jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
New OOP JS framework: Methadone
https://github.com/benchmark-solutions/methadone
My company, Benchmark Solutions, just released our first open-source project. It's a JS framework for managing runtime dependencies that allows Ruby-like "mixin" modules as well as class hierarchies.

We developed it to help us manage a non-trivial amount of client-side javascript that's handling realtime financial data.
Show HN: Airdash – Send files to any device
https://airdash-project.web.app
Created a free and open source file sharing app.

https://github.com/simonbengtsson/airdash
What to do when you're hungry at work?
http://snackandmunch.com/
Dudes and dudets,

We just launched snackandmunch.com, we're trying to make it easier for people to snack at work. You can order your fully customized snackpack with FREE shipping.

Use the code 2BUCKS to get a discount on your first order!

Ammar
Expect Nothing, Earn Everything
http://reecepacheco.com/post/7650466555/expect-nothing-earn-everything
Great thoughts from a Co-Founder and focused entrepreneur.
The Tourette Programming Language
http://www.drewing.de/blog/2013/07/13/the-tourette-programming-language/
Hm .. maybe this could be implemented based on Perl ...
Open Source in Enterprise
http://workforpizza.com/posts/open-source-in-enterprise/
Sorry for just barfing this one out. I'm most curious about whether distinctions are made between back-end code and front end code. What type of org do you manage or work in and what are/are there policies?
A Web Phone Called ooma
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2007/tc20070718_689941.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5
Business Week telecom reporter Olga Kharif writes today about a new VoIP startup called "ooma." (Yet another example of lousy brand names due to cybersquatters).
Clickochet: A (free) Ad trading community
http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-clickochet-free-ad-trading.html
This is Paul, the guy behind Mailinator.

I'm launching a new (free) Ad Trading system today. Read the backstory on the link above or check out the site at http://www.clickochet.com
Touch Screen BlackBerry to Take on the iPhone in 2008?
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/rim_touch_screen_blackberry_9000_coming_in_08
This blog post includes an image and technical specifications for what could be the first touch screen BlackBerry from Research In Motion (RIM).
Programming Languages and Cognitive Dissonance
http://lmeyerov.blogspot.com/2007/12/programming-languages-and-cognitive.html
What more axes are there?
Ask HN: Remote/rural USA high-speed Internet options?
My wife and I are looking around for rural property to spend some quality time together on, cabin-in-the-woods style. We're not looking to disconnect completely, it would be nice to get away for a few months but still be able to do some remote work (me software, her telemedicine).

Cellular is mostly unavailable in the places we're looking, do other options exist? Satellite? Custom wireless repeaters off nearby hills? Anyone have any experience with this kind of stuff?
VPS Providers for Web Developers
http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/top-vps-providers/
Web developers need somewhere to host their projects, and when looking for hosting, there are several options.
JavaScript Push API 2.0 Upgraded
http://www.pubnub.com/blog/javascript-push-api-2.0-upgraded
JavaScript Push API 2.0 is faster, simplified and answers top requests including the most requested unsubscribe function.
US Presidential Election Precinct Level Results Database
We at DoltHub ran a $25,000 contest to produce a US Presidential Election precinct level results Database.

https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/us-president-precinct-results

The contest ended yesterday. We think it's the best open database on the internet about this topic so we thought we'd share it with HackerNews.

Check out the full blog entry about it here:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-02-15-election-bounty-review/
Don't outsource, distribute
http://www.startersquad.com/blog/work-distribution-sweet-spot
A strategy for effective collaboration within distributed teams.
For anyone that missed this amazing talk of Linus on git
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Git-and-Linus-431001
Git is another incredible success of Linus. This is an old video of Linus talking about git at google
Ask HN: Help needed for medical assistance in dying
I hope you're all managing through the pandemic. Any help would be sincerely appreciated with the following.

My situation isn't pleasant. I'm having a difficult time ending my life. I live in Montreal, Quebec. Here in Canada, it's legal to end one's life by suicide and by a physician when the patient satisfies legal criteria for medical assistance in dying.

Last year I was diagnosed with cancer. I also have another illness but incurable that makes my life intolerable. I'm refusing treatment for the cancer "besides pain medication" because of my preexisting medical condition. I'm doing well emotionally with coping and I've been starting to end contacts with friends in preparation for dying.

