jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Regarding Work: Hire based on interest not credentials
http://regardingwork.com/2011/05/13/hire-based-on-interest-not-credentials/#more-59
Smart recruiting advice particularly relevant to startups
How I Got 237 Beta Testers For My Startup In 24 Hours 
http://blog.adproof.com/startups/get-237-beta-testers-for-your-awesome-startup-now/
Wanted to share how I got a flood of new beta testers for my new startup, AdProof, in less than 24 hours.

How did you get beta testers?
Computer Science: Lessons Learned
https://medium.com/on-coding/802d1d6ed900
How to Succeed at a CS Education
Ask HN: StartGarden.com, 3% equity for $5,000, will it screw up Seed/A rounds?
http://startgarden.com/ideas?sort=comments
I like the micro and crowd funding aspect of Start Garden. The two $5,000 awards per week is a nice small slug of money to do a bit of experimentation or a test or two to see if an idea actually has some traction. Also I like that you can read their contract, and after asking them yes they'll modify it for a C corp.

While 3% for $5,000 might be stiff, you also don't need to have much definition for an idea to go to them. I personally need an outside validation to make sure my spouse stays onboard with me focusing time and energy on my startup. As a single first time founder located in the same city as them it's a deal I'm willing to take.
So I threw out my idea this week, and I'm looking at some of the other ideas and honestly most of them don't look like they have the potential growth profile to get a seed round. I looks a bit like it's become get your friends to vote so I can get $5,000.

My big concern is if I took StartGarden's money when I go for financing will having someone like StartGarden behind me going to to be a help or hindrance? If I go to a seed or A round will having a startup VC in the mix going to hurt me. Also if they don't particapte, in future round how bad will that be?
Feedback for UK Writing Startup
http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk/index.php
Hey everyone. I setup this startup with my confounder. Its for people who don't have time to blog, to write articles/essays etc and get feedback themselves. Typically, Paul Graham-esque essays and articles are likely to be written, as opposed to news reports for example.
8 page summary of synchronic computation
http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1673
The paper summarises a novel approach to spatial programming, and and parallel formal model of computation. As far as I am aware, no pure λ-calculus interpreter and simulator for a high level programming language such as Haskell has been constructed, that has viable time and space complexity characteristics. That difficulty lends support to the spatial approach, which questions the outlook that software may be studied as a pure discipline in isolation from hardware. Further links to reports may be found at the isynchronise website.
YaNIX cheatsheet: Yet Another *nix cheatsheet, but wikified
http://nixcommands.jottit.com/
I started this several months ago on my blog for a group of folks of varying skill levels on a student project (tmedweb.tulane.edu). Moved it to jottit in hopes some smart hacker news types could help make it better.
Twitter looking for Computer Science students
http://www.internships.com/posting/Software-Engineer-Intern-I5132730
New paid software engineering internship opportunity at Twitter posted yesterday. Twitter is looking for Java, Scala, Ruby, and C++ for the backend and Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript if you are doing more on the front end. Good luck!
Has Mac OS peaked?
http://beust.com/weblog/2011/07/14/has-mac-os-peaked/
Recent trends seem to indicate that Mac OS has hit a plateau, not helped by the fact that Apple seems to be focusing more aggressively on iOS than Mac OS.
A Fast File System for Unix (1984)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.114.9535
Full pdf of the paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.9535&rep=rep1&type=pdf

This was a classic even 10 years ago, when I read it in my operating systems seminar in grad school. This is the paper that taught me how disk-based file systems are organized, and why.
Watir WebDriver — reasons I love Ruby
http://watirwebdriver.com/
Web Application Testing in Ruby, and the WebDriver part stands for, um, Web Driver
Now make 360 panoramic video with your camera Any camera.
http://www.eyesee360.com/examples/
You can make 360 panoramic video with any camera you have, just hook the gopano optic on top of your camera. And use their software to unwarp the video. Its cool..!
Ask HN: Is a system for single character responses to emails a bad idea?
Lately, I’ve been using a single character to respond to a lot of emails. I get through emails much faster (especially on my mobile), and the sender gets useful info back quickly. For example, if I get an email asking for something and I won't get to it until the day after tomorrow, I’ll respond like this:

-----

2

The text above represents a response below. I apologise if this seems rude - I'm taking this approach to make sure I get back to everyone quickly (http://patbrown.org/pointmail.html).

1 - I’ll get back to you within 1 day.

2 - I’ll get back to you within 2 days.

[Higher numbers mean the same as above…]

t - thanks, I’ll look into it but I’m not sure how long it'll take.

n - No / No thank you - I appreciate your message though.

y - Yes / Yes please, that would be great.

s - Sorry, I’ve read your email, but it’s highly unlikely that I’ll be able to fit this in.

-----

The drawback of this approach is that it comes across as douchey to a high percentage of people. Is the approach irredeemably weird / off-putting? Any ideas on how to dial down the douche factor while maintaining the benefits?

If it’s viable:

- Would two character responses for finer grained meaning work better? For instance, “c1” could mean “It’ll be complete in 1 day” and “w1” would mean “Will get back to you on the below within one day”; and

- What other codes / messages do you think would be important to include?
JQueryPad - quick JQuery prototyping tool
http://www.paulstovell.com/jquerypad
jQueryPad is a fast JavaScript and HTML editor. Just start it, enter the HTML you want to work with, bash in your jQuery code, and hit F5 to see the results. Say goodbye to ALT+TAB.
Corndog
http://patheticgoogle.com/post/10194322393
Yes.
German police screwup: Tor admin arrested
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9779225-7.html
Interesting read on the challenges that Tor poses for law enforcement
Don't build that feature
http://logicalfriday.com/2011/08/25/dont-build-that-feature/
The importance of metrics BEFORE we build a feature.
A guide to 2010 California Ballot Props
http://www.propgrok.org
I was inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of Hacker News to build a website to help people make decisions on the complex issue of California Ballot Propositions. I learned about yaml, mako, HTML 5, html5reset, twitter's API, facebook's APIs, Analytics, adwords, and more along the way.

Feedback is appreciated; I plan to continue to improve the site in anticipation of the next election cycle. The site also allows you to tweet or facebook your voting stances, and offers a printable voting sheet to take to the polls.
Building information modeling
http://www.bimhub.com/bim-manager.html
BIMhub provides building information modeling and BIM manager help. Our Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology has empowered architects and builders with digital tools to carry out a construction project.
Importance of NOSCRIPT Availability in Web Apps
How important is it nowadays to provide a non-Javascript experience for people? I believe that most users currently browse with Javascript enabled (with enough permissions for AJAX to work properly), but if you were writing a web application (not Google Docs, but maybe HackerNews), would you make the effort to have everything working without Javascript as well as with it?
Show HN: What can you do in 8 hours? FSTR.net
http://fstr.net
So a couple of days ago I bought FSTR.net. I saw that the name was 'free' and grabbed it up before I knew what I was going to do with it.

Last night, in a short burst of creativity, I put together this ahem games aggregator. (despite only having scripts to read from one place at the moment, I've got three more sites that allow embedding their games to work on).

I must admit the list of things to do is a mile long. I spent more time writing pixel level placement for adsense then anything else. (using the official "adsense heatmap" http://myblog-log.blogspot.com/2007/05/maximize-your-google-adsense.html)

I really respect the HN community and am often inspired by the things I see people do. I'd love to hear what you think and maybe get some suggestions for where to go next.

As a first time project poster, I'm a little worried about maybe committing some faux pas - but - what the hell :) If there is any, I'll take the yelling too.

So far on my TODO list:
- figure out the CSS3 selector that will allow me to make the DIV containing the game tiles expand when I hover over the IMG inside it.
- add about 5px space between the "scyscraper" on the game page and the actual game. if the scraper floats over the edge of the content-wrapper, that's acceptable ... but "pushing the footer" is not.
- round the IMG tiles in firefox
- add a glassy-gloss overlay to the tiles in CSS
- grab more feed content
- the games are a random list on each refresh, I need a way to make sure that good games easily accessible & for people to find the games they like in a non-random order (so they can return to their favorites)
- add a title to the page with the games
- add credit & backlinks to the places I'm feeding from (addictinggames.com so far)
- like button per game & for the overall site.
- "popular games" row
- game category tags
- game ranking / game hit couter
- some gradients in the background, drop-shadow round the content div
- clean the horrendously messy code in the background. (move all google link units out of the main code and into "include" files)

Maybe I should get a more "gamey" domain. FSTR (faster) is nice cause it's short and "actiony" but maybe there's a better use for it... like a computer networking company, or a car engine, or sports or...

I'm a bit scattered in the head at the moment... I started at about 6pm and worked through till 3am. Am now back at the office on next to no sleep and wishing I could work through my list :)

I'd love to hear some HN style feedback, as it'll help focus my thoughts into making something a little more viable.

Please don't throw rocks!

:D

- Alex.
How to Program with Java
http://howtoprogramwithjava.com
Java Tutorial
Change hostname of a machine in unix/linux
http://unixj.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/how-to-change-hostname-of-a-machine-in-unixlinux/?fb_source=pubv1
Change hostname of a machine in unix/linux
Movies recreated in Code. Can you guess what movies these are?
http://www.funnygarbage.com/blog/famous-movie-quotes-code
Pretty fun for the nerd in all of us.
Global Wi-Fi Hotspot Use on the Rise, Driven By Business 
http://www.cio.com/article/140201/Global_Wi_Fi_Hotspot_Use_on_the_Rise_Driven_By_Business_
This article from CIO.com details a report from a company called iPass that concludes global Wi-Fi hotspot use is increasing rapidly, due largely to how often businesspeople use it in airports and hotels. The best parts of the story are the two lists at the end that show the top hotels and airports based on Wi-Fi use. Who know Johannesburg, South Africa was a Wi-Fi "hot spot??"
Five Things (advice for startup CEO's)
http://martinmorrow.blogspot.com/2013/02/five-things-advice-for-startup-ceos.html
I've done my share of starting up new companies, divisions, products, and even a spinout. The experiences have been tremendous and I wish I could say I handled all the lessons with grace but there were a few times when I didn't. That's probably my first thing I'd do different...
Thank HN: Merry Christmas
Just wanted to say thanks to the community here. Reading HN has been inspiring; I've turned out more projects in the last year than I did in the previous eight years combined. I'm also in position to get a great job when I graduate in May. Thanks everyone and I hope you have a great Christmas.

Kevin
ASK HN: How does zappos work?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10323197
Hey guys,
I got some shoes from zappos this christmas and since then I've been intrigued by the company. I've been trying to understand how the company functions and if they carry (and have always carried) physical inventory.

How do they handle order fulfillment? Does anyone know how the rest of their value chain works?

Let me know what you think/know.
Safari 5, Flash And The Backspace Key ... Or How Apple Bans Flash from Safari
http://www.ruelke.org/blog-entry-138.html
Apple made it virtually impossible to work with any Flash - based web app that features text input or even gasp uses the backspace for some other user interaction. While this is clearly a bug, it kind of makes you wonder if Apple is deliberately trying to sabotage Flash, since this problem does not occur with Java applets or HTML - Forms.
Philippine Startups: Replicating Silicon Valley in Asia 
http://webgeek.ph/news/philippine-startups-replicating-silicon-valley-asia
It is an exciting time to be in the Philippines– our economy is doing well and the world is recognizing we’re an emerging market that should be noticed.
Open source secure voip for Android phones
https://bitbucket.org/discretio/discretio-android
You can install it from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discretio.android
NO LAme TEmplate System for Ruby
https://github.com/antirez/nolate
NO LAme TEmplate System for Ruby
Ask HN: How to Cultivate Child's Interest in Science?
I've been thinking about the best ways to develop my new-born(9m+) What are some best practices you wish you had started with your child when they were young? Brain development skills, character development, daily routines,toys, kids story books etc. Any resources you use books, video etc. Thank you.
10 Common Ops Mistakes and How to Prevent Them
http://pduty.me/1lbTouc
PagerDuty's Lead Engineer on Common Ops Mistakes
African Apps for African Problems
http://www.africaontheblog.com/african-apps-for-african-problems/
"Under the thick skin of Africa’s known problems lies a growing stream of young developers and innovators who are solving the problems that stare them in the face day and night, with technology."
Apple removes PrinttoPDF from App Store and blocks existing users
http://printtopdfapp.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/print-to-pdf-ios5-workaround/
On August 26th Apple removed ‘Print to PDF’ from the App Store. To worsen things, Apple decided to block virtual printers on devices running iOS5. As a result this made the app non functional after installing iOS5.
Typemock to Host ‘10 Secret Unit Testing Tips to Become Agile’ Webinar 
http://www.typemock.com/agile-development-webinar?utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=press-release&utm_campaign=agile-webinar
Typemock’s top developers will be sharing the secrets of their agile success

Tel-Aviv, August 18, 2011 – Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, will be hosting a webinar titled: 10 Secret Unit Testing Tips to Become Agile. The webinar will include insights from Typemock’s top developers on how to take unit testing to the next level in agile teams. Typemock, as a company, not only preaches unit testing as a core agile value but incorporates unit testing practices in all its product development.

Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager of Typemock said: “I’m looking forward to presenting this webinar. It’s an opportunity to discuss the real life aspects of Unit Testing and concentrate on how to succeed with lessons learned by developers who do that for a living.”

Typemock is hosting this webinar on August 25th as part of the 10 year anniversary of the creation of the Agile Manifesto. To register please click here:

About Typemock
Typemock was conceived in 2004 to help programmers develop code integrity through unit testing. Since the launch of the first version of Typemock Isolator in 2006, thousands of companies around the world, including multinationals Microsoft and Nokia, use Typemock tools to make unit testing easy and to upstream the quality processes. Typemock users are developers from a wide range of sectors – such as defence, medical, and finance – that demand exceptionally high standards of quality and minimum errors. Isolator supports the easy unit testing of Silverlight, WCF, and all other .NET and C++ technologies.

Typemock is a privately funded company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. See http://www.typemock.com.

Media Contact:
Aaron Godfrey
NCSM Strategic Marketing
T: +972-545-346870
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www.ncsm.co.il
Head First PHP and MySQL Ebook
http://luigivibal.com/2011/11/head-first-php-and-mysql-ebook/
Head First PHP & MySQL offers the same visually rich format that's turned every title in the Head First series into a bestseller, with plenty of exercises, quizzes, puzzles, and other interactive features to help you retain what you've learned.
The calculator that understands you.
http://en.gibney.org/calculator/
What do you think?
Complacency is a disease
http://stevenkovar.com/randomness/complacency-is-a-disease/
Can never be reminded of this enough.
Creating a Task Manager from Scratch
http://scheduler-net.com/docs/tutorialstask_manager.html
A simple tutorial that explains how to create a simple task manager in ASP.NET MVC from scratch.
New OWASP Chapter in Kitchener, Ont
http://securityblog.howellsonline.ca/2013/02/owasp-new-chpater/
Pleased to announce that a new OWASP chapter is starting in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. If you're in the area and have the slightest interest in security, secure coding, or penetration testing, would love to see you come out.
Recycle it Your Own Damn Self!
http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/recycle-it-your-own-damn-self/
I'm always looking for ways to reduce but I recently discovered a way to reuse before I recycle. It's a system called the 'scratch tray' and it's very straightforward. First you save all of the paper you would normally recycle (unless it has sensitive info on it, but those you would probably shred anyway). Then you....
Australia's latest (decent) supercomputer
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-31/australias-largest-super-computer-unveiled-in-canberra/4855902?section=act
Apparently 24th fastest, nice to see the Govt shelling out for some decent power for once.
Awesome Scraper, lists movies according to pb and imdb
http://www.oskarmothander.se/movienight/
I made this the way I find good recent movies to watch myself, automated the process. This is an early stage site so please be nice. I'm aware the design is in no way pleasing but the site surves the purpose I intended.
How to promote a cricket iPhone app?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cricout-social-network-for/id703317032?mt=8
A friend of mine spent a lot of energy to create this beautiful cricket iPhone app, but now we are wondering about possibilities to promote it. Since there are very few nations who follow cricket, it seems hard to find marketing channels. Any ideas/data points/similar experiences will be appreciated. Thanks!
YC Application Word Count Bookmarklet
http://www.commonplacelog.com/ycbookmarklet.html
I re-purposed some old code for a bookmarklet that gives you word count for each response area on the funding application.

