jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Good pixel artists/icon designers?
I'm working on a new project and I'll be in need of some good "small" art, these will be similar to "digg" buttons that also contain the count of votes up/down and possibly views.

These icons will range from standard button sized to small (ie, 16 pixels tall, X wide) and so I'm looking for someone who's really good at pixel art/icons to really make them look attractive.

Anyone have any suggestions?
A failure of authorship and peer review
http://lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/a-failure-of-authorship-and-peer-review/
Scientists shouldn't fabricate data, but some fudge their numbers to make results look more impressive. Rarely do we see the inner workings of some labs like this...
Ask HN: actual battery life of 2010 Macbook Pro?
Apple advertises 8-9hrs battery for the 15" MBPs. My hypothosis is that even under ideal conditions, actual battery life is much shorter.

With a 2010 15" 2.66Ghz i7 MBP, under normal development usage (a few ruby processes, a browser, code editor, MySQL) I get about 3 hours.

Under a controlled "light web browsing" environment, I get 5 hours:

* Dim screen brightness to 50%

* Turn bluetooth off, Wifi on

* Set display to never go to sleep & turn screensaver off

* Use http://http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/ to set
graphics card to intel only

* Use itunes to play local music at a low volume through headphones only

* Use this script: to simulate light web browsing: http://gist.github.com/441222 . It writes a log so you know when the computer goes to sleep.

* Walk away from the the computer and wait for it to exhaust it's battery and go to sleep.

HNers -- I'd love to get your own datapoints.
Ask PG: do you cap karma averages?
Lately I've noticed that while my karma continues to rise, the average-karma-per-comment remains locked in place. Over several weeks, neither highly scored (> (total/average)/100) nor multiple single-point submissions cause it to waver. Is it only recalculated periodically, or is there some external constraint?

PS not that I mind if you do, since I'm not the HN target demographic; just curious.
Show HN: Print your Facebook (re-launch)
http://www.yearlyleaf.com
Hey guys,

I'm resurrecting a pet project from last year.

YearlyLeaf is a quality, hand-bound book of 1 year of your Facebook page.

Last year, it launched and the demand was high, but we started losing money quickly. Our flat fee of $49 seemed adequate, but it turns out the people who wanted this used Facebook A LOT.

So we regrouped, found a cheaper printer and better pricing structure and we're giving it another go.

Let me know what you think in the comments.
Show HN: GuideLab – in-app user guides for their entire journey
https://guidelab.io
Hi HN, I’m James and I’m excited to share GuideLab, on-demand in-app guides to reduce support load and make your users happier.

After a decade of working on products with small (20k) and large (millions) user bases, one thing remained clear - level 1 support takes up a lot of time. From universal usability (’how do I reset my password?’, ’how do I invite team members?’) to product specific problems, the answer is sometimes in a chat bot or knowledge base, but it’s cumbersome for the user and often gets lost in translation.

Using GuideLab, you create in-app guides through a UI ("no code") which can then be shared with your users via a link special link over any platform: email, Zendesk, Intercom, in a KB, social media etc. As soon as a user clicks the link, they’re taken to your app and instantly see the guide.

There’s also our search widget that you can embed directly in your web app. A 'Help Guides' tab appears for the user, where they can search and view any guide you've created. In that way GuideLab is fundamentally different to other guiding software like AppCues or userpilot. They focus on opting users into guides based on cohorts/attributes whereas GuideLab lets users view guides when they need them most.

There’s a quick (<1m) video on the homepage (https://guidelab.io) walking you through how GuideLab works. If you have any other questions, or if there’s anything you’d love to see in this space, please share.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi’s Thoughts on Jenkins User Conference Paris
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/05/jenkins-user-conference-paris-summary.html
If you’re considering attending a Jenkins User Conference, or just want to know the latest about the project, check out project Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi's blog last week about JUC Paris in April. Teaser: Jenkins now has more than 40k installations!

Then sign up to join the community at one of the upcoming conferences: New York (THIS Thursday - May 17), Herzelia (Israel - July 5), San Francisco (Sept 30), Tokyo (July 29), or Antwerp (Nov 13).

