jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What's with the text shadow trend? It hurts my eyes
Why use text shadow for everything on your page? It makes it painful to read sometimes. Sure, Github looks decent with it, but using it for things like documentation is just evil.

For example - http://dev.twitter.com/doc/geo - it makes me think I need new contacts.
Oh God, this one too - http://blog.assetmap.com/2010/12/giving/zuckerberg-person-of-the-year-and-first-ceo-of-our-generation/

The day this trend goes away will be a victory for all readers of the web!
Why Twitter should fear the new Facebook
http://peterharrington.info/post/88959959/why-twitter-should-fear-the-new-facebook-design
Why twitter should fear the new facebook
Do Things That Don't Scale Applies to Software Too
http://blog.hubdoc.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-applies-to-software-too/
@baudehlo riffs on @paulg with his node.js sax.
CUBRID 8.4.0 has arrived w/ x2 faster database engine
http://blog.cubrid.org/news/cubrid-8-4-0-has-arrived-w-x2-faster-database-engine/
CUBRID has just released the new version of its open source database. The new release comes with x2 faster database engine, 90% MySQL compatibility, extended implicit type conversion, and many more! This official blog post shows the performance and optimization results and explains how the team managed to reach these results. Nice article to learn about the Web optimized DBMS.
Amazon episode 'purchases' now with ads
http://www.amazon.com/Fugue-and-Ritts/dp/B00B2LCW8O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359130266&sr=8-1&keywords=archer+season+4
Looks like shows you 'buy' off Amazon are now coming with ads. People seem pretty upset.

On the upside, Archer.
Is it too late for a Digg comeback?
http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/30/is-it-too-late-for-a-digg-comeback/
Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.
Future Tense – The chatbot and the Drone
http://mags.acm.org/communications/july_2014/m2/Page.action?pg=114
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/7/176207-future-tense-the-chatbot-and-the-drone/abstract
Windows 7 RC to be announced publicly on May 5th
http://techcombo.com/windows-7-rc-to-be-announced-publicly-on-may-5th
This time Microsoft have a set date for the release of Windows 7 RC, so it will not be belated!

Microsoft Partners has been renovated and now states that Windows 7 Release Candidate will announced to the community on May 5th 2009, which is only 10 days away! However, the benefit for you MSDN and Technet subscribers is that you can download it right now!

In addition to the release date, I think it could still be another dream for it to be unveiled in May, backed up by the evidence from last months Microsoft news or alternatively this date could be just a hint that the operating system will be here in the near future...
2009, SF is the worst run big city, has anything changed?
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-city-in-the-u-s/
I read this a while back and was reminded by another post on SF public transport today. HN community, has anything changed?
Raising money for a Startup explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCjwBkMJ_E
By Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/)
Ask HN: Developer Dashboard: Is there a central dashboard for developers?
In my daily work, I use many tools to get my work done. Some of them are Gitlab, Sentry, Newrelic, Kibana, Slack, Jira, Confluence. The amount of time I spend in switching between these tools to get information decreases my productivity. Is there a tool/product targetting the developers to create a dashboard of contents that I want from the tools?
Show HN: MouseTray – on-the-fly speed adjustment for any old office mouse
https://github.com/EsportToys/MouseTray
Another one of my little AutoIt utility, decided to polish it up into a more presentable form.

I frequently use MSPaint when brainstorming or deriving equations, and had become quite proficient at handwriting using the mouse.
I reduce the mouse speed whenever I need to make small-ish annotations without zooming in, then switch back to normal settings for interacting with GUI.

Many fancy mice have "on-the-fly" adjustments shortcuts that only works with their proprietary driver, and only for their specific devices.
If I'm at a workstation with a generic office mouse then it's very cumbersome to constantly go back and forth between Control Panel and the application when switching between drawing and navigation.

