jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Google Search Quality Rating Guidelines leaked
http://searchengineland.com/download-the-latest-google-search-quality-rating-guidelines-97391
A updated version of the Google Quality Rating Guidelines handbook has been leaked. Can anyone confirm this is real?
Pinterest+Twitter= Semantweet.
http://unbouncepages.com/www-semantweet-com/
Semantic+Twitter.
The fast way to organize and store your favorite tweets, coming soon.
The Curious Case of FireChat, the IM app that works with no Internet connection
https://medium.com/mobile-culture/5b11fe8e131c
FireChat? 100K/day? How come an almost-unknown app is exploding that big?
One of today’s attacks to this web server
http://www.lavandeira.net/2013/04/one-of-todays-attacks-to-this-web-server/
My web server was attacked by some guy in Germany last night. This is happens several times a day, so it’s usually not a concern. Ths time it happened while I was monitoring the server, so I had some fun looking at what the attacker was trying to do.
Why do we need more than one language?
http://tobilehman.com/blog/2012/09/26/why-do-we-need-more-than-one-language/
This article addresses the question of why we have so many programming languages, and we don't have a single one.
Development and Deployment at Facebook
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/content?g=53319&type=article&urlTitle=development-and-deployment-at-facebook
"Internet companies such as Facebook operate in a "perpetual development" mindset. This means that the website continues to undergo development with no predefined final objective, and that new developments are deployed so that users can enjoy them as soon as they're ready. To support this, Facebook uses both technical approaches such as peer review and extensive automated testing, and a culture of personal responsibility."
Agile Software Development
http://www.digite.com/
Digité is the leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management solutions. Digité enterprise provides a full-lifecycle Integrated Platform to facilitate IT programs and projects - from business requirements capture to testing / verification and deployment.
"Data-driven Design" by Josh Higgins and Dan Ryan from Obama for America 2012
http://datadrivendesign.eventbrite.com/
Come Join Practice Fusion for our first speaker series event of 2013.

This month we are excited to present Josh Higgins, Creative Director for Obama for America, and Daniel Ryan, Director of Front-end Development for Obama for America discussing “Data-driven Design." You've read the stories in the press, but this is your chance to get the "real" backstory about the design and testing process behind the Obama 2012 campaign. The talk covers the testing methodologies and processes that helped achieve the most successful online fundraising campaign in political history. You will learn practical strategies from real world case studies that are applicable to any industry.

Date: Monday March 4, 2013
Location: Practice Fusion 420 Taylor St San Francisco CA 94102
Time -
Doors open: 6:30pm
Presentation: 7 - 8
Q&A: 8 - 8:30
Finish: 8:30pm
You must RSVP at Eventbrite and have ticket WITH YOU to secure your spot.
No ticket/ No entrance
Useful Tips and Tricks for Google+ (Plus)
http://designmodo.com/tips-tricks-google-plus/
A few months ago, Google announced the launch of the +1 button that has been tested on a small number of users. Two weeks ago it was time for what was expected for a while already to be brought to the surface – Google+ (Plus). Google+ is the first Google brand social network that promises involvement in the social environment through a carefully designed tool that is ready to become a reference service.
Growing oragans out of the body
http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue.html
While not technically high-tech, I found this amazing.
Startups Aren't A Fashion Show
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/06/startups-arent-a-beauty-contest.html
A good friend of mine who played in the NFL once told me that the biggest difference between the college game and the pros is the ferocious speed and the sheer density of the players....
Ask HN: Is comment saving broken right now?
Don't know if it is just me but when I attempt to reply to comments the replies are not being saved. No error message or anything when this happens.
Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3122542.html?menu=news.quirkies
Is this made up?
Analyis on patent of compression of truly random data
http://gailly.net/05533051.html
a mathematically impossible process
How-to: Handsfree Siri-iOS maps replacement with Google Maps
https://twitter.com/sameerb/status/280365425093644289
easy workaround; no typing, handsfree
Tips for True Leadership (from Techquano)
http://www.techguano.com/2013/01/10-tips-for-true-leaders_29.html
Want to know how to be a real leader? Read on.
Show HN: Deliver big burger on your CLI
https://github.com/Doarakko/bigburger
Show big burger on your cli.
You can put in and out any toppings, like cheese, and tomato, lettuce, bun.
YouTube Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music
http://www.technobuzz.net/youtube-mutes-videos/
Yes now youtube is trying a new way of combating copyright violations on the site - removing the audio, leaving the video. Yes If you posted Unauthorized Copyrighted Music Video on Youtube and it was Copyrighted than they will remove the Audio
from the Video. The official notice from YouTube under the video says the following: “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.”
The future of blood donations and how one startup is disrupting the space.
http://socialblood.tumblr.com/post/45295838285/the-future-of-blood-donations-and-how-one-startup-is
Back when we started the project in June 2011 our idea was just to create a tool that connects blood donors and recipients using Facebook as the underlying medium and nothing more than that.

