jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Bushlog - African Wildlife Tracking App
http://www.bushlog.com
Bushlog is a fun, interactive app to record, view and share African Wildlife Sightings all the while helping researchers and conservationists protect Africa's biodiversity. Built using Django/Python and Twitter Bootstrap.
Ask HN: Blog series - 17 years of an Internet "startup". Interesting?
We started as a classical web development and hosting company back in 1996. Almost right from the beginning I started to write a kind of "company log" to record all kinds of information about our team, projects, customers, partners, lessons learned etc.<p>Although it's not a spectacular story, we had some interesting highs and lows over the years. I'm currently considering making a "little" blog post series out of it, because it can be quite funny, sometimes yet exciting, to read such stories with a personal touch. (They also include many business lessons we had to learn.)<p>But that's just my own opinion. So what do YOU think about a project like that? Would such a "long-term study blog series" be interesting for you, too?<p>Thanks for your feedback!
Disruptive lighting is coming..
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1324892969/open-source-ultra-bright-led-light-pad-with-wifi-a
LED efficiencies have dramatically improved recently. 100-200 lumens/watt is common and improvements are still coming (reference, a typical 100 watt tungsten bulb produces about 1600 lumens (~16 lumens/watt)).

This project uses 32 LEDs, each of which can produce ~250 lumens, emitting 8000 lumens in total, and it only draws 88 watts! (current lighting solutions used in the field yield 8000 lumens and take 1000 watts! - an order of magnitude less power).

On top of that, the lights can be more-afordable and this project can be arduino-controlled, wi-fi enabled, and it's _open-sourced_(!). Pretty awesome!

Work like this could significantly lower costs/barriers to high-quality film-making and photography in various cases.

Production films, for instance, typically hire union electricians to deal with the electrical demands of lighting. The logistics of making sure you have circuits to handle the load and safety can be a pain. Carrying around heavy lighting is a pain, etc. Also purchasing these large lights is expensive.

It will be interesting to see how quickly/widely adoption takes place.. and I wonder about other effects it will have in other areas..
The Three Most Common White Lies I’ve Heard Told to VC’s 
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2009/06/the-three-most-common-white-lies-ive-heard-told-to-vcs-.html
I see a lot of amazing things happen when investors and entrepreneurs interact. I’ve witnessed and been a part of many Venus-Mars moments, the rare love-fest and then of course, what I call the annual train wreck. Today I’ve chosen three questions that may come your way that you ought to understand when you’re out raising capital. I chose these specific questions from the multitude only because I’ve cringed at the responses I’ve heard so many times.
Dreamweaver Plugins
http://www.dmxready.com
DMXReady provides software and services for web professionals and website owners such as Dreamweaver Plugins, WYSIWYG Editor, Web Page Script Applications, Web Site Design, Database Driven Web Tools, Plugin Apps, and CMS Templates. DMXReady also provides with an easy way to add powerful database-driven applications to their new or existing websites
Patri Friedman: Libertarian Island
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/01/MN1T1JB0FJ.DTL&tsp=1
Milton Friedman's grandson Patri has a vision that might have made the economist proud: to build a floating libertarian nation 12 miles off the coast of California.
Dynamic Animation of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit Email Network
http://computationallegalstudies.com/2009/12/02/dynamic-animation-of-the-east-anglia-climate-research-unit-email-network/
Animation showing the growth of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit email network.
Genius marketing tactics behind Vaynerisms
http://hellyeahdude.com/articles/the-genius-marketing-tactics-behind-vaynerisms/
Vaynerisms are the term to describe Gary's very well known word use.
Rejected: 5 Computer Accessories That Bombed
http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/computer-accessories-of-the-damned-computer/5/31/2012/id/41320
Gadgets born in the shallow end of the electronics gene pool.
Zendesk's design got ripped off.
http://www.lodgix.com/static/images/sprite-home.png
I was checking out some property management software for a friend and noticed the buttons looked familiar. Oh yeah, I thought Zendesk. I inspected the element and found they stole the sprited image from Zendesk and didn't bother changing it.

https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7f/sprite-home.png-1000x3225
https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7j/vacation-rental-software-complete-guest-management-and-online-bookings-for-vacation-rentals-inns-bandbs-and-hotels
https://skitch.com/lessallan/8ar7q/sprite-home.png
What do you think about this platform?
Would you try this new payment getaway? https://www.pagadito.com
More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Facilities
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/over-900-workers-have-already-died-building-qatars-world-cup-facilities-180950088/?no-ist
Blood sport: More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Facilities. The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions don’t improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off.
DARPA-RA-11-52 Cyber Fast Track funding
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=406db188e0e1935a806c143a5603eb48&tab=core&_cview=0
DARPA fast track funding for security "hacker spaces, community, boutiques".

More from mudge@blackhat 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGjWYIToFU
The Companion Robot Accessible to Everyone
http://www.bluefrogrobotics.com/
Or "The Beginning of the Robot Uprising".
I'll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/ill-take-2-mastercards-and-a-visa-please
When you’re shopping for stolen credit and debit cards online, there are so many choices these days.
CSS Template from scratch
http://www.icms.info/website-howto/css-tutorial
Create liquid CSS layout with valid XHTML and SEO coding. Step by step.
Show HN: Minimal Go RPC framework for quick API prototyping
https://github.com/damejeras/ferry
For last few weeks I was playing with Go generics and made this tool which allows to quickly prototype RPC APIs.
Flickr Upload
http://photo-backup-android.com/
Aplicativo para upload automático de fotos no flickr muito bom http://photo-backup-android.com/
Ask HN: Where to create a limited company for Europe online?
Hi, i live in EU i dont wish to create a new company in my country.
I have seen some sites/solutions that offer to create a company online.
Did you make use of any which is the best ?
Best means easy, low taxes and everything can be done online.

I would like to use it for an eshop idea i have.
Thx.
Transactional NoSQL Database
http://www.infoq.com/articles/MarkLogic-NoSQL-with-Transactions?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=nosql_database
NoSQL + ACID: Greatest flexibility -- and reliability.
Thomas Eric Duncan – Ebola Patient in Dallas
http://freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776786/U-S-airlines-contact-government-Ebola-concerns.html
Edit: Last name 'Duncan'.
Added image here:

http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/1/Thomas%20Eric%20Duncan.jpg
Science and Technology
http://moneyvolution.blogspot.com
get insight in today's world of technology
GetGoing launches FlightFinder, a powerful new Kayak competitor
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/23/getgoing-flightfinder/
Travel search startup GetGoing already caught our eye with its clever “Pick Two, Get One” deals that can save 40% on airline tickets. Now the company is back with another product called FlightFinder that gives travelers more ways to save money without having to roll the dice on their destination.
My Vietnam Visa | Visa Vietnam | Support Vietnam visa online
http://myvietnam-visa.com
Myvietnam-visa.com was built for supporting you updated information on Vietnam visa, suggesting the easiest, fastest, cheapest way to get visa to Vietnam, offer promotions for Vietnam visa online service.
CodeSchool - NodeJS : Free Pass
http://go.codeschool.com/Q_Jr7g
I reached Level 4 for the "Realtime web with NodeJS" course, within 12 hrs of using CodeSchool. Here's a two day free pass to review some of their material.
Mur Lafferty's WAR launches today
http://murverse.com/2009/06/01/war-episode-1/
The fifth podiobook novella in her Heaven series. WAR episode #1 dropped today on her website.
Show HN: SUPPA - The New Social Dining Experience
http://signup.suppa.us
Invite people to enjoy your culinary creations at home, while earning praise and creating new friendships!

Find local home-chefs and enjoy a friendly meal with like-minded people!
CONTENT-AWARE CSS: WTF?
http://www.browsermedia.com/blog/2012/11/12/content-aware-css-wtf
Notes on media queries.
The Doge Pound Invades the Podcast
http://arcticsunburn.com/008-doge-pound-invades-podcast/
Jay and Story from The Doge Pound join Andrew in a conversation about movies and games on the AS Movies & Games Podcast!

The conversation began with two simple questions:

- What have you been playing recently? and...
- What have you been watching recently?

However, it didn’t stay on-topic for long, as the three delve into a variety of games, movies, and even online marketing related discussions like social media and crowdfunding. Leave it to wandering minds to get derailed mid sen... wait, what was I talking about?
Comantra
http://www.comantra.net/
Comantra e solutions in Comantra Kolkata with the business name of Comantra provide services for computer.
Intel App Framework 2.0 released (JavaScript library for mobile)
http://app-framework-software.intel.com/index.php
Intel App Framework v2.0 (formerly known as jqMobi) has been released. This JavaScript framework enables web developers to build highly customizable and feature-rich mobile websites that run on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows mobile devices. Note: I'm not affiliated with Intel or this project -- i'm just a happy developer that uses this library. If you're looking to build interactive websites that run on a wide range of mobile devices, you should definitely check this out.
Mingle Trips - Meet other travelers wherever you go.
http://www.mingletrips.com
Hi,
We have just launched Mingle Trips (http://www.mingletrips.com). Travelers can meet each other while traveling to some of the most popular destinations in the world.
It will be awesome if you guys can try it and give your feedback. Best way would be to create a trip to London, UK for 30th - 31st October since there would be some overlaps.
Since we have just launched, there will not be too many matches in other cities for now.
Thanks. Manas
Dean Kamen: Multimillionaire Inventor & Entrepreneur
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html
"When Kamen wanted to erect a wind turbine on North Dumpling and the state of New York objected, he seceded from the US. Though the secession has never been officially recognized, he signed a nonaggression pact with his friend, then-President George Bush, and enlisted Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's as "joint chiefs of ice cream." North Dumpling has its own flag, its own anthem, a one-ship navy, and its own currency. One bill, which Kamen carries in his wallet, is the value of pi. "You can't make change for it," he says with a grin. "It's a transcendental function.""
Show HN: Git Pretty Stats (self hosted PHP project)
http://www.codingswag.com/git-pretty-stats/
Graphs/statistics for Git repositories written in PHP
Best WordPress Ad Management Plugins
http://www.sociablweb.com/best-wordpress-ad-management-plugins
WordPress blogging platform is in demand because of easy to monetized through advertising. Whether you use pay-per-click advertising, affiliate marketing, or your own system, there are many ways you can generate revenue from a WordPress blog.
Scalarm: A Simple Alarm That Does Not Block
https://github.com/tolitius/scalarm
<p><pre><code> val alarm = timeOut( 8, TimeUnit.HOURS )

while ( ( alarm.didNotGoOff ) && ( developer.pocket < 800 ) ) {
developer.deliverFeature()
}</code></pre>
How to Create Digg Like URL Submitter
http://blogupstairs.com/tutorial-2/how-to-create-digg-like-url-submitter/
Superdit has sharing a great tutorial for us, how to create Digg Like URL Submitter Using JQuery and PHP.
Did $16 Stand in the Way of Climate Science?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/23/did-10-stand-in-way-climate-science/
The head of a key British climate lab, a central figure in the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, thought requests made under Great Britain's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) were a nuisance that should be stonewalled while crucial correspondence is deleted -- unless someone pays up first.
Show HN: Simple HTML5 localstorage todolist app inspired by TiddlyWiki and Vim
https://github.com/mrphoebs/Naow
The code is shitty and the keyboard interaction is highly customized for how I wanted to used it. Hope it is useful to someone.
PG's talk at Startup School 2010 [video]
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271983983
Here is PG's talk at Startup School 2010. Here is the link to his essay on the future of statup funding.
http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html
Quickbooks Online down for hours, anyone know of a decent alternative?
I'm a consultant and have been using quickbooks online for years for invoicing and managing my accounting. They have been down all day today (isn't the first time either): https://qbo.intuit.com/c27/v0/offline.shtml

I've never been very happy with their service, but have been unable to find a decent alternative. For example, until recently their "web interface" was only compatible with IE. Now they have beta support for Safari (works ok), and Chrome (doesn't work well). Their web interface is really old school, slow and clunky.

Does anyone know of a decent, low cost web-based accounting system for a small business? Something fast and easy to use like mint.com, but for business (i.e. invoices, sales orders, income statements, credit card processing, etc.)
NFC payments service is now live in more than fourteen Chinese cities
http://www.nfcworld.com/2013/06/11/324509/china-mobile-and-china-unionpay-launch-nfc-payments-service/
China Mobile,the world's largest mobile network operator, has announced testing of swiping cellphones for bus fare has been completed. Along with Chinese bank card association China UnionPay, they announced that their NFC payments service is now live in more than fourteen Chinese cities
Iran Bans Arstechnica
http://arabcrunch.com/2010/10/iran-bans-arstechnica.html
Arstechnica says the ban happened after the sites published second piece of coverage about the Stuxnet malware which hit Ithe workers of Iranian power plant.
All about Fonts : part 1 : Top 5 Recources
http://sebastiano.ezion.cc/2008/03/29/all-about-fonts-part-1-top-5-resources/
Top 5 resources for fonts.
HTML and XML Sitemaps on WordPress
http://wpcentury.com/wordpress-sitemaps/
WordPress websites are extremely friendly in front of search engines natively, however there are some other great things you can do to improve your rankings.

HTML and XML sitemaps are such things and here is how to use them to leverage search engines.
New social networking website to help people communicate better
http://myspills.com
Myspills is a place where users can share their opinion with each other freely without having to fear about their privacy. All they need is an account to login and they are set to share comments and opinion with their friends.

Let me know what you think about the site.
Teleborder is hiring a lead designer
Teleborder is a complete global mobility solution for business. Our mission is to bring free movement of labor to the world through technology. Right now, that means helping companies manage immigration/visas, tax, and relocation for their expatriate employees in the U.S. For example, if a Japanese engineer wants to join a company in San Francisco, they can use us to make sure the visa, moving, and tax processes all get done properly. Big companies like Google already to this for their employees, but small companies haven’t been able to afford this until now. One day, we hope to enable this for every person, company, and country in the world. We grew our customer base 12x in 2014 and are looking to beat that in 2015.

We're currently a tight-knit team of 14 and well funded by top tier investors, including YC (S13) and Khosla Ventures. We don’t yet have designer on our team, and are looking for someone to lead and own design across all our customer interactions, including our app and our sales & marketing website. The ideal person would be comfortable both creating/mocking up designs and implementing them in HTML and CSS - we’re really looking for someone who wants to own our “CSS layer”. Our stack is a Rails/PostgreSQL backend with an Ember.js front-end. We’re also looking for someone who aspires to lead a team of designers one day - we’re growing fast, and anticipate growing our product and engineering teams substantially over the next 12-18 months.

All of our team all have a personal connection or affinity with expatriate employment. Our CEO is a lifelong expat and has spent 23 years on a visa, including right now. For that reason, we’re happy to sponsor visas and green cards for all employees, as well as assisting with relocation and tax issues for people moving to San Francisco.

If interested, please email james@teleborder.com with a quick introduction and links to your portfolio.
SWTOR Imperial Agent Walkthrough
http://swtornews.info/imperial-agent-walkthrough/
Video walkthrough of the Imperial Agent starting zone, Hutta.
Please come beat on my automated video game recommender
http://reccr.com
A couple months ago I quit my day job and devoted myself full-time to learning Rails and starting up my exciting new web project: reccr, the amazing automated video game recommender! Rate the games you've played, and it'll tell you what games you should play next. It's currently in early beta, and capped at 500 users, but the all-important core "recommendation" engine is working great, so come on by and rate some games and get some interesting recommendations!

Feedback here in this Hacker News thread is greatly appreciated! At the moment I'm on the cusp of adding some "social" features to the site, but I'm not sure what the best social feature additions would be. What would YOU most like to see addded?
The Principals of 'Pataphysical Programming'... WTF is this?
http://www.illposed.com/philosophy/pataprogramming.html
Doing some research on a new project of mine I came across this. Had some interesting thoughts. Was wondering if others had come across it and what the results have been adopting it into development methodologies.
How to make newspaper pay walls work (in principle)
http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2010/06/01/how-to-make-pay-walls-work/
Pay palls could work, if newspaper companies follow a couple of basic ideals.
SAP owes Oracle $1.3 billion
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20023762-92.html
Billions or millions? That was the central question in the Oracle vs. SAP case, and in the end, the jury determined its answer to be billions with a "b." For the theft of Oracle's intellectual property by its now shuttered TomorrowNow division, SAP must pay Oracle $1.3 billion.
Company Pulse
http://www.wlaurance.com/2014/01/Pulse---Are-you-Alive%3F
What is the pulse like at your company?
Microsoft v. i4i Revisited
http://www.baumlegal.com/blog/
I recently commented that the Microsoft v. i4i case did not change the law. After all, the Supreme Court simply confirmed that the statutory presumption of validity afforded patents under 35 U.S.C. 282 could only be overcome with "clear and convincing evidence" of invalidity -- nothing new. However, upon a more careful reading (prompted by a Facebook post by Fordham Prof. Jeanne Fromer), I now realize I was mistaken.

In the following passage, the Supreme Court explains that a patent provides the user with a "right to use" the patented invention, and not merely the right to exclude others from using the patented invention.

That changes everything, and will make patents ever so much more valuable. By the stroke of a pen, the wealth of America's inventors has been vastly increased. I sure hope they don't try to "fix" this.
Agency Spotter - resource makes it easy to find agencies
http://agencyspotter.com
like that they are organizing the creative agency industry and making it easier for users... similar to behance but b2b for marketers and agencies, not just individuals.
Recipe: Ajax search and filtering
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/613420732/recipe-ajax-searching-and-filtering
Using jQuery, Rails, and Searchlogic.
Thoughts on Science and Intelligent Design
http://franckyu.tumblr.com/post/69349663422/i-know-science-is-right-and-i-believe-also-in
Science could explain intelligent design, why not ?
Show HN: Mobile ranked-choice voting (with CRDTs)
https://druthers.app
This is just a casual little tool that we made so your friends, family, and business partners can quickly arrive at consensus decisions.

We are really satisfied with the performance of our CRDT over WebRTC architecture, although it hasn't been significantly load-tested.
JFK: We choose to go to the moon beacuse it is hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm for the full text of the speach.
Digital Water Pavilion
http://www.dwp.qaop.net/gallery.php?dir=media/opening
The official website is not very usable.

Watch Video 3 (http://www.dwp.qaop.net/gallery.php?dir=media/videos) to get an idea of how it works.

An explanation of the concept is at http://www.dwp.qaop.net/concept.php?lang=en&dir=concept or you can visit the main project page http://www.dwp.qaop.net/?lang=en
Stick-Fu for iPhone – Video Review
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/stick-fu-for-iphone-video-review/
Looking to bring stick figures to life? Stick-Fu for iPhone allows you to do just that, at 99 cents. It features a highly addictive gameplay, one not often seen on the iPhone platform (it’s not a doodle app I can tell you that). Check out our video review below.
ReadWriteWeb closes french edition in a bold unexpected way
http://hyveup.tv/2011/03/readwriteweb-closes-french-edition-in.html
RWW killing its french version, french blogosphere mourning
How to make your Company and Products thrive in an Age of Cooperation 
http://meedabyte.com/2012/04/04/how-to-make-your-company-and-products-thrive-in-an-age-of-cooperation/
Communities finally won a productive and inspirative role into the new cooperative product cycle that is gradually establishing. This piece is mostly about understanding how your businesses can thrive by collaborating with communities: means, perspectives, "places" and phases.
Finally Understand "Story Points"
http://krisread.tumblr.com/post/13937211586/story-points
When I first learned about "Story Points" I thought it was a dumb idea, until I figured out the difference between difficulty and time taken...
Maven inside: say hello to Groovy Grape
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/03/maven-inside-say-hello-to-groovy-grape.html
Grape is a very cool feature of Groovy 1.6 ... but it has the potential to be overestimated.
The Rise of Fashion E-commerce and Man's Escape from the Mall
http://impossibleconfidence.com/post/77063449113/the-rise-of-fashion-e-commerce-and-mans-escape-from
Essay with thoughts and stats we collected in the early stages of dashhudson.com
A rampant Open Hardware product ecosystem to build upon
http://openpicus.blogspot.it/2012/10/unleash-your-creativity-with-full-set.html
Nice set of products
The Lean Corporation (could Corporates beat Startups at Innovation?)
http://meedabyte.com/2012/10/08/the-era-of-the-lean-corporation/
Is this an oximoron?
How Upside Down Bells Could Help Startups Get Seed Funding
http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/03/how-upside-down-bells-could-help-startups-get-seed-funding.php
Turn your bells upside down!