jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does your company give devs DB dumps to use for local development?
I'm curious how various companies provide their devs with data to use for local development of their software. Particularly when the database spans hundreds of tables and GBs of data.

Do you get a sql dump? how often do you get updated dumps? Is the data anonymized at all? For really large databases do you trim the tables?

If you don't use database dumps, what method do you use to generate data to develop against locally?
Show HN: Using ThreeJS to create a city from Your GitHub contributions
https://honzaap.github.io/GithubCity/
I spent some time making this. I am a beginner with blender but I did my best :)
I'm open to any and all feedback.
Is URL shortening bad for the web?
I see more and more sites doing the URL shortening services. They're pretty popular because of things like Twitter, text messaging, etc. But, is this good for the internet? Most of the shortening services are not content-aware; the URLs are just obfuscated and as short as possible. Just wanted to see what everyone thinks about these services and how they'll change the way we link to thinks.
The Rise and Fall of Chinese Gold Farmers Industry
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-12/ff_ige?currentPage=1
Interesting look inside the Chinese gold farmer industry and how it all began (from Wired Magazine).
YAMT: yet anoth monad tutorial
http://spbhug.folding-maps.org/wiki/MonadsEn
St petersberg Haskell users grp

(says Moin Moin / python-powered at page bottom)
Ask HN: How do you deal with intolerance to criticism?
I have a colleague who doesn't like receiving criticism. We're both software developers. He's a little younger and a little less experienced than me but I don't concern myself with that. My goal is to deliver value to the business and produce good work.

Last year this colleague told me the feedback I gave him in PRs crossed a line and I've since gone to great lengths to think about I deliver it. I actually think I'm very respectful and considerate in how I present it. Invariably I just ask him what he thinks about other solutions.

We spoke about this again last week and I reminded him that there wasn't any judgement in the feedback I was giving him; that part of my job is to criticise his work but that in no way do I consider it a reflection of his ability.

Some of the time he acknowledges that his work could be improved but in most instances however he's defensive and argumentative. His rationale doesn't stand up to basic questioning and it's obvious he's just making it up as he goes along. I've even shown him how I review his work, what I look for etc.

Often I'll reach a point where I don't have the energy and cave. He knows this and keeps pushing me until I eventually just approve his work. I don't want to make him feel bad but sometimes I have to draw on my experience say if I think something's a concern, like a brittle test or unclear code. To me, this is the whole point.

I told my manager all this was making me feel uncomfortable, distracting me from my other work and causing stress. While I want to help, it feels like I'll never be able to break through with my colleague. I'd prefer not have anything to do with his PRs and just focus on my work and of my other colleagues (who don't seem to react in the same way.)

Has anyone in the HN community had experiences similar to this and what did you learn? Should I merely accept the situation as it is and try to move on?
Ask HN: Any math-focused gift recommendations for kids?
My son is 8 years old, and loves math. I want to get him some books, toys, tools, or models that let him explore fun aspects of math that he's not typically exposed to in school.

When I search online, it's hard to tell what's mathematically sound and what's just popular because it looks nice.
The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/the-cheat-sheet-cheat-sheet-top-100-lists-of-web-development-cheat-sheets/
With the vast array of web development knowledge available on the Internet, there's certainly no shortage of cheat sheets to be found. This article has come up with a list of some of the best cheat sheet collections out there.
Ask HN: Hyphenated domain names, good or bad?
How bad is it to use a hyphenated domain name for a startup? I.e. what if foursquare.com was four-square.com.

