jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Information Hiding in JavaScript
http://blog.ponyfoo.com/2013/02/21/information-hiding-in-javascript
Even though it's tricky at first, particularly if you are used to classical object-oriented languages, it's easy (and highly encouraged) to perform information hiding in JavaScript. There are more than a few methods by which you can hide information within privileged scopes. Closures, properties (getters and setters), and factories, are all ways in which you can improve your designs by hiding away the complexity behind the public interfaces your code exposes.

Information hiding results in cleaner, conciser code, that's easier to read, and therefore, more maintainable (and easily testable).
Army Selects Criterion Systems for Army Private Cloud (APC2) Contract
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5768834/army-selects-criterion-systems-for-army-private-cloud-apc2-contract
Army Selects Criterion Systems for Army Private Cloud (APC2) Contract
Is Tesla More Like Google or More like GM?
http://nextparadigms.com/2010/08/16/is-tesla-more-like-google-or-more-like-gm/
Tesla is much more than a manufacturing company, it's more of a tech company that can create exciting products that consumers want.
Harward's new Transparent, flexible speaker runs on ions
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/transparent-flexible-speaker-first-many-ion-powered-devices-8C11037252
A research team at Harvard has created a remarkable proof of concept device: a thin, transparent speaker powered by ions instead of electricity. Such "ionic devices" could lead to artificial muscles, telescopic contact lenses, and more.

In the electronics we use every day, a constant flow of charged electrons that we call electricity provides power for circuits, LCDs and motors. Ionic devices are powered not by electrons, but as you might guess, ions. These tiny charged particles have several advantages over electrons.

Electrons flow quickly and easily (so much so that, we think of them like a fluid on tap), but basic physical limitations mean you're unlikely to have a transparent cable or flexible circuit board.

Ionic conductors, on the other hand, stretch and compress without a problem, and with the ions suspended in a water-based "hydrogel," the resulting devices can be as clear as glass.
Free Basic jQuery Image Sliders (Useful Collection)
http://ewebdesign.com/free-basic-jquery-image-sliders/
The collection below comprises fresh valuable jQuery image sliders that serve their purpose well, and are available absolutely free of charge.
Reflections on the first 3 months of my solo startup
http://solowebstartup.com/reflections-on-the-first-3-months-of-my-solo
After my crazy announcement that I wasn't pursuing a position at another company, but was taking a metaphorical jump off a cliff, I must admit that I wasn't super-confident.

Well, it's been 3 months, and I'm feeling good in some ways, but apprehensive in others...
New OpenVMS Vulnerability
http://www.theprojectxblog.net/new-openvms-vulnerability/
Alright, I was just hanging out in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) with my friends discussing about gurls, escapades, new fan signs for our blog and suddenly my friend (his name is scr3w) told me about a new vulnerability which has been identified and reported by Christer Oberg (a well-known bug hunter) for HP OpenVMS TCP/IP Services running SMTP server. The potential security vulnerability could result in a remote Denial of Service (DoS). I was so interested on the said exploit that I told him to send me an email about the said vulnerability.
Paypal on qmpeople
http://www.404techsupport.com/2010/10/22/how-to-connect-your-qmpeople-account-to-paypal/
hot to connect a qmpeople account to paypal
Heath Ledger skate boarding over Christian Bale on the set of The Dark Knight.
http://www.superawesomepics.com/heath-ledger-skate-boarding-over-christian-bale-on-the-set-of-the-dark-knight
They Didn’t Show as this XD
Shop for local food on Good Eggs… by zip code
http://www.goodeggs.me/
It always bugged me that you couldn't just simply enter a zip code.
Why You Should Watch Harry Potter at Least Twice
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/why-you-should-watch-harry-potter-at-least-twice/
Her question also made me wonder why we like to watch the same things again and again when we're kids, but when we get older we watch it once and we're done with it.
Ask HN: How do you protect your children?
I have a young child of my own (20 months), but my wife and I have recently become registered foster carers and one of the things that is on our 'must do before children arrive' check list is to safe-guard the internet connection from the typical online nasties. My only knowledge of this area is from [the days of?] Net Nanny and Cyber Sitter, both of which I recall being a bit naff and not really effective. I think there's going to be some kind of proxying involved, but I can't really find any 'ready made' solutions and time is against me. It has to be something proactive and I don't really want to use something crude like blocking rude patterns in URLs... Surely this is a problem a lot of hacker parents have? So what do you guys do/use?
Services Trade: Legal Work for help switching Django site to App Engine
I have a site, trendero.com, built using Django and hosted with RackSpace on its own server. To reduce costs, I'd like to switch the hosting to App Engine, but I'm not a technical guy (had the site built using contractors).<p>I practiced corporate law for four years at a well-known Silicon Valley boutique law firm, and I know well the issues startups face. I can document any kind of deal or offer advice in exchange for help moving my site to App Engine.<p>Takers?
An American Mathematician in Moscow, or How I Destroyed the Soviet Union
http://www.ams.org/notices/201402/rnoti-p186.pdf
It's an article from "Notices of the AMS" Volume 61, Number 2. Fairly fresh.
Search Advertising On Google Offers Lowest ROI 
http://internetrack.blogspot.com/2008/07/google-grabs-774-of-us-search-engine-ad.html
According to Efficient Frontier’s “US Search Engine Performance Report: Q2 2008,” based on data from a fixed set of large-scale search advertisers,
"Google accounted for 77.4% of US search engine ad spend in the second quarter, an increase of 2 percentage points over 2Q07."
Asl HN: Any Thoughts on Mobie Pay?
I've been watching for some time Mobie pay (https://mobie.io and https://mobiepay.io), and I've been wondering if the project has some merits. I'd love to hear what the HN crowd thinks.

Mobie is essentially a mobile app to pay, online and in stores. As per in store payments, they are partnering with other companies to integrate with existing POS. They will have widgets and extensions to pay online (sort of PayPal).

The main USP is that it will be possible to pay with most crypto (BTC, ETH, etc.), even if the store only accepts FIAT (USD, EUR, etc.). The app will automatically convert crypto to FIAT, I guess for a commission.

This last part I think is the most interesting. BTC billionaires/millionaires currently do not have a quick and easy way to spend BTC, so this could make it easy to liquidate their coins directly in stores.

There are also rewards, cashback and stuff like that.

All that is powdered by, also, their own coin, MBX, which lately has soared to an higher rate of BTC. MBX is based on stellar.

Since it's still trading in the 2-3 cents (0.02$) I am tempted to buy a bunch of MBX. Before doing so I'd love to know your opinion, especially since the HN crowd (including myself) is usually pretty critical of blockchain based projects.
Great Programmers Don't Trust Their Own Code
http://verysimple.com/2012/04/05/great-programmers-dont-trust-their-own-code/
Great Programmers Don't Trust Their Own Code
King Williams college quiz 2014
http://www.kwc.im/#panel1
Apparently you can't edit a url if you accidentally post a bad one.

http://www.kwc.im/uploads/gkp-questions-2014-15.pdf
Show HN: Easy Steps to Implement Apple's GameCenter Leaderboard
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-implement-a-leaderboard-in-swiftui/
I wrote this article about why Apple's GameCenter is Making a Huge Revival and it got accepted in FreeCodeCamp's news so I thought of sharing it with you all!

You can make iPhone games without a scoreboard, but leaderboards can help make the game feel more competitive, like people are competing against one another around the World.

Instead of creating and managing your own backend, the GameCenter Leaderboard allows you to scale with traffic infinitely, skip an entire login page for authorization, get the Image, Name, and friends playing the same game – all without your users having to enter anything.

Especially with iOS 16, Apple is investing more in improving it, and driving more app usage, like through Push Notifications when your friend beats your score in the game.

There wasn't much updated documentation on how to do a lot of this, especially none with SwiftUI nor with the advent of async and await in Swift. So I consolidated and simplified it for everyone to build amazing apps. In my journey of learning SwiftUI, I have been creating and publishing open-source apps like this one https://stairmasterclimber.com/app because IMO that's the best way to learn. So feel free to invite me to test your apps too!
On the Goodness of Unicode
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode
unicode howto wiki
Ask HN: Review my app - Wallet Garden
http://walletgarden.com/
Hi all. This isn't a revenue-generating app, just a side project for me to work on my programming and to put something useful out there.

The idea is pretty simple: If your wallet gets stolen, you need to put your cards on hold ... but if you don't have your wallet, you don't know who to call. Wallet Garden solves that problem.

I'd love your thoughts and suggestions, if you have any. And I hope that, if you're traveling over the next few days, that if you lose your wallet, that Wallet Garden helps you out.
Introduction to TCP/IP
http://www.testking.com/techking/networking/introduction-to-tcpip/
You don’t have to be a networking guru to have heard of TCP/IP, if you are a networking guru and have never heard of TCP/IP it may be time for you to consider a new career path. Any way, you have probably heard of TCP/IP before but probably know very little if anything about it.
Ask HN: How do I find a good start up to apply for?
It's been suggested to me numerous times that in order to get a good perspective on work, I should intern at both a large company (i.e. Google, Facebook, Apple) as well as a small company (i.e. a startup). The only issue I have is that I don't know where to begin my search for startups.

Does HN have any suggestions?
How To Get Attention From Your VC
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/09/how-to-get-atte.html
Fred Wilson uses Xobni to figure out which CEOs of his portfolio companies he speaks to the most, and gives some thoughts on how to get attention from your VCs.
Technical people dealing with people looking for a Technical Co founder ...
So it’s an often discussed topic on Hacker News but the discussion is usually from the point of view of non-technical person looking for a technical cofounder asking for advice from this technical crowd.

As a technically inclined person myself, I get these offers from time to time and I usually can find a recent article on HN to send to that person to read before we speak any further.

The situation brought to mind some questions I thought I would pose to the community though.

Not looking for any real formal structure in the answers, just in general

- Where are some places to send them to read some good discussion on the topic?

-	What kinds of things do you look for when you get these requests?

-	What are some good resources on how to respond?

-	Red flags? (i.e. NDAs?)

-	How do you say you aren’t interested?

-	What if you are interested? What would you say then?

-	Anything else?

I've recently been asked to join more groups as the technical cofounder/ person and I'm wondering what kinds of things people say. Just interested in the thought processes of other HNers
UK Car Production - Interactive Map
http://www.vcars.co.uk/news/generic-trend-stories/car-production-in-uk-infographic-2971.html
Interactive map showing current Car Production in the UK by units produced.
Post, discover and curate moments around the world.
https://www.tenfarms.com/
Connect your mobile life.
Post, discover and curate moments around the world.
Show HN: 10 Day iOS App project
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ransom-notes/id593066816
Hi all, I wrote this app over about ten days worth of free time over a year ago. It's just a bit of fun but having been inspired by the weekend projects on HN I finally got around to releasing it! I hope to write up the process as a blog post soon.
2 IITians turn down lucrative job offers, tread new path in farming
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-25/india/29702785_1_farmers-bumper-harvest-vaishali-district
In February 2011, they founded an NGO, 'Farms n Farmers (FnF)', which does everything from soil testing to providing a market to farmers. Its activities have now expanded to adjoining districts including Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Banka and Purnia.
Google Advertises On Facebook; Zuckerberg Doesn't Reciprocate
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/google_doesn_t_hold_a_grudge_advertises_on_facebook
Who says social networks aren't a great place to advertise?
Name Dropper – Chrome Extension
http://github.com/MatthewCallis/Name-Dropper
Let users of Google Analytics know YOU went to their site, reverse privacy of sorts.
A postitwar tool generator online
http://postitwar.me
You can upload image for generating it in post-it and calculate numbers and cost of post-it !
Drug Policy Prof "prepared to bet" that a hallucinogen will be FDA-approved soon
http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/drug-policy/things-i-wouldnt-have-known-about-psychedelic-research/
Drug Policy Prof "prepared to bet" that a hallucinogen will be FDA-approved soon
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Top NSF grant recipients
http://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/Top50Inst2/default.asp
This list is rather suprising.
Elite Team &gt; Company
http://steverandytantra.com/thoughts/elite-team-company
We are in the time where building a company is no longer considered as an impossible thing to do for a person. But is a company really a thing that you want to build?
New and Powerful Craigslist Alternatives
http://marketmodo.com/craigslist/
Craigslist is amazing offering free classifieds opportunities for all of us, but besides that it is the largest place where to advertise and find jobs and creative people.

However, when it comes to advertising it is best to bring diversity on the table. For that we gathered over 25 Craigslist alternatives available for free.
How kanban can help you increase your team's capacity
http://flow.io/how-kanban-can-help-you-increase-your-teams-capacity.html
kanban is a pull system. You pull work only when there is capacity to handle it. This works well in a factory setting because you know exactly how much capacity you have. In knowledge work, however, it is likely that you do not really know what your team is capable of.
Cross Platform iPad Simulator Written in Adobe Flash/Flex
The irony is fun, but this will be a useful tool for Web developers to test their apps and sites on the iPad with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

A short video demo:
http://www.vimeo.com/12496501

Download the Adobe Air Application here:
http://puresimmer.squarespace.com/storage/iBBDemo2.zip
Will hackers use this when giving presentations?
http://presentnow.me
Present Now lets you collect audience contact information using smart phones. The goal is find out who in the audience wants to know about your service or product. The best results happen when you offer the audience an incentive such as access to a free trial of your product or service.
The Steam Summer Sale has arrived
http://store.steampowered.com
Get in while the gettin's good.
Idea App
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/04/sponsored-app-review-idea.html
Android app for discovering and sharing ideas.
Dreams of a welfare state
http://sciencenordic.com/dreams-welfare-state
Women in Southern Europe would like to live in a Nordic-style welfare state to improve their opportunities. But the financial crisis has made their dreams less realistic than ever.
Show HN: Esolang Park, an online visual debugger for esolangs
https://esolangpark.vercel.app
Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff).

Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare).

Happy to hear any feedback (and bug reports too)!
Google Mail Hacked?
http://www.securelist.com/ru/blog/32625/Massovyy_vzlom_ili_Gmail_bag
Russian security company "Kaspersky lab" reports infiltration into a number of gmail accounts. Seems to range across all accounts with different passwords. Trojan? Gaia sources?

This report (and follow ups) in english:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=77127463d8f40cb6&hl=en

Kaspersky report (russian):
http://www.securelist.com/ru/blog/32625/Massovyy_vzlom_ili_Gmail_bag
Tools for 3D Designers
http://blog.limeexchange.com/2010/02/03/10-excellent-tools-for-3d-designers/
The online industry offers a lot of 3D tools and applications that can help you in creating an interesting 3D graphic for your freelance project. There are many 3D graphics applications available online that can be used depending on requirement and utility. These tools help you create a 3D content while working on modeling, light, texturing and rendering etc. Here we have put together some excellent tools for for both Mac and Windows operating systems.
Informed comment on peer reviewed literature
http://bpr3.org/
use of an 'aggregation' button. an interesting concept - i hope it works out
The Aluphone invention: Inspired by a garden fence, debuted at the Olympics
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10375/the-aluphone-inspired-by-a-fence-debuted-at-the-olympics/
The last in our series of 21st century musical instruments is the Aluphone. An instrument inspired by a fence, but debuted at the 2012 Olympics.

"We tune each bell with an electronic Yamaha piano tuner, which lets us see graphically how much more aluminium we have to shave off!"

http://bit.ly/10T7IOx
Anybody wants to work on this with me?
http://www.kaggle.com/c/wikichallenge
I would like to learn something from this challenge. Having a partner would help. I am located at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. We can try to get along through emails or skype.
Poll: What is the main information tool in your company?
I wonder how other companies organize all those little notes and bits that should go "somewhere" for sharing and documentation. Things like phone number lists, Howto's, FAQs, planning documents, and so on.

What is your companies (main) repository for these things?
Show HN: Free company accounts for (almost) all UK companies, even private ones
http://www.twilam.com/
All companies registered in the UK are obligated to submit their accounts to Companies House each year. These accounts are on the public record. However, until recently, there were two issues with third party access: the format (not machine readable) and the cost (1 GBP per document). Both of these issues will soon disappear: many companies file accounts in XML (XBRL or iXBRL) because they have to prepare this format for HMRC (the UK's tax agency), and Companies House began (at the beginning of November) to publish zip files of the accounts filed each day/month.<p>That said, if you go to Companies House web site to find the most recent accounts for a particular company, you will still pay 1GBP for the privilege, as (i) you won't know which zip file to download and (ii) you won't be able to parse the XML and to search the company names.<p>I've tried to that for you. The site is still indexing the last year's accounts, but you can search for a company name and click to get their last accounts. Most are readable in a web browser, because iXBRL just adds machine-readable tags to an XHTML doc.<p>Many private companies in the UK are dormant or small, so many of these accounts have little more than a balance sheet. Any ideas for cross-sectional analysis? This would obviously require some parsing, which wouldn't be straightforward due to the variety of namespaces involved.
Luis Von Ahn's Blog (Wait for his comments on reCaptcha)
http://vonahn.blogspot.com/2009/09/just-link.html#comments
So let's see if someone can actually get Luis himself to answer all these itching question's we have about Google's acquisition of reCaptcha...
Online Storage
http://www.mowbe.com/
Mowbe.com provides online backup & storage facility, which is absolutely necessary for failure recovery in case files become lost or damaged like online backup, remote backup, data backup etc.
Redis monitoring with simple nodejs web app
https://github.com/ssaunier/node-redis-monitor
Small nodejs app to be deployed on Heroku and watch RedisToGo usage of another heroku application.
The Nest of Water Sprinklers (skydrop)
http://uncrate.com/stuff/skydrop-sprinkler-controller/
$300. May or may not save you water or money. Who cares, I can turn on the sprinklers on my kids with my iPhone. Sold.
Taobao FileSystem open sourced
http://code.taobao.org/project/view/366/
Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. The most interesting project on the Taobao code website is TFS（Taobao FileSystem）.

It's a highly scalable, highly available, high performance Internet service-oriented distributed file system, the design objective is to support vast amounts of unstructured data.

Tair, similar to memcached, might also be interesting. It's a distributed, high performance key/value storage system. Not sure if there are any advantages

You can browse the code via the "source" - "browse" tabs, or just checkout the code via svn.
Chris Tompkins' Allvoices.com pays students to make story comments
http://thestandard.com/news/2008/11/18/allvoices-com-wants-pay-journalists-story-comments
Should web 2.0 news services pay people to comment on their stories?
The Real Internet Censors: Unaccountable ISPs?
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/real-internet-censors-isps/
According to a new report, the Internet police are coming… and they’re not wearing badges. Instead, governments are devolving enforcement powers on the ‘net to ISPs.