jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (MagLev) on a Magnetic Track 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmtbLu5nxw
Why don't we have a MegLev between the New York and Silicon Valley? Talk about something that would create jobs.
Build Your Own Pinterest-Like Website
http://devstand.com/2012/02/18/create-pinterest-site/
The image bookmarking website Pinterest has attracted millions of users Worldwide and made the social bookmarking industry a hot topic online. Check this article to learn how to build your own image bookmarking website similar to Pinterest.
Using class-based views effectively with Django
http://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/using-class-based-views-effectively/
Object-oriented programming stresses the idea of code reuse, through concepts like inheritance and polymorphism. View programming in django can sometimes get a boost from class-based design.
Show HN: Teaser for Flight of the Fireflies
http://www.flightofthefireflies.com
Teaser for the game I'm working on. Animation made using a combination of sine and modulo to create a feeling of randomness. What do you think?
Guide to deploy node.js apps to AWS from Mac OS X (I)
http://www.jmanzano.es/blog/?p=411
Guide to deploy node.js apps to AWS from Mac OS X (I)
Could A Folding Tablet Make Microsoft Dominate Apple…Again?
http://www.davidglarson.com/computing/could-a-folding-tablet-make-microsoft-dominate-apple-again/
Apple's PC was "better"...but Microsoft still dominated the market.

As small form-factor computing platforms (tablets/smartphones) become more powerful, they will eventually be in position to disrupt high-performance computing platforms (netbooks/notebooks/PCs).

Since the cloud lets you push high-performance tasks off the physical platform, the dominance of the Windows OS for businesses is a moat to disruption from new technologies.

This may mean that if Microsoft gets Windows 8/9 right, and small form-factor computing platforms manage to more fully converge and disrupt existing high-performance computing platforms (netbooks/notebooks/PCs), Microsoft could again dominate Apple.
Has anyone seen a job ad for working on a porn website
First of all I've nothing against Porn, even though I feel it's highly commercialized and lost its charm. I keep on wondering which people must have developed this websites and how did they get this job. Has anyone ever seen an ad for doing this.
Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track
http://youtu.be/XB_3iwouwOw
JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY have had some fun with technology..
Tribute to Steve Jobs: Commencement Address Text Version
https://www.facebook.com/notes/abhinav-gulyani/steve-jobs-2005-stanford-commencement-address/288568877837723
The following address was delivered by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, at Stanford University’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
Ask HN: Starting Up A Stock Site?
I've been asked to make a stock media site that would hypothetically sell top quality stock video footage, VFX, pictures, audio, and music for fractions less (bare minimum and all original/legitimate) than current competitors. All artists would earn at least 50% from their content versus only <= 20% at best. All sales would be royalty free and there is already a good team of artists who have "signed up" and some are currently generating content as I speak. From what I understand it would be just your typical upload/download gallery to start out with and there would be a filter for professional content. Later on it might expand into new territories. Other than this limited bit I don't know much.

So my question is 1) What would I be getting into here? 2) Roughly, how expensive is it to run a stock site from beginning to end? 3) What would you want to see in a future stock site (programmers and artists alike)?

Thanks for your time.
Mutiful Android app: control phone's volume with an SMS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=space.eya.mutiful
Mute your phone or make it play music at full volume with an SMS, even if it was on silent.
Show HN: Keychain for the Square Card Reader
https://www.etsy.com/listing/181764272/square-key-ring
I hated carrying the Square card reader in my pocket, so I made a key chain for it.
Using Mule’s Core Transformers
http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/article/show/using-mule’s-core-transformers
There are almost thirty transformers in the core library of Mule. They all provide transport independent transformation features like compression, encryption or payload value extraction. In this article, we will look at four of them.
YouTube Killed TV
http://www.freemake.com/news/youtube_killed_tv
The golden age of TV is already long gone. Today all major TV services stream their content online and viewers have more power to choose from than ever. The death warrant of TV was signed with the emergence of the Internet, in particular with the flourishing of one company that was the embodiment of its destruction: YouTube.
Do long in the tooth programmers get drawn to neuroscience?
I've been a professional programmer for 13 years and studied electronic engineering at uni. In the last few years I've developed this urge to learn more about the brain and neuroscience even though biology and medical sciences have never interested me in the past.

