jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gaming Foursquare, now in two lines
http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2010/gaming-foursquare-in-two-lines-of-perl/
So, Alex our wonderful perl programmer, saw the 9 lines of code to game four square as an affront to his perl monkery. Here's his rebuttal.

http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2010/gaming-foursquare-in-two-lines-of-perl/

Can anyone think of a language to do it in even fewer lines?
What happens on the Internet in 60 seconds
http://whathappensontheinternetin60seconds.com/
What happens on the Internet in 60 seconds.
IntelliVocab for SAT 1.2 Broadens Its Functionality to Help Students Beat SAT
http://www.faqden.com/
New York, USA - Faqden Labs announces the latest version 1.2 of IntelliVocab for SAT, an update that has incorporated users' feedback and enhanced with more useful features to help students prepare for the SAT comprehensive exam.

Being designed by students of MIT, IntelliVocab for SAT is based on the latest research from MIT allowing users to master English vocabulary in the most effective way.

IntelliVocab for SAT completely controls the learning environment, so that users do not have to plan the learning approach. All they need to do is interact. Powerful enough for advanced learners and simple enough for beginners, IntelliVocab for SAT uses latest machine learning algorithms and determines user's level - Expert or Commitment. The more practice, the more IntelliVocab learns about a user and figures out words that are difficult. It enables users to achieve the top scores in the SAT competitive exam or in your professional work.

Features:
* 600+ common words in the Lite version
* 2 levels: Expert and Commitment
* Each practice session contains custom set of words based on user's level
* Comprehensive progress report
* Play sound and antonyms for each word
* Remote sync for new words

