jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Cadmium.js – a simple page and theme for GitHub Pages
http://escusado.github.io/cadmium
I created a simple node app to generate a very specific type of html page and css simple enough to use on github pages for your project.
Orders of thought - beyond IQ
http://www.michaelalanmiller.com/?p=205
Some ideas on ways of thinking beyond IQ and other formalized measures. IQ, though valid, seems to dispense much less information than it should, and some suggestions to change that.
Amazon Kindle Asks Me to Unpublish My Books
http://www.cthreepo.com/blog/2012/06/amazon-asks-me-to-unpublish-my-books.shtml
Because my Kindle books are based on things I published on the internet, they assume that I don't own the rights. They are telling to prove that I own the words that I wrote, or the books will be removed from Amazon.
They want links to everywhere my content has appeared.
The War Brewing in the Streets of San Francisco
http://www.newsweek.com/war-brewing-streets-san-francisco-231318
As Silicon Valley money continues to pour into San Francisco, wealthy tech workers are displacing longtime residents at record pace. The conflict, referred to by former mayor Willie Brown as “a war brewing in the streets,” was once viewed as a typical case of gentrification. However, it now appears many of these evictions have been carried out by a small group of landowners who, according to California Secretary of State filings, may be linked to a single company.
15 OpenSource CMS Systems - Vote For Your Favorite And Win
http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/article/show/15-open-source-content-management-systems-vote-for-your-favorite-and-win
People are constantly looking for the best open source CMS to use. To help people choose, we have put together a list of 15 open source content management systems. Vote add your comments as to why you voted for a particular CMS and stand a chance to win free books.
Braille Practice
http://gevious.github.io/braille_practice/
I threw together this simple braille alphabet tester using Emberjs. It might be quite useful for any sighted person who wants to practice braille (ie parents or educators).

I threw this together in two hours over the weekend but will look to extend it to contain a little tutorial on braille and gamify it a little. But for now it is already useful, and we are already using it to learn braille to teach our kids.
JSONPath - XPath for JSON
http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
There are also implementations in many languages as Java (https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath), Python (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonpath/), Ruby (https://github.com/joshbuddy/jsonpath) and Perl (https://github.com/masukomi/jsonpath-perl).
Global survey: Majority feel corruption has worsened
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57592915/global-survey-majority-feel-corruption-has-worsened-think-governments-cant-fix-it/
"Political parties fared worse in the United States, where the 1,000 respondents surveyed gave them a corruption score of 4.1 of 5.0"

That was a bit surprising for me considering there seems to be little or no corruption in the US, when it comes to daily services for the common man.
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-three-kinds-of-platforms-you-meet-on-the-0
I wish more services would offer a Level 2 platform, not just Level 1.
Show HN: We are building an Uber for laundry
http://washioapp.com
Hi Guys,
We are building an Uber for laundry. Please help us out and join our beta. Thanks for your support.
J
Silver Bullet -- Time Travelling Debugger [Google Tech Talk]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpfmKIxusZY
Though I think using the term "Silver Bullet" is a bit cheeky, I'll admit I'm curious, this seems like a pretty impressive leap forward.
Clojure for Dummies
http://clojure-notes.rubylearning.org/
Notes on the Clojure programming language for absolute beginners in Clojure (with a background in programming). Knowledge of Java would be helpful.
Office 2010 Technical Preview now available on torrent trackers
http://techcombo.com/office-2010-technical-preview-now-available-on-torrent-trackers
Microsoft have announced that the new Office 2010 Technical Preview ( also known as Office 14) will be provided to selected “testers” this summer. But the chances of you being one those select few are limited. Do not be too disheartened as, just like the release of Windows 7 RC, Office 14 is now available on torrent trackers :) as a result of specific testers “leaking” them onto the internet. Thus, enabling anyone to download the suite and use the new product!

