jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: please review my project TownPortal.net
https://townportal.net/
Hello I'm Fred Brach, the maker of townportal.

I would like to talk to you here more about my plan for the gold system.

On TownPortal, the creators don't choose the price of the play/view for his/her creation. People do. People do in the sense that more and more an entertainment get views, more it will cost to a subsequent user to play it. The only thing that a creator can do is stopping the price growth at a certain point - of course.

So what does it give.

First, in the absolute, you can have a play for free as you might had noted, and got to wait around 60 minutes for a next play - ie megaupload.

Also, at the beginning - right after the creators has published his/her creation, the price of a play is around 1c (cent). It is mainly for two things:
1) no way we pay more than 1c for craps and this is the biggest problem in entertainment.
2) we want mass-entertainment, we are in 2012.

If the entertainment is good, it gets views and its price growth - please note again that the creator can choose to stop this growth at the current point - so in a sense he/she is fixing the price of its entertainment, only if it is good enough to do so :) Again, two things:
1) supporting creators and creations at their beginning is cheaper and it's a good thing
2) we all like big productions unless their are craps and with this system, we can have big productions.

And, why paying per play? Because acquiering has not any sense today. Just an example of how nonsense it is: when you get a game, you play it either 3 plays or 3 years...
In addition, acquiering requiere in the end a higher price. So I think the best is to pay according to the rate we truly consume, not more, not less.

Why do the creators can't choose the price and the business model? Because I think entertainment takes a business-free system. Also, I would like a competition based on quality, not on business skills. In the other side, most creators are not able to setup a free-to-play, freemium, subscription-crap, blabla, business model.
Today, creators have to make something free or they have to work on entertainment factories - as I call them.

I want creators to get the most of their money back on townportal. I mean, there is no way a distribution system keep a 30% fees.
I've fixed the fees to 10% for the moment. This is a bit to high I think. Ideally, I would like it at around 5%. The thing is I don't know what could be the charge of such website. I will make my possible to push them down at maximum and why not - in fact, I hope! - reach the 5% (if townportal.net live of course).
So for the moment, you get 450 gold for $5 and, for the moment, you can play to each entry for 1 gold.

If you like this project, it's cool because I like it too. You can email me at: fredbrach@townportal.net (skype:fredbrach)
Truth Revealed | Top Indian Hackers List: Indian Hackers Facts
http://www.amarjit.info/2011/04/real-hackers-of-india-indian-hackers.html
There has been a lot of commotion in the Indian Hacking scene lately, and I expressed some pretty strong views regarding that. When it comes to hacking, every other guy tends to tape the "hacker" word with his name/codename without even realizing its significance. Then there is Facebook ...Have a look at it -
Show HN: Print age encrypted small secrets for offline recovery
https://github.com/yawn/offkey
Print age encrypted small secrets such as cryptographic keys, passwords, recovery tokens etc. for offline recovery. Uses a one-shot localhost web server and QR codes for simple generation and recovery.
Coffee: A New App Where LinkedIn Meets Tinder
http://lnc.hr/c6dJd
Pretty cool idea. They're launching soon. Figure it's worth checking out.
Larry Page passes Mark Zuckerberg as Most Circled person on Google+ 
http://www.thetecnica.com/2011/10/larry-page-passes-mark-zuckerberg-as.html
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the “most-circled” person on Google+. That honor now rests, more appropriately, with Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page.
IQueryable Vs IEnumerable
http://jinaldesai.net/iqueryable-vs-ienumerable/
IQueryable inherited IEnumerable, so it obviously get all the functionality IEnumerable has. The working style of both is still different. There are still lot many differences exists between the two which impact the decision we took in usage of either one. Both of these suits for particular scenarios. Following are some differences using which we can took decision to use anyone of these optimally.
Ukrainians' to US petition hits 128K signatures in 3d
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/impose-personal-sanctions-president-ukraine-viktor-yanukovych-and-cabinet-ministers-ukraine-members/h58Fz30V
Short history:

After ukrainian president Mr. Yanukovich suspends talks on EU trade pact thousands pro-EU demonstrators came to the main square.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/ukraine-suspends-preparations-eu-trade-pact

People posted a petition on the white house website asking to impose personal sanctions
on the President of Ukraine and members of Cabinet of ministers.

