jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Selling my startup - freescreencast.com
http://freescreencast.com
I have given it a good run. I have a business partner with money, many great developers and testers on my side, and a some-what successful go of it.

But I no longer have the time. I'm ready to pass on this torch and give it up to someone. The primary reason is family. The other is I have found several other excellent sources of income and I can't justify spending the time to over come the bump on freescreencast.com.

So I want to sell: buyer gets several items: source code for both client software and for the website, and the domain.

Most importantly, however, is the buyer inherits the userbase, the user accounts, and the content created by the users.

Search is primarily long tail, but we're top ten in many, many searches.

So... any takers? Any advice?

The alternative is a shutdown, which I just don't want to do.
Running XQuery Universally
http://xqueryguestbook.my28msec.com
At 28msec, we're using XQuery in replacement of a typical application stack (SQL, scripting, Javascript). We've built the following demo in order to showcase the advantages of using a single programming language when building an application: http://xqueryguestbook.my28msec.com
29 technical lessons learned from recent experiences with socialmedian
http://betashop.com/post/233712083/29-technical-lessons-learned-from-recent-experiences
Some of the following may seem somewhat “basic” to the experienced software developer but in the era of “ship it” early and often, you often have to play catch up and learn even the basics as you go. Comments and further thoughts and advice appreciated!
Software philosophy: Release early, release often vs polished releases
http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/software-philosophy-release-early-release-often-vs-polished-releases/
The world had cars, cameras and movies, much before Software. So, how and why did people got accustomed to this way of life, when it comes to Software? Will you accept if your new car, in its “version 1.0″ doesn’t speed up beyond 60? Will you accept if the car manufacturer promises a free “engine update” in the “near future”?
Bountii - New YC Startup
http://bountii.com/
Linked on paulgraham.com
Social anxiety is crippling my life, what can I do to stop it?
Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to ask this question, I guess I'm hoping that there are other "introverts" on here that have been in similar circumstances and can offer me advice.

I turn 21 in a few months and I currently don't have any close friends and it is really starting to get me down. All through my life I've always been "that quiet person" and I have self-diagnosed myself with some form of moderate social anxiety.

I had a large group of friends during high school and somewhat of a social life but I mostly just tagged along with the group and never became close friends with anyone. Following the end of high school I slowly lost contact with these people. My anxiety kept me from making any effort to stay in touch even though I wanted to. It's silly, but my brain processed it like this "if they don't invite me to things I guess they are not interested in hanging out with me". Ever since then I haven’t had much of a social life outside of my university classes.

I'm not totally awkward, for example I did a great job when I had to do a presentation in front of my class. I was comfortable giving it because I was well prepared and I had already practiced it a few times. So I'm ok with public speaking but conversations scare the crap out of me and I can't seem to fix it.

After I get past the initial fear of starting a conversation I'm ok with small talk but I don't know how to have an interesting conversation. How do I go from meeting someone in class to becoming their friend outside of class? This simply doesn't come naturally to me.

I’m aware that I need to be more proactive and start working hard to build meaningful friendships rather than just letting them dwindle. Any advice on how to go about it?
Good Developer, Bad Developer
http://www.guynirpaz.com/2012/06/11/good-developer-bad-developer/
What makes good developers great, and what's missing in those who are not...
Dynamic Pricing: Let your prices rise or fall until you maximize revenue
http://informationarchitects.jp/dynamic-pricing-for-digital-goods/ 
I think this idea has potential.<p>Most freelancers/consultants know the prevailing advice for pricing you're work is to start your hourly rate off with an educated guess, based on the minimum income you need to maintain your standard of living, and how much value you think you can provide. Then, whenever you feel like you're not getting enough work, lower your rates, and when you start getting more work than you can handle, raise your rates until you're comfortable again.<p>This way, you can utilize the constant feedback of the market to ensure you're always maximizing you're revenue, given you're current abilities, marketing, and market/economic climate.<p>Doing the same for you're web service/digital products is simple enough it could even be automated. What do you think, would you price your services this way?
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology
For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
Multitasking - iPhone OS 4 vs Nokia N900
http://cool900.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-iphone-os-4-vs-nokia-n900.html
The introduction of multitasking for iPhone OS was a huge disappointment. Apple has left out most of the functionality that makes multitasking useful on a small screen, and is spreading FUD about the alternatives.
Spotify Apps Suck
Is it just me (probably not) or Spotify apps suck in general.

I am a paid Spotify user for almost a year now. I use the web-based app https://open.spotify.com/ on my laptop and Android app on Samsung A6+ phone.

Web based App: https://open.spotify.com/
- The songs stops playing automatically often. I am talking about 2-3 times in an hour.

Android App:
- Downlaoded songs simply doesn't work. Everytime I launch the app, it starts to download the songs again and it never stores it.
- Even if I somehow manage to get the download working (by repeatedly trying), on being offline it ask me for login. I mean how can I login if I doesn't even have the internet. That's the whole point of being offline.

Sorry for the rant but will be great if someone can help me find out an alternative.
Instapush: Instant notifications for things that matter
https://instapush.im
Instant notifications for things that matter within your web app or service.
Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
https://crawlee.dev/
Hey HN,

This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production.

For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3].

Main features:

- Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer

- Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM

- Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance

- Avoids blocking using smart sessions, proxies, and browser fingerprints

- Simple management and persistence of queues of URLs to crawl

- Written completely in TypeScript for type safety and code autocompletion

- Comprehensive documentation, code examples, and tutorials

- Actively maintained and developed by Apify—we use it ourselves!

- Lively community on Discord

To get started, visit https://crawlee.dev or run the following command: npx crawlee create my-crawler

If you have any questions or comments, our team will be happy to answer them here.

[1] https://crawlee.dev/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ll9OlFwEQ

[3] https://blog.apify.com/announcing-crawlee-the-web-scraping-a...
Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems?
Often times, programmers turn to music to get their brain ready for coding. Have you ever felt the same kind of inspiration after reading works of fiction by certain authors?

In other words, I wonder if the structure, language, composition etc in a novel might "open up" the reader's brain in a similar way that e.g. musical works by Bach or Philip Glass seem to get some coders "in the zone".
Ask HN: Do you feel like your potential is being wasted?
Do you feel that what you're currently doing is a waste of your potential, and that if you had the proper opportunities, you could do much greater things? Are you in one of the "thinking about how to make people click ads" jobs, and you hate it? Or that because you have to work (to pay your rent and buy food), that you can't explore bigger and better opportunities (because they'd require a lot of domain expertise or specific knowledge that you don't have time to acquire - after work self-study being insufficient/you're just too exhausted/whatever)?

In my case, I would love to go to a university (Stanford, MIT, Columbia, or other well-respected school) to do an undergrad (had to leave home to work as a teen since my family died young) to just immerse myself in full-time learning rather than working on unexciting web dev work and doing fragmented self-learning in my free time (which is what I've been doing for years, and it's terribly inferior to full-time, uninterrupted learning.) I've saved money, but not nearly enough to go to any of those without going into an incredible amount of debt, which, at nearly 40, seems like a terrible idea. If I hit the startup lottery, I'd use that money to go right back to school.

Those of you who have been able to attend these prestigious schools with the financial and logistical help of parents/relatives (living rent-free while going to school is unbeatable): cherish the amazing gift you have been given. All the grit and persistence in the world does not beat someone else paying for your education, no matter what some people say.

Anyone else wish they had a road with better opportunities available to them?
The most innovative coach in college football
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html
Written by one of the best living writers, Michael Lewis.
Recall on Kids' Tylenol Motrin Zyrtec Benadryl
http://children.webmd.com/news/20100502/recall-of-kids-tylenol-motrin-zyrtec-benadryl
The NDC numbers are listed for all the over-the-counter meds that are no good (they are hard to find on the box or bottle).
Please Build Me Something Useful: A Letter To Web 2.0 Developers
http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/please_build_me_something_useful_a_letter_to_web_20_developers.php
have a confession to make. I have tried out hundreds of Web 2.0 applications, and there is one and only one that I use almost every day. You see, the problem with Web 2.0 is that I'm not a social person.
Implementing SCRUM - story of a Seedcamp winner
http://blog.seedcamp.com/2009/02/its-all-about-education.html
How our team switched to SCRUM and why we believe it is important to have a development methodology when you are a startup.
VIM as Python IDE
http://blog.dispatched.ch/2009/05/24/vim-as-python-ide/
Use VIM as a powerful IDE for Python - including code completion, pydoc, graphical debugging, task-management and a project view.
Random Ideas For Sites and Startups
http://thebetastartup.com/2012/08/18/ideas-2012-part-i-online-based/
Feel free to take, comment, do etc
When the IRS 'likes' your Facebook update
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/when-irs-likes-your-facebook-update
IRS mining your social graphs for hints to decide whether to/not to audit you
Facebook readies Hyper-PHP
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34103
More info surfaces on the Facebook rewrite of PHP.
Show HN: WhoWorks.At - Professional Heads Up Display
Protip: http://whoworks.at/download to skip the sign up process

This weekend I built a simple Google Chrome extension at Startup Weekend NYC. The idea was to create a professional heads-up-display that you can use to see your connections all over the web. I ended up having to hack my own company search feature for LinkedIn since they don't have an API method for that available yet. I ended up using their internal autocomplete API.

I've been in touch with some developers there and from what I hear a Company Search is a very frequent request and they plan on offering in the future.

Let me know what you think, feature requests and bug reports welcome.
Hosting git repositories on your VPS
http://blog.heapsource.com/post/54107424584/hosting-git-repositories-on-your-vps
Today I’ll show you how to setup a gitolite installation on a VPS with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
To save myself some typing I’ll be using the following conventions:

A command prefixed by sysadmin$ is meant to be run in your local workstation.

A command prefixed by user@vpshost:path# is meant to be run in the vps under the specified user on the specified path.
Programming languages and Frameworks to learn in 2015
I can't make a poll on HN, but I would like everyone to contribute with an opinion. Which languages are worth to devote learning in 2015? and what about the new frameworks? Please, be patient and open :)
Show HN: DevRaven – Monitoring for Developers
https://www.devraven.io
Hi HN! I am Krishna Thota, founder of DevRaven. DevRaven is a monitoring platform for Developers.

DevRaven enables engineering teams or individual developers to setup active monitoring for their services/applications and get alerted when things don't work as expected

Today's launch makes available the following features:

API Monitoring - Monitor your HTTP end points and perform no-code or scripted assertions.

Synthetic Monitoring - Execute browser based end-to-end tests using Playwright framework. No setup required.

SSL Monitoring - Monitor SSL certificates for your end points and get alerted before they expire.

Web Page Monitoring - Run continuous Lighthouse audits on your web pages to ensure best performance, SEO.

Welcome any feedback, questions or suggestions.
Still trust restaurant reviews?
http://blog.urbantag.com/post/6359235485/still-trust-reviews
Some thoughts on why a new review ecosystem is needed, and about to develop
Flat UI was Released - Framework for Designers and Developers,based on Bootstrap
http://designmodo.com/flat/
Prototyping just got easier and faster with Designmodo's release of Flat UI Pro, a user interface kit made in the flat design style. The stunning kit contains basic components, glyphs, icons and a variety of buttons and other elements made in the super-trendy style.<p>The Bootstrap-based kit contains everything a designer or developer needs to build a fully-responsive website in no time. (No dual prototyping here!)
Probability distributions fitting with Python
http://glowingpython.blogspot.it/2012/07/distribution-fitting-with-scipy.html
This post shows how to fit a probability distribution using the Scipy Library.
Iranian Nuclear Accident?
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Serious_nuclear_accident_may_lay_behind_Iranian_nuke_chief_resignation
This might be old news, but did anything more come of this?
Show HN: Codestat.dev – Stats from 2M open-source repositories
https://codestat.dev/
Hi HN! This is a little site I put together while learning the Elm language as part of a hackathon at my work, I thought you might enjoy it.

Be sure to click the `(source)` buttons next to the graphs: you can edit them interactively & write your own queries against the entire data set. The syntax isn't well documented yet, but you can probably get the general idea pretty quickly based on the examples there.

If you like it, have questions, etc. let me know! If folks think this is cool, maybe I can get it turned into a legit project. :)
Inkling: interactive textbooks on the iPad.
http://www.inkling.com/
Four textbooks available so far: http://www.inkling.com/about

Having used Raven's biology text, which is a good textbook but would've tremendously benefited from something like this because of how much data you need to retain for biology, this makes me pretty excited for THE FUTURE.
This Rural Community Is Building Its Own Gigabit Internet Network
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-rural-community-is-building-its-own-gigabit-fibre-network
A group of locals watch eagerly, mindful not to trip over an orange cable lying nearby in the grass
Gameboy Color Emulator:  A brilliant use of HTML5
http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/
One of the most brilliant uses of HTML5 I've ever seen. The technique he used to build this is beyond my comprehension at this point, but I'd certainly love to dive into his code (which is available publicly on Github) and figure it all out!
Why can't you get the data used to create the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures inflation and, in the words of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, "directly affects hundreds of millions of Americans".

I would have guessed the data used to construct the CPI would be open to everyone.

But no, it appears to be unavailable and it is instead a black box due to rules of confidentiality. What is strange is, it appears much of the data is publicly available data. For example, 8% comes from e-commerce sites, the USPS public website, etc. If you browse through the categories, you can also see that almost all the data could be collected from public sources - APIs, websites, etc.

So, does anyone know why this data cannot be obtained?

Reference: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/pdf/cpi.pdf
Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
http://zigg.be/
I created this a year or so ago but recently made updates and I thought people might like to know that it exists.

I made this to easily send links or text to someone else verbally, like over the phone or over voice chat (which is what I made it for). The goal is to be able to tell the link to someone else without being ambiguous or needing to spell it out, so I grabbed the words off a Grade 5 level dictionary. I understand that the domain itself doesn’t qualify but I’m trying to get a better domain.
Bitcoins get physical
https://www.casascius.com/
"Each Casascius Bitcoin is a collectible coin backed by real Bitcoins embedded inside. They come in two denominations: 1 bitcoin, and 25 bitcoins. Each piece has its own Bitcoin address and a redeemable "private key" on the inside, underneath the hologram."

One big weakness is they seem to be "single use" though, as they need to be torn open to be used.
Programmer salary in mainland Europe?
I am an American programmer living in Southern California making around $100,000 USD per year. Pretty much your average experienced programmer salary, maybe even a little on the low side.

I have been applying for programming jobs in San Francisco and in Germany, the Netherlands, and other mainland European countries. I finally got an offer from a company in Austria but the salary was a lot lower than I was expecting, only 45,000 EUR (~$65,000 USD). This is even a "Senior" programmer position!

To put things in perspective, I also got an offer from a company in San Francisco that is a significant raise from my current salary, but that is to be expected given the current programming job market in SF.

I was expecting the pay to be worse in Europe, but not that worse.
The company in Vienna insists that this is a fair salary for the region but I am finding this very hard to believe.

I'm not in this for the money at all, but I also don't want to sell myself short.
Can anyone help me out with their experiences with programmer salary in mainland Europe? Should the disparity be this great?
Best HTML5/CSS3 Presentation Frameworks
http://zoomzum.com/6-best-html5css3-presentation-frameworks/
HTML is the most popular web development language in the world, Using this language designers can make web application more attractive and creative. HTML 5 is the advanced version of HTML and getting popularity among web designers with their advanced features and functionality.
Man Confronts CEO of MT. Gox In Tokyo
http://www.coindesk.com/watch-man-confront-ceo-mt-gox-missing-bitcoins/
Also covered by The Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protester-confronts-mt-gox-executive/
AudioGO use DMCA to demand takedown of a 404 link
http://adactio.com/journal/5405/
In a Kafkaesque use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the UK audiobook company, AudioGO, demand the removal of a web site that links to ...nothing.
Effective ML - Yaron Minsky
https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/82
Yaron Minsky lectures on Effective ML at Harvard. Slightly old 2010. Thanks!
Joyent us-east-1 rebooted due to operator error
https://help.joyent.com/entries/40957424-Transient-availability-issues-in-US-East-1-data-center
Due to an operator error, all compute nodes in us-east-1 were simultaneously rebooted. Some compute nodes are already back up, but due to very high load on the control plane, this is taking some time. We are dedicating all operational and engineering resources to getting this issue resolved, and will be providing a full postmortem on this failure once every compute node and customer VM is online and operational. We will be providing frequent updates until the issue is resolved.
Web scale: Facebook's architecture
http://www.quora.com/What-is-Facebooks-architecture
Can someone at Facebook verify whether this answer is accurate/mostly accurate?
Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
https://upbase.io/
Hey HN,

Over the past two years, I've been building Upbase, an all-in-one PM tool.

I've tried so many project management tools over the years (Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Teamwork, Wrike, Monday, etc.) but they've all fallen short. Most of them are overly complicated and painful to use. Some others, like Trello, are too limited for my needs.

Most importantly, most of these tools tend to be focused on team collaboration and completely ignore personal productivity.

They are useful for organizing my work, but not great at helping me stay focused to get things done.

That's why I decided to build Upbase.

I try to make it clean and simple, without all the bells and whistles. Apart from team collaboration, I added many personal productivity features, including Weekly/Daily planner, Time blocking, Pomodoro Timer, Daily Journal, etc. so I don't need another to-do list app.

Now I can use Upbase to collaborate with my team AND manage your personal stuff at the same time, without all the bloat.

If these resonate with you, then give Upbase a try. It has a Free Forever plan though.

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
Show HN: Brew.fm – Let bots discover new music on Spotify for you
https://www.brew.fm/
Use Spotify? This tool will automate your music discovery for you. Join here (100% perpetually free with no strings attached): https://brew.fm

Some time ago, I built and showed HN[1] brew.fm, a tool helping artists remix each other’s work. It had been quiet, and I remembered how fun it was to work with the Spotify API, so I repurposed the tool to solve one of my own problems: missing out on new music of my favorite artists. I shared it on Reddit yesterday[2], and this seems to hit a spot for more people: so far 833 people connected their Spotify account.

How it works: The tool simply shows your top 50 artists on Spotify over short, medium and long term, and checks those artists for new music. If you select a playlist, every artist involved in the tracks will be checked for new music, after which new releases are shown sorted by most recent release date.

Here’s a video of me demoing the tool: https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU. Enjoy! Very open to feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_...