jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Search, Modify & Extract Text from a Presentations Using REST API
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-slides/archive/2012/07/19/replace-text-in-a-presentation-using-saaspose-slides-rest-api.html
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Slides. This release provides the ability to add text, modify text or extract text from the presentation through the REST API. Using Saaspose.Slides, you can replace text in presentations with new text at a single instance or all instances. Saaspose.Slides is a REST API that efficiently supports the replace text feature for your presentations in the cloud.
You can find text in whole presentation or you may choose to find the text in a specific slide. Once you have found the required text in presentation in search results, you can replace the text with new text in whole presentation. You may choose to replace text in a single slide at a single instance. Saaspose.Slides assures accuracy; speed and reliability in its search operations used for text replacement requirements. Saaspose.Slides assures complete flexibility to replace multiple texts in your presentations having several pages. You can refer to our documentation for a complete overview of Saaspose.Slides features and examples.
Ask HN: Why does OS project show history only from the first functional version?
I came to notice that the first commit of open source projects already show complete versions. However, in my opinion it would be good to have a history before the first functional version. Particular to understand the code.
Some examples of repositories showing my point:
https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=1179
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commits/master?page=125
MVC Interview Questions – Deep Dive
http://jinaldesai.net/mvc-interview-questions-deep-dive/
Can you describe ASP.NET MVC Request Life Cycle? 1. Receive request, look up Route object in RouteTable collection and create RouteData object. 2. Create RequestContext instance. 3. Create MvcHandler and pass RequestContext to handler. 4. Identify IControllerFactory from RequestContext. 5. Create instance of class that implements ControllerBase. 6. Call MyController.Execute method. 7. The ControllerActionInvoker determines which action to invoke on the controller and executes the action on the controller, which results in calling the model and returning a view.
Ask HN: Typing practice app suggestions
My typing is pretty average and error prone, so I would like to work on it. I have used typing.io in the past and I love it for code. However, I would like to use something similar to work through normal text that I would like to read as well. As there anything equivalent out there that you can upload text into and still get the same quality stats?
The Etiquette of "What are you working on"
http://life-longlearner.com/post/11020527785
Meetup jockeys please read this
Developer, User Experience
http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=WILEY&cws=1&rid=3858 
Wiley is seeking a User Experience Developer to help us design and develop next-generation publishing products and services.

In this position you will help design solutions, recommend technology, implement codes and bring solutions to life. You will be assisting the User Experience team members in creating prototypes of varying fidelity to discover innovative new products as well as redesigns of existing web and mobile products and services.

Prototypes may be created in HTML, JQuery, tools like Axure, Omnigraffle, or even hand-drawn sketches that can be evaluated by qualitative and quantitative user research.

Requirements:
• Minimum of 2 years working in a digital development environment
• Proficiency in HTML and CSS
• Highly-motivated team player who cares about usability and understands what makes a great experience
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to discover and create new products
• Expertise working daily with Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks and ability to provide visual specification and production ready files to engineers
• Familiarity with quatitative and qualitative user research methodologies
• Demostrated ability to multi-task and problem solve
• Experience with Responsive design and touch interactions is a plus

Compensation & Benefits:
• Competitive Base Salary
• Wiley provides Incentive Plans to reinforce and sustain a culture devoted to excellent performance; to emphasize performance against specific objectives at the corporate, business, product line and individual levels; and to reward significant contributions that further the success of our business objectives.
• For Health and Welfare Benefits information please click on the following link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-301743.html
It’s Better to be Clear Than Clever
http://www.databoost.org/2012/09/17/its-better-to-be-clear-than-clever/
In my years of coding I have had the opportunity to work with, or after, a wide range of types of programmers. Both self taught and professionally trained, and in small and fast paced companies there wasn’t always a set of coding standards in place leaving developers to do what was best in their opinion. Being exposed to such a wide range of approaches proved to be a good way of reading into how each developer thought. It certainly had its entertaining moments. Without a doubt, the biggest lesson extracted from all of this is to leave your ego out of your code, to go the extra mile and to be clear on not just what you are doing in a piece of code, but why. Context is king in code as well!
VC Fundraising Manual: Why VCs Don't Always Cut You Loose
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2008/01/why-vcs-dont-al.html
One reader wrote:

It'd be nice if they'd just say no and cut that company loose instead of giving them false hope they might get funded if the investor can be convinced. I see a lot of wasted time by companies spent in this murky area - time they might be better off running and improving their companies.

Some VCs are genuinely bad at responding to entrepreneurs. However, even highly responsive VCs sometimes have companies that fall into the no-man's land between being given a 'yes' or a 'no'.

VCs understand...
Tim Cook is inviting you to lunch appl HQ (to help Human Rights)
https://www.charitybuzz.com/timcook
https://www.charitybuzz.com/timcook
CEO David Jackson on why Seeking Alpha is a BIG opportunity
http://www.replyall.me/zach-talks/talking-with-seeking-alpha-founder-ceo-david-jackson/
Had this conversation with David Jackson this week on ReplyAll -- a different sort of Israeli entrepreneur.
Changing your Avatar in Mailbird
http://www.getmailbird.com/tips/#2469
Some of you have asked how to change your avatar (aka Profile Pic) in Mailbird for your different email accounts....here it is: http://www.getmailbird.com/tips/#2469

The best email for Windows with productivity hacks to make your email experience more enjoyable and effective.
Effort Estimates vs. Commitments
http://remember-this-url.blogspot.com/2010/08/estimates-and-commitments.html
Some thoughts on effort estimates vs. commitments in software development
Save Web Page to Inbox
http://lilnub.com
I originally wrote Lilnub as a command line tool for bookmarking webpages. A few people liked my utility so I decided to share it on the web.

Lilnub lets you send a web page to your inbox with a screenshot. Each screenshot contains the title of the page, a link to the page (URL), a high resolution image and a text file of the page content.

Happy Nubbin!
Carl
AsyncHttpClient 1.1.0 released
http://jfarcand.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/async-http-client-1-1-0-released/
The new version of Async Http Client 1.1.0 is now available and for Java and scripting language like Jython, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala.
How popular is the Iphone in Europe 
http://www.datashelves.com/how-many-users-are-using-iphone-in-europe
These articles describe the popularity of the iPhone in Europe
BuzzZap, debating.
http://www.buzzzap.com
Many interesting debates and discussions going on, please come and enjoy the new site!
Unwind in a virtual thunderstorm
http://thunderspace.me
Thunderspace utilizes stereoscopic 3D audio &
realistic lightning flashes to create a thunderstorm around you.
Forgot your mobile? worry no more
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mymobile.forgotmymobile
Hello, I have created an app which will help you in case you forgot your mobile back home. Simply send an sms from any other phone and you will know what are the messages and calls your missed. Hope you like it
Programming aesthetics from independent gaming
http://www.myplick.com/view/7CRyJCWLM71
What do you think about his slide about the applied CS? That was one of the things I thought worth discussing. Most of everything seems to make sense in the context of programming indie games.
New PenTest Regular is out
http://pentestmag.com/pentest-regular-0912/
Learn how to analyze Android apps for vulnerabilities with Mercury Framework or Learn How to Plan Client-Side Browser Attacks With BeEF and many more outstanding exploitation frameworks tutorials.
Webapp for crowd-sourcing image surveys
http://9cells.com/
Howdy everyone,

This week I finished working on the first version of the service to run image surveys. I believe it will be useful for various categories of users (graphics designers and people selling stuff are just what comes to mind).

Admittedly, I worked on it before validating the market fit and not sure if it's even valuable to anyone enough to pay for it, but at least I had determination to finish it and ready to learn on my own mistakes.

Is it something you would be interested in using?

Have a look. All feedback is welcome.

Cheers!

- Aleks
Redis + Ruby + Your Code = Code Zauker
http://gioorgi.com/2012/code-zauker/
Code Zauker is a search engine based on Redis, and it is oriented to code-searching, like google code used to.
HTML5 Game: Forklift Driver
http://www.3d-sport.com/gamestart.php?id=177
You are a Forklift Driver. Try to load the Truck as fast as you can but also try to work exact,half loaded pallets do not count!
ALT.NET Sydney Vids: LINQ Rx Extensions, Converting Rails/ASP.NET MVC to HTTPS
http://gurustop.net/blog/2013/08/04/videos-from-alt-net-sydney-usergroup-30-july-2013-rx-framework-https-hsts/
Videos from ALT.NET usergroup in Sydney, covering LINQ Reactive Extensions Framework, and converting a website from mixed HTTP/HTTPS to HTTPS only, when using Ruby On Rails & ASP.NET MVC (covering HSTS as well)
Google new search page goes live
http://google.com/
do a search
Looking for co-conspirators
I have been working alone on my small startup for a few months now, but I think its about time now to start looking for some partners to help move the project forward. I have a working site which does a lot of what I set out to do but there are still things work on and improvements to consider, and basically there are just not enough hours in the day to do everything on my own. In addition, I think the ideas develop in much more interesting ways when a team of smart & dedicated people is looking at the problem, and basically I enjoy the energy and enthusiasm and all the other benifits that come with being part of a team.

Anyway, I wonder if anyone is aware of where I might start looking and maybe what to avoid? Any useful sites, etc? Since I am living off of
my own savings, I would need to find people who are willing to work as partners rather than as an employees, but they could obviously
be located anywhere. I hope to be able to find some seed funding soon, but this will really only become relevant when everything is ready for scaling up.
New awesome websites directory for french webmasters
http://www.ouclic.com
Useful directory for finding useful information about awesome companies
What I Would Do With Nintendo
http://swimmindustries.com/posts/2013/09/what-i-would-do-with-nintendo
1. Kill the Wii U
2. Make the Virtual Console available on iOS and other consoles
3. Double down on the 3DS / future portable
Remind HN: Take a few days off
This is a reminder to myself too. It is hard to put the computer (and phone and tablet) down and actually take a day off.

This is a great time to practice disconnecting.
Ask HN: What can we improve on Fitbay.com?
https://fitbay.com
Help us out by visiting the site www.fitbay.com and sharing your thoughts here, and please do let us know if you have any ideas or feedback.
Roundup for Startups in Dallas, TX on 21 April
http://roundupforstartups.com
We're putting on a free, community event to match startups with talent: part recruiting, part social, at the Deep Ellum Brewing Company. This is organized by the startup community, for the community. From 4-8PM we have the recruiting portion; from 6-8PM we have the social. Come join us for beer, food, entertainment and fellowship. And especially if you are looking for a great job with a growing company in North Texas! At present we have 26 confirmed hiring companies seeking to fill 120 positions in North Texas. Please RSVP.
RSVP on the website is required
Top Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography
http://codereflex.net/top-examples-of-beautiful-css-typography/
Flexible web assignments find easy practical solutions with CSS typography. With exceptional use of type, the typography essentially aims at delivering user-friendly and easily navigable web pages. CSS typography provides the benefit of creating some of the unique and unusual designs which can give a boost to an otherwise simple layout.

Some interesting and beautiful designs have been summarized here, which can be apt depictions of enhanced typography effects.
Using Eclipse's SCM Tooling like the Big Boys
http://tasktop.com/blog/mylyn/mastering-eclipse-change-sets
Think you've mastered Eclipse's SCM integration? So did I . . . until I started watching the more experienced developers in my shop. Turns out that the SCM integration is even richer than I thought and the time I've saved since retooling my skills has really paid off. In this article I'll share the three best tips I've learned so that you can increase your productivity and go home on time!
Website analytics and traffic stats for any site
http://www.surcentro.com
Surcentro - is website analytic and traffic stats online tool for checking site publicity. This provides whois, backlinks, Alexa and Compete Ranks and etc.

Dont forget to bookmark this site - it will help you in any time.
Konkuri: The simplest way to manage and publish your tournament
http://www.konkuri.com
Konkuri is a web application to manage tournaments and leagues, create the tournament site, share results, get feeds, comment on matches, and so on.

Konkuri’s goals are:
1) Help people manage and publish tournaments for any kind of sport or game;
2) Become a community where players and teams can find tournaments and viceversa.
Konkuri has been conceived for the amateur sports world, which is full of passion but poor of online visibility.
If only they had this for vim
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/photo-app-keyboards/
I'd like to learn vim, and this would really help :)
Please review our road review application
http://www.roadbucket.com
Roadbucket.com is a web app that will allow it's users to create and read reviews for roads. We are hoping that by using our application people will be able to plan their trips better, knowing the condition of the roads, where the best places to stop are and so on. We're really at the beginning and we're not sure where this will take us, but we're looking forward to any feedback you might have for us.

Thanks,
The RoadBucket Team
Dynamic Range Day 2012
http://dynamicrangeday.co.uk/dynamic-range-day-2012/
The Music is too damn loud! I repeat the music is too damn loud!

http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/
Bing is actually taking the time to map the insides of malls
http://blog.icyse.com/2010/12/08/bing-is-actually-taking-the-time-to-map-the-insides-of-malls/
Are mall maps going to make you jump from Google to Bing?
Show HN: LinuxExplorer
https://github.com/hollingsworthd/LinuxExplorer
Allows you to grep filename and/or contents recursively from current dir and then easily select from a numbered list to open files in vim. Exit vim and the loop to open files continues, or you can enter a new query. Can't get it to work on OS X yet. Any patches for that (or anything else) are welcome.
Hear VC Feedback
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/11/hear-feedback.html
The best indication of a VC's interest is direct feedback. While some VCs will offer this feedback without being prompted, you may have to ask others (and it is OK to ask). If a VC gives you feedback, listen to it. Don't hear what you want to hear, hear what they say no matter how unpleasant it might be...
Ask HN: Repechage
Have you made a submission that surprisingly never got many upvotes for some reason and dropped off the list, but you think the community would enjoy and have missed out on? Something more enduringly intellectually gratifying rather than part of the news cycle.

Give it another chance here.
Free job placement available for all job seeker
http://freejobplacements.blogspot.com/
Welcome to http://freejobplacements.blogspot.com/ India's best Jobs Portal, We have been serving the needs of the Placement industry in India since long time. Our single platform is designed to meet the needs of Jobseekers, Recruiters and Employers of India.
Live WebSocket and Canvas Graffiti Wall
http://graffitiwall.co.uk/
Written in node.js with socket.io, It gets crazy very quickly with more than 5 people on at the same time
Create your Facebook book in IRL.
http://www.likebook.me
Likebook - Turn your Facebook into a Book
Print a Physical Copy of Your Facebook Timeline With Likebook Likebook archives a custom selection of content from your Facebook timeline, so you can actually flip through a book of memories.
Tunewiki for Android: Why Didn’t Google Think of That?
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/02/tunewiki-for-android-why-didnt-google-think-of-that/
There are some mobile apps that have become a leading name on one mobile platform, and then there are apps that have become leading names on multiple platforms. A few apps that come to mind that are relatively successful on various platforms include Fring, Waze, IM+, and Tunewiki.
Windows Phone 7 series minimum spec 
http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-unveils-third-windows-phone-7-series-device-its-a-samsung-1577716/
"The GPU needs to be DirectX 9, and the CPU needs to be a ARMv7 Cortex/Scorpion or better. Screens need to be at least HVGA, and have a resolution of 480×320."
Good design does in fact cause interest in customers
http://hellyeahdude.com/articles/good-design-does-in-fact-cause-interest-in-customers/
The idea that by changing variety, you can in fact cause interest in customers through design.
Adobe Air application for displaying your social networking stats
http://www.314t.com/blog/our-little-314-dashboard-presenter/03-05-2011/
Did you see a movie "Social Network"? There was a tv which was displaying stats from facebook. We've done sth similar, but it gathers stats from all your social network accounts and can display it on tv in your office :)
This CyanogenMod Android phone may outperform GS5, and costs $400
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/oneplus-one-features-news/
OnePlus's new phone runs CyanogenMod and is more powerful than a Galaxy S5, at almost half the price. A good look at the upcoming device.
Videos de Risa
http://videismo.com/
lo mejor en videos de risa, video de humor chistosos y muchos mas, entra y veras mas videos de risa
Batch/Bash Gists that finds and pushes Git remotes
https://gist.github.com/phrasz/7670979 https://gist.github.com/phrasz/7671445
I was lazy when I push all to my remotes, since I sometimes switch naming conventions/don't include all my remotes for EVERY repo.

