jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: HTML5 version of Motorstorm Apocalypse game
http://www.motorstorm.com/webapocalypse
A project i have worked on for the last 3 months. Pleased with the outcome, but i would love to get some feedback from the community.
8 Ways to Help Boost Your Inspiration
http://www.wafflebox.com/8-ways-to-boost-your-inspiration/
Thought I would list out the methods that I find helpful when I am in an inspirational rut. Enjoy.
Ask HN: what message queue should I use?
There are a myriad of message queue systems out there e.g. RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, RestMS, etc. I would like to know which one HN users might be using in production and would recommend?
Admob outage?
Just got this message when trying to access Admob:

"We are currently experiencing an outage. Please stand by."

Ads seem to be working though!
Show HN: algorithmically generated news site
http://thewall.com
UK: http://thewall.co.uk
AU: http://thewall.com.au

^ latest project from our team (we also built trendsmap.com, cushycms.com, retailmenot.com, bugmenot.com, etc)

The Wall provides an automatic, real-time view of what's newsworthy by monitoring, analysing and publishing the most discussed topics on social networks as they occur.

The advantage of this approach is that our sites are always current, diverse, cheap to operate and free from all forms of commercial and political bias.

Each topic on The Wall features links to the most shared and debated media, commentary and opinions at any particular moment in time.

Currently we're processing over 7 million tweets per day to generate this content.

Hope you like it- much blood, sweat and tears has gone into it.
a collection of startup stories
http://www.startupflames.com/
Hi all,
I just built this site to store and collect people's experiences and stories of doing startups. Could you guys critique the site and maybe add some stories? Thanks.
Running Alpha Brings Invisibility Cloaking to Financial Decision – Making
[ Imagine a giant liquid soap bottle (the market) in which every bubble and droplet contains particles (individual decision-maker perceptions) that have been encoded with the product's manufacturing history -- from how it was made -- the order its particles (active market players') were mixed -- to what factory (marketplace) and when; sort of like a digital footprint of human perceptions and machine trading activity. ]

This is the Alpha Idea Grid.

RunningAlpha.com's solutions are inspired by the need for enabling financial decision-makers with a smarter way for seeing investment opportunities before they get noticed, while providing critical anonymity for getting ahead of the crowd without being gamed by market predators.

For the busy executive on the go, Running Alpha offers traders and investors an intuitive mobile-responsive platform, built around an easy-to-use, low maintenance, all-in-one Information display for easy navigation and exploration of global investment opportunities in tomorrow's most relevant and high-impact industries.

Powered by a new evolution of sentiment-inspired and perception-aware predictive intelligence, our flagship service, the Alpha Idea Grid, is the first Heat Map for helping you understand how and when news events & social media stories will be biased for impacting stock prices & amplifying the current trend in your favor.

By going beyond displaying hot-zones of current sentiment activity, we enable the high-performing analyst and the everyday investor & trader alike to build intelligent portfolios that know where the global influencers and insiders will be tuning into next.

Start Plugging into a Smarter Future in January 2015 Launch!
IE 0day in the wild
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/11/03/dep-emet-protect-against-attacks-on-the-latest-internet-explorer-vulnerability.aspx
Symantecs write up.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/new-ie-0-day-used-targeted-attacks
Ramanuja redicovered (mathematics cofnerence)
http://ss.emergic.org/2009/06/01/ramanujan-rediscovered-international-conference-on-math-it/
Ramanuja is regarded as a mysterious mathematician who till date had not been understood fully. This was a recent conference on his work held in IIIT B
Y Permutator - Putting Startup Investing Back On Its Feet
http://ypermutator.com
These guys are trying to give Y Combinator some serious competition. Perhaps too serious?
Y COMBINATOR INTERVIEWEES NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE - ANY RED DOTS FOR YOU?
http://cc.rtmfp.net/
Hi there, my name's Shed (short for Sheridan).

Last year, the company my Business partner and I are hoping to launch very soon (85by55.com) was chosen to interview for Y Combinator. We didn't get picked then (but we're still keeping the flame alive!).

