jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Venture Capital & Buyout funds (30-year performance numbers)
http://www.verisi.com/resources/buyout-vs-venture-capital.htm
Performance numbers for Venture Capital funds were unimpressive: most of the gains over the last three decades were from late 1990's vintage funds. The average VC underperformed the S&P 500 in 16 of 29 years covered in the data!
Immutability in Ruby Part 1: Data Structures
https://www.deveo.com/blog/2013/03/22/immutability-in-ruby-part-1/
Nice write up about immutable data from a Ruby programmer’s perspective.
Business Start-Up Competition
http://www.marketest.co.uk/business-start-ups-competition
Marketest, online quantitative market research experts for entrepreneurs organise its
2nd business start-up competition.

Objectives:
Stimulate and promote entrepreneurial initiative in the UK
Bring out new business ideas
Support the transition from the idea to the launching stage
Promote and reward start-up projects

Who can enter?
Anyone from 18 years old who has a new business idea!
Your idea doesn't have to fit into a box, no matter your target market, industry or service we want to hear about your business idea!

What's the benefit?
ALL PARTICIPANTS:

Entitled to tailored market research at a 15% discount rate for a period of 12 months.

A 50% discount on every market research report bought for/by the entrepreneurs that you support

THE WINNER:
Expertly tailored and personal market research report for your business plan worth:
An online survey of your target market (potential clients)

1st prize: market research project worth £1000

2nd prize: market research project worth £500

If you have an Innovative Idea we want to hear from you
Dungeon Project - a CMS for gamers
http://blog.getdungeon.com/dungeon-the-beginning/
We share the story and our motivation to build a new open-source CMS.
Understanding the building process of MIDlet in Java
http://mrbool.com/understanding-the-building-process-of-midlet-in-java/29013
In this article we will describe the building process of MIDlet. MIDlet is a Java application framework for MIDP.
Economist: Best and worst of a prime year for business news
http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/businessview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10317959
http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/businessview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10317959

My favorite: Alan Greenspan (Mr.create money out of thin air again and again) offering odds on a recession again and again
Sibling domains cookies isolation.
http://mixedbit.org/blog/2012/11/05/sibling_domains_cookies_isolation_.html
The post summarizes issues that arise when a site does not use a dedicated domain but shares a top domain with not trusted sites.
Show HN: Cashmachine - cached APIs
https://github.com/joshellington/Cashmachine
Retrieves popular JSON/XML-based APIs and caches them. Requires memcached.

-

Quickly tossed together Sinatra/Ruby/Memcached app to get around API rate limits and shitty availability.

Needs a lot of cleanup, optimization and API error support, but it's a start.
Ask HN: How do you define your startup vision and strategy?
As a technical founder I find talking about strategy and long term planning a waste of time, I am driven by what needs to be done on a day by day basis. I know this is not the best approach long term, so keen to hear how other technical, goal driven people work on defining their company strategies and visions. Once defined how do you use them?
Advice for a computer science sophomore in college?
Hi Everyone!

I'm a sophomore in college majoring in Computer Science and Math. I have always loved programming. I started programming in C when I was nine years old and over the years I've picked up Visual Basic, C#, Java, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, elementary Haskell and elementary Erlang, and I learned Perl back in the day which I've mostly forgotten.

I have not done much network programming. I have done CGI programming, but that was about six/seven years ago. I've done some socket programming and written (school) programs to do interprocess communication, which I understood and liked. I'm taking a course on client/server programming and another one on network security next semester, which I am really looking forward to.

I'm seeking advice on how to proceed with future learning. I've mostly done application (mobile and desktop) development, not much of web development. I'd like to pick up some web development this coming semester. Since I know Ruby and Python, should I start by learning Django and/or Rails? Any other suggestions on starting web development? I have a good understanding of HTML and CSS.

Also, I'd also like to know how hard it is to pick up and be good (read: productive) in functional programming languages coming from a purely structured/object oriented background? I've been reading up on Erlang and Haskell, and I'd like to know your opinions on whether it's worth my time trying to learn them. What about Lisp, Scheme and other functional languages?

Any help/ideas would be really appreciated.
Ask HN: Red letter/all caps admonishment in emails from upper management?
Is this still a common occurrence in some companies? Do you consider it a generally acceptable and effective practice? EG, overall, and without context, is it (ever) OK?
Mapper.js – Automatic Area Highlighting to Image Maps
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/javascript-framework/mapper-js-automatic-area-highlighting-to-image-maps/
mapper.js allows you to add automatic area highlighting to image maps on your webpages (inc. export to SVG).
OmniGraphSketcher ends
http://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraphsketcher/
Omni group is not selling new licenses of the plotting app OmniGraphSketcher "so that we can focus on our other products."
Virtual Recruiting For Real-World Jobs
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13851345
I don't know if I think this is cool or stupid.
7 ‘Scroll to Top’ jQuery Solutions
http://www.net-kit.com/7-scroll-to-top-jquery-solutions/
Here you will find seven jQuery solutions which allow your visitors to smoothly scroll right to the top of a page, making your website more user friendly.
Show HN: A better knowledge management solution: makandracards.com
https://makandracards.com
The future of knowledge management.
Python script to wish your friends on their b'day on Facebook
https://github.com/pradeep1288/fb_bday_wisher
A simple python script to wish your friends on their Birthday's on facebook. More information at http://pradeepnayak.in/technology/2013/01/29/say-happy-birthday-to-your-friend-on-facebook-programatically/
What's the best way to meet a technical co-founder?
Hi what's the best way to find a technical co-founder?
How 8 Startups are Retooling Big Data
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-05-08/8_small_companies_reforming_enterprise_big_data.html?featured=top
The database is dead and the data warehouse is musty--this week the Datanami editors look to eight of the startups who finding new software and hardware approaches to....
Even worse than software patents
http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=1256083
http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=1256083
Google Earth as game engine for ship simulator
http://www.planetinaction.com
PlanetInAction.com today released a free browser based ship simulator that is build around the Google Earth browser plugin. A very exciting show case for what can be achieved using the Google Earth API. A review and video can be found here http://www.gearthblog.com
Here's how to bust those procrastination habits of yours
http://onepageonly.net/blog/why_true_action_men_use_onepageonly/
Your projects keep piling up? Stop wasting time on fluff and start getting thing done. Here's how to go about doing that.
MkDroid: generate droid apps out of webfiles
https://github.com/mcornell009/mkdroid
I made this, thought it might be share worthy. It's still fairly kludgy though.
Meet the magnetic man: The arrival of the grinders / body hackers
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/9162/body-hacking-arrival-of-the-grinders/
Meet the magnetic man Tim Cannon. He is a body hacker, or grinder by trade.

"What we attempt to do is practical transhumanism – to enhance the human experience."

This is the arrival of the grinders...http://bit.ly/TbrHiC
Designing for a Responsive Web Means Starting with Type First
http://typecast.com/blog/designing-for-a-responsive-web-means-starting-with-type-first
Making responsiveness only about grids, responsive images and media queries is a disservice to customers and brands. It needs to be about providing readable content for any device, and that means starting with type.
Sell your web app or site for free
http://webappsale.com
New marketplace for buying and selling web apps that utilizes the edgeio marketplace platform.
Targeting your user testing
http://giffconstable.com/2010/02/targeting-matters/
Should you target your user testing?
Freeway Cameras OCR and Track People and Vehicles by License Place?
https://www.google.com/search?q=freeway+cameras+USA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=ShnXUZ-xEomQiQLZqIBo&biw=1528&bih=863&sei=TBnXUcvkMoKbiAK424GYBA
I noticed all the cameras today in a new light. Is there any evidence that they are OCR-ing license plates and using that to keep track of locations of cars? I read recently that many police departments do this with mobile cars, but wouldn't it be simpler for them to do it from stationary cameras already in place?
Unofficial Google Reader API
http://undoc.in/googlereader.html
A complete collection of unofficial Google Reader API.
Snapshots of Websites that have gone dark on 18th Jan 
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100288407261467.2532913.13602744&type=1
There have also been some outside the US that have gone dark in protest such as 7iber.com
Ask HN: Your tips for finding bloggers in a niche
When you've got something to promote, how do you find popular bloggers that are involved in that niche?
Ask HN: Do you ask questions on Stack Overflow and never answer?
Does anyone use SO and ask questions, but rarely answer there? I find myself in this category due to my lack of knowledge.
Crunchbase is building the business graph
https://medium.com/p/ed9e407d975a
Crunchbase is now positioning itself as the business graph. What does it mean?
Show HN: Pyroscope-rs a multi-language profiler built with Rust
https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope-rs
The project started originally as a facade for pprof-rs to profile Rust applications and send data to a Pyroscope Server.

It has then evolved to have its own internal timer, session manager, Backend interface and FFI support (for Python and Ruby). There are some light technical details here: https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope-rs/wiki/Technical-...

The project is open source and can be explored on Github: https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope-rs. It's probably only relevant if you are interesting in profiling, observability and Rust!
Show HN: Node Version Audit – Audit Your Node Version for Known CVEs and Patches
https://www.github.developerdan.com/node-version-audit/
I wrote Node Version Audit to automatically keep track of Node patches, particularly for releases that fix CVEs. While it can be ran directly, it is designed to run as part of a pipeline to produce warnings if the runtime version of Node has CVEs, or is no longer supported.

The cool part (IMO), is that Node Version Audit automatically keeps track of node releases and CVEs by parsing the change log, and so there is no curation needed to maintain it.

I would love any thoughts!
Show HN: So So Swift – All the Swift tutorials in one place
http://www.sososwift.com/
Author here. I made this last night, I really wanted to stick to making a Minimum Viable Product. I believe I achieved that. I usually wind up making my first release way way overcomplicated. I would love to hear feedback from HN. It's just running on a single Heroku dyno right now, so I'll have to pay close attention, so you guys don't bring it down. :)

If it seems intriguing to people, I plan on adding simple user accounts, so people can submit links and also save favorites to refer to later. I will probably do that next, but depending on the feedback I could go another direction.

Thanks,
Patrick

PS. A good way to get a hold of me fast is @patrickjbradley
Show HN: Role Playing Game for Self Improvement (weekend project)
http://habitrpg.com
Hey HN, been working on a project & could use all you lovelies' feedback :) I was inspired by habit-tracker apps like Joe's Goals, but I wanted something more robust and personally motivating. So I built a habit-tracker which plays like an RPG. As you accomplish goals, you level up. If you fail your goals, you lose hit points. You can buy weapons and armor, etc. Open source (https://github.com/lefnire/habitrpg), built on DerbyJS (http://derbyjs.com/), and uses BrowserQuest's icon sets. Integration with productivity tools primary on the roadmap (https://github.com/lefnire/habitrpg#roadmap).

I stress-tested some, but Derby is a work in progress - so bear with me if it goes down.
Felleisen hates Python
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/python.html
It Would Almost Be Funny If It Wasn't So Sad!
Anonymous hit Westboro Baptist Church over Sandy Hook picket plans
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/16/anonymous_hit_westboro_baptist_church_over_sandy_hook_picket_plans/
Here's the leak

http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste2/index.php?65e2832b96b888e3#Uxqr8wrq3ljskOY76+ubZQvSmcEtYCbIfZBqWpaGcMI=
Show HN: MakeTime – A tool to leverage your calendar as your reading to-do list
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/maketime/opemcdmminnilnnemhckknldkpolhmka
I'm building productivity tools in public and this is my first one! Would love your feedback and any feature requests!
100 twitter tools
http://adecon101.blogspot.com/2009/03/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve.html
Don't know if anyone has posted this yet. If it's already been posted, I apologize for not taking the time to look through the prior posts.

Otherwise, I hope you guys can make the best of this!
Using CSS :visited to steal your history (again, zzzz...)
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/yahh/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/May/13
Holler.js updated: real-time refreshes & redirects
http://bitpshr.info/holler
It looks like holler.js was just updated to allow for real-time redirects & page refreshes for all users via the command line. This is in addition to the original in-app alert functionality. Clever node usage...
Golang Bootcamp
http://www.golangbootcamp.com/book
www.golangbootcamp.com/book
GoDaddy Domains for $1.99 only
http://promohostingcodes.com/coupons/godaddy-comnetorg-for-only-1-99/
Get GoDaddy Domains, COM/ORG/NET for as few as $1.99
Why Order Matters In Your Marketing – The “Bookend Principle”
http://www.automizeit.com/blog/why-order-matters-in-marketing
Did a split test on the order of words in a sentence to see if it makes a huge difference on conversion. It DID. Cool post on the results and why order of words can increase conversions on your website.
Ask HN: Innovations/Entrepreneurship During Covid?
What are some innovative entrepreneurship developments or opportunities during this terrible COVID 19 outbreak?
Appsumo: $17 for a lifetime Optimizely bronze subscription
http://www.appsumo.com/?optimizely
although Appsumo should have mentioned that you'll still need to enter your credit card
A Social Network for 2nd largest most popular sport in the World
http://www.crickethuddle.com/
CricketHuddle is Cricket's very own Social network, a sport that comes only second to Soccer in its popularity thanks to the 1 billion Sub-continental population.
Why A False Statement Can Imply Anything
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/699638/why-a-false-statement-can-imply-anything
Fun.
No resumes allowed, only a passion for coding.
http://code.ign.com/foo
Six weeks of tech training @ign,working on real engineering projects with cutting-edge tech.Blow our minds while you're here and we'll hire you. No kidding
Show HN: Hire shortlisted top talent from Big Tech for your startup
https://skipbigtech.com/startups
Get in touch with top talent wanting to skip Big Tech to build the next frontier. Quickly iterating, would love to hear your thoughts.
Brain cells work differently than we thought: Axons process information
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/brain-cells-work-differently-we-thought-axons-process-information-13964.html
For those literate in neuroscience, original is here:
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn195...

Is the analysis correct, and what are the implications for people pondering the "AI problem"?
Plugin to enable ⌘ + num tabs switch for Finder on OS X Mavericks
https://github.com/ZeR0-Wu/FinderTabSwitching
Mavericks introduced cool tabs to OS X Finder.app. But I really miss ⌘ + num tab switching feature for that. So I made the plugin to bring it to Finder. Actually I use Finder more frequently than Safari, which you have Chrome or Firefox as alternatives. Hope it also helpful to you.

Originally inspired by rs/SafariTabSwitching(https://github.com/rs/SafariTabSwitching). You may wanna check it also.

Of course Mavericks Only.
Cloud Computing - The Demise of Network Analysis?
http://blog.wildpackets.com/2010/03/cloud-computing---the-demise-of-network-analysis.html
Is network analysis still relevant if you're moving to the cloud?
Show HN: News API
http://hackednews.herokuapp.com/
The resources are transmitted via JSON responses. This was a bit of fun.

API:

{path:"/"},
{path:"/news"},
{path:"/news2"},
{path:"/newest"},
{path:"/newcomments"},
{path:"/ask"},
{path:"/x", uri: (req) -> "/x?fnid=#{req.query.fnid}" },
{path:"/user", uri: (req) -> "/user?id=#{req.query.id}" },
{path:"/item", uri: (req) -> "/item?id=#{req.query.id}"},
{path:"/submitted", uri: (req) -> "/submitted?id=#{req.query.id}"},
{path:"/threads", uri: (req) -> "/threads?id=#{req.query.id}"}],

Source:

https://github.com/blackjable/hackednews
Ask HN: So what is the best of the ways to learn logic
Anyone knows about a path of self learning or good courses on logic ? I am done with all the a courses that my university has to offer but I haven't found a good guide to learning logic by yourself out there.
Show HN: Watchman, A new standard in GCC buffer overflow prevention
https://github.com/ewimberley/Watchman
I'm creating a new open source project that helps prevent buffer overflows in programs compiled with GCC. It's easy to show that ProPolice and heap meta data are not enough to stop buffer overflows. Watchman puts more random numbers in more places, and checks them more frequently.
Sprout Social is hiring Front End and Platform Engineers
https://www.facebook.com/SproutSocialInc?sk=app_236245706502283&pid=138467959508514&app_data=id%3D
People at Sprout are driven to change the way the world communicates. We've assembled a tightly knit group of extraordinary and talented individuals with a love of social media and a desire to inspire better brand engagement.

Want to join our team?

