jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: One Shot to Explain the Internet 
Hello,

I've been on HN for over a year and now I'm going to have an opportunity to talk directly to a influential person about the internet.

They understand that the internet is important to their business, but the majority of people who talk to them are middle-management business types and generally people who think they know what is going on but think an API is some off-road vehicle and REST is an shorthand word for Toilet for geeks.

The person I'm talking to is a smart person, just not a heavy web user. They are in a position to make sweeping changes (which would impact an industry) - if I can help make a good case as to why.

As a developer myself I need to answer and convey:

1 What are the important next steps in media/publishing/magazine/video on the web

2 What is important on the web now, and why we should care

3 Examples on how much of this is developer/techy driven as opposed to by 'the suits', who IMHO tend to follow paths made by dev's

4 Why developers should have a bigger voice then they do now in deciding what gets built and how

I think you get the idea. I have already done a good bit of this but since I have one shot I'm happy for any extra help.

If you are going to be helpful I need excerpts, quotes, links, examples that I can follow-up on if asked.

For privacy reasons, this is a single serving account just for this question. Thanks.
JavaScript parameter string substitution
http://arcdevimp.com/post/printf-style-string-substitution
I've created what I think is a pretty cool function to do arbitrary parameterization of strings in javascript like printf but simpler.

"I'm not as %s as you %s I am".substitute('think', 'drunk')
=> "I'm not as think as you drunk I am"
Itinerant writer talks of living, and dreaming, on $20,000 a year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/itinerate-writer-talks-of-living-and-dreaming-on-20000-a-year/2011/09/26/gIQAzdi8CL_story.html
Sure the economy sucks. But, personally, I'm tired of people complaining about a world they can't control. "We don’t choose the generation we live in." Kudos to the author for following through despite the challenges.
Ever wanted to dismantle Google? Here is your chance, literally.
http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/
HTML5 at work.
Product research question: Report on emails from all company inboxes?
Hi,

I'm looking for any products out that solve this problem:

I want to know which of my customers email which employee, and how soon they get replied to. This will tell me who in my company has the strongest relationship with a given customer, and alert me if an employee is taking too long to get back to a customer.

What product can I use to do this?

I imagine the solution would be something that bolts on to Exchange and monitors all inbound / outbound messages, but maybe it would take a different form all together.
IIIT to break online language barrier
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/IIIT-to-break-online-language-barrier/articleshow/7783364.cms
Changed the title of the article which i found more relevant.
Show HN: Via – Simple Visualization of Cycle Route Quality
https://via.randombits.host
Every cycle route is plagued with problems - potholes, deviant cars, and random obstacles. Via is an app that detects these issues and visualizes them in a clear way. Quality, speed, and usage can be viewed with the fundamental goals of privacy of contributers providing data to improve road quality and safety of cyclists.
New Relic free edition explained
http://thoughts.wallproductions.com/2014/01/13/new_relic_free_edition/
New Relic free edition explained
The Entrepreneur Startup Kit to help you succeed – From Ruslan Kogan
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Entrepreneur+Startup+Kit#q=Entrepreneur+Startup+Kit
Crazy idea from Ruslan Kogan - all for a reason
Piracetam -- A nootropic for cognitive and memory enhancement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam
Anyone have any experience with this?
Getting the requirements right with object cases
http://larsho.blogspot.com/2011/05/getting-requirements-right-with-object.html
How to build good requirements with examples and objects.
Focusing on the Lack of User Upgrades Misses the Point of the new MacBook Pro
http://christina.is/the-new-macbook-pro
As a value-conscious consumer, I don't love the fact that you have to max out the RAM upon purchase of a MacBook Pro retina or MacBook Air – but I accept that it's the price for this kind of
JSONLint by Arc90 Labs
http://jsonlint.com/
It's an oldie but a goodie. JSONLint the JSON validator by Arc90 labs.