Details: http://www.cloudbees.com/juc2012.cb
Why Blogs Need To Be Social
http://gigaom.com/2008/08/14/why-blogs-need-to-be-social/
so what?
Show HN: Bare is a Google Reader for tweets that look like blog posts
https://bare.tw
I first submitted BARE here about a year ago. Since then, a lot of people signed up for our tiny side project. Enough to say that it is well past breaking even! We tried many ideas, and ultimately settled on the simple design and the RSS output by default. It is incredible how many people still use RSS nowadays. Thanks to all of you!

Below is the original Show HN post from last year:

BARE grew out of the idea to reduce one's Twitter timeline to bare tweets - blog-post-like writings devoid of media, links, hashtags, or any social interaction mechanics. Once you sign up with BARE, it will continuously check your Twitter timeline and only show you the long-form text-based tweets in it. Like a good old blog reader.
But why do that, you may ask? What's the point?

Because, we believe that this is one of the easiest ways to discover people's true personality, beneath the chatter and social media clickbait. It is also a naturally distraction-free method to keep oneself concentrated over the content without the urge to skim and keep scrolling down. One of the easiest ways to evoke concentration is to reduce the sources of distraction.

Is anybody actually writing such tweets? A lot of people. Check the tiny portion we follow here: https://bare.tw/ and discover the ones in your timeline by signing up.
Readability vs Instapaper
http://checkarun.blogspot.in/2012/04/readability-vs-instapaper.html
Comparision of ReadLaterList apps
Ask HN: Where to host ASP.NET MVC app
If i have an ASp.NET MVC app, any recommendations on where to host it ? I am aware of PAAS services like Azure, AppHarbor but they seem too expensive. Anything else out there that can handle this ? My research so far shows that most good hosting providers support only Linux based OS. So unless I play around with mod_mono etc to get the .NET app on linux, is there a simpler alternative ? I am also not looking for really cheap shared host and need a dedicated server.
New Gmail ads looking a lot more like emails
http://pete-hamilton.co.uk/2013/07/10/google-ads-in-email-list/
The new ads in gmail's promo tab look a lot similar to emails than before. An interesting new addition or move towards advertising trickery? I lean towards the former but I'd be interested what other people think.
Elastic Distributed Computing using Python Interpreters (Not RMI)
http://codespeak.net/py/dist/execnet.html
http://codespeak.net/execnet/ is the correct one..
Remind HN: It's Father's Day (in the US anyway) 
Call your Dad. Life is short and you only have so much time to connect (or reconnect) with the people in your lives.
Show HN: NanoMODBUS – A compact MODBUS RTU/TCP C library for microcontrollers
https://github.com/debevv/nanoMODBUS
Hi HN, this a tiny C library I made because, to my astonishment, in 2022 I couldn't find an (almost) complete and free implementation of MODBUS to be used in a generic microcontroller environment. Enjoy
Ask HN: Do you spend too much time on Content Dissemination for your startup?
With the rise of Content Marketing as a cheap marketing channel, more and more people tend to promote their startups with their blogs. That's fine, but I have the feeling that more and more people spend really a lot of time on this business.
What's your opinion on the topic ? What's the ratio between content publication over content dissemination ?
Did I just get a karma point for checking the new page?
Or was it just a coincidence?
Show HN: With great power comes great responsibility
https://gist.github.com/1037209
This is for turntable.fm. I can't be the only one who has tried, because I've been beaten a few times by other "clickers." :)
Startup Resources: A Must have List
http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/startup-resources-a-must-have-list/
What can you add?
Ask HN: How do I build cross-platform phone apps?
Instead of making apps for different platforms (iphone, ipad, android etc.) , is there a way to build cross-platform apps ? can we build it in HTML5? what are the challenges?
Data Analyst, Internal Finance
http://www.palantir.com/careers/OpenPosDetail?id=a0m80000005LG1e
The Analytics Team at Palantir analyzes our company’s financial and operational data so we can scale and operate our business more effectively. We are a combination of entrepreneurs, engineers, and finance geeks, brought together by our passion for solving complex problems to support data-driven transparency. What worked yesterday, needs to work better today, take less time, and provide further insight. Our small team is full of autonomous self-starters, and we tackle unstructured problems everyday with little to no oversight. Our projects are flexible and tailored to our superpowers; we analyze data using whatever program and method will generate the best results. Everything in our workplace is designed to let us rock a project from start to finish with no red tape to hold us back. This team resembles the rest of Palantir, not anything you’ll find in traditional corporate finance.

