jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Feeling burnout, advice?
Dear hn,
I'm a web programmer with 10 years of experience. Since I was a kid I wanted to do my own business and since high school I tried to do so.

My biggest success is a startup that got some recognition, lasted 1,5yr but collapsed (I was the ceo). That was 2 years ago and since that time I'm struggling with cash & with my thoughts.

For the past 2 years I was living of freelance jobs and I tried starting four different things which went nowhere (I gave up each time after 3 months or so).

My weakest points currently - I'm unable to program (or even work) for more than 2 days straight. I don't have a team (my past teammates have found jobs somewhere else or started their own businesses). I don't have a cash to startup and I'm afraid of a next failure & giving up again.

My strong points are - I'm good with product design, I have good ideas (most of the things I tried&failed somebody else has done later on with success), I'm proficient with technology and I'd say I'm quite good with PR and presenting ideas. I've also got quite a good network built. Oh - and I have a girlfriend that wants to stay with me & believes in me still :)

tl;dr; What to do? I'm not willing to work full time for anybody and I'm unable to program anymore. Should I give up working in technology and look for a different field or what?

(I live in Europe if that makes any difference...)
Algorithmic Botany iOS app
http://algorithmicbotany.org/TreeSketch
A lot of people are skeptical about the 3D art-creational capabilities of the iPad. Here is a rather impressive app that disproves that camp, producing generative art that looks like realistic trees you might find in the best of 3d simulators or even AAA games... which you can then export to fbx, taking it to both of the before!

The app is designed to be accessible to those who are not familiar with algorithmic botany - you can twist and pull some pretty unique and nice looking trees on this. But, if you know your maths, things can get even more interesting. ;)

Spent Christmas weekend playing with this iPad app (on a now-antiquated iPad 2), with both my finger and a Pogo Connect... and now I have a mini bonsai being 3D printed on Shapeways... created completely on my iPad! :D
Post-Japan earthquake/tsunami, blogs fill niches not addressed anywhere else
http://importantmedia.org/blog/2011/03/13/bright-spots-in-a-dark-time-this-is-why-we-do-this/
told through a specific example, then generalized to broader issues surrounding blogging.
Show HN: How I dealt with someone trying to build a copy my business
http://austin.craigslist.org/cpg/3695668636.html
Someone posted an ad on Craigslist offering to pay $750 to build a copy of my company, Review Trackers. I noticed the ad within a few hours of it being posted and decided to redirect the traffic (since they linked to us in the posting) to our Rails developer job posting with a little note.
Foursquare plaintext cred transmission was discussed back in February 2010
http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2010/02/im-in-ur-4sq-snarfin-ur-password-part-i/
Foursquare plaintext cred transmission was discussed back in February 2010, but Foursquare seemed to ignore it.
Ask HN: Home-Office workes: what are you eating/cooking for lunch?
I am wondering, what are you eating or cooking yourself? I find it time-consuming to cook for myself mid-day. What is your take on it?
Ask HN: Seeking Developer to Create Video Chat Platform
I am a business guy with no technical background, but some start-up experience. I have an idea I would like to execute and I am looking to engage a developer on a work-for-hire basis ASAP.

With input from some generous HNers, I have put together an RFP http://bit.ly/cOLvkm and some very basic wireframes http://bit.ly/9VytJl for the project I want to execute.

I am looking for feedback and proposals. Please pass along to any developers that might have an interest.

Thanks very much.
Xbox Kinect Accelerometer & Motor Hacked
http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/11154/
KinectMan writes "First test of controlling the Kinect from a PC. Outlook looks good for other sensors of the device."

Johny 5 is alive!
Show HN: My Sticker Calendar App is on iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shinycal/id552222965
It's just a whimsical little portfolio piece. I just missed putting stickers on a calendar like I did when I was a kid. The calendar is my own and it contains some clever code. (Note how the "leftover" days on the previous and next month behave.) There's also a O(1) double-ended queue behind the UIScrollView so that there's the illusion of infinite scrolling with only 5 objects.
Making a job offer? Lowest isn't always best.
http://www.supercoders.com.au/blog/makingajobofferlowestisntalwaysbest.shtml
The Ultimate Drupal Showcase
http://www.wearepropeople.com/blog/2009-07-03/ultimate-drupal-showcase
Drupal is a great open-source CMS suitable for virtually any kind of websites. This Ultimate Drupal Showcase contains over 150 Drupal based websites from six major categories: business, media, government, non-profit, university & research and entertainment.
Ageing-tech expert sought by DWP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30746215
Also see http://green-park-jobs.co.uk/dwpcto/index.php
Show HN: Squads – Social Trading for Web3
https://beta.squads.xyz
hey hey! I'm the co-founder of squads -- a product that makes it easy to see what your friends and top investors are doing in web3.

This product was developed out my own frustration trying to get more involved in web3. One of the greatest challenges in the crypto space is figuring out where to start. For some of us, we're lucky to have a friend who can serve as a guide, and we wanted to build a product that would make introducing your friends to crypto a more inviting experience.

There is so much alpha and information living on Twitter + Discord, but the problem is finding the signal from the noise. With Squads, you don't have to sift through all of the noise -- you can see what the best players in the space are doing the moment they do it.

In fact, we have pre-seeded the product with a squad of a16z investors, BAYC holders, and a group of well known twitter profiles so you can get a taste of what the squad structure is like.

With this product, you don't have to sit in hundreds of discords and become inundated with notifications. Instead, you can follow who you think is interesting, and see a feed of their activity all in one place.

Some quick product highlights:
- Social layer for web3 -- create a squad and share the invite link with your friends or anyone else. We took inspiration from discord for the invitation flow, try it out!

- Web3 Feed: see what activity is taking place in any of your squads, or from individual wallets that you follow

- Profile Page: Showcase all of your digital assets, and your performance, all in one place

- Social Graph: Follow your friends or favorite people on the blockchain

- Search: Search for any wallet address or ens domain

- Returns: See how profitable an individual is in flipping tokens or NFTs
Show HN: I made a cross-platform command-line music player called maestro
https://github.com/PrajwalVandana/maestro-cli
It is built to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and was tested thoroughly on my Mac and lightly on my friend's Windows. Unfortunately, no one I know uses Linux.

It works with WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.
Want to test a new MMO/RPG?
http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/herebemonsters
Hello,

Our team has been working on a new softcore MMO RPG. We're releasing it initially on facebook, and following up with an iPad client later this year.

We really need some feedback, so we thought we'd post here to see what you guys think. The beta is going to open on Thursday, so if you're interested in giving it a go, simple install the game asap and you'll be able to gain access on Thursday.

You can view more info about the game here: http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/herebemonsters

And you can install it here:
http://apps.facebook.com/herebemonsters

Cheers!
Tom

ps. We are hiring iOS developers to work on great games like this. If you want to work with us, drop us me a line. We're located in the heart of London, in Piccadilly Circus.
Show HN: Markov 2 Chainz
https://twitter.com/Markov2Chainz
Just for fun.
Andrey Markov, and the greatest punchline rapper of this generation.
I can't stop looking at this cat
https://twitter.com/valueof/status/397209970304745472/photo/1/large
This cat is a potential meme-maker. (Disclaimer : It's not my photography)
How far away are we from building our own smartphones and tablets?
I started thinking about this today and I curious to see if there will ever be a market for building our own phone/tablets. Imagine being able to select from different cases, motherboards, CPUs and slap on an OS (android, ios, etc) and be ready to go. Will we ever have this freedom like we do with our PCs?
Help, HN. My hard drive failed.
I have backups of mostly everything I ever do. I use Dropbox lots of things, I regularly back up my whole hard drive where I store most of my data.

However, for some reason I haven't been backing up one of my drives which, coincidentally is the drive where I work on and have been developing a web application (my first start up) for over two months! I have partial backups of old stuff, but not on my main project (hard to believe, I know)

Anyways. Can you guys recommend any great data recovery services online where I can ship my hard drive where I'll get good service? I've tried traditional methods and I'm trying your usual computer repair services tomorrow, but I'm pretty pessimistic and expecting the worst.
Content Aware Resizing of Images  - Awesome
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mov
This will take you to a .mov file. If you want to see an embedded clip instead use this link -- http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66481/detail/

Its a very impressive technology.
Every startup team should read this (in my opinion)
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/
I got a lot of ideas from this blog, it's so bad Katty isn't posting anymore, but I keep reading old posts.

