jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How is HN karma calculated?
I understand how HN calculates top posts (roughly, points divided by age to the power gravity) - but how is a user's karma calculated? I looked at the points in the threads/comments link on the top of HN, but the sum of the points there do not add up to my karma.

I'm guessing the answer to this is pretty simple and it bugs me no end that I don't know it :(

PS: Are all votes equal (when it comes to deciding the rank of a post), or does it depend on the karma of the voter?
Metal Balers - Advance Hydrau-Tech
http://www.advancehydrautech.com/balers.html
India’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of wide range of metal processing machines worldwide since 1978. Feel free to Call us at +91-9958596018 related to all types of scrap processing machines.
Tell HN: Linkedin group for single founders
I am a single founder running a company from last 2 years. Over last 2 years I realized that there are lots of problems faced by single founders which perhaps only other single founders can understand. Most of the times all you need is some one who is (or has) run a business alone to talk to. It is like a single founders support group and networking club.

Here is the link to linkedin group : http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3696488
Ask HN: How many failures it took you to be successful?
Success is relative. For some, it's money & for some, it's work-life balance. For some it's $100k/year job & for some, it's $1m in side business & for the outliers, it's billions.

I'm curious how many failures it took you to crack the success nut?
Video Recording From Your Mobile Browser
http://cameratag.com?
Hey guys,

Just a quick note to let you know that we just unveiled support for mobile web video recording / uploading. (iOS 6.0+ and Android 2.2+). You can check it out by pointing your mobile browser to CameraTag.com and clicking on the "click here to record" box.

For all you webtech geeks- WebRTC soon to come :)

-c
Greasemonkey word-count script for your Y Combinator funding application
http://olav.dk/code/ycombinatorwordcount.user.js
The instructions on the application form says "Please try to answer each question in less than 120 words." This Greasemonkey script displays the word count in the bottom right corner of the screen when you are typing in a textarea.
How to By-Pass the TSA No-Fly List
http://nathanbarry.com/no-fly-list/
An article I wrote showing the flaws in airport identity checks and the no-fly list.
SXSWeek 2010 (March 12-20) Panel Picker
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/
Who all is going? Anyone else submit a panel?
Ask HN: Why do the collaboration websites always fail?
I know the topic is a little vague, but I didn't want to make it a super long one.

Everyone has seen those websites that try to connect developers with other developers based on projects they want to work on. There have been many attempts at them. I don't think any have been terribly successful, though. I could be wrong, of course. I'm not really talking about elance.com, or monster.com - those are more freelancers strictly looking to get paid for their services. I'm talking more like openinvo.com, except without the upfront fees.

Why do most of these sites seem to have such a tough time being successful? It's definitely something I feel most developers or web designers, etc, would find useful. I know I always hear people complain about how tough it is to find people to work with on ideas of theirs.

I think most of these types of sites end up becoming just a deadpool of "want ads". It's not very fulfilling to post an ad saying you're looking for a project to join, or post an ad saying you're looking for people to join your current project.

So what do you think? How can these types of services be made better?
Ask HN: Marketing Tips for Developers?
I'm a coder who builds websites that I think are awesome and useful. The problem I have is getting people to my apps and conveying how useful they are to the general public.

How can I get better at this? Are there any videos I should watch? Any websites or books I should read? Any tips?
Second Open Angel Forum in Boston Oct 13th--free access to angels, no payola
http://openangelforum.com/2010/09/09/second-boston-event-oct-13th-now-accepting-applications/
We're coming back to boston on October 13th for our second Open Angel Forum.

Startups pay $0.00 to pitch to the top 25 angels in the Boston Area.

Angels pay $0.00 to hear pitches from the top six companies from Boston (or anywhere aroudn the northeast... heck, anywhere on the planet if it is a hot startup seeking angel investing).

