jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Re-thinking music with ZIIBRA
http://ziibra.com
Hey HN,

I've been working on this project with a kick-ass team for the past 8 months, and we finally launched it last week.

ZIIBRA helps up-and-coming artists make music their full time job. Using our music, the more fans that pledge to purchase an album the cheaper a project becomes because the price is driven down through their social network outreach. Cheaper price = Happy fans. Plus, the artists benefit too. By pre-selling a new album, artists get fan reach, cash flow to fund the project, and a marketing platform to cross-promote their new work!

I was hoping to get some feedback back from the community, and see what the general reaction is.

Cheers,

Omri
Another Linux file notification subsystem
http://lwn.net/Articles/339253/
From the article: a new notification system, sorta like inotify, only instead of an
arbitrary 'watch descriptor' which userspace has to know how to map back
to an object on the filesystem, fanotify provides an open read-only fd
back to the original object.
MT9: An mp3 replacement?
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/17/mt9-next-compressed-music-format
T9 could be the next format for digital music, if the Motion Picture Experts Group (the people behind .MPEG video) approve it. The possible MP3 usurper offers up to six tracks of audio to be compressed together, theoretically allowing different instruments to inhabit their own distinctive tracks.
What Are Your Startup's Core Values?
http://www.infochachkie.com/corevalues/
You can creative a competitive advantage by having and promoting strong Core Values - A Map For The Ethical Bumps In The Startup Road.
Ask HN: Not many apps released as the part of November startup sprint.
This is reference to:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398

Not many days left in November but I haven't seen many apps posted on HN this month as part of startup sprint. Just being curious here.
New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Helps Rescue Your News.YC Time
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/01/23/new-rescuetime-goals-and-alerts-actually-helps-rescue-your-time/
"RescueTime users have spent: 38 days on news.ycombinator.com"
Show HN: Mobile Prototyping App I've been working on over 3 years
Hi I'm the developer of UX-App if you have any questions then fire away :)

Just thought I'd give you all some background. I'm a high school teacher by day and developer by night. I was bitten by the start-up bug a few years ago and UX-App is my first product launch. In between a full time job and a 5 month old at home it has taken about 3.5 years to complete the project.

I'd like to think its a unique product that holds its own against the existing competition and even has some features that no other tool has.

My favorite aspect is the visual code builder which allows designers to easily define complex animation and program flow without writing code :)

Let me know what you think.

btw: I borked a couple of submissions in the last 12 hours, hope one final post is ok.

Cheers, Eli

link: https://www.ux-app.com
What programming languages have you used this year? #code2011
http://code2011.hybridgroup.com/
What programming languages have you used this year? Find out what other people are saying on Twitter #code2011 with our handy mini-site
When terrible things happen to people I can't help...
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/323909260826259457
Just lost a lot of respect. Not what I would expect from you.
The faster the Internet becomes, the slower it loads pages
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15523761
Latencies introduced by Advertising, are substantial IMO as well.
Ask HN: I am doing nothing with my life
I am a developer. I am just doing simple CRUD applications at work which pays quite well and has great perks. But I am doing nothing useful to the society really... I'd love work something related to space, or brains, or artificial intelligence, or something amazing. I want to do something great, but I am too average for that. Recently graduated. I just don't know... I probably just have it too good or I'm just meant to be miserable.
Fun CS Quiz
http://www.sporcle.com/games/csvocab.php
It's not really a hacker quiz - it's more academic CS terms. But it's fun.
What I learned today: Take a break
http://www.venturebent.com/2011/06/what-i-learned-today-take-a-break/
Im starting a new series of short, daily posts as part of my contribution to VentureBent. Therefore, starting today I will be posting about what I learn while living and breathing the NYC tech scene.
Chatroulette Data: Help Compile (NSFW)
http://vandelay.whatsmyimage.com/cr/profile.php
I've compiled a bunch of scraped video stills from chatroulette, but I need a human review of each photo to identify the gender, estimated age, and certain attributes of what appears in the photo.

