jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A Hacker Manifesto (by McKenzie Wark)
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZuHN7tgkcFIC&dq=a+hacker+manifesto+by+mckenzie+wark&pg=PP1&ots=QdcbedEV84&sig=r6e30_gQkosn_lFDTeSfK5Qd9oM&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=A+Hacker+Manifesto+by+McKenzie+Wark.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
I stumbled upon this fascinating little read in my school's library earlier this evening and I had to pass it along.It's like Wark jumped in my head and made sense of all the incomplete and cloudy ideas. More than a manifesto, this is gospel!

It feels like I'm reading something I will write a few years from now.

I'll end up finishing it up tomorrow and I'll share more of my thoughts.

I was going to wait until morning (EST) to submit this (so more people see it), but I couldn't wait.
A GTDish issue tracker
http://issuesdone.com/
We're launching an early version of a GTD-based issue tracker.
We haven't yet implemented every feature we dreamed, yet it is already doing its job for early adopters.
We're leaking early accounts occasionally and will be definitely interested in hearing some feedback.
Implore YC: Refactor My Code (uses Ruby and continuations)
http://refactormycode.com/codes/83-combinatorial-explosion-with-continuations
This is a real (if sanitized) problem that my start-up has, ready for refactoring (on refactormycode.com which I love and am unaffiliated with).
Show HN: Free email forwarder as a Service
https://proxy4.us
Suppose you have the domain example.com with a WEB server. Now suppose you just want to receive emails to your new domain.
Probably you don't want to maintain an e-mail server, or even another e-email inbox to make your life even harder, right ?

With proxy4.us you can setup a forward in few minutes!

The idea is that you can forward emails sent to you@example.com to your current inbox (you@gmail.com for instance)
Show HN: Another Darn To-Do List App
http://www.anotherdarntodo.com/
Hi guys,

This is my first time building something from scratch so go easy on me.

I've always used to-do lists to keep me productive and stave off anxiety (not sure why they work so well for me but they do). I get kinda annoyed at the to-do list apps on the app stores because they move tasks to the bottom of the list when you tick them off. Some people may like that, but it annoys the shit out of me, because I like to feel a sense of progression as I go down through the list over the course of the day. So this was borne out of my frustration really.

I also made it browser-based so it's easy to access the same list on all devices without installing apps on all of them.

It's free to use. It's just something I made for myself and if others find it useful then that's great. I'd appreciate any feedback (there's a button to give feedback when logged in).

Thanks!
Ask HN: What answers do I have to know for a VC interview?
We are going to have an interview with a VC next week. This is going to be my first try at this and, to be honest, I'm really excited. I just don't want to blow it - so I would really like to prepare.

What questions could they ask that I should really know the answer to?

Please tell me what questions you got asked when being interviewed by a VC firm.
YC Alumnus Matt Brezina (Xobni) Talks Startups Part 1 of 3
http://www.founderly.com/2011/04/matt-brezina-part-1-of-3/
Matt is the founder of Xobni and launched his newest startup today - Sincerely.com. He shares his experiences as a budding CEO and what he learned in the trenches while at Xobni.
Parrot has a roadmap
https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ParrotLongTermRoadmap
The main part of the Perl6 development effort, famous of it's elusiveness and delays, just got a time line. Now it is only matter of waiting untill 2010 for a production version :)
Ask HN: DDOS attack remedies?
How can anyone protect there project from a DDOS attack?
Mysterious radio bursts come from outside our galaxy
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/mysterious-radio-bursts-come-from-outside-our-galaxy/
I'm not saying its aliens... But.. you know. It's interesting anyway.
NYTimes: The Evolution of Cyberpunk (1993)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDE1330F93BA3575BC0A965958260
Anyone else here interested in things cyberpunk?
More Bandwidth Doesn't Matter (Much)
http://docs.google.com/a/chromium.org/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=Y2hyb21pdW0ub3JnfGRldnxneDoxMzcyOWI1N2I4YzI3NzE2
Important to keep in mind with respect to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521231
Amazon: one click to checkout, Evernote: two clicks to create a note
I just got the latest update for Evernote, and now I have to tap twice to create a note. Of course, I have options to create multiple types of notes, but I only use text notes, so that's a whole additional steps, and with a very tiny icon.
That, combined with the fact that the focus moves from the title field to the description textarea shortly after the new note screen opens (but if you are fast enough, you have already started typing in the title field), gives my the feeling that UX isn't a priority. I took the leap to contrast the two-tap note creation to Amazon's one-click checkout. Which is a bit superficial, but outlines the difference in thinking.