The “leaked” build is most likely to be “invitation-only” as in the summer Office 14 will be given to “invited” testers. Nevertheless, many of the features that Office 14 contains will still be usable in this preview. Also, the leaked editions are both compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit but do not get so complacent as it will not be the same as what the testers will receive this summer, you may as well register your name and hope to god you are chosen :)
Windows 8 Release Preview Review
http://www.soft32.com/blog/features/reviews/windows-8-release-preview-review/
Microsoft released Windows 8 Release Preview on 31-May-12. The sooner than expected release of the new software is supposed to add on to the stability, usability, etc., of the new operating system. Based on my interaction with the software, I have a great deal of doubt that the new release of Windows 8 Release Preview, is in fact, a step forward.
Does Cloud school signal the end for teachers?
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/15911/cloud-school-signal-end-teacher/
Self-Organised Learning Environments have shown that children are very capable of learning without being told what to do. With a little bit of encouragement and an internet connection children are taking learning into their own hands.
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac
Additional information about how this was created:

http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=341
Ask HN: Is there online software to search for flights with stopovers?
http://travel.stackexchange.com/q/5556/101
While I wait for a Canadian visa, I play with flights online, looking at prices. I found that occasionally there's this weird multi-stop flight that shows up from Auckland, New Zealand to Nadi, Fiji, to Christmas Island, Kiribati, to Honolulu, USA, to Vancouver, Canada!

Now, these only have stopovers of like 1-3 hours, so it's for a refuel or to drop off passengers. Certainly not enough time to get off.

However, if it were possible, I'd like to change the flight to include stopovers of a day to a week - I'm not fussed - I'm flexible, but I'd love to spend even a day in some of these places.

Most online booking sites don't seem to include stopover functionality, however. Kayak allows you to display only flights with a certain length stopover, but this is in the realm of hours, merely to let you configure it not to strand you in Manila or LAX for too long.

Is there a startup or tool to search online flights to configure stopovers of days in length?
Skype and Silver Lake: VC vs PE culture
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/in-silicon-valley-a-culture-clash-sullies-a-romance/
A perspective I found useful for understanding the Skype debacle.
Open Source Hackable High Power Laser iOS/Android Compatible
http://www.wickedlasers.com/evo
The Evo is the world's first open-source, smartphone-controllable handheld laser. It's user interface is fully hackable, and it's capable of wireless operation.
XML VPN Client
http://www.layer7tech.com/products/xml-vpn-client
I hope the whole company is joke.
NATO Server Hacked by 1337day Inj3ct0r and Backup Leaked 
http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/nato-server-hacked-by-1337day-inj3ct0r.html
Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day ) claim to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an inter governmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
Even in the jdk there is bad code
http://rdafbn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/even-in-jdk-there-is-bad-code.html
Java 7, TreeSet and NullPointerException.
Ask HN: Am I Not Passionate Enough?
Here's a little background:

- Took a C course. Loved it and did extremely well

- Good knowledge of Windows and some Linux (Ubuntu)

- Learned Python on my own, no Django or any web framework.

- Basic knowledge of Git and SVN

- Fairly proficient in Java, currently looking at Servlets and JSPs since I need it for my internship next year

I learned all these things in the span of ~2.5yrs because I believe I truly enjoy programming but what really bothers me is that every time I try to start a project, I just can't think of anything to make and when I try to join one, I end up thinking, "nope, too hard for me."

Don't get me wrong. I get that really good feeling every time I make little scripts(using bash or python) that automate some of my daily tasks but I've really been wanting to work on something larger than ~200-300 lines of code.

Anyone went through this stage before? How did you deal with it?

FWIW, I might as well say that if you need some help with your project, email is in my profile.
Show HN: Typosaur, the interactive spell-checker for modern web
https://typosaur.com
Hello,
I'd like to showcase a project I've been working for some time now

The project is called Typosaur and is an interactive spell-checker that provides spelling, grammar and style suggestions

Typosaur is a great fit for Blogs, Documentation and Marketing sites and also supports Single-Page-Apps

Typosaur is currently in Beta and I'd love to hear your feedback!

The API is also available in preview, shoot an e-mail hello@typosaur.com if you want to get access!

---

My goal is to free the web from embarrassing spelling mistakes and improve writing without the need of dedicated writing teams. If you think you can help us achieve this goal (financially or with your talent), I'd love to hear more from you!

