jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nicolas Sarkozy is going insane - Deep Packet Inspection for all 
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/22109-nicolas-sarkozy-annonce-un-delit-penal-de-visite-de-sites-internet.html
Nicolas Sarkozy announced that anyone consulting any kind of extremist, fundamentalist website would become punishable under the law. This would have to be a new law that would be introduced.

"Désormais, toute personne qui consultera de manière habituelle des sites internet qui font l'apologie du terrorisme ou qui appellent à la haine et à la violence sera punie pénalement".
Monica Lewinsky on online culture
http://www.ted.com/talks/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant — and can turn deadly. In a brave talk, she takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation, and asks for a different way.
Equity for non-US developers
Is it possible for US startups to give equity to developers in Pakistan or India? Is anyone doing this? Are there any complications?
3 eye tracking studies that influenced my latest redesign
http://briancray.com/2009/07/27/eye-tracking-studies-influence-redesign/
Eye tracking studies provide unique insight into user behavior. The following 3 eye tracking studies were part of my research for my redesign.
Be warned of transparent affiliate links. Summary: They highjack on_clicks
In an earlier story on how to "fly for free" a commenter was downvoted for explaining the entry contained affiliate links.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1428051

Most people who checked looked at the hover and the source -- but likely did not click the link.

The blog/whatever has direct links to the product page, but skimlinks.com highjacks the onClick event and redirected to the affiliate site.

Just FYI
Lenovo CEO shares $3.25m of his bonus with employees
http://knowtifier.com/news/269/lenovo-ceo-shares-325m-of-his-bonus-with-employees/
Thats a great way to encourage the employees to work harder. anyone disagree?
Grayscale to increase your productivity
Color is fun. But it is probably making you less productive.*

Try counting all the elements on your screen right now that are specifically designed to grab your eye with color. Maybe a dozen program icons in your taskbar/dock, as many favicons in your browser window.

Two dozen items that were designed specifically to grab your attention. And if you are viewing a website or using an IDE? Probably way, waaaay more.

Turning off color makes it much harder for these things to stand out. Which makes it easier for you to concentrate and get work done.

Try it!

* I don't have any evidence for this, just a hunch. If you can confirm or debunk this, please do!

GRAYSCALE FOR MAC
Go to the Universal Access settings, and select "use grayscale."

GRAYSCALE FOR LINUX
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html
:)

GRAYSCALE FOR WINDOWS
...isn't possible unless you are using a CRT, have certain video cards, or run a third-party program. I found one that seems to perform well:
http://users.telenet.be/littlegems/MySoft/DesktopZoom/Index.html
* Set the zoom to 1000/1000.
* Under the mouse tab, uncheck "Big Mouse" and "Hide Real Mouse"
* Under colors, select "grey" and select a depth; 256 works fine.
* Under tracking, uncheck "thumbnail"
* And that's it. By the way, did I mention that I want a Mac?
Obama trying to close S CORP tax loophole
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-closing-tax-loophole-could-fund-student-172330175--sector.html
Alot of us including myself have formed s corps to save money through distributions we take.

Obama is trying to close this tax benefit and instead tax the whole portion of profits with medicare etc. instead of just wages.

I don't see how this helps small business at all. Means less money in our pockets.
Ask HN: Submission algorithm too agressive?
I see a lot of high comment, high point posts are getting pushed off the front page rather quickly. I'm presently thinking of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401117, which has 89 points, 145 comments, and is at #43 a mere 9 hours after it was posted, but there have been multiple recent examples that follow the same mold. In the past, I rarely noticed large or high scoring posts on the second page, but it seems increasingly necessary to check more than the front page to digest the events of even a single day. Are there hidden variables that explain why, e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401059 ranks higher, despite being older, having fewer points, and having fewer comments?
Will Chirp become the next Twitter?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18927928
Chirp app sends smartphone [ed. link] data via 'digital birdsong'

http://chirp.io/
Ask HN: Do you want/need a Chrome Extension for HN? I want to give back to HN
Hi folks,

I have recently joined to HN and really enjoying the diverse set of articles and discussions here. Hence, I wanted to give back to the community! If you would like to have a Chrome Extension that would make your life easier on HN, please let me know. I plan to code the idea that gets the most upvotes and release it on Chrome, Firefox and Edge. It will be 100% free, just wanted to give something back to the community. Plus, I have free time these days so would be happy to work on something fun.

