jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: is Co-CEO a viable option?
My company currently has 3 founders, however, myself and another co-founder want to split the title of CEO. Is this a viable solution or are we just setting ourselves up for failure?

Some background on our situation:
I have lived with my co-founder for the past 2 years being roommates. I've also known him for over 5 years. We have very similar strengths and backgrounds, and share a common vision for our company. The decision ultimately came up to split the CEO title because no clear leader could be easily determined and we both have the skills required to be a good CEO (such as being able to easily speak with outside investors)

There have been several large companies with CO-CEOs, RIM, Motorola, SAP, etc...so we feel like it's not that uncommon.

I've read a lot of negative criticism on co-CEOs but I'm curious what the HN community thinks on the subject.
Ask HN: List of public APIs?
Is there one?

I'd like to see what freely available to use for future hacky projects.
Ask HN: What percent of facts on the Internet are false?
If instantly all information on the Internet was fact checked by a hypothetical system that had universal knowledge, what percent of information do you think would be found incorrect?
Free Beta of Cloud Servers at the Planet
https://www.theplanet.com/SERVERS/beta.aspx
It's a marketing ploy to get you sign up for their servers that aren't going to be free forever, but if you want a lot of temporary free storage and processing power, it's worth a look.
Show HN: PhotoDrop - Live photo sharing with video chat
https://itunes.apple.com/app/photodrop/id633225666?mt=8
PhotoDrop is a side project I've been working on with a couple guys in the office. It's an app that allows you to connect via video and share photos with people at the same time. This is a minimum viable product with no real UI effort, but I'd love to get a bit of feedback.
DNA succesfully utilized for storing data (739kB)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=42546#.UQQUP1y9LCQ
this is exciting news.
storing binary data in DNA means long term, reliable, robust, space & energy efficient and maybe even tasty data storage and archiving abilities.
nice. (x-post reddit)
Introducing Nodeler
http://blog.cdeutsch.com/2011/05/introducing-nodeler.html
Nodeler is a Bonjour like service to easily pair web & mobile apps. Currently there are nodes that have been written to remote control Amazon VOD and Rdio running in Chrome. A modified version of Dale Harvey's HTML5 Pacman has been created that can be launched on an iPad and remotely controlled with an iPhone. Unfortunately performance in Mobile Safari makes Pacman move in the Matrix Bullet Time but a native implementation would perform much better.
Filabot can turn your recycling into 3D printer ink
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10556/filabot-turns-your-recycling-into-3d-printer-ink/
Have a read about @Filabot - the machine that can turn your recycling into 3D printer ink. humansinvent.com/#!/10556/filab
Hiring Stories from Silicon Valley
http://blog.standoutjobs.com/hiring-stories-from-silicon-valley-revealed/ 
Standout Jobs was well represented at last week's TechCrunch 9 party with the attendance of co-Founder, Fred Ngo.
The Simplest, Cheapest Way to Create a Highly Available Web Architecture
http://blog.xeround.com/2010/12/what-is-the-simplest-cheapest-way-to-create-a-highly-available-web-architecture-for-your-website/
In Xeround's latest blog post, Avi Kapuya offers guidance principles on efficient ways to create a highly available web architecture.
7 Innovative Ways to Get Website Traffic
http://devstand.com/2011/12/02/get-website-traffic/
I am tired to see everybody trying to publish articles on how to get more traffic online and everybody just republishing old ideas. These 7 ways are new for many and if they are done correctly you can get quite some good traffic.
triPlanner.co
http://triplanner.co

User generated travel planning site to swap travel/trip plans

Can you please check our website/mobile page and post your comments for any suggestions on design/idea/anything that needs improvement on our beta product ?

