jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Secondary Sales and Venture Capitalists – an unhealthy mix
http://techentrepreneurship.com/2011/11/01/secondary-sales-and-venture-capitalists-%E2%80%93-an-unhealthy-mix/
Looking on all kind of nice seed fundings (in range of millions of dollars) for very trivial ideas, I wonder why actually there are people (mostly VCs) investing in such, from my point of view, non sustainable ideas. I always thought that this is just some kind of game between rich people to fool other rich people to earn money almost from nothing. Helge gives in his blog some interesting view on that, which I think reflects some of my thoughts how all this VC buisiness model works.

I wonder why I haven't seen much of same things happening in Europe. Is it because of strong regulations or is it because of more conservative buisiness models?
Show HN: [English Douban for music]A music review and discussion
http://getagora.com/
Goodreads for music. Still in Beta.
5 Steps For Launching a Startup From a Small Town
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2012/02/02/5-steps-for-launching-a-startup-from-a-small-town/
Entrepreneurs aren’t solely bred in the Silicon Valley and don’t need to hustle on Wall Street to grab investors’ attention. Here are five practical steps to get your startup off the ground, even if you’re lifting off from a small town.
Show HN: Trade the stock market using javascript in a browser
http://www.StockTesting.com
I built www.StockTesting.com
It allows anyone to trade or test strategies on the stock market with Javascript, all from within your browser. You can see charts of your backtesting strategies from the last 10 years, or even set your strategy to autotrade the market and update your phone by text message, voice call, or email. You can do this all just by calling a function from within your javascript code (eg) : call_my("cell","555-1212", "Just sold my shares for a cool profit of $"+profit);
Dome9 Security Addresses Widespread Microsoft RDP Cloud Server Vulnerability
http://www.allvoipnews.com/dome9-security-addresses-widespread-microsoft-rdp.html
Dome9 Security Addresses Widespread Microsoft RDP Cloud Server Vulnerability
Visualization and social data analysis - the IBM way.(Many Eyes) Swine Flu Cases
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/us-swine-flu-cases-as-of-4-29-09
Visualization and social data analysis - the IBM way.
The Co-Founder Mythology
Yes, no doubt two Alpha males don't make for good pair. There has to be a passive aggressive partnership. But this issue is very deep far and wide. It's companionship, corroboration, friendship and more. I think the fundamental differences of partnership has a lot to do with WHEN you started that partnership. If you start at an early stages as friends.. i.e. Jerry/David, Brin/Sergey then it's based on a good foundation and will endure. While if you started that partnership for the sole purpose of starting a company then you don't have that friendship foundation but instead a business where trust is thin and faith is all you have.<p>Good analogy: a relationship based on friendship will have ever lasting bonding versus one night stand turn pre-nup to marriage is a leap of faith.<p>I've tried and gosh darn it.. it's harder to find a co-founder than it was to find my soon to be wife!!! So given up the friendship and will probably look for a <i>business</i> partner where the sole purpose of collaboration is...money. They are dime a dozen.<p>Funny.. I have a whole website dedicated to this particular issue of co-founder... http://www.QuasiPreneur.com :)
Bureaucrat Job Class, Seriously
http://compositecode.com/2011/03/15/bureaucrat-job-class-seriously/
I was looking through some code and found this class recently. It almost reminds me of a class I saw called a speed up loop. This however, is obviously more important to the grand scheme of politics eh!
Interview with Simon Daniel founder of USBCELL, one of the best startups of the year.
http://www.businesshackers.com/2007/07/23/interview-with-simon-daniel-founder-of-usbcell-one-of-the-best-startups-of-the-year/
An interview with the founder of an amazing startup.
IP protection, website disclaimers etc
Hello,

I am in the process of launching a website which is a forum / showcase for writers, filmmakers and other individuals to contribute their work to, as this is a new site i really need to know a couple of fundamentals:

Firstly, do I need to register the website name (i.e. trademark or similar) etc to protect the overall IP and check that it's not infringing on other sites?

Secondly, how can I protect any IP or reproduction rights for the authors of articles submitted to the website or if material is requested by third party media?

