jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Birthday gift from a friend to me - Geeky but fun :) Thank you Martin
http://gratulereroyste.in/
It's in norwegian so I have translated it here :

Happy birthday, dear friend!

Let there be a final celebration of 20-years tonight, and let's celebrate the start of another 20 that will be even better. Let's hope iOS7 be as good as the evening.

Congrats!

Use your phone and shake it.
I need a world cup scores web service/rss feed to manage my work's sweepstake
I'm running a sweepstake at work where each employee predicts the scores of every match in the 2010 Football/Soccer World Cup. I would like to pull in the world cup full time scores as soon as they are announced, in order to update each employee's score.

After a bit of googling I can't seem to find any services for this on the web, so what's the easiest way for me to achieve this? Should I screen scrape the BBC website?

Cheers,
FrankenRobot - Android injection library based on resources qualifier mechanism.
https://github.com/menny/FrankenRobot
A simple injection library for Android: uses Android resources qualification mechanism to map interfaces to concrete implementations.
FrankenRobot takes two string-array resources; one of canonical interface names, and the second of canonical concrete implementations.
You can specify a different implementation for every imaginable resource qualifier (be it API level, screen-size, locale, etc.), and FrankenRobot will instantize the most appropriate implementation using Android's resource qualifier mechanism.
Société de référencement 
http://foxhost.ca/referencement-seo.php
Foxhost Canada vous offrent ses forfaits pour l'optimisation de votre site web dans les moteurs de recherches et s'assure de placer votre site internet dans les meilleurs résultats de recherche pour les principaux moteur de recherche. Sélectionnez le forfaitidéal pour vos besoins en référencement. Qualité et meilleur prix garantie.
Europe's Young Entrepreneurs 2007
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070601_758636.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_special+report+--+top+young+entrepreneurs+2007
An increasing number of Europeans 25 and under are starting their own businesses--and inspiring others to do the same
Computer help
http://www.iyogi.net
iYogi provide Find Online computer Support and online technical support. We provide all kind of online computer support like 24/7 Support, Computer Support, Computer Help, Computer Repair, PC Help, PC Support, PC repair Services, Online Technical Support, Computer Tech Support, remote support, server support.
Dating for the sports fans
http://dating-baseball-basketball-football-golf-hockey-soccer-tennis.com/
Let's face the truth, in our fast world its so hard to find a person who admires the same things as you, who is a sports fan of the same team or kind of sport, who feels the same way as you do.
The innovative "invisible" bike helmet
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/11/10/two-swedes-develop-invisible-bike-helmet/
additional link: http://www.hovding.com/en/
I wrote a bash script to install all the major Firefox versions (2-8) on OS X
https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox
I needed this to setup multiple versions for browser testing, hopefully it'll be of some use to other people too.

This bash script installs the different versions of Firefox, creates profiles for each, modifies the .app to launch with their own profile and applies custom icons for each version.

I've got some further features planned such as being able to specify additional versions not included in the script as a parameter.
ActiveResource is Incomplete
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/3/25/activeresource-incomplete
Validations are not working on the current ActiveResource. But the workaround is easy, check it out.
Show HN: Meşk Tune – Tuner App
https://www.mesktune.com
Hi all,
We have just released Meşk Tune, it is available at stores.

(Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meskteknol...
(iOS) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/me%C5%9Fk-tune/id1575937381

It is completely free with all features unlocked. (IAP is only for donation purposes).

If you want to have a look at UI, checkout these short clips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6td88DiQcGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WU4o7bvaYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3eTUIDLEI
Show HN: Pushnotify – Web Push Notifications for Shopify Store
https://pushnotifyapp.com
Pushnotify can help you convert anonymous website visitors into potential customers with just 1-click without having to fill out any forms. You can re-target your subscribers with offers/discounts and recover abandoned carts using web push notifications.
Cyber Security and the Private Sector
http://twobitgenius.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/cybersecurity-and-the-private-sector/
It is incredible how quickly certain legislation goes from a soundbite from a corporate executive to becoming an actual piece of legislation.

Bill Conners of Entrust on 2/9/12:

“The second thing I would start on is the inability of businesses to talk to governments or to themselves because of anti-trust or the patchwork legislation in the states. I am tired of it being a one-way communications stream to intelligence and nothing in return. And I understand that they legally can’t do it, but as a company that’s tasked with protecting our government and governments and enterprises and citizens, it’s pretty folly to me, I can only give you information and you cannot give me anything back.”
NYT releases code to help journalists collaborate on WordPress, other platforms
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/160460/new-york-times-releases-code-to-help-journalists-collaborate-on-wordpress-other-platforms/
NYT built a "track changes" tool for text editors like TinyMCE and open-sourced the code.
iPhone 5 Rumors
http://www.imakerz.com/blog/iphone-rumors-%e2%80%93-iphone-5-bad
Apple iPhone has surely changed the world to a large extent, as this is the device that has brought all the versatility that one needs in order to work and enjoy. We have all heard a whole lot about iPhone 5 rumors that has been prevailing in techno market for years, especially when it comes to iPhone.
Write in Markdown for Gmail, Evernote, Wordpress, etc.
http://markdown-here.com/
I came across Markdown Here today. This link seems to be posted every 6 months - just following the pattern to enlighten more everyday.
"Virtual" Synthetic Biology + DNA from "Outerspace" + Ruby = Nyan Cat S2
https://github.com/luisbebop/nyancat
What is the difference between DNA and programming languages?

What is the difference between DNA and poetry?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

A little tribute to "Why".
Ask HN: Object Detection Course?
Hi everyone

I've done a lot of work on object detection for my startup www.numberboost.com and I'm thinking of putting together an object detection course.

I'm thinking of teaching how to build:
1. A vehicle license plate recognition system
2. A system that counts people going in and out of a bus at a stop

Are there any other interesting applications of object detection that you'd be interested in seeing or perhaps an object detection problem that you'd like solved?

I'd also appreciate any other constructive feedback on what should be in the course or on the idea of doing a course at all :)

I did a fair bit of research and couldn't find any up-to-date courses that bring all this information together and it took months of pain on real client projects to figure it all out so I hope to help others out with it too. I'm thinking to charge for it but give it away to anyone interested who can't afford it...
What is the “right” level of funding for theoretical computer science research?
http://jonkatz.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-right-amount-of-funding-for-theory/
"More broadly, how would one go about determining how much money “should” be allocated to any of the different sub-areas of CS?" -- from Random Bits by Katz
The Eight Stages of Programming a New Feature
http://www.my25percent.com/2009/09/eight-stages-of-programming-new-feature.html
We all heard about the five stages of grief as defined by the Kübler-Ross model. Now, My 25 Percent presents the new, revised model describing the eight stages that a software developer goes through when asked to develop a new feature.
Cybercrime not included
http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/cybercrime-included/
Cyber crime statistics were noticeably absent in recent UK crime surveys. Raj Tumber from Auriga looks at the reasons why.
Show HN: My first SaaS app - Selfstream.io
https://www.selfstream.io
Hi Hacker News,

I have just launched my first SaaS application - Selfstream - http://www.selfstream.io . It is targeted at event organisers with small budgets, who want to extend the reach of their events, and easily stream them live on the internet.

I have been producing managed live webcasts for a long time, so I decided to automate the process. I also wanted to build a SaaS product from scratch, as well as register a company, process online payments and all related administrative bits. Basically have a framework for any future idea.

Now that the app is online, what would you recommend for acquiring early adopters and therefore validate my idea?

For my next project, I will definitely validate my idea first, rather than dive into development!

I would really appreciate any advice and feedback!

Thank you!
Great tools for bug tracking, and then some
Hey guys, this definitely feels like a "just google it" question, but I didn't come across good discussion on this yet.

what do you use for issue tracking and metrics?

I've used clearcase extensively, and its WAY too detailed and complicated to use. its nice to have the features, but when you have to jump through a dozen dialogs and checkboxes just to send a bug to testing or change the status to 'in progress', its way too much work. ontime seems to be the same. you know what I mean. a tool that isn't easy to use isnt going to get used no matter how many features it has.

basecamp is pretty great, but its too highlevel. I cant see developers using it to worry about branches of code and releases and bugs.

so basically, I need a tool that is somewhere in between basecamp, msproject/clearcase/ontime, is properly usable for devs.

I know its out there.
Ask HN: Oslo startup environment
I'm a developer that will be moving to Oslo, Norway for studies. How strong is the startup scene there? Are there good online norwegian resources for finding contract work in the area?
Eradicate iTunes Errors in Windows OS
http://www.reginout.com/nflp/eradicate-itunes-errors-in-windows-os.html
iTunes Store requires an active Internet connection in order to retrieve/send information. Failure to obtain information from the Internet shows an error message.
Awesome way to learn javascript
https://gist.github.com/324b3d185354474c24c4#javascript
I just found this on r/javascript. I thought it would be cool to share it here. I'm not involved in this project at all I just thought that you guys would appreciate a new look at tutorials.
Comparing Mobile Browsers For Symbian(S60) Phones
http://www.altvirtual.com/gadgets/mobile-browsers-symbian-s60.html
Compare Opera Mini vs. JB5 vs S60 vs Skyfire browsers
Jeopardy update: IBM educates market, Watson performance
http://jochenleidner.posterous.com/ibm-educates-consumers-and-business-people-ab
IBM is playing Jeopardy, or rather it is letting a cluster of 3000 machines play. Here's an analysis what IBM gets out of it, on the business side and on the technical side.
Integrate iTunes, MobileMe and Ping with iLife
http://mmeetsj.squarespace.com/memoirs/2010/9/2/integrate-itunes-mobileme-and-ping-with-ilife.html
I've read several patents that could point toward something like this happening. What might stand in the way? Would this fit with Apple as you understand them?
Startup: Development on Handhelds
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cpg/2887057672.html
http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html

So everyone's seen AIDE: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aide.ui

I'd like to found a startup centered on this idea, but in a much more enterprise-oriented fashion. My solution will work nicely, but not ideally on an iPhone or equivalent Android device.
Firefox Hits 400M Downloads...But I'm Still Forced to Use IE at Work
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/firefox_hits_400m_downloads_but_im_still_forced_to_use_ie_at_work
On Friday, Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser hit the 400M download mark. And though Firefox may be gaining ground on Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser, corporate Web surfers are often being forced to use IE because many corporate Web-based systems are designed to function best with--or only with--IE.
Samsung's first tablet computer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11163687
Samsung has become the latest challenger to into the tablet computer battle, unveiling its Galaxy Tab at the IFA conference in Berlin.
Search 'Hacker News'
http://trk7.com/yc/
Like most people here I thought that it would be nice to be able to search news.yc and after a few hours of coding, I have a working solution. It is not perfect, it is built on Yahoo's search api and should get better as it serves more results.Since I have already coded a Social search site, I reused most of the code and hence the page retains the social aspect of my Social Search Site. Firefox and IE7 users can also download a search plugin, which will enable them to search from the search bar in their Browsers (no toobar!). If someone is interested in tagging news.yc/building a human edited directory for news.yc, get in touch with me; I have already started doing it.
Jiffysoft hires Atlassian's`entire marketing department
http://www.jiffysoftware.com/v6/
And the original here:

http://www.atlassian.com/how-it-works
VW to unveil single-seat electric car
http://m.ft.com/cms/s/0/07090e56-cc00-11e0-9176-00144feabdc0.html
Vollkswagen is poised to unveil a single-seat, ultra-frugal, zero-emission electric car. The German carmaker also plans to offer a "full-service package" for customers of its electric cars by selling them power from renewable sources,
The Ultimate Setup Guide: Ubuntu 13.04 in Virtualbox 4.2 on Mac OS X
http://www.lecloud.net/post/52224625343/the-ultimate-setup-guide-ubuntu-13-04-in-virtualbox
That one is really working completely. Such a timesaver!
Bing grabs market share from Google over past year
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20072914-75/bing-grabs-market-share-from-google-over-past-year/
I'd normally never submit something like this. It's mainstream (CNET). But I was a little stunned that Google has lost <i>10 points</i> in the last year.
Tomorrow’s 10th Annual “Safer Internet Day” Now Involves Over 100 Countries
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/04/tomorrows-10th-annual-safer-internet-day-now-involves-over-100-countries-and-google-is-ready/
Tomorrow is the 10th annual “Safer Internet Day” celebration in more than 100 countries on six continents.
HTML5 DnD & Flie API Tutorial
http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/html5-drag-and-drop-and-file-api-tutorial/
A quick intro to HTML5 DnD + File APIs. Drag and drop files off your desktop, drop them into your browser and get a nice preview of the image.
Security Technique Protects Multi-Party Computation
http://cacm.acm.org/news/68288
Researchers are exploring secure multi-party computation, an emerging approach to protecting online transactions such as private bidding, decryption functions, and information retrieval.
Facebook bug prevents you deleting comments on a post (Arabic - English video)
https://www.facebook.com/SymbianSyMoh/posts/858684967479925?stream_ref=1
This is not by me, I just found this post on Facebook.
Cyberlaundering: Anonymous Digital Cash and Money Laundering
http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/seminar/papers/bortner.htm
Doug Drug Dealer is the CEO of an ongoing narcotics corporation. Doug has rooms filled with hard currency which is the profits from his illegal enterprise. This currency needs to enter into the legitimate, mainstream economy so that Doug can either purchase needed supplies and employees, purchase real or personal property or even draw interest on these ill-gotten gains.
Show HN: Stalkmyself.com, parse Gmail exports in the browser thanks to Pyodide
https://stalkmyself.com/
Built using Pyodide [1] (web-assembly-compiled Python), stalkmyself.com lets you convert your GMail inbox into a CSV file summary without relying on any backend service -- everything runs directly in your browser (once you've download an export of your GMail data via Google Takeout [2]). The site also generates some plots of you data automatically, and if you have Amazon.com receipts in your inbox, stalkmyself.com will parse those, too, giving you a separate CSV and a cumulative spending chart. Among friends, this chart has been the crowd favorite to sweat over.

