jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Technical Co-founder Hunting: We help small biz with SOCIAL WEB PRESENCE
http://socialdreamium.com/blog/
This is a very interesting process…I have passion coming out of my ass to start a great business helping small and medium sized business take advantage of the social web, but it takes more than just a service. I currently am doing outsourced community management as a contracted service. It’s fun. Honestly, I love helping connect people with people and products with people but there needs to be more.

The problem: I don’t scale.

So, in order to help more businesses, to make more money, and to take SocialDreamium to the next level this is what I’m looking for:

A motivated developer…so simple. I don’t need uber hacker USA, but I do need someone who will be motivated to learn something if they don’t already know it. I don’t want to partner with someone who is stuck if they don’t know something. We need to have an attitude of resolve and growth and someone who keeps things simple.

This also will not be a project in complexity. Lets figure out the easiest way to build something simple. If it’s difficult for us to build it’s more likely it will be hard for them to use, us to fix, and others to build off of. If you’re interested email me at ryan@socialdreamium.com, on twitter @ryangraves, check out http://socialdreamium.com, or the blog called “Get audience, get going” at http://socialdreamium.com/blog and lets chat.

I’m pumped to get things going faster and further than they are now and I’m excited to find the right person to help SocialDreamium create meaning and solutions for small to medium sized businesses on the increasingly powerful social web. I can’t wait to hear from you!
Dear Google how is tracking my location not personally identifiable data?
You know where I live and can track down where I go to work, where I go to school, where I go to shop. Anyone with access to that data can look up the address online to find the name of the person or persons who lives there, then use the rest of location data to narrow things down.

Either way I'm not "enemy of the state" so it does not bother me much, but data is personally identifiable.
Twitter second act = myspace
http://codybrown.name/2009/08/06/myspace-is-to-facebook-as-twitter-is-to-______/#
random growth vs directed growth, visions vs accidents. great insight for any startup that's shooting for the stars.
Visual Studio fraud
https://skitch.com/natesampo/8rp2w/introducing-the-new-developer-experience-the-visual-studio-blog-site-home-msdn-blogs
How can there be a serious development tool without line numbers in the demo?

Seriously, who is this targeted at? Because it can't be developers.
What I Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned From My Dad Who Taught Me How To Ride A Bicycle
http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2007/10/riding-a-bike.html
After crashing your startup, you really only have two choices. Your first decision is the most important one if you were to eventually recover from your failure. Either you walk away from being an entrepreneur forever and never look back, or you stop crying and get your butt off the ground and start riding again.
Ask HN: What are some good resources to get started with Information Retrieval?
I haven't been in touch with hardcore academics since around 2 years.
Recently coming across a few IEEE papers on twitter(finding hot trends, ranking tweets, etc), I'm thinking of teaching myself some information retrieval from scratch, but from this standpoint topics like NLP, IR seem quite hard to fathom, or even to begin with in the first place.

Any pointers to make the journey smoother, essential foundations? trusted/good books? fun experiments for self learning? IR specific wikis/discussion groups?

Thanks in advance.
On Python for the Indian college goer
http://beachsideblues.com/on-programming-languages-part-2/
Hey, I wrote this article for my college's student website, to explain why you should learn Python and some elements about Python that are interesting from programming languages point of view. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Ask HN: What is your personal computing device setup?
Given that a majority of people are working from home right now, I'm curious to hear what everybody uses at home - either for their own personal computing activities or to support whatever work computer and equipment their employer may provide.

Do you still own personal laptops/computers even when their employer provides them a specced out model (such as Macbook Pro/Surface Book/ThinkPad X1 Carbon/etc)? Do you prefer building your own desktop for the value per dollar or buying a laptop for the flexibility?
D3.js:Drawing many-to-many relations with a simple blog-post-tag example
http://vijayrc.com/vectorclocks/post/d3
Sharing d3 code for a simple blog-post-tag relationship diagram to exhibit svg generation and transitions. Posts are shown as circles with radius based on number of tags; tags as displayed as rectangles with height based on number of posts; lines represent the many-to-many links between them.
Show HN: Free forex signals provider backed by A.I
https://forexneuron.com
Hi all , I m a developer but a bad forex trader,
I built Forex Neuron,it s a free forex signals provider backed by A.I for short-term trading.

This app monitors pairs rates in real-times, when the algorithm spots a signal a notification is broadcasted on Telegram, Twitter, facebook and Discord, signals are executed in real time and if it reaches the profit or loss price it will also send a notification.

the web app is free, no account required “ I m not interested in your data, I have a life and I respect yours “, to get real-time notification on signals you have just to follow the Twitter, Facebook, Discord, but I recommend Telegram it's the best and the fast way to get notifications.

Signals are not 100% accurate, spotting the right pattern in a noisy data is very hard especially for short terms, but I'm working on it mostly every day to improve the algorithm, it's the main reason why it's free and friendly advice never buy a forex signal service it's usually a scam , if someone can predict forex with 100% accuracy he will not need to sell his signals.

I have worked on this project since 2016, I have created many versions, some better than others and this is the last version.I'm trying to keep this web app trustable as much as possible, no data manipulation, no loss hiding and everything is executed in real time.

I plan to add many other features to this web app; a social network for traders, EA for Metatrader, prediction for crypto …etc depending on my free time :)

Your feedback will be appreciated so please feel free to comment and ask your questions , thank you all for your time .
ETags for REST
http://www.baeldung.com/2013/01/11/etags-for-rest-with-spring/
Article on ETags - the Spring support - ShallowEtagHeaderFilter, integration testing of the RESTful API, and consumption scenarios with curl.
Twitter Vigilantes Recover Sean Power's Stolen Laptop
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/13/dont-steal-computer-from-people-who-know-how-to-use-computers-part-deux/
After the cops refused to help, the Twitter mob following Sean Power's remote tracking confronted the villain and got the stolen laptop back. Classic! Don't steal computers from people who known computers!
Django Class-based Generic Views in v1.3
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/class-based-views/
Class-based views represent a huge advance in really simplifying what goes into getting a lot of data quickly to the end-user. Check out the updated documentation; this is really much easier to wrap your head around if you're new to the framework and goes a long way I think in facilitating cleaner (and DRY-er) code.

The inclusion of this feature is the result of a ticket filed three years ago. The 1.3 release of Django promises to be awesome. The strength of this release is not so much new features, but closing out a host of bugs and other aging tickets like this one. This is really a great step in the right direction for Django overall.
Show HN: Backwards automatic differentiation in ~100 lines of Python
https://github.com/AirFig/backwards-autodiff/blob/main/backwards_autodiff.py
Inspired by the recent posts on implementing forwards mode automatic differentiation, here's an attempt at the backwards mode, which is often more efficient when your function depends on many variables but outputs just one value.
Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever written is spaghetti code
http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/page/Your_templating_engine_sucks_and_everything_you_have_ever_written_is_spaghetti_code_yes_you
An interesting, simpler and more designer-friendly approach to templating.
Project Glass: Putting you back in the moment (or not)
http://jayuhdinger.com/blog/project-glass-putting-you-back-in-the-moment/
My thoughts about Project Glass.
Why the 'power of branding' is a myth
http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/why-the-power-of-branding-is-a-myth.html
Branding doesn't create great brands. Customer love does.
The Truth About E-Cigarettes
http://www.vivastic.com/2010/11/08/the-truth-about-e-cigarettes/
I knew these were unhealthy!
Ask HN: Review my startup, passubuy.com
http://passubuy.com
My team and I recently built a browser-based platform for sharing items to sell with the user's Facebook community (friends & friends of friends).

The general idea is this: Through the power of Facebook, you post something you want to sell to your network of Facebook friends. If it looks good to them, a friend can buy it and you make your money. If it looks good to a friend but they don't need it, maybe they know a friend who does who they can pass the posting along to. If it sells, you still make money, but your friend who simply passed it along also makes money! Sales only occur between friends or friends of friends (or friends of friends of friends, etc., get the picture?), so you can always trust the transaction in a way that you never can on the "other guy's list." And anyone who helps pass a posting along that ultimately sells gets a cut!

