jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Get or Set Custom Properties of PowerPoint Documents Using REST API
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-slides/archive/2012/08/16/manage-document-properties-of-powerpoint-presentations-using-saaspose-slides-rest-api.html
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Slides. This release offers a useful set of features to manage document properties of Powerpoint presentations. You can add one or more new custom properties in your document. Using Saaspose.Slides REST API you can also set a single document property. This REST API allows you to get all properties of document or you may choose to get a specific property from documents. You can also remove all the properties or any single property of your presentation using Saaspose.Slides REST API. We have SDK and REST examples for Saaspose.Slides REST API that help you utilize it for your applications in the cloud. For more details, please refer to Saaspose.Slides documentation. Using Saaspose.Slides API, you can manage document properties of presentations such as add custom properties, get or remove all properties of a document and set a single document property.
Show HN: Hire a car expert to help you buy your next car
http://www.carscout.co/
Launching and looking for feedback. Car Scout pairs you with car experts and negotiators to help you find, inspect, and save money on your next used car purchase.
C# Increment operator (++) question
http://kossovsky.net/index.php/2009/07/csharp-increment-operator-question/
Well, this is a nice one. We all familiar with incremental operators, but from what i saw yesterday… well, there is no need to give a developer some tricky assignment so he could find a way to make some bugs.
SpeedTrace – .NET Profiler and Tracer
http://kossovsky.net/index.php/2009/07/speedtrace-net-profiler-and-tracer/
It is very important to be able to dynamically control the behavior of .NET applications and to keep track of some of the aspects of the application (i.e. how the application is performing, what errors are produced during runtime, how the application performs at peak times, how to dynamically alter the behavior of the application, etc).
SQL 2005 – Return query rows as one delimited column
http://kossovsky.net/index.php/2009/06/sql-2005-return-rows-as-delimited-column/
Once in a while we need to return data from SQL as delimited string of values and not as rows. There are several ways to do that, but personally i like the next one.
Mozilla Ponders Thunderbird Spin-Off
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/26/mozilla-ponders-thunderbird-spin-off/
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has called for community feedback on the future of the open source email client Thunderbird, with consideration to spinning Thunderbird off into a separate entity.
Wikipedia Sued Over Nazi Plot
http://startupearth.com/2007/12/07/wikipedia-sued-over-nazi-plot/
The Germans are getting their leiderhosen in a twist over an alleged nazi plot behind the scenes at Wikipedia. According to sources, a left-wing German politician has filed charges against the online encyclopedia for brandishing too much nazi symbolism and pro neo-nazi propoganda.
How to use the Settings to control the size of Decision Trees?
http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/how-to-use-the-settings-to-control-the-size-of-decision-trees/
Here is my very personal view on some settings of decision trees. ... Maximum depth ... Minimum splitsize ... Minimum leaf size
Bookmarklet: Make any site sing With Carol of the bells.
http://holify.it
In an effort to warm the cockles of your hearts with surprise and delight, EVB has created
a holiday bookmarklet aptly named: Holify It! Inspired by the music synchronized house
lighting videos that show up on YouTube each holiday season, the tool allows you to turn
the website of your choice into a brilliant lighting display to celebrate the holidays.
Try it out on NY Times, gmail calendar, YouTube, or your Twitter feed and feast your eyes
upon the unique visualization on each webpage.

Known sites that don't work:
Facebook.com (manifest.json)
Chrome's extensions page (not sure why!)
Ask HN: How valuable are open source contributions in/on your portfolio/CV?
I have way too much free time on my hands (the weekends) but no ideas for side projects. I could pick a few projects on Github in my language of choice and just start fixing bugs and when time comes doing future requests et cetera. How valuable are these contributions for future employers or just as an "experience" indicator?Better, worse or on-par with doing actual side projects?

