jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Jquery.columns: viewport relative responsive grids
https://github.com/elclanrs/jquery.columns
jquery.columns extends the native jQuery css method to be able parse viewport relative units[1] (vh & vw only) and provides a method to quickly create reponsive layouts.

[1]http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#viewport-relative-lengths
Demo: http://elclanrs.github.com/jquery.columns
Show HN: Cosmic Basin – Free and beautiful AI-generated images for your website
https://www.cosmicbasin.com/
Hi HN, I made Cosmic Basin after I got frustrated with how hard it was to discover high quality AI art that I could use for my side projects.

I think AI art will play a big role of visual content in the future, and many of the images generated today are more than high quality enough to use as wallpapers, splash images, OG images, and more.

All of the images can be used / downloaded for free on personal and commercial projects. I am hoping to add more high quality images every day to slowly grow the collection.

I believe that "AI artists" will be a profession in the future, and I hope long term, Cosmic Basin could be a community for people who want to discover and share AI art. Here's some more info on why I built the site: https://www.cosmicbasin.com/about.
I went to a developer bootcamp.  This was my experience.
http://blog.felixthea.com/developer-bootcamps-a-look-from-the-inside/
If you're wondering if it's a good move for you to quit your job and enroll in a developer bootcamp for 2-3 months, I wrote a blog post on my experience this past winter in a developer bootcamp at App Academy. I hope it helps you get an idea of what it would be like.
'Sexting' and the 'F-bomb'
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/newwords12.htm
Forgot to mention Cloud Computing of course as the best one.
Ask HN: Can a student with F-1 visa create a company?
Hi HN!

I hope everybody is well and business is good. I am trying to find ways to join the business world.

I am currently a M.Eng. student with F-1 visa and I am wondering; is it possible to create/found a company with my F-1 visa?

I google'd this a little and mostly the answers is no, but I thought there might be someone in HN who has some experience in this matter.

Thank you for your help!
Skin Builder - Online Tool for Skin Assembling
http://www.webix.com/blog/skin-builder-online-tool-for-skin-assembling/
Now you are able to define custom colors and fonts for a web interface created with the Webix library. We are releasing Webix Skin Builder – online tool, which you can use for interface customization.
Ask HN: Would you be keeping your job for the officially minimum salary?
It is a hypothetical scenario, but at least I know people that if they had the luxury they would even pay to be/stay in their position. Because they like it or because it provides high social status or things like that. Any lucky HNers to agree with that?
Blibu.com Launch Party in NYC
http://www.blibu.com/page/party
Blibu.com is officially launching this Friday to help bands and venues organize events, find the best people to work with and generate exposure for events through a public API offered to blogs and online publications.

Launch Party at Bar4 in Brooklyn. Bands who register before Friday can win a brand new Squire electric guitar. So come, it's free for all....
The Long Road Home: Super Commuters
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/12/11165204-the-long-road-home-super-commuters-on-the-rise#comments
The story isn't necessarily interesting or great in itself, but the fact that some people are commuting nearly 100 miles one way to work is baffling to me. I used to commute about 30 miles each way to work and I hated it so I moved closer to work where my commute is < 5 miles. It's a little more expensive but my quality of life has improved greatly.

Anyone have a super commute?
Show HN: Browserslist website – configure target browsers for front-end tools
https://browsersl.ist
Browserslist is the shared browser compatibility config for popular JavaScript tools like Autoprefixer, Babel, ESLint, Next.js, PostCSS, and Webpack. Now it's got a new website at https://browsersl.ist where you can test audience coverage and behold some hedgehogs.
The 1–10–100 Principle or How We Stopped Neglecting Data
[A Case Report on Fuzzy Name Matching]

In 1992, George Labovitz and Yu Sang Chang proposed the 1–10–100 principle, which suggests that the longer one takes to correct bad data, the more expensive it will be to fix it eventually.
A data-centred way of putting it is this:

"It will cost $1 to verify the quality of your database, $10 to clean each item in it and $100 to store each item that is not cleaned."

