jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=thousands-of-copycat-articles
A growing number of professors use Turnitin.com to catch students submitting plagiarized papers.

Now the professors themselves are being scrutinized for plagiarism when submitting papers to scientific journals:

From "Science":
Déjà vu, an online database that bills itself as "a study of scientific publication ethics," has prompted discussions with journal editors and at least 48 retractions of suspicious papers. Some journals now run accepted papers through eTBLAST, the freely available software behind the database, to hunt for duplications prior to publication.

links:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/324/5930/1004

http://invention.swmed.edu/etblast/etblast.shtml
SMS from any browser, fully sync'd with your Android phone
http://mashtext.mashmobile.com/start
Login with your FB account. Available at
http://mashtext.mashmobile.com/start
Impeach Obama for NSA Spying Program?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3giY2eI65w
Evidence of massive NSA spying on US citizens that recently leaked was less surprising than the reaction of some of my friends on the left overly focusing on President Barack Obama's responsibility, even advocating for impeaching Obama, when focus on the all 3 branches of government, especially lobbying and litigating for change, are more useful reactions, as I show in this video.
Condé Nast's shocking business model for imgur [pic]
http://i.imgur.com/11DLu.png
Can anybody confirm this? Even if it's not true, it's a brilliant idea for a business model to increase ad revenues of a service.

Also, Has anybody found the 10x figure for people clicking on pictures to be true?
Show HN: I created a site you can upload a photo a day
https://aphotoaday.world/
a photo is the theme of the day, and everyday deserves a theme.

It's kind of interesting to see the world with photos in a simple way daily. so I built this mini site.

what's your photo today?
My Experience With a Programmer Coding Test (Survey)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dElOMWhBa2t1cjFhVFFkcXVUelE0Tnc6MQ
Prompted by RiderOfGiraffes, I decided to put my programmer interview question in a Google Form and gather responses that way. I am concerned that no applicants have aced these questions thus far, although my peers seem to do OK.
Show HN: CacheFS
In my spare time I've been trying to solve the problem of network filesystems being too slow. To that end I've created CacheFS.

CacheFS keeps a lazy local copy of your network drive in an attempt to make your network drive appear as fast as your local drive.

The project is far from consumer-ready, but it has hit a major milestone: It caches reads and doesn't appear to corrupt anything. I'm throwing it out here in the off-chance that someone else finds it useful, and for constructive feedback. Enjoy!

https://github.com/cconstantine/CacheFS
The Lisp Curse
http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Come on, everyone! Let's beat the dead horse one more time!
Ask HN: What do you pay hourly customer support folks?
I'm looking to add on part-time customer support for one of my projects. Is there a "going rate" for this type of work? The support person would be working from home (in the US), 1hr/day, answering customer account questions, monitoring Twitter, responding to other FAQ-style questions. They'd pass "too-difficult" questions up to me if necessary.

What's a reasonable amount?
Ask HN: good/bad experiences with Facebook Credits?
Its been more than 6 months since Facebook Credits were launched: does anyone have good or bad experiences with user adoption/integration/payouts from Facebook Credits that they could share. Been thinking about possible integration with Facebook Credits and wanted to get a general sense of how well/poorly they work.
The present and future of Perl in the job market
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-modperl/200903.mbox/browser
there's a fantastic thread ("decline and fall of modperl?") going on about the now and future of Perl in the jobmarket. Absolute must-read for everyone involved professionally with Perl.
Using software to provide cheap business jet service
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/dayjet/2
Page one of this story is an insanely long, slightly unrelated article about aircraft development, new engine technology and airline politics: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/dayjet. Sorry about linking to page two of the news story, but it is for your own good.
Ask HN: What are some good CV template for a Software Engineer
Hi, I was just looking into updating my CV but I don't know what template would be good for a Software Engineer. Most of the templates i found where either artistic (for designers) which i think aren't suitable and some templates don't conserve space. Can someone point me to a good template (MS Word or GDoc) for the CV.

