jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Let's chat, HN: On "X makes you more creative"
Seems like there are all sorts of different links on the front page right now about how different states make you more or less creative. I thought I'd take some time to share my personal thoughts about it.

Creativity is just connecting things. Imagine the world as a giant set of data points. Creativity is seeing a unique set of connections between a given set of data points, or a choosing an unusual subset unusual data points to tell a unique, different story. It's about ordering things differently, selecting things differently. People applaud creativity when it shows us more interesting ways of seeing things. The familiar becomes unfamiliar. The unfamiliar becomes familiar. There's a shorter, faster, more efficient way of doing something. Etc

How do emotional states (sadness, boredom, etc) affect creativity? They act as filters. When you're sad, you focus on some things and not others. When you're happy, you focus on some things and not others. When you're bored... you get the drill.

It isn't the state that makes you more creative. It's CHANGING your state that makes you creative. It's about seeing the world with new eyes. Going for a run makes you more creative. Being sleep-deprived makes you more creative, and getting a good night's sleep makes you more creative– depending on what you're working on.

And of course, the more you work, the more data points you have, the more different variations you attempt, the more you switch things around, the more creative you'll be. It's a skill you can practice, like improv comedy.
Why One Of Google’s Wildest Designers Left For A Bank
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032630/why-one-of-googles-wildest-designers-left-for-a-bank
This also marks the close of the current Project Ara missions at dscout. Signup to get involved with our next research project: https://dscout.com/ara
Conway's Game of Life using canvas
http://gol.kirkrichey.com
Yet another Javascript implementation of Conway's Game of Life using canvas.
Medium censoring an article on Covid-19
It currently gets a 410 "article under investigation" notice.

https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

Article cites data sources of WHO, CDC, etc. Almost like Medium oversight does not think those sources should be trusted?

I do hope they read it and reverse the block, it is an excellent write-up with extensive sources to back it up.
Kickstarter's Detachable Footer Easter Egg
http://www.kickstarter.com/
HINT: Click the scissors.
Show HN: Fueler – GitHub for Generalists
https://fueler.io/
Powering the next generation of knowledge workers to showcase their work on the internet.
Ask HN: How to tell someone you need to rewrite an entire project?
What should you do when you see a very bad codebase and feel that the best - and cost effective way to complete your tasks efficiently, is to rewrite the entire project and your boss is in a hurry and wants to create fixes?
Ask HN: Review our app, Site Assistant
http://www.site-assistant.com
I would really appreciate any feedback on any angle of S-A.

Thanks!
Oracle v. Google - Rock, Meet Hard Place
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120113082658664
Before a trial date will be set, the issue of damages methodology must be finally sorted out. Put differently, the Court will not set a trial date until Oracle adopts a proper damages methodology, even assuming a third try is allowed (or unless Oracle waives damages beyond those already allowed to go to the jury). For this “delay,” Oracle has no one to blame but itself, given that twice now it has advanced improper methodologies obviously calculated to reach stratospheric numbers. [emphasis added]
Ask HN: Why doesn't imdb sell movies?
Just wondering aloud, imdb is my goto point whenever i want to know something about a movie. Anybody who looks up a movie definitely has at least a slight intent to watch the movie. Why don't they get into selling movie (dvds) or a partnership with netflix to stream movies.
So why don't they?
Ask HN: Advertising on Reddit - US/CA/UK Credit Card required
Now - I know some off you might consider this totally offtopic, but this is the easiest way I could think off to get this job done. I want to advertise on reddit but I'm a swiss credit card holder. I paypal you 60$ and you spend 50$ on reddit ads - your account, you just send me the stats.
I'm posting this here, because I don't know anybody from the US, UK or CA that I could ask and because I trust the HN community.

