jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Implications Of How A VC Is Funded: Government
http://www.markpeterdavis.com/getventure/2008/03/implications--3.html
In my post, How A VC Is Funded, I listed four way in which VCs obtain capital to invest in startups. Each of these four sources of capital has slightly different implications for entrepreneurs. In this post, I will discuss the implications of a government funded VC.

Both the federal and local governments have created venture funds that seek to harness the free markets to achieve a social objective. The federal government has one fund that seeks to identify and incorporate new technologies into the military. Many state and city governments use these entities to stimulate local economies.

Capital Constraints
Similar to both the family office and public funded funds these funds recycle capital from one investment to the next. As a result, capital constraints can be an issue if they don’t have robust capital reserves are timely exits from other portfolio companies.

Furthermore, these funds are subject to the whims of legislators. It’s possible that your capital reserves could be re-appropriated to another state agency with a change of administration or policy.

Double Bottom Line
As aforementioned, these funds typically invest both to increase the size of their capital pool and achieve a social objective (e.g., supporting new technologies, creating tax revenue or decreasing unemployment). As a result, you should be thoughtful about the motivations of these VCs. A pre-requisite for their investment may require moving the company to a new location or taking the time to license the product to the government.
Buy a shirt and we will donate 100% of the net profits to help people in need.
http://www.borue.org
Please check us out. We sell shirts and raise awareness and funds for world causes. 100% of the net profits generated from the sale of our shirts go towards a cause. This month, we are raising funds for patients featured on Watsi.org. Thank you for the support guys. Borue.org
Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Hand Gesture Holographic Interface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqs_S-zEBY
https://plus.google.com/u/1/109794669788083578017/posts/CUG25sb8sPF
Overwhelming Task Management
http://dammitcoetzee.com/2014/05/overwhelming-task-management/
A very simple method of classifying tasks that makes it possible to determine exactly when you are butting your head up against a wall.
BrightContext Adds Support for Node.js
http://www.brightcontext.com/brightcontext-expands-real-time-platform-with-support-for-node-js-2/
You can now process real-time data streams in your Node projects using BrightContext's JavaScript SDK.
Twenty Essential Web Apps to Learn a Foreign Language
http://www.masterineducation.net/20-essential-web-apps-to-learn-a-foreign-language.html
If you’ve been putting off learning a second language, now’s the time. With all the web applications available, it’s easier than ever to learn that language that you’ve always wanted to speak.
Show HN: Crowdsourced OK Tornado Assistance Resources
http://oktornado.crowdmap.com/
I didn't make this, but a friend of mine did. Crowdsourced resources for tornado assistance resources. He's also done this for ice storms, wildfires, and other wide scale natural disasters

We're getting hammered with a pretty nasty line of supercells on a dryline, FYI

Why am I posting this: 1) It's pretty cool 2) You ought to set up the infrastructure do one for your area. The sooner the better.
6 Ways to Get Your Kickstarter Funded 110%
http://budapestholidays.blogspot.com/2012/03/5-ways-to-get-your-kickstarter-project.html
Basic, useful tips on funding any kickstarter project.
NTSB releases video animation of Colgan Air 3407 Crash
http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/2009/Buffalo-NY/AnimationDescription.htm
The NTSB page doesn't work well, it can also be seen here: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090512/NEWS01/90512007/1001/NEWS
Social sports betting platform - a new tech promising startup
https://www.bethall.com/#about
A new great start-up
FreeBSD News now part of the iXsystems family
http://www.freebsdnews.net/2014/04/09/freebsdnews-net-part-ixsystems-family/
iXsystems is proud to announce their recent partnership with freebsdnews.net
Free and Interactive Brain Training Apps for iOS
http://appsnuke.com/625/brain-training-apps-for-ios/
If you are a fan of strategy games and brain training activities, then we have a solution for your. Check out these smarty apps for iPhone.
We the Data. Getting back control of the WWW
http://blog.wikibrains.com/wordpress/?p=32428174137
What has happened to the good old fashioned collaborative Web? Increasingly individualistic through filter bubbles and data monetization...is it still a WWW or I-nternet
Show HN: SimpleAuth.com - Free Social Sign On/Multi-point Sharing/Contacts
http://www.simpleauth.com
Hey everyone... I know that there are mixed feelings about social sign on around here, but I'd like to show this off anyhow.
SimpleAuth is a completely free Social Sign On / Multi-point Sharing / Contact Management (for letting users invite their others from their friend lists or address books).
SimpleAuth also addresses a major issue with the largest commercial player in the market -- the fact that with other services, your provider API Keys are tied to their domain (YOURNAME.THEIRDOMAIN.COM). With SimpleAuth, you create a CNAME and all the API Keys from the providers are tied to your domain. Should the unthinkable happen, you won't be left out in the cold asking your users to re-register.
We're like the SimpleGeo of SSO/sharing/contacts. We've got some pretty neat stuff in the pipeline that will be the revenue driver, but the SSO/Sharing/Contacts will always be free in their full glory.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Show HN: Bookly, we use gamification to help people read more books
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookly-book-tracker-tbr/id1085047737
My name is Tudor, founder of Bookly.
We started as a game studio(we are still making games) but had this idea running in my head for a while. There are apps that help you run more, that help you workout, or walk, and make a habit of all these physical activities, but there isn't one that helps you make a habit of reading. That is where Bookly came from. We took everything we learned in games and applied to reading, making it fun, engaging with a sense of progress.
Why Most Acquisitions Don't Happen
http://www.inc.com/articles/2010/09/why-acquisitions-fall-apart.html
Serial entrepreneur John Warrillow speaks with Beringer Capital's Perry Miele about what drives a buyer to walk away from a deal.
Project Lirullu. The most human-friendly CAPTCHA.
http://lirullu.com/
Project Lirullu. The most human-friendly CAPTCHA.
NSA OS X hardening tips
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_10_6_hardeningtips.pdf
Some simple steps to make your OS X a little more secure. I especially like the suggestion to cover iSight with opaque tape.
Re-inventing Hotmail - The Next Generation of Personal Email
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/05/18/re-inventing-windows-live-hotmail-the-next-generation-of-personal-email.aspx
Window Live Hotmail has been making tremendous improvements.

I really like the graceful integration between other Window Live products (they call it Windows Live Essentials now), such as SkyDrive.

Another awesome thing is the office products on the web. These products look just like the desktop with the Ribbon UI :)

Maybe..this is a good time to try Hotmail again.
Writing Websocket applications using Apache Wicket
http://jfarcand.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/writing-websocket-application-using-apache-wicket/
Writing Apache Wicket application is quite simple. Adding Websocket support to Wicket applications is event simpler! How? By combining the power of the Atmosphere Framework with Wicket, you can quickly transform any existing Wicket application into a powerful HTLM5 application
Calexico release live album under creative commons
http://calexico.cashmusic.org/
Calexico: Free stream and download of a 2009 concert from Nuremberg.
Check out my project: reddit comment widget
http://reddit.commentwidget.com/
Since reddit offers JSON I thought one might put this to use.. After some JS hacking and getting lost in details for quite a while this is the first version I dare making public. Any suggestions?
Cal Berkeley Takes on The World
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Cal_Berkeley_Takes_On_The_World
Or at least a few of the World's problems. Funding for a number of ideas to help solve world issues.
How do you stop scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second?
My server is on a VPS so the bandwidth is limit.

how can I prevent robot except Google to crawl my website down. how to prevent it make hundreds of times a second to my site.

thanks.
Founder of VisualWebsiteOptimizer talks about how it all started.
http://mixreadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/today-we-start-our-weekly-interviews.html
Today's interview is with Paras Chopra, the fouder of VisualWebsiteOptimizer - a dead-simple way to create A/B tests.
We wanted to find out how he started and developed his ideea, what were his biggest lessons he's learned so far and what tips he has for all the future entrepreneurs out there!
Women 2.0 » Berkeley Pitch Mixer: Another Step Forward 
http://www.women2.org/berkeley-pitch-mixer-another-step-forward/
It’s a no a brainer for me to believe that organizations such as Pitch Mixer (founded by Ayori Selassi and Kalimah Priforce), Black Founders, Latino Startups and NewMe Accelerator are new beginnings for folks like me (i.e., poverty-laden life, teenaged mother with an undying entrepreneurial spirit who was not exposed to the “startup ecosystem” during my youth).
Learn Jenkins CI from Experts
http://jenkins-ci.org/content/juc-agenda-posted
Join us to find out how enterprises are using Jenkins. Here's what you can expect:
- Workflow in Jenkins
- Distributed Scrum Development with Jenkins
- Moving Existing Enterprise Systems to CI and Deployment with Jenkins
Mass Can Be 'Created' Inside Graphene, Say Physicists 
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25914/
Could this be the first step towards artificial gravity, or inertial dampeners?
100% social search
Does anyone know if a search engine is being developed that relies 100% to curate content. And if not 100%, then largely relying on user-curation. Google is doing this, but they don't seem to be leaning that heavily on users. There approach is more like suggestions and total curation. Any thoughts on this?
Show HN | Hacker News Desktop App
https://hndesktop.wordpress.com/
Just did a quick desktop app for HN .. Check it out and tell me what you think. Your feedback is appreciated.
Life is Too Short for Meetings
http://lifeistooshortformeetings.com/
Every second, an average of 1.8 people die. Keep track of how many died while you were having a meeting. Put things in perspective.
Ask HN: Consumer Applications vs Enterprise Applications
Anybody have experience in making both? What are the pros/cons of making one compared to the other?
Risk I/O Research Paper – Adopting a Real-Time, Data-Driven Security Practice
https://www.risk.io/data-driven-security?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=pages&utm_campaign=compare-risks-to-risks
Out of the plethora of vulnerabilities that exist, just a few are responsible for most Internet breaches. Vulnerability volume, density, or a score assigned last year is not nearly as important as the actual, real-time risk that a given vulnerability poses. This paper examines how to utilize data to make intelligent decisions that minimize risk to applications and infrastructure.
Playframework,MongoDB and SecureSocial
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/10/26/playframework-securesocial-and-mongodb/
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/10/26/playframework-securesocial-and-mongodb/
Show HN: Do you need a Tourist Visa to travel to Europe?
https://schengen-sigma.vercel.app/
Hi HN! This is a simple app I built to see whether you need a tourist visa (=Schengen Visa) when traveling to Europe.

Problem:

1) It isn't clear whether your passport allows you to enter Europe (here, only Schengen states for now)

2) Finding out requires a bit of Googling (though nothing too crazy) and reading through documentation online.

Solution: Simply select your country to figure out if you need a Schengen Visa.

Obviously, this isn't a revolutionary app, but I can add more here if there's demand ie find the nearest embassies based on your location, waiting times based on port of entry/major time spent etc.

I am an absolute newbie at frontend programming, so feedback is more than welcome.
Install local jar with Maven
http://www.baeldung.com/install-local-jar-with-maven/
Install local jar with Maven and the maven-install-plugin
Ask HN: Moving from Services to Products and Content?
We’re a small two-man web design/development team. We’ve been working on client projects (mobile apps, web apps and websites) for the last few years and want to transition into making our own products, be them apps, SAAS, content, courses etc. We’re open minded to what we want to make but know that we want to move away from client work. This will involve a shift in mentality from simply “doing” to explicitly “not doing” and instead planning and researching first.

What tips, blog posts, books, communities etc. would you recommend to help shift into the more entrepreneurial mindset?
Another Way To Virtually Explore A New Neighborhood: MapJack.com
http://www.mapjack.com/
Check it out. It is much better than google street.

" Mapjack.com showcases a new level of mapping technology. What others have done with NASA budgets and Star Wars-like equipment, we've done on a shoestring budget, along with a few trips to Radio Shack. Specifically, we developed an array of proprietary electronics, hardware and software tools that enable us to capture an entire city’s streets with relative ease and excellent image quality.

Our coverage area doesn’t stop street-side, we also include walking areas such as Parks, Universities and famous walking streets."
Futuristic Laptop Design
http://funsubstance.com/post/3388/futuristic-computer-design/
A super cool concept of what may happen to future laptop technology.
Winning Features vs Keeping Features
http://adamcovati.com/product-management/winning-features-vs-keeping-features/
Winning vs. Keeping is how I'm starting to look at features that we develop. It's something might help to balance expectations and demands from other groups within the company.
FlitterWeb – The Index of the Internet
http://www.flitterweb.com
Share, discuss, and discover your favorite websites with FlitterWeb, the Index of the Internet. Users can promote their homepages, write reviews for their most loved and hated websites, and discover new webseries, webcomics, online stores and more.

Yelp is famous as the ultimate review website for businesses in the real world, but there is no equivalent for online businesses, blogs, and other web-based content. Where is the best place to buy dresses online? What's the best stock trading website, the best dating network? Where can I share my fan-fiction, or develop my career?

Come to FlitterWeb, read our user reviews, and find the perfect site for you!
Pranav Mistri may give up his dream job to work for the Indian PM Narendra Modi
http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/samsungs-think-tank-head-pranav-mistry-keen-to-work-with-pm-narendra-modi/articleshow/35741537.cms
According to an Economic Times report today, Mistry wants to come back to India to work with the new Prime Minister. "I am waiting for him to pop the question... and ready to say bye to my lab," he told the news paper.
27 places to get a free science education
http://www.citizensciencecenter.com/27-places-to-get-a-free-science-education/
Good roundup of free courses
Spain's tourism boom keeps troubled country partying
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/10/business/goodman-spain-tourism
Madrid (CNN) -- Summer could not have come soon enough for Lloret de Mar, a tourist resort north of Barcelona that is brimming with young travelers from Britain, Germany, France and Russia.
By day, they flock to the main beach with its steep descent into the Mediterranean, and by night they crowd the streets lined with clubs called Londoner, Hot Spot or Zoo.
It is a scene repeated up and down Spain's extensive coastline along the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and its famous archipelagos, the Balearic and Canary Islands.
Spain's economic crisis is in its sixth straight year yet tourism, worth 11% of GDP, is holding its own, one of the few bright spots on a bleak horizon.
Summer, of course, is high season for tourism in Spain. The country is the world's fourth-largest tourist destination, behind France, the U.S., and China, according to the UN's World Tourism Organization, based in Madrid.
Show HN: Your UI into a CMS
https://yep.so/p/%F0%9F%A7%A8-dynamite
Hey all! After using some CMS and i18n libraries, I thought that the overall experience could be improved.

So I made Dynamite:
Make any website editable by your team incredibly fast. (Copywriting + Localization)

Would you like to use it? (waitlist on the website)
Ask HN: Fiction stories, advantage of ebooks
Using ebooks as a medium for reference books has many advantages, for example: hyperlinks, text search, embeded audio/video, etc.

What advantages (other than easier distribution) do you see in the ebook medium for fiction stories?
Tocca.js
http://gianlucaguarini.github.io/Tocca.js/
Super lightweight script ( ~1kB ) to detect via Javascript events like 'tap' 'dbltap' 'swipeup' 'swipedown' 'swipeleft' 'swiperight' on any kind of device.
Ask HN: What are some open source softwares to host online conference
Hi HN,
I am looking to host an online event and I am having a hard time finding software which can help me host an online conference
Ask HN: Share some interesting puzzles
For example, xkcd's Blue Eyes:

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

"On this infinite grid of resistors, what's the equivalent resistance?"

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2072/on-this-infinite-grid-of-resistors-whats-the-equivalent-resistance

Someone just posted this one, which prompted me to make this post:

http://vincentwoo.com/2013/03/08/above-and-beyond-the-affirm-job-puzzle/

The definition of "interesting puzzle" is up to you. It could be a logic game, or thought experiment with no solution, or just something that you've found fascinating.
Show HN: Composure- Asana for Lawyers
https://www.composure.law/
Composure is building software for in-house legal departments to manage intake, workflow, and team utilization → think Asana for Legal. We are unlocking the ability for legal work to be quantified for the first time. Check it out and if you want to learn more, feel free to DM me on LinkedIn.
Adding Namespaces to Java Properties
http://tech.optify.net/adding-namespaces-to-java-properties/
An article describing adding namespace support to the native Java properties file format.
Show HN: Platform for building enterprise Apps
http://www.chattysolutions.com
Hey, can you guys let me know what can be improved about this site and product? I would be happy to provide a trial for any of you.

Thanks,

Chris
Free Smartphone Web Development Book for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
http://appbuzzter.com
We are giving away Two Free copies of the book - "Beginning Smartphone Web Development" as part of promoting our new web app - http://appbuzzter.com - an app promotion platform geared towards mobile developers.

The book covers building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60.

Entering the giveaway is quite fun actually - Tweet your favorite color & the Phone you use :) Details at http://appbuzzter.com

We will be launching the app soon and would encourage you to drop us your email or follow us on Twitter/Facebook if you would like to be one of the early adopters of what we have in store. Oh and we are NOT an app review website! :)

- AppBuzzter Team (@appbuzzter)
Using Mobile Technology to Increase the Performance of your Sales Team 
http://www.skura.com/blog/archives/308
By: Michelle Clark, February 2013<p>Recent studies have shown that organizations are moving towards a sales force which is enabled by mobile devices. These include Apple, Blackberry, Android and other platforms. A recent survey by SEC shows that 75% of sales organizations either currently use mobile technology or plan to do so within the next 12 months. Organizations have realized that this increasing trend to meet customer’s demands and increase efficiency is linked with the use of mobile applications.<p>By using tablet and Smartphone applications that tap huge volumes of data, plus analytics software...
Ask HN: Where do you keep legal documents of your startup?
Title says it all: I'm curious where you guys keep things like certificate of incorporation, bylaws, business licenses, annual reports, BoD resolutions, stock purchase agreements, etc.

Dropbox folder, accountant keeping them for you, use a software, ...?
Beautiful Pictures of Libya
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danny-levy-sheehan/sets/72157622528214800/
from photographer Thomas Cook's travels in Libya - stunning
Restrict the Government's Broad Access to Personal Info
http://jacobirw.wordpress.com/
http://jacobirw.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/conceptual-vision-to-limit-citizens-privacy-invasion-by-the-us-government-part-1/
Show HN: A digital library of hard-to-find economics and theology books
https://cadenhaustein.com
About a year ago, I started downloading Internet Archive OCR transcriptions of old public-domain books I was interested in that weren't readily available. I would go through and correct the transcriptions and post it on this website for others to read and find.

I've transcribed about 40 books about distributism, Georgism, and non-resistance/Christian pacifism.

If anyone has book requests, ideas to improve the site, or ways to improve the automation of this process, I'd love to hear it!
Lockheed Martin Hacked?
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/05/27/lockheed_securid_hack_flap/
Lockheed Martin has reportedly suspended remote access to email and corporate apps following the discover of a network intrusion that may be linked to the high-profile breach against RSA earlier this year.
Ask HN: How to approach the dot-com domain owner of "my" domains?
I own 2 domains (dot NET and dot ORG) and would like to get the dot COM , how do I approach the owner if I don't have a fortune to spend? Can I just "trademark" the domain name like Groupon did http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1547943 and go after the guy?
Need for Speed – How to Improve your Website Performance
http://www.devbridge.com/articles/need-for-speed-how-to-improve-your-website-performance/
It’s no secret that people are fascinated by speed–fastest car, fastest runner, fastest computer processor, even fastest website. In today’s tech industry, optimizing your website via responsive web design is a must to achieve top speed and performance. This is especially true as a fifth of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile devices. Because of this, websites need the ability to quickly adapt to a variety of devices.

Companies that chose not to go responsive face great adaptation costs and, ultimately, performance suffers. This can be attributed to three things: loading performance, rendering performance and programming performance (read more about web performance here). In this article I want to focus on how to avoid the most popular mistakes people make, but first, I want to introduce you to a few unwritten rules, which define when an application can be called “fast“