jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
LibFlow
http://libflow.com/about
Hello everyone,

I am building a website to share free documents, textbooks and papers. The purpose of it is to host free material that can be readily accessed with no paywalls, subscriptions forms or ads.
This started as a personal project, but it is growing and I would like to know if there is someone who would like to support it. It is not a for-profit project, and does not have a business model. However, I have a long term goal of (financially) supporting the creation of more free materials (e.g. textbooks) and make them available for free. Therefore I am also interested in the possibility of generating some revenue without ads.
Ask HN: anybody using Ubuntu One?
How does Ubuntu One compare to other services (e.g. Dropbox) as a cloud backup/filesharing service? A very cursory look tells me: 1) the Ubuntu One client is GPL, which I like, but 2) there is no OS X client yet (and I would primarily use this to stay in sync across a GNU box and OS X).
Stop Blabbing About Innovation and Start Actually Doing It
http://www.fastcompany.com/1833190/stop-blabbing-about-innovation-and-start-actually-doing-it
These days, every established company is at risk of having its industry--and its own business--disrupted by a startup. Cognizant of this, companies devote a lot of time to talking about how important it is to innovate. But here’s the truth: most companies can’t innovate because everyone is paid to maintain the status quo.
Viskit.js - The javascript charting library
http://wso2.github.com/viskit/
Viskit.js is more than just a charting library. It solves the data filtering part as well for your visualizations. Viskit has inbuilt constructs such as data filters and providers so the chart creators can easily retrieve the required data from a data service.

Viskit is open sourced and available under Apache2.0 licence.
Ask HN: what could go wrong?
I'm building a website that lets people aggregate the numbers they care about into one spot.

Right now, the group that it is most popular with is authors, who use it to get alerts when they get a new review on Amazon.

They have suggested that I make it possible to track their author rank on Amazon. I've been playing with that and I have found that regex is a nice way to go for that particular job. (I've been using xpaths and selectors up to this point.) So soon I'll probably add that as a specialized function to my website.

Because regexes are so useful (not for parsing but for finding known patterns), I'm tempted to make it possible to create automatic scrapers using regexes. But it seems the kind of thing you want to research a bit first.
Slurper and slurper.vim get a big feature update
http://www.adamlowe.me/2010/02/slurper-turns-040-and-slurpervim-turns.html
the slurper gem and slurper.vim now support chores, features, releases and bugs among other things.
Steve Jobs' Business card from 1979
http://people.mozilla.org/~pfinette/tmp/steven_jobs.jpg
Woz' for reference:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/steve-jobs-business-card-1979
16bugs has just gotten better
http://16bugs.com/
Yesterday, we released the new version of 16bugs, a hosted bug tracker used by thousands of companies all over the world.

Give it a try and use coupon code "newbugs" to get a big discount.
Google Maps Head Indoors in the UK
http://mashable.com/2012/07/04/google-maps-indoor-uk/
If you’re traveling in the UK, now you can not only find directions to your destination using Google Maps — you can also find directions to things you’re looking for once you’re inside a number of locations.
Is anybody working on a new SoundCloud?
Soundcloud has never worked well, and now it has ads that pop up during song playback. Soundcloud crashes constantly on my fancy macbooks in chrome and firefox. It is unpleasant to use and is now terrible because there are ads.

Is anybody working on a new soundcloud-like app? I think it is a good idea and someone should do it...
Version 2.0 of the Ruby Camping framework is out
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/360767
"Wow. After 199 commits, 11875 lines of diff and 1284 days, it's an honor to
present a new, freshly baked version of the microframework; now built upon
Rack and weighing only 3072 tiny bytes. (That's exactly 3k!)
" wrote Magnus Holm, the project scoutmaster

Microframeworks are still a trend as confirmed with on-going working around Rack, Sinatra, and Rails 3.