So I wrote this little "Volume Control"-esq tray app to make it so that I could just hold down CapsLock and move the scrollwheel to adjust the mouse speed, and click the middle button to reset when I'm done.
Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) aquires The Pirate Bay for $7,8 Million. 
http://www.globalgamingfactory.com/
Global Gaming Factory claims to buy thepiratebay.org and peerialism.com. Press briefing at 11.00 GMT +1 (Stockholm time).
Eingebaut -  JS library to enable simple cross-browser video playback
http://eingebaut.net/
We at 23 have open sourced the entire technology behind our new players and player frame work. As a part of that, Eingebaut is a JavaScript library built to enable simple cross-browser video playback. It supports the vast majority of both desktop and mobile browsers. It does both on-demand and live video.

Behind the scenes, the library will use either HTML5 <video> or Adobe Flash to display the video and its poster/thumbnail. As a programmer though, you will be able to interact with the video in a single JavaScript API which exposes relevant methods and events. Eingebaut also has a consistent way of working with full screen, whether through HTML5 or Flash.
Is It Easy To Be a Developer in Agile Team?
http://marekblotny.com/2010/08/is-it-easy-to-be-a-developer-in-agile-team/
Conventionally role of developers in a project was fairly narrow. Project Manager was assigning tasks to developers; they were working on it and when done whole process was repeated for another task. Usually developers where left alone with their task, not bothered by the outer world. Now, consider how different expectations are for developers in agile teams. Agile methodologies are tailored for cross-functional and self-organizing teams. That means a set of completely new responsibilities...
Sayonara
http://www.sayonarapp.com
Sayonara, push notifications when you lose a follower on Twitter.
Show HN: I made an emotion/personality test
http://eristicstest.com/
I was wondering how HN would do on it.

Please post your results here, because the app doesn't collect any info.
Fighting Stereotypes One Day at a Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sophia-chung/women-tech-stereotypes_b_1356905.html
Fighting Stereotypes One Day at a Time by Facebook employee Sophia Chung
Create Flat Styled Google Maps with jQuery and Flat UI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPVo52JDxs
In today's screencast you can learn how to make custom flat styled Google Maps with jQuery and Flat UI.
What Programming Language should i use for my Health Startup
We are currently working to create our MVP for our health startup, we want to choose between PHP and Python for the webservice API.
Its a web application that is going to use a lot of AngularJS and get information from the server.
Please i will need comments from experienced programmers. Thank you in advance.
Justin Kan on letting go and staying sane when running a startup
http://gigaom.com/2012/08/13/justin-kan-on-letting-go-and-staying-sane-when-running-a-startup/
In this video interview, Justin.TV and Exec founder, Justin Kan, explains that if you're a founder who's deciding and sweating everything at your startup, you're doing it wrong.
This is what life is about...
http://brokencontrollers.com/this-is-what-life-is-about-t27311241.php
This is what life is about...
Hedge Funds "Buying" Huge Land Tracts in Africa
http://www.pri.org/stories/world/africa/hedge-funds-buy-massive-tracts-of-farm-land-5343.html
Reports of tanks being used against indigenous people in the absence of land rights. Worth a listen.

"With the collapse of the housing market, there is a drive for the new commodity to invest in,
Mittal said. "These hedge funds are promising returns of 25 to 40 percent." Mittal called this the new investment bubble.
Google == hypocrisy 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10435501/Google-pilot-programme-tracks-shoppers-everywhere-they-go.html
NSA is evil in the name of security; Google is turning evil in the name of advertisement.
Show HN:My friend filmed our music video using a crane he invented.
http://www.snowballstand.com/release/acenernie/
You can see how he used it in the scooter shots. Its kinda NSFW (cursing). Here is the site for the crane. http://shootseeker.com/
Hackers ‘rip off’ Phishers
http://securityhacks.net/hackers-rip-off-phishers
Good one! "Named AutoWhaler, the service allows anyone to scan a phishing server for log files that contain juicy information such as usernames and passwords."
Ask HN: Help me bring more value to the table
Last week I had an interview with a healthcare software business owner, he told me that their application is built almost entirely with php
and without any frameworks and most of the business logic is in the MySQL stored procedures. The system works ok, but the problem is
that the code is hard to mantain, modify and to get developers to work on it. He is looking for a person who can solve this problems,
refactoring or porting it to another more "developer friendly" ecosystem.

