jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mathematics of Gambling Revisited: under realistic assumptions
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1645
In a forthcoming paper entitled "Gamble if you are in a HURRRY!" by Evangelos Georgiadis, Doron Zeilberger and compubot Ekhad Shalosh, the mathematics of gambling has been re-examinded under a discrete and realistic view..... giving the reader a hands-on approach to the analysis.

The beautiful theory of statistical gambling, started by Dubins and Savage (for subfair games) and continued by Kelly and Breiman (for superfair games) has mostly been studied under the unrealistic assumption that we live in a continuous world, that money is indefinitely divisible, and that our life is indefinitely long. Here we study these fascinating problems from a purely discrete, finitistic, and computational, viewpoint, using Both Symbol-Crunching and Number-Crunching (and simulation just for checking purposes).
Show HN: Script to prevent same day meetings on my corporate calendar
https://samedayblocker.com/
Hi,

I have a corporate job, I have most of my notifications off, and try to work in blocks of focus time.

When colleagues schedule same day meetings I often miss it because I saw it too late. Which makes me feel guilty.

This tool helped me avoid feeling guilty by preventing last-minute meetings.
Show HN: LearnAzure.app: improve Azure skills and become certified professional
https://learnazure.app
This app was born out of my own needs. I prepared for Microsoft Azure certification, but usually, it was on the go. I wanted to find an app that will help me to prepare for exams via my smartphone, but I didn't find what I need in 2020. Then I decided to develop it myself and it looks like I am not alone with such a problem. Currently, Learn Azure has 50,000+ downloads for iOS and Android together and good feedback from users.

The app is absolutely free and without ads. I've added donation option only when I decided to fully dedicate myself for Learn Azure project. More about this compelled decision is here - https://learnazure.app/supportus

There are a lot of to tell about this project. Will be glad to do this in thread.
Real world examples using homoiconicity?
I'm interested in example code that uses homoiconicity well. I'm not interested in pedagogical examples, such as the excellent and oft cited meta-circular evaluator.

I'd also be interested to hear the opinions of lisp users and the like on the benefits of homoiconic code vs the risks of using eval() or the equivalent.
Show HN: Vanity Post – Create a stylish image/video of your post
https://vanitypo.st/
Hey there, over the past fortnight I decided to create a stylish and simple way to create images or videos of your soon to be social media posts.

Simply enter your twitter profile, toggle which vanity badges you would like, and write your post! All data is kept on the client side so we won't see your upcoming content either.

We're currently live on Product Hunt as well so if you enjoyed the tool please support us there:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/vanity-post
What Americans Told Congress in 2011 (Top 50 Bills)
http://www.popvox.com/blog/2011/what-congress-heard-in-2011/
Some dominated the headlines, some never got a vote. The top 50 bills that moved people to contact Congress in 2011 ranged from jobs to taxes, internet policy to immigration.

A Congressional session is two years long. Many bills are still pending. If you have not already told Congress what you think, click the link to register your opinion and POPVOX will deliver your message.
Craigslist comments
http://craigslistcomments.org
Ever wanted to comment on craigslist posts but couldn't? well now you can! no registration is required. Vote comments up or down and view most commented posts!
Survey: IOS 7 Reaction
https://tapfame.com/ios7survey/
I'll post the results here
Ask HN: How can I drive more users to my survey site?
I have a project site where I am gathering information on who people think is the smartest person by reputation. My current bounce rate is pretty high. Any thoughts? Its at http://www.thesmartestpersonproject.com/. Any help is much appreciated!
Hands on with Steam OS and a Steam Box prototype
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/04/valve-steam-machine-hands-on/
Interestingly, the OS is not based on Ubuntu:

"As promised, the OS is built on Linux (not based on Ubuntu, we're told, but entirely custom)"

I assume it's too early too be using Wayland, though it'd be nice if it is.
SSL 3.0 Co-author Admits Mistakes, But Not In the Protocol
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/ssl-co-author-reflects-on-crypto-success-and-failure-video.html
In 1996, Paul Kocher put his name to the SSL 3.0 specification. 17 yrs later what does he think about SSL?
Show HN: IPof – no nonsense client IP address lookup for machines
I would like to present a simple API for obtaining the public IP address of the client. the API is fairly simple.