Cheers :)
My Tastemaker service helps you to discover new music every day
I love the Spotify recommendations, but they mostly recommend me the same music I am already listening to. Because of this I did build [Tastemaker](https://tastemaker.cc) a web service that analyses your Spotify taste and recommends music you would normally not listen to.

At the moment there are three available playlists you can subscribe to which are then recalculated every night (4 am - CET, sorry Americans for you it is in the late evening):

* [Newcomers](https://tastemaker.cc/newcomers) Analyses your taste and recommends you unknown musicians. I did find quite some new german Indie artists with less than 100 listeners per month with it

* [ProducerPower](https://tastemaker.cc/producerpower) Finds out the producers of your favorite songs and recommends you other songs they worked on. The producers form the sound quite a lot of a song

* [Tastebreaker](https://tastemaker.cc/tastebreaker) Checks your taste and recommends you songs from genres you normally don't listen to This playlists showed me some awesome Russian Pop songs

Thank you folks for reading until here and maybe also trying my service. Please be patient as it is still in an early phase and I have now clue if the server is strong enough for a lot of users from Reddit. (Until now it is me and some friends from uni using it)

All the best from Berlin!

p.S. To subscribe to a playlist click the "Get it on Spotify"-Button, login to your Spotify and allow the access. (Yes I know it requires quite some privileges, but without that it can not gather your taste)

p.p.S. I know it requires quite some privileges, but otherwise it can not gather your taste. If you just want to tip your toe into the water you can checkout [the public playlists](https://tastemaker.cc/public) as all ProducerPower playlists are public
The Ops side of Dev
http://speakerdeck.com/u/chids/p/the-ops-side-of-dev-2012-03-02
PDF at https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/4f50cf0ea8a35a002200e251/2012-03-02_ops_side_of_dev.pdf
SQL Injection – Understanding and Protection
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/understanding-sql-injection-protection/
This security article contains development tips on how to write more secure web application code and also admin tips to help webmasters take proper security measures to protect their web applications from SQL injection attacks
PostgreSQL vs. Impala
http://dagilmore.com/blog/2014/3/10/olap-postgresql-vs-impala
A standoff between PostgreSQL and Impala for OLAP operations
TinyFeet (Stanford GSB) needs a technical co-founder: social online baby book
TinyFeet is the digital baby book for the Facebook generation. We take the concept of the online baby book and make it social -- it's a huge market that is currently underserved.

We have interviewed dozens of new mothers, been through several design iterations, and pitched our idea to venture capitalists who are showing increasing interest in investing. To actually launch the company, however, we need a technical co-founder who can complement the skills of the business co-founder (a graduating Stanford MBA student).

We are not looking for an employee -- we need a true co-founder, with high responsibilities and high rewards. To be able to grow with the company from funding pitches to profitability, you will have to:

Build the initial prototype that gets investors excited

Work solo or with limited help in the early stages to build a working product that can be used for user testing

Design the architecture for the site that can scale as the company grows

Manage the hiring process for all engineering staff (including outsourcing work when appropriate)

Be excited about this opportunity

Be in the San Francisco Bay Area

If you're interested please email us at TinyFeetHiring@gmail.com .
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
maybe disqus can solve this. Linked to from another interesting Joel on Software article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/07/20.html
How I lost 30 pounds in 2010. A simple guide for overweight hackers like me
http://zippykid.com/blog/2010/12/how-i-lost-30lbs-in-2010-a-weight-loss-guide-for-developers/
http://zippykid.com/blog/2010/12/how-i-lost-30lbs-in-2010-a-weight-loss-guide-for-developers/

Having lost this weight has helped me considerably as an entrepreneur as well. I feel more confident, I'm more energetic, and I'm more focused.
Zentail.com (YC S12) Now Accepts Bitcoin
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2i3ssd/zentailcom_now_accepts_bitcoin/
We've been fans of Bitcoin since going through Y Combinator with Coinbase in Summer 2012. Back then the value of BTC was just over $5. We're excited to announce that we are now one of the largest product catalogs now accepting Bitcoin.