I'm a programmer with most of my experience related to web technologies(Python/Django) but recently using machine learning algorithms in personal projects. This guy offered me(by email) a salary of $X after the interview, but being not ok with the offer I wrote him that
the value I considered could bring to the business wasn't matching his offer. He replied that he was interested in having another meeting to
discuss it.

So before the meeting I reach you fellow HNers for some help. I was thinking about which things, besides code refactoring, could be offered in order to increase the expected value. Some things I thought about:

- About the refactoring: Create a well documented Rest API to improve maintanability, reduce code repetition, use the most suitable programming
language. The creation of an API will also allow to add new functionality in a cleaner way, so it could be possible to build, for example, a mobile app for appointments allocation.

- Use ML to predict something of value. I'm not experienced in the healthcare domain but I think there are a lot of possibilities(do you know any?). Maybe use ML to predict the amount of patients to attend in a given day.

- The company site is old, my idea is to build a new one, start a blog talking about related topics and then open source non-core apps that could be useful for other people.
$200 Desktop CNC Router
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makesmithcnc/makesmith-cnc-the-most-affordable-desktop-cnc-rout
Check out our $200 desktop CNC Router.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makesmithcnc/makesmith-cnc-the-most-affordable-desktop-cnc-rout
Show HN: Dieting from Home
https://www.dietingfromhome.com/
Working from home should be an opportunity to get healthy - but it hasn't seemed to work that way. Somewhat the opposite!

So now I'm getting serious. Going well so far.

I'm using The Very Fast 800 via the book by respected author Michael Mosley (see the blog for details).

What's your experience fellow hackers?
Turkish parliament website blocks you if you enable tracking protection
I tried to look at proposed bills at TBMM <https://www.tbmm.gov.tr> website using Firefox. When you do that, it first throws you CAPTCHA, then you face the error text "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator." even if you answer it correctly.
How do you balance having a gf with running a business?
Gf's take up a lot of time and often money, so how do you folks balance it? Please share.
How do I compensate advisers and board members?
How do I compensate advisers and board members?

People who will contribute a great deal of know how, expertise, and guidance, but will do so by phone or weekly/monthly conversation, not by day to day participation?

How do I do that at a very early stage when I am very limited in terms of cash? Are these typically equity relationships, and if so, how much?
Ask HN: How do you document you stack?
I have a fairly large project and I want to make it as easy as possible for other developers who come on board to get a broad overview of the application's structure and behavior. Do you document your system in a single README.md file sitting in your app's root? Do you draw network topology maps? How do you go about documenting the intricacies and nuances of your program?

- Commenting code, obviously, helps a lot.
- bash scripts that document the build environment are awesome.
- A soft introduction in a README file.

Could I be doing thing smarter? Do you have any neat tools or processes you use?

Thanks.
Show HN: Continuous Debugger for PHP
https://codeinsights.dev/
Inspired by how a team of ex-colleagues support, tame and maintain a 1’000’000 LOC legacy monster written in PHP, I wanted to see if it would be possible to build a tool for PHP apps that allows adding debug statements to production code on-the-fly, without altering the code and avoiding redeployments.

The goal was to allow support engineers to diagnose root cause of business logic errors much quicker, by adding invisible “echo”, “var_dump” and “print_r” like statements to the production code with just a few clicks.

- Sometimes rollback process is painful, involves manual work or the team just has a move-forward culture (fixing bugs quickly with new deployments instead of performing rollbacks).

- Occassionally there are bugs specific to production environment data and conditions that can’t be easily reproduced in test/staging environments.

- Due to the legacy nature of the codebase it is not always clear how and why the data ended in the place it did and it is not immediately clear which parts of the code were involved in handling the request.

Continuous debugging aims to solve these issues both for the hands-on debugging as well as enriching data that is automatically sent to error tracking services.

I’ve built a proof-of-concept, technical preview (pre-beta) version that demonstrates technical feasibility of such approach for PHP.