Tool:
http://jsonlint.com/

Source:
https://github.com/umbrae/jsonlintdotcom
The Difference Between a Degree and an Education
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/04/14/the-difference-between-a-degree-and-an-education/
This is my first post to HN - just my views on the controversy around Thiel's recent proposal...
O'Reilly technical eBooks for $4.99 each on oreilly.com with code "MYUPD"
http://shop.oreilly.com
O'Reilly.com has a coupon code "MYUPD" which reduces the price of their technical eBooks to $4.99 each
Ask:HN Building a local classifieds
Hi,
I am planning to build a local classifieds web applications . What are the options for server side coding...python, java or ruby ..i am a java developer
Libya protests: Death toll mounts as unrest spreads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12512536
I hope my .ly domains are going to be okay.
Show HN: I built a SaaS to allow users to submit quick feedback
https://feedbackbutton.io
Hey all,

Creator here. Feedback Button is a customizable feedback widget for your website. You can see a working example here: https://docamatic.com/documentation

Feedback appreciated. Thanks!
Visualizing Complex Applications – Simply
http://copperegg.com/visualizing-complex-applications-simply/
Using hierarchical edge bundling to build cloud system topology maps that visualize system connectivity and application communication.
The origin of enterprise computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_(computer)
The word enterprise is perhaps the most misused word in computing. Lots of software is marketed as enterpise, but actually don't say a thing about the product itself.
New idea
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DKSZS9C
Hi all, wondering if you can help with this survey! We're at startup weekend seattle and appreciate your input!
Revolutionary browser on Kickstarter - "PolyBrowser"
http://polybrowser.com
We (at PolyScomuite) are developing an innovative browser, called PolyBrowser, that transforms how people use the web. It's the first browser that lets you see and control all of your websites simultaneously, significantly accelerating how you search and browse the web. With PolyBrowser, your websites are spread out horizontally like cards on a table, enabling you to move through them quickly and easily.<p>PolyBrowser is currently 80% complete, and to help get it to the finish line, we’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign (at http://PolyBrowser.com). Please share this, and you can even pledge for free to show support (we are refunding the first 100 backers)... Every backer shows that there is community interest. We would be grateful for any assistance.<p>Many Thanks,
Aaron T. Travis, MBA, CUA
CEO
PolySuite.com
How to write a 2 minute blog post
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/02/19/how-to-blog-without-using-company-time-or-the-2-minute-blog-post/
Believe it or not, you don't really need to blog on company time. Here's how to write a 2 minute blog post with a new web tool. Enjoy not getting fired for your blog.
Instant Wild crowd sources identifying and protecting rare animals from poachers
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/instantwild/
Instant Wild crowd sources identifying and protecting rare animals from poachers
Your Fingers Know When You Make a Typo
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/fingers-know-typos/
The brain uses two different checks to guard against sloppy copy, a new study finds. By using a doctored word processor to sneak errors into typed words and surreptitiously fix typists’ real errors, researchers teased apart the various ways people catch their own mistakes. The study, published in the Oct. 29 Science, highlights the complexity of performance monitoring.<p>sciencenewsPsychologist Gordon Logan and his colleague Matthew Crump of Vanderbilt University in Nashville recruited skilled typists — people who typed more than 40 words a minute using all of their fingers. These subjects were able to type a paragraph about the merits of border collies with over 90 percent accuracy.<p>As the typists pecked away, researchers introduced common typing errors into about 6 percent of the words that appeared on a screen (changing sweat to swaet, swerat or swet, for instance). The program also corrected about 45 percent of the typists’ true errors.