jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
JumpStart: Early-stage funding for Northeast Ohio start-ups
http://www.jumpstartinc.org/index.aspx
It's not a direct competitor to YC because they state: "On average, we invest $300,000 in our portfolio companies."
Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSKUA00315920070920?feedType=RSS&feedName=internetNews&rpc=22&sp=true
I see this as a huge business opportunity as increase in web-customers !!
Improve your jQuery
http://www.tvidesign.co.uk/blog/improve-your-jquery-25-excellent-tips.aspx
Doing some research for a new project and found this excellent jquery tip article.
Ask HN: What happens if you don't pay your rent during the pandemic?
Will you be kicked out? Who will enforce it? I'm thinking of saving the rent cash for other expenses during this period(mostly food and necessities).
Get your Github news feed in Tweetie
http://techno-weenie.net/2010/1/3/get-your-github-news-feed-in-tweetie
I wrote a github/twitter API gateway to use with Tweetie 2's custom endpoint feature. This is similar to the custom Tumblr and Wordpress endpoints.
Show HN: Code in Response to “The Trouble with Symlinks.”
https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/safepath/about/
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32190032

This was written in about the past hour or so; it has no documentation or test cases yet. Think twice before relying on it in production.

The idea is that we can perform a detailed validation of the trustworthiness of an absolute or relative path, as a simple function that can be reused anywhere: I call this function safepath_check.

A trustworthy path is one whose meaning cannot be changed by a third party: another user who isn't root.

The path is therefore immune, for instance, to TOCtoTOU security problems, like the insertion of a symbolic link or other tampering.

A trustworthy path is allowed to contain symbolic links. Symbolic links can be validated to be safe. To that end, safepath_check performs its own symlink resolution, to ensure that every link resolution step substitutes path material that is trustworthy.
Do People Really Want To Make New Facebook Friends Around the World?
http://www.theworldchat.com/
Would anyone be open to make a new friend with someone in a different country on facebook even if you've never met them in real life?
Show HN: Your Startup Perk Provider AnyPerk (YC W12) Gets A Redesign
https://anyperk.com/
We just redesigned AnyPerk, and we couldn’t be prouder. The products and services are now showcased on the website, instead of being hidden, and members sign in to access the perks and discounts. What do you think?
Ask HN: How can I Contribute to Robotics?
I'm convinced robotics and intelligent robot design will be the equivalent of the microprocessor in the coming decade. How can I develop a solid foundation in knowing how to make things that move and go? (If I've confused multiple disciplines, feel free to set me straight)
RTP Hackers & Founders, March 18, 2011  SplatSpace
http://www.meetup.com/RTP-Hackers-Founders/events/16762340/
Hey guys, good news... we're having another RTP Hackers & Founders Meetup, and this time we are in the beautiful city of Durham, NC, thanks to the folks at SplatSpace - Durham's hackerspace.

This is a change from past events, which have always been held at a bar or restaurant, but I think it's a net win. Why? Well, we don't have to compete with a bar full of people for places to sit / stand, and we don't have the noise and buzz of a full bar to deal with. BUT... conveniently, SplatSpace is within walking distance of both a bar and a coffee shop! So if people get tired of mingling at SplatSpace and want food/coffee/beer etc., we can migrate - individually or en masse - to one of the other establishments.

The other positive is that we have access to a project at SplatSpace, so if you want to bring a laptop to demo a project, or practice pitching your project or something along those lines, we can do that sort of thing.

It'll still be pretty unstructured and free-form, but this does give us some more options.
Ask HN: How to assess interviewee math skills without test questions?
I work on a small team at a large organization that routinely hires across the engineering spectrum (aerospace, computer, electrical, industrial, mechanical), and we are shifting our hiring culture to emphasize conversation and brainstorming rather than the use of whiteboard programming exercises or test questions that are pass/fail. While we find that this makes for a more inclusive process, our team's subject matter experts can get frustrated at our inability to probe in that manner.

