jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Calling all Electrical Engineers
http://www.eeweb.com/contact-us/invite/
We're excited to announce that EEWeb, our flagship electrical engineering community, is about to go live.

If you're a hardware design engineer or electronics enthusiast, we'd love for you to sign up for our an invite.

Focus areas of our community include:

* Hardware Projects
* Analog Design
* RF Design
* Power Management
* Embedded Design
* Test & Measure
* Components
* PCB Design

http://www.eeweb.com/contact-us/invite/
Ask HN: Best security practices for startups
Hi,

My partner and I plan to launch a healthcare-related web app in the coming months. We'll be hosting on AWS, with the database on an encrypted EBS volume, all conncetions over HTTPS and we should have two-factor authentication by SMS. We're mostly using the MEAN stack.

I'm not technical, so I'd appreciate some guidance on best security practices that are relevant and feasible for a startup. I doubt we'll have anything financially useful to steal, but my main concern is avoiding leaks of private patient data, of which we might store a limited amount.

1. Is there a checklist/best practices guide somewhere? I'd like to avoid making obvious mistakes that would be embarassing in retrospect, though I know it's hard to defend against someone skilled and determined.

2. Any experience with hiring a firm (like Matasano) for penetrating testing? Rough estimate of cost? When is the right time to consider this?

3. How and when to start a bug bounty program? Is there a standard way to determine severity and payouts?

Thank you!
Show HN: PostgresML integrates Hugging Face to bring SOTA models into the db
https://postgresml.org/user_guides/transformers/pre_trained_models/
Hello folks,

It's been a few weeks, so we thought it might be time for another update and this one is very exciting indeed.

We've added automatic integration with Hugging Face transformers! By running just a single SQL command, anyone is now able to deploy any of the state-of-the-art models into their Postgres DB for real time inference & tuning.

The list of models is long, but here it is anyway: translation, sentiment analysis, summarization, question answering and text generation.

Let us know what you think!

Montana & Lev
Why Startups Suck
http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/28/experience-the-down-moments-of-entrepreneurship/
Anyone else in that situation?
Opauth: Multi-provider authentication framework for PHP, inspired by OmniAuth
http://opauth.org
Just released v0.1.0 today.
https://github.com/uzyn/opauth

If you are familiar with OmniAuth for Ruby, Opauth basically does the same thing, except for PHP.

Gave a talk on it today at Singapore PHP User Group. My deck: https://speakerdeck.com/u/uzyn/p/opauth-an-introduction

Opauth is still very new and I still need to work on the documentations a lot, especially tutorials and the wiki.
Learning Viral: Is your product a natural or add-on?
http://okdork.com/2008/04/30/learning-viral-add-on-or-natural/
An idea I learned from a leading venture capitalist about building viral as the core of your product...Thoughts?
Building a startup for $5k? Really?
http://startupgeek.org/2009/05/02/building-a-startup-for-5k-really/
Portland's David Abramowski provides some insight on how he's working to keep his startup costs low.
Google acquires Stackdriver
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/07/google-acquires-cloud-monitoring-service-stackdriver/
This is really good news for the Boston scene. Nice job guys! Since they are so AWS heavy, I wonder why Google bought them.
The Economics of Happiness
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/77/economics_of_happiness.html
"It seems almost unimaginable that economists would be now thinking of ways to design the tax system so that we work less, consume less and value each other and the planet more. But Layard would not stop there. (Advertising executives be forewarned.)"
Gitmarks helps you keep track of cool projects on Github
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapnkkbolmjghhpiio
Gitmarks is a Chrome extension for Github.

I created Gitmarks because hackernews leads me to so many cool looking projects that I want to keep track of. For awhile I was watching all of them, but that was muddying up my News Feed. I didn't really care about these projects development, just didn't want to lose track of them.
60+ Killer Open Courseware Collections for Web Designers
http://www.collegedegree.com/library/college-life/collegedegree-60-killer-open-courseware-collections-for-web-designers
The Internet being what it is, web designers do not have a hard time finding resources. This article is talking about university courses, and they cover everything from design theory to Internet culture.
Ask HN: Any Talented Writers Here?
We have a startup launching soon which seeks to help authors raise money via "crowd funding" for their early stage novels. It's like Kickstarter for authors. We're currently looking for great writing samples to post initially on the site. Early stage stories welcome!

Please send writing samples to samples@storyfunded.com or visit http://www.storyfunded.com for more information.
Behringer's Clone of Apple's Homepage
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/09/04/behringers-latest-rip-off-job-apple-com/
Follow up article detailing Behringer's history of lawsuits here: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/09/06/on-behringers-track-record-value-and-copies/
Why Having a Technical Startup CEO Matters
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110581693083408452344/posts/bYx3WxKmAxZ
When you are a Startup CEO, your job is pretty much every job. Most startups these days start with one "business" person and one "technical" person. But there really are times when it is hugely advantageous to have two technical people.
Ask HN: Does GTD or Pomodoro really help you get things done?
Hi HN,
So here's my work loop:
1) Catch interest in something.
2) Keep hacking until it's done.
3) Collapse || Lose interest.
4) goto 1

You will be amazed to see how much I can actually get done using this weird method. But a friend of mine told me to try pomodoro or GTD to get my work in order. Do you think having order in your work increases the output so much that it's worth the effort?
Ask HN: Review my web app - Modern Ballots
http://modernballots.com/zombies/vote
I noticed a lot of distain for the two-party system and went about investigating alternatives. Modern Ballots is an attempt to make Schulze STV, a proportional representation algorithm, easy to use for anyone that wants to hold a vote.

Thing is, I'm not really all that savvy when it comes to UI design, marketing and all that stuff. Any suggestions on how to make this kind of thing more appealing? Electoral reform isn't exactly the sexiest of subjects, although it does entertain sporadic conversation.
37signals Launches Affiliate Program (Pays Residuals)
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1063-launch-announcing-the-new-37signals-affiliate-program-with-recurring-income
They'll pay 50% of the signup fee and 5% of all future recurring payments for each customer you refer for Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack.
Ask HN: What's your hiring process like?
Hiring people can be a risky thing. You're bringing someone in the family and hoping they can deliver. What are some things you do to minimize that risk? Do you contract first? Coding challenge? I'm curious what others do to minimize the risk when you haven't worked with someone before.
The H1B Visa Crunch
http://blog.upcounsel.com/the-h1b-visa-crunch/
There is an annual limit of 65,000 H1B visas available each year for foreign nationals with bachelor’s degrees and an additional 20,000 for those holding U.S. master’s degrees. As a point of reference, in 2013, the H1B filing period, which can vary in length depending on the number of filed petitions, lasted for only seven days as the USCIS received over 124,000 H1B petitions.
In response to Mike Arrington: Why you should start living your life again.
http://tylerdmace.squarespace.com/musings/2010/3/28/why-you-should-start-living-your-life-again.html
I hope me posting this isn't a problem. Just thought some of you would appreciate it.
Ask HN: What is the optimal sign-up process?
Big internal debate. Obviously trying to keep as many visitors as possible. In this case, we're not so focused on retention; more focused on participation (could be one & done)

Some examples that are being tossed around include Layers.com (strictly email), Quora (email + password)...most others ask for 4-5 input options.

1) Strictly asking for email address up front
--> sends random password --> forces you to copy & paste --> then change to your own later

2) Asking for Email & Password
--Is it an absolute necessity to include 'confirm password?' If you mistyped, you could just use 'forgot password' link to recover.

3) Asking for email, password x2 and name / username?
--I think 'name' & 'username' are optimal for B2C startups, while 'name' is plenty for B2B products -- fair enough?

Also, any opinion on when sign up process is most appropriate on it's own separate page?
Freelancers: Two Methods for Making Sales the Easy Way
http://blog.nerdburn.com/entries/tips-for-freelancers/freelancers-two-methods-for-making-sales-the-easy-way
Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs I was constantly told, "You can have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it you're still going to be broke." The point is, if you're going to succeed in this (or any) business, you need to be in the business of selling.
On-the-fly image resizing Rack application
http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2010/1/2/dragonfly
Dragonfly is a Rack app to handle image resizing on the fly, usually with S3 as the file store.
CarWoo - User Acquisition Hacker (YC S09)
CarWoo! is looking for someone to own online customer acquisition... http://www.carwoo.com

Required skills and job requirements:

* Demonstrable experience driving quality traffic to a site.

