jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How did you break into the programming industry?
http://codejustin.com/how-did-you-break-into-the-programming-industry/
Tell us how you broke into the programming industry by leaving a comment on the blog post and also see what other programmers had to say!
Show HN: I made this tool to send a Link / URL to TV
https://link2tv.com
Needed this again and again and from time to time: Open a link on my TV that I see on my Phone right now.

My solution:

- Submit the Link on your Phone to receive a 9-digit code

- Open link2tv.com on your TV and enter the 9-digit code. You'll be redirected to your submitted link

Et voila. Works awesome also for Youtube and Amazon Prime Videos, indeed for any App on your TV listening to specific URLs.

Open for any Feedback!

Would you use it? Why not?
P2P Web Apps - Brace yourselves, everything is about to change.
http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/03/07/p2p-web-apps-brace-yourselves-everything-is-about-to-change/
The old client-server web model is out of date, it’s on its last legs, it will eventually die. We need to move on, we need to start thinking differently if we are going to create web applications that are robust, independent and fast enough for tomorrow’s generation.
Dear Google, your Circles logo look like buddycloud's logo
http://buddycloud.com/cms/content/dear-google
A tale of the highest form of flattery
W3C wants WHATWG to stop their separate HTML 5 Spec. Who should maintain spec?
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-June/026855.html
A similar post with more information was sent to the W3C public-html mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0619.html
Sesame Street's idea of a VC meeting room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgvKCfZqxrQ
This is not too far from the truth :).
Review my new web app: connecting people with similar goals to help each other
On our web app you can set your life goals, you can add obstacles to them and the community will help you solve them.
You can ask specific questions and the community will again try to do their best to help you out.
We are also trying to connect you with people who have similar goals so you can help each other.
And we reward users for being active in the community with giving more attention to their goals.

If you are interested in checking it out --> http://www.targetgarden.com and the invitation key is: HNROCKS. Hope you like it!

We would greatly appreciate any feedback!
Python vs Clojure 2: Reloaded
http://blog.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/10/python-vs-clojure-reloaded/
Many Python users submitted better code than what was posted in the last article - This time I've dug up exemplary code from Rosetta.
Ask HN: is there a market for pay per Data Viz? 
Dear HN
,
I'd like your help: I'm trying to get my feet wet in data visualizations so I have launched a site called "Data Visualizations for 15 Bucks:"

www.datavizit.com

Here's how it works: for $15 I make you a data viz for you to use however you want. It could be for your blog to drive traffic and clicks. Maybe it's for your homepage of your site, or maybe you want it for your email newsletters. Power point presentations. The list goes on.

When you visit the site you'll learn that my name isn't really Taylor Genre. I hide my identity because my day job wouldn't be too happy that I am doing this.

I'm considering this a one-month pilot project because:
1. It takes hours to do these data viz projects and $15 isn't a sustainable price.
2. I want to test the market and see what types of people are interested in data viz for their blog, website, presentation, etc.
3. I'm interested in receiving feedback from those interested in data viz about how they want to integrate it into their business.

Thanks for your help in spreading the word!
Is this site worth developing / promoting or too niche?
https://fixssl.com
I was tired of running into problems with encrypted pages not being able to show off-site content without giving IE Mixed Content warnings, so I threw this site together in few hours to get around it.

Do you think there's enough of a market to develop it, or just leave it as a hobby site?

(I already had all the servers and ecommerce stuff setup from other projects, so it was pretty easy to just put all the pieces together)

What say the hackers?
TED Talk - How to make your consumers happy - Malcom Gladwell (video)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20
I think this is very useful for startup founders.
The Emacs Multimedia System
http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/screenshots.html
Perhaps not quite as impressive as the Emacs based video editor, but perhaps more immediately useful for someone who wants to move /everything/ to Emacs...
Ask HN: Why don't aeroplanes transmit pictures/sound off the plane?
Seems a little odd that in 2015 when there is an aviation crash that the source of the data is primarily from the black box recorders.

Why isn't there a camera in the cockpit that sends pictures periodically off the plane to somewhere else? Or an audio log that gets transmitted?
Show HN: Jina NOW - A one line tool for multimodal search
https://now.jina.ai/index.html
My startup's just released this open source tool which lets you perform multimodal search in two lines. I would love to hear what you all think about it, or if you have any use case ideas in mind.

It even helps Emojipedia improve its results.

read the blog here: https://medium.com/jina-ai/jina-now-the-one-liner-neural-sea...
Poll: Which programming language do you use most often?
What is your "daily driver" when it comes to getting work done?
Craigslist Google Maps Mashup
http://mullinslab2.ucsf.edu/craigstats/
As it says on the website, perl, google maps, and craigslist
Intel announces Quark system on a chip, the company's smallest to date
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/10/intel-quark-soc/
Things to note: 1/5 the size of atom, 1/10th the power. What instruction set it runs is not stated. Note that Quark is "is built upon an open architecture meant so spur its use". Hopefully this hits the train wreck that the ARM ecosystem has with its closed GPUs.
The Future is Now – Interview With a 12 Year Old iPhone Dev
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/05/the_future_is_now-interview_with_a_12_year_old_iphone_dev/
Will Evans is an iPhone app developer from Atherstone, UK. He likes to play guitar, Xbox, hang out with friends, play football (soccer for those of us in North America), and play around on the computer. Earlier this week, I touched base with Will to ask him some questions about being an iPhone developer. Did I mention that Will is twelve years old? Here are the results of our little Q & A session.
Why don't more people read?
I know I personally read code at least 6 hours a day, and at the end of the day still attempt to read a book of interest (usually a text book, honestly). However, when I was reviewing my Twitter and Facebook feeds I noticed no one ever mentions books. At this point I decided to ask my friends, and make a post on Facebook on it.

Of my friends in college most (only one besides myself) reads regularly, that includes assigned readings... Further, of the people not in college only a handful read regularly and two of them are my retired grandparents.

Is there a reason besides time that people do not read?
Show HN: I wrote an eBook on Linux CLI tools and Shell Scripting
https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html
Hello!

This ebook aims to teach Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting for beginner to intermediate level users. The main focus is towards managing your files and performing text processing tasks. Includes plenty of examples, exercises (200+) and solutions.

To celebrate my latest ebook release, you can download PDF/EPUB versions of Computing from the Command Line for FREE till 08-Nov-2022: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/cli_computing (the web version linked as the post url is always free)

All books bundle (all my 13 programming ebooks) is $10 (normal price $28) - https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/cli_computing...

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/cli-computing for markdown source, example files, exercise solutions, sample chapters and other details related to the book.

I would highly appreciate if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, Gumroad rating, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

Happy learning :)
Mail Pilot drops subscription model, third-party server
http://mail-pilot.com/blog/6-major-announcements/
We realized early that nobody would celebrate paying a subscription for an email client and service. Despite this, we logically chose a subscription pricing model to cover recurring server costs and ensure a reliable, long-term email experience. Because we will no longer incur additional recurring server costs, we’ve completely reevaluated our pricing model to be more convenient and straight-forward for users.
Ask HN: Evaluate my idea
Simple idea; website checkins. You visit a website every 24 hours and get points/badges etc. I'm not sure if checkin would be automatic (via 3rd party cookies) or if you would have to hit a button etc. Think of it as Foursquare for websites. I recognize that it would be easy to game/script.

Goals:

New traffic driving for websites. (Our website will give you a list of sites supporting checkin)

Make traffic stickier (visitors can return every 24 hours to checkin)

Fun for users through usual psychological mechanisms (points/badges/mayorships etc).

Websites can acknowledge (reward?) users' loyalty through jsonp/api mechanisms.

Questions:

Is it too close to MyBlogLog/EntreCard/Facebook Like?

Would this be an open system (anyone can check into any domain) or a system where you can only checkin to sites that support it?

Are there privacy concerns?

Do you think anyone would be into this? (I'm assuming no one on HN would be into it as a user, although hopefully some HN people would want to use it on their fledgling sites to drive traffic)

Thanks for the feedback!
Web form design cheat sheet 
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/free-download-cheat-sheet-for-designing-web-forms/
Its really all about user experience, and for non designers this gives us a really good idea of what is best practice
Gigabyte vs Gigabyte
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000950.html
I didn't know this.
Google Reader's privacy invasion is part of a larger evil plan
http://www.wisebread.com/google-reader-invades-your-privacy-and-its-not-going-to-stop
This is not some random mistake by Google. Google is aggressively expanding its social apps and this is their way to force it down their users' throats. If they are not stopped now, this will be common practice for all other Google apps.
Ask HN: How viable is this idea?
As codebase gets large it becomes painful to grasp and work on. Now with remote culture the chances of pulling coworker to side and asking quick questions seem to be out of the window.

I was thinking gee i'd have loved if the senior dev in my company just made a video explaining throughly how everything is setup, what does this do and why?

I've not fully thought out this, but I was thinking what if there was a systematic way a company could be brought in to document and then create tutorials one the code which then can be used by new hires or even devs who are new to the area.

Questions the videos could address...

- how is this setup? where does the data come from and where does it go..

- what does this variable do?

- why are we doing this?

sadly wont be able to answer...

i want to do xyz, where should i look?

but still I feel there is clear value in video tour of codebase, like a video tour of house and how all is connected.
Ask HN: Has the mean time to to failure for laptops reduced drastically?
Anecdotal, but my ever growing pile of kaput notebooks says so. Wondering if others feel the same.
Ask HN: Has anyone switched to Swift from Objective C? If not, when will you?
Has anyone switched to Swift after being released for almost half a year? I don't see people using Swift unless they're working on a new iOS app and for myself, I don't think I'll be using it until I'm forced to. Should I pick it up Swift for the sake of learning it now as suppose to later?
Ask HN: How should I pick a cloud provider (AWS, Google, Azure)?
When a startup is choosing which cloud platform to build on, what are the most important things to consider? Cost? Features? Support? What are the strengths of each cloud provider?
Ask HN: Am I overvaluing my cofounder?
My co-founder is basically a stranger, which I thought I had got to know well enough in a month of "dating", before starting to work together on his b2c idea.

Our personalities are opposite yet complementary, and fitting to the role each of us has (me, tech: introverted, methodical - him, business: extroverted, chaotic, energetic).

We didn't "fall in love" immediately but we understood that setting our differences apart to work synergically and with his endless determination could get us far enough.

I've been building the product basically by myself for about 4 months while he has been (successfully) pitching and (unsuccessfully) trying to learn some Elixir, all while waiting for me to finish the ambitious product.

Once the excuse of incompleteness went out of the way, we were supposed to be starting to get the first users. He was in charge of the launch which went horribly, so we figured I should take over growth and branding as well and he should get back at pitching.

Now, on one hand we are close to sealing a sizeable pre-seed round, while on the other I'm sure he will not be able to contribute anything else until the next one.

My dilemma is whether it makes sense to endure his incompetence in every other field, get the VC money and lead the creation of a product I'm in love with, or just continue solo and try to learn the skills to overtake his role.

throwfaraway2 @ protonmail.ch
Show HN: Search all of your social graphs
http://easyshout.com/?utmcn=hn
This website allows you to connect all of your social networks and execute searches across them all. Think of it as Facebook's search but across websites.
Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?
http://www.favilous.com
With Delicious closing down we thought we would recommend our bookmarking site - Favilous. We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down!

We had been working on a major revamp of the site and it just so happened Delicious made their announcement (or didn't make their announcement!) when we were about to press the launch button.

What do we offer?
Bookmark quickly and effectively for free.
Attractive site with users having the ability to customise backgrounds and arrange bookmarks in categories.
Save articles for viewing later - so now you can bookmark and view sites later, a combination we do not think exists.
Users can see what sites are hot and what sites are popular.
Social - Follow people who bookmark things of interest.
Bookmark things on the fly with a click of a button and it saves it to your inbox for viewing later.
View what the community is bookmarking - this page is of great value as it offers descriptions of the sites that are being bookmarked.
Import bookmarks from various sources including delicious.

Background
We are a 2 man startup from the UK.
We are bootstrapped.
We have thousands of links already bookmarked from thousands of different users.

We would love to know what you think and what feedback you may have so that we can improve the service for new and existing users.

thanks!
ASK HN: Advanced API Development, Advice Needed
I've played with python and flask a lot, but I've never developed a truly scalable API.
I would like to know what are the actual API practices, languages or frameworks used at API companies like Stripe, ScaleAI or Plaid.

Where I can learn more? any books?

Thanks
London's GPS-based speed-limit trial puts Big Brother's foot on the gas pedal
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090708/CARNEWS/907089996
"Drivers in the trial get a switch to choose how the speed limiter operates. Advisory mode gives a dashboard warning when the speed limit changes. Voluntary mode overrides the throttle so it slows the car and prevents the driver from speeding.

One potential problem is that GPS signals fade in the shadow of tall buildings in big cities. Lines admits that this does happen, but the system is programmed to assume that the limit is unchanged until the signal reconnects."
Ask HN: How to be productive during a 48h startup weekend?
In about a month, I am attending a startup weekend (= 48hr weekend hackathon where teams go from idea to product). Any tips on how to get more done during the weekend / how to prepare for the weekend?

I am looking forward to all tips (e.g. networking and all that), however it would be particularly interesting to hear about how I (as a programmer) can prepare and have the right tools/libraries ready...
Cool New Projector for Cell Phones from 3M
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/3m_mobile_projector_for_smartphones_cameras_multimedia_players_unveiled_at_ces
3M is showing off a tiny projector at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show that's small enough to be used with cell phones, cameras and other mobile devices. Cool stuff.
Ask HN: Are you bilingual?
http://www.bloglation.com
If so, do you think correctly translating blogs could be useful?

I created the site after frustrating attempt to translate one of Paul Graham's essays to Korean. I used Google Translate initially, but the translated content completely sucked. Yahoo wasn't any better. My Korean isn't all that good, so it took me a while to correctly translate his essay. Then I thought of crowd-sourcing/wiki model, where there could be combined efforts from anyone on the web to correctly translate interesting blogs or any other contents on the web. Another good example is Ryan Tomayko's blog about REST. It's just fundamental concept, I think all web developers should know and follow it, no matter what language they use.

While I did two-years of computer science in college (eventually graduating with EE degree), I didn't have programming career. I used Ruby on Rails to build it, but I don't think it's nowhere close to be good enough. And having a full-time job prevents me from working/improving it seriously.

So, if you are bilingual and find it useful, I would love to elicit your help. Perhaps I could learn one or two things from you. I am always up for learning new things and improving my skills (however low it might be).

Please let me know!
Sorry, Lisp. I tried.
http://www.ketralnis.com/roller/dking/entry/20070609
"Without database access, sockets, threads, POSIX, or a portable FFI (which I could at least use to write many of those features), my programs can't talk to the outside world, and that makes them basically useless."

I'm embedding it so it's going to talk to my C wrapper for everything. How are you using it?

Also see: Using Python libraries from Lisp
http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/
ReSharper and ViEmu Productivity Webinar Recording
http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2012/11/02/resharper-viemu-productivity-webinar-recording/
In this webinar James Kovacs showcases how ReSharper and ViEmu can be used together to increase your coding productivity within Microsoft Visual Studio.
SQL injection in one minute
http://blog.detectify.com/post/31942728649/sql-injection-in-1-min
A short 101 tutorial on how SQL-injections work
Rackspace files an IPO, setting price by auction
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/26/update-rackspace-files-ipo-will-set-price-via-auction/
Rackspace, the large managed hosting company, has filed an IPO eight years after their original (and retracted) IPO in 2000. Like Google, they are setting their price by auction.
Show HN: my weekend project – location-based SMS chat rooms
http://textius.com
Over this past weekend, I wanted to build something that let me text message the people around me – I recently moved back into a university dorm (for the incubator I'm in), and wanted to meet new people on campus by letting them know when we were throwing a party.

So I built Textius (with support from my teammates/business partners). It relays SMS messages to users who have checked in on Foursquare within 250m of you, essentially creating ad-hoc chat rooms. All in all, for a rookie Ruby dev, it took about 18 hours.

I wish there were some sample screens I could share, but this all goes on in users' phones. We had a 6-person test the other day, though, and it was actually a lot of fun!

What do you guys think?
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This
http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/11/wavesandboxcom-federate-this.html
Since Google Wave Federation Day, there have been a number of developments:

* The Google Wave Conversation Model Spec (draft) was published to provide more clarity to implementors of the spec
* The FedOne client was updated to the new model spec and now displays character by character updates
* Echoey the agent was built to help you experiment with developing your own wave provider
Show HN: Restapp.io – SQL Data Modeling Tool in No/Low Code
https://os.restapp.co/signup
Hey all!

We've been working on RestApp V1 and this is our first time posting it on HN.

It's an No/Low Code data modeling tool that enables you to build & maintain data pipelines with a visual programming interface. We don't store your data but we compute them through Apache Spark for query speed & efficiency.

Here's some features:

`Connectors: Connect to any source and destinations (DB, DWH and SaaS Applications). We currently support MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, MSSQL, SFTP (JSON, txt, csv, excel files supported), Hubspot, Stripe, GDrive (JSON, txt, csv, excel files supported).

`Pipeline: Visual Programming Interface where you drag-and-drop SQL, NoSQL & Python functions instead of writing them to create a query and debug it easily.

`Automation: You can automate your data pipeline (Job) through a scheduler.

`Domain: Think of it like a workspace in which you can share securely your connectors and pipelines to specific users (colleagues, partners, clients...)

We've designed this because as a data team member, we were writing a lot of long SQL queries with bad performances and we were getting headaches by debugging them.

Now you can build, monitor and debug any kind of data pipelines with just Drag-and-drop built-in SQL functions to save you tremendous amount of time & effort.

We're working on this continuously so we're keen to hear any feedback. Feature requests and critique are more than welcome.

Try it out for free (30min of computing time offered each month): https://os.restapp.co/signup

The Getting Started docs are here for anyone who wants to check this out: https://documentator.io/d/documentation-restapp and https://restapp.io/blog/how-to-build-data-pipelines-in-no-co...
Easy Way to Start Monitoring Cloud Servers
http://blog.mongu.ru/2013/08/21/easy_way_to_start_monitoring_cloud_servers/
MonGuru is my one man army project. The goal is to provide cloud hosted monitoring software like Nagios, Zabbbix, cacti, and others. All the check and notify plugins are maintained by MonGuru team. Feel free to create an account to test it , break it or use it.
Tazpic.com: Facebook photo tagging comes to Twitter using Annotations API
What do you think of the app we made (@tlg and @xdamman) at the twitter annotations api hackfest? Would love to hear your feedback. Thanks!
Http://tazpic.com
Ask HN: Best Second Language after Python
It has been already decided that Python is the best first programming language. After months of learning Python, now I am a fully competent Python programmer. I can write command line python apps, cross platform GUI apps using PyQt, I can make web apps using Django and learn other many Python tools. Now, which language should I learn as second language ?