jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
GoBigNetwork full of scammers?
http://www.gobignetwork.com/forums/prescreening-for-go-big-network/109243/thread.aspx?ReturnURL=%2fforums%2fCapital%2f200011%2fcat.aspx%3fpage%3d2%26pagesize%3d10%26sortby%3d8&ReturnText=Return+to+Capital+Topic
We have the terrific PR that GoBigNetwork has gotten in the press and also in this forum, so I decided to check them out and registered, since I am looking for funding, I was about to pay their subscription fee, but decided to check their forum first, and found this thread. It really concerns me that they are using the entrepreneurs' hard earned money (subscription fee of $39 and up) for creating buzz and not for actively filtering out scammers as mentioned in this post.

I would like the GoBigNtwork guys to tkae this opportinity on this forum and answer a fe questions

But I am wondering if Since the people at GoBigNetworks are not responding
Attacking This Problem: New Users Won’t Sign Up Because No One Is There
http://marketingstartups.com/2008/12/15/10-tips-on-attacking-the-chicken-and-egg-problem-new-users-wont-sign-up-because-no-one-is-there/
After posing a question on HN asking what are the biggest marketing/PR problems startups face, it seems that user acquisition is one of the biggest issues. So, I wrote a post that gives some tips on attracting users for startups. Like my last post, some of the tips are pretty obvious, but I hope these are some good steps to get started.
Show HN: An OSS developer data platform on your laptop in a few steps
https://blog.tigrisdata.com/deploy-tigris-on-your-laptop
Tigris is an OSS developer data platform that provides all the building blocks you need to build data-rich applications without the Ops burden. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we show you how to deploy Tigris in various environments. In this first post of the series, we will show you how to set up the Tigris platform on your laptop. In our next posts, we will cover deploying Tigris on EKS and GKE.
Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs
http://earlynerd.info/
Your Early Nerd Score is a measure of how much of an early adopter you are. Low user-ids have always been a key piece of geek cred. Your score is just your percentile for each service, note that it may change over time as our data set grows.

Who made Early Nerd
This is a quick hack by pkamali (@peeter on Twitter) and feldmanr (@ronfeldman on Twitter).
Tokyocabinet + LZ4 = Speedy Gonzales
http://blog.creapptives.com/post/25026698783/speeding-up-your-datastore-with-compression
Using a simple compression technique can result in a huge difference.
Best practice to store passwords for external services?
I'm building a web application that lets user enter their imap-account-information into it, and I need to save it for them for later use.

I've been looking at a few ways to encrypt it, but it also has to be easy to decrypt for me when accessing their imap-account. In the same time it should be made reasonably difficult to decrypt them if the database gets stolen for some reason.

Is there some best practices here? Any hints would be appreciated. Implementation is in php and mysql currently, but might be python as well(I'm still in the prototype phase).
Where is Austin's startup district?
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/05/15/where-is-austins-startup-district/
Like the Cambridge/Mountain View business incubator, Austin's Conjunctured will soon be opening up a warehouse in the middle of what will be Austin's Startup District.
This space will provide office space, collaboration and co-working for startups, entrepreneurs and other New Media/New Technology professionals...
Show HN: Reach 100 – a (unsolvable?) puzzle game
https://reach-100.com
I recently remembered a game we used to play with pen and paper some 20 years ago, where you need to fill a 10x10 grid writing numbers in the grid up to 100 following 2 simple rules.

After showing it to my kids I thought it would be nice to adapt it digitally so that they could play it more often (not needing to draw the grid etc.) and so that other people could play it as well.

What I'm really interested in with this submission (beyond general feedback) is wether anybody knows the origin of the game and if it's solvable. Because that's the catch, my highest score of all time is 97 and it doesn't seem to be possible to go higher.
I have the feeling this game is an adaptation of a more general problem and probably has its origin in some lecture. So, once again, if you know where it comes from I'd be really grateful. Alternatively I would love to know if there is a possibility to prove if it's solvable or not.

