jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: We're building a better future for gig work starting with onboarding
https://withcorridor.com/
Today we’re announcing a new product we’ve had in the works for the past few months!

Corridor is an embeddable no-code solution for HR and Ops teams to onboard their flexible workers at speed and scale. Create, launch, and optimize your onboarding flow, but faster. Improve candidate conversion, automate tasks, collaborate with your team on design, and seamlessly plug-in your favorite HR tools.

We’re building this to help our customers and their candidates have a better all-around onboarding experience. Along the way, we captured feedback around how difficult it is to design, manage, and track all the different paperwork and processes that go into getting a worker to their first day of work (not to mention dealing with trying to make this a good UX as apart of your product). We landed on building something that balances ease of creation and delightfulness by focusing on the candidate experience first and working backward toward designing such experiences.

We’re still in early beta so we’re looking for testers, early adopters, and design partners. If interested, please feel free to schedule a demo or sign up for early access on our website.

P.S. I'm giving away $30 Doordash gift cards in exchange for a 30 minute user research interview...message me at vu.francois@withcorridor if interested! :)
Coordination in Distributed Systems 
http://sns.cs.princeton.edu/2009/03/coordination-in-distributed-systems/
Architecting distributed systems can be very difficult. Arguably the hardest part of programming a distributed application is getting node coordination correct. I’ll define a node in this context as a service running on a single server which communicates with other nodes and together make up your distributed application.
How to Start a Startup [let's read it one more time]
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
Legendary article from Paul Graham.
Mbed: 32 bit micro with cloud based toolchain
http://hackaday.com/2009/11/21/review-mbed-nxp-lpc1768-microcontroller/
For some time I've thought that a web based toolchain might be advantageous for these simple embedded boards, so I'm glad to see someone trying it out.
Locked Bootloader for HTC Sensation
http://www.androidgoo.com/htc-android-phones/locked-bootloader-for-htc-sensation.html
Boys Police have confirmed that the new Android terminal of the dual core Bootloader Taiwanese HTC Sensation will be blocked.
Ask HN: Find out where all of your mobile app installs are coming from.
http://trybluebug.com
This is a new project I am hacking on. What do you guys think?

Thanks!
Show HN: Shalchemy – Conveniently execute binaries from Python
https://pypi.org/project/shalchemy/
Hey HN,

I found it painful to maintain huge bash scripts, so I wrote a library that makes it more natural to run subprocesses from Python so I could replace all my bash.

It's heavily inspired by SQLAlchemy, sh (the Bourne Shell), and sh (the Python library).

Hope you guys like it!
The Reasons I am Hanging Up on Twitter and Facebook
http://benatlas.com/2010/02/the-reasons-i-am-hanging-up-on-twitter-and-facebook/
Dissatisfied with the Social Media
Interesting discussion on static-typing vs dynamic typing on reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ah14d/am_i_the_only_nonancient_programmer_out_there_who/
It's all too common these days to see dynamic typing being praised beyond what it deserves. It made me glad to see somebody speak up for static typing.
Nissan LEAF owners portal stores passwords in clear-text
https://twitter.com/daveisangry/status/389872750065496065
Nice work there Nissan, and I was just starting to like my car.
Show HN: Meta-as-a-Service
http://maas.dfth.in/
Metadata-as-a-Service for you!
Trendslide Alpha Invites
http://trendslide.com
Trendslide, a new business insight application for your iOS device is about to enter alpha and we're looking to get a few more people in our alpha. Want to track your company while on the go? We can help you keep track of your most important metrics while on the go.

Check out the website for more and to sign up for the alpha today.

http://trendslide.com
Nov.io - shorten links and earn money
http://nov.io
Nov.io is a free short url service that pays you to share your links on the Internet.

Register for a free account and start making money. Example of a short link: http://nov.io/DKB

Place your short links on blogs, social networks, forums personal websites and earn money for every visitor that visits your short links.
Show HN: TLDR (short) news website with my own algorithm
https://excerptdaily.com/
I'm actively working on a news shortening website. Trying to save you from clickbaits, save your time and save you from reading Bible-sized articles
What I hate the most when reading news is reading Bible-size articles just to find the main point of the article. Usually journalists write a bunch of unnecessary information just to create 400+ long articles and position better on Google.

Worst of all are those clickbait titles or titles that tell you a portion of information just to make you intrigue and make you click on the article.

For me personally, it is very annoying and frustrating. I like to spend like 30 seconds tops on an article, I want to get the information as fast as possible and move on.

So with my [ExcerptDaily](https://excerptdaily.com/) I'm trying to:

* Save people's time

* Inform you as fast as possible

* Give you the main point of an article in 5 sentences

* Save you from clickbait or half clickbait titles

I wrote my own algorithm and tried a few of them, now I'm focusing on my own algorithm and making it better. I focused on the US market and CNN only so far, it is my ground zero.
Geek Summer Camp
http://www.geeksummercamp.com/
Dyn's throwing its first ever user conference in New Hampshire. This is the link for that.
Googles Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
"It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this
type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."
Ask HN: Instapaper for videos?
Does anyone know of a simple app or bookmarklet, which I can use to save videos to watch later?
Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem using D-Wave's BlackBox compiler
http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-tsp.html
Haven't read http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-intro.html yet, but also looks interesting.
Promises for JavaScript
http://github.com/swannodette/Promises/tree/master
I've implemented an easily portable library on top of MooTools for writing arbitrarily nested AJAX requests without requiring callbacks of any kind. Long story short, Promises can be composed, AJAX requests cannot.

Instead of:

var result = '';
get('a', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
get('b', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
get('c', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
get('d', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
get('e', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
get('f', function(response) {
result += JSON.decode(response).data;
console.log(result);
});
});
});
});
});
});

You can write:

function example()
{
var resources = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'];
var result = "";
while(resource = resources.shift())
{
result = add(result, get(resource));
}
show(result); // -> abcdef
}

This is completely asynchronous. Notice that there are no callbacks. You write code with Promises as you would write regular JavaScript instead of the atrocity that is the AJAX request ;)
Show HN: Create Posts with Gradient Text
https://purple-photo.web.app/
Who doesn't like gradients? With Purple Photo, we can create posts with zero designing skills. We have recently added support for the gradient text. Let us know what you think about it.
Do You Know What Metrics are Driving Your Performance? 
http://marketing.clearviewlive.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/5634/p/p-0013/t/page/fm/0
Practice a call center culture of transparency, open-communication, & unify expectations throughout your organization. Improve performance, increase engagement, and lower attrition.
CacheFly
Do a Barrel Roll on any site.
http://barrelroll.me/#http://news.ycombinator.com
Yesterday I had 15 minutes and a plan. Barrel Roll any site or image url. http://barrelroll.me/#http://news.ycombinator.com Should work in Chrome and FF. Most large enough/major sites will probably not work as they've set X-Frame-Options appropriately :)
Windows Explorer: Now with more arrows
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7303/25arrows.png
I count 25. Did I miss any?
Ask HN: Best solution for hosting docker app
Hi, I am starting my path to the developer career. I've started using docker, it's amazing and keep my work portable! I would like to know which is the best solution to host docker images for production. I'd prefer something more solid than DigitalOcean or other pay-per-use services!
The Social Life of Paper (2002)
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/03/25/020325crbo_books?currentPage=all
Reports on the continued use of paper records not just as a better visual interface but also as an enabler of different ways of working including utilizing spacial orientation.

This thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434023

made me dig this article up. I believe it's interesting enough that I'm posting it separately, rather than just as a comment.
Hubspot's New App: WhoreTweetedMe
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/08/10/hubspot-powers-useful-tool-to-track-retweets-suffers-unfortunate-name-whoretweetedme/
Not sure how the marketing geniuses over at Hubspot missed this one... or did they know what they were doing?
Show HN: Fetch Forms – a headless form builder
https://www.fetchforms.io
I've been building websites for 8 years and I've always hated building forms. They're all similar enough to be a repetitive task, but different enough that they still take quite a bit of time and effort. So, after a few years of not finding the tool I wanted, I decided to built it.

Introducing Fetch Forms!

Developers can create forms with the speed of a form builder and they can use those forms in their code. Devs can use their favorite frontend tools and libraries or even use Fetch Form's frontend libraries to render their forms.

Form submissions are always provided to the developer in-code as well as an optional setting to save the submissions to Fetch Forms cloud.

I would appreciate any feedback!
VCs Are Smarter Than You Think
http://billyngu.posterous.com/vcs-are-smarter-than-you-think
Just wanted to share this. I had a lot on my mind, so I hope it isn't too incoherent. Hope this helps someone out there.
Obese have right to 2 airline seats - Supreme Court of Canada
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/hl_nm/us_obesity
!!!
Zynga Planning to file for IPO
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/cnbc-zynga-planning-to-file-for-ipo-as-soon-as-tomorrow-will-raise-1-5-to-2-billion/
$15-20 billion valuation
Ask HN: Is there a service for asking others to poke holes in your plan?
I recently bought the domain 'disabuse.me' and am considering this idea as an option for what to do with it.
Show HN: Prescreen - new movie streaming / traction for filmmakers
https://prescreen.com
Hey HN,

I'm one of the founding engineers of Prescreen. We're disrupting the movie distribution space by bringing new movies directly to consumers via streaming online.

For consumers, we feature a single new unseen movie each day. The movie remains on Prescreen for 60 days. Customers who purchase the movie have a 48 hour period to view the movie once they start watching.

For independent filmmakers, we provide a launchpad to getting distribution. Films are like startups in many ways - you get a bunch of great people together and work your ass off to produce an awesome product. Then comes the hard part - generating enough interest in the film to get distribution, which is analogous to getting enough traction to land series-A funding. Prescreen provides an initial audience for the film, and more importantly, provides insights into the addressable market.

We produced our MVP in about 3 months with 3 engineers, leveraging a bunch of newer tech including MongoDB, the Lithium PHP framework, and Cloudfront.

Would love your feedback on the product and the space.

https://prescreen.com

Regards,
Tyler
"Politics is showbusiness for ugly people"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw4SGsZZaYA##
Says rock star Bob Geldof and he has even more to say.
Why is flickr so broken?
there are photos I've taken that are publically available, but aren't in my photostream, because apparently my photostream is not collection of all photos I have on flickr. I think it's because the Lightroom plugin interacts with the photostream as if it's any other album, so if you happen to have uploaded a photo to flickr through a means other than Lightroom, or upload it via Lightroom but then remove it from Lightroom or delete your catalog accidentally, Lightroom just magically deletes those photos from your photostream--they're still on flickr, but the only way find them is if you already know the link from somewhere else, or if you find them from the albums page on flickr, which will show you photos by a user that are not in that user's photostream, the page that shows you all of a user's photos. If the photo is not in an album, and you have lost the link to it, that picture no longer exists, or at least cannot be found, unless you can guess the number assigned to it.
Show HN: Hacker Health
https://www.notion.so/strazzud/Hacker-Health-2e62471a1e18440b8040a0104420353c
Hacker Health is a community for hackers, by hackers who want to get serious about their physical/mental health. On my journey to creating a profitable business, I've found that it's incredibly easy to slip into bad habits and not take care of yourself properly. I want to change that by creating a community of people that will hold each other accountable and celebrate victories together.
What Textmate Users Will Love About Sublime
http://linusgraybill.com/blog/2011/11/14/ten-things-textmate-users-might-love-about-sublime/
I’ve recently become a quick convert to Sublime. If you’re a heavy Textmate user, I have 10 good reasons you should take a look at Sublime.
Bill Gates Supports Controversial Climate Change Plan
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/02/bill-gates-supports-controversial-climate-change-plan/
A group of climate scientists, supported by Bill Gates, are advocating for the use of geoengineering as a way to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Replacing a HashSet with a BitSet
http://www.kinoshita.eti.br/2012/10/20/replacing-a-hashset-with-a-bitset/
A case from Apache Commons explained. A good example of learning with Open Source.
Windows 7 multi-touch demo isn't enough to save Microsoft's OS
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/28/windows-7-multi-touch-wont-save-microsoft-vista
Until Microsoft stops featuring resource hogging gimmicks, and starts giving its users real, compelling reasons to look forward to Windows 7, enthusiasm will continue to slide for an OS fast-tracked to save Microsoft from the last one.
Two Android Apps that Apple Would Never Approve
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/01/two-android-apps-that-apple-would-never-approve/
I always get a kick out of Android apps that would never be a approved by Apple if it was an iPhone app.
On Thermaltake and eSports at CES 2012
http://icrontic.com/article/on-thermaltake-and-esports-at-ces-2012
Thermaltake is diving headfirst into becoming a premiere supplier of eSports-centric equipment, and showed off the fruits of their labor at CES today.
The Best Billionaire How To Books
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/the-best-billio.html
The best books for those interested in business strategies used by billionaires.
Ask Facebook about privacy through the NYTimes
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/ask-facebook-your-privacy-questions/
Facebook is answering questions about its privacy policy through an NYT Q&A. Ask away...
Show HN: GitHub Recommendations Extension
https://indexstorm.com/git-rec
I've always struggled to discover interesting repositories on GitHub. Also, when I was searching for some open-source tools, I had to open multiple links and tabs to look at similar repos.

That's when I decided that GitHub lacks recommendations on the repository page. Just like in any social network, when you open a post you will see a bunch of recommended posts or videos to increase your engagement. It would be nice to have a list of similar repositories on the repo page.
Show HN: LDAP Explorer for VS Code
https://github.com/fengtan/ldap-explorer
I use VS Code everyday and often need to look up Active Directory groups.

I have been using ldapsearch and JXplorer for years but figured it would be more convenient to have an interface that integrates directly with VS Code so I made this extension.
Home Movie: The world around us
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
Watch this movie released on World Environmental Day
Startup Idea: How about a Priority Inbox for Twitter?
Your thoughts?
Free Book: Operating Systems: Four Easy Pieces
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSFEP/#
I had Remzi, one of the authors of this book, as a professor for my OS class last spring. It was one of the best classes I've ever taken. It's clear that he puts in a ton of effort to explain the concepts clearly. In light of the recent submission about XV6 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753216), this book will be useful if you want to dig into the code.
Show HN erxes – open source Hubspot alternative
https://github.com/erxes/erxes
Hi HN family ! We are Nauren, BJ, and MJ from erxes - open source Hubspot alternative enables SaaS providers and digital marketing agencies/developers to create unique experiences for their entire business.

We’re recently launched our product erxes XOS v.1.0, though we've in the industry for a while and started with the mission of making marketing technology accessible for all companies at any stage, including the ones in their early days.

Though due to marketing being inextricably linked to other aspects of business such as finance, core operations, and human resources, we’ve ended up expanding our business scope to include many additional features and improvements that are non-marketing upon the request of our clients. We now have EXM (employee experience management), PXM (product experience management), and delivery, which goes on and on…

This is why, today, you can not fully define erxes as marketing software anymore. It is now an experience operating system.

After +58 enterprise clients, +60 new features, +480 Active SaaS signups, and +1M installs, +$2.8M raised in the pre-seed round, we began to realize it was time to focus on the community and are transferring bootstrap enterprise-focused OS project to community-driven one.

With our Marketplace, where you can learn about all of the plugins erxes provides, as well as place your plugins and earn income from the sales.

Plugins are features that can work independently to fulfill the particular purpose of enterprises/developers, such as sales pipeline, delivery, etc. We have 30+ plugins on our marketplace right now, and more plugins will be added daily.