Kate
Order takers vs order makers
http://asalesguy.com/2010/07/01/order-takers-vs-order-makers/
This is a sales blog I occasionally read but I thought it's an interesting perspective for anyone engaged in online sales.
Show HN: EasyWiki - the Chrome Extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easywiki/faihnkmjkajkjcbaginjgdmamhfmhado
No more multiple Wikipedia tabs! Be a Wikipedia power-user with popovers!
Ask HN: What unexplainable things have you heard kids say?
And I don’t mean gibberish or nonsensical sounds.
IPhone And Android Rule the Web Advertisement Arena on Smart Phones in the US
http://www.socialjitney.com/blog/2010/01/25/iphone-and-android-rule-the-web-advertisement-arena-on-smart-phones-in-the-us/
As per the Market Share Data put out by Admob which is being acquired by Google, 81% of all US mobile ad impressions on Smart Phones in the fourth quarter are via the iPhone and Android. This increased from 55% to 81%. Android has almost doubled its market share to 27% whereas the iPhone accounted for the balance 54%.
Pencil Broom From Artori Design
http://thegadgetflow.com/portfolio/pencil-broom-artori-design/
The Pencil Broom is a clever creation brought to you by Artori Design. It’s just like any other pencil, except for the eraser with bristles at the top that makes it look like a broom. When you make a mistake that needs to be erased, just turn the pencil around and use it as a broom to wipe the paper clean.
Ask HN: Where do you look for PT/contract work?
Hi HN, sorry if the question has been asked before, I'm kind of new here. I'm wondering where you (i.e. reader of HN) go to find part-time or contract work. I have been hiring using odesk, elance, rentacoder, and guru, but generally speaking I've only found average designers and coders, not the "look at the web app that I made over the weekend" type of people.

Any help? Thanks
A very unique + political webgame
http://arcade.itch.com/games/election-2008/

How many games are there were you get to play as Obama or McCain?
Hidden treasure in the Arctic
http://www.economist.com/node/21556800
Special report in the Economist: The Arctic
Chatting with Scott Hanselman
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/2/18/chatting-with-scott-hanselman
Ruby on Rails Evangelist AkitaOnRails talks to Scott Hanselman from Microsoft camp. Always nice to exchange experiences.
Scientists diagnose intestinal worms -- using an iPhone microscope
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/world/africa/tanzania-iphone-worms/index.html
An Apple product may help keep the doctor away in Tanzania.
In a discovery that provides doctors in remote areas with an alternative, scientists recently created a microscope using an iPhone, tape, flashlight and camera lens.
They then used it to diagnose intestinal worms in about 200 students in Pemba Island, off Tanzania's eastern coast.
Pimp Out Your New G1 With Great Accessories
http://tomuse.com/g1-accessories/
Discusses accessory needs for the T-Mobile G1. Includes memory cards, chargers, screen protectors, stylus pen, bluetooth, mounts, kits, skins, cases, headphones
Action urged on mobiles coverage 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8290659.stm
UK mobile operators need to do more to help customers who experience coverage problems, an advisory panel has said.
CAPTCHA recognition for BitCoin
http://pixodrom.com/static/pixodrom-prinimaet-bitcoin-za-raspoznavanie-captcha/
CAPTCHA recognition service Pixodrom (http://pixodrom.com) is now accepting payments in BitCoin
The price is about $0.7 for 1000 CAPTCHAs
My Wisest Mentor: My Grandmother
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/05/my-wisest-mentor-my-grandmother.html
My wisest mentor of all was my paternal grandmother, pictured above with my brother and me on the porch of her Brooklyn home.
25 Premium Admin Template on Themeforest
http://blogfreakz.com/web-design/premium-admin-template/
The front end design and admin user interface both is the important element to make our client satisfied and impressive. Custom made admin user interface will take a time and usually cost you a fortune. How about buy hight quality admin template with lower price?. Today I will share with you 25 premium admin template from temeforest that you can use on your next project.
Show HN: Koldsnapp – Teaser launch Site for college comp
http://koldsnapp.com/
Hey Guys, long time rss lurker here.

My college, Colorado College, is putting on a $100k startup competition on April 1st, and here's the teaser launch site for our product.

Basically, Koldsnapp is a wireless sensor system for small business freezers and fridges. Getting warned before the ice cream melts or your produce goes bad will prevent >$1000 losses that many of these small family-run businesses incur. It only takes 20 minutes to setup, and our first vertical is ice cream stores.

I'll release the product slides on the day of the comp, and i'll post here again if there's interest, and especially if we win some money!

Thanks for being such a great resource over the years, HN!
-Azeem

PS. Since the pitch is on April 1st, can anyone think of a good april fools prank to do that wouldn't destroy a pitch?
Apache Tuscany hello world
http://computegeeken.blogspot.com/2011/06/apache-tuscany-part-2-hello-world-using.html
Second part of the blog to hello world with web service framework apache tuscany
Business: How to Stand Out
https://coursmos.com/course/how-to-stand-out
Find out how to rise above many entrepreneurs in the world of high competition from influential venture capitalist and the creator of online viral marketing Timothy C. Draper.
5 Tips To Get The Most Out Of Your Coding Time
http://hatim.indexdev.net/2010/03/11/5-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-coding-time/
I remember seeing an add from Microsoft I believe for hiring programmers and the jist of it was "We give you an office with a door".

Why you might wonder?
Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
http://cacm.acm.org/news/80665
MIT is developing tiny, lighted helicopters whose movement will be coordinated to create shape-shifting displays.
Pirate Bay Anti-Paypal ad
http://thepiratebay.org/
Pirate Bay blog explaining the add at http://thepiratebay.org/blog/185. The people who run the Pirate Bay are pretty pissed at Paypal for terminating Wikileaks' account.
Sanger adds two cancer genomes
http://www.massgenomics.org/2009/12/sanger-adds-two-cancer-genomes.html
Analysis of recent papers published by the folks at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (presumably most people here don't have access to the parent journals).

Among other things, of relevance

"Intriguingly, in both studies the authors identified distinct mutational signatures of exposure to the long-suspected environmental risk factor - ultraviolet radiation (in malignant skin cancer) and tobacco smoke’s “cocktail of carcinogens” (in lung cancer). The substantial number of mutations in each genome made it possible to characterize these signatures with unprecedented statistical power."
North Carolina Startup Resources
http://detailedblock.com/resources/
A local collection of resources for startups in the Charlotte NC and surrounding area.
The quest to reverse the human ageing process
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24114277
Related news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24111357
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8385700.stm
Tech Freelancing for Beginners
http://www.iheavy.com/2012/05/17/consulting-essentials-building-your-business/
How to get gigs, manage projects without overextending & build your network so you're always booked!
AptDeco Community Manager (NYC)
https://www.aptdeco.com/jobs/view/id1150
AptDeco (YC W14) is a fast growing NYC based start up and looking for highly motivated, personable self starters to lead our efforts within customer experience - basically ensure the ship is running smoothly. At AptDeco, amazing service is our core.

AptDeco is a marketplace for buying and selling quality preowned furniture with pick up and delivery built into the service. Our customers love us because we take care of all the logistics on their behalf.

The right person will be comfortable in an "all hands on deck" environment, loves solving people problems and can thrive in a fast paced startup culture. This role is all about bringing AptDeco love to our users.

You are...

A utility player. You're willing to find resolutions to customer issues early, late and often.

Self-driven. You have superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow through on tasks. You don't get overwhelmed easily...

Naturally curious. You're innovative, extremely creative and constantly looking for ways to improve upon things.

Graceful. You are self aware, well-spoken on the phone and eloquent in emails. You'll humbly be the voice of AptDeco.

Fun. You're a charismatic people person who can talk to anyone; you're flexible, fearless, and excited to help build something awesome and share it with the world.

Motivated. You understand the impact of a highly-satisfied, excited crew of users; you are slightly obsessive-compulsive about grinding away at issues.

Your responsibilities:

You'll be tasked with supporting our users with OMG-Amazing service and inspiring a growing user base to share the AptDeco experience. You'll have great opportunities to develop & foster various skill sets:

Tame upset customers and turn them into passionate evangelists. Respond to emails & support issues promptly.

