jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can I Improve My YCombinator Info Site?
YCombinator Universe aims to be the largest unofficial site of information and links about YCombinator and YC-funded start-ups. It's at http://ycuniverse.com/

How can I improve the site? What would you like to see on there?
Show HN: CMDB Implementation with ActiveAdmin
http://dcmdashboard.herokuapp.com/
This is a prototype of a CMDB that I created for work. We are currently building servers across several countries and in order to track the team's progress I created this application.

url: dcmdashboard.herokuapp.com
login: visitor@example.com
password: password
Ask HN:  Good resource for bytecode interpreters?
Home project requires me to write a simple bytecode interpreter that does complex arithmetic, doesn't have to be turing complete or anything (unless arithmetic is turing complete).. anyone know any good resources?
Hiring makers of products for innovation team
joinemerge.com
How one racy comment could mean cancellation of all your Google accounts
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-services-2011-7
Business Insider makes the point, ok again, that the wrong post on Google+ could kill your Gmail account.
A detailed explanation behind actionable SaaS Metrics (investor in JBoss)
http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/
This post was written by David Skok.
For people who are thinking of doing a SaaS, this drills down layer-by-layer to the metrics that are actionable.
Cirru: another attempt to make structured editor
http://jiyinyiyong.github.com/article/04-cirru-project/page/en.html
A simple demo to try editing syntax tree in graphic UI. It's buggy and please open this in Chrome.

Original article was in Chinese.
http://jiyinyiyong.github.com/article/04-cirru-project/page
Sorry, Chrome killed the terminal
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Sorry-Chrome-killed-the-terminal
That's right. I'm not using the terminal anymore. Instead of that I'm using Chrome. Yes, the Google's browser. There is an extension called Yez! that connects to a Node.js module via web socket. It executes the shell commands and returns the result. And even works under Windows.
This is Sun's Last Week on Earth
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/07/13/The-Sun-Slowly-Sets.aspx
Sun Microsystems will officially become part of Oracle on Friday, barring a miracle. Heads will roll.
Google launches new developer education programs
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-launches-new-developer-education.html
https://developers.google.com/academy/
200 Character Processing Competition
http://vagueterrain.net/content/2009/08/tiny-sketch-200-character-processing-competition
A fun competition to create eye candy in the Processing language in under 200 characters.
Android's Andy Rubin: the ultimate opensource developer executive
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/andy-rubins-departure-just-part-androids-nature
Android’s overtaking of Apple iOS was a sign that both Android and the smart mobile device market at large were maturing; a change in the status of Google’s Android business, as a result, would be imminent.

Android is not yet making a lot of money for Google. But it has produced a much more important result than profits, at least for now: Rubin checkmated Apple with Android, preventing Apple’s dominance of the mobile search market that is so critical to Google’s future. Rubin’s achievements - 1.5 million Android activations per day, 750 million Android activations, more than 25 billion apps downloads - are enviable by Apple’s, Microsoft and BlackBerry’s standards.
Former MySQL boss: Code 'in better shape than ever' under Oracle
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050311-mickos-mysql.html?hpg1=bn
Despite concerns that Oracle would be unfriendly to open source projects acquired through the merger with Sun, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos says the MySQL code base is in fantastic condition. Version 5.5 of the MySQL database "probably is the best MySQL version ever produced," Mickos said.
Show HN: Not an Influencer?Pinz is the link in bio for the rest of us
https://pinz.bio/
Not everyone is online to sell and promote, and 160 characters isn’t enough to show the full picture, Pinz is the Link in Bio for EVERYONE. It's your space to pin more, post outside of newsfeeds, and avoid censorship.
Leverage your digital real estate today!
Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments
http://protogenist.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/virtual-humans-in-virtual-environments/
The participant should animate his virtual human representation in realtime,
however the human control is not straightforward: the complexity
of virtual human representation needs a large number of degrees of
freedom to be tracked. In addition, interaction with the environment
increases this difficulty even more. Therefore, the human control should
use higher level mechanisms to be able to animate the representation
with maximal facility and minimal input. We can divide the virtual
humans according to the methods to control them
5 Last-Minute Tech Gift Ideas For People You Hate
http://readwrite.com/2012/12/21/5-last-minute-tech-gifts-for-people-you-hate
If they install it, they'll have nightmares. If they don't, it's just a useless box that will sit on their shelf and periodically remind them that you don't particularly care for them.
Favit makes the web more transparent - stats launched
http://blog.favit.com/en/profile_stats
favit is pioneering a stat module providing detailed traffic statistics available on each shared item and public profile. This way you can monitor popularity trends and dynamics for your personal profile, groups, bundles and filters – every single item on favit.
Charles Carreon vs. The Illuminati and Matt Inman
http://www.naderlibrary.com/bulletin_board/viewtopic.php?t=896&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
holy crap.
Can anyone recommend a scalable backup software solution?
Hi, does anyone have experience and can recommend a good (make that excellent) backup software solution that:

- can scale to petabytes
- is efficient, isn't spending huge amounts of time and server cycles scanning entire volumes for changed files
- is either open source or a reasonably priced commercial version
- is easy to manage and work with
- reliable, not flaky

Thanks!
These Are Not The Hackathons You’re Looking For
http://sstools.co/1iNm0el
Beware of the Hackathon which is not a Hackathon.
Manipulation of URLs in JavaScript
https://github.com/Mikhus/jsurl
Lightweight and easy library for URLs manipulation in JavaScript. Minified and gzipped < 1KB
Facebook launches "Groups at Your School"
http://mad.catman.co/EF9R
Facebook launched "Groups at Your School" – at least to CMU. A casual survey of friends indicates only a few have the groups, which are available to both of CMU's current student addresses (@andrew.cmu.edu, @cmu.edu). Adding and confirming an eligible address unlocks groups titled by Dorm, Activity, Major, etc. The groups have cover photos and full-bleed photo strips and a redesign header but are otherwise the same as the GA groups product.

Kind of a nice replacement for the deprecated networks, but much simpler and more inline with the group/list sharing model. This'll be cool.
Stereotype map of the World
http://stereotypemap.com
Share your stereotype about each country of the World, and check the toplist of the most popular stereotypes.
Ask HN: Visualizations of an Overview of Programming Languages
Having consulted search engines to death, I turn to the HN Community for some good visualizations that give an overview of the programming languages out there and include a lot more than just the mainstream languages. I'm struggling to find good results, because most searches are drowned in tutorials of "How to visualize data in $PL" or visualizations that cover a very small set of languages [0]. I found a visualization that shows the influence of programming languages on one another [1]. Something that includes such an insane amount of PLs, but for the visualizations described below, would be perfect.

I'm specifically looking for two kinds of visualizations:

1. A visualization that puts PLs into application domains: Something like a Venn diagram of the domains covered in [2] would be great.

2. A visualization that shows a timeline of programming languages and how they branch off from another: Something like [0], but with more PLs. Perhaps with the data of [3], but visualized. I know of a visualization that does this for Linux distros [4].

[0] https://www.mindmeister.com/104015524/programming-languages

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581948

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_domain

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages

[4] http://futurist.se/gldt/

Any other visualizations about programming languages that you deem beautiful would be greatly appreciated as well. Some visualizations I found along the way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544882

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914924

https://github.com/stereobooster/programming-languages-genealogical-tree
(See also the "Similar projects" section. I shared this one with HN earlier today, since it was noticeably absent.)

https://hopl.info/taxandgenie.html (This one is a bit dated, unfortunately. I also shared it on HN.)
Help save a child from cancer
http://www.gofundme.com/5y1u7s
Roman only 2 years. He was diagnosed with neuroblastoma stage 4. Little Romochka need help every one of us TODAY ! There is a fee for treatment at the clinic of the Italian Gazlinni (ISTITUTO GIANNINA GASLINI) of Genova. This clinic specializes in this kind of diseases. And the kid has a chance to recover and return to a normal childhood without pain and injections, if we succeed to raise the money in time.

