jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Salesforce Service Cloud and Customers Take Home Four 2012 CRM Magazine Awards
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5734077/salesforce-service-cloud-and-customers-take-home-four-2012-crm-magazine-service-awards
Salesforce Service Cloud and Customers Take Home Four 2012 CRM Magazine Service Awards
Show HN: Silly Face Builder Toy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.juliushuijnk.games.toy&hl=en_US&gl=US
I created a simple app for my kids and myself to have a little fun. It's a single screen Android app, free, no ads, no account.

- Tap buttons (multiple times) to select brush for features like eye, nose, ear.
- Tap canvas to paint.
- Stack brushes for new features. Like painting round-nose with normal-nose, will get you a new rounded-nose-with-spots. It's a bit like the alchemy game.

Created with React Native. I want to try to keep everything without language, so it can be a global app out of the box :).

Was just published yesterday, and there will be an update soon where for instance mouth icons can merge to one wide mouth.
Ask HN: Business Plan 
Hey all. I know business plans are somewhat frowned upon in starting a web start up. Usually a prototype and traction is better to have initially than a plan when trying to raise money.

With that said, do any hacker news entrepreneurs use business plans? If so, do you guys have any good basic templates that is simple and straight forward, not requiring a lengthy write up that (unless im wrong) seems somewhat unnecessary.
SocialPoint - Social Media Management
http://www.socialpoint.me
SocialPoint.Me is the Social Media Management Tool built for the everyday person to enhance their social experience.
Even your chihuahua can tweet
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/news/companies/mattel_puppy_tweets/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=Sbin
Perhaps the most unusual twitter client yet.
Show HN: Amount of ads on Twitter sponsored link (turn off adblock)
https://quizzable.com/quiz/quiz-pick-or-pass-these-foods-well-accurately-guess-your-age-copy-copy-copy-2-copy/
Try turning off ad block and behold.
Does Interface Get In The Way Of An App Submission Being Approved By Apple?
http://www.addictivetips.com/ios/does-interface-matter-in-app-submission-approval-by-apple-case-study/
A case study into whether or not interface and icons matter when submitting apps to the iTunes App Store.
Health for America Summer Program
http://www.healthforamerica.org/fellowship/summer-program.html
Check out this cool summer program to create disruptive technology solutions for childhood asthma in low-income communities in Washington DC and Louisville KY.http://www.healthforamerica.org/fellowship/summer-program.html
Full stack functional testing for hackers.
http://kailuowang.blogspot.com/2012/05/full-stack-functional-testing-for.html
Why care about full stack functional testing?
Because you really care about the quality of your product but you also care about the cost of QA. The most cost efficient option is probably full stack functional testing, which isn't exactly easy, but hey, you are a hacker, aren't you?
Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower
http://johnmunsch.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/yeoman-grunt-and-bower/
I created an overview of what the three tools are for and how they can be used for front-end web development and specifically JavaScript/AngularJS developers like those I have on my team at work.
The female Paul Revere
http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/05/betsy-dowdy.html
It's just been adapted into a children's picture book (which might be inspiring for young girls...)

http://www.review-land.com/the-ride-the-legend-of-betsy-dowdy/
Nokia C7 is Getting Smarter [Videos]
http://unearthedgadget.com/nokia-c7/209-nokia-c7-smarter.html
At First Glance Smartphones nowadays seem to be getting a lot smarter and I’m still working my way around Nokia C7, something like an N8 for everybody.
TV Hackfest San Francisco 2014 - February 5-6, Moscone West
http://the-hackfest.com/events/tv-hackfest-san-fran-2014.html
Television is a half a trillion dollar global industry that is on the cusp of change as the Internet collides with traditional linear broadcast television. TV app stores on smart TVs, new boxes such as Roku and Boxee that have open ecosystems, transmedia storytelling from producers that involves multiplatform engagement and much more... The TV Hackfest will be bringing together Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Producers and the next generation of talent together over the duration of two days to get creative and build future TV app concepts with some cool prizes up for grabs.
Looking for a MBA co-founder from US
http://www.biddist.com
Hi,
i have recently started a bid based classified site called biddist.com. i am based out of Bangalore , India. I would like to incorporate in US. If anyone is interested please write to me at andy@biddist.com
Mikogo for use in the Software Industry
http://www.mikogo.com
Hi,

I'm contacting you from Mikogo, which offers a screen sharing product that I believe your readers would be interested in as engaged users in the software industry. Mikogo allows you to share your screen in real-time with up to 25 users, offering a good solution for online collaboration with participants. It is used by more than one million people in over 180 countries around the world, and is compatible with Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android.

