jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: With BOFA at 0.01%, I made levels.fyi for high yield savings accounts
https://www.apy.fyi
I was with BOFA and Chase Private Client for years before I realized that they were making tons of interest off my money and just keeping it for themselves.

The funny thing is that since I had a lot of money with them they raised my rate as a thank you to wait for it 0.02% instead of 0.01% lol.

Got upset because of this and made this site. It scrapes all the banks every 30 minutes so it is the most real time source of APY data on the internet. Rates are now over 3% at the high end so it makes sense to park your money in these places rather than the big three banks.
Edward Snowden: The NSA accused to set fire to the future of the Internet
http://www.freshtechapps.com/edward-snowden-at-sxsw-the-nsa-accused-to-set-fire-to-the-future-of-the-internet/
When Snowden was asked that would he repeat such act again, he answered absolutely yes. He said that he would make all such sacrifices again to ensure justice to the public.
Ask HN: Golang Codebases to Read
I've been writing in golang since the past year but I realize there is a lot I can improve in the way I'm writing go. Interested to know the best practices to be followed. Thanks again
Ask HN: Consultants/Contractors, how do you incorporate paid sick leave?
Do some consultants/contractors (working flexible hours) incorporate a paid sick leave? How common is it?

One way I was thinking is to bill for half days (or half of an average hours per day).
How To Launch A Platform in 2007
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/11/no-conflict-no-.html
Mr. Fred Wilson brings up an interesting point that product promotion is also changing nowadays. Blogsphere is very powerful and many companies, (even big ones like Google) are promoting their new products (even those as revolutionary as OpenSocial) through these streams over the more traditional big media event shows.
Bloggers tend to target a niche market for themselves and they have readers with the same interests. Therefore, by reviewing they are in fact breaking up your product into pieces and each emphasizing on what they find most interesting (taking their niche into consideration). Therefore, the readers learn about the new product and the features that would be most interesting to them, in a language that they can understand the best.
It is as if a company is hiring a huge team of PR and is getting them to do customized/personalized promotion of the product for many different groups of people.
And keep in mind that this is happening at very low costs and is possible to be done by any company at any size and budget.
Tell HN: Four Steps to the Epiphany cheaper in the UK now
I know some of you from the UK here might be interested in Steve Blank's book Four Steps to the Epiphany. Unfortunately, the book has been very expensive here (£50 on Amazon UK). So, I wrote to someone at Steve's ranch and ordered a bunch of them to sell at a more affordable price.

You can buy it at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0976470705/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&seller=A1XM871DNBIZYK&condition=used.

Note that I couldn't list the book as New, because only the publisher can. I've been told they are going to list the book themselves soon, but it's not there yet. They are also not planning to make an e-book because Steve wants people to use the paperbook as a workbook to make notes.

I hope this post doesn't come across as self-serving. I just wanted to make the book available to more people.
Programming inside the URL string
http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201212#18
About http://afterquery.appspot.com/, a pure-client-side javascript tool that downloads jsonp-formatted data from a given URL, applies a configurable series of transformations, and then renders the result as either a data table or a Google Visualizations (gviz) chart.
Yahoo Homepage redesign going live
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-project-homerun-homepage-test-2012-10
Yahoo is in the process of rolling it out its new homepage. The revamped design is already up for many users, however it seems like only the landing page has been updated so far.
Ask HN: What skills should an aspiring web developer focus on?
I'm an aspiring web developer looking for my first role. I keep finding junior roles which are low paid yet have very long lists of required skills, and I often fulfill no more than ~50% of the requirements.
As a result, I find myself running around like a headless chicken trying to learn everything, dabbling with different languages and frameworks and doing endless tutorials. This approach is just getting me frustrated and depressed, as nothing seems to stick.
What approaches should I try when it comes to learning new things? Seeing as it's impossible to learn everything, how do I pick which skills (languages, frameworks etc) to focus on?

Here's an example taken straight from an ad for a job paying £18,000 per year. (This is a fairly low salary for the UK, it's about 1.5x the minimum wage).

•Proficient use of HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Photoshop
•Sound knowledge of JQuery, Ajax and PHP and cross browser requirements
•Proven responsive web design and progressive enhancement techniques
•Experience of working with tabular HTML emails and deployment platforms
•Working knowledge of Flash, After Effects, Edge or HTML 5 animation
•Comfortable with CMS platforms including Wordpress / Drupal / Umbraco etc
•Keen interest in the application of new trends and software developments
•Attention to detail and the ability to QA own work
•Ability to multi-task and prioritise
•Excellent communication skills
•Team player - cross departmental teamwork required

They seem to be asking for an awful lot for £18k - an experienced Javascript and PHP developer, who also knows Photoshop, Flash and 3 different CMSs. I feel like it would take months to aquire all of these skills, are they really expecting a candidate to have all of them? If not, which ones should I concentrate on?
Making simple software and charging heaps because we are hip and edgy...
http://67signals.com/
I didn't make this.
Show HN: Developers, Kill Passwords today with LaunchKey.
https://blog.launchkey.com/2013/07/01/public-beta-launch/
The LaunchKey API has moved to Public Beta and the team formally invites Developers to begin implementing LaunchKey on your systems and projects.

LaunchKey eliminates passwords by providing physical authentication through the devices you already own.
Ask HN: How can I scale up quickly? Thinking about trying EC2.
Traffic to my facebook app is growing at an insane rate and I need some suggestions on how to scale. I'm probably not going to even be able to keep it running by the day's end, as it's hosted from my already overloaded dedicated server. I need to either move it to its own box or a cloud service like ec2.

Something like ec2 seems like the way to go, but my server admin skills are terrible. Is there a good front end management UI for ec2 or another hosting service that is comparable in cost that is fully managed? I don't mind going with something a bit more expensive now if that means I can get everything switched over and running within 24 hours.
Proposal for a vCard icon
http://www.proudsugar.com/blog/proposal-for-a-vcard-icon
We would like to share with the Open Source community our interpretation of a vCard icon.
Show HN: TopSpace – Scroll above the top line in Emacs
https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace
This is an Emacs minor mode I made in my spare time this past year.
It lets you scroll above the top line to vertically center top text in Emacs.

I made it out of my own necessity for the feature and it is very useful when using Emacs in full-screen with tall/large monitors. As monitors have been getting larger for many years now, I'm actually amazed that this kind of feature isn't more available in text editors or other software like internet browsers etc.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions!
Ask HN: Where can I buy a non-Chinese ONT/ONU/GPON router/modem?
Hi HN. I'm living in Africa right now, and in my particular city, all of the home internet is fibre. Specifically, each and every apartment/home gets an actual fibre line that comes in and terminates in some sort of Huawei/other-chinese-brand WiFi router.

Examples:
https://e.huawei.com/en/products/enterprise-transmission-access/access/onu/echolife-eg8145v5
http://www.fiberhome.com/en/industry/product/products/552.aspx

I do not trust Chinese hardware that connects to the internet, so I want to purchase my own device.

I am having trouble, though. Looking on US Amazon I can find almost nothing and the little that I do find, is Chinese. It seems as though Netgear, Linksys, etc do not make hardware that connects directly to fibre.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I feel like I'm not typing in the right thing, or looking in the right place. Surely there must be some sort of fibre->ethernet-jack hardware out there, to which I can connect to my own WiFi router (preferably running OpenWRT or something), right? I remember when I lived in the US, there were a zillion "cable modem/cable modem-router" options on Amazon.

