jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why one Zynga executive left his post for a small startup
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/171564/Why_one_Zynga_executive_left_his_post_for_a_small_startup.php
While he may have had a secure job as an executive at the world's biggest social game company, Zynga's former CTO of mobile Laurent Desegur has chosen to leave his post for a new position at Game Closure, a small California-based studio focusing on HTML5.
Show HN: I built a tool for my podcast listeners to send me voice messages
https://www.mono.tn/
Say you have a podcast and you want your listeners to send you voice messages.

The only available options are:

- listeners call you via phone (costs them money, very high prices for international listeners);
- or, users record themselves on an app, attach the file to an email and send you the file (very cumbersome, high risk of failure due to file size, format, ...).

I didn't like these "solutions": they both introduce a very high frictional process to listeners and, for me, are a huge PIA to manage.

To fix this whole situation, I built https://mono.tn (read: monotone). It's a simple tool to allow listeners, wherever they are, to easily send me voice messages.

Now, it only takes three taps (or clicks) on their phone (or computer) to complete the whole process. And I have a single place to manage all the messages I receive.

I'm curious to know if people other than me would find this tool useful?
Bill Gates Predicts Future in 1995
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/exhibits/20.pdf
A copy of Bill Gate's 1995 internal memo to Microsoft executives, "The Internet Tidal Wave". Couldn't find this posted elsewhere so I thought I'd throw it up here. Pretty interesting how accurate his predictions were. Possibly more interesting that Microsoft failed to capitalize on almost all of them.
CerealHack: First Cereal Hackathon in Sacramento, CA!
http://cerealhack.com/
First hackathon in Sacramento, CA sponsored by the HackerLab. All the cool kids will be there.
Intelligent Workspace for Smart Teams - BootStrapToday.com
http://ratemystartup.com/intelligent-workspace-for-smart-teams-bootstraptoday-com/
At BootStrapToday, we have gone beyond existing platforms like redmine, trac, to offer a complete & intelligent solution specific to software companies.

BootStrapToday Differentiation lies in:

· Intelligent and automated Ticketing

· Email integration and notification

· Seamless integration between Projects, Tickets, Version control, Role/permission control, Wiki, Activity stream, Timesheets

In gist, focus only on your core activity - Application/ Software development, from the day one and put structure to your development efforts right at the beginning.

Reach us now to avail "BootStrapToday Exclusive" for the members of Hacker News.This will help us as a startup, to bring more and more intelligence/ value for our users since it gives us more user data to work with.

Check what our customer say: http://bootstraptoday.com/testimonial/
Beginning with OpenCV in Python
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/10/beginning-with-opencv-in-python.html
This post shows how to do some basic operations of OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) with Python.
WikiLeaks lets you search Sony's hacked emails (Updated)
http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/16/wikileaks-sony-hacked-emails/
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/
Bill Gates Pushes UN on Food Productivity
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/03/bill-gates-pushes-food-productivity/
Gates was somewhat critical of agencies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Program, calling their efforts poorly coordinated with insufficient focus on measuring results.
Krupte.com – Cloud online password manager
It's a cloud platform that aims to revolutionise the way end users access websites, actually eliminating everyday passwords, but without security compromises.
Our aim is to revolutionise the way end users access websites, eliminating in a secure way the usage of multiple and insecure passwords on the internet; with a unique account, and from a single interface it is possible to accesses all the websites you use on a daily basis.

