jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Directly query 100M+ raw records of cleaned, refreshed financial data
https://www.wizdata.io
There are a lot of APIs that provide access to these types of data, but there were not any (as far as we're aware of) tools & services that provide access to query the raw data directly for analytical purposes.

We get the data across different sources and clean, schematize them in a PostgreSQL databases so folks can query/analyze the data directly. We have ~100 tables of data across stocks, ETFs, economic indicators, US/international census data and plan to keep adding more. More information on the tables are available at https://docs.wizdata.io

Access to all of the data is free, and we plan to (in the future) find ways to cover our costs by charging for folks who want to run their queries faster (e.g. by running their queries on separate compute clusters) or by providing custom integration to fit their data needs.

Please take a look, and would please share any feedback with us here!
Ask HN: Seeking open source grocery inventory database
I would be interested in building such a DB with others but I am asking because I am trying to start a grocery delivery business.
Please Criticize my Fitness Site that Stores Workout Programs
http://www.funniestlift.com
I want to create a site that can easily store workout programs. This is my first version. It would be a lot prettier but I'm learning and trying to get feedback asap
The perfect standing hacker desk
http://flickr.com/photos/elliottcable/sets/72157627098380256
I’ve been planning this workstation for a long time, researching all the perfect equipment and options.

There’s more information in the Flickr “set comments.” Also, watch the videos: these Anthro desks adjust electrically. I just press a button!
Ask HN: Where should I advertise an iPhone App?
Background:

We have just completed the code to our first non-game iPhone App and are looking to do the difficult bit: Marketing.

We have, for the first time, saved for an advertising budget and I am currently in the throws of writing a marketing plan.

We've got a small war-chest to start us off: not much, maybe a month-or-two's advertising budget with some of the smaller sites, but it represents a year's worth of contract work and hard-won savings.

I'd love to advertise with The Deck and Daring Fireball, but it we would blow our budget in a few weeks. Plus, our core customer is probably younger and a less design oriented than these sites.

The app itself is a revolutionarily simple take on a personal finance app that tracks your budget for you in a fun way without requiring a single receipt.It's aimed at the kind of person who throws their receipts in the trash.

Our tagline is "Money Management for Mere Mortals".

I'm mostly interested in hearing from people with experience, but obviously any useful tips would be gratefully received.

Who/what has worked for you and your app?
Goodbye Browsers: What Next? How technical design for web apps is chaging.
http://www.joelhughes.co.uk/blog/2009/06/goodbye-browsers-what-next/
The web may be breaking free from the browser. So what does this mean to developers and how will this effect the web development process (and my first Erlang Web App)?
Iterate
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13FOB-onlanguage-t.html
The New York Times provides insight into the historical context of the word "Iterate" :)
Yahoo to early Reddit: You are a rounding error
http://vergestartups.com/haters-gonna-hate-by-alexis-ohanian-uberfacts/
Ohanian talks of his early days in Reddit where he is invited by Yahoo to join other startups. During a talk with a Yahoo employee, he is told Reddit's traffic is equal to a rounding error and that he doesn't belong.
Another AWS Outage: Six Questions You’re Likely to Get From Your Boss
http://blog.cloudability.com/another-amazon-outage-you-have-5-choices/
It's the monday after a big AWS outage, which means IT managers/CIOs are looking for answers ... and they might come to you.

Here's a few questions that your boss might ask, along with measured responses that will hopefully cool some heads and get everyone focused on the next step.
Upstart leaves you with “exhausting the PID namespace” or rebooting the machine
https://gist.github.com/3512329
I seriously regret having switched from sysvinit (!) now.

You have no idea how happy I am right now that I have a machine that managed to get itself into the state where the only real option is a reboot. I feel like thrown back to glorious Windows 98 days.

Especially the amount of debugging information you get out of this service is so wonderful, it was a pleasure to debug.
Could Samsung pose a threat to Google's Android?
http://dailysocial.net/en/2012/01/10/could-samsung-pose-a-threat-to-google/
This week’s Monday Note by Jean Louis Gassée sparked an interesting thought and possibility that Samsung is gaining a serious upper hand in the Android world and could use it as leverage against Google. Now why would Samsung do that?