* Manage a reasonable marketing budget as a tool to aid your hacking skills.

* Hacking is a requirement. Traditional SEM/SEO will be an element of your job, but finding untapped sources of traffic we can exploit profitably is your challenge.

* The end.

Email tommy@carwoo.com for more information. Include your resume and some examples of your customer acquisition savvy.

The top three candidates will be brought in for an interview and we will hire one of you.

We are a well funded VC backed company, tackling one of the largest industries online most ready for disruption.
Machine Learning and Dragons - A Game
http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/machine-learning-and-dragons-a-game/177
A little Python/pygame game I wrote using Genetic Programming for the dragon AI.
Ask HN: How is actually Italy confirming SARS-Cov2 cases?
Italy is at 53,000+ confirmed cases of SARS-Cov2.

This would assume they have tested upwards of 200,000+ patients in order to get a 25% infection rate.

I'm using 25% as a conservative figure. If you liberally drop this down to 10% infected tested, we'd have to be at 500,000+ successfully administered, processed and reported RT-PCR tests.

Side note: Roche's best machines, for example, can process 4,100 RT-PCR tests in a fully automated fashion and this not just a machine on a desktop, but a full-blown assembly line operation.

Intriguing.
Show HN: Terrabook – Replit for Infrastructure
https://terrabook.io/
Hi HN, one of the founders here. We were thinking hard on what would lower the entry barrier / smoothen the learning curve for infrastructure. It's got to be easy to build so something visual probably; and it's got to be "real" so perhaps some kind of infra-as-code underneath. We experimented a lot with the low-code angle (the most recent OpsFlow which we got tons of feedback on from HN - thank you!!)

And then it hit us. With python, there's a huge difference in ease of use between a Jupyter notebook and locally run python code, even though the code is the same. So we don't even need to hide the code, as long as it is easy to write. Replit demonstrates the same concept even more vividly; but we thought we'd borrow the blocks idea from Jupyter / Google Colab.

This is how Terrabook came to be - just blocks of Terraform really. The key thing is that they are pre-filled, and you can write whatever you want.

a. Mix and match pre built terraform.
b. Modify pre built blocks to create your own custom terraform
c. Deploy to AWS in one click.

We also added templates for frontend, backend & databases - so you just click a button and get a working piece.

HN has been a constant source of constructive feedback for us, and we would be extremely grateful for insight on how you feel TerraBook is. Feel free to drop your harshest feedback in the comments below!
Ask HN: What small thing helped you appreciate life more?
For me its taking morning walks.
Netflix Open Source Software Center
http://netflix.github.io/#repo
http://opensource.com/business/15/3/interview-semmy-purewal-netflix
How to Use Facebook Ads to Get a Job You Really Want
http://blog.brazencareerist.com/2013/12/17/how-to-use-facebook-ads-to-get-a-job-you-really-want/
The ad targeted 16,560 Facebook users “who live in the United States, age 25 or older, who graduated from college, who work at Google.” In two days, the ad got 48 clicks (0.103 percent click through rate, or CTR) at a total cost of $30.68.
Jerome Svigals doing an AMA on Reddit right now
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h5kby/my_name_is_jerome_svigals_in_1950_i_became_one_of/
Who is he?

Born in 1926 in the Bronx, New York, Jerome Svigals attended City College of New York. In 1950, as second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he worked on developing the first electronic computer, becoming one of the world’s first digital programmers. Starting with IBM in 1954, Svigals was the company’s first employee hired for marketing the professional computer. He devised the strategy of selling computer support services and eventually ran IBM’s global marketing system. In the mid-1960s, he conducted initial research on a machine-readable storage medium and became project manager for magnetic stripe cards. Regarded as the “father of mag-stripe cards,” Svigals brought the technology to the air transport, mass transit and banking industries. Thereafter he became the key figure in establishing national and global standards for magnetic stripe data storage. He has authored 25 books on card technology and banking, and is a leading consultant to the financial industry.
Stock prediction using Weather, Twitter, News & Stock sites...
http://173.203.58.79/scatter/sc.processtext.php?x=0
While waiting for a few final things on my start-up I mentioned in an earlier posting, I wrote a simple stock prediction program in less than a day...

