jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: We Built Vercel for Data Engineers
https://twitter.com/dagsterio/status/1557040015237976065
Hi HN. Today we released Dagster Cloud to general availability [1], which includes a new feature you can try that we're calling Branch Deployments. Branch Deployments were inspired by Vercel's Preview Deployments feature and deep GitHub integration. We're hoping we can bring a similar developer experience improvement to the data domain. Let us know your feedback!

[1] https://dagster.io/blog/dagster-cloud-ga-launch
Lenovo Develops Slider Keyboards for Tablets
http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/28/lenovo-slider-keyboards-tablets/
While the customers are getting used with the virtual keyboards and even some of the latest BlackBerry models are moving away from the iconic physical keyboard, Lenovo suggests a different approach. The Chinese company invents the “handgrip keyboard“, which the users – who still like to tap their words on physical keys – can attach it to the tablets...
James Dyson: The Art of Engineering [video]
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/362/
Great talk on how engineers should be artists and artists should be engineers.
Review my startup - infostripe.com
http://infostripe.com
"It's a customizable way to connect all the information you want to share about anything, universally formatted for any device."

I'll leave it to you to discover it.
Google is Doping the Horses
http://exploreto.tumblr.com/post/11266458800/google-is-doping-the-horses
“You run the racetrack, own the racetrack, you didn’t have horses for a while but now you do and your horses seem to be winning.”
Ask HN: When designing a personal site, how to get through creative-block?
I'm a front-end guy. I've done design here-and-there, but I'm no "designer". Still, I want to design my personal site.

My biggest fear is the blank canvas. Staring at a completely-white Photoshop canvas yields nothing but frustration.

My question is this: as coder, programmer, whatever, how do you get past the initial creative block?
HN Meetup: Vilnius, Lithuania
Ar yra HN lietuvių? Gal reiktų pasidaryt meetą?

Šaukit komentaruose arba mantas [pas] idev.lt

English:
Anybody in Vilnius, Lithuania for a meetup?
Ask PG: Outcome for comment points?
So you polled us about a week ago on how we thought the experiment was going; I think it turned out around 3k for brining back scores, 2.5k against. What was the final determination? Are they gone forever (hinted by the fact that they're still missing now)?
Your Customers Care About Design, Even if They Don't
http://www.voltagecreative.com/blog/2008/04/your-customers-care-about-design-even-if-they-dont/
Trying my hand at some corporate blogging for my new company. (Design/SEM House) This is my first article.

Excerpt:
"So, why is such a silly mistake so common? It has to do with vocabulary. Even people who don’t care about design, care about it. They just think they don’t care, because they don’t know the language. They don’t take note of poorly thought out ergonomics when they encounter them, but they sure recognize it when they’ve purchased a product the maker clearly never used for it’s intended purpose. When they feel they’ve wasted money, they certainly do take note. And they tell their friends."
Our technology document (Google Doc)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuLlZ-SFbFmNFaB86vi5zanl2-WY86uff3NUBUTIdFY/edit?hl=en_US
Hi there. I have been helping a company with their technology strategy. I am not an expert by any means, but I've collated a number of items, links and technologies within this document. I hope that it might be of use to some people.

The purpose of this document was to get the team thinking about the technologies and techniques that they need to adopt and to create dialog and discussion. We have achieved this and the designers and developers have been in deep discussions on various aspects

I hope that it is useful to some people. I appreciate to some it may not be :) If you have any suggestions feel free to put them in here. I had read a thread on HN a year or so back where interesting technologies that people had worked with were listed and that was a catalyst for me in creating this.

Please note that this document is NOT for any of the sites/companies listed in my profile but was done for a company that I am helping out
Apple is complying with Chinese shell companies to take down my apps
I have video chatting apps on the App Store and there are Chinese shell companies who submit takedown notices for generic terms, and Apple asks me to comply.

They ask that I don’t even rank for certain keywords. And they don’t even provide information on their trademark number. They just want less competition.

I want to know what my options are. Apple is also not clear when I ask them why an app like Instagram can show up when I search Snapchat.

What legal recourse can I take here?

The Chinese company submitting takedowns against US devs is Beijing Lakesha Network Technology Co. Ltd.
Use your awesome tech powers to help save journalism
http://www.andymboyle.com/2011/07/21/use-your-awesome-tech-powers-to-help-save-journalism/
Journalism needs web developers and technologists, folks. And there are lots of jobs open. You should think about applying.
Why getting personal projects done is hard
http://www.davecheong.com/2009/04/24/why-getting-personal-stuff-done-is-hard/
Some of us are bootstrapping our startups (no investors, no customers yet), while trying to maintain a full time day job. We work hard at your normal job, meeting deadlines and getting things done, but our personal projects fall behind.