At this point, Samsung probably wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize the relationship with Google, after all, it’s selling tons of Android phones across the world and has become the number one smartphone maker on the planet because of it. Samsung owes a lot of that to Google.
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb: Two Separate Copies Of The Guitar Solo 15 Seconds Apart
http://www.techdo.com/pink-floyd-comfortably-numb-hear-what-happens-when-you-play-two-separate-copies-of-the-guitar-solo-15-seconds-apart/
David Gilmour is one of the most expressive and clean guitarists from the sixties and seventies. This is a cool example of how organized he is
Show HN: Make your Gmail Inbox easier to use with a better rule manager
https://sortem.co/editor/5f8b13116e77616e832b08159bfdfa9e364e61f5
Been building something that will hopefully be useful to the community and Gmail users in general - would love to get any feedback / thoughts!

So my Gmail inbox used to be a mess, especially after I signed up for a few newsletters. I tried creating filters by using "Filter messages like these", but I ended up with 50 rules that could be condensed to ~20. It was also difficult to get a good overview of what all the different rules are doing.

So a friend and I built a website called SortEm to help us out.

Check out some the rules we added in this link and apply them to your inbox if you find them useful!

The 10 rules in the link are for stuff like:

Marking large emails with the label ">10MB"

Marking emails from eBay and Amazon with "e-com" labels

Marking emails with keywords of newsletters and promotions as "Newsletter | Promotion" and making them skip the inbox

Marking emails with keywords of security notifications as "Security notification" and making sure they are in Primary

Marking emails from sites like GitHub, Reddit

etc.

BTW: In SortEm you can also upload a Gmail filter file, edit the different filters, add some useful filters that we collected from friends and from our own inboxes, and apply them all to your own Gmail. Also, you can create a unique link that will save your rules.

Would love to hear what you guys think, and feel free to spread the word! :)
Ask HN: Review My Weekend Project, MagicalMoFo: Startup Coverage Syndicated
http://magicalmofo.com

Hi HN. I came across this post on HN, http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup-for-coverage/, detailing where to submit your startup for coverage, mentions, and backlinks. It was somewhat effective -- received over 50 reviews, mentions, tweets, and backlinks, got a few hundred visitors, and a handful of people signed up. But it took 3-4 hours, mostly because it was really boring. Copy, paste, copy, paste, etc etc.

I wanted to make it easy for early startups to get this basic web coverage, and that resulted in Magical MoFo. You fill in all the fields that these review sites require just once, and Magical MoFo will syndicate you out to 20+ sites.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially whether this would be of use and what you think of the price point. Thanks!
StartupConference June 13. - 16. 2013, HVAR Croatia
http://startupislandconference.com/index.html
New Europe is on fire!<p>From Austria to Russia, from Finland to Estonia to Turkey, this is one of the world’s most exciting places to start, invest in and write about startups. Exciting projects and technologies coming from the region are bursting onto the global scene, while the young economies of these countries are offering unprecedented opportunities for growth and investment. Startup Island will be a unique event drawing together the regions startup community and ecosystem.<p>The conference will host not only the most exciting early stage projects but also the more seasoned startups which have expanded from Estonia, Finland, Croatia, Russia, Slovenia and other countries in the region. They now have global footprints, some investment under their belt and are hungry for more. Joining them, and co-organizing the conference, will be the accelerators, incubators, coworking spaces and other startup programs from accross New Europe networked in the Hacking New Europe initiative.
Go Language Patterns
http://sites.google.com/site/gopatterns/home
It is a work in progress, very helpful for those taking their first steps in Go Lang, or for those interested in comparing Go to other languages.
Ask HN: How do you best learn multiple tech skills in a short timeframe?
How do you personally optimize learning when you have five technical skills you need to build within 90 days? Assuming they're relatively decoupled from one another, do you learn them in sequence one by one, or do you learn them simultaneously? How have you managed the process for yourself?
I don't want your ****ing app
http://idontwantyourfuckingapp.tumblr.com/
seriously
On Finding Good Programmers
http://www.lightsphere.com/blog/programming/finding_good_programmers.html
"...making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot."
-- Paul Graham
Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life
http://immersion.media.mit.edu
From: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/what-the-n-s-a-knows-about-you/
Global Forest Watch
http://www.globalforestwatch.org
http://blog.globalforestwatch.org/
How to make twitter DMs suck less
http://benbloch.posterous.com/how-to-make-twitter-dms-suck-less
A recommendation for best practices in direct messaging from third party twitter applications.
In plain English, how does logik.com work?
I'm confused on what Logik.com is and how it works. What problem does it solve? Is it like a internal document search solution?
Show HN: Semantic Search for Ctrl+F
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scout/hgljpodblkjjklailoaefokflfdeffdl
Hi HN!

