jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: SQL Building Blocks in Node.js
https://github.com/anderjason/composablequery
Hi HN,

I've been using PostgreSQL with Node.js, and I've developed some useful patterns for breaking down SQL queries into smaller parts, because small building blocks are easier to reason about and test. An important consideration when doing this is keeping query text and parameters separate.

ComposableQuery helped me write safer and more readable code, so I decided to package it as a library and release it on GitHub as open source.

ComposableQuery is here: https://github.com/anderjason/composablequery
FaceBook's Idea = Printing Money
http://www.staycuriousmyfriends.com/genius-move-by-facebook-license-to-print-money/04/2012/
Great idea on FaceBook's part to get better meta data on posts.
Warby Parker Hiring "Computer Vision" Engineer - Could this be for Google Glass?
http://wp.theresumator.com/apply/oPMSOg/Principal-Software-Engineer-Computer-Vision.html
"Warby Parker is seeking a brilliant senior software engineer who will develop computer / machine vision applications that make our company succeed. You'll be working in a fast-paced, fun environment, and your work will be seen by millions of people."
Joel Spolsky: The Four Pillars of Organic Growth [2008]
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-four-pillars-of-organic-growth.html
Thought I'd repost this, as I enjoyed the discussion of balance and how going too fast can sometimes result in disaster. Unexpectedly rapid growth in revenue is a better problem to have than no revenue, but it's still a problem.
Danish textile prints
http://trykfabrikken.com
This is where I ordered my first textile prints. I needed textile prints for my sons soccer team. If you're from Europe consider this website. Outside Europe you might be able to find better and/or cheaper alternatives though :)
French talk of taxing Internet public user profiles
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57565065-93/google-facebook-amazon-may-be-subject-to-french-taxes/
This is interesting, maybe it is not the right final answer, but it is the first taxation method that is not transactional or traffic based.

Given the tax avoidance nature of all companies, and the wild success at it that web service companies enjoy, I am always entertained by governance catching up.

Is this rent seeking on truly new revenue, or is this a legitimate taxation of economic activity for the betterment of a society?
Ask HN: Working Remotely Abroad Workaround
So with covid everyone is working remotely. However life is life and due to personal circumstances I need to be in Belarus for a few months. My work has already said that I can only work from Ireland.

My question is, theoretically if I was to get a VM in Ireland, remote to it from Belarus, and then remote into work. That should work as my work PC in Dublin will get the connection from some data centre in Ireland.

Has anyone done something similar? Anyone see any issues?
Crowdboxer
http://www.crowdboxer.com
Hi guys,

We've just launched Crowdboxer, and we wanted to ask you to take a look at us (it's worth your while, we rock). We need your feedback really hard, so please sign up for free if you like it. Thanks a lot.

http://www.crowdboxer.com
Ask HN: weird bug?
Currently all instances of the letter "y", the letter between "x" and "z", are rendering as upper "L" in titles on the HN front page. Is this happening to anyone else?
The "Don´t Be Evil" Tool
http://alfredo-almeida-seo.blogspot.com/2012/01/dont-be-evil-tool.html
Google could be +(more) user friendly
Boomerang Effect? Your Party Hub, back to Norfolk?
http://www.siliconanchornews.com/boomerang-effect-your-party-hub-back-to-norfolk/
I think it’s important to write honestly and note that we sometimes lose talent to larger markets, that’s okay though, I grew up in the Greater Washington, DC area and yet find me here! I met the guys at Your Party Hub a few weeks before Start Norfolk 2.o, simple emails back and forth, “We live in NYC, but grew up down there, can we still participate?” My answer was simple, Yes! Little did I know that they would win the Twitter competition and be a finalist come the wee hours of Start Norfolk day 1.
Twitter is Down
http://www.atiwari.com/articles/2009/08/twitter-down-yes-it-is/
Twitter is down and is having a major outage. May be Ruby finally failed to scale .. even Scala couldnt help it take a few more breadths ? ..!
The Innovation Station
http://www.tis.tv
Presenting the best video on innovation. Watch, add, upvote your favourite videos!
Instago – Smart Map With Street View, Eye-View And Navigation Arrow 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theredsunrise.whereami
Hi, my name is Theredsunrise, and i love that moments i can put headphones on and listen to the trance music, get some coffee and start to develop in the Android. So here is the result - Instago my first app, a smart map for newbies.
Why refusing third-party cookies will be worse for users privacy
http://blog.sukria.net/2013/02/27/why-refusing-third-party-cookies-will-be-worse-for-users-privacy/
After Safari, it’s now Firefox that will apparently refuse third-party cookies by default. The Mozilla Foundation claims it’s for better privacy for its users, I think the mid-term effect will be the opposite. [...]
Joomla development work offshore with best joomla developer
http://bestjoomladeveloper.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/joomla-development-work-offshore-with-best-joomla-developer/
Joomla is the best available open source content content management system on web. Many companies in india offers offshore development work for there clients across the globe but many few of them are favorites in offshore joomla developer list. beacuse most of the companies offers fake experience certificates and raise high salaries to offshore clients.
Do you know how to Choose the best lace wigs?
http://helpinghands.in/do-you-know-how-to-choose-the-best-lace-wigs/
Nowadays the popularity of full lace wigs is immense. It is easy to understand why since they look so natural. It is quite hard to notice when someone will be wearing a wig as the quality is much higher than in the past.
Why price fixing engineers salaries is a big deal
http://towski.no-ip.biz/journals/20140131.html
Original article: http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/
Reverse-engineering iOS App
http://kalapun.com/blog/2013/02/11/reverse-engineering-ios-app/
My friend wrote this amazing article. First hand experience.
I love making hypotheses-"Selling and The Law of Reciprocation"-what d'you thnk?
http://quantips.com/117/selling-and-the-law-of-reciprocation/
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Teh RIDDLE
http://forwardfeed.pl/index.php/2011/09/26/zagadka-prosty-tekst-do-odgadniecia/
Bottom in english - check if you can beat it!
7 Universal Conversion Optimization Principles (Free Ebook)
http://e-book.contentverve.com/optimization-principles/
Tested and proven optimization principles you can apply to your online marketing funnel and increase conversions. Based on 4 years of research and over 350 real-life A/B tests - get the book for free!
Two years of geek book reviews
http://www.datamungeblog.com/2013/12/two-years-of-my-book-reviews.html
An end of year book review post that got out of control. A list of decent book recommendations. Maybe you'll find something to pick up over holiday travel.
OpenBSD Foundation Funding Goals Reached
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140410193934
Don't forget to donate! :)

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

and

http://www.openbsd.org/want.html

Thanks!
Video: Algorithm is not a four letter word. RobyConf 2011
http://confreaks.net/videos/662-rubyconf2011-algorithms-is-not-a-four-letter-word
Remember that great presentation(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3054509).

Here is the video.

Slides: http://www.jamisbuck.org/presentations/rubyconf2011/index.html
CMS Explorer : Pentesting Environment for CMS bases sites
http://www.hackplanet.in/2011/09/cms-explorer-reveal-cms-components-out.html
CMS Explorer is a security testing by revealing diffrent modules , plugins, components and themes a particular CMS based site is using
Demand Accountability of Prosecutorial Abuse in Case of Aaron Swartz
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/16-5
please sign the two petitions in this article in support of Aaron Swartz
Show HN: Streamline Your Funnel Analytics with Dynamic UTM Tags and JavaScript
https://fusebit.io/blog/dynamic-utm-tags/
I built a JavaScript snippet for your website to solve the problem below.

While UTMs are ubiquitous in analytics, the best practice requires constant effort to ensure external links are tagged. The reality is that only a few links contain UTM tags. Links that do have UTMs are often only digital marketing campaigns, generated through manual tagging with the help of a campaign tracking URL builder. This creates a challenge when you want to create standard reports to compare the performance across all marketing channels. This is even more important when your analytics stack extends beyond the Google ecosystem.
How Linux Web Hosting India Can Benefits Small Business
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/how-linux-web-hosting-india-can-benefits-small-business
Linux web hosting is one of the most common budget hosting platforms used in present days. Linux web hosts can provide enormous amounts of space in their web hosting plans with lots of installed features with Linux hosting.
Drive wipe
http://www.drive-wipe.com/
Drive wipe software wipe and erase complete data from hard disk drive to protect confidential data from misuse
Why Is Cosmos Blocked in the US on Youtube?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZxlWy0m7c&list=PLBA8DC67D52968201
Youtube is telling me episode two of Carl Sagan's Cosmos contains content from EMI or SME (?). Does anyone know whats going on?
Haiti, From the Frontline.
http://www.muraleethummarukudy.com/blog_details.aspx?ID=232
Blog of a UN official in Haiti.
Need servers? Dell has an excellent deal for a 8 core server
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bscwek1&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&kc=category~rack_optimized
Here's something different for the HN community, a server deal from dell that I saw on FT... Pretty good pricing on a 8 core server.
Mailinator family now includes talkinator
http://www.talkinator.com/
o if there is no sign-up, what name will I have when I enter a room?
One will be generated for you. You can change it with the "name change" button or just type "/nick yourNewName".

How can I tell if someone in a talkinator room is a noob?
Their nick will be "yourNewName".
What IP is the single most crowded on the Internet?
http://dnsdigger.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/what-single-ip-is-the-most-crowded-on-the-internet/
I digged into my Index and found out.
Great Place To Shop & Save :)
http://www.shoptoearn.net/knowhow
Great Place To Shop & Save...Share What You Know -- knowhow.
How To Take Advantage Of Various Financial Calculators
http://northenloans.ca/blog/take-advantage-of-financial-calculators/
When you are making some financial goals for the future it is useful to be able to calculate such important things like your returns, the period of time for which you need to save or how much you need to save to benefit.
"Socialcam" is part of Color's Android market ID
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.color.android.socialcam
SEO? Cybersquatting 2.0?
Jeff Clavier's New Seed Fund
http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/09/21/jeff-claviers-new-seed-fund/
average "bite size" of $250K, ranging from $100K to $500K
The Cloud, Our Kids, and Colleges: Grown Ups Should Take Notes | CloudTweaks.com
http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2012/01/the-cloud-our-kids-and-colleges-grown-ups-should-take-notes/
The Cloud, Our Kids, and Colleges: Grown Ups Should Take Notes | CloudTweaks.com - Cloud Computing Community
Raj Mathur, Hacker and Foss Contributor passed away
http://news.efytimes.com/e1/96578/A-Tribute-To-Raj-Mathur-A-Brilliant-Hacker-And-FOSS-Contributor
People active on Linux User Groups in India do not need an introduction to who Raj Mathur was. Raj Mathur, the guy known for his brutal honesty and principles, is no more with us. He died on 12.12.12 but will always be remembered as a lively and a humorous personality in the hearts of many open source lovers.
FitWow.com's first client's validation
http://blog.fitwow.com/fitwows-1st-hit
when it comes to matching clients and trainers, fitwow is the #1 on the net, albit barely 2 weeks old, trainers and clients are already connecting in real world
SEO
http://www.geeksnerds.co.uk/seo/
SEO services to increase site ranking on Google, yahoo and Bing. Optimization using keywords, directory submissions and linking methods. SEO experts use white hat SEO techniques for site link popularity and bring target traffic towards the site.
Show HN: Jottedly, track your job search in one place
http://jottedly.com/
I've been learning how to code, and I'm building Jottedly as a personal project to help people track their job search. Welcome any feedback! Thanks. -rob
Show HN: Startup Scriptures (feedback welcome)
http://www.startupscriptures.com
I started Startup Scriptures as a side project to aggregate great content for people on the entrepreneurship journey. Is this useful? Can it turn into a business?
Skylight is testing paypal integration for its invoicing system
http://www.skylightit.com
Skylight is testing paypal integration for its invoicing system
Indian entrepreneurs rule the Red Herring Asia Top 100
http://wajeez.com/2011/10/25/india-beats-china-in-red-herring-asia/
I can not quite understand the result of the list I compiled! Do poor countries give birth to more entrepreneurs, while rich ones have lazy minds? Or it's not related?
Itemscript JSON Library for Java and GWT
http://code.google.com/p/itemscript/
The Itemscript JSON Library has a common API for standard Java and the GWT Java environment.

It includes a RESTful in-memory JSON database usable in either environment, where values are accessed by URLs through a REST-like API that can also be used to access values over HTTP.
How to Achieve 12-Factor App “Config” Glory with Django Settings Files
http://blog.ipoots.com/post/43154090079/how-to-achieve-12-factor-app-config-glory-with-django
So part of being a 12-factor app is storing your config in your environment (http://12factor.net/config). This is how I do that using Django settings files.
MongoCasts - Episode 4: BSON, Create and Read
http://mongocasts.com/post/598384247/episode-4-bson-create-and-read-in-mongodb
Shameless promotion of my attempt at screencasting. Feed back greatly appreciated. (still learning the art of screencasts.
Password Security tips
http://www.netconclave.com/blog/password-security-tips-2/
Collection of Password Security tips.
NVIDIA's Playbook
http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/03/nvidias-playbook/
NVIDIA's strategy against the AMD/ATI merger, future AMD Fusion products, as well as Intel's massive, multicore plans.
JenkinsCI Grows to 43k+ installations, 500 plugins
http://blog.cloudbees.com/2012/07/continuous-information-vol-3-jenkins.html
The Jenkins Continuous Integration tool now has more than 43k installations and 500 plugins! The latest Jenkins newsletter, Continuous Information, shows how fast Jenkins is growing and highlights the latest developments in the Jenkins community.
How I plan to monetize my mobile Portal
http://gmbhnews.com
Hello fellow Hackers , a couple of days ago, I asked for feedback ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370205 ) concerning my mobile site: http://www.gmbhnews.com and received some great advices and I'm trying to implement many of those now. I'd like to have some feedback concerning the monetisation strategy,it should be advertising based, subscription based and some sponsorship, but I'm not sure about the subscription part and may remove it, any advice or suggestions? how would you monetize it?

ps. please keep in mind http://www.gmbhnews.com is a minimum viable product at the moment.
Flight MH370: Passengers' Mobile Phones Ring But Not Answered
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-passengers-mobile-phones-ring-not-answered-1439560
The plane turned around? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/oil-slicks-malaysia-airlines-plane-crash-site-terrorism-article-1.1715004 …

but the transponder data does not show that!

And now phones on that plane are ringing! Mystery deepens ?
Ask HN: What makes a great intern?
I've interned twice before and really tried to learn as much as I could. I am about to do so again this summer. I would love to get some public opinion on what makes the best interns, and how to maximize the opportunities.
Full Stack Java developer Denver Colorado – $90k-$120k plus equity
Inversoft is a 100% bootstrapped company that is cash flow positive and growing rapidly. We develop on-premise software solutions to help companies build online communities. Our products are:

- Gather, a platform for building forums, Q&A sites, and other online communities. Everything in Gather is accessible via a REST API or an HTML front-end.

- CleanSpeak is our profanity filtering and moderation tool. It is extremely fast and intelligent. CleanSpeak has a simple REST API and a simple and intuitive HTML front-end.

- And finally, Passport is our User Management system. Everything in Passport is accessible via a REST API as well as an HTML front-end.

We need full-stack Java developers to help us expand the features in CleanSpeak and finish building Gather and Passport to get them to market. Check out our job listing here:

http://www.inversoft.com/company/careers

Submit your resume (plus any other relevant info like Github or LinkedIn) to jobs@inversoft.com.
Show HN: Trane-rustlings, learn Rust with Trane and rustligns
https://github.com/trane-project/trane-rustlings
Last week, I shared my project Trane (https://github.com/trane-project/trane), an automated system for learning new skills. There are some courses at https://github.com/trane-project/trane-music, but I figured it'd be nice to have a self-contained course to showcase Trane and something related to programming since Trane is in an early stage, and it's not likely non-technical users will try it.

Given that Trane is my first Rust project, I figured it'd be nice to augment rustlings (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/) with Trane. The result is trane-rustlings (https://github.com/trane-project/trane-rustlings).

This course is an example of how existing educational materials can be easily augmented with Trane. The exercises in this course just reference the exercises in rustlings by name. By solving the rustlings exercises in the order Trane presents them, you progressively gain mastery of all of them, while reinforcing them as you go along.

If you find you are being shown the same exercises too many times (specially at the beginning) then you can either finish your study session and continue later to have time to absorb the material or add the exercise to the blacklist, so it's not shown ever again (Trane will act as if that exercise has been fully mastered).

I also added a documentation site (still under development): https://trane-project.github.io/ Instructions on how to use the command-line interface are there.

If you end up trying it, let me know what you think.
Show HN: Uncino – Fast, tiny and solid hooks system for JavaScript and Node.js
https://github.com/riktar/uncino
Do you know Wordpress hooks system? Uncino is a hooks system highly inspired to it!

- Async / Await support
- Node or Browser support
- Actions / Hooks system
- Easy to use
- No Dependencies
Usenet archives are disappearing
http://blog.infinit.io/post/37900088781/an-homage-to-usenet
Do you agree or disagree?
Invest One Million – entrepreneurs seek backers for mystery startup project
http://venturevillage.eu/invest-one-million
The mysterious Berlin-based pair behind "Invest One Million" want to find a backer - or several - to invest sight unseen in their startup.
Using Web Meetings for Usability Testing
http://dklcheng.com/design/using-web-meetings-for-usability-testing/
Football coaches and players pour over game and practice film to learn how their plays are working. Software developers can do the same and with the magic of the interweb, you can do so without having to sit onsite with your customer.
2 Free Ways to Securely Erase Macintosh Hard Drive 
http://www.macosx-faq.com/erase-macintosh-hard-drive-securely-for-free/
Usually there are 2 ways (using Disk Utility or Mac Eraser tool) to freely yet securely erase Macintosh HD and make all the data wiped out permanently.
Social Networks are getting scary: Part II
https://medium.com/p/352554071e4e
I loved using social networks until I got scared of it. I tweeted/shared everything. From what I am reading to which political party I support. One day, it struck to my mind that each tweet/post is a dot and if you connect all the dots then important pattern about me could be revealed. If somebody/organization/government analyzes all my tweets/posts, then he/she/it could easily tell who I am, what I do, what I think, and certainly a stronger algorithm could also accurately predict what sort of the person I am and even predict my future. These possibilities are serious breach in my privacy.
Ask HN: Color blind and Bootstrap alert boxes
http://getbootstrap.com/components/#alerts-examples
Especially the red-green color blind group seems problematic.<p>Therefor am considering that simply adding an icon provides better UA.<p>Any color blinds who'd like to give me more insight ?:)
Show HN: I built an easy to browse map of all Amazon Lockers in the U.S.
https://lockermap.com/
Amazon Lockers are really useful for getting Amazon orders while on the road. Unfortunately, the search function on Amazon's site only lets you search around a particular address. This makes it hard to find lockers if you're in a rural area or on the move. So I scraped all the lockers and put them on a map. Pretty simple, but very helpful for road trippers, RVers, van lifers, etc. Ideally this should already exist, but it didn't.
Frontend: The open-source web visual editor
http://xchema.com
Create dynamic web applications and sites directly from your favorite browser.

Check our stretch goals on Kickstarter, they are pretty amazing.

Differential:

1. Open-source

2. Connect your own database

3. Create your own components (JQuery plugins for example)

4. Create your own templates

5. Export directly to Amazon, Github Pages, Wordpress

6. Run on all browsers including mobile

7. Team collaboration

8. Integrate CMS system to manage your information

9. Code editor for experienced developers

10. Create native iOS/Android Apps with PhoneGap
JS Engineer to help embed and share content around the web - Embedly (YC W10)
Embedly is looking for a frontend Javascript engineer in the Boston area. We provide a competitive salary, health and dental, 401K, and good times. http://embed.ly/jobs

Thousands of developers, bloggers, and publishers use Embedly on a daily basis to embed media, show article previews, and make their sites and applications a lot more engaging. We are looking for someone to build and design new ways to interact with our service. This includes tasks ranging from working with our customer facing EmberJS dashboard, to writing javascript plugins that anyone can paste into their blog or site to use Embedly.

Embedly is an API company that serves 500 million requests a month. We provide simple RESTful endpoints that allow developers to retrieve metadata about any URL.

Come join us and shape the future of how content moves around the web, and all over the world.

You want to:

-Build JS plugins and libraries people will actually use.

-Drive new product decisions.

-Spend more time building and throwing things at the wall.

You won't be:

-Encumbered with existing tech.

-Bored.

-Forced into a specific technology.

You have:

-Experience with building reusable Javascript libraries.

-Experience with responsive web design.

-Experience working with client side APIs.

If you're interested send us a message at jobs@embed.ly. Please include the following if you have them: Github, CV, and LinkedIn.