jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
20 Useful Tools, Stencils and GUI Kits for Android Developers
http://designmodo.com/android-kits-developers/
Android is Linux based operating system used for mobile phones. For the developers, the technology provides an open platform to crate all new apps for the developer’s personal use. Using a variety of smartphone devices, the developers can built applications for their uses.
If Facebook and Orkut were to merge the value would be...
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf
e value of a network grows with n*log(n) instead of n^2 or 2^n
Ask HN: How does one move on after a divorce?
She was my first and currently only relationship. I have two kids with her. I cannot imagine being with anyone else. I’m not religious but our marriage felt sacred. It’s been 4 years and I’m still going through hell. I tried telling myself I didn’t love her but I still do. We have no contact except regarding the kids. It’s eating me alive.

I’m in talk therapy and have tried many other therapies so far without any success. I’m not in an emotional space where I can even “replace” her and even if I was that doesn’t seem healthy.

There’s this piece of me that’s holding on to what could have been and I don’t know how to let go. Does anyone have experience in dealing with this?

I know this isn’t typical HN. But I’ve posted an emotional support questions here in the past with great success.
Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B: Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-windows-8-plan-blue-bring-back-the-start-button-boot-to-desktop-7000014075/
Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start Button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year.
Show HN: I got fed-up of billing $200 and collecting $8 of that at the tax store
https://www.livewiretax.com/home
LiveWire is a modern tax preparation service that video conferences you with a tax code expert that will prepare your taxes for you – so you can get back to doing what you’re great at.
Are the best entrepreneurs pertinacious* pigs or flexible fools?
http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/06/20/are-the-best-entrepreneurs-pertinacious-pigs-or-flexible-fools/
Very amusing take on the dilemma entrepreneurs face with the evolution of internet start-ups. Is dogged determination better than shifting focus if things don't work?
Ask HN: Are Aeron chairs worth it?
For those of us who spend a huge portion of our waking hours sitting in front of a desk, are Aerons worth the 3x-4x cost compared to an Office Depot/Ikea chair?
Introducing Cloudant Query
https://cloudant.com/blog/introducing-cloudant-query/
Introducing MongoDB-style declarative querying on Cloudant's managed database service, based on Apache CouchDB. Introduced last night at MongoDB World.

I work for Cloudant.
Jquery Basics Series 
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/10/jquery-basics-series-1.html
Hi Friends, if you really want to learn jQuery follow basic series on 9lessons. Jquery is an awesome javascipt library, it’s help you for developing dazing web projects.

In this tutorial I want to discuss very basic level jquery and working with Click() event.
Ask HN: Anyone using Amazon CPM Ads?
How is your experience with Amazon CPM Ads ? How does it perform compare to other CPM Ad networks / CPC Ads (Adsense) ?
Devopsdays TLV livestream
http://new.livestream.com/devopsdaysorg/events/2405467
Devopsdays TLV is today and tomorrow. Find the livestream here http://new.livestream.com/devopsdaysorg/events/2405467

Timezone: gmt+2
Ask HN: Submitting notice in a very small company? (co-founder)
I co-founded a startup a little over two years ago with two other co-founders. Since founding the company, we haven't hired any additional employees. I am the only person on the team in a programming / engineering role.

Recently, I've become frustrated with the state of the company for a number of reasons, and I've started a job search. I expect that when offers start to come in, they'd like to know how much time I'll need from an offer letter to a start date, and I'm not sure what the correct answer is in my situation.

I'd like the company to survive my departure and do well. I like the other co-founders on a personal level and wouldn't want to leave them high and dry. I also have an equity stake in the company, of course. The other co-founders are very well-connected and I don't doubt they could find a more than capable engineer to hire as my replacement, but I'm clueless as to how much time I should give them when I submit notice.

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thank you.
Heywhatsupbro? - "Laidback consulting with bros”
http://heywhatsupbro.com/
Idea made for fun in under 3 hours.
Show HN: Userscript to get rid of the YouTube Shorts player
https://github.com/narrowtux/userscripts/blob/main/no-youtube-shorts.js
I'm pretty frustrated by the shorts player for YouTube so I made this userscript which simply redirects to the default player that has a scrub-bar, does not loop automatically and does not overlay the video with UI.

This at least fixes my biggest frustration with this new video format.
Getting more out of psql (The PostgreSQL CLI)
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/21/more-out-of-psql/
More key Postgres insights. From Big ideas to small, invaluable tips...

\h alter table! Who Knew?
Ask HN: Why hasn't anyone made a bash-like shell that directly targets Windows?
I get that some aspects of bash and friends are wrapped up in Unix/GNU/etc, but not everything. It seems like there are lots of core commands and basic interaction features, and maybe even some things like Linux-style piping, that could be replicated on Windows without bridging the entirety of the Linux system interfaces for 100% compatibility (like WSL does).

Why isn't there a native Windows shell out there that's just designed to be comfortable-enough for bash users, in the low-hanging ways?
Protecting IM From Big Brother
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Off-the-Record%20Messaging:%20Useful%20Security%20and%20Privacy%20for%20IM.html
Ian Goldberg, leading security researcher, professor at the University of Waterloo, and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol recently gave a talk on protecting your IM conversations. He discusses OTR and its importance in today's world of warrant-less wire tapping. OTR users benefit from being able to have truly private conversations over IM by using encryption to obtain authentication, deniability, and perfect forward secrecy, while working within their existing IM infrastructure. With the recent NSA wiretapping activities and increasing Big Brother presence, security and OTR are increasingly important.
Microsoft: Windows Phones Do Not Store Location History 
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384239,00.asp
Could privacy be a killer app?
World's Bravest Hacker - Amazing Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtgsAXmz7U
Trying to repair radio wave transmission station 1700+ feet in the air, with NO safety equipment. Oh, and of course solid knowledge of electronics is required....
Edit:
Please see the autor's web site at:
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/
and
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

To learn about what they do.
Ask HN: Review my website, please.
http://www.babynameclusters.com
I built my site a few months and have been tweaking it and trying to get more exposure. There are some really bad baby name websites out there - and lots of them are in the top 10 search results for "baby names" I thought I could make something better, and here it is.
Social Median Disregards 60 Years Of Securities Regulations With Sale Of Stock On Twitter
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/20/social-median-disregards-60-years-of-securities-regulations-with-sale-of-stock-on-twitter/
A little lesson or a trade off - get coverage on TC :)
Tired of thieves, Portland woman lets the world watch her Obama sign
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/tired_of_thieves_portland_woma.html
"Here's the story. We got an Obama sign a few months ago and it was stolen off our lawn within five days. Just yesterday we got another one (after searching for some time) and put it up on the lawn again. This morning it was gone, so we decided we'd make our own homemade sign and set up a camera to catch the thief in the act."
Ask HN: What do you listen to while you code?
<self-promotion>I finished up making https://whyarentyoucoding.com/audio.html</self-promotion> and it made me curious about other people's habits.
Ask HN: How do I bootstrap selling an E-book
I have a niche site in home wine making, www.frugalwinemaking.com. I have also been teaching classes on home wine making for about 2 years now. I've decided to create an e-book on how to make wine and would like to sell it from my site. My hosting provider wants 49.99\month for a package to sell E-books.

I've been following the discussions here on selling e-books (sorry don't have the link), which is part o the reason I'm doing this, but now that I'm thinking about implementing it I have a couple questions?

1. Is there a better, less expensive way, to start selling an E-book?

2. Do I need to set up a company to start selling e-books? (I'm located in Pittsburgh, PA USA)

This site is something I do to try and "find my passion". It is built on Wordpress. I don't have any illusions that this will make me lots of money, but I'd be happy if I could make enough to cover my hosting costs.

Thanks in advance for any advice!
Show HN: Cape: Serverless Confidential Computing
https://capeprivacy.com/
Cape is a serverless platform for deploying functions to secure enclaves. Our mission is to give every developer a simple way to build secure apps that respect end-user privacy through encryption and confidential computing.

Cape is built on AWS Nitro Enclaves, which are isolated VMs carved out by EC2's Nitro Hypervisor. They have no network, no storage, and no interactive access (such as a shell). So effectively, no one can see what the enclave is doing. The way Cape uses Nitro Enclaves is unique, as we add a number of security, scale, and ease of use features for developers.

Cape has three main features:
- `cape encrypt`: Encrypts data that can only be processed by your functions within Cape's secure enclave.
- `cape deploy`: Deploy your encrypted functions to Cape (anything from simple scripts to machine learning pipelines).
- `cape run`: Run your functions on the encrypted data, keeping your functions and the data confidential.

How did we get here?
Four years ago we launched a project called TF Encrypted, which is framework for running Tensorflow on encrypted data. TFE is based on secure multi-party computation. It's popular with cryptographers and machine learning engineers doing research on secure computation protocols applied to neural networks.

Our work with TFE inspired us to think about developers and the tools they have to build secure apps that can protect the confidentiality of their end-user's data.

I believe that developer's want to do right by their users, they often just don't have the time or the resources. Security and privacy features tend to fall off of the priority list, unfortunately.

We hope Cape can help usher in a new era of secure, privacy-focused apps by making confidential computing accessible to the average developer.

I'll leave it at that for now. Please reach out if you have any questions.

The open beta of Cape is currently free. You can signup and run your first function within a few minutes.
Show HN: My TUI library, PyTermGUI now features an intelligent layout system
https://github.com/bczsalba/pytermgui/releases/tag/v6.0.0
This was by far the most common missing feature of the library since my first post, so I'm really happy I managed to figure it out.

See the release for some code examples and a detailed changelog, and most importantly, have a great day!
Google Docs Experiencing 404 for "majority" of Users [Fixed 2:46 PM ET]
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm=1&di=4&do=25&hl=en
At 1:35p ET an issue was discovered where some users are receiving a 404 error when trying to access Google Docs.
Ask HN: Seriously, what's wrong with HTML tables?
I'm new to web development and am learning HTML/CSS, Rails, and jQuery as I put together a web app. I noticed it's much easier to use tables to create forms, but apparently this is bad practice.

Can anyone give specific reasons why it's unwise to use tables for anything other than displaying tabular data?
Nowmov - Mobile Software Lead Engineer
Did you know that people spend more time watching video than they spend
on all other media, combined? Yet watching online video accounts for
less than a tenth of the total -- why? Because the current online video
discovery experience is terrible. Bad as discovery is now, it's only
going to get worse; every minute, more than a day's worth of video is
uploaded to Youtube alone.

Nowmov is "Pandora for videos" and is dedicated to solving this problem.
Our current product intelligently programs a list of trending videos and
ones shared among your social network.

Our founders are two ex Apple employees: Thomas, who was responsible for
Apple's H.264 implementation; and James, who built the video processing
systems for the iTunes Store. We are Y Combinator graduates (Winter
2010) and angel funded. Our seed round was led by SV Angel.

Requirements:

* Shipped and iterated on iOS applications

* Willing to lead our mobile effort

* Great hacker with an eye for design

* Rails and Android experience a huge plus

We are a very small team of engineers and you will be our first mobile
focused engineer. We strongly believe mobile devices will play a huge part
on our success and you will be leading that effort.

Interested in changing the world of content discovery? A short resume with
links to your projects emailed to iwantin@nowmov.com would be a great start.
Still not convinced? Please check out what others have said about us at
https://twitter.com/nowmov/favorites or drop us a line at founders@nowmov.com
and let our founders convince you :)
Suggestion: HN should have a reddit-style AMA (ask me anything)
It would be great to have a reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything), where interesting people come and answer questions asked by HN users.

I can only speak for myself but if there were a way to ask industry experts questions about...well anything...it would be extremely beneficial for us young hustlers and hackers.

Thoughts?
Show HN: Stlite, Serverless Streamlit Powered by Pyodide/Wasm
https://github.com/whitphx/stlite
Streamlit is a Python web app framework for the fast development of data apps.
This project is to make it run completely on web browsers with power of Pyodide/Wasm.
Official: Water complaints could be 'act of terrorism'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/21/official-says-water-complaints-act-of-terrorism/2445071/
A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director warned a group of Maury County residents that unfounded complaints about water quality could be considered an "act of terrorism."
Ask HN: Where to find good icon sets?
Hey guys,

Just wondering if you guys have any good resources for where I can buy or would find good web icon sets? I generally use themeforest for templates but would like to be able to customize a little more with more icons. Any help would be appreciated :)
Where is your startup located?
http://www.startupwarrior.com
Startup Warrior visualizes startup hubs around the globe. Are you in a large hub like NYC, Boston, or San Francisco, or in one of the many new and growing hubs? Does this map match your expectations of where companies are?
Get credit for reading Hacker News
http://getfireplug.com/
Fireplug analyzes what you read and awards credit for what you learn.
Compete with friends, build credibility, establish your online reputation.
Jason Fried's talk at Big Omaha 2010
http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2010/12/big-omaha-video-series-jason-fried-of-37signals
He covers 10 important things to him that he learned to focus on while building a business. Great talk about usefulness, bootstrapping, quality, details, etc.
Ask HN: Advice for 14-year-old who wants to learn to code?
My younger brother who is a high school freshman wants to get started learning how to code.

He has no experience with writing code and little general computer knowledge about stuff like OS's file systems, etc. Basically he would be starting from scratch.

What would be a good place for him to get started? I'd like to give him some resources so he can learn at his own pace, but I also don't want him to get overwhelmed and decide coding is too hard.

Thanks
Show HN: My first RoR project. Domain appraisal engine
http://www.DomainMongrel.com
This is my first Show HN: post. Domain Mongrel calculates the worth of a website/domain name based on different factors like popularity, length, search volume, dictionary, etc.
DIY Computer Science
http://diycomputerscience.com
Nice concept for self learning Computer Science... though the site needs more content.
Resources for the entrepreneur 
http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/
from an MIT lecturer
Ask HN: How to evaluate potential non-technical co-founders ?
There seems to have been a spurt of recent posts of non-tech co-founders asking how to find tech co-founders, but I'd like the pose the question from the other side.

As a tech person how do you evaluate a non-tech person as a potential co-founder ?

I recently met someone with a marketing background at a startup weekend style event, and we chatted a bit about cofounding, but I'm at bit of a loss as how to decide if it's a good idea or not.

On one side they're clearly smart and get things done, our skill sets seem to be quite complementary and we get on.

On the other hand from what I've seen on HN people generally seem to have a negative attitude towards non-tech cofounders, is it justified ? - what should I be looking out for and taking into consideration ?
Forget Fail Whale - Here Comes The Fail Snail
http://uT.ag/00k6o
uTag - new startup "monetizing web 2.0" introduces fail snail
Ask HN: no co-founder, no business plan, no funding?
I am a busy guy, 4 kids, full time job and a wife. I am near completion of a project that I think will do well, fixes a problem I have had as a developer several times... But have no partner, formal business plan or funding... Should I release it anyhow or am I doomed?
Ask HN: Becoming more confident?
Hey guys & girls,

I'm a 25 years old male programmer and I want to ask you if there is someone among you who fought with shyness and win.

The reason I'm asking you this is because I'm a really shy person like a lot of programmers out there. Although I'm confident around close friends, I'm really anxious around other people.

It was never a real problem for me. I mean, every well raised kid should have an amount of shyness in him. At least this is what I thought.
But it's really pissing me off since I started working. I don't want to have a mediocre career just because I'm afraid of expressing myself.

When interacting with my boss or other colleagues my voice is weak, I cannot look people in the eyes and even worse sometimes I fail to give proper answers just because of this anxiety.

Now I'm just having this feeling I'm living only half of my life. And I don't want to use alcohol or drugs to be more confident(even though they work sometimes).

So if someone became confident I would really appreciate to hear his/her story. Also book/posts are very welcomed.
Thank you very much.

ps. I'm sorry for my english. It's not my native language.
Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57620658-75/microsoft-sniffed-bloggers-hotmail-account-to-trace-leak/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Microsoft&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The company's legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private email account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code
Shoutbox - a Sinatra-MongoDB-Pusher-based monitoring app
http://moviepilotlabs.tumblr.com/post/16814219083/were-releasing-shoutbox
Shoutbox which has been an simple red-yellow-green-light service before, now released their server side code under MIT license. You can also grab the first node.js implementation there.
Dispatch – Powering the on-demand economy
http://www.dispatch.me
Build your own on-demand marketplace on a scaleable and flexible API platform.
13 Stripes and 51 Stars
http://www.slate.com/id/2256250/
A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an extra star onto the American flag. How would you do it?
For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
http://www.alfiekohn.org/managing/fbrftb.htm
Also, "The Folly of Merit Pay" http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/meritpay.htm

Home: http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.html

Basically, incentive pay has never worked, anywhere, at any time. Go figure. (And it has been hugely studied.)
MIT supports release of Swartz case documents, if redacted for employee privacy
http://ia600504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.137971/gov.uscourts.mad.137971.114.0.pdf
tl;dr: MIT is choosing to ask the court to relax a protection order releasing MIT documents related to the Swartz case on the condition that the documents be redacted to protect the privacy of MIT's employees.
IE Memory Leak – jQuery Fix
http://kossovsky.net/index.php/2009/07/ie-memory-leak-jquery-garbage-collector/
A very nice fix for all those memory leaks in internet explorer.
Ask HN: Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?
I always open the comment page of a HN post first, then read a couple of comments. When not many comments are there, I click on the link on top and read the article. Many times, I never read the actual linked article. After reading the comments of people here in HN, I can understand the gist, or more, of the article linked, and also know the thoughts of many people. I enjoy reading the agreeing, disagreeing, proving, disproving, controversial comments much more.
Am I the only one?
An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
http://nathanj.github.com/gitguide/tour.html
This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools.

Although this guide is targeted for use on Windows, the git gui tool works the same on all platforms. Because of this, git users on other platforms may find useful information here as well.
It is okay to use POST
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2009/it-is-okay-to-use-post
Roy Fielding on the usage of POST within REST, prompted by Tim Bray's recent article
Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off
http://dw.svbtle.com/facebook-has-just-invited-me-to-interview-and-now-im-pissed-off
A lot of people are dreaming about working for one those top companies: Google, Facebook, Apple.
Here is a public response to an invitation from Facebook - it seems the Social Network has lost all of it's senses and humanity if it looks for new slaves, not team members.
Amazon S3 Introduces Reduced Redundancy Storage (2x vs 3x)
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?DataDurability.html#UsingRRS
Update: Werner Vogels weighs in: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduced_redundancy_storage.html
Casual Contracting - our contract work website
http://casualcontracting.com/
Hey guys, we just hacked together this little site for casual contracting. The premise is there's no long-term commitment / equity payment nonsense. This is for small, quick cash jobs that take less than 40 hours (maybe a website proof of concept, for example). We think RentACoder, Elance and the like are too centered on heavyweight, long-term projects with extended commitments. We'd hope this would be something a Hacker News user might use to earn some extra money on the side. There are invite codes on Twitter http://twitter.com/casualcontract.