jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Real truth about Mobile Ads spending growth and Google's AdMob.
http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/advertising-networks/1032-insane-revenue-ctr-drop-admob.html
Confession from people who are using Google's AdMob. The conclusion is that mobile advertising with AdMob is not an option for monetization.
"Hacker Games" for college students, starts at 00:00:00 Tonight
https://games.hackerrank.com/
Come join the Hacker Games tonight, 9/8/2012, at 00:00:00, for a chance to win part of $10,000 in prizes!
Reminder: Machine Learning Summer School '10 Registrations now open
http://mlss10.rsise.anu.edu.au
Just a quick reminder that the registrations are now open. Will be great to bump into some of you there..
Show HN: My PyCon 2013 diary
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-zero-opening-reception.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-one.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-two.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-three.html
Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.7.2 Performance
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mac_1072_ubuntu1110
TLDR Performance is not very different, except for the Xcode version with GCC (the version with LLVM/Clang is faster).
Show HN: We made a playable web version of our word puzzle game
https://sidewords.ca
Hi HN, I'm half of a two-person game studio called Milkbag Games. We made a mobile & PC word puzzle game a few years ago called Sidewords. It's a unique blend of spatial puzzle and word puzzle. With the current Wordle craze we realized we could make a web-playable version with Wordle-style emoji sharing etc, so that's what we did.

We obviously don't expect it to be anywhere near as popular as Wordle, but hopefully people enjoy the spatial puzzle aspect of it. We aren't worried about making money, it's just a fun way to get more people to play our game.

As far as tech goes, the original game was made in Unity, but we decided to make this version using Pixi.js to cut down on load times. We do some interesting stuff to pre-generate puzzles (using dancing links/algorithm x), which we can talk about if there are questions about it.
Bus Vandalized as Protesters in S.F., Oakland Target Silicon Valley Shuttles
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses
It turns out there were two incidents this morning in Oakland involving Google buses in addition to a protest involving an Apple bus in San Francisco.
Success
http://realfinancepeople.com/?p=345
HOW do we define success? Is it measured in terms of amassing a lot of money, properties, or businesses? If that is true, then why are some of the supposedly successful people unhappy and sometimes end up committing suicide? Why do some “successful” people fail and end up bankrupt later? Isn’t success the absence of failure? Why is it there are more failures than successful people? Is it only by chance or by a stroke of luck? <p><a title="Real Finance People" target="_blank" href="http://realfinancepeople.com/?p=345">Read more</a></p>
The real Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates.
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1273521600000&chddm=999007&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:MSFT&cmptdms=0&q=NASDAQ:AAPL&ntsp=0
Need I say more?
How To Keep Your Laptops Clean
http://ruffpc.com/wash/
Daddy washes his laptops after the kids play in the dirt. Yes, it's staged, but still it pretty impressive! Yes?
The Global Cyber-Espionage Ring That Spent 5 Years in the Shadows
http://gizmodo.com/5975793/meet-red-october-the-global-cyber+espionage-ring-that-spent-5-years-in-the-shadows
There are plenty of cyberweapons floating around out there, like Stuxnet, Flame, and that whole gang. Now, Kaspersky has turned up a cyber-espionage operation its dubbed "Red October," and it's up there in the big leagues.
Car that runs on compressed air
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7170000/newsid_7171000/7171043.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
Nothing to do with hacking, but it shows how passion over a 10-year period can drive some people forward
Ask HN: looking for current openings to do a msc or phd with partial funding
Hi all,

I'm a comp. sci. engineer with a masters (both obtained in a small poor country in Latin America, my origin country by the way), 29 y'old, and I'm looking for opportunities to do another master in 2011, just for the experience of living and studying (and getting the degree, of course) in a different place in the first world.

The thing is, i need some kind of partial time job to support that. Do you know of graduate programs (in engineering, preferably) with some financial support? or where students are somewhat allowed/encouraged to do partial work to fund their studies?

My google-fu has been insufficient to find current openings to do masters (or phds) where the students had chance to work as lab assistants, or programmers to finance their studies. Thats the kind of thing I'm looking for... whatever field. I'll code for studying abroad!