[100 Dollars]

I worked for a small organisation which I will call ACME from here onward. It is social security organisation that manages funds for the Government.
The law of the land is such that every employee was required to save a certain portion of their salary with ACME on a monthly basis. This money can then be accessed upon reaching the retirement age or under special circumstances which are beyond the scope of this post.
At that time, ACME had the list of expected monthly contributions from almost everyone in the labour sector, but their list was compromised due to several factors surrounding how they managed data (let’s call this List_A). Concurrently, ACME would receive multiple salary schedules from hundreds of organisations around the country (we’ll call this List_B) and their task was to compare both lists to come up with a clean, properly formatted and reliable master copy. It is also important to note that List_A and List_B usually had cases of the same individuals appearing on both lists, but with their names spelled differently.

Initially, matching each name in List_A to the names in List_B was done manually. This usually took many days and resulted in plenty of mismatched names because of human error, to the point that our error rate was hovering around 30%. In other words, our team was mismatching hundreds of thousands of dollars each day.
Further on, project costs were also running high. Each person working on the project was earning about $15 an hour and for a team comprising about 70 people (not counting top management), it is easy see how overall project costs could easily have got out of hand if the project had dragged on for too long.

[CONTINUE READING]

"The 1–10–100 Principle or How We Stopped Neglecting Data and Started Investing in Data Cleaning" > https://getflookup.medium.com/the-1-10-100-principle-or-how-we-stopped-neglecting-data-and-started-investing-in-data-cleaning-b07a7dbf92d6
Wikiread
http://wikiread.fidenz.com
Totally new way to look at Wikipedia articles. Ideal to swiftly extract the content you looking for in a Wikipedia article. Try the cool browser plig-in for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome (http://wikiread.fidenz.com/plugin/pluginpage.html)
Performance metrics for a social network
http://www.mellowmorning.com/2012/08/22/performance-metrics-for-a-social-network/
The talk focuses on how we use metrics to drive optimization at Fashiolista.

And narrows down on tools like:
NewRelic
Graphite
PgFouine
Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful
http://www.shanekoyczan.com/2013/03/08/my-ted-talk-is-live-watch-it-here/
Shane has a fantastic artful delivery as he navigates bullying, depression and suicide in kids and how that shapes us as adults. Amazing talk.
[alt]: http://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful.html
Koding.com is public - social development in the cloud 
http://www.koding.com
This looks pretty well designed. Haven't jumped into the guts yet, but seems well laid out.
Anyone uses silkjs?
http://silkjs.org/
I am using this for my projects, anyone else is using this?
Suggest HN: Display upvotes for submissions, but don't count it towards karma
After all this point-display discussion for comments, how about another change.
I just thought that all this started with a sort of "karma-hunt". If we display upvotes, but don't count it towards a users karma, couldn't that help to increase discussion and the amount of good comments and decrease the amount of bad submissions?
maybe this has been said before and i'm just not aware of it, but maybe not, or maybe this is not how hacker news works and i'm just not getting it...
anyway, just an idea!
Sublime Text 2 Introduction
http://bytedesk.com/software/2012/10/deberias-estar-utilizando-sublime-text-2-el-editor-de-codigo-definitivo/
Sublime Text 2, the best code editor
A Simple News Aggregator
http://smashingfeeds.com
SmashingFeeds.com is a very simple online new aggregator that displays feeds of your interest from various news/blog sources.
Microsoft offers Windows developers $100 for their apps
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-developers-cash-for-windows-apps
http://build.windowsstore.com/
“Attention Walls” In UX Design, For Productivity In An Attention Economy?
http://jdavid.net/?p=95 
I was thinking about Aza's Post and how it might be a more general UX Pattern for messaging. http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/chinas-great-firewall-productivity/
Microsoft Flight released today
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/
A completely different product than before, and seemingly more of a game than a sim, but Microsoft released Flight today.
Show HN: Apache HiveQL AST Visualizer
https://github.com/liprais/hive_ast_tree_vis
Demo on Heroku
https://afternoon-refuge-4404.herokuapp.com/
Check out fbmusicmashup
http://www.fbmusicmashup.dotcloud.com/?genres=dubstep
This is a VERY early version of a cool music mashup, with a horrible UI. It does let you find great alternative versions of songs that you like on FB / Last.FM. Let us know if you like it!
Crime Against Children in India - How data science can help!
http://gggodhwani.github.io/crime_against_children/
We are a group of data science enthusiasts who are helping NGOs collect and analyse their data to make better and informed data driven decisions and have larger impact. If your NGO needs help with its data, please feel free to contact.
How to use Chrome Dev Tools FrameViewer
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-profiling-tool/using-frameviewer
For a web application to respond smoothly to user touch input the application needs to receive input events in JavaScript, react to them, and then allow time for the browser to render any changes made to the page -- all within a 16ms frame budget.
Groupon's Guidelines for Marketing Copy
http://blog.choosewise.ly/groupons-guidelines-for-marketing-copy
I wish the rest of the world followed these rules.
[Ask HN]A social network for travelers
http://goabroad.net
Basically the site is an attempt mimic a social network, with travelers in mind.