This program was created in 20 hours. It pulls in tweets, weather forecasts, stock market websites, current and breaking news, as well as looks as the trends of the stocks that it finds over time, to create the following collection of stocks. The stocks are rated based on all the factors previously mentioned. I am constantly tweaking each parameter, everyday, and the results seem to be getting better, and better. I will be releasing the source code over the next few days once I clean it up. If you have any suggestions on how I could make the predictions better, feel free to contact me at the email address below.

The entire project is written in PHP using MongoDb and memcache.

Here is the link: http://173.203.58.79/scatter/sc.processtext.php
Show HN: Trilby for Hacker News – An Elegant Way to Experience HN on Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.failab.trilby&hl=en_US&gl=US
Fellow HNers,
I just published a brand new Hacker News client for Android. This is my first mobile app ever, and I worked on this for the last two months.

It features / lets you:
Browse and read Hacker News - view popular and latest articles.
Beautiful design and typography.
Login to Hacker News, post new stories, comment and interact with others.
Powerful search powered by Algolia, filter to get your desired results.
View yours and others' profiles: see bio and latest activities.
In-app web view when you don't want to leave the app.
Personalize the app the way you want - select your favorite fonts.
Compact Mode when you don't want any distractions.
Meticulously crafted skins and comment themes, auto dark mode.
Open native HN links within the app - look for the Orange links.
Keep track of your read articles.
View single comment threads.
Preview your comment before posting/
...and countless more.

Your opinion matters the most to me, so feel free to reach me. The iOS version should be coming soon.

I wish you a nice weekend.
More is less
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/hidden-variables-0602.html
Complex computer models can involve thousands of variables. But paradoxically, adding more variables can sometimes make them easier to work with.
Show HN: Using D3.js to visually explore your GitHub connections
http://nodal.me
We got inspired by the work Mike Bostock has been doing with D3 and wanted to experiment with how we could extend the library in more of an application interface setting than just charting, so we built Nodal: http://nodal.me

The project is built on Python/Flask/Heroku. Read more about the experiment here: http://mattstockton.com/2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-graph-with-nodal/
Tell HN: Chicago Holiday Meetup (Help Us Schedule)
Patrick McKenzie's in town and people seem to want to meet him. As his agent in this matter I have advised him that what we should do is hold an impromptu HN meetup, and he has agreed. Brad Flora and two other people have signaled interest via email.

What we need to do is figure out a date. "Impromptu" means "we don't have much time"; Patrick returns to Japan early in January. We could do as early as this week or as late as next week.

We also don't know where we'll have it, but that's a function of who's in; if it's just the people we have now, I'll buy dinner at The Publican (I feel like I owe Brad); as we add people, we'll pick a more appropriate venue. It'll be downtown somewhere.
Why you should never use AirBnb and why hotels still rule
http://shorttext.com/f9NMo
New Link: http://pastebin.com/QqMbAgsF
The Entrepreneur
http://www.hulu.com/watch/85122/the-entrepreneur
This is a documentary about serial entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin, who introduced the Subaru and the Yugo the US.
Corner Detection with OpenCV
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/10/corner-detection-with-opencv.html
The post explains of to perform a corner detection in Python using the OpenCV library.
Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play
http://playauditorium.com/
Really cool concept. I donated.
4 Languages you should learn in 2009
http://anassina.com/blog/?p=36
The Pragmatic Programmer Books suggests you learn a new language every year. I suggest you learn 4 that will be beneficial to your career in 2009.
Hacker News London Meetup 25th Nov
The next Hacker News London meetup is on Thursday, 25th November. We've decided to split the evening into two parts, short demos and presentations first, followed by a few beers down the pub.