Service Providers like law firms and recruiters pay $1,500 to send just one person. We normally sell 2-3 tickets. This money pays for my Virgin America ticket and Wifi to boston... as well as some burgers & beer! :-p
Portal: Control your garage door from anywhere
http://coreygilmore.io/portal/
Portal is a simple, an add-on device that allows you to open or close your garage, check if the door is open, and schedule automatic opens or closes. It works in real-time, is always connected to the internet, and is incredibly simple to setup and use. No more remotes, just use your phone! (or anything else with a web browser)
Ask HN: Must Read Books
As a technologist/entrepreneur what book are you reading next?

Is the AppSumo deal for Startups Open Sourced on your list? http://www.appsumo.com/startups-open-sourced/

What else?
Show HN: Hagana – Runtime protection for Node.js to block supply chain attacks
https://github.com/yaakov123/hagana
I recently came across an amazing post that really emphasizes the dangers associated with installing npm packages. It seems that every week a new supply chain attack occurs.

In my opinion, the existing solutions for this don't quite cut it so I decided to create a library which provides runtime protection for Node. It currently protects against:

- Unauthorized file system access

- Unauthorized network access

- Unauthorized command execution - (by way of exec/spawn)

I just released the first beta version of the library and I'd love to hear what you guys think.

Note: Protection is still missing for post/pre install scripts, but that's up next.
Just launched this Twitter/OpenCalais mashup for IL special election
http://election.windycitizen.com/
It was a lot of fun putting them together. I'm pulling links out of the tweets and running OpenCalais over the text in the articles. Then I count the "Topics" to catch trends and pull out quotes.
The America our parents left us
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/19/theAmericaOurParentsLeftUs.html
"The thing we make that everyone wants that no one else can make is the US dollar."

"We will go down as the stupidest generation ever. The one who had it all and threw it all away."
Playframework + Google Guice
http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/playframework-google-guice/
In the last few years Dependency Injection has has evolved from being an obscure and little understood term, to become part of every programmer’s toolchest. In this article we'll see how easy is to integrate Guice, a very handy library from Google, into a Play framework application. Moreover, we will also cover how to customize it’s behavior for a better development experience.
Berkeley Hackathon
http://www.justin.tv/staberkeley
100 kids spent 24 hours hacking stuff together, watch the presentations.
Show HN: Effortlessly create on-demand staging environments in your own cloud
https://www.cohesive.so/
Hey HN!

We’re a group of developers who, while trying to scale our engineering team, ran into many problems related to managing multiple environments. It was around that time, we realized that these problems would be worth solving and hence we built Cohesive!

Cohesive is a platform that allows you to effortlessly create on-demand staging environments in your own cloud.

Cohesive ensures you never have to worry about:

- Maintenance of environments - just to ensure their configurations are up to date.

- Bottlenecks in developers' bandwidth as they struggle to use the same set of environments simultaneously.

- Infrastructure costs.

- Developer productivity loss.

Cohesive is an EaaS (Environment as a Service) platform that enables you to:

1. Get automatic preview URLs for each PR

2. Ship faster with improved collaboration & testing

3. Save costs with automated hibernation & termination

4. Enforce policies to avoid misuse of infrastructure

We would love to know what you feel about our product. Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments!

In case you're interested in keeping tabs on how we are progressing, you can find us on Twitter - @CohesiveHQ
With Apple's Siri, A Romance Gone Sour
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/with-apple%E2%80%99s-siri-a-romance-gone-sour/
Although it was love at first sound, I'm publicly breaking up with Siri.
Keynote I Love You (But You're Bringing Me Down)
http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/keynote-i-love-you-but-youre-bringing-me-down
I love Keynote. It’s a wonderful presentation software. But its defaut theme sucks.
So I created Keynude. It’s a naked Keynote theme. Grey shapes, flat charts, no yucky fills.

You can also visit www.keynude.com to download it.
Ask HN: Are design patterns still a thing?
When I learned C++ 10 years ago, we had a textbook basically teaching C++ through design patterns. I remember them to be mentioned quite regularly, including in job offers. Nowadays, they don't seem as big as they used to be, and I did not hear about them for a while.
What is your recent experience with them? Are they still a thing?
Show HN: Open-source tool to deploy infrastructure in any cloud
https://multy.dev
We have been working on multy.dev, an open-source cloud agnostic API that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure to any cloud provider using native managed services.

