jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
MySpace Devjam today at SF in a few hours ....
http://myspacesfdevjam.eventbrite.com/
EVENT
MySpace devJam

DESCRIPTION
Come learn about new developments to the MySpace Open Platform, hear experiences from developers porting their apps and building a business on MySpace, meet our developer team, and get your hands dirty coding.

AGENDA
10:30am - 11:00am
Guests Arrive

11:00am - 11:30am
Welcome and MySpace Open Platform State of the Union
Main Room: Hear about new updates to the platform from
Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Development for MySpace
Gerardo Capiel, VP of Product for the MySpace Open Platform
Bjoern Heckel, Executive Director of Engineering for the MySpace Open Platform

11:30am - 12:00pm
Building a Business on MySpace
Main Room: Dan Yue, Co-Founder of Playdom

12:00pm - 12:30pm
How to Port Apps to MySpace
Main Room: Sebastien de Halleux, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Playfish

12:30pm - 1:00pm
A Case Study on Monetization: Zynga
Main Room

1:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH and Q&A with developer team
Main Room: Developer Team

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Messaging: How to send Notifications and App Invites to Multiple Recipients
Main Room: Chad Russell and Marco Ensing
Getting started with MySpace Applications
Conference Room:Jonathan Beri

3:00pm - 3:30pm
How to work with Activities streams and activities
Main Room: Monica Keller and Marco Ensing
OpenID and OAuth; how to work with the protocols
Conference Room: Brandon Black and Max Engel

3:30pm - 4:00pm
Migrating from OpenSocial .7 to OpenSocial .8
Main Room: Max Newbould and Chad Russell
Using the MySpaceID SDK for onsite and offsite apps
Conference Room: Kiam Choo and Chakradhar Nanga

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Platform Q&A Panel
Main Room: Misc
OSML and OpenSocial .9
Conference Room: Chris Cole, Max Newbould and Scott Seely

5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cocktail Hour
3241 people have me in my circles and I don't know why
https://plus.google.com/s/bas%20dirks
I don't know if this is a common occurrence, but it seems that 3241 people/(accounts) have added me to their circles, whilst my own circles consist of 12 people. I hardly use g+ but the accounts seem legit. Do I put friend-recommendation algorithms in panic mode, have I been "circled" by a very social botnet, or is there another reason why I have 3241 followers?
What exactly do consultants do?
http://www.iheavy.com/2011/02/28/iheavy-insights-77-what-consultants-do/
The age old question... to which there is actually an answer.
Advanced Rails 4 Authorization with Pundit.
http://through-voidness.blogspot.fr/2013/10/advanced-rails-4-authorization-with.html
It might be interesting for someone.
Feature Samsung Galaxy S5
http://tutorialnew.com/en/caracteristica-samsung-galaxy-s5.html
Today, technology evolves every day at a great speed. The lovers have to be very careful, lest they lose the news. The last major release that marked the scene was from Samsung.
NOVA Point of sale 4.5
http://www.novapointofsale.com/features/
Hi, I want to buy Point of Sale software and system for my retail shop. My friend suggest me to buy NOVA POS 4.5. Can any one suggest me and give feedback about this pos software or if you use some other than also suggest me.
Ask HN: Printing'@'Home?
Hey all,

I have a 3D printer (a simple little Creality Ender 3 Pro), and I would love to put it to good use somehow and help my fellow human beings in need; possibly printing parts for a ventilator during this coronavirus pandemic.

Are there any good sources available to match supply (i.e. people with printers) with demand (i.e. hospitals needing ventilators)?
Ask HN: Registered agent for domain registrations?
Is there any way to register a domain such as .mr which requires a local contact in Mauritania (e.g. a registered agent type service)?

