jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Three Inspiring Quotes by Steve Jobs That Should be Placed on Your Desktop
http://www.applecture.com/three-inspiring-quotes-by-steve-jobs-that-should-be-placed-on-your-desktop-78280
We chose three inspiring quotes by Steve Jobs, which are worth to be placed on your desktop and memorized. Of which we also made wallpapers for the desktop. A piece of the great man’s personality is inside them.
Show HN: Premier Crowdfunding News & Strategy 
http://crowddistrict.com/
CrowdDistrict is a premium news source that showcases the best of crowdfunding. CrowdDistrict features the best project on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, and other crowdfunding platforms.
Petition the Whitehouse to decriminalize marijuana
http://wh.gov/Ouq6
A petition on the Whitehouse's website asking that recreational use of marijuana be legalized, regulated, and taxed.
Ask HN: How much did you spend on Design of v1?
For those startups that needed a good looking and well-designed website/app from the start (I.e. a $50 template was not enough) How did you find suitable, affordable web designers and how much did you need to spend?

I am interested in a level above cheap templates, 99 designs, elance etc
An Infographic about Infographics
http://www.thinkbrilliant.com/infographic/
Checkout this hilarious Infographic about Infographics
3 Steps to Overcoming Corporate Blog Denial
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/06/23/3-steps-to-overcoming-corporate-blog-denial/
3 Simple steps that will help your boss overcome their fear of genuine corporate blogging.
Show HN: I made a votable list of Google Reader alternatives
http://www.yeahit.com/rss_reader
Lets vote :)
Windev .. What do you think?
http://www.windev.com/
I stumbled accross this product a while ago and, it seems to offer the same and more of the features that people brag that RoR offers.

You can for example use Windev to build CRUD applications in minutes without any code from a db schema

So what's your opinion on this products one ones like it! If you can go past the lame advertisement of this product isn't this thing just a better RoR!! Or what RoR will one day grow up to be!
Dozuki will drag service manuals kicking, screaming into 21st century
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/08/dozuki-will-drag-service-manuals-kicking-and-screaming-into-21st-century.ars
iFixit, the site famous for its gadget teardowns and repair manuals, is launching a new business to provide manufacturers, how-to sites, or even individuals the ability to build their own library of online service manuals. Called Dozuki, the new effort extends iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens' goal to make do-it-yourself repairs a common practice.
Battlestar Galactica is a subject of a panel discussion in the UN
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/media/16galactica.html
I can't help but submit this story, since BSG is probably quite popular with Hacker News community.

Battlestar Galactica has finally found the real Earth...

--
The last episode of this wonderful and thought provoking sci-fi saga will be shown this Friday, March 20.
Ask HN: Are there any entrepreneur here who lost or gave up?
We read abour these show hns and side projects which make $$$ mrr every now and then and because of it there is a sort of survivorship bias.

Some of them even took money from friends and family and maxed their ccs until they made it.

So I'm just wondering if there are any of you who tried, really hard and still didn't make it and gave up? How much did you lose? What are you doing now? And most importantly will you do it again?
CloudCss - Combine and minify your css files on the fly.
http://cloud-css.appspot.com/
One of the most easy ways to speed up your website is to minize the number of http requests. This little tool helps you to do that by combining all of your css files into one big, minified css asset that you can integrate into your website.
How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/10/28/53298.aspx
Useful insight, though I found this quote to be... interesting: "At Microsoft we try very, very hard to not release half-baked software."

