jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies”
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
"11.17 Apps may facilitate transmission of approved virtual currencies provided that they do so in compliance with all state and federal laws for the territories in which the app functions"
Show HN: Atro – Easier Cybersecurity
https://atro.com
Hey, I'm Kasey, the founder of Atro. I'm on a mission to make security easier for smaller businesses.

I've been in security a while now an realized that the major barriers to for smaller teams to get secure are cost and complexity. So I set out to break these barriers down. We've built a platform that helps teams understand and fix the security issues they have in an easy self-guided way. Our beta is out and I'm looking for feedback. Check it out!
Mastermind Groups for Startup Founders
http://compressed.co/
I think this is something a lot of entrepreneurs can benefit from joining, especially in the early stages.
Adobe Shockwave Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48297/info
Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions.
Mail from a competitor 
I am co-founder (as a side job) of a small company (3 months old). Today we received an interesting email which basically says "do not price under XX € or your business won`t succeed " and "Let's just make XXX a not easy task, and not cheap one to." where XXX is one of our main services which is not unique and there are many players in it.
What is the best way to deal with such a mails ?
1. Just ignore it.
2. Send a polite email just to confirm that you received the mail and never think about it again.
3. Engage a conversation about how the prices are formed and so on .
4. Something else ...

Thanks .
Ask HN: Help me chose a name for my business
I'm starting a small business and I need to create a business card and name for my business to hand out to people. The business is mainly an automotive parts distributor. I'm selling fluids, oil, and things like that.Think less actual physical automotive "hardware" and more of stuff like oil filters and sparkplugs and break fluids. 1. Where can I get business cards for cheap? Should I go to a physical store or do it online? 2. What are things I should consider when creating the business cards. 3. What are the things I should consider when choosing my business's name?
Any other tips would be highly appreciated, thanks HN!
IXAPI just released beta
https://ixapi.com
IXAPI provides an online service for developers so that they can reduce the amount of work and resources needed to create an application - it may be web or mobile. Using IXAPI, users can create, manage and consume a RESTful API. In many mobile applications, there is the need to buy, setup and administrate a server together with a database where developers create an interface to communicate with it. Using our service, they don't need to do that anymore because we take care of the data.

Developers just have to define the application's objects, the connections between them and they get the API instantly. Moreover, in order to reduce the amount of code written by the developers, the API comes with user profiles with followers system and common user actions such as remember me and reset password, likes system, object time stamping, hit system and file upload.
A Compendium of Design Models
http://www.dubberly.com/articles/how-do-you-design.html
I am partial to IDEO's models. I have a poster outlining their approach above my desk.

Do you explicitly follow an established design process when you are developing ideas? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Image manipulation using audio and vice-versa in realtime.
http://mrkrbrts.com/blog/
Sonify is a JACK plugin I hacked together that encodes images into audio and vice-versa, in realtime. This is my first project on GitHub.

https://github.com/markandrus/Sonify
Check if you are blacklisted by Google over IPv6.
http://googleipv6.vaibhavbajpai.com
Google used to perform IP prefix whitelisting to enable clients to receive IPv6 services. This was an opt-in process, where a dual-stacked user explicitly signed up to receive Google services over IPv6. Since, the World IPv6 Launch Day, in order to favor the IPv6 upgrade path, Google has changed the policy. The whitelist has now been replaced by a blacklist. If you're allocated an endpoint from a blacklisted prefix, you'll not receive Google services over IPv6 even though you may be receiving IPv6 connectivity from your provider.
I Love Startups
http://blog.poundwire.com/post/2813669451/i-love-startups
Founder of PoundWire explains how the modern lean startup founder is similar to the gold miners of the 1800's.
How to Blog directly from any Website
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/06/10/how-to-blog-directly-from-any-website/
I am always looking for ways to blog more efficiently. If you don't have to leave the webpage you're on to write a post, it's a huge timesaver. This Firefox extension is so much better than BlogDesk which is good for blogging offline, but can't compare to the functionality of Scribefire.
Live screencast VMware PaaS announcement
http://live-webcast.com/events/vmware/publicevent/webcast.htm
Supports Java, Ruby, Node.JS, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Tweetlist for iPhone is A Worthy Contender
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/05/tweetlist-for-iphone-is-a-worthy-contender/
There have been many other scenarios in which I reviewed apps, but with Tweetlist, the situation was different.
11 Epiphanies I’ve Had While Building My Startup
http://whatspinksthinks.com/2013/11/25/11-epiphanies-ive-had-while-building-my-startup/
What have your epiphanies been?
What real life bad habits has programming given you?
http://tumblelog.marco.org/73776312
interesting question from this page...

