jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Buildix 2 AMI Image Available
http://buildix.thoughtworks.com/index.php/2007/11/15/buildix-2-ami-image-available/
This is a big deal for bootstrapping developers looking to get started cheap with very little hassle.

Something I've been anxiously anticipating for about 5 months.

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Buildix includes:

* Subversion for Source Control
* Mingle for Agile Project Management
* Cruise Control for Continuous Integration
* Trac as a wiki and bug-tracker
* ...plus a little bit of our own ThoughtWorks magic, to glue it all together

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Sports for the Mobile Generation
http://blog.huddlers.com/post/54017323355/sports-for-the-mobile-generation
HUDDLERS can be downloaded here http://bit.ly/147WaGU
The smartphone that started it all. iPhone Application Developers
http://www.socialjitney.com/iphone_apps.php
With our dedicated design and development teams, and an intimate familiarity with the iPhone platform, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more competent iPhone app developer.
EntityFramework in Action: Great book, but the concerns remain
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/03/entityframework-in-action-great-book.html
I can fully recommend this book to developers and architects that want to use the EF in a project or just want to learn more about the EF in order to be able to evaluate it. But in the big picture I still suggest to everybody to evaluate other ORMs before deciding for the EF.
Catching up with the web (thanks HN)
http://sanguinity.net/review/2010/catching-up-with-the-web/
This is basically a cover of my weekend testing on HN/Reddit. I wanted to learn what attracts people in terms of keywords, pretty mspaint pictures, and articles. Even if the article isn't very relevant to the site, I knew I could get views. I just had to word things right and present material that interested a wide range of people. It was also a lesson in building up e-confidence, and the realization that "what is the worst that can happen?" I've seemed to miss quite a bit of what is going on in the web, but I hope to jump in and donate a little something back in the future.

Overall, it has been an exciting weekend. Thanks HN!
Random Apps And Tools For Designers And Developers
http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/random-apps-and-tools-for-designers-and-developers/
I’m very glad that we work in a vast domain where new resources appear everyday from handy developers and designers for the rest of us, developers or designers. Having said that, I’m inviting you to check out this list of 33 tools and apps that could help you on your projects.
Ask HN: Why is the media so negative?
Every time I watch the news theres something negative, some kidnapping, murder, or death. Why is the media so negative and bent on instilling fear?
Songs as a Service a 10 week creative challenge
http://songsasaservice.wordpress.com/
I'm after some help. I'm 3 weeks into a 10 week SAAS project. No not Software As A Service, Songs As A Service!
Every Sunday I post on the Songs as a Service Facebook page asking for suggestions for a song topic. Every Monday at 10pm (GMT) I start writing and recording a song based on the topic with the most likes. The song is then uploaded some time before the next Monday for your aural pleasure. Ever wanted a song written for you? then check out my blog and start thinking about song topics for week 4. Thanks in advance for your help :)
Party with a Local iPhone App
https://itunes.apple.com/app/party-with-a-local/id562560874
A free app that connects travelers and locals that want to party. Version 1 just released.
Link Decay 
http://www.seo-doctor.co.uk/link-decay-and-link-equity-preservation.html
Includes free link tracking script!
Nabewise acquired by Airbnb
http://nabewise.com/
As a result Airbnb.com now has neighborhood reviews.
Our funny little (enterprise) Christmas app
http://greetings.gltd.net/
It's been three long years in the pursuit of building something great.

What started as a project to construct a simple voice messaging system (you record a message for your customers and then blast them) turned into a full blow enterprise grade call recorder, conferencing system and automated dialer with full call control.

We've burnt the midnight oil, sacrificed personal lives and health in the pursuit of perfection. And whilst we haven't been perfect, we've got pretty damn far. Building a PBX with good APIs in near every language from Javascript, Java, .net and Object C to providing support, writing decent documentation, unit and integration tests has proved to be bloody damn hard but it's a heckuva product.

Thanks to our efforts our product is being used across the world, in a number of banks and financial houses. As rewarding as the project was to work on we decided to have a little bit of fun with it and put together a web site utilising our APIs and the media capability of the product.