Slowly but steadily the idea went viral, from my shared office in Bangalore to people in Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand – it became more like a local community project – people requested for blood groups in their countries.

After spending a considerable time on the project and understanding the whole blood donation sector,we realized we are dealing with a humongous problem.

The reality set in gradually, the whole process and experience of donating blood hasn’t changed all that much since the1950’s!

The blood banks across the globe were operating pretty old-school despite the technological leaps all around, and sadly there was little they had done to change the donor experience. In short, the sector was badly in need of innovation.

That turned out to be the Eureka! moment for our team. We envisaged, that when a billion people can log onto Facebook, why can’t some good Samaritans among them donate blood utilizing the same platform while putting an end to the global blood crisis?
Constructive AWS Criticism, What could they have done better?
I'm finding the comments on the AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem post very negative and I wanted to start a thread that focuses on constructive feedback to amazon about what they could do better.

Things I'm thinking:

1) Let us know when you are done automating the exact process that caused EBS to go down this time and do a Post-Mortem about how you changed your infrastructure and your protocol.

2) Be transparent about when you have scheduled maintenance that makes each of your services at risk for a shutdown/high rate of errors so that your users can prepare.

3) Be more transparent and open your internal bug tracking tools so that your users are aware of what is currently going on internally in the AWS infrastructure and can plan accordingly.

HN: What are you men and women thinking?
Alteruism, the hacker way.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aidgrade-finding-out-what-works-where
Hackers way to aid: use meta analysis to check what aid helps or not in a specific domain that matters to you.
A Personal Roadmap
http://www.mattmazur.com/2008/07/a-personal-roadmap/
This is a follow up to a question I asked several weeks ago on HN about how I should prepare for entrepreneurship. As always, I appreciate any feedback.
Show HN: BigSearch – More than any ordinary multi-engines web searcher can do
https://github.com/garywill/BigSearch
This browser extension even works with websites that don't provide GET/POST interface (so-called Ajax-render websites). User can "send search request" to those websites just like to any working general search engine.
Python matplotlib xkcd style
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-in-matplotlib/
awesome
How To Startup In America
http://20minus.com/wp/2011/04/26/how-to-startup-in-america/
There is much frustration, confusion and disappointment about foreign entrepreneurs finding a legal way to start a company in the United States. For many this issue is considered so hard that withholds them from making the leap and venture in the US. In this post i will try to put things in perspective and shed some light on how to handle this issue.
Tonight's "The Last Lecture" ABC interview with Randy Pausch
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/
Part 1-4 are at the bottom. There are also photos, articles, etc. A nice compliment to the lecture itself (http://tinyurl.com/24x7b6).
Career day in kindergarten: how to demonstrate programming in 20 minutes?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455786/career-day-in-kindergarten-how-to-demonstrate-programming-in-20-minutes
How to teach the kids and their teachers about programming in a fun way
Show HN: Github Bagdes application
http://githubbadges.com/
This is the application that weights only 10k zipped content. I created it as weekend project for 10kappart competetion. Since they still not published it, I decieded to put on my own :)
Cypherpunk's Collection
http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2013/10/08/cypherpunks-collection/
Collection of current Internet privacy aware tools and projects.
The World's first data base for matter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo?ref=live
Very cool new product will bring the power of a spectrometer into your pocket and allow you to interact with the world like never before. Seems like a very groundbreaking technology and I can't wait to see how many different applications it can be used for.
What I need from a WindowManager/Desktop
http://psankar.blogspot.in/2012/10/what-i-need-from-wmdesktop.html
A list of conditions that I personally expect from a good windowmanager / desktop.
Inventor seeks to create Universal Cooking Machine
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/06/gwatamatic-the-technical-marvel-part-ii/
The technical details behind Gwata's sadza cooking machine and all the pictures too
Give 1 XO, Get 1 XO: OLPC to Make its "$100 Laptop" Publicly Available
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/olpc_to_make_its_100_laptop_publicly_available
OLPC, maker of the XO "$100 laptop," is running a promotion that will allow Americans and Canadians to pay $400 to purchase a laptop for a child in need, as well as one for themselves.
Music recommendation algo in Gremlin using the live WebOfData and LinkedData
http://wiki.github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/linkeddata-sail
Think this is major cool. This script is operating directly onto LinkedData and giving a good explanation of modern heuristic recommender algos.
How Much Should You Allocate For Your Small Business Marketing?
http://www.sourcepep.com/how-much-should-you-allocate-for-your-small-business-marketing/
The first half of this infographic deals with the current state of marketing budget allocation. This will help you understand how your peers are dealing with this issue and where you can leverage this info for your own benefit. The second half informs with how this budget should be allocated strategically.
Put Things Off for iPhone
http://putthingsoff.com
Put Things Off, the laid-back to-do list I built for iPhone, has been developed in my spare time for the last year.

The 'Web Tasks' backend is built on Google App Engine. I'm using Manic Messenger (http://www.manicnetworks.com/ ) as a proxy for the push notifications.

Would love to hear your thoughts if you have them.
Codemator.com
http://www.codemator.com/
Best Opensource Code for webdevelopers
A JavaScript Detection Pattern
http://mikewest.org/2010/03/javascript-detection-pattern
This article describes a technique for progressive enhancement that gives web developers the tools to style a elements differently based on the availability of JavaScript, while avoiding a potentially distracting flash of unenhanced content.
Meetupdiary
http://www.meetupdiary.com/hm/index.html
The simplest way to Plan and capture your meetup together
Various statistics on why companies contribute to the opensource community.
http://pascal.case.unibz.it/retrieve/2472/henkel2.pdf
Refer to the Appendix on this paper for various informative statistics on what kind of code is shared, and the percentage of code that is shared etc. (The article is dated 2004.)
This is huge, bounded gaps between primes 
http://aperiodical.com/2013/05/primes-gotta-stick-together/
The twin primes conjecture states that there are infinitely numbers n such that n and n+2 are prime. David Roberts on Google+ refers to this as “to put it mildly, EXTREMELY HARD to prove”. An equivalent statement is that there are infinitely many primes p and q such that |p−q|<3, and this, says David, allows the production of weaker conjectures:

Conjecture(N): there are infinitely many primes p and q such that |p−q|<N.

Anyway, according to a blog post by Peter Woit of Columbia University, who apparently got an email announcing it, there is a seminar today at Harvard at 3pm local time, in which “Yitang Zhang will present new results on ‘Bounded gaps between primes’”. Peter says that Zhang claims a proof of Conjecture(70,000,000), that is: there are infinitely many primes p and q such that |p−q|<70,000,000.
Ask HN: Ideas for first implementation for encryption algorithm
I have designed what I think is a pretty clever algorithm to encrypt web communications. It basically allows two or more people to communicate through a browser without any plaintext data leaving their local machines. My servers only hold ciphertext. I think this can be used in a number of implementations; but I have to start somewhere, so I would like to know what the HN community would like to see and use. My ideas:
-Encrypted Twitter-like app
-Encrypted social network
-Encrypted web-chat
-Encrypted email
-Anything else?

I think it is advantages to be able to be able to charge for the first implementation, so things like an encrypted social network may be a bad idea (even though I think there is probably a market for it).

Thanks for all the feedback!
Blackberry maker RIM profits fall sharply
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14941243
Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has seen its second-quarter profits more than halve, hurt by low demand for its older models.
Day One of The Second year of your Startup
http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/7/20/dealing-with-the-second-year-funk-of-a-startup/10178/view.aspx
Remember Day One of your new startup?

You jumped out of bed, kissed your wife on your way to work, and ran into the office ready to conquer the world.

That seems like a long, long time ago doesn't it?

It's now Day One of Year Two. Today you didn't jump out of bed because you were sleeping at your desk. You responded (3 hours later) to a text message your wife sent you asking if you were going to make it home tonight. You're not worrying about conquering the world today anymore, you're worried about how you're going to pay your mortgage tomorrow.

What the hell happened?

The Road is Longer than it Appears

The first mistake you made was convincing yourself and those around you that it would only be tough for a year. Startups take a long time to become successful, and even though you may read about one that grew quickly, most do not.

You need to recalibrate. Set your horizons for a 3-year window, not a 12 month window.

Realize that it may be longer than that. It's a startup career, not a startup project.

Spend Less Now

If you were like most, you tried to maintain your lifestyle while you eased into your startup world. That doesn't happen. That's like trying to go camping and bitching about not having Air Conditioning in your tent. You're in the wild, you need to rough it.

To do that, you need to cut every last expense you have, and then cut some more.

If you haven't figured it out by now, I can tell you first hand that things are going to get worse (financially) before they get better.

It's time to trade down into a cheaper car, refinance the house (think: "interest only"), and put the kibosh on any idea of a vacation. It's not in the cards.

Remember Why You're Here

You're not giving up your social life for a paycheck. When you started this company it was about more than just a big check (right?).

You started this company because you were passionate about blazing your own trail. You're doing it right now, and it's hard. But don't forget why you made this decision.

Remember today that you're not listening to your idiot boss make horrible decisions and hide in his bureaucratic bunker. You're not working like a slave to make some CEO who doesn't even know your name. You're taking control of your own destiny, and guess what - sometimes that's a very rocky road.
Show HN: Voyager – Code-first diagrams for microservices
https://voyager.vyne.co
Voyager is a small tool we built for quickly pulling together diagrams of your microservices (and dbs, MQs, etc), and how the data between them all relates.