So check-out the new features and go Camping this week-end! :-)
2011 is the year of hardware
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/02/square-starts-2011-with-a-new-round-at-a-big-valuation/
Square, Wakemate and other hardware startups create more defensible businesses than apps.
A Timeless Success Formula
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/07/25/a-timeless-success-formula/#more-244
Napoleon Hill described this formula as "A success formula that always succeeds when applied."
StumbleUpon 50% Bigger Than Twitter
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stumbleupon_hits_7_million_users.php
I really like StumbleUpon and, with no offense to Twitter, I think it's far more innovative. More important it does much more to extend it's users' knowledge. So why does Twitter get so much digital ink?
Free "The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming" Download From Apress
http://www.apress.com/book/free
Apress is offering a free download of "The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming" - good today only! Site is acting buggy, but I was able to download.
Swastikarchitecture
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=wesley+acres+methodist+retirement+home,&near=Decatur,+AL&fb=1&cid=0,0,4652898211088325197&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image
Say you've designed a cross-shaped building, but it looks dull. So, you add an extra wing to all four points. This way, you've neatly created four near-courtyards with one building. Sound like a neat idea? Well, look at the satellite images that Google Earth makes available to every Internet user and you'll realize you've just built a gigantic swastika. Avrahaum Segol, the same Israeli-American researcher who last fall helped publicize a swastika-shaped barracks at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego, is now demanding that the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home in Decatur, Ala., become less swastika-shaped. Mike Giles, counsel for the Methodist Homes Corp. of Alabama and Northwest Florida, says it might not be able to afford that level of money, and is looking at inexpensive modifications. (The Navy said it would take $600,000 to alter its barracks' design.) Wesley Acres already received a $1 million modification to hide the shape following complaints from a state senator in 2001. Sadly the addition of two wings did little to hide the offensive shape, and in some ways accentuates it.
Rails Strap Twitter Bootstrap Theme for Rails
https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/rails-strap-ruby-ready-theme-WB00952P7
I'm the developer of {rails}strap, the first commercial available theme for Twitter Bootstrap especially geared towards Rails developers. If you want a beautiful Bootstrap Layout, save some time and hate fiddling around with static HTML Templates (think CSS/JS Asset Pipeline) this is for you.
{rails}strap comes packed as a gem file to help the Ruby on Rails developer save precious time. The plain HTML version is also included. It is based on the famous {re}start theme which relies on good typography and large photography, serving as a foundation for your creative projects.
Hope to help some people out with this, and for the price of around 12 cups of coffee its a steal really ;)
A day in the life of Software Developers [Infographic]
http://imgur.com/FiL1C
As promised, I am providing the detailed information of what programmers do every day. This was a result of a survey taken in reddit and HN with over 3000 software developers.
HN: you made this, please be proud :)
The kind people at Trend Collective ([1] http://www.trendcollective.com/) grabbed the information of the survey and designed an awesome infographic.
I would like to thank them, namely Paul Moretti, for their professionalism, fast and good design work and ease of incorporating changes.

If you need any design work, really consider these guys.. I interfaced with designers previously and these guys are just great.
Show HN: If Snapchat and Foursquare had a baby
http://www.partyhere.me/
PartyHere is my first attempt at developing a sizeable, yet simple mobile web app. The idea is that users can easily create temporary "parties" at their current location, and then their friends can check in to said parties. The parties only last a few hours, so the user doesn't have to worry about the party after creating it.

The idea came out of 3 Day Startup (http://cornell.3daystartup.org/) in November. Since then I've been working nonstop on coding up the project, and have been having way too much fun with it! It has provided me with an incredible opportunity to play with open source technologies like socket.io, backbone.js, and Phonegap/Cordova. Currently, the iPhone and iPad apps are under review by the app store.

My request to you is for any kind of feedback. Please be honest and let me know what you feel needs to be fixed/changed (UI/UX, marketing, features...).

