jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A JS engine for sequencing HTML5 demos
https://github.com/kaneel/LeSequencer/
A simple sequencer written in javascript.

As a sequencer, what it primarily does is to convert the current ms into ticks and beats. You can register scenes that goes from a beat to an other beat.

Basically, you could use it as:
- a demo engine
- a possible starting block for your own visually editable sequencer

The idea came to me when I was thinking about a way to make javascript demos where visuals and sounds are processed through the same engine, to provide a purely synchronized experience between both worlds (remove the "art" from what I've just said).

Then I thought about using a "beat" as the main unit (instead of ms), ticks and bangs for "new beat/tick" for synchronizing effects to the music, or SFX to the visuals... because there's nothing more boring than adjusting your syncs on ms values, or to rely on your player to give the right informations to the visual; Here, everything should be tied together.

In hope some may find any use to this or even want to start anew, following the same main concept.
Kickstarter Fund-Raising: It’s $100,000 or Bust
http://blog.airbriteinc.com/post/65507805630/kickstarter-fundraising-100k
We think there's a science to crowd-funding, and we have the data to prove it. One data point: Crowd-funded startups need to raise about $100,000 to become viable businesses, our analytics show.
Show HN: Lisp Interpreter in Rust – Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Interpreter-Rust-Vishal-Patil-ebook/dp/B0B1Z48DMT
The book Lisp Interpreter in Rust is now available in paperback format.
What is the air quality like in Mountain View?
http://scorecard.org/community/index.tcl?zip_code=94041&set_community_zipcode_cookie_p=t&x=6&y=12
Trivia: Scorecard was created by Philip Greenspun.
Prelude golf: what can we learn by rewriting the partition function?
http://blog.patch-tag.com/2009/10/28/prelude_golf_partition/
*Partition> partition even [1..10]
([2,4,6,8,10],[1,3,5,7,9]

it's not as simple as it sounds.
Ask HN: Competitor is Copyright Infringer. Remedy?
I have a little bit of an issue with a competing website. They are selling advertisements around copyrighted content that they are copy/pasting from newspapers from around the world. This is easy enough to do, set yourself up some google alerts and as long as you know CTRL+C and CTRL+V, I suppose you can make a few hundred a month in advertising.

I've been working hard on my website for much longer than this competitor, and I'm honest about my content, I write it myself. Unfortunately, to the naked eye, it appears as though I don't do quite as good a job as the other guy who knows how to copy and paste.

Aside from emailing the editors of all these newspapers (we're talking 25-50 newspapers from at least 5 different countries), is there a way for me to gain the upper hand in this situation, without sacrificing my scruples?
WebCam Mesh
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/webcammesh/
WebCam Mesh maps images from your webcam to an adjustable, dynamic 3D surface, which allows you to do all sorts of fun things with your likeness. You can distort the colors, zoom around in space, dial the level of “3D-ness” up or down, and more.
HN Weekly Top 50
http://www.hn4d.com/fifty_top_posts
Please upvote. There would be a certain recursive delight in seeing this site itself in next week's results :).
Show HN: CBC Lite, a low-bandwidth CBC news site, built with Nextjs
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=editors-picks
Hello! I’m Cole, a developer at CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster, and we’re proud to share CBC.ca/lite, a low bandwidth-focused news service. Try CBC.ca/lite/news/world for more globally relevant news. I’ve written a short post on r/reactjs with some details on the site’s features and how it's built for those interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/wxdu5y/cbc_lite_a_...

Thank you!
Show HN: Devscreen.io – realistic tests for software engineering interviews
https://devscreen.io/
Hi HN!

I wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on for the past year: DevScreen (https://devscreen.io). I built DevScreen to give companies a way to use more realistic interview assessments to software engineers in a way that works for both the company and the candidate.

I created this because of my own experiences as both an interviewer and candidate. Many companies don’t assess relevant skills during an interview. This is a waste of time for the candidate and a missed opportunity for the company. At the extreme end of the scale, you have companies asking candidates to invert a binary search tree on a whiteboard. All that this assesses is the candidate’s ability to read ‘Cracking the Coding Interview’ and work well under the pressure of being watched. Neither are particularly important attributes of an engineer and result in companies often missing great candidates or hiring sub-par engineers.

Today, DevScreen supports three different test types: code reviews, bug fixes and projects. We spin up a new private Github Repository which the candidate will work on in their own time to complete the task. Once they’re finished, they are automatically removed from the Github repo and the company is notified so they can review the submission. The results can be sent to the relevant ATS application, if applicable. We have a small library of tests but allow private tests that are custom to each company also.

