jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How To Create Call To Action Buttons That Work
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/how-to-create-call-to-action-buttons-that-work/
Call to action buttons are graphics or animations embedded on web pages which, when clicked, allow the user to take a specific, predetermined action. “Buy Now,” “Start Your Free Trial,” “Watch the Video” and “Take the Tour” are all examples of commonly used call to action buttons. In order to create effective and attractive call to action buttons, you’ll need to consider the design of your buttons, their placement, and the purposes of the buttons themselves.
Why We Rank #1 for 'John Chow' and Why You Shouldn't Mess With Google
http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/why-we-rank-1-for-john-chow-and-why-you-shouldnt-mess-with-google.html
If you came to this article looking for ways to "Make Money Online", you came to the right place. If you were searching for John Chow, and ended up here you must be wondering how we are the first result and if it makes sense.
SRT Shifter
http://thiagokimo.github.com/srt-shifter/
A command line tool that synchronizes SubRip files!
Flops in the Technology of 2012
http://www.techieapps.com/5-biggest-flops-in-the-technology-of-2012/
The technology world is always full of surprises. While some small ideas and decisions turn into big business.
Facebook developers disable my timeline and where do I complain
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8993579/how-do-i-disable-timeline-and-send-complaint-about-timeline-to-facebook-develope
It's funny because she isn't a developer.
A love letter to potential Python developers
http://www.appsumo.com/unicorn/
Self explanatory if you read this letter. Just thought folks who are in Austin, TX (or thinking of moving there) may be interested in this company. Especially if you're interested in executing a startup properly and/or personal development
Quantum eraser experiment?
I ask, because I have been talking about it to a lot of people lately, and almost no one knows about it. That in itself wouldn't be surprising, but I talked to someone whom I think is a pretty serious mathematician, and he wasn't even aware of the double slit experiment.

I also talked to some kid just over halfway through a philosophy program, who had no idea what I was talking about.

Then, after finding an awesome video (with over 1.5M views) explaining the double split weirdness, I was hoping to find a good one on the quantum eraser.

I found a pretty good one, but nothing with that type of production.. but it had <8k views.

Plus the experiment was carried out only like 12 years ago, so I am beginning to think lots of people who would want their minds blown have not even had the opportunity

So if you don't know, it concludes that it is literally observation, or the ability to know something, that causes the 'collapse' of the wave.

Before this, there was a question of whether it was observation, or some unknown variable in the detectors themselves that was causing the change in behavior of the photons when watching the path they took.

Now, by setting up the detectors in such a way that the detection doesn't give you any information about their path, you don't see the change in behavior!

Great visual primer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
Show HN: Ask My Book
https://www.askmybook.com/
Hey HN! I’ve spent the past couple weekends building Ask My Book. You can use Ask My Book to ask a question and get an answer in my voice.

It's an experiment in using AI to make my book’s content more accessible. Instead of reading 52,000 words, you can ask a question and get a sub 100-word answer.

I'd prefer people read my book! But not everyone has the time... Give it a shot, and let me know what you think.

APIs used: GPT-3 (+ embeddings), and Resemble for the voice.
How to file income taxes as a freelance developer?
In most cases there are transactional deals via PayPal when working with individuals, however with companies it's a bit different.

What is the best way to file income taxes as a freelance developer? I.E Keep track of invoices etc...

Any help here would be great!
Ask HN: Tell us about your revenue generating idea/project
Tell us what are you working on on the side or full time that generates revenue. Passive income through investments does not count.

If you are making money provide some advise to people who are yet to make any money.
Show HN: UserExperienceReview.com Let's talk about design
http://www.userexperiencereview.com/
Show HN:

SUMMARY: A web app for public design criticism through a simple annotation and voting system overlaid on user submitted comps or interface screenshots.

Here's an example: http://www.userexperiencereview.com/reviews/google/interfaces/search

A good user experience is something that emerges from the totality of decisions made during the design process- from early product decisions through to the textures and flourishes of the graphic design. Yet so often UX discussion focuses on the minutia- should the label go on the left of the field, or above- and not the whole picture. Important questions, all, but without context, what is intended to delight and engage becomes dry and stuffy.

UserExperienceReivew.com seeks to become the place for discussion around the successes and failures of actual design in the wild. What github did for developers, and dribble for illustrators and designers, UX Review hopes to do for UX and design professionals and enthusiasts. Post your own designs to ask for criticism, discuss the latest redesign of influential sites, comb through a number of examples of a design pattern to see what worked and what didn't. UX Review hopes to compile a huge design reference, with accompanying high quality crit.

The site is a side project of mine- my wife:terriloewenthal.com helped design the splash page and a few other elements, but otherwise its just a one man show. Lots of inspiration from the product design of github, dribbble, imgur, documentclowd, stackoverflow. Please use the hell out of ux review. And don't hold back on the criticism.

- Jason Libsch
Teens are spending an average of 11.5 hours online, yet...
http://ypulse.com/archives/2008/06/ypulse_research_5.php
Here are just a few highlights from a commercial report on Teens & The Internet -- the full report of course is for sale, but the highlights are interesting alone.
Ask HN: Best mac for iOS development/web design?
Currently have only used windows, switching to OSX for iOS development primarily, plus front end work.
Budget is around $2400 (AUD).
Portability isn't a big issue so I'm not constrained to a macbook.
Thanks.
"great scientists" Spock search returned 1 result
http://www.spock.com/q/great-scientists
It's not even Einstein!
Why do people still say name AT domain.com?
I can't remember the last time I saw someone list their email address on a blog or home page as name@domain.com.

Are spam bots still fooled by name AT domain.com?

Or is it for some other reason?

And Gmail seems to be so good at filtering out spam anyway, what's the point of hiding?
Ask HN: Help about SMS Gateway
Hi HN,

We work on a website and we need to send daily sms to our website's contacts.

My question is:

Is this what we call as a SMS Gateway Service?

If Yes, can you give me examples and the best known Sms Gateway Services.

If No, what is the name of my solution and from where i can start?

Thank you.
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
"The E-Cat HT is a non-conventional source of energy which lies between conventional chemical sources of energy and nuclear ones."
No stupid designer ~ No Photoshop, Go Sketch
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1681801
How a newbie designer designed an app featured by App Store in 153 countries.
Ask HN: What is taste? And how does one develop it?
It's been frequently suggested here that the success of many businesses is because they are led by people who "have taste" (e.g. Steve Jobs, Mark Shuttleworth, Dieter Rams, etc.).

But what exactly does this "taste" represent? And what would it take for someone like me who probably doesn't have good taste to rectify this problem?

(If it requires good taste to even spot it in others, I think I may be out of luck.)
The E Language in a Walnut
http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Walnut
E is a fascinating distributed programming language, designed explicitly for building secure systems. With E and capability security you can build digital currencies, mobile code, virtual worlds, etc and bypass many traditional security problems.
Show HN: Reach your localhost server from the internet with LocalXpose
https://localxpose.io
Hi everyone, I'm Ahmed, founder of LocalXpose (ngrok alternative) - a reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost to the internet. This is my first SaaS.
I created LocalXpose for (developers, DevOps engineers, sys admins or even gamers) to reach their localhost server behind a NAT or firewall with a secure and fast tunnel.

Check it out here https://localxpose.io. Bye bye localhost, Hello World.

Support me and give me your feedback, please!.
IBM Researchers Inch Toward Quantum Computer
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/technology/ibm-inch-closer-on-quantum-computer.html?_r=1
We don't have non-deterministic computing yet, but IBM researchers are hopeful. The papers being published are titled "Superconducting qubit in waveguide cavity with coherence time approaching 0.1ms" and "Complete universal quantum gate set approaching fault-tolerant thresholds with superconducting qubits", according to engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/28/ibm-quantum-computing/
Ask HN: What Comes After Democracy?
If democracy fails, what other form of government could take place?
Hitting the streets of NY for feedback
http://b4demo.com/addstartup/
Sometimes the most effective way to get feedback is to walk out of your building, go to places your users/customers would hang out and talk to them. That's what we plan to do April 7 - 11 in NYC, what do you guys think?
Disruptions: Let Silicon Valley Eat … Ramen Noodles?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/disruptions-let-silicon-valley-eat-ramen-noodles/
Silicon Valley would like the world to think it doesn't care about money. But these start-ups aren't nonprofit organizations.
GSM A5 Realtime Cell Phone Interceptor
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/?p=407
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/
The Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/18/us-usa-pentagon-waste-specialreport-idUSBRE9AH0LQ20131118
Pentagon loves to spend money more than anyone.
YC Founder looking for Rails Tutor
http://blog.harjtaggar.com
I was co-founder of Auctomatic, YC WFP 07, acquired by Live Current Media last year. I'm currently spending my time improving my tech skills (I started out as complete non-tech, now I pretty competent with front end dev and can make basic web apps using rails/php) before doing another startup.

I'm looking to hire someone to tutor me a few hours a week or so. I'm working with Rails and specifically am looking at making Twitter apps. I'm currently in London but this can be done remotely via skype/remote desktop.

I'm less interested in how advanced your programming skills are and more interested in how well you articulate ideas and whether you genuinely enjoy teaching people.

If interested, please ping me harjeet DOT taggar AT gmail DOT com
Does "The Equity Equation" apply to VC's as well?
Grappling with the formula for deciding whether to take investment or to stay bootstrapped. Assume you're ramen profitable. Any insight would be appreciated.
Should you use Profounder to fund your startup?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrl1NzsXrhw&feature=player_embedded
I'm fascinated with crowdfunding of startups/projects/etc. So I had the founders of Profounder and Crowdrise on This week in Startups

The roundtable starts about five or six minutes in (if you want to skip my banter with Tyler about turning 40!). Thanks to .co and sendgrid for sponsoring this episode!
Show HN: I started a Twitter account to predict late Caltrain trains
https://twitter.com/bettercaltrain
Mine is just a little nodejs app with DynamoDB backend.

As it turns out, Caltrain was already negotiating contracts with a company called SimplifyTransit to do the same thing.

https://twitter.com/caltrainalerts/status/156787824427128013...

Happy to shake things up and provide Caltrain riders with options!
The coming dollar collapse?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/16/bcnchina116.xml
My summary/opinion: http://irei.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/will-the-dollar-collaps...

What do you think?
Skimmin - News in 1 minute a day
http://skimmin.com
I just launched a free mobile app for iOS and Android called Skimmin. It's a news summary service. We hand-select about 10 stories each day; stories that the 'average' American should have heard. We then present them as concise, 325-character summaries, not lengthy articles. I'd love your guys' feedback!
Eigenvectors animated gif
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/09/eigenvectors-animated-gif.html
A tutorial that explains how to create a gif animation using pylab. It uses linear transformation and eigenvectors.
Can we have perfectly secret anonymous conversations?
I was recently reading a bit more about Freenet, Perfect Dark and other anonymous, uncensorable P2P networks and I was wondering if there was a mechanism to actually have secure, off-the-record messaging in such a network. It would be kind of like the "untraceable hacker" ideal that you always see in movies.

It would work something like this: two or more people join a channel with a unique id, and then they start posting to it, and the whole thing would be handled with an Off-The-Record protocol. Thus the conversation would have perfect forward secrecy, AND the people would be untraceable.

I guess it would be straightforward to use the existing freenet mechanism of storing a file and keep storing derivative files representing the evolving conversation, where each message is signed with that user's private key and also using vector clocks.

Sorry for all the lingo, but I'm just thinking about this and I wonder if anything like this exists. A truly untraceable, anonymous, uncensorable, secure channel for conversation that would exist as long as there was a robust enough network topology to handle it. The only way the participants would be able to guess each other's identity is by referencing some prior communication they had, maybe combined with one-way hashes of "something they have" and "something they know", ideally of which there is no record anywhere (so they can't prove the identity to anyone else).

It all comes down to this: how can we have secure conversation sessions where the participants know one another's identity, but cannot prove them to the outside world?
Voxel Rain (seeing randomness)
http://voxelrain.appspot.com/
A random experiment about seeing randomness in some of its forms.
Awesome work environment in Chicago (lots of hot Groupon girls)
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cpg/2402756795.html
Note: I have no idea what company this is (and do not work for them.) Credit to my friend for showing it to me in all its hilarity.
Ask HN:  What startups are near a liquidity event?
Everyone knows that Twitter, Facebook, and Groupon have an IPO on their horizon. I was just wondering, though, what other companies have good IPO/acquisition prospects in the next 12 months or so.
Computer science lacks women, minorities
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=33742
The National Science Foundation says that women and minorities are not seeking jobs in computer science. A job shortage looms.
Flame on A beginner's guide to Ember.js
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/flame-on-a-beginners-guide-to-emberjs.html
Andy Matthews shows how to use the Ember.js JavaScript framework and walks through a Twitter timeline sample application.
A war between China's largest IT companies
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-11/04/c_13589831.htm
"According to the companies' websites, the number of active QQ users in China has reached 1 billion, while Qihoo 360 also claims to have had at least 300 million users prior to June 2010."
Constant 50mb+ updates to browsers is the new norm?
Can anyone enlighten me as to the cause of fairly constant browser updates (all of 'em, chrome, firefox...) that exceed 50mb per week?

Are there that many new features constantly?
Are there that many bugfixes constantly?
Are bugfixes related to recent features?

How are browser updates achieved?
(binary blobs with known ABI's of some kind? Dynamic unshared libraries? Why doesn't my browser need to restart each time? etc.)

What are the driving factors of this "new norm"?
Ask HN: Dealing with News overload
I'm overwhelmed by the amount of news I follow.

Tech news, local and global political news, staying current with science in general, and reading everyone's opinion on how to code, live and lead a company is... too much. I like to stay current, not only on topics relevant to work but also on generic topics on life, society and culture. However this is consuming too much of my time every day, and lately I've noticed too that it "trashes" my attention and capacity to focus, by littering my head with so much input. Not checking my usual news sources makes me much more productive for the day, but builds an enormous anxiety to know "what's happening".

So my question is: how do you deal with this? Do you just not follow what is not relevant to your current work, and disregard other aspects of what's happening in the world? Postpone it to the weekend? Do you know of a news source that is more "compact"?
Ask HN: How much money do I ask for?
I've reached the final stage of interviews for a mid-level dev job.

The interviewer asks me how much money I want to be paid. Having read patio11's essay about salary negotiation, I know not to give a number first. Unfortunately, after attempting to get past the question without answering, I realize that I am not patio11, and cannot get past the question without a lot of awkward silence. I crack and give a number.

How do I know how much money to ask for? Assuming that this is my first non-internship full-time dev gig, and that this job is not in San Francisco, and that I do not have any data about how much this company might pay mid-level devs.
A new boilerplate for MEAN (Mongo/Express/Angular/Node) based applications
http://mean.io
MEAN is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications.
It is designed to give you quick and organized way to start developing of MEAN based web apps with useful modules like mongoose and passport pre-bundled and configured.
We mainly try to take care of the connection points between existing popular frameworks and solve common integration problems.
Ask HN: How Does the FreeBSD Ports Collection Work?
I am a long-time Debian/Ubuntu user looking to get started on a FreeBSD system. I am a little confused by how the Ports Collection works because it seems like all supported ports are stored on the system. Doesn't this take up a massive amount of space? How does the FreeBSD Ports Collection package manager implementation compare to dpkg on Debian systems? I'd appreciate any resources or guides!
No Grinfucking
http://incube.us/?author=14
Virtues of radically honest feedback
Ask HN: Share Your Linkedin Profiles
I've never really been a huge fan of linkedin. Mainly due to the fact that i'd never given it the time of day.

After playing around with it a little bit this weekend though, i see how it could be useful.

I'd like to connect with fellow hn'ers who are on it and present the opportunity for anyone else who'd like to share their profiles to do so.

So.. Let's Connect!

Here's mine: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/tapha

Cheers!

Tapha

EDIT: Please make your link clickable.
Verizon Wireless to FCC: We'll See You in Court Over 700MHz Spectrum Auction Rules
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/verizon_wireless_to_fcc_well_see_you_in_court
Verizon Wireless has appealed the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) rules for its upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, charging the agency with overstepping its boundaries in requiring wireless carriers that purchase spectrum to open up their networks to any mobile device and any third-party application.
Ask HN: UI / UX / Design advice
Many of you are making consumer web interfaces. I'm guessing you like me, get very critical feedback on them since anyone can easily be a critic. Having done several sites in the past, and worked with / and without "bootstrapping" I've taken different approaches: DIY, hiring experts, etc. One issue i've found is that only YOU really know your application and designers often want to "change everything". I think working with designers has been of limited help whereas getting more userfeedback and iterating quickly myself has driven better results. Anyone have PROCESS tips, tricks, suggestions or other thoughts about effective UI improvement?
Ask HN: Recommend book(s) about monetizing a web site/application?
I have a web application in the early development stage. I have a (humble but ambitious) plan to achieve reasonable amounts of traffic compared to the competitor sites or the sites with similar functionalities.

Let's assume (fast-forward when version 1.0 of the site is online) that the amount of visitors of the site are according to the plan. Since the functionality offered by the site is completely free, how does one monetize the traffic to the site? And more specifically, are there any books that discuss the general methods/mechanisms for making money out of "popular" sites?

I've researched for books about monetizing but I've found mostly books about making a product/site popular (something that I humbly assume that is already a fact).

Thank you for your time.
5 golden rules of startups
http://svenduplic.com/post/11141324974/5-golden-rules-of-startups
Do or die.
Speed dating done right - Chatroulette Love Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1x8Ll62QE&hd=1
I'll admit, not the perfect site for this, but I think you might appreciate it.
Ask HN: How do you read HN without “mark as read” extension?
I've been using the Chrome extension to mark all entries on the news page "as read". This means no energy is wasted looking at the entire list of entries trying to find new ones.

This addon has stopped working a few days ago and I can't find a replacement.

How do you guys read Hackernews? Am I missing something? Do you "manually" scan the list for new entries every time you visit?

Thanks for your time.
Show HN: A chrome extension to memorize facts and notes
If you want to you can read about the design process here goo.gl/bQGcu6

You can download it via github at https://github.com/nashmaniac/Muses
Google+ needs to pass more than the geek test
http://interchangeproject.org/2011/07/05/facebook-was-never-a-big-geek-site-and-what-it-means-for-google/
"The consensus I’m hearing from people on Google+ is that it is no Buzz or Wave.

It’s a quality product that has had a successful launch so far. I’ve even heard of people considering switching from Facebook to Google+ or from people who don’t use Facebook but will use Google+. These people all have something in common: they’re geeks and technologists."
PG added css for mobile
Holy shit! The header is a little screwy but at least I can read it. Thanks.

Edit: Apparently still in progress. Can someone not on a mobile check the source?
Show HN: I Launched a “Product Design as a Service” SaaS Startup
https://designline.co/
Are you planning your next design project, but you are tired of waiting months to recruit freelancers and design agencies are way too expensive? An alternative is now available.

Designline.co is a fast and easy way to turn your ideas into premium designs, for one fixed monthly fee. Subscribe via Stripe (pause or cancel anytime), request unlimited designs and enjoy super fast delivery within 24-48 hours.

1. What challenges have you encountered while working with freelancers and/or design agencies?

2. I am looking for beta testers for Designline.co.

3. Your feedback is welcome!