So, what do you think?
So you want to work here?
http://blog.centraldesktop.com/comments.php?y=08&m=04&entry=entry080403-093215
Decent suggestions on how to stand out when applying for a position at a startup or smaller co.
Recruitment agencies or organized crime?
http://joshsandberg.blog.com/
How to rip off educated people!
Five things never to say to your boss
http://blog.taskwise.com/2011/08/five-things-never-to-say-to-your-boss/
We have all been there. Your boss is frustrated with you. You are frustrated with your boss. And both of you find yourselves in a situation where you really want to say some things to each other that you know you probably should not. But how do you know where to draw the line? To help you stay on your boss’s good side, here are five things you should never say to your boss.
Ask HN: How is leaving a FAANG to join startup?
I found many readings on leaving big corps to found a startup but very little on joining a startup as an employee.

How was your experience from a FAANG to a startup?
How did a startup convince you to leave your stable job at a FAANG?
Is there anything you miss from your previous big corp?
ASCII art - Google Search
https://www.google.com/search?q=ascii%20art
Check out the Google logo.
Instagram for Emotion?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/an-instagram-for-emotion-or-the-non-launch-of-an-app-poised-to-launch/
This looks really cool.
An Open Source Thanksgiving from &yet
https://blog.andyet.com/2013/11/27/happy-thanksgiving
Here's what we did for Thanksgiving:

- $20K to http://scalenpm.org from &yet + ^Lift
- http://community.andyet.com
- $50/wk per dev towards Gittip

More on the blog: https://blog.andyet.com/2013/11/27/happy-thanksgiving
Ask HN: How to advertise your rest API?
So I built this RESTful JSON API (free to consume) through Mashape and wanted to know ways to market it to developers and other startups.

How do I go on about this other than posting it to /r/startups?

If it helps, here's some background info about the API: it returns data from top vacation rental websites such as Airbnb, HomeAway, etc.)

Link: https://www.mashape.com/zilyo/zilyo/overview
IPad's night out at the Oscars: beyond the inconsistencies
http://www.fakepad.com/post/435249558/ipads-night-out-at-the-oscars-beyond-the
Or why sometimes it pays to look at what's happening in the background instead of the foreground in advertising.
Language-Integrated Quantum Operations
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=194277
A Software Architecture for Quantum Computing
Ask HN: How was the Kinect hacked?
I've been seeing lots of cool videos on what people round the world has been doing with the Kinect hooked up to their PCs.

My understanding about the way 'hacked' is being used around here is that people have figured out how to hook up the Kinect to a PC and write software to utilize it.

My question is then, when you get a device like the Kinect, what's the process to hack it such that it can work with your PC? How do you understand it enough such that you can write your own driver?
Ask HN: Good code to read for a beginner
Multiple sources (e.g. Eric Raymond's "How to Become a Hacker"[0]) suggest reading others' code as a learning exercise when beginning programming, to get a feel for good style.

It seems a bit of a catch-22 though, as I don't believe myself (or any other beginning programmer) to be able to discern worthwhile code for review.

That understanding in place, what are some of your suggestions for good code to read to get a feel for style and technique?

Note: I am working through MIT's OCW CS material (still pretty beginner), and have picked up a pretty decent smattering of Python and Scheme thus far. These languages (including Common Lisp - I recognize that there are large differences between Scheme and CL, but I think I should be able to get the basics) would be most useful for me as I already have a pretty good foundation in them, but don't hesitate to suggest good programs in other languages, as I will need to learn more at some point, and hopefully others will find this thread useful.

[0]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills1
Show HN: Rewriting SparkSQL in Python
https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka
Last year around this time I was joking with people if you can hack together something like SparkSQL with all the best Python open-source: Polars/Arrow/Ray/SQLGlot.

So here it is.

Definitely NOT production ready -- but should work for most advertised use cases.

Only has a dataframe/datastream API right now, working on full SQL support. Hard because of all the weird SQL people write :-P
Show HN: ClickBin - create collections of links (no login required)
http://clickb.in
This is @lxe my first Show HN. What do you think? Useful? If not, what feature would make it useful for you? We'd love your feedback, positive or negative.
Google wants Groggle to cease trading and hand over its domain
http://www.zdnet.com.au/google-slams-oz-start-up-with-legal-bid-339302741.htm
These letters go out all the time, however the Groggle guys have used it to their advantage well by pitching it as a "David vs Goliath" battle to get some mainstream press.
Pre-Startup School Happy Hour at Eventbrite HQ in SF
http://startupschool2012.eventbrite.com/
We're hosting a Pre-Startup School Happy Hour in beautiful San Francisco and we want you to come join us. Eventbrite is hosting and even providing the beer! Yay Eventbrite!! ChannelMeter will be providing snacks.