What is Zentail.com? Launched in July 2014, we're a fast-growing online shopping site that is relentlessly focused on providing the lowest possible prices on over 100,000 products primarily in the electronics category.

https://www.zentail.com
Show HN: CSS with no px units
http://thesundaybe.st/
I recently built a new template for my rather basic WordPress blog. I wanted to avoid using px units wherever possible, so that I could have a design that would scale uniformly across multiple device resolutions.

It started as an experiment, to see how far I could get without px units. The more I learned, the more excited my campaign to eliminate px from the stylesheet.

I ended up eliminating px units entirely. Everything is sized with vw units (relative to the width of the viewport).

The last remaining px units were sizing standard Facebook and Twitter buttons. I got frustrated by not being able to control the size of Facebook's Like button and ended up making my own buttons in CSS...with vw units, naturally.

The only references to px units are in the media queries, because at this point I know of no better way to responsively serve different style sheets. For now, they don't bother me.

Known issues:

On a big enough viewport, it starts to get very big.

I have no idea what it looks like in Internet Explorer and I don't think I want to know.
Ask HN: What do you do after a successful Kickstarter?
I have a novel invention that I am pretty sure at least some people will like. I haven't done a whole lot of market research except searching for similar products, a patent search, and just kind of knowing that the device would be useful for certain people.

I'm making the device now. I'm actually several iterations in but it's shaping up. I think I will be able to launch the Kickstarter in about four months.

I'll probably set the lowest possible number for "success". That would include remaining legal expenses I haven't paid like getting it UL listed, etc.

So say I set the Kickstarter goal to $20,000. I could put $2000 in myself and I think get another $2000-$3000 from local supporters. That's 25% funded which I think has a chance at providing the initial momentum the project will need.

Say I get to this point. I've had a successful $20,000 Kickstarter. I order ~500 boards and cases and assemble and ship them myself.

But then what? I'll have a successful POC and made a net profit of maybe a couple thousand bucks. How do I grow it from there into a bigger product? For example, I think the invention could be useful to a larger percent of the population than I will capture with just Kickstarter marketing.

I think I can do a successful Kickstarter but I don't know how to capitalize on that.
Ask HN: Share your .emacs (or .vimrc?)
Inspired by this post: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2007829

I find it useful/informative to get to see what other people have in their text editor configuration file. In the spirit of that, anyone care to share theirs? Mine isn't anything special, but here goes:

http://pastebin.com/gUXsprcL
Ask HN: Review my app Moment, a new approach to delayed jobs
Please review my latest weekend project: 'Moment' (http://momentapp.com).

Moment is a new approach to delayed jobs-- setup a 'job' to send a request to trigger a process or pull data from any public URI at a scheduled time.

I'm not convinced that there is a market for this kind of service yet, but would love to see if/how people use it. Please don't hold back with your feedback!
Ask HN: experiences with couchbase mobile?
Can anyone report (or point to reports) of experiences with Couchbase mobile? The promise (local db that synchs itself with the cloud) is tempting, I'm looking to get a sense of the state of the project (how stable, how fast it moves, what types of usecases it's used for, how big a priority is it for the company that builds it, how will the merge affect its development, how many people are working on it, who is using it, ...).