I am looking for pilot customers and early feedback to understand if it would be worthwile to invest time into further improvements and additions (if fellow developers would benefit from such debugging workflow).

I’m always humbled by the high quality of HN discussions and deep insights it generates. I would greatly appreciate any comments and thoughts.
Functional Programming is harder than Object Oriented Programming
http://nickelcode.com/2008/12/12/functional-programming-is-harder-than-object-oriented-programming/
Article details why OOP languages have been so popular over the years while FP languages have remained relatively unpopular.
Stop Hating Your Life. Feel Alive by Tinkering
http://ibelieveinjonathanjustin.blogspot.com/2011/07/dont-be-machine-you-are-not.html
This was badly written. But I hope I incepted the idea into your head that when you were a kid you tinkered and that was fun, fun means feeling alive. Don't train yourself out of having fun.
WheresYourDuckBeen.com - A photo sharing community with a unique twist 
http://mixreadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/wheresyourduckbeencom-photo-sharing.html
WheresYourDuckBeen.com - is a photo sharing community with the unique twist in idea of rubber duck(s) being included in each and every photo uploaded by all members, this creates much more of a community feeling as members then have a common interest towards other members while seeing them follow the same trend and idea than themselves.
Use your product daily
http://appapappa.com/?p=591
Uh, it seems like an obvious thing to say – but if you’re building products, then you really should be using your product daily.

“Well, we’ve done usability testing and customers really like all the functionality.”, you say.

“But what about you, do you like the functionality, do you use your product daily?”, I ask.

I really hope that your answer isn’t something like, ”Huh, me? Why, I don’t use the product, I just build it!!”
Xembly, an assembly for XML manipulations, 0.14 released
http://github.com/yegor256/xembly
Xembly is an Assembly-like language for XML manipulations, version 0.14 of its Java implementation was released to Maven Central
NSFW - language - Andrew Auernheimer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GV0JzMDnD4U
Auernheimer revealed a security flaw in AT&T’s iPad user database, allowing him to scrape the data from 114,000 iPad users. The information was later on given to a journalist. In January 2011, the FBI did an investigation and filed a criminal complaint
Getting to know .net build tools
http://garrenblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/getting-to-know-net-build-tools.html
I've recently been looking into using a build script to make building/testing my code easier. I've also wanted to implement a CI build server and using a build script makes it a lot easier to implement.
The original anti-Hollywood startup (United Artists)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/feb/23/film
There's been a great deal of talk on HN lately about PG's declaration of war on Hollywood. As a Hollywood refugee myself, I'm intrigued. And here we are now, brainstorming alternatives. It's exciting. I would argue, however, that the past might offer us glimpse into the future.

Those unfamiliar with the history of United Artists -- a studio founded by leading talent, looking to declare independence from the Hollywood of their day -- might find the story of its rise and fall intriguing, if not a bit bittersweet. It's the story of a house ultimately divided, then fallen.

Today, a smaller-scale analogue (of a sort) exists in Maker Studios, an LA-based collective of viral YouTube artists collaborating and co-producing each other's work. Time will tell what becomes of this enterprise, but it's off to an interesting start.

IMO, today's studio system is critically vulnerable precisely because its leading talent is eager to jump ship. If better options presented themselves, some of the best writers and artists in the business would gladly participate.
Your Worst Nightmare: RFID Powder
http://www.techdo.com/your-worst-nightmare-rfid-powder/
The world's smallest and thinnest RFID tags were introduced this year by Hitachi. Tiny miracles of miniaturization, these RFID chips (Radio Frequency IDentification chips) measure just 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters.
Looks like most people choose to wake up at 6:00 AM
http://snoozester.com/The-Wake-Up-Time-Report.snooze
Most common time people choose to wake up: 6:00 AM
Does your startup have a network,or are you doing it Old School?
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/04/the-network-talks-back.aspx
All about how we used to be captive audiences but now thanks to Web 2.0 we are actually networks. We interact with the content, hell we create it and publish it too. Just look at YouTube. Good summary of where media should be going, we'll see if they listen!
Just so you know: there’s an iPhone nano rumor
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/04/just-so-you-know-theres-an-iphone-nano-rumor/#comment-8786
Yeah, not real. Or at least very unlikely...
Eye-catching advertising that targets you
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10849/tailored-advertising-that-stops-you-in-your-tracks/
Intelligent advertising that can tell you apart in a crowd:

"It will be possible to predict the audience at any given time, so you can prepare particular content beforehand."

http://bit.ly/YQUZYR
Don’t Upgrade to Mac OS Lion (Not yet)
http://spreadingfunkyness.com/dont-upgrade-to-mac-os-lion-not-yet/
The first release of new tool is not perfect, even if it has been extensively tested during the alpha and beta stages. This happens to each product, even if it is built by great developers.
Someone checked in bad code at Google
http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/datastore/2013/02/06#ae-trust-detail-datastore-put-error_rate
Can't upload anything to Google CodeReview because Google App Engine data store seems to be down. Someone checked in bad code ... or a monkey tripped on a cable.
SftpDrive comes to OS X as ExpanDrive
http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive
Lots of positive buzz about this:
http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/expandrive
http://blog.macromates.com/2008/expandrive-seamless-sftp-mounts/
Starting a startup is the new writing a novel
http://keepmarketingfun.com/2014/04/10/starting-a-startup-is-the-new-writing-a-novel/
Have you got a startup on the side and you think you’re disrupting whole industries? Think that you’re unique? I’m here to say you’re not. Let’s face some hard truths together, I’ll hold your hand through it.

Starting a startup is the new writing a novel.
Ask HN: Feedback on My Attendance Management System
Hey HN,

There is the software that I have been working on for a long time. I have put up an instance of the software at http://demo.attendmind.com/login
username: admin@gmail.com
password: 123456

Its still under development so there are parts that are a bit clunky. I am looking for honest feedback right now.

Thanks in advance

P. S. Here is a video of me running through all the features of the software http://blog.attendmind.com/2013/08/99-changes-later-attendmind-preview_4.html
Troubleshooting Javascript & Backbone - part 1
http://opensas.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/troubleshooting-javascript-humble-homage-to-wat/
In this series of articles I try to tackle several of the most common and most annoying issues you might encounter working with JavaScript. I present a very simple Backbone application that starts to show some strange behaviour. To find out what's going on, and the best way to handle it, I'll have a look at the way JavaScript passes around variables, the prototypical inheritance, the prototype chain and several other JavaScript intricacies.
Show HN: Go, JSON, Streaming and Generics
https://github.com/prymitive/current
I needed an easy way of handling large JSON blobs (200MB+) which I found is easy, but very verbose, using encoding/json.
Dealing with deeply nested structs was a real pain so I wrote myself a wrapper around it - https://github.com/prymitive/current - thanks to generics it can be very thin.
The revolution of 2014’s summer vacation abroad.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tastyeasy/tastyeasy-for-android-and-ios
With the international tourism market on their minds, two Brazilian siblings have put together a team of professionals from Brazil and the U.S. to create a mobile application to facilitate the life of any tourist while traveling abroad.
With years of travel experience, Leonardo and Andrea Mascarenhas realized that with a simple mobile application, they could help tourists and business travelers to control one of the biggest difficulties visitors encounter while abroad: ordering great food. Anyone who travels abroad often faces uncomfortable and stressful situations, because they do not speak the local language, local businesses are not prepared to server foreigners, or they are unfamiliar with the local cuisine. As you can see, there are multiple sources of stress, but very few ways around it.
With the goal to improve travelers experience while abroad, they created along with designer Joshu “Tastyeasy”, a mobile application that combines restaurant menu translation services with sharing capability. The goal is to translate every restaurant menu and enable travelers to control their dining and overall experience while abroad using a smartphone. Another key feature is that users will be able to review feedback provided by others, such as which are the best rated restaurants and dishes in town, etc.