jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Taking TODOs from code to tickets/stories
http://oceansaremadefromstreams.posterous.com/a-system-to-parse-a-code-basess-todos-and-cre
This is mainly aimed at people who have lots of TODOs in their code.

Not primarily those that don't.

You'll probably be wanting to use a ticketing system like Redmine or Trac too.

All feedback welcome, though pref not too many flames for NOT putting TODOs in code, though I try to address that in the blog post. Thanks.
A Talk With VCMike
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070723/a-talk-with-vcmike/
Mike Hirshland of Boston-based Polaris Venture Partners was in San Francisco recently, and so I had a little chat with him, part of my ongoing series: Meet the VCs, so you can fight or flee when you see them at parties.
The global appeal of 'sticky' live blogs
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/08/08/live.blogging/index.html
One evening in the spring of 2010, Keith McSpurren settled down with his children in his home in Toronto to watch play-off hockey on television, a ritual repeated in millions of households across Canada.
Android | Sending & Receiving Custom Broadcasts
http://hmkcode.com/android-sending-receiving-custom-broadcasts/
How to send custom broadcast and how to declare a broadcast receiver programmatically and using Manifest file to listen to this broadcast.
Wireless Operators Struggle to Deliver Broadband
http://cacm.acm.org/news/65273
The transition to 4G service may be less than smooth for wireless providers.
Styling your Google map has never been easier. 
http://mapstylr.com 
Want to have your personal list of map styles? Create a free account and save them to your collection.
Ask HN: Is there a SAAS app to do a questions splash page like timedoctor.com
http://www.timedoctor.com/
I'm looking to segment my visitors as they enter the website homepage based on their answers to some simple questions.

At the simplest version is could just be one question.

timedoctor.com has the best implementation I have seen, wondering if anyone knows of a service that could do this easily or some more examples of websites doing it.
Zaarly 2.0 is Live
http://blog.zaarly.com/corporate/2012/get-your-app-store-out-zaarly-2-0-is-live/
Zaarly releases version 2.0 with profiles and reputation.
Assembly (YC W12) Is Hiring a Full-Stack and Front-End Engineer
Hi HN.

Assembly is a platform that makes it possible for people around the world to band together to build apps online and share in ownership. Anyone can post an idea, we have a community of designers, developers, and other creatives who collaboratively build the best ones into real software products. Once an app ships Assembly collects the revenue each month, pays any bills, and splits any proceeds with everyone that build it. More than 4.5 million people already use apps built by the Assembly community.

We think of it as software eating the company - before Assembly, it was very unlikely and difficult for a group of strangers around the world to come together online around a vision, build something, and share in the success. Who would incorporate, who pays the bills, who collects the money, do they get an accountant, attorney, how do they pay taxes, etc etc - there are real trust and operation issues. With the Assembly platform, people can freely meet like they do on other online community but through the collaboration and trust provided by Assembly they can quickly start making something together (no employment contracts needed) with a shared vision the core team driving it - knowing they'll earn their share of revenue if the product does well.

We've raised a Series A from Union Square Ventures, Thrive, and other great investors to build the meta company. We're a diverse team of seasoned founders and product engineers. We use the best engineering tools for the job, today they primarily are React, Ruby, Go, and Clojure. We care and invest deeply in professional development and will do everything to make sure Assembly is one of your most memorable work experiences.

You can read more about the job, great benefits, and to apply here:

Full-Stack Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/assembly/3ad9b4b2-f399-4999-9138-6ff9d...

Front-End Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/assembly/21461ca1-0f3a-416f-8330-3dd0a...
U.S. might get downgraded - but do rating agencies matter?
http://chaselanc.com/post/8369346432
I have previously written about the how the rating agencies currently hold a dangerous level of influence over our global economy through sovereign ratings. With one press release, these agencies can cause massive selloffs and panic in the markets worldwide (see Europe). The ongoing debt crisis has focused many on the question of whether or not our debt ceiling will be raised. But there is another, equally important, matter that deserves attention: whether or not the U.S. will get downgraded. If the U.S. raises the debt ceiling, this by no means saves the country from losing its coveted AAA status. In fact, the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Rating Agency has explicitly indicated that a plan providing for less than $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years is likely to lead to a downgrade. Some commentators have cautioned that a credit downgrade, in and of itself, would be devastating. Financial analysts estimate that a downgrade would result in $100 billion more of additional interest expense for the U.S. - per year. Over 10 years, this would be an additional $1 trillion of additional interest expense incurred. It would seem logical that any plan which contemplates less than $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years should factor this in. So the current plan of ~$2.7 trillion in deficit reduction should probably be around $1.7 trillion. But this is only true if you actually take the rating agencies to heart. Which brings up a legitimate question: why listen to the rating agencies in the first place? These are the same agencies that facilitated the real estate bubble and bust by assigning top ratings to debt instruments made up of sub-prime mortgage loans - debt instruments that are now considered "toxic." The agencies, as Thomas Beck (author of "Constitutional Separation of Powers: Cases & Commentary") points out, have long treated U.S. bonds as the gold standard by which all other debt instruments should be measured - even when they knew Washington was engaged in a colossal Ponzi-type cycle. It was able to repay its existing debt only by taking on new debt, and then pay that newer debt by taking on more debt, and so on, and so on. Beck, in his article (sourced below) goes on to ask, "Could any careful lender conclude that such behavior by a borrower warrants the highest possible credit rating?" For a country that now borrows $0.40 cents for every $1 dollar it spends, it shouldn’t take a rating agency press release to illustrate that the U.S. is not the same credit it was 10 years ago.
Kinograph: preserving 1920s movies with a Raspberry Pi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4214
"Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitization affordable and scaleable. Using components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera, the machine digitizes 35mm, 16mm or 8mm film at high definition resolutions with sound."
What would you like to see more of on the web this year?
http://www.tosbourn.com/2011/03/web-stuff/interview-what-would-you-like-to-see-more-of-on-the-web/
In this interview I ask three people who spend their days working in and around the web what they would like to see before the close of 2011.
Adapt a framework or write from scratch ...?
http://glynology.info/adapt-a-framework-or-write-from-scratch
Codeigniter, Zend or Yii ... ?
Evolution|: Humanity in space.
http://awillager.blogspot.com/2011/03/evolution-of-humanity-in-space-infinity.html
evolution of humanity, space to infinity and beyond. willager, Yuri Gagarin.
[From FOWA] On-demand host goes up against Amazon S3
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/03/on-demand-host-goes-up-against-amazon-s3/
Flexiscale, a new UK-based on-demand computing service aimed at Web 2.0 startups plans to compete with Amazon's EC2/S3 service.
Google Glass Prediction: For get AR, It’s all about Search
http://moeadham.ca/google-glass-prediction-for-get-ar-its-all-about-search/
Google glass has very little to do with what Google wants to show you, and everything to do with what you show Google.
Ask HN: Using other videos/music as footage - Copyright issue
me and friends are organizing a small TEDx conference and we're making a small promotion video for the event. Then suddenly all the copyright issues brought up when we try to use some other good existing videos on youtube as excerpts.

Then it gets me thinking. I saw a lot of youtube videos that use other videos and music (the ones where you create a photo album of your trip's pictures and insert a background music, or making an inspirational video with music etc).

My question is, is it legal to do so? Do people usually ask the owner of the video/music/pictures before using them in their videos?

The other day I submitted a video to youtube and got and email say the music I used is copyrighted by some music group. I, following other videos, carefully put a note in both the video and description of youtube. I know this wouldn't be enough. But how about other tons of videos out there?
What do you want to achieve before the world comes to an end?
http://doitbefore.com/blog/2012/11/our-story
A friend and my answer was a clear one: "We want to start a web app with 10.000 users". Some people think in December 21 the world will come to an end. What do you think? What is your one goal you want to achieve?
Show HN: Whistle-based Authentication
http://popdevelop.com/whistle
With the rise of more and more clever authentication methods, e.g. fingerprint (Apple Touch ID), facial recognition (http://mashable.com/2013/07/25/facial-recognition-payment) and clicking in pictures (http://pixelpin.co.uk), we thought that why not take this trend to the next level:

Whistle-based Authentication: http://popdevelop.com/whistle

The project uses HTML5 audio (in Chrome) together with some basic signal processing to detect notes that are whistled in a certain order. Only the order is important, so no need for perfect pitch.

