jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Second thoughts about Chinas growth rate and their leadership
http://aidwatchers.com/2010/10/our-china-who-art-in-heaven-hallowed-be-thy-growth-rate/
After reading several articles on HN praising the Chinese system and their leaders I think this article from William Easterly can contribute to the discussion.
AngularJS - Complex Web Apps Made Simple
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/javascript-framework/angularjs-complex-web-apps-made-simple/
Angular JS is what HTML would have been if it had been designed for building web applications. It provides your application’s plumbing so you can focus on what your app does, rather than how to get your web browser to do what you need. it is more a templating system with bidirectional data binding, your model is always the single source of truth for your application state and your view is simply a projection of your model.
Symbolic Programming Vs. the A.P. Curriculum
http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/pubs/papers/symbolic_vs_ap.html
For anyone interested in teaching programming, this one is a must read
Ask HN: Have there been many layoffs in the tech industry due to coronavirus?
We've been hearing about all the layoffs in the hospitality, restaurant, and other industries but I'm wondering if the effects of the coronavirus shutdown are now starting to affect the tech industry.

If you're currently still employed, do you fear that your job might be at risk in the coming months?
What Arrested Development and Successful products have in common?
http://baydin.com/blog/2011/10/when-software-jumps-the-shark/
As startup people working on new products, do you know how close your product is to jumping the shark? Love to hear what HN thinks about it.
Signal vs Noise Rebuilt in Squarespace CMS in 18 Minutes
http://www.squarespace.com/squarespaced/2008/8/14/signal-vs-noise-in-squarespace-v5-in-18-minutes.html
Cool video of the Squarespace guys rebuilding Signal vs Noise blog in 18 minutes on their CMS.
Virgin America Stores Your Password in Plaintext
http://i.imgur.com/AjF3P.png
Virgin America emailed me this when sending me credit. I've edited the personal details out, but as you can see the password is clearly shown in plaintext. Unacceptable.
The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/programming-aphorisms-of-strunk-and-white
Suggestion of Davin Stanek:

http://www.traceback.org/2008/12/17/coding-lessons-can-be-learned-from-writing/
I don't
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512704
I don't
Steve Jobs' Biographer on Charlie Rose
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11962
...for the hour.
Go Playground: Compile and run Go programs from your browser
http://golang.org/doc/playground.html
There are obvious restrictions in terms of I/O and memory and CPU usage, but it is a nice demonstration of the speed of the compilers. The examples show off some of the more unusual features of Go like closures, concurrent "goroutines" and channels.
Show HN: Medical marijuana product search
http://harvestigation.com/
No revenue model yet, but I am trying to figure out how to get referral fees.
Ask HN: What has the NSA changed about your daily life?
- I've purchased an offshore VPN plan.

- I started using PGP when at all possible (especially with business partners).

- I took measures to mask my surfing activity via a couple Firefox extensions and the ilk.

- I'm currently in the process of figuring out where to migrate from gmail for my catch-all email (personal is already migrated).

- I stop using gchat.

- I am very careful what I text (and use iMessages whenever possible).

- I am deliberately choosing to meet people in person whenever possible, instead of a quick phone call or text.

What have you done?
Merry Christmas HN
I wanted to wish everyone on HN a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years before many of us sign off the net for the next couple days. I've learned so much from many of you this year, and it's amazing how quickly you can get advice and tips here. I only regret I didn't start coming here sooner.

Here's to a great 2011 for us all!
Show HN: Find any smart contract on Cookbook
https://www.cookbook.dev/
Cookbook is a free open Smart Contract Marketplace. Find, deploy and integrate the smart contracts used and audited by other projects.
- view audits and stats
- no-code deploy supporting 9 chains
- contribute and collaborate with other web3 developers

Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain or if you want to create smart contracts. Cookbook.dev makes web3 projects easier to build and launch. Bringing down the cost of development is crucial to onboard the next 10,000 businesses onto web3.

How does it work?

Step 1. Search for the Smart Contract you are looking for. For example:- Azuki Contract or Create your own token or NFT staking, choose from hundreds of smart contracts

Step 2. Choose the Smart Contract you want. For example:- Choose based on your use case such as Create a DAO, NFT minting website or any use case you desire…

Step 3. Customize it from our user friendly nocode UI and deploy

Optional Step: Upload your own contract to share with others or reach out to us if you don’t find the smart contract you want.

Why use Cookbook.dev?

Reduce development cost
Faster time to build
Simple and easy to use UI
Save $$ on security audits
Our no code and low code solution encourages more people to build in Web3

Our ask
Our platform is completely free to use, the only thing we ask for is feedback - https://www.cookbook.dev/
We would love to know what can we do to make your life easier or how can we make our platform better, you can share your feedback with us here - https://discord.gg/9TwGrYbQCD
Hello Rip
http://hellorip.com/
The GitHub team (+ others) are taking a stab at a better, more general solution for Ruby library packaging than RubyGems.
MMS fix for original iPhone
http://timrosenblatt.com/att_mms_fix/
Here's a fix to make MMS receiving better for the original iPhone.
++ a chrome extension for Google+
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jdncfcpdfdhodkdlecgdiioogekhpnpk
This extension extracts the Google+ profiles of the people whose names appear on the page you visit.
Ask HN: "I'm sure that'll be really easy"
How do you convey the ease/difficulty of your work to a non-technical co-founder? Mine has a habit of saying that this or that task "looks really easy", to me and to our designer. "I can't see how X would take long/be difficult", etc.

I don't want to keep explaining the difficulty of stuff, because it makes me seem incompetent. And lots of stuff isn't actually hard, it's just time-consuming. More than that though, the easy stuff may be easy for me, but it's not necessarily "easy", and I feel undervalued to hear it being described that way.

I usually just go off and do it, but then I think I'm making it look too easy. When you've spent hours working on a feature, and you finally get it right, and you're really excited, but your co-founder stares at it blankly and then wants to change everything, it can get a little discouraging.

How do you explain this stuff to someone who's never coded?
Just open sourced the Apache QR module of lilqr.com and went with Python instead
http://siavashg.posterous.com/
Just switched the site over to a Python based version and decided to open source the Apache module that generated the QR-codes before.
Show HN: I made this: ShoutFast
http://shoutfast.com
This is our entry in the "spontaneous event creation" ring. I'd love to hear what HN readers think!
Invert a binary tree on LeetCode
https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/
Inspired by Max Howell's tweet
MIT/Sloan Courseware: Entrepreneurial Finance
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-431-entrepreneurial-finance-spring-2002/
"This class examines the elements of entrepreneurial finance, focusing on technology-based start-up ventures, and the early stages of company development. It addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when should it be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of the company; and how funding should be structured. The subject aims to prepare students for these decisions, both as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists."
Django-qrauth: QR codes for instantly signing in to a website
https://github.com/aruseni/django-qrauth/
django-qrauth allows you to easily spice up your website with instant user authentication: once a user has signed in on their Mac or PC, they can pick up their smartphone (or tablet, iPod, etc: actually, anything that has Internet access, a camera and a QR code scanning application should work), scan a QR code (which appears on the display after the user clicks the corresponding link) and immediately sign in on their smartphone or other mobile device they use (so they don’t have to enter the site address, nor their login/email, nor password).
Crud-bones - Boilerplate project to kick-start your Node.JS/Mongo/MySQL CRUD app
http://words.alexeypro.com/crud-bones/
No, it's not an another framework. Chill. All this code is basically the template which I use to jump-start with new project. It has simplistic Model and DAO (MySQL and Mongo - which are interchangable), and all the usual set of Node.JS modules I like to use (I gathered them from across many forums, as the most stable and reliable). So, it saves me a ton of time. I clone it, and go from there. You can get simple CRUD right away, just change the model (yeah, it's very "opionated"). And if you feel like you need something more sophisticated just change the code!
Wordpress frameworks that don't suck
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/3725/wordpress-frameworks-and-parent-themes
By now there is a considerable amount of WordPress code around that is meant to be re-used by other developers. Unfortunately there is little to none practical and solid information on it and generally you are stuck going through frameworks one by one until you find the first you like or think they all suck terribly (whichever comes first).

A community writeup on which frameworks and parent themes we really use and why.

I for one have always found it painful to find a decent wordpress master theme/framework to work off.
VendorKit – an iOS library management system
http://vendorkit.com
VendorKit makes the process of using and managing libraries in iOS easy. VendorKit is modeled after Bundler. VendorKit streamlines the installation and update process for dependent libraries. It also tracks versions and manages dependencies between libraries.
John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was'
http://chronicle.com/article/Coursera-Throws-a-Massive/133227/
well-known venture capitalist John Doerr is backing Coursera, the upstart provider of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that is working with elite universities. "It's doing something very, very valuable for free, so it's going to scale to be enormous," he said in an interview over the weekend.
Created my own RSS Reader Nuesbyte
http://nuesbyte.com
I would love some feedback!
Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/354210/google_executive_frustrated_by_java_c_complexity/
Interestingly these two languages are Google's official languages.
PG on Y Combinator
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/paul-graham-on-.html
aul is a great guy and has built a huge following in the startup community. I have a lot of respect for him and what he has done. Y Combinator is a great story. Paul agreed to share some details with me. Here it is live and uncut.
Innovation Debt
http://blog.pbell.com/2013/03/19/innovation-debt/
Innovation debt will kill your team as surely as technical debt will kill your codebase...
ProtonMail: End-to-end encrypted email
https://protonmail.ch/
A secure mail startup founded by CERN and MIT scientists in 2013.
Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education?
At the moment, the biggest VLE(Virtual Learning Environment), which is used by a large number of universities, is BlackBoard. And yet the product is poor by todays standards.

There are a lot of new startups that are concentrating on creating 'fashionable' companies, usually social networks of some kind, and yet the education sector is constantly being overlooked.

So perhaps a better question would be, are there any new startups addressing this problem?

Note: I also posted this question on Quora, but it got 1 reply which didn't really answer the question.
UVB-76 (The Buzzer) transmitted a new voice message
http://uvb-76.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-23-2010-935am-pst-voice.html
Wikipedia article on The Buzzer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
It's never too late to become an entrepreneur
http://www.dailybreeze.com/lifeandculture/ci_22083255/helen-dennis-its-never-too-late-become-an
This will become a big trend in next 5-10 years amongst "Baby Boomers"<p>The growing interest in entrepreneurship and age is reflected in a study by the Kauffman Foundation that found that more people ages 55 to 64 are creating their own businesses than those ages 20 to 34.<p>As a percentage of total entrepreneurs, the 55 to 64 age group has grown the most. For example, in 1996 14.3 percent of all entrepreneurs were ages 55 to 64; in 2011, that grew to 20.9 percent. The percentage of entrepreneurs that declined most sharply were those in the 20 to 34 age range.
Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10399880-93.html?tag=mncol;txt
Its a couple paragraphs down, but these are companies that have been found to sell your credit card numbers to 3rd parties. I have used Fandango for a long time, but never will again.

"The government says the investigation shows that Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue "trick" consumers into entering their e-mail address just before they complete purchases at sites such as Orbitz, Priceline.com, Buy.com, 1-800 Flowers, Continental Airlines, Fandango, and Classmates.com. A Web ad, which many consumers say appears to be from the retailer, offers them cash back or coupon if they key in their e-mail address."
Hacker News User Base Changed?
http://www.r-bloggers.com/hacker-news-user-base-changed/
There are lots of references on Hacker news to the fact that the "good old days" are gone and that the character of the site has changed since it started. The visualization above was based on a sample of users that posted on the site in recent times. The data was gathered by iterating over the first 1000 pages and gleaning a list of user names. The users ages were then checked and are plotted above.
Ask HN: Why are there never any job postings for non web positions?
Why are there never any job postings for non web or mobile jobs on Hacker News? Even in software engineering, there are a lot of other fields.
Larry Tesler Has Died
https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408
Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler
Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
https://www.mozilla.com/firefox/4.0b8/releasenotes/
Has the JägerMonkey, hardware accelerated rendering, HSTS protocol support, better web font support, etc.
Why I absolutely love java
https://gist.github.com/817504
not
Code Club - after-school code club initiative goes live
http://www.codeclub.org.uk
Our mission is to inspire kids to learn how to code. Our plan is to create a nationwide network of volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for children aged 10-11.<p>We're asking interested programmers to teach for an hour a week at their local school using Scratch and lesson plans based on the Scratch curriculum. Lesson plans are currently being created and tested so interested programmers can sign up to hear when they are ready at www.codeclub.org.uk<p>You can follow our progress at www.codeclub.org.uk/blog and follow us on twitter @CodeClub
Ok, glass – new Google Glass concepts
http://jackwmorgan.com/ok-glass
I had some spare time this weekend, so I created some simple concepts for Google Glass. What are your thoughts on the soon to be released device?
Tell HN: Writing helps
I have been under constant pressure about a few things and that had me down from a few months, affecting my productivity, mood, appetite and lots more. Today, I just opened the notepad and started typing away what I felt. The idea to do so seemed a little funny at first as my thoughts were very clear in my mind and it was my helplessness to do anything that had got me down, but trust me, it helped tremendously. After so many days, I did some meaningful work, of course nothing compared to my peak days but it did break the "cant-do-anything" streak. I have also been feeling better overall after writing.
Just thought would share this with you all. Happy holidays.
Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time
http://tweetping.net/#
Check out the Twitter activity in realtime

This project is based on Nodejs w/ Socket.io, Processing.js and Backbone.js

Designed and realized by Franck Ernewein.
What time is it? 
http://iprl.wz.cz/
The funny way to know what time it is!!
Try Haskell
http://tryhaskell.org/
Edit: I'm not the creator of this, I just saw it on programming reddit and thought it would interest people here. With that said, if you want to give feedback to the creator, there would be a better place: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/b58rk/try_haskell/
Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds 
http://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=49m45s
You have to love Linus for not being afraid to speak his mind.
EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more
http://jan.wildeboer.net/2012/05/breaking-european-court-decision-oracle-and-google-should-note/
EU court of Justice decides: Program language, API free to be reimplemented. Reverse engineering also OK, cannot be stopped by license terms. Interesting when compared to Oracle v Google.
Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
https://fahrrad-tools.de/tire.html
History: Last year I had to replace the tire on my bike, and I was surprised how difficult it was to find a suitable new tire. There were a lot of numbers written on the casing, so I googled what they meant. In the end I was successful, but I didn't want to do the same work again for the next bike after I've forgotten the details. So I wrote this website.

Technically, the web page is kept very simple, no frameworks, no templates, no website builder. It uses HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, and it privides a responsive layout for mobile usage.

I'm happy to receive feedback. If you have tried the label of your bike tire, and it doesn't work, please post it as well. Thanks!
Ask HN: What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?
I am looking for an electronics course that is a good blend of theory and practice. I studied electronics in college and remember Kirchoff's laws and the like, but nothing else. The ideal course would probably start off from there and would include lot of practical circuits to build while explaining the theory of each circuit would work.
Github major service outage
https://status.github.com/messages
https://status.github.com/
Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million
http://www.wmhartnett.com/2012/07/11/the-u-s-census-bureaus-american-factfinder-which-everyone-in-the-universe-hates-cost-taxpayers-33-3-million/
Did you catch the part where it said the Census Bureau paid IBM $33.3 million for the poo bucket that is the American FactFinder? Ha ha. That was my favorite part, too.
Philae has landed
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30026398
Live coverage here http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220000361.html

Thanks @brianpgordon - Check out this gif of the orbital maneuvers required for Rosetta to reach its destination: https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif

Live twitter feed of ESA https://twitter.com/esaoperations

It looks like @Philae2014 made a fairly gentle touch down on #67P based on amount of landing gear damping #CometLanding
Show HN: I made an HN job board
https://hnjobs.org/
I noticed the who's hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user's profiles and more.

Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.
Show HN: Countle
https://www.countle.org
Countle is a daily puzzle game, a la Wordle, where you use 6 given numbers to produce of a sequence of calculations to reach a target number. In other words, it's a daily round of the "Numbers Game" from the British game show Countdown.

Sample numbers round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI

A new puzzle appears every day!
Soundcloud Releases New App, Allows Universal to Flag Your Account
http://doandroidsdance.com/features/soundcloud-boldly-releases-new-app-allows-universal-flag-account-quietly-announces-data-mining-one-month/
The original article is from here: http://doandroidsdance.com/features/soundcloud-boldly-releases-new-app-allows-universal-flag-account-quietly-announces-data-mining-one-month/ June 27
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
https://www.superblocks.com/
Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE.

As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort.

So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource (databases, APIs, data warehouses), drag and drop your common UI components (tables, charts, forms), spin up backend APIs and schedule cron jobs, all in one place.

Since developers we spoke to hated repeatedly handling permissions, hooking up observability, configuring security and managing CI/CD pipelines, we built Superblocks to integrate with popular dev tools like Datadog, Elastic, GitHub, GitLab, Okta and more. Use our cloud version, or run a self-hosted agent to ensure your data never leaves your VPC [1].

Superblocks is quite differentiated from other “low-code” tools out there:
* 100% built for developers: observability, debuggability, version control, extend with Python & JS
* A platform, not a point solution: An all-in-one builder for internal tools: app UIs, APIs and cron jobs
* Agent architecture: source-available, stateless and lightweight vs a legacy on-prem deployment
* Scalable pricing: Pay for apps by Creator and usage-based pricing for end users (based on day passes) so it’s affordable to have 100s or 1000s of end users. Workflows and Jobs are billed on the number of executions.

A quick 4 min demo on the website: https://cdn.superblocks.com/superblocks-demo-06132022.mp4
Developer docs: https://docs.superblocks.com
To illustrate Superblocks in action, we built this startup funding explorer last night [2]

Would love to hear feedback!

[1] Agent https://github.com/superblocksteam/agent
[2] Superblocks Startup Explorer App https://app.superblocks.com/applications/4aab03cd-3b18-4138-...
Secrets Of A Professional Writer With NY Times Bestselling Author CJ Lyons
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/prowritersecrets/
CompoHub lists all game developer events on a neat timeline
http://compohub.net/
What I learned from using displaytag and appFuse
http://elnibs.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/what-i-learned-from-using-displaytag-and-appfuse/
MobilEcho and activEcho create synergetic effect
http://subzeroblog.acronis.com/posts/88
Brilliant Ad for Foreign Policy Magazine
http://foreignpolicy.advertserve.com/servlet/file?id=338
Ubuntu One for Windows enters beta testing
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/ubuntu-one-for-windows-enters-beta-testing/
Beginners Article on Canvas "What's the Draw of Canvas"
http://webandphp.com/What’sthedrawofCanvas-166949
How to do open developent work, Rules 1 & 2
http://scripting.com/stories/2010/07/21/howToDoOpenDevelopentWorkR.html