This is because I am currently working at a company writing _only_ proprietary software so future employers (if I ever have to switch) have to believe me on my word when I write on my CV or tell them that I'm a good programmer.
Cable’s move into Mobile: Calculated and Deliberate
http://www.thecablepipeline.com/2010/07/05/mobile/
If you believe Cable Operators are not thinking about Mobile Networks and what kind of synergies could bring them increased cash-flow in the future, then you’ve probably missed the obvious signs laid out since 2008.
Types and Uses of Utility Trailers
http://texasbraggtrailers.createblog.com/blog/
A huge number of businesses prefer to hire utility trailers meant for different purposes. For more details about utility trailers, gooseneck trailers, heavy equipment trailers, dump trailers please visit at texasbraggtrailers.com
Groovy DSL & Testing with Spock Online Event
http://www.cloudifysource.org/2012/10/17/groovy_dsl_and_testing_with_spock.html
Catch the Groovy & Grails Israel Meetup Group Event Streamed Live Tonight! Groovy DSL - Barak Merimovich In this session, Barak Merimovich of GigaSpaces will discuss the notion of DSLs (domain specific languages), why they're needed and why Groovy makes a good fit for implementing them, based on his experience from building a Groovy DSL for Cloudify (GigaSpaces Groovy based open source tool for on boarding and managing application on any cloud). Testing with Spock - Baruch Sadogursky We are going to talk about a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. It's name is Spock and it is written in Groovy, what else can you ask for? But even if you won't ask, it features very fluent and easy to learn specification DSL (no asserts!) integrates everywhere where JUnit integrates, easily extendable and supports any testing methodology (being it test-first, test-last, unit or integration testing or new one that you just invented). In our session we will show how to write specifications, assertion conditions, data-driven tests and a simple extension. We will also show what geb is (hint - look at the user group name) and how to use it with spock.
Using a link wheels Since your Marketing Technique for High Website traffic
http://articlesbystorm.info/article.php?id=115435
Marketing techniques have got evolved as opposition for website traffic improves. The reason being there are lots of webpages that are targeting the exact same market portion. Because of this , why one must think beyond the package and use any linkwheel as an easy way of making certain the actual webpage receives optimum online traffic going for the web page. Considering that the keyword usage and also Search engine optimization therapy has been utilized and also this unearths 1 page to unnecessary competitors
Find & Land a Microsoft .NET Development Job now available on Kindle
http://shoveitfizzbuzz.com/2011/05/how-to-find-and-land-a-microsoft-net-development-job-now-available-on-kindle/
My book on finding and landing a software development job (with a strong leaning toward Microsoft technologies) has been rewritten and is now available on the Kindle.
Plantation shutters sydney
http://www.rollashieldnsw.com.au/plantation_shutters.htm
Our Louvres are manufactured from high grade, architectural quality extruded aluminium. Commonly used as balcony shutters in a variety of configurations - Bi-Fold, Sliding, Hinged, Fixed and Stacking.
Ubuntu 7.10 will launch this Thursday
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2197760,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says the latest desktop version of the popular Ubuntu Linux is ready to roll.
Quick distraction?
http://blog.shoto.so/killing-it/
wordsearch for (overused) startup buzzwords i created =)
The Tech President
http://blog.manikrathee.com/posts/2012/11/16/the-tech-president.html
List of all the articles talking about Obama For America's digital, development, tech and devops teams.
How To Optimize a Facebook Post
http://blog.alextoul.fr/social-media/how-to-optimize-a-facebook-fan-page-post
The “Top News” feed is based on an algorithm which decides whether or not your post should be shown into their main stream.
Test pages on apple?
http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
Anyone knows what this page does ?
Primer on Graphene, a form of carbon that may replace Silicon
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/hot-topics/graphene-future-it-262211536/
Broad introduction to graphene, a 1-atom-thick allotrope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotrope) of carbon that looks set to succeed Silicon. Multiple articles written by a journalist with a background in physics.
[Disclaimer - I work for this publication, though do not regularly cover graphene.]
Offensive tech headlines: "Barely Legal", "Score That Whore" etc.
http://www.kernelmag.com/
In my humble opinion, the douche-dial on this site goes all the way to 11. The combination of risque imagery and sexual innuendo crosses the line from 'spicy headline' to 'totally inappropriate'.<p>http://www.kernelmag.com/comment/opinion/3551/barely-legal/<p>http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/3428/score-that-whore/<p>http://www.kernelmag.com/scene/3544/so-hard-right-now/
Show HN: Record every day of 2013 with iOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moment-montage/id505392782?ls=1&mt=8
Example of a montage can be found at http://momentmontage.me