Then again they do have a much harder task than Apple.
But How Will They Make Money?
http://farukat.es/p656
Your comments. Let me hear them.
High-Level Mac OS X Scripting
https://github.com/DirectMyFile/osx.dart
I made a high level system for scripting on OS X!
Designers Are More Desirable Than Engineers
http://blog.coffeeme.in/post/58076882111/designers-are-more-desirable-than-engineers
Tinder for professionals analyzed their data on who startup people on their site wanted to meet and wrote a post about it.
Salam Stock - Muslim Stock Photography venture
http://www.salamstock.com
Greetings! So I'm a Muslim, and I've been concerned about the imbalance of Muslim imagery on the web (just google search "muslim" and you'll hopefully see what I mean). So I've created a space for positive, realistic Muslim imagery that people, orgs, media outlets, etc can share, download, sell, and purchase. I could use your feedback!
Divining Rod - A rubygem for easy mobile profiling
http://squarepush.com/articles/2010/02/23/dont-put-another-dime-in-the-jukebox/
Need to figure out if a web visitor to your Ruby app is on a iPhone or a Nexus one? Don't want to write your own parser?

We released a our ruby library for profiling incoming web request in Rails. It's super simple and if you don't need "full-featured" mobile solution like WURFL, it might just make your next mobile project a little easier.
You Are Appreciated
Innovators, engineers, investors and everyone here trying to better themselves and the world, appreciate all you do! Keep on trucking!
What Do We Now Know, after Nokia's Latest Profit Warning & Layoffs
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/06/what-do-we-now-know-after-nokias-latest-profit-warning-layoffs-the-titanic-deck-chairs-moment.html
The takeaway ...<p>"Yesterday the Nokia share price fell 18% in one day, the biggest fall it has ever had. The share price had climbed 11% in the first 5 months when Elop was in charge, when he executed the previous strategy. After his magnificent new strategy unveilled in February 2011, Nokia share price has fallen by 74%. Today we heard that Moody's has joined the two other ratings agencies downgrading Nokia to junk. All three ratings agencies rated Nokia one notch below perfect when Elop took charge. I think we can see the pattern here. The Captain sees the iceberg. He knows he could save his ship. But he would rather go fire 10,000 engineers and buy a Swedish company. He's rather rearrange the deck chairs. Full Steam Ahead!"
Some clojure inspired functional tools in python
https://github.com/Suor/funcy
Some clojure inspired functional tools in python
If Linus Torvalds Were A Lawyer...
http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/08/if-linus-torval.html
$500 per hour startup legal advice for free...
Machine learning and data science advices
I am writing to ask for career advices, I am 27 years old with a master degree in electrical engineering. I was working as a ruby developer for almost 5 years and 1 year (during my master thesis) with C++ developing a project related to Computer Vision using Image processing and Machine learning.

During master thesis year I realize that I like to work in Machine learning and Data science areas but I can't work on companies that are looking for people in these areas because I am junior. When they look to my resume, they always sort me as ruby developer.

I am reading and following the OSDSM (http://datasciencemasters.org/) but I know it's not enough to get a position in related areas. Can you give me some advices? Do you know some companies that may be interested on internship/junior positions?
CoffeeScript + Backbone.js Example
http://sunilarora.org/coffeescript-with-backbonejs-example
A simple tutorial on using coffeescript with backbone.js. Wondering what tech stack people are using on client side for building heavyduty JS applications?
Show HN: Eev and TikZ, or: how to learn TikZ using a REPL
http://angg.twu.net/eev-tikz.html
Hi all, I made a video that at first sight is about a way to use REPLs to explore TikZ - and TikZ is a huge (La)TeX package for drawing graphics...

At second sight that video is about a series of tricks for using REPLs in Emacs, and TikZ is just an excuse to present them. As far as I know those tricks are very unusual; they implement a kind of "meta-REPL" that controls other REPLs, and they do that in a way that is much simpler, and much easier to hack, than Org's code blocks and than the cells in Jupyter notebooks.

The page has lots of screenshots and links, and it has instructions for downloading the video and its subtitles, and for reading the subtitles in plain text. I tried to make everything as accessible as possible for the people who just want to watch the the first two parts of the video - "Introduction" and "Trying it" - in super-high speed.

