jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
AppLoop Tracks iPhone Users, Advertises Accordingly
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/01/location-based-mobile-ad-network-apploop-launches/
AppLoop is a startup launching today that provides developers with a self-service platform for tracking mobile application usage and distributing ads on top of these apps. It also claims to be the first ever real-time, location-based mobile ad network.
Google's Two-Step Verification
http://lifehacker.com/#!5756977
Google just launched two-step verification for all Google accounts, a system which makes your Google/Gmail account more secure.
ShowHN: Built this awhile ago, please rip it apart
http://javascriptdb.com
Feedback?
IPhone Question
http://www.proudn00b.com/post/804974185/iphone-question
The most important question asked to date about the iPhone 4
Data storage system using 5 dimensions
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/92892-five-dimensional-glass-storage-could-revolutionize-medical-imaging-computing
facintating posibilities.
Dutch 17 Year Old Ties GoPro to Weather Balloon
http://www.fl1200.nl/
Dutch 17 year old ties a GoPro to a weather balloon, recovers the camera with a GPS tracker and puts photos online.
Sometimes you cash in, sometimes you cash it in
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2008/04/sometimes_you_cash_in_sometimes_you_cash_it_in.html
A tale of two companies both with promising software. One cashes out to AOL for $25 million and the other is forced to shut down. A very realistic tale of the startup life.
Multi Table Poker Tournament
http://celebpoker.com/news/index.php?id=310
You don't get this opportunity often, but sometimes you can make a financial advantage just by registrating for a Multi Table Poker Tournament (MTT)!

“How is this possible?” you think? The answer is within the "overlays" given by guaranteed prizepools offered for some MTTs.

An example: On Sunday the 02/11/2008 the €250.000 Guaranteed Tournament at CelebPoker had a €320 Buy-In. 613 players registered for this tournament. Now the calculation fun begins!

First you have to divide the offered Prizemoney with the number of players who registered. In this example: €250,000 / 613 (players) = €407.

This means that your ticket is worth than €407. As your ticket costs €320, you are automatically gaining the equivilent of an extra €87 to pay for your entry (€407-€320 = €87). Ok, you don't get the cash in the bank, but you do get it as an advantage for the buy-in as you have less players to compete for the prizepool with.

You can easily calculate the number of players that turns a guaranteed tournament +-0 in added value if you divide the sum of guaranteed prizemoney with the Buy-In amount. In our example above it would be like this: 250.000 (€) / 320 (€) = 781.

That shows that when the number of players is equal or higher than 781 there is no added money in the prizepool. Therefore you dont get this extra value (overlay) for your registration. When you keep this kind of calculation in mind you can make use this overlay to your advantage by paying attention to the CelebPoker-MTT-Lobby.

Take these chances when you find these Overlays to pimp your bankroll! Good Luck!!
Show HN: Giving away my Notion brand guidelines template
https://fredrikaurdal.gumroad.com/l/notion-brand-guidelines-template
I've created my first Notion template to make it easier for anyone to organize their brand guidelines.

Instead of spending lots of time and money on a brand management service (such as Frontify), you can actually do everything in Notion.

All I'm looking for is your feedback to improve the template before it's officially released.

Have a great weekend!
Ask HN: Review my twist on a voting app
http://www.modernballots.com
Hey folks, I've been working lately on a new app that takes recent developments in electoral systems and tries to expose that to the end user in a friendly way.

It's similar to others in that you can create, share, vote and review your poll. It's different in that it isn't using Plurality, Approval or anything like that. It's working off of an implementation of Schulze STV that I open sourced a few weeks back.

Anywho, I'm wondering where to take this. I see sites like polldaddy.com charging $200/year for their services and think that there's wiggling room to work with here. Any feedback would be sweet. Thanks!
What a social network must do with 4.5M in funding?
http://weplay.com
If you are WePlay you hire a former NBA champ to be on your front page intro video .
Video: Jason Fried of 37 Signals Q and A  Creative Mornings Chicago
http://vimeo.com/28150404
Check out the breakfast lecture that I taped/edited of Jason Fried answering questions from an audience of fellow creative at the August Creative Mornings Chicago. Cool questions about productivity, time management, and shipping good product.
How I joined Google
https://medium.com/p/9bdb2d8bcb60
How I joined Google
Personal story and experience.
Revision Control Systems, Part 3: Distributed Version Control with Git
http://www.jordan-dimov.com/2012/07/revision-control-systems-part-3-distributed-version-control-with-git.html
The third part of this series focuses on a very trendy distributed version control system -- Git. A definite hit among the open-source community, Git makes it very easy to manage large projects by geographically separate teams. It also sits great on resumes. If you haven't yet learned how to use it, this is your chance.
Show HN: We want to become leading URL stamping service. Feedback?
http://sclst.mp
This is currently a Beta version of the service, would love to hear what you think and how we can make it better.
First App Release Thoughts
Yo! So our team has been testing our app concept for a few months will small groups of people, and changed direction a little to simplify things according to user feedback. Got a few thousand people signed up to download it when it launches.

We're submitting to the app store today and I'll make another post next week when it's live :) Just wanted to get some thoughts on getting it in users hands it for people who've done this successfully. I was thinking literally walking up to lots of people everyday and talking to them about it/asking them to try it. Is this scalable? I know word of mouth helps. Thanks for reading!
Startups and Kids
http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/
Back in the 90s when we were deep in the first Web1.0 boom we worked long hours, played around on our scooters, bought cool aeron chairs, spent millions of dollars, and generally had a great time. In 2005 we are a little wiser, a little more established, a little more responsible (I am embarrassed to take the scooter down to the bathroom), I sit in an inexpensive chair and I am spending my own money
See how good your color sense is
http://www.tdmartinalonso.com/absolute-eye
A quick playing simple game that tells you how good your 'color pitch' is. Try it out!
Fellowship of the Ring visualization
http://johnhackworth.github.com/middle-earth/
Interactive map where you can see the plot of the first book of the Lord of the Rings and play it on a second screen, to be able of know where are the main characters every minute
X11 Implementation Available For Android
http://my20percent.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/android-x-server/
An open source implementation of an X11 server is now available for download for the Android platform. Although there is not yet an Android Xlib implementation, running some X11 applications remotely is supported.
Ask HN: Recommendations on HN top bar color for dark mode?
So I've been using ff8937 since my karma-level allowed me to set the HN top bar color, but after starting to using dark mode I need a more toned down color. What are you using?

(if your color is already in the replies I propose just upvote it to avoid duplicates)
Ask HN: Should I work for a few years before grad school?
A bit about me: I'm a third-year at UC Berkeley, and I'll be graduating next academic year. I'm a learning entrepreneur, and I founded a profitable software company last year. However, I'm much, much more interested in the technical aspect of building new products than the business side (although I know I'll have to get my hands dirty anyway).

I eventually want to run my own company full-time, or work at a company that would give me a certain level of responsibility and ownership over a product.

My question is: I have a bunch of ideas for startups that I would love to start work on, but I also want to attend grad school to higher my education (and ensure a higher starting salary ;)) I would love to take a break for a few years after graduating and gain some experience and work on my ideas on the side before going to grad school. Is this recommended, and what are the advantages / drawbacks to this approach? How would it affect my admission chances?

I really appreciate your advice!
Anemone - An Easy to Use Ruby Web Spider framework
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/anemone-an-easy-to-use-ruby-web-spider-framework/
Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website.
Performance Comparison of Web Map Services
http://jt.io/2013/map-comparison/
Somewhat of a surprise... Google maps ranks bottom in all categories
E-Book: Implementing Functional Programming Languages
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/index.htm
Describes how to build a compiler for languages like Haskell. Advanced stuff. I found it very instructional though I did not understand everything.
HR Mistakes to Avoid in a Startup - Few Candid Feedback from Startup Employees
http://www.pluggd.in/hr-mistakes-to-avoid-in-a-startup-candid-feedback-from-startup-employees-297/
We all probably know a lot about HR management and the value of good team in a startup. To further help on the same issue we surveyed some startup employees and have compiled a list of most popular and significant mistakes committed by startups.
Book review: NumPy Cookbook
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2013/01/book-review-numpy-cookbook.html
Review of the book NumPy Cookbook from the glowing python.
To Be or Not To Be - To Kindle or Not To Kindle
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/to-be-or-not-to-be.html
Can e-book readers fulfill the same needs as real books? Something feels wrong...
My Start Up Did This for Mario Marathon 
http://simpleindustry.com/
In celebration of Mario Marathon this year my start up made this cool WordPress theme which we are giving away for free.
The State of DevOps
http://www.agileweboperations.com/the-state-of-devops
James Turnbull, Director of Operations at Puppet Labs, discusses the state of DevOps in a guest post for Agile Web Developments & Operations.
Agile Tools Won’t Solve Your Problem Part 1
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/27547558274/agile-tools-wont-solve-your-problem-part-1
Many organizations put off an Agile transformation until they’ve evaluated and found the right Agile or Scrum tool that they believe will solve all their problems.
Ask HN: One signup service to rule them all?
I was wondering if there is any website where I can chose a couple of web apps (Gmail, Twitter, Reddit, etc.), fill up a form / captchas and have all my accounts created in one click? Better yet if this service has an API available.
MLB.TV hidef not supported on Mavericks (OS X 10.9)
http://alvinalexander.com/photos/mlbcom-nexdef-plugin-not-supported-mac-os-x-109
According to the MLB.tv site, OS X 10.9 isn't a supported device - and this is still true today, opening day of the season. Seems amazing they haven't figured this out as the OS has been out quite awhile now. (The NextDef plugin required has issues)

And here I was all set to give them my money, but as my macs are both at 10.9, I can't watch hi-def. Seems like quite a boondoggle!

(I know, first world problems, etc) (alos, I'm not the poster of the article above)
Needs assessment: the most important process in web design
http://briancray.com/2009/09/22/needs-assessment-web-design/
Every client who comes to you for a website knows why they want a website, even if they can’t clearly articulate that “why.” But understanding that why is the most important part of a website design.
The Top Things Eric Schmidt Revealed At D9
http://searchengineland.com/the-top-10-things-eric-schmidt-revealed-at-d9-79275
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt just finished being interviewed at the D Conference by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, and there were a number of interesting revelations that came out. I thought a list of highlights was in order.
Will these tools protect you on the internet?
http://www.internetfreedom.org/
I believe you need the best anonymous and end user website creation tools for this, so that's why I am implementing them myself and open sourcing them for scrutiny. And crowdsource the anonymous verification process, so you can trust the sites.
Show HN: HTML5 & CSS3 Pricing tables generator
http://pricerninja.com
Pricer Ninja is new tool I created, as part of commoninja.com project.

Pricer Ninja will help you to create awesome HTML & CSS pricing tables on-the-fly.

Check it out:
http://pricerninja.com
Ask HN: Does it make sense to make Hypervisor more like Container?
check https://github.com/google/novm curious as you can always run Docker containers in VM
Ask HN: Know of any blogs interviewing ppl about their workflow and tech stack?
I am very fascinated by how others complete their work. Years ago I encountered a blog where every post was an interview with a different professional or student about which routines, hacks, software, hardware, etc... they used to complete their work.

The blog had an article interviewing a phd computer science student at Stanford (or it might have been MIT) about how a normal day doing research looked like. Another post interviewed an indie game developer and the person revealed that they had made their local starbucks their office.

Does anyone else remember the name of this blog or have any recommendations for simular ones?
Yahoo Labs Competition Yields Better Ranking Model
http://cacm.acm.org/news/98046
Yahoo!’s Learning to Rank Challenge reinforced the company’s approach to relevance ranking, but didn’t stop it from handing off its Web search to Microsoft.
Ask HN: How to Relocate to US as a Foreign/International Startup Founder?
Basically the title says it all. We are 2 engineers, we are interested in moving to US so we can access the North American market. We have already checked E-2 investor visa [1], but unfortunately, we don’t qualify. We found more information about Canadian startup program [2] as well, and we are checking it.