I have built a demo version of the app with sample data hardcoded on the front end to give you a feel for how it works without needing to sign up for an account. This will probably suit those of you who prefer to get stuck in rather than read about it (which, I suspect, is the majority of the HN community!). That’s available from the home page or here: https://demo-app.devscreen.io/. If there are any parts you want to see that aren’t included in the demo just let me know on the chat on the website or email support [at] devscreen.io and I’d be happy to show any part of the product you want to see. For example, only logged in users can create an interview or users. This is solely to prevent abuse of the system as we send emails to candidates to tell them that their test is ready. I want to be up front that it is still in beta, but we do have beta customers using it so I figured it was a good time to share and get feedback from the community and beta customers.
Ask HN: I'm compiling a collection of smartphone developer Q&As. Any thoughts?
I'm thinking of something along the line of usesthis.com, but for smartphone developers. It's partly to generate buzz for my upcoming project (tinkerwave.com), and partly to satisfy my own curiosity.

Some ideas as to what I might ask:

Tell us about yourself.

Tell us about how you work.

How did you get started?

What are your biggest challenges?

What do you think of (some current trend)?

What is your setup? (hardware, software, workspace, etc.)

What are your favorite apps?

Any advice for beginners?

Let me know if you have any other ideas.

Also, who would you like me to interview? I'm thinking of a healthy mixture of experts from different platforms, ISVs and contractors alike.

Much obliged for your input!
"The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise."
http://www.joelhughes.co.uk/blog/2009/07/the-more-people-do-the-more-society-develops-the-more-problems-arise/
The title of this post is an excerpt (from an excerpt) of a quote by Masanobu Fukuoka. Sometimes the best solutions involve removing some of the previous innovations.
Show HN: Weightless – a minimalist newsletter tool for static sites
https://weightless.so/
Collecting emails sounds easy but if you have a static site, you need to use some sort of an external service for this. Maybe I am too picky but I didn't like the available options so I built one myself.

Here's how it works:

- You create a mailing list on the landing page (weightless.so)

- It gives you a URL you can attach to a <form> tag as an action attribute

- Any time someone submits that form, you receive an email with your subscribers

Collecting emails this way is free, and if you already have a styled form, you can have this up & running in couple minutes.

I know Show HN posts shouldn't require signing up, but I do need to have an email because that's where you get your subscribers list.

One note: Weightless also allows you send mass emails to your subscribers, but that's a paid feature. You DON'T have to use it, you can use Weightless only for collecting emails, and worry about messaging them later. When you are starting out and have only a couple subscribers, you can simply email everyone manually, one by one.
Show HN: WebAssembly on the server in Rust that analyzes HTTP in real time
https://github.com/leaksignal/leaksignal
LeakSignal project uses WASM in Envoy server to check for sensitive data leaks
Recommended Reading
I am the "business guy" involved in a young internet startup (much of the coding is in php). My tech knowledge is fairly limited. While I am never going to be a developer, I would like to gain a better understanding of at least the basics of the tech side. Any books/reading that people out there would recommend?

Thanks.
Search for images by Colors
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour/
A fiendishly clever tool for searching though databases of phones, and sorting by the right color combinations
UK gets startup visa - easier immigration for founders with small investments. 
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/march/39-entrepreneurs-investors
The UK home office announced today that it will be much easier to immigrate to the UK as an entrepreneurs Early stage funding qualifies at a rate of 200K (as before), but funding from accelerators and 'reputable' investment funds lowers that amount to 50.000.<p>The biggest news is probably that "exceptional talent" can be sponsored to come before they received funding, and they can build their business for more than 3 years (with a possible 2 year extension) to qualify for settlement.
Ask HN: How to deal with a non-performing co-founder?
6 months after I started a startup I invited a freelancer to be my technical co-founder. I gave him a good share of the company (vested 4 years+1 cliff). We have been working for 5 months now.

He is a nice guy and his heart is in the right place, but he is not very talented as a developer. He also have told me that he wants to stop being a dev and start being the biz guy, and he doesn't have experience/knowledge being the biz guy either.

This question in Quora http://goo.gl/TJLcG that describes well my question. Just wanted to know if you, founders, have faced something similar or how do you deal with a problem like this.

(posting this from a throw away account)

Edit: I'm a business co-founder that can code
How do you optimize a MySQL database for writes?
I have a write intensive application running on EC2. Any thoughts on how to optimize it to be able to make several thousands concurrent writes on the MySQL DB?
Ask HN: Anyone else diagnosed with OCD?
If so, how has your OCD been lately?

My answer: I've been struggling a lot with OCD recently, particularly after the birth of my first child. On the bright side, I've recently started tweeting about OCD as a coping mechanism and have found that to be quite cathartic.
A guy who got into IIT and Google.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=195944253755131&id=135732123137595&ref=nf
Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what's so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?

Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair.
Show HN: Locofy.ai – Turn Figma Designs into Code: React, React Native, HTML-CSS
https://www.locofy.ai
Hey there, I am Honey - Co-founder at Locofy.

We, along with other makers, have been building Locofy.ai to help massively accelerate the builders - the designers, developers, product managers & founders, and we're excited to share it today with the HN Community.

Locofy.ai simply converts designs into production-ready frontend code for web and mobile apps. It adapts to your preferred design tools, tech stack, and workflows with ease and lets you launch upto 4x faster, while letting designers design the way they want and giving high-quality responsive code that developers love.

With this launch, you can convert your Figma designs into React, React Native, Next.js, Gatsby, and HTML-CSS code. You get a live-responsive prototype that runs on code (we call these ‘real-fidelity prototypes’) and when good to go, you can either export the code to build on top of it or directly deploy to Netlify, Vercel, or Github.

Today, we have also launched on Product Hunt. Let us know your thoughts and suggestions: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/locofy-ai.

Our team will be answering all your questions!
IBM manufactures light-based 'nanophotonic' chips to let the terabytes flow
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/10/ibm-manufactures-light-based-nanophotonic-chips/
The technology is now primed for commercial development. IBM has solved the key challenges of transferring the silicon nanophotonics technology into the commercial foundry. By adding a few processing modules into a high-performance 90nm CMOS fabrication line, a variety of silicon nanophotonics components such as wavelength division multiplexers (WDM), modulators, and detectors are integrated side-by-side with a CMOS electrical circuitry. As a result, single-chip optical communications transceivers can be manufactured in a conventional semiconductor foundry, providing significant cost reduction over traditional approaches.
Any alternate DNS systems on the horizon?
Given the recent seizure of 70 host names by the US Government and no end in sight for these shenanigans, I was wondering if there are any alternative distributed DNS or DNS like systems being proposed?

While the chances of such a system gaining acceptance for all sites is slim to none at least in the short to medium turn, it could at least solve this censorship issue for a broad number of sites that the RIAA, MPAA, USA, etc. want to go after.
Video interview with Salman Khan, of Khan Academy 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3bmpMX2qQ4
Very important discussion.
Hypothesis for Technology Investing
http://read.bi/GMHoYQ
Saw Roger give this epic presentation when I was working at Yelp. Extremely insightful - can't believe I didn't see it in a search here at HN.

Here's a video of the presentation as well. Highly recommended, Roger is an animated dude: http://bit.ly/w0qpeh
WikiLeaks armors itself to survive cyberattacks
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20024935-281.html
As its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure, WikiLeaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses in an attempt to become more difficult to censor.
The Art of Bootstrapping
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_art_of_boot.html
Someone once told me that the probability of an entrepreneur getting venture capital is the same as getting struck by lightning while standing at the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunny day. This may be too optimistic.
Ask HN: Does HN censor some topics by removing them from the list of posts?
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626321

It was rising at the time with a lot of discussion before it disappeared from the list of posts.

I cannot see it on any page. The only way to access it is via a direct link or the search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=instagram&sort=byPopularity&type=story

but now I guess they'll remove it from there too. Why?
Oanda raises $100m - online currency exchange
http://www.news.com/Online+currency+trader+nabs+100+million+in+venture+funds/2100-1017_3-6208156.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
Been around for 12 years - sounds like they raised money to take on some debt - must have pretty good cash flows by now.
The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray might screw both of them
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070906-battle-between-blu-ray-and-hd-dvd-fizzles-as-consumers-watch-and-wait.html
Interesting the way hardware standards develop in the free market. I don't know a huge amount about this, but why wouldn't people just buy combination HD DVD/Blu-ray players? The small extra cost seems worth it to be able to forget about who's going to win.
Tetuan Valley The Next Generation: New team, a lot of changes, same spirit.
http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/2013/02/tetuan-valley-the-next-generation-new-team-a-lot-of-changes-same-spirit.html
We anounce the next edition of Tetuan Valley Startup Scool, with a new team and a lot of surprises.
So I am creating a chat server
live demo is here : https://temporary.chat/

the main goals are :

- easy to use

- can be hosted anywhere

- requires no login (except the ones generated automatically)

- nothing to install client side (I had to compromise on this one, push notifications on mobile are hell, just get an rss reader and enable notifications!)

