jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Should we be applying to YC
Our creation is at:
www.snailmailpics.com

In the past couple of months we have created two different applications of printing pictures on your cell phone, computer and drop box.
We are trying to get some feedback on the product market fit. Would love the community's feedback.
Use the coupon code BoilerUp to get free printing from our DropBox app.
Vint Cerf (the other inventor of the Internet) spoke @ Sharkfest
http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/its-show-time.html
Today Vint gave a speech to about 300 open source tool enthusiasts (Wireshark/Ethereal developers and users) and discuss the importance of net neutrality and standards to the continual growth of Internet. This is particularly interesting in light of the recent Comcast fiasco in shutting down P2P traffics. Vint also talked about the history of Internet and answered a few questions with insightful commentary. The total speech is about one hour long and the quality is passable, but it is worth the time.
Disassembling, Decompiling and Modifying executables
http://www.developingthefuture.net/disassembling-decompiling-and-modifying-executables/
Disassembling, Decompiling and Modifying executables
PHP Tyrant - An Interface for Tokyo Tyrant
http://mamasam.indefero.net/p/tyrant/
Complete Tyrant API support (including RDB, RDBTable and Query) and written in pure PHP
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
I think this skill is something all hackers should learn, as they implicitly use it in most of their ventures. Once mathematical thinking (abstract/outside the box thinking) is learned, it will be far easier to learn new math techniques and concepts in the future.
Scala tutorial for programmers
http://rz.scale-it.pl/2012/12/13/scala_tutorial_for_programmers.html
New Scala tutorial. It covers basic knowledge and construct of Scala programming language for people with programming background.
Spore: ReSTful extensions for Slim
https://github.com/dannykopping/spore/blob/master/docs/01-What-is-Spore.md
Spore is a set of useful extensions to the Slim Framework. Spore contains a few useful tools for creating professional ReSTful APIs with minimum effort and high code readability.
The most complete Vine viewer on the web
https://bottlr.co
We've worked very hard on this for months. Now its ready!

Bottlr is the most complete Vine viewer online. Here you can login, like, revine, comment, follow and search for users and tags. You can also explore the depth of vine by go to popular to find videos that are trending. Give it a spin and tell me what you think!

The technology used:
Laravel framework (PHP)
Redis cache
Digital Ocean for servers
MariaDB

And error-logging via New Relic.
Google Reader closest alternative
http://inoreader.com/
Pretty close to the Reader UI. The only descent alternative I've come up to. It also has pretty handy mobile version.
Grow A Tail
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1299398926/grow-your-own-tail
We always wanted one - so we designed the best most realistic, remote controlled Tail we could.. Now its on Kickstarter.. Its the limb you didnt know u wanted..
Ask HN: Project ideas on Distributed/Cloud Computing
Hi, I am not sure whether it is appropriate to ask this kind of question on HN, but since I couldn't get any favorable response anywhere, I decided to throw this on to my fellow innovative hackers! :)

What should be the next big thing for distributed/cloud computing? How it will change our lives?

Open for discussion...
Show HN - Showing users what is trending locally. Looking for feedback.
http://www.spycrowd.com
We have just launched in Princeton, NJ, Kalamazoo, MI and Grand Rapids, MI and just looking to get some thoughts from the hacker news community about what we are doing.

We show users what is trending locally based on social media engagement within the businesses around them.
Show HN: I built a site to curate tools for HN
https://hackernewsmods.com/#hn
Hey HN! I built Hacker News Mods as a place to collect any tools or sites related to HN.

I know the community has build some incredible things around HN, but they're difficult to track. We also started building one mod/tool for HN per week, and thought it’d be a good idea to showcase all of the tools we’ve created, as well as tools that others have created. The site is pretty scrappy, so any feedback is appreciated!

Also, please submit any projects that we don’t already have listed!