A lot more bug fixes and performance enhancements have been done in v1.2: improved algorithm to mix up the practice words with different characters; added “Rate it” feature, added color coding to highlight the antonym questions. All these updates give the user valuable help for enriching English vocabulary using practice sections and being ready for SAT.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad device
* Requires iOS 3.0 minimum
* 17.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
* IntelliVocab for SAT is available for free download worldwide through the Apple Store in the Education category: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/intellivocab-for-sat/id436685357?mt=8
336 E 90th St
New York, NY,
10128
Bukowski's 16-bit Intel 8088 chip
http://bukowski.net/forum/threads/16-bit-intel-8088-chip.2791/
16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
Adobe Flex and mobile applications
http://www.314t.com/blog/adobe-flex-and-mobile-applications/03-06-2011/
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and expected abilities to create mobile applications.
Zuckerberged: What the Winklevoss Twins Can Teach You About Copyright & IP 
http://blog.kunvay.com/what-the-winklevoss-twins-can-teach-you-about-copyright-intellectual-property-so-you-dont-get-zuckerberged-facebook-uconnect/
Essential startup founder read.
Online Book Club about PatternsAndAlgorithms
http://patternsandalgorithms.wordpress.com/
An online book club based about thinking and... thinking about thinking. Mentors recommend us books, and we read them, think about them, write about them. We're two books in -- recommended to us by Bing Gordon (co-founder of EA) and Tony Hsieh (co-founder of Zappos).
How To Actually Get Hired For Your Blog
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/how-to-actually-get-hired-for-your-blog/
I tried endlessly to get other jobs using mainly my trusty resume. Talk about disheartening! I got almost nowhere and wasted way too much time and Crane's watermark paper. I should have started a blog! Since I started this blog I have met the most interesting people, people I have a great deal in common with. I've also had people contact me about my online marketing services. I think this is amazing considering the few short weeks this blog has been up.
Bitcoin call option prices simulated with black scholes
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/simulating-bitcoin-call-option-prices-using-black-scholes-model
Simulated bitcoin call option prices using the black scholes model with Quantopian
IaaS/PaaS provider Tier 3 Joins AppFog at CenturyLink
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/centurylink-buy-tier-3-establish-cloud-development-center-seattle/
I'm the head of product management for the new CenturyLink Cloud, so let me know if you've got questions!
Not sure which programming language to pick? Start with Python
http://www.jordan-dimov.com/2012/07/not-sure-which-programming-language-to-pick-start-with-python.html
One of the questions I receive most often from young people interested in pursuing a career in IT is 'Which language would you recommend that I learn?' If you haven't picked a language yet, or even if you have, do yourself a favour and learn Python.
Apple should add a rule: if App &gt; $2 then No Ads
If Mr. Jobs really cares about the user experience with apps then he should do this. I think he's proven he can do anything when it comes to that Store.
Why some social media have explanatory value.
http://blog.sntmnt.com/post/35231561206/why-some-social-media-have-explanatory-value-and-others
In-depth post about why I believe that some social media sources can be used to predict everyday events and used of insights, while others don't.
JavaScript performance tricks
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12973706/javascript-collection/12973883#12973883
I've been updating this for a while, hope you find it useful.
How to write like a scientist
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_03_23/caredit.a1200033
"Using the first person in your writing humanizes your work. If possible, therefore, you should avoid using the first person in your writing."
Cookmarking
http://cookmarking.r10.railsrumble.com/
Cookmarking - create your own collection of recipes
I'll always miss you Macromedia Fireworks
https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/528460a370a4
My obituary for Fireworks
not tested, symptoms
Username "live" and break youtube.com/live? 
http://www.youtube.com/live/
This used to be live broadcasts... :(
Ask HN: Anyone Using Rsync.net?
What is your experience for their support ? I asked support@rsync.net but no reply yet.
Teaching Security to the Ungeeky: Demonstrate Real-World Attacks
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/UK-Articles/Teaching-Security-to-the-Ungeeky-Demonstrate-Real-World-Attacks/ba-p/5824
A pitched battle to change everybody’s passwords! Desperate attempts to lock each other out of the system! Key database relationships up in smoke! This mayhem brought to you courtesy of yet another installation of Teaching Security to the Ungeeky! Remember: it's all fun and games til somebody gets hurt. Though it's pretty fun after that, too.
EclipseDay at the Googleplex
http://codesurgeonblog.com/2008/05/eclipseday-hosted-by-google-attendee.html
I have co-organized an Eclipse conference at Google, scheduled for June 24th at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. The focus of the talks is more hands-on than what you might have experienced at EclipseCon. It should prove to be particularly insightful for those of you using Eclipse for development purposes and maybe to a minor extent also for those building products on the platform. I just wanted to ping the hacker news community about the limited attendee list filling up fast - let me know if you want to come and I can try to sneak a couple of hacks in.
Paramount first studio to stop distributing film prints
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-paramount-digital-20140117,0,5245137.story#axzz2qiz1ERfz
Figure this might be interested to some of the digital media hackers out there.
ASK:Help needed on developing web widgets
hi,
I need links to information on how to develop web widgets using html, css, dom and ajax. thanks. I am really stumped here.
Show HN: Random Access Memories - Watch that CPU scream!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30780176/RAM/RandomAccessMemories.html
My hack from last night: a 6008 (I think) CPU actually computing, accompanied by a mediocre Daft Punk - Get Lucky remix.
Show HN: Our first "Commercial" for the Web
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/t8c7i/verelocom_saves_another_life/
Direct to the source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEWYJirgmsI
Register to be not Scrum Certified
http://notscrumcertified.appspot.com/
We believe in the Scrum process. We believe that Scrum certification is of limited value. We hereby renounce any Scrum certification we may already have and declare our intention to remain "Not Scrum Certified"!
Proven.com doesn't respect your privacy
http://www.proven.com/documents/Proven_Privacy_Policy.pdf
"If you as a Worker choose to provide information related to your job history as part of your Worker
Information, you understand and agree that Proven will share this information with our third party
service providers, who may reach out to your previous employers in order to verify the job history
you provide as part of your Profile. If you do not want Proven or its third party service providers to
contact your previous employers, please do not enter information related to your job history as part of
your Worker Information."

I didn't add this info into my profile, you scraped it from my resume and added it to my profile.
Ask HN: Cloud Based Bug Tracker?
There are only 2 of us in the company, both developers for most of the workday. We use zendesk for customer support, heroku for application hosting, grasshopper for the phone system, launchrock for promotion and godaddy for simple web hosting. My last few companies used Jira for bug tracking but it looks expensive as we are just starting out and it needs care and feeding.

