jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
London Erlang Factory Lite 2012 Co-organised by Google. Let’s meet up there 
http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2012
The full-day conference accompanied by 3 days of training is the place to be this November. Co-organised by Google, it brings together some of the most interesting names in the Erlang community. Check out our impressive line-up of speakers. We have for you the two co-inventors of Erlang - Mike Williams and Robert Virding, Simon Thompson and Huiqing Li - inventors of Wrangler, Alvaro Videla - co-author of the RabbitMQ book and Ward Bekker - the Travis-CI contributor.

Participants will get to know how Google’s using APIs with Erlang, how to build an FTP server in 30 minutes with Ranch, learn about NIFs, MeshUp, CyLec, HA systems and Erlang in global radio astronomy. And let’s not forget the Erlounge party we’ve planned after the conference!
For those interested in training, the Factory will be preceded by 3-day Erlang Express, OTP Express and Riak courses starting on the 5 Nov.

To join us in London, share your ideas and meet up with the Erlang crowd, sign up for the London Erlang Factory Lite through our website.

The early bird price is available only until Monday 15 October! Sign up early!
Show HN: 0xFast Indexed Streams – Search and Stream Blockchain Data
https://manishrjain.com/0xfast-indexed-streams
With indexed streams, you can

Search a block by hash.
Search a txn by hash.
Stream blocks by miner address.
Stream transactions by from address, to address, or both.
Stream logs by contract address, topic, or both.
Static Methods and Unit Testing
http://www.jramoyo.com/2013/03/static-methods-and-unit-testing.html
We all know that Interfaces allow us to write loosely-coupled components, and that this "loose-coupledness" comes-in handy during unit testing. Because we can separate the implementation from the method signatures, Interfaces allow us to mock implementations of our dependencies.

Mocking dependencies is important during unit testing because it allows us to isolate the components we are testing from their dependencies -- this means that incorrect behavior from any dependency will not affect the results of our tests.
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to improve the house search in UK
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-property-searchuk/plhmaijeihlahacliknfghpgeddckjig
Hey All

I had been searching for flats to rent recently, and like any other tenant in London, I was looking at Zoopla and Rightmove.

I was looking for a flat that I’ll be sharing with my flatmate, and one of our primary requirements was to have separate bathrooms.

Zoopla and Rightmove have filters for almost everything but, for some reason, not for bathrooms. I realized this was an issue many faced, so I created a straightforward Chrome extension to help with the process.

I believe it will be helpful to you folks too.
Get Off Your Lazy Ass And Get On Google+ | Social Marketing
http://naomediacon.com/blog/bid/111507/Get-off-your-lazy-ass-and-get-on-Google-Social-marketing
You don't think your competition is on there now? Why wait to find out?
Million Singles Project
http://www.millionsinglesproject.com/
One Million Singles on One Webpage
A new website claims to display one million singles from around the world on one webpage. The website, established by 32-year-old Israeli Etai Hugi, attempts to collect one million male and female singles from all over the world on a single page. The founder claims that following a disappointing love affair that left him with a broken heart, he heard from a friend that "true love has a one in a million chance” and decided to take this one step further, establishing a website that intends to display half a million single females on one side and half a million single males on the other. He named it "The million Singles Project”, or MillionSinglesProject.com.
Participation in this project costs $1 for a lifetime membership, guaranteeing a picture of the participant + a short text and a link of the participant's choice. The website was set up in English and addresses singles all over the world. The founder says that in the future, a search by country will be enabled.
The website includes a Q&A section on the project and insights on the singles market, as well as what to do with the million dollars gained by the project. Some of the answers are funny and introduce a fresh aspect to the dating scene. It seems that we won’t be passing the coming winter alone.
Eco-Friendly Fashion on the Red Carpet
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/eco-friendly-fashion-red-carpet/
Livia Firth kicks of this year's Green Carpet Challenge in an Armani gown made of recycled plastic, but what does this say for mainstream eco-fashion?
Ask HN: Is it a bad thing that I am already getting bored of LPTHW?
I'm a new programmer that started learning python at the beginning of this month more or less and started using the book learn python the hard way. Currently I am on exercise 37 and for the past several exercises I have felt extremely bored and am just curious if this could potentially be a bad thing? I understand everything Zed is saying but it's extremely easy and I'm not really learning anything new.
Are Startups Thinking Too Small? 
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/are-startups-thinking-too-small-134809
Are Startups Thinking Too Small?
At Disrupt conference, investors and entrepreneurs fret By Anthony Ha
PSYOP WWII – Propagating Carrot Propaganda
http://lintcenter.info/blog/entry/3053573/psyop-wwii-%E2%80%93-propagating-carrot-propaganda
“Carrots are divine... You get a dozen for a dime, It's maaaa-gic!” – Bugs Bunny

