jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Clustering with decision trees
http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/clustering-with-decision-trees/
...
So how can we use a supervised algorithm to produce an unsupervised result : categories/clusters out of nothing ?
This seems highly contradictory, but nevertheless, believe me, it is possible.
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Has anyone ordered the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module?
http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/raspberry-pi/rasp-pi-accessories.jsp&CMP=EMC-22690084
I got this in my email this morning but haven't been able to submit an order yet. The site was down all morning and is now down again.

I was able to get in for a few minutes and load my shopping cart with only 1 unit available. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the ordering as the site went down again.

Was anyone lucky enough to successfully put in an order?
Anonymous - 1, BART Riders - 0
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/08/15/anonymous-1-bart-riders-0/
You got us. You got the woman with the Coach purse and post nasal drip sitting next to me sniffling her way through a David Baldacci novel. You got the Mom with the stroller and two rug rats. You got the blind dude and his daughter, the one guiding him around by his arm. I guess that’s what being ‘leet’ is all about, huh?
Help me understand closures
http://www.kevinsookocheff.com/2011/01/18/understanding-closure-in-javascript/
I created this little tutorial to help others (and myself) understand the very, very basics of closures. Am I missing anything obvious that is going to trip me up going forward?
Show HN: FinTech Proposition Generator
https://fintech.jensenwaud.com/
The world of Financial Technology (or FinTech for short) is a place filled with a lot of jargon and specific words, which you do not find elsewhere. Having spent a long time developing FinTech growth strategies and technology architectures for large banks, I set out to create a web app that can automate the generation of products and services within the FinTech space. FinTech Proposition Generator is the result of this endeavour. It is a free-to-use, open source web app with three purposes:

Teach the author how to write web apps using Microsoft's latest open source technology (Blazor)
Show to a beginner audience what a Blazor server-side app looks like
Have fun and geek out over quite a complex "niche" topic.
Blogger ate up a blog post
http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-blogger-ate-my-blog-post.html
The blog deleted was the one mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3225055 , i.e. http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2011/11/decline-of-ubuntu.html
Word cloud generator to create beautiful text typography
http://cybergyaan.blogspot.com/2010/04/amazing-word-cloud-generator.html
Word cloud generators provide amazing way for text visualization. The new app is developed by tagxedo and it was built by developer Hardy Leung and released just a couple of days ago. This app is really stunning.You can create different shapes out of it.Even you can add images to outline the words to create stunning effect
Most Creative Way To Find A Job Using Twitter
http://www.bitrebels.com/social/most-creative-way-to-find-a-job-using-twitter/
Neat Hack
Linux Tee on TeeSpring
http://teespring.com/linuxshell
Has anyone purchased from TeeSpring with success ?
Tripliser - XML to RDF conversion library & command line tool
http://daverog.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/introducing-tripliser/
Tripliser is a Java library and command-line tool for creating triple graphs, and RDF serialisations, from XML source data.
A new player in the guitar tab landscape
http://guitarparty-press.tumblr.com/post/35208162274/subscriptions-now-available-globally
GuitarParty.com tries do get right what others have got wrong.
Startups, can you tell us how you've 'tested' software?
http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2013/05/survey-how-startups-test-software/
We'd like to gather stories of startups and how they test software. The results will be shared freely. Can you help?
Facebook: The Failure of Localization
http://www.alexkates.com/2007/10/facebook-failure-to-capitalize-on.html
The first of many posts about Facebook on my new blog. I'd like to hear what you all have to say.

See the first one too: http://www.alexkates.com/2007/10/inevitable-fall-of-facebook...
Requirements for Mobile Apps Development
http://blog.mopapp.com/six-critical-requirements-for-mobile-application-development/
New article by Ben Kerschberg on Mopapp Blog
Increasing Returns on Your Existing “Great” App
http://blog.mopapp.com/increasing-returns-on-your-existing-great-app/
New article by Kunal Patankar on Mopapp blog
Ansible and Docker bringing back Simplicity and Power
http://blog.aminjam.com/ansible-docker-together-building-and-deploying-modern-web-app/
Ansible & Docker together makes deployment and building web apps so much more powerful. They bring back simplicity and power for building modern web apps. In this post, building a simple NodeJS web app locally and deploying the app to AWS using Docker containers and Ansible automation tools.
Code review can be fun
https://github.com/marmelab/gremlins.js/commit/94cd27f07c2d630b2aab098bff116e871791ff16#monkey-test-js-P8
this one made my day
Twitter issue: tweets disappearing
http://help.twitter.com/entries/133771
How can they let this happen?
The lack of media queries
http://alwaystwisted.com/post.php?s=2013-01-12-the-lack-of-media-queries
Start developing your new responsive site without media queries. Create a lovingly designed/developed linearised site first before thinking of using min-width: 20em(320px)
Show HN: How did I end up wearing 3 health trackers?
http://aismail85.tumblr.com/post/83284928038/how-did-i-end-up-wearing-3-health-trackers
Dear HN,

I'm a total geek which is hugely into sensors. Did my PhD into that domain and now I'm playing around with 3 devices: BodyMedia, Jawbone UP and FitBit. Here's the first of a longer series that compares them and shares my daily experiences. #quantifiedself
Marketplace Tips for Windows Phone 7 Developers
http://blog.adamnathan.net/2010/11/04/MarketplaceTipsForWindowsPhone7DevelopersTheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly.aspx
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Ahh, the App Hub. Looks like the copied a number of decisions that Apple made later in the game, to try to stop some of the problems we were seeing with iPhone apps. Any changes to app/description require a completely new submission is one example.
IOS4 Multitasking UI Revisited
http://soleun.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/ios-4-multi-tasking-ui-suggestion/
iOS4 multitasking is pretty simple. But is it too simple for the rest of us? Here is a different suggestion.
How to Make Custom Flat Styled Google Maps with jQuery and Flat UI
http://designmodo.com/google-maps-jquery-flat-ui/
Well, in this screencast you can learn how to make custom flat styled Google Maps with jQuery and Flat UI.
San Francisco bus stops get multiplayer touch screen games
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/21/san.francisco.muni.transit.system.gets.games/
Transit riders who wait for a Muni bus in a transit stop can now pass the time by playing video games at some bus shelters in downtown San Francisco. A promotional campaign headed up by Yahoo involves digital video touchscreens that are tied together, letting commuters play head to head. The games are part of a contest and include visual puzzles and sports trivia competitions.
Factory equipment investing as an alternative to real-estate investing? [ask HN]
I understand that many people find real-estate investing appealing for several reasons, including the fact that real-estate appreciates in value, generates a recurring income stream, and has preferential tax treatment.

I see the appeal, but I feel that (like stock market investing), real-estate investing is ethically neutral. If possible, it would be nice to be able to have the money accomplish something socially beneficial, something more than just making a return.

I was thinking, what if instead of real-estate investing, what if tech people like us were to invest in factory equipment? E.g. pick & place machines, reflow soldering machines, 3D printers, CNCs, DNA synthesis machines, etc. Just like buying a house and renting it out to tenants, one could buy a (probably used) machine that is on the market at a favorable price, mod / upgrade it to increase its value, and then rent it out to anyone who wants to start or expand a factory but doesn't have a lot of capital.

If a lot of us do this, it could make it easier for people in the west to start and expand factories, and ultimately expand the domestic manufacturing industry / maker movement.

It seems like main difference would be that equipment (unlike real-estate) would naturally tend to decrease in value over time, but I propose that this could be counteracted by (1) avoiding equipment that is extremely quickly obsoleted such as bitcoin-mining rigs and (2) by keeping the equipment in good repair and upgrading it over time with aftermarket modifications.

Any thoughts on whether this approach would be feasible as a way to turn small-scale investment income into monthly recurring revenue?

