jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Solidbot – Mobile video surveillance
http://www.solidbot.com/
All feedback about the website or the product are welcome
Crowdfunding – A silver bullet tarnished
http://the-gay-bar.com/2012/08/29/crowdfunding-a-silver-bullet-tarnished/
In crowdfunding you do not pay for a product. You bet money on a dream, your hope. That does not mean that there are not awesome people who will make the dream they sold you come true: We see many of those all over the place. Sometimes when you bet you do win. But as any casino goer will be able to tell you: Those winning streaks don’t tend to last.
The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/04/greatest-developer-fallacy-or-wisest.html
"I will learn it when I need it"! I've heard that phrase a lot over the years; it seems like a highly pragmatic attitude to foster when you're in an industry as fast-paced as software development. On some level it actually IS quite pragmatic, but on another level I am annoyed by the phrase. It has become a mantra for our whole industry which hasn't changed said industry for the better. The problem is this, in the guise of sounding like a wise and practical developer, people use it as an excuse to coast. There is too much stuff to know, it is necessary to be able to pick certain things up as you go along – part of the job. But, there is a difference between having to "pick up" some knowledge as you go along and doing absolutely everything just-in-time.
Show HN: AI helper to avoid reading reviews on Walmart/Amazon
http://evaluate-nlb-36a1baac332941f8.elb.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
We wanted to build something simple to help people spend less time reading reviews.
The current prototype let's you compare two products

Pro/Cons for each product using GPT-3 for entity extraction

Summary of Reviews for each product using BART fine-tuned with a small dataset

Decision Matrix using entity extraction --> clustering --> sentiment analysis pipeline
Deep Belief Networks tutorial (with pre-reqs) put together by Andrew Ng
http://deeplearning.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
This is what he has students go through before beginning to work with him.
What about startups in Canada?
I see a lot of content and advice for startups in the USA. What I have a problem with is applying some of it to Canada. Does anyone have some good info or articles on various startup topics for Canadians? Some of the topics that I can't seem to find good clear info on are things like funding oppertunities, starting a corp, legal info, and just really anything that would differ between the USA and Canada. Does anyone have good info they can point me and my fellow Canadians to?
2 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNow ABOUT GOOGLE AUTHORSHIP
http://chrisjcrosby.com/google-authorship-blows-me-away/
Regardless of who you are and what you do, you need to take a proactive role in owning and managing your online identity and activities. Everything you do on the web that’s indexable by Google (which most of it is) will be tied to you specifically.
How to automate virtualbox vm creation by command line 
http://www.beyondlinux.com/blog/2011/06/29/how-to-automate-virtual-machine-creation-and-runing-on-virtualbox-by-command-line/
Many times we need to create a linux virtual machine by command line.
It is very useful for batch vm operation, automation, regression test, integration test...
Eisenhower Matrix (Time Management)
http://jamesclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/eisenhower-box.jpg
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower_Method
Facebook builds weapon to challenge Google
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/the-inside-story-of-graph-search-facebooks-weapon-to-challenge-google/
To date, sorting through your Facebook friends could be a frustrating task. Although the site has a search bar, there has been no easy way to quickly cull contacts based on specific criteria. But Zuckerberg was testing a major new feature that Facebook would announce on Jan. 15 — one that promises to transform its user experience, threaten its competitors, and torment privacy activists. It’s called Graph Search.
How not to start a startup or learn from my mistakes
http://www.kulman.sk/sk/content/how-not-to-start-a-startup-or-learn-from-my-mistakes
You get an idea and want to implement it and create your own startup. You are not alone, there are thousands of similar people. The majority of them make the same mistakes that can cost them success. In this article I want to focus on the mistakes I made and on things I would do differently the second time.
Vodpod adds badges
http://blog.vodpod.com/2010/07/20/the-true-story-behind-the-vodpod-badges/
Pretty cool badges implementation for those interested in gaming.
Whatever happened to Tineye?
http://tineye.com/search
Today, I tried to use the virtually only startup of this season, which I cared about -Tineye. But, alas, instead of the search page, I got a facefull of ads.
Does anyone have any insights what happened to them? Did they let the page expire (highly doubt), gone bankroupt (very highly doubt), run out of founding?
34 Internet Marketing and Home Business How To's
http://www.emomsathome.com/blog/2007/07/12/28-internet-marketing-and-home-business-how-tos/
Business, Dad Entrepreneurship, Blogging, Social Media and SEO How To's
Show HN: iCloud Indicator, or My First Open Source Project
https://github.com/Thomvis/icloud-indicator
I open sourced a UI element that I built for my first recently launched iPhone game. It can be used to show that there is a game in the iCloud that can be resumed and supports user interaction for resuming and removing the game. The actual logic to do that is not part of this UI element.

I think more game developers could leverage the power of iCloud. It would allow them to offer a better experience to their players, where their progress in the game is shared between all their devices. I wanted to do that for my game and now want to encourage fellow developers by sharing my modest contribution.

A video demo of the iCloud Indicator can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDcUqfnWOM.
A Linux Conspiracy Theory
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/a-linux-conspiracy-theory
Are there corporate threats to Linux? There seems to be evidence for it
Ask HN: Hackers Who Design?
I'm writing a book, Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty, with which I hope to help software developers better understand design decisions.

I do have a certain framework for the book, but I'm also interested in hearing your specific needs and experiences. Some questions:

- Why are you interested in learning more about design? (if N/A, then why not?)

- What have you found confusing about design?

- What is one blog post/book/movie, etc. that has helped you better understand something about design?

- What software tools do you find useful when designing?

Thanks so much for your help!
Tell HN: Its I love free software Day
Hey Guys,
Since its I love free software day. I wanted to thank all the free software creators out there who have created awesome software for the greater good

Love you guys

More info: https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/
Android Tamer : VM for android security professionals
http://atamer.anantshri.info/
What is Android Tamer?
Android Tamer is a one stop tool required to perform any kind of software operations on Android devices / applications / network. Tools provided by this VM are listed here http://atamer.anantshri.info/tools.html
Show HN: Understanding Relationships
http://www.understandingrelationships.com.au/
Hello HackerNews,
I have something a little different to show here. I'm a PhD candidate in Melbourne, Australia and I'm working on a research project investigating how couples differ in the way they prefer to deal with relationship problems. My goal is to recruit as many participants as possible to complete an online questionnaire. For doing so, each participant will be sent a free report and relationship profile that compares their preferences and behaviours to groups of other similar people.

I'm bringing this to HackerNews to see if I could get some feedback on my project website and pitch. Initially I used Google AdWords to direct traffic to the site, then used conversion tracking + questionnaire data to give me an insight into what elements were lacking. But now I'm at a point where some richer feedback would be helpful.

Most psychological research projects are quite obtuse so I've made an effort to pitch everything in a straight-forward, plain speaking kind of way. These kinds of projects are also typically quite poorly organised, offer no real value to participants and therefore depend on begging for support. My ideal objective here is to construct a website/project that can stand on the strength of the value it offers people.

So, I'm interested in:
1. your overall impressions of the site and questionnaire
2. whether you would choose to participate based on these impressions

Your feedback is much appreciated. Please post any questions you may have about this project.

Thanks for your time.

http://www.understandingrelationships.com.au/
Abootstartups
http://abootstartups.com
Everyone and their mother have told you what it takes to get a startup off the ground. We didn't put this page up to teach anything, but to share some of the events that go without mention as a startup takes off. Abootstartups.com invites everybody that relates to share the events that never make it to light, so we can have a laugh and reminisce together!
Do you have a software project startup/ramp-up check list?
In my job I regularly have to work in new projects every couple of months. Usually the team composition changes too so we have to figure out a lot of common understanding/tool choices/coding/testing style questions every time. I've started a basic list that mentions spaces/tabs, line width and naming some specific web app things.

Recently I've seen a great [demo](https://vimeo.com/367846576) where the developer Brad Frost mentioned one questionnaire he uses himself:
https://github.com/bradfrost/frontend-guidelines-questionnaire

I like his questionnaire, but I want to find something with more details - at a general level as much as possible without going into specific technologies.

Have you build something like this internally and you're willing to share it or do know of another public list/questionnaire like this?
Ask HN: What do I need to know to be hired as a junior back-end web developer?
I just turned 30, quit my job as I want to pursue some other adventures in my life. I'm from one of the poorest country in the world, Madagascar, but I've been living and working in France for the last 12 years. I came to study and stayed when got offered a job as an accountant. The thing is, I miss my country and going on vacation is not enough anymore, plus my parents are getting older, I'd rather be with them. I have enough savings to live there for a long time, without working thanks to exchange rate, but I'd rather not take more than a year off. After reflecting on what I like, and what I could do (given the pandemic crisis going on), programming for a living seems like the way to go. I can hack some quick and dirty script here and there but that's it. Now I want to do it rigorously, and have a already made a plan for that (link at the bottom). My end goal, if things go the way its planned is to find a job and earning between 600 and 900 dollars a month.

- I know have to have some projects built so I can stand out. But for now I'm thinking of what I could do that is meaningful enough and not just a random stuff that has been done a thousand times, by following a YouTube tutorial.

- Beside my plan, what do I need to know to get hired? (by the way if you know some good java open source codebase I could study, please link them)

- How low/high are my chance of getting hired by a foreign company while living there? Anyone that was in the same situation please reah out.

- Freelancing, creating a business are other options, so if you have any tips on doing that don't hesitate.

I speak french, and I like to think my English is ok (tell me otherwise so I'll add that to my study plan), so communication should not be a problem. As for internet, believe it of not you can get what's advertised as "fiber" for 55 bucks a month, 100Mbps up/down on paper.

Link: https://github.com/Woadray/bootcamp/blob/main/courses.md
Ring0 rootkit, make any windows process invisible.
http://openhacking.blogspot.com/2012/01/malware-sourceagony-ring0-rootkit.html
Agony is a rootkit for Windows 2000 and superiors, able to falsify data returned by the Windows APIs. It can make files and applications invisible on a windows system.
Boeing workers don't dare to fly with Boeing 787 Dreamliner
http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/2014/09/broken-dreams-boeing-responds-20149181020694622.html
The investigation is here: http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/default.html
Poll: The importance of schooling in Software Engineering
http://votes.io/q3hr
So, I was just wondering what people thoughts were regarding the importance of university/schooling in general were in regards to SE jobs.

Votes.io: http://votes.io/q3hr
Doing it right
http://nicolas-lara.blogspot.com/2008/12/doing-it-right.html
or "my primer on studying computer science the right way"
How To Give A Horrendous Presentation
http://www.infochachkie.com/how-to-give-a-horrendous-investor-pitch/
Tips for guaranteeing that you will never have to worry about bothersome investors, as you will never raise money if you follow the advice in this article.
EPOC : Next Generation Gaming
http://www.digitivity.com/articles/2008/03/epoc-next-generation-gaming.html
Good news for the gamer community, Australian neuro- engineering company has created a brain computer interface 'Epoc', that is capable of reading electrical pulses in the brain and converts them into commands of a video game. By using thoughts and emotions, gamers will now be able to interact with the virtual world.
Why has the UK become "substantially and significantly" more peaceful?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22268015
Are people simply taking their anger out on others via youtube commments as oppose to physical violence?
China condemns 'groundless' US criticism of web control 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8474011.stm
China has denounced US criticism of its internet controls, saying it could harm ties between the two countries.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to lift restrictions on the internet.
WHMCS ends support for owned licenses, effective immediately
Just received this lovely email:

Hello,

We are writing to you to let you know about important changes to owned licenses. Today we are discontinuing owned license support. What this means for you and your existing owned license is as follows:

-- Your WHMCS owned license will continue to function as it does today. You may continue to run your WHMCS installation using the owned license for as long as you would like.

