jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Remote work
Hello HN,

For the last two years,i have been doing consulting with big co.Now i don't have any client.
I'm looking for remote jobs if you can help.

I have experience with:
database:sql server,postgresql,oracle
backend:asp.net ,asp.net mvc ,python,
front:html,jquery
other trades :c++,wpf/mvvm,Java
willing to learn nodejs,android dev

Best Regards,

PS:i'm not a native english speaker.
Ask HN: How often do you take notes and where?
Do you come up with an idea and put it on Trello or is there a better feel to using pen and paper when you need to remember something?
MIT designs floating nuclear plants
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/floating-nuclear-plants-could-ride-out-tsunamis-0416
A new design for nuclear plants built on floating platforms, modeled after those used for offshore oil drilling, could help avoid such consequences [as the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex during an earthquake and tsunami] in the future. Such floating plants would be designed to be automatically cooled by the surrounding seawater in a worst-case scenario, which would indefinitely prevent any melting of fuel rods, or escape of radioactive material.
Ask HN: Are you doing automated UI testing – why or why not?
I have worked in several companies that have had goals of automated UI regression test suites, but I've never worked at a company that pulled it off successfully. I can name off a case-by-case list of reasons why these efforts have failed, but I am curious if the community is seeing similar trends.
Maybe you should just stop being a f$#@*& P*&%$
http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-just-stop-being-a-fucking-pussy/
Clean version is here: http://inoveryourhead.net/maybe-you-should-stop-being-such-a-damn-wuss/
Ask HN: Looking for cheap Rails hosting
Hi all,

I'm looking to host a Rails app for 'cheap' -- less than $10/month.

The site is a fairly basic Rails app for hiking and camping -- create a Trip, fill in location, parking address, extra notes. Trips can have Photo Albums and Photo Albums can have Pictures. It's for me and my friends and whomever else wants to find new trails to hike/camp on -- similar to alltrails.com

Specifications:
1. Rails app saves images to /app/assets/images
2. I don't plan to scale horizontally because my user base will be very small.
3. Looking for as much disc space as possible.

Heroku seemed like a decent option (as I've used them for DEV apps before), but the disc space is ~1GB and the DB size is too small.

If anyone has any experience hosting a Rails app of a similar size, I'd love to hear who you're using to host on and how much per month it costs you.

Thanks!
Show HN: a5.gg — Using HTML5 localstorage as a quick note taking app
http://a5.gg/
Put this together this afternoon.

I've been after something to quickly jot down the odd piece of information that I can access later in the day when browsing the web.

Hopefully you find it useful.

Criticism/thoughts/ideas greatly appreciated.

I should add, since all the hard work here lies in the work of others here — garlic.js is a great plugin for handling localstorage.

Cheers

Jason
Scientific programmer internship in Barcelona
http://www.financialnetworkanalyzer.com/fna/jobs/jobs-fna.html
I am looking for two interns to work with a team of developers this summer on the www.financialnetworkanalyzer.com program. The internship takes place in our office in Barcelona.

The main requirements are programming skills (preferably Java) and interest in network analysis/theory. I think this is an exciting opportunity for motivated grad- or postgrad students to build expertise, contacts and skills in financial network analysis.

Please feel free to share this mail or the link.
Ghostly threat to internet security
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Ghostly-threat-to-Internet-Explorer-users--/news/111017
When the Ghost comes back to haunt you.

"Gates benefited enormously from the willingness of the government to ignore violations of anti-trust law during his rein at Microsoft. If he had tried the same business practices at other times, he might be going to prison rather retirement."

http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Bill_Gates_Secret_to_Success:_Cheating

http://www.ph4nt0m.org-a.googlepages.com/PSTZine_0x02_0x04.txt

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/923508
Ask HN: Should I renew my Libyan domain name?

So.. my personal .ly domain is about to expire. Even if my $25 are not going to make or break al-Gaddafi, I don't really feel the need to feed his crackpot government. Although I only deal with libyanspider.com, I have no idea where the money eventually ends up. According to wikipedia "the registration is sponsored by LTT" (1) which is chaired by the "Muhammad Qaddafi, the eldest son of Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi" (2).

Is this the time to support a country in turmoil or should we .ly owners take our business elsewhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ly#Registration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya_Telecom_%26_Technology
PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database.
https://github.com/karlhadwen/RESTful-API
I recently finished a small RESTful API project for a University project and thought it would be good to upload it to Github as an example as to how a RESTful API should function and work, as I know its hard to find a clear cut solution to RESTful API standards.

Here's a little description of what's included:

PHP RESTful API with an example MySQL database. Comes with various HTTP server response mechanisms, basic HTTP authentication, pagination and rate limits. Do note this API sends a delete request using the JSON body rather than using an ID within the URI.

