jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Good starting point for OLAP/OLTP from RDBMS background
I have experience doing traditional web apps using PostgreSQL and some bit with SQL Server - back in 6.5 days.

Lately, I have been hearing about OLAP/OLTP/OLAP cubes etc at various meetings.

Doing a search does not seem to throw up a canonical reference on all these.

What would be a good way to go about learning these things with my background - which would be more traditional RDBMS based webapps/business apps.
Inmoov: Open-Source Life Size Humanoid Robot
http://www.inmoov.fr
A French artist built a fully functional, life size humanoid robot and open sourced it. The parts are all 3D-printable and on Thingverse, and the software is also all open-source.
The Really Terrible Orchestra
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09mccallsmith.html?em&ex=1205294400&en=2577a894a7e814e3&ei=5087%0A
Or: The Beauty of Amateurs.
Show HN: Belua, Beautifully Organised Contacts
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/belua/id1638189843
Manage and present your contacts with the Belua app on iPhone.

Features:

Organise
- Display generative art for contacts without photo.
- Use tags to categorise your contacts.
- Use the touch action to surface contacts in recent.
- Sort by recent, by recently added, by tag or by country.
- Privacy Built-In from the start.
- Actions such as favourite, tag and hide work across devices if you are using iCloud.
- Works offline

Search
- Search text in contacts
- Diacritic insensitive [a diacritic is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph].
- Works with natural language text to ensure correct behaviour in multiple scripts and languages such as Chinese or Japanese.
Should startups do everything in Beta?
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/19/Iterations-of-Customer-Service.aspx
Ever wonder why Google has so many betas. I started Gmail when it was in beta and now I see why they did it, this article goes into why they do it. Maybe Microsoft could take some cues.
GameCal - A No Fluff, No BS, Easy to Read Video Game Calendar
http://gamecal.co/
made it for me and my friends. enjoy.
24 Fresh And Interesting Free WordPress Themes
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/24-fresh-and-interesting-free-wordpress-themes/
Seeing the same old WordPress themes through various articles becomes annoying at some point and that’s why it’s always a pleasure to see new WordPress themes, with new features and using trending styles like the cuber slider, for example, which has become a common thing nowadays. Since WordPress themes are released very often, you don’t have the time and patience to filter them all to pick the ones that stand out of the crowd. In this article you’ll have a chance to take a look at the fresh WordPress themes released lately and maybe download and use them for your site.
> 20 years
Ask HN: creating nice user manuals?
I've got a friend who asked me for some advice on creating nice printed user manuals for a physical product. Since he also needs to do translations, separating layout from content is fairly important - he doesn't want to have to fix 10 documents if he changes the layout.

My first thought was DocBook, which I know and use (for Hecl, amongst other things). It's definitely oriented towards programming, but I think it's big enough that it would work for a standard sort of manual too. Anyone have experience using it for really nice looking printed materials, though? Or alternative suggestions? LaTeX can produce some really beautiful output, but is probably tougher for most people to work with, and doesn't separate content from layout 100%. Someone also mentioned Adobe's "indesign". Could OpenOffice be pressed into doing what's needed? What else is out there?
Rails 2.3.9 released
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RidingRails/~3/Gw07WrgH8fk/ruby-on-rails-2-3-9-released
Running it without deprecation warnings is supposed to be a warm fuzzy for a Rails 3 upgrade.
Windward - An iPhone app for Sailors
http://windwardapp.com/
Kerem Suer (@keremsuer) and his friend Nick Eby (@nicholasleby) built a fantastic app for Sailors.