What tips or activities have you found useful to use with interview candidates that assesses their mathematics skills or knowledge without asking them to do a programming or pass/fail test?
Your Face To The World
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000212.php
Good article on home-page design. I'm sure we can all agree on the importance of the home page, but the article goes into depth of the why and the how of it.

Some summarized points (lots more in the article):

"A home page's impact on a company's bottom line is far greater than simple measures of e-commerce revenues.
The home page is your company's face to the world. " - Jakob Nielsen

There are only two important functions for a home page:
The home page delivers the content to [users] that they are seeking (such as the top story on CNN ) or
The home page provides strong scent to those pages that contain the content the user seeks.

What Do Customers Want?

When customers visit your home page, their attention span is limited. They are busy and want to find answers quickly.
They don't want unnecessary distractions and will immediately leave and go to another site if they cannot find what they
want on your home page. They do not want to wade through marketing messages.

When customers arrive at your home page, they expect to find what they want quickly.
After all, the promise of the Web is to provide an efficient, alternative channel that
complements other channels like bricks-and-mortar shops and corporate customer support.

When customers visit a home page (whether for the first time or as repeat visitors) they might want to
satisfy an information need quickly
look for contact information like a phone number or email address
autonomously complete a task, without needing customer support
solve a problem
* buy a product
Geo Theme for Bootstrap
http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Think how much more productive the 90s could have been with Bootstrap...
Haskell.org down?
Does anybody know why haskell.org is down? it has been down for the past three days for me, and it looks like it is down for everybody:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/haskell.org

does anybody know if this is just regular downtime or otherwise?
Why I use Vim
http://pascalprecht.github.io/2014/03/18/why-i-use-vim/
I had a lot of discussions with my colleagues recently because they can't believe I use Vim for almost everything. This post is about why I do so.
IWantMyName launches "Domains for Apps" with support for 17 web apps & services
http://iwantmyname.com/features/custom-domain-applications-and-dns
iWantMyName is a user-friendly domain registration and management service that makes it easy to connect domains to the most popular web apps.
Show HN: GPG-fingerprint-filter-GPU – Collide GPG key fingerprints, CUDA powered
https://github.com/cuihaoleo/gpg-fingerprint-filter-gpu
This is a tool to collide OpenPGP / GnuPG key fingerprints that follow specific pattern (e.g. ending with 8 identical digits). CUDA is required to accelerate the computation. Satisfy your vanity by getting a special key :)

Initially I wrote this to learn CUDA programming, and partly to show people how easy it is to collide a short key ID - a 8-digit key fingerprint can be collided in a few seconds with my GTX 1650.

Recently I found some similar tools on GitHub (keyword: vanity key) but it seems that only mine takes advantage of CUDA / GPU. My friends has used it to generate an ed25519 key that has a fingerprint ending with 16 identical digits.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if fixed fingerprints result in any security implication.
CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE69J38020101020
Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.
Show HN: WebRTC bandwidth estimation from static videos
https://github.com/pion/webrtc/tree/master/examples/bandwidth-estimation-from-disk
Hey HN,

This is an example of playing static content using WebRTC, with a bandwidth estimator! This just added to Pion and really excited to see what people can do with it.

WebRTC has a lot of potential in this space. It’s ubiquity and flexibility are really helping it grow.
Ask HN: Checkout my startup. And anybody in Calgary?
The main page is here: http://www.formlis.com/
The demo gallery is here: http://www.demo.formlis.com/
A couple tutorials here: http://www.tutorial.formlis.com/

I created Formlis to simplify custom CRUD development. It's an online database that's like a Wiki. In addition to regular wiki syntax, you can use a bar of underlines to create fill-in-he-blank fields. Pages with blanks can save data which you can review using 'views' -- predefined reports you can create. The tutorials cover syntax for pages and views --- the goal was to make both simple enough for an average user.

I hoped to have a handful of early adopters while I added per-user security, file uploads, page revisions, etc. But I'm not well connected and can't become connected without losing programming time. Instead I've got a big update coming that I hope will be easier to administer and let me implement a 0-touch sales model.

