jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lyndsey Scott: The model who dreams in code
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26473950
Lyndsey Scott is a New York City model working for Prada, Gucci and Victoria's Secret. She's also an iOS programmer with two apps she created available in the Apple store.

The self-described "geek model" started programming in middle school and does not see any contradiction between her careers in fashion and the tech world.

Ms Scott is also a mentor at Girls Who Code, an organisation that helps teenage girls learn programming.
Ask HN: What's going on with all these German Websites?
Recently I was searching for a few VPN related topics on DuckDuckGo. On the search result page I noticed lots of random german websites with a sub-page about the topic I was searching for - but they all redirected to bestvpn1.com. All these websites do not have any correlation with VPN, internet, privacy, or whatever. For example: Search for "vpn dnscrypt". Few other search keywords lead to such result pages. Whats going on here? It's also interesting that all these websites do not work at the moment, except their sub-pages that redirect to bestvpn1.
Ask HN: How to build full text search at scale?
Data Store - Elasticsearch
Scale - 10 million writes/day (500 GB/day), about 100K search queries per day

Trying to figure out

1 - How to control access to data (multi-tenancy where there are ~100K tenants)

2 - Database design - Indexes and Shards and best practices around mixing different types of documents in a single index.
So you are having trouble with Webstart on Java 7u51?
http://sososoftware.blogspot.com/2014/01/so-you-are-having-trouble-with-webstart.html
Struggling to get your old Webstart app to run with the newest JRE?
Fret not, see attached guide.
Peer to Patent in the UK: Worth a Punt?
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/05/peer-to-patent-in-the-uk-worth-a-punt/index.htm
The UK government commissioend Hargreaves Report essentially says software patents make no sense.
StrongVPN.com GFW'd as China's 60th anniversary nears
http://uuuming.blogspot.com/2009/09/strongvpncom-gfwd-as-chinas-60th.html
China ISP blocks StrongVPN.com HK Server as China's 60th anniversary nears
Quit my job as a Front End Engineer. What next?
I recently quit my job at a reputable company, because it just wasn't working out. Now, I'm taking a little break from the working world while I figure out what I want to do next. One part of me would like to go back to a large company, another part of me would like to join a startup, and then there is the very strong urge to create an online business of my own. I'm a bit torn inside as to what I should do, so I'm asking for some advice.

If I were to go the startup route, then how would you recommend that I go through the very large number of startups and choose one that's right for me? If I were to go back to corporate america, then how do you suggest I avoid what caused me to quit in the first place?

I quit my last job out of frustration. I just didn't have any freedom to work or think, and the ability to make progress, unimpeded, just didn't exist. They monitored me constantly.

Thoughts?
Hybrid cloud deployments of Stackato using jclouds & Brooklyn 
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2012/06/video-hybrid-cloud-stackato-deployments-using-jclouds-brooklyn
Cloudsoft CTO Alex Heneveld and ActiveState's Diane Mueller demonstrate how to run applications in hybrid clouds via Stackato (Platform as a Service) using two open source projects: brooklyn (a control plane for distributed applications) and jclouds (multi-cloud library that helps deploy Stackato in multiple clouds). The demonstration showcases a hybrid cloud that spans both the HP Cloud and Amazon`s AWS.
Did You Get Any Contract Work?
A while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467) scottru posted a Google speadsheet for HN contractors. I was curious, did anyone who posted there get a contracting gig out of it?
Economist: Books of the year 2007 (For those of you traveling over the holidays)
http://economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10249833
How does a computer restart itself?
http://superuser.com/questions/294681/how-does-a-computer-restart-itself/294736#294736
Really interesting explanation of how this is possible.
Ask HN: Is there an open source social news platform?
Does anyone know of a good open source social news platform? Similar to HN?

Thanks!
What's It Like To Work For Tim Cook? A Former Apple Sales Exec Dishes
http://readwrite.com/2012/11/08/whats-it-like-to-work-for-tim-cook-a-former-sales-exec-dishes
"One person who wasn't surprised by Cook's toughness was David Sobotta, a former Apple sales executive who just published The Pomme Company, a memoir of his 20 years (1984-2004) at Apple."
OpenStreetMap party boosted the (virtual) US
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/!i!/diary/18132
At last weekend the OSM community hosted "Operation Cowboy" to help the local American community to improve the map. 2 times more users than usual (160 mappers) fixed a lot of import bugs and added details.