I started developing this in January when I saw a video of a girl who recorded a video everyday of 2011 and I wanted to make one myself, but thought the editing would become too tedious and annoying.
So, I made an app that completely automates the process, you record a clip every single day (or more than one per day, this was a popular feature request which you can see in the example URL), put some music from your iTunes library and you can upload it to Facebook straight from the app, or to your camera roll so you can do anything you want to the video.

Hope you guys like it, it was ten months in the making.
Show HN: bfc – A fast non-JIT brainfuck interpreter
https://github.com/zhuzilin/bfc
It's really amazing how direct threading would help a non-JIT bf interpreter!
Guy visits all 171 Starbucks in Manhattan in 1 day.
http://redux.com/stream/item/1884198/Guy-visits-171-Starbucks-in-one-day?fid=24693
A travelling salesman problem with added complexity of store hours.
The Strategic Interception
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/strategic-interception.html
Business is a lot like football, the interception comes from over-reaching and can change momentum in an instant.
Ask HN: Database of cities
I need to be able to validate a user's location. For this I was hoping there was a database of cities I could use. I don't mind paying for it.

Does anyone know of a good database of cities, states and zip codes? Only need Us but if world or even multiple countries were available that would be nice.

Another possibility that would be nice is if I could simply check the location against Google or Facebook but couldn't find any API for this. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction?
FlyWhim:  Travel to a random destination for cheap
http://quiet-rain-8093.herokuapp.com/
Hey, I'm involved in a competition at the University of Chicago called Booth Launch (http://www.boothlaunch.com/). Will you please check out our business idea and web application we built in about 24 hours:<p>FlyWhim - http://bit.ly/IHJOh5<p>I'd love to hear your feedback! Please let me know if you have any problems using the application. FlyWhim allows you to fly to a random destination for very very cheap fares. We've had a lot of interest so far... so please check it out.<p>FlyWhim!<p>Kind regards,<p>Nirav
Ask HN: How tolerable is infrastructure to skilled worker availability?
Looking at reports this morning about delivery drivers showing up to work sick, I started to wonder how much tolerance various parts of our infrastructure have to fluctuations in the worker pool.

If we constrain the question to only consider the maintenance aspect of power plants, water systems, undersea cables, satellite control, etc... what level of tolerance is there to worker shortages? It seems unlikely that any one of these would have any sort of equivalent to a operational manual that a layman could use.
Show HN: Create shareable links for your Private Repos
https://gitbouncer.vercel.app
I just wanted to share links of my college assignments in our chat group (100-ish people) without making them public repos.

The usual back and forth of asking every person their username, inviting them and then having them accept is always awkward and annoying...

Now I just create, share, they click the link and boum! they're automatically added to the repo

I guess there are many use cases:
- adding a paywall (lead magnet for devs lol)
- sharing a quick PoC in Slack with your Team
- giving access to members of your community only (newsletter, discord, etc)

Give it a try and lemme know what you think below!
Brand Identity Essentials - Kevin Budelmann
http://brand-identity-essentials.com/100-principles
Excellent resource for Brand Identity Design.
Focus magazine
http://www.bbcfocusmagazine.com/
Well - I used to be a subscriber. Still a great magazine, so thought of inviting potential readers.
Does Samsung Galaxy S3 Sucks? 
http://crazytechlab.com/samsung-galaxy-s3-display-sucks/
Here is proof how good the Galaxy S3 and its display looks like compared to its main rivals. If you are concerned how good is PenTile display this will clear your doubts.
Channel9 Gamifies Azure with Visual Studio Achievements Program
http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/check-out-channel-9s-visual?mz=62447-cloud
The achievements program requires a small VS Achievements plugin, a free cloud account, and a desire to earn some badges.
Useless 2048
http://milchior.fr/2048/
Not serious HN material, but this 2048 declination is a hilarious addition to the party.
Apple is working on more secure Gesture-Based Lock Screen for iPhone?
http://itechvision.blogspot.com/2011/02/apple-is-working-on-more-secure-gesture.html
9to5Mac reported that Apple is working on a new Gesture-Based Lock screen for iPhone, this new gesture for locked screen is almost same like Lock screens on Android Phones. In this gesture lock screen you have to swipe your finger in a correct sequence to unlock your Phone.The screen basically shows you 3×3 dot grid on which you have to correctly swipe your finger, in this you don't have to type an 4-Digit passcode or just slide to unlock.
HTML5SiteStarter
https://github.com/reecekol/HTML5SiteStarter
A lightweight template for developing web applications
Living with Legacy Code a questionnaire
http://www.d80.co.uk/post/2013/03/01/Living-with-Legacy-Code.aspx
Legacy code seems ever prevelant even in modern code bases. My colleague, Leon and I, are preparing a short talk entitled "Living with Legacy Code". We're planning on conducting interviews with various teams within our company to see what they think of legacy code and how to deal with it. We thought it'd be interesting to get a broader perspective so we humbly ask if you would mind answering the following questions...
Ask HN: Anyone attending WWDC this year?
Are any HNers planning to make it out to WWDC this year? We should organize a small meet-up.

Post or contact me directly if interested.
Effects of divorce on men
http://survivingdivorceformen.blogspot.in/2011/08/effects-of-divorce-on-men-and-how-to.html
The effects of divorce on men & how to recover from Depression,anger nature & How to Forget Your Ex Wife and Move on Live in now,live life,love life ,wash away memories.
XBlast Tools
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ind.fem.black.xposed.mods&hl=en
Collection of No-flashing tweaks using Xposed Framework
Tell Sen. Grassley to keep his eyes off your online activities
http://freedomworks.org/petition/grassley/
Help stop this legislation! Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America's small businesses. There is a good chance that we can still stop this, but not without everyone's help.
A better Photoshop experience
http://creativedo.co/doco/
This is a Photoshop extension that shows thumbnails of all your open photoshop documents and allows you to perform tasks which previously required a lot of effort. It’s the missing documents panel I always wanted, and it completely changes the Photoshop experience.
Font Face Replacement Embedding Techniques and Resources
http://jorenrapini.com/blog/web-design/font-face-replacement-and-embedding-techniques-and-resources
An overview of the pros, cons, and features of the top four font replacement methods in order to help you decide which one is best suited for you.
Ask HN: How to integrate e-mail into an application
By integrating, i'm referring for example à la Posterous, where a user can send an e-mail to Posterous which converts it into a post.

How is it being done? integration with e-mail servers? Custom daemon?

Inquiring mind wants to know.
Ask HN: HN Connect
What do you think about the idea of allowing external services to use a kind of HN connect just as Twitter and FB have?

I am not talking about getting data about comments etc. Just using your HN account to log into other services and possible display their karma points?
Google Chrome can replace FireBug too
http://blog.tech-pro.net/entry/65/The_Bug_in_Google_Chrome

It's still not my default browser, but, damn, this is something.
Instagram is Visual Twitter
http://subprint.com/blog/instagram-is-visual-twitter
If you haven't heard, Instagram recently announced the ability to tag people in photos. They have cleverly marketed it as "Photos of You" which puts the focus on tagging people, but this also presents the opportunity for brands to be tagged as well.
Show HN: Mrktplace – Post and trade meaningful ideas
https://ideas.mrktplace.app
Hi HN! I'm Rishabh, and I've been building MRKTPLACE; a place for thinkers to post and trade meaningful ideas.

By allowing thinkers to purchase ideas in a free market, we can understand their worldview with more nuance due to the additional price signal adding weight to each of their beliefs. At the same time, this encourages thinkers to come up with better thoughts.

I tried building tooling which recommends research papers, news articles, youtube, etc. as references for each idea, hoping that this leads to higher quality content. However, the recommendation algorithm could still use some work.

Currently, we're using Goerli testnet, and also giving away free Goerli ETH to all users on signup so they can start trading right away.