Thanks for your attention!
My Best Hack
http://justinireland.com/my-best-hack/
Paul Graham's article in Forbes got me thinking about my best hack.
User squeezes wrt54g router into Keeway Hck3r 150cc scooter 
http://foolshthings.blogspot.com/2013/08/keeway-hacker-150cc-scooter-linksys.html
I love how the sticker says "Linux Inside"
Code-Used vs Time-Used Shapes for Computer Benchmarks Game 
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/code-used-time-used-shapes.php
I've found the computer benchmarks game to be an interesting distraction for a while (I particularly like how they're rigorous about telling you what's happening behind the scenes), and have been particularly amazed to see the relative changes in performance in particular code bases as things like JIT compiling have been integrated into them. The rest of the site's statistics (ex: n-body for same x64 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?test=nbody ) are pretty cool, but I find these code vs time shapes to be some of the most concise representations for per-language efficiency.
Embedded or web fonts for my app?
I'm developing a web app. The PR portion of our site that talks up the app uses embedded fonts from Typekit. I'm wondering if I should use these same embedded fonts in the actual app itself too. Does anyone have experience in how much this would slow down the app? In theory, it should slow things down but I'm wondering if it's OK to have this tradeoff if the design is consistent across the site. Anybody have any advice on this issue?
I Remember the Future – Official Trailer
http://vimeo.com/84752786
MovieSuggestions
Codd’s Relational Vision – Has NoSQL Come Full Circle?
http://www.opensourceconnections.com/2013/12/11/codds-relational-vision-has-nosql-come-full-circle/
We forget how earlier databases fell short, and how relational databases solved the problems of the first generation of databases. In short, relational databases were the noSomething, and I aimed to find out what that something was.
Show HN: I built a helper script for AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui
https://github.com/some9000/StylePile
In case you are into offline Stable Diffusion image generation, chances are high that you use the AUTOMATIC1111 version, as it is quite user friendly and constantly evolving. One thing it has is support for scripts. And I have built a script that eases finding the right look quite a bit.
StylePile has 135 artist presets, 55 styles, 25 emotions. Insert keywords sequentially or randomly. Adjust influence of result types, artists and styles. See detailed progress information in prompt. Feedback welcome.
Vitalik Buterin: Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXRtJcNVfQE
One of the best presentations on cryptocurrency ever. Full notes here [1].

[1]:https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Problems
Js1k.com - demos
http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demos
Very nice JavaScript demo's under 1 kilobyte for the js1k competition.
Artist take on chrome
http://computegeeken.blogspot.com/2011/06/exploring-art-with-chrome-store.html
The apps for Art design
Homeless to hacker: Marc Roth wants to help others leave poverty 
http://pando.com/2014/02/21/marc-roth-hacked-his-way-out-of-sf-homelessness-now-hes-helping-others-do-the-same/
Marc Roth’s story is one for the books: He fought his way out of poverty using nothing more than a TechShop membership, perseverance, and a little help. Now that he’s sorted out his future, he’s trying to raise money to help other homeless individuals do the same through TechShop training.
What should I do with my Google Glass?
I was an early Glass Explorer, but haven't worn it in months. I'm no longer interested in developing for the platform. Any recommendations for what I should do? What's the best way for me to generate revenue from it?
Biggest "start-up" mistake
http://lagesse.org/index.php/2007/08/05/my-biggest-start-up-mistake/
My biggest startup mistake is one as well:

I trusted unproven people (in a startup role). And they didn't prove.
Bootstrap 2.0 demo
http://bootstrap.io/
my bad, here's the url http://bootstrap.io/Demo/
Show HN: Mission Statement - Keep track and refine project ideas
http://www.missionstatement.co
http://www.missionstatement.co

I built over the last few weekend to help organize the ideas for projects I've been mulling over.
60% of Twitter users leave after 1 month
http://techcombo.com/60-of-twitter-users-leave-after-1-month
According to analysts, research has suggested that more than 60% of Twitter users stop using the social network within 30 days, most of whom use it for commercial gain.

