jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OS X vs. Linux?
I was an avid user of Linux on a Thinkpad until January. I switched to a Macbook Pro running Yosemite. Was really impressed by the hardware ( great battery life and an awesome keyboard ). For a few days, OSX seemed fancy too. But I really missed Ubuntu with its fantastic package manager and minimalistic UI. I was being less productive by using OSX. I was starting to get depressed. I made the switch by dual-booting Ubuntu on my MBP. Works just fine, but has heating issues ( the area around the trackpad feels warm), terrible battery life, roughly around 3 hours and occasionally the screen freezes and then I have to do a hard restart. I am going back to Linux running on a Thinkpad. Seems like the perfect machine for development and getting things done. What do you guys think ? I am not starting a flame-war or something, I would just love to hear views on this.
Show HN: Node Maze Generator
https://github.com/w4ffl35/node-maze-generator
A few months ago I started making an RPG API and decided to break portions of it off into open source code.

Here is an extensible maze / dungeon generator for node which can be installed via NPM.

The generator uses a growing tree algorithm and can be extended with custom generators (or by extending the base class) in order to make more complex dungeons, add items and enemies etc.

I kept it basic for now, it's very lightweight.

I don't know if anyone has a use case for such a library, but here it is none-the-less.
EEWeb - Electrical Engineering Community
http://www.eeweb.com
We're excited to announce that our flagship electrical engineering community EEWeb is now live. Our motivation for this site is to have a place for electrical engineers to call home. Each member of the EEWeb community can post their own projects and articles and follow other members with similar interests. We even have our own original electrical engineering comic called Return-to-Zero. Enjoy!
Show HN: Bustinger – Bust YouTube spam comments automatically
https://bustinger.com
We're soft launching Bustinger . A SaaS to automatically remove YouTube spam.

Our irresistible offer is: "Use Bustinger free for 14 days and watch your spam comments disappear."

Context: YouTubers are being bombarded with YouTube spam. One YouTuber reported their viewer was scammed out of £70k (~$85k) and another "out of their life savings".

We were considering the idea weeks ago and had we executed then, we would have saved these families such despair .

We're not standing by idly any longer. We're going to save families from losing their hard earning money.

Bustinger is here to bust YouTube spam.
Show HN: Stuck in a Dilemma? Say hello to Milemma
http://www.milemma.com
Stuck in a Dilemma ? Say hello to Milemma!
Microsoft buys Multimap for $50m
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3042912.ece
That sounds quite cheap to me.
Show HN: Valideate – validate your ideas before spending more time and money
https://valideate.com
Hi Hacker News!

My name is Marcel, and I created Valideate.com

Valideate is a quick way to validate your ideas so you can determine whether or not they are worth pursuing further.

How does it work?

1. You can post your rough idea on Valideate for free, but it costs 1 point.
2. To earn 1 point, you have to vote on 5 other ideas.
3. That's it!

Right now, anyone who registers will instantly earn 5 points, so you can validate 5 ideas immediately.

I created this because I wanted a quick way to pulse check my own ideas, and I hope it solves your problem too. If you have questions or feedback, I'll happily answer them below! Alternatively, you can also contact me at marcelc6363@gmail.com or DM me on twitter @marcelc63

P.S. Registering is frictionless, just need username and password, email is optional, no email validation required. Please try it out!
Poll: What is your office environment like?
Curious to see what types of offices people work in. Would also like to hear feedback in comments about how much people like / dislike their office environment.
Corporate Campus, Cubicles
Show HN: Reddit's favorite products, extracted using deep learning
https://looria.com/reddit/overview
Many people add "Reddit" to their search queries to find authentic product reviews. We fine-tuned a BERT model to extract product mentions from over 4 million Reddit comments and posts with Named Entity Recognition (NER). The result is a list of the most mentioned products across many subreddits. Soon, we'll roll out a version that includes sentiment (positive/negative mention).

No platform (including Reddit) is resistant to fake reviews and spam, but we think it's happening less frequently here for various reasons:

- Redditors and other forum members are more interested in boosting their ego by showing their depth of knowledge on the topic (and correcting others on the topic), whereas corporate websites are more interested in raking profit by displaying (potentially) dishonest information.

- Enthusiasts in subreddits are pretty good at spotting dishonest or fake content, which results in immediate downvotes. The whole karma system helps with trustworthiness.

- Most subs are moderated well and spam gets removed quite quickly

That being said, good fake reviews are technically almost impossible to detect, even with sophisticated network analysis of the reviewer's profile.
Windows 8: The Start menu is back
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/5574830/windows-9-start-menu-new-desktop-experience
A real, fully functional start menu. Not the hacked together start menu MSFT released to quell people's reactions to live-tile only navigation of W8.
"Portuguese Startups List" on Google Spreadsheets
i started a "Portuguese Startups List" spreadsheet on google this morning to promote our startup environment. It's rough on the edges but i'll organize it better when i have some spare time.

http://tinyurl.com/PortugueseStartupsList
Ask NH: Pandora stations for hours of programming/focus?
What are some good stations/groups/bands/mixes to set up and listen to on Pandora when trying to focus or development/programming?
Ebeats $77.77 contest nearing it's end, scj already claiming victory
http://rubyists.github.com/2011/04/11/ebeats-implementations-competition-scj-owns.html
scj is claiming victory already. With only 4 days to go, does anyone wan't to take him down?
MICROFACTORIES – MANUFACTURING IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY
http://themanufacturingrevolution.com/microfactories-manufacturing-in-a-more-sustainable-way
Just take a short step back and think about this: in today’s society we ship physical goods around the whole world. Even products as tiny as a plastic toothpick can travel thousands of miles via ship or truck. Now, one may ask, “How is this possible?”
Ask HN: How do you advertise niche blog sites?
While developing web apps, I'm looking for a quick and passive way to make money on the side (who isn't?). I've heard some talk about building niche blog sites and monetizing with Google Adsense, but relatively few details on how this is actually done. From what I've gathered, the general process goes something like this:

1) Use Google's keyword tool to find a topic with decent traffic but low competition.

2) Create a basic wordpress site around the topic.

3) Hire ridiculously cheap freelance writers to compose perfectly written, relevant content around the topic.

4) Make money from Adsense.

I've created plenty of websites in the past, and this just seems too easy. In my experience, a website with good content just wont cut it. Marketing that website is a full-time job. I have never seen a website just float to the top of Google with virtually no marketing efforts, so something seems to be missing in this formula. Kreci[2] mentions paying for backlinks, but I understand that this is looked down upon by Google.

So how is it done? What's missing here? Does the magic lay in the keyword tool itself? I realize that the keyword tool gives you keywords that are ideal for something like this, but how do you beat the competitors for those keywords?

Some how-to's:

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg

[2]http://www.kreci.net/freelancing/how-to-outsource/
Ask HN: Being "Blackmailed" by Foreign Domain Squatters
A week ago, I got an email from someone at networksolutions.asia "informing" me that a foreign trading company was attempting to buy my startup's domain name at 11 different top-level domain names (e.g. ".hk", ".cn" , ".com.cn", etc.)

They noted that this conflicted with my own ".com" registration, and "offered" me the chance to purchase these domains before selling them to the trading company. Of course, the total cost to secure these domains is over $600 year. I informed them that our name is trademarked, to which they replied that it is "first come first served" in the Asia market.

Obviously, this stinks of a scam. I'm not going to pay them, mainly because:

1) We're not interested in buying the ".com.cn", etc. domains. We don't need them to sell our product.

2)Even if someone else buys them, they won't be useful. These domains won't get the clout from search engines we will (owing to us actually having a product and generating meaningful inbound links).

3) They can have the name, but without a product it'll be useless. And they won't have our product.

4) Its expensive, and not a necessary expense by any means, especially for a startup (atleast as far as I know).

5) Again, it stinks of a scam. We refuse to be "blackmailed".

I'm curious if any of you have had similar experiences or offers. It would be helpful to me, and I'm sure others, if someone with more experience in this area were able to chime in. Is this ever legit? Did your startup buy ALL related domains? At which point would you do this?

So far I own [our_domain].com, .net, .org, .us, and a few others... but where do you stop?

Thanks in advance for the input!
Ask HN: Posterous 21.4M views, Tumblr 2.7B. Why?
http://www.quantcast.com/posterous.com

http://www.quantcast.com/tumblr.com

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tumblr_leaves_posterous_in_the_dust.php

From the RWW article: "Fred Wilson, whose VC firm is an investor in Tumblr, claimed in April that "Tumblr is more of a social network than Posterous." While Posterous would debate that - it too enables users to follow people, comment and re-blog - the mere fact that Tumblr has many more users than Posterous makes it a more powerful social network."

Any ideas on the fundamental reasons Tumblr is crushing it and Posterous isn't?
Rate my app: HealCam, like chatroulette only "sicker" 
http://healcam.com/
HealCam is a medical version of chatroulette. On the site people can connect with other patients with the same disease by using simple drop down menus (present choices:Diabetes, Weight Loss & Dieting, Depression, Cancer, Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Heart Disease).

We think that HealCam is the first fully themed chatroullette clone, at least for the medical field. Please check us out and let me know. Thank you, people!
Show HN: Wachy – A UI for eBPF-based performance debugging
https://rubrikinc.github.io/wachy/
eBPF is an amazing technology that allows safely running user-supplied functions at pretty much arbitrary probe points in a kernel/user space context. Much has been written about how amazing this feature is for kernel observability. But as someone who writes user space code, what I find even more amazing is the support for tracing arbitrary user space programs, with no code changes and low overhead.

However, doing in-depth analysis can get complicated and time-consuming. My goal with wachy was to make this debugging significantly easier/faster to use, by displaying traces in a TUI next to the source code and allowing for interactive drilldown analysis. If you get a chance, check out the start of the demo video since (AFAIK) it's quite unique and gives a much clearer idea than I can provide with just text.
The 99 Cent App Is Dead
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/02/the-99-cent-app-is-dead/
The App Store is a big place, sure … but maybe it’s getting just a little too big. Maybe developers are losing sight of making sure they charge what their work is actually worth, rather than basing the factor of price solely on “I wonder how quickly we can get into the iTunes Top 10?".
10 Million Galaxy S III Sold by July, A Word from Samsung
http://www.starwebworld.com/10-million-galaxy-s-iii-sold-by-july-a-word-from-samsung/
Starting from a base of 9 million pre-orders was quite evident that the race of the Galaxy S III began falling, and according to what said JK Shin, head of Samsung’s telecommunications sector, sales of the last top of the range of the house will exceed 10 million before the end of July.
Ask HN: How does HN actually work?
Or, in other words, how do new submissions get votes?

Are there people that follow the "new" section closely?
Ask HN: Are there any tools you don't use/support for ethical reasons?
Just wondering if anyone eschews something like the recent React Native release on the grounds of opposing Facebook corporate policy (on patents, press baronage, or what have you)?

I will admit to using what I think are the best tools, even when I worry about where they're coming from. I'm split though if this is necessarily bad.

Sure I'm supporting Facebook (who does bad things) but I'm also supporting Facebook open-sourcing their code (which is a good thing).

Thoughts?
Is Facebook defrauding their advertising customers?
http://domaintower.com/blog/is-facebook-defrauding-their-advertising-customers/
This is why we stopped all our advertising on the Facebook network.
Facebook knowingly defrauds their advertising customers and seem to not be doing anything about it.

We have used quite a bit of money on Facebook ads & promotions, we have always had a sneaky feeling that we were getting cheated, and then we stumbled on to this video, which seem to confirm all our worries..

If you are an advertiser, this is a must watch!
Amazing performance with HHVM and PHP with a Symfony 2 application
http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2013/10/28/hhvm-and-symfony2.html
Some performance tests for HHVM, PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.5 with a Symfony 2 application.
To “swivel”
http://blog.vitei.com/to-swivel/#more-314
This is an interesting post discussing the evolution of a game project.
This could be your fate if you don't do a startup
http://valleywag.com/tech/cubicle-culture/yahoos-recruitin-rapper-289869.php
welcome to the crushing grind of mediocrity, yahoo! style.
I bought a short domain name. What should I do with it?
https://hb.sbs
In the spirit of 'Tiny Projects' by Ben Stokes, I'd like to start a small little side project. A while back I registered https://hb.sbs, but soon realized that I had no idea what project I wanted to make. I have a few ideas, but would love to hear if y'all have any cool project ideas.

I plan to document my process in selecting, building, and releasing the project. I'll release the project (whatever it becomes) to the public under a permissive license.

What are your thoughts? Thanks!
Show HN: Content Security Policy Report Aggregator
https://caspr.io
https://github.com/c0nrad/caspr
Ask HN : hackers,what are doing to keep your self fitt &healthy? 
I know, we work extremely hard and keep ourself going, we slog 12-15 hours per day with all night coding. But what you guys are doing to remain fit & healthy.
Ask HN: Do you listen to music while working/programming?
And if you do, why and what do you listen to? If you don't, why not?

Last year I started a new job and had this talk with one of my new coworkers, who never even considered that people do this, which surprised me.

Personally, I have been suffering from tinnitus for a while now, so having music (or whitenoise) on my ears makes it far easier to concentrate most of the time.
Show HN: Review my site LineOfThought.com, Share the technology behind your site
Website: http://lineofthought.com

This is side project I've been working on. It's kind of an "about.me" for your website. You're able to add your site and list out any technologies used on it for anyone to see. You're also able to add technologies used on any other sites to help fill in the gaps. Say you know of a site using Ruby on Rails or Django that we don't have listed -- you can add it to Line of Thought and anyone else will be able to find it.

The reverse is true as well - you can see all sites entered using a specific technology. If you want to see all sites using Python, or Redis it's only a click away.

Half the fun is just browsing around to see what powers the sites you visit everyday, or see what sites are using various tools you're interested in.

The site is still in beta (and rough around the edges) while we get things going. If you want to create an account you can use the invite code "hackernews" to get in. If you just want to add your site, you don't need an account.

Any feedback on design, idea, concept, or anything else is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

If you add your site (or a tool you've developed) to Line of Thought, feel free to comment with it!
Ask HN: Just launched our beta, tell us what you think
http://www.jobpic.com
benz and I just launched our beta to friends and family (http://www.jobpic.com). The idea is anyone can auction off their time and services.

I did freelance programming for a while and hated the experience of the existing sites(like elance, guru, etc.). I think they are good sites for the buyer, but aren't good for the provider. That's what we're trying to do.

I think there are a lot of freelancers on HN so it would be great if people could try it out and let us know what they like and don't like.

We have a todo list 100 items long right now but we're moving pretty fast at improving the product and hope in a few weeks time it will be really helpful to freelancers(and all people that have passions they want to share).

Thanks!
Steve Welch on getting traction (video)
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/02/steve-welch-on-getting-traction.html
This interview is a bit different than the others I've done so far because of Steve's background. He sold a biotech company (as opposed to Web), which we get into in detail (he did a lot of cold calling). More than that though he just finished a book on entrepreneurship (http://waabe.us/) where he interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, and he's seen hundreds more as a partner of Dreamit Ventures (Philly's YC). So he's in a position to make some decent generalizations.

In the coming weeks, I'm interviewing Garry and Sachin from posterous, Justin from justin.tv, Eric Reis of the lean startup movement and Paul English from Kayak.com. If you have any questions you'd like me to ask any of these people on the subject of getting traction, please let me know.
Kobra – Real-time collaborative code editor with built-in video Chat
https://kobra.io/
Kobra is an online code editor that allows you to collaborate with your team quickly and efficiently. After you connect to your development environment, you can see changes in your files as your team members type them. Kobra also has built in video, voice and text chat so you're never more than a click away from your team.
Ask HN: Does YC fund video game start-ups?
Looking through a pdf of YC-funded companies, I did find two game companies. One made a Facebook gambling app and is focused on making "quick, smart games at a very rapid pace" (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gamador, http://gamador.com/), while the other makes iPhone entertainment apps like "Truth or Dare" and "Knock Knock Jokes" (http://pocketfungames.com/).

It's heartening to know that YC has funded game companies. However, I would classify these more as entertainment apps than video games. We (my co-founder and I) would like to simple entertainment apps like these, but also video games with more graphical and game elements (player-controlled characters and such).

I know that independent game developers aren't traditionally the biggest and fastest money-maker (though there are plenty of examples of independently-made games that went huge, like Alien Hominid). So I was wondering if there has been a case of YC funding a video game start-up that I've overlooked. Could we a stand a chance with such a proposal? Does YC have any history or interest in video game start-ups?

Personally, I think independent video game developers will have big role in the future, since the video game industry needs injections of innovation and originality that are hard to achieve when things get stagnated by the domination of huge companies that can't take risks on their multi-million dollar games (bypassing that to allow for more creativity is one of the points of start-ups, right?).

Also, if anyone has experience doing something similar, or has tips for other ways to get started in video games, I'd be glad to hear about it by email at wzwenator@gmail.com.

Thanks.
Hacker News is really Hacker Discussions
The number of "this is not news" comments seem to be increasing lately. This site might be called Hacker News but it has developed into a community of smart people who like discussing interesting things. From the first sentence of PG's Guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find
interesting. That includes more than hacking and
startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the
answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity.

While this site is, and should be, dominated by recent developments, recency alone should not be grounds for down-voting or complaints. If a submitted link is not "news" but is novel enough to elicit an intellectually simulating conversation, for me at least, it's relevant. (The novel part disqualifies most political conversations; not only is this the wrong venue, but slinging dogmatic comments is really mundane.)

This is how I see it, anyway. I'd really like it if PG weighed in. He might allow this place to run organically, but generally his comments become HN's mores.
Breaking Down the Wearables and Internet of Things Ecosystems
http://stainedglasslabs.com/breaking-down-the-wearables-and-internet-of-things-ecosystems/
Infographic on the breakdown of the future of wearable devices and the Internet of Things
The Go Language YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/gocoding
With a nifty demo of making and installing packages including pushing to and from github.
McDonalds #McDStories Twitter Campaign McBackfires
http://grist.org/list/mcdonalds-discovers-social-media-can-backfire-when-people-hate-you/
Something you should keep in mind when planning SNS strategy.
Ask HN: How much equity is a good advisor worth?
Hi Guys,

Long time HN'er here. I'm using a throwaway for this post.

Here's the deal: We have a solid advisor looking to join our startup. His connections and involvement will have a strong positive impact on our company and it's a legitimate possibility that he might invest later in the game.

He's offering 3-4 hours a week of his time and to help us build an advisory board.

How much equity is that worth?

In advance, thanks for your time!

(I know it's a bit of a broad question, but any help the HN community would be highly appreciated)
Show HN: We have built WASM-based JavaScript client adapter for Memgraph
https://memgraph.com/blog/wasm-introducing-the-very-first-wasm-based-client
Hi everyone! For our graph database, Memgraph [1], we have just built a WASM-based JavaScript client adapter called jsmgclient.

One of our engineers has described in depth the process that he has used to achieve this. [2]
If you have used WASM can you take a look at our approach and tell us what you think about our approach? Do you see any things that we should have done differently?

[1] https://memgraph.com/

[2] https://memgraph.com/blog/wasm-introducing-the-very-first-wa...
WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/us-wikileaks-stratfor-idUSTRE81Q01Q20120227
The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor, which counts Fortune 500 companies among its subscribers.