jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tripxplore - Where Travelers Meet
http://www.tripxplore.com
Tripxplore is a social travel website that connects travelers with others who are interested in the same activities. We know that often the best part of travelling is the connections you make with the people you meet.

Tripxplore can help you find exciting adventures and meet people who want to do the same activities as you. We think that this will create a more memorable experience and be a great way to make new friends who share your interests.

We need people who can share their travel experiences, favorite activities or any other adventure that you think that adventurous people may want to try.

So check us out at Tripxplore.com , and gives us your feedback and suggestions.
Show HN: Schedule phone call reminders from within your favorite calendar app -
http://www.ringreminder.com
Some friends and I built RingReminder over a few nights / weekends as a side project - the core problem we were trying to solve was "how can we improve the reliability of our friends/family, so they do the things they are supposed to?", like show up to social plans on time, take their medications, etc...

The solution we landed on was a telephone-based automated reminder service - controlled from your calendar app.

The hypothesis driving our solution was while many people may check their email every few seconds / view upcoming events in their calendars, everyone we know picks up calls to their phones. Therefore, if we could create a near-frictionless method of automatically calling our friends to remind them to leave early, maybe we could improve their reliability. The calendar seemed like a natural place to do this - Just invite a ringreminder.com email address to the calendar entry, and a telephone call reminder is set. Also, us organized folks already used our calendar apps to keep track of when we were meeting said friends.

On the back end, its built in Java (spring framework) - we basically poll a mail account at regular intervals checking for calendar invites (Google/iCal or Outlook format) - we then parse out the necessary information to schedule the reminder call from the invite, and call Twilio to make the outgoing call. Any changes to the event (including cancellation) are automatically processed, assuming that you let your calendar app notify all guests to the event of the change. There is also a web CRUD interface for manually managing reminders.

Let me know if you have any questions!
Mailplane--5 Invites (GMail on the Mac)
http://mailplaneapp.com/
If you've got a Mac and you have multiple GMail accounts (including Google Apps for Domains) then this is pretty cool. I'm using it now with my three GMail accounts.
2001 Dissertation: middle- & high school student deviant internet behavior [pdf]
http://ajdaniel.org/4-8dissertation.pdf
Happen to work with the author. Thought it provided some useful reminders. BTW: this doesn't point to scribd.
IPhone help needed: Displaying 'à' in UI text view without corrupting text
Hi All,

Sorry for the annon post, am quite embarrassed I can't solve this myself.

Would really appreciate some help from the HN community with an issue I am having developing an iPhone App for a French client.

When I include the character 'à' as part of a word rather than on its own in UI text view it removes the spaces from the surrounding letters/corrupts the text.

Any solution would be appreciated ever so much.
Google launches google adwords Professional Search
http://muthalaguwebanalytics.wordpress.com/
Here is the latest news just about google adwords. Now, google launches google adwords professional search
Thoughts on Famous Food Finder?
http://www.famousfoodfinder.com
A friend and I created Famous Food Finder back in November of 2009. The site plots restaurants that have been featured on food related shows. The goal was never really to make money, but just provide a service we felt no one else was. To this day we still have yet to see anything as complete as our site, but we are now left wondering what to do now? The Food Network has seem to have taken some interest in the site, but we really don't have a large fan base. Is it worth it to try and sell to the Food Network on the grounds that they have the community and we have the tool?

Thoughts, comments?
Ask HN: Found a firm interested in Parntership, next step?
I recently contacted a local web development firm in Hong Kong, which is where I'm located. The showed some interest and asked my to send them some wireframes to portray my idea, I told them straight up I was a 16 year old student, and sent them my wireframes. Still waiting for an reply. What should I do so that I can persuade them to partner with me, I really need a good web programmer/designer for this project, and also are there anything I should look out for if there's a contract?
Big names backing internet video company
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/07/28/big-names-backing-internet-video-company/
Now you may not recognize the name Steve Wozniak. He never really did anything important. He had a hand in starting some little company, named after a piece of fruit or something.
Show HN: Matchify – Find your music doppelgänger
https://matchify.me
An experiment using the Spotify API to compare your music taste with others. The score is an attempt to mimic that given in a "blend" playlist. Inspired by the research in the links (and the high score my partner and I have been given : )
Google’s First Self-Driven Cars To Soon Run on Nevada Roads
http://www.techieapps.com/googles-first-self-driven-cars-to-soon-run-on-nevada-roads-gets-license-from-dmv/
Google’s self-driven cars will soon be running on Nevada roads after it got approval for the nation’s first autonomous vehicle license from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Monday.
Population density vs voter turnout
http://eidogram.com/projects/piemVisCont/
The voter turnout, i.e. the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election, has been related with the population density of the 1206 municipalities of the italian region Piedmont.
The voter uncertainty is calculated as the Shannon entropy of the partition defined by the votes assigned to every delegate, and it reflects the heterogeneity of the electoral preferences in a given municipality.
Call for detailed enquiry into the UK banks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18640916
Labour leader Ed Miliband is to outline proposals for a "Leveson-style" inquiry into the culture and practices of the British banking industry.
Mibbit hack Compromised
http://www.invisblenandu.com/2011/08/mibbit-server-compromised.html
Last day i had posted about Mibbit Hack . The Mibbit had detected the unauthorized access to the server which runs their blog. The Mibbit had opened a new blog at Blogger .In response to this Mibbit shut it down and began investigating . Later today at around 8pm GMT Mibbit shutdown the IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had been accessed maliciously from another server, tools.mibbit.com. Mibbit now know the data's included The personal information of 9 Mibbit operators including their names, accounts and e-mail addresses . A backup of nickserv data from April 2011 with up to 10,000 user nicknames and their credentials andTwo sets of backup data for one operator user account PMs and Channel logs, used for testing are Leaked. Currently Mibbit are working on securing and restoring the affected services. Mibbit are treating this as a significant and malicious attack on Mibbit services which impacts users and which has placed user data at risk. Mibbit are continuing to work to remedy this situation and bring back affected services online as quickly as possible. Mibbit asked apologies for the disruption, inconvenience and difficulty this attack has caused to you and your users. As Mibbit have updates about the attack, the backup data which was stolen from tools.mibbit and the next steps to recover services we will share it via the blog and the #help channel.
Customize OEM info of PC with OEMConfigurer freeware.
http://techdunes.com/2011/02/28/customize-oem-info-pc-with-oemconfigurer-freeware/
Learn how can edit the OEM info of our computer and also change the default logo with image of our choice.
HN Karma Broken? 
http://oi53.tinypic.com/9hjq8k.jpg
Screenshot taken at 12:23 Eastern time on May 2, 2011.
Why shouldn't I go to Scandinavia?
Hi,

Is Scandinavia a good place for coding?

I consider moving from Poland to Stockholm|Malmo|Copenhagen|Helsinki|Oslo. I'm a software developer, I seek challenges (not only project-wise, but in general), I'd like to make some business contacts and money.

1. What's the demand out there for devs? Any place in particular?

2. Is speaking the local language a must?

3. How easy it is to make some money (high salaries vs high cost of living; taxes; legal paperwork)?

4. Why shouldn't I go to Scandinavia?
Pupcake, a PHP 5.3+ application framework
https://github.com/superjimpupcake/Pupcake
The early stage efforts to bring php-uv functionalities into Pupcake PHP Microframework.
News Pro: Reuters App for the IPhone Dissapoints
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/news_pro_reuters_on_the_iphone.php
Thomson Reuters, the U.K.-based news service, released News Pro today, a new application for the iPhone, iPod touch, and Blackberry that gives users easy, almost real-time access to Reuters' news wire.
Twitter predicts users' gender for targeted advertising
http://advertising.twitter.com/2012/10/gender-targeting-for-promoted-products.html
"Twitter is trying to suss out which of its users are male and which are female. And so far, it's gotten its prediction science down to a 90 percent accuracy rate."
Repables.com, 3d printer file sharing website
http://repables.com
This one is relatively new. It's a manufacturer independent site, which is nice.
Kunvay – Legally Own the Work You Purchase
http://www.appvita.com/2012/11/21/kunvay-legally-own-the-work-you-purchase/
Review of new copyright transfer service by Appvita
Canadian Pac Development
Seems as though the restrictions regarding political action committees -PACs in Canada has been relaxed. Looking to establish 2 to 3 major packs focussed in on tech development and change government efficiency and open data. Project will be developed significant through ATIP projects. Message if wish to assist.
What's the biggest weakness of websites posted on Criticue.com?
http://blog.criticue.com/2013/12/03/visual-hierarchy-give-your-product-a-chance-to-sell/
As Criticue is reaching towards 5000 users, I thought it would be useful to draw upon the thousands of reviews in our database and create a series of articles about typical problems real-word startup websites have.

The first article is about the visual hierarchy. It's probably a tad too long (with the subsequent articles I plan to fit within 500 words). But yes, it has pictures in it. :)

Here's the link:

http://blog.criticue.com/2013/12/03/visual-hierarchy-give-your-product-a-chance-to-sell/

Please do share your feedback. Thank you.
Mobile developers find success in Mexican market
http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/01/mobile-developers-find-success-in-mexican-market/
That is right, just hard work, very good people. Patience and persistance were the key. Want to know more, email me jaime@inodesoft.com. Have a very bright and awesome day!
In the Beginning There Was the Punch Card
http://mashable.com/2011/10/08/digital-storage-infographic/
History of digital storage in an infograph.
Plug.dj Open To International Users, Does What Turntable.fm Can't
http://pandodaily.com/2012/04/16/plug-dj-goes-international-does-what-turntable-fm-cant/
plug.dj just released a new version with localized user interfaces in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and English.

http://blog.plug.dj/2012/04/hello-world-its-us-plugdj.html

German, French and Korean are being rolled out in the next few days too.
Risk I/O & Rackspace Webinar: Reinventing Vulnerability Management
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/webinar_riskio
Reinventing Vulnerability Management is a webinar hosted by Risk I/O & Rackspace, as part of member of the Rackspace Partnership Program. In this webinar, learn how you can use Risk I/O's vulnerability management platform and Rackspace cloud computing software to manage and monitor your security defects.
Get your server fully Managed or Secured for 30USD? check this out
http://www.wizzadmin.com
Full server managed or server security service for about 30USD only. Good deal for those who need :)
Evolve
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/12/evolve.html
VCs use the due diligence process for more than collecting information and learning about your company. VCs want to back entrepreneurs that can solve problems by evolving when necessary. Fortunately...
Britney Spears iPhone Launched
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/britney-spears.html
Awesome business model!
Programmers are optimists
http://techmafia.net/programming/2012/09/08/programmers-are-optimists.html
Programmers are the most optimistic bunch of people I have ever come across. Ask us how long something will take and chances are our estimates will be way off.

It’s not because we hate...
Web application idea - price threshold alerts for collectibles
https://plus.google.com/100945956461759436536/posts/dUTJ2Yex2GM
Can't imagine that something like this doesn't already exist (perhaps as a feature of eBay?) but here's a free-to-use web app idea for anyone interested in such things.
Facebook Pages: Get More Likes With Livestream For Facebook
http://sharocity.com/2011/03/19/facebook-pages-get-more-likes-with-livestream-for-facebook/
The social media giant, Facebook, is a great choice for businesses who want to incorporate social media as a way to market their brand. Facebook not only has over 500 million users to potentially reach out to, it also gives companies the ability to create a Business Page ,which is useful in showcasing products and services while marketing to a target audience.
Ask HN: Factors in valuation
Hi there,

My company was recently approached by a large company with the intention of acquiring us. They've asked us to give them a price for acquiring the IP and the team.

I know people on HN have brought this question up before, but my question is more about what factors to consider in setting a value.

For instance, if we have put in 10 man-years, I would assume that that's a starting point for valuation. Does the location of our startup matter, in that we all live in NYC where the man-years would be higher than in other cities. Is there a multiplier to the number of man hours? How much weight goes to any pending patents, the uniqueness of the software, the value of the team's experience for their future projects?

I've also heard that a rule of thumb is about 1M per engineer as the starting point for valuing a company.

