jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Prof. Matthew Green asked to remove NSA post by JHU dean
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/377120854678585344
Here's the post while it's still up:
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/on-nsa.html
JetBrains offering 75% off all products/upgrades for "Mayan End of World" Sale
http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/index.jsp
Can't beat that.
Ask HN: Advice for finding high quality freelance web developers?
Hi HN,

Has anyone had a positive experience with hiring a remote web developer(s) and advice for how to go about it?

Here's my situation:

- I work fulltime (70 hrs M-F) but have been using my weekends and holiday time to work on a web app on the side to help me with a process I regularly do for one of my hobbies.

- My development has hit a stand still because I have encountered a problem that I can specifically describe and I know would probably be trivial for an experienced web dev, but I'm not quite sure how to solve it.

- I tried using Upwork to hire a freelance web developer to implement this specific component I'm having trouble with, but I had an extremely poor experience (the developer charged me for 10 hours of labor and then sent me back code that they had taken from an open source repository on GitHub that also didn't even meet the specs I had described - I literally just Googled the first line of code bc it looked fishy and the repository popped up ).

I want to hire a web developer who I can pay to work ~10 hours a week for me and I essentially act as the product manager - I am comfortable reading and writing code, I just don't have enough time to make this app the way I want to, though I know someone out there can.

Has anyone been in this situation before? Any advice?
Introducing multilang-hstore gem
http://blog.heapsource.com/post/54092546948/introducing-multilang-hstore-gem
multilang-hstore - Multilang is a small library for translating database values for Rails 4 and Postgresql hstore
Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring
http://www.infoq.com/articles/scout-extensible-monitoring;jsessionid=47AF0C77A2D3C474FBF70D827F86DA74
An interview on InfoQ with one of the Scout creators, Andre Lewis.
Ask HN: What do you use to keep a personal journal?
I've been using Day One for a while because I like the interface of both the Mac and iOS app. I find the passcode protection on the app to be very misleading though.

Installing the app on a new device will have the passcode disabled by default but still load all previous journal entries. I share my Apple account with family members and installing Day One on one of their devices would gives them access to all my journals without requiring a passcode. I've switched to Dropbox for syncing to prevent this but I'm still bothered by the fact that journal entries are stored in plain text and extremely easy to access if someone has access to my computer and goes through my Dropbox folder.

I'm thinking about using OneNote with a password protected section since it has a decent iOS and Mac app, but I'm curious if there are better options. Those of you who keep personal journals with sensitive information, what do you use?
Will Super Angels & Tech Mavens Close The Minority-Led Startup Gap?
http://blog.priforce.me/making-history-will-super-angels-tech-mavens
So all I'm asking is that we all do our part to make history. I believe silicon valley's super angels and tech mavens can close the minority-led startup gap starting with an incubator that gathers that a Mexican technologist from Los Angeles, with the poor White prodigy from the South Side of Chicago, or the Black young lady engineer from Atlanta. An incubator that gathers the best from the rest.
13 Real Examples of Why Entrepreneurship is Not Glamorous
http://petovera.com/professional-web-design-blog/2011/03/21-examples-of-why-entrepreneurship-isnt-glamorous-3-ways-it-is/
With near-overnight successes like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Groupon dominating the headlines of the day, it’s time someone injected a bit of reality into the mix.
Tell HN: (kind of an idea)Khan academy multilingual
If there are any spanish speakers who regularly watch the Salman Khan, I had an idea.

If you were to set aside a few months and do a branch of the exact same tutorials mirroring Salman Khan
teaching style, and then submit the videos to the Khan Academy for inclusion, I bet good things would come of it.Of course it doesn't have to be all of them. Just a section like "algebra".

