jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Freakonomics view on If College Matters
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/15/new-freakonomics-podcast-does-college-still-matter-and-other-freak-y-questions-answered/
To add to the often asked question "if college matters", here is the Freakonomics authors' take. In short they use emperical evidence from the vietnam war.
SOPA message to copy everywhere
https://plus.google.com/104866563087389116509/posts/esVHuZByFHa
Hopefully a viral message may help people actually think about SOPA more. If you feel a different message needs to go viral then set up an alternative viral message.
My first ruby script...Or...How I watch death
http://bsdpunk.blogspot.com/2009/04/watch-people-as-they-dieor-i-love.html
This is a ruby script(video/code) that shows the obituaries...it works on *nix and Mac OS X, however there seems to be an issue on windows.
Why you're going to start seeing more video ads online.
http://thestartupcafe.com/addroid-will-disrupt-online-advertising/
This startup is going to take over a 7 billion dollar industry
Fork is now paid with free evaluation
https://git-fork.com/home

My daily driver for git is no longer free and has a seemingly eternal evaluation period with a paid license for 50 USD.

Anyone else here a Fork user?
Introducing RiskDB: a centralized repository of security vulnerabilities
http://blog.risk.io/2012/12/introducing-riskdb/
Risk I/O, a vulnerability intelligence platform, recently launched RiskDB. RiskDB is a free, centralized repository of security vulnerabilities sourced from vulnerability databases.
Ask HN: Is there a good primer on the second order effects of zero carbon world?
So the thread on cars / cycles tripped a switch in my brain - I remembered reading a Maths professors take on UK climate needs (something like covering all of Wales in wind farms).

It struck me that I don't have a good feeling for what a sustainable world looks like - what does a city without car addiction look like? What do we do with the space roads now take up? If we don't farm methane spewing cows what does it do to the need for fresh vegetable delivery? How do we retrofit electric heating and insulation, do supermarkets still work if people don't drive to them.

I guess I am looking for first second and third order effects and some kind of model.

Any ideas?
Why We Need More Credential-Seeking Consultants and I-Bankers in Startups
http://bostinno.com/2012/03/23/why-we-need-more-credential-seeking-consultants-and-i-bankers-in-startups/
A response to Geoff Lewis.
Simple, Plain, Customizable JS Dialogs.
https://github.com/mattlockyer/diajs/
Frustrated by the lack of a simple, customizable JS dialog, I decided to create a mini library that captures the simplicity of the 3 classic JS dialogs: alert, confirm, prompt, but allows for needed custom features like styling, button labels, and html5 placeholders for inputs. Seeking feedback on any potential issues, code architecture and style, and general usefulness. Before you chime in about jQuery UI or some other framework/library that has this included, think first about projects that don't require such a heavily scripted or styled component and would benefit from a straightforward, easy to customize solution.
Show HN: Pasticcio – my pastebin with public walls
https://paste.fmac.xyz/
My weekend project, as I wasn't happy with other pastebins.
Suggestions are welcome!
Six Enablers of Multi-Language Programming
http://lightheatcode.com/?p=44
This post examines the underlying factors that have brought the concept of multi-language programming to the forefront.
Show HN: PyCircTools – A Python library to create circuits
https://github.com/LovetheFrogs/PyCircTools
PyCircTools is a python library that allows any programmer to create circuits with it. It is currently a work in progress and as for today, v0.0.3 is the most recent release.

It just has logic gates, custom exceptions and tests for now, but the library will be updated with more content, so check back on it back to see new additions!
Ask HN: How to get into decentralized web applications?
Hi folks,

I know some services to be known as decentralized services, for instance :

- peertube (https://joinpeertube.org/)
- mastodont (https://joinmastodon.org/)
- manyverse (https://www.manyver.se/)

I like that concept and I would like to understand the concept more deeply, and maybe to develop something, but I don't know where to start.

Do you have any idea, resources to provide ?

Kinds regards,
Reef project takes Google Street View underwater
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/reef-project-takes-google-streetview-underwater/3861036
A new marine research project is aiming to create an underwater version of Google's street view, offering 360 degree views of parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Chromium OS prerequisites: "You need to have Linux."
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os
You guys are joking, right?
Show HN: Interactive meeting demo with WebRTC and WebSockets
https://meetpontoon.com/demo
Just a little no sign-up demo I threw together of my product. WebRTC is just incredibly powerful.
Data prediction competition site, Kaggle, gets a facelift
http://kaggle.com
According to the new site "Crowdsourcing data modeling is an effective way to build predictive algorithms. There are any number of approaches that can be applied to a data modeling problem, but it is impossible to know at the outset which will be most effective."<p>Any thoughts on whether crowdsourcing is likely to be an efficient way to do data analytics?
Nexus Prime images leaked
http://cjgill.tumblr.com/post/11122709531/google-nexus-prime-by-samsung
Found this on tumblr. Not sure if real but looks sexy!
Seek Droid Is Free to Download Today and Tomorrow
http://www.seekdroid.com/
get it from Amazon App Store

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004R1LNGS/
No Images. No JS. Just CSS
http://www.ecsspert.com/adobe.php
http://www.ecsspert.com/adobe.php
Founderdating - Next event in SF October 28th
http://founderdating.com/second-bay-area-event-announced-october-28th/
The first event was a huge success. The next event is Oct 28th in SF. Apply now. Because your day job sucks!!!
The search-engine dilemma
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/search-engine-dilemma/story.aspx?guid=%7B89E105B8%2DE006%2D4C80%2D99AA%2D0E18B9228534%7D 
What is really needed are new and better search engines. To be honest about it, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all stink.
"We all know this is true. Sure, you can find the major and obvious sites with any of them. But seriously try and find, for example, the best knitting site."
Ask HN: how to setup a US company/bank account
I know that there were already many discussions about payment gateways and comparisons between US/Non-US solutions but fact is that for many nice solutions a US bank account (and often a tax ID) is needed.

Also I just wanted to get (more out of curiosity) my feet wet with Win7 mobile apps and despite the ridiculous signup process they also restrict selling apps to US entities (like android did for a while). Also things like Amazon payments and Google checkout only work with US bank accounts.

I have seen some trustee services in Delaware that offer incorporation for overseas companies in the US but it seems a bit pricy for a couple of test apps and the odd idea i want to try out.

Are there any ways to get a US bank account from overseas without having to go through a full incorporation? Is there an easy (cheap) way to get a US company registered from overseas? I am not too fussed about low tax rates or anything - it is really only for testing out markets and ideas.
Show HN: Hacker News keyboard navigation [Chrome extension]
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-keyboard-navi/minojogeicmpnoahlmaihajdgkojnjdn
Hacker News has a unique feature that reddit and other forums don't have - the "hide" button.

In theory, you may scan through the titles and click "hide" on each one you know you won't read. The benefit is when you come back later next time, you won't have to scan through those titles again.

This sounds great, except nobody does it, because it's too many clicks.

This chrome extension solves this with keyboard:

[↑] [↓]: go up and down the list

[←]: not interested / hide

[→]: open link (background new tab)

[Enter]: open link (foreground new tab)

[Space]: open comments

Github: https://github.com/ZYinMD/hacker-news-keyboard-navigation
Ask HN: How important is support for non-Javascript visitors?
With the "recent" popularity of developing the API before the app, I'm curious how many of you still consider support for non-JS users important. I have typically been pretty comfortable requiring JS for a while now, at least in initial releases. I know that really bothers some people, but it seems to be an extremely small subset of people, and seems to be based on principle more than anything else (or maybe not enough people care to complain). What's your take, HN?

EDIT: Clarifying text.
Show HN: Sync your dotfiles into a private GitHub gist
https://github.com/snvishna/dotfilesync
A bash script that syncs a list of local files that you define, into a secret gist, that you own.
New Windows backdoor: SSL encryption is not safe anymore
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/windows-hintertuer-gefaehrdet-ssl-verschluesselung-a-913825.html
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fweb%2Fwindows-hintertuer-gefaehrdet-ssl-verschluesselung-a-913825.html&act=url
Noted agilist responds to criticism
http://testobsessed.com/2010/09/08/agile-backlash/
Elisabeth Hendrickson responds do recent criticism directed at agile practice ("agile ruined my life", etc.). She argues that some of the criticism stems from people burned by faux-agile, while the more vitriolic attacks are from lone-wolf-type programmers (the argument is more nuanced that that).
Show HN: WordDumb, a calibre plugin that helps you read books
https://github.com/xxyzz/WordDumb
This plugin creates Word Wise and X-Ray sqlite files for Kindle format books, it also adds these data as <ruby> tags and footnotes to EPUB books. If an e-reader device is connected, it'll send the book and created files to the device.

