jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Cloudy – an IAS tool for managing production-grade cloud clusters
https://github.com/cloudytool/cloudy
Hey guys!

Recently, I was struggling with cloud infrastructure deployment and had the idea to create a tool.

If you know how to code but are not familiar with clouds then this is a great way for you-just use Cloudy templates which are actually based on Pulumi.

Let's push "infrastructure as code" so it can be used by everyone!
Calling C/C++ from Ruby
http://www.amberbit.com/blog/2014/6/12/calling-c-cpp-from-ruby/
An overview how to easily start using C/C++ libraries in Ruby code. Case studies of most common gems with their basic set-up.
A "swift" new way to experience youtube videos
http://pulse2.com/2010/12/30/ytswift-makes-viewing-multiple-youtube-videos-a-lot-easier/
ytSwift is cool new (well a few months old now) concept that allows users to instant-search, simultaneously watch, quickly pull videos from a particular user, easily share, and retrieve all metadata for youtube videos. The goal for creating ytSwift was to keep the entire youtube experience limited to a single page, allowing users to do most of what they do without having to open new tabs, hit the back button, or browse through numerous pages to watch the videos they want to.
GSM is Cracked...Again
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/new_128bit_gsm_encryption_cracked_just_2_hours
The A5/3 algorithm for voice (also its variant used for data GEA3) has been cracked. It is a more secure version of the A5/1 algorithm that was cracked in December 2009.
Does Electronic Brainstorming Work? 
http://blog.wikibrains.com/wordpress/index.php/does-brainstorming-work/
Many critics argue that brainstorming is counter-productive, but they've failed to consider possibilities of crowd-sourcing the creative process.
Releasing startup soon -- Constructive criticisms needed for "buzz" page
http://www.coffeedig.com
HN,

I know all you guys have a short time so I’ll try to be as quick as possible. A friend and I are going to release our startup in about two months that will be a social approach to rating, buying, sharing and collecting coffee.

37signals “getting real” is a book I hold close and dear and they recommend to get out a “buzz” page to collect contacts. So I built a simple one with a few features:

- Linked up to fb instead of asking for emails for social proofing and its a lot easier to “like” something than give up your email address.

- Showed my friends screenshots to get quotes, linked to their twitter accounts to give credibility

- Since its not released it hasn’t been featured in any outlets, I did however submit it to some of the leading “link dumps” and put their logos in there. Even though being seen on digg isnt a big deal, the logos add credibility

- Offered incentives that will be followed up on: early adopter badges and early invites.

What I’d like from you guys:
1. Like it if you like coffee. I’d be smitten.

2. What would you do to make a more efficient and effective buzz page to collect user bases? What pearls of wisdom do you have to market and grow a new web app/startup?

3. If you are a coffee drinker, how do you think technology can be used to make your coffee experience better? What would you really like to see in future iterations of a coffee application? (Some early requests from friends has been to add coffeehouses in the mix)
Trilogy of Continuous Bernoulli Distribution
1.Continuous Bernoulli distribution can have test statistic.

https://vixra.org/abs/2012.0088

2. The special cases of continuous Bernoulli distribution and continuous binomial distribution.

https://vixra.org/abs/2012.0221

3. Extending to K categories, four models are built and can be used in specific states of data analysis.

http://vixra.org/abs/2101.0034
[Press Release] WANdisco Plows Support Revenue Back into the Open Source Project
http://wandisco.com/php/pr.php?rss=0&prdate=2010-06-03
Erik Heulsmann, An Active Subversion Contributor Since 2003, Joins WANdisco's Open Source Team.
Show HN: Hackertosh.css – Make Hacker News look like macOS 8
https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css
Hello HN,

For fans of a more retro MacOS aesthetic, this is a custom style sheet I put together that restyles HN to look like the MacOS 8 desktop. Available in both user style sheet and browser extension formats.
Books For Designers, Typography Lovers And Freelancers
http://spyrestudios.com/must-read-books-for-designers-typography-lovers-and-freelancers/
There’s a lot of books about design, usability, typography, CSS, freelancing and a boat load of other related topics out there. All these books can help make you a better designer and business owner. Here's a list of some of my favorite ones.
Do US colleges have courses on the US financial crisis of 2007-2008?
I just saw the documentary "Inside Job" and was wondering if US colleges teach about how the financial crisis went down, especially Harvard where Larry Summers was President of Harvard?

from http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qwlpe/do_us_colleges_have_courses_on_the_us_financial/
Apple tries to patent its way out of jailbreaking
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20014356-37.html
The patent is titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device"
Is "discrimination" necessary to explain the sex gap in earnings?
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/pdfs/JEP2005.pdf
I think this is really interesting, there's so many modern myths.
Renault - The Car as a Platform
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/12/08/renault-opens-up-car-as-platform/
Volvo has a anti driver distraction system, so your phone won't ring when you are executing turns, or near a school.

The usual navigation aids come to mind such as traffic reports.

Other useful things might be Siri-like reminder to buy milk on the way home, or ask you why you haven't picked up your kids from school.
Developers.Google.com down
http://developers.google.com
edit: looks like they're having problems, I'm sometimes getting the homepage but no search results
Scala Lists Part 2
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/26/scala-lists-part-2/
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/26/scala-lists-part-2/ . This includes some interesting problems with the scala lists.
Show HN: Discovery and Hiring Platform for Web3 (LinkedIn for Web3)
https://daohelper.com/
The problem with crypto is that users must invest money to participate. That's bad.

Launching http://DAOHelper.com to find work in Web3 companies, DAOs, and Protocols to earn tokens/ fiat.

716 companies/daos
26 open jobs and bounties
worth $1.8M
Give Me 30 Seconds and I'll Give You Control Over Your Thoughts
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/give-me-30-seconds-and-ill-give-you-control-of-your-thoughts/
I recently traded my car for a bus pass and I'm getting a lot of reading and writing done on my commute. The only problem is that sometimes when I read in a moving vehicle I start to get car sick. When I start feeling bad I put the book up and immediately start to feel better. Yesterday I went to pull my book out at the bus stop and the very sight of it made me feel ill.
How We Can Convince Apple to Allow Flash on The iPhone/iPad
http://curtisp.com/Article.aspx?blist_id=5c8c1438dd&cat=iPhone,iPad
I just had this crazy notion that would ultimately revolutionize a protest for Apple to allow Flash content on their mobile devices
http://curtisp.com/Article.aspx?blist_id=5c8c1438dd&cat=iPhone,iPad
4096
http://ianopolous.github.io/4096/
Trivial extension to Gabriele Cirulli's 2048. It doesn't seem impossible to reach 4096. Post if you reach 4096 (then I'll put up 8192)!
Freelancer giving free hours for good ideas
http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/36-i-will-give-you-25-hours-of-free-work.htm
Whoops! proper link is http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/36-i-will-give-you-25-hours-of-free-work.html

I missed the "l" :(
Meguro, a Javascript Map/Reduce framework
http://www.sevenforge.com/meguro
A small javascript map/reduce framework that is built upon tracemonkey and tokyo cabinet. It is inspired by CouchDB, but can work with multiple types of input.
MacGist
http://luckycatlabs.com/macgist.html
Access your public Github gists from the OS X menu bar.
Steve Huffman, Co-Founder of Reddit & Hipmunk, on This Week in Startups 
http://jc.is/clSI8A
great guest.
Open-source app encouraging solutions to Government issues
http://oursolution.is/
Since tonight is the State of the Union I wanted to post an open-source app I made a bit ago. The goal is to let Politicians know what their constituents think should be done about the things that affect them.