I'm especially interested in pointers to related work. Cheers, have fun, etc! =)
Show HN: A Code Reference for Web Developers
http://www.codebase.cc
I created a quick code reference for web developers that allows simultaneous searching of the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery documentations. Why? Because I think it is convenient to have the most important front-end language documentations in one searchable database.<p>Source Code: https://github.com/mr-ravioli/codebase<p>This is my very first attempt to develop a web application so I would be grateful for feedback.
Add Your Logo to your QR Code
http://voltiercreative.com/qr_code/
This quick script allows you to create a QR code with your logo or an image embeded.
Nobody Understands Debt
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/01/03/krugman-debt
New York Times link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-understands-debt.html
Vim-signify - my approach of a gutter plugin
https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify
This is my version of some kind of git-gutter plugin for Vim; vim-signify.

Features:

- supports git, mercurial, bazaar, subversion, cvs
- pretty well documented
- _everything_ is configurable through variables
- quite fast
- can be toggled on a per-buffer base
- preserving of signs set by other plugins (optional)
- additional line highlighting (optional)

I started writing it 3 days ago, but it's working pretty good for me already. I'd like to get some more feedback now. Thanks in advance.

(Feature requests are feedback, too!)
Seeking feedback on our API - a Swiss knife for semantic apps & mashups
http://blog.headup.com/2011/01/introducing-semantinets-api/
This API is designed for easy querying of a selected collection of useful Web Services, Wikipedia, Linked-Data, and the unstructured web. The API also provides a flexible templating language, for easy creation of semantic mashups and data intensive applications, directly from your browser.

We'd like to know what do you think are the coolest applications that can be built with this tool.
What would be a cool API to mashup with.
And what are your biggest challenges when building mashups.
Gamers against SOPA
https://sites.google.com/site/gamers4freedom/
The Entertainment Software Association (cousin to the MPAA and RIAA) has thrown its support behind SOPA, which means that 34 of the largest publishers also support it (though some have since come out to say they don't). We need to gather information on contacting these companies and their management and make it known that we do not support SOPA as gamers, bloggers, or indie game developers.
Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/07/ten-questions-w.html
This interview is based on his latest book:What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management.
Which programming language would you suggest?
I have been trying pretty much every language from Java & Python to Delphi and VB6. I don't really have a particular interest in what sort of technology, be it web or desktop, etc.

I can't seem to stick to one language - Can you suggest me a language and why it is used? Many thanks.
Show HN: HiveMind – an operating system for startups built on Notion
https://optemization.notion.site/Show-HN-HiveMind-Welcome-b576c95e384f4db39b8a6342741962fc
I lead delivery/services at an agency. We build Notion workspaces and design operations for startups and have now completed over 80 projects.

It’s a tough business to grow this sustainably, so we’re looking to diversify with digital products.

HiveMind is our second attempt at shipping a product that would reflect all of our knowledge. It packs 12 databases and 44 templates and a shit ton of documentation and Notion resources in there. The latter being a big differentiator from other Notion templates out there. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Ask HN: How to find market/industry data?
Hey all,

I'm looking to find some market/industry statistics to build the story around my venture. I have a lot of anecdotal evidence (personally and through conversations with individuals) to support my story, but I know hard data is king.

I'm looking for info related to the social network and online dating markets. Where are some good places to look for this kind of stuff? I'm not looking to pay for it.

Any alternative methods or techniques for estimating or finding this sort of data (especially if used by you in the past) would be helpful.

