jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Rules Engines for enforcing business rules
Have any of you had any experience using any Rules Engine libraries? I'm working on a game and I'm trying to separate rule logic from application logic to let me easily test variations of game rules.

The game is built in Rails, but I'd like to hear about experience with any language.

Things I'm interested in:
-How the rules logically fit into the rest of the application (especially with MVC apps)
-How the rules are stored (ie, in db table, yaml file, ruby file, etc)
-Schema
-Anything else!

Thanks!
Ask HN: Why is it ok for my uni to have a Marxism society but not a Fascism one?
*DISCLAIMER: I think both are abhorrent*

Have they just abstracted the deaths that lead from Marxist thinking and ignored them? Surely one could make the same argument for fascism. I am genuinely curious, because my university certainly won't give me the answer, nor the student union.
Atmosphere Framework 0.7 released: GWT, Wicket, Redis, XMPP, Async I/O
http://jfarcand.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/atmosphere-0-7-released-websocket-gwt-wicket-redis-xmpp-async-io/
This release contains an impressive number of new functionality and bug fixes. The extensive list of fixed bugs for that release can be read here, and the new functionality like Native GWT, Wicket, Async I/O, etc.
ASK HN - Good worksheet for estimating startup costs?
http://news.ycombinator.com
I'm looking for pulling together some numbers for starting a tech startup (technical services at first - not so much a product company yet, but that shouldn't matter much) in the SF Bay Area. I've seen a few worksheets that are "fill in the blanks" but I'm looking for something that would say things like:

Salaries: $500,000
Benefits: (Usually 15% of salary)
Rent: ($15 per square foot is usually a good estimate)

Seems like this is one of those things that should be pretty prevalent since many people have to go through the exercise but I can't really find anything very good.
Giving away free GoGaRuCo ticket
http://blog.danielfischer.com/2010/09/14/win-a-free-pass-to-gogaruco-2010/
GoGaRuCo 2010 is a Ruby conference in San Francisco. It's also very popular and sold out. Want a ticket? We have one to give away.
New phone includes web, email, translator, coffee maker, and harmonica
http://www.pomegranatephone.com
It's bold, it's funny, it's not real, but I want one anyway.
Review my mapping startup idea
http://mapfaire.com
I've made an MVP for a service that lets you create a customized map with your points on it - can be used as a store locator / office listing / shop finder, anything.

Any thoughts / feedback?
Show HN: CraftBox, Run a Minecraft Server on Your Phone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.craftbox&hl=en_US&gl=US
I want to share my newest Android app with everyone on HN. CraftBox allows you to easily run a Minecraft server on your Android device. It is published in the Play Store, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula.craft... , and posted on GitHub: https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/CraftBox

I know I am late to the Minecraft scene. I am a bit old to have been part of the original craze, but I now have a son who loves the game. Now that I have played it with him, I can see the appeal.

I am an open source developer and the creator of UserLAnd, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula, so when I get excited about something, I am always thinking about how I can get involved and contribute to the community. I read an article on how to run a Minecraft Server on your phone, https://www.xda-developers.com/run-minecraft-server-android/ , but I figured I could do better by not making people go through as many steps. So, that is a goal... make this simple.

This is the first public release and there are many things that can be improved. You can see some of the issues I am going to be fixing soon in the GitHub issues.

Anyway, please check it out and tell me what you think.

Thanks!
Corbin
My Students Don't Know How to Have a Conversation
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/my-students-dont-know-how-to-have-a-conversation/360993/
"Students’ reliance on screens for communication is detracting—and distracting—from their engagement in real-time talk."
PURE Plagiarism of my personal Website
http://www.marcozanobini.com/
its a 1:1 copie of my personal award winning website http://attackemart.in
Show HN: Broker-ha – Golang MQTT broker with clustering capabilities
https://github.com/bkupidura/broker-ha
Broker-HA is golang MQTT broker with clustering capabilities build for K8s.
Its based on `mochi-co/mqtt` and `hashicorp/memberlist`.

Features:

- Paho MQTT 3.0 / 3.1.1 compatible (drop-in replacement for Mosquitto [MQTT 3.0/3.1.1])

- Clustering!

- HTTP API
How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website
http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-analyze-and-improve-your-bounce-rate/ 
One of best ways to increase reader engagement is to make sure that your site architecture interlinks related content and displays them in a way which encourages the user to click around.
Ask HN: Presenting at a Conference
Has anyone on HN ever presented their startup at a startup conference? If so, would you mind sharing which conference and what has come out of it since?
Show HN: Raize – No-Added-Sugar, Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Bakery
Hey HN,

I just launched a specialty online bakery creating no-sugar-added, low-carb, gluten-free cookies and cookie sandwiches called RAIZE (eatraize.com).

Instead of sugar, we use a blend of natural sweeteners including stevia, monk fruit, and erythritol. Instead of grains, we use almond, hazelnut, and coconut flours.

Why? The key to long-term metabolic health (including fat loss, reducing energy spikes/crashes, lowering inflammation, and more) is to avoid blood sugar spikes (see the company Levels Health for more info on this). This means eating less sugar and fewer refined, high glycemic carbohydrates like traditional flour.

Prior to RAIZE, the "better-for-you" dessert alternatives consistently left me dissatisfied, and there was no good fresh bakery option. So, I partnered with a classically-trained pastry chef who formerly led the baking program at one of the top culinary schools to develop our recipes and launch RAIZE.

If you're looking to still enjoy dessert while eating less sugar and fewer refined carbs, check us out at eatraize.com. We deliver nationwide.

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
Blogs are from the past, welcome feathers: blogless writing and sharing
http://feathe.rs
In our team, we all like to write. We want to share our thoughts and opinions. But blogging has it's own set of limitations and expectations that don't always fit with how we write.

You need to manage a platform (either hosted or as a service) with everything that comes with it - setting up a theme, defining tags, categories and so on. You need to constantly write otherwise a new visitor may think your 2 months old blog post outdated and that you've moved on. Visitors also expect consistency of topic, while we may want to write a variety of posts about different aspects of our life and being. A flame post about the actress we hate, or a personal post about how life is going in general. What's more, the internet as we know it never forgets, while our opinions change.

The word "Blog" comes from the combinations of the words "web" + "log", meaning that all blogs result in a list of all articles. We want to focus on each article and we want to give that article only to our readers. There are enough networks and services that allow you to share what you write with interested people, why do we need them to register and follow your blog as well? Rather than taking up your time to create an intricate blog, why not just offer a direct link to the article and save your readers time too? When that article is no longer relevant, and is not shared or read anymore, we believe it should slowly and automatically disappear.

We believe writing is an important part for everybody's personal growth, but a blog with all it's limitations and expectations can be daunting to the casual writer. If you are curious and believe in our manifesto check out http://feathe.rs and sign up. We will open it up for everyone soon.
Ask HN: Wireframing software of choice?
There are a million options out there...from Balsamiq to Keynote to bar napkins.

What are you using...and why is it the best choice?

I expect lively discussion!
Ask HN: Peter Thiel's talk at MIT tonight
Hi,
is anyone from HN going to Peter Thiel's talk at MIT tonight (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/nov-innovation-series-peter-thiel-2/)? I wanted to go but unfortunately, it sold out before I knew about it. Would anyone who is attending be so kind and write a short summary afterwards for those who cannot attend? I think that I would not be the only one who would greatly appreciate it.
We've been asking them to learn to code. They've been listening.
http://mariarociopaniagua.com/2012/02/21/all-of-the-code-new-developments-pt-2/
We've been asking them to learn to code. They've been listening.
The First Website of a Beginner Coder
http://www.findthepixel.com/
I'm an aspiring entrepreneur currently teaching myself how to code in order to build a MVP for a product I've fully mocked up in Illustrator and see a huge need for. This idea came to me when learning about the :hover pseudo class in CSS. I basically just created a bunch of divs for each "pixel" element with height/width of 25px and transparent background, absolute positioning in %, then set the :hover class of each div id with a url of the background image and the specified height and width.

I figure this will be a cool "sandbox" for me to play around with as I continue learning. I haven't yet reached Javascript (done w/HTML _for now_ and nearing completion of CSS), but when I do I imagine there will be some more cool effects I can add.

Anyway, feel free to comment or offer suggestions for resources that may help me along the way as I learn to code. I know the site is bush league (the title is intentional btw) but even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And hopefully it will put a smile on the faces of a few Star Wars fans :)
Why the browsers must change their old SSL security (?) model
https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001232.html
Cites a paper which highlights flaws and threats in the Certificate Authority model and proposes incremental improvements.
work at a startup with good pay and normal hours
Building DropTh.at, an OpenResty web events server
https://github.com/cagerton/dropthat/
You won't randomly land in a room with anyone else, so here's a specific exaple URL: https://dropth.at/#Or67N1ta7MKRy1LSk-cTkg
Why I choose Github pages
http://romuluscrisan.com/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github-pages.html
Github pages is something I've recently heard of but really like it from the begging although I didn't exactly knew how is working.
Google Privacy -Great article and maybe creates opportunity
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/what_larry_page_doesnt_underst.html
After I read this it made me think wouldn't it be great if i could use cloud storage ie. Dropbox or other cloud networks to store my email and not be reliant on google
AngelConf Video Transcript and Quotes
http://entrepreneurialactivism.com/2009/03/17/how-to-be-an-angel-investor-angelconf/
Here is the AngelConf video from Justin.tv including a transcript and quotes from the speakers
Second Reality source code (demoscene)
https://github.com/mtuomi/SecondReality
One of the most legendary pieces of early PC demoscene. Released in 1993, Second Reality by Future Crew is a very influential production.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=63
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA
Git Patch Management with GitHub Screencast
http://github.com/blog/214-the-new-improved-github-gem
GitHub released a new command line tool to make it easy to manage patches submitted by several forked repositories.
The End of Hotmail - Never Looking Back
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/the-end-of-hotmail-never-looking-back.html
The world is moving to Gmail, about damn time.
Help Repeal NY State's Antiquated LLC Publication Requirement 
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/03/help-repeal-ny-states-antiquated-llc-publication-requirement.html
Those of us who have set-up LLC's in NY State know well of the antiquated 'publication requirement' the State still imposes on so many of its entrepreneurs. (In 2007 alone, 50,000 LLC's were formed in NY State!).
Show HN: Weekly coffee delivery for startups
http://getgravity.co
At many of my past jobs we always had the problem of running out of coffee or just getting the same kind of coffee every single week. That's why we started Gravity Company. We love coffee. I think it has an import role for the startup efficiency and productivity, so why not have someone deliver excellent sourced coffee to your office weekly.
Ask HN: Favorite Design Blogs?
Or just websites about design in general.
Show HN: REPL-Driven Development for JavaScript
https://github.com/anonimitoraf/skerrick
Lisp-inspired interactive REPL editor tools for Javascript
Garage48 Johannesburg winner MediMinder created an app for African healthcare
http://garage48.org/blogger/garage48-johannesburg-2011-projects-launched
Garage48 is an event to build new web and mobile service working prototypes in one single weekend – in 48 hours. 6 teams presented their services on Sunday Demo night on 4th of December at Vodacom World centre, Johannesburg, capital of South Africa. International jury announced Garage48 this year last event winner as Mediminder, that is building mobile platform for African healthcare.
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress  
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
Standards support in Opera 10 beta (just released)
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/standards-support-in-opera-10-beta/
Seems stabler than the alpha (for example, works with Facebook now) and has some new UI functionality, in addition to what's in the article.

Download here: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/
I am designing and developing free websites for startups on HN
I am a freelance web designer, and as part of an effort to fill out my portfolio and connect with new people, as well as provide a community service of sorts, I am offering free websites for startups.

This will include a free custom design as well as development using XHTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP/MySQL. I can develop a custom CMS or use Wordpress/Joomla/Drupal based on your requirements.

Any startup that does not have a budget for a professional website can get one. For startups that do have a budget for a website need to pay. However, I won't verify this, I will just take your word for it.

To get your free website, email me at alexwyser@gmail.com

PS. You are under no obligation to pay me or provide a back-link or even place an acknowledgment on your website. But if you can do any of them, I would appreciate it.
Open Letter To All DJs Playing In Germany
http://de-bug.de/musik/10423.html
"Make sure not to copy in our country"
Ask HN: Achieving financial freedom through freelancing
I am working as a full time freelancer from around 7 years now but it's been major ups and downs in terms of income which never led me to achieve financial freedom.

Is there a good way to earn good amount and achieve financial freedom?
D. Crockford on JSON: "An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular"
http://www.dzone.com/links/the_making_of_json_by_douglas_crockford_an_influe.html
JSON had a lot of influences on its design. It didn’t just come out of my head. It’s based on a lot of things that I had observed over the years. The first – maybe the greatest – influence was Lisp. The thing that was brilliant about Lisp was it used exactly the same representation for programs and data. Originally, the idea was that you would have programs that could act on themselves as data, and do interesting things. … Another influence was Rebol. Rebol’s a more modern language, but with some very similar ideas to Lisp, in that it’s all built upon a representation of data which is then executable as programs. But it’s a much richer thing syntactically. Rebol is a brilliant language, and it’s a shame it’s not more popular, because it deserves to be.
Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria
https://medium.com/better-humans/6644463c9a96
My country is undergoing a political crisis. People are on the streets, protesting. Sharing is appreciated. You can follow the protests on twitter using #ДАНСwithme.
Ask HN: Looking for a really lightweight Linux distro for my netbook
I'm currently running Jolicloud which I like, but it's running pretty slow and my HD has almost no space left (with almost nothing but the OS and a few apps on it).

Any recommendations for something that is small and fast? Running Chrome is more or less the only thing I need it to do.
Apache Thrift Library
http://thrift.apache.org/
Facebook`s internal RPC Framework
Encapsulation in Javascript
http://www.jonathan-jackson.net/encapsulation-in-javascript
Thought that it was interesting and others might enjoy it as well.
Stop writing bad web copy, startups
http://blog.webcopyplus.com/2009/01/07/web-writing-the-good-bad-and-ugly/
Basic advice that is violated over and over again. Kathy Sierra also had a lot to say about this on http://headrush.typepad.com/.
Ask HN: Irradiation to reuse surgical masks?
High-quality surgical masks require nonwoven fabric that appears to be in short supply at WW level. Reusing masks is typically a big no-no due to obvious reasons. Autoclaving them is not an option either as it would damage the fabric. However, what about reusing the (somewhat) extensive food irradiation facilities to reuse masks faster? Viruses are notoriously resistant to the usual kGy doses used for food, but my (uneducated) guess is that it's a matter of dosage, RNA is a complex fragile molecule. Is there any blocking element that would prevent mask reuse after suitable irradiation?
Ask HN: Why is the stock market up 30%+ from pre-Covid levels?
I've been thinking about this for a while, and wrote about it in my blog (in profile) as I've been trying to hedge what I see as the inevitable market blow up.

Does anyone have any explanation as to why asset prices are up so much across the board apart from fed easy money policy? Is there any way this could end well, or continue trucking on indefinitely (3-5 year time-frame)? And what are some effective ways to mitigate downside risk?
Inbox 2.0 isn't coming, it is here.
http://www.xobni.com/blog/2007/11/14/inbox-20-isnt-coming-it-is-here/
My response to a recent NYT article on Inbox 2.0
Show HN: Hyper minimalist habit tracker for Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ihabit/ngbhaiedpgcjihgkkanmacofdekipmnd
I'm an undergrad at cal who's trying to get better at React and building apps. I'd love any feedback on the general UI and user experience, new to coding products!

If you don't want to download it, but still want to give me feedback, app demo vid & pictures in official launch https://tinyurl.com/reactlaunch

Please let me know your thoughts, critical or supportive! Looking to learn
Ads on paulgraham.com -- Check the bottom of any PG essay
http://www.adpinion.com/
Interesting YC startup plugging in "relevant ads". Check the bottom of any PG essay i.e.: http://paulgraham.com/writing44.html
Fat Free CRM: For the People by the People
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/fat-free-crm-for-the-people-by-the-people/
Michael Dvorkin, the creator of Fat Free CRM, talks about lessons learned in Silicon Valley, how he got involved with Ruby on Rails, and the intent behind Fat Free CRM.
Ask HN: Is Twitter sign in down?
I'm not able to sign in with any of my accounts.
PartialExecuter: Reducing WebAssembly size by exploring all executions in LLVM
https://leaningtech.com/reducing-webassembly-size-by-exploring-all-executions-in-llvm/
WebAssembly is commonly used as part of web applications, and minimizing its size is especially important.

As part of the latest release of Cheerp, our C++ to WebAssembly/JavaScript compiler, we have introduced a powerful new LLVM optimization that aggressively reduce WebAssembly output size at compile time.

We have named this optimization 'PartialExecuter', the key idea behind it being taking advantage of known function parameters to find inner code blocks that cannot ever be possibly executed.

Such blocks can then be completely removed from the compiled output, significantly reducing its size.

What makes this pass more powerful than typical Dead Code Elimination is the ability of reasoning over all the possible executions that the code can take, while being robust to memory stores and side-effects. Moreover, PartialExecuter can even reason over loads as far as they refer to read-only memory. This latter capability is especially useful to drop code from complex functions whose behavior depend on input strings (i.e. printf).

We think this work may be of interest for the HN community, and we welcome feedback and questions.

In-depth blog post: https://leaningtech.com/reducing-webassembly-size-by-explori...
The one book you need to read to get in YC
http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/13/book-founders-at-work/
Did I forget to say you may be quizzed on this book on the interview... ;-)
Patent Troll Myths
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/09/guest-post-patent-troll-myths.html
[A]bout 26% of the patents [in the study] were inventor owned, and a comparison with the percentage of individual inventors represented in litigation generally shows that trolls serve an important role in enforcing individual inventor patents.
Apple.com currently has a self-signed certificate (fixed now)
https://apple.com/
apple.com currently does not have a valid certificate. Note that I'm accessing the page from Europe, so this is not the issue with China MITM-ing iCloud.
Zed Shaw & Dan Kaminsky Talk About Autho.me on Twitter
http://www.curated.by/splaice/zed-shaw--dan-kaminsky-talk-about-authome
I have been intrigued by the autho.me project. Last night it was great to see a conversation between Dan Kaminsky and Zed Shaw about specifics of autho.me.
Free Ligature Symbols
http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/
A webfont containing ligature symbols.
Blood-like microbes spew out of Antarctic glacier
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/45981
Microbes isolated for a million years make quite an entrance.
Yes, U.S. authorities can spy on EU cloud data. Here's how
http://www.zdnet.com/yes-u-s-authorities-can-spy-on-eu-cloud-data-heres-how-7000010653/
EU citizens and businesses are warned against using the cloud over the risk that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies can obtain your personal records. Here's how the U.S. can acquire your data, even if you're based in the EU.