This isn't only a well-designed iPhone app, but also the perfect example of a simple yet unique and effective splash page.
Two of the minds behind Skype, Spotify and Wrapp talks about startups
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R_E4GYfZK4&start=2000
Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype and current CEO and Founding Partner of international venture capital firm Atomico, together with Andreas Ehn, former CTO of Spotify and now co-founder of Wrapp, spoke at Stockholm University on February 15, 2012<p>Niklas discussed his journey from company executive to entrepreneur, and from entrepreneur to venture capitalist, and the lessons he has learnt so far. He was joined on stage by Andreas Ehn, former CTO of Spotify and currently co-founder and CTO of Wrapp, the exciting new social gifting service in which Atomico has invested. Niklas and Andreas were interviewed on stage and answered questions from the audience.<p>Stockholm University - Our education and research produce results
www.su.se/english
The problem with Microsoft's software platform
http://www.dopefly.com/techblog/entry.cfm?entry=281
So you think that you've got it bad? It could be worse if you're an ASP.NET programmer.
Best quote and proposal creation solution?
Something better than www.quotewerks.com, www.quosal.com or quoteroller.com
Quality Is Future Speed
http://deliberate-software.com/quality-is-future-speed
A post about the essence of quality and what it means for today.
Best12 Applications to Enhance Dropbox Features
http://devstand.com/2011/12/01/dropbox-download/
These applications will allow every Dropbox user to save files automatically from emails, control PC or devices remotely and even save settings or games from everywhere in the world in their Dropbox folders.
Iterative Interface Design - Methods To Madness
http://lightheatcode.com/?p=86
The Agile YAGNI approach to design is a formula for failure and abrogates our fundamental responsibilities as designers and engineers.
Professional Templates for magazine startups
http://presspadapp.com/free-indesign-magazine-templates/
Free Magazine Templates for InDesign
Dead Drop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop
Pretty cool. I consider a dead drop web page to be a referrer's site that trails back to nothing.

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Google Images API + Google Translate API = World Images
http://jamiealexandre.com/worldimages/
Search for something, and it is translated into a variety of languages, then these translated phrases are searched for in Google Images, restricting searches to the TLDs for each target country.
Understanding Polling, Long Polling, Comet, Server Sent Events and WebSockets
http://nadirmuzaffar.blogspot.com/2013/03/polling-long-polling-comet-server-side.html
People keep asking me about all this and the answer is always the same. Doesn't take much to understand the concepts but having to say it over and over gets tiring. So put my blabbering in writing form.
care to share your startup's blog url?
http://www.gmbhnews.com/categories/Startups.html
After creating the Entrepreneurship Category on www.gmbhnews.com under http://www.gmbhnews.com/categories/Entrepreneurship.html , it's time to create a startup category listing startup's blogsn under http://www.gmbhnews.com/categories/Startups.html , would you care to share your startup blog url or rss url? you could also add your blog under the category startup here: http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite/ , keep in mind the site is optimized for mobile devices and webkit browsers. I welcome every startup blog.
Lean Startup Video
http://tech.li/2011/11/the-lean-startup-video/
Everyone I know that has read "Lean Startup" won't shut up about it..so now I'm fueling the fire by sharing this video.haha
Show HN: Sorad - Like Tweetmeme but localized for your city
http://sorad.ciafo.com
Sorad - Like Tweetmeme but localized for your city
Show HN : like techmeme - for Microsoft
http://d8taplex.com/track/microsoft-widescreen.html
I've been working on a simple blog tracking page focused on Microsoft stories.
Initial OO implementation of arrays for PHP
https://github.com/modernnerds/dstruct
FOR PHP!!!!
Kindle is spurring e-book sales? Up 24%.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/257173605/the_kindle_effect_e_book_sales_up_24_percent
Hard to quantify, as Sony just did a HUGE media push in airports and transit for their e-reader. But this comes hot on the heals of Bezo apologizing for Amazon's lack of Kindle supply.
What Start-ups Can Learn From Sports
http://barepixel.com/startups-and-sports/
Start-ups are a wonderful part of our generation. They are constantly pushing to achieve greatness, create new opportunities and disrupt old, but more importantly broken, sectors. Something that I have realised over my short time working in the start-up world is what they can learn from successful sports teams.
Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?"
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6560049/3eb18e64/even_bellen_met_de_nsa.html
A nice thought and practically the same thing that Google does. You hand in your privacy, but you get services back in return.
Map Reduce Star Trek Fan Fiction
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/mapreduce-star-trek-fan?mz=36885-nosql
Fun for you NoSQL trekkies - this post creates a cool narrative around MapReduce.
Economics of Application Virtulization on AWS
http://wattersjames.com/2013/05/09/economics-of-application-virtulization-on-aws/
Given current EC2 pricing, deploying your application tier directly to EC2 VMs is the wrong architecture for many use cases. Using a Linux Container isolated and application centric platform can provide up to 10x+ hard cost savings vs. a VM instance based approach.
RightJS the new JavaScript framework
http://rightjs.org
There is new beast in the zoo. Name's RightJS. It's 2-5 times faster than jQuery, Prototype or MooTools and the same times more compact. Additionally it provides several really nice features which lets you write compact and readable applications code. And well it's just such a joy to work with. Take a look, it's gonna be huge!
Slow Company movement
http://felttip.tumblr.com/post/3895547383/slow-company
Good idea from Lucius Kwok of Felt Tip.
AWS Outage points out weaknesses of Memcached. 
http://garantiadata.com/blog/aws-outages-and-in-memory-datastores
However, some survived memory loss. Check it out
First experiments with golang
http://muharem.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/first-experiments-with-golang/
Kicking the tyres on goroutines
Life's too short to work for a shitty company.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianpiercy
Anybody needing a hard-nosed product manager? Not a rookie. Brogrammers and crush-its need not reply. Austin - or the world.
Favatar API : grab any image from any URL
https://favatar.mention.net/
Introducing Favatar, an image for any url. It's a pain to get the image associated with a url and sometimes hard to find the location of a favicon (if available), more and more websites use alternative pictures. We here at the mention.net team have solved the problem and offer you access to our API through any http client.
How to watch the last Space Shuttle missions
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/space-shuttle-streams
Don't miss it, I especially like the last live broadcast down the page, it really is amazing.
CALEA, Carnivore, and Countermeasures - by David Gessel (Seoul, Korea 2000)
http://www.dis.org/gessel/IS2K/CALEA_Carnivore.pdf
This is an interesting read in light of PRISM.