- have very few outside dependencies. (you can even run it without a domain name!)

- something that is secure (security is not a finite state :) )

complete vision is here :
https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

how to deploy is here :
https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/master/README.md

you can :

- upload documents

- destroy the room in one click (everything in there is file based, real "rm -rf" :) )

- post data to it with curl

- get all notifications via rss

- get a notification via rss only when someone pings you

- get desktop notifications (mobile is hard man)

and I sprinkled a bit of javascript (no external sources) so your grandmother and your less tech savvy friends can upload a picture/song/video

how to deploy is here :
https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/staging/README.md

and stable code here :
https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/tree/staging

I posted a few months back, hope it is not considered spammy. I consider posting again in 3 months since it is pretty much a work in progress still! I will concentrate a bit more energy on the api side of things now.

any feedback welcome, you can deploy it, attack it, give me constructive bad reviews, I take everything! (you can also use it to post a picture easily to your grandma)

enjoy!
CSS-powered hover-animations library
Hello,

I've created a CSS-library called sunset.css.

If offers a collection of (hopefully) useful CSS-powered hover-animations and also some animations that react to clicks instead.

It's my first open-source project so I try to make everything right:

* I created a npm-project so it is available on npmjs and CDNs

* I created a public github-repository with a wiki for documentation

* I created a landing page to show off the animations

I'd love to here some feedback about all of this! :)

Here are the links:

https://github.com/philippwilhelm/sunset.css
https://sunsetcss.com
Ask HN: Recipes for Digital Boondocking?
In the United States, the Department of Interior is said to maintain vast amounts of public land which is free for use by citizens prepared to survive outside the infrastructure the majority depend on.

I want to know:

Who has succeeded in living on this public land for 30-90 days at a stretch, while still conducting full-capacity F/OSS development and/or business operations based purely on the internet?

Where ( roughly ) did you do this? When is the best season there, and what are the main weather or terrain concerns to be aware of?

It seems like 4G or 4G LTE access would be key to this. I can't see satellite being that workable. Right? I'm looking for areas which have a strong enough signal, while still being remote... ideally 50-100 miles from the nearest major city.

What type of vehicle(s) or dwellings worked best for this, and what type of computer and networking equipment?

How did you produce or obtain energy, food, and water?
Ask YC: Opinion of new startup Simplist?
http://mysimplist.com
I couldn't find what I was looking for in a list-manager-slash-organization-tool, so I started working on this a couple months ago. I'd love to get some feedback!
How Steve Jobs knows layers of abstraction suck
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4509744332_6325e0a6da.jpg
A screengrab from the iTunes/Safari common files directory on Windows.
EA games web server hacked to steal Apple customers’ ID credentials
http://www.techcomunication.com/ea-games-web-server-hacked-to-steal-apple-customers-id-credentials/
The server of video game publisher Electronic Arts has been reportedly used by hackers to host a Phishing page aimed at stealing Apple’s customers’ ID credentials.
Ask HN: What's a polite way to say “I'm not interested” after interviewing?
I'm interviewing right now as part of the job search and just passed a very in-depth and rigorous technical interview. The problem is, during my conversation with the lead dev and in the course of receiving direction, I just found... I really didn't like him. I also had problems with the stack and just am generally uninterested in the work as I've learned more about it through the interview process.

Now they're pushing me for a follow-up and quick hire. I'm not interested in ever working with the recruiter who placed me again - he's consistently ignored my concerns and desires about finding work - but is there any way to let the company down? They're a major player and I don't want to burn bridges (I'm a junior candidate).

Doesn't culture fit go both ways? I feel like no matter what I say, they'll be angry I "wasted their time" but I didn't know my decision until I learned what I learned during the interview...
Wordnik Creators Launch New Content Engagement Company
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/wordnik-relaunches-as-reverb/
New company is Reverb. Developing content discovery products for developers, publishers and consumers. No changes in availability for Wordnik API.
Deputies Claim Newsweek Quotes From Satoshi Were Accurate
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-sheriffs-say-satoshi-nakamoto-man-did-talk-about-bitcoin-to-newsweek-reporter-20140307,0,609860.story#axzz2vLCN1hm2
The deputies referenced in the Newsweek article are backing up Newsweek's version of events.