jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: I made a minimalist writing tool
https://app.thunkhq.com/login
This is the first ever release of Thunk!!

Thunk is a very simple and minimalist writing tool for anything you want: notes, blog posts, to-dos, recipes, bullet journals, etc.

What makes it different besides simplicity? Quite a bit.

1. Pages are cheap-you can quickly add them and just as quickly forget about them (they get "lost")
2. Pages are indexed so you can search them like you search webpages on the internet
3. Pages are formatted using a Markdown-like notation
4. Easily usable on mobile as there is no need for a bunch of toolbars
5. Git-like versioning-no change is ever lost and you can move between all the changes
6. Included helper tools: lookup dictionary, thesaurus, and wikipedia from within the app
7. Collections: create a Page consisting of other Pages

Unfortunately, I haven't created a landing page yet. To try the app you only enter the email and a login link will be sent to you (there is no registration step). Once you register, there is a Page that presents all the features.
MySQL Connection Pooling with Django and SQLAlchemy
http://menendez.com/blog/mysql-connection-pooling-django-and-sqlalchemy/
Step by step guide for using SQLAlchemy for connection pooling in Django.
Predict the next Facebook privacy debacle
Since there's seemingly one per month, what do you think is the next incoming Facebook privacy debacle?

My money's on them disclosing by default to public/advertisers (but optionally disabled, of course!) one of:
- Your login frequency and times
- Login locations, as determined from IPs
Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/bigfoot-genome-paper-conclusively-proves-that-sasquatch-is-real/
It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest."
Audio shows of finance guy who predicted recession 2 years ago
http://www.europac.net/radioshow_archives.asp
Archived audio shows of Peter Schiff - who predicted the current economic mess. He also provides sensible explanations of the current headlines. This might help to protect your assets.

Here is a clip of him from 2006 predicting the current mess - http://www.webtvhub.com/watch-2006-news-video-peter-schiff-predicting-coming-recession-two-years-ago/
What's your new years nerd resolution?
http://poll.promojam.com/2011
Become a GitHub celebrity? ha!
Joining the Data Revolution
http://blog.risk.io/2012/08/joining-the-data-revolution/
Risk I/O announces its recent selection by the DataWeek Conference as a Top Innovator in the Security/e-Governance category. Risk I/O also discusses how it uses a data-centric approach when building out new features for its vulnerability management platform.
Help needed: Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/02/help-needed-mapping-bidirectional-list.html
Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate seems not to work as documented in the Hibernate Annotations Reference Guide...
Noprocrast makes hackernews better. Use it.
So I enabled noprocrast today on the default settings (it's on your user page).

Now's the first time I've been on in about 6 hours, and, Wow! Where before I was getting crotechety about the quality of submissions, and starting to want to find a place where the signal-to-noise was higher, now I come here after 6 hours away and oh look, there are tonnes of interesting links here!

So, if you're thinking like I was that HN wasn't quite as good as it used to be, it's very likely you that's changed, not HN.

Try out the noprocrast setting for a week, see how much better HN seems.
Mass. Insight Releases Report to Help Mass Economy
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Time_to_Get_Serious_About_Reinvigorating_the_Mass_Tech_Economy
Interesting points on trying to reinvigorate the massachusetts economy
My moaning about Flash
http://kirill-muzykov.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-moaning-about-flash-or-why-i-dont.html
It is becoming popular to share your thoughts about why Flash is bad or good. I've decided to share my.
Ask HN: HN's guide to Vegas?
Age: 21, Sex: male, Days: 3, Hotel: true, Alone: false, Cash-to-burn: $100. Didn't care for the movie "The Hangover" but I did enjoy "Ocean's Eleven" if that helps any.
Tell HN: How I lost 25 pounds on the simplest diet ever.
Since graduating college 6 years ago, I've put on about 50 lbs. I've tried various workouts/diets with marginal success, but this is by far the most effective and it's so easy it's almost silly.

The diet: Stop eating. Losing weight for most people is simple math; calories burned must be greater than calories taken in. I work in software development and get no exercise; I'm basically sedentary. My body doesn't need a lot of calories.

