jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Journal+ let's you find what's popular on Google+
http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/09/02/google-plus-journal-plus/
Journal+ is a website that gathers popular posts from Google+, was released by User Local last week. It’s a web magazine that brings together popular pictures, videos, and news articles on Google+ by various categories, or by country. Product by User Local, a Japanese startup in Tokyo.
New site up
http://www.myownsixwords.com
Would love some feedback and spreading of the word

www.sxwrds.com for short
Complete, continuously updated medal count tables for the 2012 Summer games.
http://medalcount.com
Complete, continuously updated medal count tables for the 2012 Summer games. Tables, graphs, and charts sortable by medal type, nation, and event.
Ask HN: Where to find retail & services consultants/advisors?
Hey, I'm involved in a startup that has a product for the retail & services (brick and mortar) industry. We're looking to find someone who is a good consultant and knows more about retail than we do. The problem is, Google searches are littered with spammy sites. Any particular channels to find these kinds of people?

Thanks.
JobGraphs - Find Competing Technologies
http://jobgraphs.com
Check out the demand comparison between competing technologies like SAP, Oracle, Tibco, IBM etc
My robot is smelling my dirty laundry 
http://robohub.org/?p=16179
Mark Meadows waxes eloquently on PRISM, privacy and robotics in the age of connected devices.
Colbert Testimony Before Congress (House Subcommittee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcttDlJd98k
This submission is borderline not hacker newsworthy, but in the end I believe that the vast majority of HNers would derive some sort of utility from watching this video.

HN: If you feel it oversteps the boundary of what should and should not go on this website then please delete.
Ask HN: Teach/Coach That Which You Do Not Know (Well)
Looking for tips/experiences/suggestions with regards to teaching/coaching another when you wouldn't necessarily be able to do the things you're teaching yourself.

A lab unit I'm affiliated with has hired a very junior person (their first job) who lacks substantial technical abilities that offset their lack of experience. The intent is for this person to work with UI/UX-concerns, with an emphasis towards dataviz.

The others in the organisation have some fleeting familiarity with dataviz, as they've had to do that work in the past, but it'd be fair to argue that they wouldn't know what's idiomatic or be able to identify anti-patterns etc.

They'd can provide some general guidance, distinguish between maintainability nightmares and maintainable code, and ask inquisitive enough questions to ensure that the new hire knows what they've written out rather than having just copy-pasted code that they do not understand. Seemingly, they'd consider that a long-term investment; in effect, making the trade-off between "getting it done quickly, now" and setting good precedents for later.

I can think only advise that they try and find what tasks this person would be comfortable undertaking now, and gently nudge them outside of their comfort zone and continue to do so repeatedly while instilling in their now colleague an expectation that the onus is on them to know and explain why they choose to do things in a certain way.

The reason I can't think of anything more meaningful is my view of how learning happens: I don't believe in spending too much time taking online courses, or "training", as I believe the best way to perform within a job is to do the actual work.

Initially, the assigned work might have to be carefully curated much like during an onboarding process, but ultimately I believe that to be comfortable in a performance-situation such as performing one's job one has to spend time doing that job and meeting reasonable expectations.

Am I wrong?
Make your meetings more efficient
http://bijur.in/mclock
Tired of attending several meetings and getting no results out of them? Try this tool. Loosely based on 37signal's Rework, I believe this tool could help you have better meetings!
What tablet could you have purchased in 2009?
https://web.archive.org/web/20090526035947/http://www.frys.com/search?cat=-59452&pType=pDisplay
I thought this was interesting-a year before the iPad, this is what you could buy as a tablet at Frys.
The difference between segmentation and clustering
http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/the-difference-between-segmentation-and-clustering/
Segmentation is always possible, even in an extremely homogeneous collection of items ... Finding clusters in this extremely homogeneous collection is impossible ...
"I am Wired"
Hi guys,

Just saw The Social Network Movie and am curious what is the term "I am Wired"used through out means. I think it refers to coding but the movie depicts if you are wired you do not take a break but in my opinion one can.
Visualization of 98 course projects for 15-441 Computer Networks  CMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSjEz6dRKs
I was a TA for this course over the past semester, and decided to leave our undergrads with a tangible piece of evidence that they could refer to and understand how much work they did over the past semester. The resulting tree visualization is captivating!
Stereotype [Not] Debunked: Women Buy More Technology Than Men
http://mashable.com/2012/01/09/women-and-technology/
First thought: No way...

Second thought: No shit... the statistics are from HSN. Men don't use HSN.
Hierarchical Deterministic One-Click Tipping Any URL with CoinAwesome
http://tips.coinawesome.com/recent
Links:
https://coinawesome.com Landing Page
http://tip.coinawesome.com View Tips on Content Aggregator
http://community.coinawesome.com Community Discussions
https://giveaway.coinawesome.com Giveaway (install wallet first)
http://blockchain.coinawesome.com Explore Blockchain
https://coinawesome.com/getButton Get Button (for your website)
https://github.com/FoundationAwesome Github
New App Letting People Get Paid For Smartphone Photos
http://www.outletmedia.co/
Check it out. I just started using it. Seems pretty cool. I'm just posting all of my pictures.
Pr0n in plain site, and hidden pocketses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6QnWXTwFU
You know you want to explore the hidden pocket{,ses}

[tagz: luvs, lulz, pocketses, reversible-too]
Time bomb called "Redesigned LiveUpdate" is in MT4 b.482. Migrate to 1.7.5 ASAP.
http://nj4x.com
Time bomb called "Redesigned LiveUpdate mechanism" was introduced in MT4 terminal, build 482. You might need to migrate from NJ4X 1.7.3/4 to 1.7.5 ASAP.
Side effect of karma change?
I notice that even though the upwards pointing pyramid still appears, clicking on it has no effect. Is this a bug?
Ask HN: YC vs. TechStars
Which set of companies actually fare better?
Ask HN: Opinions for my ChaCha mashup (like Vark?)
http://chacha.im
My friend and I have just put together a ChaCha mashup. We seek your opinions to improve further.

The service is built on Appengine using ChaCha API and Imified API. Of course, much inspiration is drawn from Vark.
LucasFilm's New Sandcrawler Offices
http://gear.ign.com/articles/119/1192703p1.html
This beats Apple's new HQ design.
JSONBurner For RSS Feeds
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml
JSONBurner For RSS Feeds
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

JSONBurner is an online service to convert any RSS feed as JSON. This makes development on Mobile, Responsive web platforms very effective and faster.

Applications built on languages like javascript, ruby that provide first class support for parsing JSON, will find this service very effective.

Usage

Pass the RSS URL as an argument to the service.

Example 1 (RSS URL has no params)
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Example 2 (RSS URL has params)
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fax.itunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStoreServices.woa%2Fws%2FRSS%2Ftopalbums%2Flimit%3D25%2Fxml

http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FILoveMadras%3Fformat%3Dxml

Note: It is always safer to have the URL encoded.
Area Man Discovers He Is Terrorist
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/area-man-discovers-he-is-terrorist/
So there he was, right in front of us, a big scruffy survivalist type who the FFA had pegged as a possible terrorist. It made me wonder how one does end up on this watchlist. Well, here's how...
Nanotubes: Can we make speakers as thin as paper?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130827-paper-thin-speakers-on-the-cards
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130827-paper-thin-speakers-on-the-cards/all for full page
Symbian phone operating system goes open source
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8496263.stm
"The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free."
Show HN : YCrejects.org
http://ycrejects.org
YCrejects.org is made of 12 completely fake steps to recovery, specially tailored to help the startup founders currently suffering a YC rejection.
Obama pokes fun at Zuckerberg
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/04/20/obama.zuckerberg/index.html
Barack Obama began his "town hall" event at Facebook's offices on Wednesday with an anecdote."I hate to tell stories about Mark," Obama said, referring to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who was moderating the session.
Britain's Royal Navy in the First World War - animated
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/oct/01/first-world-war-royal-navy-ships-mapped
Visualisation of 1M datapoints transcribed by citizen scientists of the OldWeather project from Royal Navy logbooks.
The Economics of Media Bias
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12510893&fsrc=rss
The actual paper cited is available at http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/matthew.gentzkow/biasmeas081507.pdf
Obama: "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/obama-edward-snowden-wheeling-dealing
Middle of the page -

"I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," Obama said, according to a tweet from the Washington Post's David Nakamura.

Russian president Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday that Snowden is in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, awaiting a potential voyage to Ecuador, where he has requested political asylum. For five days, Snowden's mysterious flight from Hong Kong and future travel plans have captured global attention. "I'm sure there will be a made-for-TV movie," Obama reportedly said.
Five things you dont want to do with your jailbroken iPhone
http://darangedshaman.com/2010/07/28/five-things-you-dont-want-to-do-with-your-jailbroken-iphone/
Are you the type that doesn’t like being restricted or told what to, what to like, how to like it?, heck who are you kidding you’re an apple fan comes with the territory.
Ask HN: Bad software or bad hardware, the choice is yours
I noticed the recent top stories about OS X quality going down in the past few releases and people discussing the possibility of moving to Linux.

I never owned a MacBook and never used OS X, I have a 2011 Dell Latitude running Linux. I thought "3 years have passed since my laptop purchase, MacBooks are great but OS X not so much lately. I am happy with my experience with Linux, maybe I can get a new machine which is better than my current one instead of going for a MacBook".

What's historically the best type of laptop running Linux? It's a ThinkPad. But in 2015 they ship with 4GB RAM soldiered to the motherboard and running in single channel (T450s, X250). Bear in mind these are the newest ThinkPads that were announced today. The memory is upgradable to 8GB. Thanks, we already had this in 2011.

What's the point of the whole industry push for longer battery, powerful integrated graphics and creating the ultrabook specification only to ruin it in a small but important way.

Long story short - the PC vendors are trying really hard to make the worst machines they can think of and break things.

And then there's Apple making great hardware but failing on the software front (that's my impression reading about other people's experience). So... regardless of the hardware improvements the last few years, I think there's a "people" problem, teams failing to produce a coherent software and hardware package.

I think I will stick with my 3-year old laptop until it breaks (most likely the hinges). Then get a MacBook running OS X because it is still better than the alternatives.
Ask HN: Is GPGTools still OpenSource?
since a few month GPGTools releases closed source beta-versions and the Github Repository is not updated anymore! Really strange for an open-source security software?
Managing an S-Corp (after switching from a Sole prop)
I moved to Nevada (from Cali) in August and opened a Nevada LLC in November. I'm all set up on Payroll (using Gusto) and believe I have that figured out. I just sent in Form 2553 to the IRS. I have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help with!

1. I capitalized the LLC with $2,100 (mostly to avoid Chase fees) and want pay myself back. Should I account for this as a simple loan and transfer it back? So it's not counted as income.

2. I filed the LLC in Nov to give myself time to open up all the accounts and stuff and was careful not to do any "business" for the remainder of the year under the new LLC, hoping to avoid filing a return (I will only file my personal return for 2020). Is that correct? In form 2553 I entered the effective date as Jan 1 2021.

3. How do I distribute extra earnings outside of Payroll? I can simply transfer the money between my Chase accounts, right... the important thing is how to account for that dividend on both form 1120S and my personal return? I am careful to only pay my payroll through Gusto.

I know y'all will say hire an accountant or whatever, but I've managed pretty well doing this stuff myself. I was CLOSE to doing EFTPS payroll payments myself... but Gusto (so far) is money well spent ($25/mo).
Ask HN: How to see commands used by Linux GUI software
So I'm not the best linux guy but I've been using Ubuntu several years now and I'm happy to use the command-line in many situations, helps a lot with my web dev..

However, it occurred to me that it would be somewhat a useful way to learn more command-line syntax if I could see what was being used by the different GUI programs (e.g. Gnome). For example, if I right-click and say make shortcut that I can see the 'ln -s ...' used by the script that the GUI calls.