Come to the Eventbrite headquarters in SOMA and meet fellow entrepreneurs & startup folks attending Startup School 2012. We'll also get a chance to see a couple startups demo their product(s). For the visitors to SF Bay Area, there will be a handful of us locals on hand who'd be happy to help navigate your way down to Palo Alto and places to check out during your stay.

If beer and startups are your thing, come join us.

If you're interested in demoing, please email: Eugene@ChannelMeter.com
A proper handling of Ajax requests
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Cross-browser-handling-of-Ajax-requests-in-absurdjs
This blog post is part of series about AbsurdJS. I'll continue filling the library with small and self organized black boxes. In the last article we talked about creating a JavaScript router. This time we will go through the process of making Ajax requests.
Leap Transit 
http://leaptransit.com/
Is this the future of transit?
Please review my startup - Savendar.com - use password "forum"
http://www.savendar.com
The purpose of Savendar is to provide a place for people to find and share information about sales and promotions online. It's free for any user to post a sale, or leave comments. The difference between this site and existing competition is both the calendar view (savendar = savings calendar) and the description length limit (140 characters) making it easy to quickly browse the offers. Savendar is trying to build a community around this concept.

Obviously because it's still in beta there isn't an enormous catalog of offers, but enough to get an idea how it works.

This is a "loose" private beta. I don't want the whole world to see the site yet, but it's not locked down. You can access it directly here:

http://savendar.com/ui
Show HN: Bonito – the Hassle free text classifier in R
https://github.com/stackOcean-official/r-naive-bayes-showcase
For all tech-people and data-scientists out there:

I am happy to launch a prototype version of a text classifier in R. You can run the code locally or in a docker environment. I provide you with an example data set but you are welcome to use your own training data and and set your own labels.

I am happy if you use the model and give me feedback. I am also interested in what you have used the model for and with what data.

A star on Github always helps too!
On silence and meditation
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/freedom_from_the_known/1968-00-00_freedom_from_the_known_chapter_14.html
The link is to Chapter 14 from "Freedom from the known", by Jiddu Krishnamurthi.

Chapter 15 talks about the nature of meditation, and I believe this is particularly useful to those who have discussed mindfulness, concentration, and vipassana in another thread :

http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/freedom_from_the_known/1968-00-00_freedom_from_the_known_chapter_15.html
Ask HN: Has cloud and mobile already happened? What's next?
I would like to suggest that the cloud and mobile has already happened and get suggestions on what fellow HN'ers think is next. Here's my reasoning:

In cloud computing, Amazon, Heroku, Linode etc. have that pretty much sewn up. In cloud storage, Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, Mega etc. have so many storage offerings, price points and features that nobody could hope to compete with them. I believe that the only scope left in the cloud is to build apps using the existing infrastructure.

In mobile there's already too many operating system and platform offerings. The respective app markets have each been driven to the lowest price points and are saturated to such a point that the old "There's an app for that" saying could now potentially be "There's a load of apps for that."

Some say that 'Big Data' is the next big thing. What do you think?
The return of Tintype photography
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11466/the-return-of-tintype-photography/
The return of Tintype photography. Meet Harry Taylor, a photographer looking for something more than digital perfection.

“A tintype is different. A tintype is a unique, physical, one-of-a-kind object."

http://bit.ly/10Kxcfx
Ifttt automates your web activities 
http://ifttt.com/recipes
Save instagram pics to dropbox. Get texted if it's going to rain tomorrow. Post Last.fm loved tracks to Facebook. The options are endless.
Doing, Thinking, and Machines.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7741/1/turing.html
Here is Turing initial claim: I PROPOSE to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms 'machine 'and 'think'. The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous. If the meaning of the words 'machine' and 'think 'are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, 'Can machines think?
StackOverflow(SO) allows to ask only 6 questions in 24 hours
http://i.imgur.com/yG6f2.png
I just tried that and got this message?

