jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unpluggd Event: Calling aspiring entrepreneur
http://www.unpluggd.org/
A 1-day startup event that is focused on bring entrepreneurial community together. The event will bring 12 Indian startups who have managed to build great business in India.

Date : March 6th, 2010.
Venue: Honeywell Office, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore.
Lua scripting, raspberry pi, and distributed systems
http://blogs.rti.com/2014/02/21/build-a-multi-location-temperature-monitoring-system-using-connext-dds-rti-prototyper-with-lua/
Temperature monitoring and data distribution using lua, parse.com. Making raspberry pi talking to the cloud!!
101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers
http://www.rewardprograms.org/thefreegeek/features/101-awesome-downloadable-fonts-for-designers.html
There are a number of foundries that create some truly impressive fonts, and share them with others. This article has highlighted 101 of them here, but many request that you provide credit or at least ask for permission for commercial use.
Create Global Function In Magento
http://phpflow.com/php/create-global-function-in-magento/
Global function stands for “A function which is accesible every where in application”.When we will developing an application normally at structure time we will see some functions are common to some modules, Magneto provide helper class to create common function and access with help of helper class instance.
Tripped Media: Content for the Millennials
http://www.trippedmedia.com
Tripped Media launched on October 3rd, 2011 with 3 full-time staff members- 22-year old Sumpter, his 23-year old co-founder David Krebs, their 22-year old COO Ryan McManus- and an army of freelancers and volunteers. With the decline in jobs for recent graduates and a need for a magazine truly designed for the millennial generation, Tripped Media wants to shake things up in the editorial industry.

The site is an online blend of journalism and blogging and of newspapers and magazines. It features topics ranging from travel, food & drinks, NYC culture, nightlife, art & design, the new iPhone and top 10 lists to articles about the Human Centipede. Sumpter, the Editor-in-Chief, graduated in May of this past year. He moved to the big city to fulfill his lifelong dream of landing a full-time job in New York, but found it tough to do so. He and his friends took a long, hard look at today’s online media. They looked at Vanity Fair, GQ, The New York Post, and even The New York Times and found themselves dissatisfied. “We read lifestyle articles that weren’t targeting the lifestyle of our generation,” Sumpter says.

Feel free to check them out online and follow them on Facebook and Twitter. Because they are going through site renovations they are asking for feedback.
Review our startup Akabbo
http://akabbo.ug
Making crowdfunding work in Africa. Starting in Uganda.
Twitter - zwitter
http://flodner.com/twitter-zwitter/
Philosophical and funny video regarding twitter
IBOS 24hour hack entry. Artificial intelligence. 
http://www.ibos.me/
EDIT: SMS is not working at the minute due to credits being burned! Just put phone number as 0 on web platform.

Try:

convert: 24yard to cm
translate bonjour to English

Or just have a conversation with the app! :)
Glossy button for web (Tutorial PS cs.5)
http://www.designscollage.com/2012/07/glossy-button-for-web-tutorial-ps-cs-5/
We know how much buttons and tabs are important in web design. The right choice of button colors, design and effects makes web pages come alive. So today we are going to teach how to add a gloss effect to buttons in three simple steps using Photoshop CS5.5.
Writing About Twitter Every Day Is Stupid - It Reports On Itself 
http://alexwilhelm.typepad.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/writing-about-twitter-every-day-is-missing-the-point.html
Redundancy.
Facebook's first real-cash gambling app launched
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19162971
"Developed by UK online gambling operator Gamesys, the Bingo Friendzy app allows UK users aged 18 and over to play online games for cash prizes."
Lock-free Condition Wait for Lock-free Multi-producer Multi-consumer Queue 
http://natsys-lab.blogspot.ru/2013/08/lock-free-condition-wait-for-lock-free.html
The lock-free multi-producer multi-consumer queue on ring buffer described in my previous post has following properties:

in pop() the queue calls sched_yeild() which leads to 100% CPU consumption;
consumers are waiting for particular position in the queue, i.e. if you put an item to the queue with all sleeping consumers then one and only one consumer can eat it;
the queue has fixed number of consumers and producers;
say we have 4 consumers and there are no available elements in the queue, then all consumers will wait on 4 consequent positions (x, x + 1, x + 2, x +3);

The first one is undesired due to too high power consumption and misleading system statistics. To cope with this we can use usleep(3), but it looks like dirty and relatively expensive solution. It would be better to make the pop()'er to wait until a push()'er adds an item to the queue. In the naive queue implementation I used conditional variable to do this. Also, the spinning behaviour of the queue leads to unnecessary cache bouncing and degrades performance.

In this post I'm going to show an efficient way for condition wait. The original article about lock-free queue has used C++11 for the code implementation, however in this article I'll be mostly talking about Linux kernel because the algorithm was developed for kernel implementation of the queue. I'll be explaining all kernel specific things, so no special skills are required from a reader.
Skype: Did skype low cost network helped them making profit faster?
http://www.quora.com/Skype/Did-skype-low-cost-network-helped-them-making-profit-faster/answer/Phil-Wolff
Phil Wolff of Skype Journal answers this question on Quora
Last.fm is down
http://www.last.fm/
Status: http://status.last.fm/
Anonymous Eavesdrops on FBI Anti-Anonymous Strategy Meeting 
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/anonymous-scotland-yard
As FBI and Scotland Yard investigators recently plotted out a strategy for tracking suspects linked to Anonymous, little did they know that members of the group were eavesdropping on their conference call and recording their plans.
If this doesn't get countered, we're all doomed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk_(phatic_communication)
Anybody else disturbed by the increasing array of technological options to de-evolve into a passive herd-cow, contributing nothing much more than a moo-tweet here and a moo-facebook update there?

Sure ... some will be quick to say it's optional ... but is it really when everyone from VCs to job-seekers feel obsessively-compulsively compelled to keep every-single-freakin' petty detail of every moment of every day "up-to-date", lest they be seen as "inactive" and therefore, to the superficial-yet-blessed-with-power types that seem to rule the lives of those of us who haven't as yet achieved total financial freedom, "irrelevant?"

I don't know ... I think some public display is necessary to highlight the dangers of this trend, if allowed to continue.

Can something like fb/twitter be hacked in the original sense of the word and played around with for a day, say, parodied?

Can the world log on to facebook for a day and see, say, a picture of a people doing something at a park with a message like, "Stop updating everybody and go out and do something with them before your lives pass you by!"?

I know meetup and stuff exist ... but I feel like the dark side of the mindless internet brain is sucking us all in and reducing us to simple binary micro processors of the "I liked the latest whatever/I didn't like it." type.

Thanks for listening to my rant.
How to make a Mini Bow and Arrow - Flaming Arrows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG0kKFLPEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG0kKFLPEw
Ask HN: How to value stock options at a public company?
I've received offers for a SWE role from two companies that have each gone through an IPO in the past year. Both are comparable in terms of base salary and bonus, but while one company (Company A) offers a typical RSU grant, the other (Company B) is offering stock options instead of RSUs. This caught me off guard, and I could use some guidance in figuring out how to compare the offers.

All things being equal, I think Company B would actually be a better fit for me. I liked the people and the product better, and I'm a little more bullish on its future than Company A. I'm not opposed to taking on a little more risk in exchange for higher potential reward and more enjoyable work, but I'm unsure of what I should be asking for in order to make the offers more comparable.

To give a rough idea (apologies for the vagueness, trying to keep this anonymous), based on the number of options proposed in the initial offer, Company B's stock price would have to roughly triple in order for exercising/selling the options to be worth the same as company A's proposed RSU grant (assuming Company A's stock price stays flat). That seems awfully optimistic to me -- I feel like I'd need a much higher number of options to feel more comfortable that the added risk is worth it. But how can I figure out and justify how many options I think I should get? Are there other questions I should be asking the recruiter?

