jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Experimental node based web audio sequencer
http://nodation.herokuapp.com
More info: http://treesmovethemost.com/2014-02-19-nodation
Source code: https://github.com/szymonkaliski/nodation
Ask HN: Career Fair Presentation about Software Engineering
On Friday I will give a presentation about Software Engineering at a career fair at an international school in Vienna. The attending students will be between 12 and 18 years old and I will have 30 minutes time (including Q&A).

I'm planning to show some of my projects (mobile and web apps) but also give a broad view of what they could work on after studying computer science.

What would you talk about or make sure to mention?
Internet tv stream
http://www.intvlive.com/
favourite musician or politician. IntvLive.com’s viewers can watch specific broadcasts, explore our networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics to discover a Intvlive.com is one among the fastest growing Media and Entertainment web channel. Globally we have 280 journalists working for us both in electronic and print media. We play a very important role for current news in the Internet space. With IntvLive.com's interactive broadcast functionality, viewers can personally interact directly - including personalities like their world of interesting new broadcasts, or review our past broadcasts. http://www.intvlive.com/
Facebook Graph Search and Online Dating
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-cant-replace-online-dating-2013-4
FB Graph Search has been called an online dating killer. TC ran an April Fools joke saying FB was buying BangwithFriends. Here's commentary from the founders of okCupid, HowAboutWe & others.
Microsoft announces biggest ever job cuts, 18,000
http://theverge.com/2014/7/17/5911785/microsoft-job-cuts-2014
Original announcement:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/jul14/07-17announcement1.aspx

tl,dr;: -12500 ex-Nokians, -5500 ex-Microsofties.
Three Lessons Apple's Competitors Have Yet To Learn
http://www.techi.com/2010/09/three-lessons-apples-competitors-are-yet-to-learn/
Though the technology world is admittedly a bit obsessed with Apple, it’s hard to blame them.

After all, the Cupertino-based company wouldn’t inspire so much chatter if their products and services were merely ordinary or everyday. Apple seem to have a knack for creating things – both technology and services – that provoke discussion.
What VC's Like and Don’t Like to See when Doing University Spinoffs 
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2009/12/what-venture-capitalists-like-and-dont-like-to-see-when-doing-university-spinoffs.html
venture investors from very reputable firms weighed-in candidly on both what they like to see and what they don’t like to see when they try to spin-out companies from university tech transfer offices.
DEFCON 19: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4sb-SEpcg
Very instructive talk on what's wrong with SSL and how little understanding of it have the issuing authorities.
How to Implement a Tree in Ember.js
http://billysbilling.com/blog/How-to-implement-a-tree-in-Ember-js
Representing data structures such as trees is really simple with Ember.js. I'll show you how to do it in about 50 lines of code. We will use the experimental {{control}} Handlebars helper.
Workers Bombarded With Phone Calls and E-Mails Suffer A Greater Loss In IQ Than Marijuana Users
http://www.techdo.com/marijuana-is-less-dangerous-than-email/
is Marijuana is less dangerous than Email ?
Sbrows , the funny way to search the internet
http://www.sbrows.com
sbroWs provide a useful and funny way to search the internet showing the real content of resulting websites.
Ask HN: The Problem with Apple's “Decline in Quality”
This is a great article: http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground

I have been an Apple user since the early 1980s. I would consider myself an advanced user. I am a Web
Applications Developer who pushes his OS and computer pretty hard.

I have heard quite a lot lately about the decline of Apple's software quality. Marco's piece linked above is a good read and he is not alone in claiming Apple's quality is declining. There is one thing that really confuses me about all this:

I can't see anything wrong.

I'm running the latest OSX and iOS, use multiple Apple apps (Calendar, Pages, Keynote, iPhone, etc. I don't use Mail however) as well as various other third-party apps. I store data on iCloud. Despite using my computer 8 hours a day every day, I really can't see any of these various issues people talk about.

I have a feeling for every person who experiences a particular bug, there are millions who don't experience that bug.

While people may look back at Apple from 10 years ago and say the quality was much better then, Apple of today is doing much more advance things.