I would love to hear your thoughts about it. Thanks!
Announcing rbenv.el to integrate Emacs with rbenv
http://blog.senny.ch/blog/2013/02/11/use-the-right-ruby-with-emacs-and-rbenv/
Ruby Developers using rbenv should give rbenv.el a spin. It's a very small package to configure your Emacs session with your rbenv rubies.
Rate my startup: Lazyscope, X-ray vision for your Twitter.
http://www.lazyscope.com
Lazyscope lets you see through all the shared links in your Twitter timeline, without visiting the sites. It's like RSS reader meets Twitter. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_YnOmaIhq4

I'm looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. Thanks!
ShowHN: My latest project:  GameSynch.  A HTML5 Multiplayer Game JukeBox.
http://www.gamesynch.com
The timer is set at 3 minutes. You can vote to extend the current game session or skip to the next one. The chatroom on the right allows emotes.

All feedback is appreciated, thank you!
Release your product NOW, not later (a blog post)
http://kanebennett.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/release-now-not-later-with-an-ear-of-course/
What are your thoughts on my latest blog post?

This is an issue which plagues a lot of young developers I know, so I thought I'd write about my thoughts on the matter.

Your advice or opinion on the blog would be great!
BT unveils first ‘real world’ trial of 10Gbps broadband in the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/9699121/BT-unveils-10-gigabit-broadband.html
"The first ‘real world’ trial of hyperfast broadband is taking place at a Cornish electronics firm, BT has announced. The service offers a single business more bandwidth than was used at the highest peak for
the entire Olympics media network."
Joyent Accelerator Pricing--Is the service worth the high prices?
http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/pricing/
Right now we're running 1 dedicated server for our startup. We pay $250/month for a 4GB machine. We're a hosted application in the enterprise software space (reporting & business intelligence).

We've been in beta with a customer but we're about to go live in production, and I'm wanting to add a couple more servers for uptime reliability. I started looking around and Joyent gets good marks.

It seems though pretty expensive for what is, at the end of the day, a VPS. We're looking at $250/month for a 2GB/1CPU slice, whereas now I can get more computing machinery from a managed dedicated provider. I'll probably be needing 2 web servers and a DB, so total cost might push $750/month which seems high to me.

In short--are the benefits of Joyent enough to pay those high prices? Anybody here using the Accelerator service?
Ask HN: Do you think my invention is worth pursuing?
It's a smart outlet with a network intrusion detection system built in. When an intrusion is detected it shuts off power to the outlet. That way if a bad actor gets into your network the network will get shut down, locking them out. I admit it doesn't do a whole lot about finding the source of the problem but it at least addresses the immediate threat and it could log information about the threat which might help you locate it. I was thinking maybe I could partner with a security company by having them offer my customers 50% off or something and then if the customer really wants they can have the security company do a pen test and some analysis on the intrusion.

I spent a TON of time and money on this idea. Since I have basically zero money I tried doing everything myself. I managed to design the PCB myself. I designed a case for it. But I spent 90% of the time trying to get a patent and I even filed the patent application but I didn't have the money to pay the filing fee so I'm pretty sure I can't get a patent on it any longer, even if I could afford it, which I can't.

As a side-effect of covid I stopped working on it. That was about a year ago.

