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skram··on Ask HN: Semantic relationship distance between terms
Can you maybe elaborate on why wikipedia scraping and other tries have not worked? Have you looked into https://www.google.com/trends/correlate and https://books.google.com/ngrams ?
skram··on Ask HN: GUI for users to modify webpage?
Sounds like a content management system -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_System ... comparison at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_content_managemen...
skram··on Ask HN: What VOIP provider do you use for your startup?
We use http://www.Tropo.com/ scripts that forward to our cell phone #s. Blog post: http://socialhealthinsights.com/2013/08/checkqm-support-powe...

Also check out http://www.ringio.com/ for a more robust turn-key-ish solution (met the founder but have never used them)

skram··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of contracts and other documents?
Looks like there are a lot of solutions out there: https://www.google.com/search?q=manage+contracts+saas
skram··on Ask HN: What do you call yourself?
CTO / Technologist / Healthcare hacker depending on the audience.
skram··on Help Us Get this 4 TB data set freely available inside AWS
Paul - this sounds cool but can you give some examples of how you anticipate different types of people could use this for good/profit/etc?
skram··on Ask HN: What kind of online jobs can my mom find online?
Elance.com
skram··on [dead]
FYI - I'm getting errors when I try to go edit my profile...

From Chrome JS console: ```` Refused to execute script from 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dennykwon/fullstack/profil... because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled. profile:1 Refused to execute script from 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dennykwon/fullstack/profil... because its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled. profile:1 Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.13/$injector/modulerr?p0=Pro...) ````

skram··on Ask HN: Show us your work in progress
https://www.dawndata.com - Google Analytics on Google Glass. Positive response so far so thinking of adding more like YouTube Analytics, AWS CloudWatch metrics/alarms, Heroku data clips, etc. Very open to feedback, critiques, comments, and questions!
skram··on Ask HN: How to find a customer to build a new ERP product with?
This makes a lot of sense if you have a client or two that needs a custom ERP and you have decided that you need to build one from scratch.

I am little lost at why you would venture into this or think about being a reseller for an established brand seemingly out of the blue.

I do recall reading about some open source ERP software packages here on HN before. Here's a search: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/open source erp

skram··on Show HN: Predawn. Another Minimal Sublime Text Theme.
Cool - thanks for sharing!
skram··on Ask HN: I've bought a domain for my city, any ideas on how to use it?
I would talk to local businesses and the chamber of commerce to build something that addresses pain points they have.

The domain is usually the easy part - content so you rank on search engines.. and more importantly, so people have a reason to visit the site in the first place :)

skram··on FDA Preparing to change the Nutrition Labels
From what I can tell, there are actually two proposed rules and you can find the links to the FederalRegister.gov publications at http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments... and then once they are published, you can use the docket #s on Regulations.gov to make comments.
skram··on Show HN: Weekend project: Google Stalker – Learn how much Google knows about you
Seems to not be working after I upload file. I get the following error in Chrome's JS console/

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined DataPlot.js:198 reader.onload DataPlot.js:198

skram··on Ask HN: Am I the only one deflated about the new TLDs?
Put simply: no, you're not the only one
skram··on Ask HN: Recommend a way to search HTML?
Check out nerdy data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102405

There's also a project I know less about called CommonCrawl

skram··on Where to submit your startup?
You might look into betalist.com, http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/, and relevant reddits. Reaching out and interacting with relevant people over Twitter sounds like a good idea too.
skram··on Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks
Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/u) does for the actual article/page content but not the full page
skram··on Ask HN: I need a trello-like desktop app that works offline - recommendations?
Here is a list of agile kanban tools, some of which you can self-host (open source): http://agilelion.com/agile-kanban-library/agile-kanban-tools
skram··on Ask HN: Am I being lowballed?
Sounds very low -- how long is the trial period and what would the pay increase be? You dont want to start at the low rate and have to fight for the increase after an undetermined trial period - definitely get the final salary and trial period in writing.
skram··on Ask HN: What's the best "Contact Us" email address for a startup?
Depending on your structure and size, I'd suggest just doing a catch-all so any of these will work and so emails to the wrong email address (anything@mydomain.com) will get to the general inbox.

That being said, I think hello@ or team@ are most friendly and general enough. Help@ and support@ seem to not welcome sales or pre-sales inquiries.

skram··on Ask HN: Which language/web framework to learn for employability?
Really depends on the sector and focus.

- Ruby

- Python (plus R if you are doing data stuff)

- Javascript

skram··on Ask HH: Business email service?
We're a tech startup (two people plus intern(s), sometimes a contractor or two) and have had good success with Microsoft's Office 365 product.
skram··on Yasoon – Get your favourite app for Outlook
Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I was afraid of. I know Excel for Mac's macro functionality is pretty sparse compared to the Windows version. I think this is cool - just not worth running a VM all the time.

Best of luck. Hack the planet!

skram··on Yasoon – Get your favourite app for Outlook
Any plans to support Outlook 2011 (on Mac)?
skram··on Data Scientists: What tooling do you need? We're building.
In my experience, the best browser plugins are not cross-browser so I would highly suggest you look at something specialized for something like Chrome or Firefox. Last time I had to deal with SOAP I just used a Ruby (my programming language of choice) gem...
skram··on Ask HN: How do you do your To-Do list?
I use Things.app (Mac, iPhone, iPad) for personal and general to-dos and Pivotal Tracker for work tasks
skram··on Ask HN: Closed captioning API
Check out http://boxfish.com - they supposedly have an API but it is not public. Previous discussion on HN at https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=boxfish
skram··on Ask HN: Anyone using Microsoft PowerQuery?
I wish I could try it out on my Mac without having to boot up Windows... likely not going to happen anytime soon though
skram··on Ask HN: Review my startup, didlog.com
Integration request: pivotal tracker
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