If you find some more missing features, just mark them here: www.osmbugs.org
Or do it on your own :) www.learnosm.org
Laptop to Load balancers: Chart visualizing scaling needs of your website
http://www.khaitan.org/blog/2010/01/laptop-to-loadbalancer-is-your-lamp-hardware-infrastructure-growing-like-this/
A simple chart visualizing a configuration, page views, approximate monthly cost.
The artist turning typewriter parts into sculptures
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10796/jeremy-mayer-turns-typewriter-parts-into-art/
We sit down with Jeremy Mayer, an artist who takes typewriter parts and turns them into sculptures. He calls his technique "cold assembly."

“I don’t like the appearance of welding or soldering or outside fastening. It’s the same with woodwork for me, I like not to be able to see the joinery.”

http://bit.ly/11TJS1h
Show HN: Songdle, a Wordle-like game using AI-generated images
https://www.songdle.ai/
Hello HN!

We were having quite the fun at Pento.ai with the new #stablediffusion release and made a simple game: Worlde + Music + Stable Diffusion = https://www.songdle.ai

It is like Worlde + Music + #stablediffusion

Here, take a guess: https://www.songdle.ai
Reddit founder Steve Huffman "forgets" to license Sublime Text 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xS71dGcER_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xS71dGcER_s
Flowdock, the teamwork accelerator, gets a facelift
http://www.flowdock.com/
Our startup improves team communication by taking a new approach: conversation can be instantly turned into ToDo items, bug reports etc.

We entered public beta a couple of months ago. Today we launched a facelift and some new features.
A minor flaw in iPad mini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDDmYW5URLU
Wobbly mute button. It would make any difference on any other manufacturer, but I think it's very uncommon for Apple.
ExpressionEngine 2.1 released
http://expressionengine.com/blog/entry/expressionengine_2.1_released/
For those of you who prefer ExpressionEngine, this is a huge update because it's now built on CodeIgniter. This is the first production release.
Sahara Forest Project: From vision to reality
http://vidinterest.com/video/4615/s535/sahara-forest-project-from-vision-to-reality
The first fully operational Sahara Forest Project Pilot Plant is built in Qatar in cooperation with the leading fertilizer companies Yara and Qafco. The Sahara Forest Project is a new environmental solution to produce food, water and energy in desert areas. It is designed to utilize what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and clean energy.
Show HN: Complain about Web2.0, new technologies and other disturbing stuff
http://complainr.syx.sk
Ever felt like you cannot comprehend all this new technologies? Ever felt "too old", because you cannot keep up the pace with web2.0, node.js, ruby and cool and fresh services, frameworks and templates every week? Complain, whine and share your tears with others - CSS3 gradients-free and <MARQUEE> positive.
I've hardly noticed inflation. Am I in a bubble?
I hope this doesn't come across as too tone deaf, but as a tech worker in the Bay Area who drives an electric car, I've experienced a very insignificant impact from inflation so far. Inflation is clearly real and doesn't seem to be transitory, but even at 7(ish)% I honestly can't say I've felt it. I'm very aware of the $6/gallon gas signs around the city, but I drive an electric car and my power bill isn't noticeably higher over the past 12-18 months. Some of the coffee shops and restaurants I frequent have raised prices very slightly, but not enough to make any real impact in my quality of life or savings rate. Inflation news articles and discussions are more and more noticeable around me, but practically speaking my life is no different than it was a year, or two, or three years ago. Am I just in a bubble?
Show HN: Phenixio – Real-time Bitcoin payments platform [API]
https://phenixio.com/
Hi everybody,

I'm the founder of Phenixio - a real-time Bitcoin payments platform. We've been developing it for the last couple of years, and I am happy to announce that it is finally ready for a test drive.

We've built our services on top of Lightning Network. It is the Layer-2 solution for Bitcoin that makes real-time payments possible. These Bitcoin payments are almost faster than credit card processing and only take about 1-2 seconds.