Backstory:

Stalkmyself.com started originally as a joke with friends about the most terrible startup concept I could come up with. The initial idea was using computer vision to stereotype public Instagram posts, and the first version of stalkmyself.com scraped your Instagram data for you via instagrapi [3] (sans computer vision, all stereotyping was the responsibility of the user). Though I got it working, I didn't feel comfortable releasing a tool that might Instagram accounts banned for bot-like behavior, so I repurposed the site to run on data you can export yourself with first party tools (GMail data exported with Google Takeout).

Thoughts on Pyodide:

Because this is HN, I figure folks might appreciate thoughts on Pyodide from someone who used it to build a site. Overall, I had a lot of fun with Pyodide. As a data scientist by trade, Python is my bread-and-butter programming language, and being able to run it in the browser feels magical. Even complicated dependencies like numpy and matplotlib run smoothly, allowing for plotting and other complex operations. It's certainly a huge sacrifice of page load time to run the Python interpreter in your website, and developing Python to run in the browser was more of a tightly-coupled experience than I had anticipated (I learned a lot more JavaScript than I wanted to with this project), but for another standalone app I would definitely use it again and recommend it to others!

[1] https://pyodide.org

[2] https://takeout.google.com

[3] https://adw0rd.github.io/instagrapi/
The JavaScript behind voting on HN
https://gist.github.com/Gowiem/5914647
I randomly viewed the JavaScript source of HN, and this is what I found. It's pretty elegant IMO and I like how they ping the server.
Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner
https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/
Bike’s most original feature is the “fluid” text editing. Lots of text editors have animated some interactions (cursor movement, insert newline, etc), but I think Bike is the first designed from the ground up to support fluid editing.

Give it a try, it feels different. (movie on home page if you don't have Mac)

Other Features:

• In text mode Bike works like a normal text editor. In outline mode rows are constrained to outline hierarchy.

• .bike file format is HTML subset, so files are easy to parse and manipulate. Bike also supports .opml and .txt.

• Scriptable via AppleScript. Javascript plugin API also expected in future, though no timing on that.

• Architecture needed to support fluid editing also makes Bike faster/more scalable than most (all?) outliners and many text editors. I test performance using the Moby Dick Workout[^1].

Implementation Notes:

• View is built using CALayers[^2].

• Animations are performed by Core animation and Motion[^3] lib.

• View performance is determined by visible text, not document size.

Model representation is interesting in that it’s just a flat list of rows. Each row has a `level` property, outline structure is determined dynamically. View implementation requires that each row has a unique ID.

I’m using OrderedDictionary from Swift Collections[^4] to store rows. This is Bike’s performance bottleneck for large outlines. Eventually I may change to augmented b+tree and then should be able to work with gigabytes worth of outline. That will be fun, but not sure it’s actually needed. Already probably fast enough for 99% of use cases as is.

Hope you find Bike interesting. I’m happy to answer any questions.

[^1]: https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/

[^2]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer

[^3]: https://github.com/b3ll/Motion

[^4]: https://github.com/apple/swift-collections
Ask HN: Usability, Complete post titles as title-tag on cropped link texts
There are lots of links like this one on HN:

<a href="...">Facebook is using a trick to make people use faceb...</a>

Changing it to include the complete, uncropped post title would be a nice addition:

<a href="..." title="Facebook is using a trick to make people use facebook">Facebook is using a trick to make people use faceb...</a>

Then you could see the complete post name on hovering the link.

Anybody with me?
Cryptic Note found at University of Western Ontario. $100 reward from Professor
http://www.lfpress.com/2014/03/11/western-university-economist-searching-for-meaning-of-cryptic-note-he-found-at-weldon-library
A series of cryptic notes have been discovered in the Western University library. There are too many for it to be an accident, and they're too similar and detailed for it not to be a coordinated effort by someone/some group.
What do you install after a Windows re-format?
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/08/27/what-do-you-install-after-a-windows-re-format/
I have become a minimalist in many ways, so this was a good chance to do some housekeeping and only install the minimums (which ended up being pretty significant). I detailed this process and I am sharing it with you here. It would be interesting to find out what applications you consider essential when doing a complete re-format.