I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.
Laser head mount display (Apple Inc. Patent)
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/17/apple-researching-laser-based-head-mounted-display/
If memory serves me right there was a article posted the other day about a company with a similar product only the box that was a the laser source was much larger than "belt wearable"
Anyone know of a service/API that will let me ...
http://www.ideatagging.com/anyone-know-of-a-serviceapi-that-will-let-me/
See image at link
Generating PPC Keywords in R 
http://www.r-bloggers.com/generating-ppc-keywords-in-r/
Can you do better?
Handling Dependency of Multiple Y-Variables
Hello Everyone, this is post is more of a question for discussion on how to solve the following problem. I am a newbie in the field of ML and trying to learn one at a time. My question is as follows -

I have user signals which basically consist of few demographics and historical transaction data which includes the products he has bought in the past. I have multiple Y-Variables to predict and it as following - The Y-Variables are the 'BRAND' of the product (eg- Whirlpool, Samsung, OnePlus) and the next Y-Variable is the 'CATEGORY' of the product (eg - Fridge, Washing Machine, Mobile). I am building a separate classifier to predict each of Y-Variable (Product, Category).

Now the issue I am facing is I am getting instances of mismatch - where my models are predicting 'Whirlpool' as a brand and 'Mobile' as the category. How do I handle this dependency of Y-Variables? Please help me with this. Thank you
Hurricane tracking applications
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=hurricane&c=apps
Quite impressive traction for those applications in the last two days.
Mongodb - "grep" through a database
https://github.com/blowhacker/mongohelper
Helper functions for the mongodb shell

1. db.grep()
-Search through all fields in all collections in a database for a value. By default it searches only indexed fields. To include non-indexed fields, specify the second parameter as true.

2. db.collection.fields()
-list all keys in a collection
-by default, it only checks 10100 documents to get an exhaustive list, if you document varies across the collection, do: db.collection.fields(true)

https://github.com/blowhacker/mongohelper
Chicago Founders.com
http://chicagofounders.com/
This is a Q&A site started by my friend.
Who will be the next king of web frameworks?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=asp.net%20mvc%2C%20ruby%20on%20rails%2C%20node.js%2C%20python%20django&cmpt=q
Ruby on Rails was the way to go few years ago. What do you think will be the way to go in next few years? I'm on the crossroads trying to decide in which one to invest my time?
Show HN: Himalayas.app – find remote jobs by time zone, tech stack, and more
https://himalayas.app/
Hey HN! We built Himalayas to make it easier to find remote jobs based on where you live and the tools you like working with.

Each company on the site has a profile that outlines their tech stack, employee benefits, and other info about what they do. You can see ours here: https://himalayas.app/companies/himalayas

We built the site with Rails + Tailwind on top of Render, our search is powered by OpenSearch on AWS, and we use Redis for caching :)

Happy to answer any questions you have!
What is your best practice as a programmer to use different OS
XP or Mac, Linux? What is your best practice? And which verison of Linux will you use?
Robots will inherit the universe, hopefully
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14013-Energy-Technologies-Examiner~y2009m6d22-Robots-will-inherit-the-universe
Humans are stuck on earth because we need it for sustenance and energy. We've had the technology to go out into space for a while now but it seems we are tethered to the blue planet indirectly. Humans need oxygen, but fortunately we can build machines that we call robots that don't. We may have trouble getting off this planet for good, but we can build machines that can.
Ask HN: Is anyone else using the Arc programming language?
I just read up on the language powering HN. Is anyone here using it for anything else?
My first website
http://www.esan.komudesign.com
Hi, nothing really big except that this newbie has created his first website.
Notice a lost pixel? you can hit me up at komuw05@yahoo.com
Three wikipedia visualization ideas
http://lkozma.net/idea.php?dea=23
There are already several visualizations of Wikipedia, but I somehow feel there is still more potential in it. Any further ideas?
Show HN: Lightweight tool to find people to game with
https://lookingtogame.com/
Hey HN -

I've been having a hard time getting back into gaming when I'm in-and-out of it so often with particular games, so I built a very simple tool in my spare time to help folks find people to game with.

