jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
HTML5 logo using CSS3
http://www.red-team-design.com/html5-logo-using-css3
As you probably found out, a while ago, the The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has unveiled the HTML5 Logo. They launched more than a logo as they got also a full branding, including badges, t-shirts and stickers.

So, I suppose that’s a good thing, that HTML5 got some branding, sounds very interesting!

While looking at it and admiring it, as I find it very nice, I thought about how can I do it with CSS3.
2048 in 42 lines
http://www.ktbyte.com/textbook/gamewalkthroughs
2048 was so addictive, so I made a clone.
Ask HN: Who got into YCReject?
Did you apply to YCReject?

Did you get "in"?

What is YC Reject doing?
Cost and Tax Data for the 7 Top Startup Scenes
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227436
Tax Planning Startup GoodApril http://GoodApril.com (Techstars '13) did an analysis of the costs and taxes of 7 cities. Check it out.
Show HN: My 1st project - Clearli Weather
http://clearli.herokuapp.com/
Over the last couple of months I've been teaching myself Ruby and finally decided this week that I was going to put my mind to something and try to ship some sort of a product. Like I said this is the first thing I've ever built so I'm sure it's full of errors problems but I just wanted to put it out there!

Cheers
eHarmony? IPO? Oh god...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/14/magazines/fortune/fastforward_eharmony.fortune/?postversion=2007091413
Say it ain't so.
Tutorial: Using GHC 7.6.3 with OSX Mavericks
http://haskell-workshop.github.io/tutorials/osx/2013-10-23-mavericks-ghc.html
A detailed write up of working with Haskell GHC 7.6.3 when you have OSX Mavericks. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19579577/installing-building-ghc-with-osx-mavericks-ghc
Ask HN: What do the green usernames signify?
Sorry, but I don't know if there's a more official channel to ask this.

Does it have something to do with passing a threshold in karma points?
Ask HN: Setting up/deploying a REST based service – need some help
I have developed a service that is REST based, which makes calls to a separate database server. Both of these are currently hosted on digital ocean, as separate servers - probably not best practice.

I would like to create a simple website that can show off what I have just created (eventually users will be able to make calls directly or use the site to access data). From what I understand, It seems it would be best practice to put the RESTful engine and the Database behind a VPN - where a user could send calls to the engine and get some results back. I am not sure whether i should put the app server behind the VPN as well.

Does anyone have any advice on how to set this up/best practices - or if this is even the proper way to do this? I am lagging a bit behind in my web tech skills, so please bare with me if any of this sounds strange. Any help is greatly appreciated!
EngineYard promoted their hosted Riak offering to GA
https://www.engineyard.com/partner/riak-eds
Announced during a lightning talk at RICON east.
9 Lessons Learned From Founders At Work
http://www.instigatorblog.com/9-lessons-learned-from-founders-at-work/2007/08/07/
Founders at Work is a great book for anyone working on a startup or thinking about doing so.
As E-bay is to auctions, E-Lottery would be to lotteries.
http://laserlike.com/2008/07/09/as-e-bay-is-to-auctions-e-lottery-would-be-to-lotteries/
Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President of Consumer Products at Symantec, shares his E-Lottery idea with Laserlike.
Elon Musk agrees to fund Tesla Museum
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/466518346574626817
Background: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s2
Has Google figured out how to make money from YouTube? Cit: $500M in 2009

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/citi_youtube_can_generate_500m_in_2009_goog_
Nothing fancy here: Just shoving lots of display ads on lots of pages.
Preparing for 'project manager' interview with prominent Silicon Valley company
I applied for a 'product manager' position at a prominent tech company in the valley, and they responded by asking if I would be interested in an 'IT project manager' position instead.

I have since had a screening with HR, and they've invited me back to interview with various product team members.

My question has to do with whether anyone else on HN has had experience working in project management at a large tech company in the valley.

QUESTION: Does the PM role tend to be more technical (assisting with development of products) or broad-arching management (keeping multiple product teams on schedule and organized)?
Who is  the most important person at Apple after Steve Jobs?
https://plus.google.com/116205890585701438424/posts/i2AeWY4nAS9
+1 for the one you think is most critical to Apple the company.
CoffeeScript with jQuery Sprinkles
http://engineering.freeagent.com/2012/03/23/coffeescript-with-jquery-sprinkles/
Follow-up to "CoffeeScript: two sugars, no bitter aftertaste"
Show HN: Zipped Album
https://zipped-album.github.io/
Having read several comments in other threads about frustrations with digital music and streaming, I thought this could potentially be interesting to some of you. It's a very small attempt at bringing back an experience that we seemingly lost when going fully digital.

When I was looking around whether something like this already existed, I could only find some commercial (and discontinued) attempts, but nothing based on open standards. So I made a draft of what I think an open single-file music album format could look like. It is very simple, and basically just a specification of how to combine several already existing formats into one file. It is also compatible with the ZIP files you get when downloading a FLAC album from Bandcamp.

While some players (Foobar2000, DeaDBeeF) should already be able to play this format, I also made a cross-platform (desktop) demo player that fully supports the suggested format (including the digital booklet).

I am aware that this is not going to gain a lot of traction, but I am sharing this as it might still be useful to individuals.
Video: Paul Allen on Gates, Microsoft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IM0SvIiMI4
Lesley Stahl (60 minutes) speaks to Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen in his first interview about his upcoming book in which he criticizes his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates.
FogBugz is Developer-Driven (Thank Goodness)
http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2007/9/19/fogbugz-is-developer-driven-thank-goodness.html
Joel and his crew are so very user-driven in my estimation because they themselves are the users.
The Maven Adoption Curve
http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/01/28/maven-adoption-curve/
Kool-Aid recovery. ;-)
Russ’ 10 Ingredient Recipe For Making 1 Million TPS On $5K Hardware
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/10/russ-10-ingredient-recipe-for-making-1-million-tps-on-5k-har.html
I recently joined the NoSQL company Aerospike (formerly Citrusleaf) with the goal of incrementally grafting AlchemyDB’s flexible data-modeling capabilities onto Aerospike’s high-velocity horizontally-scalable key-value data-fabric. We recently completed a peak-performance TPS optimization project: starting at 200K TPS, pushing to the recent community edition launch at 500K TPS, and finally arriving at our 2012 goal: 1M TPS on $5K hardware.
Show HN: The Tortoise – a sophisticated retirement calculator
https://thetortoise.io
Hi HN!

I've been working on this calculator for some time now. It started off as a tool to help me do some retirement planning and I think it could be broadly useful to others as well.

It's very generic, which is both good and bad. Good, because you are not beholden to the assumptions of the model, like in many other calculators. This also means that it’s not US centric. On the other hand, you do need a bit of financial planning knowledge to be able to use it effectively.

There are many retirement calculators out there -- here's what I think The Tortoise does better than most:

1. An easy to use UI

2. Exposes all of the model's assumptions

3. Gives more detailed results than many calculators (more to come), and trusts the user to interpret them

4. Gives you the ability to export/import and save your scenarios

5. Allows you to compare different scenarios, and also perform 'what-if' analysis on Debts and Assets

6. Independent of any other business so there's no conflict of interest

I also think there’s a real need for more financial education, and I hope that tools like this one will spark people’s curiosity and drive them to learn more.

Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions or questions!
Show HN: Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding
https://github.com/devsisters/shardcake
Yesterday (coincidentally, a few hours before the Akka announcement), we open-sourced Shardcake, a Scala library that makes it easy to distribute entities across multiple servers and interact with those entities using their ID without knowing their actual location (aka location transparency).
Ask HN: Github + Posterous for API docs?
I've been mulling a new business idea and wanted to get your feedback...

The idea: A service for hosting, maintaining, and collaborating on web app documentation. Perhaps a Github meets Posterous for web app documentation.

Nearly every web API has some form of documentation. However, there doesn't appear to be a 'best practice' for generating, hosting, and maintaining such documentation.

I think the hosting of API documentation should be offloaded to a third-party service, like we've seen with blogging (Posterous) and source code (Github).

Questions:

How do you generate/host your API docs?

Who maintains your docs?

What are the pain points?

What features would you want?

Would you pay for it?

Thanks in advance for your feedback. I'd like to build a prototype if people like the idea-- shoot me an email if you want to help (matt.hodan at fb.com).

Merry christmas!
Using Sequence Package Analysis to Detect Terrorism and Sedition
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/288/106625
Sequence Package Analysis (SPA), a new natural language method that utilizes a corpus of annotated training data comprised of a unique set of feature extractions, may detect early signs of terrorism and sedition. Using an SPA-designed BNF table consisting of sequentially-implicative (as opposed to syntactic) parsing structures, this natural language tool searches social media content and recordings of conversations of suspected terrorists to identify (and measure) collusion, collaboration, affinity with other terror or sedition suspects.
Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?
We use Django heavily and we have all the requirements in requirements.txt and we do pip install on it.
Lot of times, some requirements are not installed properly and we have to do pip install when we see an error message for particular package.

The issue we are facing is whenever we run `python manage.py migrate` after cloning the repo/pulling the repo, it takes around 30-50 mins.
Ceglia files email evidence showing he owns 50% of Facebook
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-new-evidence-2011-4?op=1#ixzz1JLmW28mZ
Facebook's lawyers have dismissed the emails as "fake". If they're not fake Zuckerberg is about to become a lot poorer.
Ask HN: Privacy Badge for Websites?
Do you think there's a market/need/room for a "privacy" badge for websites — something that calculates a score indicating how much tracking is going on (or not) on your site. The idea would be to incentivize less tracking and give low tracking sites a badge of honor for doing so. As things currently stand, it seems like it's all cooked into the browsers, for those in the know that use the right plugins etc (uBlock, disconnect etc). Plenty of non-technical people (e.g. lots of my family members) care, but don't really know what is what or what to do about it, but perhaps they would start to recognize a seal of approval of some sort.

Take for example two sites, one that use a non-tracking version for its various social media sharing buttons vs another that uses the highly invasive ones that track you everywhere. In most cases, the average user has no idea that one site, one company etc made a conscious choice to respect the privacy of its users.

Heck, if Apple can spend $MM on an ad campaign that just says "Privacy.", then there might even be an actual business model buried in this, just as Google Page Rank etc helped the SEO industry. Imagine a point in the not so distant future where people prefer a site that has the A+ Privacy badge.

I wish I had a better example here. I work in SEO, yet loathe the industry at the same time.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea to become a service provider for startups?
After years of frustration, I recently quit my job in a large company to do what I do best (UI and Usability) with people who are passionate about their work (Entrepreneurs).

I am not interested in working with large companies because I know how long it takes to get anything done. I love how agile and lean startups are, and I know how rewarding it is to have my work reach users quickly and often.

I've been approached by several startups to help with design, but almost all of them cringed at the price I quoted (which is less than the price I'd quote more mature companies). Some of them offered equity, but it would have cost more in lawyer fees to work through the short term equity agreement (and I don't believe startups should hand out equity instead of cash for short term services).

Is it a good idea to become a service provider for startups? What would be a compensation model that would work best for me and the startup founders?

Thanks!
Show HN: Built a social network where your friends can't see your posts
http://www.chinchin.co/
I noticed I had reduced my posts to Facebook because I was self-conscious about what people would think. At the same time, I had an urge to post so I could receive validation by way of likes.
How to comment your code better
http://particletree.com/features/successful-strategies-for-commenting-code/
"Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom. You never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests... "
Rotten Tomatoes founder shares 17 years of startups in the Bay Area and China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EucKfI7gZ4&feature=share
Speaking to the "Startups Hong Kong", Rotten Tomatoes and alivenotdead.com co-founder Patrick Lee shares his lessons learned from 17 years of entrepreneurship. He chronicles the ups and downs from his first Berkeley startup in 1993, to the developing the most widely played Flash game in 2000, to growing Rotten Tomatoes during the dotcom bust, and finally in doing startups in the go-go boom times in China.
Review our site: Ditchit.com.au 
Hi, this is our first side project working in a team of two.

Being new to web development, we built this site mainly to see if we could do it.

Feedback from the HN community would be much appreciated, especially tips on how to proceed and market the idea.

Aside from telling our friends on facebook we have yet to commence any form of marketing.

Our competitors in this space are: http://www.scoodi.com/ ,

http://www.freecycle.org/group/AU/, and http://www.ozrecycle.com/.

You can login with username: testuser and password: testuser.

Thanks in advance.
Thoughts on our not being included in Google’s Dart 1.0 announcement
http://blog.woven.org/post/66984178357/thoughts-on-our-not-being-included-in-googles-dart-1-0
Some thoughts on our small team's not being included in Google's Dart 1.0 announcement today. We were the first Dart production app and had been looking forward to being part of the announcement, which is gold for a startup.
Lowering the Risk of Web Development
http://doriantaylor.com/lowering-the-risk-of-web-development
This is something I've been working on for a while. A friend suggested I post it here. The basic idea is that while there have been developments in improving the product (UX) and improving the development process (Agile), I haven't seen much talk or action about attacking the rigid nature of the (commercial, legal) deals struck to achieve them.

About two years ago I began working on the technical infrstructure that makes it possible to even consider incremental contracting for incremental development; now I'm working on project controls, and later this year I expect to do the legal stuff.

Anyway, have at 'er.
Ask HN: Should you strive for perfection when you are experimenting with an idea
If you are experimenting and not sure of your idea, do you need to strive for perfection (UI, flow) or just hack to make minimum viable project and release.
SF: Free Opera AT&T Park Friday Night - Puccini's Tosca
http://sfopera.com/spact/tosca_att_signup.asp
I know it's not exactly Hacker News, but for start up founders needing a distraction or date night at minimal burn rate, here it is.
Clientside App Crypto-Currency Payments with Web Activities
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1EyZGQFm8mu12cqUKv3rKwz03TI1nxywfsooPoPfWj3k/edit?usp=sharing
This is a method for enabling an entirely clientside app to take crypto-currency payments using the emerging Web Activity API standard. This API is available today in Firefox OS, and will soon be available in the Firefox browser - adoption by other browser vendors is in the works.

A few of us at Mozilla are throwing together a demo, I'll post back when we have something you can kick the tires on.
Ask HN: How much of your production code have you written while drunk
This is pretty much straight-forward. I'm trying to co-relate being drunk and production code, so please be honest here - how much of what you have written and is still in production is while being under the influence?
Ask HN: Why are startups usually eager to get acquired?
Hello HNinizes,

First of all a little disclaimer, my question is just out of curiosity and does not imply any stand I take on the subject. I do not consider myself to take a stand as I have not done any startup of my own.

I have been frequenting HN for over two years now, and it has inspired me a lot. The discussions and posts over here have helped me grow at quite and accelerated pace. But as I started to read about startups, I found a very odd similarity. 90% of the startups I hear about on HN either have an exit strategy right from the start or are working towards an exit strategy when they "figure things out". All in all, the prime goal of making a startup is to get acquired.

I find that rather odd. People give a big chunk of their life working on something they care about. And when that thing finally starts to pay them back, they sell it to someone else. I think if I will ever succeed in making my own dream company, I will sell it only when it is not making profit for me.

Please help me understand the rationale behind the this craze of getting acquired.
Team lay-off
Hi HN,

I work at an e-commerce company that recently took the decision of closing an entire department and laying off all employees from that branch.

Many teams are impacted. I was curious if there is any opportunities/companies looking to hire multiple people, maybe entire team at the time ?
Greplin - search engineer - SF, CA
http://www.greplin.com/jobs
We're building search for your personal data. We're inventing new ranking signals for personal data, extracting informative snippets, auto-classifying documents, and more. We're primarily using Lucene, Java, and Python.

For more info please email jobs@greplin.com
Ask HN: How do you research your competition?
Knowing your competition is a very important part of business and I'm curious to get your input as to how you figure out who your direct and indirect competition is.

I recently needed to do a specific task and while there were a couple of solutions out there, I really disliked their implementations (basically they were too difficult to use). I think I can do a much better job in implementing the idea (which I am working on now), but I'd really like to have a better picture of who's out there doing the same thing.

Do you have any suggestions for finding potential competitors aside from just mindlessly Googling words and phrases?

Thanks in advance!
Not Mobile Browser Detection: Finding phones by looking for desktops
http://notnotmobile.appspot.com
Mobile browser detection involves comparing the User-Agent header against a list of well known mobile browser strings. If the problem is reversed the number of false positives can be reduced.
Bring High Performance Into Your PHP App (with ReactPHP)
http://marcjschmidt.de/blog/2014/02/08/php-high-performance.html
Process Manager in PHP?
Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos. 
http://developer.apple.com/products/videos.html
Charging isn't really going to help developer adoption.Seems very short sighted.
Ask HN: Do you do anything special to stay up all night and work?
Without trying to start a thread to promote illicit drugs, I'm curious to know if anyone has good experience with any methods to help stay up late and work early into the mornings.

I've been doing a bit of chewing tobacco and I've found that the nicotine from that often helps me stay focused and energized enough to work late into the night.

I've also heard certain sleep schedules, exercise regimen, as well as eating schedules can help you work many hours.

Any suggestions? experiences? thoughts?
Show HN: Fuzzyhome – A Fast Fuzzy Finding New-Tab Page
https://fuzzyho.me/
Fuzzyhome is a lightweight new-tab page that lets you very quickly fuzzy find links and navigate to a result.

If there are no matching links, you can use your query to perform a search with your search engine of choice.

You can also append your query to arbitrary links with a bang-like feature. Cohesive usage instructions can be found on the GitHub page: https://github.com/familyfriendlymikey/fuzzyhome

Fuzzyhome is free, entirely client-side, and statically hosted with Cloudflare pages. No sign in or account required. Export your links to a JSON file in the settings menu to keep a backup. Links are stored in IndexedDB and the bundle is cached with service workers for fast loading.

Thanks for checking it out, consider giving it a star :)
Ask HN: Hiring Remotely and US Tax Nexuses
I know that a number of companies discussed on HN (such as GitHub) have a policy of hiring from anywhere in the US or in the world.

The company I work for has been trying to hire remotely, but we are having some trouble with the issue of tax nexuses. For example, we were interested in someone in NY state, but if we hired them we'd have to collect sales tax in that state.

Is there some way that companies like GitHub and others have worked around this problem?
Pulsars are a secure time source
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/09/secure-time-broadcast.html
"Nature provides clocks that are oblivious to the malicious intentions of any outside parties. In the case of a remote high-energy system such as a pulsar, this means anybody. Pulsars are many orders of magnitude more accurate than random delays that face attackers on the Internet. If critical Internet servers were synchronized to natural clocks in a secure and timely fashion, they would be immune to attacks that relied on uncertainties in timing."
Show HN: Icon Strike, easily test iOS icon designs on your home screen.
http://www.flinto.com/strike
Icon Strike allows iOS app designs to test their icon designs on their iPhone or iPad. Upload an icon image and send the install URL to your device.

You can upload a group of images for the four different device icon sizes and the correct image will be used on the corresponding device.
Cool Letter Using HTML5, Javascript & CSS3
http://bubbles.bubbleideas.com/letters/arvind-arvind-nigam-bubbles-bubbles-semantics-bubbles-june-12th-tuesday-06-pm
It's got red hued text highlight which looks natural, my personal hand-written signature, a cute Homer Simpson stamp (image) and some random text.