In classic Bugs Bunny form, moms and dads, and even the British government have touted the advantages of eating carrots. Beta-carotene, the substance in carrots that helps to provide its orange color, does indeed have healthy benefits. The night seeing claims, however, are (unfortunately) inaccurate.

The urban legend of carrots generating super-human sight dates back to the British propaganda machine and an age-old intelligence tradecraft tactic of disinformation to deceive Nazi Germany.

Following Italian air force theorist, General Giulio Douhet’s model of bombing “vital centers,” rather than strategic infrastructure or wartime elements like factories and supply depots, the Germans focused bombing runs on civilian population centers. In the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, carried out incessant nighttime bombing raids intended to break the will of the British populace.

Even under intense and logistical bombardment, the British Royal Air Force was not deterred and kept sending up fighter aircraft to intercept German bombers. RAF pilots were highly trained and skilled professionals, and eventually, with great success, were able to inflict great damage on the Luftwaffe.

The explanation for the almost sudden change in British dogfighting success was attributed to RAF pilots’ superior skill. While RAF pilots were experts at their craft, the explanation of suddenly overwhelming dogfighting skills mismatched the events taking place.

The RAF, in fact, had a tactical advantage which allowed RAF pilots to determine where inbound German aircraft were using a secrete defensive countermeasure – the Airborne Interception Radar.

This technological advancement was so sensitive that British Intelligence created a cover story to parlay German suspicion of a new radar system being deployed. In turn, British Intelligence decided to create a cover story and put out a disinformation campaign.

In one newspaper article, John “Cat's Eyes” Cunningham, Royal Air Force Officer, cited his love of carrots as the reason he was able to be so successful against the Germans. In fact, Cunningham claimed that eating carrots allowed him to see at night. New stories started to appear about RAF pilots and their carrot eating habits. The disinformation campaign and heroics of carrot-eating RAF pilots worked so well that ordinary Brits began to gobble up carrots.

And thus the legacy of carrots and its superhuman imparting qualities began.
The First Object Designed By Man
http://rienswagerman.blogspot.com/2010/04/acheulian-hand-axe.html
All art and technology began when early men chipped an oval stone flint with symmetrical precision to produce a point and extremely sharp edges
Show HN: ProtectedText.com - The safest site on the web for storing your text
http://www.protectedtext.com/#homepage
The safest site on the web for storing your text!
Dropbox's Lan Sync Protocol
http://geeklogs.posterous.com/dropbox-lan-sync-protocol
I would appreciate comments and feedback so I can update the analysis.
Python  FOSDEM 2013 - Call For Papers 
http://python-fosdem.org
Hi all,

This is the official call for sessions for the FOSDEM 2013 [1] python devroom.

This year, Python will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss
with a lot of Python Users, it's the place to be in February !

Like every year, FOSDEM [1] will take place the first week-end of February in
Brussels (Belgium).

We will have a room in the K building (80 seats). This dev room will be open all
day Sunday, February 3rd.

If you want to hold a session in the Python devroom, please fill this survey [2]

Call for Papers is open until December 21st

This year, the submissions will be reviewed by a committee:

* Tarek Ziade - https://twitter.com/tarek_ziade (Mozilla)
* Ludovic Gasc - https://twitter.com/GMLudo (Eyepea)
* Christophe Simonis - https://twitter.com/KangOl (OpenERP)
* Stephane Wirtel - https://twitter.com/matrixise (OpenERP)

Thank you for submitting your sessions and see you soon in Brussels to talk
Python and/or have some nice Belgian Beers.