It can be any language but I live in California so Spanish came to mind :)

I just read the money he got from google is going toward this, but if you were to do it on your own it seems like it would be a good idea for a blog regardless
Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2007/08/26/idea-blog-socialnetworking-blog20/
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
Drawing and Animating Shapes – SVG and CSS3
http://www.codicode.com/art/drawing_and_animating_shapes_svg_css3.aspx
Tutorial: an introduction to SVG and its potential, drawing basic shapes, applying masks and performing animations ...
The Abilene Paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
I learned recently there's a term for when everyone agrees to something that nobody actually wants: The Abilene Paradox. Any good examples from your lives?
Yahoo Beats Google at Paid Searches, But Only Because their User Experience is Worse
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/25/yahoo-actually-leads-in-paid-search/
A new study from Compete finds that Yahoo! actually leads Google when it comes to paid search referrals. But far from being good news for Yahoo!, the study actually highlights all of the things that Yahoo! does wrong.
Why You Shouldn't Give A Crap About Early Startup Competition
http://maplebutter.com/got-early-startup-competition-heres-why-i-think-youre-fine/
60% will kill themselves

Either by co-founders fighting, wasting money, not listening to the market, raising money from bad investors, and a thousand other decisions that they’ll have to make to succeed.

29% will pivot

They’ll move into a completely different market doing something totally unrelated to what they’re doing today. I should know.

10% will get swallowed up

Some big company will come by and acquire them, only to smother their team or dilute the potency of the product.

That leaves 1% to create something meaningful in the market you’re in and act as true competition. The odds are against them (and you – so stay focused).
Ask HN: Is it typical to trade salary for equity when joining a startup?
Suppose I got an offer from a startup that currently has funding to start hiring employees. Suppose they are offering a $100K total compensation package, such that I can choose to take a reduced salary for the equivalent in stock options (up to a certain limit). So if I am aggressive I can go $50K cash salary and $50K options a year (meaning $200K worth of options vested over 4 years with one year cliff).

Suppose the current valuation of the company is $4 million, so that means I can own up to 5% of the company (and they are ok with me owning this amount, as I will be joining as one of the first few employees.)

Suppose $100K is below my current market rate, so it seems I will not only be getting a pay cut, and then additionally exchanging my salary for equity. They mentioned that their other potential hires might also be taking even larger cuts (based on the total compensation).

Is this practice typical for startups?

I suppose the hope is that the equity portion of the compensation increases in value as the startup gets more successful.
Show HN: Hacking C++ to support Structure of Arrays
https://github.com/markisus/vapid-soa
Using my very primitive abilities with template metaprogramming, I put together a structure of arrays (SOA) class for C++.

The point of SOA is that it can be cache friendlier.
Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/postach-io-turns-an-evernote-notebook-into-a-blog/
If Tumblr get's purchased you might want another blogging platform. If you haven't seen this yet, give it a try! We just got TechCrunch'd :)
That time when Skype almost used XMPP
From: "Janus" <janus@txt.dk>
To: justin@affinix.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:15:17 +0100
Subject: PSI

Hi,

My name is Janus Friis. I'm one of the founders of KaZaA and now a
company called Skyper (www.skyper.net). We're looking into IM solutions
for an upcoming product so I thought of PSI. Can we talk?

Janus
Ask HN: What are some good books about non-code elements of software?
I'm thinking of a book like Working Effectively With Legacy Code but that deals more with things like documentation, specification, code review, etc. I'd like the book to help with the following scenario: given some completely "naked" codebase, what things (whether they're specs, docs, comments, whatever) need to be added to the codebase before you'd consider it "high-quality"?
Ask HN: Do people really believe that JetBrains software might be compromised?
I am just a reasonably satisfied customer of JetBrains. Their products are the best options, and their willingness to fix bugs is admirable. In the past 24 hours, I have seen several (about 5 or so) posts to twitter and other chat channels in response to the NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html asking questions like "It's unclear to me if I should uninstall PyCharm.".

