jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Everybody Loves Mohammed Day - May 28th
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127969803882492
It's a depressing situation that we find ourselves in when people hold so much hatred against a religion/community, that they scope out an internet campaign to spur their hatred out. How much do people actually know about this man that they're so openly insulting? Look at what some prominent non-Muslims have said about the Prophet Muhammad to get some perceptive to who he was and what he brought:

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious level. ...It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. ...It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. - Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978.

He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretentions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the divine right, it was Mohammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports - Lamartine, "Historia de la turquie", Paris 1854. Vol. II. pp.276-7

I wanted to know the best of one who holds today's undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind....I became more than convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity,the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of the great life. - Mahatma Gandhi, "Young India", 1924.

I Have Studied Him the Wonderful Man, & In My Opinion Far From Being An Anti-Christ, He Must Be Called the Saviour of Humanity. I Believe That If a Man Like Him Were to Assume the Dictatorship of the Modern World, He Would Succeed in Solving the Problems in a Way That Would Bring It the Much Needed Peace & Happiness. Europe is Beginning to Be Enamoured of the Creed of Muhammad. In the Next Century It May Go Still Further In Recognizing the Utility of That Creed in Solving Its Problems & It is in This Sense that You Must Understand My Prediction. - George Bernard Shaw
Gijeong-dong - propaganda village, site of major music war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gijeong-dong
"Eventually, as its value in inducing defections proved minimal, the content was switched to simply blaring condemnatory anti-Western propaganda speeches, Communist agitprop operas, Anti-Semitic and Anti-Christian speeches[citation needed], and patriotic marching music at high volume for up to 20 hours a day. This was tolerated until 2004, when the ROK government responded by erecting their own set of loudspeakers at Taeseong-dong and retaliating with deafening K-pop music. Both were eventually silenced after the combined din at the Joint Security Area became intolerable for both sides."
Show HN: Realtime TODO Lists without signup (Weekend Project)
http://todo.share.ac/
hi, i created (yet another) todo list web app with realtime capabilities. After adding a item you just created a list with a random url that you can share with others.

one drawback: its not offline available atm. because of the realtime part (socket.io). If people like it, i will offer a premium subscription with additional features. but the main functionality will be free (and ad free). thx
Ask HN: Why do companies who’re replicable and non-defensible get acquired?
We hear about companies all the time that get acquired for millions of dollars by giants MS, Google, FB, Yahoo etc. If these companies can be replicated for much cheaper, why aren't they? They hold no patents usually, are still usually just selling to early adopters and not reached a critical mass, have not scaled significantly, a lot of their technology is dead simple to copy, they have softened the market by educating people to give a goliath a serious second-mover’s advantage, and most are actually even running at a loss or merely breaking even.<p>If you say this is just a way to buy out the founders as employees, my question is ‘Really? Were the founders ever offered a job? How do you know it’s the founder behind the skill-set you're looking for? What if it’s an employee’s work that impressed the acquirer? Only that company knows that.’<p>I mean trying to acquire a company that does what you do but does it much better makes sense - you’re squashing competition by moving in early, but trying to acquire a company that is more a little feature than a full blown product, a feature that can never generate more than 10% of what your revenue is even if <i>everything</i> works out in its favor, that is only adding a feature to your long list of offerings, and isn’t even a revenue generator.<p>Sorry don’t mean to ramble, but somebody make sense of this. I know these goliaths aren’t stupid (maybe lazy, paranoid?), I know I’m missing something, and I’m waiting to be convinced by you! :-)
What could individuals have done to have predicted this crisis?
Hindsight is 20/20. What mental models/questions could we periodically ask ourselves to predict these kinds of crisises?
JSON in iOS
http://coderwall.com/p/nfwida
easy JSON Tutorial and post
US surpasses Russia as world’s largest natural gas producer
http://www.worldoil.com/US_surpasses_Russia_as_worlds_largest_natural_gas_producer.html
Apache Corp is planning on exporting some of this natural gas via ships, via a Canadian LNG facility it is building, to Korea and Spain: http://j.mp/5i6d4u

The US is already the world's #1 producer and exporter of Coal.

Cheap, plentiful hydrocarbons, world-wide, exported from the US.

Exciting.
How to visualize the competition
http://blog.thansys.com/2010/08/21/how-to-visualize-the-competition/
A different take on those dreaded "competition" checkbox slides for your VC pitch
LulzSec exposed by Ninjas Who are these guys?
http://cyberkooltour.blogspot.com/2011/06/lulzsec-exposed-thinq.html
LulzSec, the mischief-making bunch of hackers, slackers and whackos has fallen victim to its own sort of tactics, with a blog appearing on the world-wide wibble aiming to expose those behind the outfit's antics.
Why Your Job Application Emails are Not Getting Any Responses
http://reliscore.com/why-your-emails-are-getting-no-responses-from-the-companies-you-apply-to
A majority of the students passing out of Engineering colleges in India have no clue how to write an email. Missing subject lines, sms lingo, bulk applications to companies, spelling errors, and bad cover letters (or no cover letters) abound. Colleges should, but aren't teaching them this - and it's up to us to educate the students.

Good students get rejected because of bad cover emails (and because they did not know any better)
Helloco.de 
http://helloco.de/
wwww.HelloCo.de is a archive of programming languages that have been developed from 1950 to present. My personal side project
3 PaaS lessons from CloudBees’ funding
http://gigaom.com/cloud/3-paas-lessons-from-cloudbees-funding/
Great post on the promising CloudBees' series B finance..
Learn Mandarin Language Online with Expert Mandarin Tutors
http://mychinesetutor.org/learn-to-speak-mandarin.html
Want to Learn Mandarin Language in a few weeks? Get enrolled to take a free 30 minute trial lesson and learn to speak Mandarin with our expert mandarin tutors today!
Ask HN: Did anyone use godaddy getpaid?
I'm looking for payment gateway and came across this https://bookkeeping.godaddy.com/get_paid

They say its integrated with paypal/stripe/Dwolla. Anyone using "get_paid" with their business?
Ask HN: Can anybody help me with sorting this data?
Hey I have this excel file, it containts 37 or so columns and each column contains list of mustcourses for that department. can u help me get 1-list of pairs of departments that have largest number of shared courses, 2-ability to list of shared courses of one department compared to all of the rest, 3-courses that are shared the most among departments.
p.s. there has to be ignore list where i can add and remove courses to be ignored in calculations.
I can send you the excel file for you to take a look before you say you can help.
Is this Twitter spam? Or is this simply fair promotion?
http://twitter.com/nickeye11
Normally when a Twitter user like this adds me - I diligently report them to @spam. But I hesitated on this one. IS he a spammer? He IS playing the game, and updating twitter. He's just plugging his website in his updates. That's is spammy - but I guess its not spam.

What do you think? Is this spam, impolite, or neither?

Do you think we should get used to this - as Twitter seems to be planning to inject ad's into the update feeds this year?
Two Bitcoin services "hacked" in the last two days. The common denominator? OVH
https://twitter.com/bitcoin_central/status/327131323342942209
I made a post about slush's bitcoin pool being hacked here last night to no avail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599329
Worlds' Wikipedia Search by ONE Solid State Drive
http://demo.sedue.org/wikipediasearch/
This is a Sedue's demonstration site for searching Worlds' Wikipedia by only ONE machine, using SSD (Solid State Drive).
New Titanic expedition will create 3D map of wreck
http://yhoo.it/bQW7ZH
A team of scientists will launch an expedition to the Titanic next month to assess the deteriorating condition of the world's most famous shipwreck and create a detailed three-dimensional map that will "virtually raise the Titanic" for the public.
Chicken Scheme 4.8 Released
http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/NEWS
Announcement: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-09/msg00080.html
The Website Design Contract
http://kevinboss.net/website-design/the-website-design-contract
In the last few months I’ve been seeing a common occurrence. It’s either a freelancer complaining about a client or a client complaining about a freelancer. I suppose a little friction isn’t all that uncommon, especially if the people involved don’t have a good understanding with each other. Most of the time, the problem can be traced to a simple fact: The client and the freelancer do not have a contract, or have an incomplete one.
China’s slowdown - Starts with a spark 
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/05/china%E2%80%99s_slowdown?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/startswithaspark
The recent suicide of Jin Libin, a Chinese business mogul, speaks volumes about the country's fiscal situation
Show HN: Talking Tree – A Web3 game for creative writers
https://talkingtree.io/
Talking Tree is a game where users can create collaborative stories and store them permanently on the blockchain.

All feedback welcome!
Goodhart's law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Goodhart's original formulation is beautiful: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes"
XProc v2 requirements - flow based programming for XML (and non xml now)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xproc-v2-req-20131105/
handling of non xml data (json, binaries) in pipelines, smoothing out the rough edges of XProc v1, event driven processing
JavaFX impressive game (Crayon Physics)
http://www.lavpescia.it/pastello/
Functional programming, expression binding, and graphics:

var p = Polygon {
points: bind [
firstPick.x, firstPick.y,
curPick.x, curPick.y,
if(curPick.y > firstPick.y)
[firstPick.x, curPick.y]
else [curPick.x, firstPick.y]
]
}
Web design, development, search engine optimization
http://www.animonlive.com
web design, development, marketing, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, delhi, New delhi, India, web page design
Winklevosses called AssHoles by Harvard Professor.
http://bhushan.vibhu.blinkk.me/social-network-movie-winklevosses-called-assholes-228
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case.”
The Completely Insane Saga of CoinBet.cc – Bitcoin's latest "rotten apple"
http://simonsblogpark.com/onlinegambling/coinbet-cc-another-bitcoin-casino-scam-exposed-side-story/
This is the story of one of the biggest bitcoin scandals as of late.
Players of Coinbet.cc have lost an estimated $ 5 million in bitcoins at a rogue bitcoin casino
No-SMTP email verification, is it useful?
Hi there,
SMTP based email verification is slow and expensive, am talking about zerobounce, neverbounce, etc...
I wonder if there is a service that verifies the domain only, ie no SMTP connection involved?
If it existed does any one [other than me] think it would be useful?
Republican lawmaker seeks bitcoin donations for campaign
http://imgur.com/YdfsJXc
Steve Stockman (R-TX), who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in a primary this year, rang in the new year on Tuesday at a pro-bitcoin party in New York City. He also announced that his Senate campaign will accept the virtual currency as donations, and that he intends to introduce pro-bitcoin legislation.
Data Structures and Algorithms Project
is there any projects that i can build using data structures and algorithms.
i learned the data structures and algorithms but cannot exactly understand it.
Marketing/Partnership companies hiring
I'm currently employed in LA and looking to move to NY to do something in marketing & promotions. What are some great companies to work for or that are hiring.
Ask HN: Where are the Wakemate reviews?
Couldn't figure out how to continue previous discussion, but supposedly Wakemate has shipped product

"Hey Guys,

Greg from WakeMate here - Because we have not publicly shipped any units yet, there are no reviews of units just yet. We will be shipping out the first units at the end of the month so you should be seeing some reviews soon. More detailed information will be posted to our website and blog." posted 73 days ago.

So where are the reviews? They should have shipped some of the first products to reviewers.
What to say to your boss?
http://Recap.ly is an intelligent professional Rolodex. Need to remember the hobbies of your boss or the birthday of your client? Recap ensures you have easy access to information about those in your social network.

Invite Key: bff
Meet The Computer Virus That's Trying To Blow Up Iran
http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/10/28/stuxnet-the-weaponized-computer-virus-that-s-trying-to-blow-up-iran-s-nuclear-power-plant
Everything you need to know about Stuxnet, the world's first weaponized computer virus.
Play a Video Game, Help Cure a Disease
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gamers-advance-genetic-science-111207.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
Video gamers are advancing the frontiers of science. Already, they've played games that ultimately help map the shapes of proteins. Now they're also advancing scientists’ knowledge of genetics.
Show HN: Vidyard (YC S11) new homepage video
http://embed.vidyard.com/share/fqry8Z5QKWV_EkRqRwWhNw
It's pretty darn funny....must watch to the end
6 Tips on Negotiating a Development Agreement
http://joehuser.com/2013/01/six-tips-on-negotiating-a-development-agreement/
One lawyer's thoughts from working with clients.
Steve Jobs’ best creation – revisited
http://blog.zentity.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-best-creation-revisited/
There have been many great tributes to SJ, but I particularly liked with one by Jeff Bezos. He said something to the effect of: “Steve created three companies in his lifetime, the first Apple before he was ousted, Pixar and the Apple he resurrected when he came back to an almost bankrupt company”.
Gild: A giant database of developer info, ranked by skill and coding ability
http://www.gild.com
I've been wondering how the many recruiters have suddenly been getting my phone number. If you are a developer they blacklist your e-mail from creating an account to view the info they have on you.
About self driving cars, drones and imagination.
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/2ec57cb2b86f
Technology for Social Good.
Visual Studio SP2 (Official) is out
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=38188
For you Silverlight developers, the integration between Blend and VS 2012 is now fixed.

"It includes support in Blend for SketchFlow, WPF 4.5, and Silverlight 5."
Python from JavaScript and viceversa
https://github.com/niedbalski/slurpy
Slurpy is an RPC mechanism to call python methods from javascript and viceversa.
Ask HN: What is the Techcrunch of South America?
Hi HN,

Does anyone have tips on important tech blogs (like Techcrunch and ReadWriteWeb) focused on South America. Both Spanish and Portugese.

Thanks a lot!

E
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but…
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/04/mischievous-monday-mornings-a-horse-is-a-horse-of-course-of-course-but/
Check this television salesman describing a horse. Which isn't a horse, of course...
New iPod codenames
http://9to5mac.com/2012/09/11/new-ipod-codenames-touch-is-n78-nano-is-n31-shuffle-is-n12b-iphoneipod-touch-panorama-mode/
Alongside the information we have already posted about the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle, we received possible code names for the devices. Like @chronic, we’re hearing that the new iPod touch has the internal codename of N78.
Show HN: My weekend project, findthemes.net
http://findthemes.net/
I just launched my weekend project, findthemes.net. Findthemes is a theme search engine for various Content Management System and it built with cakephp. Currently it has collections for wordpress themes. In the future I will add another CMS themes to the collections such as tumblr and drupal.

I am not using crawler to indexing themes. To keep content quality, I adding themes manualy. For you guys, themes creator, you can also submit your themes to findthemes.
Gangnam Style Video Has Earned Psy Only $1.7 Million
http://readwrite.com/2012/12/04/gangnam-style-video-has-earned-psy-17-million
"That figure was calculated based off the standard YouTube partner rate of a $2 CPM, meaning for every 1,000 views Psy receives $2 if he is running ads on his video, which he is."
Ask HN: Can anyone rec a simple templating language implemented in py and js?
The goal is to be able to present json data as html/ui, and do the rendering both on the server or client side. Most of the time the server app will generate the html when the page first loads, but when a list gets updated via user interaction with javascript, I don't want to have custom javascript duplicating the rendering that happens in my python templates. I have been looking at JSON-template (http://bit.ly/aO27UM) but would love to know if anyone has any recs. Also looked at Google Closure templates, but they are implemented in server side java, not python. Anyone have any good solutions they recommend?
What every programmer should understand about Memory Allocation.
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
Memory allocators form interesting case studies in the engineering of infrastructure software.
Dating instructor Nick Hoss reveals "Reading List" of dating techniques
http://www.nickhoss.com/reading-list
Hey all, I've compiled a list of reading materials and articles for all you aspiring to get better at dating. Wanted to make this available to more than just the students we have here at Love Systems. This is nothing but pure content, articles, and infield videos that will give you some insight into cultivating stronger dating skills. Send your thoughts, comments, what I should add, or take away from the list in the comments. Hope this helps. Cheers.
Looking for a MBA co-founder from US
Hi, i have recently started a bid based classifieds service called biddist.com . I would like to incorporate in US with some bigwigs help. Please write to me at andy@biddist.com to discuss more.
I am based out of Bangalore, India. An i am a software engineer
How to Link Cells in Different Excel Spreadsheets
http://vitamincm.com/excel-link-cells-tutorial
Learn how to link data in one Excel Spreadsheet to data in cells of another worksheet or workbook using linking formulas.
Make your professional resume on Facebook
http://blog.codemunch.com/?p=18
Facebook provide you lots of fun with your friends. Considering the amount of time we spend on it, it now makes sense to cleasn up our profile a bit :)

To make sure you look good when company or recruiter runs into your Facebook profile, we have rolled out MY RESUME. My Resume is an application developed by CodeMunch team for Facebook platform.
Send mystery gifts this holiday
http://sendmysterygift.com/
Me and a friend made this site recently. Everyone knows the holidays can be a stressful time of year and sometimes there can be too many things on the TO DO list. Basically, the site will allows people to quickly send surprise gifts of a certain category to an individual. The gift is fully wrapped and includes shipping. We want to see if this is something people will adopt, any suggestions are also welcome.
Searching through 150 million e-mail addresses within milliseconds.
http://rpi.ricklubbers.nl/random/adobe/
So a lot of Adobe data was leaked: 10GB, about 150 million records. And some people have written search engines to check if your e-mail address was somewhere in all this data. But those search engines are slow. I search through 150 million e-mail addresses in less than 50ms... ON A RASPBERRY PI! Check it out!
Show HN: "I'm Feeling Lucky” for Spotify
https://surprisify.flatedges.xyz
I made a tiny website that basically does "I'm feeling lucky" for Spotify songs. Sometimes I get bored with my music, so this keeps things fresh.

Not a front-end dev by day, so you get what you see.
Ask HN: What to do with me@ spam? Gmail inefficient
I am getting enormous amounts of e-mails from scammers - always different domains and keywords, common theme is malicious links and addressee:
Examples:
me@tartar.correct933.com
me@mail.jokesws.net
me@artyv3s.com
me@snipmands.com
me@buzzbox.stylionab.com
me@ldap.adjustfast.net
Subjects vary from gift cards to job offers.

Unfortunately, gmail spam filter is useless. I've already added hundreds of domains tremendously slowing down my e-mail. I can't create a general filter - as google thinks that "me" in the address means it should be placed in my inbox. It even started to delete all my messages after one of my filtering attempts. Google customer service is not responsive. I am thinking about migrating to another mail service, but maybe somebody could suggest something better? Thanks for your help.
Patroon - Javascript Template Engine
http://www.matthias-georgi.de/2008/9/patroon-a-javascript-template-engine.html
Patroon is a template engine written in Javascript in about 100 lines of code. It takes existing DOM nodes annotated with CSS classes and expand a data object according to simple rules. Additionally you may use traditional string interpolation inside attribute values and text nodes.
How Twitter uses Apache Mesos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KPud6YTtLs
A video on how Twitter uses Apache Mesos - interviewing Twitter's Mesos engineers.
Ask HN: “We use cookies on this site to enhance your experience”
Do web sites really do this to "enhance your experience" or is it to enhance their experience in some way (better monetize/track/etc)? I'm not a web adept so I really don't know.

This site for example: http://mosaicscience.com/story/how-bee-sting-saved-my-life-poison-medicine

When I get a piece of snail mail that says "Important! Open Immediately" on the outside, I always think "Important to whom?" - it is rarely important me.