-- You will not be able to purchase or renew support for your owned WHMCS license, effective immediately.

-- If you have an active support agreement with WHMCS for your owned license, we will continue to honor that support agreement until its expiration.

If you do not have support for your WHMCS owned license, and you require product support or you would like to upgrade to a current version, you will need to upgrade to our standard license model. You can obtain a standard license by logging into the WHMCS customer portal (https://www.whmcs.com/members).

Keep innovating, building, developing, designing, and hosting, and know that we continue to make investments to improve everyone's WHMCS experience.

If you require assistance with our standard license model and what license is best suited for you, we are here to help. You can contact Customer Service by opening a ticket at https://www.whmcs.com/submit-a-ticket

- The WHMCS Team
Shaking-up Subversion
http://blogs.wandisco.com/2010/12/20/shaking-up-subversion-by-listening-to-the-user-community-and-then-committing-to-do-the-work/
This blog discusses the radical steps taken by WANdisco to overhaul the Subversion project by actually fixing and improving several areas that Subversion users have been crying out for.<p>"I know that this will generate criticism from fans of distributed version control (GIT) because some of the issues we going to tackle are the stick with which they beat Subversion. I am sure we will face cynicism from some factions of the Subversion project, but in some cases this is because of commercial interests that are dependent on the perception that they are the ones developing Subversion.﻿<p>As the saying goes: you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.<p>We are not doing this for direct commercial reasons. We are doing this to protect the future of Subversion. We are doing this because we care. We are doing this because we need to. We are doing this because it is the right thing to do."
Ask HN: Is DNS Squatting a Thing?
I don't mean Domain name squatting, but rather DNS record squatting.

So, my question is whether or not this is a common thing, and if you have any suggestions of what I can do to rectify the situation.

Situation:

* I bought a domain name a long time ago.

* I set the nameservers to Digital Ocean.

* I never made the site on DO (or the DNS entries) because... well... life.

* Today, I decided to finally make a site. I couldn't create a DNS entry on DO, however, because someone else already had, and was redirecting to some server somewhere.

* To be clear, someone else has a DO account where they made a DNS entry with my domain name and pointed it to their own server.

If you are curious, here is the IP it is redirecting to: 52.5.82.174. I did a reverse IP lookup, and it seems that 4,035 domains point to this address.

On one hand, this is an ingenious way to capitalize on otherwise neglected domains without incurring any cost to the squatter. On the other hand, it's my domain and now I can't use it on DO. (I've opened a ticket with them, so we'll see where it goes from there.)
Show HN: A Data Stack for Web3
https://luabase.com/
Hey - We're building https://luabase.com/.

tl;dr - Luabase is a data stack for web3 teams. We make it easy to query any blockchain with SQL, analyze it in notebooks, and embed the data in your app with our API.

You can answer questions like: how many people that used Uniswap also have an ENS / .eth address?

I know a lot of people here hate crypto. I get it. There's a lot of bullshit and scams in crypto. I'm personally drawn to it because a lot of financial applications suck and crypto provides a set of open source tools to build better ones.

Anyway, if you're into web3, check it out and let me know if I can answer any questions. I'll be around.
Is Facebook planning a music download service of some kind
http://i.imgur.com/8eH2u.jpg
Found this in Facebook VideoCalling Applet classes
A theoretical flash-mobbing of the 5% throttle on unlimited plans?
http://radishroar.posterous.com/flash-mobbing-the-5-throttle-on-unlimited-pla
1. All subscribers of an unlimited plan ramp up network usage massively
2. This will shrink the upper percentile distribution since it's not likely that the top 5% of people will use much more data than they already do
3. The result is more unlimited bandwidth that would not be throttled since the 5% threshold goes up

Any bets that the current ultimatum will not be modified for "the benefit of the people" ?
New TED talk: Jacqueline Novogratz on roles of markets and charity in Africa
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/157
Charities and markets must cooperate in Africa, personal dignity is more important than wealth.
Ask HN: Visa advice for a UK guy to live in SF for a year
I'm from the UK. My news year resolution (fireworks are going off now!) is to move to SF Bay area for 6-12 months. And possibly get involved in a business over there. How can I achieve this?

