jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Best Western Hotels security failure: 8 million customers' data stolen
http://thenextweb.org/2008/08/25/best-western-hotels-security-fail-8-million-cases-of-identity-theft-in-biggest-hack-ever/
From the page: "an international criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious cyber-heists ever by stealing the identities of an estimated 8 million people - who have all been guests in at least one of the 1300 existing Best Western Hotels in the past 12 months - in a hacking raid that could ultimately net more than 3.5 billion euro in illegal funds."
State of technology in conference and meeting rooms
http://blog.prijector.com/post/74052024866/state-of-technology-in-conference-and-meeting-rooms
Disclosure i am the founder.
Apple could be sued over iPhone 5 design
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/quick-news/59039-apple-could-be-sued-over-iphone-5-design.html
This could be interesting
Is Google losing it?
Like Fred Wilson said, Google is no longer innovative, the last innovative product that came out of google which was home grown was Gmail in 2004, since then others have been startup's they acquired. The newest evidence to that hypothesis is boutiques.com
Ask HN: Writing technical articles 
I've been meaning to start posting technical articles to my blog (posterous) and even writing a technical book has crossed my mind and was wondering about more experienced writers manage code samples, graphics and etc, meaning, what tools do you use to write (if so) the articles? Bundle text and samples on OpenOffice/GoogleDocs and post format the final result on-line?

Also do you have an suggestions on writing technical books, tooling and guide lines?
Does anyone have experience with mynewcompany.com?
http://www.mynewcompany.com
This looks like an attractive deal .There's a huge price difference between this and hiring a lawyer - so what are the drawbacks of using a service like this?
Playing Around with Game Theory: Smart Data  Big Data
http://blog.risk.io/2013/02/playing-around-with-game-theory/
Risk I/O analyzes the current state of Big Data in the Security industry and how it relates to game theory.
Medium
https://medium.com
We’re rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch. This is a preview.
3 Steps to the “OH” Face & an Avalanche of Sales
http://petovera.com/professional-web-design-blog/2011/03/3-steps-to-the-oh-face-and-a-closed-sale/
Once in a while, when you pitch an idea to someone, you get an “OH” face, as in “Oooh, now I get it. I had no idea what you were initially saying but now it just clicked.”
Ask HN: Why my submissions and comments are not visible to others?
I just found out that more than 10 of my latest submissions and few of the latest comments are not visible to others. I can see all of them after I login, but nobody else can see them.

For example, here are few latest submissions

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041737

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029729

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014711

Others can not even see a list of my submissions. Check this,
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rahulchaudhary

What's going on here?

I created this throw away account just so that others can see this submission.
View 3D printer .gcode files with WebGL
http://gcode.joewalnes.com/
Something I hacked up to help understand what my 3D printer was doing.

Uses the WebGL, the HTML File API and the excellent three.js.

Feedback please.
Wii 2 HD: the final console?
http://techcombo.com/wii-2-hd-the-final-console
This is very promising news, despite the recession; the gaming community are obliged to continue developing technology to make life more enjoyable for us (well, those who take pleasure in gaming)....
Ask HN: Getting started with Hadoop?
Our startup is doing some heavy lifting on financial transactions to categorize and warehouse into our BI like star schema.

