jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Important work can be done while daydreaming
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/08/31/daydream_achiever/?page=full
Something for the first day of school: a retort to all of my teachers who adminished me to stop daydreaming....
Linkedin Answers Shuts Down
http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/35227
And I just started looking at them a few days ago.
Ask HN: The ranking algorithm in 'the social network'
What was the ranking algorithm that is mentioned in the beginning of the movie? Eduardo writes some mathematical expression on the window (I am sure they were made up!).
Actually what ranking strategies could be used in this scenario? I believe a ‘rank’ would have to include multiple parameters. Perhaps something in the lines of svms ?
What I do with data at 37signals
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2767-what-i-do-with-data-at-37signals
I've always been a fan of having information about many aspects of how your business is running. Not having detailed information feels like driving blind.
Show HN: Genie Builder, no-code UI plugin for building data apps
https://genieframework.com/blog/announcing-genie-builder.html
Hi! Genie Builder is a free VSCode plugin that makes it easy to build web GUIs for Julia applications (and in future, Python apps too). Users can simply drag & drop UI elements to create interactive dashboards and data apps, without writing any frontend code.

The tool is designed for data scientists and researchers who need to expose their data models to business users with an interactive web application, but lack the software development skills to build one.

Genie Builder completely eliminates the need to learn frontend development to code the UI. And very soon, we’re also going to support one-click cloud deployments to make it easy to build AND deploy data apps - no frontend nor devops skills required.

I’m Adrian, the creator of the open-source Genie web framework (https://genieframework.com/). Genie offers low-code libraries for building data applications - just like Streamlit or Dash, but for JuliaLang. We developed Genie Builder because of feedback from our open source community who needs more productive data tooling.
GitHub adds code search
http://github.com/blog/202-github-code-search
Github added a new feature to search through all of their public source code.
Google search on Android marketplace is awful
http://phlogy.com/blog/?p=9
You can view the blog entry here, my server is rubbish:

http://ipadtravelguides.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-not-so-great-at-search.html
Ask HN: Mechanical engineer that wants to work in the programming field
I am a 27 years old PhD in computational mechanics (finite element method, elasticity ...) who should be graduating in around 6 months. I have been tempted for quite some time by the idea of trying to get a job in the US and work as a programmer. A personal dream, I really would like to experience the life in the west coast for a few years. What are my odds of achieving that?
Any advices on what I should try to learn or do in the next 6 months? During my PhD, I have been coding in Matlab, Python and mostly in C++ (I have read Effective C++, Modern Effective C++). I have learned OpenMP, MPI and Cuda (though, I don't consider myself very experienced in them) and I have taken an introduction course in algorithms.

Edit: Since some people have asked, right now I am in UK and I have an EU passport. Thanks for the very encouraging answers.
WebKit Clock
http://onotakehiko.com/webkitclock/
This site is driven with HTML5 canvas, CSS3, JavaScript, Web Fonts, SVG and NO image files. It's optimized to WebKit rendering engine and you can see it with Safari and Google Chrome.
Swiss scientists bend Caustic Effect to their will [video]
http://www.euronews.com/2013/01/07/swiss-scientists-bend-caustic-effect-to-their-will/
Swiss scientists bend Caustic Effect to their will
PandaBot: A friendly, affordable 3D printer
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pandarobotics/pandabot-a-friendly-affordable-3d-printer
My good friend Kelly is finally rolling out his inexpensive ($800) 3D printer for everyone. Please support the Kickstarter.
How much does a startup cost?
http://opani.com/dirk/crunch-acquisitions/results/#key=(reduce)
Some crunchbase data mining that comes up with a simple model for pricing a startup.
Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why?
Carmack, Torvalds, Bellard, Wozniak, et al. Who do you personally admire as 10x or otherwise brilliant coders? What do you consider their most notable or emulable accomplishments, habits, or contributions?
Show HN: Calibre Test Profiles – Test your sites under real world conditions
https://calibreapp.com
Hi HN! I'm Ben, the solo founder of Calibre Analytics: https://calibreapp.com. Calibre monitors websites and applications in a clean-room testing environment from all over the world. Up until January Calibre has been an "inbetween other things" / evenings / holidays kind of project. (Only, oops—I did that for four years.). Last year I knuckled down to get into the position where I could work on it full time.

I've spent the last 8 weeks working on "Test profiles" (The launch post is here: https://medium.com/get-calibre/announcing-test-profiles-and-...) — It allows you to emulate hardware devices (cpu speed, user-agents and screen dimensions), as well as limit the bandwidth (latency, download and upload speeds), and set cookies (you could use this to log into your app, test a staff-shipped feature, or maybe turn off advertising and see the performance impact.) I think I've finally got the basis of a really powerful tool, and I'm keen to share it with… everyone! I do everything myself, so if you've any questions, I'm here to answer them!
Twitter Exploit Still Works
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/twitter-exploit-still-works.html
Twitter XSS exploit from yesterday still works. They haven't done a very good job of fixing it.
You only need to see an exploited tweet to be affected!
Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plagiarism rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Class_of_1700_  students_fill_Wikipedia_with_plagiarism._Response_from_prof_is_accusation_of_illegal_behaviou  r_by_editors
Professor Steve Joordens of the Psychology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough<p>has 1700 students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism so he doesn't have to grade papers. When<p>caught, he accuses Wikipedia of illegal behaviour.
You can no longer click on the Google logo in chrome (only in Firefox, IE, etc.)
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=kL505PDeuR090bF5sMy8lw&cp=4&gs_id=j&xhr=t&q=hacker+news&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=hack&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=82fc1a7cbf0487f4&biw=1440&bih=732
EDIT: It appears that this was a slow rollout, it appears you can no longer click the logo to get back to the google homepage in ANY browser
Ask HN: What are problems that need to be solved? 
So we've kept on getting threads like "Would this idea be cool?" on HN, and I've always thought that this wasn't the correct approach in creating a startup. The problem should be recognized first. So HN, what are problems that you face everyday that need to be fixed or remedied?
Show HN: Memory Pill
https://www.hackster.io/nickbild/memory-pill-9f6b2e
Memory Pill passively records the last time a medication bottle was opened to prevent over- and underdosing of medications when you cannot remember if you have already taken a scheduled dose.

https://www.hackster.io/nickbild/memory-pill-9f6b2e
Believe the Hype About India and China
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03friedman.html
" If you thought the rate of change was fast thanks to the garage innovators of Silicon Valley, wait until the garages of Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore get fully up to speed. I sure hope we’re ready. " -- Quote from the article.

I sure hope this turns to reality and the tide rises the rate of innovation that has meaningful social impacts on problems like poverty and disease plaguing the developing nations.
Tell Obama And Dodd: No Backroom Dealing, No New SOPA
http://act.demandprogress.org/cms/thanks/new_sopa?action_id=5499002&amp;akid=.327668.cNqkqc&amp;form_name=act&amp;rd=1&amp;taf=1
The link is http://act.demandprogress.org/act/new_sopa/
9 hours per day.
No Really: Microsoft giving away Windows Image with redistribution allowed
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/03/22/Have-some-free-Windows.aspx
No tricks. Microsoft is giving away Windows Server 2008. And you can even redistribute the image.
Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service
https://kraken.io
We are delighted to introduce new, fully-rewritten Kraken.io featuring:

- Outstanding image optimization
- Intuitive, easy-to-use API
- Significantly improved lossy optimization techniques
- Support for Google’s WebP compression algorithm
- Support for SVG file optimization
- Comprehensive paid plans for API usage designed to please everyone
- Free, unlimited 7-day trial on all of our plans
- The free Web Interface, featuring more beauty with Retina graphics
- Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3 integration
- Integration libraries for PHP, Ruby and Node.js
Show HN: I made a WebGL-based app that traces images using circles
https://phqb.github.io/circle_drawing/
I was fascinated by this [0] and this video [1]. After many struggles, I finally built this app that traces images using circles similar to what these videos had shown.

The most challenging part (to me) is to find a way to convert images to vector lines. I had tried Potrace, but its output is not suitable for my use case: too many small elements share the same border. Potrace's goal is to represent the original image faithfully using vector lines. But I want to trace the image edges.

After searching and trying some Potrace alternatives in vain, I finally found my keyword. Surprisingly (to me), it lies at the end of the wiki page of the very topic [2]. Then I found a paper [3] that has nice pseudocode and a C implementation. I rewrote the pseudocode in Rust because I wanted to experiment with rustwasm. Honestly, I didn't care much about the math behind it.

From then, I could continue to finish the app and show it to the world.

This app is also my chance to learn about rustwasm and WebGL.

FYI: this app is offline-only; your images never leave your browser

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_detection#Subpixel

[3] https://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2017/216/
Ask HN: Are you lost / confused / stuck? I can try to help
Ok this is quite a different kind of Ask HN, but I just can't help but feel saddened whenever I come across personal posts about how someone is lost, confused, stuck in a situation, feel lonely, uncertain what to do about xyz, etc.. What's more surprising to me, is how the comments mostly center around external solutions. I love the HN community and how good you folks are at helping people navigating the world. But, sometimes, at least sometimes, what we're missing is a way of navigating the inner world (which includes close relationships).

And surprisingly (or not surprisingly), the conventional methods like self-help advice or even therapy sometimes don't seem to help. I know this feeling, and had to explore around to find the tools and perspectives that finally made a difference.

Now I don't mean any kind of mystic / uber-spiritual stuff. I'm a pretty realistic guy; I just think a lot and feel a lot and had to go through a lot of inner work / personal development to get to where I am today. (If you want an idea what kind of person I am in real life, my personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/samhuang.sh/ Feel free to read my posts to get a sense of my style and my experiences.)

To get to my point, I want to start some kind of service/platform where people can come to talk things through and have a sustained conversation about their experience of feeling lost, confused, stuck. (I won't be charging for this ever, because I don't believe in that. Though I'll probably have donations set up, but that's technicalities.)

I've been giving some people at work some advice and perspectives, and they were positively surprised by the things I talked about and it seemed to help them at least get out of the cloud of confusion. I'm not trained with any formal credentials, but somehow I've developed enough wisdom in this area to have useful things to say.

The problem is, because I don't quite know where my "strengths" and "expertise" are yet, I don't wanna just start some Substack and make a fool out of myself pretending to be some guru when I don't know what I'm doing yet.

So here in this thread, I'm hoping to invite people who are struggling with feeling lost, confused, stuck, for whatever reason, to come and seek help. And I'll do my best to see if I can offer perspectives that may be useful. It'll be a place where we can go deeper into some issues and have a sustained conversation about it all. And it would also be tremendously helpful to me to get some feedback on whether it did or did not help.

Much love,
Sam

EDIT: For the record, so far the type of advice that seemed to resonate with people has been regarding relationships, inter-personal dynamics, family conflict, parenting, friendships, etc. A lot of times, our problems with the self stems from problems in our relationships, and vice versa.
Ask HN: Solo developer, what's your recipe to start working?
Hello HN, I am a new solo developer who quitted job 19 weeks ago.

At this moment of my writing, I just don't want to work. I come across this problem a lot recently.

I don't have the urge to work, and it feels too difficult to focus.

I know that once I start, I will be productive. But I don't have a recipe to start. If my mood changes, I work. If not, I dont' know what to do.

I recently read that no matter what, you just work. I tried and failed to just work.

Any advice?
Nokia Unveils a Maps Service
http://www.here.com
Related article http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507186/nokia-unveils-a-map-service-that-lives-in-the-cloud/
Show HN: Quickly copy a file between computers
https://github.com/jwilberding/bcp
Hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick project I built a bit ago and finally cleaned up enough to post.

The premise is simple, you have a file on one computer that you want on a different computer on the same network and don't want a lot of fuss.

For the file you want to copy, on the machine where the file is located, run:

./bcp filename

Now go to the computer (on the same network) where you want the file to be at, and run:

./bcp

The file will be copied over the network and you're done.

I created it as a nice way of not having to worry about ssh or anything else really. In fact, it is so simple, I use it on my local machine a lot when hopping around between terminals instead of remembering paths.

I have tested it on OSX and Linux.

Suggestions and comments welcomed.
Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?
Big data is a trending topic these days and I'd like to get my hands dirty both out of curiosity and to make myself more relevant on the marketplace. That being said, I'm not sure which data sets are both interesting to play with and easily accessible. My question is:

For those of you already working with big data, what kind of data do you work with?
Sad as Hell
http://nplusonemag.com/sad-as-hell
An intresting book review of 'Super Sad True Love Story'.
How I Built an Apartment Buzzer for Multiple Roommates
http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2010/06/how-i-built-a-multi-user-door-buzzer-for-our-apartment/
full disclosure - I work on Twilio, which I used for this
Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition
http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition
Speech recognition seems good on a cell phone but accuracy for conversational speech flatlined in 2001--and no one noticed. Computer understanding of language was supposed to lead to artificial intelligence. Now we have need AI to get computers to understand language. Catch 22. We just haven't recognized it yet. (Sorry, Ray Kurzweil.)
Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:156.33.241.5
diff in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&diff=566904988&oldid=566903734

screenshot of both diff and above-linked user page as of now: http://i.imgur.com/I6HlpPX.png
Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid
http://www.tarsnap.com
They look amazing. Bug bounties for everything, completely transparent architecture, data duplication and compression on the fly, they will be up even if two of Amazon's data centers die, one pays per byte and they are pretty cheap.
Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination.
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/16/mind-blown-this-guy-broke-jeopardys-all-time-record-with-an-app/
Most recent tournament champion, Roger Craig, broke Ken Jenning's all-time money record.<p>His finest display of Jeopardy prowess was this back-to-back "Daily Double" all-ins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwK8SyVeJE<p>To prepare for the competition Craig developed a web app to analyze all the questions in Jeopardy's archive and reverse engineer the game. He explains it here.
http://vimeo.com/29001512
Phusion Passenger 3.0 Public Beta 1 is out
http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/09/15/phusion-passenger-3-0-0-public-beta-1-is-out/
The best deployment solution for Ruby on Rails apps just got better! Test it, and see what it can do for you!
Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS
https://boxyhq.com/
Hi HN, we are Deepak and Sama, co-founders of BoxyHQ (https://boxyhq.com/). BoxyHQ provides an open-source platform for developers to quickly integrate enterprise features into their software solutions. These include SAML Single Sign-On (SSO), Audit logs, with more to come :)

Every B2B startup faces a common challenge when it comes to selling into the Enterprise; they need to allocate time and resources to support all the requirements to make their offering enterprise-grade. Supporting these requirements is a significant undertaking for the engineering team, especially since they already have their hands full with the core product. We experienced this problem ourselves and that is why we built BoxyHQ, a platform to integrate enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.

The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security.

Please let me know if you have any questions, you can also reach out to me at deepak@boxyhq.com
Show HN: I made Ankify that converts notes to Anki cards
https://ankify.krxiang.com/
Backstory:
I was in medical school and had to study a ton of materials in short period of time. I came across Anki but always had trouble with making cards. In my mind, making cards should be quick, seconds instead of minutes. My other problem is after making the cards, each card does not really relate to the other. When you study the individual card, your thought process is very random and not cohesive. I wanted to be able to still reference to my notes for big concepts and then use the cards to memorize the details but also for long term retention.

Ankify came out of that. At the time, I did not know any programming and paid someone to write a script in Python to convert the cards. Then, eventually I learned Python myself and expanded on the script. I also uploaded the markdown files online so I could view them anywhere (https://kangruixiang.github.io/wiki/).

I ran into a wall in making user interface for the program. It was difficult to make good looking cross platform user interface with Python. I gave up on making user interface for a year or two with end of med school and residency. After a while, I went back to see if anyone else had made anything similar. Despite many plugins/programs that makes it easy to make cards, none of them really focused on readability of the original notes. I decided to sit down and learn javascript to help with UI creation.

After about 3 years, everything finally came together after I learned Svelte, Tailwind, and Electron. I know Electron is not the most efficient program, but it's what works for me.

Also, it's also the feeling of being able to make whatever my mind can think of. It feels really refreshing and empowering. Even making the website for Ankify is a lot of fun. You have to think so much about the presentation, typography, logistics.
Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
https://brevity500.com
Hi folks, I've been experimenting with ways to teach people how to write better for a few years. During this time, I've worked in finance, sales, and software -- and everywhere I went, most people didn't write effectively, even when their job depended on it!

Learning how to become a better writer is generally not fun...books, lectures, and videos are passive and boring and tedious. Getting feedback from real people is generally most effective, but difficult and time-consuming.

Brevity 500 is my attempt at creating a learning experience that is active, engaging, and NOT tedious. It offers static human-generated advice along with real human feedback for paid users.

So far, in early testing, the games seem to appeal most to marketers and salespeople, but as a technical writer and developer myself, I think these games can help anyone build a strong foundation to become better at any kind of non-fiction writing.

Try it out and let me know what you think!
8 hours per day.
Show HN: I built a self hosted recommendation feed to escape Google's algorithm
https://github.com/jawerty/myAlgorithm
I created this chrome extension for myself where I track my own behavior locally and recommend myself content from platforms I want content from (youtube/twitter/quora/etc) in a feed. I made it public just in case anyone else was interested.

I would rather have control over my own algorithm and own the data. Also, it gives me flexibility. Turns out I do like these feeds just not when I don't own it haha. Let me know what you think of my implementation?
Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
https://numpad.io/
Hi HN

It also supports percentages, dates and variables.

I've been working on this alone for a few years now, so would love to get some feedback.
Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.
http://foldable.me
Our new mass-customisation service, inc a legitimate use for 3D CSS.
Do We Have Too Much Privacy?
http://blog.beliefnet.com/markdroberts/2010/06/do-we-have-too-much-privacy.html?source=NEWSLETTER&nlsource=11&ppc=&utm_campaign=Bible&utm_source=NL&utm_medium=newsletter
4 Ways Netflix Could Die
http://www.realcleartechnology.com/articles/2013/05/10/what_could_kill_netflix_423.html
ASP.NET MVC 3 jQuery Ajax Views
http://jonathancreamer.com/2011/02/03/asp-net-mvc-3-jquery-ajax-views/
Drawing overlapping elements in javascript.
http://joe-on-software.blogspot.com/2013/02/icon-collision-detectionresolution-in.html
Procrastination, it turns out, is an essential skill
http://sandeep.shetty.in/2010/07/procrastination.html
Keeping Software Soft
http://www.keepingsoftwaresoft.com/
Government surveillance continues to rise, Google says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57549055-93/government-surveillance-continues-to-rise-google-says/
A Hacker News For Ideas
http://firespotting.com/newest
U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/capitol-riot-bitcoin-donation-alt-right-domestic-extremism
The War On RSS 
http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1932
Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-france/google-to-stop-showing-news-snippets-for-french-users-idUSKBN1WA1FK
RIP Syd Mead (Blade Runner, TRON Designer)
http://sydmead.com/gallery/