jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OReilly tests automatic synch of ebooks to your Dropbox accounts
http://www.thegeekblog.co.uk/the-geek-blog/2012/6/18/oreilly-and-dropbox-syncing.html
You can now automatically sync all your ebooks with your Dropbox account. This is a new feature currently in beta testing (invite-only, apparently). Just log into Your Account, click the "Personal Info" tab, and authorize syncing with Dropbox.
Togaroga - Choosy developers choose interfaces
http://togaroga.com/2010/04/choosy-developers-choose-interfaces/
Each time you write a method that accepts arguments you must make a decision as to the type of those arguments. If you are not careful, your choice could place unnecessary restrictions on the caller of the method that requires them to pass too specific of a type.
The True Cost of Healthcare
http://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_financial_analysis
This is a study of the annual financial reports for 352 California hospitals from 2003-2011. All relevant data is linked so anyone can check the math. These financial reports are provided by the hospitals themselves to the State of California.
Video Content Analysis and Adaptive Rate Allocation
http://blog.protogenist.com/?p=832
In classical rate control, all GoPs are treated equally, and frame-level bit allocation is basedon the frame type and a complexity measure, sometimes with multiple passes over the video, but without considering the semantics of picture content. In the H.264/AVC reference encoder, the GoP borders are determined according to a predefined pattern of frames, and the same target bit rate is used for each GoP given the available channel rate. As a result,the video quality varies from GoP to GoP depending on the video content. The problem with this approach is that in some applications, e.g., wireless video, the total bit budget is not sufficient to encode the entire content at an acceptable quality.
THANK YOU HN
http://onpage.neocortex.io
This is my way to say THANK YOU HN. My first iOS app wouldn't be in the app store without this community.

I've learned so much by reading comments about app development, mistakes and marketing.

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Domainer gives up JeffBezos.com, gets Amazon gift certificate
http://techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/domainer-returns-jeffbezoscom.html
Jeff Bezos owns JeffBezos.com. And he has Bob Olea to thank for that. Olea is one of those domainers who buys and sells internet domain names. Olea recently bought the domain name JeffBezos.com at an aftermarket domain auction. But he has decided to give it to the Amazon.com CEO.
Show HN: Spirit, modern django based forum software
http://spirit-project.com/
I finally got something worthy of posting here.
Spirit is a modern forum software written on python employing django's framework.

It has many of the features available on more known solutions. It is easy to integrate to preexistent Django projects, since it works as any other app. I think it is worth a look for any Pythonist out there.
Also, it has over 250 test cases!

Marketing site: http://spirit-project.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/nitely/Spirit
An Introduction to iBeacons: The Future of Retail?
http://bluefletch.com/blog/intro-to-ibeacons-the-future-of-retail/
3 common iBeacon misconceptions and how to get started with them.
Ruby on Rails DBA Cofounder
http://www.hotzing.com 
We are a community service engine, a platform idea within weeks of market sales. We have a sold back end DBA and a front end UI/UX person. We just need a good middle man to be there for pushes to production, fixes, and new database installs to new front end wire frames. We are a combined business service, civic network, and a future open forum media. Our business service is 95% ready to launch. Contact keithkelsch(at)hotzing(dot)com for docs, revenue projections and more. Must sign an NDA to begin discussions. No other platform idea is as promising as ours. Dig a little to find out.
WSJ: iPhone 5 will Support LTE Networks in Europe and Asia
http://www.iphonbuzz.com/wsj-iphone-5-will-support-lte-networks-in-europe-and-asia.html
Among the wide range of available rumors at the moment this can only be as pleasant. an article published recently by the Wall Street Journal mentioned that the next iPhone could be compatible with LTE frequencies in Europe and Asia.
Breaking Open: AngularJS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0VsStcCCM8
Marakana Instructor Simeon Franklin gets behind the scenes of AngularJS with the founder of the project. He and Miško will talk about the beginnings of AngularJS, how the project came to be sponsored by Google, the community around Angular, alternative frameworks, documentation, its relationship to other Google projects (like Dart), and how Angular addresses issues around SEO.
"2 pix 1 movie" awesome movie app
https://itunes.apple.com/app/2-pix-1-movie/id766598120?mt=8
2 pix 1 movie is a well designed movie puzzle app with engaging content. Content gets more tricky and harder as you level up.

