jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The joys and challenges of running a nomadic software company
http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/06/18/the-joys-and-challenges-of-running-a-nomadic-software-company/
In theory an Internet based software business isn’t tied to any particular geographical location. So why not travel the world, financed by your business? Here is the story of two people doing just that.
Advertising URLs Offline Drives Traffic Online 
http://internetrack.blogspot.com/2008/06/advertising-urls-offline-drives-traffic.html
"Some 44% of people who saw a product or service advertised in a newspaper in the past month researched it - and two-thirds(67%) of that group went online to find more information."
CGI short film - post-apocalyptic
http://vimeo.com/38591304
Incredible short film with a motorcycle chase set in a post-apocalyptic era.
How I Launched TractionVC 14days Ago and 'Hacked' Amazon to Get Paying Users Fast
2 weeks ago, I launched http://www.traction.vc to help product-focused-entrepreneurs form a habit of working on traction. It has been making money from day 1 and is growing ever since.

I wrote 2 stories with a step-by-step look behind the curtain. Might be inspiring/helpful.

Here's the story of how it got started and went from "No-Idea" to "Profitable" in 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep --> https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-no-idea-to-profitable-in-15-hours-including-6-hours-of-sleep-9398ff0bc55d

Here's the 4-step-Amazon-hack I used to get people to convert into paying customers insanely fast (and you can use for your ideas today) --> https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me-convert-visitors-into-paying-customers-faster-698eb5b95a3d
Ask HN: Requesting feedback on idea
In one sentence: An advertising network for 3rd-party map developers (within video games).

Basically you have a large community of individuals who design and develop maps for video games. See: http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps

They currently develop maps for personal notoriety and for fun.

The idea is to build an advertising network which would interface with advertisers and 3rd party map creators to include props/textures in their custom maps which advertise a product. Currently there is no existing market for this as far as I can tell.

There are some interesting technical challenges as you can't exactly do "page views" but you can track when a specific map is being played, by how many people, and for how long. The other variable would be advertisement visibility within the map. I have a good understanding of the technicalities and abilities within this niche platform.

Other troubles: maps are permanent unless they get updated by developers and re-uploaded to the server. So advertisers can't exactly run "weekend specials".

I am just brainstorming this right now; I appreciate your criticisms or other thoughts you have.

Mike
Ask HN: When you started, what was your growth hack? (Local / online? )
I'm curious for the ones who are their own employer.

When you first reached out for customers, what was the first thing you did and how did it turn out?
Show HN: I made a small Space Shooter
https://linkdd.itch.io/glitch-and-rush
Thank you https://opengameart.org for your service. People like me who can't draw or compose music are in your debt.

The game, "Glitch and Rush" has been made in a few hours here and there.

I've been tinkering in GameDev for years, if not decades, but I never released anything. The goal here was simple:

- come up with a core mechanic
- implement a single level
- add some polishing
- RELEASE

I hope you'll enjoy it. BTW, my best time is 2min23s (yes, I'm bad at my own game, it's ok, I'm ok).
The Patent Troll You Don't Read About In Bar-Code Inventor's Obituaries 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-patent-troll-you-dont-read-about-in-bar-code-inventors-obituaries/
$500m siphoned out of the pockets of people and companies who actually did all the work...
10 wasted years awaiting extradition to the US on computer hacking charges.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/07/open-letter-gary-mckinnon
It's the Gary McKinnon case, again. Can't believe that's not resolved yet. Security is security, the holes were pointed out and fixed a long time ago, time to move on.
Plagiarism: Reprints PG's 'The Equity Equation' with new name and no link back to source!
http://thegies.typepad.com/runtosurvive/2007/08/the-executive-e.html
This guy reprints Paul Graham's 'The Equity Equation' but changes the name to 'The Executive Equation' and doesn't cite the source except by leaving a few links point back to paulgraham.com.