a lecture given in Seoul, Korea in 2000 by superDave:
http://www2.dis.org/filez/#superdave

Realize how long this sort of stuff has been going on, everyone...

"In general, more is known about the state of government sponsored surveillance than corporate surveillance which, without regulatory oversight, is certainly far more extensive, though usually in the guise of “marketing research” or competitive analysis."

CALEA Carnivore Lecture

This Lecture, as presented at IS2K in Korea, is about CALEA, Carnivore and possible Countermeasures. It presents an overview of the state of surveillance in the world today, introduces some of the many threats to data (some overt, most covert) and highlights the value of security in a very insecure world.
Microsoft Dogfooding Skype Beta For Windows Phone
http://wp7lab.com/news/microsoft-dogfooding-skype-beta-for-windows-phone/
Everyone could be making use of a full-fledged Skype app for Windows Phone sooner than expected; because we’ve just been tipped off that Microsoft is planning to release a Skype Beta app sometime soon.

Microsoft employees have just been notified that a Beta version of the app for Windows Phone will be landing shortly and in the coming weeks invitations will be passed on for testing purposes; Microsoft effectively starting dogfooding Skype Beta for Windows Phone.
Ask HN: Thoughts about qui.tw (geolocation shortener)
http://qui.tw
Pick a point on the map and get a short url. Started as late night project to learn about couchdb and ended up doing the extra bit of work to release it.
Had small but positive feedback and now wondering.
Should I spend more time on it to take it further/improve it?
DSL Platform - Domain-Driven Design based MDA
https://dsl-platform.com/
We are proud to open our Invasive Software Composition platform for a public beta.
In short, it's a compiler for Model Driven Architecture based on Domain-Driven Design.
Beta is running on top of Postgres. For now we have opened up PHP, with Java and C# support coming by the end of the month.

