jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Handle.com Emerges With $9.9M For New Approach to Organizing Email
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/01/22/handle-emerges-with-9-9-million-for-new-approach-to-organizing-email/
"The tech industry has a long history of trying to get people to use software and devices to organize their lives, a task that’s gotten harder as the number of ways to reach people continues to grow.

The latest effort, Handle Inc., starts with the problem of email overload. Its tool aims to blend email and calendar functions with a to-do list that helps users quickly go through their inboxes and organize tasks, then use its knowledge of time and location to send reminders."

http://handle.com
Do the U.S. air travel policies prevent you from visiting the U.S.? 
My girlfriend lives in Germany and she hates the electronic visa waiver program, the fingerprinting, paying a small fine to come here, and dealing with the TSA. She's almost at the point of refusing to come to the U.S. I'm curious if other non U.S. citizens feel similarly.
New iPhone App Suggests Device Is On Its Way to Becoming a Business Tool 
http://www.cio.com/article/153100
There's a new application from a company called MIR3 that takes advantage of the iPhone's unique user interface to improve emergency notifications during disasters or other such situations, as well as enhance the IT service alerts process and other notification purposes.

It's notable because though the iPhone is clearly a consumer device, this application is business specific--it's one more reason the iPhone may soon be know as a corporate device.
Book review: Numpy 1.5 Beginner's Guide
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-review-numpy-15-beginners-guide.html
The review of "Numpy 1.5 Beginner's Guide" from the Glowing Python.
Startup to Take on PayPal
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=130099&WT.svl=news1_1
A secure electronic payments startup plans to challenge PayPal, but with a twist: It permits transactions for online pornography and gambling, which PayPal does not.
Ask HN: LLC taxation... Schedule C or Tax as corporation?
I recently formed an LLC (launching within the next 2 weeks hopefully! I'm optimistic).

In any case I just had a free tax consultant presentation. The tax consultant service is too expensive for me even if I wanted to continue with that firm.

Here's the basic question: The tax consultant seemed to be leaning towards taxing the LLC as a corporation and paying out owner's distribution to save some taxes; however I have read that most LLC's just go with the Schedule C (I'm a single founder/owner). So what's the real scoop?
JavaScript/CSS Editor For Tweaking The Web
http://webfiddle.net
I have been working on this new editor, let me know what you think.
Ask HN: Heroku style, Linux Distro
Is there any kind of linux distro which includes everything to deploy your rails application?.

All-in-one,
deploy-ready,
standardized,
easy-to-scale,
well designed file structure
MIT students meet with Boston area developers for code reviews
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/teaching-programming-1028.html
"In an innovative software-engineering class, students meet for regular “code reviews” with senior programmers from Boston-area companies."

I can't think of a better way for students to hone their development skills. It's also a nice way to create collaborations between the university and Boston's tech companies.
Show HN: Resumecreator.io – I built a simple resume builder
https://resumecreator.io
Hi HN!

I'm a developer who noticed that I haven't done much experimentation lately. I decided I wanted to change that this year.

This month I built a simple resume builder with the main goal of practicing front-end development, and to scratch an itch I had when updating my resume. :)

After it was functional enough, I casually shared with some friends to express my enjoyment of crafting something just for the sake of having some fun. To my surprise they ended up asking how they could send to others. So I went one step further, due to my pure excitement, and hosted it on Netlify to make publicly available.

In case you're curious, I used the React component library Mantine[1] in this project. I loved it, so I definitely recommend to check it out for your next React project.

Have thoughts to share? I would love to know! :)

If you're postponing starting that project you have been thinking of, just do it. Right now. Just create a new dir, load up your framework of choice and start it, even a couple of lines are enough to get you started. We should never forget that to play around is awesome.

--

[1] https://mantine.dev
Simulating Neocortical Column Of Rat Brain - IBM Blue Gene/L Supercomputer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/20/research.it
"Two years on, he has already developed a computer simulation of the neocortical column - the basic building block of the neocortex, the higher functioning part of our brains - of a two-week-old rat, and it behaves exactly like its biological counterpart. It's something quite beautiful when you watch it pulse on the giant 3D screens the researchers have constructed.