I do agree that Apple needs to use their rapid release cycle to fix bugs, not push out new features which may not be fully ready.

What are your thoughts?
Redesigning ios7
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/14/i-think-we-can-all-agree-this-is-better-than-apples-ios-7-redesign-right/
I don't think its any much better
Show HN: Draw Block Diagrams with Ease
https://blockdiagram.herokuapp.com/
Introducing a webApp which allows you to create block diagrams with text and have control over the blocks/arrows positions without drag and drop.
Examples : https://blockdiagram.herokuapp.com/examples
Show HN: Make Your Discord Google-Indexed Documentation – Answer Overflow
https://www.answeroverflow.com/
Hi! I'm Rhys, the developer of Answer Overflow - a site that is meant to improve & index the help channels of Discord servers on the web.

The problem is that communities using Discord for their support don't have any of their content indexed on the web, so when someone Googles a question that has been solved in that Discord server, it won't appear in search results

The goal of Answer Overflow is to get all of that content indexed on the web, while also respecting the privacy of the people in the server and complying with the terms of service. It's quick to setup and only takes about 5 minutes, and should work with however your community has it's help channels setup already.

To publicly display messages, Discord's ToS says that applications using their APIs require user consent so Answer Overflow has tools built out to drive getting user consent. Otherwise if they haven't stated they want their messages to be public, then they can only be shown if the users share the server.

Along with displaying messages, Answer Overflow also works to improve the way that people ask questions by allowing them to mark their question as solved, so the members of your community know what questions need attention at a glance.

The goal of this project is to build powerful tools for communities on Discord to use to manage their help channels

Here's an example of a result page coming up in Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=InventoryGUI+RedLib+errors+f...

Here's a community page on Answer Overflow:
https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/848055320928583710

Next up is providing these communities with analytics on how their community is doing with answered / unanswered questions, and also statistics on how effective Answer Overflow is for getting traffic to their projects

After that is repeat question detection and whatever else is requested from server owners / users!
Are you ready to touch, feel and smell an image?
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/15478/engineering-touch-feel-and-smell-of-an-image/
It seems then that touch is beginning to play just as important a part in our interactions with digital technology as sight and sound. The next logical step is to incorporate our sense of smell and taste. If that can be accomplished, it might make it impossible to tell the difference between the real and virtual worlds, which is a frightening thought.
Show HN: I made myself a HN site in English and Chinese, so I can read more HN
https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/
It is a single static html page, I also provide jsonfeed[0] and rss[1], and I incidentally support Traditional Chinese[2], Japanese[3], and English only[4], but I don't think I currently have English users or Japanese users.

I tried to get `og:image` at the same time as getting hacker news' post to display the image, and I used deepl's API for translation.

If you happen to need this, feel free to use it!

There are more hn topic subsite like Show HN[5], Ask HN[6], Best HN [7], HN Front[8] etc.

[0]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.json

[1]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.xml

[2]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/zh-Hant/

[3]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/ja/

[4]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/en/

[5]: https://showhn.buzzing.cc/

[6]: https://askhn.buzzing.cc/

[7]: https://hn.buzzing.cc/

[8]: https://hnfront.buzzing.cc/
Alternative Way to Organize Your Download Directory
https://github.com/wayfare/InvisibleHand-OSX
Still needs polishing but I would like some comments on it.
Is there a negative impact of A/B testing on SEO?
http://www.dynamicyield.com/2014/05/impact-of-ab-testing-on-seo/
There are a few common misconceptions that revolve around the possible negative impact of A/B tests on SEO. The truth is that Google is encouraging site owners to conduct constructive testing.

What do you think? Do you take any SEO precautions when A/B testing?
H1-B Visa holder can now get Canadian PR under fast-track program
http://www.canadavisa.com/alberta-provincial-nominee-program.html
The province of Alberta, with its booming economy and expanding cities, has been working to make it as easy as possible to bring in foreign workers to contribute to the provincial labour force. The Strategic Recruitment Stream, a new pilot project by the Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) can fast-track the issuance of Canada Permanent Resident visas to people who are in the United States on temporary work visas. No job offer required.

Many Canadian Permanent Resident applicants have previously worked in the United States on temporary work visas (H1B visas*). It is a fairly common path. Canada is much more open than the United States to the transition of temporary workers into Permanent Residents; so when U.S. work visas expire, many workers head north to Canada for Permanent Residency.

Source: http://www.canadavisa.com/in-the-us-on-an-h1b-Alberta-pnp-has-a-new-option-for-you.html
PixelCraft: A Pixel Art Editor
PixelCraft is pixel Art & Animation Creation Tool Built using HTML5 Canvas. It is a Progressive Web App (PWA) with offline compatibility. It is mobile-friendly and is very easy to use.
60Second Interview with Founder of 12Seconds.tv
http://blog.tippingpointlabs.com/2009/03/creating-valuable-content-60-second-interview-with-sol-lipman-founder-of-12secondstv/
Using 12Seconds.tv for an interview.
List Of All Countries In All Languages & All Data Formats
http://dev.umpirsky.com/list-of-all-countries-in-all-languages-and-all-data-formats/
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/list-of-all-countries-in-all-languages.html

Very comprehensive list of countries, definitely useful and to one to bookmark.

Some of the data formats available are: Text, JSON, YAML, XML, HTML (Select, Flags), CSV, SQL, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server.

I like the fact that you can also export to any other format by using the Exporter.
Stimulus bill put ~ 8 GW of geothermal on US grid
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/01/stimulus-bill-has-put-almost-8-gw-of-geothermal-energy-on-us-grid/
Even if GOP takes over again, that will be there forever now, pretty much at fossil fuel prices per kwh - under 5 cents - once capital investment paid. Alameda next to Oakland has long had lower electric rates than PG&E because it gets so much geothermal power from the Geysers, from a contract signed in the 20s.
Real time virtual ball pit
http://methodart.blogspot.com/2008/06/virtual-ball-pit-from-kevin-atkinson-on.html
Here's some other projects he's worked on as well:

Real time video time shifting: http://methodart.blogspot.com/2007/09/been-too-busy-to-post-for-while-but.html

Image warping: http://methodart.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-had-this-idea-long-time-ago-finally.html

Smoke effect?: http://methodart.blogspot.com/2007/09/some-fun-with-messrs.html

2D wave effect warping real time video: http://methodart.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-work-with-video-as-well-as-still.html
Show HN: Docker for Ghost
https://github.com/livebytes/docker-ghost
Hi everyone, I made a Docker for Ghost (www.ghost.org), wanted to share that with everyone as a first contribution!
100 Days of Growth
http://www.100daysofgrowth.com/?_ga=1.239008452.555442601.1430085784
Very much considering getting this for my start-up anyone read it and have results?
Should you use MAC addresses instead of UDIDs to identify the device?
http://blog.privacychoice.org/2011/10/28/developer-alert-should-you-use-mac-addresses-instead-of-udids/
Are we in a game of whack-a-mole with Apple?
Weekend Projects - technologies behind them
http://blog.pseudocodice.com/2011/07/weekend-projects-building-next.html
What technologies do you use for your weekend projects?
My new boss at work is trying to get us all to use Agile. How do I stop him?
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9gb9e/my_new_boss_at_work_is_trying_to_get_us_all_to/
Someone referenced a PG essay there (Maker's schedule) that inspired me to post this here too. Just curious on how the consensus here differs from that on Reddit.
Entrepreneurs - Keep Putting One Foot in Front of the Other
http://www.clubenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=220&id=149
Ever felt like giving up? Clayton Christopher, founder of Sweet Leaf Tea (one of fastest growing iced teas), shares a cycling story analogus to the many times his company almost went under over the last 10 years. Now he's in 6,000 stores in every state. Sometimes you just have to keep going.
Ask HN: Best tool for (several) jobs
I'm a PHP developer by day. I like PHP, I'm good at it and have a decent track record to point to for employers (my first e-commerce site is still going strong 11 years later - though I do NOT want to look at the code :). However, that's really not enough these days. I've been rejected for some recent PHP jobs for people who had also done stuff in Rails - and it's becoming harder and harder to find standard employment with a history in PHP alone (C & Perl don't count for much either as it happens).

So, rather than bitch about how they failt to see my obvious greatness, I'm gonna try and pick up (in a rudimentary sense), a couple of new languages over the next months and build a simple web app with each. I obviously don't expect to become great, but I hope this will at least give me something to show to employers.

This is where I'm stuck. I don't want to just write a blogging platform over & over again - I'd rather build something that the language in question is best suited for. I've bought myself a VPS, I just need an idea of what to build. Relevant communities are always good, but generally tend to be of the "you can do ANYTHING!" mindset and I'm sure that's true, but some languages excel in certain areas and I would like to pursue this.

My plan is for the following:

* Rails

* Python

* Node.js

and possibly some wildcard, which I am open to suggestions for.

I hope this post makes sense and finds you well!
Show HN: CasePlum – Custom-printed iPhone 6 Cases (Passive Income Idea)
http://www.caseplum.com
Hey guys, made this site in 2-3 weeks, just in time for the iPhone 6 launch. Thought it'd be an interesting passive/side income idea, which I know is a popular topic on HN.

Apologies if its buggy or doesn't support certain browsers/screen sizes. Trying to be lean develop it

Also, since the community here is great and has provided excellent feedback before, here's a $10 off coupon just for you guys: HNthirty.

Any tips on how to market it? I'll happily share numbers with the community if it goes anywhere.
LiftPort launches Kickstarter space elevator trial
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered
POC (proof of concept) 2km tether with robot crawlers
Jumio Turns Webcams Into Credit Card Readers
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/26/jumio-turns-webcams-into-credit-card-readers-and-why-merchants-will-welcome-netswipers/
If it were up to Jumio, we’re all going to be ‘netswiping’ to purchase books, clothes, travel, FarmVille crops and whatnot online in a couple of years. The startup has been extensively testing its digital payments service in private beta mode since last year, when Jajah founder Daniel Mattes started teasing whatever they were building.
Build A Reverse Ebay Style Business Using the ThemBid.com Engine
http://digigen.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/20-minutes-with-elmer-thomas-founder-of-thembid/
In this interview, Elmer Thomas, CEO of ThemBid.com announces a White Label version of ThemBid.com.
Show HN: Squid, a new Arduino build tool using make.
https://github.com/gnusouth/squid
An Arduino build tool for those who dislike the IDE.

I really loved using Ino, but ran into a bunch of problems with its dependency system. This is my take on a modern command-line Arduino build tool which I hope resolves some of Ino's problems. It gives you a lot of room for customisation, doesn't do any magic, and keeps everything simple so you can concentrate on writing C.
The Ones That Didn’t Make It: Windows’ Failed Rivals
http://guywhosteals.blogspot.com/2010/12/ones-that-didnt-make-it-windows-failed.html
Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 on November 20th, 1985. Twenty-five years and two days later, it’s not just hard to remember an era in which Windows wasn’t everywhere–it’s also easy to forget that it wasn’t a given that it would catch on, period.

The company had announced the software in November of 1983, before most PC users had ever seen a graphical user interface or touched the input device known as a mouse. But by the time Windows finally shipped two years later, after a series of embarrassing delays, it had seemingly blown whatever first-mover advantage it might have had. At least four other major DOS add-ons that let users run multiple programs in “windows” had already arrived.
Ask HN: Any GitHub repos where I can see development over time – simple to big?
What are some good software projects on GitHub where I can see how they became small => big or simple => complex over time - commit by commit?

I am more interested in seeing how complex software is built from scratch, using best practices, than any specific programming language.
Why my project is failing?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/36837225/blinds-controller
I posted this product on kickstarter which I though it would be really cool, but is failing, I would like your feedback in to know why?
Show HN: RxJS Insights – a toolset for RxJS visualization
https://github.com/ksz-ksz/rxjs-insights
Hi HN! I'd like to present you the thing that I'm building - the RxJS Insights. It was primarily created as something that allows for debugging complex RxJS streams, but after showing it to a few people it turned out that it might be more helpful in learning RxJS since it can visualize the observables execution step by step.

