jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
PushPlay: An(other) open implementation of the Pusher protocol
https://github.com/danbeaulieu/PushPlay
PushPlay is another implementation of the Pusher protocol (http://pusher.com, use them! They have a great service!) but it is written as a module for the Play! Framework. Can be added to an existing Play project or just run standalone in an empty Play project. Very easy.

The Pusher protocol is a websockets based event/messaging service. PushPlay uses the same exact javascript library that pusher uses, only with different connection parameters.

This may look familiar, a few days ago Stevie Graham posted about Slanger, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359097 which is has the same aim, but for different platforms. (You can see my excitement when I stumbled on his post considering the goals of our projects).

It is just a fun side project, and was made really easy thanks to the Play! framework architecture. Still some things to work out, but those should be fun problems as well.

Let me know what you think!
What friends' applications can extract from your Facebook profile
http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=591
Presentation given at BarCampMelbourne 2009 by Paul Fenwick.
Revisiting the many eye's theory
For a long time I have mentioned my main issue with FOSS/open-source development as it relates to the traditional Cathedral and Bazaar models. Eric Raymond's main point, as most of us know, is: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

I no longer think this is true, if it ever was. I would like to propose an alternative, more correct statement about the shallowness of bugs.

"The simpler, smaller, and more readable code makes most bugs shallow."

Or, more frankly, "Modern code is too voluminous for there to be enough eyes to keep Raymond's theory working in practice."

As we have seen with the PRISM revelations and multiple security issues recently such as shellshock, heart bleed, etc, much of what comes to mind is that there simply aren't enough eyes available to review code for bugs or other issues, and to me the only way we will ever get past this problem is to reduce code complexity and size.

The example I often use in conversation is that the linux kernel is at over 10 million lines of code now. No single entity could ever hope to fully parse all of that. As a counter-example, Minix 3 is at ~10k lines of code. (not a perfect comparison, granted)

What do the readers of HN think about this issue? Is it even possible to reduce code bloat in such a fragmented bazaar model we seem to live in? What can be done to reduce code size and complexity?
Run virtualbox headless as windows tray icon 
https://github.com/tarruda/VBoxTrayIcon
Alternative to VBoxVmService, requires no installation and you can easily build it yourself
9 Reasons to use Twtbuck as a business
http://www.slideshare.net/gaufire/9-reasons-to-use-twtbuck-for-social-media-advertising
Twtbuck is offering small businesses (especially start ups) an opportunity to try out Twtbuck's Social media advertising platform with small budget of $100.
Ask HN:Review our new service
http://thelifethings.com/
We released a new website, http://thelifethings.com/. It is a kind of todo list, but not only limits on personal todo list. It uses tags to share things which can be tracked by others.

Please give us some comments. Thanks.
Shane Smith of Vice Magazine keeping it real
http://new.livestream.com/iwny/thursdaystage1/videos/1093996
Gotta love his candor speaking about brands, content and advertising.
Web 2.0 Deals Spread Beyond San Francisco
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119017472849832220.html?mod=mkts_main_news_hs_h
Possibly Paywalled, so:

Venture-capital investment in so-called Web 2.0 companies, generally ad-supported Web sites in fields like social networking or blogging, is showing signs of maturity, with deals spreading outside the San Francisco Bay Area, according to new data released Monday.

The Bay Area, known for producing some of the most high-profile Internet companies, exploded last year with $413.7 million over 69 rounds of financing, which easily trumped any other region in the U.S. or overseas. However, in the first half of 2007, venture capitalists invested just $90.5 million in 25 rounds there, according to data from Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young LLP.

Meanwhile, New England topped the Bay Area in dollars with $102 million in the first half, over 10 deals, compared with $62 million and 12 deals in all of 2006.

Overall, the research showed that investors directed $646.2 million into 101 deals world-wide in the first half of the year, a 6% increase in investments over the same period in 2006, amid a rising interest in Web 2.0 in Europe and Israel. U.S. investments were virtually unchanged from the first half of 2006 with 67 deals and $357 million invested.

The data show that $52 million was put to work in 20 European Web 2.0 deals in the first half, roughly double the deals and investments seen in the same period last year. Israeli Web 2.0 companies raised $15 million in five deals in the first half, up from two deals and $5 million invested in all of 2006.

Investment in Web 2.0 start-ups has skyrocketed in the past two years as inexpensive technology has made it easier for people to communicate through the Internet.

"If you're a venture guy, there are few areas you can look now and find an equally attractive place to put your money," said Scott Raney, partner at Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Park, Calif. "You can't beat an investment of $5 million in a company that could get acquired for hundreds of millions."

Mr. Raney said companies better understand how to monetize the Web and are moving on from building a Web property -- like a social network that attracts a particular demographic -- to building a Web business that knows how to deliver targeted advertising to that demographic.

Meanwhile, valuations for Web companies continue to rise, a worrisome factor for venture capitalists in a much-hyped market. Mr. Raney said investors are split on whether it is best to invest in an unproven company at a low valuation or invest a large chunk of money at a high valuation in a company that is already gaining traction.
Survive In Recession
http://momentsofmy-life.blogspot.com
Layyed off?? Insufficient Salary ?? Don't worry - If you are serious about surviving this recession, we can get you there.
A Blog for  web and mobile Arab startups 
http://www.arabcrunch.com
ArabCrunch is a blog dedicated for profiling and reviewing arab statups and established companies in web and mobile.
Sad News: No MeeGo for Nokia N900
http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/05/25/nokia-n900-software-update-release-1-2/
"The reason? It’s really about ensuring that you have the best possible experience designed for the features on your Nokia N900 device."
Hackers School of Business--Some School for Thought
http://nabweekly.ca/?p=2635
Nabweekly.ca wrote a warning about a University in Alberta Canada who teaches their students to hack computers, this, an actual course. I feel this course is teaching their students to not follow privacy rules and that hacking is a criminal offence. Read more on Nabweekly.ca
The Analytics of Content Quality
http://www.jacobjans.com/uncategorized/202/
This is a question I'm grappling with as I'm trying to move forward with my publishing business. I think it's also one a lot of other publishers have been thinking about. How do we measure the quality of content?
EComputerTips
http://www.ecomputertips.com
Get the the best of computer maintenance,Networking,how to do's tips and tricks
Ronja, open-source freespace optic communication
http://ronja.twibright.com/
Freespace optics has the potential of providing orders of magnitude improvements over microwave links. So far, Ronja offers a 10MB package that is extremely affordable to build: <$100. Commercial equivalents can go easily into the thousands of dollars.
Cloud Throw Down:  Part 1
http://compositecode.com/2010/11/01/cloudthrowdown-part1/
The clouds available from Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace and others have a few things in common. They’re all providing storage, APIs, and other bits around the premise of the cloud. They all also run on virtualized operating systems. This blog entry I’m going to focus on some key features and considerations I’ve run into over the last year or so working with these two cloud stacks. I’ll discuss a specific feature and then will rate it declaring a winner.
Reimagining music notation publishing using the web
https://www.youtab.me/music/RvRHNOBWiRV/tzvika-force/accident
Myself and a team of developers have been hard at work to deploy our take on digital music notation. Starting off with signal processing for automatic chord detection and an HTML5 we are working on building a tool that can be used by the community and artists to upgrade the musical experience by including chords and lyrics as a default for music players. Currently we support simple text chords and lyrics and hard at work on the next feature set.

This is our first try and I'm happy to share it with you.
Alcohoot: This iPhone Breathalyzer Wants To Call You A Cab
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/this-iphone-breathalyzer-wants-to-call-you-a-cab/
http://www.alcohoot.com/
DrawPath
https://apps.facebook.com/drawpath/
DrawPath is a strategy puzzle game.
IMac Cluster?
My boss keeps asking me to take a bunch of iMac intel/G5s and turn them into some sort of cluster. Despite the fact that I know this won't lead to anything useful (I already have access to a cluster), I would still like to try it.

When you lay an iMac on its face, it becomes a "blade" does it not?

I am free to install any OS.

Hopefully, I would be able to run some bioinformatics software on it starting with BLAST.
Diagramming Product/Market Flow at Lean Startup
http://torgronsund.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/diagramming-productmarket-flow-at-lean-startup/
To achieve a product/market flow state (fit), a balance must be struck between customer development and product development. If a startup’s focus is too problem-oriented or to solution-oriented – drifting too far along one of the axis without iterating – flow cannot occur
Video stream from AngelHack 2012 from Seattle.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/angelhack-hackathon-summer-2012-seattle-project-kickout-me
Good morning,
We are happy to introduce a video stream from AngelHack 2012 from Seattle. Broadcast will be from Saturday, 9 am to Sunday, 6 pm PST.

You will see a process of building a Facebook application Kickout.me, the idea of which is to analyze existing Facebook friends and instantly get a list of all your friends who are passionate about the same activities as you, regardless of whether they have this app.

The team consists of three young entrepreneurs - product designer Anton Volkov, UI designer Evgeny Vasenev and engineer Sergey Generalov.

AngelHack is the nation’s largest Hackathon that will take a place from June 23-24 in San Francisco (Silicon Valley), Seattle, Boston and New York. Two winning teams will receive $25,000 in seed funding from Right Side and Instanta Capital. The top 20 teams will then get three weeks of mentorship from AngelHack partners, including Lean Startup Machine (a workshop on lean startup methodology).
Popup Architect - create free website popups (new beta service)
http://popuparchitect.com
Popup Architect is a new free service that we are working on. It will allow you to build and embed simple popups boxes for capturing leads on your websites
How to process 4 emails with iqtell in less than 60 seconds
http://iqtell.com/2013/09/inbox-zero-how-to-process-4-emails-in-less-than-60-seconds/
The new email macros feature on iqtell reduces email processing time significantly, check this one min video.
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea 
http://www.scitechexplained.com/2011/02/book-review-darwins-dangerous-idea-by-daniel-c-dennett/
Book Review – Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
GenAssem (non-profit) looking for technical expert
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/genassem-public-debate-of-legislation-and-caselaw-in-a-way-that-just-makes-sense/
I'm a graduating law student and over the last year or so I've designed (by way of UI, processes descriptions, basically anything non-programming related) a legislative materials analysis/debate platform.

I have received almost unanimous support from peers and colleagues in my law school and from lawyers and legislators in my state but I am still looking for that one team member to make an immediate impact.

I'm in desperate need of a permanent or at least short term committed programmer. I'm always looking for grants and funding sources but I feel like I'm getting dinged heavily (and probably rightly so) for not having any technical expertise on board. The link leads to an entry I made a few days ago to try and grab a slice of $5 million that the Knight Foundation is offering for open government initiatives. You can see in the comments right away that I'm being asked about other team members and programming decisions (which I can mostly answer but have no ability to execute).

Please hit me up if you're interested or if you think you might be interested and you'd like to know more.
Owlmark – Beatiful Chrome Bookmarks
http://owlmark.com
Chrome bookmarks are boring to browse, with Owlmark, you can see the screenshots of your links, so you can browse more visually.
Penumbra: Overture Goes Open-Source
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2010/05/penumbra-overture-goes-open-source.html
Continuing the release of games in the Humble Indie Game Bundle, Penumbra: Overture goes open source. It's arguably the most technologically advanced of the bundle and should be pretty interesting to look at.
‘Tether’ HTML5 Web Based App: iPhone Tethering Service To Your PC
http://cydiaism.com/download-tether-html5-web-based-app-iphone-tethering-service-to-your-pc/
‘Tether’ HTML5 Web Based App: iPhone Tethering Service To Your PC
DVD to iPhone Converter
http://www.dvdtoiphone4.net/dvd-to-iphone-converter/index.html
DVD to iPhone Converter – is a powerful DVD Converter and Anti-Copy Remover software to remove anti-copy protection from DVD movies and CD music.

This DVD Converter for iPhone is capable of converting various video and audio files, like DVD, CD, .ISO files, etc., with the perfect quality and fast speed.

The DVD to iPhone Converter Software is designed to convert video for your iPhone or iTunes, supporting the 720p HD video spec.

Features:
1. Rip DVD for Playback on iPhone
This DVD to iPhone Converter helps you remove DVD restrictions such as CSS, RC and RCE and convert DVD video to MP4, M4V, MOV, MP3, M4A, AAC for iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS,iPhone 4, Apple TV and iPad.
2. Split and Merge DVD Videos
If the DVD movie is too large for your iPhone, you can simple split it into several segments by setting split time or split size. You can also merge multiple selected titles into one large file.
3. Append Special Effects
Crop the black bar from DVD movie to retain what you want, add special effects or picture/text watermark to personalize your DVD video, and adjust the professional parameters to fit them with your iPhone.
4. Easy to Use
With the easy-to-use and understandable interface, you can complete the conversion from DVD to iPhone only with a few clicks. And the batch mode conversion makes the conversion of multiple files a breeze.
How Google Translate Changes RescueTime's Support
http://www.jasongrimes.com/how-google-translate-changes-rescuetimes-supp
YC alum. Thanks.
Show HN: Be a better developer with me
http://frontenddevweekly.com/
The web is filled with fluffy resources for developers. There's a plethora of libraries that are cool but most developers will never use. My newsletter is meant to be a way to deliver only valuable content to front-end developers. I do the searching through all the resources and my promise is that I won't give you anything that knowing or using wouldn't make you a better or more valuable developer.
FileBot - The ultimate tv renamer / subtitle downloader / sfv validator
http://filebot.sourceforge.net
FileBot is the ultimate tool for mass renaming your tv shows and anime and downloading subtitles from various sources. Check it out!
The banks fighting COVID
NOT. Or I probably do not understand something. They're closing many branches and tell people to use very few that are opened. They say it is because they care about public health and want to reduce chance of transmission. My thinking is that by closing branches they're encouraging more people to come to fewer places. This increases the concentration and hence I think it actually increases the chances of transmission.
Please don't steal this Web content
http://news.com.com/Please+dont+steal+this+Web+content/2100-1024_3-6200283.html?tag=nefd.lede
Lorelle VanFossen is passionate. An author, travel writer and nature photographer, she also has a popular blog about, well, blogging. Her pet peeve is online plagiarism, which she encounters nearly every day.
Improve Accessibility of Forms with User Input in ASP.NET
http://jinaldesai.net/improve-accessibility-of-forms-with-user-input-in-asp-net/
While doing data entry in large web form(or even in forms having small number of fields) people normally not prefer to use a mouse. Some user even found difficult of using such pointing devices whle entering data into web form.
Stop Sharing Session State between Multiple Tabs of Browser 
http://jinaldesai.net/stop-sharing-session-state-between-multiple-tabs-of-browser/
Scenario: By default all browsers share session state between multiple tabs. So if you logged into one tab with particular site and open internal link of the same site in new tab, you need not to worry to login again.
My Fiance made our lovely Wedding E-Invite
http://shar-weds-ashwin.com/
Wedding website templates out there suck!
Sharadha and I are both hackers. She built most of our wedding invite. Thought U guys might like it.
Show HN: Mov.to – Convert MOV files to anything
https://mov.to
Hey HN, I made a bunch of these converters over the past couple years. It originally started as just one, but then I kept seeing the domains for sale/expire, so I kept expanding.

In hindsight, not the smartest idea when a bug happens I have to push it to 12 sites, but either way I think this is the last one of these since I am burnt out on converters.
Photo editing services | Image editing services | Photo editing company
http://www.data-entry-india.com/digital-content-conversion-services/image-photo-editing-services-india.htm
Data-Entry-India, a Photo Editing Company offer photo editing services and image editing services to many industries like online retailers, catalog companies, publishing firms and advertising agencies etc.
I really dont like spark, and scala sucks too
i do ml/dl at a mid sized company and spark is terrible for this
other features seem good and other engs are content
any suggestions? yes im talking about databrricks btw
4 Non Obvious Ways To Be More Consistent
http://iqtell.com/2013/08/4-non-obvious-ways-to-be-more-consistent/
Being consistent is one of our more difficult daily challenges, keeping ourselves on track requires sometimes creative solutions, check them out >>
Watch TV Shows Online, Free TV Show Downloads,
http://download-tvshows.com/
Download TV Shows from a complete online entertainment resource. Download and Watch all popular TV Shows including action, adventure, animation etc
the one stop shop for all your tv show cravings recommended by experts.safe and secure download and that even FREE don risk your pc security by going to other mentioned sites hereby and just click through them to enjoy lot more..i relish watching tv shows online in free time.everybody shuld have a sneek peek at the entertaining shows m sure all will like it to the fullest .
Investment Banker Quits to Pursue Speed Skating Profession
http://www.longtracklongshot.com/Blog.php/reality-check-investment-banking-from-the-outside-looking-in
This story has nothing about hacking but relates to many of the topics discussed here. It's basically the story of an investment banker, who is motivated by the 2010 Olympics and decides to pursue a sport he's never before participated in.<p>I remember reading about a guy who's applying the 10K hour rule to golf as a personal experiment, and people here seemed to draw many parallels to their pursuit of programming proficiency. This guy is pretty much pursuing the same 10K hour experiment but doesn't know it.
Maine lawyers
http://www.orsolaw.com/services.html
Our Maine law firm, located in York Harbor, offers a complete array of legal services. Gregory Orso is a Maine lawyer who specializes in law litigation, municipal law, civil litigation and other litigation services.
Top Twenty-Five Open Source Software Apps for Engineers
http://onlineengineeringprograms.org/2011/top-25-open-source-software-apps-for-engineers/
If you are interested in engineering, you probably know that you often need computer programs to help you accomplish various tasks. These computer programs can be expensive, though, or difficult to customize. With the help of open source software, though, you can usually find lower prices and have access to code that allows you to customize as needed.
Welcome to Fantasyland
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/02/29/DD106102.DTL
Old but good.
Vpo
http://www.devpo.es
Vpo
How Twitter Can Make You A Better SEO
http://www.kumailhemani.com/how-twitter-can-make-you-a-better-seo/
Everybody talks about Twitter and its effectiveness in strategies for SEO, website traffic, business promotion, branding, networking, and connection with customers. All True! Twitter works best for all the above specified areas and is ideal for every business niche. With 500 Million total users and 140 Million active users from different age groups the platform produces more than 250 million tweets per day.
Motorola Mobility and Telstra Presents Motorola XOOM to Australia
http://technotechz.blogspot.com/2011/04/motorola-mobility-and-telstra-presents.html
Motorola XOOM is the first device to operate on the Android, ie Honeycomb platform. Motorola XOOM is facilitated with 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 32 GB of memory
Launching Canada's consulting privacy officer role on Mon & would love feedback
http://privasectech.com/consulting-privacy-officer/
Anyone that deals with personally identifiable information (PII) in Canada legally needs a privacy officer and compliance with the federal and/or provincial privacy legislation.
My target market is the small to medium sized businesses (30k to 3M) which appear under served in this area.
If you meet both of the above, you are within my target market.
I'm passionate about this issue, and want to help your organization come into compliance from a privacy as well as a technical security perspective.
I would love any constructive feedback on what it would take your organization to be my customer, if it's in my target market. If you're not in my target market, I still welcome any constructive feedback you're willing to provide.
Thanks for taking the time!
Luck By Chance Movie
http://online-new-movie.blogspot.com/2009/01/luck-by-chance.html
Luck By Chance Movie,Watch Luck By Chance Movie,Free Luck By Chance Movie
Who actually watched Palin, McCain and their speeches and interviews
http://www.visiblemeasures.com/news-and-events/blog/bid/6683/Palin-s-Viral-Video-Voyage-Trumps-McCain-on-the-View-But-the-SNL-skit-rules-them-all
Great post which proves that SNL trumps all.
Facebook is just playing with us again, DON’T PANIC
http://www.fenixapps.com/blog/facebook-is-just-playing-with-us-again-dont-panic/
Yesterday Facebook announced possibility of running contest on your Facebook page without 3rd party apps. This is what we think about it.
State of Data This Week - #83
http://doctordata.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/state-of-data-83/
With Data Presentation guidelines from UN (courtesy: statsblog) and other happenings in Data world
Expert Answers: Ask Solicitors 
http://www.expertanswers.co.uk/blog/expert-answers-ask-solicitors/
Be careful when signing a business lease you can find your yourself paying for everybody else s mishaps