Would this significantly reduce the value of my site?
Show HN: Twitter Like News App
https://www.airvue.news/
Hi everyone,

My name is Stuart and I've been solo developing a news app (and now newsletter) for the past half a year or so.

tl;dr (current status): an app with a Twitter like feed of news events. The posts are 1-2 sentences, only actual events (no opinion, analysis, roundup, evergreen, etc), categorized into feeds, and tagged (lets you dig wikis or find events for a given entity). There is also a newsletter I just launched that is a bit cleaner in terms of UI, but with less features.

longer: My goal is to make it easier to stay informed and access information (not such a hot take that news and media suffers from a UX issue). What that will look like in the long term, I can't possibly know. Although I have many theories, all I can do is iterate and keep an open mind. My first attempt at cracking this is to shorten the unit of information from an article to an event, thus saving the reader valuable time and mental energy. If you want to read more about how I do this check out https://www.airvue.blog/p/approach

I'd love to hear your feedback on the idea and/or app (forgive the janky UI).

Thanks,
Stuart

p.s. if this sounds like something you'd like to work on, don't hesitate to reach out. I have an engineering background but would love someone else to hack with

newsletter link if interested: https://www.airvue.app/subscribe
Khronos Releases OpenCL 1.2 Specification
http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/khronos-releases-opencl-1.2-specification
New features in OpenCL 1.2 include seamless sharing of media and surfaces with DirectX® 9 and 11, enhanced image support, custom devices and kernels, device partitioning and separate compilation and linking of objects.
Conways' Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law
Hat tip to this YC Post - just wanted to bookmark this for myself and figured others would be interesting in reading more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436908
Top Ten Reasons To Avoid Venture Capital
http://www.antiventurecapital.com/venturecapital.html
venture capital's downside.
Android Jelly Bean: Streaming Audio Through the USB
http://www.starwebworld.com/android-jelly-bean-streaming-audio-through-the-usb/
Jelly Bean, The new release of Android, is the subject of continuous inspection of its features:
Ask HN: Any nomad entrepreneurs?
Are there any nomad entrepreneurs in HN? (ie you don't have an established office and you are travelling around).

I love travelling, and as I am starting a company, I am keen on ditching the physical office and live travelling.

I would like to know your experience on being nomad and running a startup.
Reddit readers manipulate AdSense
http://mashable.com/2007/11/20/crowd-finally-gets-it-they-can-group-up-and-manipulate-adsense/
"Redditers are calling everyone to click on Rudy Giuliani's paid ads simply because they cost him money."
Show HN: My little attempt at a "start up".
http://www.helpknow.com
I made a post a few days ago asking if any software companies/start ups needed technical video tutorial writers and I had a few very interested and serious respondents email me. I've been looking for something to do with this domain hence I give myself a Christmas present.
Amazon Video vs. Netflix
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/amazon-video-vs-netflix-which-will-prevail/?hp
NYT has an article about a study conducted by the The Catalyst Group on which service users prefer on a Roku box: the all-you-can-eat approach of Netflix or the $2-$3-a-pop one from Amazon. One key finding: Both of the TV interfaces are clunky.
Cuter scooter defined by electricity, portability
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/scooter-1127.html
It's energy efficient, it's clean, compact and simple, and, above all, it's very cool.
Loft or Converted, Open
Ask HN: Best way to build REST API?
If your not using a framework and want a minimal way to setup a REST api in PHP, what would be an easily maintained / "right" way to build it out? A routing framework like Slim Framework [1]? Or maybe something else?

[1]: http://www.slimframework.com/
Local Discovery is Broken
http://blog.urbantag.com/post/5433065365/urbantag-three-reasons-local-discovery-is-broken
How three design flaws with current LBS platforms are hindering the development of a great tool for local discovery.
How to Design Behavior
http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/03/how-to-design-behavior.html
Here’s the gist:
- The rising interest in the science of designing behavior has also sprouted dozens of competing, and at times conflicting, methodologies.
- Though the authors often flaunt their way as the only way, there are distinct use cases for when each method is appropriate.
- Behavior modification methods fall into four distinct types: amateur, expert, habitué, and addict.
- Each behavior type requires the use of the appropriate technique to be effective. Using the wrong method leads to frustration and failure.
Show HN: My first website, Tweet2Cite, inspired by a HN post
http://tweet2cite.com/
I recently finished the Front-End Web Development program at General Assembly in San Francisco. My final project turned out being a quick, easy, and free way to convert a Tweet into various properly formatted citations. Inspired by a Hacker News post a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751295
Apple To Host Conference To Discuss Plans About Its $98 Billion Cash Pile 
http://www.techieapps.com/apple-to-host-conference-to-discuss-plans-about-its-98-billion-cash-pile-with-investors/
Apple Inc, one of the most regarded company in the world, is ready to come face to face with one of its biggest challenge ever faced in corporate America – How does it plans to utilize the $98 billion cash hoard?
TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/textmate-2-0-goes-open-source-in-response-to-os-x-restrictions/
https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Draftin' – A draft simulator for Magic the Gathering
http://www.draftin.co/
Hi there! It has been a hard fought alpha run, but Draftin' is finally ready to grow up a bit. You have probably never heard of this project because I have been intentionally keeping it off of message boards until it was ready; I created Draftin' to be the most professional and easy to use Magic the Gathering drafting software around. What's going to make or break the project is how it stands up to real usage.

Given that all major features have been added to the application, I am moving the project into beta and releasing it to any and all who want to try it. My only request is that if you do use Draftin' in it's current state, please report any bugs that you find/leave feedback where you feel it is needed. Bare in mind that Draftin' has only been used up to this point by close friends, so you may find bugs we did not.

Even so, I invite everyone to give Draftin' a try. I am really excited to see what real usage uncovers/what everybody thinks of the application! Let me know via the feedback form! Feature suggestions are always welcome as well!

-Shawn
Tech co-founder sought for ambitious consumer web startup
Technical co-founder sought for early-stage startup solving the "It's hard to find people I'd be cool doing stuff with to do stuff with" problem.

The founder is a SF-based, hardcore business/product guy, recent grad of penn/wharton with experience leading data analysis initiatives at major consumer web startups.

The idea is called Yo You Want To. Yo You Want To will be a way for (initially) college students to find other people on campus to do stuff with. For those times that you want to get a late dinner, carve a pumpkin, see a spoken word poetry show, go weightlifting, or really whatever, and your friends aren't free, you just post: "Yo, you want to _______" where you fill in the blank with whatever you want to do. When people on campus say they're down, you guys meet up and go do it. It's a simple concept to understand, and the early success of this will rely on brilliant execution and a killer UX more than any never-before-done feats of engineering. Clever use of mobile is also key but has been largely unexplored to date.

The founder has the prototype of Yo You Want To built - it's at www.yoyouwantto.com (get in touch for a demo login). During a test launch at Penn, hundreds of people signed up within a couple weeks, and many meetups actually happened through the site. It's clear that we've scratched the surface of a huge opportunity here and what we need more than anything is a brilliant engineer who can execute, lead and inspire. Someone who lives for elegance, speed, and innovation in social products. Someone extraordinarily entrepreneurial to be in the founding team of a company, with equity and responsibilities to match. If you're looking for an hourly rate or a salary before funding, you've missed the point.

The prototype was built with Ruby on Rails, and while we're unlikely to switch from that, your brilliance as an engineer and tech entrepreneur trumps everything.

Interested? Please contact yo@yoyouwantto.com with some info about yourself - what technologies do you love? built anything cool? what are you doing at 2am on a random wednesday? what do you have going on these days? what about this opportunity interests you?

Thanks for reading.
Benchmarks of different programming languages
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
I was really surprised by some of these results. Perl's regex beats everything else but it's really slow on things it doesn't do well. Lisp does better than I would have thought. Ruby is really slow on some things.

Good illustration of why your coding style should match the language you're using.

Note that you can view the source code of each benchmark/language implementation.
Ask HN: Senior Thesis
I am going to start on my senior thesis next semester, now, I am looking for ideas. I hope that I can work on something somehow practical and technically hard enough to be a senior thesis.

