jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Obama, Jobs to roll out Apple iVote
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/02/26/obama-jobs-to-roll-out-apple-ivote/
Just on the heels of the release of the MacBook Air, Apple has launch of the iVote, a widget that can be imbedded into a blog or Facebook profile and will also decide the next US President.
Are you a Xoopit or a Zappos?
http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/07/are-you-a-xoopit-or-a-zappos.html
What kind of startups are you building? Are VCs designed for deals like Xoopit? no
Help Us Share Gratitude with the World
http://sharemygratitude.com/
We are trying to share the things we are grateful for with the world this holiday season. Please join in with our small project and help us collect gratitude from all over the world. In return we'll make you famous with our background quilt in return. http://sharemygratitude.com/
Parse.com down?
http://www.parse.com
Can't access anything on parse.com
Famo.us university is now live
https://famo.us/university
Famo.us university is now live with step by step guides on how to get started using this javascript framework! You no longer need a beta invite.
Show HN: Javascript Template Loader
https://github.com/mlakewood/FrontEndLoader
FrontEndLoader makes it easy and painless to load all your client side templates up front at one time. Any commets, suggestions and pull requests welcome!
How to hire a programmer
http://blog.cyplo.net/2011/07/24/how-to-hire-people/
my take on tech recruitment
I'm curious about your opinions on that matter
Know your feedback loop – why and how to optimize it
http://blog.iterate.no/2012/10/01/know-your-feedback-loop-why-and-how-to-optimize-it/
If you always write perfect code, know how to predict the future and don’t care how your money is spent, you don’t need to read this. The rest of you need to know this stuff.
Show HN: Search Query, How to Find Exposed HFS HTTP File Server
https://blog.criminalip.io/2022/05/18/criminal-ip%eb%a1%9c-%ed%99%95%ec%9d%b8%ed%95%9c-%ec%a4%91%ea%b5%ad-http-file-server%ec%97%90-%ec%9d%80%eb%8b%89%eb%90%98%ec%96%b4-%ec%9e%88%eb%8a%94-%eb%94%b0%eb%81%88%ed%95%9c-%ec%95%85%ec%84%b1/
How to find exposed HFS HTTP File Server with analysis report on malicious code site on a chinese HFS HTTP Filer Servers.
Ask HN: Gap in Qualified Emerging Professionals?
Hi everyone. My name is Connor and I'm the Founder of Endevr. I am working on a pivot and reaching out to kindly request feedback for our MVP.

Problem: Lack of a qualified emerging workforce in tech and the lack of diversity/inclusion in tech.

Solution: A socially-interactive online marketplace matching emerging professionals in tech with the best-suited online education. Grow your network, save time/money, and elevate your career.

My Ask: I kindly ask any readers to share their input on this idea and if it's something of value. I put together a Google Form that only takes one minute. I will be sure to include anyone who responds in our beta! https://forms.gle/okFm94bEFDBRvbrC7

I'm always open to a discussion here in the comments to discuss anything related as well and be of help to you in any way I can!

Thank you!
Today's procrastination cure: The African Hacker (2005)
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug05/1699
This is an oldish article, but really got me motivated to stop _thinking_ about coding and start _actually_ coding. If THIS guy can run a successful software business in a developing country with little resources (human, capital, etc.) then there really shouldn't be any excuse for the "rest" of us.
Embeddable/Printable Guitar Tabs
http://blog.cleantab.com/news/printing-gorgeous-guitar-bass-tabs/
I had such a warm response from HN on my last post. I wanted to update you with some news. Let me know if I am being to outright. I added print styles to our tabs. Also, for you webmasters, embeddable tabs!
The Lenna (or Lena) picture
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/
The Lenna (or Lena) picture is one of the most widely used standard test images used for compression algorithms.
Top SXSW Panels to Follow at Home If You Care About Copyright & IP
http://blog.kunvay.com/top-10-sxsw-panels-to-check-out-or-follow-at-home-if-you-care-about-copyright-ip/
Follow copyright conversation @ SXSW even if you're not there.
Show HN: MiAlio - a Personalized Social commerce site
http://www.mialio.com
About MiAlio.com

MiAlio is the starting place for your discovery, shopping and sharing journey based on and controlled by YOU.