I managed to find only this https://www.d-link.co.za/product/dpn-101g/ but I can't find out where to buy one. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Comprehensive evaluation of entity extraction APIs
http://blog.viewchange.org/2010/05/entity-extraction-content-api-evaluation/
LinkTV did a comprehensive test to determine how OpenCalais, Zemanta, Evri, Alchemy, Yahoo APIs and others perform tasks of 'content understanding' such as named entity extraction, related content search, image search, etc.
Loopt competitor Pelago launches Whrrl - mobile social networking
http://www.whrrl.com/
Some related articles:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/336470_pelago23.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200...
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071023/20071023005704.html?.v=1

It's interesting that they've teamed up with American Eagle to launch their marketing campaign.
Difference in judgements passed by courts in Europe v USA
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/42-german-p2p-fine-stark-contrast-to-seven-figure-us-judgments.ars
Really interesting that the judge in Europe is allowed to throw out any of the "what if" conjecture about the possible loss in revenue, but the one in the USA doesn't or can't. IANAL. I just find the punishment to not fit the crime at all.
I'm never going to use this in real life
http://infinibuy.blogspot.com/
This is a blog about why school the current school system is outdated and what needs to be done about it.
Tor anonymizing network Compromised by French researchers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Oct/780
Might turn to be false info, or not.
Bitcoin might be the new printing press
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/07/technology/innovation/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto/
Am I gonna be paying for my clothes via Bitcoin?
What about my Snickers bar? Everything physical seems to be going away nowadays...
Show HN: A Twitter bot announcing every action of the US Congress
https://twitter.com/CongressActsUS
Congress quietly released api.congress.gov yesterday, and it seemed natural to make a bot announcing everything either house did, so here one is.
Gifts for Geeks
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001010.html
2007 Edition
365 Main outage causes aftershocks in Web world
http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/365-main-outage-causes-aftershocks-in-web-world-282072.php
Honesty is always best when it comes to guys that can make you cry one line of code at a time... :P
Learn to program without leaving the browser window: Eloquent JavaScript
http://eloquentjavascript.net
I think this might have been on here before at some point (is there a search feature?), but it is still bound to be useful to people.
Most marketable skill to teach oneself?
I'm tired of sitting around after work and not doing anything productive.

I am tech savvy, like everyone else here. What is the most marketable skill I can teach myself? Guides would be appreciated.
Ask HN: Is it true that US President could "shut down" Internet?
Well, I don't know much about Internet infrastructure, DNS and ISPs, but I keep reading the same 'new US Senate Bill would give President the right to shut down Internet' these days.

How is so? Will the US President able to shut down Internet worldwide or just in the US? If worldwide, what could Europe, China, India and the rest of the world do to avoid it?
Show HN: 3D Topography of Your GPS Track
https://cubetrek.com
As a hiker and (ski)mountaineer I've always been a bit disappointed of how most apps fail to properly depict the topography while analyzing GPS tracks. (I know that Strava offers some kind of 3D view by now, but I still wanted to build my own thing)

That's why I started working on https://cubetrek.com

It's still very experimental, but you can give it test-drive now. Any feedback appreciated.

It essentially renders your GPS Track as a 3D model within the topography. As an example, here's the Bishorn, a 4000 m peak in Switzerland: https://cubetrek.com/view/5807

The front end is based on Babylon.js, D3.js, the back end is Spring Boot and Postgresql with PostGIS. There's a summary on how it works at the very bottom of the homepage.
Music Key by YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/musickey
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQxeb5ERps
Ask HN: How many people would buy a 1:1 monitor?
I'm looking for a new monitor and noticed that all midrange monitors are now 16:9 with a vertical resolution of only 1080p. Why are we losing vertical resolution when most people use their computers to browse the web? Honestly if I could buy a 1600x1600 monitor I would love it.
Well, here it is, a crowdfunding bill in Congress
http://financialservices.house.gov/Blog/?postid=263518#.TpZ_8wXcFPM.hackernews
A bit surprising to me that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has approved this bill, but there's not much fuss over it that I can tell. Seems like it would make sense for entrepreneurs to leave comments on the site? Zero so far (are they screening them?), and the news has been up there almost a week.
GitHub is Temporarily Offline
http://github.com/
Live Status on http://status.github.com/
JQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-4
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/10/jquery-and-ajax-best-demos-part-4.html
A Collection of jQuery and Ajax Tutorials with live demos, previously posted articles on 9lessons blog. In these demos I had explained about jquery connectivity with MySQL database. I hope it's useful for you. Thanks!
Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10153165-2.html
While the news is not that earth shattering the war of words between Matt Cutts and MS that followed is definitely amusing and goes to show the Microsoft philosophy and understanding of the web.
Stripe's PaymentKit Now Available on Android
http://www.brendanweinstein.me/2013/09/16/paymentkit-droid/
I made an Android library project equivalent to Stripe's PaymentKit for iOS. Try it out. Would be stoked if other devs found it helpful and used in their projects :p
Twitturly for sale and YouNoodle thinks its worth $9.8M in 3 yrs time
http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/46142
Twitturly is a PR6 site and has an Alexa Rank of 59,377 (9/17/08).

