jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Stay with Java or learn something new for Web Applications?
I have an idea for a web application which I wanted to code as a side-project for some time.
I already have experience with Java and C# because I learned them mostly during University and Internships.

What would you recommend? Stay with Java and try to get better with it? Or learn something new? There are too much possible choices and I have a hard time deciding what too use.

I was quite excited when I found dropwizard though.
DistCC Monitor
http://aayushtuladhar.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/distcc-monitor/
Get Information on your DistCC builds.
DistCC Monitor Shell Script.
The Story Behind the WWW Hypertext 91 Demo Page and UNC and me
http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/the-story-behind-the-hypertext-91-demo-page-and-unc-and-me/
Of interest: Tim Burners-Lee's first paper on the WWW was rejected by the ACM's Hypertext 91 conference (although he was offered a demo) and, even more interestingly, the anonymous CS professor's list of “deadly problems with the WWW“ are now largely considered key to its subsequent success.
Features that are found in Ticketek Helper application.
http://www.videofy.me/blogger/videos/333647
This video shows features of Ticketek Helper application.
Minimum Viable Product WordPress Themes
http://torgronsund.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/9-minimum-viable-product-wordpress-themes/
The Minimum Viable Product is one key tenet of the Lean Startup and Customer Development methodology.With the raise of cloud computing and SaaS, the website often makes the product itself. Nevertheless, commoditization of Amazon-ish hosing services, search marketing, free and open source software such as the LAMP stack and publishing systems like WordPress – allows startups to build and market their products at a lower cost. This is a simple overview of – cut to the chase – minimum viable WordPress themes.
Double-Secret Probation (2007)
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2007/03/double-secret-probation/
Interesting to contemplate juxtaposed against Larry Page's response to PRISM.
Can't afford a Samsung Galaxy S4? Overclock Samsung S3 
http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/How-To/Overclock-your-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-using-Ninphetamin3-custom-kernel-step-by-step-tutorial-53.htm
If there's a will, there's a way. You can totally overclock Samsung S3 using this tutorial, but you should be warned that the phone could overheat and the battery would last shorter.
Sharing Your Cap Table With A VC
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/11/sharing-your-ca.html
A "cap table" or capitalization table details the equity ownership and debt obligations of the company. When a VC gives you a term sheet it will include cap table that reflects the post-investment ownership levels of key parties.

In order to prepare the term sheet you will need to provide the VC with your pre-investment (aka pre-money) cap table. This will enable them to make a proposal that balances all of the key considerations: their ownership and the ownership of the entrepreneurs.
David Beazley on how the Python GIL actually works
http://carlfk.blip.tv/file/2232410/?
Python Concurrency Workshop 2009 presentation about how the Python GIL actually works and why it's even worse than most people even imagine.
Ask HN: What are some effective ways the neurodiverse can do pairing?
I enjoy the experience of pair programming most times, but I find it pretty daunting for some aspects of programming. For instance, I often need some time to kind of sit and think. I don't think verbally, so in addition to being a pretty solo task, it's otherwise pretty incompatible with pairing.

