jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Clp, a Faster Alternative to Bat
https://jeskin.net/blog/clp/
This is a small hobby project that writes files to stdout with syntax highlighting.

My main use case is replacing bat for use in the preview window for the program fzf. I wanted to speed it up and support languages that didn’t meet bat’s inclusion criteria out of the box (myrddin, hare, etc)- more info in the blog post.
EU agrees to cap bankers' bonuses
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21608938
More detail: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba3a37f6-80f0-11e2-9c5b-00144feabdc0.html
Simple Is Closing
We have an update for you about your banking relationship with Simple, a subsidiary of BBVA USA.

BBVA USA has made the strategic decision to close Simple. There is no immediate impact to your accounts at Simple and nothing you need to do at this time. Since your deposits are already housed at BBVA USA, they will remain in FDIC insured accounts there, up to the applicable limits. In the future, your Simple account will become exclusively serviced by BBVA USA, but until then you can continue to access your account and your money through the Simple app or online at simple.com. You will receive additional information in the near future about the transition of your account servicing to BBVA USA.

We want to assure you that we are committed to making this transition as smooth as possible for you, and that we will provide ongoing transparent and open communication, so you know what to expect each step of the way.

Our customer services agents will not be able to address questions about this announcement at this time. We will contact you proactively as we have more details. Please only contact customer support for your regular banking needs.

Thank you for being a Simple customer, it's been an honor to serve you.

— The Team at Simple

What does it mean for me?
You can continue to access your account and your money through the Simple app or online at simple.com and with your Simple Visa® Debit card. We will begin posting updates on the transition as we have them on simple.com.

Does this affect my stimulus payment?
No. Your stimulus, unemployment aid and any other deposits will continue to be deposited in your account as they are received. If you have not received your IRS payment please use the IRS Get My Payment tool for status.
Announcing the Amazon Web Serivces Startup Challenge
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/09/announcing-the-.html
mazon Web Services is launching--right now--the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner a first-place prize of $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits, mentoring sessions from an AWS technical expert, and an investment offer from Amazon.com.
Plan? Code! Launch! - Less planning, more doing.
http://sandmanapp.tumblr.com/post/3546093743/plan-code-launch-less-planning-more-doing
On January 28th and 29th we wrote a web based notification system for developers called SandmanApp. We want to share the process that helped us getting of the ground in one weekend.
The site VistaPrint doesn't want you to know about
https://stupidshittybanners.com
I've been in the printing world for a looong time now. Specialty vinyl banners mostly, i've printed so many banners the wife even says I smell like banners. ....Good thinfg she likes banners! ;-)

I decided its time to disrupt the industry. SInce forever, I've had the idea for it, but could never figure out how to make it into reality. So I learned design and programming and gave the world CloudBanner technology.

Our company just started up, but here the highlights so far:

• We are about 1/2 the price of Vista print, Staples, etc. (+ always free shipping!)

• our Technology offers infinite Banner customization

• our customers print some really funny Banners sometimes, we get a hoot from it.

• Printed in USA (new England)

• our banners are very adaquate quality too

*adaquate

I have been a reader of big hacker news, and I always value what you guys have to say, so any feedback and suggestions would be so awesome!

Oh, here's a $5 off coupon code: BANNERSRDOPE
Are CAPTCHAs getting too hard for humans?
I regularly browse HN through tor. As a tor user I'm used to having to solve CAPTCHAs everywhere I go, as there's always some assholes using tor for abuse.

In the past couple of days, the CAPTCHAs for HN got way harder, to the point that I can't solve them. It used to be two words where one was an easy control word you could skip, the other a semi-hard word that I'd get ~70% success rate on.

Now, both words are equally hard with additional distortion, and my success rate approaches 0%.

Are CAPTCHAs really still workable if this is what's needed to keep the bots out? If humans can't solve the problem, it's probably not a good metric to determine whether someone is a human or a bot.

