jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hackathons go mainstream in Silicon Valley
http://www.meetup.com/Hackathons/
Hackathons are about to go mainstream with a dozen startups and a slew of developers joining in. Hope you can join and share, save, and hack the world.
Website to improve decision making and make people happier
http://pre-register.sentiosearch.com/
The site is going to launch in a few weeks but I am curious to hear this group's feedback on idea which is:
To improve decision-making by employing a new method of choice called surrogation that is based on the actual experiences of others. We convert the hindsight of similar others into foresight for you.
Help with Yahoo Pipes Error
http://jdavid.net/?p=93
I am getting an error on the response while using OSDE ( Open Social Developer Environment )

HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /gadgets/makeRequest. Reason:
host parameter is null

I think Yahoo Pipes is rejecting the request because it's coming from a local server. Can anyone confirm this?

I did not see any documentation at pipes.yahoo.com that would confirm or deny this in their documentation or their forums.

Has anyone use used Yahoo Pipes in an opensocial/ facebook context?
Room Booking Tutorial in ASP.NET MVC3. Live Demo.
http://blog.scheduler-net.com/post/2013/04/30/aspnet-mvc3-room-booking-calendar-tutorial.aspx
Learn how to create a full-featured room booking tutorial in ASP.NET MVC3. It includes a login form with user authentication using ASP.NET Membership. Live demo and a ready sample to download are available.
Needed - beta tester interested in finance
http://www.leapscore.com
WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK. We are looking for beta testers to use LeapScore, our new web-based personal finance scoring tool. Are you one of those "early adopter" types? This is definitely for you. Simply click the link to sign up. It's Comprehensive. Personalized. Simple. Understandable. Accessible. Fun. Free.
http://www.leapscore.com/
Making Super Juice With Juicer
http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/article/show/making-super-juice-with-juicer
Yesterday I finally started to give Juicer a go. Christian has a nice write up on his blog but I stumbled into some problems and decided to put this article together. Following is a run down of how I got my CSS and JavaScript files through the Juicer.
My always free windows client to manage amazon Glacier
http://www.openglacier.com/
I know there are others out there, but this will always be free for ANY use, and I created to do what I needed. Looking for a few folks to try it out.
Retailers Are Slashing Prices Ahead of Holiday
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/business/retailers-are-slashing-prices-ahead-of-holiday.html?_r=1&ref=business
Aggressive last-minute deals in the days before Christmas are good for procrastinators, but they could be an alarm bell for the retail industry.
No longer just white ear buds, headphones in vogue
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2011-12-22/music-headphones/52157370/1
When iPods hit the scene 10 years ago, the small, white ear buds that came with the devices became the symbol for listening to music on the go.
Vibin is a beautiful new way to catalog the things that matter to you
http://www.vibin.it/
Vibin is a beautiful new way to catalog the things that matter to you.
With Vibin, you can
- Create cards to chronicle your favorite places, products, or anything you want
- Discover what friends and people around you are sharing
- All your social content in one place
- Share your cards and decks with anyone

Now is available on both Android and iOS.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vibin/id749920897?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.vibin.app
Lobby Apple to Support Cmd+Tab App Switching in iOS7
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2012/06/22/0023
This seems like an awesome missed opportunity that has been making the rounds since before iOS6.

Update: this is now rdar://14367569
Ask HN: Protobuf as a Database Wire Protocol?
Why is Protobuf a bad choice for a distributed database wire protocol?

I understand it's a popular choice for service development through the use gRPC, Twirp, etc. I assume there are good performance reasons why Protobuf is not used in database node-to-node communication, but I'm curious to know what they are.

As an aside, if I don't want to commit to one protocol like Postgres or MySQL or Memcached, is there an extensible wire protocol out there that can accommodate these different protocols under one umbrella? I'm considering generically pre-pending each frame with a set of bits to identify which protocol the frame uses. This seems like something that's probably already been solved, and I'm just not aware of it. Does anyone have any ideas?
Planning trips with friends is chaotic 
http://agentpanda.co/
Would love to know your opinion about what we are working on. Does it solve the planning process?
Facebook new Feature "Ask Our CPO"
http://techofy.blogspot.in/2013/01/facebook-announced-new-feature-called.html
In the “Ask Our CPO” series, we ask people to submit questions they have about privacy. In this first edition, Erin Egan, our Chief Privacy Officer of Policy, explains why we created this series and answers some questions she receives frequently about privacy.
SoundCloud announces rate limits for third party APIs
https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/rate-limits
"Effective July 1, all requests that result in access to a playable stream are subject to a limit of 15,000 requests per any 24-hour time window. Currently, this is inclusive of all requests that are made to /tracks/:id/stream."

Pretty big blow for the third party ecosystem..a ton of music related services will see some issues now.
Facedrink
http://www.drinkfacedrink.com/
Facedrink is a 2.5 ounce liquid energy shot which offers great tasting and long-lasting energy.
“It gives you social energy” is the product’s tagline, referring to that particular energy needed to manage your social life.
Facedrink is free of sugar, carbohydrates, and only has three calories.
It contains a blend of natural fruit flavors, taurine, caffeine for that pick-me-up feeling.
The result of this formula is a unique taste (taste of friendship) and several hours of crash-free energy boost to help get you through the day.
8 Tips for Creating Better Converting Author Websites
http://www.bookpromotionhub.com/6016/8-tips-for-creating-better-converting-author-websites/
An author’s website or page is ESSENTIAL if you want to drive more sales to your non-fiction book and if you want to position yourself as being “media ready”!

The prices vary when it comes to getting an author page created by a webmaster, but there are key elements that MUST be present in order to make that page work for you.
Startups for non-technical founders
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/4ee0f1f4cdeb
The only good approach I see for most non-technical people serious about starting something even semi-complex. I know too many just waiting around for the right technical cofounder or giving a half-hearted effort to learn some basic coding.
Google Talk: Tips And Tricks
http://hackspc.com/google-talk-tips-and-tricks/
In this post you can find list of tips and tricks about Google Talk. Google Talk is good application for voice and instant messaging, but it can be better. Using these tips and tricks, fix Google Talk disadvantages and also improve it.
Beta User's comments welcome - Web TV Startup
Hi All,

First Mashup Startup coming soon....would love your feedback in the beta stages....he's the initial preview...Comments on the design welcome here.

http://www.chitabox.com

Thanks in advance!
M
Four ways to promote your blog for free
http://www.taskwise.com/blog/2011/6/four-ways-to-promote-your-blog-for-free
Web logging (better known as "blogging") can be a great way make your personality and ideas known to the world. You can post your most inspiring philosophical musings, or you can inform the public about the latest product releases of your business. But if you really want to stake your claim on your primary topic of discussion, then you must take steps to let the world know that your blog exists. Here are four ways to promote your blog for free.
Responsive Advertising
http://www.thirtytwodigital.co.uk/notes/responsive-advertising
A look at Responsive Advertising, the problems, solutions and how we implemented responsive ads into our sites. Also a demo of a CSS3 Responsive Ad.
The 4-P's to Scrappy-ness
http://scrappystartupforum.com/2010/04/26/the-4-p%E2%80%99s-of-being-more-scrappy/
--- Found on ScrappyStartupForum.com ---

There has been a lot of buzz around the Valley lately about the term “scrappy” and how startups are staying lean / scrappy to optimize growth and profitability.

Here are four simple ideas a founder/team should consider to increase scrappiness:

Philosophy — Everything starts with the way you view the world. Reading and understanding various philosophical systems from Stoicism to Zen Buddhism to Dale Carnegie are all important for a founder to understand how he/she views the world. Once you can adopt and commit to a scrappy philosophy then you can focus on scrappy execution. A founder must live scrappy and really “be” scrappy.

People – A founder must hire scrappy people. Look for folks who have started clubs on campus; have led church groups or worked at a non-profit. Any life experiences where they have had to deal with incredibly constrained resources and have had to hustle. You also have to look for folks who are excited with the possibility of finding creative solutions to problems by leveraging minimal resources. Also finding people with large personal and professional networks is always a plus since they can tap their network for solutions to problems.

Reward and acknowledge people who stay scrappy.

Products — With the recent surge of amazing web based solutions for common business processes, being scrappy has never been easier. I have listed a few such solutions below:
· www.pipelinedeals.com – CRM system
· www.lessaccounting.com – Accounting
· www.ReTargeter.com – branding and driving sales
· www.FlowTown.com – email marketing / social media demographics
· www.KISSMetrics.com – metrics
· www.Recurly.com – managing online payments
· www.Yammer.com – rapid cross platform internal communication
· www.google.com/apps — web based email and calendars

Place – Given the current economic conditions there are ample opportunities to find cheap office space. There are also a host of larger companies or other startups that have additional space and are willing to sublease that space to you. Also location is key, if you are surrounded by other startups, great resources and free events that may be more beneficial in the long term than going with a cheaper space.

Being scrappy is a life-long philosophy but when/if you do have the resources then make sure to give back to other scrappy folks!

-Arjun Dev Arora, ReTargeter
Frightening bugcounts in commercial software
http://lwn.net/Articles/115530/
http://lwn.net/Articles/115530/

"Commercial software typically has 20 to 30 bugs for every thousand lines of
code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable Computing
Consortium. This is equivalent to 114,000 to 171,000 bugs in 5.7 million
lines of code. "

What!? That seems like a ridiculously high number. Can it really be true?
Would be interesting to see bugcounts for respective languages and years rather than having it all lumped together.

About Linux
"Our findings show that Linux
contains 0.17 bugs per thousand lines of code, which is an extremely low
defect rate and is evidence of the strong security of Linux. Many security
holes in software are the result of software bugs that can be eliminated with
good programming processes."

And Linux is written in C right? So the massive bugcounts in commercial software can't all be blamed on malloc and free...
Audio Engineers: Benefits of Studying Electronics
http://audiodomain.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/audio-engineers-benefits-of-studying.html
My thoughts on adding electronics to your audio skill set. A must read for aspiring audio professionals.
Parkuik: Just another startup launch numbers
http://www.jmanzano.es/blog/?p=706
Parkuik was launched one month ago.... and here's what I can tell you =)
Facebook app requests is broken
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/540196825997304?browse=search_5089d276dba269151834739
there is temporary solution(in comments by M.j. Slemko), but you'll see you app only as a facebook iframe.
Ask HN: Recommend intro to investing materials
Hello HN,

I have recently started my first professional job and am working to pay off my student loans. I would also like to get into investing, both long term and short term. However I don't know much about investing and was curious if there are any books, courses, materials, etc. that you would recommend?
Install and Configure Squid Proxy Server
http://blog.teamgrowth.net/index.php/proxy-server/install-and-configure-squid-proxy-server
Proxy server is a an application or a computer system that acts as an agent or channel for requests from clients looking for resources from other servers. Client connects to the proxy server with a service (web, files or any other resources) and proxy server sends that request to the server on behalf of the client. There are many software and applications available on the internet which can be used to setup a proxy server.
Sexy (I use Color)
Digital Folklore
http://digital-folklore.org/
"While more and more people had personal computers and net access, fewer and fewer were seeing the value of their contributions. As most had agreed to have 'no idea about computers,' it became virtually impossible for them to reflect on the medium itself. At the same time however these lusers used computers very intensively, producing and uploading content non-stop.

And here we reach the point where we would like to highlight artifacts of Digital Folklore, a distinct user culture developed inside user-oriented applications and services despite their low social status and technical limitations. And their cumulative output began to dominate that of hacker culture."
My Blogging Workspace
http://www.xhydra.com/uncategorized/my-blogging-workspace.html
For those that may wonder what my workspace looks like here are two shots of my workstation. As you can see its nothing compared to Darren Rowse’s setup or even the average blogger’s setup.
ADO.NET Connection Pooling, Internals and Issues
http://florianreischl.blogspot.com/2011/08/adonet-connection-pooling-internals-and.html
ADO.NET connection pooling. How it works internally and what issues it can cause.
Hacknight Trailer
http://youtu.be/sx8gj0N_f8s?hd=1
Hacknight in Malmo Sweden . Speeches and Interviews with Swedish thought leaders. Peter Sunde of Flattr and The Pirate Bay , Christopher Kullenberg of Telecomix , Samira Ariadad of Brand Magazine , Gustav Nipe of The Pirate Party , The Mandos Brothers , Raccoon from Telecomix , and Kugg of the Forskningsavd.