Since these are from chatroulette, some of these photos will undoubtedly be NSFW.

Once all the data is compiled, I'll publish the results to HackerNews. If you can donate a minute to profile a few photos at the link provided, I promise the result will be super interesting.

Thanks in advance (and please forgive the awful UI).
Quipt: Client side javascript caching
http://code.google.com/p/quipt/
qUIpt is a small library that is capable of caching Javascript files inside the users browser - even if SSL is active. qUIpt helps the site owner by reducing traffic costs and the user with faster page loading.
Why you don't steal from a hacker.
http://infosec20.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-you-dont-steal-from-hacker.html
My flat was raided and ransacked during the London riots, but thanks to tracking software I fed intel to the London Metro police until he was apprehended and my laptop returned.
NHS staff should code - Kelsey
http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/ehi/8101
Tim Kelsey, the NHS Commissioning Board’s first national director of patients and information, is to encourage doctors and nurses and other front-line staff to learn how to program.
Ask HN: As a software engineer, how do I best learn basic network engineering?
Is there a "System Design Primer" equivalent for network engineering for application developers?

In school I never took networking class and I never had to use any of the networking utilities/commands at job beyond a simple telnet to check of host/port is reachable.

I have looked into youtube videos --- but they are all too abstract and tend to go into enough depth only many videos later.

I have looked into coursera courses --- same deal as youtube videos.

So, to summarize the problem with all these tutorials seems to be too much time commitment -- unfortunately I don't have that much time.

Perhaps a good tutorial would be something that would be a hands-on tutorial based on several scenarios.

Any advice?

Thanks

PS: it's embarrassing to admit I have more than 10 years of experience and I still don't know the basics of network engineering.
Show HN: Sandatum Analytics – A Google Analytics Replacement
http://www.sandatum.com/
GA has some features I don't, and vice versa, which will come in time, hoping to get your feedback on the first round.
Rocket man
http://queensu.ca/news/alumnireview/rocket-man
“I was going to do physics and engineering at Waterloo, but then I visited the campus … and, you may not want to print this,” he says with a laugh, “but there didn’t seem to be any girls there! So, I visited Queen’s, and there were girls there. I didn’t want to spend my undergraduate time with a bunch of dudes.” - Elon Musk
Is this microservice?
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1upfZP0O8Jn3izR59TmWe0F31doHQci-KGEBryYJcb6M
A web frontend to receive requests. Some requests are stored in a pub/sub message broker like Kafka / RabbitMQ. Some daemons would subscribe to the broker and do some work. Any processes would have HTTP REST API call / Thrift RPC to some other functional services. Each of those functional services and daemons are load balanced.

Is this microservice?
Immigrant founder of indee.tv stuck in Vancouver due to visa hassle
http://sharanreddy.com/2009/09/founders-visa-please/
A post by an immigrant entrepreneur who's being denied re-entry to the US, in support of the founder's visa / startup visa.
Ask HN: Has the HN Community changed for the worse?
Increasingly I have felt a hesitation to post my thoughts on HN as it seems that more often now than in the past my comments are down-voted because of a disagreement with my opinion rather than a reflection on the quality or "rudeness" of my comment's content. Sometimes I can be rude, and down-votes are not unexpected in those cases of course.

Some possible reasons for this are:

1. I've become more sensitive.
2. The quality of my comments have gone down.
3. More people are using the down-vote privilege to express simple disagreement.

Of course, this is not a complete list.

#1 is unlikely, I am doubtful that my personality has changed much over 3 years. #2 is possible, as I get more comfortable on HN I am more likely to post poorly thought out or emotional comments. My theory behind how #3 could be the reason is that the type of user that is gaining the down-vote privilege is changing.

Regardless if this is real or imagined I am certainly feeling this way and wondering if others feel this way. A key point is that this is not the way I felt about HN initially. I've been on HN for about 3 years, this negative sentiment has been growing for roughly the last year.