I tried to minimize friction: no user account needed & you specify the game. You can search for specific games too or usernames even.

It's still in alpha stage, meaning it's super barebones and cool features that integrate with your current apps aren't there yet. We'll get there though.

Let me know if you have questions or recs!
Your Startup: Mapping it Out Some More 
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2009/11/your-startup-mapping-it-out-some-more.html
A good number of readers either emailed me or commented positively about a recent post in which I encouraged entrepreneurs (especially first-timers) to be orchestral and actually map-out their startup early on. I further recommended that once created this map ought to be printed out and prominently displayed over their workspace so they could refer to it every once in a while during the work day so as to stay focused.
Build beautiful command line applications
http://docopt.org/
The YouTube video is especially great.
Testing ideas that are unconventional
I am researching the customer development and lean startup process. I think there are a lot of great concepts in this model. One thing i am curious about is how do you test the MVP of an unconventional idea?

For example i think about an app like twitter - no one really thought it would take off the way it did but it just had something you can't really research ahead of time with google keywords.
On Firing a Client
http://www.upbeat.it/2013/05/08/on-firing-a-client/
Learn how to spot when things are going wrong with a client and leave as soon as you can. Use wisely the time you gain with that move.
ASK HN: Review my app - Foursquare Client
http://www.fouritapp.com
I would appreciate some feedback for a Foursquare client I just released in the App Store. The goal is to improve on the UI/performance and add some useful features such as multiple accounts.

Promo codes are available, contact me on twitter: @fouritapp
Creators of stu.dicio.us launch New Web App for Budgeting
http://sumapp.com
I don't know how many of you were around for stu.dicio.us during the summer of 2006, but it closely rivaled MyNoteIt with it's incredible simplicity, and was one of the early startups to partner with FaceBook and allow you to add friends from the social network.

Either way, I just received an email from the creators about their new web application, SumApp. The idea is for simple budgeting and money tracking. It's a great application so far, makes use of shortcut keys to track expenses. You can also (if you so choose) tie your credit card to the account and manage money from there as well.
IPhone 5 vs iPhone 4S: how the specs compare 
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/iphone-5-vs-iphone-4s-how-the-specs-compare-20120912/
A side by side compare of the new iPhone to the old
List of sites affected by Heartbleed
https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top10000.txt?_ga=1.207866706.1729107670.1384201823
Source: http://news.msn.com/science-technology/how-to-tell-if-heartbleed-could-have-stolen-your-password-and-when-it%e2%80%99s-safe-to-change-it
Hottest startups by Facebook fanbase growth
http://www.99like.com/blog/?p=22
Here is a sample of some startups or websites often mentioned on Techcrunch and Hacker News, with their Facebook fanbase growth over the last three months...
#Me: Instagram Narcissism And The Scourge Of the Selfie
http://readwrite.com/2013/01/31/instagram-selfies-narcissism
In our weird new world, it's not uncommon for young people to achieve this new type of psuedo-fame, fueled solely by social media. And we're not just talking the type of notoriety you can get from a viral YouTube video, which tends to require at least a sliver of talent, humor or skill. Instead, these kids are amassing huge followings just for being attractive. It's like a high school popularity contest on digital steroids, but this homeroom has more than 45,000 kids in it.
Show HN: The Clear iphone app in HTML5
https://vimeo.com/37182785
Please note it's mostly an experiment on touch events and CSS transitions - there are still quite a few bugs and there's no database/local storage syncing at the moment, though I might add it later.
Ask HN: Need help with correlation [Finance]
This is the map of the market. http://www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market/.

If you look at the map you will notice 11 key areas: Health care, Consumer Cyclicals, Financial
Technology, Energy, Capital Goods, Telecom, Utilities, Basic Materials, Transport and
Consumer Staples.

Each key area has certain number of core companies. How do I find the correlation between those areas?

[If we have two stocks S and T whose correlation has to be find, then cor(S,T) = sigma (( S(i) - SA) (T(i) - TA)) / (sigmassigmatn)

S(i) & T(i) are closing prices of the stock on the ith day, SA & TA are the mean prices of the stocks, sigmas = standard deviation of S, sigmat = standard deviation of T and n is the number of the days over which the correlation is to be found - Grabbed from a research paper]

Can above info be extended to find the correlation between those 11 key areas? If so, how?

