jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Need guidance to improve my chances of landing a job here in SF bay area
Dear HN,

I have moved recently to San Francisco bay area with my husband & kid here, I have 6+ years of software development experience in BI/ETL/SQL/Data Analytics (MSBI Stack),
& have spent recently many days in applying to
various job boards,
but still am not able to get any interview calls.

I have also learnt NodeJS/MongoDB/Redis & developed
sample web apps using these technologies &
have them published to my Github profile recently to widen my chances of getting a job/interview.

Unfortunately no interview calls yet, everyone is looking for either 2+years in (Node with Java combination) or
10+years in BI/ETL domain.

I am beginning to wonder what should I do next to improve my chances of getting a job here in SF bay area ?

Is it due to some lack of technical skills or anything else that I fail to comprehend ?

So finally thought of asking the HN community.
Any help/pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated..!!

Thanks
Show HN: Crontab monitoring and logging
http://cronwat.ch
I built this application to ease my inbox of all the cron output that gets sent to me.

The application logs cron output (so you can search it later) and also alerts you (email and SMS) if a cron fails to run or is late.

I'm working towards alerts based on the cron output itself.

I'd love your critique and thoughts. If you're inclined, I'm in a competition to pitch this at an upcoming conference, and would appreciate your vote: http://www.futureinsights.com/app-it-out-vote
Online commenting cliché: "You realize that X = Y, right?"
Of late, I find this clichéd phrase "You realize that X = Y (or some non-obvious statement which might not even be correct), right?" appear in online comments a lot. I find it very toxic.

Example on HN:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22you+realize%22+%22%2C+right%3F%22&start=0

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22you+do+realize%22+%22%2C+right%3F%22&start=0

"No, you presumptuous commenter, I don't realize that. If I did, I wouldn't have said it in the first place. You realize that, right? Why don't you just say X = Y and leave it at that?"

I know it's supposed to be clever, but the novelty has worn off and now it's just very annoying.
Wtf? Social Media Experts Need 5-7 Years Experience?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-agranoff/social-media-experts-with_b_1542126.html?ref=tw
The whole idea of determining expertise by time spent is a little presumptuous in the first place. Social Media may be one job where time is not the best determination of expertise. An expert is usually someone who is very knowledgeable in their area. This is not always quantified by time, but by the accuracy and familiarity with a subject.
How do you organize your time?
[Indie as independent, free as much as possible from daily pressures of bosses]

I'm really curious about which philosophies and tools you use, to make out them most of your time on earth.

Please feel free to be as spiritual and/or tactical as you wish on your comments.
New Street Photography, 60 Years Old
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/new-street-photography-60-years-old/
* John Maloof, a 29-year-old eBay entrepreneur and real estate agent, is now principal cheerleader in the effort to find a niche for Ms. Maier at the pantheon of modern photography. He is only about one-tenth of the way into the task of scanning and archiving 100,000 negatives of hers in his possession, working with his friend Anthony Rydzon. And they have yet to develop several hundred rolls of black-and-white film and about 600 color rolls.
XCPretty - fast and 100% compatible xcodebuild formatter
https://github.com/mneorr/XCPretty
XCPretty is designed to be piped with xcodebuild and thus keeping 100% compatibility with it. This means, when xcodebuild works, xcpretty works. It's even a bit faster than xcodebuild only, since it saves your terminal some prints.
Meetro Post Mortem
http://meetro.lefora.com/2008/05/21/meetro-post-mortem/
Interesting post on a dead startup...
Iron Sky hits the U.S.
http://www.tugg.com/titles/iron-sky?region=global&state=upcoming#.UBA1zDH9PKY
Iron Sky movie now showing on U.S. screens
Next generation of kids toys: Qboo from Kreyonic launches indiegogo campaign
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/qboo-smart-plush-toys-for-kids
Is the next generation of kids toys already here?
Vector Illustrations
http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/35-awesome-vector-illustrations.html
enjoy!
CoffeeGrinder: compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript online
http://www.coffeegrinderapp.com/
If you're fed up of manually compiling JS copies of your CoffeeScript files for people to download, this web service might help you out.
INCEPTION Maze Font
http://code.garron.us/fonts/inception/
It's a font with 26 uppercase letters, inspired by the maze font used in promotional posters for the movie INCEPTION.
Almost of the work was done in Inkscape and FontForge; I plan to release the source if there is enough interest.