Movie buffs will have nostalgic moments solving puzzles, while have loads of fun.

Please check out the app 2 pix 1 movie , featured last week in games->puzzle category in App Store.
A Moral Opinion on Bitcoin
https://medium.com/p/fd097809f88f
Why ultimately the ideals of the system may triumph over its’ practicalities
Hacking Dropbox
https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot13/workshop-program/presentation/Kholia
Additional link for the paper: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.r43.cf2.rackcdn.com/12058-woot13-kholia.pdf
Satoshi denies beeing Satoshi
https://twitter.com/joebelbruno
https://twitter.com/JoeBelBruno/status/441691185036283905
A LIVE Twitter feed highlighting popular US Govt Communications
http://twitter.com/GovDeliveryLive
GovDelivery is a SaaS platform used by a very large portion (probably over 50%) of the US Federal Agencies to communicate with constituents/stakeholders. Over 70K unique messages are sent through the platform (via billions of emails and text messages a year) to people that opt-in for this information.

@GovDeliveryLive is a twitter feed that grabs those messages that people are actually opening, reading and sharing with their friends.

Think of it as the live trending of official government communications. Always amazed at what our government 'says' verses what people actually read and take action on. Interesting stuff.
Unlocking the Art of Reward-fare
http://mileslennon.com/art_of_rewardfare.html
Would like to hear more thoughts in response to this on what HN thinks about the right and wrong ways to go about implementing rewards systems in games, applications and services.
Terracotta Network Attached Memory for Web App Session Clustering and Replication
http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/04/18/web-application-session-clustering-and-replication-with-terracotta-server-network-attached-memory/
Terracotta provides a service called Network Attached Memory for JEE applications. It is similar to a distributed cache, in that it provides object caching and session clustering features. Terracotta sets itself apart from traditional Java distributed caches because of it’s seamless integration with most Java application servers and frameworks, and ability to cache the entire framework and code, as well as provide session clustering and replication features on a level of high-availability that is difficult to attain with such finesse and ease. This article demonstrates some of Terracotta’s session clustering and high availability features using a demo application the Terracotta engineers have created, called the Examinator.
8 weeks to become a software dev in Vancouver...? Sure.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/01/12-reasons-to-join-vancouvers-tech-revolution-in-2014/
8 weeks! Also, Vancouver salaries suck.
Jobylon turns your friends into rewards
http://www.jobylon.com/
Recommend jobs to friends and get great rewards!
Linode Network Issues
http://twitter.com/linode/status/14553780214
Linode's Dallas Collocation is having network issues bringing down many YC startups.
Rant about doing...
http://luljanbacaj.com/2014/02/24/rant-about-doing/
I read everyone's blog posts on here all of the time... I decided to take the plunge and just started writing some myself.
Show HN: Fridge – The Dataroom for Remote Fundraising
https://tryfridge.com
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of Venture Capital, I shall fear no DD requests.

Fridge is the data room for remote fundraising.

Born from the soul-crushingly hard experience of fundraising, we bring before you the ultimate data room - a room so rich in features and style you will think ”I wish I built that.” Investment decisions today are made in less than 3 minutes and your dataroom has become the centerpiece of fundraising as it moved remote - even in the early stage.

Fridge is free to try for anyone raising right now!
Montar.py
https://github.com/NickCis/montar.py
Easy solution for un/mounting sshfs remote folders
Maoist' blast derails 13 coaches of Gyaneshwari Express 65 dead, 200 injured. 
http://rajthackeray.info/latest/maoist-blast-derails-13-coaches-of-gyaneshwari-express-65-dead-200-injured
At least sixty five passengers were killed and 200 injured when 13 coaches of a Mumbai-bound express train derailed in West Midnapore district early today after Maoists sabotaged the train tracks. Five of these coaches were also hit by a speeding goods train. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a bomb blast as part of a "calculated attack" caused the Gyaneshwari Express to first derail and then get hit by a goods train.
Oozyo It infrastructure management application
http://oozyo.com
Oozyo is an application for managing your network infrastructure.

Are you always searching for your usernames, passwords, client information…

Stop wasting time and put it online so it becomes available from everywhere.

With this application you can manage your usernames, passwords, urls, ftp servers, webservers, clients, license keys, expiry dates, firewalls... And much more!

Manage your company, manage your customers and hand out clean pdf documents with their user information!

Oozyo is available in English and Dutch!
Comparison of the effects of e-cigarette vapor ... indoor air quality.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23033998
Full Paper Located Here:
http://www.vaporwebvending.com/docs/studytwo.pdf
Top Quotes By Entrepreneurs
http://www.cheaprevolution.com/the_cheap_revolution/2008/04/more-entreprene.html
Followup from another post - quotes by entrepreneurs and other quotes that can be applied to entrepreneurship
The Canon 2.0
http://www.gamejudgment.com/the-canon-2-0
Is Tetris really one of the top 10 greatest game ever made? Is Sensible World of Soccer the standard for all sport simulations? There’s a lot of top 10 lists out there, some including your favorite RPG, others including games no one in their right mind has been playing for the last decade. But not all lists are born equal, some matter more than others. In fact, there is one special list of video games, a list above all others, a list better known as The Canon. Here’s the list in question...(read the entire article)
Ask HN: Which software products do governments use daily?
Governments of all administrative levels & apart from Microsoft Office.
Ask HN: How do you determine if a company is a good one to work for?
Assume that a candidate is a skilled dev who can find a job, but wants one where they are both well paid and feel happy and productive.

A partial list of things that I'd like to know before starting a job:

1. Does the product/project have an owner who looks at it from a user standpoint?

- How about access to feedback from users?

- Are there specs?

- How is it determined that something you work onis a good fit?

2. Quality of code and the dev practices.

- Ideal: I'd get a copy of the code, set up a dev environment, examine and run the tests, write in a new mini-feature, deploy to a testing env, and have someone show me a full live deployment.

- Is there a sense of a cohesive architecture, or at least some effort and interest towards one?

- How do I know they're not lying about their "Joel test" results?

3. Does the team have time to perform proper maintenance of projects? (e.g.: vulnerability discovered, core third-party library updated, etc.)

- Does the company spread itself over multiple projects or forks so they don't all get the attention they deserve?

4. How easy is it for developers to touch the ops process?

- Ideal: I feel dev/ops should have a large amount of crossover. A specialization sweet-spot keeps everyone working most efficiently, but I don't see "writing a platform" as entirely distinct from "running the platform and ensuring its health".

5. How do you determine there is a good path for career growth?

- If someone is a key employee for a long time, do they get recognized for it, financially and role-wise?

I've worked at some places with skilled teams that are unprofitable and unsustainable, and some that are profitable and sustainable, but are poorly managed and are not fun to work at.

How can I figure out that a place is somewhere I'd like to work before saying "yes, I will accept your offer"?
Betashop: 3 Keys To Being A Founder
http://betashop.com/post/186896402/3-keys-to-being-a-founder
Follow-up to Paul Buchheit's post on evaluating risk.
Principal Reduction Program
http://www.obama-loanmodifications.com/principal-reduction-alternative-program.php
Principal Reduction Program is best alternative for people whose mortgage is not covered in FHA Principal Reduction Program,A Principal Reduction HAMP Loan Modification Program can save your home and lot of money, just fill out small form to qualify our loan officer will contact you within 48 hours.
Show HN: What do you think of our EdTech apprenticeship startup?
http://coderin90.com
Increasing affordable mentor access with more robust progress tracking and support system all 100% (any awesome ideas, possible mentors, students are welcome)
mail me at: emily{at}coderin90.com
Common Application System on Wordpress
Hey guys! I know this probably going to be the noobest post here, but is it possible to create a fully functional website like Commonapp or Ucas in wordpress?
DevOps/operations engineer 
http://www.flite.com/careers/
"DevOps" is a buzzword that means different things to different people.
While there are a baseline set of Operational functions that must happen to keep our
business up and running, we want you to help us define your level of involvement
with the Development side.