[1] http://fosdem.org/2013/
[2] http://python-fosdem.org

Here is the official site for the devroom: http://python-fosdem.org
And a link to this announce: http://wirtel.be/posts/en/2012/11/20/call_of_papers_fosdem_2013/

Please, could you share this information, thank you

Best regards,

Stephane Wirtel (@matrixise)
JQuery and audio on web
http://www.designresourcebox.com/jquery-and-audio-on-web-20-audio-player-plugins/
Even though audio on websites is predominantly ignored and most of the times hated, there are websites where audio is necessary. Starting with sites where people go to listen to songs or various websites where certain actions trigger a small audio file to make the experience more interesting.
Happy Birthday Igor Sysoev, Nginx author (fact discovered in source)
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,215940
Someone reading nginx source deduced his birthday, which he has acknowledged.
CampusHash : Teaching sensible web design and development in India
http://www.campushash.com/
Presenting my startup, CampusHash.
Show HN: JSON 2 HTML Converter using Python-Flask
https://github.com/softvar/json2html-flask
JSON 2 HTML Converter using Python-Flask
Google knows you hate your job
http://boatontheocean.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/i-got-an-idea/
If you have the chance to quit you job, why will you quit and how much in dollars will it take you to quit your current job?
Short 1984 Documentary on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.archive.org/details/CC1024_artificial_intelligence
Features LISP, John McCarthy and expert systems.
Why Apple Is Losing Its Aura
http://feeds.fastcompany.com/~r/fastcompany/headlines/~3/39UAReWVPQk/why-apple-is-losing-its-aura
Why Apple Is Losing Its Aura
65190 guitar chord combinations. Are we missing any?
http://www.chordinator.com/
OK, we had this library of chord images and associated meta data, so we put together this site to make some peoples lives a bit easier.

We plan to expand on more instruments, starting with the ukulele and then moving on to other stringed instruments in the order they are needed.

Feel free to let us know what you think and which features we should add to make it more usable.
Best way to do Mac and Windows cross develoment?
I am about to start a new project for a desktop GUI program, and am curious about what the best method for doing cross-development on Windows and Macs is these days. Do .NET apps run on Macs; should I turn to Java; is there something better out there these days? (Before you ask, making it be web-based is not an option.)
What to do with this online desktop?
http://www.willmcgugan.com/2010/6/30/what-to-do-with-locidesktop/
Will Mcgugan created locidesktop.com a free online virtual desktop app, and is now that sure what to do with it, what would you suggest?
SOPA hearing video
http://judiciary.edgeboss.net/wmedia/judiciary/full/full11162011.wvx
See http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html
Ask HN: How to correctly calculate the “old” pre-money SAFE
Why do all the online tools give me a different result? Assume a $40k SAFE with a $4MM cap and no discount. Shouldn't this convert to 1% pre for any equity financing with a pre-valuation above the cap, independent of the number of SAFEs?

Due to my understanding, in such financing the SAFE would convert to 1% and dilute common. Going from there, the VC investment is calculated, which dilutes both, common and SAFE-preferred.

https://handbook.clerky.com/fundraising/safes-and-others states "If someone invests $1 million through a safe with a $10 million valuation cap, the safe will never convert into a number of shares that represent less than 10% of the company prior to the preferred stock financing." To my understanding, the above SAFE would only convert to a higher percentage if the pre-valuation was lower than the cap.

When I plug the numbers into https://angelcalc.com/model?new I see 0.9901% for the SAFE. It seems the tool dilutes both, common and SAFE holders. When I enter a second similar SAFE, the pre-valuation goes down to 0.9804% for each of the SAFEs. Shouldn't the SAFEs be constant and not influence each other?

Now let's try https://safegenie.io/ and it gives me 1.23% for the SAFE for most numbers of shares (I used 10,000,000 in all tools). This is wild, and possibly wrong in face of clerky.com above.

Now I am using https://captable.io/ and it gives me 0.85% despite the form looks the same and seems to be from the same people as safegenie.io.