[...]

Although a neocortical column is only 2 millimetres long and half a millimetre in diameter, it contains 10,000 neurons and 30m synapses. The machine that simulates this column is an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer is capable of speeds of 18.7 trillion calculations per second. It has 8,000 processors and is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world."
Leveling up as a student-entrepreneur
http://brennanjp.com/post/42781013597/leveling-up-as-a-student-entrepreneur
My experience as a student-entrepreneur going to school full-time and then taking the plunge and leaving school (only temporarily, I think) to work full-time.
Show HN: A smarter way to share links
http://readdis.com

Hey everyone,

Readdis is a project that I've been working on recently and I would love to get your feedback on it. I originally wrote it for internal use to help my team and I better track
the links that we send to each other. We found it quite useful so I decided to open it up and see if anyone else was interested. It definitely is at the MVP stage right now
with lots of things left to be done. I would greatly appreciate any feedback, ideas, and most importantly, comments on whether or not you find it useful. Thanks!

Kevin
Alternatives to Amazon EC2
I was wondering what are the best alternatives to Amazon.

I use both Amazon (past 6 months) and openHosting (past 3 years). OpenHosting has been nice, with the occasional service disruption but really good technical support by people in the know. I am using their old infrastructure (vServer) but they have a new version out that looks cool (KVM). http://www.openhosting.com/cloud-hosting-features/hosting-demo/

What is your preference?
Show HN: Beander, a platform for micro-roasters
http://beander.com
Hey, we built this during Startup Bus. Currently, specialty coffee is a 16 Billion dollar industry and there is no platform to connect small independent roasters with the large importers of raw beans. We simplify the current system which involves digging around on outdated excel sheets. We hope to help importers move their extra product and micro-roasters obtain the exact beans that they want.
Cold Fusion Rides Again (in Italy)
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-video.html
They say it makes way over unity heat, radiation, and copper, but no conventional sense....
A nice function for Node.js and V8
I've started thinking about how best to implement a real-time chat server for my platform, and found this:

V8 + Node.js + Socket.io

AWESOME!

Personally I'd rather be coding in javascript on the server than erlang ... and with Google's awesome team behind V8, I think it can be fast enough to handle at least 10k users on one machine! (Except of if you are parsing JSON ... there is a post about that recently, and I think the latest V8 might do it a little better.)

A lot of people are wary of using javascript though because you have to write lots of nested callbacks to do things in sequence. Well to that I say, let me write a function that sort of does it for you.

After writing it, I thought I'd share it here on Hacker News ... hopefully it'll help anyone who's writing in Node.js

me.run = function(callables, onSuccess, onError) {
var k=0, len, ret;
switch (typeof callables) {
case 'object':
ret = {};
try {
for (k in callables) {
if (typeof(callables[k]) === 'array') {
ret[k] = callables[k][0].apply(callables[1], callables[k].slice(2));
} else {
ret[k] = callables[k].call();
}
}
if (onSuccess) {
onSuccess(ret);
}
} catch (e) {
if (!onError) {
throw e;
}
onError(e, k, ret);
}
break;
case 'array':
ret = [];
len = callables.length;
try {
for (k=0; k<len; ++k) {
if (typeof(callables[k]) === 'array') {
ret.push(callables[k][0].apply(callables[1], callables[k].slice(2)));
} else {
ret.push(callables[k].call());
}
}
if (onSuccess) {
onSuccess(ret);
}
} catch (e) {
if (!onError) {
throw e;
}
onError(e, k, ret);
}
break;
}
};
Dr Grigory Perelman turns down $1million prize 
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/19-03-2010/112643-perelman-0
Dr Grigory Perelman turns down $1million prize
Ask HN: Which Mandatory Access System do you prefer?
Which MAC do you prefer, SELinux, AppArmor or Tomoyo? Perhaps another option? Which are the advantages and disadvantages of each one?
Ask HN: Why won't start-ups hire older, experienced programmers?
Why won't start-ups hire older experience programmers. They seem to focus on recently graduated engineers who will take this as their first career job rather than experienced developer with 10 + years under their belt?
Running Lua on Mac OS X
http://rudamoura.com/luaonmacosx.html
Lua is a lightweight programming language and has good reputation among game engines. In this article, you will learn how to install and use the latest version of Lua (5.2.1) on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
The Downside of Social Media
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/19/The-Downside-Of-Social-Media/
Social Media Is Ruining Our Real Life Conversations
Signing in to Medium by email
https://medium.com/the-story/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-aacc21134fcd
As author of https://passwordless.net I've been advocating for this since quite a while. Great to see a major site adopting it.
Ask HN: Should I make a clean VIM reference site?
Problem:

Vim tips and files are scattered all over the web. Usually in sites that are brutally difficult to use.

Yet there are TONS of people using VIM.

Solution:

A contrastingly clean central source of all things VIM that's user-maintained through GitHub.

Questions:
1. Would this interest you?
2. What would be the top-level nav links? (A little virtual card sorting here)
3. What would you expect on it?
Netflix teams up with 'Matrix' creators for new TV series 'Sense8'
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4152402/netflix-to-launch-wachowski-produced-tv-series-sense8-in-late-2014
Netflix teams up with 'Matrix' creators for new TV series 'Sense8'
Announcing pushJS: Send javascript to any connected browser
http://adamilardi.com/?p=9
Visit my live demo @
http://li50-5.members.linode.com:8081/demo.html and
http://li50-5.members.linode.com:8081/whoison

@adamilardi on twitter
Show HN: Typing.ai – Secure typing biometrics authentication API
https://typing.ai
Hello HN, I am Rares, the founder of Typing AI (https://typing.ai). Typing AI is a typing biometrics authentication API that identifies users by the way they type using Artificial Intelligence.

After seeing several hacked sites we came to the conclusion that any application, any database and any code can be hacked. We realized that most security breaches are due to poorly implemented authentication.

This project uses Artificial Intelligence in order to detect the typing pattern by checking the keystroke dynamics. A unique typing ID is generated for each user. There are lots of peoples who tested the API and the accuracy level is over 99.9%.
Our typing biometrics API can be easily integrated in web, desktop and mobile apps using any programming language.
We're targeting big companies such as banks and top 500 businesses, because the API allows us to offer enterprise grade security.

The biggest problem in the banking and fintech world right now is the security of the sensitive data. A data breach can lead to bankruptcy.
Due to the Covid 19 pandemics, schools and colleges were forced to take exams online, some of our customers are educational organizations such as state and private schools, colleges, online courses and webinar platforms.

We are a remote team of 5 members split across Romania, Croatia, Bangladesh and India.
Typing AI Biometrics j.d.o.o. is a company registered in the Republic of Croatia. The company is accelerated by Fil Rouge Capital, the leading Croatian VC.

By eliminating passwords, businesses can immediately reduce churn and cart abandonment and provide superior security for personal data.
We have transformed authentication, making it faster, simpler and better! That's why we are helping more and more developers and businesses to secure web, mobile and desktop applications using typing biometrics authentication based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

We have a Freemium Software as a Service (SaaS) business model and our monthly paid plans range from $21 to over $2000, depending on the number of user identity checks (monthly API calls). Our API can handle millions of API calls per hour (we paid for application load testing).

We have over 1000 nonpaying monthly active users. Our biggest customer has over 1 000 000 registered users and is based in the United States of America. This company is an online teaching platform that offers courses for driving, flying, snorkeling and scuba diving.

You can reach us on our official website: https://typing.ai

Please share your feedback and ask me anything, thanks!
Show HN: A Chrome extension for fast, contextual notetaking
https://getjotter.com/
tl;dr - I built a fast and low-frills notepad which helps me keep a flow state.

I spend a lot of time in the browser: in calls, managing stuff between SaaS apps, or consolidating info from multiple tabs. Usually, I'd bring up an editor and side-by-side it, or switch between my current tab and a notion tab. This extension lets you hit a hotkey and bring up a notepad in-place. It's a scratchpad for thinking in the moment - key points and questions as I'm working. If I want to hold on to the memory, I can export it to another app - if not, I'll just delete the note. It's kind of like the RAM to Notion's hard drive.

A couple more details:
- It works in videos, pdfs, and most sites. Startup friends use it reviewing their Figmas. Investor friends have been using it on Docsends. I use it to pull important parts from documentation, and writing call notes.
- A note can be used across tabs (e.g. I've used it to cross-reference product reviews)
- It keeps a bibliography for each note.
- It can stash its notes if you want to keep things in-house. If not, you can export to Google Docs and Notion
- If you connect your Google Drive, you can search your drive. It's faster than the web interface.

Anyway, the point is to be a really fast way to manage your current thoughts. I feel like memory decays rapidly, and the faster I can record things, the lower my mental burden.

I've got a video showing some of this at https://getjotter.com/. There's no signup needed to try it, and I'm happy to take feedback and suggestions!
Dynamic jquery loading for 3rd party services
https://gist.github.com/736705
solves the problems of dynamically loading jquery if someone else includes your code and you want to use jquery but you aren't sure if jquery is maybe already on the page.

thought i share it because it solved a lot of problems for me.
Azlo Bank Is Closing
On top of BBVA's announcement that they are closing Simple, today we got this email:

--

Hi <myname>,

It is with regret that I share this news today: Our parent bank, BBVA US, has made the strategic decision to close Azlo. Transparency is incredibly important to me and the Azlo team, which is why we are sharing the news early. There will be no immediate changes to your account or to your service.

As founders and entrepreneurs ourselves, we know that there can be unexpected bumps on the entrepreneurial journey. We’re sorry that we won’t be alongside you—our inspiring community of entrepreneurs—as you grow and flourish.

We want to reiterate that Azlo’s service, and your account, is not going away today, and we will continue to support you during this period of transition. We understand that you will have questions for us. Please stay tuned for updates and news.

With admiration,

Cameron Peake, Founder and CEO
The Azlo Team
Ask HN: major company threatening to sue me my aggregator site
Hey guys, first time posting a question.

Basically, I've got a daily deal aggregator site. One of the major players on the market is now threatening to sue me if I don't remove his site from my aggregator.

I have already removed their deal images (but not the actual deals), need I worry?
Untag Yourself - You're not what others say you are
http://readandgetrich.com/untag-yourself-not-what-others-think-you-are/
Let me tell you the story of Victor Serebriakoff who as a young fellow was diagnosed as being mentally incapacitated. When he was 15, one of his professors told him that he will never be able to finish school. This made young Victor assume his imposed status and for more than 17 years he only took laboring jobs, most of them being way below his potential.
Canon camera signatures cracked
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20025286-264.html?tag=river
Takeaway quote: "Hire people who really understands [sic] security".
Show HN: iOS app finds friends' bikini pictures using OpenCV object detection.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/badabing!/id548536602?mt=8
I'm giving away some Promo Codes here as well, just as a thank you to the HN community. Would love your feedback.
Ask HN: Can OpenCourseWare substitute an education from a top tier school?
I've begun watching/taking some courses on iTunesU and realized you have all the materials there to actually feel like you are in the course. You can take exams, complete all the assignments and check your answers. Is there any reason why someone couldn't form a OpenCourseWare work load and get a well rounded education without paying 40k a year? Obviously at the end you don't have anything material to show for it but you'll have the knowledge. Note, I already have a BS in Computer Science but began watching some courses as a refresher and just to really see how different a top tier school was from my state school's education.
Ask HN: What do billionaires do different than millionaires?
Besides getting much luckier, is there anything else that can be controlled?
Why Canadian Tech Entrepreneurs Need to Man/Woman Up
http://www.myplanetdigital.com/digital_strategy/blog/why-canadian-tech-entrepreneurs-need-manwoman
A little manifesto I wrote to remind my fellow Canadian tech entrepreneurs that we have a lot of work to do.
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of web 2.0 democracy
http://www.slate.com/id/2184487/
Should YC news empower 'super-users' too?
Paul Graham and Wikimedia
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/wikimedia_startup_centers.html
There's an interesting corollary to Paul's argument that all startups (at least all web startups) ought to move to Silicon Valley. That is, if you're an investor, you're better off looking AWAY from Silicon Valley, since where the action is today is a) much more expensive and b) much more driven by today's fashion than tomorrow's innovation.
Switching from imperative to functional programming with games in Elm
https://github.com/Dobiasd/elm-articles/blob/master/switching_from_imperative_to_functional_programming_with_games_in_Elm.md
This is the first time I wrote an article not in my native language. If something sounds stupid or the content is nonsense in your opinion, I would be glad if you let me know. :)
Rate My Startup - eclocking.com
http://eclocking.com
Please take a look at eclocking.com and give me some feeback.

It's a stopwatch that lets you save, organize and chart your times.

Some questions:
1. Is this useful?
2. How much functionality does a premium plan need before I can charge?
3. Any other feedback is appreciated.
Ask HN: Why all Backbone resources seem to be outdated?
Hello. I'm self-studying to become a "full stack" web developer and I've chosen Backbone as the first frontend framework/library to learn, since it's small, widely used and plays well with React and other libraries/frameworks.

However, I've found that most resources seem to be pretty outdated and it's been hard to find any tutorial or course not using RequireJS or at least the "newest" Backbone features.

Can you recommend a good, updated path to learn Backbone, best if paired with React as the view layer?

Should I stick with learning Backbone or should I move to another library/framework?

Is Backbone still in high demand, will it still be between now and the next year?

Thank you for your answers and opinions.
A roundabout way of turning on a light. See the explanation b4 reading
http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/tech/how
In Judaism, you are not allowed to use electricity on Saturday. So this company made a light switch that according to them (and granted, many others) IS allowed to be used on Saturday. So I thought HN would like the way it works to try to get around things.<p>If your interested in seeing why this is allowed on Saturday as opposed to a normal light, if you go to Halacha>>Halacha: overview, it goes through it
Show HN: Memgraph 2.2. is released – graph database that supports streaming
https://memgraph.com/blog/memgraph-2-2-release
A few days ago we have released a new version of Memgraph.

Memgraph is a streaming graph application platform that helps you wrangle your streaming data, build sophisticated models that you can query in real-time, and develop applications.

It is powered by an in-memory graph database built to handle real-time use-cases at enterprise scale. Memgraph supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions and uses the standardized Cypher query language for structuring, manipulating, and exploring data.

The main new things in Memgraph 2.2 are:

- you can run Memgraph now on Apple M1 based computers
- you can now use WebSocket support to push the logs
- you can now configure Kafka streams using CONFIG and CREDENTIALS clauses
- we have added a bunch of new built-in procedures

You can take a look at our code on github [1] or you can go to our site[1] and download Memgraph.

Please let us know what you like and what you don't like about it. Are there any features that you are missing?

[1] https://github.com/memgraph/
[2] https://memgraph.com/
Just released: The Little Manual of API Design [pdf]
http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf
Along with opening the Qt repository they have put up a wiki page (http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/ApiDesignPrinciples) on API design and released Jasmine's book.
Ask HN: Your goals for 2011
What are your goals before the end of the world (?)
Are we in a bubble? This company got over 8 million in funding
http://www.redux.com/
Source:
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/redux
Ask HN: Taking my project to it's full potential
Hi HN'ers :)

I posted a little while back on finding a co-founder. I decided to trial a few people out, but I thought it would be a smarter move paying the outright expenses, and keeping the site for myself. I guess what I'm saying, is that I don't really need a co-founder / developer.

My new problem, is getting the site too it's full potential. I'm doing 2000 uniques a day, with the majority of traffic coming from the US, then Japan, UK and Australia. The traffic is highly targeted, and of great quality.

But, how do I make the most of this traffic, and bring in the most income? (Whilst keeping a quality, and non spammy site)

Currently I'm selling an ad spot, and affiliate revenue, but I don't think I'm making the most of it.

I'd appreciate any comments, ideas and or feedback!

Cheers,
Lachy

Site: iPadCaseFinder.com