Some responsibilities include:
Design, scale, and maintain Cloud-based infrastructure
Support, troubleshoot, and maintain production and multiple other environments
Monitor site stability and performance
Liaise closely with Development team
Participate in on-call production support rotation

We're looking for someone who:
Has previous production site experience
Has enough experience to know what they're talking about
Has strong Linux administration skills
Can demonstrate Apache, Tomcat expertise
Has expertise in TCP/IP, especially the HTTP, DNS & SSH protocols
Has experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, etc)
Has knowledge of monitoring (Nagios, CloudWatch, Munin, Splunk) and configuration management (Chef, Puppet) tools
Has J2EE deployment experience
Uses Git or SVN
Knows a scripting language: Shell, Python or Ruby

Bonus points if you:
Have experience in MySQL administration and/or with MySQL replication
Have experience with Fabric
Can read/write Ruby
Understand Hive, Hadoop & Map/Reduce
Have experience with Maven and/or Apache Buildr
Have Switch, Router, and Firewall experience

You'll be a great fit for us if you:
Understand and have exposure to NoSQL solutions
Have a good sense of humor
Are always thinking "what happens if this fails?"
Like to document things

About Flite:
Investors include Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Small (~65), close-knit, and very experienced team
Agile development practices
Established, 5 year old company
More info at http://www.flite.com

Compensation:
Stock option plan
Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
"Use as much as you need" vacation/PTO
401K enrollments
Commuter checks or pre-tax transportation reimbursement options
Flexible Spending account option
Casual & FUN! Working environment
Opportunity to work with smart people and learn a lot about one of the fastest growing industries
Interactive Visualization for the Human Development Index
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/17/human-development-index-interactive-visualization.html
Check out Zimbabwe 1990 vs Zimbabwe 2010, China 1990 vs China 2010. More explanation here: http://blogs.forbes.com/jonbruner/2010/11/18/a-new-way-to-look-at-the-human-development-index/
What about a RSS Reader + Twitter + HNews in one place?
http://flowreader.userecho.com/topic/197779-add-hacker-newsycombinator-support/
FlowReader (http://flowreader.com) has already the RSS Reader and Twitter. It lacks it the HNews.
It can be a must, and the best substitute of GoogleReader.
Other idea of websites which are not only restricted to the RSS Reader and could be have a Twitter and HNews section?
Cuil I.P.O and other related jokes.
http://www.altvirtual.com/tech-news/cuil-ipo-jokes.html
Surprisingly Cuil has not made a sound louder than a bear’s fart in the woods. Even comedians have failed to even make a decent joke about Cuil. Maybe because that would be as morbid as making jokes about the neighbourhood retard.
The Simpsons meets Social Media
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99923/the-simpsons-bart-gets-a-z
The Simpsons discover Twitter, Facebook and blogging.
Show HN: The Crowd List – A Startup Equity Investing Directory
https://www.thecrowdlist.com
Hi HN!

A quick backstory – I discovered equity crowdfunding a few years ago but grew frustrated with the increasing number of funding portals and having to search several different places to find interesting companies to invest in. To solve this issue, I created The Crowd List and I’m excited to be sharing it with you all!

What is The Crowd List?
The Crowd List is a constantly updated directory of every startup, or established company, that is running an equity crowdfunding campaign. It’s too difficult to search every funding portal, every single day, to find out who is raising. We’ve consolidated that list into one place so you can learn which companies are looking for investors like you!

How does it work?
When you sign up for The Crowd List you will have 24/7 access to the constantly updated directory of equity crowdfunding campaigns.

Who is it for?
Anyone who is interested in investing. Give it a try!

Thank you for your support!
HKR News sidepanel UI with fulltext articles
http://hkrnews.com/#
http://hkrnews.com/#
Codefront.io is around the corner
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Codefront-is-around-the-corner
There are only two weeks left before the international front-end conference in Linz - Codefront.io. It's organized by the guys from WebBox and it's scheduled for 10th of May. You still have a chance to buy a ticket and listen interesting talks about our lovely Web.
How to have lunch with the brightest minds in SV?
After several months of building a product (whilst getting feedback from users all along) I'm looking to have lunch with several top-notch programmers/evangelists in the Mobile Web area. We've got users, even traction and a really really useful and cool product.

What's the best way to reach these people and buy them lunch/beer?
Will donating money to Japan actually help?
http://www.quora.com/Will-donating-money-to-Japan-actually-help
What's your input?
Toxic iPhone
http://www.ecospace.cc/gadgets/iphone-eco-hazardous-1107.htm
iPhones kill trees! Rawr.
Poll: Nokia/Microsoft outcomes in light of Nokia X
The Nokia/Microsoft deal is becoming messier and hairier. The Nokia X is real. It might even go GA before the Microsoft deal closes. It's made in Nokia's Chennai plant, which is currently in regulatory limbo. Nokia X is probably a poison chalice for Windows Phone. I'm pretty sure Satya is not thinking "Yay! I'mma gonna own THREE more operating systems! And some factories that don't make Windows products!" Here is what Tomi Ahonen has to say about it: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/

What do you think will happen?
Distinguishing important from urgent with drawings
http://sthomme.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/distinguishing-important-from-urgent-with-drawings/
Using baye's nets to set priorities (for beginners)
Startup Advice from Paris Hilton (by Gene Marks)
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/othercities/philadelphia/stories/2009/11/23/smallb2.html?b=1258952400%5E2472371
This is an interesting article. The central question is, "Is this a good time to start a company?" My own experience is that anytime is a good time to start a company because paradoxically, for a struggling entrepreneur, anytime is a bad time. When the economy is doing well, everyone is doing well and there are a lot more competitions for your customers' limited resources. When the economy is doing badly, as it is now, few entrepreneurs could afford to start companies. That's the good news. The bad news is that customers are really struggling so you must have an exceptionally compelling solution that could save them money and help them survive before they would listen. So in summary, the World basically conspires against an entrepreneur irrespective of the economy and it would be like asking, "Is this a good time to fall in love?"
Building brand equity with an accessible logo
http://stevenkovar.com/randomness/building-brand-equity-with-an-accessible-logo/
A simple post about easy things you can do to make it easy for people to spread the love towards your company.
My Design Process: Square Cash Recurring Payments
https://medium.com/p/5cba47bb6f3c
My Design Process: Square Cash Recurring Payments
Cloud Based Screenplay Program
http://www.RawScripts.com
The uptime has been fantastic but after seeing what happened to Amazon, and the sites affected, perhaps having a back-up desktop version is also a must, and then having syncing options. Since I know also use google docs, syncing is a must.
lonelygirl15 Marketing Strategy
http://fishtrain.com/2007/08/21/lonelygirl15-marketing-strategy/
Jessica Rose used YouTube and this marketing strategy to achieve success and fame. She is currently on ABC's hit-show, Greek.
Ask HN: What do you want in the cloud?
Following this presentation by Adam of Heroku, what do you think that is missing in the cloud?

http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/cloud-services?from=ss_embed
What is a good user experience? Let’s find out.
UX has become a controversial field in recent years. What is it? Do we need it? At what stage in a start up do we really need it? How do we do it properly?

I had an idea that if done right might serve as a good resource for all hacker news entrepreneurs.

Why not choose a hackers-news entrepreneur’s start up idea, create a design, and let our community of hackers help iterate through on how they would improve it from a user interface and experience perspective. The interesting thing here will be to see how crowd-sourced input will improve or shape the product’s experience. To keep things simple, people could just comment with an idea for an improvement, an area that needs better aligning, a better way to do something, etc.

We’ll work together, until this entrepreneur’s design has advanced to a stage that might be considered a good example of attention to user experience.

Is anyone is interested in participating? Feel free to comment. If you have a start up, please post your general idea/needs, etc. to see if I could provide an initial design for you (free of charge), and let’s see how much we can improve it from there. This should be completely public as the goal is to create a learning tool for the whole community, to see what suggestions we as a group can come up with.