jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Phoenix, a no-loss brokerage for active individual investors
http://phoenix-trade.io
Do you like actively trading?

If you do, chances are you lose money. 85% of active individual investors lose money, for an aggregate loss of around $1trn per year.

Several major causes of this are outside the control of investors:

1. Wall Street has a large informational edge.

2. Wrongdoing towards individual investors goes unpunished by the government and regulators, with a revolving door between these two and Wall Street.

3. Short-term frictional costs eat into a short-term trading style.

4. Brokerages now have a business model of selling customer trades to financial institutions. This is rife with conflicts of interest and abuse, with limited transparency.

5. Brokerages are incentivized to push a bad trading style on their clients and do so, in order to maximize their own revenue.

Phoenix seeks to provide better financial outcomes for individuals actively trading markets, with no potential for trading losses for any participants, but a real chance for big gains.

We aim to reduce the $1trn loss of active individual investors by 98% (we plan to take the last 2% as our revenue), and to build a new community and product for them that has the core focus of improving investor outcomes. Every other individual investor brokerage product we’ve reviewed ultimately has the goal of exploiting them more, or in a new way. We’re taking a radically different approach.

How does this work?

Our core product doesn’t involve any interaction with real financial markets or institutions. Instead, we simply ingest market data into our app, and all customer trades are virtual based on these real prices. This means that investors trade in exactly the same way as they would in a real brokerage, just with simpler liquidity, algorithmic derivative pricing, and no real consequences if things go wrong (like margin calls, taxes on unrealized gains, or debt from losses on margin). This also means there are no deposits or fees required to participate in Phoenix. Investors who do well don’t make trading profit, but instead earn rewards based on their ranking on our leaderboard in each day or week.

We generate the money for these rewards by taking subscription revenue in exchange for a variety of premium features that we offer associated with our ecosystem. This revenue feeds the value of a crypto token, which then automatically distributes rewards based on the ranking charts.

Want more information?

Visit phoenix-trade.io/docs for more info

We don’t offer an account-less demo as most of our features depend on referencing a specific user. If you want to trade please sign-up at the title url.
87 videos for Java beginners
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=31
Great tutorials for all who wants to learn Java. There are also video tutorials for advanced programmers.
'Anybody and their dog can make a medical app,' doctors warn patients
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Remarkable+ride+comes+abrupt+Canadiens/3066603/Anybody+their+make+medical+doctors+warn+patients/3065343/story.html
Anyone else take offense to that ?
And the funny thing is that the quote is from a nurse, not a doctor...
Show HN: Outstatic an open source CMS for Next.js
https://outstatic.com
Hi,
I've been working on a new project for a couple of months and I'm close to launching it. It is called Outstatic, I created a landing page for it. Sing up to the waitlist to be notified when it comes out.

Features include:

Open source
Host for free
Keep your data
5 minute setup (5 minutes to live!)

The CMS was built with Next.js and uses Github and Vercel as its main hosting platforms. Full site with examples and documentation coming soon.

Feedback on the idea and the current landing page is appreciated. Thank you!
Show HN: Checkin Map, Facebook Places for iPhone et al.
This is my first iPhone app, as well as my first Facebook app. I'd be curious to see what you all think. Thanks!

App Store: http://checkinmap.net/get

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=153116924730274
Request HN: Do you know a good system administrator in the Toronto area?
Our web apps have been having some serious issues over the past couple of days and the individual who wore the sys admin hat left the company. We're a 3 person company (just hired a Java developer last week) and we are looking for someone to look at our systems and be available for part-time contract work when things go haywire.
Easy - CSS/HTML/JavaScript Layouts Framework
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/easy-csshtmljavascript-layouts-framework/
Easy is CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework designed for building layouts. It includes built-in (jQuery powered) interactive functions
Dilbert on Firewalls: A teaching moment
http://securityskeptic.typepad.com/the-security-skeptic/2011/06/dilbert-on-firewalls-a-teaching-moment.html
Fun piece that uses a Dilbert comic to explain some basic firewall considerations.
Ask HN: What would an awesome contact tracing app look like?
Rigorous testing, contact tracing, and isolation is the best way to take the fight to the novel coronavirus. We can't wait for a vaccine[1].

Singapore has started something[2], but ideally the app would be built in such a way that western democracies have an appetite for it.

It'd be really great if the HN crowd who knows how to build such things would freely share their best ideas here, as this is not about who gets first to market but rather solving a critical crisis that we all face.

This includes not just front-end mobile client ideas, but also back end architecture to ensure proper security.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-ryan/lockdowns-not-enough-to-defeat-coronavirus-whos-ryan-idUSKBN2190FM

2. https://www.gov.sg/article/help-speed-up-contact-tracing-with-tracetogether
PHP, iPhone and Blackberry Developers Wanted - Palo Alto, CA
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/eng/1222791711.html
Think Computer Corporation (http://www.thinkcomputer.com), the company behind the original Universal Face Book at Harvard University, is developing a suite of web-based software applications that help the corporate back-office become a more efficient and productive place. Think has been operating for over 10 years in the IT space and is looking to aggressively grow its software product business. Successful candidates will become an integral part of the top management team and will have the opportunity to take on an equity stake in the company.

We are in greatest need of software developers with heavy UI design experience. All candidates should also have:

* Significant experience with the LAMP stack (PHP and MySQL on Linux with Apache)
* Knowledge of JOINs, temporary tables, scaling and replication
* Knowledge of MySQL fine-tuning on the Linux operating system
* Willingness to learn and use existing tools and frameworks
* Experience with JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS
* Flexibility, not zealotry: willingness to work with HTML tables or stylesheets as appropriate
* A sample, functional web-based application URL to send along (include a description of what part you worked-on and the extent of your involvement)

Candidates who can answer any of the following questions will be given priority consideration:
- Both Flash and PNG graphics support transparency. What's one difference between them?
- What is a more efficient way to store this string: "0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1"?
- What's the best way to figure out if a particular MySQL query is slowing down your database server?
- What kind of bar code does the U.S. Postal Service use for routing packages? First-class mail?

Apply for this job at https://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/index.html . We will pay a lot more attention to submissions that use our form than we will to e-mails!
Show HN: Commandline tool for protecting data using TouchID+Secure Enclave
https://github.com/pathtofile/toucli
Toucli is a tool I made to solve a specific problem on my personal MacBook, where I had to pass in sensitive data like API keys to 3rd party applications on the commandline, but wanted to encrypt those keys on disk and require the physical presence of TouchID to decrypt/access them.

As I state in the readme, for production and office environments a proper external system would be better, but for my single personal machine Toucli solved my problems without needing any external running service.

It was also an excuse to use Swift and Xcode for the first time, which I had wanted to do for some time.
Runaway Star Found Hurtling Through Space
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029397-501465.html
This is the sort of story that tickles the delight of the amateur astronomer in all of us. Late Monday afternoon, NASA/JPL sent around a rare picture taken by its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer of a star whose mass is about 20 times that of our sun.Astronomers say that the star, Zeta Ophiuchi, was given the boot by its former companion, another massive star, sending it hurtling at a clip of 54,000 miles per hour through space dust.
Americans have some strange ideas about what causes global warming
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/10/14/americans-have-some-strange-ideas-about-what-causes-global-warming/
...and not just from U of Rush Limbaugh either
StrawPoll -- Tiny daily polls in 140 characters or less.
http://strawpollnow.com
A Twitter app.
A good example of great customer service.
http://www.startupschwag.com/2008/08/new-schwag-new-site-new-features/
If you ever wonder how a good company should treat its customers, you should definitely take a look at StartupSchwag.

StartupSchwag, for those who do not know, sends you a monthly bag that includes geeky shirts (Disqus, FriendFeed, Pownce....) and other schwags.

Dealing with logistics when selling goods is a nightmare. In the last 12 months I have moved from city to city (Atlanta, Scottsdale, Honolulu....) and this company always manages to deliver the bag. When my bags were returned (which happened a few times at my new location) they sent me a few emails and try to figure what happened. They made sure all the bags returned were saved and they sent them again to the proper address.

When you email the company, you receive your answer within a few minutes or hours tops and you can tell this guys are friendly and like what they do.

If we are quick to denounce a bad customer service we should be quicker to report an excellent customer service as well.

StartupSchwag rocks.
Google Video Distributed Archiving System Writeup
http://archiveteam.blogspot.com/
Thought I'd write up a bit on how I put together a system for tracking and assigning millions of video IDs to clients all over the world for the ArchiveTeam Google Video project. Feel free to ask me questions below.
Pak plane crash: Reports suggest all 159 on board dead
http://mostpopularnewss.blogspot.com/2010/07/pak-plane-crash-reports-suggest-all-159.html
Islamabad: Reports suggest that none of the nearly 159 people on board have survived this morning's plane crash in Islamabad. This is Pakistan's worst-ever plane crash.
Show HN: Website hosting on Optimism Layer 2 blockchain
https://newgeocities.com/webmaster/blog/applications.html
Why pay per month when you can put any file on the blockchain forever?
Are Private High Schools Better Academically Than Public High Schools?
http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.showDocumentByID&nodeID=1&DocumentID=226
There's a PDF summary at the link. The gist is that students at private high schools probably would have done equally well had they gone to a public high school.

Two exceptions are noted: Private High Schools appear to have an effect on SAT scores. Also Catholic Schools run by a Holy Order (such as Jesuit) actually did show some benefits.
What To Buy an Entrepreneur for the Upcoming Holidays
http://digg.com/business_finance/What_to_buy_an_entrepreneur_for_the_holidays/
a humorous look at shopping for an entrepreneur
Show HN: I've this wonderful app – but no users
I've made a SaaS, http://git-publish.com and released it yesterday.

There's a lot of similair services out there, so from that and my own experience I know that there's a need for such a service. However after several hours I got no users. Now a hours isn't that long, but just leaving a site up without promoting it won't lead anyone to find it.

So the question is, what do I miss to make this a service that people wants to use? Is it just marketing? The design of the site? Or maybe something lacking with the service?
Show HN: my weekend project, Pygmenter
http://www.pygmenter.com/
A light web frontend for the Pygments syntax highlighter.
Ask HN: Selling startup, Flippa or EBay or..?
Somebody has real experience in selling business web, mobile or desktop apps on these marketplaces? I see only adsense blogs, affiliates niche sites and no any serious web application. Checked BizBuySell but its only for middle/large businesses which cost more then $100.000.
I plan to sell my startup(day care management) due problems with market it to enterprise customers(timezone diffs etc. issues).
Thanks
Ask HN:  Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?
I'm getting to the point where Gmail is so slow that its borderline unusable. I've followed all the Internet advice on how to speed things up, but to no avail. Its particularly frustrating because our startup uses Gmail....

Just thought I would vent...
Color's $41M funding validated by founder Bill Nguyen
http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-bill-nguyen-qa-2011-3
Color Founder Bill Nguyen Explains Why You're All Wrong -- It Really IS A $41 Million Idea
Sort numbers faster than glibc qsort()
http://bitbucket.org/ais/usort/wiki/Home
In which a number of sorting strategies are combined to minimize sort time of C numerical types.
Ask HN: From programmer to business
Who has made the leap from programmer to running a business? Any tips, advice, good stories?

I am not necessarily talking about a 'start-up' aiming for the moon.

Recently I started looking at selling on eBay and importing goods as a way to build up a small income on the side which I could expand. It is more aimed to be a lifestyle business so I can eventually make more money with fewer hours, work from any location etc.
Ask HN: Which SSL certificate
I want to secure a single site that redirects from bare domain to 'www' subdomain. I'm assuming I need a SSL certificate with 2 names: example.com and www.example.com.

