jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Whitehouse.gov petition to pass the Startup Visa Act
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/allow-foreign-born-startup-founders-start-their-businesses-united-states-httpstartupvisacom/TCSQ4XG6
Here's my petition to pass the StartupVisa

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/allow-foreign-born-startup-founders-start-their-businesses-united-states-httpstartupvisacom/TCSQ4XG6

Please sign it if you are so inclined
Dave Winer launches his new product later today...
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/12/27/newProductReleaseToday.html
Apparently some kind of photo app that sucks in photos from major news organisation - OSX only at the moment.
Review our launching soon page please.
http://lurnq.com/course/register/ 
LurnQs take on the entire MOOC phenomenon. What if courses went social?
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003)
http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/img0.html
Here's the PDF version: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pdf
San Diego Meetup
Does anyone know of any good hacker meetups or Incubator offices in the San Diego Area. I would like to volunteer some of my time working on small projects in the san diego area
Show HN: Work for Pie - A portfolio for Developers 
http://workforpie.com/
Work for Pie provides a way for developers to create a profile that highlights their skills. You can connect your Github and Bitbucket accounts as well as your Stackoverflow and Hacker News Accounts, which will be used create a Score.
Show HN: DoddleMail – Manage your email and to-do list in one place
http://doddlemail.com/
One of the biggest problems I've had is keeping track of my emails and to-do list, so DoddleMail is my shot at solving this problem. Check it out, and let me know if it helps you stay organized :-)
Stack Exchange launches Quantitative Finance site
http://quant.stackexchange.com/
Public beta launches February 7th.
Feedback on my music start up :)
http://songfountain.com/
Better url to start with: http://songfountain.com/site_feed
What's the difference between Austin and San Francisco?
http://www.austingunter.com/2013/03/whats-the-difference-between-austin-and-san-francisco/
After living in both cities, I didn't feel like Austin had gotten a fair shake. Here's my take on the real differences: It comes down to levels of intensity.
Independent gaming could flourish on the iPhone
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/06/06/independent-gaming-could-flourish-iphone
Typical button mashing games (favorites of portable gaming) will never work without physical controls, and neither will most any other ports from other gaming systems. The iPhone could take off gaming-wise if truly creative developers get behind it though, and the App Store is the perfect tool for that to happen.
Show HN: PickCode – An educational coding environment for students after Scratch
https://www.pickcode.io/
I want to show an early version of PickCode, a visual coding environment for students to use after they've learned Scratch. PickCode is designed for use on desktop and tablet, and supports creating chatbots, visual designs, and 2D games. There is plenty of functionality missing - you can't add media to games for instance, but the current version shows off the foundation of what I'm aiming at.

As of now, there are sample programs to play with and an editor which saves your programs to local storage. Full user accounts, tutorials and administrator accounts for teachers to organize assignments are on their way soon. If you're interested in using PickCode in a classroom or want to discuss feedback, send me an email at charlie@pickcode.io
Show HN: CSS-powered hover-animations library
Hello,

I've created a CSS-library called sunset.css.

If offers a collection of (hopefully) useful CSS-powered hover-animations and also some animations that react to clicks instead.

It's my first open-source project so I try to make everything right:

* I created a npm-project so it is available on npmjs and CDNs

* I created a public github-repository with a wiki for documentation

* I created a landing page to show off the animations

I'd love to here some feedback about all of this! :)

Here are the links:

https://github.com/philippwilhelm/sunset.css

https://sunsetcss.com

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Ask HN: Feedback on my Knight News Challenge Proposal - Memetrackers for local news
http://generalprop.newschallenge.org/SNC/ViewItem.aspx?pguid=54e1c82d-5dd9-4918-aae6-4634fccca5a0&itemguid=bd8a0d9d-9c26-4e0b-bf9c-0c216ef2acd4
Summary: I want to make memetrackers for major U.S. cities to give a fluff-less view of the local news. These would include local neighborhood sites and blogs in addition to mainstream news sources.

There are loads of sites aggregating local stuff that can show you what's happening near you (Everyblock, Outside.in etc), but no one's showing you what's "interesting" from the sea of mundane local info that's published each day.
Ask HN: Hello Hackers, How To Get Started With Linux For A Total Noob?
In my previous question to HN (http://ow.ly/4HR9x), I was enlightened about how Linux (for desktops) makes things simple, and betters Windows / Mac OS X quite easily.
Also, I see that Ubuntu is the best fit for total beginners (like me), considering its easy to use and upgrade features (it's close to Windows, isn't it?).

Anyway, my actual question is, how do I get started? How did you get started when you first got Linux on your PC? Books, online... where exactly?

Switching to Linux is actually terrifying me. It's got commands etc. I am not a coder / developer. Will I get used to it? Where and how do I get to know all the commands?

Please shower your knowledge hackers.
What if hackerNews had Social Network Features ...
This could be a startup social network , a business network which could be much more useful than linkedin or facebook
Show HN: Our Careers page helps you find a career (even when we're not hiring)
https://loops.so/careers
We just launched a new site and we did a few things differently.

We added a /credits page to acknowledge the people behind the commits, made some of our internal wiki public, and more, but the thing I'm most proud of is our Careers page.

The Careers page for most sites, especially now, is usually posturing.

Many companies have frozen hiring, but they're "collecting resumes" to keep up appearances.

You clicked the page to find a Career, so our goal should be help you find one.

I haven't seen other sites do this yet, how can we improve it?
Kindle Fire promises to burn Android to the ground
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2011/09/30/kindle-fire-promises-to-burn-android-to-the-ground/
September 30th, 2011 by Daniel Eran Dilger
Cut your Amazon bill in half with clever virtualization tricks
http://www.waratek.com/blog/february-2014/amazon-for-half-price
In this blog Brian Maccaba, CEO explores how you can use Amazon's Cloud while only paying 50% or less of the standard Amazon pricing. It is not based on using any alternative to Amazon; it is simply based on using standard Amazon facilities with an extra layer of virtualization software, which achieves significantly higher application density and compression.
Ask HN: does design matter?
There are plenty of opinions to be found on google. Most of those who say design matters are designers themselves. Most of those who say it doesn't matter are people profiling other "ugly" sites (plentyoffish, craigslist etc)

I think there's a difference between UX, UI and design (with large amounts of overlap). UX is the broad overall experience, UI is more specific as is concerned with how the site is used to complete various tasks and design is how it looks.

I'd like to hear from entrepreneurs who have launched their own successful sites. Does design matter?
Foldables are like... (FB Parody)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEUKRuZzpWM
From the folks that brought you this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601366
This is the civil rights battle of the 21st century
http://www.andrewluetgers.com/2012/01/22/he-civil-rights-battle-for-the-21st-century/
The new avant-garde is made of hackers, amateurs, makers, DIYers and entrepreneurs. If only we all knew how revolutionary and politically charged what we do really is.
Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals
https://gorillaterminal.com/?ref=HN
i made a site to do investment research gfaster and more efficent, with links, charts, industry averages, macro economic dat and much more
Tell HN: iPhone app update approved in less than 6 hrs on a Sunday
I submitted an update for one of my iPhone apps this afternoon, probably after 1:00pm. I just noticed it has been approved and is now available for sale, less than 6 hrs later. It was a pretty big update that I did not think would be available until after the holidays so I'm a little shocked. Has this happened to anyone else? Does it maybe have something to do with the holiday break that's coming up?
Marathon - a Mesos framework, adds placement constraints
http://mesosphere.io/2013/11/22/marathon-a-mesos-framework-adds-placement-constraints/
In addition to a number of bug fixes, Marathon 0.2 adds constraints, which allow you to control the placement of your app tasks in a cluster.
Ask HN: ICFP Programming Contest begins tomorrow, are you going to participate?
The page of the contest is http://icfpcontest.org/2010/

I haven't decided if I'll participate yet, but I'd like to participate in the lightning division at least. I'll probably use python.

