jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Research Ideas
As part of my studies in my MS program (Computer Science), I have this Summer to do some amount of containable research on a topic of my choosing. If anyone has any unrealized ideas or work that they themselves don't have time to investigate that they'd like to share, I'd love to hear them. Perhaps they will be helpful to others looking for topics too!

I have general interest/knowledge in a wide variety of topics across the computer science spectrum, so I believe I could tackle a variety of problems with some success. I would love to build or research something useful to the community but the short time frame makes finding containable ideas more difficult.

General topics of interest for me include web development/technologies/tools, user experience, robotics, collaboration, software processes, crowdsourcing, and more. Really topics across the board could be candidates given the right context.

Any ideas/discussion would be helpful/greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Advice on Writing Effective Web Content
http://www.shayhowe.com/resource/writing-user-friendly-content/
These days web content is far too dull, boring, and unexciting. We all need to focus more attention on our online copy and look to keep our visitors more involved and interested in what we have to say.
Ask HN: interview with a "deal of the day" company
I am a new university business grad interviewing for an account manager position in one of the bigger deal of the day sites. I have two years experience as an account manager during my university career with a small internet based web development company. My job was to source clients who needed a website designed or redesigned and negotiate a deal to fit their needs. I was also the facilitator for communication between the client and the programmers and in charge for taking payment etc. I was responsible for coming up with new ideas for the company to make money (apps, blog networks etc) - We built these up and would sell them often within 3 months of launch. This is the only related experience I gained during my university career aside from doing the general landscape, campus jobs. I have always been very entrepreneurial building and flipping websites throughout high school and into university.

I am wondering what to expect in the interview. The job entails inside telephone business to business selling, cold-calling, prospecting, negotiating and closing business at owner level. I am to meet with the recruiter who will be giving me an overview and then will meet for a one on one interview with the sales manager.

I will be researching the industry throughly and figuring out the leaders, how this company differs from the rest and where the company fits within the industry.

What type of attire I should wear? (it is an internet based company)
What types of questions will I be asked?
What type of compensation is fair for this position? ($40k-$50k base + commission etc)

Any other tips will be greatly appreciated.
I'm selling BootstrapThemes.com
http://flippa.com/auctions/2893541/site
TL;DR: I have been validating a few ideas over the past 30 days, and one has gotten enough traction for me to really focus on it full time so I need to raise a little cash and reduce distractions. BootstrapThemes.com has great growth potential and despite being live only a month is getting decent traffic (and 5 sales so far). Thanks for looking! http://flippa.com/auctions/2893541/site
Player types emerge from unsupervised learning
http://www.itu.dk/~yannakakis/CIG09_IOI.pdf
Lots of data about your playing style are stored on central servers when you play e.g. Tomb Raider. This data can be mined to discover player types, and automatically classify players, which can in turn be used to adapt games to suit you better.
Zim gaming not much fun
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/06/zim-gaming-not-much-fun/
Consoles still dominate the Zimbabwe gaming scene, where are the cyber games?
JSON Grep
http://srt.ly/88
A coworker wrote a JSON grep tool for use on the Linux CLI
PSD to HTML
http://toppsdtohtml.com/
Top PSD to HTML Providers: Convert Your PSD to HTML and integrate with third party applications like Wordpress, Joomla, Magento and Drupal at an affordable budget.
Microsoft boss donates cow via Secret Santa programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25449497
Bill Gates donates cow via Secret Santa program.
Twitter could beat Google+ to the punch at social search
http://kottke.org/12/07/turn-your-twitter-stream-into-your-friends-linkblog
edit: title changed to be more direct about the relevance of the post.
skinny vagrant
https://github.com/andrerocker/skinny-vagrant/blob/master/skinny-vagrant
A easy way to start VirtualBox vms from the command line \o/
GitHub contributions 8-bits
http://www.cixtor.com/blog/57/github-contributions
The talks for me:
$ git init
$ touch 'README.md'
$ git add 'README.md'
$ DATE=$(stat -c %y 'README.md' | sed 's/2013/2000/g')
$ git commit -m 'Initial commit' --date "$DATE"
$ git remote add origin https://HOSTING.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
$ git push -u origin master
Atlas Gloves - DIY Hand Gesture Gloves and Software for Google Earth
http://atlasgloves.org/diy
I love it! Be sure to check out the demo video here: http://atlasgloves.org/demo
Following Your Fear
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/19952803847/following-your-fear
There is one common impediment that I see in all organizations I work with that prevents them from achieving their goals: fear.
Show HN: Neural Network Translation Running in the Browser with Transformers-JS
https://transformers-js.praeclarum.org
I wrote a javascript library that lets you run modern transformer neural networks from Hugging Face in the browser. It works on mobile browsers, desktop browsers, pretty much everywhere.