If the reason for the change is #3, what could be a solution? I really love the site and would hate to wind up not using it. One idea I had was for more visibility given to the down-votee. Up-voting affects the placement of a comment on the page (i think?) and ticks the little score counter but down-voting can completely remove a comment or at least make it harder to read. Down-voting is a more powerful action (vs up-voting) and it is an ability only given to a limited number of users. It might be time to try to implement some sort of repercussion for "misusing" this ability or to redefine what proper use of this ability is. I have not thought this through from a product perspective at all, I think the first step is just to see if others feel this way or I am imagining it.
Solandra = Solr + Cassandra
http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/10/27/solr-cassandra-solandra/
Based on code linked from a previous HN story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=861196)
Ask HN: My MongoDB resources site Mongofu.com, good/bad?
Hey HN'ers,

I'm a long time reader, first time contributor. Anyway, this is a little project of mine, a place where people can post MongoDB related tutorials and questions. http://mongofu.com/

I've been working on this to develop some of my skills in webdev, something I want to move into later on I guess (currently a graduate telecoms engineer). So don't be gentle, be mean =).

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Sonny Mai

http://mongofu.com/
When to fly to get there on time? Six million flights analyzed
http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2014/11/06/flight-delays/
Every US flight in 2013 analysed
Show HN: Krita Stable Diffusion Plugin
https://github.com/w4ffl35/krita_stable_diffusion
This is still a very new project under active development but I wanted to show it off in case anyone is interested in bookmarking it or contributing.

Demo here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maWR7dDf4SE

Although it will be improving, the codebase has a few issues

The Good

- ability to multitask within krita while generating images

- uses a queue so you can queue up multiple images without waiting for your other batches to come back

- no need for a webserver (uses sockets to communicate)

- clean code

- active development (i want to use this tool myself)

- uses stablediffusiond and stablediffusion as separate repos, these can be swapped out as desired with some hacking

The Bad

- currently relies on rabbitmq and doesn't provide another option

- plugin only does txt2txt. img2img works but is disabled

- must acquire the model manually

The ugly

- not all of the features work yet. in fact you can only generate an image.

- installation is somewhat involved (requires CUDA 11.3, rabbitmq and more) - there is an installation file and instructions but likely need improvement,

Krita Stable Diffusion plugin

https://github.com/w4ffl35/krita_stable_diffusion

stablediffusiond (daemon / queue runners)

https://github.com/w4ffl35/stablediffusiond/tree/feature/krita-plugin

stable diffusion

https://github.com/w4ffl35/stable-diffusion/tree/feature/krita-plugin

---

if anyone uses this and runs into problems, just open an issue in the appropriate repo and i'll do my best to help.
Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation
http://makerops.com
Hi, I have a 9-5 in "devops" writing puppet/chef code, and do freelancing on the side, I am putting together a site to teach entry level, or even experienced admins who don't mess with development much, a way to get through the learning curve. If you write ruby, you have probably heard of railscasts, my goal is the be the railscasts for system admins, teaching openstack/aws's APIs, how to write chef/puppet providers and recipes/manifests respectively, and how to manage things on the server platform (open source chef/puppet servers) as well.

On the flip side, I aim to teach devs how to roll your own systems, in a safe, scalable manner.

What do you guys think, any suggestions?
Ask HN: How long did you continue working your day job while working on an MVP?
Has anybody done this, and if so, how did it work out? Did you wait to quit until you got revenue or external funding? Anybody regret not committing 100% from day one?
Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals
https://gorillaterminal.com/landing?ref=HN
I made a site to do investment research faster and more efficent, with links to 10k 10Q, charts, industry averages, macro economic data, hedgefund reports and much more
Show HN: Keyboard Jobs – A job board which truly understands software developers
https://keyboardjobs.com
Hi HN,

When my daughter got born this year I decided to take 6 months off to be at home with my new daughter and spend the first few months together with her and my wife to be hands on in those first few crucial months. Throughout that time I always kept an eye on the job market so I could stay in the loop and better gauge what my prospects would be to go back into work later, not least because of the economic turmoil.

