jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
ChimeHack - Tech in support of Women & Girls
http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/147873732/
Women Who Code and Chime For Change have collaborated to build #CHIMEHACK. A hackathon building mobile solutions in support girls and women. (Men are welcome to participate)

There are $50K in cash prizes to the teams that build the best solution for challenges presented by great NGOs like UNICEF, UN Women, and Vital Voices.

Dec 5,6,7th http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/147873732/

Deadline to apply is November 30th goo.gl/5FJby7
10 Gifts for data lovers
http://www.datavisualization.ch/articles/10-gifts-for-data-lovers
10 great gift ideas for any data lover and infographic fanatic.
Three things to know about Facebook's privacy refresh
http://blog.privacychoice.org/2012/12/13/privacyfix-update-three-things-to-know-about-facebooks-privacy-refresh/
Not earth shattering, but useful.
Analytics and ad tech companies in The Europas
http://zawadzinski.com/2013/01/16/analytics-and-ad-tech-companies-in-the-europas/
Last week a shortlist of startups participating in The Europas (Europe’s most prestigious tech startup awards) was published. It includes 200 companies divided into 25 categories. I looked through the whole list, diving deeper into those, which do business in areas of advertising technology, analytics and big data.
Asprox virus infects key government and consumer websites
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4381034.ece
Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learnt.
The wild green yonder
http://news.cnet.com/The-wild-green-yonder/2100-11397_3-6243842.html?tag=cd.lede
The air show here can often feel like aviation's World Cup, with makers of jet fighters, commercial aircraft, helicopters, and private planes from around the globe vying for bigger-faster-stronger bragging rights.
Virtual World Is Sign Of Future For Scientists, Engineers
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716161557.htm
Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes.
EmeraldBox: new boilerplate Python framework
http://blog.emfeld.com/2013/02/emeraldbox-my-new-boilerplate-python.html
Developing web apps should be done in the easiest and most efficient ways. Python offers that. However, most of the available frameworks required a deep learning curve for new users and most users have problems deploying the web app.

After using several python web frameworks as well as using other languages' frameworks like Rails, CodeIgniter and Zend, the author came to a conclusion that python is the easiest and most efficient language.

However, it will require tools that may speed up development. It that sense, Rails has a very good approach and will be implemented for the helper tools. Integration with 3rd party packages should also comes easily without having the need to interfere with the main OS, hence comes virtualenv.

Thus, comes EmeraldBox, an easy-to-use, light-weight, and easy-to-deploy framework.

EmeraldBox comes in a localized environment and includes standard packages that are commonly used in web development. The tool includes framework management tools and is designed to give ease for developers in managing database and migrations.

We are standing in the shoulder of giants, leveraging the following technologies and knitting them to work hand-in-hand:

Twitter Bootstrap
Flask
SQLAlchemy
Tornado
Best of Python Packages

https://github.com/femmerling/EmeraldBox
HN demographics: who where how?
Reading last Hacker Newsletter, it became important for me to understand who publishes and reads on HN.

- How many daily unique visitor? (I know that ~30 000 people subscribed to the Newsletter)
- What age are HN readers? HN voters? HN publishers?
- Where do they come from?

Among underlying questions:
- How do people have time to fetch and read content everyday?
- Are those currators mostly students?
- Is it possible for a non-american interest content to reach top articles (eg. in the Newsletter)? By that I mean making a linear regression on the localization of the voters.

Please prove me wrong on those!

Or maybe it is only christmas break that made it a student-ish edition...
Aaron Greenspan Versus Silicon Valley
http://blog.upcounsel.com/aaron-greenspan-versus-silicon-valley/
Aaron Greenspan, the software entrepreneur who founded Think Computer, is a little like Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th movies: he just keeps coming back. On Monday, May 6, 2013 the arch enemy of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg filed suit against not only that ubiquitous social network but most of Silicon Valley.
Show HN: Eclipse: Python-fire inspired library to simplify creating CLIs in Go
https://github.com/avamsi/eclipse
I'm a Go noob (coming from Python) and was missing python-fire's simplicity when writing quick CLIs in Go, hence this project.

I know this is not idiomatic Go (with magic methods and what not), I tried to minimize the magic as much as I could while still bringing most of the features I was using in python-fire.

Any feedback is appreciated!
How To Get Through To A Decision Maker (Hustler’s Edition)
http://maxtalkshacks.com/how-to-get-through-to-a-decision-maker/
Need help figuring out how to get through to a decision maker? I'll show you not only who to talk to but how to reach them. Check it out!
Blackberry/Android Intern Developers - Mobile App StartUp
http://jobsco.re/IF8oZU
Are you still trying to figure out what you are going to do for the summer? Do you love to code in Java, J2ME, OR C/C++? We were in your shoes 6 years ago when we were in school- Our Mobile App StartUp in Mountain View is looking for Smart Interns for both FrontEnd (Client) or Backend (server) roles. Please visit our link to see more details and how to apply!
Mixology site by interns
http://proofessor.co/
Let us know what you think of their effort. And enjoy mixed drinks on a Monday
Ask HN: UI/UX Designer recommendations
I'm looking for a [great] contract UI/UX Designer. I know there are many who are members of HN. Can anyone recommend some? I have a large project I need help with and can provide a substantial amount of (paid) work to someone.
Free tiny Hadoop appliance download.
http://www.itnews.com.au/Lab/359466,the-worlds-tiniest-hadoop-testbed.aspx
Hi did anyone build this yet?
Would really love your feedback!!
Alarm Clock of Serendipity
http://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2951-l/wang/redesign.html
Wake up with the one you love, or start a day from serendipity.
This is a Redesign product made during a research seminar at Brown University.
Tint: new iPhone Weather App
http://www.upcreative.net/tint-weather-app/
Tint is a new iOS7 weather app providing corrent conditions, hourly and weekly forecasts, precipitations and pressure map and 5 different color palettes
BuzzMe is the Ultimate BlackBerry Utility
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/03/buzzme-is-the-ultimate-blackberry-utility/
As a person who reviews mobile apps daily, there are very few apps that I download and keep forever. On the iPhone platform, there is endless storage and memory to handle hundreds of apps, but on the BlackBerry Bold or the Android device I use, the application memory is very limited. What this means for me and many other heavy mobile users is that if you are not using the app on a daily basis, you cannot afford to have it to take up your precious application memory, so even if you like an app, chances are you will delete it eventually.
Join Open Rights Group today and found a Scottish digital rights office
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/found-org-scotland
I went along to last night's TechMeetup in Aberdeen, Scotland, and Jim Killock from the Open Rights Group (UK non-profit org) came to speak about their goals and the current state of affairs in the UK.

If you like in Scotland or the UK, please go to the ORG page and help out as much as you can!

From their website:

What's the situation?

Many people are concerned by the direction the Scottish Parliament is taking with civil liberties. There are growing plans for Entitlement Cards – a scheme that looks rather like ID Cards by the back door, attacks on Freedom of Information law in Scotland, proposals for massive data sharing across the Scottish government, and laws ordering the blocking of sectarian websites.
Atlantic.Net cloud 15% less than EC2 for on-demand instances
http://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/cloud-server-pricing.html
Here is the official release:

http://www.atlantic.net/Press-Releases-for-2012/atlanticnet-technology-upgrades-and-product-enhancements-result-in-cost-savings.html

About 15% less than EC2 @ hourly rates for Linux, closer to 17% for Windows.
Show HN: Sorting search results using flexbox
http://cvan.github.io/flexbox-sort/
Demo using flexbox order to reorder a list.
Source code: https://github.com/cvan/flexbox-sort/
Ask HN: How do you do Distributed Transactions?
Context: We have a few microservices, each with their own MySQL databases that communicate with each other over HTTP 1.1. A few synchronous operations that constitute a single transaction require writes across two different microservices.

The system can end in states where one of the microservices completes it part of the transaction but the other does not and there is no straightforward way to do rollbacks.

