jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Location Based Trivia Game
https://openyoureyes.app
Hi HN!

As I was travelling the countryside, I found myself wanting to know more about the cities I was travelling through, the people, their history. So I built a small trivia game to do just that!

openyoureyes.app (en-US)
ouvretesyeux.app (fr-CA)

It's a simple standalone Preact app that uses Wikidata's SparQL API to query points of interest around you. It then turns them into questions. Simple as that! There's only a handful of supported facts right now (demonym, population, etc), but I'm planning to add more as I go.

Let me know what you think!
Debate the Skeptic
http://webscript.princeton.edu/~amendelo/skeptic/
A friend of mine built this in a day or too. The funny thing is how often the skeptic finds a legitimate argument for why something doesn't work.
Zayo to Buy AboveNet for $2.2 Billion to Extend Fiber Network
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/zayo-to-buy-abovenet-for-2-2-billion-to-extend-fiber-network/?scp=2&sq=cloud%20computing%20news&st=cse
Zayo to Buy AboveNet for $2.2 Billion to Extend Fiber Network
Why iTunes U isn't all that Revolutionary
http://blog.famigo.com/2013/04/why-itunes-u-isnt-all-that-revolutionary/
Anyone who is interested in technology in education, we would love to hear your opinion about MOOCs and the way tech is being used in education.
Free Food Perks at Work: Why Catering is Key
http://blog.betterworks.com/blog/bid/76852/Free-Food-Perks-at-Work-Why-Catering-is-Key
In healthy corporate cultures, a well-fed staff is a well-fueled and happy machine of productivity. For this reason, more and more companies are bringing free food perks to the table for their employees. Gone are the days of workers jaunting down the street for a fast-food fix for lunch or dinner. With a growing number of people in the workforce spending at least 45 to 50 hours a week at the office, the time they spend eating in their work environment is an opportune occasion for coming together as a community to share ideas and build relationships. In addition to the social and professional benefits of rewarding employees with food, providing meals is a low-cost and high-return perk for companies.
Great web app that helps you shorten your tweets to 140 chars
http://www.feathr.it
This web app can be really helpful when you're trying to think of ways to reduce the number of characters in your tweets to 140
Send a anonymous hint drive a positive change
http://www.HintLibrary.com
You have a coworker who burp loudly? or hijack your meeting? a neighbor who practice drum at night.. let them know modestly without facing them.
Show HN: Free Lunch (pizza), on us (live event)
http://www.freefreschetta.com/
This is our (Catalyst Studios) latest project, a live pizza giveaway. We think it'll be funny and entertaining, so check it out! You may get some free pizza out of it. There are slices given away via a form, and bundles of slices given away for contest submissions.

http://www.freefreschetta.com/
http://catalyststudios.com

For the tech curious, the backend is C# .NET and MongoDB for most of the persistence.
Ask HN: Interships for HS students in India?
I'm a junior (i.e. in 11th grade) now.
Top 5 free project management tools
http://www.project-management-tools.net/top-5-open-source-project-management-tools/
Reviews of the following open source project management tools: OpenProject, DotProject, Open WorkBench, Gantt Project and JxProject.
The 5 best collaboration tools
http://www.project-management-tools.net/the-7-best-collaboration-tools/
Reviews of the 5 best collaboration tools available.
Even 12 Year Olds Can Write Their Own Justin Bieber Apps
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/even-12-year-olds-can-write-th.php
The true story of a sixth grader who codes and sells his own iOS apps.
Online Privacy: How Did We Get Here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCmKJyVx9AY&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLC3D565688483CCB5
A thorough and well-researched video on the history of privacy
Angry Birds-themed activity parks launch worldwide
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17451639
The mobile game's Finnish developer Rovio has paired up with the playground equipment specialist Lappset Group to create and maintain the parks.
Walk-through QuantConnect Algorithm Terminal
https://www.quantconnect.com/blog/new-html5-ide-and-community-discussion-feed
New algorithm development terminal from QuantConnect for designing quantitative trading strategies.
Untapped Knowledge Calculator for the uk
http://www.knowledgecalculator.co.uk
The untapped knowledge calculator is based upon a formula devised by Frank T.Smith, Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College London. The formula takes into account a number of different factors including the population of your region, income, lifestyle, educational status, travel, internet consumption, and employment...
Tech startup ToolSpinner helping with Sandy aftermath
http://www.toolspinner.com/hurricanesandy.html
Our tech startup ToolSpinner will help out those left without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

ToolSpinner is a peer-to-peer tool rental service (Airbnb for tools). Millions are expected to be without power and we hope to connect folks with unused generators.
Venturing to Gumroad and chewing
http://www.kylembrown.com/marketing/venturing-to-gumroad-and-chewing
An experiment with the Gumroad digital fulllfimment service.
Today's Trends Bode Well for Jenkins CI
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2013/01/todays-trends-bode-well-for-jenkins-ci.html
CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey’s views on how the recent Jenkins CI survey results reflect some of the current major changes in the IT industry. Also includes a link to the results and new State of Jenkins infographic.
The great NoSQL debate
http://consultuning.blogspot.com/2010/04/great-nosql-debate-what-nosql-is-not.html
A series of articles about NoSQL vs. relational databases
Implications Of How A VC Is Funded: Family Office
http://www.markpeterdavis.com/getventure/2008/03/implications--1.html
In my post, How A VC Is Funded, I listed four way in which VCs obtain capital to invest in startups. Each of these four sources of capital has slightly different implications for entrepreneurs. In this post, I will discuss the implications of a family office funded VC.<p>By family office I am referring to one family’s private capital. In this scenario the VC firm is essentially working for a very wealthy family to enhance the family’s personal endowment.<p>Capital Constraints
Some of these VC funds can have a relatively limited amount of capital under management. Since they typically don’t raise capital from third parties, they can only invest what the family allocated to them. Furthermore, once that’s invested they have to wait for a company to be sold in order to have access to more capital.<p>One risk in this situation is that if the fund has invested a large proportion of their assets under management they may not have the resources to continue to support your company in future rounds. The takeaway is that you should take a look at their balance sheets before accepting an investment.<p>At The Mercy Of The Family
There is some risk that families may
Pitch Platforms
Hello everyone, I need your help!
I launch a startup, there is a mvp version. Now we are looking for users for initial testing. Suggest some platforms to tell about yourself, something like product hunt, hacker news, or some online conferences where you can be a speaker and talk about your product
Business Development: Silence Can Be Your Friend
http://life-longlearner.com/business-development-101-silence-can-be-your-friend/
A business development post on using silence when pitching
Show HN: HTML5 Bookmarklet - destroys a website and lets race across it
http://msa.software.eu.playstation.com/
Would love to get the communities feedback on my most recent project
Cucumber: Making UATs the healthy choice
http://twoguysarguing.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/cucumber-making-uats-the-healthy-choice/
My current project team has been eating its vegetables. Has yours? Writing user acceptance tests with Cucumber, Webrat, and Selenium.
Dell in talks to buy firewall vendor SonicWall
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/13/net-us-sonicwall-dell-idUSBRE82C0QO20120313
It's interesting as there have been some recent articles[1] about Dell's Enterprise platforms gaining more ground.

[1] http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2012/02/dell%E2%80%99s-enterprise-revenue-grows-overall-q4-results-weak

[2]http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/dell-closes-force10-purchase-preps-networking-push/56313
Rails-debate
https://github.com/aaronlifton/rails-debate
User-driven debate site built with Ruby on Rails and jQuery. Users can create and reply to arguments and join sides. Easily deployed on Heroku after resolving gem dependencies.
Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?
http://volokh.com/2009/10/01/is-the-obama-administration-supporting-calls-to-suppress-supposed-hate-speech/
"And beyond that, I’m worried that the Executive Branch’s endorsement of speech-restrictive “international human rights” norms will affect how the courts interpret the First Amendment, so that over time, “an international norm against hate speech … [would] supply a basis for prohibiting [hate speech], the First Amendment notwithstanding.” And that worry stems not just from my fevered imagination, but from the views of Prof. Peter Spiro, a noted legal academic who is a supporter of this tendency. That’s not fearmongering on his part, but hope (hopemongering?) and prediction. So anything that an Administration does to endorse international speech-restrictive norms might well have an effect on our own constitutional rights as well."
Edmonton Iphone Application, Website Design & Software Development Company
http://www.rollingwave.com/
Rolling Wave, A Website design, development & Software Development Company in Canada specializing in web application development, mobile phone applications, iphone app development, mobile development, etc. We provide full range of web design & development services.
Ask HN: Should you execute a great idea that you're not very passionate about?
Would you work idea that you're not very passionate about? I have an idea for a simple website that I know a friend of mine and many others (who are writers) will enjoy to use very much. I enjoy making websites, but I'm no writer and don't enjoy writing for fun.

The idea is similar to http://fmylife.com/

Should I make the site?
Investigating Wholly – Investigation with Integrity
http://investigatingwholly.blogspot.com/
Investigating the whole of existence.
MySQL Partitioning: A Stopgap Measure? 
http://www.scalebase.com/mysql-partitioning-a-stopgap-measure/
Interesting post brought to you by my colleague.. asking is DB partitioning is the mean for a scalable Database? we believe it is not.. will be great to hear your thoughts.
Budapest Travel Blog
http://whattodoinbudapest.blogspot.com/
What to do in Budapest? Read our blog and you will find a lot of program ideas, tours, events, must to see things in Budapest and Hungary.
It's that time of the year. Steam Sale, hold on to your wallets
https://store.steampowered.com
http://spoilerwarned.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/steam_sale_time_wallet-240x300.jpg
Retro (Soviet?) Tech Gadgets 
http://completeall.com/Informative-general/Retro-Gadgets.html
Why is looking back at the technology of the past always so entertaining? I wonder what the bluetooth Apple keyboard I'm typing on now will be viewed as 25 years from now...
Use Appletalk over a VPN, *not* Samba
http://blog.merricklozano.com/post/23097980
If you ever tried connecting from a mac to a samba share over a VPN, you know how much that sucks. Setup appletalk (afp) and the suffering is over.
Dentist Calgary
http://www.abougoushdental.com
If you're looking for a dentist in Calgary who offers fast,
friendly Calgary family dentistry, visit Abougoush Dental. Let us handle your Alberta dental needs.
Find a Computer Job in Boston, Massachussetts
http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/massachussetts/suffolk/boston/
I have a lot more that I'll be adding soon - Harvard, MIT, Boston U, I expect many of the multinationals have offices there, like Intel, IBM, Apple and Microsoft. I've mostly been focussing on the smaller, hard-to-find companies.
Google Loses Search Market Share … to Yahoo?
http://mashable.com/2009/08/15/google-loses-to-yahoo/
Some interesting search market share numbers. Competition is a good thing.
Paulo Coehlo 2012 day planner is the hot item of the winter season
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Paulo-Coelho-Moments-2012-Day-Planner-English/290647038415?ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1&ih=019&category=268&cmd=ViewItem#ht_1458wt_1128
They were selling this for $800 in some places.
ContextJS
http://contextjs.com/
I made this script and was hoping to share it with everyone. Hopefully you can find some use for it, cheers!
Fergalicious Python
http://pastebin.com/qN1TXFwB
Let the editing begin!
Comparison of svn software. SVN vs GIT vs MECURIAL vs CVS
http://www.timedoctor.com/biz3.0/git-mecurial-and-cvs-comparison-of-svn-software/
There are a lot of opinions regarding which version control framework is the best, and can force programmers and project management teams into fierce debate.... a guide for PMs gettting started with version control.
New Hike Messenger App Converts IM into SMS
http://www.crazyengineers.com/bsb-hike-messenger-android-5116/
"Bharti SoftBank (BSB) [India] has developed a new messenger called ‘Hike’ messenger that will take on the rivals head on. (...) What’s so cool about Hike Messenger? BSB is trying to address one big pain-point with all the available messaging services. If you’re using WhatsApp, then in order to send message through it, your contact too needs the WhatsApp messenger installed. BSB says that Hike Messenger will address this problem. It will convert the instant message into an SMS and deliver it to the contact if they don’t have the Hike Messenger installed on their mobile. Of course, the users will be able to reply to your Hike message via simple text message and the app will be delivered to your mobile right into the Hike app."
"How to Make an Ask"
https://medium.com/lessons-learned/20cce60db545
Lessons learned from not making asks when I should have, and watching other entrepreneurs do the same.
IWeb.com Launches New "Kinder" Cloud Computing Service
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5768433/iweb-com-launches-new-kinder-cloud-computing-service
iWeb.com Launches New "Kinder" Cloud Computing Service
CornerStone Signs Cloud Reseller Agreement With Verizon
http://www.allvoipnews.com/cornerstone-signs-cloud-reseller-agreement-with-ve.html
CornerStone Signs Cloud Reseller Agreement With Verizon
Microsoft Powers Firefox Search (by Default)
Stumbled onto this accidentally and was curious how I had missed it.

After much ostentation recently regarding the shift in default search platform of the Firefox browser to Yahoo, I was relieved that there was some semblance of competition in the marketplace [1] (though I do prefer Google). However, back in 2009, Yahoo started serving Bing search results exclusively instead of maintaining its crawling and ranking systems, simply adding advertisements via its ad networks to the results. [2]

I'm most interested in how this plays out considering reports that Google used to pay around $300 mil/year to Mozilla to be the default search service--it must be a lucrative source of leads. [3] I wonder how the event would have been advertised if Firefox defaulted to serving Microsoft's Bing results? This is big business and, with the joining of Bing and Yahoo, Google may have a challenger (eventually), albeit as competition wanes--68% market share for Google, 29% Bing+Yahoo as of early 2014. [4]

Does it matter that nearly approximately 50% of average users (those that don't know they can change their default search engine) will get almost all content served to them as Microsoft sees fit? (A lot of guesstimation, but market share of IE+Firefox+Safari was approximately 49% Nov 2014 according to StatCounter) [5]

What opportunities are there for search engine companies to now highly editorialize/"curate" their results--i.e., pay for submission only, first 20 pages paid listings only, censorship of competitor products, skewing placement for news coverage from certain sources, etc? Seems that there are many interesting opportunities for search engines to monetize their services beyond a few keyword relevant adds on the top and right.
Painting a Landscape scene from scratch in Photoshop
http://tutorialstaff.com/painting-a-landscape-scene-from-scratch-in-photoshop/
In this tutorial you will learn how to paint a landscape scene from scratch.
What it's like in Y Combinator, Silicon Valley and SF
http://www.iphonedesign.info/blog/what-its-like-in-ycombinator-silicon-valley-and-san-francisco
Designer's first impressions from here (my post).
Innovathon - Pitch for Dubai
http://invemax.com/innovathon2013/
Want to validate your early stage project? Live for 3 months in Dubai? Get some seed funding? Get product development and commercialization support?

If you can easily get to Gdynia in Poland (Central Europe) on Dec 13th-14th I encourage you to register for our event :-)

We're organizing Innovathon - live pitching to http://TURN8.co acceleration program powered by http://i360accelerator.com . Pitching will take place in cinema room at Pomeranian Science & Technology Park (http://ppnt.pl/en).

Registration open till Dec 9th! Any questions? Post here or sent to info@3hack.pl
Don't scratch too hard
http://jonathant.com/scratch
There are caveats to scratching one's itch when looking for problems/ideas to solve.
BetaKit.com Summer Launches Its beta to Give Readers Context
http://betakit.com/2012/09/17/summer-launches-with-60-partner-publishers-to-give-readers-context
Summer recently launched its free Google Chrome browser extension, which shows users information about the people they read about online
E-Commerce Design Mistakes to Avoid and Increase Sales
http://designmodo.com/e-commerce-design-increase-sales/
One requires doing a careful planning before working for an E-Commerce site. There is a list of fifteen frequent design mistakes given and along with it the answer to crack them.
US Rep. for Silicon Valley hosting online Q&A
http://crowdhall.com/h/53
House Representative Mike Honda (rep for Silicon Valley) is hosting a Q&A for a couple days online at this link: http://crowdhall.com/h/53. Could be interesting to ask him about issues that impact the startup ecosystem.
Facebook Phone - The Un-Nexus
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/case-facebookandroidhtc-smartphone
With a Facebook-branded Android phone, apps that conflict with Facebook usage could be de-emphasized or stripped from the phone. Some candidates are Gmail, Google Contacts, and Google Wallet. This could be an Android phone that does not need a Google account to function.
The Shrinking RF Spectrum and Broadway
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/business/fcc-has-yen-for-broadways-wireless-spectrum.html
For those of us who have spent time working in the professional audio-video production world, none of this NYT piece is news, but hopefully the HN audience can be made aware of our struggles. I'll gladly answer specific RF technical questions in the comments.
Geekme About me in Geek style
https://github.com/pasindud/aboutme
Aboutme in Geek using a JSON file with all your details
Flat UI Updated to Version 2.0
http://designmodo.com/flat-free/?update20
Version 2.0 Compatibility with Flat UI Pro (Less instead of Sass), Bootstrap upgraded to 2.3.1, grids refinements, various Less compiler bug-fixes, Video module bug-fix, various small bug-fixes.
Car DVD Kit Player Portable
http://giga-beat.sale15.com/?p=135
Bitstream / PCM Out (1) headphone (2), A / V (1), battery Notes: 3:00, 4:00 load time, Li-Ion battery pack and accessories: remote and battery, A / V cable, AC adapter, battery, power cord, car adapter.
Google's go programming language 
http://code.google.com/p/go/
Go is a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language
Software Training Courses Library | IT Online Training
http://wingslive.com
Wingslive provides Computer Software Training videos and IT Online Tutorials.Our Online IT Training Courses Library contains 4500 Lessons in IT and Multimedia software’s.
A Wavy Snake Game
http://aquietzero.github.com/Znake
The classic snake game with "WAVY" effect~
Rooshv seems to be preventing SPAM by limiting registration duration
http://www.rooshvforum.com/member.php?action=register
Been reading this forum for a while, and the signal/noise ratio quality was really good. It was a bit weird for this kind of forums/topics.

This method might explain how they keep a good signal/noise ratio. Serious members will probably have to wait and be serious on the 1st day.
APISpark. Create, deploy and manage web APIs
http://www.apispark.com
Hey HackerNews community!
We'd love to get some feedback on our latest release of APISpark. Do it all in our all-in-one platform!
Samsung Galaxy S2 Hard Sided Zebra Head Print Shell Case
http://www.goodscool.net/china-wholesale-electronics/Phone-Accessories-Samsung-Accessories-Samsung-I9100-Galaxy-S2-Samsung-I9100-Galaxy-S2-Skin-Cover-Case-12077.html
Among many zebra shell case series, unique, exaggerated zebra head into the shell and add to the aura of fashion to your mobile phone.
Jodd micro frameworks, tools and utils
http://jodd.org
Jodd is set of Java micro frameworks, tools and utilities, under 1.4 MB. Designed with common sense to make things simple, but not simpler.
Why i deleted my Facebook account
http://hyperallergic.com/54018/man-bartlett-why-i-deleted-my-facebook-account/
why i deleted my facebook account
Meta-optimizing C++ expression templates
http://cpp-next.com/archive/2011/01/expressive-c-expression-optimization/
Using expression templates in C++ to enable lazy evaluation of vector and matrix expressions is a well known technique. This article goes a step further and shows how to optimize the expressions that are constructed using the same technique.
Cinemizer - New Multimedia Video Glasses
http://cinemizer.zeiss.com/cinemizer-oled/en_de/cinemizer-oled.html
Cinemizer is a registered Trademark of Carl Zeiss
Show HN: Custom AVR bit-banged software UART
https://github.com/mihaigalos/Drivers/tree/master/AVR/SoftwareUart
Bit-banged implementation in 120 bytes of assembly-optimized C using clobbers.
What Siri can do, But she is not ..
http://dndcaptcha.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-siri-can-do-but-she-is-not.html
Please share your comments on it..!
Python code for converting images and text directly into 3D-printable STL files
https://github.com/thearn/stl_tools
A small code I wrote in the free time that I now have due to the gov't shutdown. Enjoy!
IPhone 5 front camera will suck
http://blog.fixational.com/post/31398157010/prediction-iphone-5-front-camera-will-suck
Why FaceTime HD camera sounds good but really isn't much of an improvement.
Next time you are bored, read one of these
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles?y=2008
I just found citeseerx (a citation counter for computer science papers).
I wish i had more time to beef up my CS background knowledge -- I think this might be a good place to start ;)
Countries with the Highest / Lowest Average IQ
http://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-with-the-highest-lowest-average-iq/
There are many things wrong with this
Visualizing the Heartbeat of Twilio: a datavisualization of Twilio calls
http://www.twilio.com/engineering/2012/12/11/visualizing-the-heartbeat-of-twilio
Voxlineas is a live visualization of phone calls being made on Twilio. We built this as a way to show the heartbeat of one call and of all calls being made on API in context of each other. This data installation gives form and tangibility to Twilio’s complex yet otherwise invisible system. It shows an anonymized view of calls routing through the Twilio platform.
Building Businesses That Matter
http://scott-mcleod.com/businesses-that-matter-with-purpose/
Building a business that matters takes a vivid purpose why you're doing what you're doing.