jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Daggyr DAG Work Orchestration Engine
https://github.com/kinesintech/daggyr
Hello all,

I've been seeing a lot of interest in work orchestration frameworks, and thought I'd show off my own take. It's the project I've used to learn rust (entire project is async rust using tokio and actix), but it's been really useful for my main work, too.

Daggyr is an engine for executing tasks as quickly as possible. It can run tasks on flexible back-ends (slurm, local threads, etc), and report updates / events to trackers (currently only in-memory, working on postgres and mongodb).

There's no UI, just a REST interface. It doesn't do scheduling (there are tons of tools for that). It doesn't currently have multiple users / auth, but I'm working on that.

It does support pipelines defined in JSON, task parameterization, a very simple and fast REST interface for job submission and tracking, and resuming failed runs from where they left off.

Why another one of these things?

1. I couldn't get behind Airflow's weird scheduling opinions.

2. Dagster, Airflow, and Prefect rely on tight integration with python. A lot of my work flows are calling custom binaries, so python provides no value, and it's also a barrier to defining jobs.

3. Daggyr can scale to pipelines of hundreds of thousands of tasks.

4. Daggyr is stupidly simple to run: no external services or dependencies (unless you want them). Simple run the binary and send some work.

Long story short, it does what it says on the tin, but there's more work to be done. I'd really appreciate any feedback. No idea if I'm going to try and commercialize it, but if you'd like to see a feature ASAP, I'm always open to sponsored feature development!

edit: formatting
Dr. StrangePad: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPad
http://www.fakepad.com/post/467490292/dr-strangepad-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love
Mobile development is having a major “Dr. Strangelove” moment right now: we are learning to accept the fact that we can and will learn to live within the confines of Apple’s mad AppStore world. What makes “Dr. Stangelove” so compelling is that it describes a world which remains eerily coherent despite the madness of its foundations. Apple’s AppStore ecosystem is similar to the world depicted in “Dr. Strangelove” in both its madness and coherence.
Proof-of-Work News, Upvote by finding a better hash
http://www.pownews.dreamhosters.com/
I threw this together as a proof of concept for a news site that orders content based on which content provides the largest proof of work. Try to make it to the front page!
Show HN Follow Up: JobBoard.io stats/conversions
http://blog.jobboard.io/a-show-hacker-news-follow-up
I always appreciate it when someone does a follow up on a Show HN post - so figured I'd pay it forward by doing the same.
My book Shoppe Offers computer books, Engineering books, School books in Chennai
http://www.mybookshoppe.com
My book Shoppe sells books of all types both fiction & nonfiction on all
subjects but specializes in educational books My book Shoppe has got the
largest collection of CBSE & NCERT books College books computer books
Engineering books School Books and it is also one of the renowned book shop in
Chennai
Sentiment Analysis of #RoyalWedding on Twitter
http://twittersentiment.appspot.com/search?query=%23RoyalWedding
Not very accurate but an interesting start.
Movie promos go hi-tech | WITS Interactive Pvt. Ltd
http://www.wits-interactive.com
Movie promotion displays in cinema halls are going to witness a revolution today with the launch of 'iframe TM'. A brainchild of Madison Media and developed by WITS Interactive Pvt. Ltd., 'iframe TM' is India's first interactive movie poster, a concept to be launched for the first time in Asia at Mumbai's leading multiplex - Fame Adlabs. More info>>http://www.wits-interactive.com/iframe.html
Feature Flipping Ruby Gem
https://github.com/lukeroberts1990/enabler
There are a fair few feature flip gems out there. None of them had exactly the feature set I needed. Most either flipped features globally or worked only on the basis of a user class. I needed to be able to switch features on for users, teams of users OR entirely different models altogether E.G companies

