jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
1 year anniversary of apple's html5 web-app directory going quiet
http://digibrown.com/2011/11/apple-not-updating-webapp-directory/
Why did apple stop promoting 3rd party html5 web-apps a year ago?
Kareer.me Helps Companies Find Talent Before They Need It
http://mashable.com/2013/04/03/kareer-me/
I'd like to know what the HN crowd thinks of our new job search tool primarily targeted at developers and designers.
DRACO antiviral, Update
First, DRACO has been nominated for the 2013 Katerva Award in the Human Development category and is eligible for the People Choice Award. Please spread the word and vote for DRACO between 3/7 and 3/28.

http://katerva.net/home/accelerate/human-development/human-development-2013/

Second, The DRACO Fund is in the process of incorporation. It will channel crowd sourced funding to Dr. Rider who is now at Draper labs. All funds will be used to optimize and test DRACO against HIV.

https://www.facebook.com/TheDRACOFund?skip_nax_wizard=true

Third, The DRACO Fund is looking for a web developer or two to build our website. We don't have any money to offer, but you will be working for a great cause. Full Software Requirements Specification with mockups will be available.

Thank you,
Scott
www.synapticsynthase.com
Coursera Secures 43M in Series B, Plans to Double in Size
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/coursera-an-online-education-company-raises-another-43-million/
Coursera closes with 43 Million in Series B funding, looking to double its team size to build mobile platform, apps platform, collaborative learning environments, translations and more! http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/coursera-an-online-education-company-raises-another-43-million/
Why I'm a Mentor at Lean Startup Machine Bangalore
http://arg0s.in/why-im-a-mentor-at-lean-startup-machine-bangalore.html
Lean Startup Machine is coming to Bangalore, India. LSM has held 150 workshops in 50 cities, across six continents, for over 25,000 aspiring entrepreneurs around the world.
Sculpteo I-Phone 4S case design contest
http://www.sculpteo.com/en/design/mobile-suit-c-1/SGs2KpXy
I need your votes ! - in the top 3 all this week, vote to keep it there by clicking on the orange stars / heart / FB "Like"
Culturomics: Words have life cycles
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285610212146258.html 
A must read. Christopher Shea writes: "The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse."
My first Android app -- sleep cycle calculator app that I've been using myself
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niceappp.ninetyminutes.free
Polished it over the weekends, updated it to make it works nicely on Android 4 and submitted to Google Play. Free version available too.
Show HN: You should make a video about this
https://www.gling.ai/your-next-youtube-video
Get ideas from our AI agent for your next YouTube videos, based on your channel history
Breathalyzer Commit Hook - awesome  
http://commitalyzer.com/
This looks brilliant - a bit of kit that stops you committing to git if you're over the limit !! And its powered by the raspberry pi.
Robots are part of our future
http://crosci.com/articles1.9.html
There is no doubt about it; human evolution and performance are limited. Our intelligence and physical abilities are restricted and we cannot survive without vital nutrients, air and other elements, necessary for our frail human nature. Therefore it is vitally important we improve and protect our abilities, and what better way to do so, then with mechanically engineered devices.
The Psychology of Influence in Online Startups
http://www.vccafe.com/101/the-psychology-of-influence-in-online-startups/
Hello smart entrepreneur. I know you're a busy person, so I'll be brief. Read this post NOW, if your startup involves convincing someone to do something. Your friends and competitors are reading it already. Years of research into human behavior and influence went into these insights by Prof Robert Cialdini, so read actively, and try to apply these lessons on your business.
ASK HN: what Problems do you have that need solving
As an entrepreneur, I found it difficult to get moving on my business idea because I wasn’t sure there was a market for it - I couldn’t easily validate the idea. I am thinking about creating a platform where people could list their problems (and their problems’ bounty for being solved), and interested founders can opt to solve these problems, knowing they’d have at least one first client. Are there any problems you are facing in your day-to-day that you think could be solved in this way?

Thanks!
HMO: Help Me Out
I think we can do it at a big scale here at HN again.

Note: this is was previously on HN here[1], but it's been few years.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573172

if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, job, anything, just post it here. Mention any details that might be required, and make sure to add contact details!

Let's see how we can get some good rolling here.
Sesame Street Zombies
http://www.joesdaily.com/2011/12/28/sesame-street-zombies/
Such a cool concept and design for a t-shirt series.
Simply transparent: the "What We Know About You" report
http://www.popvox.com/blog/2011/06/20/new-popvox-privacy-tool/
Popvox has a great transparency tool to inform users about the data that they've made available simply be becoming members of the site. Now THAT'S something I want to demand of every site I register with.
Show HN: Join'em, Deals Powered By People Like You
http://www.joinem.com/
We have been working on Join'em since over a year and it is currently in open beta (with real deals). I'm the CTO of the project.

Join'em is a social marketplace where deals are powered by users.

I would love to hear any sort of criticism from you fellow hackers, both technical and business aspects.

http://www.joinem.com
Programming boot camps with guaranteed job placement
http://www.bootcamps.in/programming/no-job-no-pay/
other boot camps offer job assistance, but it is not guaranteed.
http://www.bootcamps.in/programming/job-placement-assistance/
Does it actually work? Any experiences?
Why Legacy Code Sucks
http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/2484834366/developer-dilemmas-why-legacy-code-sucks
When most people think about legacy code the mind tends to go to things that aren’t really reflecting what legacy code is, i.e super old code that does amazing things. But in actuality what most people aren’t aware of it’s code with very little to no testing that was poorly implemented some would think that there was a correlation.
Better investment than Bitcoins?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/George-Osbornes-tear-/330909292355?roken=Htj35k
Title is a bit naughty yes, but you have to admit, you're glad you clicked! ;)
Not too late to join a six week Coursera class on Developing New Companies
https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas
edit: Typo
Current Bitcoin Price - Latest Bitcoin Price
http://CurrentBitcoinPrice.com
Live updating coming soon.
How do you make it obvious you are on a production system.
http://serverfault.com/q/322997/59789
A few of us at my company have root access on production servers. We are looking for a good way to make it exceedingly clear when we have ssh'd in.
How do you define credibility online?
http://blog.newscred.com/?p=37
As NewsCred begins to take shape, one of the most frequent questions I get is "How will you define credibility?" My answer is usually the same: "I will not be the one who defines what is credible or not. I will entrust that enormous responsibility in the capable hands of the NewsCred community."
A race to the bottom: How RFP's are broken and what to do about it
http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/chicago-interactive-rfps-race-bottom
RFP's are a quality-coders biggest evil. Here's what to do about it.
Ask HN: Dilemma over postgraduate course in Canada. Tech or Management?
Hello HN. I am going to be applying for a postgraduate course in Canada for the fall semester. I am doing so mainly because I want to immigrate there. I want to move to a more startup friendly place and my brother is already settled in Toronto. Also, it will be nice to get a postgrad degree in the process.

I am 24. I am a programmer. I currently hold a Bach of Computer Science degree. But mine is a three year degree which means I am not eligible for a proper MS. My options are postgraduate courses in colleges like Humber, Conestoga, George Brown, etc. I'll get a postgraduate work permit once I am done.

I am confused whether I should opt for technical courses like these:

http://www.humber.ca/program/information-technology-solutions

http://www.humber.ca/program/web-development

Or, opt for a management course.

The technical courses don't teach me anything new at all. Which means it will mostly be a waste. But it will also mean that I can sail through the course and use the free time to do something productive like working on my startup. I also get a technical postgraduate degree on my resume. The usefulness of this is certainly arguable.

But on the other hand if I choose a management course, I get to learn something new and thus it won't be a complete waste of time. I can pick up some skills which will help me on my entrepreneurship journey.

