jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: Just launched our web design portfolio
http://www.madebyargon.com

MadeByArgon is a web design/development firm started by me (Ashraful) and fellow HN-er Nathan Peck (who does all the coding).

We were working on building a solid web design/dev portfolio for the last few months and its finally ready. We wanted HN to have the first look.

We would love to hear what you think of the designs, and would love some feedback on the portfolio. We would also appreciate any advice on what you think is the best way to market our services and reach out to potential customers.
Ask PG: Why dont you hire someone to run HN?
Today, HN is slow as hell again.

I wonder: Why dont you hire someone who cares for HN fulltime or part time so it runs smoothly all the time?
TED: Ideas worth spreading
http://www.ted.com/index.php/
Video presentations from cutting edge thinkers and doers. This was a new find for me, so I thought it might be new here too.
Ask HN: Are There Any Compelling Reasons To Continue Using Firefox?
I've been using Firefox since pre-1.0. However, two other major browsers use WebKit: Chrome and Safari. WebKit also powers the mobile versions of those two browsers. So it seems that WebKit is now the standard for web development.

Unlike Chrome, however, Firefox is released by a company that has no interest in collecting any personal usage information. The majority of users also still use Firefox so its nice to know that I'm seeing what they'll see while developing. Those are really the only reasons I continue to use Firefox.

So my question is... Is there any compelling reason to continue using Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser?
Ask HN: Which mobile advertising platforms do you use?
It's been a while since I've seen this question asked and since the landscape changes so frequently I'd really appreciate your input (especially since I'm about to launch some mobile apps).

Which mobile advertising platforms do you use for iPhone and for Android? I'd much rather sign up for a CPM deal than CPC or CPA.
Just Finished V1.0 Please Review
Greetings HN,

I just finished V1.0 of http://theratemydate.com and would love some peer review. I'll be shooting spoof videos of selected posts and displaying them beside the story. What do you think of the site and idea?

Thanks, GDH
I like to solve problems
The Startup Daily — Great Ideas from Great Books
http://thestartupdaily.com/
Inspirational stuff for your daily RSS Feed.
Ask HN: Let me solve your problem #1
What: I will solve any technical problem you have and give it to you for free (within reason, for example, if it requires any purchase on my behalf I would expect to at least recoup it, but I will not ask anything for my development time). It can be anything, hardware, software, service, etc…

Why: I want to increase my Computer Science / Electronics skill-set by doing things that matter instead of just “toy projects”. I want to solve an actual pain for someone.

How: Post a problem you face and elaborate a bit - I will try to better understand the cause of it. Users that also have the same problem please upvote so that I can see it's not a single-man case (see the "why"). I will chose one to work on based on the popularity and my ability to deliver on it.

When: I will work part-time during workdays and full-time one day over the weekend to deliver a solution.
Google Latitude on iPhone became a competitor of my app, what should I do?
We were terrified when we saw Google's latitude on the iPhone was released today. It went head on with our product that has been in the App Store for 4 month!

My app is called Tracku: http://www.trackuapp.com. Basically we have all the feature the Latitude has now with a few extras like send message within the app as well as share map pins. But I am worried that Google might start to catch up, adding more features and will drive my app out of business.

What should I do? Would appreciate any suggestions.
Ask HN: Job application
Hello all,

I have been trying to get into job from past 5 months.

After several trails of job applications I want to try this approach:

I am willing to work to any company for 3 months in any technical position like coding, system admin, security, research or ... foo. If you are willing to pay my apartment rent + food [which I promise not be more than 750$ per month], I am ready to start hacking the project! This step will definitely give an exposure to show my technical abilities.

If any manager wants to give a shot please email me at aliengeek4u at gmail dot com. I appreciate for taking some time to read this !!!

Note: I am 99.99..INF% sure I will be an asset to any company which hires me.

ps: All comments or suggestions are welcome :)

pps: Message has been chopped down after patio valuable thoughts!
Can anyone at Facebook reinstate the LaGringa account(honduras crime reporter)?
http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-reinstate-the-lagringa-account
Why this is Important.-
La Gringa is a serious, long-time blogger (since 2006) who lives in the most dangerous city in the most dangerous country in the world according to the United Nations - Honduras, where 17 journalists have been murdered in the past 2 years. and where many reporters are afraid to write about organized crime or political matters.<p>She uses a pseudonym, as many authors do, not to deceive, but because it is the only way that she can exercise her freedom of speech without fear of serious reprisals. Her articles have been published all over the internet under that pseudonym.<p>This week she started writing a series of blog articles about crime and narcotrafficking in Honduras -- and that is likely what prompted the complaint about her account, just as postings of her political articles were blocked by Facebook for a time last year and the year before because of false complaints.<p>e.g. http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2011/10/crime-is-out-of-control-in-honduras.html<p>Read full petition here.-
http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-reinstate-the-lagringa-account<p>-----<p>I asked the same on Quora.. let's see what's the faster way of getting an answer..<p>Hacker News vs Quora
Is the Web closing?
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/03/01/3443140.htm
Within the tech community, there is much angst about whether the Web is about to be "closed." Will it be controlled by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, or will it remain "open" to all? Will individuals be able to reach any content they choose? Will developers be able to serve users on any platform?
Renaissance: the iOS app maker's conference. January 21-23 in SF.
http://renaissance.io
Bill Dudney and I are organizing a conference for iOS app makers in San Francisco next month. It's unique because it's not being run by a platform company, a media company with a network of sponsors to satisfy, or a professional conference organizer. We're just two app developers with some ideas about how to make an event that's more productive for app developers like ourselves.

Check out our speakers, and I'm sure you'd find that the people who are signed up so far are just as impressive. Join us?
Ask HN: How to sell SaaS?
Hi there,

Me and my co-founder built an analytics SaaS. We now need to sell it. Next to doing press releases and advertising, we want to use affiliate marketing and are busy with a white label program. Do you have other suggestions on sales/marketing?
I also wonder how Campaignmonitor and Mailchimp boosted their sales. Anyone knows?

Thanks!
Ask HN: Become a high frequency trader?
Hello HN,

I'm a regular here, but staying anonymous for obvious reasons. I'm a hacker in a variety of languages (Python/Ruby/Java/JS/etc) and have been a 'startup guy' (founder or early stage employee) for my last couple of jobs. Had a lot of fun, worked on cool problems, met great people.

Now I have an offer to work at High Frequency Trading firm to write very fast code in C/C++/Erlang. Just like a startup, there are a lot of very smart people, the problems are interesting (getting response times down to fractions of a millisecond is something I've never done before ...), and I'd make a lot of money (~200K cash, my first year). The firm is structured so that each 5-10 person group has almost complete autonomy, and it seems very startupish and entrepreneurial.

Is there any reason not to go do this? It seems perfect - why don't more hackers take this path?
Ask HN: Request for Articles?
Recently quite a lot of people on HN seem to be complaining about they're seeing the same old topics get rehashed and the lack of genuinely new content.

So I'd like to propose we make this a "Request for articles" so people can request articles on particular topics and encourage people who have knowledge in those areas to write about them.

So what topics would you love to see more written on ?

(some examples: landing pages, how to approach VCs, failure stories, how to design effective adverts, how to estimate market size)
Artists Build Secret Apt in the Mall, Prov RI
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2007/10/02/artist_gets_probation_for_building_secret_mall_apartment/
The Article:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2007/...

Pics and a video
http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Living_in_the_Mall.html
9 Ways To Take a Huge Tcpdump
http://blog.urfix.com/9-ways-huge-tcpdump/
9 cool ways to take a dump - tcpdump that is
India's demographic moment
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09305?gko=68311-27802017-27863834&cid=enews20091006
Nandan Nilekani, a founder of Infosys Technologies writes about India's "demographic dividend" - the advantage of having a young population
Ask HN: Are there software jobs that don't require a technical interview?
I've been looking around for new job opportunities, but in a slow and deliberate manner because I'm mostly okay with where I am.

Because I'm under no pressure to find a job quickly, I've come to realize something about the engineer job hunting process: I abhor technical programming interviews.

I hate the quizzes. I hate the variations on fizbuzz. I hate the gotcha algorithmic questions. The whole process is excruciating and demeaning.

I'm a veteran programmer who has written and deployed a mountain of code (backend, frontend, low level, high level, etc), led a number of teams, hired and mentored junior devs. I can, if desired, go into deep detail about any past projects I've worked on. I will happily chat about software and programming all day long.

I've talked to a number of friends about this and know that I'm not alone on this issue. Several have said they would engage in a new job search themselves, but don't want to deal with the hassle of technical interviews.

Are there any companies out there that replace technical interviews with, say, a you-will-be-fired-after-three-months-for-failure-to-perform? Most companies already operate in this manner anyway, except with a 1 year timeline instead of 3 months.
Ask HN: how to become technical in 2-3 years?
Hey HN, I have a different spin on the old “how do I learn how to program” question:

How do I learn how to program, launch, maintain, and update a web application? Measure this in years.

My story:
I had an amazing idea for a business. I spent 6 months researching it and laying out exactly how it will work. The site isn't very technically-complicated, but it's not a blog either.

So I decided I could easily teach myself programming (with little prior experience) in ~6 months and then launch the serious, heavy-hitting product. If it were successful, I’d hire a technical guy to run the technical stuff while I manage everything else.

Am I correct in thinking that this was a bit shortsighted? I’m slowly starting to realize that there is a lot of technical (and non-technical) knowledge to be had: programming the site, system admin, business administration, etc. etc. More importantly, that it may be too much for me to learn all at once, seeing that I’m a computer-savvy (but not math or programming-savvy) twenties-something guy. I can’t really get a cofounder, because at the moment I don’t have any actionable skills (if anything, I’m a “hustler” / designer).

Revised plan:
Start small and work my way up to the big beastly idea. As in, slowly learn the ins-and-outs of entrepreneurship, programming, and the web by working on small, manageable projects.

At the moment, I’m working on a content-oriented site built on WordPress: I merely have to write articles and learn basic SEO and site administration. I'm also starting a small t-shirt sales company (not printing).

After this, I’d like to make some simple web apps. Rinse and repeat until I’m immersed enough in the web ecosystem to have a clue.

Thoughts? On both “what to learn and how” and my plan in general?
New ESPN.com homepage
http://www.espn.com
1. I punched ESPN.com into my browser.
2. I'm greeted by the most confusing interstitial ad I've seen in a while. I did not like how it messed with the reality of what I thought I was looking at.
3. Then I got a popup.
4. Then the new site loaded incredibly slowly and crashed my browser.

Won't be going back there for a while.
Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS 
http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Very nice job folks!
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/07/31/announcing-provisioned-iops-for-amazon-ebs/
The stats iPhone developers are missing: Sales Conversion and Referral Source
http://blog.appsto.re/the-stats-iphone-developers-are-missing-sales
How many people in the hackernews community would find this tool useful?
WSJ: A Very Gloomy Picture Of Larry Page's Short Tenure As Google CEO
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903352704576536521984562128.html
Challenges have piled up for Mr. Page since he assumed his post in April. They include a broad U.S. antitrust probe of the company's practices; the settlement of a long-running criminal investigation into Google's advertising business; and shifting industry forces that led him to make a deal to buy mobile-device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings..
LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally
http://www.learningjar.com/index.html
I would love to get feedback on my education technology startup from the HN community. Its helping people gain employable skills informally and prove what they have learned.
Utility Mill - My Latest Site - Feedback is Appreciated
http://utilitymill.com
I've been putting it together over the past few months. I'm hoping it will be really useful to people one day. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
Been a while since I've seen a new HN hiring thread. As always, if you need someone to work onsite, please make sure to list a location.
Why Startups Fail and Why Gigamon Should've Too
http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2007/09/why-startups-fa.html
By all measures, Gigamon is a spectacular success which is all that more remarkable consider that they have taken no VC money. Like so many entrepreneurs before them, the six co-Founders of Gigamon built their company the old fashion way.
Don't work so hard that you take for granted what's in front of you
For those of you working really hard every day, take a step back and be grateful for the people you have in your life.

