jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
JSONBurner For RSS
http://jsonburner.herokuapp.com/source?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fax.itunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStoreServices.woa%2Fws%2FRSS%2Ftopalbums%2Flimit%3D25%2Fxml
http://sriram-iyengar.blogspot.in/2012/10/jsonburner-for-rss.html

JSONBurner is an online service to convert any RSS feed as JSON. This makes development on Mobile, Responsive web platforms very effective and faster.

Applications built on languages like javascript, ruby that provide first class support for parsing JSON, will find this service very effective.
NSA Cryptographic Algorithms (JEP 129) to be included in JAVA 8
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/129
See also:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/se/8/java-se-8-pfd-spec-01/

Search for "JEP 129".
Ask HN: Why is Jack Dorsey and jayz giving bitcoins to India?
I can't understand who they are giving bitcoin to and for what reason?
The Surveillance Self-Defense project
https://ssd.eff.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
Show HN: Locale, the first localization platform specifically built for Laravel
https://uselocale.com/
The first localization platform specifically built for Laravel.
Learn How To Strip Crimp + Test Network Cable
http://www.sultansolutions.com/make-an-ethernet-cable/
Made a tutorial that will teach you to make your own patch cables (a few people asked me how to make them).

Let me know what you guys think, and if I missed anything.
Basic Income Guarantee
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
Discuss!
A Developer’s view on iOS development…
http://sdk.org.nz/2011/01/06/a-developers-view-on-ios-development/
Dear Ycombinator,

I've been meaning to share some of my experiences as an iOS developer for some time now. This is just a small glimpse into the wide world of what's happening out there.
The film that reacts to your emotions
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11211/the-film-that-reacts-to-your-emotions/
Humans Invent spoke to the film’s director, Alexis Kirke, to find out how it all works. Kirke explains that sensors are used to gauge the emotional state of the audience. He says, “We’ve imported four sensors from the USA, we’ve got a heart rate monitor, an EEG monitor (brainwaves), a perspiration monitor and a muscle tension monitor.”
Link Tracking - (lies, damn lies &) Statistics?
http://zebugroup.com/blog/2009/06/link-tracking-lies-damn-lies-statistics/
Any Idea how bit.ly and other link shorteners/tracker distinguishes between a link lookup and a link click?
RoyalCMS: flexible website management
http://royalcms.net/
RoyalCMS is a content management system that allows complete flexibility.
Best android beginner video series
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL023BC9408BAFEC0C
the best video tutorials for android beginners
RandoSnap
http://randosnap.co.uk/
Send and receive random snap chats from other rando snappers.
Weird: Faces appear uglier when flashed with others
http://www.perceptionweb.com/misc.cgi?id=p6968
Abstract. We describe a novel face distortion effect resulting from the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. When cycling through the faces on a computer screen, each face seems to become a caricature of itself and some faces appear highly deformed, even grotesque. The degree of distortion is greatest for faces that deviate from the others in the set on a particular dimension (eg if a person has a large forehead, it looks particularly large). This new method of image presentation, based on alignment and speed, could provide a useful tool for investigating contrastive distortion effects and face adaptation.
World's Most Powerful Man? Meet David Beers from S&P...
http://chaselanc.com/post/8672903978
It turns out the world’s most powerful man is not a world leader, not an elected official and not a billionaire businessman. If you want to find out who can crash international markets and provoke the loss of trillions of dollars by erasing one letter (A), look no further than David Beers, Global Head of Sovereign Ratings at S&P. The aftermath of S&P’s downgrade to the U.S. credit rating was scary. On Monday, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 6.7% and 5.6%, respectively. All stocks in the S&P 500 retreated for the first time since at least 1996 – and the index’s 10 main groups fell more than 5.3%. So who is this David Beers guy? While most have never heard his name before, he is well known by virtually every finance minister in the world. He is a Wall Street veteran and graduated from the London School of Economics. Beyond that, David Beers background and biography is a mystery to most.

