jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The secret effort to secure nuclear material at an abandoned Soviet test site
http://thebulletin.org/thin-air-story-plutonium-mountain
This is pretty amazing. The report Plutonium Mountain has just been released by the Belfer Center at Harvard. It describes the remarkable effort the US made to get the Russians to recognize the nuclear proliferation risk they left behind at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test when the Soviet Union collapsed. In this interview with Siegfried Hecker, he describes how he and other scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory recognized the risk to world security, as the Semipalatinsk site became overrun with metal scavengers. It's a great story.
Zen99 (YC S14) Is Hiring a Full Stack Rails Engineer
https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/853
[Remote OK - US only, Head office SF]

Zen99 provides independent contractors access to the same help that employees get from an HR department. Things like figuring out how much to save for taxes, or getting health insurance. (Problems that we know resonate with you, if you’ve ever done contract work!)

We’re looking for a Senior Rails Engineer to build exciting features we have in our product pipeline. We’re a small team, so you’ll get lots of ownership and good startup experience.

We’re looking for someone to join the team who has at least 3 years of full stack experience, and ideally has worked at a startup before.

Some important things we’re looking for:

At least 3 years of experience with Ruby on Rails

A passion for building great things

Strong Javascript skills

Experience with Angular or an interest in learning it

Experience with Git version control

Other skills we’d love to see:

Objective C / Swift / iOS experience

Android / Java experience

Experience with a modern front end javascript framework

We believe in passion and curiosity over degrees or algorithmic aptitude!

Some recent Press about Zen99:
YC-Backed Zen99 Makes Life Easier For Freelancers With Finance And Insurance Tools:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/15/zen99/

New At Y Combinator: Startups Solving Huge Problems! :
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/19/new-at-y-combinator-startup...

4 Y Combinator standout startups so far:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/19/4-y-combinator-standout-st...

We're proud to be backed by Y Combinator and other great investors.

Contact us: work@tryzen99.com

Please include a little about yourself, a github profile, and a resume
CTO role at Mumbai India
http://www.brandmovers.in/careers
Hi,

We are a rapidly growing digital marketing agency with offices in Atlanta, London and now in Mumbai.

We looking to find our head of technology for the Mumbai (India) office with key skills in PHP,MySQL,XHTML,CSS,JavaScript,Flash,Actionscript.

For more details please refer to the Interactive Web Developer role on our careers page - http://www.brandmovers.in/careers

Please feel free to shoot me an email on suva@brandmovers.in. Additionally, please do pass on the opportunity to anyone with relevant experience who might be in interested in joining us.

Kind Regards,
Suva
VC Fundraising Manual: Why You Should Facilitate Due Diligence
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/12/why-you-should.html
Some entrepreneurs view the due diligence process as a threat to their access to capital. As a result, they do not make their best effort to facilitate the process. This is the wrong approach.

The due diligence process is an opportunity for the entrepreneur to achieve three key objectives:
EpicMIX: Ski Resorts Implementing Game Mechanics
http://www.snow.com/epicmix/home.aspx
Starting this November five ski resorts will start tracking statistics to create a real-world game environment associated with skiing and snowboarding.

The tracking is done by a physical pass the rider wears which is scanned via an RF scanner at the lift station. From this they can determine how much elevation the player covers and how quickly. Points are attributed appropriately and pushed to the web.

Mobile apps are also being created for the iPhone and Android platforms.

Players will unlock achievements and level-up according to their real-world accomplishments.

Video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid597204651001?bctid=598987864001
Ceate shared photo albums
http://www.phoget.com/
Phoget is soon to be released. It will let you and your friends to upload photos the shared albums to simplify collecting photos after a party or event.
HeyStaks makes searching social
http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/13/heystaks-social-search/
New startup, the idea seens nice, but I think google is still bullet proof.
The Secret to Success: Developers, Users, or Hype?
http://gigaom.com/2007/11/12/the-secret-to-success-developers-users-or-hype/
I think if you are early in the game then go for the users, you are new and different, they will like you (and don't have too many choices either), and if you like you can get the developers after, if you have users they'll be interested in you.