Does this sound like something you'd be interested in covering? Have a look and let me know what you think, a free-download for non-commercial use is available at http://www.mikogo.com.

Thanks!
QuickTile, a tool to organize windows
http://ssokolow.github.com/quicktile/
I just can't believe I survived too long without this tool. I suggest anyone who uses large screens to test it.
Avitae: Energy Water, Starting a Business in Tough Times
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/02/25/Start_anew.ART_ART_02-25-09_C8_KKD1BEN.html?sid=101
Find out more about the company at www.avitae45.com
The US Citizenship Test
http://www.usagreencardlottery.org/articles/the-us-citizenship-test/index.html
There are many requirements one has to fulfill to qualify for US citizenship. One such requirement is taking the citizenship test.
Wine worries?  Worry no more
http://www.winetaylor.com/
"Ever have that sinking feeling in your stomach that comes from organizing a big party or dinner and not being sure if your wine is going to match the food? Got a special bottle you've been waiting to crack but want to make sure that when you do, you're pairing it with the perfect food?" Free wine help from an award-winning sommelier.
Holographic Projection, here comes virtual confrences
http://www.musion.co.uk/watch_setup_video.html
I just heard a report on this on BBC world service. Sounds really interesting.
On testing rake files
http://ampersate.com/on-testing-rake-files
RSpec support for testing Rake tasks
CandyBar is now free
http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/08/candybar-mountain-lion-and-beyond/
"Since we’re unsure about the long-term future of changing system icons, we’re not comfortable charging money for CandyBar, and we’re also not comfortable simply making it disappear, instead we’re going to make the current CandyBar free — but unsupported."
Sweet Justice - Beautiful Justified and Hyphenated Text For the Web
https://github.com/aristus/sweet-justice
Found this after a client wanted a 'better' justified text. I got a kick out of the 'What people are saying' part, so I thought I'd share this. I'm personally not a fan of justified text in any context but sometimes clients ask for crazy things.
Now I know why I am procrastinating
My hypothesis is: My hands are not working as fast as my mind!

The effect of that is, I get more ideas and solutions to the problem(s) but get very little done as the hands don't keep up with the speed of the racing mind. And untimately there is huge gap between what the mind wants to do and what the hands are working at.

Just a hypothesis :)
What would my blog application be worth?
http://www.irintech.com/x1/
What would my blog application be worth, with and without VC funding. Of course with VC funding it could be developed more.
Show HN: Effortless on-demand preview environments in your cloud
https://www.cohesive.so
Hi HN, we've been working on Cohesive for the last few months. Our goal is to simplify DevOps tooling for early stage startups so that they can focus on what matters the most - building great products for their customers.

As engineering teams grow in size and complexity, getting access to a stable environment to test your code and collaborate with team members becomes more and more difficult. In many early stage organisations, the focus is on growth and the lack of tooling makes it hard to spin up new environments on-demand. This causes many frustrations:

1. Some teams end up creating a queuing mechanism where environments are locked by an engineer/QA or team trying to get their feature out. This is error prone and requires high collaboration to work, if at all.

2. The DevOps team has to manually spin up these environments. This adds to their already quite full plates and slows down releases.

3. We've seen most teams create an in-house solutions for this. This requires high investment and needs continued maintenance. It's also typically quite expensive and takes effort to be cost effective.

We believe, in 2022, this should be a solved problem and hence we decided to build it. Here's are some features:

1. Test every PR in its own environment.

2. All the infra runs in your cloud. This means you get all the benefits without compromising on capabilities.

3. Once the config(how to run your application and the resources it needs) is set up, everyone else can just reuse it to launch environments. This simplifies onboarding for new hires massively.

4. There are cases when the service you're working is dependent on a few other services. We provide a solution for this out of the box where you can launch a group of services with one click or on PR. We call it Stacks.

5. Environments can be made private which can only be accessed when connected to the private network for your org. This is easy to do with the CLI.

6. Save costs by hibernating environments when not in use.

7. Written in Go and runs on K8s(EKS for now). We currently support AWS with plans to support other platforms soon.

Join our Slack community here: https://join.slack.com/t/cohesive-community/shared_invite/zt...

Let me know what you think also would be happy to answer any questions.
How I used CloudFront for my latest side project: reme.io
https://medium.com/code-drunk-refactor-sober/f27ea96fb3
Tips for making CloudFront always serve the latest version of your files
Finding meaning before it is evident - the future of big data?
http://scandinavianstartups.com/article/swedish-startup-gavagai-exclusive-interview
Swedish startup Gavagai competes for the lucrative big data mining trend analysis market.
Marketing business plan
http://unzippedevent.com
An Online leading source committed to present new ideas for growing business that helps individuals for marketing business plan ,business management and resolve various business related issues.
2012: A tech odyseyy
http://scalabound.org/?p=426
Some thoughts and possible predictions for the tech radar in 2012.
Simple and faster Web Inspector for frontend remote debugging
http://jsinspector.com/
ynchronize DOMContent, Console(logs) and Errors from remote browser.
It makes a web projection. You can use for remote demonstration or debugging mobile web app.
Best Way to Learn VBA for Excel
Did some Googling for learning VBA for Excel and didn't find any standout resources. I know some java and python. Anyone have any suggestions of resources they have found useful. Thank you!
Will "The Social Network" movie finally slow Facebook's growth?
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810128131/video/20889623
Do you all think that this will reach enough of mainstream audiences to have a considerable negative impact on Facebook's reputation? Will the backlash Facebook saw primarily from the tech community over privacy issues happen on a larger scale once audiences have seen this?

I'm interested to see what others think about the impact this might have.
MTV wants engineering students for reality tv show
http://lycos.oodle.com/view/MTV-Seeking-Student-Engineers/1437136309/usa/
Apparently MTV is doing a reality t.v. about student engineers who pull off clever stunts and hacks. They are describing it as Myth Busters meets. I just heard about it from the engineering department at my school so I don't know a lot about it, but it sounds interesting.
Apple or Microsoft: Who Will Take the Air Out of the Room?
http://codehinting.com/archive/apple_or_microsoft_who_will_take_the_air_out_of_the_room/
The tablet rumor mills have been churning lately, and much has been written already about the Microsoft Surface having an extremely low, “we’ll make it up in volume” price-point of $199. With admittedly great sounding specs, and a rumored-to-be-low price, how can Microsoft’s competition hope to compete?
Ask HN: Any Free Service to monitor if website is up/down? 
Hi,
I am looking for any (free) service which monitors your website and notifies in case it's down. Are there any such services available?
$ Calling All Talkers: Can You Ship Faster Than a X Combinator?
MCrit P1: POST/v10x/{bck_sec_blck_crpt}/{cv}/{cst}/{avl}:init+notfound*sas$benjamin$ed

GET/if_6/fail_prod/=5M/→/{prse_tme}/{ocms_rz}:{darwn_else_turng_rsult}:{Y_trustworthy_now}

SYN: CONTAIN/secret, GET/v3.0_access_once_arrived
AT&T to launch Nokia Lumia 920 and Samsung Galaxy Note II on October 21st
http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/14/att-galaxy-note-ii-lumia-920-release-date/
BGR has confirmed with a trusted source that AT&T’s (T) upcoming flagship smartphones for the holidays — besides that flagship smartphone, of course — will be launching on October 21st.
"Twitter $130 million in mobile ad revenue this yr vs Facebook’s $70 million"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/09/26/facebooks-myspace-moment-why-twitter-is-already-bigger-than-facebook/
Thoughts on the accuracy of this statement?
Play Poptropica and coolmath games
http://giogamer.com
Play only bestflashgames, 100% and onlytoprated games, Enjoywith our new interface
Lunchspire: made in 6hrs, but dead in 6 days
http://lunchspire.com
So I subscribed to this lunch on Lunchspire when it hit HN's frontpage last week. The site is down already!
How Google's AuthorRank Works and How you Can Build Your Author Rank
http://contentverve.com/understanding-googles-author-rank-in-content-marketing/
What is Author Rank? How will it affect my Content? How do I build my Author Rank?

If you’re into Content Marketing, chances are you’ve been asking yourself these questions a lot lately. If so, you can look forward to getting all the answers in this extensive guide.
Instagram game
http://www.tagstar.co
New game based ontop of Instagram. Clever algorithm gives anyone a shot at being on the Leaderboard. (Not just Justin Bieber :P )
Any advice to help me find my first bug bounty?
A New Years resolution I've made (and already begun working on) is to find my first bug and collect my first bug bounty in 2015. I've downloaded and run through a few Burp Suite tutorials, eBooks, and the Kali Linux setup guide (this has been brewing for a few weeks), and have started plugging away at sites that have given the OK via intermediaries like bugcrowd, bugsheet, and Hackerone, in addition to testing stuff that's deliberately vulnerable, like DamnVulnerableWebApp and Google Gruyere.

Any advice, other than to just keep hacking? I'm already learning some truths about the field (scanners are fun, but rarely catch anything significant, etc.) but of course know it'll take persistence.

Any other tech that I haven't mentioned that would be useful?
Please, scan this and make Pringles cans disappear. - QR Code Shopping
https://niagara.mibelo.com/display_chooser/13  
I'm testing my QR Code shopping platform, all feedback welcome!
Open Cubicles must die
http://jimshowalter.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-cubicles-must-die.html
In light of the recent Yahoo news, I thought this may be somewhat relevant and interesting.
‘Gray Market’ Components: Costs and Cures
http://www.patexia.com/feed/-gray-market-components-costs-and-cures-20120702
Counterfeit electronics pose an increasing financial risk. Justin Paulsen weighs the costs and potential fixes.
BBC takes common sense approach to EU Cookie law
http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/2012/05/bbc-takes-common-sense-approach-to-eu-cookie-law/
A lot has been said regarding the new eu cookie law in the last year and month especially as the legislation comes in to effect tomorrow, May the 26th 2012

In the new 1.7 version of Magento Community release “A new cookie notification feature that simplifies the compliance process. Once enabled, a message at the top of the storefront informs site visitors about the cookie policy and prompts them to accept or decline”

BT were early in their adoption of providing a solution by showing a popup at the bootom of their webpage

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-943-197kb.jpg

which disapears after about 10 secs.

At time of writing, the website for the “Information Commisioners Office” which has spearheaded this campaign was unavailable for reference having been put in a redirect loop, it is unknown at this time if the site was the subject of a hack or just an IT Server admin blunder http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-e23-53kb.jpg

They were however back online 20 mins latter, sporting their persistant header message: http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-4l0-57kb.jpg

Upon looking at the bbc news website this morning, although greeted with a header message to address the issue, on further investigation it transpires that the bbc have implemented a measured and adequate response to this new legislation.

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-l8i-99kb.jpg

Load the next page or reload the current page, and the cookie message is gone.

http://www.healthywebsites.co.uk/screenshots/am/20120525-7ls-81kb.jpg

Ironically, the BBC are actually using a cookie called “ckns_policy” to hide this grey header on the next page load. If You delete the cookie, the cookie message appears again.
C++ Lock Free FIFO (s:e producer/s:e consumer)
https://github.com/jaw/fifo
Please take a look, if you see something wrong with it please don't hesitate to tell me to fix it :)
Homer Simpson’s Guide to CRM Tricks
http://www.beecrm.com/blog/general/homer-simpsons-guide-to-crm-tricks/
So, how Homer Simpson can understand CRM?

CRM is an online based software and a system that helps companies create and maintain relations with customers.
TouchVu
http://www.touchvu.com
Turn your Facebook business page into a beautiful multi-screen website.

TouchVu offers quickest and easiest way to create and maintain beautiful multi-screen websites. You can create website in 2 minutes and you can keep the website fresh and up-to-date by automatically synchronizing content from your Facebook business page.
AYBconf - early bird tickets close today
http://allyourbaseconf.com/
A database conference for web developers - exploring noSQL technologies, RDMS and client-side solutions, with talks from database creators and industry leaders.
Social Bookmarking Trends: Top Sharing Activities
http://www.watconsult.com/blog/2008/09/01/social-bookmarking-trends-top-sharing-activities/
Analysis of recently released reports by ShareThis & AddThis bookmarking widgets.
Show HN: Chrome extension to alter page width
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jebcbnokhefehlfabkldmcofdopdoemk?hl=en
Just scratching an itch...
A very simple extension to alter the width of a web page's body dynamically with a slider.
I love reading articles on the web, but find it uncomfortable when then line lengths of the text are excessively long. This little extension aims to help with that.

My first venture into chrome extensions. Please feel free to offer constructive criticism for improvements etc.

Some example sites that it will work on:
http://terzza.com/example.html
http://placr.co.uk/blog/2011/05/why-train-departure-information-is-not-currently-open-data/
http://antirez.com/post/an-update-on-redis-and-lua.html
Win $100 for naming the new website
http://projecty.mindgrep.com
We are launching a website that brings together different parts of the training ecosystem, help us name the new platform, and in the process win USD 100.
New approach to making software
http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/roc/
this appears to be a radically new approach, making "software like the web". does anyone have any experience with Resource Oriented Computing. They claim it's based on REST and UNIX:
Ask HN: How commonly do mobile engineers also know back end?
I've always been told that it's an oddity and rare, but I feel that it would be rare for most programmers to either start freshly in mobile and that a lot of people transitioned from someplace else. That transition is probably the web? I'm not just saying Ruby on Rails or Django, just any web-backend.
IE 8 Launches at MIX09, probably without one of your features
http://ajaxian.com/archives/ie-8-launches-at-mix09-probably-without-one-of-your-features
This is good news in that IE 8 is better than IE 7, which is better than IE 6. Maybe, with 6 being two versions back, we have more weight to get rid of the chap. However, even though Microsoft has recently claimed that IE 8 is the fastest browser, its legacy weight still shows for now, and the other browsers are sprinting ahead.
Launch Checklist: Review Your TOS _Carefully_
http://www.kibits.com/2012/04/launch-and-learn-updating-our-tos-in-response-to-early-adopter-feedback/
...or your early adopters will do it for you. We all know that Privacy is Not an Option -- just make sure your Terms of Service make this unambiguously clear. :)
Cellphones with Projectors?
http://www.laptopskinsplus.com/blog/2008/09/coming-to-cell-phones-soon/
Soon you can beam your message on the wall for all to see!
Your Git Repository in a Database: Pluggable Backends in Libgit2
https://deveo.com/blog/2013/06/19/your-git-repository-in-a-database-pluggable-backends-in-libgit2/
Something for #Git devotees in the Deveo blog today
New Startup Launch. Feedbacks are appreciated
Hi, I'm Tony and I'm the only founder of Fonsori. Fonsori focuses on empowering underserved communities by first improving their access to mental health care providers and non-licensed mentors via our social networking and marketplace platform. This is my first time starting a company so I would appreciate any tips and feedbacks if possible, especially the best way to reach out to the first potential customers. My plan is to focus on the supply side first since it's a two sided marketplace/social network.

Link to site: https://fonsori.com/

Thank you for your help!
New York Phone Numbers- Add Credibility to Your Business
http://www.itelecenter.com/New-York-Phone-Numbers.aspx
When people notice a phone number for a business that is local, there is a unique bond that is formed instantly. Consumers want to choose companies that operate locally. What every business owner wants and needs are customers that will be repeat customers. They want to forge a bond with them and when you are breaking into (or trying to) the New York market, you want New York phone numbers on your side. To get New York Phone Numbers, Call 1-800-454-54930 Today!
The Internet Under the sea..
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/tech/gallery/internet-undersea-cables/index.html?sr=fb030414underseamap230p
This is what the Internet actually looks like: The undersea cables wiring the Earth
Yahoo! Health in Stealth Mode or Just Plain Off-the-Radar?
http://healthcareinformationsystemsblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/yahoo-health-in-stealth-mode-or-just.html
Yahoo!'s lack of involvement in the burgeoning ehealth space is something I probably spend a little bit too much time thinking about, but I just can't understand why Yahoo! Health doesn't get more attention from its parent portal.