jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Learning Loop – a personalized discovery platform for learning
https://app.learningloop.org/loop/founders
Problem
Learning a new skill online has become impossible for most people:
● There is no universal starting point - There are 400 to 4000 online courses for the topics majority of internet users are searching to learn online, and over 10,000 videos and blog posts.
● Too much content, no effective filters - Too many unsuccessful search attempts for finding the right learning resources make users feel stupid and quit their learning journey.
● People learn in silos and their learning insights aren’t transparent- Millions of people have been learning the same things every day, for years, yet there is no easy-to-discover information on the best ways to learn something

Anyone can be great at anything, given the right guidance, but finding guidance has become too hard. Most people live a lifetime and die without learning what they can love and be great at.

That aside, learning is generally hard. When you learn something new, you feel temporarily incompetent. The world’s learning interfaces aren’t designed with that in mind, and therefore fail most users in their learning journey.

Solution:
Learning is acquiring the right knowledge related to your learning goal, in a timely manner.

A plethora of factors including your competence level, weekly schedule, headspace and your geographic location and wealth can change the complexion of learning, but learning has an overarching workflow. Learning Loop embeds the best practices from great learners in every field into a product that streamlines the learning process and increases a user’s exposure to hyper local learning insights and steps so that the user can learn like the top 1% of learners.

We are building towards: a software product that helps anyone learn anything they want and be great at it.

Our starting point: a platform that helps startup founders find hyper local startup lessons documented by seasoned founders, neatly organized in categories such as fundraising, sales, product, growth, hiring, fully searchable with hyper local filters such as funding stage, region, industry and investor.
Ask HN: Best Online CS courses? or night class in NYC?
I am a recent graduate of the University of Michigan majoring in Economics and Statistics.

After a few months working in corporate finance, I realized this is completely and absolutely not what I want to do with my life. I have been a silent reader of hackernews for the past six months and my interest in programming has slowly been on the rise. I would like to give it a try, but my student loans force me to stay at my current job.

I have done some research but am just a little lost as to where to start. Are the google search results for online courses legit? I'm not exactly sure if this is the path I want to follow, but I'm willing to give it a good shot and see if I would actually enjoy it. I would ideally like to attend a good programming night class in New York City, available anytime after 5 PM, since I do learn a lot better with an interactive class, but a good online course would be helpful as well.

Future plans? I was hoping to incorporate my business background and programming and pursue graduate school for financial modeling and programming…but I want to first see if programming is ultimately my cup of tea.

Any suggestions?

edit: I did see stanford and MIT's websites for free online course materials. Would this be the best way to start? I wanted to enroll and attend a real CS class where I would be graded. I do not mind paying money for class either.
Are we in the golden age of apps?
http://instadate.svbtle.com/are-we-in-a-app-induced-euphoria
Since we have almost a billion people primed to use smartphones ; is it time to rethink what we can do now as a race?
Nanoprogramming, or the new art of writing really small and smart programs
http://nanoprogramming.wordpress.com/
I found this when searching for a nanoprogramming framework, this seems interesting.
Agency contract work, good or bad?  You decide...
http://goldfingerknuckle.tumblr.com/post/10167962423/agency-contract-work-good-or-bad-you-decide
Some of my thoughts/frustrations on working for agencies... look forward to hearing other's thoughts on this.
Review my startup, whiteboard.co
http://whiteboard.co
We announced a product this morning that we have been working on over the past several months and would love to hear your feedback and thoughts. It is called Whiteboard.

Whiteboard is a task and project management application that helps you focus on what matters most in your day, whether it be collaborating with clients and colleagues on projects at work or managing to-dos at home.

Here is a link to our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcmqw2G6oM
Facebook + Googlemaps + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette.net 
http://faceroulette.net
New version.

Simple concept:
1. Facebook: integration to avoid perverts, you only share your firstname/gender/location. You can easily share your profile if you like someone.
2. Googlemaps: integration to show partner location on city level (instead of pretending that people are anonymous, see chatroulettemap.com, we used it as a feature!) You will hop around the world, a whole new experience!

