jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Redistributing wealth upwards, and “class warfare” 
The title might sound click-baity, but bear with me for a minute; this is a short post.

John Oliver has a few episodes on the phenomenon of how public institutions are increasingly making money off the poorest sections of society.

- [Episode on Municipal Violations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto).

- [Episode on Civil Forfeiture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks)

He also had an [episode on the Wealth Gap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno) where he mentions, among other things, that any attempt to address income inequality is often toxically termed "class warfare", and affects how the discussion is framed.

I couldn't help thinking that the other episodes point out an insidious form of _inverse_ class warfare, where the system is redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich. This is not necessarily deliberate, but it seems to be happening on a significant scale nonetheless.

Think about the operating of public institutions. As part of the system, one stops funding them through taxes and chooses to fund them through fines and payments instead. Given that most of these fines are issued on poorer and less well-to-do people, and those fines a compounded by them not being able to pay the money promptly, I'm guessing that a large chunk of the money required to run _public institutions_ is coming from money extracted from among the poorest section of society. On top of this, it is quite plausible that the poorest section of people do not have the wherewithal to even use these services effectively, though they're the ones that need these the most.

In this case, we seem to be taking money from one section of people to keep running public institutions that are supposed to serve everyone equally. Is this not what one calls "redistribution" and the an inverse form of what is pejoratively called "class warfare"?
Imonomy Raises $400K Seed For Its Visual Semantic Software
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/23/imonomy-seed/
Imonomy, an Israeli startup which makes software that analyses webpages and automatically inserts relevant, copyright-free images to accompany the content, has closed a $400,000 seed round from a group of angel investors. Investors include Inon Axel, former CEO of Kasamba (acquired by LivePerson for $40m), Liron Rose, cofounder of AfterDownload (acquired by ironSource for $28m), and Itai Levitan and Tal Shaked, partners at AfterDownload.
Major Challenge for Free Online Courses: Cheating
http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Courses-Can-Offer-Easy/132093/
A revolution in education thanks to online courses could be in store, as Thomas L. Friedman and others have predicted. But significant challenges remain, not least among them preventing students from fraudulently claiming an education that they didn't get.
Lean Startup Seattle
http://blog.creativebranding.co/lean-startup-seattle-introduction-video/
A brief overview of the Lean Startup Seattle event held monthly. A video over June's "Why Do Startups Fail"
UPS on battery power To Battle stations
http://www.ppartyka.com/2014/04/info-ups-on-battery-power-in-response.html
This is some of the none technical stuff we all have to go through on some level. Just thought I'd share.
JQuery Roundup: Go Flat
http://dailyjs.com/2013/06/11/jquery-roundup/
Apple’s iOS 7 was announced yesterday, with a divisive flat-design-inspired interface. Some have called it out for having inconsistent icons, and others have praised it for exploring the z-axis.
Angry ball game online
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/391934951/ball-street-iphone-ipad-game-app
This is a simple fun game just like Angry Birds. You are now Play Angry ball game, and you are a big ball and you roll over everything in the city. Where the goal is to simply destroy everything. For only $1 or more, your name will appear on the list of credits. The larger the donation the larger your name appears.
Ask HN: NGINX + PHP-FPM on CentOS + CPanel/WHM?
Does anyone have any experience installing NGINX + PHP-FPM on a CentOS 6.x server which uses cPanel & WHM?

I'd love some insight on the best way to accomplish this as I'd still like to utilize Apache, any hurdles, etc.

Thanks!
The Wall Street Journal and Climate Change Denial
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/02/wall-street-journal-climate-change-denial/
An op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal about climate change denial signed by 16 scientists claims that the number of “scientific heretics” continues to grow.
Android's Trajectory World Domination 20% 5B Devices in 2012
http://www.adostrategies.com/blog/2010/08/05/the-android-trajectory-shows-world-domination-all-in-the-momentum/
At the explosive growth shown so far, it will not be long before they have 20% of the worlds market...
That CMU professor's Last Lecture on Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
And there are some links to other videos on his homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Google Cloud SQL now generally available
https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-sql/
Blog entry: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/google-cloud-sql-now-generally-available.html
A crash course in prolog
http://howiprovedit.com/archives/232
annotated links to learning prolog.
The Unmentionable Necronomicon of WinApps (Bad Code is Language Independent)
http://dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com/2008/10/unmentionable-necronomicon-of-legacy.html
I am working on a MFC app internally referred as the unmentionable NECRONOMICON of WinApps. It compiles and builds by magic and by magic only.
Inject code into functions in JavaScript
http://blog.pavel.gr/inject-code-into-functions-in-javascript/
A small javascript and jQuery plugin that will allow you to inject custom code within existing JavaScript functions.

Handy for bookmarkelts.
Show HN: Grand – Invest in Creators
https://www.planetgrand.co/
Grand is a platform that allows for creators to monetize and raise money for their work by allowing them to create NFTs that they can sell to their fans. In return the fans who buy these NFTs will receive a portion of the creators earnings every month.
Wordsworth – simple frequency analysis tool
https://github.com/autonomoid/wordsworth
If you already use tools videogrep, then you can use wordsworth to parse subtitle (.srt) files to find even better search candidates.
Shirts for Ruby Nerds
http://rubyrags.com/
Shirts for Ruby Nerds And Ruby on Rails Junkies. Haberdasher to the Ruby elite depuis 2007.
That time a drunk driver ran into our startup's office...
http://blog.statricks.com/that-time-a-drunk-driver-ran-into-our-office.html
Knew we were in a high risk business... but this was a risk we did not contemplate...
Don't open this link on Mountain Lion
http://jsfiddle.net/xEqmL/
I did a quick experiment to see if I could force-crash safari by exploiting the File:/// issue, and lo and behold it's entirely possible.

I simply created a textarea pre-filled with File:///, then with javascript triggered focus, click and blur on the field in that order.

It seems Chrome is not affected and I haven't tested any other browsers yet so your mileage may vary.

Anyway, not much else to add, other than in the link I posted it's probably crashing because the text field with the code in it itself is being parsed. A true test would require the code be placed stand-alone on a web server...
Healthcare Transparency Tools Lower Overall Claims Costs
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1917438
I think the article is referencing employee-based cost transparency tools such as Castlight.

These are by nature private, and costly.

My startup is working on providing these tools for anybody, free of cost:

http://comparedcare.com

Let me know what you think.

This is exciting news
NVDSP: High-performance & easy-to-use audio DSP for Novocaine on iOS and OSX
http://bartolsthoorn.github.com/NVDSP/
Hi all, some of you may already know that Novocaine allows you to read, write and play audio very easily on iOS and OSX. My project called NVDSP allows you to easily filter the raw audio data with for example a lowpass filter. It works with the accelerate framework and is a biquad 2nd order IIR filter (basically means it's pretty awesome).

Currently supports peaking EQ (make your own equalizers!), bandpass, lowpass, highpass and notch, and more coming soon. What do you think?
LevelDB vs Kyoto Cabinet my findings
http://maxpert.tumblr.com/post/8330476086/leveldb-vs-kyoto-cabinet-my-findings
When I tried to benchmark both of them at my own I got different numbers from officially posted numbers.
Improve your vocabulary to end world hunger.
http://www.freerice.com/
For every vocab word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice. Interesting concept.
Ask HN: What criteria helps focus your interests?
A few questions:

1) Should interests be limited in the name of doing something meaningful?

2) If interests should be limited, how do you determine what is worth spending time on so that you do not regret it after investing a significant amount of time?

3) Put another way, how do you avoid wasting your life consuming mind candy?

I spend a lot of time on the web, and in retrospect, I consider a lot of that time to have been wasted. I latch onto topics for brief periods (a few days or weeks), make big plans, then move on to a different interesting topic. I will spend large amounts of time on pretty meaningless tasks. I will spend a week messing with a music mashup that I know will make my brother laugh. He laughs. Now what? I feel like I wasted a week.

I over-analyze everything. I think part of what I enjoy is just analyzing things. I like to analyze chess games. I might spend a week or more analyzing one interesting game. Then what? I feel like I've wasted a week, even though the process was intellectually stimulating. There are hundreds of other topics that I will do this with. I will hear a comedian interviewed, and realize there is some science to comedy and what makes someone laugh, so I spend a week semi-obsessing over how to deconstruct and analyze comedy routines. Or I realize that I can compile a database of chord progressions for millions of songs and make a mashup generator. After a week or two, something else interesting comes along.

Is the answer to discover your meta-hobby, deconstructing and analyzing things in my case, and then apply that in some area that benefits others?
Flying Sphere
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/mv/wbs/trend_tamago/post_2124/
Flying Sphere by　Japan Self-Defense Forces

まるい未来型飛行物体
http://www.mod.go.jp/trdi/research/dts2010.files/S2/S2-1.pdf
Where's all the reliable freelance frontend dev talent?
http://www.frac.tl
We're a creative team that loves to create share-worthy stuff. We work with our clients to create apps and sites that are interactive, engaging, and beautiful. We're growing by leaps and bounds.

Unfortunately, it's been incredibly hard to continue finding reliable freelance talent. We're looking to bring on more full-time front end devs, but would prefer to have a mix of freelance, and hire full time from those freelancers who are interested after some initial work.

If you're reliable, creative, highly communicative, and want to work on an extremely varied and fun set of development projects, please let me know. Ingenuity and drive is more important than anything else. If this sounds interesting, we have quite a few projects ready for immediate work.

dan [at] frac [dot] tl

Thanks!
The Highest Earning Hedge-Fund Managers of the Past Year
http://www.institutionalinvestorsalpha.com/Article/3337321/The-Rich-List-The-Highest-Earning-Hedge-Fund-Managers-of-the-Past-Year.html
I had a debate with pg that the biggest wealth in the past 15 years has been created in Finance, not Technology. Thanks to years of misbegotten Federal Reserve policy, the economy is now heavily financialized. If you want another proof, look at the list in this URL, and keep in mind this is all for just one year.
FREE Piano for your startup
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/msg/3714891201.html
Hey guys and girls, I'm getting rid of my 88 key upright piano from my apartment. If anyone wants it for their startup, it's free to a good home - but you gotta take it by tomorrow morning.

Pauly
Eskil Steenberg's MMO 'Love' now free
http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/index.html
I don't know how I missed this. This happened on Sep 7 2012. https://twitter.com/quelsolaar/status/244121284097761280
Top 16 Most Useful iPad Apps For IT Professionals
http://www.phdinit.com/top-16-most-useful-ipad-apps-for-it-professionals.html
Apple’s iPad has become one of the most important and most functional business tools in recent
years. Bigger than your phone, yet smaller than a full sized laptop; it can go anywhere with you. Here are some excellent iPad apps for IT professionals.
Location via SMS App - has anyone tried this?
http://whereareyou-app.com/
Does this actually work? Sounds very suspicious. I can't test, I don't have an iPhone.
Targeting Ads Difficult For Social Networks
http://internetrack.blogspot.com/2008/06/targeting-ads-difficult-for-social.html
"58 percent of nearly 800 users of social networking sites say that very few of the ads and offers they're currently seeing on social networking sites match their specific interests and preferences, and another 29 percent say none of them do. Only 13 percent say that "most" ads meet their interests and preferences."
1800 LEDS added to RC Plane for  Night Flying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6ofGPwlbI
You have to check this out!
Google AppEngine Datastore Dying
http://www.pubnub.com/blog/google-app-engine-datastore-dieing
Performance monsters have been snacking on Googles Datastore API. Datastore slowdown has been causing abandonment of writes due to timeouts over 30 second.
Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped
http://sub.garrytan.com/martin-luther-king-jr-was-wiretapped-and-sent-an-anonymous-letter-from-j-edgar-hoover-encouraging-him-to-kill-himself
martin luther king jr was wiretapped and sent an anonymous letter from J hoover encouraging him to-kill himself
Where The iPhone App Dashboard Breaks Down
http://subprint.com/blog/where-iphone-app-dashboard-breaks-down
With as much thought and subsequent execution that has gone into the design and development of the iPhone, there appears to me to be a glaring issue around one of the most fundamental interactions on the device, namely, finding an application on your dashboard.
New iPad Topped Consumer Report’s List of Tablets Despite of Poor..
http://www.techieapps.com/new-ipad-topped-consumer-reports-list-of-tablets-despite-of-poor-recharging-and-heat-issue/
Apple Inc’s new iPad topped Consumer Reports’ list of tablets in spite of the effective watchdog stoking suspects two weeks ago by saying the latest version of the best-selling tablet release off more heat when used heavily.
Get Your Agile on with AgileZen
http://robertschultz.org/2011/03/12/get-your-agile-on-with-agilezen/
AgileZen is a lean and simple tool used to help you organize and visualize your tasks in an agile way. I go over some of the features of AgileZen and explain some of the advantages of using it.
Show HN: Spurr · Asynchronous Team Building and Fitness Challenges
https://spurrapp.com
Hi, when I started to work remotely I was looking for ways to keep in touch with my colleagues on the not work-related stuff. As someone who loves sport and gets motivation from other people, I built an app called Spurr for teams to run asynchronous challenges. For example, you can run 500 miles together, do 10,000 pushups, 100 minutes of plank, etc… or design your own challenge based on your unique team culture. It's just a bit of fun and next time on Zoom I have a great small talk topic with people who are in my challenge.

How do you keep in touch with your colleagues while working remotely? Do you not have fatigue from Zoom events? Thanks for any feedback!
It's a resounding Yes for same-sex marriage in Ireland
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/referendum/ireland-overwhelmingly-says-yes-31246520.html
Ireland is the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage through a popular vote.
What actual advice really consists of.
https://github.com/WizardsWorkshop/permadeath/blob/master/PRODUCTIVITY.md
Give it a read, you might learn something (sorry for the attitude, but I'm pretty proud of what I've written so far).

I'd say maybe read the last one first, it is a skype log which is really pure gold and actually happened.
How The U.S. Government Has Destroyed Its Own Declaration Of Independence
http://globalfreedomstrategies.blogspot.com/2011/12/10-ways-us-government-has-destroyed-its.html
The irony cannot be escaped that a country that issued a document codifying independence for free citizens, should turn into one that declares outright war on all that signifies independent living and prosperity.
Financing the Next Silicon Valley
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1272957
Silicon Valley's success has led other regions to attempt their own high-tech transformations, yet most imitators have failed. Entrepreneurs may be in short supply in these "non-tech" regions, but some non-tech regions are home to high-quality entrepreneurs who relocate to Silicon Valley due to a lack of local financing for their start-ups. Non-tech regions must provide local finance to prevent entrepreneurial relocation and reap spillover benefits for their communities. This Article compares three possible sources of entrepreneurial finance...
The Secretary Problem, or an Optimal Mating Strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
This came up in another thread, under the "37% Rule", but without the definitive reference here. Although 1/e is most likely to give an optimal answer, it has pretty bad worst-case behavior (time runs out and you get stuck with a fish). Settling early gives much better worst case behavior while only slightly decreasing the best case. The last reference Ketelaar and Todd, is quite interesting.
Show HN: Weekend Hack - Custom Info for Facebook Links
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjammkkhhjfjaibeabofgfegobahkcf
A Chrome Extension that allows having custom title, description, thumbnail image association with a link.
Ask HN: Question about giving repo access for Tech Due Diligence for Seed
My startup is (i think) near closing a seed round. As part of that the investor is requesting tech due diligence, fine and expected. One thing caught me off-guard and is wondering if it's the norm or not. and if so, what is the standard way as a company we should handle this.

Their ask is for access to key code repositories across backend, api, and mobile. Even before the DD session. My gut is that kind of access would make sense if there was a contractual "Term Sheet Contingent on XYZ".

Something just sits wrong with me, so I ask HN,am i overthinking this, or is that normal?
What motivate you to do a live streaming to the public?
Now a day the live streaming through smart phone is booming due to the appearance of Meerkat and periscope. BUT, what's the user case? In Germany, no one gives a damn about live streaming stuff at the individual level.

What do you think?
Spotify App template/example app using Ember.js
https://github.com/neonroots/spotify-ember-template
This project demonstrates how to build a structured MVC Spotify App with Ember.js
Naive Grammar Checker for Sublime Text
https://github.com/duereg/sublime-write-gooder
WriteGooder for Sublime Text

Simple grammar checking for your documentation.
Hurricane Sandy Tracker
http://hurricanesandytracker.com
Check out a great way to view information & pictures in realtime about Hurricane Sandy!
Ask HN: How do you store your TV/Movie collection?
As I've gotten older, I've moved away from physical copies (VHS, DVDs) to local files (usually pirated, played via VLC), to eventually streaming and iTunes-style cloud purchases, for the convenience, legality, and media quality.

I'm thinking of splitting the difference however and looking for Blu Rays with digital download codes, as I miss both the immediacy of physical media and not having a software gatekeeper.

What's your setup?
Show HN: The timer object for the web, A Trigger
http://atrigger.com/
Your feedback and reviews is important.
Learn Angular this Weekend
http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/08/03/learn-angularjs-in-a-weekend/#
Nice compendium of resources, good timing also :-)
Dan's MIX Simulator and MIXAL Compiler
http://www.recreationalmath.com/mixal/
Simulator of Knuth's MIX computer in js.
Bootstrapped, profitable, &proud: github
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-github
Time to revisit the interview with github CEO Chris Wanstrath
Internet use 'good for the brain'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7667610.stm
Good news for all the hackers out there! The more you use the net, the smarter you get, the better you can hack, the better the net becomes, the more you (and others) will use the net, smarter you (and the world) become(s).
Ask HN: The Pirate Bay countdown
What does The Pirate Bay countdown mean? http://piratebay.se/
How to Overcome Internet Addiction
http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/2009/09/17/ask-the-coach-6-internet-addiction/
Steps to beat your internet addiction
Show HN: Google+ News Site
http://gplusinsider.com
Just want some feedback on my Google Plus news site. Colors ok? We update it daily, and we've already accomplished a ton of SEO goals for major keywords. Would love a review of the overall site, ad placements, colors, and layout.
CSS3 tooltips
http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-tooltips
In this article you’ll learn how to create your own CSS tooltips: no images, no javascript.
JScrambler 3 Helps JavaScript And HTML5 Developers Obfuscate Their Code
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/17/improved-jscramber-3-helps-javascript-and-html5-developers-obfuscate-their-code/
JScrambler 3 allows developers to obfuscate their source code for mobile and desktop web apps so it’s almost impossible to read. The web-based service, which offers both free and paid plans, takes either individual files or your whole project and makes sure that it becomes much harder to read and maintain by a non-authorized third party.
Improving Online Dating
http://freememory.org
Online dating is in serious need of rethinking and retooling.
Show HN: Hackernews for Daily Quotes
http://daily.quott.in/
So, Here is something I always wanted. Fed up with quotes/proverbs which are always seen, old. I made this site to get new quotes and listen favorite quotes of the people, daily.
The Sellers’ Market for Startup Investing will Restart in ~12 Months
http://blog.lookery.com/2008/10/27/the-sellers-market-for-startup-investing-will-restart-in-12-months/
Early-stage investors won’t wait for the economy or housing or banking to recover. A bunch of rich people are frantic right now because their personal portfolios are getting hit. However, pretty soon they’ll remember that those portfolios only exist because they paid a startup to give away web-based email, sold AKAM at $300/share or some other highly speculative IT-investing activity.

At that moment, they’ll move back from fear to greed and start competing with each other to speculate — on us.
Meebo reveals javascript performance secrets
http://blog.meebo.com/?p=2589
"All of these techniques come together in the next version of the Meebo Bar, making it the best performing and most technically advanced version of the bar yet."
Fake Horoscopes - Crazy Idea (But is it legal?)
http://www.fakehoroscopes.com/
Does anybody know if that's legal? ...
Why not embrace ActionScript 3 as a replacement for JavaScript?
I've been wondering for some time why AS3 has not been considered for the next generation of Javascript? It's ECMA script, it's statically typed, very well documented. It works incredibly well for display, models and controllers. Supports many types of data. Every piece of interactive web during the last century used AS3. So why not?
Show HN: JSON-Form
https://json-form.com
json-form is a single html element that store HTML Input elements values in Object or Array. It can be nested in same way as Objects and Arrays allowing to output JSON of any complexity. It does not require framework or library. Thank you for checking it.