jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Sense – Webcam-AI makes your mouse cursor appear where you look
https://sense.eyeware.tech
Hi HN,

I'm Bastjan from Eyeware. We've built an eye-tracking app for the webcam that makes the mouse jump to where you're looking, also between multiple screens. The idea is to reduce mouse movements, especially repetitive ones (e.g. for coders, designers, ...) like switching from one screen to the other. Try it for free here: sense.eyeware.tech

PC users with repetitive strain injuries, or maybe more generally assistive tech users, might see an even stronger benefit.

We've also inserted privacy features from our collab with AMD (AMD Privacy View) such as presence detection (it locks you out automatically when you leave your PC) or privacy view (blurs areas that you are not looked at).

What features would you like to see next? What would you like to see improved?

FYI: We've released last year an iOS app with gaming and streaming features, which can be ported to Eyeware Sense: beam.eyeware.tech

Privacy note: The app does not generate or store any biometric data. Sense also does not use the camera feed or turn the camera on unless you activate one of the features.
Ask HN: is it unethical to copy terms of service?
Dear HN,

I'm currently working on my first startup and we're in the process of getting together terms of service. After looking at competitors in the space, 3 out of the 5 have exactly the same terms of service.

Literally the same exact TOS to the word.

This raises an interesting ethical dilemma. Is a company's TOS their intellectual property, or would copying TOS be a copyright infringement on the legal entity that authored it to begin with? Are there any legal ramifications other than "hey you, stop copying my stuff"?

Any help is appreciated.
Eric Schmidt's view on Web 3.0
http://www.disnetwork.info/1/post/2007/08/dis-as-web-30-root.html
Since I had this view more than 4 years ago, I should be called a visionary.
Video: Netscape Mozilla Documentary circa 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig
A truly great startup story that PBS did back in 2000. This video was released recently on the Creative Commons License.
Book publishing is dying? No kidding
http://sebastien-arbogast.com/2012/08/09/book-publishing-is-dying-no-kidding/
Big startup opportunity: figure out a way to automatically integrate community corrections into EPUB ebooks...
Show HN: Laravel developers directory looking for job opportunities
https://laradir.com/
Reverse job board for Laravel. Get hired or hire Laravel developers.
Ask HN: What problem should a digital product solve so you would pay $2 for it
For an amount as small as $2, what would be that one thing that has been bugging you so much that you really wish there was a well designed solution for.
Kdb+, simply faster
http://www.kxcommunity.com/
kdb+ is a high-performance database made powerful by its expressive programming language q
Show HN: Helios OpenTelemetry Sandbox
https://otelsandbox.gethelios.dev
Helios leveraged the otel sandbox and plugged it in to the backend Helios already has. The visualization is awesome. excited to show it off.
Cloudability Now Monitors $250M In Customer Cloud Spending
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/cloudability-now-monitors-250m-in-customer-cloud-spending-as-aws-gets-deeper-in-game-with-detailed-billing-reports/
"The news shines a light on a market that is going to get much tighter in 2013."
Yelp Emoji Search
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=%F0%9F%8D%BA&find_loc=San+Francisco%2C+CA
Now it's that much easier to look for a beer on the go. Or 💩.
How these highly successful founders structure their day
http://blog.zenlike.me/2013/04/30/how-busy-are-startup-founders-i-asked-a-few-about-their-days/
Interview with very successful startup founders about how they go about their day.
Hacker News is down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
HN LIVE: https://news.ycombinator.com
HN DOWN: https://news.ycombinator.com/news
Web Design Legend Hillman Curtis has Died
http://hillmancurtis.com/
Hillman passed away at home on April 18th at 6:03 pm in the presence of his loving wife, two children, his sister, sister in law and brother in law. He was 51 years old and died after a long and fiercely fought battle with colon cancer.

Hillman deeply loved his work, all of it -- film directing, graphic design, all aspects of new media -- and he especially loved his talented mentors, friends and students in these fields. His favorite topic was inspiration and he made sure to surround himself with it and find it in everything -- his colleagues, his family, New York City, art, film and all of you.

He loved you all and took energy from those with whom he corresponded, exchanged ideas and with his fans.