Is it possible to list these commands (like a read-only termnial) somewhere, ideally as a discrete widget fixed somewhere on the screen?
Thanks in advance
Brain-zapping 'thinking cap' just might work
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41534303/ns/technology_and_science-science/
I recognized the scientist shown in this article's main picture from BBC "The Boy With The Incredible Brain" which is fully available on google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913196365903075662
Oh MySpace: Why I Hate Thee / Shady Reengagement Tactics
http://naveedl.tumblr.com/post/3909963995/oh-myspace-why-i-hate-thee-shady-reengagement
I went to MySpace.com today to update my profile (I have pictures / messages on there from the college days that are not so appropriate…don’t ask). Having not used it for years, I had to reset my password. The captcha was so terrible (took at least 10 tries to get it right; I’m convinced I was entering the right letters), that it reminded me why I never got on in the first place for so long and triggered me to cancel my account.<p>The cancellation process seemed pretty straightforward. Go to your account settings, hit cancel account, tell them why your canceling, and they would send a confirmation email to verify your cancelation. I followed all of the steps, then MySpace told me it would take 48 hours to cancel the account (wtf??). Okay fine. Two minutes later, I open up my inbox, and I start receiving messages from women wanting me to go to MySpace to talk to them. I’m certain if I click and try to login to my account, I’ll have to go through cancelation process again. No matter how hard I want to see what Chelsy or Mariska want to tell me, I will resist.<p>Coincidence or shady reengagement techniques? Oh MySpace, you’re falling on your own sword. Hopefully in 48 hours, my account will be no more.<p>Click link to see image proof.
Why we cannot sign your license/support agreements.
http://www.dirwiz.com/blog/254
An alternate view to "Sign Everything"
Ask HN: BOA is offering me a Merchant Account, are these good terms?
The rates per transaction will be: 1.99% + .27 (qualified) & 3.45% + .32 (non qualified).
No Application Fee
No Statement Fee
No Monthly Minimum
Next business day funding if you have your Small business banking relationship with us
No Contract
No Early Termination fee

They charge $25/month for using a different Payment Gateway, plus $9.95 monthly PCI Compliance fee.
Cortex launches today with the Google web store
http://cortexapp.com/
Cortex is a fast and beautiful way to share sites, articles, images, videos, music across the web.
OAuth2 Ruby Client, For Box.com's V2 API
https://github.com/attachmentsme/ruby-box
We've decided to open-source the client we built internally at Attachments.me, for Box's 2.0 API. I hope that others can find it useful :)
Cyborg Vision - Face Recognition from the Future
http://cyborgvisionapp.com
Hey guys. I've had this app in the appstore with a fellow friend (Richard Cameron) on the app store. Its a fun app that recognizes your facebook friends from tagged photos via a cool 'Terminator-like' view :) You guys might enjoy playing with it over the holidays. Happy Holidays everyone :)
Six Ways Big Data Is Helping Reinvent Enterprise Security
http://gigaom.com/data/6-ways-big-data-is-helping-reinvent-enterprise-security/
This article describes six new security tools that use new techniques for storing, collecting and analyzing data.
Jazz Fingers – Rails console enhancements
https://github.com/plribeiro3000/jazz_fingers/blob/master/README.md
P.S.: jazz_hands, the project from which jazz_fingers was forked, is now abandoned.
Whatsapp voice calling feature is being blocked in Paraguay
At least 2 telecoms from Paraguay are blocking Whatsapp new voice calling service.

Both Tigo and Personal deny any wrongdoing on their side and blame the now Facebook owned company for their unavailability.

Users started complaining about the difficulty of making calls from Whatsapp prompting the CONATEL (The local telecommunications regulator) to investigate the issue. CONATEL will issue a press release tomorrow about this issue.

This new scandal comes at the same time that CONATEL is calling for public consultations about the overhaul of the telecommunications bill that will impact services under its supervision.

http://www.conatel.gov.py/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=667:conatel-inicia-proceso-de-consulta-publica-sobre-modificacion-de-ley-de-telecomunicaciones&catid=31&Itemid=101

Several media outlets are already publishing stories about the blocking:

http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/conatel-advierte-a-operadoras-sobre-llamadas-por-whatsapp-1351966.html

http://www.ultimahora.com/whatsapp-conatel-se-pronunciara-supuestos-bloqueos-llamadas-n884117.html

http://www.hoy.com.py/nacionales/conatel-operadoras-no-pueden-bloquear-llamadas-por-whatsapp

http://www.extra.com.py/denuncia/denuncian-bloqueo-de-llamadas-por-whatsapp.html

http://www.noticiasdeamambay.com/llamar-via-whatsapp-es-mas-barato-y-dos-empresas-lo-bloquearon-afirman/
Got Windows 8 Pro? Download Media Center For Free Until Jan 31, 2013
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/got_windows_8_pro_download_media_center_free_until_jan_31_2013
Got Windows 8 Pro? Grab Media Center For Free.
Show HN: CharityStack|Stripe Atlas for charities|formation, fundraising, banking
https://www.charitystack.org
Hey HackerNews!

I'm Mubarrat, one of the founders of CharityStack. CharityStack is a platform for anyone to form a nonprofit, fundraise their first dollar, and set up their bank account. We want to make it seamless for anyone and everyone to start a charity and make an impact.

Why build CharityStack?
Before CharityStack, my team and I attempted to create a charity and it was an absolutely terrible process. It took us nearly two years, a couple of thousands of dollars, and a bunch of headaches in between. We quickly realized that we weren't the only ones that had this problem, but something widespread whenever anyone attempts to create a charity.

With Charity Stack you can:

Form your nonprofit:
- State Incorporation
- Federal EIN
- Bylaws
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Solicitation of Funds Certificate
- 501c3 Application

Fundraise your first dollar:
- Credit Card Transactions
- Bank Transfer
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Paypal & Venmo
- Reoccurring Donations

Set up your bank account:
- Checking Account
- Virtual Debit Cards
- Physical Debit Cards
- Wire, ACH, Checks
- Investment Account
- FDIC Insured up to $250,000

For a limited time, we're waiving fundraising and banking stack pricing for a year for the first 25 charities, just make sure to sign up on the link below

We have a waitlist up on our website here: https://www.charitystack.com/sign-up
Bevvy – A Platform to discover the next drink
http://bevvy.co
It’s a data-driven web app called BEVVY (cocktails, spirits, and beers). We are techies in San Francisco who love our tipples and want to share what we would like to use ourselves. Yes, we did build this while having a few. Most people tend to drink what they know, or what’s most popular at the moment, missing an entire world of amazing libations created by mixologists, bartenders, and cocktail enthusiasts. Bevvy is building a platform to enable people to find their next drink. When you find yourself at a bar you can look up that next cocktail on BEVVY.

A cocktail menu is like a dating site without pictures. What does the Corpse Reviver 2 looks like? What does the Bees Knees tastes like? Typical cocktail menus have creative drink titles with a list of ingredients but it doesn’t tell you if you would actually like it before spending your money. A picture is worth a 1000 words as they say. There are so many cool cocktails to try if there was only a better way to discover them.

Bevvy is a data-driven web app that dives into the relationships of an alcoholic drink with its multiple facets, including the recipe (original and variations), base spirits, mixers and other ingredients, historical and cultural significance, bartenders, venues, and more. View alternate variations of a drink, fork a classic recipe to add your own twist, follow drink menus you like, or create your own drink menus, and more. Social is built right into the DNA of Bevvy, because let’s face it, drinking is social and Bevvy makes it easy to share what you’re drinking with your friends.

We want to help the world drink well - not just drink.

We went live (public beta) On World Cocktail Day - Tue, May 13, we’d like to invite your readers to come check us out and tell us what they think.
Name that Athlete Game
http://www.rootzoo.com/threads/view/52092/
This thread was one of many started at RootZoo.com. I thought it was really cool. Stumped me. Are you good enough to figure it out??
202(c) the anti hacking German law 
http://www.irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=1396
202(c) came into effect on Sunday, which states that any illegal distribution, sale, and possession of security tools that encourages to commit a crime such as hacking.
Show HN: Serverless Notion Blog using React
https://github.com/arthtyagi/serverless-notion-blog
Using Notion to power a blog and rendering data on a React front-end with just a server-less worker.