Ukraine police's violent crackdown at pro-EU protest

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/nov/30/ukraine-police-violent-crackdown-pro-eu-protest-video

In three days there were more than 100K signatures.

Lets see the Congress reacts.
Senior Developer versus Junior Developer
http://marekblotny.com/2010/07/senior-developer-versus-junior-developer/
What does it take to advance from junior to senior developer? The most obvious answer is experience. But is it only that? Or maybe number of years of experience is completely irrelevant?
Why Project Managers Are a Barrier For Designers
http://uxmovement.com/philosophy/why-project-managers-are-a-barrier-for-designers
Project managers serve as the liaison between the designer and the client, but sometimes instead of serving as the liaison they can be a barrier between the designer and the client. When the designer is fed second-hand information through the project manager, this can result in misinterpretation and miscommunication.
Twitter going to OAuth only in 2 weeks. You have been warned.
http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=3075
The end time are nigh. Yes, for all of us first gen Twitter App dev’s our old code is about to die on us. The old way of sending authentication using a users name and password will officially lose support july 1. That means you had better get OAuth (or XAuth) up and running before hand. I have a feeling a lot of mashups might find a few broken pieces on July1 and whole sites that are not really supported anymore could die altogether.
EVidence – Solution to Agile Testing & Documenting Nightmare
http://evidence-agile.blogspot.com
Here are three problems, keeping requirements up to date, documenting & testing ! These are things we all love to hate. eVidence is the first iteration of a solution to the testing & documentation problem. It's still in beta and I would like to invite you to check it out. I would love your feedback - for bugs, feature suggestions or anything else. Your input will help make eVidence better, so you never have to worry about testing, documenting, time and quality again.
Ask HN: Which electronics/gadgets do yo truly like?
Hey HN! I recently went through watches I want to buy and decided on a classic Casio A168. I paid around 50 Dollar for it and when it came, I remembered how fascinated I was by it as a kid and it is a true joy to look at it every day and have it on my wrist.

The last time I felt this about an electronic device was with the Nokia N9 smartphone.

Now I am wondering if there are more electronics which fall under this category with which I can replace my current ones.

I put the Thinkpad X1 under this category a bit, since somehow the plastic it uses and the keyboard make it feel like a proper tool instead of a MacBook, I can't explain why!
Is zomato down?
https://www.zomato.com/
Too many connections
Show HN: Frolick – No-Fee Food Delivery (Northern Virginia for Now)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/frolick/id1594860219
We got tired of paying $15-20 in fees each time for a takeout. Or, grabbing fast food when unsuccessful trying to find a meal under $15.

Live now in Northern Virginia. The ops is a baby of darkstores & dark-kitchen tech.

Would love your feedback.
Disgusted with finance, I helped to build cowbird.com
http://cowbird.com/story/1676
I worked in high-frequency trading for 2.5 years until I grew disgusted with it. I had worked on startups before, and knew that was where my passion was - to create rather than simply make money for rich people. I'll be on NPR's Marketplace program tonight reading a version of the cowbird story linked above.
Facebook is down
https://www.facebook.com
Still down for me
Productivity: Where are you in the four quadrants?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI9VLDWXavg
A quick look at how to manage your time to make sure you are working on the right thing at any given time.
How Gwata conceived his sadza/pap making machine
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/06/william-gwata-and-entrepreneurs-journey-part-i/
A look at how William Gwata conceived his sadza/pap making machine
Ask HN: Legality of scraping manufacturer's photos from another website
A startup I know needs to get photos of certain products onto their website. Other websites have the manufacturer's photos (the photos which the manufacturer has licensed for use by resellers) on their websites. From the startup's point of view the most efficient way to get these photos would be to scrape them from another site selling the same kind of products instead of manually compiling the list themselves.

