jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Forking CoffeeScript to Fix the Mad Mad Mad Scope Issue
I would be interested to hear about how difficult it would be to fork CoffeeScript and fix the scope issue outlined in these posts.

http://raganwald.com/2013/07/27/Ive-always-been-mad.html

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/12/22/implicit-scoping-in-coffeescript/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1j1cw7/coffeescripts_scoping_is_madness/

I work in Python on the server and JavaScript on the client all day long and I really do think syntax matters.

I would love a client language that was as clean and beautiful as CoffeeScipt but I think this issue is a show stopper for me.
Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics
http://www.anl.gov/articles/discovery-new-material-state-counterintuitive-laws-physics
When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory. At the Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and found a way to apply pressure to make a material expand instead of compress/contract.
Show HN: A Search Engine for the Tildeverse
https://tilde.wtf
The tildeverse is the name for a loose community of public access unix systems inspired by Paul Ford's famous tilde.club essay. These little communities are built up around shared access to a single unix system, utilizing its native multi-user properties almost as a retro social network.

Over time, the communities have grown and folks published handmade pages that have the vibe of the early WWW days. I built a search engine to let everyone find things on this quirky part of of the net.

Enjoy!
Ask HN: review my startup - Getquantify
http://www.getquantify.com
Hi there, I have just released task management application. I am trying to come up with some new ways to do UI and user interactions. Looking forward to your feedback.
Roman
Ask HN: Imgur Replacement
They are now doing heavy cross site tracking, loading ads from dozens of domains, and no longer allow uploads unless you whitelist several ads/analytics/tracking domains that also request canvas and WebGL and microphone data. There are/were also autoplaying loud video ads "while you wait" on top of all the tracking. They load pixels from Facebook explicitly.

Is there a simple-ish alternative for the direct link occasional image upload, ideally one I can just Cmd+V into a web page?

I do this so rarely it's not worth setting up a webserver. It would be helpful to offer a few recs for non-technical friends too; it'd be ideal if it strips timestamp/EXIF data too as a side effect like imgur did.

Most of my uploads are demonstration screenshots via Snipping Tool, so they usually don't exist on the filesystem, just clipboard.

some I've tried:

- ibb.co tries their hardest to not give you a direct link, only thumbnail w/link to their site.

- photobucket and tinypic no longer exist.

- dropbox requires account and can't easily be uploaded to; requires files

- flickr, requires account, difficult to direct link; not sure if this has changed since smugmug; requires files

- deviantart, not meant for this purpose; requires account and file upload

- google photos, no direct link, requires g account
Your dotfiles and you
http://www.twinbit.it/en/blog/your-dotfiles-and-you
This is an introductory article describing what dotfiles are and why you should treat them as a life long software project.
CLAP, new virtual instrument and effect plugin interface proposal
Hi,

I worked on a new plugin interface, it is not yet finished and set in stone, but ready enough to gather initial feedback and advice.

The specification is hosted on github: https://github.com/free-audio/clap and is available under the MIT license.
There is a generated specification document at: http://free-audio.github.io/clap/

I hope that you'll find it interesting and give it a chance. Thanks.

Regards,
Alexandre
Show HN: Hoodsup, meet those you should meet
http://hoodsup.me
Hey HN,

I've been a long time HN reader and here is my first contribution.

Hoodsup.me is a chat-based matchmaking app built on top of your Facebook social graph. It matchmakes you with people who are geographically close to you and with whom you share common points. You can optionally activate your webcam to talk face-to-face with your partner. Think of it as a Sonar meets a genital-free Chatroulette.

I would love to get some feedback. It's only optimized for WebKit for now. No signup is required so just stop by and say hi! :)

Clickable link: <a href="http://hoodsup.me">http://hoodsup.me</a>

G
Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists
https://lists.sh
Greetings, creator here!

I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch.

After seeing https://charm.sh a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app.

Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

source: https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh
15 Minute SEO Checklist
http://www.webconfs.com/15-minute-seo.php
Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, Bing, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist.
Show HN: DataLemur – Ace the SQL Interview!
https://datalemur.com/
I just launched a new free SQL practice platform today called DataLemur! I'm the author of Ace the Data Science Interview, and a lot of our readers wanted to practice the SQL questions from the book, so we decided to make DataLemur free and open!

Even if you aren't job hunting, these tricky SQL questions are pretty fun to practice on.
Network Outage in EU affecting AMS1 and AMS2
http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/
From Digital Ocean:

At this time we're experience a network outage in our AMS1 and AMS2 datacenters. With secondary impact affecting customers in Europe. As a result, you may experience latency, connectivity issues, or slow pings.

Preliminary investigation indicates that Telias Transatlantic cable are down. We are working to resolve the issue and apologize for any interruption this causes for you.
Mon May 19 20:29:32 2014
Show HN: Newzly-phantom – Asynchronous type-safe Scala DSL for Cassandra
https://github.com/newzly/phantom
At newzly we use Cassandra for a variety of services. We loved Foursquare Rogue for MongoDB and we created a similar tool for Cassandra.

Phantom is still in its early stages, but we look forward to your feedback and contributions!
Y Combinator in Forbes' top 10 incubators
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/elld45fi/10-startup-incubators-that-are-changing-the-web/
Now with new improved easier to read link: http://notepad.cc/share/xgtb1nKPh4
Ask HN: What language will you learn in 2015?
What language/s will you learn this year? Are you doing it to chase after a market or to expand your mental horizons? I'm planning to spend some time with Nim, specifically to explore its metaprogramming facilities. #lang2015
The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown
http://theie9countdown.com
IE9 is a leap forward, but not quite there yet. Help keep it under 1% market share!
Ask HN: Co-founder leaving amicably. Convertible debt an option?
Three of of us started this startup a while back. For more than a year we didn't get very far and finally cofounder A decided to stop working on it full time, at which point his stock stopped vesting. However, based on our vesting, A still owns X% which is a non-trivial percentage. Since A left, and we refocused the company onto a different product line and gained much more traction, becoming close to cash flow positive.

Based on the fact that A's contribution to our current efforts is zero, he volunteered to bow out of the company. We are still too early to put a valuation on his share and buy him out. Is there a fair way to compensate A for his early efforts but 'cap' his share in growth to which he did not contribute?

One option we are considering is converting his share into a convertible note for an amount equal to the salary he gave up by working full time on the startup, with little or no interest and a twenty percent discount at first round. Is this a good idea?

Are there any other options?
Does MySQL care about Windows users? 
http://www.webyog.com/blog/2009/07/23/does-mysql-care-about-windows-users/
MySQL developers are showing indifference to Windows users - even though Windows downloads outnumber other platforms by a huge margin.
Ask HN: Do You Take Nootropics?
What do you think about them?

Which ones do you take? How long have you been taking them for?

Old HN post from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9242379
iPhoto 11 upgrade problems
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12476421
Erratic reception problems? An inconvenience, at most. Irrecoverably losing hundreds of gigabytes of your users' irreplaceable photos? That's way, way worse.
iGoogle switched off
http://google.com/ig
The day has come and iGoogle is no more.
Ask HN: Recommended Math Primer for SICP
Can you recommend a decent math primer for those of us who did not earn a degree in CS and would like to undertake the SICP text?
State of Clojure 2021
I'm a huge fan of clojure, and have been programming in it for quite a while now. I was wondering what the state of the language is in 2021, and if there are other potential languages that will supersede its excellence.
Please review my app, Card Karma
http://cardkarma.com
Card Karma lets you create your own free ecards using Flickr photos, Youtube videos, or any image you want via Facebook upload, bookmarklet, or URL.

You can share your cards via Twitter with a short URL (kr.ma), post them to a Facebook wall, or simply email the link. It's all free and ad-free and you don't need an account to try it.

Happy Holidays!
Useful HTML5 Frameworks, Template Generators and Tools
http://designmodo.com/html5-frameworks-template-tools/
HTML5 frameworks help to cut short the CSS step along with increasing the visibility of the site. HTML5 frameworks, templates and generators ease the task of dealing with HTML5, the most preferred designing application.
Cook up presentations with Git
https://github.com/jingweno/jekyll_and_hyde
JekyllAndHyde is a HTML presentation generator that generates a basic Jekyll scaffold with Slippy hooking up.
Ask HN: How do free sites become self sustaining?
Hi all,

I come up with interesting ideas all of the time. I was just thinking about one of them, but think it'd only really get users if it were free.

This got me thinking about sites like tumblr, posterous, etc. I'm pretty sure most people use these for free, right? I glanced at their sign up pages it looks like they're both free services.

Why are these sites appealing to investors and how do they become a self sustaining, or even profitable company?

Thanks!
Airtime
http://airtime.com
Looks like Airtime is LIVE. Check for yourself
Is Gmail Safe? How do you protect yourself from these kind of attacks? 
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/breaking-gmail-security-flaw-more-domains-get-stollen/
Do you trust your gmail ? How do you protect yourself from these kind of attacks ?
Twitter/Evan Williams is hiring a "Founder Associate"
http://twitter.jobscore.com/jobs/twitter/founderassociate/bQJwJGQfOr3zBkaaWP50_m
About Us

Twitter is defining a new form of communication that is touching people's lives across the world. We are small but well-funded and building a company to last. We are currently a team of 25 and looking for a few key people who will help take us to the next level.

About this Job

This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, multi-talented individual who wants to see the inside of a fast-moving startup and work closely with the founders. The ideal candidate is a future entrepreneur or executive who is willing to work hard and do a wide variety of non-glamorous tasks for a year or two in order to get their foot in the door, learn, and make connections. You will work directly with Twitter CEO Evan Williams and co-founder Biz Stone with the simple goal of saving them time. Which means: The level of work you'll do is only limited by your capabilities. Are you capable of: Designing a presentation? Researching a market? Creating a financial model? Great, as long as you're also willing to make copies and run errands. Essentially, you should be overqualified to be an assistant, but not have a problem doing assistant-like tasks. In exchange, you'll get unique visibility into a unique company, a great learning experience, and the chance to move on to do many other things (in Twitter, or elsewhere—with a strong endorsement).

Requirements

* Excellent written communication skills

* Strong computer skills (spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, email)

* Highly organized and efficient

* People person with tact and diplomatic instincts

* Track record of trying things

* Extreme trustworthiness

* Strong interest in business and, particularly, technology startups

* Broad knowledge of the Internet industry

About working at Twitter

Twitter offers competitive salaries and full benefits, including health, dental, vacation, 401k, and stock options. We work in a bright, sunny office in San Francisco. And you'll be joining a unique group of experienced folks who are doing their best work to create something great.

The position is full-time and is based in San Francisco and will report to the CEO.
Think you're a ruby guru? Help solve this non-trivial RSpec bug
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/pull/410
We're stuck. Ruby at_exit + RSpec + Capybara
The Real Reason there are no Silicon Valleys in Europe
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4095&page=0
"In France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship are savage, unhealthy, and immoral, these children are raised on a diet of prejudice and bias." ... "Taught that the free market is a dangerous wilderness, twice as many Germans as Americans tell pollsters that you should not start a business if you think it might fail."
Meteor gets SQL support
https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql
Initial implementation of SQL support (MySQL only atm) for Meteor
Ask HN: Prgmr is unreliable. Please advise on VPS hosting.
I've been using prgmr.com to host a web application in beta mode. I didn't want to spend a lot of money before I get any serious users, so I went with what seemed the cheapest option but still gave value for money.

My experience has been OK, except for one thing - they are completely unresponsive. I know their motto is "We don't assume you are stupid." but charging people money for a service and not providing any support is just rubbish. I've emailed them with some questions in the past and they never get back. A while ago they started issuing ticket numbers and I thought they must be improving the service, but they still never get back.

Last couple of days, my server has gone down a few times. It went down again this morning. Now I can access the root domain, but not the subdomains. I have written to prgmr support and I got my ticket number. But I'm not expecting any real help.

I know this is a bit desperate but I'm hoping HN user lsc (who runs prgmr) will take note of this.

Meanwhile, can I ask you to advise me on choosing another VPS host? I know Linode and Slicehost are the most recommended ones here. Given the prices, I might go in for Linode but I'm wondering if any of you have advice on running a beta cheaply until launching a product.

Sorry for the rant. This is my first time running a VPS server. I'd appreciate any help.

EDIT: Thanks a lot for your responses everyone. In addition to Linode, a few other good alternatives have been suggested which I will look into.

I have managed to get my server up again now and also got a response from prgmr. It's a shame that I had to do this publicly, I don't mean to defame prgmr. But I think it's worth pointing out that this is possibly one bad feature of competing on price.
Apple Wants More Damages, U.S. Sales Ban Against Samsung 
http://mashable.com/2012/09/23/apple-samsung-damages/
Apple Wants More Damages, U.S. Sales Ban Against Samsung
Show HN: Magniv, One line data science infra
https://www.magniv.app/
Hey HN!

We are https://www.magniv.app/ - Magniv is a platform to enable data scientists to autonomously create, deploy, and maintain data applications within existing infra pipelines. That is, reduce data science reliance on data engineers in mature data organizations.

While living between both worlds of software engineering and data science, we have seen a lack of mature organizational tooling for data scientists. Data teams either require embedded data engineers or companies are forced to find a unicorn full-stack data software engineer to hire. On top of that, the tooling that does exist in this space does not take into consideration good software and infrastructure practices that most high performance software engineering teams require.

We are looking for interested teams to join our beta! Please check out or website and sign up
Ask HN: Sub-$1000/mo passive income in 30 days?
I'm a university student trying to pay off debt and save for a few specific goals.

My rent, groceries, and utilities are paid monthly out of my college fund, leaving me with roughly $500 to earn on my own each month to cover debt servicing, cell phone, car payment, and entertainment.

I do freelance work, but I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend on it as I'll be taking 18 units next semester and I don't want to jeopardize my GPA (currently a 3.9!)

I'm a proficient programmer. Based on what I've read, that should be enough to generate a small amount of passive income given a setup time of right now to January 26th, when the semester starts.

What would you suggest? What can be set up with that kind of lead time to generate just $500-$1000/month?

Once I get some ideas, I will keep HN apprised of my progress.
Scaling python webapps from 0 to 50 million users - A top-down approach
http://www.slideshare.net/jinaljhaveri/scaling-python-webapps-from-0-to-50-million-users-a-topdown-approach
pycon2010 scalability talk: scaling facebook apps
Show HN: Marple – Interactive time series visualization for engineers
https://www.marpledata.com/
Hi HN, excited to share the project I have been working on for the past two years.
Marple was created by engineers for engineers. Marple helps them organize and analyze their sensor data in a more user-friendly way.

We’ve all been there: measurement data from an experiment or test needs to be analyzed but the only thing you have is a few data files flying around. You do not have a clue how to open or read the data. So what you do next is open your Python/Matlab/Jupyter Notebook/… and start coding in order to make some sense of the data. We didn’t like that process, so we started Marple to solve this issue.

Engineers tend to log data at frequencies from 1Hz to 10kHz and usually log hundreds of sensors at the same time. Data sets usually contain millions of data points. In order to make our web-based data visualization responsive, we had some technical challenges to tackle. We developed our own visualization engine based on PostgreSQL that is able to visualize millions of data points pretty much instantly. This allows us to create an interactive visualization environment which is perfect for data exploration, even for large data sets!

This is the second time we show Marple to HackerNews, but since then we made some big steps. We made a pivot to a cloud product and now offer a free version of Marple. Feel free to head over to our website and give it a go. Let us know what you think of it!
The Structured Web
http://groups.google.com/group/whits/t/dd87bcac1f187f70
Why the Semantic Web didn't work, won't work, and what we can do about it.
Show HN: A tiny WASM compiler and runtime for demonstration purposes
https://luna-demo.vercel.app
Hello, I'm building a WebAssembly compiler and documenting the process in the meantime.
This aims to be a tool for demonstration and education purpose. It doesn't aim to do fancy stuff nor to replace existing ones.
I'm building this to learn and to improve and hopefully it can be useful for others as well :)

From last time I've presented the idea, I've implemented more basic features on Luna and I've built a custom and tiny runtime for Luna! (documenting it of course).

Any feedback is really appreciated :)

Repo: https://github.com/thomscoder/luna
Sequoia-Backed Chinese E-Commerce Company's Black-Hat SEO
http://www.digitalduediligenceadvisors.com/seqouia-fails-to-spot-milanoos-black-hat-tactics/
Yeah, from the folks who brought you that JC Penney story, and as seen on TC.

Happy to answer any questions from HNers on this.
PostgreSQL Sessions in Vim
https://github.com/patrkris/pisk
Really just a few lines of code to have a REPL-like experience with Vim and Postgres.
I googled myself and found my hn comment leading someone else's blog
http://www.mmakai.com/startup.html
I vividly remember writing that. Glad to see someone else felt strongly enough about it to include it on their site.

The links are pretty good, including some to pg and dhh. Pretty good company, I'd say.
Bach on a mobius strip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHQ2ybTejU
A very neat animation of a crab canon by Bach.
.NET Framework Version Comparision
http://jinaldesai.net/net-framework-version-comparision-table/
It is frequent usage to see all the .NET Version with it’s features on one page. While surfing on net it is difficult to find or even not a single site provides all version on one plate with features. Following is a try to put all the .NET Framework versions together with other release and features details.
So You Want To Fix The Housing Crisis
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/02/so-you-want-to-fix-the-housing-crisis/
15 of the 30 cities with the highest rents in the US are all in the San Francisco Bay Area.
WordPress, Git-ified
https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress
Mark Jaquith has created an amazing tool that syncs WordPress via SVN every 30 minutes,
Bitcoinica hacked. ~$100k USD stolen.
http://bitcoinica.com/
Bitcoinia's officially statement: http://bitcoinica.blogspot.com
Show HN: Golang HTTP Clients/Servers and Alternative Networking
https://github.com/openziti-test-kitchen/go-http
Hello everyone! I was poking around GoLang's HTTP/networking capabilities to see what things I could do. Turns out it is pretty easy to insert your own networking stack into HTTP clients and servers.
Ask HN: Trading Algorithms
So I'm a university student that has been working with recommendation systems recently (netflix challenge etc) and wanted to try my hand at implementing some trading algorithms for the stock market to see if I could at least break even. I'm fully expecting to lose everything I invest, so that's not a problem, but I figure it'd be a good learning experience. Does anyone have some links to good papers about machine learning applied to stock trading (or any trading algorithms in general)? How about API's that could allow my programs to perform trades?

Thanks for all your help HN!
Visualizing Hacker News
http://hnmood.com/
This is a visualization of various company and topic sentiments as they are discussed on Hacker News.
Ask HN: Why are YC startups so secretive in Job postings?
I see Job postings of 2 YC startups on front page (and I think I remember few similar) and no company names / urls / ... just wondering? :)
Visualization of where the $1B on Kickstarter went
http://blog.milesgrimshaw.com/2014/03/10/1-billion/
Maps of the creator's behind all the Kickstarter projects