jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ubiquitous Connectivity - Distribution Trumps Aggregation
http://cornelius-rabsch.de/blog/2007/12/04/ubiquitous-connectivity-distribution-trumps-aggregation/
If you develop your product or service you have to think about widgets, APIs, web services, feeds, third-party integration, collaboration, coopetition and every opportunity to distribute your services. To reach customers you have to face them where they are and nowadays more and more time is spend on social networks like Facebook or MySpace.
Review my startup, http://www.arkli.com/
Arkli helps companies schedule integrated marketing campaigns. Using Arkli users can schedule videos to YouTube, blog posts, Facebook updates and Tweets. Each campaign can have an unlimited number of videos, blog posts, Facebook updates and Tweets.

When the time comes, Arkli publishes the posts in the right order and to the right channel. (So if you have a blog post that embeds a YouTube video, followed by a Tweet, we know to publish the video first, then put the embed code into the blog post, then shorten the URL, add it to your Tweet and publish it).

Arkli aggregates comments from all the channels - YouTube, blogs, Facebook and Twitter replies, and allows you to reply to any of them right from Arkli.

It also calculates statistics for the campaign - measuring your reach, number clicks, number of comments and other relevant stats for the campaign.

We're working on integration with email from MailChimp and Campaign Monitor so that we can integrate email campaigns into the product.

I'd love your feedback on it.

Thanks,

Mike
Figure Out People's Private Friends Lists On Facebook
http://www.businessinsider.com/find-private-friends-lists-on-facebook-2014-6
Even if a Facebook user sets their friends list to private, other users may still be able to see part of that list.
Make an April Fool's card for someone with my latest app
http://allpurposecard.com/
Have fun!
"bitbucket" Command Line interface to bitbucket.org
https://github.com/yspanchal/bitbucket
"bitbucket" Command Line interface to bitbucket.org

command line tool written in python-cliff
Ask HN: Starting up on AWS?
I'm getting close to launching my first startup, and I've been planning on using AWS to host. But after this week's issues, I think I'm obligated to ask whether or not that's a good decision.

The AWS outage spawned a number of related blog entries, and several of them discuss overall issues with AWS.

My plan was to launch on a micro instance that hosts both web and database sitting behind an elastic load balancer (ELB), with a spare medium web-only instance ready to fire up to offload requests from the micro instance.

At this point in time, I understand that if an AZ or region (or any single critical construct) goes down, so will my site. For launch and the first couple of months, I'm fine with that, given the relative rarity of these problems.

My bigger concern centers around my app and how it fits into AWS.

My app is written using the Django Web framework and is backed by Postgres. The instance that hosts the DB is using EBS.
I'm comfortable with backing up the database using traditional dumps and EBS snapshots, and I can provision a new server and have it ready to go in short order.

What worries me is that AWS instances don't seem to perform like other servers, particularly when it comes to EBS.

Several of the posts I've read discuss strategies for dealing with the AWS shortcomings (limitations?), but most of them seem to require re-architecting a custom app, not using a framework like Django.

My site is not going to be super-highly trafficked, so I don't want to do more than I need to for launch (e.g. DB farm + web farm + cache farm). I'm just trying to figure out what I need in order to get off of the ground.

Does anyone have any good advice for deploying a "standard" framework-powered app?
If so, I'd greatly appreciate it.

P.S. If you'd be willing to help beta test the site in two to three weeks, I'd love to have some HN user feedback. If you're interested, please e-mail me at bretwalker -> gmail.

Thanks!
Warning to film/photo(ers): Barrow Lenses
http://charliecurran.com/word/?p=249
I've had an incredibly infuriating experience with Borrow Lenses, the largest mail-based camera lens rental company in the U.S. and I hope none of you have to go through what I have in creating your projects.
What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
http://cacm.acm.org/news/92931
Contributors to volunteer computing projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the project's scientific objective, researchers say.
New version of Gmail being tested? (Does Paul Buchheit's recent comment help confirm it?)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=744
Does Paul Buchheit's recent comment help confirm it?