Do you guys have any idea in mind that you want to see?
How to Create a Video for your Startup in 4 Easy Steps
http://www.yairharel.com/2009/11/01/how-to-create-a-video-for-your-startup-in-4-easy-steps/
Making a high quality video is harder and more expensive than it seems. There's a quick and easy way to ensure your video is excellent: Use stop motion.
How we have handled a DDOS attack from a dumb program
http://blog.openomy.com/2008/04/dealing-with-dumb-programs-or-why-our.html
I thought some people here might find this interesting. Our site has been slow recently, and it's due to a dumb program causing essentially a DDOS attack against us. Here's some of the things we've done to alleviate the situation.

I'd also love to hear from others who have had luck with other techniques!
Ask HN: Reposting an old Ask HN question
I posted a question a couple days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042898) that didn't get any answers. Is there a way to re-submit a question without just copy/pasting it into a new submission? Or would it be better for me to assume that there's no good answers or it was an unpopular topic, and just leave it?

Thoughts?
Show HN: I built an all-in-one virtual production platform for indies
Https://SceneForge.app
After being frustrated with the budget and learning curve requirements of the big names in the Virtual Production field, I decided to create my own all-in-one platform designed with beginners and less-technical folk in mind.
It takes complicated tasks in other engines (tracking, compositing, floor plans, etc.) and makes them two-click solutions. And, with the free companion mobile app, you can track cameras, scan your sets, and (coming soon) do full body motion capture!

There's a ton more features that I'm super proud of, and I'm open to any and all feedback!
Thanks!
Hacker News rips off Reddit or so Mashable claims...
http://mashable.com/2012/01/31/10-blatant-social-media-design-ripoffs/?WT.mc_id=obinsite#45909Hacker-News-vs-Reddit
Don't know whether this is a repost or not but... What do you say people? Far as I can see, HN looks different, simpler and conceptually it doesn't try to include everything on this earth...
Ask HN: What Will You Be Hacking Over the Holidays?
With much of the UK and US snowed in, Christmas 2010 is shaping up to be a hacker's delight. What will you be working on?
Ask HN: Why are we still using passwords?
IANASecurity Expert, but there are several on HN. Hopefully this will start an interesting discussion.

1) Why are we still using passwords to authenticate people online? And by "we", I mean most big public websites. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Gawker. It seems like some sort of key-based, public/private algorithm would be better than the current mess. Is this correct or am I forgetting something?

2) What would the optimal solution look like, assuming the browsers supported everything necessary?
Bill and Veronica Talk Software
http://www.devosaurus.com
Think you can just go out and hire people to build you good software? Think again...
Ask HN: If "it's not about the idea", why is there a stealth YC music startup?
If it's all about execution and not the idea, why does YC have stealth-mode startups, like this music startup that's hiring?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043422
Ask HN: Are GIS skills in demand?
I'm being considered for a position that would largely involve developing data mapping applications using ArcGIS and related software. I've done some mapping stuff before, but I'll probably be expected to take some classes to get where I need to be. If I invest the time to do that, I'd like my new skill set to be portable ... so, HN, are GIS skills in demand?
Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5285
"we show that, in contrast to common belief, the most influential spreaders in a social network do not correspond to the best connected people or to the most central people (high betweenness centrality). Instead, we find: (i) The most efficient spreaders are those located within the core of the network as identified by the k-shell decomposition analysis. (ii) When multiple spreaders are considered simultaneously, the distance between them becomes the crucial parameter that determines the extend of the spreading."
The NY Tech Meetup Showcase (today btw 3:30 - 6:30)
http://nytm.org/showcase/
60 New York City startups are putting on a demo pit (free to attend) today from 3:30 to 6:30 at FIT's Great Hall. We are one of the companies, but I know of at least a handful of other Hacker News folks that will be there too. It's free and should be a good time.
HN Contest: Invent the perfect HN-link-bait title
I know we don't do jokes around here very much (unless they are a small part of a comment and in support of a greater point) but I thought that it might be fun to have a contest for folks to come up with the types of article titles they see on HN that strikes them as being link-bait.