From the very start of the cancer diagnosis, I've been requesting medical assistance in dying by speaking with my Oncologist and the request to him isn't being processed. The hospital's complaint commissioner isn't helping as well. I'm spoken to a few lawyers "that I cannot afford" and they've confirmed I do qualify for medical assistance in dying but the problem is a doctor can refuse for personal reasons. So, when I go to other Hospitals, ERs, walk-ins, I'm told "speak with your oncologist" while they're ignoring my explanation of why that's not helpful. They also refuse to let me request on a form for medical assistance in dying. I'm told they don't do that here.

I'm starting to get to my wits end and planning a suicide instead in the near future. I really wish I could have my death done by a physician but it seems like my age with how the cancer is currently considered treatable by surgery is making nobody want to help me until the cancer has spread everywhere. I've been told by my Oncologist that without treatment I'm looking at less than a year for life expectancy. Again, any help/advice/opinions I'm grateful to read.
Unspoken truth about managing geeks
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyId=14&pageNumber=1
This will probably elicit a lot of both positive and negative reactions but I thought it was a good read. The best quote has got to be "Good IT pros are not anti-bureaucracy, as many observers think. They are anti-stupidity." Preach on bother.
Getting Funded: Step 3, The Partner Meeting
http://blog.thansys.com/2011/07/14/getting-funded-step-3-the-partner-meeting/
Part 4 of the "Getting Funded" series
Create a Mobile Site in 5 Minutes
http://mobstac.com/b
MobStac makes it dead simple for long-tail publishers and bloggers to create mobile sites helping them reach their audience over mobile browsers across a wide-range of devices.
Ofmlabs codecs: A suite of JavaScript audio codecs
http://codecs.ofmlabs.org/
Javascript decoding of both apple lossless and mp3 audio!
Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring?
I'm guessing someone's done it already, but if not, I might build it. Essentially, I'm looking for a way to receive an e-mail alert whenever a specific term comes up on Twitter. I know one way to do this is to set an RSS feed off of search.twitter.com, but that still requires my checking an RSS feed ... I'd like something that automatically comes to me in my e-mail inbox. (I guess I could set up an RSS-to-e-mail forwarding service to do this, but this seems like a fair amount of overhead for what should be a simple operation.)

So ... anybody have a link to a service that does this?
When should you listen to customer feedback?
http://andrewgaleis.com/customer-feedback-how-to-integrate-it-with-your-product/
Just felt like writing about it, sometimes listening to feedback is the wrong move.
Show HN: Python extensions for sioyek PDF viewer
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-python-extensions
Recently, I release version 1.5 of sioyek PDF viewer which introduces extensions. This is a repository of some useful python extensions that I have developed so far. I would say the most useful one is the one that can download a paper and open it in sioyek just by control+clicking on the paper's name.
No Taxes for Startups in NY initiative
http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/06192013-start-up-ny-legislation-tax-free-initiative
Startup Program in NY => No taxes (employee income, business, sales) for 10 years
Ask HN: What is your experience of collaborating with doctors on IT projects?
I’m a doctor in Victoria, Australia, beginning collaborations with the IT department in our hospital. I want to know more about the experience of software engineers / sysadmins / specialists working with doctors, and what pitfalls I can try to avoid.
Ask HN: Is XBox One slower then XBox 360?
From what I've read in the specs, XBox one is going to have 8-core 1.6Ghz processor while XBox 360 has a 3-core 3.2Ghz processor.
Considering Amdahl's law, 10GHz on 3 cores should be much faster than 12ghz on 8 cores.

Is there something I'm missing here? Has the gaming industry overcome the hurdles of parallel execution?
Predictive page preload - prerender.js
http://grahamholborn.com/prerender.js
prerender.js is a script that predicts and preloads the next page when the shortly before the user goes to the page. This will make the time between loading your pages seem shorter. It is built with a prerender function and a prefetch function for other browsers. The prerender functionality is in a trial period with google chrome but, although it is auto enabled on most recent versions of chrome.

a demo of it in action here http://grahamholborn.com/
On the demo if you click before 600ms has elapsed hovering over the link there will be no effect.

Works best with chrome because other browsers function differently.
15-Year-Old's App Turns iPad Into A Windows-like OS
http://www.informationweek.com/byte/news/personal-tech/232901336
Also check out his github:
https://github.com/pedrofranceschi

Not bad...
Show HN: Fundamental Engineering Principles Guide
I've just published a guide on fundamental engineering principles. It discusses common expectations from an engineer of any field. If you want to check it out:

* YouTube (video with narrative + examples): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlfcNzTqrg

* Article: https://quanticdev.com/articles/engineering-principles

* Article source: https://github.com/soygul/QuanticDev/blob/master/articles/engineering-principles.md

Outline of the video & article:
1. Communication
2. Collaboration
3. Analytical Thinking
4. Organization
5. Engineering Excellence
6. Money Management
7. Commitment
8. Leadership and Independence
9. Confidence

Hope this helps fellow engineers of all disciplines. All feedback is welcome.
Show HN: A Better Queue - Netflix/Rotten Tomatoes mashup
http://abetterqueue.com/
A Better Queue let's you filter and browse Netflix instant movies by Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. Set your own threshold for quality via consensus of the critics. You also filter by years and genres. Simple.

Why this was made:

First, I love Netflix.

Second, I want to help you stop wading through shitty movies in order to get to the good stuff.

I want to help you find good movies faster.
How do you assess someone's Github profile?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/82973/how-would-you-assess-a-programmers-github-profile
From programmers.stackexchange.com:

"Lots of people in the open source community say they strongly consider a candidate's Github profile when hiring.

I'm active on Github, with a few projects of my own and some contributions to others. But looking at my own profile as if I were an employer, I see a lot of noise: projects I cloned but never contributed to, etc. The projects and patches I'm proud of don't stand out.

If you assess people's Github profiles, how do you do it? And as a developer, should I do anything differently - for example, delete cloned repos I'm not actively working on?"
Henry Blodget says Facebook is overhyped
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-whoops-now-facebook-is-once-again-overhyped-2010-4
Thoughts?
Async. & Realtime Geo Applications with Node.js (video)
http://fosslc.org/drupal/content/tutorial-async-and-realtime-geo-applications-nodejs
Video of our "Async. & Realtime Geo Applications with Node.js" talk from foss4g 2011 in Denver.
Maybe, I'm not sure.
Ask HN: Question about .io domains
Hi all,

I've got that "idea of the week" that has me going right now. It's one of those ideas where everything is adding up and I'm about to just go all in, lol. A ".io" domain would fit perfectly, too. The domain I want is available but costs $99/mo. Also, it doesn't look like any of my usual registrars offer .io domains. I know to avoid 101domains - they're terrible I've heard. I even tried registering a domain with them right when .co's came out and it took a week to hear a response from them and when I did the response was that they were unable to reserve my domain.

So, does anyone know a reliable place to purchase a .io domain name?

Thank you!
World cup on terminal
https://github.com/ShivrajRath/Fifa-world-cup-2014-Node-Command-Line-Utility
I created this simple npm command line tool to post latest scores and schedule from Fifa world cup 2014. It's based on world cup...in JSON http://worldcup.sfg.io/
Google Gadget Ventures?
http://www.jasonball.com/techbytes/2007/07/google-gadget-v.html
It appears that Google is going head to head with seed investors (like Y combinator) with its Google Gadget Ventures:
How to implement a “webapp offline”
I need to implement a "webapp offline" CRUD.
When there is internet available, the registration will be synchronized.
Is there any guide, book, tutorial, how to do?

One might me of some practical tips, the types of problems and limitations that I find?

