chrishan

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Re:Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? on Friday January 04, 2013 @06:10AM (#5007129)

It will be more interesting if the years' data on HN can be made available to public.

Sheetsee.js - visualize data from a Google spreadsheet

Posted by chrishan on Monday November 26, 2012 @06:37AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/jllord/sheetsee.js

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Re:Show HN: create, share, explore database patterns on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @10:37AM (#4659997)

https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie

Re:Show HN: idea for the future of document editing on Monday October 15, 2012 @10:08AM (#4655092)

Modern remembrance agent (http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra-personalt...)

Hull: build complete social applications with open, reusable components

Posted by chrishan on Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:22PM
from the hull.io dept.

http://hull.io/

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SeenBefore: A search engine for what you have seen before

Posted by chrishan on Monday September 24, 2012 @07:54AM
from the seenbefore.com dept.

https://www.seenbefore.com/

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Re:Common Crawl announces Open Source Big Data code contest winners on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @09:57PM (#4541633)

Glad you like my linking entities to wikipedia entry. Still need some extra work to make a complete/ready-to-use corpus out of the 5 billion webpages

Re:Google releases standalone Youtube iOS app on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:18AM (#4509384)

Does it support offline view?

Re:Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks on Sunday September 09, 2012 @06:31AM (#4495480)

Re:Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com on Saturday September 08, 2012 @08:55AM (#4492860)

isn't this an un-customized version of http://www.newsblur.com/ ?

Re:A social network for programmers on Sunday August 19, 2012 @03:05AM (#4403447)

agree. GitHub: A Social Network for Programmers (2008) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/github_a_social_network...

Re:Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life" on Friday August 10, 2012 @01:07AM (#4365002)

previous discuss http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336977

A big list of the things R can do

Posted by chrishan on Saturday July 07, 2012 @02:45AM
from the blog.revolutionanalytics.com dept.

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012/07/a-big-list-of-the-things-r-can-do.html

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Re:HNSummaries.com - algorithmically summarized HN articles to your inbox on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:50AM (#3836685)

I am taking an alternative approach to make sense of HN stories for Chinese readers. As a regular HN reader, I manually summarize the topic of top stories and translate them into Chinese. The motivation is to lower the startup/tech news sharing barriers. Link - http://geektell.com/

Re:Earle/django-bootstrap - GitHub on Monday February 06, 2012 @01:22AM (#3556416)

Re:John Resig uses this on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:10AM (#2810859)

Remind me of a statistics I did months ago. http://codingai.appspot.com/demo/usesthis

Re:Show HN: ShouldInvent - weekend project for idea aggregation based ... on Sunday July 24, 2011 @09:10AM (#2799309)

clickable http://shouldinvent.hanxiaogang.com/

More detailed explanation http://blog.hanxiaogang.com/?p=38

Show HN: ShouldInvent - weekend project for idea aggregation based on Twitter

Posted by chrishan on Sunday July 24, 2011 @09:08AM
from the show-hn dept.

http://shouldinvent.hanxiaogang.com/The app is inspired by @sivers - "Entrepreneurs, need inspiration for what to invent? Try this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22should+invent%22"The basic idea is to collect inspirations using collective intelligence on twitter. It searches Twitter with keywords "should invent", identifies things that are expected to be "invented" and automatically...

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Re:Want Hacker News Comment Scores Back? Check out HNPoints.com on Saturday May 21, 2011 @01:33AM (#2570323)

I knew someone will do this.

Re:How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming on Thursday December 30, 2010 @12:38AM (#2051369)

Are there any of such books available in epub format so that I can read on my mobile device?

Diff-IE Add-on for Internet Explorer

Posted by chrishan on Saturday December 11, 2010 @12:43AM
from the research.microsoft.com dept.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/diffie/default.aspx

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Re:Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition with HTML5 on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:26AM (#1889296)

Is it possible to extend the idea with equations (handwritten) as input, and produce the corresponding Latex source as output? That would save lots of time.

Re:Rethinking artificial intelligence on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:36AM (#983110)

The group's approach to build cognitive assistant might be on the right way. Rather than build standalone AI, the assistive approach encourages interfacing human brain. During the collaboration between human and the assistant, both will get better understanding about the other. We human don't need computer to work with emotion, but work by understanding our need and satisfy our need just in time.