jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If You Want to Keep Using The Internet, Learn Chinese Now
http://gizmodo.com/5719370/if-you-want-to-keep-using-the-internet-learn-chinese-now
According to this infographic, Chinese will become the internet's dominant language in five years. Obviously, every single webpage won't be in Mandarin, but it's a good reminder that China's rise as a cultural force shouldn't be ignored.
Your Company Is Who It Hires
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2008/01/your-company-is.html
I use a phrase that attempts to highlight the importance of hiring decisions in a company: You are what you eat and your company is who it hires. This observation has important implications for your company's internal operations and appearance.

Simply put, excellent companies are very often comprised of...
Starry Chrome Extension – Lookup Startup Info with One Click
http://gostarry.com/
Normally when someone wants to know funding/traffic information of a startup, s/he will have to go to three different websites: CrunchBase, AngelList and Alexa, which becomes very annoying if you do these routines frequently.

Starry is a chrome extension that integrates these three datasources and helps investors and entrepreneurs lookup startup information with one click. Supports for more platform are coming soon.
Google Ranked Third Worst Spam Provider 
http://www.timesofitsecurity.com/news/11315/Google-Ranked-Third-Worst-Spam-Provider--
Google has been ranked the third worst spam service provider by Spamhaus, a nonprofit organization that tracks spam operations.
Lessons Learned from Facebook Start-Up Widget Makers
http://www.cio.com/article/154300/
As businesses with eyes on Facebook, MySpace and the like look to take advantage of the social networking economy, they should be sure to heed the advice of widget makers who have already succeeded.
Android weekly
http://androidweekly.net/
free android development weekly newsletter
Hacker House in PA has an opening
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/hackerhouse?v=wall
I will be leaving the HH on November 21 and am looking for a replacement for my share room. The house is a great resource for anyone wanting to start their own company and who needs cheap rent in a very good area.
Ask HN: Why, techically, is video conferencing so bad?
Television interviews nowadays are worse than the radio interviews of my youth, with so much of the sound being garbled. It would seem sensible to switch to audio-only when bandwidth is limited, but this appears not to be the case. Another solution might be to insert a delay for buffering, to cover rough patches. Things do not have to be exactly synchronous -- people can get used to saying "over" at the end of a sentence and waiting a few seconds.

The problem seems to occur with multiple software systems. I wonder, can anyone on HN point to a technical treatment of this issue?
Image A/B testing in under 5 minutes with Display Optimizer
http://blog.mixpanel.com/2009/03/introducing-display-optimizer-image-split-testing-in-less-than-5-minutes/
A side note for HN users, we'd be happy to offer Mixpanel's (http://mixpanel.com) services to you, just email me directly: suhail [at] mixpanel [dot]com
Show HN: StoneDB—A Real-Time HTAP Database Based on the MySQL Kernel
https://github.com/stoneatom/stonedb
StoneDB is an open-source hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) database designed and developed by StoneAtom based on the MySQL kernel. It is the first database of this type launched in China. StoneDB can be seamlessly switched from MySQL. It provides features such as optimal performance and real-time analytics, offering you a one-stop solution to process online transaction processing (OLTP), online analytical processing (OLAP), and HTAP workloads.

StoneDB is fully compatible with the MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 protocols, the MySQL ecosystem, and common MySQL features and syntaxes. Tools and clients in the MySQL ecosystem, such as Navicat, Workbench, mysqldump, and mydumper, can be directly used on StoneDB. In addition, all workloads on StoneDB can be run on MySQL.

StoneDB is optimized for OLAP applications. StoneDB that runs on a common server can process complex queries on tens of billions of data records, while ensuring high performance. Compared to databases that use MySQL Community Edition, StoneDB is at least 10 times faster in processing queries.