Is it illegal to scrape the photos in this instance? What advice would you give to someone in this position?
Json-Patch Needs Slices
https://gist.github.com/icholy/5050533
Json-Patch uses a 'json-pointer' to specify the target of an operation. Slices are a way to specify a range of elements in an array to perform an operation on.
Plaxo With Sauce: PIM Site Now Supporting OpenID And Microformats
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/plaxo-with-sauc.html
Plaxo is the latest high profile web service to announce support for OpenID, the standard for online identity management.
Twixmit
http://twix-mit.appspot.com/
twixmit is like chat roulette for twitter, you submit a post, someone else submits a post, they get mixed up and then posted to your twitter timeline. The result is they get your post and you get theirs.
Color Template
http://rocket-design.fr/color-template/
Color Template
How do you choose the right colors for your designs?

A Rocket-Design project
Ev, Biz & Jack - Twitter 2006 interview. 
http://blip.tv/file/1904686
Watch them talk about Odeo, dodgeball & what twitter really is. Love how Ev and Biz let Jack run the show since its his baby.
Soundoff politico app
http://www.boalt.com/soundoff/
Check it the "click here" on the right. It's hilarious!
Why haven't you made the jump to ssd?
I just dropped my first ssd in and have been using it for 2 days now. It really is a world of difference, quick video - macbook boots in under 20 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj5pE_kUnps

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odSSI_9KAkI
A good side by side comparison with a standard hdd.

So if you haven't made the jump what is holding you back?
Ask HN: What do you use for debugging JavaScript (e.g., Firebug)?
I'm starting to take JavaScript more seriously and learn it (not just jQuery or a framework), and I'm not sure what the best tool is for debugging it. I use Chrome as my default browser, and noticed that both it and Safari have their own developer tools that appear similar to Firebug for Firefox.<p>Are any of these necessarily better than the other, or does it come down to personal preference?
An algorithm to reconstruct pixel art images
https://www.facebook.com/victorqribeiro/videos/2021533927867372/
Here's a preview of something I've been working, it's an algorithm to reconstruct pixel art images.
The algorithm first detects the relative "size" of the pixel in that particular image, then it redraws it filtering the noise, to get rid of artifacts cause by compression or interpolation due to scaling.

https://www.facebook.com/victorqribeiro/videos/2021533927867372/

Above is the video of the algorithm working. The audio is in portuguese but I'm not saying anything important; just describing the algorithm. I think soon enough I'll be uploading the source code to my git account.
I tried out DDG and it didnt work
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=breast+cancer
After reading the "Giving up on Google" post on robsheldon.com I decided to give it a try.

Unfortunately, my first search, "breast cancer", resulted in no relevant results. Searching for "breast" explains that "safe search" is on.

1. Why, in 2010, would something called "safe search" block breast cancer queries? I could understand if it was 1997...

2. Why am I only alerted if all my keywords are on the black list? Shouldnt people searching for "breast cancer" know that 50% of their query keywords are being filtered out?
Bouncing Like A Jackalope - Jaunty Release Parties
http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/article/show/bouncing-like-a-jackalope-jaunty-release-parties
The final release of the latest and greatest to come from the Ubuntu stable is around the corner and from the Ubuntu Wiki, it is clear that communities around the world are starting to get real excited and the release party plans are emerging very quickly. Share your plans with the communtiy.
Cinémur, french iPhone app for movies in cinemas & on TV
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/cinemur/id596346457?mt=8
We launched our first iOS app today in France and got lots of positive feedbacks so far.
Anyway, we know the app is not perfect and are looking for comments from demanding iPhone users. Please let us know.
Camels and Rubber Duckies - "How much should I charge for my software?"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html
One of the biggest questions you're going to be asking now is, "How much should I charge for my software?" When you ask the experts they don't seem to know. Pricing is a deep, dark mystery, they tell you. The biggest mistake software companies make is charging too little, so they don't get enough income, and they have to go out of business. An even bigger mistake, yes, even bigger than the biggest mistake, is charging too much, so they don't get enough customers, and they have to go out of business.
I made Ghost work with multiple users
https://github.com/mkawalec/Ghost
It is a very rudimentary solution, but it gets the job done in a simple case, when you need a small number of trusted users to post to the same blog.