I know there are other apps out there that do similar things, but this is my take. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback/helped out.
Create your own PHP Framework, Part 1, from scratch, no magic
http://www.anler.me/blog/2012/aug/create-your-own-php-framework-part-1/
First part of a series of tutorial on how to create a fully customizable and modern web app using PHP
Reach in and grab a pixel
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/15068/reach-in-and-grab-a-pixel/
A scientist looking to dissolve the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds is interface designer and engineer, Jinha Lee. He wants us to be able to grasp the pixels in our computers.
Ask HN: Advice for Analyzing Job Offers?
I'm currently interviewing for multiple opportunities in a non-traditional tech role (commercial biotech). I'm curious how you've all handled parallel interviews and job offers. I just received a fantastic offer from a company that I'm not incredibly passionate about, though it's clear a quality-of-life improvement over my current role. I have three other, more intellectually promising opportunities in the queue and feel confident about my prospects when those interviews come through next week.

Any recommendations for how I can respectfully delay this initial offer until I have a better feel for these other opportunities? I have great respect for the Hacker News audience and would appreciate any advice.
Can A New Exclusive, Invite-Only Dating App Weed Out The Creeps?
http://www.askmen.com/news/dating/wyldfire.html
Wyldfire launching new dating site focused on getting rid of the creep shows of online dating.
10 Questions with David Heinemeier Hansson
http://www.serversidemagazine.com/ruby/10-questions-with-david-heinemeier-hansson/
Our first interview is with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and partner at 37signals.
Why are WebAssembly-apps so “large”?
Currently i have an out of the box Blazor WASM project running.
It is 69,8mb in size.

Webbloat?
Necessary?
Node.js How to use streams to ftp, unzip, and save a file to mongoDB
http://seekhiswit.blogspot.com/2012/06/streaming-zipped-csv-file-and-then.html
Streaming with node is pretty great. I found the documentation a bit tough to follow so I've written an example that I have in production for my company.
Where can I connect with a good technical co-founder?
I am business minded person with a need for a good technical co-founder to help take this idea to a prototype. I have experience with web development, but not to the extent which I currently need. Where should I go to find an adequate technical co-founder? I live in Charlotte, NC.
PenTest Market - All about pentesting business
http://pentestmag.com/pentest-market-012012/
Hello Everyone,

We have something new for you - PenTest Market. The thing that makes this magazine unique is structure. PenTest Market will consist mainly of interviews with IT security specialists, who will share their experience with you. We will also include some reports about pentesting market in different parts of the world and several guides, for example: "How to recruit a pentester?, etc. We are sure that we have many great issues of this magazine ahead.

First issue is out! Download the Free Teaser to check the content and read two free articles about employment, just follow this link: http://pentestmag.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/03/PenTest_MARKET_01_2012__Teasers1.pdf

The whole magazine is available here: http://pentestmag.com/pentest-market-012012/

If you want to take part in creation of PenTest Market or have any questions, please contact us at krzysztof.marczyk@software.com.pl. We will respond asap.
RockYou Dominates The Fake Business World
http://www.uncov.com/2007/12/3/rockyou-dominates-the-fake-business-world
Hilarious as always.
SOPA Right, Internets Wrong
http://getoffmyinternets.net/2011/12/23/sopa-right-internets-wrong/
Controversial but has a point. Legislation constantly evolves. At what point of the process is a boycott appropriate?<p>If GoDaddy wants to invest in a YC startup working on DNS and Domain Registration (which really sucks), we won't allow it?
Limited: 2 for 1 tickets to the Inspire conference in London
http://www.vccafe.com/vc-cafe/get-inspired-two-for-one-tickets-for-to-inspire-conference-in-london/
The Inspire conference is a Ted-like conference held in London on June 7-8. VC Cafe readers get a special 2 for 1 offer for a limited amount of time.
Speakers include:
* Alex Breuer / Design Editor – The Times
* Ann Cotton / Founder – Camfed
* Aza Raskin / Ex Head of UX – Mozilla Labs
* Conrad Wolfram / CEO – Wolfram Research
* Erik Hersman / Co-Founder – Ushahidi
* Michael Birch / Founder – Bebo, Profounders
* Parag Khanna / Best Selling Author – Second World
* Rajesh Sawhney / President – Reliance BIG Entertainment
* Rory Sutherland / Vice Chairman – Ogilvy
* Stephan Shakespeare / CEO & Co-Founder – YouGov
* Tom Chatfield / Author, Game Theorist
* Tariq Krim / Founder, Jolicloud, Netvibes
* Victor Henning / CEO & Founder, Mendeley
* Nick Halstead / CEO & Founder, TweetMeme and MediaSift
* Shakil Khan / Special Projects, Spotify
* Martin Varsavsky / CEO & Founder, FON
Mojam 2013 Live 6pm CET
http://mojang.com/2013/02/mojam-is-happening-tomorrow-help-inspire-us/
http://mojang.com/