I think after programming machines for a long time the natural extension is to want to learn more about the "computer" inside one's head. Is that a common feeling or just me?
Plasmons Create Beautiful Full-Color Holograms
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/plasmonic-holograph/
By harnessing the power of tiny waves dancing in an electron sea, Japanese physicists have developed a novel way to project holograms that don’t change color when you move your head.
“In a conventional hologram, if you change the angle, the color changes,” said optical physicist Satoshi Kawata of Osaka University in Japan. “Our hologram shows natural color at any angle you observe.”
Web Audio API Playlist
https://github.com/naomiaro/waveform-playlist
sample code giving a first start at a web based Audacity.
Multi-Tenant Public Clouds: Security Risk or FUD? 
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/multi-tenant-public-clouds-security-risk-or-fud.html
Rackspace CTO says its FUD, since the Internet itself is mult-tenant.
[Free webinar] Training Intelligent Camera Systems with Python and OpenCV
http://pl.python.org/darmowe,webinarium,,oprogramowywanie,kamer,z,pythonem,i,opencv.html
In this webcast we cover the process of training a detector for any class of object and a recognizer for any unique objects. Our recognizer can learn new objects interactively in real time.
WSJ: Spam Network Shut Down
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703328404576207173861008758.html
As I started to wonder what happend with my spam statistics...
CouchDB API for Delphi XE2
https://github.com/kangu/delphi-couchdb
Delphi-CouchDB is a library that implements the CouchDB HTTP Document API and adds a couple of useful features.
worldofwarcraft.com front and back-end analysis
http://www.sosuke.com/index.php/2007/11/13/worldofwarcraftcom-front-and-back-end-analysis/
I wanted to submit this write up I did on what I think is an extremely impressive setup by Blizzard on the World of Warcraft site. I really was hoping that someone might know the back-end that was responsible for doing the XML/XSLT transformations because I was unable to figure it out.
Martin Personal Jetpack approved for manned test-flights
http://www.afp.com/en/node/1034390
Aviation regulators have issued a permit to fly with human pilots.
I don’t do meetings. I do tweetings.
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/06/i-dont-do-meetings-i-do-tweetings/
“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” - Dave Barry
Cluster Build Time Lapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttXt5KEYBWU
chiddy bang
Best launch page ever? Sign up early to reserve your username and early access
http://www.nearmine.com
Reserve your username early on NearMine.com we're currently in stealth! But sign up early and we'll give you alpha access and you can reserve your username before anyone else gets there. ;)
Ask HN: Trade Organization for Software Engineers?
My stress levels have increase 100x tonight. I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to change my account password on teladoc.com, so my partner and I could join our couples therapy session.

After going through the password reset flow, the website says "your password has been successfully changed". Then after going to login I get "your password is not recognized"... needless to say we ended up missing our appointment tonight which has me feeling frustrated and defeated.

I'm a software developer by trade and understand systems can have failures from time to time, for certain peripheral services this may be acceptable. However, Certain mission-critical services should always be made available and made redundant if possible. It's inexcusable for example that access to healthcare should be prevented by a software glitch like the one I encountered.

My experience as a developer for 10+ years and user for longer, is that these types of UX issues are pernicious and all too common, especially within web applications.

I can't help but wonder if some of the problem with user experience is a result of the caliber of the "developers" working on these systems, and what kind of compromises they deliver and deem acceptable to appease the wishes of their engineering managers.

I wonder if this problem could be at least partially ameliorated through the creation of a software engineering trade group. Such a group could handle certifications to make sure developers are worthy of building such dire, mission-critical applications. They could create standards that must be met in order to keep a license or certification.