Help me make up my mind? Also Canadians here on HN, any reviews and suggestions for which college to choose?
Ask HN: Leading a Scrum Team?
Dear HN, which advice or resources can you recommend for leading a scrum team?
Collection of Quantum Computing Video Lectures
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2010/12/quantum-computing-video-lectures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeScienceOnlineBlogSpot+%28Free+Science+and+Video+Lectures+Online%21%29
FYI - check out Deutsch' lectures, he's a very good teacher of complex things
Shape Matching Experiments
http://glowingpython.blogspot.it/2013/06/shape-matching-experiments.html
How to fit two shape through and visualize the minimization process.
[video] How one young boy leaves the .NET nest for Scala (Johansson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLO1djacsfg
Warning: One scene is marginally NSFW.
Ay Mamacita: Google gets gangster on Yelp
http://exploreto.tumblr.com/post/16314587349/ay-mamacita-yelp-et-al-and-us
Google continues to degrade it’s own product for users whilst arbitraging on what should be legitimate Yelp traffic
Crucial Advances in 'Brain Reading' Demonstrated
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111221140706.htm
At UCLA's Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology, researchers use functional MRI brain scans to observe brain signal changes that take place during mental activity.
CXXNET: A Deep Conv NN with 1000 lines core code 
https://github.com/antinucleon/cxxnet
CXXNET is yet another implementation of (convolutional) neural network. It is in C++, with about 1000 lines of network layer implementations, it is able to train ImageNet in fast speed.
HOLY SHIT - The Macbook charger double wrap
https://twitter.com/Shealan/status/410512298726678528
All these years and I never knew about the double wrap!? I feel so stupid.
A very simple Twitter app -- Retweet Stats ( Alpha )  
http://retweeted.in
Code base is : https://github.com/atsiddiqui/ReTweeted
Any suggestion for improvement in code will be highly appreciable.
What You Need and Want With Windows Azure Part II
http://compositecode.com/2010/10/08/windows-azure-part-ii/
One of the most useful tools to use in Windows Azure Development is the Windows Azure MMC. The Microsoft Management Console, or MMC, is the management console that many of the Windows Server Management interfaces can plug into. The Windows Azure ...
Ask HN: How to find a data analytics product?
Hello community!

For the past year, I have been working hard to create a data collection, analysis and visualization tool for startups and small businesses. During this time, I have identified a large number of important business indicators and several interesting mathematical models.

I didn't start a technology startup (I'm not a coder), although I did have a business (web studio and consulting agency).

The question is: how to find a data collection team to join it with your best practices?

I would be grateful for the advice of experienced.
Show HN: My Framework/CMS Project Ruloft.org
I just want to show to you this. I know there are lots of excellent CMS/frameworks available today but I still have some issues with them so I wrote this.

It's still an early alpha. Need your comments. Thanks!
Battling Wikileaks And The Art Of War
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/10400912213/battling-wikileaks-art-war.shtml
Eye-opening analysis of US government's actions framed by Sun Tzu's "The Art of War".
Feds Demand Dismissal of Dragnet-Surveillance Challenge
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/terminate-spy-challenge/
Citing week-old Supreme Court precedent, the President Barack Obama administration told a federal judge Wednesday that it should quash a federal lawsuit accusing the government of secretly siphoning Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.
Google Business Group Summit 2014
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Gfm96pJ5gQoXOyBeP3x25Edgz5lNiVC11nDr9gxA_M4/viewform?edit_requested=true
The GBG Submit Colombia Colombia, will be the most important event for technology in the country 2014
Where does justin bieber live 2011
http://wheredoesjustinbieberlive.org
find out where does justin bieber live
Available jobs in my area
http://availablejobsinmyarea.org/
available local jobs in my area
In the Valley? Help test FaceCash, our new mobile payment system.
We've recently launched FaceCash