Put the work away and take some time and evaluate your work life balance and if you've been putting in enough work into your personal life.

Don't be like me and work your ass off that you ignore those around you; I was told by a co-worker I was going to ruin things and I thought I just had an understanding partner.

I did have an understanding partner and now I don't. All of the things I was doing instead of nurturing a relationship and a life outside of work is meaningless, a job is only a job and if you want to call your job a career that's fine, but its not more important than the people around you outside of work.

For a lot of you this is all obvious, but for some of you I hope you step back and make a reevaluation before it's too late.

This is my moment of clarity that has happened too late and now the clear future is clouded and the saved bottles of wine from our first trip together over 4 years ago that I planned to open for some possible future engagement celebration or wedding for us is now just bottles of wine.

This sucks, just take my word for it and change your priorities before you know how I feel.

--
Jeremy
Domainer Buys and Returns Domain Name to Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos
http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/exclusive-domainer-returns-domain-name-to-amazons-jeff-bezos/
The domain name JeffBezos.com was recently sold at a domain name auction and then promptly returned to its rightful owner: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com.
Being a Non-Hacker in a Hacker's World
http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk/viewarticle.php?aid=216
An article I wrote about being a non-hacker in a hackers world. It can be uncomfortable.

How many people on YC news cannot hack?
Show HN: Programmatic – a REPL for creating labeled data
https://programmatic.humanloop.com
Hey HN, I’m Jordan cofounder of Humanloop (YC S20) and I’m excited to show you Programmatic — an annotation tool for building large labeled datasets for NLP without manual annotation.

Programmatic is like a REPL for data annotation. You:

1. Write simple rules/functions that can approximately label the data
2. Get near-instant feedback across your entire corpus
3. Iterate and improve your rules

Finally, it uses a Bayesian label model [1] to convert these noisy annotations into a single, large, clean dataset, which you can then use for training machine learning models. You can programmatically label millions of datapoints in the time taken to hand-label hundreds.

What we do differently from weak supervision packages like Snorkel/skweak[1] is to focus on UI to give near-instantaneous feedback. We love these packages but when we tried to iterate on labeling functions we had to write a ton of boilerplate code and wrestle with pandas to understand what was going on. Building a dataset programmatically requires you to grok the impact of labeling rules on a whole corpus of text. We’ve been told that the exploration tools and feedback makes the process feel game-like and even fun (!!).

We built it because we see that getting labeled data remains a blocker for businesses using NLP today. We have a platform for active learning (see our Launch HN [2]) but we wanted to give software engineers and data scientists a way to build the datasets needed themselves and to make best use of subject-matter-experts’ time.

The package is free and you can install it now as a pip package [2]. It supports NER / span extraction tasks at the moment and document classification will be added soon. To help improve it, we'd love to hear your feedback or any success/failures you’ve had with weak supervision in the past.

[1]: We use a HMM model for NER tasks, and Naive-Bayes for classification using the two approaches given in the papers below:
Pierre Lison, Jeremy Barnes, and Aliaksandr Hubin. "skweak: Weak Supervision Made Easy for NLP." https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09683 (2021)
Alex Ratner, Christopher De Sa, Sen Wu, Daniel Selsam, Chris Ré. "Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly" https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07723 (NIPS 2016)

[2]: Our Launch HN for our main active learning platform, Humanloop – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987353

[3]: Can install it directly here https://docs.programmatic.humanloop.com/tutorials/quick-star...
Evolve or die: Start-ups and "Dealing with Darwin"
http://eng.wealthfront.com/2010/11/evolve-or-die-start-ups-and-dealing.html
Dealing with Darwin by Geoffrey Moore, or how to deal with innovation’s life cyle, needs to become second nature if you want to be successful at growing your start-up into a large company.
Show HN: Codacy, delegate your programming tasks.
http://www.codacy.com/
Thinking about code you have to do, but you are busy with something else?

What if you could delegate your problems to someone ready to take it off your shoulders?
That is what we are all about: doing small programming tasks for you, so that you can focus in what is really important.

Already thinking in a perfect example of something you could delegate right now?

Perfect!
Send it to us: http://www.codacy.com/submitProblem
ISO C is increasingly moronic
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/thetoolsweworkwith.html
C is a very robust language which is hard to ruin, but ISO surely is trying. The latest draft has a new mandatory one-macro #include file, and new incompatible and useless thread API, but still not compiler support for big-endian/little-endian variables or structure packing to match protocol specifications.
NES emulation on flash for more than 1800 games
http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oanegjalpoiojbhpoajhjeohnaigdgdi
NESbox is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, built on Adobe Flash technology and it can only be run directly in your browser's window. There were quite a few NES games translated (and quite faithfully, at that) into the Flash format, however NESbox.com offers not just one or two games, but almost a complete NES library, with some less-known and even bootleg games, with no need to download, install or even configure.
Boycott the Button (Facebook Connect)
http://blog.jakerlevine.com/post/366422034/boycott-the-button-why-i-refuse-to-click-on-facebook
It’s getting a little scary. I’m at the point where I would rather spend 5 minutes filling out a new profile than log into a third party site using Facebook Connect. Don’t get me wrong, Facebook Connect is a great tool (for Facebook) and I appreciate the gesture of interoperability, but I can’t help but see it as the single greatest threat to the future of the social web.
JavaScript Push API
http://www.pubnub.com/tutorial/javascript-push-api
Full Publish + Subscribe Push Framework in JavaScript
Comparing Heroku Redis Hosting Options
http://blog.flightswithfriends.com/post/35215688010/heroku-redis-hosting-options
Now that there are 5 Redis Heroku add-ons to choose from I created a comparison with charts.
Writing an API for conceptual relationships - looking for feedback
http://www.strongapi.com/src/documentation/
Hey, I'm a software student with a side project I thought I'd share with you guys. It's a RESTful(ish) API where you can input a number of concepts and the output will be a JSON object describing how those objects are related to each other. Let me know what you guys think of it. I'm interested to know what features you think I should add to it, and what I can improve on.

Thanks,

- Robert
Talk on making an impact by Seth Godin at Business of Software last year
http://businessofsoftware.org/video_10_sgodin.aspx
Are you afraid to truly make an impact? The opportunity for linchpin organizations and the people who run them.
IPhone development is for addicts
http://www.fakepad.com/post/429881381/iphone-development-is-for-addicts
My feelings towards AppStore development are becoming borderline schizophrenic. Despite the damage the AppStore does to devs we keep developing for it. That's addiction!
Show HN: I made a tool to hide HN usernames and reduce bias
https://www.hackerwhos.com/#hn
Hey HN, I made this tool after I read a pretty interesting pg essay - http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

He talks about changing some HN usernames' colors to orange and then deciding to revert back

So I thought it could be interesting to remove usernames entirely. This Chrome Extension just replaces HN usernames with question marks. I've enjoyed using it so far myself and I'm curious what you think about the concept?
Petition Google for iOS Maps
http://www.change.org/petitions/google-maps-for-ios-release-an-updated-google-maps-for-ios#
Apple just released their "revolutionary" maps application. I love my iPhone, my iPad and my Mac but this a serious step backwards. I've started a change.org petition to hopefully get Google to quickly release a native maps application onto the iOS app store.

Please sign here: http://www.change.org/petitions/google-maps-for-ios-release-an-updated-google-maps-for-ios#