jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What was your static language alternative to Python?
Our python code base in the company I work for is growing and we're already feeling the pain of dynamic typing (some ImportErrors, changing function signatures, dicts, unpredictability, etc) as we’re adding more junior devs. We already have mypy, good test coverage and refactored large parts to use static objects (classes instead of dicts) and that improved things, but it seems like we're spending more time on things that we should be getting for free in a static language. If you’ve migrated your codebase from python to static for similar reasons, which language and why?
Scientists create brain expansion
http://www.viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2011/restoring-memory-repairing.htm
"A Cortical Neural Prosthesis for Restoring and Enhancing Memory" as they call it might be a cure for Alzheimer.
Pure CSS3 logo
http://sandbox.blogaristic.com/logo-blogaristic/
A logo made only with CSS3. Currently resides at www.simpler.ro
Acts As Community - The Social Network for Rubyists
http://www.actsascommunity.com/
Acts As Community is a social network that has been developing over the past couple of months for Rubyists to gather and communicate about the Ruby language and anything tangential to it (Rails, Merb, etc).

In addition to the standard social network features such as photos, videos, groups, and events, it features an open-source project directory directly integrated with GitHub and a Ruby job board.
Show HN: Turn your Git repository into a shareable VS Code sandbox
https://www.kadabra.dev/
Hi HN, I'm Edouard, founder of Kadabra (https://kadabra.dev). We're building a tool that can convert a Git repository into a Visual Studio Code sandbox.

We've spoken to a number of Python project owners and all have voiced the same thing. They want to make it easy for prospective users to evaluate their offering.

Running a pip install locally is frowned upon by security-wary users. Most projects therefore resort to using Google Colab for demo purposes, which comes with many flaws:

- Colab is still stuck on Python 3.7, which was first released in June 2018.
- You don't have control over the development environment, so demo notebooks often start with long-drawn-out pip install.
- There's no easy way to programmatically create a notebook. If you want to create one notebook per prospect with different API keys, it's not possible.
- By nature, notebooks often constrain demos to running a series of Shift+Enter, which isn't the most endowing for a user that wants to first see what your package is all about.
- Jupyter still suffers from limitations around code autocompletion and code navigation.

We wanted to address all these issues with Kadabra and enable project owners to create engaging onboarding experience for their users. Check out our progress with an example here:
https://www.app.kadabra.dev/r/od0pdgu135gh9wj8/

If you're interested in using it for your git repo, feel free to shoot us an email at hello@kadabra.dev or sign-up for the private beta here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmQp2O7glexfn_owjc...
Hacking Home: Coliving Reinvents the Commune for a Networked Age
http://www.shareable.net/blog/hacking-home-coliving-reinvents-communal-living-for-a-networked-generation
As the barriers between work and life collapse, coliving reimagines home as a space for community, inspiration, and social innovation.
Feedback on my new website?
http://www.eser.org/usa
Hello everyone,

I'm doing a website to host demos of LAMP websites (Drupal, Mambo, osCommerce, SugarCRM, WebERP, MediaWiki, Joomla, etc..).

I like demoing new websites from Sourceforge.net, but it's annoying to have to download and install each one. Plus, some of the websites on Sourceforge require root access and/or have security vulnerabilities. VMware is great, but that still means spending time going through README's and tweaking webserver config files. Some of these websites have online demos, but not all of them work. And some of the demos
that do work are really slow.

So, I'm creating ESer.org.

So far, I've got 105 website demos on eser.org. See: http://www.eser.org/usa

I'm looking for interesting/new/unique open-source websites to add to eser.org.

Any suggestions?

eser
Ask HN: Do you have a picture of your startup's office you would let us use?
Hey all -

I'm hoping to collect between 5-10 photos of startup offices (everything from early stage bootstrapped garages to modern well-furnished spaces are great, definitely looking for a mix) that you would be ok with me publishing on the cover of our quarterly reports.

For context, these reports cover trends on venture/startups, are public, and currently have an average "engaged" readership of around 5000 people each quarter (mostly by people who work in VC).

We will happily include a blurb about your startup on the table of contents.