But what’s more of a mystery to most people is the power and relevance of the S&P, or more broadly, the collective group of rating agencies. It’s difficult to fathom how these companies have the authority to shake the global economy like this. Their role is very similar to a credit bureau that hands out scores to households and individuals seeking loans. Their reputation for assessing risk has been shaky on more than one occasion. Could this be a new blackeye for S&P? To be certain, it’s going to be tough for Beers & Co. to adequately justify their recent downgrade of the U.S. Much of the rating report submitted by S&P focused on the political dysfunction of the U.S. government as opposed to its true ability to repay its debt. From S&P’s perspective, the question really isn’t whether the U.S. can repay its debts, it’s whether the U.S. is willing to repay. The political logjam from the recent debt crisis highlighted the fact that the U.S. certainly has the ability to make payments but there are many politicians who are unwilling to write the check. And this is what the S&P is most troubled by. While Warren Buffett thinks the U.S. deserves a "quadruple A" rating, the S&P is only halfway there, and that is making all the difference in the markets today.
Exo May Have Finally Figured Out How To Get Americans To Start Eating Insects
http://www.businessinsider.com/cricket-protein-bars-made-by-exo-2013-7#comments
The Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exoprotein/exo-protein-bars-made-from-cricket-flour
How To: Measure your ‪‎TCP‬ Session’s Quality 
http://techblog.cld.sr/?p=166
How To: Measure your ‪‎TCP‬ Session’s Quality! ‪‎Wireshark‬ is your new best friend!
Hackernews for Mobile Applications
http://blogshare.in/category/mobile-apps
Share your mobile applications to the world.
Ask HN: Is there a way to get access to my comment voting history?
I tried to find a way to contact pg directly to ask him, but couldn't. Anyone know if this is possible? I'd like to analyze my personal voting record. I know I can find my saved stories, but would like to see voted upon comments as well.

At some point it would be interesting to get access to other people's voting records as well, but I hope that isn't easy to come by.

For those curious:

My goal is to look at whose comments I've been voting on, and overlay that information on their usernames whenever viewing comment threads. I want to give personal context to the users on HN. Essentially I want to mark commenters with my personal contributions to their karma.
Nokia’s Booklet 3G (Netbook) Comes With 12 Hour Battery Life?
http://techdusts.com/2009/10/14/nokias-booklet-3g-netbook-comes-with-12-hour-battery-life/
Nokia will start selling its first netbook in US, which will run on Windows 7 from Oct 22nd (Windows 7 roll out date). The netbook dubbed Booklet 3G is priced at $299 with a two year contract with AT&T which will provide the network connectivity and it will cost $.....
Show HN: Hacker News Mods - A collection of tools/mods for HN
https://www.hackernewsmods.com/
Hey HN! I built Hacker News Mods as a place to collect any tools or sites related to HN.

We just started building one mod/tool for HN per week, and I thought it’d be a good idea to showcase all of the tools we’ve created, as well as tools that others have created as well. The site is pretty scrappy, so any feedback is appreciated!

Also, please submit any projects that we don’t already have listed!

Thanks,
Jarren
Ask HN:  Is Duolingo's killer app really grammar checking?
For example, to correct the grammar of an English document, one could translate it to Spanish and back. The result could be used as is or perhaps compared with the original to suggest improvements in grammar/style.

One might expect English speakers to care more about grammar checking than translating/learning other languages.
Show HN Crowdspottr now released for Android and iPhone
http://www.crowdspottr.com/
Crowdspottr is an application that aggregates your friends' events & checkins from Facebook and Foursquare. The purpose of the app is to provide a simple tool that encourages people to go out and socialize more in real life settings.
Timothy Fitz - Continuous Deployment [video]
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9oujm/timothy_fitz_continuous_deployment_video/
Oops, direct link is http://saucelabs.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/continuous-deployment%E2%80%94the-video/
Technology in help for the blind
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/science/israeli-start-up-gives-visually-impaired-a-way-to-read.html
Advanced computer vision to help visually impaired has the most advanced user interface: point at what you want
Apple = God?
http://clarkware.com/blog/2011/1/10/trackpro
This is just ridiculous. Scroll down to the rejections. This is probably not the first and only article in this tone.
Do all devs see apple as a kind of "jurisdiction", a vis major? Is a rejection of your app an act of nature that you have to bow under, and change your business plans to accomodate for it?

To me, this is just another example to why Apple's closed platform can and will never be successful in the long run.
Show HN: iTheme, change the design of your Apps in Realtime
http://www.itheme.com
Show HN: iTheme, change the design of your Apps in Realtime

Hey HackerNews!

Here's my latest offering, iTheme.

With iTheme you create the structure of your App online, then let users/designers upload their own designs for that App. Plug the API into your App and you can change the design of your App in Realtime.

I've put together a Framework and some Samples to use this API here:

https://github.com/GameWeaver/iTheme

I launched this approximately an hour ago, let me know if you run into any issues!

Thanks for reading.

Chris
Very funny: tech support guy and business user
http://altgate.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/sales-vs-dev.html
Can't help but share this, it is very funny!
Store screenshots of your web app in Git
http://blog.glebm.com/2013/08/23/screenshots-in-git
Updated version of the August post with a lightning talk video from dotRB
CukeUp London, 3-4 April 2014
https://cucumber.pro/blog/2014/01/28/cukeup-2014.html
Not just for geeks
Occupy Gezi
http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/
Photos from protest against Turkish Government to show, people have the right to protest.

http://fakfukfon.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/atencionatencioattentionattention/
Show HN: Character-Based Git Conflict Resolution
https://fdietze.github.io/blend/
Hello HN!

I was always annoyed by conflicts that can be solved automatically, but still need human intervention. E.g. two people changing the same line, but at different, non-conflicting positions. So I searched for a character based patching library and found this nice article https://neil.fraser.name/writing/patch/ and its corresponding library https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch.

Parsing git conflicts, applying patches and showing some useful diffs in the UI helps me to solve 80% of my conflicts automatically. I hope it can help you too.

Happy Hacking!
If you want attention, support Mac OS X
http://labs.teppefall.com/2008/03/if_you_want_attention_support.html
I'm not sure if this is just randomness at play, but I develop software that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and my download statistics are showing some very interesting tendencies.

Almost all the people who download software are Mac users, even though...
Circle for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discovercircle
Circle
for Android
The Startup Library - 613 page downloadable PDF
http://garry.posterous.com/the-startup-library-613-page-downloadable-pdf
The Startup Library (613 page downloadable PDF of a pantheon of great startup blog posts and essays)
How can I live in the Bay Area - Only Focus on my startup.
Ok, Im not an Ivy league rich kid, my parents wont pay any living costs. Should I save up and work on my startup daily or get a part time job?

My ideal situation would be to work 24/7 on my startup and then start pitching it around and making connections.

Having a full time job would take up the majority of my time, but if it has to be done I guess I will have no other option.

Let me know your ideas or experiences. Where I live now has no clue about the web startup scene and has no Angel investors or VCs. Its unheard of out here lol.
Ask HN: What chance that we wouldn't notice Covid19 if we hadn't tested for it?
I'd like this mainly to be a statistical/mathematical discussion based on the present data about Covid19.
My question is: at what point in time did we know that Covid19 is killing more people than usual, based on the statistics?

My understanding is that the people that are counted as Covid19 deaths are those that were tested Covid 19-positive and then died from Pneumonia related health issues. However, Covid19 is possibly not the only Virus that can lead to Pneumonia and a person could be infected with multiple Viruses at the same time (I guess).
Do we also test if a Covid19 positive person has the current influenza Virus in them, for example?
Assume that all Covid19 patients also had the Influenza Virus in them, which might cause similar symptoms, then how do we know if a person should be counted towards "Covid19 death" or "Influenza death"? Or do we only count people to "Covid19 deaths" that only carried the Covid19 virus (and we specifically tested for other viruses)?

Also, I can't find base rates on the number of pneumonia deaths each year in Wuhan and the speed with which those are usually rising to determine how bad things really are.
What are the models that are used to determine how bad things are when a new Virus is being found and at what point do we usually know that a newly found Virus is bad?

Overall I would like to know: how likely is it, that we would have never found anything being wrong just based on the people that die from Pneumonia related issues this year if we had never found Covid19? And with what confidence can we answer that question?
Ask HN: _why the lucky stiff on RapGenius?
Can someone put this on RapGenius and explain all the puns? :)
Ask HN: What other SASS for developers (like Zencoder and Twilio) are out there?
I'm trying to think of new projects to start on and I think some of the best possible ideas are taking the existing professional APIs that I can pay for, like Zencoder and Twilio, and use them to make something really cool and useful for small businesses, online and in my local area.

So, with that said, I know that there are other startups like this out there, providing really great tools and infrastructure that I can use for my own.

Are there any, even your own, out there that you can recommend?
Xfinity pineapple – Mimicking an xfinitywifi AP
http://blog.logrhythm.com/security/xfinity-pineapple/
http://blog.logrhythm.com/security/xfinity-pineapple/
37 Signals - David Heinemeier Hansson Interview - Eventual Millionaire
http://www.eventualmillionaire.com/blog/2011/12/david-heinemeier-hansson/
Why you shouldn't ever be scared as an entrepreneur, plus more awesome tips about web app development. Including one action an entrepreneur should do this week.
Androidpttrns.com
http://androidpttrns.com/
androidpttrns.com is the shameless copy of the awsome pttrns.com for android
An evolution of IRC , just released
http://circlefy.com/
We just released something we've been working on for a very long-time. Ex-Google/Slide/Facebook engineers. Here it is. An evolution of IRC. This is just the start.
Buy an iPod, get a free virus.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/03/13/factory.installed.virus.ap/index.html
Going forward, I'm wiping new machines and reinstalling from disk when they arrive.

Not to mention that the factory install of os X was seemingly screwed up on my MBP and missing tar and gnutar entirely.
When Developers Are Afraid to Try Something New
http://www.datamation.com/data-center/when-developers-are-afraid-to-try-something-new-1.html
Anecdotal article about someone trying to get their team to use Scala, and ways to help your team learn about new technologies.
Ask HN: Email updates on comment replies for non-OP?
I often find threads with a few interesting and promising comments, which I'm assuming will have many replies to the discussion, but always have to remember to check back to the post. Is there any way to 'subscribe' to a comment and get emails when a new comment is added? Or maybe when new comments pass a user-set score threshold? Maybe this could be a browser extension?
Things your grandchildren will probably say in the future
http://deepakbala.me/2012/11/02/5-things-your-grandchildren-will-probably-say-in-the-future/
5 things your grandchildren will probably say in the future
Bighugewindow
http://www.bighugewindow.com/
Monetize your windows. Democratized outdoor advertising.
Any Americans using the metric system in daily life?
i.e. in day to day personal life outside of work/school
Free Flat UI Kit
http://designedthought.com/thank-you.html
Practice Flat design- download the free user interface kit.
Ask HN: How does one size a market?
I have always read that when validating a possible new venture one needs to know what the size of the market is for the product or service you will offer.

This seams like a simple task if you are opening a gas station in a neighborhood because you have easy access local demographic information but I have had difficulty coming up with realistic numbers for previous situations I have been in.

Take this product for instance. "A centralized log monitoring tool for J2EE applications". One would have to know how many companies in a target region develop or run applications based on J2EE technology. I have to this date not been able to find an accurate number for that.

Or another "A web based staff planning application for small businesses". In 2008, there were 29.6 million businesses in the United States but what percentage of those businesses would this product even apply to.

I am starting to think that the market analysis included in most business plans is somewhere between magic and pulled from thin air.

Can anyone offer some resources to help me better understand how you can accurately size a market for a particular product or service.
We Open Sourced The Courseware Project
https://medium.com/p/8cd484c1ef92
We built an online learning service and now we are open sourcing it.
The Zen of Steve Jobs
http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-zen-of-steve-jobs/
a follow-up for the recent link to quotes by SJ
The battery built to dissolve in your body
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/15970/battery-dissolves-body/
According to Jeffrey Borenstein, a biomedical engineer at Draper Laboratory in Massachusetts, when speaking to the science journal Nature, the induction coils needed to draw the wireless power from an external source take up too much space. On top of this wireless power transfer become is increasingly difficult if the device needs to go deep into tissue or under bone.
MIT withholds certificates from Syrian, Cuban, Iranian and Sudanese edX students
https://www.edx.org/faq
"Note: At this time, edX is holding certificates for learners connected with Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan pending confirmation that the issuance is in compliance with U.S. embargoes."<p>Should embargoes extend to education?
Review my startup - saas to create, manage, send proposals
Folks,
We launched a new saas application www.quoteroller.com that helps to create awesome proposals quickly and painlessly. Would you mind to check it out and let me know what would you do differently?
Thanks
Project Shakespurr: the Great Lolz
http://www.wordsarehard.net/p/project-shakespurr-great-lolz.html
Translating The Complete Works of Shakespeare into: TEH COMPLETE WERKZ OV SHAKESPR
In-Memory Data Management (September 2015)
https://open.hpi.de/courses/imdb2015
MOOC by co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG.
CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions
http://www.webdesignbooth.com/css-graphs-and-charts-11-hand-picked-tutorials-and-solutions/
Pure CSS Graphs and Charts are best way to visualize and present your data. It doesn't require Javascript and Flash. Hence, your CSS graphs and charts will be able to be displayed at almost all type of browsers/computers. Here we share 11 solutions for that.
New music search engine on the way 
http://cse-ece-ucsd.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-music-search-engine-on-way.html
More info about Herd It at:
http://herdit.org/music/about.html
Show HN: I made something you haven't seen 10 times already
https://popresolve.com/support
It has:
War
Alliances
Presidents
Voting for community leaders
No users
and much more...

I made this because I'm terminally online and I'm hyper interested
in online communities, how they function, how they evolve and this
is basically my bet in the direction that it's all going in.

That bet is that online communities will evolve to require
much stronger tools to enable mass collaboration, democratically
elected leaders/moderators and the war thing is just for fun.
Show HN: Vagon Streams – No-code app streaming platform
https://vagon.io
Hey Hacker News!

Today we're announcing our new application streaming platform Vagon Streams.

Vagon Streams gives you superpowers to run any desktop app on the browser with no code. Make your users run your application through your website and make it device agnostic in minutes! We'd like to hear your thoughts about it.

Use cases?
[3D application streaming], [Instant desktop product trials], [Virtual experiences], [Real estate visualization], [Remote training and education], [Gaming and entertainment]

Vagon Streams is fresh out of the box and we're looking forward to your feedback. Therefore, we're giving $25 credits for all HN community, available for our launch day.

We're excited to hear your thoughts & feedback!

Best,
Vagon Team
How to use storytelling to motivate your startup staff
http://foundread.com/2007/10/02/how-to-use-storytelling-to-motivate-your-startup-staff/
The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative , endeavors to explain how telling "a good story" is key to successful leadership, especially at companies in transition (like startups!).
Show HN: Dido – .NET framework to facilitate distributed computing
https://github.com/jbryan-76/dido.net
The project site contains more documentation, but the essential concept tries to answer the question: "What if there was an API similar to the .NET Task Parallel Library but for invoking expressions on other machines, instead of just other threads?". The goal is to allow developers to write, debug, and verify a normal monolithic application, start up a few generic .NET "runner" services, and then quickly and easily add support for distributed execution of specific portions of their code on those runners, without the traditional overhead that comes with explicitly writing and orchestrating multiple unique services.

I had this idea years ago but only recently found time to create a side-project to explore it. While I do not have as much free time as I'd like to work on it, it is now functional enough as a proof-of-concept to share and see if maybe there is value to someone else. At this point I'm simply curious whether the core concept has been implemented this way before, and to decide whether the idea itself along with this initial implementation are worth continued investment of time and energy to improve.

Thanks to anyone providing feedback or comments!