Roman second long-awaited and much-loved child . But the trouble was raided and all of a sudden in one moment everything changed. In June, 2013 the evening of the child found in the urine of blood. In the morning it was already all right , but mother , as a medical professional , did not leave the situation and analysis of urine passed by the study. White blood cell count was elevated, suggested glomerulonephritis and sent the boy to the regional hospital . Ultrasound revealed the presence of neoplasm . CT scan done and sent the child to the National Cancer Institute in Kiev for the purpose prior to the survey . 05.07.2013 Roma hospitalized in pediatric oncology research , tumor biopsy was performed . 18.07.2013 was made the first cycle of chemotherapy . 09.08.2013 We started the second round of chemotherapy . 30.08.2012 Started 3 round chemotherapy. It is not possible to live only wait , hope and faith. Swift Action ! We are in the beginning of a long path leading to the recovery of our Roman. Will it be a successful way for it depends on whether we can pay all the necessary qualified treatment with specialists in this field. Even a small financial help from each of you will give our child a chance for a speedy recovery.

http://www.gofundme.com/5y1u7s
Show HN: ptable.js - a simple periodic table object
https://github.com/calebrash/ptable
Super simple access to period table data for use in Node or browser environments. The data could definitely be expanded to make it more useful, but I think this is a good start.
GarageBand for iOS and Mac now free
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id408709785
Mac: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/garageband/id682658836
Web Design: On Essence
http://www.8164.org/web-design-on-essence/
Web design is about emotion.
Show HN: Virtual JSON Viewer – Virtual DOM, Full Text Search and JQ
https://github.com/paolosimone/virtual-json-viewer
I built a custom tailored browser extension for rendering and navigating Json responses and files, hopefully it could be useful also to someone else.

Why? I often need to debug fairly large json files (10MB+). For a time I used a combination of JQ in the terminal for filtering and Firefox native viewer for full text search.
Then I had an epiphany "Wait a sec, I am a developer! How hard could it be to combine those features in a single product?". Harder than I expected (of course), but still, here we are.

Disclaimer: I'm a backend developer by day, no designers were harmed in the making of the UI/UX :)
Apple, Samsung reportedly want to settle all patent disputes
http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-samsung-reportedly-trying-to-settle-all-patent-disputes/
Anybody believe it? Too good to be true?
Former Odeo architect sells Uruguay dev shop to “Lean Startup” firm
http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/former-odeo-architect-sells-uruguay-dev-shop-to-lean-startup-firm/
The first employee and lead architect of the company that later became Twitter has sold his Uruguay-based dev shop to lean startup consulting group New Context, which counts Eric Ries as a partner. The move marks the emergence of customer development as a service.
WiFi2HiFi app - Stream audio to iPhone from any desktop music player
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wifi2hifi/id417409424?mt=8&ls=1
Clever & Son AG is pleased to announce that the WiFi2HiFi app is now available on the App Store.
Getting setup with Machinelearning Environment
http://shrikar.com/
http://shrikar.com/
Show HN: Regfmt – generate control register-style diagrams in SVG
https://github.com/kickingvegas/regfmt
regfmt is a Python command line utility to generate SVG diagrams for control register-style data formats.
304% Lift in Conversions by Moving the Call-to-Action below the Fold  
http://contentverve.com/how-moving-the-call-to-action-below-the-fold-generated-a-304-lift/
Don't subscribe blindly to Best Practice: Here’s a case study where a landing page treatment, with the CTA placed way under the fold, outperformed the control version (CTA above the fold) by 304%.
The Rise of Visual Content Marketing (explainer video)
http://videoigniter.com/blog/the-rise-of-visual-content-marketing-video/
We connected with Linkedin’s Senior Manager of Content Marketing, Jason Miller, to learn why visual content like video is more effective for marketers than text-based content.

In this video, you’ll learn:
- Why visual content is more effective than text-based content
- How to start making visual content today for free
Has Anonymous Romania Been Caught?
http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/29/anonymous-romania-arrested/
The Romanian news agency have reported today that 14 people, members of Anonymous Romania have been arrested. The Romanian cyber fighters were spread across the country and it took special operations led by the specialised Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism to apprehend them.

