jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
30 Beautiful Google Fonts for Your Website
http://www.onextrapixel.com/2013/07/03/30-beautiful-google-fonts-for-your-website/
30 Beautiful Google Fonts for Your Website for web developers and designers
How can I find a programmer/founder?
Look I know the whole founder thing its like your married and should know each other etc etc.. Well, my buddies aren't programmers. I'd like to move to the valley, but need a good buddy to drop it all just like me for a startup. Let me know if anyone is interested in putting ideas together etc.

About Me:
26 yrs old.
Designer - web - print - marketing - etc
I understand code, but know someone can do it better than me. I don't give up. I'm all about startups, tech news, angels, VCs. "the business"

Plan:
Meet.
Create Ideas.
Come up with options.
Start Demo.
And see where it goes.
Im eventually planning to move to the Valley.

Sounds all crazy and may not be fit for everyone, but if we work we work. :)
SocialDevCamp Chicago Event
http://socialdevcampchicago.eventwax.com/socialdevcamp-chicago-techthursday
Meetup this Thursday, March 4th (6-9pm) at OfficePort Chicago to talk social web.
Java declared unsafe, get it off your Computer Right now
http://www.newsflap.com/2011/12/23/java-declared-unsafe-computer-now/
When is about the security of your computer system, the browser plug-ins deserve a little superfluous attention.
How can I use my MMO experience in my Resume
I am a Solutions Architect/Infrastructure Architect who is also likes to play EVE online. I was the HR manager for a 2500 player corp (the largest single corporation in the game) and was wondering if any one has any suggestions as to how I might apply this experience to my resume?
The New Orleans Saints 
http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2009/august/202586.html
This is a piece in Entrepreneur Magazine about the startup scene in New Orleans. Since it's in my backyard, I'm curious about wider opinions from residents of more mature startup scenes.
Data Parallelism in Haskell
http://vimeo.com/28477220
Manuel Chakravarty - Data Parallelism in Haskell
What's the deal with BizDev?
http://onproductmanagement.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/whats-the-deal-with-bizdev/
No disrespect intended, but BizDev people are really just sales people with a very small prospect base, and usually high quota numbers. They are chasing “the big deals”. There are few constraints put on them, because the relationships are “strategic”, and so this pattern of cozying up to large vendors, bending over backwards to impress them, only to usually have the rug pulled out later happens again and again.
No, Hashtags Are Not Ruining English
http://www.torontostandard.com/the-sprawl/no-hashtags-are-not-ruining-english/
Gizmodo writer Sam Biddle thinks hashtags are making us lazy and dumb, but is it really that simple?
Average revenue per customer is meaningless
http://data.heapanalytics.com/your-average-revenue-per-customer-is-meaningless
http://data.heapanalytics.com/your-average-revenue-per-customer-is-meaningless/ Your average revenue per customer is meaningless
Lessons from a Haskell startup
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/287
Prompted by this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35550

One of the things that stuck in my mind was the comment about having to earn the right to talk to a customer, before you even ask them what they want or if you can help. (Also, "keep the blue line above the red line"!)

The company is http://www.galoisconnections.com/.
Ask HN: What are your favorite wireframing/prototyping workflows?
I'm working with my friend on a project where he does implementation and I do user research/UX/wireframing.

I'm trying to find some sort of all in one tool that would allow for as many of these as possible:
-wireframing
-testable prototyping
-managing feature backlog
I've tried adobe XD and for UI it's nice but I want to focus on UX/wireframing more than how it looks exactly.

I don't really know what I'm doing entirely for overall workflow so if people have processes/workflows they can suggest I'm also open to that.
BitTorrent usage in Japan was only temporarily affected by the earthquake.
http://aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/blog/sendai-earthquake-japan-peers.html
Surprisingly we see that the change was rather minor, and that by about 6 hours after the earthquake, people began joining more swarms.

I thought people might find this interesting.
French: The Most Productive People In The World
http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8
Winning is not about working hard. It's about working smart... and less.
Ask PG: Do you slow down the site for certain users?
If so, when can we expect an essay on your rationale?
Ask HN: How do you release new versions of your blog posts?
I started to blog ~6 months ago. By now, I have some posts that people actually read, I have been on the front page of HN once.

Some of these posts have been a lot of work and contain many subsections. Recently, I have found that I would like to extend some sections within these posts or update them with new information. However, if I just update in-place without changing the post's date, it feels not quite right. Updating the post's date to now() also seems far from ideal.

Admittedly, I would like my additional work to be rewarded with some additional views. People who have liked the original post would likely want to be aware of the updates somehow. However, I do not want to engage in unfair SEO tactics and just re-release my posts all the time.

So how do you handle this with your own blogs? Do you just update the post? Do you change the post's date? Do you release an additional post and mention that there is an earlier version (e.g. My Post V2)?
Google chief Eric Schmidt condemns Carrier IQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/eric-schmidt/8945171/Google-chief-Eric-Schmidt-condemns-Carrier-IQ.html
“We certainly don’t work with them,” said Mr Schmidt, describing the software as a “keylogger”.
Ask HN: Javascript UI Frameworks - Declarative or Markup Based
Hey All,

Just wondering if people can provide some feedback on whether the terms of 'declarative' and 'markup-based' mean anything to people used to working with javascript UI frameworks (particularly mobile).

I've written some clarification in a blog post if anyone has time, I'd certainly appreciate some feedback. Can find very little information around those terms on the web.

http://distractable.net/coding/mobile-ui-frameworks-declarative-vs-markup-based/

Thanks heaps,

Damon.
Ask HN: How to innovate the Wedding space?
Weddings are big business off the net and seem like they are ripe with innovation. While theknot.com has set itself up as the major player online - anyone who visits that site will see how awful it is.

So here are my questions for discussions:

1) How could you innovate this space and take advantage of cumbersome sites like the knot?

2) What other industries lend parallels to the Wedding space?
How to Promote Your Startup's Blog on Hacker News
http://blog.shareaholic.com/2012/01/promote-your-blog-on-hacker-news/
Hint: Participate first and share relevant content!
Our website launched today! What think?
http://www.eser.org/intl/en
We're calling it ESER and it's basically caller-id for Wikipedia. See:

http://www.eser.org

You type in a Wikipedia topic, and it returns the identities of all of the anonymous editors for that topic.

Thoughts, suggestions, comments, criticisms?

Thanks
Ask HN: Urban Tech - Ideas to improve our cities
I inspired by the article (linked at the end) talking about how technology is, and can change the way citizens interact with their cities. It really interested me, seemingly a lot of ideas should not be that hard to implement.

Public Safety: When I hear this term I think of mainly construction sites, traffic jams, etc. I was thinking, how can we integrate tech to alert users to changing conditions?

You know those alert signs? That display closings etc.? What if they were modified with a piece of hardware broadcasting its location to an API, and a correlating phone app using a push notification or voice alert to let the user know they are approaching. This could be applied to many things such as bike lanes, etc.

Thoughts? What are your ideas?

Article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/cities-take-lead-on-app-development/#tmhmdj:QzLJ
Useful hack: drinking tonic water (with quinine) reduced my breathing difficulty
I used to work with some virus researchers at UCSF, so I saw this pandemic coming early and wrote my friends to warn them on Jan 28. A few friends of mine and I started to isolate ourselves way before it was required by law where we live, the San Francisco Bay Area. Despite being very careful, I still seem to have gotten the COVID-19 virus anyway.

The night before the shelter-in-place order was to go into effect at midnight, I went to return a library book and fill my gas tank (despite getting an amazing thing: an email from the library asking me not to return my library book on time). I think I got it from a gas station pump handle. I used hand sanitizer right after pumping the gas, but I think I missed some of the virus. When I got home, I felt a tickle in my right lymph node under my right jaw. The next day the same lymph node was sore to the touch and stayed that way for 2 days and I had a slight sore throat. The doctor on my phone consult said it did not sound like COVID-19.

After that, day before yesterday, I started getting a dry cough and I started having difficulty feeling like I could get a full deep breath, but no fever. The only other time I have felt like I could not get a full deep breath was when I (likely) had the H1N1 flu years ago. I did not feel like I was going to not get enough air, but it did not feel very comfortable.

Yesterday it was worse. On the second phone consult with a doctor, said she could not get a test for me because the tests were too scarce. She said they would not even test a pregnant woman who thought she had it unless she was about to deliver. I doubted she would prescribe any quinine for me, so I did not even bother to ask.

(continued in comments due to length restrictions)
Tesla Debate – New Laws to Protect Old Practices
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2014/03/15/after-the-new-jersey-ban-heres-where-tesla-can-and-cannot-sell-its-cars/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
I am curious to see what a few of you think about the challenges Tesla Motors is facing with selling their cars directly to consumers through their stores, rather than going throughout the Dealers Association.

Personally I feel that the Cars sales business while not stagnant, is also not booming. These new laws are protecting these old business simply because they fear they will take away jobs; but won't these new practices create new jobs and even stimulate our economy more profoundly than these current business practice.

Why do you think these States are so against these Direct Sales? Do we as innovators need to tackle old business practices in our new companies?
NSSnow 2014
http://www.nssnow.org
A ski and snowboard trip for iOS, and really any kind of, developers in France in Feb 2014.
Command-line search add-on for Firefox
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/instantfox/
lightning-fast instant search and suggest for almost every searchengine...
Ceylon 1.0 beta is feature complete
http://ceylon-lang.org/
Ceylon 1.0 beta is available, finally, a feature-complete implementation of the language.
Nice Stripe Generator for Web 2.0ish graphics
http://www.stripegenerator.com/
I liked it and thought the bunch of you may find it useful.
Relax and do something else
Be with yours
Passport to hell: why thin client desktops must die
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/passport-to-hell-why-thin-client-desktops-must-die/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
Op-ed: HP's new Passport "Internet Monitor" triggers pent-up thin client rage.
Group taking down game servers
https://twitter.com/DerpTrolling
A group I've never heard of before today is claiming responsibility for a bunch of game server outages, including League of Legends, battle.net, and DOTA 2. This link is to their Twitter account.
Startup book for micro-entrepreneurs
http://www.startupbook.net/
This is really good stuff. I'm reading the sample chapter now and it's just hitting point after point for me.
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming - slides by Peter Norvig
http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/index.htm
Cryptic, but full of ideas
Tinymail.me - simple email protection service against harvesting bots
http://tinymail.me
Good service? Tinymail.me is an email protection service to keep bots from spamming or automatically harvesting your email from forums or classifieds.
Shows HN: Teespring API
http://teespring-api.cloudapp.net/
This is an API I built to interface with Teespring. It includes support for specific campaigns as well as searching all campaigns.
The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs (By Category)
http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/the-100-daily-must-reads-for-entrepreneurs/
Missing some important ones, but being broken down by category makes it semi-appealing...
Ask HN: Is there an increasing demand for martial law to save lives?
I've noticed that there appears to be a growing feeling amongst my peer group and HN users that our western governments are not doing enough and that, effectively, martial law should be imposed to keep people indoors. It seems to go hand in hand with a kind of labelling of others who are not following the rules as toxic and immoral.

Am I wrong in that observation? could it be my social media bubble? Could it be true? Could it be true and actually desirable if it saves millions of lives? At what stage is it worth giving up our liberties to save lives. Is it always a slippery slope?

I am feeling more anxious from seeing my friends and co-workers become what I would consider an eco-fascist than about the actual virus. Am I imagining all this?
Military proposes $20B power satellite to shorten logistical tail.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,301479,00.html
Points for Discussion:

1. Too bad this wasn't proposed in the seventies. Justification for a long-lasting commitment to building orbital infrastructure is just what the space program needed back then.

2. Is it better to have a semi-competent, underfunded, civilian space program, or a semi-competent, overfunded, military space program?

