jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eight Things Executives Hate About IT [From Harvard Business Review]
http://hbr.org/web/extras/8things/1-intro
I could not believe how out of touch this article is, but it should legitimately worry us when it's posted in the Harvard Business Review
Laconica plans to selling subscriptions 
http://controlyourself.ca/2009/03/30/statusnet-coming-soon/
Laconica, the Canadian company offering the most popular Open Source alternative to Twitter, announced plans today to begin selling subscriptions to hosted microblogging installations for businesses.
PHP 5.4.5 and PHP 5.3.15 released
http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-07-19-1
Loads of bug fixes for FPM.

Overall over 30 bugs and includes a fix for a security related overflow issue in the stream implementation.
List of problems plaguing the new Haswell ThinkPads (T440p, T540p...)
https://github.com/leoluk/thinkpad-stuff/wiki/Haswell-ThinkPad-problems
List of problems plaguing the new Haswell ThinkPads (T440p, T540p...), especially related to Linux.

Crosspost from reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u5ybf/list_of_problems_plaguing_the_new_haswell/
Deducing the y-axis for the Facebook Breakup graph
https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp/deleteme_fbbreakupanalysis
A recent link in Hacker News showed a plot of Facebook breakups, but neglected to provide a y-axis. I tried to deduce the y-axis from the data provided.
Knight Trading's 440 Million Dollar Blunder
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/knight-says-losses-from-trading-breakdown-are-440-million.html
Good day for Getco?
Robert Scoble interviews Koding founder Devrim Yasar [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMRvf_YECAo
The way Yasar talks, Koding is a platform for distributed world domination masquerading as a social network/productivity booster for development teams: "Free software has changed the world; free computing will give life to it."
TheCSHandbook – My New Website for Learning Data Structures and Algorithms
http://www.thecshandbook.com
I've been working on a site that teaches algorithms and data structures in a way that doesn't require a strong math background. It's meant for supplementary material for university courses, reviewing for job interviews or an everyday day reference. Please check it out and I hope you find it helpful in your future endeavours!
Show HN: Multiplayer Browser VS Code
https://tym.so
Hi HN Community,

We made a VS Code in the browser that can connect to any computer and lets you code together.

- It can connect to any mac / linux device (your local computer or GCP / AWS / ...) - It supports extensions on Open VSX store. - You can edit together like google docs and also jump on voice calls and share your screen. - It uses webRTC for all communications. So none of your code goes through our servers.

You can try it at https://tym.so/signup?inviteCode=friend_of_tym

and here is a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8xDXN2djg
Ghostium - A Ghost theme focused on content
http://ghostium.oswaldoacauan.com/
Ghostium
A Ghost theme focused on content based on Medium design/ux.

Features
- Focused on content
- Fully responsive
- HTML5 semantics, WAI-ARIA and Rich Snippets(microdata) roles
- Asynchronous content loading
- Disqus comments
- Syntax Highlight with Prism
- Google Universal Analytics snippet
- OpenGraph and Twitter Cards meta's
- Baseline HTML5 features, DNS prefetching, responsive meta
- One-file CSS/JS for performance
Show HN: A Google Analytics for Goals : Weekend Project in Meteor 
http://www.goalpanda.com
Built this weekend with Meteor. http://www.goalpanda.com

I find myself having to keep track of big picture stuff that's a bit more long term than a todo item (e.g. become a better cook) and that naturally decomposes into steps (e.g. cook meals indigenous to at least 3 countries, read 3 cooking books).

I also want to know a number that tells me how close I am to getting to that big picture (e.g. 33% for 1 book read and 1 meal cooked).

It's a fun side project but I'd appreciate feedback on how useful this thing might be and how I could improve it.
The Jungle of Responsive Images
http://tmp.devcharm.com/pages/the-jungle-of-responsive-images
In-depth resources for Responsive Images I found in the Internet
Databen.ch - Persistence Benchmark for the JVM
http://databen.ch
The first result of the databen.ch project is available. It uses a simple financial system model to test persistence frameworks scalability and consistency. The project core is implemented in Scala.

An Amazon EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance is used for the execution and the AMI (Amazon Image) is published with the results.

