jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lessons learned building an EMR; a whitepaper from Iora Health [pdf]
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5958802/Iora%20Health%20Whitepaper.pdf
An article about Iora Health's EMR development. I'm surprised that our vanilla software development practices are considered "revolutionary" in the realm of healthcare.
Magic Hat-Chrome Extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-hat/ipakeaeddpkhjpfdeokobibifclmplkl
My chrome extension "Magic Hat", suggestions are welcomed.

A chrome extension to get random suggestion from your selections.

Magic Hat help you browse a random item from your defined buckets of
1. Domains you keep visiting
2. Pages you want to read later
3. Text you want to read up about in future.

Go to the options page to manage your items.

Use "ctrl+q" shortcut to get a random page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FeWW-T5WZ4

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-hat/ipakeaeddpkhjpfdeokobibifclmplkl
Can't grasp credit crisis? Join the club.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/business/19leonhardt.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=ab4caf3befa3e1c9&ex=1206072000
"All these investments, of course, were highly risky. Higher returns almost always come with greater risk. But people — by “people,” I’m referring here to Mr. Greenspan, Mr. Bernanke, the top executives of almost every Wall Street firm and a majority of American homeowners — decided that the usual rules didn’t apply because home prices nationwide had never fallen before. Based on that idea, prices rose ever higher — so high, says Robert Barbera of ITG, an investment firm, that they were destined to fall. It was a self-defeating prophecy."
Serve wordpress cached pages with lighttpd and LUA
http://tempe.st/2008/04/lighttpd-and-wp-supercache-now-you-can/
Some LUA and mod_magnet will help you serve superfast wordpress cached pages with lighttpd
The Crowd is a Hungry Tiger
http://charliepratt.com/the-crowd-is-a-hungry-tiger/
In trying to serve everyone, all the time, we're preparing our products to be eaten by a fickle crowd.
Ask HN: My data startup and where to go from here
Hey all. I have been working on a product that helps sellers that use PayPal with reporting.

I have been working on it solo but wanted some collective advice on where I should head. I am having issues trying to penetrate the market and getting early adoption.

I feel like my marketing copy is a bit lacking so that is what I will be working on in the next few days. Comments are definitely welcome.

The service is at https://www.stratismo.com/
Court Kicks Out Copyright Troll Who Has “No Desire To Litigate”
http://torrentfreak.com/court-kicks-out-copyright-troll-who-has-no-desire-to-litigate-120406/
This particular case, Hard Drive Productions, Inc. -v- Does 1-90, sees the well-known porn company plaintiff follow the now well-trodden copyright troll path.
How Some Geeks Can Produce Better Wi-Fi Than BT
http://fourstarters.com/2007/09/13/wifi-howto-get-a-bunch-of-geeks/
Last weekend most of the FourStarters went to BarcampBrighton. Not only was it weird to see so many Dutch people there (at least 7 on 100 campers, including Reinier, Alper, Melinda, Sjors and me) but it was also amazing how smooth the open Wi-Fi was during the weekend. The last few conferences/camps I went to were a disaster when it came to Wi-Fi. Either it was tedious to get into with day passes that expired during the night, or it broke down within minutes due to overloading. The strange thing about the perfect Wi-Fi at BarcampBrighton was that there was actually no Wi-Fi planned!
New programming language makes turning GPUs into supercomputers a snap
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/160367-new-programming-language-makes-turning-gpus-into-supercomputers-a-snap
Most of the bits you’ve ever crunched were run through a CPU, but your computer’s graphic processing unit (GPU) is increasingly being used for general computing tasks. The problem has always been designing applications that can take advantage of the raw computing power of a GPU. A computer science Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University by the name Eric Holk has created a new programming language called Harlan to make the process easier.
ASK HN: Who is going to lose in this bubble(assuming there was one)?
Angels? Investors?

I was too young in the 90s-00s era, but couple companies (fb, twitter etc) with questionable valuations is a bubble? From the tales I've heard back then pretty much anyone could whip up a business plan involving the web and they could funded in millions and get to IPO within a year notice.

And even if there is a bubble right now, would it drag the entire US economy like it did in the 00s?
New White Hat Hacking Workshop Lab Offered: Orl|Mia|Tam|Atl|D.C.|NY|Dal,
http://www.ceplogic.com/trainingarticle.html
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 15 -- CEP Logic, cyber security experts known for their renowned LIVE cyber hacking training demonstrations, announced today that they now offer two-day hands-on lab "Learn How to Hack Ethically" courses designed to teach the art of cyber hacking. "We have discovered a profound interest (from our audience) to reproduce our hacking techniques," explains Erik Rowan, CISSP-ISSAP, CGRCP-IT, MCSE; President.
Classes and workshops are currently being offered in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Dallas and New York City. For more information on Locations and schedules visit howtohackclass.com.
Js-cps , simple conversion to asynchronous javascript
https://github.com/cperkins/js-cps
I was getting tired of all the deeply nested anonymous functions that are entailed with anything but the simplest AJAX transactions. (ie the "triangle of death"). JS-CPS is a simple transformer that transforms synchronous looking javascript (that uses a certain predefined token) to asynchronous javascript. I've found it very handy in my own work.
Usability - Experience design framework
http://userpathways.com/2010/10/usability/
To some it is a de facto standard of good design, but so much of what is produced fails in this area, and not just in digital design. It feels consistently that products, buildings, vehicles and urban planning lack a sufficient consideration of the human being...
8 Pioneering Moments in Digital Photography
http://www.dphotojournal.com/8-pioneering-moments-in-digital-photography/
Fourteen years after Lally’s blueprint, Steve Sasson of Kodak took a few spare camera parts, and old jet engine and his grandma’s broken black and white television into his shed and emerged a few months later with what is now recognised as the world’s first digital camera.
Google's social networking agenda
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/google-confirms-it-aims-to-own-your-online-id-08292011.html
Google confirms the goal of its social networking program is to create a profile of your identity so it can be sold to commercial firms [and government agencies]
OnSIP Launches SIP Signaling PaaS for WebRTC Developers
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140428005248/en#.U15x6q1dWNP
The OnSIP Network locates and negotiates communications between WebRTC application peers, solving a similar problem that the Public Switched Telephone Network once did for telephones. Companies can now build WebRTC applications without having to develop and manage their own signaling platform, leading to faster times to market and ongoing infrastructure cost savings. Using a simple, open sourced API SIP.js, developers can easily access The OnSIP Network in their applications.
Google Personalized Search -- A New Challenge for SEO
http://wisdomtalks.com/google-personalized-search-a-new-challenge-for-seo/
Google has raised a new bigger challenge for SEO Professionals. Personalized Search. How can we know the behavior of Users?
Show HN: Javascript brainfuck IDE fully in AngularJS
http://manorey.net/mo/ng-brainfuck/
Have some fun writing/debugging brainfuck codes. It visualizes the memory, etc.

it's mainly about having fun with coding but also might be very useful as a teaching tool for beginner programmers.
Playing the Devil’s Advocate: An Argument for SOPA
http://www.brianmcquay.com/playing-the-devils-advocate-an-argument-for-sopa/433
There’s much ado online these past few weeks promoting the demise of the SOPA act. Many smart people are arguing it will destroy the internet as we know it. That may be true but that may also be exactly what we need.
A wood hacker: realistic wood sculptures
http://www.randallrosenthal.com/Pages/New%20Pages/whats_new.htm
from The Cellar: http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23436
YU0 suck at Photoshop, man
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/channel.aspx?episode=379
Lolz!
Ask HN: Feedback on dropulous.com
Hello HN community!

I created dropulous.com a couple of days ago to scratch my own itch concerning sharing files.

dropulous is a simple sharing service that only needs you to drag and drop files (one or many at the same time) onto the site to upload and share. Seriously, just go to dropulous.com and start drag and dropping!

Before creating dropulous, I used drop.io, which was certainly a fantastic service, but was a little fatigued at the seemingly easy, yet quickly tedious process of "clicking browse, selecting the file, clicking ok, and then clicking upload" that, to be fair, also existed on every other major file sharing website to my knowledge.

While I admit dropulous is not as browser-compatible as the other major file sharing websites, I believe that it is certainly worth it to make life easier for those of us who do have more modern browsers and those who eventually will!

Please try it out and let me know what you think! I'd love to hear your feedback.

Here is the link: http://dropulous.com

Thanks,
David
Google's ads seem to have decided I want to go on a seniors cruise
Or cruise for seniors.

I'm not sure which. Either is somewhat disturbing.
PGP library for iOS
https://github.com/upnext/unnetpgp
iOS developers lack of PGP frameworks for iOS. UNNetPGP component is built on solid netbsd foundation and come with library that is licensed compatible with AppStore.
New Google Nexus packaging sucks
http://www.industryintel.com/news/read/3385372944/Weekly-Packaging-Design-Wrap-Up-Googles-Nexus-box.html
Why is this still an issue with packaging. I can't open half the shit I purchase
Android SDK Works on Death Star
http://www.kiwiluv.com/techblog/?p=940
Something to be said for planning ahead.
Integrating socket.io and express in 3 LoC
http://camarao.io/post/58482358714/integrating-socket-io-and-express-in-3-loc
A very common problem people face when building realtime applications in node.js is communicating and sharing the session between the socket and routing scope. Generally socket.io is used in combination with express or connect, so I picked these common use cases and implemented a tiny module which provides the session integration in a couple lines of code.
100 DVDs on a Disk is on the horizon 
http://techcombo.com/100-dvds-on-a-disk-is-on-the-horizon
G.E report that the New York company, has made huge progress in digital storage technology. This tech will supposedly enable normal DVD disks (usually 4.7 GB) to support an astounding 100 DVDs.

However, we warn you not to get too complacent because this is still in the initial stages, in fact the product is still in the lab! In addition to it still being in development, the invention requires to be produced on a bigger scale and at a good price, as we are hitting the peak period of the recession very soon...
Search vs. Findability vs. Information Retrieval
http://norm.al/2012/06/17/search-vs-findability-vs-information-retrieval/
Search engines worked on brutal way of organizing information based on keywords. They would basically go through a junk of information and try to extract out of there the best matches and put them on indexes. If we could note the order, is Junk of Data, to Order by a third party who analyzes your content based on keywords, NLP and some other great metrics.

What Findability should be, and what the Semantic Web promises is a new approach. Order first and then the rest will be easy. By using Faceted Search or other Information Retrieval interfaces findability is achieved. Computer Search is based on indexing a junk of data, while Findability should be a process defined at the moment when the data are created.
Thoughtram – Extend your memory.
http://thoughtram.io/
Starting a new project with a friend. You can subscribe here to get notified once we launched. We hope you like surprises!
Pune and Lucknow leading tier-II job destinations
http://blog.codemunch.com/?p=54
Location is important part of any career management. Not all cities are equal when it comes to providing job opportunities. Industry research report confirms this. ASSOCHAM sponsored research found that Pune, Lucknow and Pondicherry lead among tier-II cities and they provide good job opportunities:
Yoda can help you to build your online reputation 
http://visualizerr.com/trying-to-build-your-online-reputation/
As Yoda would say :
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try”.
How to obtain a second passport
http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/how-to-obtain-a-second-passport-10112/
If there were ever a case for a second passport, the Snowden situation is one. If you have the means and will to obtain a second passport, now is the time.

You can get purchase one for $135,000. This is what Derek Sivers did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944339

https://sivers.org/comfort

Or, it's likely you are entitled one via ancestry,

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/how-to-obtain-a-second-passport-10112/

And there's always the old-fashion way through immigration.
8 tips for angular js beginners
http://vxtindia.com/blog/8-tips-for-angular-js-beginners/
I like backbone but as a python dev, I m not using it everyday so it makes me want to hit my head against the wall when I m back using it.

Angular make me feel comfortable and the learning curve is easy. So probably a good alternative to backbone for people like me who don't hack in JS everyday.
IUpHigh - iPhone Aerial Photography
http://www.iuphigh.com
A funny proof of concept iPhone application
Car stereo
http://www.soundandalarm.com/
There’s a unique taste of every individual to spend their leisure accordingly. One of the most common past-times is listening to music. There is lot of advancements in technology so that one can easily listen to his or her favorite music while driving the car at an incredible volume level and high fidelity.

for more info:- http://www.soundandalarm.com/articles/car-stereo.asp
Battery Powered Cars: Vehicle of the Future [funny kids]
http://unearthedgadget.com/kids-battery-cars/390-battery-powered-cars-vehicle-future.html
Want a vehicle with style, power, low fuel cost and high adventure? Then the exciting world of kids battery cars is for you!
IT Consultants – Be the puffer fish and act larger than life
http://blog.taskit.io/
IT consulting firms should act larger than life to win larger, more lucrative projects. Small firms get win boring projects.
Made everything myself: Design, Webpage, Video and of course the Music
http://www.vukkake.de
Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
New Tools for Today's Investigative Journalist
http://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2011/new_tools_for_todays_investigative_journalist-58947
There already exists a wealth of awesome write-ups documenting methods and tools for journalists creating data driven stories.[1] [2] [3] Rather than add to it, my focus is on another important and evolving component of investigative journalism: sources, communication, and protection of privacy.
Show HN: A Rusty First Attempt in C90
https://godbolt.org/z/h5n7q69Tf
Tried to emulate Rust ownership semantics for educational purposes.
As of my current understanding, ownership semantics means: std::unique_ptr + std::move during compile time.

I am not happy with that result, but for anyone interested in the educational benefits, here it is.

Any tips on better handling and implementation appreciated.
Another reason to buy an iPhone: U
http://thenextweb.org/2008/07/31/another-reason-to-buy-an-iphone-u/
Not ‘you’ but iTunes U. Apple is now offering downloadable videos of museums, cultural institutions and a bunch of world renowned universities such as Yale, Duke and MIT. Just login, select a few courses you are interested in and download them to your iPhone or iPod, for free.
State of Jenkins CI - infographic
http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/jenkins-ci/2012-survey/state-jenkins-ci.cb
The latest stats on the most popular open source CI platform, Jenkins, including results from an Oct 2012 survey of 721 users.
PSA: Download Your Twitter Archive
Twitter just suspended my user account which I've had for ~12 years. I didn't receive any communication from them that they were suspending me or why.

I learned today that the "download data" option is unavailable for suspended accounts (you can still log in, but you can't download your data or see any of your DMs/conversations). My latest account data backup is over a year old, so I'm missing a lot of things I wrote.

If you use Twitter and care about your account data, set a periodic reminder to download your account information while you still can.

If you run a service provider, make sure your data takeout functions still work even for suspended accounts.
How to Put your lazy customers to work  
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/12/28/Working-Customers.aspx
The biggest shift in the treatment of customers lies in letting them into your operation, with degrees of involvement ranging from soliciting feedback, to partnering with users in development design. Here's how to put them to work for you...
C programming for Beginners
http://www.programiz.com/c-programming
C tutorial dedicated to beginners with clear explanation and lot of examples.
Blue Screen of Death in Halo 3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yamilg/1433360467/
Is this photoshopped?
Broken Cr-48 Verizon Activation?
Free 3G service for two years is a huge bonus, but the activation seems to be broken for a lot of people, and finding a resolution online tends to stop at "call Verizon or contact the Ninjas". I was able to fix it myself, though, after a bit of poking around at the terminal:

0. Nav to chrome://system
1. Expand "mm-status"
2. Nav to the url indicated by "payment_url"
You'll know where to go from here.

Posting in case any fellow recipients of a CR-48 run into the same issue.
Show HN: Post processing a html page with webgl
http://enginmercan.com/?p=248
I recently discovered html2canvas (awesome but I wish it was 1.0) and used it with webgl to re-render my web page.

Click on the image (Awolnation) and wait a few seconds (it might take some time to buffer audio)

Basically it takes ss of current visible part of html page, creates an empty canvas covering the screen and then renders that ss with post processing.

edit: there is a music so might not be work safe if you are using speakers
Ask HN: How do you allocate time to your (pet) projects and interests?
How do you decide how much time to spend on a given project, and wether to follow it at all? I find that if I were to pursue all the little ideas, projects, and interests I come across, I would probably be unable to effectively do any of them.

What I end up doing is discarding most of them, or at best jotting them down in a notebook, but it is very unlikely that they will be pulled back out from there. The ones that I do pursue, I do try to do properly, but the selection is rather random, made on a whim.

Surely many people here on HN have the same problem. Have you come up with any more creative approaches to this? It seems there must be a more proportional way than my all or nothing method.
How does Amazon's Whispersync for Voice work?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000827761
Amazon (+Audible) has made it possible to sync audiobooks with ebooks. 24k of "whispersync-capable" books are now available.

Does anybody know if they do this alignment by hand (during the recording, for example)?

Did many people want to use this feature?
Dr.Dobbs: Developer Internet of Things App Starter Kit
http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/developer-internet-of-things-app-starter/240165717
What kinds of Internet of Things Apps would you build!?
Setting up a VPN server on Ubuntu
http://dinomite.net/2010/creating-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu/
Simple tutorial for setting up OpenVPN on Ubuntu with a Mac client.
Zettair - Indexing content for search
http://www.uptosomething.in/weblog/?p=475
C based Indexer for fast indexing of text.
JavaFX 2 Layouts: TilePane
http://zoranpavlovic.blogspot.com/2012/06/javafx-2-layouts-flowpane.html
This is a tutorial about TilePane. The TilePane layout pane places all of the nodes in a grid in which each cell, or tile, is the same size. Nodes can be laid out horizontally (in rows) or vertically (in columns). Gap properties can be set to manage the spacing between the rows and columns. The padding property can be set to manage the distance between the nodes and the edges of the pane.
Ask HN: Which Android audio player do you use?  Does it have crossfeed?
There were a couple of articles on here recently about audio processing for headphones (for 5.1->stereo, and stereo->stereo-with-crossfeed), so I guess people care about this stuff.

Which audio player do you use most often? Does it support crossfeed?
What data sources do Demand Media and Zenedy use for analysis?
Do they just rely on Google Keyword Tool, or what?
59 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
http://mashable.com/2013/03/30/digital-media-resources-76/
It has been another busy week as March comes to an end, and everyone preps their April Fools' jokes for Monday. If you've been too preoccupied planning for the Easter holiday to check out the news, don't worry — we've got you covered.
Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26921/
The published human genome is contaminated with DNA sequences from mycoplasma bacteria, according to bioinformatics researchers who blame an epidemic of mycoplasma .
One option to combat this kind of virtual infection is to protect databases with the genomic version of antivirus software, a kind of virtual immune system.
Zombie Startups
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324323904578368313767542352.html
Zombie Startups
High Altitude Wind Power Startup Soars In Test
http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/04/high-altitude-wind-power-startup-soars-in-test/
The concept of an inflatable, kite-based wind turbine seems like it would be pretty cost effective...
IPhone 4 Jailbroken
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/iphone-4-jailbroken/
And it begins. Let me just say that I am yet to jailbreak any of the various Apple devices that I own, but I will not say that the thought never crossed my mind, it has.
Copying Is Not Theft
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100413/0719158992.shtml
Video by Nina Paley about Copying...

the FBI "warning" at the beginning is particularly great.
How MongoDB write/read speed varies with or without index on a field?
http://whyjava.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/how-mongodb-writeread-speed-varies-with-or-without-index-on-a-field/
Write speed with index dropped to 0.27 times of write speed without index after inserting 20 million documents
Doubt in Klout
http://postlauncher.net/doubt-in-klout/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doubt-in-klout
Klout lacks the true sense of the analysis.
Interactive AI experiment to understand esthetic preference
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~jbongard/aestv2/
It only accurately predicted what I would choose 44% of the time.
Help us improve
http://www.spacekarma.com
Dear hackers, we are building a workspace sharing community and looking for some feedback on what we have so far. Would anyone be interested to help by telling us where we need to improve?
Delayed Jobs Callbacks and Hooks in Rails
http://www.salsify.com/blog/delayed-jobs-callbacks-and-hooks-in-rails/1188
We've been building a pretty large, single-page Rails app at Salsify, and rely on Delayed Jobs pretty heavily. Combining Delayed Jobs callbacks and the hooks gem has been great.