Why is that? Am I completely wrong with my UX expectations, or they (Evernote being just a single example) are just randomly arranging buttons and features? Or somewhere in between?
Google caught skirting Safari privacy settings
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/17/technology/google_tracking_safari/index.htm
In the latest high-profile flap over online data privacy, Google has been caught bypassing the privacy settings on Apple's Safari Web browser, letting advertisers track users in unintended ways.
Red Hat CEO on patent trolls: Just pay them off
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/050511-red-hat-ceo-patents.html?hpg1=bn
With Red Hat on the verge of becoming the first billion-dollar company focused exclusively on open source software, it has attracted quite a bit of attention — from lawyers waving patents. And although Red Hat fights lawsuits when it deems it necessary, CEO Jim Whitehurst says it's often just better to pay the trolls to make them go away. "When it's so little money, at some point, bluntly, it's better to settle than fight these things out," Whitehurst said.
Building a phone system? Use Freeswitch
http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117
I feel in love with this project ever since I learned about it while looking for Asterisk alternatives.

If you are using Asterisk now, or are planning on building any kind of VoIP-related system, I recommend you try Freeswitch, it is a lot simpler to setup, configure and use in general, and has a great online community of users and developers.
Ask HN: Are you using asynchronous video at work?
Hi,

Disclaimer - I am building https://birdslate.com - an asynchronous video communication for remote teams.

I've spent many years working in the videoconference space and this is my second startup in that domain. Now I am focusing all my effort on building an async video chat. I believe this is a form of communication that will sit somewhere between Zoom and Slack, yet it is not meant to replace either of them.

In recent years, I've noticed that people often switch from video calls to recorded videos (e.g. for standups). I wonder if any of you is already using video messages in an asynch way, and whether you see any downfalls to it. For me the biggest pro is not being tied to a schedule, yet having the ability to hear and see the other person. I don't see many cons, but then again, I am obviously biased.

I would appreciate any input on it.
Finance app Buxfer gets some iPhone love
http://www.buxfer.com/blog/2007/12/12/an-iphone-interface-for-buxfer/
We've just released an iPhone interface for Buxfer. Check it out, and let us know what's good, what's bad, and what's missing...

Thanks!
Nginx on cPanel done right
http://engintron.com/
Nginx® is a powerful open source web server that was built to scale websites to millions of visitors. cPanel® is the leading hosting control panel worldwide.

Engintron integrates Nginx into cPanel so you can enjoy amazing performance for your sites, without having to sacrifice important hosting features found in cPanel or hiring a sysadmin.

First release features include: Nginx setup in reverse caching proxy (web acceleration) mode for any static or PHP based website, automated Nginx updates, amazingly simple dashboard to control Nginx, Apache, MySQL and PHP related day-to-day tasks in cPanel.

Did we mention Engintron is free?

Engintron launches late September/early October 2013.
Ask HN: What metrics/data should be tracked for an ecommerce site?
A comprehensive list would be great, especially during this time of year, when merchants are trying to make the most out of the holiday season.
Autoblogging site stealing my content
Not sure how to proceed to get it stopped. They aren't linking back to us or anything. I don't want to dump a bunch of time into it, I am just wondering what it is people do in these situations. We have a lawyer on retainer ready to send a cease-and-desist if I could only find out where to send it :)

Running a whois on them brings up a privacy service.