The software works, it's being lightly used by my dad, and it's time to put together a team (and eventually present to investors). I'm looking for good programmers in Calgary who will work for stock. If you like Lisp and Forth so much the better.
Ask HN: Have you ever outsourced development and if so, how did it go?
While usually not a good long term strategy, outsourcing development overseas can be cheap and smart approach when technology isn't the core of the business.<p>I'd like to hear about your experiences and recommendations of where to look for engineering talent.
Ask HN: What kind of ad revenue are you seeing from Android apps?
Merry Christmas Eve!

I'm just curious about what kinds of revenue Android developers are experiencing and on which ad networks. I'm generally speaking about free apps that are ad supported.
Ask HN: Which android handset you use?
I'm learning android development and wanna buy an android handset that is available under 10k INR? Which android handset are you guys using?
Customer Buying Hierarchy
http://travid.info/blog/customer-buying-hierarchy/
Free creates its own problems that stand in the way of innovation.
Lisp hacker writes an outstandingly popular book
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=2128
It's a novel!
Show HN: Tuido, a Terminal Todo List
https://github.com/NiloCK/tuido
This is my personal todo app, which I made a while back after the original https://xit.jotaen.net/ post. tuido is written in go, with the bubbletea tui framework.

My daily workflow involves creating YYYY-MM-DD.md and taking notes, many of which are effectively low-level todos that fall below the threshold for more public or involved issue trackers. Problem was that these half-hazard todos weren't tracked at all.

After seeing the [x]it spec, it seemed clear that a little tooling could fix this. I've been reasonably happy with it.
Ask HN: How to approach making a 3D Game Engine?
This has been a project that I knew I wanted to undertake for years now.

I'm slowly reading books, improving my general programming skills in the process (I'm a CS & Math student also working as a developer of educational games in JavaScript using a proprietary engine), but it feels like when I exhaust the general-purpose books aimed at turning me into an all-round better developer (Clean Code, Pragmatic Programmer and Effective C++ are ones that currently have my attention) - I'm left with a giant body of information relevant to the task at hand and no knowledge of where to start.

I want to mess with all the nitty-gritty details, and learn how to write neat, performant and extensible code. Do the math. Do it all.

But I have no focus. All I know is that I want to delve into OpenGL and C++, but I don't really have a clear picture of what should be done with them. What are the basics of engine development that I should start with?

I only have tidbits of information gathered from here and there, but nothing is formed in my brain and it's a bit frustrating.

I'm scared that if I just start with no clear direction, I'm going to end up throwing away lots of code and become discouraged.

Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you.
3. Plutocracy
AutoMicroFarm: Aquaponics farm/garden for the back yard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454342
11454342
Collaborative Editing in Emacs using Floobits (to Vim and Sublime)
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-emacs
We (Floobits) just finished the alpha release of our emacs plugin. This plugin allows emacs users to collaborate on multiple files at the same time as Sublime and Vim users. We also have a basic web based editor with google hangout integration.

The plugin uses an external python process for most of the heavy lifting and requires python2.7 although 2.6 may work.

I'm happy to help anyone who runs into any problems.
World's oldest blogger makes final post
http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/worlds-oldest-blogger-makes-final-post/2008/07/14/1215887490954.html
R.I.P Olive
Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Living/Working in a technology backwater
This is a question for those of you that don't live in a major city, or anywhere that has a population remotely clued up.

I live in an area in the UK that I can only describe as a 'technology backwater'. I see a few iPhones around (but I would guess most people struggle to use them), I've never seen an Android phone here although I do see a lot of £10 pay&go specials. I can count the number of 'decent' developers in the area on one hand.

A few people have tried running different types of meetups, etc... but, at most, 5 people have ever turned up.

One the one hand, it's easy to differentiate yourself from the rest, get freelance work, etc. It's kind of an easy gig.

