jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell: Internet Has Created More Value Than It Has Destroyed
http://adage.com/article/special-report-4as-conference/sorrell-web-created-destroyed/233738/
Who do you agree with?

"We probably destroyed more than we created," said Microsoft Research Partner Architect Jaron Lanier, who in a baggy T-shirt and dreadlocks could not have looked more the opposite of the impeccably groomed Mr. Sorrell. "We discovered in Silicon Valley if you apply information systems to an industry you can shrink an industry but grow yourself. It happened to the music business, and it's a huge problem."

Mr. Sorrell swung back: "[We've got] the internet ... and you've narrowed it down to [the notion that] data and data analytics have destroyed more than they've created. I think that's palpable nonsense. Clearly there's a change in the balance of power to consumers … [but] the political benefits, social benefits and economic benefits outweigh the disadvantages."
Show HN: A Photo Editor I've been working on
https://victorribeiro.com/customFilter/
Hi everyone, this is my latest project: an image editor that runs in the browser.
Under the paint tab you have you basic stuff: drag, brush, circle, rectangle, line, bucket (fills a whole region with the selected color) and clone (clone a piece of the image - hold down CTRL + click to define the target and then just paint.

Under filter you can run any kind of filter that you want on the image; like a sharpening or blur filter. If you click random, a random filter will be applied to the image.

Under blend you can run any math formula that you want over the image stack. Each image under the stack will be available to you by the variables named i1, i2... iN

you can delete and add images to the stack.

I'm working on a video showing all the feature the tool have, as soon as it's done I'll share it here.

Let me know if you have some questions.

Here's a quick run down of the tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdaNGe4GVE
Linux Magazine: On-line Backups: Flexible Enough for Home & the Office
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7490/1/
Linux Magazine reviews solutions for Online Backup and Sync.
WebGl performance test
http://www.fishgl.com/
New performance test for WebGL. Made by IE team.
Ask HN: SaaS Idea: SDK Generation for API's (OpenAPI / gRPC)
What do you think of an SaaS company that generates client SDK's for your API (Open API / GRPC):

You just upload your api spec (OpenAPI.yml / GRPC spec).
Pick your output SDK languages
Wait for the pipeline to complete and get your SDK's..

The SDK's could already be deployed to a dependency manager of the SDK target language...

Do you think this would work?
Would your company pay for this, if so how much?

--

Background:

I've build and consumed api's. GRPC / OpenAPI / GraphQL... With GRPC the protoc client generating is super nice. However with OpenAPI, openapigenerator requires some tweaking... But worst of all, i have to setup the pipelines to generate the SDK's myself...

I think it would be very valuable to build a startup around it.
I've already seen gendocu.com trying to build something like this for GRPC. Which I love!
Most Important Internet Trends
http://internetrack.blogspot.com/2008/06/most-important-internet-trends.html
Here are some trends which are considered(by the industry experts) to be important.

Cloud Computing - It will possibly drive the new internet economy. It will enable the smallest companies to compete with the largest infrastructure.
Istanbul Resistance Protests and Developers
https://twitter.com/neozepron/status/341510700423839744/photo/1
Tech community's in person participation to Istanbul anti government resistance movement was yet another sign of the apolitical activists ( BTW diren means resist
Filipino startup working on remote iPhone music application
http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=186&a=21936
A Filipino software startup who quietly launched an online backup and recovery service for iTunes last month is also working on a homegrown web service that will provide Apple's iPhone users remote access to their iTunes library.
Python giving Haskell a run for its money
http://www.konstruktor.ee/blog/python-giving-haskell-a-run-for-its-money
Everybody knows Haskell beats Python in speed - always. The main reason being is that Haskell is compiled but Python interpreted. There have been some general posts about this all around. But lets give it a fair trial before finding guilty - lets add PyPy to the mix.
Providing public goods by profit seeking entrepreneurs.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf
Who needs the government since we have mathematics?

Also discussed on a canonical mailing list here http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2005-June/000783.html

"In the form he described in his paper, a dominant assurance contract is a contract offered by an escrow agent to members of the public; it is of the form, "In exchange for my payment of $S, if K or more people donate $S to this same cause, the escrow agent will create public good X (at cost $C), and keep all the donated money. If fewer than K people donate $S, the escrow agent will return $S + $F to each of the donors and will not create the public good."
Ask HN: What to do right now?
Hey, I am a bit confused with my life right now. I can't get new clients. I am a web designer and front-end developer with little portfolio. In my county there in almost no way to get a decent job.

I feel like every other designer have a lot of customers and they can choose which they want to work with. And I am here, struggling with low rates and almost doing free work.

I value myself and my skills too much to work for 11.53€/hour. I posted yesterday in Who wants to be hired, but I know nobody looks for a designer here.

For the curious here is one of my latest desing: http://i.imgur.com/Lh6ndLl.jpg
Show HN: Track your bone health, help create better bone health treatments
https://github.com/abishekmuthian/bonehealthtracker
When I was 32 years of age I was told that my bones were like that of an 80 year old due to a health disorder called Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis can make our bones fragile and likely to break.

1 in 3 women over the age of 50 years and 1 in 5 men will experience osteoporotic fractures in their lifetime. It is likely that your parents and grand parents are already suffering from Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is identified using a Bone Mineral Density(BMD) scan test which gives scores for our bone density and is compared with the known scores from the healthy individuals of same age.

I was told that these known scores does not include all races, ethinicities and are generally unreliable for those with pre-existing diseases. This makes it difficult for providing proper healthcare, Even more so for outliers like me.

I'm attempting to change that with Bone Health Tracker.

Bone Health Tracker classifies the Bone Mineral Density(BMD) scan test report to display the reports with visualizations to better understand the bone health and to monitor the progress of bone health treatments .

1. Healthcare providers currently have to manually compare the BMD reports of their patients every year to analyze the treatments, With Bone Health Tracker's dynamic chart feature they can now do it automatically and even patients can track the progress of their treatments.

2. Skeleton visualization helps to easily understand which bones are affected by Osteoporosis, Osteopenia even by those without prior medical training.

3. BMD scan test reports without any personal information can be submitted for the research of bone health and treatments for bone health diseases.

No Protected Health Information (“PHI”) is collected during the entire function of Bone Health Tracker as only assessment section of the BMD scan test report is needed.

If you (or) a family member has taken a BMD test, Consider using Bone Health Tracker to monitor the progress of your treatment and submitting the non-personal data for research. If you are researcher dealing with bone health, or know anyone who would be interested in the data gathered by the Bone Health Tracker and help improve it; Please get in touch.

Thank you for reading.
Show HN: Phraisely.com – look up words by their description
https://phraisely.com/
I did not get much feedback last time I shared [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33286893]

I built phraisely as an AI assistant to look up words by their descriptions.
Since my last posts, I've added:

- free trial with *no signup* required
- improved quality of the model and results.
- improved usability.

Example usage:
if you query for "being home at night watching Netflix on the couch", results can contain "relaxing" and "unwinding" but also "binge-watching" since I mentioned Netflix. Bonus points when I get some slang in the results (e.g. couch-potatoing).

Remember: (i) the more detailed your query is, the better and (ii) phraisely is creative so try to run a query multiple times.

I'm planning to keep working improving the model and the results.
Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
Yahoo open sources real time data processing framework
http://wiki.s4.io/Manual/S4Overview
code should soon appear at https://github.com/s4 according to http://www.quora.com/Hadoop/Is-Yahoo-going-to-open-source-its-S4-Real-Time-MapReduce-project?srid=45
Ask HN: Social decision making tool - what do you think?
Hi HN, we have made a social decision making tool at http://www.rslvr.com

We have a lot of ideas of where to take it next:
* NextGen Question/Polls website
* Offering widgets for websites

We can help our users decide anything from "Where to eat?" (in an upcoming mobile version) to things such "Which university should I attend?"

What do you think?
IPad 3 Coming on March 7, Apple Invited Journalists..
http://www.techieapps.com/ipad-3-coming-on-march-7-apple-invited-journalists-for-a-special-event-in-san-francisco/
Apple on Tuesday announced a press event on March 7 at which it is anticipated to launch the latest version of its most popular iPad tablet dubbed as iPad 3.
Ask HN: Who honestly applied to YC Reject?
Show of hands... who honestly applied to YC Reject ( http://ycreject.com/ )? The deadline for applications is in 2 hours. I'm interested in knowing the actual response to the program.
+1week: What I got from startupschool that you missed
http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2008/04/25/just-do-it/
It was great meeting the YC crowd. Here's my takeaway that people on HN seem to have missed.
Reuse and Simplicity: A difference of approach between Python and C#
https://machinalis.com/blog/2013/nov/27/Reuse-and-Simplicity/
A year ago I had the chance to give a training course on web service
development, REST based, using Python. The course was requested by a company
that had been using C# for a long time and had decided (top-down) to migrate
some services to Python. So the developer team attending the course was people
with a wide experience working in C#, but very low experience or none at all
in Python.
LayoutIt - Interface Builder for Bootstrap
http://www.layoutit.com/
Create your frontend code simple and quickly with Bootstrap using our Drag & Drop Interface Builder.
Light Bleeding, More Issues for The New iPad?
http://techpp.com/2012/03/19/new-ipad-light-bleeding/
First off, we have the reddish patch that pops up on the top left corner and a lighter red patch located in the bottom of the screen that have been reported by many users that purchased the new iPad. Secondly, there’s the backlight bleeder, a problem that is not a stranger to Apple
Need to clean up shitty Word generated html? Just use ckeditor online
http://ckeditor.com/demo
go to http://ckeditor.com/demo

- copy text from word
- paste into ckeditor using the paste from word button
- convert bolded text to actual h1's or whatever else needs to be done to make sane html
- copy and paste from the source view
- done!

so much better than Dreamweaver!
From immune deficiency disorder to an accomplished artist-a 15 year old girl
http://inktalks.com/people/aisha-chaudary
Fifteen year-old Aisha Chaudhary was born with an immune deficiency disorder and overcame a predicted life expectancy of only one year to have become an accomplished artist today. Despite a serious lung disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis, her persistent optimism, extraordinary maturity in the face of impossible odds, and calm perspective on life’s challenges have been an inspiration to many.
Ask HN: What is the best way to plug in to the Bay area startup community?
I am a developer living in Birmingham, AL and am considering moving to San Francisco. What it the best way plug in to the tech startup scene?
Show HN: Smugg.com (Rottentomatoes.com for Tech Gadgets)
http://www.smugg.com
Smugg.com.

Critic review aggregator for consumer electronics.
I admit the progress of this project has been very slow, mostly due to me learning how to code properly this time while also developing this site. However in this time, gdgt.com shifted their focus to same area of critic reviews aggregation. They have done an excellent job with the team and money they have and I now wonder if it leaves any space for me to keep going.

So please do let me know what you think.
Show HN: Simple Badges – Simple Icons on Your Favorite Shields.io Badges
https://badges.pages.dev
Around this time a year ago, I forked and built Simple Badges on top of the Simple Icons website. Existing projects on this often try to manually maintain a single, huge Markdown file containing pre-assembled Shields.io badges for people to pick. They usually require constant manual effort to follow upstream updates and may lack some icons as a result. Simple Badges automatically tracks upstream icon updates, provides a badge preview page that easy to navigate, and makes it easy to get all four styles of badges in Markdown or HTML img format.

If you happen to be refurbishing your profile - give Simple Badges a try! Suggestion and contribution are welcomed :-)
Could Facebook Become The Next Microsoft?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/19/could-facebook-become-the-next-microsoft/
Amongst all the noise today over Facebook's acquisition of Parakey, little has been said on what the acquisition means for Facebook in the broader sense.
Brand Authority and the Milgram Experiment
http://markmaunder.com/2007/brand-authority-and-the-milgram-experiment/
...The experiment found that few people have the resources needed to resist authority, even when the authority figure is telling them to do something in violent opposition to their moral judgment. Brands carry a level of authority. Take a startup for example...
Sex Sells - Explaining the CAP Theorem to Management (NSFW)
http://www.mathgladiator.com/explaining-cap-theorem-to-management/
I've started a new chapter in my life: http://www.mathgladiator.com/hacker-to-hustler/
Ask HN: Couple of ideas for saving small businesses. What do you think?
I have a problem with indiscriminately bailing out large multinationals when honest, tax paying small business suffer during a crisis period. Any bailout plan should be equitable to all businesses: large or small and should not reward bad behaviour.

It is often said there is not a practical way for govt to distribute money to SMBs. So they take the easy route of giving money to large companies.

1. What about SBA guarantees small business loans up to 3X of last federal tax paid by the company for 0% interest. The small business can repay the loan in 5 years.

2. If you want a more radical plan, give 6 months of payroll as a loan to every small business for 0%-0.25% interest. Payback period is 5 years.

These ideas are easy to implement, rewards good behavior and equitable.

What do you think?
The Crazy Knob: Ruby Arduino Controlling the Archaeopteryx Probabilistic Step Sequencer
http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/02/ruby_arduino_controlling_the_a.html
The beginnings of a homebrew hardware interface for Giles Bowkett's AI DJ software.
Senator Franken on COICA
I wrote Senator Franken on COICA after seeing him on the list of supporters, below was his response.

Dear Steve,

Thank you for contacting me about the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.

I believe that intellectual property enforcement is extremely important. We must protect American jobs from piracy, which has become rampant on the Internet. We don't tolerate shoplifters in stores, and we should not tolerate them online.

COICA would give the Department of Justice an expedited process for cracking down on websites whose primary purpose is to sell pirated goods. Right now, if a company finds that its products are being pirated or counterfeited online, its only recourse is to sue in civil court, a process that can take years, during which time the offending website continues to do harm. Under COICA, the Justice Department gains jurisdiction over off-shore infringers--something that is extremely difficult under current law--and can use expedited legal procedures to stop the worst of these offenders.

I was initially wary of COICA, but there have been some important improvements that have addressed my concerns. The most controversial provision of this bill, sometimes called the "Internet Blacklist," originally directed the Justice Department to publish a list of offending websites and encouraged Internet service providers (ISPs) and other relevant parties to shut down the listed websites without a judicial process. This provision was clearly wrong, and I was glad to see it removed prior to the bill's consideration. I also worked with Chairman Leahy to narrow the definition of an infringing site to include only sites where copyright infringement is "the central purpose" of the site, not sites which may be engaged in copyright infringement incidentally but are also devoted to other purposes.
This bill has also been amended to protect net neutrality. In the initial version of the bill, ISPs were given legal immunity to voluntarily enforce the bill's provisions and block access to websites. This provision has been removed. As it currently stands, this bill won't allow a fast lane and a slow lane of Internet traffic. It will not affect net neutrality, which has always been about protecting users' access to legal content.

It is unlikely that this bill will come to the floor of the Senate before the end of the year. This means that it must pass through the legislative process again in the next Congress. I look forward to working with Chairman Leahy to further improve the bill next year.

Thank you again for contacting me. Please don't hesitate to contact me again on this or any other issue that may be important to you.