The specifics: Do not eat breakfast or lunch. Only drink non-caloric drinks during the day. Initially you may get very hungry during your normal mealtimes. That's where the drinks come in. Diet soda, water, diet iced tea, etc can be used to trick your body for a while since you're getting something in your stomach. Eventually, your body adapts and stops sending the "hunger" signal during the day and you rarely every really feel "hungry". Combat any residual hunger with fluids, but you should notice your hunger decreasing. The first two weeks or so is the only part that may take some will-power.

Now the fun part: For dinner, eat whatever you want. I live in NYC and literally order out for dinner every night. I eat a good ammount of food for dinner and rarely watch what I eat (but don't go overboard, it's shockingly easy to eat an entire day's worth of calories in one sitting without realizing it, especially with fast food). Make sure that vegetables are at least a part of your meal, or eat them separately after dinner.

The results are amazing. I really do nothing, it requires almost no willpower becuase I never get hungry anymore, and I can eat whatever I want for dinner (or go out for drinks and food after work/on the weekend). The weight is literally melting off. 25 pounds in 8 weeks is a healthy pace. And I did it by basically doing nothing. Also, eating only dinner has helped me with difficulty getting to sleep. Go figure. Scott Adam's recent blog post about being hungry has proved true for me. I find I play chess much better when I haven't eaten yet.

One thing to keep in mind: if you take a multi-vitamin (and you should), make sure you take it AFTER EATING as otherwise you'll just urinate most of it out (Thanks to my nutritionist mom for pointing this out).

The usual caveats apply: I am not a doctor, this is not to be construed as medical advice. Speak with your doctor before starting any diet.
Angular Here Maps
https://github.com/lukemarsh/angular-here-maps
Angular directive for Nokia Here Maps
Raspberry Pi Camera Board is available
https://export.farnell.com/jsp/raspi/orderPad.jsp?&country=GB
On UK Farnell website. Check it out!
Why do dating sites charge?
http://luckyapps.com/blog/?p=12
An overview of the business models on the internet today.
Is there anything like ARIS for the Android?
http://arisgames.org/
For the past few days, I've pestered a number of people about location-based game platforms. ARIS was named by a few sources as a great option, except I don't have an iPhone, and it doesn't appear that ARIS runs on an Android.

Is there a similar platform out there (or in development) that has a broader reach?

Cheers,
-s
Simple tool for monitoring unix servers
https://github.com/pedroandrade/ServerReport
Simple tool written in python for monitoring unix servers.
Yandex Opens App Store for Android
http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2013/2013-02-25.xml
Russian search engine Yandex deals Google a punch, debuts alternative Android app store. All apps in the Yandex.Store app pool are verified by Kaspersky Lab. Before being published, each new app submitted to Yandex.Store is checked for malware.
Competition Sucked Again : Live Messenger blocks YouTube
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080510/windows-live-messenger-blocks-wwwyoutubecom/
Not too long ago, users on the Neowin.net forums started complaining about not being able to send YouTube links to their contacts on Windows Live Messenger.you can see, any messages that contain in text or links to “www.youtube.com” fails to be delivered.
Create a Landing Page for your iPhone App in Seconds
http://myapppage.herokuapp.com/
Example: http://myapppage.herokuapp.com/demo?appID=471966214
Home Office made by Pure CSS
http://codepen.io/alikhalilifar/details/jdAbK
Home Office Scene made with Pure CSS
How much traffic can you expect when you launch?
http://blog.diddit.com/2009/03/how-much-traffic-can-you-expect-when-you-launch.html
This blog entry contains some basic statistics about the traffic that came to Diddit from the various press and blog articles that were written about our launch. It's the kind of data we were seeking during our capacity planning, but weren't able to easily find. Hopefully it'll be helpful to other folks as they make plans to launch their own sites in the future.
Show HN: YepCode Recipes. Connect Services and APIs with a Zapier for Developers
https://yepcode.io/recipes/
Hey HN!

YepCode is the swiss-army-knife for development teams that allow to connect any service and API in an agile way just writing source code and using a serverless environment.

It allows to build complex integrations forgetting about any devops hassle, and it's the perfect alternative when no-code tools may not fit: open data streams, huge amounts of information, complex implementation logics,... or when you don't want to have vendor lock-in with any platform.

