jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On China: Economic Outlook is Uncertain, At Best...
http://chaselanc.com/post/8068792140
Although China enjoys growth well above other large economies, the global economy is more dependent on the country than it has ever been - for demand on everything from commodities to luxury goods. Any slowdown in China could send ripple effects across the world. Below are a few reasons why I believe China’s economic outlook is uncertain, at best.

1. Slowing Growth, Rising Inflation - Recent data shows that China’s economic growth slowed to 9.5% in Q2 2011, from 9.7% in Q1 2011 and 9.8% in Q4 2010. The economic slowdown has been coupled with a rise in consumer prices - inflation reached 6.4% in June (highest level in 3 years). The government has previously stated that it is targeting circa 8% economic growth for 2011 and intends to keep inflation around 4%. To tame the rise in consumer prices, China’s central bank has raised its benchmark rates three separate times this year and increased the reserve requirement ratio 6 times (banks now have to keep a record 21.5% of their deposits in reserve). These tightening measures have resulted in financing difficulties for small/medium-sized businesses trying to get capital (these businesses represent the most significant source of employment for China).

2. China is a Housing-Led Economy - Real estate has been the foundation of China’s unprecedented growth record in the past two decades. In addition, its stability and health are crucial to a variety of other significant sectors, including: steel, construction and cement. But the overheating of the housing market could cause even bigger problems for the country’s economy. The fact remains that China is a housing-led economy. Research analysts estimate that property construction accounted for over 13% of GDP (twice the share than in the 1990’s). A downturn in this market could have drastic effects on China’s economic outlook.

3. Toxic Loan Problem - Moody’s recently warned that China’s government agency may have underestimated the volume of loans lent to local governments by Chinese banks. According to the rating agency, the Chinese agency may have missed the mark by about 3.5 trillion yuan ($540 billion). Moody’s also added that non-performing loans could reach between 8%-12% of total loans outstanding. These problem loans could end up as direct obligations to the central government in China, if local banks can’t repay them.
Show HN: Simple way to share Bittorrent Sync secrets
http://btsnc.at/
Idea is pretty simple. Right now everybody who uses Bittorrent Sync needs to give strange string of characters named - “secrets”. So this service is kind of url shortener for Sync Secrets.

Actually everybody could use it. After shortening you will get a really simple and self-explanatory link to a unique page with helpful text about the usage and installation of Sync.
Testing Responsiveness with Google Chrome
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Testing-responsiveness-with-Chrome
We all know what responsive means nowadays. We, as developers, normally develop responsive applications. There is a dozen of instruments helping us achieving our goals. Some of us use extensions and even pay for them. However, I'm using one thing - Google Chrome browser. In this article, we will see what the Chrome's capabilities for testing responsiveness are.
Canon PowerShot N
http://www.edotmagazine.com/canon-powershot-n
Japanese company Canon has brought to CES 2013 compact camera with an unusual design – PowerShot N.
The ROI of a master's degree
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24roi-t.html?pagewanted=all
Masters CS, Engineering or MBA ?
Control your friends' desktops using TeamViewer 6
http://www.searchforsoft.com/reviews/Communications/TeamViewer-6-0-11052-Editor---s-review--28.htm
Control your friends' desktops to help them fight with viruses with TeamViewer 6, a remote control application which lets you gain access over the desktops of your friends without being a computer savy.
Ask HN: special email address for startup's accounts?
What email address do you use to sign up for your startup's hosting, registrar, twitter, etc account?

Do you use a founder's email, a special email address, or what?
This Is the App That’s Fueling the Uprising in Venezuela
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/02/app-s-fueling-uprising-venezuela/79240/?oref=d-river
A look at the app that's fueling the uprising in Venezuela.
SpecFlow 1.3.1 released
http://www.specflow.org/downloads/installer.aspx
SpecFlow aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications to the underlying implementation.

SpecFlow provides a pragmatic and frictionless approach to Acceptance Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development for .NET projects today.

SpecFlow is open source, distributed under the BSD License.
Women to replace men as main breadwinner
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/man-woman/Women-to-replace-men-as-main-breadwinner/articleshow/10220148.cms
Men will soon lose their traditional role as the main breadwinner of the family to women, according to Britain's head of university admissions.
Introduction to Problem-Solving
http://enginyoyen.com/introduction-to-problem-solving/
Problem solving is part of our daily life. Despite solving problems is important for everybody, for programmers, problem solving skill has a different value. It is consider as one of the key skills in profession. Sommerville (2010) argued that it is one of the key factors that should influence the selection of staff. Gomes & Mendes (2007) argued that major cause of the students’ failure in introductory programming course is the lack of problem solving ability.
Light a Diya at your dear one's place from anywhere using Google Maps
http://www.nrimatters.com/diwali
Happy Diwali to HN community.
Steve's Outfit
http://stevesoutfit.com
Clever.
Towards a Cooperative, Small scale, Local, P2P Production Future
http://meedabyte.com/2012/05/28/towards-a-cooperative-small-scale-local-p2p-production-future-back-from-the-ouishare-summit-in-paris/
Connecting the dots about Makers, DIY, P2P and production decentralization as scale is no more needed.
Keep it Simple, Stupid
http://kilon.org/blog/2012/11/keep-it-simple-stupid/
We all want simple and descriptive code. Code that is self documented. Code that makes sense, Code that tells us a story.
Changing History with HTML 5
http://www.csskarma.com/blog/changing-history-with-html-5/
The URL is an important piece of user experience in any Web site or application. We like using, what we call “talking URLs” so they’re easy to say and remember, like clearleft.com/is/richardrutter (one of the best all time).

But as we build complex ajax and javascript-base apps with wild interfaces, we sometimes forget about the URL and just how important it is.

The HTML 5 History API aims to deal with that problem by letting you access the address bar directly and create pushes to change the URL and inject (same domain) history into the browser.
Gun rights vs. equal rights
http://traughber.me/gun-rights-versus-equal-rights
The 2012 presidential campaign in a screenshot.
Eye-Tracking Interfaces Look for Killer App
http://cacm.acm.org/news/92096
Eye-tracking interfaces have made great strides but are pricey. The key to broader accessibility is a mass application that drives down costs.
7 aspects to evaluate the performance of agile managers
http://www.codovation.com/2012/07/7-aspects-to-evaluate-the-performance-of-agile-managers/
I think that having a hierarchy is still important in agile organizations. But it’s meaning is different and so is the role of managers, team leads etc. In agile organizations leaders have to understand that their role is neither to be the best developer, architect or whetever in place, nor to be the conventional Command And Control style manager. What else? In my eyes there at least 7 different aspects managers and leaders in agile settings should be evaluated by.
SEO - International Search Marketing
http://www.iProspect.dk/seo
This is how we do SEO. Read about SEO internationally, and how we handle search marketing.
7 Astonishing Photo Editors Created in HTML5
http://devstand.com/2012/02/16/photoshop-like-html5/
HTML5 is one of the hottest trends when it comes to video, online gaming and advanced 3D elements rendered in web browsers, but what many don't actually know is that HTML5 also provides great solutions for graphic designers too. Bellow are some of the most light-weight and pro Photoshop-Like apps available online and created exclusively in HTML5.
Show HN: Yet another crossplatform keyboard launcher CPLauncher
https://github.com/cplauncher/CPLauncher
In my free time I am working on this application. I like the OSX Alfred a lot, I like it's workflows a lot, but I miss it in Windows, and I do not like that it is not free. I have tested a lot of popular launchers, but everytime something was wrong(not crossplatform, does not have easy automation like workflows in Alfred, implemented in Electron). And at the end I desided to make my own.
The project is on very early development stage, that is why something may not work properly(but I hope it will), or not as fast as it should but I will try to develop the project to make it better.

I am not a C++ developer, that is why the code quality is not the best. The early version of the application was implemented in Java, and only after some time I decided to make it properly with C++. And wrote in C++ as in Java...and failed. That is why the project is a mess of code written in headers and cpp files. But I hope that at some time I will refactor it.

I am open to suggestions, bugs submitions and PRs.
I am not a native English speaker, that is why sorry for grammar errors.
Facebook announce ‘Graph Search’ launching in beta today
http://magnate.co/2013/01/15/facebook-announce-graph-search-launching-in-beta-today/
This is going to be one monster of a search engine.
RESTful API Frameworks for PHP
http://phpflow.com/php/restful-api-frameworks-for-php/
Today in web development, every one needs fast and reliable development. Even you are working on css, JavaScript or web services. To create fast and reliable development there are a lot of library/framework in each fields.
Now we will discuss some restful web services library.
Javascript RTree (AMD module)
http://neirynck.us/RTree/
A fast and memory-efficient RTree implementation for Javascript. It can be loaded with any AMD-loader (e.g. requirejs) , in the browser or in node.
Groupon proposes $8.5M settlement to a number of lawsuits
http://www.industryintel.com/news/read/3339497160/Groupon-proposes-US85M-settlement-to-a-number-of-lawsuits.html
I've never had an issue redeeming Groupon offers. Has anyone had any issues with them in the past?
US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14428730
A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.
SSD Caching Using dm-cache Tutorial
http://blog.kylemanna.com/linux/2013/06/30/ssd-caching-using-dmcache-tutorial/
The tutorial covers the basic steps to setup dm-cache on a Ubuntu 13.04 machine.
Use WordPress Functions to Create a Smarter Blog
http://www.pearsonified.com/2008/05/how-to-use-wordpress-functions.php
Good write-up by super designer Chris Pearson on setting up your own custom functions coding for WordPress
Ask HN: Anyone know a good tracker block library/SDK?
I really like UBlock Origin as well as the tracker prevention built into Edge, but can't seem to find anything more programmatic (i.e. an SDK) to use. Looking for something that I can call on an HTML string or on an iFrame to block trackers!
Show HN: GuideLab – Guide your users through their entire journey
https://guidelab.io
Hi HN, I’m James and I’m excited to share GuideLab, on-demand in-app guides to reduce support load and make your users happier.

After a decade of working on products with small (20k) and large (millions) user bases, one thing remained clear - level 1 support takes up a lot of time. From universal usability (’how do I reset my password?’, ’how do I invite team members?’) to product specific problems, the answer is sometimes in a chat bot or knowledge base, but it’s cumbersome for the user and often gets lost in translation.

Using GuideLab, you create in-app guides (think a chain of tooltips) which can then be shared with your users via a link (yourapp.com/?guidelab=xxx-xxx-xxx) over any platform: email, Zendesk, social media, pre-existing knowledge base, Intercom etc. As soon as a user clicks the link, they’re taken to your app and instantly see the guide.

There’s also our search widget that you can embed directly in your web app; your users can then click the ‘Help Guides’ tab, search and follow any guide you’ve created. In that way GuideLab is fundamentally different to other guiding software like AppCues or userpilot. They focus on opting users into guides based on cohorts/attributes whereas GuideLab lets users view guides when they need them most.

There’s a quick (<1m) video on the homepage (https://guidelab.io) walking you through how GuideLab works. If you have any other questions, or if there’s anything you’d love to see in this space, please share (there’s a heap of product growth ahead for GuideLab… its a very exciting time!).
Football Manager gets fired and protest for his job back outside stadium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpEWXVGxLw&sns=em
A football Manager was fired for not showing loyalty and then took it upon himself to march to the stadium and protest for his job back and SHOCK the fans/supports
HTC Droid INCREDIBLE 4G LTE Launch COUNTDOWN BEGINS……
http://earthandroid.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/htc-droid-incredible-4g-lte-launch-countdown-begins/
For all you guys want to have latest news of android rather than searching Google can now simply visit this point and get every latest news related to Android, its application, new device launches and there latest updates. Plus the style of writing articles is quite different with updates given daily. Just try once and make yourself feel satisfied with the information you are searching.
Professional Website Designing
http://www.webjinn.com/webdesigning.html
Complete services of web development, web designing and search engine optimization.
How to Use JRuby for Rails Apps on Cloud Foundry
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/how-use-jruby-rails-apps-cloud?mz=62447-cloud

With just a few configuration changes, now you too can get your JRuby Rails apps up and running on CloudFoundry.com. This post by the CloudFoundry team describes the steps you need to take.
Employers: Stop Whining and Start Fixing the Tech Skills Gap
http://www.infusivesolutions.com/blog/bid/86754/Employers-Stop-Whining-and-Start-Fixing-the-Tech-Skills-Gap
So many employers are complaining that the tech community can't keep up with all the emerging trends in the industry.