Feel free to reuse it as you wish.
Ask HN: Has traffic exploded today since reddit went down?
I don't know about most of you, but I use both reddit and HN on a regular basis. I find myself visiting HN more often today to get my fix. Just wondering how big this effect is.
Apple Developer Survey Screenshot
While looking to view the WWDC videos as referenced on HN, I got to see this little gem from the developer survey.

http://twitpic.com/1xmhje/full

What is interesting is the way the items are grouped. For example, as far as the survey is concerned, programming in perl, php, and python are equivalent.
Highway to the Danger Zone: Meet Kenny Dialoggins
http://github.com/coroutine/kenny_dialoggins
Hi, there. I'm Kenny Dialoggins. If you're a Rails developer who wants to use scriptaculous dialogs but doesn't want to mess with JavaScript, you might want to prep your best friend for some bad news. We're going to be spending a lot of time together.
Ask HN: Will companies hire foreign interns and what salary to expect?
Hi

I'm a foreign student at a silicon valley community college. I already made an software developer apprenticeship in Switzerland and have 7 years experience in the job. Starting next March I will be able to work 20 hours/week in an OPT program. 2 semesters later i'll finish the AA degree and will, since i have enough work experience, qualify for the H1B visa. Of course i would like to stay in the same company.
The question is now if companies are willing to hire foreign students as interns. I guess that would be quite a lot of work for them and I know the economy is not the best right now, but it seems to me that software developers are still in short supply.
And the other question is: what salary could i expect as an intern? I mean, I could work as a normal software developer in that company, since I have enough experience.

Thx Simon
Little Snitch for phone?
Is there a program for the phone like Little Snitch?
Bandsintown at it again
http://blog.bandsintown.com/
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network"
The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!

Check it out at Bandsintown.com
When we forget why we bothered to try
http://www.jorydesjardins.com/pause/2006/05/the_retired_sai.html
"You just can't imagine how frustrating it is," he said, looking up at the ceiling, as if trying to make sense of the ceiling tiles. "I keep looking, but there's just no answer!"

This would be my worst case scenario.
John Clements unimpressed at shovelware he found on Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scheme-Implementations-Including-Implementation-Programming/dp/1244213063
You might find the review at the bottom entertaining. I've seen a few of these books on amazon - basically selling printouts of wikipedia articles. Not sure why they let it stand.
Brute force backtesting of zroc indicator in Q
http://github.com/esh/backtest/blob/master/zroc.q
This does insample backtesting of an oscillator in Q.
Tilt-Controlled Slider
http://mdznr.com/rcos/?p=TiltControlledBrushedMetalSliderKnob
About my open source implementation of the tilt-controlled slider found in the iOS 6 Music app.
Ask HN: Anyone here wanna collab on a SaaS project
Looking to collab with a fellow hacker / business person from here .. to build a SaaS service.

Currently have no idea what to build but would love to brainstorm and figure something out. Maybe we can hack something together this weekend or in the next month.

I'm a full-stack developer and I build mobile apps as well.

Feel free to contact me using the email in bio.
How do I delete posts and account in HackerNews?
How do I delete my old submissions?

How do I delete my account?
Ask HN: How many non-developers (business) ppl teaching themselves how to code?
How many non-developers are tired of not being able to find a technical co-founder and are determined to stitch something together with their own hands?

As a follow up to the real reason why I'm asking: I'm a developer bootstrapping a startup out of Hacker Dojo, and I was thinking of teaching a free class, which would basically be a "programming 101" for non-developers. Hacker Dojo has many free classes for all sorts of people, e.g. "design 101" for developers (who are usually not savvy about good design).
Ask HN: What do you do while compiling?
My project takes a long time to build: 15 minutes for a clean build, 5 minutes for a minor change. At some point in the day, I've caught up with the interesting articles on HN and Google Reader, and then I struggle to find more interesting things to read. I feel like I could make better use of the time, but trying to learn a new language or start a project in 5-minute bursts doesn't work too well for me.

What do you do?
Really fast batch superset count queries
http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev/2010/08/11/very-fast-batch-superset-queries/
We managed to come up with what we think is a pretty novel algorithm for computing vast numbers of superset count queries and would love some scrutiny to uncover if there's something better we could be doing.
Ask HN: What are some of the major problems being faced because of web scraping?
Disclaimer: I work for an anti-scraping service company. I am not trying to advertise it, but simply understand problems that people are actually facing because of web scraping and how it is affecting them.
You know there's a Tech Bubble
http://practicalquant.blogspot.com/2011/05/you-know-theres-tech-bubble.html
... data analysts now use a fancier title -- data scientists
AlphaLab is now accepting fall/winter season applications
http://www.alphalab.org/blog/?p=124
Disclaimer: My startup is in the current season of AlphaLab right now. But I know that there are quite a few HN readers from Pittsburgh.