The usual disclaimer of sleeping dragons in the code applies, enjoy.
Show HN: From Syria to North Korea Discover live events on social media
http://www.solive.co/
During the Arab Spring, I became more and more addict of the live stream of information coming from social networks. I begon to search for people around the earth sharing those moments. It can be journalists, individuals live reporting what happens around them. It can be temporary (as for a demonstration or a conference) or last over month.
Show HN: Thanks to SMC, firefighters with iPhones can track stairs climbed (OSS)
https://stairmasterclimber.com/app
Hey HN! After months of work and over 1000 hours of research, design & development, I just released SMC, an open-source & free iPhone fitness game for firefighters, hikers, tower-runners and people who want to become fit by climbing stairs with friends
- The app can also measure and track stairs climbed on a StairMill/StairMaster machine. Earlier users using stair stepper exercise machines would have to use/purchase more expensive machines that pair with their phones, now they simply wear their Apple Watch (or keep their phone in their pocket) using instructions in the app while exercising.
- Firefighters across the world regularly wear heavy weights/their suits+hose reels) while using the stair mill / stair master machine in their fire stations, as climbing stairs is a critical part of their job. There is no central place where the exercise is tracked, requiring them all to be self-motivated and self-disciplined, SMC hopes to improve that.
- SMC is open-source, safe to use and doesn’t have its own database/backend, so we collect 0 data/analytics from users on our servers. The app uses the secure HealthKit and in-built hardware to deliver the floors/storeys/flights of stairs climbed by the user.
- The app also deeply integrates with GameCenter to encourage friends to be fit together, and it’s all meticulously translated in >10 languages (Includes Arabic, Ukrainian, Chinese Simplified & Traditional, Spanish, French, German, Slovak...) so you can compete & hold accountable your friends remotely, or just complete globally.
- The app was designed to make a low impact exercise more exciting, to encourage people to take the stairs rather than the elevator, and so I can provide my kid a game that require exercising to get achievements for me.

We'd love to get your feedback, and for you to share it with your friends :) We plan to add more features to the app if we get some traction & interest to enhance the fun experience.
Show HN: (Couch) Potato Posture Prevention
https://static.virtualsaleslab.com/vsl-poc/ppp/
Like most of you I spend a lot of my time sitting.
As I have a hard time keeping an active sitting posture, I decided to spend the afternoon on a small tool/webpage to monitor my posture via the camera and alert me when I'm slacking.

As it seemed to work reasonably, I published it online free to use for anyone.

(FYI it runs fully client-side.)

Enjoy!
BrailleUno – A refreshable braille hardware prototype using arduino
http://hitherejoe.com/brailleuno/
So I built a refreshable braille display prototype using an arduino and a few solenoid sensors. I thought it'd be interesting to implemented as a base for other things that could be done in this field.
Ask HN: Getting Started Again After 2 Decades
I'm posting this, because... well I don't know how to get going again. I've been doing tech for a long time; I've done operating systems, back end things, cloud things, security things... basically all the things. I've also only ever worked on closed source - and had contracts that prohibit things on the side - all legal in the jurisdictions I've worked in.

I've also never had a resume - ever. For 25 years jobs, consulting, and whatever has just worked out. It also means that I literally don't know what to do now.

I've moved to another country. There's no tech here, and no network to speak of. Remote boards seem to mostly be not remote, or "yeah it says remote, but we want you here". My other favourite is "oh, you're not American, sorry".

So how do you get started? How do you write a resume that matters in tech? How do you get people to even notice you anymore, or to grab their attention?

I'm now at wits end, especially with the collapse of worldwide markets.
Show HN: I made a Pingdom clone while learning Go
http://erlywarn.com/
I decided to learn Go[lang] and made a little Pingdom-like clone as a practise ground.

Use it if you like, it's working and I'll be using it to monitor our own servers so it will stay alive for the foreseeable future, and will be adding the ability to collect arbitrary JSON data rather than just response-times soon.