It's pretty new so at this moment almost nobody knows it exists, everything has a start. Let's try to get the buzz on, try it and if you like it spread the word!
Mobile dev company giving away a day of their time
http://contest.carnivallabs.com
Carnival Labs are giving away a day of their time to someone with a sweet app idea. Just follow them on twitter and submit your idea.
Ask:HN Best services for sending money abroad
I'm based in Canada and pay people (in USD) in both Turkey and Brazil on a regular basis (developers). Would be interested to know what people are using to make international transfers at below Paypal / Bank transfer fees.
Ask HN: Recommendation for presentation software
A recommendation for presentation software that might be able to help?
Just viewed https://www.firebase.com/blog/2015-01-23-video-walkthrough-swift-fundamentals.html
This is a nice presentacion.
Uber-Replacement f. Facebook's soon discontinued Live-Chat-Widget
http://die.socialisten.at/2012/09/uberch-at-a-free-open-graph-connected-realtime-chat-widget-replacing-facebooks-live-stream-plugin/
In October 2012, Facebook will be discontinuing their popular live-chat social plugin ("live-stream"), used on many websites & FB-apps.

With Uberch.at (http://uberch.at) we've built a drop-in replacement, completely integrated with Open Graph/Timeline, @-mentions, added social context and a live facepile.

Of course it's free, we hope you like it :)
Show HN: Site that makes watching web videos more like watching TV
http://www.throwsomethingon.com
Hey guys. I missed TV, so I made a site that makes TV out of web videos. There are only 12 channels and everyone's watching the same thing. You can just throw something on in the background like you used to do with TV.

Let me know what you think.
Valley's 'biggest' social networker
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hoffman8-2008jul08,0,6276632,full.story
Warm & fuzzy profile of Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn.
Ask HN: How long need to wait for accepted to producthunt
İ have a new app "Newsie-Your Social Life and want to ask how long need to wait for accept to producthunt after applied
Windows 7 Free for 1 year
http://techcombo.com/windows-7-free-for-1-year
No difficulties- all you need to do is download it on May 5th before the site gets overloaded!

Good news for all computer lovers as Microsoft Co. has announced that they will permit users to using Windows 7 Release Candidate. Since it is out of Beta and near completion, it is virtually supplying users with a free operating system for just over a year, which incidentally a longer preview than other window platforms such as Vista and XP in most cases used for testing purposes...
GWT 2 Spring 3 JPA 2 Hibernate 3.5 Tutorial
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2010/05/gwt-2-spring-3-jpa-2-hibernate-35.html
This step by step guide will present how to develop a simple web application using Google's Web Toolkit (GWT) for the rich client and Spring as the back – end, server side framework. The sample web application will provide functionality to make CRUD (Create Retrieve Update Delete) operations to a database. For the data access layer we will use JPA over Hibernate and for a database we will use Hypersonic. Of course you can change the configuration and use whatever you like. We will deploy the web application to an Apache – Tomcat instance.
Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution
http://code.google.com/p/linux-intelligent-ocr-solution/
Linux-intelligent-ocr-solution

Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image or Folder containing Images. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. Lios is written in python, and we release it under GPL3 license. Lios will work with Debian based operating systems. There are great many possibilities for this program, Feedback is the key to it
Can Twitter Help Us To Determine The Changes in Public’s Mood?
http://www.techieapps.com/can-twitter-help-us-to-determine-the-changes-in-publics-mood/
Twitter’s 140 character limit is superb for sending out short bursts of information, but also can it be useful in assisting us to gauge what public is feeling and in which mood they are?
How to Break Up with Firefox
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/03/20/how-to-break-up-with-firefox
Confession time: Somewhere down the back of my T-shirt drawer there's a black tee with a red dinosaur and the word Mozilla in blocky soviet-industrial type. It's from a time when Firefox was young and easy and free, and we were in love. Ah, Firefox. Whatever happened to us?
Harry Plotter - yet another javascript lib to plot charts on canvas
http://nikopol.github.com/Harry-Plotter/#tab=presets
harry is a lightweight standalone javascript library to plot data as charts, pies, lines or curves.
license MIT.
features:
- mono or multi dataset
- mouseover support
- lightweight (15k minified)
- standalone
- highly configurable
- animation
Gigli.st, job bookmarking site, seeking co-founder
http://gigli.st
I am the CTO, and willing to work on this part-time. An MVP is ready, and I'm looking for someone with vision and hustle to grow this. giglistapp [at] gmail [dot] com
Incorporate Before Year End
http://www.startuplawblog.com/?p=422
I vaguely knew there was a special deal on capital gains until the end of the year. I hadn't realized that it was a good deal for new startups.
10 Stops on the Conversion Highway
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33453/10-Stops-to-Take-on-the-Road-to-Lead-Generating-Landing-Pages-INFOGRAPHIC.aspx
Could be the longest infographic ever. Take a road trip across the USA to learn how to make landing pages. #Epic
Show HN: Learn why your users leave
https://polljoy.com
Hey Simon, co-founder here. Would love some product feedback - especially first impressions and any concerns that come up..
Show HN: HodlerPay – BNPL using your crypto as collateral
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUPMZG85gKSc5U0vaSwp1qT8fhrtn2WFb
Hi, We're building a payment gateway that let you deposit your investment holdings (crypto at the moment, stocks later) at checkout of Ecommerce brands as collateral. We'll give you a loan to shop immediately. You can pay us back later to get back your collateral at zero to very low fee. In some sense, we’re BNPL using investment holdings.

We've built the MVP, allowing users to deposit ETH and SOL directly within the checkout flow which you can see in our demo playlist. We'd love to have your feedback on our product.
UXcollection
http://uxcollection.io/
A collection of facts, figures and opinions for the informed UX professional. UX 4 all.
Business Cards - 100+ Tutorials to Help You Create Your Own
http://devstand.com/design/business-card-tutorials/
Business cards are essential for any kind of business, but unfortunately, the cost for a professional one is quite large. Here is a huge list containing over 100 top tutorials created by expert graphic designers.

Here you will be able to see all kind of business cards and combine them to create your own fully customized one.
Show HN: RP2, Privacy-Focused, Free, Open-Source, US Crypto Tax Calculator
https://github.com/eprbell/rp2
RP2 is a privacy-focused, open-source, free US Crypto tax calculator, up to date for 2021: it handles multiple coins/exchanges and computes long/short-term capital gains, cost bases, in/out lot relationships, and account balances. It supports FIFO and LIFO and it generates output in form 8949 format (so that tax accountant can understand them, even without being cyrptocurrency experts). It has a programmable plugin architecture for report generators, accounting methods and countries.

https://github.com/eprbell/rp2
Ask HN: Formulas and Functions for Accounting and Finance?
Where can I find a cheatsheet or a list of all mathematical formulas and functions required for accounting and finance?

Edit: I am not looking for Excel help :)
Facebook is down
Facebook Will Be Back Soon
Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. In the meantime, read more about why you're seeing this message. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site.
Tell HN: Skype employee fakes "One month free calls promo"
20 minutes ago there was tweet saying they would issue a one month of free Skype calls[1].

5 minutes later they deleted the tweet, issuing a new one[2] that says: "Sorry – the last tweet was posted in error. We’re 100% focused on getting Skype back in action. Stay tuned for more information."

1. https://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/17976224630444033

2. http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/17979814220660737
WebSocket VNC client demo video
http://vimeo.com/16459612
WebSocket VNC client in your browser.