A very brief history about us:

We had a problem with shopping. The problem was that we did not know where to start shopping for products. Beyond that, we weren’t even sure what products we should be shopping for. Once we solved that laborious, time-wasting exercise, we had trouble making the buy decisions with confidence that the product would be right for us.

We assumed there would be a website that would tailer a shopping to US the INDIVIDUAL and make relevant recommendations. However, after searching high and low, we didn’t find anything that would help. Current websites only help you shop in these ways:

-Recommendations based on past purchases.
-Recommendations based on tracking your clicks.
-Recommendations based on random reviews.
-Recommendations from your friends.

You can spend countless hours surfing! Since we love technology, we theorized that if there was a website that helped shoppers discover new products based on their own personalities, that website would solve the above problems. We also took it a step further by allowing the shopper to share their discoveries with others - thereby solving the problem of the bad gift.

With that theory and goal, Mialio was born!
Join today...your profile can be completed in less time than creating a profile on popular social networks.
Ask HN: Does being a coder professionally ever inhibit you from improving?
For example, say you code the same type of C# every day. Or worse, say you've found your way onto a team with developers who don't know the language and certainly don't know how to do anything but write in that very basic C++ style that you learn in programming 101. At that point there's no point for you to improve because it doesn't matter what you know.

Another example is how you often times have to spend all day working. After sitting still in a chair being torture forced to figure out someone elses astonishing code for 8 hours I don't want to go home and sit in a chair and code. I want to join the local fight club.

Another example is it's incredibly aggravating to me when I know all about a subject for some reason (perhaps learning about it off work or at a previous job). By chance this subject comes up at work and I try to steer the team the right way but quickly discover how little my expertise matters in a room full of ignorant decision makers.

Have you ever noticed that being employed as a programmer actually caused you to become a worse programmer? Do you have examples of your own?
Pro Pakistani
http://crunchytechnology.blogspot.com/ 
ProPakistani brings you Telecom and IT news from Pakistan and from the worldwide,
breaking stories,
gossips,
interviews,
mobile packages,
tips,
tricks and much more!
Ask HN: Does Cold Outreach Work?
I'd like to shift my development focus on a particular business domain. I have the technical skills but have never work in that industry.

I would like to talk to insiders to figure out how I could help them.

My idea is to cold email/Twitter DM people and ask for their time. So far I haven't had any success with this.

Has anyone tried this before?
Google's first webpage in 1998
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/http://alpha.google.com/
Also http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/
Ask HN: Offering conference attendance packages to employees
The company I work for is considering offering once per year conference attendance as a perk and we're trying to come up with some ballpark estimates for how much this might cost. We're not sure exactly how much of the event and associated costs we should cover though. I'm hoping some of you can point out some industry norms.

Those of you who have attended a tech conference on your company, how much of the overall cost did they cover?

Tickets?
Travel?
Hotel?
Food & discretionary?
Other?
Social Network Ad Spending Keeps Rising
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005257&src=article_he
Projected $900MM in 2007, $1,380 in 2008.
Onion Price India
http://blog.dataweave.in/post/61933646874/an-onions-to-onions-analysis
Wonder why Onion prices shot up? Here are a few visualizations made using data from the dataweave platform:
Indiegame - Wings on Fury as Android Game
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wingsoffurylite
Check our remake on Android
Ask HN: You loved "justbuythisone" - do you like my North American version?
It's not complete by any means. I thought the UK site was a great concept and wanted something similar I could send a link to. When it's all done, I'll probably have about 20 hours wrapped up in to it.

Sample page:

http://b.estprice.com/laptop/under-1000

Thoughts?

proxy request for a new user: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenaciousJk
Engie - A new Suggestion Engine for your data, seeking beta testers
http://engie.org/
We want to make it easy to go beyond analytics, and put your data to work for you and your customers. Whether you’re suggesting 3D-printable models to users, predicting what merchandise will sell, or instantly deciding which courier should make the drop - recommendation technology can dramatically improve the way you do business.