thanks!
Connecting Apple's iPhone to Google's cloud computing offerings
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-iphone/?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HP
Cloud computing and software development for handheld devices are two very hot technologies that are increasingly being combined to create hybrid solutions. With this article, learn how to connect Google App Engine, Google's cloud computing offering, with the iPhone, Apple's mobile platform. You'll also see how to use the open source library, TouchEngine, to dynamically control application data on the iPhone by connecting to the App Engine cloud and caching that data for offline use.
A step-by-step guide to using iAd Workbench to promote your iOS apps
http://rayvinly.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-using-iad-workbench-to-promote-your-ios-apps/
Apple quietly released iAd Workbench today at WWDC 2013 without telling anyone. Now all iOS app developers have a native Apple marketing tool to promote their iOS apps using iAd. Learn how I use just $100 budget to start selling iAds today.
Database Optimization for Rails Apps
http://blog.nbwd.co.uk/2007/11/20/database-optimization-for-rails-apps
The reporting application I'm working on does a date-range select against a table with ten million rows. It took over two minutes to execute. I cut it down to around two seconds without significantly changing the application. Here's how.
Why Ruby on Rails Succeeded
http://www.cio.com/article/125851/Why_Ruby_on_Rails_Succeeded
The software development framework has earned a vocal following and created loyal users. One Ruby expert explains what this community did right, and how others can learn from it.
Comparing the FB/4sq/SimpleGeo/CityGrid POI APIs: And the winner is...
http://www.urbantag.com/compare_poi_services
We built a tool to query the various POI APIs.

Striking how different the results are... We have an analysis write-up coming out shortly.

Currently, the default location is set on SOMA in San Francisco.
A home for those who delete their facebook accounts
http://ideletedmyfacebookaccount.com
A little meta, yes. I deleted my facebook account and setup a site for people who have deleted their facebook accounts.
Redis_failover 1.0 Released - Distributed monitoring, failover strategies, more
https://github.com/ryanlecompte/redis_failover/blob/master/Changes.md
redis_failover is a full failover solution for redis. As of v1.0, it now supports distributed monitoring among the Node Managers! Previously, the Node Managers were only used as a means of redundancy in case a particular node manager crashed. Starting with version 1.0 of redis_failover, the Node Managers will all periodically report their health report/snapshots. The primary Node Manager will utilize a configurable "node strategy" to determine if a particular node is available or unavailable.<p>redis_failover now supports a configurable "failover strategy" that's consulted when performing a failover. Currently, a single strategy is provided that takes into account the average latency of the last health check to the redis server.
Making Informed Security Decisions
https://resonantcore.net/blog/2015/02/making-informed-security-decisions
Hi mods! This doesn't display but I can still fill it in when editing.
Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
I'd really like a news aggregator which doesn't feature (or allows me to filter out) the stuff I don't find stimulating: sports, human interest, celebrities, drama stories of no significance (e.g. trapped coal miners, kidnappings), elections/politics (as opposed to news about new or potential legislation or court decisions), etc.

The best thing I've found so far is the Economist, but I'd like less politics and a wider net.
Apache Killer by kcope
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/175
Recent posting on full disclosure exploits a serious bug in Apache that will bring down most servers. Check out the code and test your servers!
Oracle's  Sun Acquisition FAQ. 
http://www.indicthreads.com/5085/oracle-unveils-its-plans-for-glassfish-netbeans-mysql-open-source/
talks about NetBeans, Glassfish, MySQL, OpenOffice & open source.
UILabel inside of UIScrollView tutorial for iOS developers
http://www.planet1107.net/uilabel-inside-of-uiscrollview-83
This short tutorial will show you how to programmatically create UILabel inside of UIScrollView. UILabel will contain long text and we’ll set UIScrollView content size to fit UILabel size
Ask HN: Anyone interested in helping blind/low vision individuals become coders?
I come across many blind people who are trying to learn coding but struggle due to accessibility problems. My startup develops an AI app for the blind and many blind people reach out to me for help as they are learning coding. I am not a software developer and I don't know much about how to make software development accessible. Is anyone interested in helping blind/low vision individuals become coders? If anyone is interested, I can connect you with individuals or help develop a more long-term solution.

Here is an example request:

"I am currently enrolled in a nonprofit computer boot camp program. I am taking the 12-week software development course. I lost my job in higher education last June due to the pandemic and wanted to change to a high-demand field. As the only blind student at the camp I have, however, found it quite challenging as I am trying to figure out accessibility issues along with coding and am never sure if my problems are because I don’t have all the tools my sighted classmates have at their disposal or if it’s because I don’t understand. As I have done some online research I have found that most of what is available are either short videos of people talking about how they code as a blind person but without enough detail to be really helpful for my purposes or references to projects that, when I look them up, haven’t been worked on for a few years or involve one-time courses that were taught here or there. Not only am I interested in this because of my desire to learn but I also think that coding would be a great field for many blind people whose unemployment rate continues to be unacceptably high."