If you have a photo, or have any specific questions, shoot me a note stenton.toledo@gmail.com and I will get you any information you might need (and happily send a previous report as an example so you know what you're getting yourself into).

Thanks in advance!
My Experience with Kagi Search (Google Search Replacement)
So I was wanting to replace Google Search for a long time due to the poor results filled with ads and content farmed articles.

I signed up for the Kagi Search beta (kagi.com) and finally received my invite this week.

So far, all the searches that I have tried, I have gotten better results than Google.

DuckDuckGo was something I sometimes used but I would often have to !g a lot of things or feel like I might be missing out on better results. So that would make me also Google search those things.

With Kagi I have not found that till now. In fact the results have been so good that I didn't feel like I needed to also search Google for very important queries.

Amazingly my go to query to test search engines has been "frozen record" without the quotes which I want to point to: https://github.com/byroot/frozen_record.

It is a query which almost every other search engine doesn't quite get since it contains two common words but surprisingly kagi gets it and places the result at number 2 which is huge.

I know a lot of people here have been clamouring for a different search so I thought this might be useful. No relations with Kagi.
Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock
http://grathio.com/
How many times have you seen a secret hideout with a secret knock? It's a staple of cheesy dramas, Saturday afternoon movies, and tree houses throughout the world. Now it's real.
The repo your repo could be like 
https://gist.github.com/3434516
this is what github had just sent ... to everybody i guess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
damn good commercial
Thesis Writing Service
http://www.realthesiswriting.com/
Real Thesis Writing is very helpful for student, it use to create immense and importance of writing services, thesis is needed to submit in university , they require a reputed writing without any grammar mistake
Would You Ever Stop Using Credit Cards?
We all use credit cards, but they are actually suboptimal:

1) They're expensive (merchants pay ~3% fees which makes items more expensive for us)
2) They're not safe-- anyone can read the numbers off your card and steal it. This also makes credit cards more expensive, bc the banks need to charge more in fees to cover fraudulent transactions
3) They incentivize us to spend money we don't have (and then pay fees on that money)
4) They're inefficient. Requires 4-5 different parties to pass money around.
5) Only works in one currency and in one country (without paying massive fees)

I'm working on a project using Ripple that would solve all this, but it would require people getting something that worked more like a debit card instead of their credit cards.

Would you use it?

Would love to hear feedback.

More info here: www.getwayve.com/dumb
Ask HN: Any startups here own Bitcoin (and digital assets)?
Public companies like Square and MicroStrategy have been in the news for buying bitcoin. Anyone here work for a startup that owns bitcoin on its balance sheet? How does the company custody and track their holdings?

Question is intended for both non-crypto and crypto companies.
Daily SnapShots Of Hacker News
http://www.kirubakaran.com/phr0zen/
I wrote a simple python program to make daily snap-shots of the front page stories and comments and post it in reverse chronological order. I wanted this tool as I didn't want to miss out on anything on the days that I couldn't spend much time here. Regular RSS reader didn't fit. Any suggestions welcome.
Smuggle Truck: new iOS videogame about illegal immigration
http://smuggletruck.com
The creators mention that it is a critique on the immigration system based on one of their friends. Seem legit but I wonder if creating a "controversial" app is an easy way to get attention for future apps.
HTML Pattern Matching (for scraping) in Python
http://theorymatters.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/html-pattern-matching-in-python/
I always dreamed a sort of pattern matching for HTML: I want to be able to get "this kind of tag sequence" inside a page. So I created a library based on BeautifulSoup to do that, and it's effective and easy to use :)
Women Attracted to Redshirts, Research Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100802101821.htm
Too bad they always die first, Star Trek Shows
Siri Vs Google Voice
http://vimeo.com/52497584
Siri Vs Google Voice
Ask HN: Best way to sync data with JavaScript?
We have a mobile app written on AngularJS - Phonegap/Ionic-based, calling some REST APIs who store and process app's data.

We'd like to store data locally and synchronise it later because we are having a lot of issues with internet connection on some regions.