Contact me on johnny@askcue.com

Thanks,

johnny
How do I learn Ruby & Rails?
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/8/3/how-do-i-learn-ruby-rails
I often get asked this question as well - I'll be sure to remember this page as a resource to send folks to.
Halcyon Molecular removed from Founder's Fund page - what happened?
http://www.foundersfund.com/
http://www.foundersfund.com/

Should be in BioTech
Show HN: Porting Zelda Classic to the Web
https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/
I spent the last two months porting Zelda Classic, a 20+ year old C++ Allegro program, to the web. If you're a fan of the 2D Zelda games, you'll likely find some very enjoyable games here. I also write at length about the process of porting a large C++ application to the web.
Ask HN: What should GitHub do about the DDoS attack?
Right now Github is undergoing a heavy, protracted DDoS attack [0], presumably orchestrated by the Chinese government or by an independent group in China. Github has become an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet. At any given moment there may be several links in the HN feed that go back to Github pages. They are no doubt facing a hard choice: (a) pull the two projects that are the focus of the attack, which might cause the attack to subside; or (b) continue in the name of freedom of speech to host the projects and absorb the cost in infrastructure and poor site performance.

Here it's not freedom of speech in China that is at stake; it's freedom of speech outside of China that is at stake. But Github will no doubt find it hard to foot the additional bill indefinitely, and there is a noticeable degradation in the liveness of their services. What should they do?

You can imagine them braving a DDoS attack like this for a few days. But governments have trillions of dollars at their disposal, and the match in this case is probably an uneven one.

Should governments concerned with protecting freedom of speech step in to help out with the costs of a company like Github maintaining business as usual in the face of such attacks?

(I am not affiliated with Github in any way.)

[0] https://status.github.com/messages
Boeing 777-300 for sale
https://vietnam.craigslist.org/for/4372477162.html
For sale in Vietnam now.
Bluehost kills website of Snowdens Girlfriend
http://www.lsjourney.com
From archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130418231028/http://www.lsjourney.com/

NY Post Story:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/girlfriend_left_behind_final_blog_2sgEl3ZhJAVrIlU6low2hK
Anatomy of a botnet: Rapid7 researchers dissect Skynet
https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2012/12/06/skynet-a-tor-powered-botnet-straight-from-reddit
Researchers from Rapid7 (the company behind Metasploit, Nexpose, and Mobilisafe) dissected the malware and CnC infrastructure powering the Skynet botnet recently discussed in a Reddit AMA.
How to protect your front end JavaScript logic from being copied by competitors?
Hi,

I'm wondering how I can effectly protect my JS logic inside the frontend from being copied by any of our competitors.

Is there any good pratice aside from uglifying?
The New Economics of Music, or, why stealing feels so right
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/?a=a&resource=musicrisk1
This article (part 1 and 2) has helped me think critically about new models for selling music, along with the process of discovering other kinds of user-generated content.
Is sweat equity worth less than cash?
I'm a graduating engineering student and an experienced programmer and have just been given an offer from a startup that seemed somewhat new and strange to me.

I'm being offered to join as a partner in a startup that currently has no in-house developers. As compensation, I'm being remunerated partly with equity. Let's say 30k cash and 30k equity if my market value is 60k. But the company is treating this 30k equivalent $ as an investment for sweat equity and is saying that 30k of cash investment is more valuable to them than 30k of work and therefore is reducing the value of this 30k$ equivalent of time investment to 66% to 20k$ cash value of sweat equity. Does this make any sense?

