jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Policy proposal for fixing US Internet security strategy
http://the-diplomat.com/2012/03/21/how-to-save-cyberspace/?all=true
TLDR: A policy proposal primarily aimed at shoring up the US Internet from cyber attacks from China, Russia, etc.

1. Exorcise from policy cyber concepts that aren't grounded in reality - cyber weapons, global cascading effects, attribution theory, etc. Mostly consultant speak by policy wonks without sufficient technical expertise.

2. Switch from law-enforcement strategies that require knowing the identity of an individual black-hat with certainty, to ones that hold nation states accountable for behavior of malicious actor within their borders

3 & 4. Bring the NSA under U.S. Cyber Command, give them the authority to monitor the networks that operate the nation's critical infrastructure. This is essentially an end-run around a clueless, conflict-of-interest-laden Congress that is incapable of implementing a meaningful cyber security strategy.

5. Make ISP's responsible for monitoring customer activity for malicious behavior and infected machines. This can now be done without infringing user privacy [1].

6. Refocus diplomatic and development efforts on global bodies. Review US strategy in the ITU, where we are creating enemies among those we will need to partner with to defend Internet governing bodies from hostile takeover by Internet-unfriendly countries [2].

1. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Lync-Server/TeliaSonera/European-Telecom-Uses-Microsoft-Security-Data-to-Remove-Botnet-Devices-from-Network/710000000132

2. http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2011/07/21st-century-statecraft-foreign-policy-of-the-internet
EDE 2.0 released
http://equinox-project.org
EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a desktop for UNIX-like operating systems. Main features of EDE are speed and responsiveness, low resource usage and familiar look and feel. Simply said, desktop that doesn't get on your way.

This is major rewrite with a lot of goodies to put here. Most important are: everything is powered with FLTK 1.x, new components and rewrite of old, improved interoperability with other toolkits and applications and much more.
What to look for in a VP of Engineering
http://www.firstround.com/article/What-You-Want-in-a-VP-Eng-from-the-Recruiters-Behind-Twitter-and-LinkedIn
Smart Isn’t Enough. What You Want in a VP Eng from the Recruiters Behind Twitter and Zappos
Amazon Web Services (AWS) setup in under 2 minutes
https://github.com/michaelcontento/awsenv/
it's quite exhausting to install and configure all cli tools for all amazon web services. but this tool uses the common rvm/rbenv approach to setup everything with a few simple commands. also it's now possible to easily switch between configurations (read: whole aws accounts).
SDK-less mobile ad solution
http://intentbrite.com
Fetch ads directly from the service as JSON, then display in-app as desired. Zero SDK.
Show HN: Lirr.py Long Island Railroad train times in python
https://github.com/Dannyzen/lirr
For all the Long Islanders out there who prefer the company of a warm terminal
How To Integrate Waiting Time Into Your User Experience
http://blog.usabilla.com/how-to-integrate-waiting-time-user-experience/
Fed up of losing visitors due to long waiting times? Learn how to turn that wait into part of your site's user experience.
Email to SMS
http://www.i-programmer.info/projects/38-windows/219-email-to-sms.html
Easy to follow project on how to convert email to SMS i.e. an email to sms gateway using Skype
Introducing a new paradigm
http://gkminc.com/designbox/
Recent trends have intelligent corporations shifting towards more sustainable cost-efficient operations. Businesses large and small are seeking flexible and mobile labor forces that reduce overhead costs. A new paradigm has emerged: outsourcing.

Introducing GKM’s DesignBox. This unique “extension-of-staff” approach is based on monthly service plans offering companies the opportunity to fulfill all of their marketing projects and strategic goals with improved budget management.

At GKM, we look for clients who would benefit from one of our DesignBox packages. Your company is one. We would like the opportunity to speak with you directly and show you first-hand how this can improve your current marketing communication objectives, while reducing your operating costs.
Show HN: Simple memorial sites, my first location independent income project
http://www.memorydove.com
A buddy and I put up our first SaaS site today... an attempt at building location independent income.

Basically I couldn't find a decent online obituary site creator when a family friend needed one, so I put together this project to help them out. You can see a page a friend created here: http://www.memorydove.com/marleta

Any feedback would be awesome. Thanks!
Ask HN: What can I do to improve my chances?
Really embarrassed that I haven't submitted an application yet. I didn't have a camera to upload introducing yourself so I put it off until now.

