jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Use "YC" discount code to save 15% on Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Conference (Nov. 14)
http://pitch.women2.com
Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Conference and Competition<p>November 14, 2012 @ Manhattan Center, NYC<p>Network with 800+ men and women in tech at PITCH NYC Conference & Competition discussing the “New Entrepreneur Economy”. Learn from talks given by leading women of tech companies and startups including Meebo, Songkick, Adafruit Industries, DailyWorth, Maykah and more. Startup competition finalists will pitch live onstage to judging panel and audience for prizes. Participate in lunchtime mentoring and more!<p>Save 15% on PITCH NYC tickets with discount code "YC" when you register here: http://pitch.women2.com
How to Get All your Data from Google products
http://tekunik.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-get-all-your-data-from-google.html
How to Get All your Data from Google products
Show HN: API for statistical comparison of online product ratings
https://www.danielcrouch.net/RaterBayes/RaterBayes.php
Sometimes it is not clear whether one product is genuinely better than another based on their online ratings, especially when the number of ratings is not large.

I created an API for computing the posterior probability that one product is rated better on average than another, based on their online ratings data. Users submit the number of 1-5 star ratings for products 'A' and 'B', and the data is looked up on an empirical Bayesian model, fitted to a large data set of Amazon ratings.

A basic user interface can be tried at the URL above and there is a link at the bottom of the page to the API (at RapidAPI). The first 150 API calls per month are free.
Looking for Startup Advice
Me and my co-founder have an idea that we just cannot give up on. We've been working on this idea for 1 and half year. However we failed after the first year and since November 2014, we got rid of everything we built and started over again with a product pivot and same idea/vision.

Since the pivot we were able to move very fast. We now have had a polished product for a little while now and have been trying persistently to get organizations to adopt the platform.

However trying to get organizations to adopt is like pulling teeth. Maybe it's because we have absolutely no network/connections to leverage, or maybe its because not everyone wants to write. Or maybe organizations just don't like "different" and "better" way of doing something they're already doing and wants to be left alone.

We really, really feel like we have a very solid product right now. And we really like the vision/idea that we're trying to make come true, but trying to get past the organizations' "corporate wall" and have them adopt feels literally impossible.

Is this a sign that we should give up on our vision?

What we built currently is an organization publishing platform for team collaborated digital storytelling. The problem we're trying to solve is social responsibility.

We could easily give up our vision and open up the platform to all types of users... but we're so attached and obsessed over our vision of different way of doing/reporting social responsibility.

What do you think?? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Here's our product and a demo that you can login to play with:

https://goodethos.com/charitywater

https://goodethos.com/demo-public (username: demo-public, password: demo-public)
$112 Xiaomi router (miwifi): 1TB hardrive, 802.11ac, openwrt mod
http://bbs.xiaomi.cn/thread-9646810-1-1.html
launch event in chinese http://bbs.xiaomi.cn/thread-9646810-1-1.html
product page (chinese) http://www.mi.com/miwifi/
Ask HN: What do I need to know about Macs?
I'm working on a couple open source projects right now, ranging from command-line utilities to GUI applications, and targeting people from scientists with little computer experience to skilled developers. One of my big weaknesses is that I have very little experience with Macs (and don't own one myself) - therefore, I don't know what Mac users want or need. For example, I generally provide Debian and/or RPM packages for Linux users and executables/installers for Windows, but I don't know anything about Mac equivalents. Historically my Mac users are stuck installing from source, and not all of them are savvy enough to do so - this has been a big problem.

What general information does a developer need to know, not to use a Mac, but to provide support for Mac users? Is it eventually necessary to just go get a Mac?
Ask HN: How divided are US-Americans in real life?
As an european i get my impressions of US life from the news, shows and through communities like HN or dev stuff.

In my bubble it seems like there should be constant political conflict in everyday life - which just seems impractical.

