jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A VC Gone Mad?
http://web1979.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/a-vc-gone-mad/
So it's time to revisit Twitter.

The news today that Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures has funded Twitter is enough to bait me back into the ring.
Caterina Fake (Flickr founder) joins Hunch
http://www.caterina.net/archive/001124.html
Besides Caterina's description of Hunch as "a consumer internet application, it will have a lot of user participation, and it is more than a little fun", does anyone have any insight on what Hunch might be ?
Show HN: An SQL Builder in Rust
https://github.com/arch-mage/xql
Hi guys. I just write an SQL builder. I want to know what you think.
Rockstar scores a 1, 2 with GTAIV & GTAV in all time highest review scores
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/grand-theft-auto-v
The hype machine was well oiled this time, but with most things Rockstar, it looks like it was justified.

[edit] This is the chart, I couldn't change the first one http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/ps3?view=condensed&sort=desc
Show HN: I redesigned Steam for Mac
http://moeedm.com/steam
With some time on my hands, and a lot of frustration with the design of Steam for Mac, I decided to take a stab at redesigning it from the ground up.

This is what came of it.
How the Tech Boom Terminated California's Economy 
http://www.fastcompany.com/article/how-tech-boom-terminated-californias-economy
The real estate crash is really just the second leg of the dot.com crash--the failure of housing to absorb the tremendous cash surplus generated by the irrational exuberance of Internet investors.
Ask HN: What's the big deal about YT-dl when streaming has replaced downloading?
Back in the day, we had thumb drives, external hard drives, internet download managers, torrent websites, video player software, and ways to download yt videos for later use.

But now there's barely any need for those as streaming has pretty much replaced the old mediums of acquiring and consuming video. But having a look at youtube-dl's repo, there's more than 109k stars, which shows how popular the thing is. Even a DDG bug that would exclude youtube-dl from the search results received so much attention by HN.

Still though, I don't understand why downloading from yt is so important nowadays. To be clear, I'm not asking whether it's ethical or not. I'm asking why do people need to download stuff in the first place?
Ask HN:  Looking for a guide to build a PC
I have always put together my own computers, because I can buy only what I need and don't have to pay markup for a full system. I really don't enjoy following every PC hardware trend. Historically, every few years, I would pull up the system guides from Ars Technica and buy all the parts for one of their systems. It appears that this guide has gone away and the closest thing I can find is a ton of articles from Tom's Hardware which don't really compare.

Is there anything online that just tells me what to buy.

I'm looking for the equivalent of a friend that keeps up on all the hardware trends that can tell me what parts he would buy if he had $500 to spend.
Show HN: the6pct : a tool to help you track weekly growth based on PG's essay
http://the6pct.com
Built this as a quickie to help me apply the method outlined in PG's Startup = Growth essay.
Show HN: Themefinder – Interactively find wordpress themes
http://www.themefinder.co/
Click the arrows either side of the preview to navigate, you can also use the LEFT/RIGHT arrow keys.

The previews are also responsive, so you can resize themes to see what they would look like on a smaller device (phone/tablet)
GCC 4.5.0 is out
http://h3manth.com/content/gcc-450-released
Status report form From: Richard Guenther
YC's Terms of Use: "When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page."
http://ycombinator.com/legal.html
I always love it when people pass up opportunities to engage in legal bullshitting.

Although it is interesting to note that they claim that "make something people want" is their trademark.
Ask HN: My friend is missing in Mexico and I need help to find him
My friend went for a hike three days ago and never returned. Search efforts are underway but no luck yet.

We really want to get the gps data from his last text message, but it's been extremely difficult getting this from the cell phone company.

If you can help in any way with getting that gps data, or with anything else please email me at satshabad.music@gmail.com.

Here is a live update site where more details can be found findharisimran.com

Here is the phone number the text came from: (917) 293-6456
PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
https://pibox.io/order
Heya HN! We've built a Raspberry PI CM4 based SSD NAS for home hosting. We built it as a part of KubeSail.com - which is a platform aimed at making self-hosting easy and at making the technical bits (tunneling, backups, updates, etc) as easy as possible.

You may have seen plans for this about 9 months ago on HN, but we're finally in full production! I'll be booking tickets to fly out and help assemble the 2nd batch in a few days - we're effectively a two person computer company, which is a lot of fun and a crazy amount of work. Our mission is to make home-hosting a website, an app, or just personal photos a reasonable alternative to SaaS products.
Blundering Sony Nukes PS3 Supercomputing and At What Cost?
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Sony-Ban-Nukes-PS3-Supercomputers-Damages-Future-Game-Development/
Gamers, of course, are the ones who will pay for Sony's mistake long term. Don't expect the scientific/HPC community to come rushing as saviors when it comes time for Sony to babble about the PS4--and without the help of this august assemblage, maybe we'll get stuck with games featuring cutting-edge 1987 graphics fidelity. Leisure Suit Larry, here we come.
Proxy dispatcher for https and ssh
http://tong.ijenko.net/2011/03/proxy-dispatcher-for-httpssl-and-ssh/
proxy dispatcher for https and ssh in few lines of perl
Ghost Blogging Software ported to PHP
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/php-based-blogging-software-inspired-by-ghost/x/6230841
Here is a working demo http://blog.ospari.org/ Please spread the news and support us to make this a reality.
So I got a startup job
http://tempo32.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/so-i-got-a-startup-job/
Hi. This, my first blog post, explains what I learned in the process of getting a startup job in the Valley. Feedback of all kinds is welcome: from typos and style to things I'm so wrong about.
“metadata”
http://blog.urbanmapping.com/2013/06/10/metadata/
Verizon-NSA call logs take metadata to an entirely new level
Ask HN: When should one leave a company based on learning stagnation?
I had quit a corporate business analyst job and joined a tech startup to pursue programming full time instead of hobby. Joined as front-end engineer (as first few employees), within a few weeks due to other backend guys not joining picked up backend and wrote the whole web app from scratch. Now have experience with full-stack, deciding architecture of the app and other devops stuff. It's been great learning experience for almost 2 years now.

I see 2 red flags now:
1. I am not seeing people smarter than me joining (startup got $1M+ funding) i.e. I end up teaching stuff instead of learning stuff from others (I am pretty sure I don't follow all the best practices, so have a lot to learn).
2. recently learned the equity vesting will start few months later than what was initially agreed upon... so even after 2 years, i will have much lesser vested stock :( Also strategies around growth by other team members haven't been much successful as yet either... so can't evaluate how valuable the stock will be eventually...

Would appreciate if you could share opinions if this is normal in most startups or if I should actually start looking out specially from the perspective of learning opportunities in the early career years...

PS: I am single and in 2nd half of 20s. This is just my 2nd company out of college.
Picasa Arrives on the Mac
http://picasa.google.com/mac/
It's about time.
QR codes how-to
http://servletsuite.com/qrcode.htm
All you can do with QR-codes - FAQ and how-to services
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Original Research
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf
Default File Manager with Unity8 in future desktops
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-January/004414.html
I'm pleased to see that they're working on a better file manager.
O'Reilly's "The Ruby Language" for $9.99 (limited time)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/
I'm not a shill. I promise.

Also has illustrations from _why, so could mean it's got some collectible status?

HatTip: RubyInside via LinkedIn
I bought js.org and want to “give it back” to the JavaScript community
What do you think would be most useful for the JS-community? Free subdomains for open-source projects? A CDN ? Community tools like blogs, forums, chats? *@js.org email adresses for "everyone"?
Show HN: Reviews for domain providers in one place
https://www.domcomp.com/reviews
I often see question like "I'm with XXX registrar but want to change, which do you recommend?". People often offer helpful anecdotes so I thought I'd create a centralised place for them.

Please check it out and contribute, if you have any experience with domain registrations!
Win customers and improve products with HTML prototypes
http://digintent.com/prototyping-in-html.html
Why HTML prototypes can improve customer development and lead to better products. Includes a demo HTML prototype with some good pointers for improving workflow.
The UN fought the Internet — and the Internet won
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-u-n-fought-the-internet-and-the-internet-won
current status of countries
http://www.itu.int/osg/wcit-12/highlights/signatories.html

map of the votes
http://imgur.com/yCNP8
Tell HN: Adblocker doesn't block YouTube ads anymore
Are you having the same experience? I'm on firefox
Ask HN: Experiences with 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' (GEB)?
I've heard so many good things about Hofstadter's famous book and I'm about to begin it myself. Anyone care to share their experiences with GEB/whether reading it was as transformative as I've heard it is? Also, any suggestions for how to approach the book itself?
NY releases grim stats on percentage of grads who are "college ready"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/nyregion/08regents.html?ref=education
New York released statistics that show that only 41% of NY students graduate prepared to get at least a "C" in college level math and writting classes.

Charter schools do much worse--only 10% of charter school students meet this "college ready" standard.
Weekend/Side Project 101: Inspiration
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/j1qzy/would_the_college_students20somethings_of_reddit/
Within in hour this guy comes up with an idea, posts it to Reddit for feedback, and launches. Has no prior experience with website development. Maybe it will never get off the ground and maybe it will fail, but the effort is admirable.

What idea have you been sitting on?
Rate my app: Paprika Recipe Manager for iPad
http://www.paprikaapp.com
http://www.paprikaapp.com

I've always been big into cooking and when the iPad came out I figured it would be the perfect replacement for the massive stack of printed recipes I had collected over the years.

But after trying out the iPad recipe apps in the store, I realized that most of them did not allow you to enter your own recipes, and the ones that did were incredibly cumbersome to use. (E.g. having to enter recipes from an external website, or having to fill out 24 fields to get a single recipe entered.)

So the idea for Paprika Recipe Manager was born, and a few months later, it is now available in the App Store.

The basic premise of Paprika is basically an Instapaper for recipes. It comes with a built in web browser that lets you save recipes from the web. (Which is mostly how I discover my new recipes.)

We designed the app to be as simple as possible to create and save recipes. Some of the other apps in the store require you to enter ingredients one at a time, specifying quantity and units separately, and then entering your recipe directions one step at a time. This makes the process for entering a single recipe way too cumbersome and takes up too much time.

We took the opposite approach and basically give you two big text fields for your ingredients and directions. Entry is completely freeform and you can basically put in whatever you want. This also makes it very easy to save recipes from the web (since they can be presented in all sorts of arbitrary formats).

Features include:

- Ability to type in your own custom recipes in a fairly easy manner.
- Ability to save recipes from the web.
- A grocery list that lets you add recipe ingredients as well as your own items.
- Fully customizable categories, search, favorites, and emailing recipes.
- Preventing the screen from turning off while cooking.

Here are a few promo codes to get you guys started:

E7LL36X4EJYP
7A7M9LXXLRJJ
LLK9KAWAYXLJ

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. The response has been fairly positive so far (in terms of ratings and reviews), although there is definitely room for us to improve.

I'm especially interested if anyone has thoughts on marketing and promotion. I've done the standard tasks of posting a press release and emailing a bunch of websites/blogs...but don't really know where to go from there. Has anyone had success with a Youtube teaser, or Facebook/Google ads, or buying ad banners on other sites?
Arg.js – Lightweight URL argument and parameter parser
http://github.com/stretchr/arg.js
Everything that existed for this was bloated or weird. Arg.js is our attempt at keeping it simple and solving the problem in an elegant way.
Codeable Objects
http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2254
Codeable Objects is a library for Processing that enables novice coders, designers and artists to rapidly design, customize and construct an artifact using geometric computation using geometric computation and digital fabrication
Curebit: Worst Customer Service Ever?
http://ryanmelogy.com/yc-alum-curebit-worst-customer-service-ever
The worst customer service email from a startup founder I've ever seen. You might think it's the best.
Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/technology/chinese-hackers-circumvent-popular-web-privacy-tools.html
The NYT is reporting that a JSONP vulnerability reported in 2013 but not fixed by its major internet companies is being exploited to track browsing and steal identifying information from users logged into Chinese web sites like Alibaba. The tracking appears to target journalists, dissidents, and it's ethinic minorities.
Finding freelance jobs: Sites for talented techies
http://www.itworld.com/career/65739/finding-freelance-jobs-6-sites-talented-techies
These days just about everyone is feeling the financial pinch. If you're lucky enough to have a day job, chances are you've at least had thoughts of moonlighting. Here are 6 sites that promise to help you put a little cash in your pocket.
Obama Ambassador In Cambodia On Day Pirate Bay Founder Was Arrested
http://torrentfreak.com/obama-ambassador-in-cambodia-on-day-pirate-bay-founder-was-arrested-120903/
With the destruction of The Pirate Bay seemingly an impossible mission for the time being, seeing that the site’s former operators serve their sentences appears to be the next best thing for the authorities.
Ask HN: A good source of salaries at FAANG in EU/UK?
Hi,
levels.fyi is very US-centric and glassdoor.com is highly unreliable.

What's a reliable source of EU/UK salaries for FAANGs? Particularly at senior staff/principal levels.

Thanks
Show HN: my weekend project, understanding the Silk Road anonymous marketplace
http://burntbrunch.github.com/Silk-Rabbit-Hole/html/
This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.
Ask HN: Who is hiring for open-source projects?
Though would be also great to have a thread about open source positions available. What do you think?

Same structure as Ask HN: Who is hiring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632982 thread but please post only jobs that directly involve working on open-source project.

Please also include project repo link. (github/bitbucket/etc.)
The Slow Way To SPDY
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2011/09/25/1940#the-slow-way-to-spdy
Someone is picking up on the existing SPDY code bases and trying to build a reverse proxy to SPDY-enable any old site. But apparently it isn't that easy...
Pandora for Music Videos
http://musicvideogenome.com
Combines Pandora/Last.fm music recommendations with the new VHX.tv embeddable player to make endless streams of recommended music. More info on Casey Pugh's blog: http://caseypugh.com
The real reason "Wesabe lost" (to Mint)
http://www.davidglarson.com/business/why-wesabe-really-lost-to-mint/
Successful businesses often reinvent themselves for greater success in ways completely unanticipated beforehand. The longer your business survives, the more chances there are to find new ways to thrive.

The article http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint made it sound like they gave up. Businesses can survive even when their original goals do not—running a business isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Yes, Wesabe was behind in the race with Mint. But you don't "lose" until you go out of business.
Startup School 2009
http://startupschool.org
Where: Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.
When: 24 October 2009, 9:00 am.
CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/
CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing [berkeley.edu]

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/

Give them the "big ideas" on one hand, and allow them to "peek under the hood" (do some visual programming with Scratch/BYOB/Snap) on the other. :)
Show HN: Allsearch – Making it easier to use different search engines seamlessly
https://allsear.ch/
Allsearch is a tool I made after getting fed up with Google's search results and reading up on conversations on HN about the state of search on the internet.

This is a tool I made as a spiritual successor to GnodSearch (https://www.gnod.com/search/), which I've seen in a couple conversations about search on HN. GnodSearch is great, but a bit barebones in terms of looks and functionality; Allsearch is my attempt to build off of it.

Similar to Gnod, Allsearch allows you to apply any given search query to a search engine of your choice (either through only keystrokes, or via mouse). However, it also allows you to add your own engines to its catalogue, and allows you to define macros to use multiple engines simultaneously (useful for easily comparing engines).

It's not feature complete; there are still some things I'd like to add in. There are way more engines I want to add to it's default catalogue, and I also want to add in the ability to export your settings to allow people to easily share their Allsesarch configurations.

Curious about people's thoughts on it :)
Ask HN: What is the secret to getting a product owner job as an engineer?
I find that as I'm getting older, I am appreciating the work that a product owner or technical project manager does at a large company (think person who writes JIRA stories, understand the technology or development enough to talk to everyone, can get people on a single line of thinking and can lead discussions, likes working with people and business, and is not hands-on engineering all day).

I also constantly hear from people who are in these sorts of roles that they would 'kill' for the technical background that an engineer has (as that would make them more effective).

Now there is me, with SRE and DevOps background, who applies for product owner, technical project manager, or any sort of similar role as described above, and can not for the life of me figure out why I keep getting "upsold" engineering roles instead, when I am very explicit about applying for the less technical ones. Is it true that there is really no world for a technologist to transition into one of these less technical roles? Does anyone know what the secret sauce is here (besides the line item on the job description that asks for "having been a product owner/<INSERT TITLE> for X years at a previous company")?

What can I, as someone who is in engineering, and would like to do one of these sorts of jobs instead, do at application/interview time to demonstrate that I am a good choice/fit?
Show HN: Free screen recording Mac app that uploads while you record
http://recordit.co
It's meant to be lite and fast. Hope you like it
Microsoft changed IronPython, IronRuby and DLR licenses to Apache 2
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/license
Previously they were released with the Microsoft Permissive License.

http://ironpython.codeplex.com/license

http://ironruby.codeplex.com/license

http://dlr.codeplex.com/license
CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~tygar/161/161.2013.08.29.syllabus.pdf
I thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't.

Summary:
Late to a class? You get an F and need to leave.

Late to section? You get an F and leave. By the way, four sections have been dropped. If you have a schedule conflict, report it by September 2nd, or get an F and need to leave.

Unanticipated absence due to family emergency or medical reasons? Full documentation must be submitted on the same day, or get an F.

Religious absence? Submit it by September 2nd, or get an F.

Cell phone beeps? Get an F and need to leave.

Use any non-medical electronic device at all? Get an F and need to leave.

Don't have a book yet? Pay $50 and also pay out the nose extra to get it overnighted; there's an exam on Monday. Oh, and the second textbook hasn't been published yet. Too poor? Too bad.

Requesting a re-grade? All of your exams will be re-graded.

Need to use the bathroom during a quiz? No.

Need to use the bathroom during an exam? Your test will be taken from you and photographed, and you will be escorted to the restroom.

Suspect someone is looking at your exam sheet? Stand up and report it immediately during the exam or get an F.
Revisiting PG's New Reality, 7 Months Later: Ticketstumbler vs. Fansnap
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ticketstumbler.com+fansnap.com/
Based off this post 7 months ago, where PG compared TicketStumbler ($15k in funding) to FanSnap ($10.5 mil): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458925

This is not a criticism of PG's submission OR of TicketStumbler, just an interesting observation that I hope will generate some debate.