The goal of this gem is to enable very granular control of which users/teams/companies/customers/cats have access to which features.
Indie Ambitions of an App Developer
http://tapfortap.com/blog/indie-ambitions-of-an-app-developer
Jake Gundersen discusses how he got started as an app developer with his company Third Rail Games and how his simple education app Alphabet Zoo achieved unexpected success.
Zerobin - a Pastebin unaware of users's activities.
https://wtf.roflcopter.fr/paste/
ZeroBin - a minimalist, opensource online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data
The Real cost of all these cool gadgets
http://darangedshaman.com/2010/08/02/the-real-cost-of-all-these-cool-gadgets/
When i think of technology, images of flying cars, laser beams, Minority Report, Stars Wars fill my imagination and countless millions of people around the Globe. They are all cool and represent the future of modern technology. But at what cost?, we nerds love our tech no doubt about it from the latest smartphone to the newest model of our favorite brand Laptop. I
Community.htc.com is down with debug, SQL messages
http://i.imgur.com/vD95UN3.png
I don't really know a contact for HTC... does anyone know who to contact? Email?
Forge
https://github.com/lacion/forge
forge is a command line tool that allows to execute modules to configure a linux system.
Show HN: Broadband Metering Tool (Dsum)
http://blog.abhiomkar.in/2012/06/30/broadband-meter-dsum-who-has-downloaded-how-much/
I'm using Airtel Broadband connection of 4Mbps with 30 GB limit per month plan (Bangalore, India). Initially when I subscribed to this plan it was sufficient for us (for me & for my roomies). It is frustrating when you realize that the net speed goes down to 256 Mbps because you’ve exceeded the 30 GB limit (download/upload total).

I needed a simple & smart tool which can tell me how much I (& also my other roomies) have download so far on our wifi connection. So, I wrote this script in one night – Broadband Meter (Codename: Dsum).
Ask HN: Voice chat system for web?
Does anyone know of an existing voice chat system that you can embed/integrate into your website? Something like the Discord voice chat experience. Preferably free, open-source and leverages WebRTC.
Crafting a Social Networking Strategy
http://blog.notifir.com/2007/12/02/crafting-a-social-networking-strategy/
A guide for those who use social networks for idea generation, promotion and networking.
Trade show booth design for pipe and drape
http://www.rkpipeanddrape.com/5~8_Feet_Tall/602.html
Good for trade show booth displays, the area of pipe drape will be max height and max width.
AdBlock in Chrome blocks new tabs
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/reviews
A lot of people cann't use Command+Click or middle button click in browsers because AdBlock for Chrome blocks it.
Scotty Iseri pits Danes vs. Aussies
http://scottyiseri.com/Welcome.html
If Denmark wins he will record a version of any Scotty Got an Office Job song in Danish and he will chug a Tuborg

If Australia wins he will learn how to play the SGAOJ theme song on a Digeridoo and chug a Fosters.
Are insider trading laws valid?
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/tag/raj-rajaratnam/
First Martha and now Raj and Rajat. Insider Trading laws were passed a very long time ago to protect the investor or was that the real intention? Could one not argue that Insider Trading laws prevent information leakage so that the real insiders CAN make money without the small investor being involved? In the age of Wikileaks, can we really contain information or judge its use? Should we try?
Okay, here is another way to look at it. Say there was a car race from LA to NY and first 12 people to reach would get a $1M bucks each but driving over 55mph and getting caught could land you in jail. If those where the rules, why would a small group the 12 NOT conspire with the Highway Patrol to take out all potential winners?
Conspiring with Highway Patrol involves a lesser risk with same returns compared to driving over 55mph. Could the SEC be the highway patrol and Goldman the conspiring gang?
The real question is this. Does it make sense to enforce laws with such intensity on a few people for something that most people are suspected of doing? Ticketing a bunch people makes sense because the penalty is on a curve. The more people break the law, the more people get tickets. But, is that true when it comes Insider trading? Or is it more like, most people break the law it but few people pay severely. Is that control by fear? Are those the breeding grounds for corruption at the core?
I think the even bigger question is this: Are insider trading laws valid in upholding their intent to protect the average investor in the information age?
Cracked Roulette
http://cracked-roulette.com
I frequently read Cracked Articles, and wanted a way to look at random ones since there's so many of them.