We are planning to apply for startup programs (e.g. YC, Techstarts, etc.).

Question: (1) Is there any way we can prepare for this?. We heard various stories from international YC founders, but how do founders do it?. (2) If you see that Canada is a better place today, please let us know why?.

Any help appreciated!

[1]: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-workers/e-2-treaty-investors

[2]: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/start-visa/designated-organizations.html
Ya, sorry...but no financials for year 5
http://www.convmediatips.wordpress.com
I’m sorry, but the only reason any investor asks for your projections or valuation in 5-6 years is to see how crazy you really are. There is no possible way for anyone to predict where a company will be in that time frame; there are way too many unknown factors. It’s just impossible, it’s pure guessing. If you get an investor to seriously believe in your unaltered numbers you produce for 5-6 years, I would love to meet you. Now, if you’re an investor who has believed in these numbers, I’d like to meet you even more so. My number is 407 716 6237 :) .<p>Now, I refuse to provide numbers past 3 years, and to me, that’s even stretching it. The best you can do to convince an investor is to come as close to providing the numbers that they are typically looking for as is possible in 3 years. Now, that doesn’t mean your numbers can be pure bullshit…just a little.
What matters most is applying consistent growth and adoption rates backed by other known numbers. These rates then become your goals and milestones that you need to hit after financing. Now I still do believe you have to be a bit crazy ambitious with your goals– without that you can’t get anywhere far. I believe that as an entrepreneur you have to shoot for the moon and hope for the stars. But in doing so, you face the risk or investors seeing you as a risk because your numbers don’t look good without shooting for incredibly high rates. A much better philosophy to put forward when dealing with investors is to shoot for the clouds and hope for the moon (while you are secretly still hoping and working towards the stars :) .
Good news though, once you’ve found numbers that you don’t feel will be embarrassing to show to investors, you can use those numbers to double-check and even reverse engineer your costs. In fact, I think it may be better to start with your revenue drivers and then work back towards your expense drivers. Why? Because you then have your numbers you have to hit and it’s much easier to determine the number and type of employees necessary to hit your target revenue numbers than it is to determine how much revenue or how many users you can derive from your team.
I would share my financials with you so you can see how I’ve organized them, but that would be crazy. So the best I can do is explain my method for getting to those numbers. Also, don’t forget how incredibly important your financials are to investors. However, what is even more important is your explanation of the financials and your strategy for hitting your milestones. This is where you convince investors that, yes, the numbers are high, but here is how we achieve those high numbers.
I will be writing another blog post very soon on what I feel you should include in your presentation materials to any investor without writing a full business plan (which I see to be a waste of two times the amount of paper you should actually need). Hope this helps.
Bookmarking is dead. Long live the bookmarking.
https://dragdis.com/#/
Just watch the video, it explains everything in few seconds.
Ask HN: Please review my app in iTunes: TipEasy
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tipeasy-calculate-tips-divide/id365781251?mt=8
It's really is a good app but only one person reviewed it. It is a very nice review. My apps are languishing due to no reviews. It's ok to be honest. I want to provide real value.
Here are some promo codes:
RXTTA369346Y
HAP447NPT4K6
Y6Y7TENFMJ7R
KJLFFP3F7XY9
6E4AHMHW6AXP

PS How does one get reviews for apps - I have 19 in the App store and little to none reviews. They are selling albeit slowly.
Show HN: Atom Shell Version Management À La “n”
https://github.com/omnidan/asv
I wrote a little tool for myself, because I got annoyed about keeping my atom-shell version up-to-date and having to run ~/Downloads/atom-shell-v0.20.5-darwin-x64/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom app/ to execute my applications. Since other people might have the same problem, I thought I'd share it with you guys.