Our suggestions work better because we focus on what matters: people. Every piece of data that we track is defined by how people interact with it, not what a computer thinks it is.

We believe that smart algorithms can do much more than tell you what movies to watch, and we're looking for a few companies to do a free beta test with us to help prove it. Please email us at team@engie.org with your idea and the size of your database if you are interested, or if you want more information.
Build replicable environments with #Docker
http://www.slideshare.net/arnaudbreton/build-replicable-environments-docker-paris-031314
Talk @DockerParis about building replicable environments with Docker (https://www.docker.io/)
Survey Results: 2013 SaaS Survey by GrooveHQ
http://groovehq.com/blog/saas-conversion-survey-results
Do you currently own or work for a SaaS company? Then you should read this.

Long anticipated survey results from GrooveHQ. Details of survey:

Groove removed outliers, normalized all currency to USD and cut the data to only include the 712 respondents who have reached Product/Market Fit, have been in business for at least 6 months and have at least $1,000 (but less than $500K) in monthly recurring revenue.
It's alive The intelligent office of the future 
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10575/its-alive-the-intelligent-office-of-the-future/
Soon, your office will power itself, eat CO2, warm your chair before you arrive and grow your lunch on its external walls. Take a glimpse into the intelligent office.

"Intelligent buildings should be healthy, sustainable and meet the needs of people."

http://bit.ly/Vkcm2Y
Show HN: FlexMeasures ― optimize flexible energy demand, in Python
https://flexmeasures.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Hi,

this is for everybody who is interested in clean tech, especially real-time automation within new energy systems.

We've been working on FlexMeasures for a while ― an energy management system (EMS) with a focus on using demand flexibility to its maximum potential.

We're running it in several pilots ourselves, but our aim is to speed up the energy transition across the world. Let's not re-invent the wheel (i.e. a software stack around time series and optimization) too many times. Wherever you are in the world, and whatever setting you might be looking at (energy-modern housing in the U.S., smart e-mobility in Africa, self-balancing microgrids in Indonesia, etc.), maybe some of you will like our approach.

We've decided that making it easy and clear for developers to build such energy solutions can bring the largest gains. The first step towards that goal was a permissive license (Apache 2.0). The latest step we took was a Docker image (we got a Docker-based tutorial here: https://flexmeasures.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tut/toy-exampl...).

You can see the code at https://github.com/FlexMeasures/flexmeasures

Since recently, FlexMeasures is a project within the Linux Energy Foundation (https://www.lfenergy.org/projects/flexmeasures/), which helps to establish a proper governance and quality standard.

Actually, upcoming Thursday is our next Technical Steering Committee meeting, and interested people are warmly invited:

Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 am US Pacific Time / 11:00 am US Eastern
time / 5:00 pm Central European Time

https://meet.google.com/cyu-inss-oik

We'd love to hear from you!
AI = (Steven Pinker + Michael Jordan) / Limits in Computation
It would be awe-inspiring to see an inter-disciplinary approach to solving a portion of AI via Machine Learning (Micheal Jordan) and based on mimicking a portion of human cognition via "How the Mind Works" (Steven Pinker).

Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/machinelearning-maestro-michael-jordan-on-the-delusions-of-big-data-and-other-huge-engineering-efforts

Steven Pinker on How the Mind Works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Mind_Works

I think this is the only way we are going to make real progress on the AI front.
Show HN: SETT (blogging platform focused on creating communities)
http://sett.com/tynan/wrongwithblogging
Tynan, (creator of tasksmash.com) just launched his new platform called SETT on his blog. I gotta say, I've been excited to see what this could do since I first read about it, and I've been with happy with my Wordpress/bbPress installation, but after clicking around on the new site using SETT, I'm really in love with it.

I haven't tested the admin back-end, and I don't know when it will be ready publicly, but I can't wait. I like how the user/commenter back-end works though.

I love the comment system. I love how simple it is. I love that there's no sidebars. I love that it's focused on the content.