I don't have any good solutions here, but this is very frustrating and I'd love to see some discussion about alternatives.
$2,400 “Linux Foundation Course” will be Free and Online this Summer
http://www.techcomunication.com/2400-linux-foundation-course-will-be-free-and-online-this-summer/
This foundation course, which usually costs $2,400, will be first of its kind to be available as a Massive Open Online Couse (MOOC). This free course is intended for anyone who has little or no prior knowledge of Linux or Unix.
Show HN: Guestio – A better way to find and book guests to interview
https://guestio.com/
Guestio is an all-in-one tool designed to help you find, book, and manage the top-tier guests you want to interview.
Building a terrabyte-scale data cycle with Hadoop and Project Voldemort
http://project-voldemort.com/blog/2009/06/building-a-1-tb-data-cycle-at-linkedin-with-hadoop-and-project-voldemort
How LinkedIn uses Hadoop and the distributed key-value storage system Project Voldemort to build an online/offline data cycle.
Left 4 Dead 2 (beta) available on Steam for Linux
http://steamcommunity.com/app/223530/discussions/0/810923580584558787/
Just saw it when I opened my Steam this morning :-D
Microsoft's Stack Ranking
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/08/microsoft_ceo_steve_ballmer_retires_a_firsthand_account_of_the_company_s.single.html
Best example of problems with this system of ranking that I have read in a long time.
The future of Lisp
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/11b23036abae1418#
As you can see Lisp community is still evolving:

From comp.lang.lisp:

Norbert_Paul:
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> You're wrong, parentheses and conses are sexy:

> (.)(.)
> ) (
> ( )

That doesn't work.
When I ry to load it into sbcl I get a
SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-ERROR
with
"Nothing appears before . in list."
Sprouts
http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/Sprouts/
Interesting game.. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game) for math behind it,
Hilarious Geeky song - Finite Simple Group of Order Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
Hilarious.
Cloud9 IDE introduces Live Code Inspection
http://cloud9ide.posterous.com/86221496
Cloud9 IDE can now inspect running JavaScript code and change variables on the fly.
The "Holden Test", Blade Runner derived Turing Test for humans
https://medium.com/weird-future/e8399619ebf6
The Holden Test is taken by any human who must judge whether a particular actor is the same as themselves, or merely machine.
How To Use Twitter Lists to Determine Influence
http://www.untitledstartup.com/2010/01/how-to-use-twitter-lists-to-determine-influence/
I'm sure there's plenty of ideas out there on what makes influence on Twitter and how it should be calculated. Interested in hearing ideas on whats right/wrong with this method and how it can be built upon.
Ask HN: Copyright Infringement
About a year ago I did some contract work for a well funded startup (NY based). I was commissioned to build out an android application from their current iOS port. When we were about 90% finish the client decided that some of the issues and remaining bugs were not being addressed in an orderly fashion. We requested that the developer that built the iOS part, filters in this instance, would provide an helping hand in trouble shooting the problem, but they didn't want to do that as well, so I gave the client other options for addressing this issues, they din't like them as well. So at the end we ended the contract since they did pay a deposit (25%).

Now today I did a search on the playstore for some odd reason and found that they have published their app. Curious to see if they just repackaged the sources that I developed or rebuilt it all I decided to check out the apk. To my shock they still had all of our sources,package names and all. Yes some code has been removed/updated but the bulk of the app still uses code that was developed by myself. I sent off a Cease and Desist Letter , but I highly doubt that would do anything giving how my last conversation went with the client. So I was wondering if anyone has ran into this problem before and what have they done to either have the product taken down or receive the remainder payment. And yes I have a contract in this case .. the unpaid amount is around 12k.

Thanks
The ultime iPhone hack: add a wireless charging module 
http://www.searchforsoft.com/news/Mode-your-iPhone-for-wireless-charging-using-this-tutorial--74.htm
A tutorial for skilled people to mode your iPhone for wireless charging.
What's happening at Google I/O? (Word cloud visualization)
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3585323/Google_I-O_topics
Created a word cloud based on tags from the Google I/O sessions. There's lots of Android, HTML5 and the sort.