JetBrains response is here https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-story-from-the-new-york-times-regarding-jetbrains-and-solarwinds/

Are people really concerned that this is a credible threat?
Ask HN: How do you keep your work and home machine in sync?
I primarily use a Macbook Pro for work and carry it everyday from home to my office. I'm tired of doing so, and hence I'm planning to get a mac mini for office.

I have a difficult time deciding how to keep my files in sync. I could use dropbox or Google drive but syncing every little change becomes operationally difficult. Also, when I'm traveling and working offline, I might not have access to files on the other machine.

What solution do you use to address these issue?
Show HN: Stripe Sigma alternative: tdog | SQLite | Datasette
https://github.com/tabledog/datasette-stripe
Hello,

I have recently released this GitHub repo which is a container running the tdog CLI (downloads your Stripe account to a SQLite file) and the Datasette server (reads the SQLite file, presents a web UI). This lets you browse your tables and query them with SQL.

There is a live demo at: https://datasette-stripe.fly.dev/stripe

Github: https://github.com/tabledog/datasette-stripe

Cheers.
A Business Idea for Anyone Who Wants It
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/a-business-idea-for-anyone-who-wants-it/
Steen Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, provides the algorithms he used to detect cheating on standardized tests by teachers at public schools. He suggests that with the No Child Left Behind act there might be a solid business idea in developing software that looks for statistical anomalies in test scores in order to detect cheating.
Teachers might cheat by inflating the scores of their students in order to secure more funding for their school.
FLOPPYTABLE 3.5"
http://www.floppytable.com
Gave me a large smile
Ask HN: How about a plugin to stop from compulsive buying
1. a plugin which asks for another (partner) phone number while installation
2. all "buy" or "check out" kind of links will trigger a "duo push" to the partner
3. only when partner agrees the buy button is enabled.
this will bring 2 people in the buying workflow which in itself reduces lot of UN-necessary that we buy
Bill Gates: The Power To Save Lives
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-second-coming-of-bill-gates/
I don't understand how people can raise Steve Jobs on a pedestal when one of his few peers, Bill Gates, is doing such amazing philanthropic work.
Ask HN: Best statistical resources
I'm interested in improving my statistical skills. I have a good understanding of basic stats but would like to dive into more advanced statistics (particularly in soccer). Are there any good statistical books/blogs/resources that you would recommend? Thanks in advance.
Quit Facebook Day
http://quitfacebookday.com
If you agree that facebook does not respect you, your personal data, or the future of the web, you may want to join us.
Jamie Zawinski(jwz) about ban on emacs coder Richard Mlynarik
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/kids-today/
Jamie Zawinski(jwz) feels for Richard Mlynarik ban for posting a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668655#c1
Show HN: HackerLunch - a new way meet hackers
Hello HN! Here's my November Startup Sprint project (coded in two days).

http://hackerlunch.com

It allows you to post your lunch plans and lets other hackers join you. I built this because I often see HN users are interested in meeting each other if they are in the same area.

I am not a coder, so this version is very rough. If people use it, I will work with others to build a more polished version.

I would love some feedback. What do you think? Is this something you will be using?
Ask HN: How to be good at sales?
Selling ideas, skills, products, etc... - what should be my resources?
What are the top sites known to be running ASP or ASP.NET?
In a discussion with some programmers about Facebook HPHP, one participant voiced an opinion that it's ridiculous how hard companies will work to avoid using Microsoft products, the theory being they could just pay for them and not have to worry much about performance.

There are plenty of angles to take on that, but it got me thinking: what top sites do run Microsoft web products? The biggest ones I know of are:
- stackoverflow.com
- accuweather.com
HN Feedback: Startup Idea - Sports Twitter Network
http://www.sportytweets.com
This is a network of twitter accounts I've created. I'm looking for input and advice on the idea. The twitter accounts are about 1 month old, and already have about 3000 followers across the network, and growing fast, every day.
On Hacker News, but not a Hacker? This may be the startup job for you...
http://blog.topguest.com/2011/05/topguest-is-hiring-a-salesperson.html
As a non-engineer, it's hard to break into a high-growth startup. Sound familiar? This opportunity may be for you.

Topguest has more inbound client requests than our current team can handle effectively, and we're seeking a relentlessly resourceful 'ethical hustler' to work closely with myself (co-founder & CEO) on sales. This is a unique opportunity for someone with natural sales talent to join a fast-moving startup, even if you have limited experience. It's also an excellent entry-point into the SF Bay startup community. Prove yourself in this role, and I'll bring my network to bear and personally commit to ensuring this is a "Startup Career-making" role for you that sets you up for a killer next move.
Chrome Extension to Like every post on Facebook
https://github.com/stevenklise/i-like-what-i-see
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
Ask HN: Working on Startup projects at night and weekends
I have lately been bitten by the entrepreneurship bug. I have a couple of ideas in my head which I would really want to get started with now. I work for one of the tech giants in Seattle and was planning to work on these ideas as a side project at nights and on the weekends. Do you think it is a practical approach or should I consider leaving my current job and take a real risk? One thing that concerns me the most is that I would not want these ideas to end up as just another school projects(with focus on just the technical learnings) and want to focus on creating a quality product and it give it a real shot with a quality business idea. Do you think this all can be achieved with side projects? Please share your experiences/suggestions.
Ask HN: What's with all the posts from Reddit?
Over the last few days, I've noticed a lot of posts that reference or come from reddit.com. I realize a lot of you are new to the community, so you might want to re-read the welcome. There's a place for reddit-like posts (reddit) and there's a place for news related to hackers (HN). Thanks!
Ryan Dahl Video on the History of Node.js
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ
Great video on how Ryan Dahl got into programming and the early beginnings of Node.js
Launch HN: Tardigrade–Decentralized Cloud Storage with Client-Side Encryption
Hi HN! I'm JT Olio. You might know me from previous posts such as "Go channels are bad and you should feel bad" (bad example), "Whiteboard problems in pure lambda Calculus" (good example), or being one of the first to write about switching my company from Python to Go back in 2014.

I've been working with the team here at Storj Labs to build a decentralized Amazon S3-compatible cloud storage service that is affordable, private, and secure. We just launched our new service called Tardigrade (https://tardigrade.io/) and I'd love to get input from more developers. It's open source (check out the GitHub repo at https://github.com/storj/storj) and we're primarily using Go (naturally).

If you haven't heard of Storj, the simplified explanation is that we are the Airbnb of hard drives. We take extra HDD space, aggregate it, incorporate Reed Solomon and other techniques to create resiliency, and sell it as a service to people who need object storage. The end result is a service that is encrypted by default, as fast as the big 3 cloud providers, and half the cost.

We've gone through a bit of a rebirth in the last few years. After hiring Ben Golub (Docker, Gluster, Verisign) as our new CEO, in 2018 we launched a 90 page, very detailed, technical whitepaper (https://storj.io/storjv3.pdf) for our new storage system, in 2019 we launched our alphas and betas, and now we're launching open access to our service! If you'd like to give it a try and share feedback, I can give you some credit to play around with. I'm also happy to answer any questions or share some more details around testing we've completed. Let me know what you think!
Rails Girls
http://www.kiwiluv.com/techblog/?p=1079
Nice initiative to get more girls (and women) involved in web development.
Why your product doesn’t need to go viral
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/06/24/why-your-product-doesnt-need-to-go-viral/
The long tail is all about capturing and owning a niche, not selling a product to every household in America. What your company can learn about long tail marketing.
Groupon Israel Was Hacked By Pro Palestinians
http://www.groupon.co.il/
An Israeli site reports that Groupon says that there is no danger for credit cards. They were stored on a different server.

http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3588115,00.html
95% Dreamhost Hosting Discount: Last Day Today
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/01/dreamhost-new-year-hosting-sale/
New Year hosting sale at Dreamhost offers $214.80 package for $10.74 only.
Show HN: Practice for Your YC Interviews with Betafi
https://www.betafi.co/yc-interview-prep
Hi folks,

Betafi is a product feedback platform build around moderated user interviews and usability testing sessions.

