jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right brained, or left?
http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm
Surprisingly, I was almost equal on both, 52% right, 48% left...
Protect Your Laptop Against Theft / Trace Stolen Laptop For Free
http://blog.icyse.com/2010/12/06/protect-your-laptop-against-theft-trace-stolen-laptop-for-free/
It is no secret that in a weakened economy, theft rates—especially for small electronics—rise. Since many computer lovers carry their laptops absolutely everywhere, it makes sense to be especially vigilant in safeguarding these devices.
Imgur.com is down
http://www.imgur.com/
all imgur servers are down
How To Bid Profitable On Facebook
http://gulyani.com/how-to-bid-profitable-on-facebook/
Some real insights with my experience with Facebook Ads.

P.S. Mainly for people into affiliate marketing and strategic profits using Facebook Ads traffic.
More affordable space robots coming soon as Grishin backs  NanoSatisfi
http://robohub.org/?p=16497
Andra Keay writes: NanoSatisfi, a Silicon Valley based cubesat startup, today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Kickstarter campaign of $106,330 and CEO Peter Platzer's personal investment. NanoSatisfi's first satellite is currently being readied for launch in Japan, with JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency. NanoSatisfi are offering control of their cubesat for as little as $250 a week, opening the doors to all sorts of experimentation and big amounts of data. They've opened the Ardusat Control Center for Kickstarter backers, who can now start writing code for the ArduSat without needing to download the Arduino IDE. Backers will be able to code straight from the web to the testing infrastructure and then to download their data after completing their experiments on the ArduSat. NanoSatisfi today received $300,000 investment from Grishin Robotics bringing their total seed funding to $1,750,000, not including their initial successful Kickstarter campaign of $106,330 and CEO Peter Platzer's personal investment.
The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/79854-the-post-apocalypse-survival-machine-nerd-farm
Or what happens when people take a TED talk seriously and end up on a DIY commune
New Facebook App for Android, the Number One Mobile OS in the US
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/new-facebook-app-for-android-the-number-one-mobile-os-in-the-us/
The newest member of the Android tribe is none other than Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who replaced his iPhone for Android just one month ago.
Taghuddle puts the sexy in hashtag photo aggregation
http://thebobbery.com/taghuddle-hashtag-photo-aggregation-and-discussion/
Inspired by an idea from a less obvious source, Nikko Bautista developed Taghuddle to aggregate photos submitted to social media networks with the same hashtag.
Techno/Drum and Bass to hack to
Hi there, I don't hack in your sense of the word, more meditational hacking with music from time to time, so I can get that I might seem weird to you.

Still though, I really value your opinion as I have massive, massive respect for hackers in the conventional sense of the word. Was just wondering : what techno/drum and bass music any of you use to hack to?

This is the latest track I've found works really well for what I'm doing, and there's a lot of others by the same guy if you check youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnPu2ILD4iE

Thanks if any of you can help with your own stuff, and I hope things are going well for you all.
Interview with Cambridge Professor Ross Anderson: Security Engineering 2.0
http://securitywannabe.com/blog/2008/04/07/interview-with-ross-anderson-security-engineering-20/
Security Wannabe interviews Cambridge Professor Ross Anderson on the launch of a massive update to his seminal book - Security Engineering. The 1st Edition received rave reviews from across the IT security community (including famed cryptographer Bruce Schneier and TaoSecurity Richard Bejtlich). If your job has anything to do with security design or implementation, check this out.
Bartz is a true Yahoo completely out of touch 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10090449.stm
Everytime I see anything from Carol Bartz I just feel more and more sorry for Yahoo!

How did they end up with her as the CEO???

Not only is google doing lots of work to diversify, and always has, but they are also gaining moderate success.