Sincerely,

Al Franken

United States Senator
Web developers, what SaaS tools would you like to see created?
There are a lot of SaaS tools popping up nowadays. In the midst of all of these tools. What are some that don't yet exist that you would like to see created to make your life easier?
Tweereal - real-time Twitter activity map
http://tweereal.com
Data visualization app - Twitter API + Google Maps mashup builded on Node.JS and Socket.IO
Create Your Own YouTube Alternative for $150 or Less
http://wondersuite.com/blog/create-youtube-site/
YouTube is a very profitable business type and now you can create it too with no technical experience or development knowledge.
Show HN: We built an AirTag-like network for sensors that talk to your servers
https://www.blecon.net/analytics-tag
Hi, we’re Simon, Don and Dan, and we’re developing infrastructure for enabling Bluetooth devices that can communicate with your web backend (we’re calling it Blecon).

Think your own AirTags network, but for sensors talking to your servers.

We’ve got most of the underlying tech for the network infrastructure in place, and now have samples of a first manufacturer device that supports Blecon - a small rechargeable accelerometer tag.

Not much live yet, but we put a summary of this first device and how it works in the link (plus you’ll find some early developer docs for the network infrastructure itself).

TL;DR the tag logs timestamped motion and orientation events, and then sends the data using Blecon when phones come nearby. The data arrives at your specified network endpoint as JSON HTTP POSTs, so it is nice and flexible for integrating into any web infrastructure or framework you might be using.

The customer use case for this device is actually monitoring when and how long equipment is being used, but motion and orientation can be used to infer a lot of things. Interested in what ideas you have for services you could build with just this first accelerometer sensor?!

We’re still developing the network product, but interested in feedback, ideas, questions and use-cases. And if you are really interested we do have samples of this sensor so feel free to reach out if you have a service you’d like to try building with it!
General Public Obviousness License
https://raw.github.com/isaacs/inherits/master/LICENSE
the new OSS licence that all the hip kids are using.
Lectures, Screencasts and conferences for real web developers & designers.
http://ontwik.com/
Ontwik aims to provide the web community with a hight quality, latest, and best web development lectures and conferences from the best web developers and designers. You can also find lectures about creativity, marketing, startups
MyPasswordBuddy: An incredibly insecure password manager
http://www.mypasswordbuddy.com/
I happened across this site today and made an account for kicks. There is no https, your user password is stored in the clear, and in my short time on the site I got a database error.

I hope no one uses it.
Ask HN: Getting funded as a F/T employee
I'd like to hear from any HNers who have been through the process of getting (or trying to get) their startup funded while being a full-time employee somewhere else. I've read more times than I can remember that pitching potential investors is like a full time job in and of itself, which makes the idea seem even more challenging for anyone holding down a 9-to-5. Any advice?
Userlook - Be aware of what is happening in your site, find out about it first
http://www.userlook.com
Userlook provides a lot of features for real-time monitoring of your website. You can see what is happening on site right now, react fast on site events and empower your frontline to engage customers.

Some of features:

1. Activity graph
Displays daily, weekly, monthly activity graph, amount of online users on site

2. Activity log
Actions log, monitors all activity that happens on site

3. Top pages
Most popular pages at this moment

4. Top locations
Most popular countries

5. Top referrals
Places from where your visitors come from, unveil traffic channels to your site

6. Twitter presence monitor
Monitor twitter activity about your brand, searching query can be easy customized

7. Notification system
Userlook will send a notification to your email if activity on site increases
Too old to start IT career?
This is my first post here. I'm a MBA Enterprise risk analyst and investment analyst that has always been intrigued with programming and software development. At 44, am I too old to get into IT? I'm also interested in cybersecurity.
Show HN: Osmoar: A Bayesian Suggestion Engine
http://osmoar.com/
A friend and I are launching an alpha first thing in 2011. We're trying to gain some momentum and whatnot, so we're opening early registration as of tonight.

We're planning to develop a Bayesian network to derive suggestions. If you're interested in seeing our progress, check it out.

Edit: Any and all suggestions, criticism, advice, etc is highly appreciated!