YepCode Recipes are the best way to get started. They provide both source and target snippets to move information between services and APIs and they may be cloned in your YepCode account with just a click.

Some references:

[1] YepCode PH launch some months ago - https://www.producthunt.com/products/yepcode#yepcode
[2] Explore our docs - https://docs.yepcode.io/
[3] Sample video with full integration implementation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMlFrVnD_c

Having a quite mature product, our main focus right now is the go-to-market strategy, and we are trying both product-led-growth approach (any user may start with a FREE account) and also building an outbound sales strategy for enterprise companies with development teams.

Any suggestion with the go-to-market or feedback about the product will be highly appreaciated!
40billion.com: Get funded by friends, family & fools
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/02/40billioncom-get-funded-by-friends-family-fools/
The 3 F’s stand for friends, family and of course: fools. The FFF fund is often overlooked as a viable option for getting funding. There are some drawbacks to getting money from these groups of people and one of them is getting everybody organized.
If You Dread Planning Your Startup, Don't Start It
http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/2007/09/21/if-you-dread-planning-your-startup-dont-start-it/
Planning isn't writing ponderously about some homework assignment or dull business memo, it's about that business that you want to create. It should be fascinating to you ... what do people want, how are you going to give it to them, how are you different, what do you do better than anybody else ...
Ask HN: How to improve customer/product experience while respecting user privacy
As far as I know, I have to track user clicks; track visited pages for analytics to improve customer experience.

As privacy is a significant concern, how does my startup respect privacy and also track user activities to improve customer experience?
12 traffic strategies for a web app
http://thinktraffic.net/best-source-web-traffic
3 hours on 12 different traffic strategies for a web app (http://webcontrolroom.com) here are the results.
New youtube UI by yet another Silicon Valley programmer
http://www.kiwifruut.com/
One of my good friends launched this yesterday please, provide your feedbacks.
Univariate LSTM vs. Multiple Parallel Series LSTM on Stock Data
I am currently building a LSTM model to predict only the daily Open price of a stock.

Is there a difference in the prediction of the Opening price if I include other parallel series (High, Low, Close, technical indicators etc) using a Multiple Parallel Series Model compared to using a univariate LSTM only on Open prices?

In other words, a Multiple Parallel Series LSTM with N series, just runs N different univariate LSTMs?

Thank you in advance!

The code for Multiple Parallel Series LSTM is from this tutorial: https://machinelearningmastery.com/how-to-develop-lstm-models-for-time-series-forecasting/
China’s Huawei Going Mobile? (Andriod)
http://intelnews.org/2012/09/21/01-1091/
Jannie Luong, Public Relations Senior Manager at Huawei told intelNews in an e-mail statement: “Huawei will not be launching a proprietary operating system in the foreseeable future”, adding, “our innovation strategy is governed by our commitment to open collaborations that benefit customers and consumers. To this end, we will continue to work hand-in-hand with our industry partners to bring together hardware and software that best meet consumers’ needs”.

While Huawei is publicly denying the intention to build a proprietary mobile operating system, it is interesting to note that it is not denying it could be building a mobile operating system entirely. The key point in Huawei’s statement may just be the fact that it will not be proprietary.
The question quickly becomes: is it building an open mobile operating system? Or is Huawei developing one based on Android? Huawei replied to such questions by explaining, “we will not be launching our own OS. We’ll continue to work with all operation systems.” Android it is then?
The 7 Most Aggravating Assumptions About Freelancers (and entreprenuers) Who Work From Home
http://blog.lendingclub.com/2008/04/29/the-7-most-aggravating-assumptions-about-freelancers-and-working-from-home/
grrr...so true.
Ask HN: Your favorite technical/startup idioms?
I like the idioms like "technical debt", "bus factor" ,"FUD" etc. They help thinking and modelling on subjects that HN people interested in. However I couldn't find a list so want to curate myself.