Please post something, that would be appreciated.
Banking IT horror story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog/2012/may/30/former-it-salesman-voices-of-finance
Best quote: "I know people in IT who retain paper copies of all their internet banking statements"
Giving away a domain name narratedcoding.com
Want it?
Better Git conflict resolution between binaries with --theirs and --ours
http://kevinold.com/2009/02/24/better-git-conflict-resolution-between-binaries-with-theirs.html
Use "git checkout --theirs" and "git checkout --ours" to resolve binary conflicts in merges.
Grunt extension for Firefox devtools
https://github.com/deepak1556/grunt-ffdevtools
template based on the chrome extension.
The Editor Dilemma
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/12/the-editor-dill.html
There are some great comments in that post...
20 Free HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs for Designers
http://www.designerledger.com/20-free-html5-css3-ui-kits-psds-designers/
To save all the designers out there their much precious time we have brought together the latest and most trending HTML5, CSS3, UI Kits and PSDs. Enjoy!
Pharo open-source Smalltalk, Modern Squeak? 
http://pharo-project.org/home
with screenshot (!) - About section
Cooking with Lean Startup
http://cookingwithleanstartup.tumblr.com/
Simple meals cooked & blogged by a busy start up founder as a way to take a break in the evenings.

2 recipes per week + pics!
Who Needs Talent When You Have Intensity?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000187.html
what it takes to be a "good" programmer?
How does voice manipulation software work?
I've been googling around for some good sources on this but haven't had any luck.

Do any of you have any experience in this area, or could point me in the right direction with a good source?

I'd appreciate any help here!

Cheers
Show HN: Tool for event with friends scheduling (We Should Do It)
http://weshoulddo.it
Hey guys, I'd like to ask you about your feedback on my new personal project. It's a small tool to help scheduling events with friends (how often you pretend to make plans with them and it ends up with one of you saying "yeah, we should do it!"). Application is made with Meteor, I wonder what do you think, I made all of the stuff there (music comes from "music stock library" :D) — do you think it would be a good idea to also include public events from all over the world?
Mark Zuckerberg Took on the Sock Puppet and the Sock Puppet Won 
http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/facebook-fb-ipo-goog-google-blackstone/5/31/2012/id/41382
Facebook is on track to underperform the most infamous IPO flop from Internet Bubble 1.0: Pets.com.
The simple secret to identify your strengths
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/lifestyle/article/the-simple-secret-to-identifying-your-strengths-rajesh-setty
Everyone says we have to work on our strengths. But before we work on them, we have to identify them. Here is one secret to do just that.
How to Get into Seedcamp (In Three Tries)
http://blog.shoutem.com/2009/09/15/how-to-get-into-seedcamp-in-three-tries/
We published short how to for getting into Seedcamp. Enjoy.
Iterative Application Icon Creation
http://www.terhech.de/2011/01/iterative-app-icon-creation/
"It is not that only perfect icons will lead to success, but if you have limited other advertising resources at hand, then it is certainly advisable to optimize the hell out of your icon."
Compare European Amazon prices
http://www.curiua.com/
Amazon currently has five shops in Europe (UK/DE/IT/FR/SP) with different prices. Due to free trade in the EU, it sometime really pays to check all stores before buying Amazon goods.
StarTechConf
http://www.startechconf.com/
StarTechConf is a large conference that brings together worldwide stars in software development and local experts in technologies to talk about HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Python, Open Data, and more.

Engineers from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe, together with other web experts will complete two days of talks and deep working sessions. About 1000 developers, designers, investors and entrepreneurs from around the world will show their demos and exchange some ideas.

It will be two days of intense learning and knowledge sharing which you won't want to miss.

Rey Bango, Charles Nutter, Paul Irish, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis, Jonathan Snook, Obie Fernández, Greg Rewis, Mark Ramm, Caridy Patiño, Robert Nyman, Mike Hostetler, Tom Preston-Werner
PET: English Translation Issue 1 is Here
http://revista.python.org.ar/1/html-en/
This magazine is a community effort. It's done by Python guys in Argentina. It has been translated to English.
Twitter Conversation Stream Blog/Website Widget
http://feedjit.com/twit/
It's experimental, but it's fast and it works. So we're throwing it out there to see if anyone finds it useful.