There are implementations for the Java frameworks: BatooJpa, Db4o, Ebean, EcliseLink, Hibernate and Prevayler. Also for the Scala frameworks: Activate, Slick and Squeryl.

The project is open to receive pull requests and suggestions to enhance the current implementations.

http://databen.ch
Slackware 13.37 is released
http://slackware.com/index.html
Slackware 13.37 has been released. Nearly a year in the making, you will appreciate the performance and stability that can only come with careful and rigorous testing. Slackware 13.37 uses the 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel (hence our new $SLACKWARE_VERSION.$KERNEL_VERSION naming system used for this release ;-), and also ships with 2.6.38.4 kernels for those who want to run the latest (and also includes configuration files for 2.6.35.12 and 2.6.39-rc4). The long-awaited Firefox 4.0 web browser is included, the X Window System has been upgraded (and includes the open source nouveau driver for nVidia cards). The venerable Slackware installer has been improved as well, with support for installing to btrfs (for those who would like to try a new copy on write filesystem), a one-package-per-line display mode option, and alienBOB's big surprise: an easy to set up PXE install server that runs right off the DVD!
Show HN: Teach fellow hackers your skill
http://classfrog.com
Of late I’m seeing a lot of interest on HN for teaching each other coding, designing and other skills. I thought fellow hackers might be interested in a platform where we can easily set up online classes.

I have been working away at nights to get this site to a MVP state. Your feedback will help me make it better.
Show HN: Our first attempt at solving product beta keys sharing.
http://www.sharebetakeys.com/
As a consumer, I was pretty tired of having to try out 50 keys given out by a game publisher in a Reddit thread.
Most of the time, I ended up being too late and trying them all with a 0% success rate.
I believe we can do a better job, both on the consumer side and the publishing side.
ShareBetaKeys.com aims at helping Indy Developers distribute beta keys and consumers get a better experience obtaining them.

Suggestions, issues, opinions are all welcome :)
Colorado Startup Scene
http://learntoduck.com/startups/so-you-wanna-be-a-startup/
"Back in February, when I sold Current Wisdom, I knew that I wanted to get back into the technology scene. But, my California bias made me believe that there was little to no startup activity in Colorado."
Show HN: I made an AI for drones to land safely
https://github.com/stephansturges/OpenLander
I'm trying to figure out whether there is a real business in building AI systems for UAV. I'm developing a few different products that all work together, and the most basic one is maybe this AI component that simply detects ground obstacles outputting a single class for safe areas. If you use it I'd love to hear any feedback!
IT professional? Do you have any legal questions?
Hello everyone.
I am a law trainee at a law firm in France and i am currently writing a book in IT law for IT professionnals.
But I am no IT expert and i'm having trouble finding out what needs you may have in terms of legal advice. What legal questions do you need answers to? (i'll answer them too if i can of course^^)
Thank you for your help!
Show HN: A 2-Factor contact-less authentication mechanism
https://github.com/loitr/loitr-wp
Loitr is a 2-Factor(knowledge & possession factors) authentication mechanism that any website can use. We have just released the Wordpress plugin. Any user of your blog can download the Loitr app & scan the activation QR visible on their Dashboard(visible once plugin is activated by the blog admin) and next time all they have to do is scan the login QR at the login page with the Loitr app on their phone and they will be logged in.
Loitr doesn't need to know usernames or passwords of users of your blog. Loitr doesn't add to the security risk. And since there are no usernames or passwords involved, it does away with sniffing, key-logging, or any variant of a Man-In-The-Middle attack. Impersonation is not at all possible with Loitr.
I'd love to hear what the community thinks of it.
Testing Rails with Rack::Test
http://effectif.com/articles/testing-rails-with-rack-test
Fancy trying Bryan Helmkamp's new framework agnostic testing framework with your Rails app?