(It's made for mobile but it works on desktop as well with keyboard shortcuts around the S key in a QWERTY layout)
PowerTOP
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/known.php
PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle.
Should Error Messages Allow User Feedback?
http://rosiesherry.com/2012/07/facebook-iphone-app-error-bug-and-should-feedback-be-allowed-on-error-messages/
So here's an idea...I came across an iPhone Facebook app bug. I got an error message which gave me the option to enter a message. Entering a message appeared to do nothing, but it got me thinking, would it be useful in some scenarios to allow users to give feedback when presented with an error? Could this not be potentially useful in figuring out how and why errors occur?
Ask HN: Meetup in KC?
Does anyone want to do a meet up in January near Kansas City?
Ask HN: Do you worry that our efforts are pointless in the scheme of things?
In the middle of working on my pet project/startup I happened to click over to MSNBC and saw this harrowing image: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-110420-hondros-girl.photoblog900.jpg

The image is of Samar Hassan, who just lost both her parents in Iraq, a case of mistaken identity, covered in blood. The picture was taken by Chris Hondras, the photojournalist who was killed yesterday in Libya. And the picture overwhelmed me to the point of asking myself what value am I providing to the world around me through my startup idea. Most of what we do, will most likely have no impact on the Samar Hassan's of the world, those living in regions of turmoil, and it seems pointless to fawn over another location based startup or node.js hack or a Color wannabe. In the end, what is that you and I are giving back to the world around us?
Show HN: muffon – Desktop music streaming browser
https://github.com/staniel359/muffon
muffon is a desktop music streaming browser.

It retrieves metadata, audio, and video from various Internet sources, such as:

- Last.FM
- VK
- Odnoklassniki
- Yandex Music
- Bandcamp
- Deezer
- SoundCloud
- Spotify
- YouTube
- Discogs
- Genius

It has no ads and is absolutely free to use.

Features:
- listening (artists / albums / tracks)
- music library (and compatibility with others)
- recommendations (based on your library)
- search (through all of the sources above)
- radio (tags / artists)
- scrobbling (Last.FM)
- videos (YouTube)
- lyrics (Genius)
- tags (with top artists / albums / tracks)
- top (artists / albums/ tracks / tags)
- playlists
- favorites (artists / albums / tracks)
- bookmarks (artists / albums / tracks)
- listened (artists / albums / tracks)
- posting
- following
- messaging
- feed
- communities
- new / upcoming releases
- multitag search
- sharing (artists / albums / tracks / videos / playlists / communities)
What should every programmer write?
Is there any set of problems to solve and applications to write which will make a better programmer without a doubt? I'm thinking about classic apps, like compiler (for deeper understanding of compilation process), designing and implementing a programming language and writing simple OS.

Have you other suggestions?

(of course I'm not talking about rewriting gcc, but few days of work just to get more information about how computers work and implementing the knowledge)
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on collaborative innovation
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell/?currentPage=all
Gladwell discuses the notion of multiplicity - people coming up with the same ideas at the same time, e.g. Bell's and Gray's telephones - and a group's attempt to simulate the inventive process:

Intellectual Ventures (IV; http://www.intellectualventures.com/) collects great minds in the same place to come up with solutions to big problems.

Have a look.
Show HN: Zoko - Github Game Off 2012
http://lulea.github.com/game-off-2012/
Feedback is highly appreciated!
Ask HN: Less Evil Alternative to MaxMind GeoIP Db?
I've been using the geoip db from MaxMind for over a decade now; however, I've noticed the accuracy of both the free and paid dbs have fallen to unacceptable levels. I also recently learned that it is against their aup to build publicly facing systems based on their data (https://www.maxmind.com/en/sitelicense).

Are there any accurate alternatives that don't use MaxMind's free db?
Former Drupal dev compares the project to Scientology
https://gist.github.com/unconed/104331390d4054b33b43
I can only conclude that Drupal has become the Scientology of open source. It's an ant mill of sincerity, each person taking their cue from those that came before, all convinced there is cake in the middle.
(Maybe) We asked for this
http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/06/08/we-asked-for-this/?icid=tc__art
Schneier is classic: “Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we’ve ended up here with hardly a fight.”

But the author also has an interesting ending.. "When apathy is our defense we deserve what we get. But apathy breeds another kind of insecurity and makes us bigger targets still. We forget this at our peril."
Ask HN: Did Quora benefit from Yc batch?
Was just curious that Quora was in last Yc batch. How did that help them? any significant achievements? was it as per their expectations.
Show HN: QuoteRobot Rebuilt In Python/Flask/MongoDB/Backbone
http://quoterobot.com
We completely rebuilt QuoteRobot and relaunched it on November 1st using some fun new tech.
Ask HN: your biggest Aha moment as a hacker?
Every now and then in every hacker's life, there comes a moment when you just solved a frustrating problem which you and may be others were working for a long time. Solving it gives you immense satisfaction, makes it all worth it, gets you a rush of energy and makes you love your life as a hacker/designer... a Peak Experience, aka Aha moment. Was curious as to what is the biggest peak experience fellow hackers had.

One such experience of mine was when I found the true cause of slowdown if a 31 thread implementation. We had tried a LOT of things without any luck. And finally when I found out the reason, it was like finding out Kaiser Soze's true identity! BTW, the reason was a lock taken by infinibnd firmware, and we were on track again with 0 code lines changed!

What's your biggest Aha moment as a hacker?
Thread safe rails 2.2 from new core member
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/8/16/josh-peek-officially-joins-the-rails-core
like it says, don't get too delirious, it's 1.8.x's green threads.
IT Consumerization: The end of IT is nigh
http://blog.cloudability.com/it-consumerization-the-end-of-it-is-nigh/
The cloudpocalypse is nigh! Here's a handy guide for surviving the end times.
Blogginekyll
http://bradleyfew.com/blogginekyll/
Wow, check out this mobile friendly Jekyll theme!
Ask HN: Is load balancing essential, and where?
Hi all,

I'm slowly but surely finishing up my weekend(s) project. I'm beginning to think about deployment. I know that most sites utilize some sort of load balancing at various parts of their tech stack. I'm wondering how this is performed most correctly. I've never taken a project this far, and therefor have never had to think about this until now.

What parts of the data flow do most people use load balancing at? How would you load balance your database and web server? I figure these are two that take most of the load.

When I say load balancing, I'm not really talking about all of the techniques that can be used such as serving up static content from a single web server and dynamic content front another, or caching database queries - I'm already doing that. I'm talking about actually balancing incoming user requests and processing load across a cluster of machines.

I know, for example, that mongodb handles its own load balancing with its sharding and "mongos" client.

I guess my main question or point of confusion here is this: when I think of load balancing, I think of a single host name taking incoming requests and balancing them across a selection of "worker" servers. Is this still considered the current way of balancing certain things? And if so, what things would this need to be applied to in the Web world?

Thank you
Show HN: Thread.ly - a news reading and sharing app (feedback appreciated)
http://thread.ly/
I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things.
I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people.

It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app.
If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!
Banks seek breathing room with controversial credit relief trades
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-20/business/42235635_1_credit-relief-basel-committee-hedge-fund
Nobody should be surprised. Our financial system is currently more vulnerable than in 2008.
Ask HN: dashboard similar to geckoboard?
Are there any products similar to geckoboard? I remember seeing one YC company called leftronic, but they seem to be in private beta
Ask HN: Communities for Staff+ Engineers?
Are there any communities (Discord servers, forums, IRC channels, etc) geared towards staff+ engineers?

There are times I just want to participate in high level discussions or bounce an idea off of a group of peers dealing with similar challenges. It seems most solve this by reaching out in-network, but I'm hoping there's something out there that's a little more structured and self-selected.
After UK High Court Ruling The Pirate Bay could be Blocked
http://www.freshtechweb.com/after-uk-high-court-ruling-the-pirate-bay-could-be-blocked.html
According to the judgment of London high court, the Pirate Bay could be blocked in the UK due to committing copyright infringement by this torrent site and its users.
Richard Stallman coming to Singapore
http://freesoftware.sg/
Richard Stallman is coming to Singapore.
Grand central dispatch vs OpenMP benchmark
http://www.idryman.org/blog/2012/08/05/grand-central-dispatch-vs-openmp/
grand central dispatch is a great model on asynchronous operations. Does it gain same performance on numerical computing compares to OpenMP?
Ask HN: Someone's writing a book about my app.  Do I ask for money?
I have a free piece of software and someone has contacted me asking if they can include comprehensive guides for it in a book.

Specifically, they're asking for permission to publish my logos, screenshots, etc. and have suggested they'll use my software as a selling point (on the cover, in promo, etc.)

My gut reaction is "cool, go for it!" but I'm curious what the "norm" is in this situation. Should I be asking for something here?

I'm not too concerned about the money. I've just missed enough opportunities in the past to know I'm bad at this stuff. I'm mostly just trying to improve my business sense!
For Aaron Swartz : Fire Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb
Petition the whitehouse from this link
Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 years
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fuck&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
I was surprised to see the high popularity of the word "fuck" prior to 1820
Show HN: StreetEYE, all the top financial market news in one click
http://www.streeteye.com
Some people have called StreetEYE 'HN for investors', but it's a little different.

You can go to Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, FT and hit a page with the most-read stories, but now everyone shares everything on social networks and blogs, so we can try to make one page with the most popular news across all sites and blogs - find the top people who share news, and combine algorithmic, professional, and crowdsourced curation to make the best front page across financial media.

StreetEYE is more like a mashup of HN, Techmeme, Google News, Flipboard, Buzzfeed.

For now, no comments or submissions to avoid spam, but will add them.

A longer manifesto here - http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2013/10/the-streeteye-manifesto/

Been around for a couple of years in various iterations, has a bit of traction among financial journos/twitterati.

Never submitted before because the typical HN reader is not the target, but just did a relaunch and there was a lot of interest in this thread where it was mentioned -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844565

Other sites in similar space
http://boredbanker.com
http://filll.com
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/clusterstock/thehive
http://www.usv.com for VC (of course)
http://www.trejdify.com for broader business news

Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, any issues let me know! Be gentle, still MVP/POC.

Platform is Django on back end, Bootstrap + crude jQuery on front end. It's not an x86 emulator/Riemann hypothesis solver in Javascript/Haskell but it's been a fun project and I hope people find it useful.

If it has product/market fit, would look to build a team, do a startup accelerator.
Intel planning to get rid of DRAM on PCs
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/09/07/intel-to-do-away-with-dram-in-pcs/
Initially I didn't like the idea. But thinking it better it might be actually good. The big PC bottleneck nowadays is DRAM. A big on-die/stacked memory at many times faster bandwidth and lower latency could be a game changer.

And anyway, nowadays the usual advice to clients is to max out the RAM on purchase since it's a mess to replace (be it a non-technical user or a datacenter cluster with critical uptime) and the specific configuration of RAM will become pricer per GB in the mid term (because the market moves constantly forward to different versions).

And also note one of the main reasons some algorithms run faster on GPUs is the memory bandwidth bottleneck. If Intel gets rid of the BW problem it's a level game againsta Nvidia.

This move would allow Intel to have some custom performance tricks. For example, memset multiple GB in a fraction of the time.
Self-driving cars could save more than 21,700 lives, $450B a year
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243518/Self_driving_cars_could_save_more_than_21_700_lives_450B_a_year
I'll buy a self driving car if they let me sleep in the backseat.
Programming 2.0
Very interesting videos of Jonathan Edwards (MIT) about future of programming language. In chronological order.

http://subtextual.org/demo1.swf

http://subtextual.org/subtext2.swf
- most interesting. Recommended.

http://coherence-lang.org/Onward09video/Onward09video.mp4

Site:
http://subtextual.org/
http://coherence-lang.org/
Ask HN: Just got a Mac, what do I need to know?
I'm thinking this should be a fairly common theme today and tomorrow. I'm a developer that just got a Macbook Air and I'm completely new to Mac OS. I'm coming from GNOME and I used Windows before that.

I'm looking for useful keyboard shortcuts, interesting features, methods of organizing your things, apps for dev work/web design, pretty much anything that a power user/developer on other systems would need to know to start feeling at home on a Mac. Very open-ended question so feel free to throw in anything you've picked up during your time with a Mac.
The Independent Scholar's Handbook
http://www.sfu.ca/independentscholars/isbook.htm
Especially worth reading, for motivation, is the first two events in his life (of the four that are mentioned) that spurred the creation of the book (pp 13-15).
ThinkRelevance: The Podcast - Fogus on Himera
http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2012/03/28/thinkrelevance-the-podcast-episode-008-michael-fogus
In this episode of ThinkRelevance: The Podcast, Michael Fogus discusses Himera, his new ClojureScript compilation web service, along with reading, German rock, and a bunch of other interesting stuff.
Ask HN: I versus We
When writing a post, newsletter, or really anything for your site, startup, or freelance job where you're the only author/worker/employee, is it best to use I or We? I struggle with whether to use I or we in blog posts when I'm the only writer on the site. On other sites I write for, I use we always, but on my own where there's no other person for the we, it seems odd.

Thoughts, Opinions? What do you usually do?
Ask HN: HN Spreadsheets
http://www.fauzism.com/2010/10/hn-spreadsheets
I am making a list of HN Spreadsheets. Please help me get as many as possible
Unblock Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rapidshare, Torrent links in India
http://ddl.io
Hacked up this website for the people in India. At the moment it works for most video & file lockers including Vimeo & Dailymotion.
Why do programmers hate Microsoft?
http://adtmag.com/articles/2010/10/19/developers-rip-microsoft.aspx
Why do programmers hate Microsoft so much? A search finds hundreds of anti-Microsoft rants in source code comments, ranging from personal attacks on Bill Gates to frustration with supposedly not following standards and putting out buggy, insecure code.
Jotly, the new app for sharing everything with everyone.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/arcahive/2011/11/jotly-the-ultimate-app-for-sharing-everything-with-everyone-psych/247866/
Damn, this is the correct URL:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/jotly-the-ultimate-app-for-sharing-everything-with-everyone-psych/247866/
Control the Look & Feel of Form Elements with Uniform jQuery Plugin
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/javascript-framework/jquery/control-the-look-feel-of-form-elements-with-uniform-jquery-plugin/
Uniform is jQuery plugin that could control the look and feel of form elements (checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, file upload inputs and etc..) between all browsers. It works in sync with your real form elements to ensure accessibility and compatibility.
Bribe developers to fix bugs
http://bribe.io/
We are creating Bribe.io for Startup Weekend. It is a service which allows users to pay developers to prioritize bugs that need fixing. We'd like to get feedback from users and developers who would use this new service. Please check out Bribe.io and fill out our survey.
Ask HN: My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it?
http://favstar.fm/
Hey guys, the server bill's getting pretty big now. I'd like to start setting up some paid accounts pretty soon. Apart from crawling people more often, can you see any creative ways to give extra benefits to paid members? Any suggestions appreciated. :-)
Ask HN: If an AI had slipped into the world would we notice?
Additionally: How Would we Notice, provided that there Would not have been a pressrelease or similar to anounce it?