I have modest funds of around $400k in cash set aside to invest in this new venture. I also have a UK based business which is close to passive that earns me about $150k pa.

My dream is to rent a flat in SF, just hang out, get networking, going to conferences, just generally soaking up the atmosphere over the seasons as a local would, and scope out opportunities to either invest or start something up.

My main problem is that I am eligible for the VWP which allows me 3 months. And I don't have a good reason for wanting more than 3 months. My understanding is that a B visa would be denied for this reason.

So I'm in the early stages of looking at E2 etc and even hiring a lawyer..... But I thought I'd post here first in case anyone has relevant anecdotes or experience.
10 Questions to ask a VC
http://radio.weblogs.com/0111718/2005/01/23.html#a261
With an answers edited version by an actual VC

http://sapventures.typepad.com/main/2005/01/10_questions_to....
Ask HN: LLC now, Delaware corp later?
Asking HN.
I am about to start working on a (currently) 1 person project.
I want to form a LLC for liability protection. There may be some customers involved.

At the point I find investors / or get significant revenue, I plan just to scrap the LLC, and form a brand new delaware corp. Are there any issues with this?
Keeping Your Eyes Healthy
Like most of you probably do I spend a lot of hours a day looking at a monitor, TV, or reading. Surely, this can't be the healthiest practice for your eye health. I am lucky and do have 20/20 vision, at least the last time I checked, and I would like to keep good vision as long as possible despite my viewing choices. So, what are some good ways to keep your eyes healthy?
Guy makes a 3D version of Lunar Lander
http://www.lushprojects.com/lunarlander/
hattip to Grant on the Kiwi PUG list
Ask HN: Should I accept a Scala Dev job?
I'm about to graduate from undergrad with a degree in CS and am considering a Scala job in the financial industry.

Ignoring the particulars of the offer and the company, I'd like to base my decision partly on the value of the skills I'd be learning. The job would center around ETL pipeline development and involves heavy use of Scala.

Is Scala in demand, either inside finance or in tech more generally? Will demand for Scala increase in the future?
Ask HN: Best process to validate idea and feature-set before MVP?
I think there's a fine balance between early pre-coding research and initial MVP release. I'm wondering what others do to quickly validate an idea and initial feature set before developing an MVP. One way is to ask the HN community, but I feel like it's spammy, and never gets the desired results either (could also be my ideas).
Google Voice gaining users? First invites.
I've been using Google Voice for a long time and never had any invites to give to other users but as of today they've added a few to my page. I remember Gmail starting up this way. Is it just me or are more people experiencing this?
Show HN: Stat Tracking website for fantasy baseball.
http://stattracker.heroku.com/
This is a web application for a class. Need feedback for it. After checking out the website, could you please fill out this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3Q829LX
Where to go after dedicated hosting
We are a medium sized business with about 250,000 registered users and up until this point have done fine with a Dedicated Server at HostGator. I have become fed up with their impersonal support (a different person responds to every support request) and am now facing our second hard drive failure in 3 months, which they remedy by taking the site down for 6 hours to do a hard drive and OS re-install.

I am now looking into Managed hosting solutions, primarily with HostWay and Rackspace.

I'm not a server admin by any means, but it seems to me that in order to avoid the down time associated with a hard drive failure that 2 web servers and probably a load balancer are required. Is that true?

Generally speaking, what is the next step for hosting when a dedicated server doesn't cut it anymore from an availability point of view?