Responsibilities:
Transforming financial operations, always striving for impact
Taking projects from start to finish, and in the process automating and setting them up to scale
Analyzing, structuring, and presenting data
Planning for the sake of execution, optimization, and efficiency
Tackling structured or unstructured analyses without obvious solutions
Collaborating with other Palantirians, across the company and around the globe

Requirements:
BA/BS or MA/MS in Finance, Math, Statistics, Economics, Engineering or another analytical field
Strong experience with complex data modeling in Excel; work with SQL a plus
Demonstrated ability and desire to learn quickly, and make an impact
Entrepreneurial mindset, with proven ability to be resourceful, and experience improving and streamlining processes
Ability to work independently and as a team member in an unstructured environment

Preferred:
Startup experience / work in a low structure high autonomy environment
Data visualization experience
Ask HN: Looking for a LAMP Developer Job in Charlotte, NC?
I personally vouch for the company, atmosphere, and employees. It's a small design company with large clientèle, full of young and enthusiastic people. This is not a self post, more of a plug for a great group of friends with an opening for a mid-level developer position. Please spread the word if you know of anybody. Thanks!

http://authjo.bz/j/5698
Show HN: Butt Mover - A butt triggered productivity and health improvement game
https://github.com/abishekmuthian/buttmoverWebApp
Productivity timers needed to be triggered manually before each task, Making it a chore by itself, Often leading to us not using them after a while and They don't take health into consideration.

Health timers are intrusive, Even then they are not always accurate and They don't take productivity into consideration.

Butt Mover addresses those problems by using a butt trigger for automatically starting the productivity timer when we sit on the chair before our workstation and a break timer which reminds us to take a walk automatically when we get up.

Butt Mover also incentivizes its usage through a Game. When the health(tasks/breaks) reaches zero its game over.

I've been iterating different forms of Butt Mover over past two years and released the web application earlier this year(After feedback from several HN users). Today I'm making the core application open-source as I've committed myself to make the Health & Education applications I build open-source.

I hope you'd use Butt Mover for yourself and build Butt Trigger for others to improve productivity and health. Feedback and contributions to improve the project is appreciated.
Tom Siebel: Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2110
As someone who's been in healthcare and IT and is now in energy, Tom's right on the money. Is anyone here part of one of these two new ventures he talks about?
Google App Engine refuses to stop charging me. wat?
http://googleappenginenuts.tumblr.com/
tl;dr: had app engine acct, not using it anymore, goog won't let me cancel.
Show HN: A tool to test investment strategies that are popular on Reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZ18oMxnVg
For the last four weeks I have been building a tool where with a simple drag and drop UI, you can test all of the strategies you keep seeing on social media to verify if they really work.

It takes only 30 sec to test a trading strategy, instead of hours if you were to test it manually or programmatically.

Here are some interesting findings:

If you were to invest in whatever Nancy Pelosi is investing, using the tools available to an average investor you would lose money. She has 45 days to make her trades public.

If you were to invest every month in a stock that has positive sentiment on Reddit, you would on average either make a few percentage points of return more, or lose less. I guess: people post that they like the new iPhone -> people buy the new iPhone -> stock price goes up. I am not sure what the relation is.