"...Gmail is a big system with many components -- there is no reason that Google would ever need to do a "complete" rewrite. That said, the individual components are frequently rewritten, and it already supports at least 4 completely different interfaces (AJAX, plain HTML, XHTML mobile, Java MIDP mobile, POP3, and probably others that I'm forgetting or can't mention). Adding a new UI for Joel's magical library wouldn't be a big deal."

Edit: Made title more interesting (but a little long).
A Simple jQuery Plugin for Parsing Google Maps Address Objects
http://blog.nerdburn.com/entries/code/how-to-parse-google-maps-returned-address-data-a-simple-jquery-plugin
A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to extract meaningful address data from the Google Maps API.
Security Journals - Strong Cryptography in the Linux Kernel
http://thebigsecurity.com/2010/12/25/security-journals-strong-cryptography-in-the-linux-kernel/
thebigsecurity.com
"Programmer Left Hungry"
http://thiscomiclife.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/programmer_left_hungry/
Another edition of This Comic Life
[UJOBS.IT] uJOBS.IT – MICRO JOBS IN ITALIA
http://www.ujobs.it
The missing Web application dedicated to Microjobs in Italy.

With Ujobs.it people can post ads related to small paid jobs they they are willing to perform.

"Guadagna soldi extra grazie ai Microjobs!
Oppure cerca un aiuto in casa, per la tua macchina, per ripetizioni scolastiche, ..."
Ask HN: Are Internet speed tests accurate?
Are internet speed tests, like those provided by Ookla or Speakeasy, accurate? How similar/dissimilar are the methodologies used by different speed tests? Are there more realistic ways to measure your internet speed for the average HN reader?
Innovation in photography : Sony's lens camera that attaches to the smartphone
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/03/sonys-qx10-and-qx100-lens-cameras-fully-leaked-in-purported-press-images/
From the photos, it looks like it has a lens-mount too.

Youtube video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKGEEPIAPys
Survey: The physical security of human rights defenders
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0FiM/viewform
Security First is a mobile application that provides the user with the information on what to do in any given security situation and the tools to do it. The user-friendly guide is specific to the risks faced by human rights defenders, activists and journalists and will be adapted to a number of different cultural contexts.
Ask HN: True homepage or simplified landing page?
Inspired by many of the weekend app projects that have been posted on HN, I recently built a prototype for a very simple app targeted at small businesses (I'll post a link to it on HN when it's ready). As I put together the primary sales site, I'm considering one of two paths...

The first option is using one of the many SaaS Wordpress templates out there for a fairly "robust" site with pages about the company, product tour pages, faqs, blog, etc. Prospective customers would view a traditional looking "Plans & Pricing" page and select an option that works for them (with a free trial), fill out their billing info and be in the app fairly quickly after that.

The second option is to just have a simple one-page landing page for the main domain and sales site that just tries to convert people to sign-up for free right away, with a reference to the pricing on the landing page so they have an idea of what it costs before signing up. I'd then try to upsell them later on for a premium plan (using auto-responders, in-app reminders, newsletters, etc.), once they're already using the app under a free plan.

Reading this over again, I guess my question is in two parts... First, should I use a "traditional" homepage for my primary sales site (and root domain), or use a very simple landing page designed with the only goal of converting to a free plan? Second, should my overall goal be to get them signed up for the app as quickly as possible using a permanently free (yet somewhat restricted) plan and then upsell, or have paying plans only with a free trial on each?

I've searched all over for advice on this, but can't seem to find anything decent. I finally decided to turn to HN because I have a feeling you all would have the best perspective on this. What would you recommend? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

(P.S. - I've been "lurking" on HN for over a year and a half now, but didn't post anything at all until today. This is by far my favorite and most frequented community on the web. Checking the latest news on HN is literally the first thing I do in the morning :-) I'm looking forward to actually getting to know you all a bit better!)
Yutongo
http://www.yutongo.com
yutongo is idea crowdsourcing as a service at low monthly fees.
With yutongo, businesses crowdsource ideas with their staff or the yutongo community. Each business gets its own subpage/subdomain and has full control of who is participating and of the privacy settings of their projects. Innovators and creative folks from all over the world join idea projects and use a unique creative process based on cross-inspiration and multiple view angle thinking and earn money each time they participate.
MySpace to Discuss Effort to Customize Ads
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18myspace.html?ex=1347768000&en=28ff3d4aada174ff&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
AD revenue is the cow that gives milk forever (if you innovate continuously) ...
MoleCool: The coolest molecule 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ascaridol2.png
I am no fan of chemistry but I accidentally came across wikipedia article about Ascaridole and WOW!!

Also, wikipedia continues to annoy me.. this time with a thank you note :D
Ask HN: Any good resources / literature on the full web stack?
As a web-developer it's rather easy to find good resources on programming, program-architecture, best practices and so on.

But I found it much more difficult to get good (detailed) information on the context of those technologies: How the internet infrastructure works, the internal workings of a browser, Network Protocols and their environments, etc.

Are there good resources to recommend that go into more detail on these subjects?

Thanks! Simon
UUIs: An interface for the Web?
http://joecritchley.com/articles/uuis/
Here's a proposal for enhancing the Web using the device's native components. A proposal for a W3C spec for such a thing!
Is Your Healthcare Data Vulnerable to Hacks?
http://mashable.com/2012/12/27/healthcare-data-vulnerable-to-hacks/
Is healthcare information the next major target for hackers? A year-long investigation by the Washington Post asserts that online healthcare data is susceptible to hacks, especially considering the increasing number of ways patients and doctors can access health information these days.
Ask HN: Best tools/languages to build a website
What is/are the best tool(s) or language(s) to build a website - a "social networking" website and a "commercial business website". I am a system programmer(c/c++) and have never designed/build a website. Bit confused on what to use - with so many things already out there in market and new technologies coming up. Help !!! Prefer opensource tools.

What do you use to build a website ?
- like social networking - which has lots of graphics and animation.
- a commercial website - a business website representing a company.

What "opensource" tools do you use ?

Thanks and Cheers.
New Gravatar Caching Plugin
http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/gravatar-caching-plugin/
Speed up your site when using Gravatar, with this caching plugin.
iPhone Gets Closer to Being a Business Device with Lotus Notes Support
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/apple_ibm_to_bring_lotus_notes_to_the_iphone
IBM will announce next week a mobile version of its Lotus Notes email software for the iPhone, bringing Apple's smartphone one step closer to becoming a legit business device.
Ask HN: Dealing with offers to work for your startup *part-time
I run an online education platform and have received offers from a number of people to help promote our business and work on the platform in various capacities. These tend to be for working part-time and often offering to work for free.

As a bootstrapped startup, what approaches have you taken or seen to deciding who to work with, how to manage them and how to structure compensation/lack thereof? Thanks!
Mjt: an In-browser Web Framework (open src from metaweb)
http://mjtemplate.org/
Mjt is a Javascript application framework that runs entirely in a web browser, based on a HTML templating engine. It was built for the Freebase service, but it can be used for many other web services. It is distributed as open source.

If you can get your data from a JSON-aware web service, creating a Mjt application is the quickest way to get that data displayed in a browser with complete control of the HTML formatting. You can run the application from your local filesystem or share it on any web server as static files. No server-side support is necessary - all the work takes place in the browser using Javascript.

Mjt is particularly useful with "JSONP" services that return JSON values and accept a callback= parameter, such as the Freebase service and the Yahoo JSON API. With these services you can use mjt to build "mash-ups" that incorporate data from services on multiple hosts.
Distill Conference 2014: The Internet of Us
https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/distill-2014
"Distill 2014 introduces the Internet of Us, the next development in the Internet of Things, furthering the integration of people with our connected environment. Each day, technologies arrive that allow us to interact with the world in exciting new ways. We want to celebrate the makers and inspire new creators by bringing together the people who are developing the future of technology."
Funny ..Funky NoSQL vs SQL
http://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/2010/09/funky-nosql-vs-sql.html
Enjoy Hacker News, thought i could contribute a little humor, i not good for much else.
Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute
http://pyfound.blogspot.de/2013/03/python-software-foundation-reaches.html
The Python Software Foundation has reached a settlement in its recent trademark dispute with PO Box Hosting Limited trading as Veber in Europe. The issue centered around Veber's use of the Python name for their cloud hosting services and their application for a figurative trademark incorporating the word "Python". While the Foundation retains the trademark for Python within the United States, it did not have a filing within the European Union. According to the terms of the settlement, Veber has withdrawn its trademark filing and has agreed to support the Python Software Foundation's use of the term.
Show HN: RegExd | A JavaScript Regular Expression Builder, Tester, Formatter
http://randhx.github.com/regexd/
Hey guys, I just finished putting together a(nother) web based regular expression tool for JavaScript.

When working with regular expressions I've always found them tough to read when single line formatted. Debugging is also time consuming trying to look for syntax errors.

RegExd auto-formats single line regular expressions into multiple lines with indentation to make it easier to drill down into each part. If an expression doesn't compile, it searches for the longest valid sub-expression and highlights the error.

There's also a few other features, but I'll leave those to be discovered.

Feedback is appreciated!
Mining arabic wikipedia metadata, phase1
http://jerais.com/public/infographics/wikipedia_ar_chart_blocked_users_Mar2013v2En.png
i'm doing data mining for arabic wikipedia to see what's there in the metadata and i came up with the blocked users who's trying to damage the arabic content by adding inaccurate information without any source or trying to flame persons. This is phase1 for now and i'm working to get different results for other areas like modification behavior based on what's going on in the real word.
data source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Wikipedia blocking policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy
MySQL to get injection of Google code
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1190607457;fp;2;fpid;1
MySQL laid out its software road map through 2009, including code contributed by Google and security improvements due in MySQL 7.0.
Show HN: Twitch Chat Generates A.I. Art
https://www.twitch.tv/verytupp
Hey everyone !
I love making community based projects, so I used stable diffusion to enable twitch chat to generate images!
Guest chat was also added because it's fun to see what other streamer's chats can make.

Usually the guest chat comes up with better prompts...

Drop by and add "Prompt Engineer" to your resume.
Face it, those code quality issues aren't going to solve themselves
http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/we-know-you-arent-fixing-code-quality-issues-but-you-should/
Check out code quality report from RebelLabs
Justin.tv on a larger scale in the UK: helmet-cams to be deployed for police.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/uk_rolls_out_po.html?
There are some interesting notes about when and how the cameras can be turned on.

As a general note, having done work in automated surveillance, most people are too upset of the level of UK surveillance. The current system is not automated, meaning that humans need to watch the 4 million feeds. But expert humans miss 95% of events after 20 minutes from a single feed. Imagine how that decays for many cameras per operator.

I would love all public officials to wear these cameras. They would need to be on all the time, outside private spaces or security clearance requirements.
Show HN: Lazily load dumb ads in responsive layouts – lazy-ads
https://github.com/madgex/lazy-ads
I'm dealing with over 30 ad providers & barely any support responsive layouts so I end up with ads loading but not visible on small screens. A performance overhead I do't want, this is an attempt to patch this problem - would love to hear your feedback!
An attempted analysis of 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos by CMU's Paul Shen
http://stuff.paulshen.name/2girls1cup/
Safe for work, this is one very interesting use case for openFrameworks (http://openframeworks.cc/)
BoycottOpera.JS
https://github.com/darrenderidder/BoycottOpera.JS
BoycottOpera.JS - encourage your visitors to switch to Firefox!
Homeland Security ICE Seizing Sites for no Reason?
http://musically.com/blog/2010/12/02/hip-hop-site-onsmash-taken-down-by-the-us-government/
Interesting article about how the US government is stepping in as an attempt to prevent copyright infringement on the net, but are innocent sites being caught in the cross-fire?
SIP Client for WEBRTC
https://github.com/Quobis/QoffeeSIP
Today @Quobis realeases a Webrtc lib with support with SIP Proxy like kamailio, opensips and asterisk.

Furthermore have a good demo online http://talksetup.quobis.com/

Cheers
A Helping Hand for Startups
http://www.economist.com/node/21531482
Not all that ground-breaking, but an interesting article nonetheless.

What do you all think is the most important thing that needs to be changed in America to revive our startup scene? I am of the opinion that foreigners should be able to get visas easier if they are part of a startup.
GraphViz101: Why Use Exploratory Network Analysis?
http://linkurio.us/graphviz101-why-exploratory-network-analysis/
First lesson in a series of posts on the basics of graph visualization.
Create Word Documents from XML Template with Original Formatting in Cloud
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-words/archive/2012/10/02/convert-xml-templates-to-doc-or-docx-using-saaspose-words-rest-api.html
Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the new release of Saaspose.Words. This release allows converting XML templates to doc or docx using Saaspose.Words REST API. Your application’s requirements can vary according to different scenarios in today’s web applications era. You may require to create a Word document that user can download and use its data accordingly. Saaspose.Words offers a feature to create documents from XML in the cloud.
How to encourage younger brother to teach himself CS.
I have a younger brother who is just starting out in high school. He's just started to think about long-term career/college interests and he's interested in computer science. I know that in my freshman year "Intro to Programming" course in college a few years ago, most of the real CS majors already knew how to program. I also know from perusing this site that you can get started early and be very successful.

My questions is: How do I encourage him to teach himself programming now, and hopefully by extension give him the tools to succeed in life (and probably do better than me)? I gave him my old Java textbook which is introductory and starts out with parts of the computer and all that jazz. I know there are a lot of web resources, but I think a few great books would do the trick. (Christmas is coming up.)
ZombieHarmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites for Zombies
http://mingle2.com/zombieharmony/free-dating-sites
Mmm Niche Dating
LiquidSpace Aims To Test Their ‘AirBnb For Workspaces’ At SXSW
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/liquidspace/
This makes a lot of sense... I'd love to co-locate with other startups when I'm in a different city. Certainly won't be as popular as Air Bnb, but really cool idea and I hope that it takes off.
Show HN: Branded QR Code Generator
http://qr.thinglet.com
Release Post - http://thinglet.com/releases/branded-qr-code-generator

It's in extreme alpha form, showing off and taking feedback on utilitarian usage right now. Hope you guys enjoy and find some use out of it. Design coming soon, I promise!
Unspoken Reasons Why IT Projects Fail
http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/why-tech-projects-fail-5-unspoken-reason/240152282
Not your usual list.
Show HN: Feedreader Online - Google Reader alternative (Fresh, Neat and Fast)
http://feedreader.com/online
Feedreader Online is a platform for you to read and organize news and updates from all your favourite websites in one place. Just like good old Google Reader which is about to close on July 1, 2013.
What do you think needs to be redesigned?
http://cha1n.com/?
Hey all :) So there have been some changes to Chain. I've tried to emphasize more of the social aspect of the site, but we're still wondering if there's anything that could be emphasized a little better. I've tried to keep the process of actually managing what you're accomplishing as simple as possible.

What would you like to see? What would make the site useful or entertaining for you? I'm at your command.
Microsoft's desperate claim: A tablet is just a PC
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/tablet-not-pc-or-why-microsofts-windows-8-str
Microsoft's mobile chief Andy Lees turned a few heads this week by declaring that a tablet is just another PC, and that Windows 8 tablets will do everything Windows 8 desktops can do. Given that this strategy has been a total failure with Windows 7, pundits are puzzled by Microsoft's insistence on treating PCs and mobile devices as if they are identical twins. Windows 7 tablets displayed at the Microsoft partner conference this week were clunky, difficult to use and take just as long to start up as Windows laptops. Windows 8 tablets may have better multi-tasking than iPads, but if they crash and force a restart as often as Windows desktops do, sign me up for an iPad 3.