JSON

http://ipof.candralabs.com/json

XML

http://ipof.candralabs.com/xml

Plain text

http://ipof.candralabs.com/txt

Please share your feedback. What features would you like to have in this simple service?
Claiming “you never forget hard problems you solved” underestimates forgetting
Influential people, tech giant often say that "if you forgot some difficult problem, and you do not how to explain it probably you have not done it" seems as underestimating power of time and forgetting.
There is that saying "if you do not use it you lose it". How many times have you solved, something difficult only once, because you needed it only just that one time, then fast forward 10 years later, you have just a vague feeling, but you cannot remember the details?
Companies With More Women Board Directors Experience Higher Financial Performance
http://www.catalyst.org/pressroom/press_bottom_line_2.shtml
I wonder how many startups have female board members?

"Fortune 500 companies with the highest representation of women board directors attained significantly higher financial performance, on average, than those with the lowest representation of women board directors, according to Catalyst's most recent report."
He's the most functional man in the world
http://realmofracket.com/videos.html?goback=.gde_41001_member_197967656
Stay functional, my friends!
Win a paid internship at the home of LCD #GetItDownOnPaper
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11557/win-a-paid-internship-at-sharp-laboratories-of-europe/
Tucked away on the outskirts of Oxford is Sharp Laboratories of Europe. It’s the European Research and Development arm for Sharp, responsible for cutting edge innovations like mobile LCD technology, smart cards, DualView, the ‘lab in the palm of your hand’ and many more that have helped solve a genuine human need.
Every day, scientists in the labs work to come up with new ideas and technologies that can benefit society. Now, for the first time in the company’s history, students across Europe will have the opportunity to win a paid summer internship lasting two months, where they will be given a once in a lifetime chance to work on a new project that could go on to become a central part of our everyday lives.
Is privacy is on its deathbed in Facebook Era?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/privacy-fades-in-facebook-era/
With more people posting about themselves online, and search technology advancing, no one is private online anymore.
Show HN: Running a Django app in the browser with WebAssembly
https://github.com/m-butterfield/django_webassembly
Inspired by the recent post about running Wordpress entirely in the browser, I decided to try getting Django running in the browser. It was trickier than expected but I learned a lot about service workers. It feels like we're on the cusp of some interesting alternative ways to deploy things now.
Ask HN: Why isn't "Super WiFi" Mainstream Yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Wi-Fi
I would love long-range wireless access from my home connection...
Page For Page Scrape of Site Pirated and Posted on New Domain
http://realestate103.com/
See http://www.sothebyshomes.com/
I know a little about the Sothebys site, as the company I work for created it, and I wrote a fair bit of the Javascript myself.

The original site makes extensive use of js to load content, and anywhere data is missing on the pirated site, that's why.

What we can't figure out here in the office, is why they did it? How much of this is going on?
Show HN: Self-hosted virtual events starter kit built on Vercel and 100ms
https://github.com/vercel/virtual-event-starter-kit
We've built a self-hosted virtual events starter kit (like Hopin) built using datoCMS, 100ms and Vercel.

It's built to handle scale and supports upto 10,000 concurrent live viewers.

Use this template to clone, deploy, and fully customise your live events.

Try the demo on https://100ms.vercel.app
Super Mario Opens Firefox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dfGv7ltfB4
Mario on my computer's desktop. (A proof of concept written in Java.)
Show HN: My project Se.cret.ly --one-use short links for secret resources
http://se.cret.ly
My first "real" web app! I appreciate any comments/suggestions.<p>Also I am available for hire. Contact me at www.sambolgert.com
Does this tiered SAAS pricing model offend you?
I'm about to launch a niche support app that will be sold on a per user basis. I've been thinking a lot about pricing today, since that is the only code remaining for my MVP. A lot of SAAS offerings charge based on user/agent tiers, and I'd love to know how people generally feel about this.

