jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Open cohort base learning App for online learners
I learned to program from online courses, but I always feel that I could become a developer earlier than this. Because many times I postponed or skip the course until it's absolutely necessary for me to learn it. I tried to be disciplined, set a learning routine, use productivity apps, and whatnot. I tried to find some app to help me with this, I try finding the reasons and came across an article, which described that the average compilation rate of online courses is only 15%.

And finally, I come up with an idea to solve this and created an app called PeerUp. In this App, learners will able to create a small group of peers, set learning commitment, and track the learning progress, so whenever somebody in the group makes progress it will notify everyone in the group, I hope this way peers will able to motivate each other and eventually they will able to complete the course.

If you like to try it, please download the App or check the website, the waiting list is open now.

I appreciate it if you can give me your feedback and suggestions.

Website: https://peerup.online App Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=online.peerup.peerup

Thank You
Hemanshu
Slide ur Buddy - An Addictive Sliding Puzzle Game that's Challenging and Fun
http://www.webileapps.com/slide-ur-buddy-iphone/
See if you can challenge yourself to get to Level 5 ;)
Features of iPhone 5
http://tutorialnew.com/en/caracteristicas-do-iphone-5.html
Apple decided to innovate in the smartphone market with the launch of the iPhone 5. The whole market turned to the news that Apple has brought, mainly because fans and users gained much more quality in design and usability.
CIO, Meet The CFO: How  To Get More From Your Cloud
http://bx.businessweek.com/cloud-cmputing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fciocentral%2F2012%2F03%2F21%2Fcio-meet-the-cfo-5-ways-to-get-more-from-your-cloud%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss_home
CIO, Meet The CFO: 5 Ways To Get More From Your Cloud
Faircompanies.mobi: the ethical twitter
http://faircompanies.mobi
faircompanies.mobi aims to be your ethical watchdog

* faircompanies.mobi is a microrecommendation platform for ethical consumers. Like an ethical Twitter (TM).

* Use SMS, IM or the web to tell your friends which product you consider [fair] or [unfair], and why, by answering one question:

--> How is it going with the product you are using right now? <--

* Model of one message:

--->(brand: optional) + product + fair/unfair [choose one] + your explanation or recommendation <---

No need of symbol "+", periods or commas, but allowed. You can use or not the brand of the product/service you microrecommend. You must use the name of the product and type after it "fair", or "unfair", when a negative microrecommendation.

* Examples [140 characters to be used]:

"Apple) iPhone fair. Nice to use, revolutionary product. The good: charming, easy to use, full web, music, impressive interface. The bad: using coltan in the battery, plus it's a really closed and expensive product!"

"iPhone unfair. Quirky, expensive, nobody can type in that keyboard, plus the platform for developers to bring applications to the iphone is so controlled by the company. Time to think Linux."

* faircompanies.mobi is free. Sign up and enjoy!

The *faircompanies team
IE7 Support? Help please
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17301683/Webpage/index.html
If you have any knowledge of javascript can you tell me why this doesnt work in IE7
Our affiliate scheme is back - 10% on new orders and 5% recurring commissions
https://customers.hartserver.net/referrals/
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You can be set up and referring people within minutes simply by logging in or registering with us. It's free and you don't even need to have any services with us. More information is available on our Customer Centre at https://customers.hartserver.net/referrals/ where you can also find your unique affiliate URL.

Happy referring!
Train-tracker TransitScreen Eyes Seven New Markets (Washington Business Journal)
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/09/train-tracker-transitscreen-eyes-seven.html
TransitScreen, a D.C.-based startup that aggregates public transit times onto a single dashboard, is plotting an expansion to seven new markets. The company is looking to duplicate in New York, Boston, Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto and Vancouver what it did in the District.
Try Sharexy — a lot more than just a social sharing and bookmarking tool
http://sharexy.com
Social sharing is one of the best inventions in recent years.
What could be better than sharing buttons that will enable your website visitors to share links with their friends or the whole world and in turn attract more traffic? Nothing more than sharing buttons that can help you make money!
The truth of hiring (or where we get it wrong)
http://warpedvisions.org/2010/03/20/the-truth-of-hiring/
5 bugs in our reasons for hiring programmers.
30 Israeli Startups Compete to Win IBM SmartCamp
http://www.vccafe.com/mintigo/30-israeli-startups-compete-to-win-ibm-smartcamp/
IBM Global Entrepreneur, the computer giant's entrepreneurship outreach arm is looking for the smartest early stage startups around the globe that will help solve tomorrow's problems.
Follow-Up: Cheer
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/follow-up_cheer.php
In early August we reported on the third design of Cheer detergent in the last four years and it was the one that got the most response. The Cincinnati office of Landor was responsible for the latest design and they have supplied a few more images.
Free Google Apps version will be limited to 10 users for new customers
At least thats what I have been told via email (Google Germany). The limit of existing free Google Apps customers will nit be touched though.
Be wise while choosing your profile picture on Facebook
http://ateev.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/why-facebook-gives-option-for-privacy-in-profile-pics/
Anyone can access your profile picture, even when its private.
Visualizing My First Marathon
http://blog.stephenboak.com/2012/05/18/marathon.html
Visualization of marathon training data using D3 and Google Maps
ProCSSor.com is for sale
http://procssor.com
Great opportunity to takeover a highly respected resource for Web Developers.
MongoDB: Night of the Living Dead Ops
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/night-living-dead-ops
MongoDB users often ask about the “killed” field in db.currentOp() output. For example, if you’ve run db.killOp(), you might see something like:
Google now forcing you to use your Google+ profile to rate Android apps
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/11/26/full-google-integration-with-google-play-on-the-way/
"Google has made a major change to the way that app reviews are implemented on its Play Store. From now on, users posting reviews on the web store will have to sign in with their Google+ profiles, attaching their real name and associated data to their opinion."
Your Business Brickyard
http://tbbpartners.com/book
Recommended by Seth Godin.
After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/02/after-hurricane-sandy-ny-startups-have-to-find-a-place-to-get-back-to-work/
After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work
Seth Priebatsch, the SXSW un-interview 
http://iboy.posterous.com/seth-priebatsch-the-sxsw-un-interview
Thought this might be of interest. To get to know him better, here's some background on Seth and a compilation of information about his SXSW Interactive Keynote. It woud be great to meet with him at some point, but for now this is my first 'un-interview'.
Bitcoin Versus Electronic Money
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18418
Source : http://cryptocurrencylive.com/item?id=8832
AyurWellness - You complete health partner
http://www.ayurwellness.in/
Ayurwellness is a health site providing all services to make you fit mentally and physically. We are mainly focused on alternate medical streams like Ayurveda and Yoga. AyurWellness works like you partner to have a healthy life.
One of the best interactive news pieces I've seen on the web, props Guardian.
http://static.guim.co.uk/interactivestore/2012/12/28/1356717446349/309898/index.html
Saw this whilst browsing for news this evening, just wanted to commend the Guardian's work and share it with y'all.
Open your Source
https://medium.com/dima-korolev/cc387322e9e5
Gist:

It is social.
It makes the code better.
It improves discipline.
It reduces code duplication.
It helps making sure you are at the right place.
It makes the project better.
It benefits the company.
It benefits the company.
It pays well.
It is fun.
Convert any machine into a web server using these one liners
http://kudithipudi.org/2012/12/28/how-to-run-web-servers-using-one-liners/
A collection of one liners in different languages and tools for converting any machine into a web server.
Ultimate music experience for YouTube content
http://demiba.com/radio
The idea is simple: There's a plethora of Music content on YouTube but the experience of listening to music on youtube isn't optimized for music. With Demiba that's what we aim to do.

A few of our key features:

-Create radio stations with as many genre/artist seeds as you want
-Save music in a personal library
-Listen to music via natural playlists. For example, by artist, by album, etc..
-Demiba automatically attempts to find the highest quality most suitable video for each song so you get the best experience.

And lots more.

We've been working really hard on this and would love some feedback.
Notes from SF Google App Engine Hackathon
http://yousefourabi.com/cloud-computing/google-app-engine-hackathon-san-francisco
My attempt at live blogging the SF Google App Engine Hackathon --
What Social Media Will Look Like in 2012
http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=143145
Here are the top 11 predictions for what social media will look like in 2012.
The Math Behind Estimations to Break a 2048-bit Certificate
https://www.digicert.com/TimeTravel/math.htm
The Math Behind Estimations to Break a 2048-bit Certificate
ATV Flash (black) for Apple TV 2G Now Available (+giveaway)
http://www.appletvhacks.net/2010/12/02/atv-flash-black-for-apple-tv-2g-now-available/
Fire Core has finally released the first beta version of aTV Flash (black) for the Apple TV 2G.
Single bed in a lively hacker house
http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/137518
Looking for rooms in SF and came across this awesomeness.
Show HN: A utility for Google web fonts
http://fontutility.appspot.com/
Utility for finding out if google web fonts contain the characters you need
Ask HN: First Client Issues
I am a hiding my name because this is my first client and I don't want people to go looking for my company (though that might be great advertising).

I've got a client that I know through multiple relationship maps (former co-worker of my wife and sibling of a friend of a friend) and while I was not a friend of the sibling, I was an acquaintance.

Client has a cousin doing her Graphical Design but the GD doesn't have any web experience. GD sent over three PDFs, one of all the products, one of the website, and one of the website specs. The website specs did not contain sizing information for the images or the pages, it contained font/spacing/coloring/page flow information.

I asked the GD for the sizing of the web page and was provided an answer. There was some functionality in the site design which I discussed with the client and removed (GD was inaccessible) based on an agreement.

I finished the site and client reviewed making a few changes. Did a second review and then sent the link to the GD for their review. GD commented on the proportions being off and the distortion of some images. I agreed that the dimensions were off, but that's what I was told to go with and if the measurements I have are not right, I need to know what they should be.

I reached out to the GD via phone and e-mail. Did not hear back until I received an e-mail from the client to both of us.

Basically the e-mail's tone was that of threatening if I couldn't finish the project client would find someone who could and that if the GD can't get me the information than the Client doens't know what I'll need. And yadda yadda yadda.

So the question is:
Do I suck it up and make the changes or do I just write this off as a learning experience?

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Long time lurker..
Microsoft Sold Over 240 Million Windows 7 Licenses in First Year
http://www.redmondpie.com/microsoft-sold-over-240-million-windows-7-licenses-in-first-year/
Windows 7 was released on 22nd October last year. Meant to be the real successor to the extremely successful XP, Windows 7 added features like Superbar (overhauled taskbar), multi-touch support and better networking.
Free version of Lynda.com
http://www.lessongalaxy.com/
I like Lynda.com, but it gets expensive. Watching tutorials on youtube is cool, but they aren't organized well. So I made a free version of Lynda.com where you can embed your favorite youtube tutorials or upload your own. Hope you find it useful!
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, I create processes (and so should you).
http://elemental.co/post/71997507751/i-dont-make-new-years-resolutions-i-create-processes
I spent 6 and a half years studying chemical engineering at the University of Florida and the University of Colorado at Boulder, writing out flow charts for industrial processes. Much of my time was spent thinking about oil rigs and pharmaceutical companies.

Earlier this year, while talking to a professor friend of mine, the thought occurred to me that my chemical engineering background has trained me to think about problems in a unique way.

Prediction models can help us recognize early signs of systemic failure and develop methods for managing risk more effectively. These models can be applied to prevent everything from blackouts to oil spills to the spread of infectious disease.

So why not think of your life as just another complex system?
Ask HN: What do I do next?
For kicks and giggles (and honestly to keep my mind sharp), I built a memetracker. It is a good mental vacation from the day job.

It leveraged a lot of my technical interests in algorithms and machine learning. I put the result on the web, and am watching my statcounter flat line. Well, I get some hiccups when my gf visits.

So I guess the internet isn't a "build it and they will come" kind of place. Reality Checks are hard.

I'm not sure what I should be doing next to get the word out. Is there some magic I should be doing. Any veterans out there know what I should do?

Advice and pointers would help.
Ask HN: Housing index API
I'm trying to pull data in from a housing index (like FHFA). Does anybody know of a good API that's been built that gives this data?
Getting Your Financial Data With Node.js
https://github.com/euforic/ofxer
Get control of all your financial statement data with node.js
New free service... Instantly build GitHub projects with Jenkins CI
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/05/announcing-buildhive.html
Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi announced the new BuildHive service today at JUC NY! Now you can set up Jenkins-based continuous integration build/test jobs for your GitHub repositories with just a few mouse clicks. It is freely available for anyone to use. Kohsuke's blog post has details...
Go to gmail and hit the? key
http://gmail.com
Gmail keyboard shortcuts!
To the Moon: Bitcoinshop and Netflix now accepting Dogecoin 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/03/idUSnMKWrrC8ra+1c8+MKW20140403
10% off pet supplies
Where would you look for co-founder?
http://www.onfocus.in/startup/view/building-a-startup-is-hard-but-doing-it-alone-is-even-harder-09-27-36
Building a startup is hard but doing it alone is even harder.
The dangers of Constructor injection
http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog/constructor-over-injection-anti-pattern/
Good discussion on use of constructor injection within IoC / Dependency Injection patterns
Make ONE sale, just ONE
http://blog.eerlings.com/index.php/2012/08/23/make-one-sale-just-one/
If you can’t make one single sale of your product or idea, then tell me how you are going to make thousands of sales?
Show HN: AI Subtitling and Dubbing Powered by OpenAI Whisper
https://dubverse.ai/subtitles/
We built an AI video dubbing app by hacking together ASR, Google Translate, and TTS systems.

Added some features to sync the video with the audio to make the outputs consumable.

Couldn't resist ourselves after OpenAI released Whisper. Hacked it in under a day on our app and now we go live.

Next step is to integrate it to our video dubbing flow wherein we take a video, convert it into English text using Whisper, then localize it in the required language.
Tell HN: Herman Miller (makers of the Aeron) running a 15% off sale until 6/14
All their listed authorized online retail stores are participating:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/Where-To-Buy/Buy-Online

Herman Miller's Aeron chairs get a lot of love here on HN so I thought those who would prefer a new chair would be interested in this rare discount.
Shoe power generator could charge GPS devices, cell phones
http://news.latech.edu/2010/04/25/shoe-power-generator-earns-louisiana-tech-professor-national-attention/
Shoe power generator could charge GPS devices, cell phones http://is.gd/bJ6Rt
Is having a good grasp of computer science basics required for web programming?
There's lot of talk about computer science basis in hackernews, but in most job descriptions I see only mention of web frameworks and other stuff like javascript, dbs and what not.

Though I do see computer science degree as requirement in most of them and fully understand that with Rails and other frameworks its easy to create a web app thanks to numerous open source libraries and tutorials online.

The reason I'm asking is I was wondering if I should spend at least the next 3 months learning about the computer science basics or spend that time getting better at Ruby and learning new technologies that I'll directly use.

Sure learning both is better, but I'm more interested in web programming than writing a compiler or other intensive tasks. (True the experience and critical thinking would be helpful.)

Thanks.
Art Galleries NYC 
http://artlocalapp.com/
ARTLOCAL is completely free to download and use for all art lovers. Art galleries that wish to use ARTLOCAL as a marketing, sales, and data we offer a variety"
Game of chess
http://polishchess.com
Chess is an old and very difficult game. At least if you want to play it professionally. Casual player also can find great joy in playing chess. So if you want to know more about chess or get a nice set of chess figures come and check our website.
Hotel Booking Theme
http://www.apptha.com/category/theme/Magento/Hotel-Booking
Hotel Booking is a premium magento theme specifically created for hotel bookings efficiently. The perfect solution for hotel business ,if you are a hotel manager, this theme extension will make your job an easy.
Innovative Intative by industries, entrepreneur, Gov etc.
http://awillager.blogspot.com/2011/03/startup-support-for-startup-domain-by.html
Bill Maris, Davide Krane, google ventures, Jobfairs, Nycstartup, Startup America, startup referral, Techcrunch, Whitehous, willager.
Ask HN: What are some interesting programming language “features”
Title says it all, what are some interesting concepts, features, etc. in programming? From anything to popular languages like Haskell and C, to less popular or experimental/research languages, what are some interesting features? Examples of use, etc would be great too! :)
Hacked verified account going rampant on Twitter posting spamm
https://twitter.com/JCarew10/with_replies

this hacked account has been spamming elon musk's twitter all day, 8+ hours undeterred

heads up tp anyone who happens to be working at twitter to do something about this
Nanosolar builds 1Gwatt/annum solar cell production tool
http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/#post-33
Posted by Martin Roscheisen, CEO (on their blog)

As we are busy ramping our operation, we almost forgot to recognize achieving a major milestone in solar technology: The solar industry’s first 1GW production tool. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClLKVs9oSxE

Most production tools in the solar industry tend to have 10-30MW in annual production capacity. How is it possible to have a single tool with Gigawatt throughput?

This feat is fundamentally enabled through the proprietary nanoparticle ink we have invested so many years developing. It allows us to deliver efficient solar cells (presently up to more than 14%) that are simply printed.

Printing is a simple, fast, and robust coating process that in particular eliminates the need for expensive high-vacuum chambers and the kinds of high-vacuum based deposition techniques from industries where there’s a lot more $/sqm available for competitive manufacturing cost.

Our 1GW CIGS coater cost $1.65 million. At the 100 feet-per-minute speed shown in the video, that’s an astonishing two orders of magnitude more capital efficient than a high-vacuum process: a twenty times slower high-vacuum tool would have cost about ten times as much per tool.

Plus if we cared to run it even faster, we could. (The same coating technique works in principle for speeds up to 2000 feet-per-minute too. In fact, it turns out the faster we run, the better the coating!)
Kinect SDK from MSR - Access Kinect's raw sensor streams
http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2011/06/16/official-kinect-developer-kit-now-available-for-download.aspx
developers can work with the high speed skeletal tracking capabilities, depth sensor, color camera sensor and the microphone array. Oh and over 100 pages of high quality documentation and sample code to demonstrate how to use the sensor.
Open Access to Inspiration
http://www.openwit.blogspot.com/
The right order to get high search engine rankings, - The most useful free and open-source software for operations research, statistical and industrial engineering,.- Publish your data from multiple websites and services into a single HTML page. - Free Web Publishing Tool for Your Open Journal System
Show HN: Online reviews are broken. Wi-card - Yelp meets Path
http://wi-card.ch/
Born of frustration, we've built this website to have a structured way to memorize the places you've been and get recommandations from your close friends.
How To Ruin A Web Design
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-ruin-a-web-design-the-design-curve
Old, but had me cracking up all over again.
Amazon Access Data Samples Donated
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Amazon+Access+Samples
Amazon's Security Platform Team is getting smarter about the way permissions data is leveraged. This is an anonymized sample of access which was donated to UCI Machine Learning Library.

There are over 36K samples, each with ~20K attributes.

I am the manager of the Security Platform team that donated this data set so please feel free to send me questions. Enjoy!

Ken
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenmonta