jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And It Begins...iWork '09 Trojan
http://www.macworld.com/article/138380/iworktrojan.html
The first of many? Some say it all depends on market size. Others say that the Mac is an impenetrable fortress of digital nirvana. What do you think?
Q&A with Alex Schiff, Cofounder of Fetchnotes
http://www.growdetroit.com/qa-with-alex-schiff-cofounder-of-fetchnotes/
Newest company to break into note-taking startup space. How does it match up to companies like SimpleNote, Evernote, OneNote, and Task.fm?
Thank You HN: finding help in unexpected places
I wanted to thank the HN community for generously sharing their ideas to my question about how you can talk to people about death without freaking them out. Special thank you goes to Codhisattva who pointed me in the right direction. Thanks to him my deeply personal guest blog post is up today on the Death With Dignity National Center's blog: http://www.deathwithdignity.org/2014/02/26/honor-your-loved-by-facing-your-fears-and-pursuing-your-passions?utm_source=Sharing&utm_medium=Multiple&utm_campaign=Author.
O'Reilly Loves the New Federal CTO
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/mancrush-federal-cto-todd-park.html
I'm excited to see what he can bring to our country as well.
What will your 5 bullet points be at the end of your life?
http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2012/01/your-5-bullet-points.html
http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2012/01/your-5-bullet-points.html
Digital Korea - The future exists in South Korea
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/08/ahonen-5th-book.html
New book from tomi ahonen. sounds interesting.
Show HN: A micro IRC inside every email
https://www.honest.is/beta
Over 50% of work is born inside an email. We believe you don't have to context-switch onto other productivity tools (Slack, Jira) to finish a task.
Ask HN: How do you read Hacker News?
I've been using Google Reader for the last couple of years to read Hacker News. Reader was a good option in the early days, but today the amount of daily submits makes this "mission" intractable, and the signal to noise ratio makes it less enjoyable.

With so many options to choose from (https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?key=tCo5BIN61ciUkDjS2aLqjOA&authkey=CIeUndcL&hl=en&authkey=CIeUndcL#gid=0), what do you use? I may be tempted to create yet another application if someone can point to a good feature missing in the existing set of solutions.
Show HN: FreelyWheely (A better Freecycle).
http://www.freelywheely.com
So here is is: http://www.freelywheely.com

In short: FreelyWheely is a place where you can offer your unwanted belongings, for free, to someone who can make use of them.

The longer version: Although there are similar things, Freecycle particularly in the UK, you only have to visit a tip to see that for the vast majority of people it doesn't work. Masses of useful (even sellable) items being thrown away, lots of unsorted items being sent to landfill. It needs to be easier to find a new home for something you don't have a use for any more. Freecycle has many issues - worst of all the fragmentation and need to find your "local group", but also you can't tell if something is still available, no photos, terrible password policy, no categories... I could go on.

What next: Tech wise, a mobile app, searching. But more significantly a marketing effort to get more things listed.
Hilarious Map of C++
http://goldns.ru/cppmap-2012.png
http://herbsutter.com/2012/01/10/map-of-c/
Reddit, World Backup Day, SpiderOak, March 31st and the power of Social Media
https://spideroak.com/blog/20110328134842-reddit-world-backup-day-spideroak-march-31st-and-the-power-of-social-media
My little breakdown on World Backup Day, social media and from idea to 'maybe' Yearly event in a weekend plus 2 days.
Lavaca is the only sane HTML5 mobile development framework out there
http://povolotski.me/2013/09/20/lavaca-intro/
A few weeks ago I found myself on a journey to find the best go-to framework for HTML5 mobile development. The objective: develop a cross-platform mobile version of an online digital store. Having some (extremely frustrating and negative) experience with Sencha Touch, and having an overwhelming desire to avoid being put in a situation where I’m swearing at my screen at 3am while going through painful, agonising debug sessions of the Sencha Touch core I was determined to find a better alternative.
Hands Down, One of The Most Engaging Talks About Content Marketing Online 
http://blog.9slides.com/2014/01/08/content-marketing-in-simple-english-by-marcus-sheridan/
Some call it a revolutionary technique to grow your business, but Marcus Sheridan a.k.a. the Sales Lion says is just common sense! This now web marketing guru shares “the secret sauce” of his success in simple English.
Mind Reading Is Now Possible
http://www.newsweek.com/id/91688
chatterbox345_2007: (image of superior temporal gyrus activated)
baller_17_rappajamma: (image of inferior parietal lobe activated)
chatterbox345_2007: lol, d00d, i feel the same way.
FounderDating & Teach for America Partner to Help Edupreneurs
http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/01/founderdating-partners-with-teach-for-america-to-help-edtech-entrepreneurs-co-founder-up/
FounderDating and Teach for America are partnering on FounderDating Education. Same great network for cofounders - now expanding to help Ed entrepreneurs.
The West Wing on privacy (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj4PwyfDNuI
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745704/

I'm amazed at how accurate this scene from 1999, 14 years ago, predicted today.
Building your own supercomputer using Ubuntu and Kerrighed
http://www.stevekelly.eu/cluster.shtml
The following page describes how to build your very own supercomputer using household-type easily available parts and tying them all together using Kerrighed, a Single System Image operating system for clusters. This guide is mainly based on the install guide located at www.kerrighed.org, but includes many extra details!
Show HN: Gedi, an Evented Model Interface for JavaScript
https://github.com/gaffa-tape/gedi
Gedi is an interface to your model that lets you bind events to track changes in the model. Gedi will also track the dirty state of your model.

Combined with gel (https://github.com/gaffa-tape/gel) gedi is extremely powerful, allowing expression base callbacks that will evaluate when any reference to the model is changed.

Some examples of usage are in the tests: http://github.korynunn.com/gedi/test.html
Ask HN: Esperanto and Hacker News
Saluton! Mi tre ŝatus scii ĉu estas aliaj Esperantistoj en HN, kaj kion ili pensas pri Esperanto por laboraj celoj.

For the non-Esperantists here (the most of the people here I guess): what do you think about Esperanto and about using it internally in a business (externally doesn't make sense, better use the native languages instead of the company vernicular).
Ask HN: Help me create a simple TOS and Privacy Policy for my webapp
If I wanted to have a simple terms of service and privacy policy for my webapp, does anyone have any resources that can help me with building that?

I am bootstrapping, so don't have any cash to pay for legal advice - just need something to get me through the first year (at least) until I am cash flow positive.

Are there any particular points I must cover, language I must use, things I must include?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. The webapp will be accepting image uploads from users, and also be doing monthly recurring charging of their credit card - and sending links to their clients. Not sure if these facts are relevant, but included them just in case.
Show HN: Computer Assisted Fiction
Phiction Phreak is a database created to assit you in writing and developing fiction. Anything you write with Phiction Phreak is yours to keep with no attatched licenses. It is intended to be used as a "ghost writer", so no mention of it has to be made when publishing the final version of your work. The software is built into a GUI that allows you to easily browse and search through the database. As a general rule, clicking on any word inside of the window will open up a new search for that term. You can search for anything, or view the entire database at once. There is also a list of the most common words in the database which allows you to sort through the database instead of search.

Phiction Phreak was created because I wanted to write a novel and thought the best way to start would be to read everything I could get my hands on. I saved little pieces of what I read and over time they became a database.

If you want to compile Phiction Phreak, you will need to download Qt. Qt is a cross platform library and IDE that uses C++ to build world class applications. If you don't feel comfortable compiling the source code then you can download the Windows or Mac binaries and install it into any directory.

Qt is extremely well documented and can be downloaded from http://www.qt.io/

Phiction Phreak was created by Corey White, but the project welcomes your contributions.