3. Isn't it neat to think that somewhere out there, somebody's "running a startup" with a nine-figure budget?
Angry Birds on the Chrome WebStore
http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
Now play angry birds on your browser
United Nations Hacked by TeampOisoN
http://pastebin.com/FEcE9WzJ
TeampOisoN has released a 1000+ list of usernames/passwords from the UN. Is this helping anyone?
Show HN: Yet another Hacker News Reader for Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ncom.yahn
Hopefully doesn't suck.
Ask HN: Status on the .ER TLD?
The .er (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.er) belongs to Eritrea. There are currently no methods of acquiring a .er domain and there appears to be little information involving this TLD since 2000 (most recent detailed information is at http://afridns.org/er/tld_er.txt).

Given the explosion of other tiny TLDs (like .ly), who and how were those conversations started and is it feasible that someone can monetize/open this valuable suffix?
News Corp's $1Billion YouTube killer already sued
http://mashable.com/2007/09/05/hulu-lulu/
This will be one entertaining company to watch.
CSS3 Buttons - GitHub Style Button Framework
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/css-framework/css3-buttons-github-style-button-framework/
CSS3 buttons is a simple framework to create good-looking GitHub style button links.
Ask HN: What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
When I was trying to find my way early in my career, my boss gave me the following advice: "find a way to be world class at something." It didn't immediately click, but over the years that advice has been extremely valuable to me on many levels, and I am thankful I received it at such an early age.

There are some cool answers in this Quora thread: http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-single-greatest-piece-of-career-advice-youve-ever-received?share=1
Poll: How would you describe Color (Stanford GSB students need your help)
If Color (the mobile app) was a person how would you describe it?
Human ear could be next biometric system
http://www.itworld.com/science/66462/human-ear-could-be-next-biometric-system
British scientists are researching whether otoacoustic emissions (OAE), the ear-generated sounds that emanate from within the spiral-shaped cochlea in the inner ear, can be used as a viable biometric technology like fingerprints and IRIS recognition.
PHP Console: errors/debug logging in Google Chrome with AJAX requests support
http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nfhmhhlpfleoednkpnnnkolmclajemef
--- ABOUT ---<p>There is Lagger - lightweight and flexible open-source PHP library for errors/exceptions/debugs handling PHP: http://code.google.com/p/lagger<p>PHP Console is extension for Lagger, that displays PHP errors/debug messages in Google Chrome console and in notification popups.<p>Developer: http://linkedin.com/in/barbushin (freelancer, ready for new job)<p>--- FEATURES ---<p>✓ Handle exceptions and all errors, even E_FATAL and E_COMPILE
✓ Display debug and errors messages in Google Chrome console
✓ Display debug and errors messages in Notification popups
✓ First popup is displayed with 3 second lifetime
✓ All other popups are displayed with custom lifetime
✓ Popup is not hiding if mouse is over or popup window is selected
✓ All popups can be closed by clicking (x) close icon of any popup
✓ Catch messages from any sources
✓ Web page
✓ AJAX
✓ IFrame
✓ Make custom actions on errors and debug messages:
✓ Log to file
✓ Send to Email
✓ Send to FirePHP
✓ Send to SMS<p>--- HOW TO USE ---<p>1. Install PHP Console extension
2. Download Lagger library - http://code.google.com/p/lagger/downloads/list
3. Run /examples/index.php and check output (must be like on screenshots)
4. Configure Lagger to send errors and debug messages to Chrome console:<p>// Autoload Lagger classes and initialize basics
define('LAGGER_BASE_DIR', '../library/');
function autoloadLaggerClasses($class) {
if(strpos($class, 'Lagger_') === 0) {
require_once (LAGGER_BASE_DIR . str_replace('_', '/', $class) . '.php');
}
}
spl_autoload_register('autoloadLaggerClasses');
$laggerES = new Lagger_Eventspace();
$debug = new Lagger_Handler_Debug($laggerES);
$errors = new Lagger_Handler_Errors($laggerES);
$exceptions = new Lagger_Handler_Exceptions($laggerES);<p>// display all debug messages in console without notifications
$debug->addAction(new Lagger_Action_ChromeConsole('debug'), null);<p>//display all errors in console and as notifications with 1 second lifetime
$errorsChromeConsole = new Lagger_Action_ChromeConsole('error', 1);
$errors->addAction($errorsChromeConsole, null);
$exceptions->addAction($errorsChromeConsole, null);<p>// test
$debug->handle('debug message', 'some,test,tags');
echo $unkownVar;
unkownFunction();<p>For all available Lagger features using see:
http://code.google.com/p/lagger/source/browse/trunk/examples/lagger_init.php
Online CSS Editor
http://www.cssfly.net/
CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
Ensure a job for life ;-)
Facebook suing Ontario porn firm
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/286091
A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website's computers and tried to access the personal information of users, court documents show.
Getting Started with Merb: Routing and Controllers
http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2008/06/getting-started-with-merb-2-in.html
Part 2 of an on-going series on Merb basics, this episode features an introduction to setting up routes and writing controllers, with a focus on providing responses in multiple formats using 'provides' and 'display' (equivalent to Rails' respond_to functionality).
Ask HN: Difficult Clients
I don't do a ton of contract work, so I don't have much experience with difficult clients. I'm curious as to how everyone else deals with them.

In particular, I currently have a client I was doing some regular work for for around three months. It was all contract work, but I was working as an employee (no papers signed, just a verbal agreement).

Fast forward three months and I quit. I wrap up what I'm working on, send in a final invoice for the little work I was owed for ($400), and went our separate ways.

Fast forward another month. I had been told on four separate occasions "I'm sending your payment {as we speak|tonight|tomorrow|today}". He threatened to sue me five separate times for things that even a childs imagination would have difficulty coming up with. Every time I contact them it bounces between "I'm going to sue you" and "I'll send your payment right away". The threats of being sued are comical, but I've heard stories that he's not afraid to "make stuff up" if needed (while working there I witnessed first hand him faking documents for a mortgage).

$400 isn't a ton of money, and I'm pursuing it more out of principle than all else (he's done this to past contract workers and gotten away with it). At what point do you generally give up and write it off?
Hacker News horrible logo
http://www.horriblelogos.com/hacker-news/
At last a great logo for hacker news!
The Century Of Self: Happiness Machines.  The Birth of Consumerism [video]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#
Interesting quote:

"We must shift America from a 'needs' to a 'desires' culture, people must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old has been completely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America, man's desires must overshadow his needs."

Paul Mazer, Lehman Brothers (1930)
$300 - 3G Android Tablet by Reliance , is it perfect for Indian Markets?
http://www.rcom.co.in/Rcom/personal/3G/HTML/3G_Tab.html
Reliance is Indian's Largest non-government company.
Which was instrumental to bring masses to Mobile Phone with its $15 mobile distribution in 2007
Auctomatic's Collison Brothers now part of the Irish High School Curriculum
http://transatlanticitinerant.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/dsc03271.jpg
pay particular attention to the photograph (not sketch) of patrick in the top right. we've managed to get him to stop wearing that labcoat but that evil grin still remains.
Ask HN: Identifying topics across languages on Wikipedia?
Does anyone know of a simple way (e.g. some clever bit of metadata) to find wikipedia articles in other languages on the same topic as a given English wikipedia page?
Ask HN: Do you backup your email?
Just curious if anyone out there uses any method of backing up their email. I'm sure most people, especially on gmail or other hosted providers, just simply move the emails that they wish to preserve into some other folder or just never delete them from the inbox. But, do any of you make an effort to back them up using other methods?

I'm interested because I've been working on a weekend project that does email storage. I'm curious what the interest in something like this might be. And, if you are one of those people that just never delete email that you want to preserve, what things might persuade you to use another method of backing them up?

Thanks!
Ask HN: Has anyone just blacklisted everything Google with a Pi-hole?
I would love to try it but I live with a lot of roommates and the carnage would be unimaginable.

I notice that nearly all the top permitted domains listed in the Pi-hole admin interface are Google related. I'm just wondering how much everything would fall apart if I just blacklisted all of them.

Has anyone tried? Is anyone willing to try and share the result?