It's still a little raw, and it still needs a lot of work. Right now, it signed me out as a guest and didn't post my comment.

[Notice: Undefined index: posts in /home/tynan/socialblog/www/smarty/templates_c/3846e0433ba1a21b29d58beed4242947376614de.file.poststream.tpl.php on line 36

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/tynan/socialblog/www/smarty/templates_c/3846e0433ba1a21b29d58beed4242947376614de.file.poststream.tpl.php on line 36]

I hate that the navigation (both on top and bottom of the page) disappears when you click on a particular post.

There's a like system that doesn't seem to work yet? You can upvote/downvote posts and comments. The "Read this Next" popover in the bottom right corner is annoying.

I gotta say though, I can't wait to see what the Community (forum replacement) can do. I'm hoping (and it seems like this will be a yes because his old blog was on WP) there will be an XML importer.

Can't wait to switch over.
Getting a programming job without a degree?
I'm going through school right now, and I HATE it. It's pretty obvious that I've never been a school-type person. I'm not dumb or anything. I've aced all of my programming classes, but barely passed my physics and math classes. It's going to take me a total of four years to finally transfer to a university, only to encounter more tedious schoolwork.

I've been told often that my college degree is important, so I suppose I'll push through. However, I am looking for a job so I can get income to start paying for my own rent. I have worked with retail-level customers before as a computer repair technician and I absolutely hated it. I honestly thought I was going to lose my mind and bite a customer's ear off.

I have fairly solid knowledge in C (great language, IMO) and have taken a class in Python. I've also messed around with Django at an internship (which didn't turn out very well for several reasons).

What I've been told was to start contributing to open source projects. I'm going to start looking for the ones that I'm interested in as soon as I'm done typing this message. From what I've heard, being active in the open source community is a great way to gain experience points, earn reputation, and provides material for my future resumes.

I'm a bit overwhelmed at the thought of contributing code to open source projects. I feel that my skills are still lacking even though I haven't even started looking at the source code (which I will shortly).

So my main questions are:
-What project should I start contributing towards? (preferably a project with people who are tolerant to newbies trying to contribute their code)
-What other languages should I learn for contribution?
-Some say that a degree is important, but others say that it's not that important in regards to skill/experience. What are your guys' take on this?

Thanks for your time.
I got trapped by a lambda function
https://gist.github.com/alvesjnr/5006195
I'm writing to improve my english. Grammar fixes are very welcome ;)
Citroen's Survolt a challenge to Tesla and Fisker Karma
http://www.trendslate.com/2011/06/11/citroen-challenges-tesla-and-fisker-karma/
Citroen has developed a very stylish and performance based EV
Will Engagement Ads on Facebook Work?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122637098500816351.html
Pretty interesting look here at the ad market in general and whether or not Facebook's model for delivering ads will resonate with advertisers.
Ubuntu 9.04 Review
http://techcombo.com/ubuntu-904-review
Ubuntu sponsors, Canonical , announce the release of Ubuntu 9.04 destop version that can be downloaded for free now...
Hatched – Crowdsourcing startup ideas
https://www.hatchedideas.com
I've recently been working on a side project. It's a website that lets users post ideas for apps or products that they want made. Reciprocally, it lets developers know what's missing on the market and thus provides incentive to work on in demand products in their free time. Check it out and if you have feedback or notice broken things please let me know. Thanks a lot!
CSS parent selector - first CSS4 polyfill
http://demo.idered.pl/jQuery.cssParentSelector/
Based on jQuery, i've created polyfill to mimic upcoming CSS4 parent selector. It's not finished yet and there's still many things to do but basic upcoming is implemented.
Whoa! Highest ever upvotes on Programming, Motherfuckers
http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=500
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427

~800 upvotes by 5:37 PT Motherfuckers.
The New Delicious (Forgot password? Get lost)
http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/31/the-new-delicious/
There are a few complaints from people who can’t find their password in the Support Forums. Ironically the link to ‘Forgot your password’ leads to a ‘Sorry, Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access this URL on this server’ page at Yahoo. Try it yourself.
Please Donate to SETI
https://www.teamseti.org/donate
At they very least, they can buy a new web design :)
Unethical Tactics in Negotiation: How You Deal with Them
http://www.thenegotiationguru.com/unethical-tactics-in-negotiation-how-you-deal-with-them
Learn to deal with unethical tactics in negotiation such as lying and threats. Offer useful tactics and strategies.
Microsoft builds HTML5 Chrome extension that plays h.264
http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/wmp-extension-for-chrome
This Extension is based on a Chrome Extension that parses HTML5 pages and replaces Video tags with a call to the Windows Media Player plug-in so that the content can be played in the browser. The Extension replaces video tags only if the video formats specified in the tag are among those supported by Windows Media Player. Tags that contain other video formats are not touched.
Ask HN: What should I expect in equity discussions?
I'm coming into a startup as a member of the founding team. The founder (+2 others) have been at it part-time for about 2 years.

Not sure of my official "title," if that matters, but I'm their UI person with the value-add of product mgmt experience. My work will help the company get funding (design is the main hurdle for investors). Also potential patents for what I've been working on.

Just wondering what I should be aware of going into equity discussions. Percentages, voting rights, and that kind of thing. I've never been involved in equity discussion before.

The company has solid adoption in its local market, but little traction elsewhere. Solid technical founder, but no revenue and no funding.
DryadLINQ - allows you to program large clusters in .Net
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/DryadLINQ/
DryadLINQ is a simple, powerful, and elegant programming environment for writing large-scale data parallel applications running on large PC clusters.
A minimal js stopwatch+timer
http://www.ianjorgensen.com/timer
I could not find a simple timer that would count up and down i.e. stopwatch+timer so i quickly put this together. Let me know what you think :)
My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll
http://robohub.org/my-autonomous-car-my-safety-results-from-our-reader-poll/
In a moral dilemma involving an autonomous car that has to decide between killing a child on the road, or its passenger, 64% said the car should kill the child. We explored the reasons why. Most of the responses say that the car should always prioritize the passenger's safety over that of others.
Ask HN: Who are the best Sales/BD people in the startup scene?
So we all probably follow quite a few designers and developers, I was wondering who in the Sales and Business Development is generally held up in the same regard blog wise.
Meet Limor Fried: Queen of the Maker Movement
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10517/the-queen-of-the-maker-movement/
Meet Limor Fried. The Queen of the Maker Movement. Fried, aka Ladyada, is leading the vanguard, selling open-source hardware for a variety of purposes. Her company, Adafruit, which turned over $10 million last year alone, sells electronic kits from DIY mobile phone chargers to solar power systems.

"Open-source is something customers and smart communities seek out."

http://bit.ly/V1A045
Business Model Toolbox for iPad released
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/toolbox
This is a companion iPad app for the Business Model Generation book - http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/book
Tech's Big Ideas Start Smaller
http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=3707889
Silicon Valley is booming again, reminiscent of a decade ago, when precocious young minds hatched entrepreneurial ideas (sometimes admittedly half-baked) that incorporated the Internet in some way, any way, and turned themselves into paper millionaires.
Kyoto Cabinet: Successor or Replacement of TC
http://1978th.net/kyotocabinet
It seems like KC is TC from scratch ( and including Win32 support) but its page claims "successor of QDBM". What do you you think? Did TC hit its limit with current codebase?
HHS calls in high-tech cavalry for Obamacare website fixes
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-website-fixes-hhs-98569.html?hp=f1
The Obama administration Sunday said it’s called on “the best and brightest” tech experts from both government and the private sector to help fix the troubled website at the root of the Obamacare enrollment problems.

The unusual Sunday 600-word blog post from HHS was the first update in more than a week on the many failings of an expensive website that HHS itself described as “frustrating for many Americans.” But it didn’t specify who the administration had called in, or when the American people would see clear-cut results on Healthcare.gov.
Jebson CMS
http://grimmdude.com/jebson
A content management system based on static files aimed at ease of use and swift load times.
15 Years of CPAN (short video)
http://vimeo.com/18424044
15 Years of CPAN. Visualized.