How do you deal with this? The end result is ok, but a lot of times I know I could have done better on my own for some tasks.
Mass. tech tax repealed after less than 2 months
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/09/27/official-mass-tech-tax-repealed/kbUansQMkm2yxiXRoMyrRN/story.html
This was from a few days ago, but I didn't see it on HN (maybe HN search is failing me?), which is surprising considering that there was a fair amount of discussion/outcry here when the tax was first implemented.
Why Investors Often Suspend Innovation
http://esayas.com/post/78486755620
Most investors are very predictable: They look at companies who wrote success stories in the past to determine future successes of emerging companies. This attitude is exactly the same as looking through a rear-view mirror while driving into a new country or having sex with your girlfriend while looking at a picture of your ex...
HN, thought you might like this find. Freagle.org: Free campsite, free water
http://www.freagle.org/
Looks like it's big in Germany/Europe. I'm the one in Seattle... it'd be nice to see this take off more in North America.
Google wallet subscriptions is out of sandbox
https://developers.google.com/in-app-payments/docs/subscriptions
This is something I've been keeping an eye on ever since Google announced that they had implemented subscriptions in Google Wallet. Up until now it has only been available in sandbox, but it seems you're now allowed to implement subscriptions in production. Great for us brits who have somewhat limited (simple to integrate) payment options available to us.
SofaPlay: AirPlay for the Rest of Us
http://www.fabianpimminger.com/tech/sofaplay-airplay-for-the-rest-of-us/
Do you know the terms UPNP, DLNA, and DMR? … No? … Neither do I. But the truth is, if you own a Smart TV – you know, the TVs which are able to connect to the home network and internet – there is a great chance your TV is supporting these features. SofaPlay allows you to take advantage of them and play media files directly from your Mac on your tv. Just drag and drop a movie onto the app and it will appear on the big screen in front of you. No configuration needed, no hassle. It’s like AirPlay, but for the rest of us!
Show HN: A novel math library for the TypeScript community
https://github.com/clumsycomputer/clumsy-math
here is a little library of fun math functions and types that have been slowly iterated on in one form or another during my free time for the past decade

the stuff on rhythm is the most fleshed out and should be documented enough for others to dive into

theres also some rough utilities for playing with prime numbers which can be helpful when composing rhythms

the next step for this library is to implement functions and types dealing with the concept of a loop which is a generalization of a circle, ellipse, and egg plus additional features!! this abstraction is what im most excited about right now but the current implementation is rather slow for professional use when dealing with audio/signals

the majority of the code presented here was developed in the context of me playing with simple 2d graphics and animations and thus may hinder more serious use from others. nonetheless i felt like it was time to share

if you want to play around with the code yourself i recommend using a tool that ive been developing that enables rapidly developing animations where frames are described using svg elements ⓐ la react

https://github.com/clumsycomputer/clumsy-graphics
Facebook Comments: you need to know
http://www.explorefeed.com/facebook-comments-you-need-to-know.html
Facebook launched its new plugin social comment, which is a clear competition for services such as Disqus or IntenseDebate. Basically consists of a box for sites web or blogs, where we introduce our view, to be published simultaneously in the social network.
A list of hackathons in the US and the World
Heyo. I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of hackathons(developers only) in the Us and (i guess) the world too. The info I'm looking for would rank these hackathons based on prestige, as defined by exposure. The resources should have info on prize money, when the hackathon usually takes place and who won most recently.

I'm not sure if anyone else has been interested in something like this but I would appreciate any resources sent my way!
How to advance your career? First read Passionate Programmer
http://bobbelderbos.com/2011/04/advance-career-read-passionate-programmer/
I just finished reading the Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler. It is about creating a remarkable career in software development. Developers out there, highly recommended reading!
Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce scent contains 11 harmful (unlisted) chemicals
http://consumerist.com/2010/10/teens-unite-in-protest-of-abercrombie-fitchs-fierce-stench.html
And here is the study

http://safecosmetics.org/downloads/NotSoSexy_report_May2010.pdf
GDevelopment web studio
http://www.gdevelopment.org
Website and Web applications development studio specializing in great service at affordable prices.
gDevelopment Web Studio is based in Armenia
Paul R. La Monica states: "Boston is the new Silicon Valley"
http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/09/17/boston-is-the-new-silicon-valley/
The title to this article is a bit misleading, but at least it points to opportunity outside Silicon Valley.
My Love / Hate Relationship With PHP Traits
http://www.coderslexicon.com/my-love-hate-relationship-with-php-traits/
Do you love or hate PHP traits? I am on the fence.
DIY PaaS on Amazon EC2 for Newbies
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/04/getting-started-private-paas-amazon-ec2
6 Steps to your own Personal PaaS on EC2
Quotees – iOS app for entrepreneurs
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotees/id818547836
One new quote every day to inspire you!
Axoloti – Embeddable DSP Modular Synth Based on the STM32F4 with Graphical
This is an ambitious project that through Java on the desktop, USB and a circuit board with an STM32F4 (w/ floating-point unit), allows a new relationship between musicians and digital instrument designers-

It suddenly becomes possible for musicians and instrument designers to collaborate to create custom instruments for an album, a song, or even a part of a song. The designer doesn't even have to know how to program DSP, only edit with a familiar Modular Synthesizer GUI.