How do you solve this problem?
Online IT Training Courses Library
http://www.cylonlive.com
Cylonlive is a leading IT online training company offering extensive range of IT and Multimedia courses for professionals and students.
The Top Five AdWords Features You Should Be Using — But Aren’t
http://www.ethoseo.com/blog/but-probably-arent/
Over the next five days, we’ll be covering some AdWords features we consistently see most under-utilized by businesses, and our own suggestions for how to get more out of them.
Ask HN: Regarding an earlier question about SSDs (TRIM command)
Sometime back there was a post on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465304

I had already asked this question at SO/SuperUser once and got these response(s):
http://superuser.com/questions/208560/hard-drive-question-ssd-for-white-macbook-2008

Can someone here tell me if the answer about TRIM is correct? I cannot upgrade to Lion, which has the TRIM command. Does that mean that my SSD performance will slow down?

Thanks.
Scaling a site I wrote 2 years ago and need advice on correct planning methods
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cum65/so_im_scaling_a_site_i_wrote_2_years_ago_and_need/
Cross post from reddit, hopefully this will bring more insight!<p>Thanks
Flappy Bird- Play flappy bird online game on your desktop PC
http://flappybird.ws/
Flappy bird online game is regarded as one of the PC apps game that has brought a revolution in the world of PC gaming.The game for its user friendliness.
Professional web design,ecommerce web development,SEO experts, graphic designers
http://binamic.co.uk
Web Design Binamic: Purveyors of fine Website Designs and Multimedia since 2002. If you are interested in: new website &#8211; full design or...
Darpa's "Biochronicity" Program
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/darpa-project-seeks-immortality.html
This is absolutely amazing.We are on the cutting edge of technology. This will save the lives or our soldiers who often put their lives on the line for us everyday.
Ask HN: Best sites to post startup jobs?
We're gearing up to start hiring, and I'm trying to determine which job listing sites will provide the best bang for the buck – specifically for iOS, Android and Senior Java/C++ engineers.

What have you used in the past, and which listing services perform the best for attracting candidates interested in startups?
Four common cloud challenges-and solutions-your business faces
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/solutions/article_detail.html?compURI=tcm:245-1114199
Cloud challenges cross industry lines, but solutions are unique to your business needs
ASP.NET 4.0 New Features Interview Questions
http://jinaldesai.net/asp-net-4-0-new-features-interview-questions/
Q. What is main focus in Microsoft’s Latest ASP.NET 4.0?
Ans. The focus of Microsoft’s latest ASP.NET 4.0 has mainly been on improving the performance and Search-engine Optimization (SEO)
Web Design and Development - Lexi-Soft
http://www.lexi-soft.co.uk/
Web Design and Development services for all kind of businesses. We are a well known Web Design and Development Company offers high quality effective services.
Does YC sending rejections when they will sent invitations or before that?
Does YC sending rejections when they checking your application or they sending all answers when they sending invitations
Y Combinator vs TechStars (in NYC)
TechStars page: http://www.techstars.org/

Some of the key figures running TechStars NY really believe NY is the best place to start a tech startup. According to them, this is partially because of a great creative and investor ecosystem, but primarily because NY is culturally more in-tune doing business, and grinding hard to make that green. The implicit comparison is made with the startup scene in SV/SF which is characterized as being too inwardly focused, out of touch with customers, 'too technical' and unable to see beyond the VC game.

Thoughts?
Entrepreneur's Toolkit
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/08/announcing-the-.html
I just created a page that lists services that every entrepreneur should know about. It's called the 'Entrepreneur's Toolkit'...
Psychology: How Google Penguin Update may work
http://seobyg.com/google-penguin-update/
Google Penguin Update is based on three new google internal attributes. If one site links to another, link relevance is counted by these three attributes.
Do bullies get more sex? Well Yes, and this doesn’t depend on the gender
http://www.scitechexplained.com/2010/03/do-bullies-get-more-sex-well-yes-and-this-doesnt-depend-on-the-gender/
the majority of adolescent victims of peer aggression are abused by same-gender peers; that is 85% of victimization is directed towards same-sex peers indicating an arms race intra-sexual competition that evolved in both males and females.
Imcache : New version released
https://github.com/Cetsoft/imcache
Sum bug fixes for offheapcache.
Things I Hate About Digital Advertising (slideshare)
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelgoldstein/0retweets-things-i-hate-about-digital-advertising
Really like this, looks the nonsense of real-time marketing.
Show HN: Stupid Simple YouTube Recommendation System
https://nassimsoftware.github.io/Stupid-Simple-YouTube-Suggestor/
Hi everyone, I was wondering if it would be possible to build a better YouTube recommendation system using only simple heuristics and no ML/Data Science whatsoever. This is the result. I leave you to do judge if it's actually better then Youtube's recommendation system.

If you want to browse the code : https://github.com/nassimsoftware/Stupid-Simple-YouTube-Sugg...
Apache Ant Recipes for Web Developers (free)
http://www.antrecipes.com/
This book is a collection of Apache Ant recipes gathered up over the years while performing Web development tasks ... which provided a good experiment in self publishing.

its free to download and share
3 Ways Millennials Improve Team Communications
http://www.thindifference.com/2014/04/26/3-ways-millennials-improve-team-communications/
Closing the gap between Millennials and other generations.
Corporate risk taking unrelated to top executive pay - Cornell University study
http://cornelluniversity.tumblr.com/post/58148086382/corporate-risk-taking-unrelated-to-top-executive-pay
"Cutting or regulating the paychecks of top executives won’t avert future economic crises and recessions because the source of corporate risk taking and fraud typically emerges from non-executive employees, according to a leading financial law expert at Cornell University."
SecondSpace launches with cash flow, A-list team
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/brierdudley/2007/07/secondspace_launches_with_cash.html
Second Space, the Bellevue startup, has been operating its first two Web sites for a year, generating more than $1 million, before it disclosed its game plan today.
Adolf Hilter (character) IMDB spreadsheet
http://blog.art21.org/2010/01/11/adolf-hilter-character-imdb-spreadsheet/
When looking at the IMDB profile for Adolf Hilter (character), not Adolf Hitler (self), questions begin to emerge with regards to how one might infer a sense of the political climate of a certain time period based on whether the majority of portrayals of the Füher in popular culture are spoofs or dramatic snoozefests.
Top BuddyPress Themes
http://themebuddy.com/buddypress-themes/
We all know that BuddyPress is a top social networking content management system, but the truth is that we didn't always had the opportunity to benefit from professional comprehensive designs to lead us to great success. Now things have changed and here are some of the top designs to help you with your BuddyPress website.
Canada Introducing Glow in the Dark Quater
http://www.canada.com/quarter+features+glow+dark+Alberta+dinosaur/6428342/story.html
Royal Canadian mint makes quarters with glow in the dark dinosaurs.
Bandsintown Powers Up and Coming Concert Discovery Apps
http://blog.bandsintown.com/post/426242024/5-new-concert-apps
5 awesome new apps for discovering upcoming concerts using the Bandsintown API
Dieta para Diabetes Tratamiento
http://dietaparadiabetes.blogspot.com
Informacion valiosa para las personas que tienen diabetes y quieres saber que regimen alimenticio deben de llevar para una mejor manera de vivir.
Vatican updates Papal Conclave status with hashtag
https://twitter.com/jeffemera/status/311559723407245312/photo/1/large
Vatican opts for skeumorphism, humor; updates Papal Conclave status with hashtag.
Indian DRDO developing new Operating System saying existing OSes are insecure
http://governancenow.com/gov-next/egov/now-indian-os-developed-drdo
Indian Defence Research Organisation is about to develop new Operating System saying that existing operating systems based on Windows or Linux will have worms or malwares. Will 150 engineers in 3 years can make a better OS?
Thermal Imaging Future
http://testoltd.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/testo-thermal-imagers/
This is the future of Thermal Imaging! Testo thermal imagers save time, energy and money in industrial and commercial thermography. Great stuff!
Latest Opsview Core Released
http://www.opsview.com/whats-new/blog/latest-opsview-core-release-20131016
Includes full update to Nagios 4 and some fixes and improvements
Ask HN: Code quality standards at the conception of an open source project?
I'm asked to develop code quality standards for a new open source project. The first pull requests are coming in. The initial codebase is made by an inexperienced developer. The idea is to start enforcing high quality standards to push forward the overall quality of the project. It's written in Python.

Where to begin?
Ask HN: Automated Drug Discovery
What are the opensource projects focussed on automated drug discovery?
Refactoring legacy classes
http://coolpenguin.net/howto/?p=codequalityclassmethods
This guide shows practices on refactoring legacy classes to improve their code quality.
Microsoft's "Pink" smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/28/microsofts-pink-smartphone-could-rival-iphone-on-verizon/
It's crazy, we know. Just hours after hearing shockingly believable whispers that Apple's white-hot iPhone 3G could be sashaying over to Verizon Wireless, in flies a Wall Street Journal report asserting that the suits in Redmond are (also?) in talks with America's largest carrier. 'Course, we've heard rumors that Microsoft was banging out a smartphone behind closed doors for centuries now, but much to our chagrin, there's no mention of "Zune" in "Project Pink." Instead, we're told that said handset is a touchscreen-based multimedia phone that will aim to extend the Windows Mobile OS while "adding new software capabilities." Not surprisingly, the article also mentions that Windows Marketplace would be front and center on the phone, and potentially most interesting is this tidbit: "a third-party is expected to make the device." Hey HTC -- seen any strange calls originating from the 425?

[Via Boy Genius Report]
As baby boomers hit 65, startups helping older adults stay safe in their home
http://betakit.com/2012/11/10/as-baby-boomers-hit-65-startups-helping-older-adults-stay-safe-in-their-homes
Approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population is 65 years of age or older, and this number will only continue to grow since the baby boomer generation has started to turn 65. This growth does not come without serious implications for society, especially the healthcare system. Technology has the ability to help seniors by reducing social isolation, improving physical health and encouraging independence. While some might think the elderly and technology don’t mix, startups are rising to the challenge by designing products for older adults and their caregivers to keep them healthy and independent for as long as possible.
Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Leadership Brand? 
http://www.chambersconsult.com/teleseminars.html
Join us for a complimentary webinar preview to hear how you can become the leader of choice during these challenging times. During the call you will discover 3 strategies you must focus on to create your desired success.
What's keeping the Apple TV?
http://jesperbylund.com/2013/12/whats-keeping-the-apple-tv/
An argument for why Apple isn't moving into the living room any time soon.
getsdone.io, getting things done socially
https://getsdone.io
it's taken me six years to get this out the door, but i finally did it!
I really love this music site now - Songza
http://songza.com/listen/blogged-50-songza/
Pandora and Spotify please pay attention to this great music website.

-From a fan.
Ask HN: Why bookmark when you can keep the text too? (check out my web clippings app)
http://www.clipng.com/invite?action=link&link=hackernews
Hey all,

A while back I got frustrated with my growing pile of bookmarks, bookmark files, links in text files, etc. clipng is my implementation of a solution: it uses a bookmarklet to collect the current selection from any page. Call that a clipping. Clippings are taggable, shareable, and searchable. You can also view others' clippings and subscribe to a particular tag or user by way of an Atom feed.

The interface is still rough and my indexing could be faster but I already use it every day.

Have at and let me know what you think!
A Web 2.0 Marketers Must-Have Dream Program
http://www.jaguarmarketingrevealed.com/2008/06/04/free-roboform/
If you are a social marketer or a home business owner, then this is a program that you can't do without. Download it for free here.
Moving Beyond SIEM For Strong Security Analytics
http://www.darkreading.com/moving-beyond-siem-for-strong-security-a/240164807
Risk I/O's Ed Bellis discusses the use of SIEM in a security analytics program in "Moving Beyond SIEM For Strong Security Analytics" via Dark Reading.

"I think SIEM is a starting point for security analytics, but only a starting point."

You can read the whole article here: http://www.darkreading.com/moving-beyond-siem-for-strong-security-a/240164807