Identify new ways to get the AptDeco experience in front of new users.

Work closely with our engineering & operations teams to streamline process and assist in intelligently scaling a vibrant business.

Identify and engage community advocates who are equally passionate about making buying & selling used furniture a breeze.

Coordinate logistics between buyers, sellers and moving partners
And much more

Your qualifications:

College degree from an accredited 4 year institution

Experience in a customer service / technical support environment with a desire to help people

Ability to multi-task, think outside the box and be a complete self-starter

Have experience problem solving complex customer issues

Strong organizational, analytic, written and verbal communication skills

Excellent time management skills and self-motivation

Previous experience working at a start up is a huge plus

Bottom line: You have to be ready to hustle! You must be ready and excited to get your hands dirty and help build a growing business. You're the customer advocate and need to bring the voice of AptDeco to NYC..

TO APPLY:

Send your resume along with 300 characters or less describing why you are the perfect candidate for this role to jobs@aptdeco.com.
Tell us about books you read in 2014
What book or books did you read in 2014 that you think might be of interest to others?

I've seen threads like this before and discovered many interesting books through them.

I'll start with two books:

The Rosie Project; someone linked to the Bill Gates review: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Rosie-Project and that convinced me to buy a copy. The first quarter was unconvincing but the last third had me laughing, though from situational effects rather than one-liners. The applicability to HN readers will likely become obvious over time. It traces important questions about logic, rationality, and what matters.

Echopraxia by Peter Watts; it's a science fiction partial sequel to Blindsight, and while the novel is brilliant and weird it is likely to be hard to read without knowing its predecessor. I've read lots of SF but never any aliens likes Watts's.
The Transformation of Cyber Attacks
http://blog.risk.io/2013/03/the-transformation-of-cyber-attacks/
Risk I/O investor & Board member Jacques Benkoski discusses the transformation of cyber attacks in our latest blog post.
Eventot - local events aggregator
http://eventot.com/
very interesting service: search for local events.
Will Network DNA Sabotage Your Journey to the Cloud?
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/02/network-dna/
Will Network DNA Sabotage Your Journey to the Cloud?
S&P Rates Tesla Debt as 'Junk' – Update
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140527-712847.html
see also: S&P Assigns 'B-' Rating to Tesla (TSLA); Notes 'Vulnerable' Business Risk Profile

http://www.streetinsider.com/Credit+Ratings/S%26P+Assigns+B-+Rating+to+Tesla+%28TSLA%29%3B+Notes+Vulnerable+Business+Risk+Profile/9525763.html
How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs
http://www.tested.com/news/how-to-make-your-own-cinemagraphs-a-new-take-on-gifs/2253/
Those ancient animated images — once limited to gaudy "under construction" signs and chain-mail fodder — are receiving a new lease on life as of late, thanks to a little something called cinemagraphs.
Educational Technology For Special Needs
http://www.artifactsteach.com/support/
The iPad has become one of the most sought after of all teaching aids. The constant flow of new apps aimed at elementary education makes great resources for teachers of special needs students. Students love them because they’re fun. Teachers love them because they can supplement almost any lesson. They’re great for visual, auditory, and tactile learning. The iPads are part of a larger pool of assistive technology resources for teachers. The Individuals with Disabilities Act requires that students be issued whatever technology meets their learning needs. Teachers can use iPads and all their software along with talking dictionaries and calculators, over-sized keyboards, artifacts apps and more.
Typescript 0.9 alpha
https://typescript.codeplex.com/releases/view/105503
An early preview of typescript 0.9 adds support for generics to the language.
Buy Facebook Likes: A Way to Get Achievement in Short Period of time of Time
http://twitterstock.com/2011/buy-facebook-likes-a-way-to-get-achievement-in-short-period-of-time-of-time/
Social and networking are two different words which are when joined collectively type a huge notion. There is no doubt that web has altered this earth into a worldwide village. Everybody has his
or her online presence. This is not applicable for men and women only as larger groups including businesses are also present on the internet. They current them on internet with the help of their web sites. It is like deal with of your complete organization and its activities.
Ask HN: The craziest places you've found HTTP caches
In your firewall? On the plane? Or on the cruise ship? I'm curious about your craziest findings.
Car Salesmen = Technical Recruiters?
http://markcunningham91.blogspot.com/2012/12/car-salesmen-technical-recruiters.html
I'm a technical recruiter here in Austin, Texas and wanted to post this specifically to the software engineering community.
Review New Job board in Dubai www.careerdubai.net
Hello guys,<p><pre><code> I have just launched with another business guy a new job board for dubai.i want your feedback about the website.
We are looking for investors if you are interested</code></pre>
Show HN: an ios app that lets you read meme/rage comics
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-storm/id601632226?mt=8
Hi,<p>I love reading meme/rage comic. However, getting to the website and see too many is painful. I just want to read/see the meme. That's all. So I build an app.<p>It has 2 components, the app and a crawler (in Ruby with Sinatra). All are open source:<p>https://github.com/axcoto/meme-bot
https://github.com/axcoto/memestorm<p>Looking for feedback from meme lovers.<p>Thanks.
Ask HN: HN usage statistics? Comments/Posts/Visits per day.
any statistics would be interesting to me.
Kindle Fire Lacks (even BASIC) Purchase Controls
http://www.soft32.com/blog/platforms/mobile/kindle-fire-lacks-even-basic-purchase-controls/
Let’s face it, despite what Amazon has to say, the Kindle Fire really just isn’t kid friendly… The device itself doesn’t have any method, or way of either excluding your purchasing credentials/credit card info or even password protecting all purchases with your Amazon.com site password.
Hacking Spikes and the Real Time Media
http://securosis.com/blog/hacking-spikes-and-the-real-time-media
Mike Rothman doesn't see the hacking "spike" as a spike at all, that the attackers are not more sophisticated, just given more exposure and notoriety opportunities through social media and wrong-minded reporters. The piece is spot on.
SIGMANIL FRAMEWORK
http://www.sigmanil.com
The technology behind SigmaNIL has been the winner since the beginning. We have won the first three worldwide competitions:
- CVPR Gesture Challenge 2012, 1st Prize
- Asus Xtion Pro Developer Challenge, 1st Prize
- PrimeSense OpenNI Developer Challenge, 3rd Prize
Please see the details here: http://www.sigmard.com/news/

SigmaNIL is the most powerful vision framework for natural user interfaces; with elaborate features such as finger level precision hand shape recognition, hand gesture recognition, and hand skeleton tracking.

SigmaNIL framework also provides customization tools for each of these advanced features. SigmaNIL is designed to support all depth sensor devices and base libraries such as OpenNI and KinectSDK. It is also designed so that developers can enhance it by adding new powerful modules.

SigmaNIL Framework is composed of the following parts:
- SigmaNIL Core (source code included)
- SigmaNIL Modules (HandSegmentation, HandSkeleton, HandShape and HandGesture)
- SigmaNIL Tools (Mainly training tools to customize the modules by creating relevant data files. Current distribution includes HandShapeTrainingTool only)
- Documentation (at www.sigmanil.com/docs.html)
- Tutorials (at www.sigmanil.com/docs.html)
- Sample Projects (source code included)

SigmaNIL Core is open source!
(released under Apache License, Version 2.0)

Develop your own modules, enhance the framework for your and community needs.

Visit www.sigmanil.com for more.

SigmaNIL Framework is developed by SigmaRD (www.sigmard.com).
Create RSS Feeds From Myspace Artist Tour Dates
http://www.crainbandy.com/programming/introducing-drmyspacecom-create-rss-feeds-from-myspace-artist-tour-dates
If you haven’t read my post on using PHP and Simple HTML DOM parser to scrape artist tour dates off myspace then check that out first seeing as this post starts where that one ended. I’ve received countless emails and noticed in my Google Analytics a large percentage of visitors reach my site by searching for Myspace RSS feeds. Myspace Artist Tour Dates in RSS format to be more precise. I’ve had this idea for quite some time but never created it. Tonight I spent about 4 hours putting together what I’d like to introduce as the first version of Dr. Myspace. Built specifically to allow you to create RSS feeds from Myspace artist tour dates. It’s extremely simple in it’s architecture but extremely useful at the same time.