jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Facebook & Twitter down?
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com - I get a page with the following text on it "www.weblogsinc.com"

and on Facebook.com I get 404 not found...?
Top Minimalist Website Designs: Trends and Examples
http://designfestival.com/top-minimalist-website-designs-trends-and-examples/
When you think of minimalism, you may conjure up images of black and white color schemes, overly-​​simple layouts, maybe a splash of color here and there.
Show HN: Letterloop – Private group newsletters for friends, families and teams
https://www.letterloop.co/
Made an easy way to stay connected with friends, family, or coworkers.

Here's how it works:

1. Pick questions you want to ask

2. Everyone has a week to answer them

3. Get a newsletter with everyone's submissions at the end of the week.

It can be a fun way to stay in touch with old friends, keep family engaged, or connect with coworkers.
Wiley and Elsevier PR spin for how their business model adds value
http://theconversation.edu.au/open-access-and-academic-journals-the-publishers-respond-2804
you would be forgiven for thinking that these companies have an army of 'peer reviewers' on staff and don't outsource that labour to the researchers as well. as for maintaining that e-distro's need to subsidise their printing presses... yeesh.
Idea guy needs help
Hi all. Does anyone have suggestions for what a "non-computer" person should do with promising ideas that need tech people for implementation (i.e. where and how to find them)? I'm an English major who's realized concepting, no matter how brilliant, cannot advance without code.
Ask HN: Learning to Program...
So I know someone who has been a "programmer" for some time without an formal training. His limited knowledge is becoming a major problem as he is pretty much hitting a roadblock in his career. Would anyone recommend any resources (paid or not) for further training someone in both basic and advanced concepts in programming? He does not have the resources/time to go to a full 4-year college bachelor program at this point but is looking to get better.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Ask HN: Is the hiring process getting out of control?
The hiring process in my current company was an interview in which the TL and occasionally another engineer talked with the candidates about the company, their expectations, some technical conversation.. and that's it. That was enough to recruit top talent into the company.

Now, it has become a nightmare, that even good candidates have decided to bail out for this reason. It's now following something along the lines of: recruiter screening, cognitive test, PM screening, TL technical and team fit interview, not sure if the last one is the offer or there is still one another pointless interview in between.

Recently I started to look what other companies are doing and I have to admit I'm amazed with how crazy the hiring process has become, some times even worse than what my company is doing.

Checking multiple companies which make public their hiring process in their website, on average the standard is now: First call screening with HR, second call screening with HR manager, first technical interview, technical challenge, second technical interview reviewing the challenge, team-fit interview and final meeting to negotiate.

Even startups with just a few people are doing this, which is funny because one ends up interviewing multiple times with the same guys..

Are we getting crazy? In my opinion this got out of control.
Ask HN: Strategy for dealing with timewaste biz-dev meeting invites?
Lately I've been finding myself in conversations with people claiming they want to discuss a partnership between their company and one of my projects. As these partnerships sound good on paper, I take the meeting and we talk.

About halfway through some (not all!) of these meetings, my spidey-sense starts tingling, and I realize that either

a) This person does not have the authority to do the deal that was used to get me out here.

b) This person is really just trying to pitch me on their idea and the partnership thing isn't a two-way thing.

I like hearing about what people are working on and understand not every idea works out, so I'm not bugged too much when this happens, but I was wondering if people on HN had similar experiences and how they dealt with them. When I first started WindyCitizen.com, I was desperate to get anyone to listen to me and understand that feeling, but I'm pretty busy and my time is important. Someone getting me excited about a deal that's not really going to happen is frustrating and a waste of my time.

How do others handle these sorts of invitations? I'm half of a mind to start requiring some "proof of seriousness" before entering some of these discussions.

I'm also now of a mind to just disregard most if not all of these "let's work together" offers unless it's a clear "you pay me for X" or "I pay you for X."
A tool to deal with git remote branches
http://programblings.com/2008/06/23/git-remote-branches/
Presenting a small tool to ease the interaction with remote branches in simple scenarios
Having Fun With CSS Animations
http://samuli.hakoniemi.net/having-fun-with-css-keyframes/
Article and demonstration of using CSS3 Animations and Keyframes with WebKit and Firefox.
Ask HN: What's your favorite simple, content-centric Wordpress theme?
Looking for a beautiful, content-centric Wordpress theme with a fixed header. What are some of your favorites?
Coursekit's new visual identity
http://blog.coursekit.com/post/8645806770/our-new-visual-identity
Check out our new logo.

