jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Land Your Dream Startup Job
http://williampeng.com/post/37377386302/5-rules-to-land-your-dream-startup-job
In my experience as both an operator and an investor, I’ve found that there are 5 common rules of thumb to land your dream startup job.

This isn’t a step-by-step guide to finding a startup job because you will find from talking to people that there is no standard path to get a startup job. However, these rules of thumb are a strategic framework that you can use to determine the tactics by which you can find your dream job.
Show HN: I wrote a book on Site Reliability Engineering
https://leanpub.com/sretidbits
Hello Everyone! I finally published Site Reliability Engineering Tidbits on leanpub.

https://leanpub.com/sretidbits

This book is a collection of 28 chapters on SRE concepts such as observability, monitoring, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), alerting, resilience and debugging.

This book aims to provide hands on examples of implementing a number of concepts described in Google's SRE books. It also describes how i've seen SRE concepts impact some of the organizations I've worked in.

I previously announced this book here, but it was not on leanpub yet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30064570

Thank you for looking and I appreciate your feedback!
SimCity Update 2
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-2
Was that the real cause, I wonder what the upgrade untails (hw or sw)
Ask HN: I built a programming language for contracts; I’m out of options; help?
Ok, Ok, Done — Making contracts simple, for both humans and machines.

- Demo: http://okokdone.com/demo/
- Deck: http://okokdone.com/deck/
- FAQ: http://okokdone.com/faq/

Specifically, the tech is a custom markup language that allows not just for definitions but also allows for embedding logic.

I’ve worked on this for almost a year, and I need 500k to run with it for another year: 4/6m to design & build; 6m+ to launch & grow.

I’ve pitched this to 6 VCs in the US; 2 were a waste of time, and 4 went well; of those, I think 2 were very close to signing a check. I’m nearly certain that, if my US network were larger and I’d have gotten more intros, I would’ve succeeded in raising.

I’ve pitched this to 14 VCs in the EU; most went well, and I think 3 of them were close to signing a check. I think the problem, in the EU, is this: (1) many VCs want to put ~100k into a good founder/idea, for ~10%; (2) many VCs want to put ~1.5m into a product with some traction; (3) I find myself in the chasm in-between.

I have 20 years of engineering experience and 10 years of product experience; I also have a previous (small) exit as a solo-founder.

I’m a solo-founder on this too. I had a co-founder, for a bit; we met after I built-out the idea, and he quit as we failed to raise money in the US. In the short time we worked together, I realized that we weren’t a good match and that very bad things might have happened in the future; so, though he had a perfect profile for this (lawyer; smart; techy), I didn’t try to change his mind. I won’t again risk making such a commitment to someone I’m not close to personally or professionally.

My email is in the deck.

P.S. 1/ I immensely appreciate any attempt to help. But, please, don’t dish out generic advice; I know all of the generic advice.

P.S. 2/ If you can’t think of a way to help but you maybe need someone with my skillset, lmk; I'll probably need a job soon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coarna
Ask HN: Examples of successful serial-entrepreneurs?
I was in the subway last week with someone worked for the creator of Visicalc. Visical was the first spreadsheet program. His new business was mildly successful - maybe a dozen employees. Nothing close to his first work.

What entrepreneurs have started very multiple successful businesses?
Using fractals for multi-platform UI design
http://www.leavesofcode.com/2011/05/interface-design-using-fractals.html
Can an single UI be created to that scales for phones, tablets and desktops... this guy seems to think so.
Ask HN: Where can I find a web developer for partnership?
Hey HN, I'm 16 -- and I've been wanting to do a internet startup, but I don't have starting capital so I'd have to find a php developer to partner with.