Why did they put this limit?

A person learning a new language might have as many questions that could be discussed over SO.

I feel now that SO discourages asking questions on their website ;)
Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control, power of machine learning
http://robohub.org/three-new-quadrotor-videos-demonstrate-agile-control-and-the-power-of-machine-learning/
The team at the ETH Flying Machine Arena has released three new videos, demonstrating quadrotors building tensile structures, tossing a ball back and forth, and refining a figure-eight trajectory using iterative learning. Worth the watch!!
The Connected Classroom: Education 2.0
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10167/the-connected-classroom-education-20/
The classroom has become increasingly digitized in recent years with computer technology becoming an essential feature in the learning environment. Sharp's BIG PAD is the next step...

"The basis is very simple but because it has a Windows PC behind it, you can start doing an awful lot."

http://bit.ly/SYOxAl
Why I stand up and How you can join me.
http://thecubiclepunk.com/home/2011/5/3/stand-up-desks-a-trend-worth-following.html
Sitting makes you fat lazy and stupid. Here is how I made the transition and my advice on how you can too.
Six Bulletins in Last Patch Tuesday of 2009
http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/
One critical update to review closely, the rest within 60 days if applicable to your environment.
Ruby Matters: Contracts vs. Promises
http://memeagora.blogspot.com/2007/10/ruby-matters-contracts-vs-promises.html
In teaching Ruby to Java developers, two things seem to shock and annoy developers: open classes and the lack of interfaces. Because Java developers are inundated with interfaces, it's hard to imagine a language whose libraries are strictly defined in this manner.
Release of Typo 6.1, the oldest Rails blogging engine
http://blog.typosphere.org/release-of-typo-6-1-remi-ochlik.html
We've just released the 6.1 version of Typo, the oldest blogging engine running on Ruby on Rails. It now comes with every feature you would expect from such a software. Time for you to switch from Wordpress?
Skillcrush: Reducing Tech to Buzzwords
http://www.compylr.com/post/skillcrush-reducing-tech-to-buzzwords
open for discussion
We've Got Boring Technology for IoT. Now Help Us Play 3 Cool Cards
We at GeoG are building a safe, easy and sustainable platform for IoT. We can totally do everything if we put time and effort into it - which we are ready for!

What we want you to do, is start hacking and building things with us. No strings attached!

We recently set up a Community page http://community.geog.co where we want to start listening to you, your needs and suggestions.

Did we mention we have an API? We'd like you to start beaming data and create cool things with us. http://api.geog.co

Also, if you have reasons to hate us, bring it out! We're listening.
Ask HN: Abandoning smartphones?
I've had an iPhone for two years, and love using it. But in other ways I hate it. I hate having y email at hand, and ignoring my surroundings to check the interwebs, and paying the monthly plan.

I want just a few things from my phone: instapaper, maps, and SMS/calling. But none of the rest.

What's the best way to do this? Can I stop paying for iPhone data and just use the wifi? Or should I get a new phone (do any others have instapaper)?

Have any of you done this?

*note - this has nothing to do with the philosophical iPhone/android debate. It's kist about improving my life.
Ask HN: Live coding and creative programming in SF?
Are there venues or groups in SF that feature/focus on livecoding music, or creative programming works (processing, visuals, interaction, etc)?
Scala Pattern Matching
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/22/scala-pattern-matching/
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/22/scala-pattern-matching/
HTML5 Contractor, Mountain View CA or remote (Bump Technologies YC09)
* Build mobile web apps targeting Mobile Safari and Android browsers
* Advanced Javascript abilities, especially Canvas; use of HTML5 libraries as implemented in iOS and Android
* Appreciation for beautiful design; disgust for misplaced pixels or bad proportions.

email: hackernews -at- bu.mp
Magnetic fields light up 'GPS neurons', scientists say
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17855194
Researchers have spotted a group of 53 cells within pigeons' brains that respond to the direction and strength of the Earth's magnetic field.