Please, your suggestions on an inexpensive cloud based Bug Tracking solution?
Best practices to speed up your web sites (from the yahoo guys)
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
A set of great best practices to improve speed when loading web pages
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, Harris meet
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2025,THE-FOUR-HORSEMEN,Discussions-With-Richard-Dawkins-Episode-1-RDFRS
See the google video links
What Your Facebook Says About You
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/26/facebook.facts.cashmore/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Who in the world actually still has their Facebook page still set to public?
Find Who Unfollowed Or Ditched You On Twitter
http://fundubytes.blogspot.com/2008/08/find-who-unfollowed-or-ditched-you-on.html
Have you ever wondered these social networking sites do tell you - who befriend with you or who followed you recently, but they do not notify who removed you from their friend list or dumped you!
Ask HN: When should you look for a mentor?
I'm trying to find a mentor for my side project, which isn't yet a startup: it's an idea and some code.

I want to approach a professor I had in undergrad to be my mentor, but I'm not sure if I have enough to approach him yet and generate interest in helping me develop. He's the foremost expert in the area of my side-project, and he's very in demand/probably doesn't have much time.

At what stage should one approach mentors? Idea/Basic Implementation/MVP/Product Release?
All Blogger Blogs redirect to a country-specific Blogger URL
http://sharepress.org/all-blogger-blogs-redirect-to-a-country-specific-blogger-url.html
It seems an change is being happening on Google’s blog network, Blogger in India. If you try to access your blog or any blogger hosted blogs in India, you will notice that its been redirected to bloggers Indian specific domain blogspot.in instead of the regular blogspot.com. This seems not a isolated change happening, the redirection in blogger domain is happening in many of the countries.
HTML5 compass and straightedge pentagon examples
http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/06/four-ways-to-construct-pentagon.html
A page I wrote back in June covering the math behind four different ways of constructing a pentagon. Includes an HTML5 engine for animating classical compass and straightedge constructions.
First chess website accessible to blind players
http://lichess.org/blog/U5AX_DcAADkAz-L5/accessibility-for-blind-players
lichess.org, the open source chess server, implements accessibility for visually impaired people.
Why Combinator?
https://medium.com/startup-on-the-road/a0cac6732e00
How the startup landscape has changed for the “Non-Coder” since the inception of Y Combinator’s incubator program in 2005. And 9 years later what other effective options are available?
Cool Online, sharable calculator w/o variables
http://instacalc.com/
and many other features.
Design Inspiration: 25 Designers to Follow on Twitter
http://designmodo.com/designers-follow-twitter/
Round up a list of 25 great designers to follow and interact with on Twitter.
Welcome to Clicking Bad, bitch. 
http://clickingbad.nullism.com/
don't use javascript, you cheater!
Moyea SWF to Video Converter Pro Review  
http://review.software-for-windows7.com/moyea-swf-to-video-converter-pro-review.html 
SWF Video Converter for Windows 7 is the best SWF Converter, specially designed to convert flash SWF animation, movies, video, games to video AVI/WMV/MOV/MPG/FLV/PNG/GIF/BMP/TIFF on Windows.
Ask HN – Wallfocus | HD Wallpaper Search Engine 
http://wallfocus.com
Hey just built a hd wallpaper site. It uses facebook APIs to generate a cover photo and an automatic resolution detection system.

Any tips or feedback? Was thinking about other differentiating features that would be useful to my users.

Thanks in advance.
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
http://techblogged.com/google-bets-20k-that-chrome-cant-be-hacked/
Well I think we have a very hard work to win that notebook and the prize of $20.000. But maybe Charlie Miller would do it before. What do you think about this? It is possible to hack Google Chrome?

I think: Impossible is nothing
Some other cities with Data Portals
https://www.data.gov/cities/community/cities/datasets
Baltimore - data.baltimorecity.gov
Honolulu - data.honolulu.gov
Colorado - data.opencolorado.org
Lexington - data.lexingtonky.gov
Somerville - data.somervillema.gov
Palo Alto - paloalto.opendata.junar.com
Louisville - portal.louisvilleky.gov
Show HN: FindYogi -Product Comparison With Automated Value For Money Scoring
http://www.findyogi.com
hi,<p>We have released a fresh version of FindYogi.com (http://www.findyogi.com). Please help us with feedback.<p>New Features:<p>A. Quantify Value for Money. We have introduced FindYogi Index, a rating out of 5, that tells you if a product is worth buying at its current market price. This a completely automated feature that takes into account all the products, and their prices, of that particular category into account. We do not currently account for brand perception and novelty of the product.
How Estimize Nailed the Facebook Revenue Print 
http://www.leighdrogen.com/how-the-estimize-consensus-nailed-the-facebook-revenue-print/
The Estimize community of analysts, traders, corporate finance professionals and financial peanut gallery people continues to amaze me more and more every day. Our whole crowdsourcing experiment does as well.

But what happened today just takes the cake. Facebook filed its amended S-1 with full accounting for FQ1 2012. In the updated filing, Facebook reports 1.058B in revenue and EPS of 9 cents.

A little more than a month ago we put Facebook up on Estimize, our first private company listing. We had no clue what would happen as there hasn’t been and still isn’t any type of baseline estimate from the sell side. The Estimize community of buy side and independent analysts was all on its own, with no spread to game or baseline scenario to use.

Because of how the site works, we needed to give a Wall Street estimate, so we made one up. We projected 25% YOY revenue and EPS growth. But as the last month went on, we saw the Estimize numbers diverging greatly from this.

And guess what happened. With no guidance what so ever, from the company or the sell side, the Estimize consensus nailed the revenue number, coming in at 1.07B. There were 14 estimates with quite a wide range of opinions, but average together the result was amazing.

