jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts on Airtime
http://kicksandkisses.com/2012/04/15/some-thoughts-on-airtime/
I wrote some speculations about the upcoming start up
"Airtime" founded by Sean Parker and Shawn.
Microsoft MVP compares VB6 to Ruby
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=7B8D8FB6-2E43-40E6-93CD-BF6C938BA5CA#b94a9f17-7f39-495b-96d7-2eae08508d01
Microsoft seems to have a lot of time to waste today :)
Art of Quitting: The most important Skills 
http://awillager.blogspot.in/2013/10/art-of-quitting-quit-successfully-or.html
"Quitter never Wins, Winner Never Quits" this is an age old saying, most true for entrepreneurs with ego bigger than the success and who take pride in this never quitting endeavor. But for practical entrepreneur knowing when to quit gracefully, are the most successful entrepreneur who provides the thriving example and shades of Art of Quitting, while the most unsuccessful entrepreneur are forced to quits, because they failed to learn the Art of Quitting or not putting down their practical foot firmly on the reality ground.

Now, Let us see how and When to quit at various stage of Startup life:
Transit of Venus June 5th, 2012
http://venustransit.nasa.gov/2012/transit/
Related article:
Hubble to use moon as mirror to see Venus transit
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936071
Why You Should Not Remove Dates from Your WordPress Blog Posts
http://www.wpbeginner.com/opinion/why-you-should-not-remove-dates-from-your-wordpress-blog-posts/
Published date on blogs are the thing of the past. Last updated date is far more useful in my opinion.
CoffeeScript/JavaScript offline data store
https://github.com/cityofgreatersudbury/vault
Client side library used to store collections in-memory and offline.
Show HN: Weekly AI newsletter to reconnect to Earth
https://www.edenmaps.net/earthletter
Research proves that >= 120 min/week of time in nature dramatically improves mental well being.

This is a free newsletter that will send you an email once a week with nearby suggestions for nature adventures (hikes and POIs).

This is an attempt at fixing the problem: "I want to spend more time in nature but it takes too much planning."
It's easy now to make going out in nature a part of your hygiene, with curated options easy to choose from.

This is built on top of a backend I'm currently building that is processing millions of hikes and POIs with machine learning to extrapolate the many insights that constitute the decision process our code goes through to send you your weekly newsletter.

Hope you like it!
Add discussions to physical objects
http://mforum.linkstore.ru
How to add discussions to physical objects
Show HN: An Amazon Donating All Profits to Charities
https://boas.co/
Hi I'm Vin, the founder of BOAS. Currently selling sustainable baby/kids products but when successful we'll slowly roll out other categories. Sustainable buying currently sucks because it's fragmented and expensive. Consolidating sustainable products on one marketplace and enabling price competition on the marketplace will make it less sucky, just like Amazon did. We're doing this because we discovered that there's a big chunk of sustainable buyers and brands who don't want to buy from or work with them because they don't trust them with ethics and sustainability. That's where we come in.

We're donating all of our profits (over the lifetime, after scaling so we don't hinder our growth, our investors are philanthropists) because it's the right thing to do, and fortunately it actually seems like that's a USP that brands and consumers care for and helps us establish trust, which is critical to succeed in sustainability.

Please have a look through the website, try to buy something (if you want to pay even better ;)) and let us know what sucks or what you don't understand about what we do. We're currently on Shopify and have a technical integration with most ecom platforms. Ultimately we would want to own the whole infrastructure ourselves.
Australian media agency releases a database of politicians fringe benefits
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/airline-miners-israel-generous-20120829-25159.html
Searchable database of all the benefits politicans receive from companies including gifts, junkets and so on. Why it's important is because these are hand-written in the Australian parliament which made it basically impossible to track ... until now
Show HN: Frequency.io a realtime news feed for your team
http://www.frequency.io
A free service that lets you easily build a real time news feed for your team. Keep everyone up to date with deployments, events, etc.
Would you give up the Internet for 1 million dollars?
http://youtu.be/0FB0EhPM_M4
Many will decry the connection between wealth and (largely) free markets, but hey, that's why I am -9.
3 Common Copyright & IP Lawsuits Just Waiting to Happen to You & Your Business
http://blog.kunvay.com/3-common-copyright-intellectual-property-lawsuits-just-waiting-to-happen-to-you-your-business/
Common copyright and intellectual property (IP) pitfalls to avoid.
The importance of listening to expert users
http://memeburn.com/2011/06/the-importance-of-listening-to-expert-users/
It has always been the case that customers can end up knowing more about a business than its owners. In the world of modern web based businesses with vast user bases however, it is so much more prevalent and significant that it should form an integral part of business strategy.
Better Builds with Git, Gerrit, and Jenkins
http://toastedbits.com/post/26
Setup guide for installation and integration of these three excellent technologies.
High Availability Cluster Module for FreeSWITCH
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1175121367/high-availability-cluster-module-for-freeswitch
Open source software packages typically have a hard time competing with commercial solutions. This is a perfect example of such a case. Commercial carrier-grade softswitches typically include HA, but FreeSWITCH (the best open-source alternative softswitch) does not have that functionality. You can use 3rd party programs like Pacemaker and Corosync to bridge the gap, but they are complicated and time consuming to correctly configure and test. It makes the whole solution feel "custom rolled" while most companies want something that feels "commercial". They want a "finished product," not something they need to bolt other pieces onto in order to get their desired features. If you are an entrepreneur, you will recognize the opportunity to take such sets of packages and roll them into your own "commercial" solution which you sell at a significant discount to other commercial solutions. However, this just propagates more commercialism. For those of us who want truly free, well-engineered solutions which feel "commercial", we are often just out of luck. So we turn to rolling our own. I started writing mod_ha_cluster for FreeSWITCH to help bridge this gap between an open source solution I feel could compete with very expensive commercial alternatives if it had such functionality and what's there today. If you are interested in VoIP in general or FreeSWITCH more specifically, please check out the project and help support it any way you are willing and able to do.
FSFE interview with Terms of 'Service: Didn't Read' founder Hugo Roy
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=628
Hugo's project "Terms of Service: Didn't Read" has recently won international attention in publications such as TIME, Le Monde, and ZEIT, in it's campaign to simplify the legal terms of web services. He is FSFE’s French Team coordinator, co-founder of the Digital Freedoms association, and in 2009 did extensive work on the impact of Europe's Interoperability Framework (EIF) on Free Software users.
Show HN: Real time dashboards with websockets and Scala
https://github.com/owainlewis/ripley
A free, easy way to build real time websocket dashboards.
TrueDOC: Project Documentation Requirements of Architects.
http://www.bimhub.com/truedoc.html
TrueDOC™ includes services that aim to fulfill the project documentation requirements of architects with an integrated information processing system.
Ask HN: Any cool startups outside the States?
Techcrunch, Mashable, etc mainly focus on startups in the States. That gives us an impression that cool startups are in the States only. Can anyone share any cool startups in Asia or other parts of the world?
Identity Credential Verification API for Developers
http://blog.beenverified.com
BeenVerified announces the arrival of its identity verification API for developers.
Show HN: Parsers VC – Venture Capital data provider
https://parsers.vc/
Parsers VC collects data on startups, investors, and venture capital firms in real time. The databases are updated every 24 hours.
It's very simple: Parsers VC installs its trackers on the venture capital funds' websites (namely the startup, team, and news sections) and automatically collects all updates. The data is also obtained from social networks and news sites. Thus, there is no need to wait for the startup or venture capital firm itself to update the information on the aggregator site, all updates appear by themselves.
Poll: Are you buying .co?
With the news of Twitter acquiring t.co, I started thinking about .co domain names. Are you going to buy one? Do you think they will be widely adopted or suffer a fate similar to .info?