Sweet Prince Hill, true gentleman, good dad and passionate artist, Rest in Peace.
Jonathan Blow's talk on responsibility in game design
http://edtech.rice.edu/cms/?option=com_iwebcast&task=webcast&action=details&event=2349
Jonathan Blow (the author of the Braid game) gave this talk on September 27 2010. It's about addictive elements in games such as FarmVille and how that may not be so swell, all things considered.

The talk is about 1 hour 45 mins long; download only, no streaming.

Direct links:

MP4 download: http://edtech.rice.edu/cms/?option=com_iwebcast&action=view&format=mp4&title=CS+Colloquium%3A+Video+Games+and+the+Human+Condition&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwmdp.rice.edu%2FComputerScience%2FCSBlow-27Sep10%2FCSBlow-27Sep10.mp4

MP3 download: http://edtech.rice.edu/cms/?option=com_iwebcast&action=view&format=mp3&title=CS+Colloquium%3A+Video+Games+and+the+Human+Condition&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwmdp.rice.edu%2FComputerScience%2FCSBlow-27Sep10%2FCSBlow-27Sep10.mp3

PPT slides: http://number-none.com/blow/slides/games_and_the_human_condition.ppt
Going for Google Plus Circles - The Fight Has Began
http://devstand.com/marketing/google-plus-circles-and-seo/
I know that you probably are a fan of classic SEO because it brings lots of genuine traffic and converts best, but Google seems to believe that their social media website can do even more.

That's why they implemented the Google personal results which are supposed to change the way we search online. What do you think? Is this kind of searching better than any other and most importantly, isn't it easy to affect by getting more circles or +1?
Ask HN: Affordable SMTP / Email Sender
I own a small company where we monitor fridges and launch alert emails & SMS when a threshold is reached.

We send about 1 mail per day, with bursts to 10-50 if there are alerts to send, but this is a very small amount of mail.

I tried the free sendgrid offer, but their IP is blacklisted with spamhaus... Their pro offer is more than $20/month which is way above our hosting costs.

Considering that we only send a very few amount of mails, do you know of a reputable SMTP/email sender that could be affordable for us ? Say, no more than $5 / month?
Ask HN: Insurance costs for a typical early stage funded startup
I'm curious about the sorts of insurance offered here in their small to mid-tier range:

http://foundershield.com

(Maybe not necessarily them, but that kind of insurance.)

* Liability

* Key man

* Errors and omissions

* Directors and officers

... and so on.

What does this typically cost? Just looking to fill in a spreadsheet with some good estimations. :)

Also has anyone ever researched or used RPX's "patent troll insurance?" Is this worth looking into?
'Radar for the human eye' (Video)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/netra-cataracts-app-0701.html
Cataracts scanning mechanism using mobile phones and snap-ons.
Show HN: Doola Banking: A new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US
https://www.doola.com/banking
doola Banking enables entrepreneurs around the globe to open a business bank account in the US. As of today, all companies formed with doola have access to doola Banking and are eligible to receive a business credit card — no credit history or SSN required.
Simple Tutorial on BackboneJS
http://natehunzaker.com/2011/11/02/learning-backbonejs-chapter-1-a-quick-overview/
I've started a series of tutorials on Backbone.js. Please let me know what you think of this very simple overview tutorial.
Show HN: a partial markdown implementation with angular.js
https://github.com/benatkin/ng-template-markdown
Because this just uses angular.js templates, the HTML is sanitized, and only the DOM nodes that represent data that's changed are manipulated while editing the markdown source.

This is also an example of how partial templates have access to variables and how the variables can be set with ng-init before including the template with ng-include.
Help Adam get to San Fran to catch The Startup Bus
http://startupbus.heroku.com/
Hi HN - I've got a business proposition for you. I've been invited to the San Fran Startup Bus, a 48 hour bus ride to SxSW - But I can't afford the air fare from London.

I'm fundraising my way there; I'm selling off 48 1hr time slots for £10 each to cover the £480 airfare.

