jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Congress Passes the Lobbied For "Netflix-Law", Drops E-mail Privacy Reform
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121227/02441521496/apparently-congress-isnt-actually-interested-requiring-warrant-law-enforcement-to-read-your-email.shtml
The lobbying part is in relation to this article:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/the-netflix-lobby-in-washington-spent-1-million-in-two-years/
Facebook by accident or by force
http://josef.co.vu/post/5039768885/by-accident-or-force
Too easy to spread facebook by accident. At the same time, too hard to leave Facebook once you've started using it.
Get Gmail alerts with gNotifier for mac - Multiple accounts supported
http://www.macworld.com/article/157740/2011/02/gnotifier.html
gNotifier for MAC: Multiple Google accounts notifications in your Desktop -> Email, Calendar, Doc updates.
Learning to Fail or Failing to Learn?
http://chriseyin.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/learning-to-fail-or-failing-to-learn/
My post on failure and how to deal.
AUTO-ID Solutions: Bar Code, RFID, Wireless & Mobile Data Collection
http://www.lowrycomputer.com
Lowry provides bar code, RFID, wireless & mobile data collection solutions that are in the vanguard of technology. Cost effective labeling solutions
Facebook Launching Deals
What are people's thoughts on the cities that Facebook is piloting Deals in? Or perhaps, what are people's thoughts on the cities Deals isn't in (e.g. NYC, LA, Chicago)?
PEditor: An PHP+iFrame WYSIWYG Editor
http://pixelstech.net/download/index.php?item=29
PIR is a web based Rich Text Editor which utilizes PHP and IFRAME and JavaScript. It includes all the necessary functions to edit WYSIWYG(What you see is what you get) contents. It uses an embeded iframe as the edit area. And all the commands such as bold,italic,copy and insert image are realized with JavaScript(Client-side) and PHP(Server-side).
Ask HN: Is there a technology that could enable global direct democracy?
Let's say there is an independent group of 100M people, from all over the world. Its members should be able to regularly vote on certain policies, in an anonymous way, potentially against the interests of state and corporate actors.

Is there a technology that could enable such voting and lay reliable ground for a direct democracy?
The Gamification of Time
http://www.blog.namar0x0309.com/2013/02/the-gamification-of-time/
Previously posted as "Making Death Useful", but after a few edits and refocusing the essay, here's the new submission.

Looking at video games, I delved into analyzing motivation and it's relationship with time and how to hack our attitudes/perceptions to influence our motivation. All intrinsic techniques that can be done in our conscience. Thought share would be helpful to a few and encourage discussion on matter.
Putin Is Checking Your Email Too
http://putinischeckingyouremailtoo.tumblr.com/
The Russian answer to PRIZM
Being unreasonable
http://mcastenfors.com/being-unreasonable/
"I agree with you on that”

This is human nature. We socialize with people, visit websites and read newspapers that confirm our beliefs. It’s what psychologists refer to as confirmation bias.

Should we?
Facets of small business branding
http://blog.softwebmarketing.com/facets-of-small-business-branding/
A business can increase its value that it offers its clientele by promoting a certain quality and differentiating itself. One must understand what drives the clients to buy or use the service. One may think that is a low price that does the trick. But, this is not always the case.
Qualities of personal branding
http://blog.softwebmarketing.com/qualities-of-personal-branding/
A firm needs to understand that each and everyone within the business can contribute to the success of their brands and better way that can help the staff of the company build a personal brand in conjunction with the corporate brand. A personal brand offers certain benefits.
Find yourself thinksterbating? Do something instead.
http://ebbflowgo.posterous.com/find-yourself-thinksterbating-do-something-in
This is my first hackernews post. I thought I'd try it out.
MonitoringForge.org Launched
http://monitoringforge.org
MonitoringForge is designed to appeal to IT administrators who want to compare and understand the differences between various open source monitoring tools and plugins available today, facilitating the selection of open source monitoring software over proprietary offerings.
Today begins Technology Entrepreneurship at Venture Lab
https://venture-lab.org/venture
This course introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. You will learn the process technology entrepreneurs use to start companies. It involves taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity, gathering resources such as talent and capital, figuring out how to sell and market the idea, and managing rapid growth. To gain practical experience alongside the theory, students form teams and work on startup projects in those teams.
This is the second offering of the class. Last time, nearly 40,000 students from around the world participated and worked in teams together. The top teams were matched with Silicon Valley mentors, and the best teams at the end of the class pitched their ideas to investors. Many of the alumni of the last class are continuing to build their startups and will be mentoring teams this time.
By the conclusion of the course, it is our hope that you understand how to:

Articulate a process for taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of alternative theoretical models).

Create and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital.

Create and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea.

Generalize this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into opportunities that can be used in larger companies and other settings.
What happens when there is no leader? - RadioLab - Emergence
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies--all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony.
Show HN: Game of Thrones Namer
http://dirtymonkey.co.uk/game-of-thrones
Generate words that sound like Game of Thrones characters. Good for project names and stray cats.
Are you a narcissist when in Cyberspace?
http://www.talktoatherapist.co.uk/narcissism-in-cyberspace/
Technology lets us share our lives and pretend we're someone else. How do you recognise narcissism in cyberspace?
The chemistry between online display advertising and SEM
http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/internet-marketing/online-display-advertising-and-sem
The recently concluded Search Engine Marketing and Online Display Advertising Integration Study made some startling revelations, putting many online marketers at wrong.
Sanity check: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=546#
I'm assuming at least some hackers here come from an IT background (as I did), so enjoy!
China wholesale electronics
http://www.papayaone.com
PapayaOne - Online wholesale electronics store based in Asia. Alcohol breath testers, Apparel, Audio, Cameras & Camcorders, Car, Cell Phone Accessories, Cell Phones, Computer Products, Digital Quran, Fashion Bag, Fashion Jewelry and Watch, Flashlights, Iphone Accessories, Toys. Excellent savings from everyday low prices, quality products, friendly customer service, fast door-to-door delivery.
What no code tools are currently available?
Which tools are already out there to create web apps without need for coding? Which ones are you currently working on?
EVidence – Generate Cucumber Tests using BDD – Register
http://evidence-project.com
eVidence is an application made to ease software management. In it's beta version it will offer interesting features such as: Test Case generation, Cucumber Test Scripts generation, Documentation generation such as User flow, User Requirements... Come register to try it out once launched ! More info in my blog: http://evidence-agile.blogspot.fr
Inaugural PyConZA 
http://za.pycon.org/
The inaugural PyconZA is happening in Cape Town, South Africa on the 4 & 5 October 2012.

Submit talk proposals:
http://za.pycon.org/speaker.html
Film Alphabets (iOS Game)
http://filmalphabets.com/
Film Alphabets Launches Today!
Lessons in Sustainability From Gandhi
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/lessons-sustainability-gandhi/
There are many lessons the sustainability movement can learn from Gandhi and his philosophies.
Why Bitcoin is Dumb
http://evolvingtrends.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/why-bitcoin-is-dumb/
Bitcoin is the idea is money gets its value from scarcity, which is a misconception since money gets its value from the volume of transactions involving goods and services. The only reason the dollar still has any value is because people still use it to buy energy, weapons, food, etc. If people or large buyers/sellers like China decide to stop using the dollar then the dollar will crash regardless of how scarce it is. That does not mean that some people won’t continue to make a great deal money from the speculation around this dumb idea at the heart of Bitcoin.
Ask HN: How should I spend this winter?
Hi, I lurk on HN very regularly, and have always been kind of scared to post anything because people seem so smart (to the point of intimidation).

Anyway, I'm a senior in college studying computer science and am about to begin the job hunt. I have completed two internships, but despite this I don't feel like I'm qualified for many of the job listings on here. I've been preparing for technical interviews for about 2-3 hours a day (reading Elements of Programming Interviews), but I don't know if this is actually helpful.