However, I got immensely frustrated with existing job boards advertising software developer jobs. I didn't feel like they included a lot of information which engineers actually care about or even basic things like a salary range. Additionally I observed discussions on HN how increasingly more software engineers say they wouldn't want to work for a company anymore if they use technology X or Y. With that in mind I created Keyboard Jobs and launched it a few weeks ago.

So far I've been mostly talking friends at former companies I've worked with or sent cold emails with 100% discounted voucher codes to get the first jobs listed. It's been moderately successful but I am ready to gather more feedback on what hackers would love to see from a job board made for them!
Ask HN: Suggested software /design/ books?
I've learnt plenty of programming languages, from C to Java to Squeak to Haskell to Lisp, but I have not made as many 'finished' programs as I'd like.

I've found, despite knowing and using plenty of programming constructs, I've not really managed complexity as well as I'd like.

The result being my programs end up being too complex to maintain, with the ultimate result being they're left to rot in some directory in my filesystem.

I've heard of 'Thinking in Java/C++' and 'The Practice of Programming'. Does HN have any recommended books on software design?
Apple starts 2014 with 41.6% US smartphone share, Samsung at 26.7%; BlackBery...
http://www.freshtechapps.com/comscore-apple-starts-2014-with-41-6-us-smartphone-share-samsung-at-26-7-blackberry-falls-below-windows-phone/
Apple has continued its dominance in the start of 2014 being as the top smartphone as of first month of this year with 41.6 percent share.
LESS – The Dynamic Stylesheet
http://designmodo.com/less/
Just a short review about LESS. Useful refresh.
Creating a hacking environment for girls in Chicago
https://www.piggybackr.com/seabdalla/chicago-girls-in-computing-encourage-girls-in-tech-fundraiser
The Chicago Girls in Computing group is aimed to create an environment for young women in computing to come and hack. The group will sponsor regular meetings, as well as programming classes, and Arduinos for use by members. This organization is the first of its kind in the Chicago area.
Apple's MobileMe drops support for IE6
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1072-apples-mobileme-drops-support-for-ie-6
I'm also hoping that this is the beginning of a trend.
Ask HN: Impact of of [dead] links on submitter privileges
I have great respect for Hacker News. I visit the site every day and have tried my best to contribute to the high quality of the site.

I posted on HN when I quit my corporate job (id=209576). I've posted about my time at Sun (1999-2007) and about my experience as a manager. I've attend start up school numerous times and have really enjoyed the experience.

I tell you all this because I want to make it clear that I am a real person here and not someone who has tried to promote their start up or do any kind of spam. In this question, I will not post any links directly that go outside of HN.

HubPages is now a site that has been blacklisted at Hacker News (For the record, I still a big fan of HubPages even though I stopped working there in February). All the links that I submitted from HubPages are now marked [dead] even though they work fine. To be clear, I do not have any problem with this. Hacker News has been maintaining a high quality of content for news stories. I understand that this is part of what happens.

I understand why the links have been marked [dead]. HubPages is a user generated web site and as such, many of its users have used whatever means to promote their links. This has resulted in low quality submissions and spammers and that's why HubPages has been uniformly blocked. Wikipedia also has HubPages blocked (An editor at Wikipedia did eventually approve links I posted to blog.hubpages.com because they saw that they were relevant to the article on HubPages).

I write this because I want to make clear that all the links I posted here were to blog.hubpages.com and were to links to blog posts that I wrote and which I hoped would be interesting to the audience on HN. These were my views on the trends in the social content space.

None of the stories I submitted got any above a 1 rating. This may because it was linked to HubPages. This may be because the content is my stories was judged not to be too interesting. I accept those judgments. It is those judgments which makes Hacker News such a great site! After getting enough of those nonresponses, I stopped submitting any of my blog posts to HN.

