jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: CL and FB reselling app with auto renew and auto price reduction
https://shto.gumroad.com/l/autoposter/ap1dollarhn?_gl=1*vpor02*_ga*MTg5ODI1NDE1OS4xNjQxOTYwNDU0*_ga_6LJN6D94N6*MTY0NjUwMjc1NC4yMC4xLjE2NDY1MDUzMTkuMA..
I recently moved apartments and had a lot of stuff I wanted to get rid of.

I found the reselling process to be cumbersome – I needed to post the same info twice, to both Facebook and Craigslist. I had to renew the items so they don't expire. I also had to reduce the item prices if they didn't sell.

So I decided to do what any right minded overzealous, "pragmatic" software engineer does – instead of spending 10 minutes every few days reducing the prices and renewing the items, why not spend 3 weeks to build out a fully decked out Electron app that does all of the above automatically for you? Why not indeed...

In the end, it's been a fun ride and I learned a lot. And actually! now it's coming in handy as I'm finally starting to sell the backlog of items that I've accumulated.

Once I built it, I figured I'd offer it on gumroad, make a buck, why not... btw, the link is for a discounted version ($1 instead of $10) so that you lovely HN lot can try it out.

Curious if you all have thoughts / feedback! Hopefully it will help you out on your next move too!
Samsung Expects Q1 Profit To Get Double From Galaxy Smartphones Boosted Sales
http://www.techieapps.com/samsung-expects-q1-profit-to-get-double-from-galaxy-smartphones-boosted-sales/
Samsung Electronics, the world’s top technology company by revenue, approx calculated operating profit almost doubled in January-March as compared to the same period last year,
Texting SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen --20 years on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20555620
In a world first, on 3 December 1992, an engineer sent the message "Merry Christmas" from a PC to a mobile device using Vodafone's UK network.
Сryptocat 
http://codehum.com/project/127/
Experimental software: Don't trust with your life! Peer review appreciated.
Tom Brady's Tips on Leadership
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/style/Major_Tom.shtml
You always need to pay the price in advance for SUCCESS.
If
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
post to proper resource.
Google should allow for the sharing of email filters.
Just a thought.. for all you gmail employees reading hacker news =). A lot of problems can be solved for my friends if I could somehow share my e-mail filters with them =).
Show HN: RepWatch.us - prelaunch
http://repwatch.us/
Looking to get some feedback and gauge interest here. This is not a political discussion, but rather a tool to assist in the execution of democracy, regardless of your individual political views.

So could you see something like this being useful? And what am I missing?
Why do we still have Admin Panels?
http://protoco.de/admin-panels-in-the-era-of-html5/
We just launched our site showing off my new development team! Hope you like the site!
Where to start with open source development?
https://chicoteam.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/where-to-start-with-open-source-development/
A general overview of the steps to take when contributing to an open source project.
Ask HN: What is a good forum to ask specific physiology questions?
I know I completely suck at asking such questions, but I really need an answer here (and I apologize to the ghost of Rider of Giraffes, but this is literally life and death at stake here for me since I have a genetic disorder and I just don't know where else to ask this). Last night I posted a link to a blog post I wrote and I asked for feedback and got zero replies. Okay, maybe stupid since that, duh, prevented it from getting put on the Ask HN section.

I am looking for info on the following channels and how they interrelate:

TRPV1 -- The transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1(TrpV1), also known as the capsaicin receptor and the vanilloid receptor 1. (Capsaicin is the active ingredient in this family of peppers.) It is involved in the sensation of burning pain in the nerves. Calcium has some relationship to this, I'm not clear what, and it can be activated by high acidity (something
my condition promotes).

CFTR -- Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator -- the channel that is the root cause of the symptoms for my condition (atypical cystic fibrosis). It processes chloride.

CaCC -- Calcium Activated Chloride Channels. From what I gather so far, these are apparently alternate routes of chloride processing in the cell (assuming I am understanding what I have read so far).