StoneDB uses the Knowledge Grid technology and a column-based storage engine. The column-based storage engine is designed for OLAP applications and uses techniques such as column-based storage, Knowledge Grid-based filtering, and high-efficiency data compression. With such storage engine, StoneDB ensures the high performance of application systems and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Viper.io is a simple netty toolkit for http projects
https://github.com/briangu/viper.io
I wanted to make a netty based toolkit for easily building s3-enabled, static, embedded, or simple REST sites.
Three French Entrepreneurs just funded 101 startups (25000€ each)
http://101projets.fr
2000 ideas were submitted, 290 pitchers. 101 teams got funded today with 25000€ each...<p>The Trio is composed of french most known serial-entrepreneurs :
- Xaviel Niel, founder and CEO of Free.fr, second ISP in France.
- Marc Simoncini is the founder of Meetic, main french online dating service.
- Jacques-Antoine Granjon, founder of vente-privee.com, French ecommerce company that pioneered the model of online flash sales
Show HN: Can we pls help you find challenging freelance work? (beta)
https://joinmaasive.com
my team and i built this. all we care about is helping top tech talent find freelance work w cool co's:)
Python Whoosh with Redis
http://blog.creapptives.com/post/32262168370/python-whoosh-with-redis-storage
I've not found anything such floating around yet I find Redis to be best storage engine for inverted index due to its data structures. This is just an initiative to ping developers and bring Redis based inverted index storage to main stream.
All BlueHost hosted sites are down, including Bluehost.com
https://twitter.com/bluehost
You know it's bad when the hosts site is down and they announce "code red" on twitter.
Ask HN: good webapp's terms of service templates?
While startups registered as an entity obviously get their legal work done as it should be, I was wondering what to do about ToS/pp when launching side projects, weekend projects. I'm speaking about the most basic ToS that even a small app should have.

google sent me to this http://www.bennadel.com/coldfusion/privacy-policy-generator.htm , seems ok? Any alternatives are also welcome.

second thing:

--

(from the generator)

8. Governing Law

Any claim relating to xxxxxxx's web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of yyyyyyyyy without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

--

if I'm from outside US, I replace the 'state' with 'country', and it'll be ok, yes?
Seedcamp (euro version of YC) winners announced
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/sep/16/seedcamp-2010-winners-announced?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Can Europe get it's start-up act together?
Sharing is Caring - Living on Collaborative Consumption
http://jonathanlee.me/2013/05/16/sharing-is-caring-living-on-collaborative-consumption/
A start-up BD guy's "Super Size Me" style research on collaborative consumption and share-economy.
Create and manage daemons in Ruby with Titan
https://github.com/flippingbits/titan
I've created a gem called Titan that helps you creating and managing daemons in Ruby.

There's also an example that covers how to create a start/stop script in Ruby using Titan with Thor.
Turncoats - Should You Hire Your Competitors' Employees?
http://www.infochachkie.com/turncoats-are-turncoats/
Competitor employees clearly can provide significant insights to your company. However, what does jumping ship from a competitor to your company say about the employee's character?
Tell HN: I'm on DotNetRocks talking about my two products
So I've been working on two products for the past 18 months, I've had decent traffic since I launched in October but am already seeing a nice spike in traffic from my DotNetRocks episode.

The first project is called Nitriq, it is a static code analysis tool for .Net. The second is Atomiq, it finds all the places where someone has copy and pasted code in your own projects. We originally had them priced higher but we recently lowered the prices to the $30-$40 range to make it an easy pill to swallow. I'm super stoked about the episode and I wanted to share it all with you. I've been reading HN for about two years now, thanks for all the great articles.

Links:

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=567

http://www.nitriq.com

http://www.getatomiq.com
Ask HN: Planning to start a company in the Valley. Not an American. Visas
I am planning to start a company in the Valley. I am not an American citizen and my company does not have funding yet. What kind of visa’s can I apply and your advice. Please don'’t suggest another country.
GNOME 3.0 Released
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2011-April/msg00004.html
"Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés."
Don’t Ask “What Are You Good At?”, Ask “What Are You Willing to Get Good At?”
http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/04/10/in-choosing-a-job-dont-ask-what-are-you-good-at-ask-instead-what-are-you-willing-to-get-good-at/
In Choosing a Job: Don’t Ask “What Are You Good At?”, Ask Instead “What Are You Willing to Get Good At?”
Short URL hints / autodiscovery RFC
http://sites.google.com/a/snaplog.com/wiki/short_url_hints
Love it or hate it URL shorteners are here to stay. Here is a draft proposal for a simple spec that would allow them to play nice with sites that already have their own short URLs
Chef: Out of the Gate
http://beacon.wharton.upenn.edu/404/2010/12/chef-out-of-the-gate/
Overview of how to get started with Chef.
Ask HN: Help me make a decision
$125K (incl. bonus, stock) - company A

$150K (base, stock options based on performance) - company B

company A is a large well respected hightech company (~200B market cap)

company B is a growing, recognizable but not a well recognized or popular, low employee satisfaction hightech company (~2B market cap)

similar job profile for both

growth is mostly self driven but maybe more challenging in B due to culture

company culture - A has significant advantage over B

which would you accept?
7 tips for successful consumer app bootstrapping according to Fat Spiderman
http://blog.rafaelsanches.com/2013/04/26/7-tips-for-successful-app-bootstrapping-by-fat-spiderman/
I have always admired this personage in Plaza Mayor (Madrid). Imagine how many millions of people recognize his face after years of hard work?

Do you want your app to be used and seen by tens of millions of people? Follow his strategies!

This will only work if you are developing and focusing on only one high quality app. No average quality apps will succeed with his chops.
Wish HN: Happy Thanksgiving
What are we thankful for, as hackers? I recently obtained my US Citizenship, along with the rest of my family, after trying for many years, for which I am thankful!
Ask HN: Experience with smart glasses to replace laptop monitor for dev work
By smart glasses I mean devices in which a computer video is projected, not necessarily with the image changing based on head motion.

Is anybody using one of those to replace their work computer display for doing dev or sysadmin work? Or has anyone tried but found that it wasn't working for them?

I am hoping to solve two issues:

* I like to sit in different seats, different rooms, and even on the floor throughout the day. Having the computer display projected in my eyes rather than having to move my head to orient my eyes towards the screen would allow me to always have the posture I want. No need for special desk etc...

* reading glasses: with my short distance sight detoriating with again, I feel I need a different prescript for each distance I set my laptop at
Finding opportunity in pain
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e2709610-0972-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=3bd54f56-21cb-11dd-a50a-000077b07658.html
"Sometimes an economic boom can block opportunities, and a downturn can expose them."
Google.com susceptible to script injection?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=lyris.spc.int%2Fread%2Fattachment%2F36456%2F1%2Fhtmlversion.html&btnG=Search
What's going on here? Why is some other domain asking for a password? Click on the link or search for
lyris.spc.int/read/attachment/36456/1/htmlversion.html
Wixi: one more webOS ? 
http://main.wixi.com/
Wixi was presented at TechCrunch40. The activation code "tech40access" may still work. The business model is based on disk storage renting.
Do profits matter? The curious case of Amazon.com
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/24/do-profits-matter-the-curious-case-of-amazon-com/
recently announced that it is raising the minimum purchase amount from $25 to $35 to qualify for free shipping. Though no reason was given, the consensus seems to be that it’s a way to push customers toward the Amazon Prime subscription in addition to the more obvious reasons being to get customers to spend more and to offset the incredible amount of shipping costs Amazon pays for.
Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/24/do-profits-matter-the-curious-case-of-amazon-com/#YHuxO3At6FrqRYYx.99
Flow-map of Napoleon's retreat from Russia 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.png
Also, more on this in here: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard
The Pirate Bay Is Down, But Don’t Panic
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-is-down-but-dont-panic-120302/
Yes, The Pirate Bay is down at the moment. No, there’s no reason to panic.

Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case.
Bitcoin Mall is a central place to spend your Bitcoin
http://bitcoinmall.herokuapp.com/
My friends and I built this during a hackathon and I'm looking for feedback on how to make it better.
Show HN: Profile Beautifier (a Facebook app)
http://apps.facebook.com/beautyprofile

I built and posted this on HN yesterday but no one seems to notice, so I thought "It's a lame idea".

Waking up this morning, I found out there're currently 1000+ users in less than 24 hours, and another Show HN is currently on first page of HN, so I decided to submit again :-P.

If you like what I did, I wouldn't mind an upvote =).

Any comment for feedback is greatly appreciated.
Show HN: GitHub Based Accommodation
https://www.gitsurf.com/
Hi all,
A few years ago, I wanted to have other interesting people stay over in our spare room.

To invite Hackers/doers/makers/conference speakers, there is no "interesting" filter on Airbnb.

So I created a hack, https://www.gitsurf.com/, based entirely on Github, which has a very high barrier to entry.

https://www.gitsurf.com/pages/man has more information on the mechanics.

Would people here use it? Should it be entirely open sourced?
Ask HN: What does tropo or twilio use for transcription?
I assumed a custom CMU Sphinx setup, but it doesnt seem that there is a library large enough to support the accuracy they give out. Any ideas?
Christopher Langan: the other guy with the "highest" IQ on the planet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ak5Lr3qkW0
Without opining one way or another about the debate happening here...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158589

...I'd just like to let you all listen to what someone with an IQ that high actually sounds like. Regardless of which side you come down on, let us not forget that these people are not inhumanly, insolubly brilliant. Like all other people, they and their brains are puzzles, and when we measure their (or our) intelligence, it is NOT certain what it is that we're measuring.

And by the way, it's often said that such-and-such the historical figure was supposed to have an IQ of like 180, but I would also like to remind everyone that these figures were given by an assistant to Lewis Terman, whose ill-fated and decades-running IQ experiment successfully proved that IQ doesn't actually indicate how successful one is at much of anything, INCLUDING doing sort of computation except those types that appeared on the test. Those figures were manufactured before we had any indicator that really smart people like Einstein have necessarily high IQs. Just a thought. Lewis Terman. Look him up.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmnjD4Fw2U&feature=related
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cOe6AxtdE&feature=related

His website: http://www.ctmu.org/
Microsoft launches startup fund in UK
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/01/microsoft_launches_startup_fund_in_uk.html
Chair-lobbing Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer says he'll pony up the cash for British startups...
Ask HN: How do we change things?
Members of this community are pretty good at changing the way we interact with the world on a daily basis. Some really cool things have come out of asking "How can this be better?". You already have changed the world for the better.

As I read the recent post about net neutrality I got to thinking about our roles and interactions with government. I realized that not much has changed despite the surge of Internet users over the last decade. Our candidates are still spoon fed to us. Decisions are not made with the best interest of constituents in mind. And despite services like Facebook and Twitter many of us feel like we don't have a voice. This observation applies both to national and local politics. There has to be a better way.

So my question to the smartest people in the room is, how can this be better? Do we make a Groupon for causes (Groupon's original business) and showcase one injustice a day? Do we create a Facebook for aspiring politicians and level the playing field for those who want to get into public service? We did that for business, why not extend that to politics?

How can we change things?

Please keep the comments free of party biases. Only the Sith deal in absolutes =)
How Google’s Umbono got it completely wrong
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/20/how-googles-umbono-got-it-completely-wrong/
Earlier this month Google announced a new Incubator in South Africa called Umbono. You come to them with your world altering idea and in turn they give you office space, money, bandwidth and servers. It literally is the ultimate opportunity for any South African with the technical skills and a cool idea, but unfortunately Google got it completely wrong.
Aurora 0.6.0 Released
http://aurora.incubator.apache.org/blog/aurora-0-6-0-incubating-released/
Apache Aurora is a Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs, originally developed by Twitter and today an open source project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Internet whiz-kid Daniel Tzvetkoff went from $150k a day to bust
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/20/daniel-tzvetkoff-poker-payments-processing/
Meet the baby faced Aussie who brought down the entire US online poker industry.
Show HN: Coclick.io – Build better demos with co-browsing
https://www.coclick.io/
Hi HN, I’m Philippe, cofounder of CoClick.

We believe that current video-conferencing tools are not suited for the sales process.

So we built a video-conferencing tool to help SaaS Startups, indie hackers and software developers build better demos.

The tech is already used by 10 clients we have in other industries, and we believe we can bring value to the tech industry.

Please do leave your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.
I built a tiny device for displaying Twitter updates on my table-top.
http://www.paramaggarwal.com/post/28330849923/scrolling-tweets-a-tiny-display-for-the-latest-news
A scrolling text display that shows me the latest tweets from the @verge account.

Completely wireless via WiFi and uses a Heroku backend to get the tweets from the Twitter API. Built on the Arduino platform.

Check the full code and video on the link.
Robert Darnton defended the digital, while still savoring the printed
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/robert-darnton-closes-the-book/
N.B., although this article is mainly about Darnton's more recent work as Harvard's University Librarian and as an advocate for open access, among historians he's probably most celebrated for his 1984 book The Great Cat Massacre. Also, the title makes it seems like this is an obituary; in fact he's just retiring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Cat_Massacre
Landing Page Design: Visualizing the High Cost of Credit Card Debt
https://www.readyforzero.com/cost-of-credit-card-debt/
Well designed Interactive Infographic/ landing page that let's you visualize how much your credit card debt is costing you, then prompts you to do something about it.
Show HN: How to quickly build a random quotes API using data from Kaggle
https://codehooks.io/blog/serverless-quotes-api
This blog post shows how you can build a fast serverless API for a large data set. We'll use a 144MB file with 500K famous quotes to create an efficient NoSQL datastore using code hooks. We'll build and deploy a public serverless API to serve random quotes from the NoSQL database to clients.
The Death Metal View of Google+
http://gplustutorials.com/google-plus/the-death-metal-view-of-google-plus/
How a picture of a decapitated fly and a shiny green tie help people to connect on Google+
BumpTop: 3D Desktop goes open source
http://bumptop.github.io/
Here's the man himself at TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anand_agarawala_demos_his_bumptop_desktop?language=en

Nicest guy in the world too.
Show HN: Vlly – A simple API to powerful 3D/VR/AR delivery
https://vlly-public.notion.site/Vlly-API-0-1-0-e85fc0507e6f4e0fadec819fabeaf8bb
I’m an ex-YouTube infrastructure engineer iterating through building infra to support streaming high-quality AR experiences.

Vlly allows you to build high-quality 3D/VR/AR into your applications with just a few lines of code - going from 0 to production 3D pipeline in minutes. I built Vlly as a simple API to take the pain out of 3D file conversion, optimization, and distribution.

I'm around to get people started and to chat about current and future state of streaming media.
Tell HN: Launching HackingAdvertising.com
For years I've occassionally tried to use Google Adwords and Facebook ads to promote my products, but I've never been able to get very good results.

I keep reading about people who are able to get great results, but am never able to reproduce their efforts.

So I've finally thrown down the gauntlet. I'm going to attack advertising like any good hacker. Break it down, test it, iterate, analyze, look for opportunities, etc.

And I'm going to publish the results. Why the hell not. There's so little information out there about this stuff that this might be very helpful to people.

Anyways check out my efforts and let me know what you think:

http://hackingadvertising.com
Show HN: Integrate Computer-vision in your app with just 2 lines of code
https://ramanlabs.in
Hi HN,
I am Anubhav from RamanLabs. We have been developing end to end Computer-vision modules to make it easy for developers, hobbyists to integrate such functionality into their applications with minimal amount of code.

All modules are developed to run real-time on consumer-grade CPUs[0]. For now we are releasing only Python-language SDK. Demos are provided to allow users to test performance on desired data-distribution.

Framework powering these modules in completely written in Nim language, which under the hood wraps some Operation's implementation provided by libraries like OpenBLAS/CuBlas.

We also maintain a blog[1] where we hope to share more underlying technical details.

[0] Quad-core CPU with AVX2 instructions.

[1] https://ramanlabs.in/static/blog

[2] https://ramanlabs.in/static/tutorial
Google Tablet App Quality Checklist
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/google-wants-developers-to-build-better-tablet-apps-publishes-a-tablet-app-quality-checklist/
Google Tablet App Quality Checklist
Apple offering gift cards for old Windows PCs and displays
http://www.apple.com/recycling/
I'm probably not the only one with a mountain of pain-to-recycle computer parts.