one thing i can say which i know many will agree - lots of coffee. :)
Scalling your Websocket/Comet Real-time application using Redis Pub/Sub
http://jfarcand.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/scalling-your-websocketcomet-real-time-application-using-redis-pubsub/
Scalling Websocket/Comet applications are not simple. Why? As with Comet, a websocket connection on server A cannot receives or share events with another websocket connection on server B.
Ask HN: What obstacles are you facing with your Open Source project?
I’ve tried launching a couple small open source projects in my time and it has been tough.

Hard to gain an audience. Hard to build a community. And many more.

Why is this?

Well, I’m not sure. There is obviously something in a developer’s path that blocks them from achieving their goals.

Is there something that would make building/launching/growing your open-source project easier?

Let us know in the comments below so we can help you out!
Alarm
http://onlineclock.net
Need to remind yourself of something? Set an easy to use alarm on this clock website.
In minutes, learn 100 digits of pi -- Happy Pi Day!
http://www.jperla.com/blog/2008/03/13/the-secret-to-pi/
Learning pi is hard. But, leveraging human psychology, you can make learning pi as making up a story. The hard part is making the story to help you remember the digits, but I wrote a program that does the hard work for you. I also made the code open-source so you can use it however you want.
Thanks Randall Munroe
http://blog.geekwagon.net/2013/04/thanks-randall-munroe.html
I did scrolling thing for XKCD 1190 - Time, and it has been fun.
Pointers 101
http://blog.diskodev.com/pointers-101-part-1
An introduction to pointers
Nintendo to launch new DS console with 93% bigger screen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1243115/Nintendo-DS-XL-launches-UK-March-93-bigger-screen.html
A large screen version of the popular games console, the Nintendo DS, will launch in the UK this spring, Nintendo announced today.
Ask HN: Settle this simple elegant vs. readable disagreement
Consider these 2 statements, which identically detect an iPod or iPhone:

if (/ip(hone|od)/i.test(navigator.userAgent))

if (/iphone|ipod/i.test(navigator.userAgent))

Which would you use? I argue for the second, as it is simple, clear, easy for maintainers to quickly grok. I think simplicity is more important.

My colleague argues for the purity and elegance of the first solution. He thinks purity/elegance is most important.

Anyone have an opinion on this?
Bringing Home The Bakon: QR infused vodka hits the shelves
http://jacami.co.uk/bringing-home-the-bakon-qr-infused-vodka-hits-the-shelves/news/
American spirit maker, Black Rock Spirits has released a new bottle design for its carnivorous vodka brand, Bakon Vodka.

The potato based, bacon-infused vodka, has had their bottle design re-worked and enhanced with QR codes that personalise each bottle for its owner by Seattle-based social marketing and sales company, Ethofy.

Not only can the bottle be tracked by scanning the code, but customers can enter into a ‘game-like’ environment where they can earn badges for purchasing new bottles, trying a recipe or passing a bottle to a friend in a different location.
You have $10k to invest in ONE cmpny - Apple, Microsoft, Google, or FB.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ga0pj/you_have_been_given_10000_to_invest_in_one_of/
Can anyone provide a voting system and lets see who emerges out to be a winner.
Principles of Social Interaction Design
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2012/02/principles-of-social-interaction-design-pdf.html
175 pp PDF on design theory and social tools
Ask HN:  What would you think of no-IP pharma?
What would you guys think about a potential pharmaceutical agent released with explicit anti-IP protections? I.E. that no pharma company would be able to exercise patenting rights on its use. I'm in a position to influence this to happen, obviously I think this is a good idea. Pros? Cons? Do any copyleft/no-ip folks know if this has been tried before? A cursory search says no, which doesn't suprise me considering how enthralled to the system many of my colleagues are.
Making guns and robots from scrap metal 
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/06/2011614133151319133.html
it seems that inovation comes when need calls for it.
Ask HN: iPad vs. Netbook
If you needed a mobile computer for Internet use, reading, writing long-form documents or articles, perhaps basic web dev (CSS or HTML editing), or basically any less demanding computing tasks, would you choose an iPad or a Netbook? Why?
Ask HN: Roommate in NYC / Hacker House
Are there any hackers in NYC who are looking for a roommate for mid-July or August?

Let's get a sort of Hacker House going!

I'm looking for a place in Manhattan, above Downtown and below 30th St.

Drop me a line and let's get together for a drink to discuss. At gmail my username is heliodorj, or you can see my email in my profile.
Simple Collaborative Invoicing
http://allocateit.com
Tired of sending invoices into the ether? Take a look at AllocateIt which helps bring together both sides of the invoicing process.
End to End – uplifting stop motion animation made using only paper
https://www.sentiospace.com/cinema/
Short story of four friends cycling the length of Britain on a tandem bike
20 Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications
http://designmodo.com/free-wireframe-mockup/
Effective mockup and a wireframe software are quite essential for any web designers and developers to plan out a good visual arrangement of the websites.
How To Make App For iPhone, Android, Kindle Without Coding
https://coursmos.com/course/how-to-make-app-for-iphone-android-kindle-without-coding
Start Making ANY Applications For iPhone, iPad, Android & Amazon Kindle Within a Couple of Minutes With Super-Easy System and Start Your Hosting Apps Business With No RISK and No Upfront Costs
Quibb = Twitter + LinkedIn + HackerNews?
http://www.vccafe.com/2013/02/24/quibb-twitter-linkedin-hackernews/
If Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Quora, LinkedIn and HackerNews weren’t sufficient for sharing links and professional thoughts, there’s now a “new” kid on the block. Invite-only professional network Quibb
Mashable Redesign
http://mashable.com/
Wow, have you ever seen such a dramatic redesign of a site? Reminds me when Digg did their redesign.
Discuss HN: Washington post experiment, from an HN perspective
Most of you must have known the Washington post experiment involving Jushua Bell. For others, this is brief version: Joshua Bell donned a baseball cap and played as an incognito street busker at the Metro subway station L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. on January 12, 2007. The experiment was videotaped on hidden camera; among 1,097 people who passed by, only seven stopped to listen to him, and only one recognized him. For his nearly 45-minute performance, Bell collected $32.17 from 27 passersby, from the same set of people who would offer cumulative thousands of dollars for his on show. (full version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html)

The story obviously raises few interesting and important questions.. one of the I mean to talk about is following:
• If all the branding is removed, are we able to recognized raw talent?

My gut answer to the question is (unfortunately), no. Everyday we see marketing taking precedence over true quality. Specially among tech startups (e.g. Zynga rips off some upcoming game developers game and releases nearly identical games and puts huge effort in marketing and gets away with it!)

With all the possibilities of incoming flames, allow me to say that I am noticing something similar in Hacker News as well. I might be partially or totally wrong on this, but it seems like certain topics, certain celebrities, certain blogs and certain HNers (all of it better remain unnamed) gets biased upvoting, sometimes without any quality whatsoever in the content of the post while some smart blogpost written by some unknown dude might never make it to the light of top 30.

I just mean to ask an opinion of fellow hackers on that. Does everybody here feel that only quality is admired on HN and not branding?