So basically we'd like:
Data -> Local storage -> {sync mechanism} -> REST API -> Database

We implemented something but it's not working as well as we'd like.

Any ideas of architecture and/or possible frameworks to solve this on a simple way?

Thanks!
Ask HN: “Business” framework around a SaaS
Hi,

I'm wondering if there exist a set of good practices for building the customer/accounts/payments framework around a SaaS product. I imagine they tend to be similar from product to product. However, I've not personally run across them.

Regards,
Paul
Ask HN: Review Our Startup - KEE
Hey All

Our new App called "Kee" went up on the iphone app store the other day. We're keen to get your thoughts on it. (it's free)

I worked in the Israeli Occupied Territories during the Second Intifada (long story), and while I was there, I became fascinated with the ancient graffiti scratched on artefacts in the West Bank. I used to wonder who scratched it on, and why they did it.

Kee aims to give people the ability to create overlapping virtual graffiti with the answer to all those questions. Functionally, the app attaches content and thoughts to spaces and objects, access to which can be set to public, friends only or private.

We basically want to make the physical world a communication medium, where you can open a Kee Map, see what people have said about the space you're in, and make comments yourself. So far, one of the things that we've enjoyed doing most is dropping Kees on street art so that people can comment on it and see where to find it. (screenshots of this at http://appsto.com/kee)

Tell us what you like and what you don't. Our web page (that needs alot of work) is http://www.keeapp.com.
Where do we go from here?
http://hmans.io/2012/04/05/where-do-we-go-from-here/
Blogs, laziness and THE FUTURE: good post by @hmans.
Show HN: Linkly
https://www.linkly.at/
Hi folks,

My friend and I wanted to show a macOS app we wrote. The app allows users to search their Chrome history and insert a link from the search results in any text box. Think the macOS emoji box (Ctrl + Command + Space), but for your Chrome history.

For the frontend, we use a combination of React and Electron, mainly for developer velocity. We used Figma to iterate on the visual design.

One the challenges was getting the pane to appear next to the user’s caret as they are typing. Currently, we place the pane at the user’s last cursor location. You might notice some quirks in Linkly that are also shared with macOS' emoji box. For example, in many apps, you'll end up with two flashing carets: one in the app's text box and another in Linkly's text input field.

The Chrome history files are SQLite databases, stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/. Each Chrome profile has its own history file. We make copies of these SQLite databases and build full-text search indices using SQLite's FTS5 module (https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html). The actual search query is a bit of a hack. We just split your query on whitespace, append "*" to each "token", and send it along to SQLite. This somewhat mimics VS Code's search functionality where each token is treated as a substring. In the future, we might parse the entire query per SQLite's grammar and rewrite it so it more closely matches VS Code's behavior and so we can disable some of SQLite's search capabilities that don't make sense for Linkly (e.g., "my_column:x").

Please let us know what you think!
A successful Git branching model 
http://nvie.com/git-model
BTW I'm wondering how these amazing figures are made?
Ask HN: Recruiter blacklist/ratings?
Is there a reputable recruiter blacklist (recruiting company and/or specific recruiters with names) or ratings site that you'd recommend?

I've found a few ratings sites, but nothing jumped out at me. It seems like it would be a great service that someone could provide, as long as they could avoid being sued by the recruiting agencies that got bad names in the process.
The Mutual Friend Phenomenon
http://3degreesnation.tumblr.com/post/11030883436/why-im-betting-it-all-on-a-gut-reaction
A single idea that Brian Scordato has spent the last six months of his life building a social media product around.
Smartest List Of The Best Web Security Scanner
http://unearthedgadget.com/web-security-scanner/337-list-of-the-best-web-security-scanner.html
Internet safety is of increasing importance to Google and other search engines.
Dirpy.com - convert YouTube to mp3 without the suck
http://dirpy.com
dirpy.com lets you convert YouTube videos to mp3 in real time without all the bullshit and a whole slew of useful features.

Some of the features include: real time transcoding ( no waiting ), id3 tag support ( title, artist, etc ), offsets ( like from 0:05 to 2:20 ), high quality formats supported ( HQ @ 128kbps, HD @ 256kbps, etc ), and more.

