jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How to make apps for kids a global success (video)
http://tumblr.bjornjeffery.com/post/11666761443/oh-look-its-me-talking-for-30-minutes-bjorn
Björn Jeffery from Toca Boca (Tocaboca.com, 2M+ downloads) about how to make toys for touchscreens, instead of games.
Ask HN: Please review my RoR web app
This website if for auto fans to post the latest images news relating to cars, bikes, etc.
http://carindustrie.com
Please review the good, bad, and the ugly. Thanks
Game Developers, your lazy enemy design is ruining your awesome game
http://thegrue.com/game-studios-your-lazy-enemy-design-is-ruining-your-awesome-game/
with storage and computing power reaching the levels it is, why are we still treating our enemy NPCs like sprites and calling them en masse, even when our game would be very well suited to fewer and more unique enemies? (looking at you bioshock).
Install and Configure Apache2 with mod_python in Debian/Ubuntu server
http://freshtutorial.com/install-configure-apache2-modpython-debian-ubuntu/
pache2 and mod_python are mostly used in the production server of Django and Python.The advantages of using mod_python are versatility and Python based applications will run many time faster than traditional CGI(Common Gateway Interface).
Show HN: rpgboss – open source rpg editor and engine
http://rpgboss.com/
Site & source code:
http://rpgboss.com/

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXlUY7t-deA#t=23

Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/88rxUFC.png
http://imgur.com/S1rpKM5.png
Multipart Upload on S3 with jclouds
http://www.baeldung.com/2013/04/04/multipart-upload-on-s3-with-jclouds/
Multipart Upload on S3 with jclouds custom S3 API
Ranking Startup Investors by Portfolio Momentum
http://www.mattermark.com/app/Benchmarking
How telling do you think their score is?
ENGL 300: Introduction to Theory of Literature
http://oyc.yale.edu/english/introduction-to-theory-of-literature/content/sessions/lecture01.html
An amazing lecture course recently put up in the Open Yale Courses site.
I took the class in college, but with a different professor. The TAs always said that Paul Fry's course was much better. Now I can see why :)
All stories are created equal
http://gojko.net/2009/12/18/all-stories-are-created-equal/
At the Agile Specification, BDD and Testing Exchange last month in London, Dan North spoke about selling behaviour driven development to the business. He put forward a relatively controversial idea on estimation: treat all stories as equal. Estimate each story as size 1 and just be done with it. Although this idea might seem overly simplistic, I find it really appealing.
Online Virtual Assistants - Australia
http://freemycloud.com.au/
Online Virtual Assistants are the fastest way to improve profitability in any business.
How to Negotiate a Flexible Work Schedule
http://www.cio.com/article/133800
The boss will worry that if she lets you telecommute, she'll have to let everyone work from home, and that she'll have trouble evaluating your productivity and performance. Head off her concerns with a well-written proposal that spells out exactly how the arrangement you're proposing will work and how your performance will be measured.
User Management in Drupal 6
http://www.packtpub.com/files/7580_10_SampleChapter.pdf
‘User Management’ is an article extracted from Travis Tidwell’s new book titled’ Flash with Drupal’ by Packt Publishing. In this tutorial, users will learn one of the most important aspects of Drupal CMS; its ability to manage its users and protect the content of the site with a permission-based role system.
JVM Host - What is 'java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded'?
http://www.jvmhost.com/articles/what-is-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-gc-overhead-limit-exceeded#.TtYSVT9o33c.hackernews
Another kind of error that can occur when hosting your Java application on external Java host running JVM with different heap settings than your development environment is 'GC overhead limit exceeded'. What documentation says: Excessive GC Time and OutOfMemoryError The parallel collector will throw an OutOfMemoryError if too much time is being spent in garbage collection: if more than 98% of the total time is spent in garbage collection and less than 2% of the heap is recovered, an OutOfMemoryError will be thrown. This feature is designed to prevent applications from running for an extended period of time while making little or no progress because the heap is too small. If necessary, this feature can be disabled by adding the option-XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit to the command line...
Ask HN: Cheap cloud computing with GPU access?
I wonder if anyone knows where you can buy cheap CPU and GPU time for training neural networks? Google Colab's resources are free but seriously underpowered. What I need is a shell account with exclusive access to a high-end desktop GPU and a few gigabytes of disk space. Also, it needs to be cheap because I'm poooooor.
85% Of Women Are Annoyed By Most Facebook Friends
http://www.allfacebook.com/85-women-are-annoyed-by-most-facebook-friends-2011-03?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allfacebook+%28Facebook+Blog%29
Funny as it may sound, are we producing a culture of people that are annoyed by everyone else? Granted this survey used a very limited sample, but I think it speaks to a bigger picture. We want to be more connected and social media gave us that. Now we are annoyed by this interconnectedness.

You can be best friends with someone, then when you start living together things can go terribly wrong. I think that is part of what is happening here. You and 600 of your closest friends are all living together in giant online dorm. I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. The more we share about ourselves, the greater the tendency to piss someone off. Human nature is emerging now more than ever.
Classy Form Validation Errors in Rails 3
http://blog.ved-antani.com/2011/01/classy-form-validation-errors-in-rails/
Classy form validations in Rails 3
Startups are more likely to adopt Ruby on Rails, find out why...
http://www.thefrontenddeveloper.com/the-ashton-kutcher-coolpix-effect-on-ruby-on-rails/
Has anyone noticed a trend among employers asking for more and more Ruby on Rails developers? Also, Ruby on Rails developers in average make slightly more money than PHP Developers? Have you ever wondered why? Me too, and this is what I found...
Show HN: My Side Project Mockup – Affiliate Marketing Tool
https://o-goo-fa4bb.web.app/
I've seen a lot of affiliate marketing around the online stores, and a lot of individuals promoting products to earn profits. I am wondering why this happens way less in physical stores? I think a good tool may help, and the market is quite large.

Do you think this would work?
Why can't Amazon protect you from Bitcoin mining on your account?
I got major downvotes - but no answers - for why Amazon can't ask you if you'll be mining bitcoins:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818170

So, why not?

They don't need to do deep introspection on the VM's, a sample every now and then could easily tell whether your instances are churning through SHA hashes.

If I'm wrong for some technical reason - what is it?

Since this is a major risk, I'm curious why it's impossible for Amazon to protect you against it.
Show HN: Cross-region network routing of websockets with Fly.io's built-in proxy
https://github.com/mtremsal/fly-machines-proxy-demo
Hi, I've recently had a chance to dig into using Fly.io's builtin proxy[^1] for cross-region network routing of HTTP calls and websockets.

This is especially useful if you're building collaborative experiences at the edge, such as a real-time chat, a multiplayer game, or a Figmadobe competitor (wink wink).

The demo works: https://fly-replay-header-demo.fly.dev/ -- the country flag visually confirms which instance you're connected to.

That being said, I made a couple fun mistakes along the way, so I figured I'd write up and share what I've learned. Suggestions for improvement are also welcome. Cheers!

[^1] https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/#fly-networking
Reverso Time
http://jsomers.net/blog/reverso-time
I thought this was a fascinating read. Anyone else here do something similar?
Twitter Spam Prevention Attracts More Spammers
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/04/twitter-spam-prevention-attracts-more-spammers/
New spammer tactics and what YOU can do to stop spammers on Twitter...
The venture deals that got away
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_10156479?nclick_check=1
A must read for anyone in the startup world!
Virtualization - Who needs it in the cloud?
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2011/11/virtualisation-and-clouds.html
Do you care about virtualization when you're running in the cloud?
Our proposal to chart.js contest using last.fm
http://lastfm.matilhaestud.io
made in just few hours. this is our participation in chartjs contest (http://chartjs.challengepost.com/).

still having bugs, only works on chrome, ff and safari but its ok for now :)

thanks!

dribbble.com/amiltonpaglia
github.com/jnettome
Tell HN: JsDay - The first international conference on JavaScript in Italy.
http://www.jsday.it/2011/
I know it's probably a little too late to inform you about this since the conference is being held May 11th and 12th (in about 2 weeks), but I know there's lots of Europeans on HN, so I thought I would share.
Ask HN: Would you use a site to facilitate freelance contracts?
Would you use a service that allows you to select from contracts tailored for a specific contract jobs (Web Design Contract, Coding Contract). The site would then facilitate the agreement between both parties so each have a record of it. Similar to the handover process and contract for 99designs (http://i.imgur.com/4AEuHvG.jpg?1).
Podcast: Scrum in Fixed Price Projects
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/02/podcast-scrum-in-fixed-price-projects.html
In the first episode of TechTalk's podcast Christian Hassa interviews Mitch Lacey about the applicability of Scrum in fixed price projects.
Virtual Museum of Iraqi history
http://www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it/homeENG.htm
This web site is very easy to navigate and it goes over 5000 years of historical treasures that are present in modern day Iraq.
Enjoy the presentation.
New Generation HelpDesk, Bug Tracking, Issue Tracker solution on Codeplex.
http://advticket.codeplex.com
AdvTicket, "Asp.Net Mvc" based new generation HelpDesk, Ticket Tracker, Bug Tracking solution. Our Helpdesk solution consists of three panels. Admin Panel, Staff Panel, EndUser (Customer) Panel. All Panels are designed to user-friendly.

Also we have robust mail parser solution.

Regards,
FK
An Invite App to Call Pandas
My co-founder and I are from Madagascar. We love doing cool things such as talking to pandas. They have a lot to offer that we miss out on because we're stuck behind our screens. We decided to build an app to help you find a panda near you. It's called ImDown, and we just released it for iOS.

It's the simplest invite app and aggregates all people's invites nearby anonymously into a feed. You can see what's happening nearby wherever you go. Let us know what you think!!

Cheers,
Team Panda
Garantia Data Named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner, Inc. 
http://garantiadata.com/press-releases/garantia-data-named-cool-vendor-by-gartner-inc
In-memory computing vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are innovative, impactful and intriguing
Wilbur Ross: Keep jobs in America, tax the rich, and fund Federal R&D
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11150
I like the way this guy thinks! One takeaway from this interview: We used to be #1 in the world in college students that graduated with a degree; now we are #12. Ouch.
"RubyFringe was profitable, people are happy, and the sky didn't fall. What now?"
http://rethink.unspace.ca/2008/7/31/rubyfringe-what-now
RubyFringe didn't feel like a conference bout hacking, but it definitely felt like the organizers were hacking the conference format.
Show HN: A Formatter for Thrift Files
https://github.com/alingse/thrift-fmt
This is a python command line tool, and I'm going to reimplement this as a vscode extention.

any adivce?
Goem - the Missing Go Extension Manager
http://big-elephants.com/2013-09/goem-the-missing-go-extension-manager/
If you have ever tried to manage a bigger project in Go, you probably ran into the limitations of the basic go get and go build commands. For example go get only catches the master branch, while go build expects to find all your sources in your $GOPATH. These limits can make things difficult, if you want to maintain different branches. Things get even more complicated, if you have several Go projects on your development machine and all of them depend on different version of the same third party packages. This is where goem tries to help. It is a wrapper around the go command and extends its functionality. Go is a young language, which has its weaknesses. One of the biggest disadvantages of Go is the deploying of Go apps. This is where goem makes things easier and extends the capabilities of the go tool.
Changing Female Body Perception Through Art
http://www.greatwallofvagina.co.uk/welcome.html
Female genitalia have long been a source of fascination, recently of celebration but generally of confusion. Today it seems that creating images of the vagina is the sole preserve of pornographers, erotic artists and feminists. Step in British artist Jamie McCartney who has grasped the nettle to create a monumental wall sculpture all about this most intimate of places. For 400 women their privates are about to go public...
The court battle between Craigslist & eBay begins today
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/meg-whitman-testifies-as-ebay-and-craigslist-square-off-in-court/
Maybe, just maybe, somehow the outcome of this will be functional search on craigslist listings? I'm an optimist.
Yunohost v2 is here
http://news.yunohost.org/article3/yunohost-v2-is-here
Yunohost, self hosting distribution v2 is finally here.
Charge people $7.95 for your printed catalog - D. landreth
http://www.landrethseeds.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=5932
D.Landreth the oldest seed house in America, has a great website but if you want them to send you a catalog you pay them $7.95. And guess what they have thousands of people doing it every year!

Yea they're selling seeds and have been since 1784, but I love the unconventional move they make in selling their catalog.
Is it possible to obtain life insurance on someone without their knowledge?
http://www.yelp.com/topic/belle-plaine-is-it-possible-to-obtain-life-insurance-on-someone-without-their-knowledge
Is it possible to obtain life insurance on someone without their knowledge?

I was wondering if it is possible to obtain life insurance on someone ..possibly an employee.or close family member with out their permission or them knowing about the policy.
Next Chinese Wall for Internet will be in Turkey
http://www.worldbulletin.net/turkey/128483/erdogan-says-new-bill-to-make-internet-safer-to-use
Turkish PM is making itself easy for him to shut down any URL at his will and sue (jail) anyone for exercising freedom of expression on Internet
Technology and the US Election
http://www.techieapps.com/technology-and-the-us-election/
After the PR disasters surrounding SOPA and PIPA, most people don’t think of politicians as being particularly technologically aware, but if there’s one place where technology will be used to the full, it’s the US presidential election.
Jenkins Survey Results Are In – blog from Jenkins Founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2013/01/2012-jenkins-survey-results-are-in.html
Kohsuke’s thoughts on the Oct 2012 Jenkins survey findings… and a link to the full results.
Press Release is boring, Copygram does it right.
https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/421458c6fa66
Instagram web viewer competitor launches super search for Instagram content.
Turn email attachments into URLs
http://mailsnip.com
couldn't find a service that did this so I rolled my own
Charge Nonchargeable Batteries 
http://techmantras.com/node/292
An interesting video that shows how to build a battery charger that will charge the nonchargeable battery.
ICloud's first privacy stumble? Past Purchased List in App Store
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3102507
Users should be able to delete purchased history from the list. There's tons of disposable apps we don't want to see on a regular basis that we'll have to live with in that list otherwise.
Security Research/Author Mike Schiffman in final table at World Series of Poker
http://www.wsop.com/2013/live-video/default.aspx?sr&TID=12846
Link is to WSOP live stream, Mike is wearing the red hoodie/black hat.
Iran restores blocks on Facebook, Twitter
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAN_SOCIAL_MEDIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
The joy of Iran's Facebook and Twitter fans was short-lived as authorities on Tuesday restored blocks on social networks after filters were lifted for several hours overnight.
Handlebars.js 1.0.0 released
http://handlebarsjs.com
I checked emberjs.com immediately upon seeing the Handlebars release. There was no Ember 1.0 yet, but it was updated to rc5. Excited for the 1.0 release, thanks in advance to the team for all their work!
Ruby "with statement"
http://blog.mrbrdo.net/2013/02/ruby-with-statement/
How would you implement "with statement"?
You've successfully deleted Google+ and associated social content
https://support.google.com/plus/contact/downgrade_survey?hl=en
Go to bottom of the page and click "Delete Account"
Simple pattern matching in clojure and js
http://samesake.com/log/2012/08/03/Simple-pattern-matching/
I think David Nolen's gist was originally meant to be a a pitch for clojurescript, but it speaks to language syntax in general.
Programming Communities
http://nittygrittyjs.com/blog/this-time-its-not-personal/
People say JavaScript community, but mean the community of people who actually contribute to JavaScript
DM&P's $32 86duino is 300MHz x86-based SOM, Arduino/DOS/Linux/Windows-compat
http://shop.dmp.com.tw/INT/
Arduino Leonardo HW/SW compatible, also runs DOS/Linux/Windows. Vortex86EX 300MHz i586, 128MB DDR3 RAM, USB 2.0, LAN, GPIO, MicroSD.
Citizen engineer - sim card hacking
http://www.citizenengineer.com/
video and zine from ladyada and pt of Adafruit
What makes a product good?
http://jesperbylund.com/2013/01/what-makes-a-product-good/
There is a difference between products that perform poorly and products that perform well that is hard to put your finger on. Designers have been struggling to tell you about it for years. But it turns out it’s not the answer that is the problem, it’s the question.
The question is: Is it enjoyable? It’s the difference between functional and great.
Using Social Media To Make Some Real Cheddar
http://www.torontostandard.com/business/using-social-media-to-make-some-real-cheddar/
Toronto's restaurants are using social media in inventive ways to further their brands.
MyHeritage Adds Nine New Languages, Supports More Than Any Other Family Web Site
http://www.myheritage.com/blogs/companyblog/2008/10/nine_additional_languages_on_m.html
United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland (Press Release) October 31, 2008 -- MyHeritage, one of the world’s most popular family Web sites, today announced the launch of nine additional languages on its website, bringing the total to 34. The new languages include Danish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Malay, Arabic and Persian.

Families everywhere want to learn about their history and stay in touch with relatives who may be spread around the world, said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage.We are committed to making MyHeritage the most inclusive online destination for families, regardless of their location or language.

MyHeritage helps more than 26 million people around the world connect and communicate with their extended family network and easily research family history. Its impressive growth is based on an increasing desire of families to stay closely connected, learn more about each other and regularly share photos and news online. MyHeritage can be accessed through the Web site (www.myheritage.com) or by downloading a simple piece of software for free. MyHeritage also offers new technology that automatically recognizes and labels faces in digital photos, making it even easier and faster to organize, search for, and share pictures with your family and friends.

About MyHeritage
MyHeritage is one of the world’s leading online networks for families, and the second largest family history website. MyHeritage is available in 34 languages and home to more than 26 million family members and 280 million profiles. The company recently acquired family social network Kindo.com, and is based in Bnei Atarot, near Tel Aviv, Israel and London, UK. For more information, visit www.myheritage.com.
45 Breathtaking Underwater Photography Examples
http://www.splashnology.com/article/45-breathtaking-underwater-photography-examples/2822/
Underwater place… It’s like the other world where time slows down or even stops, so that the photographer could do his job and make a really good shots. But shooting underwater is not that easy. First of all you’ll need a good equipment, to adjust your camera in order to get the maximum of it and, of course, a swimming pool or some other kind of water reservoir. We’ve carefully looked through a great amount of different collections of the famous photographers and picked up the best examples to inspire you or may be to encourage you in making such amazing pictures yourself. Hope you’ll find them pleasant to the eye!
Mandelbrot fractals in 3D
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18171-the-mandelbulb-first-true-3d-image-of-famous-fractal.html
A few nice rendition of the Mandelbrot fractals
Handy Tips and Snippets for WordPress
http://www.splashnology.com/article/handy-tips-and-snippets-for-wordpress/1471/
Every day a lot of sites that are based on WordPress engine appear. Sometimes a lot of questions on how to realize different options appear in the process of blog administration. In this topic we’ve gathered the most helpful WordPress snippets that certainly will help to manage your WordPress blog.
Exercise your mind
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mastermind-logic-game/id837920941?ls=1&mt=8
Enjoy finding the solutions using your logic and problem solving skills. Work out the secret color sequence using just 7 moves. Place the colored balls into the empty slots and hit the ok button, a black circle represents the right color in the right place while a white circle represents the right color in the wrong place.

The tricky part is working out which colored balls are represented by the black and white circles. Use each of your turns to narrow down the possibilities and find the solution.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mastermind-logic-game/id837920941?ls=1&mt=8
Ask HN: How are you keeping your kids occupied at these times?
Dear HN parents,

With the current situation, our entire region is under strict lockdown.

Both my spouse and I are now working from home, and since there's no school and people are discouraged from going outdoors we have to find solutions to keep our kids - aged 3rd grade & kindergarten - occupied throughout the day.

We're really trying hard not to have them watch TV or use tablet/phone/computer all the time; we bought plenty of arts and crafts and the teachers emailed some worksheets and assignments, but it's VERY difficult for them to be so socially isolated, constantly indoors, without their friends and teachers, and sitting down and working through take home tasks all day just doesn't work. Both sides are frustrated and with good cause.

We find that we're constantly giving up and letting them use screens since we need some time to get work done (meetings, calls, writing docs and code, etc). Afterwards we feel terrible, saying we have to come up with a solution. I thought about starting my workday after they go to sleep (9PM), but that doesn't scale well unless I sleep 2 hrs/night. I realize this is a new reality for many people, and we have to adjust.

How are you dealing with this situation - keeping your kids engaged, doing something positive and still making time to work?