Thanks, Jarren
The Story Of How Spotify Forced An Unofficial iPad App To Turn To Kickstarter
http://www.cultofmac.com/178900/the-story-of-how-spotify-forced-an-unofficial-ipad-app-to-turn-to-kickstarter/
Back in March, Max Petriv tweeted some images of a Spotify iPad app he had been working on. Not only was the app optimized for the iPad’s larger display (at that time there had not been a Spotify client even teased for the iPad), but the design and interface of Petriv’s app looked downright gorgeous.
Top Ten Search Terms on Yahoo & Google
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/google-yahoo-fa.html
The SEO motherlode.
Ruby on rails ,Python best frameworks
Hello everybody,

In my work,i work all the time with asp.net,javascript,jquery.

No that i have an idea for a web project:online card gambling game.RoR is recommended for me to do that.

I want to learn those two languages:Ruby & Python(for a smll website),what are the best frameworks for them,are they installs that i can buy in a dvd.please provide links.
Lightworks for Linux alpha will be available October 30th
http://editshare.posterous.com/at-last-lightworks-for-linux-will-be-availabl
Lightworks is a world class video editing software that's in the process of being open sourced and ported to Linux and OSX.It's been used in movies like Departed, Hugo, King's Speech, Pulp Fiction....
Show HN: Asananas – Little tool to monitor resource allocation in Asana
https://github.com/christianbrendel/asananas
Asananas helps you with your project management in Asana. It assumes that a single Asana project, e.g. called "Company Workstreams", is used for high-level project planning of your company or your team. Different projects/workstreams are reflected in Asana as tasks in the dedicated Asana project. These Asana tasks can be assigned to different people and have a start and a due date. Asananas helps you to visualize the allocation of your team members over time. Additionally, it helps you to sync your Asana tasks with Linear, a project management tool for software development teams. This is particularly useful for projects that are more technical in nature.
Guardian explains why Apple does't pay taxes in Ireland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/29/apple-ireland-cork-cathy-kearney
Money quote:

Their boards have been able to tell the Irish tax authorities that Kearney, the sole Irish-resident director, cannot be judged to manage or control these companies, and that important decision-making rests in California.

As a result, AOI and others are not deemed tax resident in Ireland.

Meanwhile, because these same companies are incorporated at addresses in Ireland, under US law they appeared not to be tax resident in the US either. "Magically," observed Senate committee chair Carl Levin, "it's neither here nor there."
Top schools for Entrepreneurs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217329
50 best schools for entrepreneurs from The Princeton Review
Work for an online fitness company. Made this for a sports host job. Is it lame?
http://youtu.be/ahuHdoaKYr4?hd=1
Questions and comments welcome.. Even mean ones!
DebateZone - new ajaxy debate site
http://debate-zone.com
Filling a niche in the market, karma + arguments = logical debates, go check it out! Feedback/comments/suggestions appreciated!
Student turn entrepreneurs
http://www.hindu.com/edu/2009/04/28/stories/2009042850080300.htm
Four students from India, have launched a company, which focuses on mobile and web applications.
The company launched an SMS service,SmsGYAN provides information requested by the user to the user’s mobile as an sms.
more info @ www.smsgyan.com
Show HN: WASM/TS crypto library for Ed25519, Shamir sharing, AEAD secret boxes
https://github.com/deliberative/crypto
Hello HN,

I made this library because I wanted better performance than tweetnacl and I also wanted Shamir secret sharing.
I wrote some C functions that use libsodium and compiled them to WASM with emscripten and everything is fully typed.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Try it out, and of course feedback and contributions are very welcome!
Ask HN: How do I report a possible spammer/hacker
So in the wake of the Facebook post w.r.t. email addresses showing up in google searches, I decided to google my email address and see if it comes up.

It didn't come up in a search for facebook listings but I did find my email address on this one site. I clicked on the link and turns out its a list of email addresses that someone's possibly selling to spammers.

Upon further poking around, I saw a file (there could be more of such files) having CC numbers and some tools to carry out SQL injections.