Thanks,
triPlanner Team
Visa temporarily stops iZettle payments in Denmark, Norway and Finland
https://www.izettle.com/DK/blog/2012/07/30/letter-to-izettlers-in-denmark-finland-and-norway/
Due to a policy decision by Visa Europe, iZettle has temporarily stopped processing payments in Denmark, Norway and Findland.<p>I don't know much about this particular case, but sometimes it seems that we have a load of regulations and policies in Europe (Denmark in particular) that makes innovation harder, instead of embracing it.
Youtube : cluttered/anonimity/abusive.So built this.Let us know your thoughts
http://www.kiwifruut.com
Youtube:cluttered/anonimity/abusive comments. So built this. Let us know your thoughts
Show HN: Unlock a Tesla with Password-less Authentication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn7XAYDutDE
LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com) demonstrates what unlocking a car with password-less, multi-factor authentication looks like.
Show HN: Evaluate Deep Learning models directly in a database with PyNeuraLogic
https://github.com/LukasZahradnik/PyNeuraLogic/blob/master/README.md
Hi HN. PyNeuraLogic is a Python Deep Relational Learning framework. With the latest release of PyNeuraLogic, we have introduced a set of tools for working with databases as a data source and, most notably, a tool to transpile deep learning models to (Postgres) SQL.

We have prepared a short tutorial on those tools (link in the banner in the README).

Let us know if you have any feedback or questions regarding the framework!
The Conservation of Hairiness
http://spiraller.posterous.com/the-conservation-of-hairiness
For any given problem, there's usually more than one subproblem.
The solution of a problem is the sum of the solutions of its subproblems.
If you have a different set of subproblems, you have a different problem, and requires a different solution.
The complexity of any given problem is a constant.
Yasi, australia's katrina sized cyclone, on webcam 
http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/live/all?q=yasi
RT @CPSWIRE
Cyclone #Yasi LIVE VIDEO FEEDS on #ustream http://bit.ly/hpkZmR http://bit.ly/gDxo2h #CPSWIRE
FAQ design
I'm trying to find some examples of best practices with good design and not finding a lot for a FAQ and guide page. Any suggestions?
BlackSheep - A Tool to Detect Firesheep
http://research.zscaler.com/2010/11/blacksheep-tool-to-detect-firesheep.html
http://matthias.vallentin.net/2010/10/taming-sheep-detecting-sidejacking-in.html
Python watchdog, did that file change or not?
http://www.zolomon.com/wp/?p=382
Looking for file changes in Python.
Is Hosting (even free) officially Dead?
http://1.ai
Dotgeek back in 2003 was the first free PHP 5 hosting. After a long absence we have resurrected a free hosting for geeks with Ruby, PHP, Perl and even MySQL but are developers still interested in traditional hosting (even if free)? We have SSD drives, a fast connectivity and plenty of RAM but one wonders if in the era of dynos, cloud apps and EC2 a geek - even someone just starting to learn web development could have any use for old fashioned hosting ?
Show HN: Try Enarx
https://try.enarx.dev/
Enarx runs Web Assembly applications on special CPUs to protect the application from the host (Intel SGX, AMD SNP-SEV). Try out Enarx with your application on real hardware.
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis
http://vimeo.com/51873011
Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
Ask HN: Who do you go to for tech support?
Where do you turn when you run into a tech support issue you can't solve yourself, even when leaning on the brain-cache that is the internet?

What I thought was a minor issue has stubbornly stumped me for three or four months now: under certain kinds of load, my Windows (10; self-built) PC experiences pops in its audio output due to high latency in processing interrupts.

Having gone down the rabbit hole of performance trace recording[1] and analysis[2] on Windows, as well as ruling out component after component, I'm no closer to solving the problem. (The gory details can be found on my /r/techsupport thread[3] with no replies)

At this point, I would pay good money to a high-level (low-level?) tech support provider that has the skills necessary to debug this sort of problem, but I'm at a total loss at where to find one in the haystack of "IT Crowd"-esque support you find by searching the internet or picking an arbitrary local "PC repair" shop.

So, can anyone recommend a company with a sufficiently deep level of expertise to solve this kind of problem that an individual could go to? Or know where to look or whom to ask to get pointed in the right direction?