If you believe in the YouNoodle Startup Valuation tool (not that you should), Twitturly will be worth $9,810,000 in three years. I am not sure about that number (likely not), but I am sure it will be worth far more in three years than it goes for here today.
FloatingTime, a Google App Engine application for time management: Private beta for YC users only
http://floatingtime.com/
Sign up now and I'll let you in on the private beta. I'm looking for some feedback. All you need is a Google account to sign in.
Breaking Down the Mormon SEO Strategy
http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/breaking-down-the-mormon-seo-strategy/
Last week while I was at lunch, I came across this submission on Hacker News about how Avinash discussed the effectiveness of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‘ SEO. As an SEO, I was naturally interested in their strategy, so I looked deeper. What I found was extremely interesting and a great case study of the power of SEO (and how to do it well)...
Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/101110.html
(Windows Media) video at http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=101110-ee380-300.asx
Guns don’t kill people. But powerpoint bullets kill plenty
http://www.outoftheborders.com/2009/12/guns-dont-kill-people-but-powerpoint.html
This is the sequel to the popular "if you want to test a man’s character give him power*point". Practical advice, in less than 1 minute.
Show HN: Instant Search in NYC Restaurant Menus
https://c.bitlet.org/ff.html
A few years ago I wrote a crawler to fetch all NYC menus. I wanted to prove that many specific dishes can't be found in NYC restaurants.

After more than two years that I had forgotten about the project I decided to clean it up, deal with the css, and put it online.

The number of interesting dishes that can be found is actually quite surprising.

The backend is written using nodejs without any framework (no db, just a bunch of in memory DS) and vanilla js/html/css for the frontend.
Windows 1.0: Still playing Reversi after all these years
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/052611-windows-1.html#slide1
25 years after it came out, it's still possible to run Windows 1.0 in a virtual machine. While you can't connect to the Internet, you can play Reversi and see the first version of Notepad - which is pretty similar to the one in Windows 7. Here's a look at the first version of Windows.
Ask PG: Ever Considered HN Store?
A 'Store' tab lodged with the other links in the top panel.

...Working exclusively with one print company (for manufacturing) and selling high-quality t-shirts (for starters). YC logos, hacker slogans, and tech images on each.

Storefront could be a clean and spacey UI - following pre-established HN design standards. Or the store's UI could be built off API to third-party 'online store builder' application - a past YC startup comes to mind.

I'm sure you've considered it already, so I guess the better question is: Will you ever sell HN-inspired gear through HN?
Ask HN: I have so many ideas and not enough time
Hello fellow HN'ers,

I have an issue that I am confused with.

I have 6 ideas that I want to work on. Web sites/apps. One of them I have up and running, but it is requiring a lot of time to keep new content addd.

The others are ideas that I have, all that will require significant time to implement.

1. There is not more than 24 hours a day and my day job eats up, say 8 hours.

2. I have a small contract to port an app that I have been working on for a year that should be done soon.

3. I dont have money to contract to someone to help with my ideas.

4. I cannot stay up and work all night every night after 2 nights in a row, I have to sleep.

5. I dont have any friends that know jack about technical stuff.

Can anyone give me some thoughts?
devHouse in Cambridge, Sept 16th
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/
We had a lot of fun last time, so join us and help make this into a fun, monthly event. Test out ideas, work on a fun side project, meet other like-minded people.

If you're interested in helping out, contact me, johnyu2@gmail.com
We need help with spreading the word, and finding sponsors to get free food.
A Chat/IM client within chrome browser
http://psankar.blogspot.com/2011/10/telepathic-flirt-with-chromium.html
A chat/IM client within by integrating with the Telepathy library, used by GNOME and KDE.
Ask HN: Your best follow-up strategies?
How do you follow-up with people you're waiting for? I'm doing sales for a medical product I built, and the time it takes for a doctor to get back to me just kills me. A lot of follow-up and waiting is required before I finally get the sale. I often wonder, is there a better way to do this?

So HN, what methods work best for you when following up with a slow-moving organization or person? When waiting for a person to do something, do you just fire an email and forget about it? Or do you find it worth following up from time to time with reminders? How do you do that without getting annoying?

Has anyone experimented with hiring a virtual assistant to do the follow-up work for you? Are there other tools or hacks out there to make the follow-up process easier and find out why a person's taking so long to get back to you?

Your tips are appreciated! (And don't make me follow-up on that! ;-)).
Sneak Peek of Future of the Flash Runtime
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=3007
- Faster GC : GC hint API and more.
- New numeric types : float and float4 (very useful for Molehill in the future).
- Concurrency : Worker threads (shared nothing model) to leverage multicore CPU's. No more UI 's blocked when doing expensive operations.
- Stage3D : The API used for Molehill (that you know through the Incubator builds).
- StageVideo : Allowing full GPU acceleration (decoding + blitting) when used with H.264. Part of Flash Player 10.2 and coming to AIR soon.
- Threaded video pipeline : Will decode non H.264 streams on another thread, Net I/O will also be moved to another thread, all this bringing smoother playback.
Data: WSJ's "News Alert" Spam Out of Control Since News Corp Acquisition
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/06/08/the-wall-street-journal-news-alert-swaps-qualty-for-ad-inventory/
Some hard data on the increased frequency of ad-supported "WSJ News Alert" e-mails since the sale of Dow Jones to News Corp. Are paying subscribers being sold out for e-mail ad inventory?
Show HN: MyFy – Start, Finance, and Run Your Business
https://myfy.me/
MyFy is a mobile app which helps entrepreneurs to crowd-source capital through group savings, market their business and sell online, receive orders and payments, track and fulfill them, and keep verifiable records, to qualify for a credit score.
Life with the MacBook Air
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/05/life-with-the-macbook-air/
Perhaps it's due to the somewhat limited graphics capabilities of the MBA -- mostly due to its lack of a dedicated graphics card -- but it does, on occasion, have a bit of trouble with quick screen refresh and occasionally just gets bogged down completely. And yes, when it does this, you are treated to the spinning beachball show for several seconds until things get going again.

I'm looking forward to the 2nd or 3rd revision when the performance issues are resolved.
The Power of Interdisciplinary Teams
http://www.jupiter-jazz.com/interdisciplinary-teams
If you face a problem, one way to look for a solution may be to ask people from different fields. A lot of time a solution doesn’t present itself because the knowledge you have in a specific field also acts as a boundary for your imagination.
Is Web Design All About Hacking or Kludging?
http://ideonexus.com/2013/05/05/is-web-design-all-about-hacking-or-kludging/
Front end UI-design for the web seems to involve lots of workarounds and tricks to get past browser-compatibility issues and bugs. Do you consider these tricks elegant or a necessary evil of web design?
Ask HN: What are current karma thresholds?
Can anyone shed some light on this? I have an irrational need to associate numbers with a goal :)
Ask HN: Hacking each others Apps / Websites?
Inspired by Google's Vulnerability Reward Program, I have been getting more and more interested in security and ensuring that my applications aren't open to attack.

I have a feeling that there are a lot of easy wins that many new websites, applications and startups forget about in the rush to launch..

I thought it would be fun to have a group of trusted people that get together (probably virtually on skype?) and try and poke holes in each others applications to find CSRF / CS Scripting / SQL Injection and other common vulnerabilities for the benefit of all.

I am just putting this out there to gauge the interest before organising anything...