The motivation was the realisation that, even when using Terraform, migrating infrastructure code requires an end-to-end re-write. Even though most core resources are the same in any major cloud, developers need to learn a new provider to deploy the same infrastructure when moving providers.

We are still in early days of development and currently support the core services from AWS and Azure:

- Networking (virtual_network, subnet, route_table, security_group, network_interface, public_ip)

- Compute (virtual_machine, managed kubernetes)

- Database (managed MySQL databases)

- Vault (managed secrets)

- Storage (managed storage)

- Abstraction of cloud differences (Azure VM public vs AWS EC2 private by default)

- Deployment through Terraform

We’re looking for feedback from other developers about our approach. Let us know your thoughts!

GitHub: https://github.com/multycloud/multy
Ask PG: Would you consider making comment tree collapsable? 
I'll be surprised if no one has asked this before. On a very popular topic, it's hard to get to a different comment branch.
The Fan Syndrome
http://beust.com/weblog/2005/12/15/the-fan-syndrome/
Interesting analysis of how people can't seem to differentiate between technologies they like from technologies that are going to succeed.
Show HN: MailTheme – Manage Design of Transactional Email Templates
http://mailthe.me/beta/thank-you.php?ref=cTnoUK83
http://mailthe.me/beta/
Joyent offers free Accelerator hosting for Facebook applications
http://joyent.com/developers/facebook
Free basic Accelerator, with direct peering to Facebook's datacenter, for a year. Guess they're planning to make their money on upgrades for the apps that hit home runs?
Race, genes and intelligence
http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/0/
Lately I've been feeling really burnt out on social news and the blogosphere in general. The vast majority of submissions are poorly written restatements of facts I already know and arguments I've already seen. Unless someone comes up with a way to filter out non-novel ideas, I really can't see sticking with this stuff in the long term.
What companies that are making at least $1 million a year didn’t take funding?
I'm looking to learn from companies that were started in the last 2 - 3 years that are making at least $1 million a year but didn't take any outside funding.
Finally, a video of what Xobni actually does
http://www.xobni.com/learnmore
Here is your email revolution, and actually, it will be televised.
This Is Not Your Father’s Spring – A Learning Project
http://www.baeldung.com/2012/01/03/this-is-not-your-fathers-spring-a-learning-project/
Learning REST with Spring - the articles focus on Persistence with Hibernate, JPA, Spring Data, on RESTful architecture, Discoverability and HATEOAS, and on Securing the REST service with Form, Basic and Digest authenticated, all with Spring 3.1.
Ask HN: Why is soylent worth $100M dollars?
Their product is essentially slimfast without added flavoring and they've demonstrated themselves deficient in procurement and supply chain management by constantly delaying shipments.

Why is that company valued so highly? What makes them different from any other meal replacement shake vendor?
Ask HN: How accurate are Alexa/Compete/Quantcast for your website(s)?
I feel that many people's tendency to take those estimates too seriously is a bad thing.

This post was inspired by a Reddit admin's comment showing that Quantcast was far off: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/cahpw/digg_is_dead/c0r9904

Please post numbers for months that are fully shown at all those sites already, so not from this month. You don't have to post your domains for privacy reasons, but if you would, please do.
Omnidrive - Is This The Sad End?
http://www.technation.com.au/2008/09/20/omnidrive-is-this-the-sad-end/
Good night and good luck Nik Cubrilovic, Mike Arrington and the rest of the Omnidrive crew.
Why are businesses so aggressive about wanting you to download their app?
I've been using reddit and quora web interface for years with no issues. Nowdays they both seem super aggressive about wanting me to download their apps.

Dark patterns.. like Im given a choice in a pop up menu but both answers lead to downloading the app, or waiting until you click on a link and then interrupting your flow to ask about the app...before you are forwarded.

I've downloaded the apps and I they offered nothing new above what a modern website couldn't offer.

Burger King and Supercuts even have 'apps' for some reason.

Just curious what value an app has that makes businesses so desparate and hungry for you to download their apps when modern web technology has just as much power these days?
Can we Ship? Firefox 4 hard blockers down to 8
http://canweshipyet.com/
Down to 8, from 18 yesterday. I expect Firefox 4 will be released soon. (after very usable betas for about a year now)
Ask HN: Feedback About Newly Launched Supercool School
http://www.SupercoolSchool.com
Hi HN, would be great to hear your feedback regarding Supercool School. We just opened up our platform so that everyone can create their own next generation online school. For a relevant example check http://startup.supercoolschool.com - Thanks :)
Ask YC: Can you provide Feedback on my customizable homepage start-up?
http://www.clutterme.com/?r=0109
We're always looking for new input. Even criticisms are appreciated.
PLA Signals Intelligence & Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure 
http://project2049.net/documents/pla_third_department_sigint_cyber_stokes_lin_hsiao.pdf
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Signals Intelligence and Cyber Reconnaissance Infrastructure
Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
Once upon a time Jack said that Twitter initially was very open in its early stages but eventually became much more centralized, and the scale of supporting such a centralized network in the future could be unsustainable. “Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization,” he added. “Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there.”
Are there any truly decentralized social communication tools/protocols to look at?
Ask HN: What should I learn?
Hi guys, I'm a freshman computer science major currently at work for a development company. My question is simple. I have a lot of time here to spare, and reading random internet articles, while enjoyable, is not as fruitful as I'd like it to be.

I want to learn a new language or API, but there is obviously a lot of different technologies out there with varying degrees of relevance.

So-- what should I learn? I have experience only in Java, C++, and C#, but I'm willing to learn anything. Preferably not something that I'm going to learn in school.

Emphasis on relevancy.

Bonus question: Give me a project to work on with this technology. Something doable, but time consuming.
Clojure and The Robot Apocalypse
http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/abstractsTab.php?sessID=39
Conference Session on Clojure
Why a Startup is Like a Science Experiment
http://arunshroff.com/2011/05/03/why-a-startup-is-like-a-science-experiment/
Every product a startup creates is really an experiment that test a particular hypothesis about the market - just like a science experiment.
Show HN: BDC – Ergonomic, sub 1KiB virtual DOM library
https://github.com/bwhmather/bdc-js
BDC is a simple library for updating the DOM to match a javascript description.
Does not require JSX or a compilation step.

clobber(
document.body,
h("marquee", [
h("span", {"style": "font-weight: bold"}, "Hello"), ", ",
h("blink", "world"), "!",
]),
);

Very fast to first render, moderately slow on subsequent updates.

Prompted by the post on millionjs, which compiles user code to hit the same outrageously small size target.
Facebook shuts down page of lead DADT repeal group based on fake complaint
http://gay.americablog.com/2012/01/facebook-shuts-down-outserves-page.html
Hello HN - Anyone have contacts at Facebook? They killed our page facebook.com/outserve on a false claim of IP infringement from a fictitious person. Any help from this group would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
-Ty Walrod
OutServe Co-Founder
http://outserve.org
Show HN: Nests and Insects – A roguelike tabletop roleplaying game
https://github.com/stassa/nests-and-insects
Hey, everyone! I'm making a game: its title is Nests & Insects and I call it a
"Roguelike Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG)". It is free, as in beer and
speech. You can find the rulebook on the game's github repository, linked
through the post title.

Nests & Insects is a game for 1 to 7 players, one of which takes on the role of
the Game Queen (GQ) and describes the game world to the other players. The
players control characters who explore and interact with the game world. The
players say what their characters do and roll dice to see what happens, then the
GQ describes the results.

Players' characters are mercenary arthropods raiding a Nest on a Job from a
rival Queen. Characters belong to one of six classes: Ants (plural), Beetle,
Ladybug, Scorpion, Spider and Wasp, all modelled after real-world species. Nests
are the nests of eusocial insects: Ants, Bees or Termites. The Job is to
assasinate the Queen, or the King, or steal larvae, or aphids, or fungi, etc.

Nests & Insects is "Roguelike" because it borrows elements from Roguelike
Computer RPGs (CRPGs): hack-and-slash, dungeon-crawling gameplay, with
procedurally generated Nest environments, lethal combat, and a hunger mechanic.