It uses spaCy to find named entities as X-Ray, 22 languages are supported. X-Ray descriptions come from Wikipedia, locator map, Democracy Index and country/city inception data are queried from Wikidata. Wiktionary files downloaded from https://kaikki.org are used for EPUB Word Wise.
Show HN: Orbital – Easily manage your Mac apps with an orbiting dock
https://getorbitl.app/
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Jenkins User Conference Israel: Kohsuke's Recap
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/07/jenkins-user-conference-israel.html 
Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi highlights his favorite parts of last month’s Jenkins User Conference in Israel, including eating at the "Hudson" restaurant.
Show HN: Next HYVE – I made a newsletter to fight doomerism
https://next-hyve.com/
next HYVE curates content for you to wake up inspired.

The pre-MVP product is a free daily newsletter with high-quality art, films, articles, and more, focused on our shared future and proposals to make it better. I'm looking for feedback on the content and concept as we work on a more robust, community engagement app.

My background is in product management (work) & psychology (school). For all the money pouring into the 'mental health' space, it's becoming increasingly clear tech isn't touch a major part of our collective unless. That's because mental wellness isn't just in our head, it is also collective.

next HYVE bridges this gap, nourishing collective imagination, optimism, and positive action.

If you're tired of negative news, overwhelmed by the problems of the world, or wish the Solarpunk future was a reality, come try the 5 day trial concept and be part of the initial feedback team.

The next phase (in early production) is an app to enable community engagement, daily updates of exclusive content from the content creators who are also part-owners, and mobilization on future-forward projects near you.

Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts.
Evil Github Pirates Site Goes Live
http://codepirat.es/
Last updated: 2/FEB/2012
Number of Projects Plundered: 60+

The Github Pirates is a constantly updated resource for those interested in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Despite the name, the project doesn't actually pirate Github repositories, but gathers open-source content from Github and puts it into a single repository for the following reasons:

Ease of reference
Quality
Preservation
Exposure
ErlCtrl - "The Erlang Endoscope"
http://needlesslymessianic.com/2010/02/21/announcing-erlctl-0-1
There has always been a need to have a good command-line interface to most system software. While Erlang is great for writing this kind of stuff, it's natural command-line can be less than stellar. If we were left to use the erl command itself, command-lines would be long to type and arduous to construct.
Founder Lab in NYC Coming Soon
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/founders-lab-nyc.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29
They are doing one in NYC on April 15-17th.
Ask PG:  What happened to the flag button?
Just wondering where the flag button went, and what motivated the change.

There are articles about bitcoin on the front page again and I want a healthy way to express my anger.
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-says-foiled-china-cyber-plot-2013-12
During Sunday's 60 Minutes white-wash of the NSA, Debora Plunkett, director of cyber defense for the NSA, claims they "stopped" a nation-state cyber attack that would brick computers across the country through a fake BIOS update. She claims the NSA "stopped" this attack by "working with computer manufacturers to close the vulnerability." Sounds like FUD to me.
Timelines
http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html?m=1
a fun perspective of time with a bunch of timelines.
What type of entrepreneur are you?
http://www.cofounderslab.com/find-a-co-founder/what-type-of-entrepreneur-are-you/
A cool tool to assess your Entrepreneur Archetype. Are you a Builder, Opportunist, Specialist, or Innovator?
Lark - A Cocoa live-coding language created during MHacks 2013
http://mhacks.challengepost.com/submissions/17406-lark
Lark is a scheme-like programming language whose parser is designed after the paper Higher Order Functions for Parsing, and whose semantic evaluator is influenced heavily by the MetaCircular Evaluator from the SICP.

It has extensive and tight integration with the Objective-C object system, allowing the creation and mutation of the entire object graph, from defining new objects, to defining new classes whose method implementations are provided by lambda expressions; your entire program is a mutable entity to Lark.