Mark.
Bitmessage broadcast index
http://bitmessage.hyse.org/
A public index of all broadcasts sent in the Bitmessage system.
The Unreal Office Of Nike CEO Mark Parker
http://sobadsogood.com/2012/06/07/the-unreal-office-of-nike-ceo-mark-parker/
Fast Company named him "The World's Most Creative CEO" and so we wondered, what kind of office would someone with that distinction work in? Would it be like Facebook's open plan office? Would it be sharp and corporate or maybe minimal and angular? Would it be something unique & left of field?
How to get latest stable version of Nginx on Ubuntu
http://clayrichardson.me/2012/01/19/how-to-get-latest-stable-version-of-nginx-on-ubuntu/
Hey guys, long time reader, first time submission. Feedback is appreciated!
Translations of key Dutch Internet freedom provisions
https://www.bof.nl/2011/06/27/translations-of-key-dutch-internet-freedom-provisions/
"The Dutch parliament launched crucial internet freedom legislation. Since we hope that other countries are inspired and launch their own legislation, we translated the key provisions into English. Are you a lawmaker or a digital rights organisation and thinking about launching similar amendments in your country? You can reach us at info@bof.nl to discuss."
The Beatles vs. The Flock Of Seagulls - Is Your Company A One-hit Wonder?
http://www.infochachkie.com/be-the-beatles-not-the-flock-of-seagulls-entrepreneur-infochachkie/
The Beatles vs. The Flock Of Seagulls - Is Your Company A One-hit Wonder?
Divide and Conquer: How Virtual Partitioning Enables Elasticity
http://blog.xeround.com/2010/11/29/divide-and-conquer-how-virtual-partitioning-enables-elasticity/
Xeround's latest blog post explains the benefits of virtual partitioning and how their "shared-nothing" architecture allows them to spread partitioned data across numerous servers.
The Future of Google Glasses?
http://vimeo.com/46304267
Exciting and scary all at once.
The Web Ahead, episode 96: Reinventing the Web in Virtual Reality
http://thewebahead.net/96
This is a crazy one — on WebVR. What will happen when Virtual Reality meets the web?
Androck Fastest android Emulator ever for pc
http://www.androck.co
Androck run Android apps like whatsapp and snapchat as windows native softwares.
This Valentine's Day just remember: Chocolate is poison
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/the-poisonous-nature-of-chocolate/?cid=co5833544
From the wonderful science writer Deborah Blum
Show HN: searchNtxt
http://www.searchntxt.com/about
Anybody email themselves iTunes search results?
Store selling all cuts of beef for bitcoin
http://www.bitucopia.com/
Yeah, that is right. You have two choices. Premium chicken or premium steak :-)
We're giving away the last BaconBiz ticket in the world
https://twitter.com/honeybadgerapp/status/334701708200529920
http://baconbiz.com/

Amy Hoy's conference for bootstrappers is sold out. But we have an extra ticket and we're giving it away. Just tweet at us to enter. We'll put you all in an array and use `rand` to pick a winner.
Google insults me
http://www.chrispattle.com/thanks-google/
Has Google got a grudge against me or something?
How do I deal with a team member who refuses to make comments in code?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/how-do-i-deal-with-a-team-member-who-refuses-to-make-comments-in-code/
One of my team members consistently avoids making comments in his code.His code is not self-documenting and other programmers have a difficult time understanding his code.

I have asked him several times to comment his code, however he just gives excuses or claims that he will do it later. His concern is that adding comments will take too much time and delay the projects.What argument can I present to convince him to properly document his code?
Ask HN: What does diversification look like for programmers?
Hi all, I've been reading the recently published book by David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Putting aside the kind/unkind learning environment debate, what do you think breadth/diversification looks like for programmers? What does it mean for a programmer to 'develop broad perspectives' in order to help them better solve problems? Would this entail venturing into different, perhaps even unconventional domains (graphics, hardware)? Or simply reading widely outside of tech/CS topics in general (economics, biology, etc)? What do you guys think?
Show HN:Reading Your eBooks Should Be Easy
http://bookfusion.com/
Read all your Hacker News Magazines across all your devices booth offline and online on any device!

Tired of being restricted to one device
Tired of copying your eBooks from one device to the other
*Tired of losing your bookmarks and notes

We are revolutionizing the way we read and interact with eBooks today by making reading eBooks easy

See http://www.bookfusion.com/ for more details

Feel free to post feedback in the comments or reach put to mr at dc@bookfusiom.com
Ask HN: How does your company ensure its code and product are of quality?
I really wanted to post a poll but apparently I don't have enough karma. =|

Curious what processes/techniques software companies use to make sure their codebase and by extension product remain good quality. Stuff like extensive code reviews, comprehensive unit tests, manual testing, pair programming, etc. - or do you just move fast and break stuff?
Pageblox - Turn your designs into 1-page sites
https://pageblox.io/
Hey HN!

I started working on Pageblox after noticing a bunch of my friends sent invites to large events, like weddings and such, that were created using Canva or some design tool. Because of this, they were static images or PDFs and lacked the ability to be interactive like websites.

This limited the user experience for the creators and receivers. Guests clicking on location won't deep-link them to Google Maps, and clicking on the date/time doesn't prompt the ability to add it to my calendar instantly. For the event hosts, purely design made it difficult to track guest responses - although they were using spreadsheet software, they had to manually follow up with guests or read responses sent back in texts. This meant inaccurate counts, leading to excess costs and scheduling headaches.

I realized this could be solved much easier if there's a no-code builder for non-designers that adds web elements - like forms, buttons, fetches data, etc. In the recent past, I completed a consulting project for a course instructor where they wanted a simple website to maintain - instead of wrestling with the typical website builders out today. Combining these two use cases made me realize there's potential for a big market, where small business owners/designers want to create simple websites using the look & feel of a design tool.

It's still in beta, as I'm still in the customer development phase. It currently just works on desktop, not mobile.

For those interested in trying it out yourself, you can access the tool here:

https://woodblox.vercel.app/

Looking for any feedback, responses, sign-ups, etc.

Appreciate it!

- Bhavan
Biostrap useless after 12 months
was using this for sleep monitoring and after 12 months the battery cant last for 7 hours of sleep. Small company offers no support and offered to sell me a new one. Lots of doubts as to whether this company will survive given that type of approach. I would go with Oura or one of the other established brands with a professional support policy
Curmudgeonly advice for unit tests
http://krazydad.com/robusttesting.php
A war-weary veteran of the testing wars offers some advice.
EuRuKo 2013 1st ticket batch goes online on Friday 12/03/2013 at 14:00 UTC
http://www.euruko2013.org
Hey all, we are thrilled to announce that the upcoming EuRuKo conference is taking place in Athens on the 28-29 of June and our first batch of 100 tickets is going on sale on Friday 12/03. 700 tickets are going to be available this year and an additional 100 for user groups and guests of honor. Tickets will be allocated on a strictly first come first serve basis so mark the date and time on your calendar and have a tab with with http://www.euruko2013.org ready and waiting.

May the Rubee with you!
Ask HN: What if Elon Musk would be the new Microsoft CEO?
I know that it's impossible but wouldn't it be amazing? What are your thoughts?
Ask HN: Why aren't hospitals prepared for a pandemic?
Having worked in fintech for many years, I have seen regulations require that firms prepare a multitude of ways to manage or recover from large-scale emergencies. As current anecdata, I haven't heard of any issues with the unprecedented demands placed on firms for those who are now working from home (toss a coin to your network admin).

Healthcare must be under similar, if not more stringent regulations and oversight. From what I've read SARS-CoV-2 was a foreseeable event. Why does healthcare give the impression of a lack of planning and are making it up as they go? What are we not seeing?
Youtube's adoption of the video overlay will be good for its competitors
http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/youtubes-entry-into-online-video-overlay-will-be-good-for-its-competitors/
Youtube/Google has the volume of video streams and the relationships with advertisers to help push for an ad unit standard for online video advertising that will benefit all players
SSD vs. 7200rpm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6VbOY3xE0
No sound is needed.
Removing Backgrounds Quickly in the Gimp
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/08/24/removing-backgrounds-quickly-in-the-gimp/
After publishing an article about removing backgrounds quickly in Photoshop, many have asked me how to do the same thing with the Gimp. While there is no equivalent to the Extract filter in the Gimp, you can still remove backgrounds fairly quickly. Here, I will show you how to do it with the Create and edit paths tool.
Einstein wrong?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-First-Test-That-Proves-General-Theory-of-Relativity-Wrong-20259.shtml
This experiment seems to show some factors predicted by the theory of relativity are off by a large amount.
Ask HN: Who should succeed Balmer as CEO of Microsoft?
Who do you think should succeed Balmer as CEO of Microsoft?
What I learned about computer ergonomics... 
http://blog.iloire.com/post/49853354647/what-i-learned-about-computer-ergonomics
...that I wish someone would have told me before
Desperately need an investor .. any ideas?
http://alpha.beepl.com/user/rsvaskova
I've tried and tried and tried and it's leading nowhere.... Btw, you might want to check out profiles - that's where the technology goes. I have about a month of work to get ready to launch this. And when I do, it's going to kick ass! Any advice / feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you.
Facebook's Monetization Strategy: Scammy and Deceptive ads 
http://www.whatbosh.com/?p=11
Facebook's ads are like Adsense.

Except they give awful ROI, CPC is through the roof, the ads are irrelevant to users and they allow these sorts of ads to be shown across their network.

Hands up if you think Facebook is overvalued and overfunded.
There seems to be a bug on the YC system.
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/35989/YC.jpg
So I deleted the initial reply for some reason, the button was there, now no reply can be made yet one is still required!
I think there's a pointer that's not reset after deletion.
Well, I hope they fix it soon, like before 17th!
Computers in everything you wear? 
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_smart_clothes_youll_soon_be_wearing.php
Research and learn as much as you can about what you're most interested in...
Create kick-ass resume in minutes for FREE
http://www.kickresume.com
Kickresume allows you to create original looking resume in minutes for free. Choose one of extraordinary resume designs, fill in your details and download your new resume in less than 10 minutes.
Steve Jobs iTribute Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg7iLyzB3L4
Listen for all of the mac references in the music
Ask HN: Another project management tool
HN members i want to validate my next project, a project management tool. This would be a simpler and easier system than any other out there of which the most popular is basecamp. It would be cheaper to use than existing solutions. What features do you think it should have to be the best solution for web entrepreneurs and programmers or is it worth doing it?

Feedback appreciated..
Show HN: BirdBox – Run Thunderbird on Android for Real
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.birdbox&hl=en_US&gl=US
A little while ago, it was announced that Thunderbird was, sort of, coming to Android ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31725103 ). The UserLAnd Technologies team thought, why don't we bring it to Android for real? So we have and it is now on the Play Store ( see https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.birdb... ).

This is the first release of the actual desktop version of Thunderbird. It has some bumps currently, for example there is a awkward pause before Thunderbird is displayed, but we will improve BirdBox over time and we don't see any issues that cannot be solved in future releases.

We are charging for this app to help fund our open source work, but you can run Thunderbird in our free app, UserLAnd, if desired. BirdBox will allow us to create a more convenient and tailored experience for Thunderbird users. Any improvements developed while working on BirdBox will find their way back into UserLAnd.
We Are The Dick Pic Generation
http://www.leighdrogen.com/we-are-the-dick-pic-generation/
I think history will look back on my generation of technology entrepreneurs and hackers and say that we were the dick pic generation. We are solving relatively trivial problems because we have the tools to solve them. I hope its not long before many entrepreneurs have the same ability as Elon Musk to solve the bigger ones. I’ll be happy when people laugh at what we were doing 20 years ago and say it was juvenile and insignificant.
The oldest gaming room in Japan
http://imgur.com/a/mjDmL#0
source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/17v79x/a_4chan_user_gives_v_a_tour_of_one_of_the_oldest/