If you haven't heard the hype, check out http://www.cointernet.co.
Screencast: How to install Node.js (Server-Side JavaScript) on Windows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbgNedrI24o
Node.js on windows is now stable, yay. This video will walk you through how to install node.js (server-side javascript) on windows (XP, Vista and 7) in under 3 minutes.
Are we in a tech bubble
http://econ.st/jl45oW
some great points here by Ben Horowitz
TutorTutor.org - San Diego Tutor | San Diego Tutors
http://tutortutor.org/
TutorTutor.net is providing tutoring services in San Diego area since 1996. We have the most experienced tutors in San Diego and San North County areas. Our San Diego tutoring programs are customized to meet the students needs. Many students achieved great success with our San Diego tutoring programs.
Show HN: Video, Audio, Text Annotations for PDFs, Images, Websites
https://www.annootate.com/documents/ASZ0t5RnHCrGVObfmXPI
Hi all,

We created Annootate.com to help users gather comprehensive feedback on their projects/documents. We believe gathering feedback through text is outdated and ineffective. This is because we lose so much of the detail and nuances in the feedback given.

Please try out the example document (link) and let us know if you have any feedback! Thanks.
Show HN: Find and Sponsor the Right Event
http://www.eventreach.co
Hi,

I'm working on EventReach, a platform that sends event creators sponsorship opportunities.

We've built a recommendation engine that uses data from some of the most popular event hosting platforms to look for trends and created a service that matches with small businesses.

Companies can create offers and buy personalized packages.

Event hosts have the ability to deny or accept level of work and we've made it easier to collect payment than before.

We're looking for BETA testers who can help us test to market !
Ask HN: How young were you when you started programming and how did it happen?
Dear HN readers,

I was recently intrigued by a thread of comments on here between a handful of seasoned developers that have been programming for a relatively long time (~30 years), and was particularly fond of what they had to say about how they got started.

So given the wide spectrum of readers on this forum, I am deeply curious to get a sense of how our programming "origin" stories have evolved over time.

I believe that being able to contrast the stories of developers that started out a long time ago to those that started out more recently will be a fascinating exercise.

-

In my case it was around 1995 - I was 11 years old at the time, and we had a PC at home which my brother and I would play games on. It ran DOS 6.22, and on one of its installation disks we found this game called GORILLA.BAS [1].

An attempt to reverse engineer this source file (in pursuit of more explosive bananas) sent me down an exploratory path that ultimately became my life-long career.

It was a rather lucky sequence of events for which I am extremely grateful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncykt-YJO1M
Internet usage in Zimbabwe - Insights
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/06/inights-into-zim-internet-usage/ 
Local isn't lekker as Zimbos shun local websites. 82% have no access. 72% who have, access by phone
New apple and beats logo, pacman style
http://oi61.tinypic.com/35i7sjp.jpg
When I saw a Forbes article about Apple dropping 3.5mm jack connector and seeing the two logos apart, the new pacman style logo came to my mind.

Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/06/05/apple-to-abandon-headphone-jack-suddenly-beats-deal-makes-sense/
Windows 8 apps passes 20,000 mark, or does it? 
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/fuzzy-logic/57629-windows-8-apps-passes-20000-mark-or-does-it?
News reports say that the Windows Store in Windows 8 has "20,000 apps", most of which are free, in its global store, but is this really true?
Startup and the press
https://coursmos.com/course/startup-and-the-press
Mark a Milian, a reporter for Bloomberg, tells you about the tips and tricks on the topic of startup and the press relation.
3 P’s behind Apple’s sucess – Product, Passion, Purpose
http://svenups.com/2011/09/02/3-main-reasons-behind-apples-sucess/
Apple is No1 company in the world. It’s rise from forgotten to leading is astonishing. Upon brief analisys, it is quickly clear what makes them so special and so great – nothing mystical or fancy, just 3 simple things for wich people continue to buy their products. 1st one is kinda obvious, but last 2 are more on psychological basis of a customer
How to Supercharge Your App Revenues Using Decoy Offers
http://mobileapps.com/get-app-users-to-buy-what-you-want-them-to-buy-with-irrelevant-alternatives/
Learn the concept of "Irrelevant Alternatives" to make a killing. :)
Web service types :SOAP/XML-RPC/Restful
http://phpflow.com/php/web-service-types-soapxml-rpcrestful/
Before inventing of web services, whenever we need to get data from particular website, first we visits a website and with help of HTTP request is send to server from web browsers and server responses display to the visitor. Now days this scenario has been changed. You don’t need to visit the particular website to use their service and functionality if they are providing web services. Web services are set of platform independent functions/APIs which can be used from remote server over the Internet. In web services there are two parties are involved one is provider (Server) and other is consumer(Client).
Ember Guide Spanish Translation
http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/ember-guide-spanish-translation/2789?u=ulisesrmzroche
I opened this repo in order to translate the Ember Guides into Spanish if anyone is interested. I should have the first part out in an hour or so.
Amazon closed my account-no reason
Recently amazon.com has suspended my selling privileges and closed my seller account.They sent me two types mails.First time saying that I am offering counterfeit items on our site and 2nd time- I used a stolen credit card.I answered them that If you ask I can show you all kinds of document to prove that my card is not stolen card. This card is issued by payoneer on this February at my name.I have contracted with my card company,they have said, my card's everything is fine.I sent a screen shot of my master card's recent transaction.
I am sohan sarder from Bangladesh outside from US.I am a fair New seller.I have sold and provided all authentic items on AMAZON.COM site,there have no fake or counterfeit items.I sent my all orders in right time and provide best product with tracking number as my level best to our buyers.I didn't cheat with our buyers.But i don't know why am i claimed with this counterfeit ?I am so sad.Please try to understand,please reopen my account.There have 6 unshipped items.But i have already shipped out.
Our's is a very poor country. I worked hard to earn these money to start this business on amazon. If you do not reopen my amazon account I'll be ruined.I ahve sent more mail,
But amazon don't any answer me.
Get Rickshaw at your doorstep.
https://www.facebook.com/rickshawoncall?ref=br_tf
We Provide rickshaw on call services in pune
Now, an auto is just a phone call away.The good news is that you no longer have to stand by the curbside as auto driver refuse to take you on a particular
route or otherwise demand an outrageous fare.

The fare or charges for our Rickshaw on call services is as per Rto fare, User should pay Only Rs 10 include thier meter fare charges.

we makes use of the existing autos on the roads.
“We conduct interviews, check driving licenses and conduct a thorough background check.

Just call 8600000024 For Your booking tell us your pick up and drop location and we confirmed your booking, a message will be sent to your mobile
phone with the details of the auto driver.
In pune, the charges are `12 per km with `10 added service charge on the total bill.
The service is 24/7 and bookings are made for a minimum six kms
Bumpin - New social networking startup
http://www.bumpin.com/
Download our extension from http://images.bumpin.com/bump@in/
Aggregate Web Conference
http://ggrgt.com
We're trying to do a web conference for disruptors aimed at bringing non-higher ed people to a higher ed web conference mostly to talk about ways to stop doing things wrong. Colleges & universities are throwing lots of money after bad because it takes a lot to get them to give you contracts. If people are interested in presenting, sponsoring or working with us on this campaign, please send me a note.
Voice technology firm hits back
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8166602.stm
Voice-to-text firm Spinvox has reacted to BBC allegations over its technology, finances and privacy standards.
Git 101
http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Git%20101%20Presentation.pdf
Git 101 (PDF) - OSCON presentation by Scott Chacon of GitHub
Starcraft 2 commentator
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft
Starcraft 2 commentator
Starting the next Bubble?
http://www.cantheworldhearme.com/2008/01/04/starting-the-next-bubble/
I have been known to be a "futurist" and by that I mean half my mind is always in the future. I'm usually thinking of things that will happen in the near future and how I can prepare for it and also the far future and what I can expect. And lately I've been noticing that my venture into startups might be very bad timing.
Show HN: Paint Bot - Arduino Powered Tweet to Shoot
http://istrategylabs.com/2013/03/meet-paintbot-an-arduino-powered-paintball-gun-just-tweet-to-shoot/
Umm...yeah. $200 and 12 hours later and we've weaponized Twitter.
Show HN: Hand-picked Youtube music video API
http://music.historymakers.lv/api/
Hello,

I thought that some of you may find this useful. Around 1.8k hand-picked and categorized (by language, quality, category) Youtube videos with Christian songs.
Dealers Sue Tesla to block stores in NY and MA
http://www.autonews.com/article/20121019/RETAIL07/121019834/dealers-sue-tesla-in-mass-n-y-to-block-company-stores
I'm thinking this could backfire big time against dealers. It's going to expose the out-dated dealer franchise system. Most consumers don't understand why you can't buy vehicles online or through the manufacturer.
Key Issues in Founders Vesting
http://www.founderspack.com/#!blawg/cai4
good read
PiOS: Detecting Privacy Leaks in iOS Applications [pdf]
http://www.iseclab.org/papers/egele-ndss11.pdf
A German article http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Neugierige-Apps-1181223.html
Via Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Ftr%2Fartikel%2FNeugierige-Apps-1181223.html&act=url
Mastering Meetings - 10 Tips for Freelance Web Designers 
http://blog.nerdburn.com/entries/tips-for-freelancers/mastering_meetings_10_tips_for_freelance_web_designers
Shawn Adrian offers a few humorous and informative tips on making the most out of meetings.
A beastly price, even in Canada
http://www.sciencerefutesreligion.com/images/backcover.jpg
U.S. $6.66 And how much up North?
Show HN: Mozaic: Transform a canvas picture into a photomosaic.
http://efekarakus.github.com/mozaic/
Mozaic is a jQuery based JavaScript library for transforming an HTML5 canvas into a photomosaic of small images.
Advice to iPhone App Developer on Marketing the app
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/26862/advice-to-iphone-app-developer-on-marketing-the-app
Some useful tips and links on marketing that don't apply to just mobile apps. With Lean Startups, marketing (as part of CustDev based on customer/market interactions) becomes just as important as agile/dev skills.
Must have app for exact time/ time zone confussion
http://time.is/apps/ipad
Incredibly helpful. Time_is lets you sync across time zones to stay connected.
http://tw.appstore.com/601597rd
How To Remove Guides From An Inkscape Document
http://www.spicywebdesign.com/how-to-remove-guides-from-an-inkscape-document/
Ever set guides on your Inkscape document only to find that you can't remove them when you don't need guides anymore? This tutorial will show you a way to remove guides from your Inkscape document.
Show HN: PaletteWB 2.0.0 Released
http://www.palettewb.com/
Hello there!

I build a tool for playing with color palettes.
I know, it's not really the first one but there are some special features, I would like to talk about.

First, it supports not only 8bit palettes, but also ones with up to 65536 indices. And floating point palette indices. Now, floating point indices are smooth - the palette is stretched along the value range of 0.0 to 65535.0 including fractions and optional interpolation. That's fine. But usualy indices with more or less than 256 entries are not easy to understand, as colors get pruned or do not show up...

Second, the fact that you can have up to 65536 color entries does not make life simpler, in contrary. Some of the algorithms, like e.g. repetition patterns (which already were on HN, http://www.krajzewicz.de/blog/stretching-the-c64-palette.php), easily generate vast palettes. How to limit the user, here? One implemented solution is that you have to set a maximum palette size using an extra option in the settings... Are there better ways?

And, third, what is the best way to promote it - besides posting it here?

Sincerely,
Daniel
Jelly Game in JS
http://arv.github.io/jelly/#0
Unfortunately, it does not work on Google Chrome for me. Fantastic game, nonetheless!
Super Bowl Advertisement Spreadsheet Log
http://www.kantarmediana.com/resources/superbowl2010.htm
Super Bowl XLIV 2010 Creative Log and Pod Positions
Includes brand, type, advertisement, video, airtime and position.
Show HN: Flappy Leap Bird – Play Flappy Bird with the Leap Motion
https://github.com/rukmal/FlappyLeapBird
Play the popular game 'Flappy Bird' with your Leap Motion!

Flap your arm to fly!
Not looking good
http://bigskinnycow.com/amazing-2/not-looking-good
Situations that aren’t going to end well.
Practice Dat Exam
http://www.datpat.com/
Each of these options differ with regard to cost, durability, “chair time” necessary to complete the procedure, stain resistant qualities, and best cosmetic approach to resolving a specific problem.