Is the Internet Crime Complaint Center the way to go?
A Million Thoughts
http://www.amillionthoughts.com
"A Million Thoughts" is what the name implies. The goal is to collect and publish 1,000,000 thoughts. These thoughts can be about anything. The catch is that a single thought can be no more than 15 words long, and each thought costs $1.00 US to publish. Thoughts are published in the order that they are received.
The Manual Labor of Code
http://trevor.smith.name/publish/exformation/8674/
One day soon a robot will replace me. I'll be focused on some gnarly coding problem, happily munching on green grapes and slouching like the meatbag I am, when the interaction designer, call her Alice, will walk by and ask me if I want to go look at the neat new system she just installed. She'll say, "It's going to make our job much, much easier!"
3 Strategies for Turning an Angry Customer into a Happy One.
http://www.thecrmprocess.com/2014/01/28/3-strategies-turning-angry-customer-happy-one-2/#.Uupmcj2SygQ
Turn your customer service department into a positive environment and remove the feeling that your customer service department is simply just a branch of your business where customers can vent out their problems.
Netflix arrives in Canada
http://www.netflix.ca
This is freaking amazing. I was a big fan when I was living in the US and one of the few things I was missing up here.

Today Netflix started in Canada, instead of mailing the movies they stream to your computer or tv via Wii/PlayStation. Excellent sign-up experience, I'm watching a movie already and ready to dump zip.ca!
The best way to guard your privacy
http://www.cowonder.com
facebook, twitter and other services don't give a sh*t about your privacy. coWonder does.
N1GHT.com, the nightlife platform. Looking for feedbacks
http://www.n1ght.com
I'm one of the co-founder. We're in Belgium, Brussels.

Basically, we are building a platform for the nightlife.

The global idea is to provide a fast, easy, reliable, honest, accessible website to find parties in your city.

Accessible in multiple languages and devices, without mandatory login to find a party.

We're using the most complete and up-to-date source of information for parties (Facebook) and make them available in a clear and easy manner.

We provide multiple tools for nightclubs and events promoters. Analytics, viral promotion tools (http://bit.ly/1eFm7A9), customization,... And we're working on a ticketing solution dedicated to nightclubs.

Our bet is local clubbing guides aren't reliable because of their financial dependance on events promoters. Our premium features for nightclubs are paying, but at a very low price. (even free when possible) to avoid to become dependent of them.

Our business model is to sell nightlife oriented tools and presence on our platform to brands. (white labeling, contests, "spot" events,...)

Our MVP is released since june and we're looking for feedbacks.

Thanks for your help!
Hello World in Visual Basic.NET
http://v4.vbasic.net/hello-world-in-visual-basic-net-2/
This tutorial shows step by step how to output Hello World on a web page using Visual Basic.NET
Show HN: merely.xyz/waves – online waveform generator
https://merely.xyz:443/waves/
I’d like to share my recent project, which is a waveform generator that resembles a spirograph: https://merely.xyz/waves .

This might be especially interesting for fans of synthesizers (you can export the sounds/waveforms!), math, but also for anyone who enjoys pretty shapes.

Here is a quick video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCjCaQWOCE4 .

The app works online and should work on both desktop and mobile devices. It’s still in early stages and it could use more features (or bug fixes...). If people find this useful, I'd like to continue working on it.

I’ve recently added frequency modulation, which was exciting and a bit mind bending; it opens new territories, both sonically and visually. Announcement plus demo: https://twitter.com/MerelySounds/status/1564698369632632832 .

Thanks for checking this out, hope you enjoyed it. If you have any feedback, questions or a feature request, I’d love to hear it.
Java Inner Classes - Under The Hood  
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2011/04/java-inner-classes-under-hood.html
Ever wondered how inner classes actually work in Java rather than all that theory in the books. Here the inner workings are explained in simple terms.
The next Frankenstein - A hacker in Cuba
http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=578
This blog generally publishes anecdotal stories of life in Cuba. I thought this one might be of interest here. Keep in mind that it's translated from Spanish, so it could be awkwardly worded in places.

I wonder what he would have accomplished had he been born somewhere else.
Ask HN: Who are the 4 guys in Y Combinator home page? 
http://ycombinator.com/
First slide.
Serious production troubles for Microsoft Surface
http://www.searchforsoft.com/news/Rumour--Serious-mass-production-troubles-for-Microsoft-Surface--its-aluminium-magnesium-chassis-is-to-be-blamed-77.htm
The problem is the highly innovative chassis: Read why the Chinese supplier of the magnesium-aluminum chassis can't possibly produce 5 million units in due time.
Scary Face Flip Tees
http://www.etsy.com/listing/57294694/scary-face-flip-tees
I'm getting one, I know some buddies who are easy to scare lol
Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod (Excerpts)
http://gapingvoid.com/books/
1. Ignore everybody.