One remedy is:
Create Self-Imposed Deadlines. With Punishment for Failure.
Ask HN: A stock trading platform for hackers?
There seems to be a lot of talk on HN about HFT, short-selling, and the stock market in general. Using AI / Machine Learning / Data Mining allows smart hackers like us to more-or-less print money (according to the newspapers anyway).

Okay, I realize that I probably won't retire off of this, but data-driven stock trading just seems like a lot of _fun_. I'd like to try my hand at it even if I lose my "investment".

This immediately brings me to a practical problem: what is the best way to make a (HTTP?) request over the internet that buys a stock? I've know that some sites have APIs, but I want to know what you recommend.

My question two-fold:

1. Does anyone know of a good trading platform for (non-windows) hackers?
2. Is HFT (or anything close) possible for an individual hacker without a huge cash position?

I'm a total noob in this area, so please feel free to post any recommended resources as well.
Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?
http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php
I discovered this trying to go to facebook using w3m. And yes, Chrome is so damn compatible.
Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service
http://ifttt.com/
Just discovered this: ifttt, don't know if it's been posted before

Their UI is really neat and slick. The service automates tasks, on triggers you define (twitter, facebook, sms, email, delicious, ...).
Ask HN: Which backpack do you use for work and work travel?
I have been using this for almost 7 years now [1], has really served me well.

Wanted to know from fellow HNers if they have any recommendations for a backpack usable for work, work travel (2-3 day travel) and as a backpack usable otherwise on leisure travel as well.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XANKVO/
Can we please discuss Big Tech's suppression of oppressed people?
I have been a long time lurker on Hacker News. I love the community you have built here, and I have learned a lot from the articles, and even more so, the comments shared here. This place has been a reaffirming corner of the internet with many smart, thoughtful and kind people for many years now. In light of this, I'd like to shed light on two oppressive regimes in India and Sri Lanka that have been stifling peaceful protests, and pressuring Big Tech (specifically Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify) to remove content related to them.

What I DO think warrants a long, introspective look at ourselves and our employers is the fact that these governments - often with long, documented histories of oppression, murder, rape, censorship, and torture - are successfully pressuring first-world tech companies into silencing people across the world (not just their own citizens). The people who fled these regimes cannot engage in free speech in their new homes, because Big Tech all too easily puts commerce over conscience.

Some examples from the last week:

- YouTube taking down music videos in support of Punjabi farmers' protests [1]
The Indian farmers' protests have been well covered (especially since Rihanna tweeted about it). Is taking down music videos supporting protesters what a company that 'Does no evil' do?

- Sri Lanka's 70 years of oppression against it's Tamil minority is well-documented, but recent protests for accountability less so [2].
Is Instagram's censorship of the #eelam and #tamileelam hashtags - which refer to the traditional homeland [2], fitting for a company that has found itself - for better or for worse - the biggest platform for speech in the world? Does Facebook really need to bend to the will of a government that denies it's murder of over 100,000 minority citizens? Should Spotify be removing their music?
Submit your startup. Get Featured. Get Feedback. 
I started StartUpLift.com to feature promising startups and solicit insightful feedback from users. I would like to ask the HN community to submit startups/websites/apps. There is no cost for this submission. However, in the spirit of keeping feedback ecosystem alive, we do ask that you provide feedback to at least one of the other startups featured on our site before submitting yours.

Example:
Hipmunk: http://startuplift.com/hipmunk-better-flight-search/

Submit yours: http://startuplift.com/submit-your-startup/
Ask HN: Where can I find free/cheap financial data?
I am doing a side project on investing need financial statements: balance sheets, income statements, cash flows. The SEC's EDGAR tool is terrible and Google & Yahoo have a lot of companies where they just don't have the info posted. I would only need the NYSE data for yearly/quarterly reports.

I've scraped Google Finance for info but I have a lot of invalid rows in my database.

Thanks all.
I'm a programmer
Show HN: Oldest Search – Search for the oldest result on internet
https://www.oldestsearch.com/
Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable perspective builder.

I personally like news articles that have been digitized that were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly. For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results.