My question is how does having [dead] links in your submissions affect your status at HN? I ask this because it seems to me to be a mark of shame to have it, as if I've been labeled a spammer. I think if someone has a large number, that should penalize them. I have 7 of them at present.

I thought that it might be valuable to ask this question since other people active on this site, especially user-generated web sites will hit issues of web site reputation. If a link that we post becomes [dead], does this have any effect on the user? Will this person automatically be denied if they apply to start up school? Is there any process for getting a change in status to [dead] links?

Is there a list anywhere of all the web sites that are currently blocked on HN?

Thanks very much

-Larry
Ask HN: I want to write a simple webapp, how should I start?
First of all, thanks for reading this, you probably have read it many times before.

So, here is what I want to do: I want to index some of my magazines. My webapp should have a search field, where I can type in a single phrase or look up complete issues.

I know that I need a database in the backend for this (that I need to populate).

But since I have no experience in developing (neither web nor other) and only possess a "dangerous half knowledge), I'd thought I ask your advice.

Which road should I start on? PHP + MySQL would be the first to come into my mind, but since I'm a clean slate, would it make sense to start with something completley different (and maybe as accessible)?

Thanks for taking the time to read and answer, looking forward to your input.
Show HN: Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback?
http://messagify.com
Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying something new and releasing the documentation to an app while we're still building it.

We'd love feedback. Do you belong to any of these categories?

1) You've built an app with two distinct groups of users (say, people with cars and those looking for a ride) and they were able to communicate with each other. Did you expose personal email addresses? Did you send notification emails that people could reply to directly in their inbox? Or were they only able to read and reply to messages on your site?

2) You built an app where you wished users could message each other but didn't add that feature. What stopped you? Did you try to parse incoming email? What tools or APIs did you try out?

If you note which group(s) above you belong to in your comment that'd be great :)

Thanks so much for the help!
What It's Like To Be A Startup CEO - The Backstory
http://founderdating.com/pauldejoebackstory/
The sequel to Paul DeJoe's epic @quora post. He talks of the lowest points he's experienced as an entrepreneur that shaped that post and what keeps him going.
Perhaps Jeff Atwood Should Stick to the Code
http://supervacuo.com/blog/2013/jan/22/jeff-atwood-stick-to-the-code/
Better late than never, right?
Ask HN: "Rockstar" job listings, yay or nay?
Is the use of the term "rockstar" by the "average/generic small business, corporate department or other software shop" in a job listing generally appropriate?

Do you find it to be an overused, dead, beaten horse of a meme? Do you find it's often overused and abused by non-technical hiring personnel? Do you find it's often used in lieu of appropriate title and/or compensation?

Do you find that it automatically prejudices you against a job listing?

Do you use the term rockstar in your own job listings? If so, where do you see your startup or shop on the scale of gee whiz hotness?
Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides.
http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/dear-nsa-let-me-take-care-ou
Dear NSA, you can do whatever with my data. But not with my eyes. Those slides are hideous.

So here's a quick revamp of your #PRISM slides.
Ask HN: How do you begin to build your new project?
I'm embarking on my first "decent-size" project - I know that's quite hard to define with the large variety of HNers.

It's a Rails app. So far most of my planning has been on paper, which I like as it is very quick, accurate and I can do it almost anywhere.

However it's hard to edit (pencil/eraser is fine for small areas - but what about moving large parts of a layout/diagram), impossible to search and not backed up anywhere.

So how do you guys do this? I have tried Visio, Gliffy and one or two others for loosely "UML" diagramming - just to get models and their relationships down, but I can't find anything I get on with.

Bonus question; what is your guys process for beginning a new project? Do you plan user flows/stories and base your models around those interactions? I'm looking to learn from you guys and your experience so any info in this regard would be fantastic, thankyou!