The 24 year old Romanian leader of Anonymous group
Using Nginx as a Reverse Proxy to Get the Most Out of Your VPS
http://www.unravelthemusic.com/blog/view/8
Unravel The Music is a small startup; by that I mean we have no money, no financing, and we are owned and operated by two people. Therefore it is important that we get the most out of our server in terms of performance and cost and we have to do this without having to spend hours worrying about the server when we could be improving our design or code.
Create an Online Resume Using WordPress
http://devstand.com/design/resume-wordpress-themes/
Even if WordPress is seen by many to be a blog platform or a CMS designed just for the online magazines, newspapers or portals, the truth is that WordPress has a simple and comprehensive structure that allows you to build everything that you can imagine. That's why we believe that WordPress would be a great platform to host a professional online resume or business card. In this list I collected some of the most creative and professional looking themes to help you do this in just minutes.
Monitis Launches a New Plan to Help Universities Stay Green and Cut Costs
http://blog.mon.itor.us/?cat=7
Monitis, the leading provider of the world’s greenest, all-in-one, hosted network and application monitoring suite, today announced The Academic Plan - a comprehensive, all-you-can-eat (or unlimited) package and pricing model for schools, colleges, and universities.

The new Academic Plan offers everything found in the traditional Monitis suite of tools, but also includes unlimited monitoring. So academic institutions, be they schools, colleges, or universities select one of 3 possible packages – Small, Medium or Large based on the number of servers they need monitored, and nothing else. It’s that simple.

Starting from just $248 per month, the Academic Plan, is a perfect offer for schools with even the tightest of budgets, as all added-value services are free – the number of parameters to monitor, the number of network devices, and even alerts including Live Voice and SMS alerts. As a result, educational institutions have the luxury of employing a single monitoring solution instead of the standard current mix of multiple open-source software solutions (e.g. Nagios, Zabbix, Zenos, Cacti), commercial software solutions (like Solarwinds, Whatsup Gold), and external end-user experience monitoring services (like Gomez, Keynote).

Given that Monitis operates on a SaaS model and is based in the Cloud, IT managers throughout Academia can avoid the cost, stress, hassles, and limitations of using traditional software-based monitoring tools. With Monitis there are no upfront license fees, no updates to manage, and no servers to maintain. Getting set-up and running with the complete suite takes only 5 minutes, and as Monitis offers the Industry’s most reliable notification system, users can rest easy knowing that they’ll be notified even if their system or network is completely down.

But in addition to all of the professional advantages Monitis offers, it is also the greenest monitoring solution available today. Because schools, colleges, and universities that use Monitis don’t have to buy and operate their own monitoring servers, they save massively on electricity bills and minimize their carbon footprint. Indeed, with the average server’s electricity bills running approximately US $1,050/year, academic institutions save more money on electricity bills than they will spend on Monitis’ services. The savings increase even more dramatically when the cost of acquiring and maintaining the server are included, as well.

Said Monitis’ Founder and CEO, Hovhannes Avoyan, “For schools, colleges, and universities around the world, Monitis’ Academic Pricing plan is a no-brainer. Take the world’s leading-edge monitoring technology, wrap it in a pricing plan with a TCO that’s even lower than open-source systems like Nagios or Cacti, and then factor in the carbon footprint reductions, and Monitis has an offer for Academia that is truly unbeatable.” See more at http://portal.monitis.com/index.php/monitis-for-education
OSCON 2013 : An Overview of Open Source in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan)
http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29494
Hi hackers,
I'm Sungju Jin, Korean Hacker.
A few days ago, I was talking about 'Open Source in East Asia' at OSCON.
Here is my OSCON slide.
I'll hope this slide is helpful for open source community!

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29494
Saddest phone support request you'll ever hear
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2009/04/27/the-saddest-voicemail-youll-ever-hear/
It was posted on the dreamhost blog - this brings tears into my eyes
Help stress test my Skype replacement?
http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews
http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews

or

http://107.170.237.209:3006/#hackernews-swirl

for the swirl effect...
New technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1931856606/iseewhatyousay?ref=card
Hello,

My name is Jibril, I am a Biological Scientist and an entrepreneur. I would like to share with you my technology start up I am doing for the Deaf and hard of hearing community. Our I See What You Say acts as a device for use for voice to text translation.

