jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Good 'in-a-day' exercises for business development / marketing?
Recently, I was inspired by the bout of 'in-a-day' start-up posts floating around and rails rumble. I wanted to attempt to code a web-app in a day, using some technology I have wanted to try out in a while: Rails3 and Heroku. It went pretty well, and it was loads of fun and the following is a tweet log of the process I went through:

* Time for fun. Inspired by my last tweet - going to sharpen the programming saw today http://goo.gl/VgJo by trying to build a site in a day.

* Going to be trying out rails3 and http://heroku.com/

* Domain Registered - $12USD wonder if anyone knows a cheaper find?

* One of my favourite DuckDuckGo commands:http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!pw+10+strong

* heroku.com account created.

* That was nice - heroku does automatic SSH key configuration when you create your app.

* Sweet - first iteration is live on Heroku - next up, cucumber tests, and a splash of jquery

* Second iteration is live on Heroku - still no tests or jquery - worked on layout, added top girl and top guy movie lists.

* Three hours and basic functionality is working for my fun app - Is it a girl movie or a guy movie? http://mypickflick.com heaps more to do.

I got exactly what I wanted out of the process, I learned a stack of stuff about Rails3 and Heroku. Plus I have since gone back and used the site as a testing ground for other new technologies I want to learn more about.<p>But it has gotten me thinking, what are other 'in-a-day' exercises that I can use to sharpen my saw in the other elements of creating a business? Something that I can research a bit, execute and hopefully see some sort of result (so I can learn what works and doesn't) in about a day?
Barnes & Noble Unveils the Nook, a New 3G/Wi-Fi Digital Reader
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703271.html
My 60-second book reviews would be ideal as ads on these handheld readers!!!
Free CCIE Voice (VOIP)Practice Exams and CCIE Voice Tests
http://www.freetechexams.com/cisco-certification/ccie-voice/ccie-voice.html
The CCIE Voice track of the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) certification puts emphasis on and ensures expertise and experience with Voice over IP (VoIP) technology and products.
Hadoop workshop in Bangalore
http://computegeeken.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-day-hadoop-workshop-in-bangalore.html
Zinnia Systems organizing one day workshop on Hadoop . If you are interested please register.
Ask HN: Are P75 Web Vitals metrics always noisy?
Hey HN,

My team recently started investing in optimizing Web Vitals (https://web.dev/vitals/) given Google's announcment that they will start impacting SEO rank.

We are noticing that our P75 metrics (LCP in particular) are very noisy, however at the P25 and P50 percentiles, these metrics are more consistent.

Has anyone noticed something similar or is it just us? If you or anyone you know at your org that works on web performance, I'd love to hear their thoughts :)
Stay Invisible
http://www.StayInvisible.com
The most complete online privacy test, helping you to maintain Internet privacy and learn how to stay anonymous online.
E-Ink vs PixelQi vs Mirasol – Which One Is the Best?
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/27/e-ink-vs-pixelqi-vs-mirasol-which-one-is-the-best/
E-ink, PixelQi and Mirasol are the most popular e-reading technologies (the last 2 coming soon), but which one is going to be the best?
Why and How you should partake in 'Movember'
http://superprofundo.com/2010/11/01/movember-and-mens-health/
A short article about why you should grow out that sweet 'stache you've been saving for a rainy year.
Can we zip a computer to a phone?
I use a personal laptop, an office laptop, an office desktop and a mobile phone. And I was thinking what if I can zip all this in to one small portable device...

If yes,

+ We need to carry only one device at home and office
+ There is no need to sync your different machines
+ Your digital world is always there in your pocket
+ Use docking stations to connect to big displays and keyboards
+ Mobile phones will give almost the same computing
power as laptops, very soon

So what do you think?
Dumb-phone revision
http://vesalehto.blogspot.fi/2012/06/heres-phone-design-i-made-in-friday.html
I had been thinking about phones for two years. Lats Friday I finally did some quick drawings with Solid Edge.
Criteo files for $190 mln U.S. IPO
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/18/criteo-ipo-idUSL3N0HE21D20130918
woohoO!
Eyes on holiday season, casual games at Gamescom
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/15/us-gamescom-idUSTRE77E69F20110815
Hackers, holiday season sales and "casual" gaming are expected to be in the spotlight at Gamescom, Europe's biggest video game trade fair, which throws its doors open to visitors this week.
Why does Alok Kejriwal have a huge following in the Indian startup community?
http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-India/Why-does-Alok-Kejriwal-have-a-huge-following-in-the-Indian-startup-community
Alok Kejriwal
Succint data structures by Edward Kmett
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/40685818
Accompanying presentation at http://prezi.com/oykubo5szwe3/haskells-4-letter-word/
Fusion Power Possible
http://www.emc2fusion.org/
200 Million Dollars, and you can power a small city.
Brute-force a git commit hash
https://github.com/bradfitz/gitbrute
gitbrute brute-forces a pair of author+committer timestamps such that
the resulting git commit has your desired prefix.
Donda Media Taps Dat - WhoIs
http://www.whodat.biz
Ok is it me or is it pretty lame that Donda Media seems amazed at the data you can get from WhoIs?
Apple Files Multi-touch Gesture Patent for iPhone 3G
http://www.digitivity.com/show.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palluxo.com%2F2008%2F07%2F04%2Fapple-files-multi-touch-gesture-patent-for-iphone-3g%2F
Apple has filed a patent for a “Multi-touch Gesture Dictionary,” an invention (US Patent 20070177803) that introduces the notion of chords. According to Apple, the gesture dictionary can include a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a particular chord.
Pinging a server will no longer be boring: hello fancy graphics
http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
Upto now, pinging was boring.
Only a couple line with boring statistics scroll by.

This no longer is this case when pinging webservers with HTTPing!
HTTPing now has a (completely optional) gui (compatible with every terminal in the world, as long as ncurses runs on it) with flashy graphics and nice colors.

See for yourself at http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
On this page you will not only find all the sourcecode (released under the GPL) but also a couple of screendumps and a nice reallife video of HTTPing in action.
check it out!
And so you code Code with Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vEEXXrFpqU&feature=feedu
A truly amazing song
Debunking the myth about “Singapore is a small market” & What Works here
http://www.bernardleong.com/2013/08/28/debunking-the-myth-about-singapore-is-a-small-market-what-works-here/
The theme of this article is to debunk the myth that “Singapore is a small market”. This article originated from the many discussions I have with fellow Singaporeans both here and overseas. Some are entrepreneurs who are currently working and building their companies locally while others are now pursuing their dreams in the US or China. In most of our discussions, one insight that seemed to pop out often is that Singapore is not really a “small market” and you can scale the company up to a certain point where it becomes attractive to go regional and then global. The key message is that if you want to succeed in Singapore, you have to re-imagine and enable a traditional industry with new technology which makes it more efficient, productive & drives revenue.
Website Quote
http://gregpilling.com/2009/09/thanks-for-coming-in/
This is an actual response after a interview with a company about their website
Possible mistake in Donald Knuth's Google Talk
http://psankar.blogspot.com/2011/07/possible-mistake-in-donald-knuths-talk.html
Donald Knuth recently gave a talk in Google titled "All questions answered" I think either I have found a mistake in it or I am making myself a stupid in the internet.
Online Franchising Blog  
http://blog.yonsal.com
Great blog for Online Franchising Blog
Zenound Music Service - Need beta testers
http://www.zenound.com
Just released my new music service. If anyone would like to help test it please do so and give me some feed back =)
Drag from desktop browser to load up URLs in iOS Simulator
https://coderwall.com/p/946tmq
Pretty sweet.
Hacking the MBA program – help?
https://skilldom.wufoo.com/forms/skilldom/
Skilldom is a website that helps you pick up practical business skills without breaking the bank for an MBA and without making the exercise daunting. Some examples:

1. Valuing a company or project
2. Pricing
3. Product management
4. Graphic design
5. Board/C-level presentations

To better understand the motivations and patterns people have while learning new business skills, I'm have a short survey up at https://skilldom.wufoo.com/forms/skilldom/

If you're interested, help me answer these 4 questions? :)
What is a Quant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst
After watching The Wall St Code -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAGdwHXfLQ -- I was asking myself, what a "Quant" in the context of HFT is.
Is this the solution to the oil spill cleanup?
http://en.origoterra.com/gl
A friend of mine from sent this video. Interesting idea. I can think of many reasons why this surprising idea to clean up the oil slick could possibly not work but:
1- I did test the principle of oil sticking on dried grass this afternoon with motor oil at home in my garage and it does the job very well.
2- Ideas like this seem no better than the other chemical or mechanical solutions in use today when they first appeared.
I say this needs to be developed. Any comments?
ZFS for Linux - with ZPL this time
http://zfs.kqinfotech.com/index.php
The kernel ZFS module reported here recently was just waiting for someone to implement the necessary ZPL (POSIX layer) so that you could actually mount a ZFS filesystem. Well, looks like KQ Infotech have gone and done it.
Ask HN: Would anyone else like a recommended reading section?
I'm reading a book that's really good for entrepreneurs but I have no way to post it.

Harvard Business book - Innovator's Solution
Goole Plus Style Notification Box Tutorial
http://www.codeofaninja.com/2012/03/goole-plus-style-notification-box.html
Today we are going to do a script that will look like the Google+ notification box. I was able to achieve this using jQuery, jQuery easing plugin and PHP.
Online community helping one of its members off the street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8rbMZlljA
Jared Huggins lost his little savings, partly while playing poker. He became homeless, and desperate.

The community of poker players 2+2 gave him support, ideas to go forward, and countless donations. Now he's got a home again, and this is the thank you video to that community. Here's the main related thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/54/poker-beats-brags-variance/hu-vs-drooler-lost-my-roll-jared-huggins-story-715623/.

This story tells quite a lot about social interactions.
FROG Recognizer Of Gestures
http://brazos.cs.tcu.edu/
This is an accelerometer based gesture recognition system written in Java. This System accepts plug-ins for accelerometers enable devices (you can write one for your own device.)

Currently plug-ins exist for a few smart-phones and for Sun SPOT.

This is a project we, the class of 2010 of the Computer Science Department at TCU, built as our capstone project.
ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring engineers to help make delightful payroll
http://boards.greenhouse.io/zenpayroll/jobs/8278#.UyIxGuddXUc
ABOUT US:

+ We're building the future of payroll. If you love solving foundational problems that affect millions of people, we'd love to talk with you. You’ll be an early member of the team with significant responsibility and equity stake.

+ Payroll is complex and there are tough engineering challenges to be tackled. We move tens of millions of dollars every month. Payroll is business critical and must always be correct. Business owners and their employees depend on us to receive their pay. We strive for 100% test coverage, and every commit is code reviewed by another developer on the team. We all hold each other to rigorous standards and we’ve all become better developers because of it.

THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

+ Experience with Rails | Backbone.js | CoffeeScript | MySQL is a plus but not a pre-requisite.

+ Interest in using a test driven and code review development process.

+ Interest in building user-facing features and core-backend functionality, as well as being an active part of the design process.

+ Desire to understand the customer perspective. All members of our team are builders and it's important everyone understands the pain point we're solving.

PERKS:

+ You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. As a result, you'll receive a competitive salary + significant equity stake.

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, delicious and healthy food and snacks, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued. Full list of perks at www.zenpayroll.com/careers
Two Startups, The Breakfast Club, and Pure Magic
https://followerwonk.com/analyze/fullcontactapi?op=fl
I just got done attending a Mocavo & FullContact ”Breakfast Club” at TechStars Boulder.

Cliff Shaw, Founder of Mocavo and fellow Foundry Group CEO, approached me a few months back. He thought it made sense to get our tech teams together for a long 4 hour breakfast and swap knowledge.

I thought it was a terrific idea. After a few scheduling snafus, we were finally able to get together. TechStars Boulder let us use their conference room, and Cliff graciously ordered in a catered breakfast.

Over the course of several hours, we discussed databases (MySQL, NoSQL), infrastructure (Amazon or Self-Hosted), search algorithms, performance tuning, product ideas and development methodologies.

We discussed the merits of different vendors and the pros and cons of different approaches.
The conversation was frank, open and honest – basically what you’d expect from a bunch of pragmatic engineers.

Both companies pulled their teams away from their normal lives for a few hours. But I think it was super valuable for each engineering team to see things through a different lens, talk about what they’re building, and ideate about what their future holds.

As a startup, sometimes you think you are all alone when faced with daunting scale challenges.
But that’s 100% wrong – you’re not alone. In fact, you’re not unique. Realizing this and leveraging your network for help, support or advice is the one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your startup.

That’s the true power of a robust startup community (and if you don’t know what this means, you can buy the book). I encourage other companies to do the same. Find a peer startup company and have a breakfast, or brunch, or lunch. It’s an amazingly simple yet powerful thing you can do.

And Cliff – thanks again for breakfast – next time, FullContact will buy the beer
Overly honest methods – how experiments really get done
http://wildtypes.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/overly-honest-methods-how-experiments-really-get-done-2/
can someone with more twitter influence please start this with IT development?
Free Open-Source WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
https://github.com/seanvoss/striper
Hey,

Quick Weekend Project, thought it might save some people $79, http://www.woothemes.com/products/stripe/
, a little rough at this point but very functional.
November 2012 Edition of Saaspose.Newsletter is Out Now
http://saaspose.com/blog/newsletter/archive/2012/11/01/november-2012-newsletter.html
Saaspose Newsletter for November 2012 has now been published that highlights all newly added information, exciting new features & informative blogs about Saaspose APIs & SDKs. This month Saaspose.Words, Saaspose.Pdf & Saaspose.Cells have introduced new features for manipulating presentations uploaded at Amazon S3 storage, work with pages of PDF, extract text from any file format, convert different objects in worksheet, convert XML templates to DOC, Google Drive Storage Integration & many more.
Indiegogo.com: Illustrated Anthology of design
http://www.indiegogo.com/Anthology-of-design
"Illustrated Anthology of design" - e-Guide to design and architecture.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Anthology-of-design

The guide was created with attention of a wide range of industry experts, theorists, historicists and designers.

Supported devices
Android Phone, Android Tablet, Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, Kindle Fire.
After Apple and Microsoft, the next mountain to climb was chocolate
http://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/profiles/after-apple-and-microsoft-the-next-mountain-to-climb-was/article_ea87fba2-a07a-11e1-81fe-0019bb2963f4.html
"After helping develop the first laser printer for Apple and working closely with Bill Gates at Microsoft, Barbara Fox retired and began the transition from software engineer to chocolatier."
ISACA Issues Six Principles for Effective Cloud Computing
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5681524/isaca-issues-six-principles-for-effective-cloud-computing
ISACA Issues Six Principles for Effective Cloud Computing
Ask HN: Please review my startup
Its my attempt to simplify the process of sending and getting paid for invoices

http://www.howtosendaninvoice.com
Five "Easy" Lessons to Beat Apple's iPad
http://www.techi.com/2010/08/five-easy-lessons-to-beat-apples-ipad/
Whatever you may think of the iPad – whether you believe it to be the savior of old media or simply “a big iPod Touch” – there is one thing that cannot be denied: the thing has been a massive success.
Show HN: Chrome extension that show saves articles,img as part of ur social feed
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/2ndfeed/jiagbhjgocclknkbjnlpgbenpnfldoii
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvKuWI0hLM

Chrome web store description:

Save articles, images, texts, and videos as reminders that will show up on your social feed as you're scrolling down..

Your saved items seamlessly integrate with the social media platform you're browsing allowing you to view them along side the rest of your social feed, without having to look for them.

Install this extension to boost your productivity while you browse your socials.

Currently Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are supported.

=====================================================

Any feedback is appreciated.
Redditive: Reddit for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
http://www.redditive.com
Just launched Redditive (http://www.redditive.com) a few minutes ago.<p>It is a Responsive Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design) version of Reddit, and it is comfortably readable on mobile, tablet, and desktop browsers.<p>This is an MVP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product) and new features will be added continuously.<p>I would be very happy to hear your opinions.
IOS 7 allows users to take snapshots of their images easily
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/24/ios-7-disables-screenshot-interruptions-allows-users-to-secretly-take-snapchat-screenshots/
Maybe they raised that big round in time after all.
Ask HN: What are some “healthy” startups in the Columbus, OH area?
Would also be interested in any trusted resources for this sort of search! Thanks :)
MySQL thread state in "prepare" or "execute" 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22529788/mysql-when-command-column-in-processlist-shows-prepare-or-execute
Can someone please highlight when a "Command" shows "Prepare" or "Execute" for "Show Full Processlist"

Any example which shows this would be helpful.
Building a hosted search service
http://blog.bimaple.com/
We are building a hosted search service at Bimaple (http://service.bimaple.com). The effort has multiple years of rooting in academic research, but is turning into a commercial effort to increase its impact. The new service (beta) allows developers to upload your data and launch a powerful search interface with the following features: (1) Instant search; (2) Error-correction on the fly; (3) High efficiency; (4) Support of real-time updates.

We also conducted a comparison with Amazon Cloud Search.

Check http://blog.bimaple.com/ for more details!

Chen Li
Bimaple Technology Inc.
Japan Has Been Hit By Another 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake at East Coast Of Honshu
http://thetechjournal.com/off-topic/japan-has-been-hit-by-another-6-6-magnitude-earthquake-at-east-coast-of-honshu.xhtml
Another Earthquake of 6.6 Magnitude has hit near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, Just few minutes away. USGS reported its epicenter is 89 miles from Honshu, which puts it 364 miles from Tokyo proper, and origin point was 22.6 miles under the ground. Check details news below.
Church of Gentoo
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7262200.html
Just for laughs
Share your experience about the products you use
http://prefies.com/
Prefies (pronounced like selfies) lets you and your friends share your everyday experiences about the products you use.
Injecting Failure at Netflix (w/ video)
http://blog.pagerduty.com/2014/03/injecting-failure-at-netflix-staying-reliable-for-40-million-customers/
Corey Bertram, Site Reliability Engineer at Netflix recently spoke to a DevOps Meetup group at PagerDuty HQ about injecting failure at Netflix. For Corey, he wanted to show people what can go wrong, because anything can go wrong, will. Promoting chaos and injecting failure has been a great way to keep Netflix up and running for their 40+ million customers.
Pixel-fitting screencast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSLW4K2ON4s
Because I thought Dustin Curtis' great article (dcurt.is/pixel-fitting) needed an extension. Subs in both English and Spanish provided.
Twitter Like Parsing URLs with JavaScript.
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/01/twitter-like-parsing-urls-with.html
This tutorial explains about how to Parsing URLs within the posted text like Twitter with Javascript. My last post I had included this Script. I was developing project I found this nice javascript prototype property script in mozilla labs site.
Show HN: My take on a "Sinatra for Erlang"
https://github.com/tsujigiri/axiom
As a weekend project, I put together something vaguely resembling a "Sinatra for Erlang".
Introduction to Lua Programming
http://www.scratchprojects.com/2007/08/introduction_to_lua_programming_p01.php
Description: Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Coupled with it being relatively fast and having a very lenient license, it has gained a following among game developers for providing a viable scripting interface. It has been used in games such as World of Warcraft and Far Cry, and in applications such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Snort.
Property In Sector 47 Gurgaon
http://www.uniconproperty.com/property-in-sector-47-gurgaon.html
Search &amp; Buy Property in India - Property In Sector 47 Gurgaon | For Best Deal Call us @ 09999561111 - UniconProperty.com
Free Acronis True Image 8.0 Personal
http://www.allacronis.com/personal.php
Download Free Acronis True Image 8.0 Personal and convert it to full version Acronis True Image Home 2009 just for $29.99!!!
IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web for the Developing World
http://cacm.acm.org/news/93623
Designed to bridge the digital divide, IBM's Spoken Web network is aimed mainly at under-served or illiterate users in the developing world without a Web connection. It can be both programmed and accessed by voice.