Voyager started life as feature we were working on for Vyne (https://vyne.co), but we got feedback that some people would like to play with it directly. So, we've extracted it into a standalone tool, and we're releasing the first version today.

Voyager creates diagrams from Taxi (https://taxilang.org) code. We're working support for other schema specs (OpenAPI, Protobuf, SQL DDL), as well as an on-prem version that lets you publish directly from your code.

We'll also be open sourcing the code shortly too, there's just a little unpicking to do.

Here's our announcement blog post:
https://blog.vyne.co/introducing-voyager/

Please have a play, and let us know your thoughts!
India's invisible innovation
http://www.ted.com/talks/nirmalya_kumar_india_s_invisible_entrepreneurs.html
Can India become a global hub for innovation? Nirmalya Kumar thinks it already has. He details four types of "invisible innovation" currently coming out of India and explains why companies that used to just outsource manufacturing jobs are starting to move top management positions overseas, too. (Filmed at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool.)

Nirmalya Kumar is a professor of Marketing at the London Business School and a passionate voice for new entrepreneurs in India
Shortages forcing US hospitals to ration essential nutrients, even for preemies
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/children-are-dying/index.php
Experts call the nutrient shortage a public-health crisis and a national emergency—and are astounded that the government and manufacturers have let the situation become so dire.

“Children are dying,” says Steve Plogsted, a clinical pharmacist who chairs the drug-shortage task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). “They’re not getting any calcium or any zinc. Or they’re not getting any phosphorous, and that can lead to heart standstill. I know of a neonate who had seven days without phosphorous, and her little heart stopped.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire career, and I’ve been a pharmacist for 40-some years,” says Michael Cohen, president of the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and a 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow. “This should never be allowed to happen.”
FontasticIcons for iOS
https://github.com/AlexDenisov/FontasticIcons
This library provides pretty simple integration of iconic fonts into iOS application.
Show HN: PostgreSQL proxy for integration testing things you don't control
https://github.com/luqasn/postgres-magicdb
Hi hackers!

I recently tried to get a stack of microservices running in a docker-compose sandbox for integration testing using their original (e.g. prod) configuration.
This means I didn't know what credentials they'd be using or what database name.

So I hacked together a postgresql proxy using an existing project (https://github.com/KnifeMaster007/pgAuthProxy) and simply allow any credentials to connect and make sure the desired database exists before returning control to the caller.

Sharing this in the hopes it is useful for someone else.

Lucas
Ajaxify Rails
https://github.com/ncri/ajaxify_rails
Ajaxify a rails application. Easy to use Ruby gem in the spirit of Pjax and Turbolinks, but with a non pushState browser hash url fallback. Transparently handles redirects and supports page titles and flash messages.
10 Tech Urban Legends Exposed
http://www.cio.com/special/slideshows/it_urban_legends/
The world of information technology is not immune from the reaches of the urban legend. This slideshow includes some of the most notable IT urban legends that have propagated over the years.
Scala bot OMGBot wins Letterblox
http://mr23.g23.co/post/2505138852/omgbot-wins-letterblox-source-code-at
A simple scala bot that wins like a boss. Probably could be coded better.
Does HP track what we print and scan?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-07/mom-with-hp-printer-shows-the-digital-ease-of-bogus-cash.html
From the Article:

Manufacturers of printers and scanners, working with central banks and law enforcement officials worldwide, have also taken steps to fight counterfeiters, creating software that can detect and block the scanning of bills.

“HP works with law enforcement, industry, central banks and government agencies around the world to reduce the risk of counterfeiting activities,” said Michael Thacker, director of media relations for HP, the computer hardware company based in Palo Alto, California. He declined to be more specific: “Due to potential security risks, HP is obligated to keep the details of its activities confidential.”
Goals vs. System
http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/goals_vs_systems/
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, talks about working on a system versus focusing on a goal.
Facebook Timeline Ad Displays "Random" Number of Friends
http://imgur.com/T7WjF
I got this ad on my facebook.. when i visited the next page to my surprise i was served the same ad with a different number of users who have already signed up for timeline. When I refreshed a few times i actually got a number less than i had previously gotten. Strange behaviour. Wonder what the reason for this is.
Jazzhands = Javascript + Leap Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWs0Gteocl8
I wrote a Javascript library for Leap motion controllers. I built it for quick integration with web apps, and have a forgiving UI.
Lisp Club
http://fausto.void.cc/blog/
A friend of mine, mixing Fight Club and Lisp during a hacking night.

We need to make more soap :-)
Entreprenuers == Academics
http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/similarities-between-an-entrepreneur-and-an-academic/
Great similarities between an entrepreneur and an academic