[1]WPR: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-recorder

[2]WPA: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-analyzer

[2]MXA: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/DefragTools-149-Media-eXperience-Analyzer-part-1

[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/l71009/persistent_interrupt_latency_problems_on_windows/
Parallel Cross Browser Testing Using Saucelabs, Cucumber and Capybara
https://github.com/verdi327/parallel_test_tutorial?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email
A tutorial that walks through building a Rails app that contains tests that run in parallel across 6 different browsers.
Xobni launches for Blackberry
http://box.ly/33
The WSJ article can be found here: http://bit.ly/aQ4DhP
Facebook's iOS Shimmer written in JavaScript/Canvas
https://github.com/tedtoy/ShimmerJS
As some of you may know, Facebook recently open sourced their "shimmering" code used as a loading indicator. This is my attempt at duplicating the functionality in JavaScript and canvas. Any feedback on the code is very welcome!<p>The link is to the source. Here is the demo page:
http://tedtoy.github.io/ShimmerJS/
VC's Concerns About Successful Entrepreneurs
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/10/concerns-about-.html
VCs generally get excited about backing entrepreneurs that have already successfully exited a venture. However, the stereotype of the repeat entrepreneur brings with it a concern...
Book club meeting on Rework, the 37signals business book
http://groups.google.com/group/ux-book-club-san-francisco/browse_thread/thread/a1beaf1afd777574
I'm moderating a book club meeting on Rework this week and unsurprisingly, the reaction so far has been very love/hate. We're meeting up this Wednesday if you want a spirited discussion in person.
Information in commit messages – Git
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages
From OpenStack
Show HN: Globemallow- Create a More Sustainable Internet
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/globemallow/jibhiolaefbcfiahgolfpmngjefngdmd
I created Globemallow to be used as a tool to start conversations about web sustainability.

Look at Fact View to get an idea of the energy required during your internet browsing.

Look at Dev View to identify development methodologies that can help reduce a web page's overall energy consumption.

Designers use it to have conversations with developers.

Account Managers use it to have conversations with their clients.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you might have, and let me know how you might use it :)
Ask HN: Looking for a hardware/ software developer
Hi,

I have a small hardware project that I would like to develop that involves interfacing with a very old, proprietary computer. I think that this will need to be done via some sort of floppy emulator. There will also need to be a software application that will run on osx for file management, conversion etc.
A simple no-login listmaker built by the folks at FriendFeed
http://simpli.st
Built by the folks at http://FriendFeed.com Simpli.st makes and manages lists. It aims for simplicity and requires no login. Each list gets a new link for sharing and linkmarking (social bookmarking). I like it especially with the Del.icio.us Firefox add-on and Del.icio.us live feeds of selected tags into Firefox.
Ask HN: Do you listen to country music?
Does it help?
Torque 3D released on GitHub under MIT license for game developers everywhere
https://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21886
We have just released our Torque 3D game engine on GitHub so that developers around the world can develop their games for free. We chose GitHub as the launchpad because it is extremely easy to fork projects and it truly adopts the idea of social development.
Making a picture website from Picurls.com
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/making-of-picurls-popurls-for-pictures-part-two/
PHP + Smarty + SQLite, including source code
Provide a mid-peninsula community center (bay area) for hackers and thinkers
http://hackerdojo.pbwiki.com
I thought this was relatively newsworthy because there are so few coworking facilities in the south bay area (Palo Alto / Mountain View) compared to San Francisco proper. The Bay Area startup scene needs a hacking / coworking facility of our own. David Weekly of SuperHappyDevHouse fame is trying to put a coworking / community center together for us south bay residents, if you are interested in contributing or joining, please post to the wiki!
Ask HN: Living in Bay Area
I'm a 22 year old programmer from Germany and at the moment I'm working as a programmer for a small web agency.
After works I'm a student and I'm studying BA Business Informatics (I really don't know if this is the correct term).
At the moment I have 2 years left for my graduation and I can't wait.

While I love some parts of Germany (employment protection, health insurance ect.) and being a german I feel like I don't belong here.
I sick of this officialism and all of that bad weather here.
I hate it to wait until I can get my hands on something people in US are using quite a while (cause law in Germany is making it hard to get over here).
I'm tired that companies in Germany are developing new software with technologies which are older than me.

Because of all that and much more I'm thinking about moving to a place where I can have all that I couldn't have in Germany.
As I'm a daily hacker news reader I'm thinking about moving to the Bay Area cause I feel like all that cool hacker related things are happening there. It's the heart of IT (right?).