For example:

$50 - up to 3 users

$100 - up to 10 users

$200 - up to 25 users
etc

I see a lot of companies doing this (Highrise, Chargify, etc). In the above example, the per user cost is all over the map. 1 user is $50/user...3 users is about $17/user... 4 users is $25/user...etc etc.

My gut tells me that the fairest route would be to simply charge per agent. I think it would also be ok to keep the first tier...so $50 for 3 users, then $X per additional user (where $x is less than $17).

Or... do companies prefer to pay on tiers so they can easily gauge their monthly expenses?

Does anybody have any thoughts? experiences?
Google Buzz Review & Analysis
http://blog.ubervu.com/post/381976771/google-buzz-review-analysis
What are the implications of Google Buzz. From its marketing strategy to its impact in the enterprise.
Black Girls Code: A cool campaign to reduce gender/race imbalances in coding
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-girls-code-summer-of-code-2013-the-remix/x/2406554
Let's face it, coding is full of white dudes. These guys trying to change that
Project HAKMEM [Oldschool MIT]
http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html
Hard problems for real nerds (like me) :-D
Ask HN: Any recommendations on disaster recovery?
Hello fellow HN-ers,
I'm gradually trying to expand my knowledge. I'm trying to learn a bit about disaster recovery.

Any recommendations on where to begin or any must reads are greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Idea: Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch
http://www.joopdorresteijn.com/Archive/stream-free-internet-tv-on-your-iphone-and-ipod-touch/
Provide the 5000 online TV streams to more then 10 million iPhone and iPod Touch (wifi) users.
New Firefox beta is much better than old (esp gmail)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/
i always found firefox would be laggy when you tabbed to gmail

new beta firefox has no lag!
Calculator for iPad (and other tablets) by HTML5
http://y-ich.github.com/Calculator/calculator.html
iPhone has a nice preinstalled calculator, but no calculator on iPad.
HTML5 enables making its clone as offline web app.
Asus Cases for Nexus 7 Officially Announced
http://www.searchenginefather.com/asus-cases-for-nexus-7-officially-announced/
In a message on Twitter, Asus has informed his “followers” that the enclosures are available for her (and Google) new tablet, the Nexus 7. Currently you can only buy housing on the American Play Store at a price of $ 19.99,
Taleb's life tips applied to start-ups
http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/06/13/time-to-party/
Taleb's life tips applied to start-ups - interesting take!
What’s Mark Zuckerberg’s Salary? $483,333 a Year.
http://tech.li/2012/02/whats-mark-zuckerbergs-salary-483333-a-year/
Interesting.
Will the Real Stephen Elop, Please Stand Up?
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/06/will-the-real-stephen-elop-please-stand-up.html
Former Nokia exec Tomi Ahonen asks whether the Skype deal poisoned Windows Phone 7 for carriers, and if Nokia is turning away from Microsoft as a result.
Ask HN: Are Reddit comments being manipulated?
I have recently noticed a pattern on some specific subreddits, in particular r/Canada and r/Toronto, that suggest its comment upvote and downvote features are possibly being manipulated.

It has happened to me more than one occasion now that my comment to a topic would initially receive some upvotes at the beginning, then it continues to receive steady upvotes over a timespan of 5 to 6 hours which suggest these were all coming from real users. Then all of a sudden my comment would receive a series of downvotes come flooding in, all occurred within a timespan of just minutes, effectively rendering its voting count to negative. These comments were almost always related to topics about current government policies.

The first couple of times this happened, I didn't pay much attention and just assumed people were ignorant to what I said. Then one day I happened to click on one of the users who replied mocking my comment. I found out this user only posted all their replies exclusively in r/Canada and nowhere else. The history and content of this person's comments clearly suggests he/she is a government employee. Everything suddenly makes sense to me that there's a real possibility that the upvote/downvote mechanism on these particular subreddits are being manipulated.