And kids, don't use this in anything close to a production environment. This project was developed during the Malmoe Music Hack Weekend 2013 and only supports the two demo users. However feel free to fork the project and add your own users and melodies.
Visualizing 3D Network Topologies Using Unity
http://collaboradev.com/2014/03/12/visualizing-3d-network-topologies-using-unity/
Network topology visualization can be performed using a wide variety of technologies ranging from simple 2D applications to complex 3D applications. This approach utilizes the Unity (http://unity3d.com/) game engine to develop a network topology visualization in 3D complete with FPS controls in zero gravity and warp to zones.
John Kotter on How to Sell Your Vision
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/john-kotter-on-selling-your-vision.html
The single biggest problem in trying to make big changes is simply getting people's attention.
Increase in Uni applications for Science & Technology
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2011/0822/1224302808028.html?via=mr
Irrelevant to most of you, sure, but...
Prior Art
http://www.kiwiluv.com/techblog/?p=1363
Time to end software patents.
IDEA HQ – new way for managing customers' appeals
http://ideahq.r12.railsrumble.com/
We participated in Rails Rumble 2012. It our first Rumble and I think that we've done it well!

So here is a result – IDEA HQ. Imagine that now responding to your customers' appeals is a great fun. You get no spam or junk mail anymore, there are neither dispatching questions to one of your colleagues nor assigning of your own ideas to someone else. How about making a computer classify appeals and assign them to the right person?

Our filter is still learning, so please be indulgent.
Show HN: Reccy – store, discover and share your favourite places
https://reccy.app
Direct app store links:
https://apps.apple.com/tc/app/reccy/id1585075955
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yclabs.rec...
Built the alpha in a day: what are your thoughts?
Hello, all.

We stayed up late the other night and built something that (well, we believe) could be a viable product. So, without talking it up I ask for your thoughts, feedback, critiques:

https://www.MyBankSux.com

It currently works for banks in 9 countries:

1. US
2. UK
3. India
4. Australia
5. UAE
6. New Zealand
7. Canada
8. South Africa
9. Philippines

Next releases:
1. FB authentication (plus other platforms)
2. Salesforce Social CRM integration
3. Mobile App
4. Other verticals
5. Location based entity search
This is a war #go2048#
http://go2048.com/rank.html
A global leader board for 2048 game with replay.
VCs Are Not Like Your Parents
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/11/vcs-are-not-lik.html
Once in a blue moon an entrepreneur will try to play partners at a venture firm against each other - much like a child plays his mom against his dad...
Setup payment server and do purchase in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0My5PKR1w
The movie shows how to setup payment server and do purchase using paypal express checkout in few minutes.

The code is available on github: https://github.com/Payum/PayumServer

Still prove of concept, any feedback is very welcome!.
The delusion of Free Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk
This is a talk by Sam Harris[0], where he argues with his extensive scientific work about the inner workings of the brain, that free will is an iron age belief and is incoherent with 'consciousness'.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris_%28author%29
Two 4 GB RAM or one 8 GB RAM
Hi,

Can someone tell me whats the performance difference between one 8 GB RAM stick & two 4 GB Ram stick.
Configs for both are same.

My entire config.

i5-4670K,
z87 extreme 3 MB,
8 GB corsair Vengeance RAM Stick,
Corsair PSU 600 Watts,
Nvidia Gtx 760.

Thanks in Advance.
Ask HN: Have You Consulted with Experts?
Have you found yourself looking for technical experts and paid them to consult on a pain-point in your company? AWS Shield Advanced service charges $3,000 per month. Are there places where you go for consulting on issues of scaling, security or otherwise (besides friend referrals)?

I am building a consulting as a service company for early founders and wonder about people who have done consulting/contracting or paid for consulting. What have you found to be under-developed in this area?
Urbanomical
http://urbanomical.blogspot.com/
A blog about investing for people that do not quite understand investing but want to know how to get started...
Grow up Bringing vertical farming to London
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1b3y5o/til_vertical_urban_farming_is_coming_to_london/
Growup are bringing vertical farming to London.

"Aquaponics is a re-circulating system that combines two very efficient food growing technologies..."

http://bit.ly/14o5Wqc
Test your newsletter's spam score
http://mail-tester.com/
We created this little tool for ourselves and our clients.

Then, we decided we'd share it with the world for free.

If you have any ideas on how we can improve it, we're opened to suggestions.
Congress to Vote on Another Technical Debt Ceiling Extension
http://tatiyants.com/congress-to-vote-on-another-technical-debt-ceiling-extension/
WASHINGTON D.C. – Yet another fight over our nation’s technical debt in underway in Washington. Obama administration will soon request an increase of 1.2 trillion to a limit which currently stands at 15.194 trillion man hours.
Ask HN: Any good office spaces in Pakistan with fast internet?
I'm currently in Pakistan and am looking for a good place to work remotely in either Lahore or Faisalabad. Some kind of office space with fast internet where electricity is not an issue. Does anyone know if there is anything like this?
Block Content Farms from Google Results: Tech Media will still complain.
http://www.lead411.com/blog/block-content-farms-from-google-results-tech-media-will-still-complain
Thoughts?
Ask HN: Undersea Data Cables (documentaries, resources)
Looking at the world's growing submarine cable infrastructure:

http://eu-ix.equinix.com/joomladev/images/repository/Equinix_TGMap_MTS_15.pdf

I can't help but wonder if there have been any documentaries or pop-sci articles about this.

Some places like the Mediterranean or South China sea must be crawling with data cables of all sorts. What's it like to operate a cable laying/repair fleet?
Somebody help me - I want to be “Analytical”
Hi HN community,

Quick question - I want to be more analytical - that is, want to be very sharp with numbers - perhaps like a McKinsey consultant or a Goldman Sachs banker. Can someone direct me on a step-by-step process to climb the number ladder. I am willing to start at the bottom (foundational level) and take it from there. Idea is to be mathematically fluent enough to run a start-up - where every decision is pulled out from a SQL query off a database. "SQL > Raw Data > Excel > Insights > Decision"

Thanks in advance,

-Anita

P.S. Please add me on hangout or email me directly if you can help - email: anitalather15@gmail.com
Windows Mobile 7 to be released in February | TheComputingGeek.com
http://thecomputinggeek.com/windows-mobile-7-to-be-released-in-february/
According to recent reports, the Windows Mobile 7 is set to be launched in Barcelona in the coming month, claimed an anonymous Microsoft Executive.

The widely anticipated Windows Mobile Operating system will be displayed at Mobile World Congress but this comes as no shock to many as the public expected the release to occur at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 10.
CoreMark Scores and FIO results of the instance types: i, m and c3.
http://flux7.com/blogs/benchmarks/benchmarking-coremark-scores-fio-results-between-instance-families-for-better-performance/
comparing CoreMark and FIO benchmark results for different instance families
CEO / Geek
http://robert-reiz.com
I am the guy behind http://versioneye.com
Show HN: Engage with your Twitter followers to build meaningful relationships
https://engagefollowers.com
I think that most of us spend our time on Twitter usually in rage dumping because we're forced to interact with random people without common interest.

I believe if we could interact with people with common interests on Twitter then we can build meaningful relationships with them.

Fortunately we do have access to people on Twitter with common interests - Our followers; But it's currently not easy to spot what connects us with our followers as we might not follow back all our followers and even if we do there's no guarantee that we'd see all their tweets or those tweets which matter to us.

Hence I've created 'engage followers' and it works by,

1. Monitoring the tweets of our Twitter followers.

2. Classifying their tweets according to our chosen topics of interest.

3. Sending the list of tweets which matches our topics to us via an email digest and/or Auto liking them(So we can check those tweets in the likes section of Twitter).

I've seen good results over the past few days since I've launched engage followers, Getting to know about some like minded followers on my personal & product accounts. I hope you'd give it a try and tell me how it can be made more useful.
BuildZoom is hiring engineer number 5
BuildZoom is Hiring Engineer Number Five

BuildZoom is looking for a talented engineer to help us build tools for the home improvement and construction industries.

We have developed a huge dataset that nobody has ever had access to before: 70 million building permits (and growing) and licensing information for nearly every licensed contractor in the United States. We are using these data to do things like:

Identify the best (and worst) contractors are based on work history and other signals
Analyze publicly traded builders to forecast next quarter’s revenues (this actually works!)
Let people see who built their favorite homes, restaurants, and offices, and the remodeling history of their own home

To learn more about some of the things you’d be working on, check out these links:

http://www.buildzoom.com/newsfeed/san-francisco-ca (beta) -- map of remodeling projects in SF
http://www.buildzoom.com/charts (beta) -- analysis of remodeling projects around U.S.
http://blog.buildzoom.com/san-francisco-remodeling-activity

BuildZoom is built in Ruby on Rails, but we are open to applicants without Rails experience as well as to incorporating new technologies into our stack.

We have around 27,500 daily users.

We are still a small team. The office environment is fun, productive, and generally a great place to learn and work. We just moved into a new office at 1st street and Folsom in San Francisco. Here’s a little video of our new home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgaYLiw6bvo

BuildZoom has raised $4M from great investors including Formation 8 (Joe Lonsdale), Darren Bechtel, Sam Altman, and Y Combinator.

Email david@buildzoom.com to apply. Thanks!
A Comparison of Places APIs
http://blog.newsplore.com/2011/03/23/a-comparison-of-places-apis
A side-by-side comparison of the main features provided by the major Places API providers.
WAPI: A generic C API to (wireless) network interfaces in GNU/Linux systems
http://vy.github.com/wapi/
WAPI (Wireless API) provides an easy-to-use function set to configure wireless network interfaces on a GNU/Linux system. One can think WAPI as a lightweight C API for iwconfig, wlanconfig, ifconfig, and route commands. (But it is not a thin wrapper for these command line tools.)
Remember this?
http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Reminiscing on my Linux days, I remembered the penguin racing game, Tux Racer.

Bonus: you can run it on Windows 7, today.
Ask HN: What are the long term projects that you are aware of?
Projects like these:

Svalbard Global Seed Vault - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

Archive Team - https://www.archiveteam.org/

Not necessarily digital. Any other projects that we can add to the list?
Freight Broker Training: Types of Freight
http://www.broker-training.org/2011-12-26/freight-broker-training-types-of-freight/
Freight or Cargo are goods that are usually transported for commercial purposes. Movement of freight or cargo can use every mode of transportation available be it via air, ship, train or truck.
How Cloud Computing Edges Out Other Hosting Services
http://www.freearticlesnow.com/article-how-cloud-computing-edges-out-other-hosting-services-67709.html
This is how cloud computing edges out other hosting services being offered by different hosting providers firms in Australia. A web hosting services include shared hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated server hosting, virtual private server hosting and cloud computing.
DigitalOcean have increased referral commission payments from $10 to $25
https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9178b6b0b2d4
We have increased our referral commission payments from $10 to $25!

This update will affect all new referrals, and you can find out more at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/user_referrals.

Happy Coding,
DigitalOcean
Ask HN: What's a typical day at work for Solution Architects?
Also, how did you enter the field of Solution Architecture? What are some popular entry-level roles in Solution Architecture?
Ask HN: Building a site inspired by HackerNews(HN)?
I have started a site inspired by HackerNews.But could not make it engaging with users.

Its called LimeLight(https://limelight.link)

Need your feedback and suggestions to set the Roadmap.

Please feel free to criticize/appreciate/comment.
Discuss HN : Best practices for offline caching in iphone.
I wanted to pick brain on some of the architectural issues in creating an iphone client app for a reasonably complicated REST style web application, example a twitter client. Here are my specific questions

1) In practice, Do we need caching at all ?
2) How will you go about implement caching ? Simply cache {URL}=>{Content} values, or replicate the schema in sqlite3 and cache things there.
3) Are there specific issues in dealing with profile images, especially when you have to show a lot of them on a single page.

Thanks,