ASV (https://github.com/omnidan/asv) let's you easily manage your atom-shell versions and allows you to run atom-shell with an atoms command.

It works like n (nodejs version management) and m (mongodb version management) and can be installed using npm: npm install -g asv
After installation, simply run asv latest and it'll download the latest atom-shell version, then run atoms to run it.

Works on linux and OS X. Please let me know what you think!
No wantrepreneurs were hurt in the making of this company.
http://vc-tees.myshopify.com/
bootstrapped threads for startup folk, wantrepreneurs, and nerds.
Show HN: My script to get all iPad games on sale from the App Store
http://www.gamesontheipad.com/games/deals/all-ipad-games.php
Decided to use the weekend to play around with the iTunes API so I made a site just for iPad games.

I'm always looking for a good iPad game (love the iPad as a gaming platform) so I've been pulling iPad games from the app store nightly (for last 3 nights) and comparing their prices.

Out of roughly 9K games that I could find 20 go on sale every day.

So far I've saved a whopping $4 on games and it took me 3 days to write it. If I got a weekend job anywhere else I'd probably make much more money than I saved and be able to buy more games than I did but where is the fun in that.

I know appshopper does deals but I just wanted a way to get discounted iPad games every day.
Could Trading-Only Crypto Exchanges Like Robinhood Trading Naked Options?
Disclaimer: I am not accusing RH or other exchanges of any wrongdoing. I am merely pointing out a concern I had and trying to see if anyone knows of information that would disprove it. I only posted after spending considerable time searching and being very surprised at how opaque the RH crypto operation is, overall, in comparison to exchanges of their size that have all sorts of technical info posted in public and easily accessible.

/start: TLDR

There is two problems that could be potentially happening right now.

1) People buying and selling billions of crypto assets, with zero impact on the price of those. Regular exchanges check the buys and sells from the master source of truth, the blockchain itself, and adjust the prices based on that.

2) (Applies mostly for smaller coins) There could be more coins being traded than actually exist in the blockchain.

/end: TLDR

Blockchain was invented to guarantee transparency and give peace of mind about problems like that happening from existing fiat centrally-managing systems, but with trading-only exchanges like RobinHood, there is no guarantee of protecting against those anymore. I could be wrong and there is a page somewhere that has information that proves otherwise, but I couldn't find it, hence trying to pick up your brains by posting this.

RobinHood doesn't allow transferring coins in or out. Never had and never will (from everything they talked about so far at least). It only allows buying and selling.

Are there are any actual underlying coins at all anywhere in the system? For smaller coins in particular, does this mean that in theory there could be more coins traded than existing supply?

Is there an SEC regulation that mandates they hold actual coins?

Since there are no transfers in, how do they obtain the crypto they're "selling" to you?

Do they have a wallet for each crypto currency? Is the app-only transaction volume public?

Does the SEC compare and verify the in-app transactions match with the wallet transactions for each crypto asset?

Is any of this public so anyone can go into the Blockchain and compare the RH buying/selling volume to that of the actual wallet on the Blockchain?

If the trades are naked, does that mean there could be massive buy and sell operations happening there that do not have any impact on the crypto price since no one else can see them? i.e. Buying or selling a billion BTC would be reflected in the blockchain and all exchanges would act and raise or lower the BTC price, but if the RobinHood trades are all naked, that won't happen. That, would be really weird. It would be like a parallel universe where the laws and supply and demand no longer exist.

The information they released is so limited and I couldn't find anything useful to confirm or deny my thoughts. Even assuming that RH was trading covered crypto assets, Is anything that could prevent anyone exchange from creating a fully-naked crypto exchange?

I am writing this in case someone knows any better.
E-oro
http://www.e-oro.gr
Watches & Jewellery Online Store.
How a business increased their sales 18 fold by using online promotions
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d4u1b/update_reddit_beef_jerky_sales_stats_graphs/
Granted that selling meat to people who post on the internet is like shooting fish in a barrel, this is still an impressive use of discounts and online presence to attract new business.