This is a subtle video, but a high-impact project, I'm quite in love with it.

Here's their Indiegogo (they're out of Belgium, not U.S.), which I'm proud to support:
http://igg.me/at/axoloti

Here's a little writing I did on the project, talking about specifically why I think this is so valuable:
http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/axoloti

And of course, here's the github for the Axoloti :)
https://github.com/JohannesTaelman/axoloti/
How to raise seed capital in Europe - "Secret" nr 1
http://www.markify.com/blog/how-to-raise-seed-capital-in-europe-secret-1/
Fundraising is not only a pitch – it’s also a process. It is a sales process.
Two simple hacks for weebly to get pro feature @free
http://nayan-ambali.blogspot.com/2010/06/two-simple-hacks-for-weebly-to-get-two_27.html
two simple hacks for weebly to get pro feature @free
Lean Startup Machine is Emotionally Challenging
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/32081190063/lean-startup-machine-is-emotionally-challenging
With Lean Startup Machine returning to Toronto October 19-21, I thought I’d write up a few posts to give people an overview of some of the not so obvious things you can expect from the weekend workshop.
Ask HN: Where can I learn about Linear Programming
I recently feel like I've been stagnating, writing code that requires no thought (sort of like writing longer versions of FizzBuzz). I want to do something a bit more challenging, and feel like Linear Programming will be a great thing to learn.

If anyone can tell me about some Linear programming resources, I'll be very happy. Also, if you have any suggestions as to other topics that I can look into, those are welcome as well.

Thanks.
Ask HN: Legalities with creating a startup?
Hi HN, I've been lurking and reading posts for a while, but finally decided tonight to make an account and my first post. A few days ago I came up with a marketable service, and have since decided to make a startup, but I'm unsure as to what I need to do legally in order to make this legitimate. I'm sure that part of this is surely relative to the state I live in, but are there some de facto tax forms or something I should be filling out? I'm very new to anything like this, and am willing to accept any sort of resources available. Thanks!
What it takes to improve Git or: How I fixed zsh completion
http://felipec.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/how-i-fixed-git-zsh-completion/
The story of how I went from identifying a problem in zsh's completion, to eventually fix it after years of experimentation and work.
Maiken - Maven like build tool for C/C++
https://github.com/Dekken/maiken
Documentation - https://raw.github.com/Dekken/maiken/master/README.md
Could Berlin be the next Silicon Valley? [Video]
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26790422
The BBC seem to have a series of these:

- Could Boston be the next Silicon Valley?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26488430

- Is Seattle the next Silicon Valley?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26117077

- The Next Silicon Valleys: Tel Aviv
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26075807
Blogengine , Asp.Net , Ajax , C Sharp , jQuery , JavaScript , Css , Sql , Access
http://www.arsivyazilim.com
Blogengine , Asp.Net , Ajax , C Sharp , jQuery , JavaScript , Css , Sql , Access , Sapmle , Article
Binky Pointer Fun Video
http://www.cs.stanford.edu/cslibrary/PointerFunC.avi
This is a short 3 minutes video about pointers from Stanford CS education library.
Ask HN: who are the YC W11?
It seems the interviews are over, Congrats to YC team for that. Eager to know who are the Startup teams you have decided to bring on board...So that we can also Congratulate them!
Visualisation of local tweets at royal wedding
http://itsdevelopmental.com/2011/890/
Visualisation of local tweets from the royal wedding. It’s a neat and simple visualisation which captures a remarkable amount of information – images, Foursquare check-ins, gender of tweeters.
Learn Jenkins CI From The Experts
http://jenkins-ci.org/content/behind-scenes-jenkins-user-conference-palo-alto
Kohsuke Kawaguchi will be delivering a keynote at Jenkins User Conference Palo Alto. Learn what's new in Jenkins and the hottest Jenkins improvements.
How to start a business which relies on the field of optimization/algorithms?
https://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-good-ways-to-start-a-startup-which-relies-heavily-on-the-field-of-optimization-and-algorithms/answer/Blue-Gill-1?__snids__=178939987&__nsrc__=1
Hello guys<p>I want to start a company which heavily relies on mathematics, optimisation and algorithms. We are a team of 4 comp science students who have huge expertise in these fields. However we have no customers and no product... I just read about workflow optimization, so that could be a possible field for us. So:<p>How to get customers? Is it better to create a "brain build" product(product without huge market research) and then fit it to customers?<p>Please give me hints, share your experience on how to start this business!<p>I really appreciate your answer
Nintendo SPACEWORLD '97
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n12/
Set encoding to Shift_JIs for ungarbled characters.