I already make 60k of guaranteed cash and am making a risky investment myself by risking 30k of income. The way I see it, my 30k of time investment should be worth 40k of equity if anything because of the risk. Is this a proper financial practice?
Show HN: SweatTrack, an iOS app to easily track your work outs.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sweattrack/id536051158?ls=1&mt=8
My first app, it was published 3 days back. Please give it a try, it is different. It provides you and easy way to track your work outs. You get to decide what you want, have templates to match your routines, set default values, etc.
PG FOWA Video, Q&A, and Ryan Carson's Rebuttal
http://lightboxit.com/pg.html
Sorry about making you all download the veoh player, I tried Vimeo and Google Video and neither worked and at about $0.06 a download I didn't really feel like putting it up on s3 (the original was 273MB)
The Young Successful Drop Out – The Most Dangerous Lie in Tech
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/05/10/the-most-dangerous-lie-in-tech/
Young successful college drop outs - A poisonous lie being spread to kids.
9th Grade Science Project Finds Plants Don’t Grow Near Wi-Fi
http://povolotski.me/2013/10/07/9th-grade-science-project-finds-plants-dont-grow-wi-fi/
Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community. They found that when garden cress seeds are placed near Wi-Fi, they simply will not grow.
Startup News Becomes Hacker News (2007)
http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
It occurred to me tonight that apart from the many other things YC gets right, what really makes them shine is HackerNews. I'd even say, YC couldn't have been what it is now without it. In my eyes, their biggest accomplishment is has been the wealth of information aggregated in their news portal.
PC Users: Want to write more? Get this
http://they.misled.us/dark-room
This may be a repost, but it doesn't matter. If you're someone who wishes they would write more, but can't figure out why, this is a rather effective solution. I don't use this to organize or save documents.. rather, it just gives me an unbridled level of focus and attention. I cut out what I write and paste it in a project-management system I have. It has changed my life for the better for the past few months. I think quickly, and writing longhand is too slow. This is perfect for stream of consciousness, getting thoughts out, journaling, understanding projects, writing about dreams, and gaining clarity.

Try it out and see if it doesn't help against whatever you use now.

Peace.
Ask HN: release now, or wait?
I have made my service useable, but there are a couple more things thAt my competitors offer... My question is: should I release now with a blog stating up comin features, or should I wait a few more weeks and release a complete service?

I know it would help to be more specific, but I don't really wAnt to let he cat out of the bag just yet.
UseHipster (Hipster) stealth startup screenshot leaked
http://nlapse.com/blog/usehipster-com-screenshot/
So you finally know what all the hype is about :)
Ask HN: Does anybody feel like they are waiting around to die?
Not sure but after I achieved financial success I feel like theres nothing more now. I've struggled with feeling empty. I feel like I'm waiting around to die like that song.

who knew material capacity would do nothing for mortal existentiality?

what if I dropped moral responsibility instead? give up citizenship. move overseas. young partners?

anyways please help because i thought having money was the answer it clear wasn't
HTML5 is now a “Recommendation”
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4167
The HTML Working Group today published HTML5 as W3C Recommendation. This specification defines the fifth major revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform.
Ask HN: How to invest 100k?
What would you do if you had 100k to invest? I'd like to see what people would do with that much money. I know this has been asked quite a bit.

Would you:
1. Invest into real estate and rent
2. Invest in a franchise/business
3. Invest into wall street such as stocks, mutual funds, options or futures.

I'm just wondering what you would do. If you would split it up and put it here or there or all into one thing.

Thanks.
IPhone and iPad are terribly boring, what's next?
http://blog.shoutem.com/2012/12/06/iphone-and-ipad-are-terribly-boring-what-is-next/
Interesting take on the evolution of new technologies. It is true that iPhone updates are more and more obvious and that we miss that WOW effect that Steve Jobs use to provide. What's next then?
Akamai open-sources Mobitest
https://blogs.akamai.com/2012/03/open-sourcing-mobitest.html
Mobitest is a unique technology able to measure page load times on real mobile devices. It offers detailed performance information, ranging from total page load times to individual request headers and timings. It can also capture screenshots during page load, and show a video visualizing the page load as it happened.
Always find the best candidates - the 7 minute candidate matching system
http://www.sean-johnson.com/2011/08/09/always-hire-the-best-candidate-part-one/
How I built a simple, effective candidate filtering system in 7 minutes for less than $100.
Spreadsheet - Ranking Tech Companies by Revenue per Employee
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqI3DInWs2nKdDdMcXlLVFZXQlJNdV82ODFTdVpObVE
The real list, made in response to this blog post on 37signals blog: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-by-revenue-per-employee
Did the C.I.A. stop an F.B.I. detective from preventing 9/11?
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/10/060710fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all
Although its an old article, I feel bad about the whole system.
Barack Obama posts a question on LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/startups-small-businesses/small-business/STR_SMB/95900-11932467?browseIdx=0&sik=1189594542354&goback=%2Eahp?trk=techent1
His question: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?
Show HN: Hacker News Search updated
https://hn.algolia.com
Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features.

Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :)

ChangeLog:
2015-01-19
- Custom date range picker
- Responsive design
- New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments
- If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion
- Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding, removed useless "upvote" arrow, ...)

2015-01-12
- Full reimplementation based on Angular.js
- Performance improvements
- Minimal design to improve readability
- Customizable sort order (by date/popularity, by date range)
- New sharing features (Twitter & Facebook compliant)
- Cloudfront-based assets delivering
- Experimental UI
- Inlined comments
- Advanced filtering/refinements capabilities
- Thumbnails
Ask HN: review my app
http://devjungle.com
Hey guys, so I decided I wanted to make an app to connect sdk/api developers to people looking to have stuff built. So I built devjungle.com. Developers can go register which takes a few seconds, fill out their profile and select the technologies they are familiar with and then show up in search results.

I just launched it so it's still pretty raw, needs a few adjustments here and there. Looking to get some feedback from you guys, and hopefully those developers that wanna sign up might find it useful.

Thanks.
Scriptbots: Evolutionary Artificial Life Simulation of Predator-Prey dynamics
https://sites.google.com/site/scriptbotsevo/
This guy, Andrej Karpathy (http://karpathy.ca/) made an enormous job an built an open source artificial life simulation, which is very successful and focused correct variables among the other similar projects.
Ask HN: I wrote this, what now?
Over the past few months I've been experimenting with affiliate marketing on a blog I run. To my surprise it has been moderately successful.

Being more a software person than a writer, I wrote my own contextual ad delivery system, using affiliate ads for inventory.

Last week, Google rolled out a very similar feature for AdWords [1], claiming it "leads to more clicks, higher quality leads, and higher ROI for your search ads".

Encouraged by that I built a technology demonstrator for my ad delivery technology: http://demo.qontex.com/

Based on my experiments, the contextual technology works roughly as well as Google AdSense does (I do have an advantage in that I don't need to worry about click-fraud).

Here's a few samples, based on the top HN stories when I submitted this:

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/

http://demo.qontex.com/?url=http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/1583250140/facebook-messaging-scorned-by-nerds-built-for&categories=Books

I'd love some suggestions for what I should do with this? Should I try and licence the technology (to who?) or should I try marketing it to webmasters (and how would the finances work there? It seems odd to charge a website to run ads on it)? Or maybe I should be paying people to run my ads on their site?

[1] http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/11/product-listing-ads-rolling-out-to-all.html
Mixlr Exits Beta – Now Targets Everybody Not Just DJs And Musicians
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/mixlr-exits-beta-now-targets-everybody-not-just-djs-and-musicians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
full text : http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/mixlr-exits-beta-now-targets-everybody-not-just-djs-and-musicians/
"The Internet Hall Of Fame”
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/13/internet-hall-of-fame/
The World Startup Report & Startup Genome release ‘The Internet Hall Of Fame” with data from 50 countries
Ask HN: What companies encourage short work weeks?
What are some companies that encourage shorter (25-30hrs) workweeks as full-time?

What kind of routine does your company use (ie: shorter vs fewer days)? Are employees happier? Is employee churn lower? Is productivity noticeably different?
Ask HN: Do You Use an Ad Server?
Hi HN,

For my startup, we are looking to use an ad server to manage the ads on our website. We are currently looking into OpenX and some other adservers but frankly we are noobs on the subject. So I am interested to hear your opinions on the matter.

Do you have any experience or recommandation to share ? (positives and negative ones)

Thank you very much!
The Man In The Arena
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/12/the-man-in-the-arena/
I needed this.
Track Amazon.com price drops with Firefox and Chrome addon
http://buylatr.com
Adds a button to Amazon.com that allows you to track items and receive an email when the price drops or when the item comes back in stock.
Visualization of Egyptian Revolution On Twitter
http://gephi.org/2011/the-egyptian-revolution-on-twitter/

A visualization of the network of retweets with the hashtag #jan25 at February 11 2011, at the time of the announcement of Mubarak's resignation, is available. The data was collected using Gephi connected to the Twitter Streaming API, converting the users and retweets to nodes and edges in a dynamic network. Though the data represents only approximately 10% of the retweets, it's interesting to see the large flow of interconnected retweets in just one hour.
Show HN: My pinboard-backed link blog
http://quinnternet.com
I recently re-jiggered my blog to use pinboard as it's CMS. A cron job runs once every 15 minutes and generates a static HTML file of my most recent 15 posts. Yes it is fairly limited in what it can do, but it's a great simple way to make what I already do on pinboard into a link blog.
Summary of YC Interview Advice
http://blog.outspokes.com/2009/11/09/summary-of-yc-interview-advice/
My collection of things I've been reading in preparation for our YC interview next weekend.
Show HN: what I coded during the Foursquare Hackathon
http://agoraapp.com
Connect with people using Foursquare and Twitter
We use your Foursquare checkins to introduce you in real-time with people you have common interests using your Twitter graph.
Artificial chatting utility matching algorithmic nodes
http://acuman.us/?
Thanks for all the feedback! Unfortunately, I cannot respond to all of you because Hacker News has some kind of spam system set up that stops me from it.
Could S Corp Owners Be A Tax Target?
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/15/irs-gao-medicare-social-security-tax-personal-finance-s-corp.html?boxes=Homepagetoprated
New GAO report, health bill, suggest more might be wrung from them.
Los Angels nosql meetup tomorrow with Matt Ingenthron of Membase
http://www.meetup.com/lanosql/events/17499888/
Hosted by factual, inc - in Century City.

In this talk, one will learn about both Membase 1.6 and Couchbase 1.1, which includes Couchbase's supported distribution of Apache CouchDB and Geocouch. Matt Ingenthron of Couchbase, Inc. will cover how both NoSQL systems work and can be used behind applications. The talk will cover common usages of both platforms and give a glimpse into where Couchbase will be going in to the future.
Show HN: An open source alternative to Google Analytics back end
https://github.com/Daniel31x13/Open-Analytics-Core-HTTP
It’s just the back end so it logs to MongoDB database so you can add any UI you want to it, feel free to contribute!

(Suggestion’?)
Effects of Translating an iPhone App - Charts And Graphs, Breakdown by Countries
http://www.gaiagps.com/news/article/Effects%20of%20Translation%20-%20Charts%20and%20Graphs
I know this data is a bit stale, so if anyone has questions, I'll try and answer them.

We're pretty open with our sales data, so ask whatever you want.
Dvorak Likes Linux
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp
Long time Microsoft supporting, Mac Hating columnist says: "The critical mass has been reached. Go download Ubuntu 8.10 and see for yourself what the fuss is about. You won't regret it."
TV show panel full of experts tells entrepreneur his idea is worthless, he proves them wrong
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475095&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
Never let anyone persuade you your product is useless until you prove its usefulness in the market!
Ask HN: Went to the movies today, how the heck can they pay so many people?
Went and saw "The Penguins of Madagascar" (funny movie). There must have been hundreds of people in the credits. How is it possible to pay so many people - surely many of them receive at least tens of thousands of not hundreds of thousands of dollars for their work?

How does the economics of movie making make sense?