In your daily life, how much influence do current events regarding the elections have and how often do people talk or argue about it?
RESTful Web Service Discoverability, part 4
http://www.baeldung.com/2011/11/06/restful-web-service-discoverability-part-4/
How to make a RESTful Web Service Discoverable, focusing on RESTful architecture and principles, HATEOAS and practical scenarios driven by tests.
Show HN: Genre map explorer for Spotify, a literate datavis tool
https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/genre-map-explorer-for-spotify
Hey HN!

A couple of years ago I pondered what a 'non-linear' music application would be like. Rather than playlists being linear lists of tracks, they could branch and fork - a rock playlist could fork into indie rock and post-rock, etc. Listening to a playlist would be akin to a Choose Your Own Adventure - still a guided experience, but with some personal decision making sprinkled in.

I didn't end up building this. Instead I attempted to find a way to synthesise these forking journeys from collections of existing linear playlists.

After building some of the basic visualisations, the explorer further diverged from its original vision and evolved into a playlist 'gardening' tool that I used for splitting, merging, and pruning a range of my existing genre-homogenous playlists.

The feature I find the most useful is the "Playlist smoother" - it minimises the total "genre distance" between artists in a playlist. Artists that are the most similar to each other will often be neighbours in the playlist order.

I'm hoping that some people will find this useful for some of their own music 'gardening' tasks Some disclaimers: the authorisation flow is crap, performance is not amazing and the mobile UX is borderline unusable. Some of this can be attributable to inherent limitations of the Observable platform, and some my poor craftsmanship, so I must apologise.

Enjoy!
Show HN: I made a tool to build badges in Pharo
https://github.com/hernanmd/badges
I'd like to share with you a new app for building badges made with Pharo 10 (a fork of Squeak Smalltalk). It is based on the Shields.io badge generation provider.

The idea is to select the badges you want, complete the required variables, and get your badge(s). You can also save and load commonly used variables, so it may help a bit to automate presenting your project's README.

Hernán
Android SDK/ADT 16.0.0
http://developer.android.com/sdk/tools-notes.html
Biggest features:

* Lint tool
http://tools.android.com/recent/lint

* Sensor & camera emulation

* Extended pre-clean target in build.xml for NDK builds

* Can now pass custom arguments to java compiler
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=21525
Ask HN: What is your one tip about A/B testing you would share?
Wondering what everyone would tell someone new to a/b testing for website and conversion rate optimization. Could be anything from expectations to approach, etc. Thanks!
List of NOSQL database
http://nosql-database.org/
Here I am providing link for list of NOSQL database.
To anyone who has ever failed in a tech startup, I'm with you
http://silentinteraction.com/to-anyone-who-has-ever-failed-a-tech-startup.html
Us developers with the hunger to become a startup success know the feeling. It's that burning feeling we get every so often, or for me now every day. That feeling that we want to be more than just developers and designers. That we're here for more than just to get paid to accomplish someone else's dream.
NuesByte Re-release [RSS Reader]
http://nuesbyte.com/
Hello all

I would like to thank you all for all the feedback you gave me last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471928

Here is feedback based on your questions and suggestions last time:

1. What has changed since your past post
I have teamed up Wednesday, and we plan to invest into the mid-long term for the site.
Some notable steps we have taken:
- Recoded the entire site to be scalable for an unlimited amounts of users
- Monetization happens through a subscription model, with more users, we can add more servers
- Plans to continuously improve the site

2. Google Imports
- Yes

3. Features
- Fast
- Simple, clean
- Unlimited Scroll
- Full features on registration
- Folders
- Hotkeys
- Layout customization
- Smart/read items
- Liked/Visited items
- Up to the minute feed updates (rather than hourly polling)
- https authentication

In our plan to continue developing the site, we will be adding a mobile version, personalization, export functionality, and much more as time goes on. Feedback and feature request are always welcome!

Thanks
Ask HN: Is there a repository listing privacy sensitive files with default path?
I'm looking for a repository listing files (whith their default paths) that might contain privacy sensitive information. Some Examples: browser history, saved passwords, ssh keys, address books generated by different programs, location data from gps, config files containing credentials etc.