Please advise, thanks
From SocialCalc to EtherCalc
https://gist.github.com/3978463
This is a draft for the upcoming book; forks/comments/feedback welcome!
Does your site rank lower in Google than you think?
http://www.bradleyspencer.com/2009/does-your-site-rank-lower-than-you-think/
Google’s personalization of search can make you think that you rank much higher than you actually do.
Video Interview with Prolific Angel investor Paige Craig (30 deals in a year) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lY9yCorHvo&feature=player_embedded
... by Jason Nazar, founder/CEO of DocStoc.
Ask HN: Should high-karma users comments appear higher on the page?
In this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036588 which is the top item right now I've made a comment that currently has 10 points and is 1 hour old. Woodrows comment, which is the second comment in the base of the thread, has 20 comments and is one hour old. Personally I believe woodrow's comment to be more insightful than mine, and the votes seem to agree on this, yet my comment is shown higher on the page.

I understand that people with a lot of karma and/or hig average karma per post get somewhat differential treatment, and I understand the reason for doing so. There are however also some problems with this approach, namely:

1) It doesn't entice new or low karma users to comment, since their comment has a higher chance of being lost at the bottom of the page.

2) Some good comments get buried lower on the page, and not everyone gets to see a poetntially great comment.

What do you think?
SimplyNoise.com - White noise generator
http://simplynoise.com/
I use this to drown out other people.
Tell HN: HackLikeMe, A Place to Find Fellow Hackers
Recently in a Ask HN, jayliew asked after a "place for developers & designers to barter small units of work."

This afternoon, I went ahead and built a small site with this general idea in mind. Developers and designers can post small projects to connect with others of a complementary skill-set. Given the timeframe (a few hours), it is naturally rather feature-minimal, but I would welcome anyone (particularly a designer) who wants to have a hand in making it better.

The Site: http://hacklikeme.heroku.com/

Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928458
Do Not Name Drop To VCs
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/10/do-not-name-dro.html
The fact that name dropping is a bad idea should go without saying, but some entrepreneurs have proven the need for this post.When you are presenting your business idea it's a bad idea to rely too heavily on the opinions that big name people will validate the quality of your business...
YC to London?
http://ycldn.com/
On 26th September the Y Combinator team are traveling to New York for a meetup that will give start-ups there the chance to ask questions and talk about ideas with the YC partners and the founders of companies they have funded.

Should the Y Combinator team come to London to find awesome start-ups? I (@mstafford) think so and so do a lot of start-ups in London!

Do you want to help make this happen?

Please follow @ycldn, email me and RT this page to give Paul and the Y Combinator team the message that London is somewhere they should be, and that they should come see the awesome start-ups before the 10th October Y Combinator deadline!

http://ycldn.com | matthew@ycldn.com | @ycldn
Show HN: My simple guessing and learning game
https://letmeguess.phelps.au/
Simple guessing + learning game

You think of something, and the computer has to guess what you're thing of.

If it guesses wrong, you can add a new Yes/No question to distinguish between your answer and what the computer thought it was. In this way the computer learns more things, and is more likely to guess correctly in future.

It's great fun for kids! (..for a few minutes)
Functional programming vs. "OO" programming (or, How to entirely miss the point)
http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/544
Summed up:

...I can give my impressions of the funtional aspects of what I call free-floating functions.

What I mean by a free-floating function is a function that is not tied to a class. For example:

doSomething(thingToDo);

as opposed to

ThingDoer.doSomething(thingToDo);

The thing I've never liked about languages that allow free-floating functions is that they lead to sloppiness and confusion. Where does the magic non-name-spaced function exist? How can I access it? What do I need to import/include to get to it? What happens if there are different doSomething() funcions I want to use?
Ask HN: What are relevant books as of C++20?
I know about Scott Meyers publications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Meyers#Publications). I've read all over the internet these books are a must read.

Is this still true for somebody who wants to learn C++ in depth in 2021? I have plenty of experience using C and C++ over the years, nevertheless my coding in C++ still feels like doing C with classes and some STL containers like 2005. I want to progress from this state.