Techno example: http://dirpy.com/studio.py?vid=av8Vd7SefbM

Have fun
Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?
http://robohub.org/reader-poll-how-would-you-like-to-interface-with-your-autonomous-car/
We interact with gadgets and devices everyday. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting and complicated as an autonomous car, we will need to do so on many levels. We will want to set our destination, surely, or perhaps set a maximum speed. Or we might wish to be alerted if the car must pull into a gas station to refuel in the middle of a trip, or if we will soon be passing a rest area. How would you want to interface with an autonomous car? Let us know via a short poll.
Ask HN: Are web layouts inherently right-handed?
I've been trying to figure this out for sometime. Most websites(Gmail, FB, Twitter, Bing, ....) put their logos to the top left and the menu actions to the top right(Login, Logout, Profiles, Write a new tweet). Does this have anything to do with assuming a disproportionately right-handed population? While handedness is abstracted out through hardware, is there still a perception bias between left and right handed people for web layouts?
Ask HN: What's the best way to invest in Bitcoin?
Suppose I want to add some Bitcoin to my investment portfolio (meagre as it is). What would be the best way?
Ask HN: What to do when you are compiling/wating?
What do you do when your program is compiling, or you are waiting for something? I constantly have urge to check FB, read articles, fire browser and do something, because I know I will wait for 20s-Xmins, until app installs on my device or something else happens. Maybe it is just my attention problem, but I hope you have some advice.

The main problem is that after I read something, I get distracted and have problem with focusing back on work.

http://xkcd.com/303/
Ethical AI implementation dilemma. Need an advice
Hi.

Can't provide any details due to NDA, sorry.
We're a team that working on innovative AI solutions (outsourcing mostly) using NLU, NLP, NLG.

One of our clients ordered a product for content generation to simplify content creation within the company. After a few milestones it appeared that the customer is going to remove human-in-the-loop to validate content quality and is going to use the product not in an ethical way, as we initially thought, by bulk content generation. And it looks like that there is a high chance of misuse for academic writing purposes as well.

I feel quite bad about it, we already delivered early version of the product and I'm not quite sure what to do next. Such misuse is way out of our ethical standards. Thinking about stenography for a "signature" of any text created with the product and sending it to appropriate organizations, like online plagiarism detection platforms.

Where to ask for advice?
Is there any organization that can help and give an advice, like AI safety hotline?

Thanks
Show HN: We built a care home software
https://carehomedomestic.com/
My other half runs a care home in the UK. She was frustrated with some of the remaining paper based processes, and the 'techy' alternatives were off-putting. So we built Care Home Domestic. The project is self funded and has been a fun and exciting journey! It is currently in use at a few homes and feedback so far is really good. There's loads of work still to do, but we've gone out early and aim to be reactive to the feedback of our users.
Steve Jobs Talks Major Crap About Android
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/18/steve-jobs-android-audio/
if there is no competition then why fight it. I love Jobs but hes Scared
Show HN: Stylemapper – A better way to style React components
https://slicknode.com/blog/stylemapper-style-react-components/
I have never been 100% happy with the way React applications were styled, and I tried lots of options. Recently I started using TailwindCSS, which is great, but there were still a few things I didn't like:
- It's ugly with CSS classnames all over your component code
- There is lots of boilerplate for custom components, especially if you are using Typescript and variants
So I wrote a little utility that takes care of all the reservations I had. I would love to hear your feedback!
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann’s Lesson for Start-Ups: Go Your Own Way
http://allthingsd.com/20120313/pinterest-ceo-ben-silbermanns-lesson-for-start-ups-go-your-own-way/
“Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work,” Silbermann said. In reality, there’s very little way of knowing how various factors contributed to success or failure.
Safety in Numbers: On Building Fail-Safe Clusters
http://java.dzone.com/articles/there-safety-numbers-how-build?mz=62447-cloud
Very often, websites can't cope with any extra load, whether from high traffic or performance reducing tasks. As a result, companies lose money, as well as taking a reputation hit. Programmers blame system administrators. System administrators blame managers. Managers blame service providers. And vice versa. In the end, in this day and age, you can't afford down time: it will hurt your bottom line. So, how do you solve this issue?
Steven Levitt discusses pricing.
http://feeds.chicagogsb.edu/~r/gsbpodcast/~5/123840642/2006-06-28_XP_Levitt.mp3
Interesting case for adpinion.
Pinup, A Community for Photographers
http://www.pinupapp.com
A new product from the kind gentlemen at www.heavyhou.se
JQuery UI 1.8 is Awesome
http://emmabooth1.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/jquery-ui-1-8-is-awesome/
jQuery, a JavaScript framework, is a great and powerful tool for website designers and developers.
Ask HN: Future of Facebook?
Will Facebook continue to go unchallenged and dominate the web? Or will a bold startup disrupt their plans? Or a different scenario? What do you all think?
Python Fiddle
http://pythonfiddle.com/
found this link on slashdot, allows you to write python in your web browser..
Why "Build to last" is bullcrap consultants suck and how Digg failed to innovate
http://www.joopdorresteijn.com/Archive/why-%E2%80%98build-to-last%E2%80%99-is-bullcrap-consultants-repeat-and-startups-suck/
Its not competition between companies but business-models. It’s not about product lifecycles but about shorter strategy life cycles
Homeland Security’s laptop seizures (2011)
http://www.salon.com/2011/01/15/laptops/
Updated title to include date
Krush - The dating app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krushapp.krush
Krush is your personal matchmaker. It understands who you are and matches you with compatible friends and friends of friends in a fun, safe and discreet way.

