jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
CFP for the Open World Forum open source conference in Paris
http://openworldforum.org/en/news/CFP/
The CFP for the Open World Forum, France's (and maybe Europe's) major open source conference, is open for 1 more week. We're looking for proposals both for technical talks, with tracks such as:

- Big Data
- Open Data and dataviz
- Mobile technologies
- Next-gen Web
- Web Accessibility
- Cloud and Infrastructure as Code
- devops
- Internet of Things
- Cross-distro meetup
- Software Quality
- Student Demo Cup

as well as tracks on the role of open source on the economy and society in general:

- Public Policies
- Collaborative and shared Innovation
- Education & Job
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
- Foundations and Communities
- Women in Tech
- Successes and Testimonials
- Cloud as a lock-in or an opportunity?
- CIO Summit

The call is open until June 30th.
Flat Design and Fonts (Typography in Flat Design Era)
http://designmodo.com/flat-design-fonts/
What are the best fonts to use with flat design? We’ve discussed the trend in depth. And you have responded with lots of questions. We will try to answer one of those popular queries today.
Show HN: Repro – the time-travel web inspector
https://repro.dev
Hi HN! I'm Gary, the creator of Repro (https://repro.dev), the time-travel web inspector for replayable, shareable bug reports. It is available as a free Chrome extension today (support for other browsers is coming soon).

I started building Repro as I was frustrated by the state of tools and processes for sharing feedback and bug reports during web development. Screenshots, videos and written bug reports can certainly be helpful, but they are inconsistently used and often do not give clear steps to reproduction.

Repro is an experiment in how far session recording can be an effective way for team members to communicate their feedback, both during development and on issues in production.

It's at an early stage right now - the recording includes DOM mutations, styling and user interactions, but there is much more coming: console messages, network requests, performance reporting, commenting/discussion, etc.

How it works:

When the Repro extension is running, your browsing session in the current tab is recorded into a fixed-size, in-memory buffer (no data leaves your browser until you are ready to share). When you open the Repro inspector, the recorded events are replayed - and you can pause, rewind and inspect at any time!

If you want to save and share a recording, you can upload it to Repro's cloud storage. Your recording is end-to-end encrypted and a unique URL is generated for you to share.

For more detail or to download the Repro extension, go to https://repro.dev. I would love to hear your feedback.

PS. Repro is free to use and no sign-up is required, but if you would like to be more involved in shaping the future of the product and its roadmap, please consider joining our early adopter program: https://forms.gle/CTGhWiyekU4sdCyB9. Or feel free to email me directly - gary [at] repro [dot] dev.

Thanks!
Customize an MBA from MOOCs tool
http://www.thefreemba.com/
Having done my MBA at London Business School, I came to realize that most of the courses are now online for free in the form of MOOCs. So i decided to build SkillAcademy to help people bundle courses into skillcamps.

theFreeMBA is a side project which might be useful for those who don't really have the time (or the money) to do an MBA.

Really eager to hear your feedback plz
Twitter it should be 2015. Based on RSS+ (it's not misspelled)
http://www.indiegogo.com/Ploq-New-Media-what-it-should-be
Dear HN, sorry for my ugly English. Sorry for my hairstyle. Sorry for the noise in my video. In spite of all this, I still hope, that you will hear me. I'm start working on RSS+. Dear nerds, I need your help to specify all subcategories.
Henry Blodget's plan to save Yahoo
http://www.businessinsider.com/our-offer-for-yahoo-2011-9
Not sure if serious...
Ask HN: What HN username matches which YC start-up?
I got my own database of YC alumni over here:
http://ycuniverse.com/startups.php

My database has a column for the hacker news username of the start-up founders.

So far, I only indirectly know of two users: "justin", founder of kiko and justin.tv. Also "drusenko", founder of weebly.

So... what are the hacker news usernames of other YC start-up founders?
The new lifelog tech that could prevent ill health for you in the future
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10835/lifelog-our-daily-health-under-the-microscope/
The idea of a smart camera that captures your every move was initially met with cynicism from certain quarters in the technology world, but it could it now become an invaluable everyday tool in monitoring your health.

"Much memory-focused lifelogging work has concentrated on rehabilitation of those with cognitive impairment, with positive results."

http://bit.ly/X94ljp
Social News Sites for Web Designers and Developers
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/12-excellent-social-news-sites-for-web-designers/
"This article features social news/bookmarking sites for web designers and developers."
Vidinterest.com – a social video platform
http://enbeeone3.com/vidinterest-com-a-social-video-platform/
Vidinterest enables you to add unlimited videos from Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion, have notifications like facebook and you can follow people or their playlist like Twitter. Further in the owners own words,’Vidinterest is to videos what Pinterest is to images’.
Show HN: Funny startup gif
http://startupgif.com/
I thought the only missing thing is a website full of animated gifs. So I just quickly made one. So that people can waste their time watching funny things and don't do their real work.

This piece of high tech innovation will help the humanity and our next generations will heavily benefit from it.
Kickstarter for Ormr, a New Procedural Image Editor
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/928340467/ormr-the-smart-image-editor
We're starting a new Kickstarter project for a new, smart image editor that allows artists to seamlessly adjust any action taken in the past, per layer, and get a new result instantly in real time with no additional work at all. Help support us and get Ormr off the ground!
Uni-Verse
http://www.uni-verse.org/
Open source Internet platform for multi-user, interactive, distributed, high-quality 3D graphics and audio for home, public and personal use. The platform will support high-quality 3D-graphics as well as high-quality 3D-audio and acoustic simulation.
Show HN: Open-source low code trend analysis
https://ossinsight.io/collections/low-code-development-tool/trends/
Trending and historical ranking for lowcode development tools
Collecting addresses as you collect email
https://www.postable.com/
Not affiliate with this company, but found it interesting.
Show HN: We just launched our first original interactive storybook. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jubitron-girl-robot-lovely/id601534162?mt=8
Hey guys, not asking anyone to purchase this by any means. Just really proud of what my team has done and want to show it off. I'd love to give out some promo codes to any hacker parents that need something to keep their young kids busy.
SaaS on cloud vs. SaaS on Datacenter
http://uds-web.blogspot.com/2014/06/saas-on-cloud-vs-saas-on-datacenter.html
My direct experience of building both!
Mindmeister - A Free & Simple Brainstorming Tool
http://kevinboss.net/doing-business/mindmeister-a-free-simple-brainstorming-tool
Last month I read this really nice post over at youmoz about a website called Mindmeister. Mindmeister is an online collaboration tool that allows you to create mind maps - you know those charts where you’d circle an idea, then list related ideas, and keep branching away. You can share your “mind maps” with other users, and they can add to and edit your map. All revisions are tracked and can be easily undone.
Show HN: Firefox add-on for HN to see newer posts in the first page
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-newer-links/
I created a simple add-on to see which posts / entries are new in the HN first page that is the posts that wasn't there when last visited. This is different than /newest page.

note: I am new so sorry if title is wrong.
Ask HN: What are your top health food products?
This year three products have really impressed me. This is zero self-promotion, just a Pantry Post, I have these 3 things on subscriptions:

https://mudwtr.com

https://www.kachava.com/

https://kreaturesofhabit.com/

What are your top three?
Scripting a telescope with PLT Scheme [pdf]
http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/08-cleis.pdf
From the 2006 International Conference on Functional Programming.
Axiotron tablet selling now
http://www.cyberfonic.com/apple-tablet-is-here-you-can-buy-it-today
Rumours about Apple's Tablet abound, Axiotron are shipping it NOW ! Steve Wozniak is on board too!
Just a nice emacs theme
https://raw.github.com/warlockcc/dotfiles/master/emacs.d/jellybeans-theme.el
an attemt to get something similar to https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim in emacs24
Sartalics - Sarcasm Missed No More
http://sartalics.com/
PG, please implement on Hacker News.
Ibottleopener
http://www.waterfangeeks.eu/Geek/electronics--ibottleopener---bottle-opening-iphone-case/
The party's in your pocket... and by party, we mean bottle opener.The iBottle Opener is a hard shell slider case for your iPhone 3G or 3GS that doubles as a bottle opener. :)
Automate All the Things: Our New-and-Improved API
http://blog.risk.io/2013/01/introducing-the-new-and-improved-api/
Learn about our new-and-improved Risk I/O API, which can be used with manual findings and vulnerabilities from scanners we don't currently have integration with.
Fractal Music With Functional Programming
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57165719/Report
This is my friend's dissertation. I'm finding it really accessible and interesting, so I'm passing it along here.
History of Programming Languages - funny but mostly true
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/search/label/version%20control
By James Iry
Ask HN: Building a business around Monotouch/Monodroid 
I started working on a side project which would be available for multiple mobile platforms. Recently I have gained some investor interest. My experience has been in c#, and based on the most recent app store rules it is now ok to build apps using monotouch.

Being able to create a unique device specific presentation layer is important, while still being able to iterate business logic quickly in c# - as it can be shared cross platform iPhone/Android/Windows phone.

Although, there are a number of possible issues I see arising.
These would be painful down the road if any were to occur, I have listed few but there are others:

Apple could revert their decision to accept applications with third party frameworks into the app store.

Monotouch/Monodroid loses the support of Attachmate, or Attachmate changes its support of in a way in which future iterations of the app are in jeopardy.

Please note, that I have no issue in migrating the project to objective-c. There would be a number of benefits to switching
New e-Book on multicore/multithreaded programming
http://www.cilk.com/multicore-e-book/
Cilk Arts just published a free e-Book on "surviving the multicore revolution - or at least surviving the hype"
Show HN: Hand-Drawn Line Art
I know this isn't the usual fare for HN, but I was encouraged by a friend to share -- these are doodles from when I should be working on something else.

https://www.instagram.com/lines.ink/

I'd love to hear what you think.
Google and 3rd party cookies in Safari - Ouch
http://webpolicy.org/2012/02/17/safari-trackers/
Google and a few others use interesting tricks to fool Safari into accepting 3rd party cookies even if disabled (as it is by default). iOS and MacOS affected. Don't be evil, anyone?
First public release of famo.us
http://www.famo.us
Every week, they will be adding new examples in the demo :)
I'm with CoCo
http://www.sirmikeofmitchell.com/imwithcoco/
Support Conan!
Ask HN: Review my TV-emulation app.  Watch continious video streams.
Can you guys take a look at the site and see what you think? It's for watching Youtube videos like TV, with lots of channels to pick. I've tried to make it as simple as possible like watching TV. Take a look.

http://www.topchan.tv
Be Careful When Checking If A Domain is Available!
http://kevinboss.net/website-design/be-careful-when-checking-if-a-domain-is-available
Domain Front Running:
Domain name front running is the practice whereby a domain name registrar uses insider information to register domains for the purpose of re-selling them or earning revenue via ads placed on the domains landing page. By registering the domains, the registrar locks out other potential registrars from selling the domain to a customer.
A new location software for Android
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.paulxiong.imhereplus
"Im Here Plus" is a combination of "I'm here" and "Where are you?"

"Im Here Plus" is a combination of "I'm here", "Where are you?" and SMS popup.
"Im Here Plus" allows you to use SMS text messaging to check the status and GPS location of any person on your contact list, as long as they have "Im Here Plus" installed as well. You may also choose to send others your current location via SMS, whether with just your GPS address or with an edited personalized location.
Anyone can also text you "where r u?" from any device and receive an automatic response with your availability (which you may manually select: busy or free), as well as your current GPS location.
The 21st Century Prisoner’s Dilemma 
https://medium.com/p/565c45098a77
Decreasing labor in order to salvage profits, to the detriment of both
Recovery.gov uses simile for timeline
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Just noticed that recovery.gov is using simile for timeline. Do you know of any other sites using this for their timeline?
Is it possible to bring down the Internet for the entire U.S. like in N. Korea
With the recent news of the North Korean internet going down I have been wondering what would happen if the US were attacked in such a way. First of all is it possible (or likely) for a hacker or group of hackers to take down the Internet across the entire US? If so how? If not why not?
And secondly how would a group of white hat hackers bring it back up. For instance could local groups bring up regional networks and then eventually connect them up across the country?
I know this question is kind of vague but use your imagination.
Jamendo: Mangrove strikes again
http://www.freddestin.com/blog/2007/07/jamendo-mangrov.html
Jamendo is a creative commons music publishing and discovery platform.
Great way to follow all TED Videos
http://liveoncampus.com/wire/for/ted
Here's a neat way to follow all TED videos (700+ currently). Just scroll to the right and videos keep on loading. iPad/iPhone app is also available for free on the App Store.

Hope it helps :)
Show HN: Treeche, Tree-Shakable Checker for JavaScript/TypeScript Application
https://github.com/Shinyaigeek/treeche
I created an npm module, which is named "treeche" (Tree shakable Checker). This is an npm module to check whether your javascript/typescript application is tree-shakable or not. This may allow you to find unexpected side effects in your codebase and reduce bundle size...
https://github.com/Shinyaigeek/treeche
This is just an experimental project, so feedback is welcome!
The worlds first dynamic interface builder written in Lisp - 1998
http://vimeo.com/62618532
ExperTelligence introduced "Interface Builder" in 1986. We took it up to neXt to show Steve Jobs - the rest is history. In 1988, Denison Bollay built a much more dynamic interface tool, in which the interface was fully modifiable AS the program was running. Since it was built in incrementally compiled LISP, all other functions and methods were also modifiable on the fly. Denny took it to Seattle to show Bill Gates, but MicroSoft wanted a version written in basic (no objects, no methods, etc back then). I explained one couldn't do that without OO. They built Visual Basic.
LG’s own ARM-based chip could debut in January 2013
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/12/133_125881.html
"Korea Times has inside word that LG will show off its own ARM-based chip at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show. The first such chip is anticipated for web-based television sets and future chips could be used for LG smartphones and tablets. LG reportedly has 550 engineers working chip designs for mobile devices. Engadget notes that TSMC is reportedly making the chips for LG; good for the chip-maker, which could also make Apple’s mobile chips soon."
Keystroke fingerprinting - using Javascript to *enhance* security
http://narcvs.com/javascript/fingerprint/
Traditionally, authentication is done with a subset of four different identifiers. They're usually said to be

- Something you know (username, password)
- Something you have (key, passport)
- Something you are (finger print, retina scan)
- Something you do (signature, speech recognition) [wikipedia]
On the web, we're very familiar with the "things we know" - practically all web logins depends on usernames and passwords. For a higher level, e.g. for online banking, there are often certificates involved. Unfortunately we don't have the technology to do biological identification online (at least not for the common user).

Fingerprint exploits "something you do" to take measure how you type your password.

Automatically injected into the form and passed along to the server.
Review my Project: Views.fm - making filesharing suck less
http://views.fm
Six months ago I started a weekend project with a buddy to build a pretty visual layer on top of Dropbox.

Lots of coffee, long nights and weekends later, and it's a full-fledged file sharing application.

I'm using it to send design mockups and assets to clients. My buddy is stoked on streaming his music library from any computer. Would and how would you use it?
Hot girl helps friend with dry erase board
http://multi2d.com/1/post/2013/03/hot-girl-helps-friend-with-dry-erase-board.html
Seriously, she's beautiful, and you should do what she says.
Show HN: end-to-end browser encryption (example application) 
https://github.com/bhelx/otr_example/
I made this example application showing how you can integrate otr.js with socket.io.
Ask HN: how does duplicates detector work?
About a week ago I submitted a link to HN (results of a recent poll about programming languages: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000534 ).

However, this submission didn't get any votes, so I tried to submit it again a couple more times (with a day or two in between), without any result.

Then I checked "new submissions" page while logged out and noticed that my later submissions don't show up at all.
I played a bit with the address or title, so as not to trigger dup detection, but it still wouldn't show up.

Does anyone know what has happened? Did I run into some limit by trying to submit it too many times?
Is there a way to resubmit some link you want HN to see if it was not upvoted for the first time?
Facebook Among the Worst Big U.S. IPO Starts in 5 Years
http://www.robgonda.com/2012/05/22/facebook-among-the-worst-big-u-s-ipo-starts/
The social network’s much ballyhooed offering was in the midst of its second-straight day of declines, dropping as low as $30.98 today. That would have been an 18.5% drop from its IPO of $38.