Are all 3 tools wrong? Any expert shed light, please?
Brown pledges super-fast broadband for all by 2020
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8579333.stm
Super-fast broadband will be available to every home in the UK by 2020, the prime minister is to promise later.
CSS3 buttons or image buttons?
So I'm working on a mobile web app and I'm trying to decide which to use for button styles I have.

The buttons involve:
- gradients
- rounded corners
- shadow

Here is a sample of both of them.
http://jsfiddle.net/G26rr/embedded/result/

Mind letting me know how it looks on your mobile device?

Here is what I thought of so far for each..
CSS3 Buttons
Pros
- better load time on mobile users

Cons
- the rounded corners appear jagged on Android

CSS/Image Buttons
Pros
- final product looks much nicer on my Android device

Cons
- slower load times

Any input? What do you guys use on your projects?
Show HN: Hedge fund based on predictions from crowd-sourced game
https://nous.net/
This is nothing to do with me, but a friend of mine started the company.
Thoughts on Quantified Self
http://fermi.vc/post/66956556120/thoughts-on-quantified-self
Some thoughts on where USV is in thinking about investing in quantified self.
Show HN: Pytagmapper – python3 SLAM library for square fiducial tags
https://github.com/markisus/pytagmapper
pytagmapper is a python3 SLAM library for square fiducial tags in the style of AprilTag and ArUco tags. Given a set tags with unknown poses, and a set of pixel detections in images from unknown camera views, pytagmapper will back out both the pose of each tag and the pose of each camera view.
How to make Bubble Charts with matplotlib
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-make-bubble-charts-with.html
This post explains how to create a bubble chart with Python.
Wikipedia for your iTunes
http://wikit.ycsoft.org
Wikit displays wikipedia articles about your artists and albums. Read detailed artist' biographies and fun trivia about your songs and albums as you play music in iTunes.
5 Things to Do Before Upgrading iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to iOS 6
http://faixan-amjad.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/17/13912299-5-things-to-do-before-upgrading-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch-to-ios-6-iphone-buzz
In last keynote Apple announced iOS 6 along with the new iPhone 5. Apple’s new smartphone OS will be out on September 19th for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Electric vehicle conversion
http://www.electricity4cars.com/
Electric Car Conversion guides and EV Conversion manuals. Learn how to convert your vehicle into a homemade electric car
Openlag and OpenWinds, What would happen if windows becames open software?
Recently I was trying to explain an idea, a model called Openlag: open and close sources companies trying to establish some form of symbiosis in which the company put the code in the open but with a certain lag (mainly time -the lag- and features), is a difficult negotiation and I found examples like FB recent machine learning platform and other examples like Revolution Analytics based on open source R.

Some discussion is in this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/BPL-iRweRpk

I think a new and unexpected model is being configured and the main actor here is Microsoft. Perhaps, if this kind of model is going to be real, changing the name of Windows to OpenWinds would allow the company to flying out.

I don't have a clear proposal or model for the kind of negotiation required in an openlag company, but it seems this kind of model is going to be real soon.

Edit: Small changes in the expression, the same idea.
Programming Language Popularity: StackOverflow and Ohloh
http://www.r-bloggers.com/programming-language-popularity-stackoverflow-and-ohloh/
In the following example, programming language popularity is measured based upon two data sets. The first is the number of contributors associated with a language on ohloh.net. The second is tag usage at stackoverflow.com.
Is Facebook the AOL of yesterday
http://cfnbar.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/is-facebook-the-aol-of-yesterday/
Just starting to blog about my views on the startup world (1st timer)... figured this topic was rather pertinent with Diaspora etc
Ask HN: Advice on a public health project.
Hello HNers:

Question from a very non-technical person (with a bit of a statistics/biology background).

I'm an epidemiologist with a national public health agency. I'm working on a project to try and predict the emergence of new infectious diseases. Lots of data is reported (online or otherwise) by various groups, but not in a way our team can easily interpret or use.

We'd like to scrape data from these reports, populate a database of events, and produce a dashboard that would display events geographically and allow us to perform/display analyses on risk and context. The hope is that with the right data, timely analysis and a highly visual display, the next "big one" will be apparent in the early stages, while intervention and prevention are still possible.