"Registrant must have a physical presence within Mauritania. Registration form must be signed by the Administrative contact and the owner must be a company (foreign or local)."
Tech Support
http://www.iyogi.ca/
Get the Technical Support from expertise of iYogi’s professionals and deploy them to ensure effective maintenance of your PC on 1-877-316-8419 in Canada.
Limpieza de playas con nuevas tecnologías
http://beachcontrol.com.mx/innovacion
La tecnología ShoreLock es una nueva manera de darle mantenimiento a las playas sin dañar el medio.
3 Versions of “Zero to One” with Different Pricing on Google Play Book?
Why are there 3 versions of "Zero to One" (same book) with different pricing on Google Play Book? and none of them are from the official publisher Crown Business.

Are these books legitimate (not pirated copy)?
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Blake_Masters_Zero_to_One?id=M22fAwAAQBAJ&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Peter_Thiel_Zero_to_one?id=LZEwBwAAQBAJ
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Peter_Thiel_Zero_to_One?id=yG2KBwAAQBAJ
Engineers' Union Rejects Boeing Contract Offer 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-boeing-speea-votebre89106k-20121001,0,450639.story
Engineers and union cannot mix. Unions (2 grandparents were card-carrying, my mother-in-law is UFCW) value uniformity across the work force over everything: same salaries, same plan, no performance bonuses, etc. An engineering culture values the leverage that ingenuity and problem solving and should be compensated in a highly leveraged manner (the whole 10X...)
Why is the Squirrel language always in the shadow of Lua?
http://www.squirrel-lang.org/
Squirrel seems to have better GC, including determinism, which is important for games. It's also more familiar with its C style syntax.

I realize it was inspired by Lua, but why has it never taken off?
VNC: Threats and Countermeasures
https://dragonresearchgroup.org/insight/vnc-tac.html
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology which enables one or more clients (aka viewers) to control a remote computer system. VNC is a cross-platform tool popular for remote systems support and administration over IP networks. The remote framebuffer (RFB) protocol, the underlying specification upon which VNC relies, and the varied VNC implementations have a mixed track record.
American Companies More Interested in Outsourcing than H-1Bs 
http://cis.org/miano/american-companies-more-interested-outsourcing-h-1bs
The largest users of H-1B visas are Indian bodyshops that specialize in moving American jobs overseas.
Its time to Catch Valentine Day Card, using your iPhone
http://www.imakerz.com/our-work-valentine-day-card.php
As all we know about the significance of Valentine day so make your mind and say everything using technological way
The Case for Agile Risk Intelligence
http://blog.risk.io/2013/01/the-case-for-agile-risk-intelligence/
Risk I/O makes a case for Agile Risk Intelligence.
Project Tuva (Bill Gates's new Project - Feynman lectures)
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
Requires Silverlight 2 (Works on Safari/Mac OS X 10.6, but some of my folks were unable to get it on Linux).
SlidePay (YC W12) is hiring engineers to radically change financial services
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=7173791
SlidePay is looking to bring on an additional software engineer to help our company grow and continue to make useful, valuable products that people want to use while radically changing the face of financial services.

To be a good fit for our team, you should (these are non-negotiable):
- Be relentless about software quality and testing
- Know how to build a distributed system and do it right - RESTful HTTPS, SOAP, XML/JSON
- We don't expect you to exhaust yourself daily, but you absolutely must be efficient and effective

General requirements for the ideal candidate:
- BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- 2-5 years of previous experience
- Have your own transportation
- Live in the San Francisco Bay area (no relocation)

Candidates that have some (or all) of the following skills will have the best chance of follow-up:
- Experience building one or more successful iPhone and/or iPad applications
- Experience building one or more successful Android applications
- Can say and prove that you are a solid full-stack web engineer
- Have built products that have a long list of positive customer reviews associated with them
- Have leveraged engineering savvy to build content that attracts new customers and grows the business
- Are product centric, understand customer use cases, and have strong design chops

We're a group of talented, experienced engineers that know how to build high quality distributed systems and extensible platforms that solve complex problems the right way (and we have the track record to prove it). We're looking for a software engineer that is motivated, top notch, and wants their opportunity to shine at an awesome startup.

Resumes to joel [at] slidepay [dot] com
SQL Slammer Worm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_slammer_worm
SQL Slammer is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05:30 UTC on January 25, 2003.
Ask HN: Sales tax for a SaaS side-hustle
Hi HackerNews - I am going to start my first SaaS side-hustle. Any tips on when should I start worrying/collecting about sales tax. I haven't yet launched and not sure when will I make my first sale.

Any tips from your experience when you started?

Edit: Based in California, USA. All infrastructure located in California as well.
New packing list for android (soon iOS)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.YRH.PackPoint
Dear reader,

we've launched a new packing list app:

As Featured On Lifehacker.com http://bit.ly/1gCpz4O and Fast Company's Co.DESIGN http://bit.ly/1lHqoLT
"A Travel App That Practically Packs Your Bags For You"
Never Forget Your ______ Again!
PackPoint is an intelligent packing list builder for serious travel pros. PackPoint will help you organize what you need to pack based on length of travel, weather at your destination, and any activities planned during your trip.
Once your packing list is built and organized, PackPoint will save it for you, and then you can choose to share it with your friends and family in case they need help packing too.
Punch in the city you're going to travel to, the departure date, and the number of nights you'll be staying there.
PackPoint will build a packing list for you that takes into account:
- Business or Leisure travel
- Activities you plan on doing
- What you need for an international trip
- Warm weather clothes
- Cold weather clothes
- An umbrella if the forecast calls for rain
- If you're willing to repeat wearing basics like shirts and pants
- If you will have access to laundry facilities
Some expert packing checklist user tips:
- Tap gender icon to change between male and female travelers
- Tap and hold, or swipe, to remove packing list items
Have a feature request or feedback?
Visit http://ideas.packpnt.com or e-mail info@packpnt.com
Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/packpoint
Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/packpnt @packpnt
The Millionaire Mentality
http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/04/10/the-millionaire-mentality/
While J. Paul Getty believed that luck, knowledge and hard work were all necessary (with an emphasis on hard work) to become a millionaire, he insisted the single most required trait, is the millionaire mentality. Do you possess the millionaire mind?
Startup Reactor
http://howtosplitanatom.com/startup-reactor/startup-reactor-my-thoughts/
Six startups give their elevator pitch. Can they succeed? Which one do you think will take it to the top?
Webix Updates Overview: New UI Components, Skin Builder, and More
http://xbsoftware.com/blog/webix-updates-overview-new-ui-components-skin-builder/
The JavaScript UI library Webix has been recently updated with new data selection controls, an opportunity to use WebSockets and IndexedDB, Skin Builder, etc.
Common Misconceptions About Software Engineering
http://cacm.acm.org/news/99799
Many undergraduates have misconceptions about software engineering that lead to an "impoverished" view of industry and that hinder their transition to the workplace.
How to create a GChrome addonthat adds a custom text into the Gmail footer
http://www.scitechexplained.com/2011/03/how-to-create-a-google-chrome-extension-that-adds-a-custom-text-into-the-google-apps-gmail-footer-used-for-postini-message-encryption/
How to create a Google Chrome Extension that adds a custom text into the Google Apps Gmail footer – Used for Postini Message Encryption
Global Market Research
http://global-ability.com/
In the Information Technology world, remote technical support and troubleshooting or virtual geek work has revolutionized the industry more than anything else.
Hacking .edu: Jailbreaking the Degree
http://degreed.com/
are they trying to occupy the niche that once got facebook started?
How to get attention meaningfully
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/innovation/article/how-to-get-attention-meaningfully
Attention is the new currency. Mindshare is the next upgrade. Here are three ways to get them both.
How I phishing attacked myself with Gmail
https://medium.com/cyber-security/d3d44a772ee0
Gmail phishing vulnerability with fake links
End DST - SignOn/MoveOn
http://signon.org/sign/end-daylight-savings-5
Something, perhaps, we can agree on. If you like more "evening light" feel free to get up an hour early and go to work an hour early on your own.
Mobile Apps Development India
http://www.iphoneappsprogramming.com/mobile-application-development
Mobile application development company in India for iPhone and ipad applications. Hire the experienced mobile application developer for all kinds of Mobile Apps Development according to technology specific to different Mobile phone sets.
Ask HN: Need to handle Cash-back processing, what's the best way?
I've 2 kinds of users on my service - Merchants and Consumers (which are actually Merchants' customers). Merchants want to give cash-back to consumers. I handle all technology and analytical part i.e. which Consumer should get how much cashback from which Merchant.

I charge Merchant monthly fee for this solution, and do not take any % cut from the cash-back amount he pays to Consumers.

To handle cash-back processing, Merchants pay me the amount they owe to Consumers - may be on a weekly basis, and then I distribute it to Consumers on a weekly basis.

Now, what are the different costs associated with this approach? Say merchant pays me $100 as a cash-back money, which I want to distribute to Consumers as it is i.e. all $100. How much overhead/processing fee I would need to pay to handle all this payment processing?

Now what's the best way to handle the actual payment processing? Paypal or Check via snail-mail or any other way? Please advice on how can I reduce this expense and increase my margin.

Thanks!
Ask HN: What happened to Idea Sunday?
I haven't seen any Idea Sunday posts for a while I thought it was going to become a scheduled post.
Sweden can read your Internet traffic. (movie) Comments by Rick Falkvinge from The Pirate Bay and others.
http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/17/an-exclusive-preview-of-wiretapping-sweden-a-video-that-really-needs-to-go-viral/#comments
The Swedish blogger interviewed several experts and activists for the movie and cut it all into a witty piece of film making.
Macbook Tablet on sale! Not exactly what I expected either.
http://www.jashsayani.com/wp-content/uploads/macbook-tablet.jpg
I understand this is photoshopped but it almost had me there for a little while. Photoshop awesomeness
Ask HN: Where to Promote a Tech Blog?
I recently began writing pieces of a tech blog that I was hoping to make public, but wasn't really sure how/where to promote it. If anyone has advice on promoting blog posts or where to even figure out what specifically to talk about that would be super helpful. Thanks!
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
programming
Show HN: New version of AutoSpotting with lots of improvements
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6uj4pruhgmun6
These are the main changes in this new stable release. Some were previously available in the Open Source trunk code, while others were built over the last couple of weeks:

- Added support for recently launched EC2 instance types, including up to R6a, released in July 2022.

- Significantly lower Spot interruption rates in the default configuration by

1.switching to the EC2 Fleet API in instant mode with the capacity-optimized-prioritized allocation strategy so that we now avoid instance types with a large likelihood of interruption.

2.increasing instance type diversification by relaxing the instance type selection logic. Previously we enforced instance types with at least as much EBS bandwidth, but this is now off by default.

3.Disabling the handling of Rebalancing recommendation events in the default configuration, which have been seen to significantly increase interruption rates.

- Add support for biasing instance types selection to newer instance generations such as C7g, which offer significant performance improvements but with a slight cost increase. This is now turned on by default but can be turned off if lowest cost needs to be prioritised. The way this works is by penalising older generations when doing cost comparisons by 10% of the Spot price for each older generation, while the current generation isn't penalised at all.

- Lower AutoSpotting costs, by considering the on demand price of the initial instance type configured on the group instead of the on-demand price of the Spot instance type that was launched to replace it.

- Fixed handling of Allowed/Disallowed InstanceTypes in the default configuration, which was previously allowing all instance types and ignoring the list of Disallowed instance types.

- Add support AutoScaling Group-based CodeDeploy deployment groups by triggering CodeDeploy deployments on new Spot instance launches so we no longer depends on tag-based deployment groups.

This is a major release and I recommend anyone using AutoSpotting to give it a try. For now this is only available from the AWS Marketplace, but I plan to eventually release this functionality to the Open Source code.
Ticket tracking tools
http://thoughts.wallproductions.com/2014/01/07/ticket_tracking_tools/
Various ticket tracking tools that can be used when starting a new project or company.
IGNOU BCA Solved Assignments 2010 1st Semester
http://ignou4u.blogspot.com/2009/12/ignou-assignments-2010-download-ignou.html
Download IGNOU Solved Assignments 2010 from IGNOU4U Blog . These Assignments are solved for IGNOU BCA MCA and MBA Students to get the pattern how to solve IGNOU Assignmnets
Writing Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA Webinar - October 18
http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2012/10/writing-plugins-for-intellij-idea-webinar/
Join John Lindquist and author of the Go Lang plugin, Mihai Toader in the first of an ongoing series where we reach out to JetBrains community of expert plugin developers and ask them to share their experiences writing plugins for IntelliJ IDEA.
We just won the award for bitpay integration at Launch hackathon in SF
http://www.anonybox.co/
We launched an MVP for a platform for gating content with bitcoin micropayments (potentially also not-so-micro payments) that we think could appeal to photojournalists whose content is credit to "Twitter" or "Facebook" by only serving blurred or otherwise degraded quality thumbnails or moderate-sized images to the public.

What's there now blurs pretty hard, but bitpay got our vision more than our core judges and gave us the award for best use of their invoicing api!

It was great fun and I think we'll carry this on and evolve it as new friends.

Crash us!
Semantic Web as Collateral Damage from Keyword Search
http://db.tmtec.biz/blogs/index.php/semantics_as_collateral_damage
I compiled my discovery about Semantic Web. At first I present why it hasn't worked, or at least many think so. Then, upon my tests, I share with you what I found, and guess the impact in the future.
Modify Windows 8 for people with special needs
http://tutorialnew.com/en/tutorial27.html
Almost everyone thinks Windows 8 particularly challenging, but there are people who, moreover, still face special physical challenges, to support the area of ​​ease of access Control Panel offers several changes...
Daily funny videos
http://quacat.com?ref=hacker_news
Best funny videos on the internet. Well collected social media videos.
Game Designers in the Social Space
http://civax.net/2012/07/game-designers-in-the-social-space/
Social Game Designer Roles and Responsibilities
Show HN: Rails 4 Landing
http://rails4landing.herokuapp.com/
Github: https://github.com/GAFuller/rails-4-landing
Nvidia big driver update
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/22/nvidia-launches-big-bang-ii
New Nvidia driver released.
Show HN: Weird brandon – Stable Diffusion-generated Joe Bidens
https://kage.dev/weirdbrandon/
I've been working with stable diffusion for an upcoming course I'm developing with my PhD advisor, and in the course of that we wanted to talk about the effects of modifiers on the prompts w.r.t. the generated images.

I put this site together as a demo of the effects of randomly selected modifiers on a single well-represented figure in the stock stable diffusion model's training data, Joe Biden, as a riff on the "dark Brandon" meme that's been going around.

The source is available at https://github.com/pkage/weirdbrandon
Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041738&source=rss_news10
Whether you incorporate these technologies or not, they're not going away, the research firm says
Game Developed (Design, Code, Sounds) by One Man Army
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reversi-nx/id482670057?mt=8
My friend, don't want to be disclosed has made available his first iPad game. Designed, Coded and Sounds are by himself. Really proud of the final output..! AI is really fast :)
RocketHub: App to Help College and High School Students Write Essays
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/27314-essay-helper-for-college-students
Hey guys, I'm a long time reader but this is my first time posting, I'm not sure on the proper etiquette of these things but I wanted to share my goal with you guys. Feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks!
Show HN: How I Test Controllers
http://cani.saure.us/how-i-test-controllers/
I'm working on writing better specs in Rails. Constructive feedback welcome.
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2057632/Hello-Natural-Language-Search-My-Old-Over-Hyped-Search-Friend
This is a rant. It's a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the "killer" solution to the current state of search, something that's happening once again with [Facebook].
IT companies in ahmedabad
http://www.infilon.com/Service.shtml
web designing ahmedabad, website development, open source software development, e-commerce development,pioneered IT company, IT companies in ahmedabad,professional it company in ahmedabad, offshore web development ahmedabad
Dmitry Itskov wants to help you live forever
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4422924/dmitry-itskov-wants-to-help-you-live-forever-by-swapping-your-body
The Russian billionaire talks swapping your body for an android avatar, immortality, the Dalai Lama, and lifelike robotic heads.