jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A look at the impact of CPU choice on frame latencies in games
http://techreport.com/articles.x/23246
For years, PC hardware sites have maintained that CPUs have little impact on gaming performance; all you need is a decent graphics card. That position is largely supported by FPS averages, a metric that sadly doesn't tell the whole story. Examining individual frame latencies better exposes the brief moments of stuttering that can disrupt otherwise smooth gameplay. We've used those methods to quantify the gaming performance of 18 CPUs spanning three generations. The results illustrate a clear advantage for Intel, whose CPUs enjoy lower frame latencies than comparable offerings from AMD. While the newer Intel processors perform better than their predecessors, the opposite tends to be true for the latest AMD chips.
Facebook building its own apartment complex
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/04/facebook-building-its-own-apartment-complex-so-employees-never-ever-have-to-leave-work/?hpt=hp_t3
It was only a matter of time. Interesting to me is that a few of the 394 units are set aside for non-Facebook employees and low income residents. Things like this are one ways that the big players can address the lack of affordable housing for support staff and people who work at area businesses.
Ask HN: How to Decide on a Blogging Platform?
There are just so many choices. How does on go about picking one? Do we self host? Subdomain or on a path? What should I be thinking through to make the best choice for me?
Video Stash: Seth Godin, Tony Robbins and Jason Fried
http://www.therichmindset.com/video-stash-seth-godin-tony-robbins-and-jason-fried/
Watch three excellent videos from the masters of marketing that will help you grow your startup by simply thinking differently.
BagTheWeb joins the Markdown community
http://www.bagtheweb.com/b/xjmOex
Hi all, I am VP of Product at BagTheWeb.com

We recently released a new version with a new feature called Blurbs which supports markdown format.
Ask HN: Online social hangout for software engineers/developers/programmers?
What is a good online social hangout for software engineers/developers/programmers?
Show HN: gifBase - user tagged gif database built with Slim PHP
http://www.gifbase.com/
Built using Slim (http://www.slimframework.com/) as a base, Idiorm as an ORM (http://j4mie.github.com/idiormandparis/), Twig for templating (http://twig.sensiolabs.org/), and Skeleton as a clean CSS framework (http://getskeleton.com/)

Goal is a well-tagged database that gives you a gif for every emotion/scenario. Just hit 500 submissions. Feedback appreciated, submissions even more so.

Hope some people find it useful.
Tell HN: Domain interests exposed on namecheap and godaddy?
Two weeks ago i searched for a couple of domains i had in mind at namecheap.com for a project i wanted to work on.
One domain that i liked was areact.com but i was not sure if i had the right name for my project so i did not bought it.
I searched today for that same domain out of curiosity and i discovered it is owned by godaddy and registered from 15 november of 2019.
I only saved this domain name in my icloud notes along with a collection list of potential domains and it is impossible to claim that my history was recorded anywhere since i am a cyber security researcher and i take measures for my privacy and personal data online.

This story proves that our data is not safe, even from namecheap, godaddy, DNS spoof or Internet Service Providors!

So what i have in mind is that always when searching for a free domain i must look with a "dig" command to a encrypted dns server that claims that it has no LOGS like using dnscrypt client from dnscrypt.org or using a unix system to redirect all 53 udp port connectons to a local server with dnscrypt, or finally using also a vpn to avoid spoof on public networks and ISPs. And of course avoiding programs unreliable for privacy protection on our computers.

I would like to know what you think of this?
Detecting data leakage on Pastebin 
http://chaptersinwebsecurity.blogspot.com/2012/01/leak-sensor-pastebin-data-leakage.html
Hybrid Security has released a free tool for Windows called Leak Sensor. It monitors content on Pastebin and alerts the user upon any sensitive data found on Pastebin in real-time. You may download Leak Sensor at:
http://www.hybridsec.com/resource.html
Visit https://www.okcupid.com/ with Firefox and see what happens
https://www.okcupid.com/
Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.
Steve Ballmer Recruits HR Person with a Golf Club
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42079
Lisa Brummell tells Business Week how Steve Ballmer "convinced" her to take on an HR position she didn't want by smashing a golf club to bits in her office, during a meeting. Interesting recruiting technique.
Emacs color themes
https://github.com/owainlewis/emacs-color-themes
Make Emacs pretty again with these free color themes.
Have a startup?  Please add yours to the list. 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10dQUOOUp-sR_DkVyaGyOxPcGMnm3q4zG6Q_46WXZgv4/viewform
Have a startup? Please add yours to the list.
thanks

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10dQUOOUp-sR_DkVyaGyOxPcGMnm3q4zG6Q_46WXZgv4/viewform
Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free Right Here
http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolutely-free-right-here
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=cs2_downloads&pid=4485850
Non-Functional Requirements... the forgotten, overlooked and underestimated
http://www.d80.co.uk/post/2011/03/08/Non-Functional-Requirements-the-forgotten-overlooked-and-underestimated.aspx
It seems that you can have NFR's for practically anything and I feel that there's a considerable gap in the way we capture the requirements of our system. I'm a firm believer in "If it's a required, then it should be tested". But somethings on the NFR list are quite difficult to write an automated test for.
TED.com gets a makeover
http://www.ted.com
502 Bad Gateway :-(
It will be hit or miss. I was able to see it after several attempts.
PDF Search Engines
http://www.lostintechnology.com/how-to/4-great-pdf-search-engines
It presents you with four PDF search engines which allow you to search, preview and download almost any file in PDF format.
First Money In - Platform for Uniting Angels and Startups
http://www.firstmoneyin.com
Anyone raising money? Looks like this soon-to-be-launched NYC company is building out a platform
PyBuilder – build automation for python
http://pybuilder.github.io
PyBuilder is a software build tool written in pure Python which mainly targets Python applications. It is based on the concept of dependency based programming but also comes along with powerful plugin mechanism that allows the construction of build life cycles similar to those known from other famous build tools like Apache Maven.
A Javascript-based Sound API (+ shiny demos)
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
Solid pre-HTML5 JavaScript API for audio control via wrapping hidden Flash 8/9 movie. Check the canvas-based 360° player UI demo (also some waveform + spectrum data visualization fun.)
Modern Enterprise Java Architectures with Spring 3.1 [Webinar]
http://hash-table.com/home/2012/07/19/modern-enterprise-java-architectures-with-spring-3-1/
In its 3.1 generation, the Spring Framework presents itself as a versatile open source platform for Java-based application architectures on any kind of deployment platform.

This presentation covers the key feature set in Spring 3.1, from environment profiles and Java-based application configuration to declarative caching and Servlet 3.0 support. Spring 3.1′s capabilities will be discussed in the context of current trends such as cloud computing and HTML 5, influencing the way enterprise Java applications will be built in 2012 and beyond.
Building the Android Version of a Successful iPhone App
http://www.appbackr.com/blog/developers/building-the-android-version-of-a-successful-iphone-app
A lot of iOS developers consider building an Android version of their iPhone app. To get some insight, appbackr interviewed Tim Harrison, Brisk Mobile’s Director of Games about the development of the Android app.

Brisk Mobile’s Medieval is a hugely successful iOS game with over 2 million downloads and breaking the top 10 in 20 different countries. Last summer, Brisk Mobile decided to build the Android version of the app. Medieval for Android launched on Nov 23.

Tim discusses why Brisk Mobile decided to build out for Android, how they adjusted the pricing for the Android market, surprises, needed resources and what they will do differently. Finally, Tim discusses how the launch went, what they did to promote the app and if they were you able to build off the iOS success?
Show HN: Filter HN by Keywords. Built With AngularJS
http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=NSA
Important note: your filtered keywords are stored locally in your browser, and do not get sent to any server
Nagios is not a monitoring strategy
http://devops.com/blogs/nagios-monitoring-strategy/
Nagios is a great tool, but by itself it is a poor substitute for a monitoring strategy
Wikipedia: High Level Assembly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly
When Just Hiring the Top 1% Isn't Good Enough
http://sablog.com/archives/2007/10/18/when-just-hiring-the-top-1-isnt-good-enough
Every company says that they only hire the top 1%. Joel Spolsky has already ripped the credibility of this to shreds.

Apparently a local Bay Area company is either 1) so arrogant, or 2) really has the goods, that they demand their coders be "one of the best coders in existence."
Ask HN: What phone to get for the upcoming holidays?
I know this is a difficult question to answer, but I come to HN to get your trustworthy opinions.

I am looking to get a smart phone in the next month or two, but I am stumped as to which one to buy. I like the iPhone because of the activity around it, but I don't run Windows or OSX which could make using it more painful than it should be. I like Android, but I have yet to be convinced any one phone doesn't have at least one glaring issue (although I haven't followed the new ones for about a year now).

I probably won't do a lot of native app development, but an html5 compliant web browser would be a huge win for me. I don't know much about the mobile web browser market in this regard.

Also, I have big fingers, so I prefer touch screen keyboards over the physical button keys.

What phone do you recommend today, or do you recommend waiting for some new phone yet to be released?

Thanks as always.

Edit: I am not tied to a particular carrier, but AT&T or Verizon is preferable
APlay - The console for your pocket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yBZla8BZg
Multi-device multiplayer console for Android.
Some men just want to watch the World Burn
http://codepen.io/vaielab/full/yoKEF/
Thank you Vaielab for brining back Childhood memories
Sina Weibo Accused of Closing User Accounts and Plagiarism
http://techrice.com/2011/06/14/sina-weibo-accused-of-closing-user-accounts-and-plagiarism/
Nothing can be too perfect, everything has two sides to it: the good side and the not-so-good side. Even Sina Weibo, with its growing traffic, user numbers, and functionality, still has many flaws, and two surfaced recently: breaching of user personal rights and content plagiarism.
Collection of tutorials on Node.js
http://findacoaching.com/wordpress1/2012/03/a-collection-of-tutorials-on-node-js/
A collection of tutorial lists on Node.js for Node.js fans.
Disruptions: By Litigating, Apple Spills its Secrets
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/apple-patent-fight-with-samsung-spills-some-iphone-and-ipad-secrets-disruptions/
pple, by going to a jury trial to defend the patents of its most prized products, is allowing competitors and the public to see inside one of the most secretive companies in the world.
Using a Proxy Is Against Paypal Ts&Cs
Just received the following email from Paypal:

"Our records indicate you've shared your password with another person, or you've used an anonymizing proxy to access your PayPal account, both are violations of our User Agreement.

Anonymizing Proxy is a tool that stands between your browser and the internet, redirecting all requests for web pages to the proxy servers and
making you anonymous to the websites you're visiting. It's a way of providing a fake IP address to any websites you're using."

Sure enough a review of their user agreement supports this:

9. Restricted Activities

9.1 Restricted Activities. In connection with your use of our website, your Account, or the Services, or in the course of your interactions with PayPal, a User or a third party, you will not:

j. Use an anonymising proxy;

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full

I do use a proxy server. I wouldn't say it was an anonymising proxy specifically, but by it's very nature the IP it broadcasts is different to the IP assigned specifically to my connection by the ISP.

I have very good reasons for using a proxy. I do have a choice, but no doubt there are many people who connect through a proxy and have no choice in the matter, due to locked down machines, security or caching reasons.

In effect, is Paypal blocking use of all proxy servers when using their service?
LikeLight - A lego, arduino, graph api mashup
http://vimeo.com/20899145
A lego thumb that blinks for Likes.
Virus in iOS5?
https://p.twimg.com/AR74gtQCAAIqOm2.jpg
This dialog popped up with the phone in a standby/locked state. Both the lock and the home button would not dismiss it. The dismiss button pictured did remove it, however.

iOS5 was installed from the official developer build, downloaded from a valid iPhone developer account.

Apps running: phone, safari, photos, contacts, messages, mail, settings.
Carnegie Mellon Study on Evaluating AI
Hi Hacker News!

We are researchers at Carnegie Mellon studying how data scientists evaluate their AI/ML systems.
For this study, we are interviewing data scientists at small companies/consultancies/non-profits to understand the major challenges and ideal solutions for better evaluating AI systems, especially beyond aggregate metrics like accuracy and F1 score.

The study will take up to an hour over Zoom and be compensated with a $20 Amazon gift card. If you're interested in participating please fill out this short form!

https://forms.gle/38ChADjgMoVpNi3V8
The WooThemes interview with co-founder adii - video
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/04/07/adii-woothemes-premium-wordpress-themes/
WooThemes has had great success – in an international sense – with over 85 themes in their library, millions of dollars in revenue annually and have contributed code to the WordPress core
Show HN: quickyJade - Rapid Prototyping of Jade Templates
https://github.com/FuturaIO/quickyJade
We built this last week. Thinking about adding a few more preprocessing engines.

Useful? What would you want to see added?
Co-Founder Wanted Get 5% of my start up for $25 in an auction
http://www.dreamybids.com/contest.php?id=331
Gamerholic.com is a competitive gamification platform. Gamers play each other for money online in heads up games and tournaments and we collect a service fee from each game.

Dreamybids is proof of my ability to gamfiy anything. I took the Quibids.com model and added some fun gamification mechanics and made it a crazy auction service.

Finding a co-founder is tough. So I'm going to auction the opportunity.
I'm looking for a technical co-founder with skills or resources for mobile development (mobile/browser games a plus).
Marketing, Finance or legal professionals are also welcome to give me a call and present your benefits. If your skill set/resources could be used you can join the auction.
The next step for me is to get game developers using the Gamerholic competitive high score API for mobile and browser games. I'd also like to get the merchandising side of Gamerholic going, with shirts, controllers and other gaming accessories. The funds raised in this auction will go towards merchandising and legals. If you like the Gamerholic and Dreamybids concepts and want to come on board, funds raised in this auction will apply as your buy in for 5% of Gamerholic (Dreamybids included) vested over 2 years.
Give me a call if you have any questions: 415-867-5336 Anari @UnFundedHype http://www.angel.co/gamerholic
Show HN: ChartBlocks – Create and share charts in a few clicks
https://app.chartblocks.com/tryme
A hosted chart builder for quickly designing charts and embedding or sharing them.
How to earn money from your free mobile app - part 2
http://blog.smashapp.com/2011/06/15/developers-how-to-earn-money-from-your-free-mobile-app/
Giving your app for free does not mean ‘not earning money‘ from it. Just look at the list of Top Grossing apps in the App Store and you’ll see that 6 out of the Top 10 apps come for free. In the second post of the ‘freemium app model‘ series we are analyzing the ways you can use your free app to earn money or generate business leads.
You can incorporate mobile ads in your apps and earn money from impressions and clicks, promote other apps or products or offer in app purchases of (virtual) goods.
Do you talk to yourself at work?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120640272238360897.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace
"Among the things it's useful for is what's called self-regulation: goal-setting, problem-solving, decision-making and planning"
Kuro5hin Adopts Pay-For-Comment Model
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/9/10/13920/3664
"I have created here on K5 what might be the internet's first 'Walled Ghetto.' An exclusive preserve of dysfunctional social interaction and semi-undesirable content." -- Rusty Foster
When tissue is pronounced "Kleenex", you have a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
When tissue is pronounced "Kleenex", you have a problem.
Show HN: Bell inequality violation with entangled photons - Nobel Prize 2022
https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab/bell-inequality
This year Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger - for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science".

If you want to simulate the Bell inequality violation in your browser, you can do so in the Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap. We use the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt.

There are quite a few other examples of quantum information experimental setups related to the winners. For example, a GHZ (Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger) source, which creates quantum states with intrinsic three-photon entanglement.

For a more detailed description, see Section 5. Example Experiments in our open-access publication on the lab: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.8.081808
Ask HN:Thoughts on written tests for interviews. 
Ask HN:Thoughts on written tests for interviews.

I have been job hunting for a while, had many interviews, and have recently found an acceptable end.

One thing that I was very not prepared for as a possible interview environment was 'written tests.'

During my in person interviews at two of the companies that I perused I was asked to sit down, in a quiet room, and take a test.

-- The first company had me fill a 'mechanical aptitude' multiple choice test (1 hour)
-- The second company had me fill a written test on my knowledge of the python programming language (2 hour)

I had never heard of this as an interviewing mechanism. At the time of leaving both companies was frankly quite displeased about the experience. I felt they were wasting my time.

Looking back at it, my position may have been a bit egotistical; but I still believe that the goals of these tests could easily be met by an at-home coding sample.

Any input to this as an interview mechanism (on either side) would be very much appreciated.
Inventing the cardboard bicycle
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11669/inventing-the-cardboard-bicycle/
Would you have thought it possible to make a bicycle from cardboard?

"You fold it once and then it doesn’t become twice the strength, it’s almost three times the strength."

http://bit.ly/14pziWz
Better Rails error pages
https://github.com/owainlewis/rails-error-messages
Some clean and mobile friendly error pages for Rails applications
[Show HN] An awesome crazy android game – Crazy Taps
Hi Guys,
Please check out this crazy game- Crazytaps. Kindly Rate, Review and share it. Your valuable feedback can make this game awesome.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blopit.crazytaps
Ten Things To Do First If You're Looking At Starting Your Own Business
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/12/10/building-a-foundation-ten-things-to-do-first-if-youre-looking-at-starting-your-own-business/
I've had the opportunity to launch two successful small businesses in my life. Here are the ten things you should do before starting any sort of small business.
Get your conference videos in one spot
http://getconfed.com
Get educated via video content from a conference that you were at or even one you wished you were at.
Tell HN: Startup Idea - Github + Heroku for Open Source Webapps
I just had an idea while reading praise of GitHub - how cool would it be if you could launch a web app on a free hosting service like Heroku, and then keep the code base totally open source and free to commit to? Bugs could be fixed by the community, and new features could be added? It would be like a combination between the free Heroku offering and GitHub - perhaps even these two companies should build it!

I think it's the kind of idea that sounds like it would be hindered by being publicly editable, but would work great in practice (think Wikipedia). It would be perfect for someone who has an idea for a simple side project web app, throws together a quick prototype, and doesn't have the time to finish it.

What do you guys think?
Show HN: gh-mirror, keep a mirror of GitHub repos, locally
https://github.com/ntns/gh-mirror
I wanted a really simple tool to have my GH repos mirrored locally so I created this. Under the hood it's just running `git clone --mirror` and `git remote update` on a list of repos.
Integrating Hacker News with a Blog
I am college student who has made the foolish choice to blog, and on top of that I have made an even more foolish choice to roll my own blogging platform (as an excuse to learn ruby+rails) and since I am doing foolish things, I figure I might as well attempt to add novel features too.

Do any plug-ins or blog platforms already exist that integrate hacker news? The blog would have to be associated with a HN account. My goals are automatic posting of new content, display of HN comments, and the ability to comment on the blog with a HN account (actually commenting on the HN post and it displaying on the blog).

Am I insane? Foolish? or otherwise ignorant of a good reason this is a stupid idea? (I would prefer to know now, before I run off and do it) I am likely to run off and try no mater what the input, but additional knowledge can only help.

Thanks!