Thanks
Random YC application videos
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=ycombinator&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=22,27,28,24&uni=3
Found some YC applicants videos on Youtube, they're pretty fresh, up to a week old. Not sure why they'd upload to Youtube. Some are interesting, some pretty bad.
Ad Code sales conversion tracking for iPhone apps
http://blog.appsto.re/new-feature-sales-conversion-by-ad-code-1
Any iPhone developers out there think this is useful?
Surprise - NSA Utah data center is barren on latest high-res Google Maps
https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=16764728363659224719&q=NSA+Utah+Data+Center&iwloc=A&gl=US&hl=en
On the upside, the reviews have epic potential.

https://plus.google.com/109979622757916923877/about?gl=us&hl=en
Show HN: Draw Things, Stable Diffusion in your pocket, 100% offline
https://draw.nnc.ai
Hi, this is the first app in a while (probably 10 years) that I submitted to AppStore. I've done this app in 3 weeks, so there are a lot to be polished. The technology that enables this I discussed in depth in an accompanied blog post: https://liuliu.me/eyes/stretch-iphone-to-its-limit-a-2gib-mo...

Some parts of it (or major parts) is also available at https://github.com/liuliu/swift-diffusion. I plan to port more stuff back to swift-diffusion and make a CLI tool out of it (it is a bit more work than the app because I need to consider CUDA compatibility there).

AMA!
NBD, SoundCloud built a hovercraft during their first internal hack weekend
http://blog.soundcloud.com/2012/08/20/we-hack/
And it worked!
Show HN: I made a pictionary game with Stable Diffusion
https://share.streamlit.io/knhash/diffaki/main/script.py
I used lixica.art to get image-prompt pairs. You are asked to guess the prompt. And given a score based on how close you were to the actual prompt.
Google Lawyer evicting third-grade teacher
http://48hillsonline.org/2014/04/11/google-lawyer-evicting-third-grade-teacher/
This article is apparently about the elementary school teacher who interrupted I/O protesting her eviction by Google Lawyer Jack Halprin.
Creatures from primordial silicon: A lean, mean circuit that nobody understands
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg15621085.000&print=true
Gladwell's writing is very seductive but frequently wrong. I like to think of it as speculative non-fiction. It has the same mind-expanding qualities as good SF, and its connection to reality can be just as tenuous.

It is very easy to make up a plausible sounding theory. The hard part is making sure it has no holes in it. The harder part is proving it. As an example, I'll give an alternative evolutionary explanation for why it makes sense that (some) people can accurately judge others in a short amount of time (I claim no expertise in the evolutionary sciences; this is written as a layperson):

Consider an intelligent social species. When two strangers meet, the ability to judge accurately and to be favorably judged, both lead to better fitness. Lets assume there are situations where intelligence is the dominant quality that is being evaluated. Now if you are intelligent, you want to honestly communicate this, so its in your best interest to aid the judgement of the other person. If you are not, then its preferable to be dishonest and try and simulate intelligence. Now why should this situation lead to a state where (some) people can fairly easily make accurate judgements about others? It seems like the person judging has no easy way of accurately evaluating, but has to undertake the hard task of distinguishing between liars and truth-tellers. But the interesting part is that lying and intelligence are highly correlated, since lying takes more brainpower than just telling the truth. So the people who can fool the judgement of others, don't really need to, while those who need to lie, can't do so effectively. This evolutionary dynamic leads to a state where intelligent people can quickly judge the intelligence of others, because they don't have to worry about other intelligent people fooling them.
CIA dumps some cash into Apache's Lucene and Solr search projects
http://thatcriticguy.com/cia-dumps-cash-apaches-lucene
Some interesting news that’s been making circulation throughout the blogosphere lately is the recent investment by In-Q-Tel (the technology arm of the CIA) into Lucid Imagination (an open source firm that provides support for Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies).
Reminder: YC Q&A with Harj and Alexis in NYC tonight
http://anyvite.com/events/home/actsntagvl
7pm to 10pm
Hunch Office
54 W 21st St #1001
NY, NY 10010

Details and rsvp here: http://anyvite.com/events/home/actsntagvl
Show HN: MakePlace – An Interior Design Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2082490/MakePlace/
MakePlace is a PC app that lets you drag-and-drop furniture and edit floorplans. The goal is to make interior design easy and fun, like playing with Lego.