As far as Yahoo trebling their profits in the last year, I suspect the majority of that came from two sources

1) the Bing deal with Microsoft

2) improvements in advertising due to the economic recovery

I'm not saying Yahoo! doesn't have a chance of turning around I think they do have some moderately valuable properties, but what is Bartz doing to leverage those, or is she just looking for a sale?
SWF and FLV are going to become open
http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/?
This should shut up the people who bash Flash because "it won't work on my niche Unix offspring."
Doppelganger Domain Attack
http://blog.insecure.in/?p=992
Domain typo-squatting is commonly used to spread malware to users whom accidentally misspell a legitimate domain in their web browser. A new type of domain typo-squatting takes advantage of an omission instead of a misspelling.
Possibly world's most elaborate (good) Pranksters
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/vivoleum
These guys pull off some incredible stunts, delivering good messages in the process. Can't believe they are able to hack into international conferences so easily.
How  to Be Known as a Groundbreaking Thinker
http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-to-be-known-as-groundbreaking-thinker.html
Steve Jobs. Seth Godin. You? Yes.
Five low cost business ideas anyone can start
http://businessartofwar.com/5-small-low-cost-business-ideas/
Five Low cost business ideas anyone can start!
Elliptic curve cryptography via Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography
Listening to Peter's talk @ Start-up School and he mentioned Elliptic curve cryptography so I thought I'd look it up. No wonder it beats factoring.
Ask HN: B2B focused investors/angels?
It seems most angel and seed investors have a B2C bias. Are there any investors that are focus more on B2B startups?

Or investors who are knowledgeable and interested in doing B2B deals?
Show HN: Reading list project
http://dragthelake.com
Drag the Lake is a quick weekend project to store articles worth reading.

http://dragthelake.com
Why I'd Choose St. Louis for Google's Gigabit Fiber Project
http://www.pcworld.com/article/199226/article.html
PC World blog about inexpensive mesh networks for low cost broadband and Google Fiber, highlighting the WasabiNet mesh which I operate in St. Louis, MO USA.
Decided to start moving things with my first "serious" project
https://sekrt.com/blog/the-bad-the-problem-and-the-solution
Well since my lasts projects were... let's say... not so well; meaning I lost interest, etc. I decided to take this idea and launch it! Is a elegant innovative solution and I think it have legs.
Flow - Task Management and Online Collaboration for Teams
http://getflow.com/
Really loving the interface and functionality. I've been a beta user for some time and I can't recommend it enough. It's simple yet very powerful.
Examples of Onomatopoeia
http://www.examplesof.com/onomatopoeia.html
Are you searching for examples of onomatopoeia? Here at examplesof.com you can find all the information and examples you could ever need. Visit our site now for more resources!
Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
https://4m3ric4.com
I made a road trip simulator for those who is dreaming about exploration, but can't leave their computers. It is free and requires no account. Enjoy your trip and stay safe!
Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet'
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/
...in 2012. I didn't room for that part in the title field because the totle exceeded 80 characters.
Faster JSON Generation with PostgreSQL
http://blog.hashrocket.com/posts/faster-json-generation-with-postgresql
Solid write up on leveraging JSON support in PostgreSQL 9.2.
How fast can you code this?
http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/2155460484/math-question-of-the-week
This is pretty cool problem, and interesting idea, which programming language can code this the fastest(read easiest) as well as run fastest. As of now python is in the lead over ruby. :)
Audio Interview with founder of OkCupid and trained mathematician Sam Yagan
http://acmescience.com/shows/scc-shows/463
Show @acmescience some love on twitter, he only has 24 followers, despite having done some great interviews on Strongly Connected Components: http://acmescience.com/category/shows/scc-shows
10 Scams that Everyone Should be Aware Of
http://www.money.co.uk/article/1002794-10-scams-that-everyone-should-be-aware-of.htm
Keep your wits about you because, whilst a recession is bad news for most of us, it is all just more ammunition for the ID fraudsters and money scammers.
User Experience Design Collection
http://uxidea.tumblr.com/
Meaningful thoughts and flubdub about user experience design and interactions. No cat content, promise.
Ask HN: Anyone used an iPhone development company?
We've got an extremely simple iPhone app we need developed to go accompany our website. My co-founder and I are too swamped with rails / android coding to do it ourselves.
We've got wireframes and pseudocode written for the app, and suspect an experienced dev could knock out our app in 15 hours. Has anyone had used the development companies (e.g. iPhone Sculptors, TeraCode)? Whats their quality of output? Would they be a better fit for our type of project vs. just finding an freelancer?
I built a micro SaaS web app(yizy.io)
this is the first time i built a micro saas app to help web designers manage thier screenshots and bookmarks. Please give me feedback thank you!
Snake.li - cryptographic social network
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/snake-the-privacy-aware-social-network
So these friends of mine developed this cryptographic social network and are trying to raise funds in order to work on it full-time.

Give it a look!
Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees
http://marknelson.us/1996/08/01/suffix-trees/
Summary: Building a Suffix Tree (in O(n) time and space) allows you to search for substrings in O(m) time (m being size of substring).

Link is to article describing algorithm and giving sample code in C++.
The Future Of Genomics In Cancer Care
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ibm/2014/03/31/the-future-of-genomics-in-cancer-care/
Cancer isn’t a single disease and even a type of cancer isn’t as simple as where it’s located. How can doctors treat a patient with a disease that continues to change over the course of the illness and over the time of treatment?
Using Google Places to Discover 'Deserts' At Different Scales
http://whackdata.tumblr.com/post/70826009125/the-small-towns-and-deserts-of-canada
I started with what Nathan Yau did at Flowing Data (http://flowingdata.com/2013/09/12/working-with-line-maps-the-google-places-api-and-r/) in creating a line graph of food deserts for the US. Then, I generalized it to work for any country and for any scale of geography, and used to to do a number of different runs over parts of Canada.
We Predict Airfaires
http://getflyr.com/
Are you a developer? We've got something for you. Get access to our Airfare Prediction API at http://getflyr.com/
Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever was
http://www.macworld.com/article/136762/2008/11/apple_enterprise.html?lsrc=rss_main
via John Gruber. The insightful quote:

To be an enterprise company is, in a very real way, to cede a great deal of control over your product line to your customers... Here’s the simple truth: Enterprise hates surprises. It’s not what they want. Enterprise wants predictability. They want to know when, what, how much, and that it will be all new and cool, yet change nothing... And they want to know everything in detail a year ahead of time.
Fed Chairman Bernanke tentatively endorses bitcoin
http://qz.com/148399/ben-bernanke-bitcoin-may-hold-long-term-promise/
how policy, capital, and technology will interact with each other will define the 21st century. Good to see the thinking behind what is happening from the policy side, and see what can be done to fit disruptive new technologies into slow established frameworks. Tiresome work, but work that must be done.
Ask HN: What's a fun language to program in besides JavaScript?
I've been doing JS for about 10 years, I used to do perl, php, ruby but now I'm learning v-lang. The only problem is it is pre-alpha. I'm considering learning Go instead as its very similar. I want to be able to build things (apps, etc) without have to install 8 billion javascript libraries to do a "hello world".
Ask HN: Libraries Needed for New Languages
There is a plethora of new languages being discussed here on HN everyday and a lot of talk about how to get involved. Many, I'm sure, would like to engage with a new language but often there is a mental barrier on what to build and a simple To-Do List to learn something either doesn't teach enough or doesn't feel useful enough for some to start.

So my question is - what is the "directory" of common missing needs? That is (most) every language needs(? / ends up getting) :

* an email library
* a web framework
* a queue framework
* a descriptive statistics library
* an ImageMagick wrapper
* a number of database wrappers
* an ORM
* a deployment framework
* etc etc etc

Perhaps not great examples above as most are related to the web and not games and other disciplines but you get the gist.

Just a thought
WavePayroll Launches in US
http://wavepayroll.com/US/
WavePayroll just launched in the US. It's much cheaper and seems to have a simpler UI than existing (terrible) payroll solutions. What do you think?
Ask HN: How to Recruit a Partner for a Pre-sold/Pre-development Product
A B2B SaaS accounting product we are preparing already has it's first customer. This customer has also offered to partially fund it's development in exchange for a royalty fee.

Certain back-end technical aspects of the application are outside the scope of my expertise. In addition, there are the usual ongoing maintenance and support concerns that will require attention and having someone technical on call that can patch right away is important.

Would you hire/outsource for help or take on a technical partner? Leaning towards taking on a partner and would appreciate any advice on how to go about this. Would you approach small development shops or individuals?

Any thoughts/experiences you can share would be helpful.
Daily Email Alerts for Twitter App (Would love feedback)
http://warble.co/
My friend and I made a Google Alerts style of service specifically for Twitter so you can monitor content that's interesting to you when you can't read Twitter all the time.

If you care to try it, would love feedback.
Amber 0.12.0 released
http://nicolas-petton.fr/blog/amber-0.12.0-released.html
The new release includes a lot of improvements, from the new package management to the AST interpreter, as well as improvements in Helios, the CLI tools and the compiler, among other changes.
Monads explained in a javascript unit test
https://github.com/sathish316/javascript_functional_koans/blob/master/koans/AboutMonads.js#LC1
Writer Monad and List Monad explained using a javascript unit test. Code is from the article: Best introductions to monad translated from Haskell to Javascript (http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell-to-javascript-of-selected-portions-of-the-best-introduction-to-monads-ive-ever-read)
Show HN: Guess the title of a song which contains a specific word
http://www.zlyma.com/projectm/test/
A little thing I put together...
Contest for the best mobile Internet startup 150k€ to win (UK, NL Portugal)
http://www.vodafonemobileclicks.com/
Vodafone Mobile Clicks is the largest contest for the best mobile internet startup in the world of its kind. The best mobile internet startup is selected by a world class jury in three different jury rounds, a.o. Om Malik, Russell Buckley, Peter Vesterbacka, Rudy De Waele and Robin Wauters.

After last year's success in NL and the UK, this year's event will be extended with the startups and presence of Portugal. You will compete against the best of each country for a total prize money of 150.000 Euros!
The main reason for the existence of Vodafone Mobile Clicks is to accelerate the innovation in the mobile internet sector in Europe.

Register before August 22nd
Show HN: Klipit.in – Online clipboard, quickly share data across devices
https://klipit.in/fcw-52937
Hello, wanted to share about my new project called Klipit.

How do you quickly share data between devices? Here's what most people do –

- Send it to someone on WhatsApp or other messaging service.
- Email it to themselves.
- Use a note taking application like Google Keep, Apple Notes or OneNote (my preferred way until now).

All of these require you to already have those services logged into on both the devices. Logging into any service on a new device these days is a tedious process involving 2-factor authentication. What if there was a quick way to share data between devices? One that did not require any logins or installing any apps?

Starting with this thought, I built Klipit.in. An online clipboard to share data quickly between devices.

You get an instant online clipboard with a unique link. No need to create any account. You can paste any data to this clipboard and simply open the link on another device. Nothing to install, no logins required. Quick and easy. There is also a QR code which you can scan to open the clipboard in browser.

Some features that I may add depending on how it takes off -

- Password protection
- Real time refresh
- Sharing files
- Klipit account with multiple clipboards
- Custom clipboard URL

Play with it and let me know what you think.
Show HN: Portra, An iOS6 Photo Sharing Web App
http://portra.herokuapp.com
Portra uses iOS6's support for file inputs to let you take a photo, apply a filter with Canvas and share it to Twitter. Just a little proof of concept to show what's possible. Code is at https://github.com/interstateone/portra

Notes: It can be slow, there's probably some optimization to be done in the filter. There's also a squished image bug that pops up every once in a while when using a photo directly from the camera, let me know if you have any ideas what may be causing this.
Apple Hopes to Re-enter the Living Room
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/apple-hopes-to-re-enter-the-living-room/?hpw
At D8, Steve said the biggest problem with the TV market is dealing with the fragmentation of cable providers across the country. He also said users have too many boxes and interfaces to deal with. I wonder if this supposed re-imagined Apple TV addresses this.
HTML5 Boilerplate removes pink text-selection highlight
https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/commit/1d320b59a390041f25cf87d790f6472a25a512ef
It was an iconic h5bp element, users complain.
Amazing DARPA projects (Regina Dugan, now at Google)
http://www.ted.com/talks/regina_dugan_from_mach_20_glider_to_humming_bird_drone.html
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Process email in your web app without polling
http://blog.teambox.com/handling-incoming-email/
Handle incoming email for your application with the power of Webhooks. Instead of setting up an email server and polling every minute, you can set up easy (and free) ping notifications for email.
How to remove fragmentation in table?
http://ravikhanal.com/?p=160
How to remove fragmentation in table and database.
First Rails Project
http://www.uncookedblog.com
Hey!

I'm working on my first rails project. It's pretty simple, and I'm just starting out, so yeah.

The concept is pretty simple. Anyone can write anything anytime. You just can't delete or edit anything. It's open source, you can check out the code at github.com/arelenglish/rubyblog

Feel free to write something, anything. Also, feel free to do whatever else you want.

Thanks.
@ArelEnglish
Massive Startup Opportunity In India Ignored?
http://nandakishore.posterous.com/massive-startup-opportunity-in-india-ignored
I see this idea as a massive startup opportunity in INDIA. But I dont know the reasons why its ignored. Certainly I think there would be some. Could you let me know ?
Ask HN: How do You or your organization handles IP management?
IP management as in Network, not intellectual property
How To Be Anonymous On The Internet
http://greycoder.com/how-to-be-anonymous-internet/
We explain how to be anonymous on the internet, without getting too deep technically.
YaketyStats - Good looking new tool for monitoring your *nix systems.
http://yaketystats.org/redmine/projects/show/yaketystats
YaketyStats (aka YS) gathers statistics about your *nix systems. YS is easy to install, configure and maintain.

YS also has an AJAX-powered web interface for graphing data in RRD files--including Google Maps-like dragging.
TwTeX - LaTeX equations for Twitter
http://twtex.nl/
For all those times you've wanted to tweet an equation!

Ok, so that doesn't happen very often, but now you can! Just enter an equation in LaTeX (x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}, for example), and you'll get an image and a Twitter-friendly URL to paste into your tweet.

Yes, the target audience is small, but feedback is welcome!
AWS DynamoDB table archive and restore in JSON
https://github.com/yegor256/dynamo-archive
Using this simple node.js command line script you can archive and restore your AWS DynamoDB in JSON format. Moreover, the script takes into account your maximum available throughput and tries to stay in its limits.
SHOW HN: (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Javascript))
https://bitbucket.org/sainamdar/lisp2js/
Here is a LISP interpreter in Javascript based on Peter Norvig's interpreter in Python. All constructive criticism is welcome.
Chrome Ext: Access the photos on your Droid, fast 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snappea-photos/epindigjbiphgfhnmlpcocaiafjgbabe
We built a very fast way to access the photos on your Android phone. It's called SnapPea Photos: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snappea-photos/epindigjbiphgfhnmlpcocaiafjgbabe
Circles, Spirals and Sunflowers in HTML5/Canvas
http://www.krazydad.com/tutorials/circles/
A new HTML5 tutorial by Jim "Krazydad" Bumgardner
Show HN: BTC.sx - A bitcoin trading platform I've been working on for 8 months
https://btc.sx
Comments, encouragement and constructive criticisms are welcome.
Ciapre Xcode theme
http://vinhnx.github.com/Ciapre-Xcode-theme
So I've just ported this theme for Xcode from the original Sublime Text one.

Hope you guys like it! :)
YouTube unfairly removes Language Channel with last Thao native speaker
http://www.glossika.com/glossika-responds-to-youtube/
Polyglot channel Glossika Language Training has been banned unfairly from Youtube. I can't imagine what I'd do if my years of hard work and language learning videos were removed because someone simply abused the flagging option!
Help give him a hand to get it back!
One of the videos includes the last native speaker of the Thao language!
My Startup CampusLive Announces $3.1M in Funding 
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/04/campuslive_raises_31_million_t.html
Excited to announce our Series A has closed with Highland Capital Partners & Charles River Ventures.
Autonomous Car drives through city traffic in Berlin, Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqL6j2D5H4
Video of "MadeInGermany" during the autonomous drive in Berlin's city center
Low costs and huge profits irresistible lure for Chinese to mine Ghana's gold
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1255126/low-costs-and-huge-profits-irresistible-lure-chinese-mine-ghanas-gold
True startup guys.