jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Australian platform to help locals connect with others and get active
https://keepactive.com.au/
We are a for-purpose Melbourne based start-up KeepActive.com.au, that allows people to connect with locals and create or join physical activity groups (such as hiking , walking , running or sports) for free. Loneliness is a big issue in society and we are hoping by providing this free service we can help more people connect.

Meetup.com is one of our competitors but they charge $24 USD per month which can be significant deterrent for someone wanting to create a local recreational group.

Two of the revenue models we are considering:
1. Sponsorship - A lot of organisations such as health fund providers, sports good stores, governments share our goal of supporting community mental and physical health. We hope to get sponsorship from these organisations

2. Corporate Programs - Build a corporate program allowing company employees to create private spaces where employees can connect with other employees. This will supports employees menatl and physical health. Also, it will encourage employees to connect with others from across the organisation building friendships and empathy for each other.

Open to feedback and suggestions.
The Loser’s Script
http://galpotha.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/the-loser%E2%80%99s-script-how-to-wish-facebook-friends-on-their-birthdays-automatically-in-linux/
How to wish facebook friends on their birthdays automagically in linux via a shell script
How I Did It: Reed Hastings, Netflix [2005]
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20051201/qa-hastings.html
This article is over seven years old, but it's a great look at Netflix circa late 2005.

A couple points I found interesting:
[1] Hastings mentions that he doesn't want Netflix to get into content production
[2] Hastings notes that Netflix strives to be like HBO by transforming the entertainment industry

My favorite excerpt:

"Netflix was originally a single rental service, but the subscription model was one of a few ideas we had--so there was no Aha! moment. Having unlimited due dates and no late fees has worked in a powerful way and now seems obvious, but at that time we had no idea if consumers would even build and use an online queue."
Nurture the Unpredictable
http://www.newsweek.com/id/177433
Today, the world is in the midst of an economic, social and environmental crisis that is overturning much conventional wisdom. The best course of action is to tackle it head-on with new ideas and paradigms, fostering an environment that rewards creativity and encourages "black swans."
Encourage the Rebels
http://www.newsweek.com/id/171909
Entrepreneurs often don't even know what legislation is being formulated. We must have new rules that bias the playing field toward "innovation capitalism." As the Silicon Valley computer scientist Alan Kay said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." We may try and fail, but let's not fail to try.
The Models of Asian VCs
http://theriskmaster.blogspot.com/2008/12/interview-with-yinlang-tan-harvard.html
9) What are the 3 most common mistakes VC make?
- Not investing when they see passion.
- Group think.
- Not building as big a network as they possibly can.
Tim Draper gives Survival 2010 tips
http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-01-25-timdraper-gives-survival-2010-tips
1. Do those things you wanted to do anyway - such as letting certain people go
2. Redirect your business to take advantage of this opportunity
3. Scale back if it means staying in business or consider a whole new business based on this opportunity
4. Crisis like this flattens the whole economy giving rise to new businesses and new ideas that will pull it out
5. There are opportunities now for individuals to grab huge markets
6. View it as a unique opportunity rather than a problem

So what does Tim think will pull us out of this economic downturn?

He believes that the new Obama administration will focus on a feww specific areas of healthcare, clean tech and unions. So entrepreneurs in these areas will certainly have an advantage.

In IT or communications, a natural next step is for social networks to get adapted into corporate networks, presenting an opportunity there.

The emerging world of iPhone and Blackberry provides a great new platform for software designers to design to and build new applications.