When a plumber installs a water heater, it has to be "up-to-code", engineers in other disciplines often must be licensed or certified to work in their respective fields, why is this different for Software Engineers?
Nagios - How to kill a community (2014)
http://www.legendiary.at/2014/01/23/nagios-more-drama-for-the-mama/
from the viewpoint of a icinga core developer.
Quick Prototype: Realtime slides using Twitter
http://owdskoo.com/twitslide.html?indrax
Inspiration: http://lessigerator.com/

The basic concept is that a presenter could create short text slides with just their phone, while they are giving a presentation.

Three hours later:The code is strictly proof of concept, essentially my first use of Jquery, and mostly stolen from online tutorials.

Currently it polls the twitter API every 10 seconds. It will go through the allocated 150 queries/hr for anonymous in about 25 minutes. If it were able to authenticate with the API, that could be stretched to continuous use.

I don't know if it's possible to text while giving a dynamic presentation without looking like a douche.

It could also be useful for a 'notetaker' putting up a general topic as a group discussion moves from point to point.
Business Cloud Consulting Is Consolidating
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/business-cloud-consulting-is-consolidating/?scp=1&sq=cloud%20computing%20news&st=cse
Business Cloud Consulting Is Consolidating
Show HN: Pith language. JavaScript with a little bit of Python syntax
https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/pith.html
I've been writing a lot of JavaScript and Python lately. I like Python's syntax, so I created a language called Pith that's JS with some Python-like syntax (but without trailing colons).

It's not a full compiler. It really just does search-and-replace, but I find it fun and useful in spite of some sharp edges. I use it on my smartphone to write and run short programs.

Here's an example using the HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API):

max = 6
ids = await getApi('topstories')
for id in ids.slice(0, max)
getItem(id)

async def getItem(id)
const div = document.createElement('div')
results.appendChild(div)
div.style = 'padding-bottom: 1em;'
item = await getApi('item/' + id)
? item.title, '|', item.score
url = '//news.ycombinator.com/item?id='
div.innerHTML = item.title.link(url + id)

async def getApi(path)
url = '//hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/'
return getJson(url + path + '.json')
Continuous Integration Using Go – Part 1
http://sasamilovic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/ci-with-go-part-1.html
Using Go for CI from a .Net perspective
Privacy At Stake As Sites Track Online Preferences
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133306332/Privacy-At-Stake-As-Sites-Track-Online-Preferences?sc=tw&cc=share
Bit.ly's Chief Scientist Hilary Mason's interview on NPR.
Markup of US Legislation in Akoma Ntoso 20 days to submit
http://akoma-ntoso-markup.challengepost.com/
The Library of Congress is sponsoring a set of legislative data challenges to advance the development of international data exchange standards for legislative data. These challenges are an initiative to encourage broad participation in the development and application of legislative data standards and to engage new communities in the use of legislative data. Goals of this initiative include:
• Enabling wider accessibility and more efficient exchange of the legislative data of the United States Congress,
• Encouraging the development of open standards that facilitate better integration, analysis, and interpretation of legislative data,
• Fostering the use of open source licensing for implementing legislative data standard.
New full-duplex technology doubles wireless capacity
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/new-full-duplex-technology-doubles-wireless-capacity/2798?tag=mantle_skin;content
Rice University engineers have developed technology that allows for wireless devices like cell phones and tablet PCs to both “talk” and “listen” to wireless cell towers on the same frequency, paving the way for 5G networks.
A Few Lessons I Learned About Online Writers Down on the Content Farm
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2099281/A-Few-Lessons-I-Learned-About-Online-Writers-Down-on-the-Content-Farm
I want to share a few of the lessons I learned that have stuck with me. It might help some understand how content farms grew into the monsters they became, who contributed to the problem, and why we shouldn’t let it happen ever again.
How Many Keywords Should You Target
http://seanseo.com/seo/how-many-keywords-should-you-target/
When you begin to learn about search engine optimisation and how important keywords can be in contributing to your success, you may create a great strategy in the hopes of dominating your niche.But how many target keywords should you focus on?
Ask: What are the Mechatronics related startups that I can work for?
I have completed my undergrad in Mechanical Engg. plus I have deep interest in start-up/entrepreneurship. So I wanted to get involve with mechanical startup
Ask HN: node.native roadmap
https://github.com/d5/node.native/issues/26
I want to ask HN for some inputs on future milestones of the project and looking for people who are interested to help ;)
Stormssh gets a web ui (sshconfig tool)
http://storm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#web-ui
http://storm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Screencast: Boost your productivity by with XRefresh  
http://frontcube.com/blog/2010/boost-your-productivity-with-xrefresh
Are you really frustrated to switch from your text editor to your browser to see the changes you’ve applied? In this screencast Aslam shows you how you can boost your productivity by using XRefresh
A video tutorial running natively in a browser with JS/HTML/CSS and no  tags
http://gelobi.org/griddify
The page shows a demo of a Photoshop panel (Griddify), but what's more interesting is that the video itself is a bunch of animated HTML elements. (Uses the upcoming theatre.js)
How Mike Arrington wrote a post about us (without breaking into his house)
http://faircompanies.com/blogs/view/how-mike-arrington-wrote-a-post-about-us/
From Nicolás Boullosa, ceo-founder of faircompanies, an independent site on sustainability: "So Michael Arrington himself posted an article on faircompanies in TechCrunch. We just covered the making of of the note we personally left at the TechCrunch offices in Palo Alto. All that said, we don't want to encourage unpolite proceedings with anybody, and TechCrunch is not an exception."
New solution use Windows Server AppFabric Caching
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14165387/sharing-asp-net-application-cache-in-mvc-and-wcf-applications/14168689#14168689
I have 2 projects, one is an ASP.Net MVC application and the other is a WCF app.

These 2 applications share a common business logic layer, which utilizes the ASP.Net Application cache to store some data for quick retrieval.

I really don't want both apps to maintain the same set of data, but I'm wondering where, exactly, does the ASP.Net caching live? If I were to share the same app pool, could both processes access that cache?

If not, is there any way to get 2 applications to share the cache?
Mystery donors paying off layaway accounts for needy
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-20/charity-layaway-christmas/52129100/1
Mystery donors are visiting stores and paying the balance on accounts that allow customers to pay for purchases over several months. Some
donors ask the store to apply the money to children's toys or clothing; they aren't told recipients' names. Nor do recipients learn the identities of the donors.
Technique vs Feel
http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/Misc/Technique-vs-Feel.html
This is a small blog post I wrote up about similarities between engineering and dancing. I mostly discuss technique vs feel because these are fundamental to both dance and design.
3 Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before You Buy
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/3-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-you-buy/
You simply print the Wallet Buddy, cut it out and tape it together. Your credit card will fit right into it. This is definitely going into my TrackSuit Tools. If you use the Wallet Buddy properly it causes you to ask yourself questions that every one of us consumers should be asking before we buy new things and bring them into our home.
Use your favorite editor to Arduino with sketchduino
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sketchduino/0.1.7
The Arduino IDE is a very good tool when you are learning to develop for AVR family of microcontrollers, but it becomes a barrier to more structured projects. In view of these difficulties it was decided to create a tool to automate the creation and maintenance of projects.

The sketchduino will create a complete project, a project will be created with the following structure:

binary (result of compile processes)
lib (custom libraries of projetct future)
include (custom libraries of projetct future)
src (the code of you project)
tmp (temporary files of processes of compiler)
Tweetmart | Sell Stuff on Twitter
http://tweetmart.com/
Have stuff you want to sell? List it on tweetmart and let all your friends on Twitter know about it!
Ask HN: Part-time jobs to fund my startup?
I just decided to do a project with a cofounder, and we both are doing full-time jobs while working on this. I do not have a lot of savings in order to devote full-time to my project, so I have to get some job on the side, anything really. What are some part-time jobs I can look for and work at until I get this project off the ground?
Airbnb, TripVillas, and a rogue spammer
http://www.tnooz.com/2013/07/30/news/caught-red-handed-airbnb-tripvillas-and-the-curious-case-of-a-rogue-spammer/
There's no freude like Schadenfreude. A legitimate promo code to encourage homeowners to list their properties on Airbnb "escaped into the wild," — where one individual used it to spam owners of vacation homes who had listed on the rival listings service TripVillas.
Data Driven New Year’s Resolutions
http://blog.rescuetime.com/2011/12/29/newyearsrsolutions/
YC Alum
COBRA Insurance
http://www.cobrainsurancedirect.com
COBRA Insurance Direct (www.cobrainsurancedirect.com) recently launched a brand new website to help its users understand the COBRA law which provides health care continuation to people who have recently lost their jobs.
The Definition of Cheating?
http://blog.openstudy.com/2010/08/10/the-definition-of-cheating/
Cheating in college is rampant. Why? What is cheating? OpenStudy takes a look.
Dr. Jeffrey R. Jaicks Dentist
http://www.drjaicks.com/
A meticulous tooth-by-tooth check to identify cavities should be done regularly. This will provide you a healthy mouth and a beautiful smile.
UK Startups - Lets Work Together To Force Change
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/18396
Tell Us What You're Doing For Micro Enterprises Not For 'SMEs' is an e-petition started by no other than Tony Robinson OBE (http://www.tonyrobinsonobe.co.uk/). I have no affiliation with Tony or his companies, but I admire his work to help get the door of discussion open in helping micro enterprises find a voice in parliament.

Please Note: I only came across this whilst looking for epetitions related to start-up tax breaks and found it quite fitting that Tony is still championing UK Entrepreneurs
Show HN: Noise up your pipelines with flute
https://github.com/gaving/flute
Screencast: https://vimeo.com/39440084

Probably the most useless thing I've ever written.
Show HN: Quantify your open-source contributions and engage in new projects
http://github-connect.herokuapp.com/
Log in with your GitHub account and see how many points you get for your work. Accepted pull requests, personal projects, the number of people that watch or fork your repos, they all count.

Pitch your idea against our community of developers and get great new feature ideas and help to get you going. Build a team and start developing together.

Got stuck with your project ? Post some detailed issues, or features you would like to see implemented and try to attract as many people as possible to contribute to your project.
Rebecca Black Presents Top YouTube Videos of 2011
http://devstand.com/2011/12/24/youtubes-sense-of-humor-rebecca-black-presents-top-10-videos-of-2011/
YouTube Rewind has finally revealed the list of most popular videos of 2011. It seems like the winner is Rebecca Black with Friday. She is also the host of the Rewind 2011.
Apple copies famous Swiss railway clock in iOS 6 without asking.
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/mobil/Apple-kopiert-die-beruehmte-SBBUhr/story/26209939
Translation for those who don't read German: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tagesanzeiger.ch%2Fdigital%2Fmobil%2FApple-kopiert-die-beruehmte-SBBUhr%2Fstory%2F26209939
Spring Threads with Annotations
http://brian-hurley.com/spring-thread-annotations
Java threading made easy with Spring Annotations
Building a blog engine using Perl Dancer
http://szabgab.com/blog/2011/06/building-a-blog-engine-using-perl-dancer.html
In this screencast we build a simple blog engine using Perl Dancer.
Help Smalltalk Startup - ESUG 2011
http://redline.st is a startup trying to help Smalltalk by putting it on the JVM.

I'm trying to get the word out by attending conferences like ESUG 2011 in Scotland but being open source the funds are not there.

Can you help? http://pledgie.com/campaigns/15176
Ask HN: Are certifications worth anything?
I just graduated with a Bachelors in Business Administration (Accounting Concentration). I have a great government job, but am finding that a lot of the work I do requires programming and database administration knowledge. Since I dabble in this area, I have been relatively quick to pick things up. However, I am considering taking some classes in computer programming and database administration (my employer will pay for it) to further my knowledge. I would really like something to show for it (ie. certificates , or another degree), but don't really know which way to go. If I decide to get a certifcate or two, which ones should I get. Which ones are most respected? Are the university certificates worth anything? Thanks in advance for the help!

tl;dr: I have a degree in Accounting, should I supplement with computer/programming certifications? If so, which ones/from where?