Thank you for your thoughts!
What really causes heart illness
http://www.tunedbody.com/heart-surgeon-declares-really-causes-heart-illness/#
Interesting thesis but thin on citations/support. Anything better out there that supports or refutes this?
IPoAC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
IP over Avian Carriers
Download Free 19 Smart And Awesome PSD Login Form 
http://italkless.com/download-free-19-smart-and-awesome-psd-login-form-files-that-you-wont-say-no.html
I am not going to post about the how to customize WordPress login form perhaps in the future, instead in regard to promote number of PSD files
Top 10 Hollywood movies on hacking
http://virgintech.blogspot.com/2008/11/top-10-hollywood-movies-on-hacking.html
The movie listed below doesn't teach you how to hack, but these movies are good enough to inspire/motivate you for hacking.

These are the top hollywood movies on hacking which is worth adding to your movie collection.
Show HN: Contact Form 7 to Google Drive WordPress Plugin
https://getfiledrop.com/contact-form-7-to-google-drive-wordpress-plugin/
I've built a WordPress plugin to upload files in Google Drive from Contact form 7
Ask HN: Product idea involving QR codes, any advice ?
Hi everyone,
I'd like to know if anyone has worked on QR Codes before. I have a product idea that ideally I'd like to turn into a startup and it involves QR Codes read by mobile phones.
I'd like to know if anyone has hit a wall with this technology or any issue I should be aware of. On my HTC Desire, reading QR Codes works perfectly but I'm not sure the experience is as smooth on other devices ( I target Android/Blackberry/iPhones mainly ). I'm also not sure about people's perception of this technology. Any experience or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Yammer offers $25,000 signing bonus to Yahoo employees
http://twitter.com/#!/davidsacks/status/180399269801504769
CEO David Sacks announces a $25,000 signing bonus for any Yahoo employee who joins Yammer in the next 60 days- via Twitter.
HP Laptop Battery Explosion
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Notebook-PC-questions/HP-Laptop-Battery-Burst/td-p/321675
Pictures posted, another battery recall in the making?
First Windows 7 bug discovered
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2241971/first-windows-bug-discovered
Within a couple of days of the Windows 7 RC release, there is already a bug been detected giving application failiures
Sniffing Your Way to Extroversion?
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/a-whiff-of-extroversion-sniffing-oxytocin-could-make-us-outgoing/251697/
So now introversion is a disease?
HP TouchPad reduced to $99 in Canada
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packard-hp-16gb-touchpad-with-wi-fi-16gb-wifi/10173116.aspx?path=01191e3f32fb2966d8a052fd3272bd05en02
Futureshop and BestBuy have them for $99. I am not sure if they are both sold out but I couldn't find a way to buy online.
An old perspective
http://xkcd.com/137/
With the leaks of Mr. Snowden, I felt that this comic has taken on a new meaning that you all might like to ponder at. Happy New Year all, may this comic continue to evolve with us.
Show HN: Retina Icons for Caffeine (weekend project)
http://webjac.com/2013/03/caffeine-retina-icons/
Caffeine is the one app that doesn't fit the icon style in my OSX menu bar so, over the weekend I made new icons to match the style and to make it retina-ready.
Yahoo's New Agenda 
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-ceos-leaked-memo-2012-3
Mr. Thompson, I like your way of thinking and where you want to take the company. I am not in favor of the whole suing strategy!
Retro Database Making a Comeback?
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2013/03/dbase-updated.aspx
Remember when your basic software suite consisted of WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE-III, and you coded listening to Wham! and Foreigner? Well a new company has acquired the rights to that pioneering database, which it claims is still used by "millons of software developers," and released dBASE PLUS 8. Does it have a chance? And why did it fade into obscurity?
It is a Sad and Beautiful World
http://www.hyperlexic.com/it-is-a-sad-and-beautiful-world/
I am spending my life writing user manuals for products that don't exist. They might exist someday. But is this my fate?