What is it?
You write your application model in a DSL - which is meant to be easy to read.
Our DSL Platform takes your model, migrates your database and gives you back a compiled library to use (PHP for web, Java for Android, etc...)
Objects in that library will map 1:1 to DSL you have provided and will be type safe; even PHP is kind of type-safe ;).
If you are familiar with DDD you should feel right at home writing DSL; if not, our docs should help you to quickly get started.
User-generated comparisons tables about everything
http://socialcompare.com/en
SocialCompare is an innovative platform to create collaborative and interactive comparisons tables in any domain (like a Wikipedia of comparisons).
It is a flexible database of items that can be compared and grouped together to create new views, and then embed on blogs and websites with a custom design.
Bliss: Memcached Cloud Over the PaaSture (Powered by Redis)
http://garantiadata.com/blog/bliss-memcached-cloud-over-the-paasture-powered-by-redis#.UrGwIuKMDhF
Think Memcached is boring? It is. But your app still needs it for performance. Memcached Cloud for developers on Heroku, AppFog, and AppHarbor make guarantees top performance - no hands needed
Deploy Virtual Demos with LabSlice
http://LabSlice.com
LabSlice allows you to create demos stored in the cloud that you can easily share. Deploy either thick or thin client applications that your customers can load, tweak and play with in just a matter of minutes.

We extend the Amazon EC2 cloud to create a:
* Self-service environment, so that your IT and Sales Engineers can easily create their own demos in the cloud.
* Policy controlled lab, where each virtual machine is issued based on the size, type and lease duration restrictions that you specify.
* Sharable cloud, where you can give your peers, customers and business partners access to cloud demos simply by sending an email.

We would love to hear feedback from ycombinator and any ideas for improving on the product and making it more useful to other startups.
Nexus 4 shown working with LTE after simple tweak
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/23/3681450/nexus-4-band-4-lte-support
"Some enterprising tinkerers on the XDA Developers forums are demonstrating that despite the lack of a working signal amplifier and filter in LG’s device, it’s still possible to force the phone onto an LTE network from the phone’s debugging menu (...)"
The future of social networks
http://earlystagevc.typepad.com/earlystagevc/2007/09/more-than-who-y.html
Peter Rip nails it.
A new application – looking for early adopters
https://www.ovaflow.com/blog/2014/06/30/ovaflow-pioneers/?ref=hn2
We at OvaFlow are looking for Pioneers (Early Adopters) to join a unique community. You will have the opportunity to steer the application through its early iterations. Plus other unique benefits.
Why GMail's Priority Inbox Needs to Get Off the Web (And Why It's the Future)
http://www.techi.com/2010/09/why-gmails-priority-inbox-needs-to-get-off-the-web-and-why-its-the-future/
The introduction of Google’s Priority Inbox in GMail was hailed by many as a step forward for email. Here finally was a way to not simply filter email in to spam and regular email, but a way to filter on what you read and replied to most.
Google Code Jam Qualifier Today (24 hours)
http://code.google.com/codejam
The Google Code Jame qualifier run for 24 hours. You can sign up now or any time in the next 24 hours. Submit one complete answer (large and small data sets) to advance.
UWSGI 0.9.7 is available
http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi
This is the first fully modular and truly language agnostic release. It adds support for threading and includes a shared caching (with persistent storage) and queuing subsystem. Clustering can be automated via multicast, broadcast or a simple subscription system. Erlang plugin has been improved and Rack/RubyOnRails support is available. The "Emperor" mode has been added for massive hosting.
VC from Sigma Partners is taking 3 calls from any entrepreneur this Friday
http://www.simplyhours.com/public/josh
Josh Breinlinger of Sigma Partners is taking 3 calls from any entrepreneur that wants to talk to him about his/her business.<p>Sigma Partners has backed Doxo, oDesk, Vlingo, and YouSendIt amongst others.<p>(side note: we recently built SimplyHours as a way for anyone to easily hold office hours...would love your feedback!)
Online petition: Provide mandatory german tax software also for Mac and Linux 
http://www.change.org/de/Petitionen/dr-wolfgang-sch%C3%A4uble-elster-formular-software-f%C3%BCr-mac-und-linux
A german online petition (english translation via Google Translate: https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fde%2FPetitionen%2Fdr-wolfgang-sch%25C3%25A4uble-elster-formular-software-f%25C3%25BCr-mac-und-linux), initiated by a Mac user, calls on the german finance minister to finally provide the years-lacking but mandatory tax form software ElsterFormular also for OS X and Linux instead only for Windows.
Your Startup's Timing
http://prolifictimes.com/2013/08/28/your-startups-timing/
Advice on entrepreneurship
Mozilla Persona: Simple sign-in for the Web. Join our SF meetup to learn more
http://www.persona-meetup-sf.eventbrite.com/
Are you building, managing, or owning a website or a web-app where users need to sign-in? Join us to learn more about Persona, a simple "sign-in with email" for the Web, developed by Mozilla. We'll be providing an overview of Persona followed by a Q&A session where you can ask any question you have for us. After Q&A, we'll be hosting a mini-hack session for participants who are interested in getting started implementing Persona right away and getting support from Persona developers who will be present in the event.
Closure implementation for Java 5, 6 and 7
http://mseifed.blogspot.se/2012/09/closure-implementation-for-java-5-6-and.html
Have you seen this post?