To learn more about careers at Sprout, visit http://sproutsocial.com/careers
E-learning app blocks Facebook until kids do math
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1015/breaking48.html
Irish tech startup Aftermath has developed an app that uses time on social networks as a reward for completing math questions. Carrot and stick.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1015/breaking48.html
Pictshare - real time photo shraing
http://asuka.no.de/
Pictshare allows users to share photos with other users in real time. Ajax photo uploading and websockets for broadcasting the photos. This work was done for node.js knockout.
Ask HN: How does your SaaS company handle sales tax?
We are HQ'd in Seattle, WA and subject to WA & Seattle sales taxes for selling SaaS. It's super confusing as to whether we need to collect tax on ALL revenue or just revenue from customers that are also in WA. Also, we need to submit monthly payments via a terrible UI to WA State.

Does anyone have a clean solution for tracking and submitting state sales tax? Could we move our HQ to a different state that doesn't consider SaaS to be subject to sales tax?

Thx!
Whats with all the ny-times stories?
You guys realize they're behind a paywall right? or is this an astroturfing campaign?
The Text Adventure Evolved? Cypher
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/09/03/the-text-adventure-evolved-cypher/#more-122891
Game website url: http://www.cabrerabrothers.com/
Show HN: I made an interactive stock watchlist maker
https://www.dollarsign.ai/
Hi HN, I’m the maker behind Dollarsign. Over the pandemic I've done a lot of financial research and I wanted a tool to help collect it and automatically generate watchlists. This site is a side-project for that. It uses 15-min delayed data from all markets along with live news. Since there are other people probably thinking similar things as your own ideas, there's also the ability to fork, watch and star watchlists in a github-like fashion.

Let me know what you think.

You can jump directly to making watchlists here: https://app.dollarsign.ai/w/new

Cheers!

[edit] fixed terms/privacy/disclaimer links on www page.
Ask HN: Have you built an iPhone app that took off?
I have been reading about breakout hits on the iPhone/Android lately. Apps that did really well after being released, like uzu visualization, trism, etc, and I'm wondering if anyone on HN has similar stories and wants to share anything (stats, etc).
The Co-Founder Dilemma – Rebekah Campbell
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/the-co-founder-dilemma/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
At the start, no one wants to haggle over shares because, at this stage, the company isn’t worth anything. Right?

Wrong. The company does have a value at the start. It’s worth the energy and intellect the founding team is prepared to invest. When I started Posse, I felt this nascent idea had no inherent value, but when I look back on the level of work and perseverance I’ve applied over three years, that commitment was an important asset at the beginning.
Competition for this?  Paid, Daily news site focused on context and quality.  
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/05/17k-people-and-counting-crowdfund-dutch-news-site-into-existence/
Does anyone know of competitors for this concept? -- Paid daily news focused on context and quality.

I find myself not getting a lot of value out the news sites I peruse lately, and would gladly pay for something that is put together with more 'care' and a focus on journalism over sensationalism.
Show HN: Tyype - total cursor control on Android
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyf4LqpKGBA&hd=1
Hey peeps,

we've just launched Tyype for Android (iOS version gathered 70k downloads for iPad and 20k for iPhone). We'd love you to give it a try, we offer Tyype with a 5 day trial period, grab it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appvetica.tyype

thanks
peter
Get to know your CSS3 :target pseudo-class
http://www.red-team-design.com/get-to-know-your-css3-target-pseudo-class
The :target pseudo-class is one of those amazing CSS3 features. It matches an element that’s the target of a identifier in the document’s URI.
Working on a project for 10+ years before it's "ready"
Has anyone had the experience of developing something so complicated that it took ten or more years to complete? I'm not talking about a hobby or a side project, but a full time project that just needed a large investment of time to be actualized. Especially having variables that would be difficult to delegate to others, and/or a lot of trial and error. I am curious whether it was worth it in the end, and whether the time frame was discouraging at any point.
Don't Use Hadoop. Your Stovepipe Still Works
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2013/10/09/dont-use-hadoop-your-stovepipe-still-works/
There’s no need for big data when you have structured datasets that fit into the computing capacity of a single machine. Hadoop is only one of the enablers of Big Data, but Big Data itself should be seen as a set of ideals.
Because a face is worth a thousand words: Fais.me
http://fais.me
Hi,

I had an idea for a long time to put user images instead of smileys in comment threads, social networks, chats, games, advertising, etc... So I developed this project

Let me know your opinion & please vote if you like the idea!

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