What do you think?
Show HN: VimCompletesMe, my first Vim plugin for Tab Completion
https://github.com/ajh17/VimCompletesMe
I made this because I was using SuperTab and noticed that it uses a lot more code when I wanted something really simple: for Vim to intelligently choose what to autocomplete for me. Maybe it has more features but to me, it tried to do too much in a single plugin.

So my goal here was to made a dead-simple, minimalistic Tab completion plugin. It does this with less than 60 lines of source code, compared to around 800 for Supertab. I hope you like it as much as I do.
Ask HN: Critique my simple service for musicians: booking shows online
Hey everyone,

I'm one of those programming-illiterate business guys obsessed with start ups--here's my app (which is actually just drupal beat to hell). I've finally got something of substance though and I'd like to hear what people here think.

Any thoughts or criticism would be absolutely awesome (although the design is a wootheme so you can take that up with them...). I know the whole thing is pretty minimal but is there enough there to entice you to sign up?

Want to dig a little deeper? username: HN password: hn

Thanks in advance!
Show HN: Printful, my latest iPhone/iPad app
Printful and Printful Mini were released on the App Store just a few hours ago. The former is a universal application, while the latter is iPhone-only.

Printful is a state of the art reading application for both iPhone and iPad. With its unique features, it allows you to read all the news, blogs, feeds and web pages you could wish for, whenever you have time and in the best available format for your device.

Supported features include:

* Subscriptions to numerous different sources. Virtually any newspaper or blog is supported. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds or receive links shared by your Facebook friends and by the people you follow at Twitter (more sources to come in future versions). It should be noted that it's not a RSS reader, it crawls the pages and extracts the articles.

* Organizing all your sources and pages in different folders.
Saving optimized versions of pages, removing any ads and distractions, so you can focus in the content.
Contents are kept in your device, so you can access them offline.

* Support for multimedia items, like images and videos.

* Send articles from your web browser to your iPhone or iPad with just one click.

* Data synchronization between all your devices without connecting them to a computer. Your subscriptions, lists and reading positions are always kept in sync over the Internet.

Promo codes are available on request. Just email me using "HN" in the subject and I'll send you a code privately (my email is in my profile).

I guess HN might also appreciate to know that this is a one-man project, and it took me around 2 months of work to write all the code.

Server side is written in Python. I'm using Tornado, lxml for HTML parsing, gearman for work queues and Postgres for storing data.

I'm considering porting this application to Android and OS X, but I'm not sure yet. Any kind of feedback about that will be highly appreciated ;).

App Store Links (more info and screenshots):

Printful: http://itunes.apple.com/app/printful/id385487729?mt=8

Printful Mini: http://itunes.apple.com/app/printful-mini/id385488175?mt=8

Some more screenshots:

http://imgur.com/a/DYdxo

PS: I can't find the exact rules for "Show HN" posts. Just let me know if this infringes any rules, I'll take it down immediately.
Ask HN: How do you outsource design and development?
Ideally, I would have someone in my immediate circle of friends who could create this project. Since I don't, I want to make the process of outsourcing development and design as seamless as possible. Does anyone on HN have experience hiring out, and ensuring that the vision is executed upon?
Show HN: Vault – Sports bet data aggregation app
https://www.vaultsportshq.com/
Hey HN, this is Caleb and Zach, we co-founded Vault after realizing how behind the times consumer-facing tech was in the sports betting industry.

After creating various products and prototypes for sports bettors for most of 2020 (many with little/no success), in early 2021 we realized a key problem that sports bettors faced...

Most of them were tracking their bets, ROI, and net profit using Excel tables or other forms of manual entry.

Gaining inspiration from fintech apps such as Intuit Mint and CoPilot, both of which link with your financial accounts and aggregate your data, we created Vault. An app that links with a bettor's sportsbooks (i.e. DraftKings, BetMGM, Caesars) and aggregates that data.

Would love to hear your thoughts, and feel free to reach out to Zach and I at info@vaultsportshq.com
Fixing a memory leak in a running python process with GDB
http://blog.ylatuya.es/?p=26
Today at work we had a really funny challenge: fixing a memory leak in a python process that was already running and couldn’t be stopped.
Here is a short description on how I tried to fix it.
PHP Bug #63281
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63281
I came across an interesting "quirk" the other day, while using PHP. If bugs are considered complicated, is it commonplace to just mark them as "WONTFIX"? Shouldn't it, at least, be documented as something to be fixed in the future?
Show HN: Our first Android app, made in 1 week
http://bubbleomatic.com/
Hey guys,

Would really appreciate your feedback on our APP.
Y Combinator Ranked #1 on 2012 Top Accelerator Listing
http://tech.co/top-startup-accelerators-ranked-2012-08
Top 15 Startup Accelerators of 2012 Ranked, Y Combinator Tops List<p>Study by Team from Kellogg School of Management Reveals Top Accelerator Programs of 2012<p>Washington D.C. August 21, 2012 – Prof. Yael Hochberg and 2012 MBA graduate Kristen Kamath of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, in cooperation with media partner Tech Cocktail (tech.co), set out to determine the best startup accelerator programs in America and rank the top 15. Sitting atop this year’s list was Y Combinator, followed by TechStars Boulder and KickLabs respectively. This is the second year of the report, which was initiated in 2011 with Aziz Gilani, Director at DFJ Mercury.<p>In addition to the announcement of the top accelerators, Tech Cocktail is offering a free report to
entrepreneurs, sponsored by .CO Internet, the company behind the fast-growing .CO domain, titled, “A Guide to Choosing the Best Tech Accelerator for Your Startup”. This report will be available for download exclusively at tech.co, at the bottom of the accelerator rankings article. Topics covered in the report include analysis and advice on funding, mentorship, geography, network strength, and alternative startup programs.<p>“With the explosion of startup accelerators in the past couple of years, there are many options for entrepreneurs to sift through and no real resources to help find the right program for them,” said Frank Gruber, co-founder and CEO of Tech Cocktail. “Our goal in working with Prof. Hochberg’s team was to create an objective ranking that we could couple with our own research to create a more in-depth look at the various programs out there. There are many people who don't know what accelerators are or how to select one. We think the ranking created by Prof. Hochberg’s research team and the report created by Tech Cocktail provide an extremely valuable resource.”<p>See the full release at http://tech.co/top-startup-accelerators-ranked-2012-08
NSA:TOR
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-tor.pdf
NSA: We have seen several targets using Tor. Our goal was to analyze Tor
source code and determine any vulnerabilities in the system. We set up an internal
Tor network to analyze Tor tra c, in the hopes of discovering ways to passively
identify it. We also worked to create a custom Tor client which allows the user ner
control.
How to Cure Your Social Anxiety in 30 Seconds
http://wexnotes.com/cure-your-social-anxiety-in-30-seconds/
Instead of focusing on other people, focus on creating an internal positive state within yourself.
Succeeding - The best general self-improvement book I've ever read
http://www.johntreed.com/succeeding.html
The author, John T Reed provides some great insights into leading a balanced life.

He provides a unique voice that is fun to read and different than many of the start-up entrepreneur types that give advice.
Startup pace: Go Fast, but Don't Hurry
http://www.founderblog.com/2007/07/go-fast-but-dont-hurry.html
My team is sure to crack a smirk every time someone asks me what our timeline is. They smirk because they know exactly how I'm going to respond. I say, "we like to go fast, but we don't hurry".
You guys spoke, we listened - A brand new Bitspend website is live
https://bitspend.net
Thanks to you guys we received tons of positive and constructive criticism. We're proud to say we listened, and acted!

We hope our new site is more up to all of your standards :)

Thank You,
The Bitspend Team
Ask HN: Good crypto resources (books, blogs, docs)
Hey everyone.

I've trying to get more into the world of crypto these past few months. Both in terms of understanding the technology and also the future of decentralized applications that build on top of blockchain. Unfortunately, I've noticed that there's a lot of content out there from the equivalent of SEO blogs that aren't very insightful nor technical. Would love to hear your recommendations.

Thanks.
Map of Silicon Alley's Early-Stage Tech Investor Ecosystem 
http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2010/06/map-of-silicon-alleys-earlystage-tech-venture-ecosystem.html
In that I am a heavy user of mapping software and think programs like MindNode are excellent visual aids, I decided to put together a first draft of the early-stage tech investor ecosystem here in Silicon Alley as a resource for entrepreneurs. As this is a first stab, I would ask your help in the comment section of this post letting me know about any early-stage investors I have left out and/or about any corrections of errors you come across on this map.
A Better Way to Handle Multi Sign In
http://1n73r.net/2013/03/11/a-better-way-to-handle-multi-sign-in/
When multi sign in came out for Google accounts I was really excited. But after using it the Google way I decided it sucked. So I found a way to fix it for my use.
Free Scala Course (9hrs; 120+ exercises; beta access)
Want to learn Scala?

Join the "beta access" program in Scala-Academy.com and take the "Pragmatic Scala" video online course:

Register here: http://class.scala-academy.com/registration/40dbcf

> Free for now (beta phase)

> 120+ exercises, and 4+ hours video explanations.

> Uses Scala Academy's platform which lets you code compile and run in the browser - no need for local configurations.

> Takes 8-9 hours to complete. A fraction of what the coursera course takes.

> Covers most topics from basic to advanced Scala, including:

- Types

- Type inference

- Variables

- Methods

- Classes

- Objects

- Case Classes

- Traits

- Tuples

- Collections

- Options

- String interpolation

- Apply/Update

- Anonymous classes

- Currying

- Implicits

- For loops

- Varargs

- Partial Functions

- Match

- Unapply

(This is the (new) video version of the course, for the live instructed version see here: http://www.scala-academy.com )
Original Apple CEO talks about most creative use of Apple II
http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-first-ceo-michael-scott-2011-5
...I guess the best example was that we had a contest very early on at Apple where we awarded an extra Apple for the unusual use of the machine.

The winner, and what we never realized then, and what we don't think is still true now, is you don't realize how many different ways it can impact you.

The first use was the person that swore by it, a new father who had a new son that the colic, and took the original Apple II, did his own software, hooked up a washing machine motor, the tilt mechanism from a pinball machine, a microphone to the crib. So when the kid was getting restless, the machine would come on and rock the bed.

He actually had statistics to show how much more sleep he and his wife were getting because the kid would partly wake up, then go back to sleep. And that won first prize for a different use of the Apple, and I think that's still true today. People are still finding uses. You put it out in one area, and then it gets out into a lot of others...
3 Things That All Great Startups Have: Passion, Hard Problems, Empathy
http://maplebutter.com/3-things-that-all-great-startups-have/
High-level

# They would put their head through a wall, for their idea, if that meant success.
# They don’t shy away from things that others would be scared to tackle.
# They are, and continue to be, their biggest user
Ask HN: Why isn't C# recommended more often?
As a 'business guy' teaching myself to code, I have inadvertently started on C# due to the support group around me.

I always see ruby/php/python as the de facto recommended languages to learn if you want to start programming.

So my question is, why not C#? Is is because its not 'free'?

I'm starting to think that it doesn't really matter what language you start learning. Just start and you'll be 95% ahead of most people already. Especially if the intention is to develop a prototype/MVP and not attain CTO standards.

UPDATE
While Im at it, how much of my C# knowledge can I port over to languages like Python/Ruby/PHP? From what I understand that knowledge of libraries are one of the time consuming aspects of learning a new language. Is is really that bad?
Stolen Web Site
How should one handle the situation where a website has been built/launched as part of an informal partnership between two developers and then one of the partners "quits" and launches the a new competitive website on a different domain, but using the exact same code, design and functionality while only changing the logo? Anyone been in a similar situation before?