I figure not only could this be fun/funny, but it also might help the community take a fresh look at the kinds of material we're seeing on the front page (and whether we like it or not)

So what's the best title to guarantee a huge HN response? What are the things we reflexively upvote?
Virtualmin GPL EC2 image
http://www.webmin.com/ec2.html
A quick way to get a sane virtual hosting system with mail, web, DNS, and the LAMP stack running on EC2, plus the Virtualmin GPL Open Source control panel to manage it all.
No, I'm not giving you my Google password
http://www.venturecake.com/no-im-not-giving-you-my-google-password/
A year after Google released their account authentication system, why are sites still asking for passwords that most users don't even give their loved ones?
Lovd by Less - Open source social network based on RoR
http://www.lovdbyless.com/
I'm not related to these guys, but seems to be a great opensource effort based on RoR.
Ask HN: Anyone want Forrst.com invites?
I have 20 invites left for Forrst.com.

It's a microblogging/feedback community for devs and web designers.

If you'd like an invite, please link me to your website or portfolio, and please also leave your email address.

kthxbai
Non-Apple, Non-Google Phone Options
Are there any non-Apple, non Google phone options that:
- Have access to internet (I don’t need apps, I only care about being able to look up directions)
- Works on a US carrier
- Ideally has a camera
New quantum computer approach from University of Sydney 
http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=2&newsstoryid=9081
"The projected performance of this new experimental quantum simulator eclipses the current maximum capacity of any known computer by an astonishing 10 to the power of 80. That is 1 followed by 80 zeros, in other words 80 orders of magnitude, a truly mind-boggling scale." - is this at all credible?
Debugging Ruby (My notes)
http://napkin.highgroove.com/articles/2010/11/09/debugging-ruby-tools
My notes on the fantastic Engine Yard Debugging Ruby webinar given by Aman Gupta
Poll: How many HN readers are believers?
So here's my question: how many of You believes in religious way in something/someone (I mean here some Godlike being). I noticed that most (around 99%) tech people I know in-person do not believe in God or any other supernatural being.
Besides believing, are You participating in all ceremonies (e.g. as a Christian going to church every sunday etc.) ?
Ask HN: Do I need to register a lot of redundant domains?
I am asking this question because I find myself occasionally registering redundant domains that relate to my company/service. For example, my company has a .io domain, but I have also registered a few other TLDs like .app, .cloud, .email and .online just in case.

I already have a subdomain mail.<example>.io but I am about to register mycompany-mail.com because someone else might register and misuse it. I stopped to think if everyone did this or I'm being super paranoid.

For the same <example> name, I have more than 20 domains registered while I could have easily settled for subdomains. I have <examplegames>.com as well as <example>.games domain and few more typos and double 'aa' variations, just in case.

Please share if you have a similar experience or wisdom. What's the best practice in your opinion?
The Difference Between Ruby Symbols and Strings
http://www.robertsosinski.com/2009/01/11/the-difference-between-ruby-symbols-and-strings/
Learn about what Ruby Symbols really are, how flexible they can be and how they make your program run faster with this tutorial.
Amazon Web Services status
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Amazon listens to developers.
Ask HN: How bad is it that rioters had physical access to Congress computers?
Rioters today had physical access to congress staffers computers in some cases logged in [1]. Couldn't this have disastrous consequences for cybersecurity of the nation?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/pro-trump-reporter-gloats-over-access-to-fleeing-hill-staffers-computer/
A Google Wave reality check
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10300445-2.html
Lars Rasmussen sighed, half an hour into a demonstration of Google Wave, the company's audacious attempt to reinvent Internet communication: we'd found another bug.
Google Glass Lifestream
http://www.stephenbalaban.com/google-glass-lifestream
Download for OSX
http://api.lambdal.com/static/LambdaBackup.zip

Source
http://github.com/lambdal/LambdaBackup
Obamacare backend code?
https://www.java.net/forum/topic/glassfish/metro-and-jaxb/jaxb-error-no-element-mapping-exists-when-binding-xml-objects
Zip file at the bottom of the page...