If the feelings are mutual, Krush breaks the ice and introduces the two of you.

Follow all the action on Facebook too: www.facebook.com/krushapp
Attention: How it relates the success and failure of Apps
http://gigaom.com/2011/03/29/the-economics-of-attention-why-there-are-no-second-chances-on-the-internet/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom
"the economics of attention is much more ruthless and unforgiving than the real economic underpinning of a product"
Tech titans rule the billionaires club
http://blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/09/tech-titans-rul.html
Half of the ten wealthiest earned their billions from the tech industry.
Mean.io – the opinionated fullstack JavaScript framework
http://www.mean.io/#!/
cool.. anybody have experience using this?
Twitter Hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"
http://i.imgur.com/pfkXR.png
This is a screenshot of what Twitter looked like at around 1AM Eastern Standard Time.

(Sorry for the duplicate post, but I realized it's better to link to the screenshot of Twitter than Twitter itself, which is down at the moment.)
Show HN: New UI for Ec2instances.info
https://instances.vantage.sh/
Hey HN, 10 years after the project began we have updated the UI for the cloud server comparison site known as EC2Instances.info. This refresh brings a sticky filter bar so you can scroll and see what filters are applied, a more compact navbar, and improved UX for comparing instances.

I've also fixed numerous long standing UI bugs including: comparisons now load correctly on RDS and ElastiCache, sort by max ENI works, sort by RDS instance storage works, and all dropdowns have consistent behavior.

For maintainers and contributors, all the frontend libraries are upgraded to their latest versions, https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info. Going forward, we are aware that the homepage size is quite large and have plans to address this.

We have tried to be good stewards of this project and evolve it carefully. Eager to hear what you think of the new UI!
Cannabis really can trigger paranoia
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/16/cannabis-paranoia-psychoactive-thc-mood
The original reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735884
The new U.S. passport application forms are back, worse than ever
http://papersplease.org/wp/2012/09/24/
...the new long-form DS-5513 to answer bizarre and intrusive personal trivia questions about everything from whether you were circumcised (and if so, with what accompanying religious rituals) to the dates of all of your mother’s pre- and post-natal medical appointments, your parents’ addresses one year before you were born, every address at which you have ever resided, and your lifetime employment history including the names and phone numbers of each of your supervisors at every job you have ever held.

This sounds too crazy to be real. Any Americans out there to shine some light on this?
Ask HN: Have you ever been burned out?
Have you ever had a severe burnout? How long did it last?

How did you get out of it?
500-1000 per month