Are the books of Scott Meyers still the ones I should read now? If not, what are the new 'standard' books I should read?
Show HN: Paperless.IO: prototype to create bootstrap grids by dragging the mouse
http://paperless.io/
This is a new project. I'm curious if others find in interesting and have ideas on where to take it.
Just got Techcrunch'd - ReviewGist.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/24/reviewgistcom-collates-and-snips-reviews/
We just rolled out a big update and got techcrunched.

Do check out ReviewGist.com and I will be very eager for some feedback.
This mobile payments startup just raised $15M
http://www.cmoney.com/CorporateOverview/CompanyInformation/BoardofDirectors.aspx
http://www.cmoney.com/NewsEvents/tabid/57/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1/C-cMoney-Secures-15-Million-Financing-from-Kodiak-Capital-Group-LLC.aspx
Syrian "Cyber Army" hijacks Anonymous+ website [maybe nsfw]
http://www.anonplus.org/
This is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/7LZmQ
Difference Between Quality Assurance, Software Testing & Quality Control
http://blog.teamgrowth.net/index.php/quality-assurance-testing/what-are-the-differences-between-quality-assurance-software-testing-quality-control
This post explains the basic difference between Quality Assurance, Software Testing & Quality Control.
Tell HN: My group just finished our short animation. Thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHivuaQhQY
Completed for CNM190 at UC Berkeley.
Ask YC:  Are there ideas that are “done to death”?
I've often had grand epiphanies... Huge, earth-changing, multi-zillion dollar ideas! Only to find out (usually 5 minutes later) that the idea has not only been done already, but it's been done by a couple dozen different companies. More often than not, these companies also include huge companies, such as Facebook or Google, that would be nearly impossible to compete with.

My question is this... Is it true that there are ideas that really are "done to death"? I look at the online dating market. Match, eHarmony, jDate, PoF, etc. have saturated the market and taken up a huge amount of marketshare. At the end of the day, though, they're really all the same. They may target different interests or demographics, but there's really no difference. Is online dating done to death? Should someone even bother getting into that market again?

A more recent example is in messaging apps. Once the Snowden docs went public, it seemed like everybody and their brother put out a "secure" messaging app. Are there too many of them now? Could one really gain any traction in a market that has literally hundreds of messaging apps on the iOS AppStore? I've had an idea for a while on how to increase the security and anonymity of messaging apps. But, with the sheer volume of competitors it almost seems to me like I shouldn't even bother coding it up. Is this an idea that has been "done to death"?

Or, is the whole notion of something being done to death merely a logical fallacy? Is it worth competing? Is there enough money/eyeballs to go around? I'd REALLY be interested in hearing your thoughts on the subject. Having good ideas is really inspiring; but, seeing that there are already a LOT of other people in that space has become really discouraging.
Building a Vagrant Box From Start to Finish
http://tylerbird.com/blog/2014/01/27/building-a-vagrant-box-from-start-to-finish/
I'll take you through the process because I enjoyed learning it after reading Mitchell's book and finding resources online. But they only got me about 90% of the way there. So after I made it across the finish line I compiled this article to journal my accomplishment. For myself and for others.

Building a Vagrant Box From Start to Finish
Ask HN: At a terrible school, making me depressed. Does name really matter?
I'm currently studying in a less than average school and feel really shitty about it. The name of the institution alone will reduce the chances of being accepted into a great graduate school to virtually zero.

When I visit the About pages of all these startups, I see lists and lists of founders and employees from Stanford, Harvad, MIT, etc, and when I read up on new advances in science and tech, I notice that those same institutions seem to produce the best work. I so desperately want to be a part of those circles for they seem to offer a wealth of connections, a valuable community to leverage, and the resources to really do big things, not to mention the credibility and respect.

I know people often say that down the road none of this will matter, but from what I see, it certainly does. If you look at the schools that Google and Facebook (among many others) hire from, where some of the most advanced scientific research occurs, and where many of the most influential professors teach, you'll notice that name really does matter. And not having that name basically prevents you from stepping foot into any of those environments.