What should you write in your application to improve your chances of getting in?
Booktrender – The Top Books on Twitter Today
http://booktrender.com/
This is the first live version of an idea I've been working over the past few weeks.

Curious to hear what you think!
Show HN: Lightweight Maybe Library for TypeScript / JavaScript
https://github.com/Jamesbarford/mighty-maybe
A `Maybe` library for TypeScript / JavaScript. This tries to have as little overhead as possible by having a `Maybe<T>` as `T | null | undefined` then using functions for dealing with maybes. As opposed to having custom datasructures and dsls. The library provides typesafe functions for creating pipelines from a maybe as well as traditional `getOrElse` type functions. This aims to make dealing with null's and undefined values simpler as well as allowing the flexibility of opting into as much or as little as the library as you require.
Funding
http://www.sufuri.net
Does ycombinator.com fund ideas in Africa?
Essential Oil
http://www.wheretao.com/essential-oil/
Essential Oil
Forbidden Tree
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/05/shorts-forbidden-tree.html
The Cannes Short Film Corner – Vote for 7-minute animation from Iran. Now on the youtube link as explained below.

Youtube is blocked in Iran so we can only rely on your participation!

and spread the word by inviting friends or sharing the event!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Q93pXMF4
Why are Entrepreneurs the new Rock Stars?
http://www.vccafe.com/any-do/why-are-entrepreneurs-the-new-rock-stars-guest-post/
Tomer Targin, founder of Yotpo, draws the parallels between Rock Stars and Entrepreneurs. Worth a read.
New Social Bookmarking Website
http://www.b00kmarks.tk
b00kmarks.tk is a new social bookmarking web site for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.
Ask HN: I built this for my family's picture framing company...your thoughts?
http://bananaframing.com/
This is a website I built for my family's picture framing company. I didn't know how or have the time to build a full blown shopping cart etc, so I am using Wufoo and a really simple pricing plan. We are advertising on Facebook - the largest photo sharing site on the web.

I wanted to ask the HN community what they thought of it since you guys have a different perspective than a lot of my peers. Any advice would be so appreciated!
Monte Carlo method has patent
http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/monte-carlo-patent/
So each time one uses a Monte Carlo estimation of variation, incl. bootstrap, this patent should be acknowledged?! This surely sounds absurd… The worse because those “authors” work at IBM research labs.
Seaborn: Amazing plots with matplotlib
http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/index.html
Seaborn is a library of high-level functions that facilitate making informative and attractive plots of statistical data using Matplotlib.
Sutro's new site
http://sutro-research.com
We've taken a month off since our last big project - and are back looking for our next consulting client. Ideally a greenfield project in the 1-6 month range.

I'd appreciate feedback on our new site, as well as any leads. Thanks to all in advance!
The best tip of your life concerns black convertibles and Karel Appel
http://dutchproblogger.com/2008/08/26/the-best-tip-of-your-life-concerns-black-convertibles-and-karel-appel/
This post contains the best tip of your life. I realize that’s quite a bold statement, especially coming from a 22-year old chap. But it’s really important, since it’s the one tip you DON’T want to hear.
Erik Vorhees sells SatoshiDice for 126,315 BTC
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101902.msg2751536#msg2751536
That's about 8-12 million dollars at current market prices.
Google's Citytours Crash
http://citytours.googlelabs.com/search
It this search in the search box and it crashed.

"pleasant ca"

Error: Failed to load and parse template

java.io.FileNotFoundException: File name: default_err.cs
Paths searched: [ '/base/data/home/apps/glabs20-citytours/7.338930504429096102/templates', '/base/data/home/apps/glabs20-citytours/7.338930504429096102/templates' ]
Tools to Organize Digital Life
Looking for ways to organize digital data ranging from website passwords,website name, technical documents, pdf, notes. I have lot of good data but when time comes to use it , it is too much pain to retrieve it. I am looking for better systems techies uses to handle their data. I use trello , evernote , apple notes, google calendar etc... but still it is not working out efficiently. Please share thoughts on any good system working out for you.
Mobile commerce is in a 'monetisation Stone Age'
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/01/sebastian-siemiatkowski-klarna
New Swedish start-up, Klarna, has just launched in the UK. Anyone got any experience using it? Looks interesting and serious potential rival to Paypal's UX of death...
Google Android Challenge Terms - submitter beware
http://developerlife.com/theblog/?p=252
Google released it's terms and conditions for the Android Developer Challenge. For those of you submitting entries for this competition here's the fine print...
Ask HN: The economical rules that I think make most sense
First, I'll put the rules, then the reasoning behind them.