You can also develop your plugins to place them in the Marketplace. So, that can increase the source of your revenue.

We would love that the HN community to take a look at what we've been up to, and looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Best,

Nauren, BJ, and MJ
Ask HN: Email Hosting with Catch-All
Hi
Anyone that can recommend a good e-mail hosting service that has catch-all and custom domain features? Preferably in the $1 - $2 per month price range. And that does not require to use their specific email app to be used (ProtonMail).
Analysis of all .com domain names
http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march22012/index.html
Domain Name Analysis - Deep dive into all the .com domain names; the most popular substrings, most common starting and ending letters. Neat animation too.
Coding Schools Tone Down Rosy Job Script
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304422704579574083423949544
Coding Schools Tone Down Rosy Job Script
Volunteer to review the subtitles for MIT's SICP course.
http://twitter.com/#!/MITOCW/status/108230839736864768
MIT is looking for a volunteer to review the subtitles for 6.001 http://bit.ly/bsrrir. If you're interested, email ocw-subtitles@mit.edu.
Show HN: Pordle, Wordle for Python packages, implemented in a single Python file
https://aptx314.pyweb.io/pordle/app/
We're Python developers who also like playing Wordle. So we created Pordle [1]. It's like Wordle, but letting you guess Python package names instead of English words. Every day, Pordle picks up a new package. At the end of a game, it shows the package name of the day, along with a brief intro and links to more resources. We hope to help people learn Python, one package a day. Here [2] is a video demo on how it works.

The entire game is implemented in a single Py file, including backend and UI, with ~150 lines of code. A beginner-friendly version of the source code can be found here[3].

Pordle does not copy exactly Wordle's features. E.g., it does not support hardware keyboard, and automatic submits a guess upon completing a line. Please give it a try and let's know how your guessing goes.

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[1]: https://aptx314.pyweb.io/pordle/app/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLWF11adJ0&ab_channel=PyWeb...

[3]: https://github.com/pywebio/pordle

Edit: formatting
Balance
https://medium.com/on-startups/b32ea66714fc
Three things I do to combat stress & promote a balanced life as an entrepreneur. Including why life is stupid, why I don’t use treadmills, & how to double down on inspiration.
10 points for brushing your teeth
http://kotaku.com/5479125/points-for-toothbrushing-the-gaming-speech-everyone-is-talking-about
Points For Toothbrushing: The Gaming Speech Everyone Is Talking About

People keep Tweeting and e-mailing... did you see this speech? Yes, I saw it. This is today's must-watch about the future of gaming — and the future of life.

Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of entertainment and technology, Jesse Schell, tore down the house at the DICE Summit last week in a half-hour presentation about where games are heading, beyond consoles and beyond even the current gaming phenomenon, Facebook's FarmVille.

The hook behind FarmVille and so many other popular games these days is authenticity and reality, Schell argued. He said the leading trend is games "busting through reality," denying the old notion that gaming's best attraction is fantasy.

The idea of games being part of the real world is what's taking hold: games that have you jumping around in the real world, games that have you connecting with people in the real world. Facebook gaming, in particular, is a key attraction for this kind of play that more and more people are discovering that they want. Playing a game in which you're outscoring your friends — not people you meet on Xbox Live, but your old college roommate you've friended on Facebook — is the undeniable lure. Mix that in with Achievements for ... everything. (Memories of the so-called World of Chorecraft.)

So where does that take gaming? And life? If you're short on time, go to the 20-minute mark.
ICodedHere.com
http://beta.icodedhere.com/
The beta site is up and updated frequently, work in progress.

icodedhere is about promoting the portfolio of the staff related to web projects, from the CEO to the cleaning lady.
Ask HN: What do you wish the tech industry was more like?
Many of us got into this industry initially wide eyed about the potential of technology. The ad industry had other ideas (i.e. surveillance capitals). Now the tech industry is full of startups looking to capture user data and sell it to other parties. If you could imagine the tech industry as how you would like it to be, what would it look like?