(Since I found out about Hacker News by having an early typography project of mine featured, it only seems appropriate that this should be my first submission. :-)
Digg (and it's traffic) May be Down but it's not Out
http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/24/digg-traffic-down-but-not-out/
A month ago, popular news aggregator Digg underwent a redesign that many describe as disastrous. Now, despite bad press, site bugs, and a traffic collapse, the company is trying to put a good face on its current state. It sent letters to publishers this week in an attempt to calm them during what many say is a drop in referral traffic.
You Are Not a Gadget: an interview with Jaron Lanier
http://www.jaronlanier.com/poleconGadgetqa.html
Interview regarding his new bok of the same title.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307269647
60+ Resources for Entrepreneurs
http://www.ocinnovationvault.com/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,54/Itemid,128/
A list of resources compiled by an Orange County VC network.
Show HN: Pianobar-remote-control – low-frills go web remote for pianobar
https://github.com/jcuga/pianobar-remote-control
I like to play pianobar on a bluetooth speaker but don't always want to walk over to my desk to hit next, so I made a terse little web remote in go. Now I just whip it open in my phone. Took about 3 hours and then another 1.5 later to polish it up for sharing.

'twas a fun little project that someone else might enjoy using.

Looks like in retrospect there are some pretty feature-full pianobar-web repos out there, but certainly none as simple/short.
Show HN: Zukini – Simple browser grocery/reminder list
https://zukini.io
Hi HN!

Often when my wife and I try to order groceries online, we have to maintain a bit of a grocery list of items that we thought up over the week. But we also sometimes forget what's on the list when we're trying to put the order in (because it's out of sight, meaning it's often out of mind as well).

I thought I just might make this simple extension to see if it's of any use to myself and others. Originally I wanted to have a shared sync functionality so that we could both just put in the same "list key" and we'd sync each other's list online, but it seems I'll have to make my own service to support that, which will come soon.

If it interests you, try it out and let me know what you think! This is the first time I've ever "released" something so I hope you enjoy and/or share some feedback.
DARPA Shredder Challenge solved via crowd-sourcing
http://www.shredderchallenge.com/?solved
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2011/12/02_.aspx
Yahoo cutting 5% more
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-cutting-5-of-staff-2009-4
Cutting even more and probably restructuring also. I thought they were done with all that at the end of last year ?
Grid UI for iOS (GitHub link)
https://github.com/betzerra/MosaicUI
A "simple-to-use" UI component for iOS that displays photos from different sizes in a grid layout.
Show HN: Trace Pixels to Vectors in Full Color, Fully Automatically, Using AI
https://vectorizer.ai
Hi! We have developed a tracing algorithm that blends Deep Learning, classical Machine Learning, and hand-crafted computer vision algorithms to turn regular bitmaps (JPEG, PNG, ...) into scalable vector graphics (SVG).

It does quite well in general, and especially on small-ish, blurry, noisy and otherwise degraded images that vectorizers normally choke on.