P.S. I don't mean to start any flame wars, so in case this post doesn't make sense, feel free to flag it.
Stop trying to kill the internet culture & start adapting
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/keen-on-how-the-culture-business-can-fight-back-against-digital-parasites-tctv/
Just like every other business in the world, if they can't adapt they fail. Stop with the Protect-IP crap.
NerdWallet Health Finds Medical Bills Are Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/2014/03/26/medical-bankruptcy/
NerdWallet Health finds Medical Bills Are Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies
Widom et al.'s response to preprint of Ciuchi et al.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.5212v1.pdf
Our answer to Ciuchi et al.’s preprint is as follows:

“Erroneous wave functions of Ciuchi et al. for collective modes in neutron production on metallic hydride
cathodes”
A. Widom, Y. Srivastava, and L Larsen (v1 Oct. 17, 2012)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.5212v1.pdf

Abstract: “There is a recent comment [1] concerning the theory of collective many body eﬀects on the neutron production rates in a chemical battery cathode. Ciuchi et al. employ an inverse beta decay expression that contains a two body amplitude. Only one electron and one proton may exist in the Ciuchi et al. model initial state wave function. A ﬂaw in their reasoning is that one cannot in reality describe collective many body correlations with only a two particle wave function. One needs very many particles to describe collective eﬀects. In the model wave functions of Ciuchi et al. there are no metallic hydrides, there are no cathodes and there are no chemical batteries. Employing a wave function with only one electron and one proton is inadequate for describing collective metallic hydride surface quantum plasma physics in cathodes accurately.”

Conclusions: “No signiﬁcant argument has been provided against our nuclear physics results. The experimental evidence of neutron production and nuclear transmutations in properly designed plasma discharge electrolytic cells [5] agrees with our theoretical analysis and belies the theoretical arguments given in [1] against a hefty production of neutrons in hydride cells.”

Lewis Larsen
President and CEO
Lattice Energy LLC
Poll: How long should a weekly video summary of HN stories be?
I am thinking of doing a weekly video summary of HN stories. How long do you think it should be?
Hi Hacker News.  What do you think of this idea?: Ning for Online Stores
http://flyingcart.com/blog/start-a-fan-club/
My start up is FlyingCart.com and we just launched an easy way to create a social network for your products. What you guys think? Any advice would be great!
An inner inconsistency of Bitcoin
http://macro-bit.blogspot.ca/2013/12/an-inner-inconsistency-of-bitcoin.html
With its striking price recently, Bitcoin is under hot debate among traders. You might think that people are bidding up the price thinking that bitcoin could become one of the dominant currency in the future. But from the view of a "good currency", it's not the case.
Google Now Selling Upgrades to Gmail Storage
http://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage
Looks like the plans are:

6 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
25 GB ($75.00 USD per year)
100 GB ($250.00 USD per year)
50 GB ($500.00 USD per year)
Who is ranking on your keywords?
http://domaintower.com/rank-tracker/
automated keyword ranking tool
January 27, 1945. 
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&prev=_dd&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwolfschanze.livejournal.com%2F1468706.html
The troops of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Who would have thought going backwards to HTML would be so great? 
https://plus.google.com/+JeremyMorgan/posts/4THumX64Gqk
Who would have thought going backwards to HTML would be so great?
The “chemical-imbalance” theory is dead
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/rip-psychiatry-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-is-dead/
The original article: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychiatry%E2%80%99s-new-brain-mind-and-legend-%E2%80%9Cchemical-imbalance%E2%80%9D
Choosing a Framework for the Enterprise
http://java.dzone.com/articles/choosing-framework-enterprise
Is jQuery (and all of its plugins) a comparable replacement for a component library (and component model) provided via something like JSF, Vaadin or the components available in Flex ?

Secondly, have you adopted the restful model w/an ajax frontend for large internal projects ? If so, how did it go ? Is this model well suited for enterprise development ?
Redis & Memcached Clouds across Multiple Availability Zones
http://garantiadata.com/blog/available-now-redis-memcached-clouds-across-multiple-availability-zones#.UbiuVfn9tsk
Check out Garantia Data's new blog post
You have $100k to spend on teaching about better passwords. What do you do?
Hi. Longtime lurker, first time poster.

I've been given a 100k budget from a tech company to create an educational marketing campaign that teaches people to use better passwords, and improve their password habits. This is not my first time doing this (third actually, on this topic), but the first time I've reached out to people knowledgable on the subject. I do my best to stay up to date on infosec. I read industry news and analysis, read whitepapers, and keep abreast of what others in the arena are doing — but I studied literature in school, and have worked mostly as a copywriter/advertiser, and inevitably our advice draws a mixture of praise, heavy criticism, or ire from the security community (usually more ire than anything.) My team, likewise, are not infosec experts or professionals, but rather designers, front end devs, and marketers.

We all have bad practices. Especially end users. I guess my question is, what do you think would be the most pertinent topic for end users, and what kind of change do you think people are most likely to carry out?

- Should we focus on getting people to use password managers

- Changing their passwords regularly?

- Using long, unique passwords?

- Using 2FA?

What would you do? What would resonate with people more? What do you focus on with friends and family?

What approach is more effective, fear-based messaging? Humor? Dry facts?

In the past we've found that contests have the highest engagement, but there's just something sleazy about "tweet2win."

I don't want you to do my work for me, but rather than craft some retweetable graphics, get some big numbers, and call it a day, I'd actually like to create something of real value for people. How can we create something that actually causes real change in people?
Would You Consider Yourself An Elitist?
http://thedailyattack.com/2011/07/10/sheep-wolves-and-owls/
Rising Above The Herd
Overlay business data on Analytics/Quantcast charts
http://chartelligence.com
How many times have you looked at your metrics charts, saw some peak or trough, and couldn't explain the reasons?

To help better understand charts, I released a tool that overlays business data on them. Everybody's business is different, so anybody can track any events they want, internal or external (internal like infrastructure changes, version roll-outs etc., and external such as oil price, major news events etc.)

Also, data layers can be public, so for example I prepared a simple Google Panda Updates events layer, that you can overlay and see how your website traffic was affected. Another example is the US Holidays layer.

Currently it's available as a Chrome extension, and overlays charts on Google Analytics and Quantcast. The plan is to be able to overlay in any browser and on any chart, but before that happens, i'll be happy to get your feedback.

Give it a try at http://chartelligence.com
So Chrome thinks I need help (F1) in Turkish today
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/D8CMv6io--Y/K-N50jiwuLAJ
If you're running Chrome, try pressing F1 and see what language the help comes up for you?
For me and many others it's coming up as Turkish!
Orchestra made from old technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzwm_2M7NX4
A composer made an orchestra from old technology.
Twitter Bootstrap for Rails 3
https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails
twitter-bootstrap-rails project integrates Bootstrap CSS toolkit for Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline (Rails 3.2 supported)
Ask HN: Recurring Billing Solutions
I'm researching recurring billing solutions for my web app. So far I have taken a look at:

http://www.chargify.com

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com

http://www.payfacade.com

http://www.cheddargetter.com

http://www.spreedly.com

...and obviously Pay Pal. Any recommendations here? I am looking for something that is affordable and easy to use from a development perspective. There have been threads like this in the past but I wondered if anything new has come out since then.
Local search startup Grayboxx goes after search giants
http://blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/08/for-all-the-are.html
"How exactly is Grayboxx going to improve local search? Well, their algorithm is in the stealth stage...so they aren't revealing details yet. But it looks like a guerilla tactic approach to ranking local results...to create a local community rolodex of favorable votes without imposing review-writing chores."
New Study Debunks Myth That Most Tech Entrepreneurs Are College Kids
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2958/new-study-debunks-myth-that-most-tech-entrepreneurs-are-college-kids
A new study from researchers at Duke University and Harvard University challenges the popular assumption that most technology entrepreneurs are twee college kids launching businesses from their dorm rooms.
Jtalk presentation at ESUG'11
http://nicolas-petton.fr/2011/08/29/Jtalk-presentation-at-ESUG.html
The slides of the talk are now available online. Note that the presentation itself was written in Jtalk, so feel free to reuse it to write your own slides.
Show HN: Reviewflowz – Free to use review monitoring Slackbot
https://www.reviewflowz.com/
Here's a little Slackbot we built for review monitoring. It's tailored specifically for software and digital products companies who use Slack.