If anyone has any questions about what it's like to be in/go through AlphaLab, I'd be happy to answer.
Ask HN: What is “significant” equity?
I've been approached with an opportunity to work at a new startup. I've known the founders for several years, working with them at one point or another. They understand both the business and technology side and have had several successful exits.

They're self funding, offering competitive, but reduced from my current, salary of 100k and 2% grant. My risk is essentially nil with how good the job market is, and my upside will be nice if we're successful. The position is first employee and lead architect. It seems like a favorable offer and it seems like the numbers line up fairly well for what I see for post series A startups.

Theres always talk here about not working yourself to death for minimal equity and not getting blinded by it, but being new to the startup side of things I don't really have a clue about what "significant equity" means and the self funded nature of the business makes things more confusing. I don't expect to get rich from it, but I think we've got a good plan and history of executing well so we've got a good shot at turning time into a good payoff.

So, HN, at what point in the ownership percentage do you go "all in" on? 2%, 5%, 10%, 25+?
Any web start ups need design work?
I am offering to provide design work (layout design and perhaps a logo as well for your prototype) to one start up here free of charge. Hopefully someone who has done some thinking, preparation, and maybe even has something up that needs a redesign.

Please post your idea and details, stage of the start-up, if you have a site and need a redesign or its brand new, etc, and/or email me if you are interested. My email is in my profile.
What consulting means to me (/what I can't stand working at someone else's company)
http://use.perl.org/~scrottie/journal/34141
If you're average, you fit right in. And if you're above average, the basic terms of employement and premise of the arrangement is against your interests.
Show HN: A desktop HN reader client in Rust/egui
https://github.com/rektdeckard/y-reader
A little toy HN client for the desktop that I've been playing around with this week.
Do startup weekend events help creating startups?
http://sten.tamkivi.com/2011/03/do-startup-weekends-help-create-startups/
Skype Estonia GM Sten raises questions and shares his own opinion. What do you think about this?
Yahoo Releases Beautiful Weather App for iOS
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/04/18/the-forecast-is-beautiful/
Yahoo releases an intuitive, beautiful mobile app? o_O
Gulf Oil Spill Solution -- a YC Collaborative solution
.

I think YCombinator provides a near optimal interface for discussion if you use it right. Let's try to use it for something constructive.

I was reading about the current Oil Spill crisis, and noticed that Google's special discussion page was shut down even though the problem isn't solved! (http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=68c8&t=68c8.41) In fact, recent news states that all plans so far have failed, and we're reverting to an older solution (that didn't work). Any developer knows what that means -- we're really in the gutter now.

Call me naive and hopeful, but I think YCombinator forum's superior simple interface w/ the creative minds here can help solve this crisis. To help with the Oil Spill crisis with constructive discourse, just follow the special rules below when posting. The reason for all these rules is to collaboratively hack the hacker-news system to work like a collaboration system.

1. Keep posts here Short and Factual

2. Questions should be bulleted with numbers

3. Please Answer questions if you can, prepended with the
bullet number

4. Note Citations on the bottom of your post

5. Upvote posts that appear Correct, but not so high that
a new and better post can't climb up later

6. Downvote posts that appear incorrect, but not below 0
(and state your reason if none is already provided)

7. Also downvote posts that are not constructive (like
rants), below 0 is OK. (maybe YC can prune these later)

8. Bookmark this URL and share it

The top posts are categorical, so make sure you're posting in the right category!
Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets
http://beust.com/weblog/2010/08/19/clojure-concurrency-and-silver-bullets
I'm actually confused after reading both the articles. Thought some discussion at HN may give some clarity.
Show HN: Built a web-based competitor to Grindr. Would love tips and advice 
http://www.fantsy.me
Our goal is to cause some disruption in how people date online/offline. we service all regardless of sexual orientation. Any feedback is appreciated for a crazy budding entrepreneur :)
P.S Phone app coming soon as well
Ask HN: How to hire if you're a profitable bootstrapped startup?
Hi HN!

First off, I wanted to thank everyone here for providing me the inspiration to bootstrap a startup. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321724 or http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448750 )

Starting with less than $10k of my own pocket money, I was able to find an idea (online games) that grew profitable.

With the $10k to start, I was only able to hire freelancers to build the app I wanted to sell, but now that cash is rolling in and users are demanding more complex features, it's time to upgrade to a full-time in house developer.

This is where I'm at a loss. HN has great articles on pre-profitable hiring (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1445500). In fact that's how we got started. However, there seems to be a lack of advice for how a startup with good cashflow should hire.

I don't mean interview procedures, but rather how do you even start looking for someone? We'd like someone longer-term and more tech savvy that the median applicant on Odesk/Elance. We're not a large corporation yet and can't do campus recruiting (plus we need someone sooner).