Would love to get your feedback on it! Thanks!
Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
http://xahlee.info/kbd/Microsoft_sculpt_ergonomic_keyboard.html
Successor of the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 released 8 years ago.
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/sculpt-ergonomic-desktop/L5V-00001
The sum of digits of prime numbers is evenly distributed
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1732.htm
On average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd.This hypothesis, first made in 1968, has recently been proven.
Is India Ready For The Hybrid Retail Market?
http://www.nextbigwhat.com/online-offline-hybrid-retail-in-india-297/
The offline-online(hybrid) e-tail segment is picking up traction in India. Will it survive?
99 Problems: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance For Cops and Perps
http://slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LJ56-2_Mason_Article.pdf
A line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. It’s intended as a resource for law students and teachers, and for anyone who’s interested in what pop culture gets right about criminal justice, and what it gets wrong.
LinkedIn beating Facebook at its own game
http://dwolchon.com/blog/2011/01/linkedin-eating-facebooks-lunch/
LinkedIn's email campaign of "who changed jobs in 2010" is better than any email I have gotten from Facebook. Shouldn't they have thought of this first?
Show HN: A Ruby on Rails learning checklist for newbs
http://railsgonewild.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/learning-rails-a-checklist-for-beginners-to-get-going/
I've had so many people ask me for a structured checklist of how to get into Rails from scratch (no programming experience), so I decided to put this together. Hope it is helpful to some people.
Falsifiable hypotheses. The antidote to torturing your data.
http://leanca.mp/2011/12/falsifiable-hypotheses-the-antidote-to-torturing-your-data/
The expression "Torture your data long enough and it'll tell you anything" was hung in a banner in the information analytics department of a direct marketing agency I worked for. It was a friendly deterrent to creatives and account execs who might have a predetermined conclusion for an analysis. In startups, we call can confuse that with vision - so here are a few examples of using falsifiable hypotheses to help avoid that trap.
South Africa's ANC's disgustingly racist political propoganda campaign
http://puu.sh/55UCr.jpg
Captured this from my news feed on Facebook. This is the party responsible for a corrupt policing system, uneducated masses and one of the highest rape and murder rates per capita in the world. I don't even know what to say.
Intro to Social Media, Social Media Monitoring and Social Media Intelligence
http://croakun.com/blog/social-media-monitoring-intelligence-intro
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Zwingit 
http://www.zwingit.com/
Check out Zwingit - a new location based messaging app for you and your friends
Your words and thoughts have physical power - Will Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWGoLj1JCM&feature=related
Will is awesome.
iWork "free" only for Macs purchased after Oct 01, 2013
http://www.apple.com/mac/keynote/
From the fine print:

"Keynote is free on the Mac App Store for qualifying Mac computers purchased on or after October 1, 2013."

So disappointed to learn that Keynote is not really free for everyone :(
Ask HN: Recording sales calls for training and posterity?
The free audio bridge we use has a recording feature. I turned it on once, and tested it to check, and it does announce when people join that the call is recording.

I have a team which would love to be able to listen into the calls, and I can imagine audio could also be useful as training material, both for myself personally to improve my own presentation, as well as internal training. Finally, it seems like logging customer calls would be useful as accounts develop and progress through the customer life cycle.

But even so, I still feel awkward turning on the recording feature and wonder if participants would feel awkward being recorded. It's funny how despite all the bulk collection and recording that goes on all around us, this would still stimulate any anxiety.

Anyone have any thoughts or feedback on recording the audio for meetings or presentations with customers? Does anyone do this? Does nobody do this?
ScalaTuts: From Zero to Hero in Scala
http://www.scalatuts.com
http://www.scalatuts.com
Spinning and biking
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-57411971-10391705/turntable-spinning-and-biking-come-together-at-last-with-insane-new-technology/?tag=pop;stories
Spinning and biking. But really about bike sharing.
Best way to sell your Facebook profile?
http://www.bitmenu.com/blog.html?headline=my-facebook-bio-now-available
We were experimenting with ways to make money on Faceboook, that weren't scam-based. The latest experiment is in selling profiles. Facebook lets you export your profile from the beginning of time. Why not sell it? ... and profit?
Is Parallel functional programming a blind alley?
http://www.hpcwire.com/news/John-Shalf-Talks-Parallel-Programming-Languages-96980349.html
John Shalf, the team leader of the Advanced Technologies Group at the US National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, in this interview indicates that efforts would be refocused on functional programming as a promising avenue for parallel computation. This approach failed in the 80s and 90s, and I fear will continue to be a blind alley. My critique of parallel functional programming may be found on pages 42-47 in the main report (http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1005.5183)
Show HN: Made an AI Blog Writer to Replace My Ghostwriter
https://www.wraithscribe.com/
Feedback on landing page and positioning greatly appreciated.
Hacker Chat #3 Live Broadcast  7:15PM PST
http://www.vokle.com/lineups/7861-hacker-chat
Live discussion of HN stories and more! Join me for the discussion!
Programming on Android
https://github.com/androportal/installer/tree/ics
Now you can program in C, C++, Python and Scilab on Android.
Browse source at https://github.com/androportal/apk
How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden
I was expecting something a bit more elaborate.
Ask HN: What is your biggest problem with data?
What is your biggest problem with data, whether it be querying it, storing it, manipulating it, processing it, etc.