To help folks applying for the W23 batch with interviews coming up this week, we just launched a project templates feature and catered onboarding for fellow founders to practice and conduct mock YC interviews with each other.

You can use Betafi's interview script feature, "instant tags," and timestamped notes to take turns annotating rough spots and practicing rapid-fire responses to questions with your cofounder(s), to try and make the most out of those 10 minutes during your real YC interview.

A big part of the joy of building Betafi is getting to support other early-stage founders who wind up using our product in interesting and creative ways.

This project came out of several teams applying to the W23 batch, who organically started using Betafi to help prepare for their interviews, so we thought we might as well build "first class" support for it!

Do let us know what you think, keen to hear your feedback, especially given this is a slightly different use-case from what we initially designed the product for!
LinkedIn Architecture
http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/linkedins-communication-architecture
and one more here:
http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/linked-in-javaone-2008-tech-session-comm
W11 Database Startup Looking for Third Cofounder || Employee #1
We are building technology that will improve MySQL performance 30-50x through memory transactional processing and optimistic concurrency. We are looking for database engineers with prior experience in MySQL development, though this is not prerequisite.

Our ideal candidate enjoys tackling difficult, technical problems and the autonomy to do so.

Our company is nascent and growing, and this is a great opportunity to start on blank canvas and build truly disruptive technology.

Submit your resume to: dbeng2011@gmail.com

About us: We're Stanford and MIT CS grads ranging from BS to PhD.
Ask HN: How do you keep up with a firehouse of information?
How do you manage (e.g. triage, review, store, act upon, learn) the never ending flow of valuable information at your company (i.e. an overwhelming flow of information you wanted to learn)?

Simple solutions haven't worked well enough for me. Bookmarks aren't enough to spur action (and besides, not everything is a link). Todo lists become overwhelming because the list grows too long to be effective.

It becomes especially hard to organize and act upon in a timely manner when you are faced with multiple sources that appear to all have equally high signal to noise ratios (email, chat, face to face conversations, ideas, research links, etc.).

I know many people have or will never experience this "problem", but for those who have, how did you keep up?
Ask HN: What are some examples of people asking for things that are out of reach
Bo Peabody got rejected from Williams College, and wrote them a letter saying “I reject your rejection.” Who would ever have the chutzpah to send a letter like that back to a college? He kept following up, eventually got in.
Show HN: Blurity, my project for making blurry photos sharp
http://www.blurity.com/

Hi everybody,

Wanted to show you all what I've been working on for the past (many) months. It's an online tool to remove the blur from motion-blurred photos.

First, let me set some expectations: this only works on certain types of blur. Severe focus blur, blur that is inconsistent within the photo, "blur" because the image is very small, blur due to compression artifacts, and other non-motion blurs don't usually work too well (there are occasional exceptions). Early users (and paying customers, woo!) have shown a remarkable breadth of interpretations about what constitutes a "blurry" photo; I'm still trying to figure out on which segment to focus.

I'd love to get some feedback, especially about how to better educate users on what the tool does and how to improve the user experience.

If you're wondering how this works, the short answer is that it builds a model of the blur and then removes it from the image using deconvolution. The technique ("blind deconvolution") has been around for a while, and there are a few mostly academic tools out there that work in a similar manner, but Blurity attempts to bring the blur removal technology to the consumer market.

This falls into the category of a project that has been "almost ready" for about a year and a half, spending most of that time in a quiet beta. In any case, I'm finally ready to give it some exposure.

Comments and questions appreciated. Thanks!
Is Your Mind Playing Tricks on You?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/what%E2%80%99s-the-most-difficult-ceo-skill-managing-your-own-psychology/
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology.