jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Open Angel Forum Silicon Valley 
http://openangelforum.com/2010/03/05/applications-open-for-oaf-silicon-valley-april-16th/
Our fifth chapter will be in Silicon Valley and hosted by Dave McClure and Shervin Pishevar.

Applications are being accepted now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We've had just over 100 applications to each of he first three cities. Typically half of these are not ready for angel investing (i.e. they are business plans), so at this point you have a 10% chance of getting in if you have a decent product that is actually built.

I would say 50%+ of the ycombinator/techstars companies would be "OAF worthy" by the end of each program. Basically, if you're good enough to get into one of those programs and finish a good product you would probably be good enough for OAF.

We are taking a pause at five cities (LA, SF, SV, NY and Seattle) three times a year (so 15 yearly events) because I don't have anyone besides myself and Tyler to review the 2,000 applications we will get this year. However, we have launched five $50,000 national sponsorships for service providers (i.e. law firms, recruiters, etc) and technology companies (i.e. google, yahoo, microsoft). IF we can land 2-3 of those we will hire one or two full time staffers and be able to get to 12 cities (36 events a year). any questions hit me up here or at Jason@calacanis.com
They call it 'Internet'
http://hoo-ville.blogspot.com/2006/05/they-call-it-internet.html
The internet in 1991
Ask HN: I have a zero day, what should I do?
I informed the company about this security hole many months ago. It is still open. Their customers are being affected. I want them to fix it, but they won't fix it, maybe they can't.

What should I do?
Review my app please
http://www.seotomata.com/
It's a public holiday (Labour day) and I built this quickly. Please try it out, tell me what's wrong with it, and I'll iterate.

Thanks!
First steps with Scala, say goodbye to bash scripts…
http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/first-steps-with-scala-say-goodbye-to-bash-scripts/
Playframework 2.0 is right around the corner, and it’s core is programmed in Scala, so it’s a wonderful opportunity to give this object-oriented / functional hybrid beast a try…
Like many others, I will pick a very simple script to give my first steps…
Scott Adams: Giving Stuff Away on the Internet
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119388143439778613-lMyQjAxMDE3OTAzMTgwODExWj.html
"So I've been watching with great interest as the band "Radiohead" pursues its experiment with pay-what-you-want downloads on the Internet. In the near term, the goodwill has inspired lots of people to pay. But I suspect many of them are placing a bet that paying a few bucks now will inspire all of their favorite bands to offer similar deals. That's when the market value of music will approach zero."
How to compile CoffeeScript on save in VIM
http://arnklint.com/autocompile-coffeescript-vim/
Simple tip for VIM users doing CoffeeScript
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java (free)
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/
So what do you all think of this book?
ContestMachine (YC Summer 07): A Product Giveaway Widget For Bloggers
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/06/contestmachine-a-product-giveaway-widget-for-bloggers/
Hi everyone, please check out our TC post and try out the service. Feel free to send us feedback directly: founders@contestmachine.com
Odin.js - Node.js Game Engine
http://lonewolfgames.github.io/Odin.js/
My summer project
The $25,000 PDF at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/IDC-MarketScape-Systems-Virtual-Analysis/dp/B002RKK4J8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328800726&sr=1-1
Edit: Forgot to say, very same PDF is for free on IDC website http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virtual_Tape_Library.pdf
Show HN: I wrote a beginner SRE book, and it's free today
https://www.amazon.com/Site-Reliability-Engineering-Tidbits-Observability-ebook/dp/B09QZHZYPC
Hello! I wrote an introductory SRE Book:

Site Reliability Engineering Tidbits

and it's free today!

These are short fun chapters about SRE, monitoring, debugging, observability, and resiliency.

This book aims to provide hands on examples of implementing a number of concepts described in Google's SRE books. It also describes how i've seen SRE concepts impact some of the organizations I've worked in.

A couple chapters are hands on debugging exercises going through the process of debugging applications based on data. I'm excited because every chapter describes something that I've done in paying jobs, so it documents real life SRE in action at various size organizations, and not theoretical SRE concepts.
A Concise Introduction to 4 Ways to Start Your MongoDB
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/so-many-ways-start-your-mongo?mz=36885-nosql
This post covers four of the major ones: single server, master-slave, replica pairs, and sharding.
Charts And Graphs For Web Developers
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/30-high-quality-charts-and-graphs-for-webdevelopers-to-download/
Charts and graphs are present on various types of sites in order to improve the user experience and show in a easier and more likeable way data for the visitors. These charts and graphs can be created using technologies like PHP, Flash, Javscript (jQuery, MooTools, Prototype) and CSS, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel unless you have a lot of time at your disposal. What you can do is download and use these following charts and graphs made by ninja developers.
Browse the web Hands Free (Chrome extension)
http://www.handsfreechrome.com/
This is the initial release. While it's not perfect, it works pretty damn well. I'm hoping this will be transformative for people with injured/missing hands or disorders and conditions such as Parkinson's or severe essential tremor.

For the rest of us, it's just fun. Once you get used to it, it's very comfortable as opposed to using a mouse/keyboard.

The main problem relates to the "map" command, which you'll quickly learn about once you try it out. It's a tricky problem, painting numbers next to all the clickable, visible items. What's clickable? What's visible? It's especially hard because some of the most popular pages (gmail, facebook) don't use standard input elements but rather heavily JS'ed divs that act like inputs.

(I know the website looks like it's from the 90s. Spare me.)
Show HN: Posts from Hacker News tagged "Show HN"
http://showhnapp.herokuapp.com
My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
How I Killed My Signup Form with Rails
http://blog.henriquez.net/2009/08/kill-your-signup-form-with-rails.html
Even though the <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms">gradual engagement meme</a> has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit. My site, <a href="http://newsforwhatyoudo.com/">Newsforwhatyoudo.com</a> was one of the guilty parties. We saw users coming back to the site repeatedly, but not signing up. The percentage that looked at the signup form and then bolted was uncomfortably high. It was time to kill the signup form. This blog post documents how we implemented gradual engagement using Ruby on Rails and restful authentication.
Show HN: PyNeuraLogic: Python Differentiable Logic Programs
https://github.com/LukasZahradnik/PyNeuraLogic
PyNeuraLogic is a framework that lets you use Python to create differentiable logic programs.

The framework offers an elegant way to express and further extend GNNs, as well as go beyond graphs and tackle other complex (relational) scenarios.

Feel free to check the repository and give us some feedback here or on Github. Thank you.
Ask HN: Any front end engineers transition to ML/AI engineering? What's it like?
I'm a frontend engineer and I really enjoy it, but I do feel like there isn't much more for me to learn or room to grow. I've been thinking about trying to start learning ML, but I'm not sure I'd like it. Seems like it would be very different from what I'm currently doing. My interest in it at the moment is money related, but I'm confident that could change once I really get in it. I'm also confident that my company would give me the opportunity move into a relevant role, so long as I knew what I was doing.

What I'm most interested in knowing is what the day to day work is like, and how different is it from every other software engineering job?
Fire your designer
http://blog.teambox.com/fire-your-designer
Why do programmers learn new technologies all the time, while designers are stuck in the 90s with their mockups?
Native vs Html5 Mobile Applications
http://www.deck.cc/native_vs_html5_mobile_applications.html
It seems like everyone is doing native apps now. Many people I know ponder about whether to learn Objective-C on the one hand or dive into the Android platform on the other hand.

A tough choice as both of them already gained a significant smartphone market share and are growing fast. Clients actually demand native apps even while most of them could easily be implemented using html5.
Getting Started with Docker
http://serversforhackers.com/articles/2014/03/20/getting-started-with-docker/
I saw that people were looking for better getting started docs for Docker, so I put together the post I wish I found on Docker when I was digging into it.
Ask HN: Review my side project - Reel Roulette
http://reelroulette.net/
I've just released a small side project website that came from an idea I had with a buddy during our plan ride to SXSW Interactive. You can see the site here:

http://reelroulette.net/

It's supposed to be a gimmicky and easy way to find motion designers. Basically, you can upload "reels" and people can view random ones and vote on ones they like. It's kind of like Chat Roulette, except with no penises (so far).

You can read more about the making of the site here:

http://almosteffortless.com/2010/03/26/reel-roulette/

The thing that makes me happy about this site is that it was built in about 30 hours of work between 3 people. I know it's nothing too special and has plenty of room for improvement, but people seem to be enjoying it so far.

I'd love to hear any ideas you may have about improving the site, and I'm pondering potential ways to make money from the thing without spoiling it. It's been fun as-is, but it would be nice if we could justify spending more time on it than we already have by way of making some cash.

Any feedback more than welcome. Thanks!
Couple getting married, creates registry for funding for their startup 
http://www.aboomba.com/wedding/
Jefft Bar already got AWS hosting for them
IFT 725 – Introduction to Neural Networks
http://info.usherbrooke.ca/hlarochelle/cours/ift725_A2013/contenu.html
The site is in French, but the lectures are in English. It has a lot more mathematical rigor than Hinton's course on Coursera, and oddly enough that makes the course easier to follow.
Ask HN: Modern approach to web application development with Common Lisp
Recently, we have started developing web application with Django. Everything is wonderful, but Python is not Lisp and I feel uncomfortable with Python. In the sense that with Python & Django I am restricted. I can't build eDSL to describe application workflows, eDSL for DB access, etc.

I want to try rewrite it from scratch in Common Lisp. What web technologies stack to use?

SproutCore + Hunchentoot + MongoDB is it right choice?
A modest proposal for 500 Y Combinators
http://launch.is/blog/2011/1/21/l005-a-modest-proposal-for-america-build-500-accelerators.html
I'm sure some of the best feedback to this piece a will occur here. Interested to hear people's thoughts.
Ask HN: Open source web app html/css templates?
Does anyone know of any good open source web app html/css templates?

I've got a web app I want to put on GitHub but the template I'm currently using is free-as-in-beer, but not GPL/Creative-Commons licensed.

When I search Google, all I get is templates for business websites or blogs.

Something like http://www.gooeytemplates.com/templates/ would be great.

Thanks!
Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page
http://timflores.com/post/43064341165/chrome-displaying-advertisements-on-dashboard-page
I for one am not too happy about this. What do you think HN?
Amazing HTML to PDF Converter
http://html-pdf-converter.com/
No need to install any applications on your computer. The simple interface allows you to save web page as a PDF file in 1 click without registration!
Show HN: manpages-tldr – short manpages with examples
https://github.com/JIghtuse/manpages-tldr
My small project similar to bropages and tldr, but (finally!) using manpages only. Manpages generated from Markdown files by Pandoc.
Tell HN: Free Book Giveaway
UPDATE: Everything except Operating Systems 2e (Deitel) has been claimed. I'll try to get everything shipped out in the next few days. Happy Holidays everyone!

- Sean

It's been a little while since one of these was posted. I'm giving away a handful of technical books. If you see some you like, just email me (in profile) and I'll send it to you, no charge.

Net Words (Usborne) -- Gone!

Ruby for Rails (Black) -- Gone!

Pragmatic Version Control with CVS -- Gone!

Web Design on a Shoestring (Bickner) -- Gone!

Design Patterns (GoF) -- Gone!

Operating Systems 3e (Stallings) -- Gone!

Pragmatic Ajax -- Gone!

Restful Web Services (O'Reilly) -- Gone!

Nerds A Brief History of the Internet -- Gone!

Cascading Style Sheets The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) -- Gone!

Pragmatic Project Automation -- Gone!

Operating Systems 3e (Deitel) -- Gone!

Operating Systems 2e (Deitel)

Agile Web Development with Rails 1e -- Gone!

Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit -- Gone!

The Rails Way 1e (Fernandez) -- Gone!

Eric Meyer on CSS -- Gone!

Designing with Web Standards 1e (Zeldman) -- Gone!

Here are some pictures of what's available:

http://imgur.com/3FgKs.jpg

http://imgur.com/mrV6E.jpg

http://imgur.com/OFkw7.jpg

http://imgur.com/zBKQg.jpg
Show HN: npm install actual-malware
https://github.com/qpwo/actual-malware
Our package registry ecosystem has a serious problem... and not just npm.

People are aware of this but maybe this will make them a bit more aware
The dirty secret of prototip2 (javascript tooltip)
http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/sandbox/
See the (short) e-mail exchange for a sad little story; http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/sandbox/emails.txt
Show HN: Homer – A tool to build interactive textbooks
https://usehomer.app
Hi HN, my name is Rahul Sarathy and I built Homer (https://usehomer.app), a tool to allow creators to build more interactive digital textbooks.

Right now the software supports image based scrollytelling with a roadmap to add interactive components such as annotations, animations, backlinks, and more.

You can check out a demo of an interactive history book here: https://usehomer.app/demo
Here's another short example of how a personal finance related book could look like: https://usehomer.app/rahul/8

If you're interested in checking out the UI used to build the demo above, feel free to sign up at https://usehomer.app/signup and create a book.
Show HN: Euporie Console – a terminal console for Jupyter kernels
https://euporie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apps/console.html
I've been working on a new terminal console for interacting with Jupyter kernels.

It can display rich output in the terminal, including images (using Sixel / Kitty / iTerm2 terminal graphics protocols), ipywidgets, LaTeX, and HTML. You can also save your terminal session as a Jupyter notebook.
Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere
http://cloud9ide.com
Open Source IDE that runs in the cloud - and in your browser. Super fast and integrated with GitHub to make programming a joy!
I need a software that .... 
http://twitter.com/#search?q=i%20need%20a%20software%20that
I need a software that...
Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com
My room mate and I started on this website in mid February whenever we weren’t working on client stuff and/or school. For the past two weeks, we’ve really put our best effort to release a second/better version. It’s called UpOut and it’s a city guide built by users. We make it super easy to post awesome stuff pulling maps and pictures for you.

As an avid HN reader, I’d love to get some feedback! Please take a look at http://www.UpOut.com or to learn more http://www.UpOut.com/about

I’ll also be on Convore for as long as I can.

EDIT: Please try out the logged in portion. Either create your own acct (super easy) or use username:teststeve pass:testing999
We specifically want to see if the form is easy enough to use and that the profile editor is also easy.
The Development Abstraction Layer
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html
Is he really correct about Microsoft creating that illusion? It just doesn't fit the idea of M$ I have.
A notebook and a pen can be a highly effective personal productivity system
https://www.waterflowon.com/blog?category=1&article=43
I have seriously tried many productivity systems during my career, and I find that they all have their advantages, but they just can’t cover all my needs. Finally I had to abandon them all, and return to where I began.
Libgccjit.so: an embeddable JIT-compiler based on GCC
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-10/msg00228.html
I saw this at proggit[1].

The gccXllvm competition have been good for both parts, IMO.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1nn6p3/libgccjitso_an_embeddable_jitcompiler_based_on_gcc/
Show HN: I made a mind map tool meant for large, detailed node hierarchies
https://www.jumproot.com
jumproot.com
Facebook vulnerability 2013
http://khalil-sh.blogspot.com/p/facebook_16.html
check this article , and guess what !! facebook pays me nothing .

http://khalil-sh.blogspot.com/p/facebook_16.html
Tron Legacy (2010)
http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=254f1
this is courtesy of Hilary Mason's twitter feed, @hmason.
Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eubanks20120310
"Mobile AI robots do all the work autonomously. If they are damaged, they are smart enough to get themselves to a repair shop, where they have complete access to a parts fabricator and all of their internal designs. They can also upgrade their hardware and programming to incorporate new designs, which they can create themselves."

Okay it's too soon to talk about self-programmed robots. But I think it could be interesting to think about easier self-programmed things. They may not be too far away from now.
"I can't do math" (2001)
http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/michael.molinsky/public.www/iaq/mmm001.html
My favorite professor's take on the ever-increasing "I can't do math" statement.
Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing
EDIT: Link on Google's Official Documentation here https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing

Just received an email from Google Cloud -

"On June 6, 2020, your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters will start accruing a management fee, with an exemption for all Anthos GKE clusters and one free zonal cluster.

Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology.

We’re making some changes to the way we offer Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology. We’re also introducing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that’s financially backed with a guaranteed availability of 99.95% for regional clusters and 99.5% for zonal clusters running a version of GKE available through the Stable release channel. Below, you’ll find additional details about the new SLA and information to help you reduce your costs."
Homeless in Silicon Valley
http://billmoyers.com/content/homeless-in-high-techs-shadow/
Have tech millionaires pushed the cost of living so high that the working poor are ending up homeless? Bill Moyers, the most subversive show on television according to the New York Times, shows the extremes of wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley.
Launch HN: Taiv (YC W20) – Replace TV commercials with content people care about
Hey HN!

We’re Noah, Avi, and Jordan from Taiv (https://www.taiv.tv). We make a box that lets sports bars and other businesses replace live TV commercials with content their customers actually care about.

A year and a half ago, I was sitting in a local bar and saw a commercial showing that the same beer I was drinking was cheaper across the street. The place I was in had other drinks on specials for way cheaper and great happy hour food, but they didn’t have an effective way to tell me about it. I ended up walking away feeling ripped off when I could have left a happy customer if they had been able to more effectively make me aware of their specials.

It got me investigating how businesses communicate with their customers. I found out that half of all restaurants close within a year and that one of the most common reasons they fail is because they’re unable to educate their customers about everything they offer and what events they have coming up. We built Taiv to give business owners a way to communicate with their customers, by showing content during commercial breaks on the TVs people are already watching.

Taiv uses custom hardware that lets us analyze the cable box’s video output in real-time. It also lets us switch between passing the content through, or showing videos from another input. But it turns out that a harder part of the problem is the analysis for classifying video. We compute a bunch of different heuristics and use the combination of their outputs to classify video as either a commercial or content. For example, one of our heuristics looks at average color balance over small periods of time. When the color balance shifts significantly, it indicates that a scene has changed. We use a bunch of other similar heuristics, which in combination, allow us to classify the stream with good accuracy.

Some of our customers have increased their sales by thousands of dollars a month. It also makes the experience a lot better for their customers. TV commercials are annoying and loud, and we replace that with relevant and non-intrusive content and music. Some of our customers even use the commercial breaks to show funny videos without any advertising at all. Not all of our customers are restaurants. We also work with car dealerships, car washes, hotels, and gyms to give them control over what they show and help them educate their customers.

One of the biggest challenges we’re facing is that we’re getting the most traction from larger enterprises, but are having trouble really connecting with smaller businesses. We think the product could be really valuable for them, especially since they don't usually have as much marketing reach. But we’re having trouble portraying the value of the system when they can’t track how it affects their revenue nearly as accurately. We’d love to hear the community’s experience and ideas in this area, as well as any questions or feedback!
"The greatest human being who ever lived" has died
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/the-greatest-human-is-dead/article1293395/
As far as where the title reference comes from - Norman Borlaug on Penn and Teller: BS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8
Show HN: TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-binary GUI app
http://tycho.sytes.net/TinyClock/
1. Single universal binary, that can be natively executed on every hardware platform Mac OS X was made for (32/64 bit, PowerPC/x86/AppleSilicon).

2. Minimalistic gadget-style design. If launched as a tool, there is no menubar, no dock icon, no nothing, just the clock window.

3. Support for hidpi and dark mode for environments, that have them.

4. Window title bar for moving the window with a mouse, and a handle to resize it (latter for OS versions, that have it).

5. Can be easily ported to GNUStep and thus other OSes (sources under GPLv3).

6. Simple Makefile build system.