Is there a project which lists such files depending on the OS and installed software? Or do you alternatively know of efficient methods to create such a list for a specific desktop/mobile/server setup?
P2P file sharing in the browser
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/04/pipes-facebook-file-transfer-system-is-finally-out-of-beta/
There's also http://www.sharefest.me which was on google io13
HS Hackers- Scholarship for Entrepreneurs
http://www.mckelveyfoundation.org/entrepreneurial/
We have high school hackers, they seem too young for YC, so I suggest they apply for this scholarship then. If YC can do $20K, then a HS student can definitely do with just $10K.
Responsive web design - problems from the coalface
http://www.welcomebrand.co.uk/thoughts/responsive-web-design-problems-from-the-coalface/
I’m currently doing some research for a project which I’m specifically interested more about the problems fellow web designers and developers are experiencing when working with responsive web designs on new and existing client builds. The results so far have been interesting so I thought I’d share a few of them.
A rapid prototyping and static site generation tool for designers and developers
http://mixture.io/
Mixture brings together a collection of awesome tools and best practices. It's quick, no-fuss, super-powerful and works with your favourite editor.
Social Networks to top $1.2 billion in advertising
http://socialblogworking.com/postings/e85981f40e9c2415ce6f94ce56f21901
According to eMarketer, 37% of the US internet adults used Social Networking at least once a month and by 2011 that figure will be more like 49%. That might just be some of the fastest growth we've seen even for the internet.
Does happiness affect productivity? - "Happiness economics" in reverse
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5343
Wanting to delve deeper we split productivity into two parts: the number of attempts, which we call "effort", and the probability of each attempt being correct, which we call "precision". What we find is that there was no significant increase in precision, but a highly significant increase in effort.