Actual session list at http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions.html
Turn Game Days into a Social Game with SpreadCaster 
http://launch.spreadcaster.com
SpreadCaster is a stealth startup that is going to disrupt the online sports book industry. We are looking to validate the idea and test early features/concepts.

We are looking for beta testers who are gamers, gamblers, fantasy sports fanatics, and sports fans to help us get an if we are onto something interesting.

Find out more and sign up at http://launch.spreadcaster.com
Cheat Sheets for Web Design and Development
http://tutorialfeed.blogspot.com/2009/09/16-favorite-cheat-sheets-for-web-design.html
In this post I'm sharing some very excellent cheat sheets to help web designers and developers. These cheat sheets includes Photoshop, CSS, HTML, JQuery, PHP, MooTools, MySQL, Ruby on rails, Flash AS and much more.
Firefly: Chat about nothing everywhere...
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/01/firefly-chat-about-nothing-everywhere/
Another website annotation service. Looks VERY cool but doesn't seem to lead to any useful conversation. Why is that???
Elasticsearch and ruby on rails: a primer
http://dev.mikamai.com/post/85901585484/elasticsearch-on-rails-a-primer
quick intro on using elasticsearch with ruby on rails
Try out Space, a web-based, collaborative code editor
http://spacedemo.chaoscollective.org/
Here's hoping our server is in a good mood :)
Ask HN: Now more than ever, is there need to support alternative open platforms?
Not just support but also create. And they might not necessarily need to be decentralised, or self hosted, good if they are so, but just platforms that respect free speech.

RumbleVideo vs YouTube

GiveAndSendGo vs GoFundMe

Getter vs Twitter

To mention but a few. I believe that that which you compromise to keep, you eventually lose, and most companies have lost user trust for compromising on free speech. And it's an overall net good for society if such platforms exist.
Fire Eagle goes to open invite status
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
This is basically me giving away some invites I have to people who might want to check it out:

The eagle has landed! Fire Eagle's Beta is now open by invitation only. We've chosen to invite you because we think you're a super-cool hacker, super-cool early adopter, or just super-cool ... and also because you gave us your email address and told us to let you know when we launched (thanks for doing that!).

Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and online services, while maintaining unprecedented control over your data and privacy. It's built on open APIs so you can build all kinds of applications that respond to your location.

We're also giving you four more Fire Eagle invitations to pass along to a few friends. These are also one-time invitation codes and can't be reused, so share them wisely!
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ticket/PiybqXZSW2CJen7C
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ticket/WQi54p9MdWiQCNFC
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ticket/nrKGwlmzFDtyzIT2
http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ticket/PMMhrqllLvcwRVWz

Finally, if you want to get started building an application that's powered by Fire Eagle, then you should join our developer group:
http://new.groups.yahoo.com/fireeagle
Show HN: Translate your site by just right-clicking on any element
https://www.bablic.com?showhn
Just enter your URL.

Select the language you want to add and choose from Machine or Human translation.

You can then, in the editor, manually edit any of the elements you see (text, images, css, forms, error msgs, etc) just by right-clicking on them.

Quite innovative.

Once you're ready click save and publish, all you need to do is add one-line of code to your site and it's fully localized.
Show HN: Shape Up app (plugin) for Jira
https://www.curiouslab.io
For those who want to have a hill chart that is integrated with Jira's epics and stories.
Google Sneaks up on Identity Management
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/16/google-sneaks-up-on-identity-management/
http://www.google.com/help/profile/
RIM: We don't need better products, just marketing
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/01/30/rim-creates-4-cartoon-characters-to-spread-the-be-bold-message/
Wow. Just when you thought RIM couldn't get any more disconnected from reality, they come out with this. Four poorly-drawn cartoon characters to live the BlackBerry lifestyle. Just wow.
Tracking Point: The Gun That Aims Itself (Documentary)(2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBC8IFWC1P0
Associated Reading: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/long-shot-inside-the-scope-of-smart-weapons
What's a good programming language to Pickup?
I've been a C++ programmer for several years and am up to date with modern C++ (C++14). Thinking of expanding my expertise. Already know Python. Objective: (1) fun and (2) can be used in production. Some options: Go, Rust? Thoughts/opinions?
Future Predictions (after Corona)
i start + now it's your turn :)

- More births between December and March.