One thing to point out is that I've never experienced this anywhere outside of r/Canada and r/Toronto, and it occurred almost exclusively in comments related to government. The pattern doesn't quite make sense to me, how could a comment receive steady upvotes within a timespan of a few hours and then suddenly got flooded with downvotes within minutes? It's almost as if the comment got flagged, then someone reviewed and decided that the comment needs to be struck down, and activated the downvote bots to do its job.

What do you think HN? I'm posting this here to avoid any influences by the invisible forces behind reddit.
TIOBE Programming language popularity
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Ruby back in top 10
Spinning up the instant cloud
http://www.cloudecosystem.com/author.asp?section_id=1873&doc_id=242031
Bridging the gap between your code hosting and your application hosting.

And using the great deploy keys system to keep it secure.
Looking ahead – A Career Ladder Cheat Sheet
http://www.dianazink.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/26/looking-ahead
The Five thresholds in personal growth you will face before reaching the top.
Show HN: Birdle – an uplifting Wordle derivative based on viral tweets
https://www.birdle.art
Hey HN

I built this simple app that grabs four popular tweets from the last 24 hours and removes a word from each, so that the missing words spell out a phrase. It's the player's job to guess the missing words.

A key motive for building this was that, to be honest, I was finding much of the news and social media dialogue quite depressing. I thought that if a wholesome or inspirational phrase can be built out of these (often tiresome) tweets, then there would be something nice about that.

The stack included GCloud scheduler (for daily Tweet scraping and automatic puzzle generation), Supabase (which, by the way, is fantastic) and Next / Vercel.
Pixel Qi vs iPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotK4TVQ-6E
YouTube video demonstrates the comparison of Pixel Qi screen and the iPad in broad sunlight.

Why hasn't Apple picked on this screen technology yet?
What's Really Going Inside the Big Co. You Are Trying to Sell to
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/business-books.html
Read this book to understand what's really going on inside and how they make buying decisions.
strong yes
Vote up the submitter, not the story
http://www.votetheuser.com/
I thought I would give a go at learning arc and was looking for a project to start on. There have been a lot of comments lately about the quality of the submitted stories and it sounded like an opportunity. I thought it would be interesting if stories were scored based on the karma of the submitter. Not the global karma, but a new karma for each submitter, unique to each user. Instead of voting on the story you are voting on the submitter.

voteTheUser.com is the result.

Basically each user gets a personalized front page of stories based on previous votes. The more stories you vote on the better it will work for you.

If you like dogs, vote up stories about dogs and you will get more stories on your front page from people who submit dog stories. If you don't, vote them down and you will see less. If you love polls vote them up. It won't matter to me because I will probably have voted them down. You'll see more of them and I'll see less.

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you. Mind you, this is my first arc attempt and is really just a cheap knock off of Hacker News. I'm just copying what I like.
Integrate Eclipse and Emacs
http://blog.senny.ch/blog/2012/10/13/emacs-and-java-journey-of-a-hard-friendship/
The emacs-eclim package brings the core features of eclipse to Emacs
Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals V2
https://gorillaterminal.com/terminal?ref=HN
I made a site to do investment research faster and more efficent, just type commands and access to 10k 10Q, charts, industry averages, macro economic data, hedgefund reports and much more in seconds
Squarespace Developer Platform Beta
http://developers.squarespace.com/
Squarespace's developer platform is now in beta, featuring Git and SFTP access, total template code control, less.css on the server, JSON behind every URL, and more.

http://blog.squarespace.com/developer-platform-beta

Developers also get an infinite trial (free until you publish).
How  to Fund Your Startup Without Investors
http://blog.bankmybiz.com/post/85742958905/5-ways-to-fund-your-startup-without-investors
Most startup companies and software consultancies are leaving money on the table.
Deep learning for source to source computer language translation?
Anyone know of any recent work on deep learning for source to source computer language translation ?
Since go and real time strategy games were the last out of reach items for machine learning, i feel like this is the next thing that's out of reach of deep learning.
Show HN: bitloops-gherkin Automatically generate tests from Google Sheets
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitloops-gherkin
For those into BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and JavaScript/TypeScript you will find that this tool allows you to add all your test data on a Google Sheet and then automatically pulls the info from the Google Sheet into your Cucumber feature file in any format you want (you can have multiple lines etc) without having to go through the pain of managing a limited text-based table written in Gherkin.
Ka-Ching!
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/08/pay-me-now-or-p.html
Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses.
Infographic - World Of Programming
http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/aboutprogramming04.jpg
great article on how it has been designed and created: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/06/designing-the-world-of-programming-infographic/
Introducing: The Facebook Phone
http://blog.cristianobetta.com/2008/11/14/introducing-the-facebook-phone/
I did a quick writeup of yesterday's launch event and my first impressions of the phone
Ask HN: Which tool/service to host a “non-techy” company's site
I'm in the process of deploying a new site for my company, but only 5% of the staff is technically capable of using something like Git and a Markdown editor. The site needs to show a list retrieved via a public API and it will contain a blog, where an editor will create and publish posts.

Should we go for something like Webflow? Or is something like a static page (e.g. Netlify + Next.js + TinaCMS) easy enough to operate, once deployed?
Ask HN: Review my Browsable REST API Design
address: https://api.snapbill.com

login: hnapi / h!jT2X!M

We're looking at launching our startup next month, and I'd love to launch with a fully functioning API. Since I haven't really got a developer network I was hoping that I could here some of your thoughts. I believe a lot of what I have done is unique (at-least a little) but wouldn't be surprised if someone points me to people doing the same thing.

The API is fully browseable through a browser and follows most of the standard REST API idioms. I know its not technically 100% REST, but the few things I chose to do (verbs other than GET/POST, /v1/ in url) I believe were good decisions - but are still obviously up for debate.

The API can output in HTML/XML/JSON/PHP(serialized)/PY(pickled). You can get each format either with an appropriate "Accept:" header, or file extensions (/v1/client/add.json). Some commands (such as POST /v1/invoice/136891/pdf) will always return a certain content type (in this case a PDF file).

GET requests are used for browsing the API. For instance "GET /v1" will return an index, but whats quite cool is "GET /v1/client/add" will return a form in order to create a client. The form code is available in all the exports. A "POST /v1/client/add" is used to add clients. In order to make testing in a browser simpler, adding "?post" to a URL will treat it as a POST request with the other variables.

Known issues:

a. The API is rather incomplete. I'm quite aware of that, but I believe what is up is enough to relay the style and content of the rest. I do have a couple of small issues (such as repeating fields - invoice lines, etc) but am busy working out plans for those.

b. BASIC AUTH isn't great. I have several other methods planned but for the initial launch it'll have to do.

c. Theres no documentation. I'll get something basic up by the time we launch and improve it from there. I honestly believe the browsable nature should be enough for now though.

d. I only created one user with test data for HN. Hopefully that won't be a problem :)

[if you interested in actual startup request invitation at http://www.snapbill.com and expect a Review my Startup sometime next month :)]
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
thats cool
Craigslist to surpass eBay in 2009?
http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2008/06/craigslist-to-surpass-ebay-within-the-year.html
Great analysis of how the little guy can challenge big corporations.
Ask HN: Which video hosting services scale well?
Hey folks.

I'm looking for a video hosting service along the lines of YouTube and Vimeo that would allow our company to hosts a couple of thousand educational videos. The biggest challenge is being able to easily edit and categorize these videos, since there are so many of them.

Several of the UIs for video management seem to work well if you have a dozen of them, but once you get into the thousands, things get pretty tricky.

At that point you pretty much want a filesystem-like UX that's specifically built for bulk editing, moving, renaming etc. Haven't stumbled upon anything quite like that though.

Cheers.
PBX Hell: 50+ Hacks Get to a Real Person in 10 Seconds or Less
http://www.voip-news.com/feature/50-plus-pbx-hacks-030308/
It's infuriating to sit on hold for 20 minutes, only to be connected to a service agent has less knowledge about how to help you. The following tricks will help you skip to the head of the line and find a better person to talk to.