Happy employees will work harder (not better), finally there is a study to prove that.
How to Know You Have Found a Great Startup Lawyer
http://www.thestartuplawyer.com/representation/how-to-know-you-have-found-a-great-startup-lawyer
Evaluating your startup lawyer (or any lawyer for that matter) can be a difficult task because a lawyer's work product tends to be intangible. That is, if you hired someone to build you a bookcase you could test its craftmanship in a matter of seconds. Not the case for the startup lawyer that typically deals in Word and PDF. Therefore, it's good idea to evaluate your startup lawyer in the following ways to determine if you have found a keeper.
Show HN: chatasaur.us, modern web-chat with IRC written in Erlang
https://chatasaur.us
I would love to hear what you guys think?
StartupDay 2010 HackerNews discount code
http://www.seattle20.com/startupday/?hackernews
StartupDay is September 25 (Saturday) in Seattle and it features 15 successful entrepreneurs giving 20 minute talks on everything that is important to build a successful startup. Use discount code HACKERNEWS to get 30% discount.
Twitter's Revenue Numbers Leaked
http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-twitters-early-business-financials-2012-3
What a joke...
Pitchie: Getting Started
http://blog.pitchie.com/?p=15
Pitchie (UK startup) tells us what they're actually working on.
50 Excellent CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials for Beautiful Design
http://designmodo.com/css3-techniques-tutorials/
The CSS3 Tutorials and techniques can be proficiently functioned using markup, HTML, and some improved properties of CSS3. CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques will bring new age animations and designs.
Britain and America dominate list of best universities.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/news/article660845.ece
I was surprised to see the amount of British universities at the top. <a href="http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/top20..." rel="nofollow">http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/top20..., Caltech guys will be happy to see they got ahead of M.I.T.<p>And we Brazilians are just happy to see that USP and Unicamp got into the list (175 and 177). I do believe, however, that Unicamp got really impressive scores for quality of faculty.
The World’s Oldest Blogger passes away
http://marketingeasy.net/the-worlds-oldest-blogger-passes-away/2008-07-15/
She was 108 and passed away this week
Browxy, an online free java compiler and runner reach first 1000 users
http://www.browxy.com
Browxy, an online java compiler and runner reach today first 1000 users. The next big feature that will be released soon is autocomplete
New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/
An up-to-date refresh of the August 2009 "outside-looking-in" data analysis that was published in TechCrunch. Shows new registrations leveling off at around 6MM/month and Twitter topping 75 million registered accounts by year-end 2009.
FounderDating Expands to Help Find the Right Co-Founder
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/bringing-a-startup-together-founderdating-launches-matching-site-expands-to-ny-boston-la/
With a major focus on quality, FounderDating brings together talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds to start innovative new companies together.
Sublet available immediately at Palo Alto Hacker House
http://www.facebook.com/hackerhouse?ref=ts
A spot in a triple is available immediately at the Palo Alto Hacker House. This triple will turn into a double on November 12th -- eg. one of the people in the triple will be moving out then. If you are into startups and want some cheap housing blocks away from University Ave, this is a great place for you! Check out the link to our
facebook page. Email xin.tim.gu@gmail.com to apply!
Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov Discuss Technology, Progress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQwAr7lysw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TQwAr7lysw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atp85cNLI5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFaCMnVSrrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNVSVeMPSk
How To Submit Your Executive Summary To A VC
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/07/process-submitt.html
The VC process from an entrepreneur's perspective has many steps, which I will cover in the ensuing posts. The first step is submitting your executive summary. There are lots of ways to submit your executive summary: cold channels (e.g., cold email or cold LinkedIn introduction), through introducing yourself to a VC at a networking event or through a 3rd party introduction (e.g., a lawyer or mutual contact)...
DroidCloud for better Android Ecosystem.
http://akshay-deo.blogspot.in/2012/02/droidcloud-for-better-android-ecosystem.html
DroidCloud has recently launched its private beta, to the early ones who showed their interest in testing this product. The beta comes with a lot of interesting features for Android developers and marketers.
> 7 years
The Age Of Big Data - BBC Documentary (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzlwhP5JejA
The BBC documentary follows people who mine Big Data, including LAPD police officers who use data to predict crime, a London scientist/trader who makes millions with math, and a South African astronomer who wants to catalogs the entire cosmos.
Can you break the ten thousand hour rule?
http://blog.jodyalbritton.me/2012/09/14/self-experimentation-and-the-ten-thousand-hour-rule/
I just wanted to get the thoughts and opinions of HN. I have been learning to program for the last two years. Does it really take ten years to master a new skill? When did you start calling yourself a programmer?
Show HN: Schnell Console – Terminal App Redefined
https://thevoyagingstar.com/
Execute commands quickly from browsers like chrome & firefox without copying.
One Shortcut to run any programming file from VS Code.
Ask HN: Best place for tech blog?
There's no lack of options for a general purpose blog — Medium and Ghost and WordPress all seem great — but it's unclear what the best choice for a tech-focused one is. In particular, I'd like to include code snippets with syntax colouring and embed D3 visualizations. An enjoyable reading experience is the primary concern; ease of authoring less so.

Is a static site (say, using GitHub Pages) the best choice? The built-in discovery and sharing features of Medium are attractive, but I'm unsure if a blog about niche programming topics will benefit from them. Any options beyond the mainstream blogging platforms that I should consider?
Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace
https://emery.to/
We're building an app that helps people manage their schedule, tasks and notes all in one place.

The goal is to create a workspace, where people can manage their various priorities, both personal and professional, see a single schedule combined of all their calendars and manage their days without switching between multiple apps.

At the moment we've implemented Google calendar synchronisation, basic tasks and notes. Also Emery has some things we really wanted to see in other apps – private notes for meetings, categories that can be used to group tasks/notes/meetings together, weekly productivity reports.