Examples of similar projects (by groups we do or can collaborate with) can be found here:

healthmap.org

www.glews.net

empres-i.fao.org/empres-i/home

These are nice, but do not go nearly as far as we'd like to in terms of analysis.

As a first step, I'm generating a list of criteria that indicate various risk levels (from various experts and the published literature). Next, I'll need to develop the database, and I have no clue how that should be accomplished (I assume copy-past to excel is sub-optimal).

I was hoping HN might have some guidance on how the parsing/database populating ought to be done. I'm so informatically ignorant that I'm not even sure I'm posing an intelligent question, so please set me straight if I'm being dumb.

Basically, where should I start? What are the correct keywords I should be googling? Do I need to get access to the underlying SQL/XML database from my source websites? How should I structure my database? Do I need to hire a hacker? Are these sensible questions, or should I be asking something else?
Finding good coders via online coding/sql test
We have launched an online coding/sql test platform to help companies weed out the bad programmers and save time/money in the hiring process.<p>Candidates have to write code, compile and test it online, and the system automatically scores based on code quality, accuracy etc. and rates the candidates. There is also a video playback feature that allows the recrutier to review how the candidate wrote the code.<p>Currently major programming languages such a Java, C#, Vb.Net, Ruby, Python, etc are supported along with testing for SQL using a live database.<p>Please visit www.techtestnow.com to learn more.
A bit about SMPP
http://www.parseco.com/a-bit-about-smpp/
Just a quick overview of the SMPP protocol.
Build a Bridge Over Troubled Waters on Your Browser
http://blog.woolik.com/2011/06/build-a-bridge-over-troubled-waters-on-your-browser/
Looking for a calm game that will make you think, but not too hard? I recommend the Lemmings-like Cargo Bridge, a highly addictive Chrome Extension game
Visualization: FreshBooks.com code-base over time
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2011/05/04/visualization-freshbooks-code-base-overtime/
Code swarms are a fascinating way to visualize the thousands of interactions between a project’s developers and its files. Developers and files are represented as moving elements. So when a developer makes changes to a file, it will briefly light up and fly towards that developer. The code swarm will only show files that have been changed recently and developers who’ve made a recent change. Conversely, when a file or developer has not been active for a while, they will fade away.
Ask HN: What is the recommended style for python function defs w many args?
Specifically, do you use multiple lines, and if so, are there any indentation best practices? Or do you always use a single line function definition?
How much does it cost to develop an app? The true price of starting from scratch
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/11/24/much-cost-develop-app-true-expense-starting-scratch/
I've made over 20 apps for Windows 8 (I'm also a student) for exactly $0. These apps are not the best, but with some work, I believe I could make a good/successful, full scaled app.
Missile Caught on Tape Launching off of Los Angeles Coast
http://www.trendslate.com/2010/11/09/mystery-missile-launch-off-los-angeles/
A missile was caught on tape launching off the Los Angeles coast yesterday, yet no one is saying why.
Another tool to fight Internet censorship
http://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt?utm_source=n012012&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=home
The folks at OpenDNS just released a a new tool to encrypt DNS server traffic. In a few words it "DNSCrypt is a piece of lightweight software that boosts online privacy and security. It works by encrypting all DNS traffic between the user and OpenDNS, preventing any spying, spoofing or man-in-the-middle attacks."

I'm in China and have had nightmarish problems with DNS spoofing and poisoning so this tool is looking very useful to me.

It is currently Mac only.
Cloud Computing is Misunderstood but it does not Matter
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2011/11/28/cloud-computing-is-misunderstood-but-maybe-it-doesnt-matter/
...because you might already be using it.
Mx - XQuery framework for MarkLogic
https://github.com/xquery
MX is designed to provide a 'starting point' for developing MarkLogic XQuery web applications.
The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats-ties/9352/
A few of us monkeys at ThinkGeek had this great shared dream a few months ago. In it, the whole world was 8-Bit, just like the video games we grew up on. We found ourselves having to leap from platform to platform, to search for pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom, and to fight scary mutated plants and animals. The music was awesome (and still stuck in our heads) but the coolest part was what we were wearing: a tie. But not just any tie, an 8-Bit tie!