Economy/Govt is like a MMROPG game & the rules of the game define the experience for players.

Rules:

1- There should be no minimum wage

2- But everyone below certain salary/wealth should get Universal Income

3- Companies / Individuals with most money should pay for it

4- There should be only one tax, wealth tax.

5- Only state should be able to collect taxes and distribute them up and down stream.

Reasonings:

1- Min-wage makes it very hard for new comers to gain experience as businesses won't hire then teach while paying them significant salary. It is lose-lose.

2- Without UBI a person working at min-wage can't live with dignity. UBI basically subsidizes biz to hire and train workers. Without UBI min-wage is required. With automation on horizon, UBI is required anyways.

3- But why should the govt subsidize workers/biz, esp the mega corporations? well, govt should extract most of the cost from richest. But letting small biz gain from the system is still worth it. Small biz are building pillars that allow bigger companies to exist.

4- Is it efficient to weigh every apple or weigh the entire bag of them? N+ taxes cost billions wasted in unproductive admin work. Wealth tax is a reduced form of an equation: (Sales tax, use, income, tolls, property, capital...) => 1. It just looks at net wealth which is the result of everything else. Also, takes care of many other things: 100k in SF, vs 100k in Utah. 100k income but 2k in bank vs 100k but 30M in bank.

5- A polarized nation is forever stuck in a deadlock. If somehow one side does win it undoes everything other side had managed. The solution is to give more autonomy to states. States as a whole are less polarized. Also if you don't like something then it's easier to change state than a country. Making states the sole authority able to tax, make states govt more relevant and simplifies regulations for business.
New Jenkins UI Improvements, by Nicolas DeLoof, CloudBees
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/04/jenkins-ui-improvements.html
The Jenkins Continuous Integration community has just implemented some useful and time-saving UI improvements. One of the project’s major contributors outlines the major improvements.
I will sell my automated Swoopo bidding software if 100 people each pledge $100.
http://www.pledgebank.com/SwoopoBot
This was just a little hobby project, but I figured other people would probably want it too, so I'm making it available exclusively to 100 people.<p>Has anybody else successfully sold software in this fashion before?
How to Opt-Out of PayPal's class action clause
http://www.pointlessrants.com/2012/10/opt-out-of-paypal-new-arbitration-policy/
In short, before December 1st you must send a written opt-out notice stating that you do not agree to the “Agreement to Arbitrate” and you have to include your name, address and phone number and email address used to log in to PayPal. You must sign the notice and mail it to PayPal, Inc., Attn: Litigation Department, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131.
Review my webapp (#2): sharebookbox.com
I have this small side-project: a widget for book collections linking to Amazon, targeted primarily at non-technical users.

It is quite trivial, originally I coded it in a weekend to learn some javascript, but it was picked up by a few users (mostly schools and libraries), and I would like to improve it.

I would be curious what features would it need to have to make it more usable, how could the design be improved. If someone uses similar widgets, what features are those missing?

Last time I asked for feedback, someone suggested that it should allow people to plug in their own amazon-id. That is allowed now, so users can actually make money with the widget. What else is missing?

link: sharebookbox.com

in use (my own page): www.lkozma.net
Building a Message Queue Using Redis in Go
http://big-elephants.com/2013-09/building-a-message-queue-using-redis-in-go/
Redis is not just a very good in-memory database, it can also double as a message queue. I want to show you our first shot at implementing a queue in Redis that can fulfill all our requirements: reliable, persistent, fast, monitorable. While still being a Gedankenexperiment the basic idea should be a very good starting point.
Cloud9 IDE now supports Node Package Manager
https://cloud9ide.posterous.com/cloud9-ide-now-supports-node-package-manager
NPM is now supported in Cloud9, making it the easiest and fastest way to run NodeJS applications on any platform.
Explaining closures to a five year old...
http://johnmunsch.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/explaining-closures-to-a-five-year-old/
Once upon a time I explained dependency injection to a five year old. Then an interviewer called upon me to do the same for closures. See what you think of my explanation.
Ask HN: What is your approach to give feedback
How do you give feedback to some who reports to you and some one who you report to? The goal is that they take it and correct themselves without hard feelings.
What do you think will be The Next Big Thing in Tech?
http://halkazzar.tumblr.com/post/14682526690/the-next-big-thing-in-tech-industry#notes
Everyone in Internet market is looking for “The next Big Thing”. Next Google, next Facebook, next Black Swan. Someday i started gathering different posts and links in my Evernote. But now, I realize that without discussion and analysis this information is worthless. So, I want to share, discuss and try to draw a conclusion.
Internet statistics of 2011
http://www.writemania.net/internet-statistics-of-2011/
The Statistics below may give you a full view of the developments of the Internet over the past year.. These statistics were prepared by a web site called: Pingdom relying on dozens of sources that came to 8 statistical rankings: e-mail, Web sites, servers, domain names, the number of Internet users, social networking, Internet browsers, [...]
While Intel Fails to Enter the Mobile Market, ARM Gets into Their Server Market
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/16/while-intel-fails-to-enter-the-mobile-market-arm-gets-into-their-server-market/
Intel is struggling to enter the mobile market, and will probably have no chance of succeeding either without buying an ARM company, but in the same time ARM has a huge chance of success in their server market because of the much lower power consumption of the ARM chips.
Ask HN: Cannabis Entrepreneurship in EU
I have some business ideas related to cannabis that I believe in and am interested in validating. I'm a chemist, and unfortunately this is a field that I can't pursue my country.

I'm now actively exploring avenues for pursuing them. Completely moving to US/Canada is not viable for some time due to COVID and family reasons. In Europe the possibilities vary a lot by country. To my understanding I'd be limited to work in medical cannabis, which is a hinderance.

In principle the products could be bootstrapped with low costs. Due to the legality issue and other ongoing work it is still at prototype level.

What avenues might there be to get this thing going?
RFID today and tomorrow
http://blog.protogenist.com/?p=798
Many of us already use RFID tags routinely. Examples include:
Proximity cards, that is, the contactless cards used for building access.
Automated toll-payment transponders – the small plaques mounted in automobile windshields. (These are usually semi-passive.)
The ignition keys of many millions of automobiles, which include RFID tags as a theft-deterrent.
Payment tokens: In the United States, the SpeedPass token for petrol station payments is an example. Contact-less credit-cards, like American Express ExpressPay and the Mastercard PayPass use RFID
Dugg Explaining Quantum Computing | Wavewatching
http://wavewatching.net/2012/07/28/explaining-quantum-computing-blogroll-memory-hole-rescue/
A round-up of expert explanations on quantum computing for the lay person and why this feat is so darn difficult.
For how with google. Why you your from
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/google-keeps-your-data-to-learn-from-good-guys-fight-off-bad-guys.ars
Title is derived from word frequencys in hacker news titles.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599395

link is one of the more interesting results when searching this phrase on google.
BBC riot pages(right side links) are down
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/14454137.stm
try links related to riots on the right side

like "Latest riot coverage from BBC News" http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675
Artificially Intelligent Spyware
http://dhruvasagar.com/2012/08/21/artificially-intelligent-spyware
A look at how modern Spyware could take advantage of modern Artificially Intelligent / Machine Learning systems
Show HN: Do you trust your password manager?
http://hackinghabits.com/2012/10/09/do-you-trust-your-password-manager/
This is an opensource application that I wrote last weekend to maintain a web based personal password manager on google app engine. You can fork the code and deploy it in your app engine account in minutes and have your personal secure password manager. let me know your thoughts.
Android 4.4.3 KitKat Update Roll Out on May 23
http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-3-kitkat-update-for-google-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7-and-nexus-10-to-roll-out-on-may-23/
Android 4.4.3 KitKat Update for Google Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 to Roll Out on May 23
VIP2 WebGL & Stage3D
http://www.baktery.com/vip2/webgl.html
VIP2 WebGL & Stage3D
Ask HN: What does a living room not centered on a TV look like?
Almost all of the living rooms I have ever seen are centered on a TV. The TV holds the most prominent and visible place in the room. There's a couch facing the TV and all of the remaining stuff - chairs, tables, lamps, plants - supports watching TV.