I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
Introducing Heka
http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2013/04/30/introducing-heka/
Mozilla Services announces Heka - a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
Why do we work so damn much?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html
The New York Times: Opinion | Why Do We Work So Damn Much?.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html
Io
http://iolanguage.com/about/
Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).
14 Years of SQL Injection and still the most dangerous vulnerability
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/sql-injection-vulnerability-history/
SQL injection has been around for 14 years and it is still the most dangerous and widely exploited web application vulnerability. Ever wondered why?
Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham
http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-five-contradictory-positions-of-ron.html
Come on, you know you want to.
Ask HN: The purest skills needed to become a programmer?
I recently watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It's a documentary on a 85 year old man named Jiro who has spent 75 years of his life learning to make sushi. He's addicted to his craft and has made his number one focus in life perfecting the art of making sushi.

Jiro lives a way of a shokunin which is

"defined by both Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries as 'craftsman' or 'artisan,' but such a literal description does not fully express the deeper meaning. The Japanese apprentice is taught that shokunin means not only having technical skills, but also implies an attitude and social consciousness. ... The shokunin has a social obligation to work his/her best for the general welfare of the people. This obligation is both spiritual and material, in that no matter what it is, the shokunin's responsibility is to fulfill the requirement."- Tasio Odate

Jiro has simplified everything in his working environment from cooking techniques and tools. He his pure in his focus of only making the best sushi possible and does so with a team of 5-6 chefs under him.

If Jiro was a computer programmer instead of a sushi chef, what would be his techniques and tools to perfect the art of computer programming?

Here is a list I have so far:

-Text editor
-A programming language
-Databases
-Algorithms
-Math
-Debugging
-Tests
-Writing Documentation/Comments
Show HN: PicDigest - Send social photos to people who aren't on social networks
http://picdigest.com
It's not perfect, but I wanted to get this out and in front of people sooner than later. Helpful critiques are VERY welcome.
Show HN: Hacker News bot that automated archive finding and commenting
https://github.com/ShlomoStept/hn_bot
Hi everyone,

I build this bot to automate the process of going to wayback machine (or archive.ph) to find the archive link for posts with articles that have subscription blocks

The idea was to have this run on a server and then I wouldn’t have this daily annoyance, the bot was banned, so its not currently active, but I still wanted to show it off and get some feedback

Disclaimer : HN doesn't allow bots, so please don’t use this to run your own HN bot.
Python grew fastest in web searches for 'tutorial' over the last 5 years
https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language
Python is the language whose popularity is growing the fastest; it is already the second most popular in the US over decade.
Packt Publishing ebooks free today with DOTDEBOOKFREE promo code
http://www.packtpub.com/

no credit card required, mailinator emails happily accepted :>

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What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RD-UDE0rQ
Hey HN: I've pulled together a video for one of the most common questions I get about Amazon: What's it like to receive a question mark email from Jeff Bezos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RD-UDE0rQ

I've never found any high quality info online for this topic save a few responses on a Quora thread. In the video I promise additional content, but I didn't realize that YouTube had certain thresholds to be able to post a link off of YT to another site, so I am including the link here: https://www.interviewat.com/pl/195251 (it's also in the video description text).

This is a good look at the process, deliverables, and outcomes when working at AMZN. For reference, I was the Director of Product Management for the Kindle sw platform. I probably handled no fewer than 10 question mark emails from Jeff over the 3 years I was there.
Pshaw, whatever
Ferrari 512 BBi Is A Piece of Art [video]
http://www.videry.me/videopage2.php?id=44
When Holger Schubert created his studio-garage space, he did what any self-respecting, Ferrari-loving, minimalist architect would do: he took his work-of-art BB 512i and built everything around it. As any showcased work of art deserves to be, Holger's car is in the spotlight and on the pedestal that is the studio garage, which was designed and built for the specific purpose of working and living alongside the Ferrari. Holger shares the details of his car and of his enviable space, which includes a 16-foot driveway bridge, a ramp to roll the car outside to start, and some of the best views a car can take in of the Pacific Ocean.
Azlo Is Closing Down
Just got the e-mail below. Odd decision given the massive pandemic growth and recent launch of Azlo Pro.

Who has suggestions for migration? THX

It is with regret that I share this news today: Our parent bank, BBVA US, has made the strategic decision to close Azlo. Transparency is incredibly important to me and the Azlo team, which is why we are sharing the news early. There will be no immediate changes to your account or to your service.