Ctrl+F sucks because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for. I built an NLP-based alternative that works pretty damn well.

Let me know what you think.

P.s. it will soon support image searches
Has Craigslist been hacked?
http://craiglist.org/
Removed the link to Craigslist.org so that people wouldn't accidentally click through to a site (we've now verified) is hacked.
10 things you might not know about India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22772391
10 things you might not know about India
Ask HN: Did we all give up on a better search engine/experience?
Have we settled for Google?
Shared Hosting is Doomed (and I have the graphs to prove it)
http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/07/10/shared-hosting-is-doomed-and-i-have-the-graphs-to-prove-it/
I've been thinking about the economics of hosting for a little while. Here are my reckonings.
Ask HN: How do I make myself more valuable in the Bay Area startup scene?
HN,

After taking an accounting of my various work experiences over the past few years, I've decided that my ideal work environment is a web startup. This also coincides with my desire to move to the Bay Area for other lifestyle reasons.

Here is where it gets a bit more complicated. If I were a hacker, this would be pretty straightforward. But I'm not. My experience is much more on the marketing/copywriting/strategic communications side of things. I consider myself to be a very talented writer and communicator, and have been involved in some pretty notable projects in that capacity. Unfortunately, I can't help but feel that this skillset simply isn't very in demand in the world of early stage web startups.

So my question is this -- even if I know that these skills are what I'm best at (and what I truly like to do), should I pursue more sought after and in demand skills in this sector? If so, what are the skills I can learn to make myself more valuable and secure in my new pursuit? I imagine most answers will involve programming, which is fine, but please tell me which languages if so. I should also say that I've always found myself more drawn to UX/Design more than coding.

Thanks for any guidance.
Why does the iPad 2 cost $100 less than the first iPad?
http://webilemind.posterous.com/
An opinion article about the peculiar action by Apple to sell the iPad 2 for $100 less than the first one.
Show HN: Pepbot, disposable email service with a twist
Hello HN!
Meet my baby: Pepbot

http://pepbot.com

It's a disposable temp email service (like Mailinator and many others) with the ability to automate the boring email verification task that some services require (check mail -> click the confirmation link -> activate account).

It's a project I've coded during weekends for sharpen my python and sys admin skills.

I am looking for feedback! What do you think?
Applications Open for ScaleWell Startup Fund
http://scalewell.com/entries/new
Based in Chicago (but not limited to). ScaleWell is bootstrapped venture funding for scalable businesses. Apply Now :)
On code quality: rewrite once
http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/on-code-quality-rewrite-once/
All you have to do is delete your first implementation and rewrite all the code from scratch. The main reason for this is that you can focus on code quality without being constrained by the existing implementation.
Ask HN: I Want to Make “The Chronicles of Amber” into a TV Series. How?
I am a journalist. I write articles about gadgets, web, science, technology, space, and the like. And I love to read fiction books. My favorite book is the "The Chronicles of Amber" by Roger Zelazny. It's a magnum opus of 10 volumes about life and adventures of a supernatural mythical family. And for a long time I had a dream – to make this book into a movie.

And at some point I realized, that it should not be a movie, but a TV series! They are becoming more intense and complex, and attract a big audience. There is even a very popular series based on the famous multi-volume fantasy saga. Yeah, that one. When I realized this, I quickly wrote the screenplay for a pilot episode. I think that it came out quite good. I've registered it with the Writers Guild of America, and can send it to anybody who can help me.

Next I found the agency and discussed this subject with them. The agency took its time to figure out who I am and what do I have. Finally, they told me that at the moment someone allegedly bought an option for a screen version of the book. But, reading between the lines, I realized that they just do not want to work with an unknown person. So I began to think about what to do next.

I found out that the book was turned into an audiobooks by TV actors Alessandro Juliani ("Battlestar Galactica", "The 100") and Wil Wheaton ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Eureka"). I found their managers' contacts and exchanged letters with them to find out if they are interested in supporting the film adaptation.

One of the managers was kind enough to explain to me, that his client is not engaged in producing activities, so, basically, when I'll have the rights and the financing for the project, they will be happy to listen to my proposal.

I've created a blog at https://9amber.wordpress.com/ with additional information about this problem in a blogpost (I had to cut this message at HN down to 2000 symbols), and a contact page. So feel free to contact me.
Show HN: Highlight – Debug customer-facing issues with replay
https://www.highlight.io
Hey HN, I’m Jay, a co-founder at Highlight and a YC alum; excited to share our replay-based debugging tool!

TLDR; if you're using a tool like Fullstory for debugging, or you have trouble understanding the actual impact of your errors (e.g. in sentry), you should give us a try!

We built Highlight because we constantly found ourselves flooded with errors and support tickets with very little context on why these issues occurred. To make matters worse, there was never an easy (and less annoying way) of reproducing these errors, other than by asking users to send screenshots, videos, etc. Frankly, this wasn’t a good use of anyone’s time!

At the same time, the more product-oriented folks on our team wished that they could better understand UX flows and user frustrations without having to do unnecessary user interviews.

Highlight addresses both of these pain points by giving teams reproducibility out of the box! Our platform is installable with a single Javascript snippet and makes it easy and quick to search for relevant user sessions. For product folks, it’s easy to filter down to sessions where users performed specific actions, such as using a newly released feature. For developers, when an error or support ticket shows up in their inbox, they know exactly where to start debugging

Today, we’re focusing on session replay and monitoring, but our goal is to expand to an entire suite of debugging tooling focused on helping teams find and fix issues faster. Some features on our roadmap include live session viewing, backend error monitoring, and much more!
Ask PG: Please rate-limit submissions per user
We've had 18 submissions from the same user in the past 2 hours. There's nothing particularly wrong with any of them, but I think HN works best when there is a wide diversity of stories, and having so many similar submissions is getting in the way.
Which Lisp Variant for Web Dev?
I would like to make a foray into web development using LISP, but am at an impasse: Which variant do I choose? What are the relative merits / resources available for CommonLisp, Scheme, and Clojure?
Ask HN: Series LLC vs individual LLCs?
I'm a self-employed contractor and want to incorporate with a partner to form an LLC.

Our company will have a consulting/contracting arm and incubate + launch new products (websites/apps).

While the looseness of LLC operating agreements would allow everything to be bundled into one LLC (and profit share + ownership of individual products/projects be defined in the operating agreement via "special allocations"), I think it would be easier to break up certain operations/products/initiatives into separate LLCs.

Series LLC's seem perfect for what we are trying to do, but I'm unsure about what the advantages/disadvantages are of a Series LLC vs opening multiple individual LLCs.

Fees? Taxes? Ease of opening new LLC's? How does ownership of the parent LLC affect management/ownership of the child LLC's?

If anyone can refer/recommend a good lawyer/consultant, I'd love to speak to an expert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_LLC

http://www.limitedliabilitycompanycenter.com/series_llc.html

http://www.mayer-riser.com/Articles/business/seriesllc.htm
Web Designs from DeviantArt
http://spyrestudios.com/25-fun-creative-web-designs-from-deviantart/
How many web designers can say that there are too many places to draw inspiration from? Exactly. None. Inspiration is welcomed from high and low, far and wide. Sure, there are css galleries you can check out, or even other designers portfolios you may be friends with on twitter or other social media websites, but what about Deviant Art?
Saving Network Neutrality Will Require a Culture War on Corruption
http://jeffreifman.com/2014/05/05/its-time-for-a-populist-culture-war-on-corruption
http://jeffreifman.com/2014/05/05/its-time-for-a-populist-culture-war-on-corruption
A working implementation of fully homomorphic encryption [pdf]
http://eurocrypt2010rump.cr.yp.to/9854ad3cab48983f7c2c5a2258e27717.pdf
Bootstrapping technique: http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/145.pdf
Ask HN: Beginning freelance web developer: no clients - portfolio?
A short introduction: I'm a programmer with appr. 8 years of experience mainly in desktop C/C++ apps, currently trying to become freelance web developer. 3 months ago I started my intensive (at least to my standards) study of web development with the goal to become "free" and work from home, with my own schedule, etc...

Since I'm constantly reading that a freelance web developer without online portfolio of websites/apps developed for previous clients is a big No-No, I was wondering how to get away with this chicken-and-egg problem of having no clients <-> having no projects done for clients.

My plan so far is to deploy my websites/projects that I'm currently developing (and will develop) to my personal site and use them as a "fake" projects with the idea that they are actually "real-world". Let me explain a bit about what projects I'm planning to develop:

1. E-Commerce site

* Features: product catalog (departments, categories), product attributes and images, product reviews and recommendations, admin panel, shopping cart, customer/user accounts, ordering pipeline, credit card transactions (DataCash, Authorize.net), amazon.com web services

* Technologies: PHP (from scratch - in order to learn), MySQL (stored procedures),
Smarty templates, AJAX (shopping cart updates), keyword-rich URLs (from scratch).

2. Community site for people with shared interests (let's say books)

* PHP + Zend framework (mainly to learn how to develop an app from scratch with Zend), Unit testing (PHPUnit), JavaScipt (jQuery), Web services (amazon, google calendar, youtube)

3. Another E-Commerce site

* This time developed with Zend Framework for the learning experience

4. Custom CMS

* Zend Framework

5. Music mashup app

* Zend Framework, Web services (RSS, amazon, youtube)

6. Blogging app

* Zend Framework, JavaScript (prototype, scrip.aculo.us), Smarty templates, Image gallery, Google Maps

My plan: From these, the #1 (the e-commerce site from scratch) is 2/3 done, I'm learning a ton... With the help of a good friend (and beginner web designer), we'll beautify the site, but we're wondering what kind of e-shop (regarding the types of products) is most suited for a portfolio in order to impress future clients?

The million-dollar questions:

* What do you guys think of my plan for getting complete applications and experience in my portfolio?

* Which of the above projects that I've planned would you scrap, or which would you prefer?

* What about Drupal: does it worth it to create a couple of full-featured (a restaurant site, image gallery, job board, etc.) (but still "fake") sites with it in order to show that I have these skills. Or generally, developing with Zend+JS as a sort of "specialization" will be more viable for my goals?

It is essential to NOTE that I plan to start bidding for projects on the freelance site (elance, odesk, etc.) and use my "fake" portfolio of home made projects in order to get work.
Running SproutCore with Passenger or Unicorn
http://techmology.posterous.com/running-a-sproutcore-development-server-with
A brief article explaining how to move from SproutCore's built in sc-server to a more flexible approach.
CSS3 Animated St. Valentine's Card
http://marynaaleksandrova.info/labs/valentine-card/
CSS3 Animated St. Valentine's Card.
No JavaScript. Works just in Chrome.
Ask HN:  Help us create a startup in the gaming space
Hi all-

Recently, a fellow HN'r and I got it in our heads to build a startup in the gaming space. We have bounced around ideas and are really not happy with what our less-than-creative minds have come up with. As a community that can solve even mysterious medical problems (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1399450), we thought that you all could certainly provide some good insight into what is missing/needs fixing in the gaming community. In any case, some things we have considered:

1) Social network for gamers
2) Groupon like site for gamers
3) Deals for gamers based on playing habits
4) Meetup for gamers

Anyway, would love some input. Fire Away!