http://www.facecash.com

and we're looking for beta testers (and full-time software developers). Send the e-mail address you sign up with to michaela at thinkcomputer.com and we'll make sure you get something extra once our ThinkRewards system is up and running.
Knockout-bootstrap Twitter bootstrap js for knockout
http://billpull.github.com/knockout-bootstrap/
Knockout-bootstrap is a small collection of custom Knockoutjs bindings that allow people to create Twitter Bootstrap widgets using the data-bind attribute. This started when I needed to do a two way binding in a bootstrap popover and now I am trying to add components that make sense. Please offer feedback, fork, and contribute. Thanks.
Ask HN: Cool dmenu-driven script ideas?
dmenu [1] is a suckless utility which is often used as a "front-end" for bash scripts in keyboard-driven workflows.

Example use cases are launching applications [2], `kill -9`ing processes [3], and even inserting emojis [4].

What interesting scripts or ideas have the HN community integrated dmenu with?

[1]: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/

[2]: https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop

[3]: https://github.com/debxp/dmenu-scripts/blob/master/dmenu-kill-process

[4]: https://github.com/porras/dmenu-emoji/blob/master/dmenu-emoji.sh
Copernicus birthday Google doodle animation 
http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2013/02/happy-birthday-nicholas-copernicus/
How is this animation done in HTML5? Any other examples like this?
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdjfOkPu-E
http://www.nearfield.org/2011/02/wifi-light-painting
The Web is inherently an inadequate application development platform.
http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/82
Is this even a valid argument today?
Webkit Meta
http://www.atoker.com/blog/2008/06/12/webkit-meta-a-new-standard-for-in-game-web-content/
What if it was a browser plugin instead?
Haskell Conference Oct 10th at Skills Matter London
http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/haskell-exchange-2012/ac-5064
Quite the line-up: Simon Peyton Jones on types and parallelism, Simon Marlow on High Performance Concurrency, Lennart Augustsson on EDSLs, Duncan Coutts on Cloud Haskell,and more. Full day conference Oct 10 in London, early bird on until Sept 9th!
Docs expands to complete offline access
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92249&topic=15877
Docs has expanded its features, resolving some of the problems people have had with it. Namely complete offline access, I've already been using it.

The rest of their improvements are here: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html
Show HN: rfilerunner: a simple command runner
https://github.com/goatmobile/rfilerunner
Hey HN! This is a little project I made a few months ago and have been using on every project since. Where before I'd use Makefiles to keep all the necessary commands for a project written down, rfilerunner has some more accessible expressiveness (i.e. I can just write bash or Python), built-in file watching and parallel execution, and niceties in making simple project-specific CLIs.
Show HN: KPI Crunch – instant insights into any competitive landscape
https://kpicrunch.com
We've just released the beta version of KPICrunch,
a free tool giving you instant insights into any competitive landscape.

The MVP offers 2 options:

1° create a list based on 2 reference domains (that's the default option)
2° paste an existing list of up to 25 (+1) domains

Then let the KC engine collect & crunch data.

In this first iteration, you'll get the following data points for each domain:

- global web rank (we're using OPR)
- # of indexed pages on Google (nice to evaluate the online footprint)
- estimated organic traffic
- # of KW indexed in G Top 100 + Keyword Performance (Traffic To Keywords)
- automated identification of social media channels + engagement per channel

You'll also get a high-level summary of the landscape,
incl. a traffic distribution pie.

I invite you to test the app.

The MVP is the first stage of a more ambitious project:

we're building a Competitive Intelligence Open Platform, a productivity tool where you'll be able to consolidate all your Competitive Intelligence research efforts, on a wide range of data points (we'll soon add business data, HR data, UX/UI changes monitoring, pricing & features monitoring, newsletter & advertising monitoring, etc.).

You'll be able to create your own custom lists, add personal notes and tags to filter your lists + collaborate with other team members.

The tool will also become a CI Search Engine, giving you access to the landscapes shared by the community (you can already get a taster via the search engine on the current home page).

Looking forward to your feedback!
Fira Sans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans
Based on his widely successful FF Meta (which is also used by the Mozilla Foundation), Fira Sans is a modern sans-serif typeface accompanied by a monospaced variant, Fira Mono.

The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

See also: https://twitter.com/espiekermann/status/382189483031949312/photo/1
Angel financing: How long until I get the money?
http://www.startupnorth.ca/?p=140
Written by and Angel in Toronto, Canada
Ask HN: Getting back to software development at mid 30s 
Hi,

I am a longtime HN member but am using a new account to ask what I find an awkward question....

How can I get a decent software job given I have been out of the industry for +5years?

I have a Computer Science degree from a decent UK university, and about 2yrs experience, but went into a non-technical industry mainly as it was in line with my family's desire.

Anyway, due to major change in circumstance, I no longer can do that and have been considering a return to software development or similar as it was something I have always enjoyed.

However, I am outdated in terms of work experience, don't have an online portfolio, and can't afford to take a £20k grad job (assuming I could get one) as I couldn't pay my bills on that and if I got another job in non-IT field would get much more (but no real time to hack on my own projects/portfolio to increase my IT job prospects).

Those of you with families may be able to relate to this.

I was thinking of applying to big IT companies in UK (I live about 2hr from London, so can just about do a commute or stay in London during week) or in finance IT to try and get started, as they are companies with at least some job security and ok pay. Hopefully, I could increase my learning, skill, and portfolio on the job, which I'd rather try to do than wast more time trying to build a brandname for myself online before getting work.

I was wondering if anyone here could offer any words of wisdom.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Help Japan
http://www.helpjapan2011.info/
Something I put together tonight to help Japan and their losses. Spreading this link would be greatly appreciated.
Ask HN: Best way to synchronize development code across a grid environment?
I'm looking to set up an environment which makes it as easy as possible to run arbitrary code on a grid.

The main issue I am running into is how do I synchronize my code across all machines on my grid? I want to be able to write some code on one of my machines and have that code automatically be available on all grid machines.
I have looked at using a distributed file system (NFS), but the latency is too high to store app code on it.

One workaround I was considering was having code on local fs on the main machine and an auto-rsync any changes to the NFS, and have all grid machines read from NFS (the lag is maybe tolerable when running grid jobs). However, this feels brittle and hacky.

Another solution would be to rsync code on local fs across all machines. This too feels somewhat brittle and hacky, especially in the context of new boxes being added to the grid as compute demand increases.

What ways are there to easily make the code available for the entire grid?

For context, I'm building this on AWS and most of the projects are structured as python code with an individual virtualenv attached.
Report from Management: Programmers don't know how to develop software
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/05/19/software.designers.strut.their.talent.cost.profit.says.management.insights.study
Pesky programmers potentially putting profits puttering!

Apparently management researches believe that what's really costing software development projects are that the talented developers are making too complex software! The only logical reason: because programmers are evil and only think of themselves. Management's solution: make pay based on short term software development metrics (because you can measure software development, after all!), and force talent to dumb down the complex solutions.
Diversification for Angel Investors
http://disruption.vc/blog/2014/2/diversification-for-angel-investors
As mentioned in my previous post, there are several forces at work which are making it more and more attractive to invest in startups. Specifically tech startups. As legislation loosens, and as information and leadership is more available, accredited investors are sniffing out what angel investment means to them.

One of the things that is unaffected by the increased availability of this asset class is Modern Portfolio Theory, and all the efficiencies and strategies it provides. The results from the collision of this asset of class evolution [startups] and these time tested principals, are 4 questions.
Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/bend-it-charge-it-dunk-it-graphene-the-material-of-tomorrow/
The material has the potential to change the electronics industry, and recently researchers have focused on how to produce it commercially.
Facebook in trouble with tribe in India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Facebook-faces-flak-over-surname-mess/articleshow/12213004.cms
Facebook blocks accounts of thousands members of a tribe in India, because their last name is the same as a popular Indian cuss word