So I am basically wondering if capsaicin, in the process of impacting the TRPV1 and apparently also impacting calcium use in the body may be able to force the body to use this other chloride pathway more. I am wondering if it is like a hack to get around the deficient
channel. My chronically bloated belly shrank dramatically in just a few days. I wrote about my experiences with consuming habanero peppers and my thought process on this in a bit more detail in the blog post mentioned: http://www.healthgazelle.com/blog/?p=87

I'm really not trying to promote my pathetic blog. I'm just trying to save my pathetic life. So if anyone here can either answer the question or suggest a forum where I might get some answers (in laymen's terms, preferably) on how these channels work and how they impact each other, a million thanks.
How to avoid going to jail as a Bitcoin developer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHixpoFQkeQ
Alice Townes presents US legal and tax strategies for bitcoin developers.
Ask HN: Anybody know anything about wakemate?
I'm thinking about ordering a wakemate but I remember all of the complaints and problems they had that were chronicled on HN. Their website makes it seem like they are shipping, and I feel like thats the case, but with all of the issues they had I'm not sure. I tried searching HN but couldn't find anything saying they're actually shipping.

Are they shipping?

Is anybody using one that can comment on its value?
Chuck S01E01 Laptop: PRISM :)
http://imgur.com/a/M4t6O
I just started watching Chuck, and had to chuckle when I saw the laptop was called PRISM.
Ask HN: Importance of trademarking early on
Last week I put my first splash page up online with a notification signup form for people interested in when I launch my startup... Immediately a friend (who happens to be a patent lawyer), criticized me about not having trademarked my name/logo saying that someone could theoretically go trademark my name now and steal my brand. I believe this is highly unlikely, but it got me thinking at least about trademarking. Does anyone with experience in this area have advice? Should I throw my money at getting a trademark or is it really not that big of a deal right now?
Official Map of All Startups in NYC (InternetWeek2012)
http://mappedinny.com
From "About the map":

"The Made in NY Digital Map is a visual testament to the vibrant state of New York's digital industry - showing a powerful constellation of over 500 homegrown startups, investors and coworking spaces across the five boroughs. Browse by neighborhood, review job postings, or add your own startup to the digital landscape - the Made in NY Map is a living resource that reflects New York City's dynamic innovation ecosystem.

Led by Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to realize New York City's digital potential, the Made in NY Digital Map was created by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment in partnership with Internet Week NY and the New York Tech Meetup. Distribution of the map was also made possible thanks to the Association for a Better New York."
GameBoy Advance Emulator coming to iOS 7. No Jailbreak required
http://gba4iosapp.com/
Remember GBA4iOS? It was a gameboy advance emulator on iOS that used a AppStore enterprise bug to bring emulator to everyone without a jailbreak. Apple closed that bug but now its back with version 2.0 and the website has a countdown which will finish tonight.
Leaving Pixels Behind
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CNQLbqC0krocy_fZrM5fZ-YmQ2JgEADRh3qR6RbOOGk/edit?forcehl=1&hl=en#slide=id.p
A VECTOR WORKFLOW FOR DESIGNERS
Show HN: Sake – tool to run tasks on remote servers
https://sakecli.com/
Hi, I recently made a CLI tool that's similar to `make`, but geared towards servers. There's tons of software in this category (Ansible, Chef, Salt, Sup, etc.), but most of them are geared towards production-grade server management, which is a bit overkill I think when you're just doing some `apt install <package>` or `sudo systemctl start <unit>` for your hobby projects. With this in mind, sake was born.
Why Atheism Will Replace Religion: New Evidence
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201107/why-atheism-will-replace-religion-new-evidence
The illusion of religion helps people feel good, despite miserable experiences.
Github Down? anyone know what's going on
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13286967/Screen%20Shot%202012-02-09%20at%201.01.19%20PM.png
Just noticed i couldn't push my code to github ... checked to make sure it wasnt just me and it appears its not ... anyone else having issues?
Ask HN:About Software Estimation
Is software estimation relevant in this community? Assuming most of the folks here are working in startup environment, I am curious if software estimation is done and if yes how. I work in a big organization where estimation is done by a gut feeling of someone senior and often outdated with latest technology trends. This result in over estimation of as much as 5 times (sometimes 10 times) the actual effort required. I wonder if software estimation is an art or science.
Please point out to some good resources to learn good software estimation.
Quepy project uses python to do question answering (nl to mql) over freebase
https://quepy.readthedocs.org/
Quepy 0.2 now is able to generate queries in MQL for the Freebase knowledge base!

Quepy is a python framework in which you can specify how to handle questions (in natural language) in order to generate a database query that answers them.
Freebase is a HUGE database that contains A LOT of enciclopedic information about everything.

You can find a tutorial here: http://quepy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial.html
The full code here: http://github.com/machinalis/quepy
And the full documentation here: http://quepy.readthedocs.org/
Demo: http://quepy.machinalis.com/
Ask HN: How do you answer, “How many customers do you have?”
Hi all,

We are a new start up and at the stage now where we are giving demos to medium/large organisations.

A common question we get is, who are you current clients and how many do you have? Our answer at the moment is none, and this never goes down well at all.

How have you handled these questions?
MongoDB 2.2 Online Conference Tomorrow
http://www.10gen.com/events/webinar/mongodb-online-conference-sept
There's an online conference dedicated to MongoDB version 2.2 tomorrow from 1pm-3pm ET. Definitely worth checking out.

Agenda:
Introducing 2.2 - Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder, 10gen
The Aggregation Framework - Edouard Servan-Schreiber, Director of Solutions Architecture, 10gen
Concurrency - Dwight Merriman, CEO & Co-Founder, 10gen
Data Center Awareness - Eliot Horowitz, CTO & Co-Founder, 10gen
TTL Collections and Other Cool New Features - Andrew Erlichson, VP of Education, 10gen
Closing Remarks and Q&A
Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/want-to-know-difference-between-a-cto-and-a-vp-of-engineering/
I work for a company with 30+ engineers and description of a VP of Engineering, as described in this post, fits quite well. I would add some HR responsibilities.

Does this apply to your firm or in the company you work for?
Time to Say It: Double Dip Recession
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/business/economy/double-dip-recession-may-be-returning.html?_r=1&ref=business
Time to Say It: Double Dip Recession May Be Happening
By FLOYD NORRIS
How "busy" are these successful VC's?  We asked a few
http://blog.zenlike.me/2013/04/23/how-busy-are-these-venture-capitalists/
Interviews with 4 VCs to talk about how they structure their day.
Mint.com on the definition of a user
http://www.redditall.com/2009/02/mintcom-on-definition-of-user.html
I'm curious to know if I'm the only one scratching my head about this.
Show HN: Anders CCHM/HTS Theorem Prover
https://github.com/groupoid/anders
Anders is HoTT theorem prover based on: classical MLTT-80 with 0, 1, 2, W types; CCHM in CHM flavour as cubical type system with hcomp/trans Kan operations; HTS sctrict equality on pretypes; de Rham stack modality primitives. We tend not to touch general recursive higher inductive schemes yet, instead we will try to express as much HIT as possible through W, Coequlizer and HubSpokes Disc in the style of HoTT/Coq homotopy library and Three-HIT theorem.

Written in OCaml https://github.com/groupoid/anders
Tell HN: Happy New Year
At least, in some parts of the world at this moment!
GoDaddy Also Withdraws Support For Syria, Red Light Cameras, and Justin Bieber
http://tatiyants.com/godaddy-also-withdraws-support-for-syria-red-light-cameras-and-justin-bieber/
GoDaddy, a leading domain registrar and internet piranha announced that it is withdrawing support for Syria, red light cameras, and Justin Bieber. In a statement released to the press just moments ago, the company explained:

“After the outcry over SOPA, we decided to take a second look at other things we supported in the past. You know, just to make sure. Well, as it turns out, there were a few other positions we should probably rethink, and this is the first (though probably not the last) step in correcting those oversights.”
PartSim - Online SPICE Circuit Simulator
http://www.partsim.com/
PartSim is a free and easy to use circuit simulator that runs in your web browser.
Ask HN: How do you deal with being a failure?
I wake up everyday feeling disgusted with myself. I just sit in cafes and curse myself whole day, I have been spending months doing it. I keep discovering how deeply flawed I am as a human being. I wanted to be so much in life, I used to be in love with my work, I would work 16 hour days for years and be thankful.
I took bad business decisions, I threw away 19% of my company to a business partner who is now hostile to it, I spent years building the product and the company was just about to take off. It is already dead in the water now, even my lawyer won't take my calls. Now I just live in despair and there is one else to blame but myself.
Has that happened to you? How did you turn things around?
Best mechanical keyboard in 2015?
I've been spending more time coding on my Macbook and the keys are nice but I wish for more feedback. I've tried few mechanical keyboards and I think I like that.

I don't know much about them but I'd like for the keyboard to be:

1/ illuminated with backlight
2/ standard layout like normal keyboards have
3/ usb
4/ classic look

I've seen Das Keyboard which doesn't look bad but it looks kinda glossy to me, I worry it'd look really dirty.

I really like the look of Happy Hacking keyboard but layout seems to be a bit strange - I don't mind the delete key and relocated backlash button but I worry I might miss ALT key. I'll be using this with OS X a lot so I don't want to relearn everything.

Any ideas?
A ring that runs all your appliances. As well email and paying bills.
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/15643/one-ring-rule-shortcut-everything/
Without wanting to draw too many comparisons with Lord of the Rings, this is essentially technologies’ answer to the ‘one ring to rule them all.’ As the start-up says on its Kickstarter page, “Ring is like magic, allowing you to control anything you want, by wearing it on your finger. You can send texts, control home appliances, and even pay your bills — all at once and in a flash.”
Please, donate to Wikipedia (a letter from Jimmy Wales)
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Letter/en
Please help Wikipedia, if you donate post your link here.
Butterfly Labs ASIC Miners Double in Price
http://butterflylabs.com
The price of the Butterfly Labs ASIC Bitcoin miners has doubled in price. Does this mean they're ready to ship the pre-orders?
One Token to Rule Them All – The Tale of the Leaked Gmail Addresses
http://www.orenh.com/2014/06/one-token-to-rule-them-all-tale-of.html
"100 million email addresses leaked in a Google data breach",a possible headline if an attacker exploited the vulnerability. Fortunately, Google and the Google security fixed this issue and rewarded me with a nice bounty.
The blog was written with a lot of fun and love. Comments are welcome!
Ask HN: Collaborative/project management software for a team of 2-10
basecamp, teambox, Glasscubes, redmine, instant messaging, etc?
Will you piss off clients with your blog?
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/04/25/my-blog-beat-up-your-website/
Will you lose clients if you disclose your likes and dislikes in your blog? What if they don't believe the way you do or have differing opinions? What if they're easily offended? All the answers are here.
Ask HN: Advice on selling app?
I'm considering selling my app http://tweetsaver.com so I can focus on other projects.

Any general advice? What are the likely ways a buyer might value the site?

Thanks!
Rails Magazine Issue 7 released and is available both in print and as a free pdf
http://railsmagazine.com/issues/7
Read the digital edition free at http://pdf.railsmagazine.com/rails-magazine-issue7.pdf

28 pages, full-color. Inside:

Editorial by Rupak Ganguly
An Overview of Refinery – a Rails CMS by David Jones
Converting A Rails Site to Refinery CMS by Christopher W. Lehman
Auditing plugin by Mihai Târnovan and Gabriel Târnovan
Hobo – Making Application Development on Rails Even Faster by Dave Reynolds
Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows by Victor Thiago
Simple Unobtrusive Ruby/Rails Debugging by Stephen Rycyk
A Well Kept Secret, Ruby and Cryptography by Richard Penwell
Ask HN: Please recommend a 13-15“ programmers laptop to replace 15” MacBook Pro
Regular office use (email, word processing, messenger)

Lots of terminals (SSH)

Lots of browser windows / tabs (gmail, outlook web, YC, Stackoverflow, etc)

1 Ubuntu VM running 25% of the time (1 core, 2 GB)

Needs to be <5 lbs

good screen & resolution (1920 X 1080 is enough for me, higher is ok)

good keyboard & trackpad

8 GB minimum RAM

decent battery life

OS doesnt matter

discrete graphics plus

need to survive 5 years of sustained use

SSD not mandatory, prefer higher disk capacity

2K or less
FYI: LinkedIn Is Using Your Photo And Your Actions In Social Advertising
http://www.businessinsider.com/fyi-linkedin-is-using-your-photo-and-your-actions-in-social-advertising-2011-7
This was discovered recently and you should be aware of it.
Show HN: BiggestPriceDrop.com
http://biggestpricedrop.com
Created this app because nothing like it existed. I've always wanted to be able to sort products from my favorite online stores by how much each product had dropped in price. I think we're still the only site that does this. Please let me know if this is not true! What are some ways to get exposure? Google has already indexed over 600k of my pages and most of our traffic is organic search. Thanks, any suggestions or feedback would be appreciated.
Peter Thiel's CS183: A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.
http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21742864570/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-6-notes-essay?foundation
I reposted this because I felt that the original submission description prevented it from being widely read.
Ask HN: How messy is it to re-incorporate an LLC into a C-Corp later?
I have heard converting an LLC into a C-Corp described as "messy" by several people on HN in different threads. If I am the sole shareholder of the LLC, can't I just close it and transfer the assets (which would probably just be my code) to the new C-Corp? How messy is it? Is it manageable by a decent lawyer, because I'll need that anyway when I start taking investment.

Longer version, with more background:

I have a site off the ground, but potential customers are balking at the lack of a terms of service. So I need to set up some sort of corporation. The agile programmer in me says set up an LLC. It's the simplest thing that could possibly solve this problem, and I can change it later.

On the other hand, I am planning on seeking angel investment within 2-3 months, and I hear investors prefer a C-Corp. But setting up a C-Corp in Delaware seems like a big hassle right now, when I just want to make a terms of service and accept some payments to verify my business model. My advisor says he can connect me to a good silicon valley law firm that will work on deferred compensation, but I'm worried this process will be too slow for now. I just want to deal with this and focus on getting more leverage, then reincorporate when needed.

So anyway, is the process of converting an LLC to a C Corp so messy that I should take time now to "get it right," or can I get away with just moving forward on my own, without lawyers, and dealing with it later, when I have more leverage?

Thanks for any advice.
Ask HN: Building a core team for open source software?
I've got my node.js + CouchDB framework to a point where I am putting it into production.

I fundamentally want it to be open source, so it is: https://github.com/mathgladiator/win

How do I attract open source developers to build stuff with me? What steps should I do to market it?
Chicago BARCamp 2008 -- August 15th-17th
http://barcampchicago.com/
BARcamp Chicago - 2008 is happening August 15th weekend! Sign up to attend and/or if you want to help out.
New Stock platform
http://tickmarkt.com/signup/hackernews09
I have a new site that allows you to write stock trading applications and see how they would perform. Its in beta but I would love feedback.

http://tickmarkt.com/signup/hackernews09
GCable - #cablegate Google-search helper
http://www.aspektratio.net/gcable.html
This (admittedly quite simple) tool will help you construct a Google query searching the contents of Wikileaks US Embasssy cables
How do you protect your reputation online?
http://thestandard.com/news/2008/05/29/how-do-you-protect-your-reputation-online
With the democratization of the web, average folks can use blogs, wikis, and forums to make their thoughts known, while Google captures them for all eternity. And a major problem is created for your company.
Show HN: Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse
https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Uptrace adds support for exceptions, in-app logs, basic users and projects management.
Scientists discover why modularity evolves; 'holy grail' discovery for AI
http://slashdot.org/recent
As programmers know, modularity is critical to making reusable, adaptable software. However, modularity is not instinctive for beginners and must be learned via painful training. Biology faces a similar problem: modularity is useful to make species more adaptable, but how did it evolve in the first place? Surprisingly, computational simulations of 25,000 generations of evolution reveal that modularity does not evolve because it makes organisms more adaptable. Instead, modularity evolves as a by-product for selection to reduce the "wiring costs" of a network [1]. The discovery greatly advances research into evolving artificially intelligent robots [2], a field where the inability to evolve modular designs has long been thought to be a key roadblock [3] to evolving truly complex, intelligent neural networks.<p>The paper [4] was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. You can also watch modularity evolve in this video. [5]<p>[1] http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/30/the-parts-of-life/
[2] http://www.fastcompany.com/3005313/evolved-brains-robots-creep-closer-animal-learning
[3] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428504/computer-scientists-reproduce-the-evolution-of-evolvability/
[4] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1755/20122863
[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SG4_aW8LMng