jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Android’s Growth Rate and How It Actually Hurts The App Market
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/06/androids-growth-rate-and-how-it-actually-hurts-the-app-market/
I feel everywhere I look people are having the old iPhone Vs. Android debate. Granted I am mostly looking in very geeky places, but still, this is a pretty common discussion in my circles. Before the announcement of iPhone 4, many thought Android was going to take the lead soon and some believed it already had when it came to technology and specs.
10 Lines or Fewer: A CSS Design Challenge
http://10lines.tumblr.com/
I'm constantly thinking about ways to make something elegant, thoughtful, and simple using a minimal amount of code. I decided to set up a Tumblr page to help gather ideas. The goal is to add 10 lines (or fewer) of CSS to a few lines of HTML, and make something unique.

Let me know what you think, and if you have a few minutes go ahead and submit something.
Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri
https://getrecut.com/
I released a new version of Recut recently, rewritten from the ground up using Rust, Svelte, Tauri, TypeScript, and Tailwind (RUSTTT stack for the win!). It's the first app I've built with Tauri and I've really enjoyed it.

Some back story: Recut is a tool I built to speed up my screencast editing workflow. It's like a lightweight single-purpose video editor. It chops out the pauses, with some knobs to tweak how closely it cuts and what it leaves in, and lets you get a live preview of what it'll look and sound like with the cuts applied. It can then export to a handful of other editors, nondestructively, so that you can use the full capabilities of a "real" video editor.

It was originally a native Mac app written in Swift, and people kept asking for a Windows version. I had learned Swift and macOS development to build it originally. So as a solo developer, I had some choices to make. Keep it Mac-only? Learn another whole language + UI framework, rebuild the app, and maintain two codebases? Rebuild the app with a cross-platform toolkit?

I'd had experience with Qt and C++ in years past, but I honestly didn't love the idea of getting back into C++ and dealing with the inevitable hard-to-debug segfaults. I'd had more recent experience as a web developer, but I was worried about performance bottlenecks. I actually started down the path of building Recut in Electron and Rust (using NAPI-RS for bindings) and it looked promising, but I was still worried about the bloat of Electron.

A few months in, I took a closer look at Tauri, and ported the whole app from Electron in a week or so. Most of the heavy lifting was already in Rust, and the UI stuff pretty much "just worked". The biggest change was the bindings between JS and Rust.

Working with Tauri has been nice. I especially like their "State" system, which gives you an easy way to keep app-wide state on the Rust side, and inject specific parts of it into functions as-needed. I also really like how easy it is to write a Rust function and expose it to JS. The process model feels a lot easier to work with compared to Electron's split between renderer and main and preload, where you have to pay the cost of passing messages between them lest you ruin the security. Tauri's message-passing has a decent amount of overhead too, but I dealt with that by avoiding sending large amounts of data between JS <-> Rust and it's been fine.

The Tauri folks on Discord were a big help too (shout out to Fabian for the help when I ran into weird edge cases). I think Tauri has a bright future! Definitely worth a look if you know web tech and want to make cross-platform apps.
European Firm Refuses To Go On the Microsoft Cloud Due to Patriot Act Concerns
http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/12/european-firm-refuses-to-go-on-the-microsoft-cloud-due-to-patriot-act-concerns/
Sometime back I had written about how Australian cloud computing company Ninefold was trying to drum up fear that data residing on Amazon’s servers in Australia were under the jurisdiction on the US PATRIOT Act, and thereby, subject to search and seizure (See: Your Data in Australia is subject to the US PATRIOT Act ).
Rate our pivot : PythonAnywhere
We recently posted a 'Rate our Pivot', for Project Dirigible, our Python-based spreadsheet web-application. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2304691)

We received some great responses and excellent advice. The thing that people found the most interesting was the 'effortless cloud supercomputing' aspect, while being least engaged by the spreadsheet-UI.

So we trimmed the application to provide something more focused. The result is PythonAnywhere - a interactive Python console in the browser, that runs your code on our servers.

http://pythonanywhere.com

The user's code runs in a sandbox, to guard against griefers.

We're not tied to Python - in a later version, the server-side process could be anything, from Ruby to a Bash shell.

Casual use is free, like Dropbox, and we would charge for more resource-intensive services, maybe access to networking, or for access to substantial CPU time or disk space.

Prospective users have requested:

- Persistent sessions, so you can close your session but then pick it up from another device later on, with screen content, command-line history, and Python context intact.

- Server-side storage / Integration with Dropbox or Github or other DVCS hosts.

- Shared console sessions, so two or more users can work in the same session, maybe for tutoring, or possibly for remote pairing.

- Providing many different Python versions, all loaded with packages from PyPI, so users could try things out without any local install or config.

- Providing a grid computing API, to run users' code across several of our EC2 instances.

- An editor.

We've just gone live today with a limited private beta, in which multiple users can share persistent sessions.

We'd appreciate any feedback at all, but we're particularly interested in:

- Features that would make it useful to you.

- Features that you would pay for.

- How well we're presenting our case.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated -- thanks in advance!
How To get Media Attention For Your Startup - The Hunt for the Hybrid
http://startupjuncture.com/2013/03/06/how-to-get-media-attention-for-your-startup-the-hunt-for-the-hybrid/
Part 2 of 3 on media coverage. Aim for the hybrid journalist!
Startups that use "the" or "get" to avoid premium domains
Facebook was "thefacebook.com" before it was "facebook.com." Groupon was "getgroupon.com" before it was "groupon.com". Likewise, Dropbox was "getdropbox.com" before it was "dropbox.com"

Something that's never discussed, though: wouldn't the original owners of "facebook.com", "groupon.com" and "dropbox.com" have seen that these companies were gaining traction, and raised the prices on these domains? I just don't get this.

If I owned facebook.com and I suddenly heard about a company called The Facebook that was getting hot as hell, I wouldn't leave the domain name up for the same price as before.

Hopefully this isn't too confusing for people to follow. I'm only asking because I want to start out on "the+insertcompanynamehere.com" and I'm worried that the "insertcompanynamehere.com" owner could respond to growth by hiking up the price of that domain. Anyone know anything about this or have any experience with this?
Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now)
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/92920/
highler quality sources in German Language:
http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13861529/Berlin-verweigert-Unterzeichnung-von-Acta-Abkommen.html
Show HN: An HTML endless runner under 900 lines without frameworks or libraries
https://github.com/trevorjay/Bondis-Heaps-of-Air
My wife and I recently submitted to a mobile game jam on Newgrounds (yes, it's still around). What started as a question of whether we could do it somehow morphed into whether we could do without so many of the seemingly needless complications rampant in our respective industries. My wife thus did all the art as traditional frame-by-frame animation (no puppets or tweening) and I preceded without a game engine. I did use a pre-processor that gives JS a Lisp syntax (Parenscript), because C-syntax is gross. We hope the end result, while definitely of small scope, will serve to inspire some thought as to what is and isn't needed in your next project.
Thinkpad Accelerometer
http://nikolajbaer.us/blog/thinkpad-accelerometer/
Using his laptop's accelerometer (and some android anticipatory glee) Nikolaj Baer shares some Python code to create a pendulum that dangles as the laptop moves.
Like chat roulette but with 8 random people at once and less wieners
http://videochat.io
A pretty cool chatroulette clone testing some new technologies like Adobe Stratus and Node.js.
Someone Mailed Me an Amazing Phishing Page of Google Login
https://googledrive.com/host/0B8XF8k7djaD0b1JtU2lpTzBnWUE/

DON'T ENTER YOUR CREDENTIALS ON THE ABOVE PAGE. It is SPAM page which I got from one of my friend.

The above link is a great example how even informed people can get into phishing traps. It has HTTPS looks exactly like Google Login.

This supports my theory that everyone should enable 2 factor authentication.