But if you are late in the game, then you probably need to go after the developers (much harder but if possible, you need to get creative like Google and their prize!), so you can offer new and more exciting products (features) than the competition, create a hype and that way get users to come to you.

The article says FB is an example of going after the developers. "Yes" and "No". "No" because, they were the first one to open up so that was exciting for the developers, but they also had millions of users at that point. After iLike got around 3 million users only in one week, I think everyone wanted to develop for FB now. But "Yes", because they were somewhat late in the game, specially compared to Myspace, so they had to open up and get the developers into it.

Google, is late in the game for phones so they are going for the developers.

But I think if you can get the developers in it, you win. It would be very hard for other companies to compete with you, you will always have a lot more exciting products ... and once network effects kick in, its almost impossible to compete. Maybe a lesson from Microsoft...
UI/UX Designer at Peanut Labs
http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=9693
Introduction:

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Peanut Labs is one of the fastest growing internet consumer research companies in the USA today, with millions of users across it's research network. Since inception in January '07, Peanut Labs has shown tremendous growth and is now supplying the research needs of Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Our research engine has been deployed and is fast becoming the premier monetization engine for social networks in the US, including Facebook Applications. (See peanutlabs.com).

Description: Web UI/Interaction Designer
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Think you've got the UI design skills to wow millions of users each month? Then Peanut Labs wants to hear from you. We're looking for a designer that can create world class user interfaces that visually amaze but are simple to use.

On the job, you will:
-Be responsible for making sure the usability and appearance of our products are world class
-Play a key role in the visual design of new features launching on the site
-Have significant creative freedom and the ability to experiment with new designs
-Strive for design perfection but love to release and iterate

Requirements :
-Solid portfolio: A history of launching top notch web interfaces
-Passion UI design: You love the world of design and are always keeping on top of the most recent design and usability improvements
-Can-do attitude: Will go the extra mile to launch the best possible design
-Ability to solve design problems, not just paint pretty pictures
-This isn't a coding role, but we'd expect a familiarly with HTML, CSS, AJAX, prototype.js, jQuery, etc.

PLEASE EMAIL RESUMES TO Prosper@peanutlabs.com
SERPd Inaugural Show with Danny Sullivan » My Notes
http://www.readaboutseo.com/serpd-inaugural-show-with-danny-sullivan-%c2%bb-my-notes/
Brief notes from the SERPd inagural show with guest – Danny Sullivan. Highlights of the ‘I SERPd it on the Web’ broadcast show were how social signals like Twitter followers, retweets etc., might impact search rankings on Google, comment spam on blogs and others.
Mobile first vs web first? Try "product market fit first"
http://dql.me/YTZ69e
My take on the ridiculousness of the recent "mobile first vs web first" bantering.
Mobile user experience done right
http://www.socioapps.com/admin/articles/53
A writeup of an event we attended where some of the pitfalls of mobile design were outlined.
Website Copywriting – 4 Common Sources of Friction and How to Overcome Them 
http://contentverve.com/website-copywriting-the-4-most-common-sources-of-friction/
In this article I’ll walk you through the 4 most common sources of friction related to website copywriting, and give you tips for how to overcome them.
Play Tetris backwards with Sirtet [launching today for iPhone]
http://playsirtet.com
Just launched my game Sirtet for iPhone. Sirtet is a puzzle game that deconstructs Tetris by recycling rows of blocks back into the tetrominos needed for the classic falling block game. In Tetris you place falling tetrominos into rows. In Sirtet you insert those rows back into the board to recreate the tetrominos. [iOS]
http://playsirtet.com
Don't be a neeedle in a haystack
http://brightfish.typepad.com/brightfish/
What do you think?
UK "hacker" to be extradited for biggest military hack ever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7532713.stm
Interesting story, not least because of the way the mainstream media continues to misuse the word "hacker". Surely "cracker" would be more appropriate ?
Looking for a job
Hello
I am looking for a job and can move just about anywhere. I have over 5 years of Corporate Customer Relations with Apple Inc and need to find something that actually matters in the large scheme of things. Any assistance is welcomed.
Thanks
Rhonda
Nintendo live event
http://e3.nintendo.com/
Freemium Summit Notes & Data
http://expostfacto.posterous.com/freemium-summit-notes-and-data
Key takeaways from the freemium summit
Someone has the domain name I want What do I do?
http://www.papaki.com/blog/2013/08/09/someone-has-the-domain-name-i-want-what-do-i-do/
Well… you know… we have all been there. I want too dozens of domain names which belong to someone else. Just like you, I think those domain names would really boost my business. The truth is we are too many who covet too many already occupied domain names. So what are our options?
AT&T Wants Extended iPhone Exclusive
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500884
If they wanted that, they shouldn't have done as crappy a job.
Sims 3 Site Release
http://news.gotgame.com/sims-3-site-release/
Sims 3 promises even more customizable and worldly Sims--enough to actually replace the 'real' world. Finally.
Is Baby Shark a good enough app to replace Flappy Bird
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baby-shark/id827007088?ls=1&mt=8
instead of a bird there is a shark, instead of nintendo pipes there is seaweed, and as an added bonus there are fish for the shark to eat.
SocialJitney releases new Framework for Kids Painting
http://www.socialjitney.com/blog/2010/01/26/socialjitney-releases-new-framework-for-kids-painting/
Social Jitney recently announced and released its new Framework for an educational and fun based series of applications called “Painting for Kids”.

Social Jitney developed and released this framework for Feel Social Inc. The first of the series is the release of an application by the name of “Painting for Kids: Animal Series”.
We did an elevator pitch for our startup. In an elevator.
http://vimeo.com/vuzum/elevatorpitch
After a long list of ideas and multiple recordings, we decided to approach the startup video presentation as a pitch, an elevator pitch.

We have yet to launch Blogvio in private beta, but you please let us know what you think of the video. Is it short enough? Is it concise enough? Is it clear enough what we're doing?

Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks HN! :-)
Looking for Coders in Orlando
We are looking for a developer to join our start-up team here in Downtown Orlando. We can offer contract work on client jobs as well as pay / partnership opportunities on our start-up project. Let me know if anyone would be interested in learning more.
Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax
http://ajaxian.com/archives/robot-replay-watch-your-users-via-ajax
Now you can test PG's "finger on the Back button" hypothesis.
Proposable gets a makeover
http://blog.proposable.com/looking-for-our-first-beta-group/
It's been nearly 4 years and over 10,000 subscribers later, Proposable is back at it once again.

Proposable has taken the leap and decided to give themselves a makeover. In this blog: http://blog.proposable.com/looking-for-our-first-beta-group, it describes the improvements and other important facts.

They're also looking for an elite group of beta testers. Who knows what this will bring. Stay tuned.
Interview with Lev Mazin of AskYourTargetMarket about RoR developer position
http://www.onethirdofmylife.com/one-third-of-my-life/2010/05/ask-your-target-market-ruby-on-rails-developer.html
Andrew Lee of One Third of My Life interviews Lev Mazin, Co-founder of AskYourTargetMarket.com about his open RoR developer position and his company.
Whitehouse Petition To Drone Bomb The WBC
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/drone-bomb-westboro-baptist-churchs-homes/Gzf5P701
Drone warfare is now acceptable on our national soil and it is admissible to target American citizens. President Obama should order automated drone bombing strikes on the homes of the families that are members of the Westboro Baptist Church.
David Kaneda On jQTouch The jQuery Plugin For iPhone Development
http://opensourcereleasefeed.com/interview/show/david-kaneda-on-jqtouch-the-jquery-plugin-for-iphone-development
Many developers have found their answer to developing for the iPhone in the iUi framework. For those who are already well versed with jQuery, a jQuery based solution would be ideal. jQTouch comes to the rescue! To learn more about jQTouch and what it holds for developers, I hooked up with David Kaneda of Morfunk
Get Rid of Noise With These Fundamental Google Analytics Filters
http://www.dynamicyield.com/2014/07/ga-filters/
I want to tackle a major aspect of any Google Analytics auditing process: filtering out noise from an overwhelming flock of data.

So, make your GA ecosystem more accurate and, as a result, more useful, with the following 9 filters.
What Would It Take?
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/7927049275/what-would-it-take
As someone who brings change into organizations, at some point I will usually come up against someone who will resist the change...
Show HN: Kambeo – Changing how people change the world
https://kambeo.io/
People want to change the world. They want to support, buy from and work for organizations that do too.

The Kambeo platform is at the intersection of Cause, Community and Commerce.

By bringing these 3 pillars together, Kambeo is connecting those who need help with those looking to help like no platform has before.
Interactive map: Bombs on London during The Blitz
http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900
The project scanned original 1940s bomb census maps, geo-referenced the maps to add their exact location, then digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map, and created an easy to use website and app to display it.
Jackie Chan’s Death Hoax Continues on Facebook
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Jackie-Chan-s-Death-Hoax-Continues-on-Facebook-372372.shtml
It started back in June and a Facebook account that seems to have initiated the hoax is still available. How can users protect themselves while Facebook figures a way to sort things out...
Venture Capital Deals
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/11/13/venture-capital-deals-239/
Risk I/O, a Chicago-based vulnerability intelligence platform, has raised $5.25 million in Series A funding. U.S. Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by Tugboat Ventures and Costanoa Venture Partners.
Dunkin' Donuts files for delicious $400M IPO
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-04/dunkin-brands-files-for-an-initial-public-offering-of-up-to-400-million.html
Damn, now I'm hungry again.
Applying a Moebius transformation to an image
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/08/applying-moebius-transformation-to.html
Short tutorial on how to apply a moebius transformation to an image in python. It has a little introduction to Moebius transform too.
U.K. Government Selects Unisys to Support Its G-Cloud Initiative
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5681096/u-k-government-selects-unisys-to-support-its-g-cloud-initiative
U.K. Government Selects Unisys to Support Its G-Cloud Initiative
National Express registration emails contain passwords
http://www.josephmoore.co.uk/national-express-security-vulnerability
I was a bit shocked to see this earlier, so I took a screenshot, wrote about it and emailed them complaining. Not cool.
Data about Tsunamis around the world
http://tsunamis.findthebest.com/
We, at FindTheBest, are trying to build awesome data applications and an awesome comparison engine. I figured a good way to share the site would be to show an application related to current events. I was also thinking about building a Y-combinator startups database- would anybody be interested in that?
The Wired Way
http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/09/wired-way.html
How Wired Magazine might hold the key to saving paper-based publications.
Decoding CAPTCHAs
http://www.wausita.com/captcha/
An introductory guide to breaking CAPTCHA's with source code. Walks through identifying weaknesses in a CAPTCHA using them to extract the text and then identifying them.
Lego showcase: create real-time and large scale webapps in a flash
http://bredele.github.io/lego-examples
Lots of features are alreada available, check it out: http://github.com/bredele/lego
Reinventing assertions
http://beust.com/weblog/2012/07/29/reinventing-assertions/
A new feature in TestNG opens the door to more flexible assertions for Java.
Show HN: Tool to find product alternatives when nomading
https://www.worldalternative.org/
I have created a tool where we can input products we found difficult to find when abroad in diffrent countries.
users will be able to search for the best alternative in that country.
we can also rate the products and leave comments on them to help other travellers.
What can I build that you wish existed?
I used to think that my projects filled some market hole but after years of learning to code and trying to produce something workable, I no longer believe my great ideas of yesteryear have the potential to be worth the time to finish and mostly the holes have been filled by the leading companies.

I have the skills and I have the time but I can't think of any web applications that are practical to complete on my own and have reasonable potential for a paying/expandable customer base.