As founders and entrepreneurs ourselves, we know that there can be unexpected bumps on the entrepreneurial journey. We’re sorry that we won’t be alongside you—our inspiring community of entrepreneurs—as you grow and flourish.

We want to reiterate that Azlo’s service, and your account, is not going away today, and we will continue to support you during this period of transition. We understand that you will have questions for us. Please stay tuned for updates and news.

With admiration,

Cameron Peake, Founder and CEO
The Azlo Team
Netcat.c
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/netcat/netcat-4/netcat/netcat.c
Some highlights:

1. Take a look at 'gethostpoop'
2. Take a look at 'getportpoop'
3. Make sure to read the netdb.h rant in the function above.
4. #ifdef GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE

Nearly half the comments in the file are taking the piss out of BSD sockets. Enjoy!
The last days of the polymath
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath
Who all do we have as living polymaths on our planet? Any ideas?
Show HN: Slashbase – open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser
https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase
Hello HN! My name is Paras and I am building this project called Slashbase. It's an open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser. Connect to your database, browse data, run a bunch of queries or share queries within your team, right from your browser. Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary.

Features:

- Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser.

- Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use.

- Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.

- Database Support: Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

It's in beta phase and all I am looking for is some users who want to try it out and drop some feedback in comments.
Dropbox (YC 07) needs a nasty systems engineer
http://dropbox.theresumator.com/apply/tIszyQ/
dropbox is a YC startup in SF (we've since been funded by sequoia and accel.) we want to be the way the world stores and shares files, and we're well on our way.

from the blurb: "We're looking for someone great to join our small, hardcore team that manages billions of files and petabytes of data for millions of users; someone who would take pride in the very high standards we set for availability and performance. Serious hacking chops, battle scars and prior end-of-the-line responsibility for large Linux-based deployments are all essential."

we'd love to bring someone in from the HN/YC community -- include your HN username if you're interested. thanks!
I don't do any of these
Poll: What is HN made of? 
Just curious about the makeup of the Hacker News population.

(This poll originally had 4 options: "I'm a developer", "I'm a business person", "I do both" and "I do neither". I've modified the poll due to feedback in the comments, so the "I do both" option seems a little out of place now.

At the time of the modification, there were 374 developers, 48 business people, 211 people who did both and 37 that did neither.)
Running Ubuntu off an SDCard on the new ARM Chromebook
https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ
Developer mode confirmed for the new ARM Chromebooks and Olof Johansson@Google has preliminary instructions for running Ubuntu off an SDCard.
When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming 
http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/
Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?
Amazon Glacier
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
Enough with the declaimer, just show me what you have built
Inside the Collapse of the New Republic
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-republic
I think I'm exactly the audience that TNR wants. I'm well-educated, make a good living, largely agree with them politically, enjoy long-form journalism, and am familiar with the brand and its history. Yet I don't think I would ever subscribe to TNR. I just see a magazine as something that's going to pile up in my house. I can read more than enough great content online for free. If I was going to subscribe to a magazine, I think that The New Yorker is a lot more interesting than The New Republic. If I was going to subscribe to two magazines, I might pick the Atlantic or another competitor over TNR.

The media has largely portrayed this as Hughes carelessly destroying a renowned and vital institution. Hughes has certainly made some mistakes, but I wonder whether Foer and Wiesetlier were just letting the magazine gradually slide into irrelevance and inevitable death anyway. This is a magazine whose readership has dropped by half since 2000.

If Hughes doesn't want to subsidize a money-losing institution with a declining and aging readership, then isn't it his prerogative as an owner to shake things up? He may have gone about it the wrong way, but ultimately wouldn't the public be better off with a TNR that has an ability to support itself and thrive in the future?
I'm a business person
I do both business and technical work.
Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript
http://feval.info/instagram/canvas.html
Image processing challenge solved using javascript and HTML5 canvas.
Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores
I miss comment scores.

Perhaps we could strike middle ground by displaying a range, eg. 1, 2-5, 5-10, 10+
Show HN: I made a browser-based RTS game
https://www.battle-of-flags.com
I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc).

Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I think making a game like this is quite easy with the browser performance/features nowadays. The game server and client side JavaScript are around 5000 lines of code each.

If you have any questions about the tech I'm happy to answer them.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield retires
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/10/tech-hadfield-mission-recap.html
In the world outside of the NSA news cycle....
Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy
http://www.dc949.org/projects/stiltwalker/
"Note: In the hours before our presentation/release, Google pushed a new version of reCAPTCHA which fully nerfs our attack."