jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Economics of (Killing) Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits
http://torrentfreak.com/the-economics-of-killing-mass-bittorrent-lawsuits-110918/
While mass settlement lawsuits filed against alleged BitTorrent users have the potential to bring in millions in revenue, recent rulings in US District courts are going to severely cut into potential profits. Has the tide turned? It looks like a distinct possibility.
Rate My Startup: gotProject.com
Hi everyone, I've spent the last several months developing gotProject.com and I am very curious to hear your opinions about it.

In short, gotProject is a simple way to save and organize online information like urls, images, videos, and text. The web service is based on a drag drop interface that is fully supported on both Computers and the iPad. I tried to bring a new approach by merging search and spatial organization of items.

There are several competitors in this space, so I'd love to know how you think gotProject compares. Thanks!

Here is a link to short 1 minute intro video that introduces the concept
http://www.gotproject.com/?concept
Are You Fu***** Coding Me? - A blog about Go language...
http://areyoufuckingcoding.me/
Hello, some time ago I've started writing a blog about Go programming language and my transition from Ruby/Python programmer into full time Go developer. I think people interested in learning Go or looking for stuff related with distributed computing will find a lot of useful things there.

Cheers, nu7
Show HN: My weekend hacking project, Mugshot Wars
http://mugshotwars.com/
Let me know if you have any suggestions!
Show HN: Structured HTML table data extraction from URLs in Go
https://github.com/nfx/go-htmltable
This library aims to be something like pandas.read_html or table_extract Rust crate, but more idiomatic for Go.

htmltable enables structured data extraction from HTML tables and URLs and requires almost no external dependencies. Tested with Go 1.18.x and 1.19.x. Complex tables with row and col spans are natively supported as well.
Freelancers - Ask for more
http://stevenkovar.com/freelancing/a-novel-concept%E2%80%94ask-for-more/
Lots of freelancers here. This has helped me increase my revenues by doing the same thing I always do: bust it. Hope it helps a few of you.
Why HATEOAS?
http://blogs.sun.com/craigmcc/entry/why_hateoas
"It started with a simple question or two, which boil down to:
* If Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS) is so cool, why is it not being used by more REST APIs today?
* Are there any short term benefits to go along with the stated long term benefits like adaptability to change?"
Ask HN: Security of new credit card with {card, exp. date, CVV} on the same side
The fresh-new personal credit card I received (Canadian VISA) has card number and expiration date at the back of the card, neatly next to the three-digit CVV security number oÔ.

Wasn't the separation of { number, expiration date } and { security CVV } on both sides a security feature? Why is VISA undoing this / what's the security rationale?

A. Is the CVV security number useless anyway nowadays?

B. Has taking pictures of both sides become easy to the average optical attacker, making CVVs moot?

C. Is it an economical calculation that CVV-on-back-of-card costs N seconds of CVV spelunking during the average purchase, thus costing $$$/year in abandoned-midway purchases?

D. Has fraud reached a low enough point where it simply no longer matters to shave some of it with defensive measures?

E. Variant: has fraud reached a low enough point where the cost of the mechanical process of back-of-card CVV printing exceeds the cost of fraud?

F. Does this policy vary by region? (e.g. is VISA doing this in disciplined Canada, but never will in the <whatever_country_with_more_fraud>)?

G. ???

I'd mostly bet on C; what do you think? Also, should I worry and complain, or is attempting to talk to a bank beating a dead horse?
PBS: Triumph of the Nerds
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6861551048480702569&q=triumph+of+the+nerds&total=71&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
1996 PBS documentary

here's part 1 of 6-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ZLZsGAfYU
OrientDB?
Any advice from folks who have deployed OrientDB alongside MongoDB for networked document search?
Challenge: Can we build a company to 10k MRR in 90 days starting from scratch?
We've got a SaaS company that is doing pretty well, and development is coming to an end. We're ready for a new challenge and we had the idea of trying to develop a business with 100% transparency including a 1 hour webinar once a week for 12 weeks.