Does anyone have any advice on what the best strategy is? I have literally 4 weeks to burn and want to do the best I can.
What JS GUI/Charting librares does Bitcoinwisdom use?
http://www.bitcoinwisdom.com
I have always been impressed by the performance/ui of this site. I was wondering whether this is a from-scratch-made piece of software, or it's using some libraries such as CanvasJS or tickp.
Virus-writing magazine valhalla#4 released
http://spth.virii.lu/v4/
Virus-writing magazine valhalla#4 has been released.

Content:
) DNA infection with computer code
) cross-infectors for Win32/Linux/OSX (using code abstraction) and JS/VBS/Ruby/MatLab/Python (using MetaLanguages)
) 32 (!) new infectors for different platforms
) Anti-Sandbox and Anti-Emulation techniques
) Linux 64bit infection
) Metamorphism
) new file infectors using Java and GPU PTX code
) GPG encrypted worm using online key-servers
*) interviews

(download: http://hh86.virii.lu/Valhalla_4.rar - online: http://spth.virii.lu/v4/)
Show HN: I have managed to keep this brand new for more than a decade.
http://i.imgur.com/D1g5y.jpg
I sold another on eBay some years ago for $75 selling it as a piece of history :)
Write less, do more: CSS Style
http://speckyboy.com/2013/01/07/write-less-do-more-css-style/
There must be a better way of tackling complex, content-heavy sites while keeping things straight between backend and frontend developers.
Up yours flappy bird this is flippy bird
http://flippybird.co.uk/
Here's my tribute to flipping the bird!
Invest your beer money wisely
http://jamesrorimer.com/post/47398513448/invest-your-beer-money-wisely
Chew on this: if all the money you spent on alcohol in a year’s time was invested it into bitcoins today, you would probably lose all of it when bitcoin market crashes anyways..

But, you would be healthier. Say, for example, that once a week an individual goes to a bar and buys 2 beers for his/herself and 2 for a friend, so generous. At $6 per beer that’s $24 per week, and let us round that to $30 since the bartender (regardless of individual preferred gender) is cute. Now, let’s say happy hour is once per week, $30 X 4 = $120 per month. There are 12 months in a year, that’s 12 X $120 = $1,400 per year for 192 beers. If there is an average of 150 calories in each beer it totals 28,800 calories per year or about 8.23 lbs of added energy per year. So, I suppose that means in 100 years this individual would be more than 823 lbs, right?!

What I think I’m getting at is even if you lost $1,400 through a risky investment, you still have much less work to do than if that same amount is spent on alcohol. What this theory lacks is that tons of great networking/friendship/relationship creation happens over a beer, but I’m brainstorming here better ways to create. What do you think?
Free CDN's For WordPress Users
http://wpcentury.com/free-wordpress-cdn/
Want to give your WordPress site a performance boost and increase it's speed? Here are some of the best free CDN ways to do it.
Join Homejoy's growing data science team 
http://homejoy.theresumator.com/apply/aKnzwa/Data-Scientist.html?source=Hackernews
We're hiring Data Scientists!

Homejoy is a fast growing technology platform revolutionizing the client and service provider experience. We use our platform to provide our clients with on-demand, high quality home services, starting with residential cleaning, at a fraction of the cost of our competitors. In our first year we expanded to more than 30 cities throughout the US and Canada - covering over 100m households. We've delivered double-digit revenue growth every single month, and every new market's growth tracks faster than our first benchmark market.

We're also focused on making homes happier. This includes happy clients and enabling the independent cleaning professionals on our platform the tools to grow their business. This also includes volunteer time and projects by our employees. The Homejoy Foundation takes this one step further through grants for the communities we serve.

We are backed by some of Silicon Valley's best investors — including Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, Paul Buchheit and others.

What does the data scientist do?

You are expected to aggressively mine our vast customer, cleaner, and appointment data, form hypotheses, spar with and win over your peers, deploy tests, and drive metrics every day. You have, at your disposal, millions of data points and dollars -- and millions of households to reach.