We call it [Celebrity Greetings](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Message-portal/223036014497299). It lets you record a Festive message, choose a celebrity and call your friends and family to hear it.

Have a play, it's at:
http://greetings.gltd.net
Interview Experience with Google in Zurich
http://www.chasys.net/blog/item/google-zurich/
A Engineer in the Philippines got an email from Google. After a series of phone interviews, she was flown to Zurich for an interview.
Show HN: A browser extension that places similar tabs and bookmarks together
https://tochunka.com/smart-tabs/
Follow the title link for more details.

Install.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tochunka-smart-tab...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/uk/firefox/addon/tochunka-smart-t...

Safari: does not support tab(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...) nor bookmark move(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...).
So, no extension for it. :(
Small Business CRM Solutions
http://www.crmlogic.com/index.php/introduction/product-data-sheets
CRMLogic is a professional services firm focused on CRM business solutions. Our approach is a blend of management consulting and technology know-how, which provides you with contemporary business outcomes - not just software.
TEDx: Extreme lifestyle experiments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cAR2eQHUU
Looks interesting, seems somewhat related to Tim Ferriss's stuff.
Like Button widget for website
http://www.likebtn.com
LikeBtn widget allows to add the Like Button on the website with just a few lines of code.
Now you can get rid of a bunch of social buttons.
Rails 4.1.2.rc1 and 4.0.6.rc1 have been released
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/5/27/Rails-4-1-2-rc1-and-4-0-6-rc1-has-been-released/
Rails 4.1.2.rc1 is the first bug fix release for the 4.1 series. Also, we are releasing a new bug fix release for the 4.0 series, as 4.0.6.rc1
SuperTooth HD-The Bluetooth Speaker Phone
http://www.latestrecentnews.com/supertooth-hd-the-bluetooth-speaker-phone.html
Bluetooth speakerphones are very common these days most of them serve the common purpose i.e. used to make and receive call but SuperTooth HD is bit different. Voice commanded social network amalgamation differentiate it from others. SuperTooth HD features Handsfree Assistant which enables the user to verify and revise Facebook and Twitter status, in addition provides quick services for text messaging and also enables the user to receive and send email with the voice command.
5 Keys To Social Networking Success
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/5_keys_to_socia.html;jsessionid=IUVHYCMFX2CWYQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN
Investors are flocking to fund social networking startups. How can you identify a good investment? Here are five key characteristics, backed up with real-world examples.
The Future of Networking 
http://bhorowitz.com/2012/02/06/the-future-of-networking/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bhorowitz+%28ben%27s+blog%29
Interesting reading about the future networking:
1. The Rise of Cloud Computing
2. The Rise of Server Virtualization
XQuery in the Cloud
http://yahoo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=fef47c62-a70a-4de4-a4c7-edc0e054b2b2
This is a presentation from 28msec at the university of washington. 28msec leverages XQuery as a single single-tiered application stack.
Show HN: Ask Cryptography, a platform to discuss cryptography research papers
https://askcryp.to/
This is a website that tries to accumulate public knowledge among cryptography papers. It is difference to other platforms is that the discussions are indexed by papers. Hence, it is easy to find all discussions or questions that has been posted about a paper so far.
Nmap Guide
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/02/20/nmap-guide/
The Guide itself doesn’t differ much from the official nmap MAN (actually it is more or less a copy of MAN), other than the fact that it painstakingly shows every single commands by actually performing them and showing how it works, on actual systems.
Pyzone, avoid the HN-Reddit loop
https://github.com/frawgie/pyzone
Just a quick script, don't take it too serious. :)
Things Toxic to Scalability
http://www.iheavy.com/2011/08/26/5-things-are-toxic-to-scalability/
These five things are toxic to web application scalability.
What do you think of Qeepr?
http://www.qeepr.com/
I am the founder of Qeepr- an online memorial website that uses QR code technology to be placed on a tomb, or other memorial site.
Would love to hear your feedback.
info@qeepr.com
Inline Editing in new CKEditor
http://ckeditor.com/demo#inline
Many on these boards use ckeditor, so I just thought you guys should know that CKEditor 4 was released! :)
It's now capable of html5 inline editing, has a cool new skin and plugins repository. Might be worth an update.
Speeds Up, Simplifies and Modernizes Your Site with Head JS
http://blogupstairs.com/tools/speeds-up-simplifies-and-modernizes-your-site-with-head-js/
Head JS is 2.3 kb script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site. It easy to asynchronously load your JavaScript files to prevent blocking.
Github Time
https://github.com/githumtime/githubtime
Solved Problems.
A fractal-based ﬁbre for ultra-high throughput optical probes
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/view_article.cfm?gotourl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eopticsinfobase%2Eorg%2FDirectPDFAccess%2F57D5A79C-AF0A-D9C8-561DB34DF182E866_130603%2Foe-15-5-2468%2Epdf%3Fda%3D1%26id%3D130603%26seq%3D0%26mobile%3Dno&org=
A core component of all scanning near-ﬁeld optical microscopy
(SNOM) systems is the optical probe, which has evolved greatly but still
represents the limiting component for the system. Here, we introduce a
new type of optical probe, based on a Fractal Fibre which is a special class
of photonic crystal ﬁbre (PCF), to directly address the issue of increasing
the optical throughput in SNOM probes. Optical measurements through
the Fractal Fibre probes have shown superior power levels to that of
conventional SNOM probes. The results presented in this paper suggest
that a novel ﬁbre design is critical in order to maximize the potential of the
SNOM.
Multiplayer html5 node.js long poll game.
http://fyp.colome.org
This is my first multiplayer online game using ajax queries and node.js game engine for the logics of the game
Indexing a Career: A Career Path in Pictures
http://changethis.com/43.06.IndexingCareer
Scribd version is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2061465/43-06-CareerIndex
Full Stack engineer to change the way used cars are sold (YC S14)
http://www.carlypso.com/jobs/full-stack
Overview

Carlypso is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join a dynamic start-up team in San Carlos, CA. If you’d like to be considered for this position, please email your resume to support@carlypso.com. Portfolios and githubs are welcomed.

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you will work on an autonomous inventory management system built with NodeJS, Django and WebDriver technologies, which manages ads for all vehicles in the Carlypso inventory. The server is responsible for posting ads, tracking the ad health and keeping the inventory of live ads in sync with an evolving CRM. Scripting skills will be necessary for posting to various media, while knowledge of computer systems will help to develop a cohesive autonomous ad management system through the use of web services and worker processes.

Skills and Experience

0-2 years

- Experience with scripting languages - (Python and/or Javascript preferred)
- Knowledge of web services and REST APIs
- Knowledge of End-to-End testing - preferably Selenium / WebDriver / PhantomJS
- Familiarity with Agile development processes and tools
- Experience with other languages (e.g. C++, Java/C#, Python) a plus
- Easygoing personality and good communication skills desired
- Fresh ideas and a desire to learn

Education

MS or BS in Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
Best Android Apps
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sam.applications.accountbalance.pro
A convenient method to keep track of your online or card transactions is to keep all that information in single place and create reports out of it.
The Book of Sands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGD9jJ1QeGY
legendary
Five Rules of Survival for US Startups in the Global Economic Crisis
http://www.informedtrades.com/196742-five-pillars-wealth-management-private-us-businesses-global-economic.html
A look at what startups should be considering when planning their growth and capital management strategies during our current global economic crisis.
Proof of concept of a social game on windows azure
http://retostarwarscloudwars.cloudapp.net/
A proof of concept of social game running on windows azure.
Tools: Asp.Net MVC, SignalR, JQuery, bootstrap(css)
Where App.net is heading
http://adamlinford.blogspot.com/2012/08/where-appnet-is-heading.html
What App.net could become, current API developments, and what it still needs
Fashion Review Today
http://www.fashionreviewtoday.com
Fashion Review Today
Adobe AIR footprint
http://blog.julienviet.com/2008/08/21/air-ajax-runtime-footprint/
"My machine is a MacBook Pro 2ghz with 2 gigs of RAM (I can’t have more because it’s one of the early models). The application uses constantly around 4% of CPU and 20 megs"
Apple made $1.87 Profit in Q1 per person on Earth
http://www.techvalidate.com/blog/apple-profit-per-person-q1-2012-1668
A quick breakdown of Apple's recent results into human-scale terms to try to put it into perspective.
Bret Victor: Upcoming Videos
http://worrydream.com/May2013
Mark your calendar.
Customer Relation Management Software Solution
http://www.crmlogic.com.au/index.php/introduction/what-is-sugarcrm
SugarCRM is a leading CRM automation product. SugarCRM addresses customer relationships across sales, marketing, and service activities.
Can Psychedelics Treat Cancer Via The Mind?
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-drugs-of-abuse-20111130,0,969113.story
This is a very good overview on the psychedelic research currently taking place. What really caught my attention was the last section in the article that suggests that a woman suffering from incurable leukemia may have gone into remission as a result of a psilocybin session that was intended to help ease anxiety related to dying. It's just one anecdote, but it raises intriguing possibilities.
Infographic: Alternative perspective on Turkish protests.
http://i.imgur.com/mE97vtq.jpg
Seem interesting considering it appears to show the complete other side of the issue. I pulled this off reddit but there aren't any sources so it could be a disinformation campaign.
Welcome to Star Scholar U: Prof as Online College
http://chronicle.com/article/Welcome-to-Star-Scholar-U/135522/
Economists with a popular blog now started their own online university (Marginal Revolution U). So did a popular author about online communities (Rheingold U). In an era of easy-to-use online tools it can be done as a side project—akin to blogging or writing a textbook. Soon there could be hundreds of Star Scholar U's.
Show HN: Track SOPA votes by local Congress members with mobile web app
http://sopatrack.com
Built this simple geo-locating app to find your local Congresspeople, allow you to contact them, and later show how they voted on SOPA (so you can vote for or against them).
BSON codec for Objective-C
http://blog.thinkbulbs.com/2010/08/bson-codec-for-objective-c.html
Coded this up yesternight and tested/debugged it this afternoon. It passes my test cases so far but may still be hilariously wrong at the same time.
Butterfly Labs Sweeps Cloud Hashing Refunds under the carpet
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/post-sales-and-customer-service/8430-butterfly-labs-sweeps-cloud-hashing-refunds-under-carpet.html
Seems like BFL found a nice scheme for interest-free loans.
No One Told the Customer
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/13921880922/no-one-told-the-customer-the-importance-of-validation
One of the great things that has come out of The Lean Startup movement is the focus on customer validation.

Too many organizations I work with either gloss over this step or skip it entirely...
P2P Downloaders Buy More Music According to New Study in Canada
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/en/h_ip01456e.html
"...there is a strong positive relationship between P2P file-sharing and CD purchasing."
Ricochet: Retro Space Shooter iPhone Game
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/ricochet-retro-space-shooter/id716528077?mt=8
Ricochet is an exciting arcade shooter hybrid wrapped in a beautiful retro package. Ricochet offers a modern twist on the classic well known genres: fast paced space arcade action with physics gameplay.
Ask HN: Getting off the career track as a mid-twenty developer
Hello.

I am facing a decision that may shape my next five to ten years, which would affect further future undoubtedly. I've been lurking in HN long enough to believe that folks of HN would have more insights and perceptions that I lack. I will keep the narratives as pragmatic as possible.

I'm 26, graduated with CS and Literature in uwaterloo. I've recently left my first job after co-op, because I was unhappy with the career path I started.(the job was corporate-style ASP.NET. I knew it was not for me when I was happier working with AngularJS or objective C. Maybe it was codebase I had to work with.) Also, unlike when I graduated, I had no more reason to stay in this area. So I've resolved to move to West coast or SV and do "interesting" work. I had figured to rest for a month or two, recharge, learn, finish my side projects and work up portfolio, and then look for work.

Then unforeseen events happened and I am now pressed for time; I have to make a decision(to either find a job here, or to move) by the end of January, and realize it by March. I started calculating.