Click through the image to see the results.
Why to stop looking for a technical co-founder—at least for now
http://www.kwiat.org/2012/04/23/why-to-stop-looking-for-a-technical-co-founder/
I (more a product/designer person) just published an article on how I built Eisenhower.me without a technical co-founder (back-end developer) and how this minimum viable product finally led me to finding one with whom I am now happily working on the complementary Eisenhower iPhone app.
We All Need To Get Over Privacy
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/we-all-need-to-get-over-privacy.html
Is privacy dead on the internet? Can you truly keep something to your self?
Show HN: Goliath.cc Launch a clothing brand for $50.
http://www.goliath.cc
I started my own clothing brand 9 years ago when I was 17. I wasted a ton of money ($18,000) trying to get things right. Luckily all of the money wasn't wasted because I did purchase some physical capital enabling me to pivot into brand management, production, & order fulfillment. I already run this business but am launching a consumer facing version soon to mainstream it.
Goliath.cc
Thoughts? Questions? Critiques?
Thanks for your time
Show HN: I built a custom web query tool that is surprisingly useful
https://www.heftysearch.com/
I’ve been using Alfred workflows for years, and have 10+ bulk-searches set up. I created HeftySearch to enable that same flexibility for as many people as possible via a web interface. I’ve found it super useful to search to buy things on eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace at the same time. Or to search for a movie on HBO, Prime Video, Netflix, etc at the same time. You can add your own custom searches too for any site, and I’ve tried to make it pretty clear how to do that. If anyone has any feedback or suggestions, I’d love to hear them!
Collection of Ultimate Workspaces
http://allenlsy.com/ultimate-workspace-collection/
more than 200 workspace setup suggestions for developer, designer and people who loves clean and beautiful desk setups
SHOW HN: Script for creating Mac sparsebundles on NFS
https://github.com/qas1981/TimeMachine-to-Windows
I created this script to assist in creating Mac TimeMachine backups on NFS. As where I am a Mac user that has Windows File Servers.
Steps
1. Setup NFS on Mac
2. Run Script
3. Set up TimeMachine to use NFS.<p>The script makes some huge assumptions. Let me know what you thoughts or if you find it useful.
What I think coupling is ...
http://byterot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/what-i-think-coupling-is.html
This post is a follow-up to the question/discussion-point Darrel Miller has started here. The question is that in the REST world, what is coupling and how we can achieve de-coupling. Although this post can be read independently, it is best to start with reading his post first. We discuss three models: server-concern, client-concern and mixed-concern. Each of these are valid patterns but they each come with its own anti-pattern to be aware of.
One thing about Less.js 
http://blog.montylounge.com/2011/07/31/one-thing-about-lessjs/
If you're looking to familiarize yourself with CSS pre-processors but don't want to add additional complexity to your stack then maybe this one feature of Less.js is what you've looking for.
Get Your Boss to Let You Blog at Work
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/02/22/employees-should-blog-at-work/
If you’re a boss you should know that your employees who blog on company time may turn out to be the future heroes of the company, if you can find ways to harness their talent and drive.
Is Analog log analyser dead and abandoned?
http://www.analog.cx/
Granted I've moved on to using Piwik for most projects now but I still use Analog for deep dive data crunches. So... There's been no development since 2005 and the support forum stopped accepting posts in December 2009. Has the program truly been abandoned? Anyone know?
WSJ: HealthCare.gov’s Heart Beats For NoSQL
http://on.wsj.com/18Bilv8
"CMS needed to process non-standard data types from multiple vendors. Insurers trying to sell their products on HealthCare.gov lack a standard way of expressing their data, describing deductibles, health conditions and other plan attributes differently. If CMS had elected to use a SQL system, its programmers would have had to build a common data model, or schema, to describe the disparate data sources within the application. This would require more time, a luxury CMS did not have if it wanted to meet HealthCare.gov’s Oct. 1 launch deadline. In contrast, NoSQL systems can more easily search plan information– a process similar to how Google Inc. retrieves Web content for users. “We’ve essentially built search-based applications against the [HealthCare.gov] data,” said Mr. Bloom."
Lessons Learned - First Product Launch
http://rjjacobson.tumblr.com/post/45120750776
I recently launched penguit.com. Here is what I learned from the process.
Ask HN: Anyone know of any Industrial Design Jobs?
I started a company around a little web app while I was working, I have since lost that job due to cut backs. To keep my start up growing I need to get another job and was wondering if anyone out there knew of any ID jobs? I have a 4 year BFA from RIT and have some experience with in the soft goods industry.

I scan coroflot all the time, but if anyone has some connections I'd appreciate it. Emails in the profile
What your startup can learn from...Wal-Mart?  It's still okay to hate them, though.
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2007/10/24/Will-Wal_2D00_Mart-IT-Lead-Or-Follow_3F00_.aspx 
I've always viewed Wal-Mart as a fossil that would be harder to turn than an aircraft carrier. But Wal-Mart has actually made some smart IT decisions that we can all learn from; big or small.
Microsoft Surface: I'm extremely disappointed.
https://www.facebook.com/jacopo.nardiello/posts/200702946730599
My personal thoughts about the Surface.
Missing Air Algerie plane from Burkina Faso has crashed
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/uk-algeria-flight-idUKKBN0FT0YC20140724
Another plan crash
With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/technology/27maps.html?ei=5124&en=c0ca3a88644ae4a9&ex=1343275200&adxnnl=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&adxnnlx=1185554780-//tM+eOxbokbOAfnoNP6oA
On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker.
Drag and drop to make music. Its insane
http://www.incredibox.com/v3/
Super fun and drag and drop music creation all completely web based. You can even download your composition
Is Yahoo down?
http://yahoo.com/
Was trying to get to Yahoo finance but neither are loading... anyone else?
Free 2011 Calendars to download in PDF, InDesign and Illustrator formats
http://robcubbon.com/free-2011-calendars-to-download-in-pdf-indesign-and-illustrator-formats
Free Adobe Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD) and PDF files of a 2011 calendar to download. Use as you wish!
Python Data Utils
http://github.com/jessald/python_data_utils/tree/master
I put a couple of my routine utility files onto github in order to experiment with open source. I'd appreciate any feedback.
I'm completely new to open source and git and also fairly new to Python, so you'll have to forgive any noobish fumblings.