However I don't know how living in Bay Area is like. I read about it a bit but everyone is talking about expenses.
I would love to hear a overall experience about living in the Bay Area?
How is it like? What are hacker doing in there free times (except hacking)?
What are you doing with friends? Are you going to partys, hackathons?
What are you doing in your holidays? Are a lot of people surfing in Bay Area? (surfing was always a dream of mine)

Giving me a feeling about living in Bay Area / Silicon Valley could change my entire life cause this is really important to me.

Thank you.

Foot note: Sorry for my bad english. I'm working on it and please feel free to correct my text.
Easier deployment/automation with fabric
http://shrikar.com/blog/2012/10/30/easier-deployment-slash-automation-with-fabric/
http://shrikar.com/blog/2012/10/30/easier-deployment-slash-automation-with-fabric/
HN as Medium feed
It seems that HN became a "latest posts feed" for Medium, since the latter lacks of it. And for me it spoils HN's content.

The process of moving to top for a medium's post is disputive and even a bit corruptive (due to cliques existence and so on). So seems like HN submitters rely on it to much.

Or maybe there are any other reasons for this phenomenon?
RuPy 11 Conf - Call for Speakers
RuPy committee is looking for speakers willing to present a Python, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript or any other related subject. If you have an interesting talk in mind go ahead and submit a talk proposal. The talk proposal should include a talk title, brief introduction and your short resume/biography.

Potential speakers should submit a talk proposal using the following form:
http://goo.gl/kOYjf
by July 1st, 2011 for consideration.

If you have any special presentation needs, let us know at info@rupy.eu. You can support us by linking to our site (http://rupy.eu/) and informing all your friends about the event and the possibility to submit a talk proposal. Thanks !
Show HN: vReddit, the visual reddit reader
http://www.vreddit.com
My first rails/mongodb project. I've been a redditor for a long time and wanted to play a bit with other browsing formats. I find Pinterest hard to read, so I wanted to create something that was a bit more of the traditional left-to-right. It's also more image focused to better suit the content that is typically on the front page.
Ask HN: Backup Services & Data Retention
After reading about a service called RestBackup, which will continue to keep your data for a length of time, even if you cease to be customers, in case you 'need it later', I am wondering what peoples opinions are on such matters?

Do you think it's good for a backup service to continue to hold your data, even after the provision of the actual backup service has ceased?

Or do you think that once you're no longer a customer, the data should be wiped immediately, as it does not belong to the backup provider?

And are there any legal questions in play over data protection, industrial secrets, etcetera?
Techcrunch partners with the competition
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/19/techcrunch-partners-with-seedcamp-europe/
Of course the YC companies get mentioned on Techcrunch anyways.

What kind of financial relationship does partnership imply?
Ask HN: Par Value, what do think?
I have noticed from several of the posts in here, that the Par Value per share is recommended from .001 to .000001 per share. That seems like a pretty big margin.

Is this somehow related to the stage of the company, for instance initial filing of the corporation vs. issuing a round preferred stock?

What are your thoughts on this?
Reduce stress - with science
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/stress/
This link is to an excerpt of a full article in the last issue of Wired magazine out now. Interestingly training doesn't necessarily reduce stress, while meditation often does. The article contains some interesting observations on stressed baboons.
Microsoft completes aquisition of Yammer
http://blog.yammer.com/blog/2012/07/yammer-starts-a-new-chapter-as-part-of-microsoft.html
How long will they keep on a Java stack before converting over to Dot Net?
First-ever Jenkins Community User Conference - October 2nd, San Francisco
http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-user-conference-2011.cb 
The first Jenkins User Conference brings Jenkins experts and enthusiasts together for an invaluable day of Jenkins-focused learning and networking opportunities. Join the Jenkins community on October 2nd in San Francisco, the Sunday before JavaOne, to learn and discuss best practices, plug-in development, building on-premise Java or cloud applications and more. Better yet, submit your own talk and share your knowledge with the world (deadline is 9/1). CloudBees, Liferay, Red Hat, New Relic and Sauce Labs are supporting the conference so it’s free to all.
Obfuscated TCP: opportunistic HTTP encryption
http://code.google.com/p/obstcp
Obfuscated TCP is trying to provide a cheap way for websites to support encryption without users having to remember "https://", or paying for (and renewing) SSL certificates.