But for now, the most-traded IPO in history has gotten off to one of the ugliest starts in recent history.
Show HN: iPhone Orientation from Images and Sensors
https://pub.towardsai.net/image-segmentation-of-rotating-iphone-with-scikit-image-3e27e5fad7a8
In this project I compare orientation of iPhone estimated from sensors with orientation from image segmentation of video.
C++ String Toolkit Library
https://github.com/ArashPartow/strtk
The C++ String Toolkit Library (StrTk) consists of robust, optimized and portable string processing algorithms for the C++ language. StrTk is designed to be easy to use and integrate within existing code bases. Furthermore the library has a rich set of features that makes light work of any kind of string processing task.

A simple tutorial describing some of the uses of StrTk can be found: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/Tokenizer.aspx
It's OK to be an amateur
http://www.jooldesign.co.uk/its-ok-to-be-an-amateur-771
A discussion about the importance of amateurs in many professional fields
Show HN: CarbEngage – API for carbon footprint data
https://carbengage.notion.site/CarbEngage-API-Instructions-cbd902393f484fa7b2010855d92fb360
API to access company and product carbon footprint data.

We have ~6,000 rows for ~1,400 public companies, where each row is a year’s data. We have Scope 1-3 emissions values, revenue, carbon removal, and carbon intensity. We also have a growing database of product-level carbon footprint data (iPhone, Nest, Styrofoam, etc).
Let us know what other data would be valuable!

Read this to learn more about Scopes 1-3 and carbon emissions: https://www.anthesisgroup.com/scope-1-2-3-emissions/

Some of our ideas of what to do with it:

- Embed emissions data in a consumer finance app, so a company’s sustainability performance shows up next to a stock ticker
- Show carbon footprint next to a product or company listing in a supplier marketplace or sourcing platform
- … you tell us!

We’re excited to hear your ideas on where/how this data could be useful!
Fixing Your Blog for People Behind the GFW of China
http://stevendaniels.net/2011/04/fixing-your-blog-for-people-behind-the-gfw-of-china-while-keeping-facebooks-like-button/
As a blogger who writes about learning Chinese, a good deal of my traffic comes from people in China (21%). Blogging for people in China is more complicated than it should be. Adding a simple Facebook “like” button can cripple your site for people visiting from China. After trying different methods, I’ve finally come up with a way to use widgets blocked by the GFW of China on my blog that don’t penalize visitors from China (who can’t view the widgets).
Demo for latest version of our Airshark tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riyp4My0LJ8
Taken from our Youtube video description:-

Airshark is a tool for real-time detection of non-WiFi devices (e.g., Analog phone, Bluetooth, FHSS phone Microwave Ovens, XBox etc.) operating in the unlicensed spectrum used by WiFi based devices. Further, Airshark uses off the shelf WiFi cards to perform these tasks. In this demo, Airshark uses a commodity WiFi card attached to my laptop to detect the presence of multiple non-WiFi devices and provides the results on a user-friendly web-based display. The demo shows that Airshark can detect a variety of common non-WiFi devices in real-time and pinpoint the exact spectrum impacted by the device acvitity. Enjoy!
ActiveRecord Race Condition
http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2007/11/activerecord-race-conditions/
Favorite comment:

The Rails validations (especially the ensure_uniqueness_of) in my mind are purely for nice error messages 99% of the time. As well as race conditions like you discovered, they are inefficient - if you have a heavily inserted table, then Rails has to select to ensure uniqueness, and then insert - if you just put a unique constrain on the table and do the insert, you save on the select. This would only ever be an issue in a very heavily inserted table that has a unique column, which is probably rare!

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I love when something being "probably rare" is justification for it being significantly broken.
How to do a video about your project when your startup is in Paris
http://jib.li
Jib.li is an easy tool to send/receive shipments with your friends on social networks.

i-think-it.com - 2012
Pure Ember.js or Rails+Ember.js?
We are going to implement our project with Ember; that's decided. But the burning question is should we do pure Ember.js or mix it up with Rails?