It's really easy.
CSS3 Matrix Code (Chrome, Safari)
http://labs.upperdog.se/matrix/
Matrix code using CSS 3D transforms and animations. Works in Chrome 14+ and Safari 5+.
37signals Customer Support Dip
http://smiley.37signals.com/
I Usually see this in the mid 90s. I wonder what has happened to cause 10 'OKs' and 9 'not so goods'?
Lastpass Hacked Time to Change Your Master Password
http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-hacked-time-to-change-your-master-password-1711463571
Can a mod change the URL to https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/ . I found the original source. Thanks.
Get Responsive Web Design, Web Design Trends, HTML5 Basics Ebooks For Free Now
http://1stwebdesigner.com/ebooks/
It's all about quick learning when we are lacking time! These three quick ebooks will teach you all the basics in super fast time, each book requires just 1-2 hour reading! It's all about maximal knowledge in shortest time!
OpalCalc - Freeform Soulver-like calculator but for Windows
http://www.skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/
I tried to reply to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2939370 but I think that thread is archived so I'll submit a new thread, despite being only a few weeks old.

In a nutshell, OpalCalc is a Soulver-like calculator for Windows (.NET 3.5 or higher), which is as easy to use as Notepad++ or a word processor.

OpalCalc allows natural language in the sum and multi-line support so you can go back and adjust your previous calculations on the fly. You can insert variables and create custom functions as well as tons of other stuff (the link includes a video and images which shows a lot of its functionality).

I hope this software is of interest to many of you, as it is a 'first of its kind' for Windows.
Google gone mad
http://davidmidler.com/googlegonemad
I was trying to sign into my adwords account and couldn't and after repeatedly trying, this is what google had for me.
Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good
http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/428869/fred-wilson-on-why-the-collapse-of-venture/
Fred Wilson thinks venture capital funds have gotten too big.
P2P and text based messaging library for Android
https://github.com/ilkinulas/P2P4Android
Bluetooth only (wifi comming soon)
Techfuga-if-techmeme-and-alltop-had a baby
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/12/techfuga-if-techmeme-and-alltop-had.html
Really nice! A baby about tech news-, seems like popurls and techmeme got a nice competitor service.
Techfuga: get to basics...
http://mashable.com/2008/12/23/techfuga/
Well why not list and aggregate ´the tech news aggregators? yes they did it quite welll
Google Loon balloon flying over Montana?
http://www.flightradar24.com/349d61f
There is speculation that the balloon that's been hovering over Montana for most of today is a Google Loon balloon.
Mailbox.org now english including PGP explaination for dummys
https://mailbox.org/en/doodle-video-how-can-emails-be-encrypted-with-pgp/
When the pricacy-aware mailhoster mailbox.org launched 2 month ago, no english information about the service was there. That's fixed now. Even the little videos explaining PGP are translatet.
Show HN: Outreach Project for Unclaimed Child Tax Credits
https://andrewleahey.com/child-tax-credit/
Hello fellow HN'rs. I'm trying to assemble some folks willing to assist me in a project that stems from this article: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ex...

In brief, the expanded Child Tax Credit expired this year and will cast a lot of children in to poverty. It may get saved at the last minute at the end of the year, but it may not. In any event, the existing (reduced) CTC does not have anywhere near perfect redemption rates -- there are lots of unclaimed credits out there. Many of them are centralized in parts of the country where major media outlets are not the method by which most folks get their news. I want to assemble a resource of alternative outlets and community leaders in as many of the geographic areas as possible and then go about the job of advocacy. Phase 1 is assembling that resource, and thats where I turn to HN for assistance.

Thanks so much for your time and attention, and I hope to work with some of you on this!
Show HN: SFTPGo 0.9.4 Released
SFTPGo is a free and open source full featured and highly configurable SFTP server written in Go. It works on Linux, macOS and Windows and has no runtime dependencies.

Here are its main features:

- Each account is chrooted to his Home Dir.

- SFTP accounts are virtual accounts stored in a "data provider".

- SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL and bbolt (key/value store in pure Go) data providers are supported.

- Public key and password authentication. Multiple public keys per user are supported.

- Quota support: accounts can have individual quota expressed as max total size and/or max number of files.
- Bandwidth throttling is supported, with distinct settings for upload and download.

- Per user maximum concurrent sessions.

- Per user permissions: list directories content, upload, overwrite, download, delete, rename, create directories, create symlinks can be enabled or disabled.