As you can see from the above graph, at this moment in time Twitter has a retention rate of 40% demonstrating that over 60% quit the micro-blogging service, for most they have had enough of the facebook shortened micro blogging service...
Half-Life 2 fan movie: Freeman's Days
http://en.freemansdays.ru/
Now available first episode! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prkxiQsbu3M

But it contains only English subtitles.
Ask HN: How does Google and Facebook do friend recommendations?
Today I was dismayed to see a notification on my partner's Android device, which read along the lines of: 'Do you know Joe Bloggs'. Joe Bloggs being me. I'm not sure just how Google has joined the dots.

My partner has a Nook HD with a Google play store account. Mainly to download Google apps for Android, they also use the on board Chrome browser. I have a Gmail account, but I have never sent mail to their Gmail account or the other way around (they don't use that account for regular mail). My partners primary email account resides with another email provider, and is accessed through the on board Nook email client.

They have also installed the Google Keyboard and Facebook apps. Though I don't use Facebook. Neither of us have Android, Microsoft or iPhone smartphones.
What about something like FixThisBarack.com?
http://www.fixthisbarack.com/
think anyone would use it?
Hypocrinonymous
http://pastebin.com/m4J7wcqz
One take on the "insane hypocrisy of anonymous"

From the post:

The answer is somewhat obvious, they do it for attention, they love seeing themselves in articles, they could care less about people, deep down inside they don't give a fsck about BART, they just want to go to protests with their masks and be on the news, so they can scream from their basements to their moms that they made the news! They jump on any possible chance they get to make headlines. Do you honestly think anonymous cares about BART... well of course they don't, why else would they release tons of personal information on innocent users who they are fighting for? Yeah... what? I don't understand this, but I don't seem to be the only one.
JQuery Condom, Namespaces for Plugins
https://github.com/kuroir/jQuery-Condom
jQuery Condom provides a namespace functionality which will allow you to create jQuery plugins on the fly; without touching the main jQuery.fn method. You have the same amount of control as if defining it from jQuery.fn.

This library is not meant to replace jQuery.fn, it's meant to work with it.

The jQuery official Plugin Authoring guide states: Under no circumstance should a single plugin ever claim more than one namespace in the jQuery.fn object. [source.]. And this library will help you follow that rule.

When you write a plugin (or any portion of code for that matter), you'll usually end up passing jQuery objects as attributes to methods; breaking the jQuery way (and sweet chains).
Suggest good computing history book(s)
Are there any notable books that are perhaps in CS curriculum? I'm interested in general history and concepts.

Something that's on Kindle or archive.org would be nice.
Human Values Comparison Over Centuries
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=faith%2Clove%2Ccharity%2Cjustice%2Ckindness%2Ccourage%2Chonor%2Cloyalty%2Cwisdom%2Cknowledge%2Corder%2C+money&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1600&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cmoney%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bmoney%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BMoney%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cfaith%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bfaith%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BFaith%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Clove%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Blove%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BLove%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Ccharity%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcharity%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCharity%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cjustice%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bjustice%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BJustice%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Ckindness%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bkindness%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BKindness%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Ccourage%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcourage%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCourage%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Chonor%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhonor%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHonor%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cloyalty%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bloyalty%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BLoyalty%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cwisdom%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bwisdom%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWisdom%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cknowledge%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bknowledge%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BKnowledge%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Corder%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Border%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOrder%3B%2Cc0
Just a curiosity

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=faith%2Clove%2Ccharity%2Cjustice%2Ckindness%2Ccourage%2Chonor%2Cloyalty%2Cwisdom%2Cknowledge%2Corder
Bbc.com Is Down
Warning: require_once(BBC/Micro/Bootstrap.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/webapps/bbc.co.uk/wwhp/webapp/php/lib/BBC/Wwhp/Bootstrap.php on line 8