The entire language was developed during over the course of 2 days at MHacks and unveiled yesterday. It is currently open source and on Github. Warning: the code is extremely messy,

https://github.com/nateburgers/SnarkDemo/tree/master/SnarkDemo
Hubble Finds Fifth Moon of Pluto
http://pu.blish.us/article/3097/hubble-finds-fifth-moon-of-pluto
NASA released image of Plutoâs five moons. They have found fifth moon orbiting far away Pluto and the image captured by Hubble Space Telescope. Last year fourth moon was discovered of ice planet which is three billion miles away from us.
Apple releases iOS 4.3 Beta 1, Mobile HotSpot included
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/ios-4-3-beta-arrives-for-devs-brings-airplay-video-support-to-a/
The Mobile HotSpot requires carrier activation. For iPads they are re-enabling the hardware orientation lock as a configurable option.

Apple link: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/#releasenotes/General/RN-iOSSDK-4_3/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010565
New Features On The iPhone 5
http://ziczac.it/a/leggi/9fb8ee2189d0daddacd9de72e1ebecfc/
Apple enthusiasts around the world have been waiting patiently for the eventual release of the iPhone 5.
Show HN: We made a site to check if a token is a honeypot
https://isrug.app
We developed this project due to the increasing number of scam cryptocurrencies in decentralized blockchain networks.

isRug works on EVM-based networks and supports all the networks below. More networks are going to be added soon.

Binance Smart Chain,
Ethereum (POS),
Polygon,
Fantom Opera,
Avalanche,
Cronos,
Dogechain,
Shibchain,
Ethereum Classic
Show HN: UnitsWASM – A WASM port of the popular GNU Units command line tool
https://yanosh.net/units-wasm/
This is a personal project born from the need to have a good (free and open-source) units convertor on my phone (hence the UI; I now use it as a Cordova app).
The short story is that there was a time when I was converting from inches to centimeters very often, and the tool that I used for doing so was a simple DuckDuckGo search like this: "5 inch to cm". I got tiered of that and thought "It would be great to have the GNU units cli on my phone, but with some nice interface". Turned out that was possible using WebAssembly. This is the results.
I've added some bells and whistles, like the option to be able to save certain units calculations as calculators. The data for the order and the deletion/creation of the calculators is stored in the browser using Local Storage.
The source code for the project can be found here:
https://github.com/yanosh-k/units-wasm
https://github.com/yanosh-k/gnu-wasmunits
Html to Jade Converter
http://html2jade.com/
jade layouts cant found on internet, there are all html. that so sad
Rails 4 compilation links
http://blog.wyeworks.com/2012/11/13/rails-4-compilation-links/
Curated compilation of interesting links. I encourage everyone to help making this grow and by giving a look at the links start guides about specific topics
Show HN: The Web Sucks
http://www.thewebsucks.net
I'm a web developer. I spend half of my time developing, and the other half cursing The Web.

Tired of my rants going to the trash bin and inspired by Alan Kay's "the web (...) is a joke" interview (http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442), I decided to write this simple app.

So the next time you find yourself writing awful clutches to overcome the web's static nature, at least you know a place where your frustration won't be ignored!
Beyond Search: Twazzup Prepares New Twitter Web Client
http://blog.louisgray.com/2010/01/twazzup-looks-beyond-search-poised-to.html
The result is easily the most compelling Twitter Web experience I have seen since Brizzly. It is not yet known when the service will open up to all.
10 new Israeli startups, hear them roar
http://www.vccafe.com/venture-capital-cafe/10-new-israeli-startups-hear-them-roar/
Take a look, especially at the commerce ones!
Ask HN: What is 4Chan?
I looked at 4Chan.org and it seems to be an old-school style message board.

But I read that 4Chan hackers launched the DDoS against MasterCard.

So I am confused. Can anyone explain what 4Chan really is, comprised of, etc?
How to Destroy Motivation in IT
http://www.infusivesolutions.com/blog/bid/98728/How-To-Destroy-Motivation-in-Information-Technology
Not long ago I watched an interesting TEDTalk that explained a behavioral science experiment. The conclusion was that when people see their work has no value, they lose motivation to put their best foot forward.

The presenter then described how a group of engineers expressed feeling this way after a major project was cancelled by their CEO with no rationale.

This inspired me to write an article surrounding motivation for technical professionals, but it would be interesting to see how this idea has materialized in your own lives?

For any engineers, DBAs, developers, admins, architects or otherwise, does a lack of impact hurt your motivation even if the money is right?
Show HN:  Apple RIP Logo print - all profits to pancan.org
http://www.litographs.com/products/apple
With permission from Jonathan Mak, I made an 8x10 print from his design, composed of the text from Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address and 2007 Macworld keynote.

100% of profits will go directly to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (www.pancan.org).

Thanks.
Facebook Photo Booth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sidJl-UTFk
RealLifeConnect.com extends the experience of social media into the real world via RFID technology
MNML: Responsive HTML 5 Boilerplate
http://mrmrs.github.com/mnml
MNML is an extremely light-weight HTML5 boilerplate. CSS includes a reset for HTML5 elements as well as media queries for common breakpoints.

Can be used as a jumping off point for any project - but particularly useful as a sandbox for developing responsive patterns.
Show HN: FraudSense - Zero-Day Phishing Detection Service
http://fraudsense.net
FraudSense is a cloud-based anti-phishing software platform that provides real-time zero-day phishing detection.

FraudSense does not rely on community updated blacklists. Being purely algorithm based, FraudSense can identify fraudulent websites the moment they become active thus thwarting an attack during its first critical hours. The algorithm can detect web forgeries without relying on easily manipulated features such as language, page content or URL structure.

Live Demo: http://fraudsense.net/livedemo.php
String similarity detection
http://blog.zmok.net/articles/2008/09/15/string-similarity-detection
I was looking for a simple string similarity detection algorithm and I did find the one on CatalySoft. Since I like it and I found it useful, I did create a groovy equivalent of it.
Is Google AuthorRank the biggest thing ever in SEO? Share your thoughts:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108784242618575374191/posts/VY44zqXCmjM
Most SEOs agree that AuthorRank will change the SEO landscape forever. What are your thoughts? Join the conversation on Google+
XKCD on user habituation
http://xkcd.com/1328/
"Critical update available!!!" - "meh, the last 'critical' update was a typo fix in manufacturer's name"
Show HN: Code Snippet Formatter – for email and docs
https://snippet-formatter.vercel.app/
I got tired of pasting code snippets into emails etc which always look rubbish, sure I could open up an IDE and copy from there but then I have to create new files. Anyway I made a quick tool to do this for me - kudos to torchlight.dev for the syntax highlighting API. Hope someone finds this useful!
Hacker News clone for for hi tech entrepreneurs like us
http://asian-startups.appspot.com/
You don't live in the US and your startup doesn't base in Silicon Valley? You have a passion, an idea, but think you don't have enough support from your community? well, it could be harsh for you, for people like us, but the beautiful part is we can change that, and this is the first step, we can form a community for people like us, to share thoughts and ideas as well as struggles in your life as an entrepreneur and we can support each other. we can survive and succeed in harsh environments and we will. It's always better when we're together
Recursion of components with Tapestry 5
http://blog.bolkey.com/2009/06/06/tapestry-5-recursive-tree/
It's quite difficult to do recursion of components in Tapestry 5. This blog post shows a technique to do just that.
San Francisco WebRTC Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/WebRTC/events/104279152/
Calling all WebRTC hackers. We're holding the next SF WebRTC meetup this Thursday (7th Mar) at Jive/Meetings.io SOMA Office.

Guest Speakers:

- Anant Narayanan (Firebase, formerly of Mozilla WebRTC team)
- Eric Zhang (PeerJS)

Pizzas, beers, drinks, wifi and more will be provided.
Loopt just beginning, mobile reality mining is the future
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19968/
Really interesting article explaining for YC founders mobile as the next step in the wave of technology. Beyond just the simple geo-location stuff.
How Udacity Steals Coder Methods To Engineer Class Discussion 
http://lexilewtan.tumblr.com/post/25906039627/how-udacity-steals-coder-methods-to-engineer-class#notes-container 
A look into how online education sites should steal tricks from developer education communities