I'm afraid that either no one will like my idea or as soon as it gets on anyones radar with the resources (electrical engineers, lawyers, people who know how to make cases) they'll just make a better version of it.

Do you think the idea could take off? Should I pick it up again or move on?
Show HN: weakurl.com super simple urlshortner
http://weakurl.com
All this rukus about bit.ly. I tried to make my own url shortener and I am coming for bit.ly. Lol. Looking for some feedback!
Ask HN:Why did Gigster become so huge despite being another dev shop?
And why other dev shops stay small and don't scale beyond a point? I'm trying to figure out the "secret sauce" here.

Everyone says services based agency business won't scale. And here is Gigster. Got into YC, raised $30M and growing!

Did anyone of you figure out the "secret sauce" behind the success of Gigster?
Show HN: JumpAsync – Bye scheduled meetings, hi asynchronous video collaboration
https://jumpasync.com/
Hi Show HN, I'm really excited to share a project I have been working on, JumpAsync.com. The idea of building a tool like this came about when I was working in a team as a software engineer. My coworkers and I were working from opposite parts of the world and found it difficult to attend scrum ceremonies synchronously.
I decided to build a tool for teams to work remotely across timezones, without distractions and the need for scheduled meetings. Send a link with an agenda, the team participates by recording screen share and talking head videos at their own time, and interact with comments and reactions.
If you're like me, you probably don’t enjoy spending hours on video conferencing and Zoom meetings. I encourage you to try it out if this looks interesting. Thank you and I’m open to any feedback.
Eventbrite Makes Events More Social By Meshing Deeper With Facebook
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/eventbrite-facebook/
Online ticketing startup Eventbrite is amping up the social features of its service by creating deeper hooks with Facebook. When you purchase a ticket through Eventbrite, you can already share that purchase with your Facebook friends. But now Eventbrite will be adding a deeper layer of integration with Facebook to power social event discovery.
Ask HN: What are the most popular Application Tracking Software (ATS) services?
So far these are the ones I've found on most job site aggregators

- jobvite

- lever

- workable

- recruiterbox

- greenhouse

Can anyone name some others I'm missing?
Show HN: A productive/fun alternative to endless scrolling on social media
https://somethingto.watch/
When feeling like you need to take a break (or when you're sitting on the toilet), instead of endlessly scrolling though social media apps, you can learn something interesting/useful on https://somethingto.watch/
Not only programmers should have fun, enter sysadmin puzzles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GaYDoRwOg
We accept beta testers for our new sysadmin puzzle system, send an email to info@coderloop.com with your Coderloop username to join the beta.
Show HN: Code search for StackOverflow
http://redrowstudio.com/tools/socs/search.html
This is an afternoon project that I whipped up yesterday to search inside code blocks in StackOverflow posts.

I often find myself going to stackoverflow or similar sites to find example snippets of code for something that I can't quite remember how to do. E.g. I'm working on a Grails app and I want to specify a maximum length for a domain object field. I know that I need to add a constraints block, but I can't remember the exact syntax - is it

fieldname(maxlength:10)

or

fieldname { length, 10 }

or something different. All I really need to see is an example to remind me how to do it. So I build this page, which searches stackoverflow posts for a posts with a given tag which contain a query string inside a code block, and displays them as snippets. You can click through to the full SO post for each result by clicking on the title.

This page is the hackiest of hacks; it uses the stackexchange data explorer to grab results, so it's very slow for tags that have a lot of posts. If other people find it useful then I'll redo it properly with a local database with full-text indexing.
Ask HN: Ranking Algorithm needed for website 
Greetings.

I'm working on a ranking algorithm for my website. Unfortunately I'm not trained in the jedi art of algorithms as of yet. Can you help?

Details:
The website lets users buy and sell mp3 tracks. The algorithm should rank mp3 songs, in my website's online store by popularity (I'm using popularity loosely here because that's essentially what the algorithm should determine).

The algorithm should take into account:
- the amount of time the song has been in the store
- the number of plays the song has
- the number of sales for the song and the price
- anything else?