This is a little translation web app that is able to go from English to French, German, and Romanian.

When you run it the first time, it will take some time to download the neural network. After that, the browser can cache it and subsequent reloads will be faster.

It’s hosted on Azure Static Web Apps to demonstrate that no logic is running on the server. The server merely provides the neural network data to be downloaded and run on the browser. Pretty cool, huh?
Analysis of Java Class
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2008/09/analysis-of-java-class.html
Analysis of Java Class
Mobile Phone Accessories, Mobile Phone History,   Characteristics of Handsets  
http://www.themobileaccessories.com
Explaining about model mobile accessories which
decorates our handset in a more sophisticated way.A normal phone has facilities like Messaging, Phone book, Calendar, Games, Calculator etc. Whereas a featured phone will have Java
Enabled applications, Multimedia messaging service, Bluetooth and more.
STATS: SongPop's rocket ship growth
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/07/13/game-spotlight--songpop/
"In less than 6 weeks, SongPop has grown from 5k to over 7M monthly active users."
Kanban - Channel the Pain
http://www.technology-ebay.de/the-teams/mobile-de/blog/kanban-channel-the-pain.html
Usually flow is visualized as a nice, slow, peaceful floating river. That provides a good feeling, doesn't it? In this article, eBay's Holger Hammel prefers to look at it this way: you are in the middle of a dangerous, wild river in the mountains. You can be thrown with full force against big stones. That hurts! Or you don’t move at all, that is at least boring.
Show HN: Take 2 with Pathview’s cookieless content attribution
https://pathview.io/example
Afternoon HN.

I’ve been working to address the concerns previously voiced by fellow hackers. I underestimated the amount of passion some would have for data privacy. Thanks again to everyone who donated a few minutes to educate me.

Pathview no longer uses a salted and hashed IP to count unique visitors. I’ve removed the metric entirely and replaced it with “unique sessions” which is more congruent with my intention. I would not have arrived at this solution without HN. Originally, I was returning a .gif in response to the JavaScript trigger, which now returns a timestamp. The conversion report now highlights first touch, last touch, and multi-touch content paths. Pathview content attribution is a (single channel) platform for conversion optimization. I now realize conversion attribution was too broad a term for this application. Users can implement a Do Not Track mechanism should they need such functionality. I will not make GDPR claims until I’ve consulted with a lawyer. Though, my intention is to be just that.

The underlying capture mechanism leverages 160-characters of JavaScript to capture two pieces of information: the current page and the referring page. The script then returns a time-stamped response. Post-response, I store three pieces of data derived from the visit: the base domain, current page, and referring page.

My general approach to post-processing represents an iteration and improvement over old-school log analytics. There are two main differences: I do not capture or store the visiting IP address and Pathview is a cloud solution rather than a self-hosted application. Also, disabling JavaScript prevents the visit from being recorded. In time, some ad blockers will impact visit captures too.

I still have content to write and a short to-do list before I start beta testing. I know I need to explain what I do and how I do it to build trust. Does anyone have questions, concerns, or recommendations? I would welcome any insight. I’m prepared to listen and adapt as necessary.

Note: I turned the Pathview script off for this post. It will not capture your visit.

Original Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32480811
Meet the Bees: Félix Belzunce by Hannah Inman, CloudBees
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2014/04/meet-bees-felix-belzunce.html
At CloudBees, we have a lot of seriously talented developers. They work hard behind the scenes to keep the CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) and our on-premise Jenkins solutions up-to-date with all the latest and greatest technologies, gizmos and overall stuff that makes it easy for you to develop amazing software.
Félix’s main role at CloudBees is to improve the user experience on the CloudBees platform.
RedisToGo interview
http://200characters.com/post/27543263494/redistogo-interview-simple-redis-hosting
Interviews with interesting startups in less than 200 characters - this week => RedisToGo
Storebeez - a brand new online market place
http://www.ukcraftblog.com/2011/12/storebeez-brand-new-online-market-place.html
"Would you take a look at our new online market place and mention it to your readers? We have a really good offer running for December, where it's entirely free to list and sell for 6 months"

OK! As it is a good offer, that is actually free, unlike many other offers I get sent to publicise, I said I'd love to share this new website!
Show HN: Swagbags.xyz
https://swagbags.xyz/welcome-to-swagbags-demo-digital-gifts/
Digital transformation in the marketing space. We are testing a concept for digital swag/promotional products. It would be great to get some feedback. 1. What sort of digital gifts or experiences would you like instead of physical swag? Would you actually miss physical swag? What do you think of the concept in general? Currently $80B is spent on promotional products around the world each year, of which most ends up in land fills within 12 months. I hope you will try it out and give some feedback
So who else built a fake iPad last night?
http://i.imgur.com/SwVYTl.jpg
It's a shame indy developers can't get their hands on the real thing. The interaction patterns on this device will be completely different & will require a different kind of UI design. So in order to get a 'feel' for what the iPad is like in real-world use I built a (very crappy) FakePad with plexiglass & duct-tape.

Anyone else has built something like this? Anyone else want to share their paper/cardboard mockups?
Thoughts: Are you too agile for TDD/BDD?
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2011/06/thoughts-are-you-too-agile-for-tddbdd.html
Two recent blog posts seem to indicate that there are software development environments where core agile development practices like TDD and especially BDD do not fit. Those "high-ceremony" practices are even considered as waste ...
"Something Ventured" in 1950, which we know as Venture Capital 
http://awillager.blogspot.com/2011/03/something-ventured-film-about-venture.html
Epic movie about the Venture captial, all the actor are Original Venture capital.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Maps / Waze?
Google Maps works so well and Waze has so much user support, I'm wondering what others have tried or are using.
Interview with Firefox logo designer Jon Hicks
http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/15/
Jon Hicks is one half of Hicksdesign and has been working as a lead designer with Opera software. He is known as the logo designer of Firefox, Thunderbird, Silverback and Mailchimp. Needless to say, he is one of the most talented and hardworking designers focusing on both icons and logos.
Culture of Risk in Omaha
http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2009/11/culture-of-risk-in-omaha/
Great post on the culture of risk in Omaha and the greater Midwest...
Click-to-run, Microsoft makes Office 2010 available over the web
http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/11/06/click-to-run-delivering-office-in-the-21st-century.aspx
Is it just me, of does it seem like Microsoft hasn't learned yet and is still trying to not make real web apps?

At any rate, the streaming technology sounds cool.
MapQuest rollouts open-source mapping for Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=9094
MapQuest rollouts open-source mapping for Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand
Tony Curtis Tribute: His 5 Must See Movies
http://www.realtvaddict.com/2010/09/30/tony-curtis-tribute-his-5-must-see-movies/
RIP Tony C.
Cassandra – bulk insert with bound statements using the Datastax Java API
http://hashmade.fr/cassandra-bulk-insert-using-bound-statements-using-datastax-java-api/
In this article, we will see how we can bulk insert some data, with bound statements, using the brand new Datastax Java API and Cassandra.

We will only use java methods provided by the Datastax API, without writing any CQL3 statements (except to create the keyspace and the column family at the very beginning).
Show HN: I made an app for all your payment links
https://paylinkz.app/
Hi there,

I built an app to make it easy to add all your payment profile in one page. Here is a sample https://paylinkz.app/tawheed

One of the biggest challenge I run into all the time as a freelancer is that people are always asking me "How do you want to be paid?"

I detailed my motivations behind this here https://paylinkz.app/about
SkyDox Invited to Share Insights on the Future of Cloud Computing
http://www.allvoipnews.com/skydox-invited-to-share-insights-on-the-future-of.html
SkyDox Invited to Share Insights on the Future of Cloud Computing at 451 Research's Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe 2012
Show HN: WProller.com - Custom WordPress install configurator
http://WProller.com
Long time lurker here on HN but wanted to share a project I completed last week that allows someone to choose the plugins and themes they need and have them auto-magically added to their WordPress installer zip. No more hunting around for plugins and themes post-installation - they are right there ready to activate. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.<p>Roadmap for future features:
- allow language choice for WP main zip
- allow users to upload their own commercial plugins and themes to add to their installers
- allow users to choose any plugin from the WP SVN repository
- allow the site to push into GIT<p>Any others I should consider?
Pew’s Broadband Home 2010 Research: Is it truly Representative?
http://www.thecablepipeline.com/2010/08/22/pews-broadband-home-2010-research-representative/
A Pew Home Broadband 2010 Summary reports in a sub-headline, a dramatic absence of continued growth in broadband adoption across the United States; while at the same time reporting increases in demographic adoption in a particular ethnic group. That sub-headline seems contradictory by indicating an overly dramatic slowing of adoption.
Want to control an AngularJS app using your web cam?
https://github.com/angular-adaptive/adaptive-motion
This module allows you to control an AngularJS app using web camera.
10 Mission Critical Elements to Optimize on Your E-commerce Site – Right Now
http://contentverve.com/10-elements-to-optimize-e-commerce-podcast-peep-laja-conversionxl/
When it comes to e-commerce optimization and CRO in general, few have more hands-on experience than Peep Laja. In this podcast he points out 10 mission critical elements on your e-commerce site and tells you how and why you should optimize them - right now!
Show HN: Search a Year – Search the internet for results in a specific year
https://searchayear.com/
Hi HN! I made this little project because I wanted a way to easily search for things in specific years, so I’d be able to search web history, or backdated articles or stuff like that. Search A Year lets you just search for anything, but can target current, or historical years. I’ve found it helpful when searching for recent answers to questions about the best products to buy, or for finding older results.

Also, fwiw, we built OldestSearch.com a few months ago, and it had some novelty and HN seemed to like it, but it made me think it’d be interesting to build something similar with a bit more utility.
Add A Youtube Video To Your PowerPoint Presentation
http://hackspc.com/add-a-youtube-video-to-your-powerpoint-presentation/
If you work presentation in Powerpoint, then is very useful add videos to make presentation much interesting and to keep the attention of the audience. Let´s say you need to add video from youtube.com, for beginning , you should download video and convert in a format you can use in Powerpoint.
Best Business
http://www.bestsmallcompany.blogspot.com
Here's step-by-step information to preventing public mistakes and managing yourself effectively in any company scenario. In present-day aggressive company atmosphere, understanding the technicalities of manners can mean the change between successful or dropping a customer. If you've ever been at a loss for what to say or what to do, here's informs it all.
Ample Way
http://www.ampleroad.com
Here's step-by-step information to preventing public mistakes and managing yourself effectively in any company scenario. In present-day aggressive company atmosphere, understanding the technicalities of manners can mean the change between successful or dropping a customer. If you've ever been at a loss for what to say or what to do, here's informs it all.
Transit of Venus
http://mutha.ncra.tifr.res.in/ncra/for-public/transit-of-venus
Download the story of the Transit of Venus
Cloud Hosted Minecraft servers
http://bitchasscode.com/?p=55
Hey Guys,

We're launching a new startup. Hosted minecraft.

Let us know what you think. We were playing this around the office and with friends and found it horribly frustrating. Over time we ended up building custom tools to manage the servers and figured, this is something other people would probably enjoy.

So here it is!

www.hostedminecraft.net
Show HN: Crowd Sourcing Pain Points
http://www.solutionpending.com/
I made an MVP last night for a site that would allow people to start topics about annoyances they have that, presumably, developers/hackers would be interested in solving if they knew there was an audience out there that would appreciate the solution.

I had written a web app that I never released a few months back that would, if modified, be perfect for such a discussion site. However, as it would take a bit of reworking, I wanted to see if there was any interest out there for such a site first.

Any advice as to what direction you would like to see such a project take or what would make this project useful to you would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Nick
DealsNerd - Smart way to find best deals around internet
https://www.dealsnerd.com/
This is pretty interesting way to search the deals around internet.
An ASCII greeting from Obama
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152034208725315&set=a.10150358596230315.590182.678575314&type=1&theater
When looking for the used in the Obama/Biden campaign I stumbled upon this.
Thought it was pretty fun, and impressive that their team has that attention to details.
- This might be old news, but i just accidentally found it and thought it was funny.
Speed kills not only in sports but also in tech
http://www.kylembrown.com/general/speed-kills-not-only-in-sports-but-also-in-tech
I wrote this article to document my thoughts on how using money equals speed in regards to reaching an objective.

In other words money gets you to the end game faster that doing it all yourself.
Lessons Learned: Changing data storage
http://techblog.floorplanner.com/2010/06/02/lessons-learned-changing-data-storage/
I don’t know if it’s just us, but for one reason or another, we changed the way we store our data multiple times in the recent past. After doing it several times a pattern emerged.
Show HN: CraftSQL helps you write SQL easily
https://craftsql.com/
Hey everyone!

I'm a long-time reader, first-time poster. I built a tool to help you easily write SQL by building queries visually.

I did this because (a) I used to write a lot of SQL in an old job and (b) my girlfriend now needs to write SQL for her job and she's very new to it. So if you write a lot of SQL for work (or help people that need to write their own SQL), check it out! I built this over a weekend, so there are some rough edges, but you can try it out without needing to sign up or integrate with any databases. There's also a 3 minute demo on the home screen.

Link: https://craftsql.com/

Does this generate the most performance optimized queries? The built queries target correctness, not performance. In practice, when I compared generated queries to the ones I wrote by hand, the query planner yields the same plan anyway.

Is this a data security risk? No, it never integrates with your actual database, so your data is never exposed. All you need to do is tell it what your tables' names and columns are, and those are only stored in your browsers local storage.

Would love all your thoughts!
How To Create Incredible Web Graphics For Free
http://www.spicywebdesign.com/how-to-create-incredible-web-graphics-for-free/
Ever wanted to create cool web graphics but don't have the money for expensive commercial graphics software? Here's some helpful tips that will point you in the right direction toward creating spicy web graphics for your web site or blog for free!
Show HN: Football Heroes - The Return of Arcade Football and our first iOS game
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes/id543009156
The iPad version is over at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/football-heroes-hd/id692267420
Kinect Managing Cloud Servers
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/01/no-joke-kinect-managing-cloud-servers/
Using Kinect to manage VMware/Vsphere
Ask HN: List of events/programs should college entrepreneurs apply to?
I'm a web developer, in college, wanting to eventually start a startup. (Right now, I'm hacking on a few things.)

My question is: which startup programs and events should I be aware of (and perhaps apply to)? For instance, I know about Startup School. Are there others? (Please include the date if you have it.)
Why the heck we need marketing guys at our perfect IT company?
http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1142
I was wondering all my life why the heck we need a marketing and community management droids at our team. We create a kick-ass products that we can sell them via our web-page using 33 lines of HTML code an an Paypal account.
Fix the iOS4 Slowdown on Older iPhones in 30 Seconds
http://vitamincm.com/fix-ios4-deactivate-spotlight-search
Learn how to fix the slow performance of older iPhones that are running iOS4 by disabling useless Spotlight Search.
Cucumber for Android
http://blog.lesspainful.com/2012/03/07/Calabash-Android/
Project can be found on github: https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android