There are actually videos of some pages!

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n12/sw64soft/sw6405.html
O'Reilly Maker Faire Ebook Deal | Make: eBooks for $9.99
http://oreilly.com/store/dd-makerfaire.html
4 different Make: DIY eBooks for $9.99 each today on O'Reilly.com in celebration of Maker Faire in NY this weekend. Looks like good books to add to any hacker's library, especially if you want to pass on the tradition to younger people in your life.
Simple budget planner - my weekend startup
http://monthlybudget.info
I needed a simple budget planner, hated Excel charts, so it does everything i need. Hopefully for someone else too.
Show HN: WebSockets Unravelled
Hi, I'm writing a planning to write a book on WebSockets and would be grateful if you could give me some feedback here - https://leanpub.com/websockets-unravelled
Edward Snowden live interview at SXSW interview at 11am CST
http://www.texastribune.org/multimedia/
Will also be available here, with a countdown clock! http://www.texastribune.org/livestream/sxsw2014/
Show HN: Improved index of DuckDuckGo bang operators
https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html
I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - I am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines. The latest addition is a description for each search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a description derived from the sites meta and title tags.
I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.

The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang

Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...
Show HN: Duotone image filter to show your support for Ukraine
https://www.ukrainespirit.art/
This duotone art project is inspired by the stories coming out of Ukraine when they were first invaded. Being outside the conflict itself and wanting to help, my thinking was along the lines of, “How can I demonstrate my support for Ukraine and get involved?”

Well, creating an image filter seemed like a good way to do that.

I’ve been learning to _paint_ with p5, and was experimenting with pixel manipulation the weekend before the invasion. I haven’t really manipulated pixels outside of photoshop-like tools, and _painting_ with p5 has brought me a renewed sense of joy for programming. This is where the duotone idea of the filter came from, “Can I turn any image into the colors of the Ukraine flag and it still be recognizable?"

After a day or two of creating and polishing the duotone method with static images, it was looking pretty good. Made source images dynamic, and I could ship faster by not breaking out image processing into a separate service (as a bonus there’s privacy too). At this point, I do not want to think about having to manage all the I/O that comes with an image processing service. KISS, and see if people want/use it before putting in more effort there.

Dress it up, add in a few resources to help others get involved too, and that’s how we get this first version of ukrainespirit.art.
MSN down?
http://www.msn.com/
Has been displaying a single line of raw text for hours, at least for me... I'd be getting a little embarrassed by now if I were MS.
Training My Mind to Find The Next Uber ($17 billion valuation)
https://medium.com/@GregMuender/uber-17-billion-valuation-how-did-i-not-see-this-e274b49d7584
In April of 2012, I was watching Morgan Spurlock’s “Day In The Life” episode featuring Tim Ferriss. The camera crew followed Tim around on his daily adventure, and at one point, he hailed a black SUV using Uber...(read more)
Let's talk about Vagrant
http://iostudio.github.com/LunchAndLearn/2012/03/21/vagrant.html
Presentation I'm giving this week on vagrant. Feedback welcome. =)
Vote for Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures on Steam Greenlight
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136246834
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136246834
iHerb Delivery Service Displays Full Names and Addresses
http://customer.cjgls-asia.com/ParcelDelivery/InterSearchOrder.aspx?CNo=All&HAWBNo=CJ00000209483
The HAWBNo is consecutive so you can get the previous full name and address on http://customer.cjgls-asia.com/ParcelDelivery/InterSearchOrder.aspx?CNo=All&HAWBNo=CJ0000020947