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/mojang
People-powered customer service
http://getsatisfaction.com/
We are beta testing with them and way cool. Startups needing a forum/q&a/faq/support need to try this.
Dummy JS - a javascript dummy image generator
http://shaneriley.com/dummy_image/
Uses canvas and is easy to customize.
The new team member that bothers me every day
So I recently moved back to a project that I really liked, but now there is this new person in the group. He constantly comes in to ask questions. It wasn't like that initially but as more days passed it seems like the frequency has increased. I won't say I am necessarily irritated by it but rather sometimes I find him amusing asking questions and testing my knowledge. Do you guys have similar experience at work?
How MySpace Conquered Europe
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,493755,00.html
"The number of unique visitors to MySpace's European sites has risen more than 72 percent in the past year, to 26 million per month, according to researcher comScore. Traffic has grown even faster: Europeans viewed 2.5 billion MySpace pages in May (the most recent month for which figures are available), compared with 1.1 billion a year earlier, says market tracker Nielsen//NetRatings."
Readability lands on iOS devices. Read comfortably anytime, anywhere.
http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/article/readability_lands_on_ios_devices._read_comfortably_anytime_anywhere
With the new iOS app you can enjoy a beautiful reading experience on your iPhone or iPad.
Show HN: Simple Checklists for Digital Security
https://www.digitalchecklist.xyz/p/financial-checklist
I developed some simple checklists to help stop me and my family from getting our accounts or IDs hacked. I turned it into a product. Also on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/digital-checklist
Story of Harmonix: The creators of Guitar Hero
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/03/smallbusiness/harmonix_rock_band_startup_story/index.htm
As an entrepreneur you never want to lose site of the mountaintop you're trying to get to, but you have to remain incredibly flexible about the path that you take to get there, which often needs to change direction.
Show HN: Extract the ppt in the video and export pdf
https://github.com/wudududu/extract-video-ppt
If The video content is included ppt, then this tool can extract the ppt from the video and export a pdf file. Or you can just transform video to pdf -,-.
Republicans outsmarted by pornbots
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/07/porn_republicans_twitter.php?page=2
CA Republicans didn't know they were following X-rated accounts on Twitter until a journalist told them.
Ask HN: Why Limit Password Length?
I see it all the time, enter a password that's at least 8 characters (good), but no more than 20 characters (why?) I don't even see how it makes things easier for a dev. Who benefits from this restriction? I can understand limiting it to 200 characters, but why something small enough that it discourages pass phrases?
Mopidy - Simple Music Streaming Server
http://www.mopidy.com/
Mopidy is a music server which can play music both from multiple sources, like your local hard drive, radio streams, and from Spotify and SoundCloud.
Ask HN: DevOps stories in non-western company
After finishing "Phoenix Project", I'm reading "DevOps Handbook" and "Effective DevOps." While I find the approach described in the books fascinating, it is also frustrating when trying to apply it, mainly because of cultural differences. Advocating for something and implementing openness are not necessarily virtue in non-western culture.

Any experiences to share?
Paul Graham on Bloomberg West
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75205344/
nice coverage
Sky blocks access to Pirate Bay
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18270343
Sky has become the third internet service provider to prevent its users accessing file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
Show HN: JumpCrowd - Roll your own crowdfunding for non-tech project starters
http://www.jumpcrowd.com/
We saw the http://selfstarter.us/ code on GitHub that Cameron and the guys at Apigy released and wondered if non-tech project starters would like to roll their own projects too. This is a side project for us but we thought it might fill a niche and it seemed like a fun project. Please check us out and let us know your feedback. http://www.jumpcrowd.com/
Show HN: A link/news aggregator I am working on
https://omegapedia.com/index.php?sort_by=newest_first&page=1
Hello HN,
I'm building omegapedia.com, a link/news aggregator that combines features of multiple other sites.
I started building this site because I often found some features lacking in other websites.
As example:

You can format you text to be italic, red, blue or to be a spoiler.
Comments are not threaded and don't include any voting feature.
Omegapedia uses upvotes and downvotes for posts but shows them as separate numbers.
I styled the page in darkmode but added an optional lightmode as well.
I added "Trust-Points" and a leaderboard to show the 5 users with the most points.
Other noteworthy features are:

-Comment replies.

-Flairs.

-Adding a bio to your profile.

-Mention users in comments.

-Ability to add a email address to your account.

-Forgot-my-password function.

-Link posts.

There is no need to add a email andress to your account and you will never be forced to.

The site works on pc and mobile.

The site is very lightweight because there are no CSS or JavaScript libaries that will have to be downloaded first.
There are multiple ways to sort the posts and a way to show the recent comments so you can join a current discussion anytime.

There is no register barrier and you will be automatically logged in a muted guest account.

I am very interested in feedback and if you have any
questions or comments please let me know, thank you!

========

Join me on omegapedia!

https://omegapedia.com/showpost.php?id=467
Nymi, a wearable device that replaces the password
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/03/24/meet-nymi-authentication-wristband-one-first-wearable-devices-im-actually-excited/#!BhfyR
The way I see it, if Apple acquires this, they could make a huge dent in how we interact with services. They already have TouchID and the motion sensor in the iPhone 5S. If they combine that with this and launch an iWatch with the appropriate APIs, together with iBeacon Apple might just own the future, again.
The Seven Essential Milestones Every Startup Must Focus On
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/07/26/the-seven-essential-milestones-every-startup-must-focus-on/
According to Guy Kawasaki, "If you miss any of them, your organization might die."
Harvest Automation Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pQpgrSoDE&feature=youtu.be
Harvest Automation Robots in action.
Never been to DEF Con, but went to my 1st Adultcon (mildly nsfw)
http://extralunchmoney.com/blog/adultcon-review-what-actually-happens-at-a-porn-convention/
We have a startup in the adult space, but have no background in the adult industry. The lean startup gurus preach the importance of understanding your customers and customer development. The adult industry is one of those places where it's difficult to understand customers because most people don't talk about the porn they buy or services they use. So we went to the Los Angeles Adultcon to see what we could learn. You'd think it'd be more crazy, but in fact it was kinda tame.
How to Boost Brainpower
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=six-ways-to-boost-brainpower
What other hacks do HNers use to get their brains churning?
Show HN: Online parser for arbitrary CRDs with sample YAML
https://crds.cronohub.org
Hello peeps.

I’ve wrote a tool to nicely display crds. I know of docs.crds how is this different? You can paste in the crd and it will generate a sample yaml to boot and you don’t need to point it at a repository. Also it has a cli version. Here is the repo https://github.com/Skarlso/crd-to-sample-yaml.

I hope someone finds this useful. Any feedback is always appreciated. :) Thanks.
I'm planning to launch a lead management SaaS for WordPress GravityForms
http://www.marketador.com
Hi guys, I'm planning to launch a lead management SaaS for WordPress Gravity Forms. Any input will be helpful.
Show HN: Visualize SQL Queries
https://animatesql.com
My co-worker and I were debugging a SQL issue; having not seen SQL in two years, I embarrassed myself by confusing union vs. join. After this episode, I tried refreshing my SQL memory, but there are few websites that animate SQL for you. Most of them just have a series of images to help you visualize. There are a few tools that are quite good and robust (especially for large/complex use cases) but require installation and are too complex for my simple purpose.

So, just created a small tool to help visualise SQL. Most of the animations are just my understanding of how SQL works. Would love to know what you think? Do you also visualise some of the queries like that in your head? Any feedback would be gold. Btw you can also edit queries and see different results (but its a bit limited).

Have fun ;)