With Phenixio, you will access this payments network without going through any protocol-level complexity. You could start accepting payments from anyone with a BTC/LN wallet and from anywhere in the world.

It is still early days for us, and we are looking for pilot users who can provide some valuable feedback. Our API is quite simple, so you can easily integrate Bitcoin payments with your website. I should also mention that you don't need any Bitcoin knowledge to use it.

Let me know if you are interested. I will give you access to our testnet API. API reference: https://testnet.phenixio.com/api/docs/
Windows 7 update process
http://twitpic.com/2yylnh/full
win7 didn't take much time but does it really do that many operations?
Using linked data to make websites more interesting
http://daverog.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/aggregate-aggregate-aggregate-using-linked-data-to-make-websites-more-interesting/
I thought this was a very interesting post - it compares different forms of datastore (relational, document and triple-store) and considers in which use cases they each shine.
Which monospaced font do you use?
Everybody here is a coder. So what monospaced font do you prefer and why ? At which point/size do you use it ?
Shipping product-grade code is never easy.
http://n.exts.ch/2012/02/ipcalf_traceroute
You can spend minutes to make something work on your machine, hours making sure it should work in situations you may never have opportunity to test on, and days, sometimes, to figure out why it doesn't work in a situation you did test. But every time you do it, you beat a path behind you. It's a lot easier to build, analyze or debug something the second time.
Top 10 Reasons Why Web Startups Fail
http://pastebin.ca/679509
taken from site that's been slashdotted.
Tell me it is not how it looks like, simpleCart
http://www.screenr.com/qoQs
I just found a crazy little bug in the Javascript shopping cart plugin, simpleCart.js. I am a javascript noob. I do a lot of jQuery code writing and debugging at this stage, and I use Google Chrome. I found that if you change the price tag of any item using Chrome's "Inspect Element", you can purchase that item at any price you change it into. I don't know if there's something wrong with the demo shop, or the plugin itself is broken. Can some pros tell me if there's really something wrong?
Show HN: A VS Code extension to quickly add log statements in Python code
https://github.com/nvinayvarma189/log-booster
I use print() a lot to debug small codebases. Log-booster VS Code extension allows you to insert/comment/uncomment/delete print statements within a Python file.

If you happen to use it and like/dislike it, I would love to know.

Inspiration:
I discovered Turbo Console Log extension (https://github.com/Chakroun-Anas/turbo-console-log) and loved it. I noticed that it doesn't work for Python files. So I tried building one :)
Liberate OpenPoker
http://www.wagerlabs.com/blog/2008/11/liberate-openpoker.html
I'm trying to exit the poker business and raise money for my new startup, one I truly believe in!
Feedback Requested: Superlatives, a Facebook App - How can we make this better?
http://www.esgut.com
Who's Most Likely To Burn in Hell? Get Arrested for Streaking? We'd like your opinion on how Superlatives could be a better app and any other suggestions you may have. Thanks guys.
Restore The Fourth - Nationwide Protests against NSA Spy Program
http://www.restorethefourth.net/
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...”

Find a Protest in Your Area and help Secure YOUR Privacy

Spread the word. It's started. #RESTORETHEFOURTH
Show HN: CxO Industries
https://cxo.industries
This is the MVP of a web app I made to help founders start successful companies. The idea is to provide tools to assist founders, such as:

- Business model development
- Recommendations based on your current business context and your own role in it
- Add recommendations as tasks

There are more features in the works too, such as automated answering of common questions. I also want to add far more recommendations than are currently available.

The tech stack is:

- Flutter (front-end)
- Nim (back-end)
- PostgreSQL (DB)

The web app's UI is actually written on the back-end in Nim, and rendered by Flutter. You can only launch the app once you've logged in. I'm planning to make this tech available as Open Source, and you can join a wait-list if interested: https://nexusdev.tools/

Feedback on CxO Industries, but also the tech behind it, is welcome.
Show HN: My first Angular JS chrome extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gigpkdofoiekbjgmpdbjdbipbjbdkdca/
Because I wanted to learn Angular JS, I developed Time Capsule, a chrome extension that replaces your "new tab page" with a newsfeed from yourself from one year ago. It also allows you to set goals for yourself for the next year.

The idea of replacing the "new tab page" is that you can look at your goals everyday.

Overall the experience with Angular JS was very good and I'd love some feedback on the finished extension.
Microsoft Acquires Norwegian Search Company
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article2683800.ece
Another attempt to compete with Google.
Mumtris - Tetris in M
https://github.com/pkoper/mumtris
Only for ancient hackers: Tetris in MUMPS, implementation is GT.M specific.
Google's "doubly lucky" predictive mobile search plans
http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-google-to-go-for-double-or-nothing/
Rumored to be predictive (much like T9 is for SMS), and account for time and location information in the results.
Meet the Guys Who Started Stanford’s Facebook in 1999
http://mashable.com/2012/08/15/lawrence-gentilello-tuyen-truong/
Now they're doing Screenleap (YC W12)
Ask HN: Review my startup, Localo.com
Hi everyone,

We just announced our marketplace and we would love HN readers to give us feedback about overall look & feel, our form to submit itineraries and our affiliate program.

With Localo, travellers can book rooms, houses, sofabeds, boats, domes, and even complete islands from locals willing to share them.

Travellers tell what they want from their stay, and then locals compete for them by submitting personalized offers.

We expect Localo to provide the best matchmaking mechanism for travelers looking to experience a city like a local, so we will appreciate any suggestions related.

Links:
http://localo.com
http://localo.com/submit
http://localo.com/referral_program
Ask HN: Is it wrong for a man to steal medicine for his dying wife?
This is a hypothetical question my mother asked me as part of a psychology course she is taking. I found it very thought provoking, and thought you would also!

In Europe, a woman is near death from a specific type of cancer. There is one drug that the doctors know will save her. It is a prescription discovered and developed by a local druggist in the same town. The drug is very expensive to make but the druggist is only charging ten times what the drug costs for him to make. In other words, it costs the druggist $200 to make this wonder drug and, in turn, he turns about and charges $2,000 for a single dose of the drug. The cancer-riddled woman's husband, Heinz, goes to everyone he knows to borrow the money, but he can only get together $1,000, half of what it cost. He goes to the druggist and shows him the $1,000, explaining that his wife is dying. Heinz then pleads with the druggist to sell the drug for the $1,000 or let him pay later. The druggist denies Heinz’s request with, "No! I discovered the drug. I should make money from it. I cannot simply give it away. If you cannot pay for it, others can." Heinz becomes desperate. He waits for nightfall and breaks into the druggist’s store with the idea to steal the drug for his wife. Should the husband have broken into the store and stolen the drug? (Kohlberg, 1963)

Here is my answer:

Thats a good one. I think it is all about perspective. From the perspective of the law, no, he should not have. It is against the law to steal. But, from my perspective. The man surely knew by then, that he was going to be breaking the law in stealing the medicine. So, knowing that, if he still chose to accept the potential consequences of his action and steal the medicine for his wife. I don't think that it is wrong at all. Doing the opposite would be against human nature.

Love you,
Rob
“Word lens” is lame because you’re still dumb
http://www.cooper.com/journal/2010/12/word_lens_is_lame_because_your.html
One-way translation, only half a solution
Show HN: Peer to Peer Ticket Place for Music Events
http://www.queuein.co
queueIn offers peer-to-peer secondary ticket marketplace for music fans. queueIn lets fans connect directly and complete ticket transactions for free, no commission or service fees charged.
Ask HN: Chicken and egg problem in a community startup with a slow velocity?
Here is my startup, Fridge to Food. It is crowd sourcing for recipes: http://www.fridgetofood.com

A couple of months ago I posted this and got great feedback. I've been through quite a few iterations since then and have what is now a site that is minimally feature complete. I'm beginning to work on the more advanced reputation dependent features, but have a bit of a chicken and egg problem with the community. I have about 150 users, of whom some 20 maybe visit on a regular basis. And a handful post recipes on a regular basis. The site has a pretty slow velocity, because even the most dedicated users only have recipes to post a few times a month.