He's enamored and remains bullish on the electric car.
5 Questions to make your next app Award Winning
http://www.artizmotech.com/?p=836
Great apps are born from inspired thinking. These 5 questions will help target your brainstorming session and ensure you make something of real value for your users.
Trekking in Ha Giang Vietnam
http://www.hikingvietnam.com/trek-to-ha-giang-north-vietnam/
Lotussia Travel has launched a 11-day trekking tour package to the North of Vietnam. Joining this trip, travelers will have an opportunity to discover the less travelled areas of Vietnam such as Hoang Su Phi terraced fields, Ha Giang hill tribe villages, Dong Van ancient town and Meo Vac Sunday market...
The Right Way To Kick Off A Web Design Strategy Client Call
http://jorenrapini.com/blog/web-design/how-to-kick-off-a-web-design-strategy-client-call
That first call you have with your client on constructing your web design vision is probably one of the most important calls you’ll make during a project from start to finish. If you do not ask enough questions, or the right ones, then you are going to end up handing over a design that the client is not interested in. This can cause a little loss in client faith in your abilities, as well as slow down the progress of the project and create more work for you. The more information you gather right from the start, the less changes you’ll have to make to your design concept. You have to make sure you are well prepared for this call.
Show HN: MightyShare – Automatically generate social share images in WordPress
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mightyshare/
Hey HN!

Looking for feedback on my new WordPress plugin. The plugin takes your WordPress title/featured image to create a social share image. If you want to try it out a free account is required and is easy to add to your WordPress site.

If you have any questions just let me know.
Is Warren Buffet wrong to ask the govt to "Stop coddling the super-rich"
http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/08/buffett-and-a-better-tax-system-becker.html
Buffet made news headlines with an op-ed in the NY times regarding the broken tax system, which can be found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

Becker, a Nobel prize winning economist, proposes an alternative.

I am interested to know how people, especially entrepreneurs and small-business owners view a consumption rather than an income tax.
BeagleBone Tutorial
http://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone/
A tutorial for the small, powerful and hackable BeagelBone board.
Peter Norvig on Bloomberg West today, 3/17
http://www.bloomberg.com/west
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, will be interviewed today on Bloomberg West at 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern--see the web page for details and video.

Bloomberg West, a new show on Bloomberg TV, is produced out of Pier 3 in San Francisco. It looks a lot like a video digest of Hacker News, focusing on tech issues and entrepreneurship. (PG was interviewed the other day, for example.)
How to stop pollution and destruction of natural resources
http://www.mises.org/resources/ab1ba643-dc19-462f-82ff-2d34f46bb7f6#p242
Murray Rothbard brilliantly analyzes the issues in conservation, ecology, and growth and presents realistic solutions. This is material you won't hear from either political party.
Using an FPGA Dev Board to Drive lots of Arduino Shields
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/helix-4-the-fpga-module-for-everyone/x/3703559
This new FPGA dev board project on IndieGoGo has three Arduino Shields.

That means you can use one to break out IO to a project, one for a peripheral like wifi, and the 3rd? A touch pad or battery? Or prototype your own shield?

You can use the FPGA module from the board as well when time comes to make it into a product/bespoke board.

Lots of examples and code on the website.
We're NASA and we know it (Mars Curiosity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QFvNhsWMU0c#!
Now, this is neat way to celebrate engineering and science with swagger.

Yo, where goin ta look for ice (life)... Gotta calibrate, gotta be precise...
Rakhi Gifts, Send Rakhi Gifts to India
http://www.gogappa.com/pages/Rakhi-Gifts/pgid-51554.aspx
Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi festival is an occasion to celebrate the sacred bond of love and affection between siblings with lots of verve. Rakhi is a festival that celebrates a brother sister relationship. Raksha Bandhan, the day stands for the unconditional love and affection shared between siblings. The ritual of gifting is an indispensable part of the celebrations on Rakhi day.
Birthday Gifts, Birthday Gift Ideas, Best Birthday Gifts
http://www.gogappa.com/pages/Birthday-Gifts/pgid-73716.aspx
Choosing a good birthday gifts can make the recipient feel special, particularly if the item is something personalized, unique, or thoughtful. When selecting something, it can be nice to try to think of a gift that is meaningful rather than purely functional.
Suggest us your Idea About Webmatrix 3
http://webmatrix.uservoice.com/forums/128313-webmatrix-suggestions
Currently Microsoft Launch Webmatrix 3. Do you have tried it.

Run it, We hope it will never crash as it did in V2 prev.

if you got lucky suggest what happened on your side. We will fix it. don't blame us for IE6,
Heartbleed Chromium Extension
https://github.com/PwnicornDev/heartbleed-test.crx/releases
The extension queries http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ and displays an icon in the address bar if a website is found vulnerable.
MIT Mechanics Online - Free Summer course (official start June 15th)
http://learn-physics.org
More information can be found at relate.mit.edu
Simple way to start development with Flask using Vagrant
https://github.com/e0ne/flask-vagrant-bootstrap/
Bootstrap Flask development environment using Vagrant and Chef. Setup development and production environment using the same recipes.
Sleep Researchers Say Brining a Smartphone into the Bedroom Causes Insomnia
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/for-a-restful-night-make-your-smartphone-sleep-on-the-couch/
Many Americans now bring their smartphones into the bedroom, especially to use them as alarm clocks. But that may be a recipe for insomnia, studies show.
IPad multitasking?
Realistically, when do you think will Apple come out with a multitasking iPad? With the iphone 4, didn't they just instantly obsolete their current ipad?
Dust 514 is free-to-play, but a top loadout costs $0.24
http://www.incgamers.com/2012/06/dust-514-is-free-to-play-but-a-top-loadout-costs-0-24/
Genius business model: Dust 514 costs $0.24 to die.
Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/11/google-is-a-malware-site-says-yahoo/
some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malware, or (2) Yahoo or McAfee are playing a little joke.
Smartphone and Tablet Rundown: What Developers Need to Know
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6440/smartphone_and_tablet_rundown_.php?page=1
Single page version:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6440/smartphone_and_tablet_rundown_.php?print=1
The Myth of Code Construction
http://codewright.blogspot.com/2009/05/myth-of-code-construction.html
Why continue to punish ourselves with comparisons with the construction industry. Maybe its time to focus on a different role model.
Cheap High Speed Internet Provider Deals
http://cheapdsl.tblog.com/post/1970110340
You can find the best high speed internet services and compare mutiple service providers prices to find the lowest price and best service providers in your area.
Apple wants to turn you into an ATM via ad-hoc cash dispensing network
http://www.unwiredview.com/2013/01/31/forget-digital-wallet-apple-wants-to-turn-you-into-an-atm-via-ad-hoc-cash-dispensing-network/
Create a cash dispensing server at Apple’s datacenter, to which iPhones, iPads and Macs can connect via a specialized app. Need some quick cash right now and there’s no ATM around? Launch the Cash app, and tell it how much do you need. The app picks up your location, and sends the request for cash to nearby iPhone users. When someone agrees to front you $20, his location is shown to you on the map. You go to that person, pick up the bill and confirm the transaction on your iPhone. $20 plus a small service fee is deducted from your iTunes account and deposited to the guy who gave you the cash.
Sudoku done right
http://www.sudoku-solver.net/
Solving Sudoku puzzles online is really more fun when you have a nice interface. http://www.sudoku-solver.net has nice web interface with color coding, timer, graph, pencil, hints etc.. what more do you guys expect ?
Some news about iPhone 5
http://brainzzle.tumblr.com/#.ToX8YteVrMQ.hackernews
infograph
Banana Costume - FindCostume.com
http://www.viddler.com/explore/chloendrsn16/videos/6/
Put a little fruit into their lives with one of our Banana Costumes! - http://www.findcostume.com/banana-costumes.html
Why do you need PGP?
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/
It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having an illicit affair. Or you may be doing something that you feel shouldn't be illegal, but is. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (E-mail) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution.
Create a Mock Rest Service and API Documentation with Apiary.io (currently free)
http://apiary.io/
Still in beta but looks interested. Ties directly into github (and it's currently free).
Start-Ups Presenting in Philly (Philadelphia, PA) #SwitchPhilly
http://switchphilly.com/
Part of #PhillyTechWeek
YC Demo Day on a Microsoft Site
http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/the_next_big_thing/archive/2007/08/10/y-combinator-demo-day-19-startups-with-cool-ideas.aspx
Y Combinator held its Demo Day in Boston unveiling 19 new startups to VCs and investors. The event was hosted by Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston.
Manual Buffer Shift Algorithm or Automatic
When you plan your data cache shift like buffer windows or open files, can you not improve the pattern of low frequency bus accesses in contrast to automatic (as by mmap) dummy shifting?
Get Symfony Installed in 20 Minutes on Vista
http://www.thinkingserious.com/2007/10/24/get-symfony-installed-in-20-minutes-on-vista/
This article is for those running Vista with a need to get a quick Symfony development environment going.
Facebook ready to reveal plan to share your data with devs?
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/facebook-s-mobile-ad-network-to-finally-move-beyond-testing-phase--1244004
Discussed: Will Facebook open access to user data to allow developers to more effectively target users?
Spotting Irony With Machine Learning (2014) [pdf]
https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2014/papers/005/paper005.pdf
I had to post it today since everyone is on the lookout for tricks. Hope you can enjoy the irony.
First Artificial Neural Network Created out of DNA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110720142501.htm
Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior
Privly allows you to seamlessly view and post encrypted content on any website
https://priv.ly/
Privly is a proof-of-concept for a new standard of private sharing. It is the only way to maintain control of your data on the social web.

Also on kickstarter http://kck.st/FQnKcu
20 Free and Exciting CSS3 Libraries, Frameworks and Tools
http://www.designerledger.com/20-free-exciting-css3-libraries-frameworks-tools/
A collection of the coolest and most awesome free CSS resources including the libraries, frameworks and tools. Go through the collection and find the tools that work best for you.
Are we asking for the right soccer data
http://squad.io/2013/11/16/ask-for-the-right-soccer-data/
Is there a better way to gather football statistics?
Proxyquireify proxies browserify's require to inject mocks
https://github.com/thlorenz/proxyquireify
browserify v2 version of proxyquire.

Proxies browserify's require in order to make overriding dependencies during testing easy while staying totally unobstrusive.
FireStatus - A Status Update Utility for Twitter, Facebook & FriendFeed
http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/09/firestatus-status-update-utility-for.html
FireStatus is an experimental Firefox plugin that allows you to quickly send notes to: Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. It also displays updates from these services in notification popups. If you wish to share a certain URL, just stand on the desirable webpage, open FireStatus, add a short note, and fire your status away.
Doublelinx, an online marketing platorm, opens to sellers
http://finance.sfgate.com/hearst.sfgate/news/read?GUID=21266174
DoubleLinx.com Launches Unique Marketplace for SEO Services and Online Marketing Packages
The Game Every Creative Craves [Twitter]
https://twitter.com/speedoodleapp
Speedoodle:the quick doodling game with a hilarious, social twist!

So - here’s the plan: you have three seconds to draw anything you can imagine; from crazy robots to hyperactive trees and everything in-between. But, here’s the catch: once the time is up, the doodle is out of your control, and into the hands of a friend to complete - allowing for imaginative creation of an unmeasurable scale!

3 SECONDS OF SOCIAL DOODLING CREATIVITY!
You love to doodle, right? So do we, and that’s why we created Speedoodle - the first super-social doodling game for your fingertips! In Speedoodle, you race against the clock to create and complete doodles, making every moment of pure creativity count!

UNLEASH YOUR IMAGINATION (IN BLACK AND WHITE FIRST).
Speedoodle is doodling with a twist - start by drawing a simple black and white doodle and watch it come to life at the mercy of your friend’s fingertips! Connect with your friends through Facebook and get your creativity flowing!

THE QUICK-DRAW GAME, PUSHED TO THE LIMIT!
Speedoodle is fun, addictive and hilariously social! Whatever you can imagine, you can draw! Complete your friends’ drawings or turn it on its head - the only limitation is your imagination! Start a game or colorize friends’ doodles - and then try the opposite!

THE GAME DOESN’T END WHEN YOU TAP ‘DONE’.
Your doodles shouldn’t be for your eyes only - that’s why we share every doodle on the Speedoodle Network for the world to laugh at and like! If you want, share the laughs on Facebook to bring a smile to anyone’s day!

