jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What are habits that help you overcome fear and inertia?
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/assorted-tips-hope-they-help.html
In this list of miscellaneous advice, Seth Godin has one point that particularly struck me:

"Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite."

I've struggled with each of these problems at one time or another, but I just sort of "powered through". Is there a consistent, repeatable way of overcoming these problems? Does anyone have a particular habit that has helped them do this?
Show HN: Pintora – a diagram-as-text library that works in browser and Node.js
https://github.com/hikerpig/pintora
Pintora is an extensible javascript text-to-diagrams library that works in both browser and Node.js.

Expressing your thoughts in a diagram is better than a thousand words. With the help of pintora.js, you can create diagrams with intuitive text.
Show HN: Reddit Slack Bot
https://github.com/jatinsandilya/reddit-slack-bot
Hi, I made a simple Slack bot on top of the work by Vercel to notify you whenever a keyword gets mentioned in a Subreddit of your choice.

You could use this to track mentions of your company's name or your competititors in a given subreddit.
The fastest way to start a chat on the web (PC/mobile)
http://cnnct.me
cnnct.me is a public and free service for creating instant chat conversations between two people. the only thing needed is a web enabled computer or mobile browser. and you are ready to connect. a number of benefits using cnnct.me include:

- not having to sign up and login to any service
- not having to download or install anything
- being able to create a conversation in a matter of seconds just by providing a unique access code
- not having your conversation logged, not leaving any trace on the server or on the client side
- being able to use it across most devices and platforms
- not having to share contact credentials with strangers for a brief chat session or take the time to add them on instant messaging networks
- being able to get around firewalls that may block certain messaging protocols

cnnct.me implements a simple, adaptive user interface along with a lightweight, streamlined feature set. the goal is offering next to no learning curve for users, ease of use and optimal layout and behavior on most browsers across computers and handheld devices.
Raspberry Pi destined to have great impact
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/030612-raspberry-pi-256985.html
The Raspberry Pi Foundation said that the original idea of the device was to improve computer science education by offering a cheap, flexible platform to budding programmers.But it seems destined to have a greater impact.
Pepsi Plans New Logo, $1.2 billion Rebranding Campaign
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/the_new_pepsi_challenge_guess.php
Amazing how the slightest tweak in design, specifically in logo design, can affect brand value in such a monumental way. I like the new logo, but the old one seems too iconic and classic to be replaced.
Do you worry about giving your email address to websites? Worry no more
http://33mail.com/4xv97x
Traditional disposable email address services give no long term ownership and control over a disposable address i.e. they expire or are available for anyone to use. 33Mail seeks to solve this problem by allowing users to have their own personal disposable email address service.
Jkl - Simply building a static site and publishing to S3 or Qiniu
https://github.com/why404/jkl
jkl is a static site generator written in Golang, based on Jekyll. It is a quick and easy way to build static sites and supports publish to S3 or Qiniu Cloud Storage by run one command. No more databases, language execution environments or other dependencies needs.
Ask HN: List of YC Start-ups Sorted by YC "Semester"
I'm looking for a list, even if its not 100% complete, of Y Combinator funded companies, with the list sorted by Y Combinator "semester" (YC Summer 2007, YC Winter 2009, etc.).

My goals with this list are two things:

1) Professional networking. Given the choice, most of us would rather do business with a YC-funded company than non YC-funded company. Networking this way supports these companies and gets out foot in the door for business opportunities with start-ups.

2) Debugging. Knowing some details about the DNA of Y Combinator funded start-ups lets us know what Y Combinator is generally interested in, what's been funded already, and also lets us follow the experiences of these companies.
Show HN: Try Novawise - Mobile Data Collection Made Easy
http://novawise.com/try/
Hey HN! I'm working with Novawise this summer in a student/intern role. We're just rolling out free trials of the service: send us a paper form or process, and we'll make it into an insight plan so you can check things out!

Contact us at info@novawise.com, or on twitter: @novawise
Get Flash Player for Android 4.1 JellyBean
http://www.geniusinsight.com/2012/10/flash-player-for-android-4-1-jelly-bean/
If you have a Jelly Bean Smartphone, then you may be missing out flash at this moment because HTML 5 is still a new standard and many video providers have not yet adopted it.
Ideas opensourced – my second game idea
https://github.com/ideasopensourced/games/blob/master/clean-hit.md
let me know your ideas, thoughts on the concepts.
67% of NFL players from the SEC accepted money under the table in college
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WmJeEY4ZMg&hd=1
In the world of collegiate athletics, students are increasingly treated as commodities rather than pupils. Allen Sack, former National Champion at Notre Dame, discusses drawbacks of this shift in values as well as what the future of college sports might look like. (for the lazy: title statistic is at 11:15 into the video)
Anonymous: The Good Parts - An experiment
Recent events have been weighing on my mind. In the past I've tended to write off Anonymous as childish and petty, but I also knew that they were on to something really important. Let's say that amongst the trolling, I saw a noble goal - "Anonymous: The Good Parts" - that aimed to push the boundary of what online collectives could accomplish.

I think this month Anonymous has proven something important - I tentatively believe that "Anonymous: The Good Parts", has come of age. They have proven they have the muscle to make the world take notice, and at least superficially, that they can decide to do something useful with that attention. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/pro-wikileaks-digital-activists-change-course/67847/ (No small task if it was truly a collective decision.)

Regardless of how you feel about Anonymous, you've got to respect that they've pushed the world to realize a lesson - that an online leaderless collective with low latency can have instant access to the media's ear.

In a way, this lesson is the same as it ever was - another picket line. But it also seems things are on a new scale. I've been feeling that it is important for the hacker community to help the world understand this type of instant collaborative political voice that is both exciting and unnerving - how it can troll and manipulate but how it can also be earnest. And most importantly, how it is startlingly powerful.

After that overblown introduction - I propose a dubious experiment. If you think this experiment sucks, then start a new one, but my question is this: how hard is it for a leaderless collective to form an agreed upon collaborative statement that is eloquent, powerful, and useful. Is this just reiterating Wikipedia, or does it demonstrate something new?

Can we demonstrate that an online collective can literally author a collaborative statement fit for media attention?

http://piratepad.net/LW793ZNN6Z
(any motion to take this to git?)
Won't somebody please, think of the SEMANTICS
https://twitter.com/ajthomascouk/status/441941123620020224
Have people forgot about the importance of semantics?
Tips for creating a R&D culture at a startup
http://vator.tv/news/2013-05-20-five-tips-to-drive-r-d-culture-in-a-fast-moving-startup
Don't forget that customer value trumps hi-tech cool factor when it comes to actually having your new idea see the light of day
We redid the Moto X ad à la française
http://blog.infinit.io/post/54590018014/infinit-motorola-ad
Independence Day is a universal concept. This is how we do it in France :)
THE FLOPPY ROM: Software Distributed on Records [1977]
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-floppy-rom-software-distributed-on-records/
How many of us today could write working software in less then 48k?
My Variation to Hick's Law
http://uxmovement.com/principles/my-variation-of-hicks-law
Principle #2: The TIME and EMOTIONAL ENERGY it takes to make a decision increases as the number of INDISTINCT ALTERNATIVES increases. (My varia tion of Hick’s Law)
Show HN: Daily Done
http://bmuenzenmeyer.github.io/donedaily/
I wrote this over the course of 2 nights, about a year apart. It's mostly an experiment with knockoutjs and local storage. Feedback, issues, or pull requests welcome. URL detection seems a little janky, but regexes are not my strong suite. Learned a few things along the way, like IE does not support local storage when run from a file system. Thanks!
9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/04/19/9-timeless-leadership-lessons-from-cyrus-the-great/
Ancient wisdom from Cyrus
Integrate Dropbox Storage with Saaspose APIs & Process PDF, Docs, Images
http://saaspose.com/blog/announcements/archive/2012/09/20/dropbox-storage-integration-with-saaspose-file-format-rest-api.html
Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the Dropbox Storage Integration with Saaspose File Format REST API. Previously, we had introduced support for Amazon S3 storage to integrate your existing Amazon S3 account with Saaspose cloud API. Saaspose has added the flexibility of third party storage options so that you can choose from these as per your requirements. We are pleased to announce that Saaspose has provided support for Dropbox storage to store your files in the cloud. You can easily configure the Dropbox storage with Saaspose through simple steps in no time. First of all, you need to create an application at Dropbox and get the “App Key” and “App Secret”. Then sign in at Saaspose and Open “My Storage”, select “Dropbox Storage” from “Create New Storage” list on Saaspose.
Ask HN: Domain yourbackendserver.com
Anyone interested in this domain? If so, how much would you pay for it?
Tutankhamun's Blood
https://medium.com/matter/9fb62a68597b
Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh
Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensating_Methods_in_Client/Server_In-game_Protocol_Design_and_Optimization
It's new to me and a nice read.
GeniusWiki is free now
Hi HN,
Our product GeniusWiki free since version 2.0. GeniusWiki is a Wiki engine. It aims to provide an easy way to organise knowledge, ideas and documents etc. It is the software used for http://www.geniuswiki.com which is free sign up website. You can download and install GeniusWiki to your owned server for internal usage. You only need to take 10 seconds to fill a form for a unlimited user license request.
GeniusWiki is base on Java and OS independent. It supports most popular database and Java web server. We make a lot efforts to make GeniusWiki ease-to-use and ease-to-maintain. It has a setup wizard to guide user to complete install. It has both WYSIWYG and powerful markup editor and switch between seamless. Except the better writing experience, it has lots handy feature, such as the fine-grind and flexible permission control, conflict handling, D&D dashboard, widget, powerful admin platform and etc. GeniusWiki is quite stable for team or personal usage as geniuswiki.com is already running over 3 years and hosting thousands users and spaces.
We make it free just want to make this software more popular. Hope you like it and give us more feedback.

Try it from http://www.geniuswiki.com
Download from http://www.edgenius.com/download
Ask HN: Do I use full stop after an emoticon at the end of a sentence? :) or :).
:) or :).
The latter seems to destroy the emotion of the emoticon.
Microsoft.com Server vulnerable to hackers 
http://cyberkooltour.blogspot.com/2011/06/microsoftcom-server-vulnerable-to.html
Microsoft.com Server vulnerable to hackers ! ~ THN : The Hackers News
Oceanographer/Developer creates underwater communication at hackathon
http://www.fastcompany.com/3015636/scubatone-powers-underwater-communication-using-landline-tech-from-1963
My roommate who has a PHD in Oceanography and is the smartest Python developer I have ever met made this at a hackathon.

Could the key to improving underwater communication be a technology developed for landline phones in the '60s?

At a hackathon earlier this month in San Francisco, oceanographers and scientists from NASA, the California Academy of Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, and other institutions gathered to figure out how to improve on the current tools of choice for marine researchers: waterproof paper and pencil. The event was hosted by iDive, which is launching an underwater iPad housing this fall. The company is founded by a marine biologist, and the technology originated from a research lab in Saudi Arabia funded by the king.
Why Most Small Business Consultants Suck
http://www.infochachkie.com/beware-the-consultant/
"Consultants trade their time for your money"!