Phiction Phreak is an open source project, and you can get it through github here: http://treatz.github.io/phiction_phreak/
On being a woman linux kernel developer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dro2v44wvs0
Linux developer Sarah Sharp shares her story about how she became a Linux kernel developer, as well as what it means to be a woman today in the open source software community.
Whonix: Anonymous Operating System
http://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/wiki/Home/
Taken from Whonix home page:

Whonix is an anonymous general purpose operating system based on Virtual Box, Debian GNU/Linux and Tor. By Whonix design, IP and DNS leaks are impossible. Not even malware with root rights can find out the user's real IP/location.

This is because Whonix consists of two (virtual) machines. One machine solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other machine, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible.
Huddle Chat, the power of Google App Engine
http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/huddle-chat-the-power-of-google-app-engine/
To demonstrate the power and usefulness of Google App Engine, Darren Delaye, Braden Kowitz, and Kyle Consalus developed an excellent application called Huddle Chat, an open source and improved version of Campfire.

Unfortunately, the creators of Huddle Chat decided to take down the application based on allegations that it was copy of Campire. The decision came after 37signals, the company behind Ruby on Rails, and some Ruby developers complained. Of course, none of them complained when Basecamp copied Trac.

So, why would someone complain about something like that? Is this another Ruby vs Python silly fight? I don’t think so. This is because 37signal’s application, Campfire, runs on Amazon’s (AMZN) platform. And Google is competing against Amazon to develop the future Operating System for Web applications. And guess what, Google is winning.
Mongo & Mongeez
http://engineering.secondmarket.com/post/17156303982/mongo-mongeez
Mongeez is a tool that allows you to modify the structure of your documents and replicate those changes in unison with your code across all your environments from QA to production.
Kickstarter documentary on Entrepreneurs & US Immigration
Hi everyone,

I am directing a documentary about the US immigration to speak out about
the difficulties for entrepreneurs to secure visas or be admitted as
business visitors, and in particular those raising or seeking to raise
angel-funding. It also concerns foreign entrepreneurs going through the Y Combinator program. I need your support to reach the goal of $2,000 to
finance the documentary:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/59308445/tech-entrepreneurs-and-us-immigration-a-documentar

As of right now, there are 7 days to go ad $850 to raise, please support!

-Tarik
Evernote honestly explains their absurd freemium conversion rate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pSYdwNHCmJA#t=1021s
In this video the founder of @evernote goes open kimono on conversion rates.

3% overall
only .5% in the first month
2.5 years in over 20% pay

Amazingly honest discussion from a $10M freemium business.
Memo to Start-Up World: Money is available
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2008/10/memo-to-start-up-world-money-is-available.html
The economic crisis doesn't mean that there is a complete drought in VC money pouring to start ups.
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
this djikstra classic teaches us some very important lessons about the nature of our craft
American Super Computing Leadership Act (2013)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HR02495:@@@L&summ2=m&
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.2495:

The first paragraph of the summary provided by the Library of Congress:

"Amends the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 with respect to: (1) exascale computing (computing system performance at or near 10 to the 18th power floating point operations per second); and (2) a high-end computing sytem with performance substantially exceeding that of systems commonly available for advanced scientific and engineering applications."
Show HN: Our stab at PG's No.1 frighteningly ambitious startup idea
https://www.localuncle.com
We built a "search engine" that lets you query opinion- and experience based information about the physical world. Human-to-human. It's something that Google, who is really good at surfacing factual, commonly held to be true, objective information, will never be able to do.
Top Free Android Apps Which You Can Use Everyday
http://www.techieapps.com/top-10-free-android-apps-which-you-can-use-everyday/
As they say, the entire world is getting smarter using the smart phones and it is high time you started as well.
Facebook Home in JavaScript
http://marizmelo.com/HomeJS/
Simple implementation of Facebook Home in JavaScript using a jQuery plugin for slideshow, and UI for some effects. Done today just for fun :) (tested on latest chrome).

https://github.com/marizmelo/HomeJS
Weekend Project: Designed Skype for iPad for fun
http://moeedm.com/skype-for-ipad/
Get a move on, Skype! What do you think?
Sergey Brin shows off AR and voice commands in Project Glass
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/sergey-brin-shows-off-ar-and-voice-commands-in-project-glass-20120911/
More features revealed for Project Glass
Show HN: Animated chart presentations in Jupyter notebooks
https://github.com/vizzuhq/ipyvizzu-story
After releasing our open-source tool to build animated charts in Jupyter and other computational notebooks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895975), we got two requests from data scientists:

1. They lacked the opportunity to use these charts to present their findings and control the animation better than just (re)running notebook cells.

2. They had challenges using our generic chart-building engine - they are more acquainted with picking a chart type and using the parameters specific to that type.

So we decided to build a new extension that enables our users to add the charts to slides and thus create interactive, animated presentations they can present right from the notebook. The presentation can be controlled with buttons beneath the charts, keyboard shortcuts (arrows, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End), or a clicker. We also added the capability to export these presentations to HTML to share them with others who don't use notebooks.

Example - scroll to the bottom for the presentation: https://vizzuhq.github.io/ipyvizzu-story/examples/demo/ipyvi....

We tackled the other challenge by introducing chart presets: users can now pick from the 40+ pre-defined chart types. https://ipyvizzu.vizzuhq.com/examples/examples.html#Preset-c...

Everything is released under the Apache 2.0 license and is available for JavaScript developers as an open-source data storytelling solution. Technically, in the Jupyter version, it's the JS lib being called from the notebook with a Python interface - similarly to what Plotly does.
More info: https://github.com/vizzuhq/vizzu-ext-js-story & https://lib.vizzuhq.com/latest/

We'd love to know more about how our technology can be put to good use, so if you have any feedback or suggestions, we're here to listen.
Facebook and CAPS-LOCK: Unexpectedly Secure
http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/09/facebook-and-caps-lock-unintuitive-security/
If your Facebook password is PattyAndMolly, Facebook will also accept pATTYaNDmOLLY as a valid password. This may initially seems look something that weakens users’ security. However, Jeff explains that it has the opposite effect, noting a few downsides as well.
Show HN: Layoffbase – the place where you can get a new tech job after layoff
https://layoffbase.com/
I knew that layoffs in tech were coming.
When it started, I've created Layoffbase to collect people without a job and help them get a new one. Now, I try to manually connect them with companies.

What do you think about it? How can I improve this?
Show HN: Startup Weekend Newcaste Hack Twilio + Insurance
http://insurance-app.herokuapp.com/#
Weekend hack for the Newcastle startup weekend!

Feedback will be much appreciated guys!!!
System and method for creating exalted video games...
http://www.google.com/patents?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&dq=exalted&as_psra=1&as_psra=1#PPA1,M1
Abstract: A video game method and system for creating games where ideas have consequences, incorporating branching paths that correspond to a player's choices, wherein paths correspond to decisions founded upon ideals, resulting in exalted games with deeper soul and story, enhanced characters and meanings, and exalted gameplay. The classical hero's journey may be rendered, as the journey hinges on choices pivoting on classical ideals. Ideas that are rendered in word and deed will have consequences in the gameworld. Historical events such as The American Revolution may be brought to life, as players listen to famous speeches and choose sides. As great works of literature and dramatic art center around characters rendering ideals real, both internally and externally, in word and deed, in love and war, the present invention will afford video games that exalt the classical soul, as well as the great books, classics, and epic films—past, present, and future.
Startup Fund-Raising Talk
http://www.slideshare.net/billehunt/funding-your-startup
Lightning talk I did recently on angel/vc funding at #svnewtech meetup.
Show HN: WaifuXL - SOTA image upscaling neural network that runs in the browser
https://waifuxl.com
WaifuXL is our state of the art super resolution model trained on ~1,200,000 anime style images from the Danbooru2021 dataset. You can run it straight from your browser, entirely client-side, at https://waifuxl.com.

Using the Onnx Runtime, we stream the weights of our ML models directly onto your device to be executed locally in WebAssembly. Doing so allows us to provide this service solely through a static webpage, no backend for model execution needed. This has the added benefit of enabling the privacy of your images--your images are not, and never will be, sent to us.