Is it just me, or is this not blatant plagiarism...
Ask HN: What kind of personal data do you backup?
Curently I'm using rsync to backup all of digital assets (music, pdfs, code, personal documents, bills, etc.). I use 2 external hard drives for this.

For some of my stuff (e.g., code, music) there is replication somewhere in the cloud as well (although I don't care much about it, since it comes "for free" as in: git push is just another backup mechanism).

I've read a lot about backup strategies in HN, and they all look more elaborated/expensive than my rsync. So I wonder: what kind of personal data is people here backing up? Why rsync isn't enough?

(Business-related data is another world).
A new storage engine for MySQL: PostgreSQL
http://www.pinaraf.info/2013/03/my-post-engine-a-postgres-engine-for-mysql/
Code here: https://gitorious.org/my-post-engine/my-post-engine/trees/master

Seems a way off production. Still, as someone who loves Postgres, and shudders at the memory of MySQL, it makes me smile.
Funny: DevOps reactions
http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/
These are entertaining. New posts regularly.
Recursive search in Google Maps
http://elshawwa.blogspot.com/2009/04/recursive-search-in-google-maps-why-is.html
Google Maps is not just for looking up directions and "coffee". It gets more interesting when you can use it for some sort of business intelligence experiments with Google's location data. Let me know what you think.
List of Supporters:H.R.3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act
http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Supporters.pdf
For people who's been asking for this information. This is the official document.
Ask HN: If I give an app permission to my photos, do they access to all of them?
My partner and I recently had our first child and we've opted to institute a 'no social media sharing' policy with any photos we share with our family and friends. But if they have granted apps, like Facebook and such, permission to access their photos, do these apps have access to all their photos or just ones that they've chosen to share?
Is there room for another classified ads website?
It would appear that Craigslist has this market on lock down. Craigslist is almost the term people use when referencing online classified ads in general - like Kleenex.

With all the simplicities of Craigslist though, it seems like it could be updated and done better. I know 'better' is subjective, but a lot of newer technologies have come out since Craigslist was initially released. The concept could perhaps be modernized a bit.

Do you think there's room in the market for another Craigslist? What kind of things could make classified ads better?
Don't be an April Fool, Worldbackupday.net is now live
http://www.worldbackupday.net/
Mind-melted on reddit a few days ago world backup day is an event to encourage everyone to backup their data. World backup day is set to March 31st!
Ask HN: simplifying credit card forms.
This is 37signal's beautifully simple credit card capture form for Highrise.

http://img.ly/2u8H

I'd like to know how feasible it is to create a form with so few fields. Presumably there are some fraud checks being skipped? Is this something that many payment gateways will allow? Does anybody know of any hacks to remove extra/unnecessary fields from card capture forms?
Show HN: Ruby app for managing Google Apps users and groups
http://github.com/xraystyle/google-apps-management-ruby
Manage users and groups in your Google Apps domain with this command line app written in Ruby. You can create a user, set up aliases and add them to groups all in one workflow.

This is the biggest project I've put together by myself so far. I know there's a few places where I can do some refactoring/drying out, but feedback is welcome and encouraged.
Show HN: Feedback on Snouters?
https://snouters.com/
We are building a pet care services marketplace in India. Posting here to seek feedback on the product.
Hackers and Founders presents: Heysan and Snipd (Thursday October 16th)
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/calendar/8700459/
asdf
Show HN: estela, a modern elastic web scraping cluster
https://github.com/bitmakerla/estela
estela is an elastic web scraping cluster running on Kubernetes. It provides mechanisms to deploy, run and scale web scraping spiders via a REST API and a web interface.

It is a modern alternative to the few OSS projects available for such needs, like scrapyd and gerapy. estela aims to help web scraping teams and individuals that are considering moving away from proprietary scraping clouds, or who are in the process of designing their on-premise scraping architecture, so as not to needlessly reinvent the wheel, and to benefit from the get-go from features such as built-in scalability and elasticity, among others.

estela has been recently published as OSS under the MIT license:

https://github.com/bitmakerla/estela

More details about it can be found in the release blog post and the official documentation:

https://bitmaker.la/blog/2022/06/24/estela-oss-release.html

https://estela.bitmaker.la/docs/

estela supports Scrapy spiders for the moment being, but additional frameworks/languages are on the roadmap.

All kinds of feedback and contributions are welcome!

Disclaimer: I'm part of the development team behind estela :-)
Cyber armies are gearing up in the cold war of the web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/25/cybercrime-nato-cold-war
A major online attack could bring a country to its knees. Nato's hawks back a strategy that threatens cybergeddon
Ask HN: How much abuse does your web app get, how much prevention do you put in?
I'm about to launch my first web startup and am wondering how concerned I should be about abuse -- both from account holders and the public at large.

Background: our app is free to sign up and upload all of your content (URL is in my profile). The pay wall comes when you want all of that content to go live and be available to your users.

Example Concerns:
1. An account holder can upload unlimited content, but the common use case will only be what they have (on the order of 100MB most).
2. A user could feasibly switch their billing plan unlimited number of times.
3. The RESTful interface to the content requires no authentication and isn't throttled (it does do some header checking) and links to large media files are raw, source of request is unchecked on server end.
4. DDOS, general "script kiddie" stuff, dictionary attacks on root pw to servers (i use a non-standard port)

Everything that can be considered "harmful" would eventually be caught (woe be to my bandwidth bill) and dealt with, but possibly not before some "damage" has been done - namely a huge distraction and time sink to find and correct the issue/perpetrator.

How much "abuse" does your web app take?
How aggressive are you in preventing such behaviors?
Why startups fail: Lack of focus
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/power-lean/
Seattle Lean Startup Panelists discussing tips for entrepreneurs.
tl;dr Hacker News
A daily or weekly service (newsletter) with 1-Paragraph summaries of HN links that made it to the frontpage.

Would this be something you're interested in?

For YES - Upvote

For NO - Comment with reason
Why do you use Pandas instead of SQL? 
http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1tqjt4/why_do_you_use_pandas_instead_of_sql/
Reddit link - I find it to be a very interesting question.
Ask HN: What are some underrated startups we will hear about in 2013/2014?
A lot of hivemind here sometimes means we need to step back. Who is on your watch list to make serious ripples?
Megaupload looks to be back up on a website ip address
http://109.236.83.66/
could someone confirm if this is real?
Google Play refuses to take down a fake crypto wallet used to harvest coins
Someone recently lost over $34k of ADA coins as it successfully masqueraded as mobile version of Daedalus Wallet, here is the fake app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adaCardano.daedaluswallet

with what seem to be massive amounts of fake positive reviews, and somehow +5000 downloads looks super legit, despite several attempts by community members and the cardano team, it has fallen on deaf ears

sources:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/ltv3df/this_fake_daedalus_wallet_is_a_real_problem_and/
Case Study – 31.54% More Conversions by Tweaking the Copy on a Sign-Up Form
http://contentverve.com/case-study-31-54-more-conversions-signup-form-copy/
Optimizing sign-up forms isn’t just about removing fields. The form copy itself has direct and measurable effect on your conversion rate, and even small tweaks can have significant impact on the decisions and actions of your potential customers.
This case study illustrates how a few simple form copy tweaks increased conversions on a betting forum by 31.54%.
20+ Dating Sites For Geeks and Freaks
http://mashable.com/2007/08/15/dating-sites/
Maybe could help out some of our struggling hackers out there ;-)
Ask HN: Where do you host medium-scale start up sites?
I have been using HostGator shared hosting as a low cost solution to host some of my start up ideas over the past year or so. Unfortunately any time a site gets a decent amount of traffic, my account gets disabled for server load or something of that nature. For those of you that outsource your hosting, what sites have you used that you like? My main requirements are PHP, SQL, ruby, and python.

Thanks!
Startups in the Business of APIs
http://betakit.com/2012/04/28/startups-in-the-business-of-apis
Instead of starting from bare bones and building everything involved in an app, including news feeds, notification systems and more, application programming interfaces (APIs) allow companies to focus on what makes their product unique.
Alternatives to PayPal for receiving money?
Somebody in the U.S. needs to send money to me in Australia, but they're having trouble with Paypal. Are there any good alternatives?
Ask HN: Who was your favorite manager and why?
I'd like to hear the story of who was your favorite manager and why. What was the unique thing they did that made you more productive and/or happy?
The Entrepreneurial Generation
http://www.inc.com/30under30/2007/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html
New technologies, a proliferation of resources, and a disenchantment with the corporate world are making Generation Y the most entrepreneurial in history. From magazine publishing to delivering fresh-baked cookies, the rising business stars named to our annual 30 Under 30 list are transforming existing industries and blazing trails with new ones.
Apple under fire in Taiwan
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/090521/apple-under-fire-taiwan
TAIPEI — Labor rights groups are stepping up their campaign against a Taiwanese supplier for Apple Computer. This morning disgruntled employees protested outside Apple's Taipei office.
Show HN: We created our university as a Pokemon-style map
https://map.felicity.iiit.ac.in/
[May not work on a mobile device]

Starting from quarantine, we started doing an online artwork each year for our annual tech/cult fest. This was the artwork for 2022.

Repository: https://github.com/Felicity-IIIT-Hyderabad/website-2022-map

The artwork for 2021 can be found here (a r/place style collaboration): https://the-wall.felicity.iiit.ac.in/
Foodspotting, a Flickr-Meets-Foursquare Service for Foodies
http://www.foodspotting.com/
I'd love to hear what you guys think about this site. I had an idea to create a menupages.com but with reviews for each dish. They seem to be attacking this idea with a different approach. If the end goal is to get reviews for dishes, I don't think it will work since it's somewhat difficult to do so and I think reviews need structure which is something they don't have.
Maktaba: A library for vim plugin authors, by Google
https://github.com/google/maktaba
Maktaba is the culmination of about a years worth of effort at Google to make all of our vim plugins consistent and safe. We hope these tools will make writing safe & consistent vim plugins easier across the board.

I'm one of the authors of Maktaba, feel free to direct questions my way.
Ask HN: Please review FolderBoy: fluid idea organizer with super-fast search
FolderBoy is a real quick note taker and information manager. FolderBoy allows you to jot down ideas, notes, etc, and then find them again with a super-quick search-as-you-type (one of the quickest search of any note-taker to date).

The beauty of FolderBoy is that it's so quick to take notes, create folders and organize your info: quick to get your info in, easy to organize said info, and quick to get your info out.

FolderBoy has nested labels: the ability for any folder or note to have multiple parent folders. Thus, you can organize you info in a flat-label like structure, or a hierarchical structure, or a combination of the two, depending on what comes naturally. And we have drag and drop.

http://www.folderboy.com/index.htm?f=hn

Click the “Try It Now!” button. NB: there is no sign up form. It goes straight to the demo account.
Lisp closures as much as OOP as you'll need (?)
http://lispy.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/closures-hash-tables-as-much-oop-as-youll-ever-need/
ehm...
Ask HN: Any companies successfully using dedicated servers instead of cloud?
Curious to read about companies that opted to go dedicated instead of cloud like aws/gcp/azure.
Bitucket is down (again)
https://status.bitbucket.org
http://status.bitbucket.org
Simulating and rendering 262,144 particles with GLSL.
http://hughsk.github.io/particle-excess-demo
Building on top of lots of modules provided by Mikola Lysenko (https://npmjs.org/search?q=gl-), Hugh Kennedy shows off what today's browsers are capable of using WebGL.

Lots of support c
Marvin Minsky's OLPC Memo 1
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-1.html
There are 4 others, at
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-2.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-3.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-4.html
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/OLPC-5.html
Review my project: tweethegame | stream the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup on twitter
http://tweethegame.com/
i made this at night while watching the first few games of the NBA Finals. i found it to provide some pretty good commentary while watching the games. pretty simple, but let me know what you guys think. any feedback is appreciated.
BostonGlobe.com: The largest newspaper website made with responsive design 
http://www.bostonglobe.com
Try resizing the page and/or view it on multiple devices. Let us know what you think.

And yes, to click on an article or go past the main page, you need to sign-up. But still -- this is the largest major newspaper website to design a site completely using responsive design.
The Flying Boat
http://bomega.com/2008/09/03/the-flying-boat/
A nice metaphor for a common mistake entrepreneurs make when formulating goals and starting a business...
Show HN: A clicker game about the future
https://0xf00ff00f.github.io/zettawatt/
This was supposed to be submitted to a game jam a few months ago, but I ended up missing the deadline. The theme of the jam was "the future".

I recently tried to finish it. It's pretty unbalanced and after a certain point it gets impossible to progress, but maybe someone will find it interesting.

This is written in C++ and built for the web with emscripten. Link to the source is on the page. The repository also has a Qt-based editor for the tech tree.
Ask HN: Best tool for saving web passwords?
Hi.

I'm considering using lastpass.com for generating and storing all my passwords for various web sites, so I can login from my computer, phone, or some remote computer.

Is it safe? Anything better?

Thanks!
Facebook marketing: one of the better campaigns I've seen
http://ohashi.info/story/12/20/2009/nyquil-facebook-marketing
I found this to be one of the most compelling marketing campaigns that I have personally witnessed through facebook. Maybe because of my demographics I've missed some others? Would love to see others share what they thought were good ones. The only other one I liked more was the IKEA tag for ownership one.
I like to build stuff
Which programming language is the best for programming beginner?
QBASIC was the first programming language I learned in my secondary school. It has already been more than a decade.

Some of the engineering colleges teach "C" as introductory programming language. However, i somehow feel like Python is very intuitive and easy to understand. Is it a good idea to begin computer programming with Python?
Ask HN: Best way to avoid link rot?
I want to create links to pages that are likely to function in, say, 40 years. Is my best bet to use (or create) an archive.org snapshot?
YES: I take ritalin/adderall/concerta to help me program
Show HN: I made an IDE plugin for AWS Lambda local dev, debugging and hot-reload
https://github.com/thundra-io/merloc
MerLoc (https://github.com/thundra-io/merloc) is a live AWS Lambda function development and debugging tool. MerLoc allows you to run AWS Lambda functions on your local while they are still part of a flow in the AWS cloud remote and improves your productivity by applying your local changes to the function without need to build, package and re-deploy.

For making MerLoc experience easier and smoother, I have published an IntelliJ IDEA plugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/19836-merloc--aws-lambd...). So IntelliJ IDEA users can develop, debug and hot-reload their Java based AWS Lambda functions from their local IDEs easily with MerLoc.
Ask HN: What to Ask in a Job Interview in Response to “Any Questions?”
I just about always say that I don't have any questions. I speculate that makes me appear rather lame.
Show HN: My Book Making Probability So Easy That a Lemur Could Learn It
https://leanpub.com/probabilityforlemurs/c/gv9B4Xz0jpq1_hackernews
Probability involves a lot of extra-mathematical concepts and funny transforms. I have always had a hard time internalizing it. When I heard a couple years ago that Lemurs are actually capable of abstract math, that gave me a bit of motivation to try to finally conceptualize probability in terms of whole numbers, counts, geometric shapes, basically easy-to-remember mathematical primitives.

This book might be interesting to folks interested in predictive science, research, or just anyone who may have taken probability or statistics and might like a refresher on some of the edges of these sometimes tough to nail down concepts.

I would love any feedback or questions that anyone may have. Thanks!

Patrick Delaney
There IS a mobile web
http://www.plexical.com/blog/2011/09/19/there-is-a-mobile-web/
A contrarian commentary on Jeremy Keith's presentation at the BD conference last week.

“Mobile web” is a language thing, but language is important. It enables us to talk about stuff.