Server side is written in Perl, source code is available at http://github.com/vti/showmethedesktop.
A Passion For Your Craft
http://www.codingcontext.com/post/A-Passion-For-Your-Craft.aspx
Creating realiable, scalable, and useable software takes skill that is developed over many years of practice, study, and most importantly: failure. When you move on, where does all this experience go?
Pure Javascript HTML weather widget
http://www.weatherfor.us/
Widget is designed with two goals in mind Visual appeal, clarity, and experience for modern screens. I am actively developing the widget and putting it out for free. You can try out checkout code, tryout various locations (try some place where it is raining, you will love it).
The Next Release of Java: Java JDK 7, out mid-2011
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/java-platform-2010-174690.html?msgid=3-2517886426
I don't know how old the article is but it was in an Oracle newsletter that hit my inbox today.
How Do You Enjoy Internet TV?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IryK4wsUM
Since I found the joys of ShareReactor and Edonkey (now Hulu/etc) I have connected my PCs to TVs. Have not had cable for a long while.

With a sour economy I have seen a lot of articles on Cnet and elsewhere promoting what is seen in the video. Though everyone is different and maybe enjoying Internet TV in their own fashion (Boxee, Windows Media Center, laptop connected to TV projector).

Thought I'd post this to see if others here too enjoying all their content through the web? If so, how?
Ask: what do all of you think of Cuill (and other search startups)?
http://www.cuill.com/founders.html
I'm skeptical of anyone who tries to play in the same ballpark as Google, but it looks like Cuill is composed of a fair number of ex-Googlers and others who are smartypants.

Anyone know anything about Cuill and what they do that a Google search wouldn't turn up?
Extend.js
http://extendjs.org
Feedback is very welcome. As the site says, ExtendJS does not do much on it's own but I found it to be a powerful framework to build on, hopefully so does HN.
Ask HN: Should usernames have a minimum length?
Some sites don't allow users to select usernames less than 5 or 6 characters in length. Is there a good reason for this?
Ask HN: review my Mailinator.com clone: Mailnesia.com
Hi, I made a mailinator clone: MailNesia.com. Please send any feedback, comments, suggestions. Also check out the features page.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Could Tumblr eventually challenge Facebook for social dominance?
Tumblr already has the attention of almost everyone under the age of 18, so imagine if Tumblr started to implement some more social features into the site. If Tumblr could play up being the 'hip new thing' to Facebook's 'old and professional'... They might have something.

Is Tumblr the internet's sleeping giant?

UPDATE: Heres some food for thought; I run a relatively "cool" blog, and my follower counts are as follow: Twitter - 1950, Facebook 'Fans' - 3,850, RSS - 4,500 ... Tumblr - 7,500 (it's up 1,000 since last week). That also translates to Tumblr being my third largest referrer after Stumble Upon and Twitter. Facebook is hard to quantify however.
Wordpress traffic spike last week
I have 3 wordpress sites that I manage for small clients/friends. Each completely separate hosting providers and industries. Each site varies on traffic, from around 10 to 50 visits per day.

On Friday, March 20th and through Sunday, each site saw a huge increase in traffic. I haven't been able to find out why this occurred; any ideas? Has anyone else seen this recently?
Studies Suggest an Acetaminophen-Asthma Link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/health/evidence-mounts-linking-acetaminophen-and-asthma.html?_r=1&ref=health
The sharp worldwide increase in childhood asthma over the past 30 years has long perplexed researchers, who have considered explanations as varied as improved hygiene and immunizations. Over the last decade, however, a new idea has emerged.
Show HN: An Excel addin to automatically use cell names in formulas
https://github.com/evandwight/modernexcel
Automatically convert Excel files formatted like the following:

/* Tax rate */

var b1 = 50%;

/* Salary */

var b2 = 120000;

var b3 = b1 * b2;

To:

var tax_rate = 50%;

var salary = 120000;

var b3 = tax_rate * salary;

I'm trying to improve the readability and feature discovery of excel by bringing linting and autoformatting to excel.

Currently there's only the one linting rule. What excel best practices would you like to see added?
Ask HN: Abnormally high level of TLS patching going on?
First Apple, then Google, now GnuTLS? They all sound like different bugs, but all coming out within 3 business days?