This subject has been a source of quite a bit of depression recently, and I can't seem to shake it. Every day that goes by I read up on the latest news in startups/academia, and am reminded of where I am and where I'll likely never be.

Can you convince me otherwise? Is it really not that bad? Have any of you come from less-than-reputable schools to work in an environment filled with big thinkers and achievers?
Show HN: Search Engine that uses AI to find answers in Scientific Research
https://consensus.app/
Tired of ads and misinformation clogging up your search results when you just want to see the science?

That's why we built Consensus, a new search engine that uses Large Language Models to surface findings straight from scientific research for any question. If you like the product, please support our launch on Product Hunt today:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/consensus-2
Show HN: Scenery – an open-source photo-gallery with extended search
https://scenery.cx/
Hello HN!
Sharing a pet project of mine. It started out as a dull photo-gallery then I tried to make it "smarter". In the process of development, I've learnt a lot about computer vision and programming in general.

Current features:
Search by tags (supports logical expressions, https://scenery.cx/search_syntax)
Semantic text search
You can find images with similar tags, color palette or visuals/semantics
Reverse image search
Image anti-duplication mechanism
Automatic image tagging and captioning
IPFS support

https://github.com/qwertyforce/scenery/blob/master/how_it_wo...
https://github.com/qwertyforce/scenery
https://scenery.cx
Tell HN: My experience being on the Gawker password list
I created a username and password on one of the Gawker sites in about 2006 or 2007. I did not see it as a critically important site so I did not pick a particularly strong password. My password was not "password" but it was pretty close. It is not a password I used anywhere else and certainly not for my email. I also used an email address that I only used for non-critical and non-important subscriptions.

I initially saw the reports that Gawker was hacked earlier in the day on Sunday. I got a bit worried, clicked around and saw a report that Gawker was saying it was only a rumor, their Twitter account had been compromised and someone had made false claims that data was stolen. I was relieved even though I did not think it was a big deal. Later on in the day on Sunday, I saw that it was true that data had been stolen and went over to a Gawker site to log in and check my account.

Here's the slightly weird thing. Someone had already logged into the Gawker account, made a few comments and noted that I used "password" as my password. I had not used "password" although as I mentioned, it was close. I was able to log in to the Gawker site with the password that was not "password" and change things around, including the password. The email address associated with the login showed no evidence of being compromised. (No weird sent items, IPs from past logins were mine, etc.)

By this morning, no less than 4 people had (anonymously) emailed the address listed and warned me that I had been hacked and I should change my passwords. However, NONE of those people were actually from Gawker! As of Monday, there has been no official word from Gawker directly to the email address I gave them--which is now posted publicly--that a breach occurred!

A bit later in the morning, I went to log in to the email account again and it warned me that there had been suspicious activity and had me (appropriately) jump through a few hoops to get in. Once I did get in, I again saw no evidence of it being compromised. Looks like someone noted the email address on one of the lists in the Torrent dump and tried their hand to see if my email password was as weak as the Gawker password was.

Feel free to post questions or comments.
So You'd Like to Make a Map using Python
http://sensitivecities.com/so-youd-like-to-make-a-map-using-python-EN.html
Use Pandas, Matplotlib, and Basemap to extract, clean and re-arrange data, before creating a series of thematic maps.
Facebook to pay NO tax for 2012 and will even get tax refund of $429m
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279701/Facebook-pay-tax-2012-tax-refund-429MILLION-despite-1BILLION-profits.html
Facebook will not pay any tax for 2012 despite making $1.1 billion in pre-tax profits from U.S. operations, according to a report released on Thursday.<p>But Mark Zuckerberg's company will also get a multimillion dollar tax refund of around $429 million according to Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ).<p>The refunds reportedly come from tax deductions on executive stock options and share awards.
Ask HN: Colo hosting cheaper than high-end VPS, so why VPS?
I've been tempted by VPS solutions, but no matter how I slice it colo hosting comes out cheaper:

- You can pick up a refurbished 1u server for $100-$150, for example from geeks.com . That'll get you an older processor, but often 4GB of RAM. Whatever you get will be significantly more powerful than low end VPS's, equivalent to a high-end VPS.

