jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Verizon to offer daily deals based on tracking your phone data
http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2012/12/verizon-selects.html
see GigaOm to learn more about this phone-tracking twist: http://gigaom.com/mobile/att-verizon-offer-daily-deals-with-a-phone-tracking-twist/
Summary update to Poll: Developers how often are you contacted by recruiters?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Apeq0A1yrFZCdFpHMlJvV0tISUF1V1g5V3owMGZnN0E&oid=1&zx=n7spm01b3ukh
Thanks to everyone who responded.

Original post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171442
Ask HN: Deciding equity when investor is co-founder's dad
I recently recruited a co-founder for my venture and soon after wards his father agreed to fund us. Since its an early stage investment we'll have to give up a lot of equity. We still have to discuss the terms of the investment but I'm not looking forward to giving away majority of the company to one family.
Does anybody here have advice on how to divide equity between two co-founders and an angel investor who is the co-founder's dad?
Instapaper Free and Pro 2.1 now available
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/151663296
Instapaper pro is actually the first app I paid for on the app store :) (btw it's now only $4.99)
Add to your Safari Reading List from Chrome
http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/121935
Found this gem today, thought I'd share it to the community :)
Ecommerce Solutions India
http://www.syruptechnologies.com/ecommerce-solutions.html
Syrup Technologies have vast experience in all types of E commerce web sites development, ecommerce website development, ecommerce web host India, best ecommerce software, ecommerce site design, e commerce development India, e commerce sites in India.
Show HN: Givz – Let customers donate to charity while making more $$
https://www.givz.com/how-it-works
Hey HN,

We've all seen the age old discount incentive to make a purchase: Spend $75, get $5 off your order.

Givz provides online stores with a new way to drive sales: Offer customers a free donation to any charity of their choice post-purchase (i.e. Spend $75, get $5 towards any charity). This isn't your old school "Give 10% to this one charity" or "round up your purchase" campaign. Givz lets customers search for and donate to most charities in the US.

This is a new kind of marketing and as a result, we've found that some consumers are more likely to be more motivated by it than they would be a traditional discount only campaign.

The real secret sauce is this: Not everyone redeems their offer to donate. Compared to a traditional discount campaign where you're always spending the $5 to make the sale, with Givz, you're only spending that when someone actually donates. This increases your sales while saving you money at the same time.

Does this replace all other forms of marketing? Definitely not. But it does give you an additional way to incentivize purchase, all while increasing your average order value.

The link attached to this post goes to our website where you can get a free trial. We have a turn-key Shopify app for Shopify stores, but if you aren't on Shopify, we do have a link based platform that has had pretty good success for stores that can handle the integration and development work.

If you want to try out what the end-customer would see when making a donation, you can check out a test order confirmation page here: https://merch.givz.com/58620739737/orders/a5515d537ac4517312...

tl;dr: Traditional discount campaigns (Spend $75, get $5 off your order) are becoming overused and less effective. Givz lets you offer donations to a charity of the customers choosing post-purchase, all while saving you money, increasing average order value, and potentially bringing in more returning customers who value giving back.
Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/microsoft_research_pc_hardware_crashes/
I wonder if Linux is more robust with regard to overclocking? I routinely overclock my self-built boxes one or two steps. AMD makes this very easy because I just overclock the turbo mode which is very rarely used, but is there in case I need it, e.g. a build.
In Your First Meeting With A VC Don't Ramble
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/09/do-not-ramble.html
In previous posts I have talked about the various ways in which you can stay focused on the objective of your first meeting. However, one way in which entrepreneurs frequently get off track is by trying to squeeze as much information as they can into the conversation with the hope that some of the details will hook the VC.
The Art of Not being Creepy with your Startup
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/c03a8f24fbc
The Art of not being labelled a Creep while selling, pitching, raising funds, networking, hiring, building a team, creating a culture..
So much for organic search results on Google
I was watching PBS NOVA LHC/Higgs episode (highly recommended), and wanted to look up Tevatron. The first result is

not Fermilab
not Wikipedia

but an empty Google Plus Page. It seems like its an autogenerated page.

I tested it on multiple browsers and on incognito/private session as well. Same results.

http://goo.gl/e4hQJk

Its just sad to see what Google has become.
Ask HN: What a good job board looks like?
Many links on hiring are posted to HN. What a good job board looks like in your opinion (example link if any). What features should it provide? What information (form fields) should a post form contain guys?
Show HN: 3card a Decentralised Twitter
https://3card.vercel.app/
I just built a web3 social platform for Polygon 2022 BUILD IT hackathon.

Here is the devpost: https://devpost.com/software/3card

Feel free to contact me by email:
jeffreylin0723@gmail.com
Show HN: GradeThePresident.com
http://gradethepresident.com/
just made http://gradethepresident.com public. I built it as an exercise in forcing myself to do tdd/bdd with rspec and steak.

doesn't quite have 100% test coverage so would love any bug reports if you come across some.

Thanks!
Musical Mashup on YouTube
http://inbflat.net/
A collaborative music and spoken word project where the result is a collection of YouTube performances to be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders. High coolness factor...
Show HN: Clockodo Integration for Emacs
https://github.com/santifa/clockodo-el
I've made a small integration for clockodo into emacs. Feel free to try it out and give me feedback since my elisp can be improved further.
ATM, it is written from an employees perspective and only provides the basic interaction and reports.
Show HN: The easiest way to find gifts for friends and family
http://giftexplorer.com/
This is what we built last Startup Weekend in Stuttgart. Probably the easiest way to find gift suggestions for your friends. We use the open graph to create a personal interest profile and then aggregate Amazon products for it.

Still an early version, but we are interested in your opinion on it. Thanks! :)
The Things That Hold Art
http://thethingsthatholdart.tumblr.com/
Haha, funny archive of people and things holding up art.
Show HN: Genome Laser Burning Man project now on Github
http://genomelaser.com
Genome Laser is an Burning Man art project in collaboration with Control Tower that is planning to blast the individual human genome across the Playa via laser beam. The project code is now on Github under an open source MIT license.
My first programming language
http://www.libanshire.com/?p=14
My reason why I'm going with Python as my first language.
Most Unexpected A/B Test Results and What Could Cause Them
http://peritusvocis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/most-unexpected-ab-test-results-and.html
Running A/B split test experiments is not only a useful exercise to help you increase conversion rates but it can also be quite fun. Especially when your experiment shows some unexpected results. What could be the most unusual surprises?
AppScale 1.4 Released
http://groups.google.com/group/appscale_community/browse_thread/thread/8263643f6a0f61ce
Hello HN, we've just release AppScale 1.4, an open source Google AppEngine implementation. Any feedback is appreciated.
Why Web Designers Should Know Code
http://dunae.ca/2009/the-case-for-code/
Maybe a little basic, but I keep coming across arguments from designers who feel that they shouldn't pay attention to code lest they limit themselves creatively.
Show HN: We made a way to earn subscriptions by having your computer turned on
https://www.apiara.net
With the recent explosion of streaming services, paying for the variety of monthly subscriptions is becoming a costly burden. Because of this, we made a desktop app that passively earns users money towards digital subscriptions based on how much data they serve on our peer-to-peer video content delivery network.

We created this because we realized large corporations are taking user data to run targeted ads without compensating them. With our project, we hope that users will be able to pay for internet content using their extra computer processing power instead of their personal data.

Note that this is a pre-alpha version of our product but please check it out and let us know what you think! Also note, that in future versions we will provide a power user feature with more data on the amount of CPU and bandwidth our application is using in order to provide even more transparency and control to the user.
Django Ittybitty
http://www.codekoala.com/blog/2009/mar/13/announcing-django-ittybitty-010-pre2/
It allows you to have short URLs for any and every page on your Django site. No more need to rely on 3rd party servers to translate short URLs to real URLs on your site. So long as your pony-powered site is up and running, your visitors will be able to use URLs generated by this application to get anywhere on your site.
The search for life below the Antarctic
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10679/the-search-for-life-below-the-antarctic/
We talk to Martin Siegert about his attempt to reach the subglacial Lake Ellsworth - the quest to find life below the Antarctic.

"These lakes are potentially extreme environments that have been isolated from the rest of the planet."

http://bit.ly/Wd1mGT
Show HN: Merlot 2015 GitHub Pages template
https://github.com/hlfcoding/merlot
A fork of the original Merlot template.
Wireless IP Camera
http://foscam.co.uk/  
Welcome to the official Foscam UK website. We offer Foscam Wireless IP Cameras which are designed to deliver live video and audio through the internet.
The Ruby Standard Library is a Disgrace
http://architecturalatrocities.com/post/23659800703/the-ruby-standard-library-is-a-disgrace
The Ruby standard library is a disgrace. The Ruby community should have thrown it out a long time ago. It’s full of shitty code — some of the worst Ruby code I have ever seen is in the standard library. Many of the APIs are aweful, and much of it was written almost as to be as slow as possible.

I think it puts the Ruby community in a bad light. We should be ashamed of it.
I think the Hacker News homepage has a bug -- and that I fixed it.
http://www.derikstiller.com/seenitgone/
A shameless plug? I think not.
Coinbase raises $25M from Andreessen Horowitz
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/69775463031/coinbase-raises-25-million-from-andreesson-horowitz
This is great for bitcoin
Hawkee is now Google+ for programmers
http://www.hawkee.com
Application developer network for programmers to share code, apps and projects.
TPP vs the subset sum problem
https://athos.blogs.balabit.com/2013/08/tpp-vs-the-subset-sum-problem/
Excellent demonstration of the TPP Principle. SOLID, CleanCode, Blog Post
Ask HN: My friends house burnt down; Instagram banned him; what can he do?
I expect this is nothing new, but it's just another example of a dystopian AI world

when he tries to login he gets the message:
"You have been banned because you have violated community guidelines. You may not appeal because we have already reviewed the decision"

What really did happen is that a fundraiser was made for him, he started to post pictures of the fire and get a lot of engagement and this likely triggered Instagram spam filters

https://www.instagram.com/puerhteashop/ pretty clearly that's what happened

What can he do now?

Please if you work at Meta or similar tech companies consider the impact your AI policies have on real world people.
Google+ WILL Dominate Facebook - Here's Why
https://plus.google.com/116024884086268367178/posts
Look for the number of visits to Google+ to explode in the months of August and September of 2012.
Bundling openjdk
I have few doubts regarding the openjdk license - the classpath exception. The license states that -

"CLASSPATH" EXCEPTION TO THE GPL
Certain source files distributed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. are subject to
the following clarification and special exception to the GPL, but only where
Sun has expressly included in the particular source file's header the words
"Sun designates this particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception
as provided by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code."
Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making
a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of
the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.

The exception doesn't seem to apply to the whole library, but to certain source files where it's explicitly
specified. So, is it true that any commercial code linking the other codes might not be protected by this exception?
Ask HN: Overcoming Plateau
I came to know about HN about 5 years and since then I have been following HN pretty regularly.

HN has inspired and made me dream bigger. I moved to SF (from India), learned a lot about new technologies and how startup work in general. Have been working at startups for past 2 years (use to work in Amazon and MS in India before that).

I feel like if given right opportunity I am ready to jump and build something of my own. But I don't necessarily have an idea that I feel strongly about and that I passionately care.

At same time I don't necessarily know what are the real next steps for me, learn more about startup ecosystem, learn more about technology, learn more about other fields. I feel a plateau of sort.

Do you guys have this same feeling? What steps you guys have taken to overcome similar plateau?

I feel one way to overcome this plateau is join some kind of startup group (mastermind from think and grow rich). Do you guys have any startup group that you really respect where you have met some awesome people, seen some cool projects?