What is that one problem, if solved, would make your job much more efficient?
Stop trying to make location based social networking happen
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/
How do you feel when somoene is suggesting you not to do something. Most of the time success happens not because of logical reasons but belief and willpower. what do you think?
Doors - a new js async design pattern
https://github.com/bredele/doors
Doors is basically a mix between a promise (one state) and a state machine (multiple transition) without being immutable.

A door has multiple locks and can't be openned until all locks are unlocked.

Don't hesitate to star the project on github if you like it :)
Ask HN: Deep technical forum community to follow
Hi HN,

I believe that most of the programmer, when they where learning, used to hang out in some online community where they asked the most basic question about code, loops, etc...

Of course such communities start to get boring after you have learn your skill and when there are already other skillfull programmers to lead the younger.

Now that we are grew up, what communities are worth following ?

I am looking for some project/language agnostic community where to discuss deep and wide topics about code...

Any ideas ?

(Other than HN, of course...)
Pirate Parties International Conference Takes Place Next Month
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-parties-international-conference-takes-place-next-month-12032/
Next month, the 2012 Pirate Parties International conference gets underway in Prague, Czech Republic.
> 3 years
Show HN: List Tool - a web app for comparing lists
http://skratchdot.github.com/list-tool/
Started really simple, but I spent a little extra time to use the Ace Editor, Web Workers, and give it a responsive design.

List Tool - http://skratchdot.github.com/list-tool/

Source Code - https://github.com/skratchdot/list-tool/
Models' real faces before photoshop
http://www.msethjones.com/rollovers/
crazy
On name & address madness
http://blog.lick-me.org/2011/08/on-name-address-madness/
A couple of reasons why it's difficult & silly to try and normalize names and addresses.
Tech’s Gender Gap Wasn’t Always So Bad. Here’s How It Got Wors
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/code-documentary-gender-gap/
Interesting article! What do you guys think?
Hello Bar a simple tool I love and gets eyeballs for sure.
http://www.hellobar.com
Been using Hello Bar lately and I been loving it. Simple tools like this are definitely the most powerful web services, that can make a big difference in your online projects.
Google Compute engine available as of now
https://cloud.google.com
Enjoy playing with it
Javascript object transformer
https://github.com/gabesoft/trans
What do you guys think about this https://github.com/gabesoft/trans

It's a library I wrote to make it easy to transform complex json objects
Ask HN: Can you recommend a service to sell a website other than Flippa?
I'm well aware of Flippa but looking for other alternatives, if any. Would appreciate any suggestions, thank you.
Ask HN: To delay or not delay, that is the question?
Been working on a big project since October, after building it originally it needed to be rehashed for usability. I'm still working on that now, but I'm frustrated with the way I programmed it. Should I stick it out and release, then rebuild if it proves to be worth while, or change it now and further delay release?
Show HN: FOSS local-first cross-platform note-taking app with handwriting
https://github.com/LinwoodCloud/Butterfly
Butterfly is an app to simplify note-taking on digital devices. It's a great alternative to OneNote and everything will be saved locally. You have the option to connect your storage to a webdav storage to back up your documents and use it on multiple devices.
The app is available on Windows, Linux, Android and on the web as progressive web application and is written in Flutter.
Ask HN: Furloughed, Options?
Hey HN,

Was recently furloughed by my company a dev for a large restaurant chain. I knew I was going to be first on the chopping block as I started in the past 6 months and am one of the more junior on the team. 3 years out of college, ~17k in cash saved up, no debt at all. I don't know if my job will be there in the 4-5 weeks stated the furlough will last as the corona virus in the US doesn't look to be stopping in that time period aka no restaurant cash flow increase either unless we get a miracle..