You can play with many more trading strategies on my website: www.inegy.io

I will be extremely thankful for any feedback.
Web forms: Do it right, A DZone Story
http://computegeeken.blogspot.com/2011/06/web-forms-do-it-right-dzone-story.html
Why forms still suck in web !!!
Ask HN: Is there a open-source solution to create deeplinks?
I have tried branch.io - cannot depend on 3rd party solutions as they are not reliable. I am using deeplinks for a mobile only product & hence it is very important deeplinks works & the uptime is in my control.
Show HN: Codeo - minimalistic code paste web-site
https://codeo.me/
Pretty minimal clone of pastebin.
It has some problems with SSL certificate now, so your browser probably warns you about it.
The Lawyer To Engineer Ratio
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/ltoe_ratio
Wonder what happens if you compare this in terms of salaries.
Cloud Computing Calls for Rebuilding Enterprise IT
http://bx.businessweek.com/cloud-cmputing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F702585%2FCloud_Computing_Calls_for_Rebuilding_Enterprise_IT_%3Fpage%3D3%26taxonomyId%3D3024
Cloud Computing Calls for Rebuilding Enterprise IT
Pioneers - The latest initiative from the visionaries behind Thinkspace.
http://thinkspace.co.uk/pioneers
Providing some of the world's brightest young entrepreneurs with more opportunities than they could get in a lifetime.
Ask HN: Is Safari losing your sessions?
Is anyone else experiencing frequent loss of sessions when using Safari 4/5 while logged into web sites?

I have noticed, as have co-workers, and customers, that when using Safari 4 or Safari 5, we are getting kicked off numerous web sites prematurely.

At first I thought it was a bug in my sites' session handling, but I now suspect that this is a general Safari bug. It's almost impossible to find anything on this via Google, so I am posting here.

I am getting kicked off every few minutes and sometimes even after just a few seconds.
Tell HN: RTP Hackers & Founders Meetup this week
Just a friendly reminder: there will be an RTP Hackers & Founders Meetup this coming Friday, the 17th of Dec., 2010, at O'Malley's Tavern in Raleigh (of Glenwood Avenue, a couple of miles north of Crabtree Valley Mall).

Start time is at ~6:30PM, and we'll be there until people get tired, or the bar closes, or whatever. Please come join us and talk hacking, startups, etc.
Show HN: Hip.ly playlists bands near you playing tonight (Includes San Jose)
http://hip.ly/
I wrote Hip.ly last Thursday because it's something I've wanted for a long time and I needed a break from my startup. I wrote a blog post about why I did it here:

http://zachster.com/2010/11/08/hip-ly/

I included San Jose to make it relevant for my distant friends out there. I was surprised how many cool shows are coming up... in the surrounding area...

http://hip.ly/1288
New Microsoft Logo?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
Anybody estimates budget? :p
Taking Showers in the Dark
http://wexnotes.com/showering-in-the-dark/
Have you ever taken a shower in the dark? It's not as good as a float tank, but still works well.
Google to Unveil DRONE at Hearings
http://sixestate.com/google-to-unveil-drone-at-hearings/
Google unveils its latest product called the Google DRONE, a flying personal assistant equipped with cameras and screens, and operated using a smartphone.
Lightweight API driven control plane to stream xDS configuration to Envoy(s)
Hi HN,

For the past few months we have been working on this project to manage Envoy proxies. We are looking for feedback. Let us know what you think. Details of the project can be found here - https://getenroute.io

Thanks,

Chintan
Eskil Steenberg - Creator of "Love" gives a talk.
http://vimeo.com/6010060
Beyond the coolness of the game, his theory of more tools as a method of efficiently generating content is intriguing.
Show HN: I'm working on a new release of my Google Analytics widget. Thoughts?
http://i.imgur.com/OOh9TBP.png
Plus the existing version is on sale (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ga.today-widget-for-google/id936871747?mt=8) until the new one is approved!
Anyone else get a free Google TV invite?
Just got my invite - anyone else? Woot!!

10,000 devs getting them shortly: http://googletv.blogspot.com/2010/10/google-tv-is-coming-to-10000-lucky.html

------------- EMAIL TEXT -------------

Dear Developer,

Congratulations! You have been selected as an official winner in our Google TV Web Developer Promotion and are eligible to receive a free Google TV device on our behalf.

As we announced on our blog (http://googletv.blogspot.com/) earlier this fall, we’re excited to be providing 10,000 free Google TV devices to help developers start building for TV.

Most of you already know that Google TV is a new entertainment platform that combines TV, web, apps, and search all in one easy to use experience. And, because Google TV provides automatic over-the-air updates, consumers will get the latest features for free. The platform was announced in May 2010 at Google I/O and will be open-sourced in 2011. Devices from Sony and Logitech are now on sale in the U.S., and more devices will be launching in additional markets next year. More details can be found at google.com/tv or by following us on Twitter @GoogleTV.