Happy to hear any feedback and answer any questions!
Show HN: Small.io, Micro services for your web apps
http://small.io/
Sick of dealing with monolithic code? Small.io is a collection of simple services for common tasks so you can easily develop web apps.
Profanity and OS projects - should we care?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5625
Seems like too much free time and the politically correct got its round over the ruby community for good this time. Luckily they are not reading the linux kernel.
How to go about selling your online business?
me and couple of friends started a website as a side project. all 3 of us work fulltime so the website basically runs itself. over the past few years we've had amazing growth with $0 spent on marketing or advertising where our competitors get lots of media attention and do lots of advertising.

we went from making $1000 a year to now over 100K/year. what can we do in order to see if there is any potential buyers interested?

thanks
Malicious PDFs: How to Protect Yourself
http://securitybits.net/malicious-pdf-how-to-protect
Malicious documents were the most commonly encountered exploit via the Web in 2008 and continued to be the most prominently encountered exploit in 2009. This is due to a large number of exploits for programs like Adobe Acrobat and the Microsoft Office suite, the ubiquitous use of documents via the Web and the built-in support into the browser.
Vitality everywhere: the Gone List, Facebook’s News Feed, and the rise of the feed.
http://laserlike.com/2008/06/10/vitality-everywhere-the-gone-list-facebooks-news-feed-and-the-rise-of-the-feed/
Facebook-like News Feed for everything else.
Idea: Using Bitcoin-style Publicly Auditable Ledger for Electronic Voting
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1g350g/could_bitcoin_the_blockchain_and_p2p_currency/
Saw this thread pop up on reddit and felt I had to share it to some extent.

So, the idea is not well developed yet at this point in time, but I believe that bitcoin-style encryption could be used for better security in electronic voting machines. Keeping a distributed record of votes cast, maintained in the same manner as the blockchain, would provide nearly unbeatable security against the rigged voting machines that conspiracy theorists/ whistleblowers (justified or not) talk about today.

Admittedly, I am no expert in this topic. So I decided to bring the idea here, just in case it has legs. Anybody have any input?
Android SDK tools & ADT updated 
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/03/updated-sdk-tools-and-adt-revision-17.html
Updated SDK tools & ADT rev 17: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/03/updated-sdk-tools-and-adt-revision-17.html
Show HN: Address.pub – email for crypto hw wallets
https://public-address.notion.site/public-address/Address-pub-8df89b0df40b435c942e264c4922772c
Can't wait for you all to tear apart my attempt at 1up-ing proton mail.

Address.pub is a gateway between regular email and modern security. Crypto hw wallets and bech32m are used to generate email addresses that look like btc addresses.
Show HN: A search engine which only shows you upvoted content
https://www.crowdsearch.xyz
Hi guys,

Lately, I’ve noticed myself searching for things in Google and then typing Reddit (e.g. “opinion on Liz Truss reddit.”)

I tried to work out why I was doing this, initially thinking that I just wanted to enjoy the social aspect of the internet, but now I think I do it because, sometimes, I want to see results which have been filtered down by people, not by the Google search algorithm.

One of the many examples of where I think this can be useful is when searching for products or services. I know that if I Google “best laptop for gaming,” the results will be the products of large companies which have invested a lot of time and money getting onto the first page of Google, and won’t necessarily have the best products.

I built this as a way of searching through upvoted content across the internet (on multiple platforms), for when I want to search for something where a simple Google search won’t do.

It’s free-to-use, so feel free to try it out and I’d appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!
Show HN: Bugfruit – a simple embedded key-value store
https://github.com/reesporte/bugfruit
Hey HN! I work on a database for my day-job and I realized I had never written one from scratch, so I wrote bugfruit! Once I was mostly satisfied with it, I looked up some benchmarks to compare my simple database to other brand name key-value stores. I was surprised to see that mine held up fairly well on the subset of benchmarks I replicated. So I used the Pavlo Database Naming System [0] to name it and open-sourced the code. I'd love to hear any feedback you might have on it!

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2020/03/on-naming-a-datab...