Site in question is 1whp.com
How Facebook’s New iPad App is Going to Finally (Help) Kill Flash
http://www.domain.me/blog/facebook-ipad-app-kill-flash-1721
Facebook’s new HTML5 based web application for the iPad will get developers to make HTML5 apps instead of their current Flash versions, giving a bigger incentive to companies to just forsake Flash entirely.
Ask HN: Are high performance virtual desktops viable now?
The new cloud gaming services (Stadia, xCloud, etc.) demonstrate that we can run computationally demanding graphical applications remotely with acceptable input latency and high visual fidelity. Regular, everyday usage of a PC is much less demanding than running a game, and video of regular desktop usage is much more compressible and less bandwidth hungry than video of a fast-moving game. There's a huge pricing disparity between Stadia (like $5/month with one-time fees for application purchases? Somewhere around there...) and virtual desktop services like amazon workspaces (like $700/mo for a similarly powerful, reserved machine or $22/mo+$2/hr of usage).

Do you think we might be moving to a new ultra-thin client structure for personal computing? What are the challenges?
Y Combinator's webcam can't touch MC Hammer
http://valleywag.com/tech/vloggers/y-combinators-webcam-cant-touch-mc-hammer-310237.php
MC Hammer's rap career may have been over more than a decade ago, but to the startup kids at Y Combinator, he'll always be a superstar. First, he awkwardly pitched Weebly's MySpace profile editorSnapLayout to lifecaster Justine Ezarik, better known as iJustine of Justin.tv. Now, Hammer has made an iminlikewithyou profile.
Ask HN: What's the best way to approach blogs to write about your startup?
As a developer, "selling" people on my projects is something I often struggle with.

I'm sure a lot of others on here would also find advice on this topic to be helpful.
White Water Rafting Rishikesh
http://www.roofnride.com/rishikesh-rafting.html
Roofnride.com offers white water rafting rishikesh at cheapest rates. For Booking , Call Us @+91-9899205520 or mail us : info@roofnride.com .
Critique My First Start-up? (Not yet public)
http://www.algxchange.com/
I am just finishing up all the code for the entire site, setting up my analytics, and awaiting my site design (the current one you see there is a temporary place holder).

What I am looking for is some critique, advice, and anything else that you could see that would help my site out.

It is not public yet (not officially) as I am awaiting a web design for it, but I thought I'd see if I could get a few people to look at it, and feel it out, and tell me what you think except about the site design of course ;)

the site is http://www.algxchange.com/
Ask HN: Apart from Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Joyent any other cloud provider?
I have used Amazon EC2 and Rackspace (Joyent not yet) , but I'm looking for some other Iaas (Infrastructure as a service) providers any ideas?
Tell HN: My event has been a success.
My event is over and seems to have been a real success. You can see some of the twitter stream from the event here:

https://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mathsjam

Thanks to everyone from HN who sent good wishes and helpful comments and suggestions.
Ask HN: What do you write in cold emails?
Related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1402028

Alain sends 100 messages a day to complete strangers to promote his startup.

I want to do the same thing, but in my couple of attempts I've never ever gotten an answer.

So I must be doing something wrong. What should I include in a cold email?

My startup is a CPA Ad Stack where developers can plug in technology via apps and publishers can use them to monetize their content in new ways (instead of Adsense and Display) (http://www.2performant.com)
Sed&awk&grep&vim. shirt
http://teespring.com/sedawkgrepvim
Design might look a bit familiar. If the shirt reaches its goal, all profit goes to charity. (Taking suggestions. Is there a charity that teaches underprivileged kids web programming?)
Show HN: I built a tool to describe ~4.3B colors
https://colorwaze.com
A simple tool I made over the week to explore and learn about different colors.

You can select any color with any opacity #000000-FFFFFFFF (~4.3 billion colors/variants), and you can view a dedicated page detailing the color's closest name, conversions to Hex, RGB, CMYK, etc., shades, tints, tones, harmonies, opacities, and WCAG contrast compliance.
Show HN: Product Analytics in SQL with dbt
https://github.com/mjirv/dbt_product_analytics
Hey everyone!

Like many data analysts and engineers, I love SQL and the dbt ecosystem. So it bothers me that we have to use separate tools for product analytics. We do our transformations, BI work, and ad-hoc queries in SQL, but when it's time to look at funnels and flows, we have to use (and procure) a separate platform like Mixpanel or Amplitude.