Incredible work by Ed Nacional. Joe does a fantastic walk-through of the design in a post on the Coursekit blog.
Show HN: My first API, with SMS-based 3rd party auth method
I've been experimenting with building an API for Spotversation over the last few weeks. I couldn't get OAuth to work correctly (yet) and I don't like the process anyway, so I made my own SMS-based 3rd party authentication method.

API Docs:
http://spotversation.com/api/docs (clickable link at bottom of page)

Example Event:
http://spotversation.com/shdh
Login: 6502068481 / fake

I'm really curious how it gets the basic concepts across for other developers. Thanks for any feedback!
Scheme:  Good or Bad for Freshman CS?
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9w1br/scheme_for_first_year_cs_classes_good_or_bad/
A new CS student states his opinion on why Scheme is a poor choice for intro CS. More interesting because of the attitude that comes across clearly: that "working" code is all that matters, not testing, commenting, or other maintainability elements. Hopefully his program will explicitly address this issue.
Top college majors: business, history, & health (where's tech?)
http://1x57.com/2011/09/14/do-young-americans-want-to-work/
With all this unemployment why are so many people majoring in business, history, and phys ed?
Ask HN: Why has Rust such a bad web performance?
We considered moving from Node to Rust for performance reasons (low memory for cloud instances).

When looking at

https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks

Rust ranks on 78th (with salvo, actix and others are even lower) for performance, around 30% of the performance of the #1 spot (ActiveJ).

Why is this? (Especially compared to Go). What am I missing?
Summary of NoSQL panel on DjangoDose
http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/blog/django/2010/04/NoSQL-panel-on-DjangoDose
One of the panelists, Waldemar Kornewald, summarizes the Callcast http://djangodose.com/podcasts/callcast/episode/11/
Need early feedback for a website that matches entrepreneurs, developers and designers
http://blitzmaker.com
we needed a web app to match people for an upcoming camp, so i made blitzmaker. i am now getting feedback about the app, and trying to corner bugs and potential problems with the interface. any feedback appreciated, thanks!
Why Most Business Books Suck - The Author's Dilemma
http://www.infochachkie.com/whybusinessbookssuck/
So this is why I despise most business books...

I like the list of 'typical' business books and the not so subtle reference to "The Innovator's Dilemma".
NSA planning 1 Exaflop supercomputer
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/229402009
Box fires the next salvo in the cloud war
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/17/cloud-storage-platform-box-debuts-developer-platform-bin-2m-fund-to-invest-in-the-enterprise/
Box announced it is putting money into developers that build on it's APIs in their launch of the /bin program (Box Innovation Network)
Toy Chest - A 'Flat UI'-inspired color scheme for Sublime Text & TextMate
http://toychesttheme.com/
Here is a 'Flat UI'-inspired color scheme for programmers (Sublime Text & TextMate supported).<p>Flat UI - http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
Code Now relaunches as Runnable
http://runnable.com/
Is down at the moment but really looking forward to checking this out.
The word farms of the web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/27/guardianweeklytechnologysection.internet
The growing number of websites that mix and match low-quality articles produced by amateurs in order to generate traffic is causing concern, reports Danny Bradbury
LINQ To SQL Vs Entity Framework
http://jinaldesai.net/linq-to-sql-vs-entity-framework/
Entity Framework is ORM(Object Relational Mapping) introduced by Microsoft. It proves very useful for new developers for it’s simplicity to query against conceptual schema and also has rich feature set. Many time the question has been asked in the interview to explain differences between Entity Framework and LINQ To SQL to the developers who has work experience in Entity Framework. I have made table of differences between these two technologies.
Startup School (2005-2008) Notes and Reviews
http://www.mahalo.com/Startup_School
A resource page for startup school, links to a lot of old slides, reviews, and official information. Feel free to start a discussion about startup school in the discussion area.
Review my App: Cheque-up
http://cheque-up.com

Once you're signed up, you can text in 'balance' to retrieve your balance, and 'officemax, 42.49' or 'paycheque +10000' to update your budget.

It's still in the really early stages - but I'm looking for feedback and monetization ideas.
New Simple Java API Search Engine
http://www.nerds-central.com/Search/Java1-6.html
Tired of Googling for Java Docs on like then searching the docs - the solution - a simple custom search engine using Google custom search
Show HN: Octotree, the missing GitHub tree view
I started this as a weekend project and posted it on HN 5 years ago. 300,000 users later, I just released v4 today. Octotree [1] gives GitHub a sidebar that improves file navigation and code/pull request review. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Any comment or feedback is appreciated.

[1]: https://www.octotree.io/
2D gameart for programmers (and others)
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisHildenbrand/20111114/8882/2D_Game_Art_For_Programmers__Part_5.php
This is the fifth set of tutorials using free graphic tools like inkscape and gimp to create 2D game art. After getting a little sidetracked in the last part and creating some more character designs, I am finally back to animation in inkscape.

Part 5 is out and covers the basic animation setup and creation.
Ask HN: Is it a coincidence someone patented my MVP?
Throwaway. I publicly posted my MVP on a tech forum, and a few days later a tech company filed a patent for the same thing. I'm assuming it's a coincidence, and that we were both working on the same thing at the same time. Had anyone experienced this before? And is it feasible someone could pull together and submit a patent in less than a week?
Uber challenges
http://www.talentbuddy.co/set/523cc5174af0110af38303a8
A set of challenges that explore some of the things that happen when you connect with a driver on Uber.
Ask HN: How can I take screenshots of websites programmatically?
Hey all,

I'm trying to figure out how to take a screenshot of a site using some kind of script. Ie: give it http://www.google.com, get back a .png/.jpg of google.com.

I've seen this feature on the new google search results preview and a few other places.

Couldn't really find much after googling, has anyone tried to do this before?
Show HN: My PowerShell pixel art editor
https://shaunlawrie.com/blog/pwshsprites/
I got a bit carried away writing an editor so I could draw some pixel art for starting my blog and ended up with some pwsh spaghetti that's quite fun to use.
Show HN: Eleven – Free, open-source, Codespaces alternative with automatic HTTPS
https://github.com/eleven-sh/cli
Hey HN,
Eleven is the second project that I've built to learn Go. It lets you create code sandboxes, in your cloud provider account, easily.

What's a "code sandbox"? Just a VM, running in your cloud provider account, with some runtimes pre-installed, your repositories cloned, a way to connect to it with your preferred editor (or via SSH) and a way to serve your apps easily via HTTP (with automatic HTTPS).

You could use it as a remote development environment, to test some code or even to deploy your app. It's up to you.

For example, to deploy a Node.JS app:

$ eleven aws init hello-world --runtimes node@18.7.0 --repositories eleven-sh/hello-world

> Success! The sandbox "hello-world" was initialized.

$ ssh eleven/hello-world forever node index.js

> Forever: command started. Run "forever stop" in current path to stop.

$ eleven aws serve hello-world 8000 --as hello.eleven.sh

> Success! The port "8000" is now reachable at: https://hello.eleven.sh

$ curl https://hello.eleven.sh

> Hello World

Still learning Go by the way, so I'm open to any suggestions to improve.
Ask HN: Who else is attending the LeWeb conference?
http://www.leweb.net
Would like to meet up with some of the more technical people in the crowd & I think HN readership is a good indicator.
Where to start a start-up?
Hey,
I do think this could get far in form of helping people finding their way through their need of daily information search and gathering. Since I earned some confidence talking to lots of greatly respected people I know, some offered me help money wise and expressed their linking.

I have this idea for a startup but I believe I don't know how to start it up.

I have created lots of sketches and a Photoshop mock-up, a businessplan, but still no clue what to do. Where to start?

[Greetings from Germany, HN you are awesome!]
Tell HN: Tokyo meetup tonight
In case you missed it the Tokyo Hacker News meetup is tonight:

http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/19488

If you have not attended before: the HN meetups are by far the best meetups I've attended in Japan. Everyone is friendly and discussion is intelligent.