The rulebook on the github repo above is all text-based, but formatted with
ASCII borders, text boxes and tables, etc. I wrote a bit of code to automate the
layouting (if that's a word). You can find the code in the codez/ directory in
the repo. You don't need to mess with the code to play the game, but some of you
might want to eyeball the raw text with LaTex-like markup under the directory
/game/rulebook/raw and then look at the layouting code. Or you might want to
tweak the characters' stats under codez/data/, or make your own characters. The
code is all in Prolog :)

Nests & Insects is still a work in progress. The rulebook is about 60% complete.
There's rules for rolling dice (oo lots of dice!), action resolution, combat and
stats for all six character classes and a few enemies (just Termites). If you've
run a few TTRPGs you can probably bash together a quick game session, although
there's plenty of stuff missing (Items, procedural generation, other minigames
besides combat etc).

I'm posting here because I'm eager for some feedback and because I'm hoping to
build a small community around the game. I'm in the liminal space between
finishing my thesis and actually getting a PhD so I have some spare time, but I
plan to keep working on the game until it's finished, anyway.

Also: I'm looking for ANSI or ASCII art for the rulebook. Anyone know anybody
who would want to contribute, please get us in touch.

Have fun!
Like vs Plus, pick your social button
http://likevsplus.com
I didn't design this. Full credit: http://www.hamutzim.co.il/
Ask HN: Are there any resources for learning html+css that are actually good?
Definitely inspired by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002668

"I've yet to find any good, modern, sources of learning HTML and CSS. "

And then about w3schools which I had the impression was good: "w3schools is the single worst 'developer' site on the entire web."
New platform for fucking with Debt Collectors
http://bukit.co/
Just launching a new platform, it will probably break if you use it. Try it and tell me how it goes. The Freemium is useless but if you want basic just sign up (with credit card) and I will give it to you free for life...seriously.
Group hug of 420 developers at European Rails Conference Railsberry
http://vimeo.com/40734575
In other words - Happy Friday by @tenderlove ;)
How To Make a Funny Talk Title Without Using The Word "Weasel"
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-make-funny-talk-title-without.html
he's blagging about branding this time

has a link to a video with his speech at OSCOM at the end
Bitcoin hits new all time high on Mt. Gox
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=147475.0
The previous high of $31.91/BTC was set back on June 8, 2011. As of this posting, it is trading for over $33/BTC.
Some good sites for charts and order books are:

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/

http://mtgoxlive.com/

http://bitcoincharts.com/

http://bitcoinity.org/markets
Ask HN: Which movie(s) best represent hacker culture for you?
'hacker' in the same context it's used in 'hacker news'
Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam
https://filteredreduced.dev/
I made a tool for myself to act as a filter for recruiter messages.

I was tired of getting vague messages and doing the typical messaging back and forth only to hear the salary was too low or the job didn't have remote.

The tool lets you create a form with a selection of only the filters you want on there.
You give a unique link to recruiters that will take them to the your form
They can fill in your form (or not)
If their responses pass your filters you'll get an email. If their responses fail your filters, the recruiter gets an email saying so, so they know not to bother you again.

The idea is that recruiters can never see your filter values

You can rate limit individual recruiter submissions per day (they have to log in to submit)

Keen for any feedback thanks!

I'm especially keen for any feedback from recruiters if you do decide to use it :)

cheers,
dar
Tell HN: Hacker News India
Hi,

We just launched Hacker News India at http://hackernews.in

Hacker News is awesome but there are lots of local issues that Indian hackers need to discuss (such as local events, infrastructure issues etc) that don't get good visibility on HN. We have started HNI to fix that.

It's a not for profit initiative. Please checkout the site and contribute to it (by commenting or posting questions).

Any suggestions are welcome. Would be lovely if they are posted there :)
Ask HN: What did you accomplish in 2010?
Now that the year is coming to an end, it's the perfect time to make a balance of what was and plans for what we hope will be.

What were your successes this year?

What did you learn?

What do you hope to achieve next year?