Thx everyone!
Python Patterns, Take Two
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2014/11/16/1940#python-patterns--take-two
(link fixed, apologies, was redirecting somewhere else)
Heartbleed’s Aftermath: OpenBSD Developers Start Purifying OpenSSL
http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/04/openbsd_openssl
Update (April 23, 2014): The fork of OpenSSL has a name, LibreSSL. The team announced that they are targeting an initial production release for OpenBSD 5.6 (scheduled for November 2014). A portable version of OpenSSL is dependent on donations from the community at-large.
Ask PG/HN: Is there an issue in HN?
http://twitpic.com/2dy1zu
check this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597512
Ask before telling
http://www.quora.com/learningproductmanagement/Ask-before-telling
If you've created or are in charge of a product (or something else), you're going to get a lot of questions from various people. Answering questions is important, so finding a way to make this scale is critical. When come asking, turn it back on them. I believe this approach not only teaches them to be self-sufficient (to some degree), it also helps you by getting in their head rather than just giving them the same answer you've given dozens or hundreds of others.
Effective Software Postmortems
http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/3637441
I'm preparing for a postmortem tomorrow and found this article while searching for a good checklist. Anybody else want to add anything?
It's not Pandora or Spotify, but it's something I've been making the past 2 yrs
http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/13vvcm/its_not_pandora_spotify_or_rdio_but_its_something/
found this on reddit. felt like it fit HN well and the developer would probably appreciate the input
Taking the pain out of group travel
http://about.traveloo.me
We believe that the major pain point of group travel is in the planning phase. A person is left with all the responsibility of planning the entire trip for his friends to enjoy.Traveloo relieves the pain by allowing the primary planner to delegate tasks. This allows the workload to be spread across the group and not placed on a single person. Sign up for our beta by visiting our site.<p>www.traveloo.me
Life expectancy by health spending per capita [graph]
http://i.imgur.com/VqU3FFN.png
Source: http://gallery.mailchimp.com/de3259be81e52e95191ab7806/files/HAG2013.pdf, page 25
Capitalism and the road to a green card for a legal immigrant
http://crunchnot.blogspot.com/2007/08/capitalism-and-road-to-green-card-for.html
An instance of the 11 plus year road to obtaining the ever-so-valued green card. What do you businessmen think?
Reply to “All the faces of Ubuntu” (Mir)
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/03/reply-to-all-the-faces-of-ubuntu/
"Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

so you “have absolutely no doubt that Kwin will work just fine on top of Mir”. This is great and I totally appreciate that you think Mir is a great system. But I’m wondering why you don’t use KWin then, after all it will work fine on top of Mir and is Qt based?"
South Dakota Universities See Online Course Jump: An Export Industry?
http://www.wiredacademic.com/2011/10/south-dakota-public-universities-see-enrollment-jump-for-online-courses-an-export-industry/
South Dakota provides a microcosmic look at the growth and opportunities of blended learning and online learning.public universities in the unpopulated state - including my alma mater The University of South Dakota - are benefitting greatly from out-of-state students (many from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming) taking coursework online from South Dakota universities.
This shows that online learning can be a great business for established institutions in rural states, an export industry of sorts.<p>95.6: Percent increase in the number of out-of-state students enrolled in online classes from five years ago, up from 2,399 students to 4,603 students.
Christmas NumPy Cookbook Giveaway
http://ivanidris.net/wordpress/index.php/2012/12/02/christmas-numpy-cookbook-giveaway
A contest giving away NumPy Cookbook - a book about NumPy.
A computer font that feels human.
https://github.com/reggi/handwritten
Multiple renditions of a handwritten font, and javascript that changes each letter with a different rendition at random in order to diversify handwritten type.
California peaks at 4+ GW of utility-scale solar generation, meets 18% of demand
http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2014/kw11/california-peaks-at-over-4-gw-of-utility-scale-solar-generation-meeting-18-of-demand.html
This is all utility-scale generation. "Behind the meter", aka rooftop installations, not included.
Ask HN: Do you think we have a good idea?
http://speakerdeck.com/u/nirlevy/p/the-campus-bubble-model
We're live at Emory University and plan to launch our redesign based on a strategic pivot at the end of winter break.