The issue I'm facing is that I'll need enough of a community to test the reputation dependent features when I implemented them. And I don't really have that right now. Unless I make the reputation threshold incredibly low, which beats the point.

So I'm facing the classic community based chicken and egg problem. I've pretty much mined my solid connection network out. The ones who cook regularly already use my site. The ones who don't, well, don't. I've been working pretty hard on Twitter and the various food-based subreddits to try and draw in some new early adopter users. But I've experienced limited success with that. Those who comment love it, and join. But the slow velocity often prevents them from doing much before forgetting about it. I've been trying to build connections with food bloggers, however, that is slow going. I'm not naturally a marketer type, so I have to spend a great deal of effort doing that. And it takes time away from writing code. I've considered cold e-mailing bloggers with a basically canned e-mail, but haven't tried it much. And when I have, I experienced pretty limited success there too.

So how can I solve the chicken and egg problem? People seem to love the concept of my site, and like the implementation. But the slow velocity and small community is preventing me from... well building a big enough community to have a higher velocity. Also, I'm having trouble just finding ways to get the link to it out there. Despite being pretty active on reddit and twitter I've only garnered about 3,000 unique views in about 1 month and a half. What are some other places I can put it out there?
Ask HN: How to find a good hacker/co-founder?
I have a very solid, unique idea for an internet based startup. I have some very, very basic programming knowledge, and although the idea is not complex technologically, I would not be able to do the programming myself. I am a banker by trade.
I need someone who is passionate about the idea and is a good programmer. I have some friends who program but all are already working on their own startups.

I know having a good relationship with your co-founder is critical to a startups success. How do I find someone?

Any ideas no matter how crazy would be really helpful.
People interview people
http://www.peopleized.com/
New website where people interview each other to promote their websites and blogs.
Goals and the GTD
http://blog.elmerthomas.com/2007/08/26/goals-and-the-gtd/
A technique on integrating the goal setting process into the GTD for daily execution.
Google quietly pulls plug on Frommer’s print travel guidebooks
http://skift.com/2013/03/21/google-quietly-pulls-plug-on-frommers-print-travel-guidebooks/
"After 56 years, Google is killing Frommer's print travel guides." wrote @saschasegan
OpCartel, a Name Emerges
http://www.forbes.com/sites/seanlawson/2011/11/05/opcartel-a-name-emerges/?feed=rss_home&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Anonymous has decided to cancel #opcartel ... but one man called Barret Brown will keep te fight on the USA side by himself.
I overlaid paulgb Facebook connections world map with countries. Thoughts?
So I loved Paul's visualization of facebook connections and how it drew a map of the world. But I wanted to see the actual country lines. Thoughts?

http://ow.ly/3tYy8
Whistle-based login using HTML5 audio
http://popdevelop.com/mmhw/
blogg post: http://popdevelop.com/2013/11/whistle-based-login-using-html5-audio/
Ask HN: how to determine angel round valuation?
Your thoughts/experiences on this are appreciated.

We are a startup talking to some angel investors/early stage VC's. Our startup has been in existence for 8 months. So far it's bootstrapped. We've grown from 2 people to 10 people. We provide a web-based service to online businesses. We have half a dozen large customers and there are a few more in the pipeline. We are breaking even, so we don't have to raise fund, but it will accelerate our growth greatly. The amount we are looking for is between half to 1 million dollars.

We don't have a good sense of what's a reasonable valuation, or even how to think about it. A P/E ratio calculation just doesn't make sense at this stage. We appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks.
W3C sends password change requests after breach
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/w3c-password/
Mail I recieved today:

W3C has discovered unauthorized access to its user database, including
retrieval of encrypted passwords. As such W3C is requiring all of our users to
change their passwords.

If you have already changed your password in 2014, you may ignore this
message.

Please read more at the following article:

http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/w3c-password/

Accounts that have not been updated by 2014-05-12 will be disabled. If you do
not see this message until after that deadline, you can recover your account
using the recovery system linked from the article above.

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New website maps your political stances to the 2012 presidential candidates
http://www.isidewith.com/presidential-election-quiz
Pretty cool new site that shows a breakdown of which candidates you side with by issue. Definitely worth it if you have two minutes to answer honestly.