jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: StoryLane Feature: SendHub CEO Garrett Johnson
http://www.storylane.com/garrettjohnson
At Storylane, we're making a platform for people to share their life stories. Everyone has experiences that give them a unique perspective on this world and we want to enable a community of asking and sharing these stories.
We would love feedback from the HN community!
Does this attitude bother you? 
http://i.imgur.com/ub51D.jpg
This is not made up, you can check the accounts.
Lessons from the Skeptics Conference
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/lessons-from-the-skeptics-conference/
this is their science correspondent???
Future career path of gifted youth can be predicted by age 13
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/newspub/bjfTyg?id=37167&mode=print
Cut to the chase: "Overall, the creative potential of these participants was extraordinary. They earned a total of 817 patents and published 93 books. Of the 18 participants who later earned tenure-track positions in math/science fields at top-50 U.S. universities, their average age 13 SAT-M score was 697, and the lowest score among them was 580, a score greater than over 60 percent of all students who take the SAT."

Controversy time.
Ask HN: What is a good product development stack for rapid launch to users?
I am a product manager with a software engineering background who haven't actively written code in a while.

I am looking to start a hobby project to build an application. And I want to get to something that is working for users with as little work as possible.
The app is mainly a data aggregator that helps users collect and consolidate data from multiple different sources. Users would create an account and connect data sources. Then they can view aggregated data from multiple data sources.

I am looking for a stack that gets me as far as possible with minimal work. I want to spend as little time as possible on anything but business logic and presenting data in a nice UI. I can accept something quite opinionated if that helps.
I would like a web app that handles user login and keeps some data for users. As well as integrating with 3rd party providers for data.

I would like to cover:

- Design system (that I can use in Figma) which translates into what the application will look like, and is easy to implement

- Boilerplate and project setup/structure (I want to spend time on features, not structuring code)
- Development of the UI (UI framework to work with the design system)

- Backend development (for the web app)

- Data persistance (i.e. a DB)

- User login (can I avoid reinventing the wheel to let users create accounts and login?)

- Development environment (I want to rapidly see and test what I create)

- Hosting (fine to run locally at first)

Additional nice-to-haves:

- Cross-platform development to allow me to add native apps for iOS and Android

I have not written code in a while. I have past experience in single-page JS applications (using frameworks that no longer seem to be popular). I have experience using node, Python and PHP for backend development. Could take the opportunity to learn something new if the benefits are big enough.

Please share your suggestions on full stacks. As well as your experiences and learnings.

Edit formatting.
Installer for Microsoft Kinect on Windows 7
http://nuigc.com/clkinect
First preview of the new installer which consists of an SDK, API and a stable driver for Microsoft’s new Xbox Kinect Hardware (Xbox NUI Audio, NUI Camera, NUI Motor and Accelerometer) devices on Windows machines.
Jetpack for wordpress
http://jetpack.me/
Extremely useful for your own wordpress installation.
Textmate 2 Tips
http://tm2tips.tumblr.com/
My friend Kevin and I have started collecting tips on how to get the most out of Textmate 2. Any contributions welcome!
Helping People Until Not Helping
http://thebetastartup.com/2010/06/05/help-me-not/
just thoughts on the topic. Dbe glad to hear opinions
S2Games ignores a 46+ page thread of Mac Users - No support
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=347059
S2Games, makers of Heroes of Newerth, have been ignoring the Mac community for over 3 months because of an issue where there's no sound in-game on the client for OS X Lion, which many users have payed a decent amount of money for. Pretty ridiculous.
How to deal with stress
http://www.taskwise.com/blog/2011/7/how-to-deal-with-stress
You do what you can to feed the kids healthy meals and snacks. And you must tend to all of these activities while striving to stay in top physical shape and to keep a smile on your face. Over time, addressing the same issues day in and day out can drain your emotional resources and test even the most resolute optimist. Here are five ways to help you deal with stress.
Show HN: I'm drawing for 100 days
https://giveit100.com/@MeganB/7ghort
By Megan (one of the users of giveit100), not me
Where are command line tools to extract data from huge XML files?
Hello,

I am working in a support team. Sometimes we are receiving huge XML files (tens of Gigabytes) from which which we need to test, mostly extract some data fields. Most of the work I am doing with Unix tools (grep, awk, bash) but for huge XML files I did not find a tool that will not eat up all the memory of the computer. I used xmlstarlet which is exactly what I need, except that xmlstarlet does not work for huge files.