Speedoodle - on your marks, get set... doodle!

- Draw any doodle in 3 seconds!
- Take turns colorizing each doodle; change the perspective or create a masterpiece!
- Share your doodles on Facebook with a tap!
- Fun, addictive, and shamelessly social!
I am a human being
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/11/04/sim-plicity-i-am-a-human-being/
The article really got me thinking about the quality of life that most humans have, and seeing played out on such a large scale just shook the years of immunity to human suffering that we all develop.
Fooling A Fingerprint Scanner
http://stdot.com/pub/ffs/hack1.html
A sucessful hack http://stdot.com/pub/ffs/hack2.html aka Gummy bear Hack
R&D Tax Credits: how you can benefit
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rd-tax-credits-how-you-can-benefit-tickets-10374589677
ihorizon will be talking about how UK based Startups can extend their runway using R&D Tax Credits.
Show HN: Jokes: fine-tuning GPT to make AI funnier
https://jokes.cloudburst.host
"Jokes" uses ML to come up with punchlines that will hopefully make you laugh. We created it to test and showcase our ML-focused developer platform "Cloudburst" (links are on the site).

Last year we got some good feedback on burst, our open-source project that facilitates on-demand GPU-enabled cloud compute for developers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191450)

Over the last 6 months we have taken that feedback and worked to build the tech into an easy-to-use, free-tier + pay-as-you-go development platform focused (though not exclusively) on Machine Learning, especially exploratory research and model training. Our beta version builds on Jupyterlab, providing IPython notebooks, python-aware editing, and remote terminal access. We include all the source code for the "Jokes" project, as well as tutorials for basic Pytorch and Tensorflow projects.

We're hoping to land a few users to kick the tires and let us know if we are on to something. Links are on the "Jokes" page. If for some reason that page has problems (presumably because it went viral!) try http://cloudburst.host/jokes.
Power Comes In Different Forms
http://cre8ivethought.com/blog/2010/12/12/power-comes-in-different-forms/
I think it is time we get a Noide movement, ahh darn it got my casing all mixed-up; I meant NoIDE of-course. I have been developing on the .Net platform since the first beta’s where released and have been using Visual Studio.Net since it got first released as well (my first .Net coding was actually done in EditPlus). And the one thing that has been a constant during these last 10 years…
Show HN: Fill forms easily using GitHub repo
https://injext.unicornplatform.page/
A browser extension to make form filling easier.

Connect your github repository and you can insert the contents of files in any textual forms by right click.
Error in claiming free OSX 10.8 upgrade from Apple
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_app_store/using_mac_apple_store
Seems as if Apple has been sending out tons of duplicates of their "password protected" upgrade claims for people who bought Mac's within the last month. Or the Mac App store is dealing with a cold.
Why people that suck don’t do startups
http://lukas.zinnagl.com/2010/06/why-people-that-suck-dont-do-startups/
Some thoughts on why I haven't seen any people that suck in the early phase of a startup
Achievement Unlocked: Venture Funding
http://blog.risk.io/2012/11/achievement-unlocked-venture-funding/
Risk I/O is excited to announce our latest round of funding and welcome our newest investors to the Risk I/O team: U.S. Venture Partners, Costanoa Capital, Tugboat Ventures, and Hyde Park Angels.
How to Creating a Realistic Looking Button with CSS3
http://blogfreakz.com/button/realistic-looking-button-with-css3/
Previously Jay on anomalyinnovations was created the Cadmus “post” button in Photoshop and it was essentially three images for the different states. He wanted to use this style for all our buttons, but doing it with single images is not a good idea. So he set about creating the same style of the buttons with CSS3.
New player in the Q&A field - looking for a partner
http://alpha.beepl.com
I'm looking for a partner to help me to raise seed capital 200k to launch this http://alpha.beepl.com Alpha out in Sept, going live in Dec. PS - it's running off of a single 0.5GB server instance, it may be that the server is busy handling the traffic. Apologies for an inconvenience. Looking forward to your feedback.