The setup is somewhat similar to the Redux Devtools' one in a sense that it requires an application level component (the proper @rxjs-insights/* packages) to instrument the RxJS and to connect with the devtools.

I invite you to try it out in your app (the setup is rather easy) or on StackBlitz (all links are in the readme).

Thanks!
Save all your money
http://failup.blog.com/2014/03/08/save-all-your-money/
30 day money experiment
A rough prototype of Arkanoid made in Swift and Sprite Kit
https://github.com/gscalzo/SwifterNoid
I was watching the soccer match between Italy and England, but I got bored quickly, so I started to play with Swift and Sprite Kit, and it ended up as an Arkanoid clone
Ask HN: Free (or cheap) Donation-Collection SaaS apps
One of my good friend's little brothers has "recently suffered from an acute rejection of his transplanted heart". They set up a PayPal donation page, but the donation page is broken, and I don't trust PayPal much as is.

I googled for alternatives but found nothing helpful.

Do you guys know of a quick way to set up a donation page so they can collect money from CC/PayPal/etc for his cause?

Thanks in advance!
The Seven Privacies. How many do you know?
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2013/11/our-seven-privacies-the-many-important-facets-of-privacy/
When we talk of privacy online, it is easy to narrow the discussion to something that can be described as “anti-wiretapping”. But privacy is a much more diverse and important concept than that. In general, we can talk of seven different privacies, each important to our civil liberties from different angles.
Microsoft heavily funding 'small business' lobby
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/07/15/12962/microsoft-heavily-funding-small-business-lobby
Microsoft heavily funding tech trade group that's pressing Congress on immigration reform.
RubberDuck.js: Javascript mvc framework.
https://github.com/niedbalski/rubberduck.js
RubberDuck.js is a pretty minimal(minified 7KB) framework written to build simple single page applications quickly.
Show HN: March Madness Bracket Research with Stats
http://www.madness.io/
Showing a little side project of mine that will hopefully appeal to sports and stats fans alike. I am an engineer with a great passion for sports, particularly college basketball. My goal is/was to set up a site to easily discern important data about a given team and players. The site runs on a myriad of technologies including MySQL, Couchbase, Redis, and Rails + Foundation frameworks. Feedback would be appreciated. Good luck in your brackets.
How to Hide Your porn Stash in Linux
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/11/28/how-to-hide-your-porn-stash-in-linux/
While talking to my friend stan I was quite surprised to see his non-tech ways of hiding porn from his girlfriend in his windows box. Which he thinks is a genius method. What he basically does is make a bunch of folders with different, confusing, not-so-interesting names and hide his stash deep deep inside the subfolders. Something like this (not his actual computer):
Before You Grow
In todays growth obsessed startup world, where i even find some yc advisors focusing too much on growth metrics in their advice, this essay by Sam Altman sounds more sane to me.

It is the growth obsession that led to uber and wework. Clearly that approach does not work.

Before you grow

https://blog.ycombinator.com/before-you-grow/

Sam Altman (y combinator) - “ Startups are defined by growth, but growth isn’t step one in building a great company. If you focus on trying to grow before you make a product people love, you are unlikely to succeed.

We’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating–many founders hurt their companies by focusing on growth too soon.

I’m not saying don’t grow at all–getting people to use your product, even in its earliest form, will help you better understand what your customers want. But focusing too heavily on growth before you’ve built something people love leads to the leaky bucket problem. You can get users to come in the door, but they don’t stay, and likely won’t return.

If you first make sure your product is loved, it will be much easier to grow. Users will be easier to retain, and they’ll tell others about what you’ve made. Your users essentially become a free marketing and sales force for you. Your chances of building a giant company are much higher when you have a product that spreads by word of mouth. “
Backup your Web Sites Database using MySQL Administrator.
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/02/backup-your-web-projects-database-using.html
Some days back I had posted an article about MySQL WorkBench Usage. So in this post I want to explain how to take backup your database using MySQL Administrator. It's a part of MySQL GUI Tools.