jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do not miss 21 User Activation Hacks
http://growthhackingpro.com/21-user-activation-growth-hacks/
Some people think that acquisition is the most important part of the funnel, but the truth is that getting visitors on your website is just the first step – you need to focus on later stages of the funnel just as much as the first one.

Activation is the process of turning your visitors into users that stay on your website and perform an action – not just any action, but precisely the action you want: leaving their email address, buying or simply clicking a button.
Show HN: I made my first algorithm
https://github.com/mfbulut/murkan
Hi I'm a newbie programmer I made a simple algorithm for finding side lengths of the smallest perimeter rectangle whose side lengths are integers and whose area is x?

I can be used to find factors of a number

So what do you think about my algorithm (performance?)
Is this algotihm already exist?
WEBRTC support for XMPP
https://github.com/ESTOS/strophe.jingle
Strophe is a xmpp api for web connections, but don't support Jingle.

This extension provide Jingle/Webrtc support to this library.

This API support Firefox and Chrome Webrtc API.
Show HN: WebGL hackathon (NYC) invite
http://floored.com/hackathon
Would love to see folks join us for some beer, food, and WebGL goodness!

PS - in hacking spirit, we made this over dinner in one pass, so don't hate (too much)
Detecting event support in browsers
http://ajaxian.com/archives/detecting-event-support-in-browsers
Kangax has a really nice article on testing for event support in browsers in which he delves into the quirks and work-arounds needed to get 'er done, coming up with a nice generic solution
Show HN: A map based Web3 app for people to launch coffee chat by staking
https://coffee-chat.xyz/
Hi, I just launched an app for people to launch coffee chat by staking tokens.

It is how it works:
find a spot on map -> choose time and how much to stake -> launch chat -> people see chat on the map -> meet up in person -> scan your QR code -> take home reward.

If you have any feedback, feel free to comment or reach out.

Contact: jeffreylin0723@gmail.com
Show HN: Lb – Opinionated Media Library
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/lb
I finally figured out how to publish as a python package. I use this multiple times a day the past few months. It controls all of my media consumption.

I am very much anti-Spotify and I am eternally grateful for the `pychromecast` and `catt` python libraries which allow me to easily play music through my house with my Google speaker groups.

I have been backing up a lot of YouTube videos recently so this helps me to loop through them--it's my own hacky auto-play.

It probably won't work well on WSL or Windows
Concerns on Khan Academy's Goals
http://www.kerryob.com/2011/06/08/concerns-on-khan-academys-goals/
Thoughts on the benefits and limitations of Khan academy's teaching methodology.
The Minecraft: A Matrix Parody, A Minecraft Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNkD2M_rQlg&
Great animation for Minecraft
Show HN: Flurri – Build meaningful connections with your co-workers
https://www.flurriapp.com/icycle
Hi HN, we're Nikhil and Dhurv, founders of Flurri (https://www.flurriapp.com/icycle). We’re very excited to launch Flurri (www.flurriapp.com/icycle), a platform to help teams build meaningful connections and create an inclusive, engaging culture.

From our own experiences and countless others, we know that starting in a new team can be isolating and remote work is lonely. However, the workplace is a great place to make new connections and build bonds, especially as other community institutions (sports clubs, volunteering, etc.) have declined in prominence.

We wanted to make it easier and more comfortable to get to know your colleagues, focusing on what makes us all human! We capture a bit about your hobbies and interests, and provide a way for you to search against it, learning more about your co-workers in the process.

Communities create profiles built on hobbies, interests, and short ice breakers and we create a searchable internal database of employees based on hobbies, interests, etc. Additionally, users can set up Icycle, our product to match co-workers based on mutual interests on a regular cadence, with meeting invites sent directly.

We are completely free to use, so feel free to jump in - creating a profile takes 5 min!

We believe work is a great place to find your community, and we want to make it simple, easy, and fun to do that. We appreciate your support and feedback and look forward to hearing your thoughts as we continue to build!
Japanese Company looking for hackers
http://gnsjapan.jp/info/index.html#c1205
Location is Okinawa. 2nd phase start up.

Need Japanese ability.
Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images
http://design.canonical.com/2014/06/making-ubuntu-com-responsive-dealing-with-responsive-images/
Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches!

We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by other people, and whether those solutions could be useful (and possible) for us.

There is a range of solutions and opinions on this matter, but ultimately it’s all down to the content and types of images your website actually has to handle, and the technical and resource limitations of your team.

We tried to keep an open mind as to what would be possible to achieve within a very small timeframe: we wanted to find a solution that would work for our content, that would be achievable within our deadlines, and obviously, that would improve the experience of the visitors to our site.
My GitHub pull request was not merged and closed
https://github.com/wolfeidau/ofuda/pull/5
I found a node.js hmac lib on github. Yay.

I noticed an open issue requesting express/connect support. I was using express. Perfect, I'll add it. Yay.

Submitted a pull request. Yay.

My PR was closed without merge. =[

The reason included this perl of wisdom along with some others:

"Don't leave commented code in a pull request it looks untidy and rushed"

Am I crazy?
Show HN: Revisiting Guile XUnit
https://rednosehacker.com/revisiting-guile-xunit
In my last serie about building a testing framework à la xUnit left me with a weird feeling. Following Kent Beck's execution from the book « Test Driven Development by Example » made the exercise of thinking the Scheme way harder than I thought. I ended up with a shaky copy of the Python implementation. So I decided to let time passing by and come back to it to see what I can do differently. In the meantime, I watched a video of Andy Balaam where he showed a small illustration of the idea of Lambda Calculus and how it can be leveraged using a Scheme. That inspired me. Let's see how much, step by step…
Riak Installation and Configuration
http://shrikar.com/blog/2012/10/28/riak-installation-and-configuration/
http://shrikar.com/blog/2012/10/28/riak-installation-and-configuration/
Converting OLM to PST
https://olmtopsts.codeplex.com/
Utilize new technology of Outlook OLM File Exporter for converting OLM to PST surely can exchange OLM File in PST format in few span of time. This is GUI based cost effective Outlook OLM File Exporter tool.
Very Interesting Free Tool To Find Interesting Domain Names
http://www.namestall.com/domain-name-generator
this is a domain name generator which can generate thousands of domain name using different word groups. also checks domain name availability of those domain name....amazing website naming tool....
Vote for the sexiest coder - Match.com acquires Masterbranch.com
http://blog.masterbranch.com/post/4254554805/macth-com-buys-masterbranch-com
Dating site Match.com announced this week that it has acquired Masterbranch.com, a website for software developers to showcase their projects and programming skills. Match.com starts this way a vertical side strategy for its worldwide company.

Materbranch is mantaining its original look & feel, although there have been changes regarding to its main functionalities.

"From now on, software developers are able not only to showcase their projects but also to showcase their sexappeal, as users can vote for the coders they find more sexy.”

Find the coder of your dreams...
Colored boxes for the easily amused.
http://3lnk.com/tmp/color/more/
I made this to help me pick random colors (highlight each box for the hex rgb color code) and found out I was addicted to reloading the page over and over again...
Mad Catz Cyborg M.M.O. 7 mouse review
http://icrontic.com/article/mad-catz-cyborg-mmo-7-mouse-review
The Cyborg M.M.O. 7 looks like an alien robot and brings some of the nicest features we've ever seen in a gaming mouse... and it's from... Mad Catz?
Ask HN: As a bizdev person, how do you get a coder onto your startup team?
If you're a coder, chances are that you've been approached by three million people who want to get you working on their brilliant idea.<p>A few years ago, I was one of these incredibly naive "idea" people. I've since learned quite a bit on the business and marketing end, am cruising through the "Personal MBA" book list, have done extensive market research on my new idea, have mocked it up over and over again, have networked extensively, etc. I've tried learning how to code, but I'm so much more passionate about business development that I often lose interest in coding. I want to know this: What is it going to take in order to attract a talented coder onto my team? As a coder, what does a potential business co-founder need to do in order to impress you?
Ask HN: Noise cancelling headphones good at the office
What is your experience with noise cancelling headphones? Can you recommend one that works in a an open office? Are there headphones like this that are easy to wear at work/not exerting pressure on the ears? How often do you have to charge them? How are cheaper models (around 30$) when compared against the high end models (more than 300$) ?
2011 March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge Announcement
http://blog.smellthedata.com/2011/01/get-ready-for-2011-march-madness.html
We will be running the second annual March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge where we ask contestants to submit computer algorithms to pick the NCAA Men's basketball tournament winners. Sign-up to participate and receive announcements.
Corporate Venture Capital (2008)
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/07/corporate-ventu.html
This is an older one, but Fred mentioned in his current update that it still holds true for his views on Google's new VC arm.
Heist selling an app a second
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/27/the-heist-sales/
Heist going to take down angry birds?
Angular Translate hits 1.0
http://pascalprecht.github.io/angular-translate/#
We finally released 1.0 !
The Mission to Bring Google’s AI to Rest of the World
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/skymind-deep-learning/
Adam Gibson, an independent software engineer based in San Francisco, doesn’t want deep learning locked inside the biggest names on the net. He believes deep learning techniques should be available to any website, company, or developer interested in using them. And that’s why he’s launching a new startup called Skymind.
Robotium - A selenium like framework for testing Android applications
http://code.google.com/p/robotium/
Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications
Youtify
http://www.youtify.com
What happens if you combine Spotify and YouTube? Youtify is just that.
The knife is out for Ruby
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2010/05/knife-is-out-for-ruby.html 
Dynamic languages are coming to the end of their honeymoon period. This is bad for Python and maybe PHP, but it is nothing short of a disaster for Ruby.
Help, I don’t know where to start
Hey so I’m trying to get into coding but I have no idea where to start. I’ve already done some coding in the past but it was just a simple one at my school and now I’m too old for it. So I guess my questions are: where do I start? Should I find a community, read a book, get an app? What language should I learn, or does it even matter? Please, if anyone has any advise I would love to learn more!
Solve Small Problems
http://jasonvanlue.com/notes/13512516/a-peek-into-problem-solving
A peak into how problems are solved in scoped and iterative ways at Code School and how we communicate to discuss how best to solve them before we execute.
Increase ghost and expressjs performance with nginx
http://function.fr/tuning-ghost-performance-with-nginx/
How to double your server performance when using ghost blogging platform with some simple nginx tuning.
A Blade Runner umbrella
http://hackaday.com/2009/11/12/raid-the-dollar-store-for-an-illuminated-umbrella/
Make your illuminated umbrella ( it is equal to blade runner umbrellas )
Grub with Garry Tan of YC 
http://www.grubwithme.com/blog/gary-tan-umami-meals-with-the-master
Proceeds of this meal will benefit Room to Read, a nonprofit that seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.
Ask HN: Best way to share code on ios, android, desktop?
I have a new project that I want to run everywhere fast. It is heavily based on opengl. I need native uis on all platforms but I would like to share logic and rendering code. How can I do this in the modern way that is efficient?
Cheaters Game Microsoft Certifications
http://www.sdtimes.com/CHEATERS_TURN_TO_WEB_TO_GAME_CERTIFICATION_SYSTEM/About_MICROSOFT/33359
A growing problem for certification companies.
Show HN: Binb, a realtime multiplayer musical quiz
http://binb.nodejitsu.com
Hello guys,
this is my two week project with the aim of learning some node.js
What do you think?
Fifteen puzzle in LibCanvas
http://www.splashnology.com/article/fifteen-puzzle-in-libcanvas/1632/
In this topic I will tell you how to make this game quite undemanding to the processor and good looking with the help of LibCanvas.
Google Trends for Android Version Names
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jelly%20bean,ice%20cream%20sandwich,honeycomb,gingerbread,froyo,eclair,cupcake,donut
Did not take very long, but I had to smile when I realized why there's a heart beat pattern for "gingerbread".
Keep Calm and Blog On
http://www.danpaley.com/keep-calm-and-blog-on/
A hilarious take on the spam comments that drive us all crazy.
Airline Fees, Often Hidden, Test Travelers’ Limits
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/travel/08prac.html?ref=travel
Great quote:
"In June, American introduced a “boarding and flexibility” package that gives you a $75 discount on flight changes, as well as early boarding and free standby, for $9 to $19, depending on the flight. Yes, you can now pay a fee to possibly reduce your fees, and that is not a late-night monologue joke."
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley Dead?
I have always admired the passion and culture that comes out of silicon valley. For those that are still there are the vibes still the same? Are companies and talent really leaving in masses?
Ask HN: Ways to Speculate on Privacy?
I firmly believe that what is called privacy tech will become normalized, and I’d like to apportion some funds on that bet.

Where are some places you’d think I should consider to do so? The only thing I can think of is privacy coins.
Who else thinks VCs are dinosaurs?
http://markmaunder.com/2007/who-else-thinks-vcs-are-dinosaurs/
John Cook, one of my favorite Seattleites, has a post on his blog about yet another home office no money startup that got bought out for a few million. There is a growing realization that getting funding if you're a developer building a consumer web application is a very bad idea.
Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA
one of the most interesting talks i've heard in a while
Ruby and Rails learning resources
http://www.deepakkapoor.net/2014/02/01/ruby-and-rails-learning-resources/
List of Ruby and rails learning resources
Google’s Android Operating System Is Surprisingly Bug-Free
http://blogs.forbes.com/taylorbuley/2010/11/03/googles-android-operating-system-is-surprisingly-bug-free/
Coverity came out with a bug report for Android, so I asked them to put the bugs/KLOC in context for me. It turns out that of 36 project scanned, the HTC Droid Incredible code is some of the cleanest code they've seen: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/taylorbuley/files/2010/11/defect_density_by_open_source_project-1024x1024.jpg
Ask HN: How important are networking events?
I'm working on a startup. I have a day job, so I have very limited time. My co-founder and I are in the Bay Area, and there are a ton of meetups and networking events around here. We've been to four in the last couple of weeks. The first was wonderful, but I found the next three depressing.

I'm pretty good at maintaining my own internal reality distortion field, but a few hours in a room with a bunch of dressed up guys selling things to each other, and the field starts to falter. I look at their elaborate projects and ours seems terribly small. I have difficulty talking about what we're doing. It just feels yucky.

Technical events are much better, but I feel out of place there as well, because I'm usually the only (or almost only) woman in the room, and that out-of-placeness also messes with my mindset.

I often feel like my time would be better spent locked in my room developing. On the other hand, I see the benefit in getting to know interesting people and being exposed to ideas I might not have discovered on my own. If going to these events gives us some fresh perspective, or a few good contacts, then it might be worth it.

What do you think?
Ask HN: Suggest a simple and free team management software
I have to manage a group on 5-6 people. Most of these people do not have any engineering background and hence not so good with technology.

I am looking out for some web based software where I can assign each of them task on weekly basis and track it ? I looked at software such as Projekt and all but most of them are too complex to use.
Ask HN: Free online eBook + sell PDF/ePUB, or just sell PDF/ePUB eBook?
If you were writing a technology centric eBook, would you publish it free online and sell a digital eBook (PDF/ePUB/etc.) and Print on Demand version, or just have it for sell with a free sample chapter like most traditional publishers? I'm noticing many online eBooks that are available fully free online but with for pay extras, http://railstutorial.org being a good example. The free content would obviously be a great way for people to discover your writing, but also lowers the likelihood of them paying. Then again, a for-pay eBook that no one knows of won't get sold either. Most of all, there's no reason we need to stick with only the most traditional sales methods with eBooks.

What's your feelings about each method, and which would you choose? I've almost decided what I want to do, but would be interested to see the general thoughts on both models.
Show HN: Tract Systems – Field service management software for any sized business
Hey Hacker News,

Tract Systems is an early stage startup based out of Toronto, Canada building field service management software (work order management, dispatching, CRM, fleet management).

We are proud to announce the launch of our free Beta to any field service business. The aim of the Beta is to work closely with you to understand your operational needs and develop our product accordingly.

If interested, sign up here: http://tractsystems.com/beta-signup/

Looking forwward to any questions, comments or feedback. Thanks!
Turbo C to ANSI C code converter
https://github.com/MrDHat/Syn-C/
Turbo C is still used in many colleges and schools especially in India. So we made a tool to generate the equivalent ANSI C code from Turbo C compliant code which can help people learn the difference between ANSI and Borland C implementations. It is under development and covers very less number of functions and header files at the moment.
FSphinx easily builds faceted search systems using Sphinx.
https://github.com/alexksikes/fSphinx
I made a python layer on top Sphinx, the search engine which powers Craigslist or Dailymotion, to easily handle faceted search. Feel free to check it out!
Wordpress.com adds social-networking features to blogging, causes uproar
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reblogging
This is like Facebook changing their original platform idea. Wordpress introduces quick and easy reblog feature (along with the dreaded Like button) and it causes uproar among the community.
Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill on the Consumerization of IT
http://www.cio.com/article/144500
From the CIO.com article: "Suddenly all the rules of the game have changed. Software developers don't exactly know who to listen to; CIOs don't exactly know who to buy from, and VCs and board members don't exactly understand how to value the companies that we're getting involved in. All those things are in flux. If your job is to limit risk, that's a horrible world to be in because it's all risky. Of course, there's risk in a good sense, because without risk there can be no return. The problem is I don't know how to model it. We understand the monetization models used by enterprise software; we don't yet understand the models for this."
Show HN: Simple SSH VPN anywhere with NetworkManager
https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh
As a little side project for me I've decided to implement NetworkManager-SSH - full VPN capabilities over OpenSSH and with the familiar interface of NetworkManager. VPNing anywhere has never been easier.
Planning for a Crush of Startups
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2007/sb20071019_378998.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+stories
This week's Web roundup: Paul Graham predicts a glut of new ventures, a survey on the small-biz vote points Republican, and more
My new project - RubyEncoder
http://www.rubyencoder.com
Hi there

I've just released our new project which is an encoder (script protection) for Ruby. We needed to protect some of our own scripts, so we decided to push it further and make it into a product.
Show HN: JSON-Safe Lisp Language
https://github.com/nathanielop/fluxduct
Relatively simple currently, but figured I'd post for some feedback. I started this project last year but somewhat abandoned it. This feels like something which most likely already exists, but I couldn't find anything at the time I made it.

I feel like my write up on the repo is pretty good at explaining the inspiration and purpose of this package;

"Let's say you have an API, and you're looking for a method by which you can increase performance of your app via doing transformations of the data directly in the API. In this scenario, you would middleman the API returned data through a Fluxduct parser in order to get the data in the format you would like. An important distinction to be made here is that you are not changing the raw output of your API, but rather defining explicit values which you would like back in the app.

These values are much more versatile than a pure API response as well, as they can be compounded with operators and conditionals to return computed values not otherwise returned in your API. Even more, the number of fields is completely up to you! If you only want 3 fields, foo, bar, and baz, on an API endpoint that returns more than just those 3 fields, you can explicitly only request those fields back.

As icing on the cake; Fluxduct is made from plain javascript, which allows for implementation either server-side or client-side, on top of this, Fluxduct is JSON-safe, meaning all transformations can exist as JSON, making these transformations able to be stored in most databases without the need for any additional transformations."

All criticism is appreciated.