As a Deaf person, this is like our new "pen and paper" for public places. (We, Deaf, use pen and paper to communicate between hearing people) I would have to wait until someone finish writing which is not productive. Or in the other room where I am being called by my parents and not responding because I can't hear them. This is a new technology that can bridge communication for both hearing and Deaf/Hard of Hearing individuals.
SHRTURL
http://shrturl.co
Edit any webpage. Get short URL. Troll your friends!
All Roads Lead to "Philosophy"
http://xefer.com/wikipedia
Graphically examine the assertion that following the first link of any Wikipedia article inevitably leads to "Philosophy."

This is all done client-side using the JSONP interface to the Wikipedia AI, JQuery and the Javascript InfoViz Toolkit. Support for <canvas> element on IE is provided by Google's excanvas package.
Show HN: CrowdSFX - Crowdsource Foreign Exchange, AirBnB for FX
http://signup.crowdsfx.com/
The AirBnB for currency trading
Bitcoin Browser Wallet - Tutorial
http://frozeman.de/blog/2014/01/bitcoin-browser-wallet-tutorial/
A short tutorial on how to use the bitcoin browser wallet.
Show HN: Dump and dumper CLI tool to ease the backup of containerized databases
https://github.com/Thomascogez/dump-and-dumper
Dump & dumper A simple cli tool to streamline backup process of containerized databases
9 Ways Entrepreneurs Doom Their Businesses
http://outright.com/blog/9-ways-entrepreneurs-doom-their-businesses/
9 Ways Entrepreneurs Doom Their Businesses
Do good looks correlate with higher salaries?
http://www.quora.com/Salaries/Do-good-looks-correlate-with-higher-salaries/answer/Alex-Suchman
Daniel Hamermesh, a professor of economics at UT-Austin, has done extensive work on the economics of beauty [1]. His most famous finding is that better looking people make more money than their less attractive counterparts. This effect holds true even after controlling for factors like gender, intelligence, and industry [2]. Furthermore, it isn't only observed in jobs like entertainment or customer service where it makes sense for beauty to be an advantage. Studies have shown that good looks lead to better outcomes in professions ranging from lawyer to NFL quarterback [3][4].

Hamermesh's research has found that there is both a beauty premium (i.e. above average looks earn more than average looks) and an ugliness penalty (i.e. below average looks earn less than average looks). On average, the best looking Americans can expect lifetime earnings $230,000 greater than the least attractive. And while It might seem intuitive that looks carry more importance for women, evidence suggests the opposite might be true. Attractive women make 12% more than unattractive women while attractive men get a 17% boost over unattractive men [5].

Labor markets aren't the only place where beauty plays a role. Studies have found that attractive people have wealthier spouses, get more and better loans, and receive less harsh prison sentences [6]. In fact, new research suggests that the better looking not only make more money but are also happier and have higher life satisfaction [7].

For your amusement, here is a picture of Dr. Hamermesh, the face of beauty economics.

[1] I had the good fortune to take Principles of Microeconomics with Dr. Hamermesh. He was an outstanding teacher who made theories clear and applications relevant. If you're a current or future UT student, I highly recommend his class.

[2] Beauty And The Labour Market

[3] Beauty, Productivity, and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

[4] Good looking quarterbacks make an estimated $300,000 more than unattractive QBs after adjusting for productivity. Do Pretty-Boy Quarterbacks Make More Money?

[5] The Economics of Beauty - Are Attractive People More Successful?

[6] The line of beauty

[7] This effect is relatively weak. A one standard deviation increase in attractiveness predicts an additional 0.08 standard deviations of both happiness and satisfaction. Roughly half of this increase is accounted for by the economic gains associated with beauty. Beauty Is The Promise of Happiness?

[8] Here is Dr. Hamermesh in a hilarious Daily Show segment. Daily Show: Ugly People Prejudice.
Anonymous launches Ubuntu based OS
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57397895-17/anonymous-os-worth-the-risk/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
purportedly at least.