This dbt package is a (very rough) start at fixing that. With it, you can create event streams and run funnel analyses via dbt[0]. More features like flows and retention are coming soon!

But I'm mostly curious how you all are doing product analytics right now. Are you using a dedicated tool like Amplitude? What could be better? Do you want to do product analytics in SQL in the warehouse or would you rather it live somewhere else?

Would love to get your thoughts, and thanks for taking a look!

---

0. (and soon, with dbt Server, in your favorite BI tool or SQL client): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSMSbQxnO0&ab_channel=dbt
Jinx 1.0 Released -- Quickly find concurrency errors in your multithread code
http://www.corensic.com
Today, Corensic announced general availability of Jinx 1.0, a software quality tool for Linux and Windows that will help developers, testers, and IT organizations improve the reliability of their applications when they are running in a multi-core environment. Multi-core processors enjoy significant usage in enterprise desktops and datacenters, and many software developers are only just beginning to realize the full potential of these powerful processors. But developers still find it challenging to build high quality multi-core applications and avoid concurrency bugs. Such bugs are enormously difficult to prevent, and once introduced, even more difficult to find, sometimes taking large development projects weeks and months to discover and resolve. Jinx makes applications “unlucky” by forcing hard-to-find concurrency bugs to occur more frequently and then pointing out the location of the bugs to software developers. With Jinx, organizations can ship software faster and at significantly less cost.<p>Mark Oskin
CTO Corensic
Bloom's Vision For Computer Interfaces: Worlds, Not Windows
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663913/blooms-vision-for-computer-interfaces-worlds-not-windows
When you want to curl up with a novel, you don't "access your home library interface," you peruse the bookshelf. Why can't personal data be like that -- part of an intuitive, explorable world, rather than abstract layers of "interface"?
Hey HN: I'm proud of this CSS3 CL Jobs Post, check it out
http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/sof/1772248892.html
I was browsing the typically ugly posted-by-a-recruiter Craigslist job postings, and thought to myself "I'm sure I can do better." So, I hand-coded the above. I'm interested in improvements, hit me with them. One beef is that the preview box on CL is grey (like HN's box), but the site shows white -- I forgot that, and had coded a nice white rounded pull-out box for the listing which gets lost on view.<p>Craigslist doesn't document what's allowed, and what's not, but I have this theory that a lot of the CSS3 stuff isn't well filtered by their system.<p>This is all CSS3, no images. Any other good ideas?<p>Also, we're hiring a developer in Seattle: PHP, Javascript, HTML5. You can read more about it in the listing.
Show HN: Big Picture” project management for software developers
https://projectburndown.com
We got tired of not being able to accurately answer "When will this be done?" and "Will anyone be required to work overtime on the current schedule?", or spending too much time in meetings and standups trying to answer those questions. Just opened up for beta. Would love some opinionated developers to guide future improvements (or feedback on the general idea).
Tenmiles - A Bootstrapped Product company - Journey so far
http://tenmiles.com/journey.php
Tenmiles is bootstrapped software company based out of Chennai. !2 years old :)
Jammit: Industrial Strength Asset Packaging for Rails
http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/
Quick Summary:
We just open-sourced the asset packager that powers the DocumentCloud prototype. It does the asset concatenation and (YUI) compression that you'd expect, as well as ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in support for JavaScript templates, and automatic Data-URI/MHTML image embedding.

Quick Links:
Project Page: http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/
Source Code: http://github.com/documentcloud/jammit
Image Embedding Example: http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/jammit_example/normal.html

We'd love to expand the gem beyond just Rails, although it's a bit out of scope for us. Patches to add Sinatra support, for example, will be warmly welcomed.
Show HN: Redactle Unlimited – a Wikipedia based game
https://redactle-unlimited.com
I created this game based on the original game (redactle.com). I built it to play more than one game a day (hence the name) but I've since added many features; lemmatized word matching, multiplayer, multiple languages and several small things like annotations and letter counts.
The front end is SvelteKit (static-apapter), back end is mostly node.js, go+Redis streams for multiplayer WS and it's running on k8s. Lemma dictionaries are cached in Azure blob storage.
Show HN: placesloth.com – generate placeholder images of sloths
https://placesloth.com/
Hey all,

Last week I had to make a couple of test pages and turned to one of my favorite sites to fill it with some imagery: https://placebear.com/

There's a pretty large amount of sites like this, but none seemed to be serving the superior animal: sloths.