Our original inspiration for this project was waifu2x (http://waifu2x.udp.jp). In general, our model will outperform those used on waifu2x by a significant margin, without the need for multiple models trained on various noise reduction levels.

Note that while you _can_ upscale natural (real) images, the model was only trained on anime style drawings, so don’t expect good results. It does work quite well on non-anime graphic art, however.

For more information, see our blog post at https://haydn.fgl.dev/posts/the-launch-of-waifuxl/
Feedback on my new project, ShelfMade.net
http://shelfmade.net/
The concept is designed for people that check Reddit and YC News 10 times a day.

Find a worthwhile article that is too long to read right now? Just shelv it and get back to work.
Show HN: An Android Facebook client using only Internet access as permission
https://github.com/mandiros3/LiteBook
Any suggestion for improvement would be much appreciated.
Show HN: Multilingual Salary Calculator for Germany
https://lohntastik.de/gns/gross-net-salary-calculator
Many people from a migrant background have difficulty understanding the German income tax system. Therefore, as a side project, I have created a multilingual gross-net-salary calculator for Germany. With this side project, my main goals are:

1. to create an intuitive method for non-German speakers to easily understand how and what is deducted from their gross salary in Germany,

2. to translate the calculator into Eastern and Central European languages (as they represent one of the largest groups of migrant workers in Germany) to make it easier for them to understand the German income tax system,

3. make it mobile-friendly so that anyone with only a mobile phone can easily use it.

I am currently working on translations into Russian and Farsi (based on the requests from several organisations who are working with refugees in Germany), with other languages to follow.

The website is already available in the following languages:
Arabic,
English,
German,
Hungarian,
Romanian,
Ukrainian.

What do you think about design? Is it intuitive or does it need some improvement? All feedback is welcome.
Wikileaks cables now available for purchase at Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EEOLIU?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_2&s=books&qid=1291847557&sr=8-2&linkCode=shr&camp=3194&creative=21330&tag=matstmeuk-21
I really don't have any appropriate comments for this.
Paypal Redesigned
https://www.paypal.com/home
What do you guys think about do their new design? I think it looks fantastic!
XYDO Preparing Social News Hub With Quora Flavor
http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/02/xydo-preparing-personalized-news.html
Continuing the mantra that the third wave of the Web is one of personalized news, streams and social experiences, XYDO is on the verge of launching what they call a personalized news network that claims to show you only the news you find interesting from all the friends and people you follow across the social Web. XYDO feels a lot like an intelligent mix between Digg and Quora, tapping into your social graph to discover the most frequently shared articles, spotting trending topics, and presenting the opportunity to follow subjects, sites and users.

Let me know if you'd like an invite; I've got access to the beta and can send some invites.
Design for Developers
http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/design-for-developersonlineversionlong
The goal of Design for Developers is to teach interface design as a set of rules: there are some good default values for a lot of design decisions that you should remember, there is a “scientific” way of approaching things like alignment, even though many designers will tell you it’s something you should “feel”.
Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)
https://racemetric.com
Racemetric is a simple athletic race registration and credit card processing app. It's all written in Haskell (Snap, Heist) and JS on top of PostgreSQL. The idea is for race organizers to accept credit card registration payments within minutes instead of having to talk to sales people, get a merchant account, build a custom web page, etc. As a runner and rower, I'd like to have all my race results in one place and one format.

Of course I'm looking for customers as well as any feedback you have to give! Feel free to contact me directly at luke@racemetric.com.

This Show HN grew out of another comment thread here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7008532
Group-O-Matic (My Startup Launch!)
http://www.groupomatic.com
I am launching my startup today. All comments/questions/feedback, however harsh/cynical/insightful, will be greatly appreciated. Short version: free site to help people form local groups for regular events. Even shorter version: free alternative to meetup.com. There has not been a private or public beta. Group-O-Matic has been released with a minimum feature set I thought would be useful. I'm coding message boards right now, to be released shortly.