<p>In questionnaires after the typing test, subjects by and large took the blame for the introduced errors and took credit for the researchers’ corrections. No matter what he actually typed, when the typist saw that the word on the screen matched the word he had intended to type, he assessed his own performance as accurate.<p>But the speed of the typists’ keystrokes revealed something else. After hitting the wrong key, a typist’s fingers slowed down for the next keystroke, even if the researchers sneakily fixed the error so that the typist didn’t notice it. In these cases, a typist wasn’t explicitly aware of the mistake, but the brain’s motor signal changed nevertheless.<p>Logan says that this change in timing reflects a kind of automatic assessment of performance. “The body is doing one thing and the mind is doing another,” he says. “What we found was that the fingers knew the truth.”<p>Many psychologists thought that the mind was capable of detecting errors in several ways, but “nobody had pinned it down,” says cognitive neuroscientist Jonathan Cohen of Princeton University. “Here, they developed a very clever set of experiments to tease the types of system apart.”<p>The results may reveal a hierarchical method of error correction — with a “lower” system doing the actual work and a “higher” system assigning credit and blame, Logan suggests. These multiple layers of control may be evident in tasks such as playing music, speaking and walking to a destination, Logan says. As a man heads toward a new restaurant, his brain is noticing landmarks and keeping on the right course. Meanwhile, his feet steadily plod along, navigating the terrain automatically.<p>Whether the two types of error-catching systems operate in tandem or one is subservient to the other isn’t yet clear, Cohen says. Having the automatic, fingers-level system answer to the higher system “has a sort of intuitive appeal,” Cohen says, “but whether that idea is a convenience until we have a better idea or it’s true remains to be seen.””<p>Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/fingers-know-typos/#ixzz13jCsFyFf
FlowReader
http://www.flowreader.com
RSS reader - bring both web news and social accounts feeds (Twitter and Google+).
WikiLeaks supporters attack Amazon book offering
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/09/wikileaks.amazon/index.html
Supporters of WikiLeaks were criticizing Amazon.com on Thursday for refusing to host the controversial site while apparently profiting from a book about it.
Education Sector- Why not a success story in Social Media revolution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMAT7Ucr8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMAT7Ucr8I
While making decisions pertaining to education like the choice of an university or major, competitive exams like GRE, SAT, GMAT, abroad programs, scholarships and the like, an information gap is usually encountered. It is intriguing that we do not have a go-to solution to this problem yet. We stick to conventional techniques like tedious search engines, rankings, speculations surrounding an option, unreliable sources in forums etc to find a solution. It is natural that a problem is ignored till the solution is forced upon us. When we joined hands for music, socializing, videos, professions etc., why not for education?
Would it be cool to be able to search a video?
I'm currently trying to find a segment in a video that is about 56 minutes long.
Computing Document Similarity with nltk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xKmOnAXFk
We will explore techniques to determine the amount of similarity between documents. Specifically we will look at the intuition behind tf-idf and cosine similarity. With that as a foundation we will see how to compute these metrics with the natural language tool kit.
Reddit’s ‘Doxtober’: A Tragedy in Five Acts
http://socialtimes.com/reddits-doxtober-a-tragedy-in-five-acts_b107374
Much of the content uploaded or moderated by Michael Brutsch, aka Violentacrez was, by his own admission, pornographic. His images graced the pages of infamous subreddits like r/jailbait, which Brutsch tried to top with r/picsofdeadjailbait after the former was called out for being the worst subreddit on all of Reddit. In his heyday, Brutsch was involved in over 400 subreddits with questionable content.

Act I: The Malefactor Emerges
(to be cont)
Everything you ever wanted to know about distributed bug tracking
http://travisbrown.ca/blog.html#TooMuchAboutDistributedBugTracking2013-04-20
tl;dr: If you've decided on a VCS look at Bugs Everywhere or Nitpick. If you haven't, look at those two as well as Fossil and Veracity.
Kickstarter Bluetooth tracker 250% funded – 3 days remaining
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/502842298/gatekeeper-protect-your-computer-and-your-privacy
Hi, we’re CoolCAD Electronics.

Considering the importance of computer security, we’re a University of Maryland-based company providing medical centers, businesses, and everyday people with technology solutions. We’ve recently finished a new product: the GK-Chain and launched on Kickstarter – over $30,000 (250%) overfunded and less than 3 days left!

The GK-Chain is a versatile Bluetooth proximity tag - keep track of your valuables, never leave your phone or keys behind, or auto lock your PC/Mac.

GK-Chain is featured in PR Newswire, Gizmag, Golem.de, InTheCapital, Sacbee, GreatPreneur, KickTops, Mtech, and more all over the world.

Our clients love that it ensures their adherence to IT policy and saves EVERYONE time. We need support from the world to reach as many people as possible to deliver continuous value through security.
New iPhone App encourages Classroom Activity for Stats/Math
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aakkozzll/id561069750?mt=8 
The Aakkozzll app is a substitute for throwing dice. Players can see the probability distribution on each throw (unlike dice which have a similar pattern, but you just can't see it).

The app is great for high-school to college level stats and data-management classes, and simple enough to serve as a primer for elementary-aged students. It gives them a physical / visual way to appreciate the normal curve. Can be used in a classroom activity of Craps or even monopoly, using the Aakkozzll instead of dice. Games like Craps will take on a whole new meaning when students can actually see the chances of getting a 7.

Will give students an intuition for the binomial distribution, frequency graphs, and the normal curve. As the balls fall down, they randomly go left or right (its about 50/50) depending on how they land. Its like having a series of 50/50 coin tosses which determines the final position of the balls. Only the red ball actually determines your "roll" (it blinks red).

The original inspiration came from the Galton board, a physical device that was built 150 years ago to demonstrate the central tendency. We've recreated the physics of that device into an easy to use iPhone app so that it's insights can be shared with the world. History of the Bean Machine: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine)

Why the funny name? The Aakkozzll (pronounced "acausal") demonstrates a paradox that although the result of any one individual cannot be predicted, the general pattern can be. This extends to the real world. The fact that a person falls into poverty is not entirely predictable, but the fact that a society will have a certain distribution of rich and poor (regardless of their particular paths towards riches and poverty) is quite constant, especially when you have a large population.

Educators, we encourage you to share this with your peers!
DUO: The worlds first DIY 3D sensor
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/codelabs/duo-the-worlds-first-diy-3d-sensor
This seems to be a very attractive alternative to the leap motion and needs some more attention (funding wise).
Solving overdetermined systems with the QR decomposition
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2012/03/solving-overdetermined-systems-with-qr.html
This post explains how to solve an overdetermined linear system of equation using the QR decomposition provided by the python's library numpy.
Ruby Spreadsheets
http://cheind.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/ruby-spreadsheets/
What does it take to implement the scaffold of a spreadsheet application? Turns out, that task can be accomplished in no time.
Unify - Native-like applications for smartphones, tablets and desktops
http://unify.github.com/unify/
based on the well engineered qooxdoo[1] framework.

[1]http://qooxdoo.org
From Social Networks to Human Predictability
http://science.dodlive.mil
On right now!
A sandbox for XML development including XSL,XPath,XQuery,Schema,DTD
http://xmlplayground.com/
Just enter your code in the various panels - whichever you need to use - and generate output.
Top 20 Movies about Computer Hacking And Geeks
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2007/08/14/top-20-movies-about-computer-hacking-and-geeks/
I decided to compile a list of movies about hacking, or Hacking as one of the main themes, I could find. This list is no particular order.
We moved from RedisToGo to Redis Cloud (Garantia Data)
http://blog.liftoffllc.in/2013/06/we-moved-from-redistogo-to-rediscloud.html
RedisToGo provides Redis 2.4.x and 2.6.x only to their paid customers. Whereas, RedisCloud provides 2.6.x for both free and paid customers.
Capistrano deploys from Travis
https://cowbell-labs.com/2014-03-06-capistrano-deploys-from-travis.html
How to deploy an application from Travis after a successful build using Capistrano.
Apps Around: discover apps and trends in your area 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apps-around/id569413239?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
What do you guys think? It could be really cool during conferences like SXSW.
Show HN: How to find Access Key confidential data on AWS easily
https://ifh.cc/g/Jlj96j.png
[OSINT TIP] AWS key Credential Leak

How to find Access Key confidential information on Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) very easily
Search the Script tag for the 'AWS.config.update()' function on the 'DynamoDB' or 'S3 Bucket Upload' function on the page using the function AWS SDK or AWS CLI.
Transitioning from Front-End to a Rails Dev, what should I expect?
http://benjammin.herokuapp.com/?p=9
I've been doing front-end coding for a few years now but recently have been trying to teach myself Ruby on Rails on the side. I have already gone through a few resources…all the Codecademy lessons for Ruby, CodeSchools “Try Ruby” and “Ruby Bits” series, “Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book” to learn the basics of Ruby. And now I’m just getting to the tip of the iceberg with Rails. I’m currently working through M. Hartl’s popular “Rails Tutorial” and the most recent edition of “Agile Development with Rails”.