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'BBC/Micro/Bootstrap.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /data/webapps/bbc.co.uk/wwhp/webapp/php/lib/BBC/Wwhp/Bootstrap.php on line 8
Ask HN: Hackers guide to getting talent poached
Hi Friends - thinking of writing an article about how to get talent poached effectively and easily. What questions would you like to see covered / answered?
IPhone 4G concept in 5 colors plus motion-control? (Images)
http://androgeek.com/iphone-4g-concept-in-5-colors-plus-motion-control-images.html
The iPhone-4G will be awesome and could come in 5 colors plus motion-control.
Right now it looks like that Apple won’t change much on the 4G design, which shall arrive earlier than expected (April). On the other hand this could be a good sign that Apple will make the new iPhone much more powerful (dual-core). Design is more expensive nowadays then technology.
Show HN: Telosys 4 – how to generate code with 9 predefined target languages
https://doc.telosys.org/target-languages
Telosys 4: discover how to generate code with the 9 predefined target languages: C++, C#, Golang, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Scala, TypeScript.
Confession of a Java Anonymous – Ruby is so brittle, and I like it
http://blog.8thcolor.com/2013/08/confession-of-a-java-anonymous-ruby-is-so-brittle-and-i-like-it/
Confession of a Java Anonymous – Ruby is so brittle, and I like it. This brittleness makes you a better developer, makes better code.
Ruby Messaging Shootout
http://devver.net/blog/2008/06/ruby-messaging-shootout/
I stumbled upon this post when I looking for an alternative solution for Amazon SQS.
Show HN: We’re helping teams do root cause analysis with Prometheus
https://www.asserts.ai/blog/announcing-asserts/
Hey HN, I’m Matt and I’m on the founding team at https://www.asserts.ai

We help teams use their Prometheus metrics to solve problems faster and remove the toil from their troubleshooting workflows. Everyone already uses dashboards and alerts, but these don’t scale well. Why not? The usual advice is to alert on symptoms but then you have to hunt for the cause of the problem by either sorting through lots of dashboards or writing PromQL queries. That gets tiresome when you’ve got a busy on-call rotation or a complex app.

Here’s what we do: you send us your Prometheus metrics and we scan them to build a map of your app and infrastructure. We continuously check your metrics for common problems like resource saturation, error spikes, and so forth (we have a library of health checks but you can write your own too in PromQL.) You also set up some service level objectives so we know what’s important to you. When something goes wrong, we show you both the symptoms of the problem and all the potential causes we detected on a timeline so you can easily connect the symptom to the cause.

To try us out, you set up a remote write of your metric data from your Prometheus to our hosted storage. This usually takes just a few lines of configuration and 5 minutes.

Are you happy with your team’s troubleshooting workflow? Your feedback and thoughts would be really helpful!
Jasper - JavaScript Skills Assessment
http://kalisjoshua.github.io/Jasper/
A lightweight interactive assessment tool for JavaScript.
What does coupling mean to you?
http://www.bizcoder.com/index.php/2012/06/06/what-does-coupling-mean-to-you/
When talking about REST, the conversation usually boils down to coupling. REST enables distributed components to evolve independently over long periods of time, and it does this by constraining where coupling can occur.
The Collapse of the Middle Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
From March, 2007, this is Elizabeth Warren giving a fascinating talk at UC Berkeley. It's one of the best lectures I've seen in quite some time.
Show HN: Share compute functions while hiding the implementation
https://github.com/lmrtfy/lmrtfy
TL;DR: We take the pain away from remote procedure calls.

Hi,

We are Christoph and Orell from Germany. We made LMRTFY (https://lmrt.fyi), a tool to share compute functions running anywhere with others without sharing your code.

In engineering sharing algorithms is often done via source code which is cumbersome if you need special resource (GPU, propietary data sets, …) and impossible if you need to protect your IP.

We created a a open-core platform to share functions bound to specific resources without sharing the actual implementation. Shared functions can be called from your code. Just like any regular function.

Find the open source tool on GitHub (https://github.com/lmrtfy/lmrtfy) or dive right into the docs (https://docs.lmrt.fyi/latest/quickstart).

Unfortunately, we need to require you to sign up because otherwise our servers would be vulnerable and we couldn’t make sure that only you can access your function (E-mail verification is not enforced right now). Alternatively, you can use social logins (google, GitHub).

If you like this project, please star us on GitHub!

We are very thankful for any feedback! Don’t hold back :)