https://www.krupte.com
iCloud unveiled at WWDC, MobileMe DOA
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/icloud-unveiled-at-wwdc/
I think limited bandwidth plans will limit a lot of the innovation that could have started with a free cloud api. Are there any numbers of subs on limited bandwidth plans?
Musicx.fm -- Fighting Music Piracy by Thinking Like a Pirate
http://www.rockthepost.com/posts/view/1310/Musicxfm-Fighting-Music-Piracy
Donate please
Show HN: Updated Angular-ChartJS to supported re-sizing.
https://github.com/petermelias/angular-chartjs
Auto-resizing for dynamically sized graphs. Does not redraw graphs unless dimensions change.
Samsung Omnia WP7 Review
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/07/21/review-samsung-omnia-7-with-windows-phone-7/
Hands on with Samsung Windows Phone 7 - can WP7 keep up? Are you waiting for the mango update?
Show HN: Visualize MIDI notes in augmented reality using iOS LiDAR devices
https://github.com/robomex/Reality-Synthesizer
Reality Synthesizer utilizes iOS 15.4's addition of the LiDAR sensor to AVFoundation to visualize MIDI notes played on a connected synthesizer. The notes are visualized in augmented reality as the music is played. The demo uses a couple Metal shaders for depth-based visuals.
AT&T: Reality Distortion Field Kryptonite
http://www.thinkbrilliant.com/2010/06/att-deathsta-2/
Great article about how AT&T is constantly failing, and Apple has gone from staying silent about it - to nearly defending them.
The key to our Universe: Irrationality
https://wildparrot.quora.com/Obviousness-and-universality
I would like to have some feedback from the community about this article. To you, in what way could we make mathematics more "human" without loosing its objectivity and rigor?
Show HN: Kweb 1.0.0-RC.1, a lightweight Kotlin web framework for back end devs
https://github.com/kwebio/kweb-core/releases
GitHub: https://github.com/kwebio/kweb-core
User Manual: https://docs.kweb.io/book

Modern websites consist of at least two tightly coupled components, one runs in the browser, the other on the server. These are often written in different programming languages and must communicate with each other over an HTTP(S) connection.

Kweb's goal is to eliminate this server/browser separation so that your webapp's architecture is determined by the problem you're solving, rather than the limitations of today's tools.

Kweb is a self-contained Kotlin library that can be added easily to new or existing projects. When Kweb receives a HTTP request it responds with the initial HTML page, and some JavaScript that connects back to the web server via a WebSocket. The page then waits and listens for instructions from the server, while notifying the server of relevant browser events.

Features:

* Allows the problem to determine your architecture, not the server/browser divide
* End-to-end Kotlin
* Keep the web page in sync with your back-end data in realtime, Kweb does all the plumbing for you
* Server-side HTML rendering with rehydration
* Efficient instruction preloading to avoid unnecessary server communication
* Very lightweight, Kweb is less than 5,000 lines of code
A smart way to get a job; using google.
http://gizmodo.com/5538241/the-smartest-way-to-find-a-new-job-on-google
What you you put in your ad to get a tech job?
YAGNI vs Usability
http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/yagni-vs-usability/
How to balance the XP principle of YAGNI (you aint gonna need it) with UX design.
Polyglot Persistence: Integrating Low-Latency NoSQL (Cassandra \ InfiniteGraph)
http://blog.stavi.sh/polyglot-persistence-integrating-low-latency
Sample code and description of integrating two low-latency NoSQL stores (Cassandra and InfiniteGraph). Graphs are extracted from Cassandra, analyzed, and the results are placed back into Cassandra.
Ask HN: Who Can Help Us Get $$$ ASAP?
Hi, my name is Ben, I founded SocialPrintshop.com quite recently. It's turned into a full-time gig for me, and I brought on two of my friends (a graphic designer + another developer). We're selling a lot of products, plus executing special projects for corporate clients, plus we've got some real good stuff in the works, and a solid plan for the future.

The frustrating thing is that we could go a lot faster with funding, but we also don't have the time, bandwidth, or experience to seek out the money from investors.

We've had several people offer to help us who all claimed to have great networks in the valley and elsewhere, and some who have raised money for start-ups of their own. But no-one thus far has really connected with us (or our vision) or gained our trust.

This is a call for help. Can anyone who wants to get involved with us and help us seek/secure funding please get in contact with me. I'm not looking for someone to take charge of the company, but we could use someone in a hands-off advisory role who would take a small->medium percent of company when we do secure funding.

Please get in contact with me by email BenjaminLotan@gmail.com

I'd also love to hear your comments... how would you suggest we seek funding while we are working hard to push the company forward?
Ask HN: Elon Musk's companies can't fail. What other companies can't fail?
Elon Musk's companies all share one common trait - they work as high tech companies and compete with low tech companies. Such companies can't fail as the methodology of high tech companies is superior to low tech companies- talent, automation, short release cycles etc. Uber immediately comes to mind, which other companies can you think about?
LungoJS && AngularJS bridge - a integrated mobile solution you'll love
https://github.com/centralway/lungo-angular-bridge
Lungo Angular Bridge

Linking Lungo to Angular to bring you mobile awesomeness
Ask HN: Best Upcoming HTML/CSS/JS UI Frameworks
In your opinion, what's the best upcoming web UI frameworks for apps written for web application development?