I'm curious to know how people feel about trading ideas with made-up currency vs. real money. Although made-up currency is much more accessible, using real money enables some interesting use cases. Eg: humanitarian foundation posting on the platform and being directly able to get paid, a musical artist releasing content for purchase, etc.

Please let me know if you find this platform/concept interesting! Would love any feedback.

PS: Please support us on ProductHunt! I'm bootstrapping this and could use every bit of support! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mrktplace)

Rishabh
rishabh@mrktplace.app
Four reasons why internal software development projects go wrong
http://www.freeportmetrics.com/blog/four-reasons-why-internal-software-development-projects-go-wrong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-reasons-why-internal-software-development-projects-go-wrong
Common pitfalls of internal project development when being consulting company.
Show HN: Turn Spreadsheets, Airtable, or CSV to JSON through quick API endpoint
https://www.withserve.com/
Serve lets you create APIs with all your data (SQL databases, Google Sheets, Airtable and CSVs) to efficiently power your backend.
Genuine and Innovative Backlink Building Techniques in 2013
http://devstand.com/marketing/get-backlinks/
In 2012 the websites around the world suffered from two big algorithm changes in the Google search engines. Now, in 2013 new changes are in progress, but fortunately I have here some of the best techniques to help you gather quality backlinks and keep the traffic flow up.
Onboarding
http://mikesingleton.tumblr.com/post/16826149871/onboarding
Taking talented outsiders and migrating them to productive team members
A feature for Facebook comment plugin : Voicemail comments
http://syncfin.com/facetube/
A small feature that facebook might want to try and why facebook plugin is getting popular.
Formismo - advanced analytics for web forms
http://www.formisimo.com
Formisimo is an advanced but powerful analytics tool that lets you track how users interact with forms on your website. It's a great alternative to Google Analytics version of form tracking, as it only takes one snippet of javascript and five minutes to install.
Search engine based on DHT
http://btdigg.org/
BTDigg is the new real-time search engine.
It shows the most relevant and
the most popular content
in the DHT network.
Web 2.0 Colors CSS Template
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/08/04/web-20-colors-css-template/
A style sheet that makes it easy for you to test various web 2.0 colors on your site.
Chuck Lorre of TBBT on Ray Kurzweil, the human brain and sitcoms
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-2hm.php?p=406
According to futurist, inventor and all-around incredibly smart guy, Ray Kurzweil, human beings actually reorganize their frontal cortex as they pursue mastery over different skills. For example, a musician redesigns his or her brain by means of constant study, practice and performance. The same thing applies to a mathematician, carpenter and pole dancer. The brain is physically changed over time by activity and learning. This means we have direct influence and control over how our minds operate. This means we actually mold our perception of the world by the way we mold our brains. This means that over the last twenty-five years, I have reshaped my frontal lobe to do one thing, and one thing only -- write sitcoms. I can't tell you what a relief this knowledge is to me. To begin with, it single-handedly explains why I fail so consistently at other activities (golf, common courtesy and marriage come to mind). It also eases my fears about my disintegrating memory. Why would my brain waste precious neurons remembering where I put my glasses (on the top of my head), or the names of the camera crew (I think one guy is named John, or maybe Jamie or Nigel), when it's working overtime trying to structure a joke about a character masturbating like a meth-addled spider monkey? The answer is, it wouldn't. In other words, I have an advanced case of sitcom brain. On the plus side, I have been highly remunerated for my condition. The downside is that I am constitutionally incapable of ending any communication with a straight line.

Just can't do it.

Have to spin it somehow.

Even if it's cheap or makes no sense. God forbid there's no laugh at the end.

Vagina!
GameStreamer, now rivaling Steam, D2D and GoG
http://www.gamestreamer.com
GameStreamer has created a new technology to allow developers to submit games on the fly. The games are then reviewed by GameStreamer staff. Once approved the game is immediately distributed to all the business partners of GameStreamer.

Gamers also benefit from this. The ability to see all the newest games right when they are completed. The most competitive pricing straight from the developers themselves. Gamers get to have a game library without a bunch of useless CDs that get scratched up and lost.