jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: I'm making an API for Help Bubble. What should I add?
Howdy, gang;
Back in March, I posted an announcement of a new side project of mine here and got a lot of good feedback (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222532). dustball (the other developer) and I have iterated a bit, improved the administration UI, and most importantly, started building a public API to let you control the Help Bubble on your site.

So far, it's pretty basic stuff, but we're hoping it's a good start. What would you add? What would help make Help Bubble a useful tool for your site?
Ask HN: How do you organize notes?
Hi!

I'm interested in knowing how you organize/store your notes (quotes/code snippets/random notes/todo etc)

I take a lot of notes myself, and I currently store them as text files in the dropbox folder and sync them across my computers and iphone. (iphone notes can't be edited :( ) I think it is the best way as it is simple, easily accessible and open (text files).

Earlier I used OneNote and then Evernote but found out that though they've lots of features, they're pretty slow when it comes to accessing the notes. SimpleNote is tempting but I didnt want to register with yet another service.

So, how do you store your notes?
Doris Lessing: A hunger for books
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2223780,00.html
Far more interesting than the Techcrunch article about it currently on the front page in my opinion.
Ask HN: Movies every aspiring entrepreneur should watch?
What movies should every aspiring entrepreneur watch? List your picks and reasons why. Here's mine:

* The Player ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ ) - Silicon Valley these days isn't much different than Hollywood. In Hollywood, writers pitch potential hit movies to producers. In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs pitch potential hit websites and apps to VC's. When Paul Graham talks about "x meets y" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html ), this is the movie he's probably thinking about.

* Ed Wood ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/ ) - Ed Wood made bad movies. But God love him. He had a passion for making bad movies, had fun making them, and somehow managed to talk people into investing in those movies.

* The Hustler ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/ ) - "Fast Eddie" doesn't lose because of his lack of talent but rather his lack of character.

* Almost Famous ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/ ) - People that get ahead don't usually get there by clawing their way to the top. They get ahead by the assistance of people that helped them pretty much just because they felt like it.
Scribd, You've Been Cloned.
http://mashable.com/2007/08/19/doktus/
http://www.doktus.de/
Farewell Floats: The Future of CSS Layout
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/css/farewell-floats-the-future-of-css-layout/
Today’s article looks at some of the reasons that floats are pretty lame and takes a look at a number of alternative layout systems, some of which are still under development but may one day represent the standard for CSS-based layout.
Tell HN: Revoltlike.com - Revolt like an Egyptian
http://www.revoltlike.com/
To help support the cleanup & transition, I made Revoltlike.com tonight. Very simple - buy a tshirt, and all profits will be going to charities in Egypt.
10 rules of simplicity
http://www.lawsofsimplicity.com/
1, Reduce. 2, Organize. 3, Time. 4, Lean. 5, Differences. 6, Context. 7, Emotions. 8, Trust. 9, Failure. 10, The One.
Google: 5 Reasons to Stay, 5 Reasons to Leave 
http://blog.bincsearch.com/?p=225
Why is Google so special?? And even more importantly, why should employees leave now before it’s too late??

Listen, don’t get me wrong I love Google, but hey, people are leaving and I’m here to make sure you know why.
Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed
http://on.ted.com/p0dYX
Complete link: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed
Twentysomething: Why I regret getting straight A’s in college
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/12/04/twentysomething-why-i-regret-getting-straight-as-in-college/
And the counterpoint:
Thirtysomething: Why I DON’T regret getting straight A’s in college
http://robbieallen.com/2007/12/thirtysomething-why-i-dont-regret-getting-straight-as-in-college/
The Secret Powers of Time - RSA Animate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
Cultural and generation differences explained with individual perceptions of time.
Show HN: Make Any CLI into a GUI in Acme
https://github.com/hherman1/I
Hey HN.

I've become enamored with the Acme editor. It's fascinating because it turns the Vim paradigm on its head: instead of maximizing your use of the keyboard, maximize your use of the mouse.

I think this helps optimize for information management, as opposed to text manipulation.

I realized a lot of the CLIs I use have the same structure, and with a small program I could convert them into GUIs inside Acme and make them much easier to use.

Let me know what you think.
Why IT companies don't hire remote programmers?
From company's point of view I can't think of any advantages of forcing programmers come to office every day. Why is this style of working so unpopular between employers?

Here is a short list of advantages:

Meetings, brainstorms can be done remotely - and very often are. Many companie already work remotely.

There are less distractions when you work from home.

Your boss knows _exactly_ what you achieved by looking at your commits.

Contrary to common belief, knowledge and new ideas spread quicker in a team. Think of common chat window vs water tank herding.

Some companies say that remote jobs are threat to their security. In 99% of cases this is not true (VPN anyone?)

Some people say that meeting in person every day on a lunch is very important. I am saying, bitch please, I won't do my job any better if I have pizza with you on a regular basis.

Some bosses _need_ to see you in the office otherwise they feel uneasy and lose sense of control over a team. This is both funny and sad..
Plants can think and remember
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926
It took a long time to realize this...
hackskimmer.heroku.com: skim HN stories, avoid the comments
http://hackskimmer.heroku.com/
I put hackskimmer.heroku.com together to help me get value out of hacker news without getting sucked into the comments section. Its not perfect but gives me what I need.
aRrgh: A newcomer's angry guide to data types in R
https://github.com/tdsmith/aRrgh#!
Older guide but makes a firm point that should have much more recognition, and is still one of the best for "new to R" around
Ask HN: How to purchase a domain from owner?
I am interested in purchasing a domain name that is currently up for sale. The owner is asking for an offer price. What is a good way to determine the price to offer, and on what terms are domains typically sold?
Dear Intel: Sue Me
http://www.zachbruhnke.com/intel-unlock-immora
Intel's recent threat to sue consumers or companies who choose to unlock the capabilities of their processors spurred this rant, I apologize to those who did not enjoy it. thanks for reading
Python Enums for Humans
https://gist.github.com/1920153
I've been doing Python web apps for a few years. All of them have involved some pattern of declaring runtime vars to represent DB values, and also mapping those DB values to user-facing display values in your view templates. The practice of keeping the { var --> value } and { value --> display string } maps separately led to annoying dev-time bugs. Here's my short and easy solution.

MIT License. Enjoy.
Show HN: A book introducing Geospatial and Rust
https://book.georust.org
My friend and I have been collaborating on this lighthearted introduction to doing geospatial computation in rust.

Don't know Rust? Don't know geospatial? I'd be interested to know what you think.
Kopimism Hactivism Meetup Tomorrow (Sunday) in Oakland
http://kopimism.org/
For those who don't know, the origin of Kopimism is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
30 trends that will shape the web & digital media business in 2012
http://www.slideshare.net/marcziegler/30-trends-that-will-shape-european-web-digital-media-business-in-2012
The great blogpost to this presentation is here:
http://medien.nrw.de/apollo-m/2012/03/31/30-us-trends-that-will-shape-european-web-digital-media-business-in-2012/
Postmortem of a Venture-Backed, Acquired Startup
https://medium.com/on-startups/d74efec8b1a8
Lessons learned from Decide.com. From my brother's basement to $16.5M in funding, 30 employees and acquisition by eBay.
Lightning Fast Xcode Documentation Searches
http://iosdevelopertips.com/?p=13092
Quick tips to speed up Xcode searches for help.
Show HN: A Repository of Recruiter Email Domains and Email Filter Automation
https://github.com/garethrbrown/recruiter-email-domains
I've found it useful to maintain email filters for technical recruitment companies so that I can separate these from my other email and review at a time when I can give them the attention required, depending on whether I'm currently looking for work.

This takes regular maintenance and so I've created a repository along with some scripts for automating the filter strings for my GMail account.

The hope is that others may find this useful and contribute domains to the repository.

Note that as per the README, this is NOT a spam list. Recruiter email is essential for finding work. This is just to make the work of sorting email easier.
Offer HN: Free Design Work
I'm offering free design work to a start up that needs a redesign or has done significant work towards their idea already (hacker news or ycombinator start ups).

My portfolio is listed in my profile. I had already posted about this, but someone pointed out to use the "Offer HN" tag, so I'm reposting.

It would be helpful if you can leave as much details about how far along the project is, urls, and what you are looking to have done.
A collection of JavaScript asynchronous patterns
http://bredele.github.io/async
see http://github.com/bredele
Demo of Photosynth from TED conference - mind blowing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0
This is some really awesome technology. Lots of cool stuff here, but at one point he demos a 3D metaverse created from scraped Flickr photos. Worth y of the multiple standing ovations he gets. Apparently this was bought by Microsoft about a year ago.
Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success
http://dashes.com/anil/
Oops, direct URL is http://dashes.com/anil/2013/03/ten-tips-guaranteed-to-improve-your-startup-success.html
Google Alerts -- Are you using it to monitor mentions of your startup yet?
http://www.google.com/alerts
I've found Google Alerts to be invaluable in monitoring mentions of the projects I work on. If you're not using it yet you probably should be.
New google APIs: geolocation, IP address geolocate
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/New_Google_APIs_Know_Where_You_Are
kinda like Fire eagle, as article notes
HackerHive - a New Orleans hacker space in the making
http://hackerhive.org
Just trying to get the word out. Folks are planning to meet up and discuss as part of the 2600 meeting this Friday at Zotz's on Oak at 6pm.

I am not the guy in charge. That's Simon Dorfman (http://yamlike.com)
Ask HN: How many of you grew up with entrepreneurial parents?
Something I often wonder, how many HNers grew up with a parent who founded their own company or were founding their own while they were growing up. Or better yet, grew up with SV founders from back in the 80s or 70s. How was the experience growing up and what long term lessons did you learn from the effects of the lifestyle from your unique perspective as a child of one?
Cool Story, Bro (Milo.com's response to Google Product's blue dot specials)
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/11/milos-response-to-googles-blue-dot-specials-in-image-form/
I'm second from the left, in the picture.
Statwing Simplifies Data Analysis
http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/10/statwing-simplifies-data-analysis.html
Statwing lets you quickly perform & interpret the results of routine Small Data analysis
Benefits Ending for One Million Unemployed
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/us/benefits-ending-for-one-million-of-unemployed.html
Politics aside, the point of submitting this article is to help one of the profiled individuals find a job. He's an unemployed programmer in Virginia - 68 years old. Broader question is, how do hackers of that age find jobs. Is it conceivable that they start github accounts, contribute, and make a name for themselves? To what extent can they reboot their careers late in life?
Ad networks curated by publishers:  quality ads, less clutter. Thoughts?
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/06/21/influads-launches-its-crowd-sourced-ad-network-to-try-and-de-clutter-the-web/
Yesterday Techcrunch reported about InfluAds, my startup. Our objective is to democratize the way quality advertising through a simple ad presence can happen.<p>To do that we decided to allow Publishers, who benefit the most out of it, to take the lead and work on the development and curation of each Ad Network. We are also topic agnostic and decided to allow anyone to create any kind of topic, as long as quality is a prime concern.<p>What do you think? Would it work?
Cheat iPhone App Launched
http://cheatapp.com/
iPhone and iPod touch offline access to 475+ programmer oriented cheat sheets for a BUCK!
The Chroma Hash effect
http://dy-verse.blogspot.com/2009/08/chroma-hash-effect.html
Password entry can be frustrating, especially with long or difficult passwords. On a webpage, secure fields obscure your input with •'s, so others can't read it. Unfortunately, neither can you—you can't tell if you got your password right until you click "Log In".

Chroma-Hash displays a series of colored bars at the end of field inputs so you can instantly see if your password is right. Chroma-Hash takes an MD5 hash of your input and uses that to compute the colors in the visualization. The MD5 hash is non-reversible, so no one could know what your password just from the colors. Your password will display the same sequence each time, so you can learn to expect "blue, red, pink", for instance; if you instead see "green, purple, yellow", you'll know you typed it wrong. The visualization also includes a user defined salt to prevent guessing passwords. The visualization is also salted with the domain name, trying out site to user authentication as an experiment.
Yehuda Katz Talks Rails 3.0
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/02/09/Yehuda-Katz-Talks-Rails-30.aspx
A Q/A with Yehuda on the changes in Rails 3.0 and the changes in the Rails community.
Monty Python and Censorhip
http://www.nerdist.com/2010/10/i-almost-didnt-fart-in-your-general-direction/
personally, I find the last paragraph priceless.
23andMe's new price: $0*  
http://www.23andme.com/
*+$9/month
Amazon Coins
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=zeroes_surl_c_landing?docId=1000745313&ref_=tsm_1_fb_s_uk_mwnu2i
coins to spend in app and games
Show HN: "Why Am I Doing It?", (sort of) OhLife for developers
Hello everyone! We just launched our project for the 48H non-stop Codebits Programming Contest which took place this last days in Lisbon, Portugal.

When a new project starts, you get all motivated to get it done. Weeks pass and now you are all confused and wondering why the hell you are doing what you are doing. We hope to help you get those thoughts out of your mind and focus on what's important: getting it done.

http://www.whyamidoingit.com

"Why Am I Doing It?" (WAIDI) is a personal reminder of why you are doing whatever you are doing disguised as a web app. WAIDI will help people like us avoid that feeling that gets into our mind when we are only 5% close to finish some project and for some reason it just never gets done. It will clear your mind and will make you stay focused on what really matters.

So how does it work? It couldn't be easier to start: just go to WAIDI's homepage and fill in the form. A few days later you will receive an email reminding you why you are working on your project, making it hard for you to forget those first words that defined it and got you all motivated in the beginning.

Questions & feedback are welcome!
QRCodesDoneRight.com - let's teach people how to use QR codes right
http://QRCodesDoneRight.com
After reading a number of QR-code-fail blogs we decided to put together a super simple and super condensed guide on how to use QR codes right.
Twitter releases their in-house open-source projects
http://twitter.com/about/opensource
Looks like they use primarily Ruby, Scala, Java, and C.
Ask HN: Should I get my degree or not?
Hello hackers!

This is almost like a follow-up to this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438489, but my questions are not quite the same, neither are my goals.

I'm 21 years old and live in Norway. For all my life I've loved computers, and everything else with ICs in it. I learned BASIC programming at the age of 10 by editing games and finding out what happened if I did this or that.

The last years I've had two years off from school, working a crappy job and getting drunk, while reading tons of computer/programming/security/electronics/math-books.

Last fall I went back to school to get a bachelor in informatics. I get straight "A"s, as I already know ten times more about python, C, linked lists, self balancing trees and overflows than the rest of my class. The only thing I need to work with is maths. All while working 50%-110% to be able to afford all my projects, my appartment and steaks on weekends.

Five or six years ago I got a new dream; I want to move to Silicon Valley and work on startups, where my skill and creativity can be put to good use.

Had I not had a girlfriend, (two cats) and my loving parents I'd have been enjoying California's hot sun right now.

Lately I've become tired of working on boring (read: easy) assignments, that takes me a fifth of the time the rest of my class uses, and I still get the highest grades. Because I don't really need to work on things I sometimes forget that I have assignments to do, and that resulted in me only having one of the three exams I was supposed to this spring, because I missed two hand-ins.

There is not (at all) many IT-companies in my area, and for me to get a decent job, I'd have to move somewhere else. And that's what I want to do right now.

But then I'd have to quit my education. So I was wondering what you guys think about that? Money is not an issue, as long as I can get money for programming I don't care how much. Is it possible to later land a better job, without a degree? Will I be as attractive as the rest of my class in five years, if I work my ass off in crappy jobs, only to build a CV?

Really it's HN's fault that I got this idea, all the talk about how useless a degree in CS is didn't help my motivation to work on crap assignments.

And to get back to my dream, would moving to Silicon Valley make things easier? Plane-tickets are cheap, I'm ready, I can start looking for work right now.

But then again, will I be better off in five (or ten) years from now if I drop out of university and run off chasing the American Dream than if I stay in cold and snowy Norway?

(Did I mention that I live in the north of Norway?:/ )

All answers are greatly appreciated!
Do you know how much money would you make instead of sitting in Facebook/Reddit?
I'm going to make an app for that this weekend :D
Feature requests and suggestions are welcome.
Ask HN: What's the road to micropayments being a first-class citizen of the web?
I've been going down a rabbit-hole these past few days investigating why there still does not exist a ubiquitous solution for micropayments on the web.

What requirements must a micropayment solution fulfil to be considered as the de-facto standard for the web? Where do current solutions fall short? Which are the most promising solutions today?

I certainly remember using Flattr a long time ago — what ever became of that? It seems that "Donate Bitcoin", Patreon, PayPal and "Buy me a coffee" (https://www.buymeacoffee.com) are the most popular methods of supporting projects on the web these days. However these have always felt like a stop-gap solution compared to being able to, for example, click a button and have your browser send a payment of $0.01 to unlock an article.

Brave Browser (https://brave.com) seems to be a project which crops up frequently, although it prescribes a very specific model (use a specific browser, voluntarily view privacy-respecting ads, earn tokens and distribute tokens to enrolled websites that you visit). Is it likely that the Basic Attention Token (the "currency" that enables the interaction described above) will be included with other browsers?

Then of course there is the Bitcoin Lightning Network, which sidesteps some of the limitations of on-chain transactions. Strike (https://beta.strike.me) seems to be the missing piece, which provides an end-to-end solution for sending fiat currency by using the Bitcoin Lightning Network as the underlying payment transport.

There is also Stellar, which it seems is more concerned with providing a method of sending payments, than being its own currency, although the native currency "Lumens" are still required to complete a transaction (as I understand).

Stepping outside of the cryptocurrency world, there is also GNU Taler (https://taler.net/en/), a project to create a privacy-preserving payment system using existing banking infrastructure.
Ask HN - Please help me improve my app (Twitter job search)
http://www.twhired.com
Dear HN,

The job posting/search arena in Twitter is wide open, so I built this little app. It's nothing special yet but I think a good foundation. It's human filtered and has full-text search. Where to go from here? I just noticed that #tweetmyjobs is a trending topic on Twitter -- how can I get twhired on there by making it useful to people? (A better source stream is one obviously, I'm using a pretty basic twitter search RSS right now. Pagination, location . . . what else? Would any Ruby/Sinatra folks like to work on it with me?
Show HN: Get a Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page Free
https://pop.co
Did we mention it's a free 15 day trial including a full blown Google Apps for Business account and domain name of your choice? No credit card required and no jokes on the domain folks. Industry first and only!

::end salesman voice::

In all seriousness, we promote awesome causes such as Startup Weekend and hackathons.

https://pop.co
Drum Wear: build a drum kit into your pants
http://www.borismus.com/ubiquitous-drums/
Drum wear gives aspiring drummers a fully portable and fun drum kit anywhere they go. The system uses force-sensitive sensors built right into pants and shoes to create corresponding drum noises.
Poker's Life Lessons For Entrepreneurs
http://www.infochachkie.com/hold-em-or-fold-em-entrepreneur-infochachkie/
Poker offers lots of life lessons, especially to entrepreneurs
Startup Offering a Virtual Girlfriend on Facebook
http://cloudgirlfriend.com/9wgl1
Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. Step 2: We bring her into existence. Step 3: Connect and interact with her publicly on your favorite social network Step 4: Enjoy a public long distance relationship with your perfect girl.
Plotly: The Web's first scientific graphing app
https://plot.ly
Make scientific-quality graphs and run statistics and regressions - All in your browser.
My Friday Night With AWS
http://www.benjamincoe.com/post/26236654381/my-friday-night-with-aws
Brain dump of my thoughts about how we handled/recovered from the AWS outage last night.
How To Not Get Fat At A Web Startup
http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/05/3-ways-to-not-get-fat-at-a-startup/
Working on the web all day long is a recipe for fatness. Not metaphorically, I mean literally. You’re sitting on your butt all day. And especially when you’re working at a startup and putting in 16 hour days, it’s hard to find time to take care of yourself...
On Open Education
http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/05/14/how-the-internet-is-revolutionizing-education/
I have found valuable resources on Open Education, some on the url, but also not so valuable. -Your opinion?