Are the only options left getting a recruiter and mass job sites like Monster/Dice/Craiglist? Where do developers looking for startups hang out? Where would you post your job in this situation? Any help from people who's been there?

Much thanks from someone who's learned a lot from this site and hope to give back someday!
Gulp + Browserify: The Everything Post
http://viget.com/extend/gulp-browserify-starter-faq
Gulp + Browserify starter repo, FAQ, and hotness highlights.
Sexy CSS3 menu
http://www.red-team-design.com/sexy-css3-menu
One of the most common elements when talking about a website or an application design is definitely the menu navigation. No matter if vertical or horizontal, simple or complex, a menu is essential and it has to look that way.

In this article, you’ll learn how to create a good looking menu using some CSS3 magic.
Show HN: Top HN Growth Hackers
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=growth+hacker&sortby=karma+desc&start=0
Folks please don't misinterpret the data. It's just an attempt to list all the growth hackers on HN.
I am sure the big names are missing here. Kindly drop in your details below.
What should I do about my lazy partner? 
My partner and I are in the very early stages of submitting a business proposal to an entrepreneurship contest (and hopefully more than one). We have both committed to carrying our idea out - to building our product. As such, we agreed to meet every morning at 8am (we live in the same complex and no travel time was required). Since we are still both in school, we wanted to meet at a time we both could commit to every day, the purpose of the meetings being to discuss readings we have done, to bounce ideas around, to add specifics to our business idea, and to generally stay focused and motivated.
Here's the thing: in the past 7 days, my partner has failed to make ONE meeting. I'm up every day, down at the breakfast table by 8am ready to meet, and he fails to do so. Furthermore, he doesn't even acknowledge his absence. I'm upset obviously because this is something that I am really passionate and excited about, and he can't even wake up for 8am! I'm curious as to whether anyone else has had a similar experience.
Objectively the answer here seems to be to drop him as a partner. I'm torn only because I respect his intelligence and know that if he was on top of his work ethic we could build something great together. It's truly frustrating to find someone you could see yourself working with long term - who has committed to a project - only to abandon you essentially.
I am worried about losing focus without a partner to push me (and vice versa) and bounce ideas around with.
Help and advice would be much appreciated. I've got to turn this into a positive learning experience.
Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation.
They Write the Right Stuff
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html?resubmitted
An example of exemplary software writing from the folks to who maintain the code that run space shuttle launches.
Ask HN: Does anybody else get bad carpal tunnel/RSI? Any tips?
I have been getting very painful and numbing carpal tunnel in my right hand. Struggling to type this atm.

Anybody else? Any tips?
Ela Programming Language
http://code.google.com/p/elalang/
I have found very interesting functional language from russian developers community (RSDN). Short description from language site:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ela is a modern programming language that runs on CLR and Mono.

The language is dynamically (and strongly) typed and comes with a rich and extensible type system out of box. It provides an extensive support for the functional programming paradigm including but not limited to - first class functions, first class currying and composition, list/array comprehensions, pattern matching, polymorphic variants, thunks, etc. It also provides some imperative programming features.

Ela supports both strict and non-strict evaluation but is strict by default.

The current language implementation is a light-weight and efficient interpreter written fully in C#. The interpreter was designed to be embeddable and has a clear and straightforward API. The language comes with a command line utility (Ela Console) that supports interactive mode.
The Real Budget Startup - Profitability Or Death
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/the-real-budget-startup-profitability-or-death.html
Micro Startups are the future?
Show HN: Never forget what you've learned
https://saveall.ai/landing/hacker-news
Save All uses quizzes, notifications, and emails to stop you forgetting what you've learned. Unlike other spaced repetition apps, we've (really) prioritised making Save All as simple as possible - minimalist design, no distractions, and minimal cognitive load placed on users.

We achieve this simplicity by using machine learning (e.g. large language models like BERT, GPT) to reduce the number of decisions users have to make. You don't have to decide whether you remembered a card, we know whether you did. You don't have to decide how to be quizzed on your information, we'll decide for you.

We're VC funded & growing fast but would love to hear HN's critical feedback. Tell it to us how it is!
Show HN: MOS, an application to help you deploy mathematical optimization models
https://fuinn.github.io/mos-docs/
We built MOS in response to the frictions we experienced in deploying optimization solutions.

Some of the key benefits provided are the following:
- Models can be easily uploaded to the application after adding simple annotations to the model code.
- Models can be accessed via various available interfaces, including a REST API, a web graphical user interface, and client libraries in popular programming languages such as Python and Julia.
- Models can be run with different inputs by workers running locally or distributed over the network.
- Intermediate and end results can be extracted, browsed, and analyzed.

This is all available without the need for (the typically required) custom ad-hoc code.