So the question that I have is there some command-line tool, that is fast, processes XML as a stream and allows to extract elements by using a concise way (preferably XPath).

I just cannot believe that after more than 10 years of XML there are no reliable tools around - I would actually expect that such tools will find their way in the UNIX standard.

Noet 1: Please don't blame me for using huge XML files, it's not my design decision - the reality is that there are cases where we have to work with huge XML files. I know all the inconvenience of XML and I know that the overhead is very huge, but that is not the point here.

Note 2: Please don't tell me that I should use programming language X or Z to read XML. I really want something that is available at the command line and if really necessary can be combined with other commands in a shell script.

Thanks in advance for all your suggestions.

reirob
Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHjgK6p4nrw
Pure gold and fun!
Guy Kawasaki & Tim Berry: How to Write a Business Plan - 10 Questions
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/07/how-to-write-a-.html
good read
3 Tips To Startup Success
http://www.instigatorblog.com/3-tips-to-startup-success/2007/07/17/
When starting a business, you're going to make mistakes. Even if you've done it a handful of times (successfully or not), mistakes are common. Of course, you will learn a ton from the mistakes you make; but there are plenty of new mistakes left to make.
30 fps vs. 60fps: Am I crazy for not seeing a difference?
The only time someone has ever insulted me for my beliefs was when I claimed that I could honestly not see the difference between 30fps and 60fps.
Now, either I am lying, you are lying, or neither of us is lying.
Could it be possible that, just like colour blindness, some people are just incapable of seeing a difference?
I am asking now in the hopes that the discussion remains civil
Ask HN: develop/promote work based on a soon-to-expire patent?
Let's say there's a patent that's expiring in the near future, and I want to ship on day-one of the patent expiring.

I'd say I'm morally (if perhaps not completely legally) justified in developing the infringing program in the comfort of my own home, not showing it to anyone, and then releasing it on day one. First, do you see any problems with this?

Now the real issue: can I talk about my plans? Say all over the internet "get ready for this product on this date?" Would just acknowledging the fact that it's in development while the patent is still enforced hurt me in any way before/after the patent expiration term?

Basically I don't want anyone to say, before/after the patent is expired, "you MUST have developed this while the patent was still active, thus you owe us money" despite me not releasing anything until after the patent expires.

I don't think this should be an issue, given how quickly new generic meds come out after a pill patent expires. Or do those companies not "officially" start manufacturing until after the entire patent term?

Would this be complicated by taking preorders or otherwise getting money from it, before the expiration, but only delivering the goods after?

Thanks. I Am Not A Lawyer, perhaps one of you is.
JavaScript object creation: Learning to live without "new"
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/javascript-object-creation.html
Discusses object creation in JavaScript using prototypal inheritance as an alternative to the new operator.
Google forgets about Google Buzz 
http://i.imgur.com/EwEON.png
Where's Google Buzz on Youtube?
A Hangout Session for Google Chrome Extension development
https://plus.google.com/u/2/116805285176805120365/posts/a3WZaoENqVG
Hangout can be a cool learning platform, especially for programmers.
Ask HN: Does your company give you gifts for birthdays and anniversaries?
Seems to be getting quite popular to receive gifts (mugs, posters etc.) on employee anniversaries or birthdays now, particularly in startups. Wondering how many people here get gifts from their employers? What kind of gifts do you get and for what occasions?
Show HN: Most mentioned people on Lex Fridman Podcast
https://twitter.com/moritzthuening/status/1576605434630152192
Hey everyone, I used karpathy's lexicap and named entity recognition to create the chart
First steps of an XMPP pub sub crawler
http://buddycloud.com/cms/content/first-steps-xmpp-pub-sub-crawler
Abmar, our GSoC talks a bit about the first results his pubsub crawler gave
Free Jason Chen's Computers
http://freejasonchenscomputers.com
A site to raise awareness and curates news links regarding the police raid that found stripped Jason Chen of his computer hardware because of his news story leaking details and video of the iPhone 4G that was lost by an Apple employee during a night out drinking.
Show HN: Kaiju – Audio Visualisation System
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1951140/Kaiju/
My new audio visualisation app Kaiju has just been released on Steam.

Designed as a more relaxed spiritual successor to Milkdrop it works on realtime system audio. Windows only at the moment unfortunately, but next on the roadmap is cross platform support and microphone audio input.

I hope you will enjoy it and if so, come say hello on discord:

https://discord.com/invite/45yymHzf38
Made in Weebly.
http://www.relevantm.com/
Just happened to like this site simplicity, and found that it was made using Weebly. Good tool.
Get top 5 links from Hacker News in your mailbox
http://top5hn.launchrock.co/
Get top 5 links everyday from Hacker News in your mailbox.
The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
"Today, at 15:35 (UTC+1) on 25 November 2019, we made our final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool. We have now run out of IPv4 addresses.

Our announcement will not come as a surprise for network operators - IPv4 run-out has long been anticipated and planned for by the RIPE community."

More info: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/the-ripe-ncc-has-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses
1000-2000 per month
Node.js new feature: Joyent owns it
https://img.skitch.com/20110505-t9yhnmpu1isrnqf36fckd3aqya.png
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/fast-concurrent-ruby-web-applications-with-em-and-emsynchrony

via: http://twitter.com/#!/drnic/status/65990672678797313
Why Are Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Unbundling Their Apps?
https://www.sinch.com/opinion/test/
http://bit.ly/sunbundle
Show HN: Have trouble keeping in touch with friends? Penguit to the rescue
http://penguit.com/
I have trouble keeping in touch with my friends. I built this to help me out.

Known FF ugliness. Working on it.
Elections Code Section 13117 says ballot order should start with 1 and not 0
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/baker-368982-bob-councilman.html?fb_action_ids=10152072224525424&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%257B%252210152072224525424%2522%253A10150960990386685%257D&action_type_map=%257B%252210152072224525424%2522%253A%2522og.recommends%2522%257D&action_ref_map=%255B%255D
Two Bob's with the same name are running for office one chose 1 to go before his name and hacker candidate Bob chose 0 to go before his name. Who goes first? Common CA go tech... go 0.
Effects of Fructose vs Glucose on Appetite and Reward Pathways [pdf]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/118673844/jpc120014-63-70
Conclusion:

"Glucose but not fructose ingestion reduced the activation of the hypothalamus, insula, and striatum—brain regions that regulate appetite, motivation, and reward processing; glucose ingestion also increased functional connections between the hypothalamicstriatal network and increased satiety.

The disparate responses to fructose were associated with reduced systemic levels of the satiety-signaling hormone insulin and were not likely attributable to an inability of fructose to cross the blood-brain barrier into the hypothalamus or to a lack of hypothalamic expression of genes necessary for fructose metabolism."﻿
Interplanetary Transport Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network
It's not news, but the potential for using it is growing. By using fuzzy orbits and the edge of chaotic regions, it's becoming possible to do large scale movements in the Solar system with very little expenditure of fuel. As with the time/space computing trade-off, this is a time/fuel trade-off -- the movements take a lot longer to achieve.

See also:

http://discovermagazine.com/1994/sep/gravitysrim419/article_view
Ask HN: How bad does taking an extra semester to graduate college look?
I'm especially curious about how it looks to employers, but if any of you have thoughts as to how it looks to grad schools, law schools, etc, that information would also be appreciated.

I think I have a good reason for taking an extra semester, but I'm afraid that there would be times where I wouldn't get to state it.
Richard Stallman coming to Stanford
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~ruchika/
Check it out if you guys are interested
Ask HN: What's the difference between building features and a user experience?
It's often said that companies should focus on the user experience, not the features. What exactly does that mean?

Features are built so that users can do more things which will presumably improve their experience.

It is just a matter of the coherence of the vision at a certain level of abstraction? (Only care about feature insofar as it furthers a certain more abstract issue of the customer experience?)

Maybe I answered my own question. I invite people to pontificate. Thanks.
Show HN: Code of War – Satirical book about moving up the IT corporate ladder
https://codeofwar.xyz/
Hello dear HN crowd,

I love when I stumble upon a developer war story in a random comment here on HN. I love it so much that I also wanted to share some of the stories I've collected over the years working in IT.

I came up with the idea to present the stories in a somewhat unusual way, in the style of the malicious self-help book. The book gives you advice on how to succeed in IT, from the interview phase to the management, by acting like an immoral, unscrupulous person.

The advice is based on experiences with some shady, weird people I met throughout my career. After every chapter, there's a short story about the person who was the chapter's inspiration. I've worked with those people, so everything is a first-hand experience!

This was my first attempt at doing something like this, so go easy on me! :)

One cool fact! I used entirely free and open-source software for the creation of this title. That's why I'll donate 10% of all the proceeds to my favorite free software projects!
37 Signals Ends Affiliate Program - Refuses to Pay Less than $100
https://affiliate.37signals.com/affiliate/session/new
This is the email they sent me today http://cl.ly/image/2Z0g1x0u1A3V

Notice that they also sent this announcement with less than 12 hours notice. How nice.
Show HN: Open current Pull Request in browser with a single command
https://github.com/Wowu/pro
I wanted to save a few clicks every day, so I spent way too much time to create this simple tool. Learned a bit of Go along the way.

"pro" is a single command for opening Pull Request for current branch. Works with GitHub and Gitlab, on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Macbook Pro Retina Display Temporary Image Persistence Issue (Burn-In) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Y-b9B2hJc&
Just discovered this video.
Ask HN: hackernews coders have experience with high traffic web apps?
I am working on a start up, and I would like to lay a reasonable foundation for scaling. My theory has always been, if I need to scale, I'll be in a good position and that is a good problem to have, however I have some time and would like to at least do a decent job preparing for the possibility of higher growth and expansion.<p>I'm not a whiz at this, so wanted to see if there were any engineers out there that had experience in this that would impart some wisdom for a week or so, in exchange I can provide graphic design services.
Show HN: Simplenote – Notes with support for publishing (hosted, Markdown)
https://simplenote.com/
I use Simplenote for journaling and creating itineraries for my wife and I (publish as a webpage and send link). It's great. Robust export options too. I used to use Obsidian + iCloud sync daemon to facilitate continuity between my Windows desktop and my Macbook, but I started getting sync issues on Windows and a couple BSODs due to how the iCloud daemon handles timestamps. I picked up Simplenote and it's been working flawlessly. Very underrated IMO.
Ask HN: What do startups do for internal tech support?
I've been wondering this for a while. It mostly interests me because tech support is what I've been doing for the past 5+ years; it's what I'm good at.

While there doesn't seem to be a shortage of desktop support / sys admin jobs for established companies in the San Francisco bay area, most startups seem to be hiring programmers (which makes sense).

So, what do startups do for internal tech support? Do they just do it themselves? Outsource / hire contractors?

I'd be interesting in hearing any insight, as I'm working on a 1-year (hopefully) plan to move to the San Francisco bay area and would love to work for a startup.
International Olympiad in Informatics covered in Wired magazine
I have just read a nice article in WIRED magazine concerning the International Olympiad in Informatics. The performance of the American team is maybe old news already, but I wanted to cite the Wired magazine article on that story.

A story of intelligence, patience, competition, nerds, coaching and much more. Definitely a must in this month's Wired magazine's pages.