and so on..
Ask HN: How to preserve my documents and videos for 20 yrs?
So, with Covid going on, I am afraid that if anything happens to me, my kids won't know anything about me when they grow up. So, I want to record a few videos, collect a few photos, make a few documents and post them in some place online and make sure it is discoverable by them after 20 yrs? I am not very worried about privacy. What are my options?

Kids are 6yrs old now. One thing that comes to my mind is prepay google drive $5 per month for next 240 months. What do you say?
New Facebook Messenger for Mobile
https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10150249543542131
Facebook just launched "Facebook Messenger" an app for iOS and Android phones. This is their official blog post on the app.
Testament To Perseverence In A Tough Business
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/rip-bernie-brillstein/
Many have said the "the fix is in" in Hollywood. But it sounds to me like hard work and perseverence are the biggest stars.
FireFox bug from 2002 still exists in FF6...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157846
While working on a sweet little app, and needing to add some padding to my textarea html tag, I notice FF6 still behaved according to this bug report from 2002... why oh why?

Gérard Talbot 2002-07-16 20:16:52 PDT

Actual results: the padding on textarea elements are "located" between the
scrollbars (if present) and the borders of the textarea.

Expected results: the padding on textarea elements should be between the content
(text content) and the borders (or scrollbars if present).

Reproducible: always. Windows XP Pro. Mozilla 1.1a+ 20020707

Test case following.
12 hours per day.
Applicability professionally
Poll: Choosing programming language?
What factor do you rate highest when picking a new programming to learn?
Show HN: Android app for solving sudokus from images
https://github.com/hypertensiune/Android-Sudoku-Solver-OCR
I am learning android development and here's a project I made, a sudoku solver using MLKIT text recognition. I would appreciate any feedback, thanks!
My favorite Scott Aaronson poem: "H(p) = -plogp - (1-p)log(1-p)"
http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/plogp.html
I wish I had found this in high school.
The Audi quattro Experience
http://experientialmarketingblog.com/the-audi-quattro-experience/
Audi’s quattro Experience is an interactive installation that lets you control a slot car through an iPad–with the aim of giving you something of the feel for Audi’s motorsports legacy.
Show HN: Bug Hunter, our Ruby bug hunting game (RailsRumble 2013 submission).
http://lightning-thunderbolts.r13.railsrumble.com/
Bug Hunter is a game where you have to go through snippets of code and try to identify the bugs as quickly as possible.

The idea is that you go learn with common categories of bugs through repetition.

It is still very much a work in progress, and we could use some of your feedback (and your own Ruby snippets too!)
Open-source Dance (Welcome: Contributions or advice)
http://choreoshare.com/
I'm starting a website to provide "open-source choreography" - a place where people can post their own original choreography, with the agreement that it may be used, reworked, performed, etc.

I posted about this a while back: in the previous version, my site was more of a YouTube clone. I abandoned that idea, since I didn't want to deal with the legal issues of the music itself. This new version will be more like a blog, linking to YouTube videos instead (since YouTube has everything in place to deal with copyright issues).

What do you think? Any suggestions? Anyone know of anyone who might be interested in contributing choreography to this project?
8 New Ways To Get More YouTube Subscribers
http://devstand.com/2011/12/06/get-more-youtube-subscribers/
Getting more YouTube subscribers is vital in today's online marketing because the video industry is growing extremely fast. These 8 techniques will help you get more YouTube subscribers and also to build a list of friends and convert them into website traffic.
Show HN: Our Bitcoin Mining website and business has launched
http://kraterminer.com/
After months of hard work, my cofounders and I have launched our Bitcoin mining website. We're ready to take orders and ready for 1 good nights sleep.