I'll wear your startup's T-shirt and swag, recite your company motos, read your latest tweats, whatever; all reasonable requests are considered to help get me to San Fran by the 8th of March.
Ambition the film - Putting the Rosetta mission in context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08tGjXNHO4
And here is the making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud9ON2CzYYM
Amazon Issues in US-West-2
AWS is having issues in US-West-2

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
PandaDoc brings analytics to digital contracts and e-signatures
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/05/02/pandadoc-brings-analytics-digital-contracts-e-signatures-help-close-deals-faster/
Now you know when investors open your decks and what they're looking at
Show HN: Full Stack Serverless Apps
https://app.cyclic.sh
## tldr

You can deploy javascript apps on Cyclic after logging in with GH. Quick starts: <https://docs.cyclic.sh/docs/overview/starters>

## Description

At my last job I saw new developers struggle to get experiments and POCs from their local to live in the cloud. As we continue to expand the software development profession, more developers will need this same help. So we built cyclic.sh. Our aim is to empower even the most junior developer with robust infrastructure and deployments that just work. We can build and deploy your code in less time than it took to read this paragraph.

## What works now

- Zero-config build, deploy and hosting of javascript apps

- Github integration supporting 'push to deploy'

- Branch based builds

- Auto-scaling Serverless backend

- Custom sub-domains and custom domains

- Token based authentication

- Integrated single-table DB on top of AWS DynamoDB (in preview)

## Limits/Constraints

<https://docs.cyclic.sh/docs/overview/limits>

## Ask

Let us know what you think and what we need to add to make it so awesome you would start using it for all your projects.

Built with joy by:

- Mike <https://github.com/korostelevm>

- Kam <https://github.com/seekayel>
Ask HN: Best places for founders and hackers to meet
(before railing about redundancy, let me defend myself)
I am aware that this question has been asked many times in the past. I guess it would make the most sense to put this in a wiki of sorts. As many groups are small, sporadic, and short-lived, many relevant places from a year ago are now defunct, so it makes sense to ask again:

1) where are the best places for smart people to find people who can get things done? (places include meet ups and digital forums)

2) where are the best places for people who get things done to find smart people?

3) where are the best places for people who are smart and get things done to meet kindred spirits?
Ask HN: What Should I Do?
(I'm posting anonymously, for obvious reasons.)

I joined a very small company 3 weeks ago. They sell a bunch of stuff online, particularly electronics. The implementation of the site is horrible, but it works and gets around 10K unique users per day. They are paying me around $15,000 above the South Florida market for an experienced software engineer, which is the same I was making in my previous company. (The South Florida market sucks, by the way.)

I joined this company because it looked like it was a great opportunity to have a tremendous impact on a business (and also because I hate working for big corporations). I want to take this company to the next level and make it something like Zappos. Something cool. Ten thousand unique users per day is a lot of traffic to start with, so I feel that I have a lot of power in my hands.

The problem: I’m the only engineer. Basically, everything technical in this company is in my hands. The website sucks and I concluded that it has to be rebuilt from scratch. I also have to work on little projects that the owners need now, that are directly linked to profits. I still haven’t figured out an approach to rebuilt the site while it’s working (remember it’s horrible and I’m not talking about the UI: nothing is designed in the backend. Things seem to have emerged spontaneously as if by mutations and natural selection) but my gut feeling tells me that it would take me at least a year. So, the combination of what I have in front of me, my ambitious goals, and my “loneliness” make me feel somewhat overwhelmed.

I need ideas. Help me think. What should I do?
55 jQuery Form Plugins To Download And Use
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/55-jquery-form-plugins-to-download-and-use/
Default forms are boring and that’s for certain. Styling your form with a jQuery plugin is the solution for your aesthetic issues with basic and old forms. There are here 55 jQuery plugins for forms covering everything that you would think of related to form styling with the powerful jQuery.
IOS Safari 6.5MB hard limit for html images
http://roblaplaca.com/blog/2010/05/05/ipad-safari-image-limit-workaround/
iOS Safari stops displaying images after 6.5MB. This limitation is just one of the many reasons I don't see HTML5 taking over from native apps any time soon. If it is an artificial limit, I wonder if Apple are deliberately limiting the browser so "serious" browser based apps are forced to go through the app store.

I have been able to replicate the problem on the iPhone and iPad browser versions of Google Maps, so it doesn't look like some sites are getting preferential treatment. I've logged the problem as a bug with Apple so hopefully they get around to fixing it soon.
Cloud Storage anxiety? Many are switching to Terafyle
Terafyle is receiving unprecedented growth
http://bit.ly/terafyle3
Largest RCE (Reverse Code Engineering) toolkit ever released
http://www.reteam.org/board/showthread.php?t=1381
This kit got released a while back (not even in 2012). Seems they updated it. This one blew my mind. The scope and range of tools it has to offer are incredible. The poster even let's us see what's inside. Talk about tearing the wings off software. http://cl.ly/Eiej/iNF0.rar

If you don't know what Reversing is, it basically means analyzing software to see how it works.

The kit seems to have went viral already, let's have a discussion. Do we need this as a tech community, or is the suite of tools some sort of joke?
Startup converts me into a spokesperson without me knowing it
http://i.imgur.com/tDOtB.png?1
Here's a perfect example of how promoting a Facebook post can be really creepy.

A coworker opened up his Facebook account today and this was what we saw. The first post on his feed was something Storylane had sponsored - a post on my behalf. I didn't know that I had allowed Storylane to post on my behalf (my bad, apparently) but more importantly I had no idea that they could pay to promote that post on my friends' feeds.

So, what just happened here? I log into a website, then that company - through a series of now acceptable events - pays to convert me into a spokesperson... even though I only logged in to check out their design and don't actually care much about their platform at all. Is it just me, or is that going a bit too far?
Ruby gem that parses comments and turns them into a beautiful style guides
http://trulia.github.io/hologram/
Hologram is a Ruby gem that parses comments in your CSS and turns them into a beautiful style guide.
Startup Epicenter -- rumbles with the latest start-ups
http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/20/startup-epicenter-rumbles-with-the-latest-start-ups/
Eighty entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalists gathered yesterday at Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West's headquarters for Startup Epicenter to hear funding pitches from ten early stage startups.
Statisticians and computer scientists – if there is no code, there is no paper
http://simplystatistics.org/2013/01/23/statisticians-and-computer-scientists-if-there-is-no-code-there-is-no-paper/
So true.
Facebook, Google: Welcome to the new feudalism
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2011/09/10/facebook-google-welcome-to-the-new-feudalism-40093418/
What does the rise of Google and Facebook mean for data sovereignty on the web?
Hackers Winning Security War, Said Executives At RSA Conference 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/hackers-winning-security-war_n_1317150.html?ref=technology
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Technology security professionals seeking wisdom from industry leaders in San Francisco this week saw mor
Show HN: BootStrap Alert with modal instead of Browser default prompts
https://github.com/sairam/bootstrap-prompts
Demo at http://sair.am/demos/bootstrap-prompts/index.html
Show HN: I made a visual test tracker to find more bugs
https://HeadlampTest.com
Headlamp is a Chrome extension that shows where you're missing tests.

It reveals gaps in testing for solo testers, test teams (collaborative bug-bash, anyone?), and test automation (Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright).

Using it is easy as 1-2-3!

1) When you start testing, Headlamp puts a dot on each link and input element.

2) The dots are cleared when you click a link, type some text, or change a selection.

3) The remaining dots show you which things you missed. It also provides insightful test activity reports.

It's free to use as a solo tester. Give it a try today!
Ruby Conf Bingo Rev 2 (Interactive and randoming (works better in webkit))
http://lolrus.org:8666/bingo
Phase two. I made it interactive. Let's play! Sorry I had to submit again, but couldn't have the same URL scheme.
Systemd makes life miserable, again, this time by breaking DNS
So, I made the mistake of updating my laptop from Fedora 31 to Fedora 33 last night. Normally this is fairly painless, as my laptop is one of the last machines I perform distribution upgrades. Today while doing some pole survey work out in the field, I tethered my laptop to my phone as has been done hundreds of times before. To my surprise, DNS doesn't work anymore, but only in web browsers. Both Firefox and Chrome can't resolve names anymore. Command line tools like ping and host work normally. WTF?