Entry is 2,500Yen (~$20USD) and that includes two drink tickets.

You should definitely come!
Ask HN: Temporarily using one hand, help
I cut a tendon in my hand at the weekend and I won't have use of my dominant hand for 6 to 8 weeks. I live in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and the browser.Any advice on how to live with one hand temporarily?
Ask HN: OS X first-timer
Hi there, after avoiding the hype for many years, i picked up my first computer with OSX yesterday: a 13" Retina MBP.

For the past 10 years i have been mostly using Linux (and a bit of Windows 7...) for my daily job: Python dev, some Frontend dev (HTML/CSS/JS), a bit of Photoshop and a bit of Ruby/Rails and PHP from time to time.

I already installed most of my must-have cli tools via homebrew.

What i seek now are some other developer-oriented guides to get me up to speed with OSX. What else to i need to know? Any hints, must-haves, best practices? I know this is a very broad question, but any input is appreciated.
Tell YC: Mjam West Coast Tour
http://mjam.at/tour/
We're a startup from Vienna, and in September 2008 we'll be touring the West Coast to

* meet friends.
* hang out with cool hackers.
* attend a wedding.
* do serious internet business.
* eat lots of burritos and cupcakes.
* court investors.
* give talks.
* show off our robots.

If you're active in the local tech scene and passionate about what you're doing, we'd love to meet/visit you during our trip! Book quality time with us!

Please also tell us if you know people that you think we should meet!
Britons could face charges for breaking US copyrights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution
"The jurisdiction we have over these sites right now really is the use of the domain name registry system in the United States. That's the key."<p>How far does US jurisdiction stretch? Will this alienate other nations and impair international co-operation for the sake of a failing business mode?
StrongBad running without Flash using JavaScript/HTML5
http://smokescreen.us/
Scroll down for the StrongBad demo. It's seamless!
Reverse Search with Elasticsearch
http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2013/01/14/reverse-search-with-elasticsearch-1/
Elasticsearch has an amazing feature called Percolation, which allowed us to save the complicated searches of the Group Portfolio into an index, then when a new project is added, we can ‘search the searches’ to return the Group Portfolio ID.
Smooth CoffeeScript - Free E-book
http://autotelicum.github.com/Smooth-CoffeeScript/
Targetted at developers who want to learn CoffeeScript but don't know JavaScript
Secure Persistent Login With Very Little SSL Redux
http://getitdownonpaper.com/2009/07/11/secure-persistent-login-with-very-little-ssl-part-1/
I have rewritten I had previously submitted to adjust for comments made. This is my proposal for a login system that can reliably keep a user logged in for an extended period with minimal use of SSl to save on overhead. I have also posted code at http://getitdownonpaper.com/2009/07/15/secure-persistent-login-with-very-little-ssl-part-2/.
Mark Your Territory
http://dwig.lmc.gatech.edu/projects/Quitmeyer/myt/main.php
Check into Foursquare by peeing in a location using the "Mark Your Territory" app.
Ask HN: Why the Hate?
I was wondering, and i dont really understand the logic or the purpose of it. Why there are still haters in our world, even if we're spreading love, peace, kindness, ect...

I mean, i dont understand the psychologic side of these people.

Do you now where i can find some studies or articles which explain that phenomenom ? I found nothing on the net..
Stay Focused & Keep Shipping - get your own print
http://print.imaj.es/
I created this in homage to the now famous FB print. I think we should all have it in our offices- and i'm going to be making it a reality. Order now! :)
Show HN: Cheapr.me - gets best online deals in India.
http://cheapr.me/
Your reviews and suggestions :)
Together we can restore net neutrality
http://www.askthem.io/questions/52e95e7bf92ea1ca7e00000b?t=dXNlcmlkPTUyMzA3NDUzLGVtYWlsaWQ9NDY0MQ==
I feel as if we could let our voices be heard if we stand together.
Ask HN: Is there an easy way to register my international company in Delaware?
Is there a website I can go to, just pay with my credit card, and have everything done for me ? Am I expecting too much?

Or should I contact an attorney?

