jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Xreviews: manage App Store reviews
https://xreviews.app
Xreviews is a native Mac app that allows you to view and manage reviews for your Apple App Store apps. Just sign in with your App Store Connect API keys, and we'll import customer reviews for all of your apps.

You can search, sort, and filter reviews by keyword, date, rating, and more. Xreviews also lets you respond to App Store reviews directly from the app. You can even filter out reviews that you already responded to.

For our power users, Xreviews supports multiple App Store accounts. Have too many apps? You can hide apps for which you don't need to see reviews. And once the initial import completes, you can view all customer reviews offline.
2 RoR Jobs at DailyKos- the nation's largest liberal online political community
http://dailykos.com/special/jobs
Ruby on Rails Developer- Two Full Time Positions Available

Daily Kos is the nation's largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of dedicated activists, we’re transforming media and organizing by empowering average Americans to reshape a political world once only the domain of the rich, powerful, and connected.
The time has come to port Daily Kos from an aging Perl-based architecture to Rails. The project is a good technical challenge--we get almost a million requests a day and have an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to social network features. We aren't a startup--3 million people a month will use the software you build to amplify their voice in the nation's political discussion--and we aren't wondering where the next infusion of cash will come from. Yet, we also have many of the benefits of a startup--we are redefining everything about the Daily Kos platform from low level infrastructure to software architecture to interface design. We are a small, efficient team, running scrum. We code with jquery, backbone.js, scss, the latest stable version of Rails, and have great automated test coverage.

We’re searching for full stack developers with real world experience developing Rails applications. You'll be focused on building out features as we move them from the old Perl code base to Rails, from markup to query optimizations. We value careful, deliberate developers who take pride in well crafted code and continue to self educate to keep up with evolving technology and practices.

Required skills:
* 2 years Rails development experience
* Javascript and jQuery
* CSS, HTML5 fluency
* Experience writing tests, preferably test first development experience. Rspec is a plus.
* Comfortable with Git

These additional qualifications will put you at the top of the list:
* Located in the San Francisco Bay Area (we're in Berkeley)
* Sysadmin
* Chef knowledge
* Understanding and appreciation of graphic design, UX
* Mysql tuning, admin
* Perl

Send applications to jobs@dailykos.com
New Bret Victor: Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (35 mins)
http://vimeo.com/66085662 
Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. A talk about a new approach to creating data graphics. (35 min)
The Economist magazine: A review.
http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/voice-the-new-global-elite-7348?page=show
Love it or hate it (i oscillate) you can't deny this magazine has done extremely well by focusing on high quality analysis. Print is excellent but they have a great iPad app as well. While it would have been thought of as a bug, my 10 months of free iPad subscription was definitely a feature... ;-)
Linus Torvalds 1995 Lecture in Japan [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv86qavVhsY
The actual lecture in English starts after 3 mins
12 Great Apps to Keep You Fit
http://appsnuke.com/347/ios-fitness-apps/
Want to burn all those calories you collected during holidays? No worries, we have the best solution for you.
Authors@Google: Garry Kasparov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hf31xOhchY
I'm only half way through this, but it's an interesting talk, he speaks about the importance of intuition in decision making and how some human/man combinations can be more powerful at certain decision than either in isolation.
Google Guava project
https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/
Guava:Google Core Libraries for Java
Puppet on Infrastructure as a Code
http://devopscafe.org/show/2010/12/20/episode-17.html
Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet, discusses infrastructure as a code in DevOps Cafe's latest podcast.
Ask HN: How to motivate people to help speed up medical discoveries?
The Problem: There are more medical mysteries than one may think. In order to solve them, we need help of the community, including healthy individuals, we need diagnostic measurements beyond human genome sequencing,

The Idea: Use Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, whatever you think would work, to tell about prospective projects and let people make pledges for the amounts of time they could devote, samples they are willing to donate, money to cover cost of reagents, etc

We are working with medically underserved populations willing to spend their own money to conduct clinical trials and find reasons for their conditions. We are lacking healthy controls for our diagnostic & observational clinical trials. We do comply with all applicable federal laws, so privacy and confidentiality is guaranteed.

Do you think these kind of projects could be crowdfunded? Would there be healthy people willing to pay for diagnostic tests and share the data with the trial researchers (HIPAA protected)? In return, we will analyze their results and place it in the context of other people's data and known biomedical information, make predictions, give early bird access to software, device and so on. Could such a project be Kickstarted? Thanks for your input!
Going Dutch, Not So Fast
http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2248923.ece/Going_Dutch_Not_So_Fast!_
A rebuttal to Russel Shorto's NYT article "Going Dutch" by a Dutch Columnist living in NY.
33Needs Brings Crowdsourced Funding To Social Startups
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/31/33needs/
The crowdsourced funding craze is picking up steam. Tonight we see the launch of 33needs, a site where socially-minded startups can raise initial seed funding from individual contributors on the Web. It is Kiva meets Kickstarter.
https://encrypted.google.com/
https://encrypted.google.com/
Am I the only one being redirect there on http://google.com
Facebook Digs Deeper into the Black Hole of Custom Markup
http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/01/facebook_digs_deeper_into_the.html
On Facebook's new custom FBML and why markup is the wrong way to implement an API.
Infinite memory - people who remember every minute of their lives
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7166313n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
60 minute segment on superior autobiographical memory, people who can instantly recall every event that has happened in their lives.
In search of the killer iPhone app
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080311_060174_page_2.htm
page one is here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080311_060174.htm
The Inventor's Paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox
"The more ambitious plan may have more chances of success...provided it is not based on a mere pretension but on some vision of the things beyond those immediately present."

George Pólya, How to Solve It.[1]
Hacker News + Reddit + Digg = Sumews (All 3's top 20 links on one page)
http://sumews.com/
Just for fun I made something simple and clean to show the top 20 links from Hacker News, Reddit, and Digg. Thinking about adding a login feature that will allow you to save your favorites.

The name is a made up word combining Sum and News. I dunno, I suck with names...
Sopastrike.com
http://sopastrike.com/
SOPA Strike provides a nice list of participating sites, and another easy black-out/redirect tool.
Social interaction models: Facebook, Twitter, turntable, EmpireAve, & Google+
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2011/07/social-interaction-models-facebook-twitter-turntable-empireave-google.html
A comparison of social interaction models across a few different social tools/services. And a look at how social practices emerge around different applications and their features and functionalities.
Learn Programming Online, For Free: 75+ Open Courseware Collections from the Ivy League and Beyond
http://whdb.com/2008/learn-programming-online-for-free-75-open-courseware-collections-from-the-ivy-league-and-beyond/
Do you want to grow up to be a programmer? The list begins with comprehensive courses offered through online college venues. From there, you'll discover various computer programs sorted by language or by technology.
Ask HN: Coronavirus has a huge economic impact. What are your predictions?
As the title suggests; Coronavirus seems to have a huge economic impact. What are your predictions?
Living on Loyalty, Trust and Big Ideas
http://www.instigatorblog.com/living-on-loyalty-trust-and-big-ideas/2007/10/10/
There are plenty of reasons to work at a startup. But what those reasons fail to address are some of the core principles that drive startup success.
Ask HN: why mobile apps using location are low rated ?
I have noticed that mobile apps who use users location information are either low rated or considered bad in a sense of user privacy.

I am building an which has one feature which uses user location should i include this feature or exclude. Please share your thoughts on apps using user location information lots of times

Thanks
An Open Letter to Tom Preston-Werner
http://blog.parkermoore.de/2012/12/11/an-open-letter-to-tom-preston-werner/
Tom Preston-Werner, the creator of Jekyll and co-founder of Github, has allowed his Jekyll project to fall to the wayside. Help me and others get his attention to finally allow this project to continue to grow.
"The Art & Science Of CSS." book for free
http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/
For the next 14 days, one of SitePoint's most popular books is available to download for FREE. Just follow us on Twitter, and you'll receive a PDF of the top selling "The Art & Science Of CSS."
Vessel at Google I/O Developer Sandbox
http://blog.vessel.io
The platform formerly-known as Zubhium (now rebranded as Vessel) is set to launch at I/O on Wednesday March 15 and we wanted to open it up to Hacker News folks for feedback.

It aims to provide a full-lifecycle platform for app development that provides beta testing, crash analytics and in-app feedback support for both Android and iPhone developers.
The Vessel command center allows developers to track app performance in a cool visual interface.
Some early customers include TuneIn and Pulse.
We'd love for developers here to try it out; specifically to see how it helps you identify and diagnose crashes.

p.s. If you're in SF, come to our I/O pre-party (https://iokickoff.eventbrite.com) or booth at I/O!
Bitcoin is falling
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg2ztgCzm1g10zm2g25zv
sell sell sell seems to be the play right now
It took 69 single steps to get past a BOOST_FOREACH() statement. Madness.
http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/26792042883
As he often does, John Carmack gives a brief and powerful argument. While I still have a love for C++, just because library developers can do something with enough preprocessor and templates, doesn't mean they should.
Max Levchin Interview on The GigaOm Show [video, podcast]
http://revision3.com/gigaom/slide
Ask HN: Certificate Program Worth Doing?
Hi everyone — I'm looking at a career shift into ML and I'm wondering if a certificate-level program is really worthwhile or if I should hold out and go for a masters or even a Ph.D. The appeal is less disruption for life and family, and less cost, but it's unclear if it offers much in the way of hiring desirability. Any hiring managers out there care to weigh in? This would most likely be at Berkeley Extension and on top of a long-ish existing career.
Nokia N9 UX Guidelines
http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/
I find it very interesting how thoroughly they have mapped out the 3d physical reality behind the interface interactions, all the way down to the specified light source that should be reflected in all icons and 3d chrome. In many ways this is more thoughtful than the iOS interface guidelines.
IS COPYING DESIGNS THEFT OR INNOVATION? BRAUN VS. APPLE
http://themanufacturingrevolution.com/braun-vs-apple-is-copying-designs-theft-or-innovation?hn
Braun’s biggest victory over Apple underscores a central economic issue: What is the right balance between competition and opting?
A Reloadable Visa Debit For Your Bitcoins
http://coincashcard.com
You can now purchase anything using bitcoins!
Ask HN: Should Freelance Programmers/Consultants Pay a Referral fee?
Hi HN, I've been doing freelance programming and web development for a few years now, and for the first time my pipeline of future work seems to be running dry.

What are some good ways to find new clients? Would it be worth paying a referral fee? How much is typical? Would it be worth offering such a fee to recruiters?
I quit my job to become a developer. Here's why.
http://www.jordanpoulton.com/blog/day-7-for-the-love-of-god-why/
A week ago I quit my job to become a full time student at the Maker’s Academy. A lot of people, both friends and strangers, have been asking me the same question:

"Why in God’s name would you leave a well-paid, cushy corporate job to train in something as notoriously difficult as developing?"

This is my answer to that question.
New YouTube player live (only on certain videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDOI24RRAE
Not sure if it's just me. Here's a screenshot: http://i41.tinypic.com/142wnkl.png
Discrete Structures for Computer Science: Counting, Recursion, and Probability
http://cglab.ca/~michiel/DiscreteStructures/
This textbooks is being taught as a second year discrete math course at Carleton University. I found it to be really high quality, and on par with similar sections from the Rosen or Epp texts.

Oh... Also, it is free!
Show HN: We want to help startups poach engineers from Google and Apple 
http://www.loftjobs.com
Hey HN,

All our startup friends are having trouble finding good engineers to hire, while some of our friends who work at big companies are looking for new challenges.

But they don't read HN or TC. They don't know where to start looking.

So we put together a place for the best opportunities.

We'd love some feedback, ideas or suggestions...

Some people call us "The Ashley Madison of Job sites".
Unlit Social Graphs
http://thenextweb.com/location/2011/04/06/the-unlit-social-graph/
We are now witnessing a similar dynamic, but the battlefield has shifted from search to social. Just as Google had early dominance in lighting up a portion of the web, Facebook has early dominance in lighting up a portion of the world’s social graph. But much like the Dark Web, there exists network upon network not yet graphed by Facebook, waiting to be mapped, organized, and optimized for communication.

This is the unlit social graph, and this is where Facebook is vulnerable.
Who Might Be Spying on Your Communications? (Hint -- It's Not Just the NSA)
http://www.voip-news.com/feature/voip-spying-031308/
VoIP technology is still relatively new, and hackers are finding new ways to rip off service providers and their customers. Just who might be spying on your online communications? You might be surprised.
Web based UI tool (layout dissector) for web designers
http://westciv.com/xray/
"XRAY is a free cross browser tool that lets you see the box model in action for any element, letting you see beneath the skin of any web page."
Hacker hikeup: Get off your ass and go outside
http://www.meetup.com/hackerhikeup/?gj=ej1b&a=wg2_l1
hanging out for beers is great but so is exercising, so consider going outside for activity for a change. Don't pat yourself on the back too much though, walking only provides a low level of fitness.
More proof: RIP good times
http://stalemelon.blogspot.com/
Bottles in the clubbbbbbbbbbb
Show HN: Dim – Peer2peer Bluetooth chat app for iOS
https://www.dimchat.org
dIM Chat is a peer-2-peer chat app for iOS which works without internet but instead uses Bluetooth.

I was inspired by the Briar project[1] and wondering why there was no such thing for iOS, so I decided to build one. There are still a few things major things which are WiP such as group messaging. The goal of the project is to allow demonstrants to communicate while the mobile data signal is shut off.

Messages are e2ee and the code is Open Source.

Try it out on the App Store[2].

Any feedback is appreciated.

[1]: https://briarproject.org

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/dim-chat/id1583606879
Google Cloud Storage Cuts Prices, Integrates With Tech Providers
http://bx.businessweek.com/cloud-cmputing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F701676%2FGoogle_Cloud_Storage_Cuts_Prices_Integrates_With_Tech_Providers%3Fsource%3Drss_cloud_computing%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bcio%252Ffeed%252Fdrilldowntopic%252F3024%2B%2528CIO.com%2B-%2BCloud%2BComputing%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle%2BReader
Google Cloud Storage Cuts Prices, Integrates With Tech Providers
Hollywood Economics (infographic)
http://cilekagaci.com/2012/04/04/hollywood-economics/
An interesting bubble chart of movies, plotting profitability and sustainability metrics.
Ask HN: Is building an edutainment space-themed park a good idea?
I am ideating on building a space park to promote STEAM subjects. It will be built with both physical infrastructure and also using AR, VR and MR. Think of it as a place where students not only have fun but learn about STEAM subjects and relate those to the practical applications in the wild.

This idea is not new. But the vision is to try to scale it commercially(once the initial project is complete) which most of the government funded parks don't do.

Would like your views on this approach of blending edutainment park with STEAM subjects. Would you encourage/support this type of project? If not, why not? If you were to build this, what would you build? Any other feedback, suggestions, comments and advice?

Also, I am open for collaborating on this project with others. If you want to join me on this journey then do send me an email: ajit.edfintech@gmail.com

I am in the UK, but also open to working with people from outside UK.
Ask HN: What are you NOT enjoying about now working from home?
For those of you NOT enjoying the transition to remote/work from home, what about it frustrates you most? What do you miss most about the office?
Cyprus bank deposit confiscation visualized in physical €100 bills
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/cyprus_crisis/cyprus_crisis.html
"Cyprus banks are bankrupt & confiscating depositor's money, while EU officials say it's a template for rest of Europe's troubled banks."
The reverse job applicant
http://www.reversejobapplication.com/
Clarification: This is not me, I stumbled upon this site.
Of Perfection, Perfectionism, and Perfect Web Apps
http://2010.frozenrails.eu/videos/17-perfectionism
Jarkko Laine's "Of Perfection, Perfectionism, and Perfect Web Apps", at Frozen Rails 2010.
Email reuse from deactivated accounts
Does anyone know of any standards or generally accepted rules for giving out someones old email address to a new customer.

The reason I ask is: A family member recently (3 months ago) closed their account with their ISP and lost access to their email. Ok fine. But if I send email to that address I find that they have already given it to another customer. I think this is a big security issue and could leave the family member open to identity theft.
Latest VUC Podcast - Ameche App Platform
http://www.voipusersconference.org/2012/voxeo-labs-and-ameche/
The VUC guys had me on their show yesterday for a casual discussion about Tropo, Twilio and the future of voice APIs. Tons of fun.
Go the Fuck Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoS-svKdgs&feature=share
This is alway my thought
The only thing worse than flying is open source code
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/29/otto_fly_open/
Old, but actually interesting to see that things have progressed (for open source code, not airlines) for open source software in the last 2 years.
Micropayments - It Is Time
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/mircopayments-is-it-time.html
People need to get over free.
Arduino based satellite on Kickstarter with spectrometer 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space
The project appears to be setup by employees of "NASA Ames Research Center working on alternative methods of public outreach for space science" which sounds pretty authentic.

Discover magazine is putting up a $1500 prize to the best application designed to run on this project.

Finally this project also announces a company producing an arduino spectrometer shield, which may be more exciting than the satellite.
Ask HN: What is the current state of AGI?
(AGI = Artificial General Intelligence)
Ask HN: Is (Desktop) HTML5 Geolocation worth anything?
Last night, I added HTML5 Geolocation to my 0 click weather site to provide an alternative to using the GeoIP database.

Chrome and Firefox give a location within 3-5 seconds but seem to just be using GeoIP data from Google's servers. They (and GeoIP) give my location as a town 10 miles away from me.

Safari 5 on Mac OS X is basically unusable. 95% of the time it can't return a location within 10 seconds which is already way too long for a webapp. When it does work, it gives my location within a 1 block radius which is wonderful. It appears to be doing a long 2 way exchange of wifi data to Apple; probably building upon the location service they use for the iPod Touch/wifi iPad.

What are your experiences? Do you think accurate location-based services will stay mobile only? Or will laptop/computer vendors eventually add GPS/A-GPS units?
Ask HN: Other good news resources, like HN
I find so many interesting articles on here, mostly engineering related, even more so software engineering related, but also some design, some philosophy, and more.

I was wondering if people had other solid article sources similar to this one. I'm definitely not looking only for CS stuff, I would be tremendously happy to find a literature equivalent, or any kind of specialty.
Ask HN: Do we have a MVP here? Help us out
Since our first release 4 weeks ago, we have iterated and incorporated the feedback we got.
We are now beginning to shift our focus on letting people know about our product.

We have gotten so far ~500 visitors but not many are using our product.

http://caniafforditnow.com

Context: Our app/tool performs a financial health check and evaluates your affordability
of a purchase. The user asks the question, provides the financial numbers,
and the tool provides the Answer in the form of a verdict and a Report.

When I say User not using our product, I mean not asking the question and not completing providing the details.

We would like to figure out why the asking rate and completion rate are dismal

a) Are we not targeting the right audience?
(so far mostly from HN, reddit, Facebook Ads, and very few from financial forums)
b) Is our product's value not clearly conveyed on the site?
c) Our product does not provide value?
d) None of the above. Just keep pushing and it will happen

What do you think and what do you recommend?

Thanks
Annie96 is typing..
http://storiesforyourscreen.com.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/
http://storiesforyourscreen.com.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/annie96-is-typing/
(updated url)
The creepiest chat history you will ever read.
The best online marketing tools for webpreneurs
https://online-marketing-tools.zeef.com/rick.boerebach
I'm building this overview of the best tools for webpreneurs. Any tools I should add? Feedback is highly appreciated!
GoodHack - "Write an application which makes the world a better place"
http://www.goodhack.org
Goodhack is a Hack day being held in London on the 9th May. The challenge is to write an application which makes the world a better place. Even if you can't come to the event, you can add your problems to the list to be solved (http://www.goodhack.org/problems/add)