I am here to serve. Tell me what you need!
ClearView walkthrough 1440x900) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKnms32PfNg
Take a look at ClearView's extended metric dashboard & see how it can help you level up your call floor productivity!
Beanstalk Nonsense-Brute-force login protection
http://beanstalkapp.com/features/security
Beanstalk just send a newsletter to all it's user that they have a brand new Brute-force login protection → which blocks every account with to much failed login attempts.

Why don't they help user
- choose more secure passwords?
- block "IP" on to many failed login attempts?
- Show a Captcha (like Google) on too much failed attempts?
Performance Optimization of SQLite on iOS
http://blog.thomasbandt.de/39/2433/de/blog/performance-optimization-of-sqlite-on-ios-with-xamarin.html
I didn't think that much about performance of SQLite on iOS - iPhones are no super computers, that's for sure, but a few hundred records should not be a problem. As it turned out, it was a problem. A huge problem.
Planning for Failure - Discovering Your Core Values
http://www.planningforfailure.com/post/550798224/discovering-your-core-values
Back in January, I discussed an exercise where you would put your company values on the wall and allow anyone in the organization to remove them if they felt the company was straying from their core values.

But what do you do if you’re not sure what your core values are?
Just found this app and I love it!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atext/id488566438?mt=12
I just found this text snippet app, and I think it is great.
Show HN: Rammer Time
http://rammerti.me/
This is the first game we ever released. It's a multiplayer-only game, 4 people free for all. It runs on Android and on PC. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Show HN: Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) server and client in C
https://github.com/driftregion/iso14229
per wikipedia: "Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) is a diagnostic communication protocol used in electronic control units (ECUs) within automotive electronics." If you have a car/truck/motorcycle/boat/tractor/etc produced in the last few decades it likely has one or more ECUs that use this protocol.

What is the point of UDS?
To make ECUs faster to develop and more testable by specifying a standard set of primitives for remote procedure call (RPC).

Why did you make this?
Because it saves time at work.

Why did you publish this?
Because I can. Because I couldn't find another free implementation. To get us to the singularity a few seconds sooner by reducing duplicated work. To attract commentary from domain experts that might erode my ignorance.
EBay's Browser Highlighter Firefox extension / plug in 
http://www.skuunk.com/2009/07/browser-highlighter-firefox-extension.html
On my site we noticed that some of our users had some JavaScript problems which was affecting content editing. After a bit of nosing around we found the problem was a Firefox extension called The Browser Highlighter.

This extension was created by eBay and it injects some unwanted JavaScript into the page which can affect the JS in your site.

What follows is a means of detecting this extension so you can protect your code from it.
Easy URL rewriting with Apache
http://www.xhydra.com/internet/easy-url-rewriting-with-apache.html
URL rewriting tool is an online tool that generates entries for your .htaccess file. All you have to do is enter your ugly URL with all its arguments and the tool generates a pretty URL for
Making a product out of creative services
What do you think, will marketing teams purchase creative services as a product like I'm trying to productive here? Can complex animations be downloadable content? Let me know your thought - www.secondlookdigital.com
Catalin Voss in theDishDaily's On the Radar Profile
http://thedishdaily.com/radar/catalin-voss
Meet Catalin Voss: Stanford University Freshman, Accomplished App developer, Podcaster and StartX Innovator in Residence in this week's On the Radar
Ask HN: Stock Market SMS Alert Service?
I've got a new idea for a startup. I need your help.

1) What do you think: a service that lets you creates sms alerts for various stock market events? (For instance, text me if GOOG drops below X in the next Y hours.)

2) I've only found a few sites that do this now. (ex: http://www.acestockalerts.com/home/) I'm not too familiar with the stock market. Is the dearth of such services because they're not useful? Would this service in fact be useful?

3) If it would be useful to investors, what features would you recommend I start with?

Please be absolutely, painfully honest.
A Browser For All Your Digital Assets In The Cloud - BinaryLink
http://www.binarylink.io
BinaryLink is to files what a web browser is to websites!
Fast and easy string encryption for developers
http://www.stringencrypt.com/
StringEncrypt page allows you to encrypt strings and files using randomly generated algorithm, generating a unique decryption code in the selected programming language. Simple & fast - try it yourself!