jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Focused audience aggregator sites good/bad?
http://www.otakuwire.net
We are used to Digg/Reddit for submitting content links. Anyone/Everyone can use them. Found this Digg clone from a Dannychoo comment, which is focused on Otakus (anime, manga). What do you think about a website like this that has a targeted audience?
IOS Development as a Lottery: 59% Don’t Cover the Expenses
http://www.applecture.com/ios-development-as-a-lottery-dont-cover-the-expenses-51963
Some success stories are known to everybody. They tell us about one loner-developer who creates an application for iPhone or iPad, after that it becomes a hit and brings gobs of money. But in the real world the situation is absolutely other: App Store has extremely high competition, and even creation of an excellent program doesn’t guarantee that you cover the expenses...
Tocdown - vim plugin displaying headlines of markdown files
https://github.com/matthias-guenther/tocdown
When you are writing a tons of documents in markdown with many headings and you want to get an
overview about all the headlines you have, would it be very handy to have shortcut in Vim to simply
give you a structured representation of all the heading you have in your large markdown file?<p>The great taglist.vim plugin solved the problem already for variables and functions of many
different programming languages but not for plain markdown-files. That's why I wrote tocdown.
Twofish is looking for a Sysadmin
http://www.twofish.com/jobs-linux-systems-admin.html
http://www.twofish.com/jobs-linux-systems-admin.html

(Clickable link in the comments below)

We're a growing company focusing on the virtual gaming space, specifically in providing reporting, payment, economy management, items, and a long list of other important things to our customers in a tidy turn-key package.

Because we're growing, we've got a lot of projects coming up, and we're looking for a sysadmin with decent Ruby or Perl skills and experience in centralized configuration management via Puppet, CFEngine, or a similar system.

Our main office is based in Palo Alto.
Variance.js for streams
https://gist.github.com/1408219
Live example:
http://jsbin.com/iwiwuz/11/edit#javascript,html,live
Tresorit closed the second round of its hacking contest and still not hacked.
https://tresorit.com/blog/still-not-hacked-second-round-of-tresorit-hacking-contest-is-closed/
Secure cloud storage provider startup, Tresorit offered 10K$ for hacking their client side encryption. The blog reports they are still safe and sound, and third round is coming.
Covert Auto Shapes, Charts, OLE Objects & Picture to Image in a Worksheet
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-cells/archive/2012/10/12/convert-different-objects-in-a-worksheet-to-images-using-saaspose-cells-rest-api.html
You can convert different objects in a worksheet to image using Saaspose.Cells REST API. You can convert auto shapes in a workbook to images and save the images for further use. You can also convert single or multiple charts to images using Saaspose.Cells. You can choose a specific chart from a worksheet to be converted to an image. Saaspose.Cells provides the liberty to manipulate the objects of the worksheets and provides solutions to meet your document manipulation requirements. Using these features, you can convert ole object to image with efficient and quick results. An ole object may contain different types of external objects and Saaspose.Cells supports the conversion of such objects to images in no time. You can also convert pictures in a worksheet to images using Saaspose.Cells API. Another important and interesting feature is that you can convert a worksheet to an image.
Get a free Macworld Expo 2008 pass. Code: 08-G-PC152
http://www.macworldexpo.com/registration
I'm not certain I'll actually attend the expo this year, but since we're only a couple blocks away, I nabbed a pass. I remember ten years ago when I would have killed for a free pass to the expo!
How to Integrate the GroupDocs.Annotation for Java Library into Your PHP Web App
http://groupdocs.com/docs/display/annotationjava/How+to+Integrate+the+GroupDocs.Annotation+for+Java+Library+into+Your+PHP+Web+App
In this article I'd like to share a detailed guide of how to integrate the GroupDocs.Annotation for Java into a PHP application without having to use iframes.
Fedora and CentOS
http://ramdhan-materialsinformatics.blogspot.com/2011/12/fedora-and-centos.html
Three distributions are always a mainstay OS servers, 2 are free and one paid (maybe a new update thx pay) what is the advantage to the 3 OS's? Let us describe one by one
Ask HN: Best hosting solution for app that aims at customers in Europe
My app is almost ready, and I'm planing to launch it in 3 weeks. I'm little worried about scaling. I'm on Rimuhosting VPS (London data center) with max ~580Mb RAM. Cannot upgrade. So I'm looking for a better solution. I need data center in Europe or East Cost (USA). I really like Mediatemple (ve) but ping from here is around 190ms on average. Should I go for EC2? (i don't have much time for sys-admin)
Foofighters JS/HTML based album preview.
http://foofighters.fm
Nothing too special, just nice to see people using native, browser-based tech rather than flash for sites like this.
MVC tutorial with MooTools
http://www.qmetric.co.uk/creating-your-own-mvc-like-data-model-class-in-mootools_59.html
First part of a tutorial describing how to build an MVC javascript framework with MooTools.
Let’s Learn Reading and Writing Together with iPhone or iPad
http://www.applecture.com/phonics-and-handwriting-lets-learn-reading-and-writing-together-with-iphone-or-ipad-75364
Phonics and Handwriting is the excellent application for iPhone/iPad owners who have small children. The program represents the practical tool of a so-called phonetic method of teaching children to read and write.
The Data Science Pyramid for Entrepreneurs
http://blog.framed.io/what-is-data-science-data-pyramid/
A post on the basics of setting up a data science structure for online businesses. Post was originally inspired from a video co-produced by Google4Entrepreneurs + General Assembly.
Bill verplank on interaction design
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/extra/bill_verplank_2/capsula
audio of bill verplank speaking on interaction design
Design Pattern Monkeys are Monkeys
http://sathyaish.net/writing/Tiny-DesignPatternMonkeys.aspx
A one or two sentence article. People who memorize design patterns usually create more problems without solving a single one.
The Role of Trusted Human Editors In Filtering The Web
http://blog.publish2.com/2007/08/27/the-role-of-trusted-human-editors-in-filtering-the-web/
When you place a big bet on a new model, it's always nice hear that smart people are thinking about the big trends that underlie that model. So it was great to hear Robert Scoble, Paul Graham, and Larry Kramer thinking about human-driven information filtering on the Web -- and particularly the role of TRUSTED humans.
Building Your Startup Team
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/08/enlisting-your-.html
After reading my post Management: Competency one reader asked the following question: How much of a weighting do you put on an executive's technical knowledge, or lack thereof?...
Your bank account: The next thing to go obsolete
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/08/technology/abra-bank/index.html
This article appeared on the CNN homepage. Abra relies on the Bitcoin Blockchain. What I found particularly interesting is neither the article nor the company’s site, http://goabra.com, make any mention of Blockchain or Bitcoin.

This must be intentional, which I find very interesting.
Created sqlite database tool for android/iOS
https://github.com/pl4u/FlyingDB
I've been working on a python tool in my spare time to help auto-generate simple objects and a database adapter with simple CRUD operations based on a SQLite file for both android and iOS. I was thinking for simple databases, this could be useful, but not really sure. This is one of my first side projects. Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts. Thanks!
Silicon Valley: There’s no bubble but there could be a bust…
http://memeburn.com/2011/06/silicon-valley-theres-no-bubble-but-there-could-be-a-bust%e2%80%a6/
Are we in a bubble? This is the common question as I chat with people at various events around Silicon Valley. The concern that many are expressing is that if it's a bubble, then a crash is not far off.
Show HN: Android App for following todays NFL games over Twitter
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.followalong
I read reddit.com/r/NFL a lot and follow football games live over Twitter. In years past I did the same on game forums, live blogs, and comment threads. I found the process of following the game over Twitter too difficult, so I made this app to filter the public Tweets into a more comprehensible stream based on what side you're following.

I'd love your feedback on the application! Go Giants!
LG to Sell More than Double Android Units than Windows Phone 7 Ones
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/11/lg-to-sell-more-than-double-android-units-than-windows-phone-7-ones/
LG is expecting that by the end of the year, 70% of the smartphones they will sell will be based on Android.
Profile of Kevin Xu, Stanford CS senior, self described hacker designer
http://thedishdaily.com/radar/kevin-xu
Stanford senior Kevin Xu is everywhere. He’s one of three teachers for the student-initiated web-development class, Cardinal Web Dev, and the co-founder of Hack Design, a weekly email with design lessons curated by professional designers. He’s also a member of the business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, and part of a team competing in the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students’ $150k Challenge.

While Xu calls himself a “designer hacker,” he’s only been coding since spring quarter of his freshman year.
INISMO - Manage your funding activities
https://inismo.com
Online platform for investors & entrepreneurs to manage their entire funding activities like project collaboration, deal flow management, deal negotiations and project listing
Diana Eng's Fairytale Fashion Collection Debut at Eyebeam NYC
http://blog.seeminglee.com/2010/02/diana-engs-fairytale-fashion-collection.html
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Lighting EVER Partners with Energy Star to Promote LED Lighting
http://www.lightingever.com
As the New Year of 2011 begins, there’s a new appearance of Lighting EVER. We are the PARTNER with Energy Star of U.S. Department of Energy. It is big news for Lighting EVER, meaning that our company is qualified, and that our LED lighting are the PARTNER with Energy Star of U.S. Department of Energy. It is big news for Lighting EVER, meaning that our company is qualified, and that our LED lighting products are doing good at energy saving and environmental protection.products are doing good at energy saving and environmental protection. You can see at http://www.energystar.gov.
It’s estimated that if our individual customer, business organizations and government agencies adopt some products and building improvement programs labelled Energy Star, our national energy cost will reduce 200,000,000,000 dollars every year. That is not only a good means to reduce our individual and adminstration cost, but also a powerful measure to save less and less energy and protect our unique earth, which has been hurt so badly.

Gorgerous thing! Lighting EVER is the partner with Energy Star. It’s big news not just for us, actually it’s BIG NEWS for all of you! As eligible partner, we will work much harder to allow our customers to buy the rest assured with more ease.
How a Paris company amassed 220,000 creatives for its brainstorming platform
http://www.whiteboardmag.com/eyeka-amassed-quarter-million-creatives-brainstorming-platform/
This is an interview I did with a Parisian company who managed to assemble 220 000 "volunteer" creatives in 148 countries on their platform. What I find amazing about this story is the sheer number of that - 220 000 people, but also the fact that they're relatively unknown. Reminds me a bit of how Pinterest became a giant while hiding in plain sight. I tried to get them to explain their model in as much detail as possible.
"it could be the beginning of a second industrial revolution"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLB02GqWZJs&t=33
Understatement of the century.
New Free Bitcoin Pool
http://bithasher.com
A good friend and I have created a pool, and we are in the very beginning stages. After over a month of testing and developing on the Bitcoin Test network, we have made it live production, and are looking for some folks to join and help us make the pool better.

Heres the connection info:
Signup and create workers here: www.bithasher.com
Point your miners here: bithasher.com port 8332

Some info about the pool and its hardware:
Proportional Payout
Zero fees as we grow
API data coming soon (We are working on it right now)
Our servers (yes, thats plural ) are located in a very nice Datacenter located in Knoxville TN.
We have 2 separate ISP's providing very huge pipes to our servers
HP Proliant main servers with IBM xSeries as a redundant backup

What we can offer you:
A good stable pool that is in a very reputable datacenter running very good physical hardware. We are not running this on some janky Dedicated, or VPS. We own the physical machines. We chose a datacenter that is within a very short driving distance for us, and we have 24x7 access to the racks if needed.
Zero fees as we grow.
We are also welcome to any and all suggestions you may have. We want this pool to be what everyone needs, and looks for in a pool.
We are coming up with ideas that will be special awards for the first few users.
We welcome any and all miners, regardless of how small or large your rigs are. CPU miners are just as welcome on our pool as the big 2 Ghash rigs.
We have a forum in the works, that we plan to grow as our users suggest, and we are working on a hardware guide for new miners.

Come and be a part of our pool, and grow with us. Help us make this the pool that you want.
Google Drive API login returning 403
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
Not yet showing up on the Google app status page. Returning 403 (BadAuthentication Error) for known valid credentials. The web gui seems to be working fine.
Entity Framework Interview Questions
http://jinaldesai.net/entity-framework-interview-questions/
What is Entity Framework? Entity Framework is an additional layer between application and database that enables the developers to program against the conceptual application model instead of programming directly against the relational storage schema. Will there be any issues adding a table without primary keys to a data model?
New exploit could give Android malware apps access to user data
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/12/16/new-exploit-could-give-android-malware-apps-access-to-user-data-on-samsung-gs-iii-other-devices/?fromcat=mobile
The brilliant minds at XDA Developers have done it again; this time, a user by the name of alephzain claims to have discovered a vulnerability in multiple Samsung devices that gives access to all physical memory.
Show HN: We built a Full-Body and Face Tracking SDK for WebAR
https://lab.geen.ee/engeenee-doc/
Engeenee SDK enables real-time body and face tracking in a browser to build immersive WebAR experiences like virtual try-on or gesture-controlled UI. The WebAR SDK is highly flexible and can be used with any rendering engine or UI framework. Additionally, it’s extensible and includes a number of useful plugins providing out-of-the-box solutions for many use cases. Simple but powerful, Engeenee enables the creation of immersive WebAR experiences within minutes.
Paginate.js - Instapaper-style pagination in Mobile Safari (WebKit)
http://github.com/grantheaslip/paginate.js
Hey HN! Long-time lurker, first-time submitter.

A couple of nights ago, I was reading a long piece of text on my iPhone and thought how nice it would be to have Instapaper's pagination in Mobile Safari. So I made it (no App Store approval required!).

Once you've added the bookmark (it's a tad convoluted on the iPhone), you can open it on any page to add transparent tap zones. Tap the bottom or right side to scroll down one viewport height; tap the top or left side to scroll up one viewport height (the layout is the same as Instapaper). To temporarily disable pagination so you can interact with the page, tap the middle of the screen; tap the transparent overlay at the bottom to re-enable. Open the bookmarklet again to completely disable it.

I've only personally tested this on my iPhone 3G and the iPhone simulator. If you've got an iPad, Android phone, Palm Pre, or some other device with a credible WebKit browser, I'd love to know if it works fine (it probably should). If you have a fix to make it work on your device without breaking iPhone OS (iOS?) support, send it my way.

It also works in Safari and Chrome, but not in Firefox, Opera, and almost assuredly IE. I think it has something to do with the size of the bookmarklet--if someone can figure out a fix I'd love to accept it.

Feedback on the code would also be appreciated.

Thanks!
Want to give your site that official web 2.0 look?
http://laminatr.com/
wonder what happens if you laminate laminatr?
Elegancy for Bootstrap
http://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/elegancy-WB00627LU
Responsive Theme that extends bootstrap features
a must buy!
Ask HN: Do you need implicit parameters/arguments?
Article "Implicit parameters and implicit arguments in programming languages" can be found here:

https://www.publicationservice.org/Artifact/ImplicitParameters

You are programmer, right? ;) So, you should understand what I am talking about… I would appreciate any feedback!
If you prefer contacting by e-mail, you can write to: mikus.vanags@logicsresearchcentre.com

Thanks, if you can write something on such easy topic as parameters and arguments! ;)

P.S. I promise to publish next research paper on implicit parameter/argument use cases till Saturday.
HTML5 input tags module for Play Framework
http://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags
Play2-HTML5Tags brings client side validation attributes (required, max|min length, ...) and formats support (date, number, email, ...) to Play 2 templates.

The provided tags can also display forms with special input controls, like a numeric keypad to enter numbers on a smartphone, a calendar for date selection and so on.

Attributes are generated from the constraints defined in the model or in a form mapping.
Ask HN: How to build a chat room?
Hi Hacker News!

You have always been helpful in our times or need and we need you once again!

We need to build a chat room and we were just wondering if anyone has any experience doing this and wanted to share their experience or if they could point us to any good tutorial on the web or just give any reasonable advice!

Thanks,
Ryan
Comcast cuts Internet service to bandwidth hogs 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20633771/
"In March after Comcast sent her a letter warning that she and her teenage son were using too much bandwidth. They cut back on downloads but were still disconnected. She said the company would not tell her how to monitor their bandwidth use in order to comply with the limits."

Unlimited Internet too unlimited? When Internet providers decide where the limit is on Unlimited Internet...
The web is growing a million pages per day
http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/29/the-world-wide-web-grows-a-billion-pages-per-day/
According to Google, the World Wide Web is growing at a speed of a billion pages per day.
Thrift RPC library
http://thrift.apache.org/static/thrift-20070401.pdf
Thrift is a software library and set of code-generation tools developed
at Facebook to expedite development and implementation of
efficient and scalable backend services.
Tell or not – Get and write opinions
http://tellornot.com/
A micro startup for getting and writing personal opinions.
Linux emulation with javascript running in a browser
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Linux-emulation-with-javascript-running-is-a-browser-420004
This is amazing, now javascript engine are so fast to be able to emulate linux... what is next?
The Qrcode Bubble is bursting 
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=qr%20code&cmpt=q
Had a few QrCode products and sales almost dead. There was also no more interest and freelance projects related to Qrcode. Today, I checked a few QrCode terms on Trends and apparently people lost interest on QrCodes.
Callback Hell - An intro to writing more elegant asynchronous javascript
http://callbackhell.com/
A good start for people looking to write more readable JavaScript-code
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy
http://www.cceia.org/resources/audio/data/000434
Karabell describes and explains what he calls Zachary Karabell describes 'superfusion'--how the economies and capital flows of China and the U.S. became inextricably entwined to the point where neither can survive without the other.
Minnesota's startup community heating up
http://tech.mn/news/2012/01/26/tech-funding-doubles-in-minnesota-from-2010-to-2011/
wondering - does your state compile figures like this?
OMG Ubuntu 10.04 released
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-lts-lucid-lynx-released.html
This is by far my favorite blog to learn all the new hype about Ubuntu! And such a cool name!
Does Flipboard Represent the Future of Media?
http://www.techi.com/2010/07/does-flipboard-represent-the-future-of-media/
To say that the media world – particularly print media – is in a bit of a state right now would be a gross understatement. The arrival of the web and its impact on advertising, reading habits and people’s expectations happened so fast and so suddenly that people are still reeling from it.
Christmas Donation Time
http://pingbin.com/
Who did you donate to for christmas?
This code is JavaScript, not Python
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-18-progress/
JavaScript 1.8 is very pythonic. look inside
Should you apply to an accelerator?
http://lmalmanza.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/should-you-get-an-accelerator/
In the last months, the goal of been accepted in an accelerator program is taking the mind and the goals of many entrepreneurs. Yes, it is a reality that every day we see more and more new acceleration programs, but…
LeanBoots - Looking for bootstrapper stories
http://leanboots.posterous.com
HN Readers: I've learned a ton over the years by reading about others who have bootstrapped. Whether its via 37Signals, Bootstrapped and Profitable series, or other blog posts. But I haven't found a blog/site dedicated to bootstrappers, and the challenges they've had to overcome or weren't able to.

Everyone has a story to tell, big or small, success or failure, so if you'd like to participate, please visit http://leanboots.posterous.com and drop me a line.

Or if anyone has any specific thoughts on stories or direction, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!
RestTemplate with Google Places API 
http://www.jramoyo.com/2013/02/resttemplate-with-google-places-api.html
Example of using Spring RestTemplate to call the Google Places API
Is there a shortage of engineers in the Valley?
Something I've heard from more than one source. Are companies near San Francisco having a difficult time finding people to fill positions?
Passcode lock for apps
http://indygrab.me/passcode-lock-for-apps
Maybe someone else has a better solution for this problem...
Instant Wikipedia
http://www.theinstantwiki.com/
Instant Wiki after Google Instant and Youtube Instant.

-buzzcsk@gmail.com
GWOS Announces New SUSE-Powered Virtual Appliance
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/about/news/pr/suse-virtual-appliance.html
GWOS launched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance. Targeted at small environments, with a price of $59, the new appliance combines GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Quickstart with a fully supported version of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 from Novell.