- We're hosting at a facility with excellent connectivity but little technical support. We pay ~$60 per month all in.

So for $200 upfront and $60/month we get the equivalent of a linode 4096, which would cost $160/month.

- We have a similar setup at another data center from another colo provider with semi-hot fail-over, providing both backup and BCP.

I can't figure out why people would go for high-end VPS instead of buying their own hardware and hosting. Is there a hidden benefit I'm missing?
Teachmate - new web educational project
http://teachmate.org
What teachmate is all about?

TeachMate.org is a service that helps people who want to learn and people who want to teach find each other. It is a dating site, except that the aim here is education.

The idea behind this service is simple: whoever teaches — learns. There are few simple things we wish our user could find out:

* You don't need to be a professional to teach. Instead, you have to teach to become a professional.
* You don't need to pay money for learning or ask for money when you teach someone.
* Learning is not about the degrees, it's about the process and what you can do with your knowledge.

Have fun!
The Great Facebook Oauth Purge
http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=17600
On 5/13 Facebook de-authorized millions of valid offline_access tokens.

Yet another bug report:
http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=17739
What is new and what changed in OWASP Top 10 for 2013
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/owasp-top-10-2013-review/
In case you missed their release some time ago, here is a blog post explaining what is new and what changed in this year's OWASP Top 10.
Heuristics, Biases & Rationality
http://www.vimeo.com/2648376
The study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks. Eliezer Yudkowsky, who writes on the subject of cognitive biases at Overcoming Bias, presented at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View was on the subject of cognitive biases in the assessment of risk.
Top Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed
http://codebrief.com/2012/01/the-top-10-javascript-mvc-frameworks-reviewed
tl;dr Ember.js rocks http://emberjs.com/
Show HN: A Ton of OpenSource iOS Sketch.app Templates
http://github.com/sketch-templates/sketch-ios
Feel free to contribute by pull request.
Show HN: My new flight tracker, flightlite.com
http://flightlite.com

Flightlite is a visual flight tracker combining 3D and overhead views and flight information.

It is my first launch since I started reading Hacker News and was developed as a side project for the past 6 months or so. I made the final push on it this morning to get it to a semi-launchable state.

- The best coverage is US and UK

- Sometimes the data I get is a bit crazy (spent a lot of effort to correct/sanitise it but it's not perfect)

- Doesn't work in IE 64bit or Linux due to Google Earth not being available

I'm now trying to work out how to take this further, if there is anywhere to take it that is! Stuff I'm really interested in:

- People with ties in the relevant industries (travel, airlines, flight data) who see potential for this to grow.

- A sample of the raw FAA ASDI data so I can compare it's usability with the feed I'm consuming (perhaps someone has had access to it?)

- Any ideas on how to make this profitable enough to pay for it's own costs and justify me spending some time on it to improve it in the future.

So i'm wondering about the possibility of either co-branding with a sponsor or selling unit space for specific routes (think of Air New Zealand branding on the pages when people are tracking any of their flights for example).

(p.s. I posted this earlier and made a mess of it, feel free to delete my previous submission).
Tell HN : A blog for hackdays, side projects and grassroots startups 
Hi HN, Last week I finally got my arse into gear and started a project I've wanted to do for ages www.thinkstartups.com, I want to write a blog that covers the smaller startups that normally wouldn't get coverage on TC,RWW, Mashable (Not that I don't love those blogs but they have a remit).

I also want to give coverage to weekend projects and hack days, I've entered quite a few hack days and there is so much wasted talent and code I think giving a bit of marketing to some of the apps might give the devs a bit of a push to continue it..

So check it out and if you have a project, app or bit of news just ping it over to news@thinkstartups.com!

Would love to hear what you think :)
Rob Pike: Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (oldie but goldie)
http://vimeo.com/49718712
http://vimeo.com/49718712