Specifically,

Grow our service provider base by identifying and improving recruiting and retention drivers
Improve service reliability & quality by identifying the underlying drivers of issues

Here's what we're looking for:

* 2+ years experience as a Data Scientist
* Proven track record of setting up large data sets, performing statistical analysis, and presenting results
* Experience with statistical software packages and programing environments
* Bachelors in CS, math or science from a top tier school

Bonus points:

* Language and environment fluency: Google App Engine & Python; R or Matlab
* Experienced a Homejoy cleaning and already know how we work as a client

Awesome benefits:

* Very competitive pay, serious equity
* Health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401K
* New machine and other needed hardware
* Daily catered breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus a break room fully stocked with snacks 24/7!
* Transit pass
* Weekly personal group trainer to help stay fit and healthy
* Fun team outings, including sporting events, happy hours, bowling competitions, BBQ’s and pizza parties
* Relocation expenses (if outside of the Bay Area)
* Relaxed working environment; we won’t judge if you want to come to work in your jammies!
Awesome Shoe Sizing app
http://www.gsapp.co/
Ever been confused by what your size is in different brands? Then use GlassSlipper!
mac empty trash
http://mackeeper.zeobit.com/empty-trash-mac
The possibility to remove securely Mac files by Shredder. They will disappear without a trace.
Inqre: The social question revolution
https://inqre.com
With the public devouring Twitter for latest news updates, gossip, and general connectivity with their peers, people still resort to Yahoo Answers! for general questions, only to find a rather lacking design aspect and social presence. Inqre aims to resolve that with its 100% custom coded unique blend of a Twitter-esque system for two things: Questions, and Answers.
Make notes after reading a book - you can't remember everything
http://wikimatze.de/benefits-of-reading-a-book-and-use-it-right-after-that.html
It’s a typical situation which every person knows: You look on your workspace and have a bunch of new books there. You ordered them because some great guys lay their hands in the fire that you need this wisdom. Of course you have to do a stressful job and don’t have time to read all the things but you still must learn new things in order to develop new skills. What should you do? I just started reading as much as I can.
Zippersnapper - The missing zip with password app for your Mac (Mac Only)
http://zippersnapperapp.com/
Ever wonder why you can’t easily password protect a zip file on a Mac? So did we. Zippersnapper is the easiest way to zip your files with password protection.
I created a Ruby gem for making gmail-like avatars with initials
https://github.com/lucek/avatarly
Like it?
Census Information Visualizer for Myanmar (Still a prototype)
http://www.censusgical.com:8800/Censusgical
For first time in 30 years , Myanmar released census data . So we built a search + visualizer for it. Powered by Python + Pandas + D3 + web2py + uWSGI .
If you gave me $1 billion to knock off Snickers, I can’t do it.
http://undergroundvalue.blogspot.com/2008/02/notes-from-buffett-meeting-2152008_23.html
"What if you could buy 10% of one of your classmates and their future earnings? You wouldn't buy the ones with the highest IQ, the best grades, etc, but the most effective. You like people who are generous, go out of their way, straight shooters. Now imagine that you could short 10% of one of your classmates. This part is usually more fun as you start looking around the room. You wouldn't choose the ones with the poorest grades. Look for people nobody wants to be around, that are obnoxious or like to take all the credit. If you have a 500 HP engine and only get 50 HP out of it, you'll be beat by someone else that has a 300 HP engine but gets 250 HP output. The difference between potential and output comes from human qualities. You can make a list of the qualities you admire and those you despise. To turn the tables, think if this is the way I react to the qualities on the list,
which is the way the world will react to me."
Greed is not good: Silicon Valley's new 'spirit of generosity' 
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/greed-is-not-good-silicon-valleys-new-spirit-of-generosity-20111207-1ohxr.html
We need more hackers working in niches to disrupt health IMHO. Perhaps our demographic is blinkered to these opportunities.
How much Muni Debt does a New Jersey Employed Person Carry?
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-jersey-debt-per-employed-person-2010-12
Btw- this does not include New Jersey State or Federal debt which will add even more to this number.
Trouble on the horizon for ad-supported busineses?
http://blog.vungle.com/why-is-congress-trying-to-shut-down-the-advertising-industry/
Congress is talking about slashing corporate tax deductions for ad expenditures. Which could mean fewer ad dollars to go around.
Share on Twitter and Facebook for a chance to win 1000$
https://vine.co/v/M6diE0rb9xw
Retweet this share everything for a chance to win 1000$ reply after done sharing
Explore the tree of life
http://www.onezoom.org
A zoomable history of the entire evolutionary tree of life.
Outstanding and Inspiring Website Backgrounds.
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/10/outstanding-and-inspiring-website.html
Are your looking for Innovative Illustrative and Sketchy Website Backgrounds. In this post I had listed 9 impressive websites. If you known any links just post a comment. Thanks!
Ask HN: Find users analyzing data across multiple spreadsheets
I am trying to identify users that analyze data spread across multiple spreadsheets:

- typical roles and titles of such users

- type of organization where such users are likely to be concentrated

- industry verticals that are more likely to have such users

- how to reach such users?

We are developing a service that helps users performing data analytics work who,

- need to answer questions by querying data but not necessarily familiar with handling of raw data

- expecting quick turnaround and driven by urgency of finding interesting and relevant patterns in data collected from disparate sources.

We are having second thoughts now as we are realizing finding our target users appears to be difficult. Any suggestions and feedback most appreciated.
Frontend Development Resources List
https://github.com/jakiestfu/frontend-dev-bookmarks
A huge list of frontend development resources by Mark Bates.
Betashop: 10 tips for founders
http://betashop.com/post/170708548/10-tips-for-founders
Some updated tips for founding teams.
Review of EADOC Collaboration software for the Construction industry 
http://www.getapp.com/blog/eadoc-software-review/
Review of EADOC a SaaS project management and collaboration application targeted at professionals in the construction management industry.
Ask HN: Where's good to ask questions about language papers?
Where is a good place to ask questions about language papers? I am having trouble with a little proof that i guess should be obvious as part of a paper and thought i wanted to ask someone, but i don't know where people talk about such things. Are there any good language theory IRC channels?

I wanted to understand "evlis tail recursion" so I am studying the paper Wand 1980, "Continuation-based program transformation strategies" -- https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.8567&rep=rep1&type=pdf

I am on page 167 and i am trying to prove that "If REV terminates (which it always does), then so does REVC".

It says to consider the performance specification "psi-Revc(X, gamma; Z) -- if y occurs as a first argument to REVC during the computation of REVC(x, gamma), then y occurs as a first argument to REV during the computation of REV(x)."

Then it says if you consider the operational semantics of recursion equations in, say, call-by-value, this spec is inconsistent with nontermination.

First question is how do you say that the performance specification is true for a correct REVC? I think i see it but was having trouble formalizing it.

Second is how to say that REVC definitely terminates?

I am new to proving correctness so sorry if this is obvious.
Ask HN: Ad display services with per-pageview keyword support?
All of the ad display services I've checked out rely on indexing static page content to determine relevant ads. I've no luck in finding one that allows you to specify dynamic keywords per page-view to the ad server, (via js parameters, reference to a div with dynamic content, or otherwise). The relevant ad keywords for my site will differ at any given time based on each user's input history. After a user has shown an interest in robots for example, and who doesn't, I'd expect robot-related ads to appear.

What, if any, ad services offer this - or is it a feature too subject to abuse?
Review of metaaso
http://www.desistartups.in/2008/04/30/p2p-startup-metaaso-mermaid-desistartups-review/
I review Indian startups. Here is my latest one - http://www.desistartups.in/2008/04/30/p2p-startup-metaaso-mermaid-desistartups-review/
Kim Dotcom offering 10,000 Euro Reward
http://www.groovypost.com/news/mega-kim-dotcom-ten-thousand-hacking-reward/
Mega, the New Zealand based file hosting site created by Kim Dotcom (the guy who made the old MegaUpload, which was shut down by the feds) has proclaimed itself “The Privacy Company.”