- Configurable custom commands and/or HTTP notifications on file upload, download, delete or rename and on users add, update and delete.

- Automatically terminating idle connections.

- Atomic uploads are configurable.

- SCP is supported.

- Prometheus metrics are exposed.

- REST API for users and quota management and real time reports for the active connections with possibility of forcibly closing a connection.

- Web based interface to easily manage users and connections.

- Easy migration from Unix system user accounts.

- Portable mode: a convenient way to share a single directory on demand.

- Configuration is a your choice: JSON, TOML, YAML, HCL, envfile are supported.

Binary releases for Linux, macOS and Windows are available:

https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases

If you want to suggest a new feature or you find a bug please open an issue here:

https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/issues
IOS core data DAO example with table view controller
https://github.com/atulkum/CoreDataDAO_iOS
This is a pretty simple iOS core data DAO. An example is also given that shows how to use it in table view controller.

This package is totally isolated form the xcode project and could be plug-in in 10 to 15 minutes into any xcode project which need persistence using sql lite and core data.
Why I Wrote The Book 
http://www.iheavy.com/2012/07/10/why-i-wrote-the-book-oracle-and-open-source/
Oracle, Open Source, cloud computing trends and commoditization. It's all here.
Ask HN: Mailchimp or Sendgrid?
Hello,

A little background, I am building a tiny start up mostly to get me started and get the feel of how things work.
The start-up involves sending a relatively small number of emails to verified emails, so no spam, no unsolicited emails. I hate spam and this service actually helping to avoid getting spam!

I am looking to getting sponsorship and for people who have worked with these companies or any other company that is in the business of email, who is more likely to sponsor me?

Thanks,
IOS 7-style dark blur effect with CSS & SVG
http://codepen.io/jimyounkin/pen/DohAC
a fork of "Frosted glass effect with CSS & SVG" (http://codepen.io/Matori/pen/JFzok) with blur increased and color darkened to simulate iOS 7-style effects.

Orig. HN post by hemezh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6730916
Scientists work to keep hackers out of implanted medical devices
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/16/medical.device.security/index.html
Hackers can access and remotely control medical devices like insulin pumps, pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators
Using Cohort Analysis for Business Optimization
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/09/09/cohort-analysis-in-rjmetrics/
A step-by-step on using Cohort Analysis to extract valuable insights from unstructured company data.
Is Android Still an Afterthought?
http://buddasworld.co.uk/post/1283015704/is-android-still-an-afterthought
So why are manufacturers still not prepared to back Android with 1st class applications to complement their services and devices?
How does one bypass governmental controls over the internet
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-police-break-up-protest-against-law-curbing-internet-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=61232&NewsCatID=341
I am not a hacker, so I'd like to know about some tools that could bypass exactly the sort of monitoring in which the Turkish government is trying to be engaged. I've heard about Tor, but what else do I need?
Social experiment Tjetter, created in 48 hours.
http://www.tjetter.com
We built this site using off-the-shelf technology in under a day (because we thought it would be fun). Spent another day to add some weird/strange/uncanny features. Now it needs some people to take it for a spin! Comments appreciated.
List of 10,000 fake diploma buyers published
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/data/diploma-mill/
The list, which the US Attorney refused to release, includes Military, CIA, NSA, US Marshals, senior White House officials, NASA engineers, Nuclear plant engineers, and many many others.
A brief history of functional programming
http://www.cs.bc.edu/~gtan/historyOfFP/historyOfFP.html
"To use functions as arguments, one needs a notation for functions, and it seemed natural to use the λ -notation of Church (1941). I didn't understand the rest of his book, so I wasn't tempted to try to implement his more general mechanism for defining functions."
Show HN: Media Hoarder – media front end for data hoarders and movie lovers
https://media.hoarder.software
Here's a video showcasing Media Hoarder's features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGkU9e1l8HU

As we're on hackernews I wouldn't go much into the features of Media Hoarder with this post (see the video above for that). I'd rather like to comment on the DX.

I'm a long-time lurker here on HN and in 2019 I felt the urge to develop my own take on a media center application.