- More money for tools and service providers who benefit from WFH. This can already be seen in the Zoom share price. But Microsoft, Slack and many others should also benefit.

- Funding for Edu-Tech and remote-work start-ups.

- Increased household debt in the western world.

- US oil producers go bust.

- US dollar crashes. The question is against what? The yuan?

- Local and long-distance transport is becoming less attractive.

- As we wash our hands more often and use more disinfectants, more hand creams are sold.

- Many households that depend on working at events in the catering trade or in hotels will not be able to pay off their home loans.

- More isolation. Hence more depression. Hence more suicides.

- More remote learning. Legislative changes that enable / strengthen remote universities.

- Home fitness equipment is spreading.

- More racism towards Asians in the western world.

- More consumption of Netflix, Youtube and video games.

- More food and home delivery.

- Less visits to restaurants.

- Spread of telemedicine.

- Less low-budget prostitution.

- More consumption of online pornography.

- Less gym memberships.

- Lower voter turnout in almost all countries.

- Less visits to night clubs and discos.
Can You Guess The Hash Algorithm?
http://hashguesser.appspot.com/
Many people think that if they implement a "super secret hash function", their password hashes will be more secure. This is a research attempt to try to disprove that.
Finding a Great co-founder
http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/founders/finding-great-cofounder/
3 lessons I learnt the hard way.
My New Startup: House Chat Monkeys
http://darrint.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/we-wont-call-you-we-wont-email-you-we-wont-bother-you-period/
I'm trying to sell homes by taking lead generation, a dirty game, and turning it on its head.
My Rackspace VPS was compromised, thousands charged, advice?
My Rackspace VPS was compromised and it wasn't until today (nearly 2 months later) I find out my dev box and blog server were both compromised. The first bill is over a thousand dollars and I can't afford it.

Unfortunately while chatting with customer server, I hit backspace by mistake closing the chat where the rep was telling me my server was compromised rather than shutting it off. So since it wasn't shut off, I didn't know they could be shut off (not available option for end-users), and I didn't want to keep getting billed (he didn't seem very receptive of my concern at that point) - naturally I deleted the 2 VPS servers. So now I have no idea what happened and the phone rep has filed a ticket with billing.

I'm trying to get my issue resolved, but I'd also like to know if anyone has some advice? Right now I seem to be stuck in a very difficult situation.
Show HN: I've built a CLI to create remote dev envs as a Go learning project
https://github.com/recode-sh/cli
Hey HN,

As most of you (I think?), I cannot learn something without having a project, on the side, to implement what I’ve just learned.

Recode is the project that I've used to learn Go. It lets you create a development environment in your cloud provider account easily.

You can think of it as a desktop version of Gitpod / Coder / GitHub Codespaces less polished and with less features but 100% free and open-source.

At the time of writing, it only works with Visual Studio Code and AWS.

In order to let you configure your development environments easily, I’ve chosen to use Docker with some Dockerfiles:

- One for your user configuration.

- One for your project.

The user configuration corresponds to the tools / settings that you use in all your projects like your timezone / locale, your preferred shell or your dotfiles.

The project configuration corresponds to the tools / settings that you use in a specific project like Go >= 1.18 and Node.js >= 14.

As you may have guessed, the project configuration inherits from the user one.

This project is 100% community-driven, meaning that except for bug fixes no more features will be added.

The only features that will be added are the ones that will be posted as an issue and that will receive a significant amount of upvotes (>= 10 currently).
Widespread Azure Outages Across East and West US
https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
Important Mollom Security Notice
Email sent to Mollom Customers:

Dear Customer,

This is an important security notice from the Mollom team. On August 21, we identified a breach of one of our Mollom servers. Our subsequent investigation showed that unauthorized users gained access to Mollom servers and were potentially able to access Mollom data. Today we have closed the security loophole used to gain access and taken measures designed to prevent future breaches.