Why are distributions continuing to allow systemd to extend its tentacles deeper and deeper into more parts of Linux userland with poorly tested subsystem replacements for parts of Linux that have been stable for decades? Does nobody else consider this repeating pattern of rewrite-replace-introduce-new-bugs a problem? Newer is not all that better if you break what is a pretty bog standard and common use-case.
Dear Google, Am I a person or an email address to you?
http://numgal.blogspot.com/2013/04/dear-google-am-i-person-or-email.html
Here's my take on Google's identity management and access control environment, why I find it a PITA, and what I think they should do differently.
Show HN: Reverse Engineering an Old Digital Back Raw File Format
https://blog.maxg.io/reverse-engineering-the-sinar-ia-raw-file-format/
Perhaps a bit outside of the typical interest of HN readers, but I wanted share how I went about figuring out how to convert the RAW files from a digital camera (well, digital back) that originally came out in 2004 to DNGs.

An interesting fact about these digital backs is they use an Intel Xscale CPU! - the PXA255
Show HN: KaithemAutomation, the home automation system for coders and artists
https://github.com/EternityForest/KaithemAutomation
I've talked about this one on Reddit a bit, and I think it's finally about ready to talk about here.

I started this project around 2013 for internal use, and GPL licensed it because I have no desire to own my own software business.

Kaithem is, for the most part, somewhere between a SCADA and a Home Assistant clone, heavily focused on easy deployment with minimal tinkering.

It allows for Python code based if-then events you edit via the web, along with web-editable HTML dashboards, but also includes loadable modules for more point-and-click style editing.

One of these is Chandler, a scenes/cues manager that includes a simple visual scripting language inspired by ladder logic.

It saves everything you create in Git-friendly plain text files, and is meant to integrate well with a linux system, with convenience features like using the user account username/password to log in.

Device drivers created via an extension API, and can also be used in non-kaithem apps, via the iot_devices library. Drivers should be share-able and installable via pip.

There's also basic builtin support for IP cameras, including sub-second latency streaming via websockets, and object detect recording.

Out-of-the-box device support is pretty limited at the moment, consisting entirely of stuff I've had a use case for personally, but does include YeeLight, RTL433-supported sensors, SainSmart relay boards, and most anything ZigBee2MQTT can handle.

In addition, there are tag points and alarms vaguely copied from SCADA systems, modules can make use of the tagpoint object, which is like a variable that hooks into the tag point system, every point gets a management page where you can set alarms, set up logging, which includes the ability to only log the min, max, or average over time, to save space, and override it's value.

It uses only external dependencies found in the Debian repos, and does not include any crazy built in custom feature downloader thingy like some similar projects, nor anything that needs compilation.

It does not use a database, separate web server, or any other thing that would require you to specifically configure the system in an unusual way, although some features can make use of MQTT, and it does depend on PipeWire being set up if you want to use the built in audio live mixer(You may also be able to use it with manually started JACK).

It's 99% stable, used in real installs, and could probably be called v1.0 already, but there are unmaintained experimental features that will probably disappear(Anything that involves a custom nonstandard network protocol is on the chopping block, as per my philosophy of decustomizing technology, as is HTTPS support as that may be better done externally).
Show HN: Building services on lambda should be easy and fun
https://github.com/nathants/aws-exec
i had previously posted this when it was aws-rce. it’s changed enough that i want to post it again.
Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?
This is question is not new but it's been more than 4 years since it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083).

Please pick any/all languages that you are using at your startup/side-project. If you are using a framework, you can lump it into the respective language.
Just released a new political advocacy tool: MailCongress.org
https://mailcongress.org
MailCongress.org has been a passion project of mine, finally over the past month I've had the free time to build it. Basically, it gives you the power to send physical mail to your congress people over a web app. I handle the printing, stamping and sending of all the mail.

So there is a cost. $1 per letter and the messages are limited to a single printed page. I am also limited today's trial to the first 100 participants. (I currently don't have the printing hardware in place to scale this yet… but if the response is good I'll invest immediately)

If you guys like, hate, whatever the idea please give me some feedback. Thanks!