jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why low taxes benefit the rich - or do they?
http://www.danwalmsley.com/2011/02/22/why-low-taxes-benefit-the-rich/
Living in the US I hear a lot of heated rhetoric about taxes. While I’m not an economist, I do want to weigh in on what I see as a glaring logical flaw in how low taxes are supposed to benefit the little guy, and a massive opportunity for a different kind of "sputnik moment".
13 Things about Dubai people don't know.
http://roflmap.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/dubai-13-things-you-dont-know/
List of things that people often do not know about Dubai from the many conversations I had with people in Canada/Germany/Netherlands/Malaysia.
I have a few more to add but I want to see if people like reading these sort of things first.. so let me know if you learned anything from the article.
Firebug extension allows inspection of closure vars & lets, not just fields
https://blog.getfirebug.com/2012/11/07/fireclosure-javascript-closure-inspector/
FireClosure is one of the Firebug extensions that should certainly deserve more attention. It’s nicely integrated within the existing Firebug UI (we are actually thinking of building the extension directly into Firebug) and its purpose is to inspect JavaScript closures.
Rails-like Console / REPL for any PHP application
http://franklinstrube.com/blog/rails-like-console-php/
This technique provides an alternative to tools such as https://github.com/facebook/phpsh and https://github.com/d11wtq/boris. It is as close to "bare-metal" PHP as you can get.
East London Tech City Startups To Get Access To Network Of 4G Hotspots In June
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/tech-city-4g-hotspots/
London feels so much more advanced than NY some of the time.
Facebook, Happiness & The User Data Black Market
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_says_using_facebook_tied_to_increased_hap.php
Imagine if Facebook data was used for more than just benefiting Facebook?
Alan Kay's research lab with Bret Victor, Vi Hart [pdf]
http://ttivanguard.com/regionalmeetings/nyregionalhighlights.pdf
"Kay is currently involved in developing a research lab for an unnamed corporation of significant stature. Following in the footsteps of Licklider and Taylor, Kay, having been handed $8M for each of two years, began by developing a list of the top young researchers he would most like to bring together to fulfill his vision of tackling the big problems in communications ... Kay mentions two by name: interface designer Bret Victor and self-described recreational mathemusician Vi Hart, who, in more conventional terms, is working in the field of computational geometry. Of course, Kay chose Vi not for anything conventional about her. "She is the most creative person I have met in 25 years," says Kay. To lure Victor, Hart, and the others on his list (some teenagers, but mostly 20- and 30-somethings), Kay had to secure for them an open-IP agreement from the sponsoring corporation."
Matomy to launch $100M IPO
http://www.geektime.com/2014/03/10/matomy-to-launch-100m-ipo/
The Israeli digital marketing company, valued at up to $500 million, will sell shares on the London Stock Exchange
WTF is a User Experience Expert anyway?
https://medium.com/@ivailo/wtf-is-a-user-experience-expert-anyway-ddc151188362
Beware the expert types...
Book: A Futurist Manifesto, Built on PressBooks
http://blog.pressbooks.com/?p=81
O'Reilly just published "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto - Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing." The book was made on PressBooks, a new book publishing tool, which outputs ebook, print & webbook, all from single-source HTML. PressBooks is built on WordPress.
2-5 projects that I work on daily
Hacks vs Hack-Nots
http://www.saidsvec.com/2010/04/18/hacks-and-hack-nots/
A few words about people who Hack and people who Hack-Not.
Latent Fault Detection in Cloud Services
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/151507/main.pdf
First post - hope people find it relevant :)
Send me student blogs in statistics and machine learning
http://simplystatistics.org/2013/03/08/send-me-studentpostdoc-blogs-in-statistics-and-computational-biology/
I'm collecting links to student blogs/twitter accounts/g+ feeds in data analytic disciplines. I want to highlight their contributions and hopefully help people find active students for jobs/Ph.D. programs/etc. Thanks for your help!
You've Got to Admire the Chutzpah - Russian facebook clone is now released in English
http://vkontakte.ru/index.php
How long before the lawsuit hits?
Digital Scrapbooking
http://www.300dpi.com/
300dpi.com offers digital downloadable graphics and iPhone scrapbooking applications. Our products are differentiated by their design, quality, company philosophy, innovation, and our customer-respected brand name. 300dpi.com strives to have innovative and trend right designs with respect to branding and consumer values.
She++ Documentary: Inspiring women to empower computer science
http://sheplusplus.stanford.edu/index.php
A Stanford-based community for innovative women in technology.
Show HN: Healthysparx: Q&A for health
http://healthysparx.com
My little sister and her husband who live in Tasmania, Australia (the arse-end of the world! :-) have made a social Q&A site for the health niche and were looking for feedback. I said I'd post it here on Hacker News! Here's their message:

"I'd appreciate any feedback, thoughts or comments on our website - healthysparx.com

Being interested in living a healthy life, my wife and I were discussing that were no modern health sites that really leveraged the power of Web 2.0 and the culture of social networking to help people live become health aware. So we decided to make our own.

Our website currently does the following things:

A personalized news feed
Catalog questions according to topics
Comments on questions/answers
Following other users and topics on healthysparx.com
Users have basic profiles
can sign up using Facebook or Twitter
and search

Looking forward to seeing your feedback.
Thank you!"
Beer for Mountain View
http://beta.indiegogo.com/JanesBeerStore
I was walking to the office the other day (youeye.com) in downtown Mountain View and passed by a window for a coming soon specialty beer store. They had an indiegogo url in the window which I attached to this post. It would be great if some of the other startups in the area lent a hand to get "Jane's Beer Store" off the ground. YouEye made a $50 donation and so can you! Cheers.
django-hijack allows superusers to work on behalf of another user
https://github.com/arteria/django-hijack
django-hijack allows superusers to hijack (=login as) and work on behalf of another user.
Discover How to Avoid Losing Sales by Optimising Your Online Checkout.
http://www.lancorepayment.co.uk/blog/discover-how-to-avoid-losing-sales-by-optimising-your-online-checkout
One of the biggest differences between high street shoppers and those shopping online is in the level of involvement. While a number of people will walk around a town centre simply browsing stores
Twitter’s Trending Topics Promotes Group Think
http://www.techsoomer.com/twitters-trending-topics-promotes-group-think
Twitter’s ability to aggregate and trend conversation is one of its core competencies. In fact, I would go as far as to say that right now, Twitter’s Trending Topics (TTT) is its most powerful feature. Where else can you see what millions of people are talking about at a particular point in time?

Despite the powerful mechanism, TTT has become a feature of diminishing value. Why? It’s simple:

Twitter’s Trending Topics Promotes Group Think.

twittergraphEvery single Twitter user sees the same exact same TTT when they log into their account. This makes it all too easy chime in to the ongoing debate. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily — but it sure doesn’t help bring fresh, informative content to the forefront.

Additionally, there appears to be an inverse relationship between the number of Twitter users and the overall value of posts. In other words, as the number of Twitter users rises, the odds of reading a worthwhile tweet diminishes. This is one negative outcome to the “network effect” that Twitter has yet to address.

Do You Care About TTT?

This screenshot (pictured to the right) shows an example of TTT taken Sunday 7/19/09 22:00 EST. Sixty percent (6/10) of the topics are related to various TV programs being shown during that time. Granted, it’s a Sunday night and news stories are not exactly top priority, but still, it would be nice to see some more diversity.

What I Would Like To See:

* group topics
* “location-aware” topics
* more filtering mechanisms
* more diversity
Show HN:  U.S. tax info for nonresident freelancers
http://freelancetax.com/book/
OK. This was inspired by email correspondence with an HN reader. I'm embarrassed about it so it must be the right time to throw it out there. :-)

This is all about brains across borders: someone sitting in one country does work for someone who is in another country. What are the tax problems?

I'm an international tax lawyer. It's hard (and expensive) to get information about U.S. tax law in international transactions.

I wrote a quick ebook aimed at a specific type of person, with the idea of answering the U.S. tax questions he/she might have.

The target reader I had in my head: a web developer sitting at a computer in Nicaragua (hi M. D.!) building websites for U.S. customers. All of the work is done outside the United States.

Please look and tell me questions I missed. Or tell me questions you have, even without reading the book! I will try to answer as best I can. This will also help me with improving the book.

Oh. I'm trying to decide which domain name to use. What do you like:

- freelancetax.com

- brainsacrossborders.com

Thanks,

Phil.
Google Glass support winking to take pictures
http://www.guruht.com/2013/04/google-glass-support-winking-to-take.html
A closer view on the SDK code of the upcoming Google Glass core, reveals what Google may be don't want you to know at this time, the device will support winking to take picture or execute any other task.
Linux Applications Now Run on IPad – Collaborators and Co-Authors Sought 
http://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/qmole-bringing-the-free-world-of-linux-to-an-ipad-near-you/ 
There is a new platform to run Linux applications on the Apple IPad. Have you noticed that many stock applications which are free on Linux require payment on the IPhone and IPad? Don’t want to re-implement Linux software on IOS ? QMole is a new desktop system allowing the free operation of software ported from the world of Linux on the IPad. The technology enables retaining a touch screen operation of stock GTK Linux applications without requiring their redesign or reimplementation. Unlike remote desktop solutions that require a network connection, QMole requires none. All “Linux” applications execute locally on iPad, just like native IOS applications.

QMole features a tiling window manager, transparency, virtual desktop support and an initial desktop application bundle combined with support for developing in Lisp, C, C++, Java, Clojure, Lua, Scheme, OCaml, Python, Perl and more.

Are you interested in collaborating on this effort? Please register your interest at the below URL.

http://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/qmole-bringing-the-free-world-of-linux-to-an-ipad-near-you/
The Hackathon Boilerplate
https://medium.com/bitcampfire-stories/91eae05e3756
On the current state of the hackathon movement
JavaFX Tutorial
http://code.makery.ch/
Java(FX) and Dart Tutorials
Work that matters: Sr. QA Automation Engineer to Serve Humanity
http://benetech.jobscore.com/jobs/benetech/senior-qa-engineer-needed-to-serve-humanity/blytfIrXOr36ySeJe4bk1X
Come do work that matters. Benetech is a non-profit social enterprise building software to address global issues around literacy, human rights and environmental conservation. We are looking for talented QA engineers who want to serve humanity. Learn more about Benetech at http://benetech.org
Can we put together a list of turn key development companies
What are a bunch of good turn key development companies that work on modest web applications? I'm looking for places that can give a fixed budget type quote.
Convert Excel Data to JSON,XML,Ruby & more With Mr. Data Converter
http://blogupstairs.com/tools/convert-excel-data-to-jsonxmlruby-more-with-mr-data-converter/
Convert Excel Data to JSON,XML,Ruby & more With Mr. Data Converter
hipops A Docker Orchestration Configuration
https://github.com/aminjam/hipops
Hipops is intended to help with the configuration of your servers running Docker containers, whether it's local or remote. It's a JSON-based configuration of your environments. I created hipops as a wrapper around the popular orchestration tool, ansible, for ease of use.
Raspberry Pi's Impact on Hacking Live Webshow
http://www.concise-courses.com/infosec/20121106/
As title suggests, it's a web show November 6th Tuesday - 12 EST which will be recorded and posted on the same URL. Anyways - we have DJ Paolmbo presenting - DJ is a forensics expert and has delivered this presentation at various hacking conferences. Thought you might be interested in this show, its only going to last 10-15 mins. Thanks Henry
IOS Programming Recipe 15: Building a Weather Application
http://nscookbook.com/2013/02/ios-programming-recipe-15-building-a-weather-application/
A Good tutorial on creating a weather app with the use of API and AFNetworking.
Show HN : Video demo of Twaddler.ca, which live streams tweets around you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFL0hDur_Ks
I've been working on this site for the past few months. It's pretty interesting to let it sit in a big city, such as London with the Olympics going on, and see what sort of photos and tweets come in. Let me know what you guys think!
Ask HN: Automated calls to European phone numbers (urgent, details inside)
An emergency has come up and I want to quickly hack a web app.

What I want is:

- a service with an API that would allow me to

- automatically call a mobile phone number and

- hang up when the person answers.

That is all the interaction I need.

I would be happier if I could also have multiple CallerIDs/names but at the moment this is #2.

I couldn't find anything useful through Google as I'm not sure what exactly this is called and what to search for. If anyone can give me some links or keywords or whatever it would be great.

Many thanks and apologies for the uninteresting thread.
New Web Development Tool/IDE from Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/orion/index.php
Scoble video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_lsvKfv4I
Pure CSS Viking Shield 
http://codepen.io/LukyVj/pen/wjagv
Inspired by a Dribbble shot from @axel_herrmann
(http://dribbble.com/shots/1237975-Viking-Essentials-Gold-Edition)

It uses css only and may not be perfect on IE.
Show HN: Orbhai: Offline first task manager
https://orbhai.com/
Hello folks, this is my first web app which I have primarily created for myself, just wanted to get some feedback, what else should I add to it so that it is useful for you too.
Show HN: BasicVersity - test and improve your basic knowledge of anything
http://basicversity.com
This is my MVP. I created it using the basic resources I had at my disposal, using all savings from my job.

10-second pitch: BasicVersity is a free tool to practice and improve your basic knowledge of anything - it contains 2100+ free tests on 700+ topics - 250,000 + questions in all

This is just a basic online testing site. I have plans to build on it - better analytics for test takers, mobile apps, better mobile version...

Please share your thoughts. Be gentle.

Thank you.
Show HN: Document Tracking like a boss – Not another file transfer tool
https://sinosend.com?ref=hn
Apps like dropbox, and google drive, we transfer don't work in some parts of Asia (India, China, etc) for various reasons. It's pretty hard to share huge docs/slides/presentations to our vendors and customers in this part of the world.

I work for a small company and needed to solve this problem, so I built a tool that is multi-cloud backed on Cloudflare R2 + Alibaba Object Storage with a Vue js front-end. It does the job reasonably well. You can send 3gb of files to anyone and include a video message, too; please try it out and let me know what you think.

We have reasonably good usage of free users in both these countries and a number of businesses. I added an asynchronous video message feature that you can add to your outbound documents, this has helped increase document open rates; people tell me it helps close more deals.

Feel free to get in touch at rishi{dot}uttam@sinosend.com with your feedback. https://sinosend.com/
British Army Tests "Invisible" Tank
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/british_army_tests_invisible_tank_ala_james_bond_style.php
It's too bad that this technology is used for tanks, of all things.
TechLaunch Accelerator: Deadline Feb 22
http://www.techlaunch.com
Time is running out to be part of LaunchPad 2 at New Jersey's Technology Accelerator, TechLaunch. Applications close on Friday, February 22.

Apply now for seed capital (up to $25K/team), business training (16-week intensive program from May 20-Sept 13), mentorship, weekly investor pitches, and more.

Contact travis@techlaunch.com with any questions.
How to Homebrew Wii Games: 73 Tips, Tutorials and Resources
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/how-to-homebrew-wii-games-73-tips-tutorials-and-resources/
If you've spent all your money on a bidding war to get the Wii and you're out of cash for games, follow this guide to some of the best Wii homebrew resources out there.
Please take my short, 3 question, domain Name Survey for entrepreneurs/startups
http://calacanis.com/2010/12/01/domain-name-survey/
Wondering how startup folks think about domain names.

Will share the result later today.
Ask HN: Where do you stand on the release early release often issue?
Hello HN,

Where do you stand on the release early, release often mantra? If you are going to release a product for the first time, do you get out a beta with only core functionality, or do you wait until you have more bells and whistles? What is the value of making the best possible first impression?

In my case, the point of the project (at least initially) will not be to generate revenue -- more to foster open source development than anything else, really. I started the project because it was simply something that I need/want. But down the line, I could see adding various "premium" services that would currently be economically impossible for me, in order to serve my users better. (I figure, for some, premium services are well worth it). If it looks like such a move is necessary and worthwhile, what do you think about the timing of that? Would it be so bad if premium service wasn't available from day 1?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Programming from the bottom to the top with complete control
http://supremexen.com/bottom-to-top.html
My journey from high-level programming to generating binaries one byte at a time with asm and elf. Why I got here and where I'm going.
Review my job board
http://gowork.at
Hello HN community.<p>Recently we've launched a new IT geek oriented job board.<p>http://gowork.at/ (Gowork@)<p>I have shown it to the IRC community and they pointed out some issues regarding the market niche and since we didn't have any posts it became an chicken and egg problem.<p>We currently trying to solve the niche, but we wanted to be design, web dev job board mostly.<p>And to start having some jobs post we integrated other job boards listing that could be used in search.<p>Our main feature currently is: a boolean search engine, that let's users save it and get daily/weekly updates based on that. Which is cool, for instance you might want to get web dev jobs but not PHP related, so you could just setup an search like "web dev -php".<p>In a nutshell: I would love to know your guys opinion, advices, what we could do to improve it, and things we are doing wrong or not all.<p>Thanks

BTW: We are giving away free job posts, if you want to try it out free of charge try 'GWFREE' on discount code.
6 Keys to Strategic Thinking
http://www.thinkingserious.com/2007/12/02/6-keys-to-strategic-thinking/
The day to day grind often leaves no time for strategic thinking. This is a habit you must correct in order to ensure long term success. Following are six keys that will help guide your strategic thinking.
Hacker News OSX menu tab app
http://guidefreitas.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/hacker-news-menu-tab/
An menu tab app using html5 and webkit
Facebook to take over Google's homepage rights?
Anyone else log into Facebook and notice their direction to drag a "Facebook" button to your home button in your browser?

What would an online world look like if the default defacto page was your Facebook news feed, and not a google search bar?
Ask HN: E-Prime Usage?
Does anybody here use E-Prime, at work, in public or indeed anywhere at all? I would like to know whether users consider it easy, moderately hard or difficult to make statements without variations on the English verb "to be."
Social People Making Programming Social
http://blog.thecloudblocks.com/post/14618777009/social-people-making-programming-social
Millennials are way more social than us Gen X folk and I think this is visible in their programming languages of choice too.
JSON backend demo in golang, no third-party dependency  
https://github.com/tarrsalah/gobars
James Ward demonstrate 2 years ago the capability of jaxrs to build Restful web applications (https://github.com/jamesward/jaxrsbars), I rewritten it using go.
TfL Travel Alerts
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfltravelalerts.android&referrer=utm_source%3Dhackernews%26utm_medium%3Dpost%26utm_campaign%3Dhackernews
I decided to write this application because whenever there are delays on my line, I never check tfl website. Sure I could have checked every other day that week, but not on the day with a bad service!

Using this app I can get the current status, weekend status and set up my regular commutes so I get notified if I'm going to be affected by problems. Simple and fast.

We make use of push notifications so it won't drain your battery! ;)

Suggestions and feedback are more than welcome!

This app is open source. Check it here: https://github.com/antonyt/TflTravelAlerts
Ask HN: Web entrepreneurs in Austin?
A new year is on the horizon and I've decided to switch up my day-to-day. I've decided I'm going to leave my job here in Dallas and move somewhere that I have not lived before. I'm a 25 year old hacker with little more than $10k in my bank account. My goal is to end up in an area where other hackers are easy to find.

This definitely seems to limit the choices down to a few of the most well known areas - SF, NY and .. Austin?

I'm interested in Austin because it's only about 3 hours away and I have some family and friends down there. I've read that it has an emerging tech entrepreneur scene, too. I know that at least Gowalla is based out of Austin.

Does anyone have any insight into the Austin tech scene? Have any HN readers recently moved out to Austin - how is it? Even more of a long shot, but has anyone here moved from San Francisco to Austin? What areas of Austin are known to have a higher concentration of web entrepreneurs?
"Windows Vista Annoyances" O'Reilly book
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527624/
664 pages!
Who to boycot over SOPA to maybe actually achieve something  
http://mashable.com/2011/12/22/godaddy-sopa-supporter-list/
It almost seems like a brilliant coup for the actual supporters of SOPA to get all attention directed towards a boycot of some two-bit company who happens to be a large domain registrar. Big as they are they are seriously small fry in the pro SOPA crowd. Boycot the big guys instead:

- Don't buy or consume media of any kind.
- Don't buy any medicines.
- Don't buy clothing from big-name brands.
- Stay away from branded cosmetics.
- Stay away from big sporting events.
- Don't use your visa and mastercard creditcards.

Instead, for christmas, make some cookies for the people you love, spend some time talking to them, go for a long walk, and donate all the money you have just saved to a charity of your choice.