But, what is being done on their end to help fix the problem? It often seems like employers are looking to land the best talent out there for low cost and with no training. Something's not shaking down correctly. Check out the article to see how employers are a big part of the problem.
Boostable (YC W14) Is Hiring Software Engineers in SF
Boostable helps entrepreneurs on marketplaces like Etsy, Udemy, Airbnb etc promote themselves online. By making advertising accessible to any seller on any marketplace, we help level the playing field and give any seller the ability to advertise themselves online.

About the position

- You’ll build new tools that expose data and services to end-users and admins

- Build an API to scale our product out to more marketplaces.

- Work with team members to figure out how we can improve ad performance and management.

What's in it for you

- You'll play an important role in determining our company's success as one of our company's early team members.

- Work with an experienced team that has been part of several successful startups.

- Work with a team that can bring your ideas to market. We already have access to several hundred thousand sellers.

- Stock options, competitive salary, health insurance.

Qualifications

- You’re a startup person: mission-driven, autonomous, a fast-learner.

- Ability to deliver on time in a fast-paced environment

- 3+ years of web development experience.

- Language agnostic. You’ll work primarily in Python/Django, but our stack includes Scala/Play Framework, NodeJS and AngularJS.

- Experience building APIs and scaling out web apps is a big plus.

How to apply: Send an email to jobs@boostable.com and put (HN) in the subject line to get extra attention
What you need to know to send SMS to the US with Nexmo API
http://nexmo.zendesk.com/forums/20247907-faq-us-and-canada
Nexmo is a cloud based SMS API that lets you send
and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates.
Lose Consumer Confidence By Exposing their Personal Information 
http://internetrack.blogspot.com/2008/06/lose-consumer-confidence-by-exposing.html
"Organizations that expose consumer data pay a big price in consumer confidence, but can satisfy most customers by offering them fraud-prevention services."
Wish Me Luck
http://atamble.blogspot.com/2008/10/wish-me-lick.html
Now were finally coding the most complex part of our system that will set the stage for us to get the next phase of development, that will actually require a little capital.

The capital is not a problem, the success of the venture is the gamble.
Wish me luck!
IPhone 3Gs 3.1.3 Hackers
http://thenextweb.com/2009/03/24/install-iphone-apps-jailbreak-required/
Check this out
#@%^@#$% Wikileaks
http://www.burnabrain.com/wikileaks/
Amazing funny photo :)
Show HN: Better Breath Using Bacteria?
https://www.shopriven.com/
Riven began with a simple question between longtime friends Fatima (the dentist) and Jay (the wellness geek); why hasn’t anyone tried a different approach to achieve better oral care outcomes?

The majority of bacteria found in your mouth is actually good bacteria helping your gums and teeth stay healthy and strong. Instead of trying to get rid of all the bacteria, why not add more good bacteria already found in your mouth (just like the gut)? A seemingly simple concept, we couldn’t find any products in the market that worked with your oral ecosystem. So we built it.

We worked with microbiologists, formulators, scientists to create the best possible formula supported by science and backed by research to build a mouthwash using probiotics to help you achieve fresher breath and healthier gums.

Nontoxic and Vegan
Science-Backed & Dentist Formulated
Plastic Free
Woman Founded
Charitable Giving
Show HN: estereobit - Music video jukebox
http://estereobit.tv
Hey HN,

I made a music video jukebox with Ember, Node, Bootstrap 3, Mongo, and Express. It's the first major draft, I'd appreciate any/all critiques.
Thanks!
Why you should never use a Linked List? (Analysis and Poll)
http://www.futurechips.org/thoughts-for-researchers/quick-post-linked-lists.html
The author explains why Linked Lists are a reallly bad choice in the context of modern computers. Our of order execution, hardware prefetching, DRAM architecture, SIMD, and GPGPU are all strikes against the linked lists.
Control your Droid from your Browser
http://web.snappea.com
Our team just built a tool that's a companion to your Android phone. It lets you send messages, browse photos, and manage apps from your browser.

It's simple by design. There are other products with more features, but for SnapPea Web we decided to focus on only the most frequently used features for most Android users.

Here's what it does:

* Photos - Browse, download, upload, and delete photos
* Messages - Send and receive text messages, synced with your own phone number
* Contacts - Add, edit, and delete contacts
* Apps - Install, uninstall, and browse your apps
Show HN: Simple and fast reverse port forwarding tool by Python
https://github.com/xitongsys/moonlight
I write a port forwarding tool using pyhton. Please have a try, thanks !
Ask HN: What's up in Paris?
I am in Paris setting up my show at the Photo-Levallois: http://www.photo-levallois.org/accueil.html

Any recommendations for food or interesting things to do?

Thank you.
New modules and prebuilt libraries to send SMS with Nexmo
http://www.nexmo.com/documentation/libs/index.html
You can join and participate in our developer community to learn, contribute, and help make Nexmo available for more developers around the world.
Social Media: Are you convinced yet?
http://brolik.com/blog/social-media-are-you-convinced-yet/
People are spending 4.6 hours per week on social networks, surpassing email at 4.4 hours per week, according to the TNS “Digital Life” survey of internet users around the world (Sept. 2010).

Still, there is hesitation and sometimes denial from C-level executives concerning the value of social media marketing, especially within small businesses. Even with convincing arguments from marketing directors, you have to wonder why CFOs and CEOs are sitting and waiting for more financial proof before they carve out a line for social media in their budgets, as if ROI (a very specific financial measurement) is the only metric to quantify the value of social media spend. What about brand saturation, engagement, loyalty and reputation with consumers?
Show HN: Interactive symbols from your decompiler to your debugger
https://github.com/mahaloz/decomp2dbg
It works on Ghidra, Binja, IDA, and angr-dec. Currently, gdb is the only debugger supported -- best with GEF.
Is Google Chromecast Better Than Apple TV?
http://vivastart.com/chromecast/
Google's new device, Chromecast is making quite the buzz online now, but is it a competitor for the Apple TV?
Crystallization of the Object Oriented Style
http://www.314t.com/blog/crystallization-of-the-object-oriented-style/29-03-2011/
Comparison of ideas and goals behind smalltalk and ruby
HTML 5 - an introduction of the new web language (online course)
http://mrbool.com/course/Course-HTML-5-an-introduction-of-the-new-web-language/284
17 free videos - In this course we will see the HTML 5. This new version of HTML is not standardized yet. It is supported in some browsers like Firefox and Opera. Although the specification is not locked down yet, the browser support is mature enough to experiment with its features.
TW Bootstrap developers community//beta
http://community.bootstraptor.com
TW Bootstrap developers community//beta You are free to publish your sites build with Bootstrap, to exchange views, information, receive new orders and get new customers. Discover new artists for your projects, discuss, share new information, learn, and make money by promoting yourselves, your themes, templates, apps and services. Request an invitation to start promoting yourselves and your projects on http://community.bootstraptor.com
Mysql web reporting 
looking for a neat and simple to setup web-based reporting tool for a mysql backend,
with custom report and graph capbilities...
preferably java / groovy / grails based.
Recommendations?
Ask HN: Generalist or Specialist
Recently I have seen quite a few articles on HN regarding the benifits and trend toward being a generalist. My question to the HN community, is do you see this as the direction of developers or even in the tech community in general? That we should become generalists in our field rather than specialists?
Bear Grylls Fired from Discovery
http://www.adweek.com/news/television/discoverys-survival-guru-bear-grylls-fired-138924
Not a fan of everything he does, but interesting none the less.