This is really quick and dirty, but could be extended to add filters like "Only Top lists" or only Videos...
Hot Air? Apple's New Macbook
http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk/article/hot_air_apples_new_macbook
some of the weaker points of apple's latest product
Don't take a job just for the money
http://jordancooper.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/the-money-aint-a-thing/
Jordan Cooper tries to express that taking a job because it pays well is short-sighted.
Pointatme app by Virtualmob (Augmented Reality)
http://pointatme.co.uk
Pointatme app by Virtualmob (Augmented Reality)
covered by http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/13/point-at-me/
Show HN: Am I Haiku or Not?
http://daghlian.com/haiku
I've been goofing around creating this silly webapp since seeing two of my favorite sites (who will remain nameless) publishing cute haiku that did not have the correct number of syllables. Have fun.
Chicago Lisp Workshop: May 31
http://www.chicagolisp.org/
Chicago Lisp is hosting a half-day Lisp Workshop for beginners this coming Saturday, May 31 at 3:00pm. More information can be found on our wiki (http://tinyurl.com/55pvt9). We do hope you can join us!
Finding list length in Scala without using length/size
http://www.scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/26/scala-lists-part-2/
http://www.scalatuts.com/blog/2013/08/26/scala-lists-part-2/
Free jQuery Image Gallery Plugins
http://www.flashuser.net/resources/free-jquery-image-gallery-plugins.html
For today I would like to show you two great free jQuery sliders that will inspire and make use of them in your projects. These sliders are lightweight versions so get the best from them.
From Idea to MVP: How We Designed Our Logo
http://blog.transbunko.com/from-idea-to-mvp-2-logo-design/
Sharing our experience drafting our Logo for the first time.
Apple’s Illogical App Store Upgrade Process 
http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/06/19/apples-illogical-app-store-upgrade-process/
Apple's upgrade process in the App Store is illogical, and makes it very confusing for users and for developers who want to release paid upgrades.
HandStand case puts iPad in the palm of your hand
http://www.gizmag.com/handstand-ipad-case/18338/
Apple's iPad tablet has become an extension of the arm for many people. Despite being designed for portability – and the iPad 2 being 15 percent lighter than the first iPad – using either version of the device for any longer than a few minutes without some kind of support can lead to arm and hand strain. Hub International's HandStand case makes things much more comfortable by letting you attach an iPad to your hand like a catcher's mitt.
Ask HN: Is it safe to perform credit card payments over TOR?
Curious to know if it is safe to use credit card payments on e-commerce websites while connecting through TOr.Is it possible for the transactions to get flagged if the payment gateway detects them to be coming through Tor?
Is there anything else that I need to worry about?
Aerospace in Mexico
http://maquiladoraindustrynews.com/index.php/mexico-manufacturing/category/aerospace-in-mexico/
Maquiladora industry news focuses on the newest developments in the Aerospace in Mexico. Aerospace industry is quickly emerging in Mexico with new plants, facilities and investments.
‘Hacking’ the college admission process, and reaching startling conclusions
http://cmwslw.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-simple-experiment-reveals-that.html
How a simple experiment reveals that colleges could care less about personal curiosity, and why they should care more.
Review my App:  Park in the Shade
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/park-in-the-shade/id391296993?mt=8
Forgive me if this is not the place for this. This is my first published app and I'm looking for some feedback.

First off, I know the graphics suck. I'm not a graphics designer. In bootstrapping this, I didn't have a budget for a designer. If anyone out there wishes to donate a mockup, that'd be great. Otherwise, I'm not going to tweak graphics too much.

I would like to expand the app into more functionality. I've got all the calculations needed to provide more information, but I don't want to overcomplicate things. Any ideas on what features I can start adding in? It's a pretty unique app, no real competition.

Thoughts?
Exception Notification v4.0.1 has just been released
https://rubygems.org/gems/exception_notification/versions/4.0.1
Exception Notification v4.0.1 has just been released, with HipChat notifier and more great stuff. Get it now! https://rubygems.org/gems/exception_notification/versions/4.0.1
Ask HN: Is the patent crisis still raging?
A few years ago, it seemed like patents threatened to unravel the tech industry. Patent trolls were suing everyone left and right. Huge companies were making huge acquisitions "for the patents." Small companies were terrified that they would be stomped out for the most inane of patent infringements.