Demos and presentations and presentations will be from 6:30 at Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP
Beers will be at The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, EC1V 0DX, where we have an area reserved for us from 8 o'clock onwards.

We have the following 5 minute talks lined up for the evening.

Hrishi Mittal: PRETTY GRAPH - MAKE YOUR DATA SING!
Philipp Moehring: STARTUP FINANCING FOR NORMAL PEOPLE
Douglas Squirrel: INTRODUCING NARRATIVE, A FRAMEWORK FOR BEHAVIOUR-DRIVEN TESTS IN FLUENT JAVA
Daniel Tenner: HOW TO GET ON TECHCRUNCH, LIFEHACKER, SLASHDOT, ETC.
Lorenzo Stoakes: F# - WHY IT ROCKS
Josh Liu: MICRO-CONSULTANCY IS THE NEW BLACK
Ben Summers: LINKED DATA, USER EXPERIENCE AND SMALL BUSINESSES - HOW I ACCIDENTALLY CREATED A SHAREPOINT COMPETITOR
Ben Brown: VOUCHACHA DEMO
Colin Wright: USING ARITHMETIC TO CREATE JUGGLING PATTERNS or HOW HIGH IS THE MOON
Alistair Hann: ZOOMBU DEMO

Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/hnlondon/ if you have not done so already. Skills Matter need a list of everyone who is coming and it will also help us keep track of the numbers.

If you are on twitter the short URL for the meetup is http://meetu.ps/421R and the hashtag is #HNLondon

Look forward to seeing you all there.
Check your router for open ports
http://www.checkmyrouter.org/
This site allows you to check your router for open ports and common vulnerabilities such as the upnpbug. Neat.
Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming
https://parabola.io/
Hi HN!

I’m Alex from Parabola (https://parabola.io). Parabola is a visual programming tool for creating functional data flows that everyone can use. It’s entirely drag-and-drop, handles data sizes much larger than a traditional spreadsheet, calculates everything live, and can run your flows on a schedule of your choosing.

I used to work in strategy consulting, doing data analytics for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. The amount of time wasted on menial tasks was astounding. Things like cleaning data, generating custom reports, creating human workflows to solve shortcomings in third party tools, etc.

Non-technical people have to rely on doing things manually or using fragile spreadsheets that solve only part of their use cases. We don't think everyone should have to learn to code in order to work productively (https://medium.com/parabola-labs/not-everyone-needs-to-learn...). That’s why we’re building the tools to help people stop wasting so much time on manual processes, and instead focus on their actual core competencies.

We’ve made some interesting decisions in the design of Parabola’s visual programming “language”. We’d love to hear what you think and are happy to discuss our thought process in the comments.
Running out of hex words?
http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html
deadbeaf and cafebabe is so 2010
A Crash Course in the Mathematics Of Infinite Sets
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infapp.htm
A very dense and readable summary of some of the key concepts in set theory. Warning!! -- May cause mind-blowing
AmyEditor: Web-based collaborative code-editor with syntax highlighting
http://www.amyeditor.com/
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Show HN: Pickcode – A new way to introduce programming to kids
https://app.pickcode.io/course/hoc-ad-libs-chatbot
Hello HN, I've linked a tutorial from Pickcode, where students are guided through making a chatbot that plays mad libs. Pickcode is designed for introducing programming without block coding, in a way that's closer to Javascript or Python. I made Pickcode based on my frustrations teaching beginners in both block coding and in Python.

The link here is to just one lesson, and I have a few more that you can find on the site. I'd love feedback from HNers with kids age 10-13 or so, or HNers who can put on an intro to programming hat.

On the roadmap is adding more complex use cases for your programs (like drag and drop web apps), and obviously many more lessons.

If you're a teacher and interested in using this with students, email me at charlie@pickcode.io
16 year old arrested for DDOS attack on MasterCard in The Hague, The Netherlands
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2648033.ece/16-jarige_opgepakt_voor_cyberaanval_op_MasterCard&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhj4avUDZchGTFq4083zux8gLS_o4w
The original version in Dutch: http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2648033.ece/16-jarige_opgepakt_voor_cyberaanval_op_MasterCard