What does a living room that is not centered on watching TV look like?
A man implemented wind mill in his home for daily needs
http://abttech.com/2009/02/tech-chat-domestic-low-cost-windmill.html
visit abttech.com for more details
Review my 2d platformer - Nincompoop
http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/09/nincompoop-all-ready-for-shaastra-2008.html
http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/09/nincompoop-all-ready-for-shaastra-2008.html

I am planning to shift to XNA soon, while this one is my last piece of allegro game dev. Some feedbacks please!
pssst... collision detection is too crappy.. nincompoop will get stuck at places.. make him jump at those places.
Show HN: new meme generator Meme Captain
http://memecaptain.com/
I made a meme generator because the existing ones were always down. Meme generation code is a ruby gem that can be also be used locally.
History of things
http://www.edotmagazine.com/history-of-things
These days it seems like there’s another new gadget every other week, whether it’s a phone, handheld device, tablet computer, laptop or some other hi-tech innovation.
HaXe compiles to PHP
http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/2008-April/015968.html
haXe is a ECMAScript-like language and compiler that targets multiple runtime platforms: Flash, Javascript, NekoVM, and now PHP (in alpha form).

As a user, I'm biased, but this compiler really extends the meaning of "Write once, run anywhere." haXe code running on Java, Python, Ruby, etc. is not out of the question, if anyone steps up to add those targets.
What is the fastest GraphDB?
http://nuvolabase.blogspot.it/2013/04/xdgbench-3rd-party-benchmark-results.html
Toyotaro Suzumura and Miyuru Dayarathna from the Department of Computer Science of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and IBM Research published an interesting research about a benchmark between Graph Databases in the Clouds called:<p>"XGDBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Graph Stores in Exascale Clouds"<p>This research conducts a performance evaluation of four famous graph data stores AllegroGraph, Fuseki, Neo4j, an OrientDB using XGDBench on Tsubame 2.0 HPC cloud environment. XGDBench is an extension of famous Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB).<p>OrientDB is the faster Graph Database among the 4 products tested. In particular OrientDB is about 10x faster (!) than Neo4j in all the tests.<p>Look at the Presentation (25 slides) and Full Research PDF.
HTML5: Getting Androids and iPhones to Play Nice
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/getting-androids-and-iphones-to-play-nice-02232012.html
How far do you think the HTML5 revolution will go ?
Ask HN: Review my developer job board startup
One of the constant complaints I heard at pretty much every startup and tech meetup I went to was the difficulty in hiring good developers.

So I've tried to tackle this problem by building a hand-curated developer job board concentrating purely on companies that want to hire top-tier developers.

I'd appreciate any feedback !

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/
Microsoft ditching Messegner, Skype enters the fray
http://mashable.com/2013/01/09/microsoft-messenger-skype/
Microsoft announces officially ditching Messenger, will switch users to Skype in March
Ask HN: Anyone able to help a startup colo a couple gigabits *inside* China?
I see occasional HN users posting from China, and thought this might be a more interesting place to ask than webhostingtalk.com.

We have a startup looking for somewhere to put about 1/2 rack of servers with 2 - 4 well peered gigabit links or a partial 10 GbE link.

If any entrepreneurs here have an idea on this, we'd love to work with you. Email me at my username via gmail.
Jitpy
https://github.com/fijal/jitpy
Library to embed PyPy into CPython
Google App Engine Grows Up
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/02/24/Google-App-Engine-Gets-Payment-Plan.aspx
Google has added a payment plan to its App Engine, making it a competitor for the professional cloud world for the first time.
Are you looking for voice broadcasting software?
http://leadsrain.com/ourservices/voice-broadcasting/
Voice broadcasting has simplified several tasks that a call center would otherwise have to perform. Apart from sales or telemarketing and customer service, call centers perform many other tasks.