I'm behind mainly of practical knowledge.

obs: To mobile.
GigaOm one of the sites interested in tracking you at all costs
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/08/tracking-lawsuit/
Not sure what they have said about user privacy till now. But I am nearly certain it is time for them to eat their words.
Top 5 Things After Launching Tumblr Blog
http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/2178282519/top-5-things-to-do-after-launching-a-tumblr-blog
Things I wish I knew when I started working with Tumblr.
Google Play (Android App Store) does not work at all unless you enable Equifax
https://twitter.com/php_austin/status/349751588090421250
I'm using ICS. Go and disable the certificates yourself and see if you can confirm it.
How Risky is it to Join a Startup?
http://www.blist.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/12/how-risky-is-it-to-join-a-startup/
One of the most important jobs of a founding entrepreneur is building the team with incredibly talented individuals. An interesting concern for the candidate considering joining a startup is the perception of risk.
How the Mighty Fall? Yahoo's Embarrassing Web Errors
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2204577,00.asp?kc=CIOMINUTE102407CIO1
Maybe I'm behind the times, but I still think of Yahoo as one of the Web's great success stories. And, until recently, I also thought of it as setting the standard in Web site operations.
The paint that lets you draw electric circuits
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10648/paintable-interactivity-drawing-electric-circuits/
We sat down with Bare Conductive co-founder Matt Johnson to find out just how their electrically conductive paint works.

"You can imagine having the ability to interact with a computer through a piece of paper just by touching it."

http://bit.ly/Yb88eU
The silversmiths who restore the FA Cup
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10615/the-silversmiths-who-restore-the-fa-cup/
We visit one of the last traditional English silversmiths, Thomas Lyte. As well as restoring the silverware of many Royal Households, what they are really known for is designing, making and restoring famous sporting trophies including The FA Cup.

"Most of the silversmiths are from my generation, the wrong side of 50. If it carries on this way the craftsmen won’t be there in the future."

http://bit.ly/Y0ArN9
Ask HN: Why was Atom (text editor) written in JavaScript?
As a programmer, before starting a project, the first thing I consider is which tool is the best fit for the job.

If it requires a lot of concurrency, or if the time is limited, or if needs to be used on different kinds of environments. Depending on those, I pick my toolset.

Atom, on the other side is actually confuses me these days, since it is a text editor to deal with thousands of lines constantly, and requires to provide both fluent experience to user and to be fast.

I am using Sublime Text and really happy to pay for the licence. Because in return I am getting a wonderful experience.

I really wanted to love Atom because it was open source, but the experience so far was unfortunately not good at all for me.

What was the reason for Atom developers to go with web based technologies while we know that performance is not yet great with them?

Is it that Javascript has really promising roadmap for upcoming years or was it something else?
Show HN: Find travel destinations that fit your budget
https://tralcu.stefannemeth.com/
It's still a MVP. I'd love to continue working on it, adding better filters, more locations and better data :)
Why Facebook, Twitter, and 2,000 others haven’t cracked social commerce yet
http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/05/5-reasons-why-facebook-twitter-and-2000-others-havent-cracked-social-commerce-yet/
There are over 2,000 startups on AngelList that are categorized as “social commerce.” That’s equivalent to every Stanford MBA over the last 5 years starting a brand new social commerce company.
A Simple Strategy for Start-Ups to Kick Fortune-500-Butt
http://www.baymard.com/articles/a-simple-marketing-strategy/
"Would you like to outsell your worst competitors and build a life-long relationship with your customers?"
A marketing article for entrepreneurs and start-ups explaining niching with text, video and examples.
Show HN: Moongarlic – understand how much money you make
https://www.moongarlic.com/
Hi,

I'm hoping to get some feedback on a tool I'm working on that helps people understand compensation packages that include equity, which are often confusing. After you enter the details of your package, it will create a graph and table breaking down your annual compensation in $$$. You can also compare your existing compensation to a new job offer. The tool is free and your data isn't saved unless you sign in.

What do you think? Is something like this useful?
1-2 projects that I work on daily
2-5 projects that I rarely work on (but haven't decided to abandon)
Appliance building with pfSense - Introducing pfDNS
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=244
While reworking the builder system for a commercial client that is
basing their appliance on pfSense we needed a builder target that
could be public and show how to build an appliance from scratch.
The best feedback you’ll ever get about your business. Free.
http://cycle7.com/draft/2010/06/07/the-best-feedback-youll-ever-get-about-your-business-free/
When you’re behind a business, or simply inside it, it’s easy to lose sight of some aspects of that business. You start to see things differently, and can’t necessarily view them the same way as your customers, especially your first time customers. Lucky for you, the best feedback you can get it free, easily accessible, and available immediately.
Using defence in depth to produce high-quality software
http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/07/09/using-defence-in-depth-to-produce-high-quality-software/
Applying a military strategy to bug-handling! 12 layers of defense that help to reduce problems your users experience.
Most of what we know about coronavirus will change [es]
According to this article, most of what has been published about coronavirus hasn't been peer reviewed.
https://m.eldiario.es/sociedad/Paciencia-leas-coronavirus-va-cambiar_0_1008249584.html
Asana is Google Wave done right
http://asana.com/2011/02/asana-demo-vision-talk/
* Bottom up driven.
* Value with 1 user, no catch 22.
* Focused target section for now.
* Expandable use cases, by users, developers
* Awesome todo list and a visualizer.

Seems awesome.
Startups: Managing the Company & Marketing
http://blog.bryanstarbuck.com/2008/12/talk-at-seattle.html
'10x' is a theory for vetting a startup's business model. This also includes how marketing should be factored into a business model for a startup company.
RedLaser updated for iOS 7
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/redlaser-barcode-scanner-shopping/id474902001?mt=8
RedLaser has been updated for iOS 7. Beyond just design, the entire app was re-architected from the ground up.
Z-410 Storage: commercial ZFS for OSX (by Don Brady, former Sr. Apple engineer)
http://z410.tenscomplement.com/
From the OSX Server mailing list:
<p>Don Brady, former senior Apple engineer has started a company to bring what appears to be a commercially supported version of ZFS to OS X.<p>Ten's Complement: http://info.tenscomplement.com/<p>Details are sparse, but they have a twitter feed and email newsletter. When I signed up I got a invitation to join the beta program.<p>From his twitter (http://twitter.com/tenscomplement)<p>http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2011/Mar/msg00194.html
Ask HN: What percent of PRs on your project has “fix” in the title?
I'm working on a project for a few years and we just noticed that 15% of our pull requests have "fix" in the title. That made me wonder, what's the number on other project. Would you mind checking? You can find pull requests with "fix" in the title on GitHub with "is:pr is:closed fix in:title".
Steve Jobs NeXT presentation, 1990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07Xjom_GQA&feature=related
Steve Jobs introduces four new NeXT products at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, including "some of the neatest apps that have ever been created for any desktop platform" and "the best color that's ever been," "the most important new application area in the 1990s...interpersonal computing." September 18, 1990
Ask HN: Who’s Looking for Contributors
This thread can help people like me connect with people who are working on open sources and need contributors.

You can talk about the project and tech stack
nessDB:a very fast key/value storage engine 1.8-rc1 released
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/nessdb/ueNELAWw_Vg
Hey,
nessDB is a very fast key-value,embedded Database Storage Engine (Using log-structured-merge (LSM) trees) with Level-LRU, Bloom-Filter,and supports Redis-Protocol(PING,SET,MSET,GET,MGET,DEL,EXISTS,INFO,SHUTDOWN).

This version, there is a big performance improving, using LSM-Tree. All the magic is in the codes, you can go through it here:https://github.com/shuttler/nessDB

1.8-rc1 key features:
a) Better performances on Random-Read/Random-Write
b) Log recovery
c) Using LSM-Tree as storage engine
d) Background detached-thread merging
e) Level LRU
f) Support billion data

BohuTANG
Show HN: Every Criterion Collection film available on Netflix streaming
http://www.streamingcriterions.com/
For people who want to watch great movies, Criterion is probably the best curated list of films. Makes a nice foil to the similar list of IMDB top 250 Netflix movies that was posted a few days ago.

A quick project. I once went through and did this same list by hand, but the data changes pretty constantly, so I opted to use the Netflix OData API for heavy lifting.
One country, two revolutions - Thomas friedman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-one-country-two-revolutions.html
" And if one result of the downsizing of Wall Street is that more of America’s best and brightest math and physics students decide to go into science and real engineering rather than financial engineering, the country will be a whole lot better off." - Thomas Friedman
Flask-Enterprise
http://massive.immersedcode.org/2011/staging/projects/default/python/flask-enterprise/
[hint: hmm I wonder what day is coming up?]

[another hint: find out how Flask got started or just watch this : http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878916 ]