Now though, I don't hear much about it. Did the news cycle just move on to other stuff? Or was there legislation and/or legal agreements to defuse the situation?
Top 5 - Open Source Utility Software
http://vidinterest.com/video/4806/top-5-open-source-utility-software-from-a-free-antivirus-to-
From a free antivirus to a sweet FTP - there are many ways to improve the performance of your computer for free!
Tell HN: Someone should make a screen capture tool for Chrome
Someone should write a chrome extension/app for the Chrome browser that lets users capture screenshots and upload them onto the internet without any clicks. Click, select and you're done. You get a page with the image along with the link(highlighted at the top with BIG letters) which you can share with your friends.

After trying out several different tools, which all pretty much suck, I decided to write up this post, hopefully someone looking for an idea will get inspired. This is a HUGE problem for me and probably millions of other chrome users. The current solutions suck, are way toooo cluttered and do are way to complicated. All users really want to is to capture a portion of the screen and upload it. I don't want to save it on my pc, upload it and share it. It should be very simple.

I'm certain that whoever makes a tool like this, and it's fast and is simple could easily charge $0.99 for it.
All our interviews this coming week are exclusively with female founders
http://howtowriteabusinessplan.com/2012/09/female-entrepreneurs/
Last Saturday we announced that we would be running a full week of interviews with female founders. Over the past couple of months we have had a lot of amazing interviews, but what stood out was the lack of female founded companies that we were speaking to. Starting Monday September 3rd, we will have 6 days of back to back interviews with some of the top female entrepreneurs around.
A Free Network Service for Social News
http://autonomo.us/2008/10/social-news/
Social news Web sites like Reddit, Digg, Mixx, Yahoo! Buzz and Propeller have become a staple of many people ’s Web experience. How can we make a social news site that meets the goals of the Franklin Street Statement (Free Software, Free Data)?
OJR.org: An opportunity to watch a spamblog be built in real time
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/ojr-org-an-opportunity-to-watch-a-spamblog-be-built-in-real-time
Australia's Oneflare has stolen an domain name in order to boost their SEO ranking.
Three small sales tips that you really need to know
http://financeschool911.blogspot.com/2010/08/closed-on-mondays.html
A small article I wrote about three sales ideas that you can try to implement elsewhere...let me know what you think.
“Generation Rx” and “Generation XL” 
http://blogs.prevention.com/inspired-bites/2013/01/26/my-seven-year-itch/
Our children have earned the title “Generation Rx” and “Generation XL” due to their escalating rates of obesity and these other conditions. This is so hard to hear. But we have to listen.
List of Websites Censored by the Great Firewall of China
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5752813/gfwList.txt
Reminder: the censors can be very capricious. What was blocked last month might be working fine now (Wordpress). Yet similar sites may still remain forbidden (Blogspot). This list may not be entirely up-to-date, but it does showcase the kind of content the Chinese Communist Party doesn't want its people to see.

Article 35 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China states:
"Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration."

Yet... The Internet giveth, the PRC taketh away.

Note to readers in China:
You will be able to view this list, as Dropbox thoughtfully provides access to files via encrypted HTTPS. Attempting to transmit or view this list without encryption will result in your connection being reset.

Apologies if Dropbox or HN becomes blacklisted as a result of this post; the current discussion of Google, China, and censorship should benefit from a more comprehensive look at what exactly is being withheld from Chinese netizens.

For those wanting to help, you can do so in many ways:

Raise awareness of censorship efforts world-wide by copying and redistributing this and similar lists, share them on other social news sites, discuss the issue on your blogs, with your friends, respected companies, and political groups.

Contribute your skills or spare change to projects such as Tor, Freenet, Freegate, Haystack, etc. that provide privacy and security to netizens. Offer encrypted versions of your services; use encryption anytime you can so it becomes the norm, and not "just for criminals."

