jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How can I (illegal immigrant/programmer) get legal status in US?
I have been a Javascript/Ruby on Rails programmer for 7 years. Living in the US for 15 years. I came here with my parents illegally, and went through high school, then college. My parents became citizens recently. However, they cannot sponsor me for a green card due to this: to pick up my green card, I would have to leave the country, but since I overstayed my visa I would not be allowed in for 10 years.

Not having legal status was not a barrier to working here for the last 7 years using only a tax id number, but that changed recently. This realization comes at a hard time for me. I am co-founding a company that is on the verge of getting funding, but we likely will not net the $250K that is precondition of the Startup Visa Act. I desperately want to stay in the country I grew up, but my capital is almost gone. Yet I can't go back either due to not having done the mandatory military service at my country of origin. It's a bizarre, Kafkaesque, nightmarish situation.

My lawyer has not been helpful, and has only recommended that I get married to an American citizen, which is not possible with my meager interpersonal resources.

I don't know why I'm posting here, but I'm pretty much hopeless so why the hell not. If anyone can offer some help, advice or a kind word it would mean a lot.
Show HN: Deep Learning Framework from scratch (60 step tutorial)
https://koki0702.github.io/dezero-book/en/index.html
Want to create a Deep Learning framework from scratch?
Checkout this resource:

https://koki0702.github.io/dezero-book/en/index.html

In this book, you will create a deep learning framework called "DeZero" from scratch (from zero), which is the original framework of this book. With minimal code, the framework's modern features are realized. In this book, you will make this small - yet powerful enough - framework in a total of 60 steps. It will deepen your knowledge of modern frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
This is probably a good daily exercise, but I thought it would be especially appropriate today.
DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2275867/DuckDuckGo-Sees-Record-Traffic-After-NSA-PRISM-Scandal
DuckDuckGo Google Tracks You We DontEver since the news hit about the NSA PRISM surveillance program in the United States, many people have become much more concerned about what exactly search engines are tracking about them.
My books of 2012
http://www.tonyhaile.com/2013/01/01/my-books-of-2012/
A collection of Business, Fiction, Science and Philosophical diversions that made me ignore my wife this year.
No Willy No Woman's Hour
http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/no-willy-no-womans-hour/
"Men stand up for women" on Radio 4, whilst the BBC refuses to allow tech women on the programme to represent themselves
Free network and domain tools
https://w3dt.net/
YCombinator!!! We have made some sweet node.js improvements specifically to our EU, AU, and USA users ~ Check it out if you are a Linux or tech guru.
Gray code at the pediatrician's office
http://blog.plover.com/math/
See http://blog.plover.com/math/gray-codes.html for the Perma-Link.
Calling PHP functions with named parameters
http://blog.creapptives.com/post/26272336268/calling-php-functions-with-named-parameters
If you need a simpler solution like call_user_func_array you can use this gist.
Micro-documentary on "A cool tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet"
http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/a-tiny-home-tour-living-in-96-square-feet/
Homes are shrinking in America. After doubling in size since 1960, the national average dropped for the first time in nearly 15 years (by 9%, the size of an average room). But far from this new average of 2,000 plus square feet are the so-called tiny houses. Also called wee homes, mini dwellings, or microhomes, their definition is not exact, but they run as small as 65 square feet.

The video is worth watching.
DDoS on FreeDNS and Default DNS v2
http://status.namecheap.com/
Message in their customers dashboard.

"Dear Customers,
We're experiencing a DDoS attack on our DNSv2 system at the moment - this means that any domains that are using DNSv2 or FreeDNS nameservers may experience intermittent availability issues.
We are currently in the process of mitigating the attack and are working hard to ensure a quick resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused."
Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Not sure if this has been posted here or not, but I just came across it browsing Norvig's site. Thought I would share it.
Show HN: Find profitable niche in App Store and Google Play Market
http://appsleak.com
Hi,

This is my brand new project which helps indie iOS/Android devs discover the most profitable phrase niches in Apple App Store and Google Play Market for their apps and monitor position of their apps in markets.

Please give me your feedback :)

Regards,
Wiktor
Show HN: Villagers – A group travel app
https://villagersapp.com/
I've built Villagers, a group travel app, in an attempt to overcome my own social isolation while working remotely, especially as someone who's friends are now largely parents and much less available for group travel.

I find small group travel magical from an interpersonal and experience standpoint but organizing trips is absolutely brutal. With Villagers, I wanted to see if software could overcome some of those planning challenges with financial incentives, social features, and automation -- especially around messaging.

I love climbing, so I've built a trip to co-work and climb in Red Rocks (Nevada) in November.

https://villagersapp.com/t/gkkfv

I'm looking for 4-8 high EQ tech folks who'd like to co-work and climb. Everyone's identity will be verified and I'll make sure it's a broad culture fit (i.e. polite, respectful, reasonably extroverted, etc.). We'll keep the costs down to less than $500 per person for 3 nights.

For more social proof before you join me on a trip, you can click through my profile on the trip page above to see my LinkedIn work history as an early engineer at Plaid and most recently the founder of a 70+ person company (Tremendous).
New Linux Laptops from ZaReason
http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/
Successors to the Verix 2.5 and the almost-a-desktop Chimera laptop: the Mir 730 and Verix 530.

Both available with up to i7-3920XM and 32GB RAM, and a price tag well under the new MBPs.
Toura Mulberry
http://mulberry.toura.com/
(Native mobile apps w/ familiar web technologies & simple CLI)
Nero AG opens antitrust case against MPEG LA
http://www.scribd.com/full/31797838?access_key=key-2d85ozi4e9l7c1vh9rhb
(via zedshaw)
Keep track of all the Y Combinator startups on one Slinkset-powered site
http://www.ycstartups.com/
Tired of trying to keep up with the 100+ YC companies, I've plugged in the RSS feeds for all their dev blogs.
What's the cheapest living situation possible that still has basic utilities?
I'm curious about possible non-conventional living arrangements to cut out one of my biggest expenses. If location weren't a primary concern (I can telecommute as a programmer, but would still want to live within a few hours of a major city), what's the cheapest living arrangement possible? Buying cheap land and hooking up utilities to a mobile home? What are the fees like to run utilities to new property? Are there cheaper living structures than mobile homes? Are there completely different ideas I'm not considering?

I'd be curious if I could set myself up with a basic home for $40,000 or less that would mean I wouldn't have to pay any other living expenses going forward besides unavoidable ones (property taxes [though I could pick a state without property tax], maintenance and utilities).
A post-mortem on my first AngularJS project
http://johnmunsch.com/2013/09/22/a-post-mortem-on-my-first-angularjs-project/
If you're tired of To-Do lists and Twitter feed examples for AngularJS I can offer a variation. This is a project I did for a t-shirt site and it does quotes using a variety of variables in real time as the user interacts with the UI. I also show how I went back to the existing project to learn how to add unit testing with Karma and Jasmine and a unit testing coverage report with Istanbul. Spoiler: It was pretty easy.
OpenSSL CVE-2010-5298 / CVE-2014-0198
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2192-1/
Two more vulnerabilities patched so expect to be seeing package updates soon.

The 4 year old CVE-2010-5298 is described as

"Race condition in the ssl3_read_bytes function in s3_pkt.c in OpenSSL through 1.0.1g, when SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject data across sessions or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and parsing error) via an SSL connection in a multithreaded environment."

The more concerning part obviously being data injection.

CVE-2014-0198 is described as "A null pointer dereference bug was discovered in so_ssl3_write().
An attacker could possibly use this to cause OpenSSL to crash,
resulting in a denial of service."

Clearly in the wake of heartbleed OpenSSL is undergoing serious scrutiny; and hopefully this results in a wider attitude change:

Just because something is opensource doesn't mean someone has audited the code for you, it's there you can read it yourself ... 20:20 hindsight eh?

Ah well sleep is truely for quitters ... headdesk
Skype options turn out to be worthless
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/06/24/upgrading-skype-and-silver-lake-to-evil/
Am I the only one who finds this pretty shocking?
Bill Gates, Hero
http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/bill_gates_hero.html
It's hard to believe we once saw Bill Gates as the pie-splattered villain and others as the idealists.
Show HN: Hellō, a cooperative approach for online identity
https://www.hello.coop/pages/approach.html
We are looking for feedback on a novel way to build and run a service for you to manage and share your identity.

Demo: https://greenfielddemo.com
Ask HN: How to use small chunks of time productively
We all know about Flow and how long of uninterrupted periods one needs to get into it. I am wondering about how to take advantage of the opposite of those long periods.

Due to many different unforeseen circumstances, I can't get more than about 20-30 uninterrupted minutes at a time throughout the day from 7am-8PM. I am sure I am not alone in this.

All of the tricks of the trade (email once a day, phone off during set periods, scheduled alone time etc...) are not possible for the foreseeable future. I am wondering if anyone has any good ideas for how to be productive in those short windows. Assume that standard work/sleep hours are enforced and that the job is as a Product Manager.
Show HN: Flight Penguin – Like Hipmunk, but a browser extension
https://flightpenguin.com
Hi HN! I'm Adam Goldstein, co-founder and CEO of Hipmunk (YC S10). Today we're launching Flight Penguin (https://www.flightpenguin.com) in public beta as a browser extension for Chrome and Chromium browsers.

Hipmunk was a travel metasearch site that sorted flights by "agony" and showed them in a Gantt chart view. I've missed using Hipmunk ever since SAP shut it down. So I decided to seed-fund a successor along with my Hipmunk co-founder (and Reddit CEO) Steve Huffman. More recently I brought on Max Morlocke (hn: maxmorlocke) as cofounder.

With Flight Penguin, you get a simple, time-based way to search for flights, and it pulls in results from multiple sites. By default Flight Penguin sorts by "pain," so you see the least painful options before the multiple-layover monstrosities Kayak loves to show first.

As some of you know, some airlines are now demanding anti-consumer provisions when they do deals with travel sites, such as insisting that sites hide cheaper flights, hide multi-airline itineraries, and hide certain booking options. We decided not to agree to any of those terms, because we want to make the best experience. Being a browser extension gives us the ability to show the lowest fares without going through airline servers or airline contracts, since we can search and compile all the data from your browser.

You can install it now at https://www.flightpenguin.com. We're also launching a crowdfunding round to keep our incentives aligned with our users: https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin. Happy to answer any questions and would love your thoughts!
Orchard and Fig are joining Docker
http://blog.docker.com/2014/07/welcoming-the-orchard-and-fig-team/
Good and bad news:
- Orchard close
- First Docker office in Europe.
- Fig continue up&running
- New Developer Experience group
Pervasive myths about older software developers
http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/pervasive-myths-older-software-developers/
A topic near and dear to my heart. ;-)
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime, will open source on Tuesday
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/01/30/Facebook-rewrites-PHP-runtime.aspx
Facebook has been rewriting the PHP virtual machine for the past 2 years in an effort to make it faster. On Tuesday, they will announce the release of this software as a new open source project.
Show HN: I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat
https://flat.social
Hi HN!

https://flat.social is a web video meeting app for organising fun online meetings & social events. Each participant can move around and talk with others in their proximity.

Here is a quick demo if you wanna see it in action: https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4

I’ve been on it solo for around a year right now. Tech used is Next.js, Typescript, PIXI.js on the front-end and Node, Mediasoup, Socket.io and Matter.js (physics engine) on the backend.

Feel free to jump in into the demo room (https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo) to say hi, I’ll be hanging out there throughout today.

Would love to hear your thoughts on it!
Pattern - Web Mining Python lib
https://github.com/clips/pattern
More info here: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern
Kenya Shilling Symbol
http://arkafrica.com/projects/kenya-shilling-symbol
Proposed Kenya Shilling Symbol
Vector based UI design tool that generates ObjC
http://www.paintcodeapp.com/
PaintCode is a simple vector drawing app that instantly generates resolution-independent Objective-C drawing code for both Mac OS X and iOS.

You no longer have to tweak and recompile your drawing code over and over again to achieve the desired result.
Google, what were you thinking?
http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/
This article is being blocked, even though it has been submitted by 10+ people by now, and seems highly relevant.

Here's the URL: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/
Show HN: Open-source user onboarding and KYC flow made with Svelte (~50kb)
https://github.com/ballerine-io/ballerine
Hi everyone, We’re building an open-source identity and risk management platform and we’ve just released the first chunk of code, a fully customizable KYC flow & UI, to the public.
We’ve chosen to use Svelte so our flows would be lightweight (it is ~50kb gzipped).
Next up:
- Adding forms and components for it to be used as a full onboarding flow.
- Releasing an open-source case management dashboard, for manual approval of users.
- Releasing an open-source rule engine, to help automate decisions.
We’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any question you’ve got.
And if the rest of the project is relevant or interesting to you, follow us and, we’ll update you once new things are available.
Thanks!
Want to Dispose of Apple's iPod Packaging? Just Add Water
http://mashable.com/2012/10/10/earpod-package-water/
Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money
http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-employer/salary-negotatiations-whats-possible-when-there-is-no-more-mone/
Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (2015) [pdf]
http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~rcfraley/Hudson%20and%20Fraley%20-%20Volitional%20personality%20trait%20change%20-%20JPSP2015.pdf
The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps
https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compatibility.html
Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/business/aldi-walmart-low-food-prices/index.html
Anatomy of a Killing
https://twitter.com/bbcafrica/status/1044186344153583616
Hubble is back
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/update-on-the-hubble-space-telescope-safe-mode
Angelique Sabrina, 14-year-old Next Pop Star
http://doers.bz/interviews/angelique-sabrina/
How to Find Broken Links and Email Yourself a 404 Not Found Report
http://blog.algorithmia.com/broken-links-404-not-found-report/
Hangman Messenger Chat Bot
http://m.me/hangmanchatbot
An Objective Look at Yelp - 71 million unique visitors in Q1 2012
http://timgaweco.com/do-yelps-finances-point-in-trouble
Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Convicted
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-jury-convicts-mexico-drug-lord-el-chapo-after-three-month-trial-11549992888
Darpa Robotics Challenge Announcement
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=74d674ab011d5954c7a46b9c21597f30
Letter to an Astrophysicist
https://felipetavares.com/post/letter-to-an-astrophysicist/
Sitting can kill you
https://www.behance.net/gallery/27811469/Sitting-can-kill-you-Infographic
The day iPhone was launched
http://www.techmeme.com/070110/h0740
Browser Spyware Watchdog
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
Technical writing – what is it and where can I find it?
http://3di.com.pl/what-is-technical-writing/
Germany: Killing of Kassel district president leaves locals aghast
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-killing-of-kassel-district-president-leaves-locals-aghast/a-49060746
In Defense of Negative Emotions
https://medium.com/@footholdcoach/in-defense-of-negative-emotions-c89b6bd124f5
The Olde Country
https://granolashotgun.com/2019/06/05/the-olde-country/
Be aware that it's not an easy road. It won't be like in a TV show – Klokki
https://oyestartups.com/interviews/klokki-rule-based-automatic-time-tracking
High-tech city farming grows food faster without sunlight
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/05/high-tech_dutch_farming_grows.html
Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person [video]
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_shepherd_a_broken_body_isn_t_a_broken_person.html
Konami Code creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto has died
https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/635424-konami-code-creator-kazuhisa-hashimoto-has-died
Webbkoll – Website Privacy Analyzer
https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
The getFingerPrint Method - Oh Dear
http://in-the-attic.co.uk/2013/03/18/the-getfingerprint-method/
Technology predictions for 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/28/10-ways-tech-will-shape-your-life-in-2018-for-better-and-worse/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fowlertechtrends-1124am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Can your city change your mind?
http://www.curbed.com/2016/11/16/13637148/design-brain-architecture-psychology
ISO-IEC presentation on Dual_EC_DRBG [pdf]
http://jtc1info.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ISO-IECJTC1_N11866_R_SC_27_Chairman_s_Presentation_to_.pdf
Chinese collider expands particle zoo
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/chinese-collider-expands-particle-zoo
Modes of Writing
http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/modes_of_writing/
U.S. Postal Service set to close 2,000 post offices
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/us-postal-service-set-to-begin-closing-2000-post-offices/1
The Xconomy 2010 Gadget Gift Guide
http://www.xconomy.com/national/2010/12/03/the-xconomy-2010-gadget-gift-guide/
A Startup Marketing ROI Framework
http://www.markevans.ca/2015/03/12/a-startup-marketing-roi-framework/
OnSavvy Blog — Win freelance projects with your dream clients
http://blog.onsavvy.com/post/50898839058/freelance-how-to-win-projects-ideal-clients#.UZtMjCtASj0
Algorithms as Employees: Holding Corporations Accountable
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3945882
Hurdling the Unique Challenges of Selling SaaS to Enterprise Clients
http://www.b2bnn.com/2017/03/hurdling-challenges-saas-enterprise-sales/
"The Hacker News Frontpage Protects Itself"
http://statspotting.com/the-hacker-news-frontpage-protects-itself/
Future: Join and Const-Eval
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/future-join-and-const-eval/
Drilling a Square Hole [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5AzbDJ7KYI
Pax East gaming conference invades Boston
http://theorangeview.net/2011/03/pax-east-gaming-conference-invades-boston/
Google Announces 'Highlights' for Inbox
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/10/make-your-emails-stand-out-in-inbox.html
Shopify for Health Care
https://www.healthtechstack.io/p/shopify-for-digital-health
6 questions to ask about microservices and containers
http://sdtimes.com/guest-view-six-questions-to-ask-about-microservices-and-containers/
What $1M Won’t Buy You
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/26/what-1-million-wont-buy-you
The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation [pdf]
http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/Teaching/Sci199_03/dollar_auction_1.pdf
Show HN: MassCode – released to v0.5.0 with new feature tray Assistant
https://github.com/antonreshetov/massCode/releases/tag/v0.5.0
San Andreas-like fault found in eastern U.S.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/andreas-fault-eastern-us.html
Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation
https://tobiasahlin.com/blog/meaningful-motion-w-action-driven-animation/
Show HN: Klout Feed - get your daily Klout Score via RSS
http://klout-feed.jupo.org
Early Web Datasets and Researcher Opportunities
http://blog.archive.org/2021/03/12/early-web-datasets-researcher-opportunities/
Sydney-based career options I wish I knew about when I was younger
http://www.splinter.com.au/2013/10/20/career-options/
Mock data for software testing
http://www.mockaroo.com/
The trip from a junior to a senior developer
https://dev.to/bensassialadin/the-trip-from-a-junior-to-a-senior-developer-2pdf
Researchers from uiuc show how to put 3D objects into photographs
http://engineering.illinois.edu/news/2011/10/17/puting-a-picture-a-picture
The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom (1987) [pdf]
https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ma/31_3-4/wilhelmsen.pdf
The world’s smallest extracellular needle-electrodes
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6869.html
Add 500+ Influential Women as Friends on Twitter
https://Twixxr.com?yc
Watch people code in real time with Livecoding.tv
http://mashable.com/2015/03/12/livecoding-tv/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
Can Fighting Poverty Make You Happy? – Greater Good
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_fighting_poverty_make_you_happy
University of Chicago researchers discover empathy in rats
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-new-model-of-empathy-the-rat/2011/12/08/gIQAAx0jfO_story.html
KAMISHIBAI for Xamarin.Forms(New page navigation library)
https://github.com/nuitsjp/KAMISHIBAI
Bit – Distributed Code Component Manager
https://github.com/teambit/bit
First Article on My Startup
https://jrbj.biz/news/single/zhorty-llc-looks-to-future-with-artificial-general-intellegence/56
Personalities Test
https://www.16personalities.com/
SIM card seller, college dropout, millionaire at 22
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/sim-card-seller-college-dropout-millionaire-at-22-boy-from-naxal-area-scripts-incredible-story/articleshow/64678808.cms
They built a life-size Noah's Ark
https://arkencounter.com/
Crab Nebula Gamma Rays Confound Scientists
http://news.ucsc.edu/2011/10/crab-pulsar.html
Cycle of binge and abstinence lowers ability to control alcohol use
https://www.miragenews.com/cycle-of-binge-and-abstinence-lowers-ability-to-507804/
What is school for? [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc
This is The HackStore (Installous for Mac)
http://www.hack-store.com/the-hackstore/#more-12
ReactJS, whats it all about?
https://offroadcode.com/blog/1850/reactjs-whats-all-the-fuss/
Netlify Plus Hugo 0.20 and Beyond – Netlify
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/04/11/netlify-plus-hugo-0.20-and-beyond/
Modernize libdispatch for Swift 3 naming conventions
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0088-libdispatch-for-swift3.md