To redeem your free device (a Logitech Revue™ with Google TV™) all you need to do is follow these steps by Monday, February 28, 2011:

1.	Click here: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/revue to visit the Logitech Revue™ product page on Logitech.com.

2.	Add the Logitech Revue™ to your shopping cart.

3.	On the Shopping Cart page, add the unique Promotional Code number below and click "Apply Code".

4.	Once the code has been applied, click "Proceed to Checkout".

5.	If you have a Logitech account, log in. If not, create one on this page.

6.	Complete checkout process to order device.
Show HN: Is Market High? – Stock market charts for 11 sectors and 149 industries
https://ismarkethigh.com/
Hello HN. One of the ways in which I wanted to improve my trading was to have an overview of how different groups within the market perform, and ultimately double down on the strongest or weakest ones. I wasn't happy with the existing sector / industry indexes or ETFs as they tend to be based on a small selection of stocks or use market cap scaling which I never felt was giving me a good picture of how a group, as a whole, performs. So I built ismarkethigh.com where I compute aggregates myself using over 4500 stocks from NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. If you are interested you can find more detail about the aggregates in the "About" section of the page.

I already find it useful in selecting specific groups and stocks to trade in so I hope it can help others as well. This is still very much a work in progress so any feedback is very welcome!
Ask HN: Which popular apps are owned or controlled from China?
I mean secretly, without most users knowing that the app is Chinese. ExpressVPN comes to mind. Zoom is sort of suspicious with its China-based engineering team.

I don't mean apps like WeChat which everyone knows is from China.
Ask HN: How is Google focusing on so many products simultaneously?
Most of the other companies focus on one or two products at any time. That is understood because ultimately decisions are to be approved by a small group [usually by a single person ^ Mr Jobs].

But since last couple of months, Google has been rolling our products in almost all domains. Is it because of heavy delegation or acquisitions?
ImageCaption - a MooTools Plugin for Auto-Captioning Images
http://sixrevisions.com/freebies/scripts/imagecaption-a-mootools-plugin-for-auto-captioning-images/
ImageCaption is a MooTools 1.2+ plugin for easily adding figure captions to image elements on a web page. It is very customizable and painless to style.
Why does wine brand popularity not follow a power law distribution?
http://www.gamedevblog.com/2011/04/what-is-it-about-wine.html
Short blog article posing that exact question. The article is otherwise devoid of facts or hypothesis, but I'm very much interested in hearing HN's thoughts, since it's a very interesting question.
What's new in Elixir
http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2012/07/05/what-s-new-in-elixir-5/
Check what we have been working on for Elixir v0.6.0 - What's new in Elixir #5
Ask HN: Where can i find a co-founder?
I'm a talented software engineer with CTO experience in 3 startups already. I'm looking for a new challenge but have no idea yet. I'm looking for a talented co-founder (doesn't have to be engineer) to start a new adventure. Where can i find one?
Two Practical Ways for Learning new Tools and Technologies
https://medium.com/p/1e713f10b602
My new article about how you can learn and utilize stuff you have been bookmarking.
People call "Node.js handles 10k connections" a magic. Erlang easily does 1MM
http://weblog.bocoup.com/node-stress-test-analysis/?cringe=true
Moral of the story first: developers, please take a look at Erlang.

I cringed when I read the story. Someone calls Node.js a magic when it handles 10k connections. Erlang handles 1MM connections without sweating.

Why? Because around two years ago I have created an Erlang server which does broadcasts of ~500bytes message to up to 1MM of concurrent users with a end-to-end delivery delay of at most 1.5 seconds, using ONE physical server and ONE application server (i.e. just one Erlang VM instance)!

Proof: https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/Krakow2011/speakers/GlebPeregud

TL;DR. Node.js is not magic. It's not as scalable nor as robust compared to Erlang.
Introducing Resource Blueprint
https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/issues/13#issuecomment-33506569
Focus on business logic of Web API, model resource's semantic states and transitions.

Full specification at https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/tree/resource-blueprint
Teenagers Leaving Facebook In Droves, What's Next?
https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/3d1c24176c91
Seems that Facebook is loosing its cool when it comes to teenagers. Who is going to be number 1 in this segment?