And now we need your help please! Please click this link below and let me me know if you see any red dots - this shows your level of peer to peer connectivity...

If you do have red dots, that will be hugely helpful - and please let us know.

Thank you so much for your time,

Yours,

Shed

http://cc.rtmfp.net/
Django Discussions - a new community for discussing all things related to Django
http://djangodiscussions.com
Django Discussions is a community/forum dedicated to the discussion of Django. The idea is to fill the void between Stackoverflow (where questions that elicit opinion or debate are to be avoided) and Google Groups. Everything can be nicely categorised and it's very easy to use.

I put the site together of the last weekend using Discourse. Discourse is still in early beta but it's a great piece of open source software and I think it's well suited for use as a Django discussion forum.

If you have any suggestions, feedback or problems please let me know.
Skully AR-1 is the Future of Motorcycle Rides
http://thegadgetflow.com/blog/skully-ar-1-future-motorcycle-rides/
Motorcycles are cool, I won’t deny that, but the safety risk always seems a bit much for such a lifestyle. You can never get lost, you have to be constantly aware of your surroundings because any accident will do more damage to you than the woman who’s talking on her phone in a minivan, and it can get a bit annoying listening to wind rushing past your face.
It's a mistake to hire a Gen Y
http://thinkspace.com/its-a-mistake-to-hire-a-gen-y/
Lack of work ethic. Demanding and impatient. Those are a few of the words used to describe Generation Y who are now in the workforce.
American Economic Survival: The Argument for an Extraterrestrial Conflict
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-economic-survival-argument-for.html
A little alien invasion can go a long way...
Portable Sublime Text 2 on Linux
http://oridecon.tumblr.com/post/39501095892/sublime-text-2-portable-linux
I'm new to Linux and I really want to learn more about bash so I created a small blog for experimentation.

Feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.
Apple released iOS 6.1 Beta 2 (Build 10B5105c) For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch 
http://cydiaism.com/download-ios-6-1-beta-2-build-10b5105c-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch-direct-links/
Apple released iOS 6.1 Beta 2 (Build 10B5105c) For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch
Enterprise IT Adoption Cycles
http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/07/adoption-cycles.html?m=1
This is so very true...
Good, Bad, and Ugly days
https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-one-dollar-at-a-time-with-jonathan-dale/updates/74029?utm_source=giveforward&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=update&hid=4503534&cid=3104885
This fundraiser has been posted to HN before, but I felt we could still contribute more.
20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks
http://www.testking.com/techking/tips/20-windows-7-tips-and-tricks/
With tens of millions of copies sold it is safe to say that Windows 7 has been a success for Microsoft. Windows 7 is jam packed with a ton of new features, that as a computer technician you should know about. TechKing has put together 20 Windows 7 tips and tricks that will make you look like an expert while enhancing your (or the person you are helping) computer experience.
Hoodiecrow - in memory only IMAP server for integration testing
http://hoodiecrow.com/
In memory IMAP server with JSON object as the message store. If you reset the server initial state is restored as nothing was written to disk while the server was running. Also includes inbound SMTP server - any message sent to it is appended to INBOX. Suitable for integration testing IMAP clients
How Salespeople use Digg to get an edge
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/11/05/Sales-2.0.aspx
Sales folks are always looking for an edge and to get it on the Internet they're looking to Social Networking sites like Digg.
Apache 2.2.10 Released to address XSS Vulnerability
http://www.cgisecurity.net/2008/11/apache-2210-rel.html
xss gone wild
Opsview 4.2 Just Released - Now with Autodiscovery
http://www.opsview.com/whats-new/blog/whats-new-opsview-4-2/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=42launch
Opsview 4.2 is out now with loads of new features designed to reduce complexity and help you keep pace with today’s rapidly changing datacenter technologies. Read our blog for full details.
The Content Marketing Approach to Branding
http://www.slideshare.net/krhemani/the-content-marketing-approach-to-branding-17175225
Content is all around. It is not just limited to one industry, you need content to promote every kind of products or services and to improvise a business online. The involvement of content increased due to the change in human behavior and Google started ranking the great content high in the SERPs. To view the complete research, checkout the presentation :-)
API + JavaScript & PHP SDK for Building Travel Apps
https://addtotrip.co/home/Developers
We built a simple to use API for building social and geo-location travel apps of all sizes and sorts. Add to Trip https://addtotrip.co It's open(free) to use and build on for now. We also have a Hackathon going through the end of the month for those interested https://addtotrip.co/hackathon
Generate XML from PL/SQL directly
http://www.akadia.com/services/ora_gen_xml.html
I used this technique for retrieving an output from Oracle PL/SQL and giving it to another WebService for processing in a BPEL process. I wanted to share this as this was easy and straighforward.
Google Quietly Explains AppEngine's Downtime Last Week
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-appengine-downtime-notify/l7sUFPypySU
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061506
Cool CSS/JS experiments in online magazine of art, MEGAZINE
http://megazinemagazine.com/iss.2/cream_3/
Also an awesome story, pics at the end NSFW.
Method proposal for online direct democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71E-HPOJ08
the method combines idea markets with delegative voting, communities can now let go with representatives and get online to move on!
Perimeter.js
https://github.com/e-sites/perimeter.js
Perimeter.js is a lightweight script that creates an invisible perimeter around a target element and monitors mouse breaches. Basically it can take conditional loading of scripts to the next level.
JMP3 - jQuery MP3 Player Plugin
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/javascript-framework/jquery/jmp3-jquery-mp3-player-plugin/
jMP3 (javaScript MP3 player) is a jQuery plugin that allow us to make any MP3 with easy way that playable directly on most any web site
Ask HN: What is the simplest way for users to write custom parsers?
I'm currently working on some software targeted at mathematicians. Part of this requires that the user can write parsers to parse custom notation. I would expect most mathematicians interested in this project to know at least some basic programming but I also think it would be too difficult to expect them to write a full recursive descent parser or similar for their own notation. My current plan is to expose a simple parser combinator library alternatively I was thinking of a parser generator instead. But I was wondering if there is an option which is even simpler for users. What is the simplest way to allow users to write custom parsers?
Hostamania - Hulk Hogan Web Hosting
http://www.hostamania.com/
Uh... ok?
Scott and Mo's Cancer
http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/3-0-1-cancer
This developers life's author, Scott Hanselman and his wife recorded this podcast where they talk about their struggle with cancer
Batfish, Just a Bunch of Functions
http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/2009/08/23/batfish-just-a-bunch-of-functions/
Batfish is a collection of algorithms and data structures written in Ruby.
7 Steps to Closing Big Sales
http://www.thinkingserious.com/2007/11/01/7-steps-to-closing-big-sales/
Here are 7 steps that will help increase your sales results.
Blogosphere on Bootstrapping
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/23/blogosphere-on-bootstrapping-luke-timmerman/
A journey through the blogosphere on the topic of Bootstrapping.
Netflix prize checksums don't match
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize
still suspicious about the netflix prize. what's at stake is the legitimacy of programming contests run by corporations. can someone explain why the checksums don't match between the FAQ and the files released to uc irvine?

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Netflix+Prize

http://www.netflixprize.com/faq

simple corrupt file or corrupt contest? i throw around the word 'corruption' not cavalierly, but because when there is a million dollars at stake, and the future legitimacy of large-scale programming contests, it's a little odd that netflix hasn't released the actual scores of the top two teams. nytimes, bbc and others report that the 'percentage improvements' were equal, but that's not what the rules say. the rules say it should be the best RMSE down to 0.0001 (if i recall). so my point is -- with so much on the line, why hasn't netflix released the final scores? and why don't the checksums match?

here's the other hacker news page where i got downvoted like a m-f-:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834632

again, i have no association with any team or any part of this programming contest. i just read 'the ensemble's blog post a month ago and thought it was cool how they raced to the deadline and appeared to win. and also, i think it's f-ing ridiculous if a corporation backed down on its rules.

hopefully they just uploaded the wrong file. but with that one checksum basically legitimizing the entire contest, you'd think they'd take it a little more seriously. just doesn't add up.

p.s. i'd contact netflix directly if they had an e-mail address available or something -- but i have no interest in registering for the forum. i'll delete this post as soon as someone explains why the checksums don't match. don't want to make a false accusation.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on code reviews?
I recently published some advice about doing peer code reviews based on my experience managing a development team for the past few years. One of my recommendations is to spend roughly 25% as much time reviewing a given patch as it took to write it.

The most highly rated comment on Reddit, by far, is this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2t7qna/how_to_do_code_reviews_without_wasting_your_time/cnwnac0. To save you the click, he says: "Nope. Lost me right there as unreasonable and impracticable." I've had a bunch of other comments along the same lines. My main argument is that if pair programming (with 100% overhead) makes sense to a lot of people then 25% overhead doing code reviews should be totally realistic.

For those who do code reviews, how much time would you estimate you spend relative to how long it took to write the code? Do you agree with my 25% estimate, or does it seem unnecessary and/or unrealistic? Are there people who think it should be even more?
T-Mobile will slow down your connection after 5GB
http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=3132&tag=nl.e550
According to Phone Scoop, T-Mobile has announced that instead of charging a per megabyte fee to users that go over the 5GB limit of its webConnect data plan, the company will slow down the user’s data connections.
Show HN: Snapdir. Directory Snapshot Sharing and Auditing
https://github.com/bermi/snapdir
Hello HN!,

After having it lingering in a private repo for a while, I decided to open source Snapdir, a reasonably documented and tested set of bash scripts for creating, sharing, and verifying snapshots of directories and their contents using human-readable manifests.

While I created Snapdir to solve a specific problem around ML pipeline reproducibility and data distribution, I've also found it very useful for vendoring dependencies such as VM AMIs, binaries, and container images in my infrastructure-as-code environments.

The manifest format should be easy to understand and kept under version control for auditing purposes. If you want to incorporate it into your workflows, you can use the snapdir-manifest script in isolation.

The project is still in its early stages, and the current bash version should be considered a proof of concept. You can use the tests included in the bash version to validate implementations in other languages.

For a quick test, you can play with it from the 5MB docker image:

docker run -it --rm bermi/snapdir help

and to check a sample manifest

docker run -it --rm bermi/snapdir manifest /lib

I hope you find it helpful, and I would love to hear your feedback and PRs!
Show HN: Github Feed - RSS Feeds for your Github Repos
http://ghfeed.heroku.com
This is an app I wrote during the weekend. One of my friends did the landing page design for me and I pushed it to Heroku. Basically, it is a Github post-receive url that will generate an RSS feed of specific commits you make to a github repository.

The live site is at http://ghfeed.heroku.com
The code is at https://github.com/zhemao/ghfeed

This app was built with Sinatra and MongoDB. It is the first thing I have ever programmed in Ruby.
YC(W12) hiring interns for summer hacker house
http://www.startupsummerinternship.com/
Spend the summer working and living in a 3,400 square foot warehouse in downtown Mountain View as a frontend engineering intern, backend engineering interns, highly skilled product designer, mobile engineer, or energetic salesperson!
Ask HN: Offline marketing hacks?
Marketing offline costs lots of money. Startups generally can't afford them. Has anyone tried hacking his system? Ways to get free space in shopping centers etc , yet being very attractive. This would be very interesting to know what HNers have tried, what worked and what didn't.
JQuery Live Events
http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live#typefn
Love this feature!
Doit: a disarmingly simple and flexible build tool
http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/
Some time ago, I grew frustrated with Make and Ant and started porting my build files to every build tool I found (SCons, Waf, etc.). Each time, as soon as I stepped out of already available rules, I ran into some difficult to overcome stumbling blocks. Then I discovered this little gem of simplicity: doit. It's Python-based. It doesn't try to be smart, it does not try to be cool, it just works. If you are looking for a flexible little build tool for different languages and tasks, give it a chance. My build files weren't that big or complex, therefore I don't know how well it scales, and I wouldn't recommend it as a replacement for more complex build tools like Maven either.
Tsunami in the midst - are you prepared?
http://emergency.heroku.com
New tools to make sure your loved ones are safe during an emergency.
Launch HN: Compdesk – the financial wellness platform for tech employees
https://www.compdesk.com
Hi there HN! We're the co-founders of compdesk, a platform to optimize financial wellness for tech employees.
As former startup employees we know firsthand that equity compensation can be life-changing, but is complicated to manage.

We've created a product that allows users to understand the costs and tax implications of intelligently managing their equity compensation.

We've also partnered with top CPAs and tax lawyers allowing users to meet with a personal advisor and create a customized wellness plan to manage equity, tax documentation, submit taxes at year end, and plan for retirement through tax advantages. What are tax advantages? Many employees utilize their 401k, but are unaware of additional options like Roth IRAs, backdoor IRAs, and HSAs. The average employee is able to save $1,200,000 throughout their career in tax savings by utilizing tax-advantaged accounts when compared to investing the same money directly in the S&P 500.

Avoiding a compounding income tax has substantial benefits long term. Our platform provides optimized recommendations from your advisor and allows you to create retirement accounts and automate retirement contributions in tax-advantaged accounts tailored specifically to your financial goals. You can also track your investment progress and tax savings in real-time, all within your account.

Our tools are free to use, and our algorithm connects you to a personal advisor upon account creation.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback, and you can check us out at https://www.compdesk.com to get started.

Cheers -- Landon and Khalil
Grand Challenges
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.aspx
There's a been a lot of talk about big startup ideas on Hacker News lately. Here's a starting point.
Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/15/jobless-millions-death-american-dream
"The headline jobless figure of 9.5% is bad enough but does not begin to convey the problem as it fails to measure those who have stopped looking for work. Over the past three months alone more than a million Americans have fallen into that category: effectively giving up hope of finding a job and dropping out of the official statistics. Such cases now number some 5.9 million and their ranks are likely to grow as millions more find their jobless status becoming a permanent state of hopelessness. Surveys show that with each passing week on the dole their chances of finding a job get slimmer."
Help a freelance journalist in #Crimea. He needs urgently a laptop. 
http://talkweb.eu/help-a-freelance-journalists-in-crimea-he-nees-urgently-a-laptop/
THIS is important: A friend of mine Jan Husar (freelance journalist and a good guy) is in #Crimea and he needs a new laptop to continue working and spreading the word live about what is going there. If you respect transparency and care about independent news, please help him.
(Bay Area) Tell HN: get nourishing food from a startup
http://www.manygoodideas.com/2009/08/20/business-with-passion-three-stone-hearth/
This is probably just a small business and not a startup, but they are innovating on a new idea. Everything is prepared in a way to make it as healthy as possible. Expensive, but worth it, and tastes great.

http://www.threestonehearth.com/
Apple Gives This Consumer the Business
http://comm-tech-culture.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-apple-slipping.html
Apple business model: 36+ hrs to (not) respond to support request, 2 hrs to censor complaint on disc board.
Show HN: Sudokle
https://www.sudokle.com
Hello Hackernew,
I just built this up, its a mix of Sudoku and Wordle. Does the super minimum (not a web dev so its all old school).
I think its super fun. Please let me know your feelings.

[DNS propogation is still going on, sorry if you can't access it yet]
Startup company Ceravision has 50% efficient microwave light bulb
http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/07/startup-company-ceravision-has-50.html
Startup company Ceravision Ltd. (Milton Keynes, England) has said it has invented a 50% efficient microwave-powered light bulb that is more efficient than filament (5% efficient) or fluorescent (15% efficient) lighting and with a long stable lamp life.
IPhone Application Development Consumer Knowledge
http://www.articleswrap.com/article/iphone-application-development-consumer-knowledge.html
What is an iPhone without its applications? A slight introspection into the exponential growth of the iPhone market would prove that most of such demand for the gadget has been generated because of the umpteen numbers of applications that it can host.