I've assessed that since I've decided to turn from my career path so far(C#, ASP.NET), my strongest assets are my youth and diploma.

I have an offer from a very small company via a friend; they promise full autonomy on a very small team. It sounded like they have a lot of work to do. The problem is that I do not know what I could be missing, since I have not yet officially started search.

1) I could take the offer I have with a small company with a reduced pay.

2) I could take a risk, study, and try to look for a job in west coast or SV area.

3) Look for a job in Toronto area, spend the times wisely this time, and bid for future.

I'm having difficulty with indecision since I cannot assess opportunity cost closely, and would appreciate an insight;
A bouquet of freebies for web designer and developers
http://tutorialfeed.blogspot.com/2009/08/bouquet-of-freebies-for-web-designer.html
In this post I am sharing some useful and interesting freebies for web designer and developers like Free Wordpress themes, Drupal themes, Flash gallery, Vector icon sets, Grunge fonts, Cool Twitter Graphics...
Building for Cross Platform Apps at Dropbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5rXCvu9-NM
Bottom up approach for cross platform.
Don’t Give me Rework Refusal
http://compositecode.com/2010/09/08/rework-refusal/
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a few comments regarding rework. One of those comments was Julie Booth’s (@uxsuccess) comment on Twitter regarding rework,

“Do not fear rework!!”

That kicked me off with a response of,

“Do not fear rework!! /via @uxsuccess so true, plz plz don’t cower before rework!!! . Listen to @uxsuccess!“

Then just recently I stumbled onto a book I’ve been meaning to read called Rework. This book is written by the crew at 37signals. This company is best known for SaaS Offerings Basecamp, Highrise, Campfire, and Backpack. All of them created with high quality, solid UX (User eXperience), probably great code quality, maintainability, and the list of goodness goes on. In addition, the other thing that 37signals is widely known for is their efforts around Ruby on Rails (created by DHH @dhh).
Ask HN: Anyone have pre-launch (i.e., LaunchRock) metrics to share?
I just put up a pre-launch page using LaunchRock and am looking for numbers to benchmark against. Has anyone run ads and tested conversions on a LaunchRock or custom pre-launch page? What kind of virility are people seeing? I'm already testing different pics and content and offering incentives, but any other tips to maximize invite requests (and especially to promote virility) would be greatly appreciated. If it helps anyone, I'm seeing about 55% conversions from ads to invite requests but very little virility. I don't want to share the page yet because I don't want to distort my tests but I will publish it in a day or two when my current test is up if anyone is interested.
Airplanes broadcasting parameters, why not? Or am I missing something?
Airplanes crashes are unusually high in the last few years. It's of everyone's best interest to avoid such situations.
Why doesn't airplanes broadcast its parameters over VHF radio & save received parameters and upload the data to a cloud service when descending (with regular 3G / 4G) or landing time (over wi-fi)?

The parameters might be everything available from whatever buses are found inside an airplane.

The system should operate on a best-effort approach, which means it could be useful as a starting point of investigations regarding accidents, failures to comply with air safety rules, and so on.

What am I overlooking? Is such technology already being deployed somewhere experimentally?

The data should be textual for easiness of expansion and should everything sent should be recorded 'as is', with no warranties whatsoever to be clear, not fraudulent, or complete.

Compression (say, regular gzip or whatever is easier to recover partially if received with errors) might be used to make it possible to send more information at a time. Airplanes might even alternating send uncompressed and compressed data, one after the other.

If this is treated as a best-effort approach a lot of room for experiment and adaption could be found (what can be very complicated for industrial applications in this field for obvious reasons).

The data available should be public available for anyone and choosing to broadcast parameters should be a voluntarily action (not enforced by law).

Submission to the database / cloud service must be made using regular PUB-key cryptography we use daily on the Internet.

Disclaimer: I've no knowledge of avionics, but I've read some books on the subject of industrial accidents and would like to know more about it.

Nice books:
1. Normal Accidents: living with High-Risk Technologies
2. The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right
3. Inviting Disaster
4. The design of everyday things