Data that may have been compromised includes usernames, account contact information, passwords, Mollom public and private keys, and billing transaction logs. Paypal account information was NOT stored on the affected servers.

At this time, we have no evidence that any malicious activity took place with customer data. To help assure this continues to be the case, in addition to the measures described above, we have changed all Mollom user account passwords.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Because we have reset all of the Mollom user account passwords to access the Mollom administrative interface, you will need to reset your password using this URL: http://mollom.com/user/password

In keeping with security best practices, if you have used your Mollom.com user account password for other sites on the Internet, it is recommended for you to change it in those places.

WHAT WE ARE DOING TO PREVENT FURTHER BREACHES

The security of the Mollom platform is of paramount importance to us. We are conducting a thorough review of our procedures and will be arranging additional external security audits above and beyond our normal schedule to further test our security measures and give you peace of mind. If you detect any suspicious activity with your Mollom account, please contact security@mollom.com immediately. You can find updates as they become available and an FAQ at http://mollom.com/blog/security-notice-august-2013.

Thank you,

The Mollom Team
Google Geocoding moves Mountain View to Ukraine (atm)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+Santa+Clara,+California+94043&hl=de&sll=37.422081,-122.084576&sspn=0.010421,0.01016&geocode=FeW71QIdfMoMAg&hnear=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+California+94043&t=m&z=17
or does Google just copy iOS6 Maps? :P
The Digital Economy's Coming Subprime Crisis (AdRev Problems)
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/11/facebooks_scam_ads_and_the_loo.html
A comparison between the subprime crisis and the current problems starting to show up with Facebook advertising revenue.
Contribute to any of these OS projects and I will help you in any way I can
http://code.dblock.org/contribute-to-any-of-these-open-source-projects-and-i-will-help-you-in-any-way-i-can
Office-time for $? No thank you. This might be better.
Show HN: Learn Python with Minecraft Interactive World Builder
https://github.com/gilesknap/mciwb
I'm working on a FOSS project to teach Python Programming by writing code that interacts with a Minecraft world.

Full instructions and tutorials are provided in the documentation.

Please try out out and give some feedback!
What’s so special about Ruby on Rails?
http://astonj.com/tech/whats-so-special-about-ruby-on-rails/
I wrote this post after being asked the question on Twitter. What do you think - agree/disagree?
Hemlock: Real-time, iPad compatible web apps made easy
http://mintdigital.com/blog/flash-free-hemlock
Build interaction rich apps quickly and easily without Flash or App Store limitations using Hemlock, an open source XMPP framework, now compatible with 100% Javascript environments.
The US Empire in Decline
http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/06/27/the-us-empire-in-decline/
Is it true that US will be more hard to deal with now that it is a declining, instead of a stable, empire. Quite so. Nobody goes quietly into the good night. Usually they rage and have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the darkness. ?
Show HN: Meta Tags Generator
https://websitemetadata.com/meta-tags-generator
Hey HN!

I've built this meta tags generator web app as my little weekend project and was looking for some feedback on both the design and features!

My idea was to build an app that allows one to check website metadata and preview meta tags from a website in a clean design.

All feedback is appreciated! Thanks!
I didn't make it, will someone else take me?
Sadly, I didn't get an invitation to the Work at a Startup. I shall not give my hopes there though. I've worked to give myself a name and by gosh, I didn't do it for no reason. I've been jobless for a year, getting ready to get out into the real world after my schooling. Now I'm left stressed because I'm not a "qualified" developer, engineerer, or whatever for jobs I send a resume to.

If anyone is willing to give me a chance, I promise, I won't let you down. It is my passion and dedication to give you the best of my abilities, while trying the hardest I can.

Anyone willing to give me that chance?

EDIT I wasn't really informative, sorry. I am a PHP developer, though I've also been working with Ruby on Rails for the past 5 months or so. I find a great deal in security and take it into consideration respectfully for everything I work on. Even services I use, I am intended to test it's security and find problems. If location is of concern, I am currently located in Louisiana.