jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: ThoughtfulPost Gift Recommendation Engine for Your Friends and Family
https://thoughtfulpost.com
I’ve started working on a new startup called Thoughtful Post (https://thoughtfulpost.com)

It’s a useful and fun-to-use app that will help you organize and remember all of your friend’s birthdays/weddings/anniversaries and help you find interesting and new gifts to get them based on their likes and dislikes! There are collaboration features and surveys you can use to farm your friends likes/dislikes and work together with friends to pick out gifts for people.

All of the functionality is in the mobile app:

iOS:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thoughtful-post/id1636275228

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thoughtful...

Here is a YouTube video demo’ing the product made by my cofounder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAwGlv9Lao&t=3s

Please try it out and share any feedback with us!

I think that with everything going on in the world the people you are close to are more important than ever. You don’t always have to spend a lot of money on people to make them feel loved! Investing time and energy into finding a gift or experience can make people feel really special.

Our app can send surveys to the gift recipient and your friend circle to find out about the “giftee” and just receiving these surveys will let the people in your life know you really care about them.

Some interesting technical notes:

The mobile apps are built in React Native.

The backend is in Python/Django.

We monetize by being affiliate partners with the products we recommend through our gift giving engine.

We are using Natural Language processing to map your friend’s likes/dislikes with our product catalogue to recommend new ideas.
Birthday Matters
http://blog.reportbee.com/birthday-matters
Does it matter which month you’re born in?
Networks Try 'Twittering' To Spread Their Message
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118453646990566995.html
NBC, CBS, ABC Family and MTV are among several networks experimenting with the marketing possibilities of Twitter, a nascent social-networking service that sends messages in super-short bursts.
The &lt;module&gt; Tag
http://json.org/module.html
I suppose if there's specified tag like <module> or <component> ir something like that providing features like base URL, CSS reset, but being more friendly than <iframe>. There would be less pain for client-side modularizations.

But all ideas are old ideas. Now JavaScript plays a much more important role in client-side apps. I'm quite interested about if we can use a new tag to solve the problems we met in developing web apps.
Twitter suspends account of London Olympics (Parody) Protestors
https://twitter.com/vacuumcleaner/status/205210925362450432
"The @spacehijackers , the official protestors of ‪#london2012‬, have had their account suspended after complaint from the olympics organisers."

http://www.protestlondon2012.com/10reasons.html
Ask HN: How can I learn about bringing new technologies to market?
Hi Hacker News. Looking for resources--books, articles, online courses, practical guides, personal anecdotes, et cetera--that cover the topic of commercializing new technologies and bringing innovations to market. Curious to know how startups and tech firms approach this in the past, and what differentiates the failures from the successes. Any resources you know of for technologists interested in diving into the business side of this question?
I will not change my address, I think it's a bad solution.
Blacklist app to react on consumer experience
http://blacklist.co
Hello guys
I'm coming to you to talk about a bold web startup with a potentially pretty disruptive approach.
It's a web app called Blacklist, where users can Blacklist the brands and products they dislike or had a bad experience with.
The concept is pretty simple, yet very powerful: It’s about giving the power to the people to have a voice to react after a bad consumer experience in order to get heard and impact accordingly.
The vision behind the product is to bring brands and companies closer for more aligned interactions with consumers. It’s all about more transparency in the interactions consumers-companies.
You can have a look on Twitter @Blacklist, on Facebook: apps.facebook.com/blacklist-app and on AngelList angel.co/blacklist
We are currently building the beta version starting in London.
If you want to get a glance you can check out the blog @ blog.blacklistapp.co
And for those who like reading and are interested by the vision and opportunity that is tackled you can read the book, published this fall on amazon: 'The power to the People' by Val Lefebvre.

Best,
Val Lefebvre founder of Blacklist
Did DuckDuckGo started to suck for everyone else?
http://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/1mmce1/did_ddg_suddenly_start_to_suck_for_anyone_else/
The duckduckgo search is not very good today, did anyone noticed this?
Fermilab, the Tevatron, and Linux
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Fermilab-the-Tevatron-and-Linux
Jon "Maddog" Hall blogs about, "Having your heart ripped out: Tevatron accelerator to close."
Saving Hubble
http://www.savinghubble.com/hubble_html/welcome.php
To go into space or not, is the existential question.
How to Design App Store Screenshots that Sell
http://www.designboost.net/how-to-design-iphone-screenshots-that-sell/
Are your app store screenshots helping or hurting your iPhone or iPad app sales? In this post I'll talk about shoppers make buying decisions based on your screenshot images!
Cloud Computing: Leading From The Front – Part 1
http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2012/03/cloud-computing-leading-from-the-front-part-1/
Cloud Computing: Leading From The Front – Part 1
Johnny Chung Lee's "Myth of the Dying Mouse"
http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/07/myth-of-dying-mouse.html
"The mouse and keyboard are NOT going away, and there's NO SUCH THING as convergence"
No more new episodes on Railscasts?
http://railscasts.com/announcements/11
'RailsCasts Status

You have probably noticed there has been a lack of new episodes lately. I have found it increasingly difficult to produce content, and I'm not entirely sure why. The best way I can describe it is that I feel paralized under the pressures of work.

I have decided to take a Summer break to help me come up with a solution. I will return on September 2 with new content. All Pro subscriptions have been automatically extended by two months (no need to press a button this time). New subscribers during this time will be charged the initial $9 and then have their subscription extended through September.

Thank you for your patience during this time! :)

--Ryan'
Show HN: "Ido” stops you if there is some risky arguments
https://github.com/icy/ido
I always feel scary to grab command(s) from shell history and press "Enter" by accident. So I write this small tool which asks me to confirm when it finds something risky.

I expect the native interactive shell can do this for me. Feel free to give feedback and/or suggest a better way.

Thanks a lot.
Show HN: Tetris AI Playground/Sandbox
https://github.com/mbrenman/TetrisPlayground

I built this Tetris Playground for a class, and I built a few bots to play against it. I'd love to see what other people could build to play on it.

The goal was to make it work in a way that building new bots would be very straightforward and not involve understanding or writing Tetris game code.

I'd love any feedback on the system, and pull requests are absolutely welcome! Thanks for looking!
Advice on marketing and pricing in a niche market?
Hi everyone, my partner and I founded our business about six months ago with the long term goal of building a new generation of web-based software for veterinarians (http://menagerievet.com). This market is clogged with expensive and ancient desktop (mostly Windows) software. Our first product is a digital "whiteboard" which allows veterinary clinics to manage patient workflow instead of relying on paper and index cards. The idea was to start with a small product to "get in the door" and start generating some interest.

We are both technical co-founders and it seems like many other engineers we feel we are stumbling around in the dark a little as we try to market this product and ourselves. I was wondering if the hacker news hordes had any advice for us. Our (somewhat informed) assumption coming in was that veterinarians would be a hard group to reach via web and social network marketing, however we have been pleasantly surprised at the amount of connections we have been able to make via twitter. (we also do adwords, ahem, and have sent out a very small physical mailing batch, as well as gone door-to-door to some local practices). However, we're not yet seeing the interest we'd hoped for, so I'm wondering if anybody has advice regarding marketing, and also pricing of our product. We started with a traditional fixed-price downloadable "boxed software" model due to some arbitrary initial circumstances, but have switched to a SaaS model with monthly pricing (and we still feel SaaS is the right long term goal). We are toying with lowering the price, and switching back to an up-front yearly subscription.

Since our ultimate goal is a more ambitious practice management system, we can also envision pricing tiers differentiated either on more whiteboard features, or further practice/records management integration.
Or maybe it's time to cut the losses and pivot. I don't want to bore you to death with more background, but I'm glad to share in the comments if there are questions.

TIA for any feedback. Aaron

The links are:

http://menagerievet.com
http://menagerievet.tumblr.com
@menagerievet
Resources for machine learning and computer vision
http://vision-exploration.blogspot.com/
Bookmark it. I'll be updating this often.
Kaggle transitioning competitors to become consultants
http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/10/23/join-the-chorus-data-consulting/
This seems like a logical next step for Kaggle. I wonder if Kaggle will successfully become the primary market-maker for this area, connecting data analysts and ML experts with corporations that need predictive analytics. Who are Kaggle's main competitors at this point?
Ask HN: What's the future of the file browser?
If desktop applications go the way of web and mobile apps, will we be using a file browser in the future?

With web apps it becomes difficult to pull a user's cross-app data together with such varied APIs and data formats. But do we even need our data in one place or will we just open the program that has our data "in it"?

What do you think?
Microsoft offers "cloud based ALM solution" for up to 5 users for free
http://tfs.visualstudio.com/
Essentially it is web-based TFS solution including source control, project management, builds
Rate our startup: Jobzle.com
http://www.jobzle.com
Currently a soft launch for employers to pre-populate jobs with the student side coming next week (to coincide with press release / marketing).
Ask HN: Where to submit a new Android game for testing
So I made a game, published first release Monday and set it on Show HN.
Got a few people to test it out & give some good info, what I found the most helpful was the range of devices I saw being used and Which ones had issue.

Where besides here can I post a link to my game and have people try it for at least a minute or 2 so that I can see where improvements need to be made and which devices are having issues playing it. If people like the game then great but I am mostly looking to get a broad range of feedback instead of a few people here and there that I know.

If anyone here would like to test please do so and let others know as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pipsqueake.cupi2015

*NOTE: I don't have Facebook, so posting to 'friends there' isn't an option really.
How productive is an Apple store employee?
http://www.asymco.com/2011/12/08/how-productive-is-an-apple-store-employee/
Comparison across time of revenue per employee at Apple stores.
Exoplanets finally come into view
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725584.stm
Interesting read. I couldn't find any better source material that was free! Maybe someone else can find it.
Why Are Venture Capitalists So Hard To Deal With?
http://www.askthevc.com/2007/09/why_are_venture_capitalists_so.php
Jason Mendelson answers the question, "Why are VCs such jerks?" Apparently he gets asked that question, or a derivative of that question, quite frequently.
How One Startup Got Lucky With Big Time VC
http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/nycs-speakergram-heads-dave-mcclures-500-startups
A last minute addition to 500 startups new accelerator, Dave McClure's gut and leaving it all behind for the dream.
Sneak Peak video of JAMR: iOS music creation & collaboration App
http://blog.4track.fm/post/41371447469/first-video-of-our-ios-music-creation-collaboration
A brief video demonstration of our up and coming app Jamr.
Developing scalable PHP aplications using MongoDB
http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/118-Developing-scalable-PHP-applications-using-MongoDB.html
I don't think I've ever seen a Mongo tutorial focused on PHP. Here's one!
Talker's group chat goes free
http://talkerapp.tumblr.com/post/3878402846/talker-goes-free
Talker just made its group chat free for unlimited users. An interesting alternative to IRC or Campfire!
Responsive Web Design Test Tool with Ruler
http://designmodo.com/responsive-test/
Free Responsive Web Design Testing Tool. Test your responsive website design while you build them. Available for localhost too.
See peoples' feelings and worries in real time
http://feeloutloud.com
Just made this quick little site and pushed it out this afternoon - people can add their thoughts and feelings up to 250 characters, and then they are pushed instantly to other users in real time! Tell me what you think, all comments are appreciated in this product which has literally only just been released!
Ask HN: What should I bring up at the White House's Startup America event? 
I and my business co-founder, Mem, have been invited to participate in a discussion at the Startup America: Reducing Barriers event next week in Pittsburgh. We seek your input.

We will be joining Administration officials and local high-growth entrepreneurs to what processes and regulations need to be changed/improved to build a more supportive environment for entrepreneurship and innovation. Mem and I will also be attending a roundtable focusing on the Environment. (Our startup, Dimples [http://getdimples.com], is in the eco space.)

We want to offer you the opportunity to make your voice heard through ours. (We'll do the best we can!)

What are some pain points and/or ways that the White House can help you succeed in your startup?
When Nature Is Freakier Than Sci-Fi
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/09/when-nature-is-freakier-than-sci-fi/
The large tongue eating parasitic isopod is spooky. great picture.
2. Republic
Show HN: Hire experts in popular SaaS/no-code tools
https://heep.so/
Hi HN We have built Heep to help startups take advantage of the best no-code/SaaS tools and increase their ROI on the tools they already are paying for.

It's super simple - we match you with experts in popular tools like Notion, Bubble, Webflow for any kinds of project. So far we had over 200 companies build all kind of staff with makers on Heep - from improving their internal ops with automations (Zapier, Airtable) to building full scale MVPs (Bubble, Glide).

We focus on curating talent and making it easy for anyone to navigate the no-code space. We have messenger and payments built-in inside the platform and adding simple contracts soon.

On the talent side we are allowing you to monetise your expertise in any SaaS/no-code tool and earn $2K+ per month. Right now we have over 300 experts on the platform across 40+ tools.

We are still working on making the experience smooth for customers and the main point of launching here is to get feedback on what could be done better on finding/hiring an expert.

Would love to discuss what do you like/dislike about existing freelance platforms out there.

Love from Kyiv/Berlin
Show HN: GoogleKeep Taskwarrior Bi-Directional Synchronization
https://github.com/bergercookie/taskwarrior-syncall
Hi all,

Just released a new version of taskwarrior-syncall (https://github.com/bergercookie/taskwarrior-syncall). It's a bi-directional synchronization framework, which keeps in sync your Taskwarrior tasks with a variety of other services including Google Calendar events and Notion.

In the latest version, I'm adding support for synchronization with checklists in Google Keep. I.e., every Taskwarrior task is converted and kept in sync with an item in a google keep note check list.

Demo here: https://github.com/bergercookie/taskwarrior-syncall/blob/mas...
Twitter: Invented in 1935
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/12/twitter-invented-in-1935/
An incredible machine from 1935 which essentially is Twitter “avant la lettre”. Including photo!
Spectrum auction could revolutionize US telecoms
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/07/11/afx3902218.html
Google to bid.
Show HN: Using AI to write picture books
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VLO1CFOpFY2FKvKrnE6uczCiZ7ePuMlk
Ever wanted to create your own picture book? Introducing Mr. Seuss! Just input images of your protagonist and a basic storyline and he'll produce a (funny but weird) picture book for you using AI.

The linked colab uses GPT-J to generate a story and Dreambooth Stable Diffusion to generate relevant pictures to the story. It's completely free and takes around 30 minutes to run on the free tier of colab.

Let me know what you think in the comments! So excited to see what's possible for storytelling using AI.
Quadrigram: a Visual Programming Environment to Share Living Data
http://www.quadrigram.com
To companies or individuals who want more hand-holding with data visualization, Quadrigram offers a unique training service and the opportunity to pair users up with a specialist who will teach them and their team the basics or more advanced techniques within the platform. Training is a great investment, as customers can go in, get the knowledge that they need to get things going, and are then empowered to do work on their own with the support the documentation. Specific solutions range from executive dashboards to robust data war rooms.
Finally for companies who prefer not to work directly within the visual programming language, Quadrigram offers the opportunity to leverage consulting services, in which staff data analyst, designers, and developers use the tool to ensure clients get customized solutions out the door, far quicker than coding from scratch. Plus, with ‘big data’ extending in all directions, the use-cases for such a service are vast. Quadrigram’s clients encompass a variety of data visualization scenarios, ranging from those in finance, consumer products, retail, services, healthcare, transportation, energy and more.
The buzz is out. Quadrigram was recently chosen to be among five finalists of the IBM Smart Camp ( http://ibmsmartcamp.com/2012/10/22/5-finalists-announced-for-smartcamp-barcelona-kickstart/ ) and will be presenting in the upcoming Smart City Expo World Congress ( http://www.smartcityexpo.com/ ).
Additional Information:
Website: http://www.quadrigram.com/
Examples: http://www.quadrigram.com/action
Services: http://www.quadrigram.com/services
The Video: http://vimeo.com/41136214
Ask HN: Looking for a software to code a game with my 8yo kid
Hi,

We’re confined and my 8yo girl has started designing a video game on paper, centered around horses and riders.

She's asking me if we could actually program that and have a real thing to show.

Since we’re stuck for the moment, i’d like to give it a shot.

Do you guys know if there is software out there that has a basic structure in which we could start coding? Something woth a bit of asset mgmt, siund and so on..?

Ideally open source but I can spare a few bucks
Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution
http://www.vccafe.com/2012/12/16/learning-should-be-your-top-2013-new-years-resolution/
As we get closer to the New Year, the ritual of making resolutions begins and we all flock to the usual patterns: we want to to eat healthier, work out more, get promoted, or spend more time with our kids and family. These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013.
Ask YC: Feedback for ReviewGist.com
http://www.reviewgist.com
we have been in open beta for sometime even though we are still building out. Feedback/suggestions on product, marketing, biz dev would be nice.
ARM awarded EE Times Company of the Year
http://www.arm.com/about/newsroom/arm-wins-ee-times-ace-award-for-company-of-the-year.php
I'm pretty struck by the irony of them getting the award for staff development and retention after making several of their European sites (including where I worked) redundant last yaer.
What Can We Learn from Salesforce.com Cloud Database Initiative?
http://blog.xeround.com/2010/12/what-can-we-learn-from-salesforce-com-cloud-database-initiative/
In Xeround's latest blog post, Avi Kapuya shares his thoughts on Salesforce.com's new cloud database initiative Database.com.
Yahoo Wishlist opens for name reservations
https://wishlist.yahoo.com/
more info on this can be read here http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/55535441138/get-your-yahoo-username-wish-list-ready
Rate my startup - CertiVox's PrivateSky
https://privatesky.me
I've been a long time lurker on the board, but this is my first official post. My name is Brian Spector, I'm a long time crypto geek, working in infosec for about 20 years.

Last week we launched a new service called PrivateSky, which is a end to end, browser to browser encryption service, for free. Our first product is the PrivateSky for Internet Explorer add-in. Yes, we will come out with Firefox and Chrome soon.

I'd love to see what the board thinks about what we are doing, and if so, what we could improve.

I hope this is the appropriate place to post this, if I'm violating policy (checked, couldn't find anything), then please do let me know and I will delete this.

You can get the free PrivateSky Internet Explorer add-in at:

https://privatesky.me

What does it do?

CertiVox's PrivateSky SaaS is a major innovation in secure inforamtion exchange. The PrivateSky for Internet Explorer Connector add-in is a whole new approach to securing confidential information posted to the web, and anyone can use it. The PrivateSky for IE add-in doesn't require multiple passwords, certificates, or complicated processes to learn. It's simple browser to browser encryption that just works. Use it to encrypt your webmail, Facebook posts and messages, LinkedIn messages and even blog posts. PrivateSky uses the AES encryption algorithm, that means it is super safe!

Enough with the marketing schpeel, here's what we really do:

We operate an encryption key management server in the cloud. Our software connects to our key server to get everyone who enrols what we call a SkyKey. You can think of this like a private key. However, we are using a new form of key agreement called non-interactive authenticated key agreement, based upon bilinear pairing mathematics. No, this is not identity based encryption, this is non-interactive key agreement. It's heady stuff, but it has suffered through 20 years of cryptanalysis and is secured by the DLP.

Now, the thing is, there is no public key. There is only one key, your SkyKey. But, this enables you to create "connection keys", which are regular AES 192 bit keys. The analogy I always use is this: Suppose every time you made a friend on Facebook, a worldly unique AES key was created between you and your friend, and could only be created between you and your friend.

That's what we've managed to do, but in your browser. Oh, and there is a boatload of key protection, rotation, etc., going on in the background.

Again, love to get some feedback. I'm the chief bottle washer at the moment so I can't promise to respond to feedback immediately, but will try my best.

Thank you for giving it a shot and please let 'er rip, the good, bad and ugly.

Cheers,
Brian