Another way I think is having a mentor that guide you. But most of the time the people you seek for mentor are very busy. How do you seek mentor and how do you convince them to mentor you?
Ask HN: How to work with people who's just waiting for an exit. #startup
In this startup, this employee has been around for a while, almost at beginning of company. I'm not sure what's his contributions to the company are but he doesn't seem to do anything on a daily basis, at least nothing that translates to increasing company revenue. He's always working on his "side projects" that has nothing to do with company products. I got a feeling that he's just sitting around, getting by, waiting for an exit to happen.

Is this a prevalent thing in startups these days?
Show HN: IN MY TZ – Generate and share date-time links unique across timezones
https://inmytz.github.io/
If you want to let your audience or contacts, spread across different timezones, know when that show, match, webinar, or stream is, just generate a link and share it with them. When they visit the link, they'll see that time in their local time zone.

This is a simple tool to address a small inconvenience. The page works on mobile browsers but has not been tested for accessibility, which will be done very soon.

Please help me with your feedback to make this tool better.
Thank!
Re: Yesterdays post on cli tools being near 100x faster than dedicated systems
I built sentences from /usr/share/dict with a small one line script I made.

I have as `final_data` as a source file with a bunch of strange sentences in it.

$cat final_data | wc -l
1501920

So, a little more than 1.5v million "records" in the file.

And let's time the operation:
$time cat final_data | wc -l
1501920

real	0m0.063s
user	0m0.052s
sys	0m0.043s

Thats some speedy stuff. Keep in mind, I am running this on a Mac OS X Yosemite MacBookPro (15-inch, Mid 2010), 8 GB (Self upgraded from 4GB) 1067 MHz DDR3, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5, so by no means at all a speed demon. There probably literally are now faster phones on the market.

I imagine, were I to drop two SSD's in here the second in the CD tray slot and worked the source and destination data from each drive so they are never combating for read and write access, this would be sped up a ton. Or I had a SSD array.

Next up, lets drop off the cat and work right away with the `wc` application. if sure get blazingly faster:

$time wc -l final_data
1501920 final_data

real	0m0.059s
user	0m0.044s
sys	0m0.015s

faster in every regard. Just for fun, lets pump a grep call in there and see how much it speeds up, slows down, who knows:

* Remember to clear your terminal scroll back when looking at large data like this, or set the threshold to a lower value. Until I did, Mac IS X does not like multi-megabyte text files.

Wow, that was significantly faster than I thought:

$time grep '\.' final_data | wc -l
1501920

real	0m0.705s
user	0m0.712s
sys	0m0.035s

And, lets do it how some things sometimes happen, but they are just one off's:

$time cat final_data | grep '\.' final_data | wc -l
1501920

real	0m0.766s
user	0m0.771s
sys	0m0.041s
Show HN: GraphQL Armor – An open source security layer for GraphQL
https://github.com/Escape-Technologies/graphql-armor
Following our discussions with the community at GraphQL SF and London, we crafted an open source and easy to use plugin that adds a necessary security layer to GraphQL servers.
Show HN: The Idea Generator – a tool to help you brainstorm business ideas
Hey guys! Today I launched the Idea Generator, a free tool that I've been working on to help people brainstorm business ideas.

Honestly, I didn't mean to launch it today. It was supposed to launch on the 4th, but a family emergency happened, so I had to postpone the launch. I picked an arbitrary date in the future. Unbeknownst to me, that date was today. It was quite the surprise when I woke up.

But here we are!

I'd love if you guys could check it out on Product Hunt.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-idea-generator

Link: https://areyouinterested.co/ideagen
Twitter's parody account @ceoSteveJobs is now @falseSteveJobs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20038220-17.html
Corporate tyranny or personal justice?
DeleGate: Multiprotocol proxy/plumbing-tool/converter [TCP,SSL,HTTP,NNTP,DNS…]
http://www.delegate.org/delegate/HowToDG.html
There have been several HN posts about useful "plumbing" commands to tunnel things through networks (netcat, socat, ssh-tunnels, ...). DeleGate not only can proxy simple byte streams through the network but also convert between a diverse set of application-protocols. While I wouldn't advertise it as a production server it makes it extremely useful if you have to proxy yourself out of a limited network.

The link goes to the examples-page, the main page is of course reachable at http://www.delegate.org/.
Show HN: Kubis – Effortlessly train machine learning models in the cloud
https://kubis.ai/
Hi everyone,

We just launched a tool that lets you train machine learning in the cloud with zero experience or configuration required.

It would mean a lot if you could check it out and share what pain points you have when setting up cloud infrastructure for ML.

Posting it here to see if the community finds it useful. Critique is welcomed :)

Thanks
Show HN: I built a bot that lets you generate AI art without leaving Twitter
https://superprompts.com/how#generate
Hey HN

I've been building Super Prompts [1]. It's a place for AI artists to share and organise their work. I noticed that lots of artists post their work primarily on Twitter and there's no easy way to see all their work in one place. Whenever I'd ask to see all their work they'd either sheepishly point me to their Twitter "Media" tab or I'd have to comb through 5 different NFT platforms and aggregate it myself. I built a little tool called "/publish" that lets you create a gallery for your AI art without leaving Twitter. You just reply to a tweet containing your artwork with "/publish @superprompts" and we add it to your gallery.

Now I've built a fun little tool that lets you generate AI art with Stable Diffusion without leaving Twitter. You can tweet "/generate @superprompts" followed by your prompt, and we'll generate the art, publish it to Super Prompts, and reply to your tweet with your creation. It's completely free but it does require you to sign up on Super Prompts and verify your Twitter first.

I'm using Google Cloud Functions to check for new Twitter mentions every minute and handle accordingly. To generate the art I'm using Replicate [2]. They provide an API to run machine learning models in the cloud.

Would love to know what you think.

[1] https://superprompts.com

[2] https://replicate.com
Show HN: Webiny - new platform
http://www.webiny.com
Hi,

We'd like to show you our new website platform Webiny and to get feedback about it's features, look&feel, any comment whatsoever.

We've been working on it for quite some time and would like to hear your opinion on technical and market side of the project.

Thanks!
I would be so happy to have your review on my new product
http://interacteasy.com
We have been working on this new product http://interacteasy.com

It is a small plugin that integrates with your website. It enables your visitors to click a button and have a voice conversation with you. While having a voice conversation, you can share files as well.

We believe voice works better. Helps in communicating faster and convincing quicker.

We are in early private beta. Would be glad to have your views on this.
Show HN: Sell your stuff, Say bye to individual ads
https://www.shopmystuff.com/
How would you clear a house and sell its content in a short period of time if you had to?

I was faced with this challenge last year when I lost my mother and had to let go her house.
With no time and energy to post individual ads on traditional platforms like Facebook Marketplace, I couldn’t find an easy solution so I decided to create one.

Quickly after starting, I realised that it could also benefit sellers from flea markets, yard and car boot sales or even street vendors selling arts and other craft works and that this space was not digitalized.

The idea, therefore, became to be able to set up virtual market stalls to sell a bunch of stuff without the need to post individual ads. A sort of shopify for street vendors, self promoted using QR codes in real life.

What about item categorisation for buyers? How would they browse?
By location, by keywords, by category, etc. The fields are all optionals for sellers so I add keywords using image recognition algorithms when they upload pictures.

I hope this solution will help others too.

Looking forward to your feedbacks!
Managing Code Quality in NodeJS
http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/03/22/managing-code-quality-in-nodejs
Before using Grunt, I didn't really have a real build process. Sure, git push heroku master triggered a build on their end, but I didn't control any of it, all I did was node app.js.

I've started leaning towards making the engine more testable, I figured I had to start somewhere. For me, that first step was to use a task runner.
Building an SVG Icon Font
http://cdnify.com/blog/building-an-svg-icon-font/
Turn your SVGs into an icon font for greater control and freedom when manipulating vectors dynamically.