See also the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gykf57L-FiQ
AHN: when did customer support materialize into a smiling girl with a headset? 
I can understand bad design decisions and business card websites. But for websites that rely on online sales above all else? I simply cannot believe the amount of stock photography of smiling phone operators and, worst of all, the number of websites happily using those photos.
Pipes creator leaves Yahoo! Starts polyvore.com
http://pashasadri.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/goodby/
Pasha Sadri: "I have recently left Yahoo! to pursue some personal projects. .... My new project is called Polyvore."
http://www.polyvore.com
Common Stock Option Mistakes
http://www.bryanbyrne.com/2011/09/23/common-stock-option-mistakes/
After spending a decade at three successful startups (Yelp, Zillow & Hotwire) I thought I'd share some lessons learned about stock options.
Got a Weekend? Start a Business
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2007/sb2007086_784210.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+stories
Trying to a start a Web-based business in two days, knowing when to turn an idea over to a pro, incorporating online tools into a business
Kim Dotcom's new Mega project
http://me.ga
@KimDotcom
Servers overloaded. Adding capacity. Stop reloading :-)
Facebook account disabled because I wasn't confirmed by my high school within 60 days
http://jawshy.jaiku.com/presence/5209971
Should a startup bind to these kind of policies?Is this policy required by state laws?
What is the best and easiest way to host a node app?
I am developing it from my own computer, and would like now to put it online. What is the best hosting/service for that at the moment ?
6 Companies Doing Open Innovation
http://www.starting-business.in/starting-a-business/332-six-examples-of-open-innovation.html?goback=%2Egmp_1953902%2Egde_1953902_member_146707977
it's kinda like crowd funding innovation
Comcast About to Screw Customer's Charging for Bandwidth
http://imgur.com/SUWB2mw
This means that any customers that use Dropbox, Google Drive, or other backup services will need to most likely stop using those. They are also going to charge for video streaming and download, EXCEPT from their Xfinity on-demand service. There goes Netflix and Hulu.

Most people that work from from home average well above 300GB/mo.

Ridiculous!
Selectors, Animation, and AJAX – jQuery Tutorial And Examples
http://spyrestudios.com/jquery-part-two-selectors-animation-and-ajax/
For part two of our jQuery series, we will have a look at some special selectors, the animation method, and simple AJAX calls. Be sure to check out the demo for each section for an idea of how you could implement some of these ideas and scripts!
Show HN: Bank Statement Converter
https://bankstatementconverter.com/
A web app I built that allows you to extract transaction data from PDF bank statements.
The Debt/Consumption Sham
http://www.jasonkelly.com/2009/02/whole-damn-sham.html
Piece is 5% editorial on American politics, 95% on building a sustainable lifestyle and how the author got out of corporate life by living ultra-frugal and started his own company that's never had debt. Really inspiring piece.
Show HN: Pinging.net – Monitor Your Internet Connection
https://www.pinging.net
Unreliable internet is super frustrating right?

I started working on this side project, pinging.net, in 2019 when we had a bad router that was causing internet issues on my spouse's phone. Downloading an app to run ping isn't fun and I thought it would be cool to be able to quickly "run ping" in the browser. I have worked on it off and on since then, mostly motivated when I would run into yet another internet issue (e.g. Zoom calls over Airbnb WiFi while traveling). Last week, we had yet another an internet issue where every 140 seconds our connections were getting reset. This was very apparent on the graph of pinging.net. That motivated me to get this project to the finish line and launch it more broadly (power cycling the modem fixed the internet issue by the way).

My career up until a few months ago was writing proprietary financial trading systems, which normally do not need to run 24/7. I enjoyed learning more and thinking about high availability working on this project. It was also nice to play with webdev again. Since I am using WebRTC I am experimenting with not using a reverse proxy and doing everything inside the HTTP binary. Not routing through something like NGINX might bite me but I want to see how far I can go with it.

About page: https://www.pinging.net/about

GitHub page: https://github.com/benhansenslc/pinging