On the other hand, there's no one to chat to, challenge yourself, or use for motivation to improve. It makes it difficult to 'talk shop' with anyone... the closest you get is "how can I get a website setup?", which as you can imagine gets boring pretty quickly.

The same can be said for business issues.

Does anyone else have a similar experience? How do you deal with it?
Cloud Out Loud Podcast Series
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/announcing-the-engine-yard-cloud-out-loud-podcast/
It’s my pleasure to introduce the new Engine Yard Cloud Out Loud podcast series, the premier discussion forum for important topics in Ruby, Rails and the cloud. We will be interviewing the brilliant people who have contributed their time and energy into advancing these technologies and ensuring that they are useful for developers, who use them to create amazing applications.
Simple cli to manage your tasks (you haven't seen one like this before)
https://github.com/minhajuddin/taskr#readme
Any inputs on improving this would be awesome. I've been using it happily for a more than a few months.
Medical marijuana store gets Discovery reality show 
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/07/20/marijuana-discovery-weed-reality-show/
I do a lot of web development for the local marijuana businesses. I have suggested to them numerous times to start a reality show. Funny enough, I think they are contacting HBO...
Developers, even Linus, should stop being cranky and start showing some respect
http://www.hopelesscom.de/2012/5/13/pull_requests,_developers_and_respect.html
being a bit more friendly would really not hurt.
Leadership of Egypt's ruling party resigns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt;_ylt=Ah64_oJgvZtOa2s4.ByfHWqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM4azBpbjNlBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMjA1L21sX2VneXB0BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDbGVhZGVyc2hpcG9m
Edit: My bad. I thought Mubarak but it is his son and another guy.
I changed the title so that is was accurate instead of my initial "Mubarak resigns". My apologies for adding to the confusion.
Ask HN: Help Me Build a Better Google Health
Hey HN,

I'm in the early stages of coding a simple medical/health tracker. The purpose of this project is really to both better my skills, and to offer a useful service. What'd I'd like to hear are some suggestions any of you may have as to what you'd like to see in a medical/health tracker, as well as frustrations you might've experienced using Google Health or other similar services. Anything from feature suggestions to criticisms of the idea in general are welcome.

I'm calling it Welloscope (http://www.wellosocope.com) and you can reach me at hi@welloscope.com if you'd like.

Thanks a lot.
New Audio Codec
http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/Public%20Multiformat%20Listening%20Test%20@%2064kbps.htm
Greetings,<p>There has been significant advancement since the last 64kbps test. The Nero HE-AAC and Aoyumi Vorbis encoders improved, Apple added HE-AAC capability, and we have a new low delay codec with high quality: CELT.<p>http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/Public%20Multiformat%20Listening%20Test%20@%2064kbps.htm<p>The following codecs are presented in this test:
Nero 1.5.4 HE-AAC
Apple QuickTime 7.6.9 HE-AAC
Ogg Vorbis AoTuV 6.02 Beta
CELT 0.11.2<p>Even the single result is helpful.
Ask HN: what % is reasonable to expect for active users
So I've launched my little web app this year and looking at the stats, we've had about 2000 sign-ups and about 3-4% are active users.

Not much really, what should I expect?

I was reading that evernote, a similar app to mine (related to productivity but not mission-critical) now has 1 million registered, 360,000 active, that's a lot better!

Now not to compare myself with them directly but is it fair to say that my conversion rate right now is crap? especially given the app is free
Ask HN: If you did a CS related bachelors, what was your final solo project?
Also interesting to note would be what happened to your final project/dissertation once you completed your degree.
A rendering of Lumia 800 and its icons made in pure CSS3
http://tjrus.com/lumia/
Lumia 800 and its icons made in pure CSS3. No images, no base64, no SVG, no canvas, just a lot of CSS3 and a little bit of Javascript (with jQuery, of course).