Are you going to participate? If so, what language do you plan to use?
Merging PDFs With PDFBox
http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/article/show/merging-pdf-s-with-pdfbox
Merging Portable Document Format documents using PDFBox couldn't be simpler. The developer(s) of PDFBox has taken care of all of the hard work and encapsulated it in one class of their Application Programming Interface. All you need to do is use it.
YC W12 Shoptiques PR Hack
http://www.papermag.com/2012/08/free_hugs_courtesy_of_shoptiqu.php
Shoptiques offers free hugs from Models to people in New York
Has MacHeist been hacked?
Looks like MacHeist.com has been hacked or they're playing pranks on us (not linked for obvious reasons).

Edit: here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2119748/Screenshots/Bildschirmfoto%202015-01-18%20um%2019.29.13.png
Ask HN: What do you use for Mobile App Analytics?
I'm looking to incorporate analytics in my iPhone apps and I see a few options out there: flurry, mobclix,google analytics for mobile, etc..

So which ones have you used and what do you recommend?
Show HN: We just launched badges for Khan Academy
Yesterday we added a brand new badging incentive system to the Khan Academy. It's really simple for now, round 1, blah blah all that jazz.

We're dealing with all types of internal debates about proper behavior to encourage and how users will respond. We've seen students in schools get extremely excited about very, very simple game mechanics attached to their practice problems/homework/etc, and building the roots of a deeper badging system seemed like an important next step to help us guide users through desired paths in the system.

You can check out all of our badges here http://www.khanacademy.org/badges/view (and I blogged just a bit more information at http://bjk5.com/post/2426884194/khan-academy-now-has-badges). Would love to get some feedback.
Ask HN: Outliner templates for building a startup
I recently discovered WorkFlowy and org-mode, and fell in love with the idea of organizing my thoughts in outline form.

I was curious if anybody wanted to share their high-level "templates" for how they organize their thoughts for their startup, or any project (web or otherwise) for that matter.
Founder's stories and startup life - my Beacon project
http://www.beaconreader.com/projects/life-in-the-startup-trenches
Looking for support from HN for my Beacon campaign - for anyone who'd be interested in reading founder's stories and posts covering successes/lessons learned.

Beacon is like Netflix for news. They use a clean, no-ad reading interface with the ability to directly fund writers through their platform.

About Me: I'm a contributing writer to an LA-Based news pub called TechZulu. We cover breaking tech news among other topics, but I've found most of my passion in learning the stories of the people behind the businesses. (Some examples below):

- Interview with Jim Farley, Ford Motors CMO - (http://bit.ly/1m0Or6w)
- Interview with Emir Aboulhosn, Ready SIM CEO - (http://bit.ly/Kh86ju)

Through this project, I'm looking to refine this concept and give entrepreneurs a venue to share their stories and what they've learned.

Specific to this campaign, I'll be finding and contacting this year's W14 batches from notable incubators across the country (YC, Techstars, etc.). If you're interested in these stories, please consider supporting my campaign.

Note - I'm not directly affiliated with Beacon other than using their services, But I do think they have a cool concept and platform and hope they find success.
Windows 7 [Full Review]
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348903,00.asp
Will it redeem Microsoft's Vista-tarnished image? All indications are that it will. The hardware driver issues that plagued Vista won't recur, for the simple reason that Windows 7 reuses the same deep plumbing code that Vista did, and after nearly three years, the incompatibilities have actually been ironed out. In other words, most of the drivers already exist. Microsoft has also remedied the other two big complaints about Vista: its bloat and those obnoxious User Account Controls. While the trend has long been for new OSes to be bloated with new goodies, Windows 7 actually performs better and takes up less disk space than its predecessor. Long story short: I like Windows 7 a lot, and with its new taskbar, user interface, and home networking enhancements, PCMag.com gives the new OS the thumbs up.
Would love your feedback on this startup (+ free use)
http://LabSlice.com
We have a startup that allows the sharing of machines hosted in the cloud. It can allow some cool stuff, like sharing of virtual POCs and evaluations of enterprise software -- ie. It's a tool that can ultimately increase sales for a business.

I would love some feedback from those stuck at work in the Christmas/NY period :-).

Note 1: Using this product requires Amazon EC2 Access Keys, as you are using the Amazon datacenter environment.

Note 2: I would like to extend an offer of completely free usage to anyone from HN that finds this product useful and provides us helpful feedback.

BTW, this tool was recently announced as a semi-finalist in the Amazon AWS Startup Competition, which I am sure others here were part of. Some startups asked me questions about this comp, so happy to respond to those queries here as well.
Ask HN: Why aren't you on the Fediverse?
With Twitter attempting to wipe society's collective memory once more, HN seems rightfully angered. Why leave your data to be feasted on by corporate interests when there's a great alternative?

Consider joining the Fediverse, a federated (which means that user-run servers can talk to one another) social media platform. You probably know it from all of the headlines that Mastodon's been getting, but it's a lot broader (and better) than what Mastodon's press coverage has implied it is.

If you want to self-host, a libre server with more features than Mastodon can be ran on a Raspberry Pi: https://pleroma.social/

If you have some really old hardware, a server running Honk can run on something with 30MB of RAM and an old hard drive, though it's (much) lighter on the feature end, too: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/honking-for-fun-and-profit

Want an Instagram alternative instead of/to complement a Twitter alternative? Try Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.org/

Want a YouTube alternative? It's got one of those, too! Check out PeerTube; with over 100,000 videos uploaded so far and a better interface than YouTube's, it's already a really viable contender: https://joinpeertube.org/

If you don't want to self-host, there are five thousand instances you can join, with a collective amount of users nearing 5,000,000! Proof of those numbers, and a list of instances: https://fediverse.network/

If you like the sound of this, find an instance with a moderation policy you respect (they range from "Do nothing illegal, please!" to "Don't do something we dislike or you'll be banned," so this step is important), and register! It's much comfier using smaller ones, and knowing the person who's running your instance and vice-versa makes your experience a lot better, so try using a smaller instance!

A lot of HN users are already on it. A few even volunteered their handles in the last thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741116
Wikipedia is being manipulated, you can't trust anybody now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/
We are truly doomed. If this is part of the current problem we are so f'ed. I mean what happened to all the weapons of mass destructions. And now this - you can't trust Wikipedia how the f am i supposed to do home work much less invest my retirement savings?
Characteristics That Make a Startup a Startup
http://startuporbust.com/2007/07/characteristics-that-make-a-startup-a-startup/
What characteristics do startups have that small businesses lack?
Is Mixx The New Pownce?
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/is-mixx-the-new-pownce.html
Can Mixx find the traffic that will keep it alive?
Review of Project Management Tools for Startups
http://www.learnsqlserver.com/Blogs/SqlServerBlog/2007/08/review-of-project-management-tools-for.html
Recently here at LearnItFirst.com due to our growth, I had to decide on a few things: (1) project management software, (2) help desk software, and (3) knowledge base management software. I wanted to post my notes/thoughts on the project management software here so that it can hopefully save someone else some time in the future.
STFU startup douchebag
http://startupdbag.tumblr.com/
"Seriously, you got your funding. Stop talking now."
Ask HN: Honestly, why are there so many "how to learn to program" asks?
I'm genuinely curious why there are consistently at least 3-4 new questions about how to start programming or what language to start with, etc. etc.

Do you think the askers are following through, and actually learning based off of the recommendations? Is it a band-wagon sort of thing? Is there any way to compile the information in one place and point askers towards that?
Who wants to shut down free online Stanford CSE classes?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/26/1415248/stanford-online-courses-delayed-more-time-to-sign-up
I would sure like to know...
This guy pushes startups out of a coffee shop - and hes 11/11.
http://www.businessinsider.com/not-y-combinator-io-is-like-a-family-2012-1
A nice story about @bragiel and his seed fund @io ventures and the work they have been doing over the past 1.5 years.
Ask HN: Best option for networking power outlets?
I'm trying to find a way to remotely - either through a wired hook-up or wireless signal - control a power outlet.

Basically, my ideal setup would be an ethernet or bluetooth controlled plug-in that I could attach to a wall outlet and pass other connections through. I don't want it to have its own software or independent remote though, since I'm trying to hack this into a larger app I'm building with the Kinoma Create.

Does anyone have any ideas for a cost-effective version? I'd love to be able to do my entire (small) apartment, with about 5-6 total outlets in use, for under $200 dollars. I also don't want to electrocute myself!

Thanks HN.
How does this compare to Arc?
http://clojure.sourceforge.net/
Requires a JVM. But another Lisp with some interesting features.
Cold fusion reactor "independently verified"
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas
The paper: http://ecat.com/files/Indication-of-anomalous-heat-energy-production-in-a-reactor-device.pdf
Show HN: I've built a REST Test client in my spare time
http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/home.aspx
Hi HN,<p>In my spare time (evenings and weekends) I've built 3 products which have been relatively successful even with little advertising (only google ads budgeted at $30 per day). The latest one is WcfStorm.Rest; which is a REST service test client. I built it because I found that the current tools did not have the features I wanted such as, intellisense when working with HTTP headers, syntax highlighting for JSON messages, etc.<p>I'm continually trying to improve these products and would very much love get your feedback. Every suggestion is welcome!<p>(My apologies for any grammatical mistakes. English is not my first language)
Deep-Submicron Backdoors
https://github.com/Groundworkstech/Submicron
Repository of resources and documentation to build and experiment with deep-submicron VLSI backdoors and other malicious hardware modifications.
Namecheap Against CISPA
http://community.namecheap.com/blog/
Donating $0.10 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for every retweet and share.
Ask HN: Beta test my video editor for OSX
This is my entry into the Mac App Store. Am looking for people to run it through it's paces:

http://bit.ly/bXjVB3

It's called Shave and is something I wrote for myself to fill in a void that seems to be missing from OS X: a simple video editing tool that lets me quickly trim and cut/copy/paste video together. It's most similar to Quicktime 7 Pro, but goes a couple of steps further.

Would love some feedback.

Here's a video overview:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150334724145161&saved (Might not work for everyone).

Thanks!

Edit: This requires OSX 10.6+
Facebook keeps you alive 
http://www.refaelos.com/post/14760568754/facebook-keeps-you-alive
New post i wrote about how people need to feel alive!
Scoble cries over a telescope?
http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/what-made-me-cry-microsofts-world-wide-telescope/
Robert Scoble announced the other week that he saw something at microsoft that made him cry. Today was the first time he was able to publicly talk about it.
Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In One
http://mashable.com/2009/11/24/opera-10-10/
With version 10.10, Opera (Opera) has taken its biggest step into the unknown so far, marrying the web browser with the web server. It definitely makes it unique in the world of web browsers...
JVM Host - Memory usage comparison of Java Application Servers and Applications
http://www.jvmhost.com/articles/memory-usage-comparison-of-java-application-servers-and-applications#.Tykao1hFKhc.hackernews
To give you an estimate of how many memory related resources you will need to run a Java application server or a Java application within Java Virtual Machine we tested some popular ones and are publishing results below. The survey will be updated as needed. As you start to access your application the memory usage will grow as dynamically created objects will be allocating memory from heap, classes previously unloaded can be loaded again and native code compilation may be taking place. The application servers are in pristine and idle state - installed and started within a JVM with JMX support. The same approach has been applied to applications. You can see high non-heap PermGen memory usage when you have number of classes loaded for example with a comprehensive framework like Grails. In such cases PermGen JVM limit tuning may be necessary (for example -XX:MaxPermSize=96m added to $JAVA_OPTS environment variable). At JVM Host we can change MaxPermSize on request...
I'm Quitting Breathing
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/im-quitting-breathing/
I hope Arrington will respond by quitting TechCrunch.
Call? Just vox.me
http://blog.vox.io/post/9912076097/vox-me
Vox.io just introduced redesigned Quick Call links structure in collaboration with .me -> vox.me is now primary route for all Quick Call links.

Moreover, there are new ways to share these links across the web now -> FB send, Twitter and Google Calendar.