A few links:

http://web.me.com/dpiele/usaco/USACO.html

http://ioinformatics.org/index.shtml
Is the Government Down?
http://isthegovernmentdown.com/
Stay up to date on if the Government is down!
Ask PG: Why not AI in place of (or in addition to) comment voting?
So, in the time I've been here, it's been my understanding that there was a gentlemen's agreement of sorts that upvotes go to comments which "add to the discussion", even if the specific point of view is something the voter disagrees with. Here's the thing though: we shouldn't need to vote in order to determine what adds to the discussion. Certainly some fairly straightforward heuristics like Flesch-Kincaid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_test) Grade Level times number of replies (possibly adding in a factor for the F-K Grade Level of the replies to weed out long chains of drivel) should be relatively good at picking the best comments in a thread.

I'm not saying that voting should be eliminated entirely, but maybe it becomes just part of the heuristic. Imagine something like BCS standings, but for comments. Even vote tallies could become smarter, with votes from "trusted" users counting more heavily than those from "noobs" or well known rabble-rousers.

Finally, I think it would be really neat (assuming you like my proposal of a combined heuristic in place of voting) if the algorithm was open source. Take the Google view of "if you don't like the results, don't special case the outcomes, improve the algorithm!" This would have the added benefit of giving the world a first-class comment value sorting algorithm vetted by some of the top talent in the world, and dog-food-ed on a site where they care deeply about the quality of the discussion.
Engine Yard's Vertebra Released
http://www.engineyard.com/vertebra
Interesting...
Vertebra is a framework for orchestrating complex processes in a Cloud. It is designed with an emphasis on security, fault tolerance, and portability.
Ask HN: Please review my web app: online video converter
Encode (http://en.co.de/) is an online video converter built for people who don't care about conversion details. I've built Encode as part of November Startup Sprint (although it slipped a bit into Dec). I've written more about my experiences building it here: http://senko.net/en/experiences-building-encode/
Stanford dropouts are missing the boat on changing the world
http://blog.dormroomfund.com/2013/06/28/stanford-dropouts-are-missing-the-boat-on-changing-the-world/
Great new post from Dorm Room Fund member Neal Khosla on the merits of taking the time to learn fundamentals in school
Google Hotpot PM talks freely about Yelp Competition & more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zEC42W-UucA#t=290s
Great interview with Loir Ron the PM of Google Local/Hotpot, who speaks freely about a bunch of topics including competition with startups like Yelp.
Ask HN: Advice for a Student?
Here's my situation :

I'm 18 years old and where I come from, you have to take an exam (consisting of physics, chemistry & math) to get into a tech/engineering college. And your performance determines what college you get into. Since the last 2 years, I've been feeling extremely lost & demotivated and I performed terribly on my exam so I could only get into very mediocre colleges. I decided to give it another shot so I took a gap year & I will be trying again but I don't think that results will be much different this time either. My preparation is in a really bad spot & the mediocre colleges here are straight up garbage. The quality of teaching is abysmal. I feel like I'd be better off learning things on my own than going to such a college. There are so many amazing CS courses online that I can use to teach myself. But for most jobs here, a college degree is an essential requirement. Most of my friends went to any college they were getting into and I feel I'm wasting time every single moment. The regret is too much.

I just don't know what to do. I'm feeling totally lost and directionless on where to go on in life.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks!
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme
https://github.com/part-cw/lambdanative
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme, supporting Android, iOS, OS X, Linux, Windows and OpenBSD.
Police Unintentionally Censor Facebook, Google With 8000 Other Sites in Denmark
http://www.techieapps.com/police-unintentionally-censor-facebook-google-with-8000-other-sites-in-denmark/
It was amongst the most amusingly shocking and unsettling human error in the history of the Internet usage
All of the movies with Daft Punk in it
http://myze.us/search/artist?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=daft+punk&commit=Search
Ever wanted to find all the movies your favorite musical artist is in? Now you can. It's simple.
Suster on how to approach, pitch and powerpoint a VC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWHm5cfUBPs&feature=player_embedded
Great youtube video from Mark Suster of GRP partners