Every time I search for web user interfaces I find the same few frameworks, and top-X articles linking to the same few frameworks. (In some cases even depreciated frameworks)

What's not making it through the SEO boundary?
Stamplay – Modular Web Apps
http://stamplay.com
Came across this over at Designer News, thought I'd post here.
Thousands of words are worth a picture
http://paradox.rambisyouth.com
This piracy inspired piece is made from words and phrases cut from free magazines to form a picture of Abraham Lincoln being assassinated at Ford's theater.
Test Driving the Fizz Buzz Kata in Clojure
http://www.adomokos.com/2013/12/test-driving-fizzbuzz-kata-in-clojure.html
A step-by-step description of solving the FizzBuzz Kata in Clojure guided by tests.
Alan Kay "50th Anniversary of Objects?" on ways to think about things
http://www.tele-task.de/de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/
A great and important lecture about "ways to think about things", with just a little about Programming and Scaling and STEPS (see www.vpri.org ) at the end.
For me this talk sums up why and how we at our startup Morphle are thinking about the design and implementation of our parallel manycore SiliconSqueak processor for virtual machines like Squeak. Email me at info at squeakvpn dot com for a non-realleayer version of the talk, our startup or information about SiliconSqueak beyond http://siliconsqueak.org.
4 public interest groups who fight for your digital freedom
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/03/15/4-public-interest-groups-who-are-fighting-for-your-digital-freedom-part-1/
Ever wonder why it's so inconvenient to rip a DVD you own and play it on another device? This is only one of the many, many issues these guys deal with daily.
List of Michael Lewis Articles
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&key=t2tMHFVRry034lXZ-MsEUYg&hl=en_US
Hi Everybody- I am a big fan of Michael Lewis articles (like some of you maybe). I am trying to collect a list of Michael Lewis articles and I was wondering if you all can help update some articles that are not on this list and that you may have read
Spring Security Authentication against a RESTful Service
http://www.baeldung.com/2012/01/05/authentication-against-a-restful-service
Step by step guide on how to configure Spring Security to authenticate against a RESTful Service.
Show HN: A search box for ASCII faces and kaomoji
https://asciilib.iansinnott.com/
Just a for-fun project to make it easier to discover and copy ascii. The backing lib can be found at: https://github.com/iansinnott/asciilib
33 Delicious Food-Styled Websites to Inspire You
http://designmodo.com/food-style-websites/
It is absolutely necessary to own a food website online for those who are into the business of running a restaurant. There are some food sites which explain everything about the restaurants.
Make your Valentine an iPhone game
https://www.makegameswith.us/build-your-valentine-a-game-in-your-browser/
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Facebook Acquires Storytelling Site Storylane in Talent Grab
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57573356-93/facebook-acquires-blogging-site-storylane/
Another likely contender in the blogging game is acquired too early in my opinion. With twitter veterans working on medium, storylane had a nice headstart and a good idea. This is a very risky game to be in but the idea of nice and clean design with enough input area was called for in the blogosphere. Talent acquisition evidently might mean death for inspiring startups.
Messaging Semantics Blog Series by Jimmy Bogard
http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/12/20/messaging-semantics-ownership/
This is the second post, discussing ownership in messaging.
How to Use Pinterest For Generating Serious Traffic - Part 1
http://devstand.com/marketing/complete-guide-on-how-to-use-pinterest-as-a-traffic-machine-part-1/
This is the first part article of the how to guide to help you use Pinterest for generating traffic for your website.
Tweakable Constants
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/snippets/features/tweakVal/
A useful hack for C/C++
Ask HN: TP - Google did not find
What is the minimum possible character length of a search keyword with which Google search can return a message "Your search did not match any documents."? Of course,
1) keyword MUST use only characters and numbers
2) No special characters
3) Google shouldn't ask "Did you mean?"

My lowest count was 6 with "i9qew8" (until this page gets listed by Google :P) Yours?
Twenty-Five Awesome iPhone Apps for Online College Students
http://www.onlinecolleges.org/25-awesome-iphone-apps-for-online-college-students/
This is a list of 25 awesome iPhone apps for online college students. Whether you take all of your
classes online, the traditional way, or a combination of the two, you can find many both free and
paid ways to turn your phone into the most powerful learning tool you have, second to only your
brain.
Just Get On With It
https://medium.com/be-what-you-want-to-be/df556b41b75a
Seriously, stop sitting on your ass all day and just get on with it already
Python implementation of Stripe's description of their event processing system.
https://github.com/texuf/pymonster
I watched Greg Brockman's talk about how Stripe used MongoDb for processing events [1] and thought the emphasis on clean syntax and flexibility was nice, so I tried to implement it myself.
How Google calculates search result count?
http://twitpic.com/448uqz/full
Is any body tell me how google calculates search result count?

In google search we always see "About 117,000,000 results (0.12 seconds)", but there is no straight way to go to "117,000,000"th result except next->next-> on page.

Another thing i observed is that, search results count are not real.

e.g. I have searched for search string "google videos", on first page i got "about 117, 000, 00o results"
But when i clicked for 10th page in the search i got "Page 10 of about 468,000,000 results".
How this can be possible in 2 min??
is google making fool of us as we can not navigate to last result?
One more thing i had tried same search "google videos" 5 month back at that time result count was 438,000,000 see - http://twitpic.com/30o2cv/full
I can not understand what magic google done in its search???
Ask Hn: Should I hire VA or continue to do-it-myself?
Here's my situation.

I launched a stocks alert service ( http://tradesalerts.com ) in Nov 2010, and deleted domains service ( http://nameego.com ) in Dec 2010. Both sites require me to run a few processes and create the corresponding email newsletter and send it out on a daily basis. This usually used up all my time in the morning and I am left with just the afternoon to work on the marketing and improving the core features.

I hope to outsource the routine work, but with zero revenue coming in yet. It just dun make sense to outsource. I tried macros, but sadly the newsletter to be created require some analysis work.

Anyone else in the same shoes? What should I do? Hire VA. Or continue to do-it-myself?
YC applicants - we're getting drinks at Kapps in mt view
We just interviewied in last slot of the day and are planning to drink margaritas until we hear from pg. leaky.com
VirtualMachineDeviceRuntimeInfoVirtualEthernetCardRuntimeState...
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.vm.DeviceRuntimeInfo.VirtualEthernetCardRuntimeState.VmDirectPathGen2InactiveReasonOther.html
It's not a Java Problem, it's an enterprise problem. (Taken from Zed Shaw)
Android Beats RIM – Becomes Market Share Leader in USA
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/03/android-beats-rim-becomes-market-share-leader-in-usa/
What will RIM do now when Android is breathing on its neck and threatens to enter its enterprise market?
Things the Media Either Gets Wrong or Doesn’t Know About the Winklevoss Twins
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/04/11/10-things-the-media-either-gets-wrong-or-doesnt-know-about-the-winklevoss-twins/
by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
Show HN: GreetPool – an easy platform to create and share group cards with teams
https://www.greetpool.com/
Hi Everyone,

Very happy and excited to Show HN GreetPool,

GreetPool is a collaborative group greeting card platform that enables distributed teams, friends, family, or virtual communities to create and share collective ecards for all special occasions. Its the digital twin of the office card that's signed and passed around, but without the coordination hassles, and is much more fun and engaging.

With remote-work/wfh prevalence widening the virtual distances, it is the small gestures that help teams stay connected, and keep the greeting card traditions, & the human connection at workplace, alive.

Test out a Live demo here (no signup or account required)

https://www.greetpool.com/demo

We launched on ProductHunt today, feel free to check that out too.

I would love to hear feedback and comments!