Any thoughts or ideas on how you would proceed with a valuation or experience in doing so?
The Americans Ad takes over NYT Homepage
Opening http://www.nytimes.com/ today temporarily turns the entire homepage into an ad for The Americans. May need to load in incognito to see the effect.
A fun new web app, that lets you visually design your own Trail Mix
http://www.trailmyx.com/createMyx
What do you think?
Wyse Executives to Discuss Leading Trends in Mobility and Cloud Computing
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5690314/wyse-executives-to-discuss-leading-trends-in-mobility-and-cloud-computing-at-america-s-growth-capital-s-emerging-growth-conference-2012-in-san-francisco
Wyse Executives to Discuss Leading Trends in Mobility and Cloud Computing at America's Growth Capital
Flash Hits the iPad, Thanks to the Cloud
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/02/flash-cloud/
Flash Hits the iPad, Thanks to the Cloud
What is Amazon doing for everyone else?
http://www.metafilter.com/114518/Amazon-from-A-to-Z
Meta filter has a series on Amazon's effect on Seattle, the Publishing business and its own workers.
MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI Imaging, Brain MRI, MRI Scan
http://www.inhealthimaging.com/diagnostics/high_field_mri.html
Our InHealthImaging team strives to provide you MRI Imaging, Brain MRI and MRI Scan with the most advanced imaging technology, information, and individualized care to help you.
The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin Documentary [Pitchfork TV]
http://www.pitchfork.com/tv/pitchfork-classic/1885-the-flaming-lips-the-soft-bulletin/3081-intro/
Love the insight into how The Flaming Lips records music as a band and how The Soft Bulletin came to be.
Verizon workers go on strike
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20089195-94/verizon-workers-go-on-strike/?tag=topStories1
The landline phone company and its workers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states are too far apart in their contract negotiations, and union leaders call their first strike in 11 years. Read this blog post by Roger Cheng on Wireless.
The City That Sometimes Sleep
http://hery.github.com/2013/03/21/thecitythatsleepssometimes.html
A nap place in NYC.
Want high ROI? PPC can help
http://www.kneoteric.com/blog/google-adwords/want-high-roi-ppc-can-help
According to a recent survey done by MarketingSherpa and Ad:tech, Pay per click advertising is the most preferred online marketing tactic for increased ROI.
Rice, black-eyed peas, kool-aide
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3625536419231928674
It's political day all across the nation.
Marriage Proposal Using Custom iPhone App & Scavenger Hunt
http://laughingsquid.com/marriage-proposal-using-custom-iphone-app-scavenger-hunt/
Some guy named Bryan proposed to some girl named Jeannie using a custom iPhone app that gave video clues for her to follow around San Francisco that when connected created a giant “<3″ on the map. Cool.
Blog Tips and Tricks
http://www.techblaster.net/
Best blogger tips and tricks for all the blogging community for free. Including traffic building tips and SEO tips too. Visit us and take your tips for free. No hidden prices.
A bit about Open Social - by Dave Winer
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/10/31/aBitAboutOpenSocial.html
Also read Marc's thoughts about Mr. Winer's post
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/is-google-trying-...
Bootstrapping my Web Based Video Phone Site
http://www.calltunnel.com
Woro-woro: To all my hackernews friends :
Today (19 Mei 2010), I launch my web based video phone site at:

http://www.calltunnel.com

You can make a video phone call just by visiting this website from anywhere.

At very least the base functionality is now on:
1. video phone call
2. automatic translation between two different language (52 of them)
3. mail your friend from the site directly (make sure your friend is online)
4. suggest a better translation
5. mail your conversation to your email address

I've tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome.
So far all runs well.

My plan after this :
1. learn how to promote this site, perhaps using adword to create a champaigne
2. learn how to create a nice blog to help the site.

I hope 6 months for preview state is maintainable for me.

To all my hackernews friends: wish me luck !
LayoutPress
http://www.layoutpress.net
Drag and Drop Starter Theme for WordPress

LayoutPress is a WordPress starter theme with an intuitive interface for visually creating page layouts with WordPress widgets, helping to rapidly prototype, design and develop WordPress themes.
Admob revenue examples and estimations
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Admob-revenue-examples-and-estimations-458001
A quick post on admob revenues for an android application and estimations of future revenue.
Sen. Hill proposes legislation to open Martin's Beach
http://m.hmbreview.com/mobile/news/sen-hill-proposes-legislation-to-open-martin-s-beach/article_9d88f726-8ecf-11e3-8e20-0019bb2963f4.html
Seeking to answer the public-access quandary at Martin’s Beach once and for all, state Sen. Jerry Hill plans to introduce legislation next week that could use the government’s powers of eminent domain to claim a private road to the secluded coastal spot.
The proposed legislation would order the State Lands Commission next year to seek negotiations to purchase the private road from billionaire owner Vinod Khosla. If no deal can be reached by the start of 2016, Hill’s legislation would order the state commission to seize the road from Khosla using its eminent domain privileges.
Non-Traditional Methods of Choosing Technology for a Software Project
http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=227
How do you make your technology choices?
Howto: Debian Squeeze+Nginx+WordPress
http://www.bufferoverflow.it/2011/06/25/howto-debian-squeezenginxwordpress/
A step by step tutorial on nginx installation and configuration to serve PHP pages generated by WordPress (italian language only but easy to follow also for english speakers)
Show HN: Horizontally expanding tree of text nodes to quickly reach deep nodes
https://cardflow.com/
Note: I want to present this as a concept and not a full featured product that’s ready for pro users.

Problem I have faced with vertically expanding trees like workflowy/dynalist is that it’s hard to quickly navigate to a specific descendant node. With CardFlow that’s pretty easy, try it yourself.

I wish somebody will use this side-expanding tree concept and make a full featured app. I want to use such a product but I don’t have the acumen to build one myself.
40 Helpful Independent Game Design Forums
http://www.videogamedesignschools.net/40-helpful-independent-game-design-forums/
For video game designers, it can be a toughmarket to get your ideas out there to create and market them. These 40forums provide an enormous amount of helpful information to help yourefine your ideas and make great connections in the video game world.
Bending Python With Regular Expressions
http://blogs.codecommunity.org/mindbending/bending-python-with-regular-expressions/
A simple article of mine showing how RegExp can overcome pure Python codes.
7 Hints About Upcoming Android 3.0 Gingerbread
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/07/7-hints-about-upcoming-android-3-0-gingerbread/
7 hints about Android 3.0 from Lifehacker's interview with Android's Product Manager.
Remove unwanted Facebook Likes and clean up your friends wall
http://www.likecleanse.com/
We have all liked things in the past... too many things to remember. Now advertisers are using those things to target our friends. STOP THEM! Reduce the clutter you didn't know you had. Login below to see the brands targeting you and 'un-like' the unworthy ones.
Microsoft v. Motorola: using or abusing the legal system?
http://www.patexia.com/feed/microsoft-v-motorola-using-or-abusing-the-legal-system-
There is no end in sight to the corporate patent wars in the courts today. A few months ago I wrote about the ongoing battle between Motorola and Apple and Samsung and Apple.
Show HN: After deadpooling it 2+ years ago, relaunching Shopseen as new concept
http://shopseen.com
It used to be a site for posting pics from your mobile phone of stuff you see while you're out shopping. No 'checkins' or anything like that back then. Now it is an app that lets you discover the best deals picked by people who share your tastes. We will be sharing affiliate revenue with people whenever someone clicks and buys a deal.
Few options for avoiding web surveillance
http://www.kth.se/en/aktuellt/nyheter/few-options-for-avoiding-web-surveillance-1.481635
KTH Crosstalks panel explores privacy and anonymity on the internet
What Do You Do When Urgent Things Are Resolved?
http://marekblotny.com/2010/08/what-do-you-do-when-urgent-things-are-resolved/
Every day we are facing some deadlines. We have to deal with them as a matter of priority. Big question which I have is what next? What will you do next when all urgent things are done, the pressure is gone and you still have a bit of time? You should focus on things which can have significant impact on your effectiveness and work quality.Effective people know how to distinguish tasks which are important and really matter, they know how to “put first things first”. They are proactively looking for opportunities to to get better. Are you one of them?