It is a Closure implementation for Java 5, 6 and 7, it looks pretty neat, and works really well.

http://mseifed.blogspot.se/2012/09/closure-implementation-for-java-5-6-and.html
'hello, world' for mbox
https://gist.github.com/4109022
basic email processing for nerds
Show HN: Mini tool to check the copy of your website
https://bettercopy.xyz/
Hi HN,

I spend last weekend improving the copy of my landing page. In that process, I came across a bunch of articles prescribing which words to use and which ones not to use.

I found it tedious to check for for the words manually so I created a tiny app to do it for me. Right now it checks for the use of hedge, weasel and filler words. I also went through a lot of marketing websites to check words they recommend and suggest not to use.

It's very bare bone but I am curious to get some opinions about how to improve it.
The Original Wolfenstein game in JavaScript
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/
Remmember this game: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/wolfenstein-3d

Here in JavaScript (according to the page - Firefox, Safari only): http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/
Show HN: Letlang repository open sourced under the MIT license
https://github.com/linkdd/letlang
Hey HN!

Since I managed to compile my first Letlang module, it is now a good time to open-source it :)
Hard drive encyption options
Hey guys, just want to know what you use to keep your data secure. I've used Symantec Endpoint Encryption before, and it was alright, any other options in this day and age?
The Doomslayer (1997)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffsimon_pr.html
The environment is going to hell, and human life is doomed to only get worse, right? Wrong.
Washington pushed EU to dilute data protection
http://ftfinancialtimes.blogspot.de/2013/06/washington-pushed-eu-to-dilute-data.html
Unfortunately, the original Financial Times article is pay-walled.
PROOF  You Can Make Your Own 50lb, Hybrid Electric Solar Vehicle
http://www.thekpv.com/
Do you want to drive a green vehicle ? We all do dont we ? You can also enter to win this solar vehicle for free !
Low-level Python debugging with GDB
http://grapsus.net/blog/post/Low-level-Python-debugging-with-GDB
Your Python program is crashing or unresponsive and you can't figure it out with traditional tools (printing, PDB) ? Then this tutorial might help you !
Hacker group Anonymous denies Sony attack 
http://samyass-popular.blogspot.com/2011/05/hacker-group-anonymous-denies-sony.html
Online the secretive "hacker collective" had earlier been singled-out by Sony as the possible guilty party.
But a posting on Anonymous' blog said: "Let's be clear, we are legion, but it wasn't us. You are incompetent Sony."
Trolling firm digs deeper hole with defamation suit against critics
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/trolling-firm-digs-deeper-hole-with-defamation-suit-against-critics/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/trolling-firm-digs-deeper-hole-with-defamation-suit-against-critics/
U.S. Treasury Said to Invest in Nine Major U.S. Banks 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=alDuNJQDu5KA
U.S. Treasury Said to Invest in Nine Major U.S. Banks
Intelligent Use Of jQuery Sliders – 45 Inspirational Websites
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/intelligent-use-of-jquery-sliders-45-inspirational-websites/
In this article, you will see inspirational examples of how others have used jQuery sliders in a pretty clever way making those websites of theirs look pretty damn cool.
Business Users Love Their BlackBerrys More Than Any Other Smartphone, Study Says
http://www.cio.com/article/151201
Ranking of business-handheld-user satisfaction is based on factors like ease of use, form factor and battery life.
Guess What Percent Of Black Friday Online Sales Came From Twitter Referrals?
http://www.businessinsider.com/black-friday-online-sales-from-twitter-referrals-2012-11
What are the implications for Facebook/ Twitter valuations ?