It started off as an app to simulate housing in an MMORPG, since the furniture system there was atrocious. I'm now trying to adapt it as a simulator for general interior design.

Like many 3D design software, there are a bunch of tools and controls, and first-time users may feel somewhat lost. So I've made a starting tutorial to help ease users into the controls. Do you think the tutorial works well?

Let me know what else can be improved!
Handheld with AVR
http://rossum.posterous.com/avr-homebrew-device-with-iphone-aspirations
A man that built a handhel with AVR microcontroller.
No doubt that is amazing project.
Git from the bottom up
http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.from.bottom.up.php
Really nice, detailed walkthrough of how git works.
Augmented Reality Software Test Bed
http://blog.htmlfusion.com/holo-ui/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psW_osCT2nw
Can Lisp do What Perl Does Easily?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/fc76ebab1cb2f863
Erik Naggum on why Perl sucks :D
Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size 
http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/
This is quick tip to fix a problem that has always bugged me - When showing disk usage in a human readable form (KB, MB, GB) for each subdirectory using “du -sh *”, how can you properly sort it into size order?
India's Modi is using Technology to change election campaigning
http://www.nextbigwhat.com/narendra-modi-uses-technology-for-election-297/
On Tuesday, Modi addressed people in 52 different places in Gujarat simultaneously using 3D technology.
Google’s Future: What The Search Engine Will Look Like In Next 20 Years
http://www.techieapps.com/googles-future-what-the-search-engine-will-look-like-in-next-20-years/
After Twenty years, Google won’t just provide you with what you are searching for but it could know what you desire before you know it yourself. That’s according to Marissa Mayer, Google’s 20th hire and the company’s vice president of maps and location services.
C-Phrase: A natural language interface to databases under BSD
http://code.google.com/p/c-phrase/
Dear All,

there is a chance that some of you may remember me from before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=275973

It's a long story, but the short of it is that circumstances forced me to follow option #2. I have open sourced the system. It's under BSD and in LISP.

To refresh your memory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWio8bHq4wQ

I have not been so involved in c-phrase lately, but that is about to change in the new year -- I will have a reduced teaching commitment. :-)

Any ways I revised the installation guide recently and was wondering if any one could verify that they are able to install the system. Any questions or feedback on the system/code/design would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Michael Minock
http://www.cs.umu.se/~mjm
Homeless Man With the Golden Pipes Has Prayers Answered
http://www.thewarriorinme.com/man/ted-williams-homeless-man-with-the-golden-pipes-has-prayers-answered/
After many of us regretfully ripped up our mega millions lotto tickets when we heard 2 people in Ohio were cashing in there seems to be a bigger winner. . . . .
The latest hot searches in Turkey
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&ncol=5&pn=p24
(Tor browser is among the top)
'360 video camera played with flash
http://blog.karagos.com/post/114229575/yellow-bird/
sourced from http://www.yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com/
Motivation behind creating Wikipedia
http://business.in.com/column/zen-garden/daddy-has-kira-to-thank/812/0
Especially the answer to the question "Tell us about something deeply personal that helped you shape your world view, that has made Wikipedia what it is."
Remember Smalltalk? (2008)
http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_driver/2008/10/09/remember-smalltalk/
I’ve often referred to Smalltalk as the ‘Latin’ of modern OO languages. Most owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now.

Here a simply equation. In terms of mental fortitude…
Show HN: My weekend project on curating relevant deals
http://specialdeck.com/
Feedbacks are welcome :)
Akamai
Pitfalls of Equity for Employees In Startups
http://blog.upcounsel.com/pitfalls-of-equity-for-employees-in-startups/
Wanted to start a discussion on this topic and see what advice people can provide for employees when it comes to equity. We have noticed a large amount of equity agreements come across our service lately for review, so wanted to start a discussion to provide guidance and get some of the larger questions out in the open.
Show HN: I reverse engineered and documented United Airlines in flight API
https://github.com/greatjack1/United-In-Flight-Api
I was on a flight today and was perusing my old repositories on github for something to work on. Low and behold I find this old Gem.

Figure I would share it here
The Logic of Testing and the Testing of Logic
http://www.melbourne.co.uk/blog/2012/05/24/the-logic-of-testing-and-the-testing-of-logic/
Business logic is slippery and changing (if it isn’t, you’re not in a business that will ever make any money).
Lessons learned from a failed idea at Startup Weekend
http://blog.blakeperdue.com/2008/11/10/startup-weekend-lessons-learned/
The team is more important than the idea. Leadership and clearly defined roles are a must. Strategy and value proposition should be decided and communicated.
Alan Kay's list of recommended reading
http://www.squeakland.org/sqmedia/books/book_list.html
Something I find fascinating about this list is how diverse it is. Out of 100 or so books, only five relate directly to computers. The others come from a multitude of fields. I suspect such breadth is common amongst most of the greatest software innovators - people like Engelbart, Kay, etc. Knowing how to program is useful, but without breadth (and some depth) in other areas, your innovations are unlikely to have depth of their own.
Quadriplegic Stuart Turner speaks at WIRED2014 via drones and robots
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/16/stuart-turner-robots-and-cake
Full disclosure: I'm Stuart Turner!
iOS/Mac Platformer Starter Kit
http://www.binpress.com/app/commander-cool-ios-platformer-starter-kit/654
This starter kit includes the complete source code of "Commander Cool" for iPhone / iPad / Mac build with cocos2d & box2d, with extensive documentation.
Show HN: Barfi – Python flow based programming with GUI
https://github.com/krish-adi/barfi
What? Another flow based programming library for Python?

Yes.

All the FBP libraries out there for Python need to be run as a self contained application. They are not components that could be integrated into your existing data workflows. Barfi, on the other hand can be integrated. At the moment it has a Streamlit component that you can use in your Streamlit apps.

Currently, I am working on a Jupyter notebook widget.
How to do better in loud, crazy group conversations
http://www.succeedsocially.com/groupconversations
I saw an article on being likable made the front page recently.

I'd be interested to see what Hacker News thinks of this site. It's the best one I know about the general topic of socializing.
Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
This is a very good article by Joel Spolsky that was written seven years ago (I stumbled upon it via dzone this morning). It's still very relevant.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics
Here in Turkey, some Google services sharing the same IP block with YouTube are banned, including Google Analytics. Classic Analytics code prevents browsers from completely loading, resulting in page load time hell. An alternative is the asynchronous code (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html), but there's no point of using a serviceunable to track page views.

What are the alternative services you recommend? I just installed Clicky but wanted to know my options.
Hundreds of Start-Ups Hope to Be a Copycat Start-Up
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/hundreds-of-start-ups-hope-to-be-a-copycat-start-up
Pitches for new start-ups are often copycats with a slight twist of already successful companies.
Ask HN: What's it like to work at Oracle?
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Ask HN: I'm 18, broke, and inexperienced. What do I do?
I'm an 18 year old programmer, broke, inexperienced, and sleep deprived. I've came to the conclusion that I need to be useful to a company to expect any sort of investment of time/energy from them, but the time I have to invest in myself is quickly fading away. Options are of low quantity as in any sob story on the internet, and I'm looking for a way out of this purgatory.

I have a few questions for you guys, and if you will answer them I will be thankful and possibly even inspired to do something great.

Are there companies out there that are okay investing time/engergy/money into young and inexperienced software developers? Sure, I've read a few articles on the internet about this, but I would love to have a better outlook in the eyes of HN.

Would I have a chance? I haven't listed all that I've done on my GitHub, Linkedin, and such, keep in mind.

If you were in my shoes and had a month to come up with some income, how would you go about doing it? Believe me, I've spent hours on Fiverr, Freelancer, Gun.io, BountySource, and more, but nothing has came from that except a few dollars here and there. Certainly not enough for a kid who is living on his own. I have, of course, applied to several restaurants within manageable bus distance. No luck. I even attempted to join all of the branches of the military; There were no GED spots open at the time (and don't assume I can't take commitment (because of dropping out of highschool), I have several people who would say otherwise (all programmers)). I realized that if my employment depended on giving in to a flawed education system, I'd rather switch professions. Nothing is worth feeding that monster.

If you guys have any advice that could help me on my search for software development income, feel free to reply. I also wouldn't mind discussing any controversy I've caused here. Tell me what you are thinking!

Check out these links, and happy late xmas!
www.thehorne.com
www.github.com/jessehorne
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2015)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format

Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Why don't gazzilionaires start their own countries?
All of thee guys don't have to work anymore.. Bill, Steve, Larry, Sergey and Mark.
They have the funds and contacts to do it..
So why has no-one tried to start a small country?
Ask HN: How do you build your audience?
I am in the process of building my connections. I want to know how do you build your audience?

Please don't share tips. What I want to know is the actual process like how you grew from 0 to 10. Then, from 10 to 50. 50 to 100. and so on.

Like, What was the situation you were in?
1. What did you do?
2. Where do you post your blog or what did you do to help people?
3. What makes them hook to you?
4. How long did it take you to grow from 0-50?
5. Did you go through some pure luck by posting online or did you recognize some pattern?

Although I didn't really want to hear from luck, but I open for your opinion.

Thank you HN.
Y Combinator Seattle Meetup, Feb 25  
http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combinator-seattle-meetup
Come by the RescueTime offices at StartPad.org from 6.30pm on February 25 to talk with Harj Taggar from Y Combinator and several Seattle based YC alumni. Harj was a founder of Auctomatic, acquired by Live Current Media in 2008. Tony Wright of RescueTime, Mike Miller of Cloudant, Niall Smart of Echodio and Phil Yuen, founder of TextPayMe (acquired by Amazon in 2006), will also be there.
We'll be bringing in pizza and beers and hanging out all evening to talk about startups and answer any of your questions about YC.

This is a great opportunity for those who have applied, or are considering applying, for the next YC round to tell us more about your application in person and learn about YC from founders who have been through the process.
Why the AWS Crash is a Good Thing.
https://signnow.com/blog/2011/04/22/why-the-aws-crash-is-a-good-thing/
The cloud computing world is in crisis and its a good thing for everyone in the long term.
The Immediate Future of Jekyll
http://blog.parkermoore.de/2012/12/18/the-immediate-future-of-jekyll/
Had a chat today with Tom Preston-Werner about the future of Jekyll. Here's what is in the works.
Ask HN Successful Startups: How did you find your first customer?
It was inspiring to read the post from a couple of days ago 'Who is living off their startup fulltime?'
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909

I would like to learn the art of finding your FIRST customer, arranging meeting/phone call with them, getting them to talk to you and eventually signing them up as your beta customer.

How did you go about this?

Thanks
Show HN: Color Orbs (Generative Art)
https://www.dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs
Hi all,

This is a generative art project I worked on over the past year or so consisting of about 100 little artworks generated using P5.js.

I have an overview and technical write up here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs

You can play with my interactive demo and make your own here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer

And the gallery is here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery

This project came about after reading a HN post about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712767) by Atul Vinayak on generating beautiful 'Noise Planets' and I got kind of obsessed from there!
My first webapp (runs offline): A very simple notepad
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92126558/ntpd/notepad.html
This is a very simple note pad that I've created with my little bit html, css & js knowledge.
i've used FileSaver.js

pls comment :)
Paranoid Browsing
https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing
Many organizations attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by browsing the internet randomly in the background.