Also, I am too lazy to make a remote that includes ALL my remotes in one (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5785549/able-to-push-to-all-git-remotes-with-the-one-command).

Hence, I have the scripts that parse out and then for each runs git push <found remote> master. It defaults to master, but if you want you could easily change the push command to be "git push <remote> --all". I just am lazy and push EVERYTHING to master.
Surface Tension: Could Microsoft Lose by Winning?
http://www.patexia.com/feed/surface-tension-could-microsoft-lose-by-winning-20120622
Members of the tech media are falling all over themselves to weigh in on the Microsoft Surface.
PE to WiiE: Games Pull Their Weight
http://news.gotgame.com/from-pe-to-wiie-games-pull-their-weight/
Bad day in gym class? Just reset.
Show HN: An Open Source Alt Text Twitter Bot
https://twitter.com/AltTextUtil
I've been maintaining a Twitter bot providing a number of tools around image descriptions AKA alt text for a bit. It has overlapping sets of commands for both tagging and DMs, the list of which are in the pinned tweet.

The bot is primarily used for OCR of posted images to provide a retweetable version with alt text, but other commands such as AI image description and searches of the alt-text.org library are becoming more common.

The code is available on GitHub, and is MIT licensed: https://github.com/alt-text-org/AltTextCrew
Responsive break points: Where to add media queries
http://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog/responsive-break-points
"Isn't it common sense that media query break points should be set to when the design breaks, rather than screen resolution of iOS devices?"
Creating your own generators on Rails 2.3
http://blog.wyeworks.com/2010/9/23/creating-your-own-generators-on-rails-2-3
Time has come for me to write a Rails generator...
The Roots of Lisp
http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/15weirich.html
Talk by Jim Weirich on the foundations of Lisp.
Cool Rails App - Rotary International "ThisClose"
http://thisclose.endpolio.org
The small development team (3 developers) at the agency I work for built this app. Here's a short description.

"New Microsite for polio eradication campaign that promises to set a record by creating the World's Biggest Commercial."

Why is it cool?

- It's built on Rails 3.1

- Users can submit from their webcam or upload a photo

- Mobile users can submit via email attachment through CloudMailin

- Does nightly video generation (using ffmpeg) of user submitted images on an EC2 instance.

- Internationalized for 8 languages, including the videos (8 versions each night).

- Custom flash video player that streams from CloudFront

- Robust admin section that allows for re-cropping and rotating submitted images, uploading of other video clips to be mixed in with user photos, and different levels of approval for submissions.

If anyone wants to know more drop us a line.

digital@sccadv.com
Is it possible to learn programming?
Hi I am interested to learn Programming.. i am now 24 years old and have a little knowledge about programming.. can I now learn Programming...
If I can. Can you tell me in which order i start to learn and what to do? have any of you some suggestion and notes that can help me?'

tnx for your's advice and sorry my Enslgih is not so good:)
Google's Double Dealing Is Penguin Working 
http://grinepk.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-double-dealing-is-penguin.html
When you dare to compete in your niche then the first thing which is to much important, "a brief overlook at all of relative industry to get the a lot of knowledge for all search terms and a chance to go ahead for further development but not yet more on to understand the current search behaviour & atmosphere,"
Internet ID required by Dept. of Commerce
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/report-obama-administration-plans-create-internet-id-americans/#ixzz1jCP61Da4
The Department of Commerce reportedly is preparing to require all Americans to obtain an Internet ID. Eventually, it would be a crime to have a web site, publish remarks, or even send emails without one.