The more ori­gi­nal your idea is, the less good advice other peo­ple will be able to give you. When I first star­ted with the cartoon-on-back-of-bizcard for­mat, peo­ple thought I was nuts. Why wasn’t I trying to do something more easy for mar­kets to digest i.e. cutey-pie gree­ting cards or whatever?
Apple releases New MacBook models
http://www.apple.com/macbook/
- Faster NVIDIA graphics card
- 10 hours of battery life
- Unibody enclosure
Less coding. More sexy.
http://pinterest.com/mrbank/oh-hey/
I've been a long-time pinterest fan and increasingly a fanatical pinner.

Recently, I started posting pictures of men who rocked a style I'd love to emulate, and women who I wanted to...well, you know.

Enjoy!
Ask HN: Should I start a blog about Node?
I am a big fan of Node, and I think howtonode.com is a good resource. That said, I wanted to start a blog about Node myself, and I think create a resource that may be useful to anyone coming into the Node community that's being formed.

What do you guys think? I just registered nodeblog.com

If anyone also likes Node.js and would like to join me in establishing a good resource for Node.js lovers everywhere, like there were for Rails, please drop me a line. You can find my email at http://magarshak.com/contact

I guess there is the obvious potential down the line of monetizing this blog if our resource is any good. But for now I just want to gather together an easy-to-follow portal to all things Node. Thoughts?
The Rise of Homo Universalis
http://rblion.tumblr.com/post/923729776/the-rise-of-homo-universalis
About two million years ago, homo habilis built basic tools to hunt and survive. About a million years ago, homo erectus walked fully upright and discovered fire to cook meals. Two hundred thousand years ago, homo sapiens inherited knowledge of only tools and fire. From those humble origins, we eventually managed to master agriculture, establish civilization, and spark science. Over the last few centuries, homo universalis has been naturally emerging by deducing the laws of Nature with methods of science and exploring the Cosmos with applied science. While still in early days of development, homo universalis will eventually lead humanity to the stars and beyond. Homo universalis is deep within all of us waiting to surface. If you stop and think for a few seconds, it would not be difficult to see the logical progression of apes from fiery creators to starry dreamers. LivGiv exists to aid a global shift towards universal consciousness through a paradigm shift in human technology. We believe it is the only way humanity has a chance of long term survival and prosperity. Don’t get left behind!

http://twitpic.com/2cx4pt
Show HN: Parallelized random access to bzip2 files from Python written in C++
https://github.com/mxmlnkn/indexed_bzip2
The project can be found here: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/indexed_bzip2

The readme shows how to use it from Python, via ratarmount, and via its command-line tool ibzip2.

There are really a lot of bzip2 implementations out there but few that have been parallelized, even fewer with random access, and, to my knowledge, none of which are both parallel and offer random seeking in constant time.
This is why I started indexed_bzip2. It is a header-only C++ library with Python bindings so that I can use it as a backend from ratarmount. For that, it also supports working with Python file-like objects by using the Python API.

For this project, I started with the super-permissively 0-BSD licensed and small bzip2 decoder from the toybox project and extracted what I needed from it.
The architecture for the parallel decoding plus random seeking took me some iterations and contemplation to get right.
It uses block-based caching and prefetching to achieve both of these things.
"Right" means that it is modular enough that I can reason about it and be convinced that it is correct.
Of course, there are also a lot of automated tests with all kinds of sanitizers to check for correctness because I am wary when it comes to reading user data.

All in all, this project was a nice brainteaser with which I could grow and I think it is largely finished for now.
The single-core bzip2 decoder might profit from further optimizations but it already outperforms the internal Python bz2 module for 2 cores and more.
And it also outperforms the internal Python bz2 module when it comes to random access because it is in constant time with indexed_bzip2.
All this comes at the cost of higher memory usage (for the block cache), though.
Currently, I'm trying to reuse the infrastructure I built for this to implement parallel random access to gzip files for usage in ratarmount but I'm not sure when that will be finished.
Ask HN: Can someone mock interview me?
I'm a student studying CS and seeking an internship for this summer.

I have had several interviews with financial firms, technology companies, consulting companies, etc.

For a majority of the companies, I have been invited back for second, third and final interviews. However, none have extended an internship offer to me.

It is unfortunate but none of these companies provide any feedback on your interview or give a reason why they chose someone else.

I am wondering if anyone from HN would like to conduct a mock interview with me and to provide feedback on my responses. I know I must be doing something right if I have been invited back for another round of interviews but it never hurts to receive feedback and to have more practice interviewing.

The interview can be conducted using Skype or if you are in the NYC area we can conduct the mock interview in person. I can also provide my resume prior to the interview so you can prepare some questions. (Any advice on making my resume stand out more is appreciated too!)

I am in the middle of my finals so I will not have time for a mock interview until May 9th.
Gotchas in ehcache
http://cleancode.se/2012/02/07/ehcache-gotchas.html
Some gotchas i stumbled upon while using ehcache.
Ask HN: How do you learn to speak the other person's language?
A year ago when I was a developer at a big bank, I found that I had to speak to the desk I worked for in their language. I.e. I had to know enough finance to have the conversation in terms of stocks, bonds, options, etc...

Now, I'm on the other side of the table and I find that I need to talk to development guys and I find that I end up talking to them in terms of servers, databases, queries, algorithms, etc...

I also end up talking to our lawyers a lot and I find I need to understand legal talk which they are rarely willing to convert into "plain" English (for fear of losing precision I think).

During all this time, I've found that I struggle for some time to "speak the other person's language."

Any advice? I'm sure it comes up a lot for people here who have to talk to customers.
Go Programming Language Windows Installer 
http://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list?q=OpSys-Windows+Type%3DInstaller
The Go project provides two installation options for Windows users (besides installing from source): a zip archive that requires you to set some environment variables and an experimental MSI installer that configures your installation automatically.
Show HN: VimFx Addon for Firefox - bringing Vim-style commands and shortcuts
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimfx/
Check out my first Firefox addon - VimFx does to Firefox what Vimium does to Chrome.

I know there is Vimperator... The problem about it is that it that after installing Vimperator Firefox is no longer Firefox. I've been using it for a long time and for a long time I've been cursing the gazillion of features it has.

VimFx is lightweight (27k xpi file), doesn't do much, but does it in a nice and friendly way.
Steve Jobs' early career boxed in Stanford's archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiJ8F0QL2LU&feature=youtu.be
"The Stanford Silicon Valley Archives' Apple collection provides a unique window into the early years of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' career. The collection comprises approximately 600 linear feet of documents, photos, videos, hardware and software, making it the largest assortment of Apple-related materials in the world. The archives are overseen by Henry Lowood, curator for history of science and technology collections in the Stanford University Libraries, and Leslie Berlin, project historian."
Coteline, a new programming language for the JVM
http://typeunsafe.github.io/coteline/
"Unifying Hipsters and Enterprise Developers more, more clearly."
Show HN: Asyncc Jobs: a job board to accelerate async work culture
https://asynccjobs.com/
2 years of remote work has proved us that this isn't the utopia we imagined we will get. There is something more. And that is async work style.

I believe async work is the future. That's why I built this job board to accelerate the async work style.
Please give me some support and write feedback. Thank you.
Top Reasons You Should Consider IP Security Cameras
http://www.supercircuits.com/resources/blog/top-10-reasons-to-consider-ip-security-cameras
http://www.supercircuits.com/security-cameras/network-ip-security-cameras
See-through brain - CLARITY new imaging technique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NMfp13Uug&feature=youtu.be
brainporn
DefCon 15 Session Videos - Batch III - Uno Mas
http://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/09/defcon-15-session-videos-batch-iii-uno.html
36 more videos are up to complete track 2 and 3. Last 25 videos are also coming soon during the next few days.