Really impressed with go so far, looking forward to trying it out on a "real" project.
Funny and simple cartoon caption contest on Facebook 
http://on.fb.me/mw9hlP
Just check the proposals, submit your own, and win an iPad 2 or one of the Amazon Gift Vouchers.
This is the Definitive List of Best Gmail Tools and Plugins Ever
http://blog.piesync.com/11-best-gmail-tools-plugins-ever/
Every marketeer / start-up needs these tools!
Insane startup aims at creating a new, relation-based web.
http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/stormdriver-alpha-third-preview/
Some crazy, radical functions of the upcoming StormDriver Alpha version.
Did Steve Jobs Coin the Term “Apps” to Make People to Think of APPle?
http://www.keenerliving.com/did-steve-jobs-coin-the-term-apps-to-make-people-to-think-of-apple
I thought you might get a chuckle out of this. I'm not the best comedian ... maybe some of you can make it funnier with a spin-ft.
Some amazing future phone designs
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/concept-phones-ceatec/
here is the non-paginated link
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/concept-phones-ceatec/all/1
A Formula for Startup Success: Miller High Life and 12Seconds.tv
http://blog.tippingpointlabs.com/2009/02/how-miller-high-life-could-have-escalated-12secondstv/
There's a formula emerging in developing the right kind of relationships if you're an internet start-up that can escalate your platform rapidly and successfully. See how Miller and 12Seconds.tv missed the boat.
How to Create a Cinemagraph: Best Tutorials on the Web
http://www.antsmagazine.com/2011/10/how-to-create-a-cinemagraph-best-tutorials-on-the-web/
You may have seen a few by now; the GIF has roared back to life with a “new” art form refered to as a cinemagraph.
Long waves of software development – toolkits or frameworks
http://www.plexical.com/blog/2011/06/28/toolkits-or-frameworks/
There's been quite a lot of talk about micro frameworks as of late. Especially Javascript ones (I'm looking at you Thomas Fuchs).

This article contributes with a historical (and at times Marxist!) perspective to the conversation.
Nadal vs Murray live Stream Wimbledon Grand Slams Tennis 2011 Online
http://ussportslive.blogspot.com/2011/06/nadal-vs-murray-live-stream-wimbledon.html
wimbledon Tennis 2011, Nadal vs Murray, Nadal vs Murray live, Nadal vs Murray live free, Nadal vs Murray live online, Nadal vs Murray live stream,wimbledon Tennis 2011, Nadal vs Murray, Nadal vs Murray live, Nadal vs Murray live free, Nadal vs Murray live online, Nadal vs Murray live stream
Vancouver's dev community needing disruption?
http://www.meetup.com/vancouver-ruby/messages/archive/
A random/innocent comment in the Ruby meetup group started a much needed discussion about what's wrong with Vancouver's dev community as a whole.
This Is How the Web Was Built, According To Google
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-the-web-was-built-according-to-google-506808278
It might seem impossible to comprehend the web existing before Google but it did!
Bypass ios 7 lockscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqUzmikbuo
apple did it again?!"#
Ask HN: Efficient API to calculate distances?
Google maps seems rather slow for this.

For ~200 displayed fields, need to calculate distance (by road) between a user-input zip and various other zips. Suggestions?

The project in question is finding autocross events within x miles of a user-entered zip, hence the need to do this dynamically, rather than store the data.
Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjuPn7MXMs
An amazing demo. I never imaged about such a WM. Really hope to build my own desktop one day with the powerful wayland compositor.

And one more link here on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXS3xKV-UM0
Camingo Code – Great (and Free) programming font
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/jan-fromm/camingo-code/
This is a great and free programming font.
3 Ways to become online influencer
http://www.ranky.co/growth-hacks-become-online-influencer/
Want to be an online influencer? Read this to learn 3 easy ways.
Ask YC:  Anyone using O'Reilly's Safari service?  
http://safari.oreilly.com/
I've been using it for a few months, and I love the service, so I'm glad to pound the pulpit about it for a while.

My only issue with it, is that some times it's slow, and the search still needs work. But, for what it's worth, an excellent value no matter what level of programming you're at.
Are Online Based Password Manager Safe?
I'm wondering, If online based password manager like LastPass is safe or has some danger on storing secure information?
Show HN: TimeCamp 2.0 - your free computer time diary
http://www.timecamp.com
This is our most important pivot. Any feedback is very welcome.