We've thought about doing this in one of two ways:

1. We develop the idea
2. Let the community vote on the idea

The goal would be obviously to develop a business but also to share 100% of what we do to get customers, how we build the product and everything in between. 100% bare all.

Would this be something that startup founders would be interested in seeing? If so would you prefer option 1 or 2 above?
Our Worst Nightmares About the Government Tracking Us Just Came True
http://gizmodo.com/5622800/our-worst-nightmares-about-the-government-tracking-us-just-came-true
Creepy.
Ask: What is the best blogging platform? 
I am new to the blogosphere and wondering the best place to get started.
Honestly I am looking for a way to "get off" the social network grid, perhaps connecting to Facebook and twitter via APIs but not having an explicit account.
Wikileaks attack fake?
I was curious to how bad the DDOS of Wikileaks was, so I pulled down the A records for the domain. I noticed that there were two records. One of them never loads, and the other IP returns an empty response. I decided I would use curl to specify the Host: header, and I suddenly saw wikileaks again. Nothing there though, so it leads me to believe maybe something fake is going on? Either that or the DDOSers are quite naive (to leave one IP protected). You can even browse the site, just put 46.51.186.222 wikileaks.org in your hosts file.
Twitter performances of GOP Candidates
http://us2012.cilekagaci.com/
Tracking the net change in the number of Twitter followers of the GOP candidates.
Most inspiring 46 seconds with Steve Jobs
http://zuvvu.com/article.php?id=48aedb8880cab8c45637abc7493ecddd
Short video on Steve Job's Vision of the world
Ask HN: Which skills do you think a front-end developer should have?
I'm starting my developer career in this area, I'll love to hear some opinions from you guys. What should I learn? Know?

Thanks.
Ask HN: Do you use real-time analytics and for what?
There seems to be a lot of buzz building around real-time analytics. Nearly any time a discussion about Google Analytics comes up, someone seems to chime in with a wish-list for GA to add real-time stats. (Usually more of a complaint about not offering it, or a wonder at why they are missing out on that market.)

I don't understand the need for real time traffic monitoring except in some very specific niches. It's always been my opinion that analytics (or any data, for that matter) is only useful if you can analyze the cause and respond accordingly. There are some occasions that would call for a real-time response, but not many.

So do you use real-time analytics for your website, and for what purpose? Has an occasion come up that required you to respond immediately rather than a few hours or even a day later?
AWS Service Credit
Thought I'd share and see what people think of their response.This was an automated mail and not from a request for credit.

Dear AWS Customer,

Starting at 12:47AM PDT on April 21st, there was a service disruption (for a period of a few hours up to a few days) for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS that primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in a single Availability Zone within our US East Region. You can read our detailed summary of the event here:
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648

We’ve identified that you had an attached EBS volume or a running RDS database instance in the affected Availability Zone at the time of the disruption. Regardless of whether your resources and application were impacted, we are going to provide a 10 day credit (for the period 4/18-4/27) equal to 100% of your usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances and RDS database instances that were running in the affected Availability Zone. This credit will be automatically applied to your April bill, and you don’t need to do anything to receive it. You can see your service credit by logging into your AWS Account Activity page after you receive your upcoming billing statement.

Last, but certainly not least, we want to apologize. We know how critical the services we provide are to our customers’ businesses and we will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to drive improvement across our services.

Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
AppEng 1.1.2: 
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/08/couple-datastore-updates.html
batch writes: include entities in different entity groups in one db.put() or db.delete()
5 days to decide whether you're ready to found
https://medium.com/career-pathing/f2bb86e0bf4a
A suggested checklist of things to do before you decide to go all-in on your startup idea.
Show HN: Makery – Static website builder that works in the browser
https://console.makery.app
I've never really liked using drag-and-drop website builders but starting from a template always felt like too much work.

Makery combines the best of both worlds.