Covering several topics including i2p , blackthrows , fra , smile29 , mandos , pgp , retro computing and much more.
A Short History of Internet Radio Technology
http://blog.onlineclock.net/internet-radio-history-invention/
Carl Malamud created the first internet radio station in 1993
Not So Popular Yet Cool Google Desktop Apps
http://devstand.com/2011/09/19/great-google-applications/
Even if most of Google's activity is done online, the search giant is a major player when it comes to desktop apps too.
Show HN: HackerLunch - New & Improved
Hi everyone.

One month ago I launched my "November Sprint Startup" called HackerLunch. It was basically a way for HN members to meet up with other HN users for lunch (and hopefully have a fun chat!).

Today, I am launching a slightly improved version of it. I basically improved the design and fixed some bugs in the original version.

I haven't added any of the features that some of you asked for (such as filtering by city). I'll be adding features like that over the coming weeks, depending on the feedback I get.

Let me know what you guys think.

www.hackerlunch.com
Interesting Perspective of Venture Capitalist on Investing in Life Sciences
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Interesting_Perspective_of_Venture_Capitalist_on_Investing_in_Life_Sciences
Interesting talk by KPCB Venture Capitalist on what they're looking for and how they evaluate Life Science companies (audio is attached).
Richard Poynder - The Basement Interviews
http://richardpoynder.co.uk/The%20Basement%20Interviews.htm
A good selection of interviews with free & open source leaders, although a bit dated(2006-2007) still quite interesting.
Simple OSS Edutainment Game
http://vikinghammer.com/2008/12/25/a-simple-edutainment-game-its-math-bejeweled/
This is just a simple open source edutainment game I threw together this afternoon. I'd like to see what people think of it and if anyone has anything to add to it.

The idea, right now, is to add numbers together to hit the target number, and gain points to change the target value.
101 Viral Marketing Tools
https://coursmos.com/course/101-viral-marketing-tools-course-1
Creating viral marketing products and services. Everything that gives your customers tools, reasons & incentives to be viral should be considered viral.
Android Apps, Spyware, & Marketing
I want to see the Android OS succeed, and am learning how to develop Android apps with PhoneGap, but there's a glaring hole that needs fixing. It seems to me that developers can use it for marketing or malicious intent.

- Imagine a free and fun soundboard app for some movie star you like, such as Christopher Walken. You install the app, but it says it needs access to your contact information. A naive user may just shrug their shoulders and click OK on that permission request during installation. But then within 24 hours, they start receiving spam email, direct mail, and even telemarketing calls to their home phone and even their mobile phone. And why? Well, they opted in, but they didn't know what they were opting in for.

- Next, imagine that same app, but oddly it needs permission to your microphone or camera and without telling you why. When you install it and use it, the thing remotely spies on you for criminal purposes.

Google, we really need to fix this by separating those kinds of apps out in the marketplace from the rest, and by making it crystal clear to users why this information would be used if they opt in for it. It's not an easy thing to fix if we want a surge of app growth. However, if this thing hits the nightly news with an expose on how completely exposed we are to opt-in marketing and malicious apps that spy on us remotely through the camera or microphone -- it's going to kill Android for a good long time.

So, Google, let's fix this before it hits the evening news.
Buying Facebook fans – apparently it works…
http://www.99like.com/blog/?p=16
This site gained more than 20,000 Facebook fans gained in 1 month. This is huge. Better than AirBnb and many others...
Show HN: An API/SDK to passively detect user mental health status
https://developer.sahha.ai/
It's early days yet, but right now it can detect similarities in certain behaviors (steps, sleep, phone usage) associated with depression (trained on 37.5K PHQ9 samples from 3,500+ people) with up to 84% accuracy.

We've built some SDKs that make integration and data collection simple on mobile, currently supporting: Native Apple & Android, Flutter, React-Native and Capacitor. Everything runs in the background, even when an integrated app is closed.

The SDKs also provide the necessary native user-permission handling so users understand what data is being shared with integrated software, this also gives the user control over sharing such data. The data is pulled from Apple HealthKit and Google APIs (for Android).

There is also the REST API for those who want to customize things completely.

Soon to be released: passive anxiety, stress and emotion predictions using such data.

I'd love some feedback, please share!
Gaining Even a Little Weight Greatly Increases the Risk of Heart Disease
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/increased-weight-gain-increase-heart-disease-risk-040213
Regular exercise and healthy eating won’t only shrink your waistline; it can also shrink your risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), according to an article published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine. In fact, research from the Million Women Study shows that even a small increase in weight can put you at a risk of CHD equivalent to the risk associated with getting older.
Random number generators
https://www.badbug.id.au/of-random-and-randomness/
This post mostly makes sense but ughh. theoretically. for instance, /dev/random is almost useless because it blocks frequently. kind of moot.
Paypal Return Value Question (PHP)
Hi,

How can i manipulate the code below so that the return value is sent to my thank you page (www.website.com/thankyou.php) instead of the root homepage, while keeping everything else intact.

<input type="hidden" name="return" value="<?=$cfg->wwwroot."registration-confirmed-".base64_encode(serialize(array($user->id, 1)))?>">

Thank You
Home services- by Awadh multiple
http://www.awadhmultipleservices.com/
Are you looking for best home service provider? Awadh multiple service providers provide you reliable services for kitchen appliance india, indian home appliance,shop home appliances, home services and many more.
Illustrator Tutorials 
http://www.erisfire.com/articles/article05_aitut.htm
Illustrator is arguably the greatest vector graphic design app out there. Below are some tutorials that every graphic designer should see.
Seo Company
http://seoenetspider.wordpress.com/
SEO Company guarantees a faster, more effective campaign that delivers ROI in a more immediate manner. SEO is what drives you to the top of the search engines, hire the best seo company with proven results, and call today.
Disable ActiveRecord in Rails 3
http://therailworld.com/posts/27-Disable-ActiveRecord-in-Rails-3
How to disable ActiveRecord in Rails 3 in order to use a different ORM.
Insight into Bangalore Architecture Industry
http://www.slideshare.net/coordinates/close-look-at-architects-in-bangalore
The need for skillful architects and interior designers has increased drastically in Bangalore as people from all parts of India as well as world have started moving into this cool South Indian city.
A Cloud of My Own -- save your music online
http://www.acloudofmyown.com/
My friend wrote this site to store your mp3 files in the cloud and access them from anywhere. He built the site and Air App to upload your music. Membership is free for now while he goes through beta.
Mail::RFC822::Address: regexp-based address validation
http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html
Looks like some art to me.
Ask HN: Anyone able to help with Microsoft adCenter API key?
I am cofounder of a affiliate/PPC analytics tool that is currently in development. While we aim to incorporate both adwords and adCenter so far this has been limited to adwords because Microsoft have only ever ran an invitation only program for API access (to the best of my knowledge).

While the response we have go is that they will eventually open it up being able to develop for it now would be of great advantage. It seems at this stage only those with large advertising spend are getting keys, we have had an account for some time but have always used adwords more heavily.

Just posting this in the off chance someone that works with this stuff at Microsoft hangs out on HN and can help a startup out :)

Thanks.
History of Pearls
http://www.mastoloni.com/pearls-education/history-of-pearls.html
Pearls are amongst the oldest and most beautiful of all gems. In past years, pearls were considered the one of the best symbol of wealth. If you want to learn more about history of pearls, visit on Mastoloni.com.
Ask HN: effective web password security
Being a customer of Sony’s I’m now determined to sort out my web password strategy once and for all. Obviously the best thing to do (with the current web infrastructure) is individual email and passwords per service, but how do people manage this?