Media Hoarder was already usable after a few days of development and after one year it had 90% of the features I wished for myself but was not exactly ready for a release to the public. So, for this project the last 10% took another two years :)

During the development I read a lot about the "ship fast" mindset which I obviously did not adopt. I could never live with a publicly released version that does not completely show what I had in mind with the app. And yeah, currently my focus is not to get external feedback as fast as possible but to create and release a product as v1.0.0 that I envisioned and use myself.

The tech-stack is:

- Electron

- Vue.js with Vuetify

- SQLite

this way the app runs on Win/Linux/Mac and can be entirely developed with web technologies - which to me is a great plus regarding development speed. Mind you, Media Hoarder is developed during the free-time of a father of two young kids :D

Anyways, I'm really glad it's out there. Personally, I use it every day and I hope, some of you may find it useful or would like to contribute.

Please feel free to discuss features, development and sideproject-y things, I'm really curious :)

Media Hoarder Website: https://media.hoarder.software

Blog post "Why Media Hoarder?": https://media.hoarder.software/blog/why-media-hoarder

GitHub project: https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder

cheers

-- MK2k
According to Google Infinity = 171!
Go to google calculator and then put 170! and you will get 7.257416e^(306). then put 171! and you will get infinity. As a astrophysicist I do issues with this :D
The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/recommendation_engines.php
Is this really the best that's out there?
Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, or Sexts, Glimpsed Then Gone
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/disruptions-indiscreet-photos-glimpsed-then-gone/
Snapchat allows people to take and send a sext, then control how long it is visible by the person who receives it.
Brains Trump Money for Startups
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/brains_trump_mo.html
The balance of power is shifting from investors to hackers when it comes to starting a software company.

Why? "Because you don't need as much money, but you still need as much brains," says Paul Graham. He's a co-founder of Y Combinator, which provides micro-funding (along with reams of good advice and great contacts) to entrepreneurs.
Show HN: My hardware implementation of the DCPU-16 in Verilog RTL
http://sybreon.github.com/dcpu16/
This is a pipelined hardware implementation of the DCPU-16 cpu designed by @notch for his new game 0x10c in Verilog RTL.

It is written entirely in RTL Verilog and is fully synthesisable. While basically functional, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

Took me a few days of hacking to get it out. I was only focused on functionality so there is plenty of room to reduce chip resource usage - primarily in the EA calculator.

I will still continue to work on it in the short term to iron out any kinks.
Who controls your data?
http://blog.brokep.com/2011/01/08/who-controls-your-data/
We’re putting our billions of eggs in the same basket.
Ask HN: Which self-hosted email solution do you use?
There is enough to choose from these days apparently (kolab/indimail/modoboa/more manual setups like sovereign). I don't really have time nor am I savvy enough to evaluate them all and figure out which one suits me best. Ideally I'd just install something, tell it what my domain is and add a single email-adress and then have instant 'everything' ready without having to crawl through tons of config files.
Package manager for the C programming language.
https://github.com/clibs/clib
Basically the lazy-man's copy/paste promoting smaller C utilities, also serving as a nice way to discover these sort of libraries
The Joule Standard
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-02-06/the-joule-standard
This article explores the idea of denominating financial instruments (aka money) in terms of energy, and how tech/financial services entrepreneurs could develop this type of system (i.e. something like Bitcoin but backed by energy commodities/reserves).
Request fron HN: A url forwarding aggregator. Anti government blocker.
In lieu of the recent US government censorships, is there anyone planning on working on a domain aggregation service, you go to a site (lets say domainaggregator.com or a specific ip address) and type in a url. The site tries the url, if blocked, it will then use an alternate URL. The URLs are posted by the site owners because this is a service to them.

As a bonus we can make plugins to all major browsers to use this service to automatically undo the US blocking of domain names. If you go to a site, and the response is the censored site, your browser will look up an alternative and update your bookmarks.

The site can be a known IP# so we don't need a name lookup.

My reasons:

1) They will pry my constitutional rights from my cold dead hands only.

2) The US has no right to censor something world-wide. Just like a single state has no right to criminally pursue anyone anywhere in the world for a local law that indicates that "inappropriate" content cannot be served to children.