~Jaskirat
The Five Monkeys Experiment
http://johnstepper.com/2013/10/26/the-five-monkeys-experiment-with-a-new-lesson/
Here is a the original research paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeys#scribd
Pure Programming Language Survives Wikipedia Deletion Frenzy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pure_%28programming_language%29_%282nd_nomination%29
Background: A number of programming languages were recently deleted from Wikipedia: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fkt7t/nemerle_factor_alice_ml_and_other_programming/
Ask HN: Jobs require a different programming language
Let's say I want to apply for a couple "dream" job positions. My Swift lang knowledge is pretty decent, but many jobs I would like to apply for require "experience with C/C++". Having a good understanding of Swift and general concepts of programming language I'm wondering what to do... Learn C/C++ and do some OpenSource work before applying? Tell them "Hey, I don't fulfill your requirements, but here is my application. Oh an no worries I will be able to read your C code somehow"?
Why we still need expression template in C++
https://github.com/tqchen/mshadow/wiki/Expression%20Template
In wikipedia, it is said by using rvalue reference in C++11, we don't need expression template. But in machine learning software especially with CUDA, expression template is still a powerful tool.
Koliko
http://www.koliko.co.uk
The UK's largest, simplest, most reliable price comparison website. We offer our users completely un-biased price comparison from over 60M products and 1000's of merchants.
Geous.js
http://rjzaworski.com/projects/geous/
A handy library that makes geolocation a snap
Ask HN: What are some innovative products Google has come up with?
Google is well known for it's highly innovative culture. They hire the best and brightest who then create products that change our lives. Well, at least that's what the television says.

I'm having a problem trying to figure out what innovative products they actually created.

EXCLUDING ANY PRODUCT OR COMPANY THAT WAS BOUGHT, what are some innovative products that Google created on it's own? Is it still alive? Is it popular?
Fluent NHibernate and Inheritance Mapping
http://marekblotny.blogspot.com/2009/03/fluent-nhibernate-and-inheritance.html
Article presents how to use table per class hierarchy inheritance mapping strategy with Fluent NHibernate.
Prague beats Berlin with its tech scene, could challenge London in the future
http://www.janrezab.com/prague-beats-berlin-with-its-tech-scene-could-challenge-london-in-the-future/
Berlin has got SoundCloud, 6Wunderkinder, Wooga, and a few others. Although Berlin companies are great, the hype around Berlin as a city is perhaps even bigger. I think it started with the Jamba brothers, I mean, Samwer brother copycats. Jamba was quite a big exit for them (although wrote-off by both its buyers Verisign and Fox Mobile. I was in the same business at the time, and selling ringtone subscriptions to small children on their or their parents phones for a few dollars a week is on the edge of good ethics (rip-off), or sometimes the law). One thing some Berlin tech companies have in common is, they are not run by German founders – thats not the case in Prague. What Berlin will quickly run into is a shortage of developer talent. Prague has a huge developer talent, with a potential to tap into towns around it and also Slovakia much easier than Berlin can. What is also great in Prague, lots of these developers still work at “boring” big companies, outsourcing companies, that could quickly move to start international start-ups.
Cool TEDx Video on Student Businesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdAkU7Lp2g
I wish I had of started a business when a uni, some good points.
Newly Found Color Pics of San Francisco After 1906 Quake
http://sfist.com/2010/01/12/san_franciscos_great_1906_earthquak.php
Taken 6 months after the earthquake.

More details here:

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/09/6231373-color-stereo-photographs-of-san-francisco-after-06-quake-found
Ask HN: movie/TV show databases?
I'm doing some research for an app that'll involve searching TV shows, and am not having much luck finding available APIs to use. So far the big (and obvious) options have been IMDB and Amazon - but IMDB charges >$15k/year for licensing their database for commercial use, and Amazon's API seems a bit more focused on selling things than I want.

Is there an API out there that will let me just retrieve TV shows based on their titles?
Pinterest Tips : Get More Pins And RePins –  
http://dennisjsmith.com/index.php/2012/04/13/pinterest-tips-get-more-pins-and-repins-infographic/
Here is some great information below on what you could be doing to get your Pinterest Pins Repinned. Taller images tend to catch more attention and descriptions around 200 characters work well. Have in tricks you use to get repinned on Pinterest? The Power of Pinning video series is a great way to get tips on using Pinterest for marketing your business.
A Three Fingered Salute to the Code Scouts
http://www.kurtiss.org/2007/10/26/code-scouts/
Why every developer has a few lessons to learn from our kerchief-toting friends...