Is there a coordinated effort to time these releases?
Hyperboria(secure internet alternative) not so secure or even safe? 
http://pastebin.com/gWzFwBiw
Lately Hyperboria which is based on cjdns has been mentioned on Hacker news headlines. It got me starting to research about meshnets and since Hyperboria seems to be getting hyped up as the next secure internet it got me thinking if that is really true or if there are better alternatives.
Apparently cjdns uses labels in the messages sent through routers to be be tracked back and forth, which to my understanding is not so secure or anonymous. Even if the message is encrypted along the way.
I can see how the message with encryption could be breached at nodes and then backtracked to original source, or who knows how. But the fact is the chatlog I found does have some valid points as regard to cjdns being faulty advertised as secured anonymous decentralized network. Apparently I2P network is more true to that and which uses a direct tunnel between two parties instead of using routes and labels traveling a long road. A lot could happen on that road...
United States law is an "All or nothing" game, and Zimmerman won.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/07/10/george_zimmerman_trial_trayvon_martin_s_shooter_is_probably_going_to_walk.html
I'm on the fence on this one.
Ask HN: Factory method design pattern in open source code [Python]
I am reading about design patterns and trying to find real life implementations. Can someone point to any such source or tell me any real open source usage of Factory method design pattern.
Company Culture – Give and You Shall Receive (x10)
http://founderdating.com/companyculturedogster/
Ted Rheingold (Dogster, Say Media) gives a first hand account of how hard it was to prioritize company culture, but how it ultimately saved the company.
Show HN: Tymoot – Programers way of dealling with kids' Time Outs
http://www.ripeapps.com/
This is how programers deal with Kids' time-outs, make an app because they are lazy :)

My co-founder has 3 little ones.
Be a renaissance programmer
http://diycomputerscience.com/blog/post/2011/06/29/interview--with-sramana-mitra-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-renaissance-programmer
Interview with Sramana Mitra on what it means to be a renaissance programmer.
How to look for Hacker news old post?

The last day I want to look for comments that a link I saw like one week ago.<p>Is there any way to look for a old post?
Iphone 4 Accessories
http://www.ibuy247.co.uk/category.php?id_category=33
Get low cost iphone 4 accessories and ipad 2 accessories from ibuy247 store UK. Limited stock call us now at 0843 2891424 and place your order today.
Git Server for Windows
http://www.chodounsky.net/bonobo-git-server/
Bonobo Git Server for Windows has been released. It is a web application you can install on your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories.
Ubunchu The Ubuntu Manga
http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/
It's a romantic comedy that happen to feature the linux distro Ubuntu.
Go Go Mongo A fun and educational game for children ages 2-4 now live
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-go-mongo/id426619300?mt=8&ls=1
I've been working on this title for the past 4 months and now it is finally approved! Hopefully all this hacking will pay off!
Setting up Amazon Auto Scaling Using Boto AWS API
http://blog.7geese.com/2011/07/18/setting-up-amazon-auto-scaling-using-boto-aws-api/
Quick guide on how to setup auto scaling for aws using boto.
Ask HN: Startup accounting for SaaS model?
What accounting software do you use to track your subscription-based service? Everything I've looked at focuses on helping SMB do invoicing, billing, etc which is consulting, which is not what we're building here. I would probably go with Quickbooks but I use a Mac and we don't have any Employees so a lot of the functionality seems moot.
Idea: Google Apps Custom
http://levifig.com/articles/gac.html
Anyone else getting freaking tired of how Google Apps creates a new Google Account for every new domain/organization you're a part of? Well, I am. I'm tired of having around 10 Google Accounts, having to sign in and out of them all the time, etc…

I have an idea… :)
Ask HN: Does a supervisor/university matter for a Masters in CS
So I am in a bit of a peculiar situation and thought I might ask. A few years back, I made a career change to get into CS and ended up doing a diploma. While on the diploma I got a full-time job as a coder. Now, I don't want to quit my job and I'd like to do a Master's degree (towards ML\NLP). I have a supervisor but he is not very well known in the field. Neither is the university. However he is willing to accept me as a part-time student for a thesis project. Is this a good approach or should I consider other options (such as doing course-based masters) ?