I’m hoping to transition to a Junior Rails developer role but am not sure of what general knowledge I need to have or what I should expect when applying to these positions. Because I’m familiar with some aspects of web development, should I be able to land a job more easily with my front-end experience and learn the ropes from my future employer or would I benefit more from buckling down for a few months and learn the inner-workings of the framework?
Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/06/sooner-or-later-deliver-early-or.html
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that we should do the most important and most risky work first, and the Lean argument that we should make decisions at the last possible moment. We need to decide early and try things out, iterate to minimize risk and time to market; but we should put off decisions and avoid iterating to keep costs down.
Show HN: How to solve any problem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVc_ZqdzcQ
what did you guys think of the content?
Startups should learn from "10 Rules for Dealing with the Sharks on Wall Street"
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09/10-inviolable-rules/
Surely these "10 Rules for Dealing with the Sharks on Wall Street" can be applied to startups when dealing with VCs or when a startup is negociating a new partership/deal or any kind and that third party is a Goliah
The Command Line Rosetta Stone: Powershell, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linuxes
https://certsimple.com/rosetta-stone?yolo
Project founder here. This is designed as a replacement to the (sadly out of date) Unix Rosetta Stone.

If you're:

- A Linux user trying OpenBSD, FreeBSD or SmartOS
- A Unix person wanting to use powershell
- A Linux person moving between systemd/SysV init, or apt/yum OSs

Then is the the right document for you.

I submitted this a while back, but we've a couple more Operating Systems added and a lot of others expanded on since then.

It's on github too: https://github.com/mikemaccana/rosetta-stone
Ask HN: Frequency of Display Ads Based on Previous Search
Has anyone else noticed a "sizeable increase" in the number of display ads they receive that seem to be based exclusively on their recent searches?

I'm sure it's always been there but the overall increase in frequency and improbable accuracy feels a little too "big brother creepy".

Is this borderline spyware?
Show HN: Free, open-source Codespaces alternative with automatic HTTPS
https://github.com/eleven-sh/cli
Hey HN,

Eleven is the second project that I've built to learn Go. It lets you create code sandboxes, in your cloud provider account, easily.

What's a "code sandbox"? Just a VM, running in your cloud provider account, with some runtimes pre-installed, your repositories cloned, a way to connect to it with your preferred editor (or via SSH) and a way to serve your apps easily via HTTP (with automatic HTTPS).

You could use it as a remote development environment, to test some code or even to deploy your app. It's up to you.

For example, to deploy a Node.JS app:

$ eleven aws init hello-world --runtimes node@18.7.0 --repositories eleven-sh/hello-world

> Success! The sandbox "hello-world" was initialized.

$ ssh eleven/hello-world forever node index.js

> Forever: command started. Run "forever stop" in current path to stop.

$ eleven aws serve hello-world 8000 --as hello.eleven.sh

> Success! The port "8000" is now reachable at: https://hello.eleven.sh

$ curl https://hello.eleven.sh

> Hello World

Still learning Go by the way, so I'm open to any suggestions to improve.
js-seed – skeleton for JavaScript apps and packages
https://github.com/amorey/js-seed
This is a small javascript skeleton project I use to start new projects quickly. Let me know if you have any feedback on the choice of core features/technologies:

* npm for dependency management
* Gulp.js for builds
* Sass for css templating
* CommonJS module syntax for code modularity
* Browserify for frontend dependency management
* Uglify for JavaScript compression
* Jest for unit testing
* Node.js entrypoint