Wanted to ask you all for some advice; should I start looking for new jobs asap, wait it out and hear back from my company, drop my lease (month to month) and move back to a low COL area and job hunt?

Just wanted to brainstorm with yall, more minds are better than one and Id rather be proactive than reactive. Figured some of yall were in the dotcom bust or the 08' bust and had some wisdom to drop on me.
Console.meme
https://github.com/escusado/console.meme
A stupid express app and a js script to print memes in the console.
Should HotorNot Become Just a Facebook App?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/16/should-hotornot-become-just-a-facebook-app/
Ever since HotorNot abandoned it's experiment with going totally free last month, the traffic to its destination site, HotorNot.com, has predictably leveled off. Meanwhile, its application on Facebook is doing pretty well, already accounting for about a third of its daily logins, and 40 percent of it total unique visitors (although the two remain separate services at this point).
228 Days Later: Destructoid's adventure with adblocking
http://blog.pagefair.com/2013/destructoid-review/?cmp=65
Interview w/ Niero Gonzalez, updates on Destructoid/adblocking
How secure is your website?
http://www.joomlaconvert.com/the-blog/item/16-how-secure-is-your-website?.html
A few tips to secure a CMS site.
Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes.
Show HN: KinoHunt – a movie price tracking iOS app
http://www.kinohunt.com
Apologies for reposting as URL, still new to HN and learning :)<p>We are a team of developers passionate about movies trying to solve a problem:<p>- Watches a lot of movies at home, but find fewer and fewer good new movies on Netflix<p>- Redbox is the most economic alternative, but still not as convenient as downloading the movie from iTunes and Amazon. However, iTunes and Amazon are relatively more expensive.<p>- iTunes and Amazon movie frequently change prices, but there's no easy way to track them<p>Hence we created KinoHunt, an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kinohunt-price-tracker-to/id837941930?ls=1&mt=8<p>With KinoHunt, you can "hunt" for movies you want to watch and create a smart watchlist. We track the prices of these movies in your watchlist and inform you whenever the prices drop on iTunes or Amazon.<p>You can also set a price filter and check out what good movies are available given your budget.<p>Would love to see if this is something others would use, also any feedback on the UI is appreciated.<p>Thanks for your time!
Creativity at its best
http://gurugadbad.com/
must watch..
Show HN: Recent – list most recent files
https://codeberg.org/clear/recent
A Unix-style program for printing the most recent file in a directory. I wrote this as a simple tool for use in pipes and shell scripts.
The Jump to Linux, easier with Ubuntu
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/21/linux-desktop-why-not
The standard's Larry Borsato makes the switch to Linux, finding it easier than he presumed.
ClojureScript gets a new REPL
https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/The-REPL-and-Evaluation-Environments
The ClojureScript REPL has been refactored to support multiple evaluation environments. It now supports Rhino and the browser.
Remembering Dersu Uzala, Siberian Entrepreneur
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2009/06/some-lessons-on-entrepreneurship-from-the-great-master-dersu-uzala.html
It occurred to me recently that when you find yourself around folks that take great care to cultivate the particular ecosystem in which they dwell, the environment is always uplifting and enriching. A recent venture event I attended of this kind brought to mind that great character, Dersu Uzala, who Kurosawa immortalized in one of my favorite films of the same name. So as to set the stage for my main point, I’ll recall now one of the early scenes from memory, so forgive me if I omit some details.
Ask HN: .com, .co, .me does it really matter?
When registering a company domain name, does it really matter what domain you choose? Or are specific domain names really associated with specific types of sites (like .me for personal sites)?
Boards.ie SIOC Data Competition launches
http://data.sioc-project.org/
A competition to do something interesting with the SIOC data set containing 10 years of history from a large Irish online community site boards.ie.

Three prizes with the combined amount = 7000 USD.