My 1st bookmarklet - Enjoy!
Fast forward through any part of a video
http://usa.maxthon.com/ad-skip/
Fast forward through any part of a video­ — including forced ads — with the new Maxthon Ad Skipper.
Maxthon created this proprietary technology to give you a weapon against annoying ads. You can’t get it on any, other web browser.
So what are you waiting for?
Download Maxthon Ad Skipper and start enjoying ad-free videos today.
Startups and Sincerity. 
Last night, I posted about finding a builder for my concept (that link is below). I was pleasantly surprised to see how mostly receptive HN was, but I wanted to ask the masses for some help.

1. How can I prove sincerity and move myself beyond the countless flames, i.e. "I HAZ GRT ID$A!"?

2. I realize posting on a message board is not exactly the best option for finding a business partner, but I can reach a lot of bright people and vet ideas this way. I'm meeting with some people in person here in town and HN has been great help for letting me gauge response so far. That response has been, mostly skeptical with a nice chunk of positivity, and just a dash of flame.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998572

Thanks in advance for any insight.
Pure Python Operation System
http://python-os.info/en/
Python OS Project (POP) created with idea to make a pure python OS. POP based on linux kernel (currently 2.6.32) and GNU userland utilities.
Punk Mathematics
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1541803748/punk-mathematics
Tom Henderson (the quieter half of http://mathforprimates.com podcast) has started a Kickstarter project to fund his new math book - Punk Mathematics. If this is what he can do for his pitch, I can't wait to see what he does with a whole book AND online community.
Funding Driven Development (FUDD)
http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/04/17/funding-driven-development-fudd/
We live in a quick-fix society so it’s no wonder that many tech startups look for the magic cure.Some of these projects follow funding driven development methodology. And here are few symptoms of FUDD
JQuery - How to simulate digg comments style
http://www.henriquebarroso.com/how-to-simulate-digg-comments-styl/
Today we will play (once again) with jQuery.
This time we will simulate the digg’s comment style, scroller style. I mean, let’s imitate how digg shows the more comments with jQuery (Ajax) and PHP.
Slashdot for Software Architecture
http://archspot.com/
A friend of mine recently launched this. It's still in the early stages, but if you're into reading about software architecture, it's worth reading/contributing.
AI as a Service
http://www.rheyagrid.com
I wonder if any developers are thinking the same thing - wouldn't it be nice to have access common pattern recognition / machine learning functionality as a service.. ?
Narragansett Beer injects itself into the National Gates-Crowley-Obama Debate
http://www.economixt.com/2009/07/narragansett-beer-now-a-part-of-the-gates-crowley-obama-trifecta
Narragansett Beer - the old, "Hey Neighbor, Have a Gansett!" beer brand from New England dropped a case of its brew on Gates' doorstep. Is this a new level for marketers? Over the line? Is there a line anymore?
Ask HN: Porn sites use Facebook API
I was surprised to visit an adult site today (with Firefox and NoScript, of course) and find scripts being pulled from facebook.com and fbcdn.com. In an apparently legitimate use of the API for "liking", the site can theoretically access basic information from my Facebook account. Worse, it's almost impossible to spot this in a browser without NoScript.

The ultimate Internet nightmare is here: your porn-viewing habits can be linked to personal details about yourself.

BTW The site in question is [NSFW]: http://www.shooshtime.com/
Recent, well grounded opinions questioning the value of TDD and unit-testing
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/01/testing-backslash-recent-well-grounded.html
TDD is declared as no longer being controversial. Is it?
What's A Good Name?
http://fishtrain.com/2007/08/13/whats-a-good-name/
5 Suggestions on naming your business or organization.
Encrypting data on your computer won't protect you from crime investigators.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Take-the-5th-Not-With-Encrypted-Hard-Drives-Says-Fed-Judge-74264.html
A suspect in a mortgage fraud case has been ordered by a federal court to decrypt a hard drive that may contain information that incriminates her. This is the first time this issue has squarely landed before a judge, according to her attorney. In this case, the judge has found that the Fifth Amendment doesn't protect one from having to provide an encryption key, though some disagree.