So I hacked this together quickly over the weekend. It's definitely ugly code and an ugly approach, nothing prevents this from going OOM, it'll probably fall over under a bit of load (or when the single spot instance running it gets replaced), but it was fun to build and fills my needs.

Hope this inspires you to expand the placeholder generator landscape, or at least include some sloths on your test pages :)
Show HN: newsola - news at a glance
http://www.newsola.com?hn
First off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices.

The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens.

The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
Futurico - World’s Biggest Free User Interface Elements Pack (PSD)
http://designmodo.com/futurico/
Yay! It’s time for a new free giveaway and we are happy to present a wonderfully creative collection of Futurico – Free User Interface Components (PSD). We think that these are so far the greatest user interface components we have shared with you guys and we hope you will agree with us on this.
What is the best credit card merchant for small transactions?
Hi everyone,
given a business model similar to app store, and expected transactions of small value (~1.5$). What's the best credit card merchant to use? From a quick search there are a lot of 30cents+2.9% per transaction. I found a bit of overkill to drop 30cents every 1.5$.

I'm sure there is a lot of business out there that run through the same situation. Any suggestion ?
Show HN: News headline analysis of over 140,000 headlines over several years
http://headlines-and-data.herokuapp.com/
This is the result of an 8 day final project for DBC Chicago. Our team scraped over 140,000 headlines of several news agencies stretching back several years. We then took those headlines and fed them through the AlchemyAPI sentiment analysis engine to assign each one a score. They were then plotted in a couple different ways using D3.

This is far from perfect and even farther from scientific. It was done in 8 days by some passionate amateur developers. It was however a lot of fun and very interesting.

You can read about it and the team in more detail on the repo page here:

https://github.com/kelmerp/headline_sentiment_rating

and see some slightly more technical slides here:

https://speakerdeck.com/luizneves77/sentimental-headlines

This was written in RoR, Postgres (Memcached), and javascript + D3.

I'm also the creator of:

onionornot.com
reddesigned.com
http://luiz-n.github.io/route-search/

and am interviewing for web dev (and data visualization) positions in the chicago area if you would like to reach out to me. @hey_luiz
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
Can you explain a hard idea using only the ten hundred most used words? It's not very easy. Type in the box to try it out.
Snake in HTML5
http://neirynck.us/snake/
Snake, the video game, in html5 canvas/javascript/requestAnimationFrame.
Gnutella Pioneer Gene Kan Dies at 25 (2002)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000402
The same fate !?

RIP guys :(
Show HN: Review my startup, Kiddom - made for kids
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiddom/id557500272?mt=8
Hey everyone,

I would like to tell HN about our startup and our first product, an iPad app. HN has helped me a lot through the ups and downs of making a product and I would really like to get feedback from the HN community.

Kiddom is a smart learning environment based on the iPad. It provides an integrated system for parents to download learning apps, assign them to multiple children according to skill, monitor child performance and get some good insights into how well your child is learning

Kiddom strikes the right balance between entertainment and education, and helps parents and teachers passively monitor children. Kiddom also provides a single platform for all children in the house, so your 5 year old and 8 year old can be assigned different apps but monitored through one platform.

Our games help children to learn through story-telling, games and voiceovers. At launch, we will release 5 different games, where children employ math skills to help the main character, Alan, save his friends.

More information is available on our website here:

www.kiddom.co
PASCAL Bootcamp in Machine Learning
http://videolectures.net/bootcamp07_vilanova/
The main topics developed in this summercamp will be:

* Basic Math and TCS for Machine Learning
* Useful existing software for Machine Learning
* Introduction to Machine Learning
* Theoretical frameworks and foundations
* Experimental Machine Learning
* Feature extraction and model selection
* Graphical models
* Kernel methods and linear predictors
* Clustering
* General view of application areas
* Machine learning in vision
* Machine learning in user interfaces
* Machine learning for data mining