We're rails + postgres and it looks like we'll need to get dirty with MapReduce sooner rather than later. Given that we're on EC2, should we try using Amazon's Elastic MapReduce? Should we just host our own Cloudera instance?
Also, it seems like processing takes place on files in S3 -- what would my workflow look like if I were processing data from a database?
Larry Page first quarter as CEO
http://www.dev-articles.com/article/Larry-Page-first-quarter-as-CEO-439001
Very few comments to the perfect first quarter announcement of Larry Page as CEO
The Cash For Clunkers program may have spent a 3 month budget in a week
http://www.economixt.com/2009/07/cash-for-clunkers-part-ii
I can’t help but shake the thought that even if the $1 billion budget is running on fumes at the moment (ok, I lied!) it will not have the necessary quality impact to offset the taxpayers’ investments.
How  to Work (Smarter) At Your Startup
http://kdmedianow.com/2012/01/10/5-ways-work-smarter-startup/
Good thoughts from my friend re: productivity.
Systems Engineering Announces New Cloud Computing Application
http://news.yahoo.com/systems-engineering-announces-cloud-computing-application-100113035.html
Systems Engineering Announces New Cloud Computing Application
Smood it Widget
http://smood.it/widget
What to know how people feel about your resources on the web? Try Smood it widget. It'll collect users mood about your photos, videos, posts...
What Comes After the Cloud? How About the Fog?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/what-comes-after-the-cloud-how-about-the-fog
How the future of IT might play out.
Popular Screen Capture Tool Skitch is now Available for Windows
http://www.labnol.org/software/skitch-sceen-capture-for-windows/26368/
Popular Screen Capture Tool Skitch is now Available for Windows
Powerful people don’t need social media—so why do they use it?
http://daretocomment.com/powerful-people-dont-need-social-media-use/
Access is always accompanied by risk. When powerful people make themselves more accessible via social media, they risk losing privacy, focus, efficiency, and even likability.

So why do they do it?
Show HN: Browser Extension to make a language test out of any website
I was preparing to German C1 recently and my vocabulary was the bottleneck. I didn't want to read boring materials and do boring exercises. Instead I noticed that there are sites in German, which I naturally enjoy. So I just made an extension to make language tests out of them.

The approach is the following:
1) Open an interesting webpage in your target language.
2) Select text.
3) The extension replaces some words with gaps.
4) Read the text, fill in the gaps. Obviously just typing random words out of the blue can be overwhelming, so there is a mode to drag&drop words from a list into the correct places.

I personally see this as active reading. My brain not only consumes information, but always try to guess the word from the context. I suspect that this helps with active vocabulary (i.e. to actually use the new words in writing). In the end I passed C1 exam (obviously I did other preparations too, not only this extension).

This is a beta version for now and it is 100% free:

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocabboost/obgbcamdmcdcenchjmhggocjabmnnaab

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vocabboost/

If you didn't enjoy my explanation skills, there is an example video here: https://vocab-boost.online/

I would love to hear whether you find this useful and your ideas how I could improve it.

I might add payed features eventually to help developing the extension further, but I don't know a good mechanism to do this. I understand that 1$ in the US is very different from 1$ in e.g. India. I want this extension to bring value to everyone independently of their location and financial state. My current plan is to have the base version (i.e. like now) always free, since this already provides majority of value. Curious to hear your thoughts.
Reflected XSS browser test!
http://xss.detectify.com/?xss=%3Cscript%3Edocument.getElementById(safe).innerHTML=Your%20browser%20%3Cb%3Edoesn%5Ct%3C/b%3E%20have%20reflected%20XSS%20protection!%3C/script%3E
Test your browser against Reflected XSS
Getting the most out of your mornings
http://blairlivingston.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/get-the-most-out-of-your-mornings/
The morning is an interesting piece of time. I would guess that it has the widest range of productivity across the general population.
Python IRC bot, with l33t translation, Karma System,Google and more
http://www.h3manth.com/content/python-irc-bot
* l33t translation
* Google I'm feeling lucky search
* Karma system
* XCKD random images
* Flipping a coin, throwing the dice
Ask HN: Angel Needed
I'd like to expand my leadership team ( consisting now of only me ), if the right person came along.

They might need to understand my situation, wherein I am basically broke, but only spend like $1500 per month, living in the midwest.

I'm currently redoing my house 1 room at a time, and my knuckles are scabbed from the work.

I have bills to pay soon, and basically I don't know how I'm going to do it. I don't realize how people get huge pay days and don't make anything with it. I feel like if anyone ever took a chance on me even to the tune of $30k, I'd turn it into a $B hedge fund, so I just don't understand the world.

The business in question is a system which imports crypto data, runs through tensorflow, makes predictions, and makes buying/selling decisions every minute. It ran for several months, somewhat profitably, even though there are edge cases wherein I can prevent some of its big blunders (making it quite profitable).

The end-game is a fairly-high frequency trading bot which out performs the rest, safely over time, and returns higher than elsewhere. This effect would create a low pressure space for outside money to come in, where we'd collect management fees.

I need help!

Daniel Hastings Schumann
920-215-1861
Short-Lived Functional Teams Work
http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/07/16/short-lived-functional-teams/
I came to Prezi at a time when we were experimenting with functional teams. And while the teams from that time no longer exist, they’ve left a lasting, positive mark on the company. We call them SWAT teams, and we start a new one whenever we need to build the expertise and institutional knowledge that we lack, as well as infrastructure to support it. Once that task is done, we dissolve the team. All its members go to other teams and bring their knowledge with them.
WHOIS for Twitter
http://tinfo.linkstore.ru
Get more public details about accounts in Twitter. WHOIS for Twitter.
Ask HN: Is your government issuing vaccine cards?
I just watched a local news story warning us not to post images of our vaccine cards. I have not had a vaccine shot yet mainly due to lack of supply and not being in a high risk age bracket. So I haven't recieve my immunity passport either and I was unaware that they were issuing such cards.

I'm not sure how I feel about these cards but I am definitely concerned that such a device has been implemented without sufficient public discussion and the news media has not questioned my governments motivations for issuing them. The story made it seem like vaccine cards are just a common place thing we have always carried in our wallets like drivers licences.

I'm curious if this is happening everywhere and that maybe I have been too distracted with other news and missed the town halls and public consultation phase. So is your government issuing vaccine cards? and was there any discourse prior?

Thanks.
Show HN: I built vanishdb.com which lets you create a sandbox DB with one click
https://vanishdb.com/
I built vanishdb.com which lets you create a sandbox DB with one click.

Supports MySQL 8.0 right now.

Databases are removed after 30 days of inactivity.

Feedback welcome.
Presentation Conversion to Image & Text Recognition from Image in Cloud
http://saaspose.com/blog/saaspose-slides/archive/2012/11/25/convert-presentations-to-images-and-extract-text-from-images-using-saaspose-rest-api.html
While processing your presentations you may come across scenarios where you need to convert the presentations to images using Saaspose.Slides and recognize text from images using Saaspose.OCR. Saaspose.Slides is a REST API that allows you to create, modify and convert presentations in the cloud whereas Saaspose.OCR is a REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning. Using these two REST APIs you can work with conversion of presentations and text recognition from images.
How to get inspiration for a cool/enjoyable programming project.
Hey HN!

I'v been lurking ycombinator for some time just reading posts and checking out others projects that they have submitted to the site. All of these projects have been really cool, and seems like while sometimes it may be frustrating developing them overall the experience can be pretty enjoyable. I am a college developer with experience in C++,php,ruby,python,coldfusion, and dabbling in some other things. Which leads me to my question, how do the majority of you get inspired for a personal project / startup idea? I have been looking for something to do in my spare time to enhance my skills and enjoy working with technology. I really don't want to do anything to make money, just enjoy creating something myself. Sorry if the question seems vague or out of place.
The 'not the million dollar homepage' for eBay sellers... 
http://www.sponsoredonline.com
An interesting site for ANYONE who sells stuff on eBay, SponsoredOnline is set to become the worlds biggest FREE tag based eBay items billboard. All you need is your item number and a few carefully selected tags.
Misuse of the term "Engineer" in job ads
I've noticed an anti-pattern in job adverts of the mis-labelling of the job position of a "programmer" as a "software engineer". There are major differences between the two so why do job adverts do it?
Be more productive using Eclipse
http://www.turnleafdesign.com/?p=240
Some tips to help make you more productive using eclipse
Page Sharing Service Bo.lt Lets You Copy, Edit And Share Almost Any Webpage
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/page-sharing-service-bo-lt-lets-you-copy-edit-and-share-almost-any-webpage/
New San Francisco based and VC Benchmark supported startup BO.LT launched Page Sharing Service today.

Will it change the way we share pages on the Internet? Read on:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/page-sharing-service-bo-lt-lets-you-copy-edit-and-share-almost-any-webpage/
Latest Esri JavaScript API tips: debugging your application
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/supportcenter/2014/05/06/javascript-debugging-tips-part-i-google-chrome-and-the-network-tab-2/
This blog post is the first in a series of debugging tips and tricks to help you on your way with using Esri's JavaScript API.
The Startup Fix - Get visual help for your startup
http://www.thestartupfix.com
The Startup Fix is a little project where I will take couple of hours per week of my own personal time to help a startup. I will do so by helping them on an aspect that I think is lacking in most of startups nowadays: the visual aspect. Logo, fonts, colours, layout, user interface, Twitter, Facebook, newsletters, call-to-actions, you name it.

If you have a startup and want to be a part of this, well here is your chance to submit your application. I am now taking applications for April 2011.

If you don;t need this service, but know some people who would, just spread the word.

Thank-you!
Android App Developers Endure Lower Sales in Search of Growth - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-02/android-app-developers-endure-lower-sales-in-search-of-growth.html
I am wondering anyone here has his/her data point in sales number.

I own an iPhone 3GS and a LG Ally android. I am more inclined to use iPhone just because it has remove a lot of rough edges in user experience.
Ruby FiniteMachine gem
https://github.com/peter-murach/finite_machine
A minimal finite state machine with a straightforward and intuitive syntax. Since FiniteMachine is an object in its own right it leaves integration with other systems up to you. In contrast to other Ruby libraries, it does not extend from models (i.e. ActiveRecord) to transform them into a state machine or require mixing into existing classes.
Vim Weekly
http://www.vimweekly.com/
5 vim tips every Monday's to help developers harness the power of VIM
Symfony India
http://www.perfectwebtechs.com
Symfony India Symfony India Teams Web Development Company Static and Business Website our ideas your Business we Challange
The future of blood donations is here.
http://socialblood.org
Leveraging the power of the social network, the new startup wants to eliminate the blood shortages that plague the developing world by connecting people directly to others with their same blood type.
Why developers love Apple's Snow Leopard
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/09/snow-leopard-developers.html
Now that many Mac users have had a couple of weeks to install the new Apple Inc. operating system, Snow Leopard, and explore its new features, some aren't so enthused with the
Was the OpenStack foundation election gamed?
http://www.music-piracy.com/?p=750
Did some minor analysis and breakdown of stats available on the recent and first ever foundation membership election of user selected Board of Directors seats. Not happy with the results.
Ask HN: Does Anyone use Windows Azure?
This question popped into my head after reading a couple of threads about how people were moving out of GAE. (I use GAE and EC2)

Has anyone used Windows Azure ? How does it stack up against EC2?
Apple employees let out secrets about original iPhone presentation
http://povolotski.me/2013/10/05/apple-employees-secrets-original-iphone-presentation/
Today, years after the original iPhone presentation on Jan. 8 2007, Andy Grignon, and other Apple insiders share the details behind one of the best demos in the history of technology.

Turns out that the original iPhone (presented 6 months before release) was so buggy, and unstable that the perfect demo was almost an accident.
Wacky Wheels Remake
http://www.cascadiagames.com/blog/2014/5/rebooting_wacky_wheels/
The company seems to be very interesting, they launched something like Ouya, but sooner... Because of the Ouya, they had debts (backers falling off and the minimum of backers for having a succesfull campaign)...

Interesting to see a downside of Kickstarter though... Seems to be a good company with some bad luck.
Bitbucket Down
https://bitbucket.org/
Bitbucket is down, I guess I need to save my code in 2 different locations.
Ask HN: Which browser has the best developer tools?
Or more broadly, what are the pros and cons? I only ever really see people talk about chrome developer tools, but this might have to do with my NA peer bias.
Firefox petition: please move the RSS icon back
http://www.change.org/petitions/mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-get-the-rss-icon-back-to-the-address-bar-for-a-clean-installation
We know that the decision to remove the RSS Icon from the address bar has been made in accordance to "Firefox Main Window Heatmap" https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com. It says that only 3% of users had used the RSS Icon.

Also we know that RSS is a great and useful technology that allows easily to follow hundreds of different blogs, news or announcement feeds in one place. According to our small survey people don't use the Icon because:
- don't know what the RSS is
- know what the RSS is but don't know what the RSS Icon is for

We suggest getting the RSS Icon back for the default/clean installation and give more information about RSS technology for Firefox users. It would make much more users to use such a good and modern technology.
Russia's  "National Operating System"
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20101027/161100322.html
India announced it's grand plans for a new operating system a while back.And now Russia does the same... Where's the world heading? :-)
Ask HN: I don't want to be a software engineer. Now what?
I didn't start programming as a kid. I didn't write my first line of code until freshman year of college. Problem sets in [functional programming language] were fun and satisfying, then I found myself loving classes like discrete math, algorithms, and complexity theory, so I decided to major in computer science. When it was time to get a job, I had some offers for more money than I thought a 22 year old ever made, so I took one. But I don't love software engineering.

I know I'm lucky to have a job, and my salary lets me do all sorts of fun things. Furthermore, I have no idea what to do instead, so letting time pass at my current job seems like the best option. But I don't want to find myself with the same problem in 5 years.

So I ask you, HN: what should I do? Shut up and be grateful my 22 year old self has it better than 99% of the world? Have any of you found yourselves with this "problem"?
Great products come from the heart
https://medium.com/product-people/4b17f8295039
Are you working on a great product?
Would music piracy drop sharply if studios charged less?
I had a heated argument with a friend of mine months ago and have been unable to stop thinking about it ever since.<p>I think that if Music studios charged less for digital downloads say 20 - 50c per song, instead of $10 for an album or 99c per song as they do now, people wouldn't feel the need to steal music.<p>My friend argued that at that price point, the music studios would lose a lot of money, because they'd kill their cash cow (CD albums) and there is no guarantee that digital music sales would double/quadruple to pick up the slack.<p>What do you guys think?
PS: I also think that they need to 'age' albums the way they do in real life ... if you go on Amazon to buy an album from the 90's chances are you can pick up a used copy for $2+shipping ... but the digital download still costs $9.99 ... its just insulting.
Triathlete gets killed by great white in San Diego
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hvS7251oSE-Vw5Lg_LDZo3-lvoBgD909KG480
So as a break from schoolwork I go surfing a lot. This dude got munched in Solana beach which is between the 2 places I usually go surfing. He was out training with some other folks. The odds of getting attacked are so low - The Black Swan rears its ugly head.

I'm still gonna go surfing again soon, just not this weekend.
LobbyPlag: track lobbyists proposals which went straight into EU amendments
http://www.lobbyplag.eu/
cool project to learn which impact the changes would have on the protection of your data<p>nicely done
Show HN: reportsfortrello.com
http://www.reportsfortrello.com
Wish me luck! I built something I want to use. I hope others feel the same way.
Business Law Stack Overflow Q&A
http://answers.legalriver.com/
Get your questions answered on business law for your startup
Free learning activities to teach CS through engaging games & puzzles 
http://www.csunplugged.org/
Quoting from the website, "CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.<p>The activities introduce students to underlying concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers."
Demystifying Pobelka; A technical intelligence report on the Pobelka botnet
http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/01/11/demystifying-pobelka/
This technical report describes the Pobelka botnet and puts it in the context of global malware operations. It provides a broader context in the ecosystem of botnets, Trojans, exploit kits, and the markets where infected computers are traded. It also details the identity of the people running the Pobelka botnet as well as a description of the origin of the botnet and the common methods of communication used.
Warren Buffett transfered from Wharton to U Nebraska — awesome summary
http://shinandhong.com/2011/snowball-alice-schroeder/
He also started a pinball business when he was 14 and he was investing well before that!