(Unemployment among the blind is estimated to be around 70%)
Ask HN: Should I learn to program old machines?
Often take the time to read the stories of great programmers. One thing I note, especially in Coders at Work, is that they all seemed to learn on an old machine. I get the impression that writing useful software under those constraints shaped their outlook for the rest of their careers.

Do you think, personally, if it's worth setting up an emulator or VM to match old hardware and learning to write cool, useful programs on it?
Ask HN: Is Ask HN Down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask returns a blank page. Is it down for you too?
You only get rock star engineers if you treat your engineers like rock stars
simple rule and a thought of the day
Marc Cuban: "The Internet's dead.. [it's] for old people."
http://www.multichannel.com/CA6463169.html
WTF?
Ding Dong
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/dingdong-heres-the-new-craze-in-photo-messaging-apps-and-its-addictive/
Here’s The New Craze In Photo Messaging Apps And It’s Addictive
HTML visualization of first Prelude from Bach's Cello Suites
http://www.baroque.me/
HTML visualization of first Prelude from Bach's Cello Suites
Why VCs Don't Sign NDAs
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/10/why-vcs-do-not-.html
First-time entrepreneurs sometimes ask VCs to sign NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements). They do this because they are worried that their intellectual property will not be protected without a legal agreement in place. To the surprise of these individuals, most VCs do not sign NDAs.
Octalysis: my Gamification Framework (critique please)
http://yukaichou.com/gamification-research/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/
After doing Lifestyle Gamification (of course it wasn't called that back then http://ow.ly/eknmk) since 2003, and starting a Career Gamification Startup in 2007 (ow.ly/ekmyx), and now running RewardMe.com, I've decided to focus all my free time on Gamification (it is truly a passion of mine)

After some research, I created a complete Gamification Framework to analyze any process or product called Octalysis. It is based on Human-Focused Design and breaks down into 8 Core Drives that motivates us. It then graphs on an Octagon shape for further analysis and improvement.

This is just my first step (or MVP), so I am very eager to get some feedback and critique so I can improve it and make it better.

Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks!!
A First for Udacity
http://chronicle.com/article/A-First-for-Udacity-Transfer/134162
U.S. University Will Accept Transfer Credit for One of Its Courses
Ask HN: What about those great posts that appear/disappear while I'm sleeping?
Obviously the best posts will appear and stay on the front page between the time I sleep and wake up. However, there must be a plethora of amazing content I never see purely based on the time I sleep.<p>I can imagine people in other time zones and/or with different sleep patterns, being exposed to and voting on content that I may never.<p>Any solutions or comments?
TED: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
http://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html
Niall Ferguson draws a great analogy between iPhone apps and institutions that brings into light the course of our the world into the future.
How To Become a Statesman
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/plunkett-george/tammany-hall/#s02
The one political talk that every aspiring CEO or politician should read. (All of the first three talks are really outstanding actually, although some of the later ones are more esoteric.)
YC Ivy League Bias
http://davidduey.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/ivy-league-bias.html#isError:false
I enjoy reading Paul Graham's essays. He's obviously a smart guy and usually has thought provoking and interesting essays. He often looks at things from a different perspective and I like that a lot, although I don't always agree with his conclusions. I've also followed along with his Y Combinator "seed investment firm." However, I've never applied to Y Combinator or even considered applying because I've always felt like he leans heavily toward the Ivy League crowd.
Viaweb was the first level 3 web platform according to the definition given by Andreessen?
http://lispmeister.com/blog/lisp-news/ning.html
'd like to point out that, as far as I know, Viaweb, an online shop system build by Paul Graham and Robert Morris, was the first level 3 web platform according to the definition given by Andreessen: