jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Old Investors want free stock in new company - what should I do?
I had a startup in the past that didn't work out. I had some angel investors who each invested about $20k. Now I do a new startup that is going really well and those old investors tell me that the right thing to do for me would be to give them some stock from my common for free. I really like them and am grateful for all they did for me in the past but I'm not sure if this is a common and right thing to do for founders/past investors or if they want to take advantage of me.

The new startup has nothing to do with the old. New idea. New team. New everything.

I dont mind the shares. I just want to be sure that this is normal behavior and common practice.

If someone has experience as founder / investor / lawyer with this kind of situation please help!

I could REALLY need some advice! Thanks
Ever-younger entrepreneurs
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/09/07/ever_younger_entrepreneurs/
Internet, low costs lead to early-in-life startups
Top 10 Tech Failures of the Decade. YouTube...Really?
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898610_1898625_1898631,00.html
The New York Times recently wrote that "while YouTube, along with other new media properties like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, is seen as leading the challenge against traditional media companies, the company itself is struggling to profit from its digital popularity."
Think APP.net's Just a Twitter Clone? Then, You're Missing the Point
http://gigaom.com/2012/08/13/think-app-net-is-just-a-twitter-clone-then-youre-missing-the-point/
by Mathew Ingram, GigaOm
Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/62054652551/backbone-js-json-api-and-relational-data-a-primer
Excerpt:

While following patterns suggested by JSON API with Ember may be straightforward, little documentation exists for its usage within Backbone.js. With feed-readers popular in the past few months, I’ve decided to demonstrate how to follow the specification defined by JSON API to provide data to a Backbone application; namely, how to populate collections and models with associated data.
Avoiding cross site request forgery in your web apps
http://markmaunder.com/2007/avoiding-cross-site-request-forgery-in-your-web-apps/
GMail recently fixed a CSRF vulnerability but not before someone lost their domain name to an attacker. A very brief summary of how to avoid the same mistake in your web apps.
Amazon EC2 with Hadoop is 4 times more expensive than running on our own cluster
http://deepvalue.net/ec2-is-380-more-expensive-than-internal-cluster/
Deep Value runs Hadoop at scale on EC2, but we find that running our own cluster is significantly cheaper. By significantly, I mean 3.8 times cheaper.
Room Available @ Palo Alto Hacker House
We have many people working for their start-ups. We have a Stanford student, two facebook employees, a consultant/python developer, an Arc hacker, and a few start-up founders, One of our roommates has left and we've got space for one more hacker. Contact mquatzalcoatl at gmail dot ccm if interested.

Here is more info: http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/go/Hackerhouse
Simon Sinek: How To Talk About Your Weaknesses
http://blog.startwithwhy.com/refocus/2012/04/how-to-talk-about-your-weaknesses.html
Why the answer to “What’s your biggest weakness?” is NOT “My biggest weakness is I’m a perfectionist”
Designer News
https://news.layervault.com/
Like HN for the design community.
A Single Founder: Why Start with Such a Tremendous Handicap?
http://thinkspace.com/a-single-founder-why-start-with-such-a-tremendous-handicap/#
Reasons to have a co-founder rather than be a lone wolf. How to deal with co-founder disagreements and things to think about when writing a bullet proof partnership agreement.
Show HN: No-Code SQL Builder
https://craftsql.com/
Hey everyone!

I built a tool to help you visually build SQL queries - if you write a lot of SQL at work (or help people write it), check it out!

You can try it out without needing to sign up, or integrate with any databases.

Would love all your thoughts!

Link: https://craftsql.com/
Ask HN: What side projects are you building in 2021?
What are some side projects you guys are building this year
Managing CoreOS with Ansible
https://coreos.com/blog/managing-coreos-with-ansible/
CoreOS provides own cloudinit implementation to manage itself.

Recently DigitalOcean introduced CoreOS support as long as it's metadata service. The service allows to set custom user data to provision new droplet.

Unfortunately, user data can't be edited after droplet is created. It reminded me the concept of immutable infrastructure when servers are considered as replaceable resources.

The article in the topic brings Ansible into toolbox for CoreOS cluster management. This approach looks promising.

How do you manage CoreOS machines? Do you use configuration management tools?
Ask HN: What is your biggest pet peeve in your development workflow?
I'm curious as to how the rest of the community feels about development workflow. For me personally, one major painpoint is enforcing coding standards across my team. Thankfully sites like CodeClimate and BitHound popped up to help with that.

What are your pet peeves?
Best Linux distro of 2012
http://tuxradar.com/content/best-linux-distro-2012
Linux format pick their favorite distro from 2012
Show HN: Weekend project - a WebGL Orrery
http://www.solar-system-explorer.com
This was my recent weekend project, aimed at teaching me JavaScript, a bit of HTML5, and (mostly) WebGL. The orbital data are from NASA JPL. I was inspired in part by this Flash app: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/orrery_2011_bce.swf, but wanted to do something in 3D.

Coming from the games-dev world, this is my first introduction to web coding. The UI is jquery. I mostly used http://learningwebgl.com/blog for the 3D stuff. Being WebGL, it will work mostly on Chrome, Firefox 4 Beta. Forget about IE.

I needed to figure out how to render text to the WebGL canvas - I won't say I have the perfect solution, but the general approach is to use a conventional HTML5 canvas, then copy it once per frame into a WebGL texture. There's something funky going on in this process - the textures get corrupted, and resizing the window leads to slowdown.

For the future I'd like to make the planets clickable and zoomable, maybe put in a search box to zoom to objects of interest. I'd like to build it up to a full catalogue of the Solar System - comets, the larger asteroids, dwarf planets - and maybe add the capability to put in known space mission trajectories.
RICON East
http://ricon.io/east.html
A distributed systems conference by and for engineers, developers, scientists and architects
Math for Computer Science
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa13/6.042/courseMaterial/topics/topic1/syllabus/text1/text
Straight from MIT it seems like a complementary course for SICP.
Imdb uses adapted movie quotes for 404 error codes
http://www.imdb.com/:%20the%20prestige
Most of them are very funny. Examples include:

- This is not the wepage you're looking for. (Star Wars)

- Well, what if there is no webpage? There wasn't one today. (Groundhog Day)
Chrome Web Apps
http://techsplurge.com/2400/11-chrome-web-apps/
Chrome Web Store has recently been opened and here's a collection of Best apps for Chrome available in the Chrome Web Store for social networking, photo editing, entertainment, Porductivity and much more
Kickstumbler: elegantly explore random Kickstarter projects
http://kickstumbler.com
Hacked this instead of sleeping.

It lets you stumble through cool Kickstarter projects by category (or across the entire site), or watch a continuous video channel of Kickstarter video intros.

What do you think?
Never pay retail again.
http://www.employeediscounted.com
Employee discounts for all.
Ask HN: How do you politely refuse to disclose previous salary information?
In a recent interview, I was asked both how much I made at my last job and what my living costs were. I know not to respond to these things, but this was on a third interview after the interviewer had previously mentioned a couple times that the employees of this company don't care about how much money they get paid.

I ended up revealing both of these things because I felt like I would seem greedy if I didn't. I know this is irrational, but I couldn't think of a clever or polite way to move past the issue.

Does anyone have any advice for handling this type of situation?
Google Loses Effort to Seal Records in Android Patent Lawsuit With Oracle
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/google-loses-effort-to-seal-records-in-android-patent-lawsuit-with-oracle.html
I find it good practice to hand write, what at the time I deem very important, emails I'm not 100% certain I should send. Sleep on it and then read it the next day. If I still want to send it then I type it up and press Send.
Bill Gates's Secret to Success: Cheating
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Bill_Gates_Secret_to_Success:_Cheating
This will be controversial but there's a good point that Gates benefited tremendously from no one enforcing anti-trust laws. No company should ever get to a 90% market share - that's not good for the public.
Mountain View Hacker House - One room available
The Mountain View Hacker House has a room opening up May 1st. It's a 3 bed/2 bath with living room, full kitchen, and washer/dryer. It's a 9.5'x9.5' room, and it's $711 a month plus utilities.

if you're interested (or know someone interested) please contact jake@noteleaf.com. Thanks!
My HN November app: Quick Brown Frog
I'm getting close to launching my November project:

Quick Brown Frog (http://www.quickbrownfrog.com) is an online typing tutor that runs right in your browser- nothing to download or install, no Flash or other plugins required. Feel free to create yourself an account using this link:

http://www.quickbrownfrog.com/#!createAccount:HN

I'm still working on the lesson content, but most of the moving parts are in place. It's built using GWT and Google App Engine. Despite the recent spate of GAE-related postings here, I've been able to make App Engine work fairly well for my needs and team size (i.e. me). Right now my only remaining pain point is the lack of SSL for non-appspot.com domains. Ugh.

Quick Brown Frog was very much influenced by patio11- consumer-oriented, and born of personal experience. A year ago, I decided to learn to type properly, and tried to download software from the major vendor of typing software. It turned out to be a weird PC/Mac hybrid package, and I had to go hunting for a dated uncompression tool just to open the .sit file.

When I finally got it uncompressed, I found it was years out of date and would not run on my Mac. I ended up having to order a CDROM version from them in order to get the latest software that would run on my system. (Why offer the dated download at all?!)

Thus was my inspiration to create a totally browser-based typing tutor. I'm blogging about the development process at http://quickbrownfrog.wordpress.com.

Feedback greatly appreciated.
Python & MySQLdb - Part 1: The Absolute Basics
http://mikegrouchy.com/python-and-mysqldb-part1-the-absolute-basics/
A great little introduction to using MySQL in Python. Definitely worth a look for those who are interested to see how well it actually works.
Most Painful Toy Hack Ever 
http://www.harcoslabs.com/mostpainful.html
I'm guessing this is the type of stuff you can do with your first round of VC money.
Show HN: Hello – A conversational search engine powered by transformers
https://beta.sayhello.so
Maker here. Hello is part of a research project I'm working on at the University of Texas at Austin. The goal is to reimagine search as a conversation you're having with your best friend, where your questions are answered directly and in detail and you can ask follow-ups in the context of your conversation. There are still some rough edges and our independent index of ~350 million web pages is not yet large enough to answer every question, but we'll give it our best shot!
Show HN: I released an indie racing game (single dev)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1588700/Race_me_now/
It took me 20 months to develop it in my spare time. I used Unity game engine, I did not have any game dev experience before.
It was more complex that I thought at the begining, I spent lots of time on promotion, marketing, founding company, learning about the legal aspects of different parts, for example music.
Some parts were easier than I expected. Unity makes it very easy to build for all three operating systems (Win, MacOs, Linux), I am not sure why more game devs are not using this possibility.
I also like working on Steam as distribution system. It is not exactly easy for a newcomer, but once you know your way around it has many nice features and it is easy to upload your builds.
Let's see how well this game does, I am excited to either improving it or jumping to a new gamedev project :)
IT giants 'ripping off Whitehall', say MPs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14314935
Government departments have been ripped off by a "cartel" of big IT firms, a damning report by a committee of MPs has found.
Sergey Brin has a mutation of the LRRK2 gene.
http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html
"Individually, our genes and experiences are lost in a sea of statistical noise. But, taken together they become a high-power lens on our inner workings."
Full-fat-dairy for cardiovascular health
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/04/full-fat-dairy-for-cardiovascular.html
Interesting study that suggest full fat dairy is actually healthier than low fat alternatives.
Apple has to stop selling iPhones/iPads in Germany (German source)
http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/urteil-motorola-kann-verkauf-von-iphone-und-ipad-in-deutschland-stoppen
It seems that today a German court ruled in favor of Motorola and ordered Apple to stop selling iPhones and iPads on the German market.It relates to a patent for GPRS protocol packets, apparently.
Show HN: MockMechanics is now open source
https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics
Hey guys, a couple of years ago I posted about MockMechanics, a visual programming language/sandbox building game that I've been working on and there was a very positive response [0]. Since then I've been implementing most of the things I promised in my first youtube video [1] and making it ready for an open source release and I'm happy to say it's ready [2]. I've also been building new things and showing them in the youtube channel. It's written in clojure and you can use it to create all sorts of machines, games, musical instruments, etc using little to no code at all. You've seen the piano, the tetris game, the clock the combination safe and so on but since then I've built a 3d printer, a robotic hand, a bubble sorting algorithm, a 7 segment display, a ball cannon, a paint program and more, you can see all these things in the youtube channel [3].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934722

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwxbQj5mj0

[2] https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/MockMechanics

Channel trailer with some of the new machines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiA42ReNYE
The Least Boring Programming Book: Chapter 1 (excerpt)
http://blog.ethanjfast.com/2012/01/the-least-boring-programming-book-chapter-1-excerpt/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/145900/lbpb.pdf
Why bryce is a really leaving Angel List 
http://calacanis.com/2011/02/26/my-response-to-bryce-crying-about-anglelist/
Breaking: tiny VC who can't compete with big VCs or price-insensitive angels leaves playground with ball.
Show HN: Encycla – like GitHub for knowledge
https://encycla.com/
Hi HN! There's been lots of note-taking / personal knowledge tools developed in the past few years. But there's a big difference between working with people you already know and collaborating with anyone on the internet.

Right now, if you're interested in, say DIY air purifiers[1], you could throw up a document or webpage. But there's no good way for people you don't already know to work on it, to make it their own. If you're writing software, the answer is obvious: publish a Git repository on GitHub/GitLab.

With Encycla, we're building a sort of "GitHub for knowledge": a place where you can create simple, topical webpages that others can fork and asynchronously push & pull changes from (without knowing about Git or anything technical).

On the backend, every page on Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services (such as GitHub, GitLab), etc.

For instance, here's a page on Encycla:

https://encycla.com/KF94

and the underlying git repository pushed to GitHub:

https://github.com/philipn/KF94

1. https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube
The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Conversation With Steve Jobs
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/the-30-year-old-macintosh-and-a-lost-conversation-with-steve-jobs/
To celebrate the 30 year anniversary or the Mac, Steven Levy released an unseen and raw interview with Steve Jobs.
Show HN: Google Drive to SQLite
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/20/google-drive-to-sqlite/
Here's the repo: https://github.com/simonw/google-drive-to-sqlite

The README is using a trick I'm increasingly leaning on: parts of that document - the --help output and the example database schema - are automatically generated using Cog: https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog and https://til.simonwillison.net/python/cog-to-update-help-in-r...
OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138972987203440&w=2
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
and
http://openbsd.org/want.html
Show HN: GitHop
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/githop/
History widget that focuses only on github links.

Useful to have it somewhere in the toolbar to go to repos quickly.

Most recently-visited urls go to the top.

Can be filtered. And navigated with arrow keys.

https://i.imgur.com/pokaRck.jpg
50 mb Linux livecd distro with a XUL interface and 10 second boot
http://www.xpud.org/
The April release of xpud brings a re-designed interface, called 'Plate', based on XUL and moblin patches integrated with the 2.6.28 kernel.
The distro is built off a build system that repackages Ubuntu debs.
iMessage from Terminal
https://github.com/chrisfsampaio/imsg
Tired of getting off your terminal screen to answer that dickheads friends of yours?
Now you can curse them right on the terminal!
Show HN: My weekend project (split screen surfing)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeafbnpnnbfjkngleojanpckkjhkdkdj
I wanted to surf the 'net with my girlfriend, so I built this.
Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart
http://mgalligan.com/post/31528271799/att-sprint-verizon-iphone-5-comparison-chart
Here’s a comparison chart I made to compare the different reasons to choose AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon as your carrier for the iPhone 5.
How glow.mozilla.org gets its data
http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2011/03/22/how-glow-mozilla-org-gets-its-data/
http://glow.mozilla.org/
Ask HN: How Would You Architect Around Potential AWS Failures?
With the AWS outages over the last few days, I've been wondering how you would set up a system using only AWS services that would be resistant to multi-availability zone outages across multiple services within a geographical region. Assume that the system that we are setting up is an API that will have heavy read/write traffic with a significant number of users, and that the startup running it is on a typical shoestring budget that makes AWS attractive.

What got a lot of startups in trouble was architecting systems that were fault-tolerant across availability zones within the US-East region, but when one availability zone went down, everybody's apps started flooding the other availability zones, causing more problems. A typical setup might have been an Elastic Load Balancer with EC2 instances in a few availability zones (with the ability to create new instances in other availability zones in response to outages), multi-AZ RDS database servers, and S3 backups to multiple AZ's.

What I'm looking for is ideas for taking this setup and expanding it to multiple geographical regions, using only AWS services. Would you have multiple stacks and use Route 53 DNS to route users to different regions? How would you keep databases in sync across regions? Would you use one region as a primary and periodically back up to
Show HN: A small, weird and unpractical programming language
https://github.com/japiirainen/fp
I've been spending some time coding fp. It is a programming language heavily inspired by the language John Backus described in his 1977 Turing Award lecture.
There's plenty of examples in the projects github repository for the interested!
Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/flickr-has-the-opportunity-to-become-the-next-flickr/
We don’t need another Web site or service to see pictures of someone’s lunch or their soy latte, or another teenager making a duck face.
Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox
https://servus.io
I've built a thing! A few months back someone (not me) posted my Mac app Droplings to HN. It was incredibly rough around the edges back then, and in alpha.

Well, it's finished now and sparkles like crazy. Please take a look! :)
Mailbox iOS app is a security fail
http://subhb.org/2013/04/24/mailbox-ios-app-is-a-security-fail/
Mailbox iOS app is not even using file protection API that iOS SDK provides by default.
The F.A.A. says it will take a “fresh look” at the use of iPads on planes.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/disruptions-time-to-review-f-a-a-policy-on-gadgets/
Likely bowing to public pressure, the F.A.A. has agreed to take a fresh look at the use of e-readers and iPads on planes during taxi, takeoff and landing.
YC W2011 Social Music Startup Seeking Co-founder
I'm currently a single founder (technical) of a Winter 2011 YC company looking for another technical founder to be CTO. I’ve built and designed the site from scratch and am looking for someone to accelerate development.

The company is a consumer-oriented social music website that has the potential (and goal) to become a household name. Current competitors are quite large and famous (and also stagnant) and the goal is to surpass them. Music is very popular—almost everyone does it—so it has huge adoption potential. We don't have to worry about being sued or manipulated by record labels because we don't touch their music (or else YC wouldn't have invested).

Currently the site has enough early traction that new features will be used immediately, and if anything goes down you'll get a bunch of emails. You’ll also occasionally get emails from people telling you how they absolutely love feature X.

You'll get to analyze and make sense of large data sets as well as build user interfaces and hack third party stuff to bend to our will. Stuff like machine learning should pique your interest!

Email asocialmusicstartup@gmail.com if you’re interested!
Joel Spolsky: Lunch
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/04/28.html
Joel has a new post up on Joel on Software talking about his take on lunch and why its important for companies to think about it.