jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Adobe joins Linux-phone group to spread Flash
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000072-264.html?tag=mncol
In an effort to spread its Flash technology as widely as possible, Adobe Systems has joined the LiMo Foundation, a group devoted to putting Linux on mobile phones.
Adobe's Flash Player is ubiquitous on computers, but the company's Flash Lite effort hadn't met with much success extending the programming foundation to mobile phones. With a new generation of relatively powerful smartphones on the market, Adobe is trying again with a full-featured but lightweight version of the computer software, Flash Player 10.1, due in the first half of 2010.
Flash is missing from the highest-profile smartphone, Apple's iPhone, though, and the upcoming iPad, a situation that has left Adobe unhappy. By joining LiMo, it gains a new avenue for corporate alliances, including some big names in the mobile phone market. Other LiMo members include LG Electronics, NEC, NTT Docomo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica, Vodafone, and Verizon Wireless.
Adobe said its Creative Suite programming and authoring tools for Flash will be able to create Flash programs for LiMo devices, a move it said will simplify building Flash into those devices.
"Bringing the Flash Platform to LiMo opens up a significant opportunity for Adobe to further its goals of open standards and multi-screen interoperability of rich mobile content," said David Wadhwani, general manager of Adobe's Flash business.
The San Jose, Calif.-based company announced the move in conjunction with the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona.
Dive and Discover Mission Becomes Rescue
http://news.discovery.com/earth/dive-and-discover-mission-becomes-rescue-111129.html
When the oceanographers on board the R/V Atlantis wrote that they were planning to "venture into one of the world’s oldest oceans—the Mediterranean Sea—to look for life in some of the most hostile environments on Earth," they did not expect that would involve a "full lockdown" in the science lab as the crew responded to a mayday call.
Websites Like Pinterest Worthy of Your Attention
http://devstand.com/2012/02/02/great-pinterest-like-sites/
Pinterest has grown beautiful and recently became the most powerful source of traffic for retailers and not only. Their system of image bookmarking is amazing, but you should know that there are lots of others who can provide similar results too. In the list bellow you have some! Let me know what you think!
Freedom of Information Requests - BBerry PIN-to-PIN Not Qualified
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-cuomo-blackberry-pin-to-pin-messaging-system-contact-key-staffers-t-talk-phone-article-1.1115034?localLinksEnabled=false
The Daily News is reporting that if aides of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo cannot speak in person or by telephone with the Governor, they are told to use BlackBerry's PIN-to-PIN messaging system - a function that leaves no lasting trail because it bypasses data-saving email servers. Consequently, a Freedom of Information request for all e-mails to and from Governor Cuomo's office resulted in an empty reply from the Records Access Officer -<p>"Please be advised that the New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search, but does not possess records responsive to your request."
Ten Years To A Computerized Human-Like Mind
https://www.impartial-review.com/stories/will-the-computers-really-take-over
A review of the latest research from the Blue Brain, Human Brain, SyNAPSE and Robotic Honey Bees projects. Reverse engineering the human brain by scanning & organizing information about brains at the molecular level. A new programming technique?
Facebook Wants More
http://greatpreneurs.com/facebook-wants-titan-aerospace/
Facebook Wants More and it's using a nonprofit to get more.
Help Tim (AskTheBuilder), and help yourself?
http://www.askthebuilder.com/tips-on-how-to-sand-wood/
Tim was featured in the Cnet article http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57549199-93/google-after-antitrust-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ about antitrust. His site has tanked after the Google Panda update. The site uses Wordpress, and at a cursory glance has made many mistakes. What a great opportunity to help what seems to be a genuine guy while offering a high-profile referral.

Someone needs to build a case study and help this guy.
SpinPod: Easy, cheap, auto-panning device. Thoughts?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/665986460/spinpod-seamless-panoramic-and-motion-time-lapse-p?ref=live
Couple of friends made this over a few months. They launched it today on the ol' KickStarter. Any ideas guys? Seems like it has a lot of potential.
Response ivr system
http://www.nexxphase.com/interactive-voice-response.html
NexxPhase often combine Interactive Voice Response or Web front-ends with our skills-based ACD - Automatic Call Distribution to make sure your customers with support issues are being routed to the exact individual who can help them.
Release Money Group
http://www.releasemoneygroup.co.uk
Release money group - financial planning, debt management, borrowing, protection and savings
99translations adds more integration features
http://99translations.com/release-notes/v1_1 
I am happy to announce that we have deployed new software on the server to add many integration features to our translation software:

- VCS integration GitHub, SVN and others (based on HTTP fetch)
- Issue tracking integration for Lighthouse , Jira, Bugzilla etc (the web site shows number of open issues with tags i18n and 99translations)
- Ability to review the translations and submit issues right into the attached bugtracking system
- RSS feeds - allows to get notification as soon as project state changes
- Moderator role for access control
- Tracking author of the translations per key to see exactly who translated specific string (allows to have multiple translators for a language)
We just released a new Bitcoin iPhone app – Bitcoin Stats
http://www.bitcoinstats.co.uk
Too bad Mt Gox goes down on launch day! We are working to replace Gox for Coinbase and will be updating the app soon.

In the meantime, we'd love some feedback on the app itself.

Thanks for checking it out!
Facebook's Ideal Future
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/kayak-indeed-acquisitions-intelligent-technology-facebook.html
Facebook should enter Google’s territory.
Show HN: I made a Google Sheets add-on that adds 28 new SEO custom functions
https://unlimitedsheets.com/
Hey Hacker news! This is my first launch here and I’m glad to present you: Unlimited Sheets.

Let me show you why Unlimited Sheets was created ^^

Problem

Google Sheets is a great tool. Actually, if you work from the Internet, it is one of the most used ones or at least in my field: SEO.

The problem with Google Sheets is that it is very limited when we are talking about functionalities related to the web (or even SEO).

There are a lot of good templates trying to solve specific problems. Do you need to scrape something? Here’s one template. Do you need to extract the search volume data from a set of keywords? Another template… and the list goes and goes.

I’ve started creating some custom functions that helped me in my day to day needs in order to avoid the template madness but when I’ve built more than 15 new custom functions it was not optimal to copy/paste every single one that I needed in a specific spreadsheet in order to use it. Imagine if someone on my team needed a function too in another spreadsheet, yeah, it was a mess.

What I wanted was to have all of these new features in different spreadsheets for all the users of that spreadsheet without the hassle of creating different templates or doing copy/paste of every function I needed.

Solution

I’ve discovered that Google Sheets allows you to improve its functionality with add-ons. The good thing about the add-ons is that they can work in several spreadsheets with just one click.

So I’ve created Unlimited Sheets, an add-on that adds advanced custom functions for your day to day needs.

It has some free functions and other paid ones:

Free SEO functions
getStatusCode
getSearchVolume
getUrlsFromSitemap
removeHtml
scrapeByRegex
slugify
suggestQueries
getAvgDailyTrafficFromWeek
getLocaleBySubdomain
getRunRateCurrentMonth
getRunRateNextMonth

Free utilities
existsInColumn
groupByCell
myReplace
returnCellInversed
returnLastCell
unlimitedVlookup (beta)
v2lookup
combineAll (columns)

Premium functions
The premium functions are a bit different from the rest. Every premium function consumes API credits as they are connected to 3rd party paid services. Depending on the functions that you want to use you'll need more or less API credits.

No API credits required
All free functions
selectRandomCell

1 API credit per execution
indexNow
scrapeByXPath
scrapeByCssPath

10 API credits per execution
getAllPagesFromSERP
getPaidPagesFromSERP
getOrganicPagesFromSERP
getKeywordPosition

200 API Credits per execution
getSearchVolumeFromGoogle (up to 1000 keywords per execution)

I hope it helps you in your day to day needs ^^

Thanks,
Think with Portals, 1980′s Style – An Interview With Mari0 Creators
http://lazyassgamer.com/think-with-portals-1980s-style-an-interview-with-mari0-creators-stabyourself-net
LAG: I’ve seen a few of the test videos for Mari0 and I must say I’m quite impressed. If someone had mentioned a Mario/Portal crossover to me a few weeks ago, I probably would have calmly listened to their ramblings and made suggestive glances at the nearest asylum, but it seems to look as though it could work well. How did the idea for Mari0 come about?
2600: "LATEST VERIZON DENIAL OF SERVICE ENTERS FOURTH DAY"
http://pastebin.com/qDNyin7a
(from http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12106 , pasted because their site is taking ~60 seconds to serve it right now)
World’s first gadgets
http://www.edotmagazine.com/world%E2%80%99s-first-gadgets
I was looking at a photo of the first ever iPod the other day, as seen above, and thought back to the days when that particular design and technology was cutting edge. It was released in 2001, boasted an impressive 5GB storage and had a mechanical scroll wheel with a design that still looks good to this day.
".. a console version of Diablo III isn’t out of the question."
http://www.gossipgamers.com/diablo-iii-feature-compilation/
Haven't they heard of nethack?
Cloud Workshop Focuses on Rediscovering the User
http://bx.businessweek.com/cloud-cmputing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F700773%2FCloud_Workshop_Focuses_on_Rediscovering_the_User%3Fsource%3Drss_cloud_computing%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bcio%252Ffeed%252Fdrilldowntopic%252F3024%2B%2528CIO.com%2B-%2BCloud%2BComputing%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle%2BReader
Cloud Workshop Focuses on Rediscovering the User
A Funny Reciprocal Link Image
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/A_funny_reciprocal_links_image
Due to a rumor humor ensues...
Show HN: Hot Take Oracle
https://hottakeoracle.herokuapp.com/
I made this just for fun a while ago - if you enter a person or topic, it tries to give you a random 'hot take' from Twitter. Hosted on Heroku free tier so sharing before it goes down forever.
Entreporn - fallacy or gift?
http://cubic-m.blogspot.com/2011/03/entreporn-fallacy-or-gift.html
The very existence of entreporn is actually useful for real entrepreneurs because it help keeps the fake ones at bay.
A laptop bag that can charge gadgets
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/01/tech/gaming-gadgets/powerbag-review/index.html
Thanks to a wave of new mobile technology, I can store my calendar, car keys, credit cards, music and notes all on my smartphone. That kind of convergence is convenient, but my phone has an Achilles' heel. The battery doesn't last forever.
Ask HN: Game dev communities?
Hello HN,

Most game dev communities that I've seen are forums. Are there any social news aggregators for game dev articles (iOS specifically) apart from gamasutra and a couple subreddits?

Thank you.
Angel Financing: How long until I get my money?
http://www.startupnorth.ca/2007/10/06/angel-financing-X-how-long-until-i-get-the-money/
In any early stage company, availabiliy of cash to fund operations & growth is an area of prime concern. So in this article I will talk about the timelines around securing angel financing. I will outline a hypothetical week by week timeline as a company progresses through the funding process. Obviously every situation will be unique so take this all in context.
Why you should say no to philanthropy
http://demianlabs.com/lab/post/why-you-should-say-no-to-philanthropy/
I don’t agree with everything Steve Jobs did, neither do I consider him an example that I’d follow. But I have to give him that not giving a cent to philanthropy was the best thing he ever did for the rest of us.
Show HN: I built a chess engine and AI in JavaScript
https://gavinong.com/projects/betafish
A few months ago, I saw a post on HN detailing how to build a chess AI. He used Chess.js as the engine, choosing to focus on the AI portion, but that was a bit slow and clunky so I've been building one of my own.

On 5s of thinking time, it beats Fairy Stockfish Level 6 on Lichess. Try it and lmk what you think: betafish.gavinong.com
How to find a co-founder (slideshare) 
http://www.slideshare.net/FranckNouyrigat/team-genesis
Introducing the MVT (minimum viable team) + a definition of founder that complement Steve Blank's Startup Definition... #enjoy
Pune Portal
http://www.punesite.com
Pune city of India - Get information about the city of Pune, hotles, colleges, schools, restaurant and bar, pune life and much more.
Deals from hundreds of stores
http://www.ckube.com
ckube aggregates deals from hundreds of stores daily and displays on a single page. Users can share deals with friends using facebook and twitter. ckube tracks the price changes of products and helps users to decide the best time to buy.
How to track phonecalls
http://www.addsource.com/how-to-track-phone-calls/
Learn more about call analytics and call tracking
Show HN: Fix your Mac's quick look spacebar preview
https://quicklookfix.com/
A tiny menu bar app to use when quick look shows a thumbnail instead of the image/video. Click the fix and keep working.
Which Site is America’s Most Engaging Social Networking Site?
http://www.techieapps.com/which-site-is-americas-most-engaging-social-networking-site-youll-be-amazed-to-know/
Try to guess America’s most engaging social network. Twitter? Wrong. Facebook? Wrong. Pinterest? Wrong. Google Plus? Wrong again.
Google sniper 2 review - Secrets Unveiled With Google Sniper 2 Methods
http://www.cpaleadexposed.com/google-sniper-2-review/
google sniper 2 review - Secrets Unveiled With Google Sniper 2 Methods
New e-commerce website - feedback required
http://www.jupitercrafts.com.au/contact-us/
I have recently launched an e-commerce website. Here is the address:
http://www.jupitercrafts.com.au/
I will be grateful if you provide your feedback if any and also asking your help to spread the word if possible.
Cheers.
New Google Earth Game - Zeptoblaster
http://knowledgecrazy.com/zeptoblaster/
I added collision detection to the models that google earth lets you add to 3d environment. To do this I pull in the collada.dae file and then parse it with a GLGE javascript library and get the 8 bounding box points for both objects and then I track these in 3d space and use these bounding box to detect collision detection. There is even an animated explosion. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Ask HN: Best tools for image processing pipeline at scale?
Hi HN,

I am a junior python dev. I have been looking for some sort of tool or framework that would support a large scale image processing pipeline. Currently, I built out a pipeline in pure Python and use Pillow, numpy, and other packages to download, manipulate, and upload images.

I have been looking into apache airflow, spark, kubeflow, and some other tools. None seem to really fit the bill of large scale image processing, but I would love any suggestions for tools or frameworks I should consider or reconsider.
Towards smaller units of discourse
http://balapagos.posterous.com/towards-smaller-units-of-discourse
The "the unit of discourse" (UoD) point caught my attention because I've been thinking similarly for some time now. I think it will be fair to say that most experimentalists who have been working in a given area for a considerable extent of time (say 5 yrs or so) would love it if there was a method through which smaller "unit" contributions can be made more frequently and openly, followed by invited peer-reviews for each of those units. This will free up more time to do well-guided experiments!
Send as Gift - End of bad gifts
http://sendasgift.com
Send gifts to friends and family with 100% satisfaction and no address required. Sendasgift.com will run your gift idea by them, locate their shipping address and even save you money when purchasing. End of bad gifts!
JSXGraph - the best way to visualize/plot data
http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/
JSXGraph is a cross-browser library for interactive geometry, function plotting, charting, and data visualization in a web browser. It is implemented completely in JavaScript, does not rely on any other library, and uses SVG and VML. JSXGraph is easy to embed and has a small footprint: less than 100 KByte if embedded in a web page. No plug-ins are required! Special care has been taken to optimize the performance.

Starting with version 0.80 JSXGraph supports multitouch devices like the Apple iPad and devices running any browser with SVG support.
Inspiration Overload: 100 CSS Galleries You Need to Check Out
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/inspiration-overload-100-css-galleries-you-need-to-check-out/
Whether you’re suffering from designer’s block, or just want to see what your competition is up to, design galleries are an excellent tool. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of them available, and this article has found 100 of the best.
A Brief History Of The Pixel Trade
http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-pixel-trade/
In 2010 people worldwide spent $7 billion real dollars buying pixels of various shapes and sizes. That’s more than GDP of Mongolia, Malta or Haiti. Would you pay $400 for a virtual horse dung or $650,000 for a space station?
Leap Motion Game 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEnbahFm-E
Leap Motion is making an effort to get some serious gamers. Video looks cool. If you have a Leap you should try it
Ask HN: What are some must know xcode / obj-c topics / libraries?
I'm trying to step up my iOS game to be competent + have the ability to use the appropriate libraries / tools when building any type of iOS app.

Some topics + tools that I've already used w/ obj-c + xcode:

-auto-layouts

-cocoapods

-afnetworking

-post / get

-fmdb

-json handling

-location manager

-mantle

-RNCryptor

-singletons

-blocks

-Segues

-kiwi testing

-spritebuilder

What are some other must know topics / libraries / tools (e.g. webview optimization tips, running an app in the background etc..)?
TeamLab Rolls Out Documents Management & More
http://kovshenin.com/archives/teamlab-rolls-out-documents-management-more
Not that long ago I published a post called TeamLab vs Basecamp: A Project Management Duel where I looked through the pros and cons of the two project management systems. We all seem to know where Basecamp is heading, but today I’d like to give you a small update about TeamLab.
Must Download Free E-Book Reader Android Application 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a1brains.SmartReader
4500+ Download SMART READER Android Application....!!! It's Awesome Android Application for E-Book Reading.. Must Download Application...!!!
NAICS code to classify SaaS on Canadian tax filing (SCIAN)
Hey for Canadians out there trying to classify their SaaS business on their tax reports the right code is: 518210

Page: https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?CLV=5&CPV=518210&CST=01012017&CVD=380377&Function=getVD&MLV=5&TVD=380372

Go to the full example section and you'll see SaaS (Software as a Service) is listed there:
https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getAllExample&TVD=380372&CVD=380377&CPV=518210&CST=01012017&CLV=5&MLV=5&V=336878&VST=01012017

I tried to reply to the original post, but it was too old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954088

Best,

Phil
Show HN: Plubo Routes – WordPress routes made simple
https://github.com/joanrodas/plubo-routes
I made a really simple WordPress plugin/library to easily create template routes and redirects. I'd love to get some feedback.
India's Politicians Hope To Win Elections With Spam
https://medium.com/p/7907eb75359d
Indian political parties are spending millions of dollars on online marketing, especially posting tons of spam on news articles.
Inactive windows shouldn't have 'close' buttons.
http://poll.fm/25gyx
When I have multiple application windows open on my desktop, tiled one over another, more often I happen to close the wrong application by accident. Does this happen with you as well? Regardless, please vote http://poll.fm/25gyx
Ask HN: Can we have news and entertainment in different tabs on HN?
I like to scan HN for hard news-items relating to hacking and startups. And whilst I also enjoy intelligent entertainment-style pieces, eg, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401994, having these types of articles mixed in with hard-news makes it difficult to scan for items if you're in a no-nonsense mood.

Perhaps we can have separate tabs for news and entertainment just as we have separate tabs for news and Ask HN.
How Yahoo killed MyBlogLog
http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/29/how-yahoo-killed-mybloglog/
MyBlogLog never took their service to the next level. Where is better user aggregation, Live chatting and follow ups on comments? To bad, it was a nice service
The Bevometer
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jrichmond/bevometer-i-count-your-beverages-for-fun-health 
Good morning Hacker News ~
We recently launched our Kickstarter for the Bevometer and think your readers will love it. Kickstarter runs through March 14, with rewards delivered in May. Our entire process is complete, it's just a matter of lead time receiving inventory.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jrichmond/bevometer-i-count-your-beverages-for-fun-health

The Bevometer is an innovative take on the traditional koozie. The built-in technology automatically tracks your beverages with THIS TIME + LIFETIME counters. Definitely fun and also supports a healthy lifestyle.

I'd be happy to provide images or content if it would be helpful.

Thank you for your consideration,
Jenny
____________________________________
Jenny Richmond, CFO
Bevometer, LLC
C: 503.789.5424
O: 515.274.9641
jrichmond @ BEVOMETER.COM
Just because people love things
http://www.michaine.com/
http://www.michaine.com/
"Just because people love things"

Is a 3 days Costa Rican startup, a kind of Social Network,
but just in few days the users are responding well, with
people from latin america and some other places as well.

Ok, we are just letting people to upload pictures, images about
their looks, where each look or Chaine (a local slang for Shiny)
can be classified under: Subculture, Product, Pattern and Color.

In a few weeks we are going to enable searchs, tagclouds and
filters on that taxonomies. Thats all. I hope not!!!

Thanks, I appreciate your time.

-- https://www.facebook.com/josoroma
Displaying the Newest Entries from a Database in C#
http://v4.dbtutorials.com/controls/displaying-the-newest-entries-from-a-database-in-c/
This tutorial will show how to display the latest entries to a database using a Repeater Control in ASP.NET 4.0 and C#.
Top 10 Signs Your Startup Might Be On The Rocks
http://www.brainfuel.tv/top-10-signs-your-startup-might-be-on-the-rocks
Number 1. You only work on your startup on weekends.
Number 2. Your co-founders take the weekends off.