Of course we'll also try it out ourselves :)
Bootstrapping my new company
http://www.davecheong.com/2008/12/22/bootstrapping-mobiusly/
We have a small and agile team, who can innovate quickly and often. We don’t have red-tape to slow us down and we cut through the bureaucracy to get to the underlying problem. We don’t have investors, so we can make decisions quickly. We have low overheads, so we can take risks our competitors dare not.
Show HN: Blogshare
http://blogshare.in/top
Hackernews for various category of blogs.
Extensive VC info resource
http://edcorner.stanford.edu/index.html
From Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Large number of video, podcasts and presentations by leading VCs.
OLEDs are the future of screens
http://www.digitivity.com/articles/2008/06/oleds-are-the-future-of-screen.html
Have you ever imagined of having a display monitor built into your clothing that can be rolled up? Have you conceived of having a high-definition TV, 80 inches wide but less than a quarter-inch thick, and that consumes less power than most TVs. These devices are not just an artist's speculation, they might be possible in the near future with the help of OLEDs.
Office Intruder - Using Social Engineering to steal data
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7843206.stm
Using social engineering tricks to steal data
Web App Architecture
I built a Flask app. Some views are powered via page JavaScript calls to Flask-RestPlus APIs. Some views use the Jinja2 template system.

The app is backed by a Postgres database with about 10 tables constrained by foreign keys. I am using Celery as a task queue backed by Redis.

I'm still developing the app locally using Docker Compose - separate containers for the app, Celery, Postgres and Redis.

It's time to finally move this app to a production cloud environment and I need advice on target architecture. I'm comfortable with Terraform and CloudFormation and automated testing/deployment with CircleCI.

AWS ECS? EC2? Heroku? Digital Ocean? What is your experience?
Robotic monopoly player competitive against good human players
https://github.com/giannitedesco/kapital
I threw this together in a handful of evenings. It plays monopoly using the monopd protocol/servers. Enjoy!
CSS lessons learnt the hard way
http://www.srikanth.me/css-lessons/
The power of CSS is overlooked at times. Having worked on a variety of websites, in this article I wanted to share some of the valuable lessons I learnt about CSS
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
http://kineticreaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/confessions-of-economic-hitman.html
it's interesting to get the big picture at times...
What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?
How many times have you been burnt as a software developer because story points were used to measure your performance. I hear you: Story Points Are A Horrible Metric For Software Engineers.

Reasons:
- Not all story points are equal
- Larger story points don’t mean a bigger impact
- Story points give away too much flexibility and encourage less accountability
- Senior engineers may have less coding time

Let me know your thoughts.

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-story-points-are-a-horrible-metric-for-software-engineers-421bc8971f11
Glorious error messages (which IBM just paid $5 billion for)
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Cognos-Koans.aspx
In honor of IBM's acquisition of Cognos, here are some of the best error messages of all time. A little taste of what you get for $5 billion!
Show HN: Houses Of, a passion project showcasing charismatic houses
https://housesof.world/
Houses Of is a travel, photography and design passion project showcasing charismatic houses around the world.
My new web site has seen action
Just wanted to tell HN - the web site I made for my mother-in-law's sealed-bid auction of her paintings has actually seen two bids!

I'm actually quite excited - sad, really.
Never Commit to Your Master
http://cloud9ide.posterous.com/never-commit-to-your-master
How the GIT commiting process works at Cloud9 IDE.
Show HN: Quickly look up info about startups, people, financial orgs
http://ioinsider.com
I was unhappy with the Crunchbase UI so I wrote a web app with a clean and minimal UI.
I thought you guys would enjoy it. It's alphaish, but usable.
Unusual Software Bugs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug
My favorite: Schroedinbugs
Show HN: Third Room Tech Preview: open decentralised worlds built on Matrix
https://thirdroom.io/preview
Hi all,

We just launched the first public tech preview of Third Room: an open source, standards-based, decentralised vision of interoperable virtual worlds for the open Web, built entirely on Matrix - without cryptocurrencies, NFTs or walled gardens.

It's built on an new opensource game engine for the web called Manifold, which provides a solid 60fps of fullscreen 3D thanks to multithreading across webworkers using SharedArrayBuffers and Atomics, using Three.js for rendering, bitECS as an entity component system, Rapier for physics and Hydrogen for Matrix chat+networking. It requires no servers other than your normal Matrix homeserver.

You can play with it at https://thirdroom.io or hop straight into a world like https://thirdroom.io/world/#terra-1:thirdroom.io. The code is all Apache Licensed up at https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom. We're hoping this provides a much-needed counterbalance to the Big Tech visions of the metaverse, or ones which are entangled with decentralised financial incentives, and might be a genuinely open platform for building spatial web/metaverse apps in future.

Feedback welcome!
Ask HN: Is watching livecoding streams an efficient way to learn coding?
Watching coding livestreams has the benefit that you see that experienced coders struggle as well, you will see the little tricks people use to polish/speed up their code and you can ask the streamer questions. But wouldn't you learn more in the same amount of time if you were working on a project yourself?
Why did world forget Boson’s father?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/God-Why-did-world-forget-Bosons-father/articleshow/14683835.cms
No one now remembers Bose, on whose name the subatomic particle is named.
Show HN: Fide – Crunchbase for Web3 Projects and People
https://www.fide.id/
Hi HN! I’m Chris, Co-founder of Fide. When contracting for Celsius in 2019, a recently bankrupt crypto-lending platform, I quickly observed how important it was for every Web3 company to establish credibility and trust in a high-risk industry where fraud and scams are becoming increasingly common.

As I continued to invest and build in the space, it became clear that existing tools are still not enough to effectively evaluate credibility. Common issues that keep coming up include:
1. Repeat scammers are rarely held accountable
2. Anonymous contributors can’t easily establish credibility
3. Project and contributor success metrics are mostly based on historic financial performance

We built Fide to help users verify web3 credibility and only invest in projects and teams they can trust. We’re still adding features and projects but would welcome any feedback as we continue building!
Show HN: StickyTheme
http://stickytheme.tumblr.com/showHN
My personal most valuable lesson I've learned during the last 12 months: take one thing after another, learn, be humble and proceed that way. I'm far from over with this journey obviously, I have just really started. Any feedback, thoughts and ideas are appreciated.
Real World Exams for the Global AI Class
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~burgard/ai_exams/
A certification is being given to students of www.ai-class.com (the online class being taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig) who show up and take the exams at the University of Freiburg with Professor Wolfram Burgard. Cool!

full disclaimer: I work on the site so I might be a bit biased, but I think it's an interesting preview of how technology might shape the future of education.
Outrageous success - genius or hard work ? Malcolm Gladwell analyses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/malcolm-gladwell-outliers-extract
An extract from Malcolm Gladwell's forthcoming new book, "Outliers: The Story Of Success". Looks at Bill Gates, Mozart, Rockefeller and the Beatles.
Ask HN: How do you pay yourselves?
I'm aware this can vary by quite a bit by where people are. I'm involved in a local incubator, techstars/y-combinatoresque type of program (called BoomStartup). My cofounder and I are trying to figure out the best way to pay ourselves (to pay for rent, food, etc). We've been talking with a few people including financial people and attorneys but there hasn't yet been a good consensus on any of these three main options: 1) Pay ourselves as employees and deal with payroll taxes; 2) Pay ourselves as contractors and deal with taxes later; 3) Pay a dividend based on shares and pay capital gains tax (and we'd have to set something up with the incubator so we don't pay them for the shares they are holding, which we've already discussed with them and they are totally fine with doing - they are the only other people on our cap table).

I just thought I'd see what suggestions people here might have regarding this. I'm still trying to figure out the benefits and consequences of each method.
An Introductory Guide to Startup Funding
http://www.instigatorblog.com/an-introductory-guide-to-startup-funding/2007/10/17/
etting a startup funded isn't easy. There's no shortage of hype, and multiple announcements daily of new companies getting money. And there's an equal (and growing) amount of chatter about a "new bubble" that we're entering. Still, raising money is far from a cakewalk.
Ask HN: What do you think of my startup
http://www.gymcalls.com/hackernews.html
Personalized reminders to go to the gym