we're going to start a business. (And before someone says it, we checked and we own the code ^_^)
Abel, 1824. Not Galois, 1829. Your favorite joke a bout proto-emo math geeks here.

Also, while I'm sympathetic to the intent of this essay -- easy criticism of the humanities goes back to Aristophanes -- it falls flat because it reads like a philosophy paper. A philosophy paper written in defense of academic philosophy is going to lose in the gut regardless of how correct it is to the reasoning mind (this is also why we still love Aristophanes).
Python 3 primer, Part 1: What's new
I'm gona finish http://www.bestdealaz.com soon, and then begin to expand portfolio at http://www.madetokill.com
Also, have a nice web app {secret} me and my friend have been working on :)
Humm... I've never figured out how these work.
how the hell is that dark? he's at number 13 or even 130, it's still a huge success. he didn't rip anyone off here. most startups in the consumer space that have a big rise have some form of what purists would call a "dark side".
Very cool idea. Do you have a URL for it yet? I'd like to bookmark it to check back in the future... :)
I'm in Sydney, asking for weather in Sydney, I don't want to see temperature Fahrenheits.

Other than that, a very nice idea and execution.
At 50 points you can downvote.
We're discussing the conduct of money managers over the last few years, not the stock market in general. What matters for that purpose is not whether he's right for most ten-year stretches; it's whether he would be right for most stretches in which money managers played martingale games as widely as they have in the last few. (If you limit it to ten-year stretches, you can game the metric by adjusting the frequency of the negative outcome to once per century.)

Since the expectation (integral of probability density times outcome) of such games can be net-negative, he might be. It depends on how prevalent those games are.

There's another angle, too. What matters for the economy as a whole is not one player's expected outcome, but the sum of the expected outcomes over all the players.
Isn't it safe to say that Pageviews is a pretty terrible measure of engagement (especially when comparing sites)? Pageviews can be a measure of how ajaxy your site is as much as it's a metric of engagement.
Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee
This is awesome. Picwing, any chance of an article on your journey to manufacturing? Engineering the frame, developing the software, finding manufacturers that will work with startups...
Could you explain ^L more clearly? I tried it and nothing happened.
This is really cool. Can I ssh into it and load up my own programs to run on it or show an arbitrary web page?

As a true geek and photography hobbyist I wouldn't even think of using it for pictures (LCD, I bet, is terrible - even laptops don't come with decent LCDs anymore) but man... there is so much stuff I could use this for! From weather to error notifications from my production servers, delivered right to on top of my fireplace. Sweeeet.

So this isn't in production yet?
I'm not that interested in the photo sharing side of the Picwing, but it looks like this could become a pretty badass little device for all sorts of networked display/control applications. Will the OS or API be open for hackers to develop and deploy their own applications? If so, I could totally get on board with this.
1) I promised someone I'd build him a remote-controlled swivel for a pole mounted movie camera and I have yet to finish it, that's project #1. Gonna be spending a couple hours in the machine shop!
2) Hopefully finish up the software for my wireless temperature monitor, build a page for it and start getting some sales :-)
Besides the larger display, does anyone know how this compares to the chumby?
Thinking of hacking together a twitter archiver, for those who want to keep a record of their tweets past the limit Twitter itself currently offers. Will allow export in csv etc., and possibly printing off your tweets as a diary-style book, if there's enough interest.
China blocks Internet access to New York Times
Aha, cool. Thanks!
Full list here:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html

Also see:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
I agree. It's probably not the tiredness, it's the "Oh shit" feeling that gets you going.
Wow! great device looking forward to seeing it at my local store one day :)
250 to change top bar color
Then call me a purist. I don't think you're right that "most" startups have a dark side. I'd guess that most don't. I'd rather be one of those.
Sure, try moving cursor to some line in TextEdit (with a document that is large enough to have scroll bars), then press ^L — the line with cursor becomes centered.