Cheers and happy holidays!
Introducing NeoTabs - a jQuery Plugin for Accessible Tabs
http://pascalprecht.github.com/blog/2012/11/05/introducing-neotabs-a-jquery-plugin-for-accessible-tabs/
A more detailed post on why I started developing NeoTabs and didn't stay with Dirk Ginader's Accessible-Tabs Plugin
Help We Got the Dreaded message from Google.
http://www.shopforbags.com/
You know this one:

http://www.shopforbags.com/: Unnatural inbound links
"We've detected that some of the links pointing to your site are using techniques outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
We don't want to put any trust in links that are unnatural or artificial, and we recommend removing any unnatural links to your site. However, we do realize that some links may be outside of your control. As a result, for this specific incident we are taking very targeted action to reduce trust in the unnatural links. Yada, Yada Yada....

We had no idea our SEO company of 7 years was in the black hat link market. We are down about 2/3rds of our traffic and we are currently unranked on our major keywords.

Our understanding Google wants our new SEO company to painstakingly document on a spreadsheet when and how we contacted every unnatural link. After 3 different times of emailing and a possible phone call we can resubmit for the links to be disavowed.

Issue is that we have approx 30,000 inbound links of which approx 4,000 are black hat. Is there a quick way to conquer this beast or does Google realistically expect, a site that has been operating for 9 years, to go through link by link without any control of the webmaster on the other end and get this done quickly.

Any ideas or thoughts that could get us back into Google's good graces quicker?

Appreciate the help in advance -M
Talks from Congress on Privacy & Surveillance 2013-09-30
http://slideshot.epfl.ch/events/10
A number of prominent international speakers will discuss your right to information self-determination, the politics of privacy, how to deal with the secret cosmopolitan state within a state, and how to go forward. It is a congress of individuals to represent what is not (yet?) represented by institutions.
Checking and Signing XML Documents on Java Smart Cards
http://blog.protogenist.com/?p=765
Smart card assistance for generating digital signatures is current state of the art and bestpractice. This is mainly due to the fact that smart cards now a days have enough processingpower to produce digital signatures for documents by on card resources (processor and memory)only. This way the owner’s private signing key never has to leave the smart card: The signingkey is and remains permanently stored in a tamper proof environment
Parallels between Twitter and Friendster
http://brontemedia.com/2008/05/22/twitter-and-friendster-parallels/
Twitter seems at exactly the same point Friendster was when it found itself deciding between a Kleiner round or an acquisition by Google.
Senate Bill allows Gov't warrantless reading of your email
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/20/3671650/privacy-bill-ecpa-leahy-congress-email
Other Links:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
5 Common Mistakes in Game Usability Testing And How To Avoid Them
http://www.trinidad.ee/blog/5-common-mistakes-in-game-usability-testing-and-how-to-avoid-them
A valuable resource for game designers about the most common game usability testing mistakes and tips on how to fix them! Feel free to share!
TCC/LE: A Windows CMD replacement to make Linux users feel slightly more at home
http://jpsoft.com/tccle-cmd-replacement.html
If you accidentally kept typing ls, cat, etc., it should make you pretty happy to have it respond expectantly. Also pretty nifty is the support for more complicated commands and utilities, like 'find' and 'history'
Nursery Furniture and Baby Bedding
http://www.nursery-furniture.co.uk/
The Nursery Furniture Store features some of the UK’s most trusted brands, including Izziwotnot and Lollipop Lane. The site provides a free delivery service and a price match guarantee on all complete baby nursery furniture sets.
Eric Meyer's Gawker Check 
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gawker/
Check to see if your e-mail address is associated with a Gawker account whose password was decrypted and published.
How Much Does the Mac Pro Need an Upgrade? The Infographic
http://techland.time.com/2013/06/02/mac-pro/
I should add that this article was posted last weekend.
Are Happy Developers More Productive?
http://figshare.com/articles/Are_Happy_Developers_More_Productive_PROFES_2013_Presentation/718138
For decades now, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers’ productivity is to focus on people. Indeed, while human factors have been recognized in Software Engineering research, few empirical investigations have attempted to verify the claim. Development tasks are undertaken through cognitive processing abilities. Affective states – emotions, moods, and feelings - have an impact on work-related behaviors, cognitive processing activities, and the productivity of individuals. In this paper, we report an empirical study on the impact of affective states on software developers’ performance while programming. Two affective states dimensions are positively correlated with self-assessed productivity. We demonstrate the value of applying psychometrics in Software Engineering studies and echo a call to valorize the human, individualized aspects of software developers. We introduce and validate a measurement instrument and a linear mixed-effects model to study the correlation of affective states and the productivity of software developers. - See more at: http://figshare.com/articles/Are_Happy_Developers_More_Productive_PROFES_2013_Presentation/718138#sthash.0mHZGJrN.dpuf
Statistics about Palestinian
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical issue, and on our power – and duty – to bring a resolution.
Kitesurf with CEOs and VCs in the west of Ireland
http://www.startappcompetition.com/maitai-ireland/
Would love to invite a few YC companies to Ireland to enjoy an invite only event in Achill Island, Mayo, Ireland. Looking for a mix of indivuals, CEOs, Founders and VCs.
IPhone Developer - Android Developer|iPhone Application Development
http://www.socialjitney.com/portfolio.php
Create & Launch Your iPhone apps and android apps - iphone developer, android developer.
JavaScript: bind function
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/JavaScript-bind-function-setting-a-scope
The this keyword is always important in JavaScript. I'll admit that it took me some time to actually understand how it works. You know, sometimes JavaScript is all about the scope. Where you are and what you have an access to. This article is about the bind function. Something which I use very often.
Even Eaiser BEM-ing with Sass 3.3
http://www.alwaystwisted.com/post.php?s=2014-02-27-even-easier-bem-ing-with-sass-33
Included in the newly released Sass 3.3 you get a sweet @-script to make your BEM'ing of class names even easier.
The Marvel's Avengers Workout 2012 (Insane & Funny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkCwW7GNAFo
This is sickkk!!
Fisher Price Recall
http://www.kidgalore.com/2010/09/30/fisher-price-recall/
No more big wheels :(
Get Color Scheme & Formatting Info of a Slide or Presentation in Cloud
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-slides/archive/2012/08/08/get-formatting-information-of-a-slide-using-saaspose-slides-rest-api.html
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Slides. This release provides the ability to get formatting information of a slide using Saaspose.Slides REST API. Saaspose.Slides allows you to get color scheme of your presentation or a particular slide. You may choose to get font scheme of the slides in your presentation. Saaspose.Slides offers the best services to provide you the best solutions for manipulating your presentation and getting the formatting information in the cloud. You can refer to our documentation for a complete overview of Saaspose.Slides features and examples. Getting started with Saaspose.Slides is quite simple and quick, download the required SDKs and take your document manipulation experience to next level. You can utilize our SDK and REST examples to get the formatting information of a slide by using Saaspose.Slides features in your applications and enhance the performance and productivity.
Yii framework custom methods inside datatable row
http://thoughts.wallproductions.com/2014/01/09/yii_framework_custom_methods_inside_datatable_row/
Tip on how to use custom HTML inside a datatable row.
An excellent guide on 'Getting started with Rails 3.x'
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
Wanted to share this guide that I found it very useful as a programmer who is new to Rails.
Google cable TV a perfect match for Google's 1 Gbps network
http://www.broadbandexpert.com/blog/ip-tv/google-cable-tv-a-perfect-match-for-googles-1-gbps-network/
Google must have been thinking of challenging the cable TV companies when they started testing their 1Gbps network that delivers a blinding-fast download and upload network to the home
Add google reader shortcuts to the rest of the web.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hbklibfafmlkhlfknchnaiboniheaamo
I found that i was using j/k/n google reader shortcuts when visiting other websites and blogs which obviously doesn't work - So i created a chrome extension that brings the speed and simplicity of google reader to the rest of the web by enabling the same keyboard shortcuts on normal websites.

I thought it may be of use / interest to HN readers.
How to Actually Meet the Right People at SXSW
http://startupcollective.com/10-ways-to-actually-meet-the-right-people-at-sxsw/
Heading to SXSW? Don’t get lost in the shuffle this year.
Facebook Hits 1MM Monthly Active Advertisers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/06/18/you-know-whats-cool-1-million-advertisers-at-facebook/
Outside of Google, it's now one of the largest ad platforms for small to medium-sized businesses
SmartQ - visualize your workflow
http://www.getsmartQ.com
smartQ is an online Kanban board
Ask HN:  Can QuickTime Player "cure" OCD while using a computer?
Within the context of OCD while using a computer (e.g., repeatedly checking data in an important task), why not just video record the session using a tool such as the QuickTime Player?

That way, the user is less likely to repeatedly check data as this can be done later from the video -- thus taking away the anxiety. And in practice, the user may not even look at the video later.

Similarly, to cure OCD in other contexts, the user can use an iPhone say to take pictures/video of things they often check repeatedly (e.g,. water taps, the oven, locking the door, etc.).

One might argue that checking pictures/video would take a lot of time. That doesn't necessarily follow, especially if checking the pictures/video takes some effort -- you might be too lazy to bother. You might keep putting off the checking of the pictures/video indefinitely.

Do you think this would be an effective "cure" for OCD?
Show HN: Tech-Blog Aggregator
https://tech-blogs-aggregator.herokuapp.com
I have created a website to aggregate the tech-blogs from various trusted sources (Company/Individual/Product)
Baby genius?
Building off of VaedaStrike's thread, I decided to get your opinions.

I want to raise my child (2 yr old) for greatness, as every parent, but the hacker in me wants to augment his upbringing to aid the process. Assuming these goals:

1. Graduating High School by age 8-12.
2. Enjoying Childhood despite the rigorous training
3. Minimizing resentment for such hard labor.

Why graduate at an age between 8-12? I want to give him time to explore many disciplines at an advanced level before puberty.

Disagreements with he goals aside - what would you do different to meet these goals?

Some steps I have taken so far -
1. Has him enrolled in a top-rated preschool
2. let him experiment with computers
3. piano instruction
4. read to him nightly

Its not much so far, but I'd love to get your input on what more I should do to reach the goals.
Skeuomorphic Factories
http://mysterioustrousers.com/news/2013/2/12/skeuomorphic-factories
"The whole modern office building is pretty much just a skeuomorphic version of the industrial revolution factory."
Ask HN: Please share your experience with branch.io
In a short span of my experience with branch.io, I have seen its service going down for a couple of times. I am using their deeplink feature for a very important functionality of my mobile app.

Looking for your experience with respect to:

- Availability

- Scalability

- Performance on slow internet connection - Edge.

Also, I am open to discussing my exact use case, other services offering deeplink as a service and anything you have in mind regarding this.
How To Stay Motivated As A Designer
http://www.shayhowe.com/resource/how-to-stay-motivated/
As designers a lot of times we stay motivated through finding inspiration however there is more to staying motivated than simply finding inspiration. Staying motivated is a practice and requires a good amount of effort.
Learning jQuery in 48 hours.
http://go.codeschool.com/Q_Jr7g
A simple way to learn jQuery. Learn it in 48 hours with a free pass from CodeSchool.
Success Against The Odds: Filling My Technology Knapsack From Scratch
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k-1dpgOTfWwJ:butyoureagirl.com/13871/success-against-the-odds-filling-my-technology-knapsack-from-scratch/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
This is who the internet decided to shame, bully, and attack. A victim of real assault.
Rust Language Conferences
Are there developer conference for rust-lang similar to gopher for golang
How to move the position of a certain bit within a byte 
http://www.scitechexplained.com/2011/02/how-to-move-the-position-of-a-certain-bit-within-a-byte-c-language/
You want to move bits inside a byte? Unfortunately, there aren’t any standard functions that deal with these sort of issues so we will have to use some smart and easy hacks.
ElimiDate - born for fun at SWLondon turned out to be a real issue
http://www.elimidateapp.com
Wanted to share with you our project ElimiDate which was done for fun at Startup Weekend London but to our surprise it got tons of positive feedback & won whole competition. We decided to do it "for real" - basing on received feedback it seems that we're onto something ;-) First version of the app will be release within days. Comments are welcomed!
How world-changing are the culture and politics of free software?
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-world-changing-are-the-culture-and-politics-of-free-software/2008/08/23
"Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kelty on the issues covered by his book Two Bits". I found the critisism of amateur anthropology by people like ESR quite refreshing.