jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fire near LANL Whole town evacuated
http://nmfireinfo.wordpress.com
There is a fire very close to Los Alamos National Laboratory. They have begun to evacuate the whole town. Here is some info from someone on the ground: Our main concern is that the Las Conchas fire is about 3 1/2 miles from Area G, the dumpsite that has been in operation since the late 1950s/early 1960s. There are 20,000 to 30,000 55-gallons drums of plutonium contaminated waste (containing solvents, chemicals and toxic materials) sitting in fabric tents above ground. These drums are destined for WIPP. We understand that LANL has been working since late last night to build a fire line in Water Canyon, between the fire and Area G. Over the last 26 hours the fire has grown from 0 acres to about 45,000 acres – about the size of the Cerro Grande fire in 2000.
Freemium - A Transformative Business Model for Education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-ely/transformative-education-marketplace_b_855239.html
"Growing Education Marketplace Good News for Schools and Startups"
Entry has opened for $1 Billion March Madness Perfect Bracket 
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbracket/challenge/
First 15 million people that enter are eligible. $1 Billion for a perfect bracket and $100k for 20 highest scoring imperfect brackets.
Anode - a node.js PaaS on Microsoft windows azure 
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure
anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome node.js community around the world. This is not a service. It's an experiment. That said, the anode team, as members of the node.js community, have released the modules they've built as part of the anode project.
You would think the Chromebook would be ahead of the game.
http://news.dice.com/2011/06/14/samsung-chromebook-lacks-many-important-features/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook has been getting a lot of attention because of its affordability and features. Still, despite all the good things, being fully Web based does bring problems.
HELP: A Simple Cheek Swab Could Save Ankush's Life
http://ankushneedsyou.com/
My friend's nephew has an acute form of leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant in the next month in order to survive. Please visit the link or www.marrow.org and get the cheek swab kit. Thank you.
Show HN: Rimoto, control your computer with WebSockets
https://github.com/vivekascoder/rimoto
Rimoto allows you to control your computer and show some stats from it like cpu & ram usage with the help of websockets.
Ask HN: mobile Site made simple, care to share your feedback?
I just made the latest updates on my site http://www.gmbhnews.com , it's a mobile webapp and will appreciate your feedback, if you have a mobile device (iphone/BB/android/ipad...etc) please to try it on it and give some feedback based on your user experience, and what you will do better or what you do/don't like
10 Free Website Speed Test Tools
http://www.flashuser.net/resources/website-speed-test-tools.html
Below you'll find 10 free speed page tools to test your website speed and to help you optimize it for a better performance.
DogeCoin user donates $11,000 To Bring Clean Water To Kenya 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/18/dogecoin-donation_n_4987224.html
DogeCoin user donates $11,000 To Bring Clean Water To Kenya
Top Five Ways To Use StormDriver
http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/stormdriver-cookbook/
There's a new free web application on the horizon, and this one is a true beast! See our top five cool and interesting things you could do with it.
Ask HN: Where is the usable Restaurant and small business management software?
I've been having issues finding small business management software online, or desktop. All the webapp startups are mostly tailored to freelancers and those with other web startups, and not much in the pot for those running brick and mortar shops or restaurants.

This has gotten very frustrating, and forced me to improvise with spreadsheets, MySQL tables, and other software to cut and paste a small cafe I own.

I was wondering if HN readers had a good recommendation for a solution to this problem, something with at least good basic accounting, planning, inventory, and a customer history/credit system.

It would also help if any startup founders/employees could list usable software they use, or even better, if any YC startups cater to my crowd. As edw519 said, enterprise software sucks. And the same seems to be for its smaller cousin.
Why It’s a Good Thing People Are Shallow (and 13 Ways to Exploit It)
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/shallow-people/
Valuable advice from James Chartrand on what to do to manage other people's perception of your business.
Using Social Security Number as Login Usernames: Benefit Resource, Inc
https://www.briweb.com/
My company uses them for commuter benefit management and I just realized that they use social security numbers as usernames to login to the site. How absolutely bad of an idea is this and how can I get my company to stop using them?
Private social networks for universities
http://www.campusbubble.com
we just launched our website. any feedback?
Show HN: Flat-UI for Mintty/Cygwin Terminal
https://github.com/geekjuice/flat-ui-mintty
After having very little success finding color-schemes for Cygwin/Mintty, decided to make one myself. Inspired by flat terminal (https://github.com/ahmetsulek/flat-terminal) and solarized (https://github.com/mavnn/mintty-colors-solarized) decided to upload the flat-UI color-scheme I use at work. Current version uses a dark gray background though as opposed to the blue in most flat-UI themes.
LinkCollector Portable Edition - bookmarks manager.
http://www.vscsoftware.com
Mobile bookmarks manager for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browser. Import you bookmarks on USB Flash Drive and use it anywhere.
Ryanair Passes on Carbon Tax to Passengers
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/ryanair-carbon-emissions-ets-tax/
Beginning on January 17, Ryanair will charge a €0.25 fee on every seat to cover what the company says will be a €15 to 20 million bill. And the airline is complaining loud and clear.
Kran - entity system in JS - a flexible architecture for game development
https://github.com/paldepind/Kran
I'm the author. Kran is in heavy development and feedback is much appreciated
2012 Predictions  Interview with Designers, Developers and Bloggers
http://designmodo.com/2012-predictions-interview-designers-developers-and-bloggers/
Today we have decided to publish the biggest article on DesignModo. These past days we have worked on an ample research – giving some simple questions to some of the best designers, developers and bloggers from around the world. They have answered these questions their own ways and you will have the chance to read their answers below.

We have chosen the most simple and obvious questions to ask all of them, especially because a new year is coming soon (2012) and the one that is leaving us (2011) brought lots of new things and achievements. We are sure you would be interested to know what would the best of the best say about the things that happened in 2011 and what can we expect in 2012.
Motivate...
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/5b7d5b9bbaf5
Motivation in it's finest form. coded.
The Fallacy of Quantifying the New
http://hashbo.posterous.com/the-fallacy-of-quantifying-the-new
I'd like to provoke a little discussion over the whole idea of being able to spot innovation by asking a set of questions. That it is a fallacy to attempt to describe the new in terms of the old. I'd love to hear other people's ideas and will happily amend the article with what I learn from the discussion.
Media Cover-up Of Obama Impeachment Exposed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRcfy4t6CM&feature=g-all-u&context=G22d406aFAAAAAAAASAA
Quick becoming viral.
Softlayer Data Center Launch Includes 8 Booth Babes
https://twitter.com/casey_lau/status/435787316297089024/photo/1
Original tweet got deleted.

But I took a screenshot: https://twitter.com/lauradhamilton/status/435798329952194560/photo/1
Poll: What keyboard layout do you use?
Some devs don't think it's important to use native OS key handling, which ensures proper support for various keyboard layouts. Not everyone types qwerty, for me it's to reduce strain on my hands and wrists (switching to Dvorak alleviated all my pain).

I'm curious about the ratio among us geeks even though it's not representative of the larger population. So what's your poison?
Professional IDE for building websites is released
http://xtms-client.com/
Use free IDE Xtms Client to build and publish beautiful and unique websites in minutes.
Introducing a simpler blog commenting system
http://jprim.com/introducing-a-simpler-blog-commenting-system/
I decided to come up with a completely custom commenting system that is a super fast, simple and auth-free way to collect all the data needed. The solution – a wordpress twitter hybrid commenting system.
Keeping Your Validations Dry
http://doesideas.com/#/2011/keeping-your-validations-dry
I was reading "Today, Web Development Sucks" and it reminded me of how much I hate having to duplicate code in different tiers. Anyway, I've started work on a project where I'm trying a DRY approach for handling this common problem.
Recruiting engineers at Asana in SF
http://asana.com/jobs
Many of you have heard this from me before, but it is a particularly sweet opportunity, so I thought I would call it out again for any who might have missed.

At Asana, we're recruiting engineers who are interested in working on complex problems and an awesome new programming paradigm & framework as well as enabling groups of people to collaborate together more effectively.

As a company, we are built to last and have an awesome culture that encourages personal growth, wellness and working as a team of peers rather than a command/control hierarchy. Past accomplishments of our team members include co-founding facebook, building android's end-to-end sync system and rebuilding facebook newsfeed.

We're looking for exceptional engineers to join us in our SF office AND if you refer someone to us who we hire, we will love you forever as well as pay you $20k ;-)

http://asana.com/jobs
Ask HN:  How do you ensure that the right people see your application?
Hi,

I have a web application almost ready for launch, which I've built myself without funding. I would really like for people to check this out, give me feedback, review it on their blog, and possibly open the door to collaborate on this and/or other projects.

My question is as the title says; How do you ensure that the right people see this application with these purposes in mind? (besides submitting to HN - which will be my first and most important step).

Thanks, and apologies if this question has been asked before.
Hundreds Gather in NYC for Anti-NSA Guerilla Video Premier
http://www.thensavideo.com/#screening
Nearly three hundred people gathered around 9PM, stopping traffic and packing a street corner to watch a crowdfunded video on the NSA spying programs, projected high on the side of a building from a bike-mounted projector & sound system. Now the video's live and we can all watch it. One impression was just impossible to avoid: tons of people care about this issue, perhaps more than any issue we’ve ever worked on. If we can reach them all and build a movement, I have no doubt we can take apart the NSA’s mass spying operation piece by piece.
Ask HN: How to value domain for private purchase?
Buying the long-inactive {my_professional_name}.com from small fish private party who has been holding on to it for 9 years.
Show HN: Boilerplate Generator Node.js, Express, TypeScript/JavaScript Projects
https://github.com/gunvantsr/expressgen
Hello there, I've built a simple, lightweight boilerplate generator for node.js, express typescript/javascript apps. Here's the Github repo: https://github.com/gunvantsr/expressgen

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
thank, you!
Cool CSS3 Zooming and Tilting Effect
http://www.codicode.com/art/nice_css_zooming_and_tilting_effect.aspx
Tutorial: Add a smooth Css3 tilting/zooming effect along with a background animation to your pictures, divs ...
Caching CSS using localStorage
http://blog.mgechev.com/2012/09/04/caching-css-in-the-localstorage/
Caching CSS using localStorage - advantages and drawbacks.
The whale internet: communication over hundreds of miles
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/11/SP781EBM1P.DTL&type=living
"What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Their low-range frequency calls can travel hundreds of miles through the oceans. So it seems likely that the whales communicated to others about the food source here."
How to access MongoDB from Java code 
http://css.dzone.com/articles/mongodb-and-java?mz=36885-nosql
Here is a tutorial on how easy MongoDB can be integrated with Java application and some advice on how to isolate your code from the database as much as possible, for encapsulation purposes.
Show HN: NYTimes Obj-C API Client
https://github.com/dustineichler/NYTimes
There's a decent level of refactoring happening already, but would love some feedback. Cheers!

https://github.com/dustineichler/NYTimes
AVR founder explains why the embedded world shifts from AVR to ARM
http://blog.energymicro.com/2013/04/24/avr2arm/
Full disclosure: I work for Energy Micro, but I found this story really great. Probably very few of you know that AVR (now Atmel Norway), Chipcon (now Texas Instruments), Nordic Semiconductors and Energy Micro are all from Norway and they are major players in the internet of things / appcessory space. It's a 5 million country with bright engineers and great hardware entrepreneurs. Silicon Fjords FTW! :)
See Which Friends Dont Follow You Back and Vice-versa In Less Than 15 Lines of..Perl
http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/see-which-twitterers-don%e2%80%99t-follow-you-back-and-vice-versa-in-less-than-15-lines-ofperl/
The idea was recently demonstrated in Ruby and was neatly done in 15 lines or less(Anything familiar about the title?). It used a Ruby gem that I couldn't afford, so I had to roll out some Perls of my own.
Hate ChatRoulette? Then You Hate The Internet
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/22/hate-chatroulette-then-you-hate-the-internet
ChatRoulette is everything we love and hate about the Internet, all rolled into one
Why exactly did news.ycombinator.com blacklist us?
I recently posted about a new site that, among other things, pings news.ycombinator.com with quite a few page requests once every two minutes. (original post at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941631).

Our servers are now being ignored by news.ycombinator.com, which we're not really complaining about, but what interval should we be using? I'm hoping there's an acceptable limit that's over 2 minutes but less than once day. Or maybe it's all about total traffic, in which case it would be nice to know a little more about the blacklisting rules so we can make sure we stay underneath it.
Android Markets, a turning point
http://androidfun.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-markets-turning-point.html
That's why Amazon's Android app store is so important because it moves the App store model closer to being the most important distribution channel for software, media and maybe later services and even tangible goods....The fact that Amazon probably has more consumer credit cards than Apple also means that when the buying starts Apple will never be able to keep up because Amazon sells more than apps and media. App stores will never be the same again.
Intel-on-Demand in a Web 2.0 World 
http://intelnews.org/2012/08/11/01-1060/#more-9193
In the United States, the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), “the highest-level intelligence analysis targeted at the key national security issues and concerns of the President”, is increasingly going digital. For that matter, so is much of the output produced by the US Intelligence Community at large. According to AOL Defense News, “The President and his top officials want and will get a single mobile device allowing them to access highly classified and unclassified data wherever they are”. The mobility feature is driven by a desire not to be tethered to a desk or a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). In addition to the obvious benefits of mobility, the digitized PDB allows for a more in-depth and interactive reading of intelligence matters. In the example of the PDB, as the President reviews the nation’s most sensitive intelligence information on a specialized tablet, he can jump back and forth, click on links to take a deeper dive, see follow-up briefings, review background materials for greater context, view videos, photographs, maps and other visual aids. In fact, the PDB has gone from a static page to an interactive assessment of top intelligence concerns, landing it squarely in a quasi Web 2.0 world for the Intelligence Community. That is not to say that the President is checking Twitter, Facebook or the Rasmussen Report’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll numbers. Instead, reports indicate the digitized hardware has been scaled way down. For obvious reasons, specific details regarding the hardware’s composition and features remain classified.
ReKognition API - best Face.com alternative
http://rekognition.com/
Orbeus's ReKognition API - Face Detection/Recognition(+Gender) & scene understanding
Upgrading agile development at uSwitch.com
http://gojko.net/2009/10/29/upgrading-agile-development-at-uswitch-com-from-concept-to-production-in-four-days/
At the agile testing user group meeting yesterday in London, Hemal Kuntawala talked about development strategies and process improvements at uSwitch.com over the last year or so. The start of his experience report reminded me very much of several teams I’ve seen over the last few years, with a process that is seemingly agile with lots of good ideas but also a ton of problems. Judging by the reactions from the audience the situation is very common in development shops today, so his success story is sure to be very encouraging to lots of people out there.
[Support] Syrian blogger and activist Razan Ghazzawi arrested
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-_-Free-Syrian-Blogger-Activist-Razan-Ghazzawi/231120246958192?sk=info
Prominent Syrian blogger and activist Razan Ghazzawi was arrested today (December 4th, 2011) at the Syrian-Jordanian border while on her way to attend a workshop for advocates of press freedoms in the Arab world. Help spread the word and like the FB page.<p>Her blog http://razanghazzawi.com/
Her twitter: http://twitter.com/RedRazan
Brainfuck on Rails
https://github.com/masylum/Brainfuck-on-Rails
After months of development I'm proud to present to the Brainfuck community the first MVC web framework.

(from the github documentation)

# Brainfuck on Rails

Brainfuck on Rails (BoR) is a production-ready port of the popular ruby framework [Ruby on Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails).

## Usage

To use BoR you just need to:

git clone git://github.com/masylum/Brainfuck-on-Rails.git

Then download your favourite Brainfuck compiler/interpreter. I recommend the ones writted in Brainfuck itself. They perform better and you don't need to learn another language to check the source.

## Why Brainfuck?

The main reason of porting RoR to Brainfuck was obviously that BF scales out-of-the-box.

Did you know that Facebook's "poke" is implemented using BF?

## Performance

BoR performance is awesome. It runs thousands of events loops that allow you to execute millions of parallel asynchronous expresions.

The footprint of the framework is almost inexistant. It just needs 20MB of memory. You can even run the framework on the cheap amazon machines!

## Convention over configuration

BoR doesn't need any configuration. We took the best decisions for you. If you don't agree, feel free to fork the project, but I will ignore your pull-requests, bitch.

## Tests

Something that really annoyed me of RoR was _testing_...BDD, TDD, cucumbers, rats... are your serious? We sent a man to the moon with fucking prehistoric computers and we still have to test our web applications?

BoR doesn't need tests, the framework doesn't let you shoot your foot giving you always detailed error messages on compile time.
Create a Grassy Field in Illustrator in 13 Simple Steps
http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/create-a-grassy-field-in-illustrator-in-13-simple-steps/
Illustrator is your best friend, so let’s jump in and kick some grass.
Ask HN: Should it be illegal to discriminate against poor writers/speakers?
Should it be illegal to discriminate against people who are poor writers/speakers but who are good enough to be clearly understood?

Why should society penalize people who have not mastered a messy natural language?
Ask HN: Hacks and gadgets for soon-to-be dad.
Hi,

my wife's pregnant.

Soon (Dez. 2011) i am going to be a father for the first time in my life. Apart of being happy and exited, i am asking myself:

1) Are there any hacks i could apply to this new life situation?

2) Are there any gadgets/apps that might help me with that?

I am not a gadget type of man. For example i don't even have a wirst watch, but i could imagine having a watch being helpful. I like having processes working in the background, so i don't have to remember everything. Have you heard of this guy who recorded every sound produced by his child, until he(or she) started talking? I don't want to be extreme like him, but i am thinking on a similar wave line.

I am going to extend my GTD to this new life, and i am sure i will find plenty of websites about kids stuff like strollers or toys. This question is more about stuff regular parents don't know about. Home automations for monitoring the environment, eye masks (or blindfolds, i don't know how you call them) for taking a naps, apps on the smartphone.. anything.

Greetings from Europe,
M.
[Infographic] Internet Engagement Report: We Have Work To Do
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/13/internet-engagement-report-we-have-work-to-do/
According to a recent study by BearHug and 80Legs, most consumer questions in online ‘feedback communities’ go unresolved. How is your company doing? Are you keeping the tide of public opinion in your favor? Check the numbers to see how you are doing against the competition.
Show HN: A website to submit your abandoned OSS projects to
https://dontabandon.me/
I remember seeing a few threads here on HN and elsewhere encouraging users to show their abandoned ideas and projects. Perhaps a website for listing such projects would be useful (people could find interesting projects they could contribute to or "take over", etc.).
Hashtags For Facebook ... is it gonna be the new spammy thing?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hashtags-for-facebook-fb/faapdkejbecmdhafajigkdhlgeojpfab
A very hacky Chrome extension that lets people use hashtags on #Facebook as they would normally use them on Twitter/Google+.

Thing is, Facebook is already a mess. Without hashtags. Adding ###hashes### everywhere would really scare people away. LOL.

[FYI - I dv'ed the thing. I created a Monster ?]