Any details you can provide of your experience would be greatly appreciated.
Show HN: Programmable network proxy for the cloud, edge and IoT
https://github.com/flomesh-io/pipy
*Pipy* is an [open-source](https://github.com/flomesh-io/pipy), lightweight, high-performance, modular, programmable, cloud-native network stream processor that is ideal for a variety of use-cases like edge routers, load balancers & proxy solutions, API gateways, static HTTP servers, service mesh sidecars, policy agents, and other applications.
Review my startup, joday.com
http://joday.com
Millions of videos are uploaded to internet every minute.

joday.com makes it easy to find entertainment you like based on your likes, location, profile, network and other trending signals on internet. It's your entertainment concierge.

I need feedback, please suggest

thanks,
joday.com
Gizmodo:  Latest firmware neuters the iPhone . . . upon re-review, don't buy the iPhone
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/iphone/iphone-re+reviewed-verdict-dont-buy-302075.php
From Gizmodo:

I was planning to change our "Wait" verdict to a full-on and rabid "Buy". That wasn't because of Apple, but because of the cool apps being offered by independent developers. All that came to an end yesterday after the new Apple firmware 1.1.1 neutered the handset. With this, I'm going to have to move our recommendation from "Wait" to "Don't hold your breath." I'm done with this handset until third-party apps come back.
Ask HN: Why is "Reform the PhD system or close it down" dead?
I just logged in to add a comment on this thread to find out that it is dead - why has this happened?
YC's Inkling Markets Powering Crowd Wisdom and the Future of Newsgathering in ABC7's "Futures Market"
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2007/07/crowd_wisdom071607.php
Ask HN: Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think?
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+java%2C+python%2C+perl&l=&relative=1
This graph was passed around at work today. Although the number of postings about ruby is low, the relative (growth) is amazingly high.

What do you think?

Edit: My own take a few years back - http://jobalytics.tamersalama.com/
Ask HN: Uber for Everything - who wants to join our beta testing in SF Bay Area?
Hi. Was excited this morning to see 'Uber for Everything' post on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6264847)

We're Silicon Valley-based startup and have been working on this idea for several months already. Feel free to join our closed testing that we've recently started: http://yoneibs.com/ or just shoot an email at yo@yoneibs.com (yoneibs@gmail.com).

Location based social discovery platform with social commerce features. YoNeibs (Yo Neighbors) helps to discover cool people around you or in any neighborhood wherever you are. You can easily ask your neighbors for help, borrow their stuff and just make good friends.

Thanks for your attention. Feel free to give some feedback.
Xoopit for Gmail Closing
http://www.xoopit.com/faq
Dear Xoopit for Gmail user,

We will be officially turning off Xoopit for Gmail on November 13, 2009, to focus our efforts on making My Photos for Yahoo! Mail an amazing product and bring those features to all Yahoo! Mail users. Given our focus, we decided we cannot adequately support the Xoopit for Gmail product and give you a great experience in the future. Here are some details to guide you through this transition.

Do I need to download any files or pictures?

Most Xoopit for Gmail users follow standard Gmail conventions and choose to archive—not delete—mail. In this case all of your data should still be accessible via Gmail. If you have ever posted to a blog from Xoopit you should download those photos and host them on another site (e.g., Flickr). If you do not download these photos by November 13, 2009, you will no longer be able to access them through Xoopit.

Are there Gmail features that can help me?

Yes! The following Gmail Labs features may help with your migration away from Xoopit.

* Search AutoComplete
* YouTube previews in mail
* Picasa previews in mail
* Flickr previews in mail
* Google Search

You can also do searches like "filename:(jpg OR png)" (to see all the emails that have photo attachments) or "has:attachments" (for all the emails with attachments). See Gmail's page on Advanced Search for more details. You won’t have the exact same experience as Xoopit, but it will help.

To help you through this transition, we've compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions and resources here.

Thank you for using Xoopit for Gmail. We’ll miss you!

The Xoopit team
Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends
http://www.mobaganda.com
Recently launched Mobaganda, and have been featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, etc... Just found out it will be included in TIME's 50 best sites of 2008.

Have the opportunity to take on some VC money to build it out a bit, a few hundred thousand, but am not sure if I should or not.

Thoughts? How would you monetize assuming great traction and viral growth?

-Stirman
www.stirman.net