EDIT - Checkout its source, the whole page is generated using JS ( I am not sure of this claim)

EDIT2 - I have reported it to Google as a phishing page. I am adding a screenshot for future if google takes down it somehow. Link - http://imgur.com/sTY1uRP

EDIT3 - It will send spam to all the emails in your contact book using your gmail id. Tried it with a dummy account.
Sign of the times?
I have been following posts on Hacker News, albeit, not religiously. I wish I had time to neatly categorize posts based on the content in the post but in general, a few themes standout: (1) sagely start-up wisdom (2) another day, another web application (3) another day, another debate about the best MVC framework for the web app (4) VC gossip (5) gossip around Apple, Google and Facebook (6) Another post about how language X sucks, a contrarian spinning his/her wheels on why language Y rocks. That pretty much sums up hacker news. The Signal/Crap ratio is scary if you rip apart fluff masquerading as technology.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the site. What bothers me is this penchant to appropriate the "start-up" cool as opposed to focusing on the idea, product, or service that is being innovated -- as if a start-up is the end-all-be-all in life. Is start-up association the technology community parallel to celebrities who are famous for being famous? That brings us to another abused word namely, "innovation." Since when did 100 lines of web application code become innovation? Where is the innovation that focuses on the hard problems? I am not sure if there can be a scale for innovation but a 100 line web 2.0 application is no match for the integrated circuit. I am sorry, I cannot put these two in the same league. As a developer myself, I can tell you, code is just code. Pasting code on blogs and sites is just show-off; much like the friendly sales guy in a suit who is flashing the latest smartphone at the airport to appropriate the phone's coolness.

What seems to be also missing is the appreciation for incremental and painstaking detail oriented innovation. There is joy in watching sustained growth in small increments. The satisfaction comes not from the magnitude of change but in nourishing the small yet subtle and perceivable increments that are part of the larger vision of a hard problem.
We wanted it, so we built it...feedback?
http://www.analystsedge.com
thoughts?
PyCon 2010 Talks
http://pycon.blip.tv/search?q=pycon+2010
Most of them are here
Ask HN: Anyone used Estonia's E-Residency for Business?
Hello,

I'd like to know if anyone used Estonia's e-residency[1] for business purposes, like setting up a legal business in Estonia remotely. Please share your experience so far.

Thanks

[1] https://e-estonia.com
Location sharing app Moby launches Android version
http://mo.by/
After three weeks of work our Android app has shipped. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Ask HN: How did you do with your goals for 2010?
Slightly over a year ago, aitoehigie asked what our plans were for 2010. Plans mentioned included learning Erlang, teaching kids to play Go, quitting a day job, ending the year with 10x as many customers as it started with, writing a book, starting to eat a proper breakfast, and many more.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013531

I know patio11 succeeded in his intention to quit his day job; and I know I didn't reach my target (I have lots of new customers, but I'm not up by a factor of 10). How did the rest of you do with your goals for 2010?
Which android phone is good for android app development?
HTC Wildfire?
San Francisco news.yc Meetup - Friday, July 27th
http://up.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2449811475
We have somewhat limited space so RSVP soon. Looking forward to meeting some fellow news.yc-ers
Show HN: Advanced News Searching API
https://www.goperigon.com/data-solutions/news-api
Hello HN,

We would like to present to you an advanced News API, that allows you to easily retrieve and process news articles from thousands of sources in different languages all over the world. Since our last submission, we have rewritten the project from scratch with a focus on cleansing and structuring the news data. Some of the advanced features of the new API:

- clustering news articles into groups of related news
- allows to detect news stories and assess how important / popular they are

- detecting reprints and wired articles - allows to easily filter noise and get unique articles only

- a comprehensive set of 3000+ topics, 10+ categories, and labels, including Opinion, Paid-news, Non-news, Business, Tech, Politics, and much more

- advanced enriched data, including finance-tailored sentiment analysis, entities, keywords, auto-generated summary

- local news - allows retrieving news from local news publishers based on a specific location (e.g. show all local news from Chicago or London)

- journalist data - allows to identify author bylines, extract and link authors to their records

- more accurate extraction of title, description, and content attributes

- content translation into English from 10+ languages

- broad source coverage and ability to easily add custom sources

With the above features, the API has a much broader set of use cases, from analyzing sentiment of financial articles around stocks to PR media monitoring, to identifying risk events and doing deep analysis and market research, including on historical news. There are also a lot of use cases, that we don't know yet about :)

For HN users we provide an always-free plan with 3000 requests per month and no restrictions on features. We wanted to thank the HN community for support on our last submission, I believe without HN's support this project would not have happened, thank you!

You can check out live example queries and give an API a test ride here https://www.goperigon.com/sign-up. We will appreciate any feedback, comments, or questions you might have regarding the API. Let us know in the comments!
Generating realistic-looking stories in Pivotal Tracker 
http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/11/16/generating-realistic-looking-stories-in-pivotal-tracker/
A Ruby script to fill a Pivotal Tracker project with some reasonable looking stories.

This is useful for:

- Experimenting with workflows on a tracker other than your production one
- Teaching clients how to use tracker without exposing another clients' stories
- Learning to use Justin Smestad's pivotal-tracker gem

Cheers,
Jon
Ask HN: What can Firefox do to get you to make the switch?
Over the past several months, due to privacy concerns, I have been working on making the switch to Firefox. Other browsers out there cough Chrome cough are great but the idea of their parent company reading every website I visit is unsettling. I am trying to break out of the Google ecosystem in general, but I'm having a hard time with my web browser. Overall I have been really impressed with some of Firefox's new features in addition to the dedication to privacy and security. But there are some things missing for me in Firefox that could be improved to encourage me to make the switch. The hardest part is porting over all my saved information such as usernames and passwords. But then there are little things like no ability to pull down a web page on Firefox mobile to refresh.

Whether big or small, what can Firefox do to encourage you to make the switch from your browser of choice?
The Internet interface is dying.
http://lighthouseinteger.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html#5892668337098426531
Please discuss!
PyCon SG 2013 Call for Proposals
https://pycon.sg/proposals/
We are inviting for proposals for talks and tutorials for the first PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held from June 13 to 15, 2013.
Show HN: Arttime – CLI art meets functionality
https://github.com/reportaman/arttime
arttime brings curated text-art to otherwise artless terminal emulators of starving developers (and other users who can use terminal emulators). While doing so, it blends display of art (a not-so-techie thing) with functionality of a nifty clock/timer which is a retake on the stereotypical alarms/timers. With one line of title message under the art, it also provides one line of opportunity for developers to display their activism (a not-so-techie thing either) or just attach a functional message for themselves for usual developer activity on terminal (like "debug the failing build tonight").
Scene-Demo running on ATM-machine
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55757
Youtube-Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GynWoDcjE-4
Ask HN: Increasing Karma Implies Decreasing Variance?
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/03/do-influential-people-develop-more-conventional-opinions.html
Using # of posts / time period as a proxy for variety (big maybe), does Robin Hanson's question withstand scrutiny using HN posting data?
Reddit infrastructure revealed
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6994/72691639kt1.png
(Pylons, Paste, Beaker, flup and more)
Free eBook: How to Be a Credit Card Processing Ninja
http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing/
FeeFighters just released a free ebook that provides business owners with useful info on credit card processing, like: how to compare offers from different providers, info on gateways/POS systems, and common tricks processors use to rip off business owners.
Stripe: Redesign status page as part of job application
http://finejobs.co/082813-designer
Read the last paragraph. Also on their official site too; https://stripe.com/jobs#designer
Show HN: Quick Rewire – I made web tool to rewire your brain
https://www.quickrewire.com/
Hi HN, I work with a mixed group of developers, data scientists and neuroscientists, and for fun recently built a tool inspired by psychological studies. The idea is to demonstrate how quickly technology can change how your brain works, and potentially the impact that technology actually has over our agency without us even noticing.
[Ask HN] How do I counter an investor trying to outsourcing our dev?
I am a big believer in having a small in-house team over an army of outsourced development. Sadly our investors thinks the opposite and wants to force us to use outsourced development to put us "5 steps ahead of everyone else". I'm am plagued by nightmares of having to manage these people remotely, being the CTO.

We just received this email explaining their stance. What are my arguments against this? Deep down I feel like I recognise that it will cause more problems that it's worth but I'm just having a difficult time verbalising my arguments.

---

Regarding outsourcing, in my almost 17 years of working with development I have never met a software developer that thought that outsourcing was a good idea, and across the board they have all reacted as you have, saying that we would like to have fewer people employed in close proximity rather than outsource.

I really do understand the reaction, but at the same time, everyone I know who has implemented a well-thought out dev outsourcing strategy has pushed their business 5 steps ahead of everyone else by introducing scalability and cost efficiency into their business model. It is always something that has to be forced on the dev team by upper management at too late a stage in the company’s development, always causes a lot of resentment and conflict in the established dev team, increasing the chance of failure, and usually ends up getting the acceptance of the team as a good idea that makes them all richer and more successful. I’ve always sided with the developers on this, and every time it has ended up being the worst management decision I have ever taken and crippled our competitiveness.

We are building a potentially huge business here with multiple million dollar revenues in a few years, this has to be managed very cleverly and with a forward-thinking strategy to have a chance of success. We have an opportunity to build this into our strategy from the beginning and harvest those advantages at an early stage, increasing our chances of a successful outsourcing strategy many-fold.

The VC’s will place a high value on having such an outsourcing strategy in place and in several cases will reject the idea without one. Our current projections underestimate the number of developers that we are going to need to pull this off and also do not address the fact that we are going to need effectively around the clock development to keep up with the customers demands, which in itself requires multiple time-zone location.

An outsourcing strategy does not necessarily mean we cannot have a dev team here at home, or that we have to have 10 developers in India this month, but it does mean that we have to have a strategy for outsourcing and implement it in the next 6-12 months to get it into the DNA of the company. As soon as we have more developers, the CTO is going to have to spend time managing multiple teams and outsourcing, and we need to have a general strategy for that from the beginning that we can defend during VC due diligence.
a tiny thread - Threaded discussions for Twitter
http://a.tinythread.com/
Joshua Schachter's latest
Top 14 tools I use for my web startup
http://solowebstartup.com/top-14-tools-for-my-web-startup
I've been working on my solo web start up full-time for about 2 months now, and so this post is about the software, programming platforms/frameworks, operating systems, websites, and apps that I use to stay fast and productive. The startup is Refynor.com
MongoDB basics - practice challenges
http://www.talentbuddy.co/set/5266e2c04af0110af3835886
A series of challenges to help you get your hands dirty with MongoDB
300 pounds needed for Shen to become BSD licensed
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/fZZvPzCTVyA
The objective to convert Shen to BSD is very near, a pledge of 300 pounds is needed:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/fZZvPzCTVyA
JQuery plugin to create rich animations ( works on iPhone )
http://www.spritely.net/gallery/
Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating animations in pure HTML and JavaScript ( therefore no Flash plugin is required ).

Resulting animations also work on iPhone.
TSA inspectors damage 9 aircraft while conducting "security checks"
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=340a79d6-839a-470d-b662-944325cea23d&
What are they doing touching airplanes?
Endtable, an ORM for CouchDB on Node.JS
http://www.benjamincoe.com/post/1656130884/endtable-an-orm-for-couchdb-on-node-js
Discussion of the motivation that went into creating Endtable, an Object Mapper for CouchDB on Node.JS.
"Passion … makes all things alive and significant"
http://thescenicroute0.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/passion-makes-all-things-alive-and-significant/
a post from a good friend of mine. worth reading.