What CA and specific certificate would you recommend? The site does not deal with any payment or login data. So something cheep that is well supported in browsers would be preferable.
Chrome To Launch Web Apps From URL Bar
http://www.conceivablytech.com/5797/products/chrome-to-launch-web-apps-from-url-bar/
Google is working on a new feature that will allow users to launch web apps similar to the way domain names are entered into the URL bar (Omnibox).
Dizigot - Wikipedia for you and me. 
http://dizigot.com
Dizigot allows you to create a Wikipedia style profile page for you which is open to all and helps them find you. Pool-in all your social networks links strewn all over the web to create your Virtual Business Card.
Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?
http://www.apple.com
A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2rjbtsX7twc#t=75
This is great on so many levels.
It's Q theory to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The one guy just multitracks himself over and over, but superbly.
LaTeX for thesis and basic introductions
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRFsOKSM7ePUBOfh3O-K5XZldM5uCPwk
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRFsOKSM7eNGNghvT6QdzsDYwSTZxqjC

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRFsOKSM7ePUBOfh3O-K5XZldM5uCPwk
Ask HN: How does FB know my phone number?
I have never shared my phone number with FB, not even for the 2FA purpose. I use a FB app on my Android phone, but it also never requested a permission to use my phone number. When I checked on FB before the leak there was no phone number in my account information. Yet my phone number, along with all my other credentials, is in the recent leak. What am I missing?
Surf sites on your Twitter timeline fast Stumbleupon for Twitter
http://tumbl.in
Fast and non-intrusive way to browse through all the links shared in your twitter timeline. Customize it to show links from your favorites and/or twitter lists. Use as either a stumbleupon for twitter or instapaper for tweets/links.
Favorite office desks and chairs?
Looking to furnish a new office space, any recommendations on your favorite office desks and chairs? :)
Self-referencing ManyToMany through with Django
http://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/self-referencing-many-many-through/
How to implement self-referencing many-to-many relationships in Django. Example use cases are modeling asymmetrical following (a-la twitter) or symmetrical friendship (a-la facebook).
Show HN: Mastodon Bulk Find and Follow
https://www.commotionmade.com/
I couldn't find an easy way to find all of my Twitter followings and followers on Mastodon, so I whipped up this MVP.
Google Announces Venture Group
http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=3668
Google announces venture group. My Angle: I am curious to see how Google structures their fund. How entrepreneur friendly will they be? Will they be a strategic investor (translation: driven by internal priorities) verses financial profit motive?
Show HN: meetingShed - easy meeting scheduling with Google Calendar
meetingShed is a web app that grew out of a project I have been working on for some time which is actually about integrating logic programming with web applications.

It is a meeting booking system using Google Calendar data to find and book meeting slots. Features include:

- Google Calendar integration
- Import Google Contacts
- Narrow down time slots and avoid double bookings based on attendee and location availability
- Notifications by email
- Assign positions for a location using Google Maps, allowing all attendees to receive a map in the notification email

The app has launched in beta at www.meetingshed.com

The platform developed which integrates the logic programming components is Open Source and available at kms.intelligent-architectures.co.uk

All feedback will be gratefully received. So far the app has been developed by myself, whilst finishing my degree with zero funding whatsoever.
Ask YC: Advice on my Startup, Star Empire Elite
http://starempireelite.com

So, I came back from Startup School, and decided that I would take a shot at developing a web app. I got to thinking about Ron Conway's comment that there is room in the web-based game space. And so, for my first web-based project, I decided to adapt an old gaming classic - Solar Realms Elite - for the web. It is quite minimal right now, and there is certainly lots of room for features and improvements. A few questions:

1. Where do I go from here? I would happily sink more time into it, but I would like to find out whether the idea has legs.

2. What suggestions do you have for the design? I know the design needs work; the game is essentially a series of forms in a certain sequence. But I'm not exactly sure where to go next. I'm looking for some simple improvements (I'm going for a retro look).

3. What suggestions do you have for gameplay? I've got lots of ideas about where to go, but I want to make sure they appeal. In the near future, I want to implement the possibility of defensive and offensive alliances.

4. Any other comments, much appreciated.
Lessons from the front: 4 simple rules for success | 24 Ways To Start
http://24waystostart.com/2010/lessons-from-the-front-4-simple-rules-for-success/
Who’s your customer? What? Why? Get dirty… KISS. Cashflow. Milestones. Sell. Focus. People. Relationships. Repeat… Nathalie Gaveau gives you 4 tips to keep you on track.
Green IT: The Solution for Gen-next Business
http://www.digitivity.com/articles/2008/05/green-it.html
Business is not only meant for making profit rather it must have some social and environmental obligations too.
Show HN: Stable Horde – Free Crowdsourced Cluster for Stable Diffusion
https://stablehorde.net/
Hello everyone, I am the creator of Stable Horde, a free, open sourced, crowdsourced, distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion (AKA AI image generation) workers.

This service is provided for free and without any small print. The only thing one needs to be aware of is that your prompt goes to someone else's computer to be created and then sent back with all the caveats that entails.

The main difference from all the other Stable Diffusion webuis and services are:

* This service is free for everyone, without credits. While we do have a kudos system, this is only used for priority and you can gain Kudos by simply adding your own SD worker to the horde.
* It can be used from PCs without GPUs. Even from phones
* It provides a fully-documented [REST API](https://stablehorde.net/api/) which has already been used by community integratora to make things like telegram bots and status pages.
* It is Open Sourced under AGPL3

On top of these, I've already created a no-installation, no-GPU, [free client using the Godot Engine](https://dbzer0.itch.io/stable-horde-client)

I also provide a Godot Engine addon so that people can integrate AI generations directly into their games: https://github.com/db0/Stable-Horde-Client-Addon

I am hoping this service can provide AI image generation to everyone, no matter their personal wealth.

Tell me what you think!
Show HN: Mapedia.org – A Crowdsourced Learning Map
https://mapedia.org/
Hi HN!

We're happy to announce the launch of Mapedia.org, an open source crowdsourced learning map!
Mapedia is a new kind of learning platform at the crossroad between Wikipedia, Google Maps and Khan Academy: a learning map built collaboratively to support online learners to learn any topic seamlessly.

We built an interactive learning map of topics to be able to visualize the different fields of knowledge, what concepts are included in them and how they relate to each other. This allows for curiosity based exploration, identifying knowledge gaps (unknown unknowns) and figuring out what to learn next (and in which order).
For each topic you can then find community and expert curated resources, learning advices and smart recommendations in order to learn as efficiently as possible.

We want people to spend time learning rather than figuring out how to learn, and in particular to empower self-directed learners.
The idea came out of the frustration and inefficiency of learning online, and I've been working on it for 2 years now. The vision in itself for it is not so new, Mapedia is rather a different take on it that particularly believes in the potential of crowdsourcing and online communities. Our roadmap includes implementing learning groups based on shared goals rather than shared course/learning material, customizable "constructive" feeds of learning materials and adaptive learning paths.

The topic map is obviously far from complete and we are still in the early product iterations, but you can checkout a few examples here:

https://mapedia.org/explore -> The explore map from the top level topics

https://mapedia.org/explore?selectedTopicId=AvgsEAdEM&mapTyp... -> the map focused on functional programming, showing how concepts relate to each other

https://mapedia.org/topics/functional_programming_(programmi... -> the page for the functional programming topic, with curated resources

https://mapedia.org/learning_paths/learning_how_to_code_only... -> an example of a learning path (this feature is in a very alpha version)

Let us know what you think! We're very open to feedback and suggestions
Stephen Hawking's Comeback
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jul-aug/11-stephen-hawking-is-making-his-comeback/article_print
Recent article on Stephen Hawking (printable, full text)