Volunteer proxies, VPN services, or anything else that can help to open up the Internet to those in need. Create new projects and design new technologies to combat attempts at suppressing access to information.
Show HN: Amazing Insights - Real-time monitoring for Windows Azure apps
http://www.agilebusinesscloud.com
Cloud-based logging, performance analysis and application health monitoring systems in real-time.
Show HN: Network geographic activity visualization, made with Processing
Processing (processing.org) is such a great tool, I decided to spend some time learning about it during the holidays. Here's what I came up with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ehmI2YVdQ

The globe you see in the video is rendered in real-time, with a script polling a webserver via a PHP script which simply runs 'netstat | grep ":80" | grep "ESTABLISHED"' and returns whatever comes out. In other words, it returns a list of active HTTP connections to that specific web server.

After gathering a list of IPs, I find their geographic coordinates via Maxmind's GeoLiteCity database (it's free and pretty good :). Finally, I plot each connection as a line which fades as it goes further. This fading is important, because it allows to distinguish locations with more connections from the rest.

This was inspired by a very similar visualization which Google has in a big screen at the GooglePlex, but I couldn't find a video of it.

Comments and other visualizations are much appreciated.
Windows 7 RC review
http://techcombo.com/windows-7-rc-review
Microsoft has been pouring their heart and soul into creating Windows 7, which could be their best operating system up until now, according to analysts. There has been much controversy over the release of Windows 7 in the last month or so, as you may have observed. Initially, Windows 7 RC was to be announced publicly on May 5th, but earlier for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. However, a couple of days later, it turned out that it had been leaked on P2P file-sharing sites , just what everyone needed after the Pirate Bay trial. Well, now that it has been released, TechCombo would like to review Windows 7 RC for you readers, let’s see what all this hype is really about!
India has the most number of enslaved people in the world
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/country/india/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=india&utm_campaign=globalslaveryindex
"The 2013 US TIP Report cites figures of an estimated 20 to 65 million Indian citizens in forced labour within India as a result of debt bondage.6 While this estimate is much larger than the Walk Free estimate, both estimates underscore the enormity of the problem within India itself.
Many of India’s enslaved have not been moved from one place to another – they are enslaved in their own villages

Reports consistently note that India’s most significant challenge is the high number of Indian citizens in various forms of modern slavery within India’s borders. For example, the 2013 US TIP Report that suggests ninety per cent of trafficking in India is internal."
Spawnfest 2012: a 48 hour programming contest featuring Erlang 
http://www.spawnfest.com
Hi everybody,

It's time for the second Spawnfest (48 hour programming contest for Erlang, much like Rails Rumble and Node Knockout) and this year it is scheduled for 7th and 8th of July 2012.

Our committee is currently working on sponsors and prizes. We've secured some of the big names in the Erlang community as judges.

We're very excited about this opportunity to show the world what Erlang/OTP is capable of! The contest is not limiting entrants to web applications, in fact, we'll be having nominees in different categories.

You can register your team at http://spawnfest.com/
Show HN: The Baseball Map v2.0 – Explore every baseball stadium in the US
http://www.thebaseballmap.com/
I initially released this last week but version 2 is now live with a bunch of new features. Feedback is appreciated!
Questionable Value Proposition(QVP)
I have a product prototype. Here's the proposition I am making to investors:

I will give them 5% equity for $1 dollar under the following conditions:
Every year for the first 3 years, they are required to buy an extra 1%
of equity at the value of the revenue for that year.

For example:

Year 1: Say revenue is $0, then they will buy 1% at $0 dollars, so free.

Year 2: Say revenue is $1 Million, then they will buy 1% at $1 Million.

Year 3: Say revenue is $10 Million, then they will buy 1% at $10 Million.

So, they will have paid $11 million for those 3%.

I just want to hear what people think about this.
Prop 19 defeated..What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. LikePot.com
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/proposition-19-key-facts-on-californias-marijuana-legalization/19545527
Mmmh..Was gonna do a few side projects. :)
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PotAce.com @_@
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Why is HN made in tables? Aren't they run by nerds?
https://twitter.com/#!/jessicahische/status/111203284185919488
Why is http://news.ycombinator.com/ made in tables? Aren't they run by nerds?