I love that quote - it is far too true!!
Return of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/9303/return-of-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop/
The collective that brought you the Dr Who theme is back...after two decades in the wilderness.
PassG  password generator
http://passwordgen.tfriesen.de/
Get quick and easy a secure password
Show HN: iCal style UI library built with React, 99% headless components
https://github.com/ifndefdeadmau5/react-go-to-calendar
This is the essential part of Calendar component generalized from my daily job, hope this helps building Calendar UI for your react app
SeaDragon and Deep Zoom (Jump to 8:55)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/seadragon-in-silverlight-the-coolest-bit-from-mix-keynote-one/
Some really interesting new technology. Someone said before that zooming is much more natural than scrolling and I think that's true. I expect UI's will slowly start to migrate towards a more zoom-oriented approach.
Seven Highly Effective Ways to Kill Innovation
http://www.cio.com/article/125658
Innovation doesn't just happen, it comes from careful tending of creative teams. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth.
Python and the Holy Grail of Debugging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gL_QOTlq4k
https://github.com/mitotic/otrace
Microsoft - Automated Video Looping with Progressive Dynamism
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/d02f3198-7896-45eb-89e8-5a75859b67c8/
Paper - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drKmS-Czu44
Availability: Story of the inevitable outage of the Cloud
http://cloudinsights.typepad.com/main/2011/08/availability-story-of-the-inevitable-outage-of-the-cloud.html
Traditionally delivering high availability often meant replicating everything. However, today with the option of going to the cloud we can say that providing two of everything is costly. High availability should be planned and achieved at several different levels: including the software, the data center and the geographic redundancy
GitHub Dashboard Application for Koding
https://github.com/fkadeveloper/GitHubDashboard.kdapp
This is a simple GitHub Dashboard app for Koding users. Manages the applications and the repositories , clones and installs the applications served on GitHub.
Ask HN: Why is so little known about Apple, it's culture?
Time and again, I come across articles on HN and other tech site that talk about the Corporate culture at Google and Microsoft. We see images of Google Employees skateboarding in their offices and game station they have in their offices.

But I have never seen anything about Apple and its corporate culture. I don't think anybody there tweets either.

I am aware of Apple secretive nature about its products, but I was not sure if this applied to other parts of the company as well.

Does anybody has any idea?

Thanks.
Ask HN: How come the "topcolor" HackerNews setting only applies to some pages?
I was wondering why the "topcolor" option only seems to affect some screens. When you reply to a post, or submit a new post the color reverts back to the original orange. Design decision, or insignificant bug?
Ask HN: How to vet early stage startup founders?
I made a major mistake at the last startup I joined of not vetting the founders, who seemingly had strong track records, more thoroughly. What are some questions you would ask in backdoor reference checks before joining an early stage (pre-seed) startup?
Pixlr-o-matic a playful darkroom for vintage effects
http://pixlr.com/o-matic/
Turn your photos into cool looking vintage and retro snaps! With this fun and simple darkroom you can apply filters, lightning and borders as easy as one two three.
Show HN: Number of layers for efficient fine-tuning. Experiments
https://qdrant.tech/articles/embedding-recycler/
Model fine-tuning allows you to improve the quality of the pre-trained models with just a fraction of the resources spent on training the original model. Qdrant team has run several experiments to test the number of layers to fine-tune.
Website designer/developer review site
http://www.ratemydesigner.com
There are just so many amateur web designer/developers out there right now and not very many ways for people to find the good ones. I thought this site may help.
Supreme Court agrees to hear Microsoft challenge to i4i patent
http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112910zor.pdf#page=4
[FROM OP:] The specific question the Court will decide is: "Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that Microsoft’s invalidity defense must be proved by clear and convincing evidence." (From http://www.scribd.com/doc/36934612/Microsoft-i4i-Cert-Petition-patent-2010.)

For more about how cert petitions work, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certiorari.

Hat tip: Stanford law prof Mark Lemley http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/38/
'Remix of the Century' is a remix of every no1 song since 1890
http://www.remixofthecentury.com/
Better listen now until it will get shut down by the music industry... "Tom Hannen, David Vella and Henrik Pettersson took every number one song from the US Billboard charts since 1890 and turned it into an interactive remix. 'The end result is eleven minutes of (mostly) beat-matched automated remixing from 1890 to 2012,' they say." Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/24/music-hack-day-london-2012 -- "The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_charts
Important piece for CEOs/founders for perspective 
http://aarondelcohen.com/post/1086556761/my-new-dream-job
I've known Aaron across three or four of his companies and for 15 years. This is his most important moment, and this piece is import to give us all perspective on what's important while we try to launch our products and change thee world.
I love Microsoft Software
http://softwarejim.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-love-microsoft-software.html
While no company is perfect, deep down inside you know you love their software.
The biggest BarCamp in North America
http://minnestar.org/minnebar/
Thought you'd be curious to guess where the biggest BarCamp in North America took place yesterday. At least I've heard it's the biggest. 1200 registrations, maybe ~1000 in attendance.

Direct link to sessions: http://sessions.minnestar.org/

Also, forgive me for pimping EventBurn (our product), but here is a summary of tweets about it: http://www.eventburn.com/minnestar?date=2011-05-07

I couldn't find another overview of the event I thought was comprehensive.
Looking for a Co-Founder? Foundershookup.com -- Free service
http://foundershookup.com
Founder dating site that's free for developers. Biz types heavily screened. Exceptional people. All applications screened.
Awesome Predator Implementation: iPad 3D no glasses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQQEcfkHoE&feature=player_embedded#at=39
Predator is some cool stuff. Check out previous posts:

News report:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403290
Source code:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411459
Cubase64 - 11 real-time audio effects with a computer from 1982
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrqBYkco-Y&feature=player_embedded
Cubase64 White Paper [PDF] http://www.livet.se/mahoney/c64-files/Cubase64_White_Paper_by_Pex_Mahoney_Tufvesson.pdf
The 3 Basic Elements of Good Graphic Design  
http://www.samevisions.com/the-3-basic-elements-of-good-graphic-design/
A graphic designer should be aware of many things while working on his projects, besides pleasing himself and his clients.

Long time ago it was not that easy to be a Graphic designer without creativity and Accuracy of observation in everything.

Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to learn new things with all this detailed tutorials and tips.
PEBKAC my ass. Your software is terrible.
http://www.stefankendall.com/2012/01/09/pebkac-my-ass-your-software-is-terrible/
PEBKAC my ass. Your software is terrible.
13 Tips For A More Accessible Web
http://nullisnotanobject.com/2008/11/13-tips-for-web-accessibility/
Tips for making HTML and Ajax web pages more accessible.
A collection of apps no airline pilot should do without
http://www.aviationcv.com/en/read-news/a-collection-of-apps-no-airline-pilot-should-do-without-80.html#.UnjlUvkwqgg
For some time now, the growing practicality of smartphones and tablet computers has eased the legacy of cumbersome documentation for both pilots and airline operators alike. Indeed, the accession of mobile apps to business technologies has in no way bypassed civil aviation. A simple search will yield an abundance of different apps, each claiming to offer an enhanced solution or a streamlined approach to the workload of a broad scope of pilots. Clearly, individual mileage may vary, but we ask the question: what set of mobile apps can no airline pilot afford to do without?
Comparison of Con Kolivas's previous BFS scheduler to mainline CFS scheduler
http://lwn.net/Articles/351058
As noted in the comments this compares the prototype implementation prior to today's "stable" BFS release. Should give some context to the claimed improvements. Will be interesting to see if Ingo re-runs this comparison and publishes the new results.
IEEE study shows Indian researchers leaving India in droves
http://i.imgur.com/eeSrc.jpg
NBER study also shows Indian researchers as the least likely to return to India. http://www.nber.org/papers/w18067
2048 finds its way to MP3 players
http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/888/
2048 has made its way to MP3 players now... What's next?
Kill R-  Wait a Sec
http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/kill-r-wait-a-sec/
Discussion on R is too efficient started by Ross Ihaka
Skymind launches open-source deep learning with deeplearning4j.org
http://gigaom.com/2014/06/02/a-startup-called-skymind-launches-pushing-open-source-deep-learning/
Skymind is providing commercial support and services for an open source project called deeplearning4j.org. It’s a collection of of approaches to deep learning that mimic those developed by leading researchers, but tuned for enterprise adoption.
Zero to Pylons in no time flat on Windows [self blog]
http://bradhe.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/zero-to-pylons-in-no-time-flat-on-windows/
For all of you ex-PHP guys like me that want to give python/pylons a spin!