Viewed best with the latest versions of Safari and Chrome in Mac OS X.
Erlang FizzBuzz Showdown (Part 2): Transferring PHP/Ruby/Python to Erlang
http://www.joelhughes.co.uk/blog/2009/05/erlang-fizzbuzz-showdown-pt2/
Following on from yesterday's guide to transferring skills from PHP/Ruby/Python over to Erlang
Show HN: RSS reader with bayesian filter
There's lots of improvements I'd like to make but thought I should get some feedback first to see if anyone's interested in it.

The main page just shows the most recent feed items (currently from only the 3 feeds I've added myself), but the idea is that it'll show the most popular items aggregated from all users. It also provides TLDR summaries for each item, based on word frequency.

http://bayfig.com

EDIT: Typo
Learn web design?
I've been a professional career for a couple of years now, doing lot on my side projects. I feel very proficient in terms of languages and frameworks, but there's one thing I can't really grasp. Web design, and I don't mean technicalities like JS/HTML/CSS. Whenever I do an application with a we frontend, no matter how interesting it is in terms of the features, it always looks like shit.

So, HN reader, do you have any resources on learning how to design (and implement?) a web page that would not be hideous?
IQ increases with age.
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/News/1001967.html
Contrary to popular belief that the brain is at its peak between 18 and 26, new study shows that verbal ability increases for at least two decades past 20, and arithmetic ability remains constant.
Batch Thumbnail Generator w/ Drag and Drop support
http://mudcu.be/labs/Thumbnail-Generator/
- Tug on images to resize them, or enter a specific width and height.
- Crop images "to fit", or "to edges", or not at all.
- Center the image horizontally & vertically, or not at all.
- Add a background color to your outputted images, or transparency.
- Export batches of thumbnails in JPEG or PNG format compressed into a .zip package.
Show HN: Endless Horizon with 70M+ AI Search Engine of all Top-notch models
https://enterpix.app/
Hi HN! This website curates artworks generated by all AI models. It also offers an image generation feature. Have Fun!
How important is site design?
I am anal about how clean our site is to the point that sometimes, I piss even myself off. Given that you have a very usable product in a not-so-crowded playing field, is site design a major factor? Or do you just do google did? Release a usable, but messy, product and clean the design later.
Should the web be personalized?
http://blog.pubexchange.com/web-personalized/
The average person visits 2,646 web sites per month across 89 domains. That is 89 different voices that give the average person a cross-section of new and interesting topics that they may want to explore. What if all 89 voices said the same thing?
How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning
n Eastern cultures, Stigler says, it's just assumed that struggle is a predictable part of the learning process. Everyone is expected to struggle in the process of learning, and so struggling becomes a chance to show that you, the student, have what it takes emotionally to resolve the problem by persisting through that struggle
Git merge vs git rebase: avoiding rebase hell
http://jarrodspillers.com/articles/git-merge-vs-git-rebase-avoiding-rebase-hell
Thorough explanation of the difference between a merge and a rebase along with some nice diagrams.
How to Optimize Copy & Paste Data to Maximize Page Views
http://blog.markerly.com/2012/11/27/82-of-sharing-is-done-by-copy-paste/
82% of sharing is done by copy and paste. Learn how to track and leverage this data to increase your page views and SEO.
Review my Chrome extension : FlashPlus
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/emaamodndfmmmcjepfigalbjjjemadom
I like playing flash games and watching videos in full screen, but Flash Full screen does not let me multi-task. So I wrote an extension that lets me resize flash on web pages
Ask HN: Should I take an "Entrepreneur in Residence" position at a small VC?
I'm a religious hacker news reader, but I don't participate in conversations as much as I should. Still, I find myself in need of all of your wisdom and experience, so I'd definitely appreciate your opinions.

After my last company sold, I had the good fortune of meeting the folks at a relatively small VC firm based out of Salt Lake City, UT. They seem to have a good reputation, and they've made some interesting investments.

After a few conversations they asked me if I'd be interested in their EIR position. I would split my time 60/30 between working with their portfolio companies and working on my own ideas, and I would be compensated for my time.

My question: is taking this sort of position at a small VC good or bad for your career? Would you take it?

Any input is much appreciated!