If anyone has any advice or resources about how to value options relative to RSUs, I'd really appreciate some direction on this. Thanks!
Dear Future Jupiter Engineer
dear future jupiter engineer,

i'm nate and i'm the first hire at jupiter (formerly talar), yc s19. it's christmas eve and there's only one person currently in our office in sf right now, anuraag. he's our coo from hyderabad, india, and doesn't celebrate the holiday. anyway, i'm back home in pennsylvania with my family, but i had a feeling some of y'all would be on here so i figured i'd make a quick post in case some of you also had some downtime during the festivities

i'll keep it short: we've just started to look for a new engineer and our ceo chad put together a quick document last week with a little bit of what we're looking for that you can check here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RF5VElZdV3JqdJ-2aUiuTXfEByMnLRprXFuen2fjDgg/edit?usp=sharing

if you're interested in building a decentralized grocery distribution channel built from first principles and the most efficient and environmentally sustainable grocery distribution channel in the world, shoot me a note at nate@jupiter.co

no rush - i'm not planning on checking my work email until i get back to sf on 1/3, so i'll reach out to set up a meeting with the team then

talk in 2020,
nate
Show HN: Socketify.py – Maybe the fastest web framework for Python and PyPy
https://github.com/cirospaciari/socketify.py
Hi i'm Ciro and I have been integration uWebSockets/uSockets with Python to delivery very fast Http, Http2, Http3 and WebSockets performance. Almost a year now working in my free time, is almost at the point from its first release.
Support all major platforms Windows, Linux, macOS x64 & Silicon, and supporting PyPy are major goals.
I now writting the documentation, and want some feedback on the project. Thanks!
Ask HN: Who created Putlocker.is?
So Putlocker has a contact section but that section is empty, and I am just wondering who or whom created that website.
Nasa space telescope finds 'twin' of Earth orbiting a distant Sun-like star
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2076711/Kepler-20f-Nasa-space-telescope-finds-twin-Earth-orbiting-distant-Sun-like-star.html
A rocky planet the same size as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a star like our sun. It is the first time a planet of this size has been detected in another solar system. Scientists have hailed the technical achievement of detecting Earth sized ‘exoplanets’ - the technical term for planets outside the solar system - as it increases the chances of finding life-bearing worlds.Although the planet, Kepler-20f could have a thick water-vapour atmosphere, its surface is believed to be too hot for life.
Visual modeling: Is it worth it? An example...
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/07/visual-modeling-is-it-worth-it-example.html
Some thoughts about visual modeling / illustrative programming (illustrated with boobs ;-)
Dynamic Web Development with Seaside PDF
http://book.seaside.st/book/introduction/pdf-book
Seaside (http://www.seaside.st/) is a web framework written in Smalltalk.

The online version of the seaside book will remain free while the PDF version is available for 14€ (~19USD).
fbFund trundling along?
http://mit.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=5207867210&topic=3617
The message thread is "Has anyone gotten any money yet?"

and one person writes:

"Peter O'Leary (San Francisco, CA) wrote on Jan 8, 2008 at 7:30 AM.

Not a hoax.

A group of us presented yesterday in Palo Alto. Their panel is top notch but there are many people involved so it takes time to get things going."
Ask HN: Which US bank is best for early-stage startups
I've read good reviews of SVB, Square 1 and Bank of America. What is your experience?
O2 launches Litmus - App Dev Program
http://www.iphonedev.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:o2-launches-litmus-app-dev-program&catid=34:iphone&Itemid=56
iPhone, Android and now Litmus ... App devs enjoy!
Who of you go through a giant mood swing?
http://www.businessinsider.com/gooddata-startup-culture-2013-4
My co-founder and I go from being happy to depressed to happy again in nano-seconds. who of you guys go through this? how do you get out of this funk? would love to hear creative ways!
World’s 1st RFID/NFC Enabled Physical Facebook Fangate
http://www.viralblog.com/facebook-marketing/worlds-1st-rfid-nfc-enabled-physical-facebook-fangate/
Almost every digital guy is familiar with the Facebook fangate, but with the social media RFID/NFC turnkey solution it is finally possible to do the same in the physical world as well.
$1000 Contest for Code Chrestomathy
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
LassoSoft is running a contest for contributing Lasso code to RosettaCode.org - a programming language comparison site comparing hundreds of languages (from PHP and C to Brainfuck and LOLCODE). Awesome site! and awesome idea... (for the rules, click on the link at the top of the page). If you don't use Lasso - you should try it out... if not - add some of your own favourite language examples...
Javascript MD5
http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/
MD5 is a secure hash algorithm. It takes a string as input, and produces a 128-bit number, the hash. The same string always produces the same hash, but given a hash, it is not generally possible to determine the original string. Secure hash algorithms are useful for protecting passwords and ensuring data integrity.
Layout – A Drag and Drop Starter Theme for WordPress
http://www.layoutpress.net
LayoutPress is a WordPress starter theme with an intuitive interface for visually creating page layouts with WordPress widgets, helping to rapidly prototype, design and develop WordPress themes.
Ad Inventory Optimization - Breaking through the closed walls
http://www.pluggd.in/ad-inventory-optimization-breaking-through-the-closed-walls-297/
Every content network has walked this rope at least once ad inventory optimization. Direct sales team can only sell 40-50% of your ad inventory at any given time. The rest is filled with different ad networks, big and small.
Show HN: TikTok for Audio
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ponko-social-audio/id1600600021
Create and listen to short voice posts!
Using OpenRefine to geocode your data using Google and OpenStreetMap API
http://opensas.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/using-openrefine-to-geocode-your-data-using-google-and-openstreetmap-api/
In this article we will see how to use OpenRefine to enrich our datasets with data from any web service available on line. We will learn how to use Google and OpenStreetMaps web service to geocode the addresses of a dataset.

In the previous article we saw how to take our comma-separated list of google contacts, and play with them using google refine. We learnt how to do things like filtering, faceting, normalizing data, removing duplicate rows and other pretty common tasks. Now we are going to take their addresses and prepare our dataset to show them on a map.
'Earth Class Mail' Stars In TV's 'Startup Junkies'
http://www.startupjournal.com/financing/capital/20070808-mcmahan.html?refresh=on
The show will be presented in high-definition and will center on serial entrepreneur Ron Wiener, founder and chief executive of Earth Class Mail. The cast also includes Earth Class Mail employees as they try to market the product and attract a Series A round of funding. The company previously raised $2.8 million from angels and told VentureWire in January the Series A could be worth up to $8 million.
Vitamob - Design and Programming Innovation
http://vitamob.com/
Vitamob is a new health company that has just released a web app to engage visitors while they create the actual website. The new web app is pretty cool and let's you compare yourself to some famous athletes.
How to Make an iPad eBook in One Day
http://shareable.net/blog/i-made-an-ipad-ebook-in-one-weekend-and-you-can-too
It's easy to make content for the iPad, especially if you use ePub, an open source eBook format.
Ask HN: would you use an app that helped you save up money for things you want?
http://forrst.com/posts/piggyBank_interface_design-HA1
I made this concept for an app that would let you make a list of stuff you want to buy and would help you save up for those goals. Would you or someone you know use something like this, or would it just be another productivity app that you'd rather not deal with?
Things for iPhone Video Review
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/05/things-for-iphone-video-review/
These days, practically everyone has a busy, and complex lifestyle. Things for iPhone/iPod Touch is here to make life a little bit easier by keeping track of what you have to do. With this app, you’ll never forget another task again. However, it is quite expensive, at $9.99 ($19.99 for the iPad version). Is it worth it? Watch our video review below to find out!
WordWatch aims to give AdWords power back to the "little guy"
http://wordwatch.com
WordWatch lets you squeeze the most out of your AdWords budget. They're giving out free accounts to the first signups.
Why Raspberry Pi is Transformative Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHBZImmXsI
Keynote address at PyCon 2013 on Raspberry Pi by Eben Upton.
What Oracle and IBM products became compatible after rewriting of MySQL?
Oracle products became compatible with IBM products after MySQL was rewritten.
Show HN: Explore popular APIs from your browser
https://tryapis.com/
Sometimes the best way to get started with an API is to actually call it.

Tryapis gives you a Postman-like interface for popular REST APIs, with built-in documentation based on the API's latest Swagger spec.

For example, check out Spotify's API: https://tryapis.com/spotify

Currently supported APIs: GitHub, Slack, Spotify, Netlify, GCal, GSheets, Drive, Gmail, GMaps, Twitter

Let me know if there are any others you'd like added! I'll also open source the project if there's interest :)
Mixed results for green IT goals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8131566.stm
A majority of public sector employees do not know about environmentally friendly IT targets set out in government's Greening ICT Strategy.
Cryptiv: a multi-cryptocurrency tipping app for Twitch and Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GDfKocrcg&feature=youtu.be
http://cryptiv.com/
Show HN: It’s time content creators replace their business emails
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palace-workspace-for-creators/id1598708545
After spending much time on TikTok, Instagram, etc I’ve noticed a growing trend of content creators using a business email to connect with brands. You’ve seen “business inquiries: some_email@gmail.com”.

Palace Workspace replaces that email with a unique link - this link can be used by clients/brands to propose projects to that content creator. From there, both parties can track the lifecycle of the project outside the realm of email chains and social DMs.
Bakan Computer Congres - First Contact
https://balccon.org/congress/2013/wiki/index.php?title=News
First congers, that gather most of Balkan computer hacker and many others start at 6 and 7 September
How wireless devices are being used to fight traffic 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44195101/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/
A massive wall of video screens displays real-time images from a network of cameras, while employees look at a million points of data on their own computers. It's Houston's other mission control, and they've now got a new tool to combat congestion: your Bluetooth device.
Show HN: Numari – an original number puzzle for Sudoku lovers
https://playnumari.com/
Hi HN,

Numari is a number puzzle I've been working on for a few months that I (finally) completed recently. This game was made with the intention of appealing to those who like games similar to Sudoku.

I actually released this as a native app in 2018 (for both iOS and Android), however the rules were a bit too complicated for the initial release (the game used to allow for diagonal movements). Since the general feedback about the game was positive, and since I was looking for an excuse to play with and learn React, I decided to remake the game as a web app with slightly different rules than the original version.

I hope you enjoy it, and I'd very much love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
Download Photoscape 3.5 Free for Windows - photo scape
http://downloadphotoscapes.blogspot.com/2011/11/download-photoscape-35-free-for-windows.html
Photoscape may be a complete photo editing suite that has image browsing/viewing, photo editing, image page printing, photo resizing and renaming, and even RAW conversion. The photo editor includes commonplace editing options furthermore as automatic and custom adjustment choices for brightness, contrast, exposure, backlight corrections and additional.
Jasmine Spy Tips
http://c0d3it.blogspot.com/2013/04/jasmine-tips-spies.html
A set of use cases I put together for our company on how you can use jasmine spies while testing.
Ask HN: We need a search functionality for the site
This has happened at least 5 times this week alone. I remembered reading a HN thread, but don't know the link and always have to search for it through google. This will be a great improvement to this growing site. What do you guys think?
Websites are assets just like property. Get em out ASAP so they can appreciate
http://www.kresner.com/jonathon-kresner-blog/first-time-climbfind-exceeds-2000-visits-in-a-single-day
My experiences and conviction in the saying "Release early, release often"
Changing / upgrading of a dedicated server by avoiding a unavailability
http://ixartz.com/changing-upgrading-of-a-dedicated-server-by-avoiding-a-unavailability/
Lately, I spend my time setting up a new dedicated server after receiving a mail from my hosting company. Indeed, my contract will be interrupted. So, I have no choice to change my server. In order to have the least impact for websites hosted on old server, the best solution is to use an IP fail-over.
Smart way to record presentations
http://smartprojector.hostwebs.com
First in class projector well under its way! Give our market research a look!
Meanwhile in the UK... The crackdown on lobbyists starts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16651524
"The government says it hopes the industry "will embrace steps to make it more transparent, making the process largely self-regulating" but penalties could be enforced for "non-compliance".

These could include fines of up to £5,000 for missing deadlines, or a jail term for knowingly making misleading statements."
Is .XXX Internet Censorship?
http://zacharykwilliamson.com/xxx-and-net-neutrality/
Many people claim that .xxx domains are just another form of internet censorship. The impact that these domains will have on search engines and porn SEO is yet to be determined, but it will have an effect.