jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I own some very well-followed social accounts. How can I make this a business?
I run a number of Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram accounts which hundreds of thousands of followers in large niches (fashion, technology, film, music, student, etc) and through these can grow these and other accounts at a rate of 10,000 per day if I work on this full time (currently am a consultant with a background in content sites hence social/traffic driving background. Not necessarily looking to do a startup (i.e. a lifestyle or e-commerce business would work for now) but open to all ideas. As content is very hard to make money from (sadly) I'm thinking to sell a product through the site, i.e. clothes, possibly with a local focus. Am I thinking too small? I have a lot of experience in community management so can grow lots of accounts of engaged people and have sent millions of clicks to sites, but would like to use this for myself rather than clients so I have a fanatical startup focus. Any ideas really appreciated, thank you!
Why Culture is Key
http://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/02/culture-is-key.html
Ten core values of Wealthfront, our engineering manifesto and why culture is so strategic to our company.
Software decoding of the 1541 disk drive GCR data in realtime
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index.php
The code solves a real, practical problem that people have been struggling with for 30 years.

The 1541 contains a single 6502 CPU clocked at 1 MHz, 2 kB of RAM and 16 kB of ROM. With such modest specifications, Commodore concluded that the 1541 was not capable of decoding the GCR data in realtime. Commodore compatible 5.25" floppy disks store data as magnetic polarity reversals along 35 concentric tracks on the surface. The key to the solution lies in looking at the problem from a novel angle. We'll use plenty of self-modifying code. This is not really a trick, but an established technique on the 6502 processor. The sax instruction is a mix of sta and stx; it tries to write the contents of both A and X to memory, and due to the NMOS process used to manufacture the 6502, zeroes are stronger than ones, so bus contentions resolve into bitwise-and operations. Thus, we can use sax to store a subset of the bits in A (or X) to memory without clobbering the rest of the register. Furthermore, we can perform a bitwise-and operation using the sbx instruction (a mix of cpx and tax) with an operand of zero, which will leave the result in X.
Where can I find great/new programming tech talks?
I'm a 4th year CS major about to graduate in May, but not starting work till July. I'm really interested in soaking up as much CS knowledge/experience during these few months so I can try to bring myself up to speed with the 'latest and greatest' in industry. Here are some examples of talks/videos I've watched recently that I found interesting and would love to find videos similar to:

* Arista's EOS: http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/eos

* Palantir White Videos: http://www.palantirtech.com/government/videos/whitevideos

* Scala at Twitter: http://ontwik.com/scala/scaling-scala-at-twitter-by-marius-eriksen/

Thanks
The China Bubble's Coming -- But Not the One You Think
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/23/the_china_bubbles_coming_but_not_the_one_you_think
One exit few have considered is for the PRC (China) to adopt dollars as their external currency. It would seem to strengthen their faith in the dollar while actually not changing the fact the central government still controls the exchange rate into and (crucially) out of yuan.

No I don't think it is likely as it would seem like an abrogation of national sovereignty. But it would probably work long enough for the PRC to sell a significant number of dollars.

Just thinking outside the bamboo box here.
Nerd Dating: Y Combinator/WePay's Bill Clerico & Jenny McCarthy
http://www.bravotv.com/the-millionaire-matchmaker/season-5/videos/jenny-mccarthy-has-a-thing-for-nerds
Episode is next week...kind of awesome!
Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html
From the article:

Mr. Carroll [Blackwater's lead in Iraq] said "that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq," Mr. Richter [the State Department investigator] wrote in a memo to senior State Department officials in Washington.
Introducing TelAPI
http://www.telapi.com/blog/introducing-telapi-todays-most-feature-rich-telephony-api/
Introducing TelAPI – Today’s Most Feature Rich Telephony API
Paradigms of Computer Programming
https://www.edx.org/course/louvainx/louvainx-louv1-01x-paradigms-computer-1203
"This course covers functional, object-oriented, and declarative dataflow programming in a unified framework."

Probably a fantastic course that follows CTM, which I have always thought to be in many respects SICP's sequel: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConceptsTechniquesAndModelsOfComputerProgramming
Riak To Support Secondary Indices
http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19806
With Secondary Indices, users can tag their data with values, and can later query across their tagged data with simple SQL-style queries.

The following query, for example, will select the first 20 keys tagged with country of ‘Germany’ and category of ‘bread’, ‘sausage’, or ‘beer’, sorted by category and name:

FROM food
WHERE country_id='Germany' AND category_id IN ('bread', 'sausage', 'beer')
SORT BY category_id ASC, name_txt ASC
SLICE 1 TO 20
"Google Alarm" Firefox addon alerts you when you're sending data to Google
http://fffff.at/google-alarm
Browser extension visually & audibly warns you when a page contains tracking bugs like Google Analytics, AdSense, YouTube embeds, etc.
Show HN: I ported an XBox Live Indie Game to HTML5 in 2 days.
http://www.luminance.org/blog/code/2012/04/14/bytown-lumberjack-html5-behind-the-scenes
Site seems to be getting hammered, so here's a direct link to the demo:
http://hildr.luminance.org/Lumberjack/Lumberjack.html
Ask PG: do you want HN to be a general news site or not?
Hi Paul,

I know you wrote the HN guidelines specifying 'whatever hackers find interesting' is appropriate. However people take this two ways, either:

A. Whatever gets upvotes is OK, even if a large chunk of the articles on HN are about suicide bombers, the TSA, political leaks, etc and duplicate existing sites like Reddit.

B. Things that specifically Hackers find interesting - as opposed to the general population - belong on the front page.

IIRC you appealed for people to submit Scheme stories a while ago after an influx of new users came to visit, so I'm hoping for 2) to be your answer. If so, is there anything we as a community can do, asides from flagging articles (which we're already doing), to stop HN further becoming a general purpose news site?
Ask HN: Who/What will do for Prolog what Clojure has done for Lisp?
This question is inspired (i.e. stolen) from Alex Miller at http://twitter.com/puredanger/status/19451154832293888.

Whether you like Clojure or not, it's difficult to deny that it's generated a lot of buzz for Lisp in general. As a nice side-effect, there has been a rise in the number of organizations willing to take a chance on using Lisp for their products and services.

I see some parallels between Lisp and Prolog as families of programming languages. There are likely as many hobby implementations of Prolog as Lisp. Likewise, there is a gross misunderstanding of Prolog and Lisp among the general programmer population. Also, it's unclear how to get started with Prolog and Lisp concerning: implementations, IDEs, documentation, and gurus. To varying degrees, Clojure provides a solid answer to these common misunderstandings for Lisp, but what about Prolog?

Where is the logical successor to Prolog?

Some potential candidates are: Oz, Mercury, some sub-Prolog implementation embedded in another language, some other logic language altogether (e.g. Datalog).

Thoughts?
Programming Amazon EC2
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449393687
My friend Jurg wrote the new O'Reilly book about EC2 that got published today.

Use the code DDPAZ to get 50% off on the e-book ($13.99).
Letter to Maharashtra CM
http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2012/11/a-letter-to-maharashtra-cm.html
Response from judge after girl gets arrested in india for protesting over hartal after the death of a political leader.

Harthal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartal
In short, you just shut down the whole state for a day.

News article : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/21-year-old-girl-arrested-for-Facebook-post-slamming-Bal-Thackeray/articleshow/17276979.cms
Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years?
As everyone else on the planet I'm sure, I would like to become a millionaire and within a tight time constraint: 3 short years. HN is a constant source of excellent articles, amazing intelligent advice and smart people, so how would you go about it? Saving, Stocks etc etc?

And also, please don't ask as to why I want to have a net worth of $1M and why I wouldn't just want to get 200k and live comfortably etc. I'm just interested in hearing people's thoughts about this idea :)

Thanks
Free Raspberry Pi co-location in Sweden
https://fsdata.se/server/raspberry-pi-colocation/
Swedish citizens are offered free- yes, free- co-location of a Raspberry Pi in fsdata's datacenter in Helsingborg, Sweden. 1Mbit/s, 100GB/month, 0.00 SEK per month.
If you aren't a Swedish citizen, ask your facebook friends to co-locate the server for you.
Don't miss out.
How can I keep learning on my 1.5 hr commute?
I drive about 1 to 1.5 hrs to work lately and am bored with my music and the radio.

I'm the one driving so no video. Are there any good audio podcasts out there on web dev, web news, media?
Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
https://legiblenews.com/speed
I've been working on building "the fastest news website" for a few reasons:

1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.

2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.

3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.

I put together the speed page at https://legiblenews.com/speed to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it's also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).

Some feedback I'm interested in receiving:

1. What's your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?

2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at https://legiblenews.com/speed/websites/associated-press, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like https://legiblenews.com/speed/audits/cumulative-layout-shift

Sorry ahead of time, but I can't fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there's something you think that's missing please post it, but I can't promise that I'll add it.

If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!
Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
Today I have found out that hibernation is by default disabled in my Ubuntu 18.04 distribution. After this, I found this 11 month old post https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/re-visiting-hibernate-on-ubun... where I realized that the Linux community does not seem to be able to implement a working implementation of hibernate. Is there any reason why this is a difficult problem? I would like to have an option in my OS like VM's have where everything that is currently running is saved on disk and can be resumed later without issues.
Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser
https://lookscanned.io
Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
Ideas for Computing
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
I've been writing my ideas down for years. This is a 100 ideas forming an idea of how computers could be.
Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the noise of 802.11
https://github.com/mothran/bunny
This is a project I have been working on for a while now and I would love some feedback.
AMD reveals Steamroller CPU architecture details
http://techreport.com/articles.x/23485
At the Hot Chips conference today, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster revealed details about the company's next-gen Steamroller CPU architecture. Steamroller promises to address Bulldozer's shortcomings, and AMD expects a 30% increase in instructions per clock.
How to write good code with C++11
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/Keynote-Bjarne-Stroustrup-Cpp11-Style/player
C++11 style talk by Bjarne Stroupstrup at the GoingNative
Ask HN:  Good resources for learning+getting into Finance / Trading?
I'm starting to be intrigued by Finance/Trading/Stock Market, but sadly know nothing about it from a professional perspective. I don't even know what to ask for, the same way a complete luddite wouldn't know how to ask for more than "What are some good resources to learn to start building computer programs?" So with that said, where would one start?
Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/minnesota-clarifies-free-online-ed-is-ok/2012/10/19/456a0a3e-1a37-11e2-aa6f-3b636fecb829_blog.html
“Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free,” said Larry Pogemiller, director of the office. “No Minnesotan should hesitate to take advantage of free, online offerings from Coursera.”

Props to the people in charge there for reacting swiftly. Nice to see.
Debian Squeeze Frozen 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2010/msg00009.html
Debian Squeeze Frozen
Out of 15M brackets, none remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbracket/group/all/standings
Original title: Out of 15M brackets, only 1 remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/there-are-no-longer-any-perfect-brackets-left-in-the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-003853949.html
Purely Functional Configuration Management with Nix and NixOS
http://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-management-with-nix
Configuration management is the foundation that makes modern infrastructure possible. Tools that enable configuration management are required in the toolbox of any operations team, and many development teams as well. Although all the tools aim to solve the same basic set of problems, they adhere to different visions and exhibit different characteristics. The issue is how to choose the tool that best fits each organization's scenarios.
Stuff - Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Too much stuff is a bad thing. Everything I owned in 2000 would fit in the back of my station wagon. If it wouldn't fit in the wagon, it was out. Now I'm married, and covered up with stuff. When you get married, it's custom for people to give you more stuff. Most of it you don't need. Or want. But you can't just throw it away, after all, it's free stuff. (Sorry if this has already been posted, I didn't see it in the list and can't search....)
HN yellow pages (Google docs)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArBfYaOI31DfdEo0TWRFN09QUHVjWHRKQUFLZGFEcnc&hl=en#gid=0
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tFgepUuuBHSgfeuKPKccxTA&hl=en&authkey=CIqAl7wO#gid=0
Show HN: Bloomberg Terminal for Individuals
https://gorillaterminal.com?ref=HN
I made a site to do investment research faster and more efficent, with links to 10k 10Q, charts, industry averages, macro economic data, hedgefund reports and much more
Schema migrations merged into Django master
https://github.com/django/django/commit/9aa358cedd1ad93c0f4c20700db7016651dc0598
The Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django
Ask HN: Why isn't the GitHub attack being covered by the news?
Why is this not in the mainstream news? Even if it's not the Chinese government directly it's a group with significant power inside China -- so why isn't this being considered a foreign attack on a US company?
Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16031149
Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.
Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
https://cantsayanything.win/2022-10-transparent-moderation/?talk
Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.

Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.

What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.

You can try this for yourself on,

https://www.reveddit.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/

Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.
Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service
https://atlantic.money
Good morning everyone! My co-founder and I recently moved to the UK after working at Robinhood for over 5 years. We were stunned at the fees it was costing us to move money across borders with existing fintech solutions, so we decided to start Atlantic Money - the world’s first fixed fee (with no FX markup) money transfer product. For £3 you can transfer up to £1M. Let us know if you have any questions!
A resume template in TeX
http://github.com/sc932/resume
This is my resume in LaTeX. Feel free to fork and edit.
A new kind of fractal?
http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal
I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.
Programmer Passion Considered Harmful
https://medium.com/on-coding/programmer-passion-considered-harmful-5c5d4e3a9b28
omg guys front page
Idaho law criminalizes secretly filming on farms
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/28/idaho-gov-signs-aggagbillintolaw.html
"Debate about laws governing filming on farms in Idaho started in 2012 when someone hired by Mercy for Animals got a job at a Bettencourt Dairies operation in Hansen and filmed workers caning, beating and sexually abusing cows.

The video was used to prosecute employees at the dairy, and it convinced Idaho’s dairy industry to create a worker training program to help prevent animal abuse. But it also set in motion a concerted effort by the dairy industry to make sure such embarrassing videos weren’t made in the state again."
Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?
I'm in the middle of a job search. Here are some stats:

- 50 applications submitted
- 21 no response
- 3 no longer hiring
- 11 rejected without interview
- 15 first round interviews
- 9 technical interviews
- 2 rejected after technical interview
- 2 onsite

I have ~6 years of experience as a self-taught fullstack web developer with a bit more professional experience on the frontend, though I'm comfortable with both sides. I've had a senior level title. All of my performance reviews have been positive and I don't have trouble doing the work. My current CTO said that I was one of the smartest developers on our team of 20. I got similar feedback from colleagues at my last company and I was promoted there 4 times in 3 years. I blog regularly about programming, including posts that have been on the front page of Hacker News. I spoke at a conference this year. I have a decent amount of work on Github, including some contributions to well known open source projects.

I feel like the numbers for this job search are not good but I can't figure out what the problem is. A large majority of the companies rejected me without an interview, either sending a form letter or not response at all. There hasn't been any feedback about why they're not interested in me. This has been especially true of larger, more well-known companies. I'm completely qualified on paper but there's no interest.

I've also started to lose confidence for technical interviews. They feel so arbitrary. Some times I do really well. Sometimes not. But in both cases, I don't feel like my skills have been tested or demonstrated. When I do well, the stars lined up and when I don't, they didn't. The whole thing makes me feel increasingly insecure about my ability to build a career, even though I've demonstrated that I can do the work once hired.

Is this the average experience or is there something going on here?
Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701567&cid=sem_edit_iwk__ibm_ron_0510
Apple 10.8.2 update breaks VirtualBox
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965
Focus Daily Standups on Value, Not Activity or Individuals
http://samsworldofno.com/focus-daily-standups-on-value-not-activity-or-individuals/
Strength For The Weary: My Fight To Change The World
http://sarahallegra.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/strength-for-the-weary-my-fight-to-change-the-world/
Video of the Day – IP for Peace
http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2012/05/11/video-of-the-day-ip-for-peace/
Tubi TV Goes Big With Free VOD
http://multichannel.com/news/tv-apps/tubi-tv-goes-big-free-vod/373892
Fixing a broken agile process
http://www.ronsho.com/2014/01/fixing-a-broken-agile-process/
Badges for GitHub: Earn badges for your code and compare yourself to friends
http://badgercub.com
Mouseless Monday #1 - Vimium on Google Chrome
http://luigimontanez.com/2010/mouseless-monday-1-vimium-google-chrome/
Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool
http://gource.io
A guide to rhythm in web typography
https://betterwebtype.com/rhythm-in-web-typography
Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)
http://factmyth.com/types-of-propaganda-propaganda-techniques-and-propaganda-stratigies/
Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.html
Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform
https://github.com/penpot/penpot
Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today
http://m1.marketwatch.com/articles/BL-MWTELLB-13314
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
https://matt-rickard.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-makefiles
Social Sentience and the Origin of Markets
https://steemit.com/money/@marketstack/social-sentience-and-the-origin-of-markets
You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?
https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2?gi=dcc0f1e64b5e
Using python to force-choke your desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbhvpSfJpKI
1x Programming (1999)
http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
Installing Windows 8 on a MacBook Air
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393005,00.asp
Could HTC Succeed with its Own Open Source Mobile OS?
http://ostatic.com/blog/could-htc-succeed-with-its-own-open-source-mobile-os
K8slack – Kubernetes Logs from Pods to Slack
https://github.com/albertollamaso/k8slack
How Not to Think About Job Creation
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/labor-market-policies-often-wrong-job-creation-tool-by-ricardo-hausmann-2019-07
Are FTP Programs Secure?
http://www.sitepoint.com/are-ftp-programs-secure/
AI has bias problems that need to be fixed, and diversity is the key
https://www.eyerys.com/articles/people/1360640216/opinions/ai-bias-problem-must-be-fixed-create-smarter-ais
The Black Death was horrible but had benign economic effects (2013)
https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2013/10/21/plagued-by-dear-labour
Assimilated: A LaunchBar 6 theme that looks like Big Sur
https://github.com/benjaminwil/assimilated
Beiersdorf Forecasts Higher Sales on Nivea Brand Strength
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/beiersdorf-forecasts-higher-2016-sales-on-nivea-brand-strength