Can you please share your favorite idioms?
Feature Stops Apps From Stealing Phone Users' Passwords
http://today.duke.edu/2013/06/screenpass
Duke University's ScreenPass adds security to app logins on touchscreen devices.
Chrome 31 is breaking sites all over the internet
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=318805&q=31.0.1650.48&sort=-modified&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Iteration%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified
Chrome 31 is breaking sites all over the internet.
Facebook vs. Your Medical Privacy: What You Need to Know
http://mphdegree.org/2010/facebook-vs-your-medical-privacy-what-you-need-to-know/
If your medical records were online and held privately by a hospital or doctor, would you trust that situation? If your doctor or nurse used Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or other social networking tools, would you trust the safety of your confidentiality in that situation?
Very stunning picture & text sharing design 
https://jux.com/
Is a very good inspiring sources to design picture sharing site.
The Secret To Delivering On Time
http://www.agile-software-development.com/2009/09/agile-estimating-secret-to-delivering.html
For decades, delivering on time has been the holy grail of software development...
Grand Theft Auto - WebGL tech demo
http://creativejs.com/2012/05/grand-theft-auto-webgl/
This is cool! Worked fine in Google Chrome, after waiting some time until it was loaded.

"The tech demo by Niklas von Hertzen works by loading in the original GTA map files (which are now freely available), parses all of the data out of them and re-creates the city in WebGL."

http://experiments.hertzen.com/webgl-gta/
(only works on Google Chrome/Firefox)
Giftag, a Pinterest clone that went live in 2008
http://giftag.com/
I was one of the guys that built this. I still use it and love it. But a few minutes with the site and you'll see why it didn't succeed.
ShrimpTest: A/B Testing for WordPress
http://shrimptest.com/
Documentation: http://shrimptest.com/docs/
Re-Inventing Job Postings: Guaranteed To Be Different
http://www.talentheroes.com/jobs/Astrid/Software-Engineer--Astrid-SOMA
We're a bootstrapped new web business in SF setting out to redefine the tired, old job posting. We need some good hackers to come in and give us some real feedback. There's some awesome companies with live openings on the site. Thanks for taking a quick look.....Jason<p>p.s. If you want to be the first to see hot listings as they come out register at: talentheroes.com/profile
Show HN: Start a blog in seconds. Share posts on Twitter instantly
https://microblog.in/?ref=hn
Focus on writing and publish great content. We will do the rest: servers, domains, SEO etc.
"Make: television" We made our own TV show
http://www.makezine.tv
Make: television debuted over the weekend online and on public television (broadcast / cable tv). The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode hopes to inspire viewers to think, create, and, well, make. Each episode can be viewed or downloaded DRM-free, in HD on makezine.tv - the show is also available on Vimeo, YouTube, blip.tv and iTunes.
Ask HN: Contractions in domain name?
Is it best to avoid a contraction in your domain name?

On one hand, the contracted version is slightly shorter and catchier. It just sounds more natural, casual and true-to-speech. Seeing as this will essentially be a personal blog, the less 'stuffiness' the better.

On the other hand, a contracted domain name obviously can't have the apostrophe in the url. It also may be an issue with non-US readers.

The good news is that both versions are available (ex - cant.com and cannot.com). The question thus becomes: which one should I use, and which one should redirect?

Thanks.
Reputation exchange - Keep the spam and noise low in your site
http://crunchyideas.blogspot.com/2011/05/reputation-exchange-to-keep-spam-and.html
Do you see any arguments against/for this business idea
Show HN: Launchpad – Django deployment made easy
https://github.com/sbussard/launchpad
I wrote a set of scripts to make django deployment less of a headache. After much deliberation I decided to open source the project.
Crunchbase Data Visualization - Using Crossfilter.js
http://chartbeat.github.com/crunchviz/
Turn on/off the selected categories, and use the multivariable filtering to figure out patterns in the data.
Amazon Recommendations Get Social with Facebook
http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/07/facebook-amazon-recommendations/
Amazon is now integrating Facebook's graph to serve recommendations based on your profile information as well as gift recommendations for your friends. This is interesting news for those looking into the social recommendation space in general as the two 800 ton gorillas of ecommerce and social networking join forces.
Fear Hadoop?
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/14/netflix_facebook_and_the_nsa_theyre_all_in_it_together/
Somewhat ridiculous article about the dangers of Hadoop and NSA. Did you know NSA programmers contributed code to Hadoop!?
The harmful effects of TV and computer on the child’s brain and body
http://scinotions.com/2013/07/the-harmful-effects-of-tv-and-computer-on-the-childs-brain-and-body/
A recent study confirmed that kids who watch TV more than 2 hours per day will form unusual habits.
JabbR is a chat application built with ASP.NET and SignalR
http://jabbr.net
See also https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR
Ask HN: How do you protect IP in a download-to-own codebase?
For example Unit Interactive sell their Unify CMS as a download that you install on your server. How do they prevent piracy and theft of their IP?
Are You Ready for the Internet of Things?
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/are-you-ready-for-the-internet-of-things.html?dni=103173401&rni=94281755
Strategic marketing manager Rob Marson identifies how network administrators can prepare for a world of interconnected smart devices.
Interesting time counting app for iOS
http://vimeo.com/67074713
Interesting time counting app for iOS http://shaketi.me
Auditory Illusions
http://weblog.404creative.com/2007/06/03/auditory-illusions-holophonic-recordings/
The virtual haircut is particularly nasty. I loves the whisper at the end.
Show HN: Links Baby Minimal Beautiful Aggregator for Tech Links
http://linksbaby.com/
Hey Guys,

I finished my side project, and I would love some feedback from the community.

It's a simple clean way to browse tech links. It really scratched an Itch I had. There are plenty of places to browse links, but they often have terrible UI's and unreadable formats or are super complicated rss readers.

I just wanted something simple to get the best of whats going on around the web and put in my Pocket Queue, without much fuss and in a super clean interface.

Tell me what you think.
Ask HN: What High School Math Calculator
My girlfriend's daughter has been doing home schooling for her 7th grade year and will likely continue into her 8th grade year due to Covid. She has been working with a couple of online math courses and getting into the Trig, Pre/Algebra, and related levels.

At this level, a calculator starts becoming necessary/useful. I've been using HP and RPN calculators for decades (even in high school) but know that's not the waay of these modern times.

I seem to recall TI (maybe the TI 84) is basically the recommendation of choice.

If buying a teen/tween a calculator to last through the rest of their grad school years, what would be the best option?
Starting Up The Health Insurance Technology Revolution
http://ifn.insurance-forums.net/2013/starting-up-the-health-insurance-technology-revolution/
CEOs of Zenefits, SimplyInsured, Maxwell Health, and agents/brokers discuss how technology is changing insurance.
Web App Weakness:  Dvorak nails it.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2170676,00.asp
Dvorak highlights the big web app weakness no one likes to discuss. What do your customers do when you pull the rug out from underneath them or go bankrupt.
BDD: The Twitter Pitch
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/04/bdd-twitter-pitch.html
The Elevator pitch is so old-school, what counts in our social-networked age is the twitter pitch.
Recently Dan North was challenged to give his twitter pitch for Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
Sendfile - "zero-copy" way for copying data - new in python 3.3
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#os.sendfile
The os module has a new sendfile() function which provides an efficent “zero-copy” way for copying data from one file (or socket) descriptor to another. The phrase “zero-copy” refers to the fact that all of the copying of data between the two descriptors is done entirely by the kernel, with no copying of data into userspace buffers. sendfile() can be used to efficiently copy data from a file on disk to a network socket, e.g. for downloading a file.
ArmRev: Hollywood Games The Web For Social Good
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/armrev_hollywood_games_the_web_for_social_good.php
VC funding $0.99
The Art of Library
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/the-art-of-library/
Honk if you love hacking! I know I do, and boy is it ever satisfying to turn a tough problem into a clever solution. But as you tumble down the slippery hacking slopes, picking up loose bits of code, you may find the itch to start writing code for other hackers. Good thought, but realize that implementation is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ask HN: How good do I need to be to be a technical cofounder?
I've always described myself as a product guy... in that I've got enough skill to whip together products but I've always been reticent to describe myself as a technical cofounder since I don't dream in algorithms.

I'm wondering how you view technical cofounders. Is it the passion for CS that defines a technical cofounder? Or just someone who has the ability to hack stuff together, and later manage a technical team?