My goal was to create a site builder that:
- Allows me to use modern frameworks like React, Tailwind, and Nextjs
- Build pages from predefined components
- Customize pages right in my browser
- Deploy my website with a single click

Probably the most interesting feature of the product is the page editor. With the editor, you can quickly build new pages using predesigned building blocks, built with React and Tailwind, and customize them to your liking right in the browser. The editor generates the preview on the client side, which makes the editing experience really nice. You can only use a fixed set of npm packages at the moment.

Let me know if you want to build an actual website with it and I can create an account for you.
Is It Time to Ditch IE6?
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/25/is-it-time-to-ditch-ie6/
IE6 turns 7 years old this week. Its successor is almost two years old, and IE8 is on the horizon. So why do so many web sites still support it? Why do so many people still use it? And is it time we said, "Enough is enough," and dropped support for it completely?
Show HN: Semantic Search of Millions of NFTs
https://www.nyckel.com/nft-finder/
The sprawling world of NFTs would benefit from a semantic search app. So we made one.

Try text queries like “a city in space”, “monet”, or “cat wearing a red hat”. Or image queries by uploading an image or by clicking on one of NFTs on the right.

Enjoy!
Show HN: I developed a website to find books similar to my kid's favorite
https://www.feedingreader.com
I built this ReactJS/Ruby on Rails single page web app out of personal need. My son wanted a book like “Curious George” but I didn’t have a good way to find one. The tool allows you to flip through pages of books for online previews.
Anyone interested in teaching arc?
I would like to learn Arc and could use some help and I'm willing to pay for it. I'd like someone that is a really great programmer (I hope to learn from one of the best) to commit to helping me for 3 hours per week.
My programing experience is limited to 6 months pasting together a C# asp.net app 10 years ago. My wife and son are also going to be learning, but I'll be the interface for them.

Once I get a handle on the basics I'm thinking that the best way for me to learn is to try to build a contact management app I've been thinking about for a long time. My hope is that within a month or two my tutor can spend most of his time showing me how to improve my code and letting me read code he/she wrote as part of this "class project."

Since I don't have the expertise to know who is an expert and who is not, I'm hoping the folks on this forum will help me with that.

Thanks in advance for any advice (cross posted from arc forum).
Apple now worth double Dell's market value
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/14397/
Today, in intraday NASDAQ trading, Apple's market value passed 2 times that of Dell's, $127.81 billion vs. $63.65 billion.
Show HN: Conway's Game of Life JS implementation
http://54.247.181.15/
All credit goes to https://twitter.com/WiseAndy
Show HN: Hype Pro uses Matter.js for Physics animations without writing code
http://tumult.com/hype/pro/
We're integrating with the awesome project Matter.js (http://brm.io/matter-js/) as a Physics engine for our HTML5 animation app. Here's a quick demo video showing it specifically in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHI-hNjiors

In developing, I'd often spend hours playing with it making complex rube goldberg setups and pinball machines :).
The Grumpy Programmer's Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications
http://grumpy-testing.com
Introductory guide to get PHP devs down the road to building their applications in such a way that they are easier to test using testing frameworks like PHPUnit
Startup brings free wifi to SF
http://www.theregister.com/2007/07/28/meraki_free_the_net/
A California startup is relying on civic-minded volunteers in San Francisco to accomplish a goal that so far has eluded the city's government leaders: provide residents with wireless internet access that's free and dependable.
Show HN: myfaves.fm – A flat-ui music player built with Meteor
http://myfaves.fm
I recently launched my side project I've been building with Meteor js over the past few months.

It uses the Soundcloud, Hypemachine, and exfm public APIs to pull in your 'favorite' tracks from each of your usernames provided. It's gives you a unified playlist of all your favorite tracks across the different sites.

Audio is being played using the HTML5 Audio API, so it currently only works in Chrome and Safari.

Built with:
* Meteor JS – http://Meteor.com
* Bourbon Sass Mixin Library – http://bourbon.io
* Spin.js – http://fgnass.github.io/spin.js/
* Moment.js – http://momentjs.com/
* RSVP.js – https://github.com/tildeio/rsvp.js — Reply
Solitude and Leadership
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going.
Ask HN: Please review my webapp.
The website is for cricket fans.

http://doosracricket.com/

For reviewing this app, consider it similar to Baseball.
More details at: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket
Ask HN: What's the point of this kind of API?
I have seen some api requests on the web with a https GET response body starting with the following characters:

)]}'

Then this characters are followed by arrays of elements without keys(as a JSON). What's the point of having this structure of response requests?
Show HN: Unschooler predicts future career by analyzing YouTube
https://unschooler.me/skills/
We created an experimental feature that predicts a future career by analyzing Youtube preferences.

Our main goal is to help young people find their passion. Every teenager we spoke to mentioned Youtube as a learning source. Suddenly we realized that YouTube contains all information about interests, learning history, and answer search, underneath which lies their unique purpose. However, most parents don't know how to apply these interests to their teens' future careers.

We came up with the idea to translate interests from Youtube into the career language and predict the probable specialization on the single Skills Map.

How it works:

1. We analyze interests on Youtube and predict suitable specializations with Skills Map.

2. People try real daily tasks of the recommended professions for 1 week. Every task updates the skills Map and prediction.

From the beginning, we compared the data with a control group of our friends, who had already known their passion. We are still in the process of filling the skills database, but we already see precise matches for our users, despite missing some particular areas:

— Our designer's map matched his passion for 3D and generative graphics — https://unschooler.me/profile/alexander-dovksha-1102

— This man is a software developer, and our algorithm showed us this before we even knew him — https://unschooler.me/profile/alexey-klimko-1034

— Our social media manager leans more toward Design than Marketing — https://unschooler.me/profile/4nNgEXpj5TR5UDV9TxT7Wp0uTkG2-1...

— This girl is learning cosmetics from a chemistry perspective - however, our data showed her real passion and aptitude: interacting with people around these cosmetic topics — https://unschooler.me/profile/liliya-bohdan-1149

Test your skills https://unschooler.me/skills and share your opinion about the results with a link to your profile here, in the comments. Share this link with young people who are choosing a future profession or do not know what they are interested in.
Your Moves moves, visualized
http://blog.cartodb.com/post/83723812630/moves-bought-by-facebook-visualized-by-cartodb
The level of detail that suddenly gets Facebook could get scary... Visualize your Moves moves in 2 minutes and check.
Ask HN: Is this a XSS? What else can I do?
Hi,

About 3 weeks ago I was posting something to posterous and noticed that there was something weird at the top of the page.

Inspecting, playing around and such I figured out and inserted JS into the post, doing an alert() when the page loaded.
http://i.imgur.com/pL8W2.png

From what I know, and what I have read this is an XSS, Im not completely sure of which length of script could I execute but I think it could be enough to load a script from another page, and then do the malicious stuff.

I contacted Posterous through their Feedback form about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and I havent received an answer. Since the post still shows the alert and its not fixed they may have not read the mail or discarded it...

Can anybody confirm that this is dangerous?
Ask HN: Why is getting more than 1% equity rare, even for the first employee?
It seems odd that I hear people talking about getting 0.5% equity joining as the first engineer of a startup. Chances are you are getting paid at least 25% less than you could elsewhere, and let's assume you're making $100k/y. Trading $25,000 of salary for 0.5% suggests the company is worth $5 million. That seems incredibly unlikely for startups hiring their first engineer, and also doesn't account for the tremendous increase of working hours and the greatly diminished job security.

This is never a deal I would take, even as a junior developer not making six figures.
How To Ensure Your Startup Will Fail
http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/how-to-ensure-your-startup-will-fail/
Luckily, most of the worst startup mistakes are things that you can change. What better time than the beginning of the week to take a look at some of them?
Freshly built: Mesos 0.15.0-rc4 packages
http://mesosphere.io/downloads/#apache-mesos-0.15.0-rc4
Mesosphere just built and uploaded Mesos 0.15.0-rc4 packages.
Lesson Learned:  Coding should be left to professionals
http://ozeanmedia.com/ozean_interactive/web-design/lessons-learned-in-mobile-app-development/
Normally, I leave coding to developers. However….
Playing around in the middle of the night last night when I couldn't sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate Droid Valentines Day App.
Apple co-founder hits the red carpet with gf Kathy Griffin
http://blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/09/wozniak-hits-th.html
Sorry for even posting this, but it's just too funny to pass up...
HEAT2X Engine closeup at 240fps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-4n-2MtECE
Link from:

http://copsub.com/autopsy-of-heat-2x-and-tm65le/

Had to edit the title a wee bit.
Show HN: Save 6 months to deploy your apps on AWS in 30 minutes
I am Romaric, CEO of Qovery (https://www.qovery.com) (Techstars Paris 2019). As an early-stage startup, I know how it can be painful to stay focus on our business. Especially when it comes to putting our apps online, that's precisely why, with my team of 7, we have created Qovery to help any company to deploy their apps on AWS in 30 minutes instead of months (no joke). We're still early stage, but:

1. More than 1200 developers and 10 companies are using Qovery .
2. We are financially backed by the co-founders of Datadog, Docker, PeopleDoc, and Contentsquare .

Take a look at this article to see how you can get started ( https://docs.qovery.com/guides/tutorial/how-to-deploy-your-application-on-aws-in-30-minutes/ ). Today, we support AWS and Digital Ocean, we expect to support GCP and Azure in the coming weeks.

About the co-founders: Pierre and I (Romaric) were working as SRE for Ullink, Red-Hat, Criteo, Sirdata for 10 years. Basically, we always were helping developers to deploy their apps and keep being as productive as possible. Instead of doing it for the next successful company, we decided to launch Qovery in Oct 2019. We have fundraised $1M (Techcrunch article), and we have been accelerated by Techstars. Since then, 1200 developers are using Qovery to deploy their apps, we have build a team of 8 engineers, and we are still hiring :) Join us in making the Cloud simple again :)

I am eager to hear from you.
There are almost 100 active startup accelerators in Europe today
http://tech.eu/research/29/there-are-roughly-100-active-startup-accelerators-europe/
We just launched Tech.eu, a new digital publication covering European tech innovation in depth, and one of our first posts is about the sheer number of startup accelerators currently operating across Europe today. Hopefully this submission isn't regarded as too promotional - we just figured Hacker News might be interested in this sort of thing :)
How Awkward. Today is Einstein's birthday and no Google doodle.. :(
https://google.com
Today is Einstein's birthday and Karl Max's death day. No google doodle. It is a shame google...
TinyMCE joins Ephox
http://moxiecode.com/
We are thrilled to announce that Moxiecode is joining the Ephox team! Together we are set to build the world's best WYSIWYG editing solutions for the web and for mobile devices.
Show HN: Formie – an open source (WIP) form website made with pure HTML/JS/CSS
https://github.com/div72/formie
Hey HN,

First time submitter here.

After a FOSS related interaction required me to use Google Forms 9 months, I wondered on why no such FOSS tool existed and decided to build it myself. I aimed the site to be for people like me, so no telemetry and minimal JS was the goal. I know this is rather small and incomplete compared to other projects but I've thought you folk might be interested.

Not sure if it breaks the pure part, but the site also uses Flask.

If you're lucky, you might find the app alive at: https://formie.div72.xyz.
Ask HN: Review my Startup - GitMac: Git, made easy
http://gitmacapp.com/
As a long time reader(lurker) of HN, I am excited to finally have something to share with everyone.

After migrating from Subversion (and the